REVIEW OF THE TEAR.
„ FOREIGN.
GREAT BRITAIN.
The question of a Presbyterian UnioD,
heretofore agitated, came up for discussion
in the meetings of the unendowed Presby
teiian bodies in Scotland, and also in the
Synods in England —the
United and the English Presbyterian. The
former maintains ecclesiastical relations
with its namesake in Scotland, and receives
from it aid for its feeble churches; the last
is a purely English organization.' In both
countries the issue of the discussion, thus
far, has been about the same as in the case
of Presbyterian reunioh in this country,
viz;: an improvement in the spirit of fra
ternity, with no yisible approach to organic
reunion. The progress of Presbyterianism
throughout the empire has been very con
siderable, evidence of, which may be found
in the statistics of an article in our last
week’s issue. t ’
We notice, with less satisfaction, a grow
ing decline in the character of that branch
known as the “ Church of Scotland.” This
is a State establishment—the same from
which the Free Church seceded when the
civil authority interfered with its discipline.
In several of its congregations the worship
has degenerated into a ritualism, making
as near an approach as the laws of the
Church will allow, to that 'which, in the
English Church, is known by the name of
Puseyism. These innovations upon that
non-Popish simplicity of service, which was
once "the glory of the Kirk, are on the in
crease, and great alarm is felt in view of
the prospect of their corrupting'the entire
establishment.
The Church of England is still surging with
agitations of the broad church movement.
The question is yet unsettled, whether the
prelatical ecclesiasticism, and the liturgical
precisions of mode and doctrine,. which
have been vaunted as the bulwark of or
thodoxy, and the impregnable defence of
the faith, are not, after all, to become the
refuge of the most dangerous infidelity of
the age. All the efforts to procure the de
position of Bishop Colenso have finally
failed, and he remains a mitred prelate of
the establishment, living in England some
thousands of miles from his colonial diocese,
enjoying his Episcopal revenue, and using
it for printing apd circulating books meant
to prove that the Bible is not of perfect
Divine inspiration, and-- that it contains
many untrue statements The consequence
of this immunity is just what might have
been expected. That Church, both in its
presbytery and its episcopate, contains only
too many whose love has been divided be
tween their heretical proclivities and their
church revenues, and now that these cease
to conflict, their influence against the faith
has quickened into open activity.
In this connection, great anxiety is felt
concerning the effects of the change in the
premiership. The views of the head of
the government are, of course, felt in the
character of the episcopate. Since the
present agitations assumed their importance,
Lord Palmerston, in every instance, we be
lieve, filled the vacant sees with men of
reliable orthodoxy, and *soine amount of
evangelical character. It is claimed for
Earl Russell,' that he will preserve the same
care for the purity of the Church. Thus
far, nothing has occurred to develope his
official course on the subject.
One of the most interesting views of the
religious state of Great Britain during the
year, is contained in those evangelistic and
revival labors which we have, from time to
time recorded, such as those of Richard
Weaver in Glasgow, Aberdeen, and other
Scottish towns, Joshua Poole in various
parts of England, and many others who,
in both kingdoms, have given their labor
with signal success, to this form of soul
saving work. They have in the mam,
though by no means exclusively, preached
the gospel to the poor; have followed up
fairs, marketings, and public gatherings
generally, established book-stalls, erected
stands for preaching, held open-air protrac
ted meetings, and the cases are few in which
it has not been true that more or less who
“ came to scoff, returned to pray." The
work is now under the auspices of an or
ganized association, with its headquarters
in London. In that city chapels are being
erected in neglected districts, for its labor
ers. Its principles are non-denominational,
but evangelical. One of its strong points
for efficiency is that of lay effort. .
FBAXCE.
The Encyclical Letter of the Pope,
which will be further noticed under the
proper heading, has, for the time at least,
upset the Ultramontane , that is the impla
cably Catholic influence in the French
Church. The majority of its people are
now'well disposed to see the termination of
the temporal dominion of Pio Ninus, and of
course the entire withdrawal of the French
military protection of that power. A still
more remarkable and reactionary result is
the newly awaken'ed liberalizing tendency
in the Gallican party in the church. Even
the Archbishop of Paris has uttered senti
ments of fraternity toward the Protestant
Churoh, and expressed the conviction that
there were points open for common effort
for conserving and promoting the Christian
interests of the empire.
The National Reformed Church of
Fiance, supported by the government, has
passed through some storms, of the same
character with those of the few previous
years. The strife is-between a living or
thodoxy, and the semi-infidelity of ritual
ism. In the last election 'of members of
its Presbyterial Council, the evangelical
partjr secured a triumph—no feature of
which was more gratifying than that of the
return of M. Guizot —but by so small a
majority as to inspire the other side to fresh
effort, rather than damp their hopes. One
discouraging circumstance for the evangeli
cal element in this Church, is the existence
by its sjde ot an unendowed Free Church,
which is kept scrupulously free from ra
tionalistic taint, and to which the best
members of the former, wearied with their
contests for the purity of the faith, are
every now and then passing over. As an
example, we may state the case of one man
of note who, seceding from the Reformed,
applied for admission to the Free Church,
with the remark that he would not be less
Huguenot than his fathers. The chief pas
tor of the National Reformed Church is M.
Coquerel, one of the most brilliant, and at
the same time most unsafe, of the Protest
ant clergy of France. The engagement of
one of his colleagues, Martin Paschoud. a
violent rationalist, expired last spring. The
character of the newly-elected Council for
bid his reappointment, and also destroyed
the prospect of another candidate off like
proclivities, who was in vain backed with
the whole influence- of the chief pastor.
The majority is resolute, and may yet carry
the point of securing a sanctified pulpit.
GERMANY,
In some of the German States there is
spiritual progress, almost invisible when
beheld along with the aggregate mass of
German religion, but conspicuous when
singled out and exhibited by itself. There
are on the field some sixty or seventy Bap
tist churches, and a smaller number of
.Methodist-, portions of which have, during
the year, enjoyed revivals, as spiritual in
their character as those which we are accus
tomed to see in our country. We have re--
corded several cases of these, particularly
in Bremen and portions of Saxony.
The incubus upon the religion of Ger
many, is the non-evangelical character of
the Lutheran Church, and the fact that, in
the Protestant States, it is the State
Church, controlled by the civil power, even
to the extent of appointments to the Gospel
ministry, together with the almost entire
absence of denominationalism. With the
comparatively little exception above named,
the Lutheran Church feels no disturbance,
and no excitement from the presence and
rivalry of any denomination based upon the
principle of spiritual regeneration and an
orthodox faith. It goes on preaching that
baptism regenerates, confirmation estab
lishes the claim to the Christian name, the
Sacraments convey grace, and then, so far
as any care for the doctrines of the pulpit
is concerned, all that is left is the prey of
rationalism. There are not wanting pious
pastors, some of them eminent, anddeserv
edly of ?world-wide reputation, but, in the
Diet, they are borne down and overwhelmed.
There are not wanting pious people, who
mourn for the incoming of the Spirit and
the truth, but the masses, when asked if
they are Christians, revert to their baptism,
confirmation and answer
Yes; when asked if they believe in the
Bible, they answer No.
The American and Foreign Christian
Union is now on that field, with its new
Sabbath-school systefc of effort'for resusici
tating the dead Christianity of continental
Europe. Dr. Philip Schaff has also, during
the past season largely improved the oppor
tunity of a visit to his native country, by de
livering addresses on the Sabbath-school
system of instruction, and promoting their
start in Stuttgart, Berlin, and elsewhere.
ITAEY.
During the last spring, the negotiations
between the Italian government and the
Pope concerning the appointment of Italian
Bishops, were broken off. The Pope per
sisted in refusing to give Bishops to Italian
dioceses, upon any other condition than that
of non-allegiance to the civil government,
and freedom from all responsibility except
to himself. The king insisted that every
ecclesiastical functionary in the kingdom
should take the oath of civil allegiance to
his own government, maintaining only his
spiritual relations with Rome. Of course
no arrangement was made, and as the Pope
is not in circumstances to proceed to ex
tremes, the ecclesiasticism of the kingdom
lies at loose ends. In the meantime, the
demands of the Italians upon the papacy
have assumed a definite shape, and now
stand as follows:
1. That the laity must recover the right
of choosing their ministers, and of adminis
tering the temporal concerns of the church.
2.‘ The Bishops must be chosen by the
clergy and the congregations, without
prejudice to the rights of the crown. 3.
Bishops and Metropolitans must be reinstat
ed in their ancient positions as Diocesans
and Provincials, the present servile depend
ence on Rome, and all oaths of vassalage
to her ceasing. 4. The celibacy of the
clergy must be a matter for their own
choice and determination. 5. The laity
must have unrestricted liberty to read the
Holy Scriptures. 6. The liturgy must be
read in the national tongue, and in a form
intelligible to alll 7. Confession must be
no longer obligatory, but voluntary, and
the communion must be received in both
kinds. They go further. They are de
termined to break to pieces the papal des
potism, restore ■ the primitive condition of
the church, and bring about a good under
standing between the clergy and laity.
An earlier arrangement might have been
accomplished with less of concession, but it
lies in the nature of reform to become more
radical the longer it is balked, and these
terms may be regared as the ultimatum of
the Italian church. They will of course
meet with the ever obtruding “ non pos
sumus” of the papacy, and so hasten the
great religious crisis of Southern Europe.
In the late election of members for the
Italian House of Deputies, the papal party
brought its entire strength into the canvass.
The result was that it secured about a dozen
members in a house of four hundred and
forty-four. The remainder are divided be
tween two other parties, conservative lib
erals and radical liberals, both of which are
opposed to the temporal power of the Pope,
and in favor of the annexation of his terri
tory to Italy.
This state of things has the effect of
destroying the moral influence of Roman
ism over the Italian people. For the present
there will be, in the technical sepse of the
term, no public change of religion. In
other words, the government and the
people, to a considerable extent, will keep
up an outward observance of the services of
the Romish church. But unless some
political motive starts up for stringency,
defections from that church will be treated
with indifference, and the time will hasten,
if it has not now come, when the real re
ligious struggle in Italy will be that be
tween a pure evangelical faith and utter
godlessness. The moral certainty that such
an issue is not tar distant, has' prompted an
active missionary campaign in that laud, so
THE AMERICAN PRESBYTERIAN, THURSDAY. JANUARY 4, 1866
| long the centre of the darkest superstition
and religious corruption. The Waldensian
Synod is spreading itself over the kingdom,
and has transferred its theological school
from its 1 native vallies to Florence. Our
American and Foreign Christian Union,
with principal stations in Florence and
Milan, each under the care of an efficient
American superintendent, is doing a great
work by dispersing through the towns pious
and qualified Italians, with speech and
printed truth, as evangelists and colpor
teurs. Our recent accounts of them are
from Sarteano, Cetona, Citta della Pieve,
Eddo, Leces, Bergamo, Carpignano, the
Yaltellina, and ether places, in most of
which the progress of .evangelical truth is
encouraging The Wesleyans and some
other religious bodies are also ip the field.
With the exception, perhaps, of Italy and
Spain, Mexico has hitherto been the most
thoroughly priest-ridden country in the
world. The events of the year have gone
far towards forwarding the reformation,
inaugurated in 1857, when the triumph of
Ayutta secured legal liberty of conscience,
speech and worship, and more than 8. hun
dred priests, assembled in formal council in
the city of Mexico, repudiated the Pope,
and proclaimed the free reading of the
Bible in the common language, and the
marriage of the clergy. Tht re, as in other
Catholic countries, 5 Roman ism unsettles
itself, through .the inability of the Pope to
forget that the time' has passed when his
ecclesiastics may intermeddle with, and
control tor his use, the political power of
the State. Romanism, though likely for
a time to remain- the nominal religion of
Mexico, is disarming itself of power through
the two facts that the world will move,
‘while Popish obstinacy will not.
As between the two powers contending
for the Government of Mexico, tbe refor
mation has most to hope from the Repub
lic. Its leader, Juarez, formerly gave %is
sanction to the' reform movement, by com
missioning the Presbyter, Juan Diaz Mar
tinez to incite the priests throughout
Mexico, to teach the people that evangeli
cal Christianity requires submission to law
ful government. His work was cut short
by a cup of poison from the hand of a
secret agent of the hierarchy. The dose
was not fatal, but by its permanent effect
upon the brain, it disqualified him for ser
vice. An energetic and able fellow laborer,
the Presbyter Juan Nepomuceno Enriquez
Orestes, stepped forward to his place, and
works boldy, earnestly, and with no little
success. Just now he is in this country,
addressing churches, and securing sym
pathy and help. Those who may have the
privilege of hearing him, will obtain as
good an account ot the religious state of
Mexico, as can now be had.
But while the Republican influences are
strongly in favor ol a religious reformation,
the.old bigotry has not yet found its ex
pected' shelter under the empire. The
Pope has appealed imploringly to Maxi
milian to take religious errors in hand, and
to secure the old immunities of the priest-
THE PAPAL GOVERNMENT.
Although the far-fumed Papal “ Encycli
cal” was a. few days in advance of the last
new year, yet the history of its reception
belongs to the present review. It is proba
bly the most suicidal act of the papacy,
which has astounded the world since the
reformation, renouncing in the most ex
plicit terms, all the excuses which the
namby-pamby apologises for Rome, in this
and other Protestant countries, make for
Romanism, that its intolerance and its
claim that the civil power shall crush here
sy, wetre the errors of the past age, and not
of the system. In this encylical the Pope
anathematized in terms several of the re
ligious doctrines of the times. One is that
“ the best condition of society is that in
whifsli the power of the laity is not com
pelled to inflict the penalties ot law upon
violators of the Catholic religion.” Another
is, that “ liberty of conscience and of wor
ship is the right of every man, a right
which ought to be proclaimed and estab
lished by law in every well constituted
State.” Another is, that “ the church can
decide nothing which may Bind the con
sciences of the faithtulin temporal,things.”
Still another is, that “ the judgments and
decrees of the Holy See,, whose object is
declared to concern the general welfare of
the church, its rights and its discipline, do
not claim the acquiescence and obedience,
under pain of sin and loss of the Catholic
profession, if they do not treat of the dog
mas of faith and manners”—in other words;
a Catholic, say, tor example, a Catholic
sovereign, cannot be rightfully degraded
from his Catholic profession by excommu
nication, for rendering aid to Victor Eman
uel, the political .enemylot the Pope, so
long as he is not guilty of heresy in doc
trine or immoralities of conduct.
In such countries as England and our own,
all this, of course, passed for brutum fulmm.-
Its real design was, by alarming the reli
gious sensibilities of the bigoted portion of
their subjects, to check the liberalizing
tendencies of the Catholic princes of Eu
rope, such as the sovereigns of Austria,
Spain, Portugal, and above all Louis Na
poleon. The thing was so understood in
all those sovereignties, but, while it was
met by a storm of popular contempt, it se
cured no responsive , action from one of
those governments. Its only effect has been
to settle the point, by the supreme spirit
tjzil ax,tbnrity, ttiay Lire church of Rome is
steadfast in the doctrine that civil govern
ments all over the world should enslave
themselves to the Papacy, enforcing its de
crees with the full strength of their power,
though it should light up every hill in
Christendom with the fires of buruinghere
tics.
Meanwhile the French Emperor persists
in his purpose of carrying out the Franco-
Italian treaty, and withdrawing all military
protection from the Papacy. The with
drawal of French troops from Rome has
commenced, and will be completed next
fall, unless some nowunforseen eccentricity
in the policy of that strange man shall re
veal itself. There is much speculation
concerning the next probable resort of An
tonelli for the protection of the Papal
throne. It is most likely that troops will
have to be raised from the States of the
Church.
.mexico.
bood, and the clergy have tried their usual
arts to identify the life of religious intoler
ance with that of the throne, but thus far
they have been more than thwarted—have
in fact been snubbed. It would not be Na
poleonic, in the attempt to usurp an empire,
and then make it popular, in a country but
a stone’s throw from the United States, to
tie it to Vihej rotten carcass of the unmiti
gated Papacy. Mexico, imperial or repub
lican, is on the high road to religious
change. Under proper efforts that change
will be one of evangelical and spiritual re
form. Even amid the present political con
vulsions, it is an ot Vl d promising field
for such effort.
SOUTH -iRICA.
Small advances made in the spread of
Protestant Christianity in the
empire, but the Emperor preserves the
principle of t deration, and indeed, in some
cases, providi s for thi support of th£ Pro
testant pasters. The established Protes
tant congregt tions are very few —less than
twenty-five i 1 the whole empire, and are
mostly made ap from the German immigra
tion and supplied with pastors from..home.
These congrt gat ions generally are not in a
state of spiri ual thrift, many of the pul
pit ministrati >ns being mere echoes of that
rationalism' w hich is the bane of Christian
vitality in thi i [Fatherland. The evangeli- j
cal element, however, is not dormant: ip
deed, it is assuming aggressiveness. Some
Basle missionaries of the right spirit have,
during the year, come into the field, and
some, among the older pastors, are earnastly
working for the spirit and the truth.
The United States of Columbia have be
come an interasting missionary field ot the
American and. Foreign Christian Union. A
good work is going forward in Carthagena,
under the direction of Rev. R Montsal
vatge. Romarism has become the disgust
of the people, and,, as in all such cases of
reaction from ajdead faith, the question lies
between a vita|evangelicism and an utter
discarding of religion. Gobd work is going
on with the yo&ng, and, with the blessing
of God, nothing .but workers and working
materia] seem necessary for a reformation
whose influence shall be wide.
OTHER COUNTRIES.
We have room only for a glance at other
portions of the world.
In Greece we see no material religious
change. Evangelical truth holds its own,
perhaps makes some advance under the
active efforts of Rev. Messrs. Kalopothakes
and Constantine. There is something of a
movement in Demardest, where the first
edifice in Greece for an evangelical church
is about to be erected. The veteran mis
sionary, Dr. King, after thirty years ab
sence, has returned to this country, tempo
rarily, we suppose, and is doing good ser
vice in exhibiting the real religious state
and wants of that seat of ancient civiliza
tion.
The Turkish government has given re
newed assurances of the liberty of Mabom
medans to change their religion, and also
that there shaH be jserfect religious freedom
as between ~ffie Armenians and the Protest
ant sects in all parts of the empire. Still
the work of persecution goes on Under
one pretext or another, converted Mahom-
are bandied about under legal pro
cesses. Provincial officer’s adopt all man
ner of modes rn oppress Protestants, and
when complained of and removed, it is only
to give place to others who are equally
truculent to the Armenian bishops. Still
the Gospel has its triumphs in many parts
of the Turkish dominions. If it has not
“free course,’* it certainly is “glorified.”
The general history of foreign missions
is decidedly encouraging. Some long dis
couraging fields are at length putting on
the aspect of hope. This is especially the
case with the African missions sustained by
the American and Presbyterian boards. In
China, the features of the piety of the con
verted Chinese are becoming more distinct,
and in the same proportion, their Christian
influence is more impressive. We believe
that every evangelical missionary society
which has missions in that empire, counts
the last year as one of decided progress
there.
Bishop Staley, who was sent out from
England to fourid an Anglican Church
.Episcopate in the Sandwich Islands, upon
the pretence that the American Missions
there had proved a failure, seems to have
found his diocese a “ hard road to travel.”
He secured the ear of the throne, and ob
tained the queen as a communicant in his
semi-Romish establishment. He has also
succeeded in making himself an annoyance
to the American laborers, and this is about
all. The Christian islanders, in general,
do not yet forget that the evangelizing of
the islands is,-under God, due'to the patient
and laborious services of the missionaries
of the American Board, neither do they
comprehend the dogma of “no bishop, no'
ohurch.” Worse than all, the Bishop,
after trying the clap-trap of Queen Emma’s
visit to England, seems still to fail of sup
port there, doubtless owing to the fact that
English Christians do not care to partake
of the responsibility of Jrhis stupendous
raid upon an unoffending and well-worked
American field. The whole enterprise,
from stem to stern, is Unpopular in that
country. Tlje Bishojd turned at last to this
country for help, visited the late Episcopal
Triennial Convention, circulated about the
country delivering addresses, and every
where told of the miserable unchurched
state in which the American missionaries
had brought up the Sandwich Islanders.
He wanted money and men. We know
nothing of his success in the former: the
latter amounted to the carrying off to his
bishopric one Presbyter of the Church, a
brother of Bishop Whipple, of Minnesota,
who is already returning to our shores, the
papers say, in disgust.
It is a great part of our “ wisdom
toward them that are without,” so to
explain our meaning in every doctrine
and ordinance, and so to guard our
discourses about them, as may best pre
vent misapprehension or prejudice ; and
the neglect °f this rule is not boldness,
or faithfulness, as some well-meaning
zealots suppose, but indiscretion and
folly —Scott on 2 Chron.
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AMERICAN
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LOSSES PAID DURING THE YEAR
amounting to
Insurances made upon the Total Abstinence Rates,
the lowest in the world. Also upon JOINT STOCK
Rates which are over 20 per cent- lower thrr Mutual
Rates. Or MUTUAL RATES upon which a DIVI
DEND has been made of
FIFTY RER' CENT.,
°u Policies in force January Ist. 18^5.
' THE TEN-YEAR NON-F'»K PKITURE PLAN, by
which a person insured cm. all his payment
in ten years, and does not forfeit, and can at any time
cease paying and obtain a paid up policy for twice
thnee the amount paid to the company.
$lOO,OOO U. s. 5.20 bondi, SSBTS '
t 09*992 °£ Philadelphia 6s. new.
§c’/5a ¥;,®* Certificate of indebteness,
25,000 Allegheny Couoty bonds.
15,000 U. S. Loan of 1881,
10,000 Wyoming Valley Canal bonds,
10,000 State of Tennessee bonds,
10,000 Philadelphia and Erie Railroad
bonds,
10,000 Pittsburg, Fort Wayne * Chi
cago bonds.
9,000 Reading Railroad Ist morteneß
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
Bank.
107 shares Farmers' National Bank
of Reading,
142 shares Williamsport Water Com
pany,
.—192 shares AmericanXife Insurance
and Trust Company,
Mortgages, Real Estate, Ground Rents,
T &C. 207,zre 86
Loans on collateral amply 'secured 112,755 73
Premium notes secured by Policies 114,899 63
Cash m hands of agents secured by bonds. 26,604 70
Cash on deposit with U. S. Treasurer, at 6
per cent..... 50.000 00
Cash on hand and m banks 150,331 67
Accrued interest and rents due, Jan. 1. . 10,454 71
$966,4& 79
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.
Alexander Whilldin, 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. WHILLDITfI", President.
SAMUEL WORK, Vice-President.
JOHN S. WILSON, Secretary and Treasurer.
■i —-j
BY THE
TRAVELERS 1 INSURANCE COMPANY,
CAPITA!..
404 WALNUT STREET,
* GENERAL ACCIDENT POLICIES
For Five Hundred Dollars, with $3 per week compen
sation, can be had for $3 per annum, or any other sum
between $5OO and $lO,OOO at proportionate rates.
TEN DOLLARS PREMIUM
Secures a Policy for $2OOO, or $lO per week compensa
tion for all and every description of accident —travel-
ing or otherwise—under a General Accident Policy, at
the Ordinary Rate,
thirty dollars premium
Secures a full Policy for $5OOO, or $25 per week com
pensation, as above, at the Special Rate .
FOREIGN RISKS.
CHARLES STOKES,
E. T, TAYLOR,
W. J. STOKES.
. Policies issued, for Foreign, West India, and Cali
forma Travel. Rates can he learned by application
to the Office.
Arrangements are in course of completion by which
will be able to purchase, at any Railway
Ticket Office, Insurance Tickets for one or thirty days*
travel.. Ten cents mil buy a ticket for one dart
travel, insuring $3OOO, or $l5 weekly compensation.
Ticket Polices may be had for 3,6, or 1 2 months in
the same manner.
. Hazardous Risks taken at Hazardous Rates. Policies
issued for 5 years for 4 years premium.
INDUCEMENTS.
.The 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 of thenrin
cimlsmuntll the death of the assnred. The TKA
y JiiiljiijßS pay the loss or damage sustained 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. better or
more satisfactory use can be made of so small a sum.
J. G. BATTERSON, President.
RODNEY DENNIS, Secretary.
G..F. DAVIS, Vice President.
. . ‘HENRY A. DYER, General Agent.
Applications received and Policies issued by
WILMAM W. ALIEN,
No. 404 Walnut Street.
932-tf 1
PROM DYSPEPSIA
EE AD! REFLECT!! ACT!!!
TABKAKT «fc CO.
Gentlemen,
I am a resident ot Curacoa*
and have often been disposed to write you concerning
the real value of your SELTZER APERIENT as a
remedy for Indigestion and Dyspepsia, I desire to
express to you my sincere gratitude for the great
benefit the SELTZER has done my wife.
Forfour or five years my wife has been sadly afflic
ted with Dyspepsia, and after being under the treat
ment of several Doctors for two or three years, she
was finally induced to seek the advice of a learned
Physician, Doctor Cabialis, of Venezuela, who imme
diately treated her with your EFFERVESCENT
SELTZER APERIENT she began to improve at once
and is now PERFECTLY WELL.
I teel it to be my duty for the good of humanity to
makethis statement,feeling that a medicineso valua
ble should be widely known.
Trusting you will give this publicity, and repeating
my earnest gratitude and thanks.
I am very respectfully yours.
S, D. C. iiENRIQUER,
, r _ Merchant, Curacoa, S. A.
New York, June 28th, 1865.
• The suffering millions in our land to give this reme
dv a trial; convinced that by its timely use many may
be relieved, many cured of Dyspepsia, Heartburn.
Sour Stomach, Sick Headache, Dizziness, Indigestion,
Piles, Costiveness,,Bilious Attacks, Liver Complaints*
Rheumatic, Affections, &c.
Read the Pamphlet of Testimonials with each bot
tle* and do not use the medicine against .the advice of
your Physician. ; - r
MANUFACTURED ONLY BY
TARRANT & C 0.,
278 GREENWICH STREET, NEW TORE
SALE BY ALL DRUGGISTS*
%nmmt ©umpiras.
Walnut Street, S. E. cor. of Fourth.
INCOME FOB THE YEAR 1864.
$357,800.
$85,000.
INSURANCE
AGAINST
ACCIDENTS
EVERY DESCRIPTION»
HARTFORD, CONN.
WM. W. ALLEN, AGENT,
PHILADELPHIA.
SHORT TIME TICKETS.
SUFF’ERERS
WE ASK
$394,136 50
.9500,600