THE DAILY EVENING TELEGKAPM PHILADELPHIA, - MONDAY, APRIL 25, 1870.
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PARDONING CHIMIN'ALS.
From tht UoHton Tiaihlier.
Tlu re is uo puive:- ; )'a'" la to Efontivo
of t)iw nation ir of tliiM U.mimimwa.ilth ho
liable to hImiho uh tin) ivtt-ilotiinp; paver.
This is so of necessity, IxjtMmo tUe Esooutivo
Seldom, if uvrr, personally knows tlia merits
of the cunt;, but is almost alwayn obliged to
net on the infortimtiou f uniwutid by otlior.-i,
v ho usnully are the l'rioiids of the purtios for
whom executive clenioiicy is sought. It is
not unfrflqm-nt (hat criminals of thu most
despornto cbnracter,by meunsof wonUh fraud
ulently obtained, or through tho aid of ac
complices who thus repay tho silence t.liat
saved them from like pniimlimout, are abb) to
secure strong influence iti thuir favor, when
men convicted of a drat olFense ara lf t un
befiiended, with no one to ask that thoir
imprisonment may bo shortened. That
many members of the bar will engage in this
bnsineHS of Hecuring purdona i.s not Btrange
in these days, when lawyers too ofton inquire
the amount of the fee they may expoct rtther
than the cbnracter of the cause they are to
advocate; and it is doubtlsss true that the pri
soner of teu relies more upon the political or
social influence of the counsel than upon tho
force of his arguments. But it is not upon
the professional defendors of rogues that
moat reliance is placed. Good-natured phi
lanthropists are secured by tales of suffering
families; politicians by the promise of votes
on election day; and sometimes, we fear,
other persons by more disreputable means
and the soft-hearted executive, yielding to
importunities rather than actiug on his own
judgment, signs the soiight-for dooument,
and the criminal, before the public is made
aware that pardon is sought, is free to com
mence a frbbh career of crime.
The remedies for this are twofold. First,
the Executive should remember that before
passing Rentence the judge is made aware of
the nature of the crime and the character of
the criminal, aud that to set aside a sentence
made with a full knowledge of these, is at
once a reflection upon the court, and a direct
overruling of its action. Bearing this fact
in mind, the pardons should be few, and only
for reasons that cannot be questioned. And
tbat the community may be secured against
undeserved pardons of dangerous men, no
pardon should ever be granted until the fact
that it is sought should be made so public
that all who may be interested, or may know
reasons for the. sentence being carried out,
may have opportunity to appear and object.
We hope our excellent and careful Governor
may adopt this course in future applications
for clemency, that he may not again be so
imposed upon as he seems to have been re
cently. If he docs not wish to take the re
sponsibility of publishing the applications for
pardons, we hope the Legislature will enact a
law which will define the course to be taken
with such applications, and that hereafter the
names of all such petitioners, and those who
endorse their claims, will be made publio bo
fore any action is tuken upon them.
THE BOMBAY AND ONEIDA.
Void the Londtm Saturday llevitt".
It would seem that nothing could be more
gratuitous than a collision between two of
the rare steamships that ply in Japanese
waters. When we learn that the collision
took place on a starlight night, and that the
officers in charge of either vessel made out
the lights of the other while tbsy were still
from one to three miles apart, it is certain
that some one must be seriously in fault.
Unfortunately, however, that question,
although the court of inquiry at Yokohama
inquired into it at great length, has become
entirely subsidiary to the graver one involved
in the subsequent conduct of tho captain of
the English steamer, aud we shall only no
tice it incidentally in so far as it bears upon
that. The charge of gross inhumanity
brought against Captain Eyre, of the Bombay,
after having been negatived by the gentlemen
who judged him in Japan, has been revived
before the tribunal of international opinion,
and most unluckily and unreasonably a great
deal of national feeling has been imported
into its consideration. The finding of the
Court of Inquiry has been criticized, its im
partiality more than questioned, and, speak
ing broadly, we can only regard its expression
of opinion on the evidence elicited as light
for the publio to decide by. From the begin
ning the story has been enveloped in a mys
tery which even now has been but very par
tially dispelled. The first accounts that
readied us by San Francisoo were American,
aud obviously exaggerated. They were the
versions of the rescued men, who, smarting
under a natural sense of injury, were inter
viewed by excited and imaginative reporters.
It was difficult to square them with facts or
with probabilities: impossible to reconcile
tliein with each other or even with them
selves. The Americuus proved too much.
1 hey agreed in asserting that they had seen
no one on the decks of the Bombay. We
felt certain that no steamer of tho Peninsulir
und Oriental Company ever was at sea with
out an officer of the watch and a look-out
man, although one and tho other might have
been culpably negligent. We know that at
least there must have boon a man at tun
wheel. The Americans averred that the colli
sion had spared them only a single life-boat.
It was evident that, if it occurred as was de
scribed, it was impossible it could have in
flicted such wholesale damage on the ship's
boats. It was said that the Oneida had found
time to tire rive of her six guns, and that the
reports were actually heard at Yokohama. If
so, was it conceivable tbat those signals of
urgent distress should never have reached
the ears of the officer of the Bombay, to say
nothiDg of his passengers, who must other
wise have been in a conspiracy to carry him
through scatheless? Moreover, we had the
telegraphic report of the finding of the court,
and as a suspension of cortiticate for six
months seemed a punishment utterly inade
quate to the imputed offense, we were in
clined to assume the existence of extonnating
circumstances reducing Captain Eyre's culpa-
Dliuy to a mere misiaao 01 j unguium.
Now wo have more detailed accounts of tho
evidence upon which the Court of Inquiry
formed its opinion and pronounced its son
tence. We cannot say, as we have , read it,
that it is by any moans so satisfactory as we
could have wished. There was much direct
conflict of testimony; much, in the respective
stories of the captain of the Bombay and the
officer in charge of the Oneida for the time,
that is absolutely contradictory. The ques
tion became, in great measure, one of the rela
tive credibility of witnesses who spoke under
the influence of strong personal interest or
.feeling, and from diametrically opposite
points of view. If the statements of Mr.
Yates of the Oneida are to be aocepted, those
oi Onpiain JKyre of the Bombay must be re
jected, for the two swore respectively to f acts
that aiu physically iireuoncilttblo. Jt in txuo
that in the tialuro of things this opposition of
evideuco urose mainly on the point with which
we are indirectly concerned namely, which of
the two vessels' concerned was to blame for
the accident. But if wo see reason to prefor
Captain Eyre's testimony on those incidents
of tho story where we have the means of
testing its value, it will incline us to give
him the benefit of tho doubt when he and
Mr. Yates are nt variance on still mora im
portant mnttfirs. Captain Eyre's statement
with regard to the circumstances anterior to
tho collision is borne out on all material points
by his chief officer and by the pilot, both of
hom were on tho bridge with him, and is con
firmed by the others of his crew who were ex
amined, so far ns they spoko to them. Mr.
Yates' story, on the contrary, is coutradicted
on a leading point by one of the look-out
men of the Oneida. Mr. Yates asserted
that at one time the Oneida opened out all
the throe lights of the Bombay; the lookout
man, although he kept his eyes on tho ap
pioaching vessel from the instant ho distin
guished her, bad never seen her red light
from first to last. Under these circumstances,
impartial men will probably hold that tho
court had no option but to incline to tho side
of the accused in weighing the balance of
evidence; and further, that they were rightly
influenced by a similar consideration in their
flection on the more obscure incidents that
followed the unhappy collision. It is clear,
cn tin's paribus, that the men on board the
ship that ran no risk of foundering wore
likely to be more collected, to be in a better
position to note what occurred and to remem-
bt r it exactly, than those in a position of
deadly peril, witn a vessel settling down be
neath their feet. But it would appear that
American opinion has crystallized, as it were,
round its original misapprehensions. Satis
fied, as it is to be presumed we all are,
that Captain Eyre was gravely to blamo,
the Americans will listen to nothing what
ever on his behalf, and marshal all the testi
mony that is volunteered against him with an
utter disregard for consistency. Those on
board the Oneida who suffered the bitterness
of death and so narrowly escaped its horrors,
who felt the shock of the collision and wit
nessed its instant consequences, assume that
the imminence of their danger ought to have
come as vividly home to .men on board the
other vessel as it did to themselves. Now, as
a matter of fact, it is extraordinary how
slight may be the shock communicated to a
couple of vessels impinging with great vio
lence at certain angles. We have heard of
well-authenticated instances where the bowi
of ships had been crushed and stove in for
many feet, while persons aft were scarcely
conscious that any accident had happened. It
is intelligible, then, that the Bombay's pas
sengers should have remained in utter igno
ranee of the extent of the mischief done to
the Oneida, and it is conceivable, too, that the
captain who, standing on the bridge, was
in a much better position to judge of it
should yet have been inclined to underrate it.
The damage to his own vessel was compara
tively slight, and it might have seemed un
likely that tho ship which was going full
speed should be a greater suff erer than the
one that had stopped her engines. It is true
that the fatal result goes a long way to bear
out the American master's statement that
the Oneida's Btarboard quarter was out away,
although a rush of water through a stove-in
plank would be quite sufficient to aocount for
there being neither rockets nor blue lights
forthcoming at the critical moment, without
our assuming the magazine to have been
actually carried away. Yet, acoepting the
damage as all that he describes it, if we re
member that the Oneida was a very old ship,
and that she was struck neither amidships nor
forward, but close by the stern, we can still
imagine Captain Eyre's fancying there was no
great harm done; although we can scarcely
accept his statement that, at the time, he
thought it nothing more than "a graze."
What occurred after the Oneida passed on
into the darkness is still much of a mystery,
The original American story asserted that
Captain Eyre had gone straight ahead with
an utter indifference. It is now proved that
he did wait for a few minutes, "at most five,"
and, to a certain extent, that makes the case
worse for Captain Eyre. Had he gone on at
once, without staying to make inquiries or to
oiler help if necessary, it would have been
strictly consistent with the theory that, in his
opinion, the collision was only a graze. In
waiting, he showed that in his idea there was
possible danger to the other vessel, and if there
was a shade of doubt in his mind upon that
score, he was bound to remain until he could
clear it up. Of course he would answer that
he naturally looked out for signals of distress,
and, seeing none, continued his course. And
here again is another mystery which we con
fees ourselves quite unable to penetrate by
the aid of any lights that have reached us. In
the fiist place, it is in evidence that the Bom
bay's engines were stopped at tho time of
the accident, and not set a-going immedi
ately after it. The Oneida was at speed, it
is true, but according to her officers and
crew her stem was cut clean away, and neces.
sarily she was filling fast. It is most lin
probable that she should have rapidly in
creased her distance from the Bombay, and
it seems quite impossible that the two vessels
could have been so far asunder for five
minutes after the collision as was represented
at the trial, bupposing the Bombay lay oil
for five minutes, and then got up her steam
end went ahead; assuming, as was stated at
tho inquiry, that the American began firing
her guns ten minutes alter the accident, then
the Bombay could at the mott have been
little more than a mile from the Oneida when
the Oneida's first gun was fired. Considering
that tho officers and watch on the English
steamer were by this time on tho alert, and
must have been half prepared for some Big
nal of distress, how does it happen that they
heard nothing whatever ot the report ot the
Oneida's guns' The explanation that the
report "was somewhat smothered be
cause the vessel was sinking,
hounds to us utterly unsatisfactory. It
mioht perhaps account for the dullness of a
single report, or even for that of a simulta
neous broadside; but it is by no mean3
plausible when we aro told that a single gun
whs reloaded ana lirea tour Heverai times,
We may add that, although it is proved that
Cnptuin Eyre neglected to give definite orders
for ii look-out being kept in the presumed
direction of the Oneida, yet, in point of fact.
many volunteer eyes must have boon turned
towards that quarter, and it is strange indeed
that none of these should have socu any one
of four distinct flashes.
We have certainly no national intorost in
screening Captain Eyre, it would be more
convenient to offer him as a sacrifice to tho
promotion of amicable relations with America,
for in America feeling runs high on the sub
ject. In any case it is natural that the
Americans should desire a more searching in
vestigation into the circumstances attending
a disaster so deplorable, and we do not won
der that the Secretary for the American Navy,
if he admits the entire trustworthiness of the
priuciptd witness aatuafc Capuiiu Eyre, id
dissatit fled with the finding of the court at
Yokohama. Ve only express qux opiuioa, w
a matter of justice, that Captain Eyre's de
fense is good up to a certain point.
find that nothing yet proves him to
be the monster -of inhumanity which
he was represented in the original versions of
the catastrophe. That is to say, wo do not
believe that he went on his oourso dolibo-
ratoly condemning tho crew of tho Onoidii to
the chance of a dreadful fate, or that ho ha I
Hny definite conception of the real gravity of
the accident, lint, on the other baud, we
cannot resist tho evidence which points ti
the conclusion that his conduct was marked
by most culpable recklessness or apathy. It
is clear, from the questions he asked of the
pilot, that, although the contact of the ves
sels had amounted to nothing more than "a
graze," he was by no means so assured as to
the condition of tho other as he would have
us believe. His waiting for live minutes
proved, as we observed before, either too
much or too little on his behalf. It argued a
state of uncertainty which onght to have been
cleored up by the search that was never
made. In our opinion, too, his answers to
the questions asked him as to the duty of a
captain in contingencies of this sort tell very
seriously against him, and sound most un
pleasantly in accordance with tho line of con
duct which he actually did adopt. We should
be inclined to pronounce him fortunate in
escaping with a mere six months' suspension
of certificate, but at the same time we think
the judgment of the court much more obvi
ously defensible than the verdict cf Amerioan
sentiment. And to give anything of an in
ternational character to such a question is as
extravagantly irrational as those British theo
ries tbat attributed the plague of London to
the enmity of the t rench, or the great fire to
the malice of the rapists.
A DANGEROUS SERVANT.
Frtn the N. T. 2'imen.
Just as in the Iwelve Temptations each
coveted delight, each triumph in love, or war,
or avarice, strikes so many years ironi the
life of him who demands it, so it would
seem that by mysterious dispensation each
new discovery in science that softens human
toil, or augments human achievement or en
joyment, is attended by a corresponding
penally, Ssteam boilers burst, scattering
havoo around; the eleotrio wire that brings
us glad tidings from afar sometimes also
conducts among us fire and destruction; gun
powder frequently hoists the engineer as
with his own petard; and the rook oil that
with such amazing rapidity has superseded
the product of animals to illumine our dwell
ings, too often levies tribute for its superior
light, cheapness, and cleanliness by scattering
sorrow and desolation around.
The number of accidents from kerosene
has increased of late so fearfully that it be
comes the bonnden duty of the press to in
culcate caution, if not that of legislation to
impose restrictions or safeguards. So many
are the ways in which these casualties are
brought abou1., as to make it plain that none,
even the most prudent, can reckon them
selves absolutely safe, while the responsibility
of trusting children or careless servants with
tho inflammable agent ia commensurately
grave. Accidents have been produced by
using kerosene to saturate kindling materials
to light hrea; by concussion, as when an axe
is used for splitting wood near the lamp;
by the wind, from the lamp being left near
an cpen window or other draught of
air; by unnoticed spillinc of the fluid
on the floor, an unextinguised match having
afterwards been thrown on the spot; and by
many other mishaps besides the common one
of overthrowing or breaking the lamp. It is
generally supposed that extreme care on the
part of an individual will assure safety, but
nobody can be absolutely certain of the ex
treme care of others. Kerosene lamps often
explode, for instance, when no one is near
them. 118 vessel has become too empty and
the wick is unclean. In these cases the coal
oil, benzine, gasoline, or whatever it may be
called, may be quite inexplosable in liquid
form; but when greatly heated it
throws off vapor which accumulates
in the unfilled chamber of the lamp.
If the wick is clean this may pass off
without damage, but if as usual the wick is
foul, there is always danger and often catas
trophe. Hence, if a lamp burns clear and
bright it is safe. If it burns dull or smokes
it should be blown out at once. Hence, too,
kerosene lamps should be carefully refilled
every day. a he trouble will be amply repaid
by tho additional safety. Explosions, as we
have said, are sometimes caused by the wind.
Consequently, a kerosene lamp should never
be extinguished by blowing down the chim
ney. The flame, especially with a bad wick,
is in danger of pessing into the chamber, and
if it meets the vapor spokon of an explosion
is almost inevitable.
The impression is likewise general that ac
cidents are possible only with bad oil. We
fear this is a mistake. The fact that you can
plunge a lighted taper into a vessel of oil
dous not prove its safety. It is still liable to
the process of vaporization before described,
and no tost can bo reckoned a crucial one
that leaves out of view this contingency.
1'iobably ten accidents are due to careless
ness where one is due to bad oil. The price of
safety with kerosene is probably like that of
liberty, to be found only iu eternal vigilance.
Ear better to use whalo oil or caudles where
careless domestics, children, or people, of
whom there are many, of habitually uncer
tain touch or defectivo sense of responsibi
lity, are near to multiply risk and invito ca
lamity. The acoounts of terrible accidents
from this source thut reach us daily are posi
tively alarming; and if to these be added the
more numerous cases that escape report, be
cause unattended by personal injury, it is
clear that tho aggregate of mischief wrought
by this dangerous servant must be enormous,
No precaution is wasted that aims to guard
againbt such disasters, oud, as we have al
ready implied, it mny be well that legislative
enactment should bo brought in play to limit,
by some expedient means, thuir swelling
number.
A NEW FIELD FOR WOMEN.
From the X Y. Sun.
A cry of distress from the wilderness of
Washington Territory has reached us. It
comes from a log-house in the centre of a
magnihcent wheat tarm, which promises to
yield its owner fifty-five bushels of wheat to
the acre. But this harvest promise does not
content the lonely man. lie wants the sun
bean. s of a woman's smiles in his house. He
wants the uiubio of a woman's laughter in it.
He wants a sympathetic, cheerful, hopeful
woman to welcome him when he comes in at
nit-ht from tho field. He is ntterly sick of
Lis own cooking. He wauts to oat something
cooked by a woman. "Sir, ho writes, "this
is one of the true fields for the philanthropy
of the East to work in. For Heaven's sake
send out some missionaries to civilian this
community, not in tho shape of preachers,
but ot marriageable women. The mtroduc
tion of a thousand virtuous, good girls, such
as abound in Massachusetts and Vermont,
who Lave bbcu lviauu to woik, aud vviio would
not consider themselves too fine to marry
woiluDg men, and help lueiu baud up satis
factory homes, would be the greatest blessing
that could be conferred on Puget Sound."
We call upon Mrs. Susan B. Anthony to
hear and heed this voice of one crying from
tho wilderness. He cries very seusibly, and
it would be a very good thing to do what be
wants to have done. Surely the organization
that Is deemed adequate to confer on the
women of the United States the right of suf
frage should be sufficient to give to Washing
ton Territory the amount of civilization that
is prayed for. And right well do we know
that a bushel basket full of ballots to each of
a thousand Yankee girls would not do them
tho thousandth part of tho good that ono
good husband apiece would. And there
those husbands are waiting and languish
ing. Our correspondent says: "Through
out my county, iucluding tho disputed
islands, there are about 400 adult mon
and only i.'3 adult women ! The laboring
population floating along the Pacitio coast is
almost wholly composed of single men, and
of such mainly is the population of my county.
Now see one locate a piece of delicious land.
I le builds a cabin, clears aud gets in a crop.
How much comfort can he enjoy after a
Lard day's work ? lie outers his dark house
at night, has to light his own fire and cook
Lis own supper, without a soul to talk to,
or to cheer and encourage him. He may
Le miles from his nearest neighbor. This
continues day after day. and week after
week. On Sundays he must wash and mend
Lis own clothes. This is what all have to
go through who settle on a piece of land, un
less they are married. Alan can t stand it.
The result is that scarcely one in fifty endures
Lis condition for three months. Thoy then
either oive up and abandon the land, or they
go and get an Indian woman. Three-fourths
of the men in this county are living wnu
squaws, and lain am 1 to admit that seventy
per cent, of our children are half-breods. The
11 : ; ui.i 'in, un1.,u ,. if
is the importation of good white women from
the East. And the husbands they will get are
list the manliest, biggest, bravest, hand
somest fellows in America."
If Miss Anthony shall feel that providing
good girls with husbands is outside of her
mission in life, we suggest to the single women
who would prefer another condition, and who
would rather be married now and let the right
of suffraee come when it may, to organize
emigration to Washington Territory. The
two Pacific railroads and the North Pacifio
coast steamship owners would generously aid
their undertaking.
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Paid-up Capital and Accumulated Fundi,
SW,00(),00() IN GOLD.
rilEVOBT & llEHltINC, Agents,
9 49 No. 107 S. THIRD Street, Philadelphia.
0UA3, M. FRfiVOor 0UA& P. HttttUlNG.
INSURANCE.
DELAWARE MUTUAL 8AFKTY INSURANCE
COMPANY. Incorporated by the Legislature
of Pennsylvania, isaa.
Offlce southeast corner of TIITRD and WALNUT
Street, rnuarieiphia,
MARINE INSURANCES
On Vessels, Cargo and Freight to all parts of the
worm.
INLAND INSURANCES
jn goods by river, canal, lake and land carriage to
nil parm m ine union.
F1RB INSURANCE
Merchandise generally; on Stores, Dwellings,
ilouscs, eto.
ASSETS OF TUB COMPANY
November 1, 1H01I.
IUO0.0OO United Stutes Five Per Cent.
Loan, ten-forties lild.OOO-Olf
100,000 United Mates Six Pet Cent.
Loan (lawful money) lOT.TBO-OO
60,000 United Mates Mx rer Cent.
Loan.isal SO.OOO-OO
800,000 Btate of Pennsylvania Six Per
Cent. Loan S13,9MK
800,000 City of Philadelphia Six Per
Cent. Loan (exempt from
-tax) 800,928-00
100,000 Statu of New Jersey Six Per
Cent. Loan 010(10 -00
80,000 Pennsylvania Railroad First
Mortgage Six Per Cent.
Bonds 45DD9
80,000 Pennsylvania Railroad Sv
conf mortgage Six per Cent.
Bonds 3,628"00
88,000 Western Pennsylvania Rail
road Mortgage Six Per
Cent. Bunds (Pennsylvania
Railroad guarantee) 80,000-00
80,000 Stale of Tennessee Five Per
Cent. Loan lB.OOODO
t.OOO btate of Tennessee Six Per
Cent. Loan 4,270-00
12.R00 Pennsylvania Railroad Com
pany, ViMi shares stock 14,000-00
6,000 North Pennsylvania Rail
road Company, loo shares
stock 8,900-00
10,000 Philadelphia and Southern
Mall Steamship Com
pany, 80 shares stock 1,600-00
B-M,900 Loans on Bond and Mort
biiro, erst liens on City
Properties t4,900,00
11,231,400 Par.
Market value, 11,256,810-00
UOSL. II .HlD.U-Z'J-Vi.
Real Estat8
Bills Receivable for Insurances made
Balances due at AcencteH:
86,000-00
823,700-70
Premiums on Marine Policies, Accrued
Interest, and other debts due the Com
pany 6,0T-96
Btoek, Scrip, etc., of Sundry Corpora
tions, 14 we. jtatimated value 8,140-20
CaHh in Bank 1168,818-88
Casli In Drawer 978-24
109,89114
fl,8S2,100-04
DIHECTOR8.
Thomas C. Band,
Samuel B. stokes,
junii 1 . jLtavis,
Edmnnd A. Souder,
Theophllus Paulding,
James Traqualr,
Henry Sloan,
Henry C. Dallett, Jr.,
"Braes C. Hand,
William C. Ludwlg,
Joseph H. Seal,
Hugh Craig,
John D, Taylor.
wiiiiara h. aouiton,
Kdward Darlington,
11. Jones Brooke,
Edward Lafourcade,
Jacob Rlegel,
Jacob P. Jones,
James B. McFarland,
Joshua P. Eyre,
Spencer Mcllvaln,
J. B. Seniple, Pittsburg,
A. B. Berger, Pittsburg,
D. T. Morsan. Plltsburfl
George W. Bemadon,
William C. Houston, 1
THOMAS C. HAND, President.
JOHN C. DAVIS, Vlce-rtealdent
HENRY XiYLBURN, Secretary.
I1ENKY BALL Assistant Secretary. 11
HOFwlESTEAD
LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY.
Policies
Issued on all
Plans,
the Ordinary
AT LOA7 KATES OF PREMIUM,
With lull participation in the Profits.
All Policies Ion-J?orfeIta1le.
Ful Caan Surrender Indorsed on Each. Policy,
NO RESTRICTIONS AS TO TRAVEL OK RESI
DENCE,
The form of policy adopted is a plain and simnln nun,
tri'ct, precise and definite in its terms, and tree from
t uiuiKuoua cuuuiuous rdu restrictions,
fcpecial attention is called to the
I10M1i;HXJlU.AJL PLiklV
this Company, offering the
COMBINED ADVANTAGES
or the
Uuiltliiigf A-Ksociatioii
AXD OP
LI fo Iiisiiraiiee.
livery x'oiicy iioiuer Mecurcs a
House ol His Own.
Descriptive Pamphlets, with Rates, furnisaed on appll
OFFICE,
IT. W. corner Seventh and Chesnut Sis.
PHILADELPHIA.
WILLIAM M. SEYFERT, President.
LAURENCE MYERS,
Vice-Protidont.
R. W. DORPHLEY,
beoretury.
D. HAYES AG NEW, M. D.,
Medical Director.
WILLIAM L. HIRST
Counsel.
SIKECTODS.
IWm. B. Rnsney,
Kdward Nmuuul,
H. P. Aluirheid.
Wm. M. Scyfort,
Laurence Aiyurs,
J. M. Alye's,
Wm. b. MuManus.
I Clayton AloMiouael. 496m
1829 UAKiii FJSKPETUAL-. 170
Franklin Fire Insnrance Gompy
OF PHILADELPHIA.
Office, Kos. 435 and 437 CHESNUT St.
Assets Jan. I f '70$2f825t73 f "67
CAPITAL (MW.OOOIW
ACCRUED SURPLUS AND PREMIUMS.... a,Uo.73l'o7
INCOME FOR ISiO.
&K1U.UU0.
LOSSES PAID IN l8t
Lossespaifl since 1829 over $5,500,000
Pemetunl and TemDorary Policies on Liberal Term.
1'he Company also isBUt-s policies upon the RenUtof all
kiudsor l.iuliimiis, i.iounu Ktmia, ann nioiteapiMi,
Iho "FRAMKXIN" has no DISPUTED CLAIM.
nm vi I'rOItS.
Alfred O. Raker.
banmel Grant,
(ieorKe W. Richards,
lbaac Lea.
Thomas Susrkt,
William H. Grant,
Thomas S. Ellis,
fiusiavos 8. ItHnson.
(Jeorge Fales,
ALFRED Q. BAKER. PrBsident.
GROKGK FALKS, Vice-President
.TAslFS W. MrALl.lSTF R. Secretary.
'I'll K.ODORE M. RK.GKR. Assistant Secretary. 1 19$
T
HE PENNSYLVANIA FIRE INSURANCE
COMfANV.
Tnrtnmnrat.feri Ihh UliartnF PAmntnaJ.
No. M0 WALA l I' Street., opposite lndupsndonce Sqnare.
over iorty years, continues to iubure aKsiust loss or dam.
Hue by tire on Publio or Private I'.uildniKS, eilner perma
nently or lor a liniivud time. Aluo oil 1 umilure, hi jolts
Ol Goods, and Merchandise Kfnorally, on liberal tonus.
1 t.eir Cupital, together with a large Surplus Fund, is
invested in the most careful mnuiior, which enahlos liixta
to otlor to the insured an undoubted security iu the oass
of loss.
Tins Company, lavoramy Known to tne cimimuuiiy tor
Daniel Smith. Jr.
Dllttt-'TOKS.
John Duverenx,
Thomas Jimiih,
Aiuxanocr I'.ciJgon,
lnaac Hulnhuist,
Hnry I.owis,
.1 liilin..hu. H'.ll
1 nomas tiouiua.
. iJamm I iiiuiiui,., ,i r.
DANIM. SMITH, Ja., President.
G. CROWELL, Sucretary. 3 30
WM.
TIIE ENTERPRISE INSURANCE CO. OF
1 PHILADELPHIA.
Office 8. W. corner of FOUKTHnnd WALNUT Streets
UK K INSURANCE FXOI.USI V KI.Y.
PERPETUAL AND TERM POLICIES isSUED.
CASH Capital (paid up in full) $Jkvh) 00
t unU Aaarta Jnn . 1 . ?, 5v! l,:JU3 I
DlAJiCJOKa,
F. Ratchford Staife J. Livinnston Erringer
Ktilbro r-ritfcior, James 1.. uluxhoru,
John M. Aiwood, Wm. G. Roultou,
Renj. T. Trediok, Charles Wboiilar,
Guorfre H Stuart, Thomas H. Montgomery,
John H. Drown. James SI. Aertaen.
F. R'TCIIOWT PTAVP. IVojh'mu.
THOMAS H. MONTGOMERY, Vice President.
ALEX. W. WIS TV It, Secretary.
0 AUOJ1 K. PKIJtUSON, Asuauat Esorutary.
SHIPPING.
LORILLARD'8 8TEAM8HIF
LINE FOB
NEW YORK
are now reoetring freight at
S cents per 100 pounds,
9 crnts per loot, or 1-'J eent per aallon, ahlp
option.
INSURANCE X OF 1 PER CENT.
Fxtra rates on small packages Iron, metals, eto.
No receipt or bill of lading signed for less than 6) cents.
Tbs Une would call attention of merchants generally to
the fact that hereafter the regular shippers by this lin
will be charged only 10 cents per 100 lbs., or 4 oents pet
foot, during the winter seasons.
For further particulars apply to
JOHN V. OTTTj,
1285 PIER 19, NORTH WHARVKS.
FOR LIVERPOOL ANT.
UKKNSTOWN. Inman Line ef Hm
2 -'r-k f'-eamers are appointed to sail as (a
trntmn-Md. Jtji! lows :
ciity ot lir.w.klyn, (Saturday, April 30, at 1 P. M.
i'ra.na Halifax, Tuesday, May 0, 1 A.M.
City of New York, Saturday, May U, 1 P. M.
City of Cork, Tia Halifax, Tuesday, May 17, 1 P.M
And each snooeediov K&tiintuuiii .it-m.i.
from Pier 46, North H iver.
KATKr! Of rAnHAUHI.
BT TFT MAD, STSalrJM SAUJNd KVKRf SATURDAY.
Payable in Gold. Paralila in (lnrr.no.
FlRb'f CABIN fino I STEERAGE
10 ionuon ico I To London 40
To Paris 116 I To Paris a
PiBHAOS BT THK TUESDAY ITJCAMXB, VTA HALIFAX.
H1IBT CAHIN. aTKRRAHK
Payable in Gold. Payable in Currency.
Liverpool. JtflO
H alii ax...... au
Liverpool cm
Halifax 11
St. John's, N. F I
hv ltrmnnh f BO
Bt. .John's, N. F.,
uy sranon Hteamer. .
PaarienKers also forwarded to Htrts. Uimhnri. Urania.
to., at reduced rates.
Tickets can be bonsht hers at moderate rates by persons
Wishimr to sind for their friends.
or roruier particulars appiy at tne uompaoy'a otnoes
JOHN II. llil.R A. 4
No. 15 Broadway, N. V.
O'DONNFT.L A FAULK, Aiente.
Ho. 4o OliKBNUT Street. Philadelphia.
Or to
- PHILADELPHIA, RICHMOND.
t&yfrfe&ZS NORFOLK STEAMSHIP UNI
5W?trt,,ROlJ(,iU FREIGHT AIR LIN II TO
EsST'"S5rTHK SOUTH AND WEST
E.CKKA8ED FACULTIES AN i B iniinirn u A M
. FOR1H70.
niPttrnOrW leATn Mint Wu rM fun tr . s a inrrr. .
pfitVKJL' ,;r Richmond Mondays a.r
TIJK DA YK d NORFOLK TUESDAYS and 8A-
NO SUlB Of Ladinar alimarl -ft la .1.1.-1
days. -T " " " "":
T
Car
T)
Carolina, TU Seaboard Air LTus Ranro.onn.. S
THROUGH KATKBtoi lnnl.1.1. n ii.
t-prwmoutn.anaio Lynohburt., Va., Tennessee, and tha
W est. via Virginia and Ttnn.au. a i. j i rTj "!
and Danville Railroad. "
Fre'Kht HANDLED BUTONOW, and taken at LOWHTt
RATES THAN ANY OTHER LlNK"
No chart's for ooramiasion, drayags, or any sxpense of
transfer. M
Steamships Insure at lowest rates.
Freight received daily.
Stats Room accommodations for Dassenirers,
WILLIAM P. OLYDK OO .
No. I3S. WHARVES and Pierl N. WHARVES.
W. P. PORTER, Agent at Richmond and City Point!
T. P. OROWELL A CO.. AaenU at Norfolk. 1 1
-JONLY DIRECT LINE to FRANCE
r IHhENMW lUilA AAlD UAVRK. CA t.MNa A
BREST.
The solendld new vessels on this favorite route for
Continent will sail from Pior No. (0, North river, tv
Batnrday.
. ,Ai . Pftwa oTpassagb
in gold (Inoludihe wine),
TO BREST OR HAVRE,
First Cabin $140 1 Second Cabin stu
TO PARIS, w
(Including railway ticket., furnished on board.)
First Cabin $146 I Seoond Cabin ., S3i
These steamers do not carry steerage passengers.
Medical attendance free of charge.
American travellers Koing to or returning from thesar
tinentof Europe, by taxing the steamers of this lioe.vol,
unnecessary rink, from transit by English railwayssaA
crossing the channel, besides saving time, trouble, and a
pens. GEORGE M AOKENZIK. Agent.
No. 68 BROADWAY. New York.
For passage in Philadelphia, apply at Adams Eipres
Company, to H. L. LEAF,
lift, No, 830 OHKSNUT Street,
NORTH GERMAN LLOYD
STEAM BETWEEN NEW YORK AND
Jr BREMEN, VIA SOUTHAMPTON:
iMOl TUB tSCHKW HtRaMRRS ni Tun
Cai-aiAi. I.loid run regularly between New York, lire
men, and Southampton, carrying the United States. Kns.
liah, and Continental mails.
FROM BRUMKN EVERY 8ATURDAT
FROM SOUTHAMPTON EVERY TUESBAY
FROM NEW YORK EVERY SATURDAY
Ifice q PoMaa from Kmc Fork to Bremm, London, Havre.
and Bouthampttm:
First Cabin, $130; Second Cabin, $72 ; Steerage. ft30 Gold.
From Bremrn to A.w Yurk.- ' '
First Cabin, $120; Second Oabih, $72; Steerage, $40, Gold
'lbose vessels take Freight to London and Hull, for
which through bills of lading are signed.
An experienced surgeon is attached to each Vessel.
All letters must pass through the Post Orlice.
No bills of Lading but those of the Company wil by
signed. Bills of leading will positively not be delivered
bi'iore gooda are cleared at the Custom House.
Specie taken to Havre, Southampton, and Bremen or
the lowest rates. For freight or passage apply to
OELRICHS A OO..
lMt No. 68 BROAD Street. N.t.
FOR I?BW YO
via Delaware and Rnrltan Canal.
hi.
RK,
EXPilSrS STEAMBOAT COMPANY.
'lh. Steam Propellers of the Line will oammnnii Irud
tng on the 8th inst., leaving Daily as usual.
THROUGH IN TWENTk-FOUR HOTTR8.
Goods forwarded by all the lines going out of New York
North, East, or West, tree of commission.
Freights received at low rates
WILLIAM P. CLYDE 4 CO., Agents,
No. 12 South DELA WARE Avenue.
JAMES RAND, Agent,
No. llh WALL Struct, New York. 845
FOR NEW YORK.
ife'TV via Delaware and Raritnn Canal,
auKo&! 8WI1T8UKK TRANSPORTATION
uij ai r a rv r .
DESPATCH AND 8WIFTSITRK LINES
Leaving daily at 12 M. and 6 P. M.
The Steam Piopellers of this oompany will commons;
loading on the Htu ot March.
Through in twenty-four hours.
Goods forwarded to any point free of commissions.
Freights taken on aocommodatiug terms.
Apply to WIIjT,um m BAIRD A CO., Agents,
4 No. 1S2 South DELAWARE Avenue.
DELAWARE AND CHESAPEAKE
STEAM TOW BOAT OOMPANY.-Bargeg
towod between Philadelphia, Baltimore, Uavre-da Grace,
Delaware City, nnd intemiodiate points.
WILLIAM P. CLYDE A CO., Agents.
CAPTAIN JOHN LA UGH LIN, Superintendent.
Otlico, Ao. 12 South Wharves, Philadelphia. 411
sr-jr ta NEW EXPRESS LINK TO
Lf,r Alexandria, Georgetown, and Washington, D.
tlAUiu&-& C, via Chesapeake and Delaware Canal, with
connections at Alexandria trom the moat direct ronte for
Lynchburg, Bristol, Knoxville, Nashville, Dalton, and the
Southwest.
Steamers leave regularly every Saturday at noon from
the flr.t whart above Market street.
D reiitht received daily.
WILLIAM P. OLYDK A CO..
No. 14 North and South wharves.
HYDTt 4k
TYLER, Agents, at Georgetown j M,
ELDRIDGU A CO., A tents at Alexandria.
8
ENGINES, MACHINERY, ETO.
, PENN STEAM ENGINE AND
.fc'-ryi
li r.UU. I'll WUiUVSI. nsur ir, l.r.vz .
Jr-PltAOTlUAL AND THEORrSTKJAIT
tiiAiSS FNGINEEKS.MACHINIKIN. HOlLKit-r
AiKiUtsT BLACKSMITHS, and FOUNDERS, bavtoaf
for many year, been in euooessftil operation, and boeu ei
ol'isivoly engaged in building and repairing Marine and
River Engines, high and low pressure. Iron Boilers, Water
Tanks, Propellers, eto. etc., respectfully otlor thoir ser-,
vices to the nuhlic as being fully prepared to contract for
engines of all sir.es, Marine, River, aud Stationary; havin
seta of patterns ot dirtoreut sues, are prepared to exoutf
orders with quick despatch. Every description of pattern
milking nu'.do at the ulmrtet notice. High and lw pre
S'jvo tine Tubular and Cylindor.Koilors of the best I'eno.
sylvunia Charcoal Iron. Forglngs of allsisesand kinds,
Iron and Hra Oasl ings of till rtesoriptions. Roll 1 uroiug
Korew Cutiing, and hll other work oonneotml witb tbs
'Drswiog's'ao'it speuitluations for ail work done at the
etabhshiiient tree ot charge, and work gnarauteed.
I he biil'sorihers have umplo wharf dock-room for repair!
of bwitii, where tl.ev oao lie in perlect saloty, and are pro.
vided with shears, blooca. fails, etc. to., for raising hoavf
or ligUt wm: -s. JACOB O. NHAFIB.
JOiiN l. LEVY,
g jj iiitaOll and PALMER btreets.
tniftARD TUBE WORKS.
JOTIN D. BIUKPHY A BltOS.,
iSBiinl-i"i-"r" ' Wrounlit Irou Plue, tic,
PHILADELPHIA. PA.
WORKS,
TVVl NTV-TIIIltD udiI I'll.HEItT HI rente.
OFM E, L41
No. 4'A Norili FIFTH Mreel.
PAPER HANGINGS.
T OOK! LOOK'! LOOK!!! WALL PAPERS
I j .nit l.tnen Window Kliades Miiufntnrd. lh
cheapest In ttie city, at JUUNsius a Uepoi., wo. Uiii
KII'ING GARDKN Street, below Kleveutti. iir&uuli. Nix,
307 FLDERAL Street, Camdeu, New Jurscy. s oi