Unite's shMi. CARTER & BROTHER. Mac Duff. The Shepherd and his Flock; or, The Keeper of Israel and the Sheep of his Pasture. By Bey. J. B. Mac Duff, D.D., author of ‘ ‘ Morning and Night Watches, ’ ’ i&c. 12mo, pp. 275; price $1 50. For sale at the Presbyterian Book Store. In a score or more of brief essays, the Soripture idea of the Shepherd and his flock is here elaborated. The topics are such as: The Flock Astray, The Flock Sought and Found, The Shepherd of the Flock Smitten, The Shepherd giving his Life for the Sheep, The Song of the Flock, (Twenty-third Psalm), The Flock in the World, &c. In the well-known, fervid k manner of the author —who is the modern •Hervey of religious literature —with a view to the most direct practical results, and [with a tender sympathy for the inmost wants and trials of the child of God, Dr. Mac Duff handles his theme, which, from the very beginning, has taken the strongest hold on the pious heart ot all the emblems of the Bible. The illustrations drawn from modern travel, as narrated by Thomson, Hackett and others, give much additional value to the book. Occasionally we think good taste would suggest a style less ex clamatory. Especially might the opening sentence of an essay be criticised, when in the form of this, from page 101: “ What a deathless poem the twenty-third Psalm is!” Constance and Edith; or, Incidents ot Home Life. By a Clergyman’s Wife. 18mo, pp. 304. Illustrated. For sale at the Presbyterian Book Store. A good, instructive, entertaining chil dren’s book, full of interest and variety; stirring enough without being sensational; well sustained and long enough thoroughly to enlist the interest of that class of juve nile readers who are not content with brief and slightly-constructed narratives. Atwood. A Pastor’s Legacy to those for whose Benefit he has spent his Life; or, A Final Appeal to the Careless, the In quiring, and the Believing, in relation to Life'and Usefulness. By Bev. Anthony Atwood. Phila.: Perkenpine & Higgins j Kimo, pp. 211. i This is an,earnest, direct, and simply [ written volume, well calculated to benefit the reader, and leaving a most favorable impression of the author’s piety and kind ness of heart, and of his pastoral yearning for the salvation and sanctification of his people. It is not sectarian, though clearly upon Methodist ground in doctrine and Church polity. WnrrriEß. Snow-Bbund, a Winter Idyl, t By John Greenleaf Whittier. 15mo, pp. ■ 52. ? This most charming little poem is such as every reader can appreciate. Its de scriptive and narrative powers are of the highest order. Its touches of pathos and its flushes of poetic ardor and indignation for right, its warm utterances of Christian hope, will at once attach it firmly to the popular heart. It is certainly one of the gems of American poetry. Coupon Bonds. —This admirable story has been reprinted from the Atlantic Monthly by the publishers, in a cheap form. It is a capital reproof of covetousness, which even a covetous man might be interested in reading. Guthrie. The Parables Read in the Light of the Present Day. By Thomas Guthrie, D.D. London and New York: A. Sfcra han. Square I2mo, pp. 304. For sale by Smith, English & Go. PERIODICALS AND PAMPHLETS. The Westminster Review, for Janu ary, L. Scott & Co.’s American reprint, has just reached us from W- B- Zieber & Go. Contents: John Stuart Mill on Hamilton’s Philosophy; Precursors of the French Re volution ; Lord Palmerston; Coleridge’s Writings; Physiological Experiments: Vivi section ; The Polish Insurrection of 1863 ; ,Dr. Livingstone’s Recent Travels ; Cotem porary Literature. Littell’s Living Age, for February 24, contains, among other articles, a startling one from the London Economist, on the Analogy between the French and Ameri can Constitutions, suggested by a sentence in the French Emperor’s speech on the opening of the Chambers,and led on by the attitude ot Mr. Johnson toward Congress as known in England some weeks ago. The power given the President by the veto is discribed in terms which the writer did not suppose would prove so interesting by the time Amerioan readers got them into their hands. He seems to have overlooked the resort of impeachment in the hands bf Con gress. ' Triennial Catalogue of the Union Theological Seminary in 'the city of New York. December, 1865. The Perpetual and Universal Ob ligation of the Sabbath. A Discourse, delivered in the Market Square Presbyte rian Church, Germantown, Pa., January 28th, 1866. By Jacob Helfenstein, D.D. Report of the Pennsylvania Hospi tal for the Insane, for the year 1865. By Thos. S. Kirkbride, M.D., Physician in Chief and Superintendent. Published by order of the Board of Managers. A Libt of the Union Soldiers Buried at Anderaonville. Copied from the Official Record in the Surgeon’B Office at Ander sonville. New York: Published by the Tribune Association, 154 Nassau St. literary intelligence. American.—English critics are discus sing Ex-President Buchanan’s Boot about his Administration. One in The Reader asserts it as a fact for which he can vouch, that in the Library of the Senate’s Com mittee of Foreign Affairs, the members oi which were leading secessionists, every passage in the diplomatic documents relat ing to the recognition of Belgium and Mexico was found scored and underlined when the Republicans took possion of the library. * How soon the European powers might be expected to recognize the Con federacy was the subject which occupied the time and attention of men receiving the pay of the Union and entrusted with the duty of watching over its foreign inter ests. Announcements. —Presbyterian Publi cation Committee, Philadelphia : England Two Hundred Years .Ago; or, The Times of Joseph Alleine, by Bev. E. H. Gillett, D.D. The Unitarian Publication Board have lately assumed charge of their own work previously done through regular pub lishers. They have now in press and will soon publish, “ A New Translation of He brew Prophets,” with a new introduction, and additional notes by Bev. George B. Noyes, D.D,, Hancock Professor of He brew, and other Oriental Languages, and Dexter Lecturer on Biblical Literature, in Harvard University. Smith, English & Co.: The Bestoration;. or, the Hope of the Early Church Bealized, by Bev. Henry A'. Biley, with an introduction by Bev. J. A. Seiss, D.D.; 12mo, cloth, &1 25. Messrs. Hurd & Houghton will have ready next month “ Our Mutual Friend;” John P. Kennedy’s works; “ Pictures of Coun try Life,” by Alice Carey; “ The Author ship of Shakespeare,” by Nathaniel Holmes; “ Essays on Art,” by Francis Turner Pal grave; “ Six Months in the White House,” by F. B. Carpenter, artist; a new novel by Bayard Taylor. A work advocating spon taneous generation,&c., has lately been issued by Appletons, entitled “ Mind in Nature, or the Origin of Life, and the Mode of De velopment of Animals.’* By Henry James Clark, A. 8., B. S. Adjunct Professor of Zoology in Harvard University. With two hundred illustrations. Great Britain. —A work that all true Scotchmen must regard as a national enter prise has recently been performed by the publication of the first complete collected edition of the “ Writings of John Knox,” the celebrated reformer. It has occupied the attention of the editor, Mr. David Laing,. whose name is well known in connection with the national ancient literature of Scot land, s>r eighteen years. His labors have brought together a mass of information illustrating the life, character, and writings of the reformer and the history of his times, unrivalled for its extent and the recondite nature of the sources from whence it is de rived. Knox’s works may be divided into four classes —historical, admonitory, devo tional, and epistolary. .They comprise, together, six volumes royal octavo, the first and second being occupied with Knox’s most important book at the present day, the “ History of the Reformation in Scotland,” printed from a collation of the various manu scripts and printed texts, and for the first time presented in a complete Shape, with the illustrative documents- on which it is found ed. The “ Memoir of the Author and his Family,” bibliographical notices, notes, fac-similies, etc., render the edition a per fect literary monument to the memory ot the reformer, whosh influence is still so strong in the land of his birth. Josephus. —A new and good translation of the writings of Tlavius Josephus has long been required. Such was executed by the late Dr. Robert Traill; and an illustrated edition, containing 800 pages and 75 en gravings on steel, after original drawings made in Palestine, by Mr. W. Tipping, is announced to appear in monthly numbers in London. Dr. Traill was assisted in his translation by the late Isaac Taylor, author of“ The Natural History of Enthusiasm.” The present volume will contain the Auto biography of Josephus, and his history of the Jewish War ; but the “ Antiquities” may or may not be reprinted. Lord Brougham. —A complete edition of Lord Brougham’s works, including his speeches and personal and historical sketches, has been commenced in monthly shilling parts in Glasgow and London. French Announcemonts. —Abbe T. H. Michon’s “ Life of Jesus, followed by the Evangelists in parallel columns; A literal Greek translation, with a Philological, To pographical, and Archaeological Commen tary (the Ist volume of an able answer to M. Renan’s romance). Mr. D. F. Jami son’s (of South Carolina) “ Life of Bertrand Du Guesclin” has been translated into French by order of the French Government, and augmented with original notes, plans of battles, portrait, &c. M. Desor’s “Les Palafittes” (or constructions found in the Lake of Neufchatel); Rev. Ed. de Pressense’s “Life, Times, and Work of Jesus Christ.” Dr. Daremberg’s “ Phy sic in Homer, or Archaeological Essays on the Physicians, Anatomy, Physiology, Sur gery and Physic in the Homeric Poems.” Succeess of Imperial Authorship . —Though an Emperor, Napoleon 111. is still a man, and is said to have derived great pleasure from the success of the first volume of his “ Vie de Caesar,” in a purely commercial point of view. The publishers in London, Messrs. Cassel& Co., have had the gratifi cation of forwarding to the imperial agents a sum much beyond the amount originally stipulated for the exclusive right of transla tion into English. The second volume, perhaps in consequence, is being rapidly pushed towards completion. The final proofs have been printed; the Emperor is now revising them. He fully appreciates that geography is one of the “ eyes of his tory,” and it will be illustrated with thirty two maps. The volume is expected to be ready, in divers languages, about the mid dle of March.— The Nation. M. Gustave JDore spends most of his time in the Garden of Plants, studying animals; he has purchased fourteen rats, whioh he has domiciled in an immense cage in his studio, in order to observe their habits. He takes these pains in order to assure the suc cess of the edition of “ Lafontaine’s Fables,” which he is about to illustrate. Public, Libraries in France. —During the last four years 6000 public libraries have been founded and annexed to the French common schools. (Before there is one in every village 26,000 additional libraries must be established.) The demand for books doubles annually; 460,000 volumes have been distributed, and 180’000 loaned. Royal Bounty to Literati. —At a con cert given recently at Vienna for the benefit of the Literary Men’s Fund, the Emperor took a ticket and paid $5OO for it. Appearance.—A contemplative life has more the appearance of a life of piety than any other; but it is the Divine plan to bring faith into exercise. THE AMERICAN PRESBYTERIAN. THURSDAY. MARCH 8, 1866. HOW TO PREPARE ORION SEED FOR SOWING. Mr. H. Benjamin, of Ontario County, N. Y., gives us his method of preparing onion seed for planting, by which he says it comes up so quick that one can see the rows of young onions six days after sowing. He writes as follows: “ About the first of April I put my seed into blofld-warm water, set it where it will not freeze, and let it remain twelve or fif teen days. lam careful to have the water always cover all jhe seed. In two or three days one can tell if the seed be good by the strong onion smell it will admit in case itis all right. I drain the water off from the seed, and stir amongst it some plaster, keeping it, however, a little moist and warm. At the end of three days the seed will have thrown out sprouts half an inch long. I then plant it, covering about half an inch deep with earth, and in six' days one can see the rows. “ I prepare my ground by fall plowing, and spreading on it at that season a good coat of manure, to lie on the surface until spring. Hen manure is the best, next hog manure, and if you have no other, well-rotted barn yard manure will answer. When ready to sow the seed, I drag the ground thoroughly, and then rake it off smooth with the hand rake. I made drills fourteen inches apart, and plant in hills six inches apart, putting from five to eight seeds in a hill. Next I sow ashes broadcast until the ground looks light colored, and then, roll it down hard. In after cultivation I never dig up the ground, but shave off the weeds with a sharp hoe, and keep the crop clean.” , The disease which has committed such havoc among the horned cattle in different parts of Europe is only another added to a long list that might be made of similar in flictions in lormer times. Such diseases have engaged the attention of some of the most eminent medical writers, beginning with Hippocrates himself, who devoted a chapter to veterinary medicine, in which he speaks-of twenty-seven diseases peculiar to animals. Some-diseases attack only horned cattle; others, sheep; and others, again, horses. Swine are the sufferers at one time; poultry at another. There are some peculiar to dogs, to cats, to fish, to bees, &c. Some are common to several species of animals; and instances abound of both men and ani mals suffering from the same epidemic. We might cite, for example, typus fever, inflammation of the stomach and bowels, quinsey, pneumonia, plague, diarrhoea and dysentery, carbuncle, erysipelas or St. An thony’s fire, and hydrophobia. The disease which has committed such j ravages in cattle, and excited so muehj alarm among their owners, and the publia at large in Europe, is called by the nof very distinguishing term of cattle plague in England, and is believed in France to be typhus. It is not believed, however, by those who have made it their business to investigate the subjeot in the latter country, that the disease owes its origin to the or dinary causes of typhus fever—impure air from crowding, filth, &c. . .They trace it.to the steppes of Russia and corresponding high lands in Hungary, the cattle feeding on which are so often afflicted with f this pestilence, and transmit it to the countries of Western Europe, to which they are driven lor sale. A notice of some of the epizootic diseases in lormer times will not be without instruction, as showing resem blances between them and the present one, and offering, incidentally, some Sugges tions for prevention and cure. Wje pass over, with a simple allusion to the fajct, the inflictions to which the people of Rome, in the early period of her history, beginning with Romulus, were subjected by/succes sive epidemic visitations and excessive mor tality in their cattle, in which thel owners were not always spared. Coming down to a later age, we learn that from A. D. 810 to 1316 there were no less than twenty-sea sons of such disease, by which France, Germany, England, and Italy were ravaged. In the year 1661 the dogs in Naples were carried off in large numbers by apo plexy ; sb in 1767 were the sheep in entire flocks in Lombardy. A sheep would go to pasture frisking, and all of a sudden fall down dead. Top early an exposure to cold and damp air after shearing was regarded as the chief cause of the_ seizure. An epi demic catarrh or bronchitis spread itself in 1747 amoog horned cattle and horses over all Germany, and Bohemia, and Mo ravia. Dogs in France (1764) were seized with a violent and spasmodic cough, ac companied by vertigo, convulsive move ments and complete paralysis of the hind legs, in which state the animal often died suddenly. Putrid sore throat, in the reign of Constantine the Great (376), took its rise in Hungary, and thence passed over the rest of Europe, destroying speedily! the anifnals which it attacked. It reappeared at different times in the sixteenth, seven teenth, and eighteenth centuries. In Spain, in 1610, it found its victims among horned cattle, horses, and hogs. In England, dur ing the years 1739, 1748, and 1752, it de cimated the horses. Pneumonia carried off large numbers of horned cattle in Cham pagne and Auvergne in 1772. Chickens, and all the barn-yard tribe of poultry, were destroyed by the same disease in the Pavian and Milanese territories, in the winter of 1779. Gastric fever of an epidemic char acter first showed itself in 1709, on the borders of Tartary; it then traversed, in a period of twenty-three years, every coun try in Europe, from the Baltic to the Med iterranean, and from the Black Sea to the Atlantic Ocean. flral fftmrarag. CATTLE PLAGUE. Typhus is the most terrible of epizootic diseases, especially among horned cattle. The brains and bowels are the organs whioh suffer most In reading an account of the typhus of 1711, and of that of 1740, in reference to its original .homes and its symptoms, we might easily believe, by changing dates, that we had the pic ture of the present cattle disease before ns. The first of the two now mentioned was spread through Italy and Germany by cattle brought from Hungary. The disease was eminently contagious and in fectious. The animals which escaped death owed it more to nature than to treatment. In the second visit, or that of 1740, the ‘disease prevailed in Europe for ten years. The celebrated Camper prac ticed blood-letting, with alleged success, when the disease prevailed among the cattle in Holland, in 1744. The operation was resorted to on the first or second day of the disease; if later, the effect was fatal. Others more wisely recommended preven tive, rather than curative, means. In 1795, typhus among cattle was introduced into Lombardy from Hungary. In the early part of the last century, 1711-14, a most destructive epizootic of small-pox began in Italy, and soon reached France, Germany, and Holland. • It was confined to oxen and cows and calves, and at one time threatened an entire extinction of the. whole species.- The most approved treatment consisted in early blood-letting at the outset, drinks of barley-water, and, at the moment of the eruption, Peruvian bark in wine, and draughts containing spices and opium. Se tons were used with success. —Public Led ger. PROFITABLE POULTRY. In a communication to the Rural, Mr. Truman Ingalls, of Albany County, N. Y., gives some of his experience in regard to the! management and profits of poultry. After forty years’ experience in keeping fowls, during which time he has generally mage yearly a memorandum of their, cost ana returns, he concludes that the better they are kept the greater the profit, and that when eggs bring ten or twelve cents per dozen, herealize&.one dollar per bushel for com , fed to the hens. The proceeds, from fifty fowls of mixed breeds, he gives as follows:—From January Ist, 1864, to the same date 1865, sold 468 dozen of eggs for one hundred and three dollars and twenty cents. Two families were ,in the same time supplied with eggs, and forty chickens reared. From January Ist, 1865 to Janu ary Ist, 1866, sold 502 dozen and consum ed at least 30 dozen, which, at the average price received, amounted to one hundred and fifty-three dollars and sixty-four cents. Reared sixty chickens, worth twenty-two dollars and fifty cents. | The fowls were kept in three different places, although allowed to mix together it times. Their food was chiefly corn in jbhe ear, kept before them all the time, and (the fifty fowls consumed of it two bushels lof ears per week on an average throughout the year, Mr. Ingalls is of the opinion that ; -he manfire of the fowls, if carefully saved rad properly applied, will make an increase >f yield in a corn crop to an extent suffici ent!'to furnish food for the poultry. He pulverizes it fine, mixes with ashes and plas ter, and applies a handful of the compost to each hill before the corn appears above the surface. REMOVING LARGE ROCKS. The best and cheapest method of remov ing out of the way rocks that are too heavy to be drawn with a team, is to bury them. We have, in the course of our farming, put several out of sight in this way, and we consider it a very satisfactory job. In do ing this work, one should consider well two things. First, dig the hole large and deep enough to bury the stone at least twenty inches under the surface. . Somebody may want tojsubsoil there sometime, and if it were'left nearer the surface, the subsoil -plow'would be very likely to strike a rook. Second, if the rock be on the brow of a hill it should be buried much deeper, as the slow movement of the soil by the plow and the fain brings it gradually to the surface Make up your mind that you will no longer plow and harrow, mow and reap, around or over those great rocks. If they are in a pasture lot they do very well to salt the cattle on, providing there are no Canada thistles—we should give the latter the preference in salting; but in cultivat ed fields, the rooks are a nuisance which .should and can be abated. itoljaui @>ai lnn. CHARLES STOKES & CO.’S FIRST-CLASS “ONE PRICE '* READY-MADE CLOTHING STORE, So. §34 CHESTJrUT STREET, (Under the Continental Hotel, Philadelphia.) DIAGRAM FOR SELF-MEASUREMENT. 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' A department for Boys' Clothing is also maintained at this establishment, and superintended by experi enced hands. Parents and others will find here a most desirable assortment ol Boys' Clothing at low prices. Sole Agent fot the " Famous Bullet-Proof Vest." CHARLES STOKES A CO. ATELIER PHOTOGRAPHIC. A. J. DE MORAT. g, K. corner Eighth and Areti Streets. PHILADELPHIA. Xbe public are invited to exame specimens of Life Size in Oil, Water Colors, Ivorytype, India Infc, and Poroelian Pictures of all sizes. . C.tRD PICTURES, $3 60 PER DOZEN. Entrance on Eighth Street. WENDERQTH, TAYLOR & BROWN’S FINE ART GALLERY, 912 and 914 CHESTVIJT STREET, PHILADELPHIA. * 1019-ly AGENCY, 353 BROADWAY, NEW YORK- fsini mil com OPPOSITE TII E MINT. SOCIAL HYM(N AND TUNE BOOK: THE LECTURE ROOM, 4 PRAYER-MEETING, FAMILY CIRCLE, This book has ran through two editions, numbering 5000 copies. Another edition of 2500 is being rapidly exhausted. Considering the brief time since its first issue, its success is striking. It supplies a felt want in almost all our churches. In the larger city churches, it is hailed as just the book for the lec ture room* and in the village and country churches, particularly in the pioneer churches in the West, it is welcomed as admirably aadpted for congregational use. Its specific arrangement for use with our Church Psalmist makes it still more sought after. Among the Churches that have already introduced it are the following Mercer Street Church, New York City, Rev. Dr. Booth. Clinton Street Church, Philadelphia, Rer. Dr. March. Walnut Street Church, West Philadelphia, Rev. Dr. Butler. First Philadelphia, Rev. Dr. Shepherd. Fourth Church, Washington, D. C., Rev. Dr. J. C. Smith. Sixth Church, Washington, D. C., Rev.G.H. Smyth. Gentral Church, Wilmington, Del., Rev. G. F. Wis well. First Church, Auburn, New York, Rer. Dr. Haw ley. Second Church, Auhurn, N. Y„ Rev. S. W. Board man. First Church, Harrisburg, Pa., Rev. T. H. Robinson. Second Church, New Albany, Ind., Rev. Dr. Atter bury. Third Church, Indianapolis, Ind., Rev. H. A. Edson. First Church, West Chester, Pa., Rev. Wm. E. Moore. Wharton Street Church, Philadelphia, Rev. J. G. Hamner. North Broad Street Church, Philadelphia, Rev. Dr. Adams. Second Church, Columbus, Ohio, Rev. Dr. Morris. Poplar Street Church, Cincinnati, Ohio, Rev. Jos. Chester. West Mendon Church, Monroe Co., N. Y., Rev. E. B. VanAuken. Whitehall Church, Whitehall, N. Y., Rev. L. Kel logg. Presbyterian Church, Huntington, Ind., Rev. W. C. Smith. Price: In Muslin, $1 00; Sheep, $1 25; Morocco, $1 50. Turkey, gilt, $2 00. Sent by Mail at these rates. MEDITERRANEAN ISLANDS. SKETCHES AND STORIES OF THEM; Scenery, Customs, History, Painters, Ac., 16m0., Cloth, Gilt Bach. The present volume is the first of a series, some*- what on the plan of the “ Aim well Stories,** so won derfully popular, which will describe some of those kingdom's, provinces, and countries least known to young American readers, and will present facts in such a manner as to interest and amuse while they instructthe mind and improve theheart. The author delineates the scenery of the Mediterranean Islands, with the characters, customs, costumes, and occupa tions of their people in a graphic manner, records a portion of their history, and gives. familiar sketches of some of their poets and painters. The information is conveyed in the form of easy conversations between a traveled uncle, who lives at Fonthill, his pleasant country seat, and a group of nephews and nieces. These conversations are written out and furnished by the oldest auditor, a school girl of sixteen, who inter sperses them with descriptions of the family recrea tions, their walks, drives, visits, guests and plays, and also with the spicy stories told at various periods for the entertainment of the home circle, either by its own members or by the visitors at the house. These stories, as they appear in this volume, and as they are prepared or planned for the succeeding ones, although they form a subordinate feature, take a wide range, and will, it is believed, be found both in structive and amusing. The series will embrace the Mediterranean Islands, the Two Sicilies. Holland and Belgium, Normandy, Brittany and La Vendee. Portugal, Denmark, Sweden and Norway. Germany, Poland, the Old Republics of Northern Italy. British India and the Islands scat tered through the various oceans. Each volume will contain about three hundred 16mo. pages, and be^,complete in itself, although the principal characters in the leading story which con nects mem.will appear in all. r~~^y tOJf«’S HOHTHLT liBTTERB» an 3IOf 1 to A Toang Person. Brt>. 2 to a Sunday-school, a Class, or a Family of Children, The Author; devoting his whole time in preaching to, and corresponding with children, finds that there is a charm in what oomes to them in letter form, es pecially when directed to a particular school; class; family or child. No. 1. The young love to be noticed. Seldom re ceive Utters. These letters, in a neat handwriting teach how to write, read, and compose letters. No. 2. Those having children in charge, find it de sirable always to have choice, spicy matter at hand and *’in a nutshell,” to interest children with. They are filled with incidents, extracts from chil dren's letters and other illustrations, all bearing on one gospel theme or text. CHARLES STOKES, E. T, TAYLOR. W. J. STOKES. Rot. Dr. Newton: "... Calculated to be very use- A. Cookman: “The collection of incident, and simplicity of expression, make them exceedingly Stuart: “Admirably adapted to interest chUdrem” what is needed in our Sabbath-school. The subject of conversation until the next one appears.”— Means of increasing ourschool.” —Contributes largely to the interest of our Sunday-school concerts.”— AH were delighted: several were-melted to tears. —'Could not think of doing without them.”—“ While they interest, they in struct and profit," ete. ,etc. Teems— sl a year. A specimen 10 eta. Address, mentioning No. lor 2, REV. EDWIN M. LONG, , Box 3, Norristown, Pa. sfefa ||uWicatimto, 1334 Chestut Street, AND MISSION CHURCH, 512 PARIS. 16 HO. Calvary Church, Philadelphia, Rev. W. Calkins. Second Church, Lafayette, Ind.’, Rev- Daniel Rice. Jefferson City, Mo., Rev. J. A. Whittaker. Theological Seminary, Auburn, N*. Y. We could continue the list if we had room. 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Policies written for five years, at twenty per cent* discount on amount of yearly premiums. Hazardous risks at hazardous rates. Ocean Policies written, and permits issued for travel in any part of the world. Acoident Insurance to persons disabled by accident is like the Sanitary Commission to wounded soldiers in the field, providing the means for comfort and healing and supplying their wants while prevented from pursuing their usual employment. The rates of premium are less than in any other class of insurance, in proportion, to the risk. No better or more satisfactory investment can be made of so small a sum. Therefore— insure in the Travelers. OLDEST ACCIDENT INSURANCE COM- PANT IN AMERICA. J. G. BATTERSON, President. RODNEY DENNIS, Secretary. HENRY A. DYER, General Agent. WM. W. ALLEN & CO., General Agents for Pennsylvania, 40® WALNUT STREET, PHILADELPHIA, AMERICAN LlilliM TEIST C»m Walnut Street,S..E, cor. of Fourth. INCOME FOR THE YEAR 1864, $357,800. LOSSES PAID DURING THE YEAR AMOUNTING TO $85,000. Insurances made upon the Total Abstinence Rates-, the lowest in the world. Also upon JOINT STOCK Rateswhioh areoyer2oper cent, lower than Mutual Sufwm u or MUTUAL RATES upon which a DIVI DEND has been made of FIFTY RER CENT., on PoUdesm force January Ist. 1865. THE TEN-TEAR NON-FORFEITURE PLAN, by which a person insured can make all his payment m ten years,.and does not and can at any tim? cease paying and obtain a paid pp policy for twice thrice the amount paid to tno company.■ $lOO,OOO U. S. 5.20 boned, SSETS ' 40,000 City of Philadelphia 6s. new. 30,000 XT. S. Certificate of indebteness, 25,000 Allegheny County bonds, 15,000 TJ.Sr.Loan of 1881, ‘ 10.000 Wyoming Valley Canal bonds, 10,000 State of Tennessee bonds, 1.0,000 Philadelphia and BrieKailroad bonds, 10,000 Pittsburg, Port Wayne & Chi « v* cag ? 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 Banners* National Bank of Reading, 142 shares Williainsport Water Com pany, 192 shares American Life Insurance and Trust Company, Mortgages, Real Estate, Ground Rents Ac. Loans on collateral amply secured Premium notes secured by Policies Cash in hands of agents secured by bonds Cash on deposit with U. S. Treasurer, at I 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 oitisens in our midst, entitling it to more consideration than those whose managers reside in distant cities. AlexanderWhilldin, William J. HowaH. J. Edgar Thomson, Samuel T. Bodice. George Nugent. John Aikman, Hon. James Pollock, Henry K, Bennett, Albert C. Roberts, Hon. Joseph AUisoiu. P. Ik Mingle, Isaac Haslehurst, Samuel Work. ALEX. WHILLDIN, President. SAMUEL WORK, Vice-President. JOHN S. WILSON. Secretary and Treasurer. GIRARD FIRE AND MARINE INSURANCE COMPANY. OFFICE ON WALNUT STREET, PHILADELPHIA. CAPITAL PAID IN, IN CASH, $200,000. This oompany continues to write on Fire Risks only. Its capital, with a good surplus, is safely in vested. 701 Losses by fire having been promptly paid, and more than 9500,000 Disbursed on this account within the past few years. For the presents the office of this company will re main at 415 WALNUT STREET, But within a few months will remove to its Ows Building N. E. CORNER SEVENTH AND CHEST NUT. Then, as now, we shall be happy to ins are our patrons at such rates as are consistent with safety. ' DIRECTORS. THOMAS CRAVEN. ALFRED S. GILLETT, FURMAN SHEPPARD. N. S. LAWRENCE. THOS. MACKELLAR, CHARLES I. DUPONT, SSTNO. SUPPLEE. HENRY F. KENNEY. JNO. W. CLAGHORN, JOSEPH KLAPP, M. 1).. SILAS YERKBS, Jr. iHOMAS CRAVEN. President, ALFRED S. GULLETT. V. President and Treasurer* JAMES B. ALVORD, 'Secretary, 1088-1; $394,136 30 207.ZT8 86 112,755 73 114,899 62 26,604 70 60,000 00 :50,331 67 10,454 71 $986,461 79
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