THE DAI1A rENINO TELEGRAPH PHILADELPHIA, WEDNESDAY, MAY 3, 1871.
BPlItlT OF THE PRESS.
BDITOBIAX CPlNIONt OF TUB LEAJIN1 JOT7HHAL3
TJPOM OURItENT TOPICS COMPILED ITEBT
DAI tOB. THE KTBXIXO TELKUEirH.
THE BARBAROUS AND RETROGRADE
POLICY OF CHINA.
Frtm the X. T. Bm mUL
"When in Jue, 18C8, the Chinese Embassy,
beaded by Mr. Burliagame, waa honored with
publio reoeptian by tke Cod gross of the
United States, we felt encouraged to belters,
and we wrote accordingly, that a new era' had
dawned npon the world. It seemed as if, at
last, light had penetrated the dark plaoea of
the earth, and an if even exclusive China were
yielding to the benign and genial influence.
Oar hope was strengthened and our pride wan
flattered by the fact that the liberal polioy of
which the embassy waa the expression had
been brought abont largely by the in Huence
of an American. The appointment of Mr. Bar
lirjgame as ohief ef the embassy which was to
visit the Government of the United States and
the various courts of Europe, was a recogni
tion of the merits of the man and a compli
ment to nu as a people, both of which we felt
proud to acknowledge. The failure of that
embassy, not through the faults of Mr. Bur
lingame, who, unhappily, was called away too
aeon, or through tke faults of the great
Western Towers, who were, all of them, kind
and courteous in the extreme, but through
the inherent perversity of the Chinese charao
ter, baa rendered it impossible for the govern
ments and peoples of tke civilized world for
many years to come t have any faith in
Chinese promises. "What "Tunica fide"
meant in the days of ancient Rome, when
Rome was yet uncorropted, Chinese faith
means to-day.
The demand whiok Las just been made
upon the ambassadors of the various powers
by the imperial government of China dissi
pates every fond hope te which the Ba rlin
game mission gave birth. The Tien-tain
massaore, which was horrible and barbarous
beyond anything which has occurred in
modern times, and whioh took place while
the embassy was on its tour through Europe,
was do doubt discouraging. But the govern
ment ofiioials denied the responsibility, and
feebly attempted for a time to throw the
blame on the shoulders of certain ignorant
fanatics. Disposed to be jubt to the Govern
ment of China In what we were willing to
believe a trying and transitional period, we
bave waited to see the offenders brought to
justice; but we have waited in vain, or rather
we have waited to find insult added to injury.
In place of an apology and a promise to do
what is right, there is made upon the repre
sentatives of the civilized powers of the
world a demand whioh can only be answered
?roperly by swift and efficient punishment,
'o make our position plain and intelligible
to our readers we reproduce the despatoh
which we printed some days ago. The de
mand made by the Chinese Government is as
follows:
First. That schools for the education of
females be abolished.
Second. That the teaching to males, sub
jects of the empire, of all doctrines opposed
to those of Confucius, be forbidden.
Third. That missionaries shall be con
sidered Chinese subjeots.
Fourth. That women shall not be permitted
access to the empire in teat capacity.
The foreign ambassadors are also notified
that the attendance of women upon religious
service made one of the ocoasions for the re
cent massacres of foreigners, and that "though
those events cannot bat be deplored by the
Imperial Government, compensation for their
commission is absolutely refused."
We collect money for China; educate mis
sionaries, male and female, for China; build
schools and chnrckes in China in the good
work all Christian nations aud all names and
denominations of Christians unite and this
is our reward. A more deliberate insult was
never flung in the teeth of united Christendom.
Look at the different items of this Chinese
ultimatum. In the mission schools we seek
to educate the female as well as the male.
China says the girls must not be educated.
Let our women's rights women think of this.
So much for the first item. The second item
is worse than the first. All doctrines taught to
males, subjects of the empire, must be in har
mony with the teachings of Confucius; if not,
they must be forbidden. Under this quali
fication the missionary must have a small
chance. Another demand is that we must
send no more female missionaries. The last
is that the missionaries, who, of course, must
be wales, are to be regarded as Chinese sub-
iects. The imperial Chinese manifesto is
lonored with an addenda which informs us
that the presence of women at the reli
gious services was one of the prinoipal
causes of the "reeent massacres" massacres
which the Imperial Government deplores,
but will not compensate. What we hare
said we repeat. This language is an outrage
upon the whole civilized world. It con
cerns the United States deeply, because our
missionaries all over the East, from Egypt
to Japan, uie numerous, dutiful, uud success
ful, according to their own hopes and the
plans of their employers. It concerns Great
Britain quite as muck as ourselves. It con
cerns France poor France, to-day. It con
corns . the l'ope. It concerns Germany. It
concerns Russia, which is a great Eastern
power. China has really iubultod the civili
zation of the West. Trade, the gospel, the
telegraph, the steamboat, the steam plough,
the steam car, the newspaper, all force us
onward. Exclusive CMna resists in the inte
rests of a so-called civilization whioh is as
antiquated as the habits of the men who lived
before the flood, or of our owu Indians, who
bave found their epitbala aiium in Longfel
low's "Hiawatha."
llow is this stupidity on the part of China
to be overcome!1 Precisely as it was over
come in 18.r7-8, by the combined forces of
Europe end America. Rnsnia, America, Eng
land, and France then brongUt China to her
senses. . What happened iu the ummer of
1858, when the allies moved up the I'eiho
river, compelling China to submit to all de
mands, must be repeated as soon as possible
if in that great populous empire of the East
Western or, as we prefer to call it, Christian
civilization is to be reHpoced. It is our
opinion that this fresh Clinee trouble is
due to the unhappy collapse of France.
Eight years ago five years ugo, the name of
Napoleon was potent in China. The collapse
of the empire has made China impertinent.
It is our conviction that a combination of the
Christian powers is all that is required to
bring China to her senses. In the itterests
of civilization, in the interests of Christian
ity, in the interests of common sense we ad
vise this combination. Barbarism id in our
way. Let us put it down. On this continent
at least we are not unkind to the "heathen
Chinee." Christian civilization demands the
free and not unjust use of the world. Let us
bave it. A frebh combination of the great
powers France, of course, included might
make an end of all this trouble. For the sake
of European civilization and for the sake of
Christianity generally let us hope that Presi
dent Grant and Frinoe Bismarck, and Prince
Gortschakoff and M. Thiers, will all unite and
batter down this modern Chinese wall. The
plain duty of the civilized world is to put
down this modern barbarism. Our kinsmen
and friends, our brothers and sisters call to us
for help. Let us respond with effect.
THE ASCENDENCY OF THE SOUTHERN
DEMOCRACY.
From the JV. r. Timet,
The determined attitude of the Southern
wing of the Democralio party has already
forced the Northern Democracy to abandon
the "dead-issne" platform. State sovereignty
is to be resuscitated and negro suffrage is to
be revived as a minor issue, and an attempt
to "overthrow the abominable legislation
which a Republican Congress" has attempted
to fasten on the country is to be made. The
address of the Democratic members of Con
gress was coldly received at the South, be
cause it contained an implied recommenda
tion that the situation should be acoeptod.
In some Southern Democratic papers it was
published without a word of comment, and
by others it was "damned with faint
praise." The Southern Democracy, un
mindful of the lesson of 18G8, ineist
that the reconstruction measures shall
be declared "unconstitutional, revolu
tionary, null, and void." The manner of
the declaration and the authority by which it
s to be madeare not indicated. The people
of the State of Now York know that, having
the power, the Democracy will hesitate at
nothing. The Constitution, which is held in
so much lip reverenoe by them, is disregarded
when its provisions interfere with schemes
for extending and perpetuating the power of
thnr party leaders.
The legislation which the Democraay chtr
actcrize as "abominable" is that resulting
from the war. The thirteenth amendment is
acquiesced in, but the fourteenth and fif
teenth, and consequent legislation are, ac
cording to the Democratio idea, unconstitu
tional. It is difficult to understand how an
amendment to the Constitution which has
been incorporated into it in the manner re
quired by that instrument can be unconsti
tutional. A law may be unconstitutional,
bat to say that the Constitution is unconstitu
tional is a contradiction in terms. An instru
ment cannot violate itself. The amendments
were proposed and ratified by the constitu
tional number of States, and after being so
ratified became a part of the original instru
ment, and are as much a portion of the Con
stitution as that whioh was accepted by the
thirteen original States, or any of the amend
ments to it that have since been made.
The surrender of the Northern to the
Southern Democracy has been made sooner
than was expected. That the North would
yield was certain from the beginning, but
it was thought that for very shame the posi
tion would not be abandoned at the first
attack. The Democrat'o party lives in the
past it is ten years behind the times. The
issues of I860, which have been settled at
the cost of bo much blood and treasure, and
which have been twice, since then, pro
nounced upon by the people, are to be promi
nent in the campaign of 1872. . The mission
of the Demooratio party, if it has any, is to
walk backward, and to make true, if possi
ble, the declaration of the Chicago Conven
tion "that nothing has been accomplished
by the war." Upon the issues of State sov
ereignty and negro suffrage, the.Demooraoy
base a policy which, though vaguely de
fined, is well understood at the North. In
the South it is boldly said that the recon
struction measures are "unconstitutional,
null, and void, "and shall be so declared when
the Democratio party comes into power. On
questions of finance, revenue,and civil service
reform, the Democracy have enough to say,
and make brave promises of what they will
do when the people confer power upon them.
Ample opportunity has been given the Dem
ocratic party for favorable action on revenue
reform, but in every instanoe where a tax has
been removed or the tariff amended, the ma
jority of the Democratic members of Congress
have voted against the measure. Like the
Bourbons, the leaders of the Democratio party
have learned nothing and forgotten nothing.
While the Republican party is progressing,
dealing with new issues, and evolving a policy
which will make the country rich, prosperous,
and happy, the Democratio party remains
stuck fast in the slough of State sovereignty
and negro suff rage.
OVERWORKING SCHOOL CHILDREN,
from the N. T. Sun. .
The new Department of Publio Instruction,
which takes the place of the old Board of
Education, was organized last Saturday.
Several of the commissioners made speeches
at the opening meeting advocating au entire
reform of the prevailing system of manage
ment of our publio schools, and the bringing
of it thoroughly into accordance with the
latest discoveries in the art of teaching. It
is to be hoped that they may be allowed to
accomplish their desires, and to make
every improvement which can be made.
And while they are engaged in their task, we
trust they will not overlook the important
matter of the number of hours of J attendance
and the amount of work required of pupils.
A pretty widespread conviction has mani
fested itself lately among intelligent people
that too much is usually exaoted of sohool
children. It is but a few weeks Binoe a num
ber of the parents of pupils attending the
Latin School in Boston united in a request
for fchortening the school hours, by omitting
the customary Saturday's session. At Louis
ville, Ky., the question in reference to tha
publio Bchools of the city was lust week sub
mitted to the parents, and it was decide 1 by
a vote of 3!7G to 17'J7 to substitute for two
fiessions a day, amounting to six hours, oue
session of five hours, and that interrupted by
two recesses of fifteen minutes each. Mr.
James Parton, in a letter published in last
week's J'ublcc School Journal, speaks with his
characteristic energy of what ho calls "the
massacre of the innoceuts" by overworking
their brains. And when, a year or two ago,
we uttered onr warning against the same
evil, a flood of letters from anxious parents
thanked us for it, and expressed their hearty
approval of our sentiments.
As a writer from whom Mr. Parton quotes
very justly says, the chief business of chil
dren is to grow;"' and any system of education
which interferes with this important duty is
necessarily a bad one. Everybody knows
that excehsive bodily effort stunts the physical
growth of children such, for instanoe, us
thoee employed in mines and factories; and
excessive mental effort is no less fatal tj
health and perfect development. It has beeu
decided by the best medical authorities that
the limit of mental labor for an ordinary
adult is five hours a day, aud that all beyoud
this is at the expense of health aud stremnu.
How much more injurious, then, must it be
to exact of a child not five, but six, seven and
eiLt hours of hard study d iilv! '
It is a mistake, too, to suppose tb.it any
tL;ug is rei.lly giined iu hastening a chil is
education by stimulating it to uudua exer
tion. Experience Las tiemonttrated that a
few hours of study a day, supplemented with
proper physical exercise, result in more
thorough and permanent unfolding of the
faculties than many hours of close applica
tion alone. A child is really better educated
for not being pushed on too fast. Besides,
what is the use to a man or woman of a mind
crammed with learning and versed ia soienoe
and metaphysics, if bodily health be wanting?
A bad digestion and a head never free from
pain will paralyze the brightest intelleot, and
render unavailable all the dear-bought acqui
sitions of years. A comparatively limited
education, backed by a strong and vigorous
physical constitution, will accomplish far
more in the battle of life than the greatest
acquirements coupled with feebleness and ill
health. The able men and the influential
women of the day are not those who have had
the most schooling, bnt those whose bodily
strength enables them to endure the most
mental as well as physical fatigue.
We are glad to be able to acknowledge that
our public schools have been greatly improved
during the past few years in respect of this
matter. The hours of labor for the children,
both in school and out of school, bave bnen
materially shortened from those formerly ex
acted. Let our new commissioners take up
the work and carry it on, until the rising
generation shall be completely exempt from
the curse which has hitherto afilioted their
predecessors.
OUR NATIONAL WEALTH AS REVEALED
BY THE CENSUS.
Frem the JV. Y. Ration.
The Census Bureau has so far progressed
with its labors as to be able to proseut us
with a concrete statement of the total wealth
f the cation, as assessed for purposes of
taxation. The figures do not give the true
value of the property, ns estimated by the
census-takers, but they give the sum total of
the valuation, as obtained from the local tax
assessors of every State, upon which all State
taxes are assessed. It may seem at first
sight that figures coming from such a source
are cot of a highly trustworthy character.
Indeed, we know that the assessments are
very defective from the ignorance of the offi
cials, or from their carelessness. But they
are, nevertheless, of the greatest importance.
Based as they are upon actual assessments
upon which the payment of money depends,
open as they are to correction from all in
jured partieB, including, as they do, the whole
tax-paying portion of the people, compared
with whose vast numbers the intentional cases
of false valuation muBt come to be very insig
nificant, these tax returns are fully as reliable as,
it cot far more reliable than, the loose and
inconclusive returns from volunteer state
ments, or valuations obtained by a host of
ignorant and, perhaps, incompetent census
subordinates. Making allowance for the in
variable practice of assessing property for tax
purposes at much less than its mnrke.t value,
an undervaluation which is recognized and
established by universal custom, if not by
law, these tax returns are considered by
competent statisticians far more valuable for
ascertaining the wealth of the people thau
those of the census. But lest exoeption be
taken to this position, which is also denied
by many, we propose, in examining the
figures just published, to confine ourselves,
in all comparisons, to figures obtained from
the same source, so that all may be alike
affected by the same objootion, and the value
of the comparison not invalidated.
According to these returns, the total value
of property of every description in the United
States in 1870, with certain exceptions to be
referred to hereafter, was, in round numbers,
$13,000,000,000, against $10,500,000,000 in
lfc'GO, showing an increase in value of $J,j00,
000,000, or less than tweuty-tlve per oent.,
during the ten years. If we compare this in
crease with that of the previous decade, we
find that, from lSGO to 18G0, the increase was
from $0,000,000,000 to 810,000,000,000, an
increase of $4,500,000,000, or precisely
seventy-five per cent. In other words, the
increase in the previous decade was precisely
three times as great as during the last. Prior
to 1800 we were getting rich three times as
fast as since 1800.
Prior to 1800 we had no debt of any conse
quence. We now owe, in round numbors,
$2,500,000,000. It we deduct what we owe
from what we possess, we find that our net
possessions are about the same in 1870 as
they were in 18G0, in other words, that all the
people in the country together have no more
wealth in 1870 than they had in 18G0. Bat
as the cumber of people in the country has
increased during that period from 30,000.000
to 40,000,000, there are now 40,000,000 of
people who own no more property to-day than
30,000,000 of people owned ten years ago; in
other words, the average wealth of eaoh inha
bitant of the United States is to-day twenty
five per cent, less than it was ten years ago.
However much we might be tempted to let
these results stand as confirmation of all the
arguments for years urged by the Nation in
ref utation of the absurd belief that we were
rapidly growing rich on waste, and extrava
gance, and destruction, we are, nevertheless,
obliged to point out that they are not neces
sarily conclusive as to the condition of the
whole country. Although it is impossible for
any part of it to be impoverished without all
ether parts being more or less affected in a
similar manner, yet there is a nominal im
poverishment which directly affects the
owner without diminishing the real wealth of
the country. In 18G0, slaves were counted
as property. Valuing five millions of slaves
at an average price of $300, we could at once
account for an apparent loss of 1500
millions of dollars by tho net of
emancipation. Besides, the loss of the slaves
rendered temporarily valueless, or at least
much less valuable, great plantations and
other tracts of land, which had heretofore
constituted a great part of the wealth of soma
of the Southern States. Aud in addition, a
large part of the loss and destruction of the
war of Rebellion fell most directly upon the
seceding States themselves. If wo, there
fore, examine separately all the so-ciiled
slave Slates, excluding Missouri, which was a
elave State only in came, and exclu ding Ala
bama and Texas, the figures for which two
latter are 'omitted throughout the returns,
but including Virginia aud West Virginia, we
find that the wealth of the nine leading
Southern States bus actually decreased
more than 1800 millions of dollars
during the decade. The South
has lost in wealth; the North, East, and West
bave mado not only the entire apparent gain,
but Lave gained enough besides to make up
the Southern loss. Separating the two sec
tions, we say that the South has largely de
creased in wealth, nearly fifty per ceut., while
the rest of the couutry hus increased from
G500 millions in 18G0 to 10.800 millions in
1870, an inorease of nearly C8 per cent. It
will beobservtd that even thU rate of in
crease falls materially behind that of the pre
vious decade, even when leaving the debt out
of consideration. Taking the debt iuto
Hccoutit, we arrive at the conclusion that the
Huutb has lost largely in wealth, while the
vest of the country has increased about thirty
ptr cent, during the decade, against an in
crease of seventy five per cent, during the
previous decade. This is the most favorable
result to be deduced from the figures sub
mitted by the Census Bureau.
There are some other results ef interest to
be derived from those statistics. Tha assms
nents separate real estate from all other kinds
of property. Heretofore the inorease in the
wealth of the country has been far largest ia
the kind of property callod personal, which
includes railrosds, bank and insnranoe
storks, merchandise, machinery, furniture,
cuttle, crops, agricultural implements, every
thing, in short, except the land aud the
buildings on it; everything that contributos
most largely to the production of wealth, is
the best evidence of wealth, ad constitute
the trnsst measure of our civilization. In
f)ersonal property, the inorease duriru? the
ast decade was ninety-five per ceut. During
tbe present decde there has beeu a posi
tive decrease. Bnt if, remembering that
the slaves were formerly counted as personal
property, and that it is on this kind of pro
perly, too, thnt tbe destruction of war gene
rally fall, we compare the position of theuon
slaveholding States with that of ten years
Bgo, we find that here personal property in
these has increased about forty-seven per
cent., against a corresponding increase of
ninety-five per cent., or almost double, for
the previous ten years. The increase in the
amount and value of everything that contri
butes to the comfort, the well-being, the
amenities, and the progress of life has been
just one-half as rapid as during the previous
decade. But when we remember that
real estate now contributes nothing
whatever directly to the expenses of the
General Government, or to the payment of
interest and principal of the public debt, that,
n the contrary, all United States taxes are
borne by th consumers or employers of
pwonal property, chiefly in proportion to
the personal property so employed, aud that
tbe total assessed value of the entire personal
property of the country is not equal to tvico
the amount of the national debt, it must be
apparent that the inorease in the personal
property is not sufficient to affect the na
tional debt.
Tbe real estate valuation of the ten years
preceding 18G0 increased sixty-four pr cent,
at the time when the country was truly pros
perous, and when personal property increased
ninetj-five per ceut. During the ten years
following 18G0, when war has destroyed-a
largo amount of v eallh, and when personal
property has increased only forty-seven per
cent., we yet find that real estate has increised
seventy-five per cent., or actually eleven per
cent, more than during the previous decade.
That there cannot be aoy true foundation for
this advance in the value of real estate in a
country where territory is unlimited, in a time
when a large section of the oonntry has been
Bunk for years in ruin, and when tbe. true
wealth of a country, its personal property, is
increasing so slowly, if at all, must be evi
dent to every one who attentively examines
the subject. The value of real estate is mea
sured almost exclusively by the prosperity of
the community, all theories to the contrary
notwithstanding, and for real estate to ad
vence largely while general prosperity is
nearly stationary is possible only as a result
of gigantic speculation based upon widespread
ceiubicn.
The true condition of the country, as
shown by the assessment statistics just pub
lished by the Census Bureau, is simply this:
The progress in wealth of the entire country
is not equal to the increase in the national
ebt, without counting the enormously in
creased debts of Slates, counties, and towns
The former slaveholding States have very
materially declined in wealth. The rest of
the country has advanced in wealth beyond
the accumulation ef the dftbt, about one-third
as much as in the previous decade; but even
this advtnce is chiefly due to the fictitious
rise in the prices of real estate due to specu
lation.
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views for 40 miles over a rich country, modern
pointed stone house, gas, water, etc., coach, Ice, and
spring houses, never falling spring of purest water,
(lark for boatinu), all stocked with mountain
trout, carp, etc., beautiful cascade, with succession
of rapids through the meadow.
Arply to J. R. PRICE, on tho premises. 4 25
FOB SALE,
HANDSOME RESIDENCE,
WEST PHILADELPHIA.
Ko. 8248 CHESNTIT Street (Marble Terrace),
THRIE-STORY, WITH MANSARD ROOF, AND
THREB-STORY DOUBLE BACK
BUILDINGS.
Sixteen rooms, a'l modern conveniences, gas, bath,
hot and cold water.
Lot IS feet trout and HO feet 9 Inches deep to a
back street.
Immediate possession. Terms to suit purchaser.
M. D. LI YEN SETTER,
4 18 No. 129 South FOURTE Street
g SALE OF THE ATSION ESTATE.
AliOl'T 25,000 ACRES OF LAND, TO BE SOLD
AT ITLL1C AUCTION, AT THE WKST JERSSY
HOTEL, CA711 KN, N. J., ON MAY 6, loll, AT
1 O'CLOCK, P. M.
lO SRiiCUl ATOHS IN LAND, PROJECTORS OF
TOWNS AND CAPITALISTS GENERALLY, A
RARE OPPORTUNITY i'OH INVESTMENT IS
i'iil'SL'.Mi.U;!
A FARM of about 700 acres, with extensive lm
SEVERAL MILLS and additional mill and manu
facturing sites are on the property.
RAILROADS traverse the entire length of the
tract.
ATSION STATION is the point of Junction of
two railroads.
TOWNS and SETTLEMENTS may be favorably
located.
THE CEDAR TIMBER is of considerable value.
O ANBKKKlES, GRAPES, SWEET POTATOES
HOPS, etc., can be very successfully cultivated.
GOOD TITLE will be made to the purchaser.
SEND FOR A PAMPHLET containing parties
lars, and apply personally, or by mail, to
oeor'e nr. Dallas, Assignee,
8 84 87t No. 222 S. FOURTH St., Philadelphia.
NINETY-THREE ACRES FARM FOR
sale or exchango for city property, or good
merchandise, situated In Richland to wr ship, Bucks
county. It, J. DOBBINS,
4 2U2t Ledger Building.
rfTf FOR SALE HANDSOME BROWN-STONE
K RE8IDEENCE, with side yard, BROAD and
MASTER Streets. Lot 60 by sou f oet deep to Car
Rile Btreet. R. J. DOBBINS,
4 27 12t Ledger Building.
FOR SALE NEAT THREE-STORY BRICK
DWELLING, with side yard, No. 1413 N.
EIGHTEENTH Street, or will be exchanged.
11. J. DOBBINS,
4 27 12t Ledger Building,
t. FOR SALE OR EXCHANGE ELEGANTLY
located COTTAGE, at CAPE MAY, furnished
throughout. R. J. pOBBINS,
4 27iiit Ledger Building.
CT FOR SALE ELEGANT FOUR-STORY
JiL-i brown-stone RESIDBNCE, No. 1917 CHES-
NUT Street, with Bide yard. Lot 44X by 173 feet.
It. J. DOBBINS,
4 27 12t Ledger Building.
lt FOR SALE MUST BE SOLD THIS WEEK,
K ; arid a great bargalu given. A desirably uew
dwelling on Walnut street, above Thirty-fourth.
Arply at once to THOMAS ALLEN, No. 8933 CUB.
NUT Street, Real Estate Agent. 4 27 01
TO KENT.
FOR RENT,
STORE, Ko. 339 MARKET Street.
APPLY ON PREMISES.
4 22 tf
3. B. ELLISON i SONS.
SCHOOL LAN E COUNTRY SEAT TO RENT.
Mansion Houbc, furnished, will be let for the
summer months; 10 rooms, besides 2 bath-rooms;
ice house, grapery, green house, stables, kitchen
garden, and 9 acres of land. All In complete order,
10 minutes of two railway stations.
PHILIP S. JUSTICE,
No. 14 N. FIFTH Street.
4 4 9f Philadelphia.
f TO RENT, rURNISUED DESIRABLE
Lji Summer Residence, Township Line, near
bchool Laue, Germantown.
JUSTICE BATEMAN fc CO.,
6 1 8t No. 122 South FRONT Street
MILLINERY, TRIMMINGS, ETO.
IUcVAI CJII &, DUXUAIf,
NO. 114 SOUTH ELEVENTH STREET,
Eave opened their Spring Assortment of
DES11UJJLE WHITE GOOD3.
Piques In Plaids, Stripes, and Cordi
Freuch Na'neook, all prices.
French Mutlln, 2 yanin wide, very low.
Tucktd MuMid, lor WaiKU and Skirts.
A L t R ; E STOCK OF HAM B LRU EDGING AND
INSERTING.
Ileal and Imitation Laces.
Rich r l'uiriuii.g iu Nainsook and Swiss.
l-reiich C.'iipn lor Ladies and Ch ldren.
I atfie' I'mlrr-garmeuts, very cheap.
NoVKITlES AND FANCY ARTICLES RE
CEIVED DAILY.
INFANTS' OUTFITS ,
cn sand and made to order. 8 13w3m
WHISKY, WINE, ETO.
CAR8TAIR8 & McCALL,
2?o. 126 Wamut and 21 Granite Sts
IMPORTERS OF
Srandiei, Wines, Gin, Olive Oil, Eta,
WHOLESALE DEALERS IN
PUnE RYE WHISKIES,
IN BOND AND TAX PAID.
8Si
HATS AND CAPS.
WAR BURTON'S IMPROVED VENTILATED
i lsnd easy-fl'ting DRESS HATS (patented), iu all
tlioluiprovi-d fauhiuts of the season. CHESNUT
btreet, next door to the rot oilloe. rp
REAL ESTATE AT AUCTION.
BLACK DAWK GOLD MINING COMPANY OF
MEW YORK.
AUCTION 8ALB BY TRUSTEES.
Notice in titrchTVlTen that we. the nnderitirnad.
BENJAMIN Willi K and BERIAH WALL, of the
City of Providence, la the State of Rhode Island,
nnoer ana in execution or the powers in us vfme
by the deed of tni executed to ns by said Black
llawk Gold Mining Company, bearing date en the
twenty-elghth day of Mav, A. 1). W, and duly re
corded, will sell at PUBLIC AUCTION at the Ex
change Salesroom, No. ill Broadway, New York,
on tne eievemn aay oi may, ltm, i m voiuok
noon, all the estate, lands, uuuru lode raining
tslaircs, mines, minerals, mining rights and Interest,
lanns.and premises, snaus, levels, mills ana mui
Bltes, stores, storehouses, dwellings, and other
nnuningB and structure1, water, waier-powers, runs
and falls of water, wattr-coursfs, and water-rights
and privileges, water-wheels, flumes, ditches, fur
naces, engines, steam-powers, tracts, machinery, re
torts, tools and fixtures, an all other estate an
rroperty, real, personal, or mixed, of said Black
II aw it Gold Mining Company, situate In the County
of Gilpin, in the Territory of Colorado, and con
veyed to ds in and by 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
perty, to said deed .of trust, which may be examined
at the office of W. H. Whltthighara, No. 11 Wall
treet, New York City.
Terms of sale will be made known at the time and
place of sale. 2 15 taw ts 10
I BENJAMIN WHITE, Trn.tlk(
BERIAH WALL, I Trustee.
REAL ESTATE THOMAS A SONS' SALE.
"rf'IJ On Tuesday. May 16. 1871. at 12 o'clock, noon.
win be sold at publio sale, at the Philadelphia Ex
change, the following described property, viz. :
No. 1. Three valuable buildings lots, Nob. 1881,
1333, and 133B North Seventh street. All those three
contiguous lots of ground situate on the east side
of Seventh street, north of Thompson street, Nos.
1331, 1333, and 133A; each lot containing In treat on
Seventh street 13 feet, and extending In depth lot
feet. Nos. 1331 and 1333 each suhject to a yearly
ground rent of $63, No. 1335 clear of all incum
brance. They will be sold separately or together.
Terms, cash.
No. 2. Two-story brick building and large lot, No.
1330 and 1338 Marshall street. AU that Urge and
valuable (ot of groand, with' the two-story brick
bulldiDg thereon erected, situate on the west side (
Marshall street, above Thompson street, Nos. 133S
and 1388; containing in front on Marshall street M
feet, and extending in depth 74 feet 10 lnohea. Clear
of all Incumbrance. Terms, easi.
M. THOMAS A SONS, Anot'oneers,
4 22B3t Nos. 139 and 141 8. FOURTH Street.
e ADMINISTRATRIX'S SALE ESTATE OF
Sarah L. Davis, deceased Thomas Jk Sons,
Auctioneers Very desirable Farm. 90 acres, Ner-
rlstown turnpike, Lower Providence township, Mont
gomery county, Pennsylvania, ljtf miles from Ool
legevllle Station, on the Perklomen turnpike. On
Tuesday, May 16, 1871, at 12 o'clock, noon, will be
sold at public sale, at the Philadelphia Exchange, all
that valuable farm of 90 acres, situate on the west
side ot the Norrlstown turnpike, 5 miles above Nr
rlstown, X miles from Coliegevlile Station, on the
Perklomen Railroad, aboat 21 miles from Philadel
phia. The improvements are a geutcel 2 -story
frame house; has hall In the centre, 9 rooms, etc:
large stone barn with accommodations for 23 head
horn cattle and T horses. Ice-house, spring-house,
carriage -house, and outbuildings; water ia every
Held ; fruit and shade trees ; vegetable garden ; large
front on the turnpike, with desirable building sites.
Terms Two-thirds cash. Immediate) possession.
Dr. Thomas Davis, at Coliegevlile, will convey visi
tors to the farm.
By order of Mary A. Davis, administratrix.
M. THOMAS S)NS, Auctioneers,
4 22 sit Nob. 139 and 141 S. FOURTH Street.
FIRE EXTINGUISHER. -
THE UNION FIRE EXTINGUISHER.
OYER FIVE MILLIONS (15,000,000) OF DOLLARS
WORTai OF PROPERTY IN THE UNITED
STATES HAS ACTUALLY BEEN
SAVED BY THE EXTIN
GUISHER Within the past three years ; while In Philadelphia
alone twenty-five fires, endangering property to the
extent of HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF OOL
IARS, have been extinguished during the past year
by the same means. Our Machine Is the IMPROVED
CARBONIC ACID GAS FIRE EXTINGUISHER,
and is indorsed and aand by M. ftaird & Co., Henry
Dlsfcton It Son, Benjamin Bullock's Sons, Morris,
Tanker A Co., Alan wood ft Co., Lacey & Phillips,
Bromley Brothers, S. J. Holms, Charles Eneu, John
son & Co., Rlmby & Madeira, Francis Perot ft Sons,
George W. ChUda, Pennsylvania Railroad Company,
Philadelphia and Boston Steamship Company, Phila
delphia and fcouthern Steamship Company, and
tnsny other of our leading business men and corpo
rations. CAUTION. All parties In this ccnmnnlty are
warned against buying or Belling "Extinguishers"
except those purchased from as er oar arenia, Hnder
penalty ot immediate prosecution for Infringement
Our prices bave beeu reduced, and the Machine la
now within the reach of every propertv holder.
N. B One style made specially for private resi
dences. Union Fire Extiuguliher Company
OFFICE, n 28 Btutfrp
No. 118 MARKET STREET.
BOOTS AND SHOES.
CABLE SCREW WIRE
BOOTS AND SHOES.
TRY A. PAIR,
And you will use no others. They are the most
Pliable, Durable, and Comfortable goods In the
market. Their success la unprecedented, and they
are rapidly superseding sewed and pegged work
wheiever Introduced. 14 14 futwlm
Sold by Dealers Ereryvlere.
WINDOW BLINDS, ETO.
WINDOW BLINDS,
Lace Curtains, Curtain Cornices,
HOLLAND SHADES,
PAINTED SHADES of the latest tint.
BLINDS painted and trimmed
STORE SHADES made and lettered.
Picture Cord, Tassels, Etc, Repairing promptly
attended to. ,
D. J. WILLIAMS, Jr.,
Ko. 16 NORTH SIXTH STKEET,
tTtuthsSm PHILADELPHIA.
UMBRELLAS, ETC.
UMBRELLAS, PARAQOL3,
AND
QUH UMBRELLAS.
JOSEPH FUSSELL. Manufacturer,
Nos. S and 4 North FOURTH Street.
4 81 fmwlm PHILADELPHIA.
OOAL.
R
P. OWEN ft CO..
iriLlitLKl blKLUT WilAKF,
SCHU t'LKILL. BlOlyj
ONOWDON ft RAU'S COAL DEPOT, CORNER
O D1LLWYN aud WILLOW Streeia. Lehign and
Schuylkill COAL, prepared expressly for family use
at the lowest cash prices. 1 It
fT GARDEN AND FLOWER SEEDS.
Tf. A Pull Assortment.
OUR OWN GROWTH.
COLLINS, WET11KKILL ft CO..
HKttU GROWERS,
4 4 tufa tf Nos. 1111 andim MARKET Street
2
PRIME HEATY
SLED OATH.
COLLINS, WKXllEftlLL ft CO.,
Seed Growers,
Nos. 1111 and 1113 MAUliLT Street.