THE ALCHEMISTS. The upright art of Alchymle HkcVn me welU"- LVTIllTt. trvm Iht CornhiU Maijazint. TAUT I. The ol1, lingering, half-alive vitality of old anperstitions wan onriouHly instanced Home eventy yearH ngo, when an advertisement ap rred in the German JtcMun mngcr, pur porting to le ismiod l.y the "Hermetic So ciety " nd calling for communications from the votaries of alchemy Rcattered among the public. This was in 1 "!(!, the period when the Directory governed in Franco, and Gone rl Bonaparte was conquering North Italy; a time when old beliefs on many important subjects had recently mot with mifueiently iromgh handling. t Answers to the advertisement came in from all quarters. Persons in every grade of pro fessional and commercial life, tailors and shoemakers, physicians, privy councillors, schoolmasters, watchmakers, apothecaries, organists, professed thouiRolves practical stu dents of the occult science, and desirous of further enlightenment in thoir as yet unsuc cessful quest after the great elixir. The idea that an influential "Hermetic Society" was in existence, infused new hope into these iso lated searchers, lint on how baseless a fabric their hope was bnilt eventually appeared, when the archives of the society were sub mitted to inspection, and it was found to have consisted of two members pnly, two West phalian doctors of obscure fame. Ou the let ters they had received in consequence of their advertisement were found indorsed the words "answered evasively." Those facts are told us in a lecture recently delivered at Lcipsic , by Professor Erdmann, and published in the Uartmlauhe. From his nUtements, and from other sources, wo pro pose to put together a few notes relative to the exploded science the eccentric torch bearer to chemical discovery whoso annals contribute such notable pages to the moral romance of the Middle Ages. YVe do not profess to give its history in formal sequence. We do not discuss the tra ditions of its origin among the sagos of Egypt, nor ponder over the ambiguous inscription on the Emorald Table of Hermes TriHtuegmtus the "Apocalypse of Alchemy," as Dr. .yjj-amann cans u. inai jsiosos was giving proof of his skill as an "adept'' when he dissolved the golden calf and xnade the rebellions Israelites imbibe it in a liquid state, that the long-lived an tediluvian patriarchs had in fact got hold of the Elixir Vile, that Noah was commanded to hang up the true and genuine philosopher's stone in the Ark, to give light to all living creatures therein, are opinions we will merely glance at, as some of the most ambitious among the many fictions by which alchemy Bought to ennoble its pedigree, when, from an obscure and ill-accredited pursuit, it hud come to bo admitted into the front ranks of notoriety, to be professed by sages of eminence and patronized by powerful monarchs. It was in the thirteenth century that it stepped into this Position, brought to it mainly through the intercourse of the Arabs with Europe. The heydey of its dignity may bo said to have con tinued from the thirteenth to the sixteenth century. After the ltevival of Learning it declined in estimation; but it still maintained . a very considerable sway over those portions of society where mental activity had not been impelled into the new channels. Of its preva lence in Germany, especially during the seven teenth century, Professor Erdmann relates many curious instances. To these we shall presently recur. The absolute death of Alchemy, or the "Sparine Art," as it used sometimes to be called, cannot be assigned to an earlier date than the publication of Lavoi sier's "Modern System of Chemistry," eighty years ago. And here again, when wo speak of its "absolute death," it must be observed that, even in our own times, chemists of first-rate rank have accorded a cer tain degree of recognition to its fun damental hypothosis. Sir Humphrey D.tvy is not alone in avowing his opinion that the transmutations of motals need not bo consi dered an impossibility. Metals, it is argued, are composite bodies, brought into their actual condition by the hidden operations of nature. Why may not man, who has wrested so many secrets from her already, find out this art of metal-making also, and by some imitative process form similar combinations tinder the same relative conditions? But to what purpose? If the art resulted in a mo nopoly by some dexterous patentee, gold making would before long come to be made penal; if every one might without hindrance carry his own California in his own crucible, gold would soon cease to be the standard of value. But 7i(t8 the transmutation ever been effected? nere the testimony of enlightened modern inquiry is emphatically No, in spite of the half-afnrniations we meet with here and there; as, for instance, in a "History of Alchymy" alluded to by Professor Erdmann, published as late as 1HI52, wherein the author expresses his belief that at least five "Adepts" or masters of the art of transmutation havo, in the course of ages, made good their claims to the title. Before we proceed further, let us note what were the definite objects which the al chemists proposed to themselves in their re searches, and which these adepts professed to have accomplished. The doctrines on which their science rested were three: 1. That gold could be produced from metals which themselves contained no gold, by the application to them of an artilicial preparation. This preparation went by the name of the Philosopher's Stone, the Great Elixir, the Great Magisterium, and the lied Tincture. It was applied to metals when they had been fused into a liquid state, and the act of application was called projection. 2. That silver could be similarly produced out of metals containing no silver, by the ap- , plication of another preparation called the Stone of the Second Order, the Little Elixir, the Little Magisterium, and the White Tinc ture. This, naturally, was in much loss re quest than the other, and is much less talked about in the records of alchemy. 8. The same preparation which thus en nobles metals and produces gold is, at the eame time, when in a potable state, or even in some forms as a solid, a medicine possess ing marvellous qualities for preserving life and renewing youthful vigor. How far the philosopher's stone and the elixir of life were considered identical is, however, left in some doubt by the ambiguity of Spagirio writers. By some the latter has been described as Laving the properties of sea water; by others as an invigorating paste; by others as liquid gold; by others Itayiuoud Lulli, . for instance as something very like Lonest port and sherry. This elixir of life was sought by the earlier alchemists much more eagerly than was tha stone in its transmuting properties, but it faded into discredit sooner; the avarice of mankind proved stronger than their love of existence; or, perhaps we should pPJ, ke retJ (liproycx Death, wiw uiQXQ Con THE DAILY EVENING TELEGllAPII FHILADELPIIIA, MONDAY, vincing in his arguments than the obstinacy of metallic ores. Gold might be "exhibited by astute contrivances where honest moans of fabricating it had failed; no deceit could exhibit life In the individual whose hour of fate had really come. lo Lit upon the ncht composition of the greater magisterium, whether as a medicine or a transputer of metals, was, then, the pri mary aim and end of alchemy throughout. To decompose all metals into thoir primitive constituents, so as to ascertain the. relative value of each, and to learn how to recomliine them in certain spocifio proportions, was a necessary part of the process; and hence resulted the mcMiiimblo servioo rendered by alchemy to true science the establishment of the principles of chemical analysis. As to the nature and properties of the wonder-working stone, nothing enn bo more vague, contra dictory, and hyperbolical than the reports of professed adepts on the subject. Either they songlitiirfliHguiso their conscious ignorance by allegorld language, or they pretended to make a mystery of some simple and inellicacious process; or thinking tney really had, or were in the way of gaining the secret, they tried to mystify those who might perchance have followed up thoir indications too cleverly. 1 ins allegorical jargon may do instanced by a quotat ion from tho verses dedi catory of George PJpley, canon of Bridling ton, the English alchemist, addressed to King Edward IV. Ho sums up his lore as follows: "This natural process, hy help of craft then consum mate, PiPSoivth the Elixir in Its unctuous humlilitle, Then In balnro of Muni together let them circulate, I.Ike new honey or oil" till they perfectly thleked lie: 1 lien will that medicine heal ail manner iullnnlty, Anil turn all uietulH to Sonne and Mnoiie moat per fectly; Then shall ye have both great Elixir and aunim po tabilr, By the Rrace and will i. f God, to whom be laud eter nally." Mark tho pious sentiment with which Ripley concludes. It is a notable circumstance that from the thirteenth to the fifteenth century the pursuit of alchemy was closely connectod with the religious sentiment, or, at all events, professed such connection. Its prominent advocates then, and, indeed, to a later date, were wont to speak of themselves as devout investigators of the truths of God discoverable in the marvels of nature discoverable only by the pure and patient. They claimed for their pursuit the same religious dignity, which Christians of tho "broad" school in modern theology are bold to claim for scientific study, on the ground that the God of Revolution is also the God of Nat lire, and spcuks to man by the one mode as well as by the other. Their expressions are often noble and ele vated. Hear Johannes Straugunere, in his dying injunctions to his son, in 14:12: "Upon the salvation of thy soul do not forget tlio poor; and in any case look well to thyself, that thou do not disclose the secrets of this science to any covetous worldly man." In Fnber's 'Tropugnncriilum Alchymiic," pub lished in 104-1, we have the religious theory of the science thus stated: "The stone of the philosophers is, by all tho authors who have I rented of it, esteemed to be the greatest gift of God on earth. As therefore it is so great and mighty a gift of God, the most necessary thing in order that man should attain to a knowledge of its excellence and worth, is wisdom which is be stowed by God on very few. And Michael Sandivogius, a Polish adept early in tho seventeenth centmy, reputed author of "A New Light of Alchymie taken out of tho Fountain of Nature and Manual Experience, " as the English translation has it, writes thus: "Thou, therefore, that desirost to attain to this art, in the first place put thy wholo trust in God thy Creator, and urgo Him by thy prayers, and assuredly believe that lie will not forsake thee; for if God shall know that thy heart is sincere, nnd thy whole trust is put in Him, He will, by one means or anothor, show theo a way oiul assist thee in it, that thou shult obtain thy desire." Thorn is piety, too, in the reason given by this same Sandivogius why tho adepts, who have learnt how to circumvent death, chone not to perpetuate thoir existouco on earth: "Now 1 do not wonder," ho says, when describing the glorious effects of tho elixir, "as before I did, why philosophers, when they have attained to this medicine, have not cured to h.ivo their days prolonged, because every philosopher hath tho life to come so clearly bof-jre his eyes as thy face is seen in a glass. Bon Johnson s impostor acted the character well: "11, honcRt wretch, A not able supers! it mux pood soul, Him worn his knees -i: and his slipper bald, With prayer and iu-;tug lor It. Her lie comes Not a profane word r re htm 't Is poison !'' In tho early Middle Ages it is notorious that not only many good and pious men, but many of the highest intellects, pursued tho delusive scionce, i:nd had the popular repute of being "Spusji i.s sagos," or adepts in its mysteries. Boger Bacon, Albertus Magnus, St. Thomas Aqmmis, aro tho heroes of many fantastic legends: and, indeed, for a long period it was chief! y by clerics, aud by monk ish clerics, that ii was cultivated. In tho dreamy solitudes of tho cloister, where man's restless imcgination so often revenged itself for tho rtsttictions laid on active life, many a tonsured inmate bent over crucihlo and bellows, "nursing his eternal hope," aud E raying devoutly for illumination from on igh. But enthusiast'! and imposture are ever close at hand; and what is inoro strange, the border land between them is perilously ill defined. A liar li,:s been known to lie him self into belief of bis own inventions; a fana tic, in his overweening desire for the realisa tion of his drenn.s, will wilfully forget that evidence needs fm-t for its basis. Tho will stories that spring up like a tanglo of weed round the lama of every idchemi.td philosopher of I ho Middle Ages leave one in amaze both at tho credulity and t h i untruthfulness of our far-off ancestors; n 1 1 yet might not a r! nco nearer homo su)li ;e to humble those ho have lived in the days of table-rappirg ami : piritualistio seances? Tim biographies of tl.o earlier ulcheiuists hnvo been largely recorded by the Frcuch writ ,: Nando and Lent.l. t du Fresuoy. We v:!l mention a few of ihem, but our chief busin-vn is with later and less hackneyed instanc m. Among the most famous were Artephius, of the twelfth cent in y, who wrote a treatise mi tho preservation it life, on tho credit of hi own experience, being professedly, at the time of writing, in the thousand-and-twenty-fifth year of Iuh and who used quietly to settle every disj uted question of aneie.it history by the in f ra gable plea of person d testimony. Am. Id de Villeneuve, in the thirteenth n-ntury, commonly called Villunovanus, win the reputed author of a recipe for the prolongation of life some hun dred years or so, by means of carefully pre- Iiared plasters aud nostrums. Tietro d'Apone, jis contemporary, worked unheard-of wonders with his seven familiar spirits, and used to conjure gold back into his Fortunatus' wallet the moment ho had made a disbursement. Greater than any of these was Raymond Lulli, of Majorcp, ho "WllUUllVd lltfCtW," (Ul4 author of the philosophical An Ltdli, who sot up a laboratory at Westminster and filled tho coffers of one of our Edwards to tho tune of six millions of rose nobles; though indeed some rationalizing authorities ven tured to sny it was by inducing the King to lay a tax upon wool, and not by transmuting metals, that he worked that miracle. Nicholas Flamcl, a poor Parisian scribe, extracted tho secret from a mysterious MS. after twenty years of painful study. Were not tho four teen hospitals, three chapels, and seven churches that he built, restored, or endowed, indisputable evidence of the validity of his claims to the possession of tho gold-making stone ? What if the incredulous, even in his own time, whispered that he was a miser and a usurer, that ho extorted his pelf from Span ish Jews, and was a general money-lender to the dissipated youth of Paris ? Avaunt, sujh ignoble calumnies 1 i If the hermetic science bore on the wholo a "holy and harmless" charoeter among tho inquiring intellects of the thirteenth century, already, in the fourteenth, tho quest after the secret of inexhaustible riches had induced a spirit of rivalry and deception which caused serious inconveniences to society. It is to be remarked that tho early alchemists invariably went by the name of "philosophers;" tho term "gold-makers" was applied in later times and in a derogatory sense. Many Popes and other potentates sought to make the practice of "multiplication," as it was sometimes termed, penal. But in vain: "multipliers'' multiplied. Coins and medals were minted from what at all events passed for fabricated gold, to the great detriment of commercial interests. Henry IV of England issued a stringent prohibition of tho practice. The God-fearing Henry VI eagerly encouraged it, repealing his grandfather's statute, and exhorting all classes of his subjects to search for the secret in tho spirit of loyalty, for the replenishment of his coffers; his characteris tic piety coming out in tho special charge to the clergy, as being undoubtedly possessed of the powor of transmuting substances in one way, and therefore more likely perhaps to succeed in the other. Edward IV patronized the art. So did poor Charle VI of France, in his flighty, impulsive way. One of the occupants of tho Holy See had the credit of being an alchemist, Pope John XXII, whose bulls issued against tho pretend ers to the art were perhaps intended to warn off rivals. The eighteen millions of treasure which he was said to have left behind him was the current argument adduced to prove him an adept; the evidence of tho fact per haps as little trustworthy as tho inference. Weird fancies havo always found a conge nial atmosphere within the breast of the Teu ton; and it was most conspicuously by Ger man emperors nnd princes that tho Sp.igiric art so called in fact from a leutonie word, juten, to search was cultivated or patron ized. Duriu'' the fifteenth century it came to be professed by a number of adventurers, "wandering alchemists" as they were styled, who strolled from court to court, sometimes gaining great political influence over thoir ixitroiiH, us, for instance. Hans von Dorn- berg did over the Landgrave of Hesse sometimes experiencing tho tragic fate of those who sink from great men's favor by a too daring swimming on bladders. Ihe first personage of pro-eminent degree who kept a regular court alchemist was Barbara, wife of tho Emperor Sigismond. She had been instructed, so the story goes, by a wandering sspo how to make silver out of copper ami arsenic, and to increase the substance of gold by tho addition of copper and silver. This metal, on which, at all events, imperial power could pass tho Juit of currency, sho benevo lently sold to the poor as genuine metal. The Malgrave wa.s so great a of the crucible "tho Alchemist," John of Brandoiibur' proficient in the labors that he was surnamod and his residence at tho riassenburg, near Cuhnbach, was a head- quarter of the profession. His fame, how ever, was outdone in the following century by that of the Emperor Rudolph II, whose soubriquets were "the Prince of Alchemy and "the German Hermes Trisniegistus." Wis superstitious dreams, which cost the em pire aear at a time wneu intellect and energy were required to steer her through hor troubles, cave an impetus to 'Void-cookery throughout his dominions such as it never received before or after. Adepts fought out their envious rivalries at his court His poet laureate sung of the alchemical processes as of the conllict of allegorical powers in an heroic strife. Here Dee uud Kelly, tho English mountebank, dropped down for a while on their erratic course, Here Van Helmont was eagerly invited. Here Sandivogius was treated sumptuously, and honored with the title of Councillor of State, Equally zealous with Rudolph, as a student ot tne art anil patron of its professors, was Augustus, Eloetor of Saxony, who had a laboratory at Dresden, popidarly called the Gold House; while his wife, tho Ele'ctress Anna, practised at Annabnrg, and his sou and successor, Christian, grew up under their eyes a sharer in tho family taste, it was tins Christian to whoso reijii belongs the story of Setonius Scotus (Seaton tno heotj, auui the "Cosmopolite, which atlorus a striking illustration ot the preca rious conditions of an alchemist's life and for tunes in those days. Setonius professed to have mastered the mystery of gold-makitu and the proof he gave of his art, in the j re sence ot tne Elector Christian, on one occa sion, so greatly impressed that prince's mind; that he caused the luckless adept to be forth with curiied oil' and imprisoned in a h'xy)i tower at Dresden, where no one else couid get at him to learn his secret, and where a fair field might be left for the Elector's own efforts. He visited his prisoner him self uinl tried persuasion. Setonius wn dumb. Thou he employed torture. Tho poof "Cosmopolite" was racked till within tm ace of death. Still no confession; and as it would not do to kill the goose with the gulden eggs outright, Seaton was left to linger iuthe tower, alternately soothed and tormented. One ilny, by special favor, a Polish visitor was allowed to have access to him. ThU va- Michael Sandivogius, to whom more t)n:i once we havo already made illusion; ho w.h then a student only, not an adept, in alchemy; ho listened eagerly to Seatou's promises of golden reward should he help him to effect his escape. A plan was laid, and successfully executed; the fugitives reached Cracow, but there the strength of Seaton, harassed by long torture und privation, broke down. The cathedral church of Cracow received his re mains in li;i)4. The experience of poor Alexander Seaton was that of many others of his class. The conduct of princes towards the alchemints was, in fact, much like tho old fable of the snn nnd wind. It was a question whether fuir means or foul means, favors or tortures, w ould be most likely to wring the secret out of a man who boasted of carrying it in his breast. More was demanded of the luckless "multipliers" than they wore able to per form. "Fill my coffer j," was the cry of some needy duke or landgrave; ."give me money to pay my troops, to feast my re IftjJWlft" H'U TO it he p4 cot. le Jus fancy launch forth into tho gorgeous visions of Sir Epicure Mammon: ' "My meat shall all come tn Indian shells, Pishes of spate set In fold, and studded With emerslds. sapphires, hrcluthfl, ami rubles: , Holloa in tne gpirit or Hoi, unit nmsuivci pean, i Aplelns' diet, '(fainst the epilepsy; i And I will ent these broths with spnons of amber Beaded with diamond and cartmiiolc'' The adventurer, if ho had any credit to trade upon, might say, "Give me timo to ma ture my experiments a little more, and ine eecrot is won. He might thus linger on, well tended and trusted for a while; or should his credit fail, he might bo dismissed in dis grace, to go to another petty court, and get boarded and lodged for another term oi promise and imposture. 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N. J. ny m OAR PENT ER8 AND BUILDERS. R.:R- THOMAS & CO, - - SKAJJtKS IN Doers, Blinds, Sash, Shutters,' WINDOW FRAMES, ETC., V. W. OORNKR OF EIGHTEENTH and MARKET Streets 6 H0 8m PHILADELPHIA, j QCORCC PLOWMAN CAEPENTElt AND BUILDER, . Kv, IH POCK Strc.t, PfcUadsW JULY ' 12, ' 18G9. INSiURANOE. DELAWARE MUTUAL SAKK 1 1 . HANf'K COMPANY. Incorporated bf the Lnii Utore of Pennsylvania, 1K16. Office, 8. K. corner of THIRO and WALNUT Street. I nUAIH'IIMlin, U1IIM' INKl;lAN(TS On Veeeelf. Carro. and Krrlpht to nil purta of the world. INLAND itf.sUKANCKS , , On (ooda by riTer, canal. Uke, and land carriage to all pnrui oi ine union. FIKK INSURANCES On Merchandise generally ; on Stores, Dwellings, House. ASftKTS OF THH COM TAUT, November I, lNjS. . United Bute l ive Per cent. Loan, 10-w , Untied States bix Tor Cent. Loan, 008,600 00 13),8fl0'00 UO.OOOtX) ail,375t ia,5'.H00 81,6001)0 90.2J000 91,000 (H) l,25-00 31,000 000 6,U3t'23 120,000 1HS1 Cnin-it Statue Sn Per Cunt. Loan ' (for PaoiHo Rnilrnad) State of Pennsylvania his Per Cent, lioan City of Philadelphia Si Per Cent. I,ORn fxernit from tax) BtaM of Kew Jersey 8i Per Cent. l,oan Penn. Kail. First Mortgagor!' Per Cent. Monds - . Penn. Rail. 8 ootid Mort. bix Pur Cent, honds Weetern Penn. Rail. Mortae Ri 1'erCent. bonds (Penn. Ruilroad guarantee) State of Tennessee Five Per Cent, loan IStalo of Tounesea Six Per Coot. l,oan Germantnwn fiaa Company, prin cipal and Interent (runrsnteod by City of Puiladulplna. U suaros Sum k Pennsylvania Haihwid Company, 1J0 silnren Ktork 80,000 aoo,(i 126,000 W,(00 90,000 at, (XX) 86,000 30,000 T.roo U.ooo lO.IXK) 6,000 9u,too ai7,poo 11,330 ( 3,600 00 16,(XW00 7 ,91)0.00 North PcrnKylvania Ruilroad Co., 1(W shnres Stack ... PhiKiilelphia and Southern Mail Moamslnp Co., HO shines Stock. . .. Loans on Hoard and Mortgune, first Liens on City Properties tl,lW,"o0 Par. Market value, $l,l&),32o'25 UOSt, Jl.MM.HAH 20. PealKstate wyKXWO Hills receivable for innurance made 3ii,-lKj'M Balances duo at agencies, premiums on murine polirios, accrued interest, and other debts duo the company 40,17H'H8 Stork and scrip of sundry corporations, $315a. F.Minmte.l valui. 1.813 00 C'anh in hank Utl,!Fi"iS Cash in drawer 413 65 llfi,.W3-73 $l,647,3o7S0 Thomas 0. Hand, John C. Davis, CiiiKeTond. Kdmund A. Sondor, Sninii'-l K. Ntokoa, Henry Sloan, William (J. Ludwig, (ioorRe O. I.eiper, Henry C. Dallult, Jr., John D. Taylor, tleoruo W. liernadou, William (1. Uoulton, 'Jacob Rieirel. 'Spencer Mcllvaine, ; I). T. Mown, Pitlahurg, John H. Soinple, " James V. Hand. 1 huophilus Paulding, Joseph H. Seal, Hujrh Craig, John R. Penrose. Jacob P. Jenoe, James Traquair, Fdward DnrlinKton, 11. Jones Hreoke, James li. McFariand, F.dward f.atourcade. josnua r. r.yre, A . n. nersrnr, THOMAS (!. 11 AND. President. ,TOH I V. DAVIS, Vioe President. HKNRY I.YI.RURN. Socreturv, IIKNUY HAM,, Assistant Secretary. 10 6 1829. C1IA11TEK PEUPETUAL. Fraillia Fire Insurance Compj OF PinTADEI,PilIA. Office, Nos. 435 and 437 CHESNUT St. Assets on Jan. 1, 1869, OA PITA I. , ACCHUKD SURPLUS.... PKKMIUM8 , UNSKTTLFD CLAIMS, " 40Q,000'00 l,tis:j,.Vis-? .t,li;,sii;j INOOMK FOR ISUfJ, Losses paiii since 1829,0Yer $5,500,000 Perpetual and Temporary Policies on Ijboral Terms. The Company atao issues Policial on Keats of Building of all kinds, O round Rente, and Mortgages, DIRKOTOHB. Alfred O. Baker, bamuei itrani,, Ueorire W. Kicharda, Isaac Lea. Thomas Spares. William S. Grant, Tboiuaa 8. Klli, Ueorge Falee, ALFRED it. KAKh'R. Pri,ir, t.u w ,,.vr.!?.,(i,i TALK8, Vice-President. JA8. W. MoALLISl Kit. Secretary. 1 11 F.ODOKK Al. KBJUKll, Assistant Secretary. 8 9 S B U R Y LIFE INSURANOK COMPANY. No. 2P1 BROADWAY, corner READK Street. Now York OAKH CAPITAL .....HSl.Vl.iMO $10,000 deposited with the State of New York as security tor policy holders. LEMUK.I. BANDS, President CEORGK ELLIOTT. Vice-President and Secretary. KMOllY MuCHNTOUK, Actuary. A. E. M. PURDY, M. D., Medical Examinor. BKFILHKNCUH HY PKHVIHHinM j nomas t . I anker, , dniin M. Alans, J. 11. Lippincott, Jamas lonir, .James Hunter. Chsrles Spencer, William Divine, Jolin A. Wrixht, 8. Morris Walu, Arthur G. C'otlin. John li. MuCnmrv In tlia nh.ninlM .l i t 1 1 1 ....... nn..nAU ' n. ii. vvorno. i ....... v( . vi.vuiuid, Ul 1 1 1 I U fl 1( mnt, reasonableness of rate, PARTNERSHIP PLAX Ob DKCLAR1NU DIVIDKNDS, no restriction in foinalo lives, and absolute non-forfeiture of all policies, and no restriction of travel after the first year, the ASUURV pre aenta a combination of advantages offered by no oilier company. Policies issued in every form, and loan of one-third made when desired, hpeciul advantages offered to clergymen, lor all f urUier information address JAM KM M. LONCUORH, Manager for Pennsylvania and Delaware. Office, No. Una WALNUT Street, Philadelphia. JrORMAN P. UOLLLN&llKAD, (SpeoiaJ A-ent. 4 lii QT R ICT LY MUTUAL Provident Life and Trust Co. OF PHILADELPHIA. OFFICE, No. Ill 8. FOURTH STREET. Organized to promote LIFE INSURANCE among members of the Society of Friends. Good risks of any class accepted. Policies issued on approved plana, at tne lowest rates. President, SAMUEL R. SHIPLEY, Vice-President, WILLIAM C. LONQ8TKETH. Actuary, ROWLAND PARKY. The advantaged offered by this Company are un excelled. 1 27 JNSUKE AT HOME, IN TDK Penn Mutual Life Insurance COMPANY. NO. 921 C1IESNUT STREET, PHILADELPHIA. ASSETS, $4,000,000. CHARTERED BY OVH OWN STATE. IrtANAtCliD BY OL'tt OWN CITIZENS. LOSSES PUO.III'Tr.Y PAID. POLICIES ISSUED ON VARIOUS PLANS. Applications may be made at the Home Ofllcc, and at the Agencies throughout the State. 2 is; JAMES TltAOITAIIl PRK8IDKNT IMAM I EI. E. STOKES VIOU-PRKiSIDKN T JOHN W. 1IOUNOU A. V. P. and ACTUARY HORATIO H. STEPHENS BKUKKTA BY V k rpilE ENTERPRISE INSURANCE COMPANY A OP PHILADELPHIA. -v.v 4 Uflice a. w. r.orner Ol'KTH and WALNUT Strsnfa. IIHK INJSUHANf'K KXILUSIVKLY Btreot PFRPKTUAL AND TERM POLICIES las'UFn. Cash Capital aVJiKi lanfil Caah Aaaeta. Way. lbwi ERj HALF A MILLION IWRKffl'tll'iS. F. Katcnrora ntarr, Nalbro fr'raaier, Jokn &1. At wood, Renjttniin T. Trttdiok, Oeorite li. Ktnart, .1 nil n 11. Itroan. J. Livingston JTrrln oar Jittnes L. (Jtairliorn. William (1. Uoulton. Oharlus Wheeler, Thomas H. Montgomery, James Aei-taen. This Comuany insure! onlv tl rut-class risks, taking no pecially haiardou risks whatever, such aa factories. nulls. iu. K RATOHKORD HTARR, President. THOMAS H. MONTGOMERY, Vice-President. Alexanliku WWihtkb, Secretary. g dj T3IHKNIX INSURANCE COMPANY OF X PHILADELPHIA. INCORPORATED 1 Ml 4 CHARTER PERPETUAL. No. 8 WALNUT Street, opposite the Exchange Tliia Company insures from loss or damage by I? IKE. on ' liberal terms, on buildinirs, merchandise, fnrnlture, etc., far limited periods, and permanently on buildings by deposit of premiums. The Oonipany has been in active operation for more than SIXTY YEARS, during wuiub. U loesoa have been n.uiriflv 1 ilLi.f Aul And Ilfild. : ijlitKomna John L. Hodre, David Lewta. M. E. Mabouy, John T. Lewie, William H. (Jrant, Robert Vt learning, Ronjamin Etting, Thomas II. Powers. A. H. Mc Henry. Kdmund GaatilluUi Bamuel Wiloox. V. i:iark'Wualon, i. i.iara wiiariuu. nam C,Uwi3o.IK R.WUt ewis i. norris. UCUKRKR, President, scvuruuj. f4 INSURANCE. THE PENNSYLVANIA KIRK 1NHUKAN UOIW r A ft i ' ..Txnnunil.il 1H th ( IharteT Perpetual. . No. R10 WALNUT Street .opposite Independent" "iff This Company, favorably known to the oommnnltj over forty years, continues toinioire saint ioag or dam by Are en Public or Private Pnildtnjta, either nermann or for a limited time. A Iso on 1' iirnit ure. Stock of Uc and Merchandise generally, on liberal terma. Their Capital, together with a lnrtro SurpltH Fund, V oxted In the moot oamfnl manner, which enables tlio oflT to the insured aa undoubted security in the ca loss. I DIRECTOR". Daniel Smith, Jr., . I John Peverent, Ij Alexander Henson, I Thomas Smith. j imao Hnr.lehnrst, Henry lewis, V Thomae Robins. . I . J. UiIlinghAin Fall, t Daniel Hiddork, .jr. t DANIEL SMITH, Ja., Preeidr WM. O. CROWELL, Heoivtary. OFFICE OF THE INSURANCE CO.YTPAJ OE NORTH AMERICA, No. StiS WALNUT Sir. Philadelphia. Incorporated 1794. Charter PerpetnaL Capital, (500,000. AssetJi M.Vic MAI1INE. INLAND, AND EIRE INSUKAOK. OVER $UKW,U0 LOSSES PAID SINOK ITS OKCj 1.ATION. 4 DiiuerroM. Arthur O. (Vffln, Samuel W. Jones, John A. Krnwa, rranois rv Cope, Edward II. Tm.t. Edward K. l)lafks T. Charlton Henry, Alfred D. J.nmp. John P. Wbite. I tiarice 1 a lor, hits V .Ilium Witliih 8, Murri WhIh, liouis O. "dtirn. lonn ft! a won, iavtraa I. II rCifWin Charlue W. (mnhninn, AH l'llUU O. COriTN, rr-,lrnt.'" JHAKLI'd PLATT, Vme I'rwsi.icrf Matthias M kvaii, Secreiaiy. pirEiUAL. vnia insurXnck d IX)NIM1N. ESTABLISHED ISO.?. i Paid-op Capital and Accumulated: Knnda, ?8,000,000 IIS" O O I THEVOST & HERRING, Ag9nt;; 8 4 No. 10T 8. THIRD Street, Philadelphia cnAM. M. rREYOST. CTTAS. P. HSRRtf SHIPPINQ. 1 CHARLESTON. 8. TUB SOUTH AND SOUTHWEST FAST FllEIGIIT LIN EVERY THURSDAY. The Steamships PROM ETnKUS, Captnu Grar r..u riiii.) vrimiiiu r'nytnir, SMI L FORM A RKdLLAR WkEKLY LINK. "' le BteHtiiHblp ElvOMKI'llEta will sull Tl t HSDAY, July 8, at 4 P. M. 'i nouKh bills of lading given In connection wlti f. M ts nnlnta In Lhu Himtli on u,. ,v... . LiBiirnnce at loweHt rates. Rates of freight aa li aa by any other route. For freight, apply to 1 K. A. wTuMft A CO.. t Mtf DOCH STREET WHAIfff ONLY DIRECT LINE Tfi PR iv: Tj2rv?nOMPANV'8 MAIL K' li?AMHifr L. . t AKW YORK AND UAVRK fiii uS, H BKKHT. ' The splendid dow TiMiolai on thii favorite roiit-4) tof4 Cootmout will sail from Pier No. 6U North river, as i lows: 1 PK.RKIRF Dnoheane Reterdav rl LAt AYKTTK Rousseau . . . Hn" K 'm ,!t KT. LAURF.NT lma.ie... .. SXnfaJ' MJ VlIJ.lt DK PARIS Nnn.,.l iT?.?.r?'' .Mnr ' ....... cavui-uay. oua , i w , . PRI01K OF PASSAGE in (told (including wine), , OR HAVRK. First Cabin $140! Second Cabin. (Inoludin railway tickets, furnished on board.) . .,.-.'F unwuu uumn 1 neHe steamers do not carry steerage pasaecgera," ....... .a . . .. u . .. ..u . . . 1 .1 ..1 UIUII9, . . r , ; o r nM u in returning Irom thm tu tinent of Kurope. by Uking the steamers of this line a . ., '"' oy r.ngusn railways crossing the channel, besides saving timo. troubhL Mpenae. cfKOROK M ACKKNziK.Tgeut , No. US BROADWAY, New YorM 1 27 No. S'Jfl OH Si Kui'f'J . . w uvrtMta -Tjsw PHILADELPHIA, RTCHMON 1 18HH1I t..ii ... .. . ... 1 1 1 - iTI 1.1 J THROUU BttefcIfc.n0n' ,TOm WHAJtir aboT. MAEKl THROUGH RATKS to all point In North "and hJ Oarotina,vi (Seaboard Air Line Railrrwd oonnotw Portanioutb and to Lynchburg, vS&?$3ll MrngTve trUhSSSKWmamm m9Axaia No charge for oomimaaion, drayage, or any eipensa bt eamships Insured at the lowest rate. Freight received daily. wwr - I , ,T . . ... .... . . ' "J a Al. I 11AKV K- T. P. CROWKLL A CO.. Agent at Norfolk. if it LORILLARD'8 BTEAMSnf R-St--a-.A fjEW YORK. Balling Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays. REDUCTION OP RATES. Spring rates, commencing March 18. ooijing lueauays, lnurauays, and Saturdays. O ntid aftj-r inth nf Moroh rrJ.rU k .1.1.. V 7- , - "vikm, u, niia uiio w lii a taken at 12 cents per 100 ponndg, 4 cent per foot. 4 1 ceBt per gallon, ship's option. Advance charirf cashed at olllce on Pior. Freight received at a n s -o. ,JonN F. OnL, N. B. Extra rates on small packages Iron me NEW EXPRESfiT LINE T? Aleiandria, Georgetown, and Washington. 1 1 ' "."." ""voe aaa ueiaware CanaL wil uUUUuu..uu. .v a .i.i..iiu i 1 rora me most direct route ft Incbburg. Bristol. Knoiville. Nashville, Dai ton, and U, Kteamere leave regularly every Saturday at noon from LB BrKt wharf aliove Market street. .. Freight received daily. j HYDE TYLER.0' AeaK-; KLUK1DUK i. CO., Agente at Alexandria a 1 gtr. FOR LIVERPOOL ANl rISeiowi ' "'Hit 10 aau a. wi ny 01 iioston, batorday. July 17, at 13 noon. City of London, batuniay. duly 'J4,at 1 P. At. f City of Baltimore, via Halifax, Tuesday. July 37, at 1 P M And each sncceeding ISatnrday and alternate 'ruesda from Pier 45, North h Ivor. ' RATKS OF PA8SAGK. I BT THK MAIt, STEAM KB galLWU EVKUX ATTTBDAT. f . ' f in Gold. Payable in Cnrrenoy. J, . C A BIN $1'W BTF.KllAUit '.3 loIndon lo6 To Ixmdon lo Paris. us To Paris. ft PABSAGP BT THH TUUUAX BXKAMKK, VI4 HALIFAX. i riHKTCAllIK. TIRnAlS. j Payable in Oold. Payable in Currency. ? Liverpool if St) ' Liverpool $f llaiitux , ik), Halifax L Kt. John's, N. F.. I St. John'a, N. K., ) by Branch Steamer f by Branch Steamer 1'ssheugers also forwarded to Havre, Hamburg, Bremen etc., at reduced rates. f 'f'ickots can be bought here at moderate ratoe by pert oof wishing to soud for tbeir friends. For further fnforuiaUon appty at the Oorapany Offloeir ! or r to O'lMJNNKLL k FAULK. Agent. i it No. 411CIIICSNUT Street. PhbilelphU. . fTT'jfc NOTICE. FOR NEW YORK, Vll Lffc-tr DKLAWARK AND RARITAN oiltAL. jtu-j-l KX PR KSS KTK A M BOAT OOMPANY 1U CHKAPKST and QU1CKKST water oommonlos tion between Philadelphia and Now York. w"na,u0 Steamers leave daily from first wharf below Mark street, Philadelphia, and foot of Wall street. New York. liooda forwarded by all the lines running out oi Kaa York, North, Kast, and West, free of oommiaaion. Freight received s nd forwarded on aooomiuodatinc terms WILLIAM P. CLYIk A 04Ag7ntT; No. 13 S. DKLAWARK Avenne, PmUdelphla, I saa a, ..J?MKti HAND. Agouti i Ko- -lLf.Itret,JYork ? NOTICE. FOR NEW YORK. iTh-KPAVii V' u' ' . ' Z". 'VA i""r--lf. .T.''x,'" ." !"- wiU be resumed oa and aft the 8th of Alanib lor IreiKhu. which will be taken oi aooommodatinc terms, apply to m No. 134 South Wharves, tj TVJOW IS THE TIME TO CLEANSE YOUlt HOUSE. n i.-i iii.ii, i MIAN Sc CO. WASHINO AND CI.F.ANHINO hlVVUKK I Tia aHflinikllA S a.t.l T I A . ... hold m. Atk lor it nd take no o(W. A7 II Li k A' Af A aT u US Am ?, u. nunniAn.non A.nnl No. llfari mAKKKoliD Hoa4. TR. KINKEL1N CAN BE CONSULTED OM &sL difTI!5aVriiiS? ,p?ci1l' OttWe hoars. Sb
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