One a rar. nf nnmiini. b ffhe foUowIn remm f abwa ma.,.,latl. tint moment iblt many of I lnAANLro In ,he "KlifW''iw and geniality. Tery nappy '2mory and vast knowledge DUenrwMui""-; - oe 0f seltlsiinefls ami f musio, nd that distinguished him jealousy wblob, P"rb ,nderful genius. Trie Ten more ihjji.,'- here commonoed will KncouUnued"romUaio lo time in the page, of tUH Journal J u .ntnmn of a happy onanoe lei TrnvUle-that curions mixture of the feki,Vhle bathing-place and the qatet conn EoBBinJat the time ofm7 viait, Wka the ereat lion of the place, and the objeot of the most universal and extraordinary at tentions. He had only to show hia face to be Surrounded by the best and handsomest people in the plaoe; the front Beats at the con certs were always his; streets were named after him, and, to crown all, a tailor's sign board In the principal thoroughfare bears, or bore, the name of "Cailler, Taillear da Mon sieur O. BosBini." My first introduction to the great composer was as a very young man in Paris. Both there and at Milan I saw him often, and was always treated by him with the greatest kindness and consideration. Turing my three weeks at Troaviile, we Epent moat of our time together. We pro menaded for hours on the terraoe by the sea, only occasionally suspending our walk for a same at dominoes. But even that serious occupation hardly interrupted our conversa tion; and Rossini would continue through it all inexhaustible in his stories and insatiable in his questions. Our chief topio was music, notwithstanding, or perhaps beoause, owing to the want of a good piano, I was able to play to him but seldom. Though sixty -three years of age, his features were still almost unchauged. It would be . difficult to find a more intelligent face, a more delicately cut nosu, a more expressive month, more speaking eyes, or a nobler forehead. There was a southern vivacity about his countenance which was immensely effec tive both in fun and in earnest; and inimita ble in irony, anger, or drollery. His voioe was no lens pleasant than flexible, and could be infinitely sweet when he ohose. His nature was the most sociable one can imagine, and he never tired of chatting and talking, or often more difficult still of listening. He had that equanimity charaoteristio of the nations of the south for old or young, great or small, always the right word aud always the same demeanor tr all. In short, he had one of those happy dispositions in whioh everything is native aud spontaneous nothing forced. A3 hi3 music, so was he. His memory was prodigious, and his knowledge of musio and musicians not only of Italy, but ti other countries far greater th.u most of my countrymen will give him credit for; while his judgment always seemed to me perfectly clear, sensible, and unbiassed, aud ever ready to be convinced by argument. "Those terrible new?paper people!" cried Rossini, one day, "one of them says that I hate railways almost as much as I do German musio. What do you think of that f Besides really loving the great German composers, I studied them, as a lad, of my own accord, and never lost an opportunity of knowing them better and better. What pleasure I have had in hearing you play Bach !" "I certainly have never played his glorious musio with more pleasure than when playing to you." "What a colossal creature to write that mass of music in such a Btvle ! It is iucon oeivable. What to others would be difficult or impossible was mere child's play to him." "Bach's portrait is splendid," began R03 sini again, "so full of life and vigor. He must Burely have been a great player." "Yes. He is said to have improvised things equal to those which the best composers of the day are glad to be able to master," Baid I. "Are his works much performed in Ger many I" "Not so much as they should be; but still a good deal." "That is impossible in Italy, and now more BO than ever. We cannot get together large amateur choirs as yon do. Wd used to have good singerx in our churches and chapels. but that is all over now. tiinos Baini's death even the Sistine is going backwards. Apropos, now sianas me question auout tua autlieu ticity of Mozart's Jlauiemt Has anything definite been discovered 1" "Nothing new," said I. "ADyhow, no one but Mozart wrote the Confutaiis. Isn't it grand? And the solto voce at the end f What modulations t I al ways had a liking for iotto voce in a chorus, but this one sends a cold chill down my back. Poor Mozart I" "In a biography which concerns you, it is said that Mozart laughed, at most, three times in his life. What do you think of such non sense? By the by, there are several thiogs in that book which I want to ask you about. For instance, is it true that, after you had been learning a ehort time with Padre Mattei, you asked him if you knew enough to write an opera; and, on his saying es, at onoe made off?" "Hot a bit of it I I .had studied three years at the Llceo at Bologna, daring whioh time I had to support myself and help my parents. This I managed, though very scan tily. I aooompanied the recitatives at the theatre at six pauls per night. I also had a good voioe, and sang iu church. Then, besides my exercises for Mattel, I used to write things for Zambonl and other singers to intro duce into operas or to sing at concerts, and this also brought me in a trifle. When I had got through counterpoint and fugue, I asked Mattel what I might do next. "Pleluchant and canon" was his reply. Hew muoh time must give to them? "About two years." That was too long for me, so I told the good padre, and he perfectly understood, and never tore me a grudge. But I have often re gretted einoe that i did not work longer with him." "I suppose you had written a great many things before you went to Mattei ?" "A whole opera, Demetrio t Pohbio, which, in the list of my works, is always mentioned later because it was not performed until after some of my other dramatic attempts, four or live rears later. I composed it for the Mom- belli family, not even knowing that it would become an opera, when l began studying With Mattei, I could not projiuoe anything for months; I trembled over every bass note, and each middle part made me shudder. Bat my Id courage soon returned." "Had you begun musio at Pesaro ?" I left Pesaro in my earliest childhood. My father was town-trumpeter, and also played the horn at the theatre: so we got on pretty well till the French arrived, when he lost his plaoe. My mother had a nioe voioe, and made use of it to save ns from want; and o we left Pesaro. My poor mother t she kid soma talent, though she did not know a note. Bhe sang, as we say, orecchiante, purely by ear which, by the way, is the case with eighty out of every hundred Italian aingers." 'inconceivable 1" rnaiwaa b e read ' Pro?' THE DAILY E NlNG TELEGRAPH PHILADELPHIA, WEDNESDAY, "It certainly Is pretty strong. One c.ti understand learning a oayatlna by hamming it after somebody, but how they manage to remember the middle parts of the tuttu la a riddle te me.. . , 'One must be either rery musical or yery unmusical; but please let us return to your telf. Where did you begin to learn musio ?" "At Bologna. A oertain Prinettl, ef Navara, taught me the spinet. He was a queer fellow; who made liquor, gave a few musio lessons, and so just managed to rub along. He never Eossessed a bed, but slept standing. At night e wrapped bis cloak round him, leaned against tbe wall in the corner of some arcade, and slept. The watchman knew him and didn't disturb him. Then he came to me yery early, got me out of bed, whioh I didn't at all like, and made me play. Sometimes he hadn't slept enough, and used to go off standing, whilst I was hard at work at my spinet; but I always took advantage of that, and orept back under the bedclothes. When he woke and found me there, he was quite content with my assuring him that, while he slept, I had played through my pieoe without any faults. His method was by no means the newest; for example, he made me play the scales with the thnmb and finger." "That did you as little harm as shirking the canons. Hut who else taught you ."' "A certain Angelo Tesei taught me to play from figured bass, and how to aocompany. and made me practise solfeggi. A onoe cele brated tenor, Babini, gave me more advanoed lessons." "You had a lovely voice f" "As a boy I sans well, and I onoe played the part of a boy in Paer's Camilla. Bat that was my first and last appearance." Did any of your companions at the Lloeo turn out well ?" The first year which I spent there was Morlacchi's last, and my third year was Doni zetti's first." "I thought that Donizetti was a pupil of Simon Mair's ?" "He tried for a time, but his real musioal education was aoquired at Bologna; and that he learned to some purpose no one will deny." ii. "Who were the Mombelli for whom you wrote Dtmetrio e rolibiof" "Mombelli was a good tenor," said Rossini. "He had two daughters, one soprano and the other contralto; they got a bass to complete the vocal quartette, and then, without fur ther help, gave operas in Bologna, Milan, and other places. They made their first appear ance at Bologna in a small but very fair opera of Portogallo's." "A Portuguese ?" "No, an Italian. He was not without talent, and thoroughly understood the voice. His compositions were much in favor with many of the best singers. My first wife, Madame Colbran, had about forty of his things in her repertoire. The way in which I made Mombelli's acquaintance was funny enough. Though but a boy of thirteen, I was an ardent admirer of the fair sex. One of my fair friends wished for an aria out of an opera of Mumbelli's. I went to the copyist, but he wouldn't hear of it. Then I tried Mombelli himself, but he -also refused. 'Very well,' said I, 'I'll hear the opera again to-night, and then write out whatever I like.' 'We shall see,' answered Mombelli. Iu the evening, I listened to the opera as hard as I could, and wrote out a complete pianoforte copy, which I carried to Mombelli. He couldn't believe it, called the copyist a rogue, and so on. 'If yon can't give me credit for that,' said I, 'I will hear it a few more limes, and then write out the full score before your own eyes.' My great self-confidence, in this case perfectly justifiable, conquered his suspicion, and we became good friends." "I have often witnessed your extraordinary memory, but to put a whole opera on paper is quite marvellous." "Well, it was not a score like Mozart's Figaro; but I really may pride myself on my tremendous musioal memory at that time. As a young man, I could have aooompanied Haydn's Oratorios without a book. I knew the whole Creation by heart, down to the smallest recitative true, I Jiad played it through and accompanied it often enough." "But to return to Demetrio e l'olibio. Mom belli asked you, then, to write the opera ?" "He first gave me the words for a duet, then for an arietta, and paid me a few piastres for each, so as to make me get on faster; aud in this way I wrote my first opera almost without knowing it. Babini gave me plenty of good advice over it. lie was violently op posed to certain figures of melody then iu . i . ,1-. a. , ; 1 vogue, ana usea every euort tu uia&e me avuiu them." "I remember a quartette from Demetrio which had a certain celebrity when I was in Italy, and was quoted as a specimen of your precocity. When the opera was put on the stage, did you do anything more to it ?" "No, I was away; Mombelli brought it out at Milan without my knowledge. The thing which astonished people so muoh in that quartette was its ending with a sort of ex clamation from all the voices, instead of the usual close. A duet out of it was much sung for a long time; it was very easy, aud that is the chief thing." "It is strange that with your beautiful voice you never thought ef being a singer." "1 thought of nothing else, my friend; but I wanted to learn music more thoroughly than most of the singers I met. I found it easy at an early age, and got a place as maestro al cembalo; my first attempts at composition were favorably received, and so I took to it almost by chance, and stuok to it, though I could always see how far better singers were paid than composers." "No doubt of that. Beethoven barely got as much for all his works as they give Cruvelli every year at the Grand Opera." "It had not then reaohed such an insane pitch; but the difference was the same; where the composer earned fifty ducats, the singer would get a thousand," said Rossini, angrily. "I confess that I have never been able to get over this injustice, and have often vented my ill-temper about it to the singers. 'You are a g ood-tor-nothlng set,' I said to them; 'you can't even eing as well as I can, and yet iu dub mgiit you earn more tuan 1 get tor a whole soore.' But what's one to do? The German composers are no better off." "Not a bit. But they get posts whijh. if not brilliantly paid, are enough to keep them from actual want. No German has yet beeu able to live on his operas. But in Italy such matters seem to have improved." "Decidedly, rue early Italian composers naa to write uoa Knows now many operas merely to gam a scanty existenoe. It was much the same with me before 1 got my ap pointment with Barbaja." " wasn't J a ncredi your first opera to make a noise in the world ? How much did you get for it ? "Five hundred franos. And when I wrote Semiramide, my last Italian opera, at Venice, and stipulated for 5000 francs, not; only the manager, but the whole public, regarded me as a thief. It.'a a rnnRnlai inn tn think that ftintrArft. managers, and publishers have all grown richlhrongh you." "A fine consolation. Exoepting during my stay in Kogland I never earned enough by munis to suable sue to put by anytLing. And in London it was not as a composer tbV. I made money, bat as an acoosnpanjlst." "BlUl, tbat was beoause you wore a, cele brated composer." ' "Tbat was what they said to make me doit." ........ "It may nave "been prejudice, but I had a kind of repugnance to taking money for ac companying on the pianoforte, aud I did it nowhere but In London. All they wanted was to see my nose and hear my wife. I had fixed the rather high price of fifty pounds for our attendance at soirees, aud as we went to about sixty it was worth tbe trouble. Bat in London musicians do anything for money, and I had some queer experiences. For lnstanoe, the first time I accompanied atoneef these noire", they told me that Pozzl the horn-player and JJragonettl the contra-bassist were to ba there. Of oourse I thought they would play solos; but nothing of the kind. They were to help me to acoompany 1 'Have yoa got your parts for all these pieces ?' I asked. 'I should think not,' was the answer; 'we get well paid and play whatever we like.' However, suoh improvised instrumentation seemed to me rather too dangerous, so I begged Dragonettl to oontent himself with a few pizzlcatos when I gave him the wink, and Puzzl merely to put in a few notes at the end, which, being a good musician, he easily managed. So it all went off smoothly, and every one was pleased. "1 knew a man in London," eontinued he, "who made a great fortune by teaching sing ing and music. He played the flute wretchedly, and that was all he could do. Another man, tremendously run after as a singing-master, didn't even know his notes. He kept an ao companyist, who drummed into him all the pieces he taught, and aooompanied them at the lesson; but then he had a good voice." "Don't you feel that a really good singing master is very seldom to be met with?" "Most of the famous singers of our time, like Rubini and Pasta, owe their talent more to nature than to hard work. The real art del btl Canto ceased with the Castrati; though one certainly would not wish them back again. To these people their art was necessarily every thing; and they devoted themselves with the most intense application and untiring care to their own development. They always bejame thorough musicians, and when their voices failed were capital teachers." Tbe Holjoke Dam. The Hartford Times has a very interesting article in relcrcuce to the great dam on the Connecticut river at Holyoke, Mass. Very important improvements are in progress, and hete are described as folio .vs. The work of improvement here is one of far greater raapnltuue than we had supposed, aud us lmprcbstveness as a triumpu oi engineering skill aud a prool ot what mitu's luborcau ettect over the rude loices ot Nature, cau bo properly appreciated only by beiiiif teen. In the flood ot uxt spring the front timbers of the dam were sliehtly loosened by tbe concus sion ot a liuiro and heavy bridge, which came crasbiutt down on the flood lrom some point hundred miles above. An examination of the front loundations, while it disclosed no serious injury to the great dam. revealed auother fact of some luietest. ine river oea at mis piace is lor a considerable distance composed oi locic Out a rock full of seams; aud the steady, continuous fall ot the neat tueet bad 0; nydrostauc pres sure txf'.ed out the rock in masses, and scattered boulders of a ton to twenty tons weigut lor coubidei able distance down stream making at ast a great hole in Iront ot the dam, lrom twenty-six to thirty feet deep I or as deep as the deepest places in new iionuu unioor. It was found necessary to check tuls destruc tlve work; and accordingly the dam, which has for so many years presented a sheer full from its edce, will now be maae wun a sloping rroai as well a3 rear; to tbat It would, if the river were dry, preseut an outline 6imnar to tuat oi tue peaked roof ot a boute. Tuis Iront extension fa Hit v feet in diameter at the base, presenting a uniform slope to the top, that will eo graduate the fall lor its entire width of over a tuouiand ieet. as to make it look more like a great rapid than tbe old familial llolyoke dam. This work is done by sections the nrst.wuicu was begun iu September and is now nearly nn lbhed, beirg 26'J lect wide in the middle ot the It is maJc of solid timbers, lauenea in layers ctots-wUe, in the way known to builders as cr b woik." and oiled 'm wun an enormous ballastine ot btone. These 0l;d masses or timber, bohed and riveled together for such an pvtpnt and heieht. Dreseut. to one unaccus tomed to it, a very impressive sight. Unlike the old dam, the new lrout will be solid; no oneii-work timbers. The timber ' cribs" are Bimlr. ai.d the rock ballast Cllrd solidly in be neatn them in inc n'gncr parr, wun a goon dml oi i cuineenna: tkiil. Tne engineer is Mr, m n.usp ul.n-p uncle, wh believe, built the original dam. Ho floats down a good deal ot his timbcrt rom Vermont. It consists largely of IicmioiK, a limner wnicn resists ueuuj uuu mo union of wattr bevond most others. Chopping into the wood of tlie old dam shows that twenty years have failed. to damage it a particle; it is as sound as ever. Thev have out down in mis section aooui one million feet of timber. Tbat fact tells the story of the literal solidity of the new dam. It is found that the weight or force of the stream exeited against tbe dam at all times is nearly four thousand tous. J he weight or this new structure above the water is thirtceu thousand tons. Looking at it from the shore, this eecnon ot two hundred and sixty-nine ieet seems but a little part of the whole breadth of the tall, but to a person standing oa it at its lower or its upper edte it seems in itself a ' big thing." 1 he compuny are expenoiuK irom ii,uuv m $100,000 on Ihece chunaes at the dam. T'aey have at woik a laige gang ot men. Iiunueruieu and logueis lrom Wame find ouiiers iroiu other regions, aud the boom derricks, Rxe., arizei, und taws are kept busy, winter tnougu it be. Next summer the work of conulotiOr the front extension will be begun. TuU uinl -lis sestlon, now substantially completed, is tho mot impoitaut Drt of it. The construction of the fish-wav, for salmon and tnao, bad to be delajed on account ot this improvement on the dam. It will be made, at the east end ol the dam, as soon as the Utter is finished. Uue ot the rocks lifted out of Us natural bed by the hydrostatic pressure in front ot too old dam weightd, before air. Cnise blasted it, twelve tons; and yet it bad been taken out amt moved h liundred Ieet down ttreatn by ":i-ir power.'' TTort by a Vote-Wliut n M letiiciiii Woiiiuu liaa Ituuv. From the Detroit Post, Jan. 9. We would like to hear a pood sound argument agairst this woman's voiin: sue lives uear Uowgiac, iuVan Uuren county, in the western pait or this 8.ate Kiiihtecn months auo, dressed in man's clothes, she bought forty acre oi laud, and proinleed when her house wu completed to re ?eal her name. Inaysar and ,Wk.U her own nand. 6he built a .BktolrBn,e,,,ou"f fubb.-dout fourteen fI w i?Lbeay SaW '"""a iem ready for the p ow, and chopped and split rails, and con- i , .,,, ucc . ?; 18 Bul'1 t0 be the envy aud ifchi llon f VV? nliboruoofl. Bbe has eight acies sown with wheat. She has duij "a jupt rior ditch" on one side of her land She iunmbes her neighbors with ax-helves and splint baskets. 8he dug up tt tree, sawed some rum ers out with a hand-aw, aud mauulactured ohinL?o0HBlcde-". BueWesaieamof her neighbors by doing extra work for them. 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Loan . 5,031 23 15,000 Geriuantown Oaa Co., piln cipal and Interest gun inn teed by City of FhilaU'a, 800 shares Stock 15,000 00 10.000 Penn'a Railroad Company, 200 shares Stock 11,300 00 5,000 North Penn'a Railroad Co , 100 suarea Stock 3,500 00 20,000 Pbila aud Southern Mail Steum.Co.,80sbare8 Stock 15,000 00 207,000 Loans on Bond and Mort cage, first liens on City Properties I- 207,900 00 81.lt8.ll00 Tar. Market value, tl.130,320'25 Cost. Sl,003,004-26. Real Estate 86 000 00 lilils receivable for insurance made 8,480 01 .Balances due at attendee, premiums on marine policies, acoi ued inter eat, and other debts due the com pany m. 40,178 88 Stock and scrip of sundry corpora tions, J3158, Ksllmattd value 1,81300 Cash In lanb U6 150 08 CabUlndiawer 413 65 m tl,67.367 80 DIRECTORS. Thomas O. Hand, ICdmund A. Brmder. jonn u. j'bvib, Jdium O. Hand, Tbeopbllus Paulding, Josepb H. Seal, llugb Craig, John R. Penrose, Jacob P. Jones, James Traqualr, Kdward Darlington, 11. Jonts Brooke, Jaiues B. McFarland, Hamuel K. Stokes, Henry Sloan, William C. Ludwlg, UeorgeU, Let per, Henry C Dalieli, Jr., Jobu D. Taylor, George W. Bernadou, William U. Boulton, Jacob Rlegel, spencer Mollvalne, U. T. Morgau, Pittsburg John H. Sample, " juuwara Liourcaue, Joabua P. Kvre, fa d. iierKtir, THOMAS O. HANI). President. JOHN V. DAVIS. Vice-President. HENRY LYLBURN, Secretary. JliRX BALL, AasiHtant Secretary, 10 JANUARY 13, 18G& INSURANCE COMPANIES. UNITED SECURITY LI FI3 INSURANCE AND TKl'ST COMPANY, OF PEN NSYLVAN I A. OFFICE: 8. E. Comer FIFTH and CHESNUT Sla., PHILADELPHIA. CAPITAL, 3 1 ,000,000 DIltKOTOHS. PHILADELPHIA. OKOUOK H. STUART, UhUHUK W. I MlaLatlS, B. K. HOIWTMANS, A. J. 1JKKXKU JUMKI'H PAT1KRS3N, WM. O. HOUSTON, i. J. HOLMS, 11KNKY i. HOOD. WM. A. POKI tlaU. F. A. URKX l li, WM. V. MrKKAN. TiiUMAH W. IlVaNB. MhW IOSK, .TAMFHM MORRISON. President Manhattan Bank JOoi-JeU b'l LAKl'i ol J. J. biuarl fe Oo., Bunkers. BOSTON. HON. K. B, TOBSY, late President Board of Trade, CINCINNATI. A. E. CHAMBERLAIN, of Chamberlain & Co. CH1CASO. T.. 7. I.KITKR. of Field. Loiter Co. C. M..bMITH, ot Uo. V bmuu ft aroint rs, Banners. LO0I8VILLK, KY. WILLIAM GARVJLN, Of Uarvla, Bell A Co. ST. LOUIS. JAM FRF.. YE ATM AN, Cashier Merchants' National aU8.DK. NFW HAMPSHIKB. BON. J. W PATTKiuaON. U. B. Senator, BALTIMOBB. WILLI M PRESCOIT bMI l'H, Superintendent (jonaonaaiea jKMiwuy Xjiua, rtttw lorn lo VV AHhtUSlOU. 9. M. SHOEMAKER, of Adams fe Oo.'s Express. I H 11111 AN AX. ol U. W. Uttll dt AX. FKAMIH a. A.liNu, rreaiueni cenuai Barings JbMuka GEORGE H. BTVART. President. C F. BETTd. (Secretary. J. L. LUDLOW. CoLsultiug Physician. JB08MFGLRoYkNpM. B.. Meaic.lKxaa.Uier. This Company issues Policies of Life Insurance upon all the various plaus thai have been proved by the experience of European aud American Com panles to be safe, sound, aud reliable, at rates as LOW AND UPON TKltM.8 At) FAVORABLY AS THOHK OF ANY COMA ANY OF EQUAL ST A BIL1TY. All policies are non forfeti vble after the payment of two or mo. e annual premiums. 11 13 lruwdoirp INSURE AT HOME IN THE Pcnn Mutual Life Insurance Co. So. 5)21 CIIL'SSUr St,, ruiladelphia. ASSETS, 82,O00,0O. CHARTERED BY OUR OWN STATE. MANAGED BY OOK OWN CIA1ZEN3. IjOeSliH PKOMPX.LY PAID. POUJClEa 18-aUED ON VAKIOUd PLANS. AppUcatlous may be made at tbe Home OOlue, and the Agencies throughout tbe State. 2 In. JAMLM TliAUHAIK PaIESIDENT MA ill U at X. JS. Klwhla... VlCEPKEolDBaNT iSO. W. JU01tlaB.........A. V. A-. ana AC1UAHY JUOliATlW tt. HAUfUtulSS SH-CKiirAltY TNSUBANCK COMPANY X or NORTH AMERICA, No. 232 WALNUT STREET, PHILADA. IN CORPORA TED 1794. CHARTER PKKPKTUAi Alttrlue, lulnuu, aud ire lusuraace, assets January i, 1868, - $2,001,206-72. 1,000,000 Los Fald in Cfua Bicoe iu Organization. disectors. Arthur G. Goffln, , George L. Harrison NftnuiAl W. Jnnun I I.'. ...... l. t .... .. ' .Francis It. (jono. Jonn A. Brown, Charles lay lor, Ambrose White, W Hilton Welsh, blcbard D. Wood, 6. Morris Wain, John atfunn. Ka ward Jtt, Trotter, Edward U. Clarke, T. CbarltoiTUenry, Alfred D. JesHup, John P. White, JLwuU 0. MadeUa. ' ARTBDU o. OOF7LN. PresldenL OBABlaEfl Platt, Hecrelarj t&rv. WILLIAM BDEHLKR. Harrlsbun. Pa.. flntr Agent for the btale of Pennsylvania. liu 8 B U R Y LIFE insurance company. JjJIaW YOllit. IaEMrKL BANGS, Presldeuu GEO. .ELLIOTT, Vice-President and Sec KMOKYMcCLlN lOCJi, Actuary. The Aebury Company lbuues Policies In all theforms la prtaeiit ui.e, 011 ine most liberal terms in reapeot LO ruitn. clivlBiou or pm Uta. Kilriottous on occupatlou aim travel, compallbis with naluiy; loans one-third of piemiums. wheu uet lied, aud maaes all policies aba Juieiy l ou-forleltAblH, coiunivnclug business only in April last, It bag been ieci'iv-d with to mi-h. Uvor tuat its assurances aliesdy amount to ovfc. Jl,uu0,uu0, aud are tuMlr la cri uBihg day by day. PENNSYLVANIA AGENCY, JAMEH M. LONG ACRE, Usauager. No. Mii WALNLiT btreet, Philadelphia, Local UoarO of Kt Terence in Philadelphia: a nomas l. Tanker, r. morris wain, Janata it Longacre, Anhur G. Collin, Jotui . Marls. Juhu B, Mcc'reary al. Da aLUPJJIUUUll), James Long, Jam.s 11 11 later, WillUm Divine, John A. Wright, aa. worne, iu aMbm.iin Charles Spencer, Pho:mx insurance company of Pai 1L A DELPHI A lNCOKPoitATED HUH CHARTER PERPKTDAU No. tit W aL( Is T bare t, oppusite the Ezchauge. This Company insures trm ions or uaoiage by on liberal terms, on bulldiuga. merchand se, furniture etc., lor limned periods, aud permanently ou UullU Ugs by depoblt of pimlum 1. Itie o mpauy bas been lu active operation for more than fclXTV VEA Its, during whlou ail losses have oeeu promptly aajiifieu auu h-- DlAiECTOK4. John L. Hodge, Lavid Lewis. Iu. At. Mahuny, John T. Lewis, Wil'Uiu b. Grant, Robert W. Learning, D. Clark Wbaitoii, Lawrence Lewisj beilamin Elting. Thomas At . Powers. A. KaMcUejry, EUuiUiid Caalillon, Hamuel Wilcox, Iat-wii t). Nnrria. W UCHEALElt, president. Bamcsl Wilcox, secretary. I.atsi TTIRE INSURANCE EXCLUSIVELY THB ENNHILVANLA FIRai INSURANCE COM v- a NY incorporated Abif Charter Peruetual No 610 WAIi-xUT Street, opposite Independence Square 1 his Company, favorably known to the oommuuliy (br over tony years, ooulluues to Insure against loss or damage by lire on Publlo or Private Buildings, either permanently or for a limited time. Also un Furniture Slocks of Goods, and Merchandise gent), rally, on liberal terms, , Their Capital, together with a Urge Surplus Pnnd. Is invested In tbe most csrelu! manner, which enables them to offer lo the Insured an undoubted secant la tne case of lost. Danlel Smith, Jr., Ala7V-- John Deverenz, Thomas oiuith, Henry Lewis. J. Uillln.rham Veil, Alexander Beuson, Ixaac nazleburst, Thomas Aiooiu, WM. 6. CROW ELL. Secretary. ,w QTRICTLY MUTUAL. PROVIDENT LjFE3DHTRUST CO. membexs ol u'jKTY OF FRIENDS, labiniur class aooepied. &wl!w M 'owasl tale. Provident, HAMTJEL R. SHIPLKY. . -.lajJi,? WILLIAM C. LoNTRHTH. yicPresldent. W.koWLAND PAKRY. Tbe advanlages ottsiad tor Utis UUaUpauy are xveU4 tW INSURANCE COMPANIES. 1829""CUAKTEU PEBPJST.UAu 1 Franklin Fire Insurance Co. j OFFICE! Kos. 435 and 437 CilaCS3UT hTKilt AMKTS OH JAHCABT 1. 1SSS, M.ouy,7400i. CAPrTAl ...a.........." . A VCH VKD 8 XJ&PL UH '.0' ta'lt tK&ml LMti . . ...a.... ..aa.a... " .', UNHETTaUKD CA.AAM8. INOUalJll JCOH 1 BB.6SB'sa vnovMisrAa. LOMKa PAID IHt'H UVJCK Hf 500,000. Perpetual and Tempoiary Policies on Iaberl Tsrqu DIRECTORS. Charles I. Banoker. .Alfred Filler, Eii.i.el uraut, 1 ?"'"" . HeorseW aUlObarda. WlUlam H. Grnl. lw Allrd a. Biker, Geoige les, 1 I bomaa 8. Jkuisl VHAlUii.'J rtt Mnuiuin, rrin;aer.L UiuUKuK FaLKB, Vkm-Prealuenl. JAR. W. ItcA laialB I'EK, Heoretary rro teru. Juoxptai Lexington, Kouoaj, tads Company hsj no Agencies Went of PuMOiirg, 1 13 lni'lOUAL FIKE LN5SLKAAUU COAH'AiH LONDON, FaHTAKIalNllKD 1803. Paid-up Capital and Accumulated Funds, 88,0 00,000 IN COLO. jfKlaYONT Jk JU.RKING Airenta, 114 8m. No. 107 fcouih THIRD Street, Pttlla, SHIPPING. fa LORILLARD'S STEAMSHIP LIM aa FOR NEW YORK. ealllng Tuesdays, Thursdajs, and Satnrdays tt noou, Tbe winter rales at which irrelgbt Is not taken Is 2)1 cents per luO pounds, gross, Scents per foot, or 2 cents per gallon, ship's option. The ianu now prepared to contract for spring rales lower this by any other ibute, coauieclug on Msjxh IS, 181k, Advance charges cshed at ouics ou Pier. Freigp ttcelvcdatall tints ou covered wnari. JOHJN F. OHL. S 18 6m Pier It) North Wh.rves. FOR LIVERPOOL AND QUEENM TOWN.-iuuiau Lina nf ai.ii. ai f pointed to sail as lonows: ouboi Cl'l V OF LONAiON. Saturday , December 26. Ci I V Ois' COAtK, l ueaday, DecemOer Z. U l V OF BALUMuKE, eaturuay, January 2. CITY OF BUSAUN, Saturday, Jauuary a, E'INA, 'luesuay, January IX. Cl l OF AN A WEKP, baturdar, January 11 anu each succeeding saiuiuay and alternate iMesday, at 1 P, U., from Pier 45, Norm Klver. KAlEd OF PAhSAUE BY THB SAU, STkAMHH SAiiaiise mvaar mtusbak, Payable lu Gold. Payable In Cnrreucy, FIRST CAttlN...m......fl0O STEERAGE ........W to LoiiUou.M..... Hwl to Lonoou..Mm.MM, u lo Paris lb, I to Parls....... ...... 47 PABSAwa ay tm Tuasuay irtAkis via a- ui ax. AiUBT Cabin, HTKBuaei . Pa aole In Gold. Payable In Currency, Liverpool......... fWi Liverpool...... .M aUailii.x... A l ttalitux 1 el. John's, N. F I 4, 1 l, J dim's, N . V. 1 by Branch Steamer.... I ly Liauch Stoamer... " Paiasengers also lcrwardeu to Havre, Hamburg, ure al! eu , etc, at reduced rales. Tickets cau oe bought here by persona sending for their IneiiilB. at mi,ueiae rates. ur turther luiormatlon apply at the ComDjer'iy OUicea. W li.hm a rA Lf,. A cent.. Nn IsMruniiii v n v4 Or to 0'JJOinj.nji.H A FAUHK, Agents,' ' No. 411 CHEbN UT Street, I'ullauelpUla, 4$r; PHILADELPHIA, RICHMOND jLmJimi. AND NOREOLE. STEAMSHIP UNA AataVaUOLWAA. JIAtatllUAlA AIM AaONattl TO THl SOLTH AND WEST, t BaVElty SATUltDAY, I At nooc. from FiJtsT WiiAiU above MABRKI TtLiiOUGU BATES and THKOUUK ttiaifiiri nW to an points in Norm ana bou.h Caroilua, via ses board Air Line akallioad, couneotlug at Purtsiuoutk anu to Lyuvbourg, Va.,Tenuessee, aud the West, vis Virginia aud Teuuessee Air Line and Hicnaiond aud Lau vine Railroad, Jprelhl HANDLED BUT ONCE, and taken al tow ek bates than any other ljm. Tue regularity, saleiy, aud cheapness oi iujs roots fl, ll, filial, al IL Lfa LllM IlllllllA U ll,. mnal .laal.ak,.. " a " wa-aa auvo. aa.a.ia .U,D taUaQ. dium ior carrying every description ol freight. No charge tor comuilaulon, dray age. Of any sxpsnu OI irauHier, steamships Insured at lowest rates. Jt reigut received dally. WILLIAM P. CLYDE k CO., No. 14 North and South WHAkglrn W. P. PORTER, Agent at Blcluuond aud Cltf PoihU 1 T, P. CROWELL A CO., Agents at Norfolk. I if NEW EArTtEbo LINK TO ALE J i. anuria, Georgetown, and Wasbinston xj. kj., via taUeaaueake and Delaware Caual, with oonJ necllous at Alexandria from tbe most direct routs lor L uchburg, Hristoi, ILnoxvlile, Naahvllle, Daitoa aud the southwest. 1 Steamers leave regularly every Baturday at nooi bum tue tint wnari aou-. naxaet street, Frelghtrecelved dally. WM p No, 14 Norm and South Wharves, J. B. DAVIDSON. Aseut at Georueuitin. M. ELDiUDUE A Co., Agents ai Alexandria, V!r. giuia. s 1 NO! lf.h:V(llf KI7OT viiuir trn' ' -' ' " aa wa. aia. I, AVUU. VIA DELAWARE AND RARITAN 11.N1IJ ataAPBEtsCt b iEAMBOa T (JUMPANV. I The Sieam propellers of Ibis Hue leave DALLY, from lint whaif below Market street, 1 THROUGH IN 24 HOURS, Uoodr Airwardedby all the Hues going anlof Ycrk, North, East, and West, free ot commission, freights received at our usual low rats. WILLIAM P. CLYDE A CO., Agent. No. 14 s. WHARVES, Philadelphia! JAMES HAND. AeenL sui No. lit) W AlaJL Streol, corner of Boutll, New Yors. ii m tlTJk FOR MEW YORK SWIFT-SU nirirY' 'Tnilsr,"l'"'"'" Company Despatcl a..u ov. 111-tmie Lines, via Delaware and Rarlla Canal, on and after tue 18th of March, leaving dally a U si. aud fi P, M connecting wiUt alt Northern ant aitaatern lines, For freight, which will be taken on acoommodatlnf terms, apply to VT llalalAJal HI, aOAAltla ., B A Ag NO. lit S. DikLAWAHE AvaBIM. CLOTHS, CASSIMERES, ETC. pANTALOON STUFFS JAMES & LEE, HO.I1 HOBTU IECOMD STREET. Bisn of the Golden Lamb, Have now on hand a very largo and choice a&sork meet ot all the new styles of Fall and Winter Fancy Casslmeres IN THB MARKET, To which they In vita the attention of tho trade aal others. II28W AT WHOI.MALI. AUD HKTAI.U STO VES, RANGES, ETC. NOTICE!. THE UNDER8IONE wunld call tbe attention or tbe publlo 10 his won u i ....I.liAN EAGLE FURNACJli. ' Thl. la an entirely uuw ueaier. 11 m mo ono truoted as 10 at once commend lltell to general favor belus a rx mblnailoD of wrought aud cast iron. It t tliarv simple in its oonstructiou, aud Is perleclly air .a !.. l.uirlaii....aa i liuiu .a ll.,,.... la a. ttSUtl Wlltala, a a,.a v. ...lal. MJ tVkeu out and cleaned, ll la so arrauged with nprlgb iiue. as 10 produce a larger amount of beat from in, tame weight of coal lhau any furnace now In us The bygiomello condition ol tne air as produced b my new arrangement 01 evaporation will at once d muni irate thai ll Is ti.e only Hot Air Furnace tha will prcduce a perefctly beauby atmosphere. liaoselu waul of a complete Heating Apparatoy wouiuuu wvit tu can iu eaiuuiiue tueuulden llaaifli nil. U l.la'al U I.I fa .... Bos. 1182 ana UStl MARK K.T street, . . . . . Phllauelnbli OBhau'dI'OW J,OWn Gt1"' Vealu.etOH alwayj N. .-Jobbing of all kinds prompUy done, i lo I a larse ansnriment or I'nnKinir ittn.a. u,, , : THOMPSON'S LONDON KITriTB'Krirfl' or EU ROPEAN RANGE, for fam.lles. hotelt EN 1. SIZES. Also. Philnl.,hia"uLT.J Uot-ArFurnsces, Portable Heaters. Low-dow Grates, Flrebosrd Stoves, Bath Boilers. stZJ-bol Plates' Boilers, tooklng stoves, euo . whouSSL an 1 retail, by ibemauuiacturers, .iwuui-aai.au bHlBPEATnnupunif UWwnntai Nu.i.Bji;yoNDuW
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