Scbforb Inquirer. RKDFOBD. I'A„ FRIDAY, MAFI( H 22,1867. BIM\F-SS N OTH E. Mr. Alex. R. Agnew isthe authorized agent a- the Isqlirer, to receive subscriptions, adver ' i-einents,collect accounts and receipt lor the - vu,e. Mr. Agsew will call upon all those who in dclitcd to us and prc.-cnt our accounts, he will also give those whose advance subscriptions expire on the Ist of April a chance to pay up for the next year. SIX AT OK SrtTZtl l\- VOTE tOAIVST A FREE KAll.ltO.tl> LIB. Wo confess to the utmost surprise at the course of Senator Stutzman •>ti the Free Railroad Law. A bill was reported by Senator Lan lon, chairman >•! the Committee on Railroads, which might with propriety be entitled, a bill to />, ■ rmt. tin making ot roilroods. This report wa.- manifestly made in tlie intere.-t of' tin IVnn -v ivania Road—it was probably made at tlie -I --rial instance and request of that road, i b ■ provisions of that bill arc utterly obnox i to every true friend of an honest free railroad law ; — such o lute us would facili t"ti uiul promote the construction of rail — t-L-L. 4.1.„ UIK.V i,f illL- |)('U ple of the State desire, and to which both political parties and both candidates for Governor last Fall, were pledged. I hat a man from Somerset county could : found so destitute of principle, and iv gai dless of the wishes of the people of his ■.i-trict, as to vote again t every amendment obored to this humbug bill, is a matter of astonishment; but when you add to this the fact, that Senator Stutzman was elected under pledge as a free railroad law man, and that he went on the stump in his own county, as the advocate of such a law. toe meanness of his treason to the people of hi- district is made shockingly apparent. The bill as reported, and as finally passed, provides, among other things : I hat ten thousand dollars of stock fur each mile of the proposed road must be -üb -cribed, and ten per cent, of that amount must be paid in, befort a charter cun issue. Also that the survey of the route must be | begun within thirty days thereafter, and must be entirely finished, and a uiap there of filed in the office of the Secretary of the Commonwealth within sir months. Also that each stockholder shall be iudi i/dually liable for the debts of the company. 1 Also that the charge for freight -hall in t exceed two cents per ton for each mile, (the I cnnsylvania Road charges,/'"//- cents per per ton mile.) Also that at any time the Legislature may repeal the charter without etyard to ■'/" rights oj stockholders. Amendments were offered by Senators Ligham, Lowry, and others, to strike out and change these objectionable features, which, as will readily be perceived, are such as that never a mile of road would be made i under the law. .1/nZ against thrst amendments, retry our. j V n'Uor Stutzman voted. What shall we say more ! The facts speak louder than : words, and make up a record such a- many a man would not have against bin: for <d ! the money the agents of the Pennsylvania Ihiilroad spend at Harrisburg in a whole winter. PARTURIENT MON I ES, NASCITL it RIDICULES MI S. Precisely what mountains it was. that, of" ■ id time, labored to such strange purpose, ! we don t now remember, if we ever knew . nut the thing that has been, will be. and there is no new thing under the sun. Yet who would have thought that the virtuou. looking Raid Hill, half way between Red- I lord and Mt. Dalla-. over which we have all been traveling, was travailing under us. and was about to be delivered of a very small j mouse ! Such wc are assured has be n th laet. The great Southern Pennsylvania Rail mad—the President of which is so rich that he puts his name down for five millions of stock as freely as most men would . pend a dime —after three years diligent work with two whole corpsofengineers. has put under contract—what do you suppose?— tin at,- prouches to the t unit'l through Hold WH. Incredible as it may seem, we are assured it is true ; and further that John Crawley has already gone down to cut away the tiui her, and that next week a mau with a wheel- j harrow will be put on. and that the work will be pushed with the vigor which has heretofore characterized, this great com- j pany. We would like some member of the eoips of engineers, if he can possibly take time from the arduous labor of superintending this herculean work, to solve this sum : It it took three years engineering to locate j and put under contract the approaches to a i tunnel six hundred and fifty feet long, when will the whole road be completed from Pitts- 1 burgh to Chambersburg ? As Col. McClurc i.- a Director of this Road, wc suggest that he have this .-inn ci phered, and the result published in the A'/ pository. It is possible that Senator Lan don, Chairman of the Senate Committee on Railroads, might be induced, for a consid eration, to devote his great mind to this question. The people hereabouts are ex ceedingly anxious to know whether it is their children or their grand children who .ire to see this road made. THE NOMINATION OF B. T. MEY I Its AS COLLECTOR. R. F. Meyers, editor and proprietor f the Bedford Gaz'ttc, has been nominal 1 by the President to be Collector of revenue for theNV[ Congressional district. Pre ciscly what influence Mr. Meyers brought to bear upon the Secretary of the Treasury who sends in the names to the President, who sends them to the Senate for confirma tion or rejection—we know not. It is said Judge Rlack and Edgar Cowan and Mont gomery Blair—which last is the man who came here last Fall to speak for Meyei - and Shannon —got the thing done. We hope this is so, and that Gen. Koontz had no hand in the business. Of one thing we are sure, the couiinua lion of this man by the Senate would be ex ceedingly distasteful to the loyal 'people <>f this District, who are familiar with the | course of the iluzrttc and its editor during i the war. A - to any bargain with the appointing power at Washington, by which the confir ! nation of Meyers is yielded in order to get an Assessor, or other arrangement of the : kind, we advise both Gen. Koontz and Gen. Cameron to stn-r clear. There is no more i facile way to t!;e demoralization "1 the Re | publican Party. Mr. Rowh-s. who is acting Collector, La competent officer, a good citizen; and more over he is a Republican. That under any circumstances the eolith mation by a Republican Senate of a most unscrupulous partizau, and editor of a most unscrupulous partizan sheet, should be thought of, i- very surprising. If a Dem ocrat tti ;st be ( ufirmed, let it be some re liable man who is not wholly snd solely a partizan. LEGISLATION EXTRAORDINARY. Mr. Stutzman in the Senate on . of i ist week read in place a bill to compel the Conuellst i.i • and Southern Pennsylva nia Railroad Company to commence their road within -ix months. As a representative of the people of Som set, Bedford and Fulton counties, all inter ested iu the early construction of the Pitts burgh C'.>murilsvillc or L'onnellsville and Southern IV-nn -.lvania rail road, the inno duetion of such a bill by him is entirely in explicable Mr. Stutzman must certainly kuow that under existing laws, the Cen nellsville and Southern Pennsylvania Rail lload is obliged to'begin work on or before the olli ol April, next. How the inter e-ts of his constituents or of the Slap arc to be promoted by a still further po.-t pon ment of the time for beginning work on till- road, i more than wc can under i stand. S in- -trange hallucination seon.s I to have overtaken our aimable Senator. | since his entrance upon his official dude.- at , Harrisburg. We hope henceforth he will bear in mind that it is tlie building of thi road at the earliest possible moment-, and not the indefinite postponement of it, that is desired by his constituents. Ii MtltlMH ItC CORRESPONDENCE. HAiißisnrno, March I s '. 1807. For years past there lias been great div r sity of opinion as to what constituted the legal •G'ight of a bushel of corn, a bushel of oats, etc., and scarcely two persons agree on the subject, so that there seemed to be no figures governing the weight of the various kinds of grain, meal, fruit. Ac. Hereafter there will ! be less difficulty experienced among farmers i and the public in general, when sellii.v r ; buying any of the articles named below. 1 commend u> your readers a careful perusal of tlie following standard weights just fixed by the Legislature, and advise eaeh and e\< :v oiii. to presc-no the same for future reference. It will l,e convenient when most needed. Here ere the figures, per bushel : Wheat, tit) pounds; rye, 5(5; shelled corn 50 ; cob corn, 70 : corn meal, 40 ; c-oar-e salt. 70 ; ground salt. 02: fine salt, 47 : barley. 17 : oats. 22 : buck wheat, 50: clover fed. • 1 : li-.ni-tliy seed. 15 : turnips. 55 -. onions, t v : P . "i : malt, 88 : unslacked lime, s o ; anthracite coal, 80 ; bituminous coal, 76 : j coke, 10 ; potatoes, 56 ; sweet potatoes, 5f : ' flax ted, 56 ; bran, 20 ; beans. 56 ; dried ap ple.- 25 dried jieacbes, 38. Phonographic reporters can hereafter it appointed for the several courts of common pleas, should a bill passed by the Senate be [ come a law. This, bill, or one of a simila. character, -liuuld have been enacted into a j law long ere this. There is much important | evidence taken before courts that cannot i preserved in any other way, and the value of i a short hand reporter can only be learned ! y a trial of the new measure. The Senate Las passed a supplement loan act granting the courts power to appoint road ; viewers, Ac., which extends the powers of | said courts t<> vacate publieandprivate run Is. .street.-, and alleys, in any unincorporated vil lage, to all pubiic and private roads, streets and alleys, in any plan of lots now or which may I b-> hereafter, laid out in the Commonwealth. An act relating to dower lias al-o bec-n passed by the Senate, providing that in case ; any person has died, or shall hereafter die, . leaving a widow and last will and testament, and such widow has elected, or shall elect, I not to take under the will, but claims dower , at common law. and the same has not yet ! been fixed, it shall be lawful for the orphans' ' court of the county in which the land subject to Mich dower is situated, on petition of the ; widow and persons interested, to apipoint.sev- ! en men to nppra : e such real estate with its ! , improvements ; or to award an inquest to be i ! held by the Sheriff, and ascertain the value ! | of the land or such portions Ihereol as An ay j , be asked to be appraised. After such ap 1 praiscment has been had and confirmed by ; the orphans' court, the said lauds shall be charged with and subject to the yearly inter est accruing on the one-third of the valuation i moneys, which shall be paid to the widow i annually during her life, by the owner or oc cupier of the said land. The interest accrti ■ ing as aforesaid may',be recovered in the same ! manner as the interest of the widow s of intes tates when the land lias been appraised and accepted by the heirs tinder the intestate laws is recoverable. The question of granting the Governor power to commute the death punishment in certain cases, lia- become one of great im portance, owing to the fact that there are in some of our prisons individuals long since convicted of murder and sentenced to be hung, but whose time of execution lia.sne-.t r been fixed by the executives. In order that such persons may be relieved of the suspense that has so long rendered them miserable, i the Senate lia- passed an act providing that in i ases of convictions of, and sentence for a rd- r in the fir-: degree, the Governor may upon the petition of the convicted, grant to ; such com ict a pardon, upon such condition, with- h it-; tricti and with such limita tions. ns he deems proper : and he may issue his warrant to all proper officers to carry such pardon into effect- i cotidtd. That in all ca -as in which the sentence of death shall hereafter be pronounced, no conditional par don shall be granted, unless a majority of tin judges ol the court before whom the convict | liath been tried one of whom shall be a presiding judge i ball advise or recommend j ucb pardon. The act confers no right to expartiate any convict. An act to regulate the carriage of baggage •el- has been passed by the Senate. It; ..ov.- h j as i.g,-r one hundred pounds of baggage, not ov • - ;(X> in value, for which the company shall be (--sponsible if aid bag :uui- plu< - d iu tie batrgagi err, but 'be i oiii|>;iny i- not Bible for any art trie takenin to a car in which ilu; passenger is riding. A change in the general fee bill is about being made, l/nder the old law, county offi cers. whose income was over $1,500, were re quired to pay into the State Treasury fifty per cent, of the surplus. The present bill, as it passed the House, requires such officers to pay to the State Treasurer fifty per cent, on all surplus over S2,<KM), after deducting clerk hire and office rent. The Senate will doubt less pass the bill before ibis letter is put in print, and become a law by the early approv al of the Governor. The main feature of the act is to fix in detail the fees at a ratio of twenty-five per cent, advance in accordance with the advance granted by the Legislature during the late war. The House has passed finally uu act in re lation to the fees of notaries public in Bed ford, I-kilton and Some set counties. Mr. Stutzman pre.-ented in the Senate a remonstrance of ll'l citizens of Bedford coun ty, against the passage of a law prohibiting fishing with nets, especially with dip-nets, fn the waters of the Juniata. Also, a remonstrance of the Evangelical Lutheran church of Berlin. Somerset county, against submitting the Sunday ear question, so far as the city of Philadelphia is concern ed, to the popular vote. The Senate and House have passed finally mi net (iaiiig the jilacc of holding elections in Harrison tuvtmsUip, Bedford county, at the house of Jonathan Feichtner. The Senate passed finally a bill to regulate the fees of the directors of the poor and house of employment in the County of Bed lord.- The act to prevent the desruetion of bass in i'vitt's creek and tributaries, and the Kays town branch of the Juniata and tributaries in Bedford county, has been laid over for the present, by the Senate. The bill to attach certain lands and tene ments in Napier township, Bedford county, and the persons residing thereon, to Schells burg borough, for school purposes, has been passed finally by the Senate. Mr. Stutzman read in place, in the Senate, an act to extend the time of the payment of the enrollment tax on an act to incorporate the Keystone coal and manufacturing compa ny of Somerset county. Mr. Bichards presented in the House, pe titions from citizens of Fulton county, in favor a free railroad law. Mr. Wellor lias read in place a bill relating to the Somerset school district. Senate Committee on the Judiciary l.oeai has reported favorably, as committed, the bill to extend the provisions of an act regulating the fees of district attorney in the county of Bedford, in the • >url of quarter s - -ions, ap proved April 11, lSOli. i'h::-iJclphia Methodist Kjd icopal Confer ence is in session here. It is the largest Con ference in the United States, having upwards of three hundred preachers on its rolls. Nothing unusual has occurred at the Capi tal since the date of my last. Toby. (iIiVKKAb NEWS ITEMS. Ni l hktauy Seward Las latch insured his j life tor one hundred thousi nd ... :iar>. ! in: I a ion part' of Maryland lias taken : i 'id in la vor of universal negro silt'rage in ! that State. t 'nl.. Wm. ft. Sii't.s recently appoint, d i I>-1-1 master at IMiiladelpbia, has la-, u re. ro d : At j re •ni the New V ■ >rld boa:- tin- Obi ' in eh graph lit,* .<• having 00 000 miles of line j against *lO,OOO in Enrope and 3,000 in India. | It: a. - So. sr.. -enior bishop of the Mctho- 1 dirt church in the United States, died Wed tie in Nashville, Tour., a-jed *1 year-. ' Ex Gov. Ci ktix sailed from New York, to day. Ih'i Havre. He leaves his family in I'hii ■ ad< Ifihia, and will be ab---nt n a tour to Fu ru; e, for scveral months. fin: Legislature- of Teneessec has passed tie bill enfranchising the negroes of that N. ae. and the liovernor having approved the bid. it hi.s now b. ■< me a law. Tut: destitution at the South, among whites and black-, is -aid to be frightful. The i Freed men's Bur- •> i is rendering aii the aid j in its power. It is mnii.i d that John <1 Whittier. the ' poet, is lo ; ma. ;ie iin his old age to a wid- ' O'v of h-lphia with whom he has been ! in love for thirty years, IT is current y reported that Sydney Howard Gay, late managing editor of the i'ribun - ■ i 1 engaged in gathering material fir the life <-f i Horace Greeley. Mv. Gkx. Hancock, it is stated, will .- art [ from Fort Leavenworth on the l'ith. on an expedition against the hostile Indians in Kan sas and Nebraska, with a well equipped com mand. The gold claimed by the Richmond Banks, now in the Treasury, belonged originally to : the General Government, and was captured. ; in the early part of the rebellion by the reb els while in tlie mint. The Fenians seem really t . have projected an attempt on the arsenal in the city of Ches ter; but, as usual, the plan leaked oat through j informers, and the police and the inhabitants were on the alert, ana the result was a misera- j ble failure. i in: lion. Fhiiip Francis Thomas was dec- t ted United States Senator by the Legislature j ni Md.. on Wednesday last. He is a Copper- 1 head and takes he place of Gov. Swaun, re j signed. The Lynchburg (Va.) Jlcpublican says tha 1 j "tobacco continues to bring almost fabulous ; prices. Shipping tobacco that sold for seven and nine dollars a week ago now brings twelve to fifteen dollars. Other grades sell equally well." The Loyal League is rapidly spreading its sell throughout the Southern States. In Georgia there are thirty thousand members enrolled, while Albania contains nearly one third that number. There is not a Southern Stale but contains hundreds of the League Lodges. A COKRESI-OXIIKXT ot the Herald avers that the Democrats arc confident ol carrying Con necticut by three thousand and of beating i Barn inn by seven hundred. While this is not so clear, it is unquestionably true that the contest will be a close once. The Republi cans expect to carry the State. Si itu.tTT is the pet of the Washington seces sionists. especially the iadnJ.-. A great rivalry is carried on to gain admitauce to his cell, while more than one whimpering damsel has been refused admittance to the murderers cell, who came ladened with precious gifts ! for the •'persecuted Southe.ner." lilt: I nited States Senate has pa- ed a res nlution thai at equestrian atutue of Lieutenant Geuetat \\ infield Scott shall he erected at some place to be nauicd by ihv Secretary of j War. The artist dm ignated for this work is Henry 11. Brown. ofNewburg, N. Y. President I.im oi : once told a friend that I the -ec-ret power as a.public speaker is for the ; orator always to assume that his audience is ■ wiser than he is. and therefore to say the j most sensible thing he can ; the people will ! not understand it. It is a great mistake that j many men make when they think that ibe 1 mass of the people are ignorant. The pen ; pb generally know quite a.- much as those ' who prof- -s to lead them. MAJOR GUN. EDWABHS. successor of Gov. Allen as editor of the Mexican Times, readi ed New Orleans on Wednesday, and reports that the evacuation of Mexico by the French is a fixed fact. Of the army of occupation, which numbered 24,000 there remained but. I 0,000. i Tun Memphis Appealsays'- "Itwouldbea | gain to the country to substitute decent in- I groes tor some drunken senators mid bebaueb !ed representatives in Cojgress." Mr. Sauls I bury will not relish this being hit in the bouse j of his friends. THE Chicago Tribune i-.iforms Doolittle, j Dixon, Cowan and Norton that they can "save | a little remnant of their former reputations i by following the example of 'poor Jim Lane, who made some reparation to his betrayed constituents by blowing out his brains. A young lady in the New Orleans Museum who goes into the lion's den, put to much po matum on her hair. The unctuous odor ex cited the lion's appetite, aid when she stooped to let him jump over her. according to the programme, the sagacious beast bit of her WI itcrfall. Da. JAMES ROGERS, of Lancaster, recently deceased, lias bequeath ol $lO,OOO to the "Mayor. Aldermen and utizeiis of Lancas ! ter," the interest of whiet is to be expended in the improvement of the streets of that city under the direction of tie Mayor. He has nlsOiiuadc bequests to tbj several charitable institutions of that city. THE National Democraie Committee met on Tuesday last, at the resdence of the Chair man, lion. August Belnunt, in New h ark city nud decided not to cill a National Con vention previous to the egular nominating one of next year. Measures wee set on foot for a thorough organization of the party throughout the Unioi. Most of tins Northern States were represented. THE bill to incorporate the Frederick and Pennsylvauia Line ilailroad Company, whit], was defeated i:i the House of Delegates, at Annapolis, on the 9th March, by a vote of yeas 38, nays 21. was reconsidered, and on the 12th March it was passed by a vote of yeas 43. nays 18 The length of this proposed road is thirty three miles. It does not appear whether the bill has passed the Senate. A meeting of the citizens of l'ottsville, favorable to the impeachment of Andrew Johnson, acting President of the United States, was held at the Union Hotel, on Monday evening, lltli instant. This, the first formal impeachment meeting we believe of citizens held ja this country, was large ami enthusiastic. 1 HE Revenue Law. as amended, allows the tax-payer $lOOO instead of $OOO, as hereto fore. Tim lax oi leather is reduced to two and a half per eent. Tax oil clothing is re pealed : also the tax oil castings for machin ery. Cast iron, hollow-ware, pottery, and many other articles are also. Other material changes have been made. The new law takes effect on the Ist of March nhe present mouth. Tin election in New Hampshire on Tues day was a thorough Republican triumph. Gen. Harriman was re-elected Governor by at least three thonsand majority, and all three of the Republican Congressmen are elected by majorities of about one thousand each. Both branches cf the Legislature are also Republican by large majorities. I'm Idaho Legislature has pa- ed a bill ap prop- " $39,000 to the support, and main ten a:<■" of Roman Catholic schools in that Territory. The Methodists, Baptists. Pres byterians. Episcopalians, and all other <1 • nominations ought to demand similar legisla tion, anil the law should lie so framed that the tax shall he collected from the respective sects. I'm N. w 7 ork Shipping List says: Titian cial circles betray a feeling of nervousness, consequent upon the disposition of Congress to push the impeachment question tonn issue. Ihe contraction of five millions of greenback currency, too, as show*' the March state ment of the pnhlie debt, has a tendency to render capitalists a little more cautious. I'm stage and mail from Fort Clarke. Tex- wer.: captun dby Indians on the lltli ult. I'b" driver and passengers kept fifty assail ants at bay until morning, when a rein forcement of Indians appeared and all the passengers were taken prisoners. Their fate is unknown. THE IV estern papers bring us an account of a tremendous flood u the Ohio, Tennes see and Mississippi rivers, occasioning a loss of property amounting ;o four or five millions of dollars. Thousands of cattle have been drowned : hundreds of houses swept away : Shawncetown, 111., was completely inunda ted. end in many places on the Ohio river was thirty miles wide. THE following is tbefifil paragraph of Gov. Brownluw'a first genera! order to the State guard J I entiessee: "Ciptains or lieuten ants. 'remanding compavi sor squads, will -ee, on all occasions, that no man's premises are trespassed upon : that no poultry or stock is take n or killed : that ru. fence rails ore de stroyed—no timber cut down and used with out. a fair compensation being paid : and that no grain or forage be taken without the con sent of the owner, and then at the market - alum These rules must he observed." i in death ol J. 1). 15. Deßow is denied by the following: 'NEW OH.EAN-', March 1 Editors Picayune : I see it stated in your is m; •of this morning that J. f). B. Deßow. • rof J)e /'cur's Revict-, is dead. I think it my duty to contradict the statement. The editor is still living and full of statistical en ergy i!!s brother, Mr. Franklin De Bow, died in New York a few days ago. The brief o' ituan notice in the Tones this morning is complimentary, but premature. R. (!. BARK tvEi.i.. As-nciate Edi'o- De Row's Review." A < OKKEKPONRENT of the Hollidaysburg Register say - that a man named Grove, living at the foot of Plane No. 10 has been proven the heir to $8,."00,000 of the $79,000,000 re cently left by a deceased relative, in Holland, has been well established; and it will not be long until we see a man, who, through his whole iif", has been struggling with poverty, in his efforts to maintain the comfort and re spectability of his family, rolling in wealth, luxury, honor and power. S.ws a Paris letter : Rev. John S. U. Ab butt, author of a life of a Napoleon the first : o! the Presidents of the United States, Ac., ■s now bore collecting material for a history of Napoleon 111., and had the pleasure the other day of a long interview with His Majes ty' on the subject, lie was treated with great kindness by the Emperor, who thanked him warmly for what he had done for the Bona parte fnnrily, and in advance for what he was going to do PHI: London Athc.v.eum says: "There is an imposing ro lof American authors who have been thoroughly adopted as captains of thought by the intellectual rank and file of this country. Longfellow is not less popular in London than Tennyson in New York or Boston Cooper is read in Old, almost as widely ns Walter Scott in New England: the novels of Washington Irving are as much works of universal and permanent interest in the cities and villages of Grettt Britain as the talcs or Charles Dickens are affairs of familiar conversation throughout the Union; Prescott Bancroft, and Holmes are names that glitter on the shelves of every well furnished library on this side of the Atlantic. Gi v JOSEPH M.utt I.E. A highly esteemed citizen o! U est morn laud county, died the oth er u iruing at bis residence, near West Newtoi . at the ripe old age of ninety-one years. Gen. Markle, at one time occupied n prominent position in the political affairs of the State, and in 1844 was nominated by the Whig party for Governor, but was defeated by the Democratic candidate, Francis R. Skunk. He had a retentive memory, and his reminiscences of the early history of the Slate were a great source of pleasure to those who were intimate with him. The "whiskey in surgents" surrendered to the United States forces on his father's farm, and although a mere boy at the time, he'retained a vivid rec ollection of the affair. In the war of 1812 lie raised a militia company at his own ex- I" n ;. and served on the frontier. A resolution was adopted by the I ._S. Sen ate on Saturday appropriating one million ol dollars for the reli -f of the destitute people of the South and Southwest ot all classes, to be expended under the superintendence of the Commissioner ol the Freedmen s Bu reau in supplies of goods. During the dis cussion Mr. Trumbull said that General How ard had called on the .Judiciary Committee and testified that unless something of the kind was done there would be actual starva tion among the disloyal portion of the South. THE defeut of the Connellsvtlle bill in the House, of course occasions no surprise. The vote in its favor was larger than we had rea son to expect, considering that it was only the people on one side and the Pennsylvania Railroad Company on the other. That tho bill should have failed by only eleven votes, is encanraging. When the Bogus Free Rail road Bill comes to a vote in the House, we are encouraged to hope it will fait : for strong as was the Connelsville bill, the Free Princi ple is stronger still. Both parties are pledg ed to it. Ait' linn s fact is detailed in a rot out num ber of the Guardian, as follows: •"It may be interesting to our University readers to know that Milton was not only a poet but a lexicographer, and that he made some contri buti ns to the Latin Dictionary of Ainsworth. It appears that the compilers of the Cam bridge Dictionary, published in 1093, made use of a M. S. collection in three large folios, made by 'Mr. .lohri Milton,' out of all the best and purest Roman authors. Also the fourth edition of Dr. Adam Littleton's Latin Dictionary, published in 1703, has an ac knowledgement on the title page of its in debtedness to the same MS. ol Milton. These two dictionaries were the immediate precur sors of that of Ainsworth, which is evidently based upon them, although much improved." lb THOU i -,t V. NASHY—Mr. 1). R. Locke —is one of tin* many present wonders of Washington. His presence on the floor of the House created as much excitement as that of a triumphant general. As he sat sur rounded by visitors, and bored for his auto graph, lie suggested to every observer that one man's brain devoted to a good cause can work results. Mr. Locke's genius has also yroved that, while some destroy prej udice and indicate truth by argument and in vective othi-rs are equally successful by em ploying the weapons of wit and satire. And it may b said that he has never yet made a blunder in any on* of his letters. Kach poipts the mora! to some great idea, and adorns the tale of some great event. I lie suffering at Chattanooga and other place, on tlie Tennessee River is appalling. At Chattanooga on the 12th the water was from twelve to twenty feet, deep in the citv. many of the houses toppling over nnd others floating away. The Mayor, with a posse of citizens and soldiers, was foraging among the loaded cars for food. The agents of the road protested, bu tthe Mayor said the people were starving, i wenty-five dead bodies were seen Mooting down the river at Bridgeport, Ala., on the l'Jth. Ihe loss of property is estima ted at a million of dollars. General Carlin. at Nashville, was making efforts to send rti tions through to Chattanooga. THE tunnel has at last, says the Chicago Post of fuesday, been completely filled with water, which is now being pumped out again, after which an inspection will be made. If no weal;ne- es in the masonry are developed, arrmigeiin-'its ha,.- 1, ,-u u. ; ,. that the tunnel wi.i be put in immediate eouiinunie a tion with tie old water works, the city sup plied with the pnr • water so long expected. I'reparatio! s being nearly completed for lnv in the < .'-i.-r stone ol he new water works, the Board of I'ul,lie Works propose to set apart Monday for the celebration of that event. The time is well chosen, as it will complete a period of precisely three years from the time of lifting the first shovelful of dirt on the shore end of the new tunnel. The Military Bill in Virginia. General S -lioti-dd. who ha-- been assigned to duty in the First military district-, coin - p..sod of tin: State of \ irginia, under the Slu ritt in-Shelkitiaiger act, ha - a-sumed eointnand and issued the following order: 11 EAIIQt'AHTEUS Fit:ST DISTRICT, STATE OF VIRGINIA. llicttMoM". \ i: Join. .March Lb I -f'>7. — General Orders No. 1. —1. In compliance with the order of lite President the tinders sued hereby assumes command o! the First district, State of Virginia, under (lie act of Congress of March 2, IstiT. 11. All officers under the existing pro vis it tial got, rnmeut of theSratuof V irginia will continue to perform th duties of their respective offices, according to law. unless otherwise hereafter ordered in individual cases, until their succes-or shall ft.' duly acted and qualified in aecord un-o with the above named act of Congo . 111. it; - desirable that the military power conferred by the before mention-u net be: exerei.-ed only so far as may be necessary to accomplish the objects for which that pow ; was conferred, and the undersigned appeals to the people of Virginia, and especially to magistrates and other civil officers, to lender tin- necessity for the exercise of his power as slight as possible, by strict obedience to the law : . and by impartial administration of ju-ti-. -' to all classes. 1V The staff officers now on duty at headquarters department of the Potomac are assigned to corresponding duties at headquarters First district, State of Vir ginia. .J. M. Soiiomxu, Brevet Major General, I . S. A. < ftlieial: S. Y. G'IIAI.FIN, Assistant Adjutant General. TERRIBLE RIOT AT CARLISLE! Fight Between Soldiers and Citizens One ( itizen Killed nnd Four AT ountied. Two ■* oldiers Shot one of Them Mortally Injured. GAIII.ISI.K, Pa., March 16, 1867.—Last evening two soldiers came into town. When near the Court House, they were attacked by A ilauimit and P. Gilmorc. Neither party were hurt. The .soldier.- then left for the garrison. At s ueioek about fifty soldiers came in tow n, armed with carbines, revolvers, sabres, and halted near the Court House and fired into a crowd of citizens who were standing near the point where the polls were located. The citizcnsdrcw revol vers and tired, when a general riot ensued. The soldiers ran and the citizens pursued —- the soldier firing back, and when, on reach ing the edge of the town, they took a posi tion. The guard came in from the post, and the firing was kept up. The guard having ar rested some citizens and started for the gar rison, meet ing Hamniil, who had a gun, was ordered by the guard to lay it down. On riTitsii;. h--shot him. The ball struck kit of the right nipple, and came out near the left shoulder blade. He dad in three hour-. Mrs. Stuart, standing in the door at her homo, was shot through the left loot; Thomas Zimmerman through the right fore arm. crushing bones; Jacob Small, through the centre of the right hand; — Ilallibaugh, in the head, crushing the scalp—all citizen-. Two soldiers wore wounded, one in the head and one in the leg—the former mor tally. For several nights soldiers have been in town creating much disturbance. About four hundred are now at tbi. post. The President on Reconstruction He will faithfully Execute the Law. WASHINGTON, March JO, Iso7. The Virginia Senate delegation who eamo on a rccon -truction mission, returned home to-day. They visited the President, who, as reported by one of the delegation, said be was apprised of their mission and action. He understood his position. Whatever might have been his opinion regarding the reconstruction bill, it was now a iaw of the laud, and he would faithfully execute it to the best ol his ability. He thought the people of Virginia had better accept the terms proposed by Congress ; ,it was, per- Imps. thy best they could got and the;, should adopt it. lIY Tin; CAB LI, .1 (j'encral Fenian Risinj Feared. —jMr<j Emigration to America.—French Evacva lion of Mexico Complete. — Provisions of ih< Reform Rill. LONDON, March 16, evening.—A general rising of the Fenians is expected to take place throughout Ireland tomorrow. St. Patrick's I'ay. The Government, which i fully ittlotnicd ol the movement, it is believ ed will be able to suppress any insurrection before it assumes very formidable propor tions. The emigration to America from Cork for the past few weeks has been extremely large. Many of the emigrants have been recogniz ed as being onne.-ted with the recent Feni an uprising neui Killaruey. l'.Y it is, March Hi. —The MooiVnr to-day, in tin official article, gays that Marshal Ba z.aine and the last of the French troops left Mexico on the 10th of March. LONDON, March IT.-—The reform hill, whi'-h is to he brought into Pailiamcnt by the Government to-morrow, will give ihe right of suffrage to rate paying household er's, alter two years' residence; to men pay ing one pound yearly taxes, or having thirty pounds in the Savings Bank, or fifty pounds iu the funds, and to all members of the learned pndc.-sions and graduates ol i ni versitu . The bill also provides for a fifteen pound franchise in the counties. ji uxico. Metier From. lien. Alvarez.— Prospects of the J.tbernls Itrightcning, SAN FKANCUSCO, March Hi.—-A letter from Alvarez to Consul Godey, of this eity, dated Carronoaren, February 18, says: Maxi milian left the Oily of Mexico with Mar queso and two thousand men, and must, now be at Queretaro, where six to eight thousand traitors ere assembled. Eseobedo is marching with twelve thousand men in order to attack them. On the way lie will incorporate with (his army the forces of General Rcgules. Arsea, Autillou, and other officers, amounting to about 8,000 men. My opinion is that in one month more the so called empire will have terminated for ever. I give you my best congratulations on such favorable news, and recommend that you give it to our friends. Gen. li ran, the lnipeiialistcommanding the City oi M > addressed propositions Ibr airan. - to General Lcvoca, the lb-publican commanding Cercnaven, to sur render the city to the l.iheral forces, the peaceable possession of Acapulco. At ough, v < olil or A Sore Throat, ItKQI IVI 1I R. A ITI.NTHIS, \'N SUM I.N • H:I I.EN. IL AI.i.OWKD TO COXTJN! I . Irrilntloii ol lite I.nogs. I'oriii.menl Tliroul llisciwc or t'oiisumplion, is OL*TEN THE NI'.SRI.T. KItOWMS 818 >N'( ILL ;\LTK< >CI I F.S 11 WIN* K • ' fT lMl."i;\ i TO Till: I'.illis, Give IMMFDIATK ItEMIiF, -or HroitchitK Asfluiitt. € alarrlt. (oil- Kiisaiplivo ami THront IMMPIWII. TL- ■ : \- ITII AU GOOD SI T'CK. I%:> ITBLK SPKVKKMS will find J < - 'h> • ti.-t Jul in cieariii * tiie voice when teken 1 efon .- inking or Speaking, and relieving the throat after an unusanJ exertion ot the vocal organ.-. The Tt itrhe* are recommended and pre scribed i y i ,; . 11 -. and have had *e-tiin i*.i.-tlh from < n-ir. .. GL'liont ti c fomtrv. ]>e iig an • r • it- merit, ami having p • <! their • ,j manj vearN, each year find!? tiien- ui> • • • • ;i -in various part# of the wor! ii ./ S univeii-ally pronoun ced he* f. i. . articles. Obtii ; . !;•> Dronchial Ti h.B.' and do not tike my ■ i the \V<nthl** /uttfationa that Uiav he I'fie .-"ID >. V 1.1. T W J: F E. K. v .::o ! ; ;• ru mmm ioiti TO UK All persons who paid Comniuutuon Twice; or went into the Army, or o ■ put in a Substitute after paying Commutation can have it Refunded by ap plying nf once to DBRBORROW & LOTZ. BLI'FOKIB MARCH J. 1867:11" J JIIOI'OSAUJ. Pennsylvania Agricultural Land Scrip FOR SALE. The Board of CramiKion<>rt . o . ofi- f,, .28,01)0 acres of Agricultural College l,ui.P s, n being the balance of the Scrip grante.Uo the monweaith of I'CMU-yU'-io.a lor !-i on i. , ( Agricultural Colleges in (his Stale I'roposalit for the iiurch> of t; t g inlijrc -cd to "The Board ol ' oiu ui.. - oocr- i,< Agricultural brad Scrip," wil! r- ■ 1 ~r ; Surveyor (•encr.ir-* ofiice, at Jla . . 0 clock, At., on Wodnesd.iy, Aj.r-1 IP. J , This land may lie locate ! ut tire State or Ti tory, by the holders of the scrip, upon any tl, unappropriated lands f except liiiio ial lands 1 riitc. l States, which may he stibjct to - private entry, liach piece of o rip r• ;•. • liiartcr section of one hundred and sixty acre--, , issued in blank, and will he trari ..i wirii endorsement or formal assignment. Tl, - ■, need not he. filled until the scrip is prcs'-i.tiil location and entry, when the part;, h ling i- ta tili the blank and enter the land in h .an . Bids uiust he ma le us per acre, and n • -.1- ; |j i, reeeiv • | for less than one quarter ." tin. '1 i '■ will he issued iuimedia' pnyuii lit of the money to the 1-urw yor do cri, . On all hids for a less quantity than td, . one-thir l of the purchase money mo-' P. , aiil within ten days, and the remaining i*-- ■ ~r . f-within within thirty days after notification of tin j. .._ tance ol the bid or bids by the Board of On.-a sioners. JACOB .M. CAMI'IIKLi.. Surveyor <iui I'or the Board ol t'oinin.-- HAKKIHIU ! r., February 27,1307. March 8, t.. I DMINISTRATOR'S NOTICE. { Y /,*.io/. of" Franklin iS""11, (is. Notice is hereby given that letters of admim , t ion of the estate of franklin South, late of sr. , Spring township, n< "d , having been grai the undersigned, by the Xlegister "t Bcdf--r all persons indebted to said estate are lie,, notified to make immediate pit. cent, a: ; having claims against the same wiil present i properly authenticated for setth uien). feb22:ow MARY ANN SOI Tl). \ \OM INIST It ATO ICS N OTIC K A' Or/, tlf Unnt'tj h't j/nr, , r/ Notice is her-he giv.-u that letters of. tration have been granted by tin it" Be If', rd county, to the undersigric i. or. i of Jlenry Kcyser, decea-ed. All i a- - to said estate are notified to make imincd trent, and those having claims will pi. properly authenticated for settlement. fc1.2:;.-6w IV.M. 11. KBYSER, : XT "TICK I'o in: \! TED MF v. A LN lately been paased l.y Congress refunding three hundred dollars to all men wimp, u mutation and were afterwards drafted, i substitute, or went into the service. All claims left or rent to us "ill h, attended to. J. li. I i n hi:Ht Atl'y and ('! ilin I ) I BB A SHANNON, BANK Kits. I k I't- nroi BANK OF DISCOUNT AMI TO '.-I Collections made for the Ka.-t, IV. t, N south, and the general business of 1 \ a: transacted. Notes and Account.- Col • cu-i * Remittances promptly male. lIIIA I, ! ! bought and sold. ' feht'd OOLDIEKS' BOUNTIES. 0 The undersigned has the blanks . ovr rta and will attend promptly to the. of a elai us under the r.cw ;avv i f the • 'fan n bounties. Aug 17. J. W. HICK III!SON. 1 )AY I 1* 1 M.MEDIA'I FI,Y. 1 The sale notes of FIIF.IIEI.ICK Ko-usi--. December I 1, 1866, arc in our ha:: is Or on. HUP.BOKKOW A 1,1 1 /,. B- di'-.rd, Feb. 1, 1 - -7.-tlt. rfb.VVK DEEDS F'lli GYRE Cii'i !' at t > INQUIRER OFFICE. Nov. 2, 1566. -. T. lsi.il - X.—The amount Ph. i .rs "-rid in oi e war is some'liing a. 1 In- .volt! 1 I'll Brositwav si\ teei h . it. i. i Drake painted all the rocks in th. with bis .-ahalistic "S. T. ISfie. X got tiie old granny legisl-i ir to pa . .... j • v-.-ntilig i'i.figurii g in I <d -urc,"' vv ii bin, a moil poly. i • know . :- i . hot wed - h : u i!ie I'h-u.ta'ion Bite - 1.1. as n other artici' ">cr did '''le v are us. T>\ all class.-- .! th- ...iinuiKty. an are I- .v'-i i . Saratoga spring V, atcr. > H . ainlri;-! •in IL'.iiig tbc kittle from thi 'n I-• in -• '. vt rv severely—one hanl nl•:: - a Tl. ■ • taie vv.<• an he iraVe. Th: M .* Mi" r.ng Lin: ent rc'icved the pain alw media t.dy. lr heal*. I -vpiiily, aini left very •■• • • scar. < II AS. FosTF.it, 420 Broai St. Phila. T - i- l.n-r -ly :i Sample t,f what th Mi'.-fa':.' Li iii )t . ill do. ft i- invaluable in ait <M ivd : ' ivcllings, Npraios. cuts, bruises. - ei .. • r r.p'Ti man or beast. ■ •! • untcrfeits. K ne is gen ;iro •: wra• • i i" fine plate cngravin/-. the -;_;:::fure t (I. XV. West'.ro>. 1 the t>> I ■*' ■' IMP • F I>KM.\S I'.\lA A ■ T- ' V York. Spring Water, < 1 l v ai} druggist A t i IT - ;.f.' tl; - tli' " u :• i thing," and ih* .icsr ot it I ; lc; ' it overcomes th . . r p>-rspir > ti . !: :s and adds del at \ ' • the - .:u.. dels t rfume: allays hi-., no and inH-'tn mat is a necessary companion in the to .. t: ry. tnd u]> n ' • T sidehoai • It van • Mined everywhere at out doibt; bottle. Saratojtii Spring; Water, sold by aildfriigg - All who v alue .< beautiful h< - i : hair, and u preserv ation from l-ieumturc .nt-.--.-ind turning gray, will not fail t-. u-o 1. u U-bratcd Kati airon. it makes ihe hair ri : - ft and gl eradicates dandruff, and eause- the hair to gre with luxuriant beautv. It is - 1 everywhere. E. THOMAS L Y ON. Chem'i-t. NY. Saratog;:! Spring; Witter. Iby )! di-uggi WHAT I'm IT?— Ay. |y, ret g her country home after a jouen ot a lew month.- in New York, was hardly recognucl her friends. In place of a ru-tie, flushed she had a soft, ruby complexion, of aim..-' i t I smoothness: and instead of 22. she really • -r ed hut 17. She told them plainly she used -i * Magnolia Balm, and would not he w :t Any lady ean improve her personal apy very much hv using this arti-,. it can ;>•: 1 ■ ed of any druggist f or onl • cents. Saratoga Spring Water, id by alld lloiiastrect's iniuiithle ilaii Coloring ha steadily growing in favor !• rnor twenty }"< It acts upon the iibsorijeiit- at the roots hair, and changes it to its or. .iual en!- grees. All instantaneous dyes deaden an t th'' C iir. ileitn-treat's >\ . I a but • tain in it results, pr..mot - its growth, and beautiful H.vni l'r -si-.e. l'riee ->" eent- Sold by ail dealt: '. SaratgaSpring;YV;Urr.-oldbv illdiu Lvajt's KXTRH'T 'lt' !* 1!: ,1 Y'A AHT 'l v ' for In .\.r I-'.: i 5 , p., ache, < holeraMiorlii •, . c wari < - iiiaf st-imulaut L rivjciv . i eful i l 'k ti -n andentive pitriiv u it a heap • ble article fr eullaauY r ntj I where at 00 ct-. per 1 • r -.v. Saratoga Spring VKticr .July 20, 1 Sfit'rct.YV; 1 \
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