1865.] 
AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
161 
n. S. 7-30 LOAl 
(Business notices $1 25 per agate line of space.) 
Do not Waste Yonr Money buying any of the 
numerous worthiess articles called Gold Pens which 
have flooded the market for the last few years, when at 
lower prices you can get pens which are acknowledged 
to be the Best in the Wonto. 
Avoid the shameless Upstarts whose lack of brains 
compels them to attempt imitation, even to the adver¬ 
tisement. If you want the full value of your money, see in 
another column ; “ The Pen is Mightier than the Sword.” 
GE®. F. mSSEIili € 0 . 
ISiarttord, Cosiis. 
Baiils:ex*s axid. iOea.leii’S in 
GOVERNMEHT SECURITIES. 
tJ. S. 5-30 and other Bonds bought and sold on the most 
favorable terms. 7 3-10 Notes ready for delivery, and a 
discount allowed. Purchasers are assured that we will fur¬ 
nish Government Bonds on as favorable terms as they can 
By authority of the Secretary of the Treasury, tlie 
undersigned has assumed tlie General Subscription 
Agency for the sale of the United Stales Treasury Notes, 
bearing seven and three-tenths per cent, interest, per 
annum, known as the 
SEVEN-THIRTY LOAN. 
These Notes are issued under date of June I5th, 1865, 
and are payable three years from that time, in currency, 
or are convertible at the option of the holder into 
U. S. 5-20 Six per cent. 
GOIiD-BEARIHG BONDS. 
These bonds are worth a premium W'hich increases the 
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gratis, who will show us as good a magazine at double tha 
price. 
THE llOirnCUETIJEIIST, I§65. 
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Two specimen copies sent, post paid, for Twenty-five 
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get them from New York. 
CONNECTICUT STATE BONDS, HARTFORD CITY 
BONDS, and a large assortment of first class securities on 
hand for sale at all times. 
The highest possible premium paid for Gold and Silver and 
U. S. Coupons, also for Coupons not yet due. We are also 
Agents for the Government for the sale of Revenue Stamps 
of all kinds. Interest allowed on deposits from the date of 
deposit till date of withdrawal. 
The long and successful Banking experience of the Senior 
partner of our house (extending over a period of nearly 
twenty years), and our rigid adherence to the principles of 
sound Banking, enable us to give the greatest facilities to 
our customers, and warrant us In saying that it is our aim 
to have our House rank second to no Banking establishment 
In the country for soundness and stability. 
Business sent us by mail will receive the same prompt at¬ 
tention that is given to those who come in person. 
GEO. P. BISSEL.I. & CO. 
(KETCHUM SON & CO., New-York. 
1 HARTFORD BANK, Hartford, Conn. 
Refer to 
actual profit on the 7-30 loan, and its exemption from 
State and municipal taxation adds from one to three per 
cent, more, according to the rate levied on other property. 
The interest is payable in ciiriency semi-annually by- 
coupons attached to each note, which may be cut off 
and sold to any bank or banker. 
The interest amounts to 
One cent per day on a 
Two cents “ 
Ten ” “ 
20 
$S “ “ 
" - $50 note. 
$8 00 
$.500 •• 
$1000 
$5000 “ 
Notes of all the denominations named will be promptly 
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Woocl’tYiM’d’s Coainlry Homes, 
I2mo. cloth. 122 Engravings. $1.50. post paid. 
Woodward’s Graperies and Horticultural 
Buildings, 
12mo, cloth. 60 Engravings. $1.50, post paid. 
GEO. E. & F. W. WOODWARD, 
PnblisliRrs. .^7 Park Row, New-York. 
THE CHART, 
containing a truthful 
LIFE SIZE LIKENESS 
with a highly finished pictorial border, showing the chie. 
scenes of the eventful 
LIFE AND DEATH 
of 
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forwarded at once. The interest to 15th June next will 
be paid in advance. This is 
THE OHLY LOAH IH MARKET 
TME MAM WE M®tJRM. 
II. 
Another new Chart called 
OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK. 
now offered by the Government, and it is confidently 
THE EIEE a>EATII 
of 
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FISCAL AGENT OF THE UNITED STATES, 
And Speciaj. Agent for Jay Cooke, Subscrip¬ 
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Will Deliver T-30 Notes, Free of charge, 
by Express, in all parts of the country, and receive in 
payment Checks on New York, Philadelphia, and Boston, 
Current Bills, and all five per cent, interest Notes, with 
interest to date of subscription. Orders sent by mail 
will be promptly filled. 
This Bank receives the accounts of Banks and Bank¬ 
ers on favorable terms; also of individuals keeping 
New York accounts. 
expected that its superior advantages will make it the 
GREAT POPULAR LOAN OF THE PEOPLE. 
Less than $300,000,000 of the Loan authorized by the 
last Congress are now on the market. This amount, at 
the rate at which it is being absorbed, will all be sub¬ 
scribed for within four months, when the notes will un¬ 
doubtedly command a premium, as has uniformly been 
the case on closing the subscriptions to other Loans. 
In order that citizens of every town and section of 
the country may be afforded facilities for taking the loan, 
the National Banks, State Banks, and Private Bankers 
AHIBSAMAM 
wherein will be preserved in elegant form, the most glo¬ 
rious and tremendous events of Ids Life and Death. 
Also Tw o Lithographic Prints—one sliow ing his Assas¬ 
sination—the oilier the Catafalque and Funeral.—Also an 
excellent Crayon Lithograph Likeness.—Charts mailed 
for 40 cents each ; the iwo for 75 cents.—Prints 20 cents 
each ; the two for 35 cents. Crayon Likeness 25 cents. 
These works wiih others will be ready about May 1st. 
CweBierosis Terms to Ag’cnts. 
Orders filled in the order received. Address 
J. T. HILL, Cashier. J. U. ORVIS, President. 
Fourteenth Annual iteport 
OF THE 
MANHATTAN 
throughout the country have generally agreed to receive 
subscriptions at par. Subscribers will select their own 
agents, in whom they have confidence, and who only are 
to be responsible for the delivery of the notes for which 
they receive orders. 
LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY, 
Nos, 156 and 158 Broadtvay, 
NEW YORK, 
JANUARY 1, 1865. 
Vet Assets, January 1, 1864....$1,478,968 59 
leceipts during the year.... 973,534 02 
$2,452,502 61 
Oisburseraents. 461,277 38 
$1,991,225 23 
Assets....'..$1,991,225 23 
Life policies are issued, payable in annual, or in one, 
five, or ten annual installments ; also non-forfeiture en¬ 
dowment policie.s, payable in ten annual payments, 
which are paid at death, or on arriving at any particular 
age. Life insurance as an investment has no superior, 
as It has saved millions of dollars to the insured, and 
thousands of families from ruin. Dividends are paid to 
policy holders, thus enabling them to continue their 
policies, if otherwise unable to do so. 
HENRY STOKES, President. 
C. Y. WEMPLE, Secretary, 
J. S. HALSEY, Assistant Secretary. 
S. N. STEBBINS, Actuary. 
ABRAM DU BOIS, M. D., Medical Examiner, 
JAY COOKE, 
Subscription Aoeni, Philadelphia. 
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$50 to $150 per month. 
For terms and territory, address 
E. B. "TREAT, Publisher, 124 Grand St., 
Three doors East of Broadway, New-York. 
“ Signs of Cliaracter,” and How to Read 
Tliem. —Physiognomy, Phrenology, Psychology, Eth¬ 
nology, with Portraits and Biography, given in the 
ILLUSTRATED PHRENOLOGICAL JOURNAL. 
Only 20 cents a number, or $2 a year. The Pictorial 
Double Numbers for Jan.. Feb., March and April sent by 
return post, for $1.00. Plea.se address MESSRS. FOW¬ 
LER & WELLS, 389 Broadway, New York. 
miniature Farming—*‘Our Farm of Two 
Acres.” —By Harriet Mabtineau. 48 pp. 16 mo. 
Price 20 cents. Very entertaining and full of valuable 
suggestions. Mailed post free on receipt of price. 
BUNGE & HUNTINGTON, Publishers, 540 Broadway 
New-York 
About Four Thousand of these Great Clothes and Labor 
Savers have been sold within the past and present years, all 
with the privilege of returning and having the Pur.cnASK 
MONEY KEFUNnED, if, after three weeks’ fair trial, according 
to the directions, tlie tVasher proves unsatisfactorj’, yet not 
ONE IN FIVE iiuNDKKD liits ever been returned. 
The Proprietors continue to cuakantt satisfaction, 
therefore there Is no reason why every Family should not 
have one. Send $10.50 to DOTY BROTHERS, 
Janesville, Wis., and get a Machine that is warranted to 
save from $10 to $100 worth of clothing yearly, besides mak¬ 
ing Washing three times as easy. (See Editorial Illustration 
and description In March Agriculturist.) Circulars free, on 
application. Agencies established at New York, Philadel¬ 
phia, Chicago, St. Louis, Butfaio, and other large cities. 
GREAT 
ABVEISTISIM® MEBIUM. 
The Dollar Weekly Mirror ano Journal of 
Agriculture published at Manchester, New Hamp¬ 
shire, has a larger circulation tlian any olher paper north 
of Boston. One quarter of the paper is devolecl to Agri¬ 
culture, wholly, and is edited by Hon. Chanoler E. 
Potter. The rest is devoted to news. Politics and Edu¬ 
cation, and is edited by John B. Clarke, the propietor. 
U is not only a great nimily and farming paper, but, be¬ 
ing published in a oily only second in notion and wool¬ 
en manufacturing interests in the United States, it has a 
wide circulation in all other manufacturing cities and 
villages in the United States. Subscriptions $1,50 a year 
in advance. 
Only a small space is devoted to advertising. Terms ; 
Ten cents a line for e.ach insertion. One column, 22)^ 
Inches long, one time, twenty-five dollars. 
Refers to New York Times. Tribune. Wilke’s Spirit 
ana the Agriculturist; to Gov. Fenton of New York, and 
General Bruce, State Canal Commissioner. 
Address JOHN B. CLARKE, 
Manclieste*, New Hampshire 
