2 THE DAILY EVENING TELEGRATO PHILADELPHIA, THURSDAY, MARCH 21, 1870. srxxixT or thzj muss. Editorial Opinions of the Leading Journals upon Current Topics Compiled Every Dayfor the Evening Telegraph. SANTO DOMINGO. From the JV. Y. World. The price can hardly be considered more than a nominal one, and the eoiiaent of the Ooniliiii'snn to annexation has been frcly and heartily am-orded. the bargain tuts, hnen KtralRhlforwurl and ahovnl.onrd, and the price tie nut exorbitant, let the Satiate act decisively. .V. 1'. Timr. To nay that the acquisition of a harbor in the buy nnd peninsula of Samiuia is mifllcient to warrant the Senate in ratifying the Grant JJaez treaty is to talk plausibly, if not wiwly. lint it is foolishness to urge the price or the conseiit of the Dominicans as a reason. As to price, we have already paid a lot of mili tary articles, together with some $1."(),000 in gold coin, and are to pay $1,500,000 in addi tion, and assume all the indebtedness of our Requisition. As to the amount of the indebt edness, there is ho evidence upon which a jury could come to an opinion. Whether it le ftix or eighteen millions the Timet cannot with certainty say. We have seen as much testimony that it is the larger ns the smaller mini. As to the consent of the Dominicans expressed by votes, we cannot understand how a sensible and upright person, who ap preciates the brutal ignorance of that popula tion, can place any reliance whatever upon it. If we must have a naval depot in Satnann, that may be a substantial justification for the formality of a treaty with Itooz to got it, relying upon our ability, when obtained, to hold it against Dominicans and everybody else. But is such a depot, in such a spot, worth what we will probably have to pay if this treaty is ratified ? Does any one pre tend to vindicate the negotiation on that lasis ? We have seen statements that Presidont Grant has said to the Senate committee that if we did not now take San Domingo some European nation would. Poor simpleton! England, France, and Spain have all "been there," and have no desire to go again. We wish, before the Senate acts in this treaty, it would procure through Sickles in Madrid a history of the experience of Spain in that island from 18G1 to 18(i.ri. Perhaps Mr. Lopez Kobcrts, the Spanish Minister in Washing ton, would enlighten Senators on that topic. The desire on the part of Dominicans for the presence of Spain in 18(il was outwardly iuite as marked and sincere as now for the United States, and yet before three years the natives had organized a system of assassina tion of Spanish officers, and in 1805 Spain abandoned the island in disgust. As to the straightforwardness of the bar gain, we have no more information than as to the character of the influences by which Grant was induced to write his letter of Sep tember 4 to Boutwell, in advocacy of Corbin's crop theory, in which he advised to sell no more gold. Grant vindicates the San Do mingo treaty just as thoroughly as he did the gold theories of McIIenry, Gould, and Corbin. That there was a "big steal" in the latter no one now doubts, and we are just as clear that there is a bigger job of plunder in tho pend ing treaty. As the gold-plot letter of Sep. teniber 4 was inspired by Gould and Corbin, and got up by Grant and his personal entour age, outside the legitimate influences of tho 'Treasury Department, so the San Domingo scheme was hatched by Fabens and O'Sulli van, adopted by Grant, executed by General Dabcock and one or two army quartermas ters, withont the initiation, scrutiny, and complete superintendence of the Department of State and its traditions, as is usual in auoh affairs. This gives to the whole Snn Domingo business a flavor of iniquity. Grant may be sincere and honest, but can the country trust his judgment? lias he not blundered too often ? Deflect upon Washburne; the igno rance of law in the A. T. Stewart fiasco; the disgraceful Cuban diplomncy; the gold plot and Corbin's influence, and many other like things. Is it not significant and startling that the country has not had from the Secretary of State either personal, as distinct from official, approval of the treaty, or a statement of what he knows the entire indebtedness of San Do mingo to be, together with the character and amount of special monopolies granted by Baez to Fabens and others, which will be per petual liens upon the property? The men of large capital in this country would be grati fied to hear from I Fish in this matter, before plunging into tho unknown sea to which the treaty invites; for, whatever may be his political defects as a statesman, he is known to be sagacious in business, conserva tive and careful of property interests. And it is the commercial and money aspect of this treaty which most concerns New York. COLLECTING THE INCOME TAX. From the K. Y. Timet. Commissioner Delano sends ns a letter which is very honorable to him, on the sub ject to which we called his attention the other day, and which has taken a great hold upon the public mind, namely, the extromely vexa tious manner in which the income tax is assessed and collected. It is manifestly con trary to tho interests of the Government to allow any one acting in its name, nnd wielding its authority, to pursue a course which renders a particular means of raising revenue odious and intolerable to the great majority of the people Commissioner Delano's letter will serve to convince tho public that the admin istration will not countenance those misdeeds which have almost stirred up a rebellion against the income tax. We can assure Commissioner Delano that our complaint against the assessors and their assistants was not mndo without careful in quiry into the facts. It is a matter of such notoriety that tho tax is levied in an oppres sive manner; that when a man goes before an assessor he is liable to bo treated with in solence, and that all his answers are listened to by the erowd of persons who happen to be present; this, we say, is ko well known that we are surprised to find that Commissioner Delano hears of it for the first time from ns. Does he suppose that the assessors hear ap peals, or decide the cases of citizens who come before them, in private ? That unques tionably is what they ought to do. But the very arrangements of the onion (jeuerally for bid it., instead oi one citizen appeanna before the assessor or assistant assessor at a time, a large number are usually waiting in one room, and each mnn takes his turn. All those who are standing by hear what is coiner on. It is quite right that a man.nb.ould state his income, but it is not right that he should have to state it in the presenoe of curious ctowd, or be cross-examined upon it in an offensive manner. We had speoifio cases of this ill-usage be fore us when we published our article upon the subject. But a little reflection will con vince Mr. Delano that we should not be justi fied in making these cases public, or even in mentioning them to him privately. We have not the authority of our correspondents for doing either, thoucrh when they see the Com- I misnioner'8 letter, we trust they will think it well to write to him and give him the par ticulars of their complaints. Every anossor whose name we published and who might be dismissed in consoquenoe, would feel at liber ty to bring an action against us; and although we have submitted to that iuconvenienco in the performance of our duty to the public on several occasions, there is no necessity for calling upon us to make the sac rifice now. When we fool callod upon to denounce a dishonest "ring" or a corrupt judge, we do it and take tho consequences. From that exercise of our functions we shall Certainly never shrink, but in attacking the mode of assessing tho inoome tax we protest against a system, and that system is in opera tion in all parts of tho country. To ascertain the truth about that system there is no neod to drag us into a court of law. It would be to the last degree unreasonable to hold Com missioner Delano responsible for the niisoon duct of all the persons employed in the Kevenue Department. He probably knows only too well how difficult it is to gain the assistance of discreet and faithful subordin ates. We do not blame him for what has happened, but we are quite sure that a hint from him would tend much to prevent the necessity for repeating our complaints. For the rest, we can only ad-rise those who have smarted under the "insolence of offioe" to write to Commissioner Delano rather than to us. THE DUTIES OF A HEFKESE NTATI VE. From the X. Y. Tribune. Judge Kellcy is entitled to the public grati tude for a fresh protest against that theory, express or implied, which would make a mem ber of Congress the hewer of Congressional wood and the drawer of Capitolino water for every man, woman, and child in his district. Among these labors, as Mr. Kelley states it, is that "of finding places for all unemployed people of both sexes known to the member, and promotion for all ambitions or discon tented employes of the Government." He tells us (what indeed wo knew before) that "this practice of sending people to their Congressional representatives for employ ment has become so common as to be insuf ferable." The member has to read and prosently conrciilor all the notes which fifty or five hun dred "good hearted people" (as Mr. Kelley calls them) see fit to write sotting forth the patriotism, the virtue, the fidelity, and the capacity of the office-seeker who brings it. TheRe patrons at homo fancy that the patron in Washington has only to ask for others, and others will receive. He is the dispenser of all mnnner of work, for all degrees of com pensation, which tho Government may have to do. We can fancy tho extreme distraction of his fate. Every morning the mendicants are knocking nt his gate. They follow him to tho Capitol: they arrest him in the vestibule; tiiey seek him in the committee-room; they send pages to call him from his soat; they dis turb his dinner, and they make his evening a season or labor instead ot needed rest. If he could do what he is asked to do, aud, notably, if he knew the secret of giving the same place to twenty different people, his sorrow would be a mitigated one. But the ago of miracles has passed. The poor momber cannot feed all theso hungry folk upon tho limited num ber of loaves nnd fishes at his command. Frequently nothing may be left him to distribute, save the stones of disappointment, or, paternal as maybe his feeling for his con stituents, the serpents of denial. But Mr. Kelley is less severe upon those pooT people who bring the notes of recommendation, than upon those who write them, and who should better understand what a Congressman can do, and what is utterly out of his power. He speaks feelingly of the bitter disappointment which this facility of careless indorsement often occasions, and declares that, for one, he is unwilling to be a party to such a practice, If the convention which may nominate him win pass a resolution approving a proper Uivu hervice DM, and "instructing the can dulate to make it his rule of action, if elected," ho is willing again to be a candidate. We suspect that these are the first notes of a protest of which we shall, sooner or later, hear a good deal more. The evil indicated is rapidly assumisg suoh great proportions that Congressional flesh and blood will not be able to stand it forever, especially as it is an evil which unless cured must of necessity in crease. Senators, holding their offices by a diilerent tenure, can anord to be a little in dependent; but Keprescntatives are compara tively the ephemera of Congress, and are no sooner warm in their seats than they are in danger of losing them. It would be a great relief to them, it would be of groat political benefit to the people of the whole country, if it could once lor all be understood that, by the terms ot tee Constitution, Jttepreseutu fives are elected not to be olaim-agents, office brokers, and attorneys for everybody, but. after due consideration, to enact wholesome and neeessary laws, and to repeal those which are unwholesome and unnecessary GENERAL CANBY RESPONSIBLE. From the Jlickviond Dispatch. It is for the Governor to exeoute the laws not to appeal to the judges to know whether he vioif execute them. All the blood not much, we are glad to say shed in this city wunin me iasi weeK is upon Ueneral Uanby i skirts. One word from hiui would have in duced Mr. Chahoon to give up his claim to the mayoralty of Richmond. One word of disapprobation of Chahoon's course would have ended the trouble in a moment. The General's professions of a desire to preserve the peace cannot deceive any one who knows I that but for himself there would never have been one drop of blood shed. If General Canby had aided the lawfully-constituted authorities of the State there would have been no trouble. Nay, if he had merely refused to aid the rebels, the insurgents, the man whom Governor Walker and the Legislature tell him is a mere pretender, there would have been no trouble. The white people of Richmond are united almost to a man in their support of Ellyson, who would have taken possession of all the city property and of his office of Mayor quietly and peaceably, if General Canby had not encouraged Chahoon to resist the law. General Canby 's profesions are all Peck sniflian. There is no sincerity in them. They are made to dooeive Congress and the President. He is a Chahoon man. He has been a Chahoon man from the beginning. The Journal, the radical organ of this State, has sustained Chahoon from the beginning. General Canby 's last letter to Governor Walker appeared in that paper yesterday, and the leading editorial in the same num ber, headed "The Law and the Precedents," was, we verily believe, concocted at General Canby 's headquarters. General Canby has assumed the functions of a judge. He has decided that Mr. Cha hoon is the Mayor of Richmond. He tells Chahoon, in on offloial letter, that he (Cha hoon) has "clerks, messengers," eto., whioh was equivalent to saying that he was Mayor. Governor Walker assures General Canby that Ellyson is Mayor of Richmond, bnt General Canby would not be persuaded "though one should rise from the dead. lis lias sworn that Chahoon shall be Mayor, and he will keep his oath if he can. He has, in a word, made hiinsolf the tool of the faction of cur-pet-baggers and scalawags who infest this city, and he so used his troops as to pro.iuoa that very bloodshed which he professes to be so anxious to avoid. Ueneral .anty is tue guilty party: we repeat he man that ob structed the execution of the law. He is the man who said Chahoon would have no remedy if he (Canby) allowed him to be turned out of his office. He is the man to whom all tho insurgeuts those who waylay and slnypolioe- men look for assistance. He is tho man upon whom Ben Scott relies. it is useless to argue witn anybody wno does not know that Mayor Chahoon cannot call upon General Canby for aid or protection. Even the Governor of Virginia cannot do it when the Legislature is in Bessiwn. Canby had no right to know that there was such an officer as Chahoon in existonce. But Canby insults the Governor, insults the Legislature, and flouts his bitter political prejudices in the face of the world, by using the military power of the Unitod States to keep in office a more pretender, whom ho had not only no right to uphold, but whoso existence and peril he had no riuht to know of unless ho learned it in the manner specified in the Fedoral Constitu tion. He has exactly as much right to recog nize a constable or a policeman as among the civil authorities vuo are entitled to call upon him for aid as he had to receive any communication on the subject from Chahoon. He is more guilty than Chuhoon, who is nobody but a catspaw. He is, in a word, the author of all the troubles, the fomenter of all the strife, and the shedder of all the blood (and no thanks to him that it has been so little), which have been created, fomented, and shed in this eoodly city within the last week. the rniLOSoriiv of suicide. from the St. JwuU Jirpubliean. If there is one incident of tho drama of human life that seoms to be utterly lawless, wanton, and capricious, it is that of suicide. Remorse, love, melancholy, and rage are tho Agents to which we usually attribute acts of Belf-destruction, and nil these human passions are thought to bo above nnd outside laws and controlling authority. But an nge noted for its disposition to reduce nil phenomeun to empirical formulas, and which does not de spair of expressing even tlie vital processes in chemical nomenclature, has bud hold on suicide and sought to subject it to stable laws. The results are curious aud interesting, if they are not convincing. If they do nothing else, they prove the value of statistics and comparisons. Professor on Oottmgen in a recent work ou ethic il statistics, winch is admitted to embrace tho most complete Collection of facts connected with tuo subject oi suiuulo ever presented, proves, or seeuis to prove, not only that suicide is ineroasir.g in all tlie civilized lnitious ot Ijtirope, but that tho increase is characterized ny a remaruaiue unuornnty. rue grow ing frequency of self-destruction has long been guuerally admitted, aud a sup posed explanation of it found in tho tendency ot populations to concentrate in cities wnero the records of it are more carefully preserved; but tne statistics here given snow that the in crease is as great in rural districts as in cities, and that tne ratio ot increase every where is greater than the ratio of increase of population. Thus from the year lSi'O to 18(55 the reports ot suicides lor every five years in Prussia exhibit a steady and nmtorm increase of cases from 7!J, in the first named year, to 'szv.i in tne last named tne number ot coses nearly trebling iu forty-live years, which is two and a half times as rapid as the growth of population. In France tho increase is even more marked. In li;() there were 17'M cases of suicide; in 1810 there were 2574 cases; in 1850, itl tr.; in 18G0, 4002; and in 18(!5, 4700 showing a ratio of increase nine tiinos as great as that of the population, One of the least explicable features of these curious statistics is the fact that the number ot cases in any given year increases with the longth of the days. There are more suicides in tho long days of Juno and July than in the short days of December and Janu ary. Of every thousand cases in Europe it is shown that t!4 take place in January, 08 in February, 7'J in March, 88 in April, 10( in May, and 11!) in June; this is the crisis, for the number decreases to 10! in July, i)2 in August, 7f in September, 7(! in October, (! in November, and it reaches its minimum of !0 in December. Whether this difference is the effect of the growing heat of the longer days, or the greater length of daylight, is a tiuehtion which the compiler doos not answer. His object is to furnish the facts, and allow others to speculate upon them as tliey can Even the mode of committing suicide ap pears to be governed by some mysterious and unknown influence, for. year after vear, the same proportions of Belf-des'royers choose the tame methods of taking their life. In France, for every 100 inalo suicides, 2t resort to drowning, 42 to hanging, 14 to shooting, 4 to stabbing, (i to charcoal fumes, 2 to poison, nnd 0 to jumping from a height. Of the KHine number of females who kill them selves, 4 1 choose drowning, 2'J hanging, 14 charcoul fumes, :1 poisou, and 0 jumping from a height. The only disturbance in the uniformitv of what seems to be the rule governing the manner of self-destrnction the gradual growth of drowning and shooting into disfavor within the last thuty years, and the growth of hanging into ereater favor. Huncinc is the most common method in rural regions, shooting with soldiers and nobles, and drowning with servants. It is commonly supposed that the French are more addicted to suioide than any other people, because of the great number of cases that i'ans ailords, and that the passions and excitements of Fans life, no doubt, prompt: but the Greatest proportion of suicides in Europe is found amongst the Scandinavians, who furnish annually 12G cases to everv million of population; the Germans furnish 111': the French 10."; the Latin nations about 80: and the Solaves of Austria 47. The Greatest Proportion in the German States is found in Saxony. Large cities go far beyond these figures, Paris alone yielding G4li suioides, annually, to everv million of tionulation. In all coun tries, males are more Drone to self-destruo- tion than females, in the proportion of 3 to 1; but the disposition in both sexes increases with age, and is greatest in extreme oia agn. Marriage would appear to be a partial safe guard against self-murder, as the proportion of unmarried persons who kill themselves is decidedly greater than that of marriod per sons; the proportion of widowed persous is Rreater still, but that of the divorced and separated is far greatest of all. VI the causes or suicide, meuiai uisoruor is the most active, one-third of all cases that occur being traoeable to it; one-ninth to physical saflering; one-eighth to loss of pro pel ty; one-tenth by remorse, shame, or fear o. r . . .t ji: t j- of punishment; one-eighth to family troubles; one-nintu to gaming ami other vices; Rnd a very small proportion to disappointed love. e nave saiu mat me statistics snow a con stant and steady incroase in all civilized coun tries oi Europe in the ratio of suicides. In Norway this ratio of annual increase is three per cent., aud in Saxony, where it is greatest, it is five per cent., while the ratio of increase of population is m no European country more than 1 (1 per cent, a year. I his suggests tne possibility of the ultimata self-extinction of the human race. Indeed, if tho statistics are correct, and prove what they seem to prove, there is a time in the remote future when the number of annual snicidos on the earth rill exceed tho number of births; and still be yond that is a time when the process of self- destruction, going on at an Bnnually accele rating ratio, will Lave loit uu one uumnu being on tho planet, and he. with a rope around his solitary wensand, snail jump from a barn rafter, and leave the unfortunate planet without an inhabitant. GOVERNMENT BT NEGROES. tram the rail Hall Qazttlt. Except in the case of the United Statos, thore has been great uniformity in the history of the suppression ot rebellions in modern times. 1'irst, mere lias been severe and often sanguinary punishment in flicted on the chiefs of the revolt; then has succeeded a period during which the success ful empire has enforced strict obedience to itself from its subjugated depondency; and finally has como a strong desire, growing sometimes out of policy, sometimes out of a sonso of justice, and sometimes out of mere emotion, to win its affections, or at all events its voluntary acquiescence in accom plished facts. England is just at pro- sent feeling nn almost passionate wisn to be reconciled to Ireland, and to be beloved by the natives of India; Austria has done her best to come to terms witn Hungary, and there aro signs that the sufferings of Po land are beginning to cause discomfort and compunction even in Russia. The United States seem destined to an experience of a different kind. On the morrow of the con quest their treatment of tho Southern loaders was marked by a gentleness which will always be remembered to their honor. But in tho next stage of their relations with the South tho necessity for combining despotic rule with something liko forms of local self-gov ernment forced thorn to adopt a policy which has more than made up lor their abstinence from bloodshed. Nobody whoso intelligence has not been impaired Lv tho habit of repeat ing lormuins about universal sail rage can doubt that the punishment inflicted on the Southern whites is far tho sovotest which one community has ever inflicted on another. England governed Ireland through a minority, which the mass of the Celtic population, however it might hate, never dreamed of despising; the United Mates rule tho .Nonlli through a ma jority of negroes, contempt for whom was almost a religion with tho planter before tho attempt of secession. We are not consider ing whether the punishment was deserved, or whether the JNorthern Mates could possibly help inflicting it: we merely say that, after the capacity of the negro for improvement has been rated as highly as possible, and after all possible deductions had been made from tho credibility of the stories published by tho Democratic press, the fact remains that gov ernment of white men by colored ex-slaves is the ocutest form of moral torture which has ever been applied to a community, How unfortunate it has been that the pun lshment of the South has t8keu this shape tne united Mates is not nicely to feel until the time comes (and it will certainly come) when the poople of the North will bo animated with the strongest wish to be re. conciled to even the most obstinate zealots of secession. We should be Borry to lay down that the United States would have done well to have shed blood like water in the first mo nients of triumph, if only they could have devised some less degrading contrivance for the provisionol government of the South, Yet it is quite certain that bloodshed is easily forgotten; personal outrage with the greatest difficulty. The Hungarian nobles appear to have forgiven the Emperor I rancis Joseph ior his wholesale executions ot their brethren; but nobody can tail to see that the "irreconcilability" of some of the most eminent of French politicians is greatly due to recollections of the personal dis honor to which they were subjected on the memorable morning of tho coup d'etat. At the present moment we are well aware that nothing seems less important to the great majority of the .Northern people than that the experiment whioh they aro trying in the Sonth causes excessive discomfort to a par cel of conquered Rebels; but they will pro bably hereafter view this experiment with other eyes when there comes tho inevitable waking to sympathy and pity, and when, much about the same timo, it appears that tho negroes, who are the instruments of pun ishment, have become not only a Southern but a Northern power, weighing heavily in the scale whenever a national decision has to bo taken. WINES AND LIQUORS. E R MAJEST CHAMPAGNE. : 215 SOUTH FRONT STREET. T'HE ATTENTION OF THE TRADE IS X olioitwl to the t'ollowiug erj Choice Wine, ats., lor gala bj DUNTON A LU880N, !S ROIITII h'HONT 8TUKRT. OUAMPAl.NKS. Agents for her M.jeoty, Dad d Montvliello, Cnrte Bleue, Carte lilanob, and ChArte 1 tire's Grand Yin huuunie, and Via Imperial. M. K'ee man A (Jo., of Marence. 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Kyre, Spencer Mcllvaln, J. B. Seniple, l'lttaburg, A. It. Berger, Pittsburg, ,D. T. Morgan, Plttaburg. unities i raquair, uenry Moan, Ilenrv c:. Dallpft .Tr James C. Hand, illiam V. Ludwlg, Joseph II. Seal, Hugh Craig, .Triltll II. Tavlftl Ueorge W. Bernadoo, William C HmiHtnn THOMAS C. IIAND, President. r.,. JOHN C. DAVIS, Vice-president. IIFTtT T.YLBUUN, Secretary. UliMtV BALL Assistant Secretary. l l INSURANCE COMPANY OK WORTH AMERICA. January 1, 1870. Chnrtcr Perpetual. Iucot'iiornlrd !?!!. CAPITA!,.. AStrETH... 8500,0H S,7s:i,.wi IjOsm-h pnld since organization. ...ft'.!.'!, 000, 000 Kerelpl of Premium. KS01....l,991,i.ir-43 loiereat from Invextujeulrs '!. ll ,!6,7 1 !SXI0M,.VM- ll,0;l,5,;tv(sl I.ohnc pnld, ISifl Statement of the AwxetK. Flnt Mortgages on City Property $738, ioO United SUlee Government and otbor Loan Bond 1.133,818 Railroad, Bank and Oanal Stocks 65,708 Caah in Bank and Uffloe 347,tO0 Loans an Collateral Seonrity 83,568 Notes Receivable, mostly Mailne Premiums. .. 8 J 1, 944 Accrued Interest 40,367 Premiums in coursa of transmission 85,198 Unsettled Marine Premiums 100,900 Real Estate. Offlcs of Company, Philadelphia. . 80,000 DIItKOTORS. Arthur O. bamoel W. Jc tea, John A. Brot o. Fraoois R. Oops, Kdward kL Trotter, Edward H. Clarke, T. Uharlton Henri, Alirsd D Jesaup, Ixim U. Madeira, Charles W. Uusnman, Clement A. Griscoixi. William Brockie. Cbaries Taylor. Ambrose white, W illiam Welab, B. Morris Wain, John Mason, George L. Harrison, ARTHUR O. COFFIN, President. OHAbLKS PLATT, Vice-President. Matthias Mabih, Secretary. C. U. Ko:v:h, Assistant Seoretary. 8 4 1829. CHARTER PERPETUAL. 1870. franklin Fire Insurance Company OF PHILADELPHIA. Office, Hon. 435 and 437 CHESNUT St. Assets Jan. 1 , 1 7OL$2v825073 1 "67 CAPITAL $400,000-00 ACCRCKD SURPLL'8 AND PREMIUMS.... a.4731-67 INCOME FOR I8i0. $tiio,ouo. LOSSES PAID IN lm. aj sj. Lossespaiflsmcel829 over $5,500,000 Perpotnal and Temporary Polioies on Liberal Terms. The Company also itwus policies upon the Rents of all k'nds of liuiidings, (irouuu Rents, aud Morteaarea. t he "FRANKLIN" has no IMfal'U I'iO) CLAIM. DIRECTORS. . Alfred G. Bakor, Alfred ntier, Thomas Sparks, William H. Urant, Thomas 8. Kills, C.nmt AVTIM R liMtiaAn. ramuei iiram, tieore W. Richards, Isaac Le. Oeorfie Fales, ALFRED G. BAK.KR. President ....o GKOKGK FALK8, Vioe-President JAMKS W. McALLIKTKH, Hecralary. TUKOUORK M. RKUKR, Assistant Secretary. 9 19 V " s" 33 XJ Xfc Y LIFE INSURANCE CO , 11 Y. Number of Polioies issued by the five largest New York Companies during the first years ef their sxistenoe: MUTUAL (28 months) 1099 NJW YORK (18 mouths) 10HI K aNH A1TAN (17 mouths) 968 KNICKKRIiOCKKK. .. (20 mouths) 069 EQUiTAMJt. (Umoutha) 8b6 Curing the 81 mouths of its existonce the A8DURY HAS ISSUED 2600 POLICIES, INSURING NEARLY 18,000,000. Reliable Canvassing Agents wanted throughout the oounixy. . . Manafer for Pennsylvania and Delaware. o. 11 V ALNIJT hLruL Philadaluhia. tisnui m. lAirfuauas, Office, No. 8AMUKL POWERS, Special Asent. leg TMFElUAIi FIRE INSURANCE CO. LONDON. ESTABIJ8IIED 1803. Psld-op Capital and Aocnmalsted Funds, 08,000,000 IN GOLD. PEEV0ST & UERHING, Agents, I tt No, 10T & THIRD Street, Philadelphia, CEAS, X. PREVOST. CHA& F. EfiRRINQ INSURANOtt piUK ASSOCIATION. i.v,vKruR4TRD MARCH 97, tfclu. officf;, NO. U NORril FIFTH STREET INSURE UlILDIM.8. HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE. AND MERCHANDISE GENERALLY. From I nu by Fire (In the City of Philadelphia only). ASohT. JANUARY 1, 1S0, l,37 J,7:ii'aV TRUSTEE. WM n. HAMILTON. JOHN C'ARKOW, GF.OHftK I. YOUNG. JOS K. I.YNDALL. IF. VI P. UIIATN, L a II I ' L' I a. 1 1 A t t t A tr- CHARLES P. ROWER. JK8NK UUHTrOOT, mini. dllilKWAKKR, J-d'IKK AKMIlKUhlER. M. H. DMIklNKON. noin , r o r a n 1 1 n n rv . j (i yV JOSEPH E. 8UUKLL. ' FT r It W ILL1 AMUON. VM. H. HAMILTON, President. KAMUFL BPARHAWK.VIco President. J WILLIAM T. BUTLEB. J.55 . ... Secretary. A M E INS U R A N C E CO M PAN T, No. W9 CHESNUT Street. INCORPORATED lm. CHARTS R PERPETUAL CAPITAL jaw.liDO. 1 IRJt INSURANCK EXCLUSIVELY, Insurance against Lom or Damage by Fire oither by Per. letusl or Temporary Policies. DIRECTOHtt. Lh.,r,M R'chardaon, , Robert Pesrre. William II klu.i. Vt 41li.ni M. rieyfert, John F. Smith, Nathan HilUa. Jhn Kosfili'r, Jr., Edward It. Drue, Utmrle Hlokss, John W. Erorman, Mordnnftl Ittivlie Ceorge A. West, CHARLES RICHARDSON. Prli,i.. WILLIAM II. RH AWN, Vice President Wn.tiAMS I. Bl,ANcmi, Secretary. 7 2t THE PENNSYLVANIA FIRE INSURANCK COMPANY. r, ,V,,0CT,r!td '-Cnarter Perpetual. N!5.u ,n.WAUNlJ street, opposite lndpndnce Siinars. 1 his Company, favorably known to the community for over forty yeara continue to insure aeainst loss or dara Me by tire on Public or Pnate Buildinirs, either perms n;nUyor fora limitd time. Also on Furniture ntooks of Goods, and Merchandise generally, on liberal terms Their Capital, together wivh a larKe Surplus Fund, ix InTejted in the most careful mann..r. which enablra them to offer to the insuied an undoubted security in the case Daniel Smith. Jr.. Dir.f.cxoitH. John DoTcreux, Alexsndor Henson, Inaso tisr.lehurht, IlenrT Loifia, .1 ;ili,n,.i,... V.lt 1 imwas itouinK, jsnnim filiation, ,ir. VS1. ... I.KOWKLL, Secretary. 'PHK ENTERPRISE" INSURANCE Ca V PHILADELPHIA. Ofhoe8.W. corner of FOITRTH and WA LN'TT Street t,ir.Dl'i'1,W,l"U""l! WXOLUNIVKLY. "e0" r.a,KM,.rKTHAL.'N0.T5:KM 'UCIIca ISSUED. L AMI Uspital (paid np in full) $jmi,maj (W laNh AsNCla, Jan. 1. 1870 S.-J J l.rtK.Vis DIRECTORS. l J.- Kstohford Starr, , J. Livingston Errine.fr. TVnllro r7ier, James L. Claxhoro. John M. Atwood. iWm.u. ISouKon. Renj. T. Tredi. k. Diaries Wheeler, George H bluart, Thomas II. Montgomery, JACOB E. PET EliSON, Assistsnt Sf srsiary. AQRIOULTURAL. (3$ BUI STS OARDEN MANUAL AN1 ALMANAC for 1K70 contains one hundred and twenty pawee of unotul information to country rusidonts. distributed gratuitously from UUlST'S SEED WAREHOUSE, 3 17 lm Nob. PM and W4MARK ET St.. abore Ninth. BUI STS WARRANTED GARDEN REKDS. Market Gardeners or Privato Families who desire the most improved Seeds should purchase tboir supplies at BUIST'S SEED WAREUOUSK, B17 lm Nos. PSSland VM MARKET St.. above Ninth. AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENTS AND GARDEN TOOL8. Plouirha. Harrows, riulfi, lore, rea nowers. uiiurns, tiaruen and Meld Kjllers, I .awn Mowers. Hull rood and Garden Wheelbarrows; Hav. Straw, nnd Fodder (Juttors, all at reduced prices. (Jail and examine our stock ROItKRT KIJIST, Jit., .... SKKU WARKHOUSR, S V Ira Nos. 922 and Vit MARKET Street. THE PHILADELPHIA LAWN MOWER. L Thin ia thn mfisk imurnvail tiun1 . . . 1, 1 M aud is just the article needed by all who have grass to cut. It can be operated by a lady without latigue. Price and every Mower warranted . Sold by ROBERT RTJIST, .In., . . SEED WARKHOUSK, 8171m Nos. 922 and W4 MARKET Street. VEGETABLE AND FLOWER 8EEDS, FRKSH AND GENUINE. Grans anH f :lnr Srf. Onion Sets, Asparagus snd Rhubarb Knots, Mushroom Spawn, Early Potatoes, Fruit Trees, Grape Vines. Straw berry, Ruspberry, Blackberry, Currant Plants of the best varieties DREKR'S GARDEN CALENDAR for 1870, with list ol prices, etc., cun be had on application at DHKER'S Sh KI WAREHOUSE. 817thsws4t .714 OH ESN C 1' Btreet. WATCHES. JEWELRY, ETO. n. M U II R & so N, Importers snd Wholesale Dealers in W A Tim PS U. 168 NORTH SECOND STREET. FWKLRY. SPECTACLES, etc. eto. Watchmakers and Dealers will find our stock complete, St prices ss low as any in the United States. Price bst sent on application. 851m WILLIAM H. WAKNE A GO Wholesale Dealers in vaiviuiih iku .ivircrrnv K. earner SEVENTH and OHKHNlfr- Rtr. 8 SKI Second floor, end late of No. 86 8. THIRD St PEUcrvab x. hkix. bewboh Ncara Pi:UClYAL 13. IIEUL, Ac CO., DEALERS IN Lehigh and Schuylkill Coal, DEPOT: No. IH26 North NINTH Street, 1 T5 West Side, below Master. Branch Offloe. No. 7, RICHMOND Street. pUKE LEIIIUII AND SCIIUYLKIXL FAMILY, FACTORY, AND BITUMINOUS COALS. Large stock always on hand. Southeast corner THIRTEENTH and WILLOW Streets 111 lH4m W. W. A O. I). HAINES. QENT.'S POBNISHINQ COOPS. pATENT HHOULDK It -8 K A M SIUP.T MANUPACTOUY, AND GENTLEMAN'S FURNISHING STOKH. PMlKECTLY KITTINU SniltTH AUD DUAVVKt S mode from meiiHuremeut ut very short notice. All other articles of GiNTLKMKN'S D1CESS GOOES la foil variety. WINCH ESTEK A CO., No. Tu CIIEHNUT Htlt C ROC ERJ E8AN DPR O V ISIONS. U I O II A EL M E AO II Eli & QQ No. 823 South SIXTEENTH Street, Wholesale and Retail Dealers lu PROVISIONS. OYSTERS AND TERRAPINS. Buhlor'i Extra Canned CORN. Vkak' " " PKAOHttS. Maryland Canned TOMATOES. Fxtra Canned ASPARAGUS. CORDAGE. Kanilla, Sical and Tarred Cordage, At Lowest New York Prices and FrolKhts. EDWIN II. K1TI.F.II it CO., Factory, TEKTUBt. snd QKRMANTOWN Avenue. Store, Ne. 23 N. WATER St and 32 N. DELAWARE Avenue. c ORN EXCHANGE BAU mAHurAOTOKY. JOHN T. BAILEY, r of MARKET and WATE ft, E. corn er of MARKET and WATER Streets. Philadelphia. DEALER IN BAUb AND BAGGING Of every description, fur Grain. Floor, Bait, Snper-PhoephAts Of lime. Boa . Dust. Xto. Lareean small GUNNY liAtiS conitanUy oa hand. W Also. WOOL SACKS. ALKXAND BR O. OATTBLL GO. rBODUOK COMMIHaiON MFROHAJTIC Wo.(M OHTH WilAKYaWi AMD Ho. V FORTH WATTTR BTBJDn; xuAjrPBa a Oanaus) XUMJl Otrxautl
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