THE FINE AKIN.
Wetlaser :Menial Pilasters Pinittplied in
rne•Sinslie, by , the Carbon. Procesise of
Adolphe Etymon.
TUE t;nTSl'4lo.ln; OF Mel'.
Al the 'epoch when Gutenberg, using the
money of Faust. left. us his fennel's " Mazarin
Bible" and the Psalter. a book was something
different from what we' now consider it. A
volume was not simply the modest, inconspicu
ous object it now is—the unnoticed medium
between the theught of the author and the
memory of the reader: It was a self-asserting
work of art, the aristocratic and private friend
of a rich man, 'unique. illuininated, covered
with splendor. A particular book was an en
just as a painting is now. The art of
printing has rendered the volume inevident,
transparent. It places the mind of tire - reader
in contact with the mind of the author, and .
there its function ends.
Or, take the case •of musical printing. Au
opera is
.a mixed work, one part music, one
part ballet, one part scenery. The book which
tram mita the intaic and drama is obliged: to
oinit the color, light and motion.
Results scarcely imagined now are ibouf.to
tfansform Art from its present exclusive posi
lsonlike that of the costly vellum in the
cabinet of a pope, or like the grand opera on
the metropolitan stage—to a - vulgarization
commensurate with literature, or sheet-music.
These results, applied to the dissemination of
pictures, contain, it is true, an almost hopeless
imperfection—the color is not transmissible;
for, if the ability to transmit• it should come
in the future, it would be . by a new
discovery superior in importance to
photography itself. But the color-loss
in a photograph strikes us much as the color
loss in a volume of Gutenberg's must have
:Art& the bibliophilist of the fifteenth cen
tury. The plain black type with its red initials
seemed to the old student a most imperfect
substitute for the rich manuscript with its or
naments and its individuality. .Literature has
:accommodated 'itself, perfectly. to . that diffi
culty, and .no author now laments that his
thoughts, cannot' reach the reader enhanced
with gold and scarlet.' The impressario, again,
can set a simple opera from the sheets alone,
without ever, having seen the ntise en scene ar
ranged under the eye of the composer;. he
iniagines the daßces and the paintings. •
The, time is at hand when the" fine arts will
become, so to speak, a literature; and artists,
after a few pangs, will abandon the hope of
having their color transmitted, and work to a
black-and-white result as cheerfully • as the
man of letters does now. There is even (en
porenthese) a relief to .these pangs. Artists
will instantly understand what we mean by
Quante ; well, a painting having qualiti (which
travels with and is a function . of good color)
will photograph quite differently from . one
without (polite. The Venetian picture photo
graphs so as to suggest its chromatic excel
lence to the expert, and the Dutch picture
photographs so as to represent the dry design
it is: So color is justified of her interpreters,
,
even in the sun-type.
All this predicts an immense widening of
our horizon. The galleries of Europe are to
travel around the,world, as the literature of
Europe began to do in the Renaissance. Let
us hasten to place the laurel of this,victory on
the proper head.. ' The true discoverer is. not
the man who discovers, but the ffiscoverer
who succeeds. The Gutenberg of Art is
BRAITFi OF DORNACH.
M :Adolphe Braun, a French' subject of
Donie)), in the Haut-Rhin, and of N 0.14,
rue Cadet, Paris, is the industrial chemist
svhci is now undertaking this dissemination of
the fine arta. It is his specialty to copy pic
tures in the principal galleries of Europe, to
do this on a large scale, and to confine his
copies to the carbon-process, believed •to be
indestructible. He appears to be the' Guten
berg of art; and as the nineteenth century
does not lynch its benefactors for magicians,
we hope he will enjoy unenvied fame, as he
already enjoys wealth and local honors. He
has not invented art, or photography, or the
carbon-process,; just as Gutenberg did not in
vent literature, type, or the press. But lie has
multiplied their application, pushed them,
gone to work, and made his re
sults imposing; and that corresponds with
what Gutenberg did. M. Braun (pron.
Brovm) has long been known to our Alpine
tourists for his admirable photographs of
. Swiss seenery, besides those of animals,
human groups and incidents. A few years
back he attacked the Galleriei of Europe.
Ile now employs about two hundred experi
enced photographers, and has received per
mission to copy old masters from the cities of
Paris; Rome, Florence, Milan, Bale, Weimar,
'Vienna. &c. lie has recently been appointed
to copy the designs in the London National
Gallery and Kensington Museum (we hope
the fine Taylor collection in Oxford has
not escaped his notice).. The above-men
tioned copies 'are generally restricted to the
collections of sketches and designs by the old
painters, which his processes enable him eh
solutel to fail-simile in color, line and effect.
But he has recently, by permission,- begun to
attempt the oil-paintings in the Louvre Galler
ies—an endeavor which does not promise the
same absolute success, but which his groat ex
perience and • judgment render far more
promising in his hands„than in those of any
One else.
rsawFAcE.AiILE PHOTO(MAriI
Ai. Braun, working for futurity, presents- a
page which is believed to be as indelible ai a
printed sheet. The oldest printed book shows
letters as black as when first impressed ; the
carbon forming their color is one of the most
permanent objects in the world of chemistry ;
and the artists' charcoal guiding -marks iu the
chambers of Egyptian tombs have endured to
our day in perfect freshness. To indicate the
importance of this we may mention that some
photographs of ours repreSenting the Louvre
drawings, enthusiastically obtained three
years since of a licensed photographer near
the Observatoire, have. mow faded about half
away. It is said that the scarcity of water, in
any European town, renders it impractic'iblo
so to clean a common photograph as to make
it a permanent picture. On the contrary, the
" con lion process," or that in which the picture ,
is a deppsit of carbon or of indestructible,
cal ths,is expected to he absolutely perm - Molt t
It May interest the reader to have" a reliable'
:moonlit of this method in ,plain : language. It
is, in fact,a triple process, which - explains the
dearness of pictures so taken—a dearness
which has stood in the way of its success with
purchasers deprived of the 'acuity of calculat
ing a future advantage. Mr. Frederick A.
Wenderoth, a scientific and most accom
plished photographer, has made some brilliant
successes in this style, and is actively engaged
fn expel/U(l(.lns - for its further simplificatidn.
B e indicates the following as the stage at
which the invention rests in the practice of
Al r. Braun, and the process by winch his pic
tures are dou lotless taken. It is said to have
been first invented, and even patented, by an
English photographer, Mr. Swan:
TILE FAjiiiON-PROCESS OF PAOTOU➢ItAPI[Y
Coat a sheet of paper with gelatine
and hi-chromate of potassa, together with any
indeiitructible pigment, such as umber, for
brown, Italian Ted, or lampblack. Expose to
the - action of light under an ordinary
negative for 'a. certain time. Second
roms, IV the aid. of india.ruhher oblation
transfer the pietoriallihn to sheet No. 2,lm
inersing.both sheets in contact in worm water.
Removing the original paper, keepthe second
sheet in the water until' the picture is fully
brought out Avon it; thou dry and varnish,
ai hit a thin solution of gelatine. This
is a perfect photograph reversed. Third
process. To transfer. it and restore the proper
relations of objects in the picture, apply a
damp paper, and pass both togethor through
a press. Immersing in a Solation of alum will
harden the gelatine coat and re.nder-itinsolu
ble. - Cow wash the back of sheet NO. 2 with
solution of naphtha, which will dissolve the
india:rubber and allow that paper to ho, peeled'
oft The pictorial film is now 'fairly attached
to the last sheet of paper in correct position.
THE INVENTION CROSSRS THE 5t A. ,
After attracting much atteutiOn in Parig,—
_ then at Hayward:A - .Leggatt's, No. 79, Corn
hill, London,—again in Paris, at the ,"Exposi
tion de' la Union Generale des Beaux Arts Air :
. pligu is d l'lndustrie," where they havejust re
ceived the only gold modal awarded—these
pictures have spread to our shores, and Mr. C.
Haseltine, of this city, has accepted the
sole American agency.
WIIAT TUE I'ICTIALES AMOUNT TO.
To take an intelligent Indian chief into the,
- Philadelphia Library,' and attempt,. in the
space of about a quarter of _an hour, to give
him an idea of the contents—to explain
what are the best editions of Shakespeare,
the balance of the cornia. and tragic in
his genius, and the importance to him
of Mary Cowden Clarke—to take up Mil
ton, and impart a general idea of his
roundhead writings and the imagery of Comas
and Paradise Lost—to give an easy sketch
of European philosophy from Aristotle to Mill;
to run cursorily , over the English, French,
Spanish and Italian romancers—and to decide,
judicially between the merits of Browning,
Tennyson. and Arnold—the task would be
thought a stern one by the readiest news
paper-gabbler on earth. To take up an
ait-collection that is far more representative
and complete than any one gallery in Eurono,
and try to sketch hastily its features for the
average American reader—who plumes him
self on an art-status closely
. analagous to our
supposed Indian friend's,—is one of very simi
lar magnitude. We simply decline it; yet we
cannot, if only for our own satisfaction, take
leave of these photographs until we have re
corded a few hap-hazard observations among
a collection that gave us extraordinary
pleasure. The lumps of bait which Sinbad
saw rolled into the -valley of diamonds un
doubtedly missed,rnost of the finest stones, and
brought up a result that had contemptible re
lations with the wealth of gems below ; yet
the saved genis were real gems, and doubtless
Sinbad'S Mouth expressed his desires of the..
first water to be baying his own little try, nd
to wheel down his beef-steak with the rest;
The collection exploited by Mr. Haseltine
fills a large room, and now embraces dupli
cates, triplicates, &c., from between five and
six thousand negatives, representing a value
of Many thousand dollars. The pictures are
arranged in albums rather larger than this
page, and in many cases the impressions are
of very good size, one to the folio. -.Among'
them,it is true, are many of Brann'S fine Swiss
views," figure subjects, &c., which however
meritorious are beside our present purpose.
Other classes of pictures, as copies of the Vati
can and Louvre and Florentine statues, and of
oil-paintings, we shall not now consider,
though they are strictly autographic, too.
But the principal bulk of the collection con
sists in jac-similes of the design's which foreign
gal:eries religiously preserve of the great
masters gone. These our American savJge
considers crabbed and unbeautiful. But to
the 'artist they are of such extreme value that
it almost seems as if there must be a Provi
dence in,art, and that now, when America, at
peace with the world, is looking towards pro
duction and civilization, a Maher arm sends
over a broadcast volley of priceless seeds.
Among the .many considerations which give
importance to these designs; we select one to
speak of. They are usually studies for oil
paintings, which in the lapS'e of time have
been retouched and restored, until the best
critics consider them the work of anybody
rather than the master catalogued, while the
design is authentic, and reveals to the student
the very soul of the artist's process.
The style and color of the original sketch
are imitated to the o very point of illusion. If it
is in red chalk, the picture is red, and gritty;
if in sepia, it is brown and washy; if in India
ink, it is a grisaille ; if in pen-and-ink, it is
liny and severe; if in crayon, black and soft.
Observe for instance, among thousands of in
stanoes, this head of Christ, drawn by Leon
ardo as a study for the central figure of his
Last Supper at, Milan ; the fresdoi by the by,
is now nothing but a restoration; here is the
Master's thought—the face's pale oval, in its
waves of hair, drawn faintly on a sheet whose
stains, worm-holes, wrinkles and other tem
poral accidents the camera has copied with
the most deceptive fidelity. Even after - a
close inspection, you could affirmthe paper
was old and rough instead of what it actually
is, sleek and albuminized.
Or take the grave old head of Albert Durer's,
preserved upstairs in the Louvre.. It is of life
size, painted in reddish distemper on a piece
of-fine cloth, and touched with white body,.
color here and there. In the proof the two
colors are copied, and the threact& of the linen
can readily ,be counted. The same master's
portrait of Franz von Sicken en, (tor the
''Knight and Death") will be found in the
Albertina collection.
Some readers may remember our having
printed, last summer, the Poetic rhapsodies of
Swinburne over some heads by Michael An
gelo and del Sarto discovered by him among
the designs in the Uffizi. They are all here,
among hosts of others—the del Sartos with
their touching .repetitions of his false wife's
beauty, and the Buonarottis with their wild,
coiffures, incalulable expressions, and hints of
another and more heroic world.
Speaking of Michael Angelo, we never had,
and few travelers can have had, half the satis
faction, in examining his stupendous decora
tions for the SiStine,which may be taken,in all
ease and, comfort, by turning over the two
large volumes devoted to that chapel. In the
original, the inspection of the ceiling is most
exhausting to the - body t while the lower part
of the Last Judgment is often hidden by a
canopy. Here the immense procession of
prophets and sibyls and the cOurse of hu
manity from the creation to the judgment can
be viewed face to faee, and the man's unap
proachable sublimity approved. The low
tone of color in these great frescoes makes the
copies of them, in a uniforia bistre tint, par
ticulariy satisfactory and, adequate.
Among the Raphaels may he seen his study
for the Transfiguration, with the figures nude
and minutely anatomized, his charge to Peter
(for the famous cartoon) arranged simply as a
pose, with portraits of his atelier-students ;
and here is besides—as if to show
the greatest of German designers
how he could use the porte-crayon,
what he sent across the Alps, a sort of loving.
reverential challenge—a drawing of the nude
in red chalk, and, noted on the margin, a few
words to Albert Diirer Here it is—a study
for parts of a group in two figures, but figures
which are drawn with such power, such man
liness, as would never, one might think, stoop
to that host of pleasing Virgins and Children
who, in half the galleries of Europe and
America, sweetly smile and pose themselves
to swaying lines of composition. Craftsmen
will note the•markings of the knee of the
right-hand figure, and the . diverse ripplings of
the skin over the long muscles of the back, as
he turns away from us.
The free and racy designing of the Carracchi,
and all' the later school of the Eclectics, is
. represented in incredible profusion. Aud so
we descend, throUgh the amplest files of guide- .
marks,lo the classic, frieze-like, running com
positions of Poussin in India-ink, the 'mile
skin of Boucher's beauties, and the fine and
dandy pastorals of Watteau.
The copies now held in store by Mr. lime
tine number about as follows,:
Albertina Col., Vienna
Louvre Collection, Paris
•
Uffizi, &c., Florence
Academy, Venice
Bale
" Weimar
Palais Biwa and Academy,ldilan
Sistine, Vatican, home
6,700
These superb work, to which our notice so
inadequately directs the attention, pught by
THE DAILY EVENING BULLETIN-VHItADELPHIA, TUESDAY, JANUARY 18, 1870.
all means to..he (.;xtunined by all
,persons who
eitlive pretend tto or desire cultivation.' •
Our Academy, having purchased several
hundred dollars' worth. will shortly ' display
Oulu on its walls. Negotiations are pending
with the Congressional Library at Washing
ton, the Corcoran Gallery;the Astor and Mer
cantile Libraries in New York, &o.; and the
projected Museums . 'of , the latter city .
'and of Boston, if successful, will undoubtedly
secure nearly complete sets. •
W. A. CAnninr, (formerly of 719 Chestnut
street) has reanined the Curtain business with his Sqns,
and Inv in a attention to their new stock of Curtain Mate
rials and Railroad Supplies, at 723 Chestnut street, two
does above our old stand.
W. H. CAROL & Somt,
7:13 Chestnut street.
DUI{ NRT FLoiimEL.—This pert UM ts
not overpoworing or 'lntoxicating, but dolloao, exhilar
ating,audouunontly-tesithful.
CLornirro at gold cost for currency at
CllialtLt9 SToREa', No. 824 Obeatnut street.
SKATING CAT'S. SKATING CAPS.
We are - selling our Skating Caps cheap during the
present cold snap. OAKPORDNI,
Continental Hotel.
LADIES' HATS. MISSES' HATS.—Most beau
tiful styles, aria loweta ;
vANSOrtD fl,
oOntinentSl idotoll.
Courrs L Bunions, Inverted Nails, skillfully
treated by Dr. J. Davidson, No. 90 Ohestnnt street.
Uharges moderate.
-
JUDIOIOI7O MOTHE.IIB and nurses use tor
children a safe and pleasant medicine in BotDer', infant
Cordial.
•
DICAFNICSS, BLINDNESS AND UATARRII.
S. Isaacs, M. D. Professor of the Eye and Ear, treats
all disease* apperialuing to the above members with the
utmost success. Testimonials from the most reliable
sources in the city can be seen at his *Moe, No. 805
Arch street. The medical faculty are invited to ac
company their patients, as be has no secrets in his prac
tice. Artificial eyes inserted. No charge made for ex
amination.
SURGICAL ligaTaumnlrra and druggists' sun.
dries.
SNOWDEN & BROTHER,
23 South Eighth street.
THE
FIRST MORTP-AG-El,
OF THE
CIIICAGO,DANTILLE &VINCENNES
Total amount to be issued, • 62,500,000
Capital Stock paid . in, • . 2,100,000
Estimated cost of Bond (140 miles), 4,300,000
Estimated earnings per annum,2,639,306
Net earnings per annum, - 879,768
Interest on the Loan per annum, 175,000
Amount of Bonds per mile of road, 18,000
Amount of Interest per,mile, 1,200
Amount of net earnings per mile, 6,284
The Bonds follow the completion of the Road; have
the tnion Trust Company of New York as their Official
Register and Transfer Agent, and art sold at present at
and accrued interest.
They bear examination and comparison better, it is
believed, than any other now before the public. in the
fixed and unchangeable elements of Safety, Security and
Profit.
w
They bear good interest—seven per ce t. gold for forty
years—and are secured by a 'Sinking nd and Filet
Mortgag6 upon the road, its outfit an p net income, the
franchises, and all present and future acquired property
of the Company,.
They depend upon no new or half-settled territory for
business to pay their int prest,but upon an old,Well-sottlod
and productive country—assuming that a railroad built
through the heart of such a region offers better security
for both interest and Principal than a road to be built
through the most highly extolled wilderness or sparsely
settled territory•
This Railroad possesses special advantages in running,
into and out of the city of Chicago, an important railroad
and commercial centre ; in running through a line of vil
lages and old farming settlements in the richest portion
of the State of Illinois ; in running near to deposits of
iron ore of pent extent and value, and over broad fields
of the bear coal in the State, which mining interests are
its monopoly. And, besides the local and other business
thus assured, there will be attracted to this road the con
siderable traffic already springing up " From the Lakes
to the Gulf," us with its Southern connections it forms a
Trunk Line 45 miles shorter than any other route from
Chicago to Nashville.
These Bonds ere therefore based upon a 'Reality and a
businesS that a few years must inevitably double—and
competent judges say treble—tn value.
Governments selling while the price is high pap well if
Put into these Bonds, and Trust and Estate Fundscan be
put into NOTHING BETTER.
Pamphlets, with Maps, &c., on hand for distributiou.
Bonds luny be had directly of us, or of our Agents in
Philadelphia.
DE HAVEN & BROS.,
40 SOUTH THIRD ST.,
Rankers, Dealers In Governments.
Gold, &e.
W. BAILEY LANG 'dik CO., Merchants,
54 CLIFF STREET, NEW YOUR,
STERLING & WILDMAN.
Bankers and Brokers,
No. 110 South Third Street
PHILADELPHIA.
Danville, Hazleton and Wilkesbarre R.
First Mortgage Bonds.
Interest seven per cent., payable April let and October
let, clear of all taxes. A limited amount of these Honda
for sale at 94, and accrued interest.
The road was opened for business on November 6th
between Sunbury and Danville. Thirty-two miles be
yond Danville the road is ready for the rails, 'twins
butseven miles unfinished.
Government Bonds and other Securities taken in ex
change for the above at market rates.
no 9 4m lip
DREXEL & CO.,
N 0.34 South Third Street,
....1,000
1,000
400 to tioo
400
300
1,000
t4)O
CITYNO ICES .
FINANCIAL
BONDS
RAILROAD.
Special Agents for these Bonds
• Agents for the sale of the Bonds 3
jals-s to th it ru§
Special'Agente for the sale of
American and Foreign Bankers.
Issue Drafts and Circular Letters of Credit,
available on presentation in any part of
Europe.
Travelers can make all their financial ar
rangements through us, and we will collect
their interest and dividends without , charge.
DREXEL, VINTUROP & CO., New York.
DREXEL, RARJES & CO., Paris.
COPARTNERSHIP
U.NDEktSIGNEDDAVE FORMED
1 a Copartnershiunder the Stan name of It RAE PF,
ROTHERMEL C1)..0 fur the purpose of carrying on
the Wholesale Conl Business, to date front January Ist,
No.
JOHN E. ORAEFF,
- • SAMUEL H. ROTHERMEL,
LEVI MILLER,
DANIEL It. MILLER.
118 Walnut street, Philadelphia.
76 Trinity Building, Now York.
jalB 3t* IS Deane street, Boston.
MONEY TOANYAMOUNT
LOANED UPON DIAMONDS, 'VYATORES,
Y ONES
JEWELR PLATE & CLOTHIN
d% G, &o, at
J
OLD-EBTABLISTIED LOAN ()MOE,
• Corner of Third and Omani otroote,
• Below Lombard.
N.B.—DIAMONDS, WATORES, JEWELRY, GUM
0.,
von SALE AT
REMARKABLY LOW PRIORS.
mylittrgf
INSLYRANOE,
INSURANCE COMPANY
NORTH ANIERICA.
JANUARY 1, 1870.
incorporated 1794. Charter Perpetual.
Capital, $500,000. Assets, $2,783,580 90
Receipts of. Promituus, 1869 .......31,991,837.45
Intorebt frOm Investments, 1869.. 114,696 74
Losses paid, 1860 1,035,386 84
STATEMENT OF THE ASSETS.
MORTGAGES.
$76600 All oT vahtell are first mortgagee on • "
City Property 4166,493,
LOAN BONDS.
301,100 United States Government Loans..... 311,743 00
161,000 Pennsylvania State Loans 166,780 00
0,000 State of New Jersey Sixes 00,000 00
30,000. State of Delaware Sixes 9,000 00
00,000 Philadelphia City Loans.... .......... 137,700 00
21,000 Cincinnati City Bonds 18,900 00
25,000 Cleveland City Bonds 23,768 00
9,000 Williamsport City Sixes 2,480 00
40,000 North Pennsylvania Railroad Com•
pany's Bonds, 1854 34,5/0 00
4,500 North Pennsylvania Seven per cant.
Coupon Bonds 4,008 CO
31.000 Pennsylvania Railroad Company's
Bonds, First mortgage 30,070 00
10,000 Delaware Railroad Company's
Mortgage LOati 8,800 00
50,000 Lehigh Valley Railroad Company's
Mortgage Bonds • 46,000 00
40,000 Philadelphia and Reading Railroad
Company's Seven per cent. Coupon
Bonds ' 41,400 00
15,000 Western Pennsylvania Railroad
Company's First Mortgage Bonds.. 12,000 00
41,000 Lehigh Coal and Navigation Com
pany's Leans 34,400 00
40,000 Delaware and Raritan Canal and
Camdon and Amboy Railroad and
Transportation Company 36,700 00
37,000 Chesapeake and Delaware Canal •
Company's Consolidated Mortgage
° Loan, 1886 MAIO 00
20,000 Schuylkill Navigation Compauy's
Consolidated :Mortgage Loan 10,300 00
15,000 Delaware Division Canal Company's
Loan 13,050 00
Sundry Stocks and Loans. ' 6,018
STOCKS.
215 Shares Philadelphia, Germantown
and Norristown Railroad Com-
pany 15,050 00
239 Shares Philadelphia, Wilmington
and Baltimore Railroad CoMpany.. 12,438 00
100 Shares Philadelphia Bank • ' 15400 00
225 Shares Chesapeake and Delaware
Canal Company 9,120 00
100 Shares North Pennsylvania Ball
' road Company 3,000 09
MISCELLANEOUS.
Cash In Bank and Office currency_... 45430 89
" gold, 876,906 96
Premium thereon 13,331 39.
02,ffid 35
Loans on Collateral Security 32,358 00
Notes Receivable, mostly 3farine
Premiums 321.914 37
Accrued Interest 20,356 58
Premiums in course of transmis•
bloc. 85,197 90
Unsettled Marine Premium5~.......:...100,900 ST
Real Estate, Office of Company,
Philadelphia 30,000 00
Total Aseets, Jan. 1,1870, • 82,783,580 98
ARTHUR G. COFFIN, President.
CHARLES PLATT, Vice President
MATTHIAS MARIS, Secretary
C. H. REEVES, A ealstant Secretary..
All to th s tirpi
MEE F 4 .IDELITY. INSURANCE, TRUST
AND SAFE DEPOSIT COMPANY.
PHILA DELPIITA, Sari. 17, 1870.
. „
The following detailed statement of the assets be
longing to this institution is published in accordance
with the sixth section of the Act of Assembly of April 5,
1812':
111ortgages,beIng the first lien on real estate
In the city of Philadelphia 5327,091 34
Camden and Amboy Railroad six per cent.
mortgage bonds of 1869 100,030 00
Lehigh Coal and Navigation first mortgage
railroad loan 50,000 00
Philadelphia City six per cent. loan. free of
taxes 50,000 80
Philadelphia City warrants 3,447 50
Missouri State six per cent. loans 75,000 00
Chicago; Rock Island and Pacific Railroad
seven per cent. mortgage bonds 10,000 00
Wilkesbarro Coal and Iron Company first
mortgage eight torcent. bonds • 2,00 0 :00
Lehigh Coal and Navigation Company' con
vertible gold loan , 3,000 00
Tinos bills, secured by eollaterals 610,850 00
Demand loans, secured by collaterals... .... 910,553 08
Beal ,•Ftate. 328 and Nil Chest out street .wit li
vaults anal 216,662 21
Cash iii office 6123417 12
Cash in bunt' 120,985 69
244,802 71
Total ci2,843,044 81
N. B; BROWNE, President.
ROBERT PA TT} }(SON, Secretary tind Treas. 4jalB 3t;
QTATEMENT OF THE ASSETS E.E -
L longliw to THE FIRM INSITRANCE COMPANY
IYI TIDE COUNTY OF PHILADELPHIA on the 31st
day of becembeF, 1809, published agreeably to the act of
Assembly, to wit ;
House and lot No. 110 South Fourth street ifi21.501 49
Ground rent of $lBO per annum 2,850 00
Mortgages. first 124.788 00
Stock of Elmira and Williamsport R. It. 520 00
Other securities 38,311 35
Interest moneys due. 2,795 29
Cash 3,115 25
Total 193,920 .38
jn19.34 BENJAMIN F.IIOECKLEY, Secretary.
REAL ESTATE SALES.
MASTER'S PEREMPTORY SALE.
—Thomas & Sons, Auctioneers.—Two-story Brick
Dwelling, No. 621 North Sixth street, above Green
street. In the Court of Common Pleas, for the city and
comity of Philadelphia, James Id. Watson vs. .Tohn W.
Moore, et el. September Term, 1859, No. 36. Partition
in Equity. In pursuance of an order and decree made
by the said Court, in the above case, on the Bth day of
January, 1870. will besot(' a public sale, on Tuesday,
February 8,1370, at 12 o'clock noon, at the Philadelphia
Exchange, all that two- story ' . bric messuage and lot of
ground, situate 1111 the east sole of Sixth street, in the
city of Philadelphia. at the distance) of 184 feet 62ii inches
northward front the north side of Green street ; contain
ing in front on Sixth street 16 feet 73; inches, and extend
ing in depth ttii feet, the said lot being of the width of 16
feet on thin rear end thereof. as per a recent survey.
Being the Hann' prelnices which David Weaver of ux:, by
deed bearing. date MCI day of April; A. D. 1822, recorded
tiny of .A pill. A. D. 1822. in deed book J. 11., No. 3,
page 207, granted end conveyed to James Moore, in fee.
By the Court, EDWARD b. HARLAN, Master.
Information lie reference to the sale of the said pro•
perey may he had of the Master, at his office, No. 731.
Walnut street.
M. THOMAS et SONS, Auctioneers,
WS 29 ter, 139 lend 141 South Fonrth street.
Of7l I:EA P.:6IAT E.—TllO5l.As BONS ,
Sale.—Three-story Brick Dwelling, Sixth street,
south of Watkins street. On Tuesday, Dwelling ,
26,1670.
let 12 o'clock, noon, will be sold at public sa le, at the
Philndelpitiii Exchange, all that thretestory brick mos
snag(' and lot aground, situate on the west side of Sixth
street, four th house south of Watkins street,FirstWard;
containing in front on ,Sixth street 16 feet, and extending
in depth 50 feat 2 Melees ton 3 feet wide alley*, with the
privilege thereof. The house is new; has 2-rooms on a
iloor, and bath, gas-Pipes, Ac.
Subject to a yearly ground rent of e 9O .
Immediate pOI4HPFHIUn.
Open daily for examination. •
Id. THOMAS it SONS, Auctioneers,
jit 18 20 22 139 and 141 South Fourth street.
b REPAIRS TO WATCHES AND
Nugent Boxes in the beet instiner, by_ &Mtn
worlanen. FARB it • BlioTbalm,
Ohontuut tared, below Fourth
INSILIAANCE.
;., G.I.RA.RIJ-FIR:.
INSURANCE COMPANY.
OFPICE
N. E. Cor. Seventh and Chestnut Sts.
PfIIVADELPHIA, Jan. 15, 18TO
Statement of its condition, January let, 1870
Capital Stock paid in...
Surplus, Itycrro Ca pital
Surplus mid Capital, . $430,000 00
INCOME FOR 1860.
Front Fire Premiums (pnly) ...... 55
--
Prernlume, nptdrumlttod SAM 610
Interest and Bents 2T.015 72
T•tal, . . . . 0208,803 07
DISISIURSEXNA WS.
Losses paid 061,133 59
Commissions ' 26,61163
General Expensed 16.201 10
Return Premiums 9,652 07
Bo•lnsurance ' 1,01 I/
Internal Revenue and Taxes 11,11 T II
Repairs to Real Estate, Salaries.
Dividends paid, M 20.000.
NEC ÜBIIIIIES AND ASSETS, Dee. At, 1469
Leal Estate in the city of Philadelphia, free
of all incumbranco $150,000 00
Real Estate in ilarrioburg, free of lacuna-
•
brance .. 8.000 00
United States Ronde 68 935 00
City of. Philadelphia, 13chuy!kill Navigation
Company, Camden and Amboy and Pacific
Railroad Company, and Lehigh Navigation
• Company LOllllO 312i0 90
Loans of other Corporate Institutions for
Money actually invested:. ' 5,400 00
Bonds and Mortgages amply secured for •
'Money adult* Loaned 122,550 00
Loans on Collateral Security ........-...• 14-033 85
Cash in Philadelphia National Bank.. 12,440 40
Cash in hand 9,410 36
Accined Bents and Interest, and other Awls '
'la Cosh Vnlue
lu Londe of Agents •nd other debts
Cabal in Philadelphia National Bonk at this
date, January la, DIM
DIRECTORS.
THOMAS ORAVMN.
FURMAN SHEPPARD;
THOMAS MAOKRLI.t.R,
JOSEPH KLAPP, M.P.
ALFRp,H S. GILLETT,
HENRY F. KENNEY,'
N. S. LAws-ENOE,
CHAMBERS McHIBBEN,
JOHN SUPPLEE,
SIL&S , Jr
-BTANLEI WOODWARD
THOMAS CRAVEN, President.
A. S. GILLETT, Vice Pres't and Treas.
JAMES B. ALVORD, Secretary.
Jalmxtu'thftr
FURS, &C.
FURLS.I FURS!
A. K. & F. IL WOMRATH,
No. 1212 Ohestuat Street,
(Late standill ARCH Btreet,l
ARE BELLLIIO
Children's Seta of Furs at 85.
Ladles' Siberian Squirrel Sets, OS upwards
" Mink Sable " 810
German Fitch " 015
" Stone Marten " 820
" Royal Ermine " , 840
" Hudson Ray Sable 850
" Russian Sable " guse
English Biding Boas; Skating Muffs &o.
Fur Gloves, Foot Muffs, Lap Blank ets.
A great variety of
Carriage and Sleigh Robes.
A. K. & F. K. WOMRATH,
No. 1212 Chestnut Street,
PHLLADELPIILL,
no 4 th 8 to 3na
LEGAL NOTICES.
N THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE
1. UNITED STATES FOR TILE EASTERN DIIB
- OF PENNSYLVANIA, JOBN B. A. ALLEN
and RALPH W. P. ALLEN of Philadelphia, county of
Philadelphia. individually. and as members of the firm
cbts J. B. A. ALLEN ,k SON, havingpetitioned fur their
discharge. a meeting of Creditors will be held on the
fourteenth day of Februari, D. 1870. at 8 o'clock. P.
M. before Register W ILL AM ificMICRAEL, Esq., at
his Mike, Ne. ntiValnut street, Philadelphia, that the
examination of the Bankrupt may be finished, and any
business of the second and third meetings required by
Sections 27 and of the act of Congress transacted.
The Register will certify' whether the Bankrupt has
conformed to his duty.
A bearing will also be had on WEDNESDAY, the
second day of March, 1870. before the Court at Philadel
phia, at ten o'clock, A.M., when and where parties In
interest may show cause against the discharge.
Witness the lion. John Cadwalader, judge of the
said District Court, and the seal thereofot Philadelphia,
the thirteenth day of January A. D.. 1870.
I SEAL.] O. R. FOX ,
ATTEST-WILLIAM MuMICII AEL,
jalB tu 3t§ Register.
1-
N THE ORPHANS' COURT FOR THE
City end County of. Philadelphia—Estate of
A . T. HEINS, deceithed.—Notice is hereby given that
EMILY HEINS, widow of the said decedent, Lae Wed in
the Held Court her petition and: ppraleement of the per
sonal property of the ecid dee •deut, elected to be re
tained by her under the act of esembly of April 14th,
Vitd, and lie supplements, and that the same will be ap
proved by the Court on SATURDAY, January 23, WO,
unless exceptions bottled thereho.
W. W. JUVENAL,
WS tu,tb 4t *l Attorney for Willow.
MA( DES MODES.
1014 WALNUT STREET.
MRS. PROCTOR,
Cloaks, Walking Suite, Silks,
Dress Goods, Lace Shawls
•
Ladies' Underclothing
and Ladies' Pure
Dresses made to measure in Twenty-four Hours,
ISAAC NATHAN!, AUCTIONEER, N.
corner Third and Spruce streets, only one square
below the Exchange. 48260,000 to lean, in large or small
amounts, on diamonds, silver plate, watches, lowelry,
and all goods of value. Ottice home from 8 X. to 7
P. M. OW — Established for the lest forty years. Ad'
' , tames made in large amounts at the lowest market
rates.
PHILADELPHIA SURGEONS' RAND
AGE INSTITUTE,I4 N. Niathat,above Market. B.
C. EVERETT'S Truss positively cures Ruptures.
Cheap Trusses, Elastic Belts, stockings, Supporters,
Shoulder Braces, Crutches, Suspensories, PM Band
gee.. Ladies attended to by Mrs. E. iYI-Iyrp
INVA_LIDS.—A FINE MIISIOAL
Boz as a companion for the sick chamber; the finest
assortment in the city; and a groat variety of airs to se
lect from. Imported direct b y
FARR & BROTHER,
mhlatf rl 1324 Chestnut street. below Fourth.
MMARKING WITH INDKIIII3LE INK,
. Eintaoidoring, Braiding, FitamPilAil
- rd. A, TORBEY,I6OI) rubert area.
FIRE INSURINCE COMPANY
1829 CHARTER PERPETUAL. 1870.
CAPITAL, -
15200,100
. 230,001
ASSETS,
Statement of the Assets of the Company on
' January Ist, 1870,
Published in conformity with the provisions of Me
Stith Section of the. Ant of Assembly of Apr116,16/1:
On property valued at over R 5,600,000, be.
ing First Nortgagex on Real Estate in the
City and county of Philadelphia, except
830,011 17 in the neighboring county 02.647,290 N
Temporary Lonna on Stocks es collateral
security (Inlned nt $82569)
13,917 133
137,257 75
.10,000 U. 8. 10-40 Registered p0nd5........
413.00 Philadelphia City Loam, not taxa
ble
49,000 Ponppylranla State Six per rent.
Loan, May, 1361
85,0:0 North Penna. R. R. Bonds, to ij
$l.OOO North Penna. R. K. Bonds 7s
83,000 Lehigh Valley It. It. Co.'s First
Mortgage Bonds
91 ahert. Franklin Fire Insurance .totn
piny of Philadelphia •
13 plumes Insurance Company-of the State
of Pennsylvania
1W share* 'immune Company o? North
America ... . . •
tYloshares Bank of Kentucky '
17 shares Northern Bank of Kentucky
100 shares Commercial National Bank
590 shares Pennsylvania Railroad Company.
200 shares Sonthwark Railroad Company—
16 shares Continental Hotel Company ......
$l6O Philadelphia City Warrants .. . .... —a.
Total Market Value 41191.167 *0
Cost.. .....
NOTES AND BILLS RECEIVABLE......
REVE N UE STAB* ..........
REINSURANCE DEPOSIT PREMIUMS.
CASH ON HAND .... ......... 030.161 62
in hands of Agents 22,535 01
TOTAL ........
11,000 00
UAW 00
$430,534 6!
- 542,960 25
M C arkel Price
irst • ft* above ........
Advanco in Violin..
T tn.& L.
Lome PAID dming the year 140',/....
DIRECTORS.
ALFRED G. BAKER, ALFRED VITLER,
SAMUEL GRANT. . THOMAS SPARKS.
GEO. W. RICHARDS. WM. 6. GRANT.
ISAAC LEA, THOMAS S. ELLIS,
O,goRGR BALES, GUSTAVUS S. BENSON
to tit s St
187 0. •
IMPORTANT TO SHIPPERS.
ALL RAIL FREIGHT LINE
BETWEEN
•
PHILADELPHIA AND THE WEST,
Via Baltimore and Ohio Route.
Shippers areW3pfaTtaly notified that arrangements
have been perfected between the Philadelphia,Wilming.
ton and Baltimore and Baltimore and ,Ohio Baßroadsbr
which freight to and from the Wesf, Northwest and
Southweet will be transported, ALL RAIL.
No change of cars between - Philadelphia and *Colam
bus, Cincinnati, Indianapolis, Chicago or St. Louis.
Special attention will be given to the prompt and rapid
transportation of first and second class goods.
Bates furnished and Through Bills Lading given at
the efiice. • '
44 South Fifth Street.
Freight recoiled .daily until o'clock P. at this
Depot of the Philadelphia, Wihnington and Baltimore
'Railroad Company,
Corner Washington Av.-and Swanson St.
JOHN S. WILSON,
Gen. Thr. Frt. Agt. P. W. & B. R. R. Co.
JAMES C. WILSON,
Agent Baltimore and Ohio R. R. Co.
N. B.—On and after MONDAY, January 10th, the
rates to all points via Baltimore and Ohio route will be
the same via Canal to Baltimore as by the Rail line.
Jntr itnr .$
GEO. J. HENKEL%
CABINET MAKER,
1301 and 1303 CHESTNUT STREET.
ESTABLISUED 1.844.
Good! Furniture st
e.
the lowest enable
pric
nol6-3mra
INSURANCE.
FRANKLIN
PHILADELPHIA.
$400,000 00
- $2 0 825,781 07
MORTGAGES.
LOANS.
STOCKS.
STOCKS.
LOSSES BY FIRE.
ALFRED G. BAUER,
GEORGE FALLS,
VICE PRICSIDENT
W,.fficALLISTEII4.
SECRETARY
THEODORE DI RECIBIR,
ASSISTANT SECRETARY
Nil PPER,S• GUIDE
rtIRMTVRE, &G.
SENth -MACIIINEF•:-
THE
WHEELER & WILSON
SEWING IV/ACHINES,
The Beet and sold on the Etteleat Torme.
PETERSON & CARPENTER,
914:CHESTNUT STREET.
to th lyrp
45,301 Oi
1A4,7424
2,413. SO
GI 14
2.8 1 / 9 0
5.,591 TO
82,786,151. 41
.1.94,507 50
151701 2.
19.C.A 26
$2.523,7151 67
$144.90 1 3 42
PRESIDENT