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!
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IY To Make an Appropriation to Pay a Bill
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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.
W At EtiE.lt,
President of Common Council.
Attest
ROBEKT P.KTITKTX,
Assistant Clerk of Select Conncll.
SAMUEL W. CATl'KLL,
President of Select Council.
Approved this sixteenth day of March, Anne
Domini one thousand eight hundred and seventy
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the City of Philadelphia, That the City Surveyor
ne instructed to nave uecaiur street, iroin mo
Bristol turnpike to Mill street, In the Twenty
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so uoing.
1AJU1S YV AlitNliK,
President of Common Council.
Attest
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SAMUEL W. C ATT ELL,
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Approved this sixteenth day of March. Anno
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Lehigh avenue, In the Eighteenth ward; Kensing
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Twenty-first ward; Budd street, from llaverford
road to Allen street, in the Twenty-fourth ward;
and on Ninth street, from Dauphin street to Uer
mantown avenue, In the Twenty-eighth ward.
LOUIS WAGNER,
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Attest-
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Clerk of Select Conncll.
SAMUEL W. CATTELL,
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ASSETS OF THE COMPANY
November 1, IfWU.
1200,000 United States Five Per Cent,
Loan, ten-forties 216,00000
100,000 United states six Per Cent.
LoJ1 (1wf"l money) 101,760-00
60,000 United States six er Cent.
Loan. 1881 ao.000-00
(00,000 State of Pennsylvania Six Per
Cent. Loan 18,9300O
800,000 City of Philadelphia Six Per
Cent. Loan (exempt from
tax)..... 800,925-00
100,000 State of New Jersey Six Per
Cent. Loan 108,000-00
80,000 Pennsylvania Railroad First
Mortgage Six Per Cent.
Donds 19,460-00
86,000 Pennsylvania Railroad Se
cond mortgage Six per Cent.
Bonds 8S,8aB-00
85,000 Western PcnnRylvanla Rail
road Mortgage Six Per
Cent. Ponds (Pennsylvania
Railroad guarantee) 90,000-00
80.000 State of Tennessee Five Per
Cent. Loan 16,000 -00
7,000 Mate of Tennessee Six Per
Cent. Loan 4,270-00
18,600 Pennsylvania Railroad Com
pany, 850 shares stock 14,000-00
c.uuo rortn ronnsjivania Rail
road Com Dan v. 100 share!
stock 8,90000
iu,uw rnnarieipnia and southern
Mall SteamshlD Com
pany, 80 shares stock 7,600-00
. . f, ' '
mu,uu ixjaus on uonu ana Aiort
taoe. first liens on Citv
Properties 846,900-00
11,231,400 Par. 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.
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MERRICK'S 8AF3TY HOISTINO MACEINK,
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