The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1868-09-02
TAm erczaazats' Protective Union
w. Mercantile Reference Reg.

1SEGHs
/ The Merchants Protective Union. organized to
promote and protect trade, by enabling its sub
seribers to attain facility and safety in the grant
ing of credits, and the recovery of claims at all
points, have to announce that they WILL on or
about September lst, 1868, publish in one large
quarto volume:
Tie Merchants Pretectpe Union iiereazt1e Rcfer-
cnce Register, containing, among other things, the
Names, Natute Of Business, Amount of Capital, FL
nancial Standing and Rating as to Credit, of over
400, 900 Of the principal merchants traders, bank
cas-, manufacturers, and public companies, in more
than $4,000 Of the cities, towns, villages and set
tlements throughout the United States, their ter
riories, and the British Provinces Of North Ameri-
ca and embracing the most Important informa-
ton attainable and necessary to enable the mer-
chant to ascertain 1t glance the Capital Charac-
ter and Degree Of Credit of such Of his customers
as are deemed worthy Of any graduation of credit.
The reports and information to be given in the
Register will ba confined to those deemed worthy
| of some line Of credit and as the same will be
based, so far practicable, upon the written
statements Of the parties themselves, revised and
corrected by we'll known and reliable legal CORE
spondents, whose character will prove guarantee
of the correctness Of the information furnished by
| them, it is believed that the reports will prove
more truthful and complete. and therefore, supe-
rior to, and of much greater value, than any pre-
viously issued.
BY aid of the Merchants Protective Union Mer-
camille Reference Register, business men will be
enabled to ascertain, at glance, the capital and
graduation OF credit, as compared witg financial
worth, of nearly every merchant, manufacturer,
trader, and banker, within the above named terri
toral limits
On or about the first Of each month, subscribers
will also receive the Monthy Chronicle, containing
among other things, record of such important
changes in the name and condition of firms,
throughout the country, as may occur subsequent
to the publication of each half yearly volume of
the Mercantile Reference Register:
Price of The Merchants Union Mercantile Ref
erence Register, fifty dollars, ($5o;) for which it
will be forwarded to any address in the United
States, transportation paid.
Holders Of five $40 shares Of the Capital Stock,
in addition to participating in the profits, will
ceive one copy Of the Mercantile Reference Reg
lister free of charge; holders of ten shares will be
entitled to copies and more than ten shares
Of Capital Stock will be allotted to any one APP
plicant
All remittances orders, or communications rel
alive to the book should be addressed to the Mer-
chants Protective Union, in the American Ex-
change Bank Building, No. 1913 Broadway, (Box
2o66,) New York. aug 26-tf
~OLUMBIAN COLLEGE WASHINGTON D. C.
~ The sessions of the several Departments
open as follows; the Preparatory Sept. 9th !;
the Collegiate Sept. 2ad; the Theological Oct.
9th the Law Oct 18th, and the Medical Oct. 10Th.
This College was organized with reference to
the oft urged suggestion of Washington that q
University at the Federal Metropolis would tend
to the ''assimilation of the principles, opinions
| and manners of our countrymen by the common
education of portion Of its youth from every
quarter" Its graduates have verified the expec-
tatcns Of Madison and Munroe that the facilities
for hearing debate in Congress, arguments in the
Supreme Court and Lectures from eminent men
and Of visiting Libraries and Collections in Sci
ence gathered at this centre, would foster a COM
prehensive mental development.
The Preparatory School gives thorough train
ing for business and preparation for College.
The Collage proper has eight efficient Profess
ors; all the chairs being filled. The Theological
school has three Professors and Lecturers; the
Law school four and the Medical ten. The expen.
ses are as low as at other Colleges. Number Of
students the past year 434.
I, For Catalogues or further information address
G. W. SAMSON D. D.,
l9-St President