THE DAI1A nVENINO TELEGRAPH PHILADELPHIA, MONDAY, UA.'Y 1, 1871.
SPIRIT OF THE MESS.
EDITOBlAIi PINIOWS OF TUB LBiDINO JOT7WALS
UPON CVBRBNT TOPICS COMPILED EVERT
DAT rOB THH EVENING) TEUEQBATH.
LIFE INSURANCE THE KNICKER
BOCKER COMPANY.
From th If. T. Standard.
No stronger proof of the necessity for the
eeriea of artioles upon life insnranoe whioh
we are publishing could have been furnished
than the manner in whioh the affairs of the
Knickerbocker Company have been disoussed
by the newspapers. Stripped of all exaggera
tions, the faots seem to us to be about as
follows:-
This company had the misfortune to hare
in its employ looal agents who involved their
principals in a large number of bad risks
persons of feeble constitution, bad charaoter,
or intemperate habits. An investigation into
the company's affairs, which was begun some
months ago by the Superintendent of the In
surance Department, baa been rigidly prose
cuted, and, we understand, resulted in a
report highly favorable to the company.
Meanwhile, however, a large number of policy
holders, perhaps influenced by an instinct of
caution, perhaps by the misrepresentations of
the agents of rival companies, perhaps by
misunderstanding, withheld their usual pay
ments of premiums when they fell due, and
thereby allowed their policies to lapse. The
company was thus given its option to re
assume the risks, or decline such as were un
sound; and, according to our notion, acted
wisely in making a discrimination. We do
not see how in justice to the great body of
policy-holders, to whom they stood in the
relation of trustees, the directors could have
done otherwise. The funds of a life insurance
company are the accumulations of pre
miums paid into the common treasury by the
whole body of the insured, together with
the compound interest earned by their invest
ment. The direotors of the company are
trustees of this fund, and it is their bounden
duty not merely to pay losses as they ocour,
but, also, to see that no unhealthy insurers
are admitted to participate in the benefits of
the common fund, and thus injure the inte
: rests of the others. In pursuanoe of this
; duty, they, in the first place, subject eaoh
applicant to careful mediaal scrutiny, and
' then frame their oontract with him in such a
way that it shall be fir for both parties
the company and the insured. He
gets a fair equivalent for his money,
. and binds the company to the
, rigid fulfilment of the obligations it assumes,
- while the company expects him to faithfully
execute his part of the contraot. The truth
' is that people act in this matter as they do in
most other business transactions they keep
a sharp look out for what is to come to them
in a bargain, and get as lightly as possible
over the part they have to perfom. In other
words, people make their bargains to favor
themselves when they can. When the Knicker
bocker Company found itself and its patrons
led, through misrepresentations on the part of
applicants, into taring a number of bad
risks, the only thing it ODuld do was to faoe
the music and pay such losses as might
occur, but if, through violation of contract,
any of these unhealthy policy-holders should
offer it an advantage, to avail itself of it.
This they have done, and every honest policy
holder ought to support them in their action.
Some persons seem to regard a life-insurance
company as an eleemosynary institution,
whose duty it is to pay out something for
their personal benefit, without requiting any
thing in return, and the ignorance displayed
by a good many journalists in disoussing
these matters goes far towards strengthen
ing sucn a preposterous idea. Tne sooner
the publio understands that life insurance is
pimply a plan by which certain men, noting
as trustees of n sum of money, and in
vesting and reinvesting it, finally realize
enough by the time the payer of this
money dies to be enabled to hand over to his
heirs the amount which has accumulated, the
better. The plan is beneficent in the highest
degree, of incalculable benefit to widows and
orphans, perfectly legitimate, and in the
Lands of honest trustees, who are at the same
time economical, wise business men, per
f ectly safe. It has been in operation more
than a century, and despite all past imperfec
tions, mistakes, and failures, is more nourish
Ing to-day, and in the enjoyment of greater
publio confidence, than ever before. Any
company in the world whioh would have done
otherwise than the Knickerbocker has, ought
to have its doors closed instantly, and its
assets taken under the protection of the
Btate.
DRINKING AMONG BUSINESS MEN.
From th N. Y. Time.
The London journal which lately made an
onslaught on drinking among ladies now
makes a similar charge, with increased em
ttbasia. upon the business community It de
clares that the nse of spirituous liquors
among merohants, bankers, and brokers has
increased of late in the most alarming man
ner. "The American bar system," it informs
us. ,lwhich in New York and elsewhere has
been carried to a height at whioh, through
being bo flagrantly scandalous and intolera
ble, it has almost begun to cure itself, has,
unfortunately, taken root in London. "se
cret drinking" among the mercantile classes
"is free and uncontrolled;" and "the pota
tions of city men are terribly en the in
crease." The reasons for this are several and
manifest. One, it appears, is the telegraph
Formerly there was an interval between
sending bis letters and getting re
pliess, when a man of business couK
meditate calmly on his affairs. Now all
things are decided off-hand, and consequently
there is kept up a constant fever of exalte-
ment. Hence, nervous exhaustion ensues,
and stimulants are resorted to. Another
reason for excess is that business men, in
stead of living over their oounting-hoases or
Bhops, as was once the custom, now almost
invariably live several miles away. Most of
them come to the city by rail, whioh works
ill in various ways. In the first plaoe, there
is a constant anxiety about musing the tram,
so that nervous tatigue begins witu the dav
The journey by rail is pronounced un
favorable to digestion, and, acojrding to
some medical men, II taken every day, is in
jurious to the brain as well as the stomach
and nerves. Besides these disturbing agen
cues, "overwork, the "strain or business.
and the "anxieties of speculation, are set
down as originating and nourishing those
physical and mental conditions that loal men
to seek the consolations of alcohol, and
ultimately to become slaves to it fascinating
influence.
There la no doubt some truth ia all this,
although it is hardly truth of the sort that
warrants the air of discovery with which the
Saturday Jlerieie announces it. Deplorable
and extensive as is the halit of drinking in
our own business oouninnity, we believe it
Las grown to be as bad, or perhaps even
worse, In London. If it U worse there, the
reason is clear. Most Americans who driuk
b'fore dinner do not drink at of after dinner,
but the Englishmen who drink before dinner
are pretty oertain to do the other as well.
There cannot be a queB .ton that it is safer
and healthier, if men must drink at all, to
drink at or after dinner than before it. It is
equally certain, however, that those who do
only one of the two are better off than those
who do both. Thus, the city man of Lon
don, who not only takes "nips" and "pegs"
throughout the morning, but swallows a great
quantity of wine with his dinner, is at a dis
advantage compared with his New York
brother, who confines himself to the former
set of stimulants. With both cHsses, the
growing habit of concentrating the entire
business of the day Into a finall fraction of it
is, n6 doubt, prejudicial. Farly-closing move
ments aie salutary in respect of saving the
physical rather than the mental powers, just
as are the organizations for shortening the
hours of labor in buu humbler social strata.
But with men who do their entire dy's
wtrk with their heads, the more deliberately
it is done the better. Generally speaking, a
given set of brains can only healthily secrete
a given amount of thought in a stated time.
If jou habitually overwork the mind, or, so
to speak, over-focalize its energies, you in
duce disease, it is plain tnat many men wno
do not care a straw for the exaltation of drink,
or for its good fellowship, or for its flavor,
resort to it to "sustain" themselves while
habitually subjecting their powers to exces
sive strain, The competitions of business
are in this way sapping and ruining many
noble lives. And men of the world well know
bow numerous are the cases of sudden death
in our business community cases imputed
to "heart disease," "paralysis," and the like,
that are really the result of drinking, secret
or other, whioh has been resorted to for the
sake of keeping up strength in the unremit
ting and arduous battle of life.
tquaJly well do men or the world Know
Low much easier it is te point out these evils
than to correct them, to suggest remedies
than to enforce their application. The dan
gerous theory that alcoholic Btimulna can be
better borne by brains that are actively and
perpetually at work if, indeed, suoh stimu
lus is not positively benencial to sucn brains
has been much disseminated of late, and is
undoubtedly very mischievous. Perhaps the
temperance movement went too far, and, like
all excess, is now followed by reaction; but
whatever the influence or importance of this,
it is certain that drinking in business circles,
if less alarming among us than it was three
years ago, is still practised upon a scale
of deplorable magnitude, and that the evil
calls for serious efforts to restrain
and extirpate it. It is a favorite theory with
many that palliatives are of doubtful service,
and ought not to be recommended. With
such thinkers, total abstinenoe is the only
proper cure. We. however, venture to think
that the application of more moderate treat
ment may sometimes be not unproductive of
good. II, for example, business men were to
cultivate and encourage the habit of refusing;
to take anything whatever of an intoxicating
character before dinner supposing the dltm
hour to be G o'clook or Utr it cannot be
donbted an important reform might be
effected. The adoption of this suggestion,
we are persuaded, would bring benefits which
more sweeping and less practicable remedies
might altogether fail to assure.
THE GREAT DFMOCRATIO DIFFICULTY.
From the A'. Y, Herald.
The great difficulty whioh faoes the Demo
cracy of tho nation ia that of harmonizing
tne Nottnern and southern wings of the
party on the fourteenth and fifteenth amend
ments. Leading Southern Democratic jour
nals keep up the cry that upon these issues
tneir .Northern brethren must faoe the music
The Mobile Register, for example, says that
while the thirteenth amendment ('which
abolished and prohibited slavery) is all
right, the reconstruction amendments the
fourteenth, declaring all persons born or
naturalized in the United States citizens
thereof, and entitled to equal civil rights,
and repudiating the Rebel war debt, and
declaring saored the Union war debt, and the
fifteenth amendment, establishing negro suf
frage, stand upon another footing. The
Southern Democracy will not reoognize them;
but what do the Southern Bemooracy
demand? "Nothing more," says our Mobile
Democratic contemporary, "than the national
Democracy has already conoeded in the New
York Convention of 18U8, when, in its plat
form, it declared these reconstruction mea
sures 'unconstitutional, revolutionary, null
and void.' " This is all; but this they do
and will demand.
Here, then, is the great Democratio did
oulty; and from General Grant's oonrse on the
Ku-klux queston it ia evident that he intends
to force the fight upon these two amend
ments, bo obnoxious to the Democracy of the
South and never recognized by the Demooraoy
of the North. A late interviewer says that
Mr. Stephens, of Georgia, Vice-President of
the 'so-called Confederate States," pro
nounces the fourteenth and fifteenth amend'
ments "gross usurpations of p iwer, passed by
force and fraud. But a Northern Democratio
organ, the New York World, proposes a Demo
cratio compromise upon this dimoulty, viz.:
That the Democracy of the nation consent to
the recognition of these amendments uutil
we have a judgment upon them from the Su
preme Court. Now if these amendments can
be carried into the Supreme Court we oan
nderstand how they can be there upset
when the opportunity offers by the simple
process of reconstructing the court Haeu.
How is thisr
In the Constitution the methods of adopt
ing amendments thereto are laid down, but
the met nod or the proclamation or the ratin
fleation is left to Congress. So by the law
of J1818 on the subject the Seoretary of
bUle is empowered to make tne proclamation,
and under this law the thirteenth, fourteenth,
and fifteenth amendments have been declared
ratified and "valid, to all intents and pur
poses," as parts of the Constitution. The
thing is fixed by the voucher of the Searetary
of State; and to the Supreme Court, as to the
rest of us, it is the "supreme law of the
land. Like the recognition of a btate, these
amendments are beyond the reach of the
Supreme Court. If the question of the
creation of the new State of West Virgloia
had been within the jurisdiction of the
Court, it is morally oertain that the processes
by which that State was created would have
been declared irregular and void; but Chief
Justice Taney bad declared in the Rhode
Island Dcrr case the authority of Congress
in the matter complete and conclusive,
Equally so is t!. vouchor of the Secretary of
State, whose intelligence and good faith are
not questioned touching the ratification of a
const ltntiowtl amendment. It oan, after bis
proclamation, be upset only by another
amendment, adopted in . regular way.
The Supreme Court dodge, then, proposed
as a compromise to the Southern Democracy,
will not do. Tho Northern Demoaraoy must
persuade their Southern brethren to acqui
esce in the amendmenU in question, or go
ovtr to them in the repudiation of said amend
ments, or prepare for a sectional split upon
them. It is clear that General Grant Intends
to force the fight upon this subject. It is
equally clear that if the Southern Demooraoy
will only consent to fixed facts he may be
flanked in 1872; but will those leading South
ern fire-eaters consent? That is the question
and there is the difficulty.
THE INEXTINGUISHABLE VITALITY
OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY.
From, th jr. T. World.
If one bad easy access to the files of promi
nent Republican journals for the years 18G3
-4-, He might compile from tnem a curious
body of extracts, illustrating the vanity of po
litical propheoies. It was said and re-eohoed,
with endless repetition and every variety of
phraseology, that the Democratio party was a
dog that had had its day. There was no paper
which so constantly rang the changes upon
this text as the New lork lima, then a
journal of much consideration, which had
not yet sunk into the empty brawler and
common scold it has beoome since Mr. Ray
mond's lamented death. That journal, now
branded as a reckless libeller by its Repub
lican contemporaries, was then respeotable.
and it was possible to notice what appeared
in its columns without a descent from the
decencies and courtesies of journalism. At
piesent, there is no person connected with it
w ho has any recognized position, or possesses
the slightest social or political consideration.
It is a mere conduit for the ignoble spleen of
writers who are under social ostracism. It is
not the limes of to-day, but the Times edited
by Mr. Raymond, whose opinions we think
it worth while to notice. That journal, four
or five years ago, deolared a hundred times
over that the Democratio party was dead, and
that its corpse remained too long above
ground without the rites of sepulture. The
party had ruined itself by its course during
the war. The public sentiment of the coun
try repudiated it. It had no possible future.
Such was the opinion of Mr. Raymond.
Most of the eminent Kepublican journal
ists agreed with him, and among others Mr.
Thurljw Weed, who, although he had ceased
to be the editor of the Albany Journal, was
much addicted to publishing letters. That
astute politician compared the Demooratio
party to the Hartford Convention Federalists,
and asserted that it must inevitably meet a
like fate. The parallel struck the Republican
fancy, and was echoed by several hundred
journals. They pretty unanimously agreed
that the Demooratio party bad killed itself by
its course during the war, and that the burial
of its defunct carcass had been too long de
layed. We are sorry that we have not at
hand facilities for compiling eight or ten
columns of extracts affirming this view.
Time has passed on; the years have pursued
their ceaseless course; but, unfortunately for
the credit of the prophets, their predictions
have not been fulfilled. The corpse has
stepped out of its cofhn, and made suoh a dis
play of inusole and vigor that the grave-dig
gers have more use for swords than spades,
The Democratio part? is relatively stronger
now than it has been at any period sinoa
185G. Instead of being repudiated and
scorned, like tho Hartford Convention Fede
ralists, it is courted and caressed by many of
its tormer opponents. A majority of the sur
viving members of Presidont Lincoln's Oabi
net, who were in office when Messrs. Raymond
and Weed's predictions were so confidently
and complacently uttered, look with more
favor to-day upon the Democratic than the
Republican party. Secretary Chase was will
ing three years ago to be the Demooratio can
didate for President. I'ostmaster-iieneral
Blair, together with his father and brother,
all earnest Republicans when the Democratic
party was pronounced a corpse, are aoion,?
the foremost in our ranks. If biorotary
Welles is not a Democrat, he is surely no
Republican; we dare say he voted for uov
ernor English in the late Connecticut eleo
tion. Secretary Seward long ago ceased
to be a Republican leader. Andrew John
son returned to the Democratio fold al
most as soon as he became President
If that able statesman, Charles Francis
Adams, is still a Republican, nobody in that
party trusts him. General Grant ignores
him as completely as he ignores Andrew
Johnson. John Quincy Adams, a Republican
when the Demooratio parly was proclaimed
dead, Las since been twice the Demooratio
candidate for Governor of Massachusetts,
David A. Wells, a zealous Republican in those
days, holds an appointment under the Demo
cratio Governor of New York. Those eminent
Republicans, Gratz Brown and Carl Scburz,
made a coalition with the Demooratio party
in Missouri. John A. Logan, Lyman J. rum
bull, Governor Aloorn, and Governor Geary,
would prefer a liberal democratio President
to the re-election or General Grant, and at
least one of the four would be willing to be
the Democratio candidate himself. Now it is
evident that a party whioh has, within the-last
three or four years, made so many proselytes,
was prematurely consigned to tne tomb.
Nor is it among statesmen alone that the
Democratio party has gained accessions from
the ranks of its opponents. The crests of the
waves merely show in what direction the
body of waters is moving. We can point to
one perfectly conclusive proof that the Demo
cratic party is altogether stronger among tne
mass of the people than it was three or four
years ego. lhe conclusive proof is this
that the large accession of colored voters
since the adoption of fifteenth amendment
has not enabled the Republican party to hold
its own. It is weaker than it was before it
received its hosts of black reinforcements
Of course, then, there has been a stampede
of white voters which the negro vote does
not suihee to balance. There is not a llepub
lioan politician in the country who believes
that if su 11 rage were withdrawn from the
negroes, and our elections were again to be
controlled by the same body of voters as in
1808, there would be any possibility of elect
ing a Republican President in 1872. burely.
then, the Republican party has greatly declined
in strength among the mass of intelligent
white citizens.
We do not care at present to go at any
length into the reasons why the predioted
death of the Democratic party has beon so
signally falsified by the progress of events,
The sober Becond thought of the people in
torses the course of the Demooratio party
even during the war. There is nobody who
now believes that the contest was shortened a
single day by those outrages upon liberty and
flagrant violations of the Constitution, arbv
trary arrests, and suspension of the habeas
corpus. Host thoughtful men will concede
that the paper legal-tender was a curse, whioh
swelled tie volume of the national debt in
proportion to the inflation of the ourronoy,
besides deranging acd debauching the busi
ness of the country. The reconstruction mea
sures have not I enehted the South, Geneial
Grant himself being the judge. Compare
his report to 1'reMdeut Johnson in the win
ter of 1800 with bin recant South Otrolin
proclamation and Lis urgency for the Ku
klux bill, and observe how, according to bU
own testimony, the oondition of the South
Las deteriorated under the reconstruction ex
perimeut.
Whatever may be the causes, nobody caa
dispute the fact that the Democratio party is
a creat aeai stronger at present than it was
four or five years ago when all the Republi
can journals were employed in erecting its
tombstone and engraving its epitaph. None
of tbem talk of coffins and tombstones now.
The likening of the party to the Hartford
convention t ederaliats was long ago dropped.
Morton, Grant, and Colfax have opened the
Presidential campaign a fud year in advanoe
of the usual time, because they fear the
growing strength of the Democracy, and they
resort to wholesale defamation and calumny
because they know they would be beaten on
a truthful presentation of the real issues, lho
inbuilt has again and again predicted that
the election of next year will be one of tho
most strenuous and hotly contested in our
political history. Surely the Republicans
nave ceased to believe that in coming into
the field against the Democracy they are
fighting a corpse. They will find in the event
that they have more than their match.
ABRIDGING FREE SPEECH.
From the N. F. Tribune.
There is now in the Lands of the Governor,
awaiting Lis signature, a bill amending aud
adding to the code. One of these amend
ments is a blow at the right of freo suiejh,
which should incite the indignation of every
man who wishes to retain at least the right to
criticifie thoBe proceedings of the courts
which are constantly depriving citizens of
their property. The amendment in question
is an addition to the code which provides that
courts of record nhall have the power which
courts Lad at common law, to punish as for
contempts. Those acts or word whioh were
contempts al common law aro declared to be
contempts of court now. The proceedings
to punish shall be conducted "in such man
ner as the court shall direct," and the punish
ment which may be by fine or imprison
ment, or both shall be "in the discretion of
the court. All inconsistent laws aro re
pealed. The object or this is very apparent. At
common law the rules in regard to contempts
of court were very severe. As the liberty of
the press and freedom of speech extended.
statutes were passed restricting the power of
punishing for contempt to certain acts, and
within certain defined limits, which insured
the decorum and good order of courts, but
left to the citizen the rigt.t of free criticism.
And the maximum punishment which oould
be inflicted in a contempt proceeding was a
fine of S250 and 110 days' imprisonment. All
these restrictions and limitations are now to
be swept away. This amendment is designed
to prevent the press and the publio from speak
ing of the proceedings of certain judges. It
ia an attempt to choke off all protest pgainst
judicial outrages, by giving the absolutely un
controlled power to any judge to hne and im
prison. Twenty years' imprisonment acd a
fine of $100,000 may be legally inflicted. We
are to be brought back to the stem rules of
the middle ages, when, for instance, it wai a
contempt of ceurt for a party to a cause,
"upon a writ being served, to speak with oon-
tempt before Le knows the contents of the
writ, or from what court it issues." Wh'jn an
ex parte receiver cornea to eize hid prey, one
who speaks with indigaation of the process
which is to deprive him of hi property may
be imprisoned and fined at the discretion of
the court. We call publio attention to this bill
before the Governor signs it, though perhaps
it might be well to let it take its ooursa. Any
attempt to enforce this outrage against free
dom of speech miy at last arouse a patient
community which has rested quietly under so
many wrongs.
Among the other provisions of the amend
ments are the following: Allowing the Su
preme Court to letuove to itaelf any cause
pending cr to bo brought in the Court of
Common rieas or the bupenor (Jaurt apply
ing this to "motions heretofore made; allow
ing foreclosure suits aud partition suits to be
brought in tbis district only m the bupreme
Court; practically taking away the right to
obtain a discovery of the books and papers
of a corporation; requiring all actions agaiusk
corporations to be brought in the district
where the principal office of the company is
situated. These last provisions are for the
benefit of the Erie Railroad Company. They
are to apply to all actions and proceedings
now pending. If we had any other Governor
than the one who signed the Erie Directory
bir, the veto power would enable us to con
template such legislative enormities with a
composure not now attainable.
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BUILDINGS.
Sixteen rooms, a:i modern conveniences, ga, bath,
hot and cold watt r.
Lot 18 feet froLtnd I'M) feet 2 lucres deep to a
hack 6trtet.
Immediate pesaeislon. Terms to suit purchaser,
M. D. LIVEN3ETTER,
No. V 9 South FOURT i 8treet.
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IP SALE OF THE ATSION E STATE.
ALUTJT S9.W0 ACRES OF LAND, TO SOLD
AT I'l'BUi; Al UTIUN, AT THE WKST JEKSSt
HOTEL, CAMlvEfl, N. J., ON MAY , 1SJ1, AT
1 O'CLOCK. P. M.
TO SPKCULATOKS IN LAND. PRO.TB TORS OF
TOWNS AND CAPITALISTS UKNKRALLY, A
KAKK OPPORTUNITY FOit INVESTMENT IS
rUrBtiNTEOil
A FARM of about 700 acres, with extensive Im
provements, is Included.
SEVERAL MILLS and additional mill and maun-
farturlrnr fcltes-are on tie propprtr.
tfA'LUOAUS traverse uio entire lenutn or tne
tract.
ATSION STATION is tne point or junction of
two ratlroHils.
TOWNS and SETTLEMENTS may be favorably
located.
Tim CEDAR Tlx 15 Kit is or considerable vane.
CVANBERU1ES. GRAPHS. SWEET POTATOES
BOPS, etc., ran ie very Buocetwrai-.v oumv.-iea.
(iOUU T1TL.B, will re mane w ine purcnaser.
SEND FOR A PAMPHLET containing particu
lars, ana apply personally, or iy inn i, to
OEOR'iE M. DALLAS, Assignee,
8 84 Bit NO. 822 S. FOURTH St , Philadelphia.
FOR SALE GERMAN TOWN, SHOE-
maker's Lane, adjoining Residences of Messrs.
Cabeen, Morgan, Clements,
POINTED STONE DWELLISO,
larpe lot, 100 by 800; well shaded, old trees, etc. Im
mediate possession. LT. C. THOMPSON,
NO. 220 W. WASHINGTON SQUARE,
Or, J. M. GUMMEY & SONS,
4 26 6t No. Hi WALNUT Street.
rrr for sale tow, at chesot
Li"!' Hill, an unusually attractive and complete
- ouiitry Beat. Uvu minutes' walk from Cnasuut llnl
L)epot ; six acres of Ueuutirui ground, fruit, shade.
staoies, graperr, grecn-nouse, tisn-nund, etc.
Modern poifcted utone residencf, 13 rooms: tine
views. RICHARDSON & JANNEY, No. 0 S.
FOURTH Street. 4 7 thstuSW
NINETY-THREE ACR'j.8 FARM FOR
sale or exchange for city proporty, or Rood
merchandise, situated In Richland towrshlp, Bucks
county. K. J. DOBBINS,
4 2T12t Ledger Building.
m FOR SALE HANDSOME BROWN-STONB
fcil REBIDEENCE, with side yard, BROAD and
MASTER Streets. Lot BO by 200 feet deep to Car-
lislo street. H. J. DOBBINS,
4 2T 12t Lodger Building.
flMj FOR SAL.E-NEAT THREE-STORY BRICK
Jiit DWELLING, with side yard, No. 1113 N.
EIGHTEENTH Street, or will be exchanged.
R. J. DOBBINS,
4 2T 12t Ledger Balldlug.
FOR SALB OR KXCH ANOE ELEGANTLY
x located COTTAGE, at CAl'E MAY, furnished
throughout. R. J. DOBBINS,
47i2t Ledger Building.
FOR 8ALR ELEGANT FOUR-STORY
i brown-stone RE-IDENCE, No. 1917 CIIE3-
NUT Btreet, with sldo yard. LoMftf by 178 feet.
It. J. DORBINS,
4 27 12t Ledger Building.'
COUNThY-SBAT AND FARM FOR SALE,
of 60 to 100 acre. Rrlsud pike, vi?a the 7
mile stone, and near Tacoiiy Station. Mansion-
house and other i welling to let. Apply ou premises,
or No. cio ioci'a r street. iw
FOR SALE-MUST UK SOLD THIS WEK.
La-S and a (treat baivutu slven. A ilenirablo net?
owelliuar on Walnut btreet, eiinve Thirty-fourtn.
Apply at once to'J'liOMAS ALLhN, No. saiiCHBt
NL1 Street, Real EsUto Agent. 4 27 t
TO RP.NT.
CKE&ftUT STREET STORE
2V o. 3 S 2,
ATPLY t)N THfl PREMISES. 4 22 f
FOR RENT,
STOF.F, tio. 339 MARKET Street.
APPLY ON PREMISES.
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4Wtf
3. B. ELLISON A SONS
SCHOOL LAK E COUNTRY SEAT TO RENT.
Mansion House, furnished, will be let for the
summer months; 16 rooms, besides S bath-rooms;'
Ice house, grapery, green house, stables, kitchen
garden, and .9 acres of land. All In complete order.
10 minutes of two railway stations.
PHILIP S. JUSTICE,
No. 14 N. FIFTH Street.
4 14 8t - Philadelphia.
C0PYINGPRES3KS.
Just received, a Large Assort
meal f the Latest Myis
COPUNU PtiESSES.
WM. M. CHRISTY,
Eutioucr aud Printer,
NO, 127 S. THIRD Etreet,
Opposite Ulrard Boult.
isseodi
WATONEIi JEWEL.RY. ETQ.
ICBtcvlillslica In 1 854.
WATCHEG.
EVFUGOINO
STEM-WINDERS,
KEY-WIN DEUS,
QUARTBU SECONDS,
MINUTE REPEATERS,
ETO. ETO. ETO.
G. & A. PEUUIGNOT,
No. 608 CUES NUT STREET,
4 28 8m PHILADELPHIA.
GOLD MEDAL REGULATORS.
No. 22 NORTH SIXTH 8TREET,
Begii to call the attention of the trade and cuBtomera
to the annexed letter :
TKANSHnON.
"I take tleamire to announce that I have Riven to
Mr. . W. RLHSELL, of rinladelphta, tne ectualvo
eae of all roods of my manufacture. lie will be
able to Bell them at th very lowest, prices.
tiUHTHV HKi
"First Manufacturer of Regulators,
'Freiburg, Germany.
PLUMBING, OAS FITTING, ETO.
- 1 1 " " - -
PANCOAST&MAULE,
THIRD and WSAH Streets,
Plain and Galvanized
Wrought and Cast Iron Pipes
For Gas, Steam and Water.
FITTINGS, BEASS WORK, TOOLS.
BOILER TUBES.
Pipe of all Size Cat and Fitted to Order
CARD.
Havln sold HENRY B. FAN COAST and FRAN
CIS 1. MAULE (gtr.tlemen in our employ for seve
ral years pst) the Stock, Goodwill and Fixtures of
our KETaIL ESTABLISHMENT, located at the
comer of THIRD and PEAR Strfeta, In this city,
that branch of onr business, together with that of
HKATiNO and Y EN l ILATINU PUBLIO and IKI
VATB BUILDINGS, both by STif-.M and HOT
WATER, la all Its various systems, will be earned
on under the firm name of PANCOAS P A MAULS,
at the old stand, and we recommend tnem to tne
trade and business publio as being entirely oorapo- '
teat to perform all work of that character
Hi' 'iuub, lAiiiu a, w,
Philadelphia, Jan. 22, 1870.
QLOTH8, PASSIM ERES, ETO.
LOTH HOU6S.
J A M E 6 & HUBBR,
Ho. 11 North SECOND treeV"
Sign of the Golden Lamb, 1
Are
w receiving a large and splendid assortmenV
of new style of
FANCY OASSIMEKEa
Aad standard makes of DOESKINS, CLOTHS an
COATINGS, 8 S3 mwl
AT WHOLESALE AND RETAIL
CROOERIES, ETO.
JONDON BROWN STOUT AND
BCOTCH ALB,
In glass and stone, by the cask or doaea
ALBERT O. ROBERTS,
Dealer In Fine Groceries,
Corner ELEVENTH and VINE SU.
EDWARD PONTI A CO.,
IMPORTERS OP FOREIGN PRODUCE,
Wines, Oils, Fruits, Cigars,
WHOLESALE AND RETAIL,
Ifo. 004 H'ALIl'T Street,
PHILADELPHIA.
BDWARD PONTI. 3 275 JAMES W. HA.VKN3.
LEOAL NOTICES.
IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS FOR
THE CITY AND COUNTY OF PHILADEL
PHIA. In Divorce. December Term. 1889. No. 85.
ARTHUR 11. WOODWARD vs. MELISSA T. WOOD
WARD.
To Melissa T. Woodward, the above-named re
Fpondent: Please take notice that a rale baa been
entered In the above caHe, returnable SATURDAY,
May 6th, A. D. 1871, at 11 o'clock A. M., to show
cause why a divorce a vinculo matrimonii should not
bo granted, personal service Having lauea on ac
count of jour aoaence.
JOHN a BULLITT.
No. S3 8. THIRD Street, Philadelphia,
4 20 tlimiw Attorney for Llbellant.
IN THE ORPHANS' COURT FOR THE CITY
AND COUNTY OF PHILADELPHIA.
Estate of THOMAS BRADY, deceased.
MM. ...... .1.. 1... .1..'-... . . . 4 1 . ..Ht.
X UC AUU1L JI BJtlJUaUbCU UJT tilt? VyUUIl W aU'Uk, OGIb.C
and adjust the account of CHARLES JUDGE aud
MICHAEL SLLL1VAM, Executor of tne last win
and testament or THOMAS BRADY, deceased, and
to report attribution of the balance In the bands of
Mie accountant, will meet the parties Interested for
the purpose of his appointment, on TUESDAY, May
9. 11. at o'clock P. M., at his otnee. No. 817
South TlilhD Strett, In the city of Philadelphia.
J. LULL MARTIN,
4 SSfmwBt Auditor.
IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS FOR THE
CITY AND COUNTY OF PHILADELPHIA,
March Term, 1871. No. 14. In Divorce.
WILLIAM. I1ESRY STEEL VS. JOSEPHINE JANE
To JOSEPHINE JANE STEBL, Respondent:
P;ese take notice that u-stlmony will be taken in
above entl'led caosa on behalf of the llbellant on
THURSDAY, May 11, 1871, at 8)tf o'clock P. M., at
mv clhce, No. 65 WALNUT Street. Philadelphia,
Pa, before F. CARROLL BREWSTER, Jr.. Esq.,
the examiner appointed by the Court to take and
report the same. HENRY C. TEUHY,
4 is 15t Attorney for Llbellant.
Philadelphia Hardware House.
LAWN M0 VI EES
IN GREAT VARIETY.
JAMEG r.1. VANCE & CO.,
Ko. 211 MARKET STREET,
4 S3 IStrp
PHILADELPHIA.
t. T. HUSTON. HUAHOM.
pAS'JLOrf SlcHlAMOIf,
xairnsQ aud commtssws KKMaASi
No. COENTIKS bLIP, New York,
No. IS SOUTH W HA K VI S, Philadelphia,
No. 40 W. PRATT STREET, BuiUiaora.
We are prepared to ship every description 1 1
Freight to Philadelphia. New York, WUmlr.gUn, an
luieruiitfvt point wlia promptness and despatch.
Canal Loau and bKxun-tr f oiuUUod at tbaahurvect
bOUoa,
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