the Pail r evening telegraph philadelpiiia. Wednesday, December 7, 18703
TIIE DICTATOR OF PRINCE.
A Hplrxlld Tribute to I,eoa CSamhetta-Whnt
ike (.treat MlaUler IIhk la Tw fohort
Itlsathe-A Vadrfiil Work.
J-Vom Iht London Spectator, Ximtmbtr 19.
It ia qnite natural that M. Leon Gambetta,
fitoutisb. Marseillaise advocate of thirty-five-with
the look of a traflio manager, and Dic
tator of France outside of Paris, should have
some difficulty in obtaining recognition even
from those Englishmen who are favorable
to the French cause. Ho is an offense to
all their instincts. That a man, not being
s prince by birth, should bear rule without
"legal" title, without patent from any king,
or election by any assembly, or sanction from
any plebiscite, in to most Englishmen an an
noyance; and that he should be a lawyer and,
according to English precedents, a young
man, is almost an affront. Englishmen groan,
it is true, nnder the sway of the old, de
nounce the electoral system as fatal to young
ability, and, whenever they have anything to
do outside political or military business,
select men nnder forty to do it; but never
theless OLD MEN OOVEI1K OriNION
in England as elsewhere, and the rise of a
man not yet worn out to the highest position
is to them an offense requiring to be excused.
They follow a middle class premier with en
thusiasm, and are delighted because he has
transferred to the sons of the professionals a
monopoly of administrative work; bat still in
their hearts they cannot believe that a man
without birth, or wealth, or long experience
ean be a fitting ruler for a great nation even
in the throes of a revolution. Add to his
want of "blood," of position, and of years,
the fact that he belongs to the race which
gave Napoleon to France, and that he is still
essentially a southerner, a man of superficially
impulsive emotion and lyrical utterance and
fiery temper, who, if he thinks a general a
traitor, says so without inquiry, and it is easy
to understand why Englishmen cannot appre
ciate or even endure M. Leon Gambetta, are
inclined to defend Marshal liazaine because
he has been denounced by that
"young DEsror,"
and are half pleased at reverses they yet dis
like because they prove that his southern
Banguinenessof speech is so little justifiod by
events. We have nothing to say, of course,
against their impression, based as it is on a
perfectly honest ignorance tnat there can
be men, and considerable nivin, who are
not in the least like Englishmen. If M.
Gambetta were an Englishman, and yet he
wrote and spoke as he does, the chances that
he would be a fool in action would be over
whelming; but being what he is, an ener
getic southerner, trained to write and Bpeak
for a southern multitude, it may be expedi
ent, despite English impressions, to look a
little deeper than his words find him. And
so looking we see, or think we see, a person
age who is not the English idea of M. Gam
betta at all, but one entirely different. Judg
ing by visible facts alone, we discern in M.
Gambetta
A MAN OF A TYPE
common among Italian politicians and men
of business men who are superficially fussy
and oratorical, or even vulgar, with nothing
about them indicating power except steady
eyes and square brows; but who have never
theless a faculty of succeeding, of choosing
men, and of impressing themselves upon
other men. That M. Gambetta possesses
this last faculty in an unusual degree is self
evident. Of legal title to rule France he has
in the English sense of legality not a shadow.
Of moral title to take his special position as
Minister of both War and the Interior he had
only this that General Trochu considered
him, on the whole, as the fittest man for
these offices. His colleagues in Tours might
fairly have been jealous of him as a recruit
who had superseded veterans, his subordi
nates in the War Department might reason
ably have distrusted him as
A CIVILIAN WHO NEVER SAW A FIELD PIECE.
He had immediately and directly to rule
the most exacting, self-opinionated, and in
dependent body of men in" the world the
general officers of the old French army men
who disliked him as a llepublioan, dreaded
him as a lied, and detested him as a Pekin.
Yet from the moment he dropped, tired out
with a journey by balloon, into his chair in
the old Archiepiscopal Palace of Tours, and
announced that he was invested with full
powers to defend the country, no one
throughout Franco has seriously disputed his
authority. His colleagues have become his
clerks, and have as his clerks reorganized the
army intendenco till complaints of de
ficient supplies have all but disap
peared. The treasury was empty, but he
refilled it. The arsenals were half empty,
but one great army, perhaps two, hva
now artillery, horses, gunners, and breech
loaders. The loan in Eugland, the immense
contract for arms with America, and the still
greater contracts in France itself for artillery,
provisions, carts, and clothes, were all
arranged by himself, are all "drawing" the
actual cash, goods, transport, munitions,
which were not in being two months ago, are
there to-day at General d'Aurelles' disposal.
These were acts within the competence of
any energetio business man; but M. Gambetta
had three questions to de.ide of infinitely
greater importance to the future of France
and of the war, and he has, to all appearance,
decided all successfully. First of all, he had
to determine by action, and not by words,
whether
THE REPUBLICANS OB THE BEDS.
were to conduct the war, whether he would
employ organization or anarchy as his grand
weapon, lted in his energy and his impul
siveness, M. Gambetta is . Republican by
train, by virtue of that common sense which
nerver in the highest whirlwind of his passion
qnite leaves an Italian; and he decided for the
republic. Lyons, Marseilles, Toulouse were
in insurrection for the lied flag; to quarrel
witii it was, feeble men said, to introduce
civil war; but M. Gambetta faced the danger,
told the Lyonese Reds in bo many words that
they were wicked fools, risked actual war at
Marseilles, where a well-meaning Prefect,
weakened by English ideas about bloodshed,
Lad made Liuiaelf agent of the ultras; aud
within two months from bis arrival compelled
very free city in France, Lyons and Mr
eeilles included, to submit quietly to his
agents. The respectables everywhere rose at
his summons, the anarchists have everywhere
been beaten, and the revolt of the Lvous
Gardes Mobiles on their march westward is
probably.
THE LAST SPURT OF A BESIS1ANCE
which, since the tide of victory' seems to
turn, has throughout Fiance become imp -Bible.
The mutineers were treated as muti
neers, enveloped by more faithful troops,
compelled to produce their ringleaders, to
see them shot, and to inarch on, in their
hearts recognizing that the state was in
France supreme once more. The seoond task
was still more difficult to reaffirm ouce for
all the vital principle forgotteu for twenty
years in France, that a general is a servant
cf the State, as innch bound to obey its
orders as the humblest gendarme. That task
fnvolved in the midst of a war a quarrel with
the men of the sword. Under the Emperor
every French general has felt himself an en
tity, a personage, a roan with a separate posi
tion in the great club which kept the Em
peror on his throne, and has repudiated al
most in words the notion of obedience to any
civil authority whatsoever. The future his
torian of France will be able to show that
many of the disasters of this great war had
no other cause than the bickerings and
JEALOUSIES OF THE OENEBALS.
their intense sense of their individual rights
and privileges. So ineradicable was this evil
spirit, the very root of insubordination, that
even within the fortnight a Frenoh general,
General Cambricis, has ventured to have and
to act on a private opinion that it was beneath
his position to act wilh another French gene
ral, named Garibaldi that in fact he ha 1, as
a "regular" soldier, a right to settle whom the
State should and should not accept as its
allies. M. Gambetta met this spirit in the only
way in which it can be met anywhere by an
inflexible assertion of the supremacyof the civil
authority, by removing general after general
without explanation or apology, by reducing
officers, promoting officers, and even in de
fiance of all traditions since Louis Philippe,
in a moment of subserviency, destroyed
France by accepting the law which abolished
the right of the State to dismiss an officer,
and bo made of the army a Bclf-dependent
club making officers until he had found the
men who were prepared to obey the State,
and who, therefore, have for the first time
stemmed the tide of French disaster. The
generals reduced to reason, there still re
mained the greater task of
EEDUCINO THE bOLDIERS TO OBEDIENCE.
The difficulties in the way were enormous.
Under the empire the officers had gradually
become accustomed to tolerate laxity, and
found refuge from resistance in isolation
had, to ose an expressive, though unjust
common phrase, become "afraid of the men,"
till they hardly dared issue an unpleasant
command, till the tradition of obedience had
disappeared, while the proclamation of the re
public had of itself destroyed the tradition of
mere deference. Deference, at no time strong
in a French army, where the private may be
the Boeial superior of his officer, oould not be
restored; but obedience might be, and it was.
Rising folly to the height of the situation, the
stoutish Italian advocate who for the hour
represented France decreed that in this
SUPREME HOUR OF DANGER
every soldier guilty of disobedience, insubor
dination, or pillage, should be treated as he
would be in the Prussian army tried by
court-martial of officers only and executed
there and then. A stern hint was, at the
Bame time, given to all general officers that
this order had no limits, and was meant to be
executed as well as read, if they intended to
remain in command. The new power, which
exists as an ultimate power in every army in
the world, was, therefore, relentlessly but
justly applied, and executions, said to have
exceeded one hundred in number, completely
restored order in the army of the Loire
discipline of the old and true kind, under
which a soldier dare no more plunder the
peasantry without orders than he dare retreat
before the enemy without a signal.
CORSES PONDENT8 RAGED
and talked of discontent and tho certainty
that D'Aurelles would be shot as if that
mattered but no army ever mutinied
againBt discipline yet; the officers recovered
their places and their confidence, the men
found once more that they were fed, and
once again, for the first time since Woerth,
it became possible to execute manoeu
vres, and to move men swiftly without leav
ing one-half of them benind. It had come
to this with the French army that a march
of ten miles a day reduced it to a disorgan
ized crowd. The instrument of which the
Prussians make such use (the field telegraph)
has been organized; and finally, by the ap
pointment of civil commissaries, with abso
lute power of making requisitions, to acoom
pany the army, LI. Gambetta has removed
THE LAST AND MOST SERIOUS DIFFICULTY
in the way of the Intendance, has enabled it
to levy supplies from the country, without
demoralizing the army by employing soldiers
in a task which, if left to them, degenerates
into , unauthorized plunder. We have taken
every fact in this article from the letters of
men who are bitterly hostile toM. Gambetta;
who consider him a foe of the army, an up
start, and a lunatic; who are never tired of
shrieking for a military dictator, and consider
that France is lost because her representative
"looks like" a bourgeois "a remark, by the
way, which is only true so far as
it is true of so many Frenoh and
Italian statesmen, who are apt to want
the impassiveness moat Englishman and all
Germans of ranks are accustomed to affect.
And we ask our readers deliberately whether
the man who has done all this for his coun
try, who in two months has re-estabjished
order In the great cities and discipline in the
armies of France, who, amidst unheard-of
disasters, has struggled against national de
spair, with one hand beating down anarchists,
and with the otnor building up armies, aud
who, in the very midst of a work which he
believed to be on the edge of success, halted
to accept an armistice he detested because
his beleaguered colleagues had approved it
a man, that is, who has displayed the energy
of a Jacobin and the self-restraint of an Eng
lish Cabinet Minister is a man to be so
utterly despised ? Our prayer is that when
England's hour of danger shall arrive, we
also may find such a man, with the one addi
tional quality of silence.
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A number of Second-hand tiaf.-g, of dirToren
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DRY GOODS.
HOLIDAY GIFTS.
Prefects of Intrinsic value may be found at
EDWIN HALL'S,
No. 28 SOUTH SEOOND STKEET,
IN
rich black silks,
kk;h colored stlks,
splendid evening 8ilks.
Tbe latest style i cf DREoS GOODS at very low prices.
Silk Cloaking Velvets,
BILK PLUSHFS,
BhOCHE SHAWLS,
BLANKET SHAWLS,
VKLVKrKENc?
ASTRA CHAN CLOTIIS, CARACULLA CLOTHS,'
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JOTJV1N KIH GLOVES, CLOTH GLOVES, LINEN
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ROMAN 8ASI1KS AND SCARFS.
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POINT AM) VALENCIENNES LACK COLLARS
AND HANDKERCHIEFS.
LINEN AND LACK SETS, APPLIQUE AND VA-
I.KNctENNES.
LACKS, EDWItSUS. INSKRTfNGS, Etc.
UOOr SKIRTS AND CORSETS.
The above poods have been selected with great
care, and will be sold at the lowest rates.
J B mw83m4p EDWIN BALL.
H. STEEL & SON,
Nos. 713 and 715 N. TENTH Street,
Preparatory to making alterations,
HAVE DETERMINED TO CLOSE OUT
THEIR ENTIRE STOCK OF
Silks, Dress Goods,
Shawls, Velvets, Flushes,
VELVETEENS, HOSIERY,
WHITE GOODS,
AND KID GLOVES, FOR CAS11,
Without He gar d to Cost.
Our Etock Is new and choice, all purchased this
season ; some of it very suitable
For Holiday Presents.
VERY GREAT BARGAINS
Will be oil'ered, as onr entire stock
MUST BE BOLD
To make room for the workmen. I2 3 3t
BLACK SILKST"
AN ELEGANT ASSORTMENT NOW
OPEN AT THE LOWEST PRICES.
PERKINS & CO.,
9 South NINTH Street
9 13 tuths3m4p
PHILADELPHIA.
SILKAND WORSTED EMBROIDERIES
For Chairs, Cushions, Praying Stools, Slippers, Pin
Cushions, Etagercs, etc,
CAKTED SWISS UOODS,
A handsome and superior assortment.
A. J. IANDBR Ml CO.,
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12 3smwm PHILADELPHIA.
WATCHES, JEWELKY, ETC.
-EYJIS LADOMUS & c0
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WATOIK8, JEWELKY A BILVKU YiiHK
.WATCHES and JEWELBY REPAIRED, .
JOgChestnut St., rhUa-,
tVould Invite attention to their large stock of
Ladles' and Cents' Watches
Of American and foreign makers.
DIAMONDS In the newest styles or Settings.
LADILVand GENTS' CHAINS, sets of JEWELRY
of the latest styles, HAND AND CHAIN
BRACELETS, Etc. F o.
C ur stock has been largely lnoreased for the ap
proaching holidays, and new goods received daily.
Silver Ware of the latest designs In great variety,
for wedding presents.
Repairing done In the best manner and guaran-ed-
911 fmw
TOWER CLOCKS.
U. IV. HUSSEIN,
Bo. 22 NORTH SIXTH STREET,
Agent for ST EVENS' PATENT TOWER CLOCKS,
both Itemontoir it Graham Esoapement, striking
hour only, or Btriklng quarters, and repeating hour
ou full chime.
Estimates furnished on application either person
ally or by mail. 5 20
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Wholesale Dealers In
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Next session begins MONDAY, January 9, isn.
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PRFECTLY FITTING SHIRTS AND DRAWERS
made from measurement at very short notice.
All other article of GENTLEMEN'S DRESS
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BOARDING.
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AlbO, table boaxL 10 an
OARPETINQ8.
CARPETINGS.
UcCALLUH, CREASE & SLOA,
Ho. 509 CHESNUT Street
French Moq-uettes,
French Axminsters,
Crossley's 6-4 Velvets.
English Brussels.
Crossley's Tapestries,
Hall and Stair Carpetings
CARPETINGS
OP EVERY DESCRIPTION.
lowest rnxess.
McCALLUM, CREASE & SLOAN,
No. S09 CIIJGSnUT Street,
8 81 wfm3m rp Opposite Independence HalL
IIVVI .TATION.
citizens and strangers are cordially
Invited (either as purchasers or
visitors) to call and examine the
many new and handsome patterns of
Carpetlngs and Oil Cloths, of newly
arranged colorings, OF OUR OWN
IMPORTATION, In addition to a
great variety of goods of American
manufacture, executed in such a
manner as to gratify all Interested in
the progress or home production s.
REEVE L. KNIGHT & SON,
No. 1222 CHESNUT Street,
11 16 mwf tl 1 PHILADELPHIA.
723 cakpetings. 723
PEADODY & WESTON.
Successors to
E. XX. GODDIIALII & CO.,
No. 723 CHESNUT Street,
ARE OFFERING THEIR FALL IMPORTATIONS
OF
I'ngllsb Ilody llrussels,
Crosiiley's Tapestry ISruggels,
3-riys Ingrains,
Venetian Mtalr, Oil Cloths,
Mats, Slues, Mattingr, JUtc.IUc.
At moderate I'rlces.
We are offering a lsr?e line of CROSSLEY'S UNO.
LISH TAPESTRY RKUbSELS, AT LOW PRICES,
at the OLD STAND.
PEABODY & WESTON,
No. 723 CHESNUT STREET,
10 amw3mrp PHILADELPHIA,
CARPETINGS.
Axminster,
Velvets,
Brussels,
Tapestries,
Three-ply Ingrains,
Oil Cloths, Etc.
IEED0M, SHAW & STEWART,
No. 635 MARKET STRE2T,
9S0fmw2mrp PHILADELPHIA.
CLOTHS, CASSIMERE8, ETO.
Q L O T H HOUSE.
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HUOER,
No. 11 North SKCOftD Street,
mgn of the Golden Lamb,
Ate w receiving a large and splendid assortment
of new styles of
FANCY CASSIMERES
And standard makes of DOESKINS, CLOTHS and
COATINGS, 3 88 mwa
AT WHOLESALE AND RETAIL.
STOVES, RANGES, ETO.
rpilE AMERICAN STOVE AND HOLLOWWAR1
L COMPANY, PHILADELPHIA,
IRON FOUNDERS,
(Successors to Nirth. Chase & North, Sharpe A
Thomson, and Edgar L. Thomson,)
Manufacturers of STOVES, HEATERS, THOM
SON'S LONDON KITCHENER, TINNED, ENA
MELTED, AND TON HOLLOWWARE.
FOUNDRY, Second and Mifllio Streets.
CFFICE, 809 North Second Street.
FRANKLIN LAWRENCE, Superintendent.
EDMUND B. SMITH, Treasurer.
JNO. EDGAR THOMSON,
President. JAMES HOEY,
67 mwf 6m General Manager
QLD OAK8 CEMETERY COMPANY
OF PHILADELPHIA.
This Company Is prepared to sell lota, clear of all
encumbrances, on reasonable term. Purchasers can
see plans at the ofllce of the Company,
NO. 618 W'ALNUT STREET,
Or at the Cemetery, where all information needed
will be cheerfully given.
By giving notice at the office, carriages will meet
persons desirous of purchasing lots at Tioga Station1
on the Gerinantowa Railroad, and convey them to
the Cemetery and return, free of charge.
ALFRED C. HARMER, President.
MARTIN LANDENBERQER, Treaa.
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INSURANCE.
INSURANCE COMPANY
NORTH AMERICA.
JAHUART 1, 1979.
Incorporated 1794. Charter Perpetual.
CAT1TAL ..tOOO,000
ASSETS , ta,T8a,661
Looses paid since organization. 128,000,000
Receipts of Premiums, 18M 1,991,R3TM0
Interest from Investments, 169 114,698-74
2,10,R34-19
11,036,366-64
Losses paid, 1869
STATEMENT OF THE ASSETS.
First Mortgages on City Fropertv 1786,450
Lnlted States Government and other Loan
Bonds j us
Railroad, Bank and Canal Stocks.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'. ' r708
Cash In Bank and Office 947 620
Loans on Collateral Security ', 82'ftbS
Notes Receivable, mostly Marine Premium's 83K944
Accrued Interest so 3fT
Premiums In course of transmission..". ".'. M,w
Cnw;ttled Marine Premiums loo 900
Real Estate, Office of Company, Philadol- '
Phia ' 80,000
12,763,681
DIRECTORS.
Arthur G. Coffln.
Frnncls R. Cope,
Edward H. Trotter,
Edward 8. Clark,
T. Charlton Henry,
Alfred D. Jessnp,
Louis C. Madeira,
Charles W. Cushman,
Clement A. Gnscom,
Wllllnm Hrnntio
Samuel W. Jones,
John A. Brown,
Chnrles Tnvlor,
Ambrose White,
W llliam Welsh,
8. Morris Wain,
John Mason,
George L. Harrison,
ARTHUR G. COKKIN. lriBlrtnt.
CHARLES PLATT, Vice-President.
MiTTniAH MiBi8, Secretary.
C. U. Rheves, Assistant Sectetary. 1 4
1829. CUARTERRMTUAL, IgjQ
Franklin Fire Insurance Compani
OF PHILADELPHIA,
Office, Nob. 435 and437 CHESNUT St.
Assets Aug. I , '70$3f009,888"24
CAPITAL 1400 000-00
ACCRUED SURPLUS AND PREMJUMS.2,009;s38li4
INCOME FOR 1370, LOSSES PAID IN 1869.
810,000. 144,908-4a. '
JLottses paid since 1830 over
5.500,00Q.
Perpetual and Temporary Policies on Libera;
Terms.
The Company also lssnes policies upon the Renr
of all kinds of Buildings, Ground Rents, and Moi
gapes.
The "FRANKLIN" has no DISPUTED CLAIM.
DIRECTORS.
Alfred G. Baker.
Alfred Fltlor,
Thomas Sparks,
William b. Grant,
Thomas 8. Ellis,
rlnatnvna fa UanmH
Samuel Grant,
George W. Richards,
Isaac Lea,
George aiea,
AT.TMMTO fi R A If P I THux.in
T.MT.m ttEORGB FALES, Vice-President
JAMES W. MCALLISTER, Secretary. 3 19
THEODORE M. KEGER. Assistant Secretary.
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LEMUEL BANGS, President.
GEORGE ELLIOTT, Vice-Pres't and Sec'y.
EMORY McCLINTOCK, Actuary.
PENNSYLVANIA STATE AGENCY,
JAMES M. LONGACRE, Manager.
II. C. WOOD, JR., M. D., Medical Examiner.
Office, 302 WXNUT St., Philadelphia.
REV. 8. POWERS, Special Agent
JAMES M. LONGACRfi, General Agent,
5 23 mwfly No. 308 WALNUT Street, Philadelphia
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MERCHANDISE GENERALLY
From Loss by lire (in the City of Philadelphia only)
as8Kt.:januauy i, is7t,ti,5r4,7:j4
TKl'STEE.
William H. Hamilton,
John ORrrow,
George I. Yonsg,
Jos. R. Lyndall,
lvl V. (Ir.ata.
Charles P. Bower,
Jesse Llghtfoot,
Robert Shoemaker,
Peter Armbruster,
M. H. Dicbinann.
Samuel Sparhawk
Peter Williamson,
Joseph E. Schell.
WM. H. HAMILTON, President.
SAMUEL SPARHAWK, Vice-President
WILLIAM F. BUTLER,
Secretary
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This fompany, favorably known to the commn.
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DIRECTOKB-
Danlel Smith, Jr.,
Thomas Smith,
ueury Lewis,
J. Glllingham Fell,
Daniel lLidiim-k.
Thomim Robins,
John Devereux,
Franklin A. Comlv.
DANIEL SMIlu, jB., President
Wm, G. Cbowjxl, SecreUry. 290
JpAME INSURANCE COMPANY
No. 809 CHESNUT Street
IKC0BF0RATEO 1666. CUARTKB PKKPKTDAL.
CAPITAL J200,000.
FIRE INSURANCE EXCLUSIVELY.
Insurance against Loss or Damage by Fire either by
Perpetual or Temporary Policies.
DIKStlXJKS.
Charlea Richardson,
William II. Rhawn,
William M. Seyfert,
John F. Smith,
Nathan Utiles.
Robert Pearce.
John Kessler, Jr.,
Edward B. Orne,
Charles Stokes.
John W. Evennan,
Mordecai Bnzbv.
George A. West,
CHARLES RICHARDSON. President
WILLIAM U. RHAWN. Vice-President
Williams L Blancoahd Secretary. 1 tit
THE KNTERPRI8B INSURANCE CO. OF
PHILADELPHIA.
Office S. W. cor. FOURTH and WALNUT Streets.
FIRE INSURANCE EXCLUSIVELY.
PERPETUAL AND TERM POLICIES lrJ3UBO.
CASH Capital (paid up in full) t2O0.0oos)O
CASH Assets, October, 1670 68L139-13
DIRECTORS.
F. Ratchford Starr, i J. Livingston Errtnger,
Naibro Frazier, (James L. Claghorn,
John M. Atwood, , Win, G. Boulton,
BcnJ. T. Tredick. Charles Wheeler,
George II. Stuart, Thomas U. Moutgomer
John II. Browu, James M. Aertseu.
F. RATCHFORD STARR, ITesident
THOMA II. MONTGOMERY, Vice-President
ALEX. W. WISTEK, Secretary.
JACOB E. PETERSON. Assistant Secretary.
JMPEIUAL FIRE INSURANCE CO.,
LOHDOH.
EWTABIJMIIED 10.
Pftl!-op Oapital and AocutaUMd Fonda,
8,000,000 IN GOLD.
PREV08T & HEURIN.G, Agenta,
4 Ho. 107 B. THIRD BttMt, PbildalphU.
Oil AS. M. PBKVOof OH AH. P. HCRRIBS
MATS AND OAPI,
Tf WABBURTON IMPROVED VENTILATED
U and eay-tltting DRESS HATS (patented), iu ail
tLe improved fashions of the aeasua. CHESNUT
feuect, uit door u the Post vxut. rpt
SHIPPINU.
fffiPfci LOR1LLARD STEAMSHIP OOMFAMI
yon. hew Tonu,
BAILING EVERY TUESDAY, THURSDAY. AND
SATURDAY. '
RATES TEN CENTS PER 100 POUNDS. FOUR
CENT PER Ul'BIC FOOT, ONE CENT PER
GALLON, SHIP'S OPTION.
INSURANCE BY THIS LINE ONE-EIGHTH OF
ONE PER CENT.
Extra rates on small packages iron, metals, etc.
No receipt or bill of lading signed for lesa than
Bfty cents. ,
Oonds forwarded to all points free of commissions.
Through bills of lading given to Wilmington, N. V .
oy the steamers of this line leaving New York tri
weekly.. For further particulars apply to
JOHN F. Onts
TIER 19 NOKTH WHARVES.
N. B.-The regular shippers by this line will be
charged the above rates all winter.
Winter rates commence December IB. a 8 f
THE REGULAR STEAMS HIPSON THE PHI
LADKLPHIA AND CHARLESTON STEAM.
SHIP LINK are ALONE authorized to Issue throusB
ollls of ladlrg to toterlor points South and West la
connection with South Carolina Railroad Company.
ALFRED L. TYLER,
Vice-President So. C RR. Co.
PHILADELPHIA AND SOUTHERN
CakTkmimoniuly llnh TO NSWOii
Tb JUNIATA will .ail for New Orleant, via Havana.
or trtdav. Kecemfoer Iti. at 8 A. M. "th,
lli,1,YA'0S "'".",""" ew Orleana, via Havana,
on Tlmrnday, December 16.
TUKOUOU BILLS Ob LADING at ae low rates u b.
anjotber route jrWen to Mohtle, Gulvpxton. INDIAN
OLA, ROCK PORT, LAVAUUA, and BK itAs.and to all
points on tbe Mifwinaippl ri.ei between New Orleani and
fct. 1-oni. Hod Ki.er Insight, raeaippw) at New Orleant
without charge of oemmiasiona.
JWKr.KI.Y UNE TO SAVANNAH. OA.
Th WYOMING will aail ior Sa.annan on Hatotdav.
Deremhnr lu at S A. M.
The TON AW AN 1A will sail from Sa.annaa on Satur
day, December 10.
-12LIi,J0,J(ilJ BAUJS OF LADINQglTent-oall tb.pr1n.
yipal towns In Georgia, Alabama, (lorida, Mismawnpi.
h,.aIi' AJk'l1"'!f J,T,nn, in connection witlj
ne Central Railroad of Georgia, Atlnntic and Golf Kail,
roadand i lorida eteamera, at aa low ratea aa boompoting
SEMI-MONTHLY LINK TO WILMINGTON If O
Th. PIONHKR will aail for W tampon on TW.da.
December IS, at tt A. M. Retmning. wUl lea,. W?K
ton batnrdaT. Decnmbpr 20.
Connects with the Uie Fear Hirer Steamboat Com.
panr, the V ilmin ton and Weldon and North Carolina
Railroads, and the Wilmington and Manoheater Railroad
to all interior point.
Freight, for Columbia, S. O., and Angnnta, Ga., taken
Via vt llmington, at a. low rates at b auf other rotite.
Insurance effected when requested by shippers. Bill.
tl Ullin limwl t tln..n Urul h..l V . V
l wu wi miuii oaf
WILLIAM T. .TAMITfl n.n...t a .
15
No. 180 South TUIKD btreei.
FOR LIVERPOOL
AND QUEENS-
.TOWN. Inman Line
Of Roval Mall
Steamers are appointed to sail as follow
City of Washington, Saturday, Dec. in, at 2 P. M
Citjro Baltimore, via Huilfax, Tuesday, Dec 18,
City of 'raris, Saturday, Dec. 17. at 1 P. M.
City of Loudon. Saturdav, Dec. 84. at T A. M. v
and each succeeding Saturday and alternate Tues
day, from pier No. 4fi North river.
RATES OF PASSAGE.
Payahle in gold. Payable in currencv.
First Cabin 70, Steerage , . 1 3
To Londen.. 0
To Paris o
To. Halifax 90
To London 85
To Paris as
To Halifax io
Passeneers also forwarded to nnvrn.
Bremen, eta, at reduced rates. "
Tickets can be bought here at moderate rates by
persons wishing to send for tnelr friends.
For further Information apply at tbe company's
office.
JOHN G. DALE, Agent, No. IB Broadway, N. Y. !
Or to O'DONNELL & FAULK, Agents.
6 No. 402 CHESNUT Street. Philadelphia.
PHILADELPHIA, RICHMOND
MMMiteND NORFOLK HTKAUKHIP Mn.
THROUGH FREIGHT AIR LINK TO TUM SOUTH
INURKASKD FA0ILITIK8 AND REDUCED RATES
.B.t?nlerJeT,M8Ter WKDN K.SDA Y and 8ATURDAY.
fcMH,0'0'0'' Dooa troal FIRST WHARF above MAfc
j.p.m Htreet.
RKTL'KNING, learo RICHMOND MONDAYS and
THURSDAYS, and NORFOLK TUESDAYS and SA
Ne Bill of Lading- tigned after U o'clock on aallioa
Vri ROUGH RATF.S to all PoInU In North and Bontk
Carolina, ria Seaboard Air Lin Railroad, oonneotina- at
Portsmouth, aud to Lynchburg, Va., Tennessee, and tha
West, ria ith inia and Tennessee Air Line and Richmond
and Danville Railroad.
Freipbt HANDLED BUTONOK, and UkenatLOWEB
RATKH THAN ANY OTHKR LINK. "
No charge for conuuitaien, drayaga, or any eipente of
ranafer. ,
titeamshlpt Insure at lowest rates.
Freight received daily.
Btala Room accominodatlona for pasaanirert.
No. 12 8. WHARVES and Pier 1 N. WUARVKS.
W. P. PORTKR. Agent at Richmond and Oitr Point.
T. P. OROWKLL A CO.. Agents at Norfolk. 18
NEW EXPRESS LINE TO ALEX AN
lArin fjupnul.inn n .4 1 1T ..... . .
tD. C, via Chesapeake and Delaware
Cttual, with connections at Alexandria from tha
most, aireci route ior iyncnDurg, urlstoL Knoxvlile.
Nashville, Dalton, and the Southwest
Bteamers leave regularly every Saturday at noon
rorn the first wharf above Market street.
Freight received dally.
WILLIAM P. CLYDE 4 CO.,
No. 14 North and South WUA'RVES.
HYDE fc TYLER, Agents at Georgetown: K.
ELDRIDGE A CO., Agents at Alexandria. 61
FOR NEW YORK, VIA DELAWARE
and Rarltan Canal.
3d
JJkSWIFTSURE TRANSPORTATION
DESPATCH AND 8WIFTSURE LINES,
Leaving dally at 13 M. and 5 P. M.
The steam propellers of this company will com
nience loading on the 6th of March.
Through In twenty-four hours.
Goods forwarded to any point free of commission
Freights taken on accommodating terms.
Apply to
WILLIAM M. BAIRD tt CO., Agents,
4 No. 182 South DELAWARE Avenue.
FOR NEW YORK.
Via l ti a rtn and Iiw4rnw Vn 1
am i i ' ' . waaeniuuvat wmi ail A
'i )iH S rfl m PrnnttllAra nf tha llrt urill n.wvm.n.
loading on the 8th Instant, leaving dally as usuaL
THROUGH IN TWENTY-FOUR HOURS.
Goods forwaroed by all tbe lines going out of Ne
York, North, East, or West, free of commission.
Freights rec eived at low rates.
WILLIAM P. CLYDE A CO., Agents,
no. u o. dhuavv A-ius Avenue.
llAiULS AJAWU, Agent,
No. no WALL Street, New York.
145
9 w uELaWARE AND CUES A PEAK
LMrT8TKAM TXJWBOiT COMPANY
sfi i inTTtiABargfci towed between Philadelphia,
Baltimore, Havre-de-Grace, Delaware City, ana In
termedlate points.
WILLIAM P. CLYDE A CO., Agents.
Captain JOHN LAUOBLIN, Superintendent.
Otllce. No. 18 Sonth Wlarvea Vutiajidphln. 411j
OOROAQEi ETC.
WEAVER &. CO.,
UUPU MAmUrAH!IlLKB
AMD
ship ciiapiii.i:s.
No. ta North WATER Street and
No. W North WHARVES, Philadelphia.
KOPK AT LOWEST B08TON AND NET YOR
PRICES.
41
CORDAGE.
Manilla, Bltal and Tarred Cordage
At Lowest New York Prioes and Vreighla.
EDWIN II. FITI.KU Al. VO
Factory , TKBTB 8t. and OIHMANTOWI Aena.
Burs. No. W M WAT KB 8 i. and 33 S D OLA WAR
ATsnos.
4 H lira PHILADELPHIA,
SAXON GREEK
NEVER FADES.
8 lem
A LSXANDBH G. CATTKLL 4s CO.
t. PRODUCE COMMISSION MKrfCUANTB.
NU e NORTH WHARVES
AMD
NO. 81 NORTH WATBR 8TKKBT,
PUILAD4LPH1A.
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