THE DAILY EVENING TELKG11AP1I PHILADELPHIA, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1871.
'THE MAGAZINE?.
"BCRlBNBR'g."
Hie contents of the March number of
ikribncr't MonVdy are as follows:
"Weather-Telegrams and Storm-Forecasts,"
second article, illustrated, by Pro
fessor T. 13. Maury; "King Gatnbrinus and
Lis Subjects," illustrated, by William Wells;
"Will fcbe Hide or Walk?" by Miss Trafton;
'In a Garret," by Elizabeth Akers Allen;
"Lucky Peer." by Hans Christian AnderseD;
'HomewardJ' by Lois Brooke; "The Ancient
Fenians," by L. Clark Seelyw; Viotor Em
manuel's Queen," by Elizabeth C. Kinney;
"Life in the Cannibal Inlands," illustrated,
by J. C. Bates; "Wilfrid Cumbermode," illus
trated, by George MacDonald; "The Celes
tials in Sunday-school," by James L. Bowen;
"Topics of the Time;" "The Old Cabinet;"
"Beyond the Seas;" "Home and Society;"
"Books and Authors at Home;" "Etchings,"
a Musical Party, with seven humorous designs,
by C. G. Bush.
From rrofessor L. Clark Seelye's paper on
"The Anoient Fenians" we make this quota
tion: TIIE ANCIENT FENIANS.
In the early histery of Scotland and Ireland
tribe of Celtio warriors stand forth pre
eminent by their bold adventures and warlike
deeds. The scenes of their exploits received
names still perpetuated in the topography of
both countries, and the exploits themselves
became tbe theme of many poems and ro
mances. Finn Mao Cuinhail (pronounced
Coole) was one of these warriors and their
most famous commander. According to Irish
annals, he lived and died in the third century
of the Christian era. So great was his renown
that these Gaelio warriors, who had pre
viously been designated by various names,
barbarous to our English ears, were hence
forth known as Feinne, Fiana, or Fenians,
and as such were celebrated in the legendary
history of Scotland and Ireland. They seem
eventually to have constituted a kind of esta
blished militia, whose duty it was, in the
words of an old historian, "to defend the
country against foreign or domestic enemies,
to eupport tbe right and succession of their
kings, and to be ready upon the shortest
notice for any surprise or emergency of the
State."
These meagre historical details give one
little idea of the amount of Fenian literature
which still exists in ancient Gaelio manu
scripts. One of its most accurate and learned
students has computed that, were all the
Fenian poems and legends published, they
would till three thousand closely printed
large quarto pnges.
To enter the ancient Fenian order, "every
soldier must swear that without regard to for
tune he would choose a wife for her virtue,
her courtesy, and her good manners; that he
would never offer violence to a woman; that
as far as he could he would relieve the poor;
and that he would not refuse to fight nine
men of any other nation. Every soldier must
be well acquainted with twelve books of
poetry, and be able to compose verses. He
must also run well, and defend himself when
in flight. To try his activity, he was made
to run through a wood, having a tree's
breadth, and the whole of the Fenians pur
suing him; if he was overtaken or wounded
in the wood he was refused, as too sluggish
and unskillful to fight with honor among such
valiant troops.
"He must be so swift and light of foot A3
not to break a rotten Btick by standing on it;
able also to leap over a tree as high as his
forehead, and to stoop under a tree that was
lower than his knees. Without stopping or
lessening his speed, he must be able to draw
a thorn out of his foot. Finally, he must
take an oath of fidelity."
These are some of the qualifications given
to us by an ancient historian, who naively
adds: "So long as these forms of admission
were exactly insisted upon, the militia of Ire
land were an invincible defense to their coun
try, and a terror to rebels at home and ene
mies abroad."
"THE ATLANTIC."
TbeMarch number of The Atlantic Month1,
which we have received from W. S. Turner,
has the following list of contributions:
"Woman's Rights in Ancient Athens," B.
W. Ball; "Looking for Pearls, an Oriental
Legend;" "Ups and Downs of the Bonapartes
and Bourbons," J. A.; "Kate Beaumont,"
part iii, J. W. DeForest; "John Wesley,' G.
A. E.; "Marguerite; Massachusetts Bay, 17C0,"
John G. Whittier; "Our Eyes, and IIow to
Take Care of Them," Henry W. Williams, M.
D.; "Shoddy," E. P. Whipple; "Prelude to
the second part of Faust," Bayard Taylor; "A
Passionate Pilgrim," II. James, Jr.; "Active
Glaciers within the United States," Clarence
King, U. S. Geologist; "The Mulberries," W.
D. Howells; "Our Whispering Gallery,"
James T. Fields; "Recent Literature."
The following extract from B. W. Ball's
very excellent paper on "Woman's Rights in
Ancient Athens" will be read with consider
able amusement everywhere outside of Bos
ton and its vicinity:-
In fact Athens was in some marked respects
a community of New England Yankees, pre
maturely appearing in the reoesses of the
Eastern Mediterranean; and the history of
Athens will never be properly written, ex
cept by an American scholar. Mr. Grote, it
is true, is in such entire sympathy with that
fierce old democracy as to smooth over its
faults on every and all occasions, and he him
self is a man of Periclean or Websterian
breadth of mind; but he has never lived in a
community of the Athenian sort, as a New Eng.
land scholar may be said to have done. In the
above Periclean sketch we have all the traits of
American democraoy carried out in the spirit
of its letter, and it has actually been realized
in New England, namely, the sooial and poli
tical equality of all citizens; fondness for
stump oratory and political discussion, and
an average publio capable of forming its own
political opinions and discharging the duties
of publio office, as well as shrewd managers
of their own private affairs; tolerance of dif
ference of opinion; a love of trade and com
merce; a readiness to admit foreigners to
citizenship; and, lastly, a degree of intelli
gence which has made New England the
democratic exemplar and schoolmistress of
the rest of the United States. This may be
Baid without arrogance, because it is a fast.
But further than this, an enemy of the Athe
nians, in summing up their character, said
that "they were made neither to be qnut
wemseives nor 10 iei me rest 01 th? world be
bo," thus assimilating them exactly to tur
modern Yankees in their fondness for inno
vation, social and political. Ia faot, the de
vising of ideal commonwealths, and the dU
ensbion of publio and private ethics with a
view to legiblation, were as rife among
the free-thinkers of Athens in the fifth
century B. C. as they are in its modern
TTansatlantio counterpart and literary
namesake, the Hub. Fnithermore, a
sh might Lave been tnepended with as much
propriety over the deliberations of the anoient
Athenian Ecclesia as over those of the Great
and General Court in the State House of thia
Commonwealth. For the Athenians were as
great fishermen as our Cape Ann folks, and
were immoderately fond of a fish diet, which
accounts perhaps for their startling intellec
tual brilliancy and apprehensiveress, on the
theory of Professor Agassiz. Food and fish,
says Mitchell, were synonymous terms among
the Athenians. Salt fish constituted the
f rincipal food of the Attio soldiers and sailors,
'rodigious quantities were imported from the
Euxine. When the bell of the fish market rang
everybody rushed thither, leaving the sophists
and orators in the middle of their harangues
without an audience; and the Atheniau Bil
lingsgate, like that of modern London, was
noted for the scurrilous tongues of its dealers.
A story is told of an Attio orator who wa un
fortunately in the middle of his "few feeble
remarks" when the fish-market bell rang.
There was an instant stampede of his entire
audience, with one solitary exception, who,
to the surprise of the speaker, "stuck." In
pure gratitude he thanked his solitary listener,
at the same time explaining tha cause of the
stampede. It turned out that the fellow was
deaf, and as soon as be ascertained that the
fishmonger's bell had rung he too rled, leaving
the eloquent speaker soliloquizing to vacancy.
This interesting bit of literary history we
take from Mr. J. T. Field's gossip about
Hawthorne in his paper entitled "Our Whis
pering Gallery":
Hawthorne dined one day with Longfellow,
and brought with him a friend from Salem.
After dinner tke friend said: "I have been
trying to persuade Hawthorne to write a story,
based upon a legend of Acadie, and still cur
rent there; the legend of a girl who, in the
dispersion of the Acadians, was separated
from her lover, and passed her life in
waiting and seeking for him, and only
found him dying in a hospital, when
both were old." Longfellow wondered
that this legend did not strike the fancy of
Hawthorne, and said to him: "If you have
really made up your mind not to use it for a
story, will you give it to me for a poem ?" To
this Hawthorne assented, and moreover pro
mised not to treat the subject in prose till
Longfellow had seen what he could do with it
inverse. And so we have "Evangeline" in
beautiful hexameters a poem that will hold
its place in literature while true affection
lasts. Hawthorne rejoiced in this great suo
cess of Longfellow, and loved to count up the
editions, both foreign and American, of this
now world-renowned poem.
W. S. Turner sends us Our Young
Folks for March, which is handsomely illus
trated and is filled with entertaining reading
matter adapted to juvenile tastes; Godey's
Lady's Book for March, which contains seve
ral engravings on steel and wood, fashion
plates, patterns for needlework, etc., and a
variety of entertaining literary contributions.
The Lady's Friend for March has nume
rous illustrations and an attractive series of
stories and sketches.
The March number of The Nursery pre
sents a variety of attractions in the shape of
short stories, verses, and clever illustrations
adapted to the tastes of the nursery public.
MAURI AGE.
From Appleton's Journal,
Marriage! No one cares for them now.
Paul and Virginia are transformed into Darby
and Joan. Benedick has forgotten his tooth
ache, and Beatrice smiles at the story of
Hero's death and resurrection events which
sealed her fate as well as her cousin's with
the melancholy conviction that somehow she
was compelled to yield to a power far more
potent than her own sweet will.
And here the hard aud unpleasant truth
may as well be stated namely, that mar
riages occur in accordance with large general
facts, over which individuals can exercise no
authority, and that in numbers they are in no
wise affected by the temper and wishes of the
people. This first fact about marriage is not
only prosaic, but humiliating. Shall not
these people choose companions for life, and
listen to the clerical "What God hath joined
together let no man put asunder," at such
time as they may mutually agree upon ? By
no means, ihe law says they shall do nei
ther of these things; and )he peculiarity of
this law is that it cannot be violated. Further
more, all who desire it will ' not be permitted
to marry. What is to be said of such immiti
gable tyranny as this ? Not marry when we
choose, and whom we choose! Not to be
consulted as to whether we shall marry or
not ! What is life worth if these things are
to be decided without our knowledge or con
sent? Not much, perhaps; but we might just
as well learn the disagreeable fact at once,
and submit to it. Nature is fond of cheats,
and plays her charlatanry irrespective of per
sons "Men are the sport of circumstances, when
The circumstances seem the sport of men."
Youth has its illusions, and middle age its
hallucinations, wherefore these teachings of
statistics may go hang. Does not Romeo
actually know that he chooses Juliet in pre
ference to Rosalind ? Is it at all probable
that Miranda would have escaped marriage
with Caliban, if she had never met the ship
wrecked Ferdinand ? Whero and what is this
tricksy Puck that makes maidens see as he
wills, and transforms Demetrius and Lysander,
subject to no law save his own? Alas! this
plodding and prosaic statist, this withered
and bespectacled mathematician, will prove to
you that Romeo is mistaken, that Miranda
and Ferdinand are both controlled by the
superior prevision of Prospero, and that Puck
is, after all, nothing but the personified Price
of Corn. These illusions and hallucinations
are results of the operations of law, and we
cannot disturb them, though we pile formula
on formula, and equation upon equation,
until the revolving earth is light as a feather,
compared with the weight of the argument.
J'er contra, what cares passion for the multi
plication-table, or love tor the differential
calculus ? A fico for you, law of statistics !
Nevertheless, Maud commits an unintentional
perjury when she vows her husband shall be
the man of her choice, and we all know that
Adolphus Fitzherbert will repeat Romeo's
blunder.
Leaving the domain of fanoy, we find the
plain statistical facts concerning marriage
rucnine somewhat in this wise:
The average age of women, when they
marry, is 'J.rAh years; and, of one hundred
who reach this age, twenty-one will never
many, vutamenit lares dinerently; for,
Etrac"e as it may 6eein, more women than
men get married, and, of one hundred of the
latter who reach the marriage age of '2'i'
Tears, twenty-two will die bachelors. Thus.
about one-filth of our people are doomed to
die nnweddeu. whether they preier it or not
Now,the marriages that ocour ia New Yok
number, yea? by year, about nine thoabaud
two hundred and eighty eighteen thousand
v hundred and sixty persons and for
every one of these marriages there will at
some time Le left a widow or widower, for it
rarely happens that husband and wife die at I
tbe same moment. Some of these widows
and widowers will remarry more of the lat
ter than the former, and because of this faot
the actual nnmber of women who marry will
exceed the actual number of men. The rule
seems to be that about one in three widowers,
and one in four widows, remarry.
Of one hundred marriages, about thirteen
f the men will be widowers, and only eleven
of the women will be widows, the baohelors
numbering eighty-seven, and the spinsters
eighty, nine. On general principles, there
may be no serious objection to old Weller's
advice, "Bovare of vidders;" but we, not
basing our conclusion upon domestic experi
ence, out upon a series of mathematical cal
culations, can absolutely aflirui that widows
do not, by any means, monopolize the matri
monial market, and that there is more to be
feared from one spinster than from a dozen
widows let bachelors make a note of this
fact for the truth is, that spinsters have a
better success against widows in the hunt for
husbands than bachelors have against
widowers in the winning of wives. Aud, as
all the hunting and winning is above the will,
and superior to it, we cannot Bay "beware"
to any, but simply admonish all to accept the
conditions, and to yield as gracefully as pos
sible to their predestinate fate, whatever it
may be whether single blessedness or
wedded woe, conjugal felicity or nnweddod
discontent.
Suppose there be a hundred weddings in
New York within a given time, in all respects
of the average kind, how many of these per
sons will be minors? From Paracelsus aud
Cagliostro down to Home and Fox, not one
of all the soothsayers and clairvoyants can
tell you that. No palm-reading gypsy, no
spirit from the vast deep, let him be called
ty so matter what boasting Glendower, can
tell half so much of these oocult events as
this interrogating mathematician will learn
from his curious figures and bewildering signs.
Afk him, and he will reply, without any
mummery or gibberish, twentv-four will
have been married and about nineteen will be
under age. Of this latter number all but one
will be women spinsters not yet out of their
teens. At all events, this is the result of his
present calculations, and if time and in
creased numbers should alter the averages he
will learn the fact sooner than any one else.
The remainder will be bachelors and spinsters
ox tne average age or 2'J -5 for the former,
and 25 40 for the latter.
What tbe law is that makes bachelors so
much more prudent than spinsters we will
not undertake to say; but certain it is that
maidens make much more haste than young
men in getting into the matrimonial net.
Still it must be remembered that girls,
whether prudently or not, are regarded as
marriageable at fifteen, and are certainly so
at seventeen; so that, in view of the fact that
only eighteen in every hundred of the delicate
creatures who marry are under twenty years
of age, while forty-three of the same hundred
are between twenty and twenty-five, and
twenty-two more between twenty-five and
thirty, we must candidly confess that they
manifest a degree of prudence in the matter
that would seriously disturb Mr. Malthus
were he only aware of it. We will not say
that marriage previous to the adult age is in
variably indiscreet; but we will defy any one
to form a just conclusion in regard to the age
of discretion from the study of marriage sta
tistics. To find this result, the marriage and
mortuary tables must be studied together.
The question is of some importance, but it
must be unwillingly deferred.
But if women come upon the marriageable
list earlier than men, they suffer the inoon-
venience of being stricken earlier from it.
After forty-five, women are no longer re
garded as eligible, matrimonially, and the
demand for wives of this age is so slight as
to be hardly worth considering, although we
find an occassional widow still more rarely
a spinster willing to marry even after
having passed the sprightly age of threescore
years and ten. Under twenty-five years of
age the number of women who marry is a
little more than twice as great as the number
of men; but, after forty-live, the number of
Benedicts is more than thrice that of the
brides. In one thousand marriages of the
average kind as to ages, fourteen women and
forty-nine men will have passed their ninth
lustrum. Widows remarry at an average age
of thirty-nine years, while the average age of
widowers who again take to themselves con
jugal partners is forty-one or thereabout.
We will not undertake to tell eaoh of our
fair readers how old Bhe will be when led to
the altar a blushing bride, if that should
prove to be her destiny; but we can tell her
what the chances are in the present state of
our knowledge , of statistical facts. If we
take the weddings that actually occur, we
shall hnd that in every thousand there will be
one hundred and seventy-nine wives under
twenty years,, while there will be only nine
husbands of that tender age. Bat perhaps
these facts will be better stated in statistical
terms, thus: In every thousand marriages
there will be
II inland k. Wives. Ayea.
9 179 Under 20 years of age.
soa 434 Between 20 and 85 years of age
849 2'2tJ ' 26 " BO '
m ki " 30 as '
hi 43 " 85 40 "
44 20 ' 40 " 45
25 8 " 45 " AO " "
12 3 " B0 " 65 " "
6 1 63 " 80 "
The remainder, nine men and five women.
will be scattered along between sixty and
eighty years an age at which . almost any
one would be expected to know better. It
will be seen, however, that the desire as well
as the opportunity for marriage falls off ra
pidly in both sexes after thirty up to that
age both seems to increase, in twenty-seven
thousand five hundred marriages, or therea
bout, there will be one hundred and nineteen
men and only sixteen women between sixty and
seventy years of age, while fourteen men and
four women will be between seventy and
eighty.
Interesting as these ancients are, there is
Btill another class deserving of something
more than a passing notice. We mean old
maids. How many are there, and what are
their matrimonial chanoes r We have already
stated that twenty-one out of every hundred
women who reach the marriage age namely,
25-40 years never marry. But even this
does not tell the exact number of marriage
able women who are waning ior husbands, if
indeed so nneallant a thing as this may be
said of any. But, then, how is it possible to
expect an algebraio sign to be guilty or gal
lantry ? From the best authority that can be
had upon this exceedingly interesting topic,
it appears that the number of unmarried and
marriageable women, within those heretofore
mentioned as the marriageable ages namely,
fifteen and forty-five is about twenty-five
per cent, of tbe whole number oi women
livinc between those aces.
Now, if the last ceusus of New York be
correct, the application of this rule will show
ns that the number of unmarried and mar
riageable women living on Manhattan Island
at the time the enumeration was made was
exactly fifty-one thousand two hundred and
sixty-two. The race has somewhat increased
since then; for the total population has been
considerably augmented within five years,
and during a part of the time the high prices
of rents and food articles, the scarcity of
labor, the darkened prospects and depressed
business activity so loudly complained or
among all classes of the community, made
tbe number of marriages less than the ave
rage, and added largely to the list of nn
wedded maidens.
It seems to be a part of the creed of the
discontented sisterhood, whether wives or
spinsters, that one of the inalienable rights
of woman entitles her te a husband. It will
be seen that Nature sets her face against this
assumption, and makes a very different de
cree. The truth is, that every woman living
between the ages of fifteen and forty-five has
twenty-five chances in one hundred of dying
an old maid that is, her chances of marriage
are as four to one. This is just enough to
give them all hope, and not sufficient to drive
any to despair. The complaint s of managing
mammas are of no avail. Even the ballot will
not bring them a better fate, and, with suf
frage or without it, one-fourth of all between
the above-named ages are doomed to live in
old maidenhood and to die uuhusbanded.
Our task is done. In dealing with these
secrets we have doubtless been dull; but these
hard facts will not admit of poetic treatment
even if we were capable of treating facts
poetically. When Benedick enumerated the
virtues of the woman he would consent to
husband, he said, "Her hair shall be of what
color it please God. He might have trusted
the same good Providenoe call it fate,
destiny, or whatever you will for all the
other qualities just as well. An old adage
says, ".Marriages are made in heaven, but
Benedick's was made in old Leonato's garden,
as we all know; and it is absolutely true in
every case, as it was in the one we are con
sidering, that those most interested have less
to do with tbe result than they can well
imagine, or, if they knew, would be willing
to admit. For the individual that which he
desires is good, that which he would shun is
evil; but in the grand economy of the uni
verse the two are so evenly balanced and so
closely intertwined that he must be bold,
indeed, who would undertake to say which :s
which.
Talleyrand, upon being introduced to two
young men one recently married, the other
Btill a bachelor called the former a happy
man, and the latter a lucky dog. I his is the
broad philosophy f our deductions. Those
who live unwedded need no sympathy; those
who die married are worthy of no envy, for
which of the two events is better no one can
possibly determine.
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1-tilled biates uoverninent Loans 3W.9.tl
Pennsylvania State Loans 16,B10
rniiaaeipniauitj l)ans 800,000
New Jfitey and other State Loans and
City Bonds 825,510
Philadelphia and Reading Railroad Co.,
other Railroad Mortgage Bonds and
Loans S&'t.aiB
Philadelphia Bans and other Stocks 64.4H6
rash In Bank 881,048
Loans on Collateral Security 81,434
jNoies receivable ami marine premiums
unsettled 439,420
Accrued j merest ana premium in coarse
of transmission 63,801
Real estate, Office of the Company so.ooo
13,060,536
Certificates of loonrance Issued, payable rn London
at trie counting noose or Messrs. BR SHIP'
LEY fc CO.
AltTIIMt . COFFW,
PBE3IDENT.
CIIAUI.I.H I'MTT,
VICE-PRESIDENT.
MATTHIAS MA KIM, Secretary.
C. II. REEVES, Aaslatant Secretary.
DIRECTORS.
ARTHUR G. COFFIN,
SAMUEL W. JONES,
JOHN A. BROWN,
CHARLES TAYLOR,
AMBROSE WHITE,
WILLIAM WELSH,
JOHN MASON.
FRANCIS R. COPE,
KUW, H. TROTTER,
EDW. S. CLARKE.
T. CHARLTON HENRY,
LOUIS C. MADEIRA,
en i u w rtmiiuiv
GEORGE L. HARRISON,
vunm ... V Ulili ill I Hi
CLEMENT A. GRISCOM,
WILLIAM BROCKIE.
1 Hi
1829 CHARTR rflBraiuAL. gyi
FraitUo Fire Insurance tapj
OP PHILADELPHIA.
Office, N08. 435 and 437 CHESNUT St.
Assets Jan. I , ,7l$3t087.452"35
CAPITAL 1400,000-00
ACCRUED SURPLUS AND PREMIUMS.2,6ST,45i-35
INCOME FOR 1871,
gl,2CO,000.
LOSSES PAID IN 1870,
I272,8SW0.
Losses Paid Since 1829 Nearly
86,000,000.
The Assets of the "FRAl KLIN" are all Invested
In solid securities (over 12,750,000 in First Bonds and
Mortgages), which are all interest bearing and
dividend paying. The Company holds no Bills Re
ceivable taken for Insurances e Hoc ted.
Perpetual and Temporary Policies on Liberal
Terms. Tbe Company also issues policies upon the
Bents of all kinds of Buildings, Ground Rents and
Mortgages.
DIRECTORS.
Alfred G. Baser,
Samuel Grant,
George W. Richards,
Isaac Lea,
r , T7" -In.
Alfred Fltler,
Thomas Sparks,
William S. Grant,
Thomas S. Ellis,
Gnstavns 8. Benson.
ALFRED G. BAKER. President.
GEORGE FALES, Vice-President
JAMES W. MCALLISTER. Secretary. a 7td31
THEODORE M. REGER. Assistant Secretary.
Union Mntnal Insurance Company
OF PHILADELPHIA.
INCORPORATED 1S0I.
Fire, Max is e, and Inland Iniurance.
Office, N. E. Cor. THIRD and WALNUT
LOSSES PAID SINCE FORMATION,
S7, OOO.OOO.
ASSETS OF THE COMPANY, JANUARY 1, 1S71,
$255,39789.
RICHARD S. SMITH. President.
JUUJN muss, secretary.
8 13S
People's Fire Insurance Company,
No. 514 WALNUT Street.
CHARTERED 1P59.
Fire Insurance at LOWEST RATES consistent
with security. Losses promptly adjusted and paid.
NO UNPAID LOSSES.
Assets lecember 81, 1870 1123,851-73
CIIAS. E. BONN, President,
GEO. BUSCH, Jr., Secretary. a 143
THE PENNSYLVANIA FIRE INSURANCE
COMPANY.
Incorporated 1S20 Charter Perpetual.
NO. 610 WALNUT Street, opposite Independence
Square.
This Company, favorably known to the commu
nity for over forty years, continues to Insure against
loss or damage Dy Are on Public or Private Build
ings, either permanently or for a limited time. Also
on Furniture, Stocks of Goods, and Merchandise
generally, on liberal terms.
Their Capital, together with a large Surplus Fund.
Is Invested In the most careful manner, which ena
bles tbem to offer to the Insured an undoubted seen
my ia the case of loss.
Daniel Smith, Jr.
Iaaao Hazlehurst,
Thomas Robins,
Thomas Smith,
Henry Lewis,
J. Glllinghain Fell,
Daniel Haddock.
John Devereux,
Franklin A. Comlv.
DANIEL SMITH, Jb., President
WM. G. Crow ill, Secretary. 8 80
F
Alia INSURANCE COMPANY
No. 809 CHESNUT Street
DiCOBrOBATKD 18B4. OH ARTS B PCRPETUAL.
CAPITAL 1200,000.
FIRS INSURANCE EXCLUSIVELY.
Insurance against Loss or Damage by Fire either
Perpetual or Temporary Policies.
Charles Richardson,
Robert Pearoe,
John Kessler, Jr.,
Edward B. Orne,
Charles Stokes.
John W. Evermaa,
William H. rtnawn.
William M. Beyfert;
John K. Smith,
Nathan limes,
Georae A. West, Mordecal Buxby.
CHARI.E8 RICHARDSON, President
WILLIAM 1L RUAWN, Vice-President
Williams L Blanchabo Secretary.
TBS!
THE ENTERPRISE INSURANCE CO. Of
PHILADELPHIA.
Office 8. W. cor, FOURTH and WALNUT Street,
FIRE INSURANCE EXCLUSIVELY.
PERPETUAL AND TERM POLICIES IfiSUED.
CASH Capital (paid up In full) laoo.ooo-oo
CASH Asset, DeBi-nilKir 1, 1870 U00-8S8li4
DIRECTORS. ,
F. Ratchford Starr, 1 J. Livingston Errtnger,
Naibro Frailer, (James L. C'laghoru,
John M. Atwood, jWm. G. Boulton,
BenJ. T. Tredlck, Charles VV heeler,
George H. Stuart, , iThomas U. Montgomer
John U. Brown, !Jaiue M. Aertseu.
F. RATCHFORD STARR. President
THOman U. montuomkhy, Vice-Piesldent
ALEX. W. W1STKK, hecretary.
JACOB a, ?TEiuON, Aaaishtnt Secretary.
INHORANOEI
Delaware mutual safety issurancb
COMPANY. Incorporated by tbe Legislature
of Pennsylvania, 1835.
Office S. K. corner of TH I RD and WALNUT Street.
Philadelphia.
MARINE INSURANCES
on Vessels, Cargo, and Freight to all parts of tha
world.
INLAND INSURANCES
on Goods by river, canal, lake, and land carriage to
all parts or the Union.
FIRE INSURANCES
on Merchandise generally; on Stores, Dwellings,
Houses, etc
ASSETS OF THB COMPANY,
November 1, 1870.
1300,000 United States Six Per Cent
Loan (lawrul mono) 1333,376 00
800,000 State of Pennsylvania Six Ter
Cent Loan 814,00000
200,000 City of Philadelphia Six Per
Cent. Loan (exempt from
Tax) 804,162-60
184,000 State of New Jersey Six Per
Cent. Loan l8,020-00
80,000 Pennsylvania Railroad First
Mortgage 81x Per Ct Bonds. 80,700'00
85,000 Pennsylvania Railroad Second
Mortgage Six Per Ct. Bonds. SS.SWOO
25,000 Western Pennsylvania Rail
road Mortgage Six Per Cent
Bonds (Pennsylvania Rail
road guarantee) SO.OOO-OO
80,000 State of Tennessee Five Ter Ct
Loan 18,00000
. 7,000 State of Tennessee Six Fer Ct
Loan 4,800-00
12,600 Pennsylvania Railroad Com
pany (250 Shares Stock) WjOOO-OO
6,000 North Pennsylvania Railroad
Company (100 Shares Stock). . - 413000
10,000 Philadelphia and Southern Mall
Steamship Company (SOsti's
Stock) I.OOO'Ot
201,460 Loans on Bond and Mortaage,
first Lens on City Properties.. SCl.eOO
$1,260,150 rar.C'Bt, 11,864,447-84. M ktvTl,293-66r'?
Real Estate 66,009
Bills Receivable for Insur- ,
anccs made SSO1
Balances due at Agencies
Premiums on Marine Policies
Accrued Interest and other
debta due the Company 93,375 4
Stock and frcrlp, etc , of sun
dry corporations, J960, esti
mated value 3,812-00
Cash 148,911-73
11,820,727-91
DIRECTORS
Thomas C. Hand, .Samuel E. Stokes.
John C. Davln.
William (K KfinHnn.
Edmnnd A. Soudcr,
Joseph II. Seal,
James Traqualr,
Henry Sloan,
Henry C. Dallett, Jr.,;
James C. Hand,
William C. Ludwlg,
Hugh Craig,
John D. Taylor,
George W. Bernadou,
Edward Darlington,
II. Jones Kmnkn
Edward Laf our cade,
Jacob Riegel,
jacoo f. jnefl,
James B. McFarland.
Joshua P. Eyre,
wpencer Mclivaine,
Thomas V. Rtnteshnrv.
John B. Semnln. PlrtjhY
wui. j. uousion,
a. a. cfTger, nusourg,
- - . r . - . Q,
U. Frank Robinson.
D. T. Morgan, Pittsburg, .
THOMAS C. nAND, President
M 111 M I ' TUVIU V' , - 9 I
Bknrt Ltlbckn, Secretary. ' i
Henry Ball, Assistant Secretary. 8111m
ASBURY
LIFE INSURANCE CO.
RECT Yonn.
LEMUEL BANGS, President
GEORGE ELLIOTT, Vice-Pres't and Sec'y.
EMORY McCLINTOOK, Actnary.
JAMES M. LONCACRE,
MANAGER FOR PENNSYLVANIA AND
DELAWARE,
Office, 302 WAIHUT St., Philadelphia.
H. C. WOOD, Jr., Medical Examiner.
B23mwflm REV. 8. POWERS, Special Agent
JfZl B X ASSOCIATION
INCORPORATED MARCH 17, 1S30.
OFFICE,
NO. 34 NORTH FIFTH STREET,
INSURE
BUILDINGS, HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE, AND
MERCHANDISE GENERALLY
From Loss by fire (In the City of Philadelphia only)
ASSETS, JANUARY. 1, 1ST0, 81.703,319 07.
TRUSTEES.
William H. Hamilton,
John Carrow,
George I. Young,
Jos. R. Lycdall,
Levi P. Coats,
Charles P. Bower,
Jesse Lightioot,
Robert Shoemaker,
Peter Armoruster,
M. H. Dickinson,
Peter Williamson,
Samuel Sparhawt
Joseph K. Schell.
WM. H. HAMILTON, President
SAMUEL SPARH A WK,r Vice-President
WILLIAM F. BUTLER,
Secretary
pIPERIAIi FIRS INSURANCE CO.i
LOUDON.
CMTAHMMHED 1S(IS.
Paid-op OkititAl and Aoosmalti Foods,
S8.000.000 IN GOLD.
PREVOST & HERRING, Agents,
.4 Ha. 107 8. THUUJ Streot, Philadelphia.'
OHAB. M. PKKVOaT OH AH. P. HBBRIWa
INOINEB, MAOWINEKY. BTOi
jMSftfc. PNN STEAM ENGINE AND BOILBH
XMiiwOKKS. NKAF1E A LEVY, PKACTI
CAL AIxD THEORETICAL ENUiNEERS, MA
CHINISTS, BOILER-MAKERS, BLACKSMITHS,
and FOUNDERS, having for many years been In
successfdl operation, and been exclusively engaged
In building and repalrltg Marine and River Engines,
high and low pressure, Iron Boilers, Water Tanks,
Propellers, etc. eto., respectfully offer their servleea
to the public as being fully prepared to contract for
engines of all slseas, Marine, River, and Stationary
having sets of patterns of dlireient sizes, are pre-
Sared to execute orders with quick despatch. Every
escrlptlon of pattern-making made at tne shortest :
notice. High and Low Pressure Fins Tubular and
Cylinder Boilers of the best Pennsylvania Charcoal
Iron. Forgings of all size and kinds. Iron and
Brass Castings of all descriptions. RoU Turning,
ocrew Cutting, and all other work connected
with the above business.
Drawings and speclhuatlons for ail work dona
the establishment free of charge, and work gu
ranteed. , . . m J '
The subscribers have ample wharf dock-room fot
repairs of boat, where they can lie In perfect
safety, and are provided with shears, blocki, fak.
etc. etc., for raiaing heavy or light weights,
' JACOB C. NEAFTJK, I
JOHN P. LEVY, j
8168 BEACH and PALMER StrestA j
ipURARD TUBE WORKS AND IKON CO
PHILADELPHIA, PA.,
Manufacture Plain and Galvanized
and Sundries for Gas aud Steam Fitters, Plumbel
VVOKKS. 1
TWENTY-THIRD AND FILBERT STREETS,
,.WM-i,-f? ani W A REIKllKK
81
No. 2 N. FIFTH bThKLT. ,
PATENTS.
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NITED STATES PATENT OFF
nTiDDtuniiuir Ta Tam m
on the petition of DAN I kl S. NI PPS, of
Merlon Township, Pennsylvania, -artruiniB'ra
Albert ts. ippes, deceased, praying ior tne
alon of a patent granted to the said AINsrt S. :
on the 21st day of April, li67, for an improves
brinaing eaws:
It is ordered that the testimony In the
closed on the 2ist day cf March next, tl
time for tiling arguments and tha Examiner'!
be limited to tne uistuayoi aiarcn next, i
said petition be heard on the 6th day of April
Anv nerson may oppose mis extension.
" SAMUEL A. DL'NC
9 in 8(t Actlnir Commlasloiier of int.
A LKXANDKR O. OATTBL "SnnS
t PRODUCK COMMISSION BSKW"i
no. w nunru wMaim
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