, 1859-08-16

TRrsr AND 1xsrnAscE COMPANIES 1T New
IonK.-Thc Investments Of the Trust Con1pa-
ncs, Sarinss Banks and Life Insurance C"ln-
panies in New York City arc ut present $751;
55o.o'0.
Nearly nll Ills il fund for accumulation;
large portions arc loaccl on Bond and Mort
gage, and other large portions invested in State
Looms, United States l+oans, 8c., laving from
ten to twenty years to Mature.
Besides tic ab0vc slinl, there is a combincd
capital Of twenty-one millions Of dollars held By
the Fire Insurance Companies, and carefully ill.,
vested, makng m aggregate OF about seventy
five millions Of dollars, besides some ten or
twelve millions held ty Marine Insurance. Com
pnnies. :
Tie divilcnds Of the insurance Companies
will average more thsn 20 per cent per annuui
for the last two ycars.
DEATHS IN 1.oSpoS.-Thc number Of deaths in
London for the week Guiding Esd july Was 1,eo5,
considerably Aboye tue average of tue season.
caused By the great heat. Of the number, AIS
were BY Iiarrho.a.
~A Hartford paper says while his circus
was entering the town Dan Aiee was engaged in
distributing religious tracts to u crowd TN the
! siueKalk. A Clergyman had obtained lis prom.
isc to distribute largc number in Hartford and
| other places If the good man hud urged Dan
to read them, We fear his efforts would nut 50
on satisfactorily. !. !.
sT an English reviewer, in cutting up q
|
one Of those who for n.auy years past hayc been
fiinyiug out Intellectual Iassoes to catch the mil.
lcuiuni. head or tail. aud prophesying loudly Of
| their invisibts success"
txy- The latest fashion, announced from
| Europe is that of drcsssiug very plainfy when
tuing to church. Some Of the Indies Of the
50 fitst circles" 70 mp to worship in plain Calico
II il thus thought 10 encourage tue attendance
| Of the very poor, who have hitherto withheld
thcir presence fur want Of Sunday clothes-
Tus MoxuxESr 70 rnE P11cR1x F47Hzns-
The National Monument, in. memory OF the Pil-
grims at Plymouth, Is really TO lie built.
r. The Monument will l,e lJ1 feet in hight The
entire Gust Of it is cs,inatcd ut from $50 900 to
$500, 900; it is more likely to 1cach the latter
sum before tho fences, grounds and everything
sru completed Only about $5uto01 hare been
raised though tue work Of soliciting subscrip-
tons wax cs1tnmeuccd more than two years u:o.
| The funds arc raised by subscription, the sums
asked being from % cents 10 fs.Ng. Thus thus
England, By financial agent and his assistant,
Besides. the, principal monument, what j.
| termed a canopy, is to be placed over the rock
itself, close by thc wuters side. Both ssruc.
lures are to be Of granite, aud many years must
clapse before they aEc completed.
"B Il Paris correspondent says: Ceforc
tions, / must let you know The growing !eputa
ton Il The Atlantic Monthly OF your city. I
oxes21his TO tic contiruai. .&rausl4tions mad,
. from il by the Kevue Britaaunique. which intro
ducrs its fame throughout France. There i
I scarcely number Of the Revue Brittanniqu'
| which has not IN article from the Atlana'
! Montbty-a good tribute. Of praise, q that re
| yiev borrows only from tho best English re
9iews Hnd magazines. The, last translation VI
| Ell Llano. - - ! - :. ~ 80
: Dkxru: qr, \ "JAcxsox1Ak'' lioasz.-Thc ed'
4or of the Juniata Seaf;ntI notices the demise
celebrated h6rsr, which had attained the in
credible are Of forty-oue .:3'ear1., u. was tn
properly Of Mr. S. Q. Esans, Of Delaware Town
r. ship, Janiat& County. 'The.horre was foraerl
= in the pusscssiou Il. General jackson md wa
= Eivcn ty lin 10 General George cramcr {
=, soa-nla~'. Ar. Evans. For. scyeEnl years IL
=. horse has been unable to -nasticatc; and IVES te
n With bran, &c, The history OF the horse is q
fiction, but the facts related be fully corTot
- orated- The defuact c&rcaas Of this famous ol
:. horse was Inferred with all due kolemnity, II
friends"
LIscnrsa IN oc.Axi Cors1r, M1cu.-A di
~. reputable family Of men named Morse, Nvir
~ with m equally dsrcputable woman name
ty Grecn-Hbose husband wa4 found dead, sh
r. through the head a less weeks since, under q
- cumssanccs ~lich gave rise to the belief that
u, was murdered Oy The woman and ber paraEnou
-were lsnched iwo weeks since by tbc cItize,
: | Of pen.waser, who were determined not to Z
I'm erate them in their midst, They wetr tarrel =,
r. fe1thpyod, and Threatened with more scye
dealiugs unless they left As the Morses pt
". sisted in starring, they were afterwards tax
ast sud hung by tue neck for some time; aud up
hs their fslease they uere threatened a. beIe
nd They then began 10 thinkit&as time 10 lea,
10 rad. Il vessel being ready to ssif for Chica,
r. they shipped, and hare not been heard. e
&nee,