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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. Too gatherer together of t'ae floating
materials which compose this hiatorlette would
merely remark that Bexton Bleaberry's inven
tion is probably the original of what has since
bci n so successfully imiluted in Pari aud some
of the principal cities of the United States. He
died, tinlortunately, before he was able to secure
a patent, but his invention had the oue merit of
bringing together two loving hearts, who always
lock forward to Thanksgiving Day as an occa
sion for being Tkuly '1u4nkpul.
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)liNMjlLVi:li FlHc. IJSoUrtAWUlfi VUM
, J-AN luoutp(iried lsir-Ut.f u-r Perpetual m,
(lu WALs ii'i bir.el, o(j oaliv luut-eiideijue auuart
'lb lb louiuauy, lavuruu.y known to lUeauuiiuuuiu
. for over forty yuura, o..uLiuues lo hHure annual lorn
i or drtiuoye by Ure ou Pubilo or Private liuudiuiii,
. Hlber per jiaueniiy or for a I'uil ed lime. A'ao on
I Furniture Blocks ot G loda, aud MeroliaudUe toar
I rally, ou liberal leruis,
'lbi-lr Capital, Uineili.r wi'U large Buiplai Faud
i Is luve-iieu iu the moil ctrelui iiiauunr, wblcu euables
n fill iu our r 1 vi uio uuum wj mmwhuwu vetiurliy Id
Ute cats ol lo. .
Daulel Bmtth, Jr., J. hn Devernnx,
i iiouiaa euiitn.
AltXhQder iieuiun,
lnaao Akilrliurat,
TUa.uim 1U)0 n,
ILll
Heury Lewis,
J. llllllnul.,.. I-alL
Jl'" ".UU-X-.j jf
DAN I KXj f-M li .(J, J B., president.
WM. 6. CBOWilJ becretM. 8 M
JMmtlAL FI1US IASUKAAIU CWITASI
LONDON.
ESTABLISHED 1803.
Paid-up Capital aud Accumulated Funds,
8,0 0 0,0 0 0 IN COLD.
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