THE PliL? EVENiNti fELEGUAPll PiliLApELPiilA, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1870.
THE SONUS OF LONDON.
ftwi fas Bnturdv.H Review.
The cheap literature of London receives,
perhaps, Iosh attention than it deaerrei. The
windows of nraill shops in narrow streets
display broadsheets of Bongs, each of whioh is
Hold for a penny and contains upwards of fire
thousand lines. The number of different
broadsheets which exist is almost inere l ': ?,
and although we mty suppose that the aims
song occurs in many of them, yet, after erery
deduction has been made, the quantity of
popular soDgs proJaoed quite recently is
enormous. There is a perpetual demiml for
noTelties at the musio halls, and the songs
which are applauded there are afterwards
printed on these broadsheets, just as tha
choice airs of a new opera are published for
use in drawing-rooms. The prevailing taBte
of the frequenters of music-halls may pro
bably be diBcorered in theso broadsheets,
which contain about nine parts of buffoonery
to one part of sentiment. Home of the senti
mental songs which refer to the sights and
sounds of the country muHt, we should think,
be hardly intelligible to the great mass of
purchasers of those broadsheets. We find,
for instance, one of the Christy Minstrels'
ongs, "ltoaming by the Streamlet." We
may well wonder what a person born and
bred in a court of Drury Lane thinks of
this:
Fair nature's now reposing,
And earth In grey seems drest,
Each Dower lta leaves now closing,
The sun has sank to rest.
These broadsheets must be bought by thon
rands of mem and women to whom auoh lines
can hardly be intelligible. They go to Ep
ping Forest or Greenwich Park on Easter
Monday, and perhaps to Brighton and back on
a summer Sunday, and the rest of their lives
they spend in the dense mass of building
which lies between Ilolborn and the Strand.
The moon and the stars to which the senti
mental songster constantly refers shine
almost unregarded amid the glare of gas in
Drury Lane; and although it is quite pos
sible to roam in London and its suburbs, you
must go a good many miles to find a stream
let which docs not also do duty as a drain.
We believe that whenever a new song
takes the public fancy at the musio halls a
fresh broadsheet is issued whioh contains this
new song and as many old songs as are neces
sary to fill the paper. Songs that were com
posed during the llussian war stand side by
side with songs that manifestly refer to the
war now pending. A German resident in
England declares his intention to depart to
fight for the Fatherland, but when the war is
over be promises to return, because
More money I (ret ven to you I do come,
Not vork so l.ard as ven I'm at home.
Husbands we'll pet for your fair princesses' band,
And jour money for our own dear Faderlarrd.
This wo may take to be an expression of
tho popular sentiment of the hour. The
latent novelty of the musio-halls, however,
has no reference to foreign politios, although
it oonveys advice which the French nation
would do well to follow. If yo find your
self losing money in betting, or distanced by
a rival in love, you are recommended to
"Turn it up." If this is a fair sample of the
minstrelsy of the music-halls, it must be
owned that they are very harmless and not
-very lively places. The same sheet contains
a long ballad on the adventures of Dick Tur
pin, who, after many marvellous escapes,
came to tho gallows through omitting to
"turn it up" at the right moment. In fact,
Dick took a drop too much, got into a row,
was locked up as a brawler, and recognized as
a highwayman. Tha concluding lines are
rather neat:
And through that, drop that he did touch,
)'e died one morning through a drop too inacU.
If wo may judge from these broadsheets, tha
most popular English heroes are Diok Turpin
and Lord Nelson. The Admiral's mode of
fighting is as antiquated as the highwayman's
mode of robbery, but the exploits of both
live equally in tho memory of their country
men. The sorrows of disappointed lovers find
pathetic utterance in these pages. There is
first an accidental meeting:
I once took a ride in a twopenny bus,
Where opposite to me
Hat such a dear, in her eye was a tear,
W hich 1 thought a pity to see.
She graciously receives tho declaration of
his passion. lie is introduced to her friends
and enjoys all the delights of courtship:
Weeks soon passed away,
When one nnlucky day.
A letter she received.
Hue did it scaa, It was from tho yonng man
Who she thought had her so deceived.
XD6 young man wno comes back from sea
maintains the traditional superiority of the
sailer over landsmen, lie brings rare pre
sents from distant climes, among which is a
Dig monkey:
lie gave them all unto his love,
And then when he did me see
lie tsaid, "Hallo! soon out you go, "
Then out of window flung me.
The lady adds insult to this injury by saying,
I shall have my sailor brave,
And you may have the monkey.
Another song of the same melancholy char
acter begins in tne next column tnas:
I'm a flower bat down in the bloom of ray youth.
And all through a damsel who spoke not the truth.
This lady was seen turning a mangle. The
gentleman offered to assist her, which she
allowed. He turned tho mangre until he was
tired, and then fell on his knees and declared
his passion. As an accepted lover he went
every day to tarn the mangle, and he was
happy until be heard that another person per
formed that function in his absence. The
new lover was a marquis:
After that she appeared .to quite change la her
manner.
She sold her old mangle and bought a planner.
Now I touiiln't turn that, and, ah! me, one day
I found her bouse closed and my love gone away.
In the next oolumn is a still more dolefa
ditty:
Once I was happy, but now I'm forlorn,
Like an old coat that Is tattered and torn ;
Left in this wide world to fret and to mourn,
Betrayed by a maid in her teens.
The rival in this case was a performer on
the trapeze, who smiled on the lady as he
. hung by his nose in the air, and was answered
by a smile from her. The opposition of pa
rents was unavailing. The new lover em
floyed his gymnastio skill to carry off the
ady from an upper chamber, but in this case
falsehood received due punishment, for in
the husband of her choice she found a mas
ter:
Fa taught her gymnastics and dressed her in tlhts
jo ceip aim to live at nis eaHe,
And made her assume a masculine name,
And Bow she goes uu the trapeze.
But it is poor comfort to a jilted lover t
see a faithless girl unhappy. We begiu to
think that the course of true live mvjr dm
ran smooth. Iu the next o lumu is the sory
ef False Nelly of Bethnal Green-.
For six months her I did court,
And everything 1 bought,
For we were to be married on the first of .i!y.
Rut a flash rove naral Frauk
Told ber ne'd sot iiuids in ttte bank.
Aud with this leary boy she ran a-var.
We suppose that a specimen of this poetry
of the blighted heart is inserted in every
column of a bheet in order to pr.went rnalers
gttlii. ir.to ti,o r "i i-iV "i 1 ii, lu.y
tivtr, wlvj songs which dtuil not in genii-
mtnt, but sound practical advloe, and usually
bear some familiar proverb for a title:
John Adams he conmd the llveiy Miss Jonas,
Hut never asked when she wonld wed ;
The consequence was, as Is often the caie,
That some one else asked la his stead,
This song bears the appropriate motto,
"There's many a slip 'twixt the cup and the
lip." After several striking instances of the
application of this proverb, it ends With a
piece of excellent advice:
Is there anv yonng gent at this concert to-night,
With the girl of his heart by his side?
If yon mean all you ssv, fix the wedding day,
Buy the ring and proclaim her your bride.
In tha same page is another song, which
might have been ranged under the same title.
A gentlemen arrives rather late with lis
guitar under a lady's window. Another gen
tleman with a guitar, and also a ladder of
ropeg, has been there before him:
"What's this on the gronnd ?" quoth he,
"It Is plain that she loves,
Here's some gentleman's gloves,
And they never belonged to me."
It is remarkable that man is almost always
tho victim in these tragedies. But here, by
way of change, is a ballad of a love-sicli
maiden:
had a martial lover, one who noble looked and
grand,
..trombone player In the Horse Guards' Sunday
morning band.
With poetical disregard of history, the song
states that .the handsome bandman of the
Guards was sent with his regiment to New
Zealand:
And whether he got tomahawked or naturally died.
Got eat np by the natives wild or took, a tattooed
Dnue,
cannot te.l, bat I know well, while sleeping all
alone,
dream of Peter Pipeclay playing tunes on his trom
bone. In the same column is a prophecy written
for the beginning of the present year. The
Poor Law Guardians have resolved, it seems,
to try the "black holes" themselves before
putting paupers into them. Tradesmen will
supply genuine articles of lull weignt. Land
lords will not distrain for rent. Cabmen may
charge what they like. Penny pies will con
tain rump-steak. The railways will not kill
above ten men a day. The Crystal Palace
will open on Sunday at a penny a head, and
With poor onld Ireland O.adstone and Bright
Will do tho proper and make it all right.
Whatever they act at musio-halls, they cer
tainly speak excellent morality. Here and
there we find a song which tells of other than
merely sentimental sorrows. "Hope for the
liest is the title of a very moamtui ballad,
which describes the sufferings of the artisans
of London:
Provisions are high, men's wages are low,
And all kinds of trade Is at a stand,
When in want of a meal to their uncles thor bo.
Is the case with the poor worklnguian.
If that is not rhyme it is truth. It is a long
lane, Bays the chorus, that has no turning, aud
let us hope that the rich will turn their
thoughts towards the suffering poor. The
author of this song accepts society as it is,
and seeks only to improve its working. It is
remarkable that socialism and other extreme
opinions are almost entirely unrepresented in
these broadsheets.
There is a touch of genuine poetry in the
following:
The star in the east 'twas once shining bright
And plenty of work all around,
The snip-bulldlng trade Is In a sad plight,
In the workhouses trades uen are found.
The concluding lines are forcibly applica
ble to the present time:
Starvation is slaying far more thaa the sword,
It's made widows aud orphans you'll own.
If the wealthy give money for etiarity abroad,
The poor should be thought of at home.
The author of "The Man at the Wheel"
must be a real poet:
I'm steersman on the bright blue Thames,
Aboard a penny boat.
To forget the true color of the Thames
shows a strong power of imagination. Too
author of tho "Periwinkle Mau"is entitled to
a high place among moral teachers. Tne
lesson which he enforces is that no man can
tell what luck my be in store for him if he
only takes eare to be in the way of it when it
comes. He resolves to stick to the periwin
kle trade in spite of every disappointment,
and so
Some day I may be seen as purveyor to the Queen.
The Prince or Wales and Hoyal Family,
Making bold enough to ask, taking pleasure la the
task.
If her Majesty wonld like some winkles for her tea.
The proportion of slang to common English
in these songs is perhaps not so largo as
night have been expected. The most absurd
and inane compositions of the musio halls are
of course to be found in these sheets, but
there could hardly be a more forcible censure
of the "Champagne Charlie" style than is
convoyed in the septuagenarian's song:
To hear them praise a sparkling wine,
It make a man severe,
When he knows they cannot raise the price
Of half a pint of beer.
It should be added that the old songs
which fill np the sheets are almost without
exception good. The best known of Dibdin's
compositions are a never-failing stop-gap,
Tuna the most flimsy product of tne musio
halls is united with work of enduring
texture.
A MARVELLOUS MIRAGE.
Mr. Thomas Waring gives in the Meteorolo.
gical Magazine the following description of a
mirage of unusual splendor:
"The party on board my yacht Hadassah,
on her passage from Alderney to Guernsey,
witnessed a phenomenon striking, and in
these latitudes very rare. The wind was
light, from E. N. E., the sky cloudless, the
sun very hot, and the barometer steady at
8021. There bad been some signs of fog iu
the morning, but they bad disappeared. At
about 3 '150 in the afternoon we observed over
the small island of Ilerme a peculiar hazy re
flection, whioh became more and more de
fined, until it presented an exact inverted
image of the land beneath.
"A similar effect was soon visible round
tha whole horizon. The islands Alderney,
Gnerasey, Jersey, Sark, and Hernia seemed
raised to more than twice their height;
sharp-pointed, outlying rocks were capped
with inverted images of themselves, appa
rently balanced upon them, point to point,
like enormous rocking Btones. The OrUch
rocks, of which we had previously lost sight,
were now .to be seen with startling clearness
in the air. The Casquetes, with its three
lighthouses, presented a most curious ap-
fiearanoe. The lighthouses were drawn out
nto oolossal pillars, on who3e summit rested
a huge mass of rock, clearer in tha outline
than the real island beneath. Ships wera
seen sailing keel upward through the air,
every sail and spar distinct, and iu somi
cases the images were reduplicated. Seve
ral of the vessels thus reflected were belo
the horizon and invisible to us.
"The northern end of Gaernsey, where the
land runs low, was twice reflected in the air,
so distinctly that even those who were fa ui
liar with the island found it hard to recognize
it. We seemed to be looking at a hilf-su'j-tuerged
country, where countless still li jojh
were divided fiotu eaoh other by narrow
strips of land. As we neared Guernsey tha
picture became Ksa distinct, but meanwhile)
lta Liirie 'us bocji.- lao WvaJuifuI
fctiil over Alderney. Ileie the deep-marked
cliffs were magnified to an apparent height of
mar hundred feet, and no scene painter,
devif:ng a grand transformation scene, ever
dre.iu-.ed of more fasoinating groups of
bflf .." lio columns, grottos, and rock arches,
tui the tide flowing beneath, than was exhi
bited by (he island and the isolated btaoks
around it. Having remained visible for more
than three hours, the panorama of ronder
gradually faded away, and by idven o'clock
the horizon was clear, save where a dark
narrow line of cloud or mist hung low in the
northeast. I may add, for the information of
weather prophets, that this unusual state of
the atmosphere was not the forerunner of
high wind or any change in the weather."
THE WILL OF KOSCIUSZKO.
This friend of American liberty and Polish
patriot was born in 1755, and died in Swit
zerland, October 16, 1810. An nnrequited
passion for the daughter of a high officer of
State induoed him to leave home for Ame
rica, where he offered his sword to the
patriots, lie received a commission as an
officer of engineers on October 18, 1770, and
daring tfee whole of the Revolutionary oon-
flict proved himself to be a gallant and suo-
oessful soldier. The following is his will,
which was admitted to record on the 12th of
May, 181'J, and which lay for nearly half a
century forgotten in the clerk's office of the
Circuit Court of Albemarle, Virginia. We
give the document terbatim et literatim:
"I Thaddens Kocluszko belna: lust In my depar
ture from America; do declare and direct that should
I make no other testlmenUry disposition of my pro
perty in the United States, I hereby authorize my
friend Thomas Jefferson to enploy tho whole
thereof in purchasing negroes from among bis own
or any other, and giving them liberty la my name
In giving them en education in trales or otherwise
and in having them Instructed for their new condi
tion in the duties of morality which may make fie in
good neighbors, good fathers, or good moder, nu
ands or tire, aud In their duties as citizens teach
ing them to bo defenders of their liberty and country
and of the good order of society and la whatsoever
may make them happy and useful, and I make the
said Thomas JefTerson my executor of this.
"T. KOriCIUSZKO,
"6th day of Mav, 1788."
It wonld be interesting to know what Kos
ciusko's property oonsisted of whethar
houses, lands, or securities or whether any
thing was done to carry out the provisions
of the will. Perhaps a search among the
records of the Albemarle Court Hou3e would
throw some light upon this subject, and if
the property was not all disposed of by Mr.
Jefferson, it might yet be made available for
affording relief to destitute freed men, or in
some other way that would be in aooordanoe
with the spirit if not the letter of tho will.
TEE F1SB STORY OF THE CENTURY.
Heoame into the breakfast-room one morn
ing, and in a moment it wat seen that a
cloud was on his brow. There sat the lady
like wife waiting for him; the table fairly
groaned, not with plated silver, but the solid
material. The cloth was white as the snow;
the family were seated around in pleasant ex
pectancy; everything was smoking hot, and
not an article there but even a pampered ap
petite could revel on. But the mau's favorite
difch was not there. Closer he came to the
table, and with the inquiry, "Did you know
that I wanted a shad for breakfast ?" he raised
his foot and overturned the whole table on
the floor. "It was on the fire being kept
warm for you," replied his noble wife, in her
quiet, lady-like, and conquering way. In an
iiifitsrit the haughty hnnband comprehended
the situation; the next be was on his knees
exclaiming, "Dear wife, you are nothing less
than an angel born." Not a groat while after
that he died: his will was opened; his wife
was executor; he left hsr all he had
$2,000,000. The above touching story is from an article
on "Thundergust," in a reoent number of
Hall s Journal of Health.. The man who can
read it without dying and leaving his wife
$2,000,000 is a brute, and the woman who
can read it without forthwith buying a shad,
is a dove not up to the wisdom of serpents.
It is savd that on the day this story appeared
in New York, some fifty thousand more shad
were sold than on any preceding day since
the trade in tnat nan was nrst inaugurated.
Broadway, Fifth avenue, and other of the
prominent highways were one mass of
women and shad the former oairying home
the latter, "to be kept warm at the fire."
HOW SCHOOLMASTEBS ARB MaDB IS GeR-
uaky. We will endeavor to indicate the
career cf an intelligent village lad who, hav
ing at the age of fourteen completed his
school-course, resolved to become a school
master. If in baxony or bilesia, he enters a
training-school called Prvteniiwir, because
preparatory to the seminary or normal school;
if in Prussia, he enters the house of
a private tutor, probably the local school
master or clergyman. At the age of eighteen
he proceeds to the seminary, where ho hits to
spend three years; the rst and seoond to be
devoted, according to an elaborate scheme
to all the subjects be will hereafter have to
teach; the third to be spent in teaching,
under the supervision of the director of
the seminary, in the "practical school,"
which is simply the nearest primary
school. Wliue in tne seminary, lie is
subjected to stringent discipline. He
makes bis own bed and cleans his own room;
be pays for his board aud lodging the
former being ot a very nomely description,
and valued at eightpence or ninepence a day
and provides his own bread. At the end of
tLe thiid year he presents himself for his first
examination, which is conducted by the
authorities of the college, under the superin
tendence of the school councillor. This ex
amination embraoes religion, language,
arithmetic, writing, drawing, and gingiug,
and is partly oral and partly on paper. The
performances cf the candidates are estimated
v. ub great precision, and a certiflcate is given
to all who acquit themselves satisfac
torily. The teacher is now taken charge
of by the departmental councillor, who ap
points him to a vacancy in his district. He
holds, however, only tho position aud title of
provisional teacher, the full status and rank
of schoolmaster being withhold until he has
passed a second examination, held tureo
years after the first. lots examination is
rather an investigation into oUancter and
conduct than into attainments. When this
last ordeal has been passed, the teacher
takes the oata of allegiance, aud receives a
definite appointment as muster of a school.
tut lit I unit.
QENT.'U PUHNI8HINO POODS.
PATENT HHOULDI2H.SK AM
SHIRT MANUFACTORY,
iNl) UENTLEMLNT? FURNISHING STOI'.R,
PERFECTLY PITTING SlUKTS AND DUAWfiUS
made from iuaureweiit at very aaort uoiiue.
All other article of OF.N TI.Ji.MKN'3 liKK8
v liSiiiin i'u. m. do..
VtSSUftANQfa,
TNCORPORATKD 18IB.
OFFICE OF THE DELAWARE MUTUAL
SAFET.1 IJNSUKARCE CO.
Philadelphia. November 1. 1870.
The following statement of tho affairs of tno Com
pany is published In conformity with a provision of
Its barter i
PREMIUMS RECEIVED from November 1, 1843. to
October 81, 1870 :
On Marine and Inland Risks. $799.19
On Pire Kiaks lM.fmi-90
faM.jaovra
Premiums on Policies not
marked ofTNovembtr 1,1809. 6W,4P9-83
fl,4n4,7098
FREIUIPMS MARKED OFT as earned from No-
vein ner i, ues, to uciooer si, 1S70:
On Nailne and Inland Risks. $sso, 746 79
On lire Risks 1M, 5487
Il.032.Q0.V4ft
Interest daring the same
period Salvages, etc 153,500-98
11, 184,796 4 1
LOSSES. EXPENSES, etc.. rturlna tha u
ii uu v.
llarme and Inland Naviga
tion Lcifscs M8,R"5 93
Fire bcBees oa.Boaiw
jieturn rrtnnunis tn.tm-es
Reinsurances 40.(jaa
Agency t hargis, Advertis
ing, Printing etc 60,01-4O
Taxes Vniteil btutes, Slate,
8D(1 Municipal Taxes 63,000-19
B$ rentes S4.015H0
IS10.1WV7
l3U9,6tl-47
ASSET8 OF TUB COMPANY
November 1, 170.
J360.000 United Biates Six Per CcnL
Loan (lawful money) $333,375-00
200,000 State of Peansjlvaul Six Per
Cent. Loan 214,600 00
vu,uuu vuy oi rnuaueipnia eix i er
Cent. I-oan (exempt fro us
Tax) 804,163-50
164,000 State of New Jersey Six Per
Cent. Loan 1(3,920-00
xu.uvo i-enusyivania uauroaa nrst
Mortcaae Six Per Cent.
Koul8.-. 20,700-00
xc,wo rennsTivania Kanroaa second
MortRaee Six Per UcuL
Bonds 85,250-00
23,000 western I'enn. Kail road Mort
raire Six Per Cent. Bonds
U'enn. R. R, guarantee) 80,000-00
S0.C0O State of Tennessee Five Per
Cent. Loan 19,000-00
7,000 State of Tennessee Six Per
Cent Loan 4,200-00
lz.oue Pennsylvania Kaiiroad Com
pany, 250 Shares Stock 10,008-00
e,uuo norm Pennsylvania Kaiiroad
Company, 100 Shares Stock. . 4,800-00
iu,cuu i-niiaaeipnia aua soutnern
Mall bteamshiD Comnanv. 80
Shares Stock 4,000'00
261.6A0 Leans on Bond and Mortgage.
first liens on City Properties. 83l,6so-flO
$1,260,150 Far. Market Value. .11,31)3,557 -SO
COSt, 11,264,441 84.
Real Estate 56,00000
jiiuBKeceivauie for insurances mule... S30,,J71,27
vaiances aue at Agencies rremmms on
Mamie 1'oucies Accrued interest and
other debts dne the Comnanv 93.37547
Stock and Scrip, etc.. of sundry corpora
tions. I7.V50. Estimated value 3.911 00
Cash , 143,911-73
1 820,727-97
PniLADEi.rnt a, Nov. 9, 1870.
The Board of Directors have this day declared a
CASH DIVIDEND OF TEN PER OSNT. on the
CAPITAL STOCK, and SIX PER CENT. Interest
on the SCRIP of the Comnanv, payable on and after
the 1st of December proximo, free of National and
State Taxes.
They have also declared a SCRIP DIVIDEND of
TWENTY-FIVE PER CENT, on the EARNED
PREMIUMS for the year ending October 31, HT0
certificates ef which will be issued to the parties
entitled to the same, on and after the 1st of Decem
ber proximo, free of National and State Taxes.
They have ordered, alito that the SCRIP cKTt-
TIUCATES OF PROFITS of the Company, for tho
year ending October 81, 1606, be redcemud in CASH,
at the Oilice of the Company, en aud after 1st of
December proximo, all Interest thereon to ceaso
on that day.
By a provision of the Charter, all Certificates of
Scrip not presented for redumption wtttiln Ave
years after public notice that they will be redeemed.
hall be forfeited and cancelled on tha books of the
Com pany.
No certificate of profits Issued under f2B By the
Act of Incorporation, "no certltlcate shall lssuo
unless claimed within two years after the declara
tion of the dividends whereof it la evidence."
DIRECTORS.
Thomas C. Hand,
SiimiK'l E. Stokes,
William O. Uuulton,
Edward Darlington,
H. Jones Urooke,
Edward Lafourcade.
Jacob Rlegel,
Jacob P. Jones.
jonn v. navis,
Edmund A. bouder,
Joseph 11. Sen),
James Traqualr,
Henvy Sloan,
Henry V. Dalletr, Jr.,
James C. Hand,
Wil lam (J. Ludwlg,
Hugh Craig,
John D. Taylor,
George W. lleruadoa,
W illiam J Houston,
H. Frank Robinson,
THOMAS
James B MeFarland,
Sneneer Mcllvalne.
John B. 8umple, Plltsb'g
a.. D. iierger,
D. T. Morgan,
O. HAND. President
.TOliN O. DAVIS. Vice-President.
HtKHV j.vlbukn, secretary.
HiiMtY Ball, Ass't Secretary. 11 11
F 1
R B ASSOCIATION
INCORPORATED MARCH IT, 1820.
OFFICE,
NO. 84 NORTH FIFTH STREET,
INSURE
BUILDINGS, HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE, AS1
MERCHANDISE GENERALLY
From Loss by Ore (In the City of Philadelphia only)
A8KTH,-JA!HUAUY 1, IStO, CL,574,73 J-
TKUWTITKS.
William II. Hamilton,
John Carrow,
Charles P. Dower,
Jesse LiiKhtfoot,
Robert Shoemaker,
Peter Armiiruster,
M. U. Dickinson,
Peter Williamson,
George 1. Yousg,
jos. iu Lvnaaa,
Levi P. Coats,
Samuel Sparhawk
Joseph E. SchelU
WM. H. HAMILTON, Presldeat
SAMUEL SPARHAWK, Vlce-Prcsldont
WILLIAM F. BUTLER,
Secretary
rpHE PENNSYLVANIA FIRS INSURANCE
X COMPANY.
incorporatea isms unarter rerpetnau
No. 610 WALNUT Street, opposite Independence
equare.
This Company, favorably known to the commu
nity for over forty years, continues to Insure aaiust
loss or damage oy tire on Public or Private Build
lngs, either permanently or for a limited tune. Also
on Furniture, Stocks of Goods, and Merchandise
generally, on liberal terms.
Tlfelr Capital, together with a large Surplus Fund.
Is kuvested in the most careful manner, which ena
bles tliem to offer to the insured an uuaouotea seen
rity in the case of loss.
Daniel Smith, Jr.,
laaao llaalenurst,
Thomas Smith,
Heury Lewis.
'i noman w-iuub,
J. OiniuKiiaju Fell,
John Devereux,
uauiei UUUUOCK.
Franklin A Comlv.
DANIEL SMITH. J.. President
Wm. Q. Ckowkll, Secretary. ( 80
INSURANCE COMPANY
No. 809 CHE8NUT Street
EKC0KF0HA1ED 1856. CHARTS PSBPrnJAL.
CAPITAL 1200,000.
FIRE INSURANCE EXCLUSIVELY.
Insurance against Loss or Damage by fire either by
Perpetual or Temporary Pollutes.
uiukcioaa.
Charles raehardaou,
Robert Pearce.
William It. Ktidwu,
WUllHin M. beyfert,
John K. iutlb,
Nathan lull',
(it irge A. West,
John Kesslur, Jr.,
Kdward U. Oruu,
Charles KUikea.
Johu W. Kverman,
Mtrdi:nl Buzhy.
VvI111aM U. KUAWW, Victt-iijoSl'lHUl.
Wiu.ii.Ms L LAia'JUJU becretarj. T ml
1N8URANOE.;
INSURAN0 E COMPAQ
NORTH A&IStllCA.
Jancakt 1. 1370.
Incorporated H8. Charter Perpetual.
CAPITAL.. r..
..tnoo.ooo
Abti&m ,
...43,7S3,0bl
Loams paid since organisation. f 28,000,000
Receipts of Premiums, 1909 tl,WLR37-48
interest from lovesuncuis, isev ii,woi4
3,l0,Bi4-l
l,35,3S6-84
Losses paid, 1S69
STATEMENT OP THE ASSETS.
First Mortraires on City Property I7M.450
L'nitt-d sutes bovet nruent and other Loan
bonds 1.133.&M
Railroad, Bank and Canal Stocks 55.708
Ca-h in Bank and Office 847,620
Loans en Collateral Security 8i,5..3
Notes Receivable, mostly Marine Premiums 881,944
Acrmed Interest 80,867
Premiums In cinrse of transmission 8rt,l9S
Past ttli-d Marine Premiums loo.H)
Real Lsiate, dtr.ee of Company, Philadel
phia 50,01.0
3,7S3,5S1
DIRECTORS.
Arthur O. Coffin,
Samuel W. Jones,
John A. Brown,
Charles Taylor,
Ambrose White,
William Welsh,
8. Morris Wain,
John Mason,
George L. Harrison.
Francis R. Cope,
E-lward H. Trotter,
Edward S. Clarke,
T. Charlton Henry,
Alfred D. .Tessup,
Louis C Madeira,
Charles W. Cnshinan,
Clement A Oriscom,
William liror.klo.
ARTHUR O. OOKFIN. President
CHARLES PLATT, Vice-President
MATrmAS Mas is, Secretory.
C. Ii. hit it us, Assistant Secietary. 1 4
THE MUTUAL PP.OTECTIOK
Life Insurance Company
OP PHILADELPHIA
Offers life policies, PERFECTLY BECURED, at
less than ONE-HALF TdE USUAL RATE i. It is
the only Life Insurance Company la the United
States doing business on the "Mutual Classification"
plan, and Its rates are so low that all classes may
enjoy lta 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 docs, ECONOMY with tne HIGHEST
DEGREE OF SECURITY, will commend It to gene-
ral favor.
Circulars, containing fall explanation of oar sys
tem, rates, etc etc., can be had from any of our
agents, or at the
OFFICE,
No. 247 8. THIRD Street,
PHILADELPHIA
JAMES II. BILL1NQTON, President
J. E. Hackemjerg, Secretary.
Good men wanted as Agents 10 13 thatn2ra
1829 cnARTER PERPETUAL.
Franllin Fire Insurance Company
ur riijLLiauJi.uruiA.
Office, Nos. 435 and 437 CHESNUT St.
Assets Aug J 70$3f009,888'24
CAPITAL 1400,000-00
INCOME FOR 1870, LOSSES PAID IN 1369.
1810,000. 1144.908-42.
IonHesi pnll since 1839 over
5. 500,Q0U
Perpetual and Temporary Policies on Libert
Terms.
The Company also issues polloies opon the Rer.o
or an Kinds oi isuuainga, urounu Kents, and Moi'
Kaf?8 . .
Tne "X KAKli-UiM" na uu uiaruiDJJ t:i.A irvf
DIRECTORS.
Alfred O. Baker,
Alfred Fitter,
Thomas Sparks,
Williams. Grant.
Thomas S. Ellis,
Gustavus S. Benson.
Samnei Grant,
George W. Richards,
Ihhsc Lea,
fteorse Fales.
A1.I IUU M.
BAKER. President.
GEORGE FALliS. Vice-PreBident
JA.MES W. MCALLISTER, Secretary. (2 19
TI1EODORB U. KbGGR, Assistant Secretary.
AS BURY
LIFE INSURANCE CO.
NU V7 3? O XXII.
LEMUEL BANGS. President.
GEORGE ELLIOTT, Vlce-Pres'taud8ec'y
EMOUi mcuauh lour.. Actuary.
PENNSYLVANIA STATE AGENCY
JAMFH M. LONG AC UE. Manager.
11. O. Wool', JK., M. !., Medical Examiner,
Office, 302 WLNUT St., Philadelphia.
REV. S. POWERS, Special Ageut.
JAMES II. LONQACRtt, General Agent,
6 83 mwfly No. 802 WALNUT Street, Philadelphia
nrna enterprise insurance co. of
X rillLAUKU'UlA.
Ottlce 8. W. cor. FOURTH and WALNUT Street
FIRE INSURANCE EXCLUSIVELY.
PERPETUAL AND TKKM POLICIES 1",SUBD.
CASH Capital (paid nn in full) ...SaJO.oooiH)
GASH Assets, October, 1STO oSl,1312
UUlttAj i uits.
F. Ratchford Starr, J. Livingston Errlnger,
Naibro Fruitier, : James L. CloKhorn,
John M. Atwood, ,Wm. G. UouIuju,
hvui. T. Tredick, Charles Whmiler,
Georpe 11. Stuart, Thomas 11. Alontgomer
John 11. Brown, James M. AerUou.
F. RATCIIFORD STARR. Prf-strtent.
THO MA U. MONTGOMERY, Vice-President.
ALEX. W. W1STEK. Secretary.
JACOB K. PETERSON. AssiHtan Secretary.
jPJSRIAI FIRK INSURANCE CO,
LONDON.
ETAUI.mLIKU
Paid-up Capital and AoounoUtad Fund,
tJH.OOO.OOO I IV GOLD
PKEVOST A HEUUING, Agents,
4 So. 1UT & THIRD Btraat, PbiUdalphia.
OHA8. M. PRKVOaT OH AS. P. HKRRINO
ROOFINU.
READY ROOFIN G.
This Routing la adapted to all buildings, it
can be applied to
STEEP OR FLAT ROOFS
at one-half the expense of tin. It la readily pot on
oid Shingle Roofs without removing the slilnglea,
thus avoiding the damaging of ceilings and furniture
whilH iiii(l. rffoliii? reDaii-H. (No irravul nsed.1
PhtShKVE YiUK TIN ROOFS WITH WEL
TON'S ELASTU) PAINT.
I am always prepared to Heualr and Paint Roofs
at short notice. Also, PAINT FOR SALE by the
barrel or gallon: the beat and cheapest In the
market.
W. A. W ELTON,
ITS No. Til N. NINTH St.. above Coat,
J. T. K ASTON. MHAHON.
pAfc'l'OI St HcMAHOIV,
HBIFl'lSO A SO COMMISSION MERCHANTS,
No. 2 COKNT1K8 SLIP, New York,
No. 18 BuUTH WHARVES, Philadelphia,
No. 45 W. PRATT STREET. Baltimore.
W.e are prepared to ship every description ot
Freight to Philadelphia, New York. vVUurtLsrUm, and
liitermedlat points with promptness and despatch.
Canal Boats and Steam-tags f uruiaued at the sacrum
LO'lOM.
T0UN yAKVU-V': CO., COMMIT! JN ME'l-
f I ihuti ind'M.now.ie M Onnwt TUjklat, t3.
At. M lUiafrUUX frtieat. PhiU'Hy.ita, mim
BMIPPINO.
frfjfjVK LOUILLARD STEAMSHIP OOMPANI
FOll NGW YORK,
BAILING EVERT TUESDAY, THURSDAY, AND
SATURDAY.
RATES TEN CENTS PER 100 POUNDS, FOTJB
UKNTa PER CUBIC FOOT, ONK CENT PER
GALLON. SHIP'S OPTWN.
INSURANCE BY THIS LINE ONE-EIGHTH 07
ONE PER CENT.
Extra rates on small packages iron, metals, eta.
No receipt or bill of lading signed for leas than
fty cents. ,
uooas lorwaraea to an points rree or commissions.
Thronah bills of lading glTen to Wilmington. N. ci..
oy the steamers of this line leaving New York trl-
weckiy.j. For tanner particulars apply to
dOUJI F. OHU
PIER 19 NORTH WHARVES.
N. B. The regular shippers by this line will ba
charged the above rates all winter.
Winter rates commence December IB. B8I
THE REGULAR STEAMSHIPS ON THE PHI.
LADKLP11IA AND CHARLESTON STEAM.
SHIP LINE are ALONE authorised to lssne throngs
ollls of ladlrg to Interior points Sooth and West la
connection with South Carolina Railroad Company.
Vice-President So. C. RR. Co.
cfT PHILADELPHIA AND SOUTHERN
n niii i i. m i
17aK bKMI
MAIL HTF AMSHIP COMPANY'S RBOLh
MONTHLY LIMB TO NEW Gtt.
The YAZOO will sail for N.w Orlauia. vim. TT...r..
Ot Thurrnlaf, OeccTiiber 1. at 8 A. M.
'in. JUfliA i A win sau Irom MewOrlaana, via Havana.
Oo rnriy. IwroniDer s.
IHKOUuu Bu.uiorLwao as low rates as by
an other route eien to Mobile, Clulveotoii, INDIAN
OLA, KOOK FORT. I.AVAOU A, and BR&ZOS.and to all
point! on tbs WiwiMippl rivei between New Orleans and
St. Lonia. Red Hirer treifrbu re shipped at New Orleana
wilhont charge of oemmiesiona,
WFFKLY LINE TO SATANNAH. GA. ''
The TONAWANUa will sail for Havanaab ea Baton.
dT. December 8 at 8 A. M.
The WYOMING will aall from Savannas, ea Ratal day ,
Deoeturer 8.
ThhOUUH BILLS OF LADING given to alt ttieprin.
Oi pal town. In Georgia, Alabama, Florida, MiesMsippi,
Loni.iana, Arkaiie, and Tennessee in connection with
ttie Oeatral Railroftd of OoorRia, Atlantio and Oulf Rail
road, and Florida teamen, at as low rates u by eompatina
lines.
F KM I MONTHLY LINK TO WTI.MINOTON. H. o.
The PIONEER will sail for Wilmington on Tneeda.
Pcrrmber 13. at t A. M. Ratotnlng, will leave Wilming
ton b( nrdav. December 30.
Oonneots with tbe Clap Fear River Steamboat Oom.
Ran;, tbe V ilmini ton and Weldon and North Carolina
ailroadg, and tbe W ilmington and Hanohester Railroad
te all interior points.
Freights for Oolnmbia. 8. O., and Anirnsta, Ga.. taken
via W ilminRton, at as low rates as by any other route.
Insurance effected when requeeted by shippers. Bills
of lading signed at Queen street wharf on or before daa
Of sailinc
WILLIAM L. JAMK8, General Aen.
Hi No. 180 booth TiilKX) Street.
FOR LIVERPOOL AND orrBrRNrH.
.TOWN. Inman Line of Royal Mall
Steamers are appointed to sail as follows:
City of Rrussels, Saturdav. Deo. 8, at 8 A. M.
City of Washington, Saturday, Dec. 10, at t P. BL
Crty of lialtimore, via Halifax, Tuesday, Dec 13.
at 9 A.M.
Cltv of Tarls, Saturday, Dec. 17. atl P. M.
and each sncceeding Saturday and alternate Tues
day, from pier No. 45 North river.
RATES OF PASSAGE.
Payable In sold. Payable in currency.
First Cabin fTB.Steerage 13
To London 60
To Paris 90
To Halifax SO
To London 85
To Parts fe-
To Halifax 10
Passengers also forwarded to Havre. Hambarir.
Bremen, etc, at reduced rates.
Tickets can be bought here at moderate rates by
persons wishing to send for tnelr friends.
For farther information apply at the company's
office.
JOHN O. DALE, Agent. No. IB Broadway, N. T. 1
Or to O'DONN ELL & FAULK, Agents,
4 B No. 40a CHESNUT Street. Philadelphia.
PHILADELPHIA, RICHMO ND
3Mgitn NOKFOi.K 8TK AMSHIP LINK.
THROUGH FREIGHT AIR LINE TO TUB SOUTH
AjS I rV EST
INCREASED FAOIUTIESAND REDUOKD BATES
Steamers leave every WKDNK8D AY and SATURDAY,
at 12 o'clock noon, from FIRST WHARF above ALAr!
KF.'A' Street.
RKTL'RNING, leave RICHMOND MONDAYS and
THURSDAYS, and NORFOLK TUESDAYS and SA
TURDAYS. Ne Bills of Lading signed after U o'clock oa aailini
UROUGH RATES toallpolnuln North and South
Carolina, via Seaboard Air Line Railroad, oonneotinf at
Portsmouth, aud to LynohburK, Va., Tennessee, and tbe
Weet, via Virginia and Tennessee Air Line an4 Richmond
and Danville Railroad.
Freiirht HANOI KD BUTONOR, and taken at LOWBB
RATK8 THAN ANV OTHER LINK.
No charge for commission, dray age, ox any expense of
'bteamships insure at lowest rates.
Freight received daily.
Sut.Km'ra t OO.,
No. IS B. WHARVHSand Pier 1 N. WUARVKS.
W. P. PORTER, Agent at Richmond and Oity Point.
T. P. OROWKLL A OO., Agents at Norfolk. li
NEW EXPRESS LINE TO ALEXANi
idria, Georgetown, and Washington
u. v., via unesapeaxe ana Delaware
Canal, with connections at Alexandria from the
most direct route for Lynchburg, Bristol, Knoxvllle,
Nashville, Pulton, and the Southwest.
Steamers leave regularly every Saturday at noon
torn the first wharf above Market street.
Freight received dally.
WILLIAM P. CLYDE A CO.,
No. 14 North and South WHARVES.
HYDE & TYLER, Agents at Georgetown; tL
ELDRlDGE CO., Agents at Alexandria. 6 1
FOR NEW YORK, VIA DELAW.
and Rarltan CauaL
k-taielSWIFTSURE TRANSPORTATIOlhl
DESPATCH AND SW1FTSURE LINES,
Leaving dally at 18 M. and 6 P.M.
The steam propel R-rs of this company will con
meure loading on the 8th of March.
Through la twenty-roar hours.
Goods forwarded to any point free of commission
Freights taken on accommodating terms.
Apply to
" WILLIAM M. BAIRD & CO., Agents,
4 South DELAWARE Avenue.
I y-w 7 Tia ucmnoro iwi iariu.a uuiu.
J5:iZJDAM ltTVIfRw. STklM IUIIT IY1UP1HT
'1 lie steam Propellers of the line will commenaf -loading
on the 8th instant, leaving dally as nsuaL I
TU HOUGH IN T W F.N T Y-FOUR HoUIiS. I
Goods forwarded by all the lines going out of Ne I
York, North, East, or West, free of commission. I
WILLIAM P. CLYDE 4 CO., AsrentS.
No. 13 s. DELAWARE Avenue.
JAOTK3 HAND, Agent.
No. lis WALL Street, New York. 1 45
DELAWARE AND CHES APEAK
1 STEAM TOW BO AT COMPANY
fit etmM uargea towea between rhiiadeiDhisv
Baltimore, llavre-de-Grace, Delaware City, ana In
termediate points.
WILLIAM P. CLYDE 4 CO., Agents.
Captain JOHN LA UGH LIN, Superintendent,
onw-e. No. IS Sonth WVarvas Voiadelohla. 411
OORDAOE, ETO.
WEAVER & CO.,
HOPS 151 AIM Ul ACTUaXEUO
AUD
No. u North WATER Street and
No. ed North WHARVES, Philadelphia.
ROPE AT LOWEST BOSTON AND NEW YORff
PRICES.
41
CORDAGE.
Hanilla, filial and Tarred Cordagt
At'LowiMt New York Prices and Freia-kts. '
EDWIN 11. FITLKIt dk JO.
JTaotory. TENTH Bt. and OEKMANTOWN Avenaa.
Store. No. 13 B. WATCH SI. and M H DELAW AB
Aveooa.
4 IS 13m PHILADELPHIA
SAXON GREER
NEVER FADES.
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A LBXANDBR G. CATTELL A CO.
fV PRODUCE COMMISSION MKKC3ANT8,
No. M NORTH WUARVE4
AND
NO. ST NVTH wT-W 8THS1IT,
PIlllJtOKLPUiA.
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