THE DAILY EVENING TELEGRAPH PHILADELPHIA, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 13, 1870. 6 THE FREKCfl SE5A.TE. Wotnetlilng About Itft lli-tnrT, Const I tallca anal fanrllana. .... In view of the present agitation in Paris oyer the proposition of the Emperor to ma terially modify the powers and privileges of the Benate, the following from the PaU Mali (luutle will be read with interest: So many changes have come over France dnring the last few months that people were not astonished to Bee the Senate suddenly bestir itself and eviace a zealous interest in public affairs a real which has ended in nailing upon the Assembly more attention than it possibly desired. A year ago a busy Senate would have been a novelty, for it was a maxim carefully inculcated npon the angnst assembly by Government, and religiously ac cepted as a postulate by the nation at largo, that the last subject to which any well-regulated Senate ought to turn its thoughts is that of publio business or, indeed, for that mat ter, acy other business than that duly chalked out for it by the discriminating wisdom of Ministers. Had it not been for the :!0,000f. which every Senator was in the habit of receiving each year in quar terly instalments, there were few Frenchmen who would have thought it worth while to remember that their country was blessed with an Upper Assembly at all. Bat as:S0,(KK)f. multiplied by 1203, COO.OOOf., the senatorial institution was one of those bless ings that make themselves felt; aud this oc casionally induced some adventurous spirits to cross over to the left bank of the Seine, and try to discover what sort of a political body it could be that consumed so much money and made so little noise. There was something of a holy mystery about the assem bly. It held its sittings in an old historical palace associated with gloomy memo ries of ltichelien, the Terror of when it had served as a prison the trials of Ney, of Polignac, end of Louis Napoleon; the suicide of the Duke de Choisebrraslin, the "Corduroy lectures" of '48, and many other events equally dismal and distressing. - Ail these sittings were private. Once or twice a week but oftener once . than ( twice a few broughams and coaches would rumble up the Hue de Tournon and roll slowly under the archway of M iria de Medici's mansion, bearing ex-cabinet ministers, ex-prefects, ex-generals, aud ex judges, with here and there an arohbiskop. They all had a kind of family likeness, aud the -same uncomfortably conscious look of being shelved; the liveliest were the arch bishops, who, if report said truly, spoke ruueb. the loudest when they got inside. Now and thon when the venerable procession of Ex-es had terminated, one or two quicker broughams would rattle up with solemn per sonages discernible through the '-window.. These were ministers, very sleek and well-to-do, come down to make belief to explain things which nobody there wanted to know, and to titillate the venerable Ex-es by talk of independence, patriotism, disinterestedness, and other properties quite useless as times went, as well as dangerous. Nobody was ad mitted to the privilege of hearing or seeing what went on within the ancient walls; but if one liked to go on the morrow there was a verger to show one the session-room where the Senators had been debating the preced ing day. This was better than nothing. The room was very Bumptuous and imposing; in deed, it is doubtful whether the Bight of so much green and gold and such fine empty benches did not leave a more striking im pression . than could have been gathered by the spectacle of M. liouher at the tribune and the whole hundred and twenty Senators applauding Lis utterances with both hands. Kesides, if a visitor was imaginative it was not very difficult to conjure up a senatorial (sitting, speeches, applause, and all the verger was communicative and gave one help if needful. There, on the first tier of the amphitheatre to the right of the President's seat, sat the cardinal archbishops in their scarlet robes, and a little farther off Mon aeigneur Darboy, not yet a cardinal though anxious to bo, and attired more humbly in a violet cassock. Towards the centre a clump of field-marshals, all gold lace, moustache, and loyal sentiments. Next them the admirals; above them and in the shade of the hemicycle the group of fallen Ministers, pen tsive and mournful; in a corner tha seat whence the famous Marquis de Boissy used to prophesy the invasion of England; in an opposite corner the bench whence M. Sainte Beuve started up on a memorable occasion to make his chivalrous defense of Ernest Kenan; lacing these seats and overlooking the arm chair of the President, an array of silent htatues representing legal worthies of the past. It was to the shades of these worthies that senators run short of inspiration were in the habit of appealing by abrupt apostrophes. As there were no journalists in the tribunes to titter, "it was allowable to explain now and then: "Messieurs, j'invoquo ces grands honimcs dont la sogesse preside a nos delibe rations." Or this, at the moment of voting, with an elegant wave of the hand aloft: "Messieurs, n'oubliez point quo ces six sap;cs vous contemplent." Nowadays it is not sure how far this figure of rhetoric would succeed; those journalists respect nothing. The French Senate is the fifth assembly of the kind that has been instituted since the He volution. Previously to 1 "'. there vera some Peers, but as their main privilege cou Bisted in holding their tongues until th?y were asked to speak, it can scarcely be sai l that their functions were either onerous to themselves or very important to the country. During the Constituent debates of 17'.'0-1 the question ns to whether there should be two Chambers or one was of all the knotty points of the time that which gave rise to the longest discussions. Mirabeau, who.ia opinions iluctuated, ended by becoming a partisan o the English system; but ho was in a minority. The intractable spirit of the nobles h id irri tated the revolutionary legislators, and it was eventually decided that there should be b-it a tingle assembly. After the fall of Kobus pierie, however, the subject was started again, and by the almost unaniuii'ii consent of the Convention tho prin ciple of two Chambers was adopted in t'ta Constitution of the Year III. Since that tuna (17'J.r.), and with the exception of tho Kepi') liean interval of 16 is to K2, Franco his continued to have two legislative assemblies. The first Upper Honno was called "Lo Co:i seil des Ancient," and was essentially, as its name inched, a square-toed body. It was composed of two hundred and fifty members, who were obliged to be more than forty yo ns of ago, und cither married or widowers. Tho council elected the five directors, revised or rejected the decisions of the Council of the Five Hundred, and possessed tho some what singular privilego of being able to transfer the residence of the latter from Paris to any other town. The place of meeting of the Ancients was at the Tuileries; they wore no uniform, but h& a silver medal tied to their button-holes by a piece of tri-eolored ribbon; they were renewable by thirds every year, the electors being member! of the Lower House. After ft few jeans' existence, after tho Dila tory was merged into the Consulate, the Council of the Ancients loft behind them the reputation of having accomplished an incre dible amount of talking and of doing nothing a reputation whioh was amply shared by the other Council, that of the Five Hundred. It is difficult to establish the balanoe of power vsry nioely between rival assemblies. The two Couucils nnder the Directory has been perpetually at loggerheads, and it was doubtless to obviato any recurrence of this that Bonaparte, in his Constitution of the Year VIII, deoidod that the Senate siionld Lave the Corps Legislatif and Tribunal en tirely nnder its control. The number of sena tors was origijally sixty. They were self elected for lite from a list of candidates sub mitted to tLcm by the Consuls and the Corps Legislatif. They received a salary of 2.r,()()0 froncs, and their prerogatives were to appoint the Consuls and Judges of Appeal, and to elect, prorogue, and dissolve tho Corps Legislatif and Tribunal. Under the empire tho number of senators was raised to 137, and their sala ries increased to a(!,000 francs. Moreover, as it was considered advisable that thoy should Lave a comely look on Btate occasions, a rich attire was given them, consisting of gold-laced coat, satin breeches, mantlo of violet velvet embroidered with gold bees, and black velvet bat with white feathers. In exchange for these Bumptuous clothes the Senate gene rously parted with its independence, and cried "Yes, with the utmost spirit, to all that the emperor suggested. It was not till 1814, when the dispenser of past favors had nothing more to give, that the members of the august body discovered suddenly Low absurd a thing it was to be a'raid. Nothing was ever more brave or noble than their conduct at this juncture. It did credit to human nature in the first place, and in the next set a happy precedent to all subsequent assemblies who should be in doubt as to how to act in puzzling contin gencies. To the Imperial Senate succeeded the Ilonse of Peers, the members of which were hereditary from 181" to 18:51, and ap pointed for life from 18:31 to 1818. Although the equality principles of 1798 had struck sufficiently deep roots in tho minds of most Frenchmen, yet the House of Peers of the Restoration was by no means an unpopular assembly. All the viudictiveness, intoler ance, and reactionary energy of the Royalists found refuge in the lower House, not in the Upper. The Peers more than once gave proof of real independence by resisting the mea sures of the Villele Ministry, and it was not until the close of Charles X's reign, when liberal tendencies seemed to be getting tho upper hand in the Chamber of Deputies, that the Peers took fright and abetted that series of well-contrived schemes that eventually landed the Bourbon dynasty at Goritz. Under Louis Philippe the Upper House was but a pale copy of its predecessor. The Peers still kept to the blue aud gold uniform which Louis XVIII Lad devised, and pretended to believe themselves the first power in the State. But nobody talked about them. It seemed to be tacitly understood that, think as they might, the Peers would always vote ns they were told; bo that, excepting when M. Victor Hugo or some other famous member was going to speak, the debates excited only the same kind of somnolent interest as the sittings of the Academie Francaise. When the imperial regime succeeded for the second time to tho republic, the idea of an Upper House recruited among all the great men ("illustrations") of the empire found general favor. Unluckily, nowever, at tlie beginning of 1852 nil the great men of France were either under lock and key or in exile. It was impossible to find a great man able and willing to sit in the new Assembly. To be sure, there were plenty of persons who occu pied eminent positions in their own esteem, and to whom '!0,000 francs a year and the title of Senator offered seductions not to be resisted. But when these hud been called into requisition, on the crust and crumb principle, they failed to impress tha country with any very vivid sense of their grandeur, and from the earliest days of its existence the Senate took rank in publio opinion somewhat, on the same level with that estimable assembly which voted the seasoning of Tiberius' turbot. To make mut ters more humiliating, the Senators at first Lad nothing to do. Their mission, as stated on paper, was the safe-guarding of the Con stitution; but as a Constitution does not run dangers every day of the week, the "great men" would have been at their wits' end for employment Lad not the expedient been re sorted to of making them the recipients of public petitions. The French are prolific in petitions. There1 fieems to be a whole class of persons whose chief occupation is to elaborate fantastic requests, and to drop them into the letter box of the Luxembourg. The senators go through the form of reading these documents, draw up reports on them, and on Bet days unanimously oonsign them to tho waste paper basket. This is unexciting work, but up to 8('0 it was the only pastime tho Senators had. If by any evil chance there Lad been a dearth of petitions in the land, tho first assembly of the empire would Lave been reduced to the distressing necessity of pocketing their sala ries without earning them. Since 18i0, how ever, thero haj beeu a series of changes, the privileges conceded to the Senate keeping pace with those obtained by the Corps Legis latif. In 18i() cauio the right of voting an address in answer to the speech froui tho ! throne; in 18GG tho right of suspending for a twelvemonth luws passed in the Lower Housn; in 18(17 tho right of interpellation; aud ia 18C.ll the right of initiative. All these pre rogatives vkerenccepted at the hands of Govern ment with perfect docility, though without enthusiasm. Tho Senate felt no special de sire for the prerogatives. It had never asked for them, nor would ever Lave been likely to do so; indeed, it had often, in the good times, five or six years ngo, denounced tho greatt-r number of them, as superfluous, fraught with danger, and tending to anarchy. But what Ciesar wills tho Senate wills. It is no dihpraise of tho French Upper House that it hns always, with admirable deference, sacri ficed the petty vanities of personal convic tion to the loyal desire of remaining on good terms with the sovereign. And thero can be no doubt that his Majesty's newly expressed desires as to its moditieation will be auoentei -.v i ' i. i - ; with little murmuring. eYin IBoim WJlIi line iirl. 'I'Le eulrmiee into society may be said to tfclie I'Uico immediutcly after lioyhool hui paHFed awiiy; yet a multitude tuke their imtiii tive before thoir beards are proseutaUo, It is a great trial either for a tender or a riper njje. For bu overgrown" Loy to go ta a door, knowing well thut thero aro a dozou pirlu inside, titd knock or ring, with un ahauliitu ctitr.inty thut in a fow moments all eyes will be upon Lim, la a severe tent of courajjo. To f;o btfore tLpHe girls and make the tour of the room without Btqijjhig on their toes, and sit down aud dirposo of his handa without puttirg them in his pockets, is an achieve ment which few boys can boast. If a boy can go so far as to measure off ten yards of tape with one of the 0'ilijt and cut it off at each end, he may stand a chance to pass a pleasant evening. Lot him not natter bim- felf that the trials of tho evening are over. Then comes the breaking up. Tho der girls don their hoods and put on thoir shawls, and look so Rsncy and mischievous, so unimprcs Bible and independent, as if they did not wish anybody to go home with them. Then comas tho pinch, and the boy who has the most pluck goes np to the prettiest girl in the ro m, with Lis tongue clinging to the roof of Lis mouth, and crooking out his elbow, Btimraers out the words, "Shall I Ree yon Lou e ?" She touches her fingHr on his arm, and they walk Lome, feeling as awkward as two goslings. SHIPPING. FOR CHARLESTON, S. C, yrL-?IkThe Soutn and Southwest, and Florida Ports. THE STEAMSHIP T. W. SVKK3IA.IV, CAPr. HINCKLEY, WILL LKAVE PIEU 17, BELOW SPRUCE ST., On Thursday, April 14, at 4 P. II. Comfortable accommodations for Passengers. 1 hiough J'ossaee Tickets and Mils or Lulln? U- sncd In connection with the Mouth Carolina hallroad to all points Sonth and Southwest, and with steamers to Florida ports. Insurance by this line ONE TIALP PEIl CENT. Goods forwarded free of commission. Bills of lading furnished and signed at the oitlce. For freight or passage apply to SOUD&R ADAMS, Agent, DOCK bTKEET WHARF, or to WM. P. CLYDE A CO.. 4 11 fit 18 fcOTJTH WHARVES. LOJRILLARD'S STEAMSHIP USB FOB NEW Y O IS, It ars now receiving freight at 5 ct-oU per 100 pounds, a n uts per toot, or 1-9 rem per gallon, ship OPUou. Kxtra rates on small paokaees iron, metal a. eta. No receipt or bill of Iodine aimed for leaa than fin nnt The Line.wou'd call attention of merchant generally to tho fact that hereafter the regular ahippera by this line win no cnarged only 10 cents per 100 lbs., or i cent pet rooi, miring me winter seasons. For furthsr particulars apply to JOHN F. OHL, 8 2S PIKR 19. NORTH WHARVES. OK LIVERPOOL AND f?Tt V. 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WHARVES. rTjONLY DIRECT LINE to FRANCB Tiffi'J THE GFNERAL TRANSATLANTIC tifi POM PA NY'S MA It STKA M S HIPS Tbe splent'id new vessels on this favorite route for Continent wiU sail from Pier ho. to, Korth river, ev ciaturosy. 1 , , , PRIOI?i OF PAS8AGH In cold (Including wine). TO BURST OR HAVRK, First Cabin "to 'p ABecoud Cabin $81 (Including railway tickets, furnished on board.) First Cabin $145 I Sacoud Cabin 48 J Uee ateanirrs do not carry steeruKe pasHenirers. AHuiiou! ultenilance free of churKe. Ann.riciin travellers going to or returning from theilJi (mi nt of Kar.e, by taking the steumersof this linetJl uuueeeBsary nnks from transit by KukI.su roilwaysta crowing Use channel, besides savinc time, tronblo, and e penue. GK.OKOK MACKKNZ1K, Agent, No. 58 BROADWAY, New York. For paxwfre Id Pbliadelphia, apply at Adams Kxuree. Crm idiiy, to " " ' H. 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The form of polioy adopted is a plain and simple con. tract, precipe and drlinite in it terms, aud Uee from anihiKUoua conditions and restrictions. bpecial attention is called to tho of Oils Company, ofTonnff the COMBINED ADVANTAOKS OP THE 15iiilliiitr AsNociiilion AND OP X,iI"o lllrtltlllll(0. vtrry l"olIcy Iloldrr KoonrM llouae ol'llli Own. a Descriptive Psmphlats, with Rates, furnished on appli cation to the Company. OFFICE. N. "W. corner 8event,h and Chcsuut 8t. PHILADKLPHIA. WILLIAM M.8KYFERT, President. LAURENCE MYERS, Vice Preticlont. R. W. DORPIILEY, becrotary. WILLIAM L. HIRST, Counsel. D. HAYF8 AGNF.W, M. D., Medical Director. DUtECTOI'.S. Wm. M Snyfnrt, Laurence Myers, J. M. Mvo'S, Wm. B. McManus. Wm. B. Reaney, F.dward Samuel, II. P. Muirheid. Clayton MoMichael. 4!)tim 1829 CUARTER PERPETUAL. Frantliii Fire Insurance Compaiiy OF PHILADELPHIA. Office, Nos. 435 and437 CHESNTJT St. Assets Jan. 170, $2,825,73 1 "67 CAPITAL AliCRU FD SURPLUS AND PREMIUMS.. .$400,000110 .2,426.731-67 INCOME FOR 18i0, LOSSXS PAID IN im, Lcsst spailsincs 1829 over $5,5QO,Qco Ferpetual and Temporary Policies on Liberal Terms. The Compuny also isHues iMilicies upon tbe Rontsof all k'nds of luiloince, tirounu Rents, and Mm-t.iraefi, the "FRANKLIN" baa no DlBfUlliD ClALiL ninKin'ORS. Alfred O. Bckor. A urea ruler, Tbnmas Sparks, William S. Grant, Thomas S. Kllis, Faniuel tlrttnt, tievrge W. Richards, George h ales. ALFRKD G. BAKKK. President. OFOKGK FALKS, Vice-l'residont. .TAMFS W. Mc ALLISTI' It, Secretary. 1 liKODOKJC M. KtClCK, Assistant Secretary. 3 l?i P I B B A8SOCIATI O N. x. INCORPORATED MARCH 17, 1820. OFFICE, HO. 31 NORTH FIFTH STREET INSURE BUlLDjr3 HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE, AND MERCHANDISE GENERALLY, Frcm Loss by Fire (In the City of Philadelphia only). AStsKIS, JANUARY 1, 1S70, SI, 574,7 J4-J5. TRUHTEBa. WM. H. HAMILTON, JOHN CAlvKOW, GF.ORGK I. YOUNG, JOH. R. LYNDALL, LFV1 P. COATS. CHARLES P. BOWER. JUSSK L1UHTFOOT, ROB'P. SHOKVIAKKR, PtilKR ARRIBRUSTER, M. H. DICKINSON. SAMUEL SPAEHAWK. n ii n tt i f r. i r,n tt , JOSEPH K. SOHKLU PF.TK.R WLULIAiiSON, WM. H. HAMILTON, President. SAMUEL SPARHAWK, Vice-President, WILLIAM T. BUTLEB, Secretary. 8H JAME INSURANCE COMPANY, No. 809 CHESNUT Street, INCORPORATED li. CHARTS R PERPETUAL. CAPITAL 8200,000. FIRE INSURANCE EXCLUSIVELY. Insurance.aguirnt Loss or Damage by Fire either by Per petual or Temporary Polioiea. D1RECTOK8. Charles Richardson, Robert Pearoe, V illiam H. Bbawn, John Kesaler, Jr., Wiiliiiru M. Seyiert, Edward B. Oi-ne, John 1'. binith, . Charles Htnkes, Nathan Hi lies, - John W. Kverman, George A. West, Mordeoai Buzby. CHARLES RICHARDSON, President. . WILLIAM II. RU AWN, Vice-President Wiixiams I. Blancitard, Secretary. 7 2 EDUCATIONAL. JAW SO H O O L OF HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Cambridge, Mass. Second Term 1W!V 7U begins 21rt Fobrnary, 1870. INSTRUCTOR!) AND 'JOl'tCS. Nathaniel Holmes, A.M., Koynll Proieor. Domeetl Kelationa, Eguily 1'luuding, und Kviduuce. Chrisioiiher O. Lnnirdell, A M., Dane Proiessor. Nego- tiulile I'aperend Panuerbhip. Charles S. Biadley, LL, D Lec'.njor. Law of Real Pro- lerty. FtlBinud H. Bennett, A. M., Lecturer. Criminal Law V) ills, and AUunnibiratiou. John O. Ouy, Jr., A. M., Ijeotnror. Jarisprudonoe of tho United MtuBnd bankruptvv. Tbe iDBtrnction is by leclureH, most courts, exercises In written and orul diecuadion oi lcal subjocts, and prepara tion of pluudmgs. Tbe library la one of the most complete la toe United Ktutes,and in some diipurtmi-nts unncinullcd ; it nnw coiu- .ribes about 16,000 volumes, and aduilions are constantly omff nmae, 'the foes ure tH per term, and $25 for one half or any smaller trartiou of a term. No extra charties. l'or admisHion to the school, cutalogns, oiroulars. or any imorniation.addroai J. A. L. WUl i'J'ixK, 2 Registrar. JDGEHILL SCHOOL, MERCIIANTVILLE. N. J. FOUR MILKS FROM PHILADKLPHIA, NEXT CESSION BKCIN3 APRIL 4. For Circulars apply to 8 21 tf T. W. OATTELL. QROCER I E S A N O PH Oyi8ONB M IOIIAEL) MEAGUEK & CO., No. 223 Bouth SIXTEENTH Street, Wholesale und Retail Dealers In PROVISIONS, OYSTERS AND TERRAPINS, but ler's Kxtra Caunod CORN. " " PKA8. - " PKAOUES. Maryland Canned TOM A TO US. -Extra Canned AiSPARAGUS. CEInT.'S FIJRNiH!NO coops. p A T 12 U T iSUOULU tili-H tXAld BUmr MANCPACTOKY.. Ai;S3 GBWTLEMKIx'S FUKNlsjUlNQ STOKJ. FE1JF2CTI.Y nTila SHUiT3 AND DKAWSi 3 made rovu aicta'j repeat ut very i.;;ort n.l!cf. All other .i:t'.i' a OiiMTLKJlKS'S URES3 GOODti in full vAnet?, WINCHESTER (XJ., 1X9 No. 'ibfl JHFi4X0T Hirertt, c O R N E X C HANG S BAG MANUFACTORY, JOHN T. BAIIJfY. ' u of M A RKrr and WATH R. R. eornerof MA RKrr and WATER Street. Philadelphia. DEALER IN BAGS AND BAGGINQ Of every daaoription, lot Grain, Floor, Salt, Super-PhoaohaU of Urn, Boa tiOMt. KtU. Irgaa m small GUNNY BAGS constantly I Aiao, WOOL iAtlxUi. ' INSUHANOk. DRI.AWAHB MUTUAL. HAFKTY 1NS5TRANCB COMPANY. Incorporated j the Lirlsitiire of Pennsylvania, 1336. Office southeast corner of TIITP.O and WALNUT Streols, Plillmli'lnhla. MA RINK INMJKANCM On Vessels, Cargo and FrHgut to all parts of the world. INLAND INSURANCES JD gvKitlR bj river, canal, lake and land carriage to all parts of th Viilon. FIRK INSUUANCr'8 Mcrchnndlie generally; on Stores, Dwelling, XIOUWJB, OH, ASPET8 OF TUB COMPANY November 1, 1R. I200.HW) United States Five Per Cent. Uu.n, teu-fortlcH 2io,00000 100,000 Unltld States Six Per CeuU Ixian (lawful luoney) 10T,T5000 60,000 United States Six f er Cent. Loan, 1H81 60,00000 100,000 State of Pennsylvania Six Per CenU Lo:in 13,Wi000 WO.OOO City of Philadelphia Six Per Cent. Loan (exempt from tax) H),92800 100,000 Btate of Now Jersey Six Per Cent. Lonu 1112,000 AO DO.OOO Pennsylvania Railroad Flint Mortgage Six Per Ceui. Bonds t,4.i0O0 80,000 Pnnimvlvanla Railroad Se cond mortgage Six per Cent. bonds 3,6'J3O0 96,000 Western Pennsylvania Rail road Mtirtgaee Six Per Cent. Bonds (Pennsylvania Railroad guarantee) 0,00000 80,000 State of Tennessee Flj Per Cent Loan 16,000 -00 1,000 btate of Tennessee Six Per Cent. Loan 4,37000 19,800 Pennsylvania rtalrroad Com pany, sso shares stock 14,000-00 6,000 North Pennsylvania Hall road Company, loo shares stock B.W0-0C 10,000 Philadelphia and Southern Mail Hteamshtp Corn pan v, 80 shares stock T,fi0000 441,900 Loans on Bond and Mort esire, first liens on City Properties 148,900 -00 11,231,400 Far. Market value, l,2rs6,inooo Coat, l,216,62i-27. Real Estate rMS,ooo oo bills Uecelvable fur Insurances made... 323,70070 L'alances due at Agencies: Premiums on Marine Policies, Aooroed. Interest, and other debts due the Com pany M,097D0 Stork, Scrip, etc.. of Sundry Coroora- tlons, t47(. Estimated valuo 9,740-20 iron in xanK 168,B18'88 Cash In Drawer 07224 169,29114 11,862,100-04 DIRECTORS. Thomas C. Hand, Kamuel E. Stokes, William ii. liouiton, Kttward Darlington, II. Jones Drooke, Edward Lafoarcade, Jacob Illeirel. UUUU I '. XiHVlB, F.dmnnd A. tSondcr, Theophllns Paulding, James '1 raqualr, Henry Sloan, Henry C. Dallett, Jr., James C. Hand, William C. Ludwlg, Josepli 11. Seal, UukIi Cralp, John D. Taylor, 4eorgo W. lieruadon, (Jacob P. Jones, .tames ts. Mcraiiana, Josbaa P. Eyre, fpencer Mcilvaln, J. H. Hemple, Pltwbnrg, A. H. Merger, Plttsbarg, D. T. Morgan, Pittsburg Wuiiam c Houston. THO.IAS C. nAND, rresMertt. t,,, T,JOU:N HA Vis, Vice-iTesideut. MENTJY XiTLBUl-a?, Secretary. HiSUyUALL Assistant Secretary. 11 IIJSXJUAITCE C0MPAIH or WORTH AMERICA. Javuabt I, 1870. Chiirter Perpetual. Iucorpornted 17!) I. CAPITAL. 8500,00r ASSfETH Si,7S3,5Sl IjOmmcs paid slave orKaDlzatloa....8':i,000,000 Kecrlpte of Premiums, IMiil.... 81,99 1,8:1743 Interest from Invest meute, (0. ll t,UtMi'74 S4,10(,S:tll Lossee pnld, 1869 -l,0;I5,3S0 l Statement of the Assets. First Mortgsjies on City Property (766,450 United Htates Government and other Loan Bonds 1,123,848 Bailroad, Bank and Canal Stocks 65,708 Cash in Bank and Uffioe 947 621) Loans en Collateral beourity 32,658 Votes Receivable, mostly Mai ins Premiums. .. 821,1)44 A oorued Interest ., 20,357 Premiums in oonrse of transmlssiea M 85,UI8 Unsettled Marino Premiums 10u,90u Koal Estate, Olnoe of Company, Philadelphia. . 8U.0U0 DIRECTORS. Francis R. Oope, M. Kdward II. Tntlj. Arthur O. Samuel W.Ja Me. John A. Broil o, Cbaries Taylor, Ambrose Mhite, William Welsh, S. Morris VVain, John Mason, George L. ilarrlson, Kdward 8. Clarke, T. Charlton Ilenry, Alfred D. Jessup, LooisO. Madeira, Charles W. Casnman, Clement A. Grisoom, William brockio. ARTHUR G. COFFIN, President CUAULKS PLA'f r, Vloe-President. MaTCBtAS Mabis, Secretary. C. H. Rkevfb, Ashistant hocretary. a 4 .V' S B XJ JK, Y LIFE INSURANCE CO,, ll Y. Knmber of Polioies irsned by tbe five largost New Tork Companies during the first years of their existence: MUTUAL NivW UKK M iNHAITaN KMCKKKBOCKEU. ..(23 months) ,.(18 mouths . .07 months) ...1091 ...WM .. r3 ... 69 CM nionihH). .(17 months). tyUiTABLiv. .. foe Durirg the 21 months of Its existence the HAS ISSUED 2G00 TOLICIES, INSURING NEARLY 18,000,000. Reliable ooautry. Oanvussinc Agent wanted throughout the JAMES M. LONGAOKK, jnnnaper lor I'ennayivania and Delaware. OffCB, No. Hi,-J WALNUT btreet, PUiadelDhia. BAMLKL PUW KR8, Soeoial Agent. jg nrHE PENNSYLVANIA FIRE INSURANCE X COMPANY. Incorporated lt-25 Charter Perpetual, No fflo 'WALN'U 1' btreet, opposite Indnpondence Square. This Company, favorably known to the community for over tort ytars, continues to insure against loss or dam ngo by biu on Publio or Private Huildiniis, either penna nt ntiy or tor a limited time. AUo on l-'arniture, btouks of (ioods, and Merchandise renorally, on liberal tonus. 'i'neir Capital, tonather with a large (Surplus Fun. I, Is Invented in the most careful mnnnor, which enables thm to rlter to the iiisuied an undoubted security in the caae of loss. DrnKCTORfL Daniel Smith, Jr. John Poveroni, 1'boiiias timith, IL'tirv l.tiwiB, J l.illi .l...... v.n Alexander lit. (.son, no Hazlchui-bt, 'Xnuuias ituuiuH, i-,....ll n.M .1.-1. ; ,m,1iA5K'' SMlTu Jit., President. O. CROWELL, (Secretary. a Al WM. rpHE ENTERPRISE INSURANCE CO. OF 1 Pllll ADKI.PHIA. Cilice S. W. corner of KOUKTIlund VVA LNTTT Streets l fhKlN6UHASt:KKXul.USIV KI.Y. PKPPKTUAI, ANDTKKM POLKJIKS iliSUKn. CAKii Capital (paid up in full) $-J M,.iuu'00 Cash Aaerte, Jitn J. IIS70 l,iu.V I , . o DiUKCTulLS. P. Putchford Stair, 1 J. Livingston Errinuor Nulliro rnir.i6r, 'James L. Cl.itthorn, Jtilin M. A twocd. Win. ii. Huuiton, Kunj. T. Treilick, 'Charles Vv bonier, (iriirse. II tSluart, I'l'iionius 11. Montgomery, Johu II llniwn, 'James SI. Aertsen. V. KA'ICHKOBI RTAKK, President. THOMAS 11 Mo.Vl iiUMKHY, Vice-President. AI 1CX. v. VlsTKK, Socretary. JACOB K. PKI K'ltSON, Assistant Secretary. I J5VKUIAL FIKB INSUltANOB OO. LONDON, IHTAlUJHIJKl) 1S0J. Pald-np Capitol and Aocnmulated Fonda, 88,000,000 XJS GOLD. PREV0ST & EISRDSrO, Agenti, 1 41 No, 101 a T1URD Street, Philadelphia. CEA& H. rBXTOSTi C1IA8, p, bxrbumi OITV ORDINANCES. COUNCIL OF PlULADi'L- I'HIA. Clkrk's f'Fricn, riTlLADFI.rillA, March S, LS70.C In accordance with a resolution adopted br the C'oniinon Council of the City of 1'hlladol I'liia on Thurday, the twenty-fourth day of March, 1870, the annexed bill, entitled 'An Ordinance to authorize a loan for the oreetlon f a bridge across tho river fchuylklll at Fair mount," is hereby published for public iDfor inatioii. JOHN ECKSTEIN, Clerk of Common Council. A'-r ORDINANCE To Authorize a l.oun for the Erection of o lirlOiie serous the Klver rjchuylklll at Falr tnouiit. Section 1. The Select and Common Councils of tlio city of l'lilladi'luliia do ordain, that the Major oi Philadelphia be and he is hereby au thorized to borrow, at not less than par, on the credit of the city corporation, from time tr time, such sums of money ivs may be necessary to pay for tho construction and erection of a. bridge over tho river Schuylkill at Kairinount, not exceeding In the whole the sum of seven hundred thoupand dollars, for which Interest not to exceed tho rate of six per cent, per an num shall bo paid, half-yearlv, on the first days of January und July, at the ottlce of the City Treasurer. The principal of snld loan shall be payable and paid at tho expiration of thirty years from the date of the same, and not before, without the confcnt of the holders thereof; and certifi cates therefor, in the nual form of certificates of city loan, shall be Issued In such amounts as tho lenders may require, but not for any frac tional part of one bnndred dollars, or, If re quired, In amounts of live huudred or one thou sand dollars; and it shall be expressed In said certificates that tbe (aid loan therein mentioned, and the Interest thereof, are payable free from all taxes. Section 3. Whenever any loan shall bo made by virtue thereof, there shall be, bv force of thi ordinance, annually appropriated, out of the Income of the corporate estates and from the sum raised by taxation, a sum sutlicieut to pay the interest on said certillcates; aud tho fur- -ther sum of three-tenths of one per centum on the par value of such certificates so issued, shall be appropriated quarterly out of said In come and taxes to a sinking fund, which fund . and its accumulations are hereby especially pledged for the redemption and payment of said , certificates. RESOLUTION TJ PUBLISH A LOAN 13ILL. Resolved, That the Clerk of Common Coun cil be authorized to publish lu two dally news papers of this city, daily for two weeks, the ordinance presented to the Common Council on Thursday, March 24, 170, entitled "An ordi nance to authorize) a loan for the erection of a bridue across the river Schuylkill at Fair mount." And the said clerk, at the stated meet ing of Councils, after the expiration of four weeks from tbe first dav of said publication, shall present to this Council one of each of said newspapers for every day in which the sumo shall be made. 3 l 21t COMMON COUNCIL OF PHILADELPHIA. Clekk's Officr, Philadelphia, Feb. 4, 1870. In accordance with a Uesolutiou adopted by the Common Council of tho City of Phlladel I'bia, on Thursday, the third day of February, lS'tl), the annexed bill, entitled "AN ORDINANCE To create a loan for the huildlug of a bridge over the Klver Schuylkill, at South street, and for the payment of ground rents and mortijnpes," is hereby publibhed for public in formation. ' JOHN ECKSTEIN, Clerk of Conimou Council. AN ORDINANCE. TO CREATE A LOAN FOR THE BUILDING OF A BRIDGE OVER THE K1VEU SCHUYLKILL ATSOUTH SThEET, AND FOR THE PAYMENT OF GROUND RENTS AND MORTGAGES. Section 1. The Select and Common Councils of the City of Philadelphia do ordain, That the Mayor of Philadelphia be aud he is hereby authorized to borrow, at not less than par, on the credit of the city, from time to time, one million live hundred thousand dollars, to be ap plied as follows, viz.: First. For the building of a bridge over tbe River bchuylkiil at South street, eight hundred thousand dollars. Second. For the payment of ground rents and mort gages, seven hundred thousand dollars, for which interest not to exceed the rate of six per cent, per annum shall be paid half yearly on the first days of January and July, at the office of the City Treasurer. Tbe principal of tho said loan shall be payable and paid at tbe expiration of thirty years from tbe date of the same, and not before, without the consent of the holders there - f; ana the certificates therefor, in the usual form of tho certificates ot the City Loan, shall be issued in such amounts as the lenders may require, but not for any fractional part of one huudred or odo thousand dollars; and it shall be expressed in said certificates that the loan therein mentioned, and the interest thereof, ure payable free from ali taxes. Section 2. Whenever any loan shall bo made by virtue thereof, there shall be, by force ot this ordinance, annually appropriated out of the income of the corporate estates, and from tho sum raised by taxation, a sum sulllclent to pay the interest on said certificates; aud the further 6um of three-tenths of oue per centum ou the par value of such certificates bo Issued shall be appropriated quarterly out of said in come and taxes to a sinking 'fund, which fund and its accumulations are hereby especially pledced for tho redemption and payment of said certificates. RESOLUTION BILL. TO PUBLISH A LOAN Resolved, That the Clerk of Common Council be authorized to publit-h iu two daily news papers of this city, dully for four weeks, tho ordinance presented to Common Council on Thursday, February 3, 1870, entitled "An ordi nance to create a loan for the buiMlnj'of a bridfre over the river Schuylkill, at South street, and lor the payment of ground-rents and mort gages." And the said Clerk at the stated meet ing of Couucils after said publication, shall pre eeut to this Council one of each of said news papers for every day in which tho same shall have been made. 8i25 24t FIRE AND BURGLAR PROOF SAFE E L. FAEXIEL, HEBEING & CO IIAVB REMOVED FROM rto. 2 C'lIESXUT Street Tf) No. 807 CHESNUT PUILAUflLPUlA. Fire end Burglar-Proof Safes (WITH DHY FILLING.) HKliKlNH, FAKREL A KHERMAN.New York. BKKKIMi CO., Chicago. IlKhhU. FAhlUL A CO., New Orleana. 9tS J. WATSON & BON, ZZyOt UU Una of EVANS WATSOK.Iijj F1JIEAND BURLAJi-lltOO HATE S T O It 13 NO. 63 BOUTH FOURTH BT11BET, BU A I s doors abovs Ohaanat si.. Pbilal TOHN FAKNUM A CO., COMMISSION MXK, xr enaoH ana ss anarsotwrars of Tnnaslinns TMktna. at. Ho. lbs UUJCttJNUX ttUsi t-hilMUlvWaT i
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