THE DAILY EVENING TELfiGK A I'll PIIIL ADELPIII A, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1870. srzzLZT or inn run as. Editorial Opinions oftho Leading Journal uponCurrentTopics Compiled Every Day for the Evening Telegraph TIIE McGAIlRAlIAN CLAIM. From the A. r. Sun. The withdrawal of General Jacob D. Cox from the Department of the Interior at Wash ington Lbs been alleged to be owing to a disagreement between him and President Grant on the subject of what is called the McGarrahan claim. The nature of that Maim, its history, and the present condition of the controversy about it, havo accordingly come to be matters of unusual public interest. The land involved is the l'auoohe Grande ranch, a tract of four Spanish leagues in area, situated in Monterey and Fresno oonn ties, California, about one hundred and twenty-five miles southeast of San Francisco, and now occupied by the New Idria MiDing Company. All that gives value to it is its quicksilver mines, it being almost useless for agricultural purposes. Vv'ith its improve ments it is worth perhaps $1,000,000. The two parties contending for the owner ship of the land are William McGarrahan, of California, and the New Idria Mining Com pany, of the same State. This company is mainly composed of Barron & Co., the great quicksilver merchants, who, with some other foreigners, own one-half the stock; W. C. llalston, cashier of the Bank of California, who owns one-eighth; and D.O. Mills, Presi dent of the same bank, who also owns one eighth. Mr. McGarrahan's claim is based npon an alleged grant made to one Vicente Gomez by the Mexican Government in 1811, which Jias been purchased by him. The New Idria Company claim by virtue of actual pos session since 18.r2 by settlers to whose rights they have succeeded, and under a law of the United States authorizing miners or mining companies to pre-empt lands which they have occupied and improved. Neither party has received any patent for the land from the United States as yet. Mr. McGarrahan i3 endeavoring to get such a patent, and the New Idria Company is resisting his efforts and trying to get a patent for itself. By the treaty between Mexico and the United States made at Guadalupe Hidalgo, February 20, 1818, it was agreed that exist ing rights to land and other property should be respected, provided they should be duly established before commissioners to be ap pointed to examine them aid determine their validity. Under this treaty Gomez in 1853 put in his claim for the Panoohe Grande ranch, with his proofs. Not being able to tshow actual occupation of the tract, the com missioners in 1855 rejected the claim. On appeal to the United States District Court for the Southern District of California, the decision of the commissioners was in 1858 reversed, and the claim confirmed. A further .appeal wjtb then taken by the United States District Attorney to the Su premo Court of the United States, which appeal was, in May, 1850, by consent of Attorney-General Black, dismissed, and a mandate issued to the lower court directing it to confirm the title of Gomez. The follow ing yjar, however, Attorney-General Blaok, on grounds now alleged to be untrue, pro cured a reversal of the order dismissing the appeal and the recall of the mandate. This gave the United States the right to prosecute a second appeal within five years from the rendition of the original judgment. After the expiration of the five years, the District Attorney of California obtained an appeal order, which the judge granting it afterwards annulled and refused to allow the anneal. Nevertheless, the Surname Court took un this second appeal, and in !8(iU, after various mo tions, the decree of the California District Court was reversed, and a judgment rendered adverse to Gomez. Pending these legal proceedings, Mr. Mc Garrahan had purchased the claim of Gomez, and when the decision of the Supreme Court prevented him from obtaining a patent for the land, he presented a petition to Congress asking for the passage of a special act con filming Gomez's title. In 18G8 the Com mittee of the House of Representatives re ported in his favor, but the next year the Senate committee were equally divided. In April last he had another hearing before the Judiciary Committee of the House of Repre sentatives; bat as yet uongress has taken no action in the matter, lie asserts that a stipu lation was entered into between his counsel and the counsel on the other side, that, until such action was had, neither party should make any demand npon the Exeoutive De partment of the Government for a patent nor receive one, and that in violation of this stipulation me New iana uompany en deavored to persuade and did persuade Sec retary Cox to issue a patent to them. Presi dent urant, However, issued an order sus pending all action in the case until Congress should have disposed of it, and there the matter now rests. In opposition to the claim of McGarrahan. the New Idria Company allege various frauds on his part and that of Gomez. Thev charge Gomez with having forged evidence, with having procured the first decision of the District Court in bis favor by collusion, and with tampering with records and omoials On the other hand, McGarrahan says that the New Idria people have bought up United States attorneys and counsel, forged some papers and destroyed others, and resorted to bribery and cheating in every possible form. a nose curious in sucn matters can nnd a detailed statement of these charges and counter charges set forth in the dozen or more pamphlets which, have been issued by . v t m 1 1 a . . one or me otner ox toe two parties. THE DIAMOND FIELDS OF SOUTn AF1HCA ANOTHER GREAT IMPULSE TO CIVILIZATION. ' From the X. Y. Herald. From the horrors of the war in France. from the crisis to the beleaguered city of ' Paris and the French republic, from the Eu ropean perplexities of the peaoe question, and from the senseless clamors of New York politics, we invite the attention of our readers , in this article to the more pleasing subject of - the new discovery of the diamond fields of South Africa. In the voluminous and inte 'jesting budget of miscellaneous matter in the Jlerald we gave yesterday letters and news paper extracts relating to those diamond Jn elds, from which we are satisfied that they are a great reality, and that, under the en JU'feoHraging conditions of a wholesome climate and, the liberal colonial system of England, they are destined in a wonderful degree to bnild up in South Africa civilized couimuni ;iig. and cities over an area of five hundred thousand square miles. At this time the 'organised white settlements in that quarter Dutch, and English of the British colonies, the Dutch republie and other free States jti:tvr an area of three or four hundred miles v., in, jlQDgth, from the Cape of Gooa Hope northeastwardly to the north end of the Trims- aal republic; and toe attractions of these diamond mines will soon develop and enlarge these settlements into a pros perous nnion, "with all the modern improve ments." These diamond fields are on the aal river, the head stream of the great Orange river, which forms the chain of dividing mountains flankicg the Indian Ocean, llows eastwardly for more than a thousand miles into the Atlantic, in south latitnde twenty-nine. The products of this vast region between the Orange region ana ine southern sea coast in clude cotton, sugar, coffee, indigo, wheat, Indian corn, sweet potatoes, grapes, oranges and pineapples. But cattle and sheep furn ish the chief articles of export. The Cape colony alone has produced in a single year eight million pounds of wool. The Vaal is a beautiful river among the hills, the water clear and delicious, the climate healthy as California, the country charming in its natu ral attractions, and living cheap, from the astonishing abundance of cattle and of wild came of all kinds. Gordon Cumming has pronounced South Africa the hunter's para dise. His catalogue of wild animals slain in that quarter, from the lion, the elephant nnd rhinoceros, to the buffaloes, zebras, giraffes, wild boars and gazelles of many varieties, is enough to excite the envy of every young Nimrod in the world who has not shared in his good fortunes. hat, then, to the adventurous spirits or the Anglo-Saxon race will be the limit to the rnbh to South Africa, when, in addition to all the other attractions indicated, we have this irresistible magnet of the Vaal diamond fields, where the precious stones, along the river hills and water courses for five huudred miles, are picked up, varying from five hun dred to five hundred thousand dollars in value where thousands of diamond hunters are moving about like ants over an ant hill, and where, from the lucky findings, the host of fortune seekers increases every day ? Our reports from that now famous region recall to us the stories of the first rush of "the diggers to the (Jam ornia gold placers in 1840. Nay, the mind is carried back to the vast migrations of bold adventurers from Spain which followed her first explorers in search of the ingots of gold and silver with which the new continent then abounded from Mexico to Peru, and to the whole chain of Spanish American States thus founded, and to the decline of bpain in her resulting ex haustion and demoralization from her proud place as the dominant kingdom of Europe to the weakness of j a third-rate power. We are carried back to Sir Walter Raleigh, and to the dreams of gold placers which contributed to the colonization of North Carolina and Virginia, and to the discovery by Do Soto of the Mississippi river, and which even affected, to some extent, the Pilgrim Puritans of Mas sachusetts and the French pioneers into Canada, Acadia, and Louisiana. I rom these hopes and dreams of speedy wealth in discoveries of treasures of gold and silver, which contributed so much to the early settlements of America, North and South, by Europeans, we are brought down in this channel of history to California and Australia, and thence to the later discoveries of gold and silver in our new Western States and Territories of Nevada, Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado, Utah, Idaho, Oregon, Wyoming, and Montana, and to the amazing results of the development of their mines in the expansion of the conquests of modern civilization. Thus the overland railway from the Atlantic to the Paciho, or rather from St. Louis to San Francisco, which was in 1850 considered utterly impracticable, is in 1870 in suocessfal operation: and thus we find regions, pronounced not long ago as worth less as the Desert of Zahara, now sprinkled w ith prosperous towns and rising cities boast ing their daily newspapers. We have seen, too, that with the exception of the gold washings of California her people are developing enduring sources of wealth in her wheat fields and vineyards, and that as the gold placers of Australia are exhausted new sources of prosperity are opened in her boundless sheep and cattle ranges. So will it be with the diamond fields of South Africa. The diamond districts of Brazil have faUed to attract any effective emigration beoause of the drawbacks of the climate and the obstruc tions of the Government. In South Africa, on the other hand, where the freedom and health of California prevail and the abundant blessings of the hunter's paradise, we expect some wonderful results in the expansion of civilization and commerce from the attrac tions of those diamond mines. It is the realization of that diamond story of the Ara bian Nights; and why may not the adven turer to the Vaal diamond fields dream of coming away with a single pebble in his waistcoat pocket that makes him a million. aire 7 The great continent of Africa, which boasts the oldest and grandest monuments of ancient civilization, has been through all time and remains to this day, excepting a small section here and there, in a state of barbarism. Its capabilities, however, for human subsistence and luxuries are illimitable. On her northern coast, embracing Algeria and all those States, Africa has still the resources for the creation of a greater commercial empire than was Car tbage; her western equatorial ooast regions of boundless fertility need only the stimulus and discipline of civilization to her native blacks to develop in time a trade greater than that of India; her great equatorial basin and upper valley of the Nile may be made to yield hun dreds of thousands of cattle and millions of bales of cotton, and the broad, fertile basin of tle Zambezi, on the Indian Ocean side, may be made to rival in its tropioal products the valley of the Amazon. South Afrioa, however, from its inviting climate and its great variety of produots, is surely destined at no distant day to bring into the front rank of civilized States a prosperous, independent conieueration. iuigiano, as a naval outpost and commer cial depot, may still hold fast the Cape of Good Hope ; but as she has gained the am plest profits in trade from the United States a an independent nation, so she will in good time hnd it her true policy rather to enoour age than resist the will of the people in the New Dominion, in Australia, and in South Africa. Indeed, the basis of a republican confederation already exists in those free Sonth African States. England, meantime, can qo nomine oeuer man to encourage in every way the settlement of the New Domin ion and of bouth Africa from her redundant population at home. But, whatever she iny do or may laii to do, we expect these dia mond fields of South Africa to play the same role in the enlargement of civilization as that of the gold fields of California and Australia and the silver mountains of Nevada. AMERICAN SOCIOLOGY. Prom tks If. F. Tribune. The Social Science Association has lately closed its mntn general meeting in Philadel phia. The very existence of such an Associa tion is a healthful symptom of progress. Judge Strong, in Lis admirable opening ai dless, said with truth: "The Intelligent mind of the country tias hardly awakened yet to a fall apprehension of what is meant bv social science. Scholars understand when we speak of the science of mathematics, of astrono my, or physics irencrally, or when we speak of the science of law, or theology, or medicine; bnt when we talk of a science thai, selects hnman society as its subject, and Includes In its departments all that affects society for pood er 111, we seem to many like those in a dream. It is remarkable that in the classi fication which the celebrated French philosopher, AuRUBle (lnmte, made, only a few years since, or what, In his opinion, are all possible departments of human knowledge, he Included what he denominated 'sociology,' not as an existing science, hut as some thing that might, in a distant hereafter, be developsd Into a department of knowledge." Society the Judge describe! apt'y ai aa organism "which might be said to hive life. Now, it is with this living organism, with these habits, diseases, opinions, capabilities, and everything that acts upon sooitl happi ness and development; with all that has been discovered, or that yet may be known, which tends to elevate and advance humau society, that social science has to do." The field, as will be seen, is wide enough even in European countries, where the social structures contain few component parts, and dniing centuries have hardened into definite bbapes, of which -the defects have grown pntent and obtrusive with time. Thescienco is more difficult than any other because of its vagueness, and more thickly beset with problems. What must it be in this country, then, which is, after all, a seetking caldron, into which havo been thrown every race, political creed, religion, and theory under heaven, to war or fuse together as they n ay chance, under a system of government alien to the majority of them 'f How to bring fusion instead of war; how to detect and cure their diseases; how to rightly esti mate and place the relation of each to each, are but parts of the work that offers itself to our social science philosopher. Where such breadth of standing ground is permitted, it would be impossible for a body of learned ana practical men, sucn as assemoiea last week in Philadelphia, to attempt to exchange opinions without offering many ideas both rational and valuable. They should have re membered, however, that the danger lay in the wide limits of the subject, which would be likely to cause any search after truth to degenerate into vague, indefinite discussion. Of all sciences, sociology should have its principles most firmly based on immutable truth, nnd should be most precise and accu rate in their application. An error in mathe matics or phjsics will perforce right itself; but social science deius with human ac tion, thrusts its hold into vital spiritual principles, as the phvsician deals with the life of the body. A mistake in one case is as fatal and irremediable as the other, and so much the grover as it affects the existence of masses of men instead of individuals. The first effort of these oentlemen who are deavoring, from the purest motives, we doubt not, to give the science form aud place anioDg us, should have been to ground it thoroughly on fixed axioms, to narrow its bounds as much as possible, and then con centrate their efloits ou certain given points. This was not the case in the meeting just closed. While there was an undoubted dis play of ability, research, aud force, there was an utter want of any concentration of purpose, it is true that the leading minds of the association endeavored to direct its influence aud weight to the civil service re form. But civil service reform is a surface matter, after all. The other members, as might be expected when the gates of entry were thrown so wide to every subject, each pressed in, riding his favorite hobby. One was impressed with the idea that the most fatal disease which threatened the body politic was the incomplete mode of taking the oeusus another old gontleoicui hail lomi favorite ideas about the testimony of experts; a third pressed a new map of the United States on the country as all that was needed to urge humanity on its progress. There was, too, a sufficient vague building up of ima ginary Utopias to draw upon them the ridi cule they seemed to fear. England was civilly invited to admit our manufactures at the same duty as her own iron and Indian tissues, and to abrogate entails and primo geniture, and promised in return the abolish ment of Fenianism and instant admission to a millennial state of freedom, knowledge, and meat twice a day. In spite of these errors, however, the Asso ciation is accomplishing a good work, if only in drawing the attention of thinking people to the subjects whioh it attempts to grasp. PRIVATE MASKED BATTERIES. From the N. F. Times. The curious homicide in Twenty-third street, a few nights ago, whereby a supposed burglar was killed in attempting to break into the shop of a gunsmith, opens up an in teresting question of legal and moral right. The circumstances of the case are still fresh in the minds of our readers. The worthy gunsmith had been put to much pecuniary loss and vexation of spirit by repeated noc turnal visits to his shop, and finding what we facetiously call the "law powerless to pro tect him, determined to protect himself. Being an Italian, his hot Southern blood, perhaps, needed little prompting to take vigorous and effective measures against these destroyers of his peace and pur- loiners of his property. He forthwith ar ranged to insure for his next trespasser a brief but vivid renewal of the Sicilian Ves pers. A masked battery, consisting of a Springfield musket, loaded to the muzzle with slugs, was so planted as to command the approaches to the gunsmith's citadel, and, by an ingenious contrivance, fixed to be dis charged on any attempt to open bis shutters from outside. The other morning the tri umph of these warlike combinations was found in the person of a young man. with but half a head, lying beneath the gun smith's window. Near by the body were certain implements apparently pertaining to the housebreaker s craft. There was, there fore, little if any doubt of his purpose. Now at first blush this will appear to most people a case of entirely justifiable homicide. Every man has a right to protect his person and property against the thief who comes in the night, even to the taking of life. But there is a difference between killing an actual burglar, met and confronted in the perpetra tion of his felony, and setting a- trap to kill a possible burglar, with a rather startling range of other possible and utterly uncontrol lable consequences. If any contingency had arisen, such as fire, which made it lawfully necessary to effect an entrance into our gun smith's fchop through his window, the results would have been appalling, and would in that case have borne an ugly resemblance, if not to murder, at least to an aggravated degree of manslaughter. And because the event appears to justify the act in this case, it is none the less homicidal. Only through lack of the necessary indication of depravity does it misa becoming obnoxious to that provision of the revUed statutes which declares killing to be murder, when perpetrated by any act imminently dangerous to others, though without premeditated design to effect the death of any particular individual. In a community so overridden by crime, so insulted by a mockery of legal protection and of justice as ours, it may seem harsh to blame a man for taking effectual means to give himself that security which corrupt and imbecile authority denies. But two wrongs do not make a tight, and it is, in the long run, better for the interests of publio safety and publio morality that our shops should be robbed with impunity than that our lives should be endangered by a general establish ment of private automatic masked batteries, which are cot likely to discriminate between the innocent and the guilty. The end In this case plainly does not justify the means. And if our people wish to secure their lives and property against the audacious villainy of the men who virtually rule and ruin our city, they will do more to achieve that end by voting against the ring than by fencing their houses with mitrailleuses. TnE REPUBLIC AND BAZAINE. From the N. 1'. World. Whatever may be thought by the rest of the world of the surrender of Marshal Bazaine at Metz, the French Government at Tours at least have made up their minds on the sub ject. In a stirring proclamation to the French people they denounce the act as an act of treason to the State, and Marshal Ba zaine himself as an accomplice of the "Man of Sedan." It is impossible to deny that there are many things in the accounts which have already reached us of this amazing incident of the war to warrant the belief that these ter rible charges may be only too well founded in truth. . There is nothing, unfortunately, in the past career of Marshal Bazaine, and especially in his Mexican experience (to which the Government at Tours bitterly allude,), to render even Buch accusations as M. Gambetta and his colleagues level at him antecedently improbable. All the best correspondents from the scene agree in the statement that the Germans were "amazed" at the actual capitulation. The fearful story which came to us with a strong caveat recontly from our correspondent at Ostond, of a massacre of unarmed people at the gates of Metz, seems to have been, as our correspondent led us to hope it might prove to be, part of what looks now like a systematic attempt of the impe rialists in Belgium and England to represent the position of the army at Metz as more Loveless than it really was. But without entering fully to-day into the question of Marshal Bazaine's guilt or inno cence, we may unreservedly commend to the admiration of our readers the fearless, reso lute, and masculine tono of the proclamation in which the Government at Tours announce this great catastrophe to the people of the republic. It extenuates nothing of the extent of the disaster, and concedes nothing. How far the high and unconquored tone of the Government is justified by the stuto of the military organization with which republican France is preparing to moot her victorious foes, we Khali Know in a few weeks at farthest. Meanwhile no freeman in any country can refuse his most cordial sympathies to the spirit with which these leaders of a people striving to be free, and to establish freedom, use to the shock of calamities really almost unparalleled in the history of mankind. ' The Tiibune, which is nothing if not a worshipper of success, does the World the honor to say that we cught to publish this journal at Tours. We do not decline the compliment.' The city of Tours to-day contains the only republican government in Europe, out of Switzerland a government struggling against overwhelming military force to maintain these principles of republican autonomy which are the only assurance of American power and progress, and, as we believe, the only hope of European emancipation and peace. If the World but maintain these principles as resolutely in the fair weather of America as the Government of Tours pro claims them in the storm sweeping now over Frauce, it will probably fare but ill with the 1'ribune and its party, but it will assuredly fare well with the Democracy and with the Union. THE METHODIST BOOK CONCERN. From the X. V. World. Without wishing to appear as partisans in an ecclesiastical dispute which is ot the nature of a domestic dispute in this, that secular journals have nothing to do with it until it comes before a publio tribunal we are quite sure that we express the general feeling in owning surprise at the disposition which has been made of the case of Dr. Lana- han. The only offence of that gentleman seems, to secular apprehension, to have been his honesty and his courage in exposing what he believed to be serious and systematic in juries done to the Methodist Church by its agents in the Methodist Book Concern. Whether his belief was well or ill founded does not at all affect the merits of the case. A very considerable portion of the Methodist Church, and nearly the whole newspaper reading community outside the limits of that Church, believe upon the evidence adduoed to justify it that it was. The official committee of the Church hold, upon what evidence does not appear, that it was not. But so long as it is not charged (and we are not aware that it has been charged) that the motive of Dr. Lanahan in expressing it was malicious, he is certainly entitled to praise and protection rather than retirement and disgrace from the Church whose interests he tried to subserve. It was his clear duty to disclose what he knew of unwise or criminal mismanagement. But for such a disclosure he has been arraigned for trial before the same body which appears as his prosecutors. Obviously such a body, however well intentioned,will be apt to make good its own charges npon much slighter evi dence than would satisfy an impartial tribu nal. That the complainant should also be the judge is such an infraction of jostioe as no civil court will admit, although we find it admitted in ecclesiastical courts. The judgment, or rather the prejudgment, of such a body will not convince disinte rested observers of the val d ty of its (.rounds. It is a pity that the slander suit now or lately nendine a trains t Dr. Lanahan should not be brought to trial. In that case the Methodist Church and the publio would be satisfie 1 both of the impartiality and the competency of the Court appointed to try it, and of the fairness of tie law of evidence which guided it. Courts martial and courts ecclesiastical com monly execute their sentences, it is true. But neither commonly does anything towards convincing people that its sentence is a just one. 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CAPITAL fVKi.nno ASSETS i4,I83,681 Losscb paid since organization (23,000,000 Receipts of Premiums, 1869 $1,991,R3T-4S Interest from Investments, 1S69 114,490-74 t2.lo.S34'l Losses paid, 16C9 f l,035,3Sa-S4 STATEMENT OF TIIE ASSETS. First Mortgages on City Property 1766,450 . United states Government and other Loan Bonds 1.123.916 Railroad, Bank and Canal Stocks 615,708 Cash in Bank and Oillce 847,620 Loans on collateral Becnriry Notes Receivable, mostly Marine Premium! 3H1.944 Accrued interest 20,367 Premiums in course of transmission 85,193 100,800 IliiHt tiled Marine Premiums Real Estate, Office of Company, Philadel phia 80,060 $2,733,551 DIRECTORS. Arthur G. Coffin, Samuel W. Jones, John A. Brown, Charles Taylor, Ambrose White, "V Uliam Welsh, S. Morris Wain, John Musbt', George L. Harrison, Francis R. Cope, Edward U. Trotter, Edward 8. Clarice, T. Charlton Henry, Alfred D. Jessup, Louis C. Madeira, Charles W. C ashman, Clement A. Gmcom, William 15 rock io. ARTHUR G. COFFIN. President. CHARLES FLATT, Tice-Prealdeut. Matthias Mabis, Secretary. C. II. Hfvta, Assistant Secietary. 8 4 J29 CHARTER PERPETUAL. Frantlin lire taraie OF PHILADELPHIA. Office, Nob. 435 and 437 CHESNUT St. Assets Aug. If'10$3009.888"24 CAPITAL 1400,000 -00 ACCRUED SURPLUS AND PREMIUMS. 8,009,838 -24 INCOME FOR 1870, LOSSES PAID IN 1868, fl44,90S-42. S1U,UMI. Losfeet paid since 1829 over 5.500,000 Perpetual and Temporary Policies on Libert Tertta. The Company also Issues policies npon the Her.t of all kinds of Buildings, Ground iteuu, and Mor' DIRECTORS. Alfred G. Baser, Airrea mtier, Thomas Sparks, WUllam b. Grant, Thomas 8. Ellla. Samuel Grant, George W. liiehards, Isaac Lea, r;Anrff Kales. Gustavus S. Benson. BAKER, President. GEORGE FALES. Vice-President. JAMES W. MCALLISTER, Secretary. 8 19 THEODORE M. REGER, Assistant Secretary. "P I R E ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED MARCH 17, 1S-J0. OFFICE, NO. 84 NORTH FIFTH STREET, INSURE BUILDINGS, HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE, ANE MERCHANDISE GENERALLY From Loss by Cre (in the City of Philadelphia only) AKHETS, JANUARY 1. 1070, 1.574?Ji' TKUHTEKS. William H. Hamilton, John Carrow. Charles P. Bower, Jesse Lightfoot, Robert Shoemaker, Peter Armbruster, M. H. Dickinson, Peter Williamson, George I. Y oung, Jos. 1'- Lj-tuiaii, Levi P. Coats, bamuel Sparbawk Joseph E. Scheli. WM. H. HAMILTON, President. SAMUEL 8FARDAWK, Vice-President. WILLIAM F. BUTLER, Secretary AME INSURANCE UOMPANY No. 609 CHESNUT Street. F UiCOKPOKATID 1856. CHARTIR FJHPKTCAL. CAPITAL liOO.OOO. FIRE INSURANCE EXCLUSIVELY. Insurance apalnst Loss or Damage by Fire either by Perpetual or Temporary Policies. DUtKlTUKS. Charlea Richardson, Robert Pearce. Will 'am u. Kiiawn, W ill lam M. fee? furl, John F. Smith, Nathan IllUea, Geor?e A. West. John Keasler, Jr., Edward B. Orne, Charles Stokes. John W. Evermao, Mordeeai Bubf. CHARLES RICH ARDSON. Preni lonU WILLIAM 1L KUAWN, Wce-PreidMH Williams L Blakcuakd beaetary. 1 U INSURANCE.. THE MUTUAL PROTECTION Life Insurance Company OF PHILADELPHIA Offers life policies, PERFECTLY f ECUUEDjl less than ONE-HAL? TdE USUAL RATE j. U'ii the only lire Insurance Company tn the United States doing business on the "Mutual Classification" plan, ami u rates are ao low that ail classes may erjoy its benefits. THE FULL AMOUNT OF INSURANCE IS GUARANTEED. We confidently Invite the attention of the publio to the claims of this Company, assured that Its plan, J eonibinlnjr.as it does, E'JONOMY with tne UIOHEir I D KG HE a OF&ECURITY, will commend It to gene- J ral favor. 3 Circulars, containing full explanations ot our srs- J iviu, latA-o, tiM, civ., vnu unit IIUIU BUJ Ul UUl agents, or at the OFFICE, Ho. 247 8. THIRD Strot, PHILADELPHIA. JAMES H. BILLTNGTON, President. J. E. IIackenberq, 8ccrctary. Good men wanted aa AgenU 10 13 thstuam ffUE ENTERPRISE INSURANCE CO. OF X PHILADELPHIA. Office 8. W. cor, FOURTH and WALNUT Street. FIRE INSURANCE EXCLUSIVELY. rERPKTUAJj AND TERM POLIOI ES 1 SSUED. CASH Capital (paid np In full).' $20o.ooo-0l CASH Assets, October, 1870 681.139 -U DIRECTORS. F. Ratchford Starr, i J. Livingston Erringer, Naibro Frazler, James L. Claglioro, .Tolin Mi Atwooa, win. G. Boulton, Benl. T. Trcdlck. 'Charles Wheeler. George It. Stuart, Thomas n. Montgomer jonn ii. urown, james m. Aertaen. r . KAlUlliOKO o 1 akk, iTesident. TUOMA II. MONTGOMERY, Vice-President ALEX. W. WISTER, Secretary. JACOB E. PETERSON. Assistant Secretary. riMlE PENNSYLVANIA FIRE INSURANCE X COMPANY. incorporated IS'25 Charter Perpetual. No. 610 WALNUT Street, opposite Independence Square. This Company, favorably known to the commu nity for over forty years, continues to insure aulnst loss or damage by lire on Public or Private Build legs, either permanently or for a limited tune. Also on Furniture, Slocks of Goods, and Merchandise generally, on liberal terms. Their Capital, together with a large Surplus Fund, Is Invested In the most careful muunur, which ena bles them tn oiler to the Insured an undoubted secu rity In the case of loss. DIRKV.I-OR8. Daniel Smith, Jr., Icaac Hazlehurst, Thomas Robins, Thomas Smith, Henry Lewis, J. GUllngham Fell, Daniel Haddock. John Deverenx, Franklin A. Comly. DANIEL SMITH, Ja., President. Wm. G. Crow bli,, Secroury. taa JllPERIAIi FIRE INSURANCE CO., LONDON. K4TAUTJMIIKD 1S08. Paid-up Capital and Accomnlated Fundi, g8,ooo,ooo nsr gold. PREVOST & HERRING, Agents, 45 Ho. 107 S. THIRD Street, Philadelphia, OHAS. M. PBEVOST OHA8. P. FIERRINO 1 FURNACES. Established in 1835. Invariably the greatest noceea over all oompetitioa whenever and wborevor exhibited or used in the UNITED STATES. CHARLES WILLIAMS' Patent Golden Eagle Furnaces Acknowledged by the leading Arohitecta and B olid are be the most powerful and durable Furnaces oCered, and the most prompt, artttematio, and Unceat taouae in line of busiiiesr, ' HEAVY REDUCTION IN PRICES, and Onlf firet-oUsa work turned oat. Noi. 1132 and 1131 MARKET Street, PHILADELPHIA. N. B.-FFND FOR BOOK OF FACTS ON HBA1 AND VENTILATION. 23 4m STOVES, RANGES, ETC. BUZBY & HUNTEES0N, MORNING GLORY SlovOjIIf aternnd Kaugo Warehouse Nob. 303 and 311 N. SECOND St., Above Vine, Philadelphia. Km rial attention to neater and Ranee Work hepa'iliig promptly attended to. li) 8 Ira 1 PROPOSALS. "IIHOPOSALS FOK Sl'PPLIKi-U. H NAV A PAYMAhTEK'cJ OFFICE, Ho. 429 OHE8NUA Street. J ...... . ..... . ...nl...u f . ,a.n M Sealed Proposals, endorsed "Prop' sals for Sup plies, bureau of Construction," etc., will tm received ntihis onice. until 12 o'clock M.. on Saturday. Nov 6, for furnishing the I'ulted Stites Navy Depart-I ment with the follnwinir article, to oe or mo nest quality, and sutiject to inspection by thi Inspecting Olllcer in the. Philadelphia Nnvy Yard, where It must be delivered, when required, frea of expense to the Government, lor which securl'y mast bev given: One Fan Elower, equal to "Alden's patent," with Shaft. Countershaft. Pullles, etc.. lu ruunlu ordei complete, and to be run one week oi trial before' acceptance. For further particulars and Mtio of delivery apply to the NAVAL CoNSTKCCTOU, Navy Yard. lilank forms lor proposals will be furuixhed at thii Otilce. . A. VV. Hi SHELL, 10 46 Paymaster 17 S. Navy. Q UARTEKMASTEHS OFFICE, U. S. ARMY. V Pun i nif i I'Hfi. Pa . GritL 9 V Kpaled ProDOsais. in triplicate, will be received i tMsOiHi e up to 12 o'cloc k M. ou MNl)AY. the 2ii day of November, lsiu, ror trie erection oi a nuu tijuof wood (ameers' quarters) at Fort Mcrtenr Aid., accordlUK to plans aud speciucatious whlcli can be seen tit this Uillce, Depot yuarLeriuaater d Oillce, Wasbiuptou, 1). i:., ami omco ot captain u A. Alllpood, Acting Assistant Quartermaster, Haiti mora. Mil. The riht Is reserved to reject any and all bids nod considered to tne lurer-si o- me puuau service. The envelope to be endorsed "Proposal for Huihl in at Fort McUenry. Md.,"and addresd toth. undersigned. HE.nKY C. HOUGES, Major and Quartermaster V. K. A., Chf. Qr. Mr. 8d or. Mrs. District, 10 88 fit Dept. of the EuL WHISKY, WINE. ETC. - - No. 126 Walnut and 21 Granite tt IHPOKTKBd Of 1 Brandies Winei, Ota. Olivi Oil, Btel W UOLEHA LM IK AIJLR8 I N 1 j n m m m mm m ) m m mwm ant V PURE RTe WHI8ME8 IH BOND AND TAX fH. IBM ONK DOLLAR OOOD3 FOtt 95 CESjA 111 U ttU UIZ.OK' No. SI 4. KIUU1U BumA.
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