fxig CIiIKILY OBSERVER; (fl grAIES , rtO . 4(‘ZWRTO . R • N • STATIY.,2. AND 1134 FALK- " 411,i ..1,11 , r ri CifYYs per DOLLAR! it Dot lEEE IL. rre,t ion of the year. Subscriber, by r .,,er be rl'ara ,, l Fairy Ocean t , airre?ption nerskniu Anis T if %to pg c r wdl be sent out of •, Nliditot sa*ncir,e9,. or Teo Lin?. One in !a ‘r1, ,, ,t4 $1,15; three bp,- c ruets 52,50 ; two 111011011 13 SO. j4,.6,...1p00t , ,rj70.1 1 ;0ne year $l2 00; proportion, Th,ae rates ; -Itnie4 by erwclal I.t r tlm, pubt:shons. Atoll U. ant 1 , 1103 , 6ttert1.... NOtiCeSs3,eoo,ocl.l , MArriaire Notieee elormrt •, (Ilit , ...oarf Notices rover three line. p, inc. Original poetry, be • r.que4t of the editor, one dellsa. co At; „iltertiso tient! will Le continued at ctv re-+ in advertising, until ordered 'Sr Lill itirrit'irie, untme a epedited period le tur thri r ~,,,,,,linotatioiss stirred be addressed to Editor sod Proprietor. =on Business Directory •1. •e,t :sr Law, Girard, Erie County, Intortras rittenited to with A: E. '11." li {vroKsiti' 101 f, in Wa}ker's Of. lag 7• 1 rwE & iIVIN. Arrolo;r.ts AnVoretnntr.osen AT LAW. nr:ir North Weet corner of the BElbi , nr Tin PRACIC. 001 c. XPCOPa I , :ench S •et. between Fifth and 1 jnnel6-2. Wt 1,81 - 11., • - A.Tinteires,',l,l Um, Ridgway, P. Cvne.nol'evlllefferenn entintlee. t 111 ,1 * C....1-11V•ti W. W. WILBUR. rt , TIC:. OF THE PE Hrst ...ticol,rl:llradon Brof octbC4tf. ( W. IF cr I tti' /OM JCSTIOR Or 'rag PRACK. • ent, C , ,nveyancer and Collector. ~Ytn.3., outh.4.gt Conner of Fifth and aplynsl LW •TOI:i" , . ..rorof CROVICSHERran. et th• neW i i ~ -r, F.l::t V 1111 . , ,, ,, hoi , le hand a 1. rz m e airt ,•, Pr ,'.,...,.., Woed arid W 1/01% Ware, . 1 ~e • , ,.-T.l , s , co, r 2 eoro, f‘c ,to .t ick he re _,L, tho attrotton of the pubhc. Mgt,' that , •,, ~, 4 , ,,', 1.a1, - ;11.. coo be h ' to rine part inarareS—lr . D). fi`NIErT, 11„ •ihrc rrelant ; „1, a'om-6ou,t• at of C W •ICt!no,:d do,.r prl, t g n •• !ran trot Othce bouts friqn 11 tie!, <4 ..• / myW J. (`lt 31. 1).. II ehye:^inn no.] Surgeon •co•ti.ti Opro-Ite the Yank 0,, hour. from 111 to 12 A. tt , 3 to 6P. 11. 5p..5-Cm• k LE yr, 6%4,1,1.114-, Bit. on Stlte Street, be 5. • ..101 vrz -treeta, Enstk std.. are of eery rraptaaWe tertlt 4, If applied of NV.% 4. GAmtP.Arrn, Arent N C. LIEERF., • D.:Acne Dxr (;nose, CP.OOkRIIIII4 Nei!, Seed.l"...ster;ete, cur ..t.a rol - Pubi le U. OsiISOILNP. Lit - “. 17 tTrr '34L111 STA 0, 00 Rightb ~.._;*- A est State and French. Smell and Car ut.l rrasous'As terms. 221'14-Iy. I'lll . {NI) ti ILLr va'llll.lls, Coy, tr. er FitEveH •ND'77,l STIIPRTO, ne, l'rt,orNtnr, ,rsirl and Carriages . iz.riat trio lerate price, Sept.ZY,l9E5- IL LIV - ERY STABLE," 4 T,t7C Mt, lIPTV/IRN 3L' ANI) 4711 • to col In the city, and pica, ae mode (coarl•tf) V•I 1{ v. 4.416% it, • 11,r, in Graeorien, Prn.hiee, ProTioinne, an! !...bone Wore, Wytei, Ip , Ite 01, PoottiSlicn, Ecii), 7 marS'Bs-1y • 11 • ,rrita, Office in B•iton. .1 a . 6f the Pail, Erin, Pi. ,2E - . 1.,[0,•0v. ",:AS CILIA 111:4 lr (P. . :'l. - criAsolt3 Go rg. J. Wortnn, Who',4l. 42,m , era In (Intl. • ' I. E. - ••••n,ITe 'Fin's Lite rt SteunPra. I rd. N. ly. ‘ziii , P% it or 4-.; 1 ~. nu: Plf., N tat -• htt,l 1111 it/ the TC • , 1 • •"•• 't °p ,., ti UV . rqble.: l MN /14 Ft •Iv _ hrrlrai o n!1 . 1%.,,, , r - Tral., L . , • BK.) , ,Peopn t ~ e tV3ttorforit., Ltuv , ;. Psinpantz ..•^• .• h•lono, all c.veullitteoti 6:en to ' ,zny, x. 1 ;ap,,'Bs-13r• PI iNt.M AICiRICA ME s nrccrr•.r. & co. vivres ty 11n , , /111.1.13113 J, 31. 1R,:!, =I tor Mock, Pfrk, Erle, ehriotau Kugel. Store. EZeliJr.ef •v,rtle •eel 3.1 b0i1... Knuth of Nfuth. -S to :IS A o,f.id2 to Si. X. , . I . • 1 .1 I'l' 4 . :It. D., . --- '. , •ti• hi.. I rot rtionitl ten ice% to •hg• , •'e •.•• .W. Tit itli•l ( It , o,n Lyt.el• toor build. : .. .• , ...::,t, , to w doo,, 'mutt] IDI the depot‘ 1. . 1 1. F.. 1 1 ..r.F. 11. n ANrl" n - 6 , 14 NT ‘I,A Tr ILEA Itlnlot beetle/41111,1z, 11,11 v. l's. !,Si ELY, "". ADTORSCT At i.sw. P. Will n'co practirt m JOjmnlr.s- C.lll. Clew. I; T UT:MA . 4D Ct,rer:e fate kNKR • neritleLL'S (,)Tice.) Clothe , and e'eutrd on short nonce Terms ca zni2l ty 10C1(0.1E; • 1' 0 •^, •,., •f-• r •I • I !I )1. • .• ••• • 3-7 lf,mpti)l ❑. V. 1 , 11:11.E1tING,- DENTI-T n. :'.l.lnvl vanla Colleo of Dental Sot . I. •ory t'tt•tr..tt bati'tling; ^,-,• of It• It, rd fron.n.Erint Pn• k 4, ,C nr PER.3II` , 3IOX. • :I, 4 , Nilaq iet,,nth ri. s ,Nro. 253, 4ortS N!n th - _ Cl,ll/ ZinNO• .111:i L lAC EWING. CoCNS%I.LOR9 AT 1.1.1111 011 Tr, oppaeite Cratendan Halt I and all ntber legal bad V“uanzt,', Erie. Warren anti Farr, ! and promptly. A. kitman & • •VArvirt Eric P. II )r... P.Jo . lanaon, R. D. Brawn • ,•!: Warn, ' Pa. CH I.' , BROWN CO., 4 % , ..,Iv d.alqu te hard and Oft Ip,.r I nt ou d property to the "•.-z, noce.Arily retire frura th 4 coal tr SP eminently . 11•01 , • •'-••• arl patrinaze of onr old frieade •- score, It \SKIN Sz ' I :L 1:11 t • "'s lore, Fdth t w ,tvreen lievatmz and It i.rwoidly: Clean pi: done in the \r ‘i ' yEiNc; " STFZEET. r I 1,1 C i+lon Goo la, O!102,1 red Yarn, dy.,l a Gil gnlorecl in lilt %./11NIBLI PRICY al. awl reflulAbed br.o, delivery. Sui 1:011liN111.11.:111 t MEE al 1, 0 . t;csmaos Fag., ,nrr oew Cla•ool.leati6o of Ac- Pr, Boil. , ' 0.11. a Arith: albl'eente The ,tolp-o7o•nd who.e. honk of oKao,it ' nzt..^.'as W ev.4_,Pn.‘e wilt be phrtslnt, pract,al and perms: • 1. 7 e Clt) or " Peact4c4l ianp'9,e4 Terms—Ttotkn , •f.nnd grett.lt, ::enl,•4t Ads{a. , T. Cnflf 9 't *l. ersi,rne 1 otters for • "W o, in Fakrvlew t ”roxhip, 1.11-§ • u-•• 4444 tt.o OTsd, eoa —$ erc.ot C act. , for son • 4 .•'t en< n a Email frato "-., • ~”. e,..ier tied a ge.ad (rem • , , -,,, I ..,, 1,h...1 et es,h•vd—a Rood wel '.'4'' , ., ,, ,,4 or •hati of fiesh fruit. • ~ - .. , 4 .1 , ..ure or theWid2ralgeed ea the ~, r .r.. , -omej ;DIE,AS BOYER. '11.!T1/1.1: AND NOV Kt. for Agent', 5 4 . 1 0.ry Store& Druggist.. and •11 gawking prottsble buineso. Fres foi .0 eta.; :or doz. Cuninera ream horn frfl to 'SU mal7 14 ' 47 4 ; DOWD, ilatmers,l9B Water St, N.Y. . VOL. 37—N0.-.4 J. E. DOW - NO'S 4 It A_ I_, INSU it A.. IN" NC Y! r - . . This Old Erieblished Agency represents the leading, most popular and most successful Insurance Companics in the Country, embracing Life, Fire, Marine, Inland and Accident Insurance. Combined Capital represented $28,000,000, atilt-ding facilities for fir s t class Toter once to . ony amountdesired , nod on tiorensonable terms as sound anti well at tnaged Comptnics cat afford.' - • Orders fur Insurance attended to with l'romptaess and Fidelity, in town or country. ll•tpeclal alto lion given to, the invur i ance of Dwcl lingo and Farm Property, fc.r periods of three or fire years, or perpetually, by deposit of premium. _Pates very low. I _ . . iplp'The thoughtful' and prudent man insures his Property against loss or damage by Pire,and his Life for the protection of trife, chiidren and kindred dependent upon hint. All who have not yet attezul to this duty, Should call at once and get their policies in one or more of Le following Companies: I= A. NINETY-THIRD STATEMENT ---_- - 1 -- ,_ A t ~.:= r .- I „ ~\ \' l, '..--- \(----Y - - '7l-4 ~ - - ,_._ -- 2 : .-: , t ... : , , •• . \\% zr ~..,.:,_:,,,_..u.,,. , •,„\\c„. l 4. ... .:..t.t.s\\\,.\\Ji- 1 / 4 „ ~ c • i''---,:"''' 1:-°W.VY ''''''k ' C. 441 A , NetP, Net AiFetts, THE VETERAN OF 16,000 FIRES STIT.t. • HARD AT W,OR1!! Efficient organisation of roar thoarind Uo terwritars, from Nova Scotia to California, and Lyre 4nparior, axle° and the Gulf, barrumlYug the science of average with cam predating rater to the advancement of the public welfare. FLATTEIIINt TESTISIONIALS Or TIM ET NA INSURANCE COMPANY! Pft , ,Y. TUE INSCRANOR DIPARTIIINT OF TITF. STATE O.F iiEW YORK The insurence Commissioner to the Legislature: 'Ti.,- ken t Icenrance Company, t f Hartford, one of he moat successful Fire Internee, Com Lanie of this or any i;ther country " • , • "Connecticut Companies follow the rules sod practi ce-it of tie Etna &linnet as caret Hy sa U they were m bodied In otitute law." Again, pointing to errors of practice in Nes Yink Compotes, the Etoa'e eloccesetni management and so id roles are ealled to that vtesitoon this: "It still remains nore a matter of wonder than Imita tion in the Iceursoce leo: • . • ' •; • 'By what subtle alchemy hos this corporation been enabled to torn Its full pail capital into the PhLoso- Rime., +done l" • • • • "The extraordinary events which, hare distinguished HE unparalleled financlal history." - The •- erste lasses per diem to the Culled States - at this period of the year, are bon' two hundred and fift, thousawl dollars. The telogtaph ditty sounds startling cotes of warning to all prudent persons. DO NOT NEGLECT Tip: SECURITY OP RELIABLE . INSURANCE. Policies jutted without delay. .7 P. DOWNING, Agent. T. W. CROWELL, Surveyor. —A 1 Company.— 'Uri 0 YrE INSURANCE COMPANY lag _ OP HEW TOUR', OFFICE, NO. 136 BROADWAY CARA ctrrrAL - - $2,000,000 09 lgt January, IVO, - 3,59.1,674 14 -UT:IIISM F,3, 133.742 24 25T11 SEMI-ANNUAL STATEMENT t+Ltowirig the el:OW=1 of the Company on the let day $ 0 t lattuary,,rBB6. .1 /Man. Cash balance in bank ' $50,744'40 Bends &•mort., lst.lien oa real, estate '196 892 50 Loans on stocks, pay , . on demand 97,392 OS United States stocks,market val. 1,350,834 90 State & mun. stooks & bonds, do. 405 425 90 Bank stocks, do 113,550 00 Interest due on Ist Jan., 1806 27,431 16 Balance in hand's of agents and in course tqtran.mitiSion 173,00 51 Billy Rec , for pre. on In. Risks,&c 43,153 44 Government stamps on'hand 110 00 Other Property, his. Items 13,505 13 Pre due and uncol on Pol. issued -at (glee (fire, inllnd 8. mar) 43,141 88 Steniner Magnet &17reck. arpit, 83,483 94 3 _----- Tutal Aqqebt, - i 53,598,614 14 ILIAII LITIr-A i • - Claims for Ins. out. on Jan 1.14;t3 8152,916 24 Due qz , ,c'q on account divide il 800 00 Not.% thet•todirg ',he ['cry tr o t ~f the past . ear, enr in, whi,:j 4 t`,.-• ~,.,,o nor hss rod 1.141,1 to 6. amount o r 5 1 . 0.; ..i2 :,,,, w•thent o. it'ons. the setni.annos I illy- Wends, “The "cone." selln . i s enittl 0 , Two Itillicns lota • , srol a not ,u -orns of $1,443,957 csi, continues to e.g.r t o ,It who seek reivEt.'e in.o.rince iunucect nta surpassed by no other company. J. F. DOWNING, Agent. T. W. Oro sell, eurrryor. '•lt k ort.ium sod economy to lotare In the beNt Com panion, end there it oo• a better thon the old lame llate Con+soy of North Amerlca,. 11 4 NtlOttPIDItATED 1794. , • IN:SURAN,CE COMPAN,Y or., N 0 R ln T AIEERICit. Or Tug Mr(' or PIifILADELFILIA. 144TH SE.MI , ANNUAL STATEMENT Asia+, Jays. 1, 1468. Market Vallee. FirFt ntortages on city property $144,300 00 U. S. Govei•atnent bonds 334,590 00 Pennsylvania State bonds 100,000 00 Phila. city bonds -- 138,700 00 U nals of Penna. It R. Co. and other corporations 190,44000 Band & other corporation stocks 66,106 03 Noteq ltec. (tentrortry loans) 150,471 06 Real Esvite, office of the Co., 232 Walnut street 22,000 00 Unpaid Pre. & debts duo on sco't— i all good / 107 581 13 CaSh in 13'k .6 - , in hands of Agts. 168,329 32 i . --- 1 Total Assets $1,731,216 14 LOSES PAID I-' CASE! SINCE 1791 OVER $18,000,030 00! 72 teAus st:CCESSFUL I:II7SINEPS EXPIIIIENCE Potkies isettd sithodi °UT by J. F. DOWNING, Agent. T, W. CROWELL" Sureeyoy. puagniux come.va, LOSSES PAID IN 1865, $110,613 91. CASH ASSETS, JAN 1, 1866, $1,006,790 33 The tett of Itx nationality. the aollit serylos It baa rendered patrons, and its ability t , tbroash me. soul protillic of contlagrations with honor and profit to thos: most toweated, may be interred trom a perusal ot the following fir:meat PAID. Arkansas $22,830 431 Minnesota 20,080 42 Alai) tma 45,723 36 N. Ramp.' 25,3(19 19 Connectictll22o,B3l 97 1 New York 513,530 32 California 181,320 51'New Jersey 3,750 53 DI. of Col. , 106 351 Nebraska 1;167 00 Florida 20,468 4210hi0 103,953 55 G corgi& 22,138 75: Penn's 53,274 40 Indians 84,203 19 It, Island 20,771 21 Illinois 210,098 Careligs - 21,002,75 lowa a 31,616 731Tenne,see 16,9'70 00 Kentucky 59,978 19, Tezna 3 961 ;is linusas 13,416 07! Vermont 1 4.282 43 Maine 66139,1 45 1 ' Virginia - 27 24 Maas. 59,870 01,W. Virginia. 2,000 00 Maryland 39.692 05: Wisconsin 86,461 76 Mioti ,, sippi 20,832 55'Canada 38,873 80 Missouri 89,535 36 Nola Scotia 14,285 78 Michigan 67,057 04:N, Br u m, 15 , 330 75 Losses Always Paid Promptly. J. F. nOWNtIiO, Agent. T. W. CROWELL,,Surreyor. POWERS' PATENT PERPETUAL BROOM Itt pe,ealitrity and wbrrain it ettelt all all.ela is that after yOlur first autlty, you tome only to epeod SkN CENTS whenaver a new broom is required. Eisen this trialng expense an b 3 as pled by plarrtita a few hills of cirn In the garden. Any person csn anon, in t u minutia. foists you own broom maker. Tomaship rights for oats iiirtria county. Send for circular, or eall-ou the subscriber, near Chen, Rill, Erie Co., Pa., and is samples. J. G. 131114/.- F~lc 111 Office in Rosenzweig's Block, opposite Brown's Hotel., CEEZI Jahunry 1,16:i; - - $4,067,445 SO - - • 244,401 43 3,823,061 34 CM I OP lI.O.ILTTORD, 00CP Ekle, PeAn'a. N I A li A /I A FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY, OP TOR CITY OP RELAY YORK CAPITAL. • Cash . Capital anti Surf.lux $1,286,72.9 GO Assets. United States Securities . 968,643 05 Loaes on Bond Morgage 262,000 00 Cosh in bank and hands of agents 83,51 84 37 Loans on Stoats, pay. on (Inland 3.52,400 00 neat Estate, Interest, &c., 111.168 18 Wisconsin & California Bonds 8,000 00 Losses in process of adjustment 20,060 00 Unpaid Dividends 1,320 50 $21,375 50 Pair Rtitev,lFirst—Class Seiurity, Prompt Pay. ment of Low.i. J. F. DOWNING, Arnt. T. W. CIiOWELL. Surveyor. M ETROPOLITAN INSURANCE COMPANY, OF NEW TORE Cash Capital Assets, Januar:) , 1, 1866, —The Auure4 receive SEVELNTY.FIVE PER CENT. Of the net mate without incurring saw iiabillty,.pr, In lieu the cot, at their option, a lineraraiecuunt upon the premium. ALL LOSSES PROXPTLY ADJUSTED AND PAID. Scrip Dividend, dedared- 180, Fifty per cent. J. F. 'DOWNING, Agent. T. W. CROWELL, 9ar►ayor. HUME I NSURANCE COMPANY, OF NEW RAVEN, CONN s e a l• r h ou e i lf Ite; AliStJ, ruLures l, Doirs. Manntaetories, Merchandise and other property arratnat loss or damage by fire, sad also Insures against the risk of Inland Transportation and Martz&+ion. This Company hes three Departments to carrying on its fire Business. • Ordinary or Term Department. Isea-■ te - rm or one year policies. on all classes of ITV MU' ibie property, at (sir and equitable rates. without any participation in the prroftts of the Company—the seine its other stock Companies. Participating Department. ' Imes torus rolictes for one, three or eve years... 00 Ftweilings, Furniture and Farm 'Buildings and their contents, giving Bob policies a partielpatinn th• pro. fits of the Company, without their incurring any lia bility thereby. Perpetual Department. !inures perpetual policies. requirioa a deposit oft( amount of money. in lien of all future payments of prerniome, coverlet( risks open Dweitiogs aod their Fornitore. Strn► and their content. Stores and stooks of Goods, Churches and Sena .1 lloocen. J. F. DOWNING, Agent. T. W. GROWELL,Surveyor. B TATE,.ENT Of TOR CONDITION OF Taz ARCTIC FIRE INSURANCE CO., No. In Wall St , N. Y., on the Ist day of'Jan., 1566 , ASSE7.3 Quails bank and ha MSc., E 35,666 94 Bonds and mort•aires Grit lien on real estate In New York and Brooklyn. worth at least 2369011 177.31900 Loans on stocks, parable on demand, (market value of securities held as collateral, $79.- 17400 66,743 21 United itetea stocks owned by the Company, market value, 7 254 260 00 State stock, owned ty a l.. market value, ,9 646 (11) Beal Estate (colleen d) 3,01000 Interest accrued !of which greater part doe tan. lat. is paid.) 4,969 33 Balance in hands of Agent)), and in course of tran3mirslon from Agent; . 24,300 00 13111. receivable for premium on inland risks and other item. 13,791 25 Cash prermuma uncollected on policies issued at office 5,39449 611,101 1B ' . LIABILITIR3. Claims for TAW' ontataunog, lan. 1 i '65, 16,6E2 99 Unpaid Dividends, 465 00 'Total nasal" over LtabiiitSen, $63,C.7310, • The "Aretis" bee • first elites reputation for hboors ble and liberal dealing. It is a mind company, and doing a proeperoas Laminas- J. MILTON SEITH, Pres' t. B. WILL HARTH, Tice Pres'L zerox.wr Tri.Torr, Beefy. Crisman Basinnauer,Asal Sec'y. J. F. DOWNMO, Agent. T. W. CROWELL, So eveyor. FORTY-TUIRD ANNUAL STAT.NMENT OF Tilt CONDITION or Tat NOR•TIi AIfERICAN VIR INAIRANCS CONANY Of the City of New York, nn the 31,1 day of Decaot bar, 1865. Cath Capital, $500,000 00 Earplug, • 21.1,663 67 7,51,6= b 7 ASSSI3. Louts on Bond and Mortgage, being first on real estate worth over 54) per cent. above the amount los • ed, . $216,660 CO Storks, Bonds and other securities" own sl by the Company, millet Talus, 332 912 50 Cast, In bank and of ice, 39,936 44 Loans on demand, with Collateral, 33050 00 Premiums due and outstanding, 14.7a3 52 Cash in *genie barida3a worse of truism's., 33,9,8 39 Int..rest accrued on seeuritlu, moot 15 81111 reeeirable, 2,529 55 Other property ot Company, 9,500iAl ,—. Total assets, 251,653 61 The losses by droll:trowel:lout the United Piste' dors leg the past year hare been larger in amount than those allay one of the previone twenty' yes's, escoeding,the soon:onus sam of $4.3,0(10,000, and the e flews and direr. toss of tie compary eongratulat) its stockholders, agents and claim:um upon he very fisttering result of the yesr'e businese. In this company the usured may participate In the profits of the Demises , ',Ph a' i scarring any liability: Dividend for 19e5, bi) per cent, A continuances of lout Favor is respecUally iolicitid. JAB. W. OTLS Preset. R. W. Ft Luca se, Sedy. J.Muswat.; Geo. Agrat. J T. DOWNING, Agent I'. ". CROWELL; Surveyor. ENTRUPILIsz INSURANCE COMPANY, Or nig OW! Or PUMADELPIIIA Cub Coptut, £orplut, Jan 1,'86, Anlets, 7 Gtel,oo The , .Fatorpri•a." with a paid niCsah C4pital of Ral_ a mill ion,orrera reetvity of the Ore order of merit. Tim tdanding or the Compeoy to ••,l prompt - and ttuatwoltb.T. P. R. STARR, Praxidant THOS. H. MONTGOMERY, Vies Preal. Aux. W. Wurtu,Seey. T. F. DOWNING. Aria. T. tT. CROWELL, Saryeyor. PORK EIDERTT WIDTH LEAD, WW do more and better work at ■ glom coe t, than any other. Try It. Ittnnfaranred only by . ZIEGLER & rrnoixsaLE DRUG. ',WIT kr CLASS DEAL. X R S N 0.1 3 .7 North Third 5t:04,1%11a. \ tab/1647.. P. ENSIGN, Boosicuan Gul Nola in Statione ry, laPapow. Iteirsetter, Newsmen, ke. &meta, clatters tospit. Store ostler Brown's Botel,troetteg the ?so. spr2N62lh - . . :: ' •, • , I i .. • ... . , . I.- I I , _... : 1 0, i :•.V). _....: .., I 7. .. ... i 4 SPIRINUFIEI.O INSURANCE coirrksyt Caah Capital and Surptuo, Thrr '"Springflrld" hal Joan s 1a got and rocrenrot b2Rluf II for nearly twenty year., And ti orxrpt theta• Tonle companies/Jailing from New F.:130.d. 1. FRtEMANT, ‘'reeldeat. CHAS. N. LANE, Seey S. F. DOWNING, Agent, T. Vt. CIUMEA.A.., SAriejur . ( $1,288,720 60 TUVVIEN INGE: co iteixy. 1;ORWEII. CDNIst. cub Capital and Surplus, The "Thames" eonservel an 4 well marlavd Company, entitled to the full co °titmice; ot the insuring LoaMil settled promptly and liberally i • Sree't. , 11. If. wri rr. TENORS, Scdy. J. V. DOW4TISG, Arent., T. W. CRO WELL Surveyor. s ,000,000 1,644,000 CONN CTIr UT MUTUA t. INSURANCE COMPANY! Acute over sin,ono poi) Number of Polley 'Unitive over" 30,1ve1 New Polimee ileued during the year ovei 101100 Reneipta (or the year over . I 40(%),0110 Dividend paid daring the preitent (seal y ear , 60 per nert Total dividend., paid, or..r . 3 000 test Total Lo era paid, on r ! ' 4,5011,11110 81,000,000 275,886 1,575,888 Why the Connecticut Mutual ahould he ireterred . „ . Largest, Safest, Cheapest .eind 'Best ! THE OESAT LIFE INSURINCS CO4tEr OF THIS I. It. has tie largest number of membern. 2 It has the largest amount Insured. 3. It ham the largest Purples. 4. It hart the largest surplus.' 5 It has the largest businras. 6. It has the ler:eel-income. 7 It has hag through It.. whole hls.ory the smallest arerageernsuses. g It ['Mains the 1 rdest artrace rate/ of interest on It. Investments 9. It tberetore In-rishes lesuranee at! less cost thin any ~ther company. All Poll•lea LA:tted by the Company ire either 'don. forfeit:6le by their to rre,, or Intr be leentart 'lnto tho.e which are .2 at the option of the Iretrect. I I li'one but ttrirtry nneseeption,tbli seceptel; and only opnn ages between Tienttnen and 9letr. • 'Aim GOODWIN, Preet. Gra' R. Plumps, Sorer z. kßErttis. Vice PM p't Vnbrasry 1.1886 T If'is THE 08113111. it. - Tit AV EL ER S' INSURAiTCP CO., 20,12: MI Capital, ALL RINDS OF ACCIDENTS, The Travellers' Insurance Comps ca, of Ifartford. Conn , was the firet to successfully Introduce an this noun try the practice of ICIFIVISOCH is ainSt accidents, of whatever Mad, whether they occur In 'traveling, o- in hunting, Gelling, sailing. riding, rkatini, in tlig-fstreet, store, office. or while working in ah.ope,talils, factories, neon the farce. I. goners! aceislunt.poliwy toveTllll every poralble nrm of ce.ualty, includio the r,ek in traveling; ale . all forms of dielocationcbCoken bones. replaced tendons, eprnins, concuesions, crumble., w, ulna, cuts, stabs, frano,ot wounds, poisoned wo node, burble and scalds, bites of dogs, unprovoked asesodts by burglary. robbers or murderers, the aetiou of 14%A-fling Or sun Ili role, tlut ofn,le of explosions, chemi mis, a ode, and earth• quakes, and oullbeetion by drowning or ht:oklng. This Company has now been in encocesful operation glare April let, 3881, and up ',O Jan. let, .1868, bad issued upwarde of tbirtyOve thou" And polleieS, and paid over nine hundred loosen—inclroling tin; large *um or VS,- fal to treaty-one policy b.olders within the year, for , $39,640 received In premir,ma. Cash Assets, Feb. 1,, 1866, !$600,84D 72 GENERAL ACCIDENT POLICIA? The beat policy for every man, whether be travels winch or little, is • general accident policy, which in. tares against every possible form of casualty at all times and places. o • An annual premium of $lO or $l2 (seeionting to nceo pitVon 1 wi,l v.cnre • general occo.fant policy for $2 NW to awe of fatal accident, at. $lO rer wee:: oaring , WI nosed by accident, !not exceeding twenty-six weds for any ono accident.) An annual prengump? $26 or SS2I will, in like =mi nor, secure a polloy fob $.5,000 or $25 per week compeer nation. • • . Any others am, front $5:10 to slo,llalat proportiesaree nines. When policies are limed against lose only,, or for compensation only. the rata are inuch lower. 6. illecount en three sad firs year policies- ONE•NONTR GENERAL ACCIDENT POLICIE.. Thus non:many now Issues a 'eet7 ene'Venien_ form of nne•nooth general recideut at at. rate of 41 ter theusin,L—with $5 pw week corupcusgile, for each - theusand in•ar-d. These are lunch I ettsr tL..c, ticket ,pollclee, for travelers and others desirlor idiom rirks. as the, can be taken in any amount, from $5 l l to Yl'•,init they cover all aceldects, amid each policy is registered, so that the insurance is goo/ s in ca• it the policy is 'Jae ! or deatroyel. For mechanics and other, who cannot easily spare the ',Mount of an annual premium. but would like to insure by the month, thee* short thise,poliehe are just the thing. 'Co any person who buyrj els mouth pol icies Itiany nee yeer a policy for heft a )ear will be given without charge (except a policy fee of $1 JAS. G. HATTE,R99ST, President. PCDSZY D.Z.I.TIM, Secretary. aprl4•lm .1. F. DOWNING, Agent.-- $500,000 1&11110 R a:KOVAL. I . GitoChitlES I ! GROCEAIES !! ! The subscriber has removed his stook of Grocetim from the stand above the Lake Sht, , - Dopot to the room In the brick block on Stato street, corner o: Few*, whore he wUI be happy to see hts friends and elastomers and till their orders for goods. Lib stock Greeeriea is tarp- sad as:/talky selected sad *Mae/ se the lowest rates consistent with the seeing out. He invitee sU In need of anything In Wilms t risr t3 him • eefl. P.;SCEPTICID : 1 ERIE, 'PA., 'PHITRSDAY, JUN .1E46 CP SIII3PCII/ILD. itAttj i $800,114.10 EEO OF 11.4.8.T50RD, , CON. Belau* It is the It bsa been demonttratei to be COUNTRY W. S. 06:111TIAD, Can't L. S. Wit.cos, Phyaleiaai 1. P. DOWNINO, Agent OF HARTFORD, CONN tsto,tsx) INSURTJ ♦owner [RIIGISTISLYD.] 1111 AG VA ON MAGNOLIA. A toilet delight —superior to any Cologne—used to bathe the face and ;parson, to render , the Ms soft sad frith, to alley inflammation, to pylorus clothing. for hralanita. ke. It lintainurattured from the rich South ern Magnolia, and it obtaining a ,patranage pate no pro,edented. It a f 'ratite with entreaties arid opera sing•re. field be all Beaten, at $l.OO to largo ho'. tlea, std by Dr..IIA3'BARNES k CO., New York, w}ole• ale 'rota SARATOGA SPRING WATER i Sold by alliDenggitta. "Sem I"—.Evtaily !" Solon Shingle sjd; "they stem there. esery tiam if he felt "owley" M the morning, Its took Plintat'onpitlart; If be felt weary it rl ight, he took Plantation Bitters; If bi lacked appetite, wsn weak languid or mentally oppressed, he took Plan tattoo Sitters, and they never felled to eel Wen On We pins equare and firm. w persons want any hotter authority, hat, as acme may, just rrad the following : . • • • 64 0 oPe N mach to yoty for r Tipsily be liee•Plantation flitter. saved my life." _ REM W. H. 17.140l;F:R, %faded, N. Y. • i • "I have been .;rest waterer from Drapepeta, and bad to ; abandon preachio6. • • ?ha Plantation Bitten have viral me." RR P. C. A. iatu.woop. New York Cltr • • • "I had lint all appetite—wad tie weak aad euery ted I could hardly walk, arid had a per • feet arcade Rectory. • • The Plantation Hit— ters have eat tee all richt " JAtIE 11K11112412,11Y.5t. Lout; 11u. t ;;!• • • ' The ilinlatlon Bitters have eared me of a derangement of the Kidneys and Urinary Organs that distres ed me f r year+. They act like a charm. 9. C. H OORR, 254 Broadway, N. Mrs. SS, Y Li BYO; manager of ttfi Onion - Home School for Soldiery' Children, wire she has else. ft to "the weak and invalid children under par charge with the meet happy and gratifying results." We, bay* re ceired over a hundred reams !of inch eve tldeatet, bat no adyertieetient t so eilert.ve as what people t •erusel rem say ofa gocid article. Our fortune and oar rep rfatlnn fs at stake. Ibe original quality and Welt character of these good* will be 'enetained under every and all circumstances. They have afr;ady ob• it ined a rule in every town, vi Erase. par sh an 2 hamlet among ciyilisol nations. Basel Raters try to come nyar our noma and style as p and became a good s ea tide cannot be sold as cheap as a pew, one, they end toms support hem partly, who do not are what they sell. Be on your guard. SIM nor private meek over the P. la, DRAKE k CO., New Ydrk city. $10(1,0M SARkTOG& SPRING WATER! OVBIL A MILLION DOLLAUS HAVXD. .oentlemen: I had a nem mut worth $1,200. who took cold from a bad hurt in the lag, and was orient for over a year. I hid used everything I could bear of without beneSt, until I tried the Maxie m Idststa.4 Lin insect. It soon efiettel a pertain's!. cure. ' Monigunecr, Ala ,June'l7, tr. L. DOWNING." "I take ploarare in recommending the Mexican Mae tang Idnlment as a valuable and Itt.l.lspeas , ble article far Sprains, Sores, 'denten*, or asps on Noma Oar m'n byre used It for Dares, Braless Sorer, Rheum- Vera, de., and all ray it acts like maec. J, W. .1 ZWWIT, Foresail for American, Wells, Irorgo'l and Elarnden'a Vapress" .Tbt , Apralo of ray dna rhytea ankle, oclasioned while ekniini lag winter, yea entirely cured in ona week after commenced using your celebrated Mustang Lint. nerd, • LB: V.F.1..V1." Aloncest r,-Mgan , Ank. 1, MS It is an admitted feet that Vise Idealean Mustang Lint meat ?storms mote rates •tn shorier Ulm, on nom and t east, than any attiele ever discorensd. ery•men, and planters should always bar. It on band. Qttiek and cure it certainly Is. An genal no to wrapW in steel pleteenrrevings, be ring the .igortn•e of G. N. Westerook. Chemist, awl the private U. S. Stamp of DESIAS 13.1.12)17.3 & CO., over the top. An effort has b:e o m ad* to counterfeit it with a cheap atone Oslo 1 lbal• Look closely. SIRATOG A' SPR t Nd WATER! St Ii a orat tislightfal Bair &subs.. It eradicateircarf and dandniff. It keeps the head cool and Cillllllo It makes the hair rich, soft sub glossy. It poarents tbs!bail turning gray and falling off It restores hats upon prematurely bald heads. Thht is what . Lyoo4 Ratharion viii do. It Is "ratty-- ibis cheap—durable. It is Lissa) ly sold by the carload and yet Its alaloat incredible desiaand is daily inereaslns nalii there it hardly a what ry store that does not keep it, or a fatally that pea not ma it. • E. THOMAS LYON, Chemist, N. Y. SARA.TOGA SPRING WATER! Who would net be beautiful? . Wi'M would not add to their b auty i Wlmt gives that' tualVe purity and din Hogue appearanCe we obeerve upon the atage,aod in the eSty It la ao Mager r secret. They 'Gm Ukases tdartiolia Ualm. Its eoarianed ute. removes Tan, Freet lea, Pimplot and rouh-news !rem the late and heads and leaven the eonapler.lon smooth, transnarertt, blown, in 40 ' 1 llYttbing. Unlit , many totmeties, It eontaiel no ms'erial tolurious to the-akin any druggist will order it ror you, if not on hand, at AO cents per bottle. W. E. II MUM , Toy, 11.. 'Y'4 Chemist. DE.BAS BARNES At CO., WboWWI. Agents, N. Y. • SARATOGA SPRING WATER! ' • ,Sold by al! Drugglat# .13,Inti.treet's ralmihble Hair Coloring lc Dot 11,47 e. Apt iortatitaneone dyeoire compared or lunar caustic, u rid o. eerle d oleo thi rtality and booty of the hair. This to the original hair colortng, and has been growing In favor over twenty years. It restores gray belr to Its original color by gradual abroarptlon, to so =cat lomarhable manner— It Ii also a teimedial Ttair droning. So'd' In two sirs--50 mute and sl—by all ewers.„ C. IdEllldT/tEST. Chocolat. • SAItATOGA SPRING WATER ! Fold by all druggL'• Lron'a Ex Kir or Prat Jkaatca Lilltuxxii—r" stion, ZZA,I.FIII, liCattill"), Lick flea diobe. Cb° l era Merkur, Flatulency, kc • where a IT/ruing sithuithant required. Ire careful propareition and entire purity maks% K a cheap and reliable artfele for edit:U.ly parpo ram iSold ererywhere, at LO amine per bottle. Attk tot 'i'Lyou're Pure Extract- Take no other. SARATOGA. SPRING...WATER! 1q5'16-1. to p, rims N writ vrowtt minty is...t.piters or A administration haying bi sVlostei to the under , signed up,o the estate of Selly Son,/e, deemed. late of the I , f Erie, Pa., attire le beribr ii,en to all per azoD iniettea to estd estate to make immediate pay ment, and those havhsa , dada.. erased said estate will p!easo present them; (hay autheiltieatai, for tettlement. y". SWENZY, eases. Erie, May lith, IVO y,AXEcuruivs NO , nuts. Letters testamentary on the Wats at Buell Phil- Ups, deceased, late of Xortl t East batonitb, grit> county. Pa.. baring been granted b s the underalgeek sake le hereby glen to all indebtot t W seal taints to wake I=- :iodate ;smut% and thaw I bowleg Oahu licwhlst'lla• ism will Omitthom,dol awthsatiestwd. for wink - omit. 10 S. NARLI PHILLIPS. North Eigt. Joss 'pd Xtorwartz. .I. ' S. . • A i s i l v 0 : . . I , . if . -- .... . I We're always had n greet dislike • For all the foolieb ways, The eilly rules which folks have got For courting now a-daye. They've east aside the good old effle, - Of hug me it You can," • And imitate, like senseless apes, Some hateful foreign plan. 0 how it.rnokes our 'Finder raise To see, then courting now-a-days. 0 limes ain't as they used to was, • As ono can easy tell, Fdr when a fellow sees a gal. That suits him pretty well. Ha's pit to:be first " introduced," And theri he pens her notes, And pretty soon he comes around, To see the kind old folks. By jinks,•we don't believe it pays, The way the boys court now•a-days Tile "addresses" then be gees to pay, ' (They don't spark soy more,)- And every night you see him pull The white knob at pie door, And soon a "eeriest,' ushers him Into the parlor gloom Aniett comes his dockland "takes a seat Oa t'other side the; room !, And there they sit acid sigh and gale _ They call that courting bow-a-days! Sometimes they talk 'botit story books; Sometimes the , dady"isings ; Sometimes she plays the organ, tpo, To show her finger ringe; Sometimes they take a pleasure walk, Sometimes they take a ride, And by and-by thp fellow groans— "Oh! won't you be toy bride r" To bow and scrape alhousand ways, They think that's courting now-a-days! They set a day and -hire it And rent n church or two, • So every boy a'Aut the town, Can have a separate pew; ' And when the hour at last arrives, In gorgeous array, They more up to the waiting priest, Who "ties the knot" stinightwaz; Congratulations, words ofipraire, • Wind up the courting now-a-clays. o . give us back the good old style Of merry days gone by, -. When, we could "go" with any gal That chanced to take our eye Still took her home from spelling school, 'Bout nine o'clock at night, Then by the old stone hearth's warin side, We sparked till broad daylight ! We hued and kissed, till break of day, Ncr beard the old clock toll the hours away! We tell you, chum, such conking pip— It went ahead of now-a.days ! Sold by dit Drug gists Artemus Ward Among the Fenian. • To }TOMB, April, 1866. The Finians conveened in our town the other night, and took steps fords freein' Ire land— They met into the Town nail, and by the, kind invite, of my mew, Mr. Mulroony O'Slianghnessy, whose ancestors at least meet have had Irish blood in their vanes, I went over. You may not be aws)r, by the way, that I've bin a invalid here to home for sev'ral weeks. And it's all owin' to my own improodens.— Not feelin' like eatiu' a full meal when the vies stopt for„dinner, in the South, where I lately was, I went into a Reeterater and et 20 hard biled eggs. I think they effected my Liver. • My wife aays, Po, po. She, says i've gel splendid liver fora meth of mfr time of life. I've hard of men's livers gsadooally awiey till they hadn't none. l'e's a dredful thing when a Man's liver gives him the shake. Two year 3 ago oo.nia' tbid May, I bad a 'tack of fever 'n-ager, and by the advice of Miss Peasky (who continners single and is correspondinly unhappy in the same ratio). I consulted a Spirilooul writin' me -jum. .1 got a letter from a cel'brated Win chief, who writ me accordin' to the mejum, that he'd been ded two hundred and seventeen (217) years, ald liked it. He then said, let the Pale face drink sum garb tea! I driokt it, and it really belpt me. I've writ to this talented savige this time Otto' the same me• jam; but as yet 1 haint got any answer. Per haps he's in a spear where they hain't got any poetize stamps. • But thanks to careful nussin, I'm improvire rapid. Sold by all Drogglids The Town Ilell was jam full of people, mostly, Irish citizens, and the enthoosasta was immense. They cheer'd everybody and every thing. • They cheer'd me: r . , flurroo for Ward! Ifurroo I' They was all good nabers of mine, and •I anserd ih a pleasant voice. All right, boys, all right ; Maroorneen, och hone, croon, Cooshlamacree These Irish:rimarks bein' received with grate applane, I added, clklns.i. ler! Mushier I ' Bold by all Druggists. Good ! Goo! cried. Cop. Springier, who desires the TAM rote for County Clerk—:,that's Ns rate.' You see what I'm dtivin' at, don't you, Cap r I said. 1 • 612ertainly.' • 'Well,' I linseed, 'l'm very glad you do, be eline I don't. . This made the Fininns iarf, and they said walk up unto the speaker's platform, Ai!. The speeches was red hot ogle England, and her ,Iraa heel, and it was resolved to free behind at °net. But it woe much desirable before freein' her that a large quantity of funs should be raised. And, like gen'rous seals as they woe, fans was. libirallyl chntsibected. Then arose a escitin' discus i sion as to which head senior they should send 'em hotly or Mcllteberts. There" wed grate excite meet over WOut it watt finally resolved to eend half to one and half to t'other. Then Mr. Eittu,igAn rcse, nod said we ItIV, here to-night, sum citizens of American birth, fing whom we should be glad to beer; it would fill our hat-le with speechlossjoy to hear from a man whose Ratite towers high in the ecologic al and was figger world—from Whose pear:) , lips'— . Says I, 'GO slow, Finny, go slow.' Wo wisheel to bear,' continued Mr. Fin neganitioae.ratja' his stile summut, from our townsman, !4r. 'gent' I.beg'd to be deelined, but it won't no use. I rose amidst a perfeck uproar of applaus. I said we had convcened there in,a meetile as I understOod it, or rather in a body as it Were, in sere:ice to.-Ireland. If I knew my Own hart, every onJef us there, both grate and small, h9tl en impulse &win' in his boo sum, 'and consequentially,' I added, 'We will stick to it similar and -In accordance there with, as long as a spark of manhood, or the peple at lag°. That's the kind of man I • be!' • 8,14 by all Dillgerts Squire Thaster interrupted me, The Squire feels the wrongs of Irelehd deeply, on account of havin' onet courted the widder of a Irish gentleman who Wad lingered in a lostbenni . dunjin in Dublin, placed there by a Englieb tavern-keeper, who despotically- wanted him to pay for a quantity et chcps and beer he had consoom'd. Besides, the Squire wants to be ye elected 'puttee of the Peace. *Mr. Ward,' he said, 'you've bin drinkin'.4 You're nader the intloo'nee of licker, sir!' WHITMAN, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR Courting Noir-a-Dayo. DT AR "OLD NACU." t Svc I, 'Sqtlire, not a drop of good lioker has passed illy lips in 15 years.' [Colo' of 'Oh here now, that won't dui - 'lt is troo,' I said.. 'Not a dri:4) of good' ticker has passed my lips in all that dime. I don't let It pass 'em. I reach for it while it's says I. r-'?quire, harness me sum more 1' 'I beg pardon,' said tbo Squire; 'for the remark; yon aro sober ; but what on- airlh are you driviro at ?' 'Yes!' I said, 'that's just it. That'swhia l're bin axin_myself'durin' the entire evenin'. What is LIN grate media' drivia' at ? What's all the grate Pinion n.ectins drivin' at allover the country ? • 'My Irish frens, you know me well enuff to know that I didn't come here to disturb this meetin'. Nobody btit q loafer will distort, say kind of a meetin'. And if you'll nodes It. them as are up to this sort of" thing, Idlers come to t► bed end. There was s young man— I will mention his name— who disturb'd my show in a certain town, two years ago, by makite remarks disrespectful of my animals, accompanied by a allosan to the front part of my had, which, as you see, it is Tiald—saYie, says this young mart, •Ton sandpaper it too mtit4, - but you've got a beauti ul head of hair in the hack cf your neck, old matt.' This made a few igcreiit end low-minded persons 'larf; but what was the fate of that young man? In lees/than s mooch his aunt died and left him a farm in Oxford county, Maine! The human mind can I ictur no crater raisfcr tin than this. %No, my Irish:frens, I Gal here as your na ber and , fren. I know you are brave and warm hearted. I know you are hove,ki in this Fierian matter. But let us look at them Head Centers. Let us look at them rip roarin' orators in New York, who're bin tearin' round for up'ards year, swearin' Ireland shall be free. , There's two p Irties-0' 40.1nhonys and McO'Roberts. One thinks the hest way is to go over to Closely and establish a Irish Re public there, kindly permittin' the Canadians to pay expenses of that sweet Boon : and the ether wants to sail direck for Dublin ray. where young Molloy and his fair young Bride went down and was drowns I, necordin' to a ballad I ont. heard. But there's one pint on which both elides agree—that's the Pmts.—, They're witlin„them' chaps in New York, to receive all the Funs you'll send 'eni Yin send a puss to-night to Mabony, and another puss to Roberts Botbwill