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FRANCE AND NAPOLEON.
Twin U X r. Tribunt.
A great nation in not destroyed in a single
campaign, and terrible as the dinaster is which
has just overtaken the Emperor's armiea, we
look to see France arise from ber humiliation,
no longer, it ia trne, with her old prestige,
but with possibilities of fntnre grandeur and
a temper chastened by suffering. With
.. abundant natural wealth, developed indus
tries, skill in tho arts, and, above all, a brave
and generous people, France is hard to
crush; we do not believe that external vio
lence will ever bring her permanently very
low. Even the defeat under which she is
now smarting is only in part the work of the
German armies. In the long run Prussia
would in any case have been too strong for
ber, but the beating would not have been so
awfnl and so sudden had not the
Empire been rotten at the core, and its
apparent military strength a glittering sham.
The worst foe to France ban been neither
Bismarck nor King William, but Louis Napo
leon. So to-day but one voice is heard from
the defeated French a cry of exeoration
against the sovereign who his brought them
to such a plight, a cry of anger mingled with
profound contempt. None have been more
violent in their denunciations of tho imperial
prisoner than Frenchmen who only a few
weeks ago were the most ardent of Napoleon's
' supporters. It was the general remark in
this city yesterday that the French-Americans
who had hitherto adhered to the dynasty
were now the most bitter of its enemies. In
a tuoment the mask has fallen, and Napoleon
ism appears what it really is.
The whole career of the ex-Emperor has
been a series of false pretenses. When he
first offered himself to the French nation at
' Strasburg, when he landed at Boulogne with
his tame eagle, when he took the oath faith
fully to administer a republican government,
when he made himself Emperor by pretend
ing to crush a fictitious conspiracy, whan he
deluded the nation with the farce of plebiscite
and the show of unreal reforms, and more
than all when he claimed heirship in the
military genius of his uncle, he was acting
huge shams, sometimes full of ridicule,
sometimes full of disaster. It has cost
France a good deal to leara all this; but
Napoleon is found dut at last, aftar he has
corrupted the country, disorganized every
branch of the administration, and ruiued the
army. For eighteen years he has masqueraded
in the character of a creat commander. It
has long been known that he has no ability ai
a general; it now appears that he has for
years had only the appearance of an army
the canker of "personal government" has
leaten out its heart. One push from the Prus
sian sword, and the whole fabrio crumbles to
pieces, and personal government lies buried
in the ruins. The ntter overthrow of tho
system which has brought about the French
misfortunes is the best ground for hoping
'that France will rise again tj greatness and
prosperity under better auspices.
, . SOME LESSONS FItOil DEFEAT.
.From the X Y. Times.
The misfortunes of great nations are often
their best instructors. Prussia would never
have been what it is now, but for Jena and
the humiliation which succeeded it. It
needed that disgrace to break up its rotten
aristocracy and to cause the kingdom to be
entirely reorganized. In our owa civil war,
we can see clearly now that the defeat of
Bull Knn, which appeared so utterly pros
trating when it took place, was necessary to
excite tho deepest earnestness, and to stimu
late the most thorough organization for the
national cause, and to uproot our great evil
0 slavery. British history has been full of
defeats which, in their final results, have
been better thun victories. In France itself,
nothing but the calamities and passion
ate outbreaks of the first revolution
could have broken up the legalized oppres
sion of the peasantry, or purified tho social
atmosphere of the court. Similar results
will in all probability follow the present mili
tary failures of the French Government and
-the misfortunes which have fallen on the
people. No right-minded American can look
at this time on the calamities of that brilliant
nation, remembering all its immortal achieve
ments in the field of literature and science,
its great services to modern ci vilization,
and the heroic- assistance it gave us in the
time of oar need, without a profound pity for
the wealth destroyed, the arts interrupted,
and the thousands of gallant lives uselessly
sacrificed in this unfortunate struggle.
It is easy for bystanders to moralize on the
misfortunes of their neighbors, and the French
. will receive henceforth no lack of kindly
critical advice from other nations which have
not attained their glory or reached the depth
of their fall. A fail it unquestionably is, and
one of the most astounding in modern his
tory. For a military nation, in the height of
its renown and the abundance of its wealth,
which had sacrificed all political and popular
considerations to welding itself into one
gigantic weapon of war, to be stricken to the
earth in a six weeks' campaign, and in a war
it had itself provoked, and to find its armies
beaten, its richest territory overrun, and its
capital threatened, if not taken, is one of the
most remarkable cata-strophes on record.
Even in this age of the world, war is the
ultimate test of the quality of a nation. It
tries its organization, tests the soundness
of its administration, and shows what disci
pline and heroism and devotion lie in each of
its citizens. Final victory is the victory; not
of brute strength, but of science, of disci
pline, of individual intelligence, and national
resources. That the French will critically
search out and thoroughly reform the intel
lectual defects or mistakes which have caused
their reverses, we do not doubt. They are
too intelligent a nation to fail in this. There
is something darkly ominous now, to those
who know the French nature, in the entire
silence, maintained in regard to the present
military regime. Whether the theory that
the clamors of the people forced the Emperor
into the present war is correct or otherwise,
they undoubtedly consider it a point of honor
not to abandon their leaders till they have
beaten their enemies.
There will be, without doubt, a thorough
military reorganization of France. The tools
of the Emperor will be thrown aside; the
commissariat entirely reformod; perh.ips the
standing army abolished, and the Prussian
system of an armed nation introduced. Not
improbably we shall see the Prussian system
of an enforced popular education for all
established, and an effort put forth to render
France more independent of Paris. All that
intellect and science can extract froui the
Prussian methods, which can be imitated in
Trance, will be adopted there, and Grave
lotte, in its good effects as well as its dis
aster, viU to Ibv "tlio trwU nation."
Fortunately, in the highest qualities of a
race, in personal heroism and readiness to
uncrinoe thomselves for their country, the
French have no reason to bo ashamed even of
this disastrous war. In all their brilliant past
no fields have boon rendered more brilliant
by the heroism of the common soldier and
the devotion of the officer than these which
have been the scones of almost ftnvarying
defeat. But there are moral defects which,
hare occasioned thin great disaster to the
French nation, and they are deeper aud not
so easily probed by those who would restore
ber to her former estate. Perhaps, indeed,
they are beyond the reach of any reform.
M. Thiers has himself declarod that, much
as the whole people were jealous of
the suocesa of the Prussians, they would
never have been forced into the war "at
present" had the subject been allowed to be
discussed in the Corps Legislatif. Thi thing
which is utterly incomprehensible to foreign
ers, at least of Anlo-Saxon origin, is that a
powerful nation, with a highly intelligent
governing class, should allow itsolf for twenty
years to be utterly at tho beuk of a military
adventurer of doubtful character and desti
tute of genius, and should permit him to
expose all their vast resources and their well
earned fame to such calamities and disgraces
as the present. The fettering of free thought
for the last two decades, the persecutions of
the great instructor of the populace, a free
press; the crowding of all oiliccs and the
Legislature with tho tools of the Emperor;
the contemptible character of the officials
who pretended to load a great nation, and the
final cheat of tho pUlixcitum, have thoir
fitting and logical close in the disgraceful
campaign of 1870. All these wrongs and
oppressions were patiently endured indeed
may be said to have been created by the
will of a people calling itself the most civil
ized in Europe.
There is here a lack of true moral and po.
litioal independence, a capacity of being daz
zled by the show of a great name, and a love
for the mere trappings of a military rule,
which show a superficial character that is no
match for the profound force, the doep
moral earnestness, the hbit of submission
to principle, and the fiery spirit of anew
nationality, founded on popular liberty and
unity, of the Teutonic peoples. It remains
to bo seen whether calamity will call out the
deep moral power which lies in the French
nature, and enable the peoplo to see their
follies and errors. If so, history may yet
record that the defeats of Woerth, Grave
lotte, Beaumont, and Sedan at length disci
plined "the great nation" ta prefer self-control
to anarchy, political progress to military
glory, and the success which arises from long
struggles for self-government to all tho
bloody honors of the. battle-field.
CAN ntANCE PROLONG THE WAtf?
tfrom the X '. Ilc ald.
France has been sttimiod by the
intelligence of the defeat of MacIalion and
the surrender of Napoleon; but the war spirit
has not by any means been extinguished.
The proclamation issued by the Council of
Ministers and tho debate in the Cjrps Legis
latif clearly show that the nation has not
mado up its mind as yet to submit to defeat.
WTe are not surprised by this intelligence. It
would bo strange if a great nation like France
should reconcile itself to a fa a so hard all at
once. A few days more may convince even
the Council of Ministers that while France
might prolong tho contest for a little she
would do better to mako peace with tho vic
torious enemy with as little delay as possible.
It is undeniable that tho French people might
yet make a desperate and even glorious strug
gle; but it is not our opinion that Frmce can
prolong the struggle with any prospect of ulti
mate success. The Ministers talk big of armies
which are forming. But all the world knows
what raw levies can do when matched with
trained armies in fine condition and Hushed
with success. If any large portion of the
splendid army which set out for the Rhine
some six weeks ago were available the raw
levies might be usefully employed. But that
magnificent array of men, from whom so
much was expected, is virtually extinguished.
The army of MacMahon is no more. The
forty thousand who have survived the battles
of (Saarbruck and Wissemburg, and Woerth
and Gravelotte, and those territio four days'
fighting near Sedan, are now prisoners of
war. The forces of I3.t7.aine, demoralized,
are shut np in Metz, and Prussia will take
good care that not a man of them shall e
cape till the war is ended. What is now to
hinder the victorious march of four or five
hundred thousand Prussians to Pari3? If
the flower of the French armies, the picked
soldiers of the country, led by the best men
whom France could supply, have failed, and
miserably failed, to arrest the onward pro
gress of the Prussian hosts, what reason is
there to hope that raw levies, imperfectly
equipped and led by second rate men, will
turn the tide of battle ?
We have never denied that Paris is able to
sustain a siege. But we have never been abl
to see what good could come from a pro
tracted resistance of the capital city. Prussia
has marched on to victory in spite of Stras
burg, in spite of Metz, in spite of many forti
fied places which lay in her way, and so she
will march on in spite of Paris. The resist
ance of Paris may prolong the war for a little;
but it will only be for a little. Sooner than
some of us are prepared to believe, the Prus
sians will surround the capital, King William
will take up his headquarters at Versailles,
which is defenseless, and the cry will be
raised from one end of France to the other in
favor of peace. With five hundred thousand
men in the heart of France recruiting will be
vain and revolution impossible. If France is
wise, the unnecessary slaughter will cease
at once.
CAPITAL AND LABOR.
from the X F. WorUU
If the truth in relation to capital were
better known, there would be less idle talk of
the hostility between capital and labor. The
capital of the entire human species is scarcely
equal to two years' production of labor. The
total value of property in the United States
in 181.0 was lf.,000 millions of dollars. The
total annual production was 8001) millions of
dollars. These are the census figures. They
are probably underestimated in production,
and overestimated in property.
The capital of the country consists princi
pally in bind, farm-houses, agricultural im
plements, cattle, and seed ooru; in city dwell
ings, furniture, factory buildings, machinery,
and fetocks of merchandise: in railroads,
canals, 6Lips, and money. All these, with
the exception of land, are extremely perish
able. The land itself, uuless kept in con
stant culture, soon depreciates cni becomes
alruont valueless.
Farm-houses, unless frequently repaired,
soon decay; nine-tenths of the farm-house
in the United States are estimated to be less
than five years old. Agricultural implements
ntedto be renewed with great frequency;
seed corn is consumed every year; while the
average life of brood cattle of all kinds, in
cluding within this generio name sheep and
LLk, cui a, best be a fiw jturs. It i the
same with all other .kinds of capital or pro
perty. Ships, canals, railroais, need inces
sant rebuilding; machinery is daily being
renderod useless by improved methods or by
use; buildings are undergoing ondloss repairs;
and even money, whether paper or gold, is
forever wearing out. You need only look
around in farm or shop or dwelling to Jbocoma
at once convinced that the number of things,
the quantity of property that is ten years old
is extremely limited, and that even of this
limited number, this, limited quantity, bat a
very small proportion would be in exist
ence were it not for systematic re
pairs. Capital in every form is extrsmsly
perishable, and is preserved only by means
of constant repairs. Taking all kinds of pro
perty into account, it is not unreasonable to
estimate its averago duration at ten years; or,
in other word, to estimate the necessary
repairs to keep it in order, or the necess ry
additions to maintain its qnantity, as equal
to ton per cent, of the property itsolf. While
the percentage may Beem absurdly high for
city dwellings and some otner kinds of pro
perty, it is very low for land, railroads, canals,
turnituro, implements, machinery, and mer
chandise; and to any one familiar with such
investigations will seem rather too low than
too high. In other words, in order to main
tain the property of tho country at the valua
tion of 1;,000 millions of dollars, it will re
quire repairs and additions to tho extent of at
least li!00 millions annually. These repairs
and additions to existing property are
not included In the census account of
annual production, but should be added
thereto in order to obtain the real
annual product of the country. But this
is not all. Of the 1." millions of active pro
ducers in the country, nearly Gh millions are
agriculturalists, representing, with wife aud
child, close upon twenty millions of popula
tion. The food and sustenance of these 2ft
millions, in as far as it is the product of his
own farm, is not included in the farmer's
estimato of his annual production. Taking
it at only per head, whioh is evidently a
low estimate, we will have further 400 mil
lions of annual product to add to the census
figures. We have then: Census return, fcfOOO
millions; repairs to capital, KM) millions;
food consumed on farms, 400 millions; total,
10,000 millions as actual value of the total
product of the labor of the United States in
180O, compared with 1(5,000 millions, total
value of all property at the sama time. It
must be evident at a glance that the vague
conception generally entertained of the nu
merical relations of labor and capital is ab
surdly erroneous. The fact is that in the
United States labor every year produces an
amount of property equal to five-eighths of all
property in existence. If it were possible to
produce without oapital (which of course it is
not), and if production could go on without
consumption, we might destroy every vestige
of property within the United States to-day,
and within nineteen months labor would re
produce tne whole.
These figures, rightly interpreted, are
highly instructive. They show us, in the
first place, what an incredibly rapid increase
in national wealth is possible when economy
and wisdom regulate the consumption of this
enormous product. They explain how it is
possible for countries, desolated by fire and
tword, to resume with magic rapidity their
wonted activity and wealth. They enable us
to set aside the silly theories built np on the
assumption of our being a young country,
and deficient in capital. They demolish at a
blow tho absurd schemes of the protection
ists, who pretend that labor, capable of pro
ducing ten millions of value annually, needs
protection against the foreign importations,
which, even under the comparatively liberal
tariff of li)0, never reached three hundred
millions, or three per cent, of our own pro
duction; or that a people whioh con
sumes ten millions of its own products needs
foolish laws to provide it with a "home
market," or a "near-by market ' for its two
hundred and fifty or threo hundrel millions
surplus. But more useful than all these de
monstrations are the practical conclusions
which these remarkable figures f urnise con
cerning the relations of labor and capita'.
Of the 10,000 millions of total property Or
capital, a large proportion is not employed in
production. An immense amount of uuculti
vated land, vacant city lots, unoccupied farms,
waste land on farms and pleasure grounds,
many factories and their machinery, many
city houses, costly furniture, jewelry, oil
paintings, etc., are either temporarily idle, or
are in the nature of things totally incapable
of being used, for the time being, for pro
ductive purposes. It is evident that all
that portion of the total capital, being idle,
does not earn interest. Estimate it though
it is more at only 1000 millions, and you
have, in 18(J0, 1300 millions of capital ac
tively employed. Now, no axiom is more
clearly settled in political ecnoomy than this,
that capital cannot honestly earn more than
the average rate of interest ; in other words,
that the average rate of interest is the aver
age earning of capital. Of course, this has
nothing to do with the earnings of an indi
vidual, whether capitalist or laborer. The
laborer without capital may earn thousands,
and the laborer with capital, whether his own
or borrowed, may earn tens of thousands.
But in either case it is the liborcr that earns
it. Capital only earns its interest, niver
rightfully more. If the average rate of inte
rest in the United States in 1800 was 10 per
cent., out of the 10,000 millions of property
produced 1500 millions went to capital as
interest, and 8.'.00 millions was the earning
of labor, skilled or unskdled, lay or profes
sional. All tho labor of the whole couutry
united produced for its own use 8500
millions of property, which by naturd
laws would be divided in accordance
with the precise value of the labor con
tributed by each. Neither labor nor capital
can complain. Capital is entitled to its
interest, which it receives. Whatever remains
is equitably divided among labor according to
its deserts. But if Congress steps in and
says to the saltmakcr : In addition to the in
terest on your capital, and in addition to
the share of products due you for your labor,
you shall have we S3 decree it 50 cents
extra on every barrel of salt you produce; or
to the ironmahter, $0 gold extra on every ton
of iron you mako; and to the cloth manufac
turer, 2 gold a yard on every yard of cl th
you make; and to the spool-cotton manufac
turer, 3 cent3 on every spool of cotton you
make; and to every manufacturer throughout
the country, you shall have 4 per cent, if the
value of every article you produce as an
extra gift to encourage you to go on
monufactnring, to encourage domestio in
dustry, to make a home market for our
product?, to protect labor; when Congress
says this, where does all this extra money
come from, and what does it amount to?
The value of the product of manufacturing
industry in the United States is believed to
have exceeded 4000 millions of dollars in
1800. On this amount Congress, by its infa
mous tariii', gives the manufacturers 45 per
cent, as au extra gift, the trifling sum of
1800 millions of dollars ! And where does it
come from? It comes out of the 8500
luihiouit tLat axe really due to labor. In
stead of there being 8500 millions left to
divide, there is then only 6700 millions loft
to divids; the difference of 1800 millions a
radical Congress stole out of the pockets of
the toiling workmen to put in the pockets of
the McCarthys and Morrills and Ameses and
Ward 8 and their toadies and attorneys.
Do the workingmen wondir that they get
little, when on every dollar thej earn they first
bave to pay a tax of twenty cents to these
radical cormorants ?
Not capital is their enemy, but a radical
Congress.
TIIE CATASTROPHE AT SEDAN.
From (A X F. Sun.
When, instead of retreating toward Paris,
Marshal MacMuhon marched northeast from
Chalons, every man of military experience
anticipated just what has happened to him.
It is true, probably, that he only obeyed a
positive order from Marshal Bazaine, the
commander-in-chief: but atfer that order
bad been given communication with Bazaine
was cut on", and all the circumstances of the
situation were changed. MacMahon should
have known that it was impossible for him,
with his force of only one hundred thousand
Bolid troops, to extricate Bazaine, surrounded
by two hundred thousand, while Prince
Frederick William's army of two hundred
and fifty thousand lay in the valley of the
Aube, and the Crown Prince of Saxony, with
eighty thousand more, was on the upper
waters of the Aisne. It is true the Prussians
were making a great show of rapidly march
ing against Taris; but a general fit to lead
where a country is to be saved would have
understood that Paris would not be worth half
so much either to France or Prussia as the
army under his orders; and he would never
have been caught in that trap which has now
closed upon the Marshal, his army, the Em
peror, and the empire all together. In all
the incomparable succession of blunders com
posing the catalogue of French operations
since the beginning of the campaign, this of
MacMahon's is the most fatal. It proves
that, however good as a fighter, he is as bad
a strategist as either the Emperor, Marshal
Lebosuf, or Marshal Bazaine; and beyond
that language does not go.
The cupture of MacMahon's army has been
effected by means substantially the same as
his defeat at Haguenau, and the defeat aud
imprisonment of Bazaine at Metz. In each
case the Prussians have won by greater
rapidity of movement, superior numbers,
equal fighting, and superior generalship.
That is the whole mystery. MacMahon hud
a hundred thousand men or thereabouts
whom he could rely upon, besides from thirty
to fifty thousand whom he did not dare to
bring into action, while Von Moltke had two
hundred and fifty thousand, all experienced
soldiers. Against such an enemy only supe
rior genius could successfully contend; but
when the superiority is on the other side, the
case becomes doubly hopeless. The battle
field was also unfavorable to the French, and
their only line of retreat led into Belgium.
When the hills that environ Sedan were taken
from them, and they were surrounded on
every side, surrender was their only course.
An army shut up under the walls of Metz can
hold out lor days or weeks, and repel assault
as long as its provisions last; but an army
shut up at Sedan is at the mercy of the
enemy, who, from the neighboring heights,
can destroy it at leisure, almost without suf
fering any injury in return.
With the surrender of MacMahon the list
disciplined troops of Franoe are gone, and
for the time she is at the mercy of the Ger
mans. She has other men under arms, four
or five hundred thousand, all brave and zea
lous. But at present they are as useless as
that considerable portion of MacMahon's
army which he dared not lead into battle. It
will require at least six months to make
these men efleotive fighters. No doubt the
patrfotio spirit of France will ardently desire
to oortinue the war. It is but justice to say
that as yet no other wish or purpose has been
manifested in all the nation. But common
sense must alter all decide; and the prescrip
tion of common sense is to submit to the
bard necessity, and to make peace on the best
attainable terms. That will probably soon
be the judgment of the men into whose
hands the government of France will fall. It
is possible thit the more desperate and
heroic alternative may be adopted by the
French people; bnt it is more likely th it the
conclusion of peace at an early day will
leave Europe at liberty to pursue that new
course of development whioh the war baa
commenced.
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oonrae In the Kuflsh Branches and Mathematics.
. 1'uplls prepared for high standing In College.
ft. Special instructors in Freouh, (Jerman, Draw
Ing. Penmanship, Elocution, Uooa-keeplug, Natural
Science.
. A carefully organised Primary Department
6. Special features an ansariiaaawl locality,
spacious and well ventilated rooms, with high oei
uig s, a retired play ground.
Next session begins peptember 19. Circulars at
No. m& LOCUST SU ApplicatloLS received dallv.
Testimonial from Hon. William Strong, U. 8. Su
preme court.
Pnn.aDKLHTa, June IB, 1870.
During tbfl last two years mv son ha bceu an at
tendant of the cliool of Mr. Edward Ciareuoe Smith,
knwn ss Rngby Academy. 1 can uuquatifledly
commend Mr. nil' h to thos who have sms to be
eouvated. as a superior instructor, devoted to his
work, kind and flr.'n in his managemHnttif hispnpUs,
nnd In all respects qualified for success In his pro
fession. 818 W. STRONG.
nY. I. A 17 1 12 ft II 4.4? II 'ft
a ACADEMY FOR Y"11NG MEN AND BorS.
ASSEMBLY UL'ILDINUS,
No. 10H booth TaNru Srreet.
A Primary, Elementary, and Finishing SchooL
Thorough preparation for Business or Oolleire.
Ppec'al attention piveD to Commercial Arithmetic
ann all kinds of BuBlness Calculations.
French and Herman, Linear and Perspective
Drawing, Elocution, English Composition, Natural
Science.
FIELD PRACTICE in Surveying and Civil EngV.
seerlng, with the use of ah" requinlte Instruments,
Is glvan to the hlgncr classes In Mat hematics.
A nrst-etass Primary Department.
The best ventilated, most lofty and spacious Class
rooms In the city.
open lor the reception of applicants dally from 10
A.M. to 4 P.M. 8 80
tall term will ber September 19.
Circulars at Mr. Warbnrton's, No. 4S0 Chcsnut at.
I
TM t T T T UfnMf IVimmtn -- V .
-opened for SUMMER BOARDERS from July 1 to
September IB, 1870.
The Douse is new and pleasantly located, with
plenty of shade. Rooms large and airy, a number
of them communicating, and with first-cla
board.
A few families can be accommodated by applying
early.
For particulars call on or address
REV. T. W. CATTELL,
Tl MerchantvUlw, N. J.
nALLOWELL SELECT HKMI SCHOOL FOP
Young Men ard Boys, which has been re
moved from No. 110 N. Tenth street, will be opened
on (September 12 lu the new and morn commodious
bulloir.gs Nob. 1 12 and 114 N. NIN'I H Street Neither
effort nor expense has been fepared lu fitting up the
rooms, te make this a first-class school of the highest
grade.
A Preparatory Department is connected with the
school. Parents and students are Invited to call
and examine the rooms aud consult tho Principals
from A. AL to 2 P. M. alter August 16.
GKOKGK EAf TBURN, A. B
JOHN G. MOOKK, M. S.,
817tf Principals.
HAMILTON lNHTTTi: t"E FOR YOUNG LADIES.
No. 8810 ClihSNUT Street, West PhiladeU
phut. Day and Boarding School. This lustiruttou,
having successfully completed its fourth y .ar, has
become one of tho eKtablished schools ol our city.
Its courke of study Includes a thorough English aud
Classical Education, embracing Mental, MorU, aud
riijBtcul culture.
lis nliith session will open on MONDAY, Septem
ber 12. For terms, eta, apply at the school.
8V9tf PHILIP A. CREGAR, Principal.
I7lLDON SEMINARYMISS CARR'S hELECl
Ij Boarding School for Young Laules will RaV
Of-KN SKP-l EMBER 14, 1870.
It Is situated at the York Road Station of the
North Pennsylvania Railroad, seven miles from
Philadelphia,
1 he Principal may be consulted personally at her
residence during tho summer, or by letter addreasod
to Shoemakertown Post Oitlce, Montgomery county,
Pa. Circulars can be obtained also at the oitlce of
JAY COOKE & CO.,
.8 9 Bankers, Philadelphia,
riPE SIXTEENTH ACADEMIC YEAR OP
1 SPK1NG GaKDBN ACADEMY, N. E. corner ol
EKU.Tb and BUTToNWOOD Streets, begins Tues
day, September 6. Thorough preparation for Busi
ness or Colieue. Applications received on aud after
Monday, August 22.
CHARLES A. WALTERS?. A. M.,
8191m . pnnelpaL
CENTRAL INSTITUTE, N. W. CORNER-OF
TENTH and SPRING GARDEN btreets, will
reopen MONDAY, September 5. Parents are Invited
to call alter August 2'.1. Boys prepared for business
or for college JOHN P. LAMBERTON, A, M.,
8 22.1m Principal.
VOU.NG MEN AND BOYS' ENGLISH CI.ASSI
1 OAL AND COMMERCIAL INSTITUTE, No.
19t8 MOUNT VERNON Street, reopens September
6 Thorough preparation for Busluosor College,
Das a Prtparaiory Department for small Boys.
9 87 1m Rev. J. O. SH1NN, A. M., PrluclpiL
WEST PENN SQUARE SEMINAR Y FOR
YY YOUNG LA 1)1 E.n, No. B South MKRKICK
Street (formerly Mrs. M. E. Mitone'l's.) Th Fall
Term of this school will beRin on THURSDAY, Sep
tember IB. MISS AGNES IRWIN,
8 31JS15 PriucipaL
OCnOOL OF DESIGN FOR WOMEN," NOR m.
E WEST PENN SQUARE. The school year for
1870 and 1S71 will commence on MONDAY, the lata
of September. T. W. BRaIDWOOD,
8 8112t Principal.
e'TEVENSDALE INSTITUTE, A SELECT
'family Boarding-school for boys, will reopen Sept.
12, lhiu. For Circulars address J. H. WITIIING TON,
A. M., Principal. South Amboy, N. J. 8 2tuths26t
w
, EST CllESNUT STREET INSTITUTE FOR
YUl.NU LiA DlKiS, Na 40.15 (JhesDat street. Wett
Philadelphia, will re-onen MONDAY, September 19.
S 8wJ MISS K. T. BROWN, Principal.
VOl'NO LADIES' INSTITUTE, No. IVii MoUNT
J. VERNON Street, sixth bcml-Annual Term
begins ou WHDNESDAY, Sept. 10.
Call or send for clrcultr. 9S9w
CI1EGARAY INSTITUTE, Nos. 1537 AND
IfcNSFHUOIC Straat, Philadelphia, will roopen on
TVV blA Y. September lu. Kronob ta tba laniraasa of tha
f airily, and ia oonatantlf apokau in tha inatituia.
16 wtm bin 1 D'liER ViLXV. Principal.
OAKLAND FEMALE" INSTITUTE, N0RKI8
ToWN.Pa,, will commence Its Twenry-sixth
Veer September L Terms. I'ZoU. For ciiculars ad
d ress, J. GR1 ER RALSTON. 8 1 ra
MIPS CLEVELAND'S SCIKXIL FOR-YOUNG
Ladies will reopen on MONDAY, Septerntier
1, st No. JU23 DELANCEY Place. 9 0 13t
rpilE MISSES ROGERS WILL REOPEN
1 their Hchooi for Yountr Ladles and Children at
No. 1914 PINE Street, on MON DA Y Sept. 0. 9 3 in
rpWENTY-SlXTH" Y E.L IL D. O REGOR Y,A.
1 M , will reopen his t lasslcal aud English H ho l
No. 1108 MAR ET r-treet,ou Septembers. 8 99 lu
lE CLASSICAL INSTITUTE, DRAN STHEKT,
J above Spruce, will be re-npened September 6th.
8 22 nu J W. KA1RES, D. P., Principal.
M U Si C A L INST RUOfToN.
4 Ii. TA LOR'S SINGING ACADEMY, NO. 619
1 ARt'H Street, will opeu for the reception ol
i.upils on MONDAY, Sept. 6. Hours from 11 to 13
A. M. aud 4 to T P. M. daily. 9 1 f
LEOAL NOTICES.
INSTATE OF ALEXANDER BENSON, JR., DE
1 (EASED.-
Letters of Administration on the Estate of ALEX
ANDER BENr-ON, Ju., dect asod, having been
grunted to the undersigned, all persons ludebted to
said estate aru requested to make payment and all
persri'S having claims to present the same without
delay to EDWIN N. BENHjN,
GI STAVUS S. BENSON,
EDWIN NORTH,
Administrators, No. S. THIRD Street.
Cr to their Attorney.
GEORGE JUNKIN. E)..
8 1.5 tu6t S. E. cor. SIXTH and WALNUT Sts.
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REAL ESTATE AT AUCTION.
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By virtue and ta execution of the powers contained
In a Mortgage executed by
THE CENTRAL PASSENGER RAILWAY
COMPANY
of the city of Philadelphia, bearing data th
eighteenth day of April, 1803, and recorded la th
office for recording deeds and mortgages for the
city and county of Philadelphia, In Mortgage Book
A. C U., No. 6s, page 465, etc, the undersigned
Trustees named in said mortgage
WILL SELL AT PUBLIC AUCTION,
at the MERCHANTS' EXCHANGE, In the city of
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. 1. All those two contiguous lots or pieces of
ground, with tho buildings aud Improvements
thereon erected, situate on tue east side of Broad
Street. In thacltv of Phlladelnhla. nnn of thitm hn.
ginning at the distance of nineteen feet seven
inches and 0 ve-elght hs southward from the southeast
corner of the said Broad and Coates streets; thenoe
extending eastward 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.
aloDg said ground, aud at right angles with said '
Coates street, sevtuty-two feet to the northeast cor
ner of an alley, two feet six Inches In Width,'
leading south? ard Into Peun street ; thenoe west
ward crossing said alley and along the lot of ground
hereinafter described and at right angles with said
Broad street, seventy -nine feet to the east side of .
the said Broad street; and thence northward along
the east line of said Broad street seveuty-two feet to
the place of beginning. Subject to a Ground Rent
of $280, silver moDey.
No. 8. 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 seven-,
ty-iour feet and two inches, and ou the line of said .
lot parallel with said Peun street seventy-six feet
five inches and three-fourths of au inch to said two
feet six inches wide alley. Subject to ground rent
of f 72, silver money.
No. 8. All that certain lot or piece of ground be
ginning at the S. E. corner of Coates street and Broad
street, thence extending southward a:ong the said
Broad street nineteen feet seven inches and five
eighths of au inch ; thence eastward eighty feet one
inch and one-haif of au, inch; thence northward, at
right angles with said Coates street, nine feet to the
south side of Coates street, aud thence westward
along the south sine of said Coates street ninety feet
to the place of beginning.
No. 4. Four Steam Dummy Cars, twenty feet long
by nine feet two Inches wldn, with ail the necessarf
steam machinery, seven-inch cylinder, with ten-inch
stroke of piston, with !ieailng pipes, &c Each wUl
siat thirty pusnengers, aud has power sufficient to
draw two extra cars.
Notk. These cars are bow in the custody of
Messrs. Grice & Long, at Trenton, New Jersey,
where they can be seen. The sale of them ia made
subject to a Hen for rent, which ou the flrst day of
July, 1870, amounted to $000.
No. 6. 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. l, 2, and 3,) roadway, railway, rails,
rights of way, stations, toll bounes, and other super
structures, depots, depot greuuds 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
an o tallway, and relating thereto, and all the tolls,
Income, Issues, and profits to accrue from the sama
or any part thereof belonging to said company, and
generally all the tenenients.hereditaments and fran
chises of the said company. Aud also all the cars of
every kind (not included in No. 4,) m tchlnery, tools,,
tuiple nients,and materials connected with the proper
equipment, operating and conducting of said roadr
plank road, and railway; and all the personal pro
perty of every kind aud description belonging to the
said company.
Togethi r with all the streets, ways, alleys, pas
sages, waters, water-courses, easements, franchises,
rights, liberties, privileges, hereditaments ana ap
purtenances whatsoever, unto any of the above
mentioned premises aud estates belonging and ap
pertaining, and the reversions aud remainders,
rents, issues, and profits thereof, and all the estate,
right, title, interest, property, claim, and demand of
every nature and klud whatsoever of the said Com
pany, as well at law as 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 Fifty Dollars, unless the price la
less thau that sum, when the whole sum bid snail
be paid.
W. I SCHAFFER,
8 13 6it W. W. LONGbTRETn, Trustees.
ROOFINO.
PHILADELPHIA
Fainting and Hoofing Co.
TIN ROOFS REPAIRED.
All leakages in Roofs warranted to be made per
fectly tight.
8r ULCER'S GUTTA-PERCHA PAINT
Will preserve Tin Roofs from Rusting and Leaking,
ana wartanted to stand ten years without repaint
ing. 'i bis Is the only Paint that will not crack or peel
off. Ills alasilo Paint; it expands and contract
with the tin, and leaves no cracks or seams open for
water to gel through.
IH'-N KJtNCab PAINTED WITH SPENCERS
PATENT IKON PAINT, made expressly for iron
woik. warranted not to crack or peel off; will retain
its beaotuul ylosa lor nve years.
All work wai ranted.
All orders promptly attended to. Address
PniLADEPiUA PAINTING AND ROOFING
COMPANY,
T 14 3m No. 63 N. SIXTH St., Philadelphia.
READY ROOPIN G
This Rooting ts adapted to all buildings, 11
can be applied to
STEEP OR FLAT ROOFS
atone-half the expense of tin. Ills readily put oa
old Shingle Roois without removing the shingles,
thus avoiding the damaging of ceilings and furniture
while undergoing repaint. (No gravel used.)
PRESERVE Y UR TIN ROoKS WITH WKL
TON'S JLASriO PAINT.
I am always prepared to He nalr and Paint Roofs
at short notice. Also, PAINT FOR SALE by the
barrel or gallon; the beat and cheapest In the
market.
W. A. W ELTON,
9 175 No. Til N. NINTH St.. above Coates,
FIRE AND BUROUAR PROOF 8AFK
fwj J. WATSON & SOUf,
qjof tba lata ana of BVAMS a WATSON.
rillK AND BURGLAR-PROOF
SAFE STORE,
No. 53 SOUTH FOURTH STREET,
8U
A law door abova Ghaanat aa.. Phllada,'
J, T. IA8TON.
1. M'MAHON.
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&WPP1SG J SO COMMSSrO.V SlEftCaASTS,
9 MTllllBO niU . 1 fj W 1 H aV,
No, 13 SOUTH WHARVES, Philadelphia,
No. 49 W. PRATT STREET, Baltimore.
We are prepared to ship every description Of
Freloht to Philadelphia. New York, WUnuujrton, and
internif rtiata points with promptness and despatch.
Csnal Boats aud Steam-tugs furnished at the shortest
Notice.
O
NE DOLLAR GOODS FOR 95 CKNTd
in la Itaj tiiZMS a fii il a. kivjii I U bwaa
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