THE DAILY EVENING TELEGRAPH PHILADELPHIA, TUESDAY, JANUARY 31, 1871.
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LETTER FROM A. DULUTIIUR.
Tfc Nartlitra Pnrlflx Itnllrnnd The I'll male
f the (Northwcat.
PART II.
To the lidilor ttf Th Fwnlnq TeUpraph.
tlKOOBArnT CORRECTED.
It ia high time that the niis-educatfoa in
geography which most Americans now on the
utage of action received in their childhood,
when Chicago was an Indian village, and
Lake Snperior an unknown bob, should be
eorreoted. A study of recant maps will serve
to disabuse prejudice. They will show that
the extreme north shore of Lake Superior is
upon the same latitude as Paris, that it is
about 200 miles south of the latitude of Lon
don, over 400 miles south of the latitude of
Edinburgh, and over 700 miles south of the
latitude of St. retersburg, in Russia.
THE SUMMER ISOTHERMAL LINE.
The mean temperature of spring in Minne
sota is 45 deg., equal to Chicago; summer,
70 deg., equal to Northern Illinois and Phila
delphia; autumn, 45 deg., equal to New
Hampshire and Michigan; winter, 10 deg.,
equal to Central Vermont and New Hamp
shire; whole year, 45 deg., equal to Central
New York, two degrees farther south. Re
membering that Minnesota is the coldest
portion of the country tributary to the North
ern Pacific, and that the above statistics are
gathered from the now more thickly settled
parts of that State, which are its coldest parts,
let us now consider the "summer isothermal
line" of seventy degrees, which in Europe
passes through Southern France, Lombardy,
and the great wheat growing regions of
Southern Russia, striking our Atlantic
coast at the east end of Long Island,
and passing through Central Pennsylvania,
Northern Ohio and Indiana, and skirting the
southern shore of Lake Michigan, diverges
northwesterly and goes north of St. Paul up
into the British Possessions to latitude 52
deg., five degrees farther north than Duluth.
From the above, all will see that the North
west is not too cold for profitable farming;
consequently we read of it the following,
which is abundantly corroborated by oinaors
of the army and explorers: "It is a region in
all whose valleys poaches, apples, pears,
plums, cherries, grapes, and sweet potatoes
have rapid growth and complete maturity."
Professor Hind, in an official statement to
the Canaditm Legislature, reported of the
Saskatchawan country, which is two hundred
miles north of the line of the Northern
I'acific Jioi'road crops of wheat of fifty
six measured bushels to the acre, and that
forty bushels to the acre is a fair return on
new land, while the yield of vegetables sur
passed in quantity and quality anything he
had ever seen before. lie also reported
melons growing with the utmost luxuriance,
ripening without any artificial aid, and that
Indian corn, if an early variety be selected,
may always be relied on. The wondrous
activity of the vegetative principle in this
whole region can hardly be realized by por
t sons who have not been convinced by ocular
demonstration.
THE WINTER CLIMATE.
Upon first saying anything about Dulath
to Eastern persons, I am invariably met with
this remark: "Daluth? ah, that is about a
hundred miles north of St. Paul; it must be
very cold up there." I tell them the mercury
does not fall in winter time as low as at St.
Taul by ten degrees, the cause of which is
that the winds from off that great inland sea,
Lake Superior, which never freezes over,
modify the temperature. Qrasping that
fdea, they take the first step towards under
standing the increased mildness of the climate
on a line west and north of Duluth. Going
from that point westward, you travel com
paratively a short distance till you feel the
influence of the Pacific winds
and strike the climatic line
of Southern Illinois. As you press on the
climate steadily modifies, until, in Oregon
and Washington Territory, snow is a novelty,
and there is almost no winter at all aside
from a rainy season, as in California. The
winters at Pnget Sound, the western termi
nus of the Northern Pacific Railroad, are so
mild that summer flowers which in the lati
tude of Philadelphia we are obliged to plaoe
in the hot-house are there left out in the open
garden without being injured.
COMPARISONS OP TEMPERATURE.
Official records, kept at the various military
stations on the upper waters of the Missouri,
show that the average annual temperature
for a series of years has been warmer in Cen
tral Montana than at Chicago or Albany,
lieutenant Mullen, of the United States
army, who spent four years in the region to
be traversed by the Northern Pacifio, Bays:
"The temperature of Walla-Walla in 45 deg.
is similar to that of Washington city, in 38
deg. latitude, (nearly 500 miles farther south);
that of Clark's Fork in 48 deg. to that of St.
Joseph, Missouri, in latitude 41 deg.; that
of Bitter Root Valley in 46" deg. is similar to
that of Philadelphia in latitude 40 deg. Here
we find mild winters and vigorous grasses
even in midwinter."
NOT TOO COLD TO OPERATE RAILROADS.
There are great lines of railroad in daily
operation over tracts of country even colder
than the route from Fort Ronton to the
Pacific. Take the unusually cad winter of
1853-54, and the mean tempenture at
Montreal, on the Grand Trunk Iliroad,
latitude 45 deg. 30 min., was 13 6K.
22 min., while at Fort Benton, on or neai
the line of the Northern Pacifio, in latitude
47 deg. 49 min., about 150 miles farther
north, it was 25 deg. 38 min. above zero, a
difference of 12 deg. 10 min. in favor of the
latter place. In faot, the temperature of Fort
Denton during that unusually cold winter was
7 deg. 58 min. higher than the average tem
perature of Montreal for ten years, and 12
deg. 8 min. higher than that of Quebec.
Comparing that winter with the winters of a
quarter of a century at Moscow and St. Pe
tersburg, and Fort Benton, one of the coldest
points on the line of the Northern Pacifio,
baa the advantage in temperature over the
former city of 10 deg. 18 min., and over the
latter city of 7 deg. 28 min. And yet rail-
roads are in constant operation in the above
regions.
COMPARISONS CONTINUED.
The greatest cold on this northern route in
the winter of 1853-4 was 20 deg. below rero
at Camp Stevens. At Qnebeo it was 29 deg.,
Montreal 34 deg., and at Fort Snelling, near
St. Paul, right on the groat lines of railroads
traversing Minnesota, 3f deg. During that
remarkably cold winter the temperature was
below rero twelve days at Fort Benton, ten
days at Camp Stevens, eighteen days each at
Fort Snelling and Montreal, and twenty-three
days at Quebec The warm days at Fort
Benton, when the average temperature was
above the freezing point, were forty-three
out of the ninety days, against only six days
at Fort Snelling, five at Quebec, eight at
Montreal, and eighteen at Albany all in the
winter of 1853-54. The winters at Fort
Benton ore about half a degree warmer than
those of Chicago, while its average tempera
ture for the whole year is two degrees higher,
and only one degree lower than that of Dub
lin or London; and yet many in their igno
rance look upon this as a hyperborean rogion.
THE PHILOSOPHY.
of this climatic difference is simple, viz.,
the mountain ranges on the northern route
are broken down so low as to give full
scope to the rays of the sun, and free ingress
to the warm winds from the Pacifio which
prevail in winter, and which (aided by the
warm ocean currents corresponding to our
Atlantio Gulf Stream), produce the genial
climate of our Pacific coast, and carry their
softening effect hundreds of miles inward;
and, at the same time, especially during the
growing Reason, convey the rain-clouds satu
rated with the evaporation of the tropics east
ward over the "fertile belt" stretching from
the mountains to the lakes, thus redeeming
it from that aridity as well as intenser cold
that mnr the development of much of the
country tributary to the Central route.
TOO DRY TOR HEAVY SNOW FALLS.
Two elements must combine in propor pro
portions to Booure large deposits of snow-cold
and moisture. On our Pacifio const we have
abundance of the latter, but the former fail
ing, we have rain instead of snow. In the
central portions of the northern route, we
have sufficient cold for deep snows; but the
requisite moisture being lacking, the result is
snow falls so light that railroads can be ope
rated during the winter with very little em
barrassment. This is the case in Minnesota,
where, gliding along our roads, we are often
amused with reading about our snow
bound friends in New York, New England,
and Ohio. During the last five years
the snow on the ground at St. Paul has not
averaged ten inches in depth, and at th'e date
of this letter the lumbermen of Minnesota
are impeded in their operations by the lack
of snow. Blodgett's rain maps show that
the total annual fall of snow in that region is
only twenty inches, while in Canada the
average is fifty inches, and in New England
from seventy inches in the interior to, one
hundred inches on the seaboard. Betwenn
thirty-nine and forty-three degrees north is
emphatically the snow latitude of the conti
nent, the latitude of conjoined cold and
moisture. On the Atlantic coast, where the
constantly arising moisture from the ocean
meets the intense cold, we find the only ex
ception to this rule. We are above that lati
tude. CATTLE FORAGE ALL WINTER.
Doubtless in the gorges of the Rocky
Mountains snow collects to the depth of
several feet, yet it is true of this northern
route generally that railroads traversing it
will meet with muoh less obstruction from
the snow than the average of roads not only
in the New England but also in the Middle
States. The Indians from latitude 45 up to
53 degrees not only hunt the buffalo on
horseback all winter, but leave their unused,
often stolen, horses to forage for themselves,
and they come in in the spring fat, sleek,
and strong; and the buffalo, elk, and deer of
this region are invariably "spring fat," and
never "spring poor." A Mr. T. M.
McCoy wintered two hundred head
of cattle within a few miles
of the summit of the Rocky Mountains, in
Washington Territory, without any food
whatever, excepting what they had by grazing
on the dry but very nutritious "bunch
grass," which is a kind of compound of
timothy and oats. .
EARLY BPRINOB.
Lewis and Clarke, among the earliest ex
plorers of the Northwest, write: "Nearly the
whole of this wide-spread country along the
Resky Mountains is oovered with a profusion
of grasses which are, at this time (May 17,
1805), as high as the knees." In 1858 spring
wheat was sown in Minnesota on the 25th of
February, and in 18G0, on the 7th of March.
In behalf of the Northwest, allow me to
thank you for the use of your columns in
adding somewhat to the popular knowledge
of its resources, capabilities, and en joy abili
ties, n.
Philadelphia, Jan. 25, 1871.
SUMMARY.
City A Hairs.
Mrs. Matilda Kelley has been oommitted
to prison for killing her husband, Frederick
Kelley.
The Delaware and Schuylkill rivers were
quite full of ice yesterday, the Schuylkill
being closed above the dam, and below as far
down as Walnut street. The Delaware was
full of floating ice, and the trips or the Uam
d ferry boats were considerably interfered
with.
TUre was a fire at the Washington ITouse,
Chesnut reet, above Seventh, lost evening,
which originated accidentally. The house is
not occupied, but is undergoing extensive
alterations, preparatory to its being opened
by George J. lioltoq. There was a fire in the
furnace in the basement, which caught to
some wood-work, burnt through the floor
into a sitting-room, and rn Up a column to
the ceiling, damaging the pW,er cornioe. The
loss will not probably exceed one hundred
dollars.
The Midnight Mission has for Its object
the reBcue and elevation of fallen women.
There were in the Home December 81, 1809,
17 persons; adiuttted daring the year 1870,
89; Bent to places, 29; restored to their fami
lies, 10; sent to other institutions, 8; left of
their own accord, 37; discharged, 4: remain
ing December 31, 1870, 10. Total number
in the Home during 1870, 100.
The joint special Committee on the Im
provement of the Navigation of the Dela
ware and representatives from the Board of
Trade, Commercial Exchange, Tort Wardens,
etc, accompanied by Mr. Striokland Kneass,
Chief Engineer and Surveyor of the city, and
a number of invited guests, took an excursion
down the Delaware to the Horseshoe, on
board the City Ice Boat No. 2, Captain Henry
Schellinger, to inspect the state of the chan
nel and obtain information as to what steps
would be necessary or expedient to improve
the navigation of the river at that point. The
boat left Arch street wharf at 2 o'clock, and
proceeded down the river as far as Chester.
Much heavy ice was found in the norseshoe,
through which the powerful vessel made her
way with little apparent difficulty. Return
ing, the party were taken up the Schuylkill
as far as the Penrose Ferry bridge, when the
boat turned and proceeded down to League
Island,' and up the Delaware to Chesnut street
wharf.
Domestic AITnlra.
The impeachment trial of Governor
llolden was formally commenced yesterday at
Raleigh.
A powder factory exploded at Greenville,
N. J., yesterday, but fortunately no one was
injured.
The Legislature of British Columbia has
accepted the proposals for confederation
with Canada.
The Germans of Baltimore colebrated
the capitulation of Paris by making a proces
sion last night with torches and music.
Two hundred pounds of opium have just
been seized aboard the steamer Japan, from
Hong Kong, now in the port of San Fran
cisco. Secretary and Mrs. Delano gave their
first card reception last evening, and it was
largely attended by many of the most promi
nent officials in Washington.
By action of the Senate of New Jer.iey
last night, some former legislation was re
pealed, which now leaves the Air-line Rail
road in possession of its charter for a link
of several miles in the road which was pre
viously disputed.
Foreign A If aim.
The German Parliament is to meet on
the !)th of March.
Supplies from several quarters are to ba
forwarded immediately to the starving Pari
sians. A Bordeaux despatch says that at the
end of the armistice France will resume the
war with 900, 00() men.
An official despatch says that General
Bourbaki has entered Switzerland, crossing
the border near Bruntrut.
A cordon is drawn around Paris, and no
one allowed to enter or leave without a permit
from the German authorities.
NARROW ESCAPE FROM DEATH.
An Uiica Boat fre-Iotked All Night In I. on
Island round.
On Saturday night a boat containing two
citizens of New Rochelle, who were out duck
shooting, was caught in the ice opposite the
United States army post at David's Island,
and was rapidly carried towards the open
Bound. Lieutenant P. II. llsy, of the 8th
Infantry, stationed on David's Island, saw the
peril in which the duck-hunters were placed,
nd started with, a boat's crew of six men
to their rescue. He succeeded in rescu
ing the two civilians and in getting them
into his boat, but then discovered that he too,
with his party, was hopelessly caught in the
ice, and that return to the island was impos
sible. The cold was intense, and although the
men endeavored to keep themselves alive by
beating one another, they were soon be
numbed into utter helplessness. All night
long nres were Durned, muBkets discharged,
and bugles sounded on David's Island, and
early yesterday morning Lieutenant Ray and
his party were seen jammed in the ice above
City Island.
A volunteer crew, consisting of Lieutenants
Corlies, Craig, Ernest, and Summerhays, Ser
geant Fernald, and five men, started to their
rescue, and with axes cut their way through
the ice to their nearly frozen comrades.
Much excitement existe . on David's Island
when the men, who had been exposed to the
storm sixteen hours, were carried on shore.
Every attention was paid them, and although
they are suffering from severe frost bites, they
ere all in a fair way to recover.
HON. GEORGE T. COBB.
MEMORIAL SERVICES IN THE NEW JERSEY LEGIS
LATURE SPEECH OP HON. EDWARD SETTLE.
The special order of the Senate of New
Jersey on Thursday last being the memorial
services of the late non. George T. Cobb,
Mr. Senator Settle spoke as follows. We take
the report from the Trenton State Gazette of
Friday:
Mr. President: Again the Angel of Death has
cast the shadow of his win? over our council
chamber, and the place on earth of one of our
mobt honored associates shall know him no
more forever.
Without a moment's warning, as iu the twink
ling of an eve, at the close of a long summer
day, whose Blow descending sun had made glo
rious the mountain tops, and illumined the val
leys of the enchanting region through which he
wus passing, when the shades of night had
covered with a mantle those scenes of earthlv
beauty, he was suddenly summoned, we humbly
trust, to behold the ineffable glories of the Hea
venly Kingacm.
While 6wlftly pursulDg his earthly journey,
instantly his spirit was disrobed of mortality,
and translated beyond the conflues of the visi
ble world to that eternity which lieth close by
the chores ot time, to enter within the gates of
the Heavenly City, which "needeth not the
light of the sun or the moon to enlighten it."
There, forever released from the trials and
anxieties of earth, he rests from his labors, and
we who are left a little longer to struggle with
the world are again admonished, by the awful
suddenness of his death, to heed the injunction
so olten repeated, ana jet more olten disre
irarded, "Be ye also ready."
Although much has been elsewhere so iustlv
spoken in commemoration of the many virtues of
our late aisunguisneQ colleague, George T.
Cobb, yet it is fittina; and proper that we, his
brethren of the Senate, who have been so long
associated with him, should pause for a brief
space in the dally round of active duty, to pay
our tribute to his memory and his worth, and
endeavor also to let the lesson of that solemn
hour bring us to a nearer and more personal
sense oi me uncertain tenure oi me, and the
inestimable value of a preparation for the last
dread summons.
Mr. President, in contemplation of the
manner of his sudden death, the mind naturally
lingers for a moment In sad review of the scene
which made memorable that fearful night.
Little did the weary travellers who, at the
close of that long August day, were preparing
to leave the train, and setting, as it were, their
house in order for the cud of their journey,
imagine that the dark valley over which they
were slowly passing would be Indued, to them,
the valley of the shadow.
The hushed silence was broken only by the
muffled thunder of the train, as, sometimes by
the light of a struggling moon, but more often
in deepening shade, it pursued its winding way
raid the dark defiles and along the perilous
slope of that Blue Mountain range Emerging
from between the frowning rocks piled high on
ellber side, the car, with in living freight,
pasted In safety over a lofty trestle-work that
spanned a dtep ravine.
The firm ground was gained, and as the train,
with an engine in front and rear, began the
slow ascent and climbed the heavy grade of that
lid mountain pass, with the end of the long
ar.d weary journey almost In view, from some
cause for ever shrouded In mystery the car left
tbe track, and, poised for one brief moment over
the verge or the precipice as It in mute despair,
took its horrid plunge to the bottom of the rocky
rbatm that yawned beneath, and was his sudden
grave.
Tberc was much in the character of our dis
tinguished associate to endear his memory to
vs. lie was a wise counsellor and a faithful
friend. We, who for the last four years have
mingled with him In these halls of legislation,
Know lull won ma devotion to business and bis
watchful guardianship over the Interests of the
State.
lie was a man of strong will, of positive con
victions, of great tenacity of purpose, and un
wearied in tne rertormance of that which he
esteemed to be a duty. His was a nature and a
mind trained not in the schools or "the nnvexed
silence of the student's cell," but In daily expe
rience cf tbe stirring scenes of active life, In a
contest with its dilliculties, In a manly endu
rance of Its adversities, and by a constantly re
newed purpose to attain the end which a laud
able nmbition held up before him. Thus were
developed those positive virtues which mark
the self-made man. steadfastness of purpose, an
indomitable perseverance, and strong self-
reliance, lie was a man of marked character,
rather than of great or brilliant talents, for as
tbe master thinker of Germany tells us
"Talent forms itself in solitude,
Character, in the storms of life."
Rarely absent from the sessions of the Senate,
no mensure of legislation was suffered to pass
from bis notice without careful scrutiny, and
bis faithful labor as a member af various impor
tant committees will long be remembered by
those who served In connection with him.
Deeply interested in the cause of education,
he nlwajs, by vote and voice, sought to promote
its advancement and aid in its success.
In tbe creation and endowment of that wise
manifestation of the care of the State for its
erring children, the reform school, he was espe
cially active and zealous, and as a member of
the committee charged with its supervision,
evinced a watchful care over its management.
and endeavored to promote any measure that
would enlarge us capacity lor usefulness.
In all projects for the internal Improvement
ot the Mate, and the development ot its re
sauries, be manifested an earnest and intelli
gent interest.
He was ever desirous that the burdens of tax.-v
tion should rest as lightly as possible upon the
people, and in the enactment of laws upon this
suDicct endeavored to draw the means lor the
payment of all legitimate State expenditures
from such sources as would prove least onerous
to me community at large.
Having, by his active energy and untiring
industry, changed his position irom the poverty
oi early nie to tne possession ot a large estate.
be was ever ready to minister to the necessities
of his fellow men less favored than himself.
Nor were his energies confined alone to the
sphere of secular and legislative duties. He
was equally devoted in all that appertained to
the welfare oi the unurcn.
Exemplary in his attendance at the place ap
pointed for public worship, he was deeply Im
pressed with the importance of performing his
religious duties in a manner becoming his pro
fession as a Christian believer. An earnest
worker in the Sabbath -school of his native town,
of which he was for many years a superinten
dent, be won a large place in the affections of
the children by the kindly interest he always
manifested iu their happiness and innocent en
joyment. Yet, while we dwell with a pleasure, deeply
tinged with sadness, upon the virtue of our
brother, gone but a little while before as, we
feel that the lesson of this event should be an
incentive to us iu the performance of our duties,
remembering that by tbe rich legacy of his
example, '"he, being dead, yet speaketh."
Mr. President There are others in this Senate
whose privilege it Is longer to have known the
departed, and sustained closer and more per
sonal relations with him. Yet I could not for
bear thus briefly to add one word to the well
earned trlbnte of respect and praise to which
his many noble qualities gave so just a claim.
As tbe stricken mourners gather round the
household hearth, where the vacant chair for
ever stands, a mute memorial of their loss,
where tbe well-known voice is hushed, and the
well-known form forever vanished, who shall
comfort them ?
To the sorrow of that Church of which he
was a loved and honored member, and for whoso
welfare and advancement he so zealously
labored, who shall avallingly minister? To the
poor and needy and afflicted ones, into whose
sorrow he so feelingly entered, how sad the be
reavementhow sore the loss and on whom
can they rely for that generosity which never
turned them empty away? To such sorrow and
such bereavement may the Angel of God's con
solation descend, and give for their mourning
tbe "oil of joy," that resignation and that pa
tience which
"To weary hearts, to mourning homes,
As God's meekest angel gently comes."
But, Mr. President, I "arrest this argument of
eulogy." Beyond all earthly praise or censure,
"beyond the smiling or the weeping," he resteth
from his labors in that land where pain and sor
row never enter; realizing in full fruition, love
rest and home.
LINE AND STAFF.
Tbe t'laliuor the Naval Staff Officer.
The following sets forth the claims of naval
staff officers in brief language, and is exten
sively circulated:
Staff officers do not want, as has been un
justly charged, "command of ships," nor any
authority or command, on shore or afloat, over
any persen in the navy, save In their own de
partments, and over those under their profes
sional control.
Staff officers do want: 1. Distinctive grades,
with strictly professional titles, indicative of
length of service and rank. 2. Positive rank
with tbe line, according to date of commission.
as in the army and marine corps. 8. The honors,
immunities, and privileges of tbelr de facto rank
and equality with line officers In every particu
lar, save tbe right to quarters In the cabin
and military command in the line. 4. The
charge and exclusive control of their several
departments, under the authority of the eom
manding officer or Commander-in-Chief. 5. The
restriction of the precedence of "executive"
officers to cases iu which the stab! officer is
junior in rank or commission, as in the army.
0. The repeal of all legislation which appears to
mark Inferiority of profession or office.
An act like that reported by General Stevens
in tbe House of Representatives, which shall
enforce the above claim, will place the naval
staff upon an equality with that of the army,
in which, to quote the language of General
Sherman, "tbe system seems to work well in
practice."
ftlla NlUaon'a Illaeaa la I.011U ville.
Froti the Louisville Courier-Journal Jan. 2T.
Max Strakosih, with Mad'llo Nilsson and
company, left this city yesterday afternoon en
route to Cincinnati, where Mad'lle Nilsson sings
to-night. Mad'lle Nilsson, durlag her visit to this
city, suffered under severe indisposition, and
even ut the date of ber departure was far from
being well. She had been constantly under the
care of a physician while in Louisville, and it is
said tbat she hud not closed her eyes for three
nights previous to leaving Louisville. The in
clemency of tbe weather prevented the pro
jected visit to Mammoth Cave. We are not in
formed as to whether Mr. Strakosch will give
Immediately another concert in this city, but
we are told that he proposes certainly giving
one next April, Mad'lle Nilsson still being with
hsni.
REAL. ESTATE AT AUCTION.
NOTICE. BY VIRTUE AND IN EXKOUriOl
of the powers contained in a Mortgage exr
cntrd by
THE CENTRAL PASSENGER RAILWAY COM.
FAN I
of the city of Philadelphia, bearing date of elgft
teenth of April. 1863, and recorded in the office foi
recording needs and mortgages for the city am
county of Philadelphia, In Mortgage Book A. C. H.,
No. 66, page 4Cs, etc., the undersigned Trustee
named In said Mortgage
WILL SELL AT PUBLIC AUCTION,
at the MERCHANTS' EXCHANGE, in the city of
Philadelphia, by
MESSRS.T1IOMA8 A SONS, AUCTIONEERS,
t 18 o'clock M., on TUESDAY, the fourteenth day
of February, A. D. 1871, the property described In
and conveyed by the said Mortgage, to wit:
No. 1. All those two contiguous lots or pieces of
ground, with the buildings and improvements
thereon erected, situate on the east side or llroal
street, in the city of Philadelphia, one of them be
gin nl Eg at the distance of nineteen feet seven Inches
and live-eights southward from the southeast cor
ner of the said Broad and Coates streets ; thence
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
along said ground, and at right angles wlUi said
Coates street, seventy-two feet to the northeast
corner of an alley, two feet six Inches in width,
leading southward into Penn street; thence west
ward, crossing said alley and along the lot ot ground
hereinafter described and at rlght.angles with said
Broad street, seventy-nine feet to the east side of
the said Broad street: and thence northward along
the east line or said Broad Btreet seventy-two feet
to the place of beginning. Subject to a ground-rent
of last), silver money.
No. s. The other of them situate at the northeast
corner ot the said Broad street and Penn street,
containing In front cr breadth on the said Broad
street eighteen feet, and In length or depth eastward
along the north line of said Penn street seventy-four
feet and two Inches, and on the line or said lot paral
lel with said Penn street, seventy-six feet live Inches
and three-fourths of an, nchtosaid two feet six
Inches wide alley. Subject to ground rent of $72, sil
ver money.
No. 3. All that certalnl ot or piece of gronnd be
ginning at the southeast corner of Coates street and
Broad street, thence extending southward along
the said Broad street nineteen feet seven Inches and
five-eighths of an inch: thence eastward eighty feet
one inch and one-half of an inch; thence north
ward, at right angles with said Coates street, nine
feet to the south side of Coates street, and thence
westward along the south side of said Coates street
ninety feet to the place of beginning.
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. 1, 3 and 3), roadway, railway, rails,
right of way, stations, toll-houses ana other super
structures, depots, depot grounds and other real
estate, bulldlDgs and Improvements whatsoever,
and all and singular the corporate privileges and
franchises connected wlta 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 thereor belonging to said company,
and generally all the tenements, hereditaments and
franchises of the said company. And also all the
cars of every kind (not Included in No. 4), machinery,
tools, implements and materials connected with the
proper equipment, operating and conducting of said
road, plank road and railway; and all the personal
property of overy kind and description belonging to
the said company.
Together with all the streets, ways, alleys, pas
sages, waters, water-courses, easements, fran
chises, rights, liberties, privileges, hereditaments,
and appurtenances whatsoever, nnto any of the
above-mentioned premises and estates belonging
and appertaining, and the reversions and remain
ders, rents, Usnes, and profits thereof, and all tho
estate, right, title, Interest, property, claim, and de
mand of every nature and kind whatsoever of the
said company, as wen at law as In equity of, In, and
to the same and every part and parcel thereof.
TERMS OF SALE.
The properties will bo sold in parcels as num
bered. On each bid there shall be paid at the time
the property lsstruck off On No. 1, 1300; No. a,
200; No. 3, 300; No. 6, fl00, unless tho price, s
less than that sum, when the whole Bum bid shall
be paid.
W. L. SCITAFFBR, Trn8teaf,
W. W. LOKOSTKETHJ ira8leea"
SI. tiiomas SONS, Auctioneers,
12 6 60t Nos. 139 and 141 S. FOURTH Street.
WATCHES. JEWELRY, ETC.
TOWER CLOCKS.
. W. RUNSULL,
2T0. 22 NORTH SIXTH STREET,
Agent for STEVENS' PATENT TOWER CLOCKS,
both Remontolr fc Graham Escapement, striking
hour only, or striking quarters, and repeating hoar
on full chime.
Estimates furnished on application either person
ally or by mail. 5 28
WILLIAM B. WARNS A CO.,
3t w uuieBKio j-wtuers iu
gglyl SILVER WARE,
First floor of No. 638 CUES NUT Street,
8. B. corner SEVENTH and CHESNUT Streets.
LOOKINQ CLASSES, ETO.
FOR
LOOKING-GLASSES,
RELIABLE AND CHEAP.
0
JAMES S. EAELE & SONS,
No. 8J6 CHESNUT STREET.
EDUCATIONAL.
TUTASUINQTON COLLEGE,
VIRGINIA,
GENERAL G. W. CU8TIS LEE, PRESIDENT,
WITH FOURTEEN PROFESSORS.
The Spring Term of the present season begins on
ine
FIRST OP FEBRUARY.
Tbe rearrangement of classes then made enables
students to enter the several schools with advan
tage. Students entering at this time pay only half
fees.
All the ACADEMIC SCHOOLS of tbe College as
well as the Professional Schools of LAW and EN
GINEERING, are in run operation.
For further information, address
WILLIAM DOLD,
Clerk of Faculty, Lexington, va.
January 1, 1871. l it 6w
J D G B U I L L SCHOOL
MERCHANTVILLE, N. J.,
Fonr Miles from Philadelphia.
Next session begins MONDAY, January 9, 1ST1.
For circulars apply to
SI ly
Rev. T. W. CATTKLIk
OCHOOL OF DESIGN FOR WOMEN", N. W.
kJ PENN Square, begins its next terra February 1
This school educates young ladles la polite
branches or industrial art, so that they will, should
circumstances require It, be able to support them
selves. Parents will piease lend for circulars.
1 87 6t T. W. BRAIDWOOD, Principal
ArOCNG MEN AND BOYS' ENGLISH AND
1 CLASSICAL INSTITUTE, No. lt03 MT.
VERNON btreet, Kev. JAMES U. SUINN, A. M,
Principal. 18 81 smtu'2m
MILLINERY.
R 8. R. DILLON
NOS. S23 AND 831 SOUTH STREET,
FANCY AND MOURNING MILLINERY, CRAPE
VEILS.
Ladies' and Misses' Crape, Felt, Gimp, Hair, Satin,
bilk, Straw and Velvets, Hats and Bonnets, French
Flowers, Hat and Bonnet Frames, Capes, Laces,
Silks, Satins, Velvets, Ribbons, Sashes, Ornaments '
and all kinds of Millinery Goods. 1 4
BOARDING.
-MOI OIRARD 6TRBET, BETWEEN ELE
xlil venth and Twelfth and Chesnat and Mar
ket streets. Vacancies for Families and Single Gen
tlemen. Also, a suit of rooms on the second floor,
furnished or nnfuml&hed, with first-class board.
Also, table board. 10 utr
AMOIEMEN1 .
MKRIOAN ACADEMY OF MUSIC.
RETURN FOR RIX NIGHTS AND ONE M AT1NEE.
THE GRAND ENGLISH OPERA COMBINATION
DOUBLE COMPANY,
UNEQUALLED CUOKUS, GRAND ORCITTtSTRA.
C. I. I ins 8 fc co Proprietors and Managers
C. IUCU1NGS-BERNARD Operatic Directress
Th Oompnn? embracing the following
EXTRAORDINARY ARRAY OF TALENT:
,.?Sr"A.r- K- BKRNARO. Miss ROSE HKRSITE,
Miss EMMA UOWSON, MISS FANNIE GOODWIN,
Sopranos.
Mrs. ZKLA 8EGUIN, ANNIB KEMP BOWLER,
Contraltos.
Messrs. WILLIAM CASTLE, BROOKHOUSE
BOWLER, J. H. CIIATTKRSON, Tenors.
Messrs. 8. C. CAMPBELL, HENRI DRAYTON,
A. HOWELL, Bassos.
Mr. EDWARD 8KGUIN, Bafro.
GRAND CHORUS OK SOLO VOICES, transported
with the Company entire, and the MAGNIFICENT
ORCIUSTRA
Conducted bv Mr. 8. BKHRENS.
OPENING- NIGHT, MONDAY, February .
BOHEMIAN GIRL.
TUESDAY, BENEFIT of Treasurer ZIMMER
MAN and CAMPBELL.
MARTHA. MARTHA.
WEDNESDAY, BENEFIT OF ZELDA SKGUIN.
MARRIAGE OF FIGARO.
THURSDAY, IL TROVATORE.
First appearance of Miss EMMA 1IOVVSON as
LEONORA.
FRIDAY, BENEFIT OF WILLIAM CASTLE:
MHhLlO (Beethoven s only opera first time here
in English).
fATUKDAY MATIN KB OBERON.
SATURDAY NIOUT-DEK FRKIHCIIUTZ.
Admission (1. Reserved Seats, mi rpntu ortra
Family Circle, 60 cents. Amphitheatre, S6 cents.
j lie sHie 01 reserved seais, ror one or more nights,
111 commence at North A Co.'a Music Ntnrn. Nn.
love Chesnut street, on Wednesday luomlag, Fwb
ruary 1, at 9 o'clock-.
LIBRETTOS The authorized and correct edi
tions of the operas, as sung by this company, can,
only be procured at the above stom and tiwtiie the
Academy. Those offered for sale on the sidewalks
and at places not here designated are unreli
able. 1 s
A
MERICAN ACADEMY O? MUSIC.
MISS CLARA LOUISE KELLOGG
respectfully announces
1U WllA;Nl fUBt'BKIX
MONDAY AND TUESDAY EVENINGS,
.lomiarv Uik anil D1
assisted by the renowned Pianist,
MIL JAMES M. WEHLI,
and the celebrated Vocalists,
PiUM'K vlkosi, Tenor,
ul.jvnu . u . wrrT -erf T) -i
MR. GEORGE w. COLBY Director
AltMiMKiriM mrio nnn in
Fain lly Circle. ....... .. ...60 cents
flul.lifV nm
RESERVED SEATS, 60 cents extra. For sale on
J ca
ana mier i liLitMJAY, January 26, at the Box Office
of the Academy, and at Messrs. North St Co.'a, No.
ine Grand Piano used at Miss Kellojrg'g Concert
Ifl friiTTl Ihn PfllnKratii4 lnaniiranrni nf U i lk.
.......... uwwititvu lunuiiiavin'ij ui JV1 I UVl t
Weber, corner of Fifth avenuejand Sixteenth strel.
i 24 7t Business Manager.
AMERICAN ACADEMY OF MUSIC
THEODOliE THOMAS'
UN EQUALLED CONCERT ORGANIZATION
OF
FIFTY DISTINGUISHED AKTISTS,
ON FRIDAY EVENING, Feb. 8; SATURDAY
AFTERNOON mid EVKNING, Feb. 4.
The public Is respectfully informed that Mr. Theo
dore Thomas will give
TWO (III AND CONCERTS
On Friday and Saturday Evenings, Feb. 8 and 4, and
a Grand Matinee on Saturday Afternoon, Feb. 4.
First appearance of the celebrated Planlste,
MISS ANNA MEHLIO,
rronoonced by the press wherever she has appeared
the greatest Pianist that has been heard In this
country. Together with the UNRIVALLED OK
CHESTRA, many of whom are EMINENT SOLO-
Admission Tickets One Dollar
Reserved Seats Fifty Cents Extra
Family Circle Fifty cents
Oallery Tweuty-flve Cents
Sale of seats at Box Office, Academy of Music,
and at F. A. North & Ca'i, No. 1020 Chesnut
street- i go ot
1 U DAVENPOUT'8 OUESNUT STREET
Aj THEATRIC
E. L. DAVENPORT . Lessee and Manager
THIS (Tiies.lav) EVENING, Jan. 31.
LOVn'ri bACRlFICK.
MA1TIIEW ELMORK E. L. DAVENPORT
Supported by
THE STAR COMPANY.
Admission, f 1, 76, 60. and M cents. Commence at 8.
Seats secured at Abels Dramailo Reposi
tory (Theatre Hnlldlng), No. 1211 CHESNUT Btreet.
from 9 A. M. UDtil 5 P. M. '
A new Historical Spectacular Drama.written by J
C. Foster, Esq., author of the Naiad Queen, Enchan
tress, Black Raven of the Tombs, etc., is in preio
ratlom WALNUT STREET THEATR .
THIS (Tuesday) EVENING. Jan. 31.
LAST NIGHT BUT THREE OF
MISS l.EONA CA VENDER.
whowUl appear in Brougham's local drama.
MINNIES LUCK:
OR, THE UPS AND DOWNS OF CITY LIFE.
Miss LEON A CAYK.NLER as MINNIE
as performed by ht r at
WALLACK'H THEATRE, NEW YORK, with
fcONGS, DANCES, AND SOLOS.
SATURI'AY EVENING, Feb. 4,
Farewell Engagement of Mr. JOHN S. CLARKE.
MRS. JOHN DREW'S ARCH STREET
THEATRE. Begins 1 to 8 o'clock.
Engagement for a limited period of
MISS LYDIA THOMPSON AND TROUPE
MONDAY, AND TILL FURTHER NOTICE.
And on SATURDAY AFTERNOON at 2,
with new sceuery, costumes, etc.,
PARIS;
OR, THE APPLE OF DISCORD,
PARIS Miss LYDIA THOMPSON
Aided by her Full Troupe.
LYDIA THOMPSON MATINEE SATURDAY.
A1
SSEMBLY BUILDINGS, CORNER TENTH
ana cut-sn u i streets.
THE WONDERFUL TWO-nEADED GIRL COM
BINATION, owing to its Immense success the past week, will
remain a few days longer.
Receptions from 8 till 6 and from T till 10 P. M.
AcimiBSlon 35 cents.
Children, 26 cents. 1 23 6t
IOX'S NEW AMERICAN THEATRE, CHESNUT
. Street, above Tenth,
AMUSEMENTS OF ALL NATIONS.
EVERY EVENING
And SATURDAY MATINEE.
GREAT CONGRESS OF bTARS.
Comprising the best artists in the'eountry, who
appear la Grand Ballets, Dutch Comedy, Local
(Sketches, Minstrelsy, EthloplanActs, Farce, Comlo
Vocallsm, Pantomime, etc.
AMERICAN MUSEUM AND MENAGERIE.
Northwest corner of NINTH and A RCH Streets,
Open dally from 9 A. M. to 10 P. M.
100,000 CURIOSITIES
From all parts of the World.
THIRTY CAGES OF WILD ANIMALS.
Tbe Splendid Dramatic Company appearing in the
Lecture Room every Evening at o'clock, and Wed
nesday and Saturday afternoons at 2 o'clock.
Admission to all the Attractions, 26 cents. 1212 tf
ARCH STREET OPERA HOUSB.
ARCH Street, above Tenth.
TnE PALACE OF MINSTRELSY.
SIMMONS A bLOCUM'8 MINSTREL8.
THE CHAMPION TROUPE OF AMERICA,
IN THKIR
SOIREES DETHIOPE,
unequalled throughout the world.
Box office open from 9 A.M. until 4 P. M. 1 31 6t
pOTHERMEL'S PICTURE
X OF TH
BATTLE OF GETTYSBURG,
Now on Exhibition at
No. 1003 OHESNUT Street,
from 10 A. M. to 10 p. M,
Admission 26 cenu. 1 21stntn
UPREZ & BENEDICT'S OPERA HOUSB
SEVENTH Street, below Arch.
1RBLAND AND AMERICA.
DfDGING- FOR A WIFE.
Profeisor RENO will appear In the great Fair
Scene. 1 iO 6t
Corn Exchange Bag Manufactory.
JOHN T. BAILEY,
XT. . Cor. WATER and MARKET St.
ROFB AND TWINS, BAGS aad BAGGING, foff
Grain, Floor, Salt, Super-Phosphate oX Lime. Boo
Dust, Etc
Large and small GUNNY BAGS conatanUi
t&ud. Also, WOOL