THE DAILY EVENING TELEGRAPH PHILADELPHIA ; MONDAY", APRIL 18, 1870. ( 2 sfiuzt or run muss. Editorial Opinions of the Leading Journals upon Current Topic Compiled Every Day for the Evening Telegraph. F ARTISAN CALUMNY. From the Chimin Pant. The late General Thomas, in replying to a suggestion of his nomination to the Presi dency for 1872, thus spoke to his intimate friend and old comrade, General Negley: "The profession of arms is most oongenial to me. 1 do not wish to Jbe connected with politics as now conducted. No matter how irreproachable the conduct of a man, or how distinguished his servioes, he oannot hope to sonpe calumniation at the hands of parti suns." The evil of which General Thomas here spoke is surely so nearly universal in this country as to amount to a national fault. Vituperation is a vice of our politics, both journalistic and official, to a greater de gree than, it is believed, prevails anywhere else outside of the crazy llochefort circle in Taris, and filibuster and army circles in the island of Cuba. It is one of the many ill results of slavery. The Quaker, whose team baulked in a mud hole and then upset his wagon, pitching him tinder the load of manure, with just enough of him outside for the free use of tongue and smelling powers, and who wanted to swear fearfully, was in much the predioament of honest men in this nation during the era of the reign of slavery and slavocrats. Here was an institution accurately described as the sum of all villainies, which, by hook and crook, had got to be the chief concern of all politicians. In its defense every branch of government was arrayed and in full foroo. Not only so, but the press and pulpit generally defended it. Those who preachod, or wrote, or argued against it, were con stantly denounced in the most opprobrious language. When the truth began to pene trate the public mind, retaliation was not un natural, and one of the saddest, if not one of the worst, works of slavery on this continent is that, in respect to the discussion of politics, we are a nation of blackguards. The evil is not confined to one party, though truth compels us to say that in great and versatile accomplishments herein Demo cratic journals and speakers, upon the whole, surpass those of the Republican party. We have to acknowledge the superior capacity of the Democracy in this respect, but without intending thereby to admit that the Republi cans have shown any stupidity in acquiring tne art. There is, perhaps, no evil now having full sway in the country, which accomplishes more harm than this of which we speak. If it deterred General Thomas, as brave a man as ever lived, from all thought of political life, we may safely conclude that it deters hundreds of true, able, and patriotio men, who might do the State some service, from all ambition in that line. We may safely conclude tnat but for tms many or tne worst, and but precious few of the best, men of the country would be in office; that men of nota ble talents, of culture and refinement, nearly all avoid practical politics as they would a pest bouse, and are found engaged in commerce, tne learned professions, bank ing, architecture, farming, journalism, etc. National habits, no more than national institutions, can be put off like a garment. Bo long, however, as the simple fact of can didature manes a target of tne best man in the country, at which the publio shoots off all sorts of guns, loaded with all sorts of foul missiles, the publio may expect to be ill served, or at best to have for nublio servants. in many instances, men of little merit and no modesty. There is a oourage of the highest and most admirable order, which dares oblo quy and repels calumny no less steadily an I grandly than Thomas drove back the Rebels from Chickamauga. We have some such men in the publio service now. Bat not so man as there ought to be. Whilst the evil of uni versal calumny exists, it is demanding too much of men of talents and refinement that they shall submit to be assailed in the style of Chinese warfare on being candidates for office. While other honorable andmtluon tial vocations are open, they will prefer them, and nave a ngnt to. The remedy, we need hardly say, is with tne people, and particularly with the intelli gent and thinking classes. These are, after all, the "floating voters." They do not exert their influence, they do not assert their power in practical politics. It is the hardest thing in the world to get thousands of them even to vote, except at a Presidential election And then they complain, and with truthful ness. about "the dirty pool of politios." It is their business and their duty to cleanse it to take the political machinery of the land from the corner groceries and Bet it up in better places. The reformation of politics is in the hands of the decent people of the country, but that reformation never will oome so long as they fail to take active part in affairs which so much concern them. DIED TOO SOON. From the Missouri Republican. The institution which has attained unen viable notoriety under the name of "the American Anti-Slavery Society" held its final meeting on Saturday week, and resolved that having, like good old Simeon, "seen the glory of the Lord," it was now safe and proper to depart in peace and be gathered to its fathers. Various male and female apos tles, black and white, spoke on the subject profusely, and all united in the same opinion save one. Mr. Stephen Foster, the husband of a strong-minded sister, well known in the ranks of the faithful, stood alone in the minority, and declared that the American Anti-Slavery Society, instead of having finished its labors, had only fairly entered upon them, and ought by no meon3 to die, but rather to gird up its loins anew, and fight valiantly under the old banners for many years henceforward. Foster was promptly opposed by several members, and the coup de grace being administered in a speech by Mrs. Foster, he subsided; the motion was oarried, and the society adjourned tine die. Now, if we conld only hope that the endless stream of fanatical nonsense and humbug philanthropy, which has deluged the country for almost half a century, had, like the rivers in the desert, run itself into the ground and disappeared permanently, there would be ample cause for hearty congratulation; but it is impossible to lay this flattering unction to our souls. This regiment of the abolition army has indeed disbanded, but both officers and privates announce their intention to con tinue the holy war on the guerrilla system; and, wherever and whenever a head is raised against Africa, to hit it. The last resolution gives this cheerful assuranoe: "We welcome our wronged equal to our aides. We promise bun henceforth to mane every effort to secure to lilin a safe exercise of alt bis lights, and tbe present opportunity for social enjoyment, re laxing not one whit of our watch and aid uutU no vestlire Is left in social, civil, or religious life of that bateful prejudice which has poisoned and still so lrz& J 5i"(Faceil W WlfttUfSB.': The American Anti-Slavery Society, it seems, has a vast and untrodden field ot ell or t yet before it, and might just as well have held together and conducted the campaign on soientilio and parliamentary principles, in stead of scattering into squads of three or four, and thus losing the manifest advan tages of organization and disoiphne. What guarantee is there, for instonoe, that Frede rick Douglass And Mary Grew will have the same views of the proper elements to con stitute "the social enjoyment" of the negro as C. D. Drake and Mm. Tappan ? And why may not Chnrles Sumner and Lucretia Mott diner widely from both of those couples in regard to this vital matter ? Douglass and MiHS Grew might insist upon amalgamation as constituting the Greatest amount of "social enjoyment" in the smallest compass, while Mr. Drake and his partner and Mr. Sumner and his partner might prefer the enjoyment of our colored brother to be found in some other shape. Confusion of counsels must in- evitnbly occur, and througu tnem tne negro may fail utterly to enjoy himself, and thus sutler a grievous wrong. That enjoyment, however, is pledged him in the resolution aforesaid, nnd we may therefore expect a continuunce of the agitation so auspiciously begun. 1 he necro. as a general ining, is not yet invited to join in the social entertainments of the whites; our ladies still evince a decided preference for gentlemen of their own oolor as escorts ana visitors; uress circles at tnea tres, reserved seats at concerts, the head of the table at banquets, tne best pews in churches, are yet denied to him, and, so long as this spirit of caste exists, it is apparent that, although safely ferried over Jordan, he is still far from the milk nnd honey of the promised land. Such distinctions as these cannot, of course, be tolerated for a single instant by the triumphant reformers of the disbanded Anti-Slavery Society; they must be purged away, obliterated entirely, and the prevailing popular sentiment led to considor a man or woman m the same light as a boot the blacker the better. How this is to be accomplished, with the present construction of bmuon nature, we do not exactly see, but perbnps a few more amendments to the Con stitution might do the business, and fix the social status and enjoyment of the African race upon a satistactory and immovable foundation. Meanwhile we trust the brethren and sisters of the defunct society will "thank God, take courage, cry aloud and spare not. " THE AFRICAN IN IIIS NEW CAREER. From the N. Y. World. The National Anti-Slavery Standard do votes all its space last week to the recent jubilation of the American Anti-Slavery So ciety over the ratification of the fifteenth amendment. It was the last meeting ever to be held by that society, whioh has ended ia a sort of triumphant dissolution. Whether the event celobrated with such a blaze of oratorical bonfires justifies all this exultation is a question to be decided by those who are to oome after us. They will gather tne ripened iruit of tne tree planted in a tornado and watered with blood. Whether this stupendous change is a reform must be determined by the sure test of experience. It ought to be a great reform indeed to justify its hideous cost. Its advantages are yet doubtful; but the evils by which it has been purchased are, alas, too real. A million of the bravest of our countrymen have paid their lives or their limbs to purchase this negro jubilee. They have not been benefited. They were generous young men, cut down in the flower of their age. II ad they lived, and had each become the father of four children, their offspring would have been equal in number to the negro population freed and enfran chised. The exchange of. four millions of such citizens, for four millions of voting freedmen presents an account whiok has a debit as well as a credit Bide, even if the negroes should prove to be worthy members of the body politic. The brave men who fell in battle or died of military exposure left agonized relatives at least equal in number to the whole negro population. The jubilant Anti-Slavery So ciety prudently forbore ta go into the arith metic of bereavement and deprivation. The exultant orators did not compute whether the pain of these sufferers is overbalanced by the boon conferred on the negroes. The grief and destitution, the blasted hopes and ago nized affections, of four millions of white mourners make a sum total of misery more than equal to the happiness which has ac crued to the four millions of negroes by the change in their condition. So far as this generation is concerned, the balance is against tne experiment, And there is still another exhibit on the debit side of the account. The change has cost in money more than it has oost in blood and sorrow. It has piled up a mountain of debt. It has destroyed our shipping, de ranged our currency, wrenched our political institutions, Jcrippled our industry ky ruinous taxation, filled the hearts of our people with fierce animosities and fiendish hate, increased the hours and diminished the rewards of labor. These surely are not blessings; and they cannot be left out of any fair estimate of the results of the negro agitation. Whatever may be the value of emancipation and negro suffrage, the ecstasies of exultation need to be tempeied by a sense of what the experi ment has coBt. It ought to bring a harvest of beneficent consequences in future cenera tions, to justify the losses and Buffering it has inflicted on the present. All has now been done for the negroes which can be done for them by legislation, and they must hereafter depend upon them selves. They will be the architects of their own fortune, or of their own ruin. Constitu tions end laws oan do nothing for human beings but to remove obstructions to the free exertion of their faculties. The negroes will find their proper level. Their color will re main black in spite of emancipation and the fifteenth amendment. If their mental endow ments are naturally inferior, no law declaring them equal can make the declaration good, anv more than it can chanse their oolor, Those who resisted their enfranchisement did not wish to exclude them for mere color, but because they supposed there was as inefface able a distinction in the characters of the two races as in their complexions. It is for the negroes to prove that this opinion is a prejudice. If they shall display equal energy and capacity with the white race, their color will be no impediment to the recognition of their equality. But if they are to rise in the esteem of the white raoe they must rise by their own efforts. The field is open; they have every opportunity. A bird and a frog may do equally tied down oj a string; when tbe string is cut the bird mounts carolling into the air, but the frog can only bop and croak. When the negroes shall rival the whites as skilful, inventive meohanios; when pictures and statues by negro artists shall bear comparison with the best products of white genius; when poems, novels, and works of science by negro authors shall be read and praised bv neonle of culture: when negroes, spall become the heads of great mer- cantile houses; when negro wit, sense, man ners, refinement, and social gifts shall cap tivate elegant ciroles, their black skins and woolly hair will not be regarded as a badge of inferiority. That they are black we know; but we do not know that they can become superior mechanics, artists, poets, Ravens, conversationists, merchants, jurists, or statesmen. Tbey have now a oarcer open to talents; and if the difference between them and the whites is only a difference of skin and hair, thoy will in time make it mani fest. But we cannot accept their equality on trust, without any proofs. Against their color, merely as color, there will be no preju dice when they shall have demonstrated that it is not an accompaniment of mental and moral inferiority. Ifabarn-door fowl claims equality with the, lark or the eagle, he must not stand disputing on his plumage, but show that it covers equal strength of wing by rising to their elevation in the air. The negroes of this country take their new Ftart under very favorable circumstances. They are not compelled to maintain a struggle for existence in a dense and overcrowded population. The demand for labor insures them employment, whereas if the experiment were tried in an old country whoso labor market is glutted, it would go hard with them unless they were really equal to their white competitors There is abundant room and employment for them and their offspring, so that they will have an open field for all the energies they possess. If they fail, it will not be because they are crowded and crushed in a Eress of laborers. The length of time they ave been in slavery is also an advantage to them. It is beyond question that slavery ha? been a civilizing process. The negroes of the Uniied States are altogether superior to their kindred in the wilds of Africa a superiority produced by inuring them to the,, habits of regular labor, which is the first lesson of civilization; by contact with a superior race; and by their conversion to Christianity. They are better qualified for their new condition than were tbe freedmen of the British West India Islands, because they have continued one generation longer in a condition of tutelage; till that is gained being kept and continued by hereditary transmission in accordance with a well-established physiological law. For this reason, the failure of the experiment in the British West Indies does not necessarily foreshadow its failure here. The enslave ment of savages is a civilizing influence up to a certain point; and the superior industry of our liberated negroes ovor those of Jamaica would seem to indicate that British emancipation was premature. If our negroes shall persevere in habits of voluntary indus try, that fact will have to be accepted as proving that slavery had done for them all that it can do for any savage race, and that the time had fully come for their release from its leading-strings. But if they relapse into idle and vagabond habits, they have been emancipated too soon or the race is incapable of sell-subsistent civilization. ACROSS THE CONTINENT. From the N. T. Tribune, Twenty years ago, the suggestion of a transcontinental railway, connecting our At lantic with our Pacific border by a direct overland route, was regarded by most people as a stupendous absurdity. Whoever chooses to run over a hie of the New iork Herald will find therein editorials in which a railroad hence to the Pacific is classed with one across the Atlantic to Europe or through the sky to the moon. Such was the opinion of men who prided themselves on being practical, and regarded all who dissented as dreamers and visionaries. A Pacific Railroad over the central route has now been more than a year in full operation, As the two ends had been pushed across the Rocky Mountains and the Sierra Nevada re spectively at loast eighteen months ago, we may say that so far, at least, as obstruction from snow and ice is concerned it has stood the test of two years' actual working. For more than two years passenger trains have started daily from Omaha and from Sacra mento respectively, and have crossed the great mountain chains which on either hand inclose the Great Basin with facility and with regu lority. We doubt that there has been, on any part of the long route, a greater deten tion than has repeatedly occurred on the Central and Erie lines respectively through this State, or on that which connects Albany with Boston. Undoubtedly snows will be en countered, in the course of a lifetime, which will test more severely the resources of modern engineering; but then the provisions for resisting and overcoming these embarrass ments will be annually extended and per fected. Doubtless the work itself will gra dually be straightened and otherwise im proved as experience shall diotate, and the average speed of passenger trains will be con siderably accelerated; but were nothing to be done but to maintain the present capacity of the road and its equipment, we may safely place the average time required to reach San lrancisco from Boston, New YorU, Philadel phia, Baltimore, or Washington, inside of eight days; while Pittsburg, Cincinnati, Chicago, and St. Louis are each considerably nearer to the Golden Gate. Practically we may say that half the people of the Atlautio Mates are within a weeks journey of the Pacific And this road has been pushed across by far the most difficult and costly ot the three projected highways to the sunset land. Its extreme and its average elevation are both far greater than those of the Northern or the Southern route; far more snow falls and lies on this than on the Northern route, and many times tbe quantity that falls on tne southern; and it is within bounds to say that either of these can be built for two-thirds the cost of this, while the Northern will not be obstructed by snow one day where this will at least three, nor the Southern one day where this will be not less than ten. The entire problem of overland travel and trade by rail may thus be regarded as conclusively solved. True, it may be urged that the pecuniary phase of the question i3 still in doubt; but that would be a mistake. Twenty years will see the present road overcrowded, though its two rivals be meantime constructed over crowded, even though its reasonable expecta tions of an immense freighting business in the products of the farthest East should be entirely blasted. Colorado, Wyoming, Mon tana, Idaho, Utah, Nevada, are to-day in the main wild wastes and deserts: the year 1890 will return their civilized population at not less than ten millions of intelligent, ener getic, industrious freemen. Ihe sugar, tea, coffee, wares, implements, etc. etc, which tbey must draw from the seaboard States would support a railroad; while millions of tons of mineral which will now pay neither for smelting on the ground nor for transporta tion to the states, will soon be whirled away to the seaboard smelting works, and even to Europe, ine abundant salmon, the peaches. grapes, and other delicate fruits of California, will yet fill train after train consigned to the Helenas and Virginia Cities of the elevated mining regions, where such fruits cannot be frowB. A Jt, Hbir.uien.ta from, either CW3t have mainly been experimental, tentative, speculative, and of course moderate in quan tity; while the population of our Alpine ter ritories ia but a handful oompared with what it soon must be. Whoever lives to see 1830 may see hourly trains laden wholly with peaches, pears, grapes, and figs, leaving Sac ramento consigned to a hundred different cities eastward, and among them to Dubuque, St. rani, Chicago, Detroit,Clevelaad, Buf falo, Albany, and New York. Let those who still doubt watch the developments of the two next years only, and they will be abundantly satisfied. THE RAILROADS OF THE UNITED STATES AND THEIR MANAGEMENT. From the A'. T. Herald. Last year a bill authorizing a classification of the directors of the Erie Railroad where by the management of the road and the oon trol of the company were practically plaoed for an indefinite time in the hamlf of Messrs. Gould and Fink, the president and the comp troller of the road was passed by a Republi can Legislature at Albany and signed by our present Democratio Governor. Before our present Democratio Legislature Mr. Charles Burt, a British barrister, representing a num ber of English stockholders, has appeared, asking in behalf of said stockholders a repeal of said classification law, in order that the stockholders generally may choose a new board of directors, Mr. Burt charging that under the management of Gould and Fisk the interests of the stockholders have suffered and are suffering, and that there is no pros pect of relief under said management. Uould and iisk, thus put upon tneir de fense, claim that the road nnder their admin istration has been well managed; that they found it in a bad condition every way, and have put it in a good condition; that they hnve extended its connections and feeders, reduced its expenses, and increased its re ceipts; that if there have been no dividends it is because of the costs of their repairs and improvements; that in regard to this classi fication lawjthe same system exists in Eng land, and that before it was applied to tho Erie road it was in force in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Illinois, and elsewhere, and applies as well to the New York Central, Hudson River, and Harlem lines, and that this classifi cation system is good in securing experienced men in the direction of the affairs of every road concerned. In general terms such are the two sides of this controversy. Without taking oither side we undortake to say that the relief Bought by Mr. Burt for the English stockholders he re presents will not be found in the repeal of the bill in question, nor in tne ssevr lorn Legislature, now or hereafter, nor in our State courts. The trouble lies deeper, too deep to be remedied by State Legislatures or State courts. Nor are the evils complained of confined to the Erie road. They exist more or less in all the great railroad lines of the United States, and are beginning to be felt in the small ones. The great and over shadowing evil of all is the watering of the stock. The stock of a railway company, for instance, is twenty-five millions of dollars. But they are hard up, and though a new issue of stock or watering of twenty-five millions may reduce the shares from seventy to thirty per cent, or less, the new issue Btiil gives to the management the control of millions, whereby State Legislatures and State courts become the willing servants of the controlling heads or head of the railway concerned. Against this formidable evil of stock water ing the stockholder, as these matters now stand in New York, Pennsylvania, Illinois, and other States, has no redress; but beyond the stockholders lie the greater interests of the masses of the people. And here we find in our great railway companies growing mono polies, which threaten in time the absolute political control of every otate concerned un less they are put under the cheoks and balances of some general law of the United States. The Western union aeiegrapn uompany is De- coming from its stock watering and other pro- censes a dangerous monopoly in view ot tne general interests of the people. Hence we advocate the merging of the whole telegraph system of the United States in the Post Office Department and as properly belonging to that department of the General Government, In the same view of the paramount interests of tbe people we hold that there will be no end to these railway corruptions and the grasping ambition of these great railway companies and combinations exoept in a general law of Congress regulating all the railroad business of the country. Among the powers conferred upon Con gress are the power "to regulate commerce with foreign nations and among the several States, and with the Indian tribes," the power to "establish post offices and post roads, the power to lay and collect taxes, etc, and the power "to make all laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into execu tion the foregoing powers," etc Now, under these powers in the constitution, as settled in settling the late Rebellion, in the establishment of tbe supremacy ot the united states ana tne subordination of the several States, Congress clearly possesses the authority for a general law for the regulation of oommerce among the States on our railroads. The powers recited wore granted to Con- grss before such things as steamboats, rail roads and telegraphs were dreamed of, at a time when Washington was practically as far from New York as San Francisco is to-day. If the powers then recited were held to be necessary to Congress in 1787, how much more necessary are they in 18 iU( in mis new age, in fact, of rapid intercommunications of thought, passengers and goods from point to point, between the two oceans, and between the great lakes and the Gulf of Mexico, and around the world, all those old notions of the age of horse power on land and sails on the Bea all these old notions, we say, dividing States, provinces and peoples, have become obsolete and absurd. We are no longer a loose confederacy of different peoples, cut off from each other by mountains and rivers or by many days' travel; we are one people, and the wants of each State in suoh things as rail roads, steamboats and telegraphs, are the wants of all. In view, then, of harmony, uniformity and wholesome checks upon grasp ing State monopolies. Congress alone can supply these wants of the age. 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Taylor. uawara Larourcaae, Jacob Rieget, Jacob P. Jones, James B. MoFarland, Joshua P. Eyre, Spencer McUvaln, J. B. Seraple, Pittsburg, A. B. Berger, Pittsburg, D. T. Morgan, Pittsburg George W. Bernadou, William G. Houston. THOMAS C. HAND, President. Tm JOHN c. DAVIS, Vlce-rteaident. HENRY LTLBTJKN, Secretary. HENRY BALL Assistant Secretary. 11 INSURANCE COMPANY OF NORTH AMERICA. JUfTUBY 1, 1870, Incorporated 1794. Charter Perpetual CAPITA! 8300,000 ASSETS 82,783,381 Losses paid since organization... .843,000,000 Receipts of Premiums, 1809....81,901,837'43 Interest front Investments, '69. 114,09674 84,106,53419 Leases paid, 1869 -81,035,38684 Statement ot the Assets. First Mortgages on City Property Q766,4S0 United Dtates UoTemment and other Loan Bonds 1,123,846 Railroad, Bank and Oanal Stocks., 65,708 847.630 83,668 KU.944 30,367 86.138 100,900 Cash In Bank and Office , Loans an Collateral Security , Rotes BeoeiTable, mostly Maiins Premiums... Accrued Interest Premiums in course of transmission , Unsettled Marine Premiums Heal Estate, Offios of Company, Philadelphia. 80,000 84,783,581 Arthur O. Franota R. Oops, BamuelW.Jo lea, Kdward ti. Trotter. John A. Bros, n, Edward 8. Clarke. Charles Taylor, T. Uharlton Henry. Ambrose White, Alfred O. Jeasup, William Welsh, Lonia O. Madeira. 8. Morris Wain, Charles W. Onsbman, John Mason, Clement A. Griaoom. Ueorge L. Harrison, William Brookis. ARTHUR O. COFFIN, President. OHAHLK8 PLATT, Vice-President Matthias Mabzs, Secretary. O. H. Reevks, Assistant Secretary. I 4 V S B U R Y LIFE INSURANCE CO,, N. Y. It amber of Policies issued by the fire largest New York Companies during ths nrst years of their axistenoe: MUTUAL (23 months) 10W NEW YOKE (18 months) losi Manhattan (it months) o&t KNICKERBOCKER... (20 months) 6S EQUITABLE. (IT months) 880 During the si months 01 its existence the , ASDURY HAS ISSUED 2600 POLICIES, INSURING NEARLY $3,000,000. Reliable Oanrasalng Agents wantad throughout ths Souniry. JAMK8 M. LONOAORB, Manager for Pennsylvania and Delaware. Office, No. WALNUT Btreet, Philadelphia. HAM UK L POWKRS, Special Agenl 161 I1E PENNSYLVANIA FIRE INSURANCE COM r AN Y. Incorporated 1B26 (Jnarter Perpetual. No. E10 VYALNUr btreet, opposite Independence Sauare. Thie Company, favorably known to the community for over forty years, continues to insure against loss or dam age by fire on Publio or Private Huildinirs, eitber penna nt ntly or for a limited time. Also on Furniture, Stocks of uoods, and Merohanaiso generally, on liberal terms, I'hair Caitital. toaetuer with a lame 8urnlus Fund. invented in tbe most careful manner, which enables them to oner to tne tnauiea an uuuouuteu security in tne ot lose. Daniel Bmitb. Jr.. John TAvernr. Alexander Heuaon, lnaao Hazlehurst, Thomas bmith, nenrr lewis. 'lliomas nouins. V...... ,i.:J"uaalmu' iauioi xiaououE, jr. DAN1K.L BM1XU, Ja., President. WM. O. CROWELL, Beoretary. 8 JU rpilE ENTERPRISE INSURANCE CO, 1 pmi.AnifT.PHla. OF OmoeS.W. corner of FOURTH and WACNIIT Streets PERPETUAL AND TKRM POLICIES IsSUED. OAbll Capital (paid up in full) ),iMW Cash Assets, Jan. 1. 1 ?,,;:, HMl,daS l DIREOTOKri. F. Ratchford 8tair, J. Livingston Errlngar Nalbro brazier, James L. Cllaxhorn, John M. Atwood. Win. U. Boulton, Reni. T. Trediok, Charles Wbeeler, George H. Ktuart, Thoraaa H. Montgomery, John H. Hrown, James M. Aeruen. f. RATOHFORD STARK, President. .M t THOMAS H. MONTGOMftKY, Vloe President AtFX. W. WIKTKK. Heeretary. JACOB E. PE'l KRHON, Assistant Secretary; TMPEEIAL FIHK INSURANCE CO., LONDON. ESTABLISHED 1S03. Paid-up Capital and Aooumulated Funds, 8,000,000 IN GOLD. PKEVOST & HERRING, Agents, I No. 107 8. THIRD Street, Philadelphia. INSURANOE. HOMESTEAD LIFE INSURANCE Policies Issued on all the Ordinary Plans, AT LOW RATES OF PREMIUM, With full participation in the Profits. All PollcIeH INon-Forfe! table. Fnl Cash Surrender Indorsed on Each Policy. NO RESTRICTIONS AS TO TRAVEL OR RESI DENCE. The form of Dollnr adopted li Dlala and alranta eon I met, precise ana aennite in its te ambiROana conditions and restrictions. precise ana aennite in its terms, ana tree from Special attention ia called to tbe HOMESTEAD I-XiA.Br of this Company, offering the COMBINED ADVANTAGES or TUB Iluiltliiig -AKoclit lou AND 0 JLI IV IiiHiirmice. livery Policy Holder Secures a House fill Own. Descriptive Pamphlets, with Ratos, furnishod on appli cation to we "Jotupany. OFFICE, N. W. corner 8eventh and Chesnnt Sts. PHILADKLPHIA. WILLIAM M. 6KYFF.RT. President. LAURENCE MYERS. Vice-President. R. Vf. DORPHLEY, Seoretary. WILLIAM L UIRST, Counsel. , HAYES AGNF.W, M. Medical Director. D., DIRECTORS, IWm. B. Rnanny, Kdward Hamuel, H. P. Muirheid. Clayton MoMiouael. 4 98ra Wm. M. 8eyfert, Laurenoe Myers, J. M. Myers, Wm. 8. MoManus, 1829 CHARTER PERPETUAL. Frantlin Fire Insurance Company OF PHILADELPHIA. Office, Nos. 435 and 437 CHESNUT St. Assets Jan. l,,70JL$2f825f73r67 CAPITAL tOO.OOODO AOUKUJil) BUnrLuS AMD r'KKjniUn....ii,Ua,7To7 INOOMFj FOR 1810. LOSSES PAID IN 1869, $144,908-41 8W1U.000. Perpetual and Temporary Poliolee on Liberal Terms. The Company also issnee polioiee upon the Rents of alt kinds of Bnildings, Ground Kent s, and Mortgages, lbs "FRANJbUaN" baa no UiaruiKU U1.AIM, TIC BflTfUlS. Alfred O. Raker, KAtnnel Grant- i jturea ruier. Tbomaa Sparks. r. George W. Richards, William 8. Grant, Isaac Lea, -j nomaa B. iuus, Ueorie tales. Gustavns S. lienaon. ALFRED G. BAKKR, President GKORGK FALES, Vioo-President, JAMES W. McALLISTKR, Beoretary. THEODORE M. RKGER, Assistant Beoretary. 1 19, F RE ASSOCIATION. INCORPORATED MARCH S7. 1830. OFFICE, HO. 84 NORTH FIFTH STREET INSURE BUILD HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE, AND MERCHANDISE GENERALLY, From Lou by Firs (In the City of Philadelphia only). AMBETS, JANUARY 1, 1870. 81,572,73443. TRUSTEES. WM. H. HAMILTON, JOHN OARKOW, GKORGK I. YOUNG, JOS. R. LYNDALL, LEVI P. 0OAT8, CHARLES P. ROWER, JKSSK LIGHTFOOT. ROBT. 8UOKMAKKR, PKTKR AKMBRUhTER, VI W nlML VUMU ..1. XX. PETER WILLIAMSON. dauuiui JOSEPH E OUUO.LUU. WM. H. HAMILTON, President SAMUEL SPARHAWK, Vice-President. WILLIAM T. BUTLER. Secretary. pAME INSURANCE COMPANY, No. 809 CHESNUT Btreet. INCORPORATED I860. CHARTER PERPETUAL. CAPITAL 01100,000. FIRE INSURANOE EXCLUSIVELY. Insuranoe. against Loss or Damage by Fire either by Par. petu&l or Temporary Policies. DIRECTORS. Charles Rlohardaon, . Robert Pea roe. William H.Kbawn, John Keasler, Jr., Edward B. Orne, Charles Btokee, John W. Everman, Mordeoai Busby. William M. Keyfert, John . nmuu, Nathan Hi Ilea. George A. West, CHARLES RICHARDSON, President WILLIAM H. RHAWN, Vios-President Williams I. Blamchahd, Seoretary, 7 23 WHISKY, WINE, ETQ. QAR8TAIR8 & McCALL, No. 126 Walnut and 21 Granite Sts., IMPORTERS OF Brandies, Wines, Gin, Olive Oil, Etc., WHOLESALE DEALERS IN PURE'RYE WHISKIES, IN BOND AND TAX PAID. 6 38 8p IJTIZ CURRANT WINE. ALBERT O. ROBERTS, Dealer in every Description of Fine Groceries, 117 Corner ELEVENTH and VINE Btreet . WILLIAM ANDERSON & CO., DEALERS " Whiskiea. . cn , L REMOVAL. THE OLD-ESTABLISHED UNITED STATES REVENUE STAMP AGENCY HAS REMOVED FROM No. 57 South THIRD Street TO No. 66 South THIRD Street, 181 JACOB B. RIDGWAV. WHEELER'S PATENT STAMP CANCELERS. EDWIN STEVENS, Ho. -11 S. T2IXXU Street, PHILADELPHIA, C31tf $en(ra Agent for the State of Pennsylvania,
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