THE STAMP-POINT OF THE BOARDING-HOUSE.
The kernel has its meaning; and so, too, has
each of its husks, if you can fairly got a? thorn.
Now my object here is not to discuss the
question of- husks in general, for that would
Le a matter encyclopu dic and endless. I pro
pose rather to consider simply a mere variety
cf one of the physical husks of the soul, in
connection with its parallel moral husk,; In
other words, to look at the boarding-house in
the liyht of civilization. For the boarding
house is, I take it, the modern type of one of
the Soul's primeval husks the new light ver
sion of the old-time idea of shelter and habi
tation, house and home, hearth and roof-tree
the lineal descendant of wigwam, porch, cabin,
ctiil, bungalow, booth, den, pagoda, and all
the rest. ,
It was the theory of Vied that nature re
peats herself; that history, civilization, soci
ety, and polity come bauk at last into them
selves, their progress being always in circles
conformed to one great archetypal plan, bo
that every large fact or form is 3ure to reap
pear sooner or later in the course of ages,
whenever its round has been completed,
(loetbe, while he adopted the substance of
this view, modified it so far as to represent
the course of history as a spiral, instead of a
circle. A law of advance blends with the law
of returns; and hence epochs and phases and
forms and events return, not just as before,
but changed somewhat, and farther on along
the winding line. This has always seemed to
me a true solution of the probleiu of civili
zation, and the only ono, inasmuch as it
alone reconciles and explains t'.ie too great
necessary and coequal facts of chauge, and of
the equality of action and reaction. Here we
Lave the key to much in literature, too, as
Well as in life. 'Within the past month I have
read the words of an American l'lotinus, an
English Thucydides, and aUallic Aristophanes.
In each there was the old Greek, but moved
forward.
So, too, these habitable husks which man
makes Irom age to age for shelter and home
have their appointed cycle of change. How
different the roof-trees under which the cen
turies have dwelt 1 Yet each housing was an
utterance of the spirit of the time, changing
only with its informing spirit. Like uiau,
like house. And as the race is sure to come
back to the old traditions, and to stand by the
old landmarks, sooner or later, so the house
hold gods return after a while to their starting-point
to sojourn for a period in their an
cestral home, and quicken themselves at the
native hearth.
"Tccta mulantur, nos et mutamur in Mis."
In order to describe this household circle, at
least three points must of course be fixed. In
the present case, there seems to me to be four,
all natural, necessary, and easily determined.
Tor leaving out of view all subordinate types
and mere variations, men's local habitations
reduce themselves to these simple forms the
Tent, the Cabin, the Castle, the Home. The
circle then completes itself in the boarding
house, which is at once both the original last
form and the fac-simile or parody of the first
form in the old circle, as well as the original
first form in a succeeding series. The locus of
the boarding-house, and its relations to society,
I shall hope to define the more exactly by first
outlining in a rougn way ue prominent
leatures of each of its three predecessors just
named. And
I. The Tent. The type of this epoch is
nomadism. Men livo nowhere. They only
exist, making bivouao for a night, and pack-
; where to una. mem: mey nave no ciues, no
'Streets, no fixed numbers on their houses.
The places through which they range they
never inhabit are deserts, yielding no good
thing. The occupation of society is chronio
war, not satisfactory internecine destruction,
but bickerings, endless feuds, and cavalier
One-horse engagements. Everybody fights
With everybody. The result is seldom seri
(us: at it they go again: it is hammer and
tings forever. The great question in life is
jbout their daily food. They produce nothing,
and consume much. Each, tribe is domineered
wer by a patriarchsome hoary ruffian who
gains his place either by seniority in the
fimily, or by being less scrupulous than his
ftllows. Ilia word is law; his ipse dixit settles
everything.
The arts and sciences never flourish here.
The enly talk is gossip and speculations on
the weather. The only reading, if there is
reading at all, is the local news and the war
bulletins of the patriarchs. The only fine art
at 11 practised is music, which expresses itself
partly in whistling, ana partly in numming
ovr plaintively the familiar airs of the coun
try. There is also much thrumming of rude
musical instruments, such as the jewsharp
aid its descendants; and the fierce clangor of
the gong both urges the tribes to good, and
launches them against the enemy. The chief
im of this vagabond people, in the brief
intervals of war, is to kill time. To this end
tke men prey upon society, and the women
witch the weather, the neighboring tents, and
the tunics of casual travellers.
Humanity looks back with fond fancy to
this epoch of the tent, and sees it loom radi
ent through the mists of long generations.
It is called the Age of Gold, either on the
lucus-a-non-lucendo principle, or on the omne-ignolvm-pro-magnifico
theory. lleing most
distait and diil'erent from the present, it is
dreamed of, sighed for, and sung, as some
thing never to be seen again. Yet it comes
back, though changed.
II. Uy-and-by the Tent gives place to the
Cabin. Restlessness, being tired, craves rest,
and var subsides for a while into peace.
As population increases, tillage begins, the
land of itself not being able to feed
swarms of idle roamers, who do nothing but
graze, and hunt, and fight. So each man
builds his rude cabin, ties himself to the earth,
turns tie sod, watches nature, and sees his bread
at his own door. This should be the true age of
iron, tla time of the ploughshare, the spade,
the axe, and the sickle. It is the era of natu
ralism, when man lives close to nature, liken
ing himself to vegetables and animals. He
tstrives to get at the heart of nature, hoping to
conquer and make it his servant. Humanity
is one vait peasantry, whose business it is to
make the earth ready for future generations.
Hard hanis are funding capital for the use of
the more subtle brain, the finer sense, the
nicer taste, which shall come after. It is a
pioneer age, standing in the van of civilisa
tion an age which creates, develops, sub
dues, and accumulates. Its cabin is the
shanty of a farm-hand.
III. Time goes on, and the reign of the
Castle begins. Just as war before reacted into
?eace, so now in turn peace reacts into war.
he cabin falls to the rear, and the castle steps
to the front. The peasant's shanty yields the
vas to the soldier's fort. Hard knocks ara
the order of the day; the strongest arm makes
itself lnrd. and the weakest becomes vassal
Feudalism Is the type of the age: a centralized
society coheres in a series of successive links,
all meeting at last in a suzerain, who stands
At the heart 01 things, -cttcu uwemng
THE DAILY EVENING TELEGRAPH PHILADELPHIA, FRIDAY,
becomes the centre of a wide circle,
the focus of life far around. Kach
comes to stand for two facts The first,
is btrenpth, and the second is Beauty a new
revelation at the fireside. There must first be
a stronghold, then galleries, museums, and
the decorations of art. The hoarded capital
of the cabin epoch now blooms in luxury and
s lendor and airy forms it is the radiant Age
of Silver. The'castle is the birthplace of much
that is true and tender in our modern civiliza
tion first cradle of the arts, home of the
graces, true shrine of social life. Here, too,
between the stormy blasts of war, were
born or nurtured many of the liner vir
tues loyalty ' to woman, obedience,
reverence, truth, the chastity of honor,
self-sncrilice, and sublimcst of all martyr
dom for an idea. Within these four walls lived
cultured courtesy.
IV. At last the barons cut each others'
throats for their ladies' sake, or die for king
and crown, or leave house and land for fatal
crusades. Then come the burghers, mortga
gees of fair estate.,, apostles of the new era,
lovers of peace. They are family men, true to
domestic ties, fond of homo. For the shelter
of their dear ones they build a home, and live
in it. It matters nwt what its form may be
whether it be of wood, or brick, or marble
whether it have Doric peristyle, or Gothic
spire, or Egyptian column. The spirit is all,
the form nothing; for the material home is
but the husk to cover the glory that
lives within. Where home is, there only
and there always are there homes.
The home is the era of good feeling, the Age
of Love, which, beginning at the hearth, goes
out to the ends of the universe. Neither
silver nor gold can rightly typify this fairest
of epochs: naught can be its emblem save
that precious metal of the alchemists, com
bining in itself the virtues of all the rest.
At the hearthstone all things centre: it is the
final cause of society. The arts and sciences,
culture, taste, heroic deeds, the far-reaching
thought, the soaring imagination, the sweet
affections, the fine courtesies, and all
right-mindedness these, and all the gene
rous things of life, culminate in the
home era. The family is the true fostering
mothering of the highest worth. The Lares
are the best helps to all high thinking, high
living, and well doing, liy the fireside each
true tiling finds best expression.
V. Generations pass, and the cycle of civili
zation completes itself. Home deliquesces
into the Boarding House, anil the series Of the
tabernacles is at an end. For the old noma
dic instinct has never wholly died out; though
long dormant, it still lives, and bursts out
once more in undiminished vigor.
The epoch of vagrancy returns; new
editions of the tent, revised and cor
rected, are scattered broadcast over the land.
For what is the boarding-house but a tent with
modern improvements and an L ? Fach is
the very emblem of unrest, the home of the
vagrant, the theatre of war. These two en
campments, standing respectively in the van
and at the rear, as the beginning and the end
of civilization, serve to mark the limits of
society, when extremes meet, and life returns
into itself. If you will recall the outline of
the first epoch, as sketched in Section I, you
will find that many of its most characteristic
features reappear under the regime of the
boarding-house in the epoch of to-day.
The primary meaning of the boarding-house
is, then, locomotion and unrest. Stung by
the gad-fly within, which never dies nor tires,
the modem Io is goaded up and down, and
wanders uneasily over the face of the earth,
finding no rest for the sole of her foot. Your
representative nineteenth-century boarding
house man is only a developed Bedouin, a
veneered and varnished Gipsy. He takes root
nowhere; he has no flavor of the soil; he
grows into no natural fruitage. He is only a
consuming waif, self-driven from tent to tent,
and picked up by one landlady after ivnother.
He, the flotsam and jetsam of humanity, is
tossed about on the currents, and tumbled
against the headlands of life, with the wreckers
and salvors in his wake. The great question
always arises within us in regard to the dis
position of his body, What will he do with it ?
Where next will he carry it ?
Look, for a moment, at the term, "boarding-house."
Turn' it over, pick it to pieces,
and what do you make of it? It is biuiply
the word "board," and the word "house,"
most awkwardly tacked together, without
moulding or blending in any degree. The
teims do not mix any more than oil and
water. Now from this homeliness of make
and texture, this awkwardness of juncture,
this absence of welding, one or two infe
rences naturally follow. For, since all
language is but the retlex of life, since
words are but the images of things and
ideas, and the character of the thing or idea
always -modifies the character ot its word in a
certain definite way it follows that from the
form, the moulding, and the currency of the
word, we can argue a jiosteriori as to the form,
the moulding, and the currency of its parent
idea. Ihe word "boarding-house, then,
is uncomely, simply because its idea is un
comely. The plain fact is simply this
that our Anglo-baxon likes not the idea
of the boarding-house in life, and therefore
shows no favor to the word boarding-house
in language. The Saxon likes his home
and believes in it, and therefore makes for it
one of the sweetest and dearest of all words.
He dislikes and disbelieves in the boarding-
house, and, with characteristic frankness, will
not stoop to veil his want of love and faith
under any graceful circumlocution.
If it is argued that the want of honor for the
boarding-house in our Saxon tongue comes
simply from the inflexible nature of the lan
guage, making it impossible to mould a better
term, I reply that whenever a strong desire is
felt on the part of the community to italicize
some favorite thing, or to glorify a pet idea,
no difficulty is found in magnifying the cor-
responding expression. And this is done
either by inventing, or by substituting, or by
transferring to the idea or thing in question
some delicacy of diction, or some smooth and
respectful word or paraphrase. If there is a
general wish to pay honor, honor will be
paid, or an attempt intended to pay honor will
be made in good faith. Thu3 the tradesman,
desiring not to sink, but to elevate the shop,
is able, because the community consents, to
dignify his place of business with the title of
"bazaar," "emporium," "establishment."
So, too, a house is called a "mansion;" a little
patch of ground, an "estate;" a closet an
"apartment;" a school, a "college;" an aca
demy, a "university;" and anything popular,
an "institution." Tartly for the same reason,
and partly from a ridioulous squeamish
ness and false modesty, a leg is called
a "limb," shirt and drawers "under
wear," and so on. I do not bring forward
these instances as worthy of imitation, or in
order to defend their manifest vulgarity, but
merely to show that the community can find,
and do always find, when they choose to find,
glorifying words, or which amounts to the
same thing words intended and believed to
glorify favorite ideas. The principle remains
the same, no matter whether the glorifying
word is in good or In bad taste. The only
requisites to this sort of linguistic transforma
tion are that the idea shall be popular, and its
word unpopular; while, on the Other hand, if
the idea is unpopular, but its word popular,
there will result linguistic degradation. The
word must ad just itself to the idea. If both
are popular, or both unpopular, in an equal
degree, the word remains unchanged. 5
One more inference may be drawn from lan
guage namely, that the boarding-house is of
modern growth. This inference history also
conliims. I cannot conceive of a boarding
house in the reicn of FJizabeth. In the
reigns of Charles II and Anne, such a thing
might havo been pnssihlo sporadically among
a certain caste, but not otherwise. It was
never organized into an institution; the nation
had nothing to do with it.
The word "boarding-house" does not
occur in Walker or Webster, but is
found in Worcester, who represents a
generation or two later. The next
W. who provides a dictionary will probably
sanction that horrible monstrosity, boarding-house-keeper.
. The thing exists, and will
exist, and must have a name. And unless
society changes radically, and Saxon ceases to
be Saxon, there can be no other name. Our
language will only tolerate the thing: it will
show it no favor, decorate it with no euphe
mism. The word "boarder" has a greater anti
quity. Its former meaning, however, neces
sarily differed somewhat Irom the present,
inasmuch as it indicated only unique speci
mens, anomalous offshoots of society. It never
implied then, as now, a special class. For the
boaider was then the exception, not the rule
a monstrosity, not a normal product. I doubt
not that some confused perception of the
analogies existing between the nautical and
Ihe land boarder may have led to the first
terrene application of" the term; it may have
been thought that both are far from "home,
both are given to attack, both are devoted to
the use of the knife, both rejoice in the grab
game, both are a law to themselves, and so on.
The boarding-house is simply an expression
of materialism one phase in the religion of
things. An age with materialism on the brain
must have boarding-houses. As manufac
turers, motive-power, and all industrial inte
rests grow, they grow: they are the home of
the herding artisan, and from him come to
permeate society. They are temples of the
religion of the body, altars to the faith in
things, and the want of faith in ideas, propa
ganda of the gospel of conventions. Yet it is
a mistake to say that the boarding-douse is
without an ideal: it has an ideal its front
parlor boaider. Its common faith and aspira
tions are unto him. So, too, it is not without
worship: its homage is to the practical to
that which will pay. With it there is no suc
cess but success; and success is dollars and
cents. It worships steam, percentage, corner
lots, mines, stocks, fly-wheels, and the vari
ous devices by which man divests himself of
bis manhood.
The boarding-house is civilization gone to
seed the anti-climax of society the last
trituration and dilution of the art of livinsr.
Its epoch is the Age of Brass, that factitious
metal whose sole viitue lies iu its superficial
resemblance to something better. So the
boarding-house is a parody of home, a carica
ture of comfort, and a fonrerv of societv.
Here lies the great battle-ground of the frip
peries and vanities of life; here is the arena
in which the foibles of humanity contend
without ceasing. No man cares to stand
for what he is, to show himself in truth
to his fellow-boarders: he wants, like
ilebased coin, to utter . himself for more
or other than he is worth. The homely vir
tues, the sweet sincerities of life, the truth of
character, the high thought, the noble en
deavor, the unselfish purpose, all languish
here. A subtle poisou gnaws at the very life
of simplicity, integrity, and independence of
character. Conventions take the place of con
victions; shams are the maxims of life; the ad
raptaiidum Is the aim of life; and appearances
are the test of life.
No true art, poetry, or science can flourish
in the sterile soil of the boarding-house; they
are flowers of home-growth,. Taste is vulgar
ized by cutting loose from the eternal fitness
of things, and clinging to the shifting despot
isms of coteries. The notion about science is,
that it is a good help to labor-saving and
money-making inventions. Literature wor
ships the gods of the hour; poetry degene
rates into ornament, and revels in tho morbid
excrescences ot lite and character; and art
becomes upholstery. l)o you think that
Homer, Phidias, or Aristotle could have lived
anvwhere else than at home I And do you
think that the stuff which heroes are made
of is found at mercenary firesides The
heioio, like the homely virtues, wither when
moved from their native hearths. Did you
ever hear of a great thought born in a
boarding-house of sublime love of honor, of
stem devotion to principle, of lofty self
sacrifice? Such things, wherever they show
themselves, were lirst nurtured at home.
No nation ever fought for its boarding
houses. The wars of tent-dwelling races have
always been raids for plunder, not strokes for
principle. Conceive of a nation of boarding
houses what would they fight for but per
centage and profit f Would Marathon and
Thermopyke have been fought, would Decius
have devoted himself to death, would Ilegulus
have kept his word, would the martyrs have
welcomed the flames, if theirs had been ages
of boarding-houses ?
The highest culture, . true conversa
tion, and real contact of mind with
mind, are in the boarding-house utterly
null. Talk is limited to gossip, colds,
and the weather. Gossip we know, and colds
we know, and thank Heaven for the weather!
The weather, past, present and future fair,
foul, or dubious illimitable, fresh, omnipo
tent forever! Boundless stimulant of thought,
neutral ground of the small affections, mother
of small talk, nurse of sociality, regulator of
the proprieties, sweet occasion of sweet offices,
stop-gap of pauses, rippling stream through
the desert ocean of straugerhood, fertilizer of
friendship, herald of an era of good feeling,
meeting-place of the conventionalities, pivot
of society we hail thee, Weather, sum
mum bonum of the talking boarder, solace
of the silent, leading-string to the diffident,
spur to the balky, crutch to the lame, life
uoat to the foundered. Great art thou alike
in thy history, reality, and prophecy great
alike, whether absolute, relative, or potential
a blessing forever I What were the boarding-house
without thee? A solecism. And
what can they do in the tropics, where for
months thou changest not ?
The boarding-house, like the tent, has its
patriarch. He is not, however, necessarily
identical with the ideal alluded to in a pre
ceding column. It matters not whether he
dwells in garret or basement, or whether he is
young or old; his title and office come from
seniority as boarder in a given household, and
are merely honorary. The only privi
leges thereto appertaining are . the
right of acting as mediator between the
two contending factions of the house, and
ot having his utterances on all subjects quoted
as the law of the family. His usual title is
lather Of the hnilHA. Bo trront 1st iliu mlirrnllnn
in American households, that the title mar
be
j " - vtvviu tiuunii'iiuui
J hough only a Biliele man. of not remarkable
B1euiiy earned ana often transferred.
antiquity, 1 recollect that In one case, after
sojourning under ono roof for only some six
to eight months, the title fell to me; and I
proposed to, and did, fight it out on that line
all summer. Jn the early autumn a new
champion of the table succeeded to a vacancy.
Think for a moment of tho blessed in
fluences going out from a true home. The
old hearthstone of the child glows in the eye
oi the youth like the star of hope; it is the
rock of manhood, and in old age it is like the
shadow of a great rock in a weary land. '
; Look then at a boarding-house child, with
out home in esse, possr, mrminisse. Original
castaway t Shuttlecock between the vanities
and the inanities, bubble of bubbles, feather
tossed on every wind of nothingness, young
convert to materialism, unconscious martyr
to the trumperies), human victim on the altar
of the superficialities 1 What is he good for ?
What will he be good for f What will you do
with him? He has no safeguards, no inspirations.
Home is to him a word without a meaning; it can
never be anything more than sundry numbers
in sundry streets. Whence is his motive
power? where are his ideals? whither his
aspirations ? A lady, having asked a former
servant of hers where she was now living, re
ceived the answer, "I don't live, I board."'
The answer was true in a sense not thought
of. To live is one thing; to board is another
especially in the case of the young, whose
character is still in the making. The child of
the boarding-house only exists. He has no
memories, no sanctities, no principles, no
mainspring. Faith, and tenderness, and all
spiritual things, are nipped in the bud; and
the bloom and sweetness of innocence and
purity are wiped away. Ami when he drags
his existence to its prinie, of what possible
worth will he be to himself, to you, to me, to
society ?
We are now only in the beginning of tho
boarding-house era. But when the climax is
reached, when the minima become maxima,
when tendencies work themselves out into
facts, when exceptions become rules, when the
elements have shaped themselves into an
organization, and the parts have adjusted
themselves to a system when, in short, the
boarding-house has grown into a world-wide
institution, and men dwell only in vast cara
vansaries then tell me where, in the language
of the popular play Where shall we go to ?
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mon." 2 Trowels, bricklayer's,
!H) pallous Turpentine.
10 gallons Turpentine Copal Varnish, furni
ture 50 pouuds Twine, Cotton.
loOpounds I'mber, Burnt in Oil, 10 1, 20 2,
and 10 5 pound Caus.
2C0 pounds Umber, Haw In Oil, 20 1, 40 2, and
20 5 pound Cans,
All of the above named articles to be of the
bst quality, and to be subject to Inspection.
Samples of the articles bid for must be deli
vered at thisolllce twenty-lour (24) hours pre
vious to the opening of the bids.
Each bid must be guaranteed by two respon
Bible persons, wQose signatures and residences
must be appended to the guarantee, and certi
fied to as being good and sufficient security, by
the United States District Judge, Attorney, Col
lector, or other public etllcer.
The right is reserved to reject all bids deemed
unreasonable, and no bid from a delimiting
contractor will be received.
All proposals to be made out on the regular
forms, In duplicate (which will be furnished on
application at this office), and conform to the
terms of this advertisement, a copy of which
must accompany each proposal.
Envelopes to be endorsed "Proposals for
QnartermaBter's Stores."
judders are requested to be present at the
opening of the proposals.
By order of
Brevet Mal.-Gen. O. II. CUOSMAN,
Asst.auartermaHter-Gen, U. 8. A.
HENKY W. JANES,
Captain and Asst. quartermaster,
95t Brevet Major U. H. A.
JV O XL I S T
AMD
Preserver of Natural Flowen,
A.H.POWELL,
No. 725 AECH Street, Below ihH
BonnaeM,rWretli., Baskets. Pyramids of Cot Plow
er furu ished to order si .11 .uwuun. iut(
MAY 10, 18G7.
INSURANCE COMPANIES.
P
1101
KLA WAKE MUTUAL SAFETY INSU-
a vnwwktiu a M V 1 t t t
.lure of jVeiiiiBylvauim 1n&
Office, B, K. Corner TH 1 HD and WALNUT Street,
iiiinuHifinin.
MAR1NK INSURANCES
On vessels, etuK", ami Ireltht. to all parts ol the world.
lSLANIIlNHL'KAM'W
on trnrxld by river; canal, lake, ud laud carriage, to
all parts of the Union.
fill; 1 ""UilAiM.lU
on merchandtus gcnpraliv.
uu Bioies, swelling iiuu'u, juto,
ASSETS OF THh, COMPANY,
Novpuihtr 1. IKS.
lOOiOOO CnHedBtalesa Per Ceut. Loan,
l7l
12S,noO United (Stales 6 Per Ceub Loan
lssi ...M
800,000 tnlted Htates 7 8-10 Per Ceut,
1 Loan, Treannry Motes
124,000 CI ly ol Philadelphia btx Percent.
Loau (ext'iiipta)
M.0O0 Htate or Pennsylvania Six Per
t ent. Loan -
M.OOO Btateof Penusylvaula five Per
C'euU Loan .. n
60,000 State of Mew Jersey biz Per
t'tnu Loan
10,000 PemiHylvanla Kallroad, lat
MoitKiiRt, slz Per Cent,. Honda.
15,000 PemiNylvanla Kallroad, 2d Mori-
114,0O0'00
lM.SOO'OO
111,606-00
126,662-60
54,700-00
44,820-00
60,7V) -00
. 20,500-00
(4,250-00
10 ,760-0
Brum HT Pm. CnL Kfimln
26,00 Wen tern Pennnylvanla Kallroad
t-lx Per Cent. Bond. (Fennsyl
. vanla Railroad guaranteed)
80,000 fetateofleuueeaee five Per Cent
Loan..
7,000 Stale of i eunessee blx Per Out,
Liiann
16,000 800 hhures HiiM'k ol Oeriiianlown
Uk Company (principal and In
tercut guaranteed by the city of
Philadelphia)
7,150 H8 (Shares htock ot Pennsylva
nia Railroad Company
8,000 lm Shares Mock ol North Penn
sylvania Railroad Company-....
20,000 feOMiare isiock ot Philadelphia
and Knithera Mail tstearusulp
Company.. ..
195,900 Lobiih on ,lionrt8 and Mortage,
1st Liens oa City Property.
18.000-00
1,040-00
16,000-00
8,2.8-26
8,950-00
29.000 -00
18,900-00
tl,O70,2S'7e
tl,tx5,0o0 par,
Market value.
COTt. IhOSn.bfutlin.
Real Estate
Bills receivable lor luurauuus
made.
Balance due at agencies. Pre
miums on ilHrlnel'ohcles, Ac
crued interest, and oilier
debts due to the Company......
Bcrip and Mock ol sundry Insu
rance and other Companies,
o.lVfl. Intimated Value
Cash In Ilauk Sll.lir2'2e
Cash Id Drawer........ 447-14
86,000-00
27,637-20
88,923-90
1,930-09
41.640-00
1.4ir7,aU-66
This being a new enterprise, the Par Is assumed
ThoniasC. Hand,
Bauiuel K. Stokes,
Henry bloun,
Wlllluin U. Houlton,
Kdvvard Darlington,
H. Jones Brooke,
Kdwurd Latourcade,
Jacob P, Jones,
James B. AlcFarland,
Joshua P. Eyre,
Bueucer Mcllvalne.
Kdmuud A. bwtiflpr,
TheophllUN Paululng,
John R. Penrose,
James Tranuair,
Henry C. liailett, Jr.,
J nines C. Baud,
W illiam C. Ludwlg,
Joseph 11. Heal,
Ueorue i. Leiper,
Hugh CralK.
John D. Taylor,
J. R. Hemple, Pittsburg,
A. is. Merger.
I). '1 . Moriian,
Jacou Klegel, .
Ueorue YV. liernardoo.
TITOMA8 C 11 AND. President.
JOHN C. DA VIM, Vice-President.
Hknky Ltleukn, becretury. 18
1829CUAIlTER PERPETUAL.
Iraiiklin Fire Insurance Co.
OF I'HIIADEi rHIA,
OFFICE!
KOS. 43il AM) 437 CUJSM'T STREET
AfeSETN ON JANVART 1, IS
Capital ....,
Accrued Surplus..
.......400,000-00
V4S,71S'tl8
preniluuj .
TJMSET'l LED CLAIMS.
, .......l,ZW).-ti2-16
INCOME FOB U6t,
S420.OUU.
EOMMEM PAID SINCE 1829 OVER
5,S0V,000.
Perpetual aud Temporary Policies on Liberal Terms
DIIlECi-OES,
Charles N. Buncker, 1 George Faleo,
Tobias w uguer, Alip.-a Hitler,
bamuel Oram IK"",,, '',f r fi
cjras I i-euMcaii: u-A
4B"v"r. I'thomas parks.
??Ef.1?VBAiScK1Jt' President.
1. W. McALLibTEB. becretary pro tern, L318tl281
INSURANCE COMPANY
OK
NORTH AMERICA.
Oli'lCL, u. oi VtAl-NUXbi... PHILADELPHIA
J 2i COB FOB A TED 1784. CHAKTEK PERPETUAL,
CAPITAL, 9500,000.
AETN. JANUARY 8, 1SC7, l,763,07-a3.
JiS MARINE, INLAND TKAKsPOB
lA'ltvA AMPltt lllSlis,
LllltK(?TmLtj.
Art!: r O. Collin, ueorye L. Harrison.
j-aiuuel Vi . Junes,
Joi n A. UrijW u,
Chunea 'iaylci ,
A Uihione hue,
Hichaid D, Wood,
W llnalii v elbh,
K iuorrlH uiu,
Euward Jl. '1 roller,
Eiiwurd 6. Ciurke,
W1UI1.U1 Cumuiiugs,
T. Charllou Henry,
A lu'tu D. Jessuu,
John P. White.
jouu juason,
J. on in c. MitUtlra,
CHABLX8 PiaIT, secretary.
WILLIAM LUEHLEK, Harrlsbure, Pa,. Central
A gent lor thebtaleoi Pennsylvania. 1 aij
Ti IKE JJ.SLRANCE EXCLUSIVELY. THI
Jj PEMCjLVAMA FIHa HNBUKAJNCK OOM
k A i Y incorporated Ibvb Cnarier Perpetual Ma
Dlu WALbli cut el, opposite iudepeudeuoe HuuareT
ThiB Company, lavoiaoly known to the iximiuuuitj
lor over tony years, continues to insure against loss 01
damage by hie uu Public or privaie Buildings, either
permanently oi lor allmlted lime. Also.ou Jburnlture,
blocks ol (juuiU.ttud Merchauu me generally, on liberal
terms.
'Iheir Capital, together with a large Surplus Fund, Is
Invested iu me most carelul ujuuuur. which enable)
them u oiler 10 uie Insured an undoubted security la
tue case ol loss.
Daniel Emtlh, Jr.,
SlJtXOTGKS,
John Devereax,
Thomas bmlth,
Henry Lewis,
J.Uiniiivhuin Pflll.
Alexander Ben.son,
itaac Ha.ieuurst,
Thomas Bobbins,
J nil n ' 1 ,1 .Mlll'l A, tt ,
DA MEL BMUH, J a, jfresldeni,
William G. Cbowill, (secretary tsot
)11CEMX INSUBANCJS
COMPANY OP
PHILADELPHIA.
Iti COBPt )B A T ED 1DU4 CHAKTEB PERPETUAL.
ISO. i4 WALNUT btreet, opposite the Exchange.
in auuiiioa to xhaiuunji; and iJNuaJND i.NB(JK-
ajsca, tuis ixuiipauy insures irom loss or aamage by
HUE lor liberal terms on buildings, nierchaudlse,
lurnlture, etc., for limited periods, and permanently
on buildings, by deposit ot premium.
The Company has been In active operation for more
than ISIXIY YEABW, during which all losses uavs
Oeen promptly aujustea ana paio.
UiaLCTOliH.
John L. Hodge,
.Lawrence lwls, it,
David Lewis,
Benjamin Eltlng ,
Thomas H. Power.
A. R. McHeury,
Edmund Caallllon.
l4ulH C Ndrrl.
at. B. Mauouy.
John T. Lewis,
W illiam b. Grunt,
Boberl W. Learning,
D. Clark Wharton
baiuuel Wilcox, ,
WTJ CHEBEB, President,
Rakckl WlMOX, Hecretary.
pilOVIDENT L1FK AND TRUbT COMPANY
Vo. Ill Bouth FOOBTH btreet.
, INCOKPOKATED gd MONTH, ifiid., IMS.
CAPITAL. I1S0.OU), PAID INT
Insurance on Lives, by Yearly Premiums: or bv
10. or UU year Premiums, fton-lorieliure.
Endowments, payable at a future age, or on prior
decease by Yearly Premiums, or W year Premiums
both classes Nou-fbrfelture.
ADnuiiies granted on favorable terms
Term Policies, Children's Endowments.
This Company, while giving the insured thesermrlty
Of a paid-up Capital, will Divide the entire proiits oi
Uie Lite business among its Policy holders.
Moneys received at Interest, aud paid on demand,
1 Authorised by charter to execute Trusts, aud to act
as Executor or Administrator, Assignee orttuardlan,
and lu other fiduciary capacities, under appointment
ol any Court or this Commonwealth, or any person
or persons, cr bodies politic or corporal
BAMUEL B, BHIPLEY, I HENBY HAINES.
JOSHUA H. MOHBia,
T. WlbTAKBHOWN
WM U LONUHTRKTH,
WIl'i'I A M HACEEit,
p. (xir'FlN.
uiWLAJSD PARRY.
KllUAKU WUOll,
BICHABD CADBURY,
I I rlAHLia X
BAMUEL B. BHIPLEY,
President.
Actuary.
THOMASIWUSTAU. at. D-c
Z7
Medical Lxamlusr. Legal AdvifteC,
INSURANCE COMPANIES.
BROOKLYN
LIFE IKSUKAXCE COMPANY
OF Nliw YOUK
MUTUAL,
CAPITA I 18ri,000-PAII III.
Lt.r AlCUmUliATION, !O0,O
Cash liTllenl In 1807. lorly
Ier Cent.
CHRISTIAN W. I50UCK, President.
EICIIARD II. HARDING, Secretary.
K. BBA INAHD CO LI ON, General Agent for Pen
sylvsnla and Bouthern New Jersey, N. K. comer o
blVUil'll and CHKbNUTBUeets.seoondstory froa
olllce, Philadelphia, Pa.
rillEAUELrillA REFERENCES,
Morton Mc-Micbael, Mayor.
A. B. Cooley & Co., jwo. zi youub.
Wni, H. Uatr.mer, President Camden A Aniboy R. R,
James Boss Knowden, late Director Mink l.2Jt
A. O. B. Hlnkle, M. D., Medical iLxaminer.
A FEW OOOD SOLICITOUS WANTED FOB TH3I
CITY OP PH1LAHKLPH1A.
QlllAPvD PIKE AND MA RINK
INSURANCE COMPANY,
(No. 639)
N. E. COR. CUESNUT AN" SUViSmu BT.
FBILAOKLPBX.
CAPITA I. AND KIRPLI'M OTIB $300,00.
IN COM E lOR I.SfiO, 0103,1134.
Losset. Paid and Acorued In lt66,
SI7.00V
Of which nmonnt not anoo remalo nnpeldat tblsdat4L
liiu.tMi ti ol proerty has been buccesslully luaiirea
by this Company In thirteen years, and Lisht iiuit
dred Losses by Fire promptly paid.
DIllUUTORB.
Thomas Craven.
mi iui YerKPS, jr.,
Allred IS. UilleU,
K. B. Lawrence,
Charles I. Dupont, i
Henry P. Keuney.
lurniau niiei'para,
Thomas MacEullur,
Juliu Minnlee.
John W. Clagliorn
Jiisenh TC latin. M. D.
'1HOMAU i HAVEN, President
A. R. GILLETT, Vice-President,
2 2Vfniwt JAM KM B. ALVORD, Secretary
STRICT ECONOMY IN MANAGEMENT
PROVIDENT LIFE AN I) TRUST COM PANT
OP PMILARELPUIA.
No. Ill S. FOURTH STREET,
Commenced Business 7mo. 24,1665.
Organised to extend the beuthls til Lite lDSursnc
among members of the borlety oi Frlenos. All goo
risks ol whatever ueuomiuaiioD sum in u.
ISA M L EL K. bHIPLEY, President,
KOWLAND PAKKY, Actuary.
THOMAS W'lbTAB, M. I)., Med. EJtamlne(
JObEPU B. TOWNSEND, Legal Adviser.
ThlR rnnmanv. lu addition to the security arising
from the accumulation ol premiums, gives the lusurea
the advantage ol au actual iiaiu-up ipuai. i.u
THE P1U)HTB OK lNI-CllANCE A HE DIVIDED
AMONO THE IMSUHED.
Lite Policies and Endowments In all the most ap
proved loims.
Annuities graniea on lavoraoie terms, timmwim
GOVERNMENT SALES.
DEPOT OF ARMY CLOTHING AND
KCiUIl'AGE.
jkkkksonvii.lb, ma., April -M, 100.
Will be hold at nubile auctioi.. to the hietiest
blUUer.cn WEDNESDAY, May 15, 1867, at 10
o'clock A. M., the lollowlug articles of con-
deumtu properly:
iiU.uLi Woollen lilan-
164 Haversacks. 1 ,
111 Knapsacks.
1,23b Knit Jackets.
4K2 ureat-Uoat (Straps.
23 bashes.
KctH.
16,493 Trowsers, Inf'y.
2,349 " Mounted.
I,7b2 Sack Coats, lined,
10,761 " unllneU.
2,473 Uniform Coats.
U.7'20 Jackets.
6M) J reat Coats. In fy
12 Pans Uhevrons.
Baits Bb.ou.lder
CU11CD,
9 Canteens.
59 Bed Backs.
69 Picks.
6 Pick and Axe Han
641 " Mounted.
701 Bhlrts.
237 Drawers.
3,3ti6 I'll Irs Blockings,
Fairs Boots,
10 I'll Irs Bootees.
. uies.
6 Wall Tents.
4 Wall Tent Files. .
80 Hat Feathers.
16 Hat Bugles.
10 Hat Eagles.
40S6ts Drum Huarea,
SO Drum Cords.
8 Trumpets,
24 BtiKles.
10 Bugle Cords and
Tassels.
Ill Forage Cap?. '
1,677 Cap Covers.
21 Hals, crossed sa
bres. 81 Hat Cords and
Tastels.
3Slbl?y Teiifs.
25 Shelter Tents,
8 Flies.
29 Drum Heads.
6 Drum Slings.
lo'A Pairs Drum
sticks. ".0 Sets Tent Poles.
4.10 i'ards 10 oz. Duck.
OS Y&tfii? oz J-'uck.
Terms Cash, In Government funds'?
Kale to take place at the Clothing WarehblDfc?
(liocpltal grounds).
By order ol Major-General Thomas,
Captain and M. S. K-.. ljjffl&r
4 29 12t
Depot Quartermaster's Officii.
Wasiijng'ion, D. C'., May 8. 18b7 1
1 ?,treCr1,1U """erinastef-GeneTtti. a
large lot of Quartermaster's Stores will be sold
Rttublio Auction, at Lincoln Depot com
lueucing ou WEDNESDAY, May 22,' at 10
phdAer Kh?u'vl.",..u uPta James
SO four-horse Armv
Wagons.
6 two-horse Army Wa
gons. 84 0HU Desks.
23 0tlio "ables. , "
2I!)f)lllA IVnlfiln
6 spriue Army Wa-
2(JOnice foodstovRi.
25 l'ortab Forges.
1(J4 Smllh'o l,'-....
10 four-horse Scavenger
Armv Wagons.
a Cooking Kanges, with
fixtures.
10 Bath Tubs.
SB Doors.
15 WllMPlhnprnnMt
10 Carts.
3li two-horse Ambu-
InTinua
1)5 sets Wheel Harness,
titf sets Lead Harness.
67 sets wheel Ambu
lance Harness.
67 Lead Harnevu.
153 McClellau Baddies.
Tools Carpen ter's.Rad
ller's, Blacksmith's,
Tluuer's.
315 yards Cocoa Mat
tin cr.
1010 pounds assorted
Hope.
4000 pounds Scrap Iron.
6000 pounds old Horsa
Shoes,
191 Window Sashes.
141 It. K. Wmmn Wlilna
SM Halter Chains.
.'tl.'t KnekutH
1)27 Gum Buckets.
2UI wagon Bridles.
(UtKnriilla Ituuu
And a large lot of oth erartloles.
Tur ni uf 'uuh In il. .. -. ..... .,
. -... r,., . 1
- u UUVTJiUIUI'Ub 1UIIUH)
Purchasers will remove their goods within
ten days from day of sale,
r n t, r, CH AHXKS H. TOMPKINS,
6 0 lit Bvt. Brig. Gen.. Depot Quartermaster.
JJOKSES AND MULES A AUCTION.
Depot Quartermaster's Office,!
t 'Washington, D. C. May 8. 1W7. f
Will be sold at public auction, on WEDNES
DAY, 15th instant, at Eastern Branch Corral,
under the supervision of Captain James G.
Payne, Assistant Quartermaster,
30 HOUSES AND 5 MULES,
good for farming purposes.
Bale will commence at 10 A. M,
Animals will be sold singly.
Terms Cash, in Government fnnds.
CHAHLES II. TOMPKINS,
Brevet Brigadier-General. 1
S9 5t Depot Quartermaster.
g ALE OF GOVERNMENT VESSEL.
Deputy Quartermaster-Gen.'s Office
Baltimore, April 27 I8h7 ' t
Will be sold at public auction, at ihe port or
Boltlmore (Kartly's wharf, South Baltlmnrwlii
THUBSDAY, May 10, W. 12 M.,the light tirart
"ld.r.w,!tLBt.?"m' COSMOPOLITAN, "of 779
iug. uuj, 4 ieei Dreaath or beam Si tset-Terms-Cash
In Government funds ondayof
. .-- .v uuudoiKueu or to too auc
tioneers. STEW A ?T v a iu vi iu-.T
pui? 9u"terlna8ler-0euerl U.S. At Breyet
.... ANDKEON THOMAS' & CO.
6 8 dt Auctioneers. Nn. 18 M Charles st.
PRIVY W ELL8 OWH RHS OF PEOPEBTVf
Tha.i.1. ..1 . .,'..11- . 1 au. 1 1 Mu
dislnlectedat ary low trices.
A. rri"'"!
If annAwirr of Ponilreita,
10 SOIUITh" BAL-TLLUaAKlf bU.