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THE DAILY EVENING TELEGRAPH PHILADELPHIA, TUESDAY, MAY 10, 1870.
srin.iT or Tun muss.
Editorial Opinions of the Leading Journals
upon Current Topics Compiled Every
Day for the Evening Telegraph.
DOES THE FEMALE SUFFRAGE MOVE
MENT MAKE ANY PROGRESS ?
From the A. 1'. Tims.
Any one who feels particularly interested
in the progress of the female snft'rage move
ment umat have read with concern the news
in our columns to the effect that
the Constitutional Convention of Illinois
had resolved not to submit to the people the
question whether women shall or nhall not
ote. The convention at first decided to let
the vote be taken. Hut after thinking the
matter over again it changed its mind. Thus
no comfort is to be looked for in the direc
tion of Illinois at present.
This is but a single example of what is
going on everywhere. It is impossible to shut
our eyes to the fact that the female suffrage
agitation makes no visible progress. It may,
ot courpe, be extending in some private nnd
invisible manner. There cannot be any kind
of doubt that within the last few years many
ladies of the highest intelligence and cultiva
tion have taken a deep interest in the attempt
to place both sexes on a political equality.
These new adherents are very often to be
found among the young a circumstance
which would alone suffice to convice careful
political observers that the movement
has more vitality in it than its oppo
nents are always willing to believe, But
notwithstanding these symptoms, it is pal
pable enough that the proposed "reform"
makes no substantial progress. People gene
rally, women as well as men, do not take
kindly to it. They either care nothing what
ever abont it, or are disposed upon the whole
to let matters take their course, convinced
that nothing practical will be decided for
many years to come. As for lady lecturers on
the question they do neither good nor harm.
Lectures of any kind seldom decide impor
tant issues; and thus far no woman has ap
peared as the representative of her sex pos
sessing a tithe of the ability or influence, as
a pnblio Bpeaker, which rendered Mr. Wen
dell Phillips a potent advocate in this coun
try, or enabled Mr. Bright to triumph against
inconceivable difficulties in England.
A great outcry was made about Mr. John
Stuart Mill's book on the "Subjection of
Women," and it has been reprinted and sold
here in large numbers. The ladies who
demand the suffrage consider that this trea
tise settles the question. Now, in the first
place, it does not apply to the state of society
existing here, and in the next it is stuffed
f nil of fallacies quite unworthy a man of Mr.
Mill's genius and fame. When he talks of
marriage only giving woman a master, "and
a master, too, of all her earthly possessions,"
he describes' a state of the law of which we
have no knowledge among ourselves. When,
too, he argues, as he does throughout the
volume, that marriage is always an advan
tage to the man and a disadvantage to the
woman, he simply talks as if he had
never seen more of the world than
the glimpses of it that can be ob
tained from the windows of his study.
In very many cases a man is obliged to
make great sacrifices when he marries. If
he have a conscience, he saddles himself with
many responsibilities, and a load of anxiety
which he can never afterwards shake off. It
is all nonsense to say that a man invariably
gets the best of the marriage contract.
Again, Mr. Mill continually asserts that the
inferiority of women is a relio of their treat
ment in barbarous times, man having always
regarded woman as subordinate to himself.
But he has not the candor to tell ns why
women were subordinate. It is because in
"barbarous timss," and indeed in times not
very remote from our own, war was the main
business of life, and in such a business as
that men naturally took the lead and held it.
Women could only stay at home. They were
not able to compete with men "more shame
for the men," says Mr. Mill. No one else
can see it. Man did not try to keep women
from going out to fight. Nature settled the
question lor them. Now that the world has
advanced a phase or two, womon have a clear
field before them. But even Mr. Mill admits
that thus far they have not accomplished
much. He merely says that employments
which are open to "the stupidest and basest
of the other sex" are shut out from women.
This is a mere quibble, although it is Mr.
Mill who makes it. Such employments are
indeed "open" to the stupid and base, but as
a rule the stupid and base can make no way
in them. They cannot win lucrative occupa
tion, or any sort of distinction. . The compe
tition is one in which the stupid and base are
inevitably sifted out.
Almost every page of Mr. Mill's book is
equally wide of the mark, and consequently
we need not be surprised that it has produced
60 little effect on publio opinion here. In
fact, most intelligent people have made up
their minds on the whole subject. All pro
fessions ought to be us open to women as to
men; how many women would achieve suc
cess is none of our business. When it is
quite certain that the majority of women
wish to vote, no one will have the power to
resist their demand for the suffrage. So
very wide an extension of the franchise would
by no means be an unmixed good, and women
themselves would be the first to discover the
fact. At present it is perfectly clear that
only a limited number of the female sex care
one pin about the right to vote, and under
these circumstances it is folly to talk of
making a fundamental change in the laws re
lating to the franchise.
POLITICAL REFORM.
From the H. Y. Standard.
Now that the Legislature has adjourned
and gone home, every man, who has a little
uroperty left, breames ireer.
Perhaps that is a burlesque not very far
from the sober truth which represents our
dertartmer representatives as each hosreinsr,
with a sardonio grin, his wallet, a bag well
filled with gold, or wheeling his load of
bonds before him. Our legislative assem
blies are, doubtless, turning rapidly into moral
frof-t)onds of noisome staimation. All par
ties seem sincerely to confess it, and lament
it. But how shall reform be effected, and
wiir shall we begin? We have a suggestion
turn to make upon this subject.
Begin at the pay ! It is worae than idle in
a new country where we have not the ages of
accumulation nor the privileged class of
leisure and refined independence, to expect
honest men to consent to servo our citizens
at a personal loss. They have families to
support, and it must be done. Au accom
plished physician commanding the confidence
of the entire community is prevailed upon to
hi name as a candidate in view of the
A.iAn nf a rerv weighty question. He
coes to the capital, draws his per (Han, and
JL.v,? mnra. He is restless until the ques-
tion is decided, and then immediately resigns
and returns to his home and suffering prac
tice. Ilia reply is this:-! Uv3 large family
to support we cannot live on patriotism I
my practice is worth $20 a day lens, for
every day I spent at the capital just $17. I
can't afford to make politics my profession."
And he is right, echoes the miud of every
honest man. A scoundrel who trades in his
principles would make up that $17, or $70 as
to that, and have then no "bad taste in his
conscience."
The thing is all wrong! That lazy lout of
a loafer whose soul's office it is to keep its
body from rotting and can scarcely do that
who was kicked out of college to prevent his
giving to all the students a moral small-pox
was taken up in a country district after kiss
ing all the children, and sent to the Legisla
ture. In six years exactly he had practised
such heroio economy that, from nothing and
worse than nothing, he had accumulated
$('.0,000 worth of property; A hundred to
one, every dollar of that was a swindle upon
society, and every dollar corruptedly offered
and corruptedly received helps to spread the
contagion.
If Government, and that means the people,
want honest legislators and honest legislation,
let them deal honestly toward their repre
sentatives. Is it honest to expect men need
ing the highest qualifications for one of the
highest and most honorable professions to
sacrifice, in times of peace, all their private
interests for the sake of the public good?
Can we expect incorruptibility to sit upon
the bench, when not oue of our judges re
ceives a salary sufficient to sustain relf-ref-pect,
much less to support a dignity and
honesty equal to the station ? Look at Eng
land, with her illustrious judiciary, but with
her judges receiving honestly more than the
President of the United States. The scales
of even-handed justice must be raised on a
column of gold planted by the State. Any
other policy is penny wise and pound foolish.
It is worse than the policy of the economical
railway company which employs cheap hands,
and pays hundreds of thousands for the
maimed and the dead.
We lose a thousand times more at the back
door of corruption than we save at the front
door of salary. We save at the spigot and
waste at the bung. A single charter or fran
chise passed by "greasing the palms" will cost
the city or the State more than a hall full of
high-salariad, honorable, and competent men
would cost in years of faithful service. Let
there be amendment here where amendment
is most needed. Tut up the salary of all our
political servants to such figures as will
enable them to figure as honest men. Don't
lock up food from your servants and then
curse them for stealing.
Begin at the President of the United States,
and keep np the proportion begun by the
original Congress, and his salary shall be not
less than $ 100,000. Then carry out the pro
portions of pay through every grade of ser
vice. And when our politicians and judges
and officers can live something like mercan
tile men, we shall then, if it be not too late,
Bee the day dawn when honest men can serve
their constituents. Till then we need not
expect reform !
THE REPUBLICAN PARTY.
From the St. Louis Demoorat.
Every change of issues involves to soma ex
tent a change of parties. The Republican
party which oonquered in 1800 was not the
republican party of 18.G. it had chosen a
broader platform, and enlisted a multitude of
additional supporters, during the four years of
Buchanan's administration. And again, the
Republican party of 1804 was not the party
of 18G0. Once more it had moved forward
to a broader purpose, and had welcomed to
its ranks a great army of men whs had been
known as War Democrats. Another advance,
attended with the loss of Johnson, Seward,
Wells, and others, and with important acces
sions in return, gave us a different platform
and a different party in 18(1(1. Once more in
18fi the Republican party invited
new adherents by declaring that peace
must be restored by a liberal policy
and by removal of restrictions, and the
party which elected Grant was not the party
wmcn elected Lincoln, either in denned prin
ciples or in constituent elements. It is the
glory of the Republican party that it surpasses
all others which have ever existed in this
faculty of adapting itself to the needs of the
country and the wants of the people, and in
winning to itself new recruits to take the
places of men who fall by the wayside or
abandon its ranks. It is essentially progres
sive. Its purposes and principles are con
stantly changing, as public necessities change;
and, as a consequence, its members are
changing, some leaving and others joining
it with every new election. This feature in
the Republican party is vital to its success.
If it once halts, if it tries to rest on its past
achievements, and fails to move forward in
sympathy with publio opinion to meet new
publio wants, that instant its decline begins
and its end draws near.
The Republican party, if it is to win in
1872, must be a very different party from
that which conquered in 18(18, in measuros
and in men. The old questions are settled.
Men will not go on voting two more years
about reconstruction and negro suffrage.
Thousands of men who were forced to gather
under the Republican standard by those
issHes will drop away now that those ques
tions are settled, and their places must be
made good by new motives, new measures,
and new adherents. In other words, the con
dition of the country has changed, as needs
have changed, and the Republican party must
adapt itself to the new condition and the new
needs, or it must expect defeat.
Let no timid soal call this harsh and heart
less. Parties have no business to exist, ex
cept to secure such government as the condi
tion of the country requires. He who votes
for a party because it has dorfe great thins.
is like the man who takes his time from a
watch that has stopped because it was right
once.
We believe in the Republican party, there
fore, not because it hat dene great things, but
because we believe it vill do what the country
needs. Thus far it has not failed to move
forward as the condition of the country has
changed. We believe that it will not fail.
But it is not the less true that if this grand
old party gets the paralysis, the country will
move on wunoui it or in spue oi it.
New issues are before us, forced upon the
attention by the condition and needs of the
country. A party fit to govern the nation
must march forward to meet these new
issues, and must provide for the new wants
of the country. We trust that the Republican
party will do as it has done hitherto win
power by deserving power. We trust that it
will recognize the fact that the country needs
a reduction of taxation and a removal of uu
necessary burdens from industry, a restora
tion of the currency and a reform of the
civil servioe. These things the country
needs and the nation demands, and the Re
publican party will not deserve power if it
does not provide for the publio necessities.
True, we cannot expect to do everything in a
day. Some time must be allowed for men to
discover that old issues are really out of the
U8V 10 ascertain what the country now
, need;;. A reasonable time must be allowed
for the Republican party to adjust itself to
the new work, and select men who are fit
for it. Many of the men who foutrht
the battle against slavery are by
temperament or training disqualified for the
work of financial roTorm. If within a reason
able time the Republican party will set itself
in earnest to satisfy the new seeds of the
country, and select men competent for the
new work, it will be infinitely better that the
task should be entrusted to that party than
to any other. It already has the power which
it would take any other party years to win.
It is intelligent, patriotic and progressive,
and no other power in our history has ever
been able to move forward from oue idea or
reform to another, as public interest required.
But the party must not fail to meet the pub
lio want. It must not delay or hesitate too
long. In a word, if it would retain power it
must deserve power.
it the Republican party undertakes the
task of abolishing monopolies and removing
unnecessary burdens, of course it will drive
Irom itself a great many men who have
hitherto adhered to it. On the other hand,
it will win to itself a larger number of those
who have opposed it. The changes will bo
precisely like that which took place between
1800 and 1804, or between 1801 and lsr.S;
new ideas, new measures, and new banners
will rally around them new men, and while
the organization remains, the constituent ele
ments will change. That embodiment of poli
tical trickery known as the Democratic party,
which carried Pennsylvania in 1811 with the
cry of "Polk, Dallas, and the tana of
1842, and has never dared from that
day to this to fight aprainst monopolies in
Pennsvlvania or other Eastern States, will
lose its ablest champions and its most intelli
gent voters whenever the Republican party
undertakes the work of tariff reform. In tho
South, the men of culture and influence
whose power can be onlv tomnorarilv re-
Btrained by measures of reconstruction will
gladly ally themselves with a Republican
party fighting for the true interests of that
great agiicultural region. Meanwhile, in the
Yest the Republican majorities will be over
whelming. These things we shall witness if
the Rejiublican party adapts itself to the con
dition of the country, and moves forward to
meet the wants of the people.
LUGGAGE OF PASSENGERS AT CUS
TOM HOUSE.
from the N. Y. World.
The Secretary of the Treasury has issued a
circular in respect to the baugae of passen
gers arriving in tho United (States from a
foreign port, which persons proposing a sum
mer tiip to Europe will do well to heed.
lhe existing tan 11 law of the United btatos
provides that" wearing apparel in actual use and
other personal effects (not merchandise), pro
fessional books, implements, instruments,
and tools of trade, occupation, or employ
ment, of persons arriviug in the United
States," fshall be free of duty.
In the act of Congress of March 2, 1 !)'.,
seventy years ago, a provision is found upon
the same subject, diff ering but little from the
present law. The old statute provides that
"All wearing apparel and other personal bag
gage, and the tools or implements of a me
chanical trade when of persons arriving in
the United States, shall be free and exempt
from duty."
It will be seen that, while the law of 1 !)',!
exempted "all wearing apparel" from duty,
the existing law makes a restriction to such as
is "in actual use. Instead of the phrase
"other personal baggage," as in the net of
17!; the present law reads, "other personal
effects (not merchandise)."
With such a provision of law in existence
it of course became necessary for Congress
to provide another by which the different
collectors could ascertain and define the arti
cles entitled thus to be admitted free of duty.
The act of 17'.!, therefore, directed that an
entry should be made of wearing apparel and
other personal luggage, just as of any other
goods; that the owner should particularize
the several packages and their contents, and
also take an oath setting forth, among other
things, that his trunks contained nothing but
wearing apparel or other personal baggage,
all of which belonged to him, and are "not
directly or indirectly imported for any other
person or persons, or intended for sale." But
this same law provided that the customs
officers could, in lieu of the entry and the
oath, direct the baggage of any person to be
examined on the vessel or wharf, by the sur
veyor of the port or an inspector, and a return
made of the same. And it was then provided
that if any article not exempt from duty be
fonnd in the baggage of any person which at
the time of making such entry was not men
tioned to the collector, such articles shall be
forfeited, and the person in whose baggage
they shall be found shall pay treble the value
of such articles.
The laws of Congress permit and direct the
Secretary of the Treasury to moke necessary
regulations in respect to this subject of pas
sengers' baggage, and when made they have
the force of law. The new circular does not re
quire a passenger to make a formal entry at the
custom-house, as an importer is required to
do of foreign merchandise, but provides for a
declaration of the traveller under oath, if the
customs officer sees fit to exact the oath. The
consequences of any wilful misstatement in
this declaration, in respect to the contents of
trunks, is very Herious, inasmuch as'it renders
the baggage liable to confiscation and 3ubjects
the owner to criminal penalties.
It will be seen, however, that in respect to
the two classes which are free of duty to
wit, "wearing apparel in actual use" and
"other personal effects (not merchandise)"
there is opportunity for interpretation and
honest difference of opinion. The Secre
tary admits this when he says that "clothing
made up for the passenger's wear, in reason
able quantities, may be declared as wearing
apparel." What are "reasonable quantities?"
This, of course, must depend upon the pe
cuniary and other circumstances of the tra
veller. What would be a reasonable quan
tity of wearing apparel or of kid gloves for a
wealthy person would be very unreasonable
for a poverty-stricken immigrant at Castle
Garden. The same is to be said of the
phrase "other personal effects (not mer
chandise)." The Treasury Department has, however, in
its definition of "dutiable merchandise," not
left much room for doubt or misconstruction
on the part of the passenger.
What the Secretary of the Treaeury means
by the words "neio wearing apparel in excess
of that in general we" is not quite clear; but,
from the general tone of the circular, if one
omits to declare, under the head of "dutiable
mercandise," an excessive quantity of new
wearing apparel, or piece goods, or presents,
or articles purchased for other persons, and
discovery is made of the fact, the declaration
of the passenger will be taken to be false, and
all the luggage made liable to detention and
confiscation.
It is important for passengers to notice
especially that one cannot bring in free of
duty an article which is not in good faith his
own. This, of course, makes it unlawful for
one to take commissions for other persons,
and pass the articles purchased through the
Custom House as his own. .
These new regulations are extremoly in
convenient for honorable people, by reason
of the fact that they require each ptissenger
to make, in all cases upon his honor and ia
some instances under oath, a truthful declara
tion in all respects. This is very different
from subjecting one's trunks to the examina
tion of au officer without having made a de
clsation of their contents or who is owner of
the articles contained therein.
Two motives have prompted ns to make so
extended coiumentson this subject and the law
on which the circular is based. One is to
give our readers full information upon the
subject, and so prevent them from bringing
upon themselves unawares an imputation of
fraud at the custom-house and consequent
cob fixation of their property. Tho other
motive is to fix the attention of all upon the
existing tariff abomination, for which the Re
publican party is responsible. One item
alone will be sufficient to arouse the anger (if
the dear creatures ever have such an emotion)
of our lady readers. The rate of duty upon a
silk dress, for example, is sixty per cent, ad
raloiem in gold. One, therefore, which costs
in Paris a hundred dollars would, on
arrival here, be liable, at the pre
sent price of gold, to a duty of some
seventy dollars iu greenbacks. It is very
hard, therefore, for oue to resist the tempta
tion to get in free of duty such an article for
a friend or relative. But the present iniqui
tous Jaw and the recent regulations of the
Treasury Department forbid it, and anybody
who attempts it acts at his peril, and so far
demeans himself or herself as to make a
statement which no gentleman or lady would
be willing to make to save any sum as duty.
Mral. Let every woman and every man
do her or his utmost to defeat and drive out
of political power every Republican in office
who, by word or act, sustains the present
abominable tariff, or the one which President
Grant and the Republican leaders in Congress
are endeavoring to enact. Vote early and
often for free trade and the annihilation of
all customs dues !
SPECIAL. NOTICES.
jftjy AT A MEETING OF THE STOCK
HOLDERS OF THE
PEOPLE'S BANK OF PHILADELPHIA,
bold this diiy. May 5, 1370, the following parsons wore duly
elected President and Directors:
PREStriFNT,
W. H. K.EMULK.
pinr.cToim.
WILLIAM H. K K K Jf,
CHARLES A. MILLER,
GEORGE J. RICHARDSON,
i FORGE J. GROSS.
WILLIAM ELLIOTT,
WILLIAM BUMM.
And at a meeting of the Board of Directors, WILLIAM
II. TAKER was elected Cashier.
W. 11. TABRR, Cashier.
The Bank will be open for business on MONDAY. Mar
9, at 411 CHESNUT Street. 6 6 8t
may OFFICE OF THE COMMISSIONERS
OF FAIKMOUNT PA KK.
Phlladklphm, Mar , 1870.
PARK CARRIAGE SERVICE".
TAKI h F OF RATES.
1. For a (ingle trip to George's Hill, one per
son 30 cents.
3. For a round trip to George's Hill and re
turn 60 Cents.
3. For a single trip to Belmont Mansion, by
war of George's Hill (uAn road in sum
Vl'trH) 40 cents.
4. For a round trip to Belmont Mansion, and re
turn 60 cents.
PkSHenuers have the nrivileaa to dit for the round trio
and take tickets tor their return trip from Georare's Hill
or Belmont Mansion, which may be used on any day.
6. Tickets, good for an? day er trip, can be obtained at
the following prices:
For five round trips to George's Hill $2 00
For he round trips to Belmont Mansion i'50
6. Carriage! are provided, in addition to those making
the regular trips, which can be engaged by the hoar,
at the tnllowiuir rates :
Wben used by one person, per boar, or less
time- tl'So
W bun used by two persons, per hour, or less
time 175
and 25 cents tor each additional person who may originally
engage the carriage. Mo vaoantseat in a carringe thus
enKuged shall be used by any on not of the original party,
except by their express consent.
Published for the information of the public, by ordor of
the Committee on buperintendanceof Police.
DAVID K. FOLEY,
1 6 fstoSt Secretary Park Ooiumisson.
jgvTj- BRANCH OFFICE, CONTINENTAL
IMPROVEMENT COMPANY.
PlTTHliUBft, April 30, 1870.
A meeting of the Stockholders of the Continental Im
provement Company will be bold in the Branch office of
the Company, in the city of Pittsburg(cornr of PENN
and TENTH Ktroota), on TUESDAY, May 17, at 111
o'clock, noon, for the purpose of electing Board of
Directors to serve for the ourrent year, and until their
successors are duly elected and qualified. And also for
the purpose of considering and acting upon the provi
aions of the Supplement to the Charter of said Company,
approved Twenty-fourth day of March, 1870.
W. B. SHELBY,
6 3 14t Secretary.
j- NOTICE. A SPECIAL MEETING OF
the Stockholders of the PHILADELPHIA, O.KR.
MANTOWN, AND NORRI8TOWN RAILROAD COM
PANY will be held in "Room No 34, PHILADELPHIA
EXCHANGE, on THURSDAY, the 9th day of June next,
at 12 o'clock M., for the consideration of an act of the
General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania,
entitled "An act to authorize the Philadelphia, German
town, and Norristown Railroad Company to increase its
Capital Stock," approved the 2!tu day of March, 1870.
By order of the Board of Managers.
6 aui A. K. DOUGHERTY. Secretary.
rgy NOTICE.
OtTK-K ok Che, and Ohio Oanai,,
ANNAl-OI.U, May , 1-170. i .
Tbe annual meeting of the btockhulders ot this Oom
psny will beliHldiu ANNAPOLIS .on MONDAY, Jaa
o. lo7u, at 3 o'clock P. M.
BENJAMIN FA WO ETT,
6 6 168 Secretary to Stockholders.
t(- ON AND AFTER SUNDAY, 17TII
April, the SPHUCK AND PINK STREETS PAS
8ENGKR RAILWAY COMPANY will run their oars
torouuh from the Exchange to Faiiwount Park for on
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l U I. W. CATTELX.
INSURANCE.
DELAWARK MUTUAL SAFETY INSURANCR
COMPANY. Incorporated by the Legutiawre
of renusrivauia, 1336,
Oflloo tonlheant corner of THIRD and WALNUT
BtropW, PhtltHelphln.
MARINE INiHHANCES
On Vessels, Cargo and Freight to all pans of tbe
world.
INLAND INSURANCES
jn goods bj river, canal, lako and land carriage to
all parts of the Union.
FIKK INSURANCES
Merchandise generally on Stored, Dwellings,
Houses, etc.
ASSETS OF THE COMPANY
November 1, W9.
1200,000 Unttd States Five Per Cent.
Loan, ton-forties ir.fl.OOO-OO
100,000 Uuitsd States Six Per Cent.
Loan (lawful money) lOTJoOnw
60,000 United States Six ier Cent,
Loan. 1HS1 H.OOODO
S00.0O0 State of Pennsylvania Six Per
Cent. Loan I13.950-00
900,000 City of Philadelphia Six Per
Cent. Loan (exempt from
tax) 00,woo
100,000 Stat of New Jersey Six Per
Cent. Loan 03,oont)0
0,000 Pennsylvania Railroad First
Mortgage Six Per Cent.
llOHds 430 "00
80,000 Pennnylvanla Hallroad Se
cond mortgage Six per Cent.
Bonds sa.ea-oo
86,000 W estern Pennsylvania Rail
road Mortgage six Per
Cent. Bonds (Pennsylvania
Railroad guarautee tO.OtM-OO
80,000 Slate of Teunessee Five Per
Cent. Loan 15,000-00
T.000 btate of Tennessee Six Per
Cent. Loan i.aTO-OO
18,500 Pennsylvania Railroad Com
pany, ViO shares stock 14,000-00
8,000 North PcniiHjlvanja Rail
road Company, loo shareg
Stock 8 900)0
10,000 Philadelphia" and' 'southern
Mall Steamship Com
pany, 80 shares stock T.500-00
84,900 Loans on Bond and Mort
gage, first liens on City
Properties fc 84,O0O0
11,381,400 Par. Market value, l,8f6,8t0-O0
COSt. 11,816,623111.
Real Estate 86,000-00
Bills Receivable for Insurances made... 833,;iW7S
Balances due at Agencies:
Premiums on Marine Tollcles, Accrued
Interest, and other debts due the Com-
Pttny---; 66.09T-90
Btoek, Scrip, etc., of Sundry Corpora
tions, 14706, Estimated value 8.T40-80
Cash In Bank 168,8lS-93
Cash In Drawer 978-M
169,89114
11,368,100-04
DIRKnTORS.
Thomas C. Band, .Samuel B. Stokes,
John L Dnvln
William . Boulton,
Edward Darlington,
H. Jones Brooke,
Edward T.afunrf an
Edmund A. Bonder,
Theophllus Pauldmx
James Traqualr,
Henry Sloan,
Henry C. Dallett, Jr.,
'sines C. Hand,
William C. Ludwlg,
Joseph II. Seal,
Hugh Craig,
John D. Taylor,
George W. Rcrnadoa
Jacob IUes-el.
Jacob P. Jones,
James B. McFarland,
Joshua P. Eyre,
Spencer Mcllvaln,
J. B. He m pie, Pittsburg,
A. B. Border, Pittsburg,
D. T. Morgan, Pittsburg
WUllivm d HnnHton
THOMAS C. HAND, President.
JOHN C. DAVIS, Vice-President.
HJENRY BALL, Assistant Secretary.
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HOMESTEAD
LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY.
Policies Issued on all the Ordinary
Plans,
AT LOW RATES OF PIIEMITJM,
With full participation in the Profits.
All Policies Ion.For lei table.
Fal Cash Surrender Indorsed on Each Policy.
NO RESTRICTIONS AS TO TRAVEL OR RESI
DENCE. The form of policy adopted is a plain and simple con
tract, precise and definite in iu terms, and tree from
amburuoua conditions and restrictions.
Bpecial attention is callod to the
HOMESTEAD JJAJS
this Company, offering; the
Combined advantages
or THB
Uiiiltlinjj- VKMoeitit ion
and or
LI f o IiiHiirnuco.
Every Policy Holder Necures a
llouate ol' Hid Own.
Descriptive Pamphlets, with Rates, furnished on apDll
cation to the Company.
OFFICE.
N. "W. corner 8eventh and Chesnut Sts.
PHILADELPHIA.
WILLIAM M.8EYFKRT, President.
LAUHKNCK MYF.RS,
Vice-Preident.
D. HAVES AUMKW, M. D.,
Medical Director.
K. W. DORPHLEV,
Beoretary.
WILLIAM L. HIRST
Counsel.
DIRECTORS.
Wm. M. Seyfert,
Laurence Myers,
J. M. ftlye's,
Wm. h. McManua,
Wm. B. Reaney,
Kdward Samuel,
11. P. Muirbeid.
Clayton McMiuhael. 4 96m
1829. CUARTR PERPETUAL.
Franiiio Fire taracce Company
OV PHILADELPHIA.
Office, Nos. 435 and 437 CHE3WUT St.
Assets Jan. I ,'70, $2,825,73 T67
CAPITAL
AUURUKD SURPLUS AND PREMIUMS..
.J4(,000-00
.2.46.73167
INOOMK FOR I8i0.
LOSSES PAID IN 1a
144,u44
Losses said since 1829 over $5,500,000
Perpetual and Temporary Polioles on Liberal Terms.
Tbe Company also iasnes policies upon the Kents of all
kinds oi Buildings, Ground Kents, and Mortgages,
i'he "JTRAMKLLn" hu no DISPUTED cTLaLu.
DLRE0T0R8.
AlfredO. Baker.
Bamuel Grant,
George W. Kiohards,
Iaaae Lea.
Aiirea rmer,
Thomas Buarki.
William b.(iri..
Thomas 8. Kllii,
f. n-4vui 8. lianson.
George tales,
ALFRED (J. HA KICK. President.
GKORUK FALK8, Vioc-Preaident,
JAMF8 W. McALLIS'l'fcK, Secretary
TH KUDORK M. KKOER, A Mutant Secretary. 1 19$
THE PENNSYLVANIA FIRE INSURANCE
X COMPANY.
Incorporated 18J& Oharter PerpetnaL
No. 610 WALNUT htreet, opposite Independence Square.
This Company, favorably known to the community for
over forty years, continue to insure against loss or dam
age by fire on Publio or Private Buildings, either peruia
Bently or for a limited time. Also on Forniture, btocki
of (ioods. and Merchandise generally, on liberal terms.
Their Capital, together with a Urns Surplus Fund, is
Invented in the moat careful manner, which enables them
to offer to the insured an undoubted security ia the oa
Tt.nlal Hmith. Jr..
John Devereux,
Thouiaa Smith,
Alexander Benson,
Ihoma Robins, I J. GilUughiun Fell,
Daniel Haddock, Jr.
DANIfcL SMITH. Jb.. President.
WM. O. PRO WELL, Secretary. '
THE ENTERPRISE INSURANCE CO. OF
PHILADELPHIA.
OflieeS.W. oornerof FOURTH and WALNUT 8Uets
FIKK 1NSURA NOK HXULUSI Vfe'LY.
PERPETUAL ANDTKRM POLICIES ISKtJKD.
OA6U Capital (paid op in full) $VJuu'0Q
l)aah Aaaeia, Jan. , I 5il,3li31
Inaao Hiuun,
uourr ijewis.
F. Ratchford Stair,
Nalbro F raster,
John M. Atwood,
Kenj. T. Trediok,
George U. Stuart,
j. Livingston Rrrin.a-
James L. Olaghorn.
Wm.O. Boulton,
Charles Wbeler,
Thomas H. Montgomery.
Jhium al A -W u...
John nrown
1 . na junrunu n i i' i. . ,winii,
THOMAS H. MONTGOMERY, Vioa-Prasideot.
ALKX. W. W1STKR. Secretary.
JACOB K. PETERSON, Assistant Secretary.
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INSURANOh.
IKSUKANCE COMPANY
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NORTH AMERICA.
JANUARY I, 1070.
Incorporated 1794. Charter Perpetual.
Capital "SSOOaOOO
Assets 32,783,58 1
Losses Paid since organiza
tion 323,000,000
Eeccipt8ofPremiumst'69,$l,991,837'45
Interest from Invest
ments, 18G9 114,69674
82,106,53419
Losses paid, 1869 51,035,336,84
STATEMENT OF THE ASSETS.
First MortRagcs on City Property I7,0
United States Government and other
Loan nornld. 1,132,S4
Ballroad, Bank, and Canal Stocks 55,703
Cash In Bank and Oillce 84T,tti)
Loans on Collateral Socurlty 82,568
Notes Keoelvable, mostly Marine Pre
miums 331,914
Accrued Interest ao,35T
Premiums In course of transmission. . . 85,19
Unsettled Marine Premiums 100,900
Ileal Estate, Office of Company, Phila
delphia 30,000
Total Assets Jan. 1, 1.N70 i,rS3,5Hl
DIUECDORS
ARTHUR O. COFFIN,
SAMUEL W. JONES,
JOHN A. BIIOWN,
CHARLES TAYLOR,
AMBROSE WHITE,
WILLIAM WELSH,
S. MORRIS WALN,
francis R. corn,
KDW. II. TROTTER,
EDW. S. CLARKE,
T. CHARLTON HENRY",
ALFRED D. JE3SUP,
LOUIS C. MADEIRA,
CHAS. W. CUSHMAN,
CLEMENT A. GRISCOM
WILLIAM BROCKIE,
JOHN MASON,
GEORGE L. HARRISON,
AIM II I K 15. t'OFFLT,
PBESIDENT.
C1IAIIL.ES PLATT,
VICE-PRESIDENT.
MATTHIAS MARIS, Secretary. feWlautl
C. n. RKnVE'S, ABHlwtant Nerretnry.
INSURANCE COMPANY
NORTH AMERICA.
JaXOABX 1. 1870.
Charter Perpetual.
Incorporated 1704.
CAPITA I 8300,000
ASSETS 8'A,rS3,5SL
Losses paid since organization.... 843,000,000
Receipts of Premiums, 1M09....81,001,87'43
Interest from Investments, (0. 11400674
Losses paid, lt9 1,033,3S0 S4
Statement of the Assets.
First Mortgages on Oltj Property 9706,450
United States GoTerament sod other Loan
Bonds 1.129,SM
Railroad, Bank and Oanal Stocks '..'.. S6.7U8
Dash in Bank and Offlos 147,'tBO
Loans en Collateral becurit? SStfM
Notes ReoeiTable, mostly Mai in Premiums. .. 831,944
Acorned Interest 9U3&T
Premiums in course of transmission 86,186
U Duett led Marine Premiums ., 100,900
Keai Ksuts, Office ol Company Philadelphia . . aoiuou
DIRECTORS.
rthat O. ranois R. Oope,
bamuel W.Jo ses. Kdward H. Trotter,
Jbn A-Bro a. Kdward B. Clarke.
Ohariee 1 aylor, 1. Oharlton lienr.
Am brcas V hits, Alfred D. Jesaop,
V illiam Welsh. Lonis O. Madeira!
V r,ir4 w "i Charles W. Onshman,
John Maaon, Clemen A. Griaoom.
George L. Harrison, William Brookie!
ARTHUR O. OOFFIN, President '
OUAKLK8 PLATT. Vtoe-President.
Matthias Masis. Seoretar.
O. M. Rksveb. Assistant heoreUry. 4
piRE ASSOCIATION. S
INCORPORATED MA BOH 87. im
OFFICE.
NO. 84 NORTU FIFTH STREET
INSURE
BUILIJ HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE. AND
MERCHANDISE GENERALLY,
From Loss by Fire (in the City of Philadelphia only).
ASSETS, JAM'AUVl, 1S70, 8 1,374,73 f S.
TRUSTEES,
WM. H. HAMILTON,
JOHN OAKKOW,
GKORGK I. YOUNG,
JOS. K. LYNDA LL,
CHARLES P. BOWER.
JKfcSK LIQHTFOOT.
ROKT. 8HOKMAKKR.
PJt'JKR AHMbKUal'ER.
M. H. DIOKIJM8ON.
PETER WILLIAMSON,
SAMUEL bPAKHAWK
JOSEPH E. SUUKLL.
WM. U. HAMILTON, President
BAMUEL SPARHAWK, Vice-President,
WILLIAM T. BUTLER
Seoretarr.
IK
JjAME INSURANCE COMPANY
No. 8U9 CHESNUT Street.
INCORPORATED 1HW. OHARTER PERPETUAL,
capital taio.uuo.
FIRE INSURANCE EXCLUSIVELY.
Insurance against Loss or Damage by Fire either by Per
petual or Temporary Policies.
DLRtttJTOKtf.
Charles Richardson, Robert Pea res.
U illi.m II U lnwn
John K easier, Jr.,
Kdward H. Oroe,
Charles ktokea,
John W. JOennafea
altirclacaj buzbs.
William M. Keyfert.
John y. hmith,
Hl.hii Hillf.
George A. West,
CHARLES RIOHAEDSOH. President.
WILLIAM H. RU AWN, Vice-President.
WnxiAMS L Blamchabp, Secretary. T tSi
JMrERIAIi FIUK INSURANCE CO.,
LONDON.
ESTABLISHED 1S0S.
Paid-up Capital and Accumulated Funds,
S8.000.000 I IV GOLD.
PRE YOST & IIE BRING, Agents,
4 No. 10T S. THIRD Street, Philadelphia.
OHA8. M. PRsVVpBT OHAE. P. UKRRINO
OTTON BAIL. DUCK. AND CANVAS.
ot all numbers and brands. Tent, Awnn. Trank
and Won-ooer Duck. Also. Paper MairuTaotorere
Drier Fe'u, from thirty to seveotrsU looses, wtia
twins, belt ins, bail Twins, ote.
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