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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.
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Mreel, Philadelphia.
M AKIN K IN!"HJH ANCE.S
On Veflo!s, Cargo and Freight to au parts of the
world.
INLAND INSURANCES
On goods bj river, canal, laKe and land carriage to
an nans oi tne i nwn.
FLUE INSURANCES
On Merchandise generally; on Stores, Dwellings,
nouses, etc
ASSETS OF THE COMPANY
November 1, 1H0.
rno.ooo United States Five Per Cent.
Loan, ten-forties ts.OWOO
100,000 United Btates 8ix Percent.
Lobr (lawful money) 107,750D0
60,000 United btates bis i'er Cent
Loan, lssi 60,000
800,000 State ot Pennsylvania Six Per
Cent. Loan 913,990-00
800,000 City of Philadelphia filx Per
Cent. Loan (exempt from
tax) 800,W00
100,000 State of New Jersey Six Per
Cent, Loan 102,000 TO
80,000 Pennsylvania Railroad First
Mortgage Blx Per Cent.
Uonrts l,450-00
25,000 Pennsylvania Railroad Se
coud mortgage Six per Cent.
llonds 83,625 -00
85,000 Western Pennaylvanla Rail
road Mortiige Six Per
Cent. Honda (i'ennaylvanla
Kallroad guarantee) SO.OOO-OO
80,000 State of Tennessee Five Per
Cent. Loan lS.OOOOO
T.000 Hate of Tennessee Six Ter
Cent Loan 4,J70'00
12,800 Pennsylvania Railroad Com
pany, sro shares stock U.OOOTO
6,000 North Pennsylvania Rail
road Company, loo shares
stock 8.900OC
10,000 Philadelphia and Southern
Mall Steamship com-
, PttDy 80 shares stock T.500-00
tu,vw lioaoa on nona ana Mort
gage, first Hens on City
Properties 846,00D0
11,231,400 Par. Market value, $l,2tB,4T0'00
Real Estate
Bills Receivable for Insurances' iuad'e"!
Balances due nt Agencies:
Premiums on Marine Policies, Accrued
Interest, and other debts due tho Com
pany Btoek, Herip. etc., of Hundry Corporal
tlOUfl. 147116. KNtlnmtnd vnJnn
30,000-00
8i3,7lM';B
e!5,097-9S
Casti in Bank fl6s',Rl8-SS
Cash In Drawer Wzt
9,740110
19,291 "14
ll,Sr2,100-04
Thomas C. Hand, Samuel E. Stokes,
.Tnlin i !. Tlavla
William . Boulton,
Krtwarri T)nrllncrtin
Edmund A Kniirinw
Theophflug Paulding,
II. Jones Brooke,
Edward Lafourcado,
Jacob lttegel,
Jacob P. Jones,
James B. Ncb'ailand,
Joanna P. 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