THE DaILY EVENING TELEQRAPIi ilfiLADELPHIA, MONDAi? APRIL 17, 1871.
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ST. CLSXVXDriS S CXXTTACZX.
A SERMON
Delivered by the llev. XV. II. N. Stewart,
I., In gt. Clement's Church, Phila
delphia, Sunday evening, April 16, 1871.
Then hast brought a vine oat of Egypt: thou
bast cast out the beat hen and planted it, thon
madest room for It, and when it bad taken reot It
filled toe land." Fa. SO, veraes 8 and 9.
" I propose this evening to present yon with a
brief sketch of the flrtt church which ever held
services for the worship of Jesue Christ, our
Lord, In America. In doing so it will be nec sa
lary to refer to many points I should willingly
enlarge upon, as fall of instruction, example,
and warning:, but which I shall be obliged to
pass with scanty notice and often the barest
mention.
It is commonly supposed (y New Eng
enders) that the 22d of December, 1020, which
is now yearly commemorated as "Forefathers'
Day," was the day on which Protestant Chris
tianity first reached the shores of North America.
And the general admiration of the Pilgrims who
then landed on Plymouth Rock ha obscured
the fact of the earlier introduction into this
then pagan land of a pure and primitive Chris
tlan worship. On the 13th of May, 1607, two
pears before Canada was settled by the French,
seven years before the founding ot New York by
the Dutch, and thirteen years before the land
ing of the Pilgrims, five hundred colonists dis
embarked at Jamestown, in Virginia, which
was the very first permanent settlement o( the
English race on these shores. The Rev. Robert
Hunt accompanied these colonists a man of
rare virtues and eminent services. lie and those
he came with were devoted members of the Epis
copal Church of England. One clause of the
charter discloses the character of this expe
dition arid an avowed object of the under
taking. It is ordered in it "that the
president?, councils, and ministers shall provide
tbat the true word and service of God be
preached, planted, and used according to the
rites and doctrine of the Church of England,
not only in the colony, but also as much as may
be amongst the savages bordering on it, and all
persons shall kindly treat the heathen people in
those parts, and use all proper means to draw
them to the true service and knowledge of
God."
Mr. Hunt, therefore, on the 14th of May, the
day after landing, administered the holy com
munion to the united company. This was the
first time but one that the Lord's supper was
celebrated, and the beneflclatorareer of civiliza
tion and enterprise which the Anglo-Saxon race
has since carried on was thus inaugurated by
the most significant institution of our divine
religion. These godly colonists at once erected
an humble church of boards thatched with reeds,
and having dedicated it to the service of Al
mighty God, they assembled there for worship,
not merely on Sundays, but every day in the
week. The remains of an old tower of brick
still stands about forty miles from the
mouth of the James river, and marks the spot
where the first church rose in the territories of
the British colonists. The island, once a penln
Bula projecting from the northern Bhore of the
river, with this lone tower and burial-ground
around it, Is the only visible memorial of that
James town, and the actual birthplace not only
of our nation, but the place of the first effectual
beginning of our Church and of Christianity
Itself In the limits of the original United States.
Thus, singular as it may seem, Hawks the
historian, Wllberforce, ' and the
writer from whom I quote, prove
tbat the Protestant Episcopal Church preceded
by thirteen years the arrival ef the Pilgrim
Fathers at Plymouth. But It was not in Vir
ginia alone that this occurred. In" August,
1607 (the same year of the Jamestown settle
ment), a co'ony was founded on the western
bank ofthe Kennebec river.near the spot where
the city of Bath in the State of Maine now
stands. A church was built there, and was
served by a clergyman of the Protestant Epis
copal Church for some time.
But before either of these (in the year 1575),
forty five years before the arrival of the Pil
grims, the llev. Mr. Wolfall, chaplain to Martin
Frobisher's expedition, administered, on the
far-off coast of Labrador, the Holy Eucharist to
the captain of the vessel, and to many other
gentlemen, soldiers, mariners, and miners. This
celebration of the Divine Mystery, says the
original record of the event, "was the first sign,
seal, and confirmation of Christ's name and
passion ever known in these quarters," and the
very flrEt in all North America.
Let us recapitulate, and connect the dates of
the arrival of different religious communities.
The Dutch brought their Calvlnlstie faith to
New York in 1014. The f urltains brought their
peculiar theocratic doctrines and rigid disci
pline to Hew England in 1630. Maryland was
settled on principles of perfect religious free
dom ty the Roman Catholics in 1634, and the
Society of Friends settled Pennsylvania In 16S1,
while ahead ot them all, in point of time, the
English Church had settled in James
town and on the Kennebec, in Virginia and
Maine, In 1607. The ground having thus been
occupied by others in every State except Virgi
nia, the English Church bad small hope of
growth in them. But she did gain a foothold In
Jersey and Delaware, where the Swedes and
Finns had introduced Lutheran ism in 1627, and,
amidst opposition the most violent and even
bitter, she did secure centres of influence even
in New England. Nowhere was our Church so
bitterly opposed as in New England, and In
speaking of the English Church, of which the
early settlers and the Pilgrims themselves had
once been members, they seemed to have
changed their natures and become reckless of the
sense of words and force of language. Let me
contrast the words they uttered and printed on
leaving England, as they are given by Hutchin
son in his History ot Massachusetts, and the
words in which they allude to the Church Epis
copal, as they are given in the Cambridge Plat
form, and the principles of the New Haven set
tlement. A few days after Wmthroo left Edit
land for Salem, in the year 1630, a little writing
was published entitled "The humble request of
the Governor and company lately gone to New
England to the rest of their brethren in aid of
the Church of England, for the obtaining of
their prayers, and the removal of suspicions
and misconstructions of their Intentions. "We
desire," says Wlnthrop and his followers, who
sailed from England in ten ships, "we desire
you would be pleased to take notice ot the prin
cipals and body oi our company, as ot those
who esteem it our honor, to call the Church of
England, from whence we arise, our dear
mother, and cannot part from our native land,
where she specially resldeth, without much sad
ness of heart and many tears in our eyes, even
acknowledging that such hope and part
as we nave obtained in . the
common salvation, we have received it in her
bosom and sucked it from her breasta. We
leave it not, therefore; as loathing that milk
wherewith, we were nourished there, out as
blessing God for the parentage and education.
As members of the same body we shall always
rejoice in her good, and unfelgnedly grieve for
any sorrow mat snail ever oeuae tier; ana wnue
we nave aeatti, we snail sincerely aesire ana en'
deavor a continuance and abundance of her wel
fare, with the enlargement of her bounds in the
kingdom of Christ Jesus. You are not ignorant
tbat the spirit of God stirred up the Apostle
Paul to make a continual mention of the Churoh
at Philippl, which was a colony from Rome.
let the same spirit, we beseech you, pat you
in mind, who are the Lord's remembrancers to
pray for us without ceasing, who are the weak
colony from yourselves, what goodness yoa
shall extend to us in this or any other Christian
kindness, we. your brethren in Christ shall
labor to repay in what duty we are or shall
be able to perforin. Promising, so far as God
shall enable us, to give him no rest on your
behalf, wishing our heads and hearts may be
fountains of tears lor your everlasting weirare,
v.n wo ahull La la our Door cottages In the
wilderness overshadowed with the spirit of sup
plication,, through the manifold tribulations
which may not altogether unexpectedly, nor
we hoce tin profitably, befall us." These were
the men that settled Cbarlestown and Dorchester,
and about the end oi iwu rounaea Boston
After such a tender and parting tes
timony to their love for the
Church cf EDgland, it might well
be supposed that they would continue In the
same gracious and affectionate mood of mind.
But the Cambridge Platform and Cotton Mather's
"Magnolia" show us bow transient were those
belter feelings. In Mather's book we find this
statement, "The composition of common prayer
and ceremonies is a sinful violation of the
worship of God." In the Cambridge Platform
it is stated bishops are human creations, mere
inventions of men, to the great dishonor of
Jesus Christ; plants not of the Lord's planting,
and should certainly be rooted nt and cast forth.
And on the principles of the New Haven settle
ment, "All rectors, bishops, and priests are of
the devil; are wolves, petty popes, and antl
Cbrlstlan tyrants: it is a heinous sin to be pre
sent when prayers are read out of a book by a
vicar or bishop; the lovers ef Zion had better
rut their ears to the mouth of hell aud learn
from the whispers of devils than read the
When such langnsge was nsed In formal Church
documents dsliberately prepared and put forth.
we may easily imagine the acts by which they
were louowed up. in reading them to you l
utter no censure, no one could feel any resent
ment. The spirit which dictated them need
only to be seen, through the words themselves,
to secure its inevitable deserts. But the civil
law was invoked against every one who had
courage to confess bis friendship or favor
towards the Episcopal churches. Heavy floes
were inflicted on those who took part in our
religious ceremonies and a severe law enacted
against the observance of any such day as
Christmas or the like. And so Good Friday an I
Easter, on which Presbyterian ritnalists are be
ginning to preach sermons on the crucifixion
and resurrection and decorate their churches
with flowers, and Whitsunday, were forbidden
to oe ODservea as tne anniversaries of
our Lords death, of our Lord's
resurrection, and of the gift of the Holy Spirit.
The courts of law were ordered to sit on Good
Friday, on which it was well said no other
judges had been known to sit in judgment since
the days of Pontius Pilate.
At Salem John and Samuel Brown, a merchant
-w j vi wa-u vavvitvu V uivUiSIUU UIGUIUCI O JK
Council, were eentjback to England in 1629 be
cause they had assembled with a few others iu a
1 private house to worship God according to the
look of Common Prayer. And I suppose if the
Puritanical spirit In the Church had free course
now my brother Bo tterson and myself would be
transported to Rome perhaps for bringing into
use and life some other -parts of the Prayer
Book which we undeviatlngly follow always.
By the charter of the colony Granted bv that
Charles who died on the scaffold in the
Church's faith and for it, the colonists were en
titled to that privilege. Those were dark days
for our Church, brethren, when toleration, lus-
uce, ana cnanty were tnus iorgotten. By de
grees this abated a Utile, and Boston endured
with reluctance the introduction of the first
Ei lscopal church in New England. The King's
Chapel in Boston was founded in 1686. fifty
years after the colony was settled. Subsequently
I learn from Fuller that Salem, Portland, Ports
mouth, Newport, Newburyport, Providence, and
New London received the Church; end besides
these cities many villages also became obedient
to the faith, such as Cambridge, Taunton, Bris
tol, Stratford, Norwalk, Marblehead, and Litch
field. In the year 1701 "ihe Society for the
Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts"
was chartered in England for the purpose of im
parting the blessings of the Gospel in the Church
to all British and foreign peoples. This great
society has been instrumental in establishing
sixty jurisdictions and as many bishops in va
rious parts of the world, eight or ten of whom
are presiding over dioceses in American colo
nies, and about thirty-six are, in addition,
bishops in these United States. At the com
mencement of the struggle between the colonics
and the Old Ccuntry there was not a single
bisbop in this continent. Virginia and Mary
land, where the Church planted by Robert
Hunt was flourishing, had about two hundred
and fifty clergymen, of the first and second
order, and the States North had not more than
eighty in all. It was not an unpromising be
ginning, but the obstacles were numerous and
formidable in the extreme. As an instance of
the deep-seated prejudice cherished against the
Episcopal Church, Hawkins, in "His Account of
Missions," says that a sister was led by it to
pray tbat her brother, who had sailed for
England to obtain ordination at tne Hands of a
bishop, might be lost at sea. The Church here
was without a bbnop, an academy, a college, or
any seminary for educating priests or deacons.
in l .4 tne nr&t bishop or tne newiy-orgamzca
though long-existing P. E. Church was conse
crated for Connecticut the Right Rev. Dr.
Samuel Scabury. He obtained the grace of his
orders as a bishop from our Lord Jesus Christ
liimseu, through tne hands oi three bishops ot
the Episcopal Church of Scotland, an ancient
and primitive branch of the Church, which has
no connection with the State, and is now
flourishing even in that Presbyterian soil, by
the blessiDg of God, and the voluntary contri
butions of His people. Subsequently, the ever
venerable Bishop white, of our own Pennsyl
vania; Bishop Provost, of New York, and James
Madison, oi Virginia, obtained orders in Eng
land. The events which caused Dr. Seabury,
the first Bishop of Connecticut, to seek conse
cration in Scotland, were mercifully overruled
for the good of the Church here. He natu
rally was attached to the ritual of the Scotch
Church, and to that circumstance we
owe it that our communion omce, ana tne
f rayer of consecration especially, was taken
rom the Scotch ritual and not front that of
England. The form of this prayer effectually
debars the idea oi any merely casual presence
in the Eucharist, and makes our doctrine far
more clear than the English canon does, which
might be interpreted to favor a carnal presence.
Its immense superiority in fulness and beauty
over tne English ritual will be apparent on in
spection. Possessed thus of a ritual composed
of the greatest and best parts of other national
rituals, as her people are compounded together
out ot the population or tne British isles aud
other nations; possessed of bishops of her own,
and a goodly company of priests obedient to the
lalth; and, above an, possessed oi enure inde
pendence of all governments, secularlties, and
entangling alliances, our unurcn cas, in tue
teeth of such opposition and prejudice as I have
described, advanced steadily, until she has now
more than fifty bishops and upwards of two
thousand five hundred priests and 00.000 com
mnnicanls. Less than she ought to have, if she
had not been so very respectable; so afraid to
throw herself, in frankness and mines ot doc
trine, on the people. In a popular movement such
as we had here, she would nave gamed the
middle class, who are now mostly Methodists,
instead of those highly respectable, first-class
neonie. who are too dltrnmed to let Diam DeoDie
worship with them in the same church; but
enough to make us thank God and take courage
from the nope that, in tne next nity years-, sne
will embrace and assimilate a much larger pro
portion of our people. Ot her fifty bishops and
two thousand live nunarea priests at least seven
hundred have been brought into her fold by
conviction of her Scriptural claims on their
belief and obedience; and while kind friends are
anticipating secessions to Rome I find about
twenty-five ministers of various denominations
have joined, or are on the way to join us within
the last month. And it is no mean victory, in a
moral point oi view, to see seven hundred men,
nursed in the lap of Coaerefirationallsm. Me
thodism, Presbylerlanlsm. and far more imper
fect forms of religious belief, now standing and
ministering at her altars. It is well known that
our Church does not attempt to proselyte, in
the sense of using excitements, or by making
(popular) appeals to passions or Dreludlcea.
Steady assertion of principle, patience, soundness
of mind, and, where God gives the grace, meek
ness in instructing those that oppose themselves
is her method. She from whose armory of litera
ture and learning all controversialists take their
weapons loves not controversy. The truth, she
thinks, cannot be discovered by doubtful dispu
tations. She says, "This is the faith once for
all delivered: these are the sacraments; that is
the ministry; those are the rites and ceretnouie
we have received to bold from generation to
generation. The ministry is the same miulstry
which existed from the days of Paul, for six
hundred years, in Britain, before the R inlsu
monk Antni.tiue ever stepped uoen her shores
The Prayer Book is substantially tfae ritual lu
which our British and Saxon forefathers wor
shipped God; at fiaruin, now Salisbury, aud at
kbor, now York, and at Canterbury before the
Romanists brought their books to those shores.
Ihe faith lathe twelve articles of the Apostles'
Crted, without the fourteen additional oues of
tbe Romifh Council of Trent. And the doctrines
of our rites and sacraments may be found In the
treatise of Bertram on the Body and Blood In
the year 840, and In the homily of AAMc, of St.
Alban's, who flourished a hundred years later.
Tbese men spoke the troth as it is la Jesus, In
their day, and that truth was proclaimed In
Britain ;then, as It Is here now, and as it was by
other British bishops, priests, and theologians
In the old time before them. It is by proclaim
ing this one, uniform truth which Is Incapable
of addition or diminution without being injured
of this truth the same yesterday, to-day, and
forever that eur Church arrests attention,
and has convinced the minds of those
who were brought up to think it either
mutilated or garbled. But the great char
acteristic of our Church is her moderation
in all things. It is this which has
conciliated to onr communion so many well
balanced and judicial minds. Entirely free
from fanatical zealotry, abhorring the extrava-
?;ancies of enthusiastic impulsiveness, cultivat
ng gravity, steadiness of mind, and sound
speech which may4fot be condemned, we grow
most where violent counsels and extreme and
fanatical views on any points of religion prevail.
Take as an Instance, for which I am indebted
to Fuller, tbe city of New Haven. It was there
tbat all priests and bishops were said "to be of
tbe devil." It was there that tbe new sin was
coined, the heinous sin of being presedt when
prayers are read out of a book by a vicar or
Libhop. It was there that the whispers of devils
lost their vaporous sulphur and became better
than blBhops' books. It was there that thirty
years ago the first Episcopal church was conse'
crated and where an aged clergyman said thon
that be remembered when there were but three
Episcopalians in the place. Now there are in
New Haven six or eight churches, 1000 Episco
palian families, and 1500 communicants of our
Church. Some of you here to-night will in after
years remember how there were only two de
cidedly catholic and apostolic churches In Phila
delphia, and one of them in the fire of a perse
cution for such prayers and confessions as tbe
Prayer Book allows. When those most ad
vanced in life have disappeared, brethren, some
one will record ten churches where people may
come in Philadelphia and open their griefs.
Such is the effect of making things sin which
are no sin; such is the reaction from bigotry
and zealotry to liberality and soundness of mind
and the words of the Book of Common Prayer.
Puritanism created constructive sins in scores.
In defiance of Luther and Calvin, as the great
hlstoilan Macaulay has shown, "they turned
the weekly festival of joy and praise by which
the Church had from early days commemorated
tbe resnrrection of her Lord into a gloomy,
morose, and churliBh Sabbath on which it was
a sin to breathe the fresh air and a crime to
smile. It was sin to dance round a maypole;
it was sin to fly a hawk; it was sin to chase a
buck deer; it was sin to play at chess; it was sin
to wear one's hair long; it was sin to. put starch
In a ruff; it was sin to play on the harpsicord: it
was sin to read the "Faery Queene." Rules which
the free and loyous spirit of Luther would have
deemed insupportable, rules of life which to the
Swiss reformer's serene intellect would have
been contemptible, were enforced as terms of
Church communion and on pain of damnation.
They abolished monasteries, it is true, but a
penalty that was almost retribution appeared to
settle down on themselves in the worse than
monastic gloom and ascetic severity which fell
upon house and home and children. It was
this which gave the catholic gladness and sin
gleness of heart which we all find In the Epis
copal Church, tbe advantage, (she has no con
structive sins.) Tbe alms at unity in essential
faith, liberty in all matters of opinion, and
charity in all things. Thus have I endeavored
to show you, brethren, how the prophecy of the
Psalmist has been fulfilled, or is in process of
fulfilment, respecting tbe branches of tbe vine
which God's providence has permitted to be
planted in our land. Its history has illustrated
the prophetic statements that God cast out the
heathen and planted It; tbat her hedge was
broken down by persecution, and in Revolution
ary days, both in England and here, her grapes
were plucked off, and the blood of her martyrs
flowed, as tbe purple juice exudes when you
crush the grape. But no weapon formed against
her has prospered. Room has been made for
her. where she once had no standpoint, and she
now rejoices in the confidence and obedience of
some of the best and wisest in tbe land. Let us
pray God that our Lord Jesus Christ, the great
Pastor and Bishop of all souls, may deepen her
catholic roots m the hearts oi iiis people, ana
cover the everlasting bills with the shadow of
her branches she has already extended from the
sea to the river, and from the river to the sea
beyond. May she grow always and may her
shadow never be less.
City Affairs.
The journeymen tailors are on a strike,
and last night a mass meeting was held at
Twelfth and Filbert streets, and after much
discussion a committee was appointed to watt
upon Mr. Wanamaker ask that gentleman to
raise the men's wages to the figures of last
fall.
The new P. E. Church at Norris and
Camao streets was dedicated to the Lord's
work yesterday.
The nichest marking of the thermometer
yesterday was 52$ degrees.
. Domestic Affairs.
Indian atrocities still continue in Arizona.
Several extensive fires occurred at Lafay
ette, Ind., yesterday.
It is thought probable that Congress will
adjourn on Wednesday.
The condition oi tne Mississippi river is
reported as unfavorable.
Une hundred uuies oi tne Oregon ana
California llailroad are completed.
John L. Bnckalew, nephew of the Sena
tor, was drowned yesterday in the Allegheny
river, at Pittsburg.
General . Dumont, recently appointed
Governor of Idaho, died yesterday, at his
residence, near Indianapolis, Indiana.
An association of merchants and others
has been formed in Boston for the purpose
of testing the constitutionality of the inoome
tax.
Twelve gentlemen of St. Louis, styling
themselves the Liberal Republican Executive
Committee, have just issued an address ex
plaining their position.
Levi xarrington, alias John Hastings,
who has committed three murders since
October, in Tennessee and Missouri, has Leen
arrested in Memphis.
Hon. Heniaimn T. Lggleston, of Ohio,
baa published a denial that he is a candidate
for, or will accept the position of Commis
sioner of Internal Revenue.
The corner-stone of St. Peter a Roman
Catholio Churoh in' Allegheny City, Pa., was
laid yefaterday with imposing ceremonies
among which was a procession with twelve
brass bands.
The three young ruffians who are under
arrest in Lowell, Mass., lor committing a
brutal assault on a young female operative,
were on Saturday fully committed for trial in
default of $10,000 bail eaoh.
Cbailes W. Wooley aud J. C. Neodelday,
Democratio politicians in Cincinnati, quar
relled on Saturday over an election fund,
when they came to blows, and Wooley drew a
pistol, but fortunately nobody was hurt.
The situation in the Soranton mining
district looks hotnewbat threatening again. It
is believed that to-day the miners will receive
an snswer from the companion rejecting their
Sj-1-25 proposition, and that upon the rja 'Op
tion of the non-Union men a hostile demon
fctration msy occur, for which precautious
Lavo tlrdy been adopted.
Foreign Affaire.
The Central Committee is still at variance
with the Commune.
Tbe Taris Commune is making prepara
tions for a protracted siege. '
The triumphal entry of the German
army into Berlin is not expected before May
or June.
A partial statement of the Government
budget bad been submitted to the French
Assembly.
Prince Frederick Charles, commanding
tbe German forces in France, is to visit Ber
lin in May.
Most of the troops that were In the vloi
nily of Versailles have been sent to operate
before Paris.
The army and the Assembly are discon
tented because M. Thiers will not permit a
eovp de main on Paris. .
The very latest telegrams represent that
a fierce combat is in progress, and that the
Communists are rapidly gaining ground.
Shells are continually falling in the city
of Paris, and many of the people who remain
are making strenous efforts to get away.
Tbe Communists report that Fort d'lssy
repulsed successive assaults of the Versaillista
on both Friday and Saturday, with severe
losses to the assailants.
Navigation with the northern ports of
China is opened, and Admiral llodgers, com
manding out fleet in those waters, will start
for Corea about the middle of April. .
All the insurgents taken prisoners are
sent to Brest. Recently a party of them on
tbe way there murdered one of their gnards,
and eight of the prisoners were shot for it the
next day.
- A Paris despatch asserts that Rochefort
demands tbat Vinoy, Favre, MaoMahon, and
other prominent Versaillista shall be captured
and chained in cottples in the Champs Ely
Beep, and then be delivered over to the fury of
the mob.
KEAL ESTATE AT AUOTION.
TRUSTEES' SALE
OF
AND
VALUABLE REAL
PERSONAL ESTATE.
Pursuant to the terms of a deed of trust executed
to the undersigned, on the 12th day of November,
A. D. 1869, by the Tucker Creek Oil and Mining
Company of West Virginia, to secure the payment
of a certain debt, therein described, due to Frede
rick Fairthornc, amounting to ITooo, with Interest
from the 12th day of November, 1S6!, which deed is
recorded in the Recorder's omce of Wirt county,
West Virginia, In Deed Book No. 9, page 622, 1 will,
ON TDK 8th DAY OB" MAY, 18T1 tf,hat being the
second Monday of the month), at the front door of
the Court House of Wirt county, West Virginia, pro
ceed to sell to the highest bidder, by public auction,
for cash in band, the following real and personal
property in Bald deed mentioned, to wit: All that
certain tract of land situate, lj ing, and.belng In the
county of Wirt and State of West Virginia, about
one mile west of the Court House of Wirt county,
containing THREE HUNDRED AND NINETY
EIGHT ACHES OF LAND, known as the Tucker
Creek Oil and Mining Company's Farm.
Also, one other certain tract of land situate on the
waters of Synn Camp Bun, and left hand fork of
Tucker's Creek, in the county of Wirt and State of
West Virginia, containing EIGHT HUNDRED AND
THIRTEEN ACKIS of land, more or less, being the
same tracts of land conveyed to the said Tucker
Creek OH and Mining Company, by Nelson J.
N lei. crson and wife, by deed bearing date on the 8th
day of June, 1666; both of said deeds are of record
in the Office of the Records of Wirt county, West
Vlrglula, In Deed Book No. 9, pages 299 aud 301.
Also one Portable Steam Engine Boiler and fix.
tures, 20 horse-power, two sets of blacksmith tools
and a lot of oil well tools, and one fire-proof safe.
all of whlch;ia now upon the premises.
1 awt M8 D. II. LEONARD, Trustee.
."OLACK HAWK GOLD MINING- COMPANY OF
U NEW YOK.
AUCTION SALE BY TRUSTEES.
Notice is hereby given that we, the undersigned.
BENJAMIN WHITE and HEKIAH WALL, of the
unaer ana in execution oi uie powers in us veacea
by the deed of trust executed to us by said lllack
Hawk Gold Mining Company, bearing date on the
twenty-eighth day of May, A. 1). 1866, and duly re
corded, win sen at rtuMyAuunun at me nx-
cnange taiesrouni, mo. m uroaaway, new iofk,
on tbe eleventx day oi may, lbii, at iu o'clock
noon, all the estate, lands, quartz lode mining
claims, mines, minerals, mining rights ana lntereata.
lanas ana premises, Bnaiis, leveie, muia ana mui
sltes, stores, storehouses, dwellings, and other
build id as ana structures, water, water-powers, runs
and falls of water, water-courses, and wafer-rights
and privileges, water-wneeia, numes, aucnos, fur
naces, engines, steam-powers, tracts, machinery, re-
torts, tools- and fixtures, and all other estate and
iropeny, real, personal, or mixea, oi Baia uiacK
Hawk Gold Mining Company, situate in the County
of Gilpin, in the Territory of Colorado, and con
veyed to as in and bv the deed of trust aforesaid.
and all the interest and title of said Company
therein.
Reference Is hereby made, as a part of this notice.
and for a full description of said estate and pro
nertv. to said deed of trust, which may be examined
at the office of W. DC Whlttrngham, No. 11 Wall
street New York City.
Terms of sale will be made known at the time and
plaoe of sale. 2 16 taw ts 10
: BENJAMIN WHITE, vmatRe.,.
BERIAH WALL, t alee
REAL ESTATE-THOMAS k SONS' SALE.
On Tuesday. May 8. 1871. at 12 o'clock, noon.
will be sold at public sale, at the Philadelphia Ex
change, the following described properties, viz. :
No. 1. Three-storv brick dwelling. No. 1903
Thompson street Twentieth ward. All that three-
story brick messuage, with two-story back building
and lot of ground, situate on the north aide of
Thompson street, 72 feet west of Nineteenth street,
No. 1903: the lot containing In front 16 feet, and ex
tending In depth on the east line 76 feet 6 inches, aud
on the west Hue 60 feet, widening on the rear to 18
feet e lncnes. Tne nouse nas saloon parlor, aining-
bath-room, and saloon sitting-room on the second
floor, and 2 chambers on the third floor; has the gas,
bath, hot and cold water, cooking-range, heater, etc.
Terms 3uoo may remain on mortgage. Immediate
Dot-session.
No. 8. Three-story brick dwelling, No. 1620 Amboy
street, Twentieth ward. All that three story brick
messuage and lot of ground situate on the west side
of Amboy street, between Oxford street and Co
lumbia avenue, Twentieth ward, No. 1620; tbe lot
containing in front 16 feet, Including the northern
moiety or half part or an alley 2 feet 8 inches wiae,
and extending in depth 40 feet 6 Inches. House con
tains 6 rooms and bath-room ; has gas, hot and cold
water, etc, tiear or an incumbrance. Terms cas a.
M. THOMAS A SONS. Auctioneers.
4 A 22 29 Nos. 139 ana 141 S. FOURTH Street
REAL ESTATE THOMAS fc SONS' SALE.
Two-story brick dwelling, No. 1832 Bond
street between Twelfth and Thirteenth streets,
below Moore street. On Tuesday, t prll 25, 1871, at
12 o'clock noon, will be sold at public sale, at the
Philadelphia Exchange, all that two-story brick
dwelling and lot of ground, situate on the west side
of Bond street, below Moore street. No. 1832 ; con.
talnlng In front on Bond street It feet, and extend
ing in depth on the south line 70 feet 2 Inches, and
on the north line 61 feet T Inches, to a twenty feet
w lde street Subject to a redeemable yearly ground
rent or 30, enrrency. Terms; casu.
M. THOMAS fc SONS, Auctioneers,
4 8B3t Nos. 139 and 141 8. FOURTH Street
SAXON GREEN,
la Brighter, will not Fade, Costs Less than any other
Because it will raint twice as niucu aunaoe.
(SOLD I1Y ALA, DEALERS IN .
PAINTS.
J. H. WEE1I8 & CO., Manufacturer!,
tf No 191 N. I'illlltru St t Philadelphia
-yi L S0 N 8
CAHPRT C r. E A N I N O
rSTAltl.iSJIMKNT,
4 1 3m No. 6U Houm 8KVKNTKKNTH Street
10UN FARNUM & CO.. COMMISSION MEIt-
1 chums and Maiiii.'M tnr.-rs of (Umeatuira 'lick-
lug, etc. tic. No. Wi cHEiMT Street, Pulladel-
pliia.
PROPO8AU8.
DEPARTMENT OF
BKL0OE8, 8WER8. ETC
HIOBWA YS,
OFFiciOFCmir comrrfWTOiftii.
K1H, 1
intKT, y
1 17, 18TL)
No. 104 8. Fifth Strmt.
r....IVILnm'''m' April 17,
NOTICE TO CON Trap-to RE
PEALED PROPOSALS Will b rnnelTAd at thu
Office of the Chief Comnjiwionfr of High
ways until 11 O'clock M. on THURSDAY, tta
Instant, for the construction of a Sewer on the line
of '
GHATZ STREET.
From the Sewer In Columbia avenue to the south
corb line of Montgomery street
UN ADAMS MKEKT,
From the north wen curb line of Kensington avenue
to the (Sewer on Emerald street.
ON BKCON1) STREET.
West side from Pine street to the north line of Stam
per's alley.
ON FIFTH 8 TREET,
From Reed Street to Wharton street
ON WALLACE STREET,
From Nineteenth street to Twenty-first street
ON PEARL STREET,
From Teggt run Sewer east of Twelfth street to the
east curb Une of Thirteenth street
ON ELEVENTH STREET,
From Farrlsh street to ogden street.
ON ESSEX STREET,
From Catharine street to Christian street
ON BUTTONWOOD STREbYr.
From Franklin street to Etphta street.
ON FIFTEENTH STREET.
From Walnut street to the a tt aside of Bansom
street
OH CHERRY STREET,
From Tenth street to a point 94 feet east of Eleventh
street. f
- ON FIFl n STREET,
From Wsger street to a point T6 feet northward
from Uie said Wager street.
e-aia sewers to be constructed or nriCKs, ana to uo
circular In form, with clear inside diameter of three
feet, and a two feet six inch sewer
ON MORAVIAN STREET,
From Fifteenth street to a Oolnt about 160 feet east
Of Sixteenth street, according to specifications pre
pared by the Chief Engineer and Surveyor, with
such manholes as may be directed by the Ctiluf
Engineer and Surveyor. The understanding to be
tbat the sewers herein advertised are to be com
pleted on or before the 81st day of December, 1371.
And the contractor shall take bills prepared against
the property fronting on said sewer to the amount
of one dollar and fifty cents for each lineal foot of
front on each side of the street as so much cash
paid s the balance, as limited by ordinance, to be
paid by the city ; and the contractor will be required
to keep the street and sewer in good order for three
years after the sewer is finished. -
When tbe street Is occupied by a city passenger
railroad track, the sewer shall be constructed along
side of said track in such manner as not to obstruct
or Interfere with tbe safe passage of the cars
thereon; and no claim for remuneration shall
be paid the contractor by the company using
said track, as speclned in act of Assembly approve!
May 8, 18ee.
iacn proposal win oe accompanied oj a ceruucaie
that a bond has been filed in the Law Department m
directed by ordinance of May 25, i860. If the lowest
bidder shall not execute a contract within five days
after the work ts awarded, he will be deemed as de
clining, and will be held liable on his bond for the
dlfVerence between his bid and the next lowest bid
der. Specifications may be had at the Department
of Surveys, which will be strictly adhered to. The
Department oi mgnways reserves me ngnt to reject
all bids not deemed satisfactory.
All bidders may be present at the time and place
of opening the said proposals.
iQAHtUil 1-1.
4 17 8t Chief Commissioner of Highways.
TEPARTMBNT OF
HIQHWAY8, BRIDGES,
U SEWERS, ETC.
o fick of Chief Commissioner.
No. 104 S. V 1TU Sthkbt,
Philadelphia, April 17, 1871
- NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS.
871.)
SEALED FROPOSALM will 'be received at the
office of the Chief liommiisloner of Highways until
12 o'clock M. on THURSDAY, aoth Instant, for the
cofistructlon of a sewer across Darby roal, half way
between Forty-fourth and Forty-nfth streets, in tUe
Twenty-seventh ward ; to be of brick, circular In
form, with a clear Inside diameter of twenty feet
froprsaia must specify me prices xor tne ioiiow-
lng items: . ,
EXCAVATION.
Eatth Per cnblo yard
rock "
TIMBER. .
Shoring.. ...Per footB.M.
Foundation Sills " "
Platform " " "
MASONRK.
Rough Robbie....'. Per perch of 89 cubic feet
Clopluc. O laoliea thick M JlneaJ . . ..
Brick work M
Each proposal submitted must be aocompanled by
a certificate that a bond hai been filed in the Law
Department as blrected by ordinance of May 25,
ma), that if tne maaer to wnora tne work is auottea
falls to execute a contract within five days after the
award is made, he will be deemed as declining, and
will be held llaole on his oond for the gitference be
tween his bid and the next lowest bldOer, to whom
the contract may be awarded.
The plans aad specifications, which must be
strictly adhered to, may be examined at this
office.
The Department of -Highways reserves the right
to reject all bids not deemed satisfactory.
All bidders are tnvitea to oe present at tne time or
opening the proposals.
ju Ail liUjt xi. dil ivirsavj,
4 17 8t Chief Commissioner of Highways.
riX CONTRACTORS AND BUILDS RH.
JL SEALED PROPOSALS, Indorsed "Propo-
sals lor Building a Pubiio School
house In the Twenty-second Ward," will
be received by the undersigned at tne oitice, south
east corner of SIXTH and A DELPHI Streets, until
THURSDAY, April 27, 1871, at 12 o'clock M.,
lor Duuaing a runnc scnooi-nouse on a lot oi
ground situate on Allen's lane, Mount Airy, Twenty
second ward.
Said school-house to be bunt in accordance witn
the plans of L. 1L Eslcr, Superintendent of Scnool
Buildings, to be seen at the office of the Board of
Public Education.
No bids will be considered nniess accompanied oy
a certificate from the City Solicitor that the provi
sions of an ordinance approved May 26, i860, have
been compllea with.
The contract will oe awaruea oniy to anuwn mas
ter builders.
By order of the Committee on property.
H. W. UALLI WELL
4 14 17 24 26 Secretary.
TT KITED STATES ENGINEER OFFICE,
U Thlkd Story Union Bauk Buildings, )
jrayette street, near unanea,
Baltimore:, Md., March 2d, 187L )
PROPOSALS are invited for dredging a channel
through Fredericksburg and Spottswood Bars, la
the Rappahannock river, Proposals, to be sealed, in
duplicate, enaorua on ouumie, ana accompaniea Dy a
copy of this advertisement, will be received until
noon of April 28, 1871, and will be opened In ten
mlnstes thereafter, in presence of such bidders as
may wish to be present Separate Propoaals will be
also received for removing one wreck In Fredericks
burg bar.
The material Is easily removed. The channel Is
not to exceed 20 feet in width or S feet In depth at
mean low water. The locality la sheltered. The
tide rises about two feet
Forms of proposal and any desired Information
to be had on application at this office.
The right to reject any oia is reserved.
WM. P. CRAIGHILL,
S 29 Major of Engineers U. 8. A.
TTNITED STATES ENGINEER OFFICE,
(J TuiKP Stohy, Union Bank Buildino, )
tirtrn dtkbkt, nah vhaklks,
Baltimore, Md., March 20, 187L)
PROPOSALS are invited for Dredging a Channel
In Queenstown Creek, Maryland, from Chester
River to Queenstown. Proposals to be waltd, in du
plicate, endorsed on ouUute, and accompanied by a
copy of this advertisement, will be received until
noon of April 22, 1871, and will be opened In ten
minutes thereafter, in presence of such bidders as
may be present.
Tbe material is easily removed. The channel Is
not to exceed one hundred feet in width or eight
leet in depth at mean low water. The locality Is
sheltered.
Forms of proposals and any desired Information
to oe naa on application ai mm uuice.
The right to reject any bid is reserved.
WM. P. CRAIGHILL,
1 23 Major of Engineers, U. 8. Army.
Q
UARTEKM ASTER'S
OFFICE, UNITED
STATES ARMY.
Philadelphia, Pa, April 6, 1871
SEALED PROPOSALS in triplicate will be re
ceived at this office until 12 o'clock M. on MONDAY.
Way 8. 1871, for tbe delivery or fifteen (IS) cords or
merchantable hard Wood, at each of the following'
named National Cemeteries, via. :
Annapolis. Md.; Culpeper, Va.; City Point, Va, 5
DaiiVlile, Va.; Fredericksburg, Va.: Fort Harrison,
' Peter.
Kevea
: York.
town, va. ;twi't-rn, r. v.; r-aiein, is. u. ; bails
i.niv. N. C. : and linilmton. N. C.
1 l.e Wood to be delivered in auch quantities and
St such tunes as the Superintendents at eacii of the
t iuietrH u.ay respectively desire.
roriMfor proposals lurulshed 11 pan application
to this Office. I1KNKV C. llOIKB-,
4 b t Msjor and C.uwtci wusier U. 8 Army
. , JleliUii, . , iaiiu uwuux, . a., lug ia
bear Richmond, Va ; Poplar Urove,Va., peai
burg, Va.; Richmond, Va ; Staunton, a. ;
l'h is. Va. : Wlncliebter. Va.: liauiptoit. Va
AMUSEMENTS.
A D E M T O F MUSIC.
.v , w FIRST WEEK, April IT,
of the elaborate Spectacle, Id four acta, by Chtrlta
M. Bam a. entitled
THE BLACK CROOK.
The sole right to lu production has been snrchaieS
by Jobs E McOonoiiffh for this city. ""wu,i
THE MOST COl4PLET ORGANIZATION
BOTH IN BALLET AND SCENIC GRANOJtUlL , I
lntrcdnclng far the first time in Philadelphia
THE WONDERFUL MAGILTON TKOUPJL
THE GREAT LUPO,
PARISIENNE BALLET, AND
TIEKNOI3 TROTJPE3.
. TnE GREAT SKATERS, ,
MAD'LLK PAOANI AND SUARDt
THE GOLDEN ILLUMINATED TERRACE.
THE BOWER OF FRRN8, - ,
THE CRYSTAL CASCADE,
GRAND TRANSFORMATION 8CENE. r
MATINFJS EVKnY SATURDAY. 4
Box Sheet at No. HOJ CHESNOT Street and at t
the Academy of Music. ' gp in it
ALNUT STREET T H K ATR E.-1 -
EVERY EVENI SO AT 8
AND SATURDAY AFTERNOON AT fL
LA8T WEEK OF - .
the Reconstructed Spectacular Pantomime entitled
THB5 THREE HUNCHBACKS.
The World-renowned Trick Clown, ;
' MR. CHARLES ABBOTT, 1
and his celebrated Pantomime Troupe. ;
iuc;uuii, peerifBn, ana oeautirui
AlAD'LLE MARIE BONFANTL
SIGNOR NOVIBSIMO,
the celebrated Dancer and Maltre de Ballet
MOB AND GOODRICH, '
the ORIGINAL SKATERS, from Nlblo's Garden,
CHANGE OF TRICES EVERY NIOIIT.
; 1
rl
Yy AVENPORT'S CHESNUT STREET TH4ATKJS.
Admission, II, 76, CO, and 85 cents. Commence at -8
o'clock.
MONDAY EVENING, April 17, '
BENEFIT OF W. S. FREDERICKS.
The Drama of
THE TWO FRIENDS.
xne comeoy of - , .,
M5KK1KU LIFE,
E. L. DAVENPORT AND STAR COMPANY
appearing In the cast
Tuesday evening, tub serious FAMILY.
Box Office open from 9 until 4 o'clock. - - J
HfRS. JOHN
DREW'S ARCH STREET -
ill THEATRE
Begins U to 8 o'clock.
BENEFIT OF MR. L. L. JAMES. k
TO-NIOHT (Monday), April 17, . '
Shakespeare's Beautiful Tragedy or -
ROMEO AND JULIET. ' "1
ROMEO (first time) JU L. JAMES I
After which, THE TOODLE3.
TIMOTHY TOODLES .R. CRAIG '
WKDNK8DAY Benefit Of MAY J3KVILLE. 1
FRIDAY Bencdt of Mrs. THAYER.
SATURDAY Benefit of Mr. D. E. R ALTON. ' ' '
A
S S E M B L Y
'BUILDJS G.
MARVELLOUS SUCCESS I
1 1
Dr. Cory'i great Diorama of ; i
IRELAND IN SHADE AND SUNSHINE, ,
EVERY EVENING and WEDNESDAY and 8ATCTR.
DAY AFTERNOONS. MUM 1
Accompanied and Illustrated by that talented troapa
Of IRISH MINSTRELS AND VOCALISTS. ,
Admission, 86 cents; Reserved 8eats, 60 cents. : ' '
T7OX'8 NEW AMERICAN THEATRE, CHESNUT
JP Street above Tenth. ,
EVERY EVENING and SATURDAY MATINEE,
MISS KATE FISHER . . '
In Lord Byron's great Drama of
MAZEPPAl MAZEPPAI
with her magnificently trained steed I "Wonder."
STAR PANTOMIME TROUPE,
with the original Black Crook Ballet, Ethiopian Bar
lesques, Local Sketches, etc
I
TBE ALII AM BRA,
SEVENTH STREET,
jl beiow Arc 1)
MONDAY, April IT,
And every evening during the week, the
GREAT CALIFORNIA CONSTELLATION . OF
VARIETY ARTISTES,
FIFTY IN NUMBER. !,.' ., 5
FIFTY IIT NUMBER. -,
417tf1 v FIFTY IN NUMBER.
Don't fall to go to the great Variety Theatre to-night.;
M ERIC AN MUSEUM AND MENAGERIE,
Northwest corner of NINTH and ARCH Street.
Open dally from 9 A. M. till 10 P. M.
THE WONDERFUL ALBINO FAMILY.
In the Lectnre Room the Comedy of
OLD HEABS AND YOUNO HEARTS. ' ' J
Lewis Baker aa Jesse Rural. Mr. G. U. Chanlln.
Wood Benson, Harry Hawk, J. Hwluhuro, Misa Min
nie Monk, Ada Monk, Mary Carr. All the Company.
Admission, 23 cents to all attractions. is 12 tl
A
GRAND BAZAAR IN AID OF THE SICK
POOR OF ST. MARY'S HOSPITAL Is NOW
OPEN, and will continue for two weeks at CON.
CEhT HALL, CHESNUT Street, above Twelfth. . .
season tickets, 23 cents, single admission. 10
cents. 412 1,
TOBACCO.
LEAF TOBACCO.
100 OASES CHOICE CONNECTICUT
WRAPPERS, ;
Crop 169. For sale by j
DAVID L. KETLER, t.
Nos. 60 and 62 South FOURTH Street, i
4 71mrp Philadelphia.
WHISKY, WINE, ETQ.
CAR8TAIR3 A f.lcCALL, :
Ho. 126 Walnut and 21 Granite Sts.,
IMPORTERS OF
Brandies, Wines, Gin, Olive Oil, Etc.,
WHOLE8ALE DEALERS IN
PURE RYE WHISKIES,
IN BOND AND TAX PAID.
23J
NEW PUBLIOA1 ION8
"The Changed Cross," size 22x23, the finest ever
offered to the public ,
Mary and St. John," size 22x28, a most sublime
chromo.
'The Beautiful Snew," size 16x22, a very Impres
sive picture.
The Holy Family," size 22X28, a real gem. .- J
"Delhi, Del. Co., N. Y., size 22x23, a beautiful aa
tumn scene, ,;
Published and sold, wholesale and retail, by
J. HOOVER, No, 804 MARKET Street,
ISsmwSm Fhlladelphla,29econd floor."
MILLINERY.
M
R 8. R. DILLON;
NOS. 823 AND 831 SOUTH STREET, .
FANCY AND MOURNING MILLINERY, CRAPE
VEILS. -f
Ladles' and Misses' Grape, Felt, Gimp, Hair, Satin,
811k, Straw and Velvets, Hata and Bonnets, French
Flowers, Cat and Bonnet Frames, Crapes, Laoea,
Silks, Satins, Velvets, Ribbons, Sashes, Ornamental
and all kinds of Millinery Goods. V
PERSONAL.
A MATHEMATICAL TEACHER, WHO,
thoroughly understands how to teach elemen
tary and hia-her mathematics, is wanted for one boot
daily. Address "ARITHMETIC," Telegraptt
Otiu e. 8I,;
ifDWRlTprif I & CO,,,
IMPORTERS OF FOREIGN PRODUCE, ,
Wlnos, Oils, Fruits, Cigars,
WHOLESALE AND RETAIL, -
Wo. 10 J T,VAaMUT Street, '
voir ADKLPIIIA.
g sijjj juirra W. HATIKB,
IDWARD PONTL
rn ii is
C I. O U D .
new elegant and commodlens flrst-claas Hotel,
This BewJ'At u blreet, above SEVENTH,
Now open.
1 eruis. 13 per day. - ' '
4 1 im O. WMUJN BRj'ropjletors.
jtT "ak"a" C AS TiTlMJ O It AT K,
Imported ana ior Eaie ny
riAT.I ETT fc. SON.
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