0 A BALLEUINA. THOU THE GEBlf AN QT ELIfll rOLIO. It was ramimi eyening of the year 1735. Through the open doors of the little balcony same a sound of gay talk and laughter from the luxurious ealoon of the charming rami, in danteute, Camille Petitpas. The aweet fra grance of rosea pervaded, like an enlivening breath, the brilliant ly-illnrnlBated apartment where, on satin-coveicd cr V a ad Hboaret, at the loveliest women of the capital, sar ronnded by their elegant and distinguished Admirers. Who could have recognized, in the richly dressed mistress of the saloon, the little daugh ter of the locksmith of the line Montmartre, who eight years ago skipped, singing and langhing, about the obscure house of her father, or, with frock tucked np, and her fretty feet neatly 6ncased in a pair of red eat Ler shoes, delighted master and men with her merry, 'original dances, while Jaoqne, the youngest of the workmen, made quaint music with two great keys and a jewsharp! The heavy braids of her gulden hair, loosened in the dance, fell like a mantle about her form; her saucy face glowed, her black eyes dabbed, and the severest gravity could scarce xesiht the charm of her laughing mouth. The grimy workmen gazed at her in won dering rapture. Their stout hands rested even supper was awhile forgotten no higher tribute could have been rendered. The street-door was, by chance, left open one evening, and the ballet-master of the royal theatre, passing by, looked in upon the living picture a circle of Cyclops, and the little one in the midst, dancing upon the shop-floor by the light of a single work-lamp and the glare of the smith's fire. The unseen ob server rubbed his bands with delight that his good genius had led him there at the fortu nate moment. Only a few days before the famous Mad'lle Salle had suddenly gone with an Englibh duke to his native country; the other dancers had grown faded and old in the storm of Paris life; the almost aeri-rl frailty of Anne Camargo, his most promising pupil, gave him serious apprehension. But here bloomed before his ravished eyes as fresh a rose-bud as ever unfolded into perfect flower a being of strength and vitality, sufficient, it seemed, to resist a simoom of the desert. He must have her, ooBt what it might ! On the very next day negotiations were begun. Camille bad no mother, and aunts and cousiDs vied with each other in convinc ing the locksmith that a fortunate star bad risen upon the honse. The little girl herself was radiant with joy at the prospect of danc ing all her life, admired by a larger and more distinguished circle than her father's work men, and pljing her little feet to music more intoxicating than that of poor Jacques' jews harp. Jacques opposed the ballet master's plans with strange violence, and seemed almost be side himself at the thought of Camille's be coming a dancer. His entreaties almost in duced her to retract her consent. How hand some he looked as be caught her hands, with angry tears in his eyes, and, stamping his feet, adjured her to remain with her father ! "LUten, Camille," be cried; "I swear to yon that I will do something great In the world, and then I will come and marry you, and you shall be a good, happy woman; you may dance for me every day if you will, only don't go among those wicked old monkeys and wanton girls who dance for all the world! Nobody else will love yon as I do only be lieve that! I will work and buy beautiful dresses for you, and gay ribbous, and the prettiest red shoes in the world!" And, as he bent toward her with these words, and, half-sbyly, half-boldly, encircling with his arm her Blender waist, drew her to bim and kifsed her bair, she had already opened her lips to say, "Jacques, I will stay at home with my father," when just then she beard the Voice of the ballet-master at the door, and burst hastily from his arms. Jacques turned away, his eyes flashing with anger. An hour later all was arranged, and on the same evening Camille Petitpas left her father's house for that of her teacher. Ia the twilight bhe met Jacques once more in the passage before the door of her room. 'Good-by, Jacques," she said, in a falter ing voice, holding out her hand; "I caanot help it; I must go. Bat, of course, you will come to see me often, and then, Jacques do yon not see? we can marry just the same when you have become a great man, and I a great dancer. I hope you will not forget to love me." "I will neither love you nor marry you!" be broke in hastily. "Go; you deserve to be forgotten ! You will never see me again !" And throwing off her hand, be gained the Etaircase at a single stride. The same evening he disappeared from the workshop, and the men said to each other, "That proud Jacques has gone with the sol diers." Camille was heartily grieved at the Ion of her youDg friend, but bhe bad little time to spare for regrets; there was so much to learn and to do. The locksmith's daughter was Boon the darling of the ballet-master. Her beauty developed every day more brilliantly; Bhe mastered all her lessons with wonderful quickness, and took the most difficult steps, as if for pastime. But in the society of her gay fellow-pupils Bhe did not forget her father, and often coaxed for herself leave to spend a few hours with him. Yet she danoed no more, in tucked-up frock and rod shoes, by the light of the smith's fire. A little thoughtful and grave she would sit there. Where could he have gone that naughty, wild Jacques? If bhe could but feel bis lips on ber bair! On her eighteenth birthday Bhe first ap peared in a solo pas as a nymph of the Seine, and her triumph and her roBy beauty were the three days' talk of Paris. Even the king remarked her, and cast an approving smile at' bis ballet-master. What a piece of good for tune! IVre Petitpas sat quite confused and frightened in the back part of a box among a crowd of relatives. He saw his child whirl to and fro before his eyes in her airy costume, bnt she seemed strange to him, and he only Bedded sorrowfully when one of the aunts whispered to him that Camille was the most enviable creatare in the world. She bad danced far more beautifully, be thought, in the workshop at home. Even her face seemed less charming here. Then she was so like her dead mother; but all that had van ished ! And whither ? From that evening the old man saw his daughter less and less often in the work shop. En paged as prima ballerina, she now had an establishment of her own. Again aud again she invited her father with the tea. derest urgency; but the locksmith visited her only once never again. "My rough fists are not fit for your pretty things," he said. "Come to me if you want to Bee me." And, indeed, be dH come Fonttiw"; bat HTwyifta prima b&llsrfna. had. few leisure hours and many admirers, and the Fetitpas was still fresh and artless, and loved to listen to the praises of her black eyes, and rosy lips and pearly teeth, ber dimples, and her little feet. It seemed a strange caprioe that her shoes, though fashioned of the daintiest satin, were always bright red. All Paris knew and admired the "little red foot," and some noble ladies already began to wear shoes a la Petitpas. The famous ballerina led a life of joy and gayety, and, but for a cloudy remembrance of the lost Jacques which flitted now and then Jscross her sky, she oonld hardly hire believed in the existence of shadows. But one evening, just at the close of the ballet, as she ended her dnce amid the ap plauding shouts of the multitude, and, in her gauzy dress and floating, rose-wreathed hair, stepped behind the side-soenej, a b iy prema 1 through the clustering throng of her a 1 mirers, and whispered to the beautiful dau seufe: "Come home, Camille Petitpas. Your father is djiDg'" Cauiille forgot her waiting carriage forit all but the one fact that her father was dyinq Deathly pale, regardless of all anxious o UU and questionings, she threw a mantle over ber light cobtume, and ran out along the street in ber silken shoes so hnrriodly that the messenger of evil tidings could scarcely follow ber. Breathless with baste, she entered her father's house. The workshop was lighted, for the master had ordered his bed to be re moved to the familiar room. The sick man sat erect, surrounded by the dark forms of his workmen, bis eyes and cheeks glowing with fever. He did not recognize his child, w ho. sobbing, seized his hand. "Who is the atrange woman!"the cried, as if in terror. "Call my child to me my merry little girl in the red shoos that she msy dance my heart light, and I may hear once more her joyous laugh !" Then the ballerina stole away into her own little chamber of the old time, and took from an old chest a simple little frock. With trembling fingers she braided her hair, and, twisting a scarf about her shoulders, ran quickly downstairs. "Je toici, papa " she said. And Camille herself took down the keys from the nail, and began to play, as ouoe Jacques bad done, but the tears ran down her cheeks, as she danced iu her red shoes by tin firelight. A smile of rapture overspread the face of the dying man. "She looks like my poor wife once more," be murmured. "It is Camille, my happy child and Jacques will come and take care of her." He sank backward. "I will Bleep now," he said, softly. "Greet Jacques, and kiss me !" She kissed him, sobbing. He tnrned his face to the wall. It was very still in the workshop; no one dared to move; only the spaiks of the smith's fire crackled and flew upward. Low and lower the ballerina bent over the motionless figure; a cry esoaped her lips her father was dead. Years bad passed since then. Camille Petitpw wsb still the datling of Paris, unrivalled, ex cept by one Anne Capuia de Camargo. Bat jealousy bad no abiding place in Camilla's WBrm heart, and if, sometimes, she wept a tear or two, it was only to yield, next m uient, to ber friend's irresistible charm, aud em brace her with the more passionate entha biasm. Sitting, one night, among ber so-called friends, of whom alt except Camargo secretly longed to eclipse and supplant her, Camille looked radiaiit and care-free, as if some good fairy bad laid in her bosom the gift of immor tal 3 onth and beauty. No one of them all had eo child-like a laugh as she. the could not wear her costly robes with the Camargo's royal air, and many of her vivacious gestures and expres bions recalled the locksmith's little daughter, dancing in the workshop ia her red-leather shoes; but this only added piquancy to her charms. Just now she sat in a somewhat careless attitude, beating time with her ravishing feet upon the back of her little lapdog. Her pretty head was thrown back; a leaf or two bed fallen from the fresh rose at her left ear, and the string of pearls in her hair touched her rounded shoulder. A kitten, wearing a golden necklace, played with a faded bouquet, which lay upon the train of her costly, silk embroidered robe. The new Duke Felix de Balbe-Berton aud the philosopher Etienne Cordilhto had taken their places beside the hostess, and upoa the tabouret before her sat haudsome Captain Jacques, just breveted for his gallautry in the war against Bavaria, at the side of young Louis Francois Conti, and under the com mand of the Marshal de Belle-Isle. Who but the ballerina would ever have recognized in this stately hero, whose brave face and burning eyes took captive every woman's heart, the young journeyman smith w ho bad vanished so tracklessly when Camille Petitpas went to the ballet-master's house? He had, indeed, "gone with the soldiers," and bad made himself known to his foster-brother, the Prince de Conti. lteturotd to Paris, he hastened to call npon the renowned ballerina, who re ceived him with loud exclamations of delight. Yet, with all her joy, she had little winh to become his wife. Jacques might, indeed, be the darling of the young prince; but he was always poor, very poor, and Camilla liked satin garments and Alencon lace", and a merry, careless life, and dreaded every serious attachment. now different seemed the Camargo, sitting, a little way off, in her blue-silk oostutna ! bow strangely grave the type of her beauty ! None could resiat the charm of the features, modelled after the antique; the beaming, blue eyes, shadowed by long, black lashes; the delicate, ethereal form; the slow, pure grace of motion; the chaste, sweet lips. But, though men deified Anne Capuis do Camargo, they scarcely dared to love her; only women clung to her with passionate devotion. Vol taire was talking to her in his piquant, spark ling style, while Bouffiet, the elegant yonng artist, clandestinely sketched the pare outline of her profile. Tberese Prevot, a ballerina who was grow ing old, strove, at least by ber splendid toilet, to eclipse her younger rivals. What au embarras de richeHet of purple velvet em broidered with gold, or laces and feathers! What glances aud what smiles showered upon me juuuk ujuiquia wuu bin, oesiae ner: The brilliant Mademoiselle 8 ill gave free play to ber incomparable hands aud arms, while disdaining the attentions of a colonel to give audience to a young actor. ' Love, the favorite theme of all ages, en gaged the attention of these various groups. Now sighing, now smiling now louder, now more low they confessed the secrets of the heart, and praised the fascinating power which sways all human souls. TUe cheeks of the ladies grew rosier, the eyes of the men more ardent. Deep, lono glances ril.iva l at hi.l,. , and teik. Only Camilla Potitxi uvj!I ' meeting Uia eyes of tvr traobt admirer. Turning with a gay laugh to the Duke de Bei'on, she exclaimed: "I shall never believe in the strength of a rriM.'s love nntil be ha shown me the proof hu all snodnlng devotion. We women are ecbsd to devote our whole lives to men ulo would not give np the pleasures of a (tingle month for love of ns!" The ljveliest discussion was provoked by this avowal, and on all sides arose a sportive word-conteat, which, here and there, grew louder and more earnest. The eentlemen crowded about the ballerina, begging for a test the imposition of some sacrifice. The old dsys of chivalry seemed to have been re vived, w'hen knights and troubadours de clared themselves ready to contend with monsters for the ladies of their hearts. "JCh Men!" cried Camille, at last; "I will begin with the three nearest me let my sisters follow my example 1 I demand only the knightly service of one month. Let each do for my sake what seems to him hard est; and, at the end of the app ointed time, the company bere assembled shall decide which has brought the most worthy offering of love." "And then?" asked the yonng captain. "Then ? The reward of the bravnst shall be let t to me I will then cease to be fickle." "We devote ourselves to the trial 1" cried the duke, the philosopher, and the soldier. The ballerina extended to each of her three subjects ber hand to be kilned, aud sapper was then announced in the elegant little diidng-saluon. lioses were strewed npon the brilliant table; tqmrkling wine bubbled in the tall cijstal goldets; laugh and jest hovered on beau til ul lips; only on the oaptaiu's face a shadow rested, until the chiding glance and whisper of his lovely neighbor dispelled the gloom. "I hope you do not mean to starve your self for my sake," she said. "I should weep all my lite over a sacrifice bo great. Do you not wish to win the prize, four weeks from to-dsy?" "How could the wish avail ?" he answered, with a melancholy smile. "I am the smallest and most insignificant in the hive of your adorers, and must content myself with the sight of their swarming.." During the following days and weeks, the dwelling of Petitpas, indeed, resembled a beehive. The story of the strange wager had flown throng?-: all Paris, and the carious Hocked in and out of her doors incessantly, eager to be eye and ear witnesses of the wonderful deeds to be accomplished by these devoted three. New candidates annonnoed their readiness to undertake a second contest after the decision of the pending wager so tempting a prize seemed that strange, flighty something called Camille's heart! 'lbere was little to see or hear. The Duke, whose parsimony was prover bial, made the most strenuous attempts to ruin himself by the purchase of various gifts for the queen of his thoughts; but, in poiut of fact, his usnal careful providence never for a moment forsook him, aud, despite what he considered bis unheard-of expenditures, be remained as rich as before. His rueful countenance, when the haughty daughter of the locksmith pushed all bis presents care lessly aside, was a source of extreme amuse ment to all who looked on. No one could accuse the Petitpas of selfishness: she ao cpted a fresh rose with the same grateful smile as a costly vase, and cared for a gold chain as little as a knot of ribbon. The philosopher Etienne Oordillao ap peared no more, since the eventful evening, in the presence of the ballerina. He had im posed npon himself the severe penance of exile from ber magio cirole. He was sure of the prize. Could there be more perfect self-abnegation than voluntarily to relinquish the presence of the beloved one ? He saw her only at mass, where, leaning against a pillar, he looked over to her as a shipwrecked mariner towards the distant shore. He fol lowed her from the church, scarcely less faithfully than the lackey who carried her missal; and when, arrived at her house-door, with pretty coquetry she drew aside her silken veil a little, she always met his ltrge. earnest eyes, aud saw his bow of humble recognition. The daily-multiplying throng of Camille's admirers already awarded to Cordillao the palm of tender devotion, and with envious imagination saw bim quit the field a conqueror. The captain, to the astonishment of all, bad for the second time ia his life disap peared without trace. Nobody bud seen bim nobody knew where he was staying. At first Camille scarcely missed him, amid the throng that gathered about her; but by de gites she began to speculate seriously upon his absence, and to grow restless and unlike herself. Secretly distressed, she sent her servant bere and there for some daw of the Vhbished friend of her youth. This strange old man had entered her servioe but a short time before, but his bronzed and wrinkled face inspired her fullest oonfi fence, as he stood at the door bowing low, while she spoke to him, and humbly retreating a step or two, as 6he advanced. Old Frauo ia wus the only witness of her daily-increasing anxiety for Jaoquea. He had heard often enough of the teats of her errant knight surely, she might trust him with the most delicate and hazardous oouimissioMs! Per haps Jacques bad gone to Africa to tame lions fr Lis lady perhaps he was seekiug to briug the teeth of some giant as an oruameut for the fairest of necks! Perhaps he had become a monk, and thus thrown his life at her little feet aud she hai lost him forever! Camille had more Bad thoughts iu that one month than in all her life before she was frightened at herself. She execrated her foolish wager, that hare brained Jacques, aud flu ally herself; and at Francois' quiet entrance she often looked up from ber lace-work with eyes hot and swollen from weeping. Fortunately, such grief was not uninterrupted. The yonng Marquis Ereqnis was such a piquant jester, and the Chevalier Labord related to her so many pttitea hitttoirta scutnialeuses Voltaire's sar casms were bo brilliant, and Bouffidt's sketches bo charming ahe was forced to forget Ler trouble a bile. Then came the excitements of the stage-danoe, and the tri umph behind the scenes, where Francois waited with er.d ess patience, before he was allowed to cover, witu ber little blue mantle, the full shoulders of the ballerina, only to be pushed aside and trod upon, as he strove to assist bis mistress into her carriage. Many a cavalier would have Born that he bad re ceived, at such a moment, a smart cuff or a stout kick, from the old servant; bat no! he must have been deceived one glanoe at the bent form and withered visage plainly showed the impossibility of such violence. Indeed, 'so infirm was he that, in lighting visitors down the staircase, it often happened that be tottered against the wall, under the weight of the chandelier, not without jostling somewhat rudely the guests nearest him. The lights were extinguished, aud in the dark and troublesome descent the unfortunate ad mirers of the lovely Petitpas tripped aud st r.iil, lei, ns if nialii-iorm t t irits lid .istrjv 1 their growing, uncertain, feet Before Fran- cois could relight the lamps, they vrere al ready at the door. Thus the days passed. Camille's eyes often bad a sorrowful expression, and, for the first time in her life, her aleep was dis turbed by frightful dreams! Starting up, sometimes, with a cry of terror, she wonld lean ber arm npon the pillow, and weep like a frightened child. At mass, she prayed longer and more fer vently than ever before, and sometimes quite forgot to coquet with her admirers. Even the duke could not obtain a look from her. Where was Jacques? At last the day arrived, on which the curi ous throng pressed into the talon, for the de cision oT the far-famed trial of love. What a host of eager, charming faces I Even the beautiful, proud Camargo wore an air of nn usual excitement. Camille herself, although in richest dress, was looking pale, and oast anxious glances toward the door, which Fran cois was incessantly opening, to admit fresh arrivals. The philosopher, Etienne Cordillao, and tho Duke de Balbe Berlon appeared, each wearing a triumphant smile. Jacques was not there I The dial-hand marked the hour of ten the decision must be spoken ! The Dvke stepped gravely forward, and placed a small book in the hand of the balle rina, whose disquiet increased every moment. "Yon have only to glance over these pages. fairest of the fair," he said, "to see that I have almost ruined myself for your sake. Here are my receipts noted down there the expenses of the last month. I am ready to complete the sacrifice for the prize of your heart!" Petitpas laid aside the book, with a sad smile. "And what have you done for me, Etienne Uoroiiiao t said ner sweet voice. "I chose the hardest, voluntary exile ! Who could do more for the queen of his tbougbts ?" cried the renowned philosopher. "1 1" replied a new voice, and Francois, the old servant, stood in the centre of the room. One moment, and the servant's dress fell npon the floor the wig be removed with a low bow. In his uniform, his handsome faoe radiant with the ruddy glow of enthusiastic emotion, Jacques stood before his beloved and nor brilliant circle. "I think that I have accomplished the severest task," he said, sinking gracefully to bis knee, and laying Lis wig at the feet of Pe titpas. "I challenge all men to imagine a harder penance. Daily, hourly, to look upon the adored qneen of my heart, without allow ing myself to approach ner, or receive one glance from her eyes to do her a thousand little services, with the humble deportment of the most insignificant attendant to lead to her with my own hands my most dangerous rivals, and to bring to her their letters glow ing with love could purgatory devise a sharper punishment t A cry of applause followed. The ladies were enchanted with the handsome lackey the gentlemen crowded, langmng, to his side, Balbe and Cordillao acknowledged them selves outdone. And Camille ? Bur lino and blushing, she gave her white hand to her childhood friend, then turned with bewitch ing grace to ber vanquished adorers. "If be is guilty of the slightest negligenoe in bis service, I will Bend bim away and em ploy another, she laughed, in exuberanoe of joy, witn a tender glance at her beloved, "and who knows how Boon I may be forced to do so, ii uI'a(ietce!" interrupted the philosopher. and the duke suppressed a sigh. . But his face cleared again, as charming Mademoiselle Salle laid her little band npon his arm, and whispered, teasingly: "If I wanted a servant, there isi nobody wnom i would rainr engage man you: They passed into the dining-saloon, Camille on the arm of her lover. The table glittered with costly furniture, and fresh flowers breathed perfume from the marble vases. Bon filet and Cordillao sat next to Anne Camargo; Voltaire, opposite ber, by Mademoiselle Salle; the duke on the other side. Suddenly, the beautiful Camargo leaned backward for a moment, and looking, with a smile, npon her neighbors, asked, "Shall we also lny a wageri1 "In a year only not to-day!'' cried Balbe, with coruio energy. "I shall need as muoh time as that to scrape a Here together!" "And I shall need, I fear, more than one year to grow as handsome aa the lackey of Petitpas 1" said Voltaire. Meanwhile, Camille's fingers were toying with a rose; softly they glided into the hand of ber yourg friend. "Are you not sorry that it ia I who have vanquished you, both?" asked the young officer, softly, seeking Camille's eyes. "Are you harpy, Camilla ?" "Oh, Jacques ! bappy as in that sweet time when I danced for yon in the red shoes ! Nobody ever heard of a change of servants in the house of the famous Petitpas; bnt all the ladies of Paris envied her so handsome, clever, and faithful an attendant. -Appleton! Journal. WATOHEB, JEWELRY. 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IJAKKlftUM, WILLIAM B ROOKIE. 1 isi 1829 CHARTER PERPETUAL. 1871 FranlUa Fire Insurance Company 07 PHILADELPHIA. Office, Nob. 435 and 437 CHESNUT St. Assets Jan. I , '7$3,087.452 35 CAPITAL 1400,000-00 ACCRUED SURPLUS AND PREMIUMS.8,637,452 83 INCOME FOR 18T1, LOSS E8 PAID IN 1870, $'172,83 1' 70. 1,H00,UUU. Losses Paid Since 1829 Nearly 56,000,000. Tne Assets of the "FRAMILIN" are all Invested In colld securities (over t'i,TMV 03 tn First Bonds and Mortgages), which are all interest bearing and dividend paying. The Company holds no Bills Re ceivable tak n for Insurances effected. Perpetual and Temporary Policies on Liberal Terms. TheOonr.pany alo issues policies npon the Rents or an kinds oi nuuamgs, urouna Rents and Mortgages. DIRECTORS. Alfred G. Baker, Samnel Grant, George W. Richards, Isaac Lea, Alfred Fltler, Thomas Sparks, William B. Grant, Thomas S. Ellis, Gustavus 8. Benson. George Fales, ALFRED G. BAKER, President. GEORGE FALES, Vice-Presidei -. JAMES W. MCALLISTER, Secretary. a 7td31 THEODORE M. REGER. Assistant Secretary. AS BURY LIFE INSURANCE CO. KEW YOEK. LEMUEL BANGS, President. GEORGE ELLIOTT, Vice-Prea'tandSec'y. EMORY McCLINTOOK, Actuary. JAMES M. LONGACRE, MANAGER FOR PENNSYLVANIA AND DELAWARE, Office, 302 WiXBUT Bt., Philadelphia. H. C. WOOD, Jr., Medical Examiner. C 23 mwflm BE V. S. POWERS, Special Agent. Diicn Mutual Insurance Company Off PHILADELPHIA. INCORPORATED ISO 1. lire, Mai in e, and Inland Iniurancs. Office, N. E. Cor. THIRD and WALNUT LOSSES PAID SINCE FORMATION, S 7, OOO.OOO. ASSETS OP TUB COMPANY, J AN OA RY 1, 1371, $255,39789. RICHARD & SMITH, President. JOHN MOSS, Secretary. S 13 People's Fire Insnrancj Qipy, No. 514 WALTIUT Street. CHARTERED 1859. Fire Insurance at LOWEST RATES consistent with security. Losses promptly adjusted and paid. NO UNPAID LOSSES. Assets l ecem er 81, 1870 8123,851-73 CHAS. E. BONN, Prea'dent. GEO. BU8CH, Jr., Secretary. B 14 TUB PENNSYLVANIA FIRS INSURANCE COMPANY. Incorporated 182ft Charter Perpetual. NO. 610 WALNUT Street, opposite Independence Square. This Company, favorably known to the comma, nlty for over forty years, continues to Insure agalust loss or damage ny Are on Public or Private Build, tags, either permanently or for a limited time. Also on Furniture, Ssocks of Goods, and Merchandise generally, on llbeial terms. Their Capital, together with a large Surplus Fund, ia invested la the moat careful manner, which ena bles them to offer to the Insured an undoubted aeoa nty is the case of loss. p tax CTo us Danlel Smith, Jr., Thomas Smith, Iaaao Raalehurit, I . Henry Lewis, Thomas Robins, I J. GUlingUam FelL John Devereux, I Daniel Haddock, Franklin A. Comly. DANIEL SMITH, J., President WM. Q. CaowxLL, Secretary. M piFElUAXi FIRE INSURANCE CO., rjOHDOH. EMTABIJMUKU 1MOS. Paid-up Capital and Aooamalafd Fonda, 66,000,000 IN Gr5lL.r. FREV08T A nEERING, Agents, t 4 Ho. h Tllir? Sttaet.Piuli-j!y-.U. obab, v. raiYoax. ouajs. p. niamsg INIQRANOE DELAWARE MUTUAL SAFETY INSURANCE COM PA NY. I ncorporated by the Legislature of rennijlvanla, l&ifi. Office 8. E. corner of THIRD and WALNUT Streets, Philadelphia. MARINE INSURANCES on Vessels, Cargo, and Kreigbt to all parts of the world. INLAND INSURANCES on OOCds by river, canal, Uke. and land carriage to all part or the Union. FIRE INSURANCES on Merchandise generally; on Stores, Dwtllmgs, Houses, etc A8SKTS OP THE COMPANY, November 1, 1870. 1300,000 United stat-s Six Per Cent Loan (lawful money) 1333,3TB 0t 800,000 Btato of Pennsylvania Six Per Cent. Loan J 14,000-00 800,000 City of Philadelphia Six Per Cent. Loan (exempt from Tax) 904J8S-60 164,000 Stale of New Jersey Six Per Cent. Loan l3,930DO SO.OOO Pennsylvania Railroad First Mortfrane His Per Ct. Roods. SO, 700-00 SB, 000 Pennsylvania Railroad Second Monjrage Six Per Ct. Bonds. 85,13000 88,000 Western Pennsylvania Ralu road Mortgage Six Per Cent. Bonds (Pennsylvania Rail road gnarautee) SO.OOO-OO 80,000 State of Tennessee Five Per Ck Loan 18,000-00 T.OOO State cf Tennessee Six Per Ct. Loan 4, 200 -00 12, CC0 Pennsjlvanta Railroad Com pany ('2.VJ Shares Stock) 15,000-00 0,000 North PeunsvlvADla Railroad Company (100 Shares Stock). . 4,300-00 10,000 Philadelphia and Southern Mall Steamship Company (SO ill's StotK) 4,00000 861,650 Loans on Bond and Mortgage, nrat liens on city properties., mi.kww 11,860,160 Par.C,8t,l,SC4,447-34. MxtVlll, S937X neai nutate Bills Receivable for Insur ances made Balances due at Agencies Premiums on Marine Policies Accrued Interest and other debts due the Company Stock and t-crlp, etc., of sun dry corporations, $T9&0, esti mated value Cash 66,000 tO 830.9T1-8T 93.875-4T 148,811-73 11,820,727-97 DIRECTORS. Thomas C. Hand, .Samuel B. Stokes, John C. Davis. William O. Boulton. Edmund A. Bonder, Joseph II. Seal, James Traqualr, Henry Sloan, Henry C. Dallctt, Jr.,; James C. Hand, . William C. Lndwlg, Hnph Craig, John D. Taylor, Oeorgn W. Bernadon, Wm. C. Houston. Edward Darlington, li. Jones Brooke, Edward lAfourcade, Jacob Riegel, Jacob P. Janes, James B. McFarland, Joshua P. Erre, Spencer Mcllvalne, Thomas P. Stotesbary, John U. Semp'e, Plttso'rg, U. Frank Robinson, a. a. Tjrer, ruisoarg. D. T. Monran. PltUburr. inu.njijn iia.-nii, fresmenu JOHN c. Davis, Vice-President. Bknkt Lylbckx, Secretary. Hkkky Ball, Assistant Secretary. 91 lira y- I BE A88OUIATI0R -"m INCORPORATED MARCH IT, 1820. OFFICE, NO. 84 NORTH FIFTH STREET, INSURE BUILDINGS, HOU8EHOLD FURNITURE, AND MERCHANDISE GENERALLY Frem Loss by Are (in the City of Philadelphia only) ASSETS, JANUARY. 1, l70t tl.703,319 07. TRUSTEES. William H. Hamilton, John Carrow, George 1. Young, Charles p. Bower, Jesse Llghtfoot. Robert Shoemaker, Peter Armbroster, M. EL Dickinson, Peter Williamson. Jos. K. Lyndall, Levi P. Coats. Samnel Sparhawk, josepn a. scnen. WM. H. HAMILTON, President. BAMUEL SPARHAWK, Vice-President, WILLIAM F. BUTLER, Secretary F AMS IN8URANCB COMPANY No. S0 CHESNUT Street. DtOOBPORATID 18S4. CHARTS a FXBFITUIX. CAPITAL 1200,000. FIRE INSURANCE EXCLUSIVELY. Insurance against Loss or Damage by Fire either Perpetual or Temporary Policies. DlBKCTOttS. Charles Richardson, William H. Rhawn, William M. Seyfert, John F. Smith, Nathan Hllles. Robert Pearce.' John Keasler, Jr Edward B. Orne, Charles Stokes. John W. Everman, Mordeoal Buznv. George A. West. CHARLES RICHARDSON, President WILLIAM H. R 11 AWN. Vice-President. Williams L Blanciiakd Secretary. 1 93f THE ENTERPRISE INSURANCE CO. 07 PHILADELPHIA. Office S. W. cor, FOURTH and WALNUT Streeta. FIRE INSURANCE EXCLUSIVELY. PERPETUAL AND TERM POLICIES irUETJt CASH Capital (paid np in full) 2fl0.ouo-o0 CASH Assets, DeBcmber 1. 1870 8600 888-24 DIRECTORS. F. Ratcbford Starr, i J. Livingston Brrtnger, Naibro Fraeler, James L. Otaghorn, John M. Atwood, iWm. O. Boulton, Hen J. T. Tredick. Charles Wheeler, George H. Stuart, Thomas H. Montgomef John H. Brown, 'James M. Aertsen. F. RATCHFORD STARR, President. THOMAs H. montoom ERY, Vice-President ALEX. W. WISTEK, Secretary. JACOB & PETERSON. Assistant Secretary. LUMUtK 1871 SPRUCE JOIST. SPRUCE JOIST. HEMLOCK. HEMLOCK. 1871 -IQT1 SEASONED CLEAR PINB. 1 QT1 10 I 1 SEASONED CLEAR PINK. 10 I 1 CHOICE PATTERN PINK. SPANISH CFDAR, FOR PATTERNS. RED CEDAR. iOTI FLORIDA FLOORING. lOll FLOnlDA FLOORING. 1871 CAKOLIHA F1XSJK1NU. VIRGINIA F LOOKING. DELAWARE FLOORING. ASH FLOORING. WALNUT FLOORING. FLORIDA STEP BOARDS, RA.1L PL4NK. 10T1 WALNUT BOARDS AND PLANK. 10 I 1 WALNUT BOARDS AND PLANK. 1871 WALNUT BOARDS, WALNUT TLANK. IQT1 UNDERTAKERS' LUMBER, i Qi lOll UNDERTAKERS' LUMBER, lOll RED CEDAR. WALNUT AND PINS. 1871 SEASONED POPLAR. -OT SEASONED CHERRY. lO 1 1 AHll. WHITE OAK PLANK AND BOARDS, HICKORY. 1871 CIGAR BOX MAKERS' C1UAR BOX MA KICKS' 1871 SPANISH CEDAR BOX BOARDS, 1Qni . CAROLINA SCANTLING. IQTl 10 I 1 CAROLINA H. T. SILLS. 10 1 NORWAY SCANTLING. -ICT1 CEDAR 8HINULE8. IQ74 10 I I CYPRESS SHINOLK8. 10 li MAULE. BROTHER It CO., -lit No. sow SOUTH Street PANEL PLANK. ALL THICKNESSES.- COMMON PLANK, ALL TUICKNEaajfii . 1 COMMON BOARDS. 1 and S SIDE FENCE BOARDS. WHITE PINE FliOORING BOAR WS, YELLOW AND SAP PINE FLOORINGS, ltf an t)4 SPRUCE JOIST, ALL SIZES. HEMLOCK JOIST, ALL SIZES. PLASTERING LATH A SPECIALTY, Together with a general assortment of Building Lumber for sale low for cash. T. W. 8MALTZ, 11 so 6m No, 1716 IUDGE Avenue, north of Poplar S A LEXANDEH G. OATTELL CO., ii. PRODUCE COMMISSION MKKCaANna, NO, M NOh'ld WHARVEd AMD NO. t NORTH WTITR STHKBT, I'lil.'.A OR 'tti AXJXATOH Q, CAXTUL XUJA4 Cartf
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