G THE DAILY EVENING TELEGRAPH PHILADELPHIA, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1868. TRULY THANKFUL. A THANKSGIVING STORY. nY A. i:. LANCASTER. Written for The IXcntnrj Telegraph. I. One Account. IDs. Pcrannel, who keeps house for father nd we. often amuses ns by her Innocently profano qiio'.n'ions of Bcrlptore. Onlj this morning, when father wi out vUitintc some ot the poorer families in the viltues who used to be hi jmrlf-btoners beforo he grew too feeble for con stant worV, snd I took his plscc-only thli moriilnir Mrs. Scrannel came into iut tuJy Hhrre I vui wrltintj my sermon, ami, seelar, Alice Fen'.ci near me, lookln? io hnppy, ex" palmed, clncpinR her hands together: "Ah! i'.'satrni! payins?, Mr. Maverick, whs t the Scripturo taj, them a- ew the whirlwind shall reap life ovcila-itini." Thin ehe darted out aealn without nnothcr vord, and improvised n dinner berneli, though, H'9 my brief that bhe bad como for the purpose cf receiving or lr-rs. Yep, Alice and I are happy, thouuli the storm throncu which we became bo wui very dreai' fu( forusb db. Without endeavoring to reein. tile Mrs. Fcrnnnel's somewhat incompatible eUtcmeiits that we have sowed the whlrlwiad fend are no reaping life everlasting aJ the pro per and lfgillinate consequence, I am sure that the trouble thit enquired us during tbe week in which we were to have been married can rever Income painle3s iu recollectloc. Before ever I noticed the change which trans formed Alice Bleabcriy from i liutleas, medita tive girl into a thouratiul, serious one, 1 uaed to wonder at mjself that I had reached the ago Ot thirty and never been in love. Nor, I have long ceased to wouder; for that I should ever meet with another nature that would so per fectly dovetail with all the jutting and pro montories, the bays, nooks, and alcovse of. my wo, stands before me as an impossibility. Fo it happened that one Sunday noon, a3 I talked home with father from church, the image of Alice Eleaberry became fixed m my mind, as an image standing apart from all others. In due time I made known to her my feeliDgs, they seemed good in her eyes, and we became eogaued. With tbe story of that time I have nothing to do; my Btory Is with the events immediately succeeding it. One week before our intended weddinMri. Scannel came running to me ith the rnnounce mcnt that a servant had come lroni the Blea fcerries with the intelligence that Alice bad been suddenly taken ill, and was not expected to live, adding, as a conglomeration of texts remarkably applicable to the occasion, "My bod, If sinners entice thee, go je into all the world a'jd preach the (ortd to every people.'' Understanding Mrs. Scannel perfectly well, and let-Hug that this was merely meant for an assurance on her part tnat the danger was iin miueut, 1 went as hastily as 1 could to the place where Alice Bleaberry aod her uucle lived. It was too late, The last sigh had been breathed a few minutes before I entered. Alice's wncle, her ouly relative, with whom she bad lived alone ever since f-he was a child, was seated in one corner, surrounded by a few sympathizing neighbor. For the last few months tue old man's mind had been thought to be gradually departing. For nearly nlty years past tue sexton ol the church where my father used to preach, be still insisted on retaining the functions of that office, although the small fortune that had lately beeu left him by a da cujtd branch ol the family enabled him to keep a servant, and likewise made it possible for Jiim to dispense with ao ive service. For the past lew mouths bis IrienJs, I say, badbeUevid that bis mind was pivingaway. Ihe facts cn which this belief rested were that much of his time was spent iu sselusion over the invention of a complicated piece of nn chacit-m, to which reference at length will b made ehewhere. Of all tbe beings that sur rounded him, Alice waj the only one who sym patbited with old Mr. Weaberry in this hobby, embraced eo late in life and cherished with a pertinacity which should naturally have been a characteristic of younger years. Perhaps thia pertinacity was less wonderful, however, when it is considered that the mechauism retsmd to was Intimately connected with the duties of eexton, which he had so faithfully transacted for so many years. To return to Alice, however. Tbe truth which poor Mrs. bcnnel bad meant to convey in her distorted quotatiocs was only too apparent. All the known tests for death were applied In Tain. No trace, ot life remained In her. The ciicumbtances of her seizure were very singular. Bhe had been suffering from no previous disease. Iler health bad been unusually even and good. Suddenly, upon tbe very morning In which, I had been summoned, she had been 'attacked With a laintness and giddiness, to which rapidly succeeded that sickUh, vacant feeling in the bosom that always brings in remembrance to those that once experience it the idea of death. This state did not last loug. Within half an toot from the first premonition of tbe attack she had breathed her last, without being abl to otter one word to those around her. I will not attempt by a single word to describe my emotions as I bent over her remains. Words have been used for such descriptions ever since time commenced, and they have bien used in vain. Enouch to sty that hope bad died as instantly out of my soul us brea'.h had died put of her body. It was just one week before Thanksgiving Day of that year when Alice Bleaberry died, and consequently four dajs bofora Thaukgiviug Pay when we buried bt-r. The tnany-moodet climate of the United Slates hid been iu one of Its happiest and brightest phases, and so con tinued for tbe rest of the week. Well, we buried her In Bleaberry church, the prettiest church in all Tinsdale village. I ought to have mentioned, that.although Silas Bleaberry fceld no more distinguished ofilce than that of asextju.be was de, ended from one of the oldest families of that community a family which eave its name not only to the church of which I am the minister, but to a dozen other localities in and around tbe village. At the bour of burial, in deference to th-s great age, the great sorrows, and the suspected mono mania (innocent as it wax) of Bex ton Bleaberry, ire bad to humor him in what we then consid ered bis whim, aud a gravely-grotesque whim at that. It had relation to tbe strange piece of mecbaiiisrj) already twice referred to, which bad occutid-lbe old .man's lelur.n 'or. so msuy months, and almost biougbt . apon him Ih cbargs of laxity In bis duties. A further men tion of this win be made lj the handwriting that is to follow my portion or the tak. I have tried tbuB far, to make a plain state nient of facts without more than a pasitjg glance at tbe private emotion which eveu now seems to clog my pen at the formation of every word. ThnoVflving day canoe, and in my Rrlef I asked myselt really what I bad to be thankful for, and my spirit was so bored down in the extets of selfish grief that my old father took for the hour hie long vasated place and preached one of his stirring, old-fashioned sermons that was like leaven iu the lumpish hearts of the poorer sort of villagers.' After the sermon there was n marriage of one of the village boys to odc of the village g'rls a rough-and-ready couple who stood before tho alttr with the phlegm of its being an every day affair to them. Ah 1 that was to have beeu my marriage dy too, and my bride was in her tomb, dressed in the very dress she was to have worn, with tho orange blossoms on her head and tho loug veil bbrouding her lorm. So, when my fa; tier, addressing the congrega tion preseat, said, speaking of the newly-wedded couple bef'irc him, ' I pronounce that, tht-y nrfi nian and wilt, in the iaine of the Father, and oi the Eon, aud of the Holy Ghost,!' and I re membered the words of the We-sinf which wound up that ruarrixge solemnity, I could benr no more, but stepped from tbe cuaucel over the threshold of the little side door that led into the little chapel beyond. And there But a hand hero laid upon my arm rtmindg me that my portion ot thii rtoiy is done, and that most of tho rest will be related by a pun n iinblir ana more delicate than mine. II. Another Aerouns. The thing that 1 find it niOBt difficult to for give In my husband, Lester Maverick, even alter this lapse of time, is that he too should have Joined tLe villagers, or at least not have thwarted them in saying that my poor uncle Silas was little better than t monomaniac. He was nothing of the kind, as ewnts have since proved. I suppose I ought to take up tho story at the point where Lester left off, but the truth i3 that, after commencing some dozen times, and trying to state events iu a precon ceived and repular order, I find that the only way to make progrvs is to jot down occurrences in the order in which they na'.uially present themselves. To beglu, thet, Uncle Silas was never a monomaniac. He hud been sextou for half a century, aud bis sextonship had led him into petul ar ways ot thinking; und it was better that his originality should crop oat iu the form it did so late in life thnn never at all. When the last member ot the lust branch of tho family died out, excepting him and me, and he discovered that we were all that were left to each other in the world, in the way of blood relationship, it was natural that he should employ bis remaining years in working out an idea that had occupied him the greater part of his life, and Lad, indeed, been suggested to him by his every-day business. What that idea was, so mechanical, so unique, and so original in the Invention to which It gave biith, 1 find that Uncle Silas prefers telhug him self, I shall therefore say nothing more about it, except to add that Uncle Silas makes it a condition that I shall ropy out bu ruanuficript, and correct such BpelliUfr, punctuation, and or thography as may need it. That task I accept, and cow prepnre to relate the only romance that has ever interrupted the quiomess of my life. One week before tbe Thanksgiving day on which Lwas to be wedded to Lectc-r ilaverick I died. There is no doubt about it. I hrard all the friends and neighbors, who had been hastily summoned, say bo; and since no scn:e but the sense ot ht-ariug was lelt, it was not difficult for me to persuade mstlt that I was at least in the fir.t stage of death. But I remember before tbe attack came on how balmily beautiful tbe moruiug was, like a 6Uiuuier day returned, like a beautiful day dead and its spirit wandering in the midst of us. Had I been doing auytuing to cause this sudden illnes.-, aud still more sudden death? t or a long time after I came to lite again I answered to myself, no. Then it slowly came to me that in reality I had secretly aud silently borne a great grief on my mind tor months pat, and bad not let tven Lester share it. That grief was Uncle Bi'a.' suspected monomania; with a perpetual assurance to mysch that it could not be true of him, and a perpetual endeavor, through the grace of God, to shield him from ever hrsring tho dieadful things that wue said aboat him, Klght after night, hours after I had been in ted, I beard the old man in his workshop below, which looked out upon tot trraveyard of Bltabeny Ckurch old Bleaberry Caurch which my giandlalher built I beard my uncle saw icg, hammering, planing, and I knew what he was about. But I kncwaUo that any jf the villagers who happened to bt out late could see bis lamp shining thiough the chinks of the shatter that that oat of tbe view ot the grave yard by night, aud would repeat (with all the 'malice" which they prayed agalust on bended knees on Sunday) the dreadful gossip they had st afloat about a benevcltn and innocent old man. Had wt been living in tbs times of the Usstachusctta witches we should have beta burned as sorcerers. Perhaps it wos all these things preying lecislly on my mind for so long a time that culminated in or.e fatal stroke. I was attending to some of the usual houtebold work, when suddenly a faint feeling broke over me as thouRtt my lungs bad been suddenly exhausted ofthairair. I tried in vain to rise and call for help. In makiug the endeavor the faint feeling broit over me with a ttufold strength, which caused me to fall back insensible in my chair. The sense of bearing was the only sense that recovered itself, nod even that was faiat. Bat among the twenty voices near me tbe only two I caied to distinguish were those of Lester and my uncle, aud those I heard until the last. I have been informed since that, owing to the extreme suddenness and unaccountabiltty of my attack, every known mode of ascertaining to a certainty wustber death bad taken place or not was applied. The result of all these was to prove that I was dtad, and I heard Mrs. Ecannel say, with all tbe auction of a believer who thinks bo bat got a Scripture passage nice and pat I beard htr say, "Blessed Is them as dies in the Lord, for tbey flse oway like a bird to tho mountain; but the Dtvii was a liar fnm tho beginning, and, vorilf, their works do folbw him."' The amount of consolation Mrs. Bcannel Intended to convey in this passage Is beyond calcuUtien' As for tat, all emotion seemed to have left mo with my breath, and to have dropped into a condition of indifferent acquiescence. I know dow how lot ngly my hands werechafed, and by whom, and what gntlo touches and kisses were laid apon my eyes and lips and forehead. But at the time the senre of toach was gone. With the exception of fniut perception through the ears, my body had no more feeling than theiUui air through which you pass your band. A celebrated physician was telegraphed for fnm Philadelphia, but he almost laughed over my corpse, and plRhed and pshawed at my uncle and Lester while he crushed tho twenty dolU fee In bis baud. Was It a trance I was in? I never kuew. If so, it is unlike all o'.hcr trnuc:s I have ever henid of. Once I met a clergyman, one of Lester's school friends, who had, years n?3o, been burled alive. When tho last shovel-full bad been thrown In, his goaded nature, gilted with a momentary super-strength, burst the Iron walls of catalepsy, and annourced itself in one shrill ehrlek which thrilled to the marrow every mourner present. Ever since his rescue, Hut man has borne about with him tho facs ot a Luzarus conic to life iigdu, the unearthly faro of a being who has passed bpyon i the boundaries ot tbls life, and ull but overtrod those of otother world. But it is not bo with me. My face Is os natural as ever. My uu-Me Lester, Mrs. Scrannel all tell me' so. Inleel, it was only to-day that Mrs. Hcrannel siid to me, iu the language of compliment, "Blessed ore thf-y that arc married and given iu inrri:ig i. lor their eves shall stand out with fatness aud be like the angtls in heaven." Yes, unaccountable though it be, the condi tion into which I had fallen was that of 6creno and inrfifferett acquiescence. 5 hat faint sense c bearing, my only hold on life beyond that blind working of my intellectual aud spiritual i at ure, which the withdrawal of my senses was so epeedily ehutticg up in Insurmountable walls, infoimed me that the preparations for my fune ial were being completed. I heard, in con stantly dwindling accents, the reading of the sermon for the dead, the screwing down of the coffin lid, the rattling of the heurso, the letting down of my body to the grave, the striking of the first clod above me, like the tap of a skele ton upon tho breast. With that sound the last of my Bcnscs lelt mc. My whole being collapsed and that up, leaving no time for fright, aud I became as one that bad never lived. Tbe first Impression that stole back to me was that of awakening lioin a drenai of which 1 re membered nothing. Fresh air from an unknown Bourcc blew down upon me. I heard birds twittering, I knew the sun was shining, and I lelt warm drops upon my face. Then nn unutterable tright aad joy struck through me, as I unclosed my eyes, looked up, and saw that those tears had fallen from Uucln Silas, who seemed to lean out of the sky, far above, bending his arms toward the dead. III. Latent Account. What my nieco Alice Bleaberry says is al true, and what ber husband Lister Maverick pays is true too, and now I'm agoing to have my say, not a very loug say, neither. True as I hope one day to be buried in a coffin ot my owu invention, on that very Thanks giviug morning Alice tpeiiks of I was standing by her grnve looking down upon her face. Aij the many mouths 1 had been at work on th-u coffin 1 ba t never dreamed that my own nlecj would be the first one on whom its adramaes were to be tried. tverjbody in Tinsdale village, where I was born, and where, please God, I thall di, unless I thall be struck don while going to Washing ton to take out a patent for the u'nresaid coffin everybody in the village, ece?'.iug Alice believed I was a crazy old man. Even theliev. Letter Maverick this is Alice's huebaud now used to look upon me as little hotter than a poor n sitae, harmless, but still a maniac. I have not been a sexton for fifty years with out teeing tonic strange sight, out of grave, yards as well as in them. The people used to look at me lu church when Mr. Maverick read in the lesson for the day that passage in the Bible which speaks about him that hath a fami. liar spirit; and some oi the neighbors used to say that the "spooks" used to couio tapping, in the middle ot the night, at the shutter of my workshop window overlooking Bleaberry grave, yard, and ask to help me in my sawing and chiselling, and that I used to make cups out of death's-heads and knife aud fork handles out Of the crots-bones. I think it must have been tbe sight of my old wrinkled face, only six leet above her as she lay iu ber coffiu underground, that eave her strength to recover from her first fright, and use the rope and ladder which line tbe chimney like anstigement attached to the head of tue coffin, And this brings, me back to my inven tion again, that the villagers made so much fuss about because they understood nothing at all about it. I said that during fbo fifty years I had bee a sexton I bad seen mauy.slracge sights ouMde graveyards as well as inside. Perhaps the crucllist and most drt udtut eights are taoe I have seen inside them, though I cannot dwell much upon them here. When portions of the large blea jerry grave-yard have been bought by men who .wanted to become property owners, I bave seen graves that have beeu closed for years opened, and poor people coining in twos aod threes to carry iu baskets aud butter-kettles tha mouldering bor.es of long-dead relatives. Wheu a peison has been buried under suspicious circumstauces, I have seen the corpse disinterred two or thice days after the burial, and discwered, on opeting the coffin, with the face torn and blsedii g, tho lips uiauled, the hair torn out by the roots, aud tue position of the body reversed, Hg though the person ha I been burled alive, unq, cowan; out ol hit Irauoe, had had a short but desperate struggle in the t Jtub. It was such things aa this, more particularly, which set mu a thinking. May be my mind acts slowly, maybe I am older aud weaker than I think, and may bt I was a little bit afraid of being laughed at. Be that as it may, it was only when I arrived within a lew years of my present age that I began to put in practice a long matured plan. I'm afraid Mrs. Scraunel, housekeeper to the Mavericks, was harder against me than any of the other neighbors. Bat, I think now that she's seen it's turned out at 1 for good, she thinks well ot me, for the last time she saw me th said, "Mr. Bleaberry, your years are three, score years and ten, and If, by reason ol always tkkiu' tare of yourself, (hey bo longer or shorter, yet Is thalr stfeng'h reueweJ like the ' ravens that pick it out ai d the young eaales shall cat 11." She's a very good woman. Is Mrs. Pcranuel, and theie'snot a passage ot Bcrlpture bet what she baa at ber Org -rs' ends. Ki owing that I could trust no ono else, I made Alice my confidant, and alio it was who gate me tbe aid of a cheerful countenance fro-n the first moment when I commence 1 my coffin to tbe lnt moment when I finished it. A beautiful wotk it was when it was all done, mahogany of course, silver mounted (the lit i lo fortune I bad lately come into enabled me to bear the expeuse), and the lid reaching to the neck and there endlre. From the aperture above the laee (aud T often used lo think what satifacticn I should feel in being burled In just such a coffin) a sort ol wodden chimney arose, furnished inside with a bell, rope, and ladder. I didn't know exsctly what to call my coffin, for not uuderstandlug Greek and Latin, I did not feel that I w ould be tond at gctliug up any of those names of ten syllables that 1 had sometimes seen pla carded on the curbstones when I went to Phila delphia; It did, indeed, once occur to mo to call It tbe Phoenix coffin, because I bud often rd in the country newpapera about some great politiciau rising a Phecnlx froai his ashes. But then, on secoud thoughts, I came to the couciusiou that the Pbrnuix, by this time, must be a little tired of having so many people compared with hiru, and It would ouly be kind In me to give h ta a lutlc reft. While I was in this quuudary, perfectly cer tain that I bad inven'cd something that would some day or other bo found of use to th-e world, Alllce, who knew all my perplexities and sym pathized with them, d:ed, or at least appeured to. Iii opposition to all my friends and rela tions, in opposition to the wish of eveu the Rev. Le3ler Maveilck, I insisted ou her being buried io the coffin 1 had invented. It seemed tome that Providence bad thus stricken djwu my brother's child lo prove to the world tho value of my experiment. We buried ber, and for the four days that I vibitcd her giavc my friends laughed at me lor my credulity. 1 c mnot say that I had any con fiJ:nt expectation that she would rise from that turf and be among the living ouce mote. Bjt oulhauksgiving morning the day she aud ltev Lester Mavetick were to have been marned just bi tore church let out (and, strange to say a mairiage service had been solemnized there), 1 repaired, full of my own thoughts, to Alice's grave, and leaned my head, as I had done for many times during the days sue had been buried, over the apTturo of the chimney, which uroce two or three tcet from the ground. Tea-9 fell from my eyes upon 1ne siet lace beneath, and even while I wept, I beard an inarticulate sound below. Opening my e je9, I saw Alice's looking up into mine. In two minutes after that, with my help, she had extricated herself, aud was in my arms. In five minutes more I hud bathed her face from a brook that ran hard by, and carried her, faint unto death, but living, and to live, inio the little chapel annexed to the church. liev. Lester Maverick was then leaning aeainst the wall, his hui.ds up to his eyes, as though struck wiih suuden blindnets. I went out and lelt them both together there, and I never knew how they met each other, aud what wa said and done, and 1'xusuie I cau't Imagine. All I know Is that they were married a few days a'tcrwards, old Mr. Maverick oilljiatiu, and that whou tbe ceremony was ovee, ills. Scinunel Ucd bk-BS her I the knows more about Scriptures than any woman 1 ever saw before came up to me, and taking mo quite kindly by the baud, Baid, "Mr. Bleaberry, happy, happy happy be tby diearus; all we, like sheep, have gore astray, for of such is the kingdom oi htaveL." IV. Very J.ntrnt. N. B. 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I'll E YOST HERRING, Aireuts, 11 1 Din, So. 107 BouUi TfllM) Street, Phlia, ' INSURANCE COMPANIES. OFFICE OF THE DELAWARE MUTUAL SAFETY INSURANCE COMPANY. HlIT.AnELFllI.. November II, 1868. Tbs folio wins statement of tbs aftnlrs of the Com pany Is nbllnlied la cunlormlly with a provUloo of Its Charter: PREMIUMS RECEIVED From Novnuh. r 1, 18ti7. to Oolooer 81. 181S. On MHrlneauU lulaod Risks (KOt .rilfl 74 Ou FUeKUku M. 1IV20.', ne SUI8.7UW) Premiums nn Tollcles not marked off JNov. 1, lt-67 406 815 71 fl aV.f67 61 PREMIUMS MARKED OFF A esrnttl liorn r-iov. 1, lh07, lo Oot. HI. ISflS. On Marine and Inland Klsks 87 IH. (Hi") 77 OuElreltlHks HS.ai7 72 S.SU1W.J 40 Interest dnrlng tbe same rerlod 8nl vuges, etc 1D7 -lt)H 82 8i,w.i,i:2 31 LOPES, EXPENSES, ETC., iHlili g toe Jt-ur ih hOoo. Mnrlije Hiiti iiiluud NhvIu- tloii l.osn-8 f 121.052 71 Fire LonKf-s 7:.)K7 hrtui u t'remiuiuH fill I II 0 J ItPliiKurHiiri-s liO.lOUot Atiicy CliHiytH, AtlverUa- lug, PrlniiUK, etc E0.533C3 TaxeH Uniit-U SlRles, Mate nil Mniilomiil Txh 41..r5r) S9 2.(U'8ll Expenses., -S71GVW7 81 J2!i,.i(C)iK ASSETS OF TII1-J COMPAAY Novciti oer 1, 1808. IT. B. 6 per cent. Loan, 10 40a. 8208 500 00 U. H. per ctut. Li'mu, 1881... im soo Oil U. Pr ctut. Loan (lor PaclUc KPllroad) 60,000 00 btate ol Pvuntt)lvuului b per cent. Iiown 211,373 00 C'liy ol pnuaOHipniu o por cent. Loan (extiupt from Tax) 128.501C0 Btuie ot New Jerncy 0 ptr ceot. iiHU 61.500 00 l'liiiit-yl vault Kitiiroiid ImI MoriKfluw per cent. Pond.s 20.200 00 1'cuiisy Ivaiiirt Hitilioad 21 MoriKHge per cent. iinndH 21,000 00 Vettern 1'iuu'a Haiiroad MorlaRe 6 per rent. Bon is (Penu'tt Railroad guar- antee) 20,02500 .St ate oi TtDneesee 6 per cent. Loan 21,000 00 o. ale ot TtnneuHte 0 per ct nU 1ho 6,03125 Gernibtilown Uaa Couipiny; principal xnd ln-eresl guar. bdikkI by t tie City ot Phi ladelphia, 3l)0 BtiureH su.clr. 15,000 00 Pennhj ivania Hallroad Com- pany, k0(auaits HlocK 11,300'00 onn PeunsylvanU Had- road Company, loo aliares Rtoik 5,500 00 Philadelphia aud HoiftUera Mall SieHniHlilp Company, 80 bhares stock 15.000 00 1 oaiiM on Rood aud Mtiri- gaite, tlrsl ileus on City 1'ropertles 207,900 00 t2('0,OC0 J2(i,(im) 60,000 200.COO 125,000 60,000 0,000 25.0C0 25.0C0 30,000 7.000 15,000 10.OC0 6.C00 20,000 2C7.0C0 1,110,000 Par Murket value, $1,130,325 23 Cost, $l,oya,01-20. Real Elhte 36,000 00 Lllis Kecelvauio lor luhur- PUceBiuatle 322,186 01 Ralauues due at Agencies Premiums on Marine Poli cies, Acerued luiercHt.aud other debts due the Com pany 10,178 83 Block aud Hcilp ot Sundry Corporatlouu, tfolOO. Lstl- muled value 1,813 00 Cttpti iu lit ok Sim 150 i8 Cash lu Drawer H i bo 110,563 73 J1.617 ,-iU7 NO Philadki.phi a, November U, 1818. Tbo Boarnef 1-irecUirs nave tlila duy declarea a CABH DlVlDKND ot IKS PKit CENT ou tbs CAPITAL STOCK, and blX PKKCKNT. IntereBton tbe bCltir of tbe Couipauy, payable ou aud afier the let December pioxiuio, free of -NuUousl aud btate Taxes. Tbey have a so decred a 8CBIP DIVIDEND of T11IHTY TEH CEKT.ou tbe KAKNE1) l'KKM ICilS for the year ending October ai, ibM, certltioalea ot which will be ibsued to the parties euiiiled to the Fame, on and after tbe 1st December proximo, free Of Matloiml aud buue Taxes. They have oidertd, aldo, that the BCRIP CERTIFI CATE8 OF Pr.OFlTdof the CotupBtiy, for the year ending October 81, lbti4, be redeemed In CAM!, at the Office of the Company, on auii after 1st December proximo, all luloitut thereon to cease on tual date. irBy a provision ol tbe Charter, all Certllicates of fccrlp not presented for redeoiplion within five years after public notice that they will be redeemed, sua. 1 be foriittd and eanctlled on Ihe Jiouki of tne Vumpany, tm'Ko certijlcule of prvftU issued under My he Act of Jncorporution, ' no certificate ihull itsue u.t lets cUiimtd within two yean ofttr the declaration of the dividend whereof it ii ivtdence," D1BECA,U- Thomas C. Hand, iuuu vj xiavis, James C. Hand, 'iheopLllus Pauldlnf, Juseun H. beai, DugU CiaiK, JoliuK. Peurose, Jacob P. Joues, Jamea Tiaqualr, Kuld Dailiuiiion, b. Jones Brooke. Jim. B. Mcarlsnd, Kuwaru LaiourLaae, JothuaP. Ejre, Edinuad A. Bouder. tuuuuel K. eUikes, lleury biuau, W lilliiui U Ludwlg, UeurKe U Lelper, Ueuiy O. D.lieu, Jr., Juhn I). Tayior. OcHK W. iteruardou, William U Bouituu, Jacob Kleel, Hpencer M ilvaloa. Johu B. bemple. Pitts., A. B. lifiner, do 1 1 '1 1 . lunrimi. fin. THOMAS i). KAMI. PrMldeut. JuHiS C. DAVJi, Vice-Presideut. IIKNRT T.TLbOitN, Hecetaiy. liEMHY BALL, Asslaiaut btcreiary. 11 121m "CUAKTEK PEItrETUAL. Franklin Fire Insurance Co. r ftlil4AlkJUAllllJl, OFFICE: Nos. 435 aud 433 UILSXUT STIIEET, ASKKTS ON JANUARY 1. 185, capital loo.noo-on A COM UJlD H URfL V8 ... I.O I U BEIT LED CLALM.U, JJSOOME KKJ& 187 as.oaaa sau.ooifoa, IiWISSilCat fAI RINCB 18SU UVB W5 OOO.OOO. Perpetnal ana Xemputary Ponuioa on Liberal Term DIRECTORS. Charles N. Bancker, Ueonte Falf baiunel Umiil, Ueorse W Iticbards. Isaac Lea, AIIIW r l.lVli Frauds W. Lewis. M.D. 1 homas 8rm, William a. Uraut. CHARLES N. HAMJKKK. ProLiant. (IhUlti'-K FaLEb, VtOtt-PreulUenU JA8. W. MUAL.A.1U1KK, Beutetary pro keui. Except al Lexiiiatoo. EeuiDcay, ibis Company h noAnencles est of Puutburn. v pzj TN8UUAMCE COW PANY JL or NOUTE AMERICA, No. 232 WALNUT 8TRKUT, PUILADA. ICOHPUliATJl.D 17W. CUAKTKtt PEKPaiTUAl Marine, luluud, stud J-Ire Iusurauce. ASSETS JANUARY 1, 1868, - 12,001,266-72. 10,000,000 Lobsb Paid la Cash bluos lu Organixatlon. T1TR VJ TflRA Arthar O. Comn, Oeorcs L. Harruoa: Hamnel W, Jones, tt uuu m., nivwa, t harles Taylor, , Ambrose white, William Weinh, hl bard D Wood, B. Morris Wain, 1 A TlTM ITU ft nrt0IPT7 B (IahI Cbablu Platt. beoreiary. WILLIAM HUKHLKK, idarrlsburc, Pa-, Centra Agent lot uisbtais of Pennsylvania, - jwJ lrmrli.ll It. I one. En ward 11. Trullsr, Edward B. Clarke, X. Charlton lleury, Alfred D. Jmsud. John P. Wbllo, Louis U Madeira. UNITED .SECUBITYj i LI IT INS t Ri N C 3 AND TltrsT ' ? COMPANY, or PEN NSYLVANL' OFFICli: S. E. Corner HFEH and CI1ESHUT St?, PHILADSLPDIA. CAPITAL. S 1 ,000,00 DIHKOTOH S. rnitAiKLPHIA. K H. HQnSTM AN!T. A. J. I)UKY V.l JObKPK PATrKRUJsj! AM. V. HOUSTOiN, kj I lj vT aj V J. HOLM i. 11EMIV K. ROOD. cJFonoK rr. f ttt rt. (-XiliWii. W, ChlLLb, Vt Ai, A. I'd HI l.R, v a. hhm:l. WM. V Hi KkAN, HlOiMAB W. EV'aN9. K KW YOKK. I JAT,ir5f MOTtl'.I ON. Presliloit MnliattT Baut JOtEPU bTUAHT, ot J. J. biuari. ifc C., Banker BOSTON. ,j BON. E. 8. TOBKV. latn Preildent B-jard ot Trade. CINCINNATI. A. JT. CUAMBERLIIN. of Chamberlain .ft Co, CH (UAOO. I,. 7,. T.flTKR. of FIpI I L-'IIhi ct C ). C. Ai. bililli, ol Ueu. C. Mi i Ith & iirolbi rs, Banken LoniHVfLLK k Y. t WILLIAM GARVIN, of Oarvlu, Bell ACo. I ST. notni. 1 JAMFPV. YEATJAN,C..shii'rUercbtttit4' Kationa! JlauK. y X' ITW H1VP.VTBV ' HON. J. W. FATlERnuN. IJ. H. Sena'.or, BAI.TIMORK. WILLI M PBF.KO I T Hid I TH, Cimsiillilaud Railway Line, n II 1 1 Kltl II . Superintends rew York J P. V. SHOEMAKER, of Adams 4 Oo.'s Express. I HRlvi IAN AX. nf O. W.Oall Ax. fc 1 FltANClM T. EINU, 1-reMOenl Central Bavlnw Bank. 1 GKOROE H. STUART, President. BKNRY E. ROOD, Vice President. C F. HETTS becretary. J. L. LUDLOW. Cocsultiog- Physician. R. M. OTRVIV, M. D., 1 ... JOb. F. KOERPElt. if. B.,Me(llca,B'rBmlne" C. KlTJAhT PAT I ERS(. ,., KKhAKU LUDLOW, 'jCouusel. This Company lanues Policies of Life Innuranca ui on all the various plans that bave been proved! by tbe experience of European and American Coru4 lanles to be safe, sound, and reliable, at rates aa LOW AND UPON TEKM.S AS FAVORABLE A3 THOSE OF ANY COM ANY OB ElAUAL BTa4 BIL1TY. i All policies are non-forfeitable after tbe payment of two oi mo. e annual reuilntiis. 11 13 jmw3inrp ' .i SHIPPING. I 7 gff3 LORILLARD'S STEAMSHIP LIN FOR WEW YORK. From aid after tbls date, tbe rates ot frelgbt by this Hue vt hi be ten cents per loo lbs. for heavy goods; foar cebts per foot, measurement; one cent per gallon for liquids, ship's option. One of tbe bteamers of this Line will leave tvery Tuesday, Thursday, and Satur day. Uuods received at all times on covered piers All gotds far warded by New York agent free of charge except cartage. Ft i further information, apply on tbe pier to 88otu JUUN F. QUE; ysrrr J"li uvlupool and guKKNa rftiii MiT'i. TUW IM.-liimau Line of Atail Oleauiers a. t kiuiuted lo sttll as lol.ows: Lit i OF PArtis, baturday, November It ills A i via lialnaAi, 1 uesuay, Aovomber 17. Cl'l V OF 1 UAliOM- Baturday, JNov. St. til V OF BaLl lAlOltn,, baturuay, November 28. Cl'lY OF NEW t uhK, Tuesday, Lt-ceiutier 1. auu each sin ceedlug bamiday and alteruata 'iueaday, at 1 P, JW., from Pier 46, Nuriu River. KA1EB OF PAcbaUE uv tub mail iTgiMEB bAii.io avarsv baiubijav, Payable lu Uold, Payable lu Currency." - FIRbT lABhS thui)'lEEiv&UE.....M. I to J. u ii auL ........... KmI to Lonuoii....... 40 to Paris -. n,'i to Paris 4T PAS.SAU1C HV lUt TUKBDAV STEaHKH VIA UA1AXAX, JIlKhT CAHIN b-laKHAK, PaiaUltt lu Ullld. Pavfthiu In 1 !nrni.v. Llv ci uuol.- f 90 1 LlVeriHuil 12 lialliax... i luiliax 1 hi. Johu'a. N. t. by Lrauch Steamer.., -)t. Johu s, N. F. I M y Biauoh Htenmer... Fa.H'-eiikers also U r warded lo Havre. Jdamburu. Bre men, etc., al reduced late. '1 icKets cau be bought, nere by persons sending for thtlr iriends, at mi-oura e rales. t-or luriher lntoimatiou apply at tbe Company's 0 11 11 (8. JOHN . DALE, Agent, No. 15 HROADWAY, N. Y, Or to 0'Uij.v.X.Lh St FAULK. Axeuls, Ko. 411 Cii EaN U A' blrutt, Philadelphia. .rf'r-r-rv, KLVV EAl'KEbb LIN "BT 0 A TlLX sfea'tliiism anuria, (neuikeuiwu, aud Washlngtoni V via Clieaapeuke auu Delaware Canal, with oou neclions ai Alexandria irum the musl direct romo tor Lj nchoiiiK, Bristol, KboxvUie, Naahvllie, Daiioa and the buuiuvtettl. fc.ie.uiers lenveretiulaily every Baturday at H004S from the brat wharl a-.ue Market street, Fielht received dally . . WM. P. CLYDE & CO., No, 14 Norm and bouth Wharves. J. B. DAVIDbON, Ageul at Oeorguiown. M. ELDKliiOE dt Co., Agents at Alexandria, VIr. glnla. j - -aVfT AtillCE. rOlt NKW VoiiK, VIA SLUd ..P ELA W ALU AiNDKARirAJ CANAL. jt.APB.Avba blEAMBOAT liOMi'ANy The bieaui Plupeliers of (his Hue leave DAILY froiu hioi wharl uelow Maraet street. TilAiUUUil Li -A4 HUUKb. Ooodr .trwaiued by all the linen going out of , Yorb, North, Jtwi, and West, free Of commission. 1 reiguta received at our usual low rates. WILJUAM P. Caj v iJK at CO., Agents, , rr . ,0' M - VVHAKVEcs, Philadoipnia. J AM Kb HANll, Ageuu gii No. lltf Vv ALL btrent. corner of Mouth, New York ,-. PHILADELPHIA, ' KICUMONO iZ AND AuJttFuLK Bi'EAMbiilP l,it: 1ai.a.OOOIU FKEIOHT AIM LlNili TU XilH SUOlilAHKWWI, EVE 11 V HATUKUAT, At noon, from FLtuT V UA1U)' above MARK XT blrecu ThiRODGH BATES and TUROUOH RECEIPTS to alt pom in lu North auu Boutii Carolina, via baa buaid Air Line liatiroad. couuectlng at Porisiaoutn auu lu Lyuchuurg, Va.,'lenuesbeo, aud tbe Weal, via Vligiuia ana Teuuessee Air Llue aud Richmond and Danville Railroad, Freight UAbDLKD BUT ONCE, and taken al LO Vv EB Ra'1 jus THAN AN Y OTHER LXNii, The regularity, satety, aud cheapness of this routs commend it to the public as tue most desirable me. diuni for carrying every descrlptiou ot freight. No charge tor commibslou, draj age, or auy expenaa Si transler. bteamshlps insured at lowest rates. Jfrtlgut received dally. WILLIAM P. CLYDE CO., No. 14 North and Bouib WHARVES. W. P. PDRTEK, Ageut at Richmoud aud City Point. T, P. CROW JELL A CO., AgunU at Norfolk. S 1 STEAMBOAT LINES. r.txFTZf rUILADlSLPillA and tren. Ui-inr-i-'-ri turn ia ten bteamuoat Llue. The Bteamboat i. AunKKoI leaves ARCH Hlreet Wharf, tor iieutun, stoppiug at Tacuuy, Torreedale, iteverly, RuMuigtou, Lrlutol, Floruuco, itobulus' Wharf, and W bno iillh Leavi Aich Htreet Wbarf, Leaves bouth Trenton, baturday, Nov. HI, dou t go baturday, Nov. 21, B A.M uouuuy, o, i a.iu luuuur, " d,u A.m. Tuesuay, , Wed'uay, 1 liuisday. i-riaay, li, 7,', A. ill ii). S A.AI ili. S A SI H7, S A.M. i'uesday. Wed day, ihuisday, uriuay, ii, 11 A.tC K5 It M, M, U ii. HI, I P.M Fate to Treuiuu. 4U cents each way: lntermediata places, ito cents. 4 li . OPPOSlllOM TO THE COM. -- 1 H1 a. l u RAILROAD A.l) bul b bieauier JOHN BYLVETER will maka dallw eicurslous to Wilinlugton (BuuoaysexoeJteU), touch ing at Chester aud Marcus Hook, leaving A HUH blieel haifalV4& A.M. and 8-ao P. All returning. ltv. Whmiuctor al7 A, M. aud li'KO P. M. JJght frsights taken, r nTTLs F0K wn.MiNGTON, ciiEsrEiT, FAKE 10 CTS. The Steamer 8. M. F' ELTON leaves Cbesnnt Street Wharf at S P. M , aud Wilmington at S'uU A. M, Pare, IU et. Frelgut taken at low rates. it Is m tIaKTZLS FOR NEW YOBK-8WIPlSUBjl Jm&,i i-tiP r Company Despatct) a u bwlil-sure Lines, via Delaware and Rariuaa Canal, on aud after Ihe lftib of March, leaving dally at li M. and 6 P, M connecting with ait Northern aiid L'.ul.rn lino. For freight, which will be taken on accommodating terms, appiy M WILLIA M, HAIKUACO., Ill Ku.W2B,DJLAVARJS AvsaWtJ
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