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A KEW DANGER TO FRANCE.
From the X. Y, Tribune.
The severest Btrtiggle which the Versailles
Government baa t make for its salvation
must be fought out elsewhere than at Paris,
and it is not to be with insurgent French
men. There the result is assured though
delayed; and hampered by the iron circle
which the armies of Versailles and of Ger
many have conjointly thrown about them,
the Communists have but a brief existence
before them. The worst, as well as the
mightiest enemy of France, is still the Ger
mans, whom, to ner degradation and her
rum, she madly provoked to an unequal
conflict. It is a battle of the diplomatists;
and past struggles of this kind have shown
that the strongest and wisest of France's
foreign ministers, Jules Favre, cannot cope
with Frinoe Bismarck. It is those two who
sow engage at Frankfort-on-the-Main, and
the Frenchman has already suffered a re
terse which well nigh disables him.
The particulars of the interview between
the two Ministers were given in our despatches
je.-terday. Briefly stated, they are simply a
confession by M. Favre that France cannot
pay the first instalment of the indemnity,
now overdue sinoe the 1st of April, and a re
fusal by Prince Bismarck to wait any longer.
M. Favre wanted more time, and also some
of the forts on the eastern side of Paris, but
Prince Bismarck declined both favors, and
added that further delay would entail serious
consequences on the Versailles Government.
This issue of an interview solicited by M.
Thiers to remove obstacles to the negotiation
of a permanent peace is startling but not un
expected. The difficulties long sinoe de
veloped at Brussels, where the treaty is nego
tiating, are wholly of a financial charaoter.
The French want the Germans to take French
stocks as security for the indemnity, and the
Germans unhesitatingly refuse. M. Tniers
naturally withes to make it the interest of
Germany to maintain not only the govern
ment it has recognized, but the credit of the
republic; while Prince Bismarck on the other
band is reluctant to do anything which sus
tains French power. With all bis great
sagacity and foresight, the German Chaaoel
lor falls into the common error of European
diplomatists of building their own States upon
the ruins of neighboring empires, and depend
ing for prosperity and safety upon the mis
fortunes and the weakness of others. He is
not anxious to see French influenoe increase,
and will certainly do nothing to sustain
French credit. What does be care if the in
demnity is never paid ? Nothing would pro
bably suit him better than that France should
wholly fail to pay a single installment, for he
could and would foreclose the mortgage which
he holds on her by virtue of the presence of
a large army in all the provinces of any value
to Germany. He has not attempted to con
ceal what his policy would be in the event of
France's failure, now confessed, to pay in
bard gold, even though it ruins her. lie has
said he would not hesitate to use the army
and annex the oocupied provinces; in other
words, and these his own strong terms, he
would "do as the caterpillars do on a tree.
Even as they devour leaf after leaf till the tree
dies, so he will seize province after province
until France shall be no more."
Meantime every day of delay at Brussels
makes the conditions harder for France, and
increases the possibilities of her further disin
tegration. The cost of feeding the German
army of occupation alone is $300,000 a day to
Franoe, while the long-continued struggle at
Paris is still more exhausting and rapidly
depletes the treasury. The financial ques
tion with France is, in consequence of these
demands of the Germans, the most seriom
which presents itself, and the French Prosi
dent, King, or Emperor who solves it will da
serve the place he will win.
POVERTY AS A SOCIAL PROBLEM.
From the X. Y. Bun.
In a recent communication to the Liberal
Christian, Mr. Peter Cooper says that it has
been ascertained by the Citizens Association,
of which he is the President, that $5,000,000
are annually expended in this city for differ
ent charitable and philanthropio objects; and
yet he goes on to assert that this immense
sum is used in a way to make it productive of
quite as aunch harm as good. It superinduoes
, and masses together the very poverty which
it attempts to relieve. The reputation for
liberality which it has created for New York
has brought hither thousands who came to
share in the bounty of the city, and who re
main as a permanent burden on its resouroes.
Unless means are taken to oounteraot the
evil, it will beoome cnionio and perpetual.
He therefore recommends, instead of the pre
sent system, the establishment throughout
the country of labor bureaus, where laborers
seeking employment and employers seeking
laborers may be brought together, and thus
the great fountain of poverty, the want of
work, be as far as possible cut off.
Mr. Cooper's personal open-handedness is
too well known for the reply to be made to
him as it has sometimes been made to others
who have expressed the same views that he
is merely making an excuse for not giving
anything for the relief of the poor at alL
The Cooper Union, on Astor place, is a
standing witness that he can part with his
money for a charitable purpose, not in little
driblets, but in sums that to most men seem
colossal. His ntteranoes ou the subjeot must
therefore be taken to express tne convictions
of an honest mind, sincerely desirous of pro
moting the welfare of humanity; and if they
contradict popular impressions, they should,
for that very reason, receive respectful con
sideration. The simplest and most obvious method of
helping the poor is, of course, to put one's
band in one's pocket and give them the
money required to provide for their wants at
the moment. The sentiment that prompts
SEch an act is so good, aud the pleasure
arising from its gratification so pare, that it
is difficult to discourage it without seeming
to be harsh and cruel. But yet, lite a fond
parent's indulgence of a child, this momen
tary satisfaction is outweighed iu a prudent
mind by the evil consequences of which Mr.
Cooper speaks. There is in almsgiving
something so demoralizing t the recipient,
it so kills lis industry as.i self-relianoe, and
so fosters idleness and thriftlessness, to say
nothing of worse vioes, that it is a serious
question whether, on the whole, it would not
be better for the world if it were altogetuar
abolished. Of course some innocent and h )lp
lesa people would periab; hut, on the otb,9r
hand, a vast army of worthies aud undeserv
ing ones would be compelled to go to work,
and become useful members of socio ty insteii
of an incumbrance on it.
TLis Hpartan remedy U, hoever, not likely
to be epi-lud until men are either very muoU
Lttltr - x very much woree than they now are.
The best that can be done is for every person
pofisepsed of benevolent impulses to use pru
dence in gratifying them, and make sure that
be is not assisting to increase the evil to
which Mr. Cooper calls attention. Let him
ascertain beyond a doubt that the poverty
which appeals to him is the involuntary result
of misfortune, and not the natural result of
misconduct, and govern the promptings of
his heart aooordingly. This will prevent his
doing any harm; and if ic ad lition he wants
to do positive good, let him adopt the princi
ple of Mr. Cooper's recommendation, and
Erovide employment by whioh the objects of
is benevolence may put themselves beyond
the necessity of making further application
for such aid.
OUR OWN REDS.
From the Fall Mall Gazette.
When we have laughed as much as seems
right and natural at the various exhibitions
of republicanism which have been flaunted
before the country of late, the laughter will
cease and the republicanism will remain. To
us, es to most other men, these displays seom
very puerile, and their promoters ignorant
and vain to the last degree; nevertheless we
are not at all inclined to regard them with in
difference. Disdain for boyish agitators with
red rags, for grand Trafalgar Square meetings
of a hundred howling malcontents, even for
the republican clubs which are being orga
nized in various parts of the country, may
be justified by what we know of them; but
there may be a future even for these, and no
man of sense can regard that circumstance
with contempt. Republicanism is not a pecu
liar growth of French soil. There is
no nation in Europe where the spirit of re
publicanism is more prevalent than in Eng
land, as all the governance of the country
tektifiep. As might be expected, therefor,
in all our great towns there is a certain ex
treme element, which from time to time
gathers to a bead, makes a more or less for
midable display of existence, and disperses
again. To us it seems probable that this
striving, discontented Red element is about to
make another appearance, of which the new
club arrangements, and St. James' Hall riot
ings, and Nottingham fervors are the merest
beginnings. Nor is there anything to be sur
prised at in the portent. Where nothing else
grows weeds grow. The unfailing vigor of
sectarianism has given life to the discussion
of popular education, but ull political energy
of other kinds seems to have departed. Sinoe
the death of Lord Palmerston, political life
has languished more and more in the middle
and upper classes of -ooiety, till at last
it is almost extinct. We live in the
midst of great events of great and
pregnant events for ourselves as well as for
other nations; but to the mass of tolerably
educated Englishmen they have no more than
the sort of interest that was aroused by the
crimes of Mr and Mrs. Manning. Of politi
cal and patriotio interest we disoover little or
none anywhere; nothing but dnlness of per
ception and deadness of spirit. Our own
share in the history of the last nine months
is not generally understood to be of any im
portance even. There is a common impres
sion that England has taken a creditable part
in certain amiable correspondences, and that
is all that is commonly known or supposed in
the matter. Ybiit can be more natural, at a
time of such dulness and impotenoe of spirit
among what fire called the governing classes,
than the gradual reappearance on the scene
of onr own Beds? Their turn has plainly
come again, under snoh cirou instances; they
do but fill the political vacuum. -
And there are several reasons why the re
appearance of these agitators might have
been expected under almost any cirouui
stances. Republicanism is the natural gro wth
of towns; its most numerous and ardent dis
ciples are the poor of cities. Sinoe the col
lapse of its last demonstrations in 1818, the
population of all onr great manufacturing
towns, of nil our various "seats of industry,
has largely increased. Free trade, and
the natural attractions of great cities for
the surrounding population, have rmde
enormous additions to the classes whioh,
being very poor, are prone to discontent;
and, herding together with their little
miseries made more grievous by city squalor,
freely breed a keen spirit of subversion.
True, we have heard little of this spirit for
nearly a generation; but it is impossible to
doubt that it exists, and has never ceased to
exist, in a more or less potential shapo. All
our towns are not as Nottingham is; but the
Nottingham spirit is to be found in every
similar community in the kingdom, and is
everywhere capable of expansion. And for
the reasons we have just stated, when it
does again expand it will be seen to fill a
larger space in the country, to oooupy and
animate a greater number of minds, than will
compare with previous demonstrations of a
like nature.
It is further to the purpose that of late
years a more considerable quota to the ranks
of extreme radicalism has been made by
young men of education and ideas. Ten
years ago, it wonld have been harder to find
two minds to match with Shelley's (we speik
of the political Bide of Shelley) than to fin i
twenty now, amongst men of the same class
and similar breeding. We are not thinking
now of Mr. Auberon Herbert, whose sins
have been enormonsly magnified. Nor are
we thinking ol the Comtist agitators, though
certainly they are not t be omitted from tne
account; since they make known to as a
spirit as reckless, as cool-blooded, as well
leavened with political hate, as unscrupulous
in the machination of turbulance. as ever
possessed the revolutionaries of any age or
nation all which we shall see fully displayed
ii malign cnance gives them that asoan
dancy over working men whioh thay
strive so nara tor. But apart from these emi
nently calculating fanatics, who though vigor
ous are few and propagate their kind slo wly,
a largely increasing number of well-educated,
we.i-irainea, aouve-minaea young men are
eager democrat!, republicans, revolutionists
It is the only political growth in the classes to
which they belong. We cannot believe that
this signifies nothing, or that nothing will
come of it as one of many symptoms of a fresh
republican or revolutionary "innings.
Another important consideration for those
who think it worth while to discuss the nut
ter is not the vast extension of the suffrage
made in 1807, though that is of great imp3rt-
ance too but tne way in whioh class poli
tics are now cultivated by working men.
About Imperial politics they seem to
cart, no more than the rest of the population
just now rather less perhaps. They seem
to bave discharged their minds of all the
superstition which beheld a panaoea for ig
norance and poverty in the ballot, triennial
Parliaments, pay m ant of members, and
household suffrage. Whatever may bave
been said at the tiuie in prints like the Tele
(jrajih and Jieynoldt' Newspaper about "the
great heart of the people" and "the millions
in tbeir wrath," the working classes had no
toriously very little interest in a Reform bill
which gave tbem an overwhelming suffrage.
How many regard the ballot now as a great
woiking-man's question, or care about it at
aJl? Very few indeed, and fewest where
there is most intelligence and most
manliness of character. , It may be that
before the long-coveted constitutional power
wan given to them by the Reform bill, they
had arrived at a belief that direct parliamen
tary machinery was no longer needod to press
their wants and wishes upon sooiety at large.
Times have changed. It never enters into
the dreams of a minister now that he may be
obliged to make new peers in order to ooeroe
or outnumber the rest. The House of Lords,
as if by established rule, surrenders to any
considerable and well-ascertained preponde
rance of sentiment in the House of Com
mons. The House of Commons is vividly
aware of it; and there is a consciousness in
what is called "the country" of a similar under
fitandingbetween that assembly and itself. It is
a less definite understanding at present than the
other, but it promises to beoome equally
vivid by-and-by. That the active members
of the working classes, a great mass, tho
roughly rely upon its operation, we do not at
all doubt. Indeed, they are taught to do so
by authority. The dogma of the day
in politics, the doctrine of our great
Liberal minister end of all our little
ones is, that the temper of the
nation is its wisdom its wish, law. "Pres
sure from without Is elevated into the best
of Arguments. What this practically comes
to is, parliamentary sanction of the republi
can idea. As the House of Lords is regularly
controlled now by the Commons, so, and in
precisely the same way, the Commons ac
knowledges the control of pressure from with
out; in other words, it more and more lends
itself to popular agitation as its natural pro
prietorial machinery. Therefore it is not to
be wondered at if the masses linve ceased
their efforts to operate in Parliament as
their aim was in the Chartist agitation and
now more hopefully operate upon it. The
difference is great; and the difference is all
ou the radical, republican, or revolutionary
side.
And coincident with this significant and
settled change in treir mode of operation,
there is, as we have already said, an equally
significant and settled change in the ends
they woik for. No doubt the poor and hard
worked have always held first in view the
ft melioration of their own lot; what they have
most longed for is ease and oonifovt what
they bave most resented is the daily spectacle
of unequal fortune. But till lately, mixed up
with these prime aspirations and resentments
have existed others not more natnral, but
far more noble. There was resentment that
in the governance of their country they had
no part or lot ambition to have a voice, too,
in all that concernei its prosperity and its
glory. However rough and vague these ideas
may bave been, they were houorable; they
were wholesome; and being brought into
practical operation they make all the differ
ence between true high republican govern
ment and the sordid folly of socialistic com
munities. The perpetuation of such ideas
might very well have bred republicans, but
they would not have produced Reds. Now
we do not for a moment suppose that any
thing like the Red element in French radical
ism exists among us. But these more whole
some, national, patriotio aspirations seem to
have disappeared; and that is undoubtedly
a step toward Red Republicanism. We hear
of several things which the working classes
now "go for," steadily; reconsideration of pro
perty in land; emancipation from the tyranny
of capital; association for lightening labor,
and for taking in the shape of wages a larger
share of the profits of industry; but of very
much that was included in the cry for a voice
in the conncils of the nation we no longer
hear. Interest in imperial legislation aud the
conduct of our affairs as one of t be family of
nations is quite subordinated. There is no
excitement about anything that does not im
mediately bear upon labor, and the fruits of
labor, and the social condition of them
selves the struggling mass of poor
people. We do not complain of this,
though we are sorry for it: for thus
it seems that we have reached or are
fast nearing the point at which country ends
and class begins: in other words, the point at
which the radical develops into the revolu
tionary. The significance of these gradual
and obtcure changes is brought out when we
consider that our new reformers even pass
beyond the country. They are in oonferenoe
and alliance with similar aspiranis in France,
in Germany, in almost every nation in Ba
rer e. Nobody could have supposed ten years
ago how rapid and how solid would become
the international relations of working men,
everywhere seeking class interests alone;
nor have many people now a true concep
tion of the facts and probabilities in that
matter. And their importance is by no
meanu diminished by what is going on in
France, or what is likely to go ou there for
years to come.
These, then, are some of the reasons why
we think the republican agitations of whioh
we hear so much just now are not to be dis
regarded. We have no space to recapitulate
them, but if the reader will do so for himself,
he will find them somewhat formidable,
though none of them load us to look for im
mediate or very striking effects. Others yet
might be cited; one, for instance, which a
loyal Minister would not fail to press home
to the Queen, circumstances being what they
are. It is a poor trick of concealment whioh
would hide the fact that for a good many
years now the strong sentiment of love and
loyalty well earned by the monarch has been
waning among the masses, that is. No
advantage so enormous could be more easily
regained; of that we have a test in
the reception of the Queen's books some
time ago, and in the affection universal in the
country for the Princess of Wales. Bat it is
-waning; and we venture to 6ay, einoe nobody
else will say it, that to lose lightly what
might so easily be held fast is unfortunate.
That anything can be done exoept in this way
to check or to anticipate republican agitation,
we doubt. As we have already said, aoooin
pushed legislation favors it; the sentiment
which prevails in the Government and in the
House of Commons favors it; while as to the
superior classes (we are obliged to use some
such phrase) all political life seems to have
died out of them. Like those admirable
blouses who angle in the Seine while bomb
shells fly over their heads, our gentry and
onr bourgeoisie look up now and then to see
what the Government is doing or what it is
suffering tranquilly fishiog all the while for
their own proper interests and private plea
sures. If we would know what that Btate of
things may end in, we have only to look over
to Paris, to Trance and contemplate the
bourgeoisie and gentry there.
THE DANGERS OF THE ENGLISH
MONARCHY.
From the X. Y. Time.
New political organizations in England are
usually received at first with silent contempt,
and, after they gain a little strength, with
noisy ridicule. Some years generally elapse
before they are thought worthy of serious
discussion. These were the stages through
which the Corn Law agitators, and the advo
cates of Reform bills, and of many other
"new-fankd" movements had to pass, and
the recently-formed Republican party doubt
less expected no better fate. It is remark
able, however, how soon that party has passed
through the first two stages of its history,
and reaohed the third. The most influential
papers in England have ceased to laugh
at it, and treat it as one of the signs of
the times' which cannot be too gravely
considered. The J'all Mall Gazette, admits
tfcat "wholesome, national, patriotic aspira
tions seem to have disappeared, and that is
undoubtedly a step toward Red Republican
ism. " The Spectator says: "A grave, sim
ple, and slightly stern Commonwealth is onr
ideal for England." The Economist, one of
the ablest journals in existence, remarks:
"Our objection to Mr. Auberon Herbert's
fp eech at Nottingham, in favor of appljiog
the elective principle to the head of the
State, is not its audacity, but its premature
ness." All this indicates a tone of discussion
very different from that whioh, ouly a few
years ago, would have been thought appro
priate to such a subject. But even now it
may be doubted whether the full significance
of the present discontent in England is real
ized by her public writers and statesmen.
It would require a volume instead of a
column for the discussion of the causes which
have given rise to the dissatisfaction now
shown by the working classes in England. In
its latest manifestation it is clearly directed
chiefly towards the throne, and although it is
not the fashion in England to recognize even
the existence of disloyalty, there can be no
doubt about that sentiment being very ac
tively at work. This ought not to sur
prise any ono. For some years past the
reigning sovereign has been going the
shortest way to estrange from the crown
the affections of the people. It is common
to say that she is a "good woman," a "pious
mother," and so forth, and it may all ba said
with a great deal of truth. But in these
days something more is required of a monarch
besides the domestic virtues aud a regular
attendance at church. Queen Victoria has
rendered the monarchy in England a mere
abstraction, and it is hard for people to love
and reverence abstractions. She has hidden
herself from her people in cold austerity, and,
exceptj by sending an occasional check for
three guineas to some poor woman who has
suddenly found herself blessed with three
children, she has given very little sign of her
sympathy wilh their joys or troubles. The
English people would forgive anything
in their sovereign sooner than this studied
seclusion. Soruo of the Queen's predeces
sors have been very bad monarchs, but
Ihey were popular because of their win
ning nmnners, their gny demtanor, the ease
and pleasure with which they went about
among their subjects. These were the quali
ties which caused the people to pardon the
innumerable faults of Charles II, aud ren
dered him to popnlar that at his death, as
Lord Macaulay Bnys, there was not a house
maid in the country that did not put on a
piece of crspefroru respect to his memory.
George IV was generally a favorite for the
ssme reason. The Queen is a much
better ruler than either Charlos II
or George IV, but in a tronbled and dan
gerous epoch, when, as her husband said, "re
presentative government is on its trial," she
has forgotten her duties to the people, lost
her hold upon them, and placed the future of
her house in the most serious peril. James II
seemed much more certain of perpetuating
the reign of the Stuarts, when he came to the
throne, than the Prince of Wales does of
keeping the House of Hanover in power in
England.
It is specially unfortunate for the English
people to whom a revolution could not fail
to biing many calamities that at such a
time nsthis tbey can hope nothing from any
member of the reigning family. The death
of the Queen, instead of holding out the
prospect of a change for the better, will
greatly strengthen the party which now
clamors for a republic. The heir to the
crown seems totally unable to understand
the questions of the day, the temper of the
people, or the times in whioh he lives.
People who know him best shake their heads
in despondency when his name is mentioned.
The loyalty of the people may put him on
the throne, but he will never have sense or
prudence enough to keep himself there.
While his father lived there was some hope
for him; but since the Prince Consort's death
he has led a life of frivolity and indulgence.
He divides his time between the stable, the
bilhard table, and the bar-room. Such a man
as this is Bcaroely fitted to conduct a great
nation through a period of agitation and
trouble. It may, of course, be said that Eng
land would lose very little by the downfall of
the reigning house and in one sense that is
quite trre. Parliamentary government,
brought to high perfection, and an admirably
balanced Constitution, enriched by the expe
rience of centuries, have done much for Eng
land; but the House of Hano
ver has added little to its honor. Its
princes have not, indeed, like the two last
Kings of the Stuart race, sold themselves
for money to rival powers, and made England
a vassal of France; but the line has furnished
examples of almost every form of vice, mean
ness, and folly. It lost England its best
colonies, and lost them in the most besotted
and disastrous manner sowing seeds of dis
coid between people who might always have
respected each other, even though they lived
under different forms of government. No
member of that House has ever been able to
atone for the unpardonable and irreparable
stupidity and blindness of George III.
lint to change the succession to the crown
is no light matter. It could not be aooom-
lifahed without a revolution, and it would be
ong before a settled government could again
be established. The men who are now ex
hibiting red flags at publio meetings can
scarcely be deemed safe persons to intrust
with the direction of national affairs. The
peace aid order whioh bave for so many
years been enjoyed in England must be
ascribed in a great measure to the wisdom
and fiimness of ministers belonging to a typs
which now semis to be extinct. Mr. Glad
stone is a good man for a second place, but
iu his bands England is falling to pieces. He
has neither the tact to anticipate the just re
quirements of the people, nor the courage to
resist hull us demands. Under snoh cir
cumstances, we may 6xpcot to see the new
revolution make rapid progress.
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plus Exchange
All that very elegant country-seat and f rra, com
priPlnjffO acres of land, situate on the westerly side
of the Philadelphia and Wilmington turnpike and on
two private roads, three tronts. about 9 miles below
Chester. 8 above Wilmington, 83 from Philadelphia,
half mile oi the river Delaware, and about 8 squares
from Bellevue Station, on the Philadelphia, Wil
mington and Baltimore Hail road. The improve
ments are an t tenant and spacious three-st.iry atone
mansion, main building 49 by 49 feet, extreme length
91 fet and circular piazza and portico around three
sides of it; constructed on the castellated style of
architecture, r-elug built in the most substantial
luanner throughout; has large hull In the centre,
saloon parlor, conservatory, dining-room, library,
kitchen, seullerv, store and china room, and fire
proof safe on the first floor; 4 commodious clumbers
(ea h having a bath-room and marble-top stationary
washataud, hot and cold watrr, water-closet) on
the rTcond floor; 4 chambers S bath-rooms, and 8
water-tan' (which are supplied by 8 hvdra ilic rtm
one of the tanks will contain 1-toc gallons ol spring
water cn the third floor, and an observatory above.
PalcoDies, with windows opening to them from all
the rooms; private stairway, numerous closets fin.
eluding cedar and wlne),stnlned glass windows mar
ble mantels, walls hud rollings treauMfull? frescoed,
handsomely papered and painted, ga (wM,t Innd-
noD'e uxiureH) water inrougnout, o batn ronras,
watei-cloeeU, bell-colls, 8 furnaces, cooking range,
eic.
A genteel !!-8tory stone farm house, two-nory
ptone tenant house, stone stable a id carr ai?o house
(rvorman Btjle), stalls for five horses; stone ice
hoiine, tilled, vlth a kct plug-room for provisions;
irame tool house, atone and frame barn, gns house,
built of stone, complete arrangement for making
pas, the operation very simple; frame chicken
hoiiRe, 0 a3r s of woodland, a rivulet of pure spring
water runs through It, aim collected by a small dam,
and carried t'iii f- et through lrn plpns lnt.o the ram
box, the surplus (lowing Into the pond : also a Hah
peno, beautiful atone wall on the turnpike rront,
rapped with North river flagging; very elegant
Osage orange hedge, forms a beautiful curve around
the front lawn; the gravel drives ab iut haif-mile la
length, ranging from 10 to 83 feet wide; are thor
oughly made, paved with Wee stones and covered
wi' h broken stones aud gravel, and nndergroaad
drainage; large vegetable gardeu, beautiful la wn,
iu the centre of which is a handnome Iron summer
house, eurroonded by beautirul trees; abundance of
fruit trees, apple orchard, etc; also, 4l beautiful
atd weu-growD forest and evergreen trees on the
sides of the drives and around the mansion.
This pn perty was built by the late liansoti Robin
son, for Ms own occupancy, and no expanse has
been spared to make It a very elegant and finished
country feat, all the materials being of the best, and
the grounds beautirully laM onr. The mansion is
It cut d in the centre of an extensive lawn, elevated
ouer Suo feet above the river Delaware, and com
mands a beautiful and extended view up and down
the river and surroundings.
The location Is especially healthy. Photographs,
plans, and pamphlets, containing more mil particu
lars, in ay tin seen at the Auction Kooms, PhlUdel
phla, or kt the oillee of Samuel M. Harrington, Esq.,
Attorney for the Executrix, second story, building,
Seventh onrt Market streets, Wilmington, Delaware,
where any one wishing to view the premises can get
a conveyance. Trains leave Philadelphia at 8 -30 and
11 A. N., and 8 80, 5, a d 7 P. M. for Bellevue Sta
tion. The house aud premises will be ready for In
spection at all times. On Tuesdays and Fridays of
e. th week a carriage will be at Bellevue Station on
the nrrlval or 11 A. M. and 3 30 P M. trains from
Philadelphia, to convey visitors to the property.
Terms of Sale. Two-thirds of the purchase money
may remain on the premises, to be secured, with
Interest, etc., by bond and mortgage, with policy of
tire Insurance transferred as collateral.
Immediate possession. 11006 to be paid at time
Of S&lfi
M. THOMAS ft SONS, Auctioneers,
4 IS B Bt Hob. 189 and 141 & JfOUUTU Street.
ffif ADMINISTRATRIX'S SALE ESTATE OF
iii Sarah U Davis, deceased. Thomas ft Mons,
Auctioneers Very desirable Farm. 90 acres, Nor-
rifetowntumplke, Lower Providence township, Mont
gomery county, Pennsylvania, l)tf miles from Uol
legevllle Station, on the Perkiomen turnpike. On
Tuesday, May 6, 1ST1, at 18 o'clock, noon, will be
sold at puhllc sale, at the Philadelphia Exchange, all
that valuable farm of 90 acres, situate on the west
side of the Ncrrlstowu turnpike, 5 miles ab ve Nor
rlKtown, 1)4 miles from Uoliegevllle Station, on the
Pel klomrn Railroad, about 8t miles from Philadel
phia. The improvements are a genteel 8)tf-story
frame house; has hall in the centr , 9 rooms, etc.;
la-ge stone barn with accommodations for 83 head
born cattle and T Dorsea Ice-house, spring-house,
carriage -house, and outbuildings; water la every
field ; fruit and shade trees; vegetable garden; large
front on the turnpike, with desirable building sites.
Terms Two-tbirda cash. Immediate possession.
Dr. Thomas Davis, at CoUegevule, will convey visi
tors to the farm.
By order of Mary A. Davis, administratrix.
M. T1IOMA8 ft SONS, Auctioneers,
4 22iU Not. 139 and 141 a FOURTH Street.
fS REAL ESTATE THOMAS A SONjP S VL&
13 t"1 Tuesday, May 10, 18T1, at 13 o'clock, noon,
V.H1 be told at publ c sale, at the Philadelphia Ex
change, tne following described property, via. :
No. 1. Three valuable building lota, No. 13.11,
1333, and 13?r North Seventh street. All tluue three
contiguous lot of ground Htua'e on the east sulo
of Seventh street, north of Thompson Btreet, Nos.
1331, 133.H, aud 1335; each lot conuinlug m front on
Seventh street IS feet, and extending la depth 100
feet. Nob. 1331 and 1333 each subject to a yearly
f:roucd rent of 863, No. 1333 clear of all lncum
iracce. They will be Bold separately or together.
Ttrais, cash.
No. 2. Two-story brick bntldlng and large lot, Nos.
1336 and 1838 Matshall street. All that large and
valuable lot of ground, with the two-story brick
building thereon erected, situate on the west aide of
Marshall street, above Thompson street, Nog. 1335
and 1338; containing In front on Marshall street 88
feet, and extending in depth 74 feet 10 Inches. Clear
of all incumbrance. Terms, cast.
U. THOMAS ft HONS, Auctioneers,
4 82a3t Noa. 139 and 141 a FOURTH Btreet
fREAL ESTATE TIIOMA8 ft SONS' SALE.
2 Thrce-storv Brick Dwellings, No. 1017 and
S. Twelfth street, below Camilla Btreet. On
TueBday, May lc, 1871, at 18 o'clock, noon, will ba
sold at public rale, at the Philadelphia Exchange,
the following described properties, viz. :
No. 1. All that tbree-Btory orlck messuage, with
two-story back building and lot of ground, situate
cn the east side of Twelfth street, 10 fet south of
Camilla street, below Carpenter Btreet, No. 1017;
containing in trout 16 feet, and extending in depth
73 feet to a 3-feet wide alley, with the privilege
thereof.
No. 8. All that three-story brick messuage, with
two-story back building and lot cf ground, sitaate
en the east side of Twelfth Btreet, adjoining the
above, being No. 10)9; containing in front on Twelfth
street 15 feet 7 Inches, and extending in depth 73
feet to a 8 feet wide alley, with the privilege thareof.
M. THOMAS & SONS, Auctioneers,
4 29 83t Nos. 1M and 141 8. FOURTH Street.
PUBLIO BALE THOMAS fc SONS, Auc
tioneers. Two and a half-story Frame Cot-
uiic corner of Washington aud Cake streets, Capa
Island, New Jersey, 81 by loo feet. On Tuesday, May
16,1671, at 12 o'clock, noon, will be Bold at publio
tale, at the Philadelphia Exchange, all that 9tf
Btory frame cottage, witii two-story back building
and lot of ground, Mluate at the cot ner of W ashing
ton and Cake Bt reels, Cape Island, New Jersey; the
lot containing in front on- Washington Btreet 81 feet,
and extending in depth 100 feet. The house U new
and well built, and convenleutly arranged ; excellent
water, etc. Terms Cah. For further particulara
f pplv to Mrs. Sarah L. Snyder, on the promises.
Jl. 'IDOHAS & SONS, Auctioneers,
4 29 est Nos. 139 and 141 b. PoUK I h Street.
REAL ESTATE -THOMAS fc. SONS' SALE.
. . . . . i .i U I . . . . 1 qin.c.. li D..1..W .-j ... .
Dwelling, No. 173i 8. Fift Btreet, below Morria
fcTien t v luesuay, ma; jo, isu, rl ociocx,
noon, will be sold at public sale, at the rhiladelpbla
Fxclian(!6, all that lot of ground, with the three-story
brick ineamuge, with two-story brick back building
thereon erected, situate cn the east Bide of Fifth
Street. 816 feet 6 Inches south of MorrW street, First
ward, No. 1733, opposite depot of KUtU and Sixth
Streets rasenger railway; containing iu front ou
Fifth street 15 feeK, and extending ia depth 6 feet
9 inches. Terms iliWB may remain oa mortgage.
M. THOMAS ft SONS. Auctioneers,
4 16MCA18 Nob. 139 and 141 f. FOURTH Street
REAL ESTATE THOMAS ft SONS' SiLB
Three-story brick dwelling. No. 216 Fraukim
ktieei. above Diamond Btree'. on Tuesday. May 16,
lir7l, at 18 o'clock, noon, will be Bold at puollo sale,
at the Philadelphia Exchange, all that three story
brick messuage, with Mauaard roof, aud two-at ry
tack building, Bt'uate ou toa west lde of Franklin
eireet, north of Diamond stret, No. 8164; the lot
contalnlug la front on Franklin street 14 feet a
Int heB, aud extending in depth 70 feet to a 4 feet
v.lde ailey, with the free use and privilege of the
same Das the ga Introduced, bath, hot and cold
water oootlng r-nif. waah-pave, eta Term, cash.
' m. THOMAS k. HON, Auctioneers,
4 20 11613 Noo. D9 and 111 B. FOUR I'll btreet.
REAL ESTATE AT AUOTION.
BLACK HAWK GOLD MININtf COM PANT OV
NEW TDK. -
AUtmoN SALK BY TRUSTERS.
Notire hereby given that we, the undersigned,
BENJAMIN WHITE and liKRlAli WALL, of the
City of Providence, in the State of Rhode Island,
under and in execution of the powers tn us vested
by the deed of trust executed to as by said Black
Ilawk Oold Mining -npany, bearing date on the
twenty-eighth ry of toay. A. D. ISBfi, and duly re
corded, will ell at PUBLIC AUCTION at the Ex
change Salesroom, No. ill Broadway, New York,
on he eleventh day of May, 1871, at 13 o'clock
boon, all the estate, lands, quart lode raining
elulms, mines, minerals, mining rights and interests,
lands and prr misca, shafts, levels, mi is and mlil
Bites, stores, storehouses, dwellings, and other
buildings and structures, water, water-powers, runs
and falls of water, water-courses, and wtr-rtghta
and privileges, water-wheels, flumes, dltchea, fur
naces, engines, steam-powers, tracts, machinery, re
torts, tools and fixtures, and all other estate and
iroperty, real, personal, or mixed, of said Black
Ilawk Gold Mining Company, situate In the County
of Gilpin, tn the Territory of Colorado, and con
veyed to us in and by the deed or trust aforesaid,
aud 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 bo examined
at the oftlce of W. H. Whltttagham, No. 11 Wall
street, New York City.
Terms of Bale will be made known at the time and
place of Bale. 2 15 taw US 10
BENJAMIN WHITE, m-....
BL'KIAIl WALL, f TrmiUHiB,
BAFE DEPOSIT COMPANIES. .
THE PENNSYLVANIA COflPAffY
FOR INSTJBANCES ON LIVES AND
OH ANTING
ANNUITIES.
Office No. 301 WALNUr Sireei.
INCORPORATED MARCH 10, 1813.
CHARTER PERPETUAL.
i'AIMTAIi $1,000,000.
gUEPLUS UPWARDS OF $750,000.
Receive money on deposlt,returjili on demand.
for which interest Is allowed.
nd under appointment by Individuals, corpora
tlons, and court, act as
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GUARDIANS, ASSIGNEES, t'O M I TTEK4,
RFC HI VERS, AO "NTS, COLLECTORS, ETC.
And for the faithful performance of Its daitea aa
such all lta assets are liable.
OHAltLES DUTILH, PaesIdenU
William B. "ill, Actuary.
DIRECTORS.
Charles Dntllh, Joshua B. Llpplncott,
Henry J. Williams, ! Charles II. Hutchinson.
WilllHm S. Vaux. iLiudley Smyth.
John R. Wncherer, jO-eorge A. wood,
Adoiph E. Done, lAutltony J. Autelo,
Alexander Diddle, Charles S. Lewis,
Henry Lewis.
NEW PUBLIOATIONS.
ZELL'w KNOYULOPBDIA, DIOITONRV AND
OAZETTKAR la NOW CO UPLETE, IN
59 PAbTS, AT 50 CENTS PfiK PART.
ZELL'S KEW DESCRIPTIVE HAND
Atlas of the World,
First two Parts now ready, to be complete In 85
Farts, at SO cents each. Experienced & gents Wanted.
T. ELLW00D ZELL, Publisher,
Noa. IT and 19 South SIXTH Street,
8 23 tntSm PHILADELPHIA.
ALBERT BAHNE S. TUB PAMPHLET
containing the Memorial Services oa the occa
sion of the death of Rev. Albert Barnes, with tae
Serrron tf Rev. Derrick Johnson, l. D., can be ob
tained, price 40 cents, at
PRESBYTEKIAN BOARD OF" PUBLICATION,
60BtDtn 8t No. 1334 CHES.tUT Street
FIRE EXTINQUISHER.
THE UNION FIDE EXTING JfSHER.
OVER FIVE MILLIONS (85,000,000) O? DOLLARS
WORTO OF PROPEHTY IN THE UNITED
8TATES HAS ACTUALLY BEEN
SAVED BY TUB EXTIN
GUISHER Within the pust three years ; while In Philadelphia
alone twenty-live fires, endangering property to the
extent Of HUNDREDS OK THOUSANDS OF t( I.
LARS, have been eittnguished daring the past year
by the same means. Onr Machine Is thelMPROVEO
CAitBONIC ACIO OAS FIRE EXTINGUISH K,
and IB Indorsed and used by M. Baird & Co., Henry
Dl siiton k. Son, Benjamin Bullock's Nona, Morria,
Taaker A Co., Alan wood A Co., Lacey fc Phillips,
Bromley Brothers, S. J. Holms, Charles Eneu, John
sec &CO., RiHiby A Madeira, Francis Perot A Soua,
George W. Childs, Pennsylvania Railroad Tompany,
Philadelphia and Boston Steamship Company, Phila
delphia and honthern Steamship Company, and
a. any other of our leading business men and corpo
ration a.
CAPTION. AH parties In this community are
warned against buying or selling "Extinguishers"
except thohe porch ased from ns or onr agents, ander
penalty of immediate proseoutiou for Infringement
Onr prices have beeu reduced, and the Machine la
now within the reach of every property bolder.
N. B. One style made specially for private resi
dences. Union Fire Extinguiiher Company
OFFICE, Utssiatfrp
No. 118 MARKET BTREET.
WHISKY, WINE. ETQ.
CAR&TAIR8 A McCALL,
"Bo. 126 Walnut and SI Granite Sti.,
, IMPORTERS OF
Brandies, Wlnei, Gin, Olive Oil, Etc,
WHOLESALE DEALERS IN
PURE RYE WHISKIES,
IN BOND AND TAX PAID. 8M
EDUOATIONAL.
JDOBUILL SCHOOL
MEHCIIANTVILLE, N. J.,
Four Miles from Philadelphia,
The session commenced MONDAY, April
isn.
For circulars apply to
Bev. T. W. OATTKLU
OOAU.
I.
P. OWEN A CO.,
COAL DEALERS.
FILBERT ST BEET WHARF.
BCHUYLKILL. SlOlyt
ONOWDON A RAU'S COAL DEPOT, CORN EH
O DILLWYN and WILLOW Streets. Lehigh and
Schuylkill COAL, prepared expressly for family nae
at. the lowest caah prices. 1 IS
HATS AND OAPS.
rrw WAR B URTON'S IMPROVED VENTILATED
jand eaay-fluing DRESS HATS (patented), tn all
tt.e improved fashions of the season, OLLESNUT
btreet. next door to the poet Office. rpl
Corn Fxchange Bag Manufactory.
JOHN T. BAILEY,
N 2. Cor. WATER and MARKET Sts.
ROPE AND TWINE, BAGS and BGQINO, for
r tain, Flour, Salt, feu per FhoBphate of Lime, Bone
tiat,Ktc ,
Large and BtraH GUNNY BAGS constantly on?
bund. AlbO, WOOL BACKS.
COTTONTAIL DUCK."riCAVAS, OF AIM
numbers aud brands. Tent, Awniiig, Trunk
ud Wagon-cover Duf k, Alao, Paper MAnafao.
Hirers' Drier Fbtts, iroM tnirty to seventyu
M-ha.. WK Paulina, "ffSk
K0 II CHUKCif Wreaf (0-l ftuxeaV