Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, June 23, 1875, Page 5

THE CHICAGO TRIBUN WEDNESDAY, JUNE 23, 1875. JUSTICE’S BALANCE. Hention of Certain Parties Who Have Been Weighed and Found Wanting. ate of the Heaviest Specimens of This Class Comes in Viow Again. Poss Tweed Obtains an Hours’ Lib- erty, and Changes His Placa of Residence. Ho Is Now Victualed and Lodged fo Eud- low Street in Default of $3,000,000 Bail, Arrest of a Gang of Counter. feiters at Pittsburg. Thay Are Found in Possece# of Bogus Passes nn au the Raifroads. A Remarkable Murder in Sullivan County, Indiana. A Woman Holds a Light Whilo Her Paramour Shoots the Sleeping Husband. TWEED BREATHES A FREE BREATH. Nrw Your, Juno 22.—" Bows” Troedanpeared in the Court-Ifouso to-day, in tho custody of a Deputy Shoriff. Io wae amuggted of of Black- wells Island at 10 o'clock last night, and drove aruind the city ina carriage. This morving he wei.tto his ofico in Duano streot, and epont ron timo it cousultacion with his counsel, after which ho proceeded éo tho District Attor- ney's oflico with his sor 8nd secretory, In the Supremo Court hia’ crinsel presented to Judgo Dasiv tho order of t Court of Appeals for bis discharga from 0 Penitentlary, which was aired by tho Jytxo. Tho “Toaa*soon aftor appoarod in tho Court of Oyer and Terminor, bofore Judge Brady. Tho room y&8 pectod with people, immenan wuabors ff Othera clamoring for nadmittanco. Div rict #tormoy Phelps movod that tho dofond- ant vo ¢raiguod to plead to an indictment found in Noember, 1878. David Dudley Field, of couwel for Tweed, stated that thoy wero,not reoty to pload or to.make a motion to quash, tice of this indictment haying boon recelved ily a fow daya since, Peckham, on behalf of ‘tho people, said {t was ovidont that the defend- ant intouded to pursue his old tactica, and atavo tif praceediogs as one as possible, but this was disclaimed by Field.. A logal war of sords followed, which lasted nearly an soug Phelps Packham, on _ behalf of bo people, claiming thoro _ was no tavon why this caso should be made a spocial mma or special favor bo shown to tho defendant, fold domauded to kuow what spocial favor ind boon shown, or would bo. “Aly cliont,” aid ho, “hag for seven montha boon illegally sontinod, in tho Ponitentiary, and whon after curunittiog this outrage,—an outrage for which evoiy ono concorned in it aball bo bold strictly avec nntablo,—and aftor bo Ia refoascd by a high- er ;Ower than thomaclves, it ie wrong, it is un- Jnat, to avk us to plead to an indictmont of Whivh wo know nothing.” Counsel furthor gaid it could not bo considor- el wepecial favor to issue s warrant ins civil suit of 26,000,000, and to fix bail at the onormous figure of 23,000,000, and that such a» bail was unheard of, You," aaid Mr. Peckham, ‘and tho stealing of — @0,000,000 was an ‘unheard of thing until tho dofondant committed the theft.” Tho mattor here reated, and Judgo isroly stated thut bo bolisved tha dofoudant Cupht to Lave time to examine the indictmonts, bot he would not givo a formal decision until tater in tho day. ‘Ihe Court. thon fixed tho amount of bail on the now indictment. Tuo above argument waa on the indictment charging the “Boss” with fraudulontly obtaining the bix- uataro of Mayor Hall tos warraut paid to An- drey J. Garvoy. Ou this Indictment the Court tixed hie bail at $3,000. On the indictment found by tho Grand Jury of May, 1875, term of the Court of Oyer and Totminor, which chargos Jim whith conapireoy in having, in conjunction with Petor B, Swaonoy and Etbert A. Woodard, dofraudod tho city, the Court fixed bis bail at $1,000, Proceodings wore then adjourned, aud Tweed, surrounded by his counsel, left tho conrt-room., Bail in the indictmonts fa to bo furnisbed this aftornoon, Albert B, Sands bo- caine his bondsman on the formor indict- ment, and Charley Devlin on the latter. Tho whole party returned to the Oyer and Terminer Court, and the bonds wore approved by Judgo Brady, ‘Twood was then taken in custody again, ou tho ordor of arrout in the civil suit, and con= verod tothe Ludlow Street Jail, whore be will remain until tho €8,000,000 bail is furnished, ‘Lwoed arrived at the Ludlow Btroot Jail late in the afternoon, Ho bas engaged the Warden's sitling-room, which is neatly fuinishea and woll ventilated. Ife says ho expeota by to-mor- vow afternoon to be a fieo mau, A GANG OF COUNTENFEITERS NABBED, Spectal Dispatch to The Chicago Tribune, Prerapona, Pa., June 23,—The most important arrests of counterfeltera and “shovars of the queer” in this vicinity, have been made within the past two days through the offorta of Timor Washburn and Detectives Benson and George B. Porkins of the Secret Sorvice. Laat January two lettors, addreased to cortaln partioca and oantalning countorfelt tena on the Rich- mond, Ind., Nationa! Bank, wore sent to the Dead-Letter Oftice at Wavhington, having been insiled unstamped in this city, One contained Ave bills, and the other nine, Those woro given to tho Secret-Service detectives. Bonson and Porkins came hore and worked the caso, In Allogheny @ woll-kuown physician named Milton H, Yronk waa found ongeged in “shoving the queer," He sent Money everywhere, snd recolyed letters under about twenty differont namea. Ho managed to recoive bie correspondence through ono David H. Davis, a letter-carricrin the Alleghany Pout- oMce, who was also ongayed in pasaing the bille, ‘The officers bought money of Fronk and got into Ais confidence, and into correspondence with the gang. Frogk was arrested on Friday, and Davis yesterday, Fronk made » confeasion and aquealed on his palls, Through bim Goorge Black, allas Connors, = well-known burglar, who bas ecrved 6 term in the Obfo Penitentiary for robbing the County ‘Treasury at Coxhooton, and Joho Lyons, wero arrestod on a train between horo and Columbua. ‘They had revolvers drawn, but Beoson aud Per- king wore too much for them. A brace of burg- lars’ toola wore found on them ; also some coun- terfolt money anda book giviug names and ins formation in regard to other countorfoltors, Thia afternoon Eph Langfitt, another of the wang, was arrested in Beaver County, and other arrests will follow. ‘The dotectives ahow- ed mo 620,000 in counterfeit monoy taken from thene parties. Incidentally, tho officers alwo eame npon anew frand. Dr, Fronk had coun Serfeited passes on all roads in the country, {n- @udiug the Pennsylyanis end all that ore con- trolled by it. Each of the counterfolters had = number ‘of these pases, and Brook had » large Jot on alltyank lines, Farther important de- velopmenta are expected ina day ortwo. All the partiey named are in jail, exoopt Davis, who @iven 65,000 ball, . A MAN-HUNT, Bpectak Dispatoh te Tha Chicage Triduns. ‘Trans Havre, Ind, June 22,—In Jackson Cownsbhlp, Bullivan County, a deed of blood was ecenmitted seversl deys ago of ao startling na- ture. Thomas Bhepherd, » hard character, bas beon living in adultery with the wife of a man pamed Engle, ‘The latter very naturally object- ted, and the fead between Shopherd and Engle swaned bitter, Om last Thursday or Friday night Mbopherd, on the advice and aborted by ihe ibleas wife, came to the bousa, aod, while slop), shed through a wiadow, bililng bias instantly, the wife holding a Iamp while the bloody deed waa being dove, ‘The County Com. misalonerd offerod a reward of £300, and throe mon yoaterday ontorod a large foraet in annrch of Shoplord, who waa kuowa to be concealed thore, At 4 p.m. they found tim, when ho drow two pixtoln and firad twelve white, wounding one of the party, Capt, Bledwo, They retnroed the fire, wounding tim inthe #houlder and arm, but ho ercapad. Advices received stato that 200 mon aro in suareh af Mhepherd, au if they catch Lint, will undoubtedly lynch jm. GOOD NIODANCE, Special Diapatch to The Cloeayo Tribune. Sr. Lovis, Juno 22.--A mpecial to-night from DHellevilio ways that, last wight, Pollco Ofticer Sncob Suttor was ealied to the reaidonce of Pat- tick Mulligan, a enrpentor who lives In tho osst part of Lollovillo, for tho purpose of rettling some family foud. It appears that Mulligan wau in liquor at tha fime, and waa abusing hia fam- ily, Suttor ontored the louse for tho purpose of quisting him, when ho was assaulted by Mulll- gan with a chisol, racoiving two eover cate. At thin. juncture Charles Borue, the City Star- shal, arrived, and wont to tho reecuo of Sutter, whon he was fiercely ssaault- ed by Mulligan with the eame Weapon, receiving two sovorn slabe on bie person, wherr- upon tho Marshal drow » pintol, oud. eet upon his assaitant, killed him iuatanth~ | The Marshal rau go badly tujured ther + Hed to be convoyed to hia residonco. 1++VATION RESULTS IN MURDER, BMPs, Teun, June 22.—Lhe Ledger has additional information concerning tho killing of Eequire Yarborough st Covington, Tenn, last urday by hia brothor-in-Istw, William Kinney, It appears thatono had aued tho othor, and they. had been to Covington to attend the trial, On the road home Yarborough, who was on horse- back, passed Kinney, who was in s wagon, when tho latter drow a rovolver and fired threo shots at Yarborough, one taking effect In tho right arm-pit. Yarborough rode some forty yards, and fell from his horan a corpeo, When found he had hia handkorchiof wrapped around his hand, 98 if tortop the hemorrhage. A no- gro who saw the shooting saya Yarborough firat struck at Kinnoy with a stick. A white lady, who alao witucdsed it, saya ho did not, Yar- borough waa s prominent Granger, and his funeral was Inrgely attended, Bovh wore pros- Derous and tofluential citizens, and the resources a veel sides will bo brought to bear on tho rial, A DOUBLE MURDER, : Br. Lov, Juno 22.—A double murder oo- curred at tho little town of Marrisaa, Ill, on tho Belleville & Bouthern Iiuofa Railroad, about thirty-five miles froin hore, on Sunday night. It appoare thats numberof farin lavorors wero at tho grocery of Willinm Klaes drinking protty freely. Disputes aroso, snd considerable quar- roling occurred, and at Ist aman wamed Anso- lin Ruseoll drow a long pocket-knife and stabbed John Grimes Iu tho breast, groin, thigh, and hand. TRusaell then turned on John Kelsey and plunged hia knife into bia chest and abdomon, inflicting mortal wounds, Ruesoll tuen fled, but ho was found and arrested by Constabla T'innoy and a pogao of citizens, who had great difficulty in praventing the murderer from boing hanged by & mob, Grimes aicd two honre after, and Kolaoy cannot recover. Runvoll was from Mis- siraippt County, Mo, and soys ho hog a mother in Diandvillo, Ky, ‘THE COUNTERFEITERS, New Yons, Juno 22.—Willium J. Brown, the notorious countorfoiler, from Cincinnati, who escaped some time since from the Ludlow Btroot Jail, was placed on trial yesterday in the crim- inal brauch of the United States Cironit Court, bofore Judge Benedict, on the charge of attompt- ing to sell counterfeit 82 and $10 national cur- rency notes. Throo notes had, after their cap- turo from Brown, beon placed in a safoin the ofiice of tho Secrot Sorvico Division, on Bleokor street, from which, it ia alleged, they wore atolon by Gon, Manck,* Tho notes woro not produced at tho tris!, and to prove thoir loay tho testimony of Col. Elmer Washburn, and Missouw Jennio Ralph and Rebbecesa Mooro, of tho Trossury Dopartment, st Washington, and Dotectives Kenock and Porter, was given. Brown withdrow Us plea of " Not guilty,” pleaded “ Guilty,” and ‘was remiandod for kontence. ATTEMPT TO WRECK A TRAIN. Mantsox, Wis., Jano 22,.—A fiendish attempt was mado laat night to wreck the mglt paseen- gor train cast of tho Milwaukeo & Prairio du Chien Road near Cross Plains, iu thiscounty, A hhard-wood tie was placed: in such a position on tho traok that it throw the engino off the track, ‘Tho trato, fortunatoly, was running quite slowly, and, except in throwing tho engine from tho rails, no damage wag done, Itis quite ovident that tho intoution of the flouds waa to rob tho train, aa tho obstructions wore placed on tho track after a frolgbt train bod pasacd, tho intor- val batweon tho two traina boing but ten min- utes, Their objoct was frustrated, however, the train not being wrocked, A ROCKFORD WRETCH, Syeciat Disvatsh to The Chicago Tribune, Rooxronp, iil, June 22.—Three or four days agoawrotch attompted to seduco a little girl only 8 years old. ‘To-day he waa divcovorod, arrested, and takon bofore Patico Justice Works, who, aftor hearing an oxamlnation, sentonced him to pay a tine of €50 and to aix montha’ im- priuonmout in tho County Jail, Tho vagabond ives his namo aa E.R, Stowart, aod saya he ie jately from Kontucky, THE BAD KANSAS PREACHER, Br. Louis, Juno 22.—Ths Republican's Kansas City apocial says tho Zines will publish {o-mor- row an account of a minister named Johnson: who seduced his twin step-daughters, aged 16, aad thon married one of thom three months af- ter the death of their mother, GUILTY OF MURDER. New Onreang, Juno 22.—The jury in the case of Aloxander Nowton, charged with murdering Justin Bourdonay at the corner of Royal and Canal streets in September laut, brought in an unqualitied verdict of guilty. HORSE-THIEVES SENTENCED, Special Dianatch to Lhe Chicago Tribune, Laneta, Mich,, June 22.—Two horae-thieves that wero captured last week in Oalboun County have been sentenced to State-Prison—Charlos Schooly for four aud # half yoars, and Willlam ‘Ball for four years, HELD FOR MURDER. Gawanogue, Ont, June 22.—The Coroner's jury yeatorday brought in a verdict of willfnt i murder $ Erastus Hotohkiss, the Sully boy-murdere FIRES, AT GRAND HAVEN. Sneclat Disvatsr ta The Chieaze Trioune, Gnanp Haven, Mich., Jano 22.—This evening at 0:40 @ fire was dlecovered tn the Detroit & Milwaukee Rallroad graio-elevator, In a little over two hours {¢ was totally deatroyod. Noth- ing was saved oxcopt the main bolt and the ougine, The fire ia euppossd to have caught from a passing tug, the sparks going up tho leg. ‘Tho long iy estimated st $45,000, covorod half byioxurance, $20,000 0f which is inthe Germania of New York, AT EAST SAGINAW, MICH, Special Dispatch to The Chicago Tribune, East Saottaw, Mich., June 33—A dwulling- house in this city, owned aud occupled by F, Wregl, was protty noarly used up by fire this morning. There waaan insurance of @1,200in the Watertown Company, which will cover the ona. AT. DOVER, KY, Crrommatt, O,, June 22.—W, E, Tabb & Co.'s woolen aud flouring mille, at Dover, Mason County, Ky., wero destroyed by fire this morn- ing. Tue lose is $50,000; insurance unltnown, Some twenty or thirty poraons are thrown out of employment by this catautrophe. AT GEORGETOWN, KY, Ontcnenatt, June 21.—A tire at Georgutown, Ky., destroyed a livery stable and four dwellings, aude number of horsss were consumed in the flames. The lose te ib Ol H a ea tae Satiaanted @t 10,000; the ad FOREST Fines. Ortawa, Jeve 93,—A diepstch from Perbroke seye that fires stopped navigation on the Upper Ottawa this morniag, The people at Bt. Jose ace burglog theds hoosehald tusnisare tg peotect POLITICAL, The Maino Democracy Go Through the Farce of Nominating a Governor, Thoy Decline to Indorse tho Finan- cial Incongruity of Their Ohio Brethren, A Disastrous Upheaval in the Old Tammany Com- mittee. Tho Great Morrissey Bites fis Thumb at | the Organization and Declares for Secession, Prominent Democrats in Northern Ohto Cannot Swallow That Infla- tion Plank. The: Leading German Paner of tho ‘ State Sounds the Alarm. THE MAINE DEMOCRACY. Avavsta, Mo., Juno 22.—-Tho Democratio Btato Convention mot to-day. Thore were pres- ent G39 delegates, Gen. Samuel J. Anderson was chosen permanent Chairman, and tho usual committoes were appointed, In tho sfterncou session resolutions were tread and adoptod einbodying tha following declarations: The Conatitution is the people's only safeguard ; the right of pooplo and States muat bo sacredly preserved from tho teuch of military or Cougrossions! usurpation; civil supremacy in times of peaco; equality of the righta of ail mon undor the Jaw; @ sound curronoy, coln or ity oquiva- Jont; # tariff for revoniie ouly; the Govern- ment economically adminiatered; an honest presorvation of public faith to tho public ered- itor; aroturn to economy in administration of Government, National, State aud ninnicival: the abolition of unnecessary ofticos, and reduction of aslarios: one torm for Wrosident, with gslary of £25,000, ‘Tho resolutions arraign the Republican party for tho abandonment of principles, of profligacy, and corraption; condemn the Administration in strong terms for the rexponsibility of tho Louitiana ueurpation in tho attempt to suapond the writ of habeas corpus by tho last Congress, and pronouncing it no longer cafe totenat tha reins of govainment in such hands. The Ad- iinistration is pronounced responsible for the Present depressed condition of the country's commerce; tor tho crippling of tho sbip-build- ing trade, and for driving off tho cris mercantile marino from the ocoan. ‘The people of Maine, suffering undor the bur- den of oppressivo taxation, demand reform, and appeal to all meu, without rogard to party names or past difforences, to unite with them to securo this triumph. An offort made to incorporate the financial yevoluslonn of the Obio Domocratio Couvention failed, Gon, Charlos W. Roborts, of Bangor, wos nom- Inated for Governor, and tho Convention ad- journed. : TAMMANY DIVIDED AGAINST ITSELF, New Your, Juno 22.—John Morriasoy was bo- fore the Tammany Committoo on Dixciptine last uigue, to auawor to chargos of disloyalty. Ho was vory indopendent, and said he was in Lar. mony with Tammany, but opposed to its man- agement; that the Committee might aa well mako out his dismiegsl, 18 bo should not resign until he saw fit. Tho Jerald waya that tho disaotisfaction which hus of Inte been manifesting itself against Tammany Hall fe gradunily assuming shape, Last night thera assomblod iu one of tho uppor parlors of Dol- monico’s, on Fourteenth streot and Fifth avenuo, & largo numbor of influentis! Democrata whoso object was to form an organization which, it is Lopod, will supersedo ‘'ammany, ‘Tho latter organization, they claim, has outlived ite usofulness, and tho timo fy now up for a party reorganization on 4 now basis, which will rive all tho people s chauco to form a general committeo, which will bo constituted of ropro-' Bontativos of the various elomenta of tho party. To this end it was last night docidod to got a representative delegation from esch of tho clty wards, with s view to arranging prolim- inaries for tho election of tho Gouoral Commit- too projected Tho first objoct of the organiza- tion will be to institute a systematic campaiza against Tammany. It is now intended that the Goneral Committoo shall not be a provisional ono, but it shall be permanont. On Mouday anothor meeting will bo held, at which about four or five representatives from each ward will be present, and it is expected that important work will be dono, THE PAPER-MONEY alae IN DEMOCRAGY'S Sveciat Dispatch to I'he Chicavo Tribune, , CLEVELAND, O., Jane 22.—Nothing in the re- cont political history of Obio bas boon more ro-~ markablo than the improvemont of Hopublic- an prospects horowinoa the Democratic Stato Convention of thol7th. In Northern Ohio not ode Democrat in’ throa fs vatinfied with thoir platform, Jaodge: Rannoy, the Hon. H. B, Payne, and Jndgo Spalding came back from Colambue uttorly disgusted ond determined to take no sotivo part in tho canvass, As conalst- ont hard-monoy mon they aro muzzled by the platform which would make a Domocratic vio- tory in Oblo thla fall the triumph which would ruln-the party for next year's national stroggle. But the most serious misfortuno to the Democrats ts the defoction of tho Ger- mavs. Thoro is no mistaking tho fact that thoy are leaving the Democracy ax rata deserta sink. fog sblp. Tho Cinoclunati Volksblatt and the Banduaky Demokrat havo both repudistod the inflation policy, and the Wachter Amerio, the Yeading Gorman dally. of Northern Ohio, and hitherto g trong Democratlo liberal organ, has to-dav jumped the track. ‘ho’ following is a taanelation from ite leading editorial : ‘That which hes been saul will putfice to show our readera how deep a thrust the Domoacrsoy bas given Sleclf with ite unforluuate nancial pstey, In tts un- forluuate destruction ft haa thrown away all its chances of success, which was at hand if ithad only «employed in respect to these questionr—-Temperance, Pablo Bebools, and Finance—liberat, clear, and bol (auguage, It tet tho demand in the two tormer only, to spoil everytaing in the Qusnce question, Tha ‘wil have the effect that thousands and thousands who would have willingly afded the Dentocrats to victory will uow turn agaluét them, at least 90 far ax the Stuto flection fe concerned, however discontouted they may be with the Republicans c+ accaunt of thefr “ muckor- ism,” temperatica, and corruption; for, howaver bad tho ‘temperance ilvance may bé, coinpared to the mischlef that has and will ‘be dons by thle Paper awindioy Mt to harmlon, A victory tn bis direction canuot and must not be encoursgod, ‘The peper-swindlu doctrines mast bo opposed where- avertney appear, ‘That in -deimanded Gy the boat ine ferevia of the land, for inflation meana only another general panic, What ia the use of all tho declaratlous of personal Hborty wheo at the same time tho ublio welfare tw ao deeply undermined? Undor heso circumstances there is no choice left, No success can bo wished for the Domocracy of Ohfo in the coming Btate clecton, The country taadiou Corer saust "be" exetyettealy opposed it tne fover m ene: ly 0) 8 country ts to be lifted out of Ste present deplaratis soudition, Without the Germans, the Domocrate cannot come within 50,000 votoe of carryiug the State, ‘The Repablicans are happy aad contident, NEW HAMPBHIRE ELEOTION, Comconn, N. H., June 22.—The Legislature to-day elected Beojamiu F. Preacott Beoretary of Btate, ‘The Legislature in convention this afternoon elocted the Republican nomiuces for Tresaurer, State Pantor, and Oomuolusary-General, CALIFORNIA INDEPENDENTS, Baw Faanotsco, June 22.--The Independent Conrention st Necremento has made Heary ka- gerton its President, ee , - | THE WEATHER, Peeing “D fad mans ee cape epee seal pper Misalesip; the Lewes Missourl Volley, rising barometer, southwent to northwest winda, followed by cooler, cloady weather, and occasional rain, LOCAL OBSERVATION, en ay 3ano, Jnne 22, Wea Fatr, fouly, Station, |har.jtat Wind, | ch ee O7 N,, free ART-LOVERS. Reception of the Academy ot Design, A Pleasant and Informal Evening Among ihe Artists, Sketch of the Prominont Pictures on Exhibition, Nymph ahd Satyr--Shirlaw’s Work, ‘ The Approaching Storm.” THE RECEPTION, 4 GRAND CHUB. Tho reception of tho Chicago Academy of Do- align wae held last night at the rooms of the Academy, corner of Van Buren street and Mich+ igan avenue. ‘Tho rooma were profuscly deco- rated with flowers, A maguificont floral centro- etand, consisting of large uro and pyramid surrounded by amaller urns, waa pleced in the main salon. Mevsrs, Gonkins, Rogamey, and Hobertson composed the Reception Committco of-artista. Soon afters o'clock the stream of visitors begau to pourin, and the rooma wore secon donsely thronged, and tho artivts wore busy pointing oat tho notable features of tho paint- inge to their friends. ‘ho grand pictura, * Re- surgo Chicago,” placod at tho end of the room, attracted o great doal of attention and comment, and, amoug the others, the foning of tho Bell,” by Sbirlaw, of Munich, and the “Nymph and Satyr,” by Seitz, of Munich, at- tracted s groat desi of notice, CHE &DDIOS OF ane antisTs ued beon thrown opan, and ag much luterest wag waviteeted iu the India-ink sketches and draw- ings from modols asin the fulehed works of art in tho guilerien bolow. ‘The reception was thoroughly INFOUMAL AND ARTIST-LIXE, no pretenss at olaboration belong noticeable in the arrangements. Iwo Italian violinists, = harpor, und a flute-player, made musio of o kind in pleasant ac- cord with tho occasion. Somo bottlon of claret svera emptied into a bucket, and clarot- punch served out totho ladiea by tho artista, Every one was tively, chatty, and in good humor, and tho plessuro of the assemblsge in tho on- tortaluiment was evident from the general an- pect of gayoty, Tho lilting strains of Offenbach and Straues twirled hilariously through the air, iningling with tho trip aud bustle of the moving throngs, aud the lights glanced upon boantiful toilottes and lovely faces aglow with auimation, AMONO THOSE PERNT woro: Gen, J. D. Webster, Col, W. A. Jenkins, Me. Otto Jovus, E, L, Jansen, Maj, Kirkland, Ald. Quirk, Mr, Bon O, Miller and wife, Mr, B. F. Culyor, Mr. 1. Almini and wife, Mr. Allan Houno, Mr, Arthur Pickering, Mr. John Lomi, Mr. J. McGregor Adama and wife, C, J. Hall, W. D. Dishop, Mr. aud Mrs. Brust, Mr, Fronch, J. A, Martine, Misa Annio Kerr and Robert Kerr, Dr. Freor, Miss Cora Froor and Mr, Fred Freer, Mise Kate Maniorro, Mr. W. W. Chand- lor, Mr. Trimmingham and Iadics, Mr, 0, J. Guiteau, Mr. C, Schwerdt, Col, L. H. Davis, Br. F, J, Wilson, Mr. Honry Groenebaum aud wife, Mr. T. W. Wickorshiam, Mr. Charles P, Stillman and wife, Mra. F. Eastman, Mr. Allon and wife, Mr. Q, H, McCormick, Judge Scaring, Mr, H. Wi, Handy and wife, Walter J. Ba:lor and wife, Gen, N. BV Buford, Dr. Powoll, Dick Stearns, Miss Kato Kellogg, Mr. E. Sholdon and daughter, James Wood and wife, Sir, W. G. Drury, br. J. A, Forwell, Mr. W. ©. Grant and wifo, Mr. Charles Kern and wite, M: 'f, J, Elmore and wito, Mr. Boyd, Col. Pratt, Aid, Waterman, Capt, Delfayou, Mr, Janica H. Dale aud wife, Mise Fanny E. Dalo, Miss Matti Dale, A.J, Gallo- and wifo. 0 pictures had been fitely arrangod by the Mlory Committoe, Mezsn. Bchwerdt, loot, and Jennoy, #0 a8 to comumud tho most advan- tageous positions possible to bo obtained in the Nenited space at command. The stream of vis- itore did not cease to pour ia until atter 10, aud the reception wau, both in point of numbors and intorest manifested, a distitguished success, —_——>— THE PICTURES. TUE WALLS OF THE LITTLE GALLERY of the Acadomy are crovded with pictures, a largo proportion of them wow avd worthy of comment. Many of themaro foreign, and have nover been oxhibited before. They ropresont a variety of schooly,—Munich, Paris, Nuremborg, Dusseldorf, Vonice,—and present a considerable field for the study of tke amateur. Our home artists also are pratty fully represented. ‘+, NYMPI AND BATT,” by Prof. Otto Boitz, of Muoich (No, 40), is the Tost consplevous now pictura inthe gallory, and beg had to bear the brunt of tho artists’ criticlems, The subjeatia of the sortof which the French salon ia sald to be fall, chosen, no doubt, by a Professor of painting, not for ita intriusic interest, but ed a tlold for exercising his akill at flosh coloring. A nywph, represented as usual ae young and delicate woman, is surprised among the roods when about to bathe by a eatyr, in the porson of s brown, coarse mao, whose “aatyrnino” extremitics the goat legs, are happily kapt out of eight by tho disposition of the reeda and eccessorics, The figures appear nearly of life: though thoy are considerably Jeau, Nothing, it murt be said, in the way of elit in execution will make a subject of thin character—a man forcing bis society upon a woman's privacy, howbeit ahe appears more sur- prigod than alormed,—anytblng but offensive to gar public, and in this partivular we baye no need to be ashamed of our want of sophistica- tion, But the artlats who have been groupod about this picture over wince it has beeu bung hove ‘bestowed not a thought upon the “subject,” but have been occupied in discuesion of the exeau- tion, which is admirablo and remarkable. To dispowo drut of gots oriticisme which may fairl: bomade: The drapery (with which, after all, mythological nymphs did not often incumber themuolvou) ix not well managed, and doos not diecloso, as it ought, cither af drawing or color, the pusition of the kneo which it covers, A stronger light would probably, or st losat possi- bly, fall upon thia advancing kuea, and ly needed to bring out its attitude ; nor is the lower part of the tigure in genora) equal to tuat of the up- por part. If wetura to another picture by the vame artist, “ Good Stoel" (No. es wo find a airollar weakness ia the loge of the cavalier, otherwite excellent, who ly trying bia aword, aud the idea is wayeatod that Prof, Boitz, like Gen. Putnam's ConUnentaly, ly ablo to take care of lia hoada, {¢ vomebody elae will take cure of his logs. ‘There has been some criticisia of tho rvode which form tho background aud principal acoossosicn of the picture, bub thie i they are too good for a art of the pleture, being evidently paluted from nature, strongly and definitely. This criticlam concerns a controversy among artivte. These feulte in tho icture alinoat disappear in view of the admire bie drawing of the upper Past of the figures and ‘be female faco, in color throughout. abadow, and throwa back into dificult fore- «hortentog, la charming and expreasive. Per- sous not familar with the ‘Life School,” and whoas knowledge of “ fleah-color™ is mostly de- red vom. = 08 of gain ia swiomlog whan they ware boys, may we! what bey solar of wa ut el Spee ks | ies Freens that the artista give us, The truth, no doubt, ia that there in a wito range of color, and, moreover, the color is affected =o by! every neighboring ob. Ject, antl itroay te ndded that the artiste only hit it once tus while, ‘Ibo atmirablo quality In the picture under consideration is the great In- sarnosity of tho calor, which, although in a shady place, appears brightor than white, aud yet fa very much Delow it, as may be neon by putting pure white by thu ido of it. This in an achiavement in coloring, and an excellent exam- ploof tho Muniei school, The picture ts one of the moat valaable in the gallery, is owned ia Baltimore, and ia not for wale, Tre ‘The other picture by Baitz, Good Steel,” is amalband uoder gtsas, aud is ono of the tnoat. plossing pictures inthe exhibition. A galiant of somo former time ix bending his amalteaword totry ttatenper, The tone is tow, with a great deal of Diack and a few shacp whites, with w red plush cbalr for color, but the offect ia charming, and tho picture far more dasiralin for a poxses- sion for anybody but au artist than the “ Nymph aud Satyr.” PAUL WEBER'S "KING FARR" (No, 47) bas marks of the artistic hand of « woll-known painter, but is rather alight in ox- ccution ; and much ths anme may be rail of Gil- bert's Girl at tho Wall.” “ Feeding-Time in the Managerio" (No. G1), with the performing pony and mionkeyx, the finnoxs, camol, ote,, will iease the children and the grown paople, tout The correxpondence hotween the subject and tho artint's uaine, H. Behaumann, suggests that the latter may bo assumed. J. If, Beard sonds ‘bo Unwelcomo Vialtor " (No, 57), 8 largo white cat intruding hor head throat a hole io a broken partition to the groat. dinsatisfaction of a Llack-and-tan dog inside, Tho dog is better than tho cat, whone far is not soft. Amoug tho half-dozen best pictures in tho collection ia to be placed No, 55, “EADY AND BIRD," EH. Villa, of Paris, = small picturo, about 10 by 12 inches, of « young Indy half-length sitting, "turned partly awey, and Lolding aloft ou her wrist 6 bluc and yellow bird of the parrot or macaw species, The mavagement of tho color, the tlie and yel- low of the bird, the peculiar red of the dross, the complexion of tho lady, aro harmouious aud very azrecable, and tho hands and wriets aro beautifully graceful, eapecially the one uplifted. This picture ought not to be neglected on ac- count of the saperior sizo of others, A “ Marine View" of Do Haas, on the Engliah Channel (No. 65),—n largo rock, almost a clilf, a sail ortwo, a stiff breeze, aud a flowing sea,—Iis not un- worthy of the artist. “THE BELI-TONER” (No. 66), by Walter Shirluw, of Munich, hus created tora of a wensation than any othor pict ure of the LxLivition, and is perhaps, considor- ing overything, the cuoice of tho subject, tho wayin which the at-ry is told, and the excol- lence of the execution, the most commendable pictura in tho gallery. Shirlaw ia a Chicaro mau, and practiced bis art bere up to 1870. At that time, when bo went to Munich, the genoral opinion amoug his follow-artists was that ho wax grosely deficiont in a soueo of color, that he could not color, and probably never would, though jt was admitted that be was an accomplisbed draughtwnun. His great prog- reas is a fine illustration of the advan- tages of study in a oud echool under a favorable artistio atinosphere, Tio lias now went three pictures home to the Academy, "Tho Bet] Tower," “John Andor- son, my Jo, John,” and “The Young Fisher- man” (Nos. 66 and 119), all good, but the first much the most important, and it is with some KUTPrise, but with hearty eutisfaction, that his old friends recoynize extraordinary iuerit iu hia work, not oly in composition aud drawing but incolor. The subject of the larger picture is this: A smith bas almost finished tho boll for the church of a German villave, and has got the parson to come with a fiddlo to help shim —briug tthe ~—sbell ~—tto. @properions. Tho bell, turnod on itn side, blocked up on planka, with a hammer ander it to keep it from rolling, is in the centre of the pict- ure, Bohind it stands tho parson, who has jatd hig tall hat upon ao bench, and jn seriously on- aged insounding the violin, ‘Io hiv lott the loath. or-aproued smith bends over tho bell with a hu mer in bis hand, with which be tas just tapped it, and the other hand graspe bis cap, which be usally wears in the shop but has taken off out of reapect for the clergy and has not nad time tolay down. His head is turoed up to catch the fail noto of the violin, aud the minjutor also is evidently all cara, looking off into vacaucy with the most intent expression. ‘hese figures are ali seriousness. In contrast, a playful cle- ment is nicely introduced by a little boy, who, monoted ons table bebind the smith, ja tmi- tating the paraon’s motions with a pair of bel- lows for a fiddie, and aatick for abow. Aud a large brindled bulldog lina seated himself in front of the mouth of tho boll, with hie bead exactly in the focus of the sound, ovidently aua- picions that thore is a bull somowhero about that boll, and, if so, he should like to wee bim come out. A woman's figure appoarw at s door in the background, ‘snd e little girl with hor bands behind ber gravely watches the proceedings from the foreground, The nu- morous accessories belonging to the interior of the shop, the tools, the vive, the timbera, the ra- ven, ara faithfully and wall painted. Itis a protty incident, well worked out, with onough intorest in the auggestion of the lifo to which it balonge to make it worth painting. LEvery- whore tho picturo evinces careful study and preparation, tho cartalnty of exocution baing so roat and so unusual among our artista as to lead to. the surmise thatthe artiwt must have painted all the parts of 1¢ beforehand, as indaod ought to bo done io preparation fora carefal The bare arms of tho black. are examples of thia decision, ainted without uselews dotail, and without the foes of astroke of tho brush, and as round and firm as pudslble, The culor of tho picturo ix not high, but ia very harmonious, and the force is whero it belongs, the adjuncts properly subar- divated, The motallio quality of tho ‘boll ap- poars, somehow, a httle wanting, This picture, like that of Seitz, belongs dis- tinctly to the Munich School, the figures in the background being Bertectly cbaracteristic of the school, quite charming, but with » little too imuch serial perspective for the diutauce, that is, 8 little dimmer than they would be in na ture, It ia said that “Mr. Shirlaw re- fased a liberal offer forthiw pictors in bts studio, preferring to bond it homo to Chicago to take its chance. Itistobe hoped that he will not love money by hia decision, At avy rate, it has fixed his position among our artiste, A picture with mixed merits and demerits ts 9 large Iaudscapo. % “THE APPROAGIING Stony, by Car] Raupp (No. 81). It ‘has a epirited sky, tho light over tho land is effoctive, aud the cou- trast between the boats in the foreground of the Iake—tho" rough flat-boat of tho laborers and the skiff of the gentleman and Jadics—iv good. Bysomodofect of drawing, apparently a fault in the perspuctive of the boats, tho water doos not appear flat, and the boats xeem to bo going wligbtly up bill, ‘ho water in tho dis- tanco, darkeved by tho rellection of the hill, is altogethor wanting in jucidity, and very similar in treatmant to an importaut pictare, which many people will recall,in Mr. Highwood's xaijlory,rop- resenting some modern young poople in a boat gaziug iuto the water, Tho wgurov sro excol- Jot, and the picture valued ‘ats high rate, but the effect is very much as {if thoy wero gazing into a green door.’ Nothing short of Bam Weller's double-miluion magaifying lonsea would peno- trate such water. A LARGE PICTURE by Dubntfe and Rows Boohour jointly (Au- tamu,” No, 69) of @ Freuco shephord girl with ahoarein her hand and tho other ano holding tho neck of alurge, passive ebeop, fs pronounce: by the artiuta ms good specimen of the French school, butis deficient In interest, ‘This or a aimollar pletaro was at the Exposition Inge fall, Two little French picturos, & Melssoulor-lik “Violinist” of Fichel (No, 46), and & "Fo! Obampetro” of Laion (No, 49), the Iatter with = tine purity of atmouphore, are worth noticing. Tug CONVALESCENT,” (No. 59, Pant Lazorges), iy auother Franch pict- ‘uro, an invalid lady in a blue wrapper, scated tu a'chair in agardon and looking up to speak to another Jady who staudy a little pack of hor, Moth figures appoar to bo portraits, ‘The piot- ure isa yery pleasing ono, and may well couvey a blot to our portrait-paintors of a method of maldng pictures out of portraits, which would bo sure of popularity, aud yot [sscarcely attompted, Pporbaps because it 16 uot easy. ‘TOY VENETIAN SCHOOL is represented by # single exatmple, the "Por- tin” of Wolf (No, 24), a picture of cousiderable importance. It ie of two-thirds longth end near- Jy Jifo-wizo, e atately figure heavily draped, aud bosriug & caszst in oue hand, sud the key tu the other, ‘The concoption of the character 1s probably not thht of most por- sons, boipg somewhat too solid and heavy, bat the artlat b: right to his opinion an that gub- ject. ‘I'he features aro rather “hard” in draw- jug, aod ¢he face on thy whole not equal to the rest of tho painting. Who drapery, bowevor, makes up sho most of the picture, and ia fine, with a considerable rewintacunce of the brocades and eating of Paul Voronose. It would take @ person skilled io febrice to describe 18 properly, Bome notice will be made of the worku of home astiets, for which there Le not space to- day, in our issue of next Sunday, —————— susapaauss mK iia eat and the Ablegate Rancett) x a Swwsttaburg, Md, yesterday, Dy THE AMERICAN, A Model Insurance Company. What It Requires to Render Insurers Absolutely Secure. ‘Tho Men and the Means---A Review of the ~ ..Plan and Growth of the Company, Faots, Figures, Statistics, and Comparisons that Will Ohallengo Admiration, An Institution of Which Chicago May Rightfully Boast, When an enterprise Ia so wisely instituted, ao ably macaged, and 60 entirely succossful, as to excito even unparticinating and unprofessional People to exprean tholr admiration, it becomes » mattor of public interest and importance to in- quire as to ita morita and method of conduct. And tho office of journals, to which the public look for information, and apon whose atatementa the people havo losrned to roly, {a to endoavor to adequately sot forth tho facts and pointa in- volved in the above considerations. To this end, theo, it bas become the pleasant task of Tux Trimexg to Iny before its readers a sketch, though brief, of tho American Insurance Com- pany of Chicago, and the gentlemen whoso supervision, intelligence, and {ngonuity havo Placed the Company in its present epriable con- dition, THE AMERICAN INSURANCE COMPANY dates from 1859, and for the firat ton yoara of its careor confined its operstions entirely to tho State of Iunois. Very carly in {te history the peculiar merita of the style of ite conduct becamo apparont, and #he wisdom of the plan upon which the Company was formod waa proven by the esteem it bad gained among insurers in the clasyea to which ita operations wero cun- fiued, aud it bocamo nocegsary to make head. quartora at Chicago, that the fecilities of a city for doing business might be enjoyed. In 1869 ite fleld was extended to Ohio, Indians, Mich- igan, Wisconein, lows, and Missouri, aud in 1874 to Minnesota. To attend to its prevent business in thowo States it bas over 2,000 agonts in the fiold. ITS ADMINABLE PLAN, The transactions of the Company are confned to the insurance of dwolling-bouses, pritate burns and their contoots, and farm propety Ronorally, to which are added churches md achool-houses. Those are divided into eigit clasvee, according as thoy are in villagea or n- mote and isolated, and with reference to thor matetial, yhetber brick or stone, or wood, ant the records they koep xpecify accurately and it detail tha receipts, numbers, losvos, and othar satistical gud usoful information concerning each clusg, by yoars, localities, and values. The payment of promiuns is on a plan originated by tho eapablo olticens of this Company, introduced in 1855, and is known a# the ‘Installment Plan.” ' The teaturcs and reciprocal advantages of thie plan to Loth insurers and insured can be moado roadily apparent, THESE ADVANTAGES consist in tho porfect immunity and control en- Joyod by the Company, and the absolute security guarantced to aod trifling oxpenso incurrea by the ineured, their paymuats beingeo regulated and distributed as to become no burden ata! when compared with tho oxactions undor other seiteme Of inguranco, It muat uot bo suppoad, that the American claims to bo a cheap company, te rates, whilo ronsonable, are cliarged with an jutelligeut comprehension of ita riske, and no insurauce company can live unless ite probabili- tiea of losses aro excocdod by its actual rovenue. So carefully and accurately are those praportion- ed in tho caso of the American (partly tho result of their plan, and partly reeult- ing from the formation extonsive rocorcS) that calculations for indiented months, mado a yoar in advanco, do uot vary, in auy partloular of receipts, losses, or orcentayes, to any cousiderabie amount, the rule being that the varistion doea not exceed 3 per cont, PAYMENT BY INSTALLMENTS beara lightly on the policy-holder, and gives the Compauy a stable source of income eavily man- aged and surely tobodeponded on, Under the Instaliment Plan, a pcScy is issued for five years, tho firat year's promiuin being pald at tho timo application for ineuranco ig made, the sama being but one-fifth of tho whole premium for tho -whoie amount and timo of insurance. For tho remainiug smount tho poticy-holder makes au installment note, payable in four equal amounts at the oifice of tha Company, tho firat being mado due one yoar from tho firat day of the mogth in which the application js dated; the secon falla dus in two years from the samo date; the third three yoara, and the fourth iu four yoars. RACH TEAM'S INSURANCE in thus paid in advance of tho assumption of tho tisk under tho policy; and if tho iustallmonts aro not paid when due, the policy lapses and ro- mains inoperative until sock payment is made, in which event it is revivod and remainu in force, Tho excolleucies of this plan hardly need to bo pointed ont, for it can be comprehooded at a glance that by these means but a ama!l amount ta required from the tosarer at one time—ao small an amount that Farmers do not heuitate to inaure generally id the plan is entiro- Jy safe for the stockboldors, as risks not paid for are not carried. and, ‘at the same time, the probabilltios that the poli- cy #0 lapsing will bo revived aro much groater than the probabilitios of new policies using taken out undor the old plan. RATES AND CONDITION. ‘The rates of the Amorican are at once liboral and adequate, bing 60 conta por annum on each 9100 insured, on Farm and Detached Dwellings. House * Property, ete, aud One per cent er annum on Churches and School- ouses §dotacbed. This exclusive atton- tion to aafo insurance, the lownoss of the pro- mianis, and the energetic, comprehensive mau- agement of the able officers, have conspired to put the American in the full front rank of ateolutely sound and roliablo com. panies. Aud, pursuing thia policy fn tho future, its solvency if #o assured that even were tho inaximum of possible losses and the lowest of possible raluos of ita securities tooccur inthe eame year, it would hardly bo ombarraseod, much crippled. The Company had on hand, on April 2 of this year, 21,800,000 Inatallment Notes aud $70,000 Cash Capital.acd Cauh Aavate, making for the ayau- ablo resources of the Company a GRAND TOTAL (¥ 2,690,000. It has Ju force 142,450 puicies, of which 41,- 625 policies were feauod during Jaut year, being anaverago of 133 policies for every working duy of the your. ‘The cash recoirved st tho Homo Ollice of the American during the yoar 1874. be- ing tho proceous roalized on tho tnatallmeus notes received in pravioug yeara, amounted to 2590.650; the cash collected by agenty in the floid during the same year was §267,- 140, adding in proportionate amount to the recelpta of the next four sacceasive years. Thoao figures aro unggeative. Thoy aro aiguiticant of tho ostimation in which the pany te held by the insarers to whom ita operations are extend- ed, aud are the bost indication in the world of the prudence and foresight of the managers. Theso btatistica are laid before tha public without al- teration, exaggeration, or concoalment, for they contain within themselves the vory easence of indorsemont and recommendation, A YEW COMPARATIVE NOTES, furnished by the Iusuranco Rogister snd Index to tho resourcos, condition, and standing of the priucipa) Amoricau Tire Insurance Companies, compiled from sworn statements tothe New York Stale Ineurance Departmous, furoiat wtilt further evidence of the importance of the Amer- ican Ineurauco Company of Chicago, In the yoar 1873, in the Stato of New York thero were 180 companies operating undor the Jaws of tho State as roported, {ocluding the Amoricag, Of theae but gixteon report having received as tnuch or more cash during the yoar than is cortiiod to by the American, while on tho otler baud the Amorican's lowvea wera oxceoded by thoso suffered by forty-two other companies. In other words, the American, of tha principsl Tusurance Companies iu the land, etauda among the highows iu of receipts, while ite losses Bro smong the lowest of first-class companios, Of the remaluing 17 cumpanios in the list, ouly oleven bad receipts approximating those of the American, whilo thirty-six xustained losses almowt the same. Tho morale of this exhibit is tlmply thie: “The object of insuring ia TO DX INSURED} and thiscanonly bea accomplisned by placing risks with each @ company as the Americau, having @ esfo, solid, aud ample cash foundetion, whose liabilities to loss are reduced to @ minir The ‘vast and intricate business of the Compa- by, Cooupying as it does the Fusion of the Farmora’ Insurance Company io the stron * Eee antes uals gained trom their econfasion wonld be incurred, and one would naturally expoct to nee evarvthing amooth and in porfect order, But the most sanguine vntor is found almost unprepared for tha thoroughneen and acientitie accuracy with whicl the books and records of the American are kept. Experioncod actuaries, old accountants, shrowd Tnenrance Commisrionera and Tospoctors, only need an introduction to tho system to render them loud and onthustaatic fn their enlogin ‘Tuy Tumors reporter, after more than usual intimacy for many yoara with the subject and Practice of Inmurance and ite office details, ta Prepared to declare the American's ayatem the Moat perfect in avo in the United States. TNE CLARY OF AECCHITIES Submitted for inspection by the oflicars of the American, tho available astets and teadily con- vertible proporty in tho posrevaion of the Com- pany, aroof tha vory best, and their tavestmenta ave all been so judiciously made that they can borealized on without difficulty, and aro of the eafent aud soundest naturo, In addition to this, they havo. tabulated statemonts, av- erages, otc., forming the moat valuable mass of figures for reference in existences in tho country, which are both a necessity and a» ro- sult. ‘fhe volume of businoss done by the American ia immenne, and. as all issues of Policies, cancellations, corrections, aud rocords of receipts, aro rade at tho Home Office, the amount of detail would bo bewildering if every= thing connected with the management of this great Company wero not so classified, sys- tomatized, and arranged as to move off like clockwork. It is, theu, s modal company in all concerns of mansgoment, record, and socurity, ‘and is an honor to tho city whose name forms & portion of the Company's dosiguation, STATOS AND PERSONNEL. Ono elemont of its soundaees ia found In the fact that ta riske gro so ecattered and the smounte possibly involved at any one time or in suy conflagration araso amall, in consequence thereof, that oven oné-«juartor the reserva actually commanded by the Company would bo more than adequate to render {t solvent, We can hardly imagine a fra of snch wide extent as to involve property on which the Company would bo fiablo for $25,000, wutle, In any considerable copflagra- tion in a city, itis so ordinary an accurronce for general and reckless insurance companies to be cast for that and greater sume, ae to exciteno comment, And thon it has regources go ade- guste and capital so ample, that wo look upon failure to pay any and every demand, evan the mont oxtraordinary, as aimply and utterly impoa- sidle to the Ameri ‘Those advantages attach to tha Company as much from the character of ith officors and their intoliigent, capable dirsc- tion of its affairs 88 from tho favor with which ite plan 4 received by tho ownors of property within the hounds of ita poculiar fold. ‘Sho list of namesof . PRESIDENT, tECRETARY, AND DIRECTORS includes auch names ag those of H. % .Culear, Enq., Mr. C. L, Cutrar, the Hon. H. N. Hsb- bi bo Ton. W. H. bradley, the Hon. Meuera. M, A. Hoyue, W. H. Oviogton, Xt. B. Currier, Nicholas Kraniz, D. A. Knowl- con, Jr, Loyal L. Munn, of whom tho first shree aro Jeapoctively Preaident, Bocretary, and Vice-President; Mr. M.A. Hoyne {e Treasuror, and Mr. R. B, Currier General Agant, Bir. Cul- ver is 3 gentleman well known in commer- cial circlon, sud is 9 capable, ofiicient officer; aod Mr. Carrior, with twone ty-flvo. years’ experience, and hia indofati- gable attontion to and faithful discharge of the funetions of Secrotary, ia not only invalnable, but to bin comprehension of dotail and roady in- yontion the satisfactory condition of the Amer= ican to-day ia mostlydue. After a thorough aud paioataing investigation of tho American and ita affairs, avery facility having been cheerfully accorded our reporter, wa have no hesitation in recommending the Company ea sound and sol~ vont beyond a contingency; and, in our opinion, its exceilont management rondera it ono of the atroog institutions of our city; ite Sge, experience, and the ability displavod by its officers, promteo s future oven more brilb fant and satisfactory than ite past haa been. REFEUPING TO THE INDUCEMENTS held forth by the American to insurers and.’ ite superiority over ordmary and othor clare tasur- ance, Wo cannot mako a fittor closo to this,rerien than by quoting the words of acontempo:tarys © Why, then, ahould not Srat-clasa indemnity ve bought from the Amorican under tts Intelligent, ¢: cparieaced, and skilled management, cheaper than uniter tho alls spices of nome local company with little mony and whore officers are without expertence, an:"{ devote neat }thete whole time and thonght to the torwarding of thelr own private intererts? Etpe"ieure, too, bad tvmeeatepmapeter vats local came onies sre fallurea g Unt ¥ av: anal te ato applied, a8 an oxtenalve “4” “Coigegration, they are wiped out of existence with+ ¢ thoy lat thoretore, only te #: Stance of iiearance eld out tu the pu! 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