2 THE DAILY EyJ$NING TELEGKAPH PHILADELPHIA, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 27, 1870. snniT or tzxzi rivcas. Editorial Opinions of the LeadingJournals upon Current TopicsCompiled Every Day for the Evening Telegraph. TAXING INCOIIES. From the JV. 1'. Tim. There in do clonbk that tba popular nti mont 1h very much opposed to the iuo jiue tax, but e are sure that the feeling is an impulsive one, and not at all bused on de liberate reflection. The tux is unpopular in ita operution, chiefly by reason of the inex perience of the people with regard to taxa tion in general. It in to be remembered that previous to the war we bad little or no uooes fiity in that direction. We had no public debt, mid a very eoonomioal governmental machinery. We consequently had no need to put taxes upon the necessities of life, or in any wny to impair the industries of the country. The case is yery different now, and it is most remarkable to note the willingness of the people to submit to the burden. We doubt if history furnishes a parallel to the cheerful submission of our citizens to a degree of taxation, in a crude and repulsive form, which would not be tolerated for a moment in any other civilized country. It is this cheerful and submissive temper which calls most loudly for careful considera tion, and it ought to meet a corresponding treatment from Congress, as well an from the officials who have charge of the collection of taxes. The study should be how to lighten the burdens of the people, and at the same time to produce the necessary amount of funds; and not, as sometimes seems to be the case at Washington, to get the most out of the people without regard to the interests affected. On principle there is no question that the income tax is one of the best devices of the whole revenue scheme. It reaches interests which ought to be reached, and whioh cannot be so fairly reached in any other way. It falls upon a class which can beBt afford to pay, and which would otherwise evade their proper contribution to the general requirement of revenue. Yet while the imposition is emi nently wise and salutary, it is one whioh is inevitably unpopular, simply because it falls upon a class who largely control popular sentiment. Hence the necessity for a politio regard to all those details which affect the general verdict. The income tax is the most clamored about of any, for the reason that it has been the worst administered, besides being excessive in its rate. The regulations which have been made with reference to its collection have been inquisitorial and exceedingly offensive; but there is no doabt that the amount realized from it has been a clear gain to the mass of tax-payers, for the reason that it would not have been realized from any other source. But 272,843 persons oat of our forty millions of people pay the tax, amounting to about thirty-nve million dollars, and we venture to say that no equal amount is raised which falls upon a claRs better able to pay it. If we could get rid of the odious features of the collection, and could make the burden fall where it ought, the tax would be as popular as it now is odious, iiow best to do this is the problem; and it is one which Congress ought to con sider very seriously. We are glad to see that there is a growing appreciation of this neces sity, and that members are beginning to see thut the popular demand for reform must be needed. That the present tax is excessive is very generally admitted, and that it is annoyingly collected there are thousands of witnesses to testify; but those facts do not afford a suffi cient ground for its entire abolition. We have little doubt that, with a reduction from five to two, or even three per cent., an in crease in the amount of exemption, and a more considerate and thorough collection, the tax could be made to yield far more than it does, and at the same time be popularized. While the fact is indisputable that we are raising altogether too much money by taxa tion, it is equally apparent that we nave not yet learned the best methods and sources of revenue. English statesmen have made taxation a study, and they seem to have brought the science very nearly to perfection. With them the inoome tax is a favorite, jugt as it will be with us when we come to know it better. What we need is a general reduction of taxation, and to place ike burden where it will be felt the least. We told that a moderate and a properly collected income tax will be the most satisfactory and just of any that can be devised, and wo hope the House of Representatives will firmly resist the effort of the Senate to keep it at its present figure, chiefly for the reason that we think such a course is calculated to make the tax odious and ultimately to cause its ab solute repeal. THE FIRST SUNDAY OP FREE RUM, From the N. Y. Herald. On Sunday last there was no police surveil lance of the drinking-suops in the city and no active restraint upon the sale of beve rages. j.nere was rather a presumption on the part of the keepers of bar-rooms that they would not be mtenerea with than an under standing to that effect between them and the police. Many drinking-places were closed as usual, but the larger number were open in a quiet way. The initiated could get in at a Bide entrance, and an enterprising traveller would have found that the key was not turned against him even at the main entranoe. This anomalous condition seems to have been the result of some uncertainty in regard to the present state of the law touching the sale of liquors on Sunday. There was so much done and undone by the Legislature in its action on the Excise law that it was not really known whether a Sunday clause was in force; and the dealers, on the one hand, feared to vio. late a law that might still be vital, while the police, on the other hand, were doubtful of authority to interfere with the traf&o. As a fact, therefore, the dram trade was free, and it is a coincidence worthy of note that the murder return is very large. Four assaults each one ending in death or likely so to end are reported for that single duy. Whisky was apparently the immediately exciting cause in every case. The most flagrant of these outrages was the murder of O'Day, the direct consequence of a drunkard's quarrel. Doubtless in this case the city is well enough rid of the victim; but, as we cannot always oe sure wnat sort ot a man is to be taken off, it is none the less de sirable to prevent even murders like this; anil it is not in the least likely that this crime would have been committed if the parties had not been able to hide themselves from publio view in a convenient rum shop. O'Day began the disturbance in the stroet, already the worso for the liquor he had taken, and if he had persisted then ha would doubtless have been safely carried away by the police; but the adjournment to a saloon where the shutters were closed and the rum barrel-) onen necessitated another end to the fiuarrel. If this slanphter and the three less desperate cases associated with it in the re ports for Sunday are any indications of what Sunday is to bo in the new state of law, the result in the minds of good citizens will not be favorable to this Democratic change. It will bo observed, however, that the Atterney- Oeneral of the State has given an opinion that the sale of liquor on Sundays is still prohibited bylaw, and it is to be hoped that before another Sunday shall invite a murder carnival the Mayor and the police authorities will take steps to enforce the law, whatever it may be. - Our local authorities have now greater power in the government of the city than they Lave had before for many years, and it is necessary for them to show that they are equal to the right use or that power. "YOU LIE! YOU VILLAIN! YOU LIE!" From the JV; T. Tribune. The organs of the slums, and their feeble imitators among journals once respectable, but having lost their hold upon respectable readers, and now frantically appealing to the slums for support, continue to toll so many lies in their present spasmodio defense of the family relation against the onslaughts of the respectable part of the community, that it seems hardly worth while to expose them. Here, for example, is an instance of the lie, pure and simple, persisted in with an earnest ness that shows the poor liar must think there is gain in it. In one column will be found the pretended report of a passage in a recent sermon of the Rev. 0. 13. Frothinghatn's, as published in the New York Timet; in the other the exact words used by Mr. Frothing- bam, as taken down by a stenographer. What the TtmesTeported. i What Mr. Frothlnghani "The laws or matrlmouv real v suhl. should be so remodelled I "Suppose that the mar that the husband and wife rlage relations were so could not he Jealous of regulated by law that the one another so that the isaoredness ot marriage bond sliouhl not be merely should be felt and au a legal one, but that a knowledged ; that the condition of marriage! husband ar"l the wife should be a permission to should riot be jealous ef each to act as he or she each other; that each thought proper, and at the should have the full pri dictates of the feelings viletre and right to pro- and affections." pertr, to the use of ta, leuts, to the enjoyment so that the marriage bond should be a heart-bond, and not a legal one only ; so that men and women should be bound together by their hopes, and be lters, and trusts, and auc tions; and suppose that Rome knowledge could be imparted by which the conditions of wholesome. neanny, nappy marriage should be understood : that marriages should not be, as they are now, so frequently the result of mere whim, impulse, or caprice, but should be the result of thoughtfulness and conscientiousness. What would be the event?" Ferhaps, on the general ground of the in. capacity which has been s painfully evident since Governor Raymond's death, the original misrepresentation here might be excused, But the Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Mr. Frothingham's Society waited upon the publisher of the limes, who is now (to the amusement of all who notice him) masquera ding in Governor Raymond's old clothes as its editor, with the transcript of the steno graphers notes. let to this day the Times persists in its bold and foolish salnder. Is it any wonder that its circulation has so steadily declined, or that people think of it now almost as little as they do of the Courier and junqmrer r CHARITABLE BLACK-MAIL. From, the N. T. World. Moral Chicago is disgusted at two recent occurrences in that city. Number one, that Mme. Rosa would not be interviewed by some ladies ot its first families; number two. that Mme. Rosa s business agent would not consent to her singing in concert or in opera for an orphan asylum belonging to the city; that gentleman assigning as reasons that Mme. Rosa had just lost her only mother, and that she was hoarse. Now, if indignant Chicago is not satisfied with these reasons which are sufficient ta excuse any public singer will it reflect that even under the guise of charity it has no right to "black mail" any actor or cantatrice. If Parepa- i.osa has received immense sums in Uhtcago, as the papers there have the good taste to assert in aggravation of her crime, it should be remembered that it was fairly earned, for Chicago never was known to contribute largely to anyone's fortune without obtaining beforehand what it considered to be a full equivalent for its outlay. It would certainly have been a gracious act for M'me Rosa to have sung for the orphan? of Chicago. There are high precedents in her art for doing so. Ristori has played for the yonng Italians here; Fatti has sung in Brooklyn recently for an Italian priest's church; M'me. Tietjens sings for Cardinal Cullen in his Cathedral whenever she visits Dublin, and even acts as oueteuse at some charity collection, or "presides at a table in a charity bazaar, selling her photograph and bouquets at enormous profits to the suscep tible Irish youth. lint no one outsiae or Chicago has ever dreamed that these favors could be demanded of these ladies as of right. What would a Chicago newspaper editor think if some of bis rather celebrated townswomen proposed to him that he should give a week's profits to a local charity, and then on his refusal complain that we subscribe largely to your paper. This is Mme. Rcsa s cose exactly; but, even so, one is inclined to think that if she had been approached with proper deference such as is due to her either in private or in publio sue would have been only too glad to have consented. But asking her to a Chicago lunch, or pressing her to meet specimens of Chicago society, "the best people in the city," is hardly an inducement to her to perform even an act oi chnrity. CHINESE LABOR IN TEXAS. From the Galoeulun Cluilian, The experiment with Chinese labor in Texas has now been three months in operation, and from every point of view has proved a decided success. The testimony of President Baker and the officers of the Central Railroad, in the further construction of which the first body of Chinese brought to Texas is at work, is unanimous as to the satisfactory deportment in every way of the men employed. Steady at their work, industrious when the contract hours of labor have expired, sober, frugal, willing, and mindful of the stipulations of tLeir agreement, but exacting in the fulfil ment of those in their favor, is the sum of the evidence in relation to them. They find no inconvenience m the climate, and enjoy good health thus far; nor do they anticipate imy inability to stand the higher temperature of the coming summer. In controbt with this state of affairs among the Chinese stands the fact that a number of the Swedes who came to labor on the same work have already given up their contract uhd left foryjinnesota, declaring thut they cannot endureSUie hot sun and must seek a colder climate. ye think this result settles the question as to Che class of labor that must be sought to revive the droopinrj industry of our coast country. For railway construction, we are informed that President Baker of the Texas Central, President Young of the Northern, and Re ceiver Crosby of the Houston and New Orleans Railroad, all unite in the opinion that Chinese labor is the only labor that they can depend upon under the present eircum stances that attend the State, With this con viction, two of the three parties above men tioned already oontemplate a large increase in the number of Chinese in their employment. THE FENIAN SCARE. From the Toronto Gfobt. We are unable, from the information before us, to discover the faintest gleam of i enian bayonets along the whole line of frontier now supposed to be guarded with such jealous care by the volunteer troops of the Dominion. We say supposed, because there are indica tions in the telegrams that just where the Fenians ought to come the preparations are stupidly inadequate, and even of a nature to invite a successful attack. Soldiers without pants in Quebec artillery without supports in Ontario ! J. would make one angry if the oonviction were not foroed upon the mind, that after all the whole thing is bogus, and that the men who have control of affairs don't really believe in it. If so, the cost of the pnnts and of sending another corps of infantry to the front may as well be saved. As matters stand, either the Government is fooling the people or criminally neglecting its duty. We noticed in a recent issue the negligence of persons in charge of the commissariat of a volunteer regiment which was compelled, in consequence, to travel a whole day without food. Our Quebec correspondent gives rather a dismal picture of, militia administration in that province generally, isot only ao the mus ters fall far short of the enrolled strength, but there are no uniforms for many of the men when they present themselves. Requisitions have been kept for a year in the circumlocu tion office at Ottawa, and then finally have been lost. When there is a stir and the young gentlemen of Ottawa are persuaded to drop the foaturaay liemeio the Minister pro vides for the improvement'of their minds, and attend to business, they find tunics and caps in abundance, but no pants. We once heard of a savage chief whose sole artiole of dress was a gorgeous military cap, nature being left to provide the remainder of his uniform. This seems to be the sort of notion about a soldier's equipment prevailing at Ottawa, if there are any "notions" at all in that region. The pants, before mentioned, are on one side of the Atlantic, the caps and tunics on the other. This reminds one of the old Crimean story over again, and those blun ders of inefficient and supercilious ministers and their clerks cost the lives of an army. THE AMENDMENT CELEBRATION. From the Ilarriebur Patriot. The negroes of Pennsylvania generally devoted yesterday (April 2b ) to the formal cele bration of the adoption of the fifteenth amendment. There was nothing in the day whioh distinguished it from any other in the rolling year, but with a race whioh has made no record in political or military achieve ment, the 20th of April will serve their pur pose as well as any of those which have been made memorable in the history of other raoos, The anniversary of a San Domingo massacre, to which alone the negroes cau reour, would ill befit the tame celebration of a viotory in the accomplishment of which they have struck scaroely a blow. From the abundant preparations for this day it is quite evident that the negroes have been at more pains to appropriately celebrate the amendment than they have ever been at to aohieve it The Caucasians have found their highest glory and pride in wresting their own privi leges from those who sought to withhold them, and have left posterity to sing the preans of viotory. Having won their fran chises with their own good right hands, they have jealously guarded what they so dearly earned. But in this case the fruit has fallen without shaking, and is rotten before ripe. The Anglo-Saxons made their amendments at Runnymeie and Philadelphia, and celebrated them with hard blows on the neid ot battle. But the careless negroes exult to-day over the possession of a franchise, the struggle for which cost them nothing, and whioh can be lost for them with the same indifference with which it was gained. The Caucasians have built with their own hands the bridges over which they have marched in the conflict for their rights and liberties. They have ex perienced the truth that the bread of liberty must bo earned in bloody sweat. Their in domitable spirit has kept them from perma nent subjugation, and has rendered them worthy of the enjoyment of freedom. But without a etrngglo, by the aocident of a civil conflict in which they had little part, the negroes come into the possession of a franchise which has cost the Anglo-Saxons years of revolution and conflict. The negroes gain ignorant enjoyment of the sunrage in the selfish determination of a political party to maintain possession of power, at every hazard to liberty itself. By giving them the privileges of the ballot, the radicals have de graded it, and given a wider scope for the operations of the demagogues who prey on the prejudices of the ignorant. With the franchise the negroes only change their masters. The same want of spirit which has made them slaves through all the centuries in which the Caucasians have been marching to the proudest triumphs of intellect, will keep them slaves, even though they be armed with ballots. The yoke will remain a yoke, whether they obey a master in the Georgia rice-fields, or the decrees of a lodge of loyal leaguers. Instead of enlarging the area of freedom, the radicals, by admitting the negroes to the suf frage, have made the outposts of liberty only the more diflioult of defense. With the uewly onfranchised field hands in the numerical superiority in a number of States, it will be hard to defeat the schemes of corrupt dema gogues by the most unremitting efforts of the truly patriotio and well-disposed. While the procession passes, it may not be out of place to once more remind the white citizens that this fifteenth amendment has been adopted without the oonsent of the ma jority of the people of Pennsylvania. The Legislature which ratified the fifteenth article was not chosen for that purpose. Many of its members owed their seats to their sturdy de, nial of any purpose to interfere with the suf frage. In proof of a want of consent on the part of the people of Pennsylvania, it is only necessary to point to the State Constitution. There it stands unaltered, unrepealed, with the word "white" written all over it, because there is not a majority of the citizens of Pennsylvania in favor of this amendment. The Constitution rerouins, not amended, but trampled under foot, disobeyed and con temned. The negroes exercise the suffrage in defiance of the fundamental law of the people of this State. That the negroes might be enfranchised, white men have been enslaved. State Constitu- Uoiih Lave beeu detstroyed without the oousuut f the rmnnla. TheTnle of the Sword lias usurped tbat of the civil uiagiNtrate. Ureedy nd unscrupulous adveuturera have boea ena- bled, under the protection of the military, to prey on the misfortunes of a portion of their fellow-citizens. All this that a political party might maintain posses sion of us ui-gotten power by means ot tne negro Tote. For this the jewel or American liberty has been thrown down at the feet of a few hundred thousand negroes utterly igno rant of its inestimable value, heedless of its cost, and indifferent to its use. Let the pro cession move on. SPEOIAL NOTICES. ON AND AFTER SUNDAY, lTl'll m April, the SPKITOK AND PINK HTRKKTA PAR 8KNOKH RAILWAY OOMPANY will ran their ears through from the Exchange to falrmount Park for on fare. 4151m Jfcjy- ISOTIUK IS 11KKEBY U1VKN TUT11K imhRcrihnra to the Capital Stock of "THK PK Pl.F'h HANK" tbat a meeting will be held at No. 144 8. SIXTH Btreet, on Til U KK iAY, the 6th day of May next, at 10 o-'clock A. M., for the purpose of organising aaid Bank and electing oflloers and directors. u. ij. 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Loan 16,00000 t.uuu btate or Tennessee six Per Cent, Loan 19,600 Pennsylvania Railroad Com pany, 850 shares stock 6,000 North Penusylvanja Rail road Company, 100 shares stock 10,000 Philadelphia and Southern Mall Steamship Com pany, 60 shares stock 94o,900 Loans on Bond and Mort BHire. first liens on Cltv 4.3T0-00 14,000-00 1,900-00 T.500-00 Properties 46,900'00 11,131,400 Far. Market valne, 11,866,870-00 COSt. il.31S.6!23-a7. Real Estate 8,ooof)0 Bins neceivaDie ror insurances made... sss,iuuio xuuanues aue ai Agencies: Premiums on Marine Policies, Accrued Interest, and other debts due the Com pany J. 66,097-98 Stock, Scrip, etc. of Sundry Corpora. tlons, 47n. Estimated value 1,740-90 iaau in vans 1168,318-88 Casn In Drawer sra-M 169,99114 1,868,100 -04 DIRECTORS. . Thomas C. Hand, Samuel B. Stokes, JUUU XJ. 1SBV1B, Edmund A. Bonder, Tbeophllns Paulding, James Traqualr, Henry Sloan, Henry C. Dallett, Jr., "ames C. Hand, William O. Ludwlf, Joseph H. Seal, Hugh Craig, John D. Taylor. wiuiam u. Boaiton, Edward Darlington, II. Jones Brooke, Edward Laf our cade, Jacob RlereL lacoo f. j ones, James B. MoFarland, Joshua P. Eyre, Spencer Mclivaln. J. B. Semple, Pittsburg, A. B. Benter. Pittsburg. George W. Bernadon, D. T. M or ran. Plttabura WIHIKiH .L MIIIIWHIH. THOMAS C. HAND, President JOHN C. DAVIS, Vice-President. HENRY LTLBTJRN, Secretary. HENRY 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 Policies Ion-Foi-reitable. Ful Casn Surrender Indorsed on Bach Policy. NO RESTRICTIONS AS TO TRAVEL OR RESI- The form of policy adopted is a plain and simple con tract, precise ana aennite in its torus, ana tree fro ambiguous conditions and restrictions. Special attention Is called to the HOMESTEAD 1?JjA.1N" this Company, offering the COMBINED ADVANTAGES OF TBB Builtliiifj- .Association AND or Lilo Insurance. Every Policy Holder Secures House ot His Own. Descriptive Pamphlets, with Rates, furnished on appll oauon to iue voinpauy. OFFICE, N. W. corner Seventh and Chesnut Sts. , PHILADELPHIA. WILLIAM M.SEYFEKT, President. LAURENCE MYERS, Vice-President. D. HAYES AGNEW, M. D., Medio! Director. R. W. DORPHLEY, secretary. WILLIAM L. HIRST Counsel. DIRECTORS. Wm. M. Beyfert, Laurence Myers, J. M. Myers, Vm,8. MoManus, Wm. B. Reaney, Kdward Samuel, H. P. Muirheid. Clayton MoMiohael. 496m 1829 CHARTER PERPETUAL. IgJO FraiiliB Fire Insurance Coipy OF PHILADELPHIA. Office, Nos. 4S5 and 4S7 CHESNUT St. AssetsJan.lf,70L$2,825f73l,67 CAPITAL $400,000 00 ACCRUED SURPLUS AND PREMIUMS.... a,4Jo.731CT INOOMR FOR 18i0. LOSSKS PAID IN ISO e i44,ws a. Losses paid since 1829 over $5,500,000 Peroetnal and Temporary Policies on Liberal Terms. The Company also issues policies upon the Rents of all Kinds of rvniicinKS. irouuu nenm, anu morMrages, the cttAmn.iiLn" has no uuruiau UiiA.1 Liu. DIRE0TOR8. Alfred G. Baker, A urea riiier. Thomas Sparks, William ti. Grant, Thomas 8. Kllis, Gustavna H. Rnnson. riamnei iir&nt, tioorice W. Kichardl, Isaac Lea. George 1 ales, ALFRED G. bAKKR. President. OKOUOK 1 ALK.S, Vice-President. .TAMFS W. MOA1.LIHTF R. Secretary. THKODORK M. RB.GKK. A Mutant Seoretary, 19ft THE PENNSYLVANIA FIRE INSURANCE JL COMPANY. Incorporated H2b Charter PemetnaL No. 610 WALNUT Street. opposite Independence Square. This Company, favorably anown to tile community for over forty years, continues to iuimre against loss or dam age by ore on Publio or Private Huildiuics, either perma nently or for a limited tune. Also on Furniture, Stocks of Goods, and Merchandise generally, on liberal terms. Their Capital, together with a iarxe Surplus Fund, is Invented In the moat careful manner, which enahlos them to otter to the insured an undouoted security in the oaae oi toss. HmKCTOBS. Daniel Smith, Jr.. John Devernnv. Alexander hensun, 1hjm) llulehurbt. Thomas bimtii, nnnry i.ewis, .1 nifu. ...i.... iraiT Thomas xvouius. uaniei imamics, or. DAM IlL SMITH, Ju., President. CROWELL, Secretary. WM. G. THE ENTERPRISE INSURANCE CO. OF 1 PHILADELPHIA. m Ottioe 8. W. corner of FOURTH and WALNTIT Btreeti KIRK INSl'KANOK HXUI.HMVKLY. PFRPKTUAL ANDTKKM POLICIES IHSITRD. CASH Capital (paid up in full) itlU.iluO'OO Cuu Aeaets, Jan. 1. ?; 5'4,35 t UIXWJLU Uivoi F. Ratchford Starr, Nalbro Crazier, John M. Atwood, Beuj. T. Tredick, Georite H. htuart. J. Livingston Errinfer James L. CIlitKhora. Wm. G. Houlton, Diaries Wheeler, Thomas 11. Montoromer. John It. nrowu, K HATtlTIFOrcrt ST James M. AeiUeu. i ii, frenulum.. I HUMAN M. MUiVIUOMKUY. V ioe-Presideut AI KX. W. WISTKR, Seoretary. JAUOS B. PiUEivaOH, Aasittant Secretary. INSURANOfc. INSURANCE COMPANY NORTH AMERICA. jAlfTJaBT L, 1671. Incorporated 1704. Charter PerpetsisU. CAPITAL S 300,000 ANSETM 84,783,381 Lewies paid since )ra.alzrtt)a....g23,000,009 Receipts of Prntnlame, li09....9Jl,O91,M:i7'4$ Isuerest frem Iaveetmente, 69. 114,60674 LoMes paid, 1860 .1 1,033.384IM4 Statement ef the Assets. First Hortses on Ottj Property 176S,4M United States Government and other Loss Bonds LUBL6M Bsllrosd, Bank and Osnal Stocks i6,7U8 Ossh In Bank and (JfBoe I47,8 Loans en Collateral Beouritr B!1,6M Notes Reoeivable, mostly Matins Premium. .. tai,M4 Aoorned Interest I0,8ET Premiums In coarse of transmission 86,198 Unsettled Marine Premiums M 10u,Mf Seal Kstate, Offloe el Oompanjr, Philadelphia. . SuXjh m S4,78J,M1 DIRECTORS. Artbnr O. Fraaois R. Oops, Bamael W. Jo see, Kdward U. Trotter, John A. Bros a, Kdward S. Clarke, Charles Taylor, T. Uharltoa Henry, ' Ambrose White, Alfred D. Jeasnp, William Welsh, lows O. Madeira, B. Morris Wain, Oharlee W. Ooshmaa, John Mason, Clement A. Griaooaa. Ueorgs L. Harrison, William Brookia, ARTHUR O. COFFIN, President. CHARLES FLATT. Vloe-PresidsnU Matthias Maais, Beoretarr. O. H. Kkkvks, Assistant Seoretary. I 4 1 S B U R Y LIFE INSURANCE CO., N. Y. Number of Policies issued by the Ave largest New Tort Oompanles donna' the first years of their existeaoe : MUTUAL (23 months) woe, hew iukk UBmontna) ioi Manhattan in months) m KNICKERBOCKER. .. (20 months) eet EQUITABLE. (IT months) 88 During tne 81 months or Its existence the AHBURY HAS ISSUED 2600 POLICIES, INSURING NEARLY 10,000,000. ' Reliable Oanvaaaina- Aetata mated throaxhoat tbs onntry. , fanajrer for Pennsylvania and Delaware. Offloe, No. arjvv ALNUT Btreet, Philadelphia. BAM U Kb POWKKB. Special Asni W P i R E ASSOCIATION. OFFIOE, BO. 84 NORTH FIFTH STREET INSURE BUILD HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE, ASO MERCHANDISE GENERALLY, From Loss by Fire (in the City of Philadelphia only). ASSETS, JANUARY 1, 1S70, 81,57,7Wa5. TRUSTEES. WM. H. HAMILTON, JOHN OARROW, GF.OKGK I. YOUNG, JOS. R. LYNDALL, f win n iA A KB CHARLES P. BOWRB, ' JK8HK UGHTFOOT. ROBT-. BUOKMAKKR, PKTKR ARMBRUSTKE, M. H. DICKINSON, PKTKR WILLIAMSON. SAMUEL tiPAKkAWK, JOSEPH E. SOHKLL. WM. H. HAMILTON, President. '"; SAMUEL BPARHAWK. Vice-President, ' WILLIAM T. BUTLER : ft Bee rotary. AME INSURANCE COMPANY No. 809 CHESNUT Street, F INCORPORATED 18M. CHARTER PERPETUAL, capital tauo,ooo. FIRE INSURANCE EXCLUSIVELY. InsnranceMainst Loss or Damage by Fire either by Per. DIRKUTOR8. Charles Richardson. , Robert Pe earoe. William H.Rhawn, John Kessler, Jr., Edward B. Orne, Charles Stokes. John W. Kvermaa, Mordeoai Bazby. William M. Key fart. John V. Smith, Nathan Hi ilea. George A. West, CHARLES RICHARDSON, President WILLIAM H. RHAWN, Vioe-PresidenL WnxiAMS I. Eunchabd, Secretary. 728 piPERIAl FIRE INSURANCE CO., . LONDON. ESTABLISHED 1803. Paid-up Capital and Accumulated Funds, $8,000,000 IN GOLD. PREVOST & HERRING, Agents, 8 45 No. 107 S. THIRD Street, Philadelphia. , CHA8M1JREVOST OHA8. P. HERRINQ ENGINES. MACHINERY, ETO. PENN STEAM ENGINE AND BOILER WORKS. NRAFIR LEVY PRACTICAL AND T1IKORK1IOAL KNGIN K KR8, M AOHINI8 T8. BO ILK &. DlAIVillVO. DUAUaafflllUD, 1IH1 VVUMlUAO, IH1H1 for man, vears been in successful ODeration. and been ea. elnsively engaged in building and repairing Marine and Kiver Knginee, high and low pressure. Iron Boilers, Water Tanks, Propellers, eto. eto., respectfully offer their ser vices to the Dublio as being fully prepared to oon tract for engines of all sizes, Marine. River, and Stationary ; having eta of patterns of different sixes, are prepared to exeoute orders with quick despatch. Every description of pattern, making made at the shortest notice. High and Low pres sors Fine Tubular and Cylinder.Boilers of the best Fenn. sy lvsnia Charcoal Iron. Forgings of all sires and kinds. Iron and Brass Castings of all descriptions. Roll Turning Screw Cutting, and all other work connected with tbs above business. . Drawings and specifications for All work dons St ths Srtablishment free of charge, and work guaranteed. The subscribers have ample wharf dock-room tor repair! of boats, where they osn lie in perfect safety, and are pro Tided with shears, biouks, talis, eto. etc., fur raising bear or light weight JACOB 0. NKAFIE, JOHN P. LKVY, B BEACH and PALMKK Streets. QIRARD TUBE WORKS. JOHN B. MURPnY & BROS., Manufacturer of Wrought Iron Pipe, Etc, PHILADELPHIA, PA. WORKS, TWENTY-TIIIKD and KILBEllT Streets. OFFIOE, 141 No. d'A North FIFTn Street. FIRE AND BURGLAR PROOF SAFH J. WATSON & BON, Of ths late firm of EVANS WATSON, FIRK AND BTJRGIiAR-PROOP B A F II BTOKE NO. 53 BOUTH FOURTH ST1U5ET, BIS A few doors above Onsen at St., Phlla QENT.'S FURNISHINO GOODS. pATKNT SHOUIiIER-3H AM 6HIKT MANUFACTOKY, , AND UENTIXMKN'S KUKNISHINQ BTOKB. PKKPBOTLY FITTING SHiHTS AND DUAWSltS made iroui nitanureiueut at vtsry otiort noiioo. All oilier articles ot GitNTLEM-EN'S DRESS GOODS In full Tiirlotir, , WTNCHHSTiat CO., U t No. Hm (JUKMNDT Street DIVORCES. i ABSOLUTE PIVOHCE3 LEGALLY OB tained In New York, Indiana, Illinois, and other States, for persons from any State orOouutry, letcal every where; desertion, drunkeuneas, non-support, cm., sum. client cauHei no publiritv; no chares until divorce oh tamed. Advice ires, ituainww wiabiMiei tiiteoa years Addxesa, M. IHCSK, Attorney, 811 Sc Io. 78 NASSAU Street, New XetkOile'
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