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THE COMPARATIVE WORTH OF THINGS
AND MEN.

From the London Spectator.
The general grief and horror with which
the news of the devastation of Paris in this
fratricidal war has been received, the con-
sternation with which Englishmen and
Frenchmen alike have heard that ga palace of
strangers is become heap, "a defenced city
a ruin, cannot but strike us, when we re-
member the comparative indifference with
which we had come to hear of the terrific
slaughter of human beings of which the his
tory of the last nine months has been full.
For it is not the human misery, the loss of
life and loss of livelihood to the Inhabitants
of Paris, which we think most Of when We
read of the Tuileries in ruins, the Louvre
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OUR NEGRO POPULATION.

Superintendent Walker, of the Census Bn-
reau, reports the negro population of the
United States, under the enumeration just
taken, as 1896, ,264, stating, however, that
this total is obtained by estimates in some
few localities, but that ''the differences made
by revision will probably be limited to units,
tens, or hundreds" In this view the figures
given doubtless express our negro population
with an accuracy sufficient for all practical
purposes, and by comparison with the
figures of the enumerations respectively of
1850 and 1860 and the ratios of increase in
either case it appears that the blacks are
dying out since the war. To elucidate
this let us give the several enumerations
mentioned, and the increase absolute and
ratio of increase in each case. The table
stands
In lSoO .......-...'''. 5,oSo, Ioz
In 1860. O...............''. 'a5o'I9 tso'stI hy0
III loiO....... ..'''sioSo'zo4 4OS,ooo lVoo
Now while it appears here on the face of it
that there was an increase of 459, 800 in our
negro population from 1860 to 1870, and that
the per cent. of increase was 1876, it is evil
dent upon reflection that this period of ten
years in which the increase might be sup
posed to have taken place evenly year by
year is, in fact, divisible into two equal parts
of five years each-from 1860 to 1865, when
the negroes, or nine-tenths of them, were in
slavery, and from 1865 to 1870, when all
were free. In the first half decade there was,
of course, no new element in the life of the
negro. The storms of war, to be sure, rolled
about him, but his position was too humble q
one to be hurt by the blast; and while battle
was dominating the white race the
black remained in its old atti-
tude of security and, as it is fair to
assume, at its old ratio of increase. In
other words, the negro from 1860 to 1865 was
just where he was from 1909 to 1860-the
death-roll of the colored troops being ridicu-
lously small-and as he increased from 1856
to 1860 at the rate of 2l'9O per cent, so from
1860 to 1865 he increased at that same rate
proportionately, or at the rate of 2'l9 pen
cent. per year. For five years this is 1895
per cent, and adding 10 95 per cent. (4S5, 7lO.
to the figures q, 435, 709) of 1860, we fine
that in 1865 the negro population Of the
United States must have been 1921, ,+19, ol
2G, 1856 more than the census of 1870. Ad
mittjpg the premise that the negro popula
tion increased from 1860 to 1865 at the sam'
ratio as from 1850 to 1860, and the
conclusion is irresistible that in 1865 i
was greater than it is now. The onl.
way to contrayene this result is to sa,
that the table we have given shows ar in
crease Of 1896 per cent. from 1860 to 1870
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DOuERS, SAFE AND ECONOMICAL SCI
I'D u0na Boilers water IN dues. The CONNIE
Tubular, water outside Of dues. Plain CylindeI Z
= '-1' ~''1 GEORGE O. HOWARD, 4
m No. II S. RIGHTEENTH Street
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NOTICES.

TNTHR COURT OF COMMON PLEAS FOR TE
i CITY AND COUNTY OF PHILADELPHIA
City OF Philadelphia VS.. ROBERT L. CURRY, ownf|
etc. Lev. IA. sur claim. ID. TO, No. 100.
The Auditor appointed by the Court to report q1
tTibution OF the funds arising from the Sherlns
under the above writ OF all that certain two-stc
ground. situate on the north side OF Eadline, I'd.
merly BIN street. in the Twenty. fourth ward OF q
city of Phadepnia ~ ieet eastwaru strat sto 5s
Inches, and in depth 165 feet TO Grape street, vi
meet the parties interested, for the purposes OF D
sppointment. on TUESDAY, the 27th day OF Jun
1s7l at O'Clock r. NJ, at his ofice. southeast ca
ner of WALNUT and SIXTH Streets. Phladelphil
when and where all persons are required 10 mag
their claims or TO be debarred from coming upq
said fund. HENRY S. HAGERT,
6efmw5ts Auditor, +
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MILLINERY.

WI-LINEHTs
nj 8. R. D L o N
NOS. sSs AND Ssl SOUTH STREET.
FANCY AND MOURNING MILLINERY, GRAPE
WELLS.
Ladies' and Misses Grape, Felt, Gimp, Hair, Satin
Sllk Straw end Velvets, Hats and Bonnets, French
Flowers, Hat and Bonnet Frames, Grapes Laces
Silks, Satins, Velvets, Ribbons, Seshes Ornaments
and all kinds OF Millinery Goods.
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Foreign Affairs.


-Garibaldi declines the command of the
insurgents.
The Archbishop of Paris has been ar
rested by the Communists.
The advantage of the military position
in France continues with the Government
troops.
All foreigners in Paris have hoisted the
flags of their respective countries
DIR. John Swinburne, of the American
Ambulance Corps, is seriously i'll in Paris.
The King and Queen of Sweden, who were
recently quite ill, have recovered their health.
The First Prussian Army Corps has been
ordered to hold itself ready to march on Paris.
Paris is in CONSERVATION, and the people
of Versailles are greatly irritated against the
insurgents.
"A Red Republican proclamation, dated
at the Tuileries, strongly condemns the con-
duct of the Versailles Government in attack
ing Paris.
The steamship Scanderia, Captain Hal
pin, late commander of the Great Eastern,
leaves England early in May to repair the
Anglo American cable.
The contest at LIE Bas Meudon was ex-
ceedingly bloody, and the firing of the artil-
lery was fully equal in spirit and effect to the
German bombardment of Paris.
London is now in reliable communica-
tion with Singapore from which point a cable
to Hong Kong will be laid next month,
and from Hong Kong to Shanghai in june;
and the Singapore and Australian cable will
be laid in November.
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Domestic Affairs.

The first boats of the season arrived yes
terday at Buffalo, N. Y.
The medical societies of Ohio and Ken
tucky are now both in session.
The heaviest storm of the season in Cali
fornia occurred yesterday.
-Senor Romero will retire from the Mexi-
can Ministry, owing to his unpopularity.
The extra session of the Mexican Con-
gress has closed, and the reelection of Juarez
is conceded.
-Rulloff, the murderer of Mervick, at
Binghamton, was yesterday sentenced to be
executed on May 10.
The Wyoming On. W District Confer
renee commenced it sessions in Norwich, yes
terday, and will continue about week.
The Tennessee was inspected yesterday
by board of officers. She will probably be
ordered out of commission, as the engines
have proved failure.
Governor Alcorn says that under military
rule there have been forty-one murders in
Mississippi, while under the civil regime the
number is but nineteen.
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AMERICANS IN PARIS.
Honors to GenernI shoridnn.

The American Register says:-
General Sheridan and General Forsyth, of the
United States army, are now in Paris They
have already received marked attention from
the American colony in that city, and more
awaits them in the future. In their
honor, Mr. Eliot c.. Cowdin, President
of the Union League Club of New York,
has given dinner, at which Minis,
ter Washburne and General Read
were present; and the Messrs Bowles, on Wed.
nesday evening, had a grand reception, at
which all Americans and many distinguished
persons not Americans were presented to them.
Besides this, a complimentary banquet will be
given 10 them by the Americans in Paris before
their departure, which will be of more public
character Invitations will probably not be
strictly confined to Paris, but will be given to
many prominent men in war and politics
and literature and commerce outside of
that city. 1t is intended, in fact, to be fitting
demonstration in their honor, before they
fiji ally leave Europe and return home. We
hear that they were averse to this manifesto
tion at first, and only conseated when it was
urged upon them that it would be nothing
more than fitting that some tribute of the kind
should be paid by Americans abroad to two of
their fellow-citiZens who represent the military
history and renown of their country, and to
whom in such large measure that country is
indebted, not only for its present position among
the family of nations but for its very existence.
AS General Sheridan and General Forsyth have
finished the especial mission for which they
came to Europe last year, namely, to study the
war between France and Prussia, and as they
have also finished the tour of Europe, which
they undertook simply as private individuals,
they intend to return home in the course of a
few weeks-probably about the middle of next
month.
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CITY ATairs.


Yesterday afternoon the Centennial Com
mittee of the Virginia Legislature met with
eur committee in Select Council Chamber for
the transaction of business. Mr.. Shoemaker
presided. Resolutions we're adopted express
sive of the intention of Virginia to take part
in the centennial celebration of 1876, and
inviting Kentucky, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois,
Michigan, Wisconsin, and West Virginia to
take part with her in the same.
MIR. Shoemaker then gave a synopsis of the
proposed plan for exhibition. Addresses
were made by Judge Cochran, Hon. j. NJ.
Stokes, and Messrs. Woodson, Cowardin,
and Cattell, after which the meeting ad-
journed, and a visit was paid to Carpenters
Hall. In the evening a complimentary ban
quet was given them at the Con tinental
Hotel, at which Mayor Fox presided. Toasts
were offered and appropriately responded to
by Messrs. Cochran, Wood, Page, Gilman,
Comfy, French, and Woodson.
Yesterday the Second and Third Streets
Passenger Railway Company commenced
running their cars through from Frankford
to Miflin street without change of Car or
fares.
Recently meeting of the Citizens Asso-
citation of the Twenty third ward was held to
express disapproval at the action of Councils
in passing bills for the paving of streets in
that section against the wishes of property
holders. Resolutions were adopted express
sive of the determination of the association
to use all proper and lawful means to remove
from power officials who seek the Office solely
for the purpose of plunder and oppression.
AT meeting of the iron manufacturers
OF Eastern Pennsylvania, held in this city
yesterday, schedule of prices for extra
sizes of iron was adopted.
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CONDITION OF TIE PAPACY.
Plus TX a Voluntary Prisoner.


Mrs. Laura Curtis Bullard, writing from Rome
to The Golden Age gives the following interest
ing sketch of the present condition OF the
Papacy:-
The Pope has constituted himself voluntary
prisoner in the Vatican. He has ordered the
omission o. ell the customary ceremonies of the
Church He allows no one to visit the galleries
and museums of the Vatican without permit;
and in fact he is taking great pains to make
himself generally and thoroughly disagreeable.
For an infallble man, he exhibits a degree of
ill-tempeT at the loss of his temporal power that
is rather surprising. He has not good word
for any one. The journal which Is his organ,
Il Unitd CdttOlioG calls Napoleon III ''a rascal"
"a poor compliment to the man who, more than
any other monarch of this century, has tried to
sustain the temporal power. But Popes 1t
seems, are not free from the general weakness
of humanity, which is to kick man when he
is, or is supposed to be, down.
There is tradition IN Rome that If Pope
occupies the chair of ST. Peter for twenty-five
years he will be the last of the long line of the
Apostolic Princes and if Plus TX lives till next
June that tradition will have chance to be
tested He has been most unfortunate mon
arch, and his ill-luck is not confined to himself
1t is singular fact that every royal house which
has received his blessing has been remarkably
unfortunate, He blessed Macmillan and poor
Carlotta Just before the ill-starred Mexican eX-
pedition. He blessed Francis Joseph, Emperor
of Austria, just before his conflict with
Prussia and his defeat at Sadowa. He blessed
Isabella Queen of Spain, and sent to her the
golden rose and she lost her throne almost i'm
mediately after. He blessed Louis Napoleon
and Eugene, aud they are eXlles aud wanderers
on the face of the earth. He cursed Victor
Emanuel and eXcommunicated him, and he Is
King of Italy beloved by his people, victorious
over his nations enemies. His son Amadeus is
the newly elected King of Spain; one OF his
daughters the Queen of Portugal
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St Louis is proud because she has a capital
of So 600 600 invested in the lager beer manu-
facture. The annual product is 81, 600, 900.
An endeavOr is being made TO raise funds
for the endowment OF an alumni professorship
for Illinois College on foundation of $40, 900.
Ex-senator Yates. who was graduate in the
first class of the college, is doing his utmost to
forward the scheme
brilliant meteor leaving in its flight bright
train of light, and seeming TO come down just a
little beyond the limits of the city, was seen
there, falling towards the north, about ia
o'clock on Friday night last II was on the
same night that a large meteor was seen in this
citv endin New England about l2H. Baltimore
reports are at 12 o'clock on the same night, Its
course being due east
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.hnnectipn WIN SOutn Oar0llna halr0ad company.
ALFRED 4. TYLER
Vice President so. @. RR. Co
.GFSF& PHILADELPHIA AND SOUTHERN
ussks44ka=sn NAIL STEAMSHIP COMPANY'S RE
GULAR SEMI-MoNTHJl LINE TO NEW OR
LEANS, La.
The JUNIATA Will sail for New Orleans, via Ha~
vena, on Friday, April IL, at 8 A. M
The 1AZOO will sail from New Orleans, via Ha-
vana, on Friday, March 81.
THROUGH BILLS OF LADING at as low rates
as by any otner route given to MOBILE, CALVES
TON, INDIANOLA, ROCKPORT, LAVACOA, and
BRAZOS, and to all points on the Mi Ssis-ipp river
between New Orleans and st. Louis. Red river
freghts 1eshipped at New Orleans wiChout charge
Of cOmmissions.
WEEKLY LINE TO SAVANNAH, GA.
The TONAWANDA will sail for Savannah on Sat-
uIdAy, April s, at s A. NJ.
The WYOMING win sail from Savannah on Sat
urday, April s.
THROUGH BILLS o LADINa given to all the
principal towns in Georgia, Alabama, FLORIDA, Mis-
sssippi, Louisiana, Arkansas and Tennessee in con.
neCtion with the Central Railroad OF Georgia, At
-antlc ana Gull Railroad, and Florida steamers, al
sslow rates as by competing lines.
SEMI M MoNTHLY LINE TO WILMINGTON, N. G.
The PIONEER will sail for Wilmington on Satur-
DAY, April s, at Z. Nj. Returning, will leave
wilmington Sunday, April 10.
Connects with the Oape Fear River Steamboat
Company, the Wilmington and Weldon and North
chester Railroad TO all interior points.
Freights for Columbia, S. c., and Augusta, Ga,
taken via Wilmington at as low rates as by any
other route.
Insurance effected when requested by shippers.
Bills OF lading signed at Queen street wharf on or
before day OF sailing.
WILLIAM L. JAMES, General Agent,
No. $50 s. THIRD Street.
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UTEsT CHESTER AND PHILADELPHIA RAIL

VXTEST CHESTER AND PHILADELPHIA RAIL-
w ROAD COMPANY.
ON AND AFTER MONDAY, october IL, 1870
Trains will leave and arrive at the Depot, THIRTY
FIRST and CHESNUT Streets, as folloWs:-
FROM PHILADELPHIA
For West Chester at T'45 and 1l'20 A. M, 29O,
61b, and IL 80 p. NJ. Stops at all stations.
For West Chester at 440 p. M. This train stops
only at stations between Media and West Chester
For b. @, Junction al 4'lO P. M. Stops at all sta
uonB. - . - - -,
FOR PHILADELPHIA
From West Chester at $50 aud l0'i5 A. NJ, 30,
4f5b and 6tb Z. nj. Stops at all stations.
From West Chester at 7'b5 A. NJ This train stops
only at stations between West Chester ana Media
From RI G. Junction at $40 a. M. stops at all
statonB - 80 .
ON SUNDAY-Leave Philadelphia at 80 A. NJ.
and2 p n Leave West Chester at 7 % a. n. and
VIC. WHEELER, Superintendent
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SHtPPING4.

THE REGULAR STEAMSHIPS ON THE PHI.
II LADELPHIA AND CHARLESTON STRAIN,
SHIP LINE are ALONE authorized to issue thro az
oils OF lading TO interior points South and Wessh
Connection with South Carolina Railroad Company
ALFRED L. TYLER,
Vice Prnaidnnt So. @. RR. Co
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NORTH PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD
N THE SHORT MIDDLE ROUTE TO THE
ERN PENNSYLVANIA, SoUTHERN AND IN
TERROR NEW YORK, BUFFALO, OORRY,
DOMINION OF CANADA.
WINTER ARRANG EMENT.
Takes effect December 10, 1870.
Fifteen Daily Trains leave Passenger Depot,
corner Of Berks and American streets (Sundays
100 A. M. (Aocommodation) for Fort Washing.
AtIsS Am. (Expressl, for Bethlehem, Easton, al.
lentown, Mauch Chunk, Wilkesbarre, Williams
port, Mahanoy City, Hazleton, PittstOn, Towanda,
Waverley ElmiTa, and in connection with the ERIE
HALLWAY for Buffalo, Niagara Falls Rochester,
Cleveland, Chicago, San Francisco, and all points
in the Great West
s'25 A. NJ. (AccOmmodationl for DoylestOwn,
g46 A. NJ, (Express) for Bethlehem, Easton, Al
Ientown, Riauch Chunk Williamsport, Mahanoy
City, WilkesDarre, Pittston, scranton, Hacketts-
town, Schooley's Mountain, and n. ]. Central and
II A. NJ. tAocOmmodation) for Fort washin gtOn
Ile and A. $40 ] and 10 h T; M:, for AA6lngtSn.
lontown, Mauob Chunk, Mahanoy Oity, Wilkes
barre, Plttston, and HaEleton.
At 800 P. M. (Bethlehem AocommodatioA) for
Bethlehem, Easton, Allentown, and OOplsy.
AIS p. M. (MaiD for DoylestoWn.
500 p. M. for BethIehem, Easton, Allentown,
S2oP. M. CAccommodat,on) for LansdaIe.
IlsO p, M. (Accommodation) for Fort Washing
The Fifth and Sixth streets, Second and Third
streets, and Union Lanes OitS cars run 70 the
Depot.
TRAINS ARRIVE IN PHILADELPHIA FROM
Bethlehem at sos, and 1895 A. Nj 2'lS, sos, and
Doylestown at s.25 A NJ, $40 and es6 r. M.
Lansdale at 7'e0 A. NJ.
Fort W ashington at 9'2O and ll.2O A. NJ, $40 F. M
Arlington at 2'sb, 9 '6b, and o 80 p. NJ
ON SUNDAYS.
Philadelphia for Bethlehem at $50 A. M.
Philadelphia for DoylestoWn at 400 L. NJ.
DOylestoWn for Philadelphia at a. 81.
Bethlehem for PhiladelPhia at 400 p, M.
Tickets sold and baggage checked through 70
principal points at Mann's North Pennsylvania
Baggage Express Ozoe, No. LOB 3. Fifth street.
Dec. 10, 1870. ELLIS CLARK, Agent.
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DELAWARE MUTUAL SAFETY INSURANCE
~ COMPANY. Incorporated by the Legislature
OF pennsylvania, 1885.
once s. E. corner Of THIRD and WALNUT Streets
Philadelphia.
MARINE INSURAECEs
on Vessels, Cargo, and Freight to all parts OF tic
world.
INLAND iNSURANCEs
0oodsby river canal, lake, and land carriage to
FIRE INSURANCES
Merchandise generally; on Stores, Dwellings,
Houses, etc.
ASSETS OF THE COMPANY,
November /, 1870.
900 united States Six Per Cent
Loan Qawfui money. 80. S3S3s7o 90
100000 State Of Pennsylvania Six Per
Gent Loan. .................. 2l4,000'O0
100000 City OF Philadelphia six Per
Cent. Loan exempt from
ls4,OoO state Of New Jersey Six Per
10000 PennsyVSnia nS Th Railroad First lO''''OOO
Mortgage Six Per ct Bonds. 2O,7OOOt
$4,000 Pennsylvania Railroad Second
Mortgage Six Per CT Bonds. q5,25OOO
$4,000 Western Pennsylvania Rail-
road Mortgage Six Per Cent.
Bonds Qennsylvania Rail-
road guaranteed. ........... 100000
Loan. n.,........................ 100000
Loan. ......,................. W 100000
pany l25O Shares Stock) ...... 100000
5000 North Pennsylvania Railroad
Company 200 Shares Stock).. 4,S00Ot
10000 Philadelphia and Southern Mail
Steamship Company $50 sh's
Stock) Observation-Disclosures, t,000W
1850 Loans on Bond and Mortgage,
first liens on City Properties. 26l,65OOo
sl26O $50 Par Cst 81, ,264 447's4 MktvI 81 557OO
Real Estate e............,.....,, b6,00U50
Bills Receivable for insur-
ances made. .................. 290.971'27
Balances due at Agencies
Premiums on Marine Policies
Accrued Interest AMI lther
debts due the Compan ...... 1880 40
Stock and Scrip, etc OF sun
dry corporations, 1880, estt-
mated value. e................. 39l2OO
Cash. OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. 1921 70
$780, 1871
DIRECTORS.
Thomas c. Hand, Samuel e. Stokes,
John @. Davis William q. Boulton,
Edmund A. Souder, Edward Darlington,
Joseph II. Seal, H. Jones Brooke,
James Traquair, Edward Lafourcade,
Henry Sloan, Jacob Rege
Henry G. Dallett, Jr., Jacob P. Jones'
James @. Hand, james b. Mcfarland,
William @. Ludwig, Joshua p Eyre,
Hugh Craig, Spencer McIlvane,
John D. Taylor, Thomas p. Stotes6ury.
George w. Bernadou, John b. Semple PittsO'rg,
VIM. @. Houston, A. B. Berger, Plttsburg,
Il. Frank Robinson, d. T. Morgan, Pittsburg.
THOMAS G. HAND, President
JOHN c. DAVIS Vice-President.
HENRY LYLBURN, Secretary.
HENRY BALL, Assistant Secretary.
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NATIONAL S96fs
STEAMSHIP COMPANY.

STEAM DIRECT TO AND FROM NEW YORK
QUEENSTOWN, AND LIVERPOOL.
The magnificent Ocean Steamships OF this line
sailing regularly every SATURDAY, are among the
largest in the world aud famous for the degree Of
safety, comfort, and speed attained.
CABIN RATES, CURRENCY,
sI6 and $685. First class Excursion I1ckets good for
twelve months, $3.50. Early application must be
made in order to secure choice OF state-rooms.
STEERAGE RATES, CURRENCY,
outward, S2S. Prepaid, e32. tickets to and from
Londonderry and Glasgow at the same low rates
Persons visiting the old country, sending for their
friends should remember that these steerage rates
are 81 cheaper than several other lines
Bank drafts issued for any amounr,at lowest rates.
payable on demand in all parts of England, Leland
Scotland, Wales, aud the Continent OF Europe
Apply to WALLER & CO., Agents,
No. 204 WALNUT ST., just above Second