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INSURANCE.
TNSURANC COMPANY
NORTH AM ERICA.

JANUARY 1, l5TU
Incorporated 17e4 Charter Perpetual
10000
Losses paid since organization. SIS 900
Receipts Of Premiums, 1862 9e1, ,ss14b
Interest from Investments, 1869. 1895 "A
S21O6,b341o
Losses paid, 1869. OS5 $50 "a
STATEMENT OF THE ASSETS.
First Mortgages on City Property. e7s6450
United States Government aud other Loan
Bonds. ...... ..................... 1,19s, ,sas
Railroad, Bank and Canal Stocks ......... 65 7Os
Cash In Bank and ONCE .................. 24T,62O
Leans on Collateral Security ............. SS55s
Notes Receivable, mostly Marine Premiums s3l, ,e44
Accrued Interest. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 20351
Premiums in course Of transmission. -. IS 19S
Unse tiled Marine Premiums. ....... ......, 1OO0OO
Real Estate, ONCE OF Company, Philadel-
phia. ia..................... ................ 10000
81, ,7s9, ,bsl
Arthur q. Coffin, Francis r Cope,
Samuel w. Jones, Edward IT, Trotter,
John A. Brown, Edward 3. Clarke
Charles Taylor, Il. Charlton Henry,
ambrose White, Alfred ID. Jessup,
William Welsh, Louis G. Madeira,
s. Morris Vain, Charles W. Cushman,
John Mason, Clement A. 9rscom,
George L. Harrison, William Brocke.
ARTHUR G.. COFFIN, President.
CHARLES PLATT, Vlce-Presdent.
MATTHIAS MABIs, Secretary.
g. II. REEVES, Assistant Secretary. "a
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'liberty, equality, and fraternity This
powerful party from the bloodiest civil war
in human history, has restored peace and the
Union without the usual afterwork of the
scaffold, and while under the logic of
events ''blasted nigger" holds the planta-
ton of JEFF. Davis, even Davis himself may
freely piay the lion of ''the lost cause" from
Maine to Texas.
But here, Mr.. President, with this great
revolution completed, here is the opening for
a new departure. Do you expect to hold
your ground on the merits of careful aud
prudent administration? John Quincy Adams
could not do it. To stand still is not in the
nature of the American people, and it is a
policy opposed to the universal spirit of the
age. You want, General, for your party,
some new legends. ''Let us have peace" is
good; but we have peace. We want some
thing that we have not. We want some new
word of progress that will ring like trumpet
through the land. We want Cuba and all that
group of the West Indies; we want Mexico;
we want Central America and ship canal
across some one of those isthmus passages for
a short cut from New York to Shanghai; we
want the line of the great St. Lawrence to the
sea as an outlet for the rapidly accommodating.
heavy products of the mighty Northwest,
and we want an American settlement, do you
hear of those Alabama claims These things
are written in the book of manifest des-
tiny" The book is in your hands, Mr.. Pre-
sident, with any or all these splendid prizes
at your option. You may take your choice;
but in failing to choose you will disappoint
the expectations of the country, and even
Fenton may run you scrub-race for the
successi on.
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THE PRETENSE OF PROTECTION" "
y ON the N. Y. World

We supposed that we had made our posi-
tion clear enough in the matter of tariffs when
we condemned custom-houses to perdition
upon abstract grounds, and assented to their
retention in a very much mitigated form for
reasons of revenue. But the Tribune re-
quires to have it made still palmer, and
demurs, in the interests of free trade, to our
proposition to compound its felony for
the sake of saving some of the stolen goods.
Here is what il says:-
why do you giye+the grinding, grasping mono
pollsts any advantage whatever? You say, we
want reyenne.' Certainly, but why not raise it
eqDitably by a tax OF per cent on all the iron
consumed IN the country, no matter where male
instead of 20 per cent. on much AZ is imported
and nothing at all on that produced by the grind
ing eraspng monopoliss of this country p Il not
the foreign. made iron for with the products OF
American labor? Is not tax on imported irol
(accOrding TO your assumptOns) tax ON tue Ams-
rican cotton, tobacco, pork, lard, cheese wheat
etc, that are tent abroad TO pay for tFat iron /?
Why, then, do you tax that iron 20 per Jnt. Ad
homemade iron nothing az all ?"
Perhaps the course the Tribune suggested
would be the best thing for us if we would
take it. Bat NO cannot, for this reason. Tue
tax it suggests cannot be collected without an
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EDUCATIONAL.

HALLOWELL SELECT HIGH SCHOOL FOP
IL Young Men ard Boys, which has been re-
moved from No. ITO N. Tenth street, will be opened
on September IL in the new and more commOdious
buildings Nos. 112 and ia N NINTH Street Neither
effort nor expense has been spared In fitting up the
rooms, to make this rst-cass school Of the highest
grade.
A Preparatory Department is connected with the
school. Parents and students are invited to call
and examine the rooms and consult the Principals
from Q A. M. to 2 p. M. after August 16.
GEORGE EASTBURN, A. B.,
JOHN G. MOORE, NJ. s.,
Sl7u Principals.
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EIRE As 8 OCI TION
INCORPORATED MARCH IT, 1920.
OFFICE,
No. "a NORTH FIFTH STREET,
INSURE
BUILDINGS, HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE ANI
MERCHANDISE GENERALLY
From LOSS by fire Gn the City OF Philadelphia only
ASSETS, JANUARY. L, 1870, s1.572,739'
TRUSTEES.
William II. Hamilton, Charles T.. Bower,
John Carrow, Jesse Lightfoot,
George l. Young Robert Shoemaker,
Jos. II. Lyndal Peter Armbruster,
Levi p Goats, Nj. ii. Dickinson,
Samuel Sparhawk Peter Williamson,
Joseph z. Schen.
WIN. II. HAMILTON, President.
SAMUEL SPARHAWK, Vice-President
WILLIAM F. BUTLER,
Secretary
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IT W. LA UDEREs ACKa's
IL ACADEMY, ASSEMBLY BUILDINGS,
No. los South TENTH Street
Primary Elementary and Finishing Schoo. for
boys and young men. Persons interested in educa-
ton are invited to call and witness the method OF
teaching and discipline practised. Circulars at Mr..
WarburtCn's, No. 430 Chestnut street, at the
Academy. Open for visitors from A. M. to
=. M. $50
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THE PENNSYLVANIA FIRE INSURANCE
Il COMPANY.
Incorporated lS25-Charter Perpetual.
No. b10 WALNUT Street, opposite Independence
Square.
This Company, favOrably known to the commu
nifty for over forty years continues 10 insure against
loss or damage Dy are on Public or Private Build
ings either permanently or for limited time Also
on Furniture, Stocks OF Goods, aud Merchandise
generally, on liberal terms.
Their Capital, together with large Surplus Fund
is invested In the most careful manner, which ena
bles them to offer to the insured und0ubted secu
rty in the case OF loss.
Daniel Smith, Jr Thomas Smith,
Iaaac HaZlehurst Henry Lewis,
Thomas Robins, j. Gllingham Fell
John DeyereuX, Daniel Haddock,
Franklin A. Comfy
DANIEL SMITH, JR., President
VIM q. CRowRLI- Secretary. $50
EAME RANCE COMPANY
No. 500 CHESTNUT Street
INCORPORATED 1885, cHARTRR PERPETUAL.
CAPITAL s2OO, 900.
FIRE INSURANCE EXCLUSIVELY.
Ipsurance against Loss or Damage by fire either by
Perpetual or Temporary Policies.
DIRECTORS.
Charles Richardson, Robert Pearce,
William H. Rhawn John Kessler, Jr.,
William M. Seyfert Edward b. orne,
John r. Smith Charles Stokes.
Nathan Hnles, John W. Everman,
George A. West, MOrdecai Buzby.
CHARLES RICHARDSON. President
WILLIAM II. RHAWN. Vice President.
WILLIAMS L BLANCHARD Secretary. 1885
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INSURANCE.
NCoRPo GRATED 1895.
OFFICE OF THE DELAWARE MUTUAL
SAFETY INSURANCE co.
PHILADELPHIA. Noyemh

PHILADELPHIA, November 0, 1870.
The following statement OF the affairs OF the Com
pany is published in conformity with provision Of
its Charter:-
PREMIUMS RECEIVED from November 1, 1869, to
october 81, 1s7O:-
on Marine and Inland Risks. .s199, 1896
On Fire Risks. 164, 20
- 1854 ,2soos
Premiums on Policies not
marked of November, 1, 1869. bO2 1892
s1,456, ,7e9Ss
PREMIUMS MARKED OFF as earned from No
vember /, 1869, to October 81, 1s10:-
on Marine and Inland Risks. $3.50, 1859
on Fire RISKS. 151 ,64S6T
- ST. ,9o548
Interest during the same
period-Salvages, etc.. 152bO09S
. - 81, ,1s4, 1854
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MATTHIAS MABIs Secretary.
g. Ii. REEVES, Assistant Secretary. "a
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81 s20,72791
PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 0,

PHILADELPHIA, Nov. o. 1870.
The Board OF Directors have this day declared
CASH DIVIDEND OF TEN PER GENT. on the
CAPITAL STOCK, and SIX PER CENT. interest
on the SCRIP OF the Company, payable on and after
the 1st OF December proximo, free of National and
State Taxes.
They have also declared SCRIP DIVIDEND OF
TWENTY-FIVE PER GENT. on the EARNED
PREMIUMS for the year ending October 81, 1870
certificates OF which will be issued to the parties
entitled to the same and after the 1st OF Decem-
ber proximo free OF National and State Taxes
They have ordered, also, that the SCRIP Orr
TIFICATES OF PROFITS OF the Company, for the
year ending October 81, 1866 be redeemed in CASH,
at the Ofice OF the Company, on and after 1st of
December proXimo, all interest thereon to cease
on that day.
BY provision OF the Charter, all Certificates of
Scrip not presented for redemption within five
years after public notice that they will be redeemed
fhal be forfeited and cancelled on the books OF the
Company.
No certificate OF profits issued under s2b. BY the
Act OF Incorporation mo certificate shall issue
unless claimed within two years after the declara-
tion OF the dividends whereof 1t is evidence"
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The Fruits of Gambling.

Every winter gambling RACES like an cpl
demic in this city. Thousands come from
the interior, and many of them are either
veterans at the business, or they are in just
the condition to become victims Happen
ing not long since into prominent store,
we found that the book. keeper was under
police surveillance, he having just been de,
tected in defalcation amounting probably
to some thousands of dollars in all. He had
been visiting gambling houses, first as a
spectator, and then as gambler. He staked
his own money and lost. Then he staked
his employers and lost that. If he had not
been detected he would have gone on stalk
ing his employers money until the latter
would have been ruined. The number Of
such defalcations, which never get to the
ears of the public, is very great. When a
clerk, book-keeper, or other young man hold
ing position of trust, goes into gambling
house as a spectator, he is more than halt
gone. The robbing of his employer is only
a question of time. The one radical step
taken, he will take another. There are
scores of persons serving in these relations
of trust, who frequent gambling houses now,
not one of whom would be trusted were the
facts known to their employers. If a young
mai is so far infatuated as to become the
witness of games in a gambling house, he
will be more infatuated and try his luck at
the gaming table. Having lost his own
money, he will become still further infatu-
ated, and will stake his employers money.
If he loses he is ruined. The young man
who goes to look on in a gambling den, goes
there to rob his employer. He will do it
none the less certainly that he is not con-
Scious of any such purpose. There must be
law of restraint strong enough to keep
him away from such dens and cause him to
detest the whole business, or failing in this,
he will fall an easy prey to those whose bu-
siDess is robbery and ruin.-The Pacific.
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Public Worship.

DR.. John H. Rice, of Virginia, when quite a
YOUTH once had seat by the side OF Col. Samuel
Venable, in place of worship, where the most
foolish and Ignorant preacher perhaps, that ever
entered pulpit held forth for more than an hour.
Save the passages of Scripture which he recited,
(often indeed very incorrectly quoted, there was
not one Ineligible thing uttered by him, not one
series of words making a sentence e. complete
sense,) but mouthing and nonsense in one contin
ued stream.
Dr. Rice frequently looked at his friend, with q
view of ascertaining how man OF powerful and
cultivated mind would receive such stuff and otter
wondered that he did not leave the house. dc
sat, however, with immovable gravity, and with q
strong expression of sorrow on his countenance
until the whole service was over On his retiring
from the house, he was asked How could you ST
and hear such ridiculous nonsense.
His reply will never be forgotten. lt was very
distressing, to be sure"-said he-"but many O.
the people present regarded it as the worship o
God-it was so called and so considered, And
did not become me either as a citizen OF State
where public worship is protected, or as subJec
! of Gods government, to treat with dlsrespect o.
contempt that which went under the name OF reli
gious service. My feelings were tortured for thC
time-but my example had left the place nigh
have done permanent injury.
This one sentence gave permanent direction tt
DR.. Rce's views and feelings on the subject.
Evangelical Magazine. December, 1921
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Always After Money.

Yes, it is a fact. The church is always
after the peoples money. No sooner is one
thing out of the way than another is got up
Nay, we may think ourselves very well off
if two or three first class schemes are not on
foot at once, every one of the highest i'm
portance Now it is a church, now mis-
sion chapel, now college or seminary en-
dOwment, and now collection to make up
deficiency in current receipts, now for a
Sabbath School at the West, or for Tract
Society, or Refuge or Wanderers Home in
the city; to say nothing of the regular pro-
cessiOn of church causes, ten or twelve in
the year. Yes, it is true; and it is equally
true that it would be very miserable sort
of Church of God on earth that was not al
ways asking for money. Only dead church
does not want money. That which is alive,
pushing, enterprising, with keen eyes fixed
upon the perishing world, and seeking OPP
pOrtunity to save it by preaching, by mis-
sions, by tracts and books, by schools and
colleges, will of course be asking money
That which is bold and aggressive; which
strides forward to keep pace with increasing
population; which, in this age of vast secu-
lar interests and commercial enterprises, is
thrilled with ambition to keep the church in
advance, will want great sums of money.
Imagine the Saviour weary with his peo-
pies praying; complaining that these Chris
tians are always wanting something! In
agine a parent frOwning at a child for being
hungry, and scowling whenever it asked for
bread The child that ceases to crave nour-
ishment is sick, and all arts are used to re-
yiye its appetite; when it begins to ask for
food again, there is JOY in the house; the
sick one will get we'll The surest sign of
spiritual declension is a lessening of the
number Of our requests before God. The
individual Christian or the church that
ceases to ask from God or man is becoming
paralyzed.
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Central 4resbpterian.
Office No. 1Ol5 Main street, nearly opposite
the Post Office.
TIE r MS

Three Dollars year, payable in Advance. Pay
ments made within the first t,co months from date
of subscription, will be considered in advance
-Four DOllarsa year, if payment is not made with.
in two months
All subscribers who do not give expires, notice to
the contrary, will be regarded as wishing to continue
their subscription, and the paper will be sent to
them accordingly.
No paper will be discontinued until arrearages
are paid, except in special at the discretion of
the Editor
PosTAGE.-Twenty cents a year-to be paid at the
Office where the paper is received.
IHE BEST MODES OF MAKING PAYMENTS are here
put down according to the order in which they are
preferred:
l. To local agents wherever practicable; all min
listers of our Church authorised to act as SUCH
2. BANK CHECK, or a Posi- OFFICE MONEY ORDER
may be sent by mail without risk of loss.
3. Where neither of these can be procured, send
in a registered letter. Under the new regulations
this mode is ordinarily safe.
The cost of the money order or registered letter
may be deducted from the amount transmitted.
Money sent according to the directions above is
at OUR RISK. If transmitted simply by mail. IT
MUST BE AT THE RISK OF THE PARTY SENDING 1T.
MARRIAGES AND DEATHs.-Notices inserted with.
out charge.
OBIrUARTEs.-Charged at ten cents line. The
party sending can make the estimate By counting
eight words to line. Payment Invariably in ad.
rdnce.
COMMUNICATIONS AND LETTERS ON BUSINESS should
be addressed to Central Presbyterian Box u,
Richmond, Va.
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The Flaw Hunters.

There are people who have preternatural
faculty for detecting evil, or the appearance
of evil, in every mans character. They
have fatal scent for carrion. Their memory
is like museum once saw at medical
college, and illustrates all the hdeous dis
tortions, and monStrouS growths, and revolt
ing diseases by which humanity can be
troubled or afflicted. They think they have
a wonderful knowledge of human nature.
But it is blunder to mistake the Newgate
Calendar for biographical dictionary
A less offensive type of the same tendency
leads some people to fad apparent satiSfac,
ton in the discovery and proclamation of
the slightest defects in the habits of good
men and the conduct of public institutions.
They. cannot talk about the benefits con-
ferfed by great hospital without amenting
some insignificant blot in its laws, and some
triAing want of prudence in its management.
Speak to them about man whose good
works everybody is admiring, and they cool
your ardor by regretting that he is so rough
in his manner, or so smooth-that his temper
is so hasty, or that he is so fond of applause.
They seem to hold brief, requiring of them
to prove the impossibility of human perfec-
ton. They detect the slightest alloy in the
pure gold of human goodness. That there
are spots in the sun is, with them, something
more than an observed fact-it takes rank
with a priOri and necessary truths.
There are people who, if they hear an
organ, find out at once which are the poorest
stops. If they listen to great speaker,
they remember nothing but some slip in the
construction of sentence, the consistency
of metaphor, or the evolutions of an argu-
ment. While their friends are admiring the
wealth and beauty of tree whose branches
are weighed down with fruit, they have dis
covered solitary bough, lost in the golden
afluence, on which nothing is hanging
Poor Hazlitt was sorely troubled with them
in his time "Littleness, he said, sis their
element, and they gave character of mean
ness to whatever they touch. GOOD Words.
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; The Lord Will strengthen him 3
upon the bed of languishing: s
thou wilt make all his bed in s
; his sickness. Psalm XII: 8. 8
.so6y On Co ecG.

There is only one world in which "the In
habitant shall not say i am sick That
will be said in the world to come-in heaven.
This world is full of sickness and pain, for
it is full of sin. And how often it falls upon
the children of God. WearisOme days and
nights are appointed unto them. 1t is a
great trial to endure long continued sickness,
and believers need all the comfort they can
find in such time of need. Here are two
which should always be kept in mind.
1. "The Lord o0iU strengthen ham" He
may be so worn down by sickness, so weak
that he cannot sit up. But no matter for
that; the Lord can strengthen him upon
the bed of languishing." If it please him,
he can strengthen the sick man in body, so
bless the means used that he shall get well
again. If that is not best, the Lord will
so strengthen him in body and spirit that he
viii be enabled to bear his sickness with a
patient, cheerful heart. But more than this:
2. The Lord a0iU tenderly minister to him
He "will make all his bed in his sickness"
1t is comfort to have dear friend with
us, in the room: his very presence does us
good. How much greater if that friend is
a tender, skilful nurse. Who that ever
suffered under tedious sickness does not
know what relief it was to have his bed
all made up afresh? How soft, then, must
that bed be that is made by so good hand
as that of our Heavenly Father He un-
derstands the whole matter so we'll that even
a bed Of straa0 made up by him will feel soft
as bed of down.
If this be 50, why need any Of his chill
dren fear they will be left in sickness to
their own helplessness? Has he not pro
missed to attend them both as a physician
and nurse? If he sflicts with one hand, he
supports and ministers comfort with the
other. Do not be tempted, when sickness
and pain prevail over your weak frame, to
think that you are forgotten; that religion
is vain, that you are given up to Satan
You are in Gods school, to be educated.
You are not sick by chance, Job V: g.
Your Father knows all your case; he has
made no mistake. His presence and tender
care are promised. Can you not let him
manage it? Yes, blessed Father If it
please thee let this cup pass from me; never
theless, not as viii, but as thou wilt.
OLD PILGRIM.
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INSTITUTION AND OFFICERS
OFTHE
PRESBYTERIAN Church in the United States
CLERKS OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY.

CLERKS OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY.
Rev. Joseph R. Wilson, D. D., Stated Clerk, Au.
gusta, Ga.
Rev. William Brown, D. D., Permanent Clerk,
Richmond, Va.
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE OF sUsTENTATIoN.
Rev. ]. Leighton Wilson, D. D., Secretary, Col
Rev. Prof. James Woodrow, Treasurer, Colum.
bia, s. G.
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE OF FOREIGN MISSIONS.
Rev. j. Leighton Wilson, D. D., Secretary, Col
umbia, s. G..
Rev. Prof. James Woodrow, Treasurer, Colum
bia, S. G.
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE OF PUBLICATION.
Rev. E. Thompson Baird, D. D., Secretary, Rich
mond, Va.
G. Gennet, Esq, Treasurer, Richmond, Va.
EXECUTIVE ooMSITTEE OF EDUCATION.
Rev. E. Thompson Baird, D. D., Secretary, Rich
mond, Va.
G. Gennet, Esq, Treasurer, Richmond, Va.
TRUSTEES OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY.
Thomas c. Perrin, President.
Joseph Il. Wilson, Vice-President.
Jesse Lindsay, Secretary and Treasurer.
FOR ONE YEAR.
Robert Adger, Charleston, s. G.
Hon. j. A. Inglis, Cheraw, s. G.
j. A. Ansley, Augusta, Ga.
John Whiting, Montgomery, Ala.
Rev. B. NJ. Palmer, D. D., New Orleans, La.
FOR TWO YEARS.
J. Hartman Brown, Baltimore, Nd.
T. J. Kirkpatrick, Lynchburg, Va
D. N. Kennedy GAINESVILLE, Tenn.
John Handy, Canton, Miss.
Rev. Samuel Mckinney, D. D., Austin, Texas.
FOR THREE YEARS.
Hon. Thomas c. Perrin, Abbeville, s. c.
Joseph A. Wilson, Charlotte, N. G.
Jesse H. Lindsay, Greensboro N. c.
James Hemphill, Chester, S. G.
Rev. George Howe, D. D., Columbia, s. G.