2 1HK DAILY ISVJSNINU TELEGRAPH PHILADELPHIA, PIUDAY, APRIL 22, 1870. srxnxT or ina muss. Editorial Opinions of the Leading Journals upon Current Topics Compiled Every Day for the Evening Telegraph. THE DATUKN SHIP CANAL ntOJECT MUTISII INTERFERENCE. From the A. V. Herald. England can no ruoro change her joalum and Bulnsli character where tUo progre.-tx itad great national interests of the United State are concerned than the leopard his Hpotn or the Ethiopian his akin. Indued, tsho in and has alwity been Very jealous of cointnuroml rivals, though more particularly so of this country. History abounds with facts to show this. The lutust example of her jealousy and aelfislnt.'BH, according to our Vunhiiigton news, is in tb case of the Durien ship uttu.il project. The first desputch from Wustiing ton to the New York press intimated tu it tho Uritiah Minister, Mr. Thornton, would remon strate with our (iovernment against the exclu sive privilofeen yrauted to tho United States by New Gratiadu uud the independent action of this country in the matter of a ship cnmtl across the Isthmus of Darien. The despatch which wo pubhhhed yostordiiy from Wash ington f;uve a milder phase to the question of Utitish interference, out it seems probable that Great Britain is about to interprno in some way. In a despatch published WeiJudiday this interposition is put in a mild diplomatic style. The words are: "It is, nevertheless, probable that some discussion will oouur be tween the United States and Great Britain as to tho right of the former to make a treaty for exclusive privileges with uuy of tho Cen tral American powers." It is intimate! that Great Britain may claim that, under the Clayton-Buhver convention of the l'.Uh of April, 1850, ad projects for tho construction of a ship canal across the isthmus which connects North and South America should be uudor the control of both powers. That convention, it will be remembered, was mode with special reference to the Nicarian route, and provided that neither of the powers should exercUe exclusive control aver uuy canal tbat might be made there, and that neither shonhl colonize, fortify, or exorcise any exclusive dominion over Nicaragua, Costa llica, the Mosquito const, or any part of Central America. It is said that tho eighth article of this convention is the one upon which Great Britain relies particularly for csthbht-hirig Li-r chdm to an equal control over and participatiou iu any canal or railway across the intimitis connecting South and North America. Thut article says tha two govern molds, "to accomplish a particular object tind to establish a general principle, agree to extend their protection by treaty stipulation to any other practicable communi cations than the Nicaragua route, whether by canal or railway, across the isthmus whic'i connects North and South America, and espe cially to the interoceanic communicatious, should the same prove . to be practicable, which are now proposed to be established by the way of Tehuantepec or Panama." Ex cluding the circumlocution of diplomatic lan guage and details in the rest of the eighth article and the convention generally, this is the gist and substance of the matter. It is a question whether Damn, which po litically belongs to New Granuda and to South America, comes within the meeting of the convention, which only covers Central Ame rica. This might be a question for a great deal of diplomatic palaver. Nor do we care to enter into it here. If the convention can be construed to give England an equal control over the work and management of a Dariea canal with the United States, or to place her on the same political or international footing with this country in American affairs, tho sooner that convention is abrogated the better, The making of it was a stupid piece of buai ness on our part, and shows how far superior British statesmen and diplomats were to our own. It rcognized a principle wnica we should never have acknowledged. It put Great Britain, which is an European power, andwhich has but limited interests compara tively in this hemisphere, on a footing with the American republic, which has peculiar and far greater interests, both political and commercial, in all the countries of America. More than that, the opening of a ship canal through Central Amorica is necessary to oon nect the commerce of one portion of . the United States the Paoifio States with the other portion on tho Atlantic side. There was net and is not any equality in the condi tions or interests of the two nations con nected with a ship canal across any part of Central Amorica. The United States, in accordance with the broad and liberal policy it always pursues in international matters, will, of course, offer every facility to England and all other nations should it make a ship canal across tho isthmus; but we should never admit that any of the European powers are on an eqaality with tuw country in questions pertaining to America. The Clayton-Bulwer treaty was a blunder, therefore, and the time has come when this great Kepublic should shake off its swaddling clothes and assert the policy of America for the Americans. If Great Britain demurs to this, or attempts to interfere in the great work we have commenced to survey and have made a treaty with New Granada for tho cutting of a ship canal across the Isthmus of Darien tho Government should at once give notice to abrogate the Clayton-Bulwer con vention, or any other that may stand in the way of this work or of our control over Ame- can affairs. It is hard, we know, for England to give up her assumption and that patronizing affected superiority with which she has been accus tomed to treat the United States. It took her a long time to learn that this country was an independent nation, equal in rights and privileges to herself. She has always been dis posed to treat the United States as a pareut does his offspring. Many years after our inde pendence we fiau to ?o to war witu nor 10 assert our equality. Even yet she is jealous of our growth, power, and influence. She never loses an opportunity to checkavito us. Under the pretense of friendship, and with a patronizing air, sne exhibits her jealousy and selnsnnoss wnenever a question concerning the progress or power of this republic comes np. This baa been seen in our rate war, in the Mexican question, in me Unban and St. Domingo questions, aRd at other times. Though she does not talk or act as boldly as in former times, sne pursues ine same Inimi cal doUct in a tortuous and insidious manner. Heretofore we have been weak in our foreign md American policy, wnicu nas maie Kng Lnd and other European powers presump. ttons. The only really bold course our Gov. eriment has taken with any of these powers of fete vears was with reeard to the Mexican invation, and then it was forced to take the oonrst it did by the thunders of the pretis and tie power of publio opinion. This mighty republic is now a giant among nations, It bhouk lay down and follow a policy of its own with regard to all matters pertaining to America, Let European nations oonttne fonwirea to te ova .oontineat. Yf do not wsnt lo, and will not, interfere with them But here wo miiHt bo the dominating power, and we ought to lot tho world know tho fact. CO-OrEKATlVE HOUSEKEEPING. From the I'liieuuo Tribune. One of our most experienced Chicago lnvldets, who is rilrendy in receipt of a cu hidemMo rent-roll from tho erection of a good cliiss of residences for rental, is considering the expediency of erecting a block adapted especially to a joint system of providing and codkim; the tneitls for all tho tenants of the block, thoni'h without any of the risks or om- ImnasMiieiitH of the communists, joint-stock, or even co-operative plana. Eacu residence or tenement, win contain ouiy inoso apart ments in which the families actually live tin ir pailorn, sitting, dining, and sleep ing rooniR without kitchen, laundry, kitcheii-cldvetN, or store-Tooius. Each family will dispense with cook and laundress, avoiding the board and wages of ser vants altogether, or of nil but suoU us may bo needed for the care of ohildrou. The kitchen and laundry business of the entire block will be done atone commodious kitchen and laundry, located in the centre of tie block, find with which all the dwellings com umnieate by bells and signals. While such a mode of constructing tho buildings would facilitate (he joint stock or co-operative plau of running tho kitchen and l.mndry, yet it is not. believed that in many cases this would be desirable. It is expected that tho kitchen and laundry will be rented, separately from the dwellings, to one or two porsous, who would find a profitable business of furnishing all the tenants with th i: meals, washing, and ironinp, at rates lower than they could pro vide them themselves. Each teuaut would buy in advance one or two hundred tickets or cheeks, representing the prices of tho various articles or services to be furnished. He would bo at full liberty, though at somewhat greater inoouveniouco, to oet them elxcwliore if they were not fur- nished at luir prices and of good quality and style nt. the common cuisine. Each tenant would be as independent of the others as the Kiiests ht a hotel, while all would enjoy the advantages of proficieut cooking and expurt laundry work at a diminution in expenses somewhat as follows: Suppobe there are fifty dwellings in the proposed block, the rent of which, by dispensing with kitchen, laundry, nnd servants' rooms, iH reduced from $1000 to each. Here is a total saving in rent of !i7.")(X). Suppose the fifty families to avorage a reduction of three servants to every two families, or thirty-three servants for the en tire block: Wnoes of 83 servants, at S0 per week, for one year $W)6 Board of tfcf same, st & per week smi) Waste of (0 klicnens, Buy 2. mil buying iu rent ua aiove 7."mi Total tyuM If, therefore, it would cost $21,000 for tho mere rent, labor, and wages of tho central cuisine and laundry, in doing the work of fifty families, tho families would save no thing, except by getting rid of tho oare of servants and the trouble of housekeeping. But it is believed that one competent mana ger, whoe services could be prooured for $3000 a year, would make the labor of ten servants in the cuisine accomplish more than that of the thirty-threa iu private families. and that $ 1000 would be a large jent for the cuisine and lauudry itself. If so, the cost of the engine and laundry would be somewhat us follows: Bent of cuMne one year ; fiooo WnireB ol master of cuinine. 8UD0 Waues of ten servants, niMne Win Hoard of ten servants, cuiaiw !26!)0 Total 13420 This would leave a saving of actual cost in the single items of rent and labor of $l.r,0GG, or, in named terms, two-thirds of the present co.st of obtaining the same service This cost should naturally divido itself equitably etween the ma-tire de cuisine and his fifty customers in the form of redueed prices and better tare. But a more important means of economy would be in the purchase of food and provisions at wholesale prices and by fair wt ieht and measure, instead of at the high profits charged, and false weights and ruea- snrt s given to tnose wuo Keep nouse oy ouy ing in smnll quantities and of the retailers, Indeed, it is doubtful whether an establish ment skilfully run would not save as muoh in the cost of food and provisions as in tuat of rent, and labor. Should any such results be obtained, the plan would seem to combine the advantages of hotel life with those of private residence. Freedom from at least one-null tne cares oi nouseaeeping wouia give the women of such families greater leisure for society and the culture of their children, and other duties, while the general reduction of expenses, if practicable, would be a wel come boon to men of business. LAW OF MAIUUAGE IN PENNSYLVANIA From the J'ittburg Commercial ilkio Collins, iu his skilfully constructed and intensely dramatic story called "Man aud Wife." now in course of publication in lLir- rter'a Widely, brings prominently into publio view an odious anu restrictive mmuie in ire land and the Scottish law, regulating the whole subject of marriage. Twenty years npo Dickens exposed the ignorance and dreary tyranny of tne English school, and the . i ...m 41... f? 1.v..,.. LUlbery anil crueny ui mouu(;imu wuiuuuiiTO, Charles Kcade has laid. rare tne areaatui wronos and horrors of the English private niad-hoiiho, and of tne Ji,ngiisn county prisons of a later day. "Nicholas . Nickleby" and "Oliver Twist." "Hard Cash" and "Never too Late to Mend," have pleaded more eloquently and more successfully in the mtemsts of humanity and reform thau the excellent Wilberforce in his most earnest efforts, and the philanthropic Howard by his deeds of noble charity. If the modern novel has sometimes scattered broadcast the seeds of moral disease, it cannot be denied that it has alno often brought healing on its wings for great social and political disorders. Wilkie CoIIidb is makvug a very interesting book. He d a's in the solidly roal, rather than the ideal. His styl is altogether narrative there is nothing of the air of lomance in the story he tells. It is a probable story; it might bo a real lnstor3 1'jxcepiing nimes anu "roundinK incidents," the writer probably relates actual occurrences if fictitious, tho verisimilitude is perfoot. If Mr. Collins be imaginative at all, his imagination takes no loity flight. His genius is dramatic, and no wiiter of the century has equalled him in the power of so presenting ordinary facts and in cidents as to excite the sensibilities and arouse thn niu'siouH of his readers. The author of "Man and Wife" has two nlttiior objects sufficiently developed already in the published chapters of his yet unfin ished work. . The one is to call the attention of the British publio to the existence of that hateful, tyrannical Irish statute whioh ren derod Anne Sylvester's mother's marriage null and void, beoause, herself being a Catho lic, the man she took for her husband and who took hr for Ida wife had not at the time of the &rriage ceremony been a Cathulio for more than thirty days. The other is to ex pose what Mr. Collins evidontly regards as the distressing uncertainty or barbarous Jsxity of the Sootch law of marriage, under w hich Arnold Brinkworth and Anne Sylves ter, neither wishing nor intending to marry the other, were innocently placod in suoh circumstances that Scotch lawyers could not agree as to whether the law would regard them as man and wile. The civilized world owes the distinguished author a debt of gratitude for drAgKina out of darkness into the light of day the hateful nnd iniquitous Irish anomaly which still disgraces the British statute book. He has urn. end a substantial service in the interest of justice, morality and religion. But the case he makes against tne Scotch law is not by auy means so clear and strong. Under the law of Scotland marriage is a civil contrsot merely, without legal restrictions of any character. ComriiHitH fantinitrimonium. Consent makes marriage. I he parties must be tble to contract that is to say, must be free from personal disabilities, such as idiocy, luiiscy, childhood, or actnal existing mar riage. They must be willing to marry eaoh other ard must intend to marry. The pur pose to marry each other must be carried into effect they must actually marry. No form of words is necessary. Tho contract nied not bo in writing. The presence of iriest or'proacher, of judge or magistrate, is not. indispensable. Banns need not be pub- nhet'; no license is wanted; no record need l-o n.ade. Mnniflge has no sacred nor even si I mn legal character in Scotland. It is a civil contract merely and Bimply, differing in no mutt-riul respect from other civil con tracts, except that it is indissoluble by the ai l of the parties, hucu is, too, the law of ' Pennsylvania to-day; such has always been the law of Pennsylvania, lhe various de nominations of Christians have their own regulations governing tho subject. One branch of the Church declares marriage to be a sacrament; others, perhaps all, surround it with solemn observances. The law permits and respects these regulations and the prac tice of these ceremonies, but does not rocog nize them as having auy binding forco. Neither Scotch nor Pennsylvania law will infer marriage from mere cohabitation, be cause actual, executed consent constitutes the relation. But actual, executed intention, however proven, makes marriage both in Scotland and Pennsylvania. low, Air. Wilkie Collins labors to show that the Scotch law of marriage ("which is identical with the Pennsylvania law) sets traps for innocent persons who do not intend to marry. But the case he puts does not prove it. A lady went to the Craig Fernie Jnn, declaring herself to be a married woman. ard expecting her husband to meet her there. A man came to the inn on the evening of the seme duy, represented himself to be the hus band of the lady, addressed her as his wife in the presence of the landlady aud servants, supped with her privately, and remained over night at the inn, the two occupying adjoining and communicating apartments. They were not man and wife, and did not mean to become such. They were persons of respecta ble character, and their intentions as re spected each other were pure and honest. But the gentleman, to serve a friend and protect the lady, assumed a false character, and tha lady herself remained ' silent wnen trutn required her to speak. This was no marriage under the bcotch law; but the parties, by the false declaration of both, and by the deception practiced by one, and the assenting silence of the other, had made evidence of marriage egainst themselves. This evidence might or might not be regarded by Sootch lawyers, and Pennsylvania lawyers too, as establishing a jirimafacie case of marriage. In the strongest view of it as against the parties, the burden was on them to show that they were not mar ried. The question which the case presents is not one of the law of marriage it is a question of the weight of evidence merely, in reference to which lawyers as well as jurors might differ. The laws of all civi lized countries presume that sane per sons contomplate tho consequences of their own acts, and that their declarations Bg&inst (heir own interests are presumptively true. I he Scotch law of marriage set no trap for the parties who met at the Craig Fernie Inn; but their own imprudence, the misrepresentations of both as to their true positions, and the double treachery of a third person who was the pretended friend of one and tho affianced husband of the other, led them into a labyrinth of troubles. This is the whole case, and the author might, with the same reason, declaim against the general law of contracts, because it does not insure against the consequences of one's own impru dence, deception, or folly, or the dishonesty or treachery of others. It Wilkie Collins would direct his attention to the operations of the English laws regu lating marriage and inquire how many inno cent woinon have been betrayed into mock mnrnoges, under forged licenses, with cere monies perlormed by villains who personated priests ; how many persons in England are living in a state "of legal concubinage for want of compliance with tho onerous and ex pensive restrictions which English laws im pose, he might possibly bo induced to look with more charity upon the marriage laws of a country where mock marriages are impossi ble and concubinage is almost unknown. He might find crimes to expose and dreadful social evils, traceable, in part, to unnecessary and unwise restriction of the right to marry a work for which he has both tho heart and genius. A TILT AT TILTON. J'rimt the Cincinnati Commercial Theodore Tilton is the editor of the New York Independent, a moral, dry goods advo cate of isms that tend to free love and a generul unsettling of all that we hold near, snd dear, and sacred. One half is given up to praises of God, and the other in putting money in the pocket of its proprietors. Soma fourteen years sinoe, Doctor Gamaliel Bailey, a great man whose heart only equalled his brain, said that the Independent was corrupt, and its proprietors unprincipled money cetters. That was the condition of the Inde pendent then, and it has been failing ever since. Under the guise of religion it puns dry goods, and we speak advisedly when we say that the columns are, and ever have been, open to purchase, and any quackery pos sessed of sufficient coin can find insertion and a religious tinge to make it acceptable. Theodore s business in Washington was ta work tho Independent into the lobby, and to this end he smiled and flattered and bumped Lis empty head upon the floor in the presence of men as corrupt but not so weak as him self. He failed dismally, and through his failure came near losing the confidence of his employer. One fact alone sustained him, and that was that he could do more dirty work under a religious guise than any crea ture the sharp, money-getting, unprincipled Foprietor could find. flow 'j npoanra nas since ien worKea to morease the circulation and extend the in fluence of this vila uhet would mall an d- ditional chanter in the life of Count Fathom. Among the latest is a pretended attempt to harmonize the different factions of the strong minded women. Theodore advertises his journal by calling on all the women of the United States to forward him their names. The re'sponso will be a copy of the Indtycn (Intt. In the meantime Theodore has himself elected President of the Harmoni.ed Petticoat Association, and demonstrates equality by showing that if the women lack strength ne cessary to serve as men, here is one man weak enough to be a woman. Small wonder that such large-brained feminities as Mrs. Stanton and Julia Ward Howe shout out their wrath and indignation at such a silly and ridiculous intruder. And now we have a tremendous illustration, commemorntive of the Jndcjwnrffint'fi twenty one years of sinful existence, in which Theo dore is represented as an angol blowing a rams horn at the Uatholio Guurch. Had Theodore been represented as rising from a store-box with the horn of plenty, pouring out jobs, instead of Gabriel's trumpet, it would have been far moro illustrative, beoause tine. The New York Independent is a represen tative of a class far too prominent aud pow erful in our country. Tho Republican party in its fast organization based its platform upon human rights and made such an appeal to the moral sense and generous impulses of Lumnnity tnat it swept the country. Its success has proved sugnestive to hypo. crites nnd rogues. Every vile scheme of plunder is now sugar coated with religious pietense aud almost every reform movement covers plunder. Such journals as tho Jnde. pendent are not slow to seize on and follow up such effort, and the louder their voices the deeper their villany. Thousands of good but credulous people take and read the hide- jictideiit, believing that it is as sincere as it pro fesses to be earnest, and the principles of the family are slowly sapped and undermined. In this way a deadly poison is flowing uut.een and unheeded into the very foundations of our social and political fabric It is time for the honest and thoughtful to protest against this evil. A DEAD RENEGADE. trim, the S'ew Orleans Picayune. To Virginians, the shameful defection of Thomas to the Southern cause was peculiarly humiliating, as his career in Mexieo had en listed the pride and admiration of that noble and generous people. Ilis name, joined with tbat of Wictield Scott, whom he resembled not a little in personal appearance, will go dwn to posterity, covered with their repro bation. He was alone, among his family, in this treachery to his native land, for his bro ther was an officer in the Confederate army: and a spirited and pntriotio sister, one of these Virginia matrons who stood out during the desolation of their proud old Commonwealth by the Federal armies, in the resplendent majesty of devotion and self sacrifice, is reported to have answered an ap plication for the sword which the State had presented to her recreant brother, by saying tbat he should not have it, as Virginia had presented it to a son of whom she was then proud, but that the band of a traitor should never grasp its hilt. But the man has gone to his last account, having by his offenses sacrificed all claim to a niohe in the same com memorative temple of great v lrginians with Lee and StonewallJaekson, and won only the very doubtfel compliment of sharing such honors with the ruthless uesoiators or tyran nieal oppressors of his native soil, and of his nearest kindred. Few should envy him such a fute. WHAT AllE "WOMAN'S TwIGIITS ?" From the H. T. Times. They are these, according to the leadors and followers of the "Woman's rights move ment:" To practice the same professions and occupations as men. To be treated as tho equal of men in all relations of life. To be admitted freely to competition with men in every field of labor or thought, and not to have the "weakness of their sex" 6ven alluded to, since that can only be regarded as an insult. ery good ! bo far, an is clear, lml now observe what follows. Women do occasion ally manage to pursue tho same occupations as men, and all goes on pretty well until some one dares to treat them precisely as men are treated that is, with criticism plain, straightforward, it may be severe onticism. Then at once a shriek ascends to the skies. All the advocates of "woman's rights" sally forth in a body and cry out, "Do not criticiso a woman she is a weak creatnre, and ought to be held sacred. Remember her sex." It is of no use to answ er that if women claim all the "liberties and privileges" of men they must expect to suffer some of tho penalties to which men are also liable. When a woman declares tbat she wishes to experience the same treatment as men in the contests of life, she means that she wants all sorts ot excep tions to be made in her favor. She must be fenced round, and protected from the sharp wind of criticism. She will throw aside her sex except when she can use it as a shield. Most people have foreseen that this would be the result of conceding ta women the rights they ask. In reality they are not pre pared to fight the battle of life from man's stand-point. They are to have the privilege of saving or doing what they like, and no one is to contradict or thwart them for fear of hurtiDg their feelings. You must no more answer them than answer a parson in the pulpit. So that eventually the held of human exertion is likely to be covered with competi tors who will demand to be treated like so many Popes. They will criticise, but must not be criticised in return. They will take the wages of men, if tbey can get them, but they will not work for those wages like men; thev will not face good renort and evil report. or bear any of the hard knocks which are apt to be distributed in life. They will always have the plea, "I am only a woman," on their tongues. Is this, then, the equality of the sexes of which we have heard so much ? It appears to be the nearest approaoh to equality which the present champions or re presentatives of woman's rights are likely to favor us with. THE JAPANESE INDEMNITY FUND. From the San Francisco Alta-Californian. Reports of Congressional proceedings refer to a joint resolution which has just passed the Senate, directing the Secretary of Stato to pay certain damages to tha owner of the steamer Monitor, out of the Japanese In demnity Fnnd. This brief mention recalls an interesting historical reminisoenoo which is likely to be quite often revived. In 180.1, owing to the jealousy existing between the Mikado (or spiritual Emperor) and Tycoon (or temporal Emperor) of Japan, an edict was issued excluding foreigners from the Empire, with certain excepted ports; and this arose from the fact that the Tycoon had concluded a treaty of amity with several foreign nations. One of the Daimios, tha Prince of Neegata. in his r.eal to carry ont the anti-foreign policy of the Mikado, forti fied lan Bid of tka narrow strait of Siiaouo- sakn, through which most of the oommeroe betwten China and Japan is compelled to pbss. In July, 18C:i, the Pembroke, an Ame rican steamer, plying between Shanghai and Japnneso ports, in attempting to p.tss the strait, was lired upon by a bark and brig flting the Daimio'a flag and that of the tycoon, the Pembroke escaped in the darkness of tho night, but was at first reported sunk. (Jommauder McDougal, com manding the United States sloop-of-war Wyoming, went up to punish this outrage, and was tired upon by the forts on the Prince of Neegata's territory, but succeeded in sink ing or running ashore the vossols which had fiied on the Pembroke, as well as a Japanese steamer which had in the moantimo rein forced them. Having lost eleven men the Wyoming withdrew, aud the forts kept up filing for several days upon any foreign vi ssel whuh attempted to pass through the stiait, the American bark Monitor being among the number fired upon and damaged. Finally, the English, French, Dutch, and Ameiican fleets bombarded the forts, reduced the hostile territory, and opened the straitsof Simonosaka to commerce again. Tho Prince of Neegata being a feudal lord, the United Ktates Government could only treat wita the Mikado and Tycoon, and the Japanese Gov ernment CHme down haudsomely with an in demnity of about $3,000,000. The owners of the Pembroke, who made a direct demand upon the Japanese Government, were paid 10,000 lor the loss ot their voyage. Tho owners of the Monitor claim $;i0,00l, and this amount will be allowed out of the fund now in the State Department. But, from all tho money received by our Govern ment, nothing has ever been paid to the officers and men of the Wyoming by way of prize money, no prize having actually been takes. The usual small pension has been allowed to the survivors of those who were lost, but out of the amount received from the Japanese Government, nothing has been paid to the naval service. It would be but a simple act of justice for Congress to inauire into the circumstances of the case and make such disposition of a portion of tho Indemnity Fund as will reward the officers and men of the Wyoming for their gallantry and promptness. The vessels destroyed were practically pirates, but the Japanese Govern ment recognized its responsibility for their nationality, and our Government ought to recognize the agencies of their destruction. INSURANOb. INSURANCE COMPANY or NORTH AMERICA. Jancabt 1, 1970. Charter Perpetual. Incorporated 1704. CAPITAL. 8500,00r ASSETS 8i,7SJ,5Sl Losara paid since organization... .843,000,000 Receipts of Premiums, lS9....81,91,83r43 Interval from InTeatmenta, tl9. 114,60674 84, 100,3:14-10 ..81,0a3,U0'84 LoBoei paid, 1S09. Statement of the Asset Pint Mortucet on Oltj Propsrty United States Govsrnment and other Loan C766.4G0 65.7U8 SM.tEJO 82,668 831.944 8U.3&7 S6.U8 100,900 80,000 Bon da. Railroad, Bank and Canal Stocks Uaah in Bank and C'ffloe Loans an Collateral Security Motes KeoelTsble, mostly Mai ins Premiums... A corned Interest Premiums in course of transmission Unsettled Marine Premiums Koai Estate, Office ol Company, Philadelphia. . 84,7&3,iSl DIRECTORS. Arthur O. bamusl W.Jo set, John A. Bros n, Cbanes Taylor, Ambrose VVnite, Willism Welsh, B. Morris Wain, John Mason, tieorge L. Harrison, ftranois R. Oops, Kdward U. Trotter. Kdward 8. Clarke, T. Charlton Usury, Alfred i). Jeeaup, IoQis O. Madeira, Charles W. Cushman, Clement A. Griaoom. Wtlluun Brookie. ARTHUR O. COFFIN. President CHAUXKS PLATT, Vice-President. Matthias Mams, Secretory. O. II. Rkkvkb. Assistant beoretary. g 4 V S B U R Y LIFE INSURANCE CO,, N. Y. Number of Polioiea issued by the Ave largest New Tork Companies during the nrat years of their existenoe: MUTUAL (23 months) 1093 NJiW jorta. llHUionthtu iol MANHATTAN (U mouths) 053 KN1CK rlHUOCKEK. . . VZ0 mouths) fa EQU1TAULK. (IT months) 886 Daring the 81 months of Its existence the AHBURY EAS ISSUED 2600 POLICIES, INSURING NEARLY $0,000,000. Reliable Canvassing Agents wanted throughout the country. . . Jjmr.il m. IINUAUKK, Manager for r-eonaylvania and Delaware. Office, No. ati A ALNUT Street, Philadsluhia. jBAmTHXJ'OWKR8,6peciaAent. lrt T UK PENNSYLVANIA F1KE INSURANCE A COMPANY. Incorporated l:!i t'barter Perpetual. No S10 WALNU T ritroet, oppooite Independence Square. 1 tiia t-ouiptiny, lavnralily known to ttie community tor over torty years, continues to intture against lone or daui. ce by tire on Public or Private Uuildine, either perm. nrntiyortora limited time. Aim og bonmure. IS ticks of tiooda. and Merolmndiue sonerallv. on libariil innim. Tbeir L'pitul, together with a lariie Surplus Kuad, is invpHieu in toe mom careiui munner, wnicn enables tueiu to oner to Uie insured au undoubted security iu the oaae oi toss. Psniol Smith. Jr.. DIKKITOHB. John Devereux, '('nomas Smith. Alexander iieDson, Ihoso Uarleburet, Iitmrf lwia, J (iillint'hAm FaM. 'inomas uouinn, imuidi nuiuuvi.ur. DANIKL SMITH, Jn., President WM. G. CROWKLL, Secretary. 3 30 rVUE ENTERPRISE INSURANCE CO, OP -A mil ADKI.l'HlA. Offices. W. corner of FOURTH and WALNUT Streets KIRK INSURANCE KXCI.USI V HI.Y. PKRPKTUAL AN l TKItM POUCIKS IrtlTKO. CASH Capital (paid up in full) 4hi,iO0'O0 t:eU As.ru, Ja Dlk?,KS. WW-lt!ltt5' I F. Katchford Stair, J. Livingston Rrringsr Nalbru 1-razier, i James L. CluKUora, John M. Atwood, Win . U. Koulton, Renj. 'I'. Tredick, ('barles Wbeoler, Uourpe H. Stuart, Thomas 11. MontKOinery, John 11. Brown, James M. Aertuen. V. KATOHKORD 8TAHH. Proeident. THOMAS H. MONTOOMKKY. Vice-Prosidsnt. AIKX. W. W1HTKR. Kocretary. JACOB K. PK1KHSON, Assistant Secretary. pAME IN8UKANCE COMPANY No. 609 CHIESNUT StreoL INCORPORATED 18M. CHART R PERPETUAL CAPITAL 20U,KW. FIRK INSURANOB KXCLUSrVF.LY. Icsurenoe.againat 1 ousor Damaire by Kire either by Per petual or Tempo ry Policies. lllRlaj'lOK.i. Charles Richardson, , Robert Pearcs, William ii.hliawu, William M. heyferti John K easier, Jr., Kdward B. Drue, Charlua tttokes. John W. Kvonuau, Morduetvi Buzly. John It. Mm til, Nathan iiilliw. George A. West, CHAR1.KS RIOUARDSOfl. Preaidont. WILLI tM H. RH AWN, Vice-President. WnJ.UMS I. HuNcHAKn, Secretary. IW JMPEKIAL FIKE INSUKANCJS CO., LONDON. EMTAUU-IIUU 1S03. Paid-up Capital and Accumulated Punds, l$H,000,000 IN GOLD. PREVOST A TTEURINO, Agents, 8 i Ho. 17 B. THIRD Street, Philadelphia. CUAJ3. M. F&KYOftT. 0U4& P. UIUUQ, I N BUR A NO E. DELAWARE MUTUAL fiAFETT INSURANCE COMPANY. Incorporated by tne LegtrtUtora or Pennsylvania, 1833, Ofllco southeast corner of TTTTRD and WALNUT Street, Philadelphia. M AKIN IS INSURANCES On Vessels, Cargo and Freight to all parta of tho world. INLAND INSURANCES ju goods by river, canal, inke nnd land carriage to all parts of the Union. FIUB INSURANCES ' Merchandise genorailj; on Sioros, Dwellings, Houses, etc. ASSETS OF TUB COMPANY November 1, 1800. 1300,000 United States Five Per Cent. Loan, ten-forties fn,0000 100,000 United States Six TerCent. Loan (lawful ruorioy) 10T,T60-O 60,000 United States Six per Cent. Loan, 1S81 60,000-00 800,000 Btate ot Pennsylvania Six Per Cent. Loan 813,960-00 900,000 City of Philadelphia Six Per Cent. Loan (exempt from tax) S00,9WO0 100,000 State of New Jersey Six Per Cent. Loan 08,000-00 80,000 Pennsylvania Railroad First Mortttge Blx Per Cent. Uouda 450 "0D 85,000 Pennnylvanla Railroad Se cond mortgage Six per Cent. bonds 83,626-00 86,000 W estern Pennsylvania Rail road MortiMge six Per Cent, bonds (Pennsylvania Railroad guarantee) 80,000-00 80,000 State of Teunesaee Five Per Cent. Loan 15,00006 T,000 btate of Tennessee Six Per Cent. Loan 4,8TJWQ 18,500 Pennsylvania Railroad Com pany, 2&o shares stock 11,000-00 6,000 North Pennsylvania Rail road Company, loo snares stock 8,900-00 10,000 Philadelphia and Southern Mall Steamship Com pany, BO nhares stock T.&m-OO 846,900 Loans ob Bond and Mort enpe, first liens on City Properties 844,900-00 i,S3i,400 Par. - Market value, 1,8C6.8TO"00 COBt ILQIB R.2'2-47 Keal Estate t6.ooo-oa Hi!!s Receivable for Insurances made... BXUUit-TO lialam-es due at Affeuelt-H: Premiums on Marine Pollutes, Accrued Inhtrt-st, and other debts due the Com pany &Q,oT-ac Stork, Scrip, etc., of Sundry Corpora tions, 847116. Estimated value I.T40-M ( ssh In Bank 16S,3ta-88 Cash In Drawer 7 -6 169,89116 ll.So'l.KIO-Oe DIRECTORS. Thomas C. Hand, Bamnel S. Stokes, John C. Davis. William 4. Boulton. Edmund A. Mouder, TheophiluH Paulding, fames Traqualr, Henry Sloan. Henry C. Dallett, Jr., 'anies C. Hand, William C. Ludwlg, Joseph II. beal, Hugh Craig, John D. Taylor, C4eorge Yi. Bernadoo, WUllam C Houston. Kdward Darllutoo, 11. Junes ISrooka, .Edward Lafourcade, Jacob Kit-gel, Jacob P. Junes, James B. Mo Karl and, JoHhua P. Kyre, Hpeneer Mcllvatn, J. B. Seraplu, Pittsburg, A. B. Burner, IMUuunrg, D. T. Morgan, Pittsburg THOMAS C. HAND, President JOHN C. DAVIS, Vlce-tTesldont HKNRT tYXBURN, Secretary. B-KNRY BALL Assistant Secretary. 11 HOMESTEAD LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY. Policies Issued on all the Ordinary Plans, AT LOW RATES OF PREMIUM, With full participation In the Profits. All loliclet INon-Forl'eliable. Ful Cash Surrender Indorsed on Each Policy. NO RESTRICTIONS AS TO TRAVEL Olt RESI DENCa. The form of policy adopted is a plain and simple eon. tract, precipe and detinue in its terms, and free from ambiguous conditions snd restrictions. Special attention is called to the 1 1 o 31 j : rr ii v i) plan this Company, offering the Combined advantages or tub XSiiilxliii"- AHNociatioa amd or 1.1 Its IiiHuranco. Every Illey Holder Nce.ures a House of Hi Own. Descriptive Pamphlets, with Rates, furnished on appli cation to the Company. OFFICE, N. W. corner Seventh and Chesnut Sts. PIIILADKI.PHIA. WILLIAM M. 8EYFERT, President. LAUBFNCB MYERS, Viue-Preaident. D. H AYES AGNF.W. M. D., Medical Director. R. W. DORPHLET, becrstary. WILLIAM L. HIRST Counsel. rmtECTons. Wm. M Seyfert. Latirtuce Myers, J. M. Jlywa, Wm. H. Muilanus. Wm. B. Roaney, Kdward Kamuol, H. P. Muirheid. Chtyton MoMiuhaol. 496ra 1829 CUAKTER FF CHARTER PERPETUAL. 1870. Franllin Fire Insurance Company OF PHILADELPHIA. Office, Kos. 435 andjL37 CHESNUT St. Assets Jan. I ,,70L$2l825l73r67 OA PITA I, $,UOUU0 ACCUUKi) SURPLUS AND PKEMIUMS....S.tio,741 INCOME FOR IfcU, LOSSKH PAID IN I8tt. $ I44,KUS 44. LcssEspaiasince 1829 over $5,500,000 1 erpetnal and Temporary Policies on Liberal Terms. 1 be Company also Uauea policies upon lhe lientsof all kimlscf riuilninirs, Ground Rents, aud Mortgagee, t he "FRANKLIN" baa no DISPUTED OLAIil. DIRECTORS. Alfred O. Bakor. t'euiuel 'Time, Ceorice W. Kichards, Iuaac Lea. TOouiaa Sparks, William 8. Urant. Thomas 8. Kliia, OuMjiVll. H. HAnann. Oeorge I sles, ALFRED O. BAKKK. Priilnnk. OHOHUK KALKH, Vice-President. JAMF.H W. MoAMJU'l h 11, Secretary. Til J..O DO KRM.K EC K.H. A saist an t Beoretary. 101 ijt J R K ASSOCIATION. INCORPORATED MARCH J7, 1830. OFFICE, HO. 34 NORI'll FIFTH STREET INSURE BUlLlt Pi OUR K.H OLD FURNITURE, AND MERCHANDISE GENERALLY, From Loss by Fire (in the City of Philadelphia only). AMsKTH, JANUARY 1, 1S70. 8ti37,rjJ"J3. TUUMTEH. WM. H. HAMILTON. JOHN OAKKOW, OFOMOK I YOVNU. JOri. K. LYNDALL, I HYI P- COATS. SAMUEL bPARH AWK .CHARLES P. KOWKU, IJKBHK J.IMHTVOOT. HOM'll. HrJOKiMAKKR, Ph'iKH A KMltKUblKB, ii . mm., ij j rv lii PKTKR WILLIAMSON, JObKPll K. HOUKLL. WM. H. HAMILTON. President SAMUEL 8PARUAWK, Vioe-President, WILLIAM 'i tfUTLKM fteerscarr.
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