THE UNITED STATES Life Insurance Annuity and Trust Company. CHARTER PERPETUAL-CASH SYSTEM. CAPITAL $250,000. OFFICE, 28 MERCHANTS' EXCHANGE, PHILADELPHIA. OFFICE IN RICHMOND, AT THE OFFICE OF HAXALL & BROTHER. TWELFTH STREET, NEAR CARY. This company is organized upon the mixed principle, Stock and Mutual, which combined features offer to insured members double the usual security. The cash system of payments has also been adopted, thus avoiding the heavy drawback created by unpaid premium notes. The table rates of premium upon which its policies are being issued, is the only scale experience has proven should be adopted, as affording the requisite security to the insured, and an undoubted guarantee for the perpetuity of such institutions. An experimental table may be found worthless at the very instant a policy should possess its greatest value. Life Insurance, very properly, is arresting the attention of the world. The public, however, in their commendable willingness to embrace and employ its wise and salutary provisions, should make ultimate security the primary and most important object, which can only be attained by so adjusting the premiums as to anticipate unexpected losses and fluctuations of every kind. It is the purpose of this Cempany annually to credit upon the policies of holders and books of the Company such an amount of profits as shall not affect the stability or impair the sacredness of its contracts. Premiums may, at the option of the insured, be paid annually, semi-annually, or quarterly in advance. All necessary information, together with blanks, pamphlets, &c., may be obtained gratis at the office of the Company, No. 28, Merchants' Exchange, Philadelphia, and at the Office of Haxall & Brother, Twelfth Street, near Cary, in Richmond, Va. Hon. Thomas J. Oakley, City Hall, George Clark, 110 and 273 Broadway, and 10 Astor House, Medical DR. JOHN T. METCALF, 785 Broadway: (Examiners. AGENT FOR RICHMOND---WM. HENRY HAXALL. August, 1850. ..130 ..143 1. "The Doctrine of the Higher Law. Mr. Se- 5. Scraps of Thought. By A. E. Pollard..... Whole Number, CXCV. ORIGINAL PROSE ARTICLES (CONTINUED.) PAGE. 9. Southern Rights Association. Dependence of the South upon the North-objects of the Association ;-charge of Disunion repelled...........178 10. Letters from New York. Printer's FestivalAppearance of James, Griswold, Irving, Putnam, Bryant, Chapin, Halleck, &c., &c. Three Lectures of the "Artists' Course"-Introductory lecture by Henry James, Esq., on the Nature of Art; other lectures by Messrs. Curtis and Godwin; the Astor Library-Activity and energy of Mr. Cogswell, the Librarian-the Library to consist of 50,000 volumes, all elegantly bound; great value of the portion relating to Natural History. To be opened in the Summer of 1852... 11. The Seldens of Sherwood. Chapter XLVI....184 ORIGINAL POETRY. ..180 ..155 .160 .161 The Women of Israel-The Wide, Wide WorldScenes in the Life of the Saviour-Treasured Thoughts-Queens of Scotland-The Poetry of Science-Youth's Coronal-Wild Flowers from the West-The Duchess-Mackay's Popular Delusions-The Astrolepis of Stromness-Smith and Freund's Classical Dictionaries-American Almanac for 1851-The Island World of the Pacific-Fadette,, a domestic story, &c.......188-192 AGENTS. MACFARLANE & FERGUSSON, Richmond, Va. THIS WORK IS PUBLISHED IN MONTHLY NUMBERS AVERAGING SIXTY-FOUR PAGES EACH, at five DOLLARS, PER ANNUM, INVARIABLY IN ADVANCE. RICHMOND, VA. MACFARLANE & FERGUSSON. PUBLISHED MONTHLY AT FIVE DOLLARS PER ANNUM-JNO. R. THOMPSON, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. VOL. XVII. RICHMOND, MARCH, 1851. WANDERING FOOTSTEPS. NAPLES. "Vedi Napoli e poi mori.”—Italian Proverb. QUEEN of the blue, the tideless sea! Which links with thine its deathless fame ;- As sweet as those which charmed the wave, Ere love-lorn lips grew mute and cold, And the sands were scooped for the Syren's grave. Oh! beautiful Parthenope! Too fair indeed art thou to be A radiant gem dropped from the skyfA sight to gaze upon and die. "Tis evening, hark! the distant chime O'er mountain, plain and silent bay, Is mirrored in the placid tide Virgil. "Un pezzo di cielo caduto in terra."-Sannazzaro. VOL. XVII-17 There's not a breath to mar the sleep St. Elmo! from thy castled hill, A wondrous scene mine eyes survey, And through my bosom shoots a thrill It hath not felt for many a day. Above me frowns the fortress dim, With battlement and bastion grim, Below-almost beneath my feet, Extends the princely columned street, And the far sweeping, noble quay, Bordered by Palaces of State. Graced with Moresco Tower and Gate Curtain and sculptured balcony; Convents and spires and villages Gleam through the dark and distant trees, Of woods that stretch along the shore, Lo! all the beauty of Land and Sea! The villa and the gadding vine, The grove of Cedar, Cypress, Pine, Where hums by day the golden bee, NO. 3. Round myrtle bower and marble shrine; And ceaseless through the night's deep noon, The bird of sorrow hymns the moon, In garden fair, by glittering fountain Or yet more hallowed solitude, While Echo, from the far-off mountain, Of music breathed upon the shore, Here Nature fondly vies with art "Quem rupes Capræarum terra latebit Incesto possessa seni?"-CL. de 4to. Conf. Hon. |