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THE DAILY-EVENING TELEGRAPH PHILADELPHIA,. TUESDAY, AUGUST 1G, 1870.
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Editorial Opinions of the Leading Journals
upon Current Topics Compiled Every
Day for the Evening Telegraph
IlELIGION AND TIIE WAR.
From the X. T. Tribune.
It has been Said and there are many peo
ple who believe it that the present war is
inttigateu by a desire on the part of Fraaoe
to stay tho spread of Protestantism. In
other words, that it is a religious crusade of
Oatholic France against Protestant Prussia.
This is a very absurd supposition. The large
Catholic element that exists in Prussia and
throughont Germany, and the influence, , if
not the numbers, of the ITroteatants in
France, ought to convince any one that in
. the present religions aspect of Europe suoh
a war is impossible.' In France; though a
great majority of the people belong to the
Church of Home, it is well known that many
of the leading statesmen and prominent per
sonages of the Empire are of the Protestant
faith. The State, in its endowments, knows
no diff erence between the two creeds. In
Prussia, though the royal family of Prussia
belong to the Reformed or Calvinistio
Church, all Christian denominations enjoy
the same privileges, and are equally eligible
to places of trust and emolument. The
Protestants are divided into two branches,
Lutherans and Calvinists, and comprise, ac
cording to the census of 1M7, more than fi.1
per cent, of the entire population, while the
Catholics amount to nearly 33 per cent., the
rest, about 2 per cent., being made up of
Israelites and other sects. However, in some
portions of the Prussian dominions the Catho
lics actually predominate, and among these
may be named Posen, Westphalia, and the
r.henish provinces. Jews are to be found in
all the provinces of Prussia, but principally
in rosen; while members of the Greek
Church and other sects are scattered
throughout the monarchy. The Protestants
form the greater part of the population of
the provinces annexed in 18GC; Hanover
alone added 1,(582,777 Protestants and only
22G,00l Roman Catholics to the population.
Protestantism is gradually spreading among
the population, and Human Catholicism de
creasing. When Silesiawas acquired byPras
sia, in 1 70S, its population was mainly Catholic;
but now, out of its three provinces, in the two
most important the majority of the population
is Protestant. In the religious statistics of 1862
it was shown that She Protestant element in
the army at that time amounted to 181,707
men, while the Catholic comprised 82,345, to
which were added 1328 Jews and 77 of other
creeds. The great mass of the populations
of the other States which are inoluded in the
North-German Confederation is Protestant
next to Prusbia, Oldenburg being the only
State in which there is any considerable pro
portion of Catholics. According to the
enumerations of 180G and 1807, the inhabit
ants of North and South Germany were
divided as follows:
Cttuntrir. Protestants. Catholics.
North Germany 2t,8iu 834 8,131,188
souttt Germany 3,300,999 5,127,304
Total 24,073,333 13,258,440
In other words, in the North German Con
federation the Protestants were more than
71 per cent, and Catholics 27 per cent. In
the South German States (Bavaria, Wurtem
berg, Baden, and Hesse) the Catholics are
(i0 per cent, and Protestants 39 per cent.
The only State in which the Protestants pre
dominate is Hesse. Bavaria is nearly three
fourths Catholio, but that detached portion
of the kingdom which lies between France
and the Rhine, known as the Palatinate, is
not quite half Catholio, its population com
prising 273,982 Catholics, 33(5,1 i'J Protestants,
13,012 Israelites, and 2923 of other sects. If
we take the total of North and South Ger
many, which in this war at any rate are one,
we find that about two-thirds of the people
are Protestants and one-third Catholics.
In France, by the census of 18G0, there
were ;;0,420,(;G1 Catholics and 1,591,250 Pro
testants. This official statement, however,
is, in regard to the Protestants, greatly at
variance with the numbers of worshipping
members as given by the Synods and Consis
tories, the heads of which estimate the mem
bers of the lleformed Church at 630,000, and
those of the Lutheran Church at 305,000,
making the total less than a million of Protest
ants. The larger amount stated above is,
therefore, evidently made up by those who
are nominally of the Protestant faith, but not
in Church fellowship.
The State recognizesjjall religions, but it
only endows the Roman Catholics, the Pro
testants, and the Jews. The allowance made
to the Boman Catholio clergy in the last
budget amounted to 49,819,930 francs, and
that of the Protestant Churches to 1,493,430
francs. These amounts, when compared with
the population returns, show that the allow
ance per capita is about the same in the two
denominations.
Thus, with Germany more than one-third
Catholio, and with a large proportion of Cath
olics in her armies, and with France endowing
the Protestant Church in relative proportion
to the Catholic, it is not easy to see how
either &ide can claim our sympathies on the
score of religion. It is a quarrel in which
religion has no part, and if the people of
America have given their good wishes to
Prussia, it is not because they look upon her
as the Protestant champion, but because she
has a just cause and has been oar good friend.
TIIE SECEET TREATY.
From the London Saturday Review.
Events move so rapidly in times like these
that all this history of the endeavors, suc
cesses, and failures of the English Govern
ment seems already out of date, although it
is scarcely a fortnight old. The news of the
secret treaty said to have been propose! by
France to Prussia has made all discussions as
to Prince Hohenzollern and M. Benedetti at
Ems seem trivial and uninteresting. A treaty
ottered to Prussia by France, in which Prus
sia was to bind herself to help France to con
iuer Belgium and hold it against - all the
world, was startling in itself, and was espe
cially startling to Englishmen, who saw that
they would be instantly dragged into the war
if a French conquest of Belgium was to be
one of its incidents or consequences. We
now know the history of this treaty about as
much perhaps as we are ever likely to
know it. There can be no doubt that the
draft of such a treaty in the handwriting of
M. Benedetti is in the possession of Prussia.
The diplomatic representatives of other na
tions are invited to inspect it u tney wish,
The French Government does not deny that
some such project was at one time discussed
between the representatives of France and
Prussia, but it says that the suggestion came
from Count Bismarck, not from JM. Bene
detti, and that directly the Emperor beard of
it, be at once signified ms entire disapproval
Count Bismarck retorts by saying that this
was only one of a series of offers and propo
sals made at different times by rrauoe to
r.w,.-. ILc rLL vox, J1 luviari lt
thoir object to got an increase of territory for
France in return for countenaooe given
to' Prussian schemes of 1 aggrandizement
in Germany. France even offered
to make war on Austria if Prussia would pay
her in Rhenish land. These efforts to corrupt
Prussia and to make her an accomplice in
ppoliation have been incessant. The Luxem
burg affair was terminated by England's ao
teptiDg the burden of a new guarantee. But,
after this had been done, the first thing that
France did, according to Count Bismarck,
was to propone again that she should be
allowed to conquer Belgium. It is distinctly
stated that the draft treaty in the hand
writing of M. Benodotti was subsequent to
Ibe Luxemburg, affair. The organs of the
Prussian Government go further, and state
that there are other revelations to come; that
Prince Napoleon, among other things, went
to Berlin and suggested that there were can
tons of Switzerland where French was the
language of the people, and that in Piedmont
it is impossible to Bay where
French ends and Italian begins.
All this undoubtedly shows that designs
most fatal to the peace of Europe have
floated through the minds of the Emperor
and bis representatives. It is impossible to
believe that M. Benedetti was acting entirely
without bis master's knowledge, or to doubt
that schemes for sharing plunder on a gigantic
scale have been proposed in the last Ave or
six years by Franoe to Prussia. But there
are two observations which it is, we think,
important to make. The whole of the blame
cannot be made to rest on Franco. Erenif
the French assertion that Count Bismarck
intimated a wish to appropriate Holland is
untrue, yet all these overtures of spoliation
cannot have been made time after time with
out encouragement. To say the very least,
Prussia led France on to make them, and re
jected them in such a way that
thev were soon made again. In the next
place, when last Monday the Time published
the treaty, it augmented immensely the im
portance of the publication by positively
stating that within the last few days since
the present quarrel has sprung up, France
has renewed the offer to forbear to cross tha
purposes of Prussia on condition of Belgium
being given to Franco. This was most
astonishing and alarming, for it would have
stamped France as guilty of the blackest
treachery towards England, to whoso friendly
aid France had just appealed, and it would
have made ns almost necessarily parties
to the war. Bnt, happily, there is
no evidence whatever to show
that the assertion was true. On the con
trary, Count Bismarck, who would have been
sure to produce all the evidence he could of
any recent design of France on Belgium, has
none to oner, and contents himself with sur
mising, on what ne calls good grounds, that
if this treaty had not been published, the
French Government would now at this very
moment have been proposing to Prussia that
as they are the only two powers in a complete
state of military preparation, they should
unite against all the rest of Europe, and map
out a new territorial arrangement of the Con
tinent exactly as they pleased.
The publication of this treaty, and the
whole history of what happened during the
period covered by the English correspond
ence, nave not injured ranee as muon as
Prussia probably calculated they would injure
it. The origin ot the treaty and tne circum
stances under which it was drawn up are so
obscure that conjeoture cannot move alto
gether in a line favorable to the innocence
and honesty of Prussia. The assertion
that France, if this treaty had not been pub
lished, would even now have renewed the
offer, is only an assertion, and is open to the
obvious criticism that, if Count Bismarck
could have reckoned on France commit
ting such a gigantic blunder, he would
certainly have . let her commit it,
and would not have had the draft printed in
the Times so soon. The whole career of
Count Bismarck, too, inspires a conviction
that he is the kind of man to whom unscru
pulous nroDosals would naturally be made.
It would be very interesting to know whether
the King of Prussia had ever seen or heard
of this treaty in M. Benedetti's handwriting
before this week. We confidently guess that
it was as new to him as to every one else,
and that it was only one part of a long series
of intrigues between Count Bismarck and M.
Benedetti, of which the King of Prussia knew
next to nothing, and the Jmperor just as
little or as much as he thought conve
nient. For the moment, however, the effect
of the publication of the draft treaty has been
beneficial to Belgium. It has strengthened
the national jealousy of all attempts to put an
end to Belgian independence; and it has called
forth from France a distinct assertion that
the Emperor's honor is pledged not to violate
the neutrality of Belgium while Prussia re
spects it. Count Bismarck, in the same way,
has committed himself at the outset of the
war to a strict pledge not to let the war lead
to the dismemberment or weakening of neu
tral nations. England is at the head of the
neutral nations, for no nation longs so earn
estly to be neutral as she does, and the Gov
ernment have used and will use their utmost
influence to maintain inviolate the neutrality
of Denmark, Holland, and Switzerland. As to
Belgium, the mind of England is thoroughly
made up to defend it if it is seriously me
naced. It will be very necessary not to enact
the part of policemen suspicious of every act
and every ' movement, and seeing deep de
signs of fraud and robbery in trivial and
accidental movements or incidents. We
need not even say much about our helping
Belgium, as u we were the sole guardians of
Belgian neutrality, and as u we were chal.
lenging France and Prussia, and especially
France, to dare to touch our little friend.
This kind of neutrality is a sort of neu
trality that may give very unnecessary
irritation, and lead to the war which we all
long to avert. A calm and dignified reserve
ought, as Lord Granville said, to be the atti
tude of England. We think both Franoe and
Prussia know perfectly well, and we hope
lielgium knows, and we are sure we in Eng
land know, that we are determined to help
Belgium if necessary. But so long as this is
known, it will produce a much more salutary
effect if there is no boasting about it: and
although the Government should most cer
tainly do all it can to make our tiny army
effectual, and to let ns avail ourselves at once
of the full strength of our navy, yet it will
be wise if it makes its preparations quietly,
and bo as not to court attention or to give uu-
nessary onence.
nOW NOT TO MANAGE SOUTHERN
ELECTIONS. '
From the X. Y. Timet.
A saying of the wise man is verified in the
course of some extreme Southern politicians
and their Northern abettors: "Though thou
ehouldest bray a tool in a mortar amons
wheat with a pestle, yet will not his foolish-.
ness depart irom mm. ihis class of whom
we speak learn nothing from experience. The
fact that Governor Holden'B violent proceed
ings have transferred North Carolina to the
Democracy teaches them ao lesson. They
1 imagine that the possession of povrer entitles
them to play despotio tricks with impunity;
and that if their authority to override law and
outrage justice be challenged, theyhave but
to appeal to Washington to obtain all the sup
port thoy require. They assume that
Federal troops are available whenever
they choose t to ' call for help,
and that, if those are not equal to the
occasion, Congress will upset its own work,
do violence to the rights of sovereign States,
and restore chaos as a pretext for military
government. It must, be admitted that for
these extravagant assumptions too much jus
tification has been afforded. The despatch of
troops to do Governor Holden'a bidding is a
precedent not Jess mischievous in its ten
dency than the ever-recurring threat of inter
ference which the extremists in Congress
promulgate whenever they find party supre
macy jeopardized in a Southern State. But
the folly that invokes Federal interference is
none the less because there is a folly that
concedes such interference. In either case it
is suicidal.
What is about to happen when Mr. For
ney's two papers begin to talk of "renewod
Southern outrages," all of us know. The
sign is understood everywhere. . lhere is a
purpose which may be interpreted without
prophetic aid. homo scheme for promoting
personal ambition or factious greed is to be
presented to Congress or the President.
Some plan is contemplated for carrying an
election against the will of the people, or for
perpetuating nu authority that cannot with
stand the free exercise of the ballot. Then the
Kn-Klnk reappear, and murders and outrages
multiply at a rate which only vivid imagina
tions can expluin. Of this startling intelli
gence the Washington Chronicle and the
Philadelphia I re 8 have a monopoly; they
are without a rival, in that line of the news
paper business. And they are preparing now
for fresh . manifestations of their peculiar
skill. They would have us bolieve that the
defeat in North Carolina might have been
prevented had there been more bayonets at
the ballot-box; and tliey so describe events
in other States as to suggest the necessity for
military appearances to make sure of Repub
lican victories. They ask us to rely more
upon the bullet, and less upon the ballot.
irom this teaching Georgia has happily
been rescued by tho good seuse of onobr incU
of the local Legislature, indorsed and rjer
haps aided by Attorney-General Akerman.
The people are not to be defrauded out of
an election, as was proposed. Now let tis
hope that they will be allowed to vote un
molested by the military. Mr. Akerman
has well said that the Republican party can
better aflord to lose a State than to retain it
by means that cor 'lift with right. In Texas,
however, there a ! vernor who desires to
imitate Mr. Holden. He wants a little
standing army to aid him in managing mat
ters, and threatens to appeal to the Wash
ington Jupiter if the Legislature reject his
propositions. A despatch to the Galveston
JJuUctin a staunch I) nion shoet briefly tells
the story:
"Austin, Aug. 6. Governor Davis lias determined
that if the Legislature aijourns without pasiuthe
appropriations -he asked, amounting tt fl,ooo,oi)0,
that he will immediately call an extra session. If
that Is refused, he will report to the Federal Govern
ment that the (State is lawless, that he is powerless,
and ask that the State be remanded to military rule,
that he be appointed Military Governor, and troops
stationed in the btate as before reconstruction."
We have seen these things so often already
that the prospect of their repetition excites
no surprise. The partisan license in which
they originate is not exhausted. All we can
hope is that if Gov. Davis make a pilgrimage
to Washington he will return home a less
confident if not a wiser man.
It is quite evident that the process of tink
ering the Southern States to establish party
supremacy in them forever, has been con
tinued too long for the good of the party it
self. The object of reconstruction was na
tional, not partisan, and the policy that
would unsettle a finished work as often as
partisan exigencies arise, is as scandalous as
it is impolitic. It brings disgrace on the party
resorting to it, and insures a repetition of re
sults akin to those in North Carolina. The
field is broad and fair, and we should be con
tent to contest it fairly. Many substantial
advantages are on the Republican side, and
their legitimate use should be sufficient for
all reasonable purposes, if our party mana
gers would turn them to the best account,
and win . victories where now they seem to
dread defeat, - they will expel the Holdens
and Davises from their councils, and disoard
the intolerant, proscnptive temper, and the
reckless abuse of power, which have been
their chief characteristics.
THE FETE NAPOLEON.
From the K. T. World. '
The 15th of August has come, but the
French are not in Berlin. The gay gentlemen
of Pans who are said to nave laid a wager
on the celebration of the Fete Napoleon in
the capital of the great i rederick are pro
bably drilling to-day with ex-Minister Duruy
in the Garde Mobile or with Paul do Cas-
soignao in the Zouaves for the defense of
their own brilliant and beautiful metropolis,
The gunpowder which is annually burnt and
exploded after so gorgeous a fashion around
the Arc do Triomphe will be wanted this year
for more serious' purposes. 'ine oontrast
between all that this day commemorates and
the actual condition of France and of the
empire upon which it this year dawns is so
obvious that it is hardly worth while for us
to dwell upon it. It tells its own story
a story as old as the whims of Destiny; and
points its own moral a moral as useless
as all the experience of man. Had the war
which began, bo like a piece of fireworks on
the Pincian or the Place de la Concorde, a
short time ago, been conducted as the French
people expected it to be, this day would
doubtless nave oeen mguanzeu uy some tnea
trical feat of arms in the heart of Germany.
It ia not likely that the commanders of the
great army which is now manoeuvring in front
of the invading host of the Prussians will
trouble themselves to celebrate it in the same
wav on the soil of France. The news which
reaches us, indeed, of the evacuation of
Metz and the withdrawal of the French line
is the best proof that could be given of the
decision and determination which have come
to the head of military affairs in France. The
15th of August this yar has been a day of
work, not of festival, in tne land of the
Franks.
Although the Prussians have advanced but
a little way beyond the French frontiers, they
have so far and so thoroughly engaged their
armies on French soil that for them now
there is no choice but between a persistent
and victorious advance or a crashing if not a
fatal defeat. It ia plainly the object of the
French commanders, therefore, to deliver the
first ereat battle, which must soon be fonht.
in auch a position as will afford them, in case
nf a French triumph. uie uest possioie oppor
tnnities for operating upon the retreat of their
defeated enemy. We are too sparingly and
too inaccurately informed of the real opera
tions of the campaign to be able to reach any
conclusions of value as to the com
pltte strategic plans in obedience to
which it H apparent that both armies
19 ilOW UnULtjUCO. iJ ' Ult u4w4k;i4
are that the first grand collision of the oppos
ing hosts wiil'take place on the vast plain of
Champagne, around that ancient city of Cha
lons which has already witnessed, fourteen
centuries ago, one. of the few really decisive
battles of history. There, upon a battle
ground marked out, as it might almost seem,
by the hand of nature herself, the crumbling
mounds of the great and irregular intrenched
camp of Attila, King of the Huns, still attest
the dreadful day on which the powers of the
Christian West and of the barbario East
clashed together from dawn till dark. There
the proud course of the Asiatic invader wa3
stayed.
Jornandes rhetorically tells us that the
blood thai day shed flowed in literal rivulets,
and that the wounded, parched with thirst,
quenched the fire that consumed them in its
horrible tide.
Like King William and the Prussians. At
tila oame from the East. Like the Prussians
too. he was superior to his foe in numbers,
and certainly not inferior to him in military
genius. Germans fought on both sides on
that day, as Germans will fight on both sides
again in the new contest now impending for
supremacy on the European Continent. For
nothing can be more absurd than the pseudo-
philosophical attempts which are made in
some quarters to divide the French from the
Uermans by a sharp line of race.
The Tentonio element predominates, for
all practical purposes, in both armies and in
both nations. What the particular value of
its predominance may be to civilization and
to progress may be thought porhnps more
doubtful, by those who reflect on the humi
liating truth that after fourteen centuries of
struggle and endeavor the hosts of the two
foremost nations of Europe are getting into
line for reciprocal slaughter precisely where
the hosts of Attila and of Aetius arrayed
themselves in the earliest dark of the Dark
Ages.
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HEAL. ESTATE AT AUOTION.
rpKU8T KB'8V SAL
ESTATE
OF TBI
FREEDOM IRON AND STEEL COM PANT.
The undersigned, Mortgagees and Trnstces under
the mortgage of the FREEDOM IRON AND 8TBSL
COMPANY, whlrh bears date February 1, 1867,
nnder and pursuant to a request ana notice of
creditors, given under the provisions of the said
mortgage, for default of payment of interest,
Y, ill sell at public sae, at the Philadelphia 3x
charge, on TUESDAY, the 8TU day of September,
A. l). isio, at ii o ciock noon, by
M. THOMAS & SONS, Auctioneers.
All the lands, tenements, hereditaments, and real
estate of whatsoever kind and wheresoever situate
nd being of the said Freedom Iron and Steel Com
pany, and all the buildings, machine shops, machi
nery, fixtures, forges, furnaces, grist mill, ore rights,
stationary engines, saw mills, railroads and cars or
every kind belonging to the said Company granted
In mortgage by the said Company to us by the said
mortgage, viz. :
About thirty-nine thousand (39,000) acres of land
In Mllllln and Huntlcg ton couutles, Pennsylvania
on which there are erected extensive steel works.
four (4) charcoal blast furnaces, and numerous shops
and buildings, to wit: . .
The property known as the Freedom Iron and
Steel Works, In Mllllln county, Pennsylvania, com
prising two hundred and eighty-nine (239) acres of
land.
One (1) charcoal blast furnace, Bessemer steel
converting house, hammer shop, rail and plate mill,
steam forge, tyre mill, water-power bloomery, casc-
steoi works, foundry and machine shops, old forge,
smith shop, carpenter shop, store with warehouse
attached, mansion house, otlces, 64 dwelling houses,
saw-mill, llrue-klln, stableB and other buildings, with
stationery engines, roaclHery, and fixtures.
Also, the property known as the Greenwood Ore
Bank, In Union township, Mifflin county, containing
91 acres of land, and 80 dwelling houses and stables.
Also, the property known aa tho Week's Saw Mill.
In the same county, containing 23S3 acres of land,
with mill and all the machinery and appurtenances
thereof. With two small tracts of land In Dtrry
township, Mifflin county, each containing about one
acre, more or less, respectively known as the Cun
ningham and Ryan lots, and two small tracts of land,
containing about one acre and one-rourth or an acre,
respectively, known as the Hostetter lot, and the
Stroup House and lot, In Union township, Mifflin
county.
Also, about 17,400 acres of unseated lands, In
Mllllln county.
Also, the right to take ore on the Muthcrsbaugh
farm, In Decatur township, Mifflin county, at a
royalty of 28 cents per ton.
Together with about 907 acres of land, In Hunting
don county, known as the Greenwood Furnace
tract, with two charcoal blast furnaces, known as
the Greenwood Furnaces, with engines and fixtures,
with mansion house, 17 stables, carpenter shop,
blacksmith shop, 82 dwelling houses, offices and
store, one grist mill, with stable and bulldngs of
every description, railroad and ore cars.
Also, the property known as the Monroe Furnace.
In Barre township, Huntingdon county, containing
about 179 acres of land, with nine dwelling-houses,
stables, carpenter shop, smith shop, store and office
building.
Also, about 17,200 acres of land, in Huntingdon
county (of which 637 acres are seated and partly im
proved). Together with all and singular the corpo.
rate rights, privileges, and franchises of the sold
Company.
Tne foregoing properties will be sold In one parcel
or lot, in payment of the bonds of the said Freedom
Iron and Steel Company, amounting to $500,000,
with interest from February 1, 1909, secured by the
said mortgage to the trustees, under the terms of
which this sale is made, the said mortgage being a
first mortgage on the said property. The terms of
tale of the property above described will be as fol
lows: 12000 In cash, to be paid when the property Is
struck off. The balance te be paid in cash upon the
execution of the deed to the purchaser.
The Trustees will also sell at the same time and
place, and under the some request and notice of
creditors, all the right, title, and Interest of tho
Trustees, as mortgagees In trust, of, In, and to the
following described properties, viz. :
The property known as the Yoder Farm, In Brown
township. Mllllln county, containing 158 acres, 124
perches, composed of two tracts as follows:
Beginning at stone In road, thence by land of John
D. Barr, north 63 degrees east, 102 5-10 perches to
stone ; thence by land of Joseph B. Zook, north 41 v
degrees West, 202 8-10 perches, to stone; thence by
land of John Hooley, south 40 degrees west 102 1-10
perches, to stone ; thence south 44 x degrees east,
190 6-10 perches, to the place of beginning contain
ing one hundred and twenty-five acres and twelve
perches net measure.
Also all that other certain tract of land adjoining
above, beginning at stone In road, thence up said
road, north 44 deg. west, 67 5-10 perches, to stone ;
thence by land of John Ueoley, south 45 deg. west,
79 6-10 perces to stones ; thence by land of David L.
Yoder, south 42 i deg. east, 60 8-10 perches, to stone
in road; thence along said road and by land of
Gideon Yoder, north 4X deg. east, 81 1-10 perches,
to the place of beginning containing thirty-three
acres and one hundred and twelve perches, net mea
sure. The same being subject to mortgage (riven to
secure bonds, amounting to U,73S-34, upon S3S00
of which Interest Is due from April 1, 1869, and on
balance of said bonds Interest is due from April l,
1868.
Also, the property known as the Williams farm, as
follows:
All that certain tract of land situate In Derry
township, Mifflin county, Pa., bounded and described
as follows:
Beginning at a chesnut, corner of lands of Philip
Martz, thence by lands of William Heuuey and
Samuel McManamy, north 37 degrees west, .93
perches, to a hickory; thence by lands of Samue
McManamy, north 17 degrees west, 17 perches;
thence by land of James M. Martin, south 73 de
grees west, 22 perches, to a post; thence by land of
Johnston Slgler, south 57 degrees west, 169 perches
to a hickory ; thence by lauds of Peter Townsend's
heirs, south 37 degrees east, 91 perches, to stones ;
thence by land of heirs of John McDonell, deceased,
and Mrs. Mcllvaln, north 60 degrees east, 9t
perches, to a post; thence by land of Philip Martz,
north 10)4 degrees east, 6aj perches, to the place of
beginning containing one hundred and seven acres
and twenty-nine perches of land, and allowance.
Ihis property is charged with a mortgage, given
to secure bonds for S1200, with interest at 6 per
cent, per annum, from November 8, 1803.
Also, the property known as the Stroup Ore Bank,
In Union township, Mifflin county, containing about
nine acres and eighty-nine perches.
The last named property Is subject to a mortgage
given to secure a bond for f 1000, bearing interest at
the rate of 6 per cent per annum from July is.
1608.
The terms of sale of the lost three described
properties will be as follows:
Twenty-five dollars In cash to be paid upon each
when they are respectively struck off.
The balance of the purchase, money of each to be
paid in cash upon the execution of the conveyance
to the purchaser.
WISTAR'MORRIS,')
JAMES T. YOUNG, V Trustees.
ENOCH LEWIS, j
M. THOMAS SONS,
6 27 mth tS27 Auctioneers.
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REAL. ESTATE AT AUOTION.
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By virtue and In execution of the powers contained
In a Mortgage executed by
THE CENTRAL PASSENGER RAILWAY
COMPANY
of the city of Philadelphia, bearing date the
eighteenth day of April, 186!), and recorded in the
office for recording' deeds and mortgages for tha
city and connty of Philadelphia, la Mortgage Book
A. C. H., No. 66, pace 465, etc., the undersigned
Trustees named In said mortgage
WILL BELL AT PUBLIC AUCTION,
at the MERCHANTS' EXCHANGE, in the city or
Philadelphia, by
MESSRS. THOMAS & SONS, Auctioneers,
at 12 o'clock M., on TUESDAY, the eighteenth day
of October, A. D. 1870, the property described in and
conveyed by the said mortgage, to wit:
No. L All those two contiguous lots or pieces of
ground, with the buildings and Improvement
thereon erected, situate on the east Bide of Broad
Btreet, In the city of Philadelphia, one of them be
ginning at the distance of nineteen feet sevea
Inches and five-eighths southward from the southeast
corner of the said Broad and Coates streets ; thence
extending eastuard at right angles with said Broad
street eighty-eight feet one Inch and a half to ground
now or late of Samuel Miller; thence southward
along said ground, and at right angles with said
Coates Btreet, seventy-two feet to the northeast cor
ner of an alley, two feet six inches in width,
leading southward Into Penn street; thence west
ward crossing said alley and along the lot of ground
hereinafter described and at right angles with said
Broad Btreet, Beventy-nlne feet to the east side of
the Bald Broad street; and thence northward along
the east line of said Broad street seventy-two feet to
the place of beginning. Subject to a Ground Rent
of $280, silver money.
No. 2. The other of them situate at the northeast
corner of the said Broad street and Penn street,
containing in front or breadth on the said Broad
street eighteen feet, and In length or depth east
ward along the north line of said Penn street seventy-lour
feet and two inches, and on the line of said
lot parallel w 1th said Penn street seventy-six feet
five inches and three-fourths or an Inch to said two
feet Blx Inches wide alley. Subject to ground rent
of 1 72, sliver money.
No. 3. All that certain lot or pleco of ground be
ginning at the S. E. corner ot Coates street and Broad
street, thence extending southward along the said
Broad street nineteen feet seven Inches and flve
elghths of an inch ; thence eastward eighty feet one
inch and one-half of an inch ; thence northward, at
right angles with said Coates street, nine feet to the
south side of Coates Btreet, and thence westward
along the south side of said Coates street ninety feet
to the place or beginning.
No. 4. Four Steam Dummy Cars, twenty feet long
by nine feet two inches wide, with all the necessary
steam machinery, seven-inch cylinder, with ten-inch
stroke of piston, with healing pipes, &c. Each will
scat thirty passengers, and has power sufficient to
draw two extra cars.
Note. These cars are now in the custody of
Messrs. Grlce- & Long, at Trenton, New Jersey,
where they can be seen. The sale of them is made
subject to a lien for rent, which on the first day of
July, 1870, amounted to 1000.
No 5. The whole road, plank road, and railway of
the said The Central Passenger Railway Company
of the city of Philadelphia, and all their land (not
included in Nos. 1, 2, and 3,) roadway, railway, rails,
rights of way, stations, toll houses, and other super
structures, depots, depot greunds and other real
estate, buildings and improvements whatsoever.and
all and singular the corporate privileges and fran
chises connected with said company and plank road
and railway, and relating thereto, and all the tolls,
Income, issues, and profits to accrue from the same
or any part thereof belonging to said company, and
generally all the tencments.heredltaments and fran
chises of the said company. And also all the cars or
every kind (not Included In No. 4,) machinery, tools,
lmplcments,and materials connected with the proper
equipment, operating and conducting or said road,
plank road, and railway; and all the personal pro
perty or every kind and description belonging to tho
sold company.
Together with all the streets, ways, alleys, pas
sages, waters, water-courses, easements, rranohiscs,
rights, liberties, privileges, hereditaments ana ap
purtenances whatsoever, unto any or the above
mentioned premises and estates belonging and ap
pertaining, and the reversions and remainders,
rents, Issues, and prolits thereof, and all the estate,
right, title, Interest, property, claim, and demand of
every nature and kind whatsoever of the said Com
pany, as well at law aa In equity of, in, and to the
same and every part and parcel thereof.
TERMS OF SALE.
The properties will be sold in parcels as numbered.
On each bid there shall be paid at the time the pro
perty is struck on Filty Dollars, unless the price is
less than that Bum, when the whole sum bid shad
be paid.
W. L. SCIIAFFER, TrnBt.p(1
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fainting and Hoofing
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TIS ROOFS REPAIRED.
All leakages in Roofs warranted to be made per
fectly tight.
SrENOER'S GUTTA-PERCHA PAINT
Will preserve Tin Roofs from Rusting and Leaking,
and warranted to stand ten years without repaint
ing. i his is the only Paint that will not crack or peel
off. It Is Kins tic Paint; it expands and contracts
with the tin, and leaves no cracks or seams open far
water to get through.
IRON FENG US PAINTED WITH SPENCER'S
PATENT IRON PaiNT, made expressly for iron
work, warranted not to crack or peel off; will retain
its beautiful gloss for live years. .
All work warranted.
All orders promptly attended to. Address
PB 1LADE uPHIA PAINTING AND ROOFINO
COMPANY,
1 14 8ni No. 63 N. SIXTH St., Philadelphia.
READY ROOFIN G
This Rooting la adapted to all buildings. It
can be applied to
STEEP OR FLAT ROOFS
atone-half the expense of tin. It is readily put en
old Shingle Roofs without removing the shingles,
thus avoiding the damaging of ceilings and furniture
while undergoing repairs. (No gravel used.)
PKLSERYK V-UR TIN ROOFS WITH WEL
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I am always prepared to Repair and Paint Roofi
at Bhort notice. Also, PAINT FOR SALE by the
barrel or gallon; the best and cheapest in the
market.
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S 175 No. 711 N. NINTH St., above Coates,
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