mm. THE DAILY EVENING TELEGRAPH. PHILADELPHIA, FRIDAY, APRIL 13, 18G6. 1 1 l 1 I 1 V 1 Billy MODERN ECCENTRIC. Scores, ntj, hundreds of volumes have bor-n fathered upon the oddity of character wh'ch mankind, In all aeca, have presented to to bscrvant writer who lovce to "shoot folly as It flies." Voltaire has said, "Every country hin it loolfch notions. . . Let .us'not laugh at any people;" but It would be difficult to find any ge which has not its curiosities of character to be laughed at and turned to still better mcconnt; for, of whatever period we write, something may be done in the way or ridicule towards turning the popular opinion. Diogenes owes much of his celebrity to his contempt ol comfort, by living In a tub, and his oddity of wanner. Orator Henley preached from his "gilt tab" tn Clare Martct, and thus earned comme moration in the Dunciad: Still break the lonchcs, Honlcv. with thy strain. Whllo Hherlocic, Hare, and uibon preach iu vain; Oh, worthy thou ot Egypt's wise aoodon, A decent irlnt, whore monkeys were ttie god! lint Fato with butchers placed thy prie.it I y stall, Aleck modern laith to murder, Lack, and tiaui. Eccentricity has its badpe and characteristics by which it gains dictinction and notoriety, ami which, in boiiir castes, serve n a lure to real excellence. The preaching of Rowland Hill is allowed to have been excellent; but his great popularity was won by his eccentric manner, and the many piquant anecdotes aud witticism, and sallies ot humor unorthodox, with which, during his long ministry, he interlarded his ser mons. However, he thought the end justified the means; aud certain it is that it drew very large congregations. The personal allusions to his wite, which Rowland Hill is related to have used in.the pulpit, were, however, fictitious, and at which lull expressed great indignation. "It is an abominable untruth," he would exclaim, "derogatory to my character as a Christian and a gentleman. They would make mc out a bear." The success of Edward Irving, the populur Hiiniutcr of che National Scotch Cnurch m f Lon don, was of a more mixed character. His ser mons were not liked at first, and 1t was not until he was recognized by Dr. Chalmers tbnt Irving became popular. But he was turned out of his church, and treated as a madman, aud be died an outcast heretic. "There was no harm in the man," says a contemporary, "and what errors he entertained or extra vasrances he allowed, in connection with supposed miracu lous gilts, were certain, in due time to burn themselves out. It was not so much the error of his doctrine as the peculiarity of his manner, the torrent ot superlative want of tact, enemies and Irightened strength of his laith was Lis eloquence, his that provoked hia his lriends. The wondortul. Once, when he was called to the bedside or a dying man late at night, he went forth, but presently returned, and beckoned one of his friends to accompany him. Tne reason was, that he really believed iu the eilicacy ot prayer, and held to the promise, 'If ftoo of you shall agree on earth as touching anything that ye shall ask, it shall be done.' It was neceisary, therefore, that two should go to the sick man. So, also, he had a child that died in infancy, to whom be waj ia the habit of addressing 'words of godliness to nourish the faith that was in him;' and Irving adds, that 'the patient heed of the child was wonderful.' He really believed that the infant, by some incomprehensible process, could group what he was saying, and profit by it. His love for children verged upon eccentricity; and he, a man of mark in London at that lime, mieht be seen day by day, stalking along the streets ol Pentonville ot an afternoon, his wite by his side, and his baby in his arms." No great cause was ever inaugurated with more eccentric or more genuine fervor than the advocacy of temperance principles by Father 11 at hew, the Capuchin friar. "Here goes, in the name of God I" said the Father, on the 10th of April, 1838, when he pledged hi3 name in the cause of temperance, and together with the Protestant priest, Charles Duncombe, the Uni tarian philanthopist, Kichard Dowden, and the stout Quaker, William Martin, publicly inaugu rated a movement at Coik destined in a few years to count its converts' by millions, and to spread its influence as far as the English language was spoken. In this good work, the habitually impulsive temperament of the Irish was acted upon for the purest and most bene ficial of purposes; aud one element of its suc cess lay in the unselfishness of the Father, who was himself a serious sufferer by the re sults of his philanthropic exertions. A distil lery in the south of Ireland, belonging to his family, and from which he himself derived a large income, was shut up in consequence of the disuse of whisky among the lower orders, occasioned by his preaching. But his "Rive ranee" was most unscrupulously tyrannized over by his servant John, a wizened old bachelor, with a Ted nose, privately nourished by Bacchus; and he was only checked in his evil doings when the Father, more exasperated than usual, ex claimed, "JohD, if you go On in this way, I must certainly leave this house." On one occa sion there was a frightlul smack ot whisky per vading the pure element which gTaced the board, which he accounted for by saying he had placed the forbidden liquid, with which he "cleansed his tine," in the Jug by mistake. The temperance cause prospered, but Father Hathew. through his excentiic love of giving, found it impossible to keep out of debt, which ever kept him in thraldom. The hour of his deepest bitterness was when, while publicly administering the pledge In Dublin, he was arrested for the balance of an account due to a medal manufacturer: the bailiff to whom the duty was Intrusted Kneeling down among the crowd, asking his blessing, and then ouietly showing him the writ. This is one of the many anecdotes told by Mr. Maguire, in his admirable "Lite ot Father Mathew," who, we leain from the same authority, at a large party, attempted to make a convert of Lord Jirougham, who resisted, good-humorcdly but resolutely, the efforts of bis dangerous neighbor. 1 drink very little wine," said Lord Brougham: 'only half a glass at luncheon, and two half lasses at dinner; ana ihougn, my medical viser told me I should increase the quantity, efused to do so." "They are wrong, my lord, advising you to increase tne quantity, are wrong in taking the small quantity but I have my hopes of you." And a pleasant resistance on the Dart f t learned lord, Father Mathew invested his VrdshlD with the silver medal and rib bon, V.e insignia and collar of the Order of the. Bath. "Then I will keep it," said .Lord ftoupbam, "and take it to the House, where Iihall be sure to meet the old Lord , the woof liquor, and I will put it on him." "Lord Broif hain was as good as his word; for. on mectu4 the veleran peer, he said: "Lord . I haviVa present from Father Mathew for you." and fcsf-ed the ribbon quietly over his neck. "The I'll tell you what it is. Brousrham. by , I VtiCkeep sober for this day," said his lordship, whekept his word, to the great amuse ment ot nis nsi.os. One ot the nost eccentric emblems set up in our time was tin woodcut of a gridiron, which for many yean headed the Political Register of William Cobalt, as ft sign of the political martyrdom wliioh he avwwed he was pre pared to under flu upon certain conditions. He often threateneo.U) set up an Iron gridiron over his publiahingofllce in Bolt court and Fleet street but dn not carry his threat into execution. They gridiron will be recol lected as one of the emblems of St. Lawrence, and we see it as a large out vane of one of the city churches dedicatee! to the saint. As he was broiled on a gridiron for refusing to give Up the treasures of the cnurch committed to his care, so Cobbett vowed that he would consent to be broiled upon a gridiron, in his Register, dated Long Island, on the 24th W September, 1819, wherein be wrote the well-kown oroDhecv on Peel's Cash Payment bill of tlvit year, as follows: "I. William Cobbett, assert ftat to carry their Mil into effect is impossible; and I say that if this bill be carriea into full eifect, I will give routlpreairh leave to lav me on a et-ialron. and broil me alive, while Sidmoutn may stir the oals, and Canning stand by and laugh at my (in the hoisting of the gridiron in triumph, he wrcte and published the fulfilment of his pro phecy bv the following statement: "Peel's Bill, together wltn the law about small notes-, which last were in force when Peel's Bill was paused these laws, all taken together, If they had gone into ellcct, would have put an end to all small notes on the 1st day of May, 1823; but to pre cede this blowing up of the whole of the fund ing system, an act was passed, in the month of July, 1822, to prevent thee laws, and especially that part of peel's Bill which put an end -to small Hank of England ftiotes, from going Into lull eflect; thus the system received ft respite, but thus did the Parliament fulfil the above pro phecy ot September, Mil." A large simi gridiron was actually made, for Mr. Cobbett. It was made of dimensions sufli cit nt tor him to have lain thereon (he was six feet birn): the Implement was gilt, and we re- ' member to have seen it displayed in the office window In i Wt street; but It was never hoisted outside the office. It was long to be seen on the gable end of a building next Mr. Cobbett's house at KcnMnelon. Cobbett possessed extraor dinary native vigor of mind; but every portion of his history in marked by strange blunders. Shakespeare, the British Museum, antiquity, posterity, America, France, Germany, are, one and all, either wholly indifferent to him, or the objects of his 'bitter conlempt. He absurdly designated the British Museum as a "bundle ot dead infects." When he had a sub ject that pulled him, he Is said to have handled it not as an aceomplitdied writer, bin "with the perlect and inimitable art with which a dog picks a hone." Eccentricity in men of science is not rare. The Hon. Henry Cavendish, who demonstrated, in 17sl. the composition of water, was a remarka ble instance. He was an excellent mathemati cian, electrician, aftronoiner, meteorologist, pi ologlt-t, and as a chemist shot far ahead ot his contemporaries. But he was a sort ol me thodical reclui-c, and an enormous fortune left h'm by his uncle did little to change his habits. His stijncf s and aversion to society bordered on disease. To be looked at or addressed by a ttrsnger seemed to give him positive pain, when lie would dart away as if hurt. At tir Joseph Banks' soirees he would stand for a long time on the landing, afraid to face the company. At one of these parties the titles and qualiflca ticns ot O.vendish were formally recited when he was introduced to an Austrian gentleman, Ihe Austrian became complimentary, saying his chief reason for coming to London was to see and converse with Cavendish, one of the greatest ornaments ot thoage, and one ot tte most illus trious philosophers that ever existed. Cavendish answered not a woid, but stood with his eyes cast down, abashed, and in misery. At last, seeing an opening in the crowd, he flew to the door, nor did he stop till he reached his carriage and drove directly home. Any attempt to draw him into conversation was almost cer tain to fail, and Dr. Wollnston's recipe for treating with him usually answered best: "The way to talk to Cavendish is, never to look at him, but to talk aa if It were into a vacancy, and then it is not uulikoly you may set him going." Among the anecdotes which. floated about, it is related that Cavendish, the club Crresus, at tended the neetings of the ltoyal Society Club with only money enough in his pocket to pay for his dinner; that he declined taking tavern soup, picked his teeth with a fork, invariably hung bis hat upon the same peg, and always Btuck bis cane in his right boot. More apocry phal is the anecdote that one evening Caven dish observed a pretty girl looking out from an upper window on the opposite side of the street, watching the philosophers at dinner. She attracted notice, ana one by one they got up, and mustered round the window to admire the lair one. Cavendish, who thought they were looking at the moon, bustled up to them in bis odd way, and when he saw the real oblect of attraction, turned away with intense disguBt, and grunted out, "Pshaw!" the more amorous conduct of his brother philosophers having hor rified the woman-hating Cavendish. It men were a trouble to him, women were his abhorrence. With his housekeeper he gene rally communicated with notes deposited on the hall-table. He would never see a female ser vant; and If an unlucky maid showed herself, she was instantly dismissed. To prevent in evitable encounters be had a second staircase erected in his villa at Clapbam. In all his habits he was punctiliously regular, even to his hanging his bat upon the same peg. From an unvarying walk he was, however, dnven by being gazed at. Two ladies led a gentleman on Lis track, in order that he might obtain a sight ot the philosopher. As he was getting over a stile he saw, to his horror, that he was being watched, and he never appeared in that pain again. That he was not quite merciless to the sex was proved by his saving a lady from the pursuit of a mad cow. Cavendish'6 town-house was near the British Museum, at the corner of Oower street and Montague place. Few visitors were admitted, and those who crossed the threshold re ported that books and apparatus were its chief furniture. He, collected a large library of scientific books, hired a house for its re ception in Dean street, Bono, and kept a librarian. When he wanted one of his own books, he went there as to a circulating library. and left a formal receipt for whatever he took away. Nearly the whole of his villa at Clapham was occupied as workshop?; the upper rooms were an observatory, the drawing-room was a laboratory. On the lawn was a wooden stage, nom wnicn acess could De naa to a large tree, to the top ot which Cavendish, in the course of his astronomical and meteorological observa tions and electrical experiments, occasionally aseerded. His apparatus was roughly eon structcd, but was always exact and accurate. His household was strangely managed. lie received but little company, and the few guests w ere treated on an occasions to the same tare a leg of mutton. One day, four scientific friends were to dine with him; when his housekeeper asked him w hat was to be got for dinner, Caven dish replied, "A leg of mutton." "Sir," said she; "that will not be enough for five." "Well, then, get two," was the reply. Cavendish extended his eccentric recention to his own family. His heir, Lord George Caven- aisn, visited mm enceayear, ana was anowea an audience of but half an hour. His great in come was allowed to accumulate without atten tion. The bankers where he kept hit ac count, ending they had in hand a baiunce ot 80,000, apprized him of the same. The messenger was announced, and Cavendish, in great agitation, desired him to be sent up; and, as he entered the room, the rallied philosopher cried, "What do you come here for If what do you want with me?" "Sir. I thought it DroDer to wait on von. as we have a very large balance in hand ol yours, and we wisn your oraers respecting it," "If it Is any trouble to you, I will take It out of your bauds. Do not come here to plague me "Not the least trouble to us. sir. not the least: but we thought you might like some of it to be invesiea." "Well, well, what do you want to do?" "Perhaps you would like 40.000 invested?" "Do so. do so 1 and don't come here to trouble me, or I'll remove it," was the churlish finale of the interview. Cavendish died in 1810. at the age of seventv- eight. He was tnen the largest holder of bank et ck in England. He owned 1,157,000 In dif ferent public fnndshe had besides freehold property of 8000 a year, and a balance of 50,000 at his bankers'. He was long a member of the Royal Society Club, and it was reported at hia death that he bad left a thumping legacy to Lord Bessborougb, in gratitude for his lord ship's piquant conversation at the club meetings : but no such reason can be found in the will lodged at Doctors' Commons. Therein, Caven dish names three of his club-mates, namely: Alexander Dalrymole to receive 6000, Dr. Hun ter ium, and Sir Charles Blagden (co adjutor U the water question), 16,000. After certain otW bequests, the will proceeds: "The remainder ol the funds (nearly 100.000) to be divided one-e.th the Earl of Be8sborough, while Lord Geoive Henry Cavendish had two sixths, instead oi one: "it is, therefore," says Admiral Smyth, tu hia "History of the Roval Society Club," "patmt that the money thus passed over from unck to nep be w woe a mere consequence of relationship, and not at all owing to any flowers or powers of conversation at the Royal Society Club." Cavendish iiever changed the fashion or rnt ot bis drcs, so that his appearance in 1810, in a costume ol sixty years pieviously, was odd, anil drew upon him the attention which he so much disliked. His complexion was fair, his temperament nervous, anil his voice squeaking: the only portrait that exists ol him was sketched without his knowledge. Dr. (Jcorge Wilson, who has left a clever memoir of Cavendish, says, "an intellectual bead, thinking, a pair of wonderful acute eyes, observing, a pair of very skilful hands, experimentin)' or recording, are all that I realize in reading his memorials." It may take some readers by surprise to learn that there have been true believers In alchemy in our davs. Dr. Price is commonly set down in noniilar iotirnals as ''the last of the alche mists;" he died in 1783, in his twenty-nfla year, oy taking a oraugni oi laurei-water rather than repeat his experiments before a committee of the Royal Society, on pain of ex pulsion. At the beginning of the present century, some persons of eminence in science thought favor ably of alchemy. Professor Robison, writing to James Watt, February 11, 1800, says, "The analysis of alkalies and alkaline earth will pre sently lead. I think, to the doctrine of a reciDro- cal convertibility of all things into all . , . . . and 1 expect to see aicnemy revive, and be as universally studied as ever." Sir Walter Scott tells us that "about 1801, an adept lived, or rather starved, in the metropolis, in the person of au editor ot an evening news- Eaper, who expected to compound tho alka est, if he could only keep his materials di gested in his lamp-furnace for the space of seven jears." Scott adds, in pleasant banter, "the lamp burnt brightly during six years, eleven months, aud home odd days besides, aud then unluckily it went out. Why it went out, the adept could never guess; out he was certain that it the flame could only have burnt to the and of the septenary cycle his experiment must have succeeded." Ihe last true believer in alchemy was not Dr. Frice, but Peter Woulle, the eminent chemist, and a fellow of the Royal Society, and who made experiments to show the nature of Mosaic gold. Little is known of Woulle's private life. Sir Humphrey Davy states that VVoulfo used to affix written pasatres and inscriptions of recommendations of his processes to Providence.' Woulfe lived many years in chambers in the oldest portion ol Barnard's Inn, HolOorn, where his rooms were to filled with 1 urn nces and apparatus that it was ditticult to reach his fireside. Dr. Bablngton told Mr. Brando (the venerable chemist, who died lost mouth) that be once put down his hat, and never could find it again, such was the contusion of boxesY'packagt'S, and parcels that lay about the room. Woulfo's breakfast-hour was 4 in the morning: a few of his select friends were occasionally invited, and gained entrance by a secret signal, Knocking a certain number of times at the inner door of the chamber. He had long vainly searched for the Elixir, and attributed hU repeated failures to the want of due preparation by pious and chari table acts. Whenever he wished to break an acquaintance, or felt himself offended, he re seuted the supposed injuries by sending a present to the ollender, and never seeing him afterwaids. These presents sometimes consisted of an expensive chemical product or prepa ration. He had a heroic remedy for illness, which was a tourney to Edinburgh and back by the mail coach; and a cold taken on one of these expeditions terminated in inflammation of the lunes. of which he died in the year 1805. Of his Inst moments we received the following ac count from his executor, then treasurer of Bar nard's Inn. By Woulfe's desire, his laundress shut up nis chambers and left him, but returned at midnight, when Woulfe was still alive; next morning, however, she found him dead I His countenance was calm and serene, and appa rently he had not moved from the position in nis coair in wnicn sue naa last i3it mm. Twenty vears after Woulfe's death, in 1825. there was living at the village of Lillev. be tween Luton and Hitchtn, one Kellerman, an "alchemist," who was believe 1 by some ot his neighbors to have discovered the philosopher's stone ana we universal Boivcnr. Here ne naa lived for twenty-three years, during fourteen of which he had pursued his alchemical researches with unremitting ardor, keeping eight assistants tor supeiintending his crucibles, two at a time relieving eacn other every six nonrs; ana he assured a visitor that he had exposed some pre parations to intense heat tor many months at a time; but that all except one crucible had burnt, ana mat, Kenermau said, contained tne true "blacker than black," or "the powder of pro jection for producing gold." One of his assist ants, however, protested that no gold had ever been found, and that no mercury had ever been fixed; adding that Kellerman could not have concealed it from his assistants, who frequently witnessed his severe disappointment at the re sult of his most elaborate experiments. Kellerman's room was a realization of Te- nier's alchemist; the floor was strewed with retorts, crucibles, alembics, lars, and bottles of various forms, intermingled with old books. rie naa Deen assureu by some persons ot kin dred pursuits in London that the v lad made gold. He bad studied the works of the ancient alchemists, and believed that be had discovered the key which they hod kept secret, adding that he had pursued their system under the influence of new lights; and after suffering numerous disap pointments, owing to tne ambiguity with which they describe their processes, he had atlength hap pily succeeded: had made gold, and could make as much more as he pleased, even to the extent of paying off the national debt in Vie coin of the realm. Kellerman grew eloquent upon the merits of the old alchemists, but ridiculed the blunders and impertinent assumptions of modern Chemists, tie quoted itoger ana Francis uacon; Paracelsus, Boyle, and Bcrrhaowe, and Woulfe (of Barnard's Inn) to rectify his pursuits. He alleged the Pbilopher's Stone to be a mere phiase to deceive the vulgar; but he fully cre dited the silly story of Dee's finding the Elixir ot Glastonbury, by which means Kelly lor a long time lived in princely splendor. Here we must leave our village alchemist. Of late years there have been many revivals of alchemical pursuits. In 1860 there was printed in London a volume of considerable extent, entitled, "A Suggestive Inquiry into the Her metic Mystery" the work of a lady, by whom it has been suppressed; we have seen'it described as "a learned and valuable book." By this circumstance we are reminded that some flve-and-thirty years since It came to our knowledge that a man of wealth aud position in the city of London, an adept in alchemy, was held in terrorem bv an unprinciDled person. who extorted from him considerable sums of money under threats ot exposure, which would have aflected his mercantile Interests. Nevertheless, alchemy has, in the present day, its prophetic advocates, who predict what may be considered a return to its strangest belief. A Gottingen professor says, in the Annates de Chimie, No. 100, that in the nineteenth century the transmutation of metals will be generally known and practised. Every chemist and every artist wi.l make gold; kitchen utensils will be of Bilver and even gold, which will contribute more than anything else to prolong life, Jioisoned at present by the oxide of copper, ead, and iron, which we daily swallow with our food. 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EIGHTH Si KEET, FlUladA. ?j HENRY HARPER, No. B2Q ARCH 8TREET Hanalactnrer and Sealer in Watches, Fine Jewelrr Silver-Plated Ware, AUD 8 80$ Solid Silver-ware. fllE OLDEST AND LARGEST SADDLE AND HARNESS - MANUFACTURING ESTABLISHMENT IN THE COUNTRY. LACEY, MEEKER & CO No, 1216 CHESNUT STREET, OFFER OF Til El B OWS MASCFACTTRE i HI COT J1ABNE68, from t22 M to 150 tIGItT BAROUCHE do 60 00 to 350 HEAVI do do 75 00 to tOO EXPRI68, BRASS MOUNTED HARNESS 27 '50 to 90 WAGON AND UELF-AEJC8TING 15-00 to 30 BT AGE AN DTE AM do 80 00 to SO LADIEb' SADDLE, tfo 12 00 to 150 GENTS' do do 8D0 to 75 Bridles, Mountings, Bits, Bosctts, Horse Coven Bmsbes, Combs, Poapa, Blacking, Ladies' and Genta Travelling and Tourist Bags and Backs, Luncb Basket Dressing and Sblxt Caies. Trunks and Valises. Imrp No. 1S16 CHESNUT ST. J3 J. WILLIAMS, No. 16 North SIXTH Street, MANUFACTURER OF VENETIAN BLINDS, v AJD WINDOW SHADES. The largest and finest assortment In the ctty at trie lowest prices. 14 4 tairp STORK SHADES MADE AND LETTERED. "UNION PAPER BOX MANUFACTORY, BEMOVFD FROM SECOND AND RACE, TO B. K. CORNER KOCBTH AND CHE8SDT 6TS. PLAIN AD FANCT BOXES. , B. FRANK rARIU, 0t Successor to Fri to. CARPETINGS, &o CJARrETINGS ! CARPETING S I AT ItETAIL. McCALLlMS, CREASE & SLOttf, No. 510 CHESNUT Street, ' OPPOBlT IHDirCKDSlfCB BALL, Beg leave to Inform th pnbUo that ther have now open their SPilNG STOCK OF CAHrTINGrS, NEW AND CHOICE IESIGK3 Foreign and Domestic manufacture, 'Which they oiler at prices corresponding- wit!) THE DECLINE IN COLO. FRENCH AND ENQLISFI AXV1NSTER, ENGLISH ROYAL WILTOX. VELVETS', ALL WIDTHS. SUPERIOR ENGLISH BRUSSELS. TAPESTRY ENGLISH BR USSELS. ROYAL WILTON, VELVET, BRUSSELS, AND TAPESTRY CARPET. We offer the above in all widths, with harden for Balls and Stairs. Also Imperial Three-Ply Carpet Extra Superllne Ingrain. JU6I RECEIVED, YTH1IE, RED, CHECKED. AND FAKClf Canton Mattings, , OF ALL WIDTHS. McCallnms, Crease & Sloan, . No. 510 CHESNUT Street, OnOSITE 1KDETEB DEUCE BALL. 1324 lmrp (JLEN ECHO MILLS,' GERMAN 10 WN, PA. McCALLlMS, CREASE & SLOAN, HannfActarerti, Importers, and Whole sale Dealers la CARPETINGS, OIL CLOTHS, MATTINGS, Etc. WAREHOUSE, No. 609 CHESNUT STREET, OPPOBITI THK 8TATB HOUSE, Philadelphia. RETAIL DEPARTMENT, 3 6 3mrp No. P IP CHESNUT STREET. QARTETINGS! LEEDOM & SHAW A re now opening a full assortment ot Foreign and Domestic Carpets. Thrs goods will he sold at the LOWEST CASH r-BICES, to coi respond with the FALL OF GOLD. No. OlO AHCII Street, 3 281m ABOVE NINTH Q A It T E T I N O S. A LaBGE STOCK OF PHILADELPHIA MANUFACTURE In atote and constantly recolvlnjr, AT VEBY LOW PBICES. . '. GEORGE W. HILL, , 21thBtn3m ' Ko'. 12tf Kprth THIRD Street. INSURANCE COMPANIES. , QIRARD FIRE AND MARINE INSURANCE COMPANY. OFFICE, No. 415 WALK CT STREET, rmLADELPBIA. CAPITAL PAID XS, IK CABH, 1200,000. Tnlacompary contlnoeato write on fir Milt cn!p Ita capital, with a good mrplna, la safely Invested. 701 Loftei hy flee have been promptly paid, and more than $500,000 Dtsbnned on t hia account within the put few yean. For the nreient the office of this company will remain at No. 415 WALNUT STREET, But within a few months will remove to Its OW5 bUlLBlStt N. E. CORNER SEVENTH AHD CUE8NCT STREETS. Then as now, we shall be happy to insure oar patronsat snch rates as are consistent with safety. DIRECTORS. jiivjinn v a v ILUilAN bUKPPARD, Tt OS. MAC KKI.LAK, JObH STJPPLrK. lOlLS W. CLAGUORK, K1LAB YE.KK1.B. J.. THOMAS CRAVKN, A LFBED 8. GILLETT. N. n. LAWUtNCK. t'HARLKH I. DUPONT, Hr NKY F. KESSEY. JOSEPH ILLAPP.M.b. inuKAs iiiavcj.pi. i reaiaeuu AI.FKED S. OIT.LF1T. V. President and Treasurer. JAMES B ALVOIiU, Secretary. 119 ( FIRE I N 8 U It A N C E. THE liOMM INSCHANC E COMi'AUY Vlt Plill AIM LfHIA, Ko. ISO S. FOURTH Htreet. Charter Pea petuul. Authorized Capital, 9500,000.' Paid-np Capital, all O.txM). Insures against loaa or duuiave by FIRE on buildings, either permanently or for a LIMITED period. Aluo, oo M t.RCli AM1BK generally aud Uousenold Furniture, city or country. . James Brown. DimcTOBe, 'ibomasKI'nbar, Jr., Cbarlea A. iiar, Wlillam D.Lewie, Wllilam B, Bui oct, Wt Ham N. fceedles, ieniuci oinn, J. H ill born Jones, Jolin Woodtilde, William V. Lougstreth, J. N. 11 iitahluHOlt. 9 on ii v, iiur, i ' i CHAS. A. luy,Vioa-PwWe'-t Thomas Sbilsom, Eeoreimy. iu BETEKUE STAMPS, REVENUE STAMPS, KF VEMJi; STAA1P8, Of all descriptions, , Ol all dcjKirlptlcua, . t , Always on hand, Always on baad. ATFLOltKNCW FIEWrNG MAOTIVK CO.'H OFFICII AT FLORENCE BEW1KO MACHINE CO.'8 0FFICj Xo. 6.10 CHESNUT Street, . , No. 6W CHKSXUT Street. One door below Heventh street ne soor below Beremh street. The most liberal dlsoouat allowed. - Ihe uiost liberal dlscvvntaUoweu, i jiiirs Rnwu PM.lLnt. INSURANCE COMPANIES J-JELAWARE MUTUAL SAFETY 1NSURANC INCORPORATrnrglLFniSLATORB "ICE rHF.V!,l7litH,!lBV,lD WiL MAHW1K LNbCKANCU ON VF88EL8.) . cargo V To all parts of the w HK1 ISLAND ISfTRAVCFS On Goods by River, ( anal, Lake, and Land Carriage all pern of the t'Tilim. FlftE INSURANCES On Vercbstirtlse aenerailT. On Stores, UweiUng Uouses, etc ASSETS OF THE COMPAJJT Knnmlor 1. 1HK.V ' flOO (in Vnlted States per cent, loan, '7I....M,(Mflfl S-,0UO " ' , 1 Vt cent. loan, w Treasury Notes u j-s m 100 000 Stste et iennsy.vaniaUve Percent. Loan ,,,, go k. M.OCO State or Femmylvaula blx fer Cent. Loan Ml AO' 12S 000 Ctt.' of Philadelphia Hut Per Cent. Loan mo gij ( 2M00 Pennsylvania Railroad First Mort- ' gate fix PerCrni. Bonds y ooO'tt ?S,0C0 Peum-ylvanla Kailroad Hcoond Mort- ge Mi Per Cent. Ponds 21.1M1W 28 000 V excm I'ennsvlvanla Ral road Mort grige fix Per Cent. Bonds J3.1J 15,000 ) Kliarcs Moc s. (.crnmntown Oas Ccmiianv. principal and Interest ' Suorantced by the City ot Phila elphla 11 .137 84 7,15014 Miaros Stock Pinusr.vai.la Kail- .... "''""omMiiv s.aeo' 4,000 100 Blisrrs Stock North Pennsylvania - Rsnroad Company 1,230-00 su.OCO Deposit with Culled States Oovern- A nicnt. iihjct to ten Oajrn1 oattl O.OOO'Oe 0,fC0Stto ol Tennessee Five Per Cent. Losn..... 18.900 0 170 TOO I.osns on Bonds and at ortgage. flist Hens on City Propertv 170,700-0 l,tJn,f80Pr. Market value 1M .ViO-00 i Real Estate JrtiOOOO Bills receivable lor in uranoos made. Ui.OU JJ . Palanccedaent Agencies.-Premiuma on M irlne Policies Accrued lnt ret. and othei debt due the Com- uPnT"- 4(1 911-44 Scrip and Hiock ot sundry Insnrnnco and other Companies. Mi. Kttti mated value J.910D Cssh In Banks M,9. 8S ash in Drawer b; 4 . . 56,61817 1 253,6.10-lft 11RE0T0R8. Samuel E. Stokes. I J. K Penlstan. John c. Davis. Fdninnd A. Souder, Theophl.os Tsuldina, John H. Penrose, James Traqusir, Benry C. l'ailett, Jr., James O.Hsnd William C. Ludwlg. , Josepn H. Heal, George c. Lelper. Hugh Craig. RnllAtt 1' n.inn Henry Nloan, William O. Bonlton, Fdward Darlington, II. Jones Brooks, Fdwsrd l.aiourcade, Jnrnh P. Jnnn. James H. Af nl.rlanil Joshua P. Eyre. pencer Mcllvaln, J. B. SemDle. Pittsbniv. John!) Taylor, . B Renter. PHthuiu, D. T. Morgan, Pittsburg THOMA JOHN C. DA TIM. Vlea-Pinrident. n i . u.l. President. t-Ttergir.hecretarv. nSt 1829"CIIAIlTER rERFETUAI ; FRANKLIN FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY OF PHILADELPHIA. Assets on January 1, 180G, ; 6,500,851-00. AccicsurViu-,::::::::::::::::::::::::: LHSETTLED CLAIMS, INCOME FOB 1808 310 000. 11,167 53. LOSSES PAID SINCE OVER 65,000,000. Perpetual and Tem porsry Policies on Liberal Term , DIRLCTOR9. ""1r,', Bncker, dward C. Dale. iaSS? 2F b-tX1 LF,8 ckfcR. President JAS W in?WiAiS.JV,i ILE. Vice-President. JAB. W. MqALLIWTER, Becretary urotem. a i t!23 JORTII AMEUICAN TRANSIT INSURANCE COMPANY, No. 133 South FOURTH Street, PHILADELPHIA. Annual Policies Issued against General Acoldants all descriptions at exceedingly low rates. Insurance effected lor one year. In any sum from 110 to 010,000, at a premium of only one-hair per cenu. scouring the lull amount Insured In oasaot death, and a compensation each week equal to the whole pre ml urn paid. Short time Tickets for 1, 2, 1,6,7, or 10 days, or 1. 1, or months, at 10 cents a dav, Insuring In the sum of3000, or giving 016 per week 11 disables to be had at toe General Office, No. 133 8. FOURTH Street, i-hlladel-phla, or at the various Railroad Ticket offices. Be snre to purchase the tickets of the North American Transit Insurance Company. For circulars and further information apply at the General Office, or of any ofthe authorlz id Agents efthe Company. LEWIS L. HOUPr, President JAMKH M. i ONR A I), 'treasurer. HENRY O. BROWN, Heoreiary. JOHN C. BULLITT. Solicitor . . 1 IRfcCiORs. w ti ,Z?pti Jf 't,0! .v?Dnylvaiiia Railroad Company. AI. Baird. of M. Baldwin A Co. a. Samuel C. Palmer, t ashler ot Commercial Bank Richard Wood. No. m Market Street James M. Conrad, No. Uaikei street J. E. Kmgsley, continental Hotol H. G Lelsenrtng, Nos. 237 and a Dock street Samuel Work oi Work, McCouch & Co. George Martin, o. Ml Chesnut street 11 ; TV H E PRO VI, DEN T lirE ASD TRUST COMPANY, OF PHILADELPHIA. Incorporated by the titate of Pennsylvania, Third Month VIA. 1865. INSURES LIVES. ALLOWS IN TEREST ON DEPOSITS, and GRANTS ANNUI TIES. K CAPITAL, 81SO.00O. DIRECTORS. Samuel R Shipley, Jeremiah Hacker, Joshua 11. Morris, Klchurd Wnnil. Richard Cadbury, Henry Halues 'I , wmtar brown, Wi'llum C. Lougstreth, cnarles F MUtL R. felUr-LEV, Presllent. Rowlakd Pabrt. Actuary. i j Pi t WE, Ao IU 8. J'OCItTU STREET. fJ'lKE INSURANCE KXCLUHIVELT.'iiG I PENNSYLVANIA FIRE INSURANCE! COM PAN Y-Incorporated 1825 Char er Perpetual No. .10 W A I.N I T street, oproslie Indupendeuce -ouare. Tbia Company, lavorably kuonn to the community for over lorty years, continue to Insure against loss or dumage by tire on Publio or Private Buildings either perm alien tiv or lor a limited time. Also on fc'urniiure, Mocss of Goods and Merchandise geneially, on liberal terms. Their Capital, together with a large Surnlus Fund. Is Invested In the most careful manner, which manlea them to ofler to the Insured au uudoubted securitr la the esse oi loss. w .. MBEOTOBB i onm. Daniel Smith. Jr., , John DevereuK. Alexander Benson, uo Hazleburst, ' houias Smltb, Heniy Lewis. .1 niliin.,h..n rll luunwi ttouuis. w, ' DNls.L h MIT a, J., President WiUJAM Q. C owbll. becretary. so j )HCENIX INSURANCE COM PANT OP Pin LADKLPHIA. IStORPOR'lED 1804 CHAR ER prRPETTJAL. No. Ki WALNUT Street, opponlte the Exchange In addition to MAR1NK and INLAND INSURANCES tbls Company insures bom loss or uawaseby HEt on libeial - enna en building', meicbamlwa, isrnlture. e'to. lor limited periods, and permanently un buildinsa. hv deposit ot prenilnm 'tteOompaoy bMbeeaiJn ao'rve operation fbr mora than SIXTY YEARH, during which aiVloasea have baun piouiptly adjusted and paid. John L Hodge, fwTenoe Lewla, Jr.. M. B. Maboney, Jobn T. Lewia, William S. Grant Roliert W Learning, t. Clark Wharton, lieD)m'n Eiimg. Thomat H Powers, A. R. McHenrv Edmond Caatlllun, fcauiasi n iicux. JOHN R. WITruriiL. i.,-n AJuia j N orris fAjicu. Wucox, Becttutrr. i K A
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