THE DAILY EVENING TELjGGltAl'll PHILADELPHIA, THUKSDAl, NOVEMBER 3, 1870.
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Editorial Opinion! of th Leading Journal!
VponCurrentToploi Compiled Every
Day for the Evening Telegraph.
WflAT IS THE MATTER WITH PHILA
DELPHIA? From the A'. 1. tmwranre Times.
This question seems to be uppermost in
the mindd and on the tongues of the mourn
ers as they go about our street. In ordinary
times the City of Brotherly Love was bad
enotigh for agency companies an.l such others
as now and then "took a flyer" or two on
choice risks there, mostly specials, of coarse.
The last half year has been red with losses
there, and Chicago and Elmira will haye
to look well to their laurels or Philadelphia
will bear them off and be recognized
as the champion city of the Union for
fires, and destructive ones too. Already
quite a number of companies have with
drawn their agencies, and some twenty
five more, it is said by one of their city
papers, will do so at the end of the
E resent year. Companies that had a fair
alanoe of profit a year and a half age are
now very far on the other side of the ledger.
What can the matter be with our sister city?
We have heard it hinted that there was more
than one screw loose in the present fire de
partment. If so there is no safety for under
writers or citizens, and the city authorities
cannot awake too soon to a realization of the
faot. Something must be done or insurance
companies will cease to assume risks in a city
which is fast becoming like the cities of the
plain in ancient days. The truth is, Philadel
phia must have an efficient paid fire de
partment and fire patrol before under
writing can be carried on profitably
or the citizens enjoy that protection which
the law should afford in bo prosperous and
wealthy a city. We have had our days of
trial here, and have happily passed them, we
trust, and we have no hesitancy in saying
that Philadelphia will find no security and
Eeace until she is completely redeemed from
er present system of protection, and the
dangerous eaembers of which it is com
posed. She has already been too long dis
graced by her present department and the
brutal fights of its members. For more
than twenty years the evil has been
growing upon her, until underwriters
and citizens have more to fear from those
who should be their defenders than from the
fiery element itself. We say this much not
from any unkind feeling to the city or towards
the nnder writers, who have done all they could
to remedy the evil, but it is time not only
the city but the country should cease to be
disgraced by such scenes as we have witnessed
within the last two years. Self-interest and
a due regard for city reputation demand a
change, and if they are to retain their fair
name and credit the citizens must move at
once and with determination in favor of a
well-organized paid fire department.
RADICAL BLUNDERS IN NEW YORK
TOLITICS.
Prom the Ar. I'. World.
The prostrate condition of the Republican
party in this State must be a puzzle to Re
publicans in otner parts ot tne country, who,
although their strength is declining, main
tain the efficiency of their political organiza
tion. But in New York, both city and State,
the party is broken by intestine feuds, and
will be beaten in this election by at least a
hundred thousand majority. It is like an
army which has degenerated into a mob by
loss ot discipline.
The Radical party in this State has been
brought into this condition by a series of ob
vious blunders, some of them committed by
General Grant, others by the looal politicians.
Grant began muddling New York politics
from his jealousy of Fenton, whom he sus
pected of aspiring to the Presidency. After
the withdrawal of Thurlow Weed, Fenton
exhibited more address in managing and
manipulating the party than any other politi
cian in the State. Without any high or com
manding qualities, he is cunning, active,
dexterous, and has more skill as a political
intriguer than any other of Mr. Weed's suc
cessors. t He caused himself to be twice elected
Governor, and then United States Senator;
and was generally recognized as the leader of
the Republican party of New York. Fenton's
ascendancy troubled two men Gonkling and
Grant. Conkling could not bear to be
eclipsed by a man whose talents in debate he
despised, and he undertook to supplant his
rival by whispering in General Grant's ear
that Fenton was aiming to be his suooessor.
If Fenton was permitted to control the Re
publican party in New York, he could send a
delegation favorable to his claims to the
National Convention in 1872, and might
prove a formidable competitor for the Presi
dential nomination. Conkling having aroused
Grant's jealousy, and caused it to run in
the same channel as his own, the joint
efforts of both were directed to the
overthrow and humiliation of Fenton. The
first step was the appointment of Murphy as
Collector, and the decapitation of Fenton's
friends. The next step was the bribing of
delegates at the Saratoga Convention, depriv
ing Fenton of the fruits of his activity in
working the party caucuses. By these means
Conkling and Grant won a barren triumph.
They gained control of the organization, bat
lost their hold upon the party. They gave
Fenton and his friends the strongest motives
for wishing its defeat in this election; and
the effect of their suppressed hostility is
manifest in the spirit of discord which per
vades the party throughout the State. Grant
and Conkling made a great blunder in begin
ning their war on Fenton so soon. If they
had left him undisturbed until after this
election, he would have kept the party united;
and although it would have been beaten in
any event, the disaster could not have been
charged upon the bad management of Gene
ral Grant. But Fenton's friends will now be
able to aay, after the election returns are in,
that the party was ruined by the gross incom
petence of its new leaders. Their premature
attack on Fenton will aid him in 1 regaining
Lie ascendancy. Instead of destroying confi
dence In him, they will have destroyed all
confidence in themselves; and by a natural
reaction the party will rate him higher after
witneahing the disastrous effect of repudiating
Lis leadership. By precipitating the quarrel
too soon they have ruined the party in this
btate, without in the long run weakening
renlon a innuenoe over it.
Another egregious blunder was the attempt
to weaken the Democracy in this city by the
new election laws. If Grant had possessed
any political sagacity, he would not have at
tempted to put them in operation after they
were parsed. It depended on his discretion
whether those laws were executed or not.
He was no more bound to send an army here
than to aexd one to Boston or Chicago. His
doing so i lees an act of tyranny than an
act of folly. The effect is to incense and
exasperate all Democrats and' every citizen
who has any State pride, and this indignant
feeling will bring out a larger Demooratio
vote than ever polled in this city before.
The Federal election laws will therefore
increase the Democratic majority which
they were intended to reduce. Their pass
age and enforcement are a self-defeating
blunder.
Another capital blander of the radicals was
perpetrated in their selection of candidates.
There is not a strong man on their ticket.
Woodford has been fatally damaged by his
Enerile speeches and the disclosures about
is connection with the slaver Augusta, and
the Republican candidate for Comptroller
voted for the "infamous Erie bill." The
Republicans of the State have been taught
by their newspapers to regard the so-oalled
Erie bill as a flagrant iniquity, and they will
not be eager to vote for a man who aided its
passage. But the great weakness of the
ticket consists in the fact that it is made np
of men of no political standing in their own
party, and who possess no political strength
except what results from their nomination.
The blunders here enumerated have brought
the Republican party of the State to the
verge of dissolution.
WAR BY PROCLAMATION.
From the JT. r. Times.
The latest manifesto of M. Gambotta is a
very suggestive document; and this as much
on account of what it leaves unsaid as for
what it contains. Its confessions gauge the
weakness of France, and the remedy it offers
for her misfortunes Bhow too clearly how
fatal they have been. "Yoa are now rid of
unworthy chiefs," says the Minister of the
Interior to those rather undefined entities,
"the armies of France." Where the succes
sors of the deposed Generals are to come
from M. Gambetta does not attempt to
explain. The somewhat unsatisfactory
phrase of " proper guidance" is all the
indication we have of the extent of the
military talent at the command of the
Provisional Government. Accompanied aB
the present document is by a despatch an
nouncing the resignation of General Bour
baki, the only leader of first-olass ability left
outside of Paris, the vague expression of con
fidence bodes little good to France. Nor can
much comfort be gleaned from the very em
phatic statement that "the time of treachery
and weakness is past." Were M. Gambetta
perfectly certain of that fact, he would pro
bably not be at the trouble to state it, nor
would he, as on previous occasions, take
such infinite pains to lash the patriotism of
his countrymen into fury by a slightlv apoc
ryphal suggestion like that of "families
outraged." If Frenchmen are to fight at all,
they have compelling cause enough with
out being stimulated by the device of in
vesting Germans with the attributes of
lurcos.
It is impossible to note the neatly-turned
sentences of this document, and the little
bit of Bpeacial pleading for the republic with
which it closes, without a certain mournful
consciousness of how impotent such an ap
peal, nnder present circumstances, is likely
to be. lne sentiments are in the main un
exceptionable, and the mode of their ex
pression does credit to the eloquent eulogist
of Baudin and the irreconcilable assailant of
the Empire. But France wants deeds. not
words; Generals not pamphleteers; arms
not sentiment. Without the latter she could
make shift to live for a while; with the for
mer much might yet be retrieved. Unfortu
nately, it is the most vital requirements
tbat are absent, and the superfluous that
are to be had in abundance. And thus it
comes tbat the demoralization which made
the garrison of Metz in the later sorties fly
like an unarmed rabble before the first onset
of the Prussians, is but a type of the paralysis
of united effort that seems to have overtaken
France. On paper there are upwards of
sixty Departments that are still free from the
exactions of the invader; in faot, his mfia
enco seems to pervade every corner of
France, and to have half conquered a panic-
stricken populace before his appearance com
pletes the task. That France may cherish
for many years the hope of exacting a tern
ble revenge for her great humiliation, no
one can doubt. That she cannot do it now
is equally obvious; and, harsh as the sentence
may be, it becomes daily more plain that
there is but one resource left to her to
make the best terms she can with the con
querer.
NUTTING.
From Vie K. Y. Tribune.
Perhaps, after all, her Aherns and na
gertys are not the representative men of
Philadelphia, and she has other claims to be
known as the City of Brotherly Love apart
from tne alluring blandisnments of her police,
with their billies, to win votes for the Demo
cratic ticket, or the pleasant, though eocen-
tric, amenities by wmcn her thieves and Re
turn Judges lately settled the election. Now
and then the genial charity and refinement of
the old Quaker element make themselves felt
through the strata of cut-throats and petty
ward politicians that have the rale at present
in the city of Penn. A touching little inoi
dent occurred the other day in proof of this,
Some good Brother Cheeryble among her
school directors conceived the idea a year ago
of an annual nutting party, by which the
children of the publio and charitable schools
would be taken ont and turned loose into all
the solitary places near the city for one day
in the year, to find themselves free from the
streets and alleys, from human trade and
fiuman trickery, and face to face with nature.
One day last week the idea was carried into
effect. Old mother nature, it seems, kept
one of her kindest smiles in the damD davs
for the little ones; the sun was warm, the air
bracing, and a yellow October haze turned
the road-dust into sifted gold, and every
Btubbly hill-top into the delectable mountains.
Upwards of seventy thousand children made
a happy day of it.
This school holiday seems an ordinary
aff air even to the Philadelphia press, bat we
find it more suggestive and worthy of note
than tne most Horrible of the recant mar
dei s and adulteries. A day in the woods
for 70,000 children, half of whom, most
likely, never had gathered aa aoorn or
climbed for a shellbark before! Tothebi'
people, the teachers, and even eld Brother
Cheer j Me himself, it was no doubt only a
ride in the cars at half-fare, anxiety, noise,
damp grass, to be followed by a night of
aching heads and legs. But to the children
it was something which in after years would
appear a big, urignt slice of their childhood,
It was a new song in the dusky market-olaoe,
with a far-off echo of heaven in it which they
would learn by heart, and we fancy will never
forget. Even Croesus mast pay a sum that
gnpta nlm for a picture by the old masters;
but every ragged urchin took home with him
from tbat nutting frolie a landscape of red
tinted trees and glancing rivers which Ham
brandt nor Turner could paint; a picture at
whose coloring no critio should ever fling bU
vapidities; its greens and umber would only
deepen ana sol ten into rarer irutu wlta time
The Fhiladelphians have hit upon a great
and beantuni idea nore, wider in application
than they dreamed. The truth is that the
German practice in education is in this re
spect, as in many others, far in advanoe of
our own. From the Kindergartens, where
the children are taught as mnoh by means of
plants and flowers as any other mode, to the
very highest culture of the Universities, the
pupil there is as systematically exposed to
the spontaneous ever-waiting teaching of
nature as to the more artificial training of
books. There are no educators so ennobling,
so liberalizing, as the hills and the sea. Con
tact with God's world, outside of a town, is
as necessary for the full development of the
soul of a boy as fresh air is for his body.
I here is perhaps not one of us who cannot
testify to this out of his own experience; not
one of ns who cannot go back to some farm,
some old cherry tree, or perhaps only to some
rare odd day of cunning or fishing which
holds a tighter grip c-n our memory, and has
spurred deeper into our life than did any in
cessant dinging of Euclid or Homer. The
English end American theory of education is
to put both brain and soul of a child into a
perpetual training. Thev are crammed.
purged, amputated a facalty cut off there, a
faculty added here. Ui the higher edaoation,
the simple exposure of the growing, incom
plete nature to healthful atmospheres, to
music, art, to the out-door influences, where
it will without effort develop in strongth,
breadth, gentle temper, and a capacity for
happiness, we know almost nothing.
we wibh our neighbors pleasant holiday
could be a frequent rule in our schools, and
not an occasional chance. In the moantime,
we thank them for it heartily, and almost
forgive them for it their McMullins and
Ilaggertys.
RUSSIA AND THE EASTERN QUES
TION.
Prom the S. T. Uerali.
The rumor of a Secret treaty between
Russia and Prussia, destined, if true, to be
known as the Wiesbaden treaty, has lent a
new and somewhat lively interest to the
European situation. The burden of the
rumored treaty is to the effect that Russia
was consulted before the war was com
menced, and that while Russia bound herself
to hold off for a reasonable length of time
during the continuance of the war, she was
bound, in tne event of l'russian defeat, to
step forth and forbid Prussian, or rather Ger
man, dismemberment. Prussia, on the other
hand, in the event of victory, bound herself
to stand by Russia in any attempt she might
make to force the annulment of the obnox
ious clauses of the treaty of Paris. The
French paper in London, La Situation, in
spired by the imperialists, admits the exist
ence of the treaty. That such a treaty has
been signed by Russia and Prussia may or
may not be true. It is undeniable, however,
that the arrangement fits in most admirably
with the events and necessities of the hoar.
We are not disposed to regard it as mere
rumor. The action of the Russian Govern
ment, hitherto inexplicable, now begins to be
intelligible. Since the Crimean war Russia
has been peaceful. Russia, in fact, so far as
the Government was concerned, practically
ceased to be a European Power. Internal
improvements, the emancipation of the serfs,
the construction of railroads, the strengthen
ing of her position in the East, occupied the
attention and, to all outward seeming, satis
fied the ambition of Russian statesmen. To
watchful and knowing observers it was appa
rent tbat Russia was making good use of her
quietude and leisure; and such persons felt
satisfied that Russia was preparing for event
ualities after such a fashion that, when the
eventualities came, she would be ready to
make war in the East or in the West, as was
most convenient. In other words, it was the
conviction of many persons well qualified to
judge that Russia was waiting her opportu
nity. If the Russian Government now thinks
that the desired opportunity has arrived, few
will say she has miscalculated.
From a Russian standpoint let us look at the
situation. Since the days of Peter the Great
Russian ambition has been directed towards
Constantinople. It has been it still is her
belief that she has been commissioned by Pro
vidence to restore the Greek empire, and to
xcake an end of the work which the tempo
rizing policy of the Western Powers has left
unfinished, by driving the turbaned Turk out
of Europe. In the pursuance of this policy
the late Emperor Nicholas moved a little too
fast. He badly chose his time. A new man
with a grtat name had acquired the control of
the Treasury and the armies of Franoe. The
Crimean war was singularly convenient for
Napoleon. It cost France much, but it made
Napoleon the Third secure on the French
throne. Great Britain, which had destroyed
the first French empire, through Napoleonic
cunning strangely lent a helping hand to build
up the second. The treaty of Paris, 18.H5,
caved Turkey and humbled Russia, by driv
ing her war ships out of the Black Sea. Rus
sia felt then what she remembers now that
she was beaten down by a foolish, if not ini
quitous, alliance of the two greatest military
powers of the West. Great Britain alone,
France alone, could not have token Sebasto
pol; but Great Britain and Franoe combined
were too many for Russia single-handed.
Russia bowed to fate the fate of the hoar
but ehe bowed most unwillingly. "Not yet,
but another time," was the sentiment of the
.Russian Government and the Russian people
when Hebsktopol was dismantled and when
the treaty of Paris was sigued. Siuoe
18.X Russia has been waiting and
watchirg. So long as Napoleon seemed
a power the time was not yet. Even
Napoleonic overtures to undo the treaty of
Paris could not drive Russia from her waiting
and watchful attitude. After her Crimean
experience she was not willing to trust the
Tuik even when bringing gifts. Bat the
time has come at last. No Napoleonic cun
ning, no French and English alliance, can
hinder her marching across the Prath or hur
rying her war ships to the Golden Horn. It
may be tbat the Czar Alexander's known love
of peace end universally recognized honesty
of purpose will prevent Russia from availing
herself of her opportunity; but no one oan
deny that Russia's opportunity has come. It is
said, indeed, that Russian agents have been to
Tonrs, Bounding the French Government as
to the feasibility of a Bale of the national fleet
to the Czar, but that they have bad no sao
ceBs in this direction to the present moment.
We are told that the Russians offered Franoe
certain "political inducements" a9 well as a
money payment fur the vessels. There may
be Bouiethicg in this statement. If the Czar
be really intent on "going to the East," it U
good policy to have as powerful a navy as
possible. It would Uo be a vry astute
diplomacy to disarm France at sea by a pur
chase of ber iron-clad.
If Russia were to order her armies across
the l'ruth to-morrow what power in Europe
could hinder their triumphant march to Con
stantinople ? We kuow of none. Great
Britain would protest, might fight; but Great
Britain alone could not arreatthecouqnerur's
march. Russia in the liUck Sea, Russia in
CoDbtantiiiople, meant Russia in the Medi
terranean; but Russia in the Mediterranean
would destroy the policy of centuries. Great
Britain, as we have said, alone could not
arrest the march of Russia southward; bat
Great Britain, trembling for her naval supre
macy, might seek strength from the other
European powers. Where could she find
allies? II this Wiesbaden treaty be not a
mere rumor it is evident that ehe could not
count on Prussia. France is out of the
question, Spain is powerless. Italy, growing
into possible greatness, has already too much
on hand. Allies for Great Britain in stich a
contest there would be none; for although
Denmark and Sweden and Holland might be
induced to do somethiLg, their co-operation
would not be more than a straw in the bal
ance. Russia could easily buy up Austria by
giving her the Danubian principalities. Is it
impossible that, after all, Great Britain,
yielding to the necessity of the situation,
may consent to the enthronement of the Czar
in Constantinople on condition that she is
allowed to take possession of the land of the
Pharaohs? This treaty does indeed give a very
peculiar complexion to the European situa
tion. Russia may not march to Constantino
ple, but she can if she chooses. It is our
firm belief that if she does show any signs of
carrying ont her established and woll-known
purpose Great Britain will immediately take
possession of Egvpt.
How completely in three short months war
has destroyed the balance of power ! How
the Bchemes of statesmen have been battled !
In how many respects will it be found that the
present war has defeated its parpose ! If
Russia docs attempt to carry out her tradi
tional policy we may have a conflagration
which will envelop Europe a destructive war
which will leave Europe a comparative desert
and which will put the destruction of the
Roman empire completely in the shade. The
fall of the Papacy, the deportation of the
Sultan, the re-establishment of the German
empire and the restoration of the Christian
empire of the East may make the year 1870
as memorable for its great events in the East
ns for those which are convulsing Western
Europe.
"WAN TED A GENERAL."
From the S. F. Sun.
On August 20 a special correspondent of
the SuA, himself a Frenchman, telegraphed
to us from Paris that "generalship to help
the country out of its difficulties is utterly
wanting;" and scarcely two weeks ago the
Paris i'atrie, now or recently published in
Poitiers, prefixed to its leading article the
title, "Wanted a General." The confession
is as significant as it is humiliating. A nation
naturally warlike and fond of martial fame,
and which has devoted its genius and
resources to the establishment of a military
system considered inferior to none in exist
ence, has found itself in time of need without
a competent leader. France, threatened with
complete subjugation, looks over her long
roll of generals, many of them bronzed and
scarred by years of service, and finds
only routine officers and martinets vali
ant men enough, doubtless, but incapable
of directing great armies or the incompetent
favorites of the late Emperor, whose incapa
city is the laughing stock of the very men
they assume to command. With the excep
tion or 'irocliu, it maybe doubted whether
there is a French gegeral of high rank living
who can conduct a campaign on a compre
hensive scale. This is the lamentable result
of eighteen years of imperial rule. The first
Bonaparte being a transcendent military
genius, gathered around him a circle of great
generals. The last Bonaparte, beina only an
adroit intriguer, discouraged eminent mili
tary talent, and surrounded himself with ad
venturers great ouly as public plunderers.
Such were St. Arnaud, his first commander
in the Crimea, and Lebituf, his last chief of
staff. But until th commencement of the
piesent campaign the people nay, even the
Government itself believed the French army
invincible.
Thus far the representative men of the
irencn army, the UaoMahons, Bazaines,
Canroberts, and Frossards, have shown them
selves to be fighting generals only; and fight
ing generals who cannot look beyond the
eff orts of mere personal courage, we know
from bitter experience are an expensive
luxury. Xieaving out of view the misnian
agement which, in the beginning of the cam
paign, caused tne I rencb army to be severed,
and the main body to be cooped up in Metz,
while the defeated fragments retreated upon
Chalons, it is necessary only, in order to
prove the incompetency of the French corn
manders, to consider the ill-fated movement
of MacMahon toward Sedan, which praoti
cally resulted in the destruction of the entire
army originally confronting the Prussians in
Lorraine. The diary of a French officer
attached to the Fifth Coras, under Gaueral
de Failly, extracts from which are published
in the l'all Mall Gazette, throws considerable
light on this subject.
To effect his hazardous flank march, Mac
Mahon should have had a thoroughly din
ciplired fcrce, well equipped, and, above
all, well provisioned. The movement was
one of the most difficult tbat a general could
undertake, and without good troops success
was scarcely possible. But what does Ma?
Mahon do 't This last hope of the French
army collects a maps of demoralized fugitives
and raw levies, rroai the abundant supplies
at Cbalocs be furnishes his men with a few
biscuits each, and gives the order to march,
expecting an army of over a hundred thou
sand men to subsist on the country it is about
to traverse. So much for the foresight of the
General. Of course, the biscuits were soon
devoured by the hungry soldiers, and they
weie left to shut for themselves, notwith
fctsriding it was all-important that they
thou d oppose cue enemy witn full strength
as well as with courage and discipline. They
barely kept themselves alive, when not under
fire of tbe Prussians, by begging or stealing
bread and potatoes from the peasants; and
evtn of such supplies the amount was msufh
cicnt. If we may credit the diary, for six
days, from August 2 to August 31, the troops
received no rations of any kind, but foraged
om the country. In every encounter during
that time, in toilsome marches over ploughed
fields beavy from rains, and in their brief
and comfortless bivouacs, they suffered the
ceaseless pangs of hunger. And this mob of
balf-starved men was the army with which
MacMahon expected to confront twioe or
tbrice the number of Germans, flushed with
victory, and to effect a junction with Bazaine,
To insufficiency of food, incompetent gen
eralship and neglect of discipline seem to
have been added. Corps and divisions
marched by themselves, apparently without
directions from any controlling head, and the
eoperior officers kept themselves aloof when
their presence was most needed. Thus, after
a long engagement with the enemy on An
guft the rth Corps marohed the whole of
tbe night, without rest or xooa, toward iseau
wont. But we will quote the words of the
diaiy:
"Angoit SO We arrived at Beaumont, a billy aad
woody i on wry, at 4 A. M. Tbe nieu are utterly ex
haunted lr the mart-b. by hunger, aud above all by
want of sleep. There la no possibility of bruulug
oioer tutu tbe ranks. Tbe presence of tbe geuera.a
vu IndiRpensable.but none of them was to be seen on
thetpot, nrrt the gololoia fell down asleep, without
euarriH, without a single sentry. Tbe Bight wai most
lamentable."
A few hours later the troops awoke, to And
their position vigorously shelled by the Prus
sians. What ensued is thus described:
"The whole camp aeir.ei Its arms In disorderly
fashion; the officers do their best to give some kind
of organization to the drat movement; the artillery
Is soon at work, and the battle begino. But a tre
mendous panio arises In the village, crowded with
unarmed soldiers, who were (rone from the camp In
learch of provisions. A frantic rush begins In the
direction or Mouzon; and the flying muss would
naturally have drawn with it a part of the troops
already In lino on this side of the village, if theoill.
rers had not Intervened, pistols In hand. The gene
rals, just bs much surprised as the troops, presently
come to their senses. They take the command The
retreat Is gradually organized, and on reaching
rather elevated ground we come out from under the
Intolerable Ore.'
The subsequent events of that day, as re
lated by the French officer the confusion,
mismanagement, frequently recurring
panics, and demoralization of the troops
exceed anything of the kind witnessed in out
own war, '1 he retreat of AlcCIellan to Har
rison's Landing or of Pope to Centreville
after the second battle of Bull Hun was an
orderly movement in comparison with this
march of an attacking army; and that the
French conducted themselves so manfully in
the closing battle at Sedan is due entirely to
the inherent valor of the race. Their com
manders deserve no credit for it. MacMahon
can never again hope to rank as the general
of an army. As a division or brigade com
mander, te may answer; but that is all. Well
may tbe nation exclaim m this crisis,
" anted, a ueneral.
SPECIAL. NOTICES.
W JNOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT AN
application will be made at the next meeting
of the Ueneral Assembly ol the Commonwealth of
Pennsylvania for the Incorporation of a Bank, in ac
cordance witn tne inws or tne commouweaith, to
be entitled THE JEr r EKsOM HANK, to be located
at Philadelphia, with a capital of one hundred
thousand dollars, with the right to Increase the same
to nve hundred thousand dollars.
fiif NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT AN
application will be made at tbe next meeting of
the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of
Pennsylvania ror tne incorporation or a Bank, in
accordance with the laws of the Commonwealth, to
be entitled THE CUESNUT HILL SAVINGS AND
LOAN BANKING COMPANY, to be located at
Philadelphia, with a capital of one hundred thou
sand dollars, with the right to Increase the same to
two hundred and city thousand dollars.
KSy THE IMPERISHABLE PERFUME ! A3 A
rule, the perrumes now In use have no perma
nency. An hour or two after their use there Is no
trace of perfume left. How different is the result
succeeding the use of MURRAY A LANMAN S
FLORIDA WATER t Days after Its application the
handkerchief exhales a most delightful, delicate,
ana agreeaoie iragrance. 8 l turns)
ry- NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT AN
application will be made at the next meeting
of the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of
Pennsylvania for the Incorporation of a Bank-, In
accordance with the laws of the Common we ilth, to
be entitled THE UNITED STATES BANKING
COMPANY, to be located at Philadelphia, with a
capital or one minion aonara, witn tne right te in
crease the same to five million dollars.
ggy TREGO'S TEABERRY TOOTHWASH.
It Is the most pleasant, cheapest and best dentifrice
extant, warranted iree irom injurious ingredients.
it preserves ana w miens tne Teem l
Invigorates and Soothes the Gums 1
Purines and perrumes tne u ream i
Prevents Accumulation ef Tartar I
Cleanses and Purities Artificial Teeth I
Is a Superior Article for Children!
Sold by all druggists and dentists.
A M. WILSON, Druggist. Proprietor,
8 S 10m Cor. NINTH AND FILBERT St., Fhllada.
ty- NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT AN
application will be made at the next meeting
of the Gentral Assembly of the Commonwealth of
Pennsylvania for the incorporation ef a Bank, In
accordance with the laws of the Commonwealth, to
be entitled THE HAMILTON BANK, to be located
at Philadelphia, with a capital of one hundred thou
sand dollars, with the right to Increase the same to
live hundred thousand dollars.
ffip- THE UNION FIRE EXTINGUISHER
COMPANY OF PHILADELPHIA.
Manufacture and Bell the Improved, Portable Fire
Extinguisher. Always Reliable.
D. T. GAGE,
B 80 tf No. 118 MARKET St, General Agent.
gy- NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT AN
application will be made at the next meeting
of the General Asswnbly of the Commonwealth of
PenBsylvanla for the Incorporation of a Bank, In
accordance with the laws of the Commonwealth, to
be entitled THE SCHUYLKILL RIVER BANK, to
be located at Philadelphia, with acapital of one hun
dred thousand dollars, with the right to increase
the same to rive hundred thousand dollars.
y JAMES M. SC b V E L,
IWYER,
CAMDEN, N. J,
io ST lra
gy NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT AN
application will be made at the next meeting
ortheGtneral Assembly of the Commonwealth of
Pennsylvania for the Incorporation or a Bmk, In ac
cordance with the laws of the Commonwealth, to
be entitled 1 HE UHESNUT STREET BANK, to be
located at t-hlladelphla, with a capital of one hun
dred thousand dollars, with the right to Increase the
same to five hundred thousand dollars.
INSURANCE.
THE MUTUAL PROTECTION
Life Insurance Company
OF nflLADELl'HIA
Olfert life policies, PERFECTLY feECURED, at
kssttan ONBC HALf TdK USUAL RATB4. It Is
the only Life Insurance Company la the United
States doing business on the "Mutual Classification"
plan, and IU rate are so law that all classes may
enjoy its bene flu.
THE FDLL AMOUNT OP INSURANCE IS
GUARANTEED.
We confidently Invite the attention of the publio
to tbe claims of this Company, assured that It plan,
combining, It doe, ECONOMY with to HIGHEST
DEQUES OFbECURITY, will commend It to gene
ral favor.
Circulars, coatalnlng fall explanation 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 11. BILL1NGTON, President.
J. E. Uackekbekg, Secretary.
Good men wanted aa Agent 10 13 thstu2m
P I E 1 ASSOCIATION
INCORPORATED MARCH II, 1S20.
OFFICE,
No. 84 NORTH FIFTH STREET,
INSURE
BUILDINGS, HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE, ANT
MERCHANDISE GENERALLY
Fim Lots by fire (in the City of Philadelphia only)
AhHKTH. JANUARY It 1S?0, $1,37
TKL'HTKES.
William n. Hamilton,
John Uarrow,
George L Young,
Job. 19 1 yndall,
lvl P. Coats.
Charlca P. Bower,
Jesse ulghtfoot,
Robert Suoeuiaket,
Peter ArmbruHter,
M. U. Dickinson,
Samuel Pparbawk
Joseph E. ScUell.
Peter Wtiluiuia,
WM. H. HAMILTON, President.
8AMUEL SPARHAWK, Vlce.Preidot.
WILLIAM F. BUTLER,
Secretary
INSURANCE
INSURANCE COMPANY
or
WORTH AMERICA.
January 1, 18T0.
Incorporated 1T94. Charter Perpetual.
CAPITAL tnm.ooe
AOSJfciB S,I33,0Sl
Losses paid Btnce organization. 123,000,000
Receipts of Premiums, 1R69 11,991,837-4(1
Interest from Investment, 1369 1U,M?4
11,104, M4-19
.11,033,336-34
Losses paid, 1S69
STATEMENT OF THE ASSETS.
First Mortgages on City Property
United Stales Government and other Loan
Bonds 4
Railroad. Bank and Canal Stocks
tTM,4D0
1,133,M
68,703
S47.690
8S.5M
831,944
90,367
8S.1W
100,900
80,000
Cash In Bank and Ofllce
Loans on Collateral Security
Notes Receivable, mostly Marine Premiums
Accrued Interest
Premiums in course of transmission
Unsettled Marine Premiums ,
Real Estate, Ofllce of Company, Philadel
phia 3,733,BS1
DIRECTORS.
Arthur G. Coffin,
Hamuel W. Jones,
JYihn A. Brown,
Charles Taylor,
Ambrose White,
William Welsh,
S. Morris Wain,
John Ma sod,
George L. Harrison,
Francis R. Cope,
Edward H. Trotter,
Edward 8. Clarke,
T. Chariton Henry,
Alfred O. Jessup,
Louis C. Madeira,
Charles W. Cushman,
Clement A Griscom,
William Krocklf-
ARTHUR G. COPFINT. President.
CHARLES PLATT, Tlce-Presldent.
Matthias Mabis, Secretary.
C. H. RxjivEa, Assistant Secietary. 8 1
1829 cnARTER PERPETUAL. 870
Frantlin Fire Insurance Cumpanf
OF PHILADELPHIA.
Office, Nob. 435 and 437 GHESNTJT 8t,
Assets Aug. l70S3.009.888a24
CAPITAL 8400,000 DO
ACCRUED SURPLUS AND PREMIUMS. 8,609,368 "24
INCOME FOR 1S70, LOSSES PAID IN 1S49,
ISIC.OOO. 14t,908'4X
jLosseg paid since 18)19 orer
85.500,000
Perpetual and Temporary Policies on Llbora:
Terms.
The Company also IssneB policies npon the Rests
of all kinds of Buildings, Ground Rents, and Mota
gages.
The "FRANKLIN" has no DISPUTED CLAIM,
DIRECTORS.
Alfred G. Bakef,
Alfred Finer,
Thomas Sparks,
William b. Grant.
Thomas S. Ellis,
Gustavus S. Benson.
Samuel urant,
George W. Richards,
Isaac Lea.
George Fales,
ALFRED G. BAKER. President.
GEORGE FALES, Vice-President.
JAMES W. MCALLISTER, Secretary. 19
THEODORE M. KEGER. Assistant Secretary.
THE ENTERPRISE INSURANCE CO. OF
PHILADELPHIA,
Office S. W. cor. FOURTH and WALNUT Streets.
FTRE INSURANCE EXCLUSIVELY.
PERPETUAL. AND TERM POLICIES ISSUED.
CASH Capital (paid op In full) $200,000-00
CASH Assets, October, 1870 681,139 -19
F. Ratchford Starr,
J. Livingston Errtnirer.
rjaioro r razier,
John Mr Atwood,
BenJ. T. Tredick.
George H. Stuart,
James L. Claghorn,
Wm. G. Boulton,
Charles Wheeler,
Thomas U. MonUromer
jonn a. Brown
James M. Aertsen.
F. RATCHFORD 8TARR. President.
THOMA H. MONTGOMERY, Vice-President.
ALEX. W. WISTER. Secretary.
JACOB E. PETERSON, Assistant Secretary.
THE PENNSYLVANIA FIRE INSURANCE
COMPANY.
Incorporated 1825 Charter Perpetual.
No. 610 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 fire on Public or Private Build
lngs, either permanently or for a limited time. Also
on Furniture, Stocks of Goods, and Merchandise
generally, on liberal terms.
Their Capital, together with a large Surplus Fund,
is Invested in the most careful manner, which ena
bles them to oirer to the insured an undoubted secu
rity in the case of loss.
DIBBCT0RS.
Daniel Smith, Jr., I Thomas Smltn,
Isaac Uazlehurst, I Henry Lewis,
Thomas Robins, J. Glllinghani Fell,
John Devereuz, I Daniel Haddock,
Franklin A. Comly.
DANIEL SMITH, Jb., President
WM. G. Cbowkll, Secretary. 8 80
F
AMB INSURANCE COMPANY
No. 809 CHESNUT Street.
INCORPORATED 1866. CHARTER PKKPKTDAL.
CAPITAL 1200,000.
FIRE INSURANCE EXCLUSIVELY.
Insurance against Loss or Damage by pire either by
Perpetual or Temporary Policies.
DIHJtCTOKa.
Charles Richardson,
Robert Pearce.
wunam 11. Knawn,
William M. Seyfert,
John F, Smith,
Nathan Utiles.
John Kessler, Jr.,
Edward B. Orne,
Charles Stokes.
John W. Everman,
Mordecal Buzbv.
George A. West,
CHARLES RICHARDSON. President
WILLIAM 1L RHAWN, Vice-President
Williams I. Biakcilahp Secretary. 7 83i
piPERIAI FIKB INSURANCE CO.,
LONDON.
TABIJDKD 1S08.
Fald-np OapiUl and AoeomnhvUd Fond.
08,000,000 IN GOLD.
PREVOST & HERRING, Agenta,
4 Wo. 137 8. THIRD Street, Philadelphia.
OUAS. M. PREVOST OHAS. P. HKKBINO
LECAL NOTICES.
ClOURT OFeCOMMON PLEAS, JUNE TERM,
J l&.O. No. 89.
THOMAS M. RICHARDS VP. AUGUSTA ANN
RICHARDS.
To ArotBTA Ann Ricuakds, Rsspondent:
Take notice that a rule upon you to slio-v causa why
a divorce a vinculo mat'iuioi.ii should not be decreed
has been granted by the Court, returnable 1SATUK
DAY, November 6, ls:o.
ISAAC GERUART,
No. 126 South SIXTH Ktreet,
10 4 SCnol 8 4t Solicitor for Llbellant
WHISKY, WINE, ETQ.
QAR6TAIR8 & WcCALL,
Ko. 126 Walnut and 21 Granite gti
IMPOKTlCHh Q
Brandies, Wlnei, Gin, Olive Oil, Btc.
WHOLESALE DEALBS4 IN
PURE RYE WHISKIES
Hi BOND AND TAX PAID. tSlpl
STOVES, BANCES, ETC
BEZBY & HUNTERSON,
MORNING GLORY
Steve ,Hi'aternud Hange Warehouses
Nob. 309 and 311 N. SECOND St.,
Above Vine, Philadelphia.
hpeclal attention to Heater aud Range Work.
I.epa'iitig piomptly a'teulnijo 10 Hm
jfikUMBUELLAS CHEAPEST INTtiE CITT
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