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THE DAILY EVENING TELEGRAPH PHILADELPHIA, TUESDAY, AUGUST 23, 1870
oriRiT or Trxn rnsss.
Editorial Opinions of the Leading Journals
upon Current Topics Compiled Every
Day for the Evening Telegraphy
THE FAKItAOUT FUNERAL.
From the A'. V. World.
Tho oliseqtiies of this gallant sailor a
modest aud really heroic man have, ia one
respect, boen nil that conld be wished. The
neighborhood where he accidentally died,
without reserve or distinction of social or
political position, followed him as mourners
to the grave; his own pastor took tho trouble
to hasten from ft distance to the scene, and
utter tho grand words of the Liturgy over the
coffin as it sank from view; the gallant soldier
who fought bravely though disastrously the
initial battle of the war was there; and within
sound of the ocean which he loved so well
our greatest sailor sank to rest. But let us,
in no tinkindness, ask, was there not some
thing wanting? It seems to us there was a
great deal.
It has always been a matter of wonder
why, in this ocean-bounded land of ours,
there is euclr disparity in the honors paid to
our sailors and our soldiers, either living or
dead. If a blustering brigadier dies of apo-pli-xv
or some less reputable ailment in our
midst, icgiments and draped flags and nivtf
ttl drums ostentatiously follow him on his
last march; and if he happen to be a Cabinet
minister, and the friend, though a forgotten
one. of an actual President, old cannon nre
melted up and a commission goes to Home or
Munich for a statue. The poor sailor's death
is announced by scattering minute guna
not, as formerly, all over the world, but in
decrepit navy yards by cheap bunting at
half-mast, and an instant quarrel for promo
tion. This is not so in tho land of our ances
tors. It did not use to be here. The ceremo
nial of lHo.'i over England's sailor was rela
tively as grand as that of 1852 over her sol
dier. Trufalgar and Waterloo knew no dif
ference; and Nelson, between his two lieute
nants, Northesk and Collingwood, lies in the
crypt of St. rani's, and in a tomb meant for
Yfoolse-y, not far from Wellington. With
us it was once the same. Hull and Decatur
and Bainbridge were drawn in triumph
through the streets of Philadelphia, and in
her graveyards, with Biddle and Stewart,
are appropriately entombed. At the gateway
of Trinity lie the remains of Lawrence anil
Ludlow, and "Don't give up the ship!" was
once a classic phrase. But by some inscruta
ble process it is all fading away, and Farra
gut who, as we have said, took New
Orleans, without which Grant's slow vic
tories would have been fruitless, and,
lashed in the rigging at Mobile, ran greater
personal risk than our Fresident ever did
is butied with no recognition but such as the
newspapers gave him, and without a single
member of the executive branch of the Gov
ernment pausing a moment in his career of
snmmer recreation to honor him. Ex-Secretary
Welles was there and it was a graceful
act on the part of a grateful friend; and Mr.
G. V. Fox, he who tinkered Fort Sumter and
perpetuated the Fotomao blockade, but still
a naval man true to his instincts; and Sena
tor Wilson, ready genorally to do an amiable
act; and General Bauks. But where was
Butler (Lowell is not far from Portsmouth),
who did not take New Orleans? Where
was Boutwell, the New England mem
ber of the Cabinet, close at hand ?
Where was the llepublican Governor
of New Hampshire ? Where was Secretary
ltobeson, with railroads and gunboats ad
libitum; whore was the antecedent Borie;
where was Vice-Admiral Porter, who once
was Farraguts pet, and under whose father's
flag, in distant seas, our dead hero gained
his first laurels; and, above all, where was
President Grant? The circle around which
he was swinging, from East to West and back
again, was nearly complete. The soldier of
Yicksburg at the grave of the sailor of New
Orleans and Mobile would have been, in its
way, as picturesque as Charles Napier lookin"
into the vault of Wellington. It is idle to
say that difficulties of transit prevented it.
Whatever railway and steamboat difficulties
may have sprung up since the summer of
18t!, there would have been many a one too
happy to speed the President on ' this pious
errand, had he been inclined to go. We
hardly think, though the suspicion has more
than once darkened our mind, that we have
so far sunk into ceremonialism that a ques
tion of official etiquette prevented this grace
ful and decorous act. All we know is that
neither he nor anv of his Cabinet were there.
When in a radical corner of Connecticut there
is to be a frolic, and Beecher is to blow his
blast, and Hawley and Butler are to brawl,
and Woodford is to make a fulsome speech,
our President finds time to go. But not to
the grave of Farragut !
The absence of naval men of high rank on
this occasion, there being but one rear-admiral,
and the rest of the pall-bearers being
surgeons and paymasters and marine officers,
is accounted for, not satisfactorily we must
say, by a difficulty created by a recent act of
Congress (a spiggot-saving piece of eco
nomy,) curtailing expenses on such occasions.
Are tBere no admirals or commodores or post
captains willing, for the honor of their pro
fession, to make this journey of respect even
at their own expense; and is there no contin
gent fund of the Navy Department to defray
this puny charge ? Of this we are very sure:
that when the question of promotion ia Ad
miral Farragut s place comes to be consi
dered, if the personal attendance of aspirants
is deemed important, considerations of ex-
t)ense will not be thought of. There will,
lowever, we imagine, be no room for compe
tition. The principle which led Grant to
overslaugh Meade and Thomas on shore will
promote his personal friend Porter at sea, and
he will not be thwarted, even though in doing
such an honor he actually insults the memory
of the dead by appointing an enemy to suc
ceed bim.
WANTED, PROTECTION AGAINST IN
DUSTRIAL QUACKERY.
tf'on. the A'. Y. Times.
The abundant and economical production
of good iron and steel, perhaps the most im
portant industrial probleu of the age, is em
bairassed by manifold and stubborn diffi
culties. Many of tho best deposits of ore
and coal are remote from commercial and
manufacturing centres. Ores differ vastly
in composition, and the same mine may be
free from harmful ingredients in one part
and fatally full of tliem in another. Thus
vast and costly scientif o and experimental
researches into the nature and capacities
of each mineral deposit become necessary.
Iron and steel-working machinery is pecu
iiaily expensive, and the constant improve
mmt of tools and processes involves as con
stant reconstruction. Then the question of
labor in tLis manufacture is peculiarly in
volved and unsettled. All these things and
many lore, both sciestiflc R'ld com were
i ii pc'do the progress, of tew iavenUans, but
the most stubborn and' annoying embarrass
ment that improvements have to encounter
is editorial advertising in the New York
Tribvne.
Some months ago this great authority on
metallurgy egregiously puffed, in a leading
column, the wonderful invention of n Dr.
Field, by which all other Iron and stool pro
cespes were to be nnpersedod, by which the
furnaces of Great Britain were to be shut up,
end by which some of the most miraculous
things unknown to science were to be per
foimed. Among others, "iron castings" wero
to be made "five times as strong as those
produced by the old processes" a simple
physical impossibility, which the inventor even
did cot attempt. The utter absurdity of tha
7 ribune's representations, and the indecency
of its grasp after favor and capital, simply
disgusted iron masters, and thus embarrassed
the development of Dr. Field's process. It
wos, however, thoroughly and faithfully tried
at last by the inventor himself, aided by all
the skill and facilities of two of our largest
iron works, and although it had some little
merit, it was of insufficient value to warrant
its adoption at either of these works. In
common with numerous kindred inventions
a mere flux to remove some of the im
purities from iron it has alroady Hunk out
of sight as an invention of limited utility and
importance.
The Tribvne has now fastened itself
around the neck of another diseovory of
some promise the use of the Codorus ore,
found in Pennsylvania, in purifying iron.
In its own convincing manner, it bids for tho
favorable consideration of the iron trado, by
asserting that the standard processes are now
to be "superseded." No modern iron or Bteel
process has been superseded, heretofore, by
a new discovery; they have modified and im
proved each other. Blooming, puddling, ce
mentation, crucible-melting, Bessemeiizing,
and the Siemens-Martin and all other
established processes, instead of dis
placing each other, are all increasing
and growing tip together. In many
cases the new processes enlarge the
field of the older ones, and in no case has
any process reached perfection; but all of
them are the constant subjects of experimen
tal improvement. This being the goneral
law of the development of iron metallurgy,
the authority quoted attempts to establish its
latest speculation by promising that the gene
ral law-shall now be reversed. The standard
process,- yet in its youth, is to be entirely
wiped out by one in its infancy by a pro
cess which, although barely developed in one
town, is subject to no difficulties of varying
materials and skill, but produces "a perfect
sleel with no risk of failure."
The good-will and confidence of manufac
turers thus being secured, our contemporary
proceeds to give metallurgists some informa
tion, of which one sample, we think, will an
swer every purpose. A perfect steel, it says,
is "produced by the ordinary puddling pro
cess '"which is simply a physical impossibility.
The puddling process decarbnrizes melted
pig-iron and reduces it to a pasty ball of mal
leable iron. Certain grades of puddling iron
are sometimes called "puddled steel" or "semi
steel," but the term "steel" is universally held
to apply only to a malleable product that has
been f ait from a liquid state, and is hence, in
character and structure, essentially differ
ent from any possible product of the puddling
process. Such being the actual state of the
art, the Tribune assures railroad men
and metallurgists that it is a simple process,
"with which they are perfectly familiar."
And, finally, in order that no single feature
of the discovery may escape its handling,
the Tribune recommends the new steel for
rails, on the ground that "Colonel Boyer, of
Pottsville, who has no Interest in this dis
covery, and never visited the mines till Mon
day," finds it to be an excellent "tool" steel.
In every other rail process, the chief effort is
to make the metal as unlike tool steel as pos
sible, but then the idea of tool-steel rails is
not very startling when once we have fami
liarized ourselves with puddling cast-steel,
increasing the strength of cast-iron five fold
by a flux, and the general upsetting of our
previously acquired knowledge and devices.
Seriously, American industry should be pro
tected against the clumsy caresses of its
friends.
A WEEK OF BATTLES.
From, the A7. Y. Sun.
The battles a round Metz were continued
on Saturday, with a desperate effort by Mar
shal Bazaine to cut his way through the Prus
sian lines, and reopen his communication
with Paris. After three hours' fighting he
was forced back within the fortifications; and
he will hardly renew an attempt in which he
has so many times been foiled, and with such
enormous bloodshed.
Uow great are the losses of the two parties
we have no precise information; for both
the French and the Prussian authorities
prevent the transmission of any detailed
reports tipon this subject. But the French
constantly represent the Prussians as suffer
ing dreadfully, and the King of Prussia says
that the killed and wounded of Thursday's
encounter were forty thousand. In this
number he evidently includes the French as
well as his own. On Friday both armies
appear to .have rested after their herouloan
struggles of Thursday, so that in the week
there were six days of combat. Of these,
Thursday must have been much the bloodil
est; but it is a moderate estimate that the
killed and wounded in this unprecedented
succession of battles must have amounted
altogether to the sickening aggregate of at
least one hundred and fifty thousand men.
This is three times as large as the losses of
both sides in the two days' battle at Gettys
burg, and more than twice as large as
Grant's in his movement from the Wilder
ness to Petersburg. On which side has the
loss been greatest in the present instance ?
On Sunday, the Hth, both armies fought
without cover, the Prussians surprising the
French and cutting their column in two.
Since then the attax has been made alter
nately by one and the other party, the French
endeavoring to effect their retreat to Cha
lons, and the Prussians endeavoring to shut
them up iu Metz; and each army has alter
nately had the benefit of fighting under
cover of field intrenchments. For this rea
son we conclude that in number of killed and
wounded one must have suffered about as
severely as the other.
Bazaine is now penned up in Metz, and we
ought at once to hear of the Prussian Crown
Prince passing Chalons on his way towards
Paris. The order issued on Saturday to the
farmers about Chalons to bring in all their
grain within twenty-four hours shows that
MacMahon and Frossard, who command the
French forces there, are autioipating a move
ment, and mean to leave no supplies for the
enemy. It is said that, with the heteroge
neous forces at their disposal, they have
taken the desperate hazard of fighting the
Crown Prince.
Litile weight can be allowed to the asser
tion which Count Palikao, the French Miuister
of War, so pertinaciously renews, that it is
lUHine who has pained tha vintorv at Ta7
1 Rid not the Prussiaim. If Bftzaiae is vic
torious, why is be still at Metz ? And why
was he fighting there six days of last week ?
He started before daylight on Sunday to
march to Chalons, where a general concentra
tion of the French forces had been ordered.
He had hardly got outside of Metz before he
was attacked; and though Napoleon himself
ban told the world with what success the at
tack wan repulsed, the march has never been
continued; and though the battle of every
day has, according to Count Palikao, resulted
in French victory, there Bazaine still remains,
less able than ever to march upon Chalons.
Even Palikao does not pretend that he has
received a telegram from Bazaine since Wed
nesday night, the 17th instant, and then it
was sent by a messenger from Bazaino's
enmp to Verdun, because that was the nearest
plaoe still in telegraphic communication with
Paris. The truth that the Second Empire
has been crushed at Metz cannot be denied
or disguised.
While all the world unites in ridiculing the
ability of Napoleon III as a military com
mander, it should not escape notice that Mar
shal Bazaine has boen outgeneralled, sur
prised, and beoten by the Prussians quite as
signally as the Emperor himself, and has
shown an equal readiness to commit the
most inexcusable military blunders. Deluded
by the strength of Metz as a fortress, he con
centrated Ins army there and intended to
fight, but allowed the Prussians to get pos
session of the only railroad connecting Metz
and Chalons. When the Crown Prince broke
this road by blowing up the viaduct across
the Moselle at Pont-a-Mousson on the 13th,
Bazaine perceived his blunder, and ordered
an immediate retreat, but without the aid of
a railroad he had to move with all his trains
by ordinary country highways. Next, no
sooner bad he set out than he was surprised
by Von Steinmetz and Prince Frederick
Charles.
His army was separated in two, and he him
self, with the greater part of it, was forced
back under the fortifications of Metz. There
he has remained ever since; and whenever he
has succeeded in getting out six or a dozen
miles in any direction, he has found evory
controlling position occupied by the Prus
sians; and after fighting the bloody battles of
this memorable week, he will doubtless soon
have to choose between starvation and the
surrender of the Fiench grand army. He has
shown professional incapacity as great as that
of his master; and he may look with envy
even upon tho luckless MacMahon, for though
the latter has likewise been outgenerallel,
surprised, and crushed, the chief responsi
bility has not been his, but belongs to N ipo
leon III.
Thus perishes the mighty sham of the
Second Empire, born in perjury and treash
ery, and built up in fraud and corruption.
The cost to humanity of clearing it away is
awful to think of; but the air of the world
will be purer when it is utterly removed.
REPEATED CHANGING OF GOVERN
MENT CLERKS AND ITS BAD EFFECT.
Prom the A. F. Herald.
It is intimated that the pernicious custom,
which has grown up since Lincoln's time, of
changing clerks at the dictation of every Con
gressman or politician of influence in the Re
publican party, costs the General Government
millions a year, besides imposing an unfair
amount of labor upon the experienced officials,
who find themselves compelled by the exi
gencies of the service to do the work of the
green hands who are constantly coming and
going and confusing the public business.
Before the time of Lincoln the lines of de
marcation separating the three branches of
the government, to wit, the legislative, exe
cutive, and judicial, were clearly drawn and
fully understood. The legislative was left in
undisputed possession of its branch, and
the Executive was undisturbed in the
control and distribution of the public
patronage. The President was conceded
the riglt to appoint whom he pleased
without consultation with Senator Tom, Con
gressman Dick, or Governor Harry. But
now every Senator, Congressman, Governor,
and big State politician claims a certain pro
portionate share of the spoils, so that if one
State gets a feather's weight more than its
qutta there is danger of an internecine party
war. Senators, Congressmen, Governors,
and big politicians claim this distribution,
not as a matter of courtesy, but as an incon
testable right, and they exact the last pound
of flesh with true Shylock greed and with
more than Shylock success. They get their
share, and the consequence is that the public
service has come to be at the mercy of an
unascertained number of politicians. If yes
terday's pet does not suit all the whims of
Mr. Politician to-day, he is Bummarily dis
charged from whatever position he may fill
and a new and greener appointee succeeds.
Under such a civil service system how can
the public interests be properly cared for ?
No sooner are men made acquainted with the
duties of their offices than they are dismissed
the service. As a matter of course the pub
lic service is entrusted mainly to an army of
greenhorns. Only a few of the chief clerks,
who are indispensable for the purpose of
keeping the machinery properly oiled and
working, are constantly kept in office, and
frequently clerks of this class are rooted out
to make room for some political fugleman or
nincompoop, who, through ignorance of the
duties devolving upon the place he is sent to
fill, becomes a dead w eight and a detriment
to the public business.
To illustrate the effect of this system on
some branches of the service, we will take for
example the customs service, under which
there exist many offices requiring the niest
intricate knowledge of old laws, customs and
forms of procedure, calling for the greatest
experience and the most constant and unre
mitting btudy aud attention. Four or five
months ago the head of the Customs Bureau,
finding a confused state of things prevailing
in the warehouse department, sent an elabo
rately prepared series of instructions and re
gulations to the Custom Houses of the coun
try, for the guidance of both Collectors and
their subordinates. The instructions and re
gulations proved too much for the green
horns in office, and a Washington official,
thoroughly versed, had to be despatched
to New York, Boston, and Phila
delphia to enlighten the thick-headed
subordinates. This preceptor remained seve
ral days posting all the clerks, leaving behind
him, moreover, written instructions for their
guidance. He returned to Washington, but
soon after irregularities were notioed agsin,
and repeated warnings and expoatuhtiom by
mail failed to effect any improvement. The
official was obliged to visit New York, Bos
ion, and Philadelphia again, and at each of
the Custom Houses in those cities he was
surprised to find all the clerks in the ware
house department changed. Not a si ogle
one to whom he had imparted information
with so ranch trouble and care remained in
office. All were new clerks, who had no
more knowledge of the duties required of
them than a greenhorn has of the, Greek
grammar. They had been installed ill pUce
of the men of experience by Seuatora, Con
gressmen and big politicians. ,
Alijr icllvwliiig perso .u Ood ho a taijsti
publio system like this offers a premium for
fraud and plunder. There is no incentive
for working presented. The clerks are taught
by the fate of their predecessors that know
ledge and experience are of no account, and
that all they have to consider in how long
they may preserve the good will of their
patrons by political usefulness and how much
they can steal in the short time they are
likely to remain in office.
BEARDING TnE LION.
from the A'. F. Tribune.
Since the days of chivalry we do not know
that anything pluckier ha9 been recorded than
the visit of the Rev. J. P. Newman to Salt
Lake City to do battle, logical and exegetical,
with the wicked and obsoene Dragon of Poly
gamy. It must have required a ood deal of
enthusiasm to go all that distance to refute J
wnat all virtuous persons consider to be an
immorafity and all sensible persons an ab
surdity. But Mr. Newman wan in a manner
constrained to go. He had preached a ser
mon on the subject, which was heard of in
Utah; whereupon the Utah Telegraph asked
why he did not come to that Territory to
preach it "in the new Tabernacle before
10,(100 Mormons, with Orson Hyde or some
other prominent Mormon to auswer." Mr.
Newman immediately packed his trunk,
bought his railway ticket, and
started very much as Don Quixote
would be done under like circum
stances. But it was one thing to go to Utah,
and quite another thing to get either Brig
ham or his man Orson to meet him in debate.
Young, coolly, for August, replied that he
bad given no challenge; nor did the great
Orson Bhow any desire to enter the lists.
Apparently, Mr. Newman had his long jour
ney for his pains. But Young was too shrewd
a man not to see that he had lost ground by
declining the contest; aud ho therefore sent
Mr. Newman an invitation to come and
preach in the Tabernacle. Mr. Newman re
plied that he had already made arrangements
to preach in the M. E. meeting-house. And
he did preach there "for three mortal hours,"
in a "sweltering August afternoon," a sermon
brimful of texts, to provo that there might
be concubinage among the Jews, but that, in
our sense of the word, they had no polygamy.
Since then the battle royal itself has finally
been arranged and fought.
We do not here attempt any abstract of
the arguments. Much as we respect Mr.
Newman, we do not consider that such of
them as were drawn from the manners and
customs of the Jews had any pertinence or
consequence. We believe that with Chris
tianity came a better and a nobler and a
purer dispensation. Tho polygamy of tho
Jews, or the concubinage, was temporary and
local, and not of Divine ordination. If
otherwise, why do not the Jews, as a body,
now practise it? They virtually acknowledge
that there was no command of perpetual
validity to maintain polygamy; for while in
matters of their law they are nearly as strict
as ever, they cheerfully obey our laws of
marriage. To be sure, they could not do
otherwise w ithout being sent to the peniten
tiary; but we have no reason to believe that
they wish to do otherwise.
We prefer to base our hostility to polygamy
upon the fact that all modern civilized nations
are monogamous, bo far as that word implies
having one wife at a time. Mr. Newman
shows that such is the doctrine of Christianity,
and such being its doctrine, there is no room
left for an argument. The example of Utah
alone shows how inconsistent is polygamy
with refinement, with intellectual culture,
with the happiness of woman. The preach
ing in the Tabernacle is coarse and rude, and
often blasphemous; the feminine instincts
perpetually revolt against this desecration of
the institution of marriage; and there is no
man who looks at the matter rationally who
does not see that there can be nothing per
manent in the custom. It may not be easy
to put it down, but so long as it lasts it is a
national shame and reproach. Nothing but
the great distance of Utah from the seat of
government has saved it; but now that a con
siderable party in Utah itself has been organ
ized against it, we may consider it as doomed.
It must pass away at least with the present
generation.
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On Vessels, Cargo and Freight to all part of the
world.
INLAND INSURANCES
ja gooda by river, canal, lake and land carriage
all parts of the Union.
FIRE INSURANCES
Merchandise generally; on Stores, Dwellings,
Houses, etc.
ASSETS OF TI1S COMPANY
November 1, 169,
t0,000 United States Five Per Cent.
Loan, ten-forties I3U.0O0H)
100,000 United States Six Percent.
Loan (lawful money) lOT.TBO-OO
00,000 United States Six Per Cent.
Loan. 1S81 0,000-OC
100,000 Bute of Pennsylvania Six Per
Cent. Loan 13,30'00
100,000 City of Philadelphia Six Per
Cent. Loan (exempt from
tax) W0.W5-00
100,000 State of New Jersey Six Per
Cent. Loan W.OOO'OO
0,000 Pennsylvania Railroad First
Mortgage Six Per Cent.
Bonds 430"00
18,000 Pennsylvania Railroad Se
cond mortgage Six per Cent.
Bonds 13,633-00
6,000 Western Pennsylvania Rail
road Mortgage Six Per
Cent. Bonds (Pennsylvania
Railroad guarantee) tO.OOO-OO
10,000 State of Tennessee Five Per
Cent, Loan 15,000 "CO
1,000 btate of Tennessee Six Per
Cent. Loan 4,370-00
13,309 Pennsylvania Railroad Com
pany, 8S0 shares stock 14,000 DO
,000 North Pennsylvania Rail
road Company, too share!
stock I, W0 -CO
10,000 Philadelphia and Southern
Mall Steamship Com-
... pany, 80 shares atock 1,500-00
WtJ.&OO Leans on Bond and Mort
gage, Oim liens on City
PropertES I4fl,too-oo
ll.S3i.400 Par. Market value, li.aoo.aTOH
Real Estate M,ono-co
Bins Receivable for Insurances made... IM.TOO-IO
Balances due at Agencies:
Premiums on Marine Policies, Accrued
lurcienb, aim ower aeots aue the com.
Stoek, Scrip, etc!, of "sundry Corooral
. Pany
8,091 -0
tions, 474. Estimated value LTM-M
Cash in Bank 163,81893
Caen In Drawer fja-s
169,39111
1,S63,100-04
DIRECTORS.
Thomas C. Hand.
uamaei s. Stokes,
William li hllin
J I'Ull u, 1SBV1B, .
Edmund A. Souder,
TheophJlus Paulding,
James Traqualr,
Henry Sloan,
Henry C. Dallett, Jr.,
"ames C. Hand,
William C. Ludwla,
Joseph U. Seal,
Hugh Craig,
John D. Taylor,
George W. Bernadou
Edward Darlington,
u. uuues urooKe,
Edward Lafourcade.
Jacob Klecrnl.
JaROh P. .fnnna
James B. McFarland,
joanna r. ityre.
Snenr.er Mpfluain
if. Frank Ttnhlnann.
Ilvi
J. B. Semple, Plttsoarg,
a. d. uerger, Pittsburg,
1 IV Mnrrran tltah,iA
rvuuiun v, uouhwju
ijiumno nni-iu, fresiaeni.
JOHN C. DAVIS, Vloe-Prealdeut.
HENRY LYLBURN, Secretary. "we8la,,w''
HENKY BALL Assistant Secretary. 1 1
INSURANCE COMPANY
NORTH AMERICA.
JAH0ABI 1, 1871.
Incorporated 1794. Charter Perpetual.
CAPITAL. 8300,00r
ASHJKTH 8,rs,t,3M
Losses paid since organization.... 843,000,000
Kecelpta of Premiums, 1800... .8 l,991-M:ir43
Interest from Investment! '69. 11 t,((l)U-74
84. 100,3:14-10
Losses paid, 1809 8 1.0 J3,3 S4
Statement of the Assets.
first Mortg-Mes on Oity Property (764,450
United State Govemmsnt and other Loan
Bonds LltMil
Railroad, Bank and Canal Stocks i5,7us
Oaah in Bank and Offlo 1 17,' 82c
Loans on Collateral Security SSsg
Notes Receivable, mostly Marine Premiums. .,
Accrued Interest 80,3o7
Premiums in coarse of transmiasien 86,Ug
Unsettled Marine Premiums loo'iKh.
Ral Estate, Offloe of Company Philadelphia.. au'ooo
DIRECTORS. S3.3S1
Arthur O. Francis B. Oops,
bamuelW.Jo ii Kdward H. Trotter
John A. Bro n, Edward S. Claras
Charles Taylor, 1. Obarltoa Henri.
Ambrose V hite, Alfred D. Jessao.
William Welsh, Lonie O. Madeir"
B. Morris Wain, Oharles W. Onshnian,
John Mason, Clement A. Orisoom.
Georss L. Harrison. William Brookie.
ARTHUR O. OOtfKlN. President
CHAKLES PLATT, Vio President,
Matthias Mabis, Secretary.
O. U. Reeves, Assistant Secretary. a t
1829 CIIaRTER perpetual, iqjq
Franktin Fire Insurance Company
OF PHILADELPHIA.
Office, Nos. 435 and437 CHESNUT Bi
Assets Aug. I, 70$3,009.888"24
CAPITAL 1400,000-00
ACCRUED SURPLUS AND PREMIUMS . 2,0098 -24
INCOME FOR 1S70, LOSSES PAID IN 1SC9
(S10,000. I144.90S-4A
L.oe paid since over
5.500,000
Perpetual and Temporary Policies oa Liberal
Terrua.
The Company also Issue policies upon toe Rents
of all kinds or Buildings, Ground Rents, and Mort-
gBtoe "FRANKLIN" has no DISPUTED CLAIM.
DIRECTORS.
Alfred G. Baker,
Alfred Fltler,
Thomas 8parks,
William b. Oraut,
Thomas 8. Ellia,
Guatavus S. Kensnn
Samuel Grant,
George W. Richards,
Isaac Lea.
George Fules,
ALFRED G. RAKER. President
GEORGE KALES, Vice-President
JAMES W. MCALLISTER, Secretary. 1 19
THEODORE M. KEGER, Assistant Secretary.
THE ENTERPRISE INSURANCE CO. OF
PHILADELPHIA.
Office 8. W. cor. FOURTH aud WALNUT Streets.
FIRE INSURANCE EXCLUSIVELY.
PERPETUAL AND TERM POLICIES ISSUED.
CASH Capital (paid op in lull) 2(K),000tM)
CASH Assets, July 1, 1670 to0,7siH
DIRECTORS.
F. Ratchford Starr, J. Livingston Erringer.
Naibro Frassler, James L. Claghorn.
. . . . urn. 1 1 11 . . I .
jonn in. aiwuuu, i m. u. iwunou,
Beni. T. Tredick,
i naries H heeler,
George H. Stuart,
Thomas H. MontiMmpr
jolin 11. urown,
James M. AerUen.
. KATUiirunu biakk, rresldent
THOMAS H. MONTGOMERY, Vice-President.
ALEX. W. "W I STEM, Secretary.
JACOB E. PETERSON, Assistant Secretary.
F
AUE INSURANCE COMPANY,
No. 609 CnESNUT Street
INCORPORATED 18MW CUAKTKH PSKPKTCaIm
CAPITAL 1200,000.
FIRE INSURANCE EXCLUSIVELY.
Insurance against Loss or Damage by fire either
Perpetual or Temporary Policies.
DIUKCIOICH.
Charles Richardson,
Robert Pearce,
John Kessii-r, Jr.,
Edward 11. Orue,
Chariea 8u)k.e.4.
John W. Kvermau,
William 11. Rliawu,
William M. Seyfert,
John F. Smith,
Nathan Hllles.
George A. West,
CHARLES RICHARDSON. President
WILLIAM H. 1(11 AWN, U e-Pr8idt.
INSURANCE..
Lifs Insurance for .the .People!
HOMESTEAD
LIFE INSURANCE COMPANf
or iiwtnVLVAiA,
OFFICE:
No. 701 CHE8NUT 8troetp
PHILADELPHIA.
To place Life Insurance wltum reacli of all, baa
adopted a system of
MONTHLY PAYMENT OP PREMIUMS
Peculiarly adapted to the ability of ALL WORKING
FOR SALARIES OK WAGES.
Special attention Is called to this Company's
GRADUATING POLICY.
An original feature, designed to protect shareholders
in Building Associations, and all others who have
borrowed money or purchased property payable In
Instalments extending over a series of years, by
CANCELLING any balance of indebtedness remain
Ing UNPAID in case of DEATH.
THIS COMPANY ISSUES
All the ordinary forms of Life and Endowment Poli
cies at low rates of Premium, on the Participating
Plan, with but lew restrictions as to occupation,
and NONE AS TO TRAVEL OR RESIDENCE.
Tamphlets containing full Information may be ob
tained at the Company's office.
WILLIAM M. SEYFERT, President.
LAURENCE MYERS, R, W. DORPHLBY
Vice-President. Secretary.
B. E. DAVIS, Superintendent ofJAgencles. 4 9 6ai
Active and responsible men wanted as Agents.
R E ASSOCIATION,
INCORPORATED MARCH 17, WiO.
OFFICE,
No. 34 NORTH FIFTH STREET,
INSURE
BUILDINGS, HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE, ANC
MERCHANDISE GENERALLY
From Loss by Are lnthe City of Philadelphia only)
ASHETS, JANUARY I, 1870, 1 1,574,7,1 4a
TRUSTEES.
William II. Hamilton,
John Cairow,
Geot jze I. Young,
Jos. R. Lyndall,
Levi P. Coats.
Charles P. Bower,
Jesse lilghtfoot,
Robert Shoemaker
Peter ArmbruBter,"
Samuel Sparhawk
m. 11. uicKinson,
Peter Williamson,
rj I cici
Joseph E. Schell.
WM. II. HAMILTON, President.
SAMUEL SPARHAWK, Vice-Presldont.
WILLIAM F. BUTLER,
Secretary.
THE PENNSYLVANIA FIRE
COMPANY.
INSURANC3
Incorporated lsas charter Perpetual.
No. 510 WALNUT Street, opposite independenca
Square.
This Company, favorably known to the commu
nity for over forty years, continues to insure against
lots or damage oy lire on Public or Private Build
ings, either permanently or for a limited time. Alsa
on Furniture, stocks of Goods, and Merchandise
generally, on liberal terms.
Their Capital, together with a large Surplus Fund,
la invested in the most careful manner, which ena
bles them to oiler to the Insured an undoubted secu
rity in the case of loss.
Daniel Smith, Jr.,
Isaac Hazlehurst,
Thomas Smith,
iicurjr i.ewiB,
J. GUlingham Fell,
Daniel Uaddonk .Tr
Thomas uooius,
John Devereux,
Franklin A. Corahr. "
DANIEL SMITH, Jr., President
Wm. G. Crowell, Secretary. a 80
TMPEUIAIj FIRE INSURANCE CO.,
LONDON.
ESTABLISHED 1S08.
Paid-Dp Capital and Accumulated Funds,
B8,000,000 IN GOLD.
PREVOST & nERRING, Agents,
4! No. 107 S. THIRD Street, Philadelphia.
CHAS. M. PRKVOST OHA8. P. HERRING
WHISKY, WINE, ETO.
QAR8TAIR8 & McCALL,
No. 126 Walnut, and 21 Granite St..
IMPORTERS OF
Brandies, Wines, Gin, Olive Oil, Etc.,
WHOLESALE DEALERS IN
PURE RYE WHISKIES.
IN BOND AND TAX PAtP. 18 ft4
"WILLIAM ANDERSON & CO., DEALERS IK
Fine Whiskies,
No. 14C North SECOND Street,
Philadelphia.
f-URNITURE, ETO.
HOVER'S
Celebrated Patent Sofa Sedstead
Is now beint; mads and sold in large numbers both fin
France and Kngland. Can bs had only at the manaiau
tory. '1 bis piece of lurnitars is in ths form of a handooma
PAKLOH bOfc A, yet in one minute, without unscrewing
or detaching; in any way, it can be extended into a beau
tiful FKKMJ11 liKDbfttAD, with Spring Hair Mattress
complete. It has the oonvenionoe of a Bureau for holding,
is eabily managed, and it is impoesiDle for it to get out of
order. Tnis hofa Bedstead requires no props, hinges,
feet, or ropes to support it when extended, ss all other
sofa beds and lounges have, which are all very unsafe and
liable to Ret out of rupair, but the Bedstead is formed by
simply turning out tbs ends or closing them whsa the
hot. is wanted, llie price is about the same as a lounge.
An eiamiuation of this norel iurenUou is solicited.
II. F. IIOVER,
MJufb'm No. 830 South BEOONP Street. Philsda
FURNACES.
Established in 1835.
Invariably the greatest success over al oompatitioa
whenever and wherever exhibited or used ia the
UNITED STATES.
CHARLES WILLIAMS'
Patent Golden Eagle Furnaces,
Acknowledged by tbe leading Architects and Builderst,
be the most powerful and durable Furnaces offered, an
tbe most prompt, systematic aud largest house ia
line of business.
BEAVY REDUCTION IS PRICES,
ind only firttt-cUM work turned oat.
No. 1132 and 1131 MARKET Street,
PHILADELPHIA.
N. B - BKND FOR BOOK OF FAOT8 ON HEAT
AND VENTILATION. 6t4ta
PATENTS.
STATE RIGHTS FOR SALE. STATE BIUITTS
of a valuable Ioveutlon juat patented, aud for
the SLICING, CTT'JINO, aud CUIPPINU of dried
litef, cai tiuge, etc., are hereby oitored for sale. It
U an artiele of great value to proprietors of hotel
and restaurants, and it ahouhi im lutr-tduced into
tvery family. STATE RiWHTS FOR b ALE,
Model tan ie sifii at TELEGRAPH. OFFlUiS
IXKtpKR-ei l"OINT, N. J.
I i".U iil'l.f,' ii. uorriiAN.