BigfilaltaUL JUVENILE WORKERS IN METAL, The report of the British Parliamentary Commission for examining the condition of children employed as operatives in factories, brings out the following among many par ticulars illustrative of the state, general and spiritual, of the juvenile workers in metal. Mr. H. W. Lord, one of the Commission ers, examined - the Lancashire metallic works, in which he was informed that dur ing periods of ordinary prosperity 40,000 operatives, of whom more than one-sixth are young persons, find employment. Some children had commenced their life's labors at seven years of age, but many employers object to infanta in their shops; and these very small workpeople are exceptions in Lancashire. Mr. Lord, in prosecuting his inquiry, incidentally brings out, as do all the other Commissioners, painful and re volting evidence of religious ignorance pre valent among many of these operatives, and especially among the younger persons. Large populations, apparently prosperous in some material objects, conceal in their courts, lanes, and little streets, a mass of practical heathenism that would be deplora ble in any country, and is humiliating in England. Some employers have expended consid erable sums in supplying schools, libraries and reading-rooms to their operatives; but even at the Ashbury Railway Carriage Works, where means of instruction exist on .an extensive scale, " out of the 300 hands in the tbrge, for instance, not twenty use the room for reading," says one of the taanagets yet this the largest of its class , in these 'kingdoms, is a well-conducted work, for out of 1367 persons employed, only 23 were under thirteen, and 149 were from thirteen to eighteen years old, making 172, or only one-eighth of the operatives, falling under the designation of young 'persons. Mr. Johnson, the manager, who supplied Mr. Lord with details, said that poverty occasionally caused juvenile labor, but it was chiefly "attributable to the avarice or the dissolute habits of pa cuts " He gave two instances : One boy, a little over ten years, was brought by his father to their work, and had been working with them for three or four days; while the father was earning 285., one son 65., another 125., or 465. altogether, and weekly, and there were only two children at home. Another man, earning 455. weekly, and with only three children to support, had one of the three, eleven years old, at work. Oppenshaw, the town connected with, and dependent on, the works, with only 7000 inhabitants, supports three pawnbrokers and forty to fifty beerhouses, or one pawn broker fbr 2333, and one beerhouse for 140 to 175 of the inhabitants. These are dis heartening facts; for •while we know a remedy for juvenile ignorance and labor, 'originating in orphanage and poverty, a greater difficulty will be experienced in assisting those children whose misfortunes are rooted in the depravity or the greed of pareuls, with abundant earnines from steady work. Mr. Hetherington, whose firm con ducts large machine shops in Manchester, said to the Commissioner, " You will find the hands generally vary poorly taught, if at all. It is not the want of means. That boy of fourteen cannot read, you say. Now, his father works for US j he made £2 last week, and that was a bad week." In Liverpool, the nail and small-ware trades, conducted in smithies attached to the cottages, are in a much worse condition than the large works. Boys and girls are employed from seven years old and up ward. Their education is neglected, their morals corrupted, and they have no reli gious fear or hope. "I knows my work, and that is mostly all I knows of," was the melancholy confession of one lad, too faith fully representing many thousands. One foreman, at a spindle-maker's thinks "boys are worse than boys were twenty years ago; they are worse mannered and more igno rant; the language they use is certainly worse than it was when I was a boy; it is the parents' fault, all of it." Mr. Lord, in his report, separate from the evidence, writes, "in the smaller smithies of ' Ash ton-in-Makerfield' I found boy after boy who could not read, had never been even to a Sunday-school, and was unable to an swer the simplest question of Bible history." One boy of fourteen years " does not know where Scotland is ;" many had no idea of London, and did not know if it "were a country or a town ;" others were unac quainted with Lancashire in which they lived; a lad of twelve " don't know who the apostles were, nor what disciples mean; never heard of St. John ;" a third of thir teen "never heard of St. Paul ;" a fourth of fourteen " don't know who St. Paul is, don't remember ever hearing of him or of apostles." These four boys professed to attend Sunday-school. In. Manchester, a lad of fifteen, able to read and "going to Sunday-school," " could. not tell how many gospels there were nor who wrote them, thinks he has heard of St. John's Gospel ;" a second, of fourteen, said : " Don't know who Judas Iscariot was, don't know what he did to Christ; Testament is about Christ and God." He also went to Sunday-school; but a third seemed never to have been there. " Don't know," said he, " anything about Testament at all, nor what it is about." In another shop a boy of fourteen, who could not read the letters " in big print," and had "lately begun to go to Sunday-school, knew the names of John, Peter, and Judas, but nothing of what they did." He knew nothing of what " Jesus did, nor what was done to Him." Mr. J. E. White was directed to exam ine into the circumstances of the operatives in Birmingham and the chain and nail country, stretching for twenty miles in one direction, with a breadth of five to six miles. He inquired personally into the educational condition of thirty-nine boys and girls, or young women, at different employments, in the smaller towns. Their ages ran from nine to seventeen years, and nine could read, seven could read a little, while twenty-three could not read. But even these examples give a too favorable idea of the educational status in these hardware towns; for at West Bromwich one lad who "reads tolerably" said that " out of nine in that shop only two can read ;" at Dudley an educated and intelli gent lad of thirteen said, in reference to his shop, " There aren't many that can read here. Out of all the lot of boys [l. e. about fifty], of whom the youngest is, think, ten, and the eldest perhaps eighteen, I don't suppose that there is one that can read, though some might be able to spell words." And this lad's opinion is prob ably true, if the Rev. Dr. Brown, Vicar of Dudley, well considered his statement that "the people are still far below those, of Birmingham—one hundred years behind;"_ and one hundred years ..is a long way back for eight miles of ground. But any town behind . Birmingham in the education of its young operatives is in a pitiable state. Hales Owen is celebrated for the beauty of the district and other associations, in addition to its hardware trade. It forms part of the nail and chain district. The nailers and small chain makers work in families, or little groups, with small smith ies attached to their cottages. They are not under restriction to the regular hours of large works; and the trades are pursued by boys and girls, from seven years old. The earnings are small at nails, varying, for an able-boied man, from 15s. to 20s. weekly ; in the latter case for a peculiar quality. The' Rev. Henry Fisher, curate of Hales Owen, estimated the population in be district attached to the church at 6000 to 7000. The Sunday-school con nected .with the church is remarkably well attended, and Mr. Fisher speaks favorably of the Monday afternoon classes, conducted for girls who are partially employed. Large numbers of adults cannot read, and few can write. At the mothers' meeting here, which works well, out of eighty about fifty can read a verse of the ,Testament in their turn. No doubt can exist that the "'Moth ers' Meeting" gives a higher percentage than the average proportion of mothers in Hales Owen, among the operative families, capable of reading the Bible to their chil dren. During Mr. White's inquiries at the place, a strike had occurred among, the nailers, in consequence of a reduction of 10 per cent. on their wages; and a procession of " nailing" men, women, and children, including boys of six years old, passed on to a meeting, singing, as they walked, a hymn, of which, in apparent surprise at this mode of calling a meeting, he quotes two lines.. The nailers had walked a few miles, from the towns where John 'Wesley's visit is yet bearing its fruit in many lay teacher,—strong men from the mines, and especially from the furnaces, many of them most intelligent men of their class, with comfortable homes and a good collection of standard works ; for South Staffordshire is the favorite district of England among bocik canvassers—and as their habit is, the nail ers from these quarters, where " faith" overorops " ignorance," sang as they went on their way : Let cares like a wild deluge come, And storms of sorrow fall, May I but safely reach my home, My God, my Heaven, my All. There shall I bathe my weary soul In seas of heavenly rest; And not a wave of trouble roll Across my peaceful breast. Stourbridge, at the western, end of the Black Country, is a pleasant town of 8000 or 10,000 inhabitants, with one model street, lined by fine houses ; and on one side a number of smaller streets, chiefly of cottages and villas in gardens; but the op posite side, toward the Stour, with its alleys, courts, and lanes, puts to shame that substantial High street and its ornate de pendencies. The operatives on skins, in glass furnaces, and the workers in clay, in habit these close and unhealthy places. Like the children, doomed to a disconso late infancy, the little river flows slowly past, not the clear water that should flow through among these large, round hills, but brown and " drumlie," to its rest in the not remote Severn. Its hills are rich with corn and grass, save where a colliery shaft has been sunk occasionally on the summit, or clay-pit has been dug in a glen, often for many hundred feet, with galleries following the vein at the bottom, some of them stretehirg for half a mile. .Girls do not work in these galleries; but near the ovens on the surface, or in the yards, little children, many of them girls, do al most incredible labor. The walk from Stourbridge to Brierly Hill, over the hills for two miles, is singularly interesting. During one Sabbath-day's journey the writer had attended service in three con gregations, and observed the procedure in two Sunday-schools. On his walk of ten miles, above the slight sound, ever rising from a large population, came up the notes of praise from the congregation of Primi tive Methodists tar down, at the foot of the hill, in the narrow valley beside the clay works. According to their custom in fine evenings, they had left their pews to sing the last hymn of the day as they stood round the church doors, and.it was easy to gather the words from the air : My Father's house on high, Home of my soul, how near At times to faith's far-seeing eye Thy golden gates appear! The cheerful Christianity of these men, and the willing labors of many among them, have helped to overtake parts of a rapidly increasing population, that never could have been reached, so far as we know, by the ordinary means existing in average parishes. They have contributed to make such a character as Elizabeth Ann Powell possible. She was twelve years of age, had wrought two years in these elay-works,. and had lifted 17,000 bricks of 7.t lbs. in one day and a half, or more than 36 tons " in an ordinary day." She was " panting" when she came up to the Commissioner, but she told him that " mother had learned her to work" and q she hoped the time would never come when she would not be willing to work." Mr. White tells the story of this girl to the members of Parliament at considerable length. She could not read, but her father read the Bible when he came home, once a week. She thought that "ship" meant "sheep," and of the "sea" she had heard nothing. The Com missioner was surprised, therefore, when she informed him that "an angel is pretty," and that she had one object in view. " I Wish," -she said, "I was an angel. They live in heaven. I hope I shall be one, one day, and sit in Jesus' lap. To be one THE AMERICAN PRESBYTERIAN, THURSDAY, AUGUST 16, 1866. I must behave very well." The child's ideas were not clear, but her belief was ex plicit. The origin of her reference to the angels is obvious. She went to Sunday school and sang : P d like to be an angel, And with the angels stand, A crown upon my forehead, A harp within my hand. And carefully- nurtured. kindly - tended children could never suppose, until they heard, how fervently the little clay-workers and blowers in chain-forges sing-- • I never would be weary, Nor ever shed a tear, Nor ever know a sorrow, Nor ever feel a fear. Some of the female operatives in clay are good girls, and ".tidy" when their toil is past,, although it is hard and long; but it is indecorous and unfeminine; and the tendency of the human mind to overlook familiar evil is illustrated by the circum stance that individuals of undoubted Chris tian character and worth have laudably interested themselves in helping young la borers, boys and girls, far away; while, fields and works are visible from their man-1, sions, brick-fields skirting their own shrubf beries, where girls toil under most degra i• ing circumstances, in costume scarcely fe nine, covered with clay, rugged and rou , who "learn nothing ;" "have been n er ---- -- -.---e-- -- X at any school, church, or chapel ;" who ay, HO V KNO AND LUTHER PRAYED. " when we die, we be buried and t re's D ring the troubleus times in Scotland, an end on us ;" who "cannot tell wh God n is, or if he lives ;" or " think He is good be the Popish court and aristocracy man;" who have "never heard on esus." ere arming themselves to suppress the Yet few have, helped them; and t ese are eformation in that land, and the cause of rotestant Christianity was in imminent common answers, not so horribly d nsation •ril, late on a certain night the vigilant al as some that might be quoted. Birmingham, d unwearied John linos was seen to leave lation of nearly with Aston, hs a popu- 350,000. It has'admirable s study, and to pass from the house down educational establishments; audit has beue- to an enclosure to the rear of it. He s followed by a friend, when, after a few fitted by the labors and ministry of men whose names are familiar to 411 the ehur- . 1 ments of silence, his voice was heard as i ches. Mr. White searched /Birmingham in prayer. In another moment the ts deepened into intelligible words, and '' • ac with unwearyine-assiduity. /Taking an at - t• earnest petition went up from his strug tractive, simple book of hymns and stories , in his hand, he pursued Ms examination ng soul to heaven :" 0 Lord, give me , • &and, or I die!" Then a panse of hushed from shop to shop. He gives the names, with few exceptions, of 342 young persons, s at work, from seven to seventeen years s Mess ; when again the petition broke f th : 0 Lord, give me Scotland, or I age, whom he examined, and we give the • !" Once more all was voiceless and • seless, when with a yet intenser pathos, result: Could read, and atm could write, 75 ; could read moderately, 77 ; could not t thrice repeated intercession struggled read 190. He had man other in uiries hh : " 0 Lord, give me Scotland, or I , y q d to make, and could only examine a few inl !" And God gave him Scotland, in spite reading and writing; but for any useful Mary and Cardinal Beaton—a land and' purpose the secottti sum may be add'ed to a buret of noble Christian loyalty to ist and His crown, even unto this day. I the third, leaving a few over one in five capable of reading intelligently. ( •" could it be otherwise? Among 13 boys, from 9to 13 yeafs old, .o Luther, when Germany and the Re engaged at the same place, "9 ha never fi e ation seemed to be lost, and human heard of the Bible or knew anythi g that b • was none ; this was the prayer which was in it," and only one could rea a little. second Moses went and laid down at t A little boy of 10 said : " Neve was at t foot of the eternal throne. " 0 God, any school ; nobody ever tried to each Me • ighty God everlasting, how dreadful i: lis world ! behold how its mouth opens anything." A girl of 16, "never was at any school; have been at churchior chapel ti-wallow me up, and how small is my • two or three times in my life."! j Another in Thee !Iflam to depend upon f of 12, "do not know what prayeris, or who a strength of the world, all this is over. it is said to." A third of 16; " believe knell is struck. Sentence is gone forth. they used to tell me about God, but lam • od ! 0 Thou my God ! help me very bad at remembering." A fourth of a nst all the wisdom of the world. Thou s Idst do this. The cause is Thine. 14, " Adam and Eve were two irk". d men." A lad •of 13, ".can't tell anythi it, Dave no business here. The cause is of Jesus Christ." . ne, and it is righteous and everlasting. We do not continue the quotations, al Lord, help me. 0 faithful and, un though some statements are even worst iangeable God, I lean not on man. My Thou no longer living ? Nay, than those we have copied. Thou slavery. Mr. Abbot, a gunmaker, But Binning- sa, my God, dost Thou not bear ?--MY' Gad, has, or recently had, downrightrt 553 , 5 . anst not die. Thou dost not hide Thyself. hou bast chosen me for this work. I "Some of the lads I had .1 got from a wof man who was'allowed to have twenty from, now it. Therefore, 0 God, accomplish one :trine own will. Forsake me not, for the the workhouse to keep, and she let any have them out for half a crown a week. ake of Thy well-beloved Son, Jesus Christ, defence, my buckler, and my strong- They were the biggest set of reprobatePY anywhere. I used to have to go and fetch But them in with a walking-stick." The Poor But he had not done. Once more the ;de of emotion and importunity bursts law Commissioners must have been igno rth : "Lord, where art thou ? Come, I rant of this mode of converting paupe children into " reprobates"—a plan whic ray Tbee; lam ready. Behold me pre could scarcely fail to be successful in pro ared to lay down my life for Thy truth. 1 ducing the result. • Among employers gen or the cause is holy. It is Thine own. 'ill not let Thee go :—no, nor yet for all meat but an honest desire exists for improve ternity ! My soul is thine. Yes, I have rit , but several think that childre • ; line own word to assure me of it. My should not know top much, and sorne.ar contented if their own locality be nothin t oul belongs to Thee, and will abide with lower than others that might'hee' forever. Amen! 0 God, send help! be.named. We have indicated the faint light cast b ' Theatistory of the salvation and sanctifi these reports on a dark and deplorable sub jeer. Equality of circumstances and con sting of human souls hitherto is the his dition on earth is the dream of a few whic4 of'such praying as this, in spirit, if close their eyes and reject the lessons o°t in these or any uttered words. Such experience ; but an equality exists in ou acred earnestness and familiarity never common and sinful nature, in redemptio trends, but immeasurably delights the needed,"repentance due, and grace require l 'ather of our Lord Jesus Christ, who by all ; and in the sight of God all soul hrough him is the God of all grace and are precious. Avoiding arguments regard' onsolation.— Congregationalist ing the different circumstances of trade, w hold to the broad truths that no trading purpose should be achieved by the ruin o individuals, and that "righteousness exalt eth a nation." We love the land we liv in; but is its honor consulted by the main tenance of ignorance and misery to darker its towns and villages ? We are thankfn for its intellectual advantages; but is al appreciating gratitude felt for these whi so many brethren are left incapable of sha ing them ? We give thanks for ancesto who passed through furnaces of tri, heated seven times, to work out our civ and religious liberties; yet their labors a. ill requited by apathy toward any portie of their descendants. And if it be possib that some Christians can read of this d mestic heathenism without determining; any cost, to seek its reformation, and t • extinction of its cause, to them there is special applicability in one little verse, s• emnly, true of one and all : Alas ! I'm not like Jesus, As any one may see;. 0, gentle Saviour, send Thy grace ' And make me like to Thee. ---Condensed•from Evan. 'Christendom. PREACH CHRIST CRUCIFIED. Our readers will enjoy the following e tract from the opening sermon before t Congregational Union of England a Wales, delivered in the Weighhou Chapel, London, May 8, by the Chairm. elect, Rev. Newman Hall, the esteem: author of " Come to Jesus :" "Would we then see our churches prtl per, let us preach Christ crucified. Apa from secondary. aids, though these I Ivo i be the last to deprecate, the Gospel alonl in its simplicity, will ever approve itself the power of God and the wisdom of Go It is not poetry,.rhetoric, logic; it is n criticism, philosophy, ethics; it is .1H church principles, controversy, machinen t,is not architecture, music, ceremonial; it is not wealth, fashion, numbers—it is not these which suffice to keep up strong, heidthy life in a church. Any or all of these will be vain unless we preach Christ crucified. If the truth concerning the atoing sacrifice, not as a mere dogma, but as vital power; not as an adjunct of Ch stianity, but as its very core and e ss, 1 ce—if this be absent or obscured, oh bed will be written on our walls and rui lay waste our palaces. To neglect hip ,is to neglect our chief means of sue - e el 'to wage war weaponless, to build with t a foundation, - and with mortar which ° j I never, bind. A Christianity from 4. h the expiatory sacrifice is eliminated wi id be only the elaborate casket without / d i p , valuable gem; the complicated mechan + •ithout its mainspring; the sculptured s tir,le fountain without the living water; be banquet -table splendid with costly pit , but lacking the food which alone can atiiy the hunger of the soul ; the light /ea e on the rock, but with lamp extin ' ui • 1 ed which should guide the storm-tossed .ails ; the planets without the sun that I .rez ryes them in their orbits and makes he , shine; the palace without the Prince; he • orn without Him that sitteth on the hro e, and the Lamb who liveth forever ad ter." 1. NICHOLAS MURRAY'S LAST IN TERVIEW WITH DR. MILLER. Dr. Murray was spending a little time in rinceton, and felt a strong desire to see I ..ain his revered teacher r whose infirmities I •ere fast bringing him to the grave.. He ailed to see him, but as the barber had ust entered the room, Dr. Miller requested be excused for half an hour. But Dr. urray's engagements were such that he -ould not call again, and he was admitted -ithout - further delay. The sick man was •olstered in an easy chair, with one cheek :haven and the other covered with soap, ut he gave the visitor a cordial greeting, - . th the old sweet smile of welcome. He 's egged Dr. Murray to correct for him a light error into which he had fallen, in ,a . istory of the Seminary which was just ...oing to the press; and having thus disposed f the only business matter that was troubling !situ, he turned at once, and with his whole Is cart, to the more important . concerns of personal religion and ministerial labor. Dr. Murray gives a brief sketch of his emarks :—" My dear brother, my sands re almost run, and this will be, probably, .ur laSt interview on earth; our intercourse ▪ s professor and pupil, and as ministers, ',as been one of undiminished confidence ▪nd affection. I am just finishing my ourse ; my only regrets are that I have ,s of served my precious Master more fer • ently, sincerely, and constantly. Were I .0 live my, life over again, I would seek sore than I have done to knot nothing is at Christ. The burdens that some of us ave borne in the church will now devolve in you and your brethren; see to it that vou bear them better than we have done, nd with far greater consecration; and as his will be, no doubt, our last, interview ere, it will be well to - close it with prayer. 1 • s I am too feeble to kneel; you will.excuse si e if I keep my chair." Dr. Murray at once knelt, and the colored barber, his work suspended, knelt also, and in a tremulous voice, sweet and melting, the venerable man of God offered a brief prayer, most touching and impressive. " He commenced it by thankinc , God that in his great mercy he had called u- into the fellowship of the saints and into the ministry of his Son. He then gave thanks that we ever sustained to each other the relation of pupil and teacher, and for our subsequent pleasant intercourse as ministers of the Gospel. lie thanked God for the many years he had permitted him to live, and for any good he had enabled him to do. And now, Lord," said he, " seeing that thine aged, imperfect servant is about being gathered to his fathers, let his mantle fall on thy younc , servant, and far more of the Spirit of CList than be has ever en joyed. Let the years of thy servant be as the years of his dying teacher; let his ministry be more devoted, more holy, more useful and when he comes to die may he have fewer regrets to make in reference to his closing ministry. We are to meet no more on earth, but when thy servant shall follow his aged father to the grave, may we meet in heaven—there to sit and shine, and sing with those, ho have turned many to righteousness, who have washed their robes and made them white with the blood of the Lamb " I arose from my knees, melted as is wax before the fire. That address, that prayer, that blessing, have made undying impres sions. it was the most solemn and instruc tive last interview of my life. rjritagrapijit. WENDEROTH, TAYLOR & BROWN'S FINE ART GALLERY, 912 mid 914 CELESTA - 17T STREET, P XII DELPHLa . 101.94 y AGENCY, 353 BROADWAY, NEW YORK. ATELIER PHOTOGRAPHIC. A. J. DE MORAYS S. E. corner Eighth and Arch Streets, PHILADELPHIA. 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Treasury Notes, 7-EO, 25,000 Allegheny County bonds, 15,000 U.S. Loan of 1881, 10.000 Wyoming Valley Canal bonds, 12,700 Compound Interest Tre saws Notes, 10,000 Philadelphia and Erie Railroad bonds. 10,000 Pittsburg, Fort Wayne & Chi cago bonds, 6,500 City of Pittsburg and other bonds. 1,000 Shares Pennsylvania Railroad 450 shares Corn Exchange National Bank. 107 shares Farmers' National Bank of Reading. 22 shares Consolidation National I Bank. 142 shares Williamsport Water Com- , pany, Mortgages, Ground Rents, and Real Es tate 147,309 88 Loans on collateral atuply secured 16.9.481 95 Premium notes secured by Policies 217.509 58 Cash in hands of agents secured by bonds. 52,449 18 Cash on deposit with U. S. Treasurer 20,000 00 Cash on hand and in banks 65,829 14 Accrued interest and rents due, Jan. 1. . 10,223 00 LNCOME FOR THE YEAR 1865, Losses Paid during the Year amounting- Os LOSSES PAID PROMPTLY. DIVIDENDS MADE ANNUALLY, thus aiding the the insured topay premiums. The last DIVIDEND on all Mutual Policies iu fora!! January L 1866. was • FIFT "Se PER CENT. of the amount of PREMIUMS received during the year, 1865. Its TRUSTEES are well known citizens in out midst, entitling it to more consideration than those whose managers reside in distant cities. Alexanderlithilldin, William J. Howard, J. Edgar Thomson. Samuel T. Bodine. George Nugent. John Aikman, Hon. James Pollock, Henry K. Bennett, L. M. Whilldin, Hon. Joseph Allison P. R. Efit..-Je. Isaac Hazlehurst. Albert C. Roberts. ALEX. WHILLDIN, President. GEORGE 2.tigIGENT, 11 7 f ce-Premident. JOHN C. SIMS, Actuary. JOHN S. WILSON. Secretary and Treasurer 0. G. ROBESON, Assistant Secretary. A few first-rate canvassers wanted. INDEMNITY FOR LOSS OF LIFE OR INJURY ACCIDENTS OF EVERY DESCRIPTION. TRAVELERS' INSURANCE COMPANY, HARTFORD, CONNECTICUT Cash Capital and Assets, Dec. 1, 1865 ~~ ~~ PATIscDELPHIA. BRANCH OFFICE. 409 WALNUT STREET, THE PIONEER ACCIDENT INSURANCE COMPANY IN AMERICA Where policies are issued covering all and every de scription of accidents happening under any circum stances. An institution whose benefits can be en joyed by the poor man as well as the rich. No medi cal examination required. Policies issued for amounts from $5OO to $lO,OOO in . cases of death, and from $3 to $5O weekly compensa tion in case of disabling injury,.at rates ranging from $3.50 to $6O per annum, the cheapest and most practi! cable mode of Insurance known. Policies written for live years. at twenty per Gent, 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. Accident Insniance 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 puisuing 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 satisfictory investment can be made of so email a sum. Therefore--trisure is the TravelerB. OLDEST ACCIDENT INSURANCE CON. P.ALNY IN AMERICA 5. G. 13ATTERSON, President. RODNEY DENNIS, Secretary. HENRY A. DYER, General Agent. WM. W. ALLEN & CO., General Agents for Pennsylvania, GIRARD FIRE AND MARINE INSURANCE COMPANY. OFFICE ON WALNUT STREET. PHILADELPHIA. CAPITAL PAID IN, IN CASR. $200.01X1. This company 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 mere than $500,000 Disbursed on this account within the past few years. For the present, the office of this company willre main at 415 WALNUT STREET, But within a few months will remove to its Own Building N. E. CORNEA SEVENTH AND CHEST NUT. Then, as now, we shall be happy to insure our patrons at such rates D as IR are NOTOconsistentßS. with safety, - - . THOMAS CRAVEN. ALFRED S. GILLETT, FURMAN SHEPPARD. N. S. LAWRENCE. JOHNSKEL CHARLES I. DUPONT. PPLEE,_ Mt.NRY F. KENNEY., JOHN W. OLAGHORN, JOSEPH KLAPP, M.D. SILAS YERMRs, ,T, THOMAS CRAVEN, President. ALFRED S. GILLETT, V. President and Treasurer JAMES B. ALVORD, Secretary. 1028-ly 1048-8 m THE AMERICAN $1,143,874 15. $ 54 4,592 92. $87,636 31. 6596,338 12. 409 wALxur STREET, PHILADELPHIA tw .... F-1 F' g 5461.061 45 a 1 4 = 0
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