AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
[October, 
(Advertisements on this page, $2.50 per Agate Line of Space.) 
ESTABLISHED 1861. 
THE 
TEA COMPANY 
RECEIVE THEIR 
TEAS BY THE CARGO 
FROM THE 
BEST TEA DISTRICTS 
of 
CHiftJA and JAFAM, 
and sell them in quantities to suit customers 
AT CAEGO PRICES. 
To give our readers an idea of the profits which have been 
made in the Tea trade, we will start with the American 
houses, leaving out of the account entirely the profits of 
the Chinese factors. 
1 st,—The American house in China or Japan makes large 
profits on their sales or shipments—and some of the richest 
retired merchants in the country have made their immense 
fortunes through their houses in China. 
2d.—The Banker makes large profits upon the foreign 
exchange used in the purchase of Teas. 
3d.—The Importer makes a profit of 30 to 50 per cent in 
many cases. 
4th.—On its arrival here it is sold by the cargo, and the 
Purchaser sells it to the Speculator in invoices of 1,000 to 
2,000 packages, at an average profit of about 10 per cent. 
5th.—The Speculator sells it to the "Wholesale Tea Dealer 
in lines at a profit of 10 to 15 per cent. 
6th.—The "Wholesale Tea Dealer sells it to the "Wholesale 
Grocer in lots to suit his trade, at a profit of about 10 per 
cent. 
7th.—The "Wholesale Grocer sells it to the Retail Dealer at 
a profit of 15 to 23 per cent. 
8th.— The Retailer sells it to the Consumer for alp the 
PROFIT BE CAN GET. 
When you have , added to these EroriT profits as many 
brokerages, cartages, storages, cooperages and wastes, and 
add the original cost of the Ten, it will be perceived what 
the consumer has to pay. And now we propose to show why 
we can sell so very much lower than other dealers. 
We propose to do away with all these various profits and 
brokerages, cartages, storages, cooperages and wastes, with 
the exception of a small commission paid for purchasing to 
our correspondents in China and Japan, one cartage, and a 
small profit to ourselves—which, on pur large sales, will 
amply pay us. 
By our system of supplying Clubs throughout the country, 
consumers in all parts of the United States can receive their 
Teas at the same price (witli the small additional expense 
of transportation), as though they bought them at our 
warehouses in this city. 
For manner of getting up Clubs, see former advertisement 
in this paper 
Parties sending Club or other orders for less than thirty 
dollars had better send a Post-oillce draft or money with 
their orders, to save the expense of collections by Express, 
but larger orders we will forward by express, “ to collect 
on delivery.” 
Hereafter we will "bend a complimentary package to the 
party getting up the Club. Our profits are small, but we will 
be as liberal as we can afford. We send no complimentary 
packages for Clubs less than $30. 
Parties getting their Teas of us may confidently rely upon 
getting them pure and fresh, as they come direct from the 
Custom House stores to our Warehouses. 
We warrant all the goods we sell to give entire satisfac¬ 
tion. If they are not satisfactory, they can be returned at 
our expense within 30 days, and have the money refunded. 
The Companvhave selected the following kinds from their 
stock, which they recommend Vo meet the wants of clubs. 
They are sold at cargo prices, the same as the Company sell 
them in Hew York, as the list ol prices will show. 
PRICE LIST OF TEAS: 
OOLONG (Black), 70c., 80c„ 90c., heat St 9 H>. 
MIXED, (Green and Black), 70c„ 80c.., 80c., best $1 per It. 
ENGLISH BREAKFAST (Black), 80c„ 90c„ $1, $1.10, best 
$1.20 per pound. 
IMPERIAL (Green). 80c.,90c., $1,81.10. best $1.25 per pound. 
YOUNG HYSON (Green), 80c., 90c., $1, $1.10, best $1.25 per 
pound. 
UNCOLORED JAPAN, 90c„ $1. $1.10, best $1.25 per pound. 
GUNPOWDER, (Green), $1.25, best $1.50 per pound. 
Consumers can save from 50c. to $1 per pound by pur¬ 
chasing their Teas of this Company. 
COFFEES ROASTED AND GROUND DAILY. 
GROUND COFFEE.20c„ 25c., 30c.,35c.,best 40c. per pound. 
Hotels, Saloons, Boarding-house keepers, and Families who 
use large quantities of Coffee, can economize in that article 
by using our FRENCH BREAKFAST AND DINNER COF¬ 
FEE, whicli we sell at the low price of 30e. per pound, and 
warrant to give perfect satisfaction. ROASTED (Unground), 
30e., 35e„ best 40c. per lb. GREEN (Unroasted), 25c„ S0c„ 
33c., best S5c. per lb. 
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NOTICE OF THE PRESS. 
From the American Agriculturist, N. Y. City. 
“ The Great American Tea Company,” 31 and 33 Vesey- 
street, advertised in our columns, though doing an immense 
business all over the country, has not even been complained 
of to us more than two or three times in as many years. 
On tills account, as well as for other reasons we have pre¬ 
viously stated, we believe general satisfaction is given to 
their customers. But stimulated by their success, several of 
the swindling fraternity have started or pretend to have 
started other “ Tea Companies,”—some copying very near¬ 
ly the advertisements, etc., of the old company. Some of 
these we know to be humbugs (one was noted last month,) 
and as to others we have not evidence sufficient to war¬ 
rant us in admitting their advertisements. 
N. B—INHABITANTS OF VILLAGES AND 
TOWNS WHERE A LARGE NUM¬ 
BER RESIDE, BY CLUBBING TO¬ 
GETHER, CAN REDUCE THE COST 
OF THEIR TEAS AND COFFEES 
ABOUT ONE-THIRD, (BESIDES THE 
EXPRESS CHARGES), BY SENDING 
DIRECTLY to “ THE GREAT AMER¬ 
ICAN TEA COMPANY.” 
Caution.— As some concerns, in this city and other 
places, imitate our name and style of advertising and doing 
business, it is important tliat our friends should be very 
careful to write our address in full, and also to putiOnthe 
number' of our Post-Office Box, as appears in this advertise¬ 
ment. This will prevent their orders from getting into 
the hands of these bogus imitators. 
POST-OFFICE orders and Drafts, make payable to the 
order of “ The Great American Tea Company." 
Direct letters and orders (as below, no more, no less). 
Great American Tea Company, 
Nos. 3 1 and 33 VESEY-ST., 
Post-Office Box, 5,043, New York City. 
MANHATTAN CO-OPERATIVE RELIEF 
ASSOCIATON. 
658 Broadway (Corner of Boml-St,) Nexv Yorlc. 
THE MANHATTAN CO-OPERATIVE RELIEF ASSO¬ 
CIATION is organized under the General Laws of the State 
of New York. 
Object.— The object of this Association is to secure a casli 
payment, within forty days after the deatli of a member, of 
as many dollars as there are members in the class to which 
lie or she belongs, to his or her heirs. 
Membership Fees .— 1 The membership fees are Six Dollars 
at joining (for which a policy will be furnished), and one 
dollar and ten cents on the death of each member, of which 
due notice will be given. One dollar from each member 
goes to the widow or heirs of the deceased member, and the 
ten cents for expenses of collecting. 
Investments.— The By-Laws of the Association require 
that one-third of tile money received as new membership 
fees shall be made a sinking fund to meet payments falling 
due by the delinquencies of members. This land is held by 
the-National Trust Company, and will be invested in United 
States Bonds or real estate, or bond and mortgage upon New 
York City property, which property shall be double the 
value of the money so loaned. 
Tiie Funds.— The remaining two-thirds, after paying the 
expenses of the Association, shall he invested in real estate 
in the City of New York, or in bond and mortgage on prop¬ 
erty in the City of New York, the interest of which shall go 
to pay the current expenses of the Association. If a deceas¬ 
ed member leaves no heir, the money becomes the property 
of the Association, with the proviso that the expenses of 
burial shall be paid out of such funds—said expenses, how¬ 
ever, not to exceed one hundred dollars. 
A member failing to pay bis lee of one dollar and ten cents 
within thirty days from date of notice forfeits all claims 
upon the Association, and also forfeits all money previously 
paid. 
When members choose they can send Eleven Dollars to the 
Treasurer to prepay their fees, which sum will pay for ten 
deaths, tints saving the trouble of sending $1.10 each time. 
No man is so poor that he cannot pay Six Dollars now and 
$1.10 occasionally, tints securing $3,000 to his heirs. The 
average number of dollars each person will have to pay to 
secure $5,000 will be $30 per year, a little over 50 cents per 
week. This makes this mode of insurance cost about one- 
sixth what they would have to pay any regular Insurance 
Company for a $5,000 policy. 
This Company is divided" into ten classes for men and ten 
classes for women. As soon as these classes are filled, ten 
new classes will he formed. Men and women are not allow¬ 
ed in the same classes. Everything is done to make each 
class equal. 
The classes for women are the same as above. Any one 
tliat is found to give his or her age wrong will he expelled, 
and the moneys paid forfeited to the Association. Each 
class is limited to 5,000 members. Each person pays six dol¬ 
lars upon becoming a member, and one dollar and ten cents 
each time a member dies belonging to the same class he or 
she may be a member of. 
A member of one class cannot be assessed this dollar if a 
member,of another class dies. Each class is INDEPENDENT, 
having no connection with any other. 
Illustration.— Class "A” has 5,000 male members. A 
member dies. The Association pays over within forty days 
$5,000 to the widow or heirs, and the remaining members for¬ 
ward one dollar and ten cents each to the Association to re¬ 
imburse it. Failing to send this sum, they forfeit to the As¬ 
sociation all moneys paid, and the Association supplies a new 
member to fill the place of the retiring one. 
Advantages.— The advantages of this Association oyer 
ordinary Life Insurance Companies are: no panics can break 
it; the fees are so small, and required to he paid at such 
long intervals, tliat any man can secure to his family a com¬ 
petency upon his death. 
How to become Members.— Any one desiring to become 
a member must send Six Dollars, in Check, Bank Draft, Post¬ 
al Order, or by Express, the expressage being paid by the 
applicant. Under no circumstances will the Association be 
responsible for moneys sent but in this way. Persons paying 
otherwise than by check, postal-orders, or draft, do it at their 
own risk. All checks. &c„ must be made payable to the 
order of W. S. Carman, Treasurer. Accompanying the 
money must he a paper giving the applicant's full name—Age 
—Birthplace — Present Occupation—Who the Policy is in 
favor of—Post-Office address—Town, County, State. Also 
a Medical Certificate, setting forth the physical condition, 
and whether, in opinion of the Doctor examining, the 
applicant is a proper person to he insured. Blank forms of 
application for membership will he sent upon application. 
Aaents are not allowed to receive money hut in the form 
of a check, draft, or postal-order, made payable to the order 
of W. S Carman, Treasurer. 
Each member ought to try to'make new members,—by so 
doing be benefits himself. 
All communications should be addressed 
MANHATTAN CO-OPERATIVE RELIEF ASSOCIATION, 
658 Broadway (Cor. of Bond Street.) 
I E. McMurdt, 
Elson T. Wright, Prest. Star Metal Co. 
W. S. Carman, Prest.Stuyvesant Bank. 
H. YV. Ford, Cashier, Bank of the Republic. 
L. YV. Murray, 
I E. McMurdt, President. 
Elson T. Wright, Vice-President. 
YV. S. Carman, Treasurer. 
Lewis Sanders, Secretary. 
John A. Robinson, M. D.. Exam.Physician. 
Q. R. Gray, M. D., Examining Physician. 
A General Agent wanted for each State and Territory. 
Agents wanted in every town in the United States and Can¬ 
adas. Members participate in all dividends. 
RURAL IMPROVEMENTS. 
Robert Morris Copeland, author of Country Life, furnishes 
plans and advice for laying out Public and Private grounds 
of every description. Refers to John M. Forbes, Nathaniel 
Thayer, Boston, F. G. Shaw, New York, O. S. (lubbell, Phil¬ 
adelphia, G. T. Fletcher, Indianapolis, Ind. 
Office 40 Barristers' Hall, Boston, Mass. 
PORTABLE STEAM 
H For Farm, Mining or Mechanical purposes. These 
machines require no brick work ; mounted on legs they are 
especially adapted for use in Mills, Shops, Founderies or. 
Printing Rooms or mounted on wheels they are adapted 
for out-door work, Threshing. Wood Sawing, &c. See 
Rural New-Yorker of August 15th. 1868. first page. 
(Eir’Circulars with description and prices furnished on ap¬ 
plication to A. N. WOOD & CO., Eaton, Madison Co., N. 1 . 
Early K©§c Potatoes*, 
We have a superior stock of this celebrated potato, which 
we offer this fall at very attractive rates. Our stock can he 
implicitly relied upon for its genuineness. Send for Circu¬ 
lar and price list. EDWARD BURGESS, 
Poughkeepsie, N.Y. 
—Iona, Martha, Salem, 
Ive 3 , Concord, Delaware, Norton, and 40 other kinds. 
Grape Wood, full supply. Kittatinny and Clarke Rasp¬ 
berries. Early Rose and Goodrich Potatoes Descriptive 
and Price List ready. M. H. LEW IS, . 
Sandusky, Ohio. 
f Our Netv Catalogue of Eiaiisj-ovpiiL 
r aiE/Sli . STENCIli DIES. MORE THAN 
A M«OTH is being made with them. 
S. M. SPENCER & CO.; Brat.tleboro, Vt. 
$200 
WESTWARD THE STAK OF EMPIRE. 
ELGIN WATCHER 
THE NATIONAL WATCH CO., ELGIN, ILL, 
National Watch Company: Chicago, October 21st, ISO,. 
Having carefully examined and tested your Watches, we find them perfect in all their parts, of fine finish, and well 
adapted to the wants of the time-keeping public. We consider them TnE best made Watches in America, for the 
price, and equal to the finest European Watches, for accurate time, that cost double or three times the money. 
We cheerfully recommend them to all parties wishing good time-keepers. 
"WENDELL & HYMAN, D. UNTEHMF.YER & CO., 
B. F. NORIIIS & CO., H. OPPENHEIMER & CO., 
NOYVLIN & McELWAIN, GILES BRO. & CO., 
C. F. HAPPEL & CO.. w. M. & J. B. MAYO, 
The names above will he recognized as the leading jewelers of Chicago. 
pany, but freely testify as to the genuine merits of the Watches, which ter the past year have been sold by them. Address 
NATIONAL WATCH CO., 159 & 161 Lake-st., Chicago. 
A. H. MILLER. 
MORSE, RODDIN & HAMILTON, 
W. II. C. MILLER & CO., 
M. KRONBERG & CO. 
They have no pecuniary interest in the Com- 
