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SPXXIX? OV TIMS PIUJ33.
Editorial Opinion of the Leading Journals
uponCurrent Topics -Compiled Every
Day for the Lvening Telegraph.
MARRIAGE AND DIVOUCE.
From the (TuVay.) 2'iiinr.
Atnoiig ilia 8iciitl proMc-nn whi.jh nro at
tracting ho much Httiiiitinii, ih'Tii is uone tint
presses more seriously for H'lluiion, nti l wnui
tbat bpcuis more diiliiiult to koIvo, than tlm
question, "Whituhall be the la v of divorco?'
for upon its proper adjustment dopeiiiW tlia
successful regulation of tha most dhtrcHtin
evils of tbe tiuio. Ia mo.it of tbo St, it o t
divorces are now granted not only for ud il
tery ami f or ol her felonious crimes, but for
desertion, brutality, and ub tudoued driiukuu
neBS. In ninny of the oldnr HtateM, a dosor
tion in not considered u millioieut jtwtiS jittion
until after tha lapse of live yo.irn, ud tbe
divorced party in not permitted to remarry.
In Mattsachub Us a proposition is now before
the Legislature to grant divorces at the end
of a tLroe year' desertion, and to permit both
parties to marry ntjiiin. The Springfield lla
2Mican opposes this amend nent vigorously,
and snggettis a aubstitnte for divorco, which
seems to ns about as bad. It says:
"We would legally rerogtilze ami ordain sepira
tlon of learned prson wh.i elder could nut or
would not endure ou Another. Wii wouiii protait
weakness from hro'u Hy ny the Interference of it,
limit dies not flloiV innt wu stwuid allow all tlieio
releaHcd parties to o forth and marry agtln, ami
possibly again to separate, uii't aulu and ajruin to
marry, ferthlit la a nlaeiine tint irrows by v lint it
feeds on. Tint is Just what we would not do, and
that-society cannot airrl to permit. Siulo life
should lo I ho penally paid for tlie misUKe of a
wrong mating Miuriage and divorce alike need this
f'ouserva'ive Influence. Marriage will he more
thoughtfully and catefully mwie, divorces less
eagerly sought, under suon a rule."
Love is unquestionably the sign, seal, and
Banotirlcation of tnarriago, but wo are not
able to see the force of the claim set tip by
Robert Dale Owen and other socialistic phi
losophers, that a compulsory cohabitation is
prostitution enforced by law. There is no
thing like "prostitution" in compelling a man
and Lis wife to abide together under the
same roof. If they "cannot endure each
other," let them live and sleep in separate
rooms, and eat at separate tables. Under
this arrangement, if they are kept apart by a
mere whimsy or aversion, the chauccs are
nine out of ten that they will conquer it. If
they do not it is their misfortune., and they
will suffer; but they will probably suffer Iohs
than society would Buffer by the general
adoption of the Indiana and Connecticut
standard. Of course, no woman should be
compelled to live tinder the same roof with a
brute who beats her, or with a confirmed sot,
but we doubt the efficacy of "separation" as
a remedy for those "uncongenial'' persons
who are driven asunder merely because they
do not like each other.
For the statistics of social science go to
show that "separation," formal and informal,
is the most prolific source of the crime for
bidden in the seventh commandment. Esta
blish separation and forbid remarriage, and
the social evil would show an alarmiug in
crease. The Republican gives us the
apothegm that "easy divoroe means easy
marriage," and we add that easy separation
means easy morals.
This is a grave question to handle. No
man oan decide it ex cathedra. We can see
that in those religious organizations where
men and women are ruled the most arbitrarily
by priests, marmges are the most constant.
In the Mormon (Juurea no sucn thing as a
divorce is known, and adultery is punished
with death. In the Catholio Church divorces
are practically prohibited, and the adulterer
is punished with death spiritual, instead of
temporal.
Something must be done in these States to
prevent our social fabric from falling asun
der from lack of cohesion, and to give to
marriage some of the permanency and so
lemnity which ought to belong to an institu.
tion which stands at the base of all human
government.
' BABY-KILLING.
From the Pall Kail Gazette.
Some of the crimes and vices of highly
civilized societies are scarely less inhuman or
more refined than the crimes and vices dis
played by savages or by semi-barbarians,
Among untutored tribes, and among nations
like the Chinese, infaut life is little valued,
and many are the tales recorded by travellers
and missionaries of desertion or infanticide.
In England and in France we may hear siuil
lar stories almost daily of inhuman mothers,
and of women who muke it their business to
get rid of infants that are not wanted by their
parents.
The lirituh and Foreign Madico-CIdrvrgi-eal
Review for the present quarter contains
an article on this subject which deserves a
wider circulation than it is likely to obtain in
a professional journal. The writer points out
that at least iiuit ot tne infants born in Lug-
land and Wales die within three mouths of
their birth; but how many of these are delibe
rately done to deatu is unknown.
Illegitimate inrauts (says the reviewer) are not
necessarily, or even usually, put out of the way
directly; more couiinoiuy imureci meaus are em
ployed. Mill tlie statistics of tue general registrar
olhce tell us that la the five years 1803-7. out of
tbe 8Us vloieut deaths of Infants under one year of
age, 8V4 were proved to be Instances of direct infan
ticide, and of these sio Infants were murdered within
a month of the time of their birth. Ot these we Hud
that 218 were strangled or otherwise siufocated, rt
were killed by mows iracturmg tne skuii, by cutting,
or by stabblng.M by Intentional n-irlect,22 by drown
lug, V oy exposure com, auii i ujr mu eiuipiu pra
ceeding or leaving tne corn uuueu at uirtn.
But, unhappily, what we know with regird
to the prevalence of baby-killing does not
show the full extent of the crime. Much is
left to conjecture; for the irregular mariner
in which verdicts are returned, the ease with
which the dead bodies of infants can be dis-
rosed of. and the habit which prevails of
bringing in the verdict "Found dead," forbid
correct btatistics. There is therefore room
for cross exaggeration, as in the cue of a
writer in the Church and the World, who
observes that "the metropolitan canal boats
are impeded as they are tracked along by the
number of drowned. infants with which thoy
come in contact;" but it is certain that tbo
murder of infants directly by their mothers,
or indirectly through the tender mercies of
baby-farmers, is a crime of no common ra.ig
nitude in this country. Ihe author of the
paper from which we have quoted believes
with Mr. Acton that among other means of
diminishing tbe evil a change in the bastardy
laws is imperatively necessary. Not one m m
in fifty, aocording to Dr. Lankester,
contributes to the support of his ille
gitimate child; for, since :.'. od. per week is all
the mother can claim, there are few woiueu
who will put the law in force. Mr. Aotou
' points out with terrible distinctness how our
bastardy law tempts to murder, makes prosti-
' tution compulsory, and "encourages a trade
hardly less infamous that of baby-farming."
This law was enacted nearly forty yearn ago;
tiid t Li re can bo no doubt that cogent roa-wtjSiw-v
bo urged for Hs amendment. At
the same time it is essential that some means
should be adopted for (Jiwiaialuiig the evil
of baby-faimiiig. How this cm Ve done,
however, is not very obvioun. Tbo reviewer
HtigeMfi that the registration of every birth
should be compulsory by law, as in Sootl.ind
niid Inland, and this whether the infant be
born prematurely or at lull period, alivo or
dead; that tbo registration of death should lie
nccon pMi iil by a certificate from a duly
qualified practitioner, tttatiug that be has had
proper opportunities for forming an opinion
pud fpeeitjing the ciause of tbo d.Jatb; and
"that some statutory chack should be
plncrd upon tbo practice so common among
undcitaktrs of disposing surreptitiously of
the bodies of infants dying uubaplized or un
registered, in the coffins of other persons, or
otherwise." lie suygots, too, that baby farms
should bo licetised and placed tuider tho eyo
ot a judicious niodu.ul otlicer; and tuat
"houses to which females moving in the
better classes of society who so far forget
themselves us to becume pregnant may retire
dining tho period of their coiitiuement"
tdiould be liable to a similar supervision. Mr.
Aeton also, although he justly characterizes
the trade of baby-funning as infamous, would
have it publicly licensed, and the houses open
to inspection by properly appointed officers.
In the present state ot Luglisli feeling about
such matters a plan like this is impracticable.
We cannot discriminate between a law which
recognizeB tbe existence of an evil for the
purpose of diminishing it, and a law whioh
sanctions what all good men confess to be
abomination.
isetwetu England and f ranee tuoro is a
wide difference of opinion about many ques
tions affecting public morality. Nevertheless
it may be well worth inquiring how our
neighbors act with reward to this question:
ai.d an article in tbe Jteoitc den Deux Monde
for March l." will give us some of tho infor
mation we require In that country, an in
our own, the excessive mortality of infants
hiis excited the atteutiou of physicians and of
social economists, and JI. Leon le 1 ort attri
butes it in a large measure to the iiiduntne
vourricitre which is carried on in some of the
country districts. This trade is not conducted
secretly, as with us, but is subject to super
vision and control. I ho nurses engaged at
the grand bureau have a small sum secured
to them in case the parents fail to pay for the
Mtpport of their children, and the result is
that in a vast number of cases the parents
are defaulters, the income of the nurses is
diminished, and of course the children suffer
in consequence. Moreover, the organization,
we are told, does not give the advantages that
might be expected from it, and the nurses are
fiequently able to neglect their infant charges
Viiihoutfear of discovery. In the thirteen
departments aronnd Paris where baby Pari
sins are placed out to nurse, the infant mor
tality is so much greater tban elsewhere that,
according to M. Leon le Fort, there can be
no doubt that it is due to the indwtne nour-
lia'ere. A year or two ago it was stated (we
believe in the Medical Times and Gazette)
tLat of 5:5,000 infants born annually in Paris
IS, 000 are sent into the country to be nursed.
M Le Fort, however, gives a total of 1 1,000,
and remarks that it is impossible to calculate
tbe mortality precisely, since the nurses whb
undertake the management of these infanta
are not all under a like control.
A TERRIBLE ENCOURAGEMENT TO
DISSIPATION
From the Chicago Tribune,
11. G. has been writing about whisky in a
manner that must satisfy the most superficial
observer that he was full of his subject. If
we had time to stop, and knew who it was, we
would denounce the heartless fiend that for a
paltry stamp sold the great philosopher that
tire which set his brain ou.hre. He must
have known that with Greeley's propensities
the consequence of his being drunk for half
an hour would be a tipsy leader in the Tri
bune. Sure enough, having got his whisky,
and not knowing what to take after it, he
rushes into the Tribune with tbe startling
query, "After whisky what?" An experienced
friend would have answered, "A headache
But, having no such kind counsellor at hand,
as tipsy men are apt to do, he takes the pub
lie into his confidence. "After whisky
whut?" is the question. Tbe philosopher, by
a hallucination quite natural under the cir
cumstances, imagines himself to be Joo.
Such a phenomenon is not at all strange. We
have seen persons fancy themselves to be the
prophet Jeremiah; and that, too, at a time
when we ourselves were tne prophet J ere
iniah. But in his fancied character of Joe,
he soliloquizes thus:
"To Joe drink is almost a necessity. IJis
spade or hod tires only his body; the brain,
lies torpid, and there is a brain there, after
all. His glass of liquor is an outlet, a safety
valve, for whatever imagination or passion
lies in Lim. It serves him for onera, ball,
theatre; it is his Tennyson, his fine clothes,
his exhilarating combat of wit; it is, let us
remember, all he has. Cinderella's rats and
pumpkin to our educated eyes would be, no
doubt, absurd and disgusting enough, but to
her tbey were an enchiuitod chariot that drew
her into fairy land, and made her for the time
the compumou of pnuces.
It is easy to believe that whisky has some
ngreeableness of ilavor, especially to a prohi
bitionist. But II. G.'s experience of the bliss
of being drunk would be calculated to make
any man invest half a dollar in that direction,
if he were not incorrigibly abandoned to
modernte drinking. Compute the net pecu
niary profit which II. G. author of "Politi
cal Economy" and "What I Know about
Fanning-' finds, in a glass of grog, over every
other means of earthly enjoyment:
C't st of 1 opera, lucludlnar carriage and
giovig $2i-no
1 ball, single ticket Hfoo
Tliertre, private box 6 DO
1 cipt Teuuvsuu, diamond edition, dirt
cheap at 185
1 suit flue clothes for II. Cl 75'OJ
flcture-Bay lO.OUOuO
Total cost 6f the equivalent of 1 class of
wlilBky tto.m-as
Cost of whisky first proof
II. G.'s net profit on 1 glass of whisky $10,110 us
lit re is an encouragement to dissipation
such as bad never before been spraad, like
the net of the fowler, in the path of American
youth. How can II. G., when sober, forgive
Lin self, or, rather the incarnate fiend whose
whisky, transferred to II. G., producod this
epistle (
THE THEATRICAL SIDE OF MRS. Mc-
FARLAND.
Fim the firooktyn Eagle.
The principal testimony in tho painfully
prolix trial of Daniel MoFarland is that which
bears upon bis alleged Insanity. The cause
at-sitned. as produciug that condition was tho
conviction, real or fancied, that his wife loved
another man better than (the loved her hus
band. This ambulatory affection of the lady
in the case led the object of it to further her
very strong desire to attempt the career of
an actress. The course of events in evidenoe
shows Madame to have been stage-struck. It
is with this prevalent passion of various per
kotih for a (Irainsno rlenitinv fiat we propose
generally to deal; particularly relating u to
the facta of this case, Mxa, McFailaad aljriuf
histrionic history and her involved conjugal
tragedies have no grown, tho ono out of the
other, that, in pursuing the first, we are led
up to the second.
iter original essay as a pnouo performer
was elocutionary, uur auojeot, nrst in
strncted by her husband, himself a doughty
dcclaimer, read at a "select entertainment'
at Newark; rested a few months, and real on
her own responsibility at Trenton, and had
by this time so impressed her feminine and
other friends with her elocutionary abilities
as to lead them to contract for her an en
gagement at Winter Garden. There she suc
cessively assumed the name of Miss dishing
and the role of "Julie do Mortimer," in
lliche.Hfv; of tbe "Queen," in Hamlet; and
of "Nerissa," in The Merchant of Venice.
After her husband's first rencontre with
Richardson, Mr. Manager Stuart at onco
rotirod her from his boards, whereon she had
been playing from niul-Novombor, lSlili, to
March 11, 18(17, just about four months.
Read in the lii;ht of Mrs. Calhoun's confident
and afl'ectionato prophecies of suocess, Mrs.
MeFarland's career as an actress is in
structive by contrast. Mr. Booth, to
whom she played, and Mr. Stuart, for
whom hbe played, both say she was "a
most dire actress." It is readily reojlleotsd
by those of us present at tho successive
'Booth Revivals at winter (Jarden, that
Miss Gushing, never known to be Mrs. Mo
FurlBnd, lacked not merely the i$preciation
of her characters, lint could not subsittute
for that lack such electric and bounding per
sonality as stands so many actresses in good
steud for other gifts. The lady was not
"stngy," we admit; but "neither was she
"natural, tho features of her representations
being expressed in the words "timid, tame,
inert, and devoid alike of art or impulse."
Such was the judgment of contemporary cri
tics. Such was the apotheosis of tho artist
whom Mrs. Calhoun had picked out to de
monstrate that "actresses are born, not
made."
It is an instructive remembrance that the
person who succeeded Mrs. McFarland in her
last role was the very Miss Johnson whom
Mrs. Calhoun impaled in a letter to her friend
as a bistrionio horror. It is needless to say
that Miss Johnson's acting heaped coals of
fire on the head of her critic.
So much does the theatrical side of Mrs.
McFarland anggest and enforce. Whatever
be tbe issue of that trial, it should contribute
to the community a wholesome discourage
ment of all purely gushing ambitions stage-
ward. Theatres and the public alike are en
titled to this degree of protection. Let an
honorable profession and the wide, wide world
not be exposed to an irruption of incapables
upon the stage. So will boards and benches
rejoice in common.
AMERICAN FAMILY LIFE.
From the N. T. Tribune.
For a year or two the articles in the Lon
don Saturday Jleview upon social topics have
gained for that cynical and shallow journal
increased notoriety by the virulence and wit
of their attacks upon women. Wife, maiden,
mother, and old maid have each been held up
to ridicule with a rancor and malignancy only
to be explained by personal spleen; the more
gentle and womanly the type of woman, tho
more implacable and venomous was the
assault. Now. this puerile and almost cattish
spitting of ill-will, which might provoke reply
if it came from a man, becomes only amusing
when we know that it emanates from one of
the maligned sex. Whether hell can furnish
no fury like a woman scorned is hard to tell;
but we do not need this instance to teach us
that a woman here, disappointed in the happi
ness or love which has fallen to the lot of her
more fortunate sisters, is apt to regard them
with about as much justice and temper as did
the immortal Sairey Mrs. Prig when she pos
sessed herself of the whole of tho salad.
In one of the last numbers of the lieview
this gentle savage pounces as usual upon the
latest disgusting scandal, and gloats over it
as evidence of the hopeless condition of her
hex. ihe Mordaunt trial and the cowhidin"
exploit of Lydia Thoir pson are the especial
incidents which she selects, and from which
sho arues, with true womanish logio, that all
English women are strong-minded ballet
dancers, or, if not ballet-dances, worse. She
fairly whoops with exultation, like a Ca
manche over a fresh victim, at the pitiable
spectacle of the miserable blonde tramps and
the crazy Mordaunt woman, first shrieking
out the usual feminine triumph of "I told
jou so," and then trying her brain to invent
new and more filthy epithets for her sex, for
the last young peeresses and tripudiant
matrons," us well as tho "cive-and-take.
loose-zoned ace." in which they live.
She denounces all English womon as ani
mbls, and as animals either wallowing in
nastiness or peering wishfully over the brink
of it, und then, by a reasoning which we
confess ourselves unable to follow, throws
the blame of this condition of affairs upon
the long retirement of tho Quoon aftor her
husband's death. "While this continues,"
she predicts, "English society will present a
happy combination of all the sin of Versailles
and the insolence anil brutality of a S iratog t
boarding-house." It appears to us outside
barbariuns that if English women were only
held out of this slough of corruption hy the
chance of an annual drawing-room or ball at
liuckinylihm i'ulace, their tenure ot virtue
must be very slight, indeed. But, however
amusing her sketches may be, they carry
with them no evidence of truth. We would
be us loth to receive them as accu
rate pictures of English homes as
the prurient uncleanness of Ouida'a
novels. We protest against tho mistake made
by this woman and those of her stamp on this
hide of the Atlantic, when they take the thin
and impure crust of fashionable life as the
exponent of either English or American
society. Because Sir Charles Mordaunt'a
wife was mad from disease or vice, we cer
tainly do not argue that the pure homes of
England are all suddenly filled with Messa
limis; because our own fashionable girls
exhibit themselves in immodest) dances or
revel in tho indeoencies of the opera boujff'e,
we do not suspect the air to tainted about
well-bred women, or feel disposed to doubt
the integrity and purity of our own wivea and
daughters.
Immorality among womon is found in two
strata only of our social life: in the lowest
class who fill the houses of prostitution in the
cities (eight-tenths of whom, by statistics in
New York and Philadelphia, aro foreigners,
and in that spurious aristocracy whose only
claim to notice consists in wea'th and the
vulgar display of it. Both of these bodies of
women, by virtue of a certain unity of aim
and Hash demeanor, keep themselves glaringly
before the publio eye. They find their ready
organs, too, in some of our Now York jour
nals, which willingly advertise not only tho
fine dresses of the latter, but tho assignations
of their unnamable sisters. Hence the
name of American society has been gradually
absorbed by Anonyma and Mrs. Shoddy,
and is degraded almost beyond help by the
silliness of the one and the vice of the
Other, how, what have liiusti lo wooiou
to do with tho great eUiuent of American
domestio life? Absolutely nothing. Tlmy
flaunt out their littlo hour, they help
build temples to vice and to infanticide,
and that is all. Apart from them in the
cities is tbo great class of workingwomen
the teachers, writers, artists, tradeswomen
and a purer body of women does not live.
Healtbtul work for body and mind leaves no
room for tho vagnries of passion. Utterly apart
from them, too, is the class in tbo citios which
most powerfully represent tbe culture aud re
finement of the country. But it is outside of
cities, lot us remember, that wo must look for
tho strength and substnnco of our national
life in the qtiiot homes that stretch from
ocean to ocean, innumerable, ns their sands.
In this great national domestic life, tbo
feverish, uneasy fow who call themselves
society, on one or two city streets, aro never
heard of. Not only virtue, but modesty there
is yet the rule, and it is our honest belief
that nowhere in tho world is uod as sin
cerely worshipped, is the marriago tie as
universally respected, and are women as
pure in thonght and deed, as in the ordinary
family life ot America. Our faith in Anglo-
Saxon blood, too, is strong enough to pre
serve our old respect for British wives and
mothers, despite the lamentations over them
of their own prophets.
THE TEERAGE IN PHILADELPHIA.
From the X. Y. World.
Some years ago, aa we all remember, a
question agitated the land: "Have we a
Bourbon amongst us?" and grave pamphlets
were printed to prove that a certain half-breed
Indian was a chip of the disreputable old
block. Whatever may have been the result
of this controversy, there can be no doubt
that now we have a "Aluncaster. It is in
Philadelphia, too, that we find the real sangre
azul of the peerage, albeit Irish. This reve
lation has been made in consequence of the
startlings news having reached his family
connections here that a "Muncaster has re
cently, when wandering near the plain of
Marathon, been kidnapped by some of the
nomad descendants of Miltiados. Thus runs
the story and the pedigree. Gamel de Pen
nington came over with the Conqueror, and
"settled in Lancashire. He was a knight,
iliovcs auratus," but whether "banneret
or bachelor," does not appear. Gamel left
descendants, one of whom served under
Marmion at Flodden, and probably took part
in the nuncnpative charge which that exem
plary chiettain ordered just before his demise.
Then there is a tremendous gap in the
pedigree, from l.ril3 to 1;2.", from tho Tudor
to the Stuarts, when we hear of a "worthy"
called Sir John Pennington, "admiral to
Charlea I, and distinguished for loyalty,"
which waa rewarded as loyalty, then as now,
is sure to be by promotion, and Sir John
became a baronet. But "surgit aliquid
a mart, etc., for a tangle just then occurred
in the family. A certain Alderman Penning
ton, "Lord Mayor and M. P.," was aregioide,
and in the days of Restoration brought shame
on his kinsman the baronet. He was, to use
the gentle language of the Liturgy, "one of
those violent and bloodthirsty men who bar
barously murdered the anointed, blessed
King Charles the First." Whether he was
hanged or only exhumed is not clear, but we
learn (and all this we glean from Forney's
J'rens, now the accredited organ of the Phila
delphia aristocracy of both colors; that the
crime waa expiated by confiscating a con
sonant in the regicide branch of the family,
making the name read "Penington." They,
naving Had enough of capital pun
ishment, turned Quakers, emigrated to
America, "and suffered much persecu
tion, wnetner in tne via world or in
Massachusetts the record does not say. In
the meantime, the double-?! Penningtons
continued to prosper, and in 1783, John, fifth
baronet, probably for ratting from Mr. Pitt
and voting with the coalition, waa made a
peer Baron Muncaster. In the meantime,
repentance was doing its work with the drab
dtscendants of the regicide, and there was
reconcilation between the one "i" and the
two iin," for we are told that, during tho lit
tle unpleasantness which occurred in the last
ceLtury between these colonies and the mo
ther country, a certain Captain Pennington,
sixth baronet and four''i baron, made au ex
cursion westward, anu in the autumn of 1777
visited Philadelphia. It ia obvious we are
striving to state tbe ease euphemistically.
Then was it while Washington and his sol
diers shivered and starved at alley I' orge-
ihat the British captain and the descendant
of the regicide were warming their
toes and smoking a sympathetic pipe in
the Quaker City. From that day to this,
when the Sulioto or Athenian brigands cap
tured Muncaster, the family harmony ha9
been perfect; and the rrens, in a leaded edi
torial, tells the wondering world that the
alderman who aided in cutting off Charlas
Stuart's poll "was a cadot of the family now
repro&ented in chiet by Lord Muncaster, who
is twenty-fifth cousin of Mr. Penington, Jr.,
bibliopole, South Seventh street, Philadel
phia." It ii so unusual nowadays to get any
information about white folks from Forney's
pnper that we have felt it a duty to emphasize
this exceedingly interesting and important
contribution to the family story of our rec
tangular and radical neighbor. It is a comfort
to know we have a Muncaster so nigh, evon
t hough twenty-five times removed.
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kriHiup from impoverishment of tbe blood or nervous ex-
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DIVORCES.
ABbOLUTE DIVORCES LEGALLY OB
tained In New York. Indiana, Illinois, and other
States, lor persons from any btate or Oouutry. leKal eery.
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cient cause: no publicity; no obarxe nutil divoroe ob-
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Address, ni. nunr-, niwn'wi
8 lil Bm No. 78 NASSAU Street, New York Oily
STEAMBOAT LINES.
fob chestek, hook, and
Wll Ml MIJ'I'IIM Tl,n itmmiir H. M. FKL-
TUN loaves UHKSMI T hTKKKT W H A Htf
at lu A, Al. and 860 r. M. : leaves vnliMinnu
A. M and lil 60 P. M. Fare to Wilmloalon a" oents
(Jhtuttur or Hook. 1U cents. 4lilllU
LOST.
T OST CERTIFICATE No. C5S1
FOR 3
1J SHARKS COMMON RTODK of tbe
LKIilOli
VAI.LKV RAILROAD OOMPAN V, in name ot Mary K.
Chance. A pplicatiun baa been made lor renewal.
April 20, l7u.
4 ao iat
POTTON BAIL DUCK AND CANVAS,
I J nl .11 -nmKara anil hranrfa. T.nt Awnlna. Trank
and Was-on-cover Duck. Abo, Paper Manufacturers'
l oit., rrnm thirty to saveuty-ais inohaa, witb
NO. 10 GRUftUUBuaaWUlUlitor
INSURANCE.
DELAWAKR MUTUAL 8AFKTV INSURANCB
COMPANY. Incorporated by the Legislature
of Pennsylvania, late.
Office southeast comer of THIHO and WALNUT
Streets, Philadelphia.
MAKINB INSURANCES
On Vessels, Cargo and Freight to all parts of the
worm.
INLAND INSURANCES
jn goods by river, canal, lake and laud carriage to
au pans oi tne union.
K1KU INSUUANC'Ktl
Merchandise generally; on Btorcs, Dwelling,
liooBeg, etc
ASSETS OP TUE COMPANY
November 1, 166U.
fiOO.OOO United Btates Five Fur Cent.
Loan, ten-rortleg laie.OOO-OO
100,000 United fct.at.eg 8ix Percent.
Loan (lawful money) 10I.T60,00
60,000 United States 8U or Cent.
Loan. 1S81 flO.OWOO
xw,uuu oiaie ui i eiiiisyivaina six i er
Ceut. Loan 113,S&0'00
800,000 City of Philadelphia Six Per
Cent. Loan (exempt from
tax) SOO.WS-OO
100,000 Stat of New Jersey 81x Per
Cent. Loan 03,000-00
0,000 Pennsylvania Railroad First
Mortgage Six Per Cent.
bonds 453 OD
13,000 Pennsylvania Railroad Se
cond mortgage Six per Cent.
Honda J3.836-O0
SBjOOO Western Pennsylvania Rail
road Mortgage Six Per
Cent. Bonds (Pennsylvania
Railroad guarantee) 90,000-00
80,000 State of Tennessee Five Per
Cent. Loan 15,0001X1
1,000 btate of Tennessee Six Per
Cent. Loan 4,370-00
13,600 Pennsylvania Railroad Com
pany, mi shareB stock 14,000-00
6,000 Korth Pennsylvania Rail
road Company, loo shares
stock 8,900-00
10,000 Philadelphia and Southern
Mall Steamship Com
pany, 80 shares stock T.BOOOO
t40,S00 Loans oa Bond and Mort
gage, nrst llena on City
Properties I4,oo-00
11,231,400 Par. Market value, 11,866,310-00
Coat, ll.sin (Wi-at.
Heal Estate M.OOO-oo
Bills Receivable for Insurances made... 833,100-TO
Balances due at Agencies:
Premlnms on Marine Policies. Accrued
Interest, and other debts due tbe Com
pany cnnoT4K
Btoek, Scrip, etc., of Sundry Corpora
tions, $4706. Estimated value J.T40-30
Cash in Bank 1168,318-88
Caan In Drawer...., 073-38
169,391-14
11,803,100-04
DIRECTORS.
Thomas C. Hand,
John V. Davis.
Samuel E. stokes,
WlUiam H. Boulton,
Edward Darlington,
II. Jones Brooke,
Edward Lafourcade,
Jacob Riegel,
Jacob P. Jones,
James B. McFarland,
Joahua P. Evre,
Spencer McUvaln,
J. B. Semple, Pittsburg,
A. B. Berger, Pittsburg,
D. T. Morgan, Pittsburg
Edmund A. Sonder.
Theophllus Paulding,
juitiee j ruquair,
Henry Sloan,
Henry C. Dallett, Jr.,
ames C. Band,
W llllam C. Ludwlg,
Joseph II. Seal,
Bngh Craig,
John D. Taylor,
George W. Bernadon,
WUllam a Houston.
thumas c HAND, President,
JOHN C. DAVIS. Vlra-frAalrionf.
HENRY .VYLBTJRN, Secretary.
HENRY BALL Assistant Secretary. 11
HOMESTEAD
LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY.
Policies Issued on all the Ordinary
Flans,
AT LOW KATES OP PREMIUM,
With full participation In the Profits.
All Policies ft on.Forl'el table.
Ful cash Surrooder Indorsed on Each Policy.
NO RESTRICTIONS AS TO TRAVEL OR RESI
DENCE.
The form of policy adoDted is a nlain and almnla nnn.
tract, precise and definite in its terms, and tree from
uiuiKuuua cunuiuous anu restrictions.
Special attention is called to ths
HOMESTEAD
this Company, offering the
Combined advantages
OF TUB
Building Visisjociiitioii
AND OF .
I-.il o IiiHiirmico.
Every Tollcy Holrier Hecuret a
House oi atl Uwu.
Descriptive Paninhlots. with Rates, furnished on annll
cation to tbe Company.
OFFICE,
N. W. comer Seventh and Chesnut Sts.
PUILADKLPHIA.
WILLIAM M.SKYFEKT, President.
LAURENCE MYERS,
V ice-President.
R. W. DORPHLEY,
beoretary.
WIXLIAM L. HIRST
Counsel.
D. HAYES AGNEW, M. D.,
Medical Director.
DIRECTORS.
Wm. M. Seyfert,
Laurence Myers,
J. M. Alyeis,
Wm. b. McManus,
Wm. B. Reaney,
K.dward Samuel,
11. P. Aluirheid.
Clayton ftlo Michael. 496m
182) JJA14AJK PEKPKTUAI
Franklin Fire Insurance Company
Off PUILADKLPHIA.
Office, Nos. 435 and 437 CHESNUT St.
Assets Jan. I,'70. $2,825,73 m
CAPITAL
.io,mio-uu
.il,.7iil'dT
INCOME FOR 184),
LOSSES PAID IN ISO
IfcBlU.UUO.
55 t--l,U5 -ti.
Losses paid since 1829 over $5,500,000
Parrjetnal and Temporary Policies on Libers! Terms
The Company also issues policies upon tbe Kentaof all
fcmdsof isuiiuines. orounu items, ami niorteaires,
iue "aanajiin ' uaaoo iioruimi uiun.
DIBKUTOKS.
Alfred G. Baker.
Aiirea ruier,
Thomas Sparks,
William b. Grant,
Tbomas 8. Kllis,
Gustavns 8. KHuaori.
Samuel Grant,
Oeorxe W. Uicbards,
Isaac Lea.
Ueorge tales.
ALFRKU G. BAKKR. President.
UK.OKUK FALK8, Vioa-Freeidenb
.TAMFB W. MoALLISTh R. Secretary.
'1 II KODORK M. KKUEK. Assistant beoretary. igs
T
HE PENNSYLVANIA FIRE INSURANCE
UUMrANY,
Incorporated 1W5 Charter Porpetnal.
No. B10 WALK (J T btreet. opposite Independence Ranare.
This Company, favorably known to tbe community for
over lorty years, continues to insure against loss or dam
ae by tire on Publio or Private Uuildinxs, either perma
nently or lor a limited time. Also on b arniture, btnoks
oi 4ooas, ana aiercuanuise generally, on utieral terms.
Their Capital, together witb a lance Surplus Fund, is
Invented in tbe most careful manner, which enables them
to oiler to the insured an undoubted security in the oasa
of loss.
Daniel Smith. Jr..
DUlaUTOim.
John Devereux,
Thomas HmitU,
tionrr l,ewis,
J lillllni7l,M,r. Van.
Alexander Heuaon,
Ixaac llazleburat,
luonxaa
fliddock .lr
IfANIKIj SMITH. .In PraKlilent.
WM. O. OROWELL, Secretary. U 30
THE ENTERPRISE INSURANCE CO. OF
PHII ADKI.PHIA.
Cilice 8. W. eornerof FOURTH aud WALNUT Streets
FIRK INSURANCE HXUI.UHI VKLY.
FFRPKTUAL ANDTF.RM POLICIES IiSUKD.
CASH Capital (paid up In full) ji,KJ0 00
Vuu Aaaeu, J J,; M.3W1
F. Ratohford Stair, i J. l.muifston Rrriner
Nalbro raster, James L. iJlaahurn,
John M. Atwnod, Win. U. Boulton,
Heuj. T Tredick, (Iharlea Wneeler,
Ueorye II Stuart, Tboma H. M.imgomery,
John 11. Brown, James M. Aertseo.
F. RATOll FORD STARK. Presiiienu
TUUiiAS 11. -.(. 1-wOMF.KY, VUi Presiiit.
AI FX. W. W1RTFR. Seoretsry.
JACOB K. PKlKittiON. Aasuuat Secretary.
INSURANOb.
INSURANCE COMPANY
or
NORTH AMERICA.
JANUAUT 1, 1870.
Chnrtrr PerpetuaL
Incorporated ljfti.
A PIT At. 8300,000
AMKTN 84,9M:l.3Mt
I.omrs pnld since orannly.utloo.... 8:1, 000, OOO
Kerelpta of Premium. IU!....8 t,1Hl,N.'!?4,5
loterrat from Iovretmeotat t9. 114,U1iH'74
l.oatiea puld, iy.. l,0:5,:i.S-84
Hlnlrmrnt of the Anuria.
First MortRaaes on City Property 1788,480
United btate UoTernment and other Loan
Bonds I.1MJI4S
Railroad, Bank and Canal Stocks 6,7o8
Caab in Bank and Offloe ,' g47.tjK)
loans en Collateral Security 83,6m
notes Receivable, mostly Maiine Premiums. .. S3I.W44
Accrued Interest SU.3&T
Premiums in course of transmiseiea 86.IHH
Unsettled Marine Premiums lihj.mw
heal KateU, Offloe of Company, Philadelphia. . Bu.uuo
DIRECTORS. S.1
SsmnelW.Jo sea,
John A. Bros. A,
Chanes lay lor,
Ambrose VVnite.
Millism Welsh
8. Morris Wain,
.lnhn Munn
r rands R. Oopa,
Kdward U. 1 rotter.
F.dward 8 Clarke,
T. Oharltoa Henry,
Alfred t) Jessnp,
Louis U. Madeira,
Charles VV. Casnman,
Clement A. Grisoonu
William Hrockia.
Ueorte L. Harrison,
ARTUIfR fl nnifViM i j , .
OUARLKS PLAIT, Vice-President.
Matthias Mabis, Seoretary.
O. H. Kkevks, Assistant Seoretary. 1 4
IS J3 XJ i T
LIFE INSURANCE CO , N. Y.
Number of Policies issned by the five largest New York
companies anring tea nrst years of their exiatenoe:
MUTUAL (23 months) low
tsBW YORK (18 months) uwi
MANHATTAN (tl ruoutliH) 053
KN ICK KHBOCKKK. . . (W wombs) 66
EUlTABLJt, (U months) 8b
Daring tbe 91 months of Its existence the
ASBURY
HAS ISSUED 2600 POLICIES,
INSURING NEARLY 16,000,000.
Reliable Canvassing Agents wasted throughout tha
country.
JAM KB M. L()NGAORft.
Manager for Pennsylvania and Ielawara.
Office, No. U-i WALNUT Street, Philadelphia,
SAMUKL POWERS. Special Agenl
F
IRE ASSOCIATION.
INCORPORATED MAROH 37, 1820.
OFFICE,
MO. 84 NORTH FIFTH STREET
INSURE
BUILD HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE, A 3D
MERCHANDISE GENERALLY,
From Lou by Fire (in tha City of Philadelphia only).
ANfeUTH, JANUARY 1, 1870, 8L,574,?34' J3.
TltUNTEKH.
WM. H. HAMILTON,
JOHN CARROW,
GFORGK I. YOUNO,
JOS. R. LYNDA LL,
twtf T A TU
OHARLRS P. BOWER,
JF.BKK LIUHTFOOT.
ROB'P. 8HUKM AKKR,
PKTKR ARMHRUSTKR,
M. H. DICKINSON,
PKTKR WILLIAMSON.
UI'. V A a. , VV "i
SAMUEL SPAR HAWK
cv 11 a v rv , a n. 1 r. rv rr 1
JOSKPU E. SOHKLL.
WM. H. HAMILTON, President
SAMUEL SPARHAWK, Vioe-Preeident,
WILLIAM T. BUTLER
Secretary.
SH
MME INSURANCE COM PANT
No. 809 CHESNUT Street
INCORPORATED ISM. OHARTITR PERPETUAL
CAPITAL 2uo,0U0.
FIRE INSURANCE EXCLUSIVELY.
Insnranoe.agairst Loss or Dsmage by Fire either by Paa
petual or Temporary Policies.
DIRF.CTURS.
Charles Richardson, Robert Pearoe,
W illiam H. Khawn, John Kessler, Jr.,
William M. Seyfert, Edward B. Urne,
John F. Smith, Charles Stokes,
Nathan Hillos, John W. Kvermaa.,
Ueorge A. West, Mordeoai Buzby.
CHARLES RIOUARDSON, President.
WILLIAM U. RH AWN, Vice-President.
. Williams I. Klanchabd, Secretary. 1
JMPERIAL FIKE INSURANCE CO.,'
LONDON.
ESTA11LIM1EU 1S03.
Paid-up Capital and Accumulated Funds,
g8,000,000 ITX GOLD.
PltEVOST & HEKRING, Agents,
2 4S No. 107 S. THIRD Street, Philadelphia.
OUASM. PREVOST CHAS. P. HERRING
ENOINE8, MAOMINEHY, ETO.
PENN STEAM ENttINK AND
. unn if u wiku u u ai w . h'l if a t urtr
. TTFRAUTIUAL AND THKUUK TIUAL
aaCfV' F.NGINKKR8, MACHINISTS. BOILKU.
MAKTiTisTBLACKHMlTHS, and FOUNDERS, having
for many years been in succeaaiul operation, and been ex
clusively ena-aged in building and repakinK Marine and
River Kngines, high and Ion pressure, Iron Hollers, Water
Tanks, Propellers, etc. etc., respeuttully oUer their ser
vices to tbe publio aa being fully prepared to contract for
engines of all sizes, Marine. River, and Stationary; bavins
sets ol pattern, ol different sir.es, are prepared to exeoute
orders with quick despatch. Kvery desuription of pattern
making made at tha snurtest notice. High and liow pres
sure I1 iue Tubular and Cylinder. Boilers of tbe best Peon
tylvania Charcoal Iron. Forvingsof allsizeaand kinds,
Iron and Brass Oaating of all descriptions. Roll Turning
Screw Cutting, and all other work oonneoted with tha
above business. .. ..
Drawing's and specifications for all work dona at ths
establishment tree of charge, and work guaranteed.
Tbe subscribers bave ample wharf dock. room tor repairs
of boats, where they oan be in perfect aalety, and are pro
vided with shears, blocks, falls, eto. etc, for raising bean
or light wight JACOB 0. NKAFIK,
JOHN P. I.F.VY,
11 BEACH and PALMF.lt 8treet
QIRARD TUP E WORKS.
JOHN B. MUKFHY & BROS.,
Plan u tact urrra of Wrought Iron Pipe, Etc.,
PHILADELPHIA, PA.
WORKS.
TWKNTY-Tllllt I and FILIiEUT Mireeia.'
OFFP E, 141
No, 4i North FIFTH Mlreel.
rpU s F-HINUIFAL DKPOT
for mn balk or
REVENUE STAMvPS
No. 804 CHESNUT ST RETT.
CENTRAL OFFICE, NO. 105 8. FIFTH STREET
(Two doors below Clu-snut street),
ESTABLISH KD 186 11.
The sale of Revenue Btimips to still continued at
the 01d-EntulllHheil Ageuclca
The stock comprises every denomination prlntoa
by the Guverument, and having at all times a larKe
supply, we are euablod to till and forward (by Mat!
or Express) all orders, uuuiedlately upon receipt,
matter of great Importance.
United States Notes, National Bank Notes, Drara
on Philadelphia, and Post Oillce Orders received In
payment.
Any information regarding the decisions of the
Commissioner of Internal Revenue cheerfully and
gratuitously furnished.
Revenue Mumps printed apon Drafts, Ctiecl
Receipts, etc
Tito following rates of commission are allowed
Stumps and Stamped Paper:
On aud upwards. per
100 " "
aoo "
Address era, eto., to
STAMP AUkUSCY,
HO. 10 CHISHL'T, STREET, rHIUHEU'dik'