THIij DAILY EVttmNG TELEGRAPH PHILADELPHIA, FIUDa, MAY 5, 1871 WOMEN IN LONDON AND MSN IN PA MS. From tht tall Mall Gazette. It waa certainly the "irony of events" which canned a number of ladies and gentle men to be panning resolutions in London in favor of giving votes to women at parliament ary elections at the same time that the National Assembly was debating at Versailles and the Central Committee governing in Paris. The French National Assembly is the most striking example which has ever been seen of voting power divorced from physical or material power. It represents more votes than any representative body in the wnrld, bnt its army declines to obey it, and half the voters who sent delegates to it are powerless to help it, since they are at the mercy of a victorious enemy. The result is that a contemptibly small minority of its nominal subjects, who happen really to have some material force at their disposal, have set it absolutely at defiance. Did it occur to anybody who attended the London meeting that female suffrage would have a constant tendency to reproduoe this state of things? To the extent of at least one-half, deliberative assemblies would represent not physical strength but physical infirmity: and the part of the body politio which was con scious of material strength, and which on oc casions of national emergency would be ex clusively called up to use it, would be per petually overruled by coalitions between its own weaker members and the masses of the other sex. 80 gross a paradox can only be overlooked by those who have given no se rious thought to the matter, or by those who have failed to observe how vast is the part taken by material force in all political orga nizations. It is not difficult to see that the movement for female suffrage has reached its present point through the obscurity in which the essential association of government with force is systematically kept. The arguments by which successive extensions of the suffrage have been justified have really been of such a nature as to establish a case, or all but esta blish it, for giving votes to women. The ingenious plan of Mr. Hare and others for summing up the whole opinion of a nation with absolute accuracy irresistibly suggested that the opinion of women should be taken as well as the opinion of men. Mr. Mill, even when he did not directly advocate female suf frage, indirectly contended for it by those a priori arguments which of late have had so strange an attraction for him; and Mr. liright's speeches invariably pointed to the conclusion that any constituency, however formed, was, provided that it was numerous, better than the existing constituencies. When Mr. Disraeli invented the conservative working man who was a devotee and not a critio of the Constitution, he laid himself open to the remark that stancher Conserva tives than workmen were to be found in women; and Mr. Gladstone, who pleaded that householders, even when they paid no lates, were our own llesh and blood, could hardly have denied that our mothers, sisters, and daughters, whether they paid rates or not, were our own flesh and blood also. But the enormous ma jority of those who supported or opposed these extensions of the sun rage had at the bottom of their minds the consciousness that the proposal was to join voting power with material power. Multitudes, when they cou Bist of "male persons," are vast embodiments of physical strength, even when they are nnarmed. Ibis consideration was with some the very reason for extending the suffrage The time may come, tbey said, when ttie masses may be able and willing to put forth all their slumbering power, but they are less likely to exert it brutally if they have the means of expressing their opinions freely and giving effect to them peacefully. Others were affected in a different way by the vast reserve of physical strength in the masses, The inherent power of numbers, they urged, is so great that, when united to voting power, it must bear down all oUier influences. The proposal to give votes to women, though superficially similar to plans for enfranchising large numbers of men, is wholly and radically unlike them. For the first time in European history it is seriously suggested that a vast multitude of persons shall be admitted to po litical power in a case where mul titude simply means multiplied weak ness. The whole of the conditions of po litical society would be altered by such an experiment, and no human being can say more 01 its probable consequences than that they would certainly tend towards anarchy. The wholesale admission in America of the negroes of the Southern States to votes which, insulting as the comparison seems, is the only precedent in point was really a con trivance of Jthe party which commanded the material strength in the North to provide itself with a vast amount of voting power to be used in aid of its generals and armies. Neither Republicans nor radicals have the faintest Intention 01 submitting to negro opinion, if it should assert itself independ ently. If female suffrage were established, it would only be maintained by a close alli ance between female politicians and some one confederacy of men which was powerful enough to coia its own witnout their assist ance. The objection of certain members of Parliament, which at the meeting was treated as frivolous and selfiih, that their seats would jbe put in jeopardy by giving women votes, seems to us an extremely grave and fornii dable consideration started in a rather narrow way. If the ladies who are earnestly engaged in the agitation could bring themselves to consider wnat are tne admissions wmcn sensioie men are ready to make with regard to their sex. they might possibly be induced to limit their endeavors, and thus to aim at objects which are net wholly unattainable. . Whatever be the opinions of one sex on the physical and intellectual inferiority of the other, no ob servant 01 thoughtful man denies the exis tence in considerable numbers of very able women, approaching closely in some few cases to the highest standard of ability amongst men, and in many more rising far above the level of medioority. Some of these women are practically disqualified for politi cal-life by absorbing maternal or conjugal duties; but there are others who are not so and any expedient by which tuey could be severed from their sisters and admitted to the political privileges enjoyed 'by the men with whom they rank intellectually m entitled to respeotful consideration. We da not mean to say that we have any plan of our own to propose, but it is plain.tbat the pra Eent movement is kept alive by a small mjo- rity of unmarried, childless, or widowed women, most of them possessing a good dual of mental cultivation; and this small uU-m injures its own cause by assooiatiug it wit 1 the supposed interests of an hysterical lu'iUi tude. Any section of the commuuity wai ;h wishes to obtain political equality w.tu tin privileged classes by peaceful menus oivjht carefully to study the admissions made by those classes. No doubt thine ladies a nl their male suppoUers conceive thut they hav clone this. Tbey repeat all tha old Arguments for adding uuore and more men to the constituencies which have apparently pr. vailed. But they have wholly missed the feeling which gave point to these arguments the feeling that if the enfranchised classes became loyal and well-affeoted members of the body politio tbey would vastly strengthen the forces of cohesion by which it is kept to gether and the active forces which it may occasionally have to exert. N 3 such notion has ever been entertained by men con cerning women. If they were really compelled to think seriously about the matter, they would see that the many dangers threatening modern sooiety would be fearfully increased if much of governing power were transferred to a class which, to speak plainly, cannot, on gTeat emergencies, back its opinion by the exertion of physical strength. What the men best worth attend ing to have really admitted, or are ready to admit, is that no discernible harm could come of enfranchising a small minority of educate! and able women, and that some good might be its fruit. The only arguments used by Mr. Mill and others respecting the probable ad vantage of feminine influence in politics which deserve consideration apply to a very small class, and this is the first thing to be recognized. A THRILLING SCENE. A Man Knocked Insensible with, a Spit- toon During a Henrlug An Affrighted AVIfe and Kxclted Spectators. Yesterday afternoon a young man named George Wiliams, aged twenty-tive years per haps, was betore .Mayor Brush, upon an Infor mation preferred by John Drew, keeper of an eating bouse in the uiamona, charging him with having attempted the commission 01 an outrageous ollense upon a little daugh ter 01 deponent, lour years old. Ihe hearing was being held in the Mayor's private parlor, And while the little cirl was relating her story to his Honor, the lather, Decommg incensed, seized a largo spit toon and hurled it at the head of the unsuspect ing deleudant, who sat with his back to Drew. The spittoon struck Williams on the left side of the head, knocking him Insensible. He arose from the chair on which he sat and fell upon the tloor, being caught by the Assistant District Attorney, Mr. Flack, who was present for the purpose of conducting the examination. Officer Moorhead and the Mayor seized Drew, just as be was about to hurl the other spittoon at Williams. This sudden interruption of the hearing caused the wildest excitement, ltxe wife o Drew,, and mother of the little child, almost fainted, and a moment alter Drew wept like a child. His little daughter sat upon his knee, while at the side of the mother stood the other. both being unconscious of what was transpiring about them. Before Drew struck Williams hW brother-in-law left the room hurriedly, but did not return, it was reared ne would, however, with a weapon to dispatch Williams, and a close watch was kept over him. Dr. Murdock, city tihvsiciau. was called and dressed the wouud. which was about an inch aud three-quarters iu length and an inch deep. Williams aid not return to consciousness until about seven o'clock, three hours after the acci dent occurred. He says he is from Baltimore, and has been here two weeks. The hearing will be resumed on Wednesday, ihe spittoou was broken into a hundred pieces perhaps. The scene in the Mayor's office was the most thrill ing our reporter ever witnessed, and thero was not one iu the room, save his Honor, who pos sessed sell-control throughout, w imams occu pied a cell in the lock-up last night. Pittsburg Commercial, yexteraay. SPECIAL NOTICES. nf PHILADELPHIA AND KEADIN'-t IIAIL- ROAD COMPANY, Olllce No. Til S. FOURTH Street. PniLADEi.rniA, April 15, 1971. A Special Mectlnir of the StockUolders of the Philadelphia nud Reading Railroad Company will be held at the Oitloe of saw. Company, in the city of Philadelphia, on the Sin clay of May. 1S71. at Via P. M.. when and where the joint agreement entered into by the Hoard of Managers of the Philadelphia and Heading Railroad Company and the Board of Directors oi the Northern Liberties aud Pena Town ship Railroad Company for the consolidation of the said companies and the merger of the Northern Liberties and Penu Township Railroad Company into the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad Com pany will be submitted to the said stock hoi lers, and a vote by ballot, in person or by proxy, taken for the adoption or rejection 01 tne same. l. YV. JUiN R, 4 13 Secretary. PHILADELPHIA AND KEADINU KAIL- ROAD COMPANY, Office No. iiJ South FOURTH Street. PHILADELPHIA, April 10, 1871. Aspeclal meeting of the Stockholders of the Phila delphia and Reading; Railroad Company will be held act tie oillce of the said company, in the city of Phila delphia, on the eighth day or May, isji, at vi o'clock M., when and where tne joint agreement entered into by the Board o f Managers of the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad Company and the Board of Directors of the Lebanon and Tremont Railroad Company, for the consolidation of the said com panies, ana tne merger or tne Leoanon anu Tremont Railroad Company into the Philadelphia and Read ing Railroad Company, will be submitted to the said stockholders, and a vote, by ballot in person, or by proxy, tafcen for the adoption or rejection of the same. J. W. JOtfES, 4 18 Secretary. OFFICE OF TUB LEBANON AND TRB- No. 277 S. FOURTH Street, Philadelphia, ApMl 15, 1871. A spe cial meeting of .tne stockholders 01 tne Lebanon aim Tremont Railroad Company will be held at the oitico of the said company in the city of Philadelphia, ou the eighth dav or May, isii, at i o ciock m., when and where the joint agreement entered Into by the Board of Managers of the Philadelphia aud Heading Railroad Company and tne board or Directors or the Lebanon and Tremont Railroad Company lor the consolidation of the said companies, and the merger of the Lebanon and Tremont Railroad company luto the Philadelphia ana Heading itauroan company. will be submitted to the said stockholders and a vote by ballot in person or by proxy taken for the adop tion or rejection 01 tne same. ALBERT FOSTER, Secretary. CAMDEN AND AMBOY RAILROAD AND TRANSPORTATION COMPANY. Trenton, April 10, 1971. NOTICE The Annnal Meeting of the Stock holders of the OAM DKN AND AM BOY RAILROAD AND TRANSPORTATION COMPANY will be held at TRENTON, May 10, at H o'clock, M., at the Com pany's omce, for the election of seven Directors to serve for the ensuing year. SAMUEL J. BAYARD, 4 19 Secretary C. aud A. R. R. and T. Co. TUE UNION FIRE EXTINGUISHER COMPANY OF PHILADELPHIA Manufacture and sell the Improved Portable Fire Extinguisher. Always Reliable. D. T. GAGE, ' 6S0tf No. US MARKET St., General Agent. mrff BATCHELOR'S HAIR DYE. THIS SPLEN- did Hair Dve is the best In the world, the only true and perfect Dye. Harmless Reliable Instan taneous no disappointment no ridiculous tints "Vvettu tontain Ltatliwr any Vitalio Pvuon to in- 4ure.it. , Hair or Hmti'in." Invigorates the Hair and leaves It soit and beautiful : Black or Brown. Sold by all Drui'trlst and dealers. Applied at the Factory, No. 1 BOND Street, New York. 4 27 mwi V PILE3.-DR. OUNNELL DEVOTES HIS time to the treatment of Piles, bliud, bleed- lrp, or itching. Hundreds of cases deemed incur Lie without an opemiou hive beu permauettly cured. Best -iry reieieuce given, oince, no. 21 w. ELEVENTH Street. 4 15 3m ZZ3 DR. F. R. THOMAS, No. 911 WALNUT ST, formerly operator at t!ie Colton DfriiraJ Rooms, "ti g , til ll m t rj n OA I.I ill I lug 111, wll Wlt.u out pain, wu.u fresh nitrous oxiuk gait. 11 lit tiy DTSVenwaKY FOH SKIN DIdEASES, NO. Kit) ft. r-I.K V KNTH N're-t. Patienis tn-t i gratuitously at this institution daily at 11 o'clock. 1 14 tjvf- JOUV1NS KID GLOVE CLKANEB Klovei aoual to new. For sale bv all driwlitis aud .khU doaltrs. Price US cents per buttle. n asinwli SPEOIAL. NOTICES. IAFE DEPOSIT OOMPANIE. THE PENNSYLVANIA COMPANY FOR INSURANCES ON LIVES AND GRANTING ANNUITIES. Office No. 304 WALNUT StreeL INCORPORATED MARCH 10, 1813. CHARTER PERPETUAL. CAPITAL. $1,000,000. SURPLUS UPWARDS OF $750,000. Receive money on deposlt.returanriia on demand, for which Interest is allowed. And under appointment by Individuals, corpora tions, grin cou rut, ncias KXECL'TOKS. ADMINISTRATORS, TRUST ESS, OLAKDIAINM, ANSIUNfcEN, COM M ITTKK1, RfcCEI VERS, ACJKNTS, COLLECTORS, ETC. And for the faithful performance of Its duties as such all Its assets are liable. CHARLES DUTILH, Picsident, William B. ill, Actuary. DIRECTORS. Charles Dutllh, Joshua B. Llpplncott, Henry J. w imams, Charles II. Hutchinson, William S. Vaux, Llnriley Smyth. John R. Wucherer, .Oeorge A. Wood, Aaoipn K. none, i Anthony J. Anteio, Alexander Riddle, Charles's. Lewis, Henry Lewis. gECURITY FROM LOSS BY BURQLAKX ROBBERY, FIRE, OR ACCIDENT. The Fidelity Insurance. Trust.. Safe Deposit Company OF PHILADELPHIA in rnsia New Marble Fire-proof Building, . Nos. 829-331 CHESNUT Street. Capital subscribed, H.ooo.ooo; paid, (700,000. nrT"Pfvw nnvna. smnitH. Rwm trtttitq FAMILY PLATS, COIN, DEEDS, and VALUABLE of every description received for safe-keeping, under guarantee, at very moueram rates. The Company also rent SAFES INSIDB TI1EIH BURGLAR-PROOF VAULTS, at prices varying from 1S to $76 a year, according to size. An extra size for corporations ana Banners, kooius and desks adjoining vaults proviaea ror oaxe Renters. DEPOSITS OF MONEY RECEIVED ON INTH juvnt at tnree per cent., payaoie Dy cnecic, withoa notice, ana at lour per cent., payaoie Dy check, 0 ten days' notice. TRUST FUNDS AND INVESTMENTS kent ati r. Anu raii 11 uu uaacui oi company, r . - 1 . . T . rr , . IT 1 , . 11 A 1 1 tl .... . . . . INCOME COLLECTED and remitted for one Pe cent. The Company act as EXECUTORS. ADMInts. THATOKS. ann uuakdians, ana RECEIVE and exkcl rii i nusi s oi every description, from the courts, corporations, ana lnaiviauais. N. B. BROWNE, President. O. H CLARK. Vice-President. ROBERT PAT'i RBHON, secretary and Treasurer. N. B. Brewne, . Alexander Henry, Clarence li. Clark, Stephen A. Caldwell, John WelBh, Oeorge F. Tyier. Charles Maoalt-Bter, Henry O. Gibson, Edwara w. ciarK, j. uuiingnam en. Henrv Pratt McKean. 5 13 fmwt 'HE PHILADELPHIA SAFE DEPOSIT TRUST, AND INSURANCE COMPANY, OFFICE AND BUKOLAR-PKOOF VAULTS IK THE PHILADELPHIA BANK BUILDING, No. 421 CIIESNUT STREET. CAPITAL. 8500.000. FOR nAFB-KKEPING Of GOVERNS! BNT BONOS and other SKCUKiTiKS, Family Plate, Jewelry, and other v aluaules, under special guarantee, at the luwfui rawn. 1 he Company also offer for Rent, at rates varvlnaf fronilio to kVfiper annum, the renter holding the key, SMALL SAFES IN THE BURGLAR-PROOF VAULTS, aiioraing absolute Security acalnatFiRB Til EFT, BCKOLARY, and ACCIDENT. All fiduciary obligations, such as Trusts. Guar. dianships, hjcEcuTORsm. etc., will be undertaken and faithfully discharged. A ll trvHt uu-eNtmeiw-n are Kept separate and apart circulars, giving run aetaus, rorwaraea on appli cation. DIRECTUKS. Thomas Robins, Augustus Ilea ton, F. Katcuford Starr, Daniel Haddock, Jr., Edward Y. Townsend, John D. Taylor, Hon. William A. Porter. W si IX r A -! XJnnAww Lewis R. Ashhnrst, J. Livingston Errluger, R. P. McCullagh, Edwin M. Lewis, James L. ciaghorn, Beniamin B. comegys, josepn carsnn, m, u. OFFICERS. President LEWIS R. AS11HURST. Vlce-Presldeutr-J. LIVINGSTON EKRINGEK. Secretarv R. P. McCULLAGU. Treasurer WM. L. DUBOIS. 8 3fmw5 VYATOHEI, JEWELRY. ETO. XCstnbllNliecl in 1854. WATCHES. EVERGOING STEM-WINDERS, KEY-WINDERS, QUARTER SECONDS, MINUTE REPEATERS, ETO. ETO. ETO. C. & A. PEQUIGNOT, No. 608 CHESNUT STREET, 4 25 2m PHILADELPHIA. GOLD MEDAL EEQULAT0RS. li. W. UU88BLL, No. 22 NORTH SIXTH STREET, Begs to call tne attention of tne trade and customers to tne annexed letter: TK4K8I4fI0N. "I take nleasnre to announce that I have jrlven tc Mr. O. W. RLSiSELL, ot Philadelphia, tne exclusive sale of all ttoods or my manufacture. He wlU be able to sell them at the very lowest prices. "OU8I 4V BJiCtt. CM, "First Manufacturer of Regulators, "Freiburg, Germany. CROOERIES, ETO. JONDON BROWN STOUT AND SCOTCH ALE, In glass and stone, by the cask or dozen. ALBERT O. ROBERTS, Dealer In Fine Groceries, Corner ELEVENTH and VINE Sta, EDWARD PONTI & CO., IMPORT EKS OF FOhElQN PRODUCE, Wines, Oil&, Fruits, Cigars, WHOLESALE AND RETAIL, No. 1)01 WALNUT Ntreet, PHILADELPHIA. IDWAKDPONTL 13 275 JAMES W, HAVENS, FUKNITUKt. JOSEPH li Campion (late Moore A Campion), WILLIAM BUITIl, KtCUAHD K. CAMPION. SMITH & CAMPION, Manufacturers of FINS FPRNITUhE, UPHOLSTORINOS, AND IN TERIOR HOUSE DEOCStATI NS, No. 2)9 HOUTU TUHtD Street. Manufactory, Nos. 216 and UT LiiANf b;reet, ruideipuia. sat INBURANOE. gTATEMENT OF TUB CONDITION 07 m PHCENIX MUTUAL Xifo Insurance Comoanv. Of HARTFORD, CONN., On the 81st of December, 1870, m made to tbe Audi- tor-ucnerai s Department. FiTHt. Guarantee capital stocK tioo.ooo-oo Amount of assessments or Instalments on stock paid in cash 18,000-00 Second. The value as nearly si may be of the Real Estate held by the company .... Cash on hand ono oco.cn Cash in Banks, specifying the Banks.. casn in hands or agents in coarse or transmission 407.016-43 Amount of Loans secured by bonds and mortgages, constituting tne nrst lien on Real Estate, on which there is less than one year's interest due and owing 1.670.750-00 Amount of Loans on which Interest has not been paid within ono year .... Amount of stocks owned bv the comnanv. specify ing the number of shares and their par and market vainer 2110 Bh.CharterOak Nat. Blc, Eartford,Conn.2rt,ono-00 2( 0 " First 27,400-00 85 " A'ADA " ' .. 4,375-00 11,600-00 24,400-00 9,240-00 30,609 -00 , 12,500-00 31,250-00 7,781 -00 3S,60-00 8,000-00 85,000 t loo Mercantile " " " .. 4d0 " Amerlcau " " " .. 70 " Farmers' A Mechanics' " " .. 2d0 ' Pho-nlx " " " " .. Rio " First " Masslllon, Ohio, 2,')0 " Toledo " " Toledo, 199 " Hartford City Oas Light Co 38 coup. ods. Key city lias Light Co.... 8 lnaiana central ic k.uo... 10 " Southern Minnesota R.K.Co. 20 " Tennessee State 12,700-00 U. 8. Registered bonds !6d,925U0 Amount 01 blocks nein ny tne company as collateral security for loans, with the amount loaned on each klud of stock, Its par and market value 102 sh. City N'l Bank, Chicago, 111 110,659 00 8,500-00 Amount carried forward f 9,833,060-23 Interest on investments due and unpaid. .... Accrued interest not yet due .... Other available miscellaneous assets, Bpeciivine their character and value.. 158.016-43 Peierred premiums 103,213-09 Notes secured by real estate and en dorsements 15.2S8 00 Rill receivable amply secured 8,063,361-40 furniture in Home and urancnouices.. 19,592-93 Gross preEent assets. .$6,090,5'52-13 Third. Amount of losses during the year, ad- iued but notaue 8117.900-00 Amount of losses reported to the Com pany but not acted upon .... Amount of losses resisted by the Com pany .... Amount of dividends due and unpaid.... .... Amount of money borrowed, and the nature and amount of the security given .... Amount of all other claims against the Company, contested or otherwise .... Amount required to safely reinsure all outstanding risks 4,211,514-94 14,329,414-94 Fourth. Amount of cash premiums received 11,732,924-52 Amount of premiums not paid in cash during the year, stating the character of such premiums: rremium notes 783,601-73 Amount of premiums earned .... Interest receivea rrom investments 143,247-22 Income rrom all other sources, specify ing what sources .... Interest on notes taken for premiums. . . 167,864 -69 Gross income for year 1870.. .12,827,638-16 Amount of losses paid during the year.. 500.4ii.ij Amount paid and owing for reinsurance premiums 1.610-72 Amount of return premiums, whether paid or unpaid Amount of dividends declared during year Amount of dividends paid 499,71111 Amount ni e.ptuncs pmu uunng me year, including commissions and fees paid to agents and officers of the Company 27S.3G9-M Amount of losses due and unpaid . .. Amount of taxes paid by the Company . . 87,3SV57 Amount of all other expenses and ex penditures 6S.554 07 Amount of promissory notes originally fi rming the capital of the Company. .. 84.000 00 Amount 01 Buiu uoiea iieiu y me com pany as part of or the whole of the capital thereof 84.000-00 l'ar ana uiarKet viiiuB ui mo company s stock per share, par value 80-00 Paid for interests or Agents in Renewal commissions 114,000-00 Paid for Medical Examination 23.5S0-78 " Hurrenoered policies 27,833-46 " Officers' and Employes' salaries 27,506 60 Gross expenditures for year 1870 f 1,578 914-34 EDSON FESSENDEN, President. JAMES F. BURNS. Secretary. PHILADELPHIA BRANCH, PKNN BUILDINGS. No. 43U WALNUT Street 4 25tuths6t 1829 CHARTER PERPETUAL. 1871 Franklin Fire Insurance OF PHILADELPHIA. Office, Nos. 435 and 437 CHESNUT St. Assets Jan. I , 'T7$3,087,452'35 CAPITAL 1400,000-00 ACCRUED SURPLUS AND PREMIUMS .8,687,458 86 INCOME FOR 18T1, LOSSES PAID IN 1870, 11,200,000. ( 14,991-4U, Losses Paid Since 1839 Nearly $6,000,000. The Assets of the "FRANKLIN" are all invested In solid securities (over 12,750,000 In First Bonds and Mortgages), which are all Interest bearing and dividend paying. The Company holds no Bills Re ceivable taken for Insurances eiTected. Perpetual and Temporary Policies on Liberal Terms. The Company also issues policies upon tbe Keuta or ail Kinus oi uuaings, urouna uouta and Mortgages. DIRECTORS. Alfred G. Baker, Airred Fltler, Thomas Spars, WUllanib. Grant, Thomas 8. Ellis, Gustavus 8. Benson. Samuel Grant, George W. Richards, isaao Lea, Geotge Kales, ALFRED G. BAKER. President. G&OKUH FALES, Vice-President. JAMES W. MeALLlfTKK, Secretary. TliliuOOR B M- RttGiiR. Assistant Secretary. Giiai Mutual Insnrance Coapaij OF PHILADELPHIA. INCORPORATED lt04. Fire, Kaiiue, and Inland Imuranca. Office, N. E. Cor. THIRD and WALNUT losses paid since formation, S7.000.OCO. ASSETS OF THE COMPANY, JANUARY 1, 1871 S255,397'89. RICHARD 8. SJ4ITU, President. yOHN MOSS, hecretary. THE ENTEKPRISB INSURANCE COMPANY , , ,L prill A lih'l lul l OFFICERS. W. CORN KH FOURTH AND WALNUT aiscbTS. PERPETUAL AND TKHM POLICIES ISSUED. CAM! CAPITAL (paid up in full) f oo,ouu-00 CAbU ASSETS, December 1. 1S70 6u0,a:s-o0 F. Ratchford Starr. J. Llvlncston Errinirer. Nalbro Frazier, John M. A' wood, Bi ujBiulnT. -TredicK, Georite H. Stuart, John li. Brown. .Tainad I t 1 O rf hin William (1. Boulton, Charles W heeler. TtiomasH. Montgomery, K. RATCUi-ORD STARR, Presldeut. TIKkMAS II. MUN I HM !'! 1, Vice-1, a ivo- in oa ;aaicVefit. ALHX.ASSDKK W.ftfiS'l'Elt, fijcir.-. JACCvl Jti'jtTEiWOM AsdiJlt.bi. ricoietary. INSURANCE Firt Inland, and KaxLne Ininranci. INSURANCE COMPANY or NORTH AMERICA, Incorporated 170 CAPITAL S500.00C ASSETS Januarv 1 1871 $3,050,533 Receipts of 70 8,096,18 Interests from Investments, 1S70.. 137,050 -13,233,304 Losses paid In 1870 11,136,911 STATEMENT OP THE ASSETS. First Mortgages on Philadelphia City Pro- ' perty 1934.950 United States Government Loans 825,933 Pennsylvania; State Loans 169,310 Philadelphia City Loans 800,000 New Jersey ana other State Loans and City Bonds 325,610 rniiaueipnia ana jieaautg itauroaa uo., other Railroad Mortgage Bonds and Loans 369,248 Philadelphia Bank and other Stocks 62,4c t,an in uanK 881,049 Loans on Collateral Security 81,434 notes receivable ana marine rremiums unsettled 439,420 Accrued interest ana rremium in course of transmission 83,801 Real estate. Office of the Company 80,000 83,060,636 Certificates of Insurance Issued, payable In London at t he Cou sting House or Messrs. B JWN, SHIP- aeltiii it j. corwir, PRESIDENT. CIIAIftUSS PLATT, VICE-PRESIDENT. B1ATTIIIAN MARIS, Hecrclary. C. II. KEEVES, Assistant Secretary. DIRECTORS. ARTHUR G. COFFIN, SAMUEL W. JONES, JOHN A. BROWN, CHARLES TAYLOR, FRANCIS R. COPH. EDW. H. TROTTER, EDW. 8. CLARKE. T. CHARLTON HENRY, AMBROSE WlUTJfi, WILLIAM WilLfcli, LOUIS C. MADEIRA, ihiau w nTicuuin VUkN IT. VUUUJ'UU,. CLEMENT A. GRISCOM 4EORGE L HAKKISUN, WILLIAM BROCEIB. DELAWARE MUTUAL 8AFETY INSURANCE COMPANY. Incorporated by the Legislature of Pennsylvania, isao. Office S. E. corner of THIRD and WALNUT Streets, rniiaoeipnia. MARINE INSURANCES on Vessels, Cargo, and i relght to all parts of tfte woria. INLAND INSURANCES n Goods by river, caual, lake, end land carriage to an pur LB UI IUO LIUIOH. FIRE INSURANCES n Merchandise generally - on Stores, Dwellings, nouses, etc. ASSETS OF THE COMPANY, November 1, 1870. .000 United States Six Per Cent Loan (lawful money) 1333,375 00 lOO.OOO State of Pennsylvania Six Per Cent. Loan 814,000-OC 190,000 City or rnuaaeipnia mx rer Cent. Loan (exempt from . Tax) 804,162-50 164.000 State of New Jersey Six Per Cent. Loan 163,920-00 20.000 Pennsylvania . Railroad First Mortgage Six Per Ct. Bonds. 80,700-OC 36.000 Pennsylvania Railroad Second Mortgage Six Per Ct. Bonds. 85,350-00 B5,ouo western rennsyivama nan road Mortgage Six Per Cent. Ronda (Pennsylvania Kail. road guarantee) 80,00000 80,oou totaie or Tennessee a ive rer oi. Loan.' 18,000-00 7.000 State of Tennessee Six Per Ct. Loan 4,200-00 iz,auu rennayivania Kauroaa com pany (250 Shares Stock) R5,000-Q0 B.000 North Pennsylvania Railroad Company (100 Shares Stock).. 4,300 -04 iu,ouu rnuauuipnia ana soutnern man Steamship Company (SOsti's Stock) , 4,000-01 1.650 Loans on Bond and MorUraae. first liens on City Properties.. 861,650-00 11.260.150 Par. C'St. 11,264,447-34. M'ktVl 11.293 -667 -Of Real Estate 56,000-50 Bills Receivable for Insur ances made 830,871-27 iiaiances due at Agencies Premiums on Marine Policies Accrued Interest and Jther debts due the Company 93,375 40 btocs and Bcrip, etc., ot sun dry corporations. 17960. esti mated value 8.9H-O0 Cash 142,911 13 11,820,727-97 DIRECTORS. Thomai C. Hand, waroaei s. stokes, William a. Boulton, Edward Darlington, H. Jones Brooke, Edward Lafourcade, Jacob Rlegel, Jacob P. Jones, James B. McFarland, Joshua P. Eyre, Spencer Mcilvalne, lonn i. javis, fdmund A. Bonder, oseph H. Seal, James Traqualr, Henry Sloan, Henry C. Dallett, Jr.,J James C. Hand, William C. Ludwig, Hugh Craig, John D. Taylor, George W. Bernadon, Wm. C. Houston, II. Frank Robinson. Thomas P. Stotesburr. John B. Semple, Plttsb'rg, a. a. at rger, rittsourg. D. T. Morgan. Pittsburg. THOMAS C. iiYvnu, rresiaent. JOHN C. DAVIS, Vice-President. Henry Ltlbckn, Secretary. Hknbt Ball, Assistant Secretary. People's Fire Insurance Company, Ho. 014 WALMUT Street. CHARTERED 18S9. Fire Insurance at LOWEST RATES consistent with security. Losses promptly adjusted and paid. NO UNPAID LOSSES. Assets .December 81, 1870 $123,851-73 CHAS. E. BONN, President. GEO. BUSCH, Jb., Secretary. F AME INSURANCE COMPANY. No. 809 CHESNUT Street INCORPORATES 1856. CHARTER PERPETUAL. CAPITAL 1200,000. FIRE INSURANCE EXCLUSIVELY. Insurance against Loss or Damage by Fire either by Vurmil it u 1 I'.imnfirarv V1 .4n " DIKICTOHS. Charles Richardson, Robert Pearce. William n. Kuawn, William M. Seyfert, John F. Smith, John Kessler, Jr., Edward B. Orne, i-iiarics otoKes, John W. Kveriuan. Nathan Utiles, Oeorge A. West, Mordecai Buzbr. CHARLES RICHARDSON. President. WILLIAM U. RUAWN, Vice-President. Williams I. BLNcnARD, Secretary -IHE PENNSYLVANIA FIRE INSURANCa CC'KLPANY. Incorporated 1826 Charter Perpetual. NO. 610 WALNUT Street, opposite Independeno Square. This Company, favorably known to the comma nlty for over forty years, continues to insure against loss or damage oy Ore on Public or Private Buiid. lngs, elthur permanently or for a limited time. Aiwa on Furniture, Stacks of Goods, and Merchandise generally, on literal terms. Their Capital, togetuer wlta a large Surplus Fund. Is Invested la the most careful raanner, which ca bles them to oovr to the Insured an undoubted soo-j t tv in the case of loss. Denlei Smith, Jr lcLM?ietHrst, Thomas BaiitS, Henrv Lewis, J. ouikKfifain Fen, DaiUea llidilock. jolai Devoicos, tTkNib.L-ri..H'ii, Jr., Prestdenti ILL, toOiWifcry. Wu. a. CUOWJUL, 1 INSURANCE. ASBURY LIFE INSUBANGE CO. LEMUEL BANGS, President. GEORGE ELLIOTT, Vlce-Pres't and Sec'y. EMOllY McOLINTOOK, Actuary. JAMES M. LONGACRE, MANAGER FOR PENNSYLVANIA AND DELAWARE, Office, 302 WALNUT St., FniladelpMa. n. C. WOOD, Jr., Medical Examiner. rev. 8. rowans, special Agent. LpIKE ASSOCIATION, INCORPORATED MARCII 17 1S20, OFFICE, No. 84 NORTH FIFTH STREET, INSURE ILDLNOS, HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE, AND MERCHANDISE GENERALLY rom Lobs by Are (In the City of Philadelphia only). ASSETS, JANUARY 1, 1870, $1,703,319K)T. TRUSTEES. William H. Hamilton, John Carrow, Charles P. Bower, Jesse Llirhtfoot, Robert Mioemaker, Peter Arrabruster, M. IL Dickinson, Peter Williamson, Schell. Joseph R Lyndall, 1 evl P. Coats. Samuel Sparhawk Joseph E, WM. IL HAMILTON, President. SAMUEL SPARIIAWK, Vice-President. WILUAM F. BUTLER, Secretary. ANTHRACITE INSURANCE COMPANY. INCORPORATED 1854. CHARTER PERPETUAL.' Office, No. 811 WALNUT Street, between Tnlrd and Fourth streets, Philadelphia. This Company will insure against Loss of Damage by Fire, on Buildings, Furniture, and Merchandise generally. Also, Marine Insurance on Veftsels, Cargoes, and Freights. Inland Insurance to all parts of the Union. JkiuUktio no. William Esher, . Lewis Andenreid, Wm. M. Balrd. John Ketcham, J. E. Baum. John R. BlaUston, W. F. iean. John B. Heyl, Samuel H. KothermeL Peter Sieger, WILLIAM ESHER. President WM. F. DEAN, Vice-President. W. M. Smith, Secretary. pLPERIAIi FIRE INSUKANCI1 COH LOITLHJN, STABUHIIED 1MOS. , Fald-np Capital and Aooamalated Fundi, 08,000,000 IN GOLD. PREVOST fc HERRING, Agents, Ro. 107 8. THLRD Street, PbiUdtlphla.' HAS. K. FBBVOST OHAB. P. HKRRind HIGHWAY PROPOSALS. 1 11 iC DEPARTMENT OF HIGHWAYS. BRIDGES, 8EWER8, ETC. OFFICE OF CHIEF COMMISSIONER, No. 104 SOUTH FIFTH STREET. Philadelphia, Maj 2, 1871. NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS. SEALED PROPOSALS will be received at the Office of the Chief Commissioner of Highways, until 12 o'clock M. on FRIDAY, 5th Instant, for the construction of a sewer on the line of EIGHTH STREET, from Vine street to Willow street. On NINTH STREET, from Wood street 9 Willow street. On PHILIP STREET, from a point sixty feet south of Diamond street to Morris On MA8TIR STREET; from Mascher street to west curb line of Front street. On CHERRY STREET, and on the lint of Kershaw street, from Fifteenth street to Race street. ' On PINE STREET, from Ninth street to Tenth street On CHESNUT STREET, from Nineteenth, street to Twentieth street. On SEVENTEENTH STREET, from Mount Vernon street to Wallace street. On THIRTEENTH STREET, from CoatsS street to Olive street, and On OLIVE STREET, from Thirteenth street' to broad street. On SEVENTH STREET, from Coatea Btrett to Brown Street. On THIRTEENTH STREET, from Columbia to Montgomery avenue. On FORTY-SECOND STREET, from .Balti- , more avenue to Kingsessinr a venae. On THIRTY-SEVENTH STREET to Irrinr street, thence up Irving street to Thirty-eightii street. . ' The foregoing Sewers to be ' three feet im diameter, and to be constructed in the asual form. On GERMANTOWN AMD SUSQUEHANNA AVENUES, from Sixth street to a point 485 fast north of Susquehanna avenue on the said Ger man town avenue, and On SANSOM STREET, from Thirty-secon street to Thirty-third street, to be two feet six inches in diameter. With such manholes as may be directed by the Chief Engineer and Surveyor. The under standing to be that the sewers herein adver tised are to be completed on or before the 31st day of December, 1871, and that tbe contractor shall take bills prepared against the property fronting on said sewer to the amount of oae dol lar and fifty cents for each lineal foot of front on each side of the street as so much cash paid; the balance, as limited by ordinance, to be paid by the city; and the coutractor will bo required to keep the street and sewer in good order for three years after the sewer U finished. When the street is occupied by a city passen ger railroad track, the sewer shail be constructed alongside of said track in such manner as not to obstruct or interfere with the safe passage of the cars thereon; and no claim for remuneration shall be paid the contractor by the company using said track, as specified in the Act ot Assembly approved May 8, 18(10. Each proposal must be accompanied by a cer tificate that a bond has been filed in the Law Department, as directed by ordinance of May 25, 18(30. If the lowest bidder shall not execute a contract within five days after the work is awarded, he will be deemed as declining, and will be held liable on bis bond for the differ ence between his bid and the next lowest bid der. Specifications may be had at the De partment of Surveys, which will be strictly adhered to. The Department of Highways re serves the right to reject all bids not deemed satisfactory. All bidders may be present at the time an! place of opening the said proposals. No al lowance will be made for rock excavation, except by special contract. MAHLON II. DICKINSON, 5 3 3t Chief Com'r ot Highways. 53 COPYING PRESSES. Must rcvoivcu, a Luig ABSOrw T , . ..nnnlH r -- a . COPYLNCl PHKSSK3. VtI. CHRISTY, HKiUTter oi Prtuftr, No. RT S. Tlrir M) Strwt, Opposite Olrard Bank. t W eodj ALEXANDER Q. CAT TELL OO ViiOi V v.U COMMISSION MKSCHAMTML No. U NOiiTU WUARV& AMD KO, in NORTH WATWR STREET. PHlLAPKLPftlA. A.sMnint a. nerB LIJH Oimt TOHN FARNUM A CO., COMMISSION MER fJ chants gnd Manufacturers or C'onestoga Tick ing, etc. etc., Ko. Si CUESM'T Street, l'hiladel. piaa.
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