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MONDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1871
Steam Valley Cno officc), TO Trout Run, 10
miles and back, once week.
Leave Liberty Saturday at A. NJ;
Arrive at Trout Run by ~ NJ.

Steam Valley (no ofiice) TO Trout Run, 10
miles and back, once o week
Leave Liberty Saturday at A. M.
Arrive at Trout Run by IL NJ.
Leave Trout Run Saturday at ! p. NJ.
Arrive at Trout Run by p nj. .....
Proposals invited for more frequent Sc ice.
-I1-r0 NOTES.
Proposals must be to carry the mail with "cele-
rty certainty, and security using the terms OF the
law, and they must be guaranteed by two respon-
siDle persons, certified TO as such by postmaster
or Judge OF court OF record.
NO pay will be made for trips not performed, and
for each OF such omissions not satisfactorily eX-
planned three times the pay OF the trip may be
deducted. For arrivals so far behind time as to
break connection with depending mails, and not
sufhciently excused one-f0urtn the compensation
for the trip is subject to forfeiture, Fines will be
explained, for negecting to take the mail from or
into post office; for suffering 1t to be injured, de-
stroyed, robbed lost; and for refusing, after de-
mand to convey the mail as frequently as the con-
tractor runs, or is concerned In running vehicles on
the route. The Postmaster-General may annul the
the instructions of the Department He may alter
the schedule OF departures ana arrivals, and also
order an increase OF service by allowing therefor
pro rata increase on the contract pay. He may also
curta or discontinue the service in whole in part
at proportiopate decrease Of pay, allowing full
pensation on the amount OF service dispensed with,
and pro rata compensation for the service retained
and continued. Bids should be addressed to the
"Second Assistant Postmaster-General, super
scribed Proposals, State Of Pennsylvania" and
sent by mail I ~
For forms of proposals. ETC., and other Informs
ton, advertisement OF october 81, 1867, and Of
this date, in pamphlet form, at the principal post
offces. JOHN A. j. CRESWELL,
8 cod tM1 Postmaster General.
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THE FRENCH LAND SYSTEM.

PETITE CULTURE, AND HOW 1T HAS coNTRI-
BUTED TO THE OVERTHROW OF FRANCE.
II has been suggested, with great proba-
bility, says q contemporary, that one of the
most potent causes of the present collapse of
France may be traced to the effects of the
system of land proprietorship known as
petite culture. 1t will be remembered that
when the Constituent Assembly met in 1889
one of its greatest tasks was to deal with the
land question. The public domain had set
tied down into the hands of few corpora
tions--the Church and King and of a
few individuals-the n06tesse The poor
man, struggling for subsistence, had to pay
the taxes te support the state machinery,
while, in its excess of selfshness, the real
property of the nation was untaxed. The
legislators of the great revolution made short
work of this system. They destroyed it
utterly-not vestige of that feudalism hay
ing since appeared in France. The division
of the land among the children of the house
hold in equal shares was the great blow frem
which primogeniture never recovered. When
the ''Reign of Terror" expatriated the mobiles
the lands reverted to actual settlers, for the
sale was little more than nominal subject
to this legal restriction. Every man having
his own land to live upon has been tried in
France for eighty years, and its effect, if not
quite as horrible as the old selfish policy of
less disastrous. Opponents of Mr.
Mill, who favors this system for
Ireland, say that the small proprietor, in his
continuous struggle for bread, ceases to be
man and sinks into the farmer. All his
thoughts are turned on self. He has no time
for books education even appears in his
thankless task of clod- breaking of little use to
him, Hence the stolid ignorance of the
French peasantry. He never looks into the
affairs of the nation, his own taxing all his
energies, except to vote for any tyrant that
promises to keep him in peace. There is
another consequence of this system; it cannot
develop leaders. To produce leader of
men, the enlarged views which can only result
from the management of great affairs are ne
cessary. These are wholly emasculated by
petite culture. That such views as these run
counter to our democratic prejudices is GER
tain, but the question is, can we afford to
slight facts?
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The United States Circuit Court in Boston
on petition of the author, Samuel j. Muscraft
of Ohio, has granted an injunction on the repre-
sentation of the Drummer Boy, or Battle of
Shiloh" except by payment of such a sum as
may satisfy the author.
The latest thing ia the boot and shoe line at
Boston is crimped calf boot, the calf-skin
tanned with the hair on, and made up with the
hair outside, tipped with alligator leather.
Ladies' boots of the same style have also been
made.
There are now only 1900 volumes in the
Louisiana State Library. There were once
about GO, OOO 1t was formerly located in Baton
Rouge, and by the removal to New Orleans
many valuable works were either lost or stolen,
and those remaining suffered greatly by trans
portation. -
"A band of 500 masked men, on horses took
ten negroes from the Union county, s. O., jail
on Sunday night, shot six OF them, hanged two,
and disposed of the other two in some unkpown
manner. The negroes were accused OF murder
and arson, and the pretext for slaughterlng them
is that they were to ibe removed TO Columbia
under a writ of hGbeds corpus.
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DomestIo Affairs.


The political difficulties in Arkansas, in
stead of abating, are increasing.
The Bergen Tunnel Railway difficulty
was amicably settled on Saturday night.
Grand preparations have been made for
the carnival that commences in Washington
to-day.
General j. B. Magruder, noted officer
in the late Rebel service, died yesterday, at
Galveston, Texas.
The Indians of Arizona continue their de-
predations, and an armed force is about to
proceed against them.
"A highwayman stopped builder, named
j. Boyd Henry, near Cincinnati, on Saturday
night, and relieved him of $1S, 200.
The Oakland Congregational Church, To-
Gated about five miles south of Chicago, was
destroyed by wind storm on Saturday
afternoon.
The Joint Committee on Finance of the
two houses of the Virginia Legislature have
determined on plan for the payment of in
terest on what is known as the old debt of the
State.
The bodies of Simmons the engineer of
the locomotive, and the stranger who was
riding with him at the time of the accident
on the Hudson River Railroad, were recs-
vered yesterday morning.
"A rumor comes from Tamaqua, Pa, that
miners and others interested in the coal busi-
ness intend to institute proceedings against
several carrying companies under the statute
for conspiracy.
Senator Sumner was taken seriously i'll
on Saturday, and though his condition greatly
improved under the care and skill of ply
sicians, many of his friends entertain seri-
GUS apprehensions as to his complete re-
cOVerV
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The AURORA BoREALIs.-What is the origin
of this remarkable phenomenon Terrestrial
magnetism is the unknown influence,
seen by its effects upon the Artificial
magnet, causing the inclination and declina-
tion of a magnetized bar of steel. We have
no recorded observations of magnetic phe-
nomena before 1928, but they have been
general since. instruments called magnome-
ters are used for these observations. The de-
cennial variation of the magnetic elements
is very important. Thus, for example, the
frequency of magnetic storms, which cause
the magnets to oscillate to an fro, often with
great rapidity, in different years, gradually
increased from minimum in 1S43 to q maxi
mum in 1S4S, giving a varietion of about
eleven years altogether. 1t has been found
that the solar spots are also periodical. M.
Schwabe, of Dessau, observed these for
twenty-four years, and found they had a
regular maximum and minimum every five
years, and that the years 1843 and 1913 were
minimum and maximum years-thus exactly
coinciding with the magnetic decennial
variation. Mrs. Somerville saws the
discovery OF the magnetism of the
atmosphere placed the aurora in the class of
electro magnetic phenomena. 1t may be
described as luminous discharge of super
abundant magnetism, occurring in the north
and south where the air is highly magnetic,
storm. Not only do the solar and magnetic
disturbances coincide at regular intervals, as
before observed, but the auroral displays
coincide also with them. There is great
! difficulty in determining the height Of the
displays of the aurora. Mrs. Somerville SAYS
either 1t must occasionally be high above
the earth, or its ooruscations must be
very extensive, as the same display is gene
rally visible at places wide asunder. An
auroral bow which appeared in the United
States June IL, 1852, had such decided par
allax that its lower edge was computed to be
140 miles above the EARTH and its upper edge
2SO. The above-named lady says that though
it has frequently been seen in North Americs
and all over the north of Europe at the same
time, Sir E. Parry saw ray dart from it tc
the ground near him. Admiral Wrangel as
signs a very moderate elevation to it. DIR
Haller says Father Boscovich determined the
height of an aurora, observed December 16
1877, to have been S25 miles. Bergmanr
makes the average height of thirty observa
tions of aurora to be AGO English miles,
Chambers Journal
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WHY FREE Pass WAS GIvEN.-Quite re-
Gently a minister of the gospel, residing in
Burnham, Maine, proposing to hold semi
monthly services in the neighboring town of
pass over the newly CONSTRUCTED Belfast and
Moosehead Lake Railroad. To this applica-
ton, the Boston Journal says, the President
of the road made response that, while the
company was disposed to lend all possible aid
towords the advancement of the Gospel, it
especially recognized the need of regenerat
ing influences in the field of proposed labor
at, Brooks, inasmuch as that town had repu-
dated its subscription to the road. He
therefore enclosed the pass, trusting the
prayers and exhortations of the gentleman
might be efficacious to that end.
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ITO CONTRACTORS AND BUILDERS
Il Sealed Proposals, endorsed Proposals for
Building an extension TO Public School-house in
signed, at the Office, s. E. corner of SIXTH and
ADELPHI Streets, until THURSDAY, Febru-
airy 2S 1871, at 12 o'clock NJ, for building an ex-
tension to Public School-house, situate on Race
street, below Fifteenth, in the Tenth ward,
said extension to be built in accordance with
the plans of l.. H. Esler, Superintendent of
School Buildings, to be seen at the Office of
the Board of Public Education.
No bids will be received unless accompa-
MED by a certificate from the City Solicitor that
the provisions of an ordinance approved May
25, 1860, have been complied with.
The contract will be awarded only TO known
master builders.
BY order of the Committee on Property.
Ii. w. HALLIWELL,
2t3,16,2023 Secretary.
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Foreign Affairs.

The new French Ministry has been
officially ammo ounced.
M. Jules Favre, it is said, will continue
as Minister of Foreign Affairs
The smallpox is raging in the north of
France, and is especially severe at Lille.
Coal in large quantities is arriving at
Paris, but, as yet, there is no illuminating
gas.
The Spanish elections will be held on the
Sth of March, and the Cortes will assemble on
the Sd of April.
The German Grown Prince Frederick
William is known to be opposed to the entry
of the German army into Paris.
The Paris Government intends to stop
the pay of the National Guard and their wives,
and to provide them with work in its stead
-Favre has expressed the opinion that the
Assembly can be relied on to make the posi-
tion of Prussia such as to yield much of her
demands.
The Prussian Government has officially
refused Earl Granville's last note, urging it
to declare its terms of peace and bring the
war to close.
Napoleon has received notification not
to overstep the privileges again of prisoner,
and to abstain from interference in politics
by protest or proclamation.
The pervading tone of the debate in the
British Parliament on Friday night was that
Englands weak hesitation had lost her the
respect of the belligerents and invited an
early war for her own existence.
The North German Gazette says that the
election of an Orleanist to the Presidency of
the republic would imply speedy renewal of
anarchy in France and prevent a reeoncilia-
tion with Germany, the Orleanists being the
sworn enemies of Germany.
M. Theirs has been chosen by the Ma
tional Assembly ''Chef du Pouvoir Execute
de la Republique Francaise, with power to
choose his Council, over which he will pre-
side, and Immediately after the vote the Eng
lisb, Austrian, and italian ambassadors off.
cially visited M. Theirs and recognized the
French Government.
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NEWS SUMMARY.
CITY Affairs.

AN old man of seventy years, named
Elias Hall, fell against picket fence yester-
day, and, his neck becoming fastened between
the pickets, he choked to death. The Coroner
was summoned to the Fifteenth District Sta
tion-house, and verdict was rendered of
strangulation.
The ceremony of the Institution of the
Rev. w. fl. Graft as rector of st. Jude's Pro-
testant Episcopal Church, took place yester-
day morning.
The Coroner was sent for yesterday to
hold an inquest on the body of a boy named
Francis Isidor Kirk, aged about nine years,
residing at No. 81 Newbold street. On
Thursday evening last he had a quarrel with
another boy of his own age and received
blow in the back with q piece of ice, and il
was supposed that this might have had some
thing to do with his death. DR.. i. b. Shap-
leigh made post-mortem examination and
found that death had resulted from conges-
ton of the brain, but found no marks of vio-
lence of any kind upon the body.
The Orphans Home of the Evangelical
Lutheran Church, at Germantown, admits
children of all creeds and countries, and they
are kept there until of sufficient age to make
their own living. There are about sixty
children in the Home at the present time.
Boys over ten years of age and girls over
eleven are not admitted except in special
cases, where the child is crippled. The Home
is supported by the Lutheran churches of
Philadelphia, assisted by contributions from
private sources.
About three o'clock yesterday afternoon,
gang of about q dozen men attacked the
house of the Tivoh Hose Company, on Brown
street, below Twenty-third, diseharging re-
volvers at its doors. Lieutenant Sudders, of
the Ninth Police district, who was in the sta
ton house at the corner of Twenty-third and
Brown streets, hearing the shots fired, to-
gether with number of his officers, gave
chase to the party, and succeeded in arresting
five, the last being caught after pursuit to
Twentieth street and Girard avenue. For
tunately none of the shots took effect.
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The London Ne,os is hardly consoled for
the death of NJ. Dumas by the fact that he left
behind him the unpublished MSS. of twenty
three novels and fourteen plays. The Neoos
supposes these will be disposed of to English
adapters, after which it expects to see the most
extraordinary productions invade the realms of
English fiction and drama.
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NUARTERMASTER's OFFICE, U. s. A.,
~ PHILADELPHIA, Pa, Feb. IT, 1871
Sealed Proposals in tripllcate, will be received at
this once until 12 O'Clock NJ on FRIDAY, March IL,
1s1I for building Brick or Stone Wan around the
Riehmond, Va, and Wilmington, N. Q. National
Forms FOR proposals, and specifications, furnished
upOn application TO this once. -
wv HENRY c. HODGES,
2IT6t Major and Quartermaster, U. S. A.
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CUM BERLAND NAIL
PROPOSALS..
u G / N E E r o o E,
AZ FIFTH LIGHTHOUSE DISTRICT,
BALTIMORE, Nd, Feb. 7, 1871.


~ FIFTH LIGHTHOUSE DISTRICT,
BALTIMORE Nd, Feb. Z, 1871.
TO IRON MANUFACTURERS.
SEALED PROPOSALS. In duplicate, on forms
furnished for the purpose by the Lighthouse Board,
will be received at this ONCE until ~ O'Clock M. on
WEDNESDAY, March s, 1871, FOR BUILDING
TWO SOREW-PILE LIGHTHOUSES, one at
BENONIS POINT, Choptank river, Nd. in about
eleven-feet water, and the other at LOVE POINT,
head OF Kent Island, mouth of Chester river, Nd,
in ten.feet water, according to the plans and speci
fcations for the same, which can be had, together
with such other needful information, application
to this of1lce.
The Lighthouses will be built on wooden piles,
surmounted by cast-iron sleeves, In a manner
similar to certain other lighthouses in this district.
Proposals may be made for either or both Light
houses but the bids must state the price for each
single structure.
Each bid must oe accompanied by written guar
antee in the sum of one thousand dollars from two
responsible parties that in the bid is accepted
the bidder will within ten days thereafter enter into
a contract on the terms of his bid. The Govern
mentreserves the right to reject any or all bids.
Proposals will be endorsed proposals for Build
ing Screw-pile Lighthouses at BenOnis Point Chop
tank river, Nd, and Love Point, Kent Island Chesa-
peake Bay, Nd" and addressed TO the undersigned.
PETER G. HAMS,
Captain OF Engineers,
2926t Lighthouse Engineer, Fifth District.
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sAFE DEPOSIT COMPANIES.

sAFE DEPOSIT COMPANIEs.
SECURTTY FROM LOSS BY BURGLARY
ROBBERY, FIRE, OR ACCIDENT.
The Fidelity Insurance, Trust and
Safe Deposit Company
OF PHILADELPHIA
THEIR
New Marble Fire-proof Building,
Nos. 32e-s3l chestnut Street
Capital subscribed, shOOo,ooo; paid, 100000.
COUPON BONDS, STOCKS, SECURITIES.
FAMILY PLATE, COIN, DEEDS, aud vALUABLE3
of every description received for safe-keepng under
guarantee, at very moderate rates.
The Company also rent SAFES INSIDE THEIR
for Corporaiions and Bankers Rooms and desks sks
adjoining vaults provided for Safe Renters.
DEPOSITS OF MONEY RECEIVED ON NTK-
notice, and at four per cent, payable by check on
ten days. notice.
TRAVELLERS LETTERS OF CREDIT furnished
available in all parts OF Europe.
INCOME COLLECTED and remitted for one DER
cent
The Company act as EXECUTORS, ADMINS.
TRAT1Rs ATET 1Ss and GUAEDIANs n and REOEiyE and
Courts, Corporations, and Individuals.
N. Is. BROWNE, PRESIDENT.
O. Ii CLARK, Vice. President.
ROBERT PATTERSON, Secretary and Treasurer.
xp p,o DIRECTORS
Clarence Ii. CLARK, Stephen A. Caldwell.
John Welsh, George 4. TYLER.
Charles Manchester, Henry c. Gibson
Edward w, Clark J. Gflingham Fell
Henry Pratt McKean. Is IS fmws
THE PHILADE PHIA TRUST.
SAFE DEPOSIT -
INSURANCE COMPANY,
OFFICE AND BURGLAR-PRooF VAULTS IN
THE PHILADELPHIA BANK BUILDING,
No. 421 CHESNUT STREET.
CAPITAL, $500, 900. ar
FOR SAFE-KEEPING of GOVERNMENT BONDS and
other SECURITIES, FAMILY PLATE, JEwELRY, and
other VALUABLEs, under special guarantee, at the
lowest rates.
The Company also offer for Rent, at rates varying
from Sl5 to S75 per annum, the renter holding the
key, SMALL SAFES IN THE BURGLAR-PROOF
VAULTS, anording absolute SECURITY against FIRE,
THEFT, BURGLARY, and ACCIDENT.
All nduciary obligations, such as TRUSTS, GUAR
DIAESHIPs, EXECUToRsHIPs, etc., will be undertaken
and faithfully discharged.
Circulars, giving full details, forwarded on appi
cation. aH
DIRECTORS.
Thomas Robins, Benjamin b. Comegys,
Lewis II. Ashhurst, Augustus Heaton,
j. Livingston Erringer, 4. Ratchford Starr,
r. p. McCulagh, Daniel Haddock, Jr,
Edwin M Lewis Edward Y. Townsend,
James L. Claghorn, John u Taylor
Hon. William A. Porter.
OFFICERS. s-
Presldent-LEWIS II. ASHHURST.
Vice-P President-J. LIVINGSTON ERRINGER.
Secretary and Treasurer-R. z. MCCULLAGH.
Solict0r-RIC HARD L. ASHHURST. 3fmws
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THE ARABS TONIGHT THE ARABS To
Il NIjHTl THE ARABS TONIGHT
Ar EOV,S NHW AMERICAN THEATRE

SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT.
The Great ALI BEN ADD ALLAH TROUPE OF
ARABS, eleven In number, TONIGHT AT FOA'5
NEW Am ERICA THEATRE.
ARABS ARABSl
will positively apr TO NIGHT IN their great act
FOXs NEW AMERICAN THEATRE. II
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First district. The Twenty-sixth ward. which
is Republican by over twelve hundred, is
taken from the First district and given to the
Fourth, it's place being filed by the Ninth
ward, in which the Republican majority is
about one thousand only. This gives the De-
mocrsts a fair show in the First district,
which is now safely Republican on full vote.
The place now held by the Ninth ward in the
Second district is TO be filed by the Twentieth
eud Twenty. ninth wards, which are torn from
the present Fourth district to make room for
the Twenty-sixth ward. Az the result of the
whole distribution, the proposed Fourth dis
trict is made to stretch from the extreme
northern limit of the city to League Island,
embracing all the rapidly growing suburbs of
the city, in which the increase in population
is bound to be much greater than in its over
crowded Democratic rival the Third district.
The Senate committee apparently had two
prime objects in view in rearranging the
Senatorial districts-the retention Of strong
Democratic majority in the Third district,
and the chance of a Democratic victory in
the First district on a full vote. If the Nine-
teenth ward were allotted to the Third dis
trict instead of the Fourth, there would be o
show of fairness in the apportionment. The
relative standing of the four districts would
then he as follows:-