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on "(Ecumenical Councils," from which we
qnoto the following account of the Council of
Nice:
At the splendid city of Nicma, in Bithynfa,
in the year :i'2, assembled the ilrst of those
great (Ecumenical Councils whose decrees
have so often controlled the destiny of
Christianity and of mankind. It was an oc
casion of triumph and fond congratulations,
for the Christian Church had just risen up
from a period of unexampled humiliation and
suffering to rule over the Koinan world. For
nearly three conturies since the death of their
Divine Head his pious disciples had toiled in
purity and love, persecuted or scorned by the
dominant pagans, for the conversion of the
human race; and the humble but porsistent
missionaries had sealed with innumerable
martyrdoms and ceaseless woes the final
triumph of their faith. Yet never
in all its early history had the
Christian Church soemed so noar its perfect
extinction as in the nniversal persecution of
Diocletian and his Cnssars, when the pagan
rulers could boast with an appearance of truth
that they had extirpated the hated sect with
fire and sword. In the year !5H, except in
Gaul, every Christian tomplo lay in ruins, and
the terrified worshippers no longer ventured
to meet in their sacred assemblies; the holy
Looks had been burned, the church property
confiscated by the pagan magistrates, the
church members had perished in fearful tor
tures, or fled for safety to the savage wilder
ness; and throughout the Roman world no
man dared openly to call himself a Christian.
Gradually, with the slow prevalence of Con
stantino the Groat, as his victorious legions
passed steadily onward from Gaul to Italy, and
from Italy to Syria, the maimed and bleeding
victims of persecution came out from their
hiding-places, and bishops and people,
purified by suffering, celebrated once
more their holy rites in renewed sim
plicity and faith. Yet it was not until the
year preceding the first (Ecumenical
Council that the Eastern Christians had
ceased to be roasted over slow fires, lacerated
with iron hooks, or mutilated with fatal tor
tures; and Lactantius, a contemporary, could
point to the ruins of a city in l'hyrgia whose
whole population had been burnod to ashes
because they refused to sacrifice to Jupiter and
Juno. And now, by a strange and sudden rev
olution, the martyr bishops and presbyters had
been summoned from their distant retreats in
the monastriesof the Thobaid or the sands of
Arabia, from Africa or Gaul, to cross the dan
gerous seas, the inclement mountains, and
to meet in a general synod at Nic;ca, to legis
late for the Christian world. We may well
conceive the joy and triumph of these holy
. fathers as they hoard the glad news of the
final victory of the faith, and hastened in
long and painful journeys to unite in fond
congratulations in their solemn assembly; as
they looked for the first time upon each
other's faces and saw the wounds indicted by
the persecutor's hand; as they gazed on the
Jblinded eyes, the torn members, the emaci
ated frames; as they encountered at every
step men whose fame for piety, genius, and
learning was renowned from Antioch to Cor
dova; or studied with grateful interest the
form and features of the imperial catechu
men, who, although the lowest in rank of all
the church dignitaries, had made Christianity
the ruling faith from Britain to the Arabian
Sea. '
Nice or Nicrca, a fair and populous Greek
city of Asia Minor, had been appointed by
Constantino as the place of meeting for the
counoil, probably because the fine roads that
centred from various directions in its market
place offered an easy access to the pilgrims of
the East. The city stood its ruins still stand
-on the shores of Lake Ascania, not far from
the Mediterranean Sea, and on the way to the
plains of Troy; it had been adorned with fine
buildings by the kings of Bithynia, and en
riched by the Roman emperors; in after ages
it was shaken by a great earthquake just after
the council had dissolved; it became the prey
successively of the Saracen, the Turk, and the
Crusaders; and when a modern traveller
visited its site to gaze on the scene where
Athanasius had ravished pious ears by his
youthful eloquence, and where Constan-
tine had assembled the Christian world,
he found only a waste of ruins in the
midst of the ancient walls. The lake
was still there; the fragments of aque
ducts, theatres, temples. A village of a few
hundred houses, supported chiefly by the cul
ture of the mulberry tree, sheltered beneath
its ruined walls: and an ill-built Greek
church, of crumbling brick work and modern
Architecture, was pointed out to the traveller
as the place where had met, nearly fifteen
centuries before, the Council of Nice.
The bishops, in number three hundred and
eighteen, together with many priests and
other officials, assembled promptly at the call
of the Emperor, and in June, :i2r, met in a
basilica or public hall in the centre of the
city. Few particulars are preserved of the
proceedings of the great council, and we
are forced to gather from the allusions of
the historians a general conception of
its character. Yet we know that it was the
purest, the wisest, as well as the first,
of all the sacred synods; that its members,
tested in aflliction and humbled by persecu
tion, preserved much of the grace and gentle
ness of the Apostolio age; that no fierce
anathemas, like those that foil from the lips
of the papal bishops of Trent or Constance,
defiled those of IIosiuB or Eusebius; that the
Eagan doctrine of persecuting had not yet
een introduced, together with the pagan
ritual, into the Christian Church; that no
rain superstitions were inculcated, and no
' cruel deeds enjoined; that no Huss or Jerome
of Prague died at the stake to gratify the
hate of a dominant sect, and that no Luther
or Calvin was shut out by the dread of a
Bimilar fate from sharing in the earliest
council of the Christian world. The proceed
ings went on with dignity and moderation,
and men of various shades of opinion, but
of equal purity of life, were heard with at
, tention and respect; the rules of the Roman
Benate were probably imitated in the Chris
tian assembly; the Emperor opened the.
f onncil jn a speech inculcating nivderiition;
and nn fra of benevolence and lov seemed 1
about to open upon the triumphant Chnrch.
In the town-hall at Nice, seated probably
upon rows of benches that ran around the
room, were seen the representative Christians
of an ago of comparative purity, and the ilwt
meeting of those holy men must have formed
a scene of touching interest. The martyrs
who had scarcely escaped with life from the
tortures of the pagans stood in the first rank
in the veneration of the assembly; and when
Paphnntins, a bishop of the Thebaid, entered
the hall, dragging a disabled limb which had
been severed while he worked in the mines,
and turned upon the bystanders his sight
less eye or when Paul, bishop of Neo
CieBarea, raised in blessing his hand maimed
by the fire, a thrill of sympathy and love
Btirred the throng as they gazed on the con
secrated wounds. The solitaries, whose
strange austerities had filled the Cnnstian
world with wonder, attracted an equal atten
tion. From the desert bordors of Persia
and Mesopotamia, where he had lived for
years on vegetables and wild fruits, came
James of Nisibis, the modern Baptist, who
was known by his raiment of goats' or camels
hnir; and near him was the Bishop of Hera
clea, a faithful follower of the ascetic An
thony, the author of the mono-stic rule.
There, too, was tho gentle Spiridion, the
shepherd-bishop of Cyprus, who still kept his
flocK after he had won a diocese, and who,
when robbers came to steal his sheep, said,
"Why did you not take the trouble to ask
for them, and I would have given
them to yon ?" And there was tho tender
hearted St. Nicholas, tho friend of little
children, whose name is still a symbol
of joy to those he loved. There, too,
were men of rare genius and learning, who
had studied in the famous schools of Athens
or Alexandria, whoso writings and whoso elo
quence had aroused tho bitterest hatred of the
pagans, and who were believed by their con
temporaries to have rivalod and outdone tho
highest efforts of the heathen mind. Chief
among these men of entellect was the young
presbyter Athansius, and it was to him that
the Council of Nice was to owe its most im
portant influence on mankind. The enthu
siasm of Athanasius was tempered by tho pru
dence of Hosins, tho Trinitarian bishop of
Cordova, and by tho somewhat latitudinarian
liberality of Eusebius of Cii'saroa; and those
two able men, both close friends of the Em
peror Constantine, probably guided the coun
cil to moderation and peace. Sylvester,
bishop of Home, too feeble to bear
the fatigues of the journey, sent two
priests to represent him in the synod.
Eight bishops of renown from the West
sat with their Eastern brethren, and
in the crowded assembly were noticed a Per
sian and a Goth, tho representatives of the
barbarians. A strange diversity of language
and of accent prevailed in the various depu
tations, and a day of Pentecost seemed once
more to have dawned upon tho Church. In
the upper end of the hall, after all had taken
their places, a golden chair was seen below
the Beats of the bishops, which was still
vacant. At length a man of a tall and noble
figure entered. His head was modestly bent
to the ground; his countenance must have
borne traces of contrition and woe. He ad
vanced slowly up the hall, between the as
sembled bishops, and having obtained their
permission, seated himself in the golden
chair. It was Constantine, the head of tho
Church.
A tragic interest must ever hang over the
career of the first Christian emperor, whose
private griefs seem to have more than
counterbalanced the uninterrupted suc
cesses of his public life. In his youth
Constantine had married Minervina, a
maiden of obscure origin and low rank,
but who to her devoted and constant lover
seemed no doubt the first and fairest of women.
Their only son, Crispus, educated by the
learned and pious Lactantius, grew up an
amiable, exemplary young man, and fought
bravely by his father's side in the battle that
made Constantine the master of the world. But
Constantino had now married a second time,
for ambition rather than love, Fausta, the
daughter of tne cruel Emperor Maximian;
and his high-born wife, who had three sons,
looked with jealousy upon tho rising virtues
and renown of the amiable Crispus. She
taught her husband to believe that his eldest
son had conspired against his life and
his crown. Already, when Con
stantino summoned the council at Nice, his
mind was tortured by suspicion of one whom
he probably loved with strong affection, ne
had perhaps resolved upon the death of Cris
pus; and he felt with shame, if not contri
tion, hiB own un worthiness as he entered the
Christian assembly. Soon after the dissolu
tion of the Council the tragedy of tho palaco
began (!?20) by the execution of Crispus, by
the orders of his father, together with his
young cousin, Licinius, the son of Constan
tino's sister, and a largo number of their
friends. The guilty arts of Fausta, however,
according to the Greek historians, were soon
discovered and revealed to the Emperor by
his Christian mother, Helena. He was filled
with a boundless remorse. The wretched
Empress was put to death; and tho closo of
Constantine s life was passed in a vain effort
to obtain the forgiveness of his own con
science and of Heaven.
But when Constantino entorod the Council
of Nice his life was still comparatively spot
less. He was believed to have inherited all
the virtues of his excellent father and pious
mother. To the simple and holy men who
now for the first time looked upon their
preserver as ho modestly besought in
stead of commanded their atten
tion, he must have seemed, in his hu
mility and his grandeur, half divine. But
lately his single arm had rescued them from
the jaws of a horrible death. He had saved
the Church from its sorrows, and published
tho Gospel to mankind. He was the most
powerful monarch tho world had ever known,
and bis empire spread from the Grampian
Hills to the ridge of the Atlas, from tho At
lantic to the Caspian Sea. He was the invin
cible conqueror, the hero of his age; yot now
monks and solitaries heard him profess him
self their inferior, a modest catechumen, and
urge upon his Christian brethren harmony
and union. A miraclo, too tho most direct
interference from above since the conversion
of St. Paul had thrown around Constantine
a mysterious charm; and probably few among
the assembled bishops but had heard of the
cross of light that had ouUhone the sun
at noonday, of the inscription in the skies,
and of the perpetual victory promised to their
imperial head. When, therefore, Constantine
addressed the counoil, he was heard with awe
and fond attention. His Christian senti
ments controlled the assembly, and he de
cided, perhaps against his own convictions,
the opinions of future ages. The council had
been summoned by the Emperor to deter,
mine the doctrine of the Church. Heresy was
already abundant and prolific. The opinions
oi uunstians seemea to vary acooruing to
their origin or nationality. But the acute
and active intellect of tho Greeks, ever busy
with the deeper inquiries of philosophy and
eager for novelty, had poured forth a profu
sion of fctrunge speculations which alarmed or
embarrassed the duller Latins. Rome, cold
and unimaginative, had been long accustomed
to receive it abstract doctrines from the East,
but it seemed quite time that these principles
of faith should be accurately defined. Here
sies of the wildest extravagance were widely
popular. The Gnostics, or the superior
minds, had ooverod the plain outline of the
Scriptures with Platonic Commentaries; the
theory of eons and of an eternal wisdom seemed
about to supplant the teachings of Paul.
Among the wildest of tho early sectaries were
the Ophites or snake-worshipperst, who adored
the eternal wisdom as incarnate in the form
of a snake; and who, at the celebration of the
sacred tablo, suffered a sorpent to crawl over
the elements, and to be devoutly kissed by
tho superstitious Christians. The Hethites
adored Seth as the Messiah; the Cainites
celebrated Judas Iscariot as the prince of the
Apostles; Manes introduced from the fire
worship of the Persians a theory of the con
flict of light and darkness, iu which Christ
contended as the Lord of Light against the
demons of tho night; and Montanus boldly
declared that ho was superior in morality to
Christ the Messiah and his Apostles, and was
vigorously sustained by the austcro Ter
tullian. Yet these vain fancies might have
been suffered to die in neglect; it was a Btill
more vital controversy that called forth the
assembly at Nice. This was no less than tho
nature of the Deity. What did the Scriptures
tell us of that Divine Being who was the au
thor of Christianity, and on whom for endless
ages the destiny of the Church was to rest?
The Christian world was divided
into two fiercely contending parties.
On one side stood Homo, Alexan
dria, and tho West; on the other
Arius, many of the Eastern bishops, and per
haps Constantine himself. It is plain, there
fore, that the Emperor was sincere in his pro
fession of humility and submission, since ho
Buffered tho council to determine the contro
versy uninfluenced by superior power.
A striking simplicity marked the proceed
ings of the first council. Hosius, Bishop of
Cordova, presided, the only representative of
Spain, Gaul, and Britain. A prelate opened
the meeting with a short address, a hymn was
sung, then Constantine delivered his well
timed speech on harmony, and the general
debate began. It was conducted always with
vigor, sometimes with rude asperity; but
when the war of recrimination rose too high,
the Emperor, who seems to have attended the
sittings regularly, would interpose and calm
the strife by soothing words.
The question of clerical marriages was dis
cussed, and it was determined, by the argu
ments of Paphnutius, the Egyptian ascetic,
that the lower orders should be allowed to
marry, lne jurisdiction ot tne tusnops was
defined; all were allowed to be equal; but
Rome, Antioch, and Alexandria, the chief
cities of the empire before Constantinople
was built, held each a certain supremacy.
The primacy of St. Peter was never men
tioned; the worship of Mary, Queen of Heaven,
was yet unknown; but the earlier form of the
Nicene creed was determined, and Arius was
condemned. Twenty canons were passed
upon by the council, many of which were
soon neglected and forgotten; and when, after
sitting for two months, the assembly sepa
rated, every one felt that the genius and elo
quence oi Athanasius had controlled both
Emperor and Church.
Before parting from his Christian brothers
his "beloved, as he was accustomed to call
them Constantino entertained the council at
a splendid banquet, and spread before them
the richest wines and the rarest viands of the
East. The unlettered soldier probably shone
better in his costly entertainment than in do
bate, where his indifferent Latin and broken
Greek must have awakened a smile on the
grave faces of his learned brothers. Here he
could flatter and caress with easy familiarity;
he was a pleasant companion and a winning
host; but we are not told whether ho was able
to persuade James of Nisibis to taste his rare
dainties, or to entice the anchorites of Egypt
to his costly wine. Tho bishops and their
followers leftNicit-a charmed with the courtesy
and liberality of their master. He had paid
all their expenses, and maintained them with
elegance at Nicfea, had condescended to call
them brothers, and had sent them home by
the public conveyances to spread everywhere
the glad news than an era of peace and union
awaited tho triumphant Church.
Happy delusion ! But it was rudely dissi
pated. From Constantine himself came the
fatal blow that filled all Christendom with a
perpetual unrest. It was the Emperor who
corrupted the Church he had seemed to save.
Soon after tho council that dark shadow fell
upon Constantino's life which was noticed by
pagan and Christian observers, and he was
pointed out by men as a parricide , whose
sin was inexpiable. The pagan Zosi
mus represents him as asking tho priests
of the ancient faith whether his offense
could ever be atoned for by their lustrations,
and to have been told that for him the
was no hope; but that the Christians allured
him to their communion by a promise of
ample forgiveness. Yet from this period the
mind of the great Emperor grew clouded, and
the fearful shock of his lost happiness seems
to have deadened his once vigorous faculties.
He became a tyrant, made and unmade
bishops at will, and persecuted all those who
had opposed the doctrines of Arius. The
Church became a State establishment, and
all the ills that flow from that unnatural union
fell upon the hapless Christians. Pride, lux
ury, and license distinguished the haughty
bishops, who ruled like princes over their
vast domains, and who imitated tho Emperor
in persecuting, with relentless vigor, all who
differed from them in faith. Bishop excom
municated bishop, and fatal anathemas, too
dreadful to'fall from tho lips of feeble and
dying men, wore the common woapon of reli
gious controversy. They pretended to the
right of consigning to eternal woo the souls
of the hapless dissidents. They brought
bloodshed and murder into the controversies
of the Church. Formalism succeeded a liv
ing faith, and Religion fled from her high
station among the rulers of Christendom to
find shelter in ber native scene among the
suffering and the poor. There wo may trust
she Burvived, during this mournful period,
the light of the peasant's cottage or tho
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DIRKOTOR8.
A lfred O. Baker, , A If red Fttlor,
Samnel Grant, I Thomas Kparka,
George W. Richards. I William H. Grant,
Isaac La, I Tboraaa 8. Kills,
(Jeurgs t ales, .,' tiunUTun H. Kenson.
ALFRKD . UAKKR, President.
OKOKtiK FAIjKS, Vios-President.
JAR. W. McALLlHTK.R, Secretary. ' "'rIwua9n
1HKODOKKM. HKOKH, Assistant Secretary. 8 9
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LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY.
Ao. K05 ItROADWAY, corner of
lilevcntli Street, Acw York.
CASH CAPITAL $150,000
81i!6,0w deposited with trie State of New York as security
for policy holders.
LKMUK.I, BANUS, President.
GEORGE KLLIOTT, Vice President snd Rocretary.
KMOKY MrOUNTOOK, Actuary.
A. E. M. PUKDY, M. D., Medical Examiner.
rHlLArtETjPHIA BEFERENfES.
Thomas T. Tasker.i John M. Maris, i J. 11. Lii
.ipplncott,
J-ong,
John A. Wright, B. Morris Wain, 'Juntos Hunter,
uimneH pi'diit-er, tt iinaio tivine. ujamos lonv.
A Liiui v. uuiu, vuiiii i. iiiuranr. rJf h, worne.
Organized April, 1H8. 875 Policies Issued tint six
months; over 2lHiu in tho twelve months following.
All forms of Policies i.sned on mot favoraolo terms.
Special advantages offered to Glorgjmen.
A few good agents wanted in city or country. Apply t
JAMK8 M. LwNGAOKrJ,
Manager for Pennsylvania and Delaware.
. Office. No. 8ti2 WALNUT Streot, Philadelphia.
SAMUEL POWERS, Special Agent. 41
J N S U R E AT HOME,
in rm
Penn Ftlutual Life Insurance
COMPANY.
NO. 931 CHESNUT STREET, PHILADELPHIA.
ASSETS, 83,000,000.
CHARTERED BY OUR OWN STATE.
MANAGED BY OUK OWN CITIZEN
LOSSES PttOMPTlYY PAID.
OIJCIEH ISSUED ON VARIOUS PHANS.
Applications may be made at tbe Home Office, and
at the Agencies throughout the State, a I8i
JAMES TRAUUAIU PRESIDENT
NAJMUEf. E. STOKES VIOK-PBE8IDENT
JOHN XV. HOIINOR A. V. P. and ACTUARY
UtOKATIO S. STEPHENS SECRETARY
S t R I C T L Y MUTUAL.
Provident Life and Trust Co.
OF PHILADELPHIA.
OFFICE, No. Ill 8. FOURTH STREET.
Organized to promote LIFE INSURANCE among
mtnibera of the Society of Friends.
Good rlHkB of any clusa accepted.
Policies Issued ou approved plans, at tbe lowest
rates.
President, SAMUEL R. SniPLEY,
Vice-President, WILLIAM c. LONGSTRETII,
Actuary, ROWLAND PARRY.
The advantages ottered by this Company are un
excelled. 1 27
THE ENTERPRISE INSURANCE COMPANY
OF PHILADELPHIA.
Office 8. W. Corner FOURTH and WALNUT Streets.
FIRE INSURANCE EXCLUSIVELY.
PERPETUAL AND TERM POLICIES ISSUED.
Cash Capital , Uiiuo.OoO'OO
Cash Assets, July 1, 1809.
ft5l3,279-23.
niRKUTOUS.
r. Katchford (Starr,
Nalbro Frazior.
J.Livingston Erringer,
James L. Claghom,
William U. lioulton,
Charles W heelor,
Thomas H. Montgomery,
John M. A I wood,
Runjamin T. Trediok,
George 11. Btuart,
This Comoanv insures onlv firstolass risks, tnkini. nn
uonn n. Drown,
uoiuu. aoruiua,
specially hazardous risks whatever, such 84 factories,
nulls, etc.
F. HATCH FORD STARR, President.
THOMAS H. MONTGOMERY, Vice-President.
ALMANDEH W. WlBXF.li, Sooretary. 2 6
IICF.NIX INSURANCE COMPANY OP
PHILADELPHIA.
INCORPORATED 1804 CHARTER PERPETUAL,
No. 224 WALNUT Street, opposite the Exchange.
This Company insures from loss or damage by
FIRE,
on liberal terms, on buildings, merchandise, furniture,
etc., for limited periods, and permanently on buildings by
deposit of premiums.
The Company has been In active operation for more than
SIXTY YEARS, during which all losses have been
promptly adjusted and paid.
John L. Hodge,
David Lewis,
Henjainin Kiting,
Thomas U. Powers,
A. R. MoIIenry,
Kdmund Caatillon,
Kamuel Wilcox,
Lewis C Nlirris.
jh. 1.. Aianony,
JohnT. Lewis,
William 8. Grant,
Robert W. Learning,
D. Clark Wharton,
T j. u.' r.i ti r. n T tw i .1 T. .
juiin ft.
WUCUERKR, Presidont.
Bamttel Wilcox, Secretary.
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OFFICE OF TIIE INSURANCE COMPANY
OF NORTH AMERICA, No. 233 WALNUT Street.
Philadelphia.
Incorporated 1794. Charter Perpetual
Capital, $500,000.
Assets. $3,950,000
MARINE, INLAND, AND FIRS INSURANCE.
OVER $30,000,000 LOSSES PAID SINOB ITS ORGAN.
1ZATION.
DIBECTOB?; .
Arthur G. Coffin.
Samuel W. Jones,
John A. Brown,
Charles Taylor,
Ambrose White,
William Welsh,
B. Morris Wain,
John Mason,
Uai,r.a I.. Harrison.
rranois k. uope,
Edward II. Trotter,
Edward S. Clarke,
T. Charlton Henry,
Alfred D. JeSBup,
John P. White,
Louis O. Madeira,
Charles W. Cushman
ARTHUR G COFFIN, President.
CHARLES PLAIT, Vice-President
MATTHIAS Maris, Secretary.
Cham. H. Reeves, Asst. Secretary. S 15
JfAME INSURANCE COMPANY.
No. 809 CHESNUT Btreet.
INCORPORATED 1HW. CHARTER PERPETUAL.
CAPITAL, $200,000.
FIRE INSURANCE EXCLUSIVELY.
Insures against Loss or Damage by Fire either by Par.
petual or Temporary Policies.
DIRECTORS:
Charles Richardson, Robert Pearoe,
William 11. Rhawn, John Kessler, Jr.,
Wiluain M. bey fort, Edward li. Orne,
H enry Lewis, Charles (Stokes,
Nathan Hillos, John W. Kvennan,
George A. West, Mordecai liuzby,
CHARLES RICHARDSON, President.
WILLIAM H. RHAWN, Vice-President.
WILLIAM 8 1. Blawchabd. Secretary. 7 23
THE PENNSYLVANIA FIRE INSURANCE
COMPANY.
Incorporated 1K25 Charter Perpetual.
No. 610 WALNUT Street, opposite lndopenaenoe Square.
This Company, favorably known to the community for
over forty years, continues to insure against loss or dam
age by tire on Publio or Private liuildings.'either norma,
nentlyorfora limited time. Also on Furniture, Stocks
of Goods, and Merchandise generally, on liberal terms.
Their Capital, together with a large Surplus Fund, Is
Invested in the most careful manner, which enables them
to oner to the insured an undoubted security in th oass
of loss.
Panlel Smith, Jr., John Deverenz,
Alexander Benson, I lhowas bmith,
Isaao Haslehurst, I Lewis,
Thomas Robins, I J, Gillingham Felt
Daniel Haddock. Jr.
DANIEL SMITH, Jn,, President
TO. O. OROWELL. Sooretary. g aoj
CORN EXCHANGE
BAG MANUFACTORY,
JOHN T. BAILEY,
XI. E. comer of MARKET snd WATER Btreeta.
Philadelphia.
DEALER IN BAGS AND BAGGING
Of every description, for
Grain, Flour, Salt, Super-Phosphate of Lima, Boa
Dust, Kte.
large and small GUNNY BAGS constantly on hand,
&i Abo, WOOL SAWaB.
INSURANCE.
IX01ll01ATi:i IK33.
OFI1CE OIP T1XXZ
DELAWARE MUTUAL SAFE1
INSURANCE COMPANY.
PHILADELPHIA, NOVEMBER 10, UC:;
The following statement of the affairs of the Compitrf
Is published in conformity with a provision of tbe ohKf
Premiums received from November 1, JH68, te October SI,
i860 "
On Marine and Inland Risks...' $04S,79R-M
On tire Risks i(ii,tul)H3
Premiums on Policies not marked ', WOB.WP29 ,
OH November 1, ltxid fSO.KHtfl
Premiums marked off as esrnnd from No- " T
veinber 1, 1H4H, to October HI, lHtiV:
On Marine and Inland Risks.. ..$!'14.2l)i-29
On 1 ire Risks Hh.ojh 70
Interest during the same period- " ,-c3-M3'ffl
Salvages, eto UMWeS
Lowes, Expenses, etc, daring the tear as
above:
Marine and Inland Navi-
gatioa Losses $4N,tKI SN
Fire Losses M.'.M4'M
Return Premiums 4d,itjtl lo
Re insurances 41jt71'ee
Agency Charges, Advertising,
Printing, eto 64,t715
Taxes United Status, State, and
Municipal Taxes 63,30-iM
Expenses
$744,S5f0l
434,tH?63
ASSETS OF THE COMPANY
November 1. 18t.
$200,000 United States Five Por Cent. Loan ;
100,000 United States Six Per Cent.' Loan
921(3,000 -0U
Viawiui money) jot iuvm
60,000 United States Six Per OenK Lma) ml'lvm
200,000 Stateof'penVsyivan'ui'su'PerOent: ' tO,m'00
200,000 City SrPhiladeiph'la's'ix'p'er'Ceni: al3'P5t''00
Ln (exempt from tax).. ' Snooinfv'
100,000 Stat, f New Jersey Six Per Cent S00'9yW
20,000 PennByivanla'Ra'iiroad' First' MorV lta,WOW
gage Six Per Cent. Bonds lBLViti
25,000 Pennsylvania Railroad Second Mori- 1W'J"1"'
- a n,KaKe su keT c'"nt- Bonds SS AT - "
Sd.OOO Western Pennsylvania Railroad ,
Mortgage Six Per Cent. Bonds
t Pennsylvania Railroad guarantee) anflnnri
80,000 State of Tennossee Five Per Cent. . ,0WT'
7,000 Btate "of Tennessee Bii" Per Cent. ' l5,mm
Loan. j ora'iv
12,600 Pennsylvania Railroad Company',' 260 . .
shares stock ij fmnsvi '
6,000 North Pennsylvania Railroad Com'- ' ",wuw ;
pany, loo shares stock 3 ono-m
10,000 Philadelphia and Southern Mai! S ' I
Steamship Company, 80 shares ' '
stock Kimm "i
846,800 Leans on Bond snd Mortgage, first ''"uu" I
liens on City Properties ' 846,900 W '
$1,31,500 Par.
. , B,MrketTalue, $156,270-00 I
Keal Estate 9 ooot J
Bills Recoivable for Insurances '
nde 823,;00'r
Balances due at Agencies Pre- . ..
niiums on Marine Policies, Ac- k
crued Interest and other debts
due to the Company. .... .......... SS.097-: J
Stock, Scrip, etc., of sundry Cor- . .
porations, $4J06. Estimated
.value , 9,740'U
C ash in Bank $lt,3!8- ' - , ;
Cash in Drawer 8J2-26 '
' tl,852,100'0a 1
Philadelphia. November 10.
The Rnflrrl nf blvuilnM h.. ihl. I I - . nn
una 147 uavjwau VAOJTX
DIVIDEND of TEN PER CENT, on the CAPITAL
STOCK, and SIX PER CENT, interest on tbe SCRIP of
tbe Company, payable on and after the 1st of December
proximo, free of National and State taxes. ' -
-?.',3rv.nTe a,s declared a SCRIP DIVIDEND
IN&WW PKK iKNT. on the EARNED PRK.
MIUMS for the year ending Ootober 81, lti, certificate
of which will be issued to the parties entitled to the same,
on and after the 1st of December proximo, free of National
ann otate taxes.
They have ordered, also, that the Sorin Certificates ot
Profits ol the Company, for the year ending October 8L
18t)B, be redeemed in Cash, at the offloe of the Company,
cm and after 1st of December proximo, all interest thereon
to cease on that day. By a provision of the Charter all
jeriuicaies 01 ocnp not presented for redemption withiu
u&ifit'1?hlAnoticl,i,itth?' wi" be rodeenwd,
shall be forfeited and cancelled on the books of the Cos
Pftny. , .
Incorporation, "no certificate shalllissue unless claimed
within two yoars after the declaration of the dividend
whereof it is evidence."
ino cortmcate ornmnfjiUannH nnA eon t- .u -i
DIRECTORS.
Thomas O. Hand,
John C. Davis,
Edmund A. Souder,
Q'beophilus Paulding,
James Traquair,
Henry Sloan.
Henry C. Dallett, Jr.,
Jnrtif s O. Hand,
William O. Ludwig,
Joseph H. Seal,
Hugh Craig,
John D. Taylor,
George W. Bernadou,
William C. Houston,
Samuol B. Btikes,
William G. Bunlton,
Edward Darlinvtin
H. Jones Brooke, i
Edward Lsfourqada, I -Jacob
Riegel, ', )
James B. M l arland. ?
uosnua Jr. Kyre,
Spencer M'llvaili,
J. B. Sample, Filttburg,
A. B. Barger, "
D.T.Morgan, , "
THOMAS O. HAND. Preside
JOHN O. DAVIS, Vice Presid
HENRY LYLBURN, Seoretary.
HENRY BALL, Assistant Secretary,
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JMPERIAL FIRE INSURANCE ' "
LONDON." v
ESTABLISHED 1803.
Paid-up Capital and Accumulated Punrtr,
68,000,000 IN OOXi. '
PEEV0ST & HEERIHO, Agezt J
S 43 No. 107 a THIRD Street, PhlladelplUa,''.
CLTAS. M. PREVOST. CHAS. P. IERKT
PIANOS. , '
tfEj? STEIN WAY & SOfJCr
Grand Square and Upright Pianc3f
With their newly patented RESONATOR, by whic
the original volume of sound can always be retained.
same m in a Violin.
BLASITJS BROS.,
No. 100(5 CHESNUT STREET, "
6 87 wslf
PHILADELPHIA.
ALBRECHT,
RIEKES A SCHMIDT,
AIAMir'AI'TIJltKKH Olf
FIRST-CLASH PIANO-FORTES.
Full guarantee and moderate prioes.
2 WARERUOMS. Mo. 610 AROH Strw
-rg BRADBURY'S AND OTi:
JTT1' V- npinnos, 8300. Taylor A Farley's, al'.o Oiu
& Neecbam's Organs, from oQ upwards. WILLI a
FISCHER. No. 1018 AIU.U Street and No. ,i
KUK V 1 NTH Street. 11 p i,4
PAPER HANGINGS. .
T OOKI LOOK I ! LOOK! 1 1-WALL PA?7
X-i and Linen Window Shades Msnufaotimt'l,
cheepest in the city, at JOHNSTON'S Depot. N.. '
St'KING GARDEN Street, below Eleventh. lJ:au..n
IWHtDKBAL Street. Camden, New Jer. n
1 r e w o n
S
GALVANIZED and Painted WIRB GUAL
tore fronts and windows, for factory and vtu
windows, tor churches and cellar windows.
IRON and WIRE RAILINGS, for balconies, of.
cemetery and garden fences.
Liberal allowance made to Contractors, Kuih.
and Carpenters. AU orders filled with prowpu
and work guaranteed.
ROBERT WOOD A CO.,
Btntwm No. H3 ElDOJEATecne la.