iUligum* THE REFORMED CHDECHEB. —The U. P. church of Franklor l is making ( r v iilort to liave its new and elegant building ~l'v at an early day. They have bjeen worship a flail owned by W.m, Baird, ;Eeq , since p 7;. This gentleman lias not charged, anything , || K use of the Hail, lighting or hbaiing.—Thert; in iu’li interest now manifested hr the Trinity iircb. 0- S., {the Rev. John Ewing, pastor,) and hi ii, [lie church at Port Richmond, of which the Mr. Jelly is the pastor. Jlijisterial—Dr. Cummingjbf London, recently ,r,e io Archbishop, Manning, that’he was mos't f j r ,ius of attending the Ecumenical Council ; that igreed with the whole of the Nicene Creed of D, 325, but objected too Vwtaet other 'artioles L ..l 1.2H0 years after, and> to a .thirteenth, added IS.il, so that, if the Rbman Catholic Church lit adhere to the Original-articles, and throw crlvard the surplus, lfe'(l!)ri.G.,y erhotil.d’be hdjspy take part in thV council. The'Artihbishqp re i,il, that the. Hirst &.olild 'be,' “ db n believe that .th&t'v'eherj&Uie gentleman, in the nir is infa\UJile?!’, t SbpyU he reply,tq.tbiis in iu'<ratiye, the ompere on< apty b,e dirqcte)! turn the heretic out of- the rootnv Whereupon r. (Jmniuing thought lie shouldn’t go, and de iimced the whole affair as neither a free nor a m'ral council, bhta'tnere conventicle Of Roman iitholics —-Rev* -I. N. Grier; D. Db has'b«&h*pad- ir of the, church’iat Brandywine Manor, ChesteY •■iiiity, Pa, for fifty-three years. His'Jather, EeV. nilian Grief, Was pastor of the tame church lenty-seven years, the- combined pastorates of iher and'Bon extending over eighty- years, at fact, i far as We know, quite without a parallel, ’, Dr. iier still preaches in the church,'bat',has.present- I liis resignation, which the congregation ate Very ’uctant to accept.—Rev. James 0. Dennistod, inuary 27th, was received by the Presbytery Of lonmouth, N. J., from the Classic of Poughkeep ■, and was installed pastor of the Mattavvan lurch.—Rev. A. L. Black lord, after an absence ol •arly nine years, has arrived in New York, from io Janeiro. Church Extension and Ereotion.— The Eirk atrick Memorial church in Ringo’ee, N. J.y was tcently formed with fifty.two members.—A church .1 27 members was organized, January stli, at iewart’s Station, Westmoreland coupty, Ea.,. of ,-hich Rev. WmnShaw has been installed pastor. —On the 15th of January, a Committee of; th,e resbytery of West Virginia organized a church, villi twenty-six members, at Portland, Preston Co:, ifest Va. Two-ruling, elders Were * elected, and nstalled. Portland, on the line of ithe ,B, and 0. ;. It., is an actiyd, business place, and being at vhat is known as “the Summit** of-tlie -illegha ies, lias, with its surroundings, rare attractions luring the sumnxer season.—The U. P: church of' 'nba, Mo., has got tip il£ nevf clturch edifice'; and,' iltliough not quite finished, regular services are ,elil in it. The prospects are very encouraging. Revivals are reported, [l) in the 0. S. church if Dubuque, lowa, where Rey. J. A. Reed is pas or. Nine have united already ; (2) at. Jliio, where the Week-of-Prayer meetings were prolonged over three weeks thirteen have been ndded, eleven from the 'Sunday school ;*(3) in Lib riy, Ohio, where the Week-of-Prayer meetiog'-eon iimed four weeks; of thirty or forty inquirers, :wenty have found Christ, and others are expectei :o unite with the, churcl) ; ~(4) in Marietta, Pa-, ivhere thirty-four hive come id oh profession, sik tv baptism; (5) in Pequa,'Pa., where thirty-five were received on the first Sabbath of the year; (fry in the Second church of Braver Falls, where thirty •even were received Jan. 24th, thirteen by exaiui nation ; (7) in Grace church 1 , Sl Louis', whicb'was organized last October, ahd where fifteen Have befen received on profession ; (8) in'the TJ. P. church ’of Si. Louis, where twelve have united, and others are expected. ,• ' ! ' Thd 0. S. Boards. — The receipts during tlie. month of December, were .as follows,: Board pi Do mestic Missions, $55,117.15 ; Board or'Edufeation, >.65 ; Board of Foreign Missions, $13,987.29; Hoard of Publication (colportage and distribution f 1,108.14; Board of Church Extenstotii Fund /or Disabled Ministers, $7,300-12; Committee ouj'reedmen, $7,627.54. Lafayette College, —At the repent meeting ,qf be Trustees, it waß staled‘that-the additional” en iowment of $200,000 was completed, and tbe Hoard were thus enabled to raise the salaries of lie professors, who now number twenty-one, thus willing amply for all the various departments of nstruction, both in the Classical Course, and in be Pardee Scientific Department. OTHER DENOMINATIONS. Congregatioiulist.—The total number of Con gregational Churches in the United States is 2,951; ministers, 3,070; church members, tions during 1868 by profession, 16,432; by letter, 11,814. The infant baptisms l foot up 5,291. The Sunday Schools reported a total membership of 339,205. —The American Educatiopal Society hap af present under its cafe 254 young men prepaVmgfori the ministry. Seventy-four have been added since the beginning of the present college year.—The '• English Congregational Year Book for 1869,’' re ports a-total 0|3.442 churches as follows: England, 2,003, Wales, 866, Scotland, 100.—Rev. S/L. Blake, late of Pepperell; Mass., was-installed pastor of the South church, in Concord, N. H., Jan. 27th. Ser mon by Prof. Park.—A correspondent of The Con gregationalism givesas the results of-ari experiment made in Brattleboro, Vt., of substituting the Sab bath school for the afternoon preaching service, an increase of fifty per cent, in attendance on the Sab- . bath school, especially of the adult portion of the, congregation ; a longer time for the Sabbath school exercises; and the*prese.ice and assistance of the pastor in the school. The trial was limited to eight’ weeks, but tbe results were so obviously good and only good that a proposal to continue the arrange ments as a permanent thing was not opposed by a single.vote. —Rev. B. P. Clark, ofChelrasfbrd, Mass., was dismissed at his own request after nearly thirty years of pastoral labor, because the neighboring pastors’withdrew all ministerial courtesies Irom him on account of his advocacy of the License Law. Dr. Blagden of Boston, was Moderator of the Council, which recommended him to the churches as “sound in the faith and sincerely devoted to the work of our Lord.’’ His people differed from him, but would gladly have retained him.—Rev. Daniel Gibbs sues the ohurch of Gilead, Conn., for salary alter his dismissal by* the 1 Association.—Rev. W. T. Kustis of New Haven, accepts the call of the Me morial church,'in Springfield, Mass.—Rev. Henry Powers preached his farewell sermon at Danbury, Conn., Jan. 31st, having been dismissed Jan. 21st, to accept a call to the Elm Plaice Church lyn.—There hah not yetibeen a sufficient number of subscriptions and pledges secured to warrant the commencement of the publication of the new Con gregational Monthly proposed at Syracuse, N. Y.- New churches have been Organized ini' Little. Sioux," Iowa; Burlington, Kansas;'Maiden Rock, Wis; and in Los Angelos, Cal.—A house of wprship iiyas dedi cated at Chester, lowa, Jail. IQ. ‘ ' Bevivals are reported (1) at ffuitori. Me., when some thirty have been converted, including, many reckless and intemperate young Me., (a vacancy,) when some tyyenty-fiye ljave join ed the church ; (3) at Holden, Me., . (* yaeapoys where some twenty have united; (4) Kenduskeag, Me., (a vacancy,) where thirty have been converted; (5) at Old Town, Me., where eighteen have been rer, THE AMERICAN PRESBYTERIAN, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1860. ceived; (0) in Ilammon.l St. church of Portland, where twenty-three have, been received; (7) in South Freeport, Me., where twenty-five have been converted ; (8) at Lebanon, N. H., where all de nominaiions are aroused, and many etores and workshops are closed in the evening ; (0) in Alton corner, N. H., where an awakening has occurred through the preaching of Andover students ; (10) at Yergennes, Vt., where twenty-seven have joined the church, all but four on profession ; at Pittsfield, Mass., where a powerful revival has crowded the Cong., Bap. and M. E. churches, and where only two of thirty-seven unconverted students in the Maplewood Institute for young ladies, remain such; (12) in Winthrop church of East Randolph, where thirty-five or forty have been hopefully converted, twenty have joined the church on profession, and many family altar have been erected ; (13) at Led yard, Conu , where no revival has been enjoyed.for thirty years, but where the sisters have gladly united with the pastor in working with such acceptance that many are awakened and an earnest solemnity pervades the whole place; (14) at Virgil, a small town in Cortland county, N. Y., where there has been a union meeting lasting four weeks,' of Con gregationalists, Baptists and Methodists, and over fifty conversions are numbered; (15.) at,Groton. N, Y-, over one hundred are counted, and (16) at West Groton over thirty, and the meetings are, still in progress; (17) at Summer Hill, in Cayuga Co., where there is a good work gbing on ; an'd,''(lB)'at E. Saginaw, Mich., where union meetings are, held every evening, with many inquiring the way of life, and all classes in Uiecommunity approachable on the subject of personal religion. I piscopalian. — City- —Rev. William Rudder, p. D., formerly rector of St. Paul’s church, in New York, and now of St. Stephen’s, Philadelphia, is elected rector of the pt urch of the Epiphany, Wash ington, D."C., to succeed Rev. Dr. liall, now rector of the Church of the Iloly Trinity, Rrooklyn, va cated by Dr. Littlejohn.—Rev. A. T. McMurphy has resigned the charge of the Church of Our Saviour, Salem, Ohio, and has accepted that of the House of Prayer, Branchtown, Philadelphia.—The Rev. R. Ileber Newton, has resigned the rectorship of, St. Paul’s church, and has accepted the appointment of Financial Secretary of the American Church Mis sionary Society, which position was .made vacant by the death of the Rev. Mr. Rising;—l'he Rev. Dr. Hoffman, of Grace church, on the Heights of Brook lyn, has received a unanimous call to becomerector of St. Mark's church; ’ • Home. —A bill was introduced into the New Jer sey [Legislature, recently, to incorporate theClergy men’s Mutual Insurance League,, consisting of fif teen clergymen of the P. E. Church. The object is to exercise mutual benevolence and mutual insur ance for the benefit of the families of deceased mem bers. Such a Corporation, which ts only'another name for a Mutual Insurance Company, may be very beneficial, hut to give it much value a large number miist unite and contribute to its funds.— Rev. David H. Maciirdy, lately rector,of.tbe church At Mount Holly, N. J., has accepted a unanimous call from the vestry of St. MalkV'ch'ufch, Jersey city, N. J.—Rev. Dr. Littlejohn, of Brooklyn, was duly ordained Bishop of Long l lsland, Jan. 27th, in the Church of.t.he Holy Trinity; Brooklyn., Bishop; Potter presided, and Bishop; O'denheinier-, ' of; New Jersey! preached the sermon.—The consecration of Rev. Dr. Doane as Bishop of the diocese of Albany was to take place oh Tuesday, Feb. 2.—A parish; uuder.the name of St. Thomas churchy Brooklyn, was organized last month in that ■ city, and Rev, Alvah Guion, who ‘started; the enterprise," a few months ago by holding services in a room, corner of Marcy Avenue and Van t Suren street, three miles from Fulton Ferrv, was clioseu rector. —The Christian Witness and GhurchAdtiocate diSCiissipg Mr. Hubbard’s Acquittal in Rb'bdeTslajid, says i. 11 ,The issue, was not whether it is a breach 01 theTnbrioto direct a person hot in the Episcqpul 'orders -the Declaration of Absolution. Non was it, decided whether 1 exchanging’ withnon-Episco'pal ministers' is.* disorder,’ ora breacL'ofthe ordination vow. Nbr whether it is .illegal for an Episcopal clergy man to avail himself, in his public services, of,the aid of a non-Episcopal minister. "The single issue before the court, was, whether it-isa breach of our canon law for a clergyman of Church to avail .Jiunsplf, in dir vjne worship, of the services of persons hot ordained clergymen of our own particular Church. If the Court had decided that it ia a? criminal offence for a clergy niari to eihpipy a person in thqj services s uh less he haA-orders frOm our owrf-Episcopat'e. it would have placed the stamp of illegality on lay reading ; the 1 chanting by choristers of.those parts of the ser vice assigned to the minister; addresses by Sunday school superintendents,-and- other lay ‘ preachings,’ which our bishops have encouraged, and which, id”' some relations, our canons have expressly sanction ed, Applying to them the very, term H officiate.’ ” Foreign. —Archdeacon Stafford in event of the dis establishment qf the Irish Church, urges the clergy and laity to uhite in a reorganization of the Church. Thrown off by the State they Should no longer seek its aid or advice.. All orthodox Irish TJroteßtants, he thinks may'be united. Bishop Ellicott in a re cent address regards the change irrthe-Msh Church as most promising to the cause of Protestant truth. —At Morpeth, in the North of England, the rector of the Established Church, expressed his hope that the'doctrine of the “Real Bres'enceV of Christ in the; Sacrament of the Lord’s Supper, would be preached in the Church of England 'throughout fhb length and breadth of the iandT During the w,hole of the sermon the Rev. gentleman had been inces santly interrupted by politeexpresßionpof-disap,pro / bation, iu the shape of.forced coughs ; but when he had given utterance to the'above words he Wds'- 'as-' sailed with a cry of “Treason, Treason,” and im mediately some half dozen persons left the church. .—Some one writes,to The Times of the London churches, which 'hediadvisited: ■ •‘■‘ln two the con gregation consisted of five persons . each, in. three others the attendance was under ten each, 1 in Six others from ten to twenty,, in teu others I- found from twenty to' forty, and in the remainder the wor shippers were from fpriy to ninety; in only'one church did I find 100, but in that ease- the Church wap filled. In the above numbers I have not.in cluded the charity children.”- Heconclude3 by sug gesting that twenty of these churches might be, dis pensed with, and the proceeds of the sites applied to buildibg churches where they are wanted. • ' Baptist.—City.—The new church, going up at' the corner of Broad and Spruce streets, will be one of the finest iti our city. The lecture room and Sunday school will be in front of the audience room ; and church, lecture room and school can be thrown into one grand auditorium; The Baptistery, at the head of the nave, behind the pulpit, will he of polished marble, and enclosed with a tabernacle of carved walnut. Behind the Baptistery will rise a chancel window, 19 feet . broad, and-over 36 feet high, filled with stained glass.—The work hasbeen recommenced on th'e new church in -Rpxborough. It will soon be under roof.—A new era is dawning upon the Baptist interests of Pittsburg,'.Pa. Of the nine churches, four are large and efficient bodies, and the others are making fair.progress. 'Meetings of special interest are now in progress,in the First/ the Sandusky street, and Fourth churches, attended with the Spirit’s presence, and the conversion of sotils. The Union church has received nearly one hundred, mostly by baptism, during the year .past, under the efficient pastorate of Rev. W. M. Young. —Rev. Reuben Jeffery, D. D.,,formerly : :-off[ghfe Fifth add'Buttonwood church, of anti mpre recently of Chicago, has accepted a call .totfie .Ninth St. church, of Cincinnati.—Churehes have > e-, ... 1 ■ ' ' - . itsl been lately organized at Detroit, Mich.; at Folsom ville, Ind., with forty members ; and at New Pal estine, Ohio, with nineteen members. —A move ment is on foot to restore the parish church at El elow, Bedford, England, the town and birthplace of John Bunyan. It is intended to make this church a monument to his memory. Donations will be received in this country hy Messrs. Maitland, Phelps & Co., bankers, New York.—Rev. J. Francis, who was sent out by the Home Missionary Society to Utah, writes: “I was invited to occupy Brigham Young’s new Tabernacle on the Sabbath. _ It will hold ten thousand people. Though notice was short, between three and four thousand were pres ent. I was permitted to conduct the whole service in iny own way. An approving response swelled up from the multitude, and from the officials (from the President down,) who were around me on the jlatlorm. I was surrounded.at the close by mem rers who expressed the hope that I would not leave the city."—The, colporteurs of the, Publication So ciety .among the poor—West, and South—last year organized 58 . churches,. 257, Sunday schools, and baptized more than I,TOO concerts. These colpor teurs, in their personal visits to, oyer thirty tho,Ur, sand families, gave awa; 2,692 copies of the Scrip tures, and 10.236 religious books. , . Revivals. are reported, in; North Bennington, Vt.,. where some sixty have been awakened to concern, and many evince hope ‘ n Christ;- in Lynn, Mass., where <orty*three are rejoicing in,,Christ ; in harm Village, N. where Jprty-seyen have been im mersed, and others are., coming- forward; in the First .Church of Albany,, whgre,.eighty have united with the.church;, in; Salem, ,N ( . J., where one hun dred and one,have,,heep baptized, apd twenty-nine were about to follow .them; .and ,in Willistown, Pa., where over, one hundred had sought the pray ers of the people. , ‘ a.i : 'History.- —ln 1767, the first, effort-a.t systematic organization among Baptist churches,in New Eng land, resulted in the foii'malion 'of the Warren Bap; tist Association, jhis , body sent a delegation to thtelfijst Congress, in Philadelphia,, in 1764, to ;J pe tition that body, to secure Baptists ,in ; their religio.us rightf.. I n.tlih United States,.there are 1,169,926, regular Baptists, with thirty colleges,and theological seminaries,: excluding all 'west of the Mississippi. The amount contributed to benevolent objects dur ing the past, year, is $903,8481 ■ Lutheran. —The " New York MiniBterium” has declared for' clbsb ’cqmnipnioH.'and agSihst inter change of pulpits Stid membership in secret ‘speief-s tiesi-i-'The OCoenß' Cqu'ncil,'(Hi<!;k ; Church:} which met recently in Pittsburg, .'arrived,- after long and warm discuBsions,'at very ambiguous decisions on the;abbve subjedts,’ and Pn , 'm'illeifa'rianiB’mi TO' bher th'e ; Low ; ’Chufchttieri , ofj the 'G-bnefaT Synod,: nor the-ultras of Missouri apd Buffalo, are satisfied. —English;Lutherhn ’churcheS’.have been lately de dicated at Dayidaville'and Tremont, Pa.y a : Lutheran church in Hutchinson; Minn., a German 1 Reformed chtirch in Sidney, Ohio, and a Lutheran* and G-fermanßeformed church-combined, in'Hutch inson, Minn.—The members of the.church' in Mar*- tin street; ifa-Ahylink l , are preparing- to put up a new church edifice - I- • MethodiBt.TrrT.he jM- E. Missions, Home ,and Foreign, during the ’last fifty y'eara, havcreceived : amounting to $8,521,590, .distributed: as ioilowe,',in-,periods iofiiten yeairsiijiFirst- period,, $63;0,10 .i i,;B.ecbudy> $586,220 ;;, third, . $9.90,640 5 fourth, $2*345, Q70 'j. fifth,; =54,6461760. llu Sovefflr! , her, 1860, there was a surplus in the treasury. ftE $480,000. In 1866, $1,000(000 were appropriated; in 1867, $l, . the church have remained" about'the same for several years. As a wifere'were: but $1.6,000 in 'the treasury November 1, ! 1868,-and obi January 1/ 1869,' a debt of $83 1 ,276^i-Th , «i i leading -Church* pa--* “peis are discussing a proposal tO/change the At. E- Missionary Society .into a Church Institute, like the 10. S( Board. At present it is like the A. 8.-C. F.;M., a! purely voluntary association.—The M. E.. Church was established in, New York a century agoi In, 1835 they owned some $200,000 worth of; property in that city, which has increased to about; $2,000 ,6bQj' comprising forty churches, with their parsonages; llad they exerciged a, wise forethought, in the matter of investing in real estate, they would* ‘have been worth much more. —TheVentral Advo-> cate says;ihat the M. IS. preachers have had a year of hardship at,the South, living on sums far too small for their support, and ’bften not tasting meat; for months. The Methodist says.: *' We believe that, the heroic period of Methodism does not present more splendid examples of'courage and self-denial .than have been furnished during the last seven .years by!our preachers in Missouri and Arkansas.'’i Friends —The BaltimbreAssociation of Friends, assisted by Friends in England, have established;, in North" Carolina alone, thirty,Sabbath-schools; ■for their'.own children. There are, ill addition, six-’ teen schools for colored .children —John 1 Bright,’ like Wm. Penn is “ a -Quaker at Court.’’, He is quite a /favorite with the. Royal Family, and is one of the few Englishmen Who continue monarch ists in their hearty loyalty to the reigning prince. Miscellaneous. —Unusual religious interest has of late been manifested among the North American Indians of the Upper Missouri. Fifty or more, iu one'place, recently made* public-profession of their faith in Christ.—The Executive Committee of the National Association opposed to Secret Societies /halve decided that the first anniversary of tbe asso-, ciatiion shall be.hpld, in .the city of Chicago, cp ( m-, mencing op Tuesday/June : Bth,’ati7J o’clock. 1 As the;conventionsiatb be‘cbnipqsed of properly-con stituted delegates, all. organizations that sympathize;, with the objects' cbnteth pitted, ,and desire to be re presented, ; must furnish ;their r delegatc!B witmdiie credentials.—Rev. A. 'Mcßeoiyp, a clergy man, has adopted the method 1 of requiring persons who were baptized in infancy, to accept formally the vows made for them at their baptism by parents or guardians. On a recent Sabbath six such jprspgg can.e forward and made this formal acceptance.— It is said that C.hicago has more Sunday-school scholars, in proportion to its population, than any. other city in the Union.-r-A union .communion ser vice was held in Clinton avenue Congregational ’church, Rev. Dr. Budingtori’B, recently. There were . present two Baptist ministers, Rev. Mr. Malcom, of ’.Rhode Island, and Cranimqnd.Kennedy ; two Epis copal ministers,-Rev. Messrs’. Brewer and Thrall; two Methodists,; Rev. Messrs:‘Buckley and Taylqr; one Presbyterian, Dr. Duryea; one Cougregational ist, Father Gleason, besides Dr. Budington. The-, service was administered to a large-number of com municants of, all these various denominations. Five were admitted to the church on profession, at the. service.—Mr. D. L. Moody; at a meeting in the city ■ of New York, threatened to establish a church un der the auspices of the Young Men’s Christian As sociations. At the late Chicago Christian. Conve ntion he rather exceeded himself, in the same line. A correspondent qf the Presbyterian writes: “ Mr. Moody, the President of the Convention, and also of the Chicago Young Men’s CDristian Association, •declared that nine-tenths of the prayer-meetings in our churches are an abomination to the Lord.”— The Y. M. C. A., .of Cincinnati, have in successful operation a “ Workingmen’s Coffee Room.” It is located in tlie midst of the manufacturing popula tion, has a dining-room, and a reading room amply ! supplied with newspapers, .and .aims, to supply, cheap; excellent and life-sustaining food and drink. For five cents an excellent bowl of vegetable soup Is furnished, or a cup of good coffee, and other things jn proportion. - Many a man, who .before rq sorted to bar-rooms, and paid higher prices for poorer food, to say nothing of whisky, has been led to the coffee-rooms, where he is surrounded by the best of influences. It has p»Qved a financial, as well as philanthropic, success. —A national Sunday school Convention, general and unsectarian, will be held at Newark, N. J., April 28th, in pursuance of a call signed by Geo. H. (Stuart and others. Romanist. —A son of the late Bishop Doane, of New Jersey, and brother of the new P. E. Bishop, of Central New York, is raising an endowment for the American College at Rome. The Sunday-school children of New York city have already contributed $44,000.'—-The priest of Ann Arbor, Mich., recently warned his people.that if they persisted in sending their children to' public schools, he would not ad minister the sacrament to them, even at death, nor grant them absolhtiou either in life or death.—A Romanikt church, for colored people, is shortly to be erected in Detroit. Several colored youths are be ing educated for priests at Naples, Italy, and no doubt, says The Boston, Pi&h will be given fields of labor in this'country arid among their own race in other lands. —Although the Eomahists do number 300,000 in Wisconsin, they have not'aS large a pro portion of the pkople'as'we stated last week. The State contained .nearly a million of people in 1865, arid, the membership of the Evangelical churches laTgely excceds the'SO.OOiO 1 then specified.—Lfent this year begins’Feb. 17th arid lasts' forty days. 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Horace Waters’, gay# up publishing.»mheef, music ,he has deyoted his' whole ,capital, and attention to the manufacture, and- sale of and ’ Melodeohsi' He has a catalogue of his new in- ! strumeiits, giving a' hbw ; scale nf prices, .which a. marked - TCdhctioh from '' former/T&tife, ‘ an’d‘his 1 -Pianos' have recently been awarded thePirst Premiuml at’ several- Fairs. Manyjpeopla of the present’jiay, :\srhpare attracted,- if not confused,;jwith;.the,fl.ammg, advertisementspf. rival piano houses, probably ovei;lQok,a -modest T manufacturer likeMrVWatersbut we happed tO know'that’ his instru ments earned him' a ! gb‘od long befoyeEkposi tioos • ‘and•• 'tfch*-*• oouneetSd therewith were ever’ thought of; -we have : one of : Mr. piano fortes now in our residence (where it has stood for years,) of which any manufacturer in the:-world” might, well be proud, We haye always been |leiigh£ed*with it; as a sweet toned and po werfuL and there is no t doul>t of its durability; more tban tHis,' some of, the best amateur players in the city, aaiseveral celebrated pianists, have per- 1 formed- oh the saidpiano/and aU ? prouounced if a superior '!Sbroiiger iiidprs‘ement we could not give. —[Home . . ■' > ./ G It IiFFI TM ’ S 'Patent Double Self-acting Archimedean SCREW VENTILATOR SMOKE CONDUCTOR . Has been applied to thousands of buildiingß within the past four years, including Dwelling houses, Churches, Schools,' Paper mills, Dye-houses, &c., with unparalleled suc cess. ’ ' '■ ' * , '•/ •’ "• Smokey chimneys cured and warranted, Sold Wholesale and Retail, by A liberal discount to the trade. LOUIS DHEKA, .Stationer, Card Engraver and Plate! -Printer j ' 1033 CHESTNUT STREET, The pOME has declared and pa!id iiivfdends annually, to ils ' assured members since its organization. Last dividend 40 per cent, applied immediately,-which is -more four years j j : hence. HENRY MILIS, 618 Market St. junell-ly INSURE YOUR LIFE N YOUR OWN HOME COMPANY AMERICAN OP PHIXjA.OEIjPHIA, S. E. Cor. FOURTH & WALNUT Sts. Insurarein fhisCompany have the additional guarantee of the CAPITAL STOCK all paid dp IN CASH, which, together witn CASH ASSETS, on hand January 1,1869. amounted to nearly $2,500,000. Income for the Year 1868, $1,000,0001 Losses Paid Promptly,, DIVIDENDS MADE ANNUALLY, thin aiding the Insured to pay premiums.' . , Tbe DIVIDENDS on all Mutual Policies ftr- several years liaye been Fifty per Cent. of the amount of PREMIUMS .received each year. All Policies made nonforfeitable. Largest liberty.given for travel and residence. Its Trustees are well known citizens in our midst, entitling it to {more consideration than those whose managers reside in distant cities. Alexander Whilldfn, J.Bdgar Thomson, George Nugent, Hon. James Pollock, •X'.M.'Whilldin, P. B. Mingle, Albert C. Roberts. ALEX, WHILLDJN, President. GEO. NUGENT, Vice-President. JOHN-C. SIMS, Actuary; WlLSjON,,Secretary and Treasurer. HOME liifelnsuraneeCwßp’j, 258 Broadway, New York. Assets,v -7- 9000 policies in ' Force Its ijrmciples, Stability; Mutuality,, Fidelity. AJ>VASXXOES.'* An organlzation.strictljr firat class. \ r - Assets propdrtibfied to acthal'liabilities, as largeas anycbmpan ;oldornew. / V. AU the net pijofite'go to the assured. '• Divideuds are declared'fthd-paid armnelly. ;i ■ AH its its members, uilder any aU tile* assurances that they hare for. 7-" /. l . One-third the annual, premiuins rlQaned permanently on its poli cies. ' * C• •■ ** ?* 4 ' • Its members are hotlimlted; as to residence,of travel. 'No extra premium is charged therefor or permits required.’ All the,forms of Li% and Annuity Policios issued. : Officers and Directory. - WALTER 8. 1 GRIFFITH, President. . c I. a.FEOXHITOHAH, Treaiffl-er, . , &EO. CItoLEY, Secretary. ■J ; W. J. COFFIN, Aituuj. jL A.XQW, A. A. tow * Bros., 81 Burling Slip, N.-Y. lTa. FROX3IHOttAM i prest. Uuidnsruss4o* Y. . J,*B. T. STRANAHANj Prest. Atlantic Dock Co, THOB. MESaEH&EKTPreet. Broottyp Bank.' SAMUEL SMITH- Ex-Mayor city of Brooklyn. HENRY E. PIEBREFONT, l.Pierrepout Place, Brooklyn. A.iß. BAYLIS, Brcikdr, New York- 1 : ; : PETER 0. CORNELL, Merchant’, 80 Wall street, N. Y. WALTER S* GRIFFITH. President, Brooklyn. JNQ, T)( OOniCs, Atlantic Ins. Coj- r .'j . . v> - H,IB. OT.APTWn. H. B. Claflih & Co., 140 Church street. N. Y CHITTENDEN. S.B. Chittenden & Cor, W.-y: ’ * J.E. SOUTHiWOETH,.Prest. Atlaoticßank, N.,Y. C.p)UNNING, S6ci S<hith Brodklyu Savings Institution. .JNOi Gi BERGEN? Police Commissioner.' -.u l-(I '• LEWIS ROBERTS. L. Roberts A Co., 17 South street, N. Y. JOHN T. MARTIN, 28 Pierrepont’ street, Brooklyn. ' ' JOHN B AT.REY.]Haiaht T -Halßev A Co.. New York. THOB. CARLTON, MethodiVt Bodk t ßooms, Nl Y. HAROLD DOLLNER. Doitter, Boftdr'A^Co., 1 N. Y. A.iß. OAPWEf-T.. Attorney.and Counsellor. N.:YI .. NIRTrEMTATTYNIQHT. Hovt. Sprague tCif. New York. EDWARD A; T;A'lfßll'R.Tr Merchant, 45 John street, NVY; : rJ A MRS HOW. Pi'est Union White Lead Go., Brooklyn... /L.iß. WYMAN’, Merchant3B Burling Slip, ; Netf York 1 : J GEO. A. JARVIS, Prest. Xenox Fire Ins. Go.,New York. , % ‘E. HOWARD- Howard, Sanger A New-York. .■ ■ GEO, S; ’STEPHENSON, ’ Importer, 49 South street, York CHAS. A. TOWNSEND, Merchant, New York. ; JOS. W. GREENE. J. W.Jireene & Co„ N. Y. , ; RUFUS S. GRAVES, 03WallB tree t, New.'YorkJ rj J. iW. FBOTHINGHAH, Frothingham & Baylis, N. Y. 'EDWARD D. DELANO, New York; 1 . - , E.ILEWIS, Jr-, Valentine A l . >**l XN ESLER & COLTON, Cor. 4th& Library stB. iY'i. v ; i.'t i • Agents Wanted. : STEIQT ECONOMY . iff, MANAGEMENT. PROVIDENT LIFH AND TRUST GO., OF FBIZJ.DEZFMIA. OFFICE Sol 111 SOUTH fSuBTH STREET Organized to extend the benefits of Life Insurance among member oi the'Society of Friends; All good risks, of whatever denomination ! solicited. v ‘ i Ptesi ' i « nt !i 1 SAMUEL E. SHIPLEY, ; '■■Vice President,-' ■ ' ■ r ' - Actuary, '" WE. C. LONGSTEETH. BOWLAND PABBY. Insurance effected -upbo all the approved plans at the lowest cost 'No risks on doubtful or unsound* lives taken. Funds invested in first-class securities. Economy practiced in all the branches ,of the business. The advantages are epual to those of any company in the United States.. junei ly w -, » • s , f 1 r ;I L I,- j:y t . i ; . . IMPORTERS, V A. White and Bed Check ***»*•*• *^ rhia season we'offer a large; varied and well selected 5 took at reduced prioei. No. 43 Strawberry Street, First Street west of Second, Hon. Alex. G. Cattail, Henry K. Bennett* IsaacHazleburst, - George W Hill, ; 'James 1 L. Clagborn, John Wanamaker. PHILMDELMmfc
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