THE DAILY EVKMINQ TELKGIIAP1I PHILADELPHIA, FRIDAY, MARCH 18, 1870. THE APUIL 'MAGAZINES. " Mi'PiNiorT'." From the very iutireLing article entitled "The Negro iu the South," by Edward A. Tollard, we rank a the following extrnct. "Whatever else may have been said about Mr. Tollard. he has never boen charged with dis honesty, and his convictions, however erro neous, have undoubtedly bsen sincere. In this straightforward and manly paper he shows that he is capable of changing his con victions and of acknowledging the change frankly, and his opinions as to the present status of the negroes at the South, and their future prospects are therefore worthy of attention: The writer has to confess that he was edn-. cated in that common school of opinion in the South that always insisted on regarding the negro as specifically inferior to the white man a lower order of human being, who was indebted for what he had of civilization to the tuition of slavery, and who, taken from that tuition, was bound to retrograde and to relapse into barbarism and helplessness. The writer was even advanced in this school. He had been fond of writing his opinions on the subjoct that the negro was an inferior species of humanity; that by the employment o ' his imitative faculties he had obtained his maximum of civilization in the condition of slavery; and that to emancipate him would be to put him on the high road to ruin. Edu cated thus to diaesteom the negro, yet always having a compassionate interest in him ad miring in him his extraordinary qualities of humor and tenderness, indulging a number of poetic fancies in him, grown by education and habit sontimental towards him, yet con stantly insisting that he was a poor, intel lectually helpless creature, who never could get along outside the leading-strings of slavery the writer was prepared to witness with pity what the whole South arranged itself to see the misfortune and inevitable decline of the negro from the moment his emancipation was declared. The South has seen no such thing. What ever may be the vanity of opinion which compels men to persist in error, or yet more frequently to be silent under conviction, the writer comes sharply before the publio with this confession, that his former views of the negro were wrong, that the results of eman cipation especially have been the reverse of his expectations a surprise the force of which he can neither resist nor contain. So keen has been that surprise that from the very intensity of it the writer is moved to oommunicute it to the pub lic, lie feels more like exclaiming, "A dis covery!" than writing in any more deliberate mood of the proofs he has obtained concern ing the new condition of the negro. It is that this singularly questionable creature has xhown a capacity for education that has as tonished none more than his former masters; that he has given proofs of good citizenship which are constantly increasing; that his de velopment since emancipation is a standing surprise to candid observers among the South ern whites themselves; that his condition since then has been on the whole that of progress, and in the face of difficulties that would soon have tested and broken down that progress had it been factitious or dishonest; and that, so far from being a stationary bar barian or a hopeless retrograde, the formerly despised black man promises to become a true follower of the highest civilization, a new object of interest to the world, and an exemplary citizen of the South. Every year since the conclusion of the war I have been in different parts of the South; I have conversed with all classes of people there; I have enjoyed the conditions of a good observer. I have observed the re markable good order in civil life which the negro has maintained since he was emancipated; I have seen that he is sober, law-abiding that he has gone into his new condition with an adaptation little less than wonderful; I have witnessed the zeal with which the black people are availing them selves of the schools and means of education; I have observed in Southern cities the ani mated daily routes of their children to the schools; I have noticed the industry of the negro its steady, undeniable increase in the South; I have wondered at the remarkable thrift by which he has obtained from his scanty wages not only alivelihood,but a degree of com fort and a decency of dress such as he had never known before; I have been pleased to see his manifestations of self-respect, the pride shown in dress and manners; and, above all, I have found in him a sense of importance and responsibility conceived from the idea that he is on trial before the world. The results of these observations I have put against the weight of a theory that nad formerly per suaded me of the hopeless defect of the the negro, and his worthlessness as a subject for intellectual experiment the old ultra slaveholders' theory that negroes without mas ters are cannibals all; and the consequence is simply that I have decided to follow after the evidence of my eyes rather than to pursue farther the ingenuity of speculations. On the conclusion of the war the emanci pation of the negro was regarded by the Southern people as chief among the terrors that were to be inflicted upon them by the loss of the struggle. It had been habitually painted as the most dreadful feature in that death's-head of "Subjugation" which for years had Jbeen held up iu Confederate news papers to nerve to desperation the arms of the South. The common representation was that the negro, wild and intoxicated by a change of condition so sudden and vast, would be no longer manageable; that he would go through the South murdering and plundering, taking revenge on his former taskmasters; or that, less violent, he would die and rot in the byways, a nuisance and an eyesore, until his own vices had consumed him, or until the animosity of race had expunged him from the face of the earth. How have all these raw-head-and-bloody-bones stories now disappeared, even from the imagination of the South! The negro has been seen to accept his great and sudden gift of liberty with a sobriety and a moderation that history will be surprised to record, since it is without example, so far as I know, of a people thus surprised by a change of condition as radical as can be possibly imagined, whose fortune did not hurry them into some excesses, w hat of promise there was in the negro was immedi ately shown when he accepted without vio- lenoe. and even without ' vanity, the gift of his freedom; going into his new plaoe with a facility of adaptation at which we have not yet ceased to wonder, taking up with quiet thankfulness his new career; and even so little disturbed by the conceit of his new con dition that to-day it is the common testimony in the South that the white people suffer no more from the insolence of the blacks than they did in the' days of slavery. History owes here an extraordinary tribute to the negro for his conduct on an occasion so try in e. He has accepted his liberty with a self. pobsession, a decorum and a facility that'some ' and pollto nntions micht envv in au emergency whore such good fortntio liml Deen im posed upon them. Tlio promise which he has given in conduct, ho wiso and moderate I believe be is now fulfilling by his steady im provement in his new condition; and that, too, in the face of ditllonlties which have put his capacities" of developing himself to the severest test. In short, the negro in the South is fulfilling the expectations of his friends; surprising those who, wishing him well, had yet pitifully distrusted him in his new career; and giving the very best answers to his detractors in thoeo quiet proofs of pro gress which make but little noise of self assertion, but against which no misrepresen tation, no matter how violent and persistent, can long prevail. There are some large, appreciable facts in the condition of the negro in the South which go to check the too common habit of the newspapers to make unproved, reckless assertions concerning him. They afford some light On a subject which covers an extensive ground, which has but few sta tistical guides, and on which a speculative class of writers, taking advantage of the sup- Eosod absence of any facts capable of proof, ave imagined that they might impose almost anything npon the credu lity of the publio. Thus I have been repeatedly told in a loose way that the negro in the South will not work, that he is hopelessly lazy, that his idea of free dom is to live without labor, etc. This is a common charge against the negro: it is easily made in general terms, but happily the as sertion may be brought under the dominion of some general facts which go to test its truth, and to show what prejudice and exag geration have dictated this reproach. There is some flippancy about this reproach which has at last become tiresome. Nor are the sources from which it commonly comes very highly recommended to us for the quali ties of censorship. There are, I regret yet dare to say, many thousands of lazy white persons in the South, loafing on street corners and drinking whisky, perpetu ally talking of "enterprise" coming down South ns if said enterprise was something to bo brought to them iu a box and opened in their midst the day Virginia is admitted into the Union, or some other event happens, who are exceedingly ready and apt to declaim on the laziness of the "cussed niggers." Now I do not believe that tne negro is, or ever will be, a model of in dustry. His temperament is tropical. But I do say that, notwithstanding his disadvan tages of nature and all other disadvantages (and they are many), the negro has shown since his emancipation an industry that is extraordinary; that is constantly, daily in creasing, both in volume and discipline; that has supplied him with comforts that he never knew before; that has enabled him to build churches and to found charitable institutions of his own; that has kept him better clothed than he was in his former condition; and that exhibits its results to-day in the vast bulk of the agricultural products of the South. From "Two Old Heads," by Grace Green wood, we take the following sketch of the son of the Charlotte and Albert of Goethe's "Werther:" THE CHEVALIER. Among our visitors in Home during the winter of 18:t was an elderly German gentle man, of good family and much refinement and culture, but of a peculiarly quaint ap pearance, and with a manner of childlike sim plicity and Kindliness. This was the Hano verian minister, Mr. Kestner, best known in society as "The Chevalier." To those who knew our friend well he unfolded a character of rare purity and freshness, of a genuine old-fashioned, chivalrio type; but to stran gers, the smiling, dapper little minister was only interesting from some romantic antece dents and associations. He was the son of the Charlotte and Albert of Goethe's "Werther" the son of noble parents, strangely misrepre sented by that fascinating but morbid ro mance, whose immense popularity ninety years ago, and whose influence on the life and literature of Europe, are so difficult for us at this day to understand. It was doubt less the subtle power, the ineffable element of genius, which redeemed its unwholesome sentimentalism, gave a melancholy grace to unholy passion, and to disloyalty an almost heroic pathos. But this can scarcely account for the immediate and powerful hold which not the story alone, but the spirit and philosophy of the story, took on the heart and imagination of all classes of readers. It must be that the book answered to a strange want, a fierce craving of the age. The soil must have been ready for the seed. True, the romance precipi tated many a domestio tragedy, and made suicide epidemic; but the elements and condi tions were all there, in the social lite of that seething and stormful age. Goethe's biographer says of it: "Perhaps there was never a faction that so startled and enraptured the world. Men of all kinds and classes were moved by it. It was the companion of Napoleon in Egypt: it pene trnted into China. The true story of Werther, Albert, and Charlotte remained almost unknown beyond the circle of their personal friends for eighty years, until the appearance of Mr. Lewes' Life ot Uoethe; though, indeed, Mrs Kemble, in her "Year of Consolation," gave some account of it, received from the Cheva lier, whom she knew in Home, and calls her "charming and excellent friend. "Werther," apparently the simplest of all romances in construction, is really a curious pioce of biographical mosaic, Goethe himself furnished but a portion of the traits, sentiments and experiences of the hero from his own life; fiom another real character weaker, more melancholy, and more unfortunate he filled out the por trait and borrowed the tragedy. Charlotte is also two in one (herself and Madame II ), while Albert is only half himself a good beginning, a "lame and impotent couclu sion." Lewes describes Kestner at twenty- four as a quiet, orderly, cultivated man, pos sessing great magnanimity, and a dignity which is in nowise represented in the Albert of Werther. The correspondence shows him to have been something more a rarely noble, generous man, loving and loyal; as fur removed as can be imaginod from the hard, iealous. sullen Albert of the last half of tlin romance. He was. the dear friend of Goethe, whom he loved with passionate en thusiasm. feeling all the charm of his won drous cenius and beauty, and foreseeing his L'rentnetiB. Charlotte Bun of wetziar was Detrotneu to Kestner before she met his brilliant friend, - . . . - it i i the young Dr. Johann Wolfgang Goethe, poet and philosopher. The scene of their first meeting was accurately given in little brothers and sisters, bread and all: tne novel and butter, "Werther had a love for Charlotte Much aa words could never utter. Would you know how drat he mot her? Blie was cutting bread aud butter." Goethe certainly fell in love with Charlotte of the most cultivated after his poet fashion; and little wonder, for sLo was doubtless a charming creature- bright, joyous, sympathetic, aud not too in tellectual; but Goethe's love was evidently a harmless if not quite nu innocent seutiment. It was held in check !y m strong win and his sense of honor, and even more, per haps, by Lotto's steadfast loyalty aud serene dignity. It was yet far from a Flatonio attachment, calm and cool and wise: it was warm and tender and foolish enough, but impassioned rather than passionate ideal and imaginative, a luxury of sensibility and fancy. The woman was not the need of his great life, but to love her was the necessity of his cenlufl. The man could forego her. but the artist made roynl claim to as much of her as he required for his groat plan; for, as he said, " 'Werther' must, must be." The three friends a wondenui triad lived on in the closest intimacy for some two years, Goethe's affection bringing no disquietude to Kestner, no shadow of reproach upon his LoUe. The poet-lover even furnished the wedding-ring, and afterwards offered to staud godfather for their first boy, who was named for him. About the time of little Wolfgangs birth, Goethe wrote to his mother, "I will soon send you a friend who has much resemblance to me, and I hope you will receive him well: he is named Werther." Kestner says: "As soon as the book was printed, he sent us a copy, and thought we should fall into raptures with it." But he had wofully miscalculated. The hapless pair felt their faithful affection for their friend, their love for each other, the privacy of their home, all profaned. Char lotte was inexpressibly grieved Albert was outraged. So, in acknowledging the book, they wrote to their great friend in a strain of sorrowful surprise and reproach, which first revealed to him the astonishing blunder he had made. Before this he had but waited for their glad approval to crown his fame, as the wreath for the intoxi cating wine-cup of his success. He was ex ulting in the royal immortality he had be stowed npon them in return for their humble love and fealty. Had he not made his faithful Albert a marked and envied man as the pos sessor of that peerless heroine of romance ? Had he not embalmed Charlottes amiable name in the tears and sighs of admiring thousands? But tho perverse Kestner saw little glory in being identified with that "miserable creature of an Albert," the husband of a woman who looks with sen timental indulgence, with tender smiles and naive blandishments, on the passion of a false friend, and for whom that false friend sighs and poetizes and maddens till he blows his unhappy secret and his brains out together. The prudish Charlotte felt that those sighs and tears of voluptuous pity and passion would breathe on her pure fnme a nameless taint that must ever cling to it not embalming, but withering. For his part, Goethe showed now truly great he was by taking to heart their sal complaint, acknowledging his error, and humbly and passionately entreating their pardon. And they forgave him, and tried to forget it, but the world would not let them. They lived ever after in the glare of their questionable glory. The privacy and dignity of the old life never returned. The fuith of the constant husband was not as contagious as the morbid romance of the novel. Poor Madame Kestner, a modest, sensitive little woman, saw her double, so like yet so cruelly unlike, everywhere, in every language and in every form, bhe was sung, and painted, and carved, and baked in china, and wrought into tapestry, and stitched into embroideries. She stood in perpetual mourning at the tomb of Werther in doleful prints; she simpered in her ball dress on tea-trays, and swung on sign-boards cutting bread and butter for hun gry travellers. She must have felt like a poor little bird spitted alive on the diamond- pointed pen of the groat novelist. The loyal friendship between the three never wholly died out, but the old inti macy was not renewed. Indeed, Madame Kestner never again met Goethe till she was in her sixtieth year, a widow and the mother of twelve children, when she visited him at Weimar. What a meeting that must have been ! Charlotte has been described as a very charming old lady, lively and gracious; so the majestic old poet had not to blush as he re called the admiration of his youth. Our friend the chevalier had in bis possession nearly ail of the letters per taming to the publication ot "Werther, as well as mucn 01 the preceding and succeeding correspondence between Goethe and his parents. Mr. Lewes has made free use of these interesting letters; and it is plea sant to know, even at this late day, that the real Charlotte was not only an admirable daughter, sister, and friend, but a loving wife and a noble mother; that she was always worthy to cut bread and butter for innocent children; that she had none of the weak sen sibility and sentimentality of the heroine of Werther, who so daintily dallies with sin and demurely plays with fire, and whose rashness is only equalled by her cowardice. I he Chevalier had a protound and tender respect for the memory of his father, the no blest of all the early friends of Goethe; while of his mother, the sweetest of all the loves of the great poet, ho spoke to familiar friends more and more frequently and fondly as he grew old, and felt himself nearing her day by day. Whenever I saw him there arose in my mind a fair vision of a lovely German maiden in a "plain white gown with pale pink rib bons," either with a "loaf in her hand' and the little ones around her at home, or joy ously dancing an allemande with Werther ut tho boll. Yet as I looked on his pale, withered face, I found it difficult to realize that it bad been kissed over and over by the "sweet lips" about which Werther raves, Faying, "Could 1 live one momont on tnoso lips. I would contentedly die the next." It was difficult to think of this grey-nairea old diplomat as a flaxen-headed little lad, taking real bread and butter from those be nignant hands which have dispensed to mul titudes the immortal ideal food from a miraculous loaf that never grows less. The Chevalier was a favorite among the young, though he had somo peculiarities at which they would smile. He was given to airing his English vocabulary in literary cir cles, and it would not very well bear the exposure. The delicious unconsciousues with which he ventured beyond his depth in political or artistic discussions, and floundered about in a sea of verbal troubles, gave rise to many a quiet laugh in English-Roman society. Young artists were especially drawn toward him, for he had alia cultivated Gorman's love of art: his heart was unworn and his imagination still tinged with the golden enthusiasms of youth. His influence over these young men seemed always for good; he certainly drew them by no unworthy charm, held them by no selfish in terest, for he was not rich, and his habits of life were quiet and simple. They treated him and spoke of him alaiost as one of their fellows: they even played off upon him harm less little jokes; but that they hud for him cennine affection and refpect was proved I when in tho bright, sudden spring, the time when all Italy longs to be aboard, the lonely old Chevalier was taken ill. Then these tine young fellows Rtayed faithfully beside him. lie had been for some timo failing, no the end was not long in coming. He did not dread it or Rhrink from it. He bowed to the old, old law of nature: he accepted the inevi table, not with the cold stoioism of the philo sopher, nor yet merely with the unquestion ing submission of a child, but with the 'dig nity of a brave Christian gontloman. One morning he was raised by gontle hands to look out for the lost time over the hills and gardens, palaces and ruins, of that grand old city. Then, doubtless, his thoughts passed far away, over that lovely alien clime, to the dear Fatherland, to tho old home to the still churchyard in Wetziar, perhaps, where Charlotte and Albert Bleep side by side. It may be that he felt that beloved fa ther and mother, gifted with a better immor tality than erring earthly genius can bestow, near him then they again young, and he so Old! At the last his courageous unselfishness, his delicate considerateness, were most tonch- mgly shown. After taking leave of his "dear boys," one by one, with loving words and gentle advisings, after giving to them kind messages for all his good friends in ltome, he said, "Now, my dear young gentlemen, I know it is not a pleasant thing to see an old man me; will yon do me tne kiuuubsh io uiep into my study and remain there for half an hour? then yon may return. Adieu! adieu!" They did as ho desired: they sat, quite silent," watching the clock on the mantel as it ticked off those sad minutes, during which no seund came from the chamber of the dying man. When at last they rose and soitiy re entered that room, they saw the slender, familiar form extended, perfectly straight, the white hands clasped on the breast, the kindly eyes closed. The Chevalier was dead! CITY ORDINANCES. A N ORDINANCE IY To Make an Appropriation to Pay a Bill of Malcolm Macfarlan. M. 1). Section 1. Tne select and common councils or the City of Philadelphia do ordain, That the sum of fifty dollars he and the same is hereby ap propriated to pay Malcolm Maeiarlun, M. 1)., for extracting a pistol ball from the right w of Policeman W illiam liodges, and extracting a simi lar ball Horn the chest of Policeman II. 8. Stiles, October 14, 1RW, and professional attendance after. wards, and tne warrant lor said appropriation snail bo drawn by tne Mayor. 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Market value, li,S66,270-oo Cost, m.ein twi-07. Real Estate 80,000-00 cum xieuL-ivuuie lor insurances made... 1123,70070 juinmr b uue at Agencies: Premiums on Marine Policies, Accrued Interest, and other debts due the Com pany 66,097-96 Stock, Scrip, etc., of Sundry Corpora tions, 14706. Eotlmatcd value 9,740-20 iiuiu 111 nanx 1CS,818-H8 Cash 1b Drawer 97226 109,29114 11,862,100 04 DIRECTORS. Thomas C. Hand, .Samuel E. Stokes, John P. Davis. William h. Boulton. Edmund A. Souder, Theophllus Paulding, James 'J'raquair, Henry Sloan, Henry C. Dallett, Jr., James C. Hand, William C. Ludwlg, Joseph U. Seal, Hugh Craig, John D. Tavlor. Edward Darlington, II. Jones Brooke, Edward Lafourcade, Jacob Rlcgcl, Jacob P. Jones, James B. McKarland, Joshua P. Evre, Spencer Mcilvaln, J. B. Semple, Pittsburg, A. R, Kerger, Pittsburg, D. T. Morgan, Pittsburg. George W. Bornadon, William C Houston, THOMAS C. nAND, President, T JOHN C. DAVIS, Vlce-rtesldent. HENRY T.YLBURN, Secretary. HENRY liALL Auslstant Secretary. 11 INSURANCE COMPANY OF NORTH AMERICA. Januabt 1, 1870. Incorporated 1794. Charter Perpetual, CAPITAL. 8300,000 ASHK1H S,7S3,.5S1 Ixmmcs paid .luce organization... .82.1,000,000 Receipts of Premium., 1 -... .8 1,09I,SU745 Inure. 1 from Investments, '6D. 114,690'74 tt-l. tlH-.Vt.i-lu Losses paid, 1S6 81,033,3Stf84 Statement of the Assets. Flrrrt Mortgages on Oit Property 1766,450 upiwu Dtaie. uovernment ana otaer Ijoan -B.ona 1,122,846 Railroad, Bank and Canal Stocks 66,708 Cash In Bank and Offlo. 247,630 83,568 821,044 au,S67 86,li8 10U.900 au.uuo Loan, an Collateral Security , Note. Receivable, moatly Alanine Premiums. . Accrued lntero.t Premium, in ooune of tran.mis.ian , UnMttl.d Marine Premium. Real Estate, Office ol Company, Philadelphia DIRECTORS. itS81 bauiuel W. I: jea, John A. Bro a, Cbarie. Taylor, Ambrose White, William Welsh. S. Morri. Wain, John Maaon, George L. Harrison, Franc). R. Oopa, Kdward H. Trotter. Kdward 8. Clarke, 'J'. (Jharlton Henry, Altred D. Jemup, Loai. O. Madeira, Oharlee W. Unsnman, Clement A. Gruoom. William Brockia. ARTHUR O. COFFIN. PrM0nk OUAHLES PLATf.VlcsPre-ndent. Mattiwas Mabis, Secretary. O. H. Reeves, Asai.tunt Secretary. 8 4 1829. cnARTER perpetual. i$7o Frastlifl Fire Insurance Cipy AD TOIITT inipi iiii OF PHILADELPHIA. Office, Nos. 435 and 437 CHESNUT St. ssBtsJan.l,,70L$2l825(73l,67 CAPITAL fMfloonn-no AOCKUKD SURPLUS AND PREMIUMS... .2,425)731 -67 IKCOME FOR 18i0, $bl0,UOO. LOSS 18 PAID IN 1869, $l44,W8 4a. LcssESBaiflsInGe 1829 over $5,500,000 Perpetual and Temporary Policie. on Liberal Terms. The Conipuuy also lesties imlioie. upon llie Keutaol all k")l.if huildinr-s, Ground Kent., and MortKues. lb "tUAKKLLN" baa no IslbfUTJO) (JLaLVI L1M. CIRKOTOR8. Alfred O. TBaker. hi'.imiel Grant. Georxe W. Klcbarda, lbaau Lea. Altred Fitter, Tboma. hparks, William tf. Grant, Tboma. S. Kills, Ueorge tale., ALFRED G. HA K ICR. Praaidant. , . . m . OKOKGK FALKS. Vioe-Pre.idunt. J AB1FS W. Mr ALMS Tl It. Secretary. THliDOKK W. KKGKR. Aaaittaot Secretary. 8t95 BURY LIFE INSURANCE CO , li Y. Number of Polioie. lisned by the live largest New York Companies during the Srst years tf their exiatenue : MUTUAL (23 months) 1099 Miw YOhK (18 llioiltli.) 1081 M uNHA'JTaN (TDiouttiB) D,"3 KMCKKH bOUK ER . . . (20 moil Dim) 66U KtjLlTARLE (IT iuo-itlm) 8bC , Daring the 21 mouths ot ltu existence the 1 AH OUR. Y HAS ISSUED 2600 POLICIES, INSURING NEARLY 18,000,000. Feliable Canvassing Agents wanted throughout tb. C0Un,O JAMES M. LONQAORR. Manarer lor Feunaylrania and Delaware. SAM M U K.L POW KltS. 8peolalAK'jt. 4 ItH JMPEKIAL FIRE INSURANCE CO. LONDON. KHTABJUMUKO 1803. Pald-np Capital and Accumulated Funds, (58,000,000 1 1ST GrOJD. PEEV0ST & HEREIN Q, Agenti, t No. 10T 8. THIRD Street, Philadelphia, CI1AJS. U. FREYOST, CIIAS. P. ILKIUILNQ INSURANCE. 1 ? X R K A 8 8 O (J I A T J INCORPORATED MARCH 87, 1K2U. OFFICE, NO. 81 KORTH F'FTIl STRF.KT INSURE BUILDINGS, HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE, AND MERCHANDISE GENERALLY, From Lou by Fir. (in the City of Philadelphia only). AftraET, JAM'ARVl, IS70, 81,3v,73J J. TRUSTEES. WM. H. HAMILTON. JOHN OAKMOW, GKOUGE I. YOUNO, JON. H. I.Y'NDALL, I if VI 1 ffl.'ru iCHARLES P. BOWER, ""i-i-iK niuniruiM. HOIl P. BH OK MAKER, KAA1UKL SPAKHAWK HHAWK 'PKTKH W 1 LLlAJdSON JOSEPH K. BUUKLL. ' WM. H. HAMILTON, President. SAMUEL BPARUAWK, Vic President, WILLIAM T. BUTLEB, 8 5? Beoretary. pAMK INSURANCE COMPANY. No. flu OUE8NU1- Street. INCORPORATED lhMi. CHARTER PKRPrrOAt CAPITAL, 3W)K. FIRE INSURANCE EXCLUSIVELY. Insure. tMrahut Low or Damage by Fir. either by Pr, petnal or Tnmpnrary Polioie rilU VJll'llKM. jnuurle. Richard aoo, . Kotiert Pearea. William 11 kli. William M. Seylert, John F. Smith, Nathan UUllea, ooDn tveesiw, Jr.. Kdward U. Orne. Oharlee Btokea, John W. KTerraaa. Ueorge A. West, OHARI.FH RiniUDIiuan . - 1 roaiaeaa. WILLIAM H. RHAWN, VioPrden. Wn.T.IAM. I. Blawohaiid. Becreury. 1ay TI1E ENTERPRISE INSURANCE CO i PHILADELPHIA. Ottioe S. W. corner of KOUMTH and WALT"T fltru. HRE lNSI.KAr,OK EXCLUSIVELY BtrMt PERPETUAL AND TERM POLICIES ISsYnrn CASH Capital taid up in full) $Eu0 Cash Assets, Jan. I. IS70 83MIU8'1S F. Hatch ford Stan. Nalbro Frailer, John M, Atwocil, benj. T. Tredick, Georire H. Stuart. W g H.w a vai u, i. i'lTiBRBton KnltiMr. .InniM I. t J ft met Uolahoni" Oharle. Wheel.;, T nomas H.M on ttromery. John H. Brown, ' Jarae. M, Aertean. K RATchEORD STARK, Preid.nL THOMAS H. MONTGOMERY. Vloe-Preaidana. ALEX. W. WINTER, Secretary. """'-n-JACOB K. PH.TK.RHOM, A nan-fa ut Beoretary yHE PENNSYLVANIA FIRE INSURANCB JL COMPANY. I.n.?,T?2ftd lft-tlbartr Perpetual V, ALNlj i Street opposite Independence Sonars. Thi. Company, favorably known to the oouunanibMror ever forty yeara, continue. U insure avainai loe. or dam. age by fire on Publio or PrWato BuildinKa,(.ltbor aeraa. nently or for a limited time. Alao on FurnUnre, htooka of Goods, and Merchandise generally, en liberal UnnaT Their Capital, tot-ether with a large Surplna Fund. Is Invested in the moat oarnful manner, which enable, tbent to offer to the insured an undoubted soosritv la ins Of lOBS. DDUlOX b. Panlel Smith, Jr., 1 John Duvereng. Alexander Benson, I Thome. Smith? Iaaao Uazlehuret, I Henry Lewis, Thomas Robins, I J. G illingbam FslJ. Daniel Haddock. Jr. GREAT WESTERN Mutual Llfo Insurance Co. OF NEW YORK. EDWIN E. SIMI-SON, MANAGER, rto. 519 WALNUT St., lM.ilada. AU the good, equitable and liberal featnree of the beet Lite Inauranos Companies are guaranteed to the policy, holder, of thi. Company. 122eath2m Liberal arrangement, made with oempetotit agents. BLANK BOOKS. Important to Book-keepers. JUST PUBLISHED, THB "CATCII-WOKD" LEDGER INDJEX. (COPYRIGHT SECURED). 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