loita’a tefe.
ABfERICAN PRSSBYTEttLVX AND THE
oweicAi beview fob m.T.
The number for July is an improvement
on its predecessor. The first article, by
Prof. Henry B. Smith, is an analysis with
proof-texts, of about one-half of Julius Mul
ler's System of Theology. This analysis is
based upon a small work published in Ger
many by one of Muller’s auditors, with the
consent of the Professor, as a help to those
attending the lectures. Prof. Smith was
assisted also by manuscript notes of the
lectures in giving greater fulness and clear
ness to the statements. The analysis is the
more valuable from the persistent refusal
of Prof. M. to publish his lectures, and we
have in these pages probably the fullest ac
count of his system anywhere in print. It
is well worth the perusal of the student,
and his careful attention should be given to
the proof-texts, which, in the little German
work, are the leading points, (its title is
JBeioei&stetlen) ) the texts being there given,
in full, in Hebrew, Greek, and Germanr
Prof. Muller’s system has its decidedly ob
jectionable points, as the doctrine of pre
existence', and loose or inadequate views
upon the doctrine of the decrees, upon in
spiration, and in the doctrine of eschatolo
gy. A leading merit is that Redemption
is its starting point. This he declares to
be “ the locus of the Christian religion.”
He also keeps equally clear from the error
of fechleiermacher, who makes religion a
mere feeling, (that of “ absolute depend
ence,”) and the opposite error of rational
ists, who would reduce religion tq, knowl
edge. Religion, he says, is fellowship with
God, as personal, indicated by love, rever
ence, prayer, &e. And again, Religion is
qualitatively superior to. philosophy, since
it is not merely a knowledge of God, but a
life in God of which life knowledge is only
one of the elements. We shall look with
interest for the remaining half of the analysis.
Prof. Shedd’s article on Homiletics is so
good that we regret its brevity. His aim
is, by enlarging upon the difficulty of pro
ducing a truly good sermon at- the present
day, to induce students and preachers to
devote themselves to the needful work of
preparation with appropriate energy. 'His
concluding remarks, upon the importance of
method in the sermon, with a view to make
it oarry all the freightage of truth practica
ble and in the most available form, espe
cially in this age of rapid and direct move
ment in matter and mind, is full of- wisdom,
and gives the secret, in great part, of an
effective, rightly popular, and permanent
ministry, so far as it depends on the pulpit.
If any impression were made by this
article of Prof. Shedd, calculated to exalt
learning too highly in the eyes of the min
istry, the following article, or we might
rather say appeal, from Drr - Waj-ianU, -
would be quite sufficient,to dissipate it en
tirely, and to recall the preacher to the sim
ple and grand object of his profession and
to the spiritual sources ot power needed in
discharging its duties. Dr. Way land takes'
the wonderful ministry of David Brainerd
among the Indians, as his text, and from
that urges the duty of preaching Christ
oruoified upon the,ministry, of our day and
country. He says:—
“ When a minister has laid aside forever
all desire of ecclesiastical distinction, local
position, reputation .for. learning, or elo
quence, increase of salary, or any of the
temptations that now so thickly encompass
a minister of Christ, and devotes himself at
all hazards to the preaching of Christ cru
cified in such a way that his whole audience
can understand him, when he 'asks of God
for himself nothing but holiness, and for
his hearers nothing but the salvation of
their souls, ■ • people begin, nobody
can tell why, to come to the house of God,
one and another is inquiring what he shall
do to be saved, and silent awe pervades the
assembly, so that a passing stranger, coming
in by accident, feels that there is an atmos
phere of religious thoughtfulness such as
he never witnessed before,” &c.
The indefatigable Dr. Gillett, of Harlem,
whose pen is, we should judge, about as
busy, and whose powers of observation, in
* vestigation, and of lucid reporting, are
about as great and incessantly occupied, as
those of any man we know of, gives us a
full and valuable summary of Augustine’s
de Givitate Dei. a library of books in itself.
Thirteen years was the great Atrican Fa
ther engaged upon this treatise, which in
cludes Mythology, History, sacred and pro
fane Philosophy, and the various branches
: of Theology. It is a monument of the
learning of his time and remained an au
thority until the Reformation. It is the
case of the Church versus Old Rome. Pity
that it cannot be had seperately, like the
■“ Confessions.”
Other articles in this number are, a con
cluding one on the government of the Pri
mitive Church, on the early Life of Milton
—tame, commonplace, and inadequate —on
Household Baptism, with a re-examination
cf Soripture passages 3 The College and the
New Country, by President Tuttle, lively
and readable, with some points well-put.
While this number interests us more
than the last, we cannot feel that it fairly
exhibits the great abilities of its chief ed
itor, or of the wide theological circle in
which it moves. We ask for decided im
, provement, or a return to an earlier stand
,.ard .of excellence, believing that unless
there are pecuniary difficulties in the way,
we shall see it ere long. The typographical
errors are far too numerous and important
Tor a work of this character.
BIBLIfAI, REPERTORY AYR PRINCE-
TON REVIEW.
Abt. I. —Early History of Heathenism.
From a patient and instructive inquiry
into the early heathen writings and inscrip
tions, Persian, Indian, and Egyptian, the
author infers the continuance, for some time
after Noah, among the primitive tribes of
men, of the knowledge of the true God. “In
the pre-Mosaio time, we may he free to
believe that multitudes were saved for God
out of every land and nation, in accordance
with the Noachic covenant. And it is
pleasant to believe that the early message •
of salvation may have been carried in many
a heart and on many a tongue, long and
far, among emigrating tribes on their pro
tracted migrations.” This, let us recollect,
is from Princeton. The concluding sen
tence is also worth transcribing: “ Hea
thenism is man’s development of God’s
revelation, and is related to the ancient dis
pensations as Romanism to the Christian.”
The next article on Arabia, brings, to
gether, in a most interesting and instruc
tive way, the results of recent explorations
in that little known portion of the earth.
Entirely different ideas of the interior of
the country must now be entertained in
consequence of these explorations. The
Bedouin tribes extend but a little distance
from the Northern frontier, and are sepa
rated by a line Of deserts from a fixed and
well-governed population. The Wahabees,
the Puritans of Mohammedanism, occupy
this central region.
The Revised Webster is a scholarly and
yet readable article, showing, in a luminous
manner, the superiority of this to the
earlier editions of the same, and some
other dictionaries, (Bailey 1720, Johnston
1775.) The points of comparison chieflj
noted are Etymology and Definition. The
very great superiority of the revised, over
the last preceding edition of Webster is
clearly shown.
President Lincoln, is an article contain
ing many sound and patriotic views; but
did Princeton ever, in all this rebellion,
undertake the part of loyalty, without in
some way revealing its utter want of heart ?
In this article, Mr. Lincoln’s name and
character are plainly made the supports on
which to hang an elaborate argument
against punishing treason as such. Be
cause Washington and Hampden were
rebels, therefore we must not punish the
rebels of the South for treason! The
writer is so stupid or so infatuated with his
own sympathy for these criminals, as to de
clare that the people generally do not wish
them hung for treason, but only for starv
ing prisoners and the like; and that they
fail to make the proper discrimination in
their own minds between these two classes
of offences. The tendency of this whole
argument is demoralizing and encouraging
to unrepentant rebels. It is, of course, to
■te ' cAuciiwa. uliac- ore ax.iiu» irA-u... -oaj-
School Assembly, excluding ministers and
bodies, who had gone into rebellion, from
the Church, until they give evidence of re
pentence, should greatly displease the re
viewer, as the next article, on the Assem
bly at Pittsburg, shows it did. This is a
remarkable critic, who pretends to hate the
crime, while he would still fraternize with
the criminal!
We are inclined to believe that the Old
School Church will adhere to its whole
some policy towards inexorable rebels
adopted at Pittsburg; and that Princeton
will continue to find itself on the losing
side, in this conflict with the loyal spirit in
its own denomination, as well as in the com
munity generally. Ere long we think it
will be written of Princeton : The sceptre
has departed, Ilium, fy.it. We are sorry to
be obliged to write these words of serious
dispraise of the managers of this sterling
old periodical. The number before us
otherwise is exceedingly able and valuable.
Lilian. A Story of the Days of Martyrdom
m England, three hundred years ago.
New York; Carlton & Porter.
Another juvenile—a handsomely gotten
up 18mo, of 209 pages, from a house which
has furnished much safe and interest read
ing for the young. It is a touching, but
not exaggerated, record of the patience of
the saints in the days when theirs were lite
rally fiery trials —a fiction only so far as it
embodies in a personal narrative well au
thenticated scenes of the persecution of
Protestants under Queen Mary. Lilian is
a girl, whose child faith withstood ■ alike
the seductive and terrible arts of the Eng
lish Antichrist, and who was finally brought
to the stake, but saved at the last moment
by the rushing in of a messenger with the
announcement, “ Queen Mary is dead, and
Queen Elizabeth reigns !” The story has
Several pictorial illustrations. We are
indebted to Messrs. Perkinpine & Higgins
for the copy before us.
PAMPHLETS AND PERIODICALS.
Return of the Victors. A Discourse
addressed to our Returned Soldiers, de
livered in the Central Presbyterian Ch.,
Rochester, June 25th, 1865, by Rev. F.
F. Ellinwood, pastor of the church.
This truly eloquent discourse breathing
the warmth of a hearty welcome and kindly
solicitude for the true interest of the re
turned soldiers in their new relations, has
already been noticed in our columns. We
observe in a note, that since the opening of
the rebellion one hundred and thirty
volunteers have gone from the Rochester
Central Congregation and Sabbath-school.
One Sabbath-school class furnished thirty
six. Only sixteen are known to have
fallen in battle or otherwise.
THE AMERICAN PRESBYTERIAN. THUBSDAY, AUGUST IT, 1865
A second edition of Mr. Edward Mc-
Pherson’s “ Political History of the United
States of America during the Great Rebel
lion” has just been published by Philip &
Solomons, Washington. The author, Clerk
of the House of Representatives in both
sessions of the Thirty-eighth Congress,
made good use of his position, personally
and politically, to obtain, collate, and ccn
dense an immense variety of facts; and he
digested them so well that the work at
once became a text-book. In the new edi
tion, the author has revised the whole vol
ume, corrected errors, added much new
material, and given the documentary his
tory of the South Carolina Convention, &c.
An entirely new chapter on “ The Church
and the Rebellion” is full of interest; and,
indeed, Mr. McPherson has spared no
pains to make the book of permanent value.
It has the closing advantage of a very full
index. . \
The practice of publishing .very limited!
editions of works is on the increase. Pub
lishers are thus enable to command what,
in the ordinary issue of books, would be
regarded as an exorbitant price, and are
sure of a clean sale. Thuse we see an
nounced by a New York house, an octavo
edition of five hundred copies of the “ Bib
liotheca Americana Vetustissima: A De
scription of Works Relating to America
and printed between the years 1492 and
1551.” The design of this publication is
to give a list and critical account of all the
works relating to America, which have
been published in Italy, Germany,' Spain,
Portugal, France, England, Holland, and
Mexico, from the time of the discovery by
Columbus to the year 1551. Upwards of
two hundred titles (where Ternaux has
fifty-eight and Rich only twenty) have been
collected, and copied from the original
works themselves, nearly all of which are’
in the possession of several well-known
American collectors, who-, allowed the use
of those extremely rare books in the pre
paration of this volume.
Messrs. Ticknor & Fields have brought
out the new “ Farringford Edition” of
Tennyson’s Poems. They are printed up
on heavy tinted paper of the finest quality,
and bound chastely yet elegantly in muslin
of a neat and handsome pattern. It con
tains a new portrait of the poet—by far the
best-yet done—-and three steel plates. The
edition is complete, containing all the poems
included in previous volumes. We add,
with sadness of feeling, that if the accounts
of the physical infirmities of the gifted au
thor are true, this edition is likely to re
main what it is now—a complete edition of
his poems..
Music is sometimes turned to odd uses;
It is announced that at the inauguration of
the statue of Dr. Jenner, which is to take
place at Boulogne 3oon, a “Hymn to
wjlMm
cination is to be successfully illustrated by
Choruses of children, young men, mothers,
and patriarchs.
Alexandre Dumas figures as the hero of
another story. He advertised a lecture on
the late poet Jasmin—the last of the Trou
badours —-but found at the last moment
that he knew, nothing about his subject.
Braving all risks, he- wrote to his soil to
ask for the ground-work for the lecture.
Between father and son no love is lost, as
is proved by the epigrammatic nickname
of “Le pere prodigue,” which the great
Alexandre received from his son. On this
occasion Alexandre the Less was sulky, and
sent back a message to the effect that:if the
father must lecture, he had better do so
about something he understood—himself,
for instance. The father took the hint,
and delighted the Bordellais with an amus
ing sermon, the text of which was Jasmin
the Poet, and the Alexandre the Roman
cer. -
Just now there seems to be in the old
world an unusual amount of literary and
political affiliation. The new British Par
iainent will contain an unprecedently large
number of men of more or less note in the
literary world. Besides those who hold
over, we have as new members John Stuart
Mill, Thomas Hughes, and several others.
Mill, in his speech from the hustings, sur
prised all his friends by his power in whal
we, in this country, should call stump ora
tory. He was supposed to be so much th .
slave of scholarship, that a dead failure i
that department was reckoned upon. Bd
he won laurels decidedly. In the Bonk
parte family, the ambition for authorshi
is not likely to be confined to the Imperii
historian of Cassar. We have the announci
ment that there is in press the first vo
ume oi a history ol the Bonapartes from th
pen of Prince Napoleon, the Emperor’
cousin Jerome.
The London Athceneum has credited th
rebel emissary to Paris, John Slidell, wit]
the authorship of “ A Year in Spain,’
saying that he wrote it when a very younj
man. The true author was Alexander Sli
dell, afterwards, by adopting hi 3 mothers
name, Alexander Slidell Mackensie. He
died in 1848.
Funeral Address. Delivered at the
Burial of President Lincoln, at Springfield,
Illinois, May 4, 1865. By Kev. Matthew
Simpson, D.D., one of the Bishops of the
Methodist Episcopal Church. For sale by
Perkinpine <fc Higgins, 56 N. 4th St., Phil
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LITERARY ITEMS.
AMERICAN.
FOREIGN.
CORRECT- SPEAKING.
We advise all young people to acquire j
early life the habit of using good languag
both in speaking and writing, and to avi
as early as possible the use of slang wo
and phrases. The longer they live
more difficult of aequsition such langu.
will be; and if the golden age of youtli
the proper season of acquisition of langus
—be passed in its abuse, the unfortum
victim of neglected education will
doomed to talk slang for life. Monej
not necessary to procure this educati
Every man has it in his power. He
merely to use the language he reads inst
of the slang he hears—to form his fo
from the best speakers, writers and p<
of the country —to treasure up ch(
phrases in his memory, and habituate
self to their use—avoiding at the same time
that pedantic precision and bombast which
bespeaks rather the weakness of a vain
ambition than the polish of an educated
mind. There is no man, however low in
rank, who may not materially benefit his
financial condition by following this advice,
and cultivating, at the same time, such
morals and manners as correspond in cha
racter with good words.
SHOWING HIM A MIRACLE.
Ernest Renan having said, in his “ Life
of Jesus,” that the proper way of proving
the reality of a miracle is to show one, a
pamphleteer “ shows” him one in a letter
“ Upon the Establishment of the Christian
Religion,” which we here translate;—
Sir Permit me to-day to draw your at
tention again to' the establishment of the
Christian religion; a fact upon which we
naturally differ in opinion. Like you, when
I have striven to identify its cause with the
mere forces of man, I have failed in my
endeavor. The supernatural,- then, has
been the only conducting thread which has
helped me to escape from the labyrinth,
where I see you continually seeking to
rectify yourself, without ever doing it, and
condemned to escape therefrom only when
you shall have proved that there is nothing
miraculous in the establishment of Chris’
tianity. Pardon this little digression; I
straight to the work. There is a reli
gion called the Christian, whose founder
wks Jesus, named the Christ. This reli
gi<S, which hasjasted eighteen centuries,
and which calls itself the natural develop
ment of that Judaism which ascends near
to the cradle of the world, had the apostles
ftr its first propagators. When these men
yisheq to establish it. they had for adversa
nes:
1 The national pride of the Jews;
j The implacable hatred of the Sanhe
im; i, #
|The brutal despotism of the Homan em
■ors;
'he railleries and attacks of the philoso
"i;
ie . libertinism and caste-spirit of the
priests; '
savage and cruel ignorance of the
)
Sfaggot and bloody games of the cir-
The
Eveit
Ever]
Ever;
Ever;
Ever'
had .an enemy, in
r miser; ;
i debauched man;
'J drunkard;
■ythief;
urderer;
iroud man;
tandercr j
ar;
Every'
Every
Every
Not onJ
our poor ]
itself' thei)
T<
|of the vices, in feet, which abuse
pnanity which did not constitute
adversary.
many enemies, and sur
obstacles, they had only
icej -
m their cotemporary at the
air., work, and
the conquest of the world;
pagan temples shall crum
lols shall fall upon their
iophers shall be convicted
le throne of Caesar we shall
eagle, and in its place we
cross; we shall be the
'orld-j the ignorant and the
lare themselves our disci
; him speak thus, you would
* silent, imbecile !” And
mt from nature and princi
\ave defended him before
, and have counseled it
shut up the fisherman of Bethsaida and
s companions in the madhouse. And
It, sir, 'what you would have thought a
>table madness is to-day a startling reality,
ith which I leave you face to face.
OUR EYES.
Indigestion is the principle source of
eak eyes. Reading in the cars often
sriously disturbs the vision. A delicate
nd wonderful apparatus within the eye is
: Constantly busy in adapting it to the varying
; Focal distances. The j erking motion of the
jars compels an exhaustive effort to main
;ain the required adaptation. Thousands
of eyes are spoiled by reading in cars and
other vehicles. Recently I was consulted
'by a railway expressman who had become
totally blind by reading the newspaper in
the cars. Thousands who have never con
sciously suffered any inconvenience from
the habit, are obliged to wear glasses pre
maturely, to correct an unsteadiness of
visi- u produced in this way. Reading
with the gas-light before you is another
cause of weak eyes. The light should al
ways hang quite high and behind you, and
allowed to shine over your shoulder. If
convenient, it should be over the left
shoulder. If using kerosene, it is best to
employ the lamps which hang on the wall.
HeitKer should you read'with face toward
the,Window.
heading by twilight is dangerous.
Gjtdually accommodating itself to the re-
Acfng light, the eye is unconsciously
| gained. I have seen more than one case
\ ,/grave disease of the eye, produced by an
Idue effort to use the vision too long at
plight.
f 'White paint is another mischief to the
yes. White paint outside, white paint
inside, white paint everywhere. During
/the season of brightest sunshine the glare
hurts the eye. I wonder if it is not in bad
taste likewise ? ~ I notice that artists have
qbne of it about them.
/ In our constant reading, the eye-sight
is much tired by the white paper. I hope
'that the tinted paper, with a still deeper
'color, may become fashionable.
Avoid reading by artificial light when
you can. We read too much. We read as
we eat —pell-mell, hotchity potch; no mas
tication, no digestion. If, as a people, we
read less, we might know more. Few in
dications are more unpromising in a child
than a remarkable passion lor books. I
doubt if a good lady, who called on me the
other day, with her son, will ever forgive
me for what I said to her. Her boy was of
the regular Boston type, great head and
eyes, with small and narrow chest. She
said, in a mournful voice, but with evident
pride :—“ Ah, doctor, he has such a pas
sion for books. As soon as he is out of
bed he is down at some great book, and
scarcely leaves it but for his meals. He
never plays like other children.” I told
her, among other things, that unless she
could break up that habit her son would
very likely turn out a dolt. She left very
soon, with the belief that I did not under
stand her son’s case. I should have about
as much hope of a man who gave himself
up to childish sports as I should of a child
who gave himself up to the habits and life
of a man.
The newspapers have much to answer
for in the way of small type and imperfect
printing. I would cheerfully give two
hundred dollars a year to support a news
paper which would give us, morning and
evening, half a column of the really reliable
news, instead of fifteen colums of diluted
speculations and tricky canards, the reading
of which hurts our eyes and wastes our
precious time.— Dr. Dio Lewis.
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in consequence of hereditary or other diseases can
effect insurance m the TRAVELLERS 1 at thl FowSt
I ?f ur^?i o ?, l "ompames pay no part of the prin
vmms”™' i euth oi the assured. The TKA-
* • the loss or damage sustained by per
sonal injury whenever %t occurs. 9 v
.*?« / e ®i illK °. f security which such an insurance
gives to mose dependent upon their own labor for
support is worth more than money. No'better or
more satisfactory use can be made of so small a sum.
RODNEY DENNrs G Se?re™ RS ° N ’ President -
G. P. DAVIS, Vice President.
■ .. .. HENRY A. DYER, General Agent.
Applications received and Policies issued by
WILLIAM W. ALLEN,
Jfo* 404 Walnut Street.
11HSUMJI Ml THIS! [QHfJin
Walnut Street, S. E. cor. of Fourth,
LOSSES PAID DURING THE YEAR
AMOUNTING TO
insurances made upon the Total Abstinence Rates,
the lowest m the world. Also upon JOINT STOCK
Kates which are over 20 per cent, dower than Mutual
DEND has been made " P ° n Whi< * a DIVT *
FIFTY RER CENT.,
onPollcies in force January Ist. 1865
THE TEN-YEAR NON-FORFEITURE PLAN, by
cease paying and obtain policy YorfwiB&* kk
thrice the amount paid to the company.
ASSETS
$lOO,OOO U. S. 5.20 bonds,
40,000 City of Philadelphia 6s. new,
30,000 XT. S, Certificate of indebteness,
25*000 Allegheny County bonds,
15,000 U. S. Loan of 1881,
12*555 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 Reading Railroad Ist mortgage
bonds,
6,500 City of Pittsburg and other ■
bonds,
1,000 shares Pennsylvania Railroad
stocks,
450 shares Corn Exchange National
Bank, «
22 shares Consolidation National
Bank.
107 shares Farmers' National Bank
of Reading,
142 shares Williamsport Water Co
mpany,
192 shares American Life Insurance
and Trust Company,
Mortgages, Real Estate, Ground Rents,
&g t 207 278 86
Loans on collateral amply secured!........ ... 112*755 73
Premium notes secured by Policies 114,899 62
Cash in hands of agents secured by bonds. 26.604 70
Cash on deposit with U. S. Treasurer, at 6
per cent cn aaa m
Cash on hand and in banks- 50*331 fi7
Accrued interest and rents due, Jan. j/7 IoiSS 71
THE AMERICAN IS A HOME COMPANY
Ita TRUSTEES are well known citizens in our
midst, entitling it to more consideration than those
whose managers reside in distant cities.
AlexanderWhilldin, William J. Howard,
J. Edgar Thomson, Samuel T. Bodine,
George Nugent. John Aikman,
Hon. James Pollock, Henry K. Bennett.
Albert C. Roberts, Hon. Joseph Allison,
P. B. Mingle, Isaac Hazlehurst,
Samuel Work.
ALEX. "WHIIiLDITJ, President.
SiJIIJEL WOfifi, Vice*President.
JOHN S. WILSON, Secretary and Treasurer.
hi; ai sines hm
Sufferers from Sick Headache.
Sufferers from Dyspepsia,
Sufferers from Nervous Headache,
Sufferers from Sour Stomach,
Sufferers from Bilious Headache,
Sufferers from Costiveness,
Sufferers from Heartburn,
Sufferers from Piles,
Sufferers from Sea Sickness,l
THEUNION OIL
TOVES—A new and
implete aparatus for
'oking and Heating by
broleuxn and Coal Oil.
the work of a family
my size, including the
siring and ironing can
done at an immense
dng of expense in
>3, and with far more
so and comfort, than
fch either wood or coal,
le same furniture-used
ordinary stoves can
used on these stoves.
*0 DIRT. ASHES,
[OKE OR ODOR.
UNION STOVES
.RE, BOIL, ROAST,
Sufferers from Liver Complaint,
Sufferers 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.
FOR SALE BY ALL DRUGGISTS.
STEAM AND GAS FITTER,
a
Hydrants made and repaired. Baths and an other
Plumbing Work done at shortest notice. Hadis,
Churches,Stores,Dwellings,&c.,fitted npforHas ana
waranted to give satisfaction.- Country Work attend
ed to.
%nmmu ®ampsuits.
INSURANCE
AGAINST
A C CIDENTS
EVERY DESCBXPTION,
BY THE
HARTFORD, CONN.
PHILADELPHIA.
FOREIGN RISKS.
AMERICAN
INCOME FOR THE YEAR 1864,
$357,800.
$85,000.
THE GREAT
TARRANT’S
EFFERVESCENT
SELTZEE :
APERIENT.
PLUMBER,
T. W. RICHARDSON,
No. 27 South Sixth .Street,
ABOVE CHESTNUT, PHILADELPHIA.
.$500,000
$391,136 SO
$966,461 79