THE DAILY EVENING TELEGRAPH PHILADELPHIA, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1871; AN AMERICAN DESPOTISM. An U'liimixd Vfw mt th Mlr' Trde fuUi mad Ita Werkl ..aje-The rBy ! Ita leader (he Warat aw Uaaa the Faca af taa The New York Jo'irnal of Commerce pub lishes in late issne the following article on the aubjut of the Trade Union to which oar Coal miners belong, and which has been the oansa of so much trouble. It is headed "The "Worst Tyranny on the Earth": "In a grand prize show of the Hrrwnies of all nttiont. America conld make an entry that wonld take the first medal. She has within her limits an oligarchy which for iron cruelty beats the worst system that any living em peror, czar, snltan, or chief dares impose on his subjects. The most despotio rulers of European, Asiatic or African countries hold the lives of their vassals cheap enough, but they do not Joouipel them to forego all work and starve. They leave them at least the poor privilege of labor, in order to keep tbeir miserable bodies and souls to gether. The wretches may be taxed as heavily as tbeir masters like, but out of the toil which tbey perform there is a residuum of clear gain in money or fruits of the earth with which they can sustain life. The Ameri can tyranny to which we refer is the Grand Council of tbe Coal Miners' Union of Penn sylvania. With a strange mockery of the awful truth, the Union is called the 'Work ingaien's Benevolent Association.' It was established with the free consent and bhd, until lately, the support of some hundred thousand men, not bad hearted, but mostly good and well-meaning persons, naturally sober and industrions, with wive s and children whom they devotedly love. But they are ignorant ignorant of their own true interests, iguorant of the com monest laws of trade, ignorant that other people have rights as well as themselves, ignorant of tbe far-reaching evil that they do out Ride of their own neighborhood and, being ignorant, of course they are bigoted, fanatical, cruel. These men elected a Grand Council of thirty-one, in whom they fool ishly vested all their power and all their rights, the oligarchy being chosen out of the miners who were most unreasonable, uncom promising, and ferocious toward all opposi tion, all critioism, all good advice. The worst form of government that the world ever sa is an oligarchy, and it matters not whether it was elected by a blind and iifatuated people, or by an assembly of aristocrats or republi cans, or whether it usurped its authority. The Grand Council of the thirty-one, deriving its power from one hundred thousand miners, has not belied the bad reputation which oligarchies have ever won in history. All questions conneoted with labor and strikes ate submitted to it, and its decisions are with out appeal, and must be obeyed without murmur. The simple miner who foolishly Toted to pat his liberty into its hands, my see his wife and children starve and g naked, the fire die out on his hearth, his own sturdy frame waste away to a skeleton, and his pnor heart be ready to break with despair, but he must not shoulder his pick and dig out a lump of coal for less than union prices. For this surrender of the privilege which other tyrants never touch the privilege of honest work for any wages he was promised to.be cared for by this pseudo-benevolent union. And so he is for a few short weeks, but the pinched dolings of aid soon cease, and he must then beg from door to door, or fly the ooantry, but must not work, and above all must not rebel or complain against the deorees of the Grand Council, under penalty of swift and sudden punishment. Fortunate it is for him if, before he has spent the last dollar of his accumulated savings, he leaves the coal regions. His riddance is always wel come to his associates of the Union, and a matter of congratulation with the Grand Council; for his departure gives those who stay behind a greater monopoly of labor, and the delusive promise of higher wages when work is resumed at the mines. We read that during the strike which has recently been 4on,' and rigidly enforced by the Grand Council, a large number of miners have prudently got away, and oome to New York, and, when able to pay their steerage passage, have gone to Europe to escape (be terrible decrees of the thirty-one men whom their own enormous folly con jured top like so many Frankensteins, to oppress and persecute themselves. All along he road hither they must have seen the de plorable evidences of the wide-spread injury which the Union was doing to persons not belonging to it as, for example, to citeasin gle case, at Elizabetbport, where three hun dred laborers customarily employed at the coal dockx, are ont of work and Heaven pity tbe man who in this hard winter, with no reserved means of subsistence, is thrown ont of employment! And if they strolled about tbe streets of this city, and looked into the tenements of the poor, and marked bow many went without ooal because the strike had put it up so high, or shivered over scanty fires built from cin ders fished ont of ash barrels or bits of wood picked n p in the streets, they would have had a realizing sense of what a coal strike means to others besides the fanatics who are directly engaged in it. These miners, flying in dismay from the soene of desolation which they huve oreated in Pennsylvania, are, we may suppose, cured of their union perverse ness by this time. And we are happy to hear, that a majority of the miners are. For it is announced that they have now starved them selves down to the point of resuming work on almost any terms that the companies may fix. At Wyoming Basin, it is said that they accept a reduction of thirty per oent. from tbe wages paid when they stopped. Thus ha coun ta Eass preoisely what we predioted, what has appened in all previous strikes, what will happen to the end of time. The great coal companies, relying on the sure allies of poverty and hunger, will always have it in tbeir power to beat any combination whioh the miners make among themselves, and no oligarchy of thirty-one, or any other number, unless they are as rich as the companies (ia which case they would be operators them selves, and as close-fisted as the companies are), can prevent every strike from so igno tniniously collapsing. Let ns hope, though we do not expect, that the old experience of the miners has now taught them tbe supreme absurdity of strikes, the worse than useless neea of unions, and the terrible tyranny of oligarchies." v General Butler has added 1500 to the fund for a new Methodist church In Gloucester, Massachusetts. The Boston Transcrivt savs: "The admin istrator of tbe estate of one of bur citizens, upon application for the life insurance due the de ceased from a company in another State, learned that the concern only received premiums, and uiu not pay losses. '1 be Mobile liegUter commends highly the charitable disposition of the neoule of that citv. and notes as an illustration the fact that a re cent beneut lor the Can't-get-away Club, which dirt to much good during the prevalence of the jelcw l.yer, produced very nearly fisoo. THE REBUS. The London Athenaum reviews as follows a work entitled "Basal Historique et Biblio graphic sur lea Rebus," by Octave Delepierre, which has just been published ia London by Trnbaer A Co.: Although Ticardy has the honor of being considered tbe birth-place of the Rebus, the thing itself, but without a name, was prac tised by the earliest, rudest people, who conveyed by material figures to the eye what they could not convey to the thought by words. The "serpent" has been a rebus from the days that young Time counted his birthdays by the sun. The same mode of con veying information has been adopted within living memory by governors in distant settle ments, who, by significant figures, have intelli gibly proclaimed that whites and blacks might live on friendly terms; that if one murdered the other, that one would certainly be hanged; and that general peace and plenty were better than the gibbet. The old Azteo Generals painted their despatches, and the whole ad vance of Cortez on Mexico was explained to the Cacique or Emperor in pictures. In China and in Egypt the rebus was largely used, for hieroglyphics are but rebuses under a finer name. In England facetious eoolesiaatical architects chronicled the doings and charac ters of chnroh dignitaries in many a group on tbe capitals of columns and tracery work of cathedral arches. Menage states that it is the name llebus which first came from Picardy. Certain younger mem bers of tbe law used to amuse themselves and the people of Amiens, in the Carnival season, by reciting in publio comio narratives and facetious satires, with equivocal expressions figured in a sort of hieroglyphic diagrams; and these were called "De rebus qua gerun fur," which may be taken for "The news of the day. " In these matters all the facts and topics of the day were discussed, and figured in the freest way that covert satire could find. A taste for the thing spread into most house holds of the land. Ji was applied to the best and basest purposes. . Just as flowers are the "rebus" by which sentiment finds utterance, so by figured images alone lovers wrote son nets to tbeir mistresses. People of impure tastes used then to express what could not be given in words. Other persons employed tbe rebus for mere amusement and the puzzling of tbeir fellows. Camden tells us all that is known about the importation of the rebus from France into Eugland. We learn from him that our English forefathers who followed Edward the Third in his vic torious progress through France fell into the humor as they found it- over the Channel. Tbe rebus came over tbe Straits from Calais "full sail, and was so entertained here by all degrees, by the learned and the unlearned, that there was nobody who could not hammer out of his name an invention by this wit-craft, and picture it accordingly. Whereupon, who did not busy his brains to hammer his device out of this forge?" Like Mr. Newberry, who to represent his name hung up a shield at his door, on which was painted a yew-tree with several berries, with a golden N in the middle, all of which was tbe rebus for N-ew-berry. Camden also tells of the ingenuity of a lover who loved a certain Rosa Hill. He wore em broidered on his coat a rose, a hill, an eye, a loaf, and a well, which signified "Rosa Hill I love well." M. Delepierre may be referred to the quaint old writer, Peauham, who, writing in the time of James the First, pleasantly alludes to armorial bearings in painted glass windows, and the painted or carved rabHses under which persons chose to signify tneir names, lie cites, among other examples of bad taste to be seen painted in gentlemen's halls, parlors, or books, the rebus of Master Lngee, a nightingale in a bush, with a scroll in her mouth on which was written, in imita tion of the bird's note, "lugge! lngge!" One Master Foxcraft had painted in his rooms a fox feigning to be dead, as be lay npon the ice, amid a oompany of unsuspecting ducks and goslings, reacnam mercifully suppresses the nameof a churchwarden of St. Martin's in the Fields, who caused to be engraved on the church communion cup a martin sitting upon a mole mil between two trees, to Indicate the name of the parish. "It is," says Peaoham, "there yet to be seen npon the communion cup. , M. Delepierre admits into the family of llebus such sound for sense as the following: "li. A. O. O. B. I. A. Li. N., which reads, "Jiit assez obei a llelene. He has over looked one of the cleverest of these Uborions trifles, the lines on the death of the famous Maurice, Marecbal de Saxe, at the age of fifty-five years. In these lines eaoh last sylla ble has the Bound of a number, and the total of the numbers amounts to fifty-five. It is only to be regretted that the lines are, for the most part, more ingenious than deoent. The French are clever at such things. In 1818 me following (winch is not In M. Delepierre s book; served to convey a censure on the Gov ernment. It professed to Dortrav the condi tion of France in that year: Le people Franoais est , D. K. D. Les places fortes sont O. Q. P. Quarantre-trois Departenienta C. D. Le Roi n'est pas M. E. Les Ministres sont A. I. Les Paris : E. B. T, Les Deputes II. T, La Dette Rationale O. C. Le Credit B. C, La Liberte de la Presse O. T, LaCharte .....L. U. D M. Delepierre dates the deoline of the rebus in England from the time that tavern signs adopted tbe device. This is perhaps ques tionable. The fashion, however, is certain, We still have the Bolt in Tun, the rebus of Prior Bolton, and the Bull and Month, whioh was once the hieroglyphic for Boulogne mouth or harbor. Men with names of animals or things took them for their signs. It is just possible that the rebus in heraldry went out in disgust when it came to be employed in tavern signs. The old ones remain, unless the families have gone out with them. The French De Crequis still adopt the Crequier, old French for "cherry tree, for their crest, How common this canting heraldry was in England in centuries when heralds spoke "non verbis ted rtbits" the reader may learn by referring to Mr. Boutell's well-known work, "Heraldry, Historical and Popular." Holmes' Ilole is hereafter to be known as Vineyard Haven. San Francisco has an Ornithological and Piscatorial I ecllmatlaatlon Bocietr. It is prob ably intended partly to promote the Bale of dic tionaries. There are two brothers, twins, living In a Massachusetts town at the age of seventy-eight years, who learned tbe house carpenter s trade together, married Bitters, and have always lived together. A paper recorded In Lowell, Mass., leasing certain premises to a lady during the term of her natural life, provides that she shall pay a certain rent yearly, and shall quit and deliver np "the premises to the lessor, or her attorney, peaceably and quietly at the end of tbe term. Tbe largest number of books taken from ' tbe HoEtcn I'u'.lic Library in atiy oae day urn wv. 711 E no USE OF BO URBON. If length of descent is a thins to be proud of. here ought to be no proa Jer family in r, rope man mat oi ineiJoarbon. .notoniy o,ti they trace a line unbroken to Hugh i "jet, tne strong-banded putter-down of a degenerate dynasty, but it leads through thirty generations of kings, interrupted here and there, where a stream breaks off. to run through banks studded with cuttles of honor only just snort or royal. Hugh Capet is the first. From him the line runs un interruptedly till we come to Louis IX, the Saint. Tbe direct trunk here carries on the race of kings, which terminated in the children of Philip the Fair, and gave place to the House of Yalois. After their failure of male issue, the Bourbons oome in. Robert, sixth Bon of Louis the IX, married Beatrix, heiress of that noble fief of Bour bon which lay in the centre of France, north of Auvergne and Guienne. From him sprang eight Dukes of Bourbon a stalwart, hard fisted race, who were ever to the fore when fighting was going on, and always loyal to the crown, in good times and bad. Antoine de Bourbon a poor, irresolute creature, "tne prince tans aunre. who never knew which side he was fighting for, nor which religion he belonged to had the great good luck to marry Jeanne d' Alb ret, daugh ter to the King of Navarre and his wife. Margaret of Valois. By great luck still, he bad for an only son the j oiliest, if not greatest, of French kings their fourth Henry whose snccessioi put the Bour bon family, for the Lrst time, on the throne of France. His claims were three fold. Through his father, be sprang direct from Louis IX; through his mother, from Charles V; and through bis maternal great grandfather, from Louis X. In the next generation but one, tbe raoe splits up again. The brother of Louis XIV, the Duke of Or leans, was the first of the Orleans branch, which now survives in tbe children and grandchildren of Louis Philippe. The representative of the direct line is the Count de Cbambord, who is now fifty years of age, and has been long married, without chil dren. He is supported by a very small fol lowing in France, who adhere to him from principle, and who will transfer their alle giance to the Orleans family as soon as he is ont of the way. From time to time he puts his name to a document, whioh is drawn up and published to let people know he is still alive, and their king by . divine right; and it may very reasonably be supposed that he has long since given np all hopes of succeeding to the crown. He seems to have inherited that characteV whioh is occasionally reproduced in the Bourbon family, of whioh the type is the indecisive and vacillating Antoine de Bourbon, father of Henry IV. Such was Louis XIII: such Louis the Dauphin; such Louis XVI. Their energy and bravery are dashed by a fatal hesitation; they dare, but they think too long about daring; they resolve, but too late; they act, when the time for action is past. One word on the Orleans family. Thay began, as has been said, with the brother of Lonis XIV. He chiefly distinguished himself by trying to spoil the grand old castle of Blois. Three more dukes followed him, in cluding that prince of debauchery, the regent. And then we oome to Philippe Egalite, the father of Louie Philippe. This family, whioh has been in exile for twenty-two years, has shown how adversity may be borne without loss of dignity. They have been guilty of no conspiracies and no intrigues. Probably their conduct has never excited a single suspicion in the breast of the Emperor. - They have spent their time in travel, in study, in writ ing; and they have shown that, in intellect at least, there is one branch of the graqd old house which is still ready to go to the front. Appkton'8 Journal. ERIE MISMANAGEMENT. Employe Unpaid nod Uemrnllzd-I7aiirers at W ark The Had Knito. mt Plait te lie. About a year ago the Erie Railway Company effected a settlement with the "strikers" along the line by promising that all employes should receive between tbe 12th and 15th of each mouth their wages for tbe previous month. These promises have not been fulfilled in a single in stance, and pay-day has been deferred month after month, until, in many cases, the company owed from CO to 90 days' wages. It requires more than $100,000 a mouth to pay employes on the Eastern Division alone; and this large amount being withheld from 30 to 60 days after it is due cautes much suffering In hundreds of families. Beginning at Jersey City, the employes are paid in the following order: Discharged meo, engineers, firemen, conductors, brakemeu, clerks, machinists, and laborers. The pay mis ter then proceeds to the various statioua and Jiays agents, operators, clerks, mechanics, and a borers, until the end of the division is reached. The trip occupies from three weeks to a month. Thus It will be seen that the most destitute re ceive tbeir wages last. Many of the laborers are improvident, and spend their wages uot only before they are received, but before they aro earned. These men are always in debt to their landlord, grocer, or butcher, aud when the Erie Company falls to pay, these are the ones who are most distressed. A haggard, squalid looking woman applied not many days since J to a Jersey City grocer for provlblous, but was refused be cause of an indebtedness already incurred. Her debt amounted to t'J 67, while the Erie owed Ler husband nearly 100 la fact, so great is the distrust lu regard to the Erie Company and its employes, that- many tradesmen inva riably refuse to credit any person who is de pendent upon that corporation for money to pay his debts. It is therefore very ditfluult for an Erie employe to obtain even the common necessaries of life. A number of speculators along the line are engaged in the disreputable business of buying np tbe men's pav rolls at a discouut. It Is asserted that a "ring" has been formed for this purpose, aud that it receives the encouragement of the Erie managers. From 3 to 10 per cent, a month is charged by these Shy locks. About the first of each month, many of the employes receive vouchers for the previous month s wages. These are sold to whomsoever will buy. A banking corporation in Port Jen is purchases, at a discount of 3 per cent., from 110,000 to tl5.000 worth per month. The vouchers are redeemed, by representatives of the com pan p, on or about the 10th of each month, when, it is said, the commission ia divided, Such a state or anairs contributes largely to the demoralization of the force em ployed an the road, and creates intense dissatis faction. It is reasonable to suppose that any prudent corporation would endeavor to break np this usury system, but the Erie seems rather to lend its influence to perpetuate it. For several years pant an Krle Railway clerk at Jersey City has carried on a thriving business in lend ing money to unfortunate employes at the ruinous rate of ten per cent, for one month or lees. Sometimes it happens that the borrower requires the money for a week or ten days only, but the ten Der cent, is invailably exacted. Tue extortioner is protected by the privilege of de ducting from tbe pay of an employe the fall amount of principal and usury. The Indigent tiers, toe aesuuue laoorer, tuo uioirooocu uus band of an Invalid wife, the poverty-stricken father of a dries: child, and tbe care-worn parent of a starving family, all appeal to the extortioner lor temporary reuei, ana none are refused. A''. Y. Tribum to-day. Tbe Democrats of New Hampshire have laueu lo tbeir enorts to persuade tne Lioor ne fciu.us to withdraw their candidate for Gjv ercor, and vote for the Democratic nominee. A STRAKOE MALADY. Tke Spatted Ftver la Ncfcoaarle Caantv, N. Y. 1 Le Rochester JCrprett of a recent date says: "A strange malady, known as the spotted ftver, broke out about tbree weeks ago in Scho harie county, and has produced tbe most fearful ravages. An exchange states that la Gallup vllle. which has a population of less than eight hundred, 11 ere have been eighty-three deaths in three weeks. An equal death rate in Albany would amount to four thousand two hundred and ten, while in New York It wonld be fifty two thousand deaths In three weeks, the pre sent death rate of New York being nearly tlx hundred per week. Th9 mortality of Gallupvllle for tbe past three weeks is without precedent In tbe history of tbe country. Of those attacked only one bas yet recovered. Tbe disease Is spreading. One of the physicians ii Scbobarle reports one thousand two hundred cases as now existing in a district of less than ten square miles. The disease thus far only attacks women and children. Only one man has yet died, a Mr. Black. The doctors are much divided as te the cause of tbe terrible dis ease. The raoft ot them attribute It to a ftrange vegetable matter in the water, the wells being lower than ever known before. They recomrrend that the water be boiled before using, as the best and only way to arrest the spread of the disease. Tbe fever commences w iih pain the bead, and extends down the spine, accompanied with vomiting. The tongue blackens, and tbe face, from forehead dovn below tbe eyes, assumes a dark color, with pur ple spots. Ihe patients are delirious most of the time, and to remain until death ensues, which la about in three days. Tbe fever has produced a perfect panic in the Infected district, making it difllcult to obtain nurses or people to lay out those who die. The worst visitation of the cholera Is as nothing compared with the excite ment now existing In Sehoharie county." LEOAL NOTICES. DISTRICT CODRT OF THE UNTTKD STATES KCK TUE EASTEKN P1STHIOT Olf PKNN 8XLVANIA. IN BANKRUPTCY. In the matter of CHAKLE3 FELDSTEIN, Bank rupt. K A STERN DISTRICT OF FJKIXNSYLVA N1A, SS.: A warrant In bankruptcy has been issued by said Court airaiDBt the estate of OUAKLK3 FttLDSf Ultf, rtnlHdelpliia, of the county of Philadelphia ana fctate of Pennsylvania, In said district, who has been duly adjudged bankrupt, upon petition of his credi tor, and tne payment or any aeots ana tne delivery of any property belonging to said bankrupt to bttn or to his nsp. and the transfer of anv nroDertv hv nlm, are forbidden by law. A meeting of the credi tors of said bankrupt to prove their debts and choose one or more assignees of his estate, will be held at a conrtor bankruptcy to De noiaen at wo. 3 south THIRD Street, Philadelphia, in said district, on the 8BVKNT1I day of March A. I). 1871, at 4 o'clock P. at the ortice of JAMES PARSONS, Ksq., oneof the Registers In Bankruptcy In said district. 2 14 cod 13 T U. S. Marshal for said l istrlct DEPARTMENT OF HIGHWAYS. OFFICE OF CHIEF COMMISSIONER, No. 104 SOUTH FIFTH STREET. Philadelphia, Feb. 6, 1871. NOTICE. In accordance with the provisions of an Ordi nance of Councils, approved April 24, 1808, no tice is hereby ulven that the nnal estimate lor the construction of the sewer on North College avenue will bo paid MARCH 6, 1871. All per sons having claims for labor done or materials furnibhed for said sewer are requested to pre sent the same for payment on or before 12 o'clock M. of MARCH 6, 1871. MA11LON II. DICKINSON, 2 8 wmfM5 Chief Com'r ot Highways. rN THE ORPHANS' COURT FOR THB CITY L AND COUNTY OF PHILADELPHIA. ltate of FRANK DE HLVER, deceased. The Auditor appointed by the Court to audit, settle. and adjust the account of ATTAHESTA V. BAR CLAY, survivibg Executrix of the estate of FRANK D tlLVER. dee'd. and to report distribution of the balance In the hands of the Accountant, will meet the parties mien-area ior ine purpose or nis appoint- Ult?Ill UU X U 13 I'll 1) JIlBll'lf I, i3U, V 11 U UIUUK A. M., at his oillce, No. 717 WALNUT Street, in tne cuy oi rnuaueipiua. 3 24fmwfit Auditor. TN TTIE ORPITANS' COURT FOR TUE CITY X AND COUNTY OK PHILADELPHIA. Estate of COLLINS RIOG, deceased. The Auditor appointed by the Court to audit, settle, and adjust the second account of JOHN DAW SON and WILLIAM. DAWSON, exocutora of COLL11SU- R1GO, deceased, as to proceeds of sale of real estate of decedent, sold nnder proceedings in partition, ana to repair aisrnnuuon or t.ie u,t lance In the hands of the accountants, will meet the parties Interested for the purpose of his appointment on FRIDAY, March S, 1871, at 12 o'clock M , at his Otllce No. 131 S. FIFTH Street, In the city of rnuaaeipBia. mm w ot TN THE ORPHANS' COURT FOR THE CITY 1 AND COUNTY Olf PHILADELPHIA. Estate of MARY BOWMAN, deceased. The Auditor appointed by the Court to distribute the funds in the hands of the administrator of said estate among those who are entitled to the same, will meet tne parties interested for the our pose of his appointment, at his office, No. io wist WAHHiNHiow square, on fkiday, jnarcn a, isii, at o ciock r. iu. GEO. L. CRAWFORD, a 22 wfm 5t Auditor. T N THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS FOR THE 1 CITY AND COUNTY Olf PHILADELPHIA, Of June Term, 1370. No. 77. MARUAKET DOLRN, bv her next friend, et t.. vs. WILLIAM DOLKN. ToVtlLLIAM DOLKN, respondent:-Please take notice that the Court has granted a rule ou you to show cause why a divorce a vluculo matrimonii should not be dt creed In the above case. Return able SATURDAY, February 2a, i7i. at 10 o'clock A. M. xu n. f LtiiuuKit, 2 17 ftu4t Attorney for hhellant. GROCERIES. ETO. Choice Flew Crop Teas AT REDUCED PRICEa F1NKST OOLONG, JAPAS, AND YOUNQ HYSON TEAS, , Just received, which we now effer at a great re ductlon In prices, In half chests, 10 lo. boxes, and at man. Fine Old Mocha. Java, Laguaya, and Rio Coffees, at greatly reaucea pnet s. Owing to tbe late reduction In Government dutlea we can now offer to our customers a large assort ment of Fi RbT-CLAbS QUOuRRiES at low rates. WILLIAM KCLLEY, N. W. Corner T WELFTH Street and GLRARD Avenno, 11 10 tnstuS PHILADELPHIA. OORDAQE, ETO. CORDAGEZ. Manilla, Eiial and Tarred Cordage aiLewtHwTorkrriosaia4 Vrlxhta . EDWIN U. FITLEH CO Factorr, TKBTH Bt. and OBBMAJTTOWa AimtM. tor. Ho. IS WATXB Bt. and 22 H. DSLAWAB . Atanua, ll 12m PEULADSLFH2AI TOHN ft. LER fc CO., ROPE AND TWINS fj MAN! ran ikkmb, DBALEKS IN NAVAL STORES, ANCHORS AND CHAINH, BHIP CHANDLBHY GOODS, ETC., NCS. 46 and 48 NORTH W HAH VBIi 85 UOST. TOST. N OTIC P. APPLICATION HAS BEEN j made to the T. NICHOLAS OIL tOMPANY for ti e renewal or the loll jwlng lost certificates pf at ck In said company, vie. Certificate No. 1840, for 600 shares, and Certificates Nob. 1344, 1347, t349, and 13B0, each for loo shares. All In the name of the undersigned, and dated A rrll r( dtf 1 13V ' WILLIAM T. J0'JN30N. IN8URANOE. Fir. Inland, and Harine Intuxanci. INSURANCE COMPANY NORTH AMERICA, Incorporated 1794. ' CAPITAL $500,000 ASSETS January 1, 1871.. $3,050,536 Receipts of Premiums, to 2,09,lf34 Interests from Investments, 1S70.. 137,050 -11,233.904 Losses paid In 1870 $1,136,941 STATEMENT OF THB ASSETS. First Mortgages on Philadelphia City Pro- pljij tm,m United States Government Loans (Mn,9W Pennsylvania: State Loans 1A9.310 Philadelphia City Loans 800,000 New Jttcej -and other State Loans and City Bonds 226,010 Philadelphia and Reading Railroad Co., omer itauroaa Mortgage Bonos aud Loans BSS.9JK Philadelphia Bank aud other Stocks , S2,4se ( ash In Bank 881,04 Loans on Collateral Security 21.434 Notes receivable aud Marine Premiums unsettled 439.420 Accrued Interest and Premium in coarbe of transmission -83,201 Real estate, Office of the Company 3o,uoo . $3,000,536 Certificates of Insurance issued, payable tn London at the Counting House of Messrs. moWN, SHIP LEY & CO. ARTHUR O. COFFH, PBE3IDENT. CHARLES PLATT, VICE-PRESIDENT. ItlATTniAS MARIS, Secretary. C. H. HEEYEH, Assistant Secretary. DIRECTORS. ARTHUR O. COFFIN, SAMUEL W. JONES, JOHN A. BROWN, CHARLES TAYLOR, AMBROSE WHITE, WILLIAM WELSH, JOHN MASON. FRANCIS R. COPE, EDW. H. TROTTER, EDW. a CLARKE, T. CHARLTON HMNRY, LOUIS C. MADEIRA, GEORQE I HARRISON, CLEMENT A. GRISCOM, WILLIAM BROCKIB. 1 84 1829 CHARTER raRfflTUAL. igyi Fffltlii Fire Insurance Csapaaj 07 PHILADELPHIA. Office, Nob. 435 and 437 CHESNUT St. Assets Jan. I , ,7I1$3I087,452"35 CAPITAL i $400,000 -00 ACCRUED SURPLUS AND PREMJUMS.8,(W7I458 38 INCOME FOR I8T1, $1,200,000. LOSSES PAID IN 1870, Losses Paid Since 1820 Nearly S5G,UOO,000. The Assets of the "FRAN KLIN" are all Invested In solid securities (over $2,750,(i00 In First Bonds and Mortgages), which are all Interest bearloir and dividend paying. The Company holds no Bills Re ceivable taken for Insurances effected. Pernetual aud Temporary Poinies cn Liberal Terms. Tbe Company also issues polictes npon the ltenta or au tunus oi suuamgs, urouna Rents and Mortgages. DIRECTORS. Alfred G. Baker, Samuel Grant, George W. Richards, Iaaao Lea. Alfred Fltler, Thomas Sparks, William S. Grant, Thomas S. Ellis, Gustavua 8. Benson. George Fales, ALFRED G. BARER. President. GEORGE FALES, Vice-President. JAMES W. MCALLISTER. Secretary. (2 7td31 THMDOKHi m. KitottK, Assistant secretary. Men Mutual taaice Company OF PHILADELPHIA. INCORPORATED 1801. Eire, Mai ine, and Inland Insurance. Office, N. E. Cor. THIRD and WALNUT LOSSES PAID SINCE FORMATION, $7,000,000. ASSETS OF THE COMPANY, JANUARY 1, 1971, 5255,39789. RICHARD S. SSUTH, President. JU11N muss, secretary. 8 13 People's Fire Insurance Company, No. 514 WALK UT" Street. CHARTERED 1889. , Fire Insurance at LOWEST RATES consistent with security. Losses promptly adjusted and paid. NO UNPAID LOSSK& Assets December 81, 1870 $128,851-73 CHAS. K. BONS, President. OEO. BU8CH, Jr., Secretary. a 14 npHE PENNSYLVANIA KIRS IN8UHANCB Incorporated 182& Charter Peroetnal. No. 610 WALNUT Street, opposite independence square. This Company, favorably known to the comma nlty for over forty years, continues to Insure against loss or dam aire by Ore on Public or Private Build ings, either permanently or for a limited time. Also on rurmtorw, biocks oi uooao, ana AieronancubS generally, on libeial terms. Their Capital, together with a large Surplus Fund. Is Ui vested In the most careful mauner, which ena- bics-them to oner to tne lnsurea an undoubted seen rity la tne case of loss. DI&BCTOHS. Daniel Smith, Jr I Thomas Smith, Isaao Haelehurst, I Henry Lewis, Thomas Robins, I J. Glllingham Fell, . John Devereoz, I Daniel Haddock, Franklin A. Comly. DANIEL SMITH, Ja., President . WK. G. Cbowh.1 Secretary. M F AMI INSURANCE COMPANY No. 802 CHESNTJT Street. WOOBrOKATSD 1S50. CHARTS riKFSTDiX, CAPITAL $200,000. FIRE INSURANCE EXCLUSIVELY. Insurance against Loss or Damage by Fire either Perpetual or Temporary Pollolea. piaxcTOKs. Charles Richardson, Robert Pearce, William IL Khawn, . John Kessler, Jr., Jmiani M. Seyfert, Edward B. Orne, oha F. Smith, Charles Stokes. Nathan Utiles, - John W. Ever man, George A. West. Mordecal Buaby. , CHARLES RICHARDSON. President. WILLIAM IL KHAWN, Vice-President. Williams I. Blanohako Secretary. f fctf qpiiS ENTERPRISE INSURANCE CO. OT A fIUL.ADKL.rUlA. Office 8. W. cor, FOURTH and WALNUT Streets. B IRE INSURANCE EXCLUSIVELY. PERPETUAXi AND TERM POLICIES l.UTO CASH Capital (paid np In full) $)0.ooo-oO CASH Aasets, iWniuer 1,1870 $S00-888-S4 DIRECTORS. F. itatcnrora Starr, i J. wvingsron &rnuger, Naibro Frailer. James L. Ciaghorn, John M. Atwood, Benj. T. Tredick, George H. Stuart, Win. ii. rwmwju, Charles Wheeler. Thomas H. filontgomer James M. Aertsen, jonn m. Brown, w at4 in vi iRTi nTAKiu rreaiaeni. TUOMA U. MONTGOMERY, Vice-President ILZ1. W. WIliTLiL tiuoru'-arj. J ACOB E. PET'ERsOi, Assistant Secretary. iNtrjnANO&t: DELAWARE MUTUAL SAFETY INSURANCE COMPANY. Incorporated by the Legislature of Pennsylvania, 1836. Office 8. E. corner of TniRD and WALNUT Street, niiiBotMifuia, MARINE INSURANCES on Vessels, Cargo, and Freight to all parts of the , worio. , INLAND INSURANCES on Goods by river, canal, lake, and land carriage to FlftE INSURANCES on Merchandise generally ; on Stores, Dwellings, xiuuovn, vvut - ASSETS OF THE COMPANY, November 1, 18T0. $300,000 United states Six Per Cent Loan (lawful mone 1333,878 00 200,000 State of Pennsylvania Six Per Cent. Loan 214,000-00 200,000 City of Philadelphia Six Per tnt. Loan (exempt from Tax) 804,183 -CO 184,000 State of New Jersey Six Per Cent. Loan - 159,920-00 20,000 Pennsylvania Railroad First Mortgage Mx PerCt. Bonds. 20,70000 2B,000 Pennsylvania Railroad Second Mortgage Six Per Ct. Bonds. 23.250-00 25,000 Western Pennsylvania Rail road Mortgage SIX Per Cent. Bonds (.Pennsylvania Rail road guarantee) 90,000-00 80,000 State of Tennessee Five Per Ct Loan 18,000 00 7,000 State of Tennessee Six Per Ct. Loan 4,200-00 12,600 Pennsylvania Railroad t Com pany (2&o Shares Stock) 10,000-90 6,000 North Pennsylvania Railroad Company (100 Shares Stock). . 4,8000t 10,000 Philadelphia and Southern Mall Steamship Company (SOsh's Stock) 4,000-Ot 261,650 Loans on Bond and Mortgage, first liens on City Properties.. 28MW $1,260,160 Par. C'Bt, $1,264,447-84. M'kt Vl $1,293 MM RealKwUUj 6,0O9 Bills Receivable for Insur ances made 230,97 Balances due at Agencies Premiums on Marine Policies Accrued Interest and other debts due tbe Company 93,379 U Stock and f-crlp, etc , of sun dry corporations, $7960, esti mated value.. 8,9U-00 Cash - 149,911 73 , $1,820,727-97 DIRECTORS Thomas C. Hand, Samuel B. Stokes, William G. Boulton, Edward Darlington, . It. Jones Brooke, Edward Lafourcade, Jacott Rleo-fii. jonn c A-avis, Edmund A. Bonder. Joseph II. Seal, James Traqualr, Henry Sloan, Henry C. Dailett, Jr.,! James C. Hand, William C. Ludwlg, Hugh Craig, John D. Taylor, George W. Bernadon, Wm. C. HniiHton. Jacob P. Jones, james u. Mcrariand, Joshua P. Eyre, SDenoer Mcllvalna. Thomas P. Stotesbury, ovna a. sempie, riitao rg, H. Frank Robinson. Tl T UniHvan Plrt.t.ti.j. a. . t rger, ruisonrg, T1 ii t xt a rt t-t.T. . . . , JOHN C. DAVis, Vice-President. Fekky Ltlbdhn, Secretary. Hkwbt Ball, Assistant Secretary. 1 lim ASBURY LIFE INSURANCE CO. ft X3 W OAK. LEMUEL BANGS, President. GEORGE ELLIOTT. Vice-Pres'tandSec'y. EMORY McCLINTOCK, Actuary. JAMES M. LONG ACRE, MANAGER FOR PENNSYLVANIA AND DELAWARE, Office. 302 WfXaUT 8 1, Philadelphia. H. C. WOOD, Jr., Medical Examiner. 0 2smwflm REV. 8. POWERS, Special Agent. jpi IRE ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED MARCH IT, 1820, OFFICE, HO. 84 NORTH FIFTH STREET, TTJHTTR U BUILDINGS, HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE, jO MERCHANDISE GENERALLY Frem Loss by ore (in the City of Philadelphia only) ASSETS, JANUAHY. 1, 1S70, l.T0S,19 0y. TKCHTCBS. William H. Hamilton, John Oarrow, George L Youag, Jos. R. Lyndau, Tvl P. f InaUL Charles P. Bow w, Jesse Lightfoot. Robert Shoemaker, Peter Armbrnster, M. H. Dickinson, . fAtAr nrilllmiiann Samuel Bparhawk, joaepu a. Bcneil. WM. H. HAMILTON, President. SAMUEL BPARHAWK, Vice-President. WILLIAM F. BUTLER, Secretary JMPKRIAL FIRE INSURANCE CO.; LOHDOW. JESTABUMtlKD t&09. ' Paid-op Capital aad Aooamnlatxl Fonda, 68,000,000 IN GOLD. PREVOBT A HERRING, Agents, .46 Ro. 10T a THIRD Btraet, Philadelphia. OHA 8. M. FBBVQ8T OH AH. P. BlHltnW ENGINES. MaOHINEKY, KTO. tSlL. PENN STEAM ENGINE AND BOILER WORKS. NEAFIE LEVY, PRACTI CAL AND THEORETICAL ENGINEERS, MA CHINISTS. BOILER-MAKERS, BLACKSMITHS, and FOUNDERS, having for many years been In snccessfdl operation, and been exclusively engaged In building and repairing Marine and River BngineflL high and low pressure, Iron Boilers, Water Tanks, Propellera, etc. etc, respectfully offer their services) to the public as being fully prepared to contract for engines of all slaess, Marine, River, and Stationary j having seta of patterns of dilTeient sizes, are pro. pared to execute orders with quick despatch. Every description of pattern-making made at the shortest notice. High and Low Pressure Fine Tubular and Cylinder Boilers of the best Pennsylvania Charcoal Iron. Forgluga of all slie and kinds. Iron and Brass Castings of all descrlptiOBS. Roll Turning. icrew Cutting, and . all . other work connected with tbe above business. Drawings and speothcations for all work done tbe establishment free of charge, and work gua The subscribers have ample wharf dock -loom foe repairs of boats, where they can lie In perfect safety, and are provided with shears, blocks, falls, etc. etc., for raising heavy or light weights. JACOB C NEAFIE, A JOHN P. LEVY, I1M BEACH and PALMER Street. jptlRARD TUBE WORKS. AND IRON CO , PHILADELPHIA, PA., Manufacture Plain and Galvanised WROLGUT-1RON PIPE and Sundries for Gas aud Steam Fitters, Plumber Machinists, Railing Makers, OU lieflners, etc, WOKKS, TWENTY-THIRD AN l FILBERT STREETS. OFFICE AND WAREHOUSE, 81 No. 42 N. FIFTH STREET. ' PATENT. u NITED STATES PATENT OFFICE XU A Ot k siBWkW T Tan A1 vv noirwivn, ! v.j van AOl On thejpetltlon of UANIKLS. N1PPE3, of Upper Merlon Township, Pennsylvania, administrator of Albert S. Nippes, deceased, praying for the exten sion of a patent granted to the said Albert S. Nlpocs, on the 91st dsy of April, lt57, for an Improvement La blinding Saws: It Is ordered that the testimony In the ease ba closed on the 2lst day cf March next, that th time for filing arguments and the Examluer's report be limited to the gist day of March next, and that said petition be beard on the eth day of April next. Any person may oppose this extension. 210 0t Acting Commlaaloner of Paututs. ALEXANDER G. CATTHLL A CO., PRODUCE COMMISSION MKKOHANTIt, No, M NORTH WHARYEd AMD Wo. W NORTH W4TBR STREET, IMiUJLDSU'Hii- ALUAjoa a, cattuu Sluas OAmixj
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