TilE DAILY EVENING TELEGRAPH PHILADELPHIA, SATURDAY, MARCH 2G, 1870. spirit or ins rzisss. Editorial Opinions of the Leading Journals upon Current Topics Compiled Every Dayfor the Evening Telegraph. CUBA OK SAN DOMINGO ? romth$tf. V. Tim. It is Mrauge ho any man who advocates the recognition of Cnlmn inileeuileuce or belligerency, or looks forward to the auuoxn tion of that islau,d eau oppoHe the aevitiiii tiou of Bhu Domingo. No ouo can f.nl to see that the latter in ouly a step toward tho for mer, and that meanwhile it secure fit a cheaper rate uiuuy if not all of the aJvau tagea promiHud by the other. Lot us coti ftider : Cuba might cost tin a war in which, though we tihouid uudoubtedly acquire that island, our commerce would inevitably be attacked by privateers, an it was during the ltebellion, and inevitably with the Name results. The expense of the war could not lie lens than hundreds of millions, while Han Doruingo is offered to us without a war aud for a inillion and a half of money. Cuba haH a population of one million five hnudred thouuaud, of whom about half are white, aud oue-Ufth of those of Spanish birth, the latter nearly all males, and bitterly hos tile to the Creoles, as well as to annexation; of the blacks, two-thirds are Hlaves. Among theHe various populations a civil war now rages almost unparalleled in barbarity on both bides. In ban Domingo the population does not exceed a hundred thousand, more than two-thirds of whom are either blaok or colored. In the one case we should hive to deal with the mixed races,and might find espe cial difficulty with those of Latin origin, as well as with thoHe who would then be reoently emancipated blaves; in the other case, we find a single race of colored men aooustomod to freedom, and anxious to be received by us. The various and numerous populatious of Cuba would constitute a new and diflloult problem for our statesmen to solve, and doubtless complicate our politics; the few thousand voters whom Han Domingo would bring into the Union would be lost in the overwhelming majority of natives of the United States who would rush to the island when once a firmly-established government and free trade invited the influx of immigra tion. Then, too, Cuba offers ns no such harbor as Sam an a. That of Havana, although line, is not comparable in any respect to the fa mous port in San Domingo. The ouo is not more than three or four miles across in any direction; the other is thirty miles deep and ten miles wide; while in location Samana is infinitely preferable for the purposes of the United States. Vessels bound for Central America, the Caribbean sea, Venezuela, Co lombia, or the Isthmus, would be obliged to deviate nearly a thousand miles from their course, to coal or repair at Havana, while Samana is directly on their road. The question is, whether to secure all these great advantages proffered by San Domingo, at a nominal expense, and with the cortainty of no serious disadvantages afterwards to set them off, or to incur the risk of a war and all its attendant evils and expenses, and subse quently a train of political complications, in order to obtain possession of a territory which has not been offered us, and a large portion of whose inhabitants are known to be intensely opposed to annexation. Cuba may, and doubtless will, eventually come to us, but bhe is not now ripe for this, nor are we ready to receive her. San Domingo is knocking at our door, and every distaut or possible advan tnge promised by the possession of tho one is almost certain to accrue immediately from the acquisition of the other. THE STOMACU AND WOMAN'S 11IGUTS. Frvrn the X. Y. Tribune. Out from the wide, weltering chaos of fog wherewith in theso later months the talking woman has enveloped the world, thero now and then streams a ray of wisdom as tremu lous and radiant as the morning beam of Cassiopia. These occasional irradiations give ns pause, and we sit down and meditate with the light upon our brows. For light is ever welcome, and when it comes from an unex pected source it comes with a borrowed grace which bewilders while it enchants us. Sun beams have erewhile been sought from cu cumbers; they weren't found. Wisdom has been entreated from the lips of the talking woman, and not entirely in vain. And when in limited quantities, and at irregular aud fitful intervals, tho same has been drawn out, it seems moro pro cions than other wisdom. To expect it from the talkitg woman, as an average fruitage or product, would be as unwise as to expect peaches from myrtles, or logio from nightin gales; and for women to repine at the decree that they bhall be graceful rather than grau diloquent, lovely rather than logical, would be as futile as for the myrtle to bewail its sterility, or the nightingale to dojiloro its in ability to bing in syllogisms. Still, gome of them do repine. Thoir white hands spurn the distuff, and seek to brandish tho fcpoar. It is weary work to desire, not nnhieve; to hunger aDd not be fed and wlu-n such ardent aspirations exist there must be Bomo hidden power of roulizing them. AVo have been puzzled to see how women were going practically to accomplish all their aims aud plant themselves in the high scuts of the world's business push out olt'eto and obso lete Chief Justices, and ISishops, und grey Senators, and scarred Field Marshals, and themselves assume the woolsack, au the mitre, and the toga, and the truncheon. lut Mrs. Hubert Dale Owen in a recent address drops a hint which, if wisely followed, may turn over to them the substance of power, even if they are magnanimous enough to leave its shadow with those whom th-jy have subjugated. Her scheme is to conquer by cookery. As tho old btatuary mingled grief with his bronze, she would min;.;le gentle guile with her jollies, soft soduction with her sweetmeats, aud persuasion with her pies. If we are to be subjugatod aud sit mi pine and stricken at feruenine feet, as Hercules sat at the feet of Omphalo, wo pre fer being conquered in that way. Sweet are the allurements of the entree, potent tho per suasions of poago, and there is moro peril to man's authority in the oup which oheors but not inebriates than in tho spooch which enters not while it exasperates. Mrs. Owen's scheme is really full of wisdom. It recognizes the cardinal truth that nwa who rule the world are themselves ruled through the instruments of sustenance. It is not easy to convince their heads, but it li possible to soften their hearts and persuude their wills by giving them good dinners. It isn't every one who can learn how to reason, but any one can learn Low to cook. There is, too, a gen- tleiioHB and beneficence m this mo M ot con quest befitting the natural disposition of woman. In such a crusade she would con quer by a penile sign. She would bless while she subjugated, and the bound captive at her feet would hug his fetters tint.il his gratitude and devotion got a ch irv ui his captor. twen the race m ight be gradually exalt ll J modem American population is as unimagln impaign. The ai s of ' td.lo sh a mountain stream which retaius its by this culinary campaign tuiiptitic papas are apt to be more a id their daughters tnoro virtuous than tnosa w 10 spring from a badly-fed ancestry. The qual ty of the dinner intlncuces not only prosrit achievement but future well-beiug, and its consequences f.(ir in tho pulses of poster! y. The bigotry of tho bigot, the folly of 1 10 fool, and tho sin of the siuuer, may result ia Bomo degreo from paternal malassim l i tion. When the millennium comes it will be after such a dietetic prelude as 1 1 it which Mrs. Owen would inauguarte. If we have spoken with levity of any of the aspo.iU of this scheme, it must not be thought t!it we would discourage its fullest development and application. Even if it did not, as Mrs. Owen hopes, very greatly increase the power of women ovor men, they would at least sh w its duily advantages, and there is no poultije so well calculated to reduce the irritation of feverish and irrational ambition as th it which, in the shape of a good dinner, is daily applied to the btomaohs of the afflicted. THE MOItMON MUMME11Y. From the X. V. Wurld. Macaulay considered that there was nothing more ludicrous than the spectacle of the liiitish publio in one of its peridio fits of ungry virtue. Dut Macaulay had the happi ness of never having seen Congress in a similar spasm of righteous wrath, and par ticularly the boon was granted to him of dying without the sight, or even the know ledge by report, of the debate which occupied the House of liepresentatives for two days, npon tho measure for the suppression of polygamy by criminal process. The debate was more interesting as a revelation of the Congressmen who took part in it than for auy influence it is likely to have upon the com munion of the Latter-Day Saints. Mr. Ward, of New York, was the most aggressive and conspicuous champion of the sanctity of our social relations, and his speech in support of the bill was equally remarka ble for its justice and its taste. He was pleased to remark that he "expected to put gentlemen on their record." That is to say, he "expected" to denounce every Congress man as the husband, actual or prospective, of more than the conventional quota of wives, who declined to assent to tho efBoacy or tho justice of Mr. "Wurd's scheme for put ting down Brigham Young. The possibility that a man may sympathize with the objects of a moosuro without thereby approving of all the details, or evon with the scope and purport of the specific measure by which it is proposed to attain that object, seems nover to suggest itself to minds of the calibre of CongresKinan Ward's. He might profitably havo taken a leaf out of the book of his literary namesake, tho lamented Artamus of his name, who has instructed mankind that to be a Mormon is its own best punishment. and that a Mormon is his own worst enemy. Dut, bad as was Mr. Ward, worse remained behind. Mr. Dlair, of Michigan, raised his shrill pipe on the same side for the benefit of his dear and native Dunenmbe, and illumi nated tho llouno with n display at once of manly sentiment and of historical learning. As Clive, in Thackeray's novel, said of the letter of his love, we may say of the bleat of Blair "The expressions ii elegaut; the sentiments is most correct." Somebody had ventured to suggest that it would be a hard ship for even a female Mormou, who held a mortgage subsequent to the first and legal one upon tho devotion of her lord, to be turned out upon the deserts of Deseret with out even her former fragment of a mar-riago-bed wherein to lay her head. Him Blair put to coul'imlon by rating the conduct of "Cromwell" "i'J !i....i'fj up the con vents," ond directing the wretched inmates "Go spin, ye jades, go spin." The trivial circumstance that tho dissolution of the monasteries occurrod a century before Crom well's time does not in tho least affect the argument of the excellent Mr. Blair, and in deed it would bo rash to accuse him of igno rance of it, since it is easy to see how absurd it would seem, in an exposition of the evils of polygamy, to quote with any approbation the conduct of tho real author of the spolia tion of religious houses, that excessively married monarch, tho hexagynous Henry. On the other hand, it is pleasing to find, with something of the same surprise as Baillie Jarvie noted "some glimmerings of sense in that Dougal creature," tho dawn of intelligence in the darkened mind of Sohenck. That legislator touched tha matter with a needlo when he told the House that the Pa cifio llailway would do moro towards tho ex tirpation of polygamy than all the speeches and all tho bills with which they could load the long-suft'ering Git be. In fact, that legis lator and Mr. Cox bad the souse of the debate pretty mm h to themselves. Nevertheless, though Sohenck was thus wiser in his generation than the children of the pure radical light, he could not prevail npon them to quash the bill. It was too good an opportunity for the exhibition of virtue to bucolic constituencies to bo thrown away. The sections of the bill which alone made it of the least avail against the institution which it professed to attack were stricken out, and then tho bill was passed, and will go upou tha statute-book, unless tho senso of the Senate oe greater man wo nave any roaso n to sup pose, as a moiancnoiy t utility. For to suppose that its provisions mu ba enforced in Utah by tho ordinary processes of law is absurd. Tho bill htrikc.s at the root of tho sociul system of a whole body of people, ana its peaceuiue onioiceinenc would only be possible in the presence of an tdmost unani mous hostile opinion. Tho opinion of Utah is warmly friendly to this system. Tho Mor mons, and not the Gentiles, have tho power of persecution in their hands; and they have shown that they are quite ready to wield it. No juror who should find n Mormon guilty under the provisions nud subject a Mormon to the penalties of tLis act could thereafter live among the Mormons in peace. In such a strait, tho only guarantee of tho execution of an unpopular law is to bo found iu the in vocation of military force. That force Con gross has refused to invoke, although it is certain that any action they may take in the premises without its intervention or its in timidation is utterly nugatory. The debate elicited this so fully that Congressmen cannot bo ignorunt of it. Tha bill luustthoroforo be tnLon as a bill for Buncombe, and not for l'tiib, and their a-tiou no better than arrant trilling. Tho end of Mormondoin, be that end close or remote, will bo brought about in an en tirely different way. Military force might avail to crush it. But tho resort to military force has been docidod ugainst. Our expe rience has not been very favorable to it, nor is tho grievance cither so great or so imme diate as to justify a resort to arms to rodrwss it. Ihe samo concurrence of opinion whioli is now the safety of the Mormons will become their destruction when they become, as in a few years thf y must, but a fraction of a popu lation imbued with coutradiotory , way of thinking and of living. Isolation is their protection. Intercommunity will prove their b.ii t-. A Salt Luke City ia tho nillst of a diameter ufter it hss flowed into the Boa. THE SENATE AND THE CHIEF JUSTICE. Y ninth X. V. Xation. Nothing has of lute oocurrod to show more clearly the moral disorganization of our day than the talk which is found in the press, anil which has by no means been confined to the press alone, in regard to the late legal-tendor decision of the Supreme Court. Tho very Miggi stiun of obtaining a new deoui -m by the means proposed, was an outrage on all the national ideas of respect for law, and the outrage was the greater beuausn there seems to have been no popular uneasiness to justify or excuse it. A few politicians and moneyed corporations tdono have made all the noise that has been heard. It is true that a part of the legal profession certain mem bers of, the bench nud bar who had strongly committed themselves to the principle of legal-tender during the war were angry with Chief Justioe Chase for overruling their opinion, for which, if it was mistaken at all, he was himself principally responsible; but the bar dues not oonspire against the beach. This is the work of politi cians. The scheme of reversing the docision was a political intrigue, based on the well known fancy of the Semite for grasping at power, and on the notorious dislike of Sena tors for tho Chief Justioe. So far as the publio is concerned, there has not been a breath of popular discontent to justify any political movement; aud yet grave men have doubted the result; Senators have freely ex pressed their opinion that the decision would be reversed; Congressmen have furiously de nounced it as rivalling the Dred Scott deci sion in bad pre-eminence; aud, worst of all, it has been assumed, as a matter of course, that Justices Miller, Swayne, and Davis would consent to join in this conspiracy to degrade their own dignity. All t his is probably empty talk; but, if the Ilepublican Senators aud leaders are wise, they will put a stop to the disuassion at once. Nothing can be more discreditable to them thun to encourage clamor of this kind. If any of them gravely entertain the idea of pressing the intrigue to a result, they had better not confess it. There are many rea sons why this issue is a very unfavorable one for the Senate to choose as the basis of its assault on the Chief Justice or on tho Supreme Court. The decision in the case of Hepburn vs. Griswohl has a very narrow scope, so far as the principle of legal tendor is concerned. It avoids with great skill any inter ference with the constitutional power of Congress over the general subject of legal tender, and no issue can be made with it by Congress on that score. All that the court has ruled is that tho legal-tender clause of tho set of 25th Februiry, 1802, as applied to contracts pievioiisly existing, was not. essential to curry m.r. tho constitutional powers of Couprev.s; or, in other word, that private rights should bo interfered with by (..'ongress only Pu far as is necessary; and iu this cmsh tbo interference was not necessary so far as previous contracts were concerned, and was prohibited by the Constitution. As matter of fact, no one r'oubts that this decision is perfectly true. Neither Mr. Justice Miller, nor the Senato, nor any one else, has ventured to maintain that tho legal tender might not without trou ble havo been made to affect ouly future con tacts. That tho objects of the law would have been um well or better reached had its ex pott facto operation been ex eluded, is a truth almost self- evident, and until it is questioned, we shall not argue upon it, more especially as its truth or error is not a point on which tha iiissenteis rest. The truth of the Chief Justice's opinion, as matter of faot, may be freely conceded without affecting the legal issue, and though both opinions argue the gmitrid question of necessity, and, ou that score, aie equally open to criticism, the only silid objection ti the Chief Justice is based on the ground, not that his facts are untrue, but that, whether true or false, it is for Con gress and not for tl. court to determine, in case an exigency exist, what degree of ne cessity i utilities interference with private rights. It is not insisted that the court has decided wrongly as to Ike facts, but only that it hud no right to decide at all. ISut if the decision were overruled, the result, ho far as leual tuxdor is concerned, must be to establish the principle that not only the Chief Justice's law but his facts are incorrect, and consequently the (Jourt will be compelled to ufllrm, what every one knows to be lake, that the application of legal tender to past contracts was essential to the preser valion of the country. It matters littlo wkttlur Congress or the Court is responsible tor this result. It is enough that because Coi. press orii'iialiv made a mistake chich ci.Miot lie dt.lended iu reasou, the Supreme Com t must be compelled to make that mis tidit law, and decide against truth aud equity. Wo nil know that tho Legid-Tender Act did 1.1 1 depend lor its tiliaiicy ou its retroactive -it plication, but tho Court must assort tint it (HI, and miihtiever.se the Chief Justice's judy. nuLt Liven on the opposite understanding. Cf all countries in tho world, America is the last where law cwu be safly divorced from C.ulllilllll Hl'llSC, und where politicians oan with salely intrigue to bring about such a itsiilr. The law and the public good are far n.oro deeply interested iu obtaining justice 1 1. an in ussi'i tiiig tho infallibility of Congress a do.'ina that Inn never been fauatieally lit Id l the American publi,-. In the present mstnijco tho attempt to perpetuate as law tue iiii.st.dvt s of Coiigcvsslnay Uave results much more mischievous than the mistakes them selv(s n-snlfs which may bo particularly en bi.ir.issing to tho very persons who are lij u g to bring them about. One of these is r.t!t- sled in problem commonly known at '(Tenet nl (ianield":i Conundrum," because G( uni l Garfield id snid to have proposed it hi conversation to Mr. Justice Miller. It mi.s much as fl!.iv: '1 1 e opinion of tho Court carofully avoids t! o (.euerttl question of constitutionality. It is iiiillned to conliacU maile prior toFeb ninry 25, 18(iU. The dh-bouting opinion, on tin coiiliary, covers the whole subject. It rules that if' the law was iu any souse essen tial, the degree of necessity was for Congress to di teimine. It affirms thut a necessity did ei.ist; that this nccfisait.y was ouo of war; aud tl at the legal-tender cluuso was necessary to inn t. it the decree of necessity being doter miped bv CorgrcFS, nud the docision of Con kr.RM being fiual. Now it happens that only a few months s.iutfl, in the cose of the Uniled Htates utiuiiist Anderson, the Supreme Court, Justice Miller and all, uuauimou-ly ruled that Conpifci.s has by its own legislation fixed the 20th Angiiht, lS'tKi, as tho close of the war, and the Court went on to say that 4'there is no reasou why this declaration should not be received as settling the question wherever private rights are affected by it-" 'i'he xi genry, therefore, which was the authority of Congress for interfering with private rights in the matter of legal-tender as in other mutter, whs declared by Congross itself, and affirmed by the entire Court, to have term!- nated on the 2(tth Atlpunt, 180fi. What, then, asked General Garfield, is the authority which upholds lcgal-teuders since Auast 'JO, lMiOf We leave this puzzle for law periodicals to disenss, sinco our own poiut of view is rather political than legal, but at the same time we cannot but think that tho dissontinot opinion of tho Court, if established in place of the ! Chief Justice's decision, won' 1 open the door 1 to some very hazardous resui Either to maintain that the exigency w.u not one of ( war, or to assume a subsequent exigenoy by i implication, is equally dangerous, ana botu lead to tho inoRt violeut straining of common sense.- Supposing the Court were to ehoose the latter alternative, and were to rilo that a necessity not thut of war must be assumed from the fact that Congress acted as though it assumed it ! To infer that an exigeucy exists on the ground that there is nothing to prove thit it existed, is very question able logic, whatever its merit may be as law, and in this case it is all the more questionable, for the very reason that no necessity or exi gency did in fact exist, nor has any one ever pretended that it existed, while the dictates of good sense assure us that the validity of legal-tender ought in reality to have ended with the war. The constitutional prinoiple thus established would be still more extra ordinary. It is, that although an extrome exigenoy involving the nation's life, and testified by peculiarly solemn legislation, would alone justify a temporary interference with private rights in the first place, yet sub sequently the permanent suppression of these same rights may be effected by implying a declaration, never once suggested, of an exi gency that is wholly imaginary. 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Uriacoin, Vlllimn Hrockie. Samuel W. Is tea, Jubu A. 11 rot n, Cbane '1'aylor, AmUnjae Vtite, V illiani Weleh, B. ilrrria Main, John Ufaecn, Ueorga L. liarrioon, AKl'UUK O. OOKKiV, Preaident CHAb.LK.rt PIJlTi'.Vioa Preaident. Mattimas Mahih, hcr.iaiy. 0. II. Kkevks, A aaielant Secretary. 8 4 TMl'KlUAIi FIKK IN8U1UJJCK GO. LONDON. KMTAltl.lMllEU IN03. Paid-up Capital und' Accumulated Funds, 88,000,000 IN GOLD. PEEV0ST & HERRING, Ageati, 1 4 No. 10T & THIRD Street, Phlladulphla. C11AH, U. FRSVOST. CHA8. P. BJUUUNa INSURANCE. 'W. COMMONWKALTlt OF PfcNX3TLVA I MA.-hTAl aMKM T Ol' Til oowoiri ii KQUITABLK UI'K A8UU.vN(3K SOJIKTlf Or HI It UNI I Kli Hl'Vl'lOS, on IJii Mali Umjt nl UecHiulinr, ITO. fi!nl rf Vw YiiTK, mti1yvt Afio lirht km; lie it ramombdrnrt.tiiRl on ihi Hint . rjt of Mmh, A. D. Is7u, bofure tho inbncti' r, (kmmi4iinr In an1 fur Main ol flaw Voik. aa J uiimuunMuunil mi l ftiilaormitd i tlis (loveiniir oi ilio ot ft'ttnunyiTAtiift, to i&Mn tU iwkniiwlMtfinitint ol (tarda und o liar wril'tign, to tia uiai aud rrooriloU In tho aaiaiMaanl I'aunayivaoi. oi to acrtilniHier uatha jf1 aitiriU4tiuiia. praalijr a:ekrai UHKKt ft KV lih.Vina rlliitr tna Hquliaiila l.iia A.Mirauor Hocirtjr ol tlia Ita ted htatar, ana maanath tliat tho following ia a tiua acttmunut ol tha aotiililioi) ot Hurt hqnttnbJe l.ua AMiarnoa Sociul apoa tua Hvti Uar tif Hacntihur, A 1. ISMI: And 1 luriuar enrtilx. that I hava made paraonal I tint. tau'n of lii cumliliiu ol aaid Kgu lali l.ua Aurooa Si rial J on Una day, and am aaiiaritnl tuny tiara aaota aaf. ly invaatd to tlia amount ot Ian Million uniUra ba (Ji nipany, aot fotth iu ma anue-ted aiatuutant, aii Dbt I nava ciaminha ha aa aritiaa now in tue naatiaol ua Bina aia or too tiuo rvpronntd In tua btatoiiiaut. lurtlior oortiiy, that i am tint intareated in tua aftaira of ml ( . mpaiiy. In Wiiuckk Wnnrcof. 1 have hereunto tni mrhtnil ami Hi i id m olticinl ae.l, Uim Hint uay ol Aiuroti, A. I). I17U. (QiKDcai mviimi i. l items km,, Commiaslonor for 1'aunajUania Iu Maw York. Flint: Capital atock tKU.WiOO An.ount of aaaoaamenta ot Instalment a on aiock aiu in eaan 10,000 l Tbataluea baarly aa may ba of tba Real hMOitliu totals Deia ut tuu comuai y l.fiiK.wrm Catibonhand tl UM 6 t,ali in banka, apeoiij in tbe bank 444,7S'0U na'ionai nna wi vjom uffrui, rintinoolilan National Itaak Uaab In bauda of Mania In eouraa of trana- nnuiion. , 41.1,181 fu Amount ot LAana aacuran uy d aai ana uiort- gKBa, oonat'tnting tba oral nan on Haal liaeaLa. on wbiob lliara ia leva than ona niai'a ioteraat due and owing t.T 18.707 IK Amountot jiana on wuiua imaraa naa not tiaen wd wunlu one year AMOUNT UK bTOelk.S OWNKU BY Til company, anaoimnii trie numoer of abaiei and tbair par and market value. .... . $1,823.731 65 far. Jr"rtrt wiiMr. II. S. a of 1881 Srtu.UiiO 7).K0 o0 ' 6 2oe 6,6.160 b7u,rm 66 N. Y. State Stocks IJo.Onu i:u,4vtrw) uity " iw.wv iwi.aiw'iiu Brooklm " lile.uOO IUAWW 1'annt.aaea ta Vu.oiiO M.4MI UO Virginia f v. 81.HOU 17, Bus WI A lab wu a (la tso,u0 7."43 110 MhHrttrton ltonda lll.UHl B.IMJ'M) AkIOUM Oi' STOCKS bald by the Com pany aa collateral eeuurlly for uns, witu its par aad Market value im.tWOO Amount IT. S. t Ms SlriO.OOO 1 183,200 1 69,300 V. B. tie of 1811 S.lMI il.nnO H,uu4 N . Y State atocka. . . . 1U.00O lu.WO 10,000 Brooklyn City 7 per ct. tock a,oog 1,130 1,800 M. V. Lifa and Truat Uo 0,000 10,000 1,000 i),71l,6oJ'l Intereet on inreatments due and unpaid... Aoorued tmereat not yet due Otiier available mucellaaeout aaaet a, apeoi- tyiag tbeir oliaraotar and vaiua Doe. rod premiuiuaof t.e aar Preniiunia due and aoeured, with intereet.... Caeh depoaited wttn Uoverninent of oanada. Olboe iurnituie, eat 60,78 1 61 Tort,!! in 00 H.WWI lU.tto l IK lv.oufuo Total aaaeto $10,6l0,2t 41 Third : Amount of losses during the year, adjusted nutnotuue fl66,000'00 Amount of loaana reported to the Couiuany but not acted upon 60,0'W'OO Amount ot limaea roslsied by the Uompauy. ., IO.mio 00 Aiiiooui. oi oivmenua uuu aou unpaiu XVone AJllouiit oi money oorroneu. anu (no nature and an.ountoi tne sacurny given ftone. A mini til of nil other claiiua agaiual the (Jem- uudv oontested or otherwmo Nona Amount roiuireu to auieiy roiusure mi oat standing ruka 9,2a0,O00'0O otirth: Amount of cash nremiune recoivod S5.7K9 25U 77 amiiantoi promiuma not fiaiu iu dnu uur inir tne rear, ataiinii tne cuaracteroi auun lirannutua All naah Ameu.it of premiuma earned 5,76:1,1.14 77 interest received rrom tnvestmenta. .......... Mfj.mi 6a income irom an otuar aourooa, tpeciiying wl'ht sources None. I ll til: -- Jnou' l of losses paid during the year $1, 133,715 otl a mount paid anu owing tor retnaurance pre miums..... Amount of roturn premiuma, whether paid or iinnniri Amouutof dividends deoliired during year., l,2IJ.4f3 45 Amount of dividends paid l.H3,iM ii amount ot eipenate paid auring tne yens-, including ojnimiseiona and lees paid to anntaaud offinoraof the company 819,205 97 Amount of losses cue ami unpaid mount of taxes paid by tha company 40,6I10i Amount, of other expenaaa and exponjitures. ltV,llo8'4ii Amiuntof pronuecory natos originally form ing tbo capital of tbe oompany. None. Amountot aeid nolo neld by tbo oompany as pnrt ol, or I he whole of, the uauital thereof. Nona. Psr and market value ot tbe company's stock per share. Par value $U0 ter share; market value not auutaLln. Amount paid tor purciiiaed policloa 133,06I'7A Amount pakl for annuities l,3Mttl Amr tiuainera in If&o.WI.Htl, exceeding Dy orar tMa.UiO.tCO the new business or any oiner oompany. BKl'TS A KKOISTKR. feneral Agnnta, 8l66t if No. 433 CUKaMUX H treat 1829 CI?ARTER PERPETUAL. Franllin Fire Insurance Cmpany OV PU1LADKLPUIA. Office, Nos. 435 and 437 CHE8NUT St Assets Jan. I,'70L$2, 825,73 1"67 OAPfTAL $KI,0OII-00 AUUKUH.O bUKfJ.UB AND FUKMIUMS.... a,4il6,78ro7 INCOME FOR 18i0, LOSSKB PAID IN 1869, VB10,UU0. Losses paid since 1829 over $5,500,0G0 Perpetual and Temporary Policies on Liberal Terms. Th Company also iaauea polioiea upon tbe Kenteof all Kods or iiuiitiinss, uround nenis, ana .Tiortflrajroe. Iba "IKAJSKLiN" baa no DIUPUTED CLAIM. DIRKUTOR8. Alfred O. Baker. Aitred ruler, Tbomaa Hparka, William 6. Or&nt, Tbomaa H. Kllia, Ciiiatavoa H. ItHnaoa. tSamuel (.rant, Ueorga W. Kiobards, Isaao Lea. Ueorga lales. AT.KRKD fi. HAKKR. Preaident. OKOKUK KAI.KH, Vice-President. JAMK8 W. MrALLlhTH R. Hecretary. TliKODORE M. KKCiKK, Assistant Beoretary. 1 1H P i R E ASSOCIATION. INCORPORATED MARCH 87, 1830. OFFICE, NO. 84 NORTH FIFTH STREET INSURK BUILDINGS, HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE, AND MERCHANDISE GENERALLY, From Lots by Fire (in tbe City of Philadelphia only). A8.-sr.TS, JANUARY 1, 1870, 8 lSr'J,7J4"J3. TKl'HTKKH. WM. II. HAMILTON, CHARLES P. BOWER. JOHN OAhKOW, IJKSSK LKiHTKOOT, iir.iii-e.il. i. luunu, .mmr. dhukhakkk. .ION. It. LYNIMLU PH.1KR A KM ItlUJol RIL -iivi L,uam, m. n. em ivi nail ni. bAMUKL bPAKH AWK. PKTF.K WILLIAMSON. JoaKPlI E. WOUKLL. WM. II. HAMILTON, President SAMUEL SPARUAWK, Vice President, WILLIAM T. BUTLRB, " M Beoretary. - S B XJ H Y LIFE INSURANCE CO , II. Y. Number of Policies Issued by the fire lamest New York Oompanies during tba nrat years af tbeir existence : MUTUAL (23 months) low MSW lOKK (18 IIlOIl til) HW1 MANHATTAN (i7lllouUie) Vf3 KMCKEHHOUKEIl. .. (20 iiiouUih) ten KQUJTABLS. (lTmuuthH) bHI DurlDg the tl mouths of ItA existence: the ASBUliY HAS ISSUED 2600 POLICIES, i INSURLNO NEARLY $8,000,000. Reliable CuTaaain( AgaaU wanted throoarhout the OUUU7' JAM E8 M. LONOAORB. Mamurer for Pennaylrania and Dataware. Offloa, I o. mm Vt A LN UT htraat, Philadelphia. 6AMUbXroVVKKfllB1uiaJAenl 414 INSURANOti pAME INSURANCE COMPANT, Mo. nm rjliKHNIIT BiiW IKOORPOnATiil 1km. UHAIirsK I'ltllHRrUAI.. CAI H Al, IU.II0II. II H ft I ft SIT II Ni if h I'irvirt v InanranoeaicalTat I oaa or Oama hy 1 1. a either by Vtt- Chrle Flchard'on, , K.plinrt Pnarne. Will,..,., m' V llh.,.. II kh.an J"hn Keli-r. Jr., RllMuirtt It Irn. ! tin Y. Snnlh, (Jher'oa Moke,, tlnhn VV. K.verma, Morilan il lliirlta Oeoige A. eet. I IIAIttKH ntO'l HI1HI.". I'mM. VVIi.U im . Rtl vW( Vioe-1'reslit..nf. Wlt.I.TAMa I, UlanciiarI), Beoretary. 7 PLNN8YLVANIA FIUK INSURANCE a (tiixtpAW v w!iniCaTPi0.'.,d -trt'r Perpetn.l. S i . U '. ht"o'.PMiia in Ibp.o Ihoub Smirt. i it I n I om n.nii. f..,...i,.. 1. . . . . ll nim.wu vi toe totii'i. unity lor ?! ..,,,-,T.-,,K1n,,,,',V,,,tu 'n"Dr" lnatloor dam n.nt,yrl,.ra .loiil.,1 tjnAvSZ'VXV RKX of t.ooda, and Merchand ae ann irally. on Itlieral tenna. i ,,,r.'"P';l. "' with a,ia Bnrulua Kuoi, ia nroated In the nl rarmul niannft'. irlnnh as, thm of lora uauiau an unuouoteu aeountr In tns oae Panlol fnillh. .Tr . nmKOTona. Aleianripr hniaoti, luae Hur.li'hornt, John Pevornux, Thomaa sniltli, II nrv l.owia, i uoraaa Kotiina, 1.1 Mlll u a , . . . THE ENTERPRISE INSURANCE CO. OF .A. r PIUIADKI.PIflA. Office 8. W oornj 'ol YOU HTH an I W A NTf "T Street. PirnT ittit a . m ..-... V,.. riku i . i .. ' i'i'ii'ilH(ii(n. LapiUI (paid up ia lu ll "H0 0a ai Aaarta, Ja.o I. IN70 SAJ I. .1(1.1 1.1 r, . L. U1KKUIIIHS, r. Ratchforil HUtr, J . Lirlniralnn Krrianr. Nnlhrn S r.ci... .1. i , - . yiii i.. oiacnorn. 4",,n S! MTm.H. noulton. ?T'rfi 1. h"rt h'homaa H. Montgomery. JobnII .Bniwn. Jamea M. AiirU... r . K A I ti H r tiRT? nTAHH, Prenfileni ai ixvMr JACOB W. PKI KH82N.A.igLint Secretary. WINES ANO LIQUORS. 1 II I? I ! R majesty! CHAMPAGNE. I DUZSTTOXT & Lussozr. i 215 SOUTH FKONT STREET. t rj"BK ATTENTION OF THE TRADE IS X aolicitad tA tha fnllnBln. - 11 1 ur. . for aale by " ' -"'o "inea,ewu DUKTON A LUHSON, 1UHOU1H 1KUNT 8TRKKT. einAir.ftijI.s..T Agents for bar Majesty, Jna da iiaannua, yana tiieue, uarta Blanche, and Oharlea rarre a brand V in Kugenia, and Vin Imperial, M. Klee 5 INKS0-' Alaytiioe, (Sparkling Moselle and EllINa letle. Puleaod OoIUhd Bivr. OiowM. etc. CJI.A U klR A ih x .ii. svg j a deaux. (JlHrt t und hi. u torn WlnM RN A NrI PM (1 annaaaaa Ua.l A. 1- t I " ' -a..v. avviMiitrosyoj, VMMU, f UU 4 VU. TsUnUOal QAR8TAIR8 & McCALL. No. 126 Walnut and 21 Granite Sts IMPOHTKKS OF Brandies, Wines, Gin, Olive Oil, Etc., WUOLK8ALK DKALKBS IN PURE RYE WHISKIES. IN BOND AND TAX PAID. LITIZ CURRANT WINE. ALBERT O. ROBKKTS, Dealer m ererj Deacrlptlon of Fine Groceries, 117 Corner ELEVENTH and VINE Street , "7ILLIAM ANDERSON & CO., DEALERS in Vina Whlakiea. No. 146 North BEOOND Btraat, fbiladalDUa. SEIZURES. CUSTOM HOUSE, PHILADELPHIA, PENN bYLVANIA. , Oou.rrron'8 Ofkicb. Maroh 18. 1879 NOTIOK TO (;i.AIM AftTS ia loraliw l,.l.,h. followiL aeisures of property hare been made at tha uort ot Philadelphia for viulation of tha llmaniia m tbeUnitMl elates: Auili 12. 186H. at No. IM South Dalawara imn.. Phil.. deli Ina, o-ne boxi s clears. OTeml.ar l, IHtW. from bark Mary O. Fox, from Ha gue, one buriel suitar. Litccmoer 8, lboV, from brig Herald, rrom SU Jago, Bra boie. cwais lecembor9. 1869. from bark Abhia N. Franklin. fr.,i OeLoa, one cask at.uadenta and one barrel turn. lectmber IS, ima, at ( aimlen and Ameoy Railroad l)i pt, three case biaady. Lleii mbtir 9U. lHt0. at Thirteenth anrl HiinmA .trfuitji Philadelphia, four boxva cignrs. December 20, 1M9, from bark J. L. Thlorman, from Bra nioD. ix vtn kgh gin. January IK, 1H7U, from stoamor Juniata, from llarana, four boxea cigara. January il. IM7U. from bark Imnerador. from Parnam- buco, twinly boxoa, thirteen kegs, and three tin oaus nisiiualade. 1. ,.l w ID Wll frnM K.l W I G. . I D..n... twent) boxea cigar, three dreaa put ttrnx, four aud urns ball barrels mi aix bags auitar, four domij hna syrup, ona demijohn Jamaica rum 1 domijohn gin, 1 keg uguidonta, seven pai kbgis guavn jelly. tuoiuart ill, l;u, from aohoooer Stampede, from Muya guar, ten boxes cigars, 1 barrela sugur, and 14 barrulu lamavinu.. f ebrnary at). IV.0. from frig Archer a Kneyes. from Unr- denaa, tluriy lour boxes oigaia ; two barrels, two tuba, and to fiagaaugar. reuruaiy A, isiu.trom Dng raastina, irom oardenas, two barielfc molarws. Febiuan SM. IHH. from brig 8 V. Merrick, from Cards. naa. twelve boxea cigaia, three barrela innlaaatia. March 3, lSiU.froui brig bbannou, trum Matanzss, two barrela molaaMia. Mai oh 16. IHiO. from schooner Huminorville. from Il.i- vai a, one bariel mulaaaes. Almcb 16. IHih. irom brig James linker, from UardnnoH. tvio barrels molasaes, one deinijouu gin, ouo deiuijoliu nine. March 16, 1S7U, from brig Kllen U., from tugua, ous Land uiolafses. March Is. ihill. from schooner Uattie Ross, from Demu rs rs, one barrel sugar. March Pi, lSvu, Irom scnooiier Murgarutu. Lyon, from Havana, four boxes eignra. Any person churning said property is reqlnrnd to nppnur and file with the I ollnrtor ol (Jumoma of Plitluilnlulua Ilia cluiui to the Ninie within twet ty dayalrom tbe date of the first publication of thia notice. X. r. . i. . XJ, ii ,vi-i, 319tsthn3t Collector of Oustoiu.". PROPOSAUS. r-l-O COUTH ACTORS AND IILILDKIJS. HEALED J Propositi. etidorHe-d "proposals for Hiiililintr an Addition to a Public Hi'hool-noiiNe in tue Mitn rd," will be received lv the uiiilerni(nei at the olilci', H. K. comer of MXTH end ADKLI'UI Streets until TUESDAY, March li, 170, ui it o'clock m., for bulldinR an addition te a puiillo school-h iuso on a lot d Ji roil no HltuatO ou ntxtu eirwi. a'tuvu Ijoiu hHid. in tin- Filth ward. Said addition In be built In accordance with the plans of L. II. K.ilor, Huii?rtn- tetitleut of School luminous, to ne sccu ixt tue omoe Ot the Controllers of Pub.lc School. No bids will be considered unless accompanied by a certificate from the 1'ity Solicitor that Um provi sions of an ordinance approved Mar 1S5, WOO, have teen complied with. The contract will be awarded only to kuowu mas ter builders. By order of the Committee on Property, t 1L W. 1IALLIWELL, 8 10 19 88 80 W Becrt-ury. " OOAL. PKMOTVal, B. BIIX. BBWBOM BBAVn : PliltVlVAL K. llKLiIa Sl CO., BUUU Of Lehigh and Schuylkill Coal, DEPOT: No. ISM North NINTH Street. 1 T West Hide, below Meet. Branoh Offloa. No. 40T BIOHMOND HtreeU pt'KE LE1IIU1I A5D SCHUYLKILL FAMILY, FAOTORY. AND BITUailNOUS OOALB. , Large stock always oa band. Southeast corner THIRTEENTH and WILLOW Streets U 184m W. W. A O. D. HAINK8. a LBXANDER U. OATTELLA CO Ha. RM HOKI B WHAHVAal AND He, H POBTH WATTTB BTaUsaTX, Pll rLADBXTMlA. . ' Pf.
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