THE DAI1A nVflNINU TELEGRA PH PHILADELPHIA, SA TURD AT, APRIL 29, 1871. spirit OF TUR PRESS. XDITORIAJj OPINIONS OF THH LEADIVO JOUBH1LS ' XTTO.N CURRENT TOPICS COMPILED XTERT ' DAT FOB THE EVHNINO TELEGRAPH. NO IMMUNITY FOR SLANDER. Frtm th K. T. Tribune. Libel suits are generally regarded a de vice for the persecution of newspapers; they ehould be held a wise provision fot their protection. We dissent from the declaration of a prominent editor, the other day, when an acquaintance claimed his congratulations on the reoovery of a substantial verdiot for a wanton slander, "Ob, yon know newspapers are all opposed to libel suits." The Tribune is not opposed to libel suits; it is in favor of them. It heartily wishes there were ten times as mary of them; that the law's delays might be lessened, the process of forcing a verdict simplified, the probability of heavy damages for clear malicious libel increased a Lundred fold. In short, the Tribune is not in favor of Blander; wants no immunity for slander; longs for the day when the impunity wherein so many other papers riot, to the disgrace of journalism and the incalculable reduction of its power, shall be summarily ceded, by short, sharp justice, impartially and relentlessly administered. Here is the case of Mr. E. L. Sanderson, of Brooklyn, against whom this libel was printed in the Suiuley Mercury, in the autumn of 18G7: "Elnathan L. Sanderson, extra radical candidate for Assembly from the Third, Fourth, Fifth, and Eleventh wards of Brooklyn, did a good thing In his Bober moments In the way of collecting soldiers' cla'ms against the Government for a fearful per centage. The blood nione) he got from the Boys in Blue in tills way is supposed to be a big thing, and may elect him to the Assembly on the 'loyal' ticket, although the soldiers and sailors are out In full force against him." It was not till this month of April, 1871, that, three or fonr days ago, Mr. Sanderson was finally able to secure from the court of last resort a judgment for five thousand dol lars damages for this wanton libel, the means for determining the falsity of which were in the possession of the editor when he reck lessly sent it ont. A verdict was obtained in the Kings County Court. The case was ap pealed to the General Term, and the judg ment of the Court below was there affirmed. The case was then carried to the Court of Appeals, where the judgment was again re affirmed, and Mr. Sanderson was given, after three and a half years of vexatious litigation, his order on responsible men for his five thousand dollars. Now whe does not see that it would have been better for the cause of honest, reputable journalism, if the damages had been made twice as heavy, and awarded five times as soon? We have looked through the copy of the paper in which this libel was printed, and do not doubt that that identioal sheet con tains a dozen others as gross and malicious. But there was only one of the victims uniting the means and courage to proneoute with the pertinacity to fight through three courts and three and a half years for his verdict. Sup pose the others had been ready to do the same, and the verdicts had been irrevocably rendered in each case within six months, can it be doubted that the Sunday Mercury would thenceforth have thought it profitable to in dulge more sparingly in wholesale slaader that a swarm of lesser organs of porsonal de famation would have taken warning by the example that honorable journals would have gained in repute and influence by this pro cess of cauterizing the excrescences of jour nalism? There are papers in this city that never print an issue withont a libel. Sometimes it is the offspring of malicious hate, more often of malicious recklessness. In not one case in a hundred is a fair correction ever made. A few angry victims go to the office, intern per ately thrtaten suits, find their threats not un naturally met with defiance, and then, re membering the cost, interminable delays, and great uncertainty, abandon the matter; while the newspaper, accepting this as a triumph, refuses any explanation, and either blackens the libel or avoids the subject, as its estimate of the probability that the victim may be goaded into an execution of his threat may dictate. Others ask corrections cour teously, and are so disgusted at finding these adroitly put in such guise as to conceal the fact that there is any correction (or perhaps even to make the original libel worse), that they abandon the matter. The rest, witness ing these results, do nothing; but lament the lawless tyranny of a lioentious press. Mean while the profession is degraded, and the influence of every honest paper is curtailed. Angry and wronged men do not draw fine distinctions; too many are ready to believe that an inherent vice of the system which is really only the depravity of its baser Eiembers. On many well-meaning journals, too, there comes a reflex influence. Finding slap-dash personal abuse one of the profitable things in the market, and the organs of slander appa rently free to say what they please without restraint of any kind whatsoever, the wants of their business and the spirit of competi tion gradually draw them into the same cur rent of miscellaneous libel. Here was a repu table journal, the other day, so demoralized as to charge a United States Senator with an infamous offena without a scintilla of evi dence or even of probability for it, and so brazen as to refuse correction. On oar table lies another reputable journal with an article gloating over a story it has wantonly invented that a young lady, prominent before the pnblio, is secretly married. Political malig nity may explain the one; a mere goatish lore for prurience the other; but would it not be better for honorable journalism if both could be promptly and sharply punished for their inexcusable offenses against truth and decency? We conclude as we began. Libel suits should be regarded, not as the persecution, but as the protection of journalism. The Tribune is in favor of libel suits, wishes there were more of them, and that the process of getting verdicts and collecting damages were eabir. But let ns not be misunderstood. The subjects of real wrong rarely prosecute for libel, and we wish they would; the trick sters, the adventurers, the men without cha racters to damage, are the ones so generally prompt to seek salves in oourt for what no court can cure; and for thorn we profess no purpose save to give them the same hard fights they have so often had from ns in the past. We intentionally make no state ment which we do not believe true, and right to be made. When we are mistaken, as must Sometimes happen, we hold ourselves always ready, when the mistake is brought 10 our . knowledge, to give the promptest reparation. There are fools who, after that, would still seek damages in oourt, and we are glad that they generally meet the fool's reward. But clear and malicious libel, correction whereof has, on proper application, been refusal, ought always to be prosecuted; and we hold it the duty and the interest of honorable journalists, in self-defense, to unite in eu oouragitg the prosecution. TIIE FATE OF MRS. FAIR. From th H. T. World. A word fitly spoken, the wise man tells ns, is like apples of gold in piotnres of silver. California is rich both in gold and in silver, but she has never combined her treasures in more useful form tbau when on Wedoeiday a San Francisco jury pronounced Mrs. Fair to be guilty of murder in the first degree. It remains still to be seen whether the Gover nor of California will have the oonrage to imi tate tbe firmness with whioh Governor Hoff man, in the case of the ruffian Real, who murdered a policeman, did his full executive duty, with an equal superiority to the merci ful movements of hi own nature and to the organized influences which were brought to bear upon him to sway him from his loyalty to Lis oath and to his trust. With the single exoeption, perhaps, of the murder of Mr. Key by Sickles, the murder of Mr. Crittenden by the woman whom a 0li f ortiian jury have now most righteously con demned was the most thoroughly di jus crime of the kind which has been perpetrated of late years in this country. It closely resoui bled the "Washington tragedy" of 18.ii), not only, as we Lave already pointed out, in the elaborate care with which the dranutio aoces fcoricB of the deed bad been oouBidered aud planned by the perpetrator, but in the cold blooded and exquisite selfish uess of the mo tives by which, so far nait is given to man to analyze the motives of his fellow-creatures, the asBBsnin seems to have been governed iu the doing of the deed. As subsequent events in terpreted by the light of revelations made in the course of the trial have abaud-tutly shown, the murderer of Mr. Key deliberately determined upon attempting to convert to his own personal political advantage, by an out burst of simulated passion, a scandal in which be had acquiesced bo long as it seemed likely to slumber within the circle of his intimates, but which he had sufficient knowledge of his countrymen to feel would damn him were it to become public in a tame and common place fashion. His calculations, made for the meridian of Washington, proved to be cor rect. With the help of Edwin M. Stanton he emerged from his trial an injured husband maddened by the delicacy of his sensibilities into an irresponsible murderer. TLe slayer of Mr. Crittenden, after ex hausting her last hope of converting hia re maining resources of property and of ability to her own exclusive advantage, in like man ner resolved upon refreshing her somewhat worn and threadbare reputation as a siren by surrounding herself with the blood-red aure ole of a murderess. Possibly she had rend, certainly Bhe was far enough advanced in life to remember, the proceedings in the case of that remarkable young lady of Scotland, Miss Madeline Smith, whose trial for the murder of her lover and dismissal upon aSootch verdict of "not proven" were immediately followed by no fewer than sixteeu offers of marriage, some of them from persons of means if not of mind. But a woman who had passed through life after tbe fashion of Mrs. Fair needed not the help of precedent and exam ple to teach her a contemptuous confidence in the power of insolence and indecency over the imaginations of a certain proportion of what we sarcastically style the "stronger sex." Mrs. Fair, in her well-known and widely-advertised character of a woman scorned into trausnen l ing the furies of hell, might be quite sure of recovering all and more than all that she had lost by the miserable subserviency of Mr. Crittenden to the yoke of the home which he bad madly dishonored but could not bring himself coldly to disown. She had nothing to fear bnt the possibility of such a verdict as that whioh has now in truth overtakea her. Bnt how vague and remote that possibility must have appeared to her I Of her malt prototypes the most distinguished hud escaped from the gallows to beooiue the Kssooi&te and friend of the Chief Magistrate of the Union, and to be selected by him as the fitting re presentative in a great foreign city of Ame rican morals and manners. Of those of her own sex the most conspicuous, the truly heart-broken Miss Harris, who came all the way from Chicago by express train, stopping at the best hotels, to shoot another woman's huhband in the National Treasury because she bad wished to marry him herself, had been surrendered by twelve sobbing oitizens in a jury-box to the tender embraces, damp with manly tears, of her sympathizing counsel. Why should Mrs. Fair have anticipated a lets flattering fate than theirs? If we are to believe the reports of her trial, sue is better looking than Miss Harris. Her hifctrionio talents certainly are not much inferior to those of Sickles. She mtde a mistake, to be sure, in that tirade whioh fluug her fiercely and brutally, the lie npon her lips, against the widow of her viotim confronted with her in the court. But then she had not enjoyed such advantages of education as her masculine predecessor. Perhaps, too, her almost exclusive familiarity with hotel-life may have misled her as to the universality of that intolerance of conjugal fidelity which seems to have been her nearest approach to a moral conviction. But at all events she was attractive enough and clever enough to war rant her in counting upon a triumphant ac quittal. It is recorded of a duchess of the Begency that she put down her eonfessor peremptorily, when he sought to tame her with eternal terrors into temporal restraint, by informing him that in her opinion the Almighty would think twice before he damned a person of her quality. What French duchesses of the last century expected of the Almighty, American drabs of the present century seem to expect of American juries. It is not very easy to justify criminal legislation at all, ex cept its design be to benefit society, either by disciplining its members into restraining their passions or by putting away those mem bers who trample the discipline under foot. In our reoent American practice it ha i come near to be established as a principle that to prove the criminal transported by individual passion over the limits of social discipline was to excuse the crime. We cannot be quite sure that this principle has really been set aside in the case of Mrs. Fair. Her condem nation may, perhaps, have resulted rather from the belief of the jury that her pa-isioa wai simulated than from a sound recognition of the true basis of just verdicts in suoh cases. Still it is something to find a oapaoity even of critical dramatio perception in an average jury. It is better that a woman who has outraged every principle of deoency and every noble instinct of humanity bhould be punished for bad acting in the dock than t'iat the should be acquitted of murder in tbe highway merely becanse she is a woman. RUFFIANISM IN STREET CARS. From th N. Y. Time. Any one aocustomed to travel at night in our street cars will be able to appreciate bow completely the respectable inhabitants of this community are at the mercy of our city row dies. Their extensive control over city boards and local courts lends to our collective mss t f rutnaiiism a social importance and a degree of immunity from ordinary restraint uuex fueled in any great city of the world. Any uenkni a drunken or quarrelsome roua may single ont for insult in almost entirely without a remedy. lie may be riding in a oar filled with passengers, nearly all of whom are resectable citizens, but in itae vnt of hi beirp- made the target of brutal insolence his pt scchbly-diKpoFed fellow-passengers will, in nine cases out of ten, keep their sentiments to themselves, and represent tbe cause of order by a masterly inactivity. Nobo ty koow whether the foul-mouthed aggressor may not by an alderman or part proprietor of some local justice. He might have the ear of thfl Governor, or might be one of the shoulder litters who bask in the smiles of Twee I. To forcibly eject such a fellow, in the inte rests of decency and order, might somehow turn out to be a State prisou offense, while to remonstrate with him might probthJy be the signal for a little promiscuous sh ioting, for which he would not. nnlikely g. unpun ished. In Mich a case, lh refore, people who value tbeir lives aud their liberty oautiously let the insolent rowdy alone, and congratu late tbeuiselves that they have not happened to tLe recipient of bis attentions. As for the drivers and conductors of street cars, we have yet to hear of one who will turn a pas senger out for any reason short of being tumble to pay his fare. He may be disgust ingly drunk, filthy in speech or violent in conduct; but tbe company' servants, having but a low idea at any time of the decencies pioper to a pnblio conveyance, may proba bly have a certain sympathy with the of fender, and will certainly not, uidesa in very exceptional cases, have him put out or ar rested. A melancholy illustration of how much a ruffian may dare and do with the tolerauce of on-lot kers was piven on Tuesday night. Mr. Avery D. Putnam was a ptsseuspr in a Broad v.sy car, and was accompanied by two ladies. He occupied a seat near the dior opening on the front platform. Beside the driver stood a man named Foster, said to be an ex-conductor of the Broadway and Seventh avenue line. This fellow took it into his head to exeicise the natural right of a New York rough to insult a lady. He opened trie door several timeH, and by look and action behaved insolently towards the younger of Mr. Putnam's female companions. A quiet remonstrance from the gentleman ap pears to have been regarded by tiie rody as a perfectly unwarranted in terference with his special prerogatives. Awaiting the time when Mr. Putnam and his companions alighted, Foster seized tn book of the apparently sympathetic driver, and stepping from the car, delivered his vic tim a blow on the head whioh fractured the tkull, and will probably result fatally. A more atrocious outrage it would be impossi ble to imagine, and its significance lies in the fact that nobody who has any experience of night-cars will be greatly astonished at it. People will say that the safest rule iu such cases is not to notice the affront, but quietly to &et out of harm's way by alighting. But will they at the same time refl-et how utterly degrading to the inhabitants of the greatest city of the greatest of free people is the confession involved here? Our roughs have f.,ot tbe upper hand of us, and we give a sneaking indorsement to tbeir rale. Taeirs is the unbridled license, and ours the quak ing fcubmission. Theirs is the power to oom niand executive pardons, pigeon-holed in dictments, and reverence from the polioo. Ours are the taxes that maintain ruffiauisua in rii tous and insolent ease, and ours are the votes they are hired to render worthless. The morbidly cautious passengers of a street car are but a type of the society to which they belong. We are snoriflcing man hood, fair play, chivalry, everything that is worth being proud of, from a slavish fear of tbe dregs ot our populace who have come t the surface. How inseparable are political liiicrnle si.d tiouiitl lioeiine in brought home to every man's understanding by an incident like tLe prevent. If our ruffians were not pampered, flattered, and paid by the knavish ring that misgoverns us, they would be far 1 hs bold and infinitely less daugerous. There is no perceptible dividing hue between the men who, if the law did its duty, would be in the State Prison and the men who c ntiol both the prevention and the punish ment of crime. Their interests are perfectly identical, and those who believe in the stability of the one will be likely to fear to dispute the immunities of the other. If the public who ride iu streetcars would respect themselves a li'tle more, and the class of rowdies a little less, we should soon see a marked reform in the insolent de mesnor of these worthies, and perhaps a corresponding regard to deoency in their political patrons. It will be but a melan choly consolation to the relatives of Mr. Putnam to be told that he has fallen a victim to such brutal passion as grows up side by side with political depravity, and to whose excesses we are all equally liable. Tbe present offense is so monstrous that it cannot fail to excite a universal sentiment of pnblio indignation. It may thus help to direct attention to the primary causes that render such an act possible. It will, without doubt, incite a general demand for the better regulation ot our street cars and a more care ful choice of the men to whom they are en trusted. Mr. Putnam's unprovoked and brutal murder may thus, by the startling disclosure it affords of the need for reform, be the means of producing a partial remedy for simi lar outrages. For his sorrowing friends every ret-pectuble inhabitant of this commu nity will have but oue sentiment of heartfelt sympathy, and for his dastardly assailant but one indignant demand for the full measure of justice. 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CliKiNL'T fctreet, neil door to tbe roel ouloe. rpS REAL ESTATE AT AUCTION. mmmmmm M'?t -li.wi z-tzr.i ja CP EXECLTUIXS PKKEMPTOnY SALE. bi a Bstat or II anion KnMusnn, deo'd. Til ms A StiBn. Auctioneers. Very fclegant Countrv beat and Farm known aa "Wooiton Hall." M.imliu. Farm, and Tenant Humes, no acres, Phil idnipuia and Wilmington Turnpike. Hrandvwine Hundred. New Castle county, Del., 8 squares from Bellevue Station, on the Philadelphia, Wilmington, and Hal timore Hatlroitd, half mile from the mver Dxl-tware, 8 miles from v itnunirton, 9 nu:e from Chester, aud its miles from Philadelphia Oil Tuemlay, My io, imii, at it o'clock, noon, will lie sold a', nu'tl.c ale, without any reserve whatever, at the Philadel phia Exctanife AH that veiy Uejrant country-seat and f wra, com prising f 0 acres of land, situate on the westerly side of the PhilHdelphla and Wilmlt gton turnpike aud on io private romm, inrue i ruins, about w iiuies lielow ClieMer. 8 abme Wilmington, 2) from Phil i lclpliia, half mile oi the river Delaware, and about 3 squares from liellevue Station, on the Philadelphia, Wil niliiirtoii and Baltimore Kallroad. The ttnprove niciitH are an t legant and spacious thrce-st ry stone niHi.hton, n am building 4U by 44 feet, extreme Inngth HI feet and circular piazza and porttc around three Hini'sorit; conducted on inn castellated tityleor architecture, t-eliig built In the most substantial Dimmer throughout; has large hall in tue centre, Faloon parlor, conservatory, dining-room, library, kitchen, aeuilerv, store and china room, and tire proof Kafe on the llrst floor; 4 commodious ch-t'nbrrs ( ach having a bath-room aud marble-top ntit,louary wushMand, hot aud cold water, water-closet) on tlie second floor; 4 cliamltets, it bath-rooms, and 2 water-tan s (ivhlcn are snp;iiii d by 2 hdra.il-u rrm me of the tHTsks will contain litm gallons oi sprlug wnter on the third floor, binl an observatory above, l'.akoiies, with window a opening to them from all the rooms; private stairway, numerous closets (m eludlng cedar anrl wlue),staiued glass windows, mar ble mantels, walls end ellings beautifully rrescoed, liHiidsomely paperert and painted, g (with hand si n.e tIMurts) and water throughout, 5 bath rooms, w at ei -closets, bell-calls, 2 furnaces, cooking range, e c. A genteel Sjtf-story stone farm house, two-story stone tenant house, stone atAtdo a id carr:ae house (Neiu. an Btjle), btalls for Uve horses; stone toe nonce, rilled, with a keeping-room for provisions; lrHine tool house, stone and frame barn, gas house, built or stone, complete arrangement for making fiai, the operation very simple; frame chicken ht nse, 6 a3r s of wooniand, a rivulet of pure sprinir vnter runs through it, ann collected by a small dam, and csnli d 1.25 f et through Iron pipes Into tnn rm I'.ox, the surplus flowing into the pond ; also a llsh. pc nd, beautiful stoue wall on this turnpike front, capped With North rlv-r flagging; very elegant Osage orange hedge, forms a lienutlful curve around the front lawn ; the gravel drives about half-mile In length, ranging from 10 to so feet wide ; are thor oughly made, paved with large stones and covered wl h broken nones and gravel, and uudergnaad drainage; large vegetable garden, beautiful la vn, in t lie cent re of which la a handsome Iron summer house, surrounded by beautiful trees ; abundance of fiutt tre s, apple orchard, etc.; also, 4 Iff beautiful ui-.d well-grow u forest and everpretn trees on the sides of the drives and around the mansion. This property was bnllt by the late Hanson Robln Fon, lor his own occupancy, aud no expanse has been spared to make it a very elegant and fluUhed country eat, all the materials being of the beat, and I lie grounds beautifully laid ont. Thn mansion is lMCHted in the centre of an extensive lawn, elevated oner W'O feet above the river Delaware, and crn nionds a beautiful and extended view upuu ldo.rn the river and surroundings. The location is especially healthy. Photographs, plans and pnrophleta, containing more lull p.micu jsrs, n ay be set n at the Auction Rooms, Philadel phia, or it the olllce of Samuel M. Harrington. Esq., Attorney for tb Executrix, serond story, building, Seventh aim Market streets, Wilmington, Delaware, wlit-ro Riiy out, wlRttltiR to vi-w t.h.s prmnlBM oati prt a conveyance. Trains leave Phil ulnlphla at 8 30 and 11 A. M., and S 80, 5. ard T P. M. for liellevue Sta tion. The house und premises will be ready for in spection at all times. OuTucsdais and Fridays of e. h wee k a carriage will bo at liellevue Station on the arrival of 11 A. M. Hnd 3-30 P M. traini from Philadelphia, to convey visitors to the property. Terms of Sale. Two-thirds of the purchase money my remain on the premises, to be secured, with Interest, eic, by bond anil mortgage, with policy of fire insurance traiferrcd as collateral. Immediate possession, fiouo to bu paid at tlraa of sale. M. THOMAS SONS. Auctioneers. 4jlSB6t Nob. 139 and 141 8. FOURTH Street, REAL ESTATE-THOMAS A SONS' SLE .'!! Cent"ei Three-story Brick Store and Duelling. io. 1070 East NorrU sneet. second house above Thon pson street. On Tuesday, Mav 2, mi, et VI o'clock, noon, will be sold at public sa'e, at the Philadelphia Exchange, all that genteel throe story l.r.eW dwelling, wUh two-storv back bul'ding and lot ef ground, situate No. 1070 East Norrls street, second house above Thotnp'on street; con taining in fronton East Norris street is feet 9 Inches, and extending In depth 108 feet, 8 inches, to a 4-feet wide alley, wuli the privilege thereof. It Is occu pied as a store and dwelling, cont ilus 8 rooms ; has gss, hath, hot and cold water, rauge, etc. Terras gvocO may remain on mortgage. Immediate pos session. For further particulars, apply to V, C. Headman, No. r.'M Arch street. M. THOMAS A SONS, Auctioneers, 4 15s3t Nos. 139 and 141 S. FOURTH Street. REAL ESTATE-TlfovlAS & SONS' SALE. Kli 2 two-story Brick Dwellings, Nos. 713 aul 7 1& Pierce street, wst of Seventh str- et and south of Morris street, First ward. On Taesdav, May 2, 1S71, at 12 o'clock, noon, will be sold at pnblio sale, at the Philadelphia Exchange, all those 2 two-story brick dwellings and lot ol ground, situate on the north side of Pierre street, 111 feet west of Seventh street, Nns. 713 and 71S; each containing tn front on Pierce street 14 feet, and extending in depth 44 feet Together with the common usu and privilege of a 2 feet wide alley, laid out and opened. Thev each riave 4 rooms, gas, range, etc. Each subject to a yearly ground-rent of 33. Immediate posses elon. They will be sold separately. Keys at No. 9k3 Stutli Fifteenth street. M. THOMAS & SONS, Auctioneers, 4 15s3t Nosl39 and Ul SFOURTU Street. fREAL ESTATE THOMA8 A SONS' HALE. Valuable Business Stand. Three-story ; brick ry Stable, No. 206 8. Eleventh street, below Walnut street, tssjtf leet front. On Tuesday, May 2, lt71, at 12 o'clock noon, will be sold at public sale, at the Philadelphia Exchange, all that valuable three-story brick stable (with basement) and lot of grtund, situate on the west side of Kleveuth street, south of M'aluut street, No. sou, the lot containing In front on Eleventh; street 65 feet, and extending tn depth along Ker.obla street fii reet. Tbe stable lias a press-brick front, good basement, the con veniences, etc., ras accommodations for about loo horses and 100 carriages. There is room for three stores on thla lot. Immediate possession. Terms 110,000 may remain on mortgaae. M. THOMAS A SONS, Auctioneers, 4 16 E3t Nos. 139 and 141 S. FOURTH Street. (f REAL ESTATE THOMAS A SONS' 8U.E. Llu, Modern Three-story llrlck Dwe'ling, No. 1314 Muster street, between Thirteenth and IS road streets. On 'luesday, May 2, 1871, at 12 o'clock, noon, will be sold at public sale, at the Philadelphia Exchange, all that modem three-story brick dwelling, .with three-story back buildings and lot of ground, situate ou the south side of Master street, west o Thir teenth street, No. 1314; containing In fronton Master street 17 feet, and exte. ding in depth 81 feet. Sub ject to the restriction that no building for otfnsive occupation shall ever be erected on said lot. It has fas, bath, hot and cold water, beater, rauge, etc. mmeoiato possesblon. Terms gttoo may remain on mortgage. M. THOMAS A SONS. Auctioneers, 4 8 22 29 Nos. 139 aud 141 8 FOURTH Street. PUBLIC SALE THOMAS A SONS, uctloneers Genteel Btory brlck'rtwelllng. No. 336 Stevens street, first, house east of Fourtu Street, Camden, N. J. On Tuesday, May 2, 1S71, at ii o'clock noon, will be sold at public sa'e, at the Philadelphia Exchange, all that genteel 2-story brick dwelling, with 2Ji-storv back building and lot of ground, situate on tbe south side of Stevens atreet, 80 feet east of Fourto street, No. 836; con taining in front on Stevens street id feet, aud ex tending in depth loo feet. Tbe house has the nicdern conveniences; gas, bath, hot and cold water, gas oven, etc. May be examined. M. THOMAS . SONS. Anctloneers, 4 20 22 29 Noa, 139 and 141 S. FOURTH btreet. HEAL ESTATE AT AUOTION. K K A I. MTATi! run u ii Suva' j i i c , --. -'--- .J -..rt..(..T...'...J .1 I'JI ,;:i - Modern Three storv Itrlek Ijweillnir No. 1115 i i am am ax on street, witn 3 1 hree-story drick Dwell ings In the rear, Nos. lm, use, aud 1132 jMy street, Jviilileeiith war. On Tuesday, May, 1st I, at. 12 o'clock, noon, will be sold st i nblle a'e, at tnn Pnl etphia Kxclmiige, all that lot of ground with the Improvements thereon erected, situate on the uorth- ' east side of Srmckaruaxon street, lug feet ft Inches, more or less, southeast of t;irard avcuue, No. 1135; , containing in front on Shackamaxon street 20 feet, and extending In depth northeast 80 feet, more or less. Also, ail that lot of ground, beginuttig at a point 90 fee t, ni re or less, northeast of SiiacKa nix on street, being 123 letn Inches, morn or less, Bouthcanof Oirard avenue; thence exte ding south east 40 feet, more or less; thence northeast fist feet 2 Inches, more or less; thence northwest 40 feet, more or Icbs; t&etice southtsi st. 69 leet 2 Inches to tha place of beginning. Also, all that lot of ground, witn the Improvements thereon e rected, beginning at a point r.8 feet noitheastof Sliackamaxon street, ncln 123 feet t Inches southeast of Oirard avenue; t hence extei.dirg southeast 40 feet, tnoie or less; thence northeast 41 feet 9 Inches, more or less; thence northwest 40 feet, roeire r less; thence soutlwest 89 feet 10 lurries, more or less, to the place of begin ning. The Improvements consist of a modern three stoiy brick dwelling, with two story back build ugs, having the gas Introduced, Imtli, hot an I cold water, water closet, cooking-range, etc , fronting on Siiaek an axon street, No. 113ft and 8 three-story brick dwe llings, eHch containing six rooms, fronting on Day street, Nos 112s, nsn and 1184. They win be sold t get. icr. t lenreif nil Inenmbranoe. Plan at the annlon rooms. Possession 1st of July. Terms: fst-on cash; baUnce tuay remain for Blx ycari. May be exatuin d. M. T POM AS fc SONS. Anetl-neera, 4 80 22 S9 Nos. !3i and 1 1 I S. FOURTH Street. f PVBI.IO SAI.E-THOM AS 'fc SONS, AUO L;;: tlomers On Tuesday, Mar 2, ls;i, nt 12 o ctock. noon, will be sold nt public sale, at the Philadelphia Exchange, the following described property, viz.: No. 1. Two-story brick dwelling, Slvty-flfth street, south of Callowhill street. All that two stoty Mansard roof dwelling, with bay window, verandahs, etc., and lot of ground, situate on tho ea--t sine of Sixty-fifth street, 70 feet south or Cal lowhill street; containing In front BS feet, and ex tending In depth 14S feet to a 10 f.-et wide alley. The house coi tslns large parlor, dining room, kitchen, and B ehnmbers, built In the best manner, etc Terms $2000 may remain on mortgage. Immediate pop session. No. 2. Two-story brick dwelling. Sixty -fifth street, noith of Race street. All that two atory brick Mau-sard-roof dwelling, with two-story back bnllding and led of gronnd. situate on the west sh'e of Sixty-fifth street, soo feet north of Race street ; the lot contain ing in front on Sixty-fifth street 40 feet, and extend ing In depth 225 feet to a 60 feet street. It is sub stantially bnllt; has parlor, sitting-room, dining room, kitchen, and 6 chambers. Terms I JOOO may remain on mortgage. Immediate possession. For further particulars, apply to Jeremiah Bonsall, S. W. corner Sixty-fifth and Vine streets. M. THOMAS & SONS. Anctloneers, 4 15 B3t Nob. 139 and 141 S. FOURTH Street. fT3 REAL ESTATE THOMAS fc SONS' SALE. Mi On Tuesday, May 2, 1871, at 12 o'clock, noon, will be sold at public sale, at tbe Philadelphia Ex. change, the following described properties, viz. : No. 1. Three-story brick n welling. N. 190S Thompson street. Twentieth ward. All that three Btoiy brick messuage, with two-story back building and lot of ground, situate on the north side of Tht.mpson street, 72 feet west of Nineteenth street. No. 1903; the lot containing In front 18 feet, and ex tending In depth on the east line 76 feet (5 Inches, aud on the west line 66 feet, wldeniug on the rear to 18 feet 6 Inches. The house has saloou parlor, dining room, aud kitchen on tho Brat floor; 9 chambers, batli-room, and saloon sitting r orn on the second floor, and 2 chanibe rs on the third floor; has the gas, bath, hot, and cold water, conktug-rauge, heater, etc. Terms 3ooo may remain on mortgage. Immediate possession. No. 2. Three-story brick dwelling, No. 1C20 Amboy street, Twentieth ward All that three atory brick lntsUHge and lot of ground situate on the west side of Amlioy street, between Oxford street and Co lumbia avenue, Twentieth ward, No. 1620; the lot containing In front 16 feet, including the uorthcru moiety or half part of an alley 2 feet 3 inches wide, and extending In t epth 40 feet 6 inches. House eon teiins 6 reioiuB and bntti rooin; has gas, hot aud cold water, etc. Clenr of all Incumbrance. Terms cash. M. THOMAS A SONS, Auctioneers. 4 ft 22 29 Nos. 139 ana 141 8. FOURTH Street. REAL ESTATH' THOMAS A SONS' S Xtt. l-Oii'i nesdrt.v. May 10. 1371. at 12 o'clock, num. vi in be sold tt nubl c sale, at the Philadelphia Ex change, the following described property, viz. : No. 1. Three valuable buildings lots, Nos. 13.11, 1333, and lS?f North Seventh sir reel.. Ai those nree contiguous lots of giemuel siMia con the east Bide ef Seventh Btreet, north ot Thompson street, Nos. 1331, and ISHS; each lot containing in fronton fceve nth stree t 18 feet, and extendi! g In depth 100 feet. NcB 1331 and 1333 each subject to a yearly gronrd rent of $03, No. 1333 clear of all Incum OrancM. They win be sold separately or together. Tt.ims. rash. Ne. 2. Two-story brick building and largo lot, Nos. 1336 mid 138 Marshall street. All that large and valuable lot of gronnd, with the two-story brick bnildfrg thereon erected, situate en the west side of Marshall stree t, above Thompson s'ree-t, Nos. 1335 undloHH; contatntrgin front on Mart hah street 86 feet, mid extending in depth 74 feet 10 Inches. Clear of all incumbrance. Terms, casi. M. THOMAS A SON'S, Auctioneers, 4 '-2-.lt Nos. 139 and 141 8. FOURTH Street. f1 ADMINISTRATRIX'S 8 A. L K EST A T B OF jl Farsh L. Davis, deceased. Thomas A Son, Auctioneers Very desirable Farm. 90 acres, Nor- llstown turnpike, lxiwer Providence township, Mont gomery county, Pennsylvania, inlies from Ool le'gevllle Station, on the Perklomen turnpike, on Tue sday, May .6, 1S71, at 12 o'clock, noon, will be sold at public sale, at the Philadelphia Exchauge, all that valuable farm of 90 acres, situate on the west fclde ol the Nnrrlstown turnpike. 6 miles ab ive Nor ristown, miles from Uoliegesvllle Station, on the Perkionieu Kallroad, about 21 miles from Philadel phia. The Improvements are a genteel 2Vjf-atiry frame house; has hall In the centre, 9 rooms, eta: large stone barn with accommodations for 23 head horn cattle aud T horses. Ice-house, spring-house. can lagf -house, and outbuildings; water in every field ; fruit and shade trees; vegetable garden; large rrr nt on tne turnpike, witn aesirauie building sites, Terms Tvto-tlilrda cash. Immediate possession. Dr. Thomas Davis, at ejouegevuie, win convey visl tors to the arm. By order Of iiaTT A. Davis, administratrix. M. THOMAS A SON'S, Auctioneers, 4 82 B4t Nos. 139 and 141 S. FPU KTI1 Street. fT. PUBLIC S 1LE THOMAS A SONS, AUC lxtloneers. Two-and-a-nalf-story stone Dwelling and Stable, No. 65 Sharpnack Btreet, Oermantowrx. On Tuesday, May , 1871, at 12 o'clock, noon, will be sold at pnblic sale, at the Philadelphia Exchange, all that two-snd-a-half-stiry stone dwelling, frame stable and lot of ground, sitnate, on the southeast wardly side of Sharpnack street and northeastwardly Bide of Nash street, Germnntown, Twenty-second ward ; thence extending northeast along sharpnack s'reat fio feet; thenee southeast 119 fevt lueti: thence southwest 61 feet 2 inches to Nash street, a id thence northwest along Nash street 119 feet IV Inches to the place of beginning. Also a lot adjoin ing, irontlng on Sharpnack street 46 feett 10 inches, and extending In depth nn the southwest line 119 feet )4' inch, and on the northeast linn lid feet 11 Inches. Tetrns, ha.f cash. Mav be exainlued. Clear of all Incumbrance, Immediate possession. M. THOMAS A SONS, Anctloneers, 4 lfjESt Nos.J89 and 141 S. FOURTH Street ft RBAL ESTATE. THOMAS A SONS' SALB. Jjjj Modern Four-story Brick Residence, No. fil North Fifteenth street, above Arch street. Oa Tuesday, May 2, 1871, at 12 o'clock noon, will be sold at public sale, at the Philadelphia Exchange, all that mom rn four story brick (mastic)messiiage, witn two-story double back bnllolngg and lot of ground, situate on the east side of Fifteenth street, north of Arch Btreet, No. 141; containing in front on Fif teenth B'reet 18 feet, and extending In depth loo feet to Kershaw street. The house h as parlor, dining room aud kitchen on the first floor; gas, bath, hot and cold water, water closet, furnace, cooking range, et& Terms One-third cash. Possession 8J May. May be examined. 11. TUOMaS A SONS, Anctloneers, 4 22 B2t Nos. 129 and 141 S. FOURTH Street. PUBLIC PALE THOMAS A SON3, Auc tioneers. Small Farm, 10 acres, one mile from lu ixrlf. New Jersey. On Tuesday. May 9. 1811. at 19 o'clock, noon, will be sold at public Bale, at the Philadelphia Exvbsnge, all that smill farm of 10 acres, situate on the turnpike leading from Bur ling to Camden, 1 mile from Beverly. New Jersey. 1 be 'niprovements are a very neat two-story dwell ing, has 6 rooms; new barn, about 200 peach trees, and several acres of small fruits. Terms $1000 may remain on mortgage. Will be shown by the tenant, Mr. George Marter. M. THOMAS A SONS. Anctloneers. 4 S0j9m Noaasu and 141 8. FOURTH Street. 4J REAL ESTATE-THOMAS & SONS' SALE. i'i 8 Genteel Three-atoiy Brick Dwellings, Noa. 2.l3and 2315 Tnllp street. Nineteenth ward. On Tuesday, May 9. Is71. at 19 o'clock, n on, will be sold at publlo sale, at the Philadelphia Exchange, all those 2 genteel three-story brick messuages and lots of ground, situate Noa. 2313 and 231ft Tulip street, Nineteenth ward; each containing In front on Tulip Btreet 16 feet, and extending la depth 69 feet. Each contains A rooms; have gaa tlxturea throughout, eta Terms $1600 may remain on mortgage on each. M. THOMAS &. SONS, Auctioneer!. 4 ltfc3t Noa. 129 and 141 6. FOURTH Street. REAL. ESTATE AT AUOTION. BRAL f STATK THOM AS fc HONS' SALB. "i On Tnetelay. May 8. ls.i. at 12 o'clock noon. v. ul be told at tiulillu sale, at tne Philadelphia Ex change, the following decribed properties, via. : No. I. Three-story brick Dsruiiing, No. 190$ Ttionipfon street, Twei.tb-th wrd. Ad that three- B'ory bii'-K nicsMinge, w:th two-story back building and lot of ground, sttuatu on Pie north side eif 1 l.ompson sire-i t, It feet west ef Nineteenth street, No. :l'3. the lot containing In front 16 feet, and extending in depth on the east line 76 fee'- 5 Inches, urn em ene one eo ice , widening on trie rer to is feet 6 Inches. Tne house has sunn Darlor. dining room and kitchen on the first floor, 9 clian- oets. 1 a' re-room and mioon sitting-room on the second floor, and 2 chambt rs em ihe t iird flimr. Has the- pas, bath, hot ami cold water, cocking rango, healer, ela Ti ntis-$3000 limy remain on mort gage. Immediate possession No. 9. Three story brick Dwelling, No. 1620 Amboy street, Twentieth ward. All that three-story brlcn me ssuriih and lot of ground sltn.ite on tie west side eil Amboy btreet, between Oxford street arid Colnra l iaave une, Twentieth ward, Sn. 102 1, the lot con tt.lt li'g in freiLt C6 feet, tnclmiing the northern me.iety or half part of nn alley 2 feet 8 inches wide, and extending In depth 40 feet 6 1 iche. lions- contains Oroonis and bsth-room, hss gas, hot aud cedd water, etc. Cl ar of U incumbrance. Terms ish. M. THOMAS & SON'S, Aoi'ioneers, 4 20 29 Nos. 139 aud 141 8. FOUR 1 H Street, RKAL ESTATE THOMA A SONS' SALE. 1 On 1 uesdy, May 2, 1871, st 12 oVIoek, noon, will be Bold at publlo sale, at tho Philadelphia Exchange, tho following described property, viz.: No. 1. Three-story Urick Sfri ivud Oweliing, N. W. ci rner of Fiftee nth and ehristUn streets. All t tint three-siorv brick message nnd lot of gronnd, Bl tiate at tho N. W. ceirner of Fifteenth and (irirliu ilsn streets; the lot containing tn f'-nnt em Fifteenth Hreet 17 feet, anil extending in depth along Chris t an street 80 fee t to a 8-feet wi le alley. The store Is occupied as a liquor store; house contains 19 re oms; has gas, bath, hot and cold water, cooking rst ge, etc. subject to a yearly ground rent of $123. May be examined. Immediate possession. No. S. Three-s ory Brick Dwelling, No. 820 S Fif teenth street All that three-story brick messuage, with three-story back buildings, sittnte on toe west Bide ot Fifteenth street, below Jhrl-'tiail street, No. 820; the lot containing lu front 16 foet.. and extend ing In depth 60 feet to a 8-feet wide alley. It con tains 10 rooms, has gae, bath, hot an 1 cold water, cooUng range, WHter-clost. furnaco, e;tc. Subject to a yearly gremnd rer-t of $116. May be examined. Immediate pofsess'on. M. THOMAS A SONS, Anctlon-ers, 4 20 29 Nos. 139 aud 141 S. FOURTH Street. fl REAL ESTATE THOMAS A RONS' 8 A-E. Jjy Modern Twostory stone Dwelling, Race street, esst of Thitty-slxth btreet. On Tuesday, May 9, 1871, at 11 o'clock, noon, win be sold at pub lic salt;, at the l'hlladelpnia Exchange, all that lot of giound, with the two-story st nt dwelling (French roof) with two-story back buildings thereon erected, situate on the north side of Bace street, loo feet em of Thirty-sixth street; containing In fronton Pace:reet 20 feet, and extending In depth 100 feet. The house has all the modern conveniences, hot and cold water, bath, gas, range, eta Terras $3500 may remain on mortgage. Immediate possession. M. THOMAS A RONS. Anctloneers, 4 15 29M6 Nob. 139 and 141 8. FOURTH Street. REAL ESTAt'E THOMAS A SONS' SALE. Three-story Brick Dwelling, No. 838 North 1 iilrty-seH-ond Btreet, between Baring and Hamilton Btreets On Taesdav. May 9, 1871, at U o'clock, noon, v.1'1 be sold at public. Bale, at the Philadelphia Ex change, all t hat tnree-story brick messuage, with two-story back buildings and 1 t of ground, situate on the west side of Thirty-second street, between Baring and Hamilton streets, No. 838; containing In front on Thirty-sccona afreet 20 feet, and extending In depth 11S feet; has 8 rooms and bath room; gas. heater, range, hot and cold water. Terms Halt cash. Immediate possession. M. THOMAS A SONS, Anctloneers, 4 IS B3t Nob. 139 and 141 S. FOURTH Street. FIRE EXTINQUISHER. THE UNION FIIIE tX TING USHER, j OVER FIVE MILLIONS ($5,000,000) OP DOLLARS WORT-H OP PROPETY IN THE UNITED STATES HAH ACTUALLY BEEN SAVED BT THE EXTIN GUISHER Within the pst three years; while In Philadelphia alone twenty-tlve ores, endangering property to the extent of hUNDRBDS Of THOUSANDS O HOL LARS, have been extinguished during the past year by the same means. Our Machine s the IMPROVED CARBONIC ACID OAS EIRE KXTINOUlwHKft, and Is Indorsed and nsed by M. Balrd & Co., Henry Dlsktori A Son, Beoiamln Bullock's nons, morris, JTahker A C o., j Alau Wood A Co., Lace & Phillips, Bromley Brothers, H. J. Holms, Ciiarles Kneu, John kid co., Hiiuty Ma-ielra, KTaoiem Perot Hons, Herge W. Chtlos, Penusvl-anla Railroad OOrapany, Philadelphia and Boston Steamship Company, Phila delphia and tout hern Steamship Cennpauy, and v.any other of our leading business men and corpo rations. CAUTION. All parties In this wnrnunlty are warned against buying or spUIii "Extinguishers" except those purchased from ns or our agente, under penalty of Immediate prosecution for Infringement Our prices have been reduced, aud the Machine la now wll.l.ln the reach of every property holder. N. B. One style made specially for private resi dences. Union Fire Extirguiiher Company OFFICE, n 23 Btntrrp No. 113 MARKET BT11EET. SAFE DEPOSIT OOMPANIEw. THE PEKN&YLVANIA 00 tf PAST FOR INSURANCES ON LIVES AND GRANTING ANNUITIES, Office Ho. 304 WALNUT Streei. INCORPORATED MARCH 10, 1813, CHARTER PERPETUAL CAPITA I $1,000,000. BUBPLUS UPWARDS OF 750,000. Receive money on deposlt.returanli on demand, for which Interest is allowed. nd under appointment by Individuals, corpora tions, and conns, act as hXECTTOBS. ADM INISTK.ATOKS, TRUSTEBS. OUAKPIANS, ASSIGNEES. COM tUTTEES, KhC'blVKKS. AUKUW, COLLECTORS, ETC. And for tbe faithful performance of its duties as t-ucb ail Its assets are liable. CHARLES DTJTILH, Paesident. Wru-iiH Hill, Actuary. DIRECTORS. Charles Dntllh, .Joshua B. Llpplncott, Henry J. Williams, I diaries U. Hutchinson, W iiliaru S. Vaux, ILindley Smyth, Jejhn It. Wucherer, jOeorge A. Wood. Adoiph B. Borle, Anthony J. Antelo, Alexander Blddle, Charles 8. Lewis, Henry Lewis. WHISKY, WINE, ETC CAR&TAIR8 SH McCALL, l?o. 126 Walnut and 21 Granite Sti IMPORTERS OP Br an die , Winei, Gin, Olive Oil, Etc., WHOLESALE DEALERS IN PURE RYE WHISKIES. IN BOND AND TAX PAID. SSI FUKNITUKh. JOSBPH H Campion flate Moore A Oamntoni. WILLUM SMITH, KICUAKD K CAMPION. SMITH & CAMPION, Mauntactnrers of FIMB FDRMTUBK, UPUOLSTERINQS, AND IN TKRIOIt HOUSE DECOR 4.TIONS, No. SJ0 80UTH THIRD Street, Manufactory, Noa. 815 and SIT LEVANT Street, Puiiadelphla. 81 A LIXANDR R bIoaT TIL l7 A C oT, ti. FKODUCB COMMISSION MSUCHANT No. S NORTH WHARVK AND NO. IT NORTH WATRR 8TREBT, PHILADELPHIA. AxaxAwna a. nrrn .mi fUL C3 RIME 11 E A Y Y RtKIt OATS. COLLINS, VTBTHEHILL A CO., Seed eirowert, Noa. 1111 anl 1111 MAU&KT Street.