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THE DAILY EVENING 'TELEGRAM. PHILADELPHIA, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 20, 18G7.
LITERATURE.
JllfiVIlflWOrNKW IIOOK8.
Tub KifKNANtioAH; ', Trire I,aat (Tonfkoic
katk I KUIMK.R. Ity Cornelius K. Hunt. Now
York: Carlotun. l'hlludblpbla Agont: Dliillcltl
Ashineiid.
We doubt if Sonthorn Roldicrs and South
ern sailors will ever cease to writo stupid
looks detailing their adventures. Tlio one
before us is more than ordinarily dull. It has
nothing to enliven it. The Shenandoah burned
a score of whalers, and that was all she did.
She never had a fight. Her captain appears,
"by the making out of Mr. Hunt, to bo little
better than a thiol, and Mr. Hunt himself
seems to be a good deal of a coward. The
work has no redeeming quality, and can be of
no possible interest to any but tho crew of the
pirate herself. H is printed in largo type, and
has a wood-tut of the Shenandoah as a frontis
piece. Mospiiyand Jits Men. I'.y J. Marshall t'raw
ford. New York: Cnrletou. 1'hlliicltilphU
Agent: Dutllcld Ashmeiul.
Yet another of the Southern war narratives.
It is of the stereotyped class, filled with unin
teresting details, and abounding in all the
usual buncombe display, which is so liberally
scattered through all such adventures. We
fpeak impartially when we say that it will not
xepay perusal. It it Tilled with hideous wood
cuts of men of whom we never heard, and is
altogether such a poor work that we wonder
Mr. Carleton has consented to its publication.
Hwr.nENnonr.'s "heaven and iikll "
IlFAVKS AND ITS WONDKUS AND 11 KM.. FllOl
THINGS HE EN AND ilKAIU). ly ElimilUCl
Hwodcnboru. Originally published lu Latin
at London, A. I). 17,r)S. Kvo., pp. 401. Philadel
phia: J. ii, Lippiucott & Co.
When Svredenborg announced, nlxrat a cen
tury ago, the actual existence of a spiritual
world in immediate proximity to the natural,
like cause and ell'ect, he was regarded as a
visionary whose claims were too preposterous
to be entertained. But a great change has
eome over mankind; and doctrines which were
utterly rejected in his day are now preached
from thousands of pulpits and by ministers of
every denomination of Christians, many of
whom have never read a line of his writings,
and who have no idea how wonderfully his
teachings accord, not only with all the recent
Bcientilie discoveries, but with the niOrit ad
vanced mind of the religious world.
Swendenborg was no sectarian he Wrote
for the n hole world his system is too vast and
comprehensive to be appropriated by a puny
sect; and whilst his philosophy is making
rapid progress, his followers as a sect have
met with little success. Whatever may be
thought of his claims as a whole, the spirit of
sincere piety which pervades his works, his
devout acknowledgment of the divinity of
Christ, and his reverence for the Holy Scrip
tures, should entitle him to a respectful hear
ing from both ministers and laymen in all
branches of the Christian Church.
The volume before us, as to paper, typo
graphy, and binding, is one of the most beau
tiful ever published in this country, and we
congratulate Messrs. Lippiucott & Co. on the
perfection to which they have brought tho arl
cf book-making. We quote:
Man after death has every sense, and all the
memory, thought, aitd ajtection, which he hud
in the world; and he leaves behind him nothing
but his terrestrial body.
That when u man passes from tho natural
into the spiritual world, ho take with liiui all
things belonging to him as a man except his
terrestrial body, has been proved to mo by
manifold experience. Kor when lie enters the
spiritual world, or the life after death, he is in
a body as he wus in tho natural world; and to
11 appearance in the same body, since neither
touch nor sight can detect any dill'creiice. Hut
his body is spiritual, and thus is separnt- d or
purified from things terrestrial; and when what
in spiritual touches and sees what is spiritual, it
Is just tho same to sense as when what is
natural touches and sees what is natural.
Hence when a man first becomes a spirit,
be Is not aware that he has deceased, and
believes that he Is still in the body whleli he
liad when he was in the world. A human spirit
also enjoys every external and internal i-ense
which he possessed in the world, lie sens as
before; he hears and speaks as before; ho
emells and tastes as be lore: and when ne is
touched he feels as before, lie also lonus, de
sires, wishes, thinks, reflects, is affected, loves,
and wills us before. And he who is delighted
with studies reads and writes as before. In a
word, when man passes from one life into the
other, or from one world into tho other, it is just
as 11 he passed Irom one Dlace to another; uud
carries with him all things which he possessed
In himself as a man, so that it cannot be said
that man after death which is only the death
of the terrestrial body has lost anything that
belonged to himself. He carries with him his
natural memory also, lor he retulns all things
whatsoever which be haB heard, seen, read,
learned, and thought in the world, from
earliest lniancy evou to the end of life. liut
because the natural objects which are lu the
memory cannot bo reproduced In the spiritual
world, they are quiescent, Just as they are wim
a man in tills world when he does not think of
them; but still they a re reproduced when the
lQrd pleases. The sensual man cannot possibly
believe that such is the state ot man alter death,
because he does not comprehend It; lor the sen
sual man cannot think otherwise than natu
rally, even about spiritual things; whatever
therefore is not palpable to the bodily sense,
that is, whatever he does not see with his eyes,
and touch with his hands, he attlrms lias no
existence; as we read of Thomas, lu John xx,
25, 'SI, au.
THK FIUST STATK OF MAN AFTER DEATH.
There are three states through which man
passes after death, before he enters either
Leaven or hell. The first state is that of his ex
teriors; the second, that of his Interiors; and
the third, that of his preparation. These states
are parsed through in the world of spirits,
iiut there are some who do not pass through
them, but immediately after death are either
taken up Into heaven or cast Into hell. They
who are immediately taken up into heaven are
those who have been regenerated, und thus pre-
ared for heaven, In the world. They who
lave become so regenerated aud prepared that
they need only to cast olt natural defilements
With tho body, aro Immediately conveyed
by the angels to heaven. I have seen
them taken up soon after the hour
of death. Hut they who have been Interiorly
wicked, though to outward appearance cood.
and thus have filled their wickedness with
deceit, and have used goodness as a means of
deceiving, are Immediately east into hell. I
bave seen some such cast Into hell directly
after death one of the most deceitful, with his
bead downwards and feet upwards; and others
In other wayn. There are also some who Im
mediately alter death are oust Into caverns, uud
are thus separated from those who are In the
world of spirits, and are taken out thenoe and
let in thither by turns; these are they who,
under civil pretenses, bave dealt wickedly with
the neighbor. Hut the latter and the former
are few In comparison with those who aro kept
In the world or spirits, and there according to
divine order are prepared for heaven or for hell.
As to what concern the first state, which
is the state of the exterior, man comes Into
that immediately after death. Every man as
to bis spirit has exteriors and Interiors. The
exteriors of the spirit are tbose whereby he
accommodates his body In the world, espe
cially lla face, speech, and gestures, to conso
ciation with others; but the Interiors of the
splrltnre those which belong to his propor will
nnd consequent thought, which are rarely ninnl
leslcu in trie faeo, the speech, and th man
ner, for man Is accustomed from iufiinov to
assume the appearance of friendship, of bene
volence, and of slnccrcty, and to conceal the
UinuuhiH of his own proper will: heneo from
Iintilt he njsumes a moral and civil life in ex
ternals, whatever he may bo in internals. In
consequence of this habit, n man scarcely
kuows whnt his Internals are, nor does ho pay
any attention to them.
1 lie first mate of man after death Is similar
to his stale in the World, because then in like
manner he is In externals. Ho has also n alini
lr fuce, similar speech, and a similar mind
(OHii(v),thus a Rlmllnr mural and civil life. In
consequence of thin, ho is not aware but that
he Is still in the world, miles ho adverts to
tboso things which present themselves, und to
those which were said to him hv t.hn iinircls
when he was raised up, t tint he is now a spirit.
Thusone lite is continued Into tho other, and
death Isonly the passage from tho natural to
the spiritual world).
ISecauso the spirit of man recently do
parted from tho world Is such, therefore ho is
then recognized by his friends, mil by those
whom he had known In the world; for spirits
recognize another, not only from his face and
speech, but also from the sphere of his life when
they come neur him. When any one in tho
other life thinks of another, ho also brings the
other's face before him In thought, and ut tho
same time many of the clrcumsmnces of his
life; and when he does this, the other becomes
pn-fcnt, ns If ho were sent for and called. This
occurs lu the spiritual world, from the tact that
thoughts uro there communicated, and tli.it,
there ore no spaces there, such as exist in the
natural world. Hence it Is that nil, when they
liist come into the other life, aro recognized by
their friends, relations, oud those with whom
they were in any way acquainted; and that tliey
also converse together, and afterwards nssit.
elate nicording to their friendship In the world.
I have lrequeutly heard t hat those who came
from the world rejoiced at seeing their friends
again, and that their friends in turn rejoiced
Hint they had come to them. This is a common
occurrence: that one man led partner meets
the other, anil they mutually congratulate
rncn other; they also remain together f ir a
time, longer or shorter according to the delight
Hint had uttended their dwelling together in
the world.
TiieC'iikistian Hymnal. Hymns with Tunes
for the Services of tho Chureh. Compiled aud
edited by llcv. Frank Sewall.
This is the title of a new and attractive
volume published by .1. 15. Lippiucott & Co.
We consider it as marking an era iu the
choir-book literature of this country.
In the first place, almost every hymn in the
collection is wedded to its own tune a great
and decisive improvement. We never think
for a moment to divorce the tunes of our every
day songs from the words for which they have
been composed. We see a propriety in every
patriotic song, every love song, yea, every
child's song having its own definite tune we
admit that they belong together, and would
down it preposterous to separate them. Who,
for instance, could sing "Home, Sweet Home,"
or the "hast Rose of Summer," to any other
tunes than those composed for them in the
first place, and to which they have always
been sung ? But while our sense of the musi
cal adaptation of words and tunes is so keen
in onr secular songs, we never hesitate to tear
asunder any church tunes and church hymus;
the law that the music expresses tho same
sentiments as the words for which it has been
composed, does not seem to extend in our
eyes to sacred tunes and sacred hymns. Now,
if this law is true in the one case, it must be
true in the other; and wo do not see any
reason why each church hymn should not
have its own individual tune, expressing in
music what the hymn expresses in words.
We welcome, therefore, the "Christian
Hymnal" as a move in the right direction,
and we hope that the reconciliation there
effected, of good church tunes with appro
priate hymns, will be respected by the leaders
of choirs, and that the example there set will
bo followed by tho compilers of our future
choir-books.
"The Rich Hi-kbakd." Mrs. J. II. Riddell's
new novel, to bo published on Saturday next
by T. 15. lVterson Sc Brothers, is by the author
of "George deith," which alone will secure
for it a wide circle of readers. It has an in
trinsic excellence, the narrative being well
sustained throughout, clear, concise, glowing,
and ladylike, while the dialogue shows great
skill in perception and arrangement. A well
known reviewer says: "The writings of this
lady bear tho impress of genius, consecrated
to tho noblest purposes. They may be put
into the hands of all classes without the least
hesitation; and no better service could be reu
dered to the age than to inspire it with a love
of these productions. We recommend tills
book to our readers, and especially to our
female readers."
"New America," by William llepworth
Dixon, has been greeted with marked success,
it is a book which is specially adapted to our
citizens, inasmuch as it graphically describes
life among the Mormons, and travels through
all sections of our country. We made, some
time ago, extracts illustrating tho elegant and
attractive stylo in which the work is written.
So great has been the success of this book, that,
notwithstanding the comparatively short time
it has been before the public, a third edition
is called for in England, and the very hand
some American edition, from the well-known
publishing house of J. B. Lippincott & Co., is
taken up rapidly. The work is well suited to
please and profit, as it gives interesting de
lineations, happy reminiscences, and statistics,
which makes it, on the whole, a desirable
book.
We have received from Duftield Ashmead,
No. 724 Chesuut street, a copy of a pleasant
little satire entitled "Parson Sourball's lix
cursion Tour." By a l'hiladelphia Parson.
It is written in a happy vein of quiet humor,
which makes it amusing without being bitter,
and displas observation aud a keen appre
ciation of the ridiculous.
MEMOIRS OF A PARISIAN JiEAUTY.
The succession of chances in national affairs
which tan and do occur during the life of one
individual, is vividlv called to mind by tho
publication of the " Memoirs of Madame Re-
camier," The utter instability of thrones,
and the greater permanence sometimes granted
to a human being than to a dynasty of
kings, is well Illustrated by the fact that while
seven governments were erected in France,
;uh successive? came to an end while
Madame Kcramier lived on. One woman out
living seven national powers is a sight seldom
presented, and ffl fearfully suggestive of the
weakness of authority. Born in 1777, Jeanne
Barnard married M. Recamier at the age of
fifteen. During her childhood she was present
at one of the state dinners of Louis XVI, and
was sent for by Marie Antoinette, who, struck
with her beauty, desired to see her alone.
Thrown at once, by the wealth of her husband,
into tho best society of the gayest city of the
world, she was the intimate of all the moving
spirits of the Revolution, and was presented
to General Napoleon Bonaparte on his return
from Italy. She inspired Lucien Bonaparte
with a violent passion, and was constantly
persecuted by his attentions. While affiliating
with the Liberals, she saw the Republic and First
Consul sink and an Kmpiro take their place.
She still kept her house open to all the dis
affected, and so bitter did Napoleon become
towards her that lie proclaimed that "any
foreign Minister who frequented Madame
Rccamier's salons was an enemy of the Fm-
peror." While thus receiving and acting as
a centre to all the Republicans of Franco, she
came in contact with tho renowned Fouche,
Minister of Police, who was at first not insen
sible to her charms, but, finally, irritated by
her continual correspondence with the exiled
Madame do Staid, caused her to be sent to
personally comfort her illustrious friend. Slie
was banished from Paris in 1811. At the same
time the celebrated Mathieit de Montmorency
underwent a similar sentence. The imprison
ment of Napoleon at lilba freed her from
bani.-diment, and she, in company with the
other enemies of the Empire, hastened at once
to Paris. During the hundred days of the
return of the Little Corporal, she remained
unmolested .it the capital, and with his final
defeat became once more the reigning belle of
Paris. It was during tho winter of 1814 that
she fascinated the I hike of Wellington, who,
notwithstanding his prrstiie as conqueror of her
foe, is honored with no other entry in her
journal than "Met the Duke at Madame de
Stai'l's. Ho pays me a visit next day. Con
tinuation of his visits. He writes me unmean
ing notes, which all resemble each other."
Such a judgment on the admiration of the
victor of th world's victor shows how
satiated Madame Recamier must have been
with the homage of the great. It was during
the reign of Louis XVIII that she first
became intimate with Chateaubriand, between
whom and Madame Recamier there ever ex
isted tho sincerest friendship. The entire
reign of that monarch found her life inter
mingled with those of Montmorency and
Chateaubriand; and the disgrace of the latter,
to which, to a great extent, must bo ascribed
the overthrow of that monarch's policy,
estranged her from the royal family as much
as it did the disgraced Minister. Tho acces
sion of Charles X restored the late ministry
to power, and throughout all of that reign
she was in the innermostsecrcts of the State
councils. Although bearing no title, with no
literary reputation, and having lost to a great
extent her surpassing beauty, she still exerted
a mighty inlluence in the affairs of Franco.
Her intimacy with Ilortense Beauharnais,
Queen of Sweden and mother of tho present
Emperor of France, brought her into contact
with Louis Napoleon; and after his fiasco at
Strasbourg, and when he lay in prison at the
Conciergerie, she was one of tho few who
visited him and received his distracted mother
into her house. He never forgot her kindness;
and when years alter wards ho was once more
in Paris as a Deputy, he called at once at her
house. She was then sinking rapidly, and
failed to see him. In her old ago, when all
her friends had been taken from her one by
one, and Chateaubriand was the only one left
of that brilliant galaxy of gems that sur
rounded tho throne at the Bourbon Restoration,
she became attached to tho Count do Chaiu
bord, heir to the French throne by right of
birth, and between them there existed until
her death the relation of mother and son,
although they were compelled to communicate
by correspondence, as he was not allowed to
visit France. At last, at the ago of seventy
two, she expired in 1841). Had her life been
spared a year longer, she would have wit
nessed an eighth change in the Government of
France, in the accession of the son of her
friend Ilortense, of Sweden.
Tho life of such a woman must be remarka
ble, and it is only to be regretted that she left
no autobiography to present a connected chain
of tho remembrances of her eventful life.
While all the changes which her eventful life
witnessed in Franco were transpiring, it is
curious to note that the sister kingdom of
Great Britain had no revolution whatever,
and the unbroken succession of monarchs
contrasts strangely with the tumult and tur
moil across the Straits. Her life presents one
good lesson, as It teaches the immense influ
ence which can be secured by tact and amia
bility where talent is not possessed, and where
beauty has faded with the lapse of time. It
was the beauty of Madame Recamier which
first attracted to her the powerful, but we
must look to her kindly disposition to discover
the power which retained her popularity when
that beauty had vanished with old ago.
THE STORY OF ARTEMAS WARD.
BY A FELLOW REPORTER.
The writer of this article, associated with
the deceased humorist on a daily journal of
the Western press, possessed, perhaps, oppor
tunities lor understanding his peculiarities
better than those who mingled with him in
the zenith of his remarkable fame. When I
knew hun ha was "a poor young man,"
localizing tor the Cleveland l'laiml,alet-&
journal, apropos, that has turned out more
literary men men of genius, than perhaps
any other datly journal of the great West.
or Ins ante, in the person of its former owner
and editor, Joseph W. Gray, whose life was
bo sadly cut short, it possessed a political
paragraphist and a brilliant wit, whose
writings and sayings ten years ago enjoyed a
national renown. The bocom-frtend of tho i
lamented Douglas, he stood by the "Little
Giant" through nil the mighty conflicts of that
daring and undaunted statesman, dull'uriug
political decapitation ns Postmaster of the
lucrative office in Cleveland rather than trim
his sails to meet tho exactions of the old
Public Functionary Jeems Buchanan. (Par
don me if I cannot speak with reste t even
now of this man.)
Then there was the author of "Ro ind the
Block," John B. Bouton, afterwards connected
with the Journal of Commrrre, and still, 1 be
lieve, a writer on one of the daily papers of
New York. Bouton was scarcely past his ma
jority when he camo upon the I'laindtaler,
like Browne, a tall, slim New Englander. His
was a racy pen, and he possessed a poetical
temperament, which sparkled with bright
and pretty gems. Ho bade fair to become an
author of no mean repute, and, though he has
given the world but one book and that a
fiction of no remarkable power I still be
lieve him capable of something which shall be
enduring.
Bouton was followed by William E. McLaren,
now an eloijuent missionary iu some dis
tant part of the globe, but tben a poet,
whose contributions to the Kniekirboikir
and other magazines were fraught with
the divine inspiration of which true poesy
is born.
Next came a brilliant young Hebrew, who
has since risen to great distinction among his
own people Benjamin F. Peixoth, at present
the Grand Master of the I. O. B. 15., a Jewish
order, like the Masons, spread throughout the
country. His writings aro in the quick, ner
vous, lloriil, and fascinating typo of the Orient.
Ho is more of an orator than writer, though
excelling in each gift, for with him it is a gift
of rare and singular power.
Then came Charles F. Browne, then A. M.
Griswold, the "Fat Contributor," "Hun Ki
Dori;" then William A. Collins, owner and
present editor of the Pittsburg Chronicle, aud
a man of rare mental parts.
Browne came from Toledo to Cleveland,
having been a brief while upon a daily paper
in that city. His columns or department tho
local was never distinguished for the dry re
cord and chronicle for which such are gene
rally reputed. He could not gather the dry
details of a new block of buildings, nor fathom
the mysteries of a boiler-shop, nor plunge
into tho depths of the "largest and most ele
gant stock of goods this side of New York."
To him everything wore a comical aspect.
He saw fun in everything. His lips were
always smiling. Genial to all, everything that
came within his quick, penetrating, observant
eye, wore its grotesque shape.
"His eye begets occasion for his wit,
I-'or every object that the one doth catch.
The other turns to a mirth-moving Jest."
This was literally true of him. His first
striking essays of wit were his caricatures of
local politicians. These were drawn to the
life. The "Western Reserve" at the time had
its Giddings, its Wade, its Spalding, itsTilden,
and its D. K. Carter. It has some of those
still. His pencil-photographs of these were of
the most grotesque and side-splitting char
acter. By-and-by he came to write his "A.
Ward" letters from Baldinsville. These set
the town in such a roar that it was caught up
and carried throughout the land and across
the "big pond," and is still echoing its hearty
mirth though it will lull now for a brief
while to weep tears over the grave of tho early
dead. These letters were reprinted every
where in this country and in Great Britain.
His famous "Piccolomini" criticism shared a
like reputation, convulsing the fair, sweet
songstress herself by its inimitable humor. In
Cleveland, Browne was the cynosure of all the
wits of the town. By them he was throned a
monarch of mirth, and at his foot were spread
the rarest tributes of their excessive adula
tion. He quitted Cleveland and came to New
York with letters to distinguished authors,
which ho never presented, lie won his own
way here, as ho had won it in the West, lie
literally laid tho corner-stone of his own
renown, and his magnet lay alone in his
genius. His ascent of tho ladder of fame was
rapid beyond all parallel. He became world
renowned before he had reached his twenty
fifth birth-day, and he died lacking a year of
his thirtieth.
He was his own worst enemy. Too yield
ing, his associates were more of the Bohemian
type, because ho was, indeed, tho Prince oi
Bohemians. He did not, indeed, attain "the
dignity of literature" in tho exalted sense of
that noble profession, for ho was deficient in
education, his range of reading restricted, and
his life never that of a student. Nor was
there any affectation of the "dignity of litera
ture" in his composition. lie had no affecta
tion about him; he was a naturalist without
even the knowledge of a single science; and
yet to him all things wore their natural color.
He never assumed to be anything more than
what he really was, and he was as much at
home in one place as in another, if the people
were only human and natural.
He utterly scorned all and every attempt at
cant and hypocrisy, and was as keenly alive
to his own demerits and deliciencies as the
most acute of his critics. What Bobby Burns
was as a poet, Charley Browne was as a
humorist a simple, unaffected original a
genius whose heart beat warm and true,
whose human nature tilled every household
with gladness. He was emphatically the
humorist of the people; to them he was some
thing more than tho "Great Showman" iu
literature. Be is gone in his early manhood,
with all his virtues and imperfections on his
head. The latter were of tho head, not of the
heart, which was ever as genial, and joyous,
and gladsome as an unclouded summer's day.
Let us
"No farther seek his merits to disclose.
Nor draw his frailties from their dread abode;
There they alike iu trembling hope repose,
The bosom of bis lather uud his Uod."
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FlilliiUelplilit.
MAIUNK IN.-.UKANCKB . w ,.
On vessels. Pariro, and freight, m all pnrwol the world.
INLAND INSUllANCKH
on sroods by river, cenal. lake, and land carriage, to
all parts ot the I nlon.
11KK INSURANCES
on merchandise RtMieruiiv.
On btores. Dwelling Houses, Etc
ABSETH OV tTTr COMPANY,
November 1. IWiS.
1100,000 United Biatesa Per Out. Loan,
1B71
I2U,mO United btates 6 Per Cent. Lean
issl
200,000 United Htntes 7 8-10 Per Cent,
Lonn, Treasury NoIph
12B.0OO CHy of Philadelphia Mix Percent.
Loan (exempts)
64,000 Htate of Pennsylvania Klx l'er
Cent. Loan
66,000 Htiite of Pennsylvania Eive Per
Cent, Loan
60,000 Htate or New Jersey blx Per
Cent. Loan
ICi.OiO Pennsylvania Railroad. 1st
MoMkukp, tsix Per tent. Kondn.
25,000 Pennsy Ivanln KullroHd, M Mort
gage Wx Per. Cent, Bonds
26,00 W estern Pennsylvania Knllronil
Hlx l'er Cent. Bonds (Pennsyl
vania Knllroud Kimraiitoesj
8C.000 HnteofTeuni-ssee PivePerCeiiU
Loan -..
7,000 btaie of Tennessee blx Per Cent.
Loan
15,000 8(l blmres Slock of (lermaiitown
(las Company (principal and in
terest Kim ran toed by the city of
Philadelphia)
7,150 14: hlmres Mock of Pennsylva
nia Railroad Conipnny ,
6,000 loe Mitircs stock of North I'euu
sylvanla Railroad Company..,..
20,000 80 Shares stock ot Philadelphia
aud Southern Mail bteamship
Com puny
19f',900 Loans on Bonds and Mortgage,
1st Liens on City Properly.
1I4,0( 10-00
186,61 1000
2J1,61I0
l26,32-50
64,700 00
44.B20-00
60,730-00
20,600-00
24.2jO'00
20.750-00
18.000-00
6,040-UO
15,0(10 -00
8,258-25
8.H30-00
20,000-00
165, 900-00
1,045,000 par
Market value,
( nut. tl n.1o ft,tf-iL.
fi,trro,2su7s
Real Kstute
Bills receivable lor insurances
made
Balance due at nuclides. Pre
miums on Marine Policies, Ac
crued Interest, and other
debts due to the Company
Scrip and Stock of sundry Insu
rance and other Companies,
fS.lot. Estlmuled value
Cash In Bunk (ll.li2"
Cash In Drawer - 447'14
86,000-00
27,637-20
88,923-90
2,930-00
41,540-00
fl.4l t7,m-58
This being a new enterprise, the rnr "is assumed
as me uiurKei value.
'i'liomus C. Hand,
Samuel E. Stokes,
Henry Sloan,
W illiam U. BonltOD,
Edward Darlington,
Jl. Jones Brooke,
Edward Laf'ourcade,
Jacob P. Jones,
James B. McKarland,
Joshua P. Eyre,
Spencer Mcllvalne,
J. B. Semple, Piiutburg,
JOIIII i . 1JUVIS,
Edmund A. Sunder,
Theophllus Patifdlug,
John R. Penrose,
James Tritqualr,
Henry C. iiullett, Jr.,
J nines C. Hand,
William C. Ludwig,
Joseph 11. Seal,
George G, Leiper,
Hugh Crnlg,
John 1). Taylor,
a jj. itergcr,
D. l .
Morvitn. "
Jacob xtlegel,
UeorBii W. Jiernardou.
i iiuoiAB c ii A A u, i resident.
JOHN C. DA Via, Vice-President.
Henry Lylbukn, Secretary. l 8
1829 CHARTER rERPETUAL.
rraiiklin fire Insurance Co.
OF PIULADELPIIIA.
OFFICE:
N. 13 AN1 437 OIES.WT STREET,
ASETN OX JANUARY 1, 1867,
,553,MU'13.
Capital
Accrued Surplus
Premiums
fn io,(ioo-oo
B4H,7i;l 8
1,2UI,4&!'1S
INCOM E FOR lBtifl,
lai.oou.
UNSETTLED CLAIMS
r-7,i-i8
IAI SINCE 1829 OVEll
3. 500,000.
Perpetual and Temporary Policies on Liberal Terms
DIRECTORS.
Charles N. Eancker,
Tobius Wngner,
Samuel (irunt
ueorge W. Richards,
Isaac Lea,
George Fales,
Alired Filler,
Francis W. Lewis, M. D,
Peter McCull,
I'liomus sparks.
CHARLES N.
BANCKER, President,
GEORGE FALES. Vice-President.
J.kW. MCALLISTER, becretury pro tern, i 18 112 31J
PlllENIX INSURANCE COMPANY OP
PHILADELPHIA.
1NCORPORATF.D 1 804 CHARTER PERPETUAL.
No. 224 W ALNUT Street, opposite the Exchange.
In uUUilion to MARINE aud INLAND INSUR
ANCE, this Company Insures irom loss or damage by
11BE for liberal terms on buildings, merchandise,
luruiture, etc, for limited periods, aud permanently
on buildings, by deposit ot premium.
T he t ompuny has beeu iu active operation for more
than SIXTY YEARS. during which ail losttoa have
been promptly adjusted aud puid.
UIUKCXOKS.
John Jj. Hodge,
Lawrence Lewis, Jr.
David Lewis,
Benjamin Ettlng,
Thomas 11. Powers,
A. R. McUeury,
Edmund Caatillon,
m. ii. juanony
John T. Lewis,
William S. Grant,
Robert W. Learning,
D. Clark W barlou
Samuel Wilcox,
JOHN WCCHERER. Presidents
jouih e . r,orris.
Samuel Wilcox, Secretary.
INSURANCE COMPANY
OF
MOUTH AMERICA.
OFFICE, NO. 232 WALNUT ST., PHILADELPHIA.
INCOltPOBATED 1714. CHARTER PLKPETTJAL.
CAPITAL, fltO.O
Assets, January 8, 1867, $1,763,267'33.
INSUKES MALN,
IK LAND TBANSF0RTATI0N and FLEE BISK3
DIUtCTOBS.
Arthur G. Coffin.
George L. Earrlioo,
i rauuls R. Cope,
EdHurd 11. liutter,
Edward H. Clarse,
WTlllum Cummiugs,
T. Cliarltou Henry a
Alired I). Jesauu.
John P. Whim.
btiinuel VV. Jones,
John A. llronu,
Charles 'I By lor,
A nibroe W hite,
RicbardD. W ood,
W llilsni Welsh,
H Mori is Warn,
John llason.
Lou Is C Madeira
A ItTH 0 It G,
CniiiiES Platt, Becrttary.
COFFlii, President
WILLIAM LI hill. Kb, Uarrmburg,
Afceut tor the 6 tale ol 1'eiinsvlvuma.
Fa., Central
Tj-aitB INSURANCE EXCLUSIVELY. TH1
J PENNSYLVANIA FIRE 1NSUKANCK COM.
PA NY Incorporated lsi Charter Perpetual No.
1jI0 W ALN UT street, opposite Independence Square
This Company, lavoralily known to the couiuiuiut'i
for over lorty years, continues to insure agaiust lossui
damage by lire on Public or Private Buildings, either
peimaneiilly or for allmlled time. Also, on Furniture
stocks ot Goods, aud Merchandise generally, ou liberal
terms. i .wc.mi
'1 heir Capital, together with a Urge Surplus Fund ts
Invested lu the most careful manner, which enables
them 10 oiler to the insured au undoubted aecuxitv in
the case of loss. uw ui
Ii&r-TnnR-
jiumei rtmitn, jr.,
Alexander Benson,
John DflVArnnv
Thomas Smith,
Thomas Bobbins,
jiur.ienursb
J. Gllliugham Fell,
x-iiry iewis,
Daniel nddnelr .1.
fUTUAL FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY,
OF PHILADELPHIA, i
OFFICE, NO. 5 S. FIFTH ST11KET.
AKSETS....
..180,-iIO-8.
CIIARTKK PKRPRTlui..
MUTUAL SYSTEM EXCLUSIVELY.
iiujiviuwa t on 1S07.
C&lnh f'lnlhlnr
Benjamin Malone,
Thomas Mather,
T. Ellwood Chapman,
Simeon Matlack,
Aurou W. Gasklll.
CALEB CLOT I
William P. Reeder,
Joseph Cnapman,
Edward M. Needles,
Wilson M. Jenkins,
I likens Websler
Eraiieiu T. Atkinson.
... J1.1;;!AM1N MALONE, Vice-President
THOMAS MATHER, Treasurer.
T. ELLWOOD CHAPMAN, Secretary. ;2Mlm
I EH. f l esldeuU
INSURANCE COMPANIES.
BHO OK L Y N
i.ii iu iam;i5aack company
OF NEW YOIUC.
M U T U A. JLV .
CA1-1TAL, 123,000-lMID UP,
A('(TMIt!LATIO, 8300.000.
sh Dividend in IMS 7, lorly
ler C ent.
CHRISTIAN W. BOUCK, President.
KICI1AIID II. HARDLNQ, Secretary.
1 O T H . rfnal.ln. ..11 1 . .. , I . . T 1 , ,.
. vi umuiiiH inn luiuiuiunuu win can on K v
BRAINARB COLTON, General Ageut for Pennsylva. V
nia and southern New Jersey, No. 113 8. FIFTH il
Btreet, Philadelphia, Pa. t. .
lIIILAIi:i.IIIIA ItCFEKEKCKy,
Morton McMichael, Mayor.
A. B. Cooley & Co., No. 214 Delaware avenue.
Vim. H. Gutznier, President Camden it Amboy R R.
James Boss Huowden, lale Director Mint. ii u ly
A. O. B. Hlukle, M. L)., Medical Examiner.
A FEW GOOD SOLICITORS WANTED FOR THE
CITY OK PHILADELPHIA.
N.ORTII AMERICAN TRANSIT
INK l' It AN I'll COMPANY,
KO. H S. lot HTM MXttKCT,
l'H I L AD i(T; 1 U A.
r oul!' Pollcle8 Iwnieu aniiMi uenerat Accidents
Of all descriptions at exceedingly ow rates.
si..!'?,1, rslM- t';t,cU'11 ;rom year. In any sum from
10" to tio.ooo, at a premium ot only one-hair nor cent
securing the lull amount Insured lu rase ol death tSiS
mlumlpa'.d:UU to the wnole
Short lime Tickets for 1, 2, 8, 5, 7, or 10 days, or 1 IL
or tt months, al Hi cents a day, Insuring lu tue sum'iil
ki, or giving lis per week It disabled, lobe hadat
the General Ullice, No. iws. FOURTH Slreei, Pbilal
dolphin, or at the various Railroad Ticketolllces iS.
" " '..vuMciucm icuiui vuo nuiia American
. ...i. w . Il.iu, Kill l vW1'U1iy.
General Otllce, or of any of the authorized Ageuuj
a-ui tiu-iimionuu liiMiier iiiiormaiion BDtuv&tthA
i-imrnl flttlj.o n.,iral.,.V !. 1 i ' u "'"'I
of
.Ljiwin Li, tiuvrr, president.
JAMES M. CONRAD, Treasurer.
HENllY C. BROW N, Secretary.
JOHN C. BULLITT, Solicitor,
DIRECTORS.
L. L. Honpt, late of Peunsylvaula Railroad Com
pauy.
J. E. KIngslpy, Continental Hotel.
Samuel C. Paimer, Cashier ol Com. National Bank
H. G, Lelseuricg. Nos. i.i7 and 2i Dock Btieei.
James M. Conrad, lirm ot Conrad & Walton. No.
Market street.
Enoch Lewis, late Gen. Superintendent Penna. R.R,
Andrew MehaUey, b. W. corner ot Third aud Wal
nut streets.
G. C. Prunclscus, Gen. Agent Penna. R. K. Co.
Tliomtts K. Peterson, No. Units' Market street.
W.W.Kurtz, firm of Kurtz & Howard, No. 25 S.
Third street. Uly
PROVIDENT LIFE AND TRUST COMPANY
OF PHILADELPHIA,
No. Ill South FOURTH Street.
INCORPORATED ;id MONTH, 22a., 1965.
CAPITAL, tl&u.uou, i'AID IN.
Insurance on Lives, by Yearly premiums; or by
lu, or itu year Premiums, Nou-lorleltiire.
Eimowmeiits, payable at a future age, or on prior
decease by Yearly Premiums, or lu year Premiums
both claswen Nou-lorfeiiuie.
Annuities grauted on lavorsble terms
Term Policies. Children's Endowments,
This Company, while giving the Insured the security
ol a paid-up CupUai, will divide the entire profits 0!
the Lite biibluess amongils Policy holders.
Moneys received at interest, and paid ou demand,
Authorized by charter to execute Trusts, aud to act
as Executor or Administrator, Asslgflee or Guardian,
and In other liduciary capacities, under appointment
01 any Court of this Commonwealth, or any person
or persons, or bodies politic or corporate.
DIKKCTOKS.
samuel r. shipley, ! henry haijies,
joshua 11. morris, t. vv1star brown,
richard wood, wm. c. longstreth.
Richard cadbury. wii.li am hacker.
charles f. coffin,
samuel r.bhipley, rowland parry,
President, Actuary,
THOMA8.WISTAR, M. D., J. B. TOWNwEND,
7 27J Medical Examluer. Legul Adviser,
STRICT
ECONOMY IN MANAGEMENT.
1'KOVIDENTI.IFKANJJTKCSTCOMPAST
OF PHILADELPHIA.
No. Ill B. FOURTH STREET,
Commenced Business 7mo. 24, lSoS.
Organized to extend the benefits of Lite Insurance
among members of the Society ot Friends. All good
risks of whatever denomination solicited.
SAMUEL R. SHIPLEY, President.
ROWLAND PARRY, Actuary.
THOMAS WISTAR, M. D., Med. Examine!
JOSEPH B. TOWNtsEND, Legal Adviser.
This Company, In addition to the security arising
from the accumulallou ot premiums, gives the insureut
the advuntaMe of au uciual paid-up Capital. ALL
THE PROFITS OF INSURANCE ARE DIVIDED.
AMONG THE INSUitED.
Lile Policies aud Endowments In all the most an
proved forms.
Annuities granted on favorable terms. 2 22fmw3n
QIKARD FIRE AND MARINfl
INSURANCE COMPANY,
(No. 639)
N. E. COR. CUESNUT AND SEVENTH ST3.
PHILADKLCHIA.
CAPITAL AN I SITHPLVS OYER $300,000.
laiUJIK 1VH ISOtt, 9103,934.
Losses Paid and Accrued In 1BW,
917,000,
or which amount not itouo remain unpaid at this date,
f luo.ouo 000 oforonertv lias been guccexsniitv inanrui
by tbki Company In thirteen years, aud Elht Hun
dred Lossui by Fire promptly paid.
DIRECTORS.
Thomas Craven.
bilus Yerkes. Jr.,
Alfred S. OUle.lt,
N. S. Lawrence,
Charles I. Dupout,
lienrv F. k'miMv.
Furman Hheppard,
Thcnius MncKeilar,
John Suunli e.
John W. Clughorn,
juaviu jviaup, al. 1. ,
. c r , 'i UOM As 1 HAVEN, President
A. B. GILLETT, Vice-President.
'i IKlmwjj JAMES B. ALVORD, Secretary
s
ALK OP OLD AND UNSEKVICABLE
AiaiCLLS OF ORDNANCE. 1
Bureau of Ordnance, )
Navy Department, -Washington
City, March II, 1867. J
There will be sola at public auction to the high
est bidders, at iioou, TIH-'UsDAY, the 11th day
of April, 1HU7, at tho otlico or the Inspector of
Ordnance, NuvyYftril. Philadelphia. Pennsylva
nia,, a lot of old and unserviceable artioloo of
Ordnance.embracinR Shot and Shell.aboutsevea
hundred (700) Curblues, breech loadora, about
twenty-five hundred (2500) Muskets, rifled ana
smooth bore, Gun Carriages and other Stores,
The articles will be sold In lots.
TeruiR, one-half cash In Government funds,
to be deposited on the conclusion of the sale)
and the remainder within ten days afterwards,
during which time the articles must bo removed
from the yard, otherwise they will revert to tha
Government. II. A. WISE,
8 18 tAll Chlel of llureau
XEITH & PICKETT,
commission merchants;
AND DEALERS IS
WHALE, SPERM, LABD, EKQIffE, SPDTSLX,
AND V
. MACI1INKIIY OILS.
Also, Aget lor Manhattan Axle Grease Qomvwj.'
Ko. 334 South DELAWAEE Avenue
I JO-s ,'r . v ' 1:
YUZMZW BANKRUPT LAW
- - K. II. TfrmRP,
ATXC1 N A ND COCNSELLOR-AT-LAW.
o, U 8. THIRD atreet.
Will cvot fecial etientlon 10 the prosecution of
VOLUN'I A It Y oa IVAlPliLbORY lroueedlUf U
AG.fc.Mild " :1 the lsrgi filtlea in ,tbt TTnlt4
Elates. . , inn