THE DAiLF EVENING TELEGRAPH PHILADELPHIA, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1870. a. rum ed TonrtDj. M PUeevery Otl mrltB-NlB Akeleleaa mt the Wheel A:De1 CapMla wltfc a Caarfle a kU flaael-Keaaarkakle Career af a Ke- In 18t4, says the Houston TtltrjrapTi, the fleet of Admiral Farragat m blockading Mobile, while a heavy land and naval attack was din cted against Charleston. During our long defensive war great deal of ingenuity had been eipended by the Confederates npon torpedoes and torpedo boats. The most re markable of these boats was constructed in Mobile by Messrs. Ilnndley k McClintock, and launched in 18G4; and nothing which has gone down into the sea was more wonderf ally or tore fearfully contrived to wreak destruction and vengeance npon friend and foe. She was built of boiler iron, and impervious to water or air. Her extreme length was abont thirty feet, with five or six feot beam, and about five or six feet depth of hold. In general contour she resembled a cigar, fib fir p at both ends. She was propelled by a screw, the shaft of which ran horizontally along hor hold, almost from stem to stern, and was turned by the manual force of eight men, seated along it on either side. The only hatchway was circular, about two feet in diameter, with a low combing around it, which was placed well forward, and when desired could be closed by an iron cap work ing on hinges and made air-tight. In the forward part of the cap was inserted clear glass bull's eye, through which the pilot could see. She was provided with water-tight compartments, by rilling or emp tying which she could sink or rise, and to en Able her to rise instantly her ballasting of railroad iron was placed on her bottom, out side of her hull, and by means of keys acces sible to her crew could be detached in a mo ment, so that she would rise quickly to the surface. IJesides her rudder, which was of the usual form, this vessel was equipped with side paddles or fins, whioh, like those of a fish, served to guide it up or down with re ference to the surface of the water. To prepare for action, a floating torpedo was secured to her stern by a line more than one hundred feet long, and her crew having embarked, the tanks were filled until the boat was in equilibria, and almost submerged. The hatchway was closed, the men revolved the haft, the captain or pilot, standing under the hatch, steered the boat, regulating at the aame time, by the action of her lateral fins, the depth at which she would move. The greatest speed did not exceed four knots. She ould remain submerged for half an hour or an hour without any great inconvenience to her crew and on one occasion has been known to remain under water two hours with out actual injury to them, although no means were provided for procuring fresh air, and from the moment the hatch was closed the men, thus fastened in their living tomb, in haled and exhaled continuously the atmos phere whi oh was enclosed with them. The plan of attack proposed by the inventors was to dive beneath the keel of an enemy's ship, hauling the torpedo after her.- Its triggers or sensitive primers would thus press agiinst the ship's bottom, explode the torpedo, and inevitably sink the ship. Not anticipating an early opportunity of asing this dangerous vessel against the fleet f Farragut, General Maury sent her by rail to General Beauregard at Charleston, believ ing the waters of that harbor better suited to her peculiar construction, while in the Iron sides, or some other gigantic war ship then attacking Charleston, might be found an ob ject worth the great rink to which her own crew was exposed in any enterprise they might undertake in her. General Beauregard changed the arrangement of the torpedo by fastening it to the bow. Its front was termi nated by a sharp and barbed lance-head, so that when the boat was driven end on against ship's sides, the lance head would be forced deep into the timbers, below the water-line, nd would fasten the torpedo firmly against the ship. Then the torpedo boat would back ent and explode it by a lanyard. General Beauregard's call npon the Con federate fleet for volunteers to mau his dan gerous craft was promptly answered by Lieu tenant I'ayne, a Virginian, and eight sailors. They were soon ready for aotion, and on the evening set for their expedition the last preparation bad been made. The torpedo boat was lying alongside the steamer from which the crew had embarked; he was submerged till the combing of her hatch alone was visible above the water. Her ommander, Payne, was standing in the hatchway, in the act of ordering her to be east off, when the swell of a passing steamer rolled over her and suak her instantly, with her eight men, in several fathoms of water. Lieutenant Payne sprang out of the hatchway as the boat sank from under him, and he alone was left alive. In a few days she was raised and again made ready for ser vice. Again Payne volunteered, and eight men with him. Their embarkation for their second at tempt was made from Fort Sumter, and, as before, all having been made ready, Payne, standing at his post in the hatchway, ordered the hawser to to be cut off when the boat areened and Bank instantly. Payne sprang nt; two of the men followed him; the other six went down in the boat and perished. Again the boat was raised and made ready for action, and her owner, Captain Hundley, took her for an experimental trip into the Stone river, where, after going through her usual evolutions, she dived in deep water, and for hours, and for days, the return of poor Hundley aad his crew was watched for and looked for in vain. After near a week's search she was found inclining at an angle of forty degrees; her nozzle was driven deep into the soft mud of the bottom. Her crew of rune dead men were standing, sitting, lying about in her hold asphyxiated. Hundley was standing dead at his post, a candle in one band, while the other had grown stiff with death in his vain efforts to unulamp the hatch. Others had been working at the keys f the ballast, but the inclination at which the boat bad gone down had jammed the keys so that the men could not at off the heavy weight which held them down. Their deaths had been hard and lingering. Again this fateful vessel was made ready Tor action, and volunteers being called for, Lieutenant Dixon, 21st Alabama Volunteers, native of Mobile, and eight men volun teered to take her against the enemy. The Blew and powerful war ship Housatonib was elected for attack, and on a quiet night the bravest crew set out from Charleston in this terrible, nameless torpedo boat that ever ananned craft before. We all know the fate cf the Housatonio. Brave Dixon guided the terpedo fairly against ber, the explosion tore ap the great war ship's sides, so that she went down with nearly all her crew within two aainutes. The torpedo vessel also disap peared forever from mortal view. Whether She went down with her enemy, or whether she drifted out to sea to bury her gallant dead, was sever known, and their fate was left till the great day when the sea shall give ap ita dead. Bnt within a few weeks pabt divers in sub marine armor have visited the wreck of the Uousatonic, and they have found the little torpedo vessel lying by her huga victim, and within her are the bones of the moat devoted and daring men who ever went to war. XEBUCHADNEZZAR'i BAND. The Music They Played. What sort of music was played by Nebu chadnezzar's band ? First, if we find an instrument of musio which it ill only give forth a certain series of notes, we are tolerably safe in assuming that it did only play such a tune as those notes would make. And, to go a step further, if we find an instrument on which those notes could only be played in such an order, we have the identical tune. And if we find au ancient Pandean pipe or syrinx, we can tell what kind of air jaight have been played on it; and sometimes, when the pipes are so ar ranged, the very air itself. Secondly, if we recognize among the musio of our own day a class of compositions which require the use of certain notes and intervals enly, and if, moreover, we discover that in the Assyrian instruments only these notes and intervals occur, we are justified in assert ing that we can approximate to the character of the mnsio which was played by them. Again, if we see representations in Assy rian sculpture of a number of musicians playiDg together, and have already identified their instruments, and the power of each, we can tell Drettv nearly the amount of noise. and the kind of noise, which was made by them. Lastly, when we see in some sculptures an army or a religious procession, or a dance. keeping time to the music, we can approxi mate to the pace at which these musicians played. So when we have the instruments we can tell the range of each of them by actual ex periment; we know the series of notes and the intervals found on each; we are ac quainted with a style of music in our own day which might be played on similar iustru menCKwe have the bas-ieliefs and pictures necessary for determining which set of mu sicians formed a band; and we are able to distinguish between the kind of composition in use at a march, a dance, or a religious ceremony. The octave is universal in Europe in modern times; but it seems that among the Greeks, and among the Eastern nations from whom they adopted their music, a different division obtained. On the Assyrian musical instru ments, so far as we are acquainted with them, it would have been impossible to sound every note of an octave. Certain notes were habitu ally omitted they were the fourth note of our octave and the seventh. David's ten stringed harp or lute contained two octaves of this kind; and some of the Assyrian harps had twenty-six strings that is, five pon tatonic octaves, and one note or "key note" over. But an objector will say, "How ugly such musio must be!" Quite the contrary it is the sweetest of all. "The Last Hose of Summer" is a pentatonio air; so is "The Lass o' Gowrie;" and the proof of these being pentatonic lies in the fact that if you play over either of these melodies on the black notes enly of the piano, passing over any white ones that may seem to be required, you will find the original air come out with the utmost distinctness. But, you say sgain, these are Scotch and Irish tunes. True, and all the old Scotch and Irish musical instru ments are made to sound only the pentatonio scale; and you will find by experiment that many other Irish and Scotch airs besides those named above may be roduced to the same scale. And, again, many travel lers have remarked on the peculiar sweetness and plaintiveness of most of tho melodies still played in the East on "kissars," and "sautirs, and pipes, almost exactly similar to those figured in the Assyrian sculptures nay, some voyagers in remote places in Asia have been struck by the familiar sound of some old melody, played almost exactly as they had heard it, in years gone by, upon bagpipes or harps in Scotland or Ireland. M. Engel, in his book on ancient music, has enumerated many cases of this kind, and has, besides, given examples of the tunes; and this goes far to prove that wo are right in assuming that where this peculiar division of the octave was in use, the melodies for which it was used,were more or less alike. One thing more. Were these melodies in a major or minor key ? It is not very easy to determine. The oldest musical instru ment discovered at Babylon is a pipe made of baked play. It sounds the intervals of the common chord, either major or minor, according to whioh notes are used. A hole at one side completes a major chord; a hole answering to it, at the other, gives the minor. This curious "pioco" of two thousand years ago is in the Asiatic Society's Museum; but it would be assuming too much to argue from it, or from any number of similar specimens, that the Babylonians were acquainted with what we call major and minor keys. Suoh divisions, we must constantly recolleot, are purely arbitrary; and, from a number of other circumstances, we shall be safer in-coucluding if, indeed, we come to any eonclusion that no fixed rule of the kind was adopted. And if the objector asks for an example of such an extraordinary kind, we can refer him to many of the modern Oriental melodies which have been recently brought to this country, or to the Irish and Scotch tunebooks, which con lain Eeveral examples. For instance, in "Moore's Melodies," the song "Silent, O Movie," is set to an old tune which begins in a minor and ends in a major; nor is the transition unpleasant. Strange to say, all the "arrangers" of Moore have overlooked this fact, and have added a line of accompani ment to bring it back to the original key. C'assell's Magazine. Mr. Geeeley's Colorado Town. A Denver correspondent of the Chioago Post writes of Horace Greeley's recent visit to Colorado: "Mr. Greeley has gone to Bee the colony which he founded last spring, Greeley, fifty two miles north of here.'on the Denver and Pacific Ilailroad. Your correspondent was there a few days ago, and was surprised to find such a well-to-do community. Th town is well laid out, well watered by the irrigating ditches, has regular streets, with maple, elm, and oak trees planted on each side; gardens which gave three-pound potatoes from seod planted sown as late as the 12th of July; ten stores that do an aggregate business of $15,000 a month; a Post Office that sends East 250 letters a day, and takes ninety copies of the Weekly Tribune; seven reli- (ious societies, a paper just started, and a yceum and library projected. The town is fcix months old. The ground on which it stands was, in April last, without a house, and looked as white and worn out as the popular tradition of ita founder's hat. The town has no depot yet a freight oar answers the purpose but the remittances from the freight car are $HX)0 a month. Have any of our towns in Illinois come forward so furi ously fatt as this?" Baat UwMi Ike Flekaoi Faatlly. BY MBS. H. B. 8 TO WE. They bed a putty bad name them Hokums, now they got alivin' nobody knew, for they didn'tTseem to pfy no attention to raisin' nothin butjchildun, but the deuce knows there was plenty o' them. Their old hut was like a rabbit-pen there was a tow head to every crack and cranny. 'Member what old Civsar said once when the word come to the store that old Hokum had got twins. (S'pose de Lord know best," said Crcsar, "but I thought der was Hokums enough afore." Wal, even poor workin' industrious folks like me finds its hard gettin' along where there's so many mouths to feed. Lordy massy, there don't never seem to be no end on't and so it ain't wonderful, come to think on't, ef folks like them Hokums gets tempted to help along in the ways that ain't quite quite right. Anyhow, folks did use to think that old Hokum was too sort o' familiar with their wood-piles 'long in the night, though they couldn't never prove it on him, and when Mother Hokum come to houses round to wash folks used sometimes miss pieces, here and there, though they never could hnd em on her; then they was allers a-gettin' in debt here and a-gettin' in debt there. Why. they cot to owin' Joe Gidger two dollars for butchers' meat. Joo was sort o' good-natured, and let 'em have meat, cause Hokum promised so fair to pay, but he couldn't never get it out o' him. 'Member once Joe walked clear up to the cranberry pond arter that are two dollars, but Mother Hokum she see him a-comin' list as he come past the juniper bush on the corner, one says to Hokum, "Get into bed, old man, quick, and let me tell the story," says she. So she C3vered him up, and when Gidger come in she come up to him and says she, "Why, Mr. Gidger, I'm list ashamed to see ye; why Mr. Hokum was jist a comin' down to pay ye that are money last week, but ye see he was took down with the small-pox Joe didn t hear no more; he jist turned round and he streaked it out that are door with his coat-tails flyia' out straight ahind him, and old Mother Hokum she just stood at the window holdin' her sides and laughin' fit to split to see him run. That are's jist a sample o' the ways them UoBums cut up. Old Mother Hokum was a sort o' enter- prisin' old crittur fact was she had to be, cause the young Hokums was jist like bag- worms the more they growed the more they eat, and I expect she found it pretty bard to fill their mouths. A New Channel in the St. Lawrence. The Buffalo Express says: "A most valuable discovery has just been made in the river Sc. Lawrence, between Montreal and Quebeo, in the shape of a new channel of twenty feet in depth. Hitherto the only route for ships or heavy draught has been through a portion of St. Peter s Lake, originally deepened at great cost, and still requiring a large annual ex penditure to maintain it at the necessary depth. It is certainly singular that this new channel should never before have been found, some Buch route having for years been vainly sought by the Canadian Government. - But its discovery, tardy as it is, will be of incal culable value to the growing navigation in terest of Montreal, and will perhaps tend to hasten the development of the Dominion Canal policy. The new channel is reported as already lit for use, with the exseption of a few boulders, which can be removed without difficulty. " CENT.'S FURNISHING QOOD. DATKNT SHOULDER-SEAM SHIRT MANUFACTORY, AND GENTLEMEN'S FURNISHING STORK. PERFECTLY FITTING SHIRTS AND DRAWERS made from measurement at very snort notice. All other articles of GENTLEMEN'S DRESS GOODS in full variety. WINCHESTER k. CO., 11 9 No. 708 CHESNUT Street. LUMUElR. 1870 I PRUCR JOIST. PHUCE JOIST. 1870 HEM LOOK. HEMLOCK. tW7( SEASONED CLKAR PINK. 1 OTA 10 I U SEASONED CLEAR PINK. 10 4 U SPANISH CEDAR, FOR PATTERNS. RED CEDAR. 1 U7A FLORIDA FLOORING. 10 I V FLORIDA FLOORiNG. CAROLINA FLOORING, VIHGIN1A FLOOKING. DELAWARE FLOORING. Afin FLOORING. WALNUT FLOORING. FLORIDA STEP BOARDS. RAIL PLANK. 1870 1 Q H WALN4TT BOARDS AND PLANK. I Qwri 10 I ''WALNUT BOARDS AND PLANK. 10 I U WALNUT BOARDS. WALNUT PLANK. 1870 UNDERTAKERS' LUMBKit inA UNDERTAKERS' LUMBER. 10 I U KKD CEDAR. WALNUT AND PINE. 1870 SEASONED POPLAR. -t Q7A SEASONED CHERRY. 10 I U Attn, WHITE OAK PLANK AND BOARDS, HICKORY. CIGAR BOX MAKEKS IOTA 10 I U CIGAR BOX MAKERS' 10 I U 61'AMlbll Co. DA It BUI HOARDS, FOR SALE LOW. 1 Qi A CAROLINA SCANTLING. Qrjt 10 U CAROLINA H. T. SILLS. lOlU NORWAY bC AN TL IN U. 1870 CEDAR SH INGLES. 1 Q T A CYrRKSS SHINGLES. 10 i U MAULE, BROTHER A CO., No. 8600 SOUTH Street 115 f)ANEL PLANK, ALL THICKNESSES. A LJOMfilUK J LANK, ALU TillCKNESSEa. 1 COMMON BOARDS. 1 and S SIDE r E NOE BOARDS. WRITE PINE FLOORING BOARDS. YEL1AJW AND SAP PINE FLOORINGS, ltf and IX Brill A. Hi tlUIB 1, ALL HEMLOCK JOIST, ALL 8IZE& VT A Uf U Tiki 1 V . nTT A L'UUJ. 1 T IRV Together with a general assortment of Building Lumber for aula low for cash. T. W. 8MALTZ, o 81 6ai No. 1715 RIDGE Avenue, north of Poplar St. United Stales Builders' Mill, FIFTEENTH Street, Below Market. E8LER & BROTHER, PROPRIETORS. Wood Mouldings, Brackets and General Turning WOik, Hand-rail Balusters and Newel Posts. 19 1 8m A LARGE AfcSORTMBNT ALWAYS ON HAND, BUlUDINO MATERIALS. B. R. THOMAS & CO., PSA1SBS ur Boors, Blinds, Sash, Shutters WINDCW FRAMES, ETC., W. W. OOBNKB or EIOHTEEHTn and MARKET Streets COTTON BAIL DUCK AND CANVAS. OF A LI ft nn tiers and brands. Tent, Awnmg, Trunk and Wagon-cover Duck. Also, pper Uauutaa turers' Drier KelU, from tnirry to seventy-eL. lucuea. Wlin rmuu, oeiwur, ou i wine, eta. JOHN W. EVbJtMAN. No. 10 CHURCH 8uat (Glif buvtl INSURANCE INSURANCE COMPANY OF NORTH AMERICA. Jancabt 1, 19T0. Incorporated 1794. Charter Perpetual CAPITAL tBOO.OOO ASSETS rt IV88,681 Losses paid since organisation. 29,000,000 Receipts of Premiums, ise l,tfri,ft9748 Interest from Investments, 1869 linage 74 12,108,534 -19 .11,030,880 -84 Losses paid, 1689. STATEMENT OF TUB ASSETS. First Mortgages on City Property. 1766,450 1.123.M6 68,708 947,620 831,944 90,867 85,199 100,900 80,000 united Mates Government ana otner Loan Bonos Railroad, Bank and Canal Stocks Cash In Bank and Oltlce Loans on Collateral Security Notes Receivable, mostly Marine Premiums Accrued Interest .' Premiums In cmree of transmission... ... Unstttled Marine Premiums Real Estate, OUlce of Company, Fhiladel- pma I2.7S3.681 DIRECTORS. Arthur O. Coffin, Samuel W. Jones, John A. Brown, Charles Tsvlor, Ambrose White, William Welsh, S. MorrlH Wain, John Mason. Francis R. Cope, Edward H. Trotter, Edward a Clarke, T. Charlton Henry, Alfred D. Jessnp, Louis C Madeira, Charles W. Cnslimnn, Clement A. Griscom, William Brorkle. George L. Harrison, ARTHUR G. COFFIN. President, CHARLES PLATT, Tice-PreBldent MATTHTA8 mm is, Secretary. C. II. UjfcEvsa, Assistant Becietarv. 84 THE MUTUAL PROTECTION Life Insurance Company OF PHILADELPHIA Offers life policies, PERFECTLY SECURED, at lees than ONE-HALF TdE USUAL RATEi. It Is the only Life Insurance Company In the United States doing business on the "Mutual Classification" plan, and Its rates are so low that all classes may enjoy Its benefits. THE FULL AMOUNT OF INSURANCE IS GUARANTEED. We confidently Invite the attention of the public to the claims of this Company, assured that Its plan, comblnlng.as It does. ECONOMY with toe HIGHEST DEGREE OF SECURITY, will commend it to gene ral favor. Circulars, containing full explanations of our sys tem, rates, etc. etc., can be had from any of our agents, or at the OFFICE, No. 247 8. THIRD Street, PHILADELPHIA, JAMES H. BILLINGTON, President. J. E. IIackenbeug, Secretary. Good men wanted as Agents 10 13 thstn2m DELAWARE MUTUAL SAFETY INSURANCE COMPANY. Incorporated by the Legislature Of Pennsylvania, 1336, Office southeast corner of THIRD and WALNUT (Streets, rnnaacipnia. MARINE INSURANCES On Vessels, Cargo and Freight to all parts of the wona. INLAND INSURANCES jn goods by river, canal, lake and land carriage all parts of the Union. FIRE INSURANCES Merchandise generally; on Stores, Dwellings, Houses, etc. ASSETS OF THE COMPANY November 1, 1869. 1800,000 United States Five Per Cent. Loan, ten-forties 91S,00000 100,000 United States Six Percent. Loan (lawful money) 107,760-00 10,000 United States Six Per Cent. Loan, 1881 10.000-OC K0.000 8tate of Pennsylvania Six Per Cent. Loan 113,960 -00 00,000 City of Philadelphia Six Per Cent Loan (exempt from tax) fOO.996-00 100.000 State of New Jersey Six Per Cent. Loan OS.OOO'OO 0,000 Pennsylvania Railroad First Mortgage Six Per Cent. Bonos 450W 93,000 Pennsylvania Railroad Se cond mortgage Six per Cent. . Bonds KMae-Od M,000 Western Pennsylvania Rail road Mortgage Six Per Cent. Bonds (Pennsylvania Railroad guarantee) 90,000 -00 80,000 State of Tennessee Five Per Cent. Loan 18,00000 T.000 btate of Tennessee Six Per Cent. Loan 4,970 DO 11,500 Pennsylvania Railroad Com pany, 960 shares stock 14,000-00 ,000 North Pennsylvania Rail road Company, 100 inarea stock ,00-00 1,000 Philadelphia and Southern Mall Steamship Com pany, 80 shares stock T.600-00 844,900 Loam on Bond and Mort gaffe, fiiflt liens on City Propermest 40,900-ot 11,831,400 Par. Market value, ti,S36,B70-0 Cost. li.sifi.S'.Hm. Real Estate s,ooo-oo Bills Receivable for Insurances made . . . 8S0,7OQ-79 Balances dae at Agencies: Premiums on Marine Policies, Accrued interest, ana otner aeDts aae tne uom D&nv C&OtT-M Stoek, Scrip, etc, of Sundry Corpora tions, I4?. EdUmatod value .74O10 Cash in Bank l8,3iS-88 Casb in Drawer.... MM 79-90 in,niii 1,869,100 -04 DIRECTORS. Thomas C Hand, Samuel B. Stokes. William G. Boulton, Edward Darlington, H. Jones Brooke, Edward Lafourcade Jacob RlegeL Edmund A. Bonder, Theophilas Paulding, James Traqualr, Henry Sloan, Henry C. Dallett, Jr., 'aaies C. Band, William C. Ludwlg, Joseph H. Seal, Jacob P. Jones, James B. Me Parian d, ilotihua P. Eyre, Spencer Mcflvaln, if. Frank Robinson, J. B. Seinple, Plttsourg, A. B. Berxer, Pittsburg, D. T. Mormn. Pttwhur John D. Tavlor. George W. Bernadoa WUUaai a Houston, iiiumao u. iiajnjj, rremaenh JOHN C. DAVIS, Vloe-Presldanti HENRY LYLBURN, Secretary. HENRY BALL Assistant Secretary. l HE ENTERPRISE INSURANCE CO. OF PHILADELPHIA. Office S. W. cor. lOl'RTH and WALNUT Streets. FIRE INSURANCE EXCLUSIVELY. PERPETUAL AND TERM POLICIES ISSUED. CASH Capital (paid up In full) 1200.000 DO GASH Assets, October, 1870 081,139-13 F. Ratchford Starr, J. Livingston ErriMar. rainro j raster, John M. At wood, BenJ. T. Tredick George H. Stuart, James L. Claghorn, Win. G. Boulton, Charles Wheeler. Thomas U. Montgomar James M. Aertsen. jonn li. urown, f. RATCHFORD BTARR. President. THOMA H. MONTGOMERY, Vice-President, ALEX. W. W1STEK, Secretary. JACOB E. PETERSON. Assistant Secretary. F AMB INSURANCE COMPANY No. 809 CHESNUT Street WCOXrOKATID 18C& CHAATU FI&FSTTML, CAPITAL 1200,000. FIRE INSURANCE EXCLUSIVELY. Insurance against Loss or Damage by fire either by Perpetual or Temporary Policies. putsirroK. Charles Richardson, Robert Pearce. William 11. unawn, William M. bcylert, John If. Smith, Nathan liUlt-s. John Keasler, Jr., Edward B. Orne, Charles Stokes. John W. Everman, Mordecal Busby. George A. West. CHARLES RICHARDSON. President WILLIAM 1L KI1AWN, Vice-President Wrxxuas J. Blakcuakj) Secretary. I mi INSURANCE. 1829 cnARTEB PERPETUAL, igyo Franllin Fire luce Coip; OF PHILADELPHIA. Office, Xos. 435 and437 CHESNUT St. Assets Aug. l70$3t009.888"24 CAPITAL 400,000-00 ACCRUED SURPLUS AND PREMIUMS .9,609,8d8 -34 INCOME FOR 1870, ' LOSSES PAID IN 1849, 810,000. 144.908-49. Iuoasea paid since 1829 over $5,500,000 Perpetual and Temporal Policies on Libert Terms. The Company also Issues policies upon the Rent? of all kinds of Buildings, Ground Rents, and Moi' Bthe "FRANKLIN" has no DISPUTED CLAIM, DIRECTORS. Alfred G. Baker, Alfred Fltler, Thomas Sparks, William b. Grant, Thomas S. Ellis, namuei want, George W. Michards, Isaac Lea, Menrirn FftlpIL GuHtavns 8. Benson. . BAR Kit. President. ALFRED G GEORGE FALKS. Vice-President JAMES W. MCALLISTER, Secretary. 119 TBEODORR M. REGER. Assistant Secretary. I R E A S 8 O O I A T 1 O N INCORPORATED MARCH 17, 1890. 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Their Capital, together with a large Surplus Fund Is Invested In the most careful manner, which ena bles tnem to otier to the insured an undoubted seen rity in the case of loss. Daniel Smith, Jr., Ifiaao Hazlehurst, Thomas Robins, John Deverenx. Thomas Smith, tienry Lewis, J. Gulingham Feu, Daniel Haddock, Comly. Franklin A DANIEL SMITH. Jr.. President Wm. G. Ckowxll, Secretary. 8 80 TMPERIAIj FIIIX INSURANCE CO. LONDON. 4TABLJNIIED ISO. Fsid-np Oapital and AooamoUUd Funds, 88,000,000 IN GOLD PREVOST A HERRING, Agents, 4$ No. 107 S. THIRD Street, PhiUdalphU. 0HA8. M. PRKVOST OH AM P. URliRINO ENGINES, MACHINERY, E TO. PBNN STEAM ENGINE AND UulfiKh WORKS NKAFIB A LEVY, PRACTJ. CAL AND THEORETICAL ENGINEERS, MA CHINISTS, BOILER-MAKEKS, BLACKSMITHS and FOUNDERS, having for many years been In succeesfdl 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 otter their servlee to the public as being fully prepared to contract foi engines of all sUsess, Marine, River, and Stationary ; having sets of patterns or duteient sixes, are pre pared to execute ordem with quick despatch. Everj description of pattern-making made at tne shortest notice. High and Low Pressure Fine Tutmlar and Cylinder Boilers of the best Pennsylvania Charcoal Iron. Forgings of all size and kinds. Iron and Brass Castings of all descriptions. Roll Turning, ncrew cutting, and all other work connect? with the above business. Drawings end specifications for all work done the establishment free of charge, and work gua- The subscribers have ample wharf dock-ioona foi repairs of boats, where they can He in perfect safety, and are provided with shears, blocks, fall) etc. etc., for raising heavy or light weights. ' JAtiOB C. NEAFIB, JOHN P. LEVY, 8164 BEACH and PALM BR Strents. piHARD TUBE WORKS AND IRON CO., PHILADELPHIA, PA, Manufacture PUln and Galvanized WRiL'GUT-lRiN PIPE and Sundries for Oas and Steam Fitters, Plumbers, Machinists, Railing Makers, oil RaUucrs, etc. WOhKS, TWENTY-TniRD AND Fl LHERT STREETS. OFK1CE AN) WAREHOUSE, 8 1 No. 42 N. FIFTH ST it EE f. 8HIPPINU. LORILLARD STEAMSHIP (JO MP AN I Om FOIl NEW YOIIK, SAILING EVERY TUESDAY, THURSDAY, ANI SATURDAY. RATES TEN CENTH PER 100 POUNDS, FOUR UENTt PER CUBIC FOOT, ONE CENT PER GALLON. SHIP'S OPTION. INSURANCE BY THIS LINE ONE-EIGHTH OF ONE PER CENT. Extra rates on small packages Iron, metals, eto. No secelpt or bill of lading signed for less than fifty cents. Goods forwarded to all points free of commission. Through bills of ladiug given to Wilmington, N. O., by the summers or this line leaving New York tri weekly.ror further particulars appir to john f. onr,, PIER 19 NOrtTH WHARVES. N. B. The regular shippers by this line will be charged the above rates all winter. W inter rates commence December 10. 9 81 FOR LIVERPOOL AND QUEEVg of Royal Mall fftf-lgKIWM Inman Line biraiuers are appointed to sail as follows: City ot Brussels, Saturday, Out. 9, at 10 A- M. Etna (via Halifax), Tuesday, Nov. 1, at 12 noon. City of Washington, baturday, Nov. 6. at 9 P. XL City of Paris, Saturdav, Nov. 19, at 8 A. M. and each succeeding 8aturday and alternate Tues day, from pier No. 4fi North river. ' RATES OF PASSAGE. Payable In gold. Payable In currency. First Cabin f70 Steerage ?o London S0i To London 3t o Pars 90 To Paris s To Halifax 90 To Halifax 18 PasseDgers aiso forwarded to Havre, Hamburg, BremeD, etc., at reduced rates. Tickets can be nought here at moderate rates by persons wishing to sebd for their friends. For further Information apply at the company's 0tJOIlN G. DALE, Agent. No. 15 Broadway, N. Y. I Or to O-DONNkIL & FAULK, Agents, 45 No. 409 CHESNUT Street Philadelphia. FOR NEW YOR via Delaware and Rarltan Canal. EIPRKM SfltAMBOAT COMPANY. Ti lit b learn Propellers of the line will commence Wading on the 8th Instant leaving dally as usual. THROUGH IN TWENTY-FOURHOURS. - Goods forwaroed by all the lines going out of Ne York, North, East, or West free of oouinlaalon. Freights received at low rates. WILLIAM P. CLYDB A CO., Agents, No. 19 8. DELAWARE Avenue. JAMES HAND, Agent No. 119 WALL Street New York. 9 4t tfEL&WARB AND CHESAPEAKE STEAM TOWBOA.T COMPANY.-. ima Barges towed between Philadelphia, Baltimore, Uavre-de-Orace, Delaware CUT, and la, tennediate points. WILLIAM P. CLYDB k CO., Agents. Captain JOHN L Al tai LIN, 8upslutendt;ut Onlce, No. W South W l.fves Philadelphia 11 SHIPPING. g P E C I A L NOTICE TO SHIPPERS VIA SAVANNAH, GA. Jw-f", FREIGHT WILL BE FORWARDED Jti j v with our usual despatch to all points on the"VVBSTERN AND ATLANTA. MEM BUS AND CHARLESTON, ALABAMA AND CHAT TANOOGA, ROME, BELMA, ROME AND DAL. TON, SELMA AND MERIDIAN, VICKSBURG) AND MERIDIAN, MOBILE AND OHIO, NEW ORLEANS, JACKSON AND GREAT NORTH. ERN RAILROADS, all Landings oa the COOSA RIVER. Through Bills of 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 "VOTICE. - QUARANTINE RESTRICTIONS ' having been removed, freight will be received for Galveston, as heretofore, by the PHILADEL PHIA AND SOUTHERN MAIL 8TEAMSHIP COMPANY. Shippers will please notice that all boxed goods lor Mobile, Galveston, and points on the Mississippi river must be well strapped. The steamship YAZOO will sail for New Orleans, via Havana, on TUESDAY next 10 25 at TUB REGULAR 8TEAMSHIPs7)NTnlBplHI. LIKLriIIA AND CHARLESTON STEAM SHIP LINE are AI.ONE authorized to issue througH bills of Iadii g to Interior points South and Weatli connection with South Carolina Railroad Companr. ALFRED L. TYLER, . Vice-President So. C. Kit Co. PHILADELPHIA AND SOUTHERN MAIL HTKAM8HIP OOMPAWV'B uviixu JVH bKMl-MONTHLY LIMB TO NltW tSl Th YAZOO will sail fori New Orlaanc, via Havana, oa Tnd,NoTmbr 1. atH A. M. Tb, JIISUT will sail from New Orleans, via Ha van oo I ririny, October 2S. THROUGH BILL OF LADING at as low rate, as b any other route given to Mobile, Gnlvrxton, and to all point, on tb, Mimimippl rivei between New Orleans and (t. I.onis. Red Hirer treijht resbJpped at New Orleans wit hoot charge of oemmiaeiona WFFKI.Y LINE TO SAVANNAH. GL The WYOMING will sail tor Savannaa oa Bator. dav, October (IDA. M. Tb TONAWnNDalwill sail from Savannaa oa Satur day, October 2t. THROUGH BILLS OF LADING riven to all theprln. eipal towns in Oeoriria, Alabama, Florida, Mieneidppt, Louieiana, Arkaawa. and Tenneeaee in oonneoUoa wita the Oeatral Railroad of Ueorria, Atlantio and Golf Rail, road, and Florida team ere, at as low rate ae by oompstina lines. SEMI MONTHLY LINE TO WILMINGTON. 1. O. The PIONEER will sail for Wilmington en rUtordar. October 2 at A. M. Hettuninir, will leave Wilmina' ton Hanrday, November 5. Connect witb tbe Uape Pear River Steamboat Goto, pany, the W ilmin, ton and Weldon and North Carolina Railroads, and the Wilmington and Manoheeter "rttad te all interior points. Freights (or Oolnmbia, S. O., and Aajrosta, Oa, taksa via V ilminirtnn, at as Ion rates aa by any ether root. Insurance effected when requested by abippers. Bills of ladlna signed at Qneeniitreet wharf an er before daff wi Hiiinfi WILLIAM L. JAMES, General A rent. No. taq South THIRD btreet.' 19 fff PHILADELPHIA, RI CHMOND iflFi AND NORFOLK STEAMSHIP MNR. THROUGH FREIOHT AIR LINE TO THE SOUTilf AND WK8T. INCREASED FACILITIES AND REDUCED RATES FOR 1870. Steamer, leave every WRDNESDAYand SATURDAY. oVieh noon, from FIRST WHARF above MAR. RETURNING, leave RICHMOND MONDAYS and THIJRSDAYB. and NORFOLK TUESDAYS and ISS. Ne Bills of Lading aimed after 19 o'clock es saillna days. THROUGH RATES to all points in North aad Sooth Carolina, via 8eaboard Air Una Railroad, oonneotlnc at Portemonth, and to Lynohburg, Va., Tenneaeee, and the Weet, via Virginia and Tenneseee Air Line and Riolunond and Danville Railroad. Freight HANDLED BUTOfcOK, and taken atLOWEB RATES TbAN ANY OTUKR L1MC No charge for commission, drayaga, or any expense, of ranefer. .... bteamahips Insure at lowest rates. Freight reoeived daily. .tat. Room aocmationsjo, ferc No. 19 8. WHARVFSand Pier I N. WHARVES. W. P. POR1 EH, Agent at Richmond and City Point. T. P. OROWELL A CO., Agents at Norfolk. tit FOR NEW YORK, VIA DELAWARE and Raritan CanaL SWIFT SURE TRANSPORT ATIOH lyumi All x . DESPATCH AND SWIFTSURB LINES, Leaving dally at la M. and 5 P. M. The steam propellers of this company will com rnence loading on the 8th of March. Through in twenty-four hours. Goods lorwarded to any point free of oommlssloa Freights taken on accommodating terms. Apply to WILLIAM M. BAIRD A CO., Agents. 4 No. 182 South DELAWARE Avenue. NEW EXPRESS LINE TO AT.ETAN. idrla, Georgetown, and Washington. D. C. via CheHuniaka anri naiarM iauai, wuu oouuecuons at Alexandria rrom the most direct route for Lynchburg, Bristol, KnoxvUle. Nashville, Dal ton, and the Southwest Steamers leave regularly every Saturday at nooD torn the Qrst wharf above Market street Freight received dally. WILLIAM P. CLYDB ft CO., No. 14 North and South WHARVES. HYDE A TYLER, Agents at Georgetown: M ELDH1DQE A CO., Agents at Alexandria. 1 1 OORDAQE, ETO. WEAVER & CO., ROPE MAN IJFAtrriJUEUfJ AMD fJIflP CIlAtlH.lIBtS, No. 89 North WATER Street and No. 89 North WHARVES, Philadelphia, ROPE AT LOWEST BOSTON AND NEW YOR PRICES. 4 1 CORDAGE. Manilla, Eli&l and Tarred Gordagt At Loweet New York Price and freight EDWIN U. KITL.KU CO Factory, TENTH Bt and GSRMANTOWB A vena. Store, No. 93 . WATER 81 and 99 N DKXAWARS Avenoa. 4 19 12TB PHILADELPHIA! ROOFINQ. RE A H Y HOOPIN G. This Rooting Is adapted to ail buildings. It can be applied to STEEP OR FLAT ROOKS at one-half the expense of tin. It Is readily put oa old Shingle Rods without removing the shingles, tit us avoiding the damaging of oeillngs and furniture while undergoing repairs. (No gravel used.) PRESERVE Y- I K TIN ROOKS W1T1I WEL TON'S ELASTltf PAINT. I am always prepared to Repair and Paint Roofs at short notice. Also, PAINT FOR SALE by tho barrel or gallon: the best and cheapest In the market W. A. W ELTON, 1 175 No. Ttl N. NINTH St. above Coaiea. PATENT). STATE RIGHTS FOR SALE. STATE RIGHTS of a valuable Invention just patented, and for the SLICING, CUTIINO, and CHIPPING of dried beef, cabbage, etc., are hereby offered for sale. It Is an article of great value to proprietors of hotels and restaurants, and It should be lutniduced into every family. STATE RIGHTS FOR SALS. Model csn be seep at TELEQRAPH OFFIOJI COOPER'S POINT, N. J- 197tf MUNDY A HOFFMAN. Corn Exchange Bag Manufactory. JOHN T. BAILEY, IT. E. Cor. WATER and MARKET SU ROPE AND TWINS, BAGS and B AGOING, foi Grain, Flour, Salt buper-phoephate of Lime, B004 Dust, Etc. Large and small GUNNY BAGS "onstantly on band. Also. U (mil HACKS. t ALEXANDER a OATTELL CO PRODUCE COMMISSION M f NCUANT8. T No. 9S NOttTU WHARVES AMD NO. it NORTH WTBH STREET, PHILADELPHIA. Axiiav&u G. OarrsBi. Blush GattblIj.
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