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THE DAILY KEENING TELEGRAPH PHILADELPHIA, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 1, 1871.
orini? or txxij rnnno.
CdHorlal Opinions of the Leading Journal!
upon Current Toploa Compiled Every
Day for the Evening Telegraph.
TIIE MONOPOLY CENTRE.
From tht N. Y. World.
Where better than in Philadelphia slionld
the managers of monopoly meet in council ?
On its ideal hills rests the empire of protec
tion. There lives protection's pope, whose
infallibility is not questioned, although his
temporalities, mainly consisting of coal-mines
in Schnylkill, are obviously in clanger. There,
too, is the great railway corporation whose
grasp, if life and strength survive, seems des
tined to clntch the throat of the nation, and
whose rnin, if ruin it be, will create a vortex
whose destructive agitation will reach far
away. Nominally a Pennsylvania corpora
tionfor, unlike our Erie and its other broad
cauge connections, it owes no allegiance be
yond the limits of a single State it is
really a congeries of corporations, extending
from the Delaware far westward of the Mis
sissippi, and administered by a purely local
directory. But this is not all. If its
feelers, its long and extending line of leased
and subsidized corporations, and possibly
legislatures, were directed only westward,
there would be some semblance of policy and
economy in what it is doing and what it was
created to do to empty Western produce
into the lap of Philadelphia. But so paltry
an end docs not content the restless adven
turers who control this enterprise. They dis
claim the Union Pacino, the memory of
Oakes Ames being too fresh; but they have a
finger in one line of steamships to Japan and
guarantee the bonds of another to Liverpool.
And they are actually invading the
South! What possible legitimate ob
ject can a company, incorporated to
build a road from Philadelphia to
Pittsburg and nothing else, have in buying
tip or building a railroad from Aquia creek to
Richmond ? This is restless exorbitance with
a vengeance; and if we were to say or hint
that it and the feverish irritability which is
ehown at any attempt at diet or restraint were
eure signs of an approaching catastrophe, we
should not be far wrong. It won't do to say
that we, as New Yorkers, have no interest in
this. Ours is the interest to see the Penn
sylvania Railroad, giving ua the shortest line
to the West, a reasonable success. If it
chooses to waste its surplus means or borrow
more money in buying up New Jersey and
making Philadelphia a way station, the
greater is our interest. But above all has
this community an interest in averting a
financial catastrophe whose fearful eddies will
know no narrow limit. That such a catas
trophe will come unless the progress of this
sort of adventure be checked we firmly be
lieve. Let us look for a moment at this di
vergence into Virginia, and further South,
for it is to reach Georgia. From Aquia creek
to Richmond is a well-stocked, well-built road,
administered under a local charter. To seduce
this mature maiden was the first aim of the
Philadelphia Lotharios. They offered to
buy, and pay in bonds of their own, or in
those of others guaranteed by them. There
was no reluctance to sell, but an old-fashioned,
dogged, stupid sort of repugnance t o
take doubtful securities in payment. Such,
on full examination, they thought the Penn
sylvania bonds, or guarantee even, and the
scheme failed. Fot to be foiled, "Briareus"
(as the Press felicitously calls the company)
put one of its idle bands on an old charter
from Alexandria to Richmond, and with the
other ninety-nine, or as many as could be
spared from holding the Legislatures of
Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, and Georgia,
seized reconstructed Virginia at her capital.
She struggled, as Georgia had done before,
but in vain; and. as we are now advised, all
the needed legislation in that quarter has
been Becnred.
If uneasy lies the head which wears a crown,
manifestly disturbed and restless is the slum
ber of the corporation whose pillow is staffed
with many charters and through whose cur
tains glare the glances of many creditors.
Such is specially the case with this one, whose
bed its late annual report describes as all
thornless roses- At the annual meeting in
Philadelphia the patient showed feverish irri
tation. A gentleman of the highest social
standing, a former director, a stockholder
if not in his own right, as trustee for others
offered a resolution of common inquiry. All he
asked was "a clear and comprehensive bal
ance sheet of the company's liabilities aud
assets." Great was the wrath thereat. The
directors felt themselves insulted by this
mean, business-like suggestion. It was ask
ing Lord Avondale for his marriage certifi
cate, or Daniel McFarland cross-examining
Mr. Beecher; and the result was that, while
the directory was dumbfounded by the sacri
lege, their solicitor, the paid advoevte of the
corporation, was put forward to suub aud
insult the recalcitrant stockholder; and he
did it thoroughly, saying that "it ws a sim
ple impertinence," and the directors and
their claqueurs cheered. Such things don't
happen even in this demoralized metropolis.
ft But what does all this prove? Strength,
stability, the consciousness of unimpaired
resources? Far, very far, from it. We have
more than once recalled, in warning, the
memory of the days of triumph and of woe
which we read of when another Pennsylvania
corporation a pigmy alonside of this domi
neered in its day of apparent strength, and
died in agony. Mr. Ilulme fared no worse
in this year of grace than did a government
director or a Jackson Democrat who dared
to ask a question in Philadelphia thirty years
ago. There is the same hollow laudation,
with one chosen specimen of which our words
of warning cease:
Here we have (says the JVm) a corporation,
Brlareut-like, holding within its Iron hand the
commerce of a continent, aud bringing to our very
doors the trade of the Orient. To-day there are
owned and operated by the company thirty-aix him
dred of miles of railroads tributary ta Philadelphia,
which cumber will be shortly increased by the exten
sion of the road to the Gulf of Mexico on the ioutii
and the Pacific Ocean on the Went."
Nothing is wanting but a service of plate.
"I have my suspicions," says a great searcher
into infirmity, "of testimonials. In my ex
perience of life I always feel shy about them,
and when a party gets one, somehow, look
out to hear of a htua&u up next month. Absit
omen! I say again."
FARM-WORK FOR WOMEN'.
From the N. Y. Tribune.
President Abbott of the Michigan Agricul
tural College states that the experiment of
admitting women to the institution has
proved in the highest degree successful.
'They study," he says, "botany, chemUtry,
horticulture, surveying, and other branched.
Their progress in study is exceptionally
rapid. Their work so far has been to prepare
seed for the ground, to transplant the lighter
plants, prune shrubbery," etc. Hera is a
career for all grades of women which has
common sene to commend it. There is no
reason why girls should not be taught scien
tific agriculture as well as boys, and made fit
to transact the head-work of a farm. Not
withstanding the inertness of the Southern
women, it has long been no nnoommon
thing to find them intelligent and
skilful planters. Some of the largest estates
in Virginia before the wax were under
the management of women; and in Ken
tucky, among the most suooessful stock
raisers, who amassed large fortunes by sales
to Government, were some half-dozen of the
fair but shrewd sex. These women obtained
their knowledge insensibly by home-training;
but it is certainly as easily acquired by study
as that of medicine or theology, and is surely
a more wholesome and safer work. A woman
may have a message from God to the world
to deliver or not. She may or may not have
the peculiar mental and physical skill to fit
her for a surgeon; but the ground is always
waiting to be tilled and seed to be planted.
Besides, if her crops fail, she alone is the
loser; she has tampered with the bodies and
Bonis only of turnips and potatoes.
The very lowest grades of farm work ought
to be open to women. There is a sort of
chivalrio horror in this country of a woman
doing field work, whereas the fact is that half
of the stout Irish and German women who
come here have been used to it at home, and,
with our own negro field hands, are among
the few healthy women in the country. The
soil is light; the instruments for lightening
labor are in general use. If half the women
starving in New York to-day over needle and
wash-tub were put at outdoor work in the
spring, they would find themsel ves better paid
for less actually exhausting labor, and in
stronger health than ever before in their lives.
Our social structure is crowded, stifled we
might say, with educated, idle young girls,
without work, or lovers, or enough
to eat, crying out, "What shall
we do to be Baved?" Ordinarily they
betake themselves to lecturing or writing, on
the hypothesis that because they want bread
and butter they are qualified to be the world's
teachers. A young man of their calibre, not
fancying that idleness or discontent could
anoint him with holy chrism, would go to a
trade and become a respectable carpenter or
blacksmith. These women, who fanoy suf
frage will give them healthier souls in
sounder bodies, could find both if they chose
in the skill, the head and hand-craft, the open
air, the softening contact with Nature of this
slighted farm-work. Many branches of it
seem only suitable for a woman's nicer eye
and defter fingers; the whole nursery busi
ness, from the care of seedlings, budding,
grafting, to the final labelling and sales; the
cultivation of the smaller fruits especially
the berries seed-farms, the planting and
sorting of herbs, all of which are the most
rapidly profitable divisions of agriculture,
are peculiarly fitted to women, and success
fully worked by them.
We especially urge this matter on women
with a small capital of two or three hundred
dollars, and a family often of boys depending
on tnem. bucn women crowd the cities; they
all invariably choose the same method of
starving, viz., penny shops, where they will
sell groceries or "trimmings," and come on
the town every winter as beggars, while their
children find the quickest road to perdition in
tne gutters. Xne wisest oourse for every
such woman is to go West, take the quarter
section of land waiting for her, and put the
common sense which teaches her to buy soap
and tape into the raising of oorn and pota
toes. Next best to that is the purchase of an
acre or two, say in New Jersey, where land
may be had on the railroads running into
New York for $50 and $75 per acre, and the
raising of truck for the city market. She may
not make a fortune, but she will fill her
hungry children's months, keep them in pure
air and pure influences, and give them a trade
for life without expense.
MR. DISRAELI AND WAR.
Prom the N. Y.Sttn.
Although the press of this country may
sometimes talk saucily and Congress vote
impudently where England is conoerned,
our venerable parent Has tne most palpable
assurances before her eyes that the United
States entertain no warlike intentions towards
her. We have disbanded our great armies,
and sent all the people who composed them
home to their work. In the arts of civili
zation which now engage them, such as rail
road building, farming, manufacturing, mer
chandising, and steamboating, these great
masses nave already begun to lor get that they
ever were soldiers; and any reminder of the
fact only serves to inspire expressions of
hatred and disgust for war, rather than any
desire to em bar k in it again.
Our navy has been sold and scattered to the
four corners of the earth, till we have only
enough good vessels left to serve as pleasure
yachts for our more puffy naval officials. Our
seaboard fortifications remain uncompleted,
and the most languid attention is paid to all
complaints of the indefensible condition of
our long line of seacoast. The whole course
of legislation since the close of the slave
holders' Rebellion has been directed to the end
of extinguishing our whole military and naval
establishments; and we undertake to say that
it would be difficult to point out a mode in
which this praiseworthy result could
have been more rapidly and thoroughly
accomplished than that we have employed.
Our army of a million has gone down to a
few squads, numbering perhaps 30,000 in all;
and these are no more than sufficient to do
police duty on our Indian frontier. Without
an army, without a navy, and most inade
quate coast defences, and not the slightest
effort anywhere to supply our deficiencies,
we think England must see and all the
world besides that of all things that the
United States are now anticipating, a foreign
war is the furthest from the publio thought.
If any evidence could establish the fact that
this country will not commence a Jwar with
any power unless it is first attacked, this
which we have now cited would seem to be
conclusive. We commend it to Mr. Disraeli's
attention, in the hope that it will allay his
nervousness. For from his late utterances, it
would appear that he thinks our wordy philip-
Eics and our Congressional indisoretions must
e the forerunner of hostilities between Eng
land and America.
For ourselves, we believe in nothing ef the
sort. And, notwithstanding Mr. Disraeli's
intimations, we do not believe England in
tends to wage war against ns with a view to
mend our manners, of which the Tory leader
so much complains. Thus we are not ruflled
at his observations, and shall refrain from
retorts so easily framed out of the Parlia
mentary reports of exultant malignity so often
manifested during the late joint contest of
the slaveholders and Mr. Disraeli's party in
Es&land to destroy the Government of the
United States.
There is an abiding conviction in the Ame
rican publio mind which tempers the wrath it
Las felt toward England for this grievous
offence. This is, that we have no need to
come to blows with her to secure the with
drawal of her nag from the American conti
nent. The growth and rapid expansion of
this country are so great as to make it palpable
to every observer that England eould not
successfully contend with ns for the protec
tion ef an acre of ground on the continent by
force of arm. That this belief is shared by
Her Majesty's Government, its whole line of
policy and course of conduct for the past fire
years strongly attest.
Fully recognizing this state of facts, the
American becomes placid in view of the
future, which he is generally in no indiscreet
baste to realize. Every day rapidly increases
the great disparity in the military power of
the two nations on this continent, and ren
ders more and more clear the coming event.
It is thus that our Uncle Samuel Is led to per
ceive the folly of thinking of any appeal to
arms to get rid of British power in America;
and so he sees his army dissolve and his navy
go to decay with composure, knowing it will
not perceptibly postpone the day of triumph
over British rule in America.
Senator Howard's late resolution offered in
the Senate, declaring that we should insist
on the cession of British America in the high
commission, was nothing but a buncombe
proceeding. That distinguished Senator re
tires on the fourth of March, and this was his
Parthian arrow. lie acts on the maxim of
Sir William Temple, that no man should
return home from publio service without
striving to have some good hits at his back
for bis constituents. But the resolution re
flects no considerate opinion in any quarter.
The questions of withdrawing the British
flag from Canada, and of the cession of that
country to the United States, are separate
and totally different questions. We might
ask for the former, nay, insist upon it, and
yet be a long way from annexation. Annex
ation involves the exercise of popular rights,
the right of the people) to choose their own
government; and it could only be accom
plished by the violation of our own most
highly-cherished theory of government, with
out the assent of the people themselves who
are to be annexed. As a government based
on repul licauprinciples, we cannot agree to a
barter and sale of provinces and people with
out reference to their own opinions and de
sires. Unpeopled territory we may aoquire;
but beyond this we may not go, except for
high reasons of state, such as do not now
attach to the acquisition of Canada.
This question must therefore be necessa
rily deferred to some future high commission,
to which Canada and the United States oan
alone be parties. It is an undercurrent which
involves a perception of this faot,- along with
the others we have referred to, that is the
true source of such utterances as Mr. Disra
eli's, and of a good deal more of the same
sort, as well as of sundry explanatory British
and Canadian criticisms on the aims, objects,
and powers of the commission soon to assem
ble. Its deliberations and conclusions will
involve a recognition of facts and anticipa
tions that Englishmen do not relish, and
would avoid, while they yet see they are in
evitable. This accounts for and must exouse
the irritabilities of which Mr. Disraeli's re
marks are an example. Aggravated by one
thing, they yet discourse angrily upon
another. Such is human nature.
WATCHED. JEWELRY, ETO.
VVUS LADOMUS & Cq7
l DIAMOND DEALERS A JEWELERS.
HI WATCHES, JSWELRY A SILYKIl WAKK.
WAT0HES and JEWELRY REPAIRED.
X102 Cfaeitnnt St., rhU,
Would Invite attention to their large stock of
Ladles' and Gents' Watches
Of American and foreign makers.
DIAMONDS in the newest styles of Settings.
LADIES' and GENTS' CHAINS, sets of JEWELRY
of the latest styles, BAND AND CHAIN
BRACELETS, Etc. Etc.
Our stock has been largely Increased for the ap
proaching holidays, and new goods received dally.
Sliver Ware of the latest designs In great variety,
for wedding presents.
Repairing done in the best manner and guaran
teed, s ii fmwS
TOWBR CLOCKS.
. W. UU8MGLL,
Ro. 22 NORTH SIXTH STREET,
Agent for STEVENS' PATENT TOWER CLOCKS,
both Remontolr & Graham Escapement, striking
hour only, or striking quarters, and repeating hour
on full chime.
Estimates furnished on application either person
ally or by mall, eao
WILLIAM B. WARNS CO..
Wholesale Dealers in
OX WATCHES, JEW ELK?, AND
Ulyl SILVER WARE,
First floor of No. 63a CUES NUT Street,
B. E. corner SEVENTH and CHESNUT Streets.
LOOKING QLASSE9, ETO.
for
LOOKINC-CLAS8E8,
RELIABLE AND CHEAP.
JAMES S. EABLE & SONS,
No. 816 CHESNUT STREET.
CLOTHS, CA88IMERES, ETO.
QLOTH HOU8B,
JAMES ft HUBBE3.
- Ifo. 11 Itortli SECOND Street
Sign of the Golden Lamb,
Ait w receiving a large and splendid aasortmen
of new styles of
FANOT 0ASSIMERE3
And standard makes of DOESKINS, CLOTHS ant
COATINGS, I ss mws
AT WHOLESALE AND RETAIL.
PATENT.
TTNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.
TAf A OY1 TV ntU-kW Tt 4"1 Tan Ol 10.1
On the petition of UANIBL S. NIPPES, of Upper
Merlon Township, Pennsylvania, administrator of
Albert b. Nippes, deceased, praying for the exten
sion oi parent Rrauteu 10 me aula Albert . JNlppes,
on the Slut day of April, 1S67, for an Improvement in
Grinding Saw.
It la ordered that the testimony In the case be
closed on the SUt day cf March next, that the
time for tiling arguments and the Examiner's report
be limited to the 8 1 at day of March next, and that
said petition ta neara on ttie eth day or April next.
Any person may oppose this extension.
SAMUEL A. DUNCAN,
S 10 SOt Acting Commissioner of Patents.
NATS AND OAPI.
rt WABBURTON'8 IMPROVED VENTILATED
and easy-flttlug OKKKS HATS (patented), in all
the Improved fashions of the fte&ton. CHESN U't
bueet, aexi aoor w ue rost umoe, rpf
FINANCIAL
Bowles Brothers & Co,.
PABIS, LONDON, BOSTON.
No. 1 9 WILLIAM Otreet
Now York,
ISSUE
Credits for Travellers
IN EUROPE.
Exchange oa Paili and the TJnio
Bank of London,
IN SUMS TO SUIT. UT8m
Q I T Y OF BALTIMORE.
11,200,000 six per cent. Bonds of the Western
Maryland Railroad Company, endorsed by the City
of Baltimore. The unden lgned Finance Committee
of the Western Maryland Railroad Company; offer
through the American Exchange National Bank
1,200,000 of the Bonds of the Western Maryland
Railroad Company, havlDg 30 years to ran, principal
and interest guaranteed by the city of Baltimore.
This endorsement having been authorized by an
act of the Legislature, and by ordinance of the
City Council, was submitted to and ratified by an
almost unanlmoQS vote of the people. As an addl.
tlonai security the city has provided a sinking fund of
$200,000 for the liquidation of this debt at maturity
An exhibit of the financial condition of city
shows that she has available and convertible assets
more than sufficient to pay her entire Indebtedness.
To investors looking for absolute seenrity no loan
offered In this market presents greater Inducements.
These bonds are offered at S7 and accrued Inte
rest, coupons payable January and July.
WILLIAM KEYSER,
JOHN K. LONG WELL,
MOSES WIESENFELD,
1 8 eott Finance Committee.
EDUCATIONAL.
JJARVABD UNIVEKSITY
CAMBRIDGE, MASS.,
Comprises the following Departments :
Harvard College, the University Lectures, Divinity
School, Law School, Me ileal School, Dental School,
Lawrence SclentlQo School, School of Mining and
Practical Geology, Buasey Institution (a School of
Agriculture and Horticulture), Botanic Garden, As
tronomical Observatory, Museum of Comparative
Zoology, Feabody Museum of Archaeology, Episcopal
Theological School.
The next academic year begins on September 23,
1871.
The first examination for admission to Harvard
College will begin June 19, at 8 A. M. The second
examination for admission to Harvard College, and
the examinations for admission to the Scientific
and Mining Schools,; will begin September 23. The
requisites for admission to the College have been
changed this year. There is now a mathematical
a'terhatlve for a portion of the classics. A circular
describing the new requisites and recent examina
tion papers will be mailed on application.
I NIVERS1T Y LECTURES Thirty-three courses
in 1870-71, of which twenty begin In the week Feb
ruary 12-19. These lectures are Intended for gradu
ates of colleges, teachers, and other competent
adults (men or women). A circular describing them
will be mailed on application.
THE LAW SCHOOL has been reorganized this
year. It has seven Instructors, and a library of
16,(00 volumes. A circular explains the new course
of study, the requisites for the degree, and the cost
of attending the school. The second half of the
year begins February 13.
For catalogues, circulars, or information, ad
dress J. W. HARRIS,
9 6 8m Secretary.
WASHINGTON COLLEGE
VIRGINIA,
GENERAL G. W. CUSTIS LEE, PRESIDENT,
WITH FOURTEEN PROFESSORS.
The Spring Term of the present season begins on
tne
FIRST OF FEBRUARY.
The rearrangement of classes then made enables
students to enter the several schools with advan
tage. Students entering at this time pay only half
rees.
All the ACADEMIC SCHOOLS of the College, as
well aa the Professional (Schools or law and EN
GINEERING, are in full operation.
For further Information, address
WILLIAM BOLD,
Clerk of Faculty, Lexington, va.
January 1, 1871. 1 17 w
JDGEHILL SCHOOL
MEHCHANTVILLB, N. J.,
Fonr Miles from Philadelphia.
The session commenced MONDAY, January 9,
1871.
For circulars apply to
8 91 ly Rev. T. W. CATTKLL
rpiIE REV. DR. WELLS'
BOARDING SCHOOL FOR LITTLE BOYS
From Six to Fourteen years of age. Address the
Rev. DR. WELLS,
8 28 tnth2m Andalusia, Pa.
MAPLEWOOD INSTITUTE FOR YOUNG
Ladies, PittaOeld, Mass. Long and widely
known for superior faciliuts and rare beauty of loca
tion. Board and English tuition, 1 10 for ba'f year,
commencing February ii. Special terms to cleiical
"patrons and teachtra,
8 16 lnit Key. C. V. SPEAR, Principal.
H. Y. ILAUDEKBACirS ACADEMY,
ASSEMBLY BUILDINGS,
A Primary, Preparatory, and FlniHhing School. Ad
dren Principal, HQ. 108 S. 1 KN'l'li St. illl Im
OUG MEN AND BOYS' ENGLISH AND
CLASSICAL INSTITUTE. No. 118 MT.
VERNON bUeet, Rev. JAMES U. SUINN, A. M,
Principal . 14 1 Iintu2ia
INSURANCE.
DELAWARE MUTUAL SAFETY INSURANCE
COMPANY. Incorporated by the Legislator
of Pennsylvania, 1830,
Office S. E. corner of THIRD and WALNUT Streets,
r inm'iciinni.
MARINE INSURANCES
on Vessels, Cargo, and Freight to all parts of the
worm.
INLAND INSURANCES
On Goods by river, canal, lake, and land carriage to
an pairs or tne union.
FIRE INSURANCES
oa Merchandise generally; on Stores, Dwellings,
nouses, etc
A8SETS OF TUB COMPANY,
November 1, 1870.
1300,000 United States Six Per Cent
Loan (lawful money) 1333,876 00
200,000 State of Pennsylvania Six Per
Cent. Loan !14,000'00
900,000 City of Philadelphia Six Per
Cent. Loan (exempt from
Tax) 804.182-50
184,000 State of New Jersey Six Per
Cent. Loan 169,920-00
20,000 Pennsylvania Railroad First
Mortgage Six Per CU Bonds. 80,700-00
85,000 Pennsylvania Railroad Second
Mortgage Six Per Ct. Bonds. 25,260-00
85,000 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
12,500 Pennsylvania Railroad Com
pany (260 Shares Stock) 15,000-00
6,000 North Pennsylvania Railroad
Company (100 Shares Stock) . . 4,300-Of
10,000 Philadelphia and Southern Mail
Steamship Company (SOsh's
Stock) 4,000-01
201,650 Loans on Bond and Mortgage,
first liens on City Properties.. 231,650-00
11,260,150 Par. C'St, 11,264,447-34. M'kt Vl 11,293-557 -00
Real Estate 56,000-50
Bills Receivable for Insur
ances made 830,971-27
Balances due at Agencies
Premiums on Marine Policies
Accrued Interest and other
debts dne the Company 93,375 40
Stock and tcrip, etc , of sun
dry corporations, 17950. esti
mated value 8,919-00
Cash 143,911-73
11,820,797-97
DIRECTORS
Thomas C. Hand, .Samuel E. Stokes,
I t T-X 1 .......
John C. Davis.
William O. Boulton.
Edmund A. Souder,
Joseph II. Seal,
James Traqualr,
Henry Sloan,
Henry C. Dallett, Jr.,;
James C. Hand,
William C. Ludwlg,
Hugh Craig,
John D. Taylor,
George W. Bernadon,
Wm. C. Houston.
Edward Darlington,
11. Jones Brooke,
Edward Lafourcade,
Jacob Rlegel,
Jacob P. Jones,
James B. McFarland.
JoBhua P. Eyre,
Spencer Mcllvalne,
Thomas P. Stotesbury,
John B. Semple, Plttsb rg,
a. a. tf rger, nttsourg,
D. T. Morgan. Pittsburg.
H. Frank Robinson,
irtumAs v. ii Ainu, rresiaem.
JOHN C. DAVIS, Vice-President.
Hkkrt Lvlbukn, Secretary.
llKNRT Ball, Assistant Secretary. 8 1 llm
LIFE INSURANCE CO.
REOT TTOItlX.
LEMUEL BANGS, President
GEORGE ELLIOTT, Vlce-Pres'tandSec'y-
EMOKI fllcCLIKTOQK, Actuary.
JAMES M. LONGACRE,
MANAGER FOR PENNSYLVANIA AND
DELAWARE,
Office, 302 WALHUT St, Philadelphia.
H. C. WOOD, Jr., Medical Examiner.
6 23 mwflm REV. S. POWERS, Special Agent.
Union Hal Insurance Company
OF PHILADELPHIA.
INCORPORATED 1801.
Fire, Mai in e, and Inland Iniaranco.
Office, N. . Cor. THIRD and WALNUT
LOSSES PAID SINCE FORMATION,
$7, 000,000.
ASSETS OF THE GOMPANF, JANUARY 1, 1871,
$255,39789.
RICHARD S. SMITH, President.
JOHN MOSS, Secretary. 9 13
People's Fire Insurance Coipany,
No. 514 WALNUT Street.
CHARTERED 1859.
Fire Insurance at LOWEST RATES consistent
with seenrity. Losses promptly adjusted and paid.
NO UNPAID LOSSES.
Assets December 81, 1870 1123,851-79
CHAS. E. BONN, President.
GEO. BU8CH, Jr., Secretary. sit;
F
;l R E ASSOCIATION
INCORPORATED MARCH 17, 1890.
OFFICE,
No. 84 NORTH FIFTH STREET,
INSURE
BUILDINGS, HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE, ANi
MERCHANDISE GENERALLY
Frem Loss by ore (In the City of Philadelphia only)
ASSETS. JANUARY. It 1STO, Sl.TOS.SlO 07
TRUSTEES.
"William H. Hamilton,
John Harrow,
George L Young,
Jos. Ii. LyndalL.
Levi P. Coata,
Charles P. Bower,
Jesse Llghtfoot.
Robert Shoemaker,
Peter Armbruater,
M. H. Dickinson.
Samuel eparuawx
Peter Williamson,
Joseph E. SchelL
WM. H. HAMILTON, President.
SAMUEL SPARHAWK, Vice-President.
WILLIAM 7. BUTLER,
Secretary
THE ENTERPRISE INSURANCE CO. OF
PHILADELPHIA.
Office B. W. cor, FOURTH and WALNUT Streets
FIRE INSURANCE EXCLUSIVELY.
PERPETUAL AND TERM POLICIES ISSUED.
CASH Capital (paid np In full) fsoo.ooo-oo
GASH Assets, Desember L 1870 1000-888-24
F. Ratchford Starr,
J. Llvinsrston Errlnirer.
NaiDro rrazier,
John M, Atwood,
BenJ. T. Tredlck,
George H. Stuart,
James L. Claghorn,
Wm. G. Boulton,
Charles Wheeler,
Thomas U. Montgomer
James M. Aertseu.
jonn ti. isrowa.
F. RATCHFORD STARR, President.
THOMA- H. MONTGOMERY, Vice-President.
ALEX. W. W1STER, Secretary.
JACOB B. PETERSON. Assistant Secretary.
F
AMB INSURANCE COMPANY
No. 80 CHESNUT Street
DiOOKrOBATID 1808. CBABTXS MariTCAL.
CAPITAL 1200,000.
FIRE INSURANCE EXCLUSIVELY.
Insurance against Loss or Damage by Fire either
Perpetual or Temporary Policies.
Charles Richardson,
PnKMl Pas a
WUiiam u. rtnawn,
J r llllam M. Seyfert,
oha F. Smith,
John Kesaler, Jr.,
Edward B. Orne,
Charles Stokea.
Nathan limes,
John W. Everman,
George A. West, J Mordecal Buaby.
WILLIAM 11. RHAWN, Vloe-Brealdent
Williams L Blanohakd Secretary.
JMPEllIAJj FIRS INSUKANOH CO.,
LOHDOR.
E8TABIJSIIKU ISO.
thii av Oftpiul and Aaouialted Fuda,
08,000,000 I IV GOLD,
FKEVOBT A HERRING, Agents,
.41 Ho. 107 B. THIRD BtrMt, Philadelphia.
ohab. at rBjrvofiT ohajb. f. hjuuukci
INSURANCE.
Fire. Inland, and XXarlne Insurance.
INSURANCE G0MFAIT2
OF
NORTH AMERICA,
Incorporated 1794.
CAPITAL $500,001
ASSETS January 1, 1871. -$3,050,53(
Receipts of Premiums, 70 t2,06,164
Interests from Investments, 1870.. 187,060
-12,233.!
LosBespald In 1870 Il.138.9ii
STATEMENT OF THE ASSETS,
First Mortgages on Philadelphia City Pro
perty 934,WC
United States Government Loans 8,93?.
i euuBjivnuicii oluwj uutmu 109,3k
X lumueipiiia vuj jjoaua 8U0J
New Jersey and other State Loans and
City Bonds 828,81
x uiiuuejy inn uuu xiesaiug xuuiroaa jo..
other Railroad Mortgage Bonds and
Loans raq
Philadelphia Bank and other Stocks HM V
iaBQ in xan& 881,04)
Loans on Collateral Security 81,43
jNoies receivame anu marine x'remiums
unsettled 438,42-
Accrued Interest and Premium in course '
of transmission - 88. so
Real estate, Office of the Company so.otxa
13,060,630,
Certificates of Insurance Issued, payable in Londoi
at the Counting House of Messrs. BR J WN, SHIP'
ARTHUR G. COFFITf,
PBE8LDENT. '
CUARLES PLATT,
VICE-PRESIDENT.,
MATTHIAS MARIS, Secretary.
C. n. REEVES, Assistant Secretary.
DIRECTORS.
ARTHUR G. COFFIN,
SAMUEL W. JONES,
JOHN A. BROWN,
CHARLES TAYLOR,
AMBROSE WHITE,
WILLIAM WELSH,
JOHN MASON.
FRANCIS R. COPE,
EDW. H. TROTTER,
T. CHARLTON HENRY",
AUr-KUilJ 1. JKHSUP,
T-ma n uinmDi
CHAS. W. CUSHMAN,
GEORGE L. HARRISON,
CLEMENT A. GRISCOl
WILLIAM BROCKIE.
1 83 .
1829 CHARTER PERPETUAL.
Fiaiilin Fire Insurance Cup
OF PHILADELPHIA.
Office, Kos. 435 and 437 CHESNUT S(
Assets Jan. I, '7 1, $3,087,4523!
CAPITAL.
. 1400.000 -oq
ACCRUED SURPLUS AND PREMIUMS.8,637,40J
INCOME FOR 1871,
$1,400,000.
LOSSES PAID IN 18701
t,09l-4U,
Losses Paid Since 1829 Nearly;
56,000,000.
The Assets of the "FRAN KLIN" are all Invested
In solid securities (over '2,750,t0 in First Bonds ami
Mortgages), which are all Interest bearing n,i
dividend paying. The Company holds no Bills ReJ
ceivaDie taaen ior insurances eneciea. (
Perpetual and Temporary Policies on Llbum
Terms. The Company also Usaes policies upon the?
Rents of all kinds of Buildings, Ground Rents anil
Mortgages.
DIRECTORS.
Alfred G. Baker,
Samuel Grant,
George W. Richards,
Isaac Lea.
Alfred Fltler, '
Thomas Sparks,
William B. Grant,
Thomas S. Ellis,
Gtutavus S. Benson. -
George Fales,
GEORGE FALES, Vice-President.
JAMES W. MCALLISTER, Secretary. U 7tdfe
THEODORE M. REGER. Assistant Secretary.
THE PENNSYLVANIA FIRE INSURANCE
COMPANY. ,
incorporated ihuo unarter perpetual. : !
No. C10 WALNUT Street, opposite Independence
Square.
This Company, favorably known to the commit
nity for over forty years, continues to Insure agalnsi
loss or damage by fire on Publio or Private Build
lngs, either permanently or for a limited time. Alsc
on Furniture, Stocks of Goods, and Merchandisi
generally, on liberal terms. i
Their Capital, together with a large Surplus Fun
Is invested in the most careful manner, which enjt
bles them to offer to the Insured an undoubted seen
r ty in the case of loss.- 7
DIBXCT0B8- V
rt&ntnl Smith. Jr. I Thnmu Kmlrh 7
Isaac Haslehurst, I Henry Lewis,
Thomas Robins, I J. Glllinghani Fell,
John Devereux, I Daniel Haddock,
Franklin A. Comly.
DANIEL SMITH, Jb., President i
WM, u. jkowli, secretary. i m
ENGINES). MACHINERY, si TO.
t?Wl PENN STEAM ENGINE AND BOIL!
Si2W0RK8. NKAFIB A LEVY, PRACT
CAL AND THKOKETICAL ENGINEERS, M
CUINIST8, BOILER-MAKERS, BLACKSMITH
and FOUR UK-its, naving ior many years been
anccessfdl operation, and been exclusively engag
In building and repairing Marine and River Engines
high and low pressure, iron xtouers, water Tanks
Propellers, etc. etc, reHpecuixuy oner uieir servie
tr the nnbllo as being fully prepared to contract f.
engines of all sisess, Marine, River, and Stationary
having sets oi pauerus ui uiueiem, sizes, are pri
cared to execute orders with quick despatch. Bvei
description of pattern-making made at the shortee.
notice. High and Low Pressure Fine Tubular ani
Cylinder Boilers of the best Pennsylvania Charooa!
Iron. ForgtDga of mil siae and kinds. - Iron ant
Brass Castings of all descriptions. Roll Turning)
ocrew Cutting, and all other work oonnecte
rlth th. aKnv A hllfllnAMfl. t
Drawings and specifications for all work dona
the establishment free of charge, and work (as
The subscribers have ample wharf dock-room fot
repairs of boats, wnere tuey can ua xa perieo
safety, and are provided with shears, blocks, falls
JOHN P. LKVY,
1 165 . BEACH and PALMER Strata,'
1
G
IRARD TUBE WORKS AND IRON
PHILADELPHIA, PA.,
Manufacture Plain and Galvanised -WROUGHT-IRON
PIPE
and Sundries for Uas and Steam Fitters, Plnmben
Machinists, Railing Makers, Oil ReHuers, etc.
WOKK.S
TWENTY-THIRD AND FILBERT STREETS.
OFFICE AND WAREHOUSE,
81 No. 43 N. FIFTH bTHJCLT.
OORDAQE, ETO.
CORDAGE.
Ilanllla, Slial and Tarred Cord>
At Low .at Bw Fork Prless and FraUhla,
KDWJJ B. FITfJKK dk VO
factory. nilTliSt. ana QKKMAJTTOWal Atmss.
ltora.Ho. IS . WAITS 81. sad U II DXLAWAB
AyoBDS.
411iam PHILADELPHIA,
JOHN 8. LEB k CO., ROPE AND TWINE
M ANl FACTl'HEKS,
DEALERS IN NAVAL 8TORES.
ANCHORS AND CHAINS.
SHIP CHANDLBKY GOODS, ETC..
Nos. 40 and 48 NORTH WHARVES.
TOHN FARNTJM & CO., COMMISSION MER
tr hn. an4 MtaafotirT-of " i m a i. Uoklasktta