THE DAILY EVENING TELEGRAPH PHILADELPHIA, THUKSDAT, NOVEMBER 17, 1870. THE IT1LUX rEASlNT. The condition of the Italian peasant is in lomt respects worse, and in many respects bettor, than that of hia English brother. He has a belter soil and a better clima te, to begin with; fewer wants, and a greater capa city for enjoying life. lie is often a poor man, but seldom a pauper, in the legal sense of the word. His appearance in England and elsewhere as an organ-grinder is not a result of poverty, but of a desire to esoape from the conscription, or to elude the laws of his native country, which are very severe in certain cases, though much milder than they were a few years ago. Most of these vagabonds have run away from home, leaving behind thain parents or families who are respectable; or, if young, have been sold or "farmed out" to wanter organ-grinders, with or without their parents' constnt, at so much a head, or in gangs of six or eight, like convicts. It is quite a mistake to suppose that these wan derers Are the outpourings of the Italian Btreets. They are generally vagrants and beggars perhaps criminals because they have come to England. In their own coun try they have the means of subsistence. Many of thh organ-grinders of London are peasants from the mountain districts of Italy. They speak a language of their own a patois made up of the waifs and strays of various dialects a kind of Babel of sounds which would be unintelligible ia the cities and large towns of their native land. Most of the image men are Tuscans, or inhabitants of Lucca and Modern. The hurdy-gurdy boys are Savoyards and Tied inonteso. The Pifi'orari, or Italian pipers, Borne of whom have bagpipes like the Sootch Highlanders, are Sicilians and Calabresi; but in some rare instances a Roman or a Tuscam minstrel is to be found in the streets of Lon don dancing a jig or singing a plaintive song in pure Italian. Most of these adventurers live and vegetate in the dark courts and alleys of Clerkenwell and Soho square haunts of rice and misery, where Italy may look for her exiled children any day in the year, and claim them, too, if she have a iniad (which she has not), together with all the organ-grinders or others who infest the metropolis. One and all are peasants, or relatives and friends of peasants; people who began life as farmers or farm Bervsnts landlords of wretched hovels landed proprietors of fields and cabbage gardens. The peasantry of Italy may be divided into two great classes: the oontadini and the paesani, or the upper and lower classes of peasants. The cultivators of the soil are an independent race. They are the fellow laborers of the ox, but they are not plough men or peasants in the English sense of the word. They associate with dogs, horses, and sheep: but they are their own masters. They are the children of nature. They call themselves the citizens of the woods. They are proud and ignorant at the same time. They have a flower's right to grow on their Dative heath, a lark's privilege to sing in the fields. They are as much a part of the land scape as the tiees themselves. Their defect is that they take root. You may cut them down, or they will die in their placet, as their fathers did before them; but you cannot induoe them to leave the country, unless it be for criminal or political reasons. Let us take a glance at the English pea sant, and compare his qualities good, bad, or indifferent with those of the Italian con tadino. We all know the defects of the English ewain; now rude be is, how unwieldy, how unable to compete with mechanics ' in the race for wealth. In nine cases out of ten he is a drudge, a thing, and not a man, part of the machinery of a farm-house; in some cases a pauper, and in others a slave if people can. be called slaves who have the right to die of starvation and the liberty to 0 to the workhouse ! But, in spite of his defects, and the defects ' of his position, he is a more substantial being than his Italian prototype. He has greater powers of endurance, and he endures with a better grace. He is thankful for small mer cies; he works and plays with a will; and he starves in a good-humored sort of way, as if he thought his time were come. But send him abroad, put him on his own laud in a Dew country, give him in Australia or Ameri ca the chances which an Italian peasant has at home, and ten to one he will prosper, and brir-g about, or help to bring about, the prosperity of others. For the English work ingman is never more at home than when be is abroad. He knows that he is a man as well hs an EDglibhman; an inhabitant of the earth, uot of a part of it; a native of the land on whose poBhessionsthesun neverset. Not so the Italian peasant. For him Italy is everything, the world nothing. If he transplants him- aelf, he languishes, lie knows no history but the history of Home, no sun but that which shines on his father s fields. He likes money well enough, but he would rather live on a crust of bread or chestnut flour in his own land (chestnut porridge is the great staple of food in Central Italy) than live on milk and honey in a foreign clime. He owns, or partly owns, the field he cultivates. He is never very rich, and never utterly desti tute. He may send his wife aud children out to beg, or become a beggar himself when work is slack and the winter harvest that of the chestnut-tree has been gathered in, but be has always a roof to cover him, a house bold fire from which no landlord can expel him, a hut which he has luherited with his Dame, and which is as much a part of his identity as the snail's ehell is a part of its body. The contadini of the North of Italy make, as a rule, very good farmers. They are more industrious thau the peasants of Naples, and better educated than the men who work in the fields and vineyards of Tuscany; but they are not no refined as the latter, and they speak Italian as people speak a language they have acquired by study. To them the lan guage Tusraua the national speech of Italy is a foreign tongue. They leara it they do not inherit it; they are Italy's foster chilren. Thus it comes to pass that they are obliged to become scholars, or at least the pupils of a schoolmaster, before they can put themselves into communication with the authorities. Their local speech is not reeog Dized by the law. Hermons are preached, proclamations are issued, law suits are carried on, in a language which is as strange to them as the English language used to be to the inhabitants of the interior of Wales. Nor is this the case solely with the peasantry; the middle and even the upper clause are sadly at a loss sometimes to express themselves in proper language, eo that they are often compelled to speak a foreign tongue ( say French or German), in order to make themselves understood in polite society. French is becoming quite the rage in Lombardy and Venetia, where ladies and gentlemen of good position do not scruple to speak bad French in prefer ence to good Italian; perhaps because they fear that proeincial accent will slip out. I Lave said that the peasants of the North ' of Italy speak patois; but when they read and write (as they of tea do) they read and write Italian, and sot Piedmontese, or lingua Lomharda. This is the sense in which the northern peasantry are better edu cated than those of the midland provinces, though, 'according to all accounts, they are les nobly gifted by nature, and spring from "barbarians," and not from the auoient Itomanfi: some say from the Goths and Van dals. The peasants of Tuscany pride them selves en having a gentler pedigree. Their patois is the language of scholars. Dante wrote in it, Galileo thought in it, Italy is being governed by it at the present flay. The shepherd-boy who tends his flocks on the mountains of the Val d'Arno and knows nothing of books except that they have been forbidden by the priest, talks more correctly and pronounces his words better than the average Lombard gantleman. He can improvise poetry, or, I should say, poetical phrases, better than a lawyer can defend his client, or a doctor talk to his sick man, in many of the northern towns. Nay, it is scaroely an ex spgeration to Bay that the lower classes of Tuscany are born in the purple of literature, just as the birds of the forest are born songsters. They laik correotly as the fish bwibjs properly; as fire burns with a due regard te the rules of chemistry without knowing them; as leaves fall to the ground in bedieace to the law of gravitation. You may fine" peasants and charcoal-burners in the midland provinces of Italy whose know ledge of the Divins Comedy and the Two Or lsndi (Orlando Furioso and Orlando Innammorato) is as profound as that of an Italian litterato; nay, it may be, profounder, for while the latter has often a large library to fall back upen, the peasant is coafined to his ancient epics: the boeks he has learnt by tradition, as a child learns fairy tales, by word of mouth and memory, and not by book or pan, though now and then his natural powers are eked out by a little learning. The majority of the peasants are, of course, ignorant of these chefs-d'oeuvre, and those who can read by the card d not always read poetry: the Eeali di Francia, the story of Bertoldo and Bertoldino (a kind of prose epic), and the legends and litanies of the saints, being among their favo rite books. The Italian peasantry contribute very largely to the military resources of the country. They supply the great bulk of the soldiers; they are the raw material which the Italian Govern ment employs to fight its battles and defend its frontiers; turning them in some cases into heroes, and in others into powder machines warranted, gun in hand, to go off at a moment's notice. Do not let it be supposed, however, that these sons of the soil are ex ceptionally brave and warlike; that they take a particular delight in fighting, or in achiev ing military glory. They are simply poor (poor at least in ready money), and cannot buy themselves off from the government. If soldiering were a matter of choice, it is doubtful whether the king would receive as many recruits from the peasantry as would suffice to equip a single regiment. The con tadini are a peaceful race: docile and pa tient to a fault; capable of great acta of self-denial, but not addicted to rebellion or to political or social risings, either in defense of a right or in revenge for a wrong; a very different class of men to the peasantry of Kent and the bluff yeomanry of Yorkshire. The Italian contadini enter the army because they are obliged to do so. Every strong and hearty lad, whether he be peer or peasant, is liable to be claimed by the consciiption as soon as he attains his nine teenth year, provided he be not maimed, or below the average height, or proved to be the only support and comfort of a widowed mother. Of course the peer is bought off from the rank and file; he is enabled to enter the army as en officer if he be soinolined, but ence the fine is paid he is exempt from the conscription, and his government must look clsewLere for his substitute. The peasantry are thus called into requisition twice over once for themselves, and once for their fine-paying neighbors. But they reap many advantages from their forced service in the camp; they learn Italian; they become civilized: they go back to their native vil lages (at the age of twenty-five) with an ac quired taste for books and letter-writing, and are looked upon as gentlemen perhaps as heroes by their old associates. A considerable number of the non-readers in Italy are good story-tellers and reciters of ballads, and some of them make what is called poetry on their own account. This is particularly the case in the South and in some of the ceatral provinces, where educa tion of a practical kind has (until recently) been much neglected. Where schools flour ish, hoate-philosopby, sometimes called mother-wit, is generally found to be on the decline. Old women lese their importance: old men look to their sons and daughters, and not to the priest, for instruction. No more peasants, brooding over the old classics, make a reputation as local poets; no more village sybils thunder forth anathemas in blank verse, or lull their children, or their chil dren's children, to sleep with cradle-songs iu seventy or eighty verses, interspersed with Litanies and Ave Marias. To find such cus toms now-a-days you must go to secluded rpots, far awny from the track of the school master; to romantio hills and valleys where the priest is still supreme; to villages sus pended from the crags like eagles' nests, and fciTpposed i but not proved) to have been built at the breaking up of the Homan empire by feudal chiefs, or robbers, who were making war on their sovereign. It would almost appear as if poetry of a certain class can not exist in an enlightened age. Ivy looks best on a ruin; ballads do not flourish in an age of newspapers. Perhaps it is because bulla ds, being in one sense an inferior kind of newspaper, are driven out of the market by the real article. Look at education, what it is doing in Italy; how it is breaking the toil (like a large steam plough), and preparing tie country for a new harvest ! Bat in re moving the rubbish and obstructions which het-et its path, it removes many beautiful things; not alone the weeds of ignorance and mi erstitkm, but the wild flowers of tradition and poetry. And these are the sights which ore bees in Italy in this year of grace; the hizaaroDi of Naples swept away, or forced to become honest members of society; tie gondoliers of Venice reformed, and educated, and properly controlled by the authorities; the brigands of Calabria and the Homan btates shot or imprisoned as con victs; the pifferari and wandering minstrels poor peasants, with their wives and families, who used to sing so preMily at the wayside thiines and in front of the pictures of the Virgin Mary sent to the reformatory or the woikhouse. But it is impossible not to re gret some of the old customs and traditions which are being destroyed along with these trrors and abuses. Tuscany and Lombardy, as well as Naples and the ltoman States, contain many of the b eluded spots above alluded to, "spots" com posed of villages, and even small towns, where newspapers are unknown, books a for bidden rarity, and candles (tallow, wax, and composite) highly euteenied as articles of re ligion. The peasantry of these places are still in the sixteenth century. Every man, woman, and child plaoes his and her con science in the bands of the looal priest. Soul money, or a tax on dead people, is levied, and paid with cheerfulness. Taxes are raised on sin, indulgences (or permission to Bin) are bought and sold in seoret, and people taught that the wages of sin is not death, as stated in the Horiptures, bat abso lution and eternal life. The fact is the Italian peasantry are the great bulwark of the Church of Home. When these fall off the Pope may begin to despair; but so long as these remain faithful that is to say, as long as they remain ignorant and superstitious there will be no prospect of a change of tactics on the part of the priesthood, either as regards soul-money for tho dead, or sin-money for the living, or the worship ef graven images throughout the length and breadth of the land. Among the most horrible of the supersti tions of the peasantry, is the belief in the advocacy of little children babies, who die as soon as they are baptized, or as soon after baptism as is consistent with a belief in their entire innocence and purity. Children who die young are called "advocates," or avvocati, because they are said to go t heaven without passing into purgatory, and plead for their parents and relations at tho right IumkI of God. Many old women (chiefly grand mothers), and not a few fathers and mothers, have been convicted of compassing the deaths of children, not wickedly er maliciously, but in a pious, God fearing sort of way, in order to have "friends iu beaven" when their time conies. Do not suppose that they murder the children. Nothing of the sort. They simply" let them alone and keep the doctor at a distance. If they are ill they say the hand of God is upon them. If friends in terpose, and insist on something being done, they mutter a Latin prayer, and resign them selves to what they are pleased to call the "wishes of the Almighty." I have known cases where mothers have prayed that their innocent little children might die during illness, and cried bitterly when the coffiu was being carried out of doors. But such cases are not frequent; The peasantry of Lombardy and VenetU are more prosperous than those of Central Italy. At any rate, they eat and drink more copiously, and are able to afford themselves greater luxuries. They earn more, and they spend more than their southern bro thers, and their food is not always coarse and unpalatable. Thus, in the central districts, among the hills of Tuscany, Lucca, and Modena, the contadini eat nothing but necce and'polenta, which are the Italian names for chesnut bread and chesnut porridge. A little salt, a good deal of water, and a few handfuls of chesuut flour thrown into a large cauldron (suspended from tho inside of the chimney by a chain with a hook to it), form the ingredients of their morning meal. The same mixture, cooked in a different way baked between two bricks, or rolled up (and boiled) in a towel, like a plum-pudding serves for a dinner, and provides (in the shape of leav ings) for a supper later in the day. The peasantry of the Tuscan Alps rarely, if ever, eat meat, except on Sundays and the holidays of the Church. Eggs and milk are luxuries, because tho poor like to sell them to the rich, and a loaf is considered quite a treat by the children of the peasantry; nay, it is one about which many hard-working people know nothing at a 1 except by hearsay. This state of things would be simply intolerable to the peasautry of the north of Italy. The northern con tadino is accustomed to a butcher's meat on six days in the week. On Friday, as in duty bound, he fasts; that is to say, be eats fish, and as much miscellaneous food as he likes, taking Friday's allowance of meat on Sundays between mass and ves pers. The breakfast of the Lombard pea santry consists of porridge made of Iudian corn, baker's bread, with cheese or butter, and other simple yiands, which, in some cases, are accompanied by wine (home made, or bought from Boruo neighboring farm), to enable them to endure the fatigues of the field. The air is keener than iu the South, and the men and women of Lom bardy and Venetia, being hardier and more industrious than the Italians of a softer clime, requite more food to keep them alive. In certain parts of Italy, principally in the midland provinces, tho young men of the peasant classes "emigrate" for a few weeks or months in the beginning of winter, aud repair to Corsica and Sardinia, and certain marsh lands on the Italian coast of the Mediterranean called Maromme, where there is work to be done in the shape of draining fields, cutting down trees, making and trans porting charcoal in the forest lands, and may hap building bridges and roads. These "emi grants" if they can be called by such a name generally take their departure in the month of November, after the gathering of the chest nuts. The women and old men, and the well-to-do young men of the peasant classes, sttjy at home to superintend the smoking of the autumn fruit the chesnuts being placed in a kind of loft, with holes in the floor, above the metato, or kitchen fire, which has no chimney or outlet of aay kind except the win dow and door and a kind of lull takes place in the active life of the peasants. The old women take to their distaffs; the younger women sew and knit, or resume their studies in embroidery and straw plaiting; while the ycung men aforesaid make a pretence of looking after the fields and forests, where a stray nymph or two is generally to be met with drying clothes, or picking up sticks for tho kitchen fire. Winter is a season of comparative security for these young women, who in summer rarely, if ever, venture out alofie not even a stone's throw from their father's house. The "roaghs" are all away; the bois terous young men are hard at work in the marshes. A little friendly intercourse and homely affection is thus allowed to spring up between the youth of both sexes, who meet at the metato fires in the long winter eve Dings and tell stories and sing songs. When the spring returns the "emigrants" begin to make theur appearance again perhaps as early as the March violets either one by one, or in batches of six or eight, as the cast mav be. The peasantry of Italy are not much addicted to dancing, except in Carnival, and the priests denounce it as a peccato mortale, or deadly sin, when they have the chance. A village fete in most parts of Italy is a day .on which there is nothing to do, when people walk about in their best clothes, eat and drink better than usual, and fie to church three times instead of once; once to mass, once to vespers, and once to funione in the evening. The distinguishing features of a village "wake" in Italy a harvest home, a vintage feast, or a vecaene in the dead of winter are eating and drinking, Intermixed with sinew" (saored and profane), and the offer- ing up of prayers. Jiariy lad of fifteen t;aa rhyme and versify in the most surprising manner, now and then extorting praise (and money) from tourists, few of whom are, per haps, aware that the improvvisatori of Italy are in the habit of using the same phrases over and over again, as people tell a Joe Miller, or a favorite pnn, in different houses. The Neapolitan peasants are, or used to be, quite famous for their extempore songs many ef them very elaborate whioh they sang to their own mnsio, like the wood-cutters of the South of France, al luded to by Madame Sand in her story of the "Maitres Sonneurs." I have heard of Italian peasants who could write verses about their friends and acquaintances who were working in the fields, and sing them (instead of work ing themselves) in a clear, soft, theatrical voice. I have heard of other peasants (also Italian) who could play the flute or flageolot, and dance as nimbly as a ballet-man; and of others who could fence and play at choss. It will be said (not without reason) that those accomplishments are not likely to be of much use to a hard-working clodhopper; but a cer tain civilizing or refining influence may be attributed to them, just as boors are likely to be improved by being brought into tho fiociety of ladies. All the Year Round. INSURANCE. INSURANC E COMPANY OF NORTH AMERICA. .Tanuart 1, 18T0. Incorporated 1794. Charter Perpetual. CAPITAL tflOO.000 ASSETS 2, 733,681 Losses paid since organization. $23,000,000 Receipts of Premiums, 1809 l,91,R3T45 Interest from Investments, ISC 9 114,196-74 12,106,634 19 .11,035, 383 -S4 Losses paid, 1869. STATEMENT OP TIIE ASSETS. First Mortgages on City Property United States government and other Loan Bonds Railroad, Bank and Canal Stocks Cash in Bank and Otllce 1 oans on Collateral Security Notes Receivable, mostly Marine Premiums Acciued Interest Premiums In course of transmission.... ... TJnsi tiled Marine Premiums Real Estate, office of Company, Philadel phia 1760,450 1,123,946 63,703 847,620 82,553 831,944 80,857 85,193 100,900 30,000 $2,J83,5S1 DIRECTORS. Arthur G. Coffin, Samuel W. Jones, John A. Brown, Charles Taylor, Ambrose White, WllllBm Welsh, 8. Morris Wain, John Mason. Francis R. Cope, Edward H. Trotter, Edward 8. Clarke, T. Charlton Henry, Alfred D. Jesaup, Louis C. Madeira, Charles W. Oushman, Clement A. Griscom, William Broe.kie.. George L. llarrlcon, ARTHUR G. COKKIN. President. . CHAliLKS PLATT, Vice-President. Matthias Mas is, secretary. V. H. Kkkves, Assistant Secietary. 3 1 1ft9Q CHARTER PERPETUAL. 1870. Franklin Fire Insurance Company OF PHILADELPHIA. Office, Nob. 435 and437 CHESNUT St. ssetsug.ll',D$3l009l888,24 CAPITAL 1400,000-00 ACCRUED SURPLUS AND PREMIUMS. 8,009,838 -24 INCOM B FOR 1570, LOSSES PAID IN 1S69, S10,0(M). 1144,903-43. Iofcwes paid since 1829 over 5.500,000 Perpetual and Temporary Policies on Libera; Terms. The Company also lssnes policies upon the Rerff or all kinds of Buildings, Ground Rents, and Mor' gapes The "FRANKLIN" has no DISPUTED CLAIM. DIRECTORS. Alfred G. Baker, Airrefl Fitier, Thomas Sparks, William h. Grant, Thomas S. Ellis, Gustavus S. Benson. Samuel urant, George W. Richards, Isaac Lea, George Fales, ALFRED G. BAKER. President. GEOKC.B FALES, Vice-President. JAMES W. MCALLISTER, Secretary. (S 19 THEODORR M. ltiGKU, Assistant Secretary. THE MUTUAL PROTECTION Life Insurance Company OF PHILADELPHIA Offers life policies, PERFECTLY KECUHED, at less than ONK-HAH TdE USUAL RATE 3. It is the only Life Inburance Company in the United States doing business on the "Mutual Classification" plan, and its rates are so low that all classes may eDjoy its benefits. THE FULL AMOUNT OF INSURANCE IS GUARANTEED. We confidently invite the attention of the public to the claims of this Company, assured that its plan, cOKiblnlng.as it does, E-JONOMY with the HIGHEST DEGREE OFbEOURITY, will commend It to gene ral favor. Circulars, containing full explanations of our sys tem, rates, etc etc., can be had from any or our agents, or at the OFFICE, No. 247 8. THIRD Strot, PHILADELPHIA. JAMES II. BILL1NGTON, President. J. E. Hackknbeho, Secretary. Good men wanted as Agents. 10 13 thstu2m P J K B ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED MARCH 17, 1S20. OFFICE, No. 84 NORTH FIFTH STREET, INSURE BUILDINGS, HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE, ANE MERCHANDISE GENERALLY Frem Loss by fire (in the City of Philadelphia only) AMHKTS, JANUAUY 1, ISIO, 1,37.4,73 J TRUSTEES. WUllam H. Hamilton, John Carrow, George I. Young, Jos. R. Lyndall, Levi P. tJoats. Charles P. Bower, Jesse LJgbMoot, Rsbert Shoemaker, Peter Armbruster, M. H. Dickinson, Peter Williamson. Samuel Sparhawk, Joseph E. Schell. WM. D. HAMILTON, President. SAMUEL 6FARUAWK, Vice-President WILLIAM F. BUTLER, Secretary TMTEIilAIi FIBS INSURANCE CO., LORDOH. ISTABUSUED 1SOS. Ptkl-np Oaiiul b4 AooaiaaUud Vonda, 08,000,000 IN GOLD. EUEVOBT & HKRUINQ, Agents, 4t Ho. 101 B. TUIED Btwt.PhlUd.lphi. ouas. H, JJY0J3T. 0UAS- F BKsawo t INSURANQEr J If O O R P O R A T B D ISIS. OFFICE OF THE DELAWARE MUTUAL SAFETY IJiSUKASCE CO. PHii.ADBi.rniA, November 9, 1ST. The following statement of the affairs of tne Com pany Is published In conformity with a provision f its Charter: PREMIUMS RECEIVED from November 1, 13C9, f Ootober 81, 1870: on Marine and Inland Risks. $799,419-38 On FlreRiHks 1B4.801-20 $954,220"5 Premiums on Policies not marked offNovember 1, 1 Stilt. 602,439-82 l,4rfl,709-S3 PREMIUMS MARKED OFF as earnedTroinNoT vemner 1, 1SG9, to October 81, lSTOt on Marine and Inland Risks. -wo,740-79 On Fire Risks lftl,M3-eT 11,032,295-46 IntereBt during the same period Salvages, etc 152,8')0'93 81,134,790-44 .LOSSES, EXPENSES, etc., during the year as BVoVe: Marine and Inland Naviga tion Losses fsiB.MBDS Fire Loupes !,03-H Return Premiums 81,021-69 Reinsurances 40,093-33 Agency Charges, Advertis ing, Printing, etc nO,S01-40 Taxes United States, State, and Municipal Taxes 63,000 12 Expenses 24,048-yo . $375,128-97 $.109,609-47 ASSETS OF THE COMPANY November 1, 1-hIO. United States Six Per Cent- $3CO,000 200,000 200,000 lf4,000 20,000 25.0C0 25,000 30,00i) 7,000 12,600 6,000 10,000 2C1.CC0 Loan (lawful money) $333,375-00 Stare of Pennsylvania Six Per Cent. Ixian 214.000 00 City of Philadelphia Six Per Cent Loan (exempt from Tax) 204,162-50 State of New Jersey Six Per Cent. Loan 163,920-00 PenBgylvanla Railroad First Mortgage Six Per Cent. Bonds. 20,700-00 Pennsylvania Railroad Second Mortgage Six Per Cent. Bonds 25,250-00 Western Penn. Railroad Mort gage Six Per Cent. Bonds (Penn. it. R. guarantee) 20,000-00 State of Tennessee Five Per Cent. Loan 13,000-00 State of Tennessee Six Per Cent, Loan 4,200-00 Pennsylvania Railroad Com pany, 2M) Shares Stock 15,000-00 North Pennsylvania Railroad Company, 1U0 Shares Stock . . 4,300-00 Philadelphia and Southern Mail Steamship Company, 80 Shares Stock 4,000-00 Loans on Bond and Mortgage, ilrht liens on City Properties. 201,050 00 $1,200,150 Par. Market Value. .$1,993,(5750 COSt, SI, 2134,447 'U. Real Estate 50D0O0 Hills Receivable for Insurances nude... 23 ,97127 Balances due at Agencies Premiums on Marine Policies Accrued Interest and other debts due the Company 93,37547 Stock and Scrip, etc., of sundry corpora tions, $7,H50. Estimated value 3,012-00 Cash , 112,911-73 $1 820,72797 PHlI.ADFI.rniA, NOV. P, 1370. The Board of Directors have this day declared a CASH DIVIDEND OF TEN tEU CKNT. on the CAPITAL STOCK, and SIX PER CENT. Interest on the SCRIP of the Company, payable on and after tho 1st of December proximo, free of National and Slate Taxes. They have also declared a SCRIP DIVIDEND of TWENTY-FIVE PER CKNT. on the EARNED PREMIUMS for the year eudlng October 31, U7D ccrtltlcates ef which will be issued to the parties entitled to the Bame, on and after the 1st of Decem ber proximo, free of National and State Taxes. They hove ordered, also, that the SCRI1 CER TIFICATES OF PROFITS of the Company, for the year ending October 8L 1S06, be rodeemed in CASH, at tlieOillecof the Company, on and after 1st of December proximo, all Interest thereon to cease on that day. By a provision of the Charter, all Certificates of Scrip not presented for redemption wlttiin live years after public notice that they will be redeemed, thall be forfeited aud cancelled on tha books of the Company. No certificate of profits Issued under ii6. By tho Act of Incorporation, "no certtiioate shall Issue unices claimed within two years after the declara tion of the dividends whereof it is evidence." DIHECT0HS. Thomas C. Hand, Ji.lin v. Davis, Fdniuijd A. Souder, Joseph 11. Seal, James Trauualr, Ikn. y Sloan, Henry C. Dallett, Jr., Jiiiues C. Hind, Wll iam C. Ludwig, Hugh Craig, John D. Taylor, George W. llernadou, William C Houston, S.-imnel E. Stokes, William ti. Uuulton, Edward Darlington, H. Jones Brooke. Edward Lafourcade, Jacob Klegel, Jacob P. Jones, James B McParland, Joshua P. Eyre, Spencer Mcllvaine, John B. Sample, Plush g A. B. Herger, " D. T. Morgan, " 11. Frank Robinson, THOMAS C. HAND, President. JOHN C. DAVIS, Vice-President. llKKi'Y Lyi.bibn, Secretary. lltMt y Ball, Ass't Secretary. 11 11 lit TUB PENNSYLVANIA FIRE INSURANCB COMPANY. Incorporated 1325 Charter Perpetual. No. MO WALNUT, Street, opposite Indt-pendenca Square. Tills Company, favorably known to the commu nity for over forty years, continues to Insure against loss or. damage by tire on Public or Private Build- 1 u Alth.ii. nuriti.nnnHi nf tir a limltol Hma A un on Furniture, stocks of Woods, and Merchandise generally, on liberal terms. Thttr Capital, together with a large Surplus Fund, Is invested in the most careful manner, which ena bles them to oircr to the Insured an undoubted secu rity in the case of loss. DIRECTORS. Daniel Smith, Jr., Thomas Smith, Isaac lla.lchurst, Henry Lewis, Thomas Robins, J. Gilllogham Fell, John Devereux, Daniel Haddock, Franklin A. Comly. DANIEL SMITH, Jh., President Wm. G. Crowkll, Secretary. 8 80 JAME INSURANCE COMPANY No. 809 CHESNUT Street. IKCOHFOKATKD 1S58. CHARTER HPITUAL. CAPITAL $200,000. FIRB INSURANCE EXCLUSIVELY. Insurance against Loss or Damage bv Fire either by Perpetual or Temporary Policies. P1KKCTUKB. Charles Richardson, William H. Rhawn, WUllam M. Seyfert, John F. Smith, Robert Pearce, John Keasler, Jr., Edward B. Orne, Charles Stokes. Natnan unies, John W. Everman, George A. West, I Mordecal Buzby. CHARLE8 RICHARDSON. President WILLIAM U. RUAWN, Vice-President. Williams I. Blakc&ard Secretary. T23i THfi ENTERPRISE INSURANCB CO. OP PHILADELPHIA Office 8. W. cor, FOURTH and WALNUT Streets. FIRE INSURANCB EXCLUSIVELY. PERPETUAL, AND TERM POLICIES ISSUED. CASH Capital (paid up In fall) $'100.000'00 CASH Assets, October, 1870 681,139'1'i ' DIRECTORS. F. Ratchford Starr, J. Livingston Errlnger, . Naibro Frazler, James L. Claghorn, John M. Atwood, ,Wm. O. Boullon, Bnj. T. Tredick, Charles V heeler, Weorge II. Stuart, Thomas U. Moutgomer John H. Brown, James M. Aertseu. F. RATCHFORD 6TARR, President. THOMA H. MONTGOMERY, Vice-President ALEX. W. W1STEH, Secretary. JAC OB E. PETERSON, Assistant Secretary. COTTON SAIL DUCK AND CANVAS, Ot ALI numbers and brands. Tent, Awning, Trunk and Wagon-cover Duck. Also, Paper Manufac turers' Drier Felu, from jr-urty to axventy-tt, Oi.be., with rauuna, tMAN. NO, 10 CUMCU ISUeet, (Clif ttwrxjei APCj riON SALEt, M THOMAS fc SONS, AUCTIONEERS, NOS. 139 and 141 S. FOURTH Street. Sale 8185 Walnut street. HANDSOME ( HANDE1.1KKS, FINE FRENCH PLATE MIRRORS, RICH CARi'EI S, ETC. On Friday Morning, Nov. 19, nt 10 o'clock, by catalogue, ths handsomt silvered chandeliers and gas bracke , cut lusi rcn, three fine French pinto mantel tnlrr r, haivHoms gilt frames, rich A xminster, Wilton, F.igllsh, Brus sels, and other carpets, English oil clottu.evc. II ID It Assignee's Sale In Bankruptcy. STOCK OOOI) WILL. UNEXPIRElJ L&19E, AND FIXTURES OF A WINR-HOUSK AN J KrA'i i FY1NO ESTABLISHMENT. On Friday Morning, lth lnlanr, atlo o'clock, at No. 22 South Fourth street, tl e strck and flxtnres, by ordtr of V. c. Sweii tman, assignee. limit T IK MAS BIRCH A SON, AUCTIONEERS AND COMMISSION MERCHANTS. No. 1110 Ches NUTfclrect; rear entrance No. 1U7 Sausom street. Sale at No. mo Chssnnt strnt. HOUSEHOLD CABINET FURNITURE, riANO KOKThS, Carpets, French Plate Miiitol ami Hior Mirrors, Gas Chaudellers and Fixtures, Lace Win dow curtains, Silver-Plated Ware, Table Cutlery, Etc. On Friday Morning, At 9 o'clock, at No. 1110 Chesnut street, will be sold a large assortment of superior furniture, tn cludlrg rlcii parlor suits tn plush and terry ; walnut chamber suits; Brussels, Ingrain, and Venetian car pets; dining-room tables, chairs, and sideboard; wardrobes; French plate mantel and pier mirrors; lace window curtains; lannbrokins; cornices, etc. SECOND-HAND FURNITl RK. Also, a large as sortment of second-hand furniture from families de clining housekeeping. PI ANO-FORTES. Also, three plano-fortes. OAS CHANDELIERS. Also, sewral chandeliers and other gas Ux aires. n lost BUNTLNO, DURBOROW A CO , AUCTIONEER!!, Nob. 232 and 234 MARKET street, own r Of Bank street. Successors to John B. Myers A Co, LARGE SALE OF CARPETLNQS, OIL CLOTHS. ETC. On Friday Morning, November is. at 11 o'clock, on lour months' credit, about 200 pieces ingrain, Venetian, list, hemp, cot- T'Hgn, mm rnKcurpcTinirs: on ciotns, ere. li 12M NOTICE TO FURRIERS. SADDLERS, AND CAR PET DEALERS. We will Ineluda lu above sale 60 pieces 0-4 prlnttd fells, 160 woollen crumb cloths, 9-4x12-4 to 12-4x10-4. Also, a line of felt edgings. ill IB 3b LARGE SALE OF FRENCH AND OTHER EU ROPEAN DRY (10ODS. On Monday Morning, November 21, at 10 o'clock, on four montha credit. 11 15 5t SALE OF 2,000 CASES BOOTS, SHOES, TRAVEL LINO HAWS, HATS, ETC., On Tuesday Morning, ill lost November 22, at 10 o'clock, on four months' credlt.y M ARTIN BROTHERS, AUCTION EERSL (Lately Salesmen for M. Thomas & Sona.li No. 704 Chesnut st., rear entrance from Miner. IMPORTERS' SALB. E LEO A NT AO ATE, AM Alt MO, AND S1KXA VASES, Urns and Ornaments, Bronzes, RUi-uet Figures, Card Receivers, Alabaster Uroups and Statuettes. On Friday Morning, November 18, at 10 o'clock, at the auction rooms, No. 704 Chesnut street. No r serve. May be exumlncd on Thursday, 17th Inst. IS 15 3t Peremptory Sale at (lay's China Palace, No. 102i Chesnut Htreet. ENTIRE STOCK OF ELKO ANT FRENCH CHINA, RICHLY CUT OLASSWAKK, ItlUil KANCf WOODS, STONE CHINA, ETC. on Friday Morning, At lOJtf o'clock, at No. Iu22 Chesnut street, by catalogue, the entire stock of elcgnnt decorated French china dinner, dessert, and tea services white French china ; Relily cut glass liquor sets, in ciuditg decanters, goblets, champagnes, wines, tumblers, eordiiils; line Bohemian glassware; rich fancy goods; handsome vases; cologuesets; stone china; pressed glassware, etc. May be examined on the afternoon anil evening of Thui bday and on the morning of sale. 1 1 10 21 Sale No. 231 North Ninth street. SUPERIOR PAKLOK I UKNITURK, HANDSOME WALNUT C1IAMBKU l'UKNITURh, KLMlANT ROSEWOOD PIANO-KOKTE, HANDSOME BRUSSELS CARPETS, ETC. On Tuesday Morning, 22d Inst., at 10 o'clock, at No. 2.11 N. Ninth street, by catalogue, the entire furniture, lucluding- Supe rior parlor furniture; 2 sulls handsome walnut chamber furniture ; elegant rosewood 7-octave piano forte made by Meyer ; handsome Brussels carpets; tine 1 leiieh china; glassware, etc. I U U4t May be seen early on the morning of sale. BY BARR1TT & CO., AUCTIONEERS. CASH AUCTION HOUSE, No. 230 MARKET Street, corner of Bank street. Cosh advanced on consignments without extra charge. 11U45 KI RS, H IIS. NINTH l.AR( i F. AN 1' SPE I AL SAT V. OF AM KRI CAN AND 1M POUTED FURS, ROUES, ETC. On Friday Morning, November 1, at 10 o'clock. 11 11 4t CONCERT HALL AUCTION ROOMS, No. lSlt CI1ESNUT Street. t! a. McClelland, auctioneer. Personal attention given to sales of household for. nlture at dwellings. Public sales of fnrnlture at the Auction Rooms, No. 1219 Chesnut street, every Monday and Thar da v. for particulars pee "Iubllo Ledger." N. B. A superior cass of furniture at private sals CITY P.AZAAIt AND TATTEKSALI.'S. H No. ll-.O Rack Street. Regular Auction Sulo of Horses, Wagons, Har ness, Etc., every Tmnxlay, commencing at it o'clock A.M. No postponement on account of ths weather. Gentlemen's private establishments disposed of at public or private f-ale to the btht advantage, ana a general assortment of Hot sen, Carriages, Har ness, Etc., to unit the need of ad classed of pur chasers, constantly on hand. Carriages tskeuou Storage. Superior Stabling for Horses on sale or at livery. Ontslde Sales solicited ami promptly attended to. Liberal advances made on llfrses, Carriages, aud Harness. UoUKi MCIioi.S, 10 19 tl Auctioneers. CITY ORDINANCES. AN O 1! 1) I N A N C K To Make an Appropriation for the Relief of II. Poniujih. Section 1. Tlio t elect and Common Councils of the city of Philadelphia do ordain, That tha sum of live hundred dollars be and the same ia heitby appropriated to the Police Department for the relief of II. Doniusn, who was injured and disabled In the discharge of bis duty in front of No. '2041 Federal strtct. And the war rants fhall be drawn for the paj-meut of th same by the Mayor, fn eucli amounts from time to lime as he may deem advisable. LOUIS WAGNER, President of Common Council. Attest AliliAIIAM Stewakt, AsBlt-taut Clerk of Common Council. SAMUEL W. CATTELL. President of Select Council. Approved this fourteenth day of November. Anno Domini one thousand eiht hundred and seventy (A. D. 1ST0 DANIEL M. FOX, 1116 Mayor of Philadelphia. R ESOLI'TION Placintr Willlngton Street upon the Publlo Plan. RcBolved, Bv the Select and Common Councils of the cltv of Philadelphia. That the Depart ment of Surveys be aud hereby are directed to place upon the plans of ths city a certain street called Wlllingtfn street, with a width of filly feet, and located at the distance of ona hufldred and seventy-two feet aBd ten inches westward from. Sixteenth fctreet, and parallel thertw ith, extending- from Master street to Co lunihia aicnue. LOUIS WAGNER, Prcbidont of Common Council, AttcH John Eckstein, Clerk of Common Council. SAMUEL W. CATTELL. I President of Select Couucil. ' Approved this fourteenth day of Noveia 1 ber, Atno Domini one thousand eh;ht hundrsi ! and seventy (A. D. 1S7U). V DANIEL M. FOX, 1 n io Mayor of Philadelphia.
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