THE DAILY EVENING TELEGRAPH PHILADELPHIA, TUESDAY, MAY 17, 1870.
srmiT or txxxi mnr.s.
Editorial Opinion of theLeading Journal
upon Current Topics Compiled Every
Day for the Evening Telegraph.
HARMLESS DOVES.
From the If. T. World.
It is not to be denied that the "female
suffrage movement," so far a it has jet ex
erted any influence at all npon human society,
has unpleasantly disturbed the heretofore
amicable relations of the sexes, shaken the
ancient peace of many a connubial bower,
and added new terrors to matrimony in many
a celibate mind. Of course, we do not for a
moment believe this to have been the object
of its promoters. AVe dare say, indeed, that
the most earnest and the most estimable of
their nnmber will be loudest in denying that
any such effects have been produced by it.
But, with the deepest respect for these earn
est and estimable souls, we must beg them to
remember that we speak as men speaking of
men and or men, and to reflect that no
woman can possibly enter like a man into
the natnre of a man. Our excellent but
erring sisters know not fully what they
are doing. We know whereof we affirm,
and we are sorry to know: it. Aris
tophanes has painted so lively a picture of
the disastrous domestic consequences ensu
ing npon a great secession or "barring out"
of the female sex in antique Athens that one
may well be excused for contemplating with
some uneasiness the prospeot of a similar
tolicy to be suddenly adopted by the mascn
ine population of modern New York. We
desire to avert bo dreadful a possibility; and
with this end we entreat our fellow-creatures
of the male sex to look with ns at this new
peril calmly for a brief season, confident as
we are that the matter, when fearlessly gone
into, will lose the greater part of its terrors.
"Fling but a stone, the giantess will fall."
One of the most implacable prophetesses of
"female suffrage," Mrs. Julia Wardllowe, in
a discourse delivered by her during the
past week in this city, declared that she
and her sisters who think with her had
come to the metropolis, not even as Amazons,
still less as Fates or Furies. "We are here."
she exclaimed, "as harmless doves." The
dove, to be sure, with all the soft susurous
soothings of its gurgling voice, is sometimes
a rather dangerous bird. The doves of Venus,
in the old mythology, lent the wings of their
speed to their mistress swooping upon Phie
dra for her prey. And the "soiled doves" of
modern London and Paris have not seldom
fed npon the substance and the souls of men
as fiercely and as unappeasably as the vultures
of Prometheus npon the liver of that unap
preciated inventor. But the voice of the
turtle has for ages been the symbol of peace
and of the springing year. Billing and coo
ing, gently milling its full plumage, and
softly swelling its deep bosom, the beauteous
creature heralds May and youth and love. Is
the voice, then, of Mrs. Howe and of her sis
ters, the voice of Miss Lucy Stone and of Mr.
Tilton and the rest, in very truth as the voice
of the turtle ? We believe it bo to be, and,
like Mr. llichard Swiveller reposing upon his
faith in Miss Sophy Wackles, "we are blest in
so believing."
Mrs. Stanton, it is true, would have ns un
derstand that the ladies and gentlemen who
have thus suddenly added a new terror to an
niversary week are really but the vanguard of
a great Amazonian host moving forward to a
battle long, desperate and deep as that
through which the legions of anti-slavery for
thirty years contended unto victory. She de
clares that "fifteen millions" of American
women are rising npon ns, determined to
vote or die. But, then, Mrs. Stanton herself
gives ns reason to hesitate over her statistics
when she unguardedly admits that a consid
erable number of these "fifteen millions"
whom she recently persuaded in the State of
Missouri to sign petitions demanding "the
franchise" came vehemently back upon her,
withdrawing their adhesion as soon as
some malignant wretch of a man had
explained to them that in asking for
the franchise they had asked for the right
to vote. They were horrified at the disco
very. The dear, devout souls had innocently
imagined, as Mrs. Stanton ingenuously con
fesses, that "the franshise meant something
to do with the church." Of course, Mrs.
Stanton regards such conduct as this as con
temptible. But it really proves these good
Missouri women to possess an intrinsic, in
tuitive sense of their real mission and of the
true natnre of their power in the world,
which seems to us much better even than an
exact knowledge of etymology or a hot zeal
in party politics. The qualities which lead
women to take a deeper interest in church
affairs than in affairs of State are precisely
the qualities through which nature offers
them an influence, eyen in affairs of State,
far greater and nobler than any which can
be Bymbolized by the ballot or exerted
through the polls. The right of suffrage,
after all, is not a power, but an instrument.
You may give a man the right of suffrage as
you may give him a shillelah, but the mere
possession of the one will do but little more
than . the mere possession of the other to
make him an influence among bis fellows.
What the Emperor Napoleon was sensible
enough to see to be the truth concerning
erowned heads and their armies is equally
true concerning the voters of a political
party and their ballots. Bayonets may esta
busn order in Warsaw, ana Daiiots may
reconstruct Georgia, or erect a Chinese wall
of tariffs between the industries of one
peeple and the needs of another. But there
is a new power, making itself daily more and
more the master of the world, of parties and
of princes, of bayonets and of ballots, and
this power is public opinion. Whatever may
be the war, and how long soever it may be
wagea, it is pubiio opinion which wins in
the end. In this very anti-slavery war, of
wiucu me iemaie-sunrage movement is
so idly thought to prefigure the re
vival under another form, woman, by her
anu lumwiioe in ine cnurcn and in the
Home, in literature and society, was incooi
paraoiy more powerful than man with his
platforms and his ballots. , In whatever
developments of liberty and whatever modi
fications of law may await the relations of
the sexes, woman, we may be sure, will still
exert her influence through the channels in
which it naturally moves. One of.tha mala
champions ef the suffrage chimera, in a lucid
moment, on one 01 we ust week s platforms
expressed bis belief that "the only immediate
effect of the adoption of female suffr&ffa
would be to increase existing party majori
ties;" and he had the good sense to add that
. be didn t see mucn use in bucu an increase.
What the world needs most just now is not
an accumulation of popular votes, but an en
lightenment of popular volition. To this
(hundreds and thousands of women in all
civilized lands are daily contributing
with infinitely more effect than if they
anhalled in caucuses to march up
' to booths and plump for feminina
of CoBCTees and alder women and
judgesses. Our doves of the platform, coo
they never o persistently, will nardly inter
rupt this wholesome, subtle, and irresistible
process. Let no man, then, be alarmed at
their ooointr. The theme they treat of is in
nowise sulphurous or volcanic, like the ques
tion of slavery. n.ven when the more milled
of their number deal with us men and with
onr infirmities as mercilessly as the Fhillipses
and Pillsburys of old were wont to deal with
the Southern slaveholder, no man's blood is
thereby made to boil; nor need we fear that
the fifteen millions of our better halves will
be thereby roused into rushing upon us,
scissors and bodkin in hand, to snip and bore
away our little lives. Incidentally, indeed,
the palombine crusade may very well help on
a good many really needed reforms, throw
light on forms of suffering to be relieved,
reveal social wrongs to be redressed, while
it certainly must provide a more or less
considerable number of comparatively
intelligent and warm-hearted women
both with occupation and amusement. To
be a "harmless dove" and coo for votes is by
no means the worst thing that can befall a
woman. We are not of the mind of a famous
woman, Madame de Stael, who declared that
women had only one use in the world; and,
though we are not prepared point blank to
question the dogma of another of the sex that
the first duty of every woman is to be beau
tiful, we cannot religiously doubt that Provi
dence must have meant to provide other lower
and yet respectable callings for women to
whom its dispensations may have rendered
the performance of this first duty either mate
rially difficult or morally indifferent. Who
could find it in his heart, for example, to
quarrel with one 01 the thirty thousand sur
plus spinsters of Massachusetts for choosing
to lace the air of metropolitan platforms with
twittering tropes, and to ply far and wide
over the land the delusive bobbin of sexual
politics, rather than mope in a sterile inspec
tion of her next-door neighbor's soup-kettle,
and sour into predostinarian desperation be
tween her sewing-circle and her choir ?
Let the "female-sun rage movement, then,
fulfil itself in foam. We may be sure that it
will neither subvert the foundations of the
State nor reverse the genetio conditions of
humanity. At the worst, it may chance to
some of the too zealous among the fair vota
resses as Montaigne tells us it did to Marie
(ierman in his days, who, overleaping her
self, fell from th high feminine estate into
the deplorable and pendulous condition of a
man. liut, as men will doubtless be gradu
ally improved under the discussions attendant
upon this movement, even such a calamity
would not be absolute.. It might possibly
prove, indeed a blessing in disguise, and con
vert a rather unsatisfactory woman into quite
a tolerable man.
OUR SHIPPING INTERESTS AND COM
MERCE HOVv CAN WE REVIVE
THEM ?
From the N. Y. Herald.
There is but one opinion as to the necessity
of doing something to restore the shipping
and commerce of the country. Every Ameri
can mourns over the departed glory of our
former maritime greatness. Ten years aero
the tonnage of tho United States exceeded that
of any other nation. W e had over hve and a
half , millions of tons, inclusive of registered,
enrolled, and licensed steam and sailing ves
sels. Mow we have less than lour millions,
This is a decline of over a million and a half
tons in less than ten years. The yroaUut
falling off has been in the tonnage employed
in foreign trade. The cause of this is well
known. The terrible civil war which we
lately passed through drove our shipping
from the oceans, and transferred both the
ownership and the carrying trade to for
eigners. But that is not the worst. We
have been coiner, behind relatively to other
maritime nations, and particularly to Eng
land, ever since. Our great maritime and
commercial rival has got a long way ahead
in the race. She has not been slow to lm
prove the advantages given to her by the
war, and considering her resources and
facilities for ship-building she will maintain
her supremacy, unless extraordinary and wise
measures be taken to revive our shipping
interests.
What can be done, then, to restore our ship
ping and commerce ? That is the question,
and no easy one to solve. But our shipping
interests can be resuscitated and we may
again take the first rank among maritime
nations if proper measures be adopted. We
are told, it is true, that the wages of labor
being so much higher here than in Great
Britain and other parts of Europe' and the
interest of money so much greater, that we
cannot compete with foreign shipbuilders.
Then they have the materials for building
and au the things that enter into htting up
and navigating vessels far cheaper. Nor can
it be denied that in ureat LSrnain, and par
ticuiariy on the uiyae, tuey nave attained a
high degree of skill in shipbuilding, as well
as having sunenor advantages in the abun
dasce and cheapness of materials and labor. In
the matter of skill in modelling and construct
ing vessels we are equal to the British, if not
superior, and there could be no doubt about
finding within a short time all the skilled
labor necessary lor any amount of work. Nor
can Great Britain beat us in the quality of
timber and iron used for shipbuilding, while
we have a thousand times over more in quan
tity. It is, then, simply a question of com
parative cost in the price of materials and
labor. This we cannot overcome. We cannot
bring the wages of American labor, either in
preparing the materials or in putting them
together, to the level of British labor. Nor
can we bring the interest of money or capital
down to what it is in Europe, 'mere are so
many opportunities of employing profitably
here, and such a demand tor it in the deve
lopment ot this new country, that money
must continue to be more valuable than
abroad, u is evident, therefore, that we
cannot compete, under such unequal condi
tions, with Great Britain in shipbuilding.
Committees of (Jongress have been long and
carefully examining the matter as to how the
tonnage of the country can be increased and
our shipping and commercial interests re
vived, and there have been a number of pro
positions maoe in ana to uongress with a
view to accomplish this object. But the
easiest, moht practical, and surest plan seems
to be the one that nnds least favor. We
mean that of changing the Registry law so as
to permit our merchants and capitalists to
buy vessels abroad where they can get them
cheapest and best. If American merchants
were permitted to have vessels so purchased
nationalized the same as if they were built
here, we Bhould soon see a vast increase of
our tonnage. It would not be long before
we should have splendid steamship lines
competing with those of England on the
ocean. If even the American built vessels
which changed their national character and
pastied into the hands of foreigners during the
war were allowed a register aoain under the
old flag, a great many might be repurchased
by our citizens, and thas our tonnage be
increased. But it is urged that the repeal
or change of the Registry law would damage
or retard shipbuilding here for a time, if not
almost ruin that branch of industry. It
might possibly check shipbuilding here at
first, but in the end that interest would not
be damaged, for the increase of our com
merce would develop new wants and give
more employment in time even to oar own
shipyards, men competition stimulates en
terprise, and, with a gradual return to the
normal condition of things as they were be
fore the war, our mechanics, inventors, iron
workers, and shipbuilders would soon learn
to rival those of Great Britain. But. after
all, the shipbuilding interest is not the great
est in the country, and in importance does
not begin to compare with the interests in
volved in a large mercantile marine and in
the foreign commerce of the country. The
interests of a few shipbuilders, of the iron
workers of Pennsylvania, and of the lumber
men of Maine, are insignificant compared
with those of general commerce and the
carrying trade. ' To increase the tonnage of
the country, to bring us up to our former
maritime greatness and to make the United
states the successful rival of England, throw
all other questions and local interests into
the shade. This is the one supremely im
portant object to be considered.
Among the crude schemes submitted to
Congress for increasing our tonnage is that
of giving bounties or a direot bonus of money
on every ton of ships that may be built. This
is the most absurd, ruinous and corrupting
scheme ever proposed in a Legislature. It
would be a stupendous fraud upon the people
and Treasury for the benefit of a few indi
viduals and must lead to a great corruption.
Something might be done, and, perhaps,
ought to be done, to help shipbuilding by
taking off the duty on iron and other mate
rials actually used in the construction of
vessels. The interests of navigation might
be promoted also by a drawback of the duty
on things that are used on board ships. A
liberal compensation for mail service to im
portant steamship linen might foster that im
portant branch of the mercantile marine.
But, perhaps, the most effeotive way to both
stimulate shipbuilding and to rapidly increase
our tonnage would be to make a difference
in duties upon imported merchandise when
carried in American bottoms. If ten, fifteen,
or more per cent, of duties were taken off
imported foreign goods when carried by
American ships, our merchants would very
soon import their goods under the flag of the
United states, it may be Baid that such a
discrimination in favor of American and
against foreign bottoms would give offense
to ther commercial nations and cause them to
retaliate. Well, we are not afraid of that.
They are compelled to seek a market here for
their silks, satins, cloths, bijouterie, and
luxuries of all kinds, and it would do no harm
if we did not consume so many of these,
while our staples of cotton, tobacco, and
other things they must have. In fact, they
could not retaliate so as to do us any serious
harm. Our own interests, and particularly
those of our shipping and commerce, are first
to be considered. To discriminate largely
and wisely in favor of American bottoms in
the carrying trade between this country and
foreign countries would rapidly increase our
tonnage. It is to be hoped Congress will
drop all the crude and little schemes for re
viving the shipping interests of the country.
and especially that monstrous one of a bonus
on tonnage, and will adopt some comprehen
8ive plan worthy of statesmen.
GOV. HOFFMAN ritOTEOTQ DUOADWXI
l rom the K. Y. Times.
Governor Hoffman has indicated his con
sistency and preserved the city from flagrant
robbery and outrageous wrong by refusing
to sanction the Arcade Railroad bilL The
reasons for his decision are clearly stated in
the document we printed on Monday morn-
3 ii e . 1 1. 1 l : i : it
ing, aim mey iuiuuu iuo uiupiuab vmuicauuu
of his course. To the readers of the 1 uncs.
the objections relied upon by the Governor
are not new. We urged them again and again,
during the progress of the measure through
the Legislature, whose action is now omciauy
arraigned with a cogency which seems to us
irresistible.
To state fairly the provisions of the bill is
to secure its condemnation. The extraordi
nary powers conferred upon the corporators,
the unexampled manner in which the rights
of property are invaded and the business in
terests of our great thoroughfare placed in
jeopardy, the extent to which public pro
perty is surrendered in utter violation of
faith with the city's creditors, the fact that
for the purpose of conducting a speculative
experiment the machinery of the local Gov
ernment is operated adversely to the puDiio
weal, are points upon which the Governor
enlarges with admirable effect. He shows
that while property-owners are menaoed
with a method of estimating damages or
compensation for which there is neither pre
cedent nor justification, and while public
property is assigned away to an extent
which has no parallel, the corporators are
virtually absolved from the responsibility
which should attach to all publio works.
They acquire enormous and most dangerous
privileges, and, in turn, furnish no adequate
guarantees. They may take public property
without compensation, and, after all, leave a
large part of their project untouched. They
may obstruct business for a period that is
practically unlimited, and so defeat the only
purpose of the bill which possesses the least
plausibility. They are made the masters of
Broadway, its property and trade, all in con
nection with an enterprise which many prac-
tical men pronounce visionary, ana ior me
failure of which there can be no remedy.
To the corporators the bill is a mine of
wealth; to our propertied and trading classes
it is a scheme of spoliation and wrong; to the
general publio it is a delusion and a snare.
From evils so manifold and great the in
tervention of Governor Hoffman happily de
livers us. He has moral courage enough to
disregard appeals based upon his alleged" ap
proval of another charter, and vision clear
enough to detect the falsity of the pretenses
by which some have sought to conceal the
real scope of the plan. Nor does he ignore
the necessity of providing increased facilities
for city transit. The direction to which the
growth of the city is limited renders impera
tive additional means of travel; but an ad
mitted public necessity furnishes no pretext
for a scheme fraught with the mischief and
peril which attach to the Arcade Railroad bill.
Wa hmilrt have been glad had Governor
Jloffman's sense of duty prompted him to go
one step beyond his present posiuou,
protest against any scheme involving inter
ference with the sarface of Broadway. Apart
altogether from the objections incident to
the particular bill in regard to which his
Judgment is so emphatically stated, we think
that the necessity of preserving Broadway
intact, as against all railroad schemers, can
not be too soon or too explicitly affirmed.
Other methods of getting up town are indeed
indispensable, but they Bhould be provided
without essentially changing the present
character of Broadway. Relieve it by di
verting some of the traffio which at certain
hours now floods it, but let it be preserved
from railroads, surface or underground, If
the Legislature could be indsced to manifest
this determination, we believe that improve
ments through other channels would be has
tened, and the property-owners and business
men of Broadway would be preserved from
the assaults that are now made upon them
periodically.
PROTECTION AND THE REPUBLICAN
PARTY.
From the Cincinnati Gazette.
The Democratic journals, particularly the
New York World, propose that Republicans
who advocate a reform of the present tariff
shall join the Democratic party. They do not
desire that the Republican party shall reform
the tariff, but rather that the present odious
system shall stand, in the hope that it will
split the Republican party. And it has been
observed that the Democratic members of Con
gress act upon this policy, and that when
questions of practical tariff reform come up
in such a shape as to make them show their
hands, they are found unreliable. A number
of times daring the tariff debate of the pre
sent session important ameliorations of the
present proscriptive system might have been
carried if Democratic members had sup
ported them.
Un the other hand Horace Greeley, who
may be accepted as the representative of the
Republican proscriptionists, co-operates with
the Democratic plan of splitting the Repub
lican party on the tariff, by declaring that
their scale of a tariff is "an impost of $100
a ton on pig iron, with like duties on every
thing made of iron," and the application of a
like scale of duties to wool and woollens.
plain and printed cottons, linens, eto, etc."
in short, absolute prohibition. And that be
is willing to concede something to harmonize
the party, but he says: "The tariff, as it is,
makes enormous concessions from our mark,
which we assent to for quiet's sake."
He therefore lays down terms to tariff re
form Republicans, which in substance are
these: Protection means prohibition. But
he will compromise on a lower scale of duties
than $100 a ton, provided it be practically
prohibitory on the articles of the favored
interests. Therefore he will accept the pre
sent tariff as an ultimatum, If there are Re
publicans who will not accept these terms,
then they may leave the party. ' If this party
reconstrnction shall take place, then he de
clares for a revision of the tariff on the scale
of $100 a ton for pie iron. All this was laid
down in an article in the Tribune a few days
ago, in the insolent and abusive style which
Mr. Greeley deems proper to apply to all who
differ with his proscription lunacies.
We do not pretend to say that the Tribune
and the World plotted this concerted policy
for splitting the Republican party. It shows
a striking coincidence, and Mr. Greeley has
been reported as in very suspicious Demo
cratic company lately. At any rate, the Tri
bune is playing the game laid down by the
World for dividing the . Republican party,
and with, most intemperate zeal, by refusing
to know any such thing as tariff reform; by
declaring that all who are not for prohibitory
duties are free traders, and their professions
of tariff reform a lie; by heaping upon them
its stock charges and epithets about British
gold and British interests, and by proclaiming
its prohibitory ultimatum for the existence of
the party.
But this joint game for splitting the Re
puDiican party win not win. The sincere
tariff reformers are not going to wait for so
' poprtfc as the anndancv of the
Democratio party. Nor have they any cer
tainty what the tariff policy of the Demo
cratic party would be. , The organs cannot
now define it. It is not long since the World.
apparently becoming alarmed at ,the strength
of the tariff reform movement in the Repub
lican party, changed its note, and advised its
party to accept no compromise on tariff re
form, but to demand absolute free trade.
The present tariff has grown up on various
frauds, pretenses, and grabs during the war.
When enacted the extremest protectionists
avowed that only the war and the heavy in
ternai excise jusunea it. jnow the excise is
abolished, and there is a surplus revenue- of
$7',000,000. It can not stand, and it grows
weaker every day. Another Congressional
election will bring in the moral and material
forces that win reiorm tne tarui upon a sys
tem which win mane revenue ana not prohi
bition the object, while wise discriminations
will give sufficient advantage to home manu
factures without creating monopolies. If
the prohibitionists are content with this, they
win nave an opportunity or joining those
whom they are now serving by their efforts
to split the Republican party.
GOVERNOR nOFFMAN AND THE
ARCADE RAILROAD.
From the S. Y. Sun, v
For reasons already noted, Gov. Hoffman
has sent te the Secretary of State, without his
approval, the act authorizing the construc
tion of the Broadway Arcade Railroad. He
analyzes the act, and objects to a nnmber of
its provisions with more or less energy, but
his principal ground seems to be that nothing
is required to be paid into the City Treasury
in return for the privileges which the bill
proposes to confer upon the railroad com
pany. Considering that the whole under
taking is, as he says himself, a difficult and
costly one, and that its success is problemati
cal, and considering, too, that all the citi
zens and property-holders in the city would
be immensely benefited by it if it should
succeed, this objection would seem to be
much more captious than solid. The Gover
nor might better have contented himself
with refusing to sign the bill, and not have
argued the question at all.
The simple truth is that Governor Hoffman
has succumbed to the pressure brought to
bear upon him by some of the millionaires
who own real estate on Broadway, and who
fear that the Arcade Railroad may possibly
diminish its value. He has taken the side of
the rich against the poor; of the capitalists
against the laboring classes; of the aristocrats
against the people. He has turned a deaf ear
to the cry of the toiling thousands who de
mand cheap and rapid transportation between
the upper and the lower part of the city, and
listened only to the appeals of gentlemen with
heavy bank accounts. We presume bis con
duct will be remembered Bhould he ever again
come before the people for their suffrages.
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Properties 946,900-00
11,931,400 Par.
Market value, 11,955,970-00
COSt, il.316,629-97.
Real Estate
neai Estate m,ooo-oo
Bills Receivable for Insurances made . . . 933,700-78
uwoii uue m Agencies:
Premiums on Marine Policies, Accrued
Interest, and Other debts due tha Com.
Pany .. 6,W90
Stoek, Scrip, etc, of Sundry Corpora.
tlons,47. Estimated value t,T40-90
vBsn in anx 1168,31899
Cash in Drawer 78-8
169,99114
1,853,100-04
DIRECTORS.
Thomas C. Band,
T Y. T i "
Samuel X. Stokes,
William i. Bouiton,
Edward Darlington,
U. Jones Brooke,
Edward Lafoorcade,
Jacob Riegel,
Jacob Pi Jones,
James B. McKarland,
Joshua P. Eyre,
Knenrpr Mrtlvnln.
jumu ... nana,
Edmund A. Bonder,
Theophllus Paulding,
James Traqualr,
Henry Sloan,
Henry C Dallett, Jr.,
'amesC Hand,
William C Ludwlg,
Joseph H. Seal,
Hngh Craig,
John D. Taylor,
George W. Bernadon,
J. B. Bern pie, Pittsburg,
a. is. merger, nttsourg,
D. T. Morgan, Pittsburg
THOMAS C HAND, President.
JOHN C. DAVis, Vice-president.
HENRY LYLBURN, Secretary.
HENRY BALL Assistant Secretary. ' 1 1
HOMESTEAD
LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY.
Policies Issued on all the Ordinary
Plans,
AT LOW RATES OF PREMIUM,
With fall participation In the Fronts.
All Policies NonForreItalIe.
Fnl Cash Surrender Indorsed on Each Policy.
NO RESTRICTIONS A8 TO TRAVEL OR RESI
DENCfl. The form of policy adopted is a pUio and afmpla con.
tract. preoiM and dennit in ita terma. sad frea from
mDiguoBa eonaiuona and restrictions.
Special attention ia called to tha
HOMESTEAD PLAN
this Company, offerinc the
COMBINED ADVANTAGES
or TBS
Building: -Ajsjsociatiou
AND or
JL.il O IllHlLVflllCO. .
ycry a-oiicy jioiaer secures a
House or His Own.
Descriptive Pamphlets, with Rates, f umiahed on appll
cation to the Company.
- OFFICE, '
N. W. corner Seventh and Chesnut Sts.
PHILADELPHIA.
WILLIAM M. SEYFERT, President.
LAURENCE MYERS,
Vioe-Preaident.
D. HAYES AON EW, M. D.,
, Medical Director. .
R. W. DORPULEY,
Secretary.
WILLIAM L. HIRST
- OoooaeL
DU1ECTOK1.
Wm. B. Reaney,
Kdwardhamoel,
H. P. Muirheid,
Clayton McMiohael. 496m
Wm. M. Seyfert, .
Laurenoe Myere,
J. M. Myere,
Wm. 8. McManns.
1829. CHARTER PERPETUAL.
FraiUii Fire Insurance Cipy
Office, Hos. 435 an"d437 CHESNUT St.
Assets Jan. I,' 702,8 25,7 3167
CAPITAL (400,060-00
AOCRUKD SURPLUS AND PREMIUMS.... iBl W
IKOOMK FOR 18:0,
BlU,0U0.
LOSSES PAID TBI 1880,
Lcs:csr3id eiccg 1829 over $5,500,000
Perpetual and Temporary Petioles on Liberal Terms.
The Company alao iuaea policies npon the Kent of all
kind of BuildiDga, Ground Keata, and Mortracea.
ib "E&AKK.LiN" baa no DISPUTED CLAIM.
DIRECTORS.
Alfred O. Baku.
Samuel Grant.
George W. Richards,
laaac Lea.
Thomas Spark
William b.UraOa
TbomaaS. Kllu,
flnitMiii H K.nmn.
George tales.
ALFRED li KAKHR. Praaidank.
GKOKGK VALK6, Vioe-Preaident,
JAMF.8 W. MoALLlbl KH, Secretary.
TH KODORK M. KEGKH. Aaaietaot Secretary, f 19
THE PENNSYLVANIA FIRE INSURANCE
COMPANY.
Incorporated lhti Unarter Perpetual.
No. (10 WALNUT btreet, oppoaite Independence Square.
Tbia Company, favorably Known to the community far
orer forty yeara, continusa to insure against loaa or dam.
age by tire on Publio or Private Buildinge, either perma
nently or tor a limned time. Alao on furniture, blocks
of Goods, and Merchandise icenerally, on liberal terma.
. Their Capital, together with a Urge Surplus Fund, is
invested in the most careful manner, which enabloe them
to ofier to the insured an undoubted aeuarity in the esse
of Inaa
""" cutECioBft.
Daniel 8mith, Jr., I John Derereux,
Alexander Benson, I Thomaa binith,
Isaao Hacieburat, I Henry Lewie,
Tbomaa Kob.n. M.
WM. O. CROWELlLtg.c.t: J" Yfc
THE ENTERPRISE INSURANCE CO. OF
PHII.ADKLPHIA.
Office 8. W. corner of FOURTH and WALNUT Streets
IRK INjsURANUK KXCIA'KI VKLY.
PKBPtTUAL AND TK KM POL10IJCS I6SUED.
CAbU Capital (paid op ia fall) 0,uuu'00
lata amciii jaa. i, ivy-.. 9,JiiZ l
DIRECTORS.
T. Ratchford Starr,
Nalbro racier,
Jobs M. Atwood.
Renj. T. Tredick.
J. Liruuratoa Krrin
James L. U lag horn.
Wm. U. Bouiton.
Charlae Wheeler,
Thomas H. Montgomery,
Jaineo M. Aerteen.
ueorire ti. btuart.
John 11. Brown, Jaineo M. Aerti
F. RATCHFORD 8TAKK, Preaidena.
THOMAS H. MONTtiOMfcHY, Vice-President.
ALEX. W. WIN I KK. beoreUry.
JACOB K. PJtTKiibOM, Assistant Ssorstary.
IN8URANOfc.
INSURANCE COMPANY
NORTH AMERICA.
JaftrjlBT 1 lR7fl.
Charter PerpotaaL
farorpernted lI4.
CAPITAL. S.100,000
A WETS.., SJ,783,3Sl
. i
Leaea paid since raanlza.tlaa. .. .8 j:t, 000,000
Receipts mf Preatlama, 1S69....8 1,91,M37'43
latereat front laveetnaeata, 69. 114,69674
K'2.IOI(..'V:t.ftf .
Isaacs paid, 1869 81,033,3S6'84
Mintemeat af tha Asaeta.
Pint Mortiraaes on Oity Property..... fj7&,4&0
United States Government and ether Loaa
Bonds UaiM .
Railroad, Bank and Oaoal Stocks. tt,TOs -
Gash In Bank and Gffloe MI,aw
Loans en Collateral Security M 83,668
Notes Recallable, mostly Matins Premiums...
Accrued Interest M 90,367
Preminma in course of tranamisaiea.... ....... M 86,190
Unsettled Marine Preminma. . . n 100,000
Real Estate, Office of Company Philadelphia.. niooo
DIRECTORS.
Arthur O.
Fraaoie R. Oopa,
Kdward IL Trot tar,
Kdward S. Clarke,
T. Obarltoa Henry,
Alfred O. Jeesup.
Louis O. Madeira,
Oharlee W. Onahmao,
Clement A. Grisootn,
William Brookla.
BemnelW.Jo see,
John A. Bros a,
Charles Isy lor,
Ambrose Vvbita,
William Welsh,
B. Morris W ain,
John Mason,
Georte L. Harrison,
ARTHUR O. COFFIN, President.
OHARLRS PLATT, Vloe President, '
Matthias Makib, Secretary.
O. H. Rrrvxs, Assistant Secretary. t 4 '
piRE AB8GCIATI
O N.
INCORPORATED MARCH 87, Kao.
OFFICE,
no. 34 NORTH FIFTH STREET
ENSURE
BUILD HOUSEHOLD FURX1TUKE, AVSD
MERCHANDISE GENERALLY,
From Loss by Firs (ia the City ot Philadelphia Only). .
AB8ETH, J ANUARY 1, 1870, 8 1.37 5.
TRUSTEES.
WM. H. HAMILTON,
JOHN OARROW.
GKOKGK I. YOUNG,
JOS. R. LTNDALL,
t rTt T riniTH
OHARLRS P. BOWER. ,
JK88K LIGHTFOOTl
ROBT. SHOEMAKER.
PETER ARMBRUSTER,
SAMUEL SPAR HAWK,
... U.
PETER WILUAMSOIT.
nun rv, ini r-rv wj -,
JOSEPH E, BOHELL.
WM. H. HAMILTON, President.
SAMUEL BPARHAWK, Vice-PraeJdenta
WILLIAM T. BUTLER
Secretary.
IH
JPAME INSURANCE COMPANY,
No, 809 CHESNUT Street
INCORPORATED 1866. CHARTER PERPETUAL,
CAPITAL (300,000.
FIRE INSURANCE EXCLUSIVELY.
Iniurance.agsirst Loss or Damage by Fire either by Par.
petual or Temporary Policies.
DIRKUTOR8.
Charles Richardson. , Robert Pearoe.
William H. Rhawn,
William M. beyfert,
John F. Smith,
Nathan liilles.
John Keealer, Jr., ' r
Kdward B. Orne,
Charles btokes, "
John W. KTermaa,
Mordeoal Buzby. .
George A. West,
WILLIAM H. RHAWN, Vioe-President.
Williams I. Blah chard. Secretary. 7 23j
TMPEWAIi FIRE INSURANCE CO.,
LONDON. '
ESTABLISHED 1803.
raid-up Capital and Accumulated Funds,
88,000,000 1 3V GOLD.
PKEVOST & HERRING, Agents,
45 No. 107 8. THIRD Street, Philadelphia,""
OH AS. M. PRKVOBT OH AS. P. HERRING:
LPMBERi
1QTii 8PRUCK JOI8T. IOTA
10 i U SPRUCE JOIST. 10 I U
HEMLOCK.
HEMLOCK. '
1QrrA SEASONED CLEAR PINE. -fQ-TA
10 I U SEASONED CLEAR PINE. 10 4 U
CHOICE PATTERN PINE.
SPANISH CEDAR, FOR PATTERNS.
RED CEDAR.
1QTA FLORIDA FLOORING. 1 0TA
10 I U FLORIDA FLOORING. lOlU
CAROLINA FLOORING.
VIRGINIA FLOORING.
DELAWARE FLOORING.
ASH FLOORING.
WALNUT FLOORING.
FLORIDA STEP BOARDS.
RAIL PLANK.
1 OTA WALNUT BOARDS AND PLANK. 1 OTA
10 f U WALNUT BOARDS AND PLANK. 10 I U
WALNUT BOARDS.
WALNUT PLANK.
1Q7A UNDERTAKERS' LUMBER, i QTA
10 I V UNDERTAKERS' LUMBER. 1 0 I U
RED CEDAR. ;J ,
' WALNUT AND PINE. . .
1870
SEASONED POPLAR.
SEASONED CHERRY.
1870
ASH
WHITE OAK PLANK AND BOARDS.
HICKORY.
1870
CIGAR BOX MAKERS' , -t OTA
CIGAR BOX MAKERS' 1 0 II
SPANISH CEDAR BOX BOARDS,
FOB SALE LOW.
1870
CAROLINA SCANTLING.
CAROLINA H. T. SILLS.
NORWAY SCANTLING.
1870
1870
CEDAR SHINGLES. H QTA
CYPRESS SHINGLES. 10 I If
MAULS. BROTHER A CO.,
No. 8600 SOUTH Street
in
PAX EL PLANK, ALL THICKNESSES.
1 COMMON PLANK. ALL THIO&MIfcSbJBM.
1 COMMON BOARDS. .
I and 8IDK FENCE BOARDS.
WHITE PINK FLOORING BOARDS.
YELLOW AND SAP PINK FLOORING.. LMtnd 4Mk
SPRUCE JOIHT. ALL 6IZKS. "wi,M ,-"
H KMLOOK JOIST, ALL 8I2E&
JsTKKiNu Lath 'a specialty.
Toe-ether with a senarsJ assortment of Btuldin Ltuabsr
lor aale low tor sash. T. W. 6MALTZ.
11 U em FIFTEENTH and BTILKS Streets.
United States Builders' Mill,
FIFTEENTH" Street below Market
ESLER & BROTHER.
PROPRIETORS. , 4 29Sm.
Wood Mouldings, Bracket and General Turning
Work, Bacd-rsll rialugters and Newel Posts.
A LARGE ASSORTMENT ALWAYS ON HAND.'
UMBER U N d'e R COVER,
ALWAYS DRY. '
Walnut, White Pine, Yellow Pine, Spruce, Hem
lock, Shingles, etc., always on hand at low rate.
WATSON A G1LUNGHAM,
8 m No. m RICHMOND Street. ISth ward.
BUILDING MATERIALS.
B. E. THOMAS & C0.
DIALKB8 IN
Doors, Blinds, Sash, Shutters,,
WINDOW FRAMES, ETC.,
K. w, CORKIB of
EIGHTEENTH and MARKET Streets
sll PHILADELPHIA.