0 THE DAILY E , VtfG TELEGRAPH PHILADELPHIA, MONDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1863. THE J1NUAUY MiUAZINES. "Lipnlncott's." The third rolame of LippincotCs Maytizin pens with ft holiday number, fall of stories and sketches interesting and readable at any time, but particularly bo about the Christmas and New Year season. To begin with, we Lave the first Instalment of the new seria1 novel, "Beyond the Breakers," with a full page illustration by Mr. E. B. Bensell. Messrs. 11. II. Stoddard, George II. Boker, and Bayard Taylor contribute 'Poems for a Golden Wed ding." T. C. de Leon discourses about 11 Christmas Pantomimes." Hare is a descrip tion of "Boxing-Night" at Drury Lane : As it is the blest province of Fairy-land, let us put on our magic oap, set back some dozen ticks of the year-haud that will run bo fast round the dial of our life-clocks, and, presto I we are in the pit o( "Drury Lane" on Basing Night of '5.ri. Lights are up, but the curtain is not; and yet the house is Jammed boxes, pit, and galleries not perhaps with an audience so select as on other nights, but with one of solid respectability. Stately dowagers are slowly fanning themselves, and settling comfortably in their seats for a long session; grave old gents wipe their speos carefully be fore adjusting them to study the bill; little Miss, with llaxen plaits, ha3 a sparkle in her eye and a bright spot in her cheek that for bode many a delighted nudge into the portly Eaunch of the well-fed "grocery-person" by er side; youDg Oxford men rove Masts round the stalls, trying to look at the audience, bat furtively eying the curtain; while still younger MaBter J. Ball eats lollipops with a furious, but, alas 1 vain resolve to dissolve the lump in Lis throat from anxiety for the overture. The prompter's belli The curtain rises, and, the lollipop effort suspended, Master J. Hull may yet be reserved for the Chiltern Hundreds. As usual, a play precedes the pantomime the dessert of the great feast of fun set forth on Boxing-Night. This time we have Little Toddlekins, given as only Charles Matthews can give it, and followed by his in-, tensely funny Trying It On. The audience 8lts respectful and attentive what audience would not to the King of Comedy f bat It i3 the attention that protests against being amused very much before the object of the evening appears. At last the comedies are over. Perhaps, not being as young as we were, for all our fairy cap, we give a little quiet sigh to ourselves that they didn't last longer. If we do, it is drowned in the first notes of the overture, founded on that popular air, "The Rat-eatiher's Daughter," with a chorus of cat-calls, pleasant chaff and whistles from "the gods;" for Boxing-Night allows many liberties, even in Old Drury. The overtare ends, a hushed stillness falls upon the house, and the curtain rolls up on the pantomime. It is a clever effort of Mr. Blanchard, bearing the comprehensive title of lley-Diddle-Dtddic; or, Harlequin King JSonsense and the Seven Ages of Man. The first age shows King Nonsense upon Lis throne, surrounded by Little Red Riding Hood, Simple Simon, Mother Hubbard, Little Boy Blue the whole Court of Nursery rhymes. The Spirit of Common Sense, peti tioning the King for a little more sense in nursery literature, is interrupted by the sud den entrance of Routine and Red Tape burlesques of official tardiness; the first with inkstand for cap and huge placards of salient abuses, and the latter made up like a giant bundle of his namesake. After some talk and more gesture, the inlluenoe of Common Sense banishes these unpleasant parties to Noodle dom for lite. This prelude affords many capi tal hits at local abuses, especially the Circum locution Office. The second age, the School-boy, shows beautiful soenery of the village of Prettywell, with the traditional pedagogue, Dr. Synttx, meting out grim tasks to the disgust of au dience and terror of urchins, until, playing at cricket with the latter, a well-directed ball sends Him, with true pautomiuiio jus tice, into the stream beyond. With the third age the Lover sighing like a furnace the mise-en-scn?e improves in bril liance; and the fourth the pard-like Soldier introduces much pantomimic fuu and trickery by a double troupe, with two Harlequins, two Clowns, and two Columbines, aided by an ad mirable ballet corps. The other ages have each its appropriate scene, till, in the seventh, a charge irom the snowy winter 01 oil age to the "realms of perpetual summer" gives a daz zling fairy transformation. The fairy becomes Columbine, and King Nonsense, Pantaloon, ready to grant all her desires; so in the mi lit of golden showers and red fire Virtue is as ever rewarded, and the curtain drops. Throughout, the audience give3 signs, by frequent laughter and loud applause, of its keen reliBh of the humor and delight at the brilliance of the scenic pageant. At the last transformation, all rise to their feet with one impulse, and a perfect storm of applause and bravos follows the fall of the curtain, continu ing till it slowly rolls up again on hastily re posed fairies and tired actors. Mr. Blanchard ehows much experience in the dramatio con struction of the piece, though it be but a thread of plot on which to string bo me ad mirable hits at the humors of the time, and the management of the machinery could scarcely be improved. Through its aid the production of illusion is complete; and nothing on the other Bide of the Atlantic can compare with the London theatre in this regard, and in that of transformation tinsel. Fairies Hit, Clowns fly, and Harlequins disappear as if by their own volition, with never a click to tell of Bprings and trap-doors. Tinsels, zinc, and gauze are so artistically handled that the solid masses of varied light cross ing and recrosswg, yet retaining each it i indi vidual color blend the whole into a scene of almost real enchantment. But the pantomime is over. Master Bull's eyes have already begun to draw straws, and more than one chubby cheek rests quietly on the friendly shoulder near. The curtain rolls down again; Master Bull wakes, dizzy but still delighted; the gas is lowered, and we step out once more into the nipping, foggy air of Boxing-Night. "The Blue Cabinet: a Christmas Story," is by Lucy Hamilton Hooper; "The Old Year and the New," a poem, is by Frank Wigglesworth Clarke; "The Secret Agent" is an interesting eketch of one of Napoleon the Third's familiars, which may be true or not; "Justice for Blue" Beard" is an attempt to relieve the memory of the nursery hero from some of the obloquy which rests upon it. "Cross and Crown" is a poem by lvlgar Fawuett. Mrs. Rsbeooa Hard ing Davis concludes her short etory entitled "The Pearl of Great Price." From "The Parisian's New Year," by George M.Towle, we make the following extraot: New Year's day is the beggar's oarnlval. The majesty of Imperial law for onoe unbends, and Monsieur the gen-d'arme on this day passes the mendicant without a word, and lets him pursue his lowly trade in peace. Were you to go out a day or two before New Year's, utoa anj of the great highways which con verge from every direction to the capital, y m would see troops of forlorn, crippled, blind, ragged creatures wending their difficult way to the city, which they almost think to be ma 1 of gold. The Jour de I' An is the only day of all the year when they may beg, dancp, an I sing without molestation. There are people with all sorts of misfortunes, visible mil Invisible: there are merry beggars, im pudent beggars, melancholy beggars, young beggars and old, organ grinders and "something -ean " singers, danoing beggars, and monkey-show beggars. Here they are, lining the long streets as far as eye can reach, raising the veriest hubbub of pandemonium with their harps and their cracked voloes, their oater wauling and drumming. They have a mighty harvest, poor bouIs l for the people are all kindly on this day, and centime pieces rattle down generously from the windows of every Btory. And there are not a few contrasts on this day, which bear a romantio tinge and show in glaring colors how wonderful are the vicissi tudes of life. That stout, gaudily-dres.sed old dame you saw dashing down the Rue de Rivoli In a coach and livery, on her way to call on the Countess de la Potfeuille, was twenty years ago a chesnut-woman on the corner of Rue Vivienne, and has made a goodly fortune out of that plebeian but paying trade. Bat here, under your window, as you gaze .out upon the human New Year's kaleidoscope, totters an old, broken-down, shattered-to-pieces, utterly wretched-looking woman, her f rey hair streaming disordered about her yel ow and wrinkled face, her miserable bonnet awry, and her ragged garments covered with dust. She, too, once rode in her carriage and livery, and made fashionable calls on coun tesses, and had her lofty house in Faubourg St. Germain; nay, it was said she had even been presented at the court of the patriarchal Louis Philippe, and could show descent from some of the bluest blood in France. The poor shattered creature mumbles as she looks up to you, and stretches out her feeble hand shaking with paralysis, eagerly clutching the two-sous pieces which you throw down. She is a victim of Paris vice deserted her hus band, ran away with a soldier, hurried back to Paris when she was deserted in turn, went on the stage and grew crack-voiced there, and then was thrown upon resources far more horrible the old, old story, yet new and touching with every heroine. Place these two women side by Bide what a startling picture of human change ! There is intelligence, de scent in rags vulgarity and coarseness in prosperous panoply 1 Jane S. Austin contributes a story entitled "Nor Dead nor Living," and Karl Blind dis cusses the question, "Will .Spain be a Re public ?" A Christmas Btoryentitled "Golden Dreams," by Albert Fabre, and "Oar Monthly Gossip" and "Literature of the Day," con clude a number that has a sufficient variety to suit all tastes. aiODEIN KEAL LI FE H03I1XIE. Another Vci-miom or the fllcadc-LniMllH Case- Lunacy of the Commodore Wlmt Drove the Ualluut Tar to Mildness Why and How He was Couliued Per sonal Explanaiiou of Mr. Charles I. jLiiuUh. Tno confinement of Commodore Meade in a lunatic asylum aud his subsequent discharge and the peculiarities connected with the case' have naturally awakened a deep interest in the public xuiud, and several partial versions of the affair have from time to tiaie appeared. The following clear and full statement oi the whole case is from a geutleman most deeply interested, Chailcs K. Landis, Esq., of Vincland, the geii tteman whom the Commodore threatened to put to death at all hazards: That I have ta'en away this old man's daughter Tt In mom wue; true, 1 have married her; The vi ly head aud from of luy olleudlug Hath tula extent, no more." uth, uo. in. Evfnino TF.i.KCiitAru: As numerous re ports have been published in the papers trivial uu incorrect statement of the caso o. Comuio tlore Meade, and i.s my own niiuic has beeu iwaae more prominent than the trutn of tlio circumstances la.rly admit in shore, "that I had Commodore aieado airobted upou a criminal charge, aud that when he could not be held upon that charge, 1 had him incarcerated m a lunatic asyiuii upon the certilicate ot two Tombs physicians," I beg the liberty of settiiifj nijself r't;ht be tore the public. I have heard of meuiu olden limed attaching castles audtakinsr, their wives by force. I have heard of their tuKiui them out ot third-story window, and I have aibo heaid of their quietly walking away and getting married; but I never heard before, cither iu hihtory or tiction, of a man lirst coutlnine; his intended father-in-law in a lunatic asylum and then immediately marrying his daughter, and 1 am not ambitious to be tho one to start such a precedent. I first met my wite at the Commodore's own house, in Washington, last January. I was then told that it was worth as much as a mau's lite to pay any attention to his daughter. Of the number ot suitors who had been actually driven away by force of arms, upon further inquiry, I ascertained this to be a tact. Wheu I had de cided to propose lo my wife 1 sent a formal notice to him, aud request for his consent. His unswer to this was a peremptory order to desist from all attentions to his daughter, reiterated by another letter threatening serious conse quences in case I continued those attentions, and placing the grounds of bis objection as lollows: First, my age; second, my religion; third, being an entire stranger. Being at the tune thirty-four years old, I was at a loss to know whether he meant that I was too youngor too old. I did not care about, adoptiug any new religion, and being lully his equal in birth and education, and hiving lived tor eleven years upon my owu estate in Mew Jersey, "with my banner on the outward wall," 1 could not pos sibly sympathize with the last objection. In rei-pect to the lat letter 1 consulted his ton, Lieuteiiaut-Comniunder 11. W. Aleade, Father Fraueiali, of Brooklyn, formerly his meet, Admiral Ilirain 1'uuldiug, the father-in. law of two of his eons, Charles A. Meigs, of New York, his brother-in-law, aud other members- of his family, and they all advised me to pay no attention to it, "that the Commodore was sufferlnir under aberration of mind, and had been in this slate for some time." This I fully believed, as I knew that tho Commodore had Builered great Injustice from the Government, in being unjustly Kept out of a claim, amount ing, I believe, to millions of dollars, even atier the legality aud justice of the claim had been fully cBtabli.-licd, and, also, that from some per sonal jealousies he bad suffered injustice lu his court martial for the loss of tho San Jacinto, and had not been awarded tho rank and pro motion which be dcoerved. which, to an officer, is worse than dea'.h. The letter Itself was incoherent. Alter this I was informed that the Commodore was watching around tho btaten island ferries, that ho might shoot me at the first opportunity. I continued my attentions tho same, aud would have blushed at the thought ot anything like personal danger inilucnclng my conduct. For tome time previously my marriage was ap pointed to take placo on the 14th ot October, at the residence of my wile's uncle, Charles A. Me'gs, ti-q., of Stateu Island. A few days before 1 received a warning that the mind of the Commodore was disturbed, aud that he would Bhoot me lor certain in caso he saw me. I de cided, however, that on the 14th of October I would ciws the ferry in open daylight, In an open carnage, and aland any amount ot shoot ing that was neccsary. I felt that men had o'ten risked their lives for objects less worthy than mine. On the 14th I crossed the ferry safely, in com panywithiuy father, my aister, aud mv chief sccrtttiry, Air, Mu Lt JJurk, Mi arrived at th.9 residence of Mr. MeltfK. Lieutenant-Commander H. W. Meade Immediately iu'ormed mo that he had performed n melancholy task tho pre ceding day that of placing the Commodore in the li'ooininedale Asylum; that for months past he has been threatening different people; that lie h id threatened the lives of Mr. B. F. Corlics, Mr. Meig', Secretary Welles of tho Navy, and his sons that upon his peroo several revolvers had been found, and lour more revol vers In his valwe; and that he had a gang of "roughs" engaged to cummit violence upon my-, self in crossing the river. Instead of this belna done in order to promjte my marriage, it was done only from motives of humanity, and it wan expected that upon such a teirlblo occurrence in. the family I would postpone the marriage or break it olf. Tho family was also ot this disposition. ( requested, however, that the marriago should tu'ie place. My allianred was uot responsible for this heart rending misfortune, and, besides, if she had lost her beauty, or met with any other misfortune, or if all the family had suddenly become luna tics, I would have been all tho more anxious to have tho risht and the power to protect her. I married her, thank God 1 and, with His help, mean to stay married, and shield her all her life Irom every evil that may threaten. My marriage has received tho approbation of every member of my wife's family excepting the Commodore. lielative to the Commodore's confinement, I had no hand in it; nor had my wile; nor did I know of it before the morning ot my marriasj but I have seen letters from Secretary Welles of the Navy, and from General Georjje G. Meade and o'uers, approving oi tho confinement, of the Commodore upon the ground of insanity, and expressing surprise that it had not beeu done lone terore. The Commodore was placed in confinement by Lis eon, Lieutenant-Commander H. W. Meade, w ho is now in the Pacific Ocean, in command of the United States steamer Saginaw, and conse quently wa9 not present at the trial In New York, but was simply represented by counsel. If the Commodore has recovered his health there is no one more joyed at it than myself, or who can wish him better health or a longer life. Charles K. Landis. Vincland, N. J., Dec. 10, 18U8. From a perusal of the above it will be seen that Mr. Landis has been a cnrelul student of the sensational style. His courtship and mar riage of the Commodore's daughter, as narrated by himself, would not be out of placo In the columns of the New York Ledger. Ed. Eve. Tel. The Alaska Purchase Money. Tbe air is full of rumors about the disposition made by Baron Stoeckl ot the purchase money for Alaska, which was appropriated by Conuress in July last. An examination of the Treasury Department records develops the fact that the warrant of seven million two hundred thousand dollars was drawn in favor of Baron Htocckl,who gave it to G. VV. liigcp, the banker of this city. Mr. Biggs went to Secretary McCullocn with it and had it made payable in Washinsrtou. He then asked lor the loan ot $200,000 iu legal tenders, as ho had some payments to make out of it at once, and could not or did not want to wait until he could ecud the gold to New York and sell it. Mr. McCulloch at first refused to have any thing to do with such an arrangement, but as Mr. Kiggs was urgent he got Generil Soinner to consent, and the legal-teuders were loaned ou the gold, and were subsequently returned and tie cold all released. The first check given by the Treasury was dated August 1, and was made payable to the order ol G.W. Kiiis for $7,000,000 in coin. It was indorsed by Mr. Kigg3 to S. 8. & C. Ward, of New York, and by them indorsed and the money paid to H. F. Vaile, of the Bank of Commerce of New York, by the Sub-Treasury, on August 4, three days after it was given. Upon Ausust 1 next a check was givcu for 8100,000 in coin, and made payable to Kigs & Co., and was paid to W. A. Jeukins, in New York, on August 4. The next one was upou August 3, tor $'25,000 in coin, and was paid through the same source. The nextOLe was given upou the same date, but late Int he attemoon, tor $35,000 iu coin, and passed to Van Dyck's Sub-Treasury through the same channels a9 the two previous ones. No call was then made uDon General Spinner fcr any more until September 0, when a coin check for 20,000 was Issued, aud was indorsed to Kiges & Co., and receipted for by "J. Furnett;" and the last wasiorthc balance, $20,000 iu coin, upon Sep tember 16. and passed through the same source as the previous one. No one connected with Congress or with any of the New York newspapers, who are alleged to have received these checks, ever Indorsed them, for they have been collected at the Trea sury Department Any one can see these checks by calling on General iSpinner. There is uo possibility of Mr. ispinuer being iu any way cognizant of the use this money was applied to, nor has he authority to say in what amouuts or when money shall be drawn from the Treasury by those having a right to draw it. A statement has been made to several mem bers of Congress and others by a young mau here, who hails Irom Georgia, that he his obtained, through access he had last summer to some of the papers of Robert J. Walker, a list of how this money was disbursed, but some allowance will have to be made, lor his figures are railier wild. Mr. Walker admits that he received a very large fee lor his professional services in the case while it was in the House, but says he knows nothing of what others received. He says he was employed by liaron Stoeckl) at the request ot Mr. Seward, lie is very much annoyed at the notoriety he has acquired in this matter, and says he will charge the attacks upon him for his part in the case to many of those members and others who failed to get a slice. Au investigation will probably Bhow that the most of this money was stolen by "middle meu" or lobbyists, and never retched the press or Congressmen to whom it is alleged to have been Daid. Washington Correspondence of the Ltqu trtr. French 'aval Expenditure A very interesting table has just been pub lished in the fievue Maritime tt Coloniule. It contains the statistics of the French naval and colonial estimates for a period of 110 years, ending in IMS. The actual expenditure is added from lb-0, and the running commen tary maintained in the column for "remarks" explains the causes of augmentation or de crease from year to year. The earliest years in which the naV&l accounts are shown sepa rately from those for the colonies are 1703 and 1701), when the reckoning was still kept in Hires toumois, the frano not making its ap pearance until 17!'0; but 1000 livres being of equal value with D87 francs, the conversion into sterling presents nodiiliculty. The annual average of expenditure for the naval Bervice in the two years mentioned was jt,uuu,iMo, which had only increased by X'11,800 iu 1775; but at the end of the American war, in 173, , the year of the peacs of Versailles, the j ordinary and extraordinary expenditure ; reached the large sum of 4, 737,000. From i this date until lfcliO the naval expenditure is not I distinguished from the colonial, and it is note worthy that from the years I to VIII of the Republic there is a blank in the table, "as it was not found possible to effect the application ' in accordance with the votes (par e.eercice) of j the provisional credits placed at the disposal of the Minister." The budget of the year X II (lb03-4), in consequence of the armaments which followed the rnpture of the peaoe of Amiens, was exceedingly heavy, and we must look onwards to 1855 before finding an equal expenditure. The navy and the colonies iu that year (1803-4) cost so less than X'i),055, C(0; it was the period of the Boulogne army and flotilla. Next year there was a consider able falling off, and the expenditure for both departments for the nine years to 1813 ave raged 5,435,400 annually. In 1815 the ex penditure was only 1,584,700. Gradual in crements again took place until 1823, when In eonsequence of the Spanish war the naval disbursements were 2,000, J00. In the fol lowing year time was a considerable all, and. the next Increase (1828 3.247,200) is due to the introduction of steam, the expedi tion to the Morea, and a blockade of the Algerian porta. Reductions and fluctuation? again occur, and the next years worthy of notice are 18 10, 1841, and 142; In the last'of which, consequent on the expedition to Ilaenos Ayres, works at Cherbourg, the building of barracks, etc., the naval expenditure reached 4,500,300. 1847 and 1848 were very heavy years in consequence of the great increase in men and armaments which commenced in 1840". The expense in 1847 waa 5,079,000. A considerable decrease at once followed the revolution, but the war In the Kast raised the expenditure to 7,110,500 in 185 1, and from that to 8, 084,200 and 8,300,700 in 1855 and 1S5G. In 1858 commenced the conversion of the fleet, which, together with the Italian war, the expeditions to China, Mexico, and Cochin China, and "the purchase of two ships in America, 500,000," appear as the causes of the Increase of expense during the following ten years, for which we subjoin the figures: IPS!) .8,307.300' isn 6,7S2,300 ,l.")i),700 IWifl ., 6.742.70 1M)1 8.2711,0110 lS(i7(i:8llmatod)0,.r'IO,400 1W2 8,7ri(,.'VM):lKils(Kstlmated;01'JlO,700 iwi. 7,il3,noo (Estlnitttedjd $07,700 1601 7.7ul.6HK. j It ia a remarkable fact that the actual ex penditure for the eight years from 1858 to 18iJ3 and 1805 and 1800 exceeded the votes by the imperial sum of 15,543,340; in other words, it was very nearly 30 per cent, higher than the estimates. 1800 is the first year in which both estimates and expenditures are shown in these tables, and on looking back it is found that in thirteen out of the thirty-eight yoara, from 1820 to 1857 inclusive, the expenditure also exceeded the amounts voted by the Cham bers, but only (if the excesses unavoidably due to the Spanish war in 1823-24 be deducted) by the comparatively insignificant annual average of 25,500. The French nation is said to have the best system of public accounts in existence, and the French Admiralty the best system in France, but, however that may be, it is an unavoidable conclusion that these ex cellent accounts do not suoceed In checking lavish expenditure. Pall Mall Gazelle. Texas papers inveigh against the crime of cattle skinning. The hitch in the marriage of the Czar's daughter and King Louis of Bavaria is that the latter is of the Catholio faith. DRY GOODS. gARGAINS FOR THE HOLIDAYS AT THE " BEE-IIIVE.' J. W. PROCTOR & CO. Will i) Her daring the Holidays an elegant assortment OF JiLAV AJiU DESIKAULE GOODS, Chiefly l'lircliased at the Kcceiit Large Auction (Sales, At about one.'ialf the Importation coat, comprising FAXCr MtESS GOODS In large variety, from 25 cents to $1 50 per yard, DBES8 BltiKS AND SATINS, EICHE BROCHE AND PAISLEY SHAWLS, From fl5 to 1150. FINEST QUALITY FUBS IN RUS&IAN BABLB, HUDSON BAY SABLE, AM KMC AN SABLE, I ROYAL ERM1N1C, CHINCHILLA, KTC. ETC. It HAL AblRACUAN SACQUE3, MUi'Fd, AND HATH. Fino Cloaks. A splendid collection In Velvet, Plush, Montanao Velvet Cloths, liiacks and Colon; Rich Astrachan and Seal Cloilia. Also, Opera and Party Cloakj. Ladles' and Children's Farnlahlag Hoods, bcarfi, Ties, Laces, Embrulderles, Plain and Fancy lldkb., Freocb bets, Etc. lJoa i ery and Gloves ol all kinds. Daoioak Table Cloths aud Napkins, Piano and Taoie Covers, and other useful aud oruameutal arti cles too multitudinous to enumerate, ail ot which will be sold At a Great Sacrifice from the Original Cost. J. VV. PROCTOR & CO., TUB "BEE-IIiVE," No. 920 CHESNUT Street, 11 6 Imw PHILADELPHIA. HOLIDAY GOODS. & C. A. WRIGHT, Ko. 6!il CIIESNl'T SlItXEr, Have UiBt received a large assortment ot KKW AND ELKO ANT FANCY AllTICLES, Selected In Europe this season fur tnelr NOVELTY AND BEAUIY, ESPECIALLY OR CLUUSi'MAa I'ttESENlS. Also, a large and beautiful assort uiuut of gltiUlLO MEERSCHAUM PIPES, WLlch tfcey ofler tot sale 111 30 mwflit AT VERY REDUCED PRICES. PAINT BOXES AN1 DECALC'OVANIA PICTCRE3, PRH.TTY AND NEW, jruB CHOICE CHRISTMAS PBESESTS. J A '. K V dt CO., 12 11 fmwet No, 112 South K1UKTU Street. pitESKXTS. HODGEBS' AMD WOSTFN HOLM'S KNIVES, Razors, Ladles' Buisaors lu cases, Table CutJeiy, elc. 12 11 liuwtit MADEIRA, No. 115 & TENTH Stieet, beluw Cueauut. STEAMBOAT LINES. r.aAfCT PHILADELPHIA AND THEN. MKiuMUa ton Metuuooal Liue. The stenuiboai IiojWIi oitRh.oT leaves ARUlblreet Whrr, loi Ireuiuu, slopping at, Tncooy, TorrendtUe, Ueverlv ,UK,1.'I)J;M -Hrlawli Florimce, fcobulua' Wharf. ud While a Ul. Leaves Arch Street Wbarl Leaves Sooth Trenton. Saturday, i)ic.)2 10 A. id Saturday D.o.U. i P.M MouUay, H, 12 M. iUouday, " U, i P.M Tuenuay, " 16, 1 P.M Tuesday, IS. S I'.M Wed uay, Is, l p.u Weii'duy, ' 18 tlou't b Jliumcay, - n, i, p M ihursday, " 17, 7 A.M i'ay. " is, Hi P.MiFrluay, is, a A.M are to Trerituu, 4o ceuut each way; lutermediaif places, 115 ceuts. 411 FOR NEW YOKK SWIFT-SUBB Transportation Ooiuuany DesDatch i u owiH-sure i.iuea, via .unaware ana turium Canal, on aud after the loth of March. leaving dally at 12 m. aud i p, M connecting with ail Aioriiiera aud JLasleru lines, Por freight, which will be taken on aooommodatlni terms, apply 10 WILLIAM M. HAIKU & CO., 1 11 Wo. m a 1KLA WARM Aveutf. r,AlCZ SUNDAY EXCURSION.- iP fi TTTTr " A K" " UF TIMK. The splendid gleaujrr lU ILIUHT leaves Chesuut stre( wharf at A.M,, and 2 P. M., for Burlington and Bristol, ouchluK at Tacony, River tou, Andalusia, and Be verly. Leaving Bristol at 10A, M. audi P.M. Fare 9i liuta, JUvuroluu, 40 ceui IV W 1 U INSURANCE COMPANIES, OllUK or TUB DELAWARE MUTUAL SAFETY INSURANCE COMPANY. PHILADELPHIA, November 11, 18C8. Tbe following statement of the attain of the Com pany is published In conformity with a provision ol Its Charter: PREMIUMS RECEIVED From November 1, LS(i7, to October 81: 1863. On Marine and Inland Risks 8o;i.r,o71 OnFireKUks 115,205 06 $918,711-80 Prfmlurra on Policies not marked off Nov. 1,1887 406.81571 (1,355,557 51 PREMIUMS MARKED OFF A earned from iiov. 1. 1K07. to Oct. 31,1.368, On Marine and Inland RlHka ......1716 005 77 OiiFlreRlaks 11S.317-7J Interest during tho same period Hal- at,4,B;w iJ vases, etc 107.403 82 1 1)02 1 "2 '11 LOHHES, EXPENSES, ETC., ..woi LHirlug the year us above. Marine ana lulund .Naviga tion Lorhcs 5 121,052 71 Fire Loaaea Tl Ki K7 Return Premiums 5(J,1 U (fi Rt'lnsui-Hucta 3U.1U6 51 Agency Clmrgoa, Advents Idk. PrlntliiK, etc 50,588 C3 Taxes United Btatcs, Btate and Municipal Taxes 43.!553,89 Expenses !t,908 65 -8710.837-31 8201,58.3-00 ASSETS OF THE COMPANY November 1, 18GS. J200.000 U. S. 5 per cent. Loan, 10-408. $208,500 00 120,000 U. H. 6 per cent. Loan, 1681... Li uu oy 50.000 U. U. 6 per cent. Loan (lor Paolflo Railroad) .. 50,000 00 200,000 State oi Pennsylvania 6 per cent. Loan 211.S75-00 125,000 City of Philadelphia 6 per cent. Loan (exempt from lax) 128.591C0 50,000 State of New Jersey 6 per cent. Loan 61.500 00 20,000 Pennsylvania Railroad 1st Mortgage 6 per cent. Ponds 20,200'00 25,000 Pennsylvania Railroad 2d Mortgage 6 per cent, lionds 21.000 00 25,000 Western Pcnn'a Railroad Mortgage 6 per cent. Honda (Penu'a Railroad guar antee) 20,025-00 30,000 State of Tennessee 5 per cent. Loan 21,000 00 7,000 State of lennesaee 6 per cent. Loan 6,031-25 15,000 Germantown Oas Company; principal and Interest guar, anteed by the City of Phi ladelphia, 300 shares stock 15,000-00 10,000 Pennsylvania Railroad Com pany, 200 shares stock 11,30000 5,000 North Pennsylvania Rail road Company, 100 shares stock 8,50000 20,000 Philadelphia and Southern Mall Steamship Company, 80 shares slock..... 15,000 00 207,000 Loans on Bond and Mort gage, nrst liens on City Properties 207,900'00 f J ,1M),9C0 Par Market value, Jl.130,325 25 COSt, Jl,0D3,601-2t. Real Eatate 36,000 00 Rills Receivable for Insur ances made 322,186-94 Balances due at Agencies Premiums on Marine Poll, oles, Aocrued Interest.and other debts due the Com pany 40,173-88 Stock and Scrip of Sundry Corporations, S3156. .Esti mated value 1.81300 Cash in Bank $116,150 08 CaahlnUrawer .13-(S 81.647,367 80 Philadelphia, November 11, 1868. The Board oi directors have this duy declared a CASH DIVlDKND ol TEN PKH. CKNT. On the CAPITAL STOCK, and SIX PER CENT, Interest on the SCRIP of the Company, payable on and after the 1st December proximo, free of National and State Taxes, They have aso declared a SCEIP DIVIDEND of THIRTY PER CENT. on the EARNED PREMIUMS for the year ending October ill,, ltm, certificates of which will be issued to the parties entitled to tbe Bftme, on and after the 1st December proximo, free Of National and State Taxes. They have ordered, also, that the SCRIP CERTfFI CATES OF PBOPITd of the Company, for the year ending October 81, 1864, be redeemed In CASH, at the Olllce of the Company, on and after 1st December proximo, all interest thereon to cease on that date. Sfiy a provision ol the Charter, all Certificates of Scrip not presented for redemption within Ave years after public notice that they will he redeemed, shall befortiUU and eanalltd on the JiookioJ tue Company, JM'Ab etrtifieute .of profit issued under By 'he Act of Incororatkn, '-no certificate sluill issue un esi claimed within two years after the .declaration of the dividend whereof it is tvidence," i uuuias j. jianu, John O. Davis, James C. Hand, 'IhennLHus tttuldlng, Joseph 1. btai, Jliign Ciaiy, John K. Penrose, Jacob Jouts, James Traqualr, Edwai d I'm Huston, 11. Jones JirdOKe. jHUit-s li. Mci-'ariar.d, EUward Laliunabe, Jothua r, Jijre, Edmund A. Sourtnr Buuiuel E. blolres, Henry bloau, William C. Ludwlir. Ueortce ii Lei per, Heuty U Dalieu, Jr., John I), 'l ay lor. Ueorgo W. iieruardou. V, iiitnui v. -UUUltOU, Jacob Kiegel, Hpeiicur M'llvatne, Johu B. bemple. Pitts., A. 11. lierger, do Ik. T. fklftruti. .1.. THOMAS U. HANI). PrMlriui.t. JOH.N C. DAVla, Vice-PreBlUuut, HENRY LYLBUKN, Kecietary. vw"""u" HENRY BALL, Asslsiaut Secretary. 11121m 29CIURTEB FEErETUAL. Fraiiklln Fire-insurance Co. wr ilAJL.AX,Aa-iiAA, OFFICE: Jios. 435. and 43? U1ES3UT STltfXl, A&KETft) ON JANUARY 1. 1SOS, capital Mou,oeoo iFMM,?JlmI,1ni 1.MH.IIIMMW ruh.MiUjiin......,. i,i4,a!t'xe DMsETTlED CLAIMS LNCOMK FOR 18u7 taa.ttDS'ii aoe.ooo-oo. IMHttKH 1-AIX HISVB lSUtt UV1 tf5 500,000. Perpetual and Temporary Policies on Liberal Terms DIRECTORS. Charles N. Baackex, Uttorge Falea, Tublas Wasiiur, 1 Airreu Fl'ior, bau.uel Uiant, .Francis W. Lawis. M n Uevrte W Richards. Thomas Sparks, Isaac Lea, William a Uiaut. CHARLES N. HAJNCliKR. President. OnOltoE PaLES, Vice-PiesiUfant. JAB. W. MuALLlSl'EK, Secretary pro tear. Eicepi at Lexington, Kentucky, Uila Company his no Agencies West of Pittsburg. gi T S S U R A M C Is COMPANY NORTH AMERIOA, No. 232 walnut street, piiilada. LNOORPOKATED 171M. CUAKTEK FEKP.IUA1 Murine, JiiIuiiU, autl ir Insorance, ASSETS JANUARY 1, 1868, - 12,001,268-72 120,000,000 Losses Paid in Cash fcinoe lu Organization. DIRECTORS, Arthur G. Coffin. Samuel W. Jones, John A. Brown, Charles Taylor, Ambrose White, . William Welsh, Blrhard D. Wood, S. Morris Wain, John Mason. ARTHUR Q. COFFIN, President. Chablks Piatt. Secretary. WILLIAM HUEULUK, llarrlsburg, Pa-, Centra Agent fur Uie btte of peunsy lvauu, fci Ueorge L. Harrison. Francis R. Cope, 1 u.0 waru ii, 1 roller. Edward S.Clarke, T. Charlton lltmry, Alfred D. Jeasup. John P. White, Louis U Madeira, INSURANCE COMPANIES. I UNITED SECUKlTYj LIFE INS UKANC1 - 4 A.D TRl'ST COMPANY, OF j PEN NSyLVANlA OFFICE: j S. E. Corner FIFTH and CHESMJT Sts. PHILADELPHIA, J CAPITAL. - - S 1,000,005 DIUBOTOHB. B. H. ITOR8TMANH. A. J 1)H K. V 1.1. JOSEPH PATl'ERS3N,1 J. KOLM4, 11 EMU E, ROOD. PITII.ADK.LriI tA OFOTH4K IT. BTPART, HHihMK W. CH ILL'S, wm. A. Pom i-.ii, F. A. liKkXKL, WM. V. MrKEAN. THOMAS W. EVaKS. NFAV YOKK. JAM KB M. MORRL ON, Preslilont Manhattan flanl JOcEl'Ji bi CART, ol J. J. Muiirl fe Co., Jiaukera HOSTOI. HON. E. B. TOBEY, late President Board of Trade, CINCINNATI, A. E. CIIAMBKRL4IN. of Chamberlain & Co. CHICAGO. LT"Z. I.KITEU. Of Field. I.Bltnr A Ca. C. M. feMI'l U, ol Geo. C binlth & Brothers, Baukors, I.OU18VILLB. K V. WILLIAM GARVIN, of Uarvla, Boll A Co. ST. LOUIS. JAMFHF. YEATMAN, Cashier Merchants' Nation a Bank. 1KW KAWPaHrRK. HON. J. W PATTERSON, U. s. Sonator. BALTIMORE. WILLTAM PREfiCOTT BMITTT. Rimrlnin J Consolidated Railway Line, Kew York to Washington. " 8. M. bllOEMAKER. of Adams A Co.'e Ex prees. J t 11RIHTIAN AX, ol O. W. Gail A As. 1 IRAiNCJtt T. KIKO, President Ceutral Saving GEORGE H. STUART, President. HENRY E. ROOD, Vice-President. O F. BEITS, (secretary. J. L. LUDLOW. Consulting Physician. R. M. GIRVIN, M. D., . Jot P KOHRPER, if,.,) Medical Examiners C. HTUART PATTER80N,1 n - . RICHARD LUDLOW. 'f Counsel. Tula Company issues Policies of Lite Insurance upon all the various plans that have been proved,, by the experience of European and American Conv-i panles to be safe, sound, and reliable, at rates aa LOW AND UPON TEKMS AS FAVORABLE A9 Til USE OP ANY COM AN Y OF EQ.UAL BTA BILITY. 1 All policies are non-forfeli (ble after the payment rt . .. n n. ...... a l . . I ,, . . INSURE AT HOME IN THB Penn Mutual Life Insuraiicft fnJ So. 821 CIIESXUT St., 1'liUadcIphIa. ASSETS, 2,000,00. CHARTERED BY OUR OWN STATE. MANAGED BY OUR OWN CITIZENS. lot StS PROMPTLY PAID. POLICIES ISSUED ON VARIOUS PLANS. Applications may be made at tbe Home Olllce, and at the Agencies throughout the State. 2 1st JAMES TKAUUAIB. PRESIDENT MAM L EL, E. feTOHES. VICE PREblDKNT JMU. W. MOUSKB A V. P. and ACTUARY Jl OK AHU M, NlEt-IIKMtt SECRETARY A 8 B U R Y LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY. LEMUEL BANGS, President, GEO. ELLIOTT. N ice-President and sv EMORY MuCLlNTOCK., Actuary, The Asbury Company issues Policies In all theforma Id preseut me. on the ruost liberal terms la lespectto rates, division of prtlits. restrictions on occupation and travel, conipatiuw with safety; loaus one-tulrd l ot Coiunienclj business only In April last, It has been received with so mi'-li lavor tuat ila assuranrfw already amount to ovk. Jl.uuo.uuO, aud are rapidly ii. treaslug clay by day. r " " PENNmYLVANIA agency, JAWEh M. LoJSUACRE, Hanauer. No. aw WALNUT toireet, Philadelphia. Local Board of Ktlerence iu Philadelphia: Thomas T. Tasaer, f. Moirls Wain. Jan,es 11 Loiiuttcre, I John B. McC'rearyl Arthur o. Colha, J. B. Lipplncott, Johu M. Marls, Jaiues Long, William Divine, Jaiues Hunter. John A. Wright, E. H. Worne, 10 Z(6Uioiu Charles Spencer. PHCE IX LNSUitAKtK COJlPIiiY 01? I'm 1 LA DELPHI A. v INCORPORATED 104 CHARTER PERPETUAL. ISO. iZi W ALls bT Hireel, opposite the Kiouumu. This Company insures Irom toss or damage by E i li Hi, on liberal terms, on bntldiug. merchandise, furniture, eic, lor limned periods, aud permauently ou buld liis by depoisll or prtuiluui I. . 'ihe Ci moany has been lu active operation for mora than blXTY YEARri, during which all losses hva been promptly adjumed and pal 1, .vj.iiJb.CAu.n9. John L. Hodge, ju. tt. juaucuy, Jonu T. Lewis, WIMani b. Grant, Robert W. Leauilug, Lawrence Lewis, Jr., David Lewis. Bei'Jamin Ettlng. Thomas ti . Powers. A. R. McHeury, EUiLuud Castlllon, bamuel Wlicox, itv j. i orris. JUdN R. Wi l li K.tth.H PrcdMont Samuel Wilcox. Secretary . WJ PA 6 IKK INSURANCE KiCLU&lVELY THE ijuinoii,ismA iitil JiMbUiiAJNCn COM N Y lucorDorated 12J (Jliartnr P..riu.i,.UiK?t lo WALtoUT btreet, opposite Independence Sonars l uis Luummy, lavurauiy Known to the oommuultv ftr over lorty years, Contluueu to Insure agaiust iwm or daujage by lire ou Publlo or Private Bulldlnua either permanently or for a limited time. Also ou uruliure blocks ol Goods, and Merchandise aeua. rally, ou liberal terms. w '1 heir Capital, togeihtr with a large Surplus Fund Is luvesteu lu the most carelul tuauuer, which enables tnem to offer to the Insured an UJidoubted seouru i,. the case of losa. 7 . BntituroBa. Daniel Smith, Jr., i John Devereus, Alexander Beusou, Thomas uunih, liaao naelehurst, Henry jLewls, Thomas Robins, I J. Gllilughaw Fell, jUttiile. H addnnk. Jr. DANIEL hMIT'u JB..P resident. WM. 8. CROWELL, Secretary. ' g8o gTRICTLY MUTUAL. PROVIDENT LIFEAKD TRUST CO. OF PHILADELPHIA. OFFICE, o. Ill ft. FOUKTII SXKEET, Organized 10 promote jUKHi aJNbckaNCE aaionn members ol tbe " bOClETY OF FRIENDS, Good risks of any class aooepta. Pohdis luuuod upou approved plaus, at the lotresl rate. President, BAMTJEL R. SHIPLEY. Vtce-Preeldent. W'LjjiaM O. Iajijnust KKTH. Actuary, HOW LAND PARRY, Ihe did vantages olUred by this Company are excelled 7 JVLVtllUL FUUi UiSUBAACL COilTASY LONDON. ESTAUjLISUjKU 1803. Paid-up Capital and Accumulated Fundi, S0,OOO,OOO IN COLD. jVICJLYOST A 11 I Klt IXU,Ag;cutHt 11 4 8m, No. 107 eouth THIRD Street, Phlla. MUSICAL INSTRUCTION. AMERICAN CONSRHVATOUY OP MUSIC, . S. E. coiner of TENTH and WALNUT Streets The regular Winter Quarter will begin on MONDAY, Jauuaryll. ImU. Names ot new pupils should be euured at an early day ouni'i tl oioulu ot December. J K. WILLIAMS and CARL GAEBTSFR. 1211 Kit Directors. B ALL AD A Nil BIOHT 8INOINO.-J,' BibHOP, Ko, vt ti, LKEl'EEJSTlJ. bl. nil.!
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