THE J 'EAR OF TERR OR S.
Vntpovrlnc of ill Vials of Wmth-Vol-canoes,
Karthquakes , Cyclones Tre
ni.i.aiCouroUI.Bl cm Karlh la
tne Heavens Meteors, Comiti, sued
Revolnttone-TlBe Islands tnat flee
Awtf, And the Honiulai h reo
Found T It Appalling ol
ISOT-The Flacues n Written l
tne Book. t
Bince wonderful revelations of tke Tras-
tOurian theory were P'lisb?dV
th progress and rapid approach of t remendous
badges la tbe condition of our globe and of
the Dlanetarr system in which it id embraced,
the attention of mankind has been continually
arrested br astonndiug natural phenomena.
Fearful thunderstorms, earthquakes, vol
anic eruptions, both by land and sea, toma
toes and inundations.have followed each other
with scarcely any intermission; and at this
moment there is widespread mourning in
very one of the four quarters of the world
we inhabit, for immense losses of life and pro
perty, occasioned by these, convulsions of
mature.
Frighiful typhoons at Torto Rico, St. Do
mingo, and fit. Thomas, B&ping, as we learn
by the latest adviceR, along the Gulf of Mexico
and adjacent regions to Matamoras, thence
westward to the Pacific, hurling death and
ruin as far northward as the shores of Alaska,
and finally swooping down upon Australia,
China, Japan, and the British East Indies;
the submersion, of the island of Tortola for
many hours; the sudden eruption of Vesuvius,
and consequent volcanic perturbation of .Etna
in Sicily, of Stromboli and the Ionian Isles;
the threatened eruption of mountains iu our
own Territory of Montana, and the Bulphurous
conflagrations extending for scores of leagues
in the country west of the Yellowstone; the
alarming activity of a crater in the populous
valley ol Mexico, whose fires have been appa
rently extinct for centuries; shocks of earth
quake in Portugal, Russia, Bokhara, and other
portions of the globe, augmented in their effect
by the singular solar obscurations observed
within tbe year, and the sublime meteoric dis
play,visible over two continents, oa the morn
ing of the 15th instant, have convinced the
learned that the cosmic shell, upon the outer
surface of which we live, the vast system that
embraces it, and even the ethereal spaces be
yond, extending for myriads of millions of
leagueB Into the Milky Way, are now under
going some peculiar vicissitudes. Active
readers are aware that upon the year 18G7 has
been concentrated a full stream of prophecy
from seers of every creed and nationality, and
that dozens of them insist upon the certainty
of a general cataclysm in the heavens and on
the earth to come before New Year's.
What there is real in these anticipations we
shall not presume to decide. Our purpose
is simply to review the situation very
rapidly, while furnishing, In brief, some notes
of the celestial and atmospheric phenomena
that have appalled our race in times gone by.
THB EEtrCE,
f course, was the most tremendous catastrophe
f which we Lave any written record. All
nations, in using this peculiar expression,
refer to the general inundation of which Noah
and Lis family were the sole survivors, accord
ing to the Mosaio narrative. The eye of pro
found science Las, however, discovered the
indisputable traces of at least fifteen deluges,
or so to speak, in other words, fifteon grand
variations by which the sea and the land have
leen made to change places. How many more
preceded these it la tor Ummaolenoe alone to
know. These changes are accounted for by
the comparatively late discovery of the conic
movement of onr globe, which causes the pre
cession of the equinoxes, and is fully com
pleted once in every 25,633 years. By this
movement the earth reverse its entire atti
tude, and causes the oceans and the continents
altimately to exchange places. For instanoe,
there can be no manner of doubt that the solid
jgreund on which we now repose waa once the
bed of a sea, in which our mountain summits
were islands and promontories, if they
merged at all, and that it will be so again.
J3ut these transformations, appalling to con
template when fully effeoted, are the gradual
work of ages, culminating here and there,
Lowever, in calamities preolpitated by some
great perturbation of the atmosphere or some
sudden volcanio action. It is to these outside
influences, heightened by the eooentricity of
Tast planetary bodies, Buch as comets, etc.,
that we owe the danger to whioh we are ex
posed, and whioh Las often burst into the
reality of dreadful calamities, as it now seemi
threatenine to do.
The fabled land of the Atlantidea did once
really exist, as we could perhaps prove, had
We here the space. The present bed of the
Atlantic Ocean was then blooming in the rays
f the sun, and full of life, while the surface
sow beneath our feet was fathoms deep below
the billows. While we write, the oceau is
gaining ground and rapidly too, on Europe,
and losing it in America) our shores are
merging; those of Britain, Scandinavia,'
Ztuuia, France, etc., are sinking. From the
Neapolitan shore one can look down upon the
masonry of ancient temples that once were
kith upon the land, and now are many feet
beneath the waves. But all geological narra
. lives note tkese facts from year to year. Let
ms mention a few instances.
The Church of St. Denis do Caux, now,
with the parish that surrounded it, swept
over by the billows at the distance of two miles
from land, at the mouth of the roadstead of
Havre, stood high and dry iu the eleventh
century, and was not finally engulfed until
1378.
JNear Rocbelle, also in France, the town of
Chatetaillon has been swallowed little by little
by the waters, The Jersey Islands, too, un
doubtedly once formed a portion of the north
rn mainland, and connected France with Eng
land by an isthmus,
At Douarnenez, not far from Nantes, the sea
is undermining the cliffs, and steadily advan
cing to the invasion of the adjacent district.
It has been calculated, too, that in a few cen
turies the city of Bordeaux will be completely
covered with the sands of the sea.
Similar inroads are noticeable alone the
Boottish coaBt; aud at Wexford, in Ireland
tLere is a register of the taxes raised in Ban
now, a fine seaside town, wUih disappeared
in the same way eight hundred j,ar1 ag0
Hapless Iceland is gradually being drowned
and frozen out, as we learn from the reports
cf the exploring voyage made thither by the
Prinee Napoleon. Her sixty thousand in
habitants will soon be driven away, or perish
by the billows, the sand, and the ice. Bpitz
bergen, once quite habitable, is no longer fre
quented by the whale fishermen. Her waters
kave lost their leviathan game, and the snow
bo longer melts la her valleys. The island of
Jan Mayen and 'Eastern Greenland Lave
Chared the same fate. The rising of the bed
f tbe Atlantic Ooean Las already so greatly
diminished the current of the (Jul f Stream that
Jt cannot reaL those far-oif shores In suffi
cient volume to support animal life in sea or
land, as before; and the beautiful swards and
'rests of Greenland, Iceland, and Spitsbergen
vanishing. Even farther south, the whale
fOjnpUjUlj disappear tLr,t ociUa
THE DAIL1 EVENING TELEGRAPH PHILADELPHIA, FRIDAY, DECEMBER G, 18GL
screw-steamers, which Parted on the fishery
last summer, from Dundee, have returna.!
wirh two whales only, thus making a loss of
The surprising variations of the Gulf Stream
have long been uoticed to be increasing annu
ally; until, during the last year, our Ameri
can mariners have made it a subject of special
report.
An eloquent French writer (Octave Giraud)
spf aks of the Gulf of Gawcony as a vast necro
polis, in which one may sail over the mint of
former cities. Tbe ancient town of Novio
magus was there engulfed in the year 580;
and, when the sea is calm, the walla aud
gables of its buildiugB can still be seen deep
under water. Where the poet Ansonne onoe
fished and wrote verses, the waves roll fathoms
high. The rock of Cordouan, with its light
house, now three leagues from the beach, once
touched it. Between 1818 and 1830 the water
gained 150 yards; and from 1830 to 1842, about
00 yards. From 1841! to 1845, it enoroached
100 yards 550 yards in twenty-five years, on
a high shore.
ln the coast of Normandy, near to Itegne
ville, there stood, in the Middle Ages, a hand
some commercial mart, which is now sub
merged; and, in'fine, the whole littoral France
presents similar indications. It was but thn
other day that the port of France Lad to be
strengthened, at a cost of 805,000 francs. On
the 15th of llaroh, the tide rushed in for bun
dreds of yards beyond the former limits of the
coasts c f the Channel, near Ponterton.
On the island of Walcheren, during the
inundations of 1047, 1648, 1087, and 1700, the
downs were swept bare, and the sands carried
away by the rage of the billows, leaving un
covered far below quantities of statues, urns,
houses, nnd tombs, with inscriptions pointing
to the highest antiquity I
ln 1004 the eastern coast of England was
inundated and lost considerable territory. In
the Gulf of Bothnia, between Sweden aud Fin
land, the depth of water Las greatly dimi
nished, and islands have appeared above it,
within one hundred years, but on the western
coast of the Swedish Peninsula the sea con
tinues to gain.
On our side of the globe, the Bank of New
foundland is swiftly rising, to reunite, one
day, with the mainland; our seaboard cities
are getting farther away from the open water;
the bed of the Mississippi is rising, and the
Gulf of Mexico filling. In Australia, fresh
islands are continually cropping up, and,
within a twelvemonth, the discoloration of a
large patch of the Paeifiu in the route of the
San Francisco and Hong Kong steamers, has
indicated the early appearance of a new island
there.
Oil the coast of the East Indies, on the
other hand, the natives point out to strangers
the remains of the ancient city of Mahabali
pores, long hidden by the ocean, but still
showing, at low water, pagodas and palaces
that were occupied ages Ago.
After contemplating these facta, we may
find the asserted fate of Tortola less surprising
than it seemed at first, if it has, indeed, been
submerged. Since we have not only thia en
croachment of the sea, lontt working silently
and gradually, then sweeping all before it at
last, but
VOLCANIC ACTION
sufficient to account for it. In April, 1819,
the Island of Sumbava, in the East Indies,
became the scene of a volcanio eruption,which
lasted for months, and was heard 1000 miles
in one direction and 750 in another, or over a
diameter of 1750 miles in all. The sea rose
from two to twelve feet along the entire coast,
and the Bank of Bima, which had been six
fathoms below water, was left dry, while in
the opposite direction the waves rushed to the
very foot of the volcano, overwhelming the
town of Tomboro and the whole adjacent
country. They left a depth of eighteen feet
of water where none at all waa seen before,
and of 12,000 inhabitants on the island only
24 escaped.
On the IfJth of March, 16C5, the ship Veritaa,
in 20 degrees and 35 minutea north latitude,
and 140 degrees 5 minutes east longitude, saw
anew and magnificent island-volcano in mid
ocean. A crater with four vents shot fire,
ashes, and lava thousands of feet into the air,
offering a spectacle of appalling sublimity at
midnight. It was on the 30 in of January,
1806, that the tremendous volcanio eruption
commenced, which lasted until the end of
March with awful violence, and threw up three
new islands in the roadstead of santorino, in
the Greek Archipelago, the trio finally uniting
and forming a promontory to the adjacent
land. ,
Similar eruptions Lave occurred elsewhere
in all ages. Strabo, the historian, speaks of
one in Lis time on the Island of Methoue. In
more modern times, amonor the grandest have
been that of Bo k apt a, tn Iceland, tn i loa,
which covered the sea with cinders for hundreds
of miles, and caused an Island crater to spring
up amid the waves. The eruption and ap-
Jearance of a new island among the Azores,
une 15,1811, Lad a crater a mile wide, and
threw out volumes or soalding water above a
cone two hundred feet high. It disappeared
the next October, and by February, 1812,
nothing could be seen of.it but a cloud of
vapor arising from the spot. In 1038, 1091,
171'.', and li'Ji, mere had been similar erup
tions in the same group the one that left its
crater longest visible dating an island exist
ence of three years. In 17U6 an island rose
out of the sea in the Aleutian group, near
Oumnak, and 'continued to inorease. Four
years afterwards it emitted smoke and vapor,
and in iwi was stilt so not that a man could
not land on it. It was 2.Y milea in length, and
180 feet high, and threw off a pleasant odor Of
petroleum.
By-the-way.tthia peculiar odor was men
tioned by ancient historians waa notioed at
the earlier eruption of hintonno in 1050, aud at
tbe great eruption of Vesuvius in 1805. It
gives a Lint as to the probable connection of
the volcanic tires with the interior reservoirs
of naptba, BUL'i;eBting at the same time a very
easy way by which (as Professor Loouiia
thinks) the entire globe might be blown up
like an over-heated steam-boiler.
In 1830 a small volcauio island made its ap
nearance oil' the Iceland coast near Kevkiavik.
bestrewing the sea for many milea with scorito
from a submarine crater. In June and July
the island of Fernandina, or Julia, appeared
ou the coast of bioily with a splendid eruption,
covering the water with dead fish and filling
me atmosphere lor leagues around with sul
phuiio add gas.
Thus it is olear enough that either the per
manent im ursiou of th sea or the action of
ubmarine voIomiisjs or earthquakes would
account for even the sudden disappearance of
TortoU, or, if that island was simply swept
bare by tUu billows borne to an unusual height
by the force, of a hurrioane, its fate was no
more than tlat which overtook "Last Island,"
off the Gulf Const f Louisiana, a few vetrs
ago. Last Island waa low and sandy, but had
become quit a fuvorite bathing resort for the
people ot New Orleans, Mobile, and elsewhere,
A terrific storm drove the sea over it; all the
hotels, dwellings, and bathing-BUlla were torn
away, and tw persona perunea.
But even without recurring to the suiter
1 raseau powers We find In the
TOUHADOBS A!D TBUKDKHRTOKMH "
quite enongh to account for all the devastation
tbat occurs upon islands of the sea or on the
olid mainland. The spirits of the air are
sufficiently malignant and potent, whether
liey act in conjunction with tbe awtul in
fluences of the void above and the abyss
below, or vent their own unaided fury upon
tbe habitations of man.' Whether they come
on as the hot sirocco of Egypt, the kermattan
of the Guinea Coast, or the stifling simoon of
lie Oreat Desert, they are appalling, lmt
Victor Hugo has designated them all in lan
guage of matchless force, that has been eagerly
pei used by thousands of American readera in
his "Toilers of the Sea." We shall not at
tempt to repeat the description, but confine
ourselves to a few salient Incidents.
Our daily papera, particularly the organs of
tbe French population residing in New York,
Lave given accounts more or less desultory
and incoheient of the frightful cyclone which
seems to have ravaged all the West India
islands, excepting Havana, within the last
thirty days. We may briefly state that the
Danish colonies, being the northernmost of
tliefe groups, were the hrst to feel the tempest
which struck St. Thomas, on the 25th of Oc
tober, coming from the northwest, and raged
from I o'olocK until b V. M., destroying In the
lour hours property that cannot be replaced
in years. It devastated the southern half of
1'orto Kico on the night of the 2Dtb, and the
south of San Domingo on the morning of the
30th, every where blowmg down houses, sweep
ing the country olear of crops and stock, aud
sinking or hurling ashore all the shipping iu
ine roadsteads.
The same scenes were rei'nacted at St. Tierre
and the Fort de France, in the French colony
of Martinique, on the night of the 7th and 8th
instaLt; and Tortola, a British island, was, at
least, completely drenched and desolated by
tbe billows. At Calcutta, lions xonz, Mata
moras, Manilla, and close to Sitka Islaul, in
the JNorth lacilio, our new possession, the
same cyclone or its coadjutors continued their
dread work. 1 he sum total of property destroyed
is estimated at $50,000,000, and of life lost
at 10,000, including the destruction at Tortola.
Over 200 ships of different nations, and 5000
dwellings and public buildings went down;
fire in some cases complicating the distress.
We have Lad many tornadoes on this conti
nent, but none comparable in fury to these
west Indian storms, although, in Iowa and
other Western States, whole districts have
suffered. Ihe most terrilio of these tornadoes
ever known in the United States waa that
which enveloped Charleston, S. C, on the 2d
of May, 1701. It was nearly equal to the wont
cyclone. It came up Wappo creek like a
dense column of smoke, and contained such a
prodigious mass of vapor, in such rapid revo
lution, that the channel of Ashley river was
completely laid bare. When it reached the
river, it made a noise like continuous thunder,
Among the Antilles, In the Gulf of Mexico,
or in the East Indies, these cyclones seem like
a return to original night and chaos. Some'
times, again, the whole sky and sea appear in
names. Vessels caught in them, if they live
at all, lose every sail, and half a dozen stal
wart men, working together for their lives, can
nardly hold the helm.
In an awfnl storm of this kind, on July 25,
1825, at Guadaloupe, the wind at the height
of its intensity seemed luminous; a silver
flame played from all the points and inter
stice b of tiie walls, keyholes, and other issues,
and made the trembling inmates of the houses
think that the heavena were on fire I The
mHmutav r,f (1,ma nv.lnnai s,.. nl.nnla. .tn. m n
varied from lifty to one hundred miles, and
their height Irom one to ten miles.
But these dreadlul tempests are not by any
means confined to the more torrid portions of
thecal lb, as tbe experience of France, fin g
land, and the United States only too fully
proves, the tropical record is one long nar
rative of disastrous storms, increasing, how
ever, m iinensity in these later years. The
annals of the temperate zones do not offer so
many instances, but there have been some
which history and tradition will transmit to
the remotest generations.
Of these the most recent and terrible mar.
with propriety, be briefly mentioned here.
July 10, 1800, was made memorable by the
most awful thunder-storm ever witnessed at
Paris. About 1 P. M. the clouds gathered
With magical rapidity over the city until,
in less than ten minutes, the capital was
plunged in darkness. The rain fell in such
torrents that the streets were immediately
inundated, and many workmen employed in
the public sewers, not having time to regain
their ladders, perisnea. The thunder was
continuous and perfeetly appalling for three
Lours, and the lightning struok more than
two hundred places, directing its chief fury
upon the Quartier Latin, and inoludiog
churches, hospitals, and academies in its denpe-
rate attackB.
Gav. skeptical Paris was struck dumb with
horror, and "the bravest held Lis breath for a
time." The statue of liberty surmounting the
column or July, on the site ol the old lias tile,
was dazzlingly illuminated and surrounded
with a halo of ruddy light, until evening. All
night long, fear rested on the hearts of nearly
3,000,000 of people, and it was twenty-four
hours before they breamed ireeiy again.
On the 20th of last August, about 9 in the
evening, a thunder-storm unequalled in vio
lence for a century past, burst upon iondon,
and lasted all night, blowing off roofB, causing
conflagrations, aud levelling crops in the stir
rounding country, with an extent of damage
amounting to 1,000,000 sterling. Nearly a
hundred persons were struck bv the lightning.
and al'ady of rank residing some miles from
the metropolis died of fright at the height of
the tempest, beveral counties su tiered and
their inhabitants were wild with alarm.
On the night of August 18, a grand thun
derstorm passed near lortland, Me., aud
swept over Gorbam, ISortli Yarmouth, 1'ownal,
and Durham, unroofing buildings, tearing up
trees, and prostrating crops. At Lasca,
Brideton, Winthrop, Leeds, and Waterville,
the thunder was as regular as the swift beat
ing of a pulse, and the lightning seemed one
iucessant Hash. it greatly resembled tue
storm of April 4. 1800, at Paris, which, with
out being so imposing as tbat of July iu the
same year, waa remarkable for the number of
liahtmne strokes whiou leu in every direction
The United States Lave been remarkable for
the frequency aud proportions ef their hail
storms. In 1851, hailstones fell at Pittsburg,
Pa . measuring two aud three inohes in diame
ter, and weighing, in some cases, more than a
pound.
But all accounts that we have of great
temueBts occurring within the northern laa
tudes duiing the last two oeuturies are eclipsed
by tiie Btory of
THB (IHEAT 8 TO KM O 1703.
"The Lord Lath Lis way ia the whirlwind
aud in the storm, and the clouds are the dust
of his feet" (Nah. i. 3) is the appropriate
uiotto of a quaint old book bearing tue louow-
inir title;
"Tbe Storm; or, a Collection of the mosl
Reinaikable Casualties and Distresses which
happened in the late dreadful Tempest, both
by Sea and Land. London, 1704." The
height of this overwhelming cataclysm was
durmg the sigui oi tiie zcth and vvui w r9'
vember, 1703, at tbe full moon, after an un
usually wet season of six months. A tremen
dcuB wind arose on the 24th, and blew on with
increasing violence, day and night, until tbe
2Ctb, when it became an appalling hurrioane
tbat burled tiles, signs, timlmr work, etc., into
indistinguishable ruin, and awakened the
utmost fear that tue entire eity of London
ould be levelled. All the ships ou the
Thames were blown from their moorings and
tossed ashore, Lead and stern together. This
dreadful wind never intermitted for seven days
and nights.
Hundreds of vessels were destroyed in port,
and scores of others never returned from sea,
while at least eltht thousand sailors perished.
To give some idea of the force and velocity of
this atmospherio current, we may mention
that a vessel laden with tin was driven out of
I (el ford at midnight, with only two men and a
boy on board, dragging her four anchors, and
wiinoni sail was da una into a creek m tue
I-le of Wight, at 8 the next morning. Thus
she must have been carried thirty miles per
hour, and the velocity of the wind was proba
bly three or four times ai great.
We have not room to-aay to do more tnan
refer to the terrific volcanio eruptions, earth-
ouakes. inundations, flights of shooting-stars,
showers of blood, stones, animalcule, sulphur,
soot, frees, etc., that nave been witnessed;
vast spaces of tbe ocean covered witn luuam-
mable oil, or with fluids resembling milk and
and smoke suddenly rising from the earth and
ascending to the clouds on fair days, torrents
of rain descending without a speck to be seen
in the sky; dry, dark mists, evidently not of
aqueous vapor, rising to tbe zenith and rest
ing over whole provinces for days together,
obscuiing the sun.
Suffice it to sav that all the resistless forces
of nature which Lave wrought such revolu
tions in other epochs, even to the sand storms
of the Desert that entombed the entire army
of Cambyaes, lettmg not one man escape,
seem to have received tome recent renewed
impulse, and that phenomena multiply npon
us with startling rapidity.
It has just been discovered tbat a comet of
great tue undoubtedly exists, and completes
its flight within the limits of our solar system.
and tbat it ia attended by an accumulating
train of cosmio matter. Close astronomical
observation confirm, the belief tbat onr globe
and its satellite plunged directly through the
train f the comet that appeared in 1801, and
since that date there has been an unusual re
currence of celestial and terrestial phenomena
reflected, as it were, in the moral and political
perturlations of mankind.
Ihe augmenting size and number of tbe
spots visible on the disk of the sun, the gather
ing hoots of shooting-stars now regularly
looked for, and the eccentric variations ol the
magnetic needle, all point to some unusual
phase of existence through which our earth is
passing. If we look around us, on the condi
tion of the nations, we nnd it agitated, con
fused, and expectant of calamity and change
all Europe and Asia heaving with the fires of
suppressed revolution, and every part of
America, including me united states, anxious
and ill at ease.
At out the 2d of December coming, we may
expect to behold a succession, of wonders
which the student ponders but scarcely men
tions. N. Y. Sunday Mercury.
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14 tan
NO. ISIS) CHEMNPT MTBEET,
PRIVY WKLLS OWNERS OK PROPKRTY
Tbe only place to get Privy Wells Cleaned aud
4lulnt..i.i ..A ... yaaf tr U.m.
' A. PKYHON,
1 U0 COUfeMITHB HALU IiiHHAR Y ttaeet.
INSURANCE COMPANIES,
1829 CHARTER TERrETUAt
r
Franklin Fire Insurance Co.
orrDUiDurma.
OFFICES
HOS. AMD 7 CIIESMUT MTBEET.
JJBAETSI OH OlTOTlF.B 1, 1367,
aa.SMo.ae.
..IIOO.WO'OO
l.(P'.7f.5-(0
Accrued Mirpiua,,
Frenulums MMn...
CKSkTTLKD CLAIMS,
IHUOMB FOB 1W.
S.jo,uuo.
011 JO.
' MMISES PAID BIXCE 18911 OVKB
as.seo.ooo.
Perpetual and Temporary Policies on Liberal Term
Chkrlea N. Bancker,
Oeorge Falee,
Alfred Filler,
K rami la W. La la, M. D.,
Thfimni Hpark.
William B.Urnt,
'Ionian wgnr,
Bam n el Ornl,
tinorg W. Mlchuaa,
urn iea,
CHARLES M. BLNCKKH. PrMtnunl.
OtOKUK MALhi, Vice-President.
J. W. MoALLIBTXH, Bvf rylary pro tern, titli OIJ
BROOKLYN LI EE INSURANCE
Or JEW TORKi Ml'TCAl
POLICIES HOa-IORFKITABLK, Thirty day
grace given In payment ot Premium. No extra
charge tot residence! or travel In any portlon-of tbe
world. Dividends declared aanaally, and paid la
cash. Dividend In 1807, 40 per cenk
COLTOB & SIIELDEN,
BEDKiUL AOBN18,
M.E. COBKEB SJCTEHTII AND IHESJIVT,
. Agents and Solicitors wanted In all the cities and
towns In Pennsylvania and Boutkern ew Jer
sey Sll
INSURANCE COMPANY
OF
NORTH AMEUIOA.
OFFICE, No. m WALNUT BT., PHILADELPHIA.
IUCOKKO RATED 1794. CHARTER PERPETUAL.
CAPITA!., 300,000.
ASSETS JAH VABT 8, 1807 fl,763,967'30
INSURES MARINE, INLAND TR4NSPORTA-
UUJM riUhi BioKo.
DIBACTORS.
Arthur G. Coffin,
bttmuel W. J outs.
Jobn A Brown,
Cbarlea Taylor,
A m br one White,
Rlcbard D. Wood,
William Welhh,
h. Morris Wain,
George L. Harrison,
Kdward H. Trotter,
Edward o. Clarke,
William CuminliiKS,
T. Clur ton Heuiy,
Alfred D. Jenup,
Jobu P. White.
luun mason
Louis O. Madeira.
ARTHUK a. COFFIN. ProManL
Chart is Piatt, Secretary.
WIL1T1AM BUEHLKIt. Hn.'rlihnrtr va rv.nr.ru:
Agent ior the Plate of Pennsylvania. l zJi
GIRARD FIRE AND MARINE
( INSURANCE COMPANY.
(No. 639)
N. E. COR. CI1E3NUT AND SEVENTH STS.,
PHILADELPHIA.
CAPITAL AND SVBPLVS OVEB 300,000.
ISIIWB rOB 1800, 104,01. ..
Losses Paid and Accrued In 1800,
847,000.
Of which amount not faouo temaln unpaid at this date.
t loo.l to.MiUol property baa.been suooeaHfti'ly luNiired
by this Coiupaoy Iu thirteen years, aud Eight Uun-
wc ijwacs uj cue proiupujr paiu.
DIRECTORS.
ThAmu f V a van
Vurman Hhepparfl,
CUBS a oiftro. jr..
AllredK UlUelt,
N. 8. .Lawrence,
Clmrl s I. DupoDt.
iu, mas Jdacneiutr,
Ji hn buppiee,
John W. Clagborn,
JUr-ciJU J Ittpp, AX. XJ.
a o ,,ttJt.OMA8 ORAVfiN, President.
A 8. CI It LETT. Vice-President.
1 22 fmw JAMES R. ALVORD, Secretary.
F I R E INSUR AN C E.
LIVERPOOL AND LONDON AND CI LOBE
I askets oteb
aABtiKAjiVJE COMPANY
v va w VaV W
INVEhTED IN TUKU.SJ O VEB. 100,000
PHILADELPHIA BOARD.
Lemnel Coffin, Esq., (Charles 8. Hmtth, Bif
Joseph W. Lew la, Ksq (Henry A. Duhrlug, ksa.,
Kdward utter, a4. ,
All losses promptly adjusted without reference tn
ng.asd.
Ao. 6 MERCHANTS' EXCHANGE,
ATWOOD SMITH,
10 17 UislnBm General Agent for Pennsylvania.
KOVIDEJNT LIFE AND TSU8T COMPANY
OV PHILADELPHIA, . '
No. Ill K tOURTU tsiretk
" INCORPORAT-ElI Bd MUM'U !S2, ISM.
CAPITAL, 16u.o0s PAID ItV.
Insurance on Lives, by Yearly 1'reminmn- nr ho a
K, or 20 year Premiums, Non-loMeliure. '
ADiiUliles granted oa favorable eruis.
Term Pollutes. Children's JLndowiimntn.
This Company, while giving tbe lusuredthesecurlty
ol a iald-up Capital, will divide tbe entire prottls ol
tue tue DURiutaH among Its policy holders,
Moneys rtcelved at lultreei, aud paid on demand.
Authorized by charter to exeouie Trusts, aud to act
as Lxecutor or Administrator, Assignee, or Uuanliau,
and in other fiduciary capacities, uuuer appolutmeut
ol any Court ol this Coiuuiouweulib, or auy person or
persons or bodies polltio or corporate.
lil H Iff TO UN
HAMl'lli F, BHIPLIiY.
juriiUA a. nuuiui),
H1C1IAUU VO01,
RICHARD CAD11URY.
T. WISTAII b'kovVn,
W. C. LONiiSTRKTIX,
IILMDV niTWVa
II A HI h St If
IL Lil A in iXA..tLM.li.
BA11VI L R. bail'LN Y, ROWLAND PARRY.
r it.-Kit n i. Actuary.
WITI.iAAI V. LONObTKKrJT, VIce-PreaUieul.
THOMAS WIUTAH. Id 1 J. ii. 'fOWNSISND,
7 27 aisdlcal Kxamlper. Legal Adviser.
-piICEMX 1N&UKAKCE COMPANY OP PHI-
A. LAM-.LUllA.
INCOJUOUAlkD lf64 CHARTKR PERPETUAL,
No. 124 ALN UT Mreel, opooshe the kxchange.
In hilnltiuli to S1A1UM!. and 1NLAN1 1NUH-
A M. 1 , tills Compauy luuures Irom lues or dttimtue by
KIRK ior liberal terms cn bulhlliiKH, uiercbauillne
lurniuiie, etc., lor llunied periods, aud uermaueutly
ou liul.Uiii(i by eeponilol piciuluut.
The t oiupuuy baa been iu active operatlou for uioro
thun fcilX'l Y YkAhri, during which aU .'Ossus have
bueu promptly aujuBled and paid.
Julin L. Hodge,
Lawrence Lewis, Jr.,
M , II. Alahouy,
John T. l.ew is,
Wliliiun b. Uraut,
Robert W. Letuulug,
U. I lurk Wbarlou,
tjiuiual Wilcox.
lieujuuilu Kiting,
1'homus II. Powers,
A. R. WcllMiiry,
KJiuunU CaallUuu,
iOUlH iNorriM,
Junii wuutt KWi.lt, President.
Bavtil Wilcox, Secretary.
FIRE 1NSUKAKCE EX CLUS1 VELY. T 0 1
PKNNBYLVAN1A F1RK 1WMUHANCK CO !
PAN Y Incorporated lB'io Charter Perpetual No.
J10 WALNUT blreet, opposite Independence bquar.
Thut Company, favorably known to tbe commuulty
or over forty years, contluues to Insure against Ions
or damage by tire on Public or Private Jlulldlugn,
either permaueully or for a limited time. Alito. on
Furniture, blocks of Goods, aud Merchandise gone
rally, on liberal terms.
1 heir Capital, together with a large Hnrpins Pnnd,
sluveMUMl In tbe uiot careful manner, whf:beiiabl
theuit o oHe to ihe Insured an tui doubled soourliy In
ibecibsaolluas.
WKKOroaa.
Daniel KmllH, Jr.,
J,, ha r
j,,ha Pevereu,
Alexander Deiuon,
Inaac Ha.lehurk
f.Miirv Lewla.
J. Glillngbaiil jTell,
rj.rfrlk Jr.
' jjAMiaLt-MlTH, JA President,
INSURANCE COMPANIES.
DELAWARE Mt'TUAL SAFETY INSU.
KANCK COMPANY. Incorporated by th
Legislature of Pennaylvanla, ltus.
Office, 8. E. corner THIKI) and WALJiUT Btreets.
l'lnlmlrlphla.
MARINE 1NHUHANCT.B
On VesselB, Cargo, and Fi eight, to aU parts of tht
world.
INLAND INSURANCES
On (orris by river, cai.nl, luke, and laud carriages
all pails ol the Union.
VI RK INSURANCES
On rnerchandbe gcnprally.
Ou Stores, Dwelling Rouses, eto.
AHSETH OP TUB COMPANY.
November 1, 1H7.
tiOO.000 United btates ilve Per Cent.
I nun. KMC !..... m
120.0C0 United Blates Hve Per Ctut.
Loan, 1KH1 M -
M.0C0 United ttieten 7 S 10 Per Ceut Loan
Tieusury Notes -
2(0,100 Ptaie of Penusylvanla Blx Per
Cent. Loan ......
123,000 City of Phllmlelpula Hlx Per Ceut
Loan (exempt Irom tx ).......
59.CO0 btate of New Jersey biz Per Cenk
Lonn
(201,000'Ot
134.4O0M
S2.S2'5t
21O.0T0-OO
125,825 DO
ei.ooo-oo
lasoo-oo
23.375 D0
20,000'
18,000 OS
470 00
1S,000'C0
7.800-00
8,000-00
15,000-00
201,930-00
50,000 Pennnylvnnln Kullroad Klrat
MoriKiy Mx Per ent. Bondn....
28,000 PeouRyivenla Railroad, second
Aloriiinge Mix lVr Oent, Bonos....
24,000 Western Pennsylvania Kailroad
tlx Per Cnt. t.ehds Peunsyl
vaula Kntlroad (rnrot,) ..
gl ,t vMateol 'lennaee Vive Per Cenk
Loan..
7,000 Ptate of Tennessee Blx Percent.
Loan
15,000 Si shares stock of Oermanlown
Oas Company (principal and In
terest guaranteed by the city of
Philadelphia)
7,(00 l.MiBhares block of Penusylvanla
Railroad Coiuiianyn....n
1,000 100 Shares Htock of North Pennsylva
nia Kailroad Company
10,000 80 Bharea blorK or Philadelphia and
boulheru Rail bteamshlp Com-
, ... Pany......M..................
101,900 Loans on lion,! and Mortgage,
first liens on City Properties......
fl, lol,4W) par.
Market value 11,102,802-34
V OBI l,UW,t7V
Real ICtitale 8A,000'00
Rills Kcoelvable for Insurance
mad e'.. 219J35-S7
Balauces due at Agencies Pre
miums on Marine Policies Ac
crutd lntereot, and otber debts
due the Company 43,83430
fc tack and iscrlp of bundry Insu
rance aud other Com pan lea.
, . tsfi6 00 tlniated value 8,017-00
Cash In Bank ...,siu8,(ii7-lO
Cash In Drawer 2K8.W
, 103,815-01
tl,507,(H-lS
DIRECTORS.
Thomas O.Hand,
James C. Hand,
JOIIU tj, UBVIS,
Ko-mund A. Bonder,
Joseph H. Seal,
Tbeophllus Paulding
Hugh Craig,
F.dward Darlington,
Jobn R. Penrose,
H. Jones Brooke,
Henry Blean.
George O. Lelper,
W Mliaro G. Ri, niton,
Edward Lafburcade,
Jacob RImkI.
oamuei K. utokes,
james t raqnair,
Wllllatn U Ludwlg,
Jamb P. JnnM.
James R. McKarland,
Joshua P. Uyre,
John u. layior,
eipencer Hclivalne,
Henry C. Lallett, Jr.,
George W. Beruardou,
j. a. oenipie, 1-Htauuxg,
A. B. Berger,
It T MnrUn M
1 MUMA
HO. HANI), President.
P"" JOHN c. DA Via. Vloe-PresldenU
H F WRY LYLB URN, Secretary.
HKMhY BALL. Assistant Beoretary. llt31
FURNITURE, ETC. -pURNITURE!
FURNITURE!
nODIBR AND ANTIQITEI -PARLOR,
HALL AND CHAMBER SUIT
AT REDUCED PBICESI.
Our lacllltles are such tbat we are enabled to offer
at very moderate prices, a large and well-aMorted
stock of every description ol HOU8JIHOLD JTDRSI. s
TURK AND BEDDING, - . ' '
Goods packed to carry safely to all parts ot the
country, , '
RICHMOND A FOBEPAVOB,
NO. 40 m. SECOND STREET.
911 tf
fam & lis LCJAKIDR E
HAVE JsEMOVED THKIB
FURNITURE AKD UPHOLSTERING WAREROOMS
TO HO. 1410 CUEMNVT STREET, "
91 8m Mm! to the corner of Fifteenth.
TO HOUSEKEEPERS
I have a large stock of every variety ot
FUiUSIITUHE,
Which Iwl'.l sell at reduced prices, constsUncoW
- PLAIN AiSD M A RBL1 '1 OP WiTACJJC BUI1U
WALMIT CBAURAH BU1TB,
PARLOR BU11H IN VALVhT PLTJSH.
PARLOR BUIT IN HAIR CLOTH.
PARDOR BD1TB LN RAPB.
Bldeboards, Exteuston Tables, Wardrobes, Boo,
cases, lattreaees, Lounges, etc. eto.
I, f. IINTINE,
816m N. K, corner PFOOND and RAca, Btreets.
Jj S T A B L I S II E D 1795.
A. 8. ROBINSON.
French Plate Looking-Qlasses,
ENGRAVINGS, PALNT1N68, DRAWINGS, JETO
Uaaufsctursr of all klsols of
LOOUINO-ULAkS, PORTRAIT, AND PIC
TURE FRAMES TO ORDER.
No. OlO OHESNUT STREET
THIRD DOOR ABOVE THB BOUTIN ILNTAL,
e , i .
yHTLAPKT.rmAe list
QPECIAL NOTICE.
BALANCE OF IMPORTED FRENCH FVB.
N1TVRE, SUITABLE POB HOLIDAY
PRESENTS,
Closing ont at Reduced Prices, at
MR. I. LDTZ'B FURNITURB STORK,'
II 80 21t No. ia South ELEVENTH Street.
REMOVAL.
OVA L.-U EUOTAL
C. W. A. TRUMPLER
HAG REft'GVED HIS r.lUSiC STOaLt
. EROBI SEVENTH AND CUESNVT STS
. .TO
Ao. 926 CUJiSAVT STREET,
8 12tfrp PHILADELPHIA.
GAKDjNER & FLEMING,
OOAOH MAKERS.
HO. 814 SOUTH HPrU STREET,
New an a fccond-haud Carrlagea for sale. Fax
ilciimr atunnUou paid to repalrlDjr 5 803oa
JOHN CRUMP, ' '
OAKPliNTER AND BTJIL.tEIi:
norsi o. lodh street, and
MO. 17S CMENHUT STREET,
HILaDliLHH.
T. STEWART BROWN,
B.K. Coroarof
FOURTH CUESTNVT BTQ
MiMuricTuflna er
XRuTTKB, VAIIBUB, BAGS, RITICnjIES, BHA-Wl
BTRAPa, HAT CASES, POCHXf B00K.8, FLAA4
mat l'ravsliag Oeeds caaerallv.
W
ILLIAM H. ORAWT
IOV MIHHlltN Utuim mo.
0, 83 B. DALAW ARU Aenue, Philadelphia,
PepoDt's Gunpowder, Redued Nttre, Charonal. Eta.
W. Baker U Co.'b Chocolate. Ooooa, and B-oioa.
WIT.