THE DAILijl IVENINU TELEGRAPH PHILADELPHIA, THURSDAY, MAT 11, 1871.
SriRIT OF WE MESS.
EDITORIAL OPINIONS OF THE LEADING JOTTRtULS
UPON OtTBBENT TOriOS COMPILED EVEBI
DAT FOB THE EVENING TELEGRAPH.
TITIIINQ AND CHARITY.
From the A. Y. Tribune,
We called attention Rome time ago to the
efforts being made in Eogland and this coun
try to form a lleligious Alliance of clergy
men and laity in the different churohes, the
object being to ignore, as far as practicable,
all surface differences, and to nnite in pro
mulgating the pnre, highest spirit of Chris
tianity. The gentlemen from England, dis
tinguished for both their piety and practioal
ability, who are introducing the scheme in
this country, hare hit upon a somewhat novel
plan of accomplishing their end. On ar
riving at a city they proceed to invite the
leading ministers in it to a breakfast, and
after their bodies and hearts are thus genially
wanned and fed find them, it appears, in a
conciliatory spirit for welcoming innovations.
We would suggest, however, that there is one
point in their great and altogether nobly
featured plan on which they dwell with what
seems to ns undue energy that of the volun
tary setting aside by the Association of "a
tenth part of his income for the servioe of
the Lord." It is insisted on indeed with so
much vehemence that it would be easy to
mistake it for the principal motive of the
movement. One of the speakes, when urg
ing it in Philadelphia, remarked that he had
never doubted its propriety but once, and
that was when he was pressing it on the Irish
people during the time of the (amine. "It was
difficult," he tells us, "to ask a man to give
away "a tenth of his income to the Lord
when his children were starving for bread."
So difficult that it is a pity the reverend gen
tleman had not found it impossible.
This system of tithing, or "systematic be
nevolenoe," as it is called, is rapidly extend
ing into all the Beets, and, although com
mendable in its spirit, it Beems to ns that,
like all other prescribed and arbitrary rules
of action, if not under the surveillance of
plain common sense, it is apt to become a
most oppressive yoke. Who is to determine
what is "the service of the Lord" to
which we must devote a tenth part of our
earnings? We have known sincere men and
women, Btriving honestly to serve God as
they had been taught, stint and fleece their
workpeople down to the half-starved washer
woman of the last penny in order to give
their tithes religiously to furnish some mon
ster church with stained glass or carved wood.
A man of praotical sense might question,
too, whether the money spent in fitting the
children God has given him to be strong,
helpful men in the world was not offered to
the servioe of the Lord quite as much as that
which went to aid in the doubtful education
of some hypothetical Mesopotamian. We
are a little surprised that some keen-witted
Irishman did not inquire of the reverend
tither whether to furnish bread for his
famished children was not as binding a duty
on him as to contribute to future breakfasts
' at the St. Nicholas and Continental, however
savored with Attio or pious salt. Not that
stained glass, and missionaries, and the break
fasts of our friends of the Association, are
not thoroughly good things in their plaoe.
But duties are relative, and no man can say
of them, "Lo, here is Christ!" or "Lo,
there!"
Our much abused French and German
cousins have an element in their home educa
tion of children which is almost altogether
overlooked with us It is that of the great
brotherhood of man. To a French child le
pauvre is one of his kinsfolk, as muoh a part
of his every-day life as mother or father; enters
into his most trivial plans. He is used to see
his clothes, his meals, his very toys, preserved
carefully and handed over to the pensioners
of the family. Charity is not a seldom, gusty,
impulsive liberality as with us. It forms part
of the economies of the household. The
Germans, with less effusion or sentiment in
the matter, aot with preoisely the same spirit.
There are no people who, in a plain matter-of-fact
way, extend so much help to the needy
or suffering of their own nation. Now this
is a tithing of another kind, such, it seems to
us, as Christ himself would have taught.
Whether a child or a man sets aside pre
oisely five or ten per oent. for religious pur
poses matters little; nor will it, we fanoy, as
is shrewdly hinted, at all increase in the long
run his bank aocDunt. But when the poor
are always with us, in truth as in fact, when
our brother man, rich and poor, loved and
hated, shares not only our money, but our
thoughts, our plans, our active help, not as
an enthusiasm or sentiment, but as an every
day practical matter of course, we shall have
touched the root of the true "service of the
Lord," and may confidently wait to hear the
words, "Aa ye did it to one of the least of
these, you did it unto lie."
A CEUISE ROUND THE WORLD.
From the S. Y. Times.
A history of the cruise round the world
lately made by a British flying squadron has
just been published, and reveals some odd
statistics. Buch a trip is commonly sup
posed to be a very delightful thing, and, to
most school-boys in particular, it has a per
petual fascination. The sailors of the flying
squadron, however, appear to have taken
quite an opposite view of it. In faot, they
were continually trying to desert. Either
the charms of the ports at which they
touched or the discomforts of their ships
were too great for the resolution of these
mariners, who left in such numbers that the
I'ali Mall Gazette says it is impossible not to
feel thankful that the ships of the squadron
were not left in some remote corner of the
world without any crews to navigate them
home. The desertions began at Bahia. At
Rio de Janeiro eleven men cleared out to
gether. At Montevideo twelve got away, and
the same number at the Cape of Good Hope.
These losses were nothing, however, to those
which awaited the squadron at Melbourne.
The ships left that place for Sydney with l.'.d
fewer men than they took there. Those who
saw the bay or harbor of Ban Francisoo in
1K4'J may remember a more vivid and whole
sale example of the loroe or tuts temptation
todeseit. Whole fleets, almost literally for
saken, lay rotting at anchor there. Probably
no such spectacle was ever witnessed sinoe
ships were built. It was as if some suJdau
and awful pestilence had stricken down the
entire crews of hundreds of vessels together,
and bad ltft them floating there aa silently
and idly as if they had been so many "painted
tbips on a painted ocean."
It is certainly not a little strange that, with
all their precautions, the captain of the fly
ing squadron should have lost so many men
in Aubtrnliu, and it is equally strange that of
all ttrse runaways ouly tight were re
covered. Bhips-of-war differ, of course,
from merchantmen in their facilities for re
hlrainii'g desertion, and also in thwir por
(w iul. li-ia ?L'J iu xoa as? v. X.k-
matter is, however, partly explained by the
fact that the Australian lawyers discovered
that the police bad no authority to send de
serters in custody from one colony to
another. The squadron lost twenty -seven
more sailors at Bvdner. none of whom were
evereot back. There were afterwards de
sertions in New Zealand, Japan, Vancouver's
Island, Honolulu, and Valparaiso, awell-
inc the total loss by desertion daring the
cruise to over three hundred men. Perhaps
their diet had something to do with it; for it
will interest disappointed followers of Bant-
in as well as those who study naval an airs,
to know that the average weight of those who
completed this trip round the world was
seriously diminished. Just after leaving
England, twenty. five grown offioers, seventy
marines and two hundred and sixty-nine sea
men were weighed, and found to average
irl79 pounds. The same persons, as nearly
as possible, were weighed, when close to Eng
land on the return passage, and found to
average but 145 94 pounds. This shows a
loss of nearly six pounds each, or about four
rer cent. It is asserted in the published Hum-
man that the effect of the cruise was to
stunt the physical development of the boys,
and to reduce the stamina of the men, and
as this was not attended by ill health, but
rather the contrary, it is to be inferred that
such a voyage is at least unfavorable to cor
pulence. In considering this inference, it should not
be forgotten that the ships making the cruise
were steamers; and steamers, more especially
the vibratory screws, prodaco certain peculiar
effects upon the system that sailing vessels
have not. The Medical Committee, which
has bo long been investigating the effect on
the system of daily or continuous railway
travelling, have reported very unfavorably
upon it. The committee declare, tnat is to
say, that the strain and wear and tear of the
nerves involved in continual looomotion of
this sort are, in most cases, prejudicial to the
general health. Obesity is, of course, likely
to be reduced by sucn a cause, and it is natu
ral to suppose that the effects on the human
frame of continued movement by steam on
the water may bear some analogy to those on
land. The experience of the 1' lying Squadron,
at all events, confirms this view; and conse
quently stout people who are anxious to re
duce their weight, and can afford to give
time and money for such an object, should
by all means try a cruise round the world in
a screw steamer.
THE MERCANTILE MANIA.
From the X. Y. World.
The historical inoident of the Soottish milk
maid throwing her stool at the right reverend
head of Laud, and the still more impressive
scene of the rival prelates oontusmg each
other with cresiers in the choir of St. An
drew's, are both painful to the sensitive and
cultivated mind. But it is equally distressing
mat tne dreadlnl note of preparation should
sound for con mot through academio groves,
and that the cry of the f rantio shopman and
the belligerent apolheoary should vex the
studious stillness of the Mercantile Library.
The scene of the orgies is indeed the
home quite as much of Mars as of
the Muses. It was there -. that the
champions of American art ' attempted
a score of years ago to wreak upon the
beer-nourished person of a Macready the in
dignities inflicted by British critioism upon
the shrinking form of a Lorrest. That
historical outbreak of patriotism gone 8esthe
tioally mad did not indeed effect its imme
diate and professed object, since in spite of
it the British tragedian has sinoe revisited the
glimpses of the theatrical moon, and with his
wonted persistency bayed (that luminary.
But it did succeed in maiming and doing to
death many persons who had assembled either
with the dark design of seeing Mr. Maoready
act or with the comparatively harmless de
sign of regarding the commotion excited by
the persons who violently declined either to
see him act or to permit other people to un
dergo that ordeal, which did not seem to the
riotous mind to carry with it the full measure
of its punishment. The ebullition of the
opposition in ihe Mercantile Library seems
equally to have fallen alike on tne just
and the unjust. The origin of the oonuiot
is shrouded in the same mystery aa
always veils the vagaries of youthful spirits
or youthful spite. There is no more reason
why the studious mercantile person should
turn off the gas during the orations of his
opponent, or necessitate the intervention of
the police, than why the sophomore should
decorate the abode of an obnoxious professor
or seal the doors of a hateful tutor. Bat
these latter feats have grown too common to
excite remark. It is accepted among the con
tingencies of academio life in a didaotio capa
city that one shall be in continual peril of life,
liberty, and property whenever an lneipu
cable earthquake of mischief shall heave the
undergraduate breast. The President of liar
vard has indeed deviated so far from the
traditions of that seat of learning as to under
take the punishment of the undergraduates
whose youthful exuberance carries them the
length of destroying vast edifioes. Bat he has
been so snubbed and sneered at by the press
and the adult public, as well aa the cousen
tient feeling of the institution over which he
E reside s, that there is not muoh danger that
is example will be followed, and the right of
students to demousn dormitories and to per
seoute professors will remain, in spite of this
transient protest, a matter of august and lm
memorial prescription.
There is no reason why the urban young
man, because he is engaged in more sordid
fiursuits, should be denied the same privi
eges as are thus aooorded to his scholastio
contemporary. The annual election of the
Mercantile Library has beoome an event
which evokes factious feeling, and sometimes
leads to downright disorder. But as Cicero,
and writers since Lis time, have deolared that
it was well there should be a class set apart
from society for the purpose of protecting the
peace of the other classes in society, so we
may say that it is proper that a safety-valve
should be provided whereby the turbulent
tendencies which might otherwise be pent
up and produce general oonvulsions, may
harmlessly if somewhat noisily dissi
pate themselves and pass away. Nobody
know 8 but that some potential Foster iay
have by this means worked off the bile
which might otherwise have led him into
murdering his fortuitous fellow-passenger on
a street-car, in the playful feat of knocking a
rival candidate or a rival orator on the heal
with a harmless necessary bottle. There are
limits, to be sure, to the indulgence of this
frUky feelinc President Eliot attempts 1 to
draw the line of the demolition of buildings
and failed. At what point the young men of
the Mercantile Library, if they are not inter
fered with, will stop, nobody, and leait of all
i Lea tives, can tell. But tueir uellioose ten
ritney at least signifies the warmth of their
interest in an institution which is a crelit
and a safeguard alike to themselves and the
city in which it is established; aui so lon? aa
thtir enthusiasm confines itself even within
the wide limits which it has played between,
tee mere settled and decorous portion
of their fellow citizens can aSt'ord tj shut
Utl! ; at lis luiiltataUjiis.
M. THIERS' DIFFICULTIES.
From the London Spectator.
M. Thiers is certainly not a great man. and
probably not a competent one; but the politi
cal difficulties in his way are greatly under
rated in England. They are such aa no states
man In tne world, not even Prinoe Bismarck,
would willingly be called upon to faoe. De
riving his title wholly from a Parliamentary
vote, and holding oinoe during the pleasure
of the Assembly, he is called upon in a time
of civil war to restore order without the
cordial support of the very members who
elected him. lie mast either conquer Paris,
or conciliate Paris, or compromise with Paris;
and to each of these courses there exist
almost insuperable obstacles, among whioh
tne temper ot tne Assembly is not tne least.
In England it is held that the first of these
alternatives is the right one, and oertainly it
is much the simplest; but the conquest
of Paris, while its people are in
arms, implies the storm of the greatest
fortress in Europe a fortress whioh the
greatest general alive, commanding the most
powerful army ia the world, preferred to re
duce by hunger. M. Thiers has to perform
the feat which General von Moltke declined,
with less than a third of his troops for he
certainly has not 80,000 men those troops
being soldiers not superior man for man to
the Parisians, dispirited by defeat, disorga
nized by want of confidence in their officers,
disheartened by the feeling that after flying
before the foreigner their first task is to
make their countrymen fly before them. We
do not believe in the stories of disaffection
among the troops before Versailles, but we
do believe those troops think the work
before them excessively dangerous, not
very honorable, and entirely without
national profit; that they fight fit
fully, more as Sikhs fight than as
Frenchmen were supposed to fight, and that
they are not carried away by enthusiaim
either for their cause, for their generals, or
for victory. Their numbers are constantly
swelled by prisoners released from Germany,
who etc as constantly sent to a distance for
re-formation; and they are commanded by a
general who is certainly able, but who has
suffered from a horrible wound, who demands
excessive powers, and whose probable use of
those powers is suspeoted by the head of the
Executive. It might be possible even with
such materials to "conquer" Paris, that is, to
force an entrance in despite of 100,000
workmen, fairly diilled, well led, and capable
in a fitful and desultory way of very des
perate fighting, if assistance could be
relied on from within the walls, but it cannot.
Buch assistance might be obtained if the As
sembly would proclaim the republic, or grant
municipal liberty, or even agree to reside in
Paris; but the Assembly will do none of
these things murmurs fretfully when any of
them are so much as mentioned M. Thiers
is reduced to his troops alone, and his troops
either can or will conquer only through a
slow, irregular, half-hearted process of cam
paigning, more resembling the warfare of the
last century than any method of action pur
sue a Bince ir.is.
The conciliation of Paris is at least oauallv
difficult, for "Paris" in the insurgent sense
demands impossible concessions. Supposing
xxuers, in despair, to concede tne nrst
great demand of the Commune that Paris
should be a free city like Hamburg, governed
py its own senate, and liable to the General
Government only for its contingent of taxes
and men. Paris, in its profound distrust.
would still demand that the national army
should be excluded from the city, a right not
claimed eltner by Hamburg or New York,
and in its historic pride that it should remain
the seat of the Government of Franoe in
other words, that it should be independent.
yet retain the power of upsetting the autho
rity to which it does not yield. Nothing lesa
than this would thoroughly "conciliate" Red
Paris, which indeed goes farther, and in its
very latest orhcial proclamation demands per
mission to federate itself with other great
cities, and with them to exercise a predomi
nant voioe in the general legislature. M.
Thiers, as a statesman, could not grant these
terms, whioh would be fatal to the unity of
France; or if he did, the Assembly would re
ject them, and either proceed on its own
violent path, sentencing Paris to destruction,
or compel him to strike a coup d'etat, for
which he has probably not the means, and
which could settle nothing beyond the mo
mentary dictatorship of an old civilian who
must reign by the bayonet and the favor of
the military chiefs. There is, we fear, no
possibility of conciliation in any adequate
sense.
There remains compromise, and this is
evidently M. Thiers' idea. It must not be
forgotten that he himself is Parisian, and at
heart possibly slightly proud of the fusB his
city is making in the world. He probably
hopes that the Commune, inoessantly de-
leated in tne neid, pressed by the suflerlng
of the population of Paris, and aware that
victory ia hopeless, may in a few weeks listen
to some conceivable compromise, suoh, for
example, as the proclamation of the republio
by the Assembly, the garrisoning of Paris by
national troops, and the conoession of fall
municipal liberty as understood in England
and America. That Btrikes average English
men, as represented by the Times, as quite a
reasonable arrangement, but it is nearly cer
tain that it would be rejected by the Assem
bly whioh can be dissolved only by its own
consent or by force and quite certain that it
would be regarded by the Red chiefs aa a
compromise worse, because more dis
honorable, than a sullen sub
mission to snperier force. The
Assembly does not want an orderly re
publio, or strong municipalities, or a con
tented Paris; but a powerful monarchy and
obedient cities and a humiliated Paris, and
the nearer it seems to approach to victory the
greater will its dislike to compromise become.
The Red chiefs, on the other baud, do not
want to plaoe Paris under a Republican As
sembly elected by peasants, but under a
Council of its workmen, and the nearer they
approach to defeat, the more passionately
Red will they become. Compromise is aa
difficult as either conciliation or oonquest,
and but for a certain confidence in the un
foreseen, whioh so frequently ooours in
France, we should be apt to declare that M.
Thiers had entered on a course from whioh
there was no escape. It is one, at all events,
which involves days or weeks of slaughter
outside Paris, the destruction of her re
sources, if not of her streets, and a finale
which can belittle better than a disastrous
interregnum.
It adds most heavily to the misfortunes of
France that the swiftest, if the wisest, road
ont of her difiisulties, a temporary dictator
tbip, seems so impossible or so dangerous.
The absolute government of a strong man,
wLo would honestly devote himself to revive,
and not to repress, her politioal energies,
might for the hour be a blessing to Franoe,
but where is such a man to be found whom
both town and country would aooept? The
men among whom the Assembly would
choose, the descendants of Bt. Louis, would
be in le kings, rot rulers of the class who
leiiLd. Quiy Que of lieu U 8? OiU.ll M
credited with high ability, and Franoekaow
nothing of the Duo d'Anmnle, exoept that hi; I
character is blameless, and that his pamphlets
display some literary foroe. Why ihould Paris,
which hates princes, or the army, whioh likes
soldiers, yield readily to him? Tne men
among whom the peasantry might be iuelined
to choose, the Bonnpartes,would be repres
sive, dynastio, hostile to the freedom indis
pensable to restore to the nation the politioal
eapacity it has lost. The man whom the
towns might choose, Leon GnibetU, might
succeed without repressing liberty, but why
should the peasantry choose him, even if he
were not too ill to undertake the task ? M.
Thiers himself is an old man who
has almost failed. No eminent Frenchman
known to Frenchmen, but outside the parties,
seems to exist in France; and as yet no sol
dier has appeared who is not in some way or
other more or less discredited, either by fail
ure, or by character, or by want of politioal
head, the latter being the defect attributed to
Marshal MacMahon. One Frenoh family,
that of Bernadotte, is reigning saooessfally
outside of France, and one other, the royal
family of Belgium, thinks in Frenoh, but
even the monarchist of France will not look
for their leader outside one worn-out and
most unlucky family. There is, so far as we
see, no man whose dictatorship even for a
time would inspire confidence in Frenchmen,
no one to whom the people would adhere, no
one who could even compel them to maintain
order without at the same time suppressing
liberty till statesmanship became extinct. We
see nothing for France except the "policy"
of M. Thiers, a policy which has no apparent
end, which founds nothing, and which has
not even the one poor merit of temporary
success.
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SPRING CREEK OIL COMPANY will be held at
Horticultural Ha'l, on WEDNESDAY EVENING,
the 4th Instant, at 8 o'clock P. M. 6 10 1M
ylFYOUDESIRE A MILD, PLEASANT,
safe, and agreeaula Cathartic which will cause
net her nanswa or griping pains, use Nature's remedy,
UELMboLD'8 GltAl'E PILLS. They are purely
vegetable; their component parts being Catawba
"Grape Juice and Fluid Extract Rtiubaru." buouhi
jou desire a brilliant complexion, youthful appear
ance, new life, new freoh blood and renewed vigor,
Use llELMUOLU S EXTKACT HAKSAFAKlLLA. 63wthsIW
Cfff'b RTIOULAR ATTENTION PAID TO
COMFORT and Style In Gentlemen's Boots aud
Shoes, at
BARTLETT'S,
8 SOU KO, 83 g, Slilll gtrsvtj !;m' VUMUUt,
SPECIAL. NOTICES.
CAMDKN AND AM BOY RAILROAD AND
Trknton, An'rfl 10, pm.
NOTICE The Annnal Meeting of th stork.
holders of the (JAM DKN AND AM HOY RAILROAD
AND TRANSPORTATION COMPANY will be held
at TRENTON, May 10, at 1 o'clock, M., at the Com
pany's oftlce, for the election of seven Directors to
serve for the ensuing year.
HAMUKIi J. oA I AK1),
419 Secretary C. and A. R. R. and T. Oo.
fgy- IF YOU WOULD B.KVU NEW LI PR, NSW
Blood, and renewed vigor, nse UKLMBOLD'S
GRiPE PILLS. Puriry the Blood and Beautify the
Complexion bi the use of HELMBOLO'S EXTRACT
BAKSAPARILLA. They are no chep patent mell-
i-iupb, out tnorougniv rnarraaceuucai, ana are not
equalled by any English or French prepar
tlon, 6 3wths7w
gy- TnE CHEAPEST AND BEST HAIR DYE
"w in the world,
Harper's Liquid Ilnlr Dym Never Fades or
AVaahea Out,
will change gray, red. or frosted hitr, whiskers, or
moustache to a beautiful black or brown as soon as
applied. Warranted, or money returned. Only w)
cents a box. Sold by all Druggists. g 93 tutrisOm
JQJT THE UNION FIRE EXTINGUISHER
COMPANY OF PHILADELPHIA
Manufacture and sell the Improved Portable Fire
Extinguisher. Always Reliable.
D.T.GAGE,
6 80tf No. lis MARKET St., General Aga
PILES. DR. OUNNELL-DEVOTES HIS
" time to the treatment of riles, bliod, bleed
ing, or Itching. Hundreds of cases deemed Incura
ble without an operation have been permanently
cured. Rest city reference given. Office, No. l N.
ELEVENTH Street. 4 IB 8m
fjy DR. F. R. THOMAS, No, 911 WALNUT ST,
formerly operator at the Colton Dental Rooms,
devotes his entire practice to extracting teeth with
out pain, with fresh nitrous oxide gas. U 17
THURSTON'S IVORY PRARL TOOTH
POWDER Is the best article for cleansing and
preserving the teeth. For sale by all Druggists.
Price 26 and B0 cents er bottle. 11 96 stuthly
DISPENSARY FOR SKIN DISEASES, NO.
816 8. ELEVENTH Street.
Patients treated gratuitously at this Institution
dally at 11 o'clock. 1 14
gy MERCANTILE LIBRARY "UPLIOATION
OF STOCK. All persons purchasing stock
before JULY 1 will be entitled to a second snare on
that day without charge. B4thra6t
INSURANCE.
DELAWARE MUTUAL SAFETY INSURANCE
aV com r an x. incorporated oy tne Legislature
it Pennsylvania, 1836.
Off ce S. E. corner of THIRD and WALNUT Streets,
Philadelphia,
MARINE INSURANCES
on Vessols, Cargo, and Freight to all parts of tie
world.
INLAND INSURANCES
n Goods by river, canal, lake, and land carriage to
ail pairs 01 me union.
FIRE INSURANCES
n Merchandise generally ; on Stores, Dwellings,
uouaes, etc
ASSETS OF THE COMPANY,
November 1, 1970.
.000 United States Six Per Cent
Loan (lawful mone)) 1333,876 00
30,000 State of Pennsylvania Six Per
Oent Loan 914.0O0-OC
I30,ooo city 01 roiiaaeipnia tix rer
Cent. Loan (exempt from
Tax) 804,169-60
164.000 State of New Jersey Six Per
Cent. Loan 163,920-00
80,000 Pennsylvania Railroad First
Mortgage Six Per Ct. Bonds. 80,700-OC
85,000 Pennsylvania Railroad Second
Mortgage Six Per Ct. Bonds. SS.aeO'OC
89,ooo western Pennsylvania icun
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
T,ooo state or xennessce six rer ut.
Loan 4,800-00
18.600 Pennsylvania Railroad Com
pany (260 Shares Stock) 15,000-00
o,uov rionn rennsyivama itauroaa
Company (loo Shares Stock) . . 4, 300 -Of
10,000 rnuaaeipnia ana soutnern man
Steamship Company (SOsU's
Stock) 4,000-01
1.650 Loans on Bond and Mortgage.
first Hens on City Properties.. 861,660-00
1.260.160 Par.CBt.Il.864.447'34. M'kt Vl 11.893-667 -Of
Real Estate 66,000-60
Bills Receivable for Insur
ances made 830,971-87
Balances due at Agencies
Premiums on Marine Policies
Accrued Interest and .itncr
debts due the Company 93.375 40
btock and frctfp, eto , ot sun
dry corporations. 17960. esti
mated value 8,913-00
Cash. 149,91173
fl,S90,TS79T
DIRECTORS.
Thomas C. Hand,
Samuel E. Stokes.
donn u. uavia,
fdnmnd A. Sonder,
oseph H. Seal,
James Traquair,
Henry Sloan.
William G. Boulton,
Edward Darlington,
H. Jones Brooke,
Edward Lafourcade,
Jacob RlegeL
Benry C. Dallett, Jr.,;
Jacob P. Jones,
James O. Hand,
James B. McFarland.
William o. Ludwlg.
Hugh Craig,
John D. Taylor,
George W. Bernadon,
Wm. C. Houston,
Joshua P. Eyre,
Spenoer Mcllvaine,
Thomas P. Stotesburv.
John B. Sena pie, PlttsbTg,
a. a. wrger, rittsourg,
D. T. Moriran. Plttabnrff.
H. Frank Robinson,
i hum ao u. n aim u, r resident.
JOHN c. DAVIS, Vice-President.
Hsnkt Lti-bcbn, Secretary.
Hehbt Ball, Assistant Secretary.
Mb Ual Insurance Company
OF PHILADELPHIA,
INCORPORATED ISO I.
Fire, Haiine, and Inland Iniuranco.
Office, N. E. Cor. THIRD and WALNUT
LOSSES PAID SINOE FORMATION,
S7, 000,000.
ASSETS OF THE COMPANY, JANUARY 1, 1871,
8255,39789.
RICHARD 8. SMITH, President.
JOHN MOSS, Secretary.
THE ENTERPRISB INSURANCE COMPANY
OF PHILADELPHIA.
OFFICE S. W. CORN Bit FOURTH AND WALNUT
STREETS.
PERPETUAL AND TERM POLICIES ISSUED.
CAbH CAPITAL (oald un In full) liOO.OOOOO
CASH ASSETS, December 1, 1870 600,388-00
F. RatchfordStarr,
J. Livingston Errlnirer.
iNaiuro fTazier,
JobnM. At wood,
Benjamin T. Tredlck,
George U. Stuart,
James L. Claghorn,
William G. Boulton,
Charles Wheeler.
Thomas H.Montgomery,
John n. urown,
F. RATCH'ORD STARR, President.
THOMAS H. MONTGOMERY, vice-President.
ALEXANDER W.WISTER, KfcreaTy.
JACOB E. PJlTERSON AaalaUot-Secretary.
A
NTHRACITE INSURANCE COMPANY.
INCORPORATED 1864.
CHARTER PERPETUAL.
Office, No. 811 WALNUT Street, between Third
and Fourth streets, Philadelphia.
This Company will Insure against Loss or Damage
by Fire, on Buildings, Furniture, and Merchandise
generally.
Also. Marine Insurance on Vessels. Cargoes, and
Freights. Inland Insurance to all parti of the Union.
William Esher,
Lewis Audenreid.
w m. at. cairo,
John R. Blaklston,
W. F. Dean.
John Ketcham,
J. E. Baura,
John U. Heyl,
Samuel U. bothermeL
Peter Sieger,
WTT.T.IAM ESUER. PrealdenU
WM. F. DEAN, Vice-President.
W. M. Surra, Secretary.
rtlFKlUAIi FIHJt
LNSURANOa OO,
a.
LOHDOH.
JK9TABL1MUKD ISO,
fald-ap OapiUl asd AMamaUtd Toads,
U8.000.000 IN GOLD.
rilEVOBT A HERRING, Agenta,
to. lift t. THIRD StrMt. PbiUwlalphUw
nn r. r&Y09t. ouaa r. uuuua
INBURANOfc.
Flrs Inland, and Marine Insurance.
INSURANCE Ct)MPA7
OF
NORTH AMERICA,
Incorporated 17a.
CAPITAL 500,0V
ASSETS January I IB7I 83,050,533
Receipts of P ';o a,ows,l54
Interests from Investments, 1970.. 137.050
-fl.S33.ai
Losses paid lnlSTO H,l3,y41
STATEMENT OF THE A.33ST3.
First Mortgages on Philadelphia City Pro
perty S34,50
United States Government Loans 835.8.vi
Pennsylvania State Loans 169,810
Philadelphia City Loans 900,000
New Jersey and other State Loans and
City 130UdS 923.B10
Philadelphia and Reading Railroad Co.,
omer itauroaa ALortgsge iiouoa ana
Loans 83,340
Philadelphia Bank and other Stocks ea,8
t ash in Rank 881,049
Loans on Collateral Security 81,434
Notes receivable and Marine Promlnms
unnett!ed 439,430
Accrued Interest and Piemtum In course
of transmission 83,801
Real estate, Office or the Company 80,000
3,0o0,B8
Certlflcates of Insurance Issnol, pavaole In London
at tbe Counting Hoaso of Mossrs. BrjWN, SHIP
LEY At CO.
AHTIII It . COITH,
PBS8LDENT.
JllAltl,i: PI.ATT,
VICE-PRESIDENT.
MATTHIAS MA HIM, Secretary.
C. n. KEEVE. AnalataDt decretory.
DIKKCTOKM.
ARTHUR O. COFFIN, FRANCIS R. COPE,
SAMUEL W. JONES,
KDW. H. Ti'.OTTElL
EOW. 8. CLARKE,
T. CHARLTON HENRT,
JOHN A. UKOWJN,
charles Taylor,
ambrose white,
wilijam welsh,
oun mason.
LOUIS C. MADEIRA,
CHA8. W. CUSHMAN,
ORGE L. HARRISON,
CLEM KNT A. ORISCOM
WILLIAM BROCKIE.
P I R E ASSOCIATION,
INCORPORATED MARCn 17, 1320,
OFFICE,
No. 84 NORTH FIFTH STREET,
INSURE
ILDIKQS, HOU8EHOLD FDRNITURff, AND
MERCHANDISE GENERALLY
rom Loss by Ore (In the city of Philadelphia only).
ASSETS, JANUARY 1, 1870, $1,703,319-07.
TRl'STEES.
William H. Hamilton,
John Carrow,
George I. Yonng,
Joseph R Lyndail,
1 evl P. Coats.
Charles P. Bower,
Jesse Ltghtfoot,
Robert Shoemaker,
Peter Arrabraster,
Samnel Sparhank. ' Peter Williamson,
Joseph E. Schell.
m. ii. uicKinson,
"WM. H. HAMILTON, President.
SAMCEL SPARHAWK, Vice-President.
WILLIAM F. BUTLER,
Secretary.
PLUMBINQ, QASfTtTINQ, ETO.
PANCO AST & MAULE,
THIRD and PEAIt Streets,
Plain and Galvanized
Wrought and Cast Iron Pipes
For Qa, Steam and Water.
FITTINGS, BEASS WORK, TOOLS,
BOILER TUBES.
iff TOmjiiaa!
Pips of all Sizei Cut and Fitted to Order
CAltO.
Having sold HENRY B. PANCOAST and FRAN
CIS I. MAULE (gentlemen In our employ for seve
ral years past) the Stock, (4oodwill and Fixtures of
our RETAIL ESTABLISHMENT, located at the
corner of THIRD and PEAK streets, la this city,
that branch of nnr business, together with that of
HEATjNO and VENTILATING PUBLIC and PKI
VATE BUILDINUS, both by STSaM and HOT
WATER, In all its various systems, will be oarrted
on onder the firm name of PANCOAST ft MAULS,
at the old stand, and we recommend them to the
trade and business publlo as being entirely compe
tent to perform all work of that character-
MOKIUS, TASEJSR & CO.
Philadelphia, Jan. 88, 1870.
WHISKY, WINE, ETO.
yiXES, LIQUORS, ENGLISH AND
SCOTCH ALES, ETC.
The subscriber begs to call the attention of
dealers, connoisseurs, and consumers generally to
his splendid stock of foreign goods now on hand, of
his own importation, as well, also, to his extensive
assortment of Domestic Wines, Ales, etc, among
which may be enumerated :
coo cases of Clarets, high and low grades, care
fully aulected from best foreign stock.
loo casks of Sherry Wine, extra quality of finest
grade.
100 cases of Sherry Wine, extra quality of finest
grade.
80 casks of Sherry Wine, best quality of medium
grade.
8 barrels Scuppernong Wine of best quality.
60 casks Catawba Wine " "
10 barrels " " medium grade.
Together with a full supply of Drandies, Whiskies,
Scotch aud English Ales, Brown Stout, eta, eto.,
which he is prepared to furnish to the trade and con
sumers generally la quantities that may be re
qulied, and on the most liberal terms.
P. J. JOllDAN.
0 6 tf No. 820 PEAR Street,
Below Third and Walnut and above Dock street.
CAR8TAIR8 & KIcCALL,
So. 126 Walnut and 21 Granite Sti.,
IMPORTERS OF
Eras diet, Wlnei, Gin, Olive Oil, Etc,
WHOLESALE DEALERS IN
PURE RYE WHISKIES,
IN BOND AND TAX PAID. 83
HATS AND OAPS.
art WAR BURTON'S IMPROVED VENTILATED
J,and easy-fitting DRESS HATS (patented, in all
the Unproved fashions of the season. CUESNUT
Mreet, next door to tha font Ofnoe. rp
COTTON SAIL DUCK AND CANVAS, OF ALL
numbers and brands. Tent, Awning, Trunk
aud Wagon-cover Duck. Also, Paper jtfanofao
Hirers' Drier Feha, from thirty to aeventy-au
ea. Paulina, .M
ALEXANDER 6. CATTBLL A CO.,
PRODUCE COMMISSION MKHOHANT.
No, 84 NORTH WHAltViJ
AND
SO. T NORTH WATrR 8TB SET,
FHirAD&LPRiA.