, 1870-04-16

| your Illinois towns; for example, Ehe I'm.
has 925, COO IN Cook County bonds, $51, 900 il
| Chicago Water Loan. S5500o in Springfield
illinois, secuIitisa, s4o, ooo IN Springfield 8 PEI
e5s,oo0 in Peoria bonds, sI5,oo0 io Ottaa.
bonds, $4,000 in Mscoupin County bonda
and s36, ,000 in Morgan and Og1e County hoads
besides ecouritie8 in Cleveland, Iudi1oA Cen
tral, Fort Wayne, Des Moines, southcn Min
nesota, Toledo, Grand Rapida-in short, 70,
money On which you arc paying interest.
The Hartford Charter Oak Life has Abou
half tho total &ssets OF the EtnA, or upv,u
Of flvn millions Of dollara, entirely ia lani IN:
bulidlng mortgages, strown al over the West
ern country.
The 7astest life insurance a1airin the Unisot
States, with tso exceptions, is the Connecticu
Mutual, with fourteen nillionA of assets
scarcely friction Of which is invested in m,
corporation out Of Connecticut, aud upward!
| oftwo md one-h2H millions a1e in government
bonds, and seven millions upon mortgages
Theee mutual companies have way of eyadinf
the tight conditions OF their charters By sausn
| de1ing surplus money upon fine Offices. fnre
eume that you have no twn such expensi7e eli
fees in al tho Weat a the Mutual and tht
| Chatter Oak buildings Of Hartford. the fo..na,
having cost y million Of dollars; and the fattal
$500. 900. Yet, even from these huge officet
| they derive remuner.tive rents frorz
tho infinite number OF pedlera, inventors
md amAll-x1re folks who infest Hartford
The Connecticut Mutual ia put down unde,
expenses Of management, exclusive OF taxe,
for one year, At es67. 900 the Charter OaI Si
S409, 600, and the Etua At S787, 900, The
only Life insurance companies to compare wifi
these Of Hartford ara The Northwestern Nh.
tual, Of Afilwankee, a,soo, 900 the New Eng.
| Newark q. ~ Mutual Benefit, with SIS. .55o..
| 600 the New York Equitable, with y, SOD, ,ooo
| md the moustruua New York Mutual Life
| with s2s, 600, 900.
The Travellers Insurance Company is ths
only accident company that has survived the
Original fever, under ths noansgement Of Dat
| tersnn, the stone-cntter, and il has three.
quarters Of million Of property.
T SUBSCRIPTION BOOZE 11nMs.
Hartford has been city OF publishers fo1
three qnAlteza OF . century. It is the Ame.i.
can Leipzig IS publishing city, aud also "a.
semples Frankfort-on-tho-Maina as Z place OF
capital.
It ia particularly tho mxt for Whist .re
known as subscription books, = class OF litara.
tnre which has excited the envy and opposi.
ton Of what are called trade publishers. but
| Ehich had beginning no less iuust1ious thsr
! Denianin Franklin, who tssued Wlitdeld'e
| Sermons, and many other books, through ran.
vssaing agents: hid the publishing menonoI, oT
Of the whole country south Of Pennsylyanis
| and made the better part of his fortune IL
this business, and beqneathed his example tc
Matthew Carey, who was the first great pub
Usher IN the United States, and worked chief,
| by subscription agents.
issued in Hartford were the wan-knowr
historical collections OF the different statea
| and the American book trade i
respectfully challenged to show 3 nobler o,
more useful series. John Y. Barber, one Of
the earliest subscription publishers, went OF
foot through nearly every State in the Union
making sketches, compiling, and hunting ur
| traditions and his series Of books have beet
tho delight and instruction Of u,i1lions d
| readers.
During the war good deal Of traahy natc,ii
Al debAuched the subscription book trade; bu1
this chiefly cAme from the notorious Ans
street, New York, and from philadclphiA vhilf
Gire dignity and character to subscription pub.
fishing. 1his business is, in aoms reanlx>ts
more Legitimate than trade publishing. foF
as general rule, trade publishers PSI
no attention to The rights Of authors
copyright; really the vast reading public has
become tho uneducated classes. Authors haTe
hastened to write f0r folkB who seriously pro.
pose 70 pay them something, and the Bubscrip.
lion book trade cau count such authors i.
Alexander II. Stephens, James Parton, Ms
Stowe, 3. J. Leasing, Richard Hildreth. uni
many others quito as distinguished.
| This business now reaches the educated Al
vel az the rural classea, and Is beginning t
take rank in the country with the newspaper
and the lecture rostEum.
Hartford books ara carried by woman.
| cnprlss, blind men: md others, into the re-
Tho trade publiahera hare. succeeded
in many States in imposing restHe.
| tons upon tho book asenta and aisd
among them by su1teptihonsly procuring sub
sd1phnn BOOKS and putting them On thei1
eountela, while at tho same tin1o the trade
subscription books. Ai tRia Is impotent ant nd ID
ludicfuls considering the fact that 1t liza mo.
nent the Trade pnhlshe1a and their authora
ase writing books to abuse each other.
Hartford has nearly broken up the old busi-
ness o. 'BsuiuE subscription bookn in numbers.
Ihere has never been ! failure amongst The
Hartford publishers, and mono Of thsm haye
begun buAiness with 1ess than 410, 600 cauital
Two OF three Of these frma make the paper.
e1ectotype, and bind their own books. Ths
largest subscription house in tho country is D,
Appleton 4 CO, Of New York, who havs more
any five subscription frns and thei.
catalogue embraces txonty-two subscription
lookE, of which tbs Now American Encycfoon-
dia has sold fifty thousand compluto sets, or
eight hundred thousand volume mes-the uest-
est publishirg SUCCESS Of our generstion.
\
New York, and cir in Philadelphia, 4 frm in
the latter place hsa sold si1ty-tvo thousand
copies Of StepLens' "War Betwoen tho
States" Il cost aeventy-dve thousand dollars
to electrotype the American Encyclopedias
The two uors. statos to sell subscription
New York. Michigan, Rhode Island, md Yer
mont are the best States Religious books and
Bibles and Bible Dictionaries sell best in the
country. Northern Illinois, Wisconsin, and
Iowa are considered capital zelda for eubscrip-
ton agents. Books are always sent to the
taxes have to be paid before subscription
book gets to the teader.
have obtained list, with come difficulty,
Of all the publishing houses in Hartford, and
believe you can rely upon it Il presenting
the true circulation Of all the leading subscrip-
BooK F1RAB OF HAR1foRD.
The nannea OF the Hsrtsord publishing COM
The American Publishing Company, H.rt-
foId Publishing Company, J. q. Burr i Co.,
S s. Scranton & Co., 3 II Belts Il Co., A. S.
HALE i Co., L: stebbins, Belkn1p L Bliss,
Dustan I Co., 0, D, Case 4 e., Caae, Rock.
wood 4 Brainasd, and J. Patteu Fitch,
The names OF the books Of the American
Publishing Company are: 1.-THE Innocents
Abroad" e, 900 copies sold; Richardson's
ot4 tue 14ths1as1Ppss V,oEu copies sold.
1000 copies sold; Headley's - History Of the
War issued in two volumes, Of which GO. 900
eets have been sold Al Pebbles and Pearls" !"
by Miss ABBY Sage {Mrs. 4. D. Mchs1dson}, 4
Is5 as5fs S9 GE F99sa9f M csRp.9y a7 follows
s.: 900 copies sold: Our New west," by Sam
uel Bowles, Of the Springfield R*publtcan,
3, ,000 copies sold: "Oagin and History Of
TIE Books Of the bible, By Professor Calvin
E.f, :, Stove, 600 sopiss sold: "Besnties md
Euette; Anecdotes and Incidents Of the
Wa1, ., 600 COPIES sold.
J. h. Bun L Co., as follows tSunshiue md
Shadow" BY Mathew Hale Smith, q, 900 copies
sold Struggles and Triumphs," By r. T.
Ra1nnm; y oyo copies sold: DictionA! Of
the Bible" BY William Smith, $4,000 copies !;
"Cnciyilized Races Of Mankind;" now in
prese-
s. S. Scranton i Co., as follows: :. American
MeshodisIn." By lev. Or. Scudder, 6, 900; "Dic-
honAry Of the Mb1e, by Dr.. Wm. A. Smith,
g, COO this ia 1Arger book than Mr. Buu'a
editon) Laws q business" by Theophlus
paI:onss @ 8. LDn;, p'o9o; conEbeate L Hox-
War by Frank Moore. $1,000: 10000 copies
Of large Bible sold
book q mos1.phy," 1000: AayesSieis
~ lie o. Henry J. RAYMOND" New.
L. Stebbins II follows: Dominion of
Cansda, "Woman, her Condition and Pros
recta, BY Brocket. " The South by J. T.
Ttowbndge, and j" History OF the war-~
Delkn1n Bliss, as follows: Lossiug's s'His-
tery Of the War;" Loaeings History Of Ane1i-
ca" Lcesing'B Lives OF Eminent Persons"
q Tie Expose Of Aozmons and Mo1monism =
lanmsns = Dictionary OF Congress-" " the lat
ter financial failure
Notthngtou, DustAn i Co, This firm has
been started but ! few weels. They have
bought out = book entitled Men and Mvn-