THE DAILY EVENING TELEGKAFH PHILADELPHIA, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1871.
ART IN COPENHAGEN.
frm tht Saturday Review.
Copenhagen Is picturesque in ita situation
and pleasant in its society; commerce and the
residence of a court make the city prosperous
and gay. The capital of Denmark, approaohed
from the sea, seems to float on the wave.":: she
lies quietly as if at anchor, sheltered by a
breakwater of islands from the stormy Ger
man Ooean. Her ponition is well chosen;
she is, as it were, nUnoue.1 as a sentinel to
keep watch at the vater-so tf Northern
Europe. In times pnst she was hL1j to lay
nations under tribute; her treasures tell of
her ancient wealth and dominion. And the
arts have not entered Denmark wholly as im
portations from foreign lands; they are in
part indipunous to the soil; they have a pedi
gree which stretches back even to prehistoric
times. Copenhagen, then, fortunate in geo
graphies position, and boasting of a national
career, has for long taken rank among tha
chief art-capitals of Europe.
Art in Denmark may be compared to the
geological formation common in Scandinavia
generally; it is as a late alluvial deposit lying
on an early granite substructure. The art,
like the land itself, is eithor very early or
very late; the middle ages are almost left out;
indeed, at first sight, little appears to inter
vene between the prehistoric era termed by
antiquaries "the Stone Period" and those
modern times which are given up to the style
known as the Renaissance. In other words,
comparatively little is found which answers
to the early Christian or pre-llaffaelite period
- of Italy, or to the times of the Gothio devel
opment in France, Germany, or England.
Thor and Odin held for long the affections
of the people. Christian art could scarcely
exist prior to the tenth century, because
there was hardly a Christian in the country.
The dark background to Danish civilization
receives such light as may be possible in that
magnificent collection, the most complete of
its kind, "LeMusee des Antiquites da Nord."
The rooms in the palace appropriated to this
Museum are apportioned between "The Age
of Stone," "The Age of Bronze," and "The
Age of Iron ;" a classification which has been
adopted in all similar collections with which
we are acquainted in Northern Europe. Den
mark being without trustworthy written
records prior to the tenth century of our era,
it is almost impossible to overrate the
importance of a museum wherein the
history of a primitive people may be read
in contemporary monuments. The country
lay beyond the ple of Roman
conquests, and therefore its archaeological re
mains have the interest of unspoilt nation
ality. The extent of these remains is almost
incredible; the numerous cromlechs, whence
it may be said Danish antiquaries have ex
humed the hidden history of their country,
furnish this Museum with endless replicas and
varieties of each typical form of hatchet,
chisel, knife, arrowhead, armlet, etc. This
Museum, true to the idea of nationality,
also comprises some works of the "Moyen
Age" which possess local significance. In
these latitudes Runio inscriptions and orna
ments abound, and that down Into periods
elsewhere surrendered to Latin or Gothio
characters and styles. Among "objets desti
nes an culte" such works as the following are
remarkable: "155. Devant a'autel de la iln
du 12e siecle, provenant de Tvenstrup pres
de Ilorsens, compose de plaques de cuivre,
appliquees sur un fond de bois de chene. Oes
plaques sont travaillees au repousse, doroes
et primitivement decorees de pierreries. Les
representations figurales sont tirees de l'ancien
et da nouveau Testament. Sept eglises de
campagne du J utland et du Slesvig possedaient
on possedaient des revetements analogues et
centenporains." This truly national Museum,
unrivalled in its gold treasures, would alone
repay a visit to Copenhagen.
An Ethnological Museum has been so ar
ranged as to elucidate the contiguous Museum
of Northern Antiquities. The idea seems to
be that savage tribes now extant may be
taken as living representatives of peoples of
prehistoric times, just as we are taught by
geologists to look to strata in course of
formation as an index to the state of the
earth's surface thousands of years ago. The
primitive arts thus brought together from
the uncivilized tribes of Asia, Africa, Ame
rica, and the Isles of the Faciflo are
certainly analogous, and sometimes all
but identical, with stone and other
implements dug up in Scandinavia. The Eth
nological Museum, founded by the late 0. J.
Thomsen, has obtained important develop
ment under Professor Worsaae, to whoso
knowledge and enterprise may be ascribed
the present systematic arrangement of the
national collections. Copenhagen, a kind of
ideal capital in miniature, has managed to
make her museums a tolerably complete
epitome of the arts and sciences. Denmark,
notwithstanding her diminished strength,
makes no small effort to give to her people
the moans of intellectual growth; and so well
administered are the many museums and
educational establishments of the capital
that the student has little exouse when he
quits his home and his country. Copenhagen
had the advantage of an endowed system of
art education ten years before the Royal Aca
demy was established in London. Her Uni
versity has high repute; her libraries, her na
tural history and anatomical museums, are on
a scale more than commensurate with her
population and revenue. Her picture gallery
comprises seven hundred fairly good ex
amples of ancient and modern art. To these
may be added a small collection of Egyptian,
Greek, and Roman antiquities, a cabinet of
coins, a gallery of engravings, and some
choice illuminations. Space does not permit
us to describe the Thorwaldsen Museum of
more than six hundred works, which, though
well known everywhere, can nowhere else be
Been collectively. Thorwaldsen, like other
artists of the North, came of the people; his
father was a ship-carpenter in Copenhagen.
His genius, now the pride of his native city,
remained neglected till it obtained recogni
tion from Mr. Hope of London. A separate
Paragraph is due to the Castle of llosen
org, "le Musee Chronologique des Rois du
Danemark."
The picturesque chateau of Rosenborg, as
cribed by some to Inigo Jones, is now oocu-
Eied by royal heirlooms and curiosities which,
ke the treasures in the Green Vaults at Dres
den, are due to the passion of monarchs for
collecting. The castle is furnished and deco
rated with tables, chairs, beds, bridal orna
ments, wedding goblets, gala swords, crystal
cups, silver horns, silver fountains, corona
tion chairs, etc., brought together on the
notion that the memory of each prince is best
honored by plaoing in the room the objeots
by which while living he had been surrounded.
The classification has the advantage of being
at once personal and chronological. Extend
ing from the time of Christian IV (158S-1C4H)
down to the reign of the late King Frederick
VII) 1848-180), the collection represents the
jat condition of Denmark over a period of
fetore than two centuries.
The disappointment is, that these treasures
are not more ancient. The stranger in the
cf tic Lu. J-'.n;snat".rl'y iLiu, Lo
tuil vpvn soi&e xiliga ul Bwevo or of Canute,
the very chair perchance which Canute
directed British courtiers to place on the sea
shore, or some prize which Hamlet, known in
Danish history as "the Madman," may have
brought home as a memorial of his trip to
England. But nothing of the sort is met
with. Thus while England's Coronation
Chair in Westminster Abbey, one of the
oldest pieces of woodwork extant, dates baok
to the thirteenth century, "the Coronation
Chair of the Danish Kings" preserved in the
Castle of Rosenborg was ordered
to be manufactured about the
middle of the seventeenth century,
and first came into use at the coronation of
Christian V, on the 7th of June, 1G71. "The
Oldenborg Horn," one of the most elaborate
and showy pieces of silver work in Europe,
is not of Danish but of German workman
ship, and has moreover a date as late as the
fifteenth century. In like manner, much
which passes muster for Danish must neces
sarily be of foreign origin. That Denmark
may feel the less humiliated, we frankly admit
that the greater part of the art treasures of
England are not English. Denmark and Eng
land, in national history as in art, have much
in common; and thus the two countries
may join hands, and acknowledge that no
lands and no peoples have by nature
been made more inartistio. It is amusing
to observe how Britain coquetted with her
neighbor across the seas; no fewer than seven
Danish Kings were dubbed Knights of the
Garter, whereof the insignia are of course
treasured at Rosenberg. This chateau, which
answers to the notel Cluny in Paris, has been
fairly well described and illustrated in "Rosen
borg: Notes on the Chronologioal Collection
of the Danish Kings," by Carl Andersen, In
spector of the Collection; translated by Charles
Shaw.
Coming down to modern times, the. Danish
division of the Royal Picture Gallery de
serves attention. Contemporary art in Copen
hagen has made itself known in succes
sive international exhibitions; yet while in
the last Paris competition the pictures
of Sweden, Norway, and Russia severally re
ceived reward, the contributions of Denmark
were passed over without recognition. The
reason, we fear, is but too apparent. Other
nations of Northern Europe date their but too
recent Renaissance from the time when, dis
trusting their own educational resources,
youths of promise were sent to the Aoademies
of Dusseldorf, of Paris, or of Rome. Copen
hagen, on the contrary, under a mistaken
idea of nationality, jealously guarded against
inroad a styje of art now unfortunately ex
clusively her own an art distinguished by
plebeianism, opacity, and a vigor which is the
reverse of refinement. Professor Eckersberg
(born 1783, died 1853), deemed the master of
the Danish school, appears in the museum as
the ally of David, while other painters incline
to Poussin. Such a dead-alive condition of
course could not last. And now a nation
almost too small to hold together, with a total
population less than that of London, and with
a revenue below three millions sterling, is
divided between two hostile camps the
national and the non-national. So far does
the mutual animosity go that the present
writer was the other day informed
that the bearer of letters to the
one party could scarcely expect a kindly
reception from the other. The so-called na
tional party, which would seem the stronger
of the two, maintains that Danish art should
be Danish, and nothing more; it holds in ab
horrence hybrid schools, it fosters nought but
the legitimate offspring of Northern races
and Northern lands. M. Exner, himself a
Danish peasant educated in Copenhagen, re
presents the creed in unmitigated guise, "A
Sunday Visit to Grandpapa in the Island of
Amack" is painted with a vigorous yet some
what vulgar hand. On the opposite side, the
non-national party headed by Professor
Jerichau, the illustrious pupil of Thor
waldsen, and by Madame Jerichau, his wife, a
Pole by birlh urge, and not without reason,
that art is cosmopolitan, universal as truth
and beauty, wide-embraoing as nature. Henoe
they allow such foreign intervention as may
tend to perfect art as art. On the one hand,
the national party may be likened to commer
cial protectionists, who foster native indus
tries by the exclusion of all importations from
abroad; on the other, the non-national party
answers to the free-treders, who would admit
into the country whatever the country needs.
Each principle has, as applied to art, a certain
truth; the mischief is in the extreme of each
party. Danish art has greatly suffered by this
billy contest.
The Danish school of painting has passed
through divers phases, most of which indicate
a people singularly obtuse in art. Works of
the David period are below similar products
in Belgium and Italy. The present strength
of the school is in genre. Denmark, in com
mon with Sweden and Norway, has given
birth to an art of truth-seeking .naturalism,
an art of simple peasant life, honest, homely,
and hearty. The school is so far Danish or
Scandinavian in that it differs from the Dutoh
and the Scotch; the pictures of M. Exner, M.
Dalsgaard, M. Marstrand, and others, have a
nationality distinct from the figures found in
the canvases of Teniers and Ostade, or of
Sir David Wilkie and Mr. Thomas Faed. Some
of these faithful transcripts attain ethno
graphic accuracy, not to say tailoring truth,
though in these lands tne art of tailoring is
not advanced beyond certain rudimentary
forms. Passing to landscape, it may be as
serted with no breach of charity that the
Danes as a nation do not see nature with an
artist's eye. M. Skovgaard and M. Lundbye,
it will be admitted, produce landscapes of
merit. Yet, for the most part, what the
Danes call landsoape-painting other nations
would deem but land-surveying or map
making. These people find their sphere of
art not on the land, but upon the ocean.
Since the death of Stan field, no nation can
boast of marine-painters on a par with MM.
Sorensen, Melby, and Neumann. It is fit
that the descendants of the Sea Kings, dwell
ers on islands lashed by fierce storms, should
feel themselves at home upon the ooean. No
artists show more knowledge of wave curves,
or of the equilibrium of waters driven by
fierce winds.
Des mark has little to boast in the way of
architecture. "The palaces at Copenhagen,"
says Mr. Fergusson somewhat contemptu
ously, "are large, and it may be convenient,
buildings; the churches are sufficient for their
congregations, but pretend to nothing more."
"The Castle of Fredericksborg," with detest
able details, is a palatial and picturesque edi
fice." With the exception perhaps of the
Exchange and the Castle of Rosenborg,
nothing can be more dreary, uitlter of fact,
and commonplace than the architectural
aspect of Copenhagen, a city of square-
headed doors and windows and of stupid
lookine houses built and rebuilt in periods of
debasement, wherein it may be presumed
economists suoh as our own Mr. Ayr-
ton "sought to subordinate archi
tectnre to convenience," and "to
render beautv and art subservient to
utility." Yet here and there, as in a newly
constructed bank, there are signs that the
ulu of L.a-tv t d tfc 1 !ve ... -o
wholly titiutt (uuong te Dunes. la Copea
be,?' in Hanover, and in some other towns
of 'l e North have arisen of late years effeo-th'-
adaptations of Lombardio brick archi
ll ' ure with well-designed terra-cotta mould
i ,s. On the whole, however, Denmark, in
, -t and present times, has achieved less in
uo arts than in arms, commerce, soience,
literature. Her people are honest and kindly,
cleanly and industrious, rather than aesthetic.
And yet, when aocount is taken of the entire
range of their intellectual manifestation,
they do not suffer by comparison with other
nations. Professor Oersted in science, Pro
fessors Thomsen and Worsaae in arche
ology, Hans Christian Andersen with
others in literature, not to
forget Thorwaldsen and Jerichau
in sculpture, are names of European renown.
This deserving and long-suffering people are
fired with unabating patriotism. The love
with whioh they cherish their national pos
sessions, the liberality with which they sus
tain their historio collections, are worthy of a
better fate. A country decimated since the
days when it made a mark in Europe might
almost despair were it not for the hope that
Scandinavia will be once more united, and
that Denmark, Sweden, and Norway may be
formed into one strong Northern nation. In
this and previous papers we have seen that
no inconsiderable amount of art lies soattered
through those lands, and there oan be little
doubt that ample materials exist for a North
ern school worthy of a strong and intelligent
Northern nation.
ACCIDENT AT IIOBOKEN.
A Car Thrown Over no Embankment Five
FaasenBera Badly Injured.
The N. Y. Poet of Saturday evening says:
This morning, at about seven o'clock, another
terrible accident occurred at the bridge which
carries the Pavonla horse cars over the east
mouth of the Bergen tunnel. Car No. 10 of the
West End line was going down the descent,
with a man at the brake and horses attached.
In descending it gained such momentum that
neither horses nor brakeman could stop it, and
on reaching the lower curve it ran off the bridge,
and falling twenty feet, was broken into frag
ments. The horses went over with the car, and
were so badly injured that it became necessary
to kill them.
Owing to the early hour when the accident
occurred, there were but five passengers in the
car. These were, however, all seriously, and
one, it is thought, fatally injured.
James It. Wolford sustained internal injuries
from which death is apprchonded. A brother
of ex-Alderman Schich had his hand crushed.
George llelden sustained a fracture of a leg, and
a gentleman from Bergen, whese name could
not be ascertained, was terribly cut about tho
face and head.
This is the third accident of the kind which
has occurred at the same place.
INSORANObt
Fire, inland and Marine Insurance
INSURANCE COMPANY
or
NORTH AMERICA,
Incorporated 1704.
CAPITAL $500,000
ASSETS January 1, 1871.. $3,050,536
Receipts of Premiums, 70 $2,096,154
Interests from Investments, 1870.. 137,050
-$2, 233.204
Losses paid in 1870 11,138,9-11
STATEMENT OF THE ASSETS.
First Mortgages on Philadelphia City Pro
perty S34,950
United States Government Loans 825,9Ji
Pennsylvania State Loans 169,310
Philadelphia City Loans 800,000
New Jersey and other State Loans and
CUT UOUUS 225.510
Philadelphia and Reading Railroad Co.,
otner Kauroaa Mortgage ttonda and
Loans 863,348
Philadelphia Bonk and other Stocks 6st
cash in Bank 281.043
Loans on Collateral Security 81,434
Motes receivable and Marine Premiums
unsettled 438,420
Accrued Interest and Pi emlnm In coarse
of transmission 63,201
Real estate, Office of the Company 8O.000
3,060,B36
Certificates of Insurance Issued, payable In London
at the Counting House of Messrs. ttlOWN, SHIP
LEY & CO.
AltTlII II G. COFFLt,
PRESIDENT.
CIIAIILLIS PLATT,
VICE-PRESIDENT.
MATTHIAS MA HIS, Secretory.
V. II. REEVES, AanUtant Secretary.
D1UECTOKS.
ARTUTJR G. COFFIN,
SAMUEL W. JONES,
JOliN A." BROWN,
CHARLES TAYLOR,
AMBROSE WHITE,
WILLIAM WELSH,
JOHN MASON.
FRANCIS H. COPE,
EDW. H. T HOTTER,
EDW. 8. CLARKE,
T. CHARLTON HENRY,
Ai.r ue.u xi. jtssur,
LOUIS C. MADEIRA,
CUA8. W. CUSHMAN,
GEORGE L. HARRISON,
CUIMKNT A. GRISCOM,
WILLIAM BROCKTE.
11 Hi
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Incorporated 1S25 Charter PeroetuaL
No. 610 WALNUT Street, opposite Independence
oquare.
This Company, favorably known to the comma
nlty for over forty years, continues to insure against
loss or damage oy lire on Public or Private Build
ings, either permanently or for a limited time. Also
on rurnuure, stocks or Goods, and Merchandise
generally, on liberal terms.
Their Capital, toeether with a large Surnlus Fund-
Is Invested in the most careful manner, which ena
bles tnein to oner to tne insured an undoubted seoo
rity in the case of loss.
DlKSOTOKg.
Daniel Smith, Jr., Thomas Smith,
laaao Hazlehurst, I Henry Lewis,
Thomas Robins, I J. GUllngham FelL
John Devereux, I Daniel lladdock,
Franklin A. Comly.
DANIEL SMITH, Jb., President
Wm. G. Cbowbll. Secretary. a 80
jAMB INSURANCE COMPANY
No. 809 CHE8NUT Street.
tVCOBPOKATED 1866, CHARTS 8 FBBFBTUAA.
CAPITAL 1200,000.
FIRE INSURANCE EXCLUSIVELY.
Insurance against Loss or Damage by Fire either
Perpetual or Temporary Policies.
nuukuivHa.
Charles Richardson.
mini. If ... . 1
Robert Pearce.
n uutuu ii. nnawn,
William M. bey.'ert.
John F. Smith,
Nathan Hlllcs.
John Eeaaler, Jr.,
Edward R. Orne,
Charles Stokes.
John W. Kverman,
Mordecal Busby.
George A. West.
CHAKLE8 RICHARDSON, President
WILLIAM U. ItllAWN, Vice-President.
Williams L Blancoabo Secretary. last
jmpkhiaij fibs insurance go
LOHDOH.
BSTABLJSUKU ISO.
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TAELAWARE MUTUAL BAFRTY INSURANCE
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Ofllce S. E. corner of THIRD and WALNUT Streets,
tniiBUPinnia,
MARINE INSURANT.?1
on Vessels, Cargo, and Freight to all parts of the
worm.
INLAND INSURANCES
on Goods by river, canal, lake, and land carriage to
11 pans ni ma union.
FIRE INSUHANrtCH
on Merchandise generally; on Stores, Dwellings,
nouses, etc.
A8SKTS OF THE COMPANY,
November 1, 1870,
1300,000 United States Six Per Cent
I-oan (lawful mone) $333,376 00
800,000 State of Pennsylvania Six Per
Cent. Loan 214,000-80
200,000 City of Philadelphia Six Per
Cent. Loan (exempt from
Tax) 204,162-50
164,000 State of New Jersey Six Per
Cent. Loan 163,920-0!
xu,wu i t'nuHjivauia Kauroau nrss
Mortgage Six Per CU Bonds.
86,000 Fenrjoylvanta Railroad Second
Mortgage Six Per Ct. Bonds.
26,000 Western Pennsylvania Rail-
80,700-00
25,850 -00
road Mortgage Six Per Cent,
lionds (Pennsylvania Rail
road guarantee) 20,000-00
00,000 State of Tennensee Five Per Ct.
Loan 13,000-00
7,000 State of Tennessee Six Per Ct.
Loan
12,600 Pennsylvania Railroad Com
pany (250 Shares Stock)
6,000 North Pennsylvania Railroad
Company (100 Shares Stock). .
10,000 Philadelphia and Southern Mail
Steamship Company (80 sh's
Stock)
261,660 Loans on Bond and Mortgage,
first Lens on City Properties..
4,200-00
15,000-00
4,300-00
4,000-00
261,650-00
11,260,150 Par. C'St, 11,264,447-34. M-ktVl 11,293-657 00
Real Estate . . 66,000-60
Bills Receivable for Insur
ances made 830,97127
Balances due at Agencies
Premiums on Marine Pollutes
Accrued Interest and other
debts due the Company 93.375-47
Stock and tcrlp, etc , of sun
dry corporations. $7950, esti
mated value 3,912-00
Cash 149,911-73
$1,820,727-97
DIRECTORS.
Thomas C. ITand, .Samuel E. Stokes,
John C. Davis.
William O. Boulton.
Edmund A. Souder,
Joseph II. Seal,
James Traqualr,
Henry Sloan,
Henry C. Dallctt, Jr.,;
James C. Hand,
William C. Lndwlg,
Hugh Craig,
John D. Taylor,
George W. Bernadou,
Edward Darlington,
II. Jones Brooke,
Edwatd Lafourcade,
Jacob RlHgni,
Jacob P. Janes,
James B. McFarland,
Joshua P. Eyre,
Spencer Mcllvaine,
John B. Semple, Plttsb'rg,
A B. Btger, Pittsburg,
D. T. Morgan, Pittsburg.
wm. u. Houston,
U. Frank Robinson.
THOMAS C. nAND, President.
JOHN C. DAVIS, Vice-President.
Henry Ltlbckn, Secretary.
Hknkt Ball, Assistant Secretary. 8 1 llm
1829 CHARTER PERPETUAL. Jgyj
FraiilUn Fire Insurance Coipanj
OF PHILADELPHIA.
Office, Nog. 435 and 437 CHESNUT St.
Assets Jan. I , ,7j1$3,087l452'35
CAPITAL $400,00000
ACCRUED SURPLUS AND PREMIUMS. 8,637,453 35
INCOME FOR 1871,
$l,2Cl',000.
LOSSES PAID IN 1870,
LoBites Paid Since 1839 Nearly
$6,000,000.
The Assets of the "FRANKLIN" are all Invested
In solid securities (over $2,750,1 00 In First Bonds and
Mortgages), which are all Interest bearing and
dividend paylLg. The O rapany holds no Bills Re
ceivable takt-n for Insurances effected.
Perpetnal and Temporary Policies on Liberal
Terms. The Company also Issues policies upon the
IientB of all kinds of Buildings, Ground Rents and
Mortgages.
DIRECTORS.
Alfred G. Baker,
Samuel Grant,
George W. Richards,
Isaac Lea.
Alfred Fltler,
Thomas Sparks,
William 8. Grant,
Thomas 8. Ellis,
Gustavus S. Benson.
George Poles,
ALFRED G. BAKER. President.
GEORGE FALES, Vice-President.
JAMES W. M0ALLI8TER. Secretary. a 7td31
THEODORE M. REG BR, Assistant Secretary.
ASBURY
LIFE INSURANCE CO.
TORII,
LEMUEL BANGS, President.
GEORGE ELLIOTT, Vice-Pree'tand8ec'y.
EMORY McCLINTOCK, Actnary.
JAMES M. LONGACRE,
MANAGER FOR PENNSYLVANIA AND
DELAWARE,
Office, 302 WALBTJT St., Philadelphia.
H. C. WOOD, Jr., Medical Examiner.
C 23 mwflm REV. S. POWERS, Special Agent.
Jji 1 R I A8SOOIAT I 0N
INCORPORATED MARCH IT, 1830,
OFFICE,
NO. 84 NORTH FIFTH STREET,
INSURE
BUILDINGS, HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE, ANt
MERCHANDISE GENERALLY
From Loss by Ore (In the City of Philadelphia only)
AHMETS. JAJNUAKY. 1, lb?0. 11,703.3 19 07.
TKUNTKES.
Wllltam H. Hamilton,
John Carrow,
George I. Young,
Jos. H. Lyndall,
Charles P. Bower,
Jesse LJghtfoot.
Robert Shoemaker,
Peter Armbruster,
Levi Y. uoaw,
ra.. ii. DioKinson,
Samuel Sparhawk, I Peter Williamson,
Joseph E. Schell.
WM. H. HAMILTON, President.
SAMUEL SPARHAWK, Vice-President.
WILLIAM F. BUTLER,
Secretary
HE ENTERPRISE INSURANCE CO. OF
PHILADELPHIA.
Office 8. W. cor. FOURTH and WALNUT Streets.
FIRE INSURANCE EXCLUSIVELY.
PERPETUAL AND TERM POLICIES IfSUED.
CASH Capital (paid up In full) $900,000-00
GASH Aasets, DeBember 1, 1870 $000-38824
F. Ratchford Starr,
J. Llvlniraton Errlnirer.
Maibro t railer,
John M. Atwood,
BenJ. T. Tredlck,
George H. Stuart,
James L. Claghorn,
Win. G. Boulton,
Charles Wheeler,
Thomas U. Montgomer
James M. Aertsen.
jonn n. crown,
F. RATCU FOKD BTAHIt. rTesidenL
THOMA-i h. MONTGOMERY, Vice-President.
ALEX. W. WISTER, Secretary.
JACOB E. PETERSON, Assistant Secretary.
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rBXB. T. MBCM. H. J. riAB
ZZ. J. XEA3 & CO.,
WAIfUPACXUBBBg OF
X&arm Air Furnaces
AMD
Oooliingr reawg-esi,
Portable Heaters, Low Down Orates, Slate Man
Bath Boilers, Registers and Ventilators.
No. I I I North SEVENTH St..
pntr A'otTT Pim. r thntu?nnT
JOUliOiU PP.OItPXL A1Y2N02&TU,
SHIPPINU.
frffgty LORItLLARD STEAMSHIP COM PAH.
SAILING TUESDAYS, THURSDAY S, AND SAT
URDAXS AT NOON,
are now receiving freight at winter rates, com
mencing December 28. All goods shipped on and
after this date will be charged as agreed upen by
the agents of this company.
INSURANCE ONE-EIGHTH OF ONE PER CENT.
No bill of lading or receipt signed for less than
fifty cents, and no insurance effected for less than
one dollar premium.
For further particulars and rates apply at Com
pany's office, Pier S3 East river, New York, or to
JOHN F. OHO,
PIER 19 NOHTH WHARVES.
N. a. -Extra rates on small packages Iron, metals,
etc 2 8
NATIONAL STEAMSHIP
LINE Steam to and from
NEW YORK, LIVERPOOL, AND QUEENS TO WN.
Steamers sail WEDNESDAY, THURSDAY, and
SATURDAY.
Cabin, $75 and $CS; Steerage. $t3. Excursion
tickets, good for one year, liberally reduced. Per
sons seudlng for their friends can obtain tickets
(Steerage) for $311. Tickets to and from Londonderry
and Glasgow by this lavorlte route at the same low
currency rates.
I'asHengers booked to and trcm London, Paris,
Hamburg, Havre, Bremen, etc., at lowest rates.
Mots, The magnificent Ocean Steamships of this
line are among the largest in the world, aud are
celebrated for speed, safety, and comfort. Owing to
reduction, rates are now $15 In Cabin and $i In
Steerage cheaper than other flrnt-clans lines.
For pRfieage, or bank drafts for any amount, paya
ble at sight In all parts of Great Britain, Ireiaui,
and in principal cities cf Norway, Sweden, Denmark,
France, Germany, and Italy, apply to
WALLER & CO., Agent,
1 1 Xo. 204 WA LtiUT St., jxutt abovo Second.
THE REGULAR STEAMSHIPS ON THE PHI
LADELPU1A AND CHARLESTON 8TEAM
SHIP LINE are ALOIS E authorized to Issue throng!
Dills of lading to interior points South and West lr
connection with South Carolina Railroad Company,
ALFRED L. TYLER,
Vice-President So. C. RR. Co.
PHILADELPHIA AND SOUTHERN
MAIL STEAMSHIP COMPANY'S RE
GULAR SEMI-MONTHLY LINE TO NEW OR-
t I. . v a T n
The JUNIATA will sail for New Orleans, via Ha
vana, on Tueguay, renruary xi, at s a. m.
The YAZOO will sail from New Orleans, via
Havana, on , February .
THROUGH BILLS OF LADING at as low rates
as by any other route given to MOBILE, GALVES
TON, INDIANOLA, ROCKPOHT, LA VACUA, and
BRAZOS, and to all points on the Mississippi river
between Mew Orleans and St. Louis. Red river
freights reshlpped at New Orleans without charge
of commissions.
WEEKLY LINE TO SAVANNAH, OA.
The TON A WANDA will sail for Savannah on Sat
urday. Febrnarv 11, at 8 A. M.
The WYOMING will sail from Savannah on Sat
urday, February 11.
THROUGH BILLS OW LADINU Klven to all the
principal towns In Georgia, Alabama, Florida, Mis
sissippi, Louisiana, ArKaDsan, ana Tennessee in con
nection with the Central Railroad of Georeia. At.
lautlc and Gulf Kallroad, and Florida steamers, at
as low rates as Dy competing unes.
SEMI-MONTHLY LINE TO WILMINGTON, N. C,
The PloNEBR will sail for Wilmington ou Fn.
day, Feornary 10, at 6 A. M. Returning, will leave
v iimingwn r riaay, e eoruary it.
Connects with the Oipe Fear River Steamboat
company, tne Wilmington and weinon and North
uaronna itaiiroaas, ana tne vvumington ana Man
Chester Railroad to all interior points.
Freights for Columbia. S. C. and Augusta. Ga..
taktn via Wilmington at as low rates as by any
omer route.
Insurance effected when requested bvshlnDers.
Bills of lading signed at Queen street wharf on or
Dei ore aay or sailing.
V1LL1AM L. JAMES, General Agent,
0 15 No. 130 S. THIRD Street,
PHILADELPHIA, RICHMOND, AND
M 1 II M'l Il k NT h. 1 M N II I P I I N p
'1 liROL'GH FREIGHT AIR LINE TO THE SOUTH
AND WEST.
INCREASED FACILITIES AND REDUCED
RAT KS.
Steamers leave every SATURDAY, at 12 o'clock
noon, from F1KST whauf above makkkt Street.
RETURNING, leave RICHMOND THURSDAYS,
N Bills of Lading signed after 12 o'clock on sail
In ir davn.
THROUGH RATES., to all points In North and
South Carolina, , via Seaboard Air Line Railroad,
connecting at Portsmouth, aud to Lyncnbunr. Va..
Tennessee, and the West, via Virginia and Tennes
see Air Line and Richmond and Danville Railroad.
Freight HANDLED BUT ONUS and taken at
LOW tit KATrJJ T11AJN A X UT11H.K LIINU.
No charge for commission, drayage, or any cx
pense of tranBier.
Steamships insure at lowest rates.
Freight received dally.
State Room accommodations for passengers.
WILLIAM P. CLYDE At CO.,
No. 12 S. WHARVES and Pier 1 N. WHARVES.
W. P. PORTER, Agent at Richmond and City
roini.
T. P. CROW ELL A CO., Agents at Norfolk. 1S
nPHE ANCHOR LINE STEAMERS
JL Sail every Saturday ana alternate Wednesday
to and from Glasgow and Derry.
Passengers booked and forwarded to and from all
railway stations iu Great Britain, Ireland, Ger
many, Norway, Sweden, or Denmark and America
as saiey, speeuuy, comiortaDiy, ana cheaply as by
any oiuer rouie ur hub.
EXPRESS" 8TEAMBKB.
'EXTRA" 8TBAHBRS.
IOWA,
TYKIAN,
BRITANNIA,
IOWA,
TYRIAN,
ANGLIA,
AUSTRALIA,
BRITANNIA,
INDIA,
COLUMBIA,
131UTAJNNIA.
From Pier 20 Nerth river, New York, at noon.
Rates of Parage, Payable In Currency,
to Liverpool, Glasgow, or Derry :
First cabins, $05 aud $75, according to location.
Cabin excursion tickets (good for twelve months),
securing best accommodations, $130.
Intel mediate, $33; steerage, $-28.
C ertificates, at reduced rates, can be bought here
by thone wishing to send for their friends.
Drafts issued, payab.e on presentation.
Arply at the company's oiiices to
HENDERSON BROTHERS.
12 27t . No. T BOWLING QUEEN.
ln FOR NEW YORK, VIA DELAWAIU
! jrSvi-? and Rarltan CanaL
rfT--- w i g-r w n h TRAN8PORTATTO
COMPANY.
DESPATCH AND 8W1FTSURB LINES,
Leaving daily at 12 M. and 6 P.M.
The steam propellers of this company will com
uence loading on the 8th of March.
Through in twenty-four hours.
Goodu forwarded to any point free of commission
Apply to
WILLIAM M. BAIRD A CO., AgeuU,
No. 132 South DELAWARE Avenue.
FOR NEW TOR
K
Vv!P via neiaware ana itaruan uanai.
EXPRESS STEAMBOAT COMPANY.
The Steam Propellers of the line will commence
loading on the 8th instant, leaving dully as usuaL
TH HOUGH IN TWENTY-FOUR HOURS.
Goods forwarded by all the lines going out of Ne
York, North, East, or West, free of conimi&slon.
Freights received at low rates.
WILLIAM P. CLYDE ft CO., Agents,
No. 12 8. DELAWARE Avenue
JAMES HAND, Agent,
No. 11 WALL Street, New York. tti
NEW EXPRESS LINE TO AUfXAN
JHCyAdrla, Georgetown, and Washington
I i rt" C., via Chesapeake and Deware
tonal, with connections at Alexandria from the
most direct route for Lynchburg, Bristol, EuoxvlUe,
Nashville, Dalten, and the Southwest.
Steamers leave regularly every Saturday at noon
'rem the nrst wharf above Market street.
Freight received dally. '
WILLIAM P. CLYDE ft CO.,
No, 14 North and South WHARVES.
HYDE fc TYLER, AgenU at Georgetown; M
BLDR1DGE ft CO., Agents at Alexandria. 1
DELAWARE AND C1IE3APEAKE
STEAM TOW-BOAT COMPANY.
Baltimore, Havre-de-Grace, Delaware City, and
iiiicriueuiaie points.
WILLIAM P. CLYDE ft CO., Agents.
CAPTAIN JOHN LAUGH LI N, Superintendent.
IM Soutlt puiLAKLPni A.
IZI DELAWARE AND CHESAPEAKE
IVvvfcSTKAM TOWBOAT COMPANY
J - nrgta towed between Philadelphia,
Baltimore, Uavre-de-Grace, Delaware City, and la
termtxllute point. .
lute points.
VlIJ.IAM P. CLYDE CO., Agent.
ol'Ko.lJ 8ouUi Ytiarrt Pladeinlii" a U (
HIPPINU.
-rfXTTTX EOR LIVERPOOL AND QUEENS'',
jLJLLiAiTOWN The Inman Line of Royal Mall
btenniera are appointed to sail as follows :
City or Brussels, Saturday, February 11. at 10 A, M.
C-lty of Brooklyn, Satnrdav. Feb. 18. at S P. M.
City of Limerick, via Halifax, Tuesday, Feb. 21, atl
P M.
City of Paris, Saturday, Feb. 25, at 10 AM.
and each succeeding Saturday and alternate Tues
day, frem pier No. n North river.
' RATES OF PASSAGE
By Mail Steamer Sailing every Saturday.
Payable in sold. Payable In currency.
First Cabin $75 Steerage Ito
To Londen - 80
To Paris 0
To Halifax 20
To London ss
To Paris 83
To Halifax 18
Passengers aiao forwarded to Antwern. Rotter- -
dam, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, etc, at reduced
rau-s.
Tickets can be bonght here at moderate rate by
persons winning to send for their friends.
For further information apply at the company
Office, v ' v
JOHN G. DALE, Agent. No. 15 Broadway, N. T.
Or to O'DONNKLL & FAULK, Agents,
1 6 No. 402 CHESN UT Street. Phlladel phla.
PHILADELPHIA, RICHMOND,
AND
NORFOLK STEAMSHIP LINE.
THROUGH FREIGHT LINK TO THE SOUTH
AND WEST.
INCREASED
FACILITIES AND
RATES FOR 1871.
REDUCED
Steamers leave every WEDN ES DAY and SATUR
DAY, at 12 o'clock noon, from FlhST WHARF
above M ARRET Street.
RETURNING, leave RICHMOND MONDAYS
and TI1UF.SDAYS, and NORFOLK TUESDAYS
and SATURDAYS.
No bills of Lading signed after 12 o'clock on sail
lng davs.
THROUGH RATES to all points in North and
South Carolina, via Seaboard Air Line Railroad,
connecting at Portsmouth, and to Ljnchburg, Va.,
Ttnnessee, and the West, via Virginia and Tennes
see Air Line and Richmond and D.invllle Railroad.
Freight HANDLED BUT OSHB, and taken at
LOWER RATES THAN ANY OTHEK LINE.
No charge for commission, drayage, or any ex
penie of transfer.
Steamships Insure at lowest rates.
Freight received dally.
State Room accommodations for passengers.
WILLIAM P. CLYDE A CO.,
No. 12 8. WHARVES and Pier 1 N. WHARVES.
W. P. PORTER, Agent at Richmond and City
Point.
T.P. CROWELL St CO., Agents at Norfolk. 1 li
FOR SAVANNAH. OIOB6IA
THE FLORIDA PORTS,
AND THE SOUTH AND SOUTHWEST.
GREAT SOUTHERN FREIGHT AND PA8SEN.
GER LINE.
CENTRAL RAILROAD OF GEORGIA AND AT
LANTIC AN GULF RAILROAD.
FOUR STEAMERS A WEEK,
TUESDAYS,
THURSDAYS,
AND SATURDAYS.
THE STEAMSHIPS
SAN SALVADOR, Captain NlckersoD, from Pier
No. 8 North River.
WM. R. GARRISON, Agent,
No. 6 Bowling Green.
MONTGOMERY, Captain Falrcloth, from Pier No.
13 North River.
R. LOWDEN, Agent,
No, 93 West street.
LEO, Captain Dearborn, from Pier No. 14 East
River.
MURRAY, FERRIS fc CO., Agents,
Nos. 61 and 62 South street.
GENERAL BARNES, Captain Mallory, from Pier
Ho. 86 North River. 7
LIVINGSTON, FOX ft CO., Agents,
No. 88 Liberty street.
Insurance by this line ONE-nALF PER CENT.
Superior accommodations for passengers.
Through rates and bills of lading fa connection
With the Atlantic and Gulf Freight line. 1 t
Through rates and bills of lading in connection)
with Central Railroad of Georgia, to all points.
C. D. OWENS, I GEORGE YONGE.
Agent A. AG. R. R., Agent C.rTr.,
No. 229 Broadway. No. 409 Broadway.
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H I T E
STAR
LINK
OCEANIC STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY'S
LINE OF NEW STEAMERS BETWEEN NEW
YCRK AND LIVERPOOL, CALLING AT CORK
IRELAND.
The company's fleet comprises the following mag
nificent full-powered ocean steamships, the six
largest In the world :
OCEANIC, Captain Murray. ARCTIC
ATLANTIC, Captain Thompson. BaLTIO.
PACIFIC, Captain Perry. Ar-KlATIC.
TheBe new vessels have been designer ;wH!lally
for the transatlantic trade, and combine .peed,
safety, and comfort.
Passenger accommodations unrivalled.
Parties sending for their friends in the old ooun
try can now obtain prepaid tickets.
Steerage, $32, currency.
Other rates as low as any first-class line.
For further particulars apply to LSMAY, IMRIE ft
CO., No. 10 WATEK Street, Liverpool, and No. I
EAST INDIA Avenue, LEADEN HALL Street.
London; or at the company's offices, No, 19
BKOADWAY, New York.
1 Bt J, H. SPARKS, Agent.
for new york:
VIA DELAWARE AND RARITAN CANAL,
EXPRESS STEAMBOAT COMPANY.
The SteamPropellers of the Line will commence
loading on the 8th InRt, leaving Dally as usual.
THROUGH IN TWENTY-FOUR HOURS.
Goods forwarded by all the lines going out of New
York North, East, or WeBt, free of commission.
Freights received at low rates.
WILLIAM P. CLYDE ft CO.. Agents,
No. 19 S. DELAWARE Avenue.
JAMES HAND, Agent,
No. 119 WALL Street, New York. 1 20
NEW EXPRESS LINE
TO
ALEXANDRIA, GEORGETOWN, AND WASH
INGTON, D. C, via CUESAPEAKB AND
1ELAWARE CANAL,
with connections at Alexandria from the most direct
route for Lynchburg, Bristol, Knoxvllle, Nashville,
Dal ton, and the fcouthwest.
Steamers leave regularly every Saturday at noon
from the first wt arf above Market street.
Freight received daily.
WILLIAM P. CLYDE A CO.,
No. 14 North and South Wharves.
HYDE fc TYLER. Agents, at Georgutown; M.
ELDRIuGE fc CO., Agents at Alexandria. Ill
I7 O R ST. THOMAS AND BRAZIL.
7 UNITED STATES AND BRAZIL STEAM
SHIP COMPANY.
REGULAR MAIL STEAMERS sailing on the
J3d of every month.
MkRRlMACK, Captain "Wier.
SOUTH AMsRICA, Captain E. L. Tinklepaugh.
NORTH AM E MCA, Captain G. B. Slocum.
These splendid steamer, sa'l on schedule ttme.and
call at St. Thomas, Para, Pernatnbuco, Bahla, and
Rio de Janeiro, going and returning. For engage
menu of freight or passage, apply to .
WM. H. GARRISON, Agent,
12 lot No. 0 Bowling-green, Newjfork-
CUTLERY. ETOi
RODGERS ft WOSTENHOLM'8 POCKET
KNIVES, Pearl and Stag handles, and
beautiful finish; Rodgers', and Wada fc
Butcher's Razors, and the celebrated Le
oonltre Raxor; Ladles' Scissors, la cases,
of the finest quality; Rodgers Table Cutlery, Carvers
and Forks, Raxor Strops, Cork Screws, etc. Ear In
trumenta, te assist the Bearing, of the most ay
proved construction, at P. MADEIRA'S, -
No. 116 TENTH Street- halow Cheannt
jTt. b aston. x Hah ox,
T?A8TOIf Sc HcltlAIIOIf,
8BIPPIXG AKD COMMISSION MKRCBASTS.
No. COENTIKS SLIP, New York,
No. 18 SOUTH WHARVES, Philadelphia,
No, 40 W. PRATT STREET, Baltimore.
We are prepared to ship every description Ot
Freight to Philadelphia, New York, WUiftiugion, and
intermediate points with promptness and deepatch.
Canal Boats and 8team-Uv?i furnished at the shorten
aoticia.
COTTON SAIL DUCK AND CANVAS, OF ALf
numbers and brands. Tent, Awning, Trunk
and Wagon-cover Duck. Alio. Paper Manufaod
turers' Drier Felta, from thirty to seventy-HJ
lrc'ten. with Pnnim.. Belting, SU Twlneetoi
' W.7 t r v--Yman.
bio. lo tilL'SCH Btro (U& gtttet.