THE RELIGIOUS PRESS. The San Francisco Pacific has taken up in aerials, “the best method of preaching,” one of those subjects about which editors can write very rationally, but which is nofr so easy a nut when it conies to the cracking. The last number before us broaches the much lauded but not much used practice of mem orizing—not much used, nor ever will be among us, because, in “this great country,” ministers have enough to do without first' writing, andjthen committing to memory a sermon before preaching it. The Pacific says:— This plan embraces the written sermon oarefully committed and delivered memoriter. It is at least a laborious method—rbut one which avoids all that- is objectionable in the use of the manuscript. The speaker; ,is free to face his hearers—to look into their eyes— to watch, the effect of the truth upon .them. And having his thoughts arranged and'in order, there is no such mental effort as in extemporaneous preaching. But the mem ory is loaded down with a technical burden, and often the displacement of words and phrases jeopardizes the whole discourse, Few men without early training in this direc tion, it is believed will be able to adopt it successfully. It is to be remembered that some of the best speakers which the coun try has produced have followed . this plan. Everett was enaoled to deliver his discourse on Washington more than an hundred times from memory, without the variation of a word. The effort is in some sense mechan ical, and 'depending for success upon the as sociation of words and phrases, as well as ideas. This' technical precision precludes the idea of much freedom in the introduction of such thoughts as may originate with the occasion. The speaker is bound to speak his piece without a monitor or glance at his manuscript, If a gap is made by the intro duction of new matter, the circuit is broken, and often it is difficult to close it, and more difficult when the connection is lost, for his mental electricity to run on bare poles. He is in danger of being suspended between heaven and earth, where he -cannot get up higher, and cannot get down. Tragedians speak from memory; and thoughjhey utter other men’s thoughts, often far above the range of their own thinking, they are able not only to draw people to hear them, but to draw tears from their eyes. They identify themselves with the characters they person ate. They speak with eyes, by all mobility of facial muscles, and'by every conceivable movement of body and limb. Thu£ far the Pacific —and further. Starting from this point of power for stage effect, (we do not use the term in its bad sense,) as an ac cessory to ministerial qualification, it passes on to some suggestions which may be val uable, provided always he who would follow them out has a strong judgment, and holds it as a bit with a strong hand. We quote a few sentences: ■ y ' It might on some other occasion, be inter esting to enquire whether the average rhet oric of the pulpit does not fall quite below that of the stage. _ Whether the more stiff and stately sermonizing of the schools has not been needlessly antagonistic to a more dramatic style of speaking. We are often shy of sensation preachers, but .the people, are not. Some degree of dramatic action may be consistent with nature. Is there no tragedy in our lives? None in the Bible? No pictures of joy and sorrow —of heaven and hell? It can be no valid objection to say that one or another is theatrical in his man ner of preaching. It is legitimate, some times at least, to fight the devil with his own weapons. We rescue music from secular and Srofane uses, . and glorify God by its use. lay we not seize upon any peculiarity of the drama, and oonsecrate it to the Most High ? That method of preaching is best for the in dividual, in which he can embody most of his real power and so most Sffectually speak for God. The Episcopal Recorder of last week straightens out some curious reports respect ing the coziness of. the Northern and South ern Episcopacy, in a way decidedly damaging to the veracity of the common run of the correspondence of the daily press. We copy as follows: The Ne w York correspondent of the Phil adelphia Inquirer writes as follows:—“ I have it on perfectly reliable authority that letters have been received here from the Bishops of the Episcopal Church in nearly all the South ern Dioceses lately in rebellion against the Government, in favor of re-union at the next General Convention, at Philadelphia, without “y formality whatsoever. In other words, the Southern delegate?, clerical and lay, are desirous of resuming their seats in the Con vention, precisely as if secession.and the war were things that had never been.. Further more, a free interchange of opinion among the .Northern Bishops has just been had in reference to these overtures, and the deter mination arrived at, is substantially, in ac cordance with the wishes of the Southern brethren, and no time has been lost in so no tifying the latter. Bygones are to be by gones, and the past buried in oblivion.” We think that there must be some mistake on the part of the “ perfectly reliable author ity,' above mentioned, in reference, at least, to the information contained in the second paragraph. We have 11 perfectly reliable au thority for a different statement of the facts. How many Southern Bishops there may be u who are desirous of resuming their seats in Convention precisely as if secession and the war were things which had never been,” we have no means of judging; but that any such ‘ ‘ a free interchange of opinion has taken place among the Bishops,” as has resulted “ substantially in accordance with the wishes of the Southern brethren” (if indeed they have, or have expressed, such wishes), we more than doubt. We are ad vised of the following facts. Bishop Hopkins, the presiding Bishop, has prepared a circular letter to the Bishops proposing a letter to the Southern Bishops, to be signed by each of them, and to be sent with such signatures as may be seoured. Its main point is to assure the Southern Bishops of _the cordial welcome with which the Bishops m the loyal Dioceses are prepared to-greet'them at the approaching General Convention. It takes the ground that our Church had no part, direct or indirect, in producing the war. How many Bishops there are who have Bigned, or will sign this letter we do not know 5 but we do know that six of them have already declined to sign it. It is rather remarkable too, in view of the perfectly reliable authority in New York, claimed by the correspondent of the Inquirer, that the Bishop of New York is one of those who have refused their signa ture. _ We judge from this circumstance that the Bishops who have refused their signatures to this document have done so from no want of a Christian spirit and a brotherly regard, but from a determination not to be pledged in advance to any course, which shall hinder such testimony as they shall feel that duty to God and the country, and the future,,may demand of them, in reference to the sins of ‘Slavery,''Schism, and rebellion; and from an indisposition to seem anxious to purge them selves from the suspicion of having sanc- tioned the efforts of the Government to de feat and punish treason. The Presbyterian Banner has a leader upon the relations of the Presbyterian Church in the North to the Southern portion of the country, viewing the matter, we suppose, par ticularly as. affects its own, the Old School branch. The Banner feels little confidence in articles and letters sent up from the South, and published in Northern papers, which represent the bitter resolve of ministers and churches to hold their animosity, as so deep that Union is an impossibility. We have our own views upon this point, but just now. we will listen to the Banner. That a part of the people of the South should feel and talk thus, is mo evidence that they are. unapproachable by Christians from the North.: Four months ago the leaders expressed themselves as hopefully of the suc cess of the rebellion as at any previous time. Even after,,the capture,ofjß,ichmond, and the surrender of Lee, much-was said among aristocratic secessionists about never being subject to the Government at Washington, and intimations were thrown out about a general hegira to Mexico or some of the South American States. But all this is changed. Those very persons are hastening to sue for pardon, to take the oath of allegi ance, and are exceedingly desirous to hold office once more under the Federal Govern ment. And, again, it is evident to every reader of the communications referred to, that their authors have been mingling for the most part with the old secession aristocracy, who are still sore and bitter over defeat. Their ambition has been blasted, their pride has'been laid in the dust, their slaves have been freed, and their estates aTe in danger of confiscation- But we are persuaded that a better and more hopeful state of feeling prevails among the great mass of the. people; and especially among the great body of Southern Presby terians, tens Of thousands of hearts sure long ing for the renewal of Christian intimacies. And as the necessities of common life will compel a return to commercial intercourse and confidence, so will the needs of Christian life prepare the way for reunion and cordial co-operation in every good work. The gospel of peace will at length break down all barriers and remove all prejudices. The Banner proceeds to state that it has evidence to support these views, in letters from several Southern speaking of places where people are anxiously looking for ministerial supplies from the North, and tes- 1 ted practical openings for the Christian en terprises from this quarter. At the same time, as the audi alteram partem view, it has been let into the secret of a scheme of certain former ecclesiastical Pilates and Herods, who have been “made friends” by a common virulence against the Government, to head off any union with'the Northern churches. A mce little arrangement, says the Banner, has just been prepared at Richmond, Va., in a select assemblage, where Rev. Drs. T. V. Mdore, M. D. Hoge, A. Converse, Brown, Read, and others of the same school, were present. The subject of ecclesiastical recon struction was taken up. In the discussion, Rev. T. V. Moore, D.D., a Pensylvanian by birth, and who had just returned from a visit to Pennsylvania, took the ground that in the North union between the Old and New School branches was certain —nothing could prevent itr—and that therefore the New School section of the South which had sepa rated from the New School body at the North, and which was now united with the Old School party at the South, could not be expected to enter into ecclesiastical relations with the great Presbyterian body, to be formed of the Old and New School branches, at the North. This view prevailed. Then it was generally admittJjpttnat the Confeder ate General Assembly was extinct —would not meet again. The line of policy at length adopted by these gentlemen in that conclave, was that the Synods' of our Church in the South should be revived, and that then one General Synod of the South, composed of delegates from the fiarticular Synods, should be formed. This was the general plan. In accordance with this, Rev. B. M. Palmer, D. D., is about to return to New Orleans, to take possession of his former charge, and also so take ground in favor of a General Synod of the South,‘and in opposition to reunion with our General Assembly. Probably Rev. S.-S. Wilson, D.D., and Company, in Ken tucky, who have insisted so much upon the total apostacy of the General Assembly, will not be averse to this movement. gtto af % P«1 MISCELLANEOUS. The Last Government Loan.— The issuing of the 7-30 bonds was suspended on the 26th ult., the entire amount authorized by the act ot Congress having been taken. Applications for them continue to come in, but they are too late. The whole amount of the three series is $830,000,000, and of this about $700,000,000 has been negotiated by Jay Cooke, the Government agent. Reconstruction. —Governor Parsons, of Alabama, has issued a proclamation, order ing an election for delegates to a State Con vention to be held on the 10th o£ September. He says that of the one hundred and twenty two thousand Alabamians engaged in the war, seventy thousand of them were killed or disabled. He also says that they have every right which they ever possessed except slavery; and that the sooner they bow to the decree abolishing it that it will be the better for them. _ Proposed Combination against the High Prices of Meat.—Some of the New Yorkers, out of all patience with the meat extortioners, propose a general combination of consumers to abstain from the use of the article, beginning with August 5, and. con tinuing two weeks. If it could be pretty ex tensively adopted, and continue until such time as the producers should' come down to some sensible terms, the plan would meet the case. But a two weeks’ campaign would be nothing to the butchers. They could spare their business that length of time, clean up their stalls, take a vacation, and at the end of the fast meet a crowd of customers hungry enough to bear so much additional extortion as would pay up for lost time. The Pirate Shenandoah.—We have again bad news from this last remnant of the rebel power. A San Francisco despatch of July 27, says that the whaling barque Milo ar rived that day in eight days from the Arctic Sea, with the crews of several whalers de stroyed by the pirate Shenandoah last month. The whalers Edward Casey, Hector, Abigail, Euphrates, William Thompson, So phia Thornton, Swift, and the Susanna, were captured, any most of them burned. The Milo was boarded for the purpose of taking off the crews. The Shenandoah was continu ,ng the wholesale destruction of whalers, and would probably soon destroy another fleet numbering sixty vessels. Her commander was informed of Lee’s surrender, and the col lapse of the rebellion, but did not believe it. He believed in Lincoln’s assassination, for he expected it. The Shenandoah ooaled last at Melbourne. -She was manned by English and Irish sailors. Some of the captured whalemen joined her. THE AMERICAN PRESRYTERTAN. THURSDAY. AUGUST 3.^186^ England and the Confederate Ships. —The temper of the English courts is about to be tried in relation to the right of the float ing property of the late Confederacy to hospi tality. Washington accounts say that our Liverpool Consul, Dudley, has filed' a bill claiming the ship Mine, which arrived at Liverpool with 14,000. bales of cotton belong ing to the rebel government. He has also instituted legal proceedings to recover the pirate Rappahannock, now there. Still Later.—The Hibernian from Liver pool, reached Father Point on the 31st ult. with_ dates to the 21st. Returns from the elections are all in,, and the. net gain of the Liberals, (the Administration,) foots' up 'to 20. -Mr. Gladstone was defeated in Oxford, but by that peculiar facility which the En glish system affords ,to aspirants, holding elections in different constituencies at differ ent times, _and not requiring representatives to be residents, he offered himself to the electors of South Lancashire, by whom he was returned. Richmond Whig.—This Recently sup pressed paper was somehow again got under way last week —in what temper may he judged by the following editoriallf we fail to give free and independent utterance to the opinions we entertain and the convictions we cherish, we desire the good people of Vir ginia to understand that it is no fault of ours. ‘ Cribbed, cabined, and confined,’ as it is our unfortunate lot to be, we cannot expect to make up a paper satisfactory to ourselves or acceptable to the public; and the generous people of Virginia, we are sure, will not only sympathize with our situation, but extend to us and the Whig all the.‘aid and comfort’ in their power during the continuance of the restrictions which the military authority have seen fit to impose upon us. ” , • The Divorce Law in Connecticut.— The legislature of Conneticut is trying to amend its divorce law. The existing law au thorizes divorce ter P any such misconduct of the other party as permanently destroys, the happiness of the petitioner, and .defeats the purpose of the marriage relation.” This covers all possible causes for which parties seek separation, and, in fact, it gives either party power to obtain divorce at will. It vir tually annuls the saeredness and permanence of the marriage contract,, so far as the law can do it. The new bill restricts divorces to these causes: adultery, bestiality, imprisonment for life, fraudulent contract, seven years absence not heard of, wilful desertion for three years with total neglect of duty, habitual intemper ance of three years continuance without pros pect ,of reform, intolerable .cruelty, or any other infamous crime punishable by impris onment in the State prison. The' Senate re jected this bill, and it will have to be greatly amended in order to 'pass. Some change will bemgde or Connecticut will'becJSme as unde sirinjUf notable as Indiana for its free divorce system. . Richmond Citt Election.— The two can didates for the Mayoralty each appeared in a card just previous to the election, defining his position with regard to the' Union. Mr. Sturdevant indignantly denounced the report that he was a disunionist, said that the re bellion was hopelessly defunct, and the Uni ted States Government again paramount, and they must now accept and sustain it. But he did not, like a true loyalist, improve the opportunity to speak one word against rebel lion, or of satisfaction with the restoration of lawful authority. It was just suchlfpaper as spoke sullenness under defeat, and yet meanness enough to cringe for office. Mr. Taylor came out a flat-footed Unionist. The election took place on the.morning of the 26th ult., and resulted in the choice of Mr. Sturdevant by upwards of 400 majority. That is Richmond. Later information is that " General Terry has incontinently upset this new prospect of restoring to the malignants the control of the city. He has issued an order .forbidding the newly elected Mayor and other .officers from taking authority. Secesh is indignant of course, and is now besetting the President to revoke the order. ■" ' FOREIGN. European advices are to July 15. The main topic is the result of the elections so far as they have been held. They may be sum med up in this: To the evening of the 14th, the number of contests completed was 421. Of these the Liberals had 263 seats and the Conservatives 158. ' Compared-with the.last Parliament, the Liberals, according to . the calculations of the Times, have lost 26, and have gained 35 seats, so that the net gain to the Government, thus far has been 9. Lib eral gains are anticipated in Ireland, and, on the whole, the Times looks for a great rein forcement to the Liberal cause. There were 233 seats to be filled, mainly by the counties, and the contests for these would extend over another week. Lord Palmerston was, of course, returned for Tiverton, but he has a‘ Conservative for his colleague instead of a Liberal as formerly. The first two days vo ting for Oxford University left Mr. Gladstone, the rebel sympathiser, in a minority of 25. The polling would continue for three days more. In view of the possible failure of Mr. Gladstone at Oxford, tne Liberals nominated him as one of the candidates for the Southern Division of Lancashbe. There was a close contest in Liverpool and the result was in favor of the two Conservative candidates, Messrs. Horsfall and Greaves. In London John Stuart MilV and Mr. Hughes, both ex treme Liberals, and friends of the American Union, were triumphantly elected. ■Dealings in American securities-are not brisk. U. S. 5-20 are quoted at 71f @7ll. News from the continent unimportant., Later.—A later arrival brings Liverpool dates to the 19th. The net gain of the Libe rals in the election of members of Parliament, as far as then known, was 18. The Great Eastern arrived off Valentia on the morning of the 19th, and the work of laying the cable for the oceanic telegraph was! immediately going forward. The Prince Imperial of Prance had been dangerously ill, but was im proving. The cholera: in Egypt was rapidly decreasing. U. S. 5-20’s, 72@72f. MEXICO. Mexican news, from New Orleans, July 17th, says that by the Liberal General Ne gretes countermarching his forces he com pletely frustrated the combinations of the French general to capture him. The city of Tula and the town of Matchula had been capr tured from the French. In the latter place no quarter was asked or given. President Juarez is in undisputed possession of Chi huahua.. Later dates, or rather later accounts to which we find no date, say that we have im portant news from Mexico, which, while it reveals the sad condition of the country, also looks stormy. Our concentration of troops on the Texan frontier has alarmed Maximil ian, and, as an offset to our, movements, he, too, is concentrating, to tips number of thirty five thousand men, at MatamOras. While these important events are transpiring on the frontier of the_ empire, it seems, from ac counts we publish, to be racked within with the saddest of social convulsions. Guerillas and robbers are employed in the interest of the French, and_ their handiwork is visible in too many localities. Americans are the chief objects of the wrath of these men, who are well assisted /by the French troops. * -Aioeri cans are said to be murdered or- robbed wherever found. Such are the accounts. There are, however, so many bad men among newspaper correspondents, to whom war is a harvest, and who are ready to worst feeling between us and rat we fan back upon the probaklity^t WhateverTay of the usurping EmpeXtowateus, we belfeve he regards the cultivation of peace and good will as his highest wisdom in the case. . Later.—A Brownsville letter ofJulyl3tb savs —“ Major Texier, of Cortinas’ staff, has just arrived from above, bringing ihtel igence of the capture of General Kirby Smith and his entire party. He was intercepted by Governor of Saltillo, S. Viesca, on the 4th of July, at Piedras Negras, Mexico, about fifty miles below Eagle Pass, and Co ?P£ le to surrender. The victors got four Piecespt artillery, nine hundred new ana atram of seventy-five wagons, loaded with ammum tion and provisions. The -officers and men Shelby had reached Eagle Pass, but the authorities at Piedras Ne_gras in formed him that he would not be aimwea to take his men into Mexico with arms m their hands. He would, however, be allowed to come into the country with-his men as emi grants. He finally agreed to this, and sold his arms and cannons to the Libera;Ls: at xiea^- ras Negras, for which he received $6,000 in specie and $5,000 in bonds issued by the Liberals. The arms were immediately ship ped to Chihuahua. President Juarez is at Chihuahua, which is strongly fortified, with no Imperial troops to threaten it. ITEMS Alfred Tennyson, the poet laureate of Eng land, is failing very fast. He was just covering from a severe attack of-throat dis ease, when, walking" late one evening in his Isle of Wight garden, he took cold, and now, it is stated, symptoms of _ consumption are evident. A gentleman. in New York has offered to give $5OO in prizes of $2OO, $l5O, $lOO, and $5O, to those soldiers who have either lost their right arm or have had it dis abled, who will show*the best specimen of left-hand penmanship—the design being to induce the men to become skilfuj penmen, in order, to fit'themselves for lucrative and hon orable positions. ——Charles Waterton, the distinguished naturalist, the man who rode an' alligator some forty or fifty years ago, died recently at his residence, Walton Hill, near Wakefield, England, at the advanced age of eighty-three. He has Jong been known as an eccentric man. Sir Edward Lytton Bul wer, the celebrated novelistjand poet, has be come entirely deaf. ——John M. Mason,_ex-. would-be Minister of the ex-would-be C. S. A Government to Great Britain, has returned to this side of the Atlantic. Doubtful of the prudence of coming within reach of Uncle Sam’s catchers, he stopped in Canada-, making St. Catharine’s his temporary abode, ... - -The Pittsburg Post says there is a well known resident of that city, who is seventy two years of age, and has a physician s certi ficate that he has not been sober for forty years.— —W. W. Whittlesby has been arres ted in New York for the larcency of one huh: dred $lOOO bonds from the Treasury Depart ment at Washington, where he was an em ployee, and taken to the latter city for trial. He has confessed the crime, but could make no other restitution than to tell where some of the coupons were secreted.—North Carolina is shipping to the North a large amount of copper, iron, lead, etc., mined in that State, The negroes are, it is said, accu mulating small fortunes working the gold and silver mines. The Raleigh Progress says that in Nor th Carolina the native element, including the aristocracy, is growing more defiant, and threaten the Union men as soon as the—troops are withdrawn. —; Secretary Stanton has, on behalf of the Gov ernment, leased Ford’s. Theatre for fifteen hundred dollars a month, with the privilege of buying it for one hundred thousand dollars, if Qongress so provides.——The civil courts of Alexandria, V a., have recently refused to receive the testimony of negroes, either _in their own behalf, or-that of parties to suits. The Freedmen’s Bureau has taken up the matter, and threatened military force to pre vent the execution of judgment in any case where the testimony of a colored witness has been refused upon trial. An arrangement hap finally been effected, by which all cases id, which colored persons are concerned, as parties or witnesses, shall be tried by the Provost courts. -Under escort of a strong guard, Jeff, Davis has been allowed to walk in the grounds of Fortress Monroe. This privilege will be accorded to him hereafter, although it is said he looks well, and appa rently enjoys good health,- The Deseret News announces the death of James Duane Doty, Governor of Utah, who expired at Great Salt Lake City on the 13th of June. The deceased was a little over sixty-five years old, The power to negotiate further loans for the support of the Government is now exhausted; but the Secretary of the Treas ury believes that the income from the usual sources will be sufficient to keep the machi nery in motion until the meeting of Congress. Seward and family, accompa nied by several distinguished personages, ar rived at Cape Island, on the 27th ultimo in the gunboat Northerner. They were re ceived with every testimonial of respect. Ohio and Illinois have been visited by a heavy rain-storm, which in the former, has greatly injured the oat crop. The storm was severe also in Illinois, and over the North west, but no damage is believed to have been done to the crops. The mail routes in Virginia, and in others of the Southern States, are rapidly being restored." The old route to Richmond has . again been opened.—— Speaker Colfax is in Oregon-Territory, and has been, warmly welcomed by the inhabi : tants of the chief cities.-, The, gold and silver coinage of the San Francisco Mint during the fiscalyear just ended, equals $19,- 000,000., WATT, THE INVENTOR OF THE STEAM ENGINE. A young man, wanting to sell spectacles in London, petitions the corporation to allow him to open a little shop without paying the fees of freedom, and he is re fused. He goes to Glasgow and the cor poration refuse him there. He makes the acquaintance of some members of the Uni versity who find him intelligent, and who permit him to open his shop within their walls. He does" not sell spectacles and magic lanterns enough to occupy all his time; he occupies. himself at intervals in taking asunder and remodeling all the machines he can come at. He finds there are books on mechanics writtem-in foreign languages. He borrows a dictionary, and learns those languages'to read these books. The University people wonder at him, and they are fond of dropping into his little room in the evenings, to'tell him what they are doing, and to look at the queer instruments he constructs. A machine in the Univer sity collection wants repairing, and he is employed. He makes it a new machine. The steam engine is constructed, and the giant mind of James Watt stands out be fore the world the herald of a new force of civilization. Was Watt educated? Where was he educted ? At his own workshop, and in the best manner. 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HIPFLE, PHOTOGRAPHER, No. 830 ArchSteeet, Phllada. Photographs from miniature to life-size finished the finest styles of the art. 960-ly GEBMON’S TEMPLE OF ART, No. 914 Arch Street, Philadelphia. PHOTOGRAPHS IN ALL STYLES. Late of 702 Chestnut Street. O. B. DeMOBAT, PHOTOGRAPH GALLERIES, W, corner Eighth and market Sts., Entrance No. 2 South Eighth, -*y PHILADELPHIA EIIS. fIU MM, ill SKATES. PHILIP WILSON & C 0. } 409 s CHESTNUT ST., PHILADELPHIA. Manufacturers and dealers in FINE GUNS, PISTOLS, FISHING TACKLE, SKATES, CANES, Ac. in* Unds. otder best m “““ er * “» d “W™* REMEMBER THE NUMBER, 409. Insitcarat teqwttiijs. INSURANCE AGAINST accidents EVERY DESCRIPTION, BTTHB TRAVELERS’ INSURANCE COMPANY, HARTFORD, CONN. CAPITAL. WM, W. ALLEN, AGENT. 404 WALNUT STREET, pniiißKipiirA. general accident policies • sation T ™ S n l, re j P ol i ar9 - with $3 per week compen- l>er aD ““o». or any other sum between *5OO and $lO,OOO at proportionate rates. TEN DOLLARS PREMIUM Honfor e 5« r ®~P 00 ’ 9 r $lO Per week compensa linSS description of accident—travel v£<h&273sZ aaat ' Accident Policy, at THIRTY DOLLARS PREMIUM Secures a foil Policy for $5OOO, or $25 per week com pensation, as above, at the Special Hate. FOREIGN RISKS. - . Policies issued, for Foreign, Nest Indio and Pali, to'the <HficI el ’ ate Sean ®® learned by application SHORT TIME TICKETS. Arrangement are in coarse of completion by whiob will be at)le to purchase, at any Raihray Ticket Office. Insurance Tickets for one or thirty days* traveL Ten cents will buy a tickrt for om travel, insuring $3OOO, or $l5 weekly compensation. Ticket Polices maybe had f0r3.6,0r 12 months.in the same manner. ’ Hazardous Risks taken at Hazardous Rates. Policies issued for 5 years for 4 years premium. INDUCEMENTS. The rates of premium are less than those of any other Company covering the same risk. No medical examination is required, and thousands of those who have been rejected by Life Companies, in consequence of hereditary or other diseases, oan effect insurance in the TRAVELLERS’ at the lowest rates. # Life Insurance Companies pay no part 0/ the prin cipal sum until the death, of the assured. The TRA VELLERS’ pay the loss or d&magesust&ined by per sonal injury whenever it occurs. The feeling of security which such an insurance gives to those dependent upon their own labor for support is worth more than money. No better or more satisfactory usecan.be made of so small a sum. J. G. BATTERSON, President. RODNEY DENNIS. Secretary. . 0. IT. DAVIS* Vice President. HENRY A. DYER, General Agent. Applications reoeived and Policies issued by WUIIAM W. ALLEY, So. 404 Walnut Street. AMERICAN Walnut Street, S. E. cor. of Fourth, INCOME FOB THE YEAR 1864, $357,800. LOSSES PAID DURING THE YEAR AMOUNTING TO $85,000. .Insurances made upon the Total Abstinenae Rates, the lowestin the world. Also upon JOINT STOCK Rates which are over 20 per cent, lower than Mutual Rate, Or MUTOAX. RATES upon which a DIVI DEND has been made of . FIFTY RER CENT., on Policies in force January Ist. 18fi5. THE TEN-YEAR NON-FORFEITURE PLAN, by which & person insured can make all his payment in ten years, and does not forfeit, and oan at any time cease paying and obtain a paid up policy for twice thrice the amount paid to the company. ASSFTS $lOO,OOO_U. S. 5.20 bonds, 40,000 City of Philadelphia 6s. new, 30,000 Xl. 5. Certificate of indebttness, 25,000 Allegheny County bonds, 15,000 U, S. Loan of 1881, 10.000 Wyoming Valley Canal bonds, 10,000 State of Tennessee bonds, 10,000 Philadelphia and Brie Railroad bonds, 10,000 Pittsburg, Port Wayne & Chi cago bonds, 9.000 Beading Railroad Ist mortgage bonds, 6,500 City of Pittsburg and other bonds, 1,000 shares Pennsylvania Railroad stocks. % 450 shares Com Exchange National Bank, 22,shares Consolidation National Bonk, 107 shares Farmers* National Bank of Reading, 142 shares Williamsport Water Com pany, 0*62 shares American Life Insurance and Trust Company, Mortgages, Real Estate, Ground Rent &c Loans on collateral amply seoured Premium notes secured by Policies Cash in hands of agents secured by bond; Cash on deposit with U. S. Treasurer, at per cent Cash on hand and in banks Accrued interest and rents due, Jan. 1 THE AMERICAN IS A HOME COMPANY Its TRUSTEES are ■well -known citizens in our midst, entitling it to more consideration than those whose managers reside in distant cities. Whilldin; William J. Howard, J. Edgar Thomson, Samuel T. Bodine, George Nugent. * John Aikman, Son. James Pollock, 'Henry K. Bennett, Albert C. Roberts, Hon. Joseph Allison, P. lsaac Hazlehnrst, Samuel Work. ALEX. WHILLDIN, President. Si.HI7£I WORK, Vice-President. JOHN S. WILSON, Secretary and Treasurer. THE GREAT SOW J! SHI HIT. T A EEANT'S Sufferers from Sick Her.Jj.ehe. Sufferers from Dyspepsia, Sufferers from N ervons Headache,' . EFFERVESCENT Sufferers from Sour Stomach, Sufferers from Bilious Sufferers from Costiveness, SELTZER Sufferers from Hearth urn, Sufferers from Piles, Sufferers from Sea Sickness, APKRI E N T. Sufferers from Liver Complaint. - bufferera from Indigestion, WILL FIND IN.I Tarrant’s Effervescent Seltzer Aperient, A SURE, PLEASANT and PERMANENT CURE, for the-above and similar diseases. MANUFACTURED ONLY BY TARRANT & CO., 278 GREENWICH STREET, NEW YORK. S@“ FOE SALE BY ALL DRUGGISTS. PLUMBER, STEAM AND GAS FITTER, T. W. RICHARDSON, No. 27 Sootlt Sixth .Street, ABOVE CHESTNUT. PHILADELPHIA Hydrants made and repaired. Bathß and all other Plumbing Work done at shortest’ notice.' Halls, Churches, Stores, Dwellings, Ac. fitted up for Gas. and waranted to give satisfaction. Country Work attend ed to. .9M0,000 $394,136 90 207,278 86 112,755 73 114,899 62 26.604 70 50,000 00 50,331 67 10,454 71 $966,461 79
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