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THE DAILY EVENING TELEGRAPH PHILADELPHIA, THURSDAY, JUNE 1, 1871.
WI1T WE DO XOT LKLIEVE IN FROni-
LIT10N.
From the A". I. KatUnt
A correspondent askant for a confession of
faith as ! the possibility, or, if possible, the
expediency of preventing the Bale f alookolic
drinks, being prompted to do so by having
perceived what he considers indications of
hopelessness abont it on onr part, and by the
increasing zeal of the prohibitionists in his
own neighborhood. Y snpposed that our
opinions on this point were pretty well known
to snch of onr readers as cared anything abont
tbem, and were ranch interested in the ques
tion. We have not only, however, no objec
tion to saying out fully all wo have to say on
the subject, but are glad to be furnished with
nn exense for saying it. ' -
We are opposed to prohibitory legislation,
and consider all tia?e spent in agitating for it
almost wasted, first and foremost, because we
believe no such legislation can be effective.
In a certain sense, of course, this may be said
of all legislation. No law is ever completely
enforced; but a law prohibiting the Rale of
alcoholic liquors would, we believe, be dis
obeyed and evaded to an extraordinary de
gree, and by a large number of persons of
good character who usually do obey the law
faithfully; and, as a consequence of this, the
proportion borne by the violations of it to
the penalties inflicted for violating it would
be bo large as to weary the oflioera rapidly,
and consign it to total desuetude. All laws in
every country require a fair amount of sup
port from public opinion to ensure their exe
cution. This is true even of laws which
affect matters in which only a small portion
of the community has any personal interest.
It is doubly true of a law like this, which
would be highly inquisitorial in its opera
tion and involve incessant interference with
the habits and inclinations of persons of
ordinarily good repute. Suppose seven against
five to represent the majority whose support
is necessary to ensure the enforcement of a
piece of ordinary legislation, and it is safe to
say that a prohibitory liquor law would need
the support of a majority of eleven
to one. If you could count on such, a
majority, however, liquor selling would be
so thoroughly disreputable that either no
legislation would be necessary for its suppres
sion or there would be no opposition to it,
and, therefore, none of the incessant disous
aion. of its expediency which now goes on.
The traffic would be given np to justice as
readily as brothels and gambling-houses are,
and the only debates to which it would give
rise would be debates about the discipline and
efficiency of the police.
If yon ask the reason of the great difficulty
which its advocates experience in procuring
this legislation, the' answer is, strange as it
may seem, that the mass of mankind, in
cluding some of the best and purest of the
race, do not believe the drinking of alcoholic
liquor to be wrong; in fact, a vast body of
them, in all countries, truly and sincerely be
lieve it to be beneficial. The great majority
have from the earliest ages been, in fact,
moderate drinkers. No race or nation has
yet been lighted on of which the great body
of the males do not take stimulants in some
form or other, not only without shame or
fear, but with great gusto; indeed,, the talcing
of stimulants is associated in their minds
with the happiest moments of their lives,
with births, with weddings, with the meeting
of friends, and so on. The "drinking dia
toms of society," to use the teetotaler's
phrase, are, in short, apparently as old as
the race itself, and may be almost said to
have worked themselves into the very con
stitution of human society. We do not
say that this is a thing to be rejoiced over, or
a thing not to be deplored. We simply say
that an attempt to eradicate such a habit sud
denly by legislation would, in any country, be
hopeless enough to make it seem ludiorous.
No habit bo deeply rooted has ever been
eradicated except by the influence of an
accepted and revered prophet. Mahomet is
the only prohibitory legislator who has ever
succeeded, but he succeeded not as a prohibi
tionist, but as the founder of a new religion
among a barbarous people. We could imagine
liquor-dealing and liquor-drinking being
swept away, here, by an outburst of moral or
religious enthusiasm, in the nature of "a re
vival," if it were not that no communities are
ever swept by storms of this kind which are
not homogeneous. The American oommumity
is now anything but homogeneous.
It is scored in every direction by
differences of origin, religion, tem
perament, antecedents, and habits, and
though you might light your fire very success
fully among native Americans, and especially
New Englanders, and make it blaze fiercely
here and there, it would speedily be arrested
by German and Irish patches, on which the
flames of great "moral ideas" would find
nothing to feed them. Moreover, there is
little or no doubt that, for other reasons than
this, "great uprisings" on moral or social
questions will never again be seen. The in
tense publicity and intense activity of modern
life, and the incessant criticism which results
from publicity, have made them impossible,
except where there is within reach some such
sudden and energetic mode of expressing feel
ing as taking np arms. The work of reform,
like the work of charity, is done more and more
every day in cold blood, with books of statis
tics on the table. There are, however, fea
tures in American society and manners which
make prohibitory legislation here seem more
objectional than in any other country within
our knowledge. The manners and traditions
of the people make all police interference with
their habits peculiarly odious and offensive.
They aie not broken into it as Europeans are,
and, though the cuRtom of drinking la bar
rooms, which prevails here to an extent un
known in Europe, makes it apparently very
easy to put a stop to liquor dealing by merely
closing the bar-rooms, we must remember
that bar-rooms exist because they are con
venient and lawful; close them, and the
habit of Bccret drinking in houses will at once
spring np, and Las sprang np wherever they
have been closed, as in Maine and Massachu
setts; or, in other words, our drinking cus
toms will be to some extent assimilated to
those of the Old World, aud our police would
then find itself face to face with a more seri
ous problem than any with which a European
police has to deal.
But here, again, we come upon the great
est difficulty of alL We have no polio or
anything worthy of the name of a police, and
worse still, or better still, if you will, w have
not the means of making one. A good
police, by which we mean a force of vigilant,
exaot, methodical, shrewd, cunning, unscrupu
lous, and disciplined men, is hardly possibU
in the United States at present. Partly
owing to the condition of the publio uiiu 1
with regard to the service of the State or,
to use the term most in vogue, the civil ser
vice no man can be got to give himself jq
to this service with th thoroughness and self.
abnegation of a European. All the haitn,
and antecedents, and soeml surroundings of
an American unfit him for it, and he u
not supported by publio opinion in
attempting it. There ia a very good
bide to this C American peculiarity.
tut it is fatal to the suppression of the liquor
traffic. A force fit to put it down in any
State of this Union would have to contain an
amount of probity, aelf-saoriuoe, devotion,
and discipline which those who undertake the
business of hunting np rum in other people's
drawers have not as yet displayed on this
continent, and are not likely to display. We
do not need to enumerate here the objections
to a law which cannot be enforced, especially
in a community whose order and happiness
are dependent so largely on the popular re
flect for law, and, above all, on the popular
loyalty and honvty in obeying the law, as
this is. This opens np a very wide field,
which, however, anybody can explore for
himself.
We are far from believing, however, that
nothing can be done by luw for the dimi
nution of drunkenness. The liquor
traffic cannot be abolished, and, in Ray
ing thia, we do not take into account
the spasmodic cases in which a town here
and a county there has spilt a great deal of
liquor, and stopped drinking for two or three
weeks. But the traffic can be regulated, we
believe, even with the machinery at our dis
posal, so as greatly to lessen the temptation
to drink, "and thus lessen the amount of crime
canted by drinking, which, after all allow
ance has been made for the exaggerations and
misrepresentations to which temperance ad
vocates are, for some inscrutable reason,
very prone, is undoubtedly large. In fact, all
that the advocates of prohibition claim
for their experiment, wherever it has been
made, is that it does regulate and diminish
drinking, not that it stops it; but this is dearly
purchased by the creation of a habit of con
tempt for the law which illicit drinking surely
creates. The great difficulty in the way of
this regulation is everywhere in the Union to
be found in the habits and oharaoter of the
political class, which are too low to make
effective dealing with so corrupting a ques
tion possible. Political reform, including re
form of the civil service, lies at the back of
temperance reform, and we believe we shall
never see the liquor question reached in a
rational and scientific manner except through
a purification of the official class, both State
and Federal.
What, then, "Truth-seeker" may ask, do
we look forward to as the final solution of the
temperance problem ? Do we really think
that the world is fated to remain as drunken
as it is now ? Nothing of the kind. We be
lieve the time will come when drunkards will
be as rare as thieves or swindlers, and as dis
reputable, not because the decent people of
the world will be all teetotalers, but because
those who drink at all will be "moderate
drinkers." We think the notion that men
will ever give up wine and beer as a great
moral duty is as wild a dream as has ever
entered the brains of an agitator. We know
that intemperance has greatly diminished
under the influence of education and
other moral and social agencies; we
believe it will continue so to
diminish, under the same influence, until
drunkenness is as rare as is every other form
of indulgence; and to strengthen the moral
and social agencies which do notoriously
diminish drunkenness, is the temperanee
man's first duty. Everybody who asks him
self why the custom of getting drunk after
dinner has disappeared from among the up
per classes in Europe; why ministers do not
go and guzzle in their idle hours at taverns,
as many workingmen do; why a German ar
tisan can confine himself to drinking beer
through an evening at a publio garden with his
wife, instead or getting madly drunk on whis
key, as the Irishman does, will, if he tries to
answer his own questions, get a great deal of
light on the subject.
All that has been done for temperanoe in
the world as yet, has been done by persuad
ing men not to drink, or giving them better
things than drinking to do; nobody really be
lieves legislation could ever have done as
much. When you get into a man's head and
heart, you hold his will, which the policeman
can never do, and it is through this will that
drunkenness is to be conquered. The pre
sent movement in favor of prohibition we
look on as one of those outbursts of impa
tience with objectionable praotices in whioh
the good people of the world have indulged
every bow and then ever since govern
ments were set np. Nothing is harder than
to refuse to use the powers of government
to stop people's doing what you don't like,
when yon think those powers are within your
reach. This is a feeling which has been at
the bottom of all that legislation in aid of
morals and religion from which the world
has suffered so greatly, so much of which is
now recognized as barbarous and inhuman,
and so much of which we laugh over as silly.
It has taken fifteen hundred years of experi
ment to satisfy us that men cannot be made
pious by law; it is not wonderful, therefore,
that in many places the faith should prevail
that by law they will eventually be made sober,
There is nothing, however, in the lessons
of history, or in what we Bee of the tendencies
of society in our day, to warrant this conclu
sion. There have been three great attempts
made in Christendom to polioe men into per
sonal purity Calvin's, at Geneva; that of the
Puritans in England and America; and that of
the Papacy at Home. They have all failed,
and failed hopelessly, and there is no ohanoe
of their ever being repeated. Moreover, the
tendency of the day ia against all coercion in
aid of personal morality, or for the suppres
sion of what Benthain calls the self-regarding
vices. This is remarkably shown in the total
change of views which has taken place with
regard to the education of children, from
whioh the infliction of physical penalties may
now be said to have almost disappeared. In
other words, self-restraint has begun to play a
part in practical education whioh, much as has
been preaobed about it, it was in old times
never called on to play.
Lastly, there is nothing in history or human
nature to warrant the conclusion that it will
ever be possible to incorporate in popular
morals a prohibition 01 acta in themselves
harmless, based simply on the faot that ex
cess in the commission of them is h artful,
and that some persons are guilty of this
excess.
There is no precedent or parallel for any
thing of the kind in civilized legislation. J
may be, and often am, forbidden to do things
which, theugh harmless in my case, would
work mischief if all did them; but I am not
prohibited from doing things which, if all did
them, would still be perfectly harmless, lest
some persons should do them in hurtful ex
cess; and I am not likely to be. Whether,
under the rules of Christian morality, I am
my brother's keeper to the extent of being
bound to refrain from acts of wnich his ion
tation may prove injurious to him, aud, in
other words, not only to set mm a good ex
ample, but to practise asceticism ou his ac
count, aud for his good, iadaubtlosa a weighty
question, but it isoue which must be left to the
individual conscience, No sueli theory of
responsibility could be introduced into juris
prudence, without either Banking its applica
tion so sweeping as to be utterly intolerable,
or surrounding it with so many modification!.
and allowances, and restrictions as to make
it farcical. Should a man, for instance, be
prohibited from setting up a carriage, or
living In a fine house, because the desire of
luiury brings so many traders and cashiers to
frauds and defalcations? Should the police
pee tnat a pretty woman wears sad raiment
and goes veiled lest the plain ones should be
made envions or driven into vice? Should a
man who is industrious take no vacation, lest
his example should demoralize the indolent
and idle? The subjeot, m short, has hardly
as yet been discussed at all, owing to the ex
traordinary heat with whioh nearly, all those
who are seriously interested in it approaoh it.
INSURANCE.
DELAWARE MUTUAL SAFETY INSURANCE
COMPANY. Incorporated by the Legislature
f Pennsylvania, 1S36.
Offlce S. E. corner of THIRD and WALNUT Streets,
Philadelphia.
MARINE INSURANCES
on Vessels, Cargo, and Freight to all parts of tne
world.
INLAND INSURANCES
n Goods by river, canal, lake, sod land carriage to
a'l parta of the Union.
FIRE INSURANCES
n Merchandise generally; on stores, Dwellings,
Houses, etc
ASSETS OF THE COMPANY,
November 1, 1870.
,000 United States Six Per Cent
Lean (lawful mon") $333,878 00
30,000 State or Pennsylvania Six Per
Cent. Loan B14,000'OC
100,000 City of Philadelphia 81x Per
Cent. Loan (exempt from
Tax) 804,16at50
164,000 State of New Jersey Six Per
Cent. Loan 163,930-00
10,000 Pennsylvania Railroad First
Mortgage 8lx Per Ct. Bonds. 80,700-OC
85,000 Pennsylvania Railroad Second
Mortgage Six Per Ct. Bonds. 83,250-00
S8,000 Western Pennsylvania Rail
road Mortgage Six Per Cent.
Bonds (Pennsylvania Rail
road guarantee) 10,00000
B0,000 State of Tennessee Five Per Ct.
Loan 18,000-00
T.OOO State of Tennessee Six Per Ct.
Loan , 4,200-00
18,500 Pennsylvania Railroad Com
pany (250 Shares Stock) 13,000-00
6,000 North Pennsylvania Railroad
Company (100 Shares Stock) . . 4,300-OC
10,000 Philadelphia and Southern Mall
Steamship Company (SOah's
Stock) , ,000-0l
1,660 Loans on Bond and Mortgage,
first hens on City Properties.. 861,650-00
H,860,150 Par. C'st, 11,264,447-3. M'ktvl 11,893 -wr-or
Real Estate 66,000-60
Hills Receivable for insur
ances made 830,971-27
Balances due at Agencies
Premiums on Marine Policies
Accrued Interest and Jtlier
debts due the Company 93,375 40
Stock and Scrip, etc, ot sun
dry corporations, 17960, esti
mated value 8,912-00
Cash 143,911-73
11,820,787-97
DIRECTORS.
nomas C. Hand.
Samuel B. Stokes,
William G. Boulton,
3d ward Darlington,
H. Jones Brooke,
Edward Lafourcade,
Jacob Rlegel,
Jacob P. Jones,
James B. McFarland,
Joshua P. Eyre. ,
Spencer Mcuvalne,
Thomas P. Stotesbnry,
John B. Semple, Pittsb'rg,
John C. Davis,
fdrnand A. Soader,
oseph E. Seal,
James Traqualr,
Henry Sloan,
Henry C. Dailett, Jr.,;
James C. Hand,
William C. Ludwlff,
Hugh Craig,
John D. Taylor,
George W. Bernadou,
Wm. C. Houston,
a. is. uerger, ntisourg,
u. jrranx KObinson,
D. T. MorfffttL Plttaburir.
i hum A3 o. 11 ainu, rnamenu
JOHN C. DAVIS, Vice-President.
Hikbt Lvlbckn, Secretary.
Hbnrt Ball, Assistant Secretary.
ASBURY
LIFE INSURANCE CO.
EIEW YORK.
C. C. NORTH, President.
A V. STOUT, Vice-President.
EMORY McCLINTOCK. Actuary.
JAMES M. LoNCACRC,
MANAGER FOR PENNSYLVANIA AND
DELAWARE,
Office, 302 WALNUT St., Philadelphia.
A. E. M. PURDT, M. D., Medical Examiner.
REV. 8. POWEHB, Special Agent.
Onion Mutual Insurance Company
OF PHILADELPHIA.
INCORPORATED 1S04.
Fire, Marine, and Inland Initiranca.
Office, N. E. Cor. THIRD and WALNUT
LOSSES PAID SINCE FORMATION,
S7, OOO.OOO.
ASSETS OF THE COM PAN 7, JANUARY 1, 1871,
C255,397'09.
RICHARD 8. SMITH, President.
. JOHN MOSS, Secretary.
People's Fire Insurance Company,
No. S14 WALNUT Street.
CHARTERED 1869.
Fire Insurance at LOWEST RATES consistent
with security. Losses promptly adjusted and paid.
NO UNPAID LOSSES.
Assets ;December 81, 1870 1123,891-78
CHAS. E. BONN, President.
GEO. BUSCH, Jr., Secretary.
IN CORPORATED
march 27, ism
FIRE ASSOCIATION,
No. 84 NORTH FIFTH STREET,
PHILADELPHIA.
CAPITA! S'iOO.OOO.
ASSKT8, JANUARY 1, 1871, SI,7O.3,31tf-0T.
STATEMENT -OF THE ASSETS.
Bonds and Mortgages l,W6,9CI-92
Ground Rents -i,9SQ 83
Real Estate : 65,920-70
U. K. GOV. 6-20 Bonds. 45,000-00
Cash on band 84, m 62
11,706,819-07
DIRECTORS.
William H. Hamilton,
John Carrow,
George I. Young.
Joseph R Lyudall,
.Tt-MHA T.lchtfnnt
Robert shoemaker,
Peter Armbruster.
M. H. Dickinson,
Peter Williamson,
Samuel Sparhawk
rjatuuci luyu.
WM. II. HAMIL'tON President
BAM DEL Sl'AKHAWK. Vi-e-Presldent.
WILLIAM F. BUTLER, Secretary.
NTHRACITE INSURANCE COMPANY.
INCORPORATED 1854.
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
Freight. Inland Insurance to all parts ol the Union.
William Esber,
Lewis Andenreld.
Wm. M. Baird.
John R. Biakmton,
W. F. Dean,
John Ketcuam,
J. E. Baum,
John B. HeyL
Samuel II. KothermaL
Peter Sieger,
wiLLiAiii tsuEK, president.
WM. F. DEAN, Vioe-Prealdent.
W. M. Smith, Secretary,
JMJPKHIAIi FIliX INSUliANOa CO.
LOHDOH.
KMTABIJMUUD 1NOS.
rld-ap Omptul sad Aooam alatod Fonda,
C8.000.000 ir GOLD,
PKEVOST A nERRINQ, Agents,
Ho. 101 B. THIRD BtrMt, Philadelphia;
Q4& K, IX W31. GUA. r, mjUUUS4
INtONANOEi
Fir, Inland, and Harine Iniuranci.
INSUEANCE C0MPAK7
Of
NORTH AMERICA,
Incorporated
i m
CAPITAL $500,000
ASSETS January 1 1871 $3,050,530
Receipts of '70 8,006,154
Interests from Investments, 1S70., 187,030
-3,233,
Losses paid In 1870 11,130,941
STATEMENT OF TUB ASSETS.
First Mortgages on Philadelphia City Fro-
Perty 334,9S0
United States Government Loacs PW.asa
Pennsylvania! State LoanB 16,310
Philadelphia City Loans 800,000
New Jetsey and other State Loans and
City Bonds 823,510
Philadelphia and Reading Railroad Co.,
otner Bauroad Mortgage Bonds and
Loans RM.04H
Philadelphia Bans: and otter Stocks f i,4S
Cash in Bank 831.04H
Loans on Collateral Security 81,434
Notes receivable and Marine Premiums
unsettled 433.420
Accrued Interest and Premium in coarse
of transmission , . . . 83, 801
Real estate, Office of the Company 80,ooo
13,050,633
Certificates of Insurance Issued, oavable in London
at the Con atlng House of Messrs. BR i WN, SHIP
LEY & CO.
AUTIIMi O. COFFIIV,
PBESIDENT.
CISAItLIS I'LIIT,
VICE-PRESIDENT,
WATTIIIAM OTAKIH, Secretary .
C. II. REEVES, Assistant Secretary
DIRECTORS.
ARTHUR G. COFFIN.
FRANCIS R. COPE,
SAMUEL W. JONES,
JOHN A BROWN.
CHARLES TAYLOR,
AMBROSE WHITE,
KUW, U. TROTTER,
EDW. 8. CLARKE.
T. CHARLTON HENRY,
ALFRED D. JESS UP,
LOUIS C. MADEIRA,
CHAS. W. CUSHMAN,
WlLil.lAM VVItUll,
JOHN MASON,
3EOHGE L. HARR180N,
CLEM ENT A. GRISCOa
WILLIAM B ROOKIE.
1829 CHARTER rsRPflTUAL. Jgyi
Fmllis Fire line Zsw)
OF PHILADELPHIA,
Office, Hos. 435 and437 CHESNUT St
Assets Jan. I , ,7J1$3,087,452'35
CAPITAL 1400,000-00
ACCRUED SURPLUS AND PREMIUMS. 8,687,462 88
INCOME FOR 1871,
11,800,000.
LOSSES PAID IN 1870,
$272,881-70.
Lotie Paid Since 1829 Nearly
$6,000,000.
Tne Assets of tne "FRANKLIN" are all Invested
In solid securities (over t2,760,i00 In First Bonds and
Mortgages), which are all Interest bearing and
dividend paying. The Company holds no Bills Re
ceivable taken for Insurances e fleeted.
Perpetual and Temporary Poll-Ties on Liberal
Terms. The Company also lasues policies nponthe
Rents of all kinds ol Buildings, Ground Rents and
Mortgages.
DIRECTORS.
Alfred G. Baker,
Bamuel Grant,
George W. Richards,
Isaac Lea,
George Falea,
Alfred Fltler,
Thomas Sparks,
William 8. Grant,
Thomas 8. Ellis,
Gnstavus 8. Benson.
ALFRED G.
BAKER, President.
GEORGE KALES, Vice-President.
JAMES W. MCALLISTER, Secretary.
THEODORE M, REGER. Assistant Secretary.
THE PENNSYLVANIA FIRE INSURANCE
X COMPANY.
Incorporated 1826 Charter Peroetual
No. 610 WALNUT Street, opposite .Independence
square.
This Company, favorably known to the comma
nlty for over forty tears, continues to Insure against
loss or damage by nre on ruouc or rnvate uuiiu
logs, either permanently or for a limited time. Also
on Furniture, Stocks of Goods, and Merchandise
generally, on liberal terms.
Their Capital, together with a large Surplus Fund,
Is invested in the most caretui manner, which ena
bles tlirm to oner to the Insured an undoubted secu
rity In the case of loss.
Daniel Smith, Jr.,
Isaac Hazlehurst,
Thomas Smith,
jieury iewis,
J. GUUngham Fell,
Dautel UaddocK.
u nomas itouins,
John Devereux,
i ran urn a. vomiy.
DANIEL SMITH, Jr., President.
VTm. O. Crowkll, Secretary.
THE ENTERPRISE INSURANCE COMPANY
OF PHILADELPHIA.
OFFICE S. W. CORNER FOURTH AND WALNUT
STKEETS.
PERPETUAL AND TERM POLICIES ISSUED,
CASH CAPITAL (paid up In full) 2o0,ooo-00
(J ASH ASSETS, December 1, 1870 600,383-00
F. Ratchford Starr,
J. Livingston Errlnger,
naiuro r razier,
JobnM. A i wood,
Benjamin T. Tredlck,
George U. Stuart,
John H. Brown.
dames Lt. uiagaurn,
William u, boulton,
Charles Wheeler.
Thomas H.Moutgomery,
dames m. Aerisen.
F. BATCH KORD 8TA
ttR, President.
THOMAS II. MONTGOMERY. Vice-President.
ALEXANDER WWISTJiR. Vfccrntafy.
JACOB E. PETERSON Asslstiut-Secretary.
pAMB INSURANCE. COMPANY,
NO. 809 CHESNUT street.
TJJOOHrOEATED 18S6. CHARTER PERPETUAL.
CAPITAL 1200,000.
FIRE INSURANCE EXCLUSIVELY.
Insurance against Loss.'or Damage by Fire either by
StKKCTUKH,
Charles Richardson,
Robert Pearce.
w imam n. nuawn,
William M. Seyfert,
Jobu F. Smith,
Nathan UilleB,
John KesBler, Jr.,
Edward B. Orne,
Charles Stokes,
John W. Everman,
Mordecai Buzbv.
George A. West,
CHARLES RICHARDSON. President.
WILLIAM 11. RHAWN, Vice-President.
Williams I. Blakchabd, Secretary.
HARDWARE. ETO.
CUMBERLAND NAIL8
8475 Per Keg.
These Nails are known to be the beet in the market
All Halls, no -wo ate, and cost no
more than other brands.
Each keg warranted to contain loo pounds of Nana,
Also, a large assortment of One Hinges, Locks, and
Knobs. Kaiid Bronze, suitable tor nrst-olasa build-
lngs, at the great
Clieap-for-Casli Hardware Store
Of
J. II. SUJLHXOIf,
1 14 tuthsi No. 1009 MARKET Street.
OOAL.
It.
P. OWEN A CO.,
COAL DEALERS,
FILBERT HTKKKT WHARF,
SCHUYLKILL. llOly
NOWDON RAC'S COAL DEPOT, CORNER
DILLWYN aud WILLOW Streets. Lehigh and
Schuylkill COAL, prepared expressly for family tua
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SHIPPING.
rf-p?. FOR LIVERPOOL AND QUKBTNH'
SJJuiSTOWN. The Inraao Line of Royal Mai
Btamers are appointed to sail as follows
Nemesis, Tburtd&y, Joae 1, at 9 P. M
City ot London, Saturday, Jane 8. at 9 P. V,
City of Washington. Saturdnv. June 10. at 19 M.
Citv of Dublin, via Halifax. Tnesdav. June 18. atl
P. M.
and each succeeding patuMav and alternate Tnea-
day, from pier No. 4ft North rtvor.
By Mall Steamer Sailing every Saturday.
Parable in cold. Pavabla In ennuncv.
First Cabin 7B 8terage ISO
to London bo To London.... 85
To Halifax sol To Halifax.. 19
PasseDsrers also forwarded to Antwerp. Rotter
dam, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, eta, at rednoed
rstea,
Tickets can be bought here at moderate rates by
persons wishing to send for their friends.
For further Information apply at the company's
Office.
JOHN G. DALE, Agent, No. lo Broadway, . Y.I
Or to O'DON'NELL ft FAULK, Agents,
No. 402 CHESNUT Street. Philadelphia,
dm. NATIONAL
8TCAM8HIP COMPANY.
STEAM DIRECT TO AND FROM NEW YORK,
The niaetilflcent Ocean Steamshlns of this line.
sailing regularly every SATURDAY, arn among the
largest in the world, and famous fur the degree of
saiety, eomfort, and speed attained.
175 and f68. First class Excursion Tickets, good for
twelve months, 1180. Early application must be
V 1 ' 1 f JUl X 1-"'.', VLUIiilillUli
made in crder to secure a cnoice or state-rooms.
STEERAGE RATES, CURRENCY,
Outward, tsa. prepaid, 138. Tickets to and from
Londonderry and uiaegow at the same low rates.
Persons visiting the old country, or sendlBg for their
ineuas snouia rememner mai mesa rates are posi
tively much cheaper than other tl rat-class Hues.
Bunk drafts Issued for any amount,at lowest rates,
payable on demand In all pans of England, Ireland,
Scotland, Wales, and the Continent of Europe.
Apply to wallah b c-C, Agents,
A'o. 904 WALXUT SU, just above Second.
THE REGULAR STEAMSHIPS ON THE PHI
LADELPHIA AND CHARLESTON STEAM
SHIP LINE are ALOIS B authorised to Issue throngt
oiiifl of lading to interior points South and West li
connection with South Carolina Railroad Company,
ALB-RED L. TYLER,
Vice-President So. C. RR, Co. -
J"frV PHILADELPHIA AND SOUTHERN
MAIL STEAMSHIP COMPANY'S RE
GULAR SEMI-MONTHLY LINE TO NEW OR
LEANS. La.
The JUNIATA will aall for New Orleans direct
on Tuesday, June 13, at 8 A. M.
The Yazoo win sail from New Orleans, via
Havana, uu j uuuo
THROUGH BILLS OF LADING at as low rates
as by any other route given to MOBILE, GALVES
TON, 1NDIANOLA. ROCKPORT, LAVAOOA, and
BRAZOS, and to all points on the Mississippi river
between New Orleans and St. Louis. Red river
freights reBhipped at New Orleans without charge
oi commissions.
WEEKLY LINK TO SAVANNAH. GA.
The TONAWANLA will sail for Savannah on
Saturday, June 3, at 8 A. M.
The WYOMINU will sail from Savannah on Sat
urday. June 3.
THROUGH BILLS OF LADING given to all the
principal towns In Georgia, Alabama, Florida, Mis
sissippi, Louisiana, Arkansas, ana Tennessee in con
nection with the Central Railroad of Georgia. At
.antic and Gulf Railroad, and Florida steamers, at
as low rates aa Dy competing lines.
SBMUHOHTHLT LINE TO WILMINGTON, N. C.
The PIONEER will sail for Wilmington, N C, on
Thursday, June 8. at 0 A. M. Returning, will leave
Wilmington Thursday, June 15. ,
Connects with the Cape Fear River Steamboat
Company, the Wilmington and Weldon and North
varoiina rtauroaaa, ana tne vvumingion ana Man
chester Kanroaa to an interior points.
Freights for Columbia. S. C and Augusta. Ga..
taken via Wilmington at aa low rates aa by any
otner route.
Insurance effected when requested by shippers.
Fills of lading signed at Ojieen street wharf oa or
Deiote aay oi sailing.
WILLIAM L. JAMES, General Agent,
No. 130 S. THIRD Street.
CLYDE'S STEAM LINES.
, Office, NO. 12 South WHARVES.
PHILADELPHIA. RICHMOND AND NORFOLK
STEAMSHIP LINE, THROUGH FREIGHT AIR
LINE TO THE SOUTH AND WEST,
Steamers leave every WEDNRS.DAY and SATUR
DAY "at noon," from FIRST WHARF above MAR
KET Street.
No bills of lading signed after 13 o'clock pn sailing
aay.
I'lTROTTOH RATES to all DOlntfl In North and
South Carolina, via Seaboard Alr-Une Railroad, con
necting at ronsmooiu, ana at L-yncaDurg, v a., Ten
nessee, and the west, via Virginia and Tennessee
Alr-Une, and Kicnmona ana uanvuie itaiiroads.
Freights HANDLED BUT ONCE and taken at
LOWER RATES than by any other line.
No charge for commissions, drayage, or any ex
pense of transfer. Steamships Insure at lowest
ftttPH
FREIGHTS RECEIVED DAILY.
State-room accommodations for passengers.
WM. P. PORTER, Agent, Richmond and City
l Oinu A. r. wau v Btuu ct w., Ageum, rtonoig.
PHILADELPHIA AND CHARLESTON,
u PHILADELPHIA and CHARLESTON
bTEAMSUIP LINE.
THURSDAY LINE FOR CHARLESTON.
The flrst-class steamship VIRGINIA, Captain
Hunter, will sail on Thursday, June 1, at S
F. M noon, from Pier 8, North Wharves, above
Arch street.
Through bills of lading to all principal points In
South Carolina, ueorgia, ionaa, etc., etc.
Kates of freight as low as by any other route.
For freight or passage apply on the Pier, as above.
WM. A. vouttuuiAi, Agent m cuarieston.
jr! FOR NEW YORK DAILY VTA
JiJSLESCDELAWARE AND RARITAN CANAL,
KVFKKSS STEAMBOAT COMPANY
The CHEAPEST and OUICKEST water comma-
nlcation between rniiaueipiiia sua iew ion.
steamers leave DAILY from first wharf belo
MARKET Street, Philadelphia, and foot of WALL
Street. New xorK.
THROUGH IN TWENTY-FOUR HOURS.
Goods forwarded by all the lines running out of
New York, North, Jtaat, ana weat, iree or commis
sion.
Freight received dally and forwarded on accom
modating terms.
m 6 JAMES nAND, Agent,
No. 119 WALL Street, New York.
rr NEW EXPRESS LINE to ALEX-
JjEtAaSSaANDRIA, GEORGETOWN, AND
WASHINGTON, D. C, Chesapeake and Delaware
Canal, connecting with Orange and Alexandria
Railroad.
Steamers leave regularly every SATURDAY at
nOOn, irOUl EUDI ' ' UOJI l UJ 1 J VUUtttAl OUVU.
Freights received daily.
HYDE A TYLER, Agents, Georgetown, D. C.
Jl. ELDRIDGK 4t CO., Ageuu, Alexandria, Va.
fT fc, DELAWARE AND CHESAPEAKE
Jj2m3- tow-boat company. .
barges towea utiweeu riinaaeipaia, .Baltimore,
Havre-de-Grace, Delaware City, uud Intermediate
P CAPTAIN JOHN LA UGH LIN, Superintendent.
iiWlf'W Nn 1Q Kjtnrh XtTITA HVR-J
PHILADELPHIA.
WILLIAM pTcLIPE & CO.,
AGENTS
For all the above lines,
No. 19 SOUTH WHARVES, Philadelphia,
where further Information may be obtained.
pspk LORILLARD BTEAMSUIP rOOMPAKY
i "flit new YOU If.
SAILLNOr TUESDAYS, THURSDAYS, AND SAT.
URDA1S AT ruoiN.
INSURANCE ONE-EIGHTH OF ONE PER CENT.
No bill of lading or receipt signea lor less inaa
fifty cents, and no insurance effected for less than
one dollar premium.
For further particulars and rates apply at Com
panv's office, Pier 83 Eaat river, New York, or to
JOHN F. OHL,
PIER 19 NORTH WHARVES.
IT. Extra rates ou small packages Iron, metals'
eta.
fr FOR NEW YORK, VIA DELAWARE
.rZ?-!riIDd Rarltan Canal.
bvvmsLKB TRANSPORTATION COMPANY.
DLSPATCU AND SWIFTSURE LINEi
The steam propellers of this company leave daily
gt 1 M. and 6 P. M.
Through in twenty-four hours.
Goods forwarded to aay polut free of commission.
Freights takes on accommodating terms.
ArPlJ yixLIAM M. BAIRD A CO., Agents,
No. Izi boutH DELAWARE Avenue.
LUMUtH
1 000 000 FEET ,IKMOCK Jols!T
AND SCANTLING.
ILL LENGTHS,, ALL SIZES.
500 000 FEET and -4souti1-
ERS h5E FLOORlXO(Dry).
Our own work lt. Assorted and unassorted.
250 000 ET " VHIGX2S1A. SAP
'Loouso (Dry.)
Our own working. Aborted and unassorted.
250 000 FK 3 5-8 ndi-a
INCH SAP mix BOARDS,
Together with a large and well-aelected stock ot
thoroughly seasoned Building Lumber of all descrip
tiona, suitable ror tne erection or large ractonea,
stores, dwellings, etc in connection with the abov
we are now running a
Steam Saw and lIanlng MM,
And are fully prepared to furnish Builders ana
others wita
Pllll Worlt of all Inscription,
WINDOW FRAME, 8ASFT, SHUTTERS, DOORS,
BRACKETS, Etc
SUPERIOR WOOD MOULDINGS A SPECIALTY.
BROWN Ci WOELPPER,
No. 827 RICHMOND STREET,
B 9 tuthslm PHILADELPHIA.
1QT1 SPRUCE JOI8T.
10 1 1 SPRUCE JOIST.
HEMLOCK,
HEMLOCK.
1871
1871
SEASONED CLEAR FINE. - Qi"T1
BEASONED CLEAR PINS. 10 4 1
CHOICE PATTERN FLNE.
SPANISH CEDAR. FOR PATTERNS.
RED CEDAR.
1871
FLORIDA FLOORING.
FLORIDA FLOORING.
CAROLINA FLOORING.
VIRGINIA FLOORING.
DELAWARE FLOORING.
ASH FLOORING.
WALNUT FLOORING.
FLORIDA STEP BOARDS.
RAIL PLANK.
1871
1871
WALNUT BOARDS AND PLANK. OFf-i
WALNUT BOARDS AND PLANK. lO I X
WALNUT BOARDS,
WALNUT FLANK.
1871
UNDERTAKERS' LUMBER,
UNDERTAKERS' LUMBER.
RED CEDAR.
WALNUT AND PINS.
1871
1871
SEASONED POPLAR.
SEASONED CHERRY.
1871
ASH,
WHITE OAK PLANK AND BOARDS,
HICKORY.
1 OT1 CIGAR BOX MAKERS' 1 Qrrl
AO I 1 CIGAR BOX MAKERS' 10 4 1
SPANISH CEDAR BOX BOARDS,
FOB SALS LOW.
I n1 CAROLINA BCANTLING. 1 OT1
10 41 CAROLINA H. T. SILLS. , lOf 4.
NORWAY BCANTLING.
' -
1871
CEDAR SHINGLES. 1 Q , 1
CYPRESS SHINGLES. 10 IX
MAULS, BROTHER St CO.,
No. aooo SOUTH Street
PANEL FLANS, ALL THICKNESSES
COMMON PLANK, ALL THICKNESSES,
1 COMMON BOARDS.
l and a bide fence boards.
WHITE PINS FLOORING BOARBS.
YELLOW AND SAP PINE FLOORINGS, IX IftA
IK SPRUCE JOIST, ALL SIZES.
HEMLOCK JOIST, ALL BIZBS. . . .
PLASTERING LATH A SPECIALTY,
Together with a general assortment of Bonding
Lumber for sale low for cash. T. W. 8MALTZ,
11 80 6m No. 1T18 RIDGE Avenue, porta of Poplar 81 '
JUILIEItS. TAKE NOTICE.
The largest and best stock of
WOOD MOULDINGS
IN THE STATE,
AT GREATLY REDUCED PRICES,
Can be found at the;
U. S. BUILDERS' MILL,
NOB. !?, 84, S, 28 South FIFTEENTH 8treefc
Also, Scroll, Bracket, and Turning Work for.
nlshed to order at very short notice.
Call and see stock and prices. 4 8T lm
OORDAQE, ETO.
CORDAGE.
Kanilla, Biial and Tarred Gordagl
At Lowest Rsw York Pilose and JnisMH
KDWIN EL FIYIJCK M CO
nnoijiiuiiaiiii ua vuuunivnn .now
tors. Ho. 13 H. WATKB Bs. and U It D SLA WARS
Avon as.
PHILADELPHIA
JOHN S. LEE A CO., BOPS AND TWINS
MANUFACTURERS.
DEALERS IN NAVAL STORES,
ANCHORS AND CHAINS,
BHIP CHANDLERY GOODS. ETC.,
Nos. fl and 4d NORTH WHARVES.
PROPOSAL. 8.
IRON FOR LANDING PIER, NEAR LEWES,
DELAWARE.
' United States Engineer's Office, Phila-)
DKLi'llIA, Pa., NO. 1330 CHE8NCT STBBBT, V
May 6, 1SI1. )
SEALED PROPOSAL8, In duplicate, of the form
furnished by the undersigned, with a copy of this
advertisement attached to each, will be received at
this OlUce until 1-2 o'clock M. on MONDAY, the lit h
day of June, 1811, for the supply of Wrought and
Cast Iron required for this work.
The Iron must be delivered on the railroad pier at
Lewes, or at the works where made.
The bids will state carefully the proposed places
of delivery, with the corresponding prices.
There will be required for the pier about one mil.
Hon eight hundred thousand pounds of rolled aud
hammered Iron, and about three hundred and forty
thousand pounds of cast iron.
The present letting will be for about 800,000 ponnds
of wrought Iron and about 140,000 pounds of cast
Iron.
Specifications and drawings can be seen at this
Office, where information will be supplied on appli
cation. Envelopes to be endorsed "Proposals foe
Iron."
J. D. KURTZ,
CAUAHTEHMAHTRR'S OFFICE, UNITED
STATES ARMY,
v Philadelphia, Pa., May 26, 18T1.
SEALED PROPOSALS in triplicate will be re.
reived at this orllce until 18 o'clock M. on MON
DAY, June so, lbtl, for building a brick or stone
wall, with one double snd one single iron gate, at
the following named NATIONAL CEMET&R1ES.
viz. ;
culpeper C. H., Va., Fort Harrison, near Rich
mond, Va., and Beverly, N. J.
The rubbish resulting from the excavation for the
walls to be removed from the grounds or each ceme
tery at the expense of the successful bidder.
Bidders will be required to specify the price per
linear foot, and no btd will be entertained that does
not conform to this requirement. .
Plans, specifications, and blank: forma for bill
furnished by the undersigned.
HENRY J. HODGES,
6 30 Ct Major and Quartermaster U. S. Army.
A N K F O R D
ARSENAL.
Office a. C. 8.,
Philadelphia, Pa., May 13, 1811.
SEALED TKOlOtJALS lu duplicate will be
received at is office until 18 M., June 15, 1811, for
furnishing tie lrrh beef required by the 8ub
s'stt'Die Department. V. S. A., at this station during v
tlx mom lis, coninit'iuMng July 1, 1671. information
b to condition?, quality of beef, payments, eto
can be otulLtd ty application to
WILLIAM PRINCE,
6 15 First LlenU Ord., A. O. 8.
OTTON'sAIL TDUCSTTNirijANVAOrALL
numbers aud brands. Tent, Awning, Truak
aud Wagou-cover Duck. Also, Paper MauuiatW
torer Drier FwHa, arorn Uiiry to evemjHj