lIPPINCOTT'S FOB APRIL. A lively number of Lippincotes Magazine, for April, contains Seveial papers of marked originality,not worst of which is!eommunicated by Edward A. Pollard, being his 'personal and intimate view of the Negro question in the South. Mr. Pollard denies 111 E NEGRO ASPIRATION EQUALITY , The negro in the South does not want social equality•;• he bas really no aspirations 'of that kind ; and indeed the more intelligent of the, blacks deprecate the agitation of such demand as calculated to excite and inflame prejudices against the race, without the possibility of any commensurate good. Some time ago 'a pro position was made in the Alabama Legisla ture to enforee.tbe admission of ne g roes into theatres, Oliera-houses, and hotels, and a negro member of that Legislature was' the first to get tip to oppose it, as prejudicial to the true interests of his race, and as only productive of inland discussions in which there could no profit, , A careful observation will show that any movement for social equality of the negro in the South has been prompted by's - Northern emissaries, Who have put the black man up to it, or has been inspired by politicians—that no such movements have been ,made naturally and generally by the colored people of the South. The writer has traveled in the South every year since the war, and be has to say emphatically that he has never yet seen a negro attempting an in trusion into any place—theatre, hotel or rail way car—where the distinctions of society have excluded him, unless in some few in stances, where insolence of this sort has been essayed by some black missionary froM the North, or has been distinctly procured by the advice and instigation of white people: The negro naturally retires from any such experi ment. So far from preferring a claim to social equality, he, in his habitual intercourse with the white people of the South, is deferential,' • sometimes even to the degree of a painful ex hibition of submission and compliance; for that deference—a point of good manners with the black man—instead of always obtaining credit for him, is sometimes practiced upon by brutal white persons, his inferior in man ners, to effect a command and mastety over him not unlike that in former days of. slavery. 'The negro is naturally polite; every white gentleman in the South is prompt to .respond to him and to repay heartily his respects ; and, if there is any fault, it is that his yielding,man ners and obsequiousness are carried too far, and sometimes make him the subject impo sition by a low and unmannerly class of whites. --- .lelllll7Clailuc pert sine, THE CROWNING VIRTUE OF TICE FREEDMEN. ' The crowning and most surprising virtue of the negro in the South is his. freedom from the vice of intemperance—a vice which is a notorious one in the land in which he lives, and which has been the , common scourge of 'weak and inferior races. That the negro has been superior to this instrument of destruction, which has been used with such fearful effect on the least civilized races, is a volume of com mendation of him, and speaks for his future more hopefully than any other 'incident of his moral life. I utter a pregnant and remarkable truth when I say. that drunkenness is almost uoknown'among the negroes of the South. Mr. Pollard does justice to the INDUSTRY OF THE SOUTHERN NEGRO. Notwithstanding his disadvantages of nature and all other disadvantages (and they are many), the negro has shown since his emancipation an industry that is extraor dinary; that is constantly, daily increasing, both in volume and discipline, and has sup plied him with comforts that he never knew before;' that bas enabled him to build churches and to found charitable institutions of his own ; that has kept him better clothed than he was in his former condition ; and that exhibits its results to-day in the vast' bulk of the agri cultural products of the South. Dr. J. P. Little, in a highly interesting arti cle, treats of the Floridian peninsula, and men tions as follows • THE.SUBTERRAKKAN LAKES In Florida there are many lakes which have boles in'the bottom and underground commu nication, so that they will sometimes shrink away to a mere cupful, leaving many square miles Of surface uncovered, and then again fill up from below and spiead out over their for-' mer area. Some of them have outlets in the ocean far from shore, bursting up a perpetual spring of fresh water in the very midst of, the briny saltness of the 'Sea. In times of low water, during a long. exhaustive, dry season,men have gone underground in one of these subterranean rivers from lake to lake a distance of eight miles. Mr. Eugene L. Dither, in the course of his paper on "The Washington Season," thus comments on THE - MANNERS AND CITAIIACTEA OF CHIEF JUSTICE CHASE. Let us glance around these rooms and see whom we can see. In all this throng of heroes, statesmen, Cabinet ministers, and Senators, there is one forth preeminently prominent, and that is the grand.form-of.Chief_Justice Chase. Bis noble face reflects the tree nobility of his soul. It is the head of Webster, with Webster's massive - sternnesss softened into the most engaging benevolence. Such a form and such ,a fate would grace—ay, honor- 1 --any palace in the world. Perhaps there is not a public man in America v ith so many warm personal friends as the dis tinguished Chief Justice of the United States. No, person can approach him without going away pleased ; his cordiality wins all hearts.' It was said of Marlborough that it was a greater pleasure to be refused a favor by him than to receive a favor from any other man. This may be said with greater truth of the Chief Justice, for whether he grants or refuses a-favor, it is done with perfect sincerity; that is more than can be affirmed of the victor of Blenheim, the first general, but most consum mate hypociite' of his age. An anonymous essay on "Our Credit Abroad " contains the following proposition for AN EASY METHOD OF CONTRACTION. Congress should authorize the issue of legal tender notes similar to those put in circulation during the war, and to an extent equal to the greenbacks now in use—say three hundred and fifty-six millions, having three years to run, at six per cent. These notes should be dated on the first of each month, as issued, and paid out for all dues of the Government except coin obliga tions, until the entire quantity haS. been dis-, posed of. They should be made convertible, at the end of two years, into ten-forty bonds at five per cent., principal' and interest payable in coin—greenbacks to an equal amount with the compound notes to be destroyed each month until none are left. This process would complete the work in three years. Tile result would be, that the new notes, being widely diffused by the disbursements of the Treasury, would fall into the hands of all classes of persons, and those disposed to hoard them would do so. Experience has shown us, in the case of the former Lssue, that these notes would rapidly disappear, and be finally con verted into bonds. Contraction effected, in this manner would he entirely voluntary on the part of the people, taking place only when they had a surplus of currency. Neither the gOverhment, the banks, nor speculators could ,dictate, control, or influence the movement in any-degree whatever. , vacant ground, so The -system of renting . „ peculiarly 'Philadelphian, and the aecoumanda tions on which our small residences are built, are mentioned in the " Monthly,Gossip:" LAND AND LAIIOR IN PRILADRIXIIIA. It is estimated that frona.fifteento' twenty millions of dollars-earning an average of six teen per cent. a year—are employed in ,Phila delphia in the business 'of erecting houses for sale. The usual mode of proCedure - is as fol lows: A capitalist buys three or, four acres in the outskirts of the city, has streets run through the property, and then advances to a mechanic about sixty per cent. of the cost of . budding , a Week of houses. When completed, the owner of the fee makes a deed conveying the property 'to the builder, reserving a . rent-charge of so much :a year. The rent-charge is sold by the capitalist and the process begins again. The builder retails the hOuSes—known -" bonus douses"—to persons of small means, and each Veing subject to ,a ground rent, of two-thirds of its value, more dr less, the amount to be , paid, 'by the purchaser is small. The greatest de inand is for houses of six to eight rooms with bath, gas, hot and cold water, and kitchen range, worth about twenty-five hundred to three thousand dollars apiece. A mechanic or clerk who can raise seven or eight hundred dollars can buy a comfortable little house with his money, and pay off the ground rent at his convenience. These ground-rents are pecu liar to Pennsylvania, and, joined with the com parative absence of " banking facilities," they have done much to make Philadelphia a cheap and desirable place of residence. To the above statement of the facilities afforded by ground-rents should be added a notice of an institution comparatively new in this country, but which has been in operation for the past half century in England and Scot land. We speak of the "Building Associa tion," There are; it is estimated, between one and two thousand of these associations in operation in this city, each disbursing, on an average, at least one thousand dollars monthly. Putting their number at the lowest figure—say one thousand—we have here twelve millions of dollars annually invested in real estate (for that Is the only security taken by the associations for their loans) by the workmen of this city. Truly it is' no wonder ,that. Philadelphia is growing at the' rate of a square mile of build ings annually, and that nearly every family oc-, eupies its owsOeitse. Mr. Anthony Trollope continues the "Vicar," and the English illustrations are republished. His new story, " Sir Harry Hotspur of Humble . thwaite," will be commenced in the May num-' her, We must not" forget to mention. the veteran Gaylord Clarke's article on Noah Webster which many readers will consider the AFTER SOCIAI, pleasantest thing in the number. Mrs. iteDecca Harding Davis contributes one of her sinewy stelles, " Leonard Heath's Fortune," the scene of which she lays in Camac Woods, of this city. Grace Greenwood has an Italian story called "Two Old Heads." The best poem, we judge, is the following by A. E. Pillsbury: THE SAILOR'S WEDDING. "Winds, blow safe, and, winds,blowstrong, Waft my sailor-boy over the sea: Haste, 0 time! nor let it be long— Haste the wedding of jande and we." " Swift, glad day, and swift, sweet night, Fly o'er my maiden beyond the sea: Flowers, bloom gay, and, flowers, bloom bright— Bloom for the wedding of Janie and me." Suns come up and suns go down— Low is the sailor-boy under.the sea : Maiden, thy knell is heard in the town— G od speed the wedding of Jamie and thee ! THE LEGEND OF THE SANCOREM.... Among the most striking attractions of the last exhibition of the Royal Academy, Count G. Kalckreuth's picture, "The Castle of the holy Graal," was well adapted to challenge the closest study, and to satisfy the most cu tivated taste. In dealing with a subject pre eminently calculated to arrest the attention of genius, whether in the domain of poetry or of art, Count Kalckreuth seems to have succeeded in realizing to a great extent, through the me dium of sensible representation, the various elements which have entered into the cotnposi-, tion of the ancient romance, the spirit of which he may claim to have recreated in a new form of beauty. This wonderful piece of landscape painting is in all the details perfectly in har mony with : the traditional character of its sub ject. The solitary castle standing out in mid air in a strange weird kind of relief against fretted masses of illumined clouds; the gray mist.rising up from the far-off valley and timidly stealint , " ' about the castles base ; the giant cliff's of the Pyrenees enveloped in sombre shadow— all combine to constitute a remarkably faithful illustration of the poetic unreality, the vague mysticism and the superstitious solemnity which are so strongly developed in the legend of the Sancgreal. Nor has the sister art of poetry failed to lend its powerful assistance toward enhancing the interest which naturally attaches to this Impor tant relic of the scanty records of English my thology. Of the works of Tennyson, those, probably, which have been most frequently re perused, and have most largely contributed to the poet's reputation, treat of the national era to which the legend of the Holy Graal belongs. This era we have, though somewhat inaccu rately, perhapS, as far as the Sancgreal is con cerned, characterized as mythological; because, while the basis of the story is founded on the acknowledged truth and facts of Christian theology, the superstructure is wrought of ma terials conveyed from the impalpable region of pure myth. To be overlaid with a mass of legendary su perstition has been, in greater or less degrees of extent, the fate of all the religious systems which have ever flourished in the history of mankind. Some few among the religious sys tems of the world have been founded upon, or, at least, closely allied with philosophical sys tems of being and of morals, characterized by a high standard of simplicity and purity re 7 spectively ; yet even this ground of vantage has failed to secure them entirely .against the con- THI DAILY EVENING 13ULLETIN-IYHILADELPHIA , THURSDAY;%IVIAftCH 17, 1870. summation in question. The myths or legends which have thus In all ages fastened, parasite like, upon the body of religion, though in some cases they clearly declare themselves of purely foreign extraction, have yet been more fre quently of home growth, begotten of national imagination, and stamped with the impress of national character. The universal existence of such myths—to which even the Christian reli gion, in the earlier stages of its development at any rate, did not succeed in establishing au ception—admits of perfectly philosophical ex planation, upon which, however, we . are pre eluded from entering by the scope of this essay, which is limited to an illustration of the fact itself derived from the history of Christianity. The legend of the Sancgreal, or Holy Graal, saturated as it is with the spirit of religious f mysticism and allegory, is largely mixed up with the marvelous adventures of knight er rantly and wild stories of eastern magic, which are impertinent nevertheless, to the, matter in band, as being merely subsidiary to the course of the narrative. The word " graal," '"greal, or graile," all I modified forms of the same word, is said to have been derived, etymologically, from the Latin "crater," and signified In the Romance languages a drinking-vessel, dish or tureen. The legend of the Saucgreal, or Holy Graid, is contained in the romances of British chivalry H which have handed down to posterity the fa mous doings of 'King Arthur and the Knights ! of the Round Table. Of these the romances of "Le S. Great," "Lancelot. du Lac," " Perce forest," and the "Mode Arthur," which will be;foand somewhat estensively,referted to and collated In Southev's edifier( Of, The;' De,hncl Actes of _goy Arthitr,*., eonstitute the atithoilties on the present•subliict. Accord big to these authorities, the Holy Graal Was the golden' dish in which the paschal lanila had been served up at the last stipper„ of • Mir Lord with his disciples. Joseph of Arimathea, , whoin the old chroniclers of chivalry qiiaititly describe as 'that gentle knight who took down our Lord holy creA," repaired on the.following day to the house whereih that mystic supper hail been partaken of, and took away with hien the consecrated dish, destined to become thereafter awful in the adoration of Christendom. The title 'of this .vesseh to the epithet "holy " was rendered. complete forever by the farther ac cess of religious veneration with which it was in vested, in consequence of the Melancholy part it played at the scene of'. the Crucifixion. When the sacrileaions spear of the Rennin sol dier had pierced ' the side' of the 'Redeemer, Joseph of Arimathea, we are • told, received in the Holy Graal the blood Which gushed from his Divine plaster's wound. ..The legend goes on to relate how our Lord, after his resurrec tion, upon the occasion of assigning' to.his dis ciples their several spheres of future missionary labor, finding that he had omitted to, appoint an apostle to England, sent Joseph of Arimathea thither to disseminate the doctrines. of Christi anity among the people of the land. ; Accord ingly, Joseph, Huts, •divinely ordained, came, over to England,.bringing.with ;him the Holy Graal, containing a portion of the sacred blood ana the spear with which that blood was shed. The Graal, which, by reason of the wondrous miracles wrought through its'means, proved a powerful instrument for the :conversion of the heathen inhabitants of the island, was care fully guarded in a' strong tower, built expressly for the purpose, at Corbenicy, or Carbonek. For a space of nine generations the Castle of Carbonek, together with the sacred treasure en shrined within it,- - rernained in the possession of the descendants of Joseph of Arimathda, and at the period with which the romance of Le S. Greal opens, was in the hands of King Pelles, eighth of the line, who is, somewhat vaguely described as reigning over the foreign country. But the Graal, although domiciled, an it were, in the castle of the king, does not appear to have been in any way under the control of him self or his family. From the course of the legend, and from au ancient prophecy, we gather that the sacred vessel was destined to remain on the earth until the. 457th anniver sary of the last feast of Pentecost: celebrated by our Lord. Up to the commencement of the third year from the close of this period, it con tinued in the Castle of Carbonek, but, was never visible to the inmates except when, on rare and special occasions, it condescended to unrcu i n_Tionn, for the n um ose of ex 7 ea t ing its miraeulous powers feeding the hungry or healing - the sick. Nay, even on such occasions it was but dimly and indistinctly dis cerned, for none but they .whose souls were free from the slightest stain of sin might behold in clear and perfect light the divine splendor of the Holy Graal. These manifestations of the sacred vessel were always surrounded with solerim and imposing circumstance. The occasion of 'a visit by Sir Lancelot du Lac, the most famous of the Knights of the Round Table, to the Castle of Carbonek, intro duces the reader of the romances to the Sane greal in a most attractive mode of mystery. As the knight stood with his host, King Pelles, in the hall of the castle a dove flew in at the win dow, hearing in its bill a emall golden censer, from which rose thick clouds of incense .and spicery, diffusing themselves around, and filling all the place with oilers of richest perfume. Thereupon, in the twinkling of an eye, the tables were covered by unseen hands with the rarests viands and choicest wines. Scarcely had these wonders been wrought before the knight's astonished gaze, when a maiden of exquisite and youthful beauty entered the hall, carrying in her hands a golden vessel, to which the king and all those present with him devoutly knelt in prayer. This tribute of adoration having been duly paid, the dove flew away through the window, and the maiden vanished from sight in the same strange fashion as she had come, leaving the highly-favored worshippers to enjoy the feast so mysteriously provided for them. The next appearance of the Holy Graal oc curs in harsher scenes. Two knights of prowess, having in mortal combat wounded each other to the death, prayed earnestly to the second Person of the Trinity;as they lay bleeding on the ground, that their lives might be prolonged until such time' as some priest or hermit should chance to come by, who would bestow upon them the last rites of religion. In answer to their petitiOns, a maiden draped all in white stood suddenly beside the expiring warriors in a cloud' of incense, bearing in her arms the potent Graal, which,,by its mere pre sence, instantaneously healed them of their grievous wounds. The mysterious maiden vanished as suddenly as she had appeared, nor had the knights been able to discern aught be yond the shimmer of her White drapery, and the faint flash of the golden vessel which she bore. To the same mystic virtue, and under somewhat similar circumstances, Sir Lancelot was also indebted for recovery from insanity of mind and disease of, body at one and the same mordent of time. Immediately after the miraculous healing of Sir Lancelot, the Sancgreal abandoned ,the Castle of Carbonek, in which it had taken up its abode for upward of 450 years; and during the three following years wandered at random through the world. This event, in fulfilment - of an ancient prophecy to which allusion, has already been made, led to the breaking-up of the Round Table, and in great measure ' Unsoldered all The goodliest fellowship of famous knights Whereof this world holds record.' The adventures, or, to employ the phrase of the romances, the quest of the Sancgreal com menced at Camelot, the seat of King Arthur's court, upon the 454th anniversary of the Cru cifixion. Upon that day a new knight was, through the agency of a marvelous portent, elected to fill the most conspicuous seat," the siege perilous," as it was called, among the chivalry of the Round Table. About noon a sword rising out of a stone, in which it was firmly rooted, was beheld floating down the river to Camelot. As the king and his court wondered what this strange sight might be token, a holy man, far advanced in years, an nounced to them that the knight who should succeed in pulling the sword out of the stone was he who of old had been destined to sit in the perilous seat .and to achieve the Holy Great. After all the king's knights had failed to satisfy this test, a comely youth of noble aspect presented himself to the assemblage, and having with ease possessed himself of the sword was forthwith installed as of right in the perilous seat, which had till then remained vacant for lack of a man sufficiently worthy to fill it. This knight was Sir Galahad, son of Lancelot and Elaine, daughter of King , Sir Galahad consequently was the ninth, and, as it turned out, last descendant of Joseph of Arimathea. The adventures of that day were not yet complete; for while the king and his knights sai, lib 'supper at the Round Table, they were suddenly startled by a loud and 'terrible peal of thunder, wliich'bad np sooner died away thin a sunbeam, seven times brighter than th&light of the brightest day, filled the hall where they sat with supernatural radiance and transfigured their countenances into a semblance of :Un earthly beauty.. As they gazed on' each other, trembling and stricken dumb with awe, Alm Holy Graal covered with sainite entered_ the hall ; and forth With the whole pladeliecame fragrant with itlrifeh Odors, and 'each uian found placed before him:such meats and drinks asltis soul loved best' ' ' So, slowly traversing the hall, the Safiegreal 'vanished away: ; Tluftithe Spelt of/ ,lyaS broken, and all With ona'accOrd•thiliked;;JeSn:' for his grace... But foraiiihncli; sf ieted' Allenqe vessel bad been concealed from vie*, and mine '• had been able to discern it or the binds, which had borne it, the assembled knights, to : .:the number of 154, rose up and solemnly vowed to roam through the world for a year and a day, if Imply heaven might vouchsafe to them, a more perfect view of the mystic relic., • Four only of the 154 seem to have met with any success in their quest. These four were Sir Laneelot; Sir Galahad, Sir Percivale, ant. Sir Bore. On two occasions, Sir Lancelot was favored with a near approach to the object of his toilS and .vow. But although, under the guidance of an ancient hermit, he underwent a rigorous purification of six months' diiration, iu constant fastings, mortification, and', prayer; althongh during' all that time he ate no fish,' and drank no wine; although he tortured him selfby the wearing of hair-cloth, and gave daily attendance at the ceremony of the mass,--stilt the sin of impurity adhered to his soul, for his heart clung to the memory of a guilty passion for Guinevere, King Arthur's queen. in con seqUence of his imperfection in this one respect, the knight, even though admitted to the myste rious presence of the precious vessel, was not suffered to raise the covering of red samite which coirealed it from his view; and once, when he would rashly have attempted to do so, he was strucksuddenly down to the earth by a Subtle breath as of fire, in punishment of his presumption. To Sir Galahad alone, in com pany with his friends, Sir Percival° and Sir Bors, was it granted to achieve completely the object of his pious wanderings. The three were men of blameless lives; more especially Sir Galahad, the "maiden knight," was dis tinguished by purity of spirit and life as stain less and impregnable as his Valor in arms was dauntless and irresistible. The religious fervor and purity .of this youthful knight, so- highly favored by heaven, are depicted with equal ac curacy and beauty in the language which has been put into his mouth by the great poet of our own day: " But all my heart is drawn above, My knees are bowed in crypt and shrine : ' never felt the kiss of love, • Nor Maiden's hand in mine. ar More bounteous aspects on me beam', Me mightier transports move and thrill So keep 1 fair' through faith and prayer, A virgin heart in work and will." Such was the chapter of the knight whose career was devoted to the quest of the Sane greal, which, after be bad encountered many dangers in the pursuit of it, revealed itself to biro for the first time in his grandsire's castle of Carbonek. It'befell on a certain day that,as Sir Galahad sat wun nil two inenum 111 14= ,a.aac-Lau‘a, v.... entered to them from a chamber which opened into the hall four angels, who carried in a chair an old man clad In episcopal vestments, and bearing a large cross in his hands. This old man was Joseph, the first Bishop of Christen dom, who had then been dead.for more than 300 years. :Having set down the venerable saint before a silver table on which stood the Holy Graal, the angels again retired into the chamber. Upon opening the door of this apart ment, the knights perceived that two of the angels were supporting great candles of wax, while a third held a towel,and the fourth grasped in one hand a spear marvellously distilling blood, three drops of which fell into a box which be held in his other hand. The candles having been placed on the table and the towel over the Graal, in which the spear had been set upright, the bishop Joseph proceeded to cele brate the mass. As he held the sacramental bread in his hands, a being, wearing the bloom ing figure and roseate face of a child-boy, sud denly appeared, and "smote himself" (to use the language of the romance) into the bread," which, thus miraculously transmuted into "fleshly" or corporeal man, the bishop placed in the Sancgreal and immediately vanished out of sight. After the bishop had withdrawn from the scene, the awful figure of Christ, bleeding and crowned with thorns, emerged from the holy vessel and distributed the eucharist to the three knights as they knelt at his feet. Having given them directions to pro ceed to the city of Sarras, in Babylon, carrying with them the Sancgreal and a portion of the sacred blood distilled by the spear, the Saviour blessed thein and disappeared. In obedience to the divine command, the three'lmights rode night and day for the space of three days, at the end of which they arrived at a certain river, where a ship awaited them. Embarking forthwith, they beheld- on the 'deck the spear, the silver table, and the Sancgreal covered over with the red samite. Arrived at Sarras they placed the holy things on the sil ver table, and so put them on shore. Among the crowd which thronged round the strangers was a. dwarf who had been for ten years a crip ple, but now found himself , suddenly • restored to piestine activity and vigor by the virtue of the Holy Graal. The King of Sarras, into whose presence Sir Galahad was conducted by the people of the city, proved to be an infidel tyrant; for, on being informed by the knight of the history and wonderful potency of the Sane greal, he ordered him to be shut up with his two companions in a deep hole within the city prison, to the intent that they might perish of hunger. From this fate they were rescued only by the intervention of the Sancgreal, which penetrated to the place of their captivity, and for an en tire year ministered to their necessities. At the expiration of that period they were set at liberty by command of the repentant monarch, to whose death-bed they were summoned 'in order• that he might crave their forgiveness for the injuries which they had sustained at his hands. Upon the King's death 'the people, warned by a voice from heaven, chose Sir Ga lahad as his successor. .The first act of the new King after he had ascended the throne was to inclose the Holy Great, together with the, silver table on which it generally stood, within' a chest of gold, which. he caused' to be made for the purpose, and which was adorned with precious stones. At this chest, for the space of a year, the' three knights offered up their daily orisons. On the last day of that year Sir Ga lahad rose up early in the morning, and roused Sir Percivale and Sir Bors, and the three came together to the palace, where an awful specta cle preSented itself to their view. The chest which had been wrought with so much care and skill lay open before them; the Silver table, with the Graal upon it as of old, had been set ou the palace-floor, and beside it stood an old man in the likeness of a bishop. The first and last of a sainted line were face to face with each other; for that old man was" Joseph of Arimathea, and Sir Galahad was his latest de scendant. Surrounded by a company of angels, Joseph of Arimathea proceeded to say a mass of the Virgin; and when he had duly finished, be called upon Sir Galahad to draw near unto the mysteries be had yearned to behold: The young knight feared exceedingly and trembled, when his mortal flesh began to look upon spiritual things; but as he gazed upon them ' his spirit saw clearly, and comprehended the • awful mystery of the sacrament. Then was lie filled with a sense of ineffable joy, so that be prayed to heaven that his soul might in that moment depart from earth. A super natural voice whispered in his ear that his petition - was granted ;. he :arose, and bade adieu._ to Sir Percivale and , Sir Bors. Then he knelt ' down` again at the table and prayed; and 'while lie prayed, a host of angels came down, and in the sight of his tvvo'friends bore away the soul 'of Sir Galahad to heaVen. 'Nor ditt. the-Holy Great remain long'bellitid; for •it • too carried 'up 'to beaten' before their °yeti ;• though; the 'hand aiid:tmtly.*hich" boie it'' they Were to o*cOril! . • I •;' Stith IS the legend of the Holy draat Sir Percivale became ahermit alid`so continued to' of his deathi,Whieh took plaufwithin'' a year from the events ;.which have heeti jtist narrated. Sir Bate riot-nod to Camelot, and detailed the adventures of the Sanegreal to ,IKing Arthur, who caused them: Wife cothneite . ted' to writing by the great clerks of his king dom.. That the legend of the Holy Graal was long accepted as histOrical; even by the more learned classes of the people, is rendered evi dent by a hold assertion of one Hobert do Bar-, ron, who is said to have translated the last vol ume of the history of the Sanegreal from Latin into French by command of holy Church. This gentleman ' whose ideas on the subject of chronolOgy would seem to be slightly confused, inveighs in strong language against the utter foolhardiness of any one who would dare to call in.question the authenticity or truth "of that sacred history, winch the true Crucilik. wrote with the proper hand after his ascension, when he had laid aside his mortal life and reclothed himself with celestial majesty." It may, perhaps, be doubted, authority so weighty notwithstanding, whether the entire legend he not an interpolation of a date poste rior to the general narrative of the romances , In the first place, it lacks the air of spontaneity almost universally charaCteristic of that class of myths, which seem to have formed from all time a personal part, as it were, of the people among whom they are found. In the next place, the complexion of the legend is purely ecclesiastical. The Persons of the Trinity, the Virgin Mary, the saints, angels, holy relics, monasticism,!and the discipline of the Church, constitute the warp and woof of which the web is spun. The merely military adventures, if we may use the term, found in connection with it, are adventitious additions to the legend pro per, except so far as they go to illustrate the general maxim respecting the difficulties which wait on all lofty enterprises. The legend of the Holy Grata was probably the pious invention of ail individual mind, put forward with the twofold object of impressing upon human intelligence, through the medium of a lively, though decidedly : material, picture, the truth of the doctrine of transubstantiation, and of enforcing the 'universal principle, alike of revealed religion as of natural ethics,that the favor of heaven is to he won, or a high de gree of moral perfection to be attained only by a constant course of self-denial and striving after purity. That the legend was well calcu lated to achieve the former of these objects In an age when the human wind was poorly fitted for grappling with abstract ideas need scarcely be doubted. Again, from' the ethical point of view, the story of the Holy Grail is marked by a certain force of truth and 'by an exquisite beauty which belong alike to all time, and will be felt and appreciated in every age and under all conditions of civilization.—Selected from Ir.,,,n7tnn ihn Tranßathinfie. GENTS' FURNISHING GOODS. PATENT SHOULDER SEAM SHIRT MANUFACTORY. Orders for these celebrated Shirts supplied promptl; brief notice. Gentlemen's Furnishing Goods, Of late styles in full variety. WINCHESTER & CO. • fet.tu th t rao C HESTNUT. PROPOSALS. DEP ARTM EN T OF HIGHWAYS, BRIDGES, SEWERS; &c. OFFICE ,OF CHIEF COMMISSIONER, NO. 101 SOUTH FIFTH STREET. PHILADELPHIA, March 17,1870. NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS. SEALED PROPOSALS will be received at the ()nice of the Chief Commissioner of High ways until 12 o'clock M. on MONDAY, March 21, ..for the construction of a Sewer on the line of WALNUT STREET one hun dred and forty feet west from TWENTY FOURTH STEET to the end of the wharf on the SCHUYLKILL RIVER, FOUR feet in diameter. Also, on CALLOWHILL - street ' from SEVENTEENTH to EIGHTEENTH street, THREE feet in diameter. Also, on COLUMBIA Avenue, from MIF FLIN Street to SEVENTH Street, THREE feet in diameter. Also, on THIRD Street, from MARKET Street to CHESTN UT :Street, THREE feet in diameter. Also, on MAIN Street, (Manayunk), from the sewer thereon, to the northwe.st curb line of GRAPE Street, THREE feet in diameter. Also, on IVISTAR Street, from the sewer on TENTH. Street to the east curb line of ELEVENTH Street, THREE feet in diame ter. - With such manholes as may be directed by the Chief Engineer and Surveyor. And the Contractor shall take bills prepared against the property fronting on said Sewer to the amount of one dollar and fifty cents for each lineal foot of front on each 'side of the street as so much cash paid ; the balance, as linaited__by ordinance, to be paid by . the city. The Contractor will be re quired to keep the street and sewer in good order s for three years after the sewer is finished. No allowance will be made for rock excava tion. unless by special agreement. When the street is occupied by a - ,/City Pas senger Railroad track, the sewer shall be con structed along side of said track in such man ner 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 act of Assembly, approved May 8, 1866. Each proposal will be accompanied by a cer tificate that a bond has been tiled in the,Law Department as directed by Ordinance of May 25, 1860. 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 his bond for the dit . ference between his bid and the next lowest bidder. Specifications may be had at the De partment of Surveys, which will be strictly adhered to. The Department of Highways reserves the right to reject all bids not deemed satisfactory. • All bidders are invited to be present at the time and place of opening the proposals. MAHLON H. DICKINSON, Chief Commissioner of Highways mlil73l§ MO CONTRACTORS. 1 PROPOSALS will: be received at the office of the Commissioners of Fairmount Park, 224 south FIFTh street, till noon of SATURDAY, March 19, 1870, for macada mizing George's Hill Concourse, and a part of Lansdowne Drive, west of Belmont avenue, for macadamizing the footwalks •in that vi cinity, and for paving the gutters with cohble stones. Also, for macadamizing Lansdowne Drive from Sweet Briar to the horse-drinking basin, at the crossing of Lansdowne Run, and for paving the gutters. Proposals will be received for either or both sections of the work. Plans and specifications may be seen at the Engineer's office, at Fairmount. The right to reject any or all proposals is re served mbll Gtd CUTLERN. DODGERS' AND WOSTENHOLM'S SILL POCKET KNIVES, PEARL and STAG. HAN DLES of beautiful finish; RODGERS' and -WAD E% BUTCHER'S, and the CELEBRATED Lncomerni RAZOR. tICISSORS IN CASES of the finest quality Rasters, KlthiVeS, Scissors rind Table Cutlery, ground and polished. , EAR INSTRUMENTS of the most ' , proved construction to assist the hearing, , at,P. MAO B A.' Bl Cutler and Surgical Inetrument Maker,llll Ten h street below Obestnat. Uttl-tr, .F"H -BARICELS-LIGHT-COL orod sweet Fish OH L _lnw-irlded, for sato hY BOW Flonth Irrnnt street flialak.—FOß SALO 180 TUNE 0 'Ohalk, A 00 . ,• • • &poly toWottlimAN az c 0.,. sus Walnut Moss JOHN C. CRESSON, Chief Engineer 'I. W. frialiitilUGH 4fir, BANKERS. 42 SOUTH THIRD, STREET, Negotiate Loans; Buy and Sel, Government and other re liable Securities. Ja3l m w f IY4 C. WHARTON SMITH & co., BANKERS AND BROKERS, No. 121 ' S. THIRD STREET SUCCESSORS TO SMITH, RANDOLPH & CO. Every department of flanking business shall mete* prompt attention, as heretofore. Quotations of Stocks, ) Gold and Governments constantly received frOria`our , friends, E. D. RANDOLPH A 00., New York, br our PRIVATE WIRE. 0647 BANKING HOUSE JAYCOOME6‘6I , 112 and 114 So. THIII,D ST. PHILAD'A D HAI, ERB IN ALL GOVERNMENT SECURITIES. We will receive applications for Policies of Life insurance in the new National Life In. sarance Company of the United States. reit nformation even at our office. 5-20'S AND 1881'S Bought, Sobs and Ezetanged on most liberal terms. GOLD Sought and Sold at Market Rate& COUPONS CASHED. PACIFIC RAILROAD BONDS: I3ought and Sold. STOCKS Bought and Sold on Commission Only. Accounts received and Interest allowed on daily balances subject to check at sight. EMitga;iito. 40 South Third PHILADELPHIA. $7OO 51,000, $2.00, KOOO TO LOAN , at par on wortgago nilll2 It• COICS - ETS CORSETS, TOURIVURES, HAIR CLOTH SKIRTS. 112 8. Eleventh St. LUMBER; MAULE, BROTHER &CO., 2500 South Street. 18'70. PAPAM OWN =EL /TAKERS N 1870. S ECTIO OF 21110111 R PATOAN Wilk VMS FOTERN 1870. 8 1p u ngl A IIM Mil IAT. K . 1870 LARGE STOOK. 1870. ‘FLIL . Y.E. - t OVAVS!' 1.870.4 ARQLINA VLOOit NO. IBOINIA`FLOOBINO.,, Dr.LAWAILE FLOORING' ABll 111,00E1N6. • WALNIIT FLOORING; 1870.Nri'Of MO8 1 .9870im • RAM PLANK, • , RAIL PLANK. • 1870 WALIi la 'WALNUT HO A RDS AND PLANK, WALNUT BOARDS. WALNUT PLANK. ASSORTED IrOB. CA BU BINET ERS , &O ISIAKERS, ILD. UNDERTAKERS' o „ 1870 . uNDEBTLAMINPLumBER. ila • BED ()RDA& WALNUT AND PINE. 1870 SEttsclagig oPacille 1.8711 2‘Bll. WHITE QAK PLANK AND BOARDS. HICKORY. 1.870 cAB°L Il ' i i OAROLINA T SILLS. * NORWAY SCANTLING. 1870 . CEDAR SHINGLES • CEDAR SIIINGLES. CYPRESS SRiNGLES. LAR SSORTMENT. FOR R SALE LOW, 1870 PLASTERING LATH. . PLASTERING LATH. 1870. LATH. /WAVLE 1111.0500 SOUTH SE THF2I3 & C TR 0, 2 2ET. Lumber Under Cover s , ALWAYS DRY. Walnut, White Pine, Yellow. Pine, Spruce, Hemlock Shingles, &0., always on hand at low rates. _ WATSONKRGILLINGHAM. 924 Richmond Street, Eighteenth Winn* rnh29-Iy§ YELLOW PINE IX i , -BER.—ORDEREi for cargoes of every description Bowed Lumber exe• tinted at abort notice—quality subject to inspootion Apply to EDW. B. ROWLEY .16 Booth Wharveii. _ NEW — MB ra CA TiODIS. SUNDA Y SCB OOL SUPERINTEN dents, get 'Prof. ri art's admirable addrosg. "How tm. ihlect a Library," at the Sabbath lichool Emporium, 688 Arch Wed, Philadelphia. J. 11. MORRIS, 233 North Tenth street BARATET. PANIERS, 1911BILIMItlf. GEN. SICKLES was confirmed yesterday as 3!Jinister to Spain. ANOTHER, embassy has left Japan for a tour an Rurope and America. TUE English 'and Scottish Presbyterian Churches are about to be united. Two men were run over and killed on the Long Island Railroad yesterday. THE elections in Portugal have resulted In favor of the Government. THAT Austria endorses France's demand on the Vatican is confirmed. THE Louisiana Legislature has passed a bill funding the floating debt of that State;, GEN.. JASIEB W. IIIPI.E1;, U. S. A., died in Hartford, Conn., on Tuesday night, aged 76. SEARCH Is to be made in Belgium for the author of an anonymous letter threatening the life of Mr. Gladstone,. &MEETING to honor the memory of the late 31r. Burlingame was held in the American chapel in Paris on Tuesday night. A BILL abolishing the game laws; read in the House of Commons, yesterday, had to be with drawn, so bitter was the opposition. A WOMAN suffrage amendment was defeated in the Ohio House of Representatives, yester day—the vote being yeas 51, nays 54. TUE President has accepted the resignation of Daniel Butterfield as Brevet Major-General, taking offect from the 14th instant. Tivo ENGLISHMEN were arrested in Boston, as they landed from the Liverpool steamer, charged with a heavy robbery in England. THE City Council of Richmond, Va., last night s elected Henry K. Ellison, of the Rich mond Dispatch, to be Mayor of the city. TttE Prince Imperial's fourteenth birthday was celebrated yesterday, but neither the ex pected decree of amnesty nor the manifesto of the Imperial policy appeaml. AT White's Station, Tenn., on Tuesday, two men quarreled about politics, and one of them, a colored man,was stabbed, and is supposed to be mortally wounded. A SE VE ItE wind storm at Albany, New York,yesterday, blew down the tipper 'stories of the Townsend Furnace, and damaged build ing and machinery to the amount of ten thou sand dollars. Ttns schooner James H. Hoyt, of Staten Lsland,was wrecked off the Highlands of Never sink, yesterday morning, and all on board were drowned. A run in New Orleans, yesterday, destroyed thirty small houses, and caused a loss of $lOO,- 000. A fire in Vidalia, Louisiana, destroyed seven stores and the Court House. Loss, $75',000. the recent dLsaster on the brississippi Railroad have made affidavit that the disaster was caused by the breaking of an axle, and that the bridge was not unsound. GENERAL PRIM declared in the Cortes. yes terday, that. in future the Government would deal summarily with such disordens as the out break of the conscripts by which he narrowly escaped injury. A CARLE despatch received yesterday, an nouncing the arrival at Queenstown of .the, missing steamer, City of Boston, proved to be false, and $3OO reward has been offered for the detection of the author of the heartless howc. Lti the Senate of New Jersey, yesterday, the bill authorizing the Erie Railroad Company to build a branch road was passed. In the /louse a woman suffrage resolution was intro liuced. A bill was passed allowing railroads and canal companies to insure freight trans ported over their lines. A hTAGE coach containing ten Chinamen capsized about 240 miles from Corinne, Utah, last Sunday morning. The weather was in tensely cold; and two of the Chinamen were frozen to death. The others started for Big Sand Hole Station, and three of them reached there badly frozen. Four were found dead on the road, and the tenth is missing. A I.ErrEn received by Hon. R. C. McCor mick, of Arizona, from San Diego, Cal., says the gold mine there is the richest ever dis covered. The quartz is estimated to he worth $25,000a ton. The news that Chinese labor ers were killed at the mines is confirmed by a San Francisco despatch. A party of Chinamen discovered the best lode yet found; their claim was "jumped" by white men, and three of the Chinese were killed. A nE.A.va - snow storm prevailed yesterday througbout Canada, blocking the railroads. The trains on the New York Central Rail road are also delayed by a snow storm, and the passengers are reported to be without provisions and suffering. At Rochester the snow is about four feet deep on a level, and the roofs of several buildings have been crushed by it. A snow storm began at Pottsville on Tuesday night, and continued yesterday morning, 17 inches having fallen. TUE METHODIST CONFERENCE. Session at PanayMe—Additional Pro. ceedlugs ofleirot.Day. [Correepondenee of the Phila. Evening Bulletin.] Pomo:lux, March 17.—The following is an abstract of the Report of Sunday School Union of the M. E. Church for 1870: Number of Schools, 16,393; increase for year, 508; officers and teachers, 184,596 . ; scholars, 1,179,984 ; increase, 34,817. In the Conference—schools, 309 ; scholars, 43,967. The following is an abstract of the Report of the Church Extension Society of the M. E. Church : Receipts from the Conference up to the close of your last session, $16,904 8.5; disbursements within the alma period were $10,155 37; for the year closing with your present session, we have asked for $6,500 ; re ceived up to• this , date, $2,935 20. A vote' of thanks was passed to the Phila delphia Conference Society for presentation of the Conference trunk. By request of the Conference, Chaplain Mc- Cabe sang, with fine effect, " The Old, Old Story " and "The Trundle Bed." The Con ference adjourned with a benediction by Rev. Wm. McCombs. The anniversary of the Conference Historical Society will be held this evening, at 71 o'clock. Addresses will be made by Rev. Bishop Simp son, Rev. C. Cooke, D. D., and there will lie singing by. Chaplain McCabe. Articles of great interest will be exhibited, such as the watch owned by Rev. F. Asbury, Bishop of the M. E. Church; and letters of Rev. John Wesley, the founder of Methodism. The following are the committees ordered by the Conference, and appointed yesterday : On Public Worship—B. 11. Pattison, J. Dickerson, N. Frame, W. M. Dalrymple, R. 'Owen. To Prepare Minutes for Publication—The Secretary and his assistants. • • To Collect General Statistics—J. .8. Cook, W. J. Mills, W. H. Fries, J. E. Kessler, J. P. Miller, X. 13. DMA, A. HoWard,'G.' S. Broad bent. To Collect and Arrange Missionary Statis tics-7-T. Kirkpatrick, G. W. F. Grail; W. C. • Johnson, J..l'. Swindells. On Education—:•Ministerial , --B, H. Nadal, W. J. Stevenson, T. C. Murphy, J. • W.' .lack .son, J. IL Alday, C. 11. Payne, C. F. Trnset ; Laymen—W. Schaefer, J. D. Patterson, B. F. •Sheik, D. M. Karcher. - On Sunday Schools—T. A. Fernley, T. W. Simpers, R. J. Carson, G. HeacOck, 11. A. Cleaveland. , On Tract Causc—G. Carrow,J. F. Chap lain, M. D. Kurt; H. R. Calloway, W. C . Roberson. On Tonperance—W. McCombs, .J. M. Hin I ion, T. B. Miller- W. 'II Fries, G. G Rake straw. On Finance—LT. Stevens, J. F. Meredith, M H. Sisty, J. O'Neill, J. R. T. Gray. Oti,,Church leziension--S. IL C. Smith, J E. Meredith, S. R. Gillingham, P. J. Cox, G W., Maelaug 'On .Missions—The Presiding Elders. On Necessitous Cases—The stewards. FoIIY-first Congreos—Seeond sesetton. In the United States Senate yesterday, Mr. Ramsey introduced a bill to facilitate postal intercourse-With foreign countries, which was referred. The Georgia bill was taken up, and Mr.cllevels,' the colored Senator from Missis sippi, made his first speech in. the Senate, op posing the Bingham • proviso. Mr. Morton (Indiana), after complimenting Mr. }levels, fol lowed upon the same side. Mr. Howard then took the floor, when the • Senate went into Executive session and soon after ad journed „ - - In the House of Representatives, Mr. Steven son, from the Rection Committee, made a re port in the Louisiana case of Hunt vs. Shel don, declaring Sheldon entitled to the seat. The Deficiency bill was passed. The New York and Washington Air Line Railroad bill was considered, and an amendment adopted, reserving to Congress the, right to alter and amend the charter. The: previous question, was ordered, when, the morning hour ex,' liking,. the bill went over. Bills were intro.:, iluced by Mr. Hooper to promote interna, clonal coinage, and, by Mr. Cake,, " for the, redemption ,of outstanding United States notes and bonds, and the resumption of specie' payments." Mr. Logan, front the Military' Committee, made a report that Representative• Butler, of Tennessee, bad appointed a non resident of his district to West Point, and sub sequently received money from the young' man's father. The report is accompanied by two resolutions; each signed by half the mem bers of the committee, one of which censures and the other expels Mr. Butler. They were ordered to be printed, and laid over until.to day. After briefly considering the Tariff bill in Committee of the Whole, the House ad journed. • , • . Pennsylvania 'Legislature. In the Pennsylvania Legislature, yesterday, after close of our report, the bill authoriz ing an increase of judges of the District Court, ,w•]iich bad been reported negatively, was, on motion of Mr. Connell, referred back to the committee. The Senate bill authorizing two additional law judges of the Court of Common Pleas was amended by Mr. Connell to add but one judge, and passed. The second sectiou,pro viding for cumulative voting, was struck out. The House bill incorporating the Suburban Transfer Express Company, Senate supple— moat to the Academy or music, and 6enate supplement to the Fidelity Insurance Com pany, were passed. The House bill allowing the people to fix the location of the public build ings by vote in October next was objected to by Mr. Nagle. The House bill prohibiting the erection of public buildings on Independerice Square was objected to by Mr., Nagle. The Ilonge bill for. the appraisement and purchase of the Chestnut Hill Water 'Works; House . bill, incorporating the Jackson Ice Manufac turing Company; House bill, authorizing the paving or macadamizing • of streets in the Twenty-second Ward, and Senate bill for the opening of Butler street, were passed. The Senate bill to aid the construction of a railroad from Susquehanna river to Port Allegheny and: Buffalo was considered at an evening session, but after a long discussion, was postponed until to-day. The House of Representatives passed the Senate supplement to the South street bridge, authorizing the Councils to create a loan of $.690,000. The House bill allowing the people of each county, city or township to vote on the license question was amended so as to allow brewers to sell not less than four gallons. Elec tions may be. held not oftener than once in three years. The bill passed. The House Gambling bill of Mr. Beaus was passed. The bill dedicating Diamond street, which had been recalled from the Governor by resolution of Mr. Adaire, was amended by Mr. Albright so as to prohibit the opening of streets through Odd Fellows' Cemetery, and sent back to the Governor. The House bill allowing Oil Com panies to sell their properties and divide assets was defeated. I MPOItTA i'IONS. Reported for the Philadelphia 'Evening Bulletin. NEW ORLEANS, VIA HAVANA—Steamer Juniata, Hot ie—New Orleans-.-173 bales cotton H Sloan rt Sons. 93 do Randolph R Jenks; 24 do Nichols, Whitte & Co; 13 do Claglaurn. Herring & Co; 23 bales moss 3 bags hair Raeder, Adamson & Co; 596 bxkl ink H A Bartlett et Cu; 57 elu DIY calks 53 do bbls 6_a do half bbls William Massey & Co; 2 _ tubs butter Spring, Osborne & Cu; 7 rolls carpet John Smith; 7 sacks seed - F Lukens; 3 bxs miles George I Tyler; 3 bblo se. d L Landreth & Son; 13 half chests tea Jenkins 3: Co; 3 Ws whisky Laing & Bernheiiner ;3 hbds pecans George Miller & Son; 119 seeks 2 bales wool and sundry pkgs order. Havana-310 bxs sugar S & W Welsh; 53 hlids do .1 no Mason ft Co: 60 bunches bananas W ilthank & Scattergood:6We oranges 3 ro sweettneata do cigars JllO ck: 2ca cigars L& G WEdwards; 2do S Fuguet & Sons; 75 bbls oranges Isaac Rough & Morris; 45 do I crate bananas Joso Costes; 94 bbla oranges Italic Jenne.. it Co. ANI/BEW S. NB—t chr Calvin, Clark-33,300 laths 16.0 X) pickets T P Calvin di Co; 203 tons pip iron order. :11. 1 ,TANZA,S—hcbr I) Babcock, eolcurd-367 Lbda mo• loose, 40 tes do if arrlo, Bey! ,V. Co. HAVANA—Faqir Mary C Lyons, Corson-1.673 boxes sugar Joldi Macon S Co, 11 &VAN A—Selm Ellie L Smith, Smith-1,808 bxs sugai John lllaeon & Co. DE ttlEttA RA—Sehr Hattie Ross, Ulriek--68 Wide 1 tee 81 Ulu Pucar 234 tee molasses J Mason S Co. . _ PERNA BIBUCO—Brig Idn. Bardlog-3000 bags sugar J Ilissoo dr Co. . _ LYONS CREEK, VA .—Sohr Sarah Louisa, Patterson —59,375 feet Virginia boards 20,014 do do scantling Pat, tilson &Lippincott. PAS GERS ARRIVED: In steamer J nlata. trona Now Orleans—Mr J W Wel tot-bonen, Dire Walterhouse,Mr J Bennett, Dim Bennett, Dire Marion Colton, Mien Whiting, Llent T H Eldgate• Mr B Fa.ter. Firm Havana — Dire E A Ely and child: Mr G W Bernedou, Capt 0 T Geer. MOTERiiIII - ITS OF OCEAN STEASIERS. ' TO ARRIVE. AIMS FROM FOE ' DATE. Samaria Liverpool... New York Feb. 25 Merrimack Rio Janeiro... New York Feb. 26 Bellona. Lonoon...New York - Feb. 25 Austrian— Liverpool—Portland March 3 Mask a__..... ....... Aspiawall...Neu York March 4 Bremen Havre...New Y0rk......:. March 5 TO DEPART. Prometheus ...Philidelohla...Charlesten Mara] 17 Perehe New York...Havre - March 19 Denmark • New York... Liverpool • ' March 19 Juniata- Philadelpina_Havana& N Drina-March 19 Wyoming Philadelphia—Savannah-, ..: ..... ....March 19 America_ Now York... Bremen March 19 C of Washing'n-New York... Liverpool March 19 Cambria New York... Glasgow March 19 Hibernian Portland... Liverpool March 19 Cleopatra New York... Vera Cruz, Sic March 19 El Chauncey Now York...Asotnwail March 21 Pi0neer..........P htladelphla...Wilmington Marche) Etna ' ...New York... Liverpool via H....dtarch 23 N. America New York... Rio Janeiro, Ac.... March 23 Missouri Now York... Havan- Starch 24 /tieing star Now York...Havre March 24 JOB. C . U 8 81302. 8. DO F 'TRADE. • • EDMUND A. 8011 DEB, MONTHLY COMMITTEIL BA 111U7., E BTOKES. COMAUTTFUS ON ARBITRATION, J. 0. James E. A, Sonder, Geo.L.Buzby, Wm.W. Paul, Thomas illoapte. MARINE BULLETIN. TORT OF PIIILADELPHIA—MARcuIIi, 81:IN BIDES. 6 6 BUN SISTB. 5 64 I HIGH WATIII4 2 90 • ARRIVED XIIISTEBDAI . titearoor Anthracite, Croon, 24 hours from blew Torii, with mdse to \V M Baird 45.: Co. Brig Ida, Harding, 29 days from Pernambuco, with sugar to John Hinson & Co. . . . Sohr Hattie Roma, Ulitrick, 40 days from Demerara, with auger and molaesee to John Mason di Co. Behr !Mary C Lyons, Corson, from Havana, with sugar to John 'Mason & Co. . Behr David Babcock Colcord, 13 days from Matanzas with molasses to Harris, Hoy! & Co—vessel to H A Son der & Co. Sokr Calvin, Clark, 15 days from 8t Andrews, with iron to order—vessel to L A. Souder & Co. Schr John Prico, Nickerson, 10 days from Bostonovith reds° to captain. . Seim F Il urbert , Croy, ell, 2 days' from New Bedford, in ballast to Knight & Sons. • • • Seta Sarah Louisa,Patterson, 15 days from Lyons Creek, Ye. with lumbr th Patterson & Lippincott. ' Helms Thee Borden, Wrightington, from Fall River, in ballast to Si nuickSon & Co. CLEARED YESEERDAY. ' Steamer Saxon, Sears. Boston; 13 Winsor Jr alo. steamer It Willinar. Cundiff. Baltimore. A Gram, Jr.' Sehr Jasper, FowleF ; St JAin. Nil. Warren & Gregg. AT WILIIIINGTON, DEL,: s c h r H Q Ely, MOAllider. from Painunky River, with railroad doe to Albrecht & Finley. Behr Morning Light. Boren; from Painaulrir, MINT, with railroad ilea to Albright Sc Finley,. . THE DAILY EVENING BULLETIN: 7P LPHIA, THURSDAY MARV Rchrl J Pickup, Bowon, from P'amtinkr River, with railroad Ilea to Al brecht 'h MEMORANDA. _ Befondo, Blegar.;.hintat at Antwerildislets Ship City of Perth. McPhail, sailed from Woosung lttli Jan for New York. " Steamer Pioneer. Wakeley, galled from Wilmington, NC. yesterday' for Ibis port; • ' ' ' Steamer Regulator. -Pennington, at Itillmington,l4 0. yeetrrdsy from New York. Steamer Bionyille. Baker, from NeW Orleansvla Ha' vans. at New York yesterday. . Bark Frednatisi Brenirmd. sailed from Liverpool 3d inst. for this port. Bark Geo 11 Jenkins,' Corning, cleared at London 25th ult. for thlsport ' Bark liecifila. BistruD, trim Liverpool for this port, allod from 'Holyhead 4th Inst. Bark Etizd (Br), Sprague, sailed trout Matanzas 7th Inst,tor this port. Bark Alary Lee, Robinson, 170 days from Yokohama, at New York 15th inst. with teas.' Bark Nettle' Merryman. Rollins, from Shanghae 12th Oct. at New York 15th inst. with teas. Brig Alfred. Hudgins. from Conception (Uruguay). for Bal timore. passed Fortress Monroe yesterday. Brigs Id 0 Haskell, Haskell. and Isabel Fulton. called from , Matanzas 7th instant for port north of Hatteras. ' Schr Chas 5 . 1 Nevins. RoWland. from Messina for this port, was towed through the Straits 17th nit, Seim(' F Young. Richardson, sailed from Cienfuegos 41h lust. for this port. Schr Peryere, sailed from Matanzas 7th . filet. for this port. Achill Artie Garwood. Godfrey, from Wilmington. NC; J It Clayton, Clayton. from Galveston; Thus T Tacker, Allen. from Jacksonville, and J W Haig, Brower, iron/ New ticria, NO. at New York lath inst fichi Amelia. Poet, from New Castle, Del..• for New buryport, at Edgartown 14th inst. MARINE MISCELLANY. Behr Joseph Long. of Portland. Perry. from Kings ton. Ja. with'a cargo of coffee and logwood, le ashore at Deal. NC. Mainmast gone, and lies broadside on, Crew all saved. c•chr Helen A Hoyt. of Staten Island, Capt Crannier. with her mainmast gone. to ashore off the Highlands, NJ. Crow in the rigging. • NOTICE TO MARINERS. Reflect - hi given that the first clams iron nun brioy that recently went adrift from Boon Island Ledge. has been' replaced. It now lice ESE of the Ledge, instead of South, as heretofore. The steamens Boman and Alhambra. at Boston. both rewsrt tbe Cross gip Light Beet as having drifted half a mile to the southward of her station. AUCTION SALES "[AMES A. FREEMAN, AUCTIONEER, u No. 422 Walnut street. REAL ESTATE SALE, MARCH XL This Sale, on WEDNESDAY, at 12 o'clock noon, at the Exchange, will include— RIDGE AVENUE—Three-story brick flwelling, be low Broad street; lot 18 by 71 feet. Subject to 890 ground rent. Orphans' Court Sale. Estate of John P. Orth, deceased. 2121 sunnswoon STREET—Three-story brick dwelling. with brick 'mine , on Wright street; lot 14 by 90 feet. S abject to 45 ground rent. Sate absolute. 1930 -N. TIV 1.1 STILE ET.—Very desirable resi dence; aide yard; lot 46 by WO feet; has the modern con veniences. $0J5.9) may remain, 1511 N. TW X NTI ETII ST ItßET.—Neat modern t hrel story brick dwelling, with hack buildings; lot 177.1 . by 16 feet. lif72 ALDER STREET.—Neat three-story brick dwel ling. with hack building; lot 12 bi 44 feet. IZIO COLUMbIA AVENUE—Three-story Brick Store and Dwelling: lot 16 by 60 feet. 2222 N. SEVENTH STREET—Three-story' Brick Dwelling : lot 15% by 66 fret. 606 ALMOND STREET—Neat Three-story Brick Dwelling ; lot 14 by 46 feet. tl7 CAPITOL STREIT—Two-story Brick House, and : lot 12 by 4.9 feet. En 3 HA MILTON STREET—Genteel Three-story' Brick I/wiling, and lot 14 by 45 feet. 1326 PEARL STREET—Two-story Brick Dwelling, and lot 15 by btket. neu- CNZLN1,22111 • .., UV ASIA VA ecirod. , Executrix Absolute Sale. - . • - - - GROUND-RENT OF 1536 PER ANNUM. Same E 9 tato. tar Catalogues ready on Saturday. Administrator's Peremptory Sale—Estate of John Y. Bo clad, deed. FURNITURE, LEASE AEU GOOD-WILL OF THE COLUMBIA HOUSE, BROAD, STREET, ABOVE ARCH. - . ON TUESDAY MORNING, At 30 o'clock, will he sold, by catalogue; at Nod. 111 and 10 North Broad street, the entire Forniture,Ac., of the Columbia Douse, including furnished Cham bers, Tarwstry and Ingrain Carpets. Bedding,3latresses, Sheets, &c. Also, Dining Boom and Kitchen Utensils, Glass and China Ware, Bar Boom Furniture, Oil Clothe. Gee Fixtures, &c. LEASE AND GOOD-WILL. Alsn, the Lease and Good will of the Hotel, baying a anoa bag ne.s. p ‘ COTT'S ART GALLERY AND AUCTION ►COMMISSION SALES BOOMS, . B. SCOTT. JR..Anctioneer. 1117 CHESTNUT street, Girard P.cue. Furniture Bales every Tuesday end Friday morning, at 10 o ' clock. Funicular attention paid to ont-door sales at mode. rate rates. de29 tt Mr. A. Ben Low will make ilia FIFTH SA LE OF SUPERIOR DAMN ET FURNITURE ON FRIDAY, At la A. M., consisting of elegant Parlor and Chamber Snits, Sideboards, in Oak auirWalunt; Wardrobes, Eta.' geres, flair klntresses. Ac., .k.c.. de. Also. a large limi er tine French Plate Mirrors. all sizes. All goods war ranted. SALE OF PAINTINGS. ON FRIDAY and SATURDAY EVENINGS, March 18 rind 19 At 73; o'clock, we shall sell the entire collection of Mr J E. MCClefs. without resercation,_embracing 1W FINE PAINTINGS. The following artist.; are represented in the Collec tion : notherrael, Bonfield, Herring, Moran, Hamilton, Sheridan Young, II . Gerlach. Now on eallibltion day an 11113031 AS BIRCH X SON, AUCTION _L. ERRS AND COMMISSION MERCHANTS, No. 1110 CHESTNUT street, Rear entrance No. 1107 Sansom street. . Household Furniture of every description received on Consignment. Sales of Furniture at Dwellings attended to on the most reasonable terms. Sale at No. MO Chestnut street ELEGANT PARLOR, LIBRARY, DINING ROOM R A O R S, PAINTINGSUN CHAMBER FR PI N ANO FORTES, SIL TURE, CARPETS, M VIR ER , PLATED WARE AND CUTLERY, CHINA, GLASS WARE, STOVES, LATiGIe, PIGEON HOUSE, &c. ON FRIDAY MORNING, At 9 o'clock, at the auction store, No. 1110 Chestnut street, will be cold, a large assortynent of Superior New and Seccndhann Furniture, comprising -50 suits Of Walnut and Cottage Chamber Furniture, of various styles, with Wardrobes to match; VII suits of Parlor and Library Furniture, in plush, reps and hair cloth; Vet vet, Brussels and Ingrain Carpets, large and small Man tel and Pier Glasses. Bookcases. Library and Office Spanish. Reading and Rocking Chairs. Paintings, Engravings, China. Glassware. &c. SECONDHAND FURNITURE. IA Largo assortment Secondhand Furniture and Carpets, from hung ies declining housekeeping. OAK AND WALNUT ciimrts Alea,t, dozen Walnut and Oak Dining Room and Chamber Chairs. FINE CIIROBIOB, RICHLY FRAMED. - • - - At about ono o'clock. will bo sold ' SO fine Obrvinps, in rich Vitilnnt and Gold loaf frames. Now on exhibition. MARBLE GROUP AND CLOCK. At same time will bu Hold. one fine Group, carved ont of morbid, and one Marble Clock. • %, IlkY BABBITT & CO. AUCTIONEERS. 1J °ASH AI:WM.I , 7IIOM, No. 230 MARKET street, corner of Bank street. ON FRIDAY .MORNING. March 18. commencing at 10 o'clock, we will sell a large line of Miscellaneous Goods, yin.: • 500 dozen Hosiery. 100 dozen Pocket Books. 000 pieces Cloths and Cassimeres.• • 500 pieces Alpacas, Delaiues, and other desirable Dress Goods. WOO dozen Susnunders. Also, Ildkfe., Ties, Buttons, Ribbons, Gloves, eases Spool Cottons, Ac., Ay. - • Also, 100 lots Bendy-made Clothing. 200 cases and cartons Boots, Shoes and Brogans. Also,loo cases and cartons now style Felt Hats. BUNTING, DURI3ORO & CO., AUCTIONEERS, Nos. 232 and 221 Market streot. corner of Bank. LARGE PALE OF CARPETINGS. WHITE, RED CHECK AND FANCY MATTINGS, dm. ON FRIDAY MOBNXNG, B on% I 18, ato'clock, on four months' credit, about NO pieces Ingrain, Venetian; List, Hemp, Cottage and Rag Carpetings, Canton Mattinge, Oil Cloths, ,ko. LARGE SALE OF FRENCH AND OTHER. EURO PEAN DRY GOODS ON MONDAY MORNING.' March 2l,at Id o'elock,on four months' credit. SALE OF 7003 CASES BOOTS SHOES, HATS, &o, • ON TUESDAY JUG/ENING. March 72, ext 10 o'clock, on four months' credit: • - - IL. , ABI4.I3RrDGE 86'. 00, 1 AIIMI.ON. . EERS. No. NM MARKET etreet.abovo Fifth. T A. McCI A ELLAND, 'AUCTIONEER] 1219 CHESTNUT Street. 114" Personal attention given to Sales of Household Furniture et Dviellingtb VW Public Sales of Furniture at the Auction Booms', 1919 Obeetnut street, every rdmiday and,Tuursday. car For particulars see Public Ledger. N.' B.—A superior class of Furniture at' Private Sale, LEES AUOTIHNEENS, No. 606 EAREET street. BOOT AND SHOE SALES' EVERY MONDAY ANi THURSDAY ' • D: lbjC THE PIWiCIP4 ,I 4 MONEY ESTABLISU. corner of SIXTH and ItAOlO streets. Money advanced on Merehtmdiso generally— , Watcheir. Jewelry, Diamonds, Gold and Silver ,Plato, and on ell articles of value for any length . ol timo agreed on. • WATCHES A.ND JEWELRY'y AT PRIVATE SAL Fine Gold Bunting Caen, Double Bottom and Open V English, American and Swiss Patent Lover W Mobi l ; Fine Gold Hunting Omie and Open Fsoo Lupine Watch ; Fine Gold Duplex and other Watches; Fine Silver lin ing Case and Open Face English, American and Swiss Patent Lever and Lepine Watches; Double Sae° English Quartler and other , WatehmiLLaditia' Farley Watches; Diamond Breaetpine; Finger Rings; Ear Mingiq Studs; Ao.; Fine Gold Ohains; ftledallions; Bracelet% -Scarf Pine; Breoetpins; Finger Rings; Pencil Doses and Jea. lry ge _yi t) FOR VE—A large and valnible . Fireproof Chest. imitable for a Jeweller; coat ffestl.3 Also, several Lots in South Gamlen, Fifth and 01 / 1 / 2 . Vat streets, , • 1 W. H. Weisman, Barry Owen, Reed. Professor Brignor, I Professor Hillier. W. E. Winner. and many others. d evening. with catalogues AUCTION EIALES. 1/I"ARTIN BROVIERS, AUCTIPNE.II;a4e, 111, !Lately Ssicsmsn for EL Thomas & Sone;l' ~ _210.701 CIIESTNCT street. above Seventh; REAIOVAL. - , • WK II A V"' E ', BEHOVED • Orlit sALTCNienolts pubic' IljE • r • OLD STAND • N c JITNUT 4 ZTTTO TEE& LARGE 6RIAIDING No. 704 CIIESTECT. ABOVE SEVENTH'. WBERE . ,, WITH INCREASED FACILITIES, WE ARE NOW PREPARED TO DO BUSINESS. • LARGE SALE OF BTATIONERT AND BLANK WORK, Contributions NMI be received daring this week for the Large Sale of Stationery and. Blank. Work, now in pre paration, FIRST SPRING SALE DUTCH FLOWER ROOTS. ON FRIDAY MORNING. Mardi 18 at the auction rooms, No. 704 Chestnut street, ono cash Dutch Flower Roots, comprising the usual va riety of Gladiolus and Anemonee. SPECIAL PEREMPTORY SALE AT TIM • AUCTION ROOMS, No, 7 0 1 CHESTNUT ST. HANDSOME WALNUT PARLOR, CHAMBER, DINING ROOM AND LIBRARY FURNITURE,. • FINE FRENCH PLATE MANTEL, AND PIER. .1%1 !FROM, • SIDEBOARDS, WARDROBES, BOOK• CASES. EXTENSION TABLES, OFFICE TABLE. SUPERIOR WALNUT AND OAK OA NE-SEAT AND WINDSOR CHAIRS,,MATILESSES, &c. ON SATURDAY' MORNING, March 19, at 1034 o'clock, at tho auction rooms, an eiclient atwortment of Ilounehold Furniture, elegant Parlor and Chandler Suite Arc. SURGICALINSTRUMENTS. Alec,. at 1134 o'clock, a collection of Surgical inotru mente,belonging to a Surgeon retiring. • • Sale et No. 461 North Seventh street. • • HANDSOME WALNUT PARLOR, CHAMBER AND DINING ROOM FURNITURE. ELEGANT ROSE WOOD PIANO FORTE, FINE FRENCH PLATE PIER-MIRROR. HANDSOME SIDEBOARD EX TENSION TABLE, FINE BRUSSELS AND OTHER CARPETS, CHINA AND GLASSWARE, • &c., itc ON MONDAY MORNING. March 21, at 10 o'clock, at No. 460' North Seventh street, by cataleguothe entire handsome Household Furniture, including—Elegant Walnut and Plush Parlor Suit,rich toned 7-octave Piano F(.rue, made by Fisher, In eleuvut rosewood case; splendid French Plato Oval Pier Mirror, with COMM Table; Centre and Bouquet Tables,Etagere, handsouie Walnut Sideboard , and Extension Tables, handsome Walnut Chamber Suit, with War Irob. to match; line Spring and Hair Matresses, handsome Brus sels and Venetian Carpets, Mantel Clocks, fine Blinds, Shades, Curtains and Cornices, Hat Stand, nue Plated, China and Glassware. &c. Furniture excellent condition, having been in use but a short time. Sale N0..912 Spring Garden street. SUPERIOR PARLOR, CHAMBER. DINING ROM AND SITTING ROOM FURNITURE, Fine Brussels and Imperial Carpels. Fine Oil Cloths, China and Glassware. Bedding, lee: ON MONDAY, DIORNING. March 21. at ID o'clock, at No. 912 Spring Garden street, the entire superior Household Furniture, &c. M THOMAS & BONS, AUCTIONEEIte, Nos. 139 and 141 South FOURTH street * SALES OF STOCKS AND REAL ESTATE. NW - Public sales at the Philadelphia Exchange eves TUESDAY,at 12 o'clock. sir Furniture sales at the Auction Store EVERY THURSLAy. sir Sales at Residences receive especial attention REAL ESTATE SALE,NIARCII 22 Will Include— . _- - - Sale by Order of Heirs--Estate of Chißtoplier Beath's, doc'cl---2 MODERN TaftEK-STORY BRICK DWELL INGS. Nos. 727 and 224 Stevens street, Camden, :New Jersey VERY ELEGANT FOUR-STORY BRICK AND PICTOU STONY; RESIDENCE, No. 1911 Sprnce at. . . • Oro conveni..se ! , s. Immediate innateApi_n ...... MODERN THREE-STORY BRICK RESIDENCE( , No. 2307 Brown Street. Has the modern conveniences. Immediate possession. MODERN THREE-STORY BRICK RESIDENCE, No. /345 North . Twelfth street. line all the modern nonvonienees. Immediate posses4ion. MODERN THREE-STORY BRIM RESIDENCE, No. 609 South Tenth street, below South at. 2 MODERN THREE-STORY BRICH DWELLINGS, Nos. 2234 and 2238 North Seventh street, above Susque hanna avenue. itillTlefliatey(loseßPioll. THREE-STORY BRICK DWELLING, No. 2235 Frnultlin street: in the rear of the ahoy.. VALUABLE THREE-STORY BRICK RESIDENOB, No 1101 Arch rtreet. Has the modern conveniences. Immediate pm.sessinn. Peremptory SaIe—NEAT THREE-STORY DWELLING, No, 9v9• Norris street. Immediate pee session. _ _ HA:NI/8031E MODERN THREE STORY BRICK RESIDENCE, No. 1423 North Seventeenth street, above Mettler. Bas the modern conveniences. ^- MODERN THREE STORY BRICK DWELLING, No. 234 Crown street, above Rac e. VERY DESIRABLE COUNTRY -PL kt ALL FARM 15 ACRES, Fairview, Lower Merlon Township, Montgomery county. Pa.. 1% miles S. E. of Manayunk and 2 tulles from Athensville Station. on the Pennsyl• vseia Central Railroad. • HOPERN THBEE•STORY BRICK DWELLING:Ho =4 Coates street. Has all the modern conveniences. CROIOE ENGLISH AND 'AMERICAN BOOKS ON FRIDAY AFTERNOON. March 18, at 4 o'clock, comprising Standard Works beautiful editions of the Poets, Historians, Noveli.ts Biographies. ate. Also, handsomely , illustrated Works in tine bindings—all fresh mock. CHOICE MADEIRA WINES. ON SATURDAY, 3farch 19, at 12 o'clock noon, at the auction store, by catalogue, 25 demijohns very choice Mmleira Wines, port of the private stock of the late PIERCE BUTLER. Esq.. including the celebrated "Butler Madeira." Al4O, "Blackburn,""Roward, March& Co." and "Edwards" Madeiras. _ _ _ OLD WHISKY At the same time, for other account-2 demijohns of Rye Whisky, over fifty years old. PEREMPTORY SALE At the Fairmount Rolling Mille. FRAME BUILDINGS, MINIBUS, Sc ON SATURDAY MORNING. March 26, at 10 o'clock, at Ur Fairmount Rolling Mills, Coates street wharf, river Sauylkill, the frame build hies, large quantity of old lumber, ac. Sale absolute.Tering sash. D AVIg& HARVEY, AUCTIONEERS, (Late with M. Thomss k Sons.) Store Nos. 48 and :0 North Sixth street. DELAWARE SAFETY MUTUAL INSET RANCE COMPANY; incorpotated by the Legiela lature of Pennsylvania, I=. Office, B. E. corner of THIRD and WALNUT streets, PhHadelebri. 'MARINE INSURANCES On Vessels, Cargo and Freight to all parts of the world. INLAND INSURANCES On goods by river, canal. lake and land carriage to all party of the Union. FIRE INSURANCES On Merehandise generally ; on Stores, Dwellings, Houses, &c. ASSETS OF THE COMPANY Novemoer 1,1869. 8200.000 United States Five Per Cent. Loan, ten-forties.. 8216,000 00 100,000 United States Six Per Cent. Loan (lawful money) 107,750 oe 60,000 United Staves Six Per Cent. Loan, 1681 - 60,020 00 200,000 State of Pennsylvania Six Per Cent. Loan 213,950 Ofr 200,000 City of Philadelphia Six Per Cent Loan (exempt from tax)... sow-5 ix 100,000 state of New Jersey Six Per Cent. Loan 102.000 00 20,000 Pennsylvania Railroad First • Mortgage Six Per Cent. 80nd.... 19,490 00 25,000 Pennsylvania Railroad Second Mortgage Six. Per Cent. Bonds— 23,62550 26,000 Western Tennsylvania Railroad Mortgage Six Per Cent, Bonds (Pennsylvania Railroad guar• antee)••••=:- 30,000 State of Tennessee Five Per Cent. Loan 15,000 00 7,000 State of Tennessee Six Per Cent.• Ln - , 00 12,600 Pen ea nsylvania Railroad Com- 1270 ' pany, 290 shares stock, 14,000 00 6,020 North Pennsylvania Railroad Company, 100 shares stock, 14900 0 10,000, Philadelphia and Southern Mall Steamship Company, SO shares • 246,900 Loans stock.,6oo' on Bond and Mortgage, first /lens on City Pr0pertie5.,.... , 246 7 ,000 0000 51,231400 Fez llarketvalue, $1,255,770 00 Cost, 81,215.0=.27.• Beal Estate • 56,000 011 Bills Receivable for Insurance made Balances due at Agencies—Pre miums on Marine Policies. Ac crued Interest and other debts due the Company 65,097 96 Stock, Scrip, &0., of sundry Cor porattons,, 84,706. . Estimated alue 9,740 20 Cash in 8ank..... " Cash in Drawer. '.DIRECTORS. Thomas O. Hand,, Samuel E. Stokes, John 0: Davis, . William O. Doulton, Edmund E. Sender, ' Edward Darlington, Theophilua Paulding, H. Jones Brooke, Jambe Treenail., Edward Lafourcado, , Henry Sloan' Jacob Riegel, Henry 0. Dailott, Jr., Jacob P. Jones, James O. liand, James B. M'Earleind, William D. Ludwig; jOOlllO, P. Eyre, Joseph H. Seal, ' IS v eneer M 'llvaln, / Thigh Craig, .I. D.'Somple, Pittsburg, I John D. Taylor, -IA .IS'. Berger, " George W. Bornadou, D. T. Morgan, " William 0. Hendon, THOMAS Q. HAND, President. JOHN C. DAVIS, Vicu President HENRY LTLBURN, Secretary. HENRY BALL, Assistant Secretary JEFFERSON FIRE INSURANCE COX PANT of PhiladelPhia.—Office,No. 24 North Fifth street, near Market etreet, • Incorporated bir the Legislature of ' Pennsylvania. Charter perpetual. Capital and Aseets, 0168,00. Blake insurances gainit Lana or damage by Fire on Public or Private Buildituw Furniture, Stocks, Goods and Mex. oltandise, on favorable terms.„. • Win, McDaniel, Edward P. Moyer farad Peterson Frederick Ladner John F. Belatedly , Adam J. Glass, floury Troetnner; tionry_Delany, Jacob Schantlein, . John Elliott, FroderlgitDoll, • Chriatian D. Erick, Samuel Miller, George N. Fort, ' . • • 'Will iam D. Gardner. ) ' • ' WILLIAM McDANTED, President, ISRAEL PETRBBON,_ifice President; PlialF 414rati.o.st. Reortary , and Trauma'. • • • ANCE. 20,000 00 923,700 76 iiiiffl 169,291 14 81,852,100 04 17, 1870. INSURANCE. INSUItA NCE COMPANY F AMERICA,. INCORPORATED lifti CAPITAL, . . . ASSETS, - 14ohses paid ailaae organiza . 623,000,000 Iteceiptsof Prentiums,ls69, .1,991,637 45 In ii t s6 er 9, est ftom.lllv.eBtriell.". 114 9 696 74 Losses paidilB69i • . , STATEMENT OF THE ASSETS, Find Mortgage on City Property 41766,450 00 United ntatee Government anti other Loan • Bonds. 1,122,346 00 Tfailr”ad,flauk and Canal Stocks... - 155,7C3 00 Cush in Bank mid, office... 247,620 00 Loans on Cellateral. SoeuritY . 32,658 00 Notes Receivable, mostly Marino Pre- DliUl3l9 ' 221,914 00 Accrued Interest 20.357 00 Premiums In course Of transmission &5,128 00 Unsettled Marine, Premiums 100,300 00 Real Estate, Office of Company, Pbiladol- - , Pbdm..............., sil ono oo ratEurtms. Francis R, Cnpo, Edward H. Trotter, Edward' 8. Clarke, T. Chariton Henry, Alfred D. Jesmp, Lonis C. Chan. W. Cashman, Chlment A. Oriscom, William Ilrockie. 13. COFFIN, President. PLATT, Vice Pree't ;try. •tary Arthur G. Coffin, Samuel W. Jones, John A. Brown, Charles cloy, Ambrose White, William Welsh, P.Morrls Waln, John Mason, Gco. L. IlarrisouAnTrtun CITA 111;ES MATTHIAS MARIS, Secrets C. If . REEVES. AHs't Seen,. THE PHILADELPHIA TEITST, SAFE DEPOSIT AND INSVRANCE COMPANY, ()MC'S AND BURGLAR-PRooV VAIILTA IN THE PHILADELPHIA. BANK BUILDINGC, No. 42/ CHESTNUT STREET. CAPITAL, 0500,000. Fer SAVE•KEEPING of GOVERNMENT BONDS and other SECURITIES, FAMILY PLATE, JEWELIIY.End Other VALI,- ADLE:cunder special guarantee, at the lowest rates. The Company also offer for Rent at rates varying from 815 to 876 per annum, the renter alone holding the key, SMALL SAFES IN THE BURGLAR-PROOF VAULTS, affording absolute Suctramagalust FIRE, THEPT,BUR GLARY and ACCIDENT. • All fiduciary obligations, such as TRUSTg. Otrannrart amps, Exvccxonsurea, etc„ will be undertaken and faltbfuliy ditcharged. Circulare,giving full de tabs 'forwarded on application DIRECTORS. _ Thomas Robins, Benjamin B. Comegys, Lewis R. Asbhurst, Angustus Heaton, J. Livingston Erringef. F. Ratchford Starr, R. P. 31cCu11agli, Daniel Haddock, Jr., Edwin M. Lewis, Ed ward Y. Townsend, James L. Claghorn, John D. Taylor, Hon. Wm. A. Porter. OFFICERS. .1 . 713/M7U—L,ra Wis n. n Ulru ivrr. . Vtco, President—. 7. LIVINGSTON ERRINGER; &cream and Treasurer—.R. P. McCiII,LAGH. Solicitor—RlCHAßD L. ASIIHURST. ' ire2 ws6ms rrirrEitL - r ig cE — tl4l4uiliareliotYm PANT OF PHILADELPHIA. Incorporated in 1841. Charter Perpetual, Office, N 0.308 Walnut street. CAPITAL e3C0,0 0 0. Insures against loss or damage by FIRE, On Hormel , Stores and other Bnildinpt, limited or perpetual, and or Furniture, Goods, Wares and 'Merchandise In town or countr y. LOSSES PROMPTLY ADJUSTED AND PAID. Assets, December 1, 18t39 .—......- ........... . . Invested la the following Securities, vi z =" -- First Mortgages on City Property, well se cured... , United States Government Loans « «» 82,000 00 Philadelphia City 6 Per Cent. Loans....----. 75,000 OC Warrants .........._«..._.6,035 70 Pennsylvania :88000,000 6 Per Cent Loan. ... 80,000 OC Pennsylvania Railroad Bonds „First blortgage 5,000 Camden and Amboy Railroad Company's 6 Per Cent. 1,0 an... . 6,000 Of Top? Huntingdon and Broad To - Per bent. Mort gage Bonds-- . . .. 4,980 ix County Fire Insurance - biimpany i e Stock.' 1,050 00 Mechanics' Bank 5t0ck..4,060 IX Commercial Bank of Pennsylvania Stock « 10,000 01 Union Mutual Insurance Company's Stock. 190 00 Reliance Insurance Company of Philadelphia Stock ...... ...... 3,200 00 Cash in Bank and . on - tiand ...... 75 -916 72 Worth at ..... .........8401,872 44 Worth at present market price& ...... DIRECTORS. Thomas C. BM, Thomas H. MooTe, William Mueller, Samuel Caetner, Samuel Biepliam, James T. Young, H.L.Carson, Isaac F. Baker, Wm. Stevenson, Christian J. Hoffman, Benj. W. Tingley, Samuel B. Thomas, Edward Sitar. THOMAS 0. HELL, President, Was. Oxman, Secretary. PHILADELPHIA. December fifißE COUNTY FIRE INSIJRANCE COM PANY.—ORIce. No. 110 South Fourth street, below Chestnut. "The Fire Insurance Company of the County of Phila delphia," Incorporated by the Legislature of Pennsylva nia m iew, for indemnity against loss or damage by fire, exclusively. CHARTER PERPETUAL. This old and reliable institution, with ample capital and contingent fund carefully invested, continues to in sure buildings, furniture, merchandise, bc., either per manently or for a limited time against lops or damage by fire, at the lowest rates consistent with tho absolute safety of its customers. Losses adjusted and meld with all possible despatch. DIRECTORS: Chas. J. Satter, Andrew H. Miller, Henry Build, James N. Stone, John Horn, Edwin L. Reakirt, Joseph Moore, Robert V. Massey, Jr. George Hooke, Mark UT Deem us. CHARL STT.R, President. HENRY BUDD, Vice President. BENJAMIN F. HOECKLEY. Secretary and Treasurer. UNITED FIREMEN'S INSURANCE COMPANY OF PHILADELPHIA. This Company takes risks at the lowest rates consistent with safety, midget:dines its business exclusively to FIBS INSURANOZ IN THE CITY THE CITY Or PHILADXL. ornaz-No.ra Arch street, fourth National Bank Building. DINECTORS Thomas J. m art i n, 1 henry W. Brenner, John Niret, Albertu.s Bing, • Win. A. Rolin, Henry Ilumm, James Id ongan, i James Wood William Glenn, I Charles Jud ge, James Jenner, J. Henry Askin, Alexander T. Dickson, I Magi, Mulligan Albert O. Roberts Philin Fitzpatrick, James F. Dillon. _ _ • • 002 , 111 Wm. A. Boma. Irma. THE PENI4BYLVANIA. FIRE INSET. RANCE COMPANY, —lncorporated 1/325--Oharter Perpetual. No. 510 WALNUT street, opposite Independence Bluare. This Company, favorably known to the community for over forty years, continues to insure against loss or damage by lire on Public or Private Buildin Re, either Permanently or for a limited time. Also on Furniture, Stocks of Gomm, and Merchandise generally, on liberal terms. , Their Capital, together with a large Surplus Fund, is invested in the most carefol manner, which enables them to offer to the insured an undoubted security in the can of loss. DLIII.OTOBS. Daniel Smith, Jr., John Deverenx Alexander Benson , , • Thomas Smith, Isaac Haalehurst, Henry Lewis Thomap Robins, J. Gillingham Fell, Daniel Haddels,_Jr. WM. G. oitoWn il , Pocci A N T Hit ACI TE IN NtritANOß 00M• It..PANY.-OIIARTER PERPETUAL_ ' Office, No; 311 WALNUT Street, above Third, Philada ' Will insure Against Loss or Damage by Fire on Build• lugs, either perpetually or for a limited time, Household Furniture and Merchandise generally. Also, Marine Insurance on Vessels, Cargoes and Freights. Inland Insurance to all parts of the Union. DIRECTORS. William Esher Lewis A udenried, Win. M. Baird , ' John Ketchum, John R. Bluckiston, J. E. Baum, Willitun F. Dean, John 13. Hl, Peter Sieger, Samuel H . othermel. . WILLIAM SHER, President. WILLIAM F. DEAN, Vice President. Wx. M. Sisrrn,BecrotarY. ia22 to th s tf 4MERICAN FIRE INSURANCE COM. PA NY., incor_Porated 1810.—Chartor perpetual. o. 310 WALIMT street, above Third, Philadelphia Having a largo pail - up Capital Stock and Surplus in• vested in sound and available Securities, continuo tt insure on dwellings, stores, furniture, merchandise. vessels in port, ai.d their cargoes, and other, personal property. All losses liberally and promptly adjusted. DIRECTORS. Thomas. R. Marls, Edmund G. Dutilh, John Welsh, Charles W. Poultney, Patrick Brady, Israel Morris, John T. Lewis, William John PaPul P. Wetherill, '•. . . TRIONAS.R. MARIS, Prpsidont ALBERT 0. 011AWYORD. Hooretanr. Tl, 'AMR INSURANOE GompANy. No X 809 CHESTNUT STREET. _ " O . INCORPORATED 1856. CHARTER, PERPETUAL, _ CAPITAL, 8200,000. FIRE INSURANCE EXCLIISWELY. 'natres against Lose or Damage by Fire. either by rer ,petual. or Temporary Policies, • malleTelta. , Charles Illebardeou, Robert Pearce, Wm. 11. Rhaten, ' Join Reeeler, Jr., William X. kierfert, , Edward D. Oruo, John F. Sroltb , . , ' (Jharloo Stokes, Nathan Illllee. , L john W. Evenuan. Cjeorgo A., West. Alordocal Busby, . . CHARLES CIIIARDSON Proaldonl. . . WIII. H. RHAWN.Vico , Pi;vidont. . nadAras I.' DLANOLlABD.Seoretrary,' , 60 lit JANUARY 1, 1870: 'HARTER. PERPETUAL $509,000 - 52.783,581 $2,100,534 19 $1,036,380,81 e 2,7&3,121 00 8409,696 5 Rd-ft th sti V. ANDRESS, President Wen. H. nom Seer Preeldent, etary. spl9-tir INSURANCE The. Liverpool& Lon- don CD' Globe Ins. Co. . , Afss.ets G01d,g17,690,390 ‘ 4. 111 the United States .2,00p,000 Daily Receipts over. $2,0,000.00 Premiums in 1868, $5,665,075.03 Losses in 1868, $3,662445.00 No. 6 Merchants' Exchange, 1829utudATER PERPETUAL 1 870 VTitA.NriciAN FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY OF PHILADELPHIA. OFFICE--435 and 437 Chestnnt St. Assets on , aanuSry 1, 1870, $2,825, 1 1:31. 67. Capital , Accrued Surplus and Premiums INCOME FOR 1870, LOSSES PAID IN 9910,000. 9144,90 S 42 LOSSES PAID SINCE 1929 OVER $5,500,000. Pertppetual and Temporary Policies on Liberal Tarim The Company also issues policies upon the Rents' of sin kinds of Bulidings Ground Rents and Mortgages. The " FRANKLIN " has no DISPUTED CLAIM. DIRECTORS. Alfred G. Baker, Alfred Filler, Samuel Grant, Thomas Sparks, Geo. W. Richards, Win, 8; Grant, • Isaac Len, Thoniae 8. EMS, George Fides, Gustavus 8. Ronson.: ALFRE G. BAKER, Preildent. GEORGE FALEB, Vice President. JAR W. IIIcALLISTER, Secretai7. THEODORE ALItEGER, Assietant Secretary. fe7 ide.3l§ FIRE ASSOQIATION A or PHILADELPHIA. 7 Incorporated March, 217, 18210. untoe---.0 a. a% rtortn ENSURE BUILDINGS, HOUSEHOLD PUBNITUES AND MERCHAN.DISE GENERALLY FROM LOSS BY FIRE. (In the city of Philadelphia only.) Assets lam:Lary 1, 1870. $011.9 9 572 73a 2.5. TBUSTICES: William H. Hamilton, Charles P. Hotter, John Carrow, Peter Williamson, George I. Young, Jesse Lightfoot, Joseph R. Lyndon, Robert Shoemaker Levi P. Coate, Peter Armbruster, Samuel Sparhawk, M. H. Dickinson, Joseph. Schell. WM. H. HAMILTON, President, SAMUEL SPARHAWK, Vico President. WM. T. BUTLER, Secretary. INSURANCE CoAIPANY NORTH AMERICA. JANUARY 1, 1870. Incorporated 1794. eltartbr Perpetual. Capital, $500,000 Assets, $2,753,581. Losses Paid Since Organi - - $23,000,000 zation, Receipts of Premiums,6B, $1,291,837 46 Interest from Investments, Losses pad, 1869, STATEMENT OF THE ASSETS. First Mortgage on City Property.-- $766,4r0 United States Government and other Loan Bonds Railroad, Bank and Canal Stocks Cash in Bank and Office Loans on Collateral 5ecurity.......... Notes Receivable, mostly Marine Premiums . Accrued Interest Premiums in course of transmission. ; . 05,198 Unsettled Marino Premiums .. . .. 100,900 Real Estate, Office of Company,Philn. 30,000 Total \ Assets Jan. 1, 1870, - $2.783,581 DIRECTORS. ARTHUR G. COFFIN, FRANCIS R. ()OPE, SAMUEL. W. JONES, EDW. H. TROTTER, Trg JOHN A. DROWN, EDW. S. CLARKS. CITA S. TAYLOR, T. CHARLTON HENRY* AMBROSE WHITE, ALFRED D. JESSUP , WM. WELSH, LOUIS O. MA .E IRA, S. MORRIS WALE, CHAS. W.' CUSHMAN, JOAN MASON, CLEMENT A. ORISCOM, ORO. L.IIARRISON, WM. BROCKEE. ARTHUR G. COFFIN, CHARLES PLATT, MATTHIAS MARIS, Secretary. C. H. REEVES, Assistant Secretary. felt; th lnm ly WINES AND LIQUORS. AA OURI WINES. lL the steady and increasing demand for those Wines, the growth of a State peculiarly adapted in soil, climate, &a., has induced the subscriber to give them special at tention. It is well asoertained that the rich and well ripened grapes of that particular section impart to the wills flavor, bouquet and body equal to the best foreign wines, and of a character peculiarly its orm. l -the unani mous opinion of experienced connoisseurs or this and neighboring cities. Tho undersigned has accepted the Agency of the cola rated • "OAS, nal, VINEYARDS,' of the township of St. Louis ; and being to direct and constant communication, prefired to furnish to con sumers the product of the.o V rioyerilii, which can he relied upon for strict purity 4n addition to other aualitie already montioned. P. J. JOBIMII, 0400,000 2,425,,731 114,696 74 $2,106,534 19 $1,035,386 84 1,122,846 . 0,706 . 247,620 . 321,944 41,, •• • • • 41. •• • 20 arta. PRESIDIENT. YICE•PRESIIDEINT. 220 roar street.
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