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THE DAILY EVENING TELEGRAPHPHILADELPHIA, MONDAY; AUGUST 22, 1870.
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Editorial Opinions of the Leading Journat
upon Current Topics Compiled Every
Day for the Evening Telegraph
A TLAIN TALK TO DISOUGANIZERS.
From the Braver Radical. ' '
A party incapable of diuoipllne, and un
moved by danger, ia already beaten. And
the attitude of a nninber of Republicans in
l'ennBylvahia, who oppoBe everything their
party proposes, while proposing nothing
themselves, 'bus induced the Democratic
managers in this State to jump to the con
clusion that our party is without the instinct
of self-defense, or the drill requisite for
making itself felt in the coming campaign.
To all who may join in this estimate of the
apathy and stupidity of Republicans, we
have a few words to say. And in saying them
we desire to avoid, as much as possible, any
expression of bitterness.
The Republican party has for years occu
pied the position which the Democratic party
occupied previous to the election of Mr. Lin
coln. Tierce had beaten Scott so completely
that the strength of the dominant party be
came the cause of quarrel between its real
and would be leaders. It became more diffi
cult to obtain a Democratic nomination
than to secure an eleotion. At once
the party was divided into two great
factions. The aspirants for the Presidency
who desired to succeed Pierce began hunting
for an issue which would divide the party;
each cabal aiming to control the strongest
fragment and thus secure the places for whioh
it longed. For it was held not without rea
son that this stronger moiety of the Demo
cratic party would easily defeat the Whigs,
And become the successful faction by the
plurality rule.
The scheming brain of Douglas struck
upon the repeal of the Missouri Compromise
as the pretext for quarrel and division. The
followers of Breckinridge accepted the scheme,
and that great iniquity was perpetrated. But
it had scarcely been accomplished when the
outburst of popular fury warned Douglas of
the error of his crime. At once a new divi
sion arose concerning the scope and effect of
the villainy both sides had enacted. The
fight became so hot that the splendid disci
pline of the Democracy was broken; and the
party went to ruin as complete as it is irre
trievable. Can such a fate be reserved for the great
Republican party? No man of ordinary un
derstanding whatever his party predilec
tions can for a moment entertain so ridicu
lous a proposition. No issue so marked and
exciting can be raised for our disintegration.
No such combination of brains as both fac
tions had can be made. No pretext can so
powerfully move the mind of the Republi
can masses as to secure the necessary follow
ing for a destructive conspiracy. The voters
of our party cannot be hoodwinked by cries
which are uttered only against power,
while they affect to decry corrup
tion. Nor can these hue and cry pa
triots withdraw the attention of the
people from the splendid results of Grant's
administration. The enforcement of the
laws, the protection against outrage, the
honest collection of the revenue, the econo
mical management of the Government, the
payment of the publio debt, the increasing
credit of our country, and her magnified im
portance because of this splendid rule, are
enough to hold our party in good trim for a
struggle with all her foes and a victory over
all her enemies. But if these reasons for
our continued unity were not sufficient, we
have yet the magic of a name which will never
lose its power with the American people while
our nation exists. We yet have Grant, who
will enter the conflict to lead us to victory, as
he led our armies, when the wranglers and
snarlers who now attempt to thwart us with
out daring to quarrel with the administration
will be forced, like the neutrals of Kentucky,
to take sides. We know what we affirm: that
General Grant will no longer tolerate a war
on the Republican party in his name; nor will
he longer submit to be made a mask, behind
which the disappointed politician can stab the
party which saved the country and placed him
in the Presidential office. Forward, or fall
back!
THE NATHAN CASE.
From the X. Y. World.
It is a simple sense of duty which leads us
Lack possibly for the last time to this
ghastly theme. Forgetfulness, except in the
mourners' hearts, is creeping over it; and
forgetfulness soon dulls the edge even of offi
cial inquiry. "The nearer," says a recent
English writer, "we approach to the corpse
the more appalling is death. The ciroum
Btantiality of the murder of Nancy in Mr.
Dickons' romance is more harrowing than the
bulletin of fifty thousand men killed at Boro
dino." This may have been true once; but
we begin to doubt it, when, thanks to our
domestic apprenticeship, details of distant
military bluiighter are greedily devoured, and
a brutal murder in our midst an aged man
literally pounded to death with all the fiend
ishness with which Sykes smashed Nancy's
skull the bloody, grey hair scattered in the
room is passing out of memory almost be
fore the chant of the humble Hebrew
mourners at the Cypress Ililla Cemetery has
died within our ears.
It has come back to us this interest in a
neighbor's dismal death in consequence of
some remarks of a Philadelphia newspaper
(city of Probst and Twitchell), severely re
flecting on portions of the testimony recently
taken here before the coroner's inquest, and
as it happens, on that which is most valuable
the testimony f Dr. Peokham and the
coroner's physican, Dr. Beach. Their's, with
that of General Blair, is the main evidence in
the case as now developed. One determined,
beyond all peradventure, the time of the
murder; one, the fact of the open door in the
early dawn, and the innocence of the son who
was unconcernedly dressing himself at the
front window; and the other, those mechani
cal and scientific results which, resting on
fair induction, are beyond all price.
It is made matter of criticism that by the
inquest technical rules of evidence were dis
regarded. Of course they were, and ought to
be. llxd coroner and his jury are not trying
anyone. Their verdict can be given in evt
deBce against nobody. Since the days of
Philip and Mary this has been the rule. It is
an inquiry as to the fact and cause of violent
death no more, no less. "Is it in your
po er to picture the attack?" is one of the
questions to which exception is takes and
it certainly was a very nntechnical one; but if
it Lad betu put in the shape of an inquiry as
to the results of soientitio observation of the
condition and attitude of the corpse," it would
Lave been in strict technical form. Of Dr,
Beach's testimony we shall have a word to say
presently, regarding it as most important, and
pause here on a criticism of our own on one
tiaitofthis "crowner's quest" evidence. It
is to ba regretted that anything irrelevant to
h? fct of murder was admitted in proof.
For instance, the whereabouts of Washing
ton Nathan before 12 o'clook was immaterial,
for we know that after midnight the father
was alive and awake, and speaking words of
affection to the other son. It was very well,
under the circumstances, if only for the
gratification of a natural curiosity, stimulated
by what had appeared in the newspapers, for
Mr. W. Nathan to say where he was and
what he had been doing before he went
home. But, strictly speaking, it was imma
terial; and we are compelled to Bay that, if it
were his or their doing, he and his friends
were badly advised when they produced the
girl from the Fourteenth street rendezvous
to corroborate an immaterial averment. It
gra ed on ns as we read it. If his statement
were doubted, nothing was easier than for
the police, by private inquiry, to verify it,
without the presence of the veiled woman to
prove it in public. This is oar only criticism;
and no one familiar from experience or study
with such inquiries will fail to admit that
irrelevant matters perplex ths search for trath
marvellously. The first effort even of police
logic is to get rid of them. Far more im
portant would it have been to know what
clothes the sons and young Kelly wore the
night of the murder we mean the day
clothes and what became of them; and yet
this was net thought of.
Dr. Beach's testimony, abstract as in some
respects it is, we deem very valuable. It
was given with precision, so that no one
could doubt what exactly he meant to say.
It is, of course, to be regretted that he was
not on the ground sooner; but, assuming
there was no material change of circumstances
and none is pretended his scientific judg
ments, being open to inquiry, stand, if not
impeached; and they have not been. They
show, it seems to us, that more than one had
a hand, if not in the deed, at least in the sys
tematic effort at arrangement afterwards;
that the dead man did not fall where the
corpse was found, but probably by
combined strength was carried thither; that
there was an amount of violence utterly un
necessary for the accidental, mercenary
murderer, but just such as one who dreaded
identification would inflict; and, in corrobo
ration of Dr. Peckham, that the deed of blood
was done at or shortly before 3 o'clock; thus
revealing, in connection with the testimony
of General Blair and the police officer, the
astounding and incomprehensible fact of a
murder for money, and the murderer remain
ing in the house with no possibility of plun
der, and the consciousness that there were
those at hand four, it Beems, at least ready
to detect and seize him. A little after mid
night, when Mr. Nathan last spoke; still
later, when Washington went towards his
bedroom, all was darkness in that unguarded
chamber. At G o'clock, when the discovery
was made, the gas was burning brightly,
"two-thirds turned on." It must indeed have
been a reckless assassin who, either before or
after the crime was done, lighted the gas and
left it burning. The murderer in poetry
and a brave one, too long ago said:
" I am afraid to think what I have done.
Look on't, I dare not."
The assassin of to-day turns on the gas,
and sits or stands quietly in the room with
his victim for more than two hours watching
the progress of the rigor mortis, and, as it
were, waiting to be caught !
SCIENTIFIC PILLAGE.
From the X. Y. Times.
We all remember what a sensation mes
merism created when it was first announced.
The notion that one man could gain such a
mastery over his fellows as to subject their
wills entirely to his, and make their mental
and muscular motions alike obedient . to his
wishes, was startling enough. Pubho exhi
bitions of the new power were given by its
prophets and disciples, and gaping audiences
were treated to the spectacle of men and
women mesmerized into human jumping
jacks, and moving their arms aid legs in
blind submission to the will ot the operator.
In London, if we are not mistaken, there
was even founded a school of what was
called phreno-mesmerism, where pupils were
trained in the noble science, and which pro
fessed to be able to develop the mental organs
of the mesmerized subject one by one in suc
cession. Thus, the patient being put into
the magnetio trance, the bump of language
was excited, whereupon he burst forth into
the midst of an eloquent oration; the bump
of combativeness being touched, he beoame
an amateur Sayers or Heenan at once, and so
on with the rest. This was only one mani
festation of the wide-spread publio excite
ment on the subject of the new disoovery,
with regard to which the most exravagaut
possibilities were predicted and believed.
Time, which dissipates so many illusions,
has not dealt more kindly with this, and mes
merism has long ago lost the halo of mystery
and romance which the vulgar mind had
thrown about it. Other novelties have
usurped its place; the wonders of spiritualism,
and the exploits of the Davenports and
Home, have cast its miracles into the shade,
and nowadays one scarcely ever hears it men
tioned. Nevertheless, its professors still live,
and some of them, it seems, have discovered
a use for the science which its founder cer
tainly never contemplated. Certain gipsies
have for some time been encamped in the
neighborhood of Rutland, Vermont. A few
days ago two female gipsies called at
the house of a lady in the town
with Waskets for sale, and observing a small
bump on her forehead, offered to remove it.
One of them thereupon, we are told, passed
her hands over the lady's face, who became
for a short time unconscious, and went about
all the rest of the day with a strange dizziness
in her bead. Soon after, she missed a num
ber of- spoons, and naturally suspected her
gypsy visitors. She therefore procured the
services of an officer, and was about to start
for the encampment, when the two delin
quents, who may be supposed, by virtue of
their supernatural power, to have foreseen
her intent, marched into the house with a
bundle which was found to contain the
missing articles, and, explaining that
they had borrowed them, went away.
Whether the authorities of Rutland have
taken pains to instruct these benighted
heathen that borrowing spoons without the
owner's permission is a grave moral error
under the Christian code, we are not in
formed; but it is fair to suppose that other
ladies of Rutland who are troubled with facial
disfigurements and silver spoons, will be
more circumspeot about their physicians. If
this accomplishment should become generally
known, and it seams altogether too valuable
to be long buried in the obscurity of Ver
mont gipsy encampments, we shall all need
to tremble for our spoons as we never trem
bled before Chloroform, to some extent,
one might guard against. Its very un
miHtakable odor alone would betray its
pretence. But against that pseudo-Sana-ritan
who approaches us with a'lur
ing offers of healing and refreshment
and then with a pass of the hand steal
away first our senses, and then cur other
valuables, what foresight or vigilance will
avail '( A soientitio education will erhp
become a prerequisite for every suooel'ul
thief indeed, what with the adaptation of
eiifrsthpsia and chemistry to unrighteous
ends, tbat is almost the case now and vio
lence for purposes of robbery may beoome
superfluous and vulgar. This, of course, will
be an advantage. It is better to be mesme
rized than garroted; and, in any event, we
in New Yoik cannot well be more defenseless
than we are. On the other hand, honest folks
may learn to mesmerize as well as the rogues,
and bo spoil the spoiler. On the whole, then,
we await this innovation in thieving with
tranquillity, only asking that Superintendent
Jourdan will put his force under the instrao
tion of a complete professor of Mesmer's art.
THE POrE AS ARBITER OF PEACE.
From the A". Y. Herald.
The truce of God, so styled in the ancient
chronicles under the Latin term of Treuga
Dei, and identifying the first of these words
with the German expression treue, meaning
fidelity, was an early attempt of the Church
to mitigate and control the animosities of
almost barbarous ages. It was first pro
claimed by the bishops of Aquitaine (now part
of France) just after the terrible famines
which bad scourged the land for nearly five
years until the close of 1030. It prohibited
all overt acts in any private quarrels through
out the season of Advent, Lent, and the
great holidays of the year, embracing, also,
the lapse of time from every Thursday until
every Sunday evening. During the speci
fied period no act of violence was tolerated,
under penalty of the severest chastisement.
The good prelates had originally pro
claimed universal peace, but found it utterly
impossible to maintain it in those rude days,
and hence were compelled to set apart certain
subdivisions of time. About the middle of
the eleventh century they extended the period
of truce from Wednesday Bunset until Monday
sunrise. However it was nearly one hundred
years later, when the noble idea of a general
pacification was formalized by the Pope
Calixtus II, who, at the Council of Rheima,
in llSf, denounced war in the most solemn
language, and consigned all violators of the
general peace throughout Christendom to the
excommunication of the Church, with total
deprivation of Christian burial. Gradually
this law became a settled regulation in all
countries over which the Papal authority in
religion extended, and it continued to be
almost the only refuge from the reign of uni
versal violence until the civil administration
of Europe grew strong enough to restrain
the passions of the multitude.
Seven centuries and more have rolled away
since the great edict of Calixtus, and civil
authority has its immense machinery esta
blished in every part of what is called the
civilized world; yet at this moment we behold
France, "the eldest daughter of the Church,"
and Germany, the land of Martin Luther
both claiming the highest pre-eminence in
their respective views of orthodoxy and the
faith of Christ holding together a revel of
blood, a saturnalia of human slaughter the
like of which has not been witnessed by hor
rified humanity since the days of the savage
Huns and Visigoths. The devastated fields
of Eastern France reek with human putres
cence, and for a dozen degrees of latitude
and longitude in the very heart of Christen
dom the tramp of fierce armies, the clangor
of their martial niusio, the huzzas of their
charging battalions and the roar of their ord
nance scarcely drown the wail of the affrighted
and bereaved people whose substance they
are destroying and whose homes they are
laying waste.
Is there no hand venerable enough in
years, powerful enough in authority, sacred
enough in its traditional character, to stay
this deluge of blood and tears ? Some of tho
latest advices direct from Europe suggest a
reply to this most important question. They
hint that Pius IX has offered his mediation
to King William for peace between Prussia
and France, and that the German monarch
gracefully and cordially expresses his utmost
willingness to avail himself of this genial
offer, upon such conditions as shall secure
future tranquillity to his country. If this
announcement be . true it disoloses an act
worthy the head of tho great Christian
Church which claims the devotion of a
huncred millions of our race, and worthy a
mighty Christian monarch upon whose helm
victory has for years been eagerly twining her
laurel wreaths. King William has now
thirteen millions, and in a year or two
more may have twenty millions, of Catholic
subjectp, to whom, as to France, the mandate
or entreaty on behalf of justice of an infalli
ble Pontiff will be inviolable law. Why, then,
should not the . world rejoice in so great an
event, so sublimely illustrating the sinoerity
of all who follow, by whatever paths, the
standard of Him whose holiest title next to
Divinity was "Prince of Peace?" We can
conceive of no brain so dull, no heart bo cold,
that it would not grow bright and warm to
wards so grand a proffer of general concilia
tion of which the very first effect would be
the rescue of seventy-five millions of our
fellow creatures from the horrors of war. Let
ns behold this effort, which in its simple
grandeur would far surpass any triumph of
the merely diplomatic council or the embat
tled field. Let Pius IX and King William
crown the glories of their reign and time by
a new proclamation of the "Trace of God."
MALUS USUS.
from the X. Y. Tribune.
The abolition of the bad custom of levying
assessments for political purposes upon the
department clerks at Washington will, we
hope, have a place among other reforms in
augurated by Grant's administration. We hope
that the 'resident and his Cabinet will see to
it tbat every clerk is protected who declares
himself indisposed or unable to comply with
the demands, however light, of any political
committee whatever. Let campaign or gene
ral committees Bend as many circulars as they
please, calling for contributions for politioal
purposes; but let there be no pressure, no
threats, open or implied, of removal from
office in case of non-compliance. Those clerks
who are at heart Republicans, and who are in
receipt of fair salaries, will certainly not be
behind other members of the party in pay
ing their share of the party expenses. But
they must have perfect immunity to do
or not to do it, as they may be inclined or
able, themselves being the judges. Removal
from office in case of non-payment implies
retention in office in case of payment. There
are two classes who will be the promptest to
respond to such demands of political mana
gers, viz., those who. are least able to pay,
but who, having large families to provide for,
tremblingly clutch at every , means of
strengthening themselves in, positions which,
at the best, are always insecure; and those
Woithle6s fellows who know how to shirk
onice-duty, and gladly pay the aaiount of a
S tut 11 political levy as the price of, being left
undisturbed in what they find a sufficiently
remunerative semi-leisure.
But the truth is that, especially since the
sweeping changes made under the present
administration, the clerks in the departments
largely consist of men upon whom no levies
for patt euppoit sboulii ever be made. They
weie crippled during the wax; they wgre
either wounded or Impaired in health; or they
were impoverished by the ravages of the war;
or, having devoted several years to the servioe
of the country in the field and at the expense
of losing settled habits of life, they have been
appointed, where well recommended, because
fit for the merely routine duties of department
clerks, 'and fit for hardly anything else. The
families of these men increase much faster than
their pay does. Of course, not even the Cam
paign Committee can be supposed to have re
quested contributions from such as these, and,
least of all, to have added to a request the
significant phrase, "An answer is expected."
No matter what claims the party may be sup
posed to have upon others receiving good
salaries, among those who are engaged in
keeping the archives and acoounts and trans
acting the current routine business of the
Government, it is a scandal to send threaten
ing political circulars among them calling for
money, and the tendency is to impair the
efficiency of the public service. The admin
istration, by sustaining such members ef the
clerical force an decline to contribute in
response to the circular referred to, will give
the eovp de grace to a bad custom which
ought long ago to have been abolished.
SPECIAL NOTICES.
y- NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT AN
. application will be made at the next meeting
of the (irm ral Assembly of the Commonwealth of
Pennsylvania fir the Incorporation of a Hank, In
accordance with the laws of the Commonwealth, to
be entitled T11K HAMILTON BANK, to be located
at Philadelphia, with a capital of one hundred thou
sand dollars, with the right to Increase the same to
five hundred thousand dollars.
gy BATCH ELOR'S HAIR DYE. THIS STOLEN
did Hatr l)ve is the best in the world, the only
true and perfect Dye. Harmless Reliable I natan
taueous no disappointment no ridiculous tints
"l)e not (ottain Lead nor any Vita-lie PoUnn to in
jure the Hair or Sgrtem." Invigorates the Hair and
leaves it soft and beautiful ; Black or Brown.
Sold by all Druggists and dealers. Applied at the
Faotory, No. 16 BUND Street, New York. 4 87 mwf
y- NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT AN
application will be made at the next meeting
of the Oeneral Assembly of the Commonwealth of
Pennsylvania for the incorporation of a Bunk, la
accordance with the laws of the Common we lth, to
be entitled THE UNITED STATES BANKING
COMPANY, to be located at Philadelphia, with a
capital of one million dollars, with the right to In
ciease the same to five million dollars.
jjgj- TREGO'S TEABERRY TOOTIIWASIL
It is the most pleasant, cheapest and best dentifrice
extant. Warranted free from injurious Ingredients.
It Preserves and Whitens the Teeth I
Invigorates and Soothes the Gums I
Purines and Perfumes the Breath 1
Prevents Accumulation ef Tartar I
Cleanses and Purines Artificial Teeth 1
Is a Superior Article for Children!
Sold by all druggists and dentists.
A. M. WILSON, Druggist. Proprietor,
8 2 10m Cor. NINTH AND FILBERT Sts., Phllada.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT AN
application will be made at the next meeting
oftheGtneral Assembly of the Commonwealth of
Pennsylvania for the Incorporation of a Bink, la ac
cordance with the laws of the Commonwealth, to
be entitled! HE CHESNUT STREET BANK, to be
located at Philadelphia, with a capital of one hun
dred thousand dollars, with the right to increase the
same to five hundred thousand dollars.
THE UNION FIRE EXTINGUISHER
COMPANY OP PHILADELPHIA
Manufacture and sell the Improved, Portable Fire
Extinguisher. Always Reliable.
D. T. GAGS,
6 80 tf No. 118 MARKET St., General Agent.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT AN
application will be made at the next meeting of
the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of
Pennsylvania for the incorporation of a Bank, In
accordance with the laws of the Commonwealth, to
be entitled THE CHESNUT HILL SWINGS AND
LOAN BANKING COMPANY, to be located at
Philadelphia, with a capital of one hundred thou
sand dollars, with the right to Increase the same to
two hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
- HEADQUARTERS FOR EXTRACTING
Teeth with fresh Nitrons-Oxide Uu. Absolutely
do pain. Dr. F. R. THOMAS, formerly operator at the
Ool ton Dental Rooms, devotee his entire practice to the
painless extraction of teeth. Offloe, No. U WALNUT
Street; 1 jrii
Igy- NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT AN
application will be made at the next meeting
of the General Assembly 01 the Commonwealth of
Pennsylvania for the incorporation or a Bank, in ac
cordance with the laws ot the Commonwealth, to
be entitled THE JEFFERSON BANK, to ba located
at Philadelphia, with a capital of one hundred
thousand dollars, with the right to increase the same
to five hundred thousand dollars.
WATOHE8, JEWELRY, ETC.
JWIS LADOMUS 4 CO?
OIAM0XB DEALERS 4 JEWELERS.
II W1TCUKB, ilWKLKI S BlbTBS nana.
WATCHES and JEWELRY REPAIRED.
-03 Chestnnt Bt- Phil
DAND BRACELETS.
CHAIN BRACELETS.
We have Just received a large and beautiful as
sortment of
Gold Band and Chain Bracelet,
Enamelled and engraved, of all sizes, at very low
low prices. New styles constantly received.
WATCHES AND JEWELRY In great variety,
LEWIS LADOMUS & CO.,
6 11 fmw No. 802 CHESNUT Street.
TOWER CLOCKS.
fiV'JV. - . - iZ
. W. RUSSELL, ;
No. 22 NORTH SIXTH STREET, j
Agent for STEVENS' PATENT TOWER CLOCKS,
both Remontoir it Graham Escapement, striking
hour only, or striking quarters, and repeating hour
on full chime.
Estimates furnished on application either person
ally or by mail 6 2a
WILLIAM- B. WARNE & CO.,
Wholesale Dealers iu
it! WATCHES AND JJSWKLKV,
S a;i Second floor, and late of No. 85 s. THIRD St.
HAIR PURLERS.
-piifi iiYPiznioji
XIAIR CURLERS,
AM INDISPENSABLE ABTIOLB FOB THE LADIES
(Patented Jul 8, 1867.) '
This Onrleris the most perfect invention ever offered
to the pnblie. It is easily operated, neat in appearance
and will not injure the hair, as there is bo heat required,
nor any metallic ubatanee used to rust or, break the hair
lianufaotored on!, and to sale whelesal. and retail, by
; . ; '. ncnwAN u co.,
I S3 8m No. 3 Worth FRONT Btroet, Philadelphia.
r ... ...
Bold at all Dry Goods. Trimming and Notion Stores.
QENT.'S FUHNI8HINO QOOP8. J
TATKNT SHOULDKK-aiiAM
. .! ; BHIRT MANUFACTORY, '
AND GENTLEMEN'S FURNISHING STORE.
PERFECTLY FITTING SHIRTS AND DRAWERS
made from measurement at very short notice. '
All other articles of GENTLEMEN'S DRESS
GOODS in full variety. , . , (
til
' No. 7o CHESNUT Street. .
MATS AND OAP8.
Wt WAS BURTON'S IMPROVED VENTILATED
jji and eay-ntting DRESS HATS (patented), in all
the improved fashions of the aeaaou. CllESNl'T
fclreet, uct door to Uie font OJ&ue, rpi
HEAL ESTATE AT AUOTION.
rpRUBTEKS' SALS
K S T A T E
OP THI
FREEDOM IRON AND 8TEEL COMPANY.
The undersigned, Mortgagees ,and Trnsteea under
the mortgage of the FREEDOM IRON AND BTESL
COMPANY, which b9ar date February 1, 18T,
under and pursuant to a request and notice ol
creditors, given under the provisions of the aald
mortgage, for default of payment of Interest,
WlU sell at publio aaie, at the Philadelphia Bx
change, on TUESDAY, the STtd day of September,
A. D. 1810, at 19 o'clock noon, by
M. THOMAS Si SONS, Auctioneers.
All the lands, tenements, hereditaments, and real
estate of whatsoever kind and wheresoever situate
and being of the said Freedom Iron and Stoel Com
pany, and all the buildings, machine ahops, machi
nery, fixtures, forges, furnaces, grist mill, ore rights,
stationary engines, saw mills, railroads and cars ef
every kind belonging to the said Company granted
in mortgage by the said Company to ua by the said
mortgage, viz. :
About thirty-nine thousand (39,000) acres of land
in Mlinin and Huntingdon counties, 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 MiiMln county, Pennsylvania, com
rrising two hundred and eighty-nine (239) acres of
land:
One (1) charcoal blast furnace, Bessemer Bteel
converting house, hammer shop, rail and plate mill,
ateam forge, tyre mill, water-power bloomery, cast
steel works, foundry and machine shops, old forge,
smith shop, carpenter shop, store with warehouse
attached, mansion house, offices, 64 dwelling houses,
saw-mill, lime-kiln, stables and other buildings, with
stationery engines, macery, and fixtures.
Also, the property known as the Greenwood Ore
Bank, In Union township, Minim county, containing
91 acres of land, and 20 dwelling houses and stables.
Also, the property known as the Week's Saw Mill,
In the same county, containing 235S acres of land,
with mill and all the machinery and appurtenances
thereof. With two small tracts of land In Derry
township, Mifflin county, each containing about one
acre, more or less, respectively known as the Cun
ningham and Ryan lota, and two small tracts of land,
containing about one acre and one-fourth of an acre!
respectively, known as the Hostetter lot, aud the
Stroup House and lot, in Union township, Mimin
connty.
Also, about 17,400 acres of unseated lands, la
11 itll in county.
Also, the right to take ore on the Muthcrsbaugh
farm, in Decatur township, Mlillin county, at a
royalty of 25 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 flxtures,
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, Btore and office
building.
Also, about 17,200 acres of land, in Huntingdon
county (of which 037 acres are seated and partly im
proved). Together with all and singular the corpo.
rate rights, privileges, and franchises of the said
Company.
The foregoing properties will be Bold in one parcel
or lot, m payment of the bonds of the said Freedom
Iron and Steel Company, amounting to $500,000
with Interest from February l, 1869, 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 ofT. The balance te be paid in cash upon the
execution of the deed to the purchaser.
The Trustees will also Bell at the same time and
place, and under the same request and notice of
creditors, all the right, title, and Interest of the
Trnsteea, aa mortgagees in trust, of, in, and to the
following described properties, viz. :
The property known as the Yoder Farm, In Brown
township, MliUIn county, containing 163 acres, 124
perches, composed of two tracts as follows :
Beginning at stone in road, thence by land of John
D. Barr, north S3 degrees east, 102 6-10 perches to
stone; thence by land of Joseph B. Zook, north 44
degrees west, 202 8-10 perches, t atone ; thence by
land of John Uooley, south 46 degrees west J02 l-io
perches, to stone ; thence south 44 degrees east,
190 -10 perches, to the place of beginning contain
ing one hundred and twenty -Ave 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 6-10 perches, to stone ;
thence by land of John Ueoley, south 45 v deg. west,
79 6-10 perces to stones; thence by Jand of. David L.
Yoder, Bouth 42? deg. east, 60 8-10 perches, to stone
in road; thence along said road and by land of
Gideon Yoder, north 40jtf 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 gives to
secure bonds, amounting to 111,738-34, upon fssoo
of which interest is due from April l, is9, and on
balance of said bonds Interest is due from April 1,
166S-
A190, the property known as the Williams farm, as
follows :
All that certain tract of land situate In Derry
township, Ml ill in county, Pa., bounded and described
aa follows:
. Beginning at a chesnnt, corner of lands of Philip
Martz, thence by lands of William Uenney and
Samuel McManamy, north 87 degrees west, .93
perches, to a hickory; thence by lands of Sa'mue
McManamy, north 17 degrees west, 17 perehea;
thence by land of James M. Martin, south 73 de
grees west, 22 perches, to a post; thence by land of
Johnston Slgler, south 67 degrees west, 169 perches
to a hickory ; thence by lands of Peter Townaend'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, 9sx
perches, to a post; thence by land of Philip Martz,
north 70)tf degrees east, 89j perches, to the place of
beginning containing one hundred and seven acres
and twenty-nine perches of land, and allowance.
1 bis property la charged with a mortgage, given
to secure bonds for $1250, with interest at 6 per
cent, per annum, from November 8, isos.
Also, the property known aa the Stroup Ore Bank,
In Union township, Mlillin. county, containing about
nine acres and eighty-nine perches.
The last named property la subject to a mortgage
given to secure a bond for liooo, bearing interest at
the rate of 6 per cent per annum from July 28,
186S.
The terms of Bale of the last 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.
WI8TAR MORRIS,)
JAMES T. YOUNG, Trustees. ,
KNOOa LEWIS, j
M. THOMAS 4 SONS,
27mthto27 Auctioneers.
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Wilmington and Reading
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Seven Per Cent. Hondo,
FREE OP TAZE3. ;
We are Serin;; $900, 00 of the)
Second Mortgage Honda ot
this Company
AT 82J AND ACCRUED INTEREST.
For the convenience of Investors these Bonds are
Issued In denominations of
lOOOs, fSOOs, and lOOs.
- The money U required for the purchase of addi
tional Rolling Stock and the full equipment of the
Road.
The road Is now finished, and doing a buslneae
largely in excess of the anticipations of its officers.
The trade offering necessitates a large additional
outlay for rolling stock, to afford full facilities for Ita
prompt transaction, the present tolling atock not
being sufficient to accommodate the trade.
WM, PAINTER & CO.,
BANKERS,
No. 3G South THIRD Otroot,
66
PHILADELPHIA.
QEVEN PER CENT.
First Mortgage Bonds
or thj
UanTllle, Ilazleton, and Wilkes
barre Railroad Company,
Lt 05 and Accrued Interest
Clear of all Taxes,
INTEREST PAYABLE APRIL AMD OCTOBER.
Persona wishing to make Investments are invlt
o examine the merits of these BONDS.
Pamphlets supplied and full information given by
Sterling & Wildman,
FINANCIAL AGENTS,
IIo. 110 SOUTH THIRD STREET,
411 tf
PHILADELPHIA.
Government Bonds and other Securities taken la
exchange for the above at best market rates.
SI Xu V E
FOB SALE.
C. T. YERKES, Jr., I CD.,
BAHKEBS AND BR0KBB3.
No. 20 South THIRD Street;
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PHILADELPHIA,'
QiAENirarviiva,iAvig & co
No. .48 SOUTH THIRD STREET,
' ' PHILADELPHIA.
GlEtlDINNING, DAVIS t AMORT,
No. 17 WALL STREET, NEW YORK,
BANKERS AND BROKERS.
, Receive deposits subject to check, allow Interest
on standing and temporary balances, and execute
orders promptly for the purchase and sale of
STOCKS, BONDS and GOLD, In either city.
Direct telegraph communication from Philadelphia
honaw to New York. 1 1
WHISKY, WINE, ETCU v
QAR8TAIR8 & McCALL, j
No. 126 Walnut and 21 Granite 6U.
IMPORTERS OF ,
Brandies, Wines, Gin, Olive Oil, Etc,
WHOZJESALB DEALERS IR
PURE RYE WHISKIES.
IB BOWD AND TAX PAID. fa Ipj
7ILUAM ANDERbON CO., DEALERS IN
l ine Whiskies,
No. 1M North SECOND Street,
Philadelphia.
FURNAOES.
Established in 1835.
, Invsrisbly tba greatest success oer all competition
wbsBSYerand wherever exhibited or used ia the -UMTKD
STATES. ,
CHARLES WILLIAMS'
Patent Golden Eagle Furnaces,
Acknowledged by the leading Architects and Builders to
be the most powerful and durable Furnaces offered, sad
the most prompt, systematic, sod largest houas in this
line of business.
HEAVY REDUCTION IN PRICES,
snd only first-class work turned out.
Nor. 1132 and 1131 MARKET Street,
PHILADELPHIA.
N. B.-8FND FOR BOOK. OIT FAOT8 ON I1EAT
AND VENTILATION. 63
CLOTHS, OAS8IMERE8, ETC
Q L O T H H OUSE.
JAMES ft HUDBn.
No. 11 North SUCONI. Street,
Blgn of the Golden Lamb,
Ate w recelv(ng a large and splendid assortment
of new styles of
FANCY CASSIMERE3
And standard makes of DOESKINS, CLOTHS and
COAT1NQ9, liumvi
AT WHOLESALE AND RETAIL.
k I'M BRELLAB CHEAPEST INlti CITY.
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