THE DAILr EVENINO TELEGRAPH" PHILADELPHIA, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1871. nrzRXT or Tnn frhss. Editorial Opinions of the Leading Journals upon Current Toplos Compiled Every Day for the Evening Telegraph. 8IIALL WE ADMIT CAPITAL INTO VIRGINIA, OR KOT? From the Richmond Enquirer. We Lave been clamoring for the advent of labor and capital in this State ever Binoe the war. The Legislature has been invoked, nnA Avnrv vilWn has been dacarded with the signs of land agents inviting Northern men to come down here in our delicious climate and invest their money. Half the farms in the State are forj sale, and half of our farmers could be relieved of their debts if they could find purchasers for one-half of their lands. We have advertised in vain, and the cry for relief even in the shape of repu diation has gone up from many quarters on the part of a distressed and impoverished people. Suddenly an immense corporation, with millions in its coffers the greatest railroad power in the United States knocks at the door, and offers to pour a portion of its treasure into our lap and lo and behold! many of the very men who have been loud est in crying out for developing our indus trial interests, through the introduction of Northern money and Northern muscle, raise the alarm, and try to turn the key against the great capitalists who stand waiting to be admitted! What chance is there of introducing capi tal into Virginia if we are to reject it when it is offered? Oh, but it is said, "these people want to oontrol our property!" Do you then expect Mr. A. T. Stewart or Mr. Aspinwall to give you their money? Did you suppose they were going to make us a present of their stocks and bonds ? Of course they expect some sort of return for their investment, when they make it. If they buy our lands, they have the right to live on them; and if they built a railroad, they will have the right to run it. We cannot expect Northern capi tal to come here without a measure of North ern influence in our affairs. There is a very simple alternative. We ought to avow plainly whether we want Northern immigration or not. If our motto is "Non-intercourse," let the Legislature ex press the sense ef the people; and it is our firm conviction we shall not be troubled. The difficulty is to get these people to come. They mistrust us. They fear investments here are not safe. Do we want to build up Virginia ? Do we want to repair her waste places ? to make her bloom and blossom like the rose ? Or do we want to live on crushed down by poverty our lands untitled our towns going to de Cfty our voice unheard in the Federal coun sols? It is no time for petty quibbling, and mere talk about the interests of particular locali ties. We want strong arms beneath us, and stout backs on which to lay our burdens. If there iB any man, or body of men, ready to invest his money in Virginia, let him come. If any man come he even from Maine wants to put np a mill in Chesterfield, tell him he is welcome. If any man wants to open a bank in liichmond, tell him we are glad to see him. If any man wants a hun dred thousand acres of land on which to settle a thousand immigrants, tell him to come. And if any man wants to cover the State with a net-work of railroads, bid him God-speed! Is it possible that a Virginia Legislature in 1871 should pause over such an issue ? Are we gene mad ? If the application of the Alexandria and Fredericksburg liailroad Company to con struct an all-rail line from Washington to ltichmond is rejected, then, if we have the spare labor, we would respectfully suggest to the Legislature to order a Chinese Wall for our Potomac frontier. Letns imitate the Celestials, and avow our purpose to keep within the limits of China. Have guarded gates at suitable points, and collect tolls if anybody is permitted to enter. Tell them we are very particular down here; we admit no body with capital; we wish to keep up a strictly Virginian influence; we are afraid if yon come you will use your money impro perly. Tell them it is true we are poor, very poor; but we are very proud; we prefer the old Fredericksburg road and starvation under Mr. Monoure ltobinson, who unfortunately lives in Philadelphia, to ridiDg in palaoe cars, at half rates and double speed, under a native born Yankee. These people come down here and propose to build our railroads with their own money, and we tell them to clear out! The entire freight earnings on the Richmond, Frede ricksburg, and Potomao llailroad in 18(58-9 vereforty-Jive thousand dollars (we believe the through freight was some '.c or eight Vtou tand). Here is business for yon ! It is like the rumble of the Italian, diligence in the nineteenth century. It reminds us of the following advertisement from Ayscough's Nottingham Uourant of 17(10: "The flying machines on steel springs set off from the Swann with Two Necks Inn, Lad-Lane, London, and from the Angel Inn, in Sheffield, every Monday and Thursday morniDg at 5 o'clock, and lies the first night from London at the Angel Inn in Northampton, the second at the lilackmare's Head Inn, Nottingham, and the third at Shef field. Each passenger to pay XI 17s., and to be allowed fourteen pounds of baggage. Per formed (if God permit), by John Harforth and Samuel Qlenville." It is true thai Mr. Moncure Robinson runs his "flying machines on steel springs" every day between Richmond and Fredericksburg; but bis boats that connect with the York River Road, only go three times a week from West Point to .Baltimore. This is another route that he wants to break down. He has crippled the Danville Road; he has crippled the Petersburg and Weldon Road, and the Riohmond and Petersburg Road; he has crip, pled bis own line from Richmond to Frede rioksburg; and now he is crippling the York River route to Baltimore. WEST POINT MORALS. From the N. Y. Tribune. The recommendations of the West Point Committee, ao far as they relate to the pun ishment of the first class, will be generally approved. The off ense of these young gen tlemen seems to have been strangely under rated by their immediate superiors, and yet It waa a gross outrage against one of the first of military virtues. A soldier is taught above all things the importance of discipline and obedience; yet a whole class, which has nearly completed its coarse at the aoademy, usurps the authority of the commandant, and virtually takes into iU own hands the government of the institution. The formal arrest imposed by General Upson as pnnishment for this insubordination was so ludicrously disproportionate to the offense that we can find no explanation of it ezoept in the fact that mob-law at West Point has received a quasi sanction from long estab lished custom. In truth, it is not uncom mon for transgressors of the unwritten code of cadet ethics to be forcibly banished by their comrades, just as the three young men were in the present case; and we dare say a majority of the officers who are occasionally calied upon as members of courts-martial or attaches of the War Department to pass upon such transactions have been engaged in simi lar affairs during their own young days, and really see no great harm in them. Any graduate of the academy can testify that ban ishment by mob law is a not uncommon occurrence, but, as ail parues are interested in keeping each cases quiet, they never find their way into the public prints exoept by accident. The missing cadets are entered on the books as "dropped," and. there is an end of it. The excuse of the cadets who commit these acts of violence and the officers who shut their eyes to them, is that a high sense of honor, honesty, love of truth, and other manly virtues can be kent nr in the corps in no other way. There are offenses which rules cannot define, and courts cannot punish, and these must be left to the rude justice of the mob. It requires no arcument to show the fallaoy of this post tion. First it proposes to punish one offense by another, and (from a military point of view) a worse one; and secondly, it deprives the accused of a trial, and makes punishment follow mere suspicion. Cruel instances of injustice are known to have oocurred under this 6vstem. Cadets are liable to be mistaken as well as ordinary mortals, and a caie has recently been mentioned of a yoang man who, having been denonnoed as a thief and driven from the ace demy, was afterwards discovered to be perfectly innocent. The freauoncy of these lawless practices, and the leniency with which they have been viewed by the authori ties, may relieve the young men of the first class from much of the moral guilt which at first view seems to attach to their conduct, but afford on the other hand a strong reason why discipline should be restored by making a stern example of the principal offenders, The abuse must be stopped at onoe. With regard to the three cadets, Baird, Flickenger, and Barnes, the recommends tions of the committee are, perhaps, not so wise, ice offense ot these young men, ac cording to the West Point standard, was a very crave one. It was not socretly going off the grounds to get liquor, but it was vio lating that sacred "honor of a soldier" which the cadet is taught to respect as a prisoner respects his parole. While one was absent on an unlawful expedition, his room-mate answered "All right for him to the guard, meaning that he was either in his room or absent by authority; and this answer i? always understood to be "on honor." We must certainly sympathize with the anxiety of the first class to keep up the sense of honor among the corps, how ever muon we may disapprove of their means of doing it, and we fear that the restoration of the three cadets who have violated "the word of a soldier and a gentleman" may have a very mischievous eff ect. Cadets complain that the nice sense of honor and veracity which ought to pre vail in the Military Academy has been per ceptibly weakened of late years. There never was more of it than we had plenty of use for, as the history of Secession not to Fpeak of the personal character of certain of our loyal officers emphatically proves, and we ought to take the very best care of what there is. Messrs. Barnes, Baird, and Fliok enger might be offered the opportunity to go back to the Academy and clear themselves before a court-martial; if they cannot or will not do that, they had better remain in civil life. OUR DIFFERENCES WITH ENGLAND. trom the X. Y. Times. The English Parliament met yesterday, and one of the most important political events of the year will be regarded by Europe, as well as by the British nation, with unusual inte rest. The event will not be without acci dental interest to the people of the United States. The Queen announoed in her speech, on opening Parliament, that a proposal for a joint commission to discuss, and if possible to deoide, all questions in dis pute between the two countries has been assented to by the United States Govern ment. It has been agreed that the Commission shall sit at Washington; that the Alabama claims, all questions relating to the fisheries, the San Juan affair, the St. Lawrence, and other outstanding causes of diff erence, shall be submitted to the Com mission; and that the representatives of both countries are to enter upon the business en trusted to them with the distinct purpose of bringmg it to an equitable and hnal conclu sion. This important intelligence will, of course, be received with different sentiments by different persons. We cannot doubt, how ever, that the great mass of the people, who are interested in the preservation of peace, rather than in the stirring up of a needless war, will receive it with satisfaction. The objects aimed at are those whioh everybody but the 1 enians must desire to see brought about. It is understood that the settlement of every difficulty is to be, in the fullest sense, fair and honorable. The American people would certainly ask nothing more, and they would not expeot England to be satisfied with anything less. Of the various schemes that have been proposed for bring ing about a good understanding, that of a joint commission appears to be the most promising. It is without doubt the most practicable. As our own Government has demands the justice of which may best be determined on the spot, it is fit that the joint commission should be convened at Washington. Apart from the iuterests of individual claimants, it is a serious injury, present and prospective, to the commerce and other international affairs of both coun tries, that the issues between them should continue open. The development of our Western States, in particular, is gravely re tarded by the possibility of disagreement in volved in a continuance of the present hostile attitude. Our mereantile classes must ob viously profit by a definite settlement of all sources of difference. What we want is a settlement a settlement giving our people that which they have a fair right to demand; and such a settlement, it appeara, can now be obtained. We must not, however, seek to disguise the fact that there are some who do not want this result. There are, unfortunately, politicians who, sooner than lose any of their stook in trade, and sooner than President Grant should nave the credit of solving these or any other difficult problems, would keep them inlefi. lately open. We are quite prepared to find Senator Sumner opposing in advance any possible reconciliation, hiwever honorable it may be to the country or Batisfao- tory to individual citizens. Mr. Sumner is one of the President's food and he id known to be anxious to thwart the Presi dent in every conceivable way. It is too much to bopo that he will keep thh ten dency in check on so important an occasion as the present, a mtniiar tendency may be looked for in General Butler, whose surprise at his favorite ground being cut from under bis feet will only probably be equalled by hi displeasure. That it should be the study of some politicians to keep alive the fires of resentment, rather than to establish the solid interests of lue people, is no nev thing. It would, however, be a serious mis fortune at this juncture u, for the ends of partisanship, or the still smaller ends of mere rhetorical display, impediments should be thrown in the path of tne commission. We trust the people and the press of the country will regard the matter in a spirit of moderation and fair play. If we want -a settlement of long-standiDg differences, on a perfectly honorable basis, now is the time to get it. Jf we do not want sucn a settle ment, but prefer to have those differences kept open, in order that a war may result from them some day or other, then, of course, Senator Sumner's course is the one to follow. The people may easily decide for themselves which policy it is to their interest to adopt. THE nEROIC ENGINEER. From the N. Y. Sun. David Simmons was the engineer of the Pacific express train. He was a true man For twenty years he held a place on an engine. lears ago, while clashing past lonkors, Sim mons called the attention of his fireman to i train which was sweeping down upon them like the wind. A collision seemed inevitable The frightenod fireman shouted, "Good-bye, Doc; I'm agoing to jump," and sprang from the locomotive. Simmons stood with his bend upon the throttle of his engine like a man of iron. In the face of startling peril be remembered his duty, and stood at his post. A collision was averted, and the heroio engineer saved the lives of a hundred men. On Monday night David Simmons was driving his engine toward Albany at the rate of forty miles an hour. Near New Hamburg a red light was swung out as from an ap proaching train. The engineer saw it. It was the signal of danger. David Simmons whistled down the brakes in the vain hope of stopping the express in time. His fireman again took the alarm, and shouted to Sim mons to leap for life. The noble Simmons calmly answered, "I won't; I'll stay with my engine." Again he stood like a man of iron at his post. The fireman sprang and saved his life. The engineer saw a train on the bridge. lie realized that his only hope of safety was to dash through the obstruction. He whistled off the brakes, and crowded on all of his steam. This was the work of an instant. Simmons peered into the darkness, shading his eyes with his hand, and was dashed into the jaws of death. David Simmons was a hero. His fate is sad; but his noble behavior is the only bright page in the dark history of the awful accident at New Hamburg. GENERAL GRANT'S GERMAN MESSAGE. From the N. Y. World. The President's message to Congress, printed Wednesday resembles a stately poroh erected in front of a dog-kennel. The moun tain is in labor and gives birth to a ridiculous mouse. The practical recommendation which follows a pompous disseitation on the great ness and beauty of the new German empire and its close resemblance to our own Federal republio (merciful heavens!) i3 that the salary of Mr. George Bancroft shall be raised from $12,000 to !Sl7,.r00 per annum. A magnilo quent document from the head of a great nation on a pultry appropriation of $r"6o! Who could have put it into General Grant's head to make all this parade on so trivial a matter? We are not in his confidence and cannot pretend to know; but there neods no initiation into Government secrets to deoido who has the greatest interest in prompting him to this ridiculous display. It is quite according to human nature that the sugges tion may have come from Berlin. It con cerns Mr. Bancroft himself more than' any body else to have his salary raised; and no body was so likely as he to approach the sub ject with all this swelling bombast. Mr. Bancroft may not have sent the Presi dent a draft of the message; but certain it is the whole texture and tissue of its ideas are of his manufacture. In the lattor part of the year 16G8 .he Bent to the State Depart ment a long communication drawing an ela borate parallel between the North German Government, as it had been then recently organized, and the Government of the United States; a communication whioh was published in all the Americaa newspapers. General Grant's message is a faithful synopsis of that document. It is perfectly identical in sub stance, differing from it only by its greater compression and brevity. Either Mr. Ban croft furnished the draft of this message, or its writer merely abridged Mr. Bancroft's stilted despatch and moulded it into a new form. It is the purpose of both documents to run a parallel between'the Government of Germany and that of the United States. The absurdity of the parallel and the close resem blance of the documents demonstrate either a common authorship or a servile copy. It looks as if Mr. Bancroft, wishing to get his salary raised, bad written to the President telling him what a capital stroke of policy he could make by adopting this method of re commending himself to the German voters of the United States. If General Grant should appoint anew Minister to Berlin, Mr. Ban croft will find that he has shaken the bash for somebody else to catch the bird. For aught we know, an increase of salary for the Betlin mission may be fit and appro priate. " But the chief arguments by whioh General Grant recommends it are absurd. The fanciful resemblance between the Ger man institutions and ours, is no reason for putting the mission on a different footing. That resemblance, whatever there may be in it, was just as perfect and striking in 18G8, when Mr. Bancroft wrote the despatch of which this message is an abridgment, as it is to-day; and was therefore as good an argu ment for raising the salary then as it is now. If similarity of institutions were a reason for increasing tha dignity of a foreign mission, we ought to maintain first-class missions in Mexico and the South American re publics. The mission to Paris has always been of the first rank, although France was a despotism under the first and the second Napoleon. Resemblance in insti tutions has nothing to do with the subject, the rank of a foreign mission being measured Bolely by dignity of the power to which it is sent, and the closeness and importance of our commercial and political relations. Russia is a first-class power; but we have never main tained a first-class mission at St. Petersburg, because our commerce with Russia is com paratively small, and our political relations not very important. That Germany has be come a great nation, or that her government resembles ours, is no reason at all for increas ing the importance of the mission, unless (which does cot yet appear) the recent changes bring us into more intimate inter course. If the enlargement of the territorial area governed from Berlin brings additional duties upon the American Minister, tha. will be a good reason for increasing bis salary, but it cannot be known until after the lapse of some little time whether this will be the enpe or not. If the salary should be raised, it will be simply a measure of justice to the minister, not a compliment to the Government to which be is accredited. The consideration ex pressed for n foreign Government depends upon the rank of the minister, not his pay. His compensation is a matter between him self and bis own Government; his rank in the diplomatic ecale is the only thing that ran be interpreted as a mirk of respect. Now, in point of fact, the mission lo Berlin is of the same grade as that to London and Paris. The title of the American Minister to each of those capitals is "Envoy Extra ordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary." This is a meaningless dignity exoept that it determines the rank and precedence of the minister on occasions of ceremony, and indi cates the respect in which we hold the gov ernment near which he resides. We send to Russia, Prussia, and nine other governments, a minister of the same grade as to England and France; but the salary varies from $l7,r.00 to $10,000, being regulated by the supposed laboriousness and importance of the duties. It would be an impertinence in a foreign government to go behind the rank of a minister and inquire into his compensation; the scale of salaries having nothing to do with the dignity of the mission. The American Minister at Berlin has, as yet, no additional duties, and it is therefore premature to ask for him an increase of sa lary. But the haste of Mr. Bancroft is easily understood. If the enhancement does not get into the appropriation bill this winter, he will receive only $12,000 for the ensuing year, and the fate of Motley warns him to make bay while the sun shines. He has no certainty of holding the office even for ano ther year. Grant is willing the salary should be raised; because the proposal gives bim an opportunity to make a bid for the German vote, and because a higher compen sation may enable him to send some rival into honorable banishment, or to get rid of some inconvenient member of his present Cabinet. But if fitness of time and pro priety of taste had been consulted, he would have forborne this demonstration of respect for Germany until after the conclusion of peace. So precipitate a compliment to Ger many is an affront to the national pride of Franco. It does not befit the dignity of the American Government to be a busybody in foreign changes that are not yet settled. So much for the propriety of General Grant's recommendation, if we could con cede the soundness of his premises. But the resemblance which, copying Mr. Bancroft, he attempts to draw between the Government of Germany and that of the United States is utterly preposterous. If ho can perceive no important difference between the things lie compares, ho is recreant to republican insti tutions, and is a dangerous man to be at the head of our Government. If General Grant thinks the Gerrran Government as good as ours, as his message clearly implies, ha would have no objection to the remoulding of ours alter the German model. Taa hQi- peror William claims to be a monarch by divine right. Bismarck, his prime minister, is the most relentless absolutist in Europe. General Grant's indorsing eulogy shows what kind of a government he ad mires, and reveals him to the country as an imperialist at heart. lis would be glad to see the United States what Germany has just become. He would like to be the Kaiser Ulysses of the Federal Union, an imperial despot holding his power in spite of the people, and wielding the same authority as Kaiser William. We have come to an alarm ing pass when an American President can send a message to Congress arguing that there is little to chose between the govern ment of Germany and that of the United States, and when the Republican party acquiesces in the abjuring parallel. Ab juring, because General Grant gives up and renounces, as of little importance, the points in which our Government differs from that of imperial, domineering Germany. We have no doubt that this strange message is a faithful key to General Grant's political wishes. Of what avail is it that the Consti tution forbids the election of any but a native born citizen of the United States to the office of President, if our Presidents may thus publicly renounoe their fidelity to American institutions? Bismarck himself, in General Grant's place, could not have sent to Con gress a more anti-American message. A panegyric on the German empire is a renun ciation of all that is distinctive in our repub lican institutions. 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As an addi tional security the city has provided a sinking fund of .$200,000 for the liquidation of this debt at maturity An exhibit of the financial condition of the city shows that she has available and convertible assets more than sufllcicnt to pay her entire indebtedness. To investors looking for absolute security no loan oilcrcd in this market presents greater inducements. These bonds are offered at 87 and accrued inte rest, coupons payable January and July. WILLIAM KBYSKR, JOHN K. LONG WELL, MOSES W1E3ENFELD, 1 6 60tt Finance Committee. EDUCATIONAL. JJAKVABD UNIVERSITY, CAMBRIDGE, MASS., Comprises the following Departments: Harvard College, the University Lectures, Divinity School, Law School, Me Ileal School, Dental School, Lawience Scientific School, School of Minlug and Practical Geology, Bussy Institution (a School of Agriculture and Horticulture), Botanic Garden, As tronomical Observatory, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Peabody Museum of Archaeology, Episcopal Theological School. The next academic year begins on September 29, 1SU. The Srst examination for admission to Harvard College will begin June 49, at 8 A. M. The second examination for admission to Harvard College, and the; examinations for admission to the Scientific and Mining Schools, wilt begin September 28. The requisites for admission to the College have boen changed this year. Tliero is now a mathematical aMernative for a portion of the classics. A circular describing the new requisites and recent examina tion papers will be mailed on application. UNIVERSITY LECTURES. Thirty-three courses In 1870-11, of which twenty begin In the week Feb ruary 12-19. These lectures are intended for gradu ates of colleges, teachers, and other competent adults (men or women). A circular describing them will be mailed tn application. THE LAW SCHOOL has been reorganized this year. It has seven Instructors, and a library of 16,000 volumes. A circular explains the new course of study, the requisites for the degree, and the cost of attending the school. The second half of the year begins February 13. For catalogues, circulars, or Information, ad dress J. W. HARRIS, 8 6 8m Secretary. w ASHINGTON COLLEGE, VIRGINIA, GENERAL G. W. CUSTIS LEE, PRESIDENT, WITH FOURTEEN PROFESSORS. The Spring Term of the present season begins on tha FIRST OF FEBRUARY. The rearrangement of classes then made enables studeiits to enter the several schools with advan tage. Students entering at this time pay only half reAH the ACADEMIC SCHOOLS of the College, as well as the Professional Schools Of LAW and EN GINEERING, are in full operation. For further information, address WILLIAM DOLD, Clerk of Faculty, Lexington, Va. January 1, 1S71. 1 17 6w E D G E H I L L SCHOOL MERCHANTVILLE, N. J., Four Miles from Philadelphia. The session commenced MONDAY, January 9, 1571. For circulars apply to 8 81 ly Rev. T. W. CATTBI FIRE; EXTINGUISH ER. THE UNION FIRE t X FIN G J! SHEH. OVER FIVE MILLIONS ($5,000,000) OF DOLLARS WORtH OF PROPERTY IN THE UNITED STATES HAS ACTUALLY BEEN BAVED BY THE EXTIN GUISHER Within the past three years; while In Philadelphia alone twenty-live tires, endangering property to the extent of HUNDREDS Olf THOUSANDS OV DOL LARS, have been extinguished during the past year by the same means. Our Machine Is the IMPROVED CARBONIC ACID UA8F1KE EXTINGUISH Kit, and Is indorsed and nsed by M. 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BY VIRTUE AND IN EXKCTJnoI of the powers contained In a Mortgage cntvl bv 1HE CENTRAL FASSKNORR RAILWAY CO PANI ot the city of Philadelphia, bearing date of etgtt teonth of April, 18G3, and recorded In the oince (ot recording deeds and ruortgafri-s for the city am county ot Philadelphia, In Mortgage Hook A. O. Hn No. 66, pane 460, etc., the ondorslgned Trustee n.n.1 111 BuM XI Oftim ff A WILL SELL AT FURIJO ATTCTION, at the MERCHANTS' EXCHANGE, In the city of Philadelphia, by MESSRS. THOMAS A SONS, AUCTIONEERS, at 18 o'clock M., on TUESDAY, Ihe fourteenth day of February, A. D. 1871, the property desortbed In and cimvAcprl hi thn until Mortirace. to Wit: No. 1. All those two contiguous lots or piece of ground, with the buildings and Improvements thereon erected, situate on the east side of Broad street, In the city of Philadelphia, one of them be ginning at the distance of nineteen feet sevon Inches and five-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 with said Coates street, seventy-two feet to the northeast corner of an alley, two feet six Inches In width, leading southward Into Fenn street; thenoe west ward, crossing said alley and along the lot ot ground hereinafter described and at right. angles wltn said Brond street, seventy-nine feet to the east side of the said Broad street; and thence northward alone the east line of said Broad street seventy-two feet to the place of beginning. Subject to a ground-rent of $280, silver money. No. 8. The other of them situate at the northeast corner of the said Broad street and Penn street, containing In front cr breadth ou the said Broad street eighteen feet, and in length or depth eastward along the north line of said Perm street seventy-four feetHnd two Inches, and on the line of said lot paral lel with said Penn street, seventy-six feet Ave Inches Bud three-fourths of an . nch to said two feot six inches wide alley. Subject to ground rent of $72, sil ver money. No. 8. All that certain; ot or piece of ground 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 nortn ward, at right angles with said Coates Btreet, nine feet to the south side of Coates street, and thencfl westward along the south side or said Coates Btreet ninety feet to the place of beginning. No. fi. The whole road, plank roaf and railway of the f aid The Central Passenger Rall.vny Company of the city of Philadelphia, and all their land (not included m Nob. 1, 8 and 3), roadway, railway, rails, right of way, stations, toll-houses ami other super structures, depots, depot grounds and other real estate, buildings and improvements whatsoever, and all otid singular the corporate privileges and franchises connected witl said company and plank road and railway and relating thereto, and all the tolls, Income issues aud proUts to accrue from the same or any partthereef belonging to said company, and generally all the tenements, hereditaments and franchises of the said company. And also all tha cars of every kind (not Included in No. 4),machiuory, 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 aud 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, unto any of the above-mentioned premises and estates belonging and appertaining, and the reversions and remain ders, rents, issnes, and profits thereof, and ail the estate, right, title, interest, property, claim, and de in and of every nature and kind whatsoever of the said company, as well at law as In equity of, in, aud to the same and everv part and parcel thereof. TERMS OF SALE. The properties will be sold In parcels as num bered. On each bid there shall be paid at the time the property Is struck off On No. 1, $300; No. 9, $200; No. 8, $300; No. B, $100, unless tho price a less than that sum, when the whole sum bid shall be paid. W. L. SCIIAFFKR, TrtlBtMa. W. W. LONOSTRETn.f lra8leea M. THOMAS & SONS, Auctioneers, 18 6 60t Nob. 139 and 141 S. FOURTH Street. REAL ESTATE. THOMAS A SONS' SALE. Genteel two-and-a-half-story brick dwelling, u. no jacooy street, between ltace ana unerry streets. On Tuesday, February 81, 1811, at 18 o'clock, noon, will be sold at public sale, at the Philadelphia Exchange, all that two-and-a-half-story brick dwelling, with two-story back building and'lot of ground, sitrate on the west side of Jacoby street, between Race and Cherry streets, No. 110; containing in front on Jacoby street 20 feet, and ex tending in depth 76 feet. It has the gas Introduced, bath, etc Terms Cash. Possession 1st of Ootober next. M. THOMAS A SONS. Auctioneers, 8 4 s 3t Nob. 139 and 141 S FOURTH Street. PUBLIC SALE THOMAS & SONS. Auc tioneers. Well secured Ground Rent of $160 a lear. On Tuesday, teqruary 21, 1871, at 12 o'clock, noon, will be sold at public sale, at the Philadel phia Exchange, all that well secured redeemable yearly ground rent of $ieo a year, clear of taxes, Issuing out of all that lot of ground, with the three story brick store and dwelling thereon erected, situ ate at the S. v7. corner of Cedar and Dickinson streets, Nineteenth ward; containing in front on Cedar street 14 feet, aud extending along Dickinson Btreet 60 feet. ' M. TnOMAS A SONS, Auctioneer, 2 4s3t Nos. 139 aud 141 S. FOURTH Street. mREAL ESTATE THOMA3 A SONS' BALE Two-story Brick Dwelling, No. 2 J2t Carpenter ' street, west of Twenty-second street. On TUES DAY, February 28, 1871, at 12 o'clock, noon, will be sold at public sale, at the Philadelphia Exchange, all that two-Etory brick dwelling aud lot ol ground, situate on the north side of Carpenter street, 190 feet west of Twenty-second street, No. 2221, con taining In front on Carpenter street 15 feet, and ex tending in depth 7B feet to a 8 feet wide alley, with the privilege thereof. The house contains 6 rooms, Subject to a yearly ground rent of $63. M. THOMAS & SONS, Auctioneers, 2 4 B3t Nos. 130 and 141 8. FOURTH Street. LUMUbK. 1871 SPRUCE JOIST. 8PRUCK JOIST. HEMLOCK. HEW LOCK. 1871 tQni SEASONED CLEAR FINS. 1QI71 lO I 1 SEASONED CLEAR PINE. lO I I CHOICE PATTERN PINK. BP AN IS li CEDAR, FOR 'PAT TERNS. RED CEDAR. 1871 FLORIDA FLOORING. FLOWDA FLOOHiNG. CAROLINA FLOORING. VIRGINIA F LOOMING. DELAWARE FLOOKINU. ASH FLOORING. WALNUT FLOORING. FLORIDA STEP BOARD3. RAIL PLANK. . 1871 -trim WALNUT BOARDS AND PLANK. 10 I 1 WALNUT BOARDS AND PLANK. 1871 WALNUT BOARDS. WALNL'T I LAN K. 1871 UNDERTAKERS' LUMLER. UNDERTAKERS' LUMBER, lO I 1 RfcD CEDAR. WALNUT AND PINE. 1871 SEASONED POPLAR. SEASONED CHERRY. 1871 ASH, WHITE OAK PLANK AND BOARDS, HICKORY. 1871 CIGAR BOX MAKERS' CIGAR BOX MAKERS' 1871 SPANISH CEDAR BOX BOARDS, FOR SALS LOW. inni CAROLINA SCANTLING. lO I 1 CAROLINA H. T. SILLS. NORWAY SCANTLING. 1871 1871 CEDAR SHINGLES. CYPKESB SHINGLES. 1871 MA CLE, BROTHER & CO.. No. 8000 SOUTH Street. 1-1ANEL PLANK, AUi THICKNESSES. COMMON PLANK, ALL TH1CKNKSSEA 1 COMMON BOARDS. 1 and 8 SIDE FENCE BOARDS. WHITE PINE FLOORING BOAKBS. YELLOW AND SAP PINE FLOORINGS, ltf an tU SPRUCE JOIST. ALL SIZES. UiMLOCK JOIST, ALL SIZES. PLAJTERING LATH A SPECIALTY, Together with a general assortment of Buildicf Lumber for sale low for cash. T. W. SMALTZ, 11 806m No. 1716 RIDGE Avenue, north of Poplar St. MAT AND OAPt. n WAP BURTON'S IMPROVED VENTILATED and eauy-littlDg DRESS HATS (patented), in aU Sweet, kcxt door 10 lha Pl OUlo laauLuua ui win kmuu. vu-aou&
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