THE DAILY EVENING 'TELEGRAPH PHILADELPHIA, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1870.
8TXHZT 07 TXXX3 IMH338.
Editorial Opinions of the Leading Journals
upon Current Topics Compiled Every f
Day for the Evening Telegraph.
WAR BALLOONS.
Frrm I As A'. T. Tinue.
The battle in the air, which wai reported
the other day by both English and Belgian
newspapers, seemed almost too incredible
for belief, yet, as it has not been contra
dicted, there ia probably truth in it. Our
readers may remember that this is one of
the incidents referred to ft short time
previously, in these column's, as having
been prefigured in romance, bnt at that
time not yet realized. From present appear
ances, however, it seems likely that such
conflicts may become common affairs. The
numerous aerial attempts and adventures
of both French and Prussians in the existing
war bid fair to add materially to the stock of
useful knowledge on such subjects, and to
lead to a more general nse of balloons for
military purposes hereafter; and the greater
the number of belligerent balloons the greater
the probability of their collision. A vastly
increased une of balloons during future wars
appears, in fact, to be seriously contem
plated by the English Government, which
has recently been carrying on quite an ex
tensive series of aeronautic experiments at
Woolwich.
The results of some of these essays have
proved, according to the London press, very
interesting. It is said as regards captive bal
loons which are the most practically useful
for purposes of reconnoissance that a height
of six hundred feet at a horizontal distance
of ycoo feet is best to enable the observers to
secure the widest expanse of view. To be
lower gives insufficient range; to be higher
entails atmospheric obscurities: and to be
nearer is too hazardous. Again, it is said that
a captive balloon attains stability, and
remains, like a kite, at rest, "when the hori
zontal resultant of the ascensional force and
the tension of the cord are equal to the force
of the wind." The machine being steady,
a fresh device is brought into play
this has been actually done, we understand,
at Woolwich to utilize science for the pro
secution of war. Eight cameras and lensoa
have been arranged about the car at equal
distances, and a complete view of the sur
rounding country has thus been photo
graphed for transmission to the authorities
below. Photographers will understand how
this may be done under such circumstances
to advantage, by a consideration of the fact
that the refraction of the visual rays is the
same for all objects coming under the same
angle, while in a horizontal ground-view it is
very irregular. The balloon view affords,
then, a uniform refraction of circle, and a
more certain relative position of the object.
But, although to get accurate pictures of
the surrounding country is.iaiportant, to con
vey instant intelligence to friends below may
be more so. The old plau of doing this was
as follows: A message was written on a tube
of white pasteboard shaped like a cartridge
and open at both ends. To this a bullet was
attached, and the apparatus, being slipped
over a line, ran easily to its attached end
at the earth. The new method is much more
elegant and scientilio. It consists in tho
use of telegraphy and was to some extent
practised in our own war. By the new
evBtem for the field adopted by the British
War Office, it is claimed that lines of
telegraph can be carried through the
air from the earth to a balloon several miles
distant. The wire can be paid out, it is said,
as fast as the balloon travels, so that, even if
a captive balloon breaks or soars away, com
munication can be kept up with it for at least
six miles. Or, again, two or more balloons
ean be sent up and kept in telegraphic com
munication with each other by means of
aerial and land lines, so that telegraphic ope
rations can be effected from the balloon to
headquarters, and thence to the base of ope
rations. These experiments, it will be re
membered, were in some degree made on the
Potomac, but with only partial and unsatis
factory results. The reports from Woolwich
tell a far more hopeful story. They declare
that the trials made there have unmistakably
shown that the advantages, in reoonnois
Gance, of this application of balloons are in
calculable. "It enabled the observing offi
cers to survey an area of thirty square miles,
not vaguely, but sharply pictured before
them." And "it was found by practice that
great skill can be attained in judging of the
relative position of masses of troops, while
minuter details can be subsequently ob
tained at leisure by field-glasses, as to the
position of mountain gorges, passes, limits
of woods, course of streams, etc. If the
accounts before us are not too warmly drawn,
the problem of effectually employing bal
loons for military purposes will be solved by
this happy combination of photography and
the telegraph.
There is no doubt, at all e rents, that the
English authorities are earnestly engaged in
this investigation, and the English journals
express sanguine hopes of the trials in pro
gress at Woolwich. Two officers, Captains
Brackenbury and Noble, have been des
patched thence to the respective seats of
war, to pick up and compare information,
and it is whispered that war balloons are
already being manufactured in the Ryal
Arsenal, and that officers of the Iioyal Engi
neers, from generals downward, are to be
trained in their nse. The difficulties expe
rienced by French and Prussians in the use
of military balloons are attributed to the
fact that they have faw or no officers of
their own accustomed to their use, a dis
advantage which none of the great powers
tire likely in future to overlook, or fail to
provide for.
A COMIUPT BENCII AND DEMORALIZED
BAB.
fron the N. T. Tribune.
Something more than a year ago a large
number of members of the New York bar
sought to protect themselves from the politi
cal influences which are rapidly corrupting
what little of honesty is left on the New
York bench and demoralizing the New York
lar, by forming a sort of protective associa
tion. Borne of the most prominent and re
. epected lawyers of the city attached themselves
to it. We do not know how far the associa
tion has succeeded as Buch, but it is very
clear, no matter what its exertions, that it
Las done little to counteract the increasing
demoralization. That the necessity for ac
tivity on its part, and that of reputable mem
bers of the bar generally, is as great as ever,
is freshly proved by the disgraceful soene
on Monday in Recorder Ilackett's Court. It ii
unnecessary to recount the facts in this place.
No thinking reader can rise from their parti jl
without convictions of the corruption aul
demoralization of bench and bar, and the
consequent danger to public peace and per
sonal security. A innrderer brought up for
trial for his life declares himself in fear of
the judge who is to try him, because be be
lieves him to be influenced by party leaders
whom the prisoner has offended. Judges
Hackett and Bedford ridiculed the affi lavit
which the prisoner's counsel presented, but
they cannot afford to content them
selves with a general denial of
its allegations. In spite of the
disgustingly offensive manner and tone of
the counsel who presented it, whioh Rerve in
some degree to distract attention from the
set ions charges against the Keoorder, the affi
davit leaves on the reader's mind the impres
sion that it is probably true. The corruption
of the men and party with whom Recorder
Hackett is associated is so notorious that thoir
odium extends to all about them, and it in not
difficult to convince men that the Recorder is
a most improper person to nit in judgment on
this prisoner. It is usual and very natural,
we suppose, for prisoners to think they "stand
in danger of their lives from the judge on the
bench," but in this instance there is reason
to think that the stale old legal joke thus
framed into an affidavit is no joke at all.
Aside from these disgusting personal revela
tions, the trial on Monday revealed the bitter
ness of the war between the rival Demuratio
factions; and the majority of those who study
the reports will have less hesitation thin
heretofore in crediting the eld assertion that
Tammany kills as well as buys its enemies.
But this is not the only incident revealing
the rapid demoralization of the legal profes
sion in this misgoverned city. There are fre
quent instances in which judges have intimi
dated lawyers and threatened them with
personal enmity in the event of their offeud
ing. It is only a few months since that a
prominent if not reputable lawyer proclaimed
in a New York court the infamous doctrine
that counsel in defense of a criminal's life are
justified in any effort to destroy the character
of an innocent witness a doctrine from which
every honest lawyer, as every honest man,
will indignantly dissent. It is still later
that a most unjustifiable "salvage suit"
belonging to proceedings which ought
to be wholly inadmissible in any court, since
they begin and develop in conspiracy has
long occupied the attention of a court, forced
defendants to heavy costs, and resulted in a
judgment which cannot be enforced because
of the irresponsibility of the lawyer who in
stituted the proceedings. On Monday another
court was employed for some hours in hear
ing the applications of a lady who was forced
to bring suit to get her papers out of the
bands of a lawyer whom she had dismissed.
These are but a few of many glaring in
stances which we might quote as revealing
the disgraceful condition of legal practice
here. The corruption of the courts is, of
course, the natural consequenc e of the cor
ruption of our local politics, and there can be
no thorough reformation of the bar until the
bench k&a been purified by the deposition of
these mere tools of Tammany. We do not
despair of the final reformation even of the
New York judiciary; but in the meantime the
legal fraternity owes it to itself and the public
to combine to maintain its own independence
and purity. When the bar has sunk so low
as to seek the favor of the bench and fear
its enmity, there is no security for honest
clients and lawyers in any of our courts.
THE ENGLISH INTERVENTION IN
FRANCE.
From the X. 1'. World.
The best commentary that can be made
upon the rumored intervention of England
to secure peace in t ranee in the present
state of our information as to that interven
tion comes to us in the statement
that a new French loan of fifty millions of
dollars has been put upon the London market
by one of the most respectable banking-
houses of the British capital. Iheuovern
nient 01 tne r rencn republic is not very
likely to sign itself out of existenoe at the
moment when it is borrowing money tj carry
on the great national conflict by virtue of
which it exists. The reported tarms of
tne settlement saia to be pro
posed by .bnglana are of such a nature
that if they were to be accepted by the bel
ligerents they could secure an immediate
termination of the international war between
France and Germany only at the expense of
an ultimate civil war in the former country,
if not of an ultimate revolution in the latter
country also. The chief interest of these
rumors to the world at large supposing them
not to prefioure.CJs it is more than doubtful
whether they do prefigure, any serious diplo
matic action consists in the evidence which
they afford of increasing difficulties in the
way of Prussian occupation of France. Had
the bombardment of Paris been presently
practicable, or. bad the republio organized for
France no better means of self-defense than
the empire bequeathed to her, we should have
heard nothing of English intervention at
Versailles and Berlin. All that these reports
now set forth as a proper basis for peace
could have been attained by Prussia without
much practical trouble, immediately upon
the fall of Sedan, had Prussia then been
willing, as she now seems to be, to listen to
the voice either of moderation in her own
counsels or of foreign powers counselling
forbearance. The Regency of the impress,
which it is now averred that Prussia is anx
ious to restore, was then an existing fact,
The city of Paris, now found to be so for
midable a fortress, was then suppose! to
be at the mercy of the invadeis. Whatever
may be the upshotjof the pending negotia
tions, it will hardly be thought, we suspect,
by the great body of intelligent observers
throughout Christendom, that it was worth
the while of Bismarck and King William to
inflict two months of horriblo devastation
and destruction upon the two foremost nations
of Europe for the purpose of restoring an
empire, overthrown by German valor, against
the will of a great capital made impregnable
and a great people called under arms by the
downfall of that empire.
nOW TO BE POLITICIANS.
From t he Orlean Republican.
Labor societies are good enough in their
place. Two men never met and compared
their tnougnts on a good subject without
benefit to both; and in the societies where
laborers assemble to discuss the interests of
their profession, there is a constant incentive
to thought and mental progress. All such
societies meet with our cheerful support. We
should be pleased to know that eaah and
every class of laboring men in New Orleans
had its regular organization, and that the
members were sufficiently numerous and in
dependent to support a quiet and comfortable
hail v. ith a good library in it. Suppose tne
carpenters and builders, who are very nume
rous and thrifty in New Orleans, had a meet
ing-room where they could assemble in the
evening to discuss the interests of the busi.
ness, and where, when a question of measure
mcnt. or supports, 01 uraoes, or beams, or
other matter, came up, the difficulty could
be settled by turning to tha litev
authority on the subject, either among the
older heads of the profession or in the newest
book on the subject. Hundreds of young
mechanics would have a plaoe to spend thei
eveninps at with profit to themselves. Mar
ried men, too, who now go to the corner gro
cery and pass the time by taking a socia
ble drink, would save their money and im-
rove their leisare hours in the company of
atelligent craftsmen or of readable books
and papers. There are five or ten thousand
carpenters in this city, and they no doubt
have some kind of . an association, but we
bave never heard that they had a
library, or even a meeting room. Suppose,
too, that the shoemakers had a such a place,
where they could meet and discuss the wants
and interests of their profession, instead of
being called together, as they were on Thurs
day night, to be lectured by Small wood and
Johnson into a kind of fever about matters
which they cannot rectify except in a given
way.
Every mechanical profession that has a
responsible standing in New Orleans ought
to have a reading-room and lyceum. The
members who are too domestio to spend their
evenings at such places could nevertheless
make use of the Lyceum as a resort to meet
their friends on occasion, and there also they
could rely upon finding such books and such
information as every man sometimes wants
in the course of his week's work. Besides,
it would afford a place for the interchange of
thought and suggestion, which never comes
amiss in this world of activity and intelli
gence. Fathers who are raising lions to be
mechanics, and employers who are instruct
ing apprentices, would have a place at which
tney could trust their cnareros, satisfied that
notning immoral would be seen, and nothing
intoxicating would be sold, How many in
ventors might New Orleans turn out, and
bow many fortunes might her children amass,
if they only bad the appliances to study
scientific mechanics as it is printed and illus
trated in the organs of the trade! It is now
almost impossible to find in the city a relia
ble or recent book on any of the subjects
that engage the attention of our artisans.
hen mechanics of any class assemble to
discuss politics as a branch of their profes
sion, they make a mistake. And a sad one,
at that, for themselves, for they are only
playing a game which some shrewd old otnee-
hunter is watching to take advantage of.
Politics ia greatly misunderstood by the great
mass of people. Almost every man believes
he is fit to be a politician, and he not only
votes himself to be entirely competent to run
the btate, but ne is willing to trust any of his
neighbors to do the same thing, lhis is a
great mistake. It is the most serious error
into which the otherwise clear-headed people
of this country ever fell. Politics is a pro-
lession, and in providing lor its conduct so
ciety should be more careful thanit is in
selecting a lawyer, a doctor or a watchmaker,
because the politician has to make laws to
protect mankind against the unfaithful law
yer, doctor or watchmaker. If all the trades
had reading-rooms at which the members
attended for their mental improvement,
the craftsmen would soon learn that the
evils in legislation about which they com
plain so much do not spring from politics,
but from the want of it. A badly mended
watch is never reported as the work of
a watchmaker, but of a botch; and so it is
with good and bad government. Character
is the main thing in politics, as it is in every
other trade. If a politician is reliable and
trustworthy in private life, there is no great
danger of his doing much evil in office; but if
he is unsafe in his personal relations, and if
he is not a reliable adviser in general mat
ters, there are great and overwhelming ob
jections to His being fastened on the publio
as a politician. JUecnanics ought to do one
thing, and that is to forget that they are
a class. Politics is designed for the bene
fit of all; and the laborer or the professional
man who sets himself up as entitled to enjoy
its benehts is just tne man to be
avoided. He develops selfishness in his
egotistic claim, and whether he is a shoe
maker, like Mr. Mueller, or whet tier he is
a Democratio mouthpiece, like Mr. Small
wood, he ought to be discountenanced
and discouraged. The true science of our
popular system is for every man who can not
tniBt one or the other of the great political
parties, to make himself conversant with
political principles and with the publio men
on both sides, and when the day of election
arrives to vote for the best men, satisfied
that the interests of society will never be be
trayed by good officers. And this is what we
recommend to the shoemakers who had their
ears tickled by Messrs. Small wood and John
son. These two men have an axe to grind,
and if they can cet the shoemakers to turn
the grindstone, it will be so much clear gain.
We do not ask their support as a class. We
only know them as individual citizens. If
our platform suits them, let them support
that. It was made in the interest of all, and
not for any set of men. It oilers protection
and support to the high and the low, the rich
and the poor, the black and the white. If
the shoemakers want more than this, or
something special for themselves, they can
not get it from ns.
WATCHES. JEWELRY. ETO.
WLS LADOM-US 4 CO?
WiTCHES, JKWBUIY A B1LTKB W1UK.
WAT0HE3 and JEWELS! EEPAIEED.
02 Chestnut St., Phii
BAND BRACELETS.
CHAIN BRACELETS.
We have Just received a large and beautiful as-
Bortmeat of
Gold Band and Chain Bracelet,
Enamelled and engraved, of all sizes, at very low
low prices. New styles constantly received.
WATCHES AND JEW RLR Y In great variety.
LEWIS LADOMUS k CO.,
6 11 fmwS No. 802 CAES NUT Street.
TOWER CLOCKS.
Ci. W. Ill SSCLL,
No. 22 NORTH SIXTH STREET,
Agent for STEVENS' PATENT TOWER CLOCKS,
both liemoutolr A. Graham Esoapement, striking
hour only, or striking quarters, and repeating hour
on full chime.
Estimates furnished on application either person
ally or by mail. 0 20
C WILLIAM B. WARNB A CO.,
h TIT A tVg Ml LU A KI It IClirfff DV
h. X. corner SEVENTH and CHESNUT Streets.
8 kil Httcond floor, and late of No. 86 S. THIRD St.
QENT.'S FUHNI8HINQ POOPS.
PATENT BIIO UL.DEU-SK AM
M.
SHIRT MANUFACTORY,
AND GENTLEMEN'S FURNISHING STORE.
PERFECTLY FITTING SHIRTS AND DRAWERS
made from measurement at very short notice.
All other articles of GENTLEMEN'S DRESS
GOODts in lull variety.
WINCHESTER fc CO..
11 1 No. 7od CUEdAUT Strtet
OLOTH3, OASSIMERE8, ETO.
QLOTH HOUQB.
J A IY1 E O A HUDCR.
No. 11 Worth 8I?COI (Street,
Sign of tne Golden Lamb,
Are w receiving a large and splendid assortment
of new styles of
FANCY CASSIMERE3
And standard makes of DOESKINS, CLOTTT8 and
COATINGS, (8 28 mwi
AT WHOLESALE AND RET AIL,
STOVES, RANGES, ETO.
BUZBY & HUNTERSON.
MORNING GLORY
StGYe,lleatoraudILinge Warehouses
Hot. 309 and 311 N. SECOND St,
Above Vine, Philadelphia.
Special attention to neater and Range Work.
Repairing promptly attended to. iu h im
ri-niK AMERICAN 8TOVK AND HOLLOWWAR1
IRON FOUNDERS,
(Successors to North, Chase A North, Sharpe A
inomson, ana jMigar i monrnon,;
Manufacturers of STOVES, HEATERS, TITOM
SON'S LONDON KITCHENER, TINNED, ENA
MELLED, AND TON HOLLOW WARE.
FOUNDRY, Second and Mlfilin Streets.
OFFICE, 809 North Second Street.
FRANKLIN LAWRENCE, Superintendent.
EDMUND B. SMITH, Treasurer.
JNO. EDGAR THOMSON,
Tresident. JAMES HOEY,
6 27mwf6m General Manager
INSURANCES
INSURANCE COMPANY
NORTH AMERICA.
JANUART 1, 1670.
Incorporated 1794. Charter Perpetual.
CAPITAL $300,000
ASSETS H,Ti!l
Losses paid since organization. 123,000,000
Receipts of Premiums, 1R69 l,991,S37-45
Interest from Investments, 1SC9 114,696-74
13,106,634 -19
Losses paid, 1S69.
....Ii.uao.atxi'
STATEMENT OF THE ASSETS.
First Mortgages on City Property
United states government and other Loan
1760,450
1,123,846
65.70S
Bonds
Railroad, Bank and Canal Stocks
Cash in Bank and Office
Loans on Collateral Security. . . .
Notes Receivable, mostly Marine Premiums
Accrued Interest
247,620
82,663
831,944
80,357
86,193
PreniluniB in course of transmission
Unsettled Marine Premiums
Real Estate, Office of Company, Philadel
100,900
80,000
phia
13,783,661
DIRECTORS.
Arthur G. Coffin,
Samuel W. Jones,
John A. Brown,
Charles Taylor,
Ambrose White,
William Welsh,
S. Morris Wain,
Francis R. Cope,
Edward H. Trotter,
Edward 8. Clarke,
T. Charlton Henry,
Alfred D. Jessup,
Louis C. Madeira,
Charles W. Cuahman,
jonn Mason,
t. lenient a. unscom,
Georse L. Harrison, I William Brockie,
ARTHUR G. COFFIN. President.
CHARLES PLATT, Tice-Prealdent.
Mattbla8 MiBis, Secretary.
C. H. Kxkveb, Assistant Secietary. 3 4
TELAWAJtB MUTUAL SAFETY INSURANCE
U COMPANY. Incorporated b the Leelalatura
oi rennayivaiua, loao,
m
Office southeast corner of THIRD and WALNUT
B tree ia. rmiaaeipma.
MARINE INSURANCES
On Vessels, Cargo and Freight to all parts of the
wunu.
INLAND INSURANCES
Jn goods by river, canal, lake and land carnage
ail piirm ui uie union.
FIRE INSURANCES
Merchandise generally; on Stores, Dwellings,
uoutfea, eto.
AJ3SETS OF THE COMPANY
November 1, 1669.
00.000 united States Five Per Cent.
Loan, ten-forties 316,000'00
iuu,uuu umiea out tea blz rei
Loan (lawful money) 107,750 "00
10.000 United States Six Per Cent,
Loan. 1881 0,000'OC
100,000 State oi Pennsylvania Six Per
Cent. Loan 1 13, WOW
uu,uuu vi it ui ruuaaeipuitt dlk rer
Cent. Loan (exempt from
tax) t00,W5-O0
100.000 State of New Jersey Six Per
Cent. Loan 08,00000
K),uuo Pennsylvania uauroaa first
Mort&ase Six Per Cent
Bonds 480-00
U,000 Pennsylvania Railroad Se
cond mortiraffe Hit mir Cent.
Bonds U.iaB'00
n,wu western Pennsylvania rtau
road Mortgage Six Per
Cent. Bonds (Pennsylvania
Railroad guarantee) 10,000 CO
10, POO Bute of Tennessee Five Per
Cent. Loan lB.OOO-CO
7,000 btate of Tennessee Six Per
Cent. Loan 4,570-00
U,D00 Pennsylvania Railroad Com
pany, seo shares stock 14,00000
a,uou norm Pennsylvania jxau
road ComDanv. 100 shore.
tock 1,100-Ot
ls.iwu rnuaueipnia ana boutnern
Mall SteamshlD Com
pany, 80 share, stock t.&OO-OO
m,uu jLoana on Bona ana moi-u
KOffe, flisBt liens on Citv
Properties MS,000S
11,831,400 Far. Market value. 11,966.870-0
COSt. 11.816.623-87.
Real Estate M.ooo-os
Bins Keceivabie for Insurances made... k3,7D0H
Balances due at Agencies :
premiums on Marine Policies, Accrued
interest, ana o trier fieri ta one tne uom-
rany.... SAOSTtB
Btoek, Scrip, etc., of Sundry Corpora
tions, S47)0. Estimated value 1,740 -W
Cash in Bank 1168,818-88
rajth In Drawer aia-bl
j.o,xi-ia.
I,863,100-e4
DIRECTOR
Thomai C Hand,
Dtunaei js. B loses,
William G. Boulton.
Edward Darilngton.
IL Jones Brooke.
joon u. uawm,
Edmund A. Bonder,
Tneophllnn PauldUig,
James Traquair,
Henry Sloau,
Henry C. DaLett, Jr.,
'aiiiea C. Hand,
W illiam U Lndwlg,
Joseph 11. Seal,
Edward Lafourcadtb
Jacob RiegeL
Jacob P. Jonea,
James B. McKarland,
uoanuu r. nyre.
Spencer M oil vain,
If. Frank Robinson.
ungn uraig,
Inhn D. Tavlor.
J. H. Semple, Plttsourg,
A. B. Bemer. Pittsburg
George W. Bernadon
WUU3 C. Houston,
D. T. Morgan. Pittalmra
i uuna vs. qau rrevaenb
JOHN C. DAVIS, Vice-rrtldu4.
HK7TRY LYLBCRN. Secretary.
iJJCNKY RAIOi A asUit ant Secretary, 11
ijAAMB INSURANCE COMPANY
A
No. 808 CHE8NUT Street
Di'COBFORATSD 166S. CHAHTKB FIRFKTTAL.
CAPITAL 1200,000.
FIRE INSURANCE EXCLUSIVELY.
Insurance against Loss or Damage by fire either by
perpetual or l euipunujr uauies.
DlUKliutin.
Charles Richardson,
Rotierl Pearoe,
John K easier, Jr.,
Edward K. Orue,
Charles Stokea.
John W. Kverman,
William u. Kimwn,
William M. beyfert,
John F. SiuiUk,
Nathan Hillt-s,
Georse A. West,
Riornectti uuauy.
'HAre8 RICHARDSON, President
WILLIAM U. RUAWN, Vico-Presid.
W
Wiuumi L RihCiuuu Secretary.
INSURANCE.
1829. cnARTKR perpetual. 1870.
FranUin Fire Insurance Company
OF PHILADELPHIA.
Office, Nos. 435 and 437 CHESUUT St.
Assets lug. I l,TD$3l009,888,24
CAPITAL 4no,oon-oo
ACCRUED SURPLUS AND PREMIUMS. 8,009,8ct8-M
INCOMB FR 1870,
losses PArorNiso,
$U4,08-43.
IMU.UUU.
LiOse paid
iliice 1839
orcr
$5.500,00U
Perpetual and Temporary Policies on Libert'
Terms.
The Company also lusneg policies npon the RpiUp
of all kinds of Buildings, Ground Rents, and JUoi
yne "t KAWBun u uu uiai umi; LiAiia.
DIRECTORS.
Alfred G. Baker,
Alfred Fltler,
Thomas Sparks,
William b. Grant,
Thomas 8. Ellis,
Gnstavus S. Benson.
samuei urant.
George W. Richards,
Isaac Lea,
, t,AinB
ALFRED G. BAK.ER. President.
GEORGE FALK8, Vice-President.
MMKS W. MCALLISTER, Secretary. 12 19
THEODOHK M. RJiGER, Assistant Secretary.
ASBURY
LIFE INSUEANCE CO.
O RX.
LEMUEL BANGS, President.
GEOKIJE KLLIOTT, Vlce-Pres'tandSec'v.
EMOHY McCLINTOCK, Actuary.
PENNSYLVANIA STATE AGENCY,
JAMES M. LONGACHE, Manager.
II. O. WOOD, JR., M. D., Medical Examiner.
Office, 302 WALNUT St, Philadelphia.
REV. S. POWERS, Special Agent.
JAMES V. LONGACRtf, General Agent,
C 23 mwfiy No. 308 WALNUT Street, Philadelphia
THE PENNSYLVANIA FIRE INSURANCE
COMPANY.
Incorporated 1825 Charter Perpetual.
No. 010 WALNUT Street, opposite independence
Square.
This Company, favorably known to the commu
nity for over forty years, continues to Insure against
loss or damage by tire on Public or Private Build
ings, either permanently or for a Unified time. Also
on Furniture, Stocks of Goods, and Merchandlai
generally, on liberal terms.
'i neir capital, togeiner wun a large surping Fund
is invested in the most careful manner, which ena
bles them to otter to the insured an undoubted seen
rity In the case of loss.
DIKKV1U118.
Daniel Smith, Jr.,
Isaac Ilazlehurst,
Thomas Robins,
John Devercux.
Thomas Smith,
iieury iewia,
J. Glilingliara Fell,
Daniel Haddock,
, Comlv.
FranKiin A
DANIEL SMITH. Jb.. President
Wm. G. Crowkll, Secretary. t 8 80
ENGINE. MACHINERY, ETO.
fjajL PENN STEAM ENGINE AND BOILER
(ShmUwm WORKS. NKAFIE A LEVY, PKACTI
GAL AND THEORETICAL ENGINEERS, MA
CHINISTS, BOILER-MAKERS, BLACKSMITHS,
ana luinujuiuuviui iur lumij jenrs oeen in
snccessfdl operation, and been exclusively engaged
In building and repairing Marine and River Engines,
high and low pressure, Iron Boilers, Water Tanks,
Propellers, etc. etc, respectfully offer their servleei
to the publio as being fully prepared to contract for
engines of all sizess, Marine, River, and Stationary;
Having Hem ui paueru. ui uiueieui sizes, are pre
oared to execute orders with quick despatch. Even
description of pattern-making made at the shortest
notice. High and Low Pressure Fine Tubular and
Cylinder Boilers of the best Pennsylvania Charcoal
Iron. Fniffinps of all Size and klmla. Imn inn
Brass Castings of all descriptions. Roll Turning,
rcrew Cutting, and all other work connected
with the above business.
Drawings and specifications tor all work done
the establishment free of charge, and work gua
ranteed. The subscribers have ample wharf dock-ioora foi
repairs of boats, where they can lie in perfect
safety, and are provided with shears, blocks, falfi
etc. etc., for raising heavy or light weights.
JOHN P. LEVY,
8 168 BEACH and PALMER Streata.
QIRAR1) TUBK WORKS AND IRON CO.,
pmi,Au.ii.L'iiJA, l a.,
Manufacture Plain and Galvanized
WROUGHT-IRON PIPE
and Sundries for Gas and Steam Fitters, Plumbcr9.
WORKS.
TWENTY-THIRD AND FILBERT STREETS.
OFFICE AND WAREHOUSE,
8 1 No. 43 N. FIFTH STbEET.
HIPPINO.
FOR LIVERPOOL AND OUEENS
ITOWN Inman Line of Rova! Mall
bteamers are appointed to sail as follows:
City of Brussels, baturaay, Oct. 29, at 10 A. M.
Etna (via Halifax), Tuesday, Nov. 1, at 12 noon.
City of Washington, Saturday, Nov. 6. at 3 P. M.
Uitv of Paris, Saturdav, Nov. 12, at 8 A. M.
and each succeeding Saturday and alternate Tues
day, from pier No. 46 North river.
Payable In gold. Payable In currency.
First Cabin t7S Steerage 3
to Lonaen tsu to Lonaon 3b
ToPar:s 0 To Paris 83
To Halifax so! to Halifax 16
Passengers also forwarded to Havre, iiamburs.
BremoD, etc, at reduced rates.
Tickets can be bought here at moderate rates by
persons wishing to send for tnclr friends.
For further Information apply at the company's
office.
JOHN o. VAL.K, Agent, no. is Broadway, N. Y.
Or to O'DON N KLL & FAULK, Agents,
4 S No. 402 CUESNUT Street. Philadelphia.
PHILADELPHIA, RI CFIMOND
D NOKKOIjK STKAMSHtP 1INK
lUHOUl'H FREIGHT A IK LINK TO TUB SOUTH
ANU WKiSX
UiGRBABKD FAOILITIJCS AND REDUCED RATES
8t4UD.nlwM evary Vr FUN KSUAYand SATURDAY
t VJ o'sleck noon, from FIRST WHARF abova MA r!
KKT Btreet.
RKTUKMNG. leave RICHMOND MOWDAYS nd
THURSDAYS, ud HOKtUUL 1UKSDAY8 and 8A
TURUA V S
Ne Bills of Ladinx signed after 12 o'olock on aiUnj
il ROUGH RATES to all point In North and South
Carolina, via Seaboard Air Una Railroad, eonneotiog at
Portamontb, and to Lynchburg, V., Tsunemee. and toe
Wect.via Virginia and 'l onn tissue Air Line and Richmond
and Danville R&ilroad.
Freight HANDLED BITTONOK. and taken at LOW KB
RATKB THAN ANT. OTHER-LINK. " "
No charge for commission, dnrage, or any expanse o
"bteimahlps Insure at lowest rates.
Freiaut received duilJ.
tUteKoomaocmodaforpaej-.
No. 12 8. WHARVtSand Pier 1 N. WHARVES.
W. P. FOR I KR. Aent at Richmond and (Jitj Point.
T. P. OROVS ELL A CO., Axenu at Norloik. 18
ZYOR NEW YORK, VIA DELAWARE
f JJT and Rarltan Canal.
a?gi-'' 77 SWIFTSURE TRANSPORTATION
- OOMPANY.
DESPATCH AND SWIFTSURE LINES,
l eaving daily at 12 H. aud 6 P.M.
The steam propelTera of this company will con)
meuee loading on the Sth of March.
Through in twenty-four hours.
Goods lorwarded to any point free of commission
Freight taken on accommodating terms.
Apply to
WILLIAM M. BAIFD & CO., Agents,
No. 132 South DELAWARE Avenue.
FOR NBW YORK,
.V via rjeittware auu nuriian uanai.
ZkJwZli EXPRKbtt STKAMHOAT COMPANY.
'Hie Meiim Propelleis of the line will commence
loading on we sin msmnv, leaving aaiiy as usual.
THROUGH IN TWENTY-FOUR HOURS.
Goods fornsroed by all the lines going out of Ne
Yors, North, East, or West, free of commission.
Freights received at low rates.
n lUlJiJi r. CL,r ua a iv., Ageuts,
No. 18 S. DELAWARE Avenue.
JAMES nAND, Agent,
No. 119 WALL Street, New York. It
DELAWARE AND CHESAPEAKE
STEAM TOWBOaT COMPANY
Iturtrs tiurarl between l'hlla.lu nlii
Laiuiuore, Uavre-de-Grace, Delaware City, and In
termediate points.
WILLIAM P. CLYDE ft CO., AgenU.
CapUUD JOHN LA UG B LIN, Superintendent.
Omce, No. IS South WUi tea PUliadeiphia, 4 11 1
SHIPPINO.
gPECIAL NOTICE TO SHIPPERS
VIA SAVANNAH, GA.
FREIGHT WILL DE FORWARDED
with our usual despatch to all points
on the WESTERN AND ATLANTA, MEMPHIS
AND CHARLESTON, ALABAMA AND CHAT
TANOOGA, ROME, 8 ELM A, ROME AND DAL
TON, SKLMA AND MERIDIAN, VICK8BURGI
AND MERIBIAN, MOBILE AND OHIO, NIW
ORLEANS. JACKSON AND GREAT NORTH
ERN RAILROADS, all Landings on the COO 3 A
RIVER.
Through Bills or Lading given, and rates guaran
tied to all points In the South and Southwest.
WILLIAM I JAMES,
General Agent,
10 17 tf No. 130 South THIRD Street.
OTICE. QUARANTINE RESTRICTIONS
having been removed, freight will be. received
for Galveston, as heretofore, by the PHILADEL
PHIA AND SOUTHERN MAIL STEAMSHIP
COMPANY. Shippers will please notice that all
boxed goods lor Mobile, Galveston, and points on
the Mississippi river must be well strapped.
The Bteamship YAZOO will sail for New Orleans,
via Havana, on TUESDAY next. 10 25 6t
fTMlE REGULAR STEAMSHIPS ON THE PHI.
X LA'DRLFIllA AND CHARLESTON STEAM
SHIP LIN E are. ALONE authorized to Issue through
bills of ladlrg to interior points South and West ia
connection wun suuiu uaruiuia uauroaa company.
ALFRED L. TYLKR,
Vice-President So. C RR. Co.
PTTTl.&nH'T PTTTA AVn a(TTnDii
.MAIL HTITlUillllD ruiUD.WVio r ....
LA R
. .-..t.iuwu. . vv I o njLUUI
bEMI-MONTULY LINK TO NEW OS.
The A.ou wiu aau iori new urieant.via Havana, oa
Tuedav. November I. at S A. M.
rt I I I ' V I Jl m 1 1 -.11 . 1 .
im j i.' i. ii n v.... i. inn) nw vrnesns, via Ha
vana, on Friday, October to.
.... i itin'ii dm i u itv r nrwn t . .
luiwuvui uiuija v - vniiiiu i m m low rsies as ow
any other route (riven to Mobile, ilrtstn, and to all
points on tbe M iruiMippi rivet between New Orleans and
hi- I-ot)ia, Red River freights reshipped at New Orleans
without charge of oemmiaaiona,
WFFKT.Y LINK TO SAVANNAH, GA.
Tho WYOMING will sail ior Savannah on Bator.
day, October , at. 8 A. M.
Tbe TONAWANDAlwiU sail from Savannah oo Bator
day, October 29.
THROUGH BILLS OF LADING riven to sll theprio.
elpal towns in Geortria, Alabama, Florida, MisaMsTppi,
Lonieiana, Arkaanaa, and Tennessee in connection with
the Central Railroad of Geonria, Atlantic and Oulf Kail,
road; and Florida steamers, at as low rates as by nam pa ting
lines.
SEMI MONTHLY LINE TO WILMINGTOI?. I. O.
The PIONEER will sail for Wilmington on Batnrdsy,
October 2. at tf A. M. Ret at nine, will leave Wilminc.
ton Sat nrday, November 5.
Connects with the Cape Fear River Bte&mboat Com.
pany, the Wilmini ton and Weldon and North Carolina
Railroads, and the Wilmington and Manchester Railroad
to aU interior points.
Freights (or Columbia, 8. C, and Anxnata, Oa., taken
via WilminRton, at as low rates as by any other route.
Insurance effected when requested by shippers. Bills
of ladinic signed at Queen street wharf on or before daf
of sailina.
WILLIAM L. JAMF.8, General Aent
llg No. 130 South THIRD Street,
L9RILLARD STEAMSHIP COMPANY
FOR NEW TOKU,
SAILING EVERY TUESDAY, THURSDAY, AND
SATURDAY.
RATES TEN CENTS PER 100 POUNDS, FOUR
CfiMfc PER CUBIC FOOT, ONE CENT PER
GALLON. SHIP'S OPTION.
INSURANCE 11Y THIS LINE ONE-EIGHTH 0?
ONE DER CENT.
Extra rates on small packages Iron, metals, eta
No receipt or bill of lading signed for leas than
fifty cents.
Goods forwarded to all points free of commissions.
Through bllis of lading given to Wilmington, N. O.,
by the steamers of this line leaving New York tri
weekly, i For further particulars apply to
JOHN F. OHL,
PIER 19 NORTH WHARVES.
N. B. The regular shippers by this line will be
charged the above rates all winter.
Winter rates commence December IB. 38 f
NEW EXPRESS LINE TO ALEX AN
dria, Georgetown, and Washington,
D. C, via Chesapeake and Delawara
canal, with connections at Alexandria from tha
most direct route for Lynchburg, Bristol, Knoxvllle.
Nashville, Daltou, and the Southwest.
Bteamers leave regularly every Saturday at noon
torn the first wharf above Market street.
Freight received dally.
WILLIAM P. CLYDE A CO.,
No. 14 North and South WHARVES.
HYDE fc TYLER, AgenU at Georgetown; M.
ELLR1DGE A CO., Agents at Alexandria. 61
OORDAOE, ETO.
WEAVER & CO.,
ROPIi HANVFACTUBEBI
AND
No. 89 North WATER Street and
No. 28 North WHARVES, Philadelphia,
ROPE AT LOWEST BOSTON AND NEW YORK
PRICES.
41
CORDAGE.
Manilla, Sisal and Tarred Gordagt
At Lowest New York Prtoea and Freights.
EDWIN U. FITI.KK oV CU
Faetory, TEFTH Bt. and GKRMANTO WB AvenosV
Store, No. S3 U. WATER Bk. and 22 N DELAWAHJI
venue.
1312m ; PHILADELPHIAJ
LEGAL. NOTICES.
IN THE ORPHANS' COURT FOR THE CITY
AND COUNTY OF PHILADELPHIA.
Estate of MARCUS CAUKFMAN, de.ceased.
The Audit jr appointed by the Court to an Jit, settle,
and adjust the tiret account of ISA KEI.LA OAUFF
MAN, MEVER GANS, and WOLF STKPPACHER.
Executors of the labt will and testament of ftlAKCJL'S
CA V FFM AN, deceased, and to report distribution
of the balance in the bands of the accountants, will
meet the parties Interested for the purpose of his ap
pointment on THURSDAY, November 3, A. I). 1ST0,
af 4 o'clock P. M., at his ottlce, No. 83 South THIRD
Street, lu the city of Philadelphia.
SAMUEL WAGNER, Jr.,
10 19 wfm Bt Auditor.
IN THK COURT OF COMMON" PLKS FOR TUB
CITY AND (OLNTV OF PHILADELPHIA.
Assigned estate of JAMES EUCLES. Nj. 69 of 1869.
The Auditor appointed by the Court to audit, set
tle, and adjust the account of THoM AS J. MAR
TIN, Assignee, aud to report distribution of the
balance in the bauds of the Accountant, will meet
the parties Interested for the purpose of his appoint
ment on TULSDAY, November 1, ls:o, at 8
o'clock P. M., at hi office, No. 125 S. SEVENTH
Street, in the city of Philadelphia.
J. COOKE LONU3TRETH,
TOBlfmwBt Auditor.
COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, JUNE TERM,
1870. No. 82.
THOMAS M. RICHARDS vs. AUGUSTA ANN
RICHARDS.
TO ArOlSTA ANN RlCHAHDS, RKriPONDKNTt
Take notice that a rule upon you to sh'iw cause why
a divorce vinculo mat' imunii should not beNlecreed
has been granted by the Court, returnable SATUR
DAY, November 6, 1&70.
ISAAC GERART,
No. 126 Siimh SI X T I Street,
10 24 26nol 3 4t" Solicitor for Llbellant.
ROOFING.
READY R O O F I N G.
This 'Rood Lg la adapted to all buildings, it
can be applied to
STEEP OR FLAT ROOFS
atone-half the expanse of tin. It is readily pat on
old Shingle Roofs without removing the shingles,
thus avoldiDg the damaging of ceilings aud furuiiura
while undergoing repairs. (No gravel used.)
PILES KRVK Yi lR TIN ROOKS WITH WIL
TON'S ELASTIC PAINT.
I am always prepared to Repair and Paint Roofa
at short notice. Also, PAINT FOR SALE by the
barrel or gallon; the beat and cheapest In tha
market,
W. A. W ELTON,
t lit No. TT1 N. NINTH St.. Above Coatea,
COTTON SAIL DUCK AND CANVAS, OF AL
numbers aud brands. Tent, Awning, Trunk,
aud Wagon-cover Duck. Also, Paper Manufae
turers' Drier Felts, from thirty to teventy-aU
Inches, with Paulina, Belting, bill Twine, em.
JOHN W. KVKKMAN,
No. 10 CHURCH Sinx (Cltj ttiorea),
2a3o&