THE DAILY EVENING TELEGRAPH PHILADELPHIA, THURSDAY, MAY 21, 18C9. THE SHOE OX THE RIGHT FOOT. "I Mionltl like to know if I'm ever to get my brciikfiistj! Hero it is half-past 0 o'clock, ryul I'vo got to ho at Fourth and Master hy',7. What's the matter to-day ?" With these worda Joseph Dohha opened tho door of the kitchen, where his wife was busy getting breakfast. Ho had shouted to her seve ral times before to "hurry up," etc., but his Im patience was waxing too great now for such mild expression. "Yes, Joe, it's almost ready; I'm just taking it up now." Joe fretted and fumed a few minutes longer before his wife called to him that breakfast was ready. After he sat down lie began again. "What under the sun kept you so long this morning ? I shall be late, that's sure; and old Jcnks will be at me for it, and may-be turn inc off. He's ready enough to do that sometimes if man don't please him." "Well, Joe, I couldn't help it. I've been up since 5 o'clock but I had the greatest time to get the fire to burn, because the coal was wet." "And how in the world did tho coal coiuo to be wet ?" "Why, you know it only came last night. You were two or three days getting it after I told you it was nearly out; and then they sent it lat evening too late to get it in. So it hud to lie out all night, and it rained early this morning, and of course it got wet, nnd I hadn't any other." "Well, I should just like to know why they could not send it home early enough to get it in before night. I ordered it the day before. I'll find out, too. I'll go down to the yard this very tiny and give them a piece of my mind. If I run only a working man. I pay for niy coal, and they are not going to take their own time to send it any more than if I was a rich man. I'll let them know that before I'm a day older." And Joe was off with a rush to his work, but came late, and got an angry word from the boss in consequence. That afternoon, on his way home from work, ho carried out his purpose of going to tlie co.il yard. With the air of a man who is determined to have satisfaction, he accosted the clerk at the oillce: "I should like to know what's the rea eon that the coal I ordered hero on Tuesday was not sent till after dark last evening. It had to lie out in the street all night, and got so wet with the rain that it was not lit to line. If I had lived in Spruce street, instead of Pratt street, I suppose you would have sent it in decent time. But I just wisli to tell yon " "What is Hie name, sir "Poblis Joseph Dohbs." "Yes Bill! Bill Sykes ! Look hero a minute. Didn't you take Mr. Dobl)!?' coal to him yester day, in Pratt street?" "Yes, sir." "Well, you left here about I! o'clock; I saw you myself, lie says the coal didn't get there till af ter dark." "And it's just the fact, sir. Up there in Vine street one wheel got in a big hole in the street, and I was better nor half an hour gittin' it out. And then in another place I forgit just where it was the stones was out of the road lyin' 'round loose; and I came mighty near iirwcitiii' the cart altogither. I spilt a lot o' coal as it was, and had to btop to shovel it up. It wasn't my fault that he didn't get his coal sooner." "You see, Mr. Dohbs, that we could not help it. If the city government won't keep the streets in better order, such things will happen." Joe had nothing to do but to walk out of the dice as the courteous clerk t urned to some one else who came in. He hud not got mucli satis faction, that was certain; nor did ho quite know whom to attack next, though lie had a vague idea that there was somebody to blame. Well, now, .Toe, let us look at it a moment. Let us follow the links of this chain a little fur ther back, and perhaps we shall find somebody upon whom to vent your indignation. Whose duty is it to keep the streets in such order that the carts carrying your coal shall not bo hindered in going to you by great holes and loose stones? The Department of Highways, of course. But they cannot do their work without the means to pay for it. They must have an up propriutiou from City Councils. A resolution making such an appropriation was offered in Common Council not long ago, but was opposed violently and voted agaiust by several members. Among these members was one from your ward, friend Joe. Ho is much given to opposing every motion which looks towards the improvement of the city or the proper care of its condition; but he always and energetically supports an appro priation for showing hospitality or having an en tertainment of any kind, especially if a good amount of eating aud drinking is involved. But of course, Joe, you don't vote for such a man to represent your ward in Council. You would not stand in your own light so much as that. Why, yc6; I did vote for him. You see he belonged to the right party, and those fellows who came down to that big meeting we hud before election told us we ought to vote for htm, so I did all I could to get him In. Ah, Joe ! now we've got the shoe on the right foot. If you will vote for a man you are one of many who do this thing because he happens to belong to your party and to want your vote, whether ho is fit to have anything to do with the administration of city affairs or not, then you must expect that no means will be forth coming to keep the streets In repair; that the wheel of tho cart carrying your coal will be caught in a rut; that you will not get your coal till after night-fall; that if it happens to rain your coal will get wet; that your poor wife will worry and weary herself trying to light wet coals; that your breakfast will be late, your temper spoiled, and you will not get to your work in time. How will you vote in future, Joe ? Hicks. THE JUNE MAGAZINES. "Till: JAIAXY. The June number of The Galaxy has tho fol lowing table of contents: "Put Yourself in his Tlace," by Charles TiaA- fbunters viil and ix (with an illustra tion). "Gcorgo Eliot ond George Lowes," by .Win McCarthy. "Tho Throne of Louis Phi- linr.fi! Its Erection and its Overthrow." No. 1, Its Erection. By John 8. C. Abbott. "Tho Du cheBne Estate," by J. W. Do Forest (with an Illustration). "To J. K. L. on His Fiftieth Birth day." by C. P. Crunch. "Animal Food: It Preparation for the Table," by John C. Draper, M. D. "Susan Fielding," by Mrs. Edwards; i-lmnters xviil. xlx. nnd xx. "New York Jour nalists E. L. Godkin, of tho Nation," by E Rene Benson. "General Jominl," by G. B. Me C'lellan. "To bo Being, or Not to bo Being That is tho Question," by Kichurd Grant White "The Galaxy Miscellany," "Drift Wood," 'Literature and Art," and "Nebulu!." Mr. Justin McCarthy has tho following appre- ilattYO criticism vl tlie auUior c-i "Adum jao" in his rnri-ri entitled "George Kllot and Gcorgo Lewes:" Literary reputation arc, In one respect, liko wines sonic arc irreatly Improved by a long voyage, while others lose all Kcstnnd strength In the process of crossing the ocean. There ought to be hardly any dlfterence, ono would think, between the literary taste of the public of Lon don and that of the public of New York; and yet it is certain that an author or a book may bo posi tively celebrated in one city and only barely known and coldly recognized in tho other. Every one, of course, has noticed tho fact that certain Engish authors arc better known and ap preciated in New York than in London; certain American writers more talked of in London than in New York. The general public of England do not seem to me to appreciate tho true position of Whit tier and Lowell among American poets. The average Englishman knows hardlv anything of nnv American poet but Longfellow, who receives, I venture to think, a far more wholesome and enthusiastic ndmiration in Eng land than In his own country. Kobert Bucha nan, the Scottish poet, lately, I have read, de scribed "Evangeline" as a far liner poem than Goethe's "Hermann nnd Dorothea," a judgment which I presume and hope it would be impos sible to get any American scholar and critic to endorse or ctcii to consider seriously. On the other hand, it is well known that both the Brownings certainly Mrs. Browning found quicker and more cordial appreciation in Ame rica than in England. Lately, we in Loudon have taken to discussing and debating over Walt Whitman with a warmth and interest which people in New York do not seem to mani fest in regard to the author of "Leaves of Grass." Charles Dickens appears to me to have more de voted admirers among the best class of readers here than he has in his own country. Of course, it would be hardly possible for any man to be more popular and "more successful than Dickens is in England; but New York journals quote him and draw illustrations from him much more frequently than Loudon paper" do I do not think any day has passed since lirst I came to this country, six or seven months ago, that I have not seen at least two or three allusions to Dickens in the leading articles of the daily papers and I ques tion whether, among critics standing as high in London as George William Curtis does here, Dickens could find the enthusiastic, the almo.-t lyrical devotion of Curtis' admiration. Charles Hcadc, again, is more generally and warmly ad mired here than in England. 'Am I wrong in supposing that the reverse is the case with re gard to the authoress of "Itomolu" aud "The Mill on the Floss?'' All American critics and all American readers of taste have doubtless testi fied practically their recognition of the genius of this extraordinary woman: but there seems to me to be relatively less admiration for her in New York than in Loudon. The general verdict of English criticism would, I feel no doubt, place George Eliot on a higher pec'estal than Charles Dickens. We regard her as belonging to a higher school of art. as more nearly alliiied to tin; great immortal few whose genius and fame transcend the fashion of the age and defy the caprice of public taste. So far as I have been able to observe. I do not think this is the opinion of American criticism. In any case the mere question will excuse my writing a few pages about a woman whom 1 "regard as tlie greatest living novelist of England: as. on the whole, the greatest woman now engaged in European litera ture. Only Oeorgc Sand and Harriet Murtincuii could fairly be compared with her: and. while .Miss Martineau, of course, is far inferior in all tlie higher gifts of imagination and higher faculties of art, George Sand, with all her passion, her rich fancy, and daring, subtle analysis of certain natures, lias never exhibited the serene, sym metrical power displayed in "Itomolu" and in "Silas Marncr." Mrs! Lewes (it would be allee tation to try and assume that there is still mys tery about tlie identity of "George Eliot")" is what George Sand is not a great writer, merely as a writer. Few, indeed, are tlie beings who have ever combined so many high qualities in one person as Mrs. Lewes does. Her literary career began as a translator and an essayist. Dor tastes seemed then to lead her wholly into the somewhat barren fields where German meta physics endeavor to conic to the relief or the con fusion of German theology. She became a con tributor to the Went minuter lieciew; then sho became its assistant editor, and worked assidu ously for it under the direction of Dr. John Chapman, the editor, with whose family she lixedfora time, and in whose house she first met George Henry Lewes. She is an accomplished linguist, a brilliant talker, a musician of extra ordinary skill. She has a musical sense so deli cate and exquisite that there are tender, simple, true ballad melodies u hich fill her with a pa thetic pain almost too keen to bear; and yet she lias the linn, strong command of tone ami touch without which a really scientific musician cannot be made. I do not think this exceeding sensibility of nature is often to be found in com bination with a genuine mastery of tlie practical science of music. But Mrs. Lewes lias mastered many sciences as well as literatures. Probably no other novel writer, since novel writing be came a business, ever possessed one tithe of her scientific knowledge. Indeed, hardly anything is rarer than tlie union of tlie scientific, and tlie literary or artistic temperaments. So rare is it, that the exceptional, the almost solitary instance of Goethe comes up at once, distinct and strik ing, to tlie mind. English novelists are even less likelv to have anything of a scientific taste than French or German. Dickens knows nothing of science, and lias, indeed, as little knowledge of any kiud. save that which is derived from observation, as any respectable Englishman could well have. Thackeray was a man of varied reading, versed in the lighter literature of several languages, and strongly imbued with artistic tastes; but he hud no care lor science, and knew nothing of it but just what every one has to learn at school. Lord Lytton's scicnt e is a mere sham. Charlotte isronte was all genius and Ignorance. .Mrs. Lewes is all genius and culture. Had she never written a page of netiou. nay. had she never written a line of poetry or prose, she must have been regarded with wonder and admiration by till who knew her as a woman of vast and varied knowledge; u woman who could think deeply and talk brilliantly, who could play high and severe classical music like a prolessionul iier- lormcr, anil could bring lortli tho most delicate and tender aroma of nature and poetry lying deep in the heart of some simple, old-fashioned Scotch or English ballad. JNature, indeed, seemed to have given to this extraordinary woman all the gilts a woman could ask or have save oue. It will not, I hope, bo considered a piece of gossiping personality if I allude to a fact which must, some day or other, he part ot literary history. Mrs. Lewes is not beautiful, lu her annearaueo there is nothing whatever to attract admiration. Hers is not even a lace liko that of Charlotte Cushman, which, at least, must make a deep Im pression, and seize at once the attention of the gazer. Nor does it seem, like that of Madame de Stael or Elizabeth Barrett Browning, In formed aud illuminated by the light of genius. Mrs. Lewes is what we In England call decidedly plain what people in New York call homely; and what persons who did not care to soften the force of an unpleasant truth would describe pro bably by a still harder and more emphatic ad jective. This woman, thus rarely gifted with poetry and music and imagination thus disciplined in mans .highest studies, and accustomed to the most laborious of man's literary drudgery does not seem to havo found out, until sho had" passed what is conventionally regarded as tho ago of romance, that she had In her, transcendent libove uu oiiici uio lacuity ot tho novelist. When an author who is not very young makes a great hit at last, wo soou begin to loam that ho had already made many attempts In tho same direc tion, und his publishers find an eager demand for the stories and sketches which, when they nrst appeared, utterly failed to attract attention '1 liackeray's early efforts, Trollope'., Charles Keude's, Nathaniel Hawthorne's, all these have been lighted into success by the blaze of tho later triumph. But it does uot seem that Miss Marlon Evans, as sho then was, ever published anything in tho way of fiction previous to tho series of sketches which appeared lu Mack wood's Magazine, aud were called "Scenes I Vl Clerical Lilv." JkWQ tUULcs Attracted CVB- B'.dcrable attention and were much admired; b it I do not think many people saw in them the capacity which produced "Adam Bede" and "Komuln." With the publication of " Aduni Bcdo" came a complete triumph. Tho author was elevated at once and by acclamation to tho highest rank among living novelists. I think It was in the very first number of tho Comhill Magaiine that Thackeray, in a gossiping para graph about novelists of the day, whom ho men tioned alphabetically and by their initials, spoke of "E' as a "star of tho first magnltudo just risen on the horizon." Thackeray, it will be remem bered, was ono of tho first, if not, indeed, tho very first, to recognize tho genius manifested in "Jane Eyre.' The publishers sent him some of tlie proof sheets for his advice, and Thackeray saw in them the work of a great novelist. The I'luco which Mrs. Lewes thus so suddenly won, she lias, of course, always maintained. Her position of absolute supremacy over all other women writers in England Is something peculiar nnd curious. Sho is first and there Is no second. No living authoress in Britain Is ever now compared with her. I read, not long since, In a New York paper, a sentence which spoke of (ieorge Eliot and Miss Mulock as being tho greatest English authoresses in the field of fic tion. It seemed very odd and funny to me. Certainly, an English critic would never have thought of bracketing together such a pair. Miss Mulock is a graceful, true-hearted, good writer; but Miss Mulock and (ieorge Eliot! Rob ert Luton and Robert Browning! "A. K. H. B." (I think these arc tho initials) and John Stuart Mill! Mark Lemon's novels and Charles Dickens'! .Mrs Lewes has mudc people read novels who, perhaps, never read fiction from any other pen. She has made the novel the companion und friend and study of scholars anil thinkers and statesmen. Her books arc discussed by the gravest critics as productions of the high est school of art. Men and journals which have always regarded, or affected to regard, Thacke ray as a mere cynic, and Dickens as little better than a professional buffoon, have discussed "The Mill on the Floss" and "itoiuola" as if these novels were already classic. Of course it would bo a very doubtful kind of merit which com manded the admiration of literary prigs or pedants; but that is not the merit of George Eliot. Her hooks find their way to all hearts nnd intelligences, but it is their peculiarity that they compel, they extort the ndmiration of men who would disparage all novels, if they could, as frivolous and worthless, but who are forced, even by their own canons and principles, to re cognize the deep clear thought, the noble cul ture, the penetrating, analytical power, which are evident in almost "every chapter of these stories. Most of our novelists write in a slipslop, careless style. Die kens is worthless, if regarded merely as a prose writer; Trollope hardly cares about grammar; Charles llende, with all ills masculine 'force and clearness, is terribly irregular and rugged. The woman writers have seldom any style at all. (ieorge Eliot's prose might be the study of a scholar anxious to acquire and appreciate a noble English style. It is us luminous as the language of Mill; far more truly picturesque than that of Buskin: capable of forcible, memorable expression as the robust Saxon of Bright. I am not going into a criticism of (ieorge Eliot, who lias been, no doubt, fully criticized in America ilreadv. 1 am merely engaged in pointing out the special reasons why she has won in England i certain kind ot admiration which, it seems to me, hardly any novelist ever lias had lietore. 1 think she has infused into the novel some ele ments it never had before. and so thoroughly infused them that they blend with all the other materials, und do not form anywhere a solid lump or mass distinguishable from tlie rest. There are philosophical novels "Wilhcliu Meister." for example which are weighed down and loaded with the philosophy, and which the world admires in spite ot the phi losophy. There are political novels Disraeli's, for instance which arc only intelligible to those who make polities and political personalities a study, and which, viewed merely as stories, would not be worth speaking about. There are, novels with a great direct purpose in them, such as "Uncle Tom's Cabin," or "Bleak House," or Charles Reude's "Hard Cash;" but these, after all. are only magnificent pamphlets, splendidly illustrated "diatribes. The deep philosophic, thought of (ieorge Eliot's novels suffuses and illumines them everywhere. You can point to no sermon here, no lecture there, no solid mass interposing between this incident and that, no ponderous moral hung around the neck of this or that personage. Only you feci that you are under the control of one who is not merely a great story-teller but who Is also a dee) thinker. It Is not, perhaps, unnecessary to say to Amer ican readers that (ieorge Eliot is the only novel ist w ho can paint such English people as the l'oysers and the Tullivers just as they really arc. She looks into the very souls of these peo ple. She tracks out their slow peculiar mental processes: she reproduces them fresh and firm from very life. Merc realism, mere photograph ing, even from the life, is not in art a very great triumph. ButGeoi go Eliot can make her dullest people interesting and dramatically effective. She can paint two dull people with quite different ways of (lulncss say a dull man and a dull woman, for example und you are astonished to find how utterly distinct tlie two kinds of stu pidity are and how Intensely amusing both can 'be made. Look ot the two pedantic, pompous, dull advocates in the latter part of Robert Browning's "The Ring and the Book." How distinct they are! how different, how unlike, and how" true, are the two por traits! But then it must be owned that the poet is himself terribly tedious just there. His pedants are quite as tiresome us they would be in real life, if each succes sively held you by the button. George Eliot never is guilty of this great artistic fault. You never want to be rid of Mrs. Poyser or Aunt Glcgg. or the prattling Florentines iu "Romola." It is almost superfluous to say that there never was or c-uld be a Mark Tapley or a Sam Weller. AVe put up with these impossibilities and delight in tliein, because they are so amusing and so full of fantastic humor. "But Mrs. Poyser lives, and 1 have met Aunt Glegg often; and poor Mrs. Tulliver's cares and hopes, and little fears, and pitiful reasonings, are animating scores of Mrs. Tullivers all over England to-day. I would propose a safe and easy test to any American or other "foreigner" (.1 am sup posing myself now again iu Eng land) who is curious to know how much lie understands of the English character. Let him read unv of (ieorge Eliot s novels even '"Felix Holt,"" which is so decidedly inferior to the rc.-t and if he fails to follow, with thorough appreciation, the talk and the ways of tho Poy sers and such like personages, he may be assured he docs not understand one great phase of Eng lish life. Are these novels popular in England ? Edu cated public opiuion, I repeat, ranks them higher than the novels of any other living author. But thev are not popular that is, as Wilkie Collins or -Miss Braddou is popular; and I do not mean to say anything slighting of either Wilkie Col lins or Miss Braddou, both of whom I think pos sess very great talents, und have been treated with quite too much of the de haut en ban mood of the gnat critics, (ieorge Eliot's novels cer tainly are not run after and devoured by the average circulating library readers, us "The Woman in White" and "Lady Audley's Secret" were. She lias, of course, nothing like tho number of readers who follow Charles Dic kens; nor even, I should say, nearly us many as Anthony Trollope. When "itomolu," which tho Saturday Jieciew justly pronounced to be, if not the greatest, certainly tho noblest romance of modern duvs, was being published as a serial in tho Coruhill Magazine, it was compara tively a failure, iu a circulating library sense; aud even when it appeared in its complete form, and the public could better appreciate its artistic perfection, it was anything but a splendid suc cess, as regarded from tho publisher's point of view. Perhaps this may be partly accounted for by the nature of the subject, the scene, and the time; but even tho warmest admirer of (ieorge Eliot may freely admit that "Itomolu" lacks a little of that passionate heat which is needed to make a writer of fiction thoroughly popular. When a statue of pure and perfect marble attracts as great a crowd of gazers as a glowing picture, then a novel like "Itomolu" will have as ninny admirers as a novel liko "Conuiwlo" or ."Ylilcltc." I nm not ono of the admirers of (ieorge Eliot who regret that sho ventured on tho production of a long poem. I think "The Spanish Gypsy" a true and a fine poem, although I do not pluao it so high inartistic rank as tlie best of tho au thor's prose writings. But I believe it to be the greatest story iu verse ever produced by an Eng lishwoman. This is not, perhaps, very high praise, for Englishwomen have seldom dono much In the higher fields of poetry; but wo havo "Aurora Leigh;" nnd I think "Tho Spanish Gvpsy," on the whole, a finer piece of work. Most of our English critics fell to discussing tho question whether "The Spanish Gypsy" was to bo regarded as poetry at nil. or only as a story put into verse; and in tills futile and vexations controversy tho artistic value of tho work itself almost escaped analysis. I own that I think criticism shows to little advantage when it occu pies itself in considering whether a work of art is to be called by this name or that; nnd I am rather impatient of tho critic who comes with his canons of art, ills Thirty-Nine articles of literary dogma, nnd judges a book, not by what it i in Itself, but by the answer It gives to his self-Invented cate chism. I do not believe that tho art of man ever can invent I know it never lias invented nnv set of rules or formulas by which you can decide, off-hand nnd with certainty, that a great story in verse, which you admit to have power atid beuuty and pathos and melody, does not belong to true poetry. One great school of critics discovered, by the application of such high rules and canons, that Shakespeare, though a gieat gci.ius, was not a great poet; a later school made a similar discovery with regard to Schiller; a certain body of critics now say tlie same of Byron. I don t think it mutters much what you call the work. "The Spanish Gypsy" has imagination and beauty; it has exquisite pictures and lofty thoughts; it lias melody and music. Admitting this much, ami the most depreciating "critics did admit it, 1 think it hardly worth considering what name we are to apply to the book. Such, however, was the sort of controversy in which all deep and true con sideration of the artistic value of "Tho Spanish Gypsy" evaporated. 1 am not sorry Mrs. Lewes published the poem; but I am sorry sho put her literary name to it in the first instance. Had it appeared anonymously it would have astonished nnd delighted the world. 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Liberal discount to toe trade. w la INSURANCE. DELAWARE MUTUAL SAFETY INSCK ATirK COMPANY. Incorporated by the Lets- U fears of Pennsylvania, IttaiW Office. & K. corner o THIRD and WALNUT BlreeU. MARINE INHUKAKORfl I On Vessels, Cargo, and Freight to all parte of the world. INLAND INSURANCES On Rosde by river, eanal, lake and land carriage to kU f.Hns oi inn union. . On Merchandise Keaer&lly; on stores. Dwellings, Houses, AIRXTR Or THK OOMFAKY, I . , . November 1. I'm. .300,000 United States Five Per Cent. Loan, iimos sn Rnniin n,UU0 United Slates Six Per Cent. Loan, lrl IM.MO'OO M.0OU United Ktataa His Par Cant. In M, Pscilio Railroad) 6l).UUUX) 9U0,lM) SUte ol Pennsylvania Six Per Cent. Ijoan. 1, 376-J6 12o,(X0 City of Philadelphia Six Per Cent. ijoan texpin t imtn tax) tO.lKiO SUte of New Jersey Mix Per Cent. Loan Sli.uxi Penn. Kail. First Mortgage Six Per Cent. Bonds ,UtlPenn. Rnd. Second MorU;ae Six Per Cent. Bonds Uo.WH) Western Penn. Rail. Mortxaee Six Percent. Bonds (Penn. Railroad guarantee) ai.UU Rtate ol Teuneasee Five Per Centf lxan f,U4) State of Tennersee Six Por Cent. l.oan IC.mO Gernmntown Cas Company, prin cipal and Interest ft'inritnteod by City of Philadelphia, 'M shares Stock lO.IKiU Fi.unylvi,nia Railroad Company, 200 shares SUick 5,0(10 North Pennsylvania Railroad Co., 100 shares Stock SK'.IXiO Philadelphia and Southern Mail SteaniBliip Co., Wl Shares Stock tl,1110 Loons on Bond und MnrticaKa, Ut Liens on City Properties 1,W4M0 6l,MI-(0 M.UUO'OU an,25uo ai ,ooo-oo l.Ml-J, 16,000 -oo ILaoouu 8,M)'U0 t6.000'00 I7.SI0-U0 $l,lui,(i0 Par. Market value, ftl,li.5 a , Cost, $1,13.0kH lio. Kal Estflte ftUWUO Bills n civablo for insurance nindo lkU.4ncS 14 Balances oue at nfrnncies, pn-iniums on marine policies, accrued interest, and otherdobU due the company 40,178'S8 Stock aud scrip of sundry corporations, Hi'6tj. Estimated value 1,813'00 Cash in bank tlltMftnfl Cash in drawer 413'ti5 llfi.63'73 e51.fH7.iWN) r)uEcT01", Kdmund A. Soudor, Sumuel I). Stokes, Henry Sloan, I W illiain C. l.udwift, iCeorxe O. Leiper, Henry C. Dailott, Jr., 'John l. Taylor, .( ieoixe W. liurnadno, ! Will lam ti. Uoullon, 'Jacob Rieifftl. Spencer Mcllvaino. . D. T. Mown, Pittsburg, Thomas O. Hand, John V. 1'avis, James C. Hand, Tbeophilus Paulding, Joseph 11. Seal, Huirh Craig, Johu R. Penrose, Jacob P. J ones, James Trnquuir, Kdwurd I'arhtixton, H. Jones Hrooke. James K. Mcl'artaud, Kdward Icfourcadu, I joun li. ruMiipIe, 1 A. H. Herder. " THOMAS C. HAND, President. JOHN C. DAVIS. Vina. rHi,lent Josliua r. J-)'re, HKNTtY LYLHURN, Secrotary. 11 KN K Y HA IX, Assistant Secretary. 10 6 1829." -CHARTER PERPETUAL. Frantlin Fire Insurance Company OF PHILADELPHIA. Office, Nos. 435 and 437 CHESNUT St. Assets ca Jaa, 1,1869, $2,677,37213 CAPITAL ACCKCKD SURPLUS... PREMIUMS UNSETTLED CLAIMS. SMOO.OOO-OO l,(S.,.Vs-7( L,i:i,si:i-43 INCOME FOR ISOQ, ;iiSO,oto. Losses paii since ffl,0Yer $5,500,003 Porpptaal and Temporary PoHoiea on Liberal Terras. The Company also isrtuea Poliuioson Komtof iiuiliiiuRfl of all kind. Ground Honta, and Mort(aea. DIRKf.TORS. Alfred O. Baker, (5 a rui.. rainuui nam, .uui;e W. Kichards. Ituiau Lou. Tkumiaa Sparka, William S. tiraut, Ttioinaa S. fitlHtlLVllM S. HcHlKnTt. UeurKe i ales. ALFKFH ii. HAKKIt. PruHidimfc. r ISKOKUK KALKS, Vioe-Pioaiduut. JAR. W. McAIXISTKK. Secrotary. TUhOUOKh M. Kl'X.hH, AaaiaUut Secretary. 89 J N S U R E AT HOME, IN TUB Penn Mutual Life Insurancs COMPANY. No. J21 CIIESNUT 8TKEET, PHILADELPHIA. ASSETS, t2,()00,000. tCHAKTEUED HV OIK OWN STATE. MANAGED I1Y OUR OWN CITIZENS. LOSSES PUO.HPTEY PAID. POLICIES ISSUED ON VAKIOIX FLANS. Applications may bu made at the Homo Oillce, and at tlie Agencies throughout tlie State. 2 1S5 JAIHES TKAOUAIlt HA it I U EL E. STOKES JOHN W. IIOKNOU A. IIOKATIO S. STEPHENS... PRESIDENT ..VIUK-PKKSIDKNT V. P. and ACTUARY SECRETARY THE PENNSYLVANIA FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY. Incorporated 15 Charter Perpetual. No. 510 WALK CI' Street, opposite independence Square. This Company, favorably known to the ooiumunay lor over lorty years, continues to insure against loss or damage by tire on Public or Private liuildinps, either permanently or for a limited time. Also on I1 uiuuure, Slocu ot Goods, and Merchandise icenerally, on liberal terms. '1 heir Capital, together with a large Surplus Fund, Is In Tested in the most careful manner, which enables them to otter to the insured au undoubted eeouxity in the ooae of lose, DIBECTOIiS. Daniel Smith, Jr., John Deverenx, Alexander Kenson, Thomas Smith, Isaac llazlehurst, Henry Lewis, Thouun Kobius, J. Uiflingham Fell, Daniel Haddock, ,Jr. T DANIEL SAUTU. Jh,, President WM. G. CROWELL, Secretin til) A S B U R Y LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY. No. 21 BROADWAY Cor. READE St., Now York. Ciii-Ii 1 ni'iuil SI 50,000 $li'.,Uti0 Deposited with the State of New York as Security for Policy Holders. LEMUEL BANCS, President GEORGE ELLIOTT, Vice-President and Seoretary. EMORY McCLlNTOCK Actuary. A. E. M. PURDY, M. D Medical Examiner. KKFEltKNCEH 1Y I'KKMlbblON. Thomas T. Tasker, John M. Maris, J. B. Lipplnoott, Charles Spencer, W ilhsm Divine, James Long, John A. ri'ht, K. Morris Walu, James Hunter, Arthur C Cotttu, John H. MoWreury, E. H. Worne. In the character of its Directors, economy of munien meiit, reasonableness of rates, PARTNKKSHIP PLAN OF DECLAK1NO DIVIDENDS, no restriction in female lives, and absolute non-forleiture of all policies, and no re striction of travel alter the tirst year, the ASBUKY pre sents a combination of advantages offered by no other couipsny. Policies issued in evory form, and a loan of one third msde when desired. Sl'KClAL, ADVANTAUP.il Ot'VKtlED TO CLERGYMEN. ' For ail further iutormation, adress JAMES M. LONG ACRE, Manager for Peansylvauia and Delaware). Office. No. Una WALNUT Street, Philadelphia. FORM AN P. HOLLINSllEAD Special Agent slt STRICTLY MUTUAL. Provident Life and Trust Co. OP PHILADELPHIA. OFFICE, No. Ill H. FOUKTII (STREET. Organized to promotes LIFE INSURANCE among members of the Society of Frlenda. Good rinks of any clans accepted. Policies luBued on approved plans, at the lowest rates. PreHldent, BAMTJEL R. BITIPLKY, , Vice-President, WILLIAM C. LONiSTlEriT, Actuary, ROWLAND PARRY. Tlifl advantages ottered by litis Couipuuy are un excelled. gT TMPEKIAL FIltE INSURANCE CO. LONDON. KSTAMIJSHEO 1S03. Paid-up Cairttol and Accumulated Funds, 08,000,000 IIS" GOLD. PEEVOST & HERHIN0, Agents, 8 ' No. 10T 8. THIRD Street, Philadelphia. CHAJB. M. fUEYOST. CHAS. P. IUUQ INSURANCE. OFFICK OF TUB INSURANCE COMPANT ,r.VVRT AMKRIOA, No. IJ WALNUT Btreet, Philadelphia, Incorporated 114. Charter Perpetual. Asset. .5.0.'0OW:... f,.1.WH MARINE, INLAND. AND FIRR INSURANCE. OVER 840,000000 l-OSSEB PAID BINOB ITS ORGANIZATION. I Arthur G. Coffin, Kamnel W. Jones, John A. Brown, Charles 1 aylor, Ambrose White, Willism Welsh, 8. Morns W ain, BlWKTroia. r ranels It Cope, Kdward H. Trotter. Edward 8. Clarke, T. Charlton Henry, Alfred D. Joeauu, John P. W bite, Louis O. Madeira, .- ... . v. m , vuauuMO. George L Harrison, i A Ttpj.O. COFFIN. President CHARLES PLAIT, Vice-President Matthias Maris, Secretary. g i innn mason. Ubarlee W. Cuahmao. ryUK ENTKKPKISE INSURANCE CO. OF a r'llll.Alll-.I.rillA. Office Southwest Cor. FOURTH and WALNUT Streets. FIHK INSCRANCE EXCLUSIVELY. PFRP11 UAL AND 1KRM POLICIES LSSITKD. Cash Capital Jmi,WKI-( Cash A nets, May, lst. OVER HALF A MILLION MOT, LA KS. F. Ratchford Starr, DIRECTORS. J. Livingston Frrlnger, i.B.i.n. rmr.tpr, John M. Atwood, Hetij. T. In-du-k, Gn.rge 11. Stusrt, osmes v etguorn, W m. c. Boniion, Charles Wheeler, Tho. H. Montgomery, umiu ii. mown. 1 his Comiisnv fesnves nnlv Ami..i.h r tjvin lames Aerteen. specially hazardous risks whatever, such aa factories, mills, eta. F, . KATCHFOrtD STARR. IWdent. .... JH.t,!v H. MONTGOMERY, YWPrerident AI-FX. W. V ihtfr, Socretflry. a rt )li(l'MX i n's u'k an c'e com pan " Ut" X PHILADELPHIA. IU0.k.li0JtA TK" lW-GHARTER PERPETUAL. irV"-?' ALNUT Street, opposite the Kiehuuge. Jnis Company insures from los or damage by ,., , . HUE, on liberal terms, on tmihlinis, merehnndln, fnmltnre, etc., tor limited periods, aud permi.nontly on liuildiuga by deposit of premiums. i'U,.?i'omV!inf hw,n ,n ctlve operation tor more than PIXIY lhARN. during which all lueses have beon promptly adjusted and imi.i. John L. Hodce, DIRECT" rift.. David Tjewts, Benjamin Etting, Thomas H. i'owura. A. R. Mcllen.-y. Edmund CustilloB, Samuel Wilcx, ai. r.. mummy, Jt'hn T. Lewis, William S. Grant, Robert W. Learning, D. Clsrk Wharton. Lawrence Lewis, Jr., JOHN R. 1VIK'.mi.-ui.-u ii.Mt liewis c;. ioms. 8amcflTiw?OX, Secretary. 4jh CARRIAGES. CARRIAGES! CARRIAGES! WILLIAM D. ROGERS, CAXIXIZAGZ! EUILDUn, 1009 and 1011 CHESNUT STEEET. Superior Carriages of my own manufacture built for the RZUVITCG SZeASOZ? OF 1 8 O O, COMBIMNQ STYLE, DURABILITY, AND ELEGANCE OP FINISH. Attention given to repairing. 417 stuth 3ra Carrlngea Storoil and Insurance effected. ff-Qjfe GARDNER & FLEMING, CAHILZACZ BUILD3I13, Ho. 214 South FIFTH Street, BELOW WALNUT. A Large Assortment of New and Second-hand CARRIAGES, IKCLCDIKQ Coupe Kockawnys, Plirctons, Jenny Linda, Bnggtea Depot Wagons, Etc. Etc., 3 23 tutha Fo rS a loatR educed Prices. BLANK BOOKS. BLANK BOOKS. The Largest Stock and Greatest Variety OF rUZiZi AJD HALF-BQUnD BLANK BOOKS, MEMORANDUM, PASS, COPY-BOOKS, ETC. ETC., To be found In tlila city, la at the OLD ESTABLISHED Clank Qook Manufactory OF JAS. B. SMITH & CO., Ko. 27 South SEVENTH St., 8 18 tliBttl3m PHILADELPHIA. OFFICE AND SALESROOM, FIRST FLOOR ; WARE. ROOMS, UP STAI KS ; FURNITURE, ETo! FOB BARGAINS IN FURNITURE GO TO RICHMOND & CO., No. 45 South SECOND Street, 4 80 lm ABOVE CHESNUT, EAST SIDE. JOHN F. FOREPAUGH & SON, SuccesHors to Richmond & Forepaugh, rimrjiTuim wahsrooms NO. 40 SOUTH SECOND STREET, ! West Side, PhUadelphla. HOTELS AND RESTAUR ANT8. Mt. Vernon Hotel, 8 i Monument street, Baltimore. , Ilegantly Furnished, with onaarpasaed CuIiIm. On the European rian, ' r OARPENTERS ANO BUILDERS. QEORCE PLOW MAM. CARPENTER AND BUILDER, No, 134 DOCS Street, Philadelphia;
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