lunburg lmcrian. H. B. IUSSER, E. WU.VEBT. EJitors. SUNBURY. AUGUST 13, 1875. Republican SiHte Tieliet. FOB GOVERNOR : fiF.N. JOHN F. HARTRAXFT, Of Montgomery County, rOB STATS TREA81TIEK 8 HON. ITENRY KAWLE, Of Erie. KEPruLiCAJt CorsTt Convention. The Ee liublican votert of N'orthtimberlund county te requested to meet in each election district at the ereral place where delegate election have heretofore been held, on Saturday, the 4tli day of September next, between the hour or 1 cd 8 o'clock p. m., for the purpose of electing dele gate to the Republican County Convention to be held at the Court House, iu the borough of Sunbury, on Monday, Sept. 6th, 1875, at 10 o'clock a. m., for the purpose of nomiuatlng a ticket to be presented to the voters of the county jit the ensuing election. Each district polling two hundred Republican votes, or less, at the last general election for State officer, will be en titled to two delegates; each district polling over two hundred vote, and not exceeding three hundred, three delegate ; aud each district poll log over three hundred vote shall be entitled to four delegates. . Under the above rule the different district will be entitled to the following representation tu the Convention Del. Hel. Sunbury, E. JV. ...... W. V Norlh'd -.. v- Milton, N. W 8 W Watontiwn McEweusvllle.-.. ' Turbu'.ville ............. Turbut .... Delaware Lewi . (,'liillisquaque ......... Point Upper Augusta 3 Phamokin twp ......2 3 OORl tHMIH'HIMI 2 ... S MU Carmel twp....2 .. 2 Snydertown 2 ... 2 Jackson 3 2 Cameron ......... ........2 ,.. 2 Jordan 2 .. 2:Upper Mahanoy 2 . 2: Washington -2 ... 2 Lower Mahanov 3 ... 2 Little Mahanoy.. 2 w- 2 . JCtrbc . 2 Riverside -..-...2 , 2 Mt. Carmel bor 3 ... 2 Shamokln. E. W 4 Lowrr Augusta Rush ... 2 tthamokin. W. W 3 " By'order or the Standing Committee. EM'L W1LVERT, Chairman. B. Priestly, Sec'y. M. How to Aid the Republican Far tv. There are a large number of Repub licans ia the county, who are not on our list of subscribers, and who frequently be come negligent in going to the polls to vote at the general election. A Republican pa per should be in every family in the coun ty, if not the American, some other relia ble Republican paper. It will cause a wide dissemination of the truths among the peo ple, and those who uow get the paper should exert themselves to procure the names of their neighbors and send them in to os as subscribers- It will undoubtedly aid the party. Any person sending usve rwr RuWrihrra. with 87.50. we will fur- nish a copy of the American one year, free. riiE Reading Rail Road Co. Inves- ble interest. iXe have read with cousidera Gowen, Esq., Presidemf C. Franklin B. Rail Road Co., before the LegislatTver&Qg tnittce, appointed to investigate charges made against the company by the retail coal dealers in Philadelphia. Mr. Gowen has not only refuted their charges, and vindicated himself, but has completely overwhelmed them by turning upon them and showing that they have been guilty of some of the very charges that they impute to the company. He shows, by undoubted evidence, that in the matter of short weight, oue of the charges, consumers of coal in Philadelphia are annually paying over 600,000 for coal they uever receive. Whatever opinion we may have in regard to the propriety of grauting mining pow ers, Sic, to railroad companies, this inves tigation must result in the acquital of the company of the alleged charges, and at the same lime establish the fact that the company affairs have been, not only ably niauaged, but fairly conducted under the administration of Mr. Gowen. The citi zens of Philadelphia, however, should be thankful to the complainants who brought about the investigation, for one thing, and that is for the expose in short weight, which has resulted from this investigation. We publish the following from the iVbr thuutbtrlnnd County Democrat of last week, to show the recklessness of that sheet, and what base purposes are resorted to by many j of the Democratic editors for the purpose j of electing their candidates. Nothing shows the desperation of their cause more clearly, than the publication of such sto ries, which are not only not true, but so silly and ridiculous, that no intelligent per son will believe them : "When Governor llartrauft permitted walnut doors to be placed at his horse sta ble, costing the taxpayers $1,000,11, he showed himself an unworthy public officer. It is true this is only a small item, compar atively, but when there are hundreds, if not thousands, of similar ones, it count. When one thousand and sixty-nine dollars and eleven cents are expended for walnut doors for a horse stable, the people need not wonder why it costs double as much to carry a Radical administration as it did a J democratic pne." Senator Johnson's Prodable Suc cessor. It is believed that General Wil liam B. Bate, of Nashville, will be elected to succeed Andrew Johnson in the United States Senate. General Bate was Mr. Johnson's chief rival in the contest for the Senatorship last Winter, and this fact may be said to make him most prominent for the position, now that his successful com petitor is dead, for they were both Demo crats, aud the Legislature it almost entirely Democratic. If it be deemed necessary to appoint a Senator, in place of Mr. John son, it is said that Governor Porter will prefer General Bate. This gentleman gained his military title ia the Confederate service. He is a lawyer, and never held political office. Among others mentioned for the vacant seat in the Senate are ex Govs. Isham G. Harris and John C. Brown. It is said that Gov. Porter has strongly intimated that tue claims of those who sought the appointment while the late Senator's body rcmaiued unburied will be entirely ignored by him. Beck, of Kentucky, who denies that we are a nation, and is a candidate for elec tion to the United Stated Senate, predicts that the first act of the Democratic House of Representatives, next December, will be to abolish the office of Lieutenant General, and stop Sheridan's salary. The animus of this is plain. Should these truculant reactionists kick up any muss, however, "Little Phil" will be found promptly on band, salary or no salary. Here is an elegant bit of Democratic financiering. Twenty years ago the taxes levied in New York city amounted to 9 28 tier head of the population. This year they amount to $A50 per head, and the ratio of debt per bead has risen from $23 87 in 1855, to Sill 21 in 1875. What a blessing it is to be ruled by Democrats. They create debts, but never pay them. As a general evidence of the judgment of the late Democratic Legislature of Ohio of its second session it altered or repealed twenty-four of the laws passed at its first session, and absolutely changed some at the same session in which they were pass-fd. Political Duty. Now that our Re publican County Convention is called, and candidates are presenting themselves for nomination for the various offices, it is the duty of Republican citizens to lake snch interest in the matter as shall insure the wisest actiou for the public interest, and for strengthening the organization through which alone the principles won by the war can be perpetuated. Politics, says the Le banon Conner, should be high above mere individual considerations or advantages; and if ever there was a time when broad, patriotic influences in politics were needed it is now. In some circles, misled we be lieve by the attractive cry of independence of parties, there seems to be a desire to de stroy party organization, which could re sult in nothing else than in introducing that political anarchy which has been so fatal to Mexico and to all South American republics. Parties are an essential part of the legitimate machinery of a republican form of government, and those who would destroy them little comprehend the effects of what they would do. The present is a most important time in politics as affecting the destiny of the coun try. It can be fairly said that we have en tered on the Presidential campaign of 1870, for every election now may materially in fluence the result next year. And the re sult of next year's election will be as vital to the welfare of our people and the perpe tuity of our form of government as when the result of the rebellion. The Republi cans believe in a nation indivisible ; tnc Democrats hold that our Union is but a confederacy of sovereign States which may be broken up at any time any Stale shall see proper to sever its connection with the others. This was the main issue involved in the war, and it is the overshadowing is sue in our politics at the present time. If we are going to permit the fatal govern mental heresy of State sovereignty, with the right of secession, to triumph at the polls, it was folly that the people made such sacrifices as they did on the field of war to prevent the same heresy from being carried to its logical conclusion in ISC 1. Thus realizing the importance of the elections before us, every thoughtful Re publican will appreciate the necessity of doing all he can to strengthen tue organi zation which is to carry the banner repres pntinr i.ig tirincinles. This object of r strengthening the party can be accomplish ed so fully in no way as by nominating an acceptable ticket and by bringing the mem hera r,t the nartv into that accord that shall insure a complete unity of action' He who does anything to defeat this work is an enemy of the principles which the Republican party was organized to uphold As we said in a previous article, there are three qualifications which should be de manded in all Republican candidates, viz. honesty, capacity and steadfastness to Republican principals. Mere personal favoritism should not make a nomination tions f these essential quaiffiea- We hope all the Republicans in iw v ty will take an active interest in securing a good ticket through the couventiou, and then we shall have such a result ia Novem ber as will put the party here in the right condition for an old Lincoln majority for whoever shall be the Republican candidate for the Presidency iu 1870. Last week a family residing on the Frankford road. Philadelphia, picked up some sausage from a manure pile aud after washing it clean, ate it Soon after, the whole family were taken suddenly sick, showing symptoms of poisoning. Oue of the children died, and a dog that was ob served to eat some of the sausage, also died soon after eating. A searching examina tion has been made by the Deputy Coroner of Philadelphia, into the causes of the death of the child and dog. A chemical analysis of the coutenU of the stomachs of the child aud dog was made by Professor Henry Leffman, of Jefferson Medical College, who reports that he examined the sausage and the contents of the child's stomach, but failed to detect the presence of any of the metallic poisons. He found, however, that the sausage eaten by the child was much more spoiled and decomposed than the samples of the remainder given him to ex amine. The professor's report closes with the following language : "Upon reviewing thece facts, I am of the opinion that the violent symptoms that have been produced by these articles are not due to the introduction of any of the common poisons, but to the peculiar de composition which they have undergone. Articles of food of a complex nature are liable to undergo chemical changes of un obscure nature, by which they acquire specific and virulent poisonous properties. The particular substances which are pro duced in these cases have never been iso lated or studied, and we are therefore without means of identifying them by chemical tests. The various authorities ou Toxicology give numerous instances of ordinary food, such as fish, cheese, rich pastry, etc., which acquire irritant or acid properties, but give no methods of chemi cal examination, save the negative method of establishing the absence of the ordinary poison." Dr. Maury, the physician who made the jtod-morteni examination on the body of the dead child, read before the corouer's jury an abstract from Wharton and Stille (medical authorities we presume,) showing since 1800 no less than 400 deaths have oc curred in Wurtemburg from eatipg blood puddings and sausages. The jury render ed a verdict that the child "came to his death August 5, 1875, in consequence of eating foul or decomposed sausage which had been picked up from a pile of oflal iu the rear of No. 2004 Frankford road. They fully exonerate from blame the man who threw it out and the butcher who sold it to him. Postmasters, Read This. This utter negligence of some Postmasters in notifying publishers of newspapers of the lying dead in their office of papers of subscribers who have removed or otherwise, has become so serious a loss that there should be a com bined movement to have the penalty impo sed upon them. Even when some of them undertake to give notice it is not legally done. It would seem to be the last thing done by certain postmasters to find out what their duty is. The following, which is a judicial decision, will inform delin quents generally what the law is aud that they may any day expect to have the pen alty visited upon them : "1. Any person who takes a paper regularly from the post office whether directed to his name or another's, or whether he has subscribed or not is rcsponsponsible for the payment. 2. If a person orders his paper discontin ued, he must pay all arrearages, or the publisher may coutiuue to send until pay mcnt is made, and collect the whole amount whether the paper is taken from the office or not. 3. The courts have de cided that refusing to take newspapers and periodicals from the post-office, or remov ing and leaving them uncalled-for is jrrimn facie evidence of intentional fraud. Steel is fast superseding iron as material for railroad tracks. During the present year the Pennsylvania Railroad Company hare laid down over 21,000 tons of it GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF PEXS-KYLVANIA. PROGRESS OF THE WORK FOR 1875. AB STRACT OF THE STATE GEOLOGIST'S REPORT. The Board of Commissioners of the State geological survey held their quarterly meeting at Harrisburg on the 5th of August. The following abstract of Prof. Lesley's rciort of progress will be interesting to the public : VoA wnrfc wm resumed on the 1st of May, and there has been no interruptions of it, the following parties being work in their respective districts: Mr. Prime, with Mr. Clark and Mr. Kent, iu Lehigh county, and with Mr. Chance at the water gap ; Mr. Frazer, with Mr. Lehmand and Ed wards, in Adams county; Mr. Dewees, with Mr. Billin and Mr. Ashburner, on the Juniata ; Mr. Piatt with Mr. Sanders and Mr. Fagan, in the Morriston's cove, and with Mr. W. G. Piatt in Cambria county, and with Mr. Young along the Youghiogheny river; Mr. Carll, with Mr. Hatch and Mr. Hale, in the Oil Re gion ; Mr. Stevenson, with Mr. White, in Greene countv : Mr. Sherwood in Tioga county ; Mr. Allen detailed to special duty for levels ; Mr. C. E. Hall, as paleontolo gist, makes necessary journeys to the dif ferent districts, and studies the collections of fossils sent in to be reported on. Mr, M'Creath, assisted by Mr. Ford, analyzes ores, coals, limestone and clays, in the la boratory at Harrisburg. Dr. Genth is in vestigating the primary and volcanic rocks and minerals in the laboratory of the uni versity at Philadelphia. Mr. E. B. Har- den and O. W.Harden are draughtsmen in J a Philadelphia preparing the reports for press so far as relates to illustrations. Mr. I;s ley has been fully occupied in publishing the reports of progress of 184, of which Mr. Wrigley's and Dr. Genth's have been nublished. Mr. Carl's and Mr. Prime's are just printed and ready to bind ; Mr. Piatt's is commenced and will be ready to bind by the 1st of September, and Mr, M'Creath's will follow immediately ; Mr. Frazer's and Mr. Dowees' will be ready for the press as soon as the printer signifies his readiness. Mr. Lesley's experience has been that six months' field work requires at least six months' office work ; but publishing adds still more to the required time. We were fortunate in getting so much office work done last winter, so that the corpsjcould be left free as May to take the field again Next winter the amount of office work ought to be greater ; and it will require both skill and judgment to prepare the work of 1875 for speedy publication in 187G. Wc had only four months of field work last year. This year we will have six and it is to be honed seven. Last year wc had but five districts occupied. This year we have virtually ten ; as will appear when the details are stated. FINANCES OF THE SURVEY. But this increase of work involves an increase of expenditure, the continuance " ,- pt force next year will be iiU' possible without su , . . tion to S50,000 and yet the work LL. year is the least to be reasonably expected of such a survey. The state of the finances is as follows : Two apropriations for 1S74 and 1875 $70,000 00 Warrant drawn on the treuaurer to Juue 0, '75 43,955 00 Residue or the appropriation There is also an appropriation ...27.044 91 of $35,000 Tor 1870. PURVEYS BEING MADE. The details of the work accomplished this season thus far is, shortly, as follows ; Mr. Prime has surveyed the limestone country between his map of last year and the Lehigh river, and is commencing his survey of Northampton county, which he hopes to complete this fall, so much of it as lies between the edge of the slate and the gneiss. Mr. Frazer has added to his last year's map of the ore belts of York and Adams, and has mapped a good deal of Uie north border of uew red and south flank of the mountain. He will continue this belt to the Marylaud liue. Mr. De- wees has followed the out-crops of the fos sil ore to the Susquehanna river and back to Mifflin, and will continue the same. Messrs. Billin aud Ashburner were detach ed in April for a special survey across the cauntry along the line of the East Broad Top railroad. Mr. Billin making the maps and Mr. Ashl urucr studying the geology and constructing the sections. Their last work has been iu the Trough creek coal beds, of no practical value, in Sidelong ridge. Mr. Piatt Gxcd his headquarters at Sum mit, Cambria county, and with his aid, W. G. Piatt, has visited and described and located on Mr. Ed. Smith's old contour line map every coal bank in the county. This survey will continue through to Som erset county this season. He has superintended Mr. Sanders' map ping the Canoe Valley, Sinking "Valley aud Morrison cove, which will be finished this season and Mr. Fagcn's observations of the irou and zinc ores. Mr. Piatt has also su perintended Mr. Young's statistical survey of the coke field of the Youghiogheny Val ley from Connelsville to Pittsburg, much to the satisfaction of the people. This will make an important report. Professor Stevenson and Mr. White have surveyed Greene county and made a com plete section of 1,500 feet of coal measure, rocks above the upper coal beds, locating on the map the depth of the larger coal beds beneath the suiface at the principal cross roads. They have discovered and lo cated across the country two anticlinals aud two synclinals, and made the geology pericctly plain. The rest of the season they will survey Washington county. Mr. Carll continued his observations at intervals all wiuter and has recently been reinforced by Mr. Hale, who with Mr. Hatch, is surveying carefully the outcrop of the Berea Grit from Warren to Sharou. Mr. Carll is collecting notes through, the oil region and applying his discoveries of last fall to the study of the country south of Frauklin. Mr. Sherwood and his aid have traced from farm to farm aeons Tioga county, the Mansfield ore bed, red beds. fish beds, and Catskill outcrops, laying them down on the couuty may in colors, and will continue this work through Brad ford and Susquehanna counties. Mr. Chance has mapped the Delaware and Lehigh Water Gaps, and constructed sections through the roofing slate belt. hydraulic lime and glass sand formations. Mr. Hall after arranging the cabinet of fossils, examined fossil localities in West moreland, Warren and Venango counties and in the Juniata district, spent a mouth with a volunteer party of collectors on the Delaware aud Lehigh rivers. The number of analyses called for by the assistants to illustrate their rfports demand ed an increase of force in the laboratory at Harrisburg. Mr. Ford has therefore been employed as assistant, which will double the capacity of the laboratory for turning out work. RAILROAD LEVELS. Mr. Allen, attached to Mr. Frazer hut ! year, -has been detailed for special service, Viz : tne collection ana arrauuiucui. w " the railroad and canal levels in the Stale. ...1 1 f oil He will have for publication in the winter several thousand levels a fixed stations on railroad, canal and turnpike lines. This is not only needful for the work of the sur vey, but excites great interest among engi neers and surveyors. It is the intention to include in the list, alphabetically ar ranged, all stations leveled by the survey corps. PRICES OF THE REPORTS. At this meeting of the board the price of Dr. Genth's report on the Minerology of Pennsylvania, 200 pages, 8 vo., with topo graphical map, was fixed at fifty cents in paper cover and the postage is sixteen cents, and the price of Henry F. Wrigley's special report on the Petroleum of Peun sylyauia, its production, transportation. manufacture and statistics, 112 pages, 8 vo., with several maps and illustrations, at 75 cents in paper cover and the postage is 12 cents. Bound copies of either arc 2a cents more and 23 cents postage. The law requires that these reports be sold and the commissioners cannot distribute them gra tuitously. The books are handsomely printed and unlike the generally unwieldly volumes of geological surveys, they are of, a very convenient, handy size, priuted on good paper, in clear type, and the work manship reflects credit on the State prmter. They are stereotyped, so that editions can be published at any time to meet the de mand. Each of these district reports is complete in itself, and is indexed with un usual fulness ; each is sold separately, and persons who get them as they come out can have them bound up in volumes. This is a new and excellent feature of this sur vey, as there are really no preliminary re ports to be thrown aside and superseded by a final report. These reports are in themselvos final. The sum of the publish ed reports this year of the work of 1S74 will amouut to about 1,200 pages, inclusive of Prof. Lesley's. He has been obliged to do much drawing and finishing to secure the best appearance for the books, and a great deal of correcting, amplifying and append ing to make the statement of each district full and clear to the reader and useful to the field worker. Much inquiry has been made for the geo logical reports, but the work of publication is, in fact, much more advanced than was ever the case with any other geological sur vey in the same time. There is no question but the general result will be satisfactory to the people of the State and the scientific world. Orders accompanied by the money, sent to John B. Pearce, secretary of the geologi cal commission, 223 Market street, HarriB burg, Pa., will be filled by mail or express, as directed, or the reports can be obtained through booksellers. Painful Death by Starvation. A Mrs. Maltby died a painful death in Wal lingford. Conn., last week. Eleven years ago 8heaccidenlly swallowed a solution of potash, which caused erosion and inflama tion of the icsophagus, ending in permanent canstriction and lessening of its calibre at a point about two inches above the superior euu o - . .tomach. On account of this stricture Bhe was c n,. ' bVS t AX vauw great caution in eating, as but. - mall mouthful of food well chewed would pass it. She claimed to have swallowed a cherry stone about two weeks before her death, which 6ue believed lodged in the narrowest portion of the esophagus. From that time uutil her death no food could enter her stomach, and she died of starva tion. The exatuinatiun-afler death show ed that she was right in her conjecture, for the cherry stone was found closely tilling up the tube. The prospects for opening the Suubury and Lewistown Railroad to trade aud trav el are becoming better, and from what we hear their is little doubt of the arrange ments now in progress being cousumated The proposition is said to embrace a redem tion of the old bouds at a per centage, nnd the issue of new ones so as to raise enough capital to continue the road to Treverton on one side, and Northumberland on the other giving our produce a choice market in the Schuylkill, Shamokin and Lacka manna coal fields, and new routes to both Philadelphia and New York. New York capitalists are in the movement, and as we know that parties along the line haye un. dertaken to clear the road from and debris lodged on it, from the passage of an exam ining train, it begins to look like work. Lewistown Gazette August 11. The jury in the case of John I). Lee, the Morman charged with being the leader in the Mountain Meadow massacre, report ed last Friday, at Beaver. Utah, that they were uuable to agree, and was thereupon discharged by the court. It is reported that they stood nine for acquittal and three(one gentile and two Mormans) for conviction. The trial has ended as was generally anti cipated. More could not be expected from a Mormon jurv. but the testimony elicited fixed the damning deed on Lee nnd the Mormon leaders with a directness that can not be refuted. For nearly twenty years the power of the Mormon church prevented an investigation, and prevented witnesses from testify ing.but the power of that church is on the wane, and although Lee was not convicted, because of the Mormon jury that sat on Lis case, yet the testimony establish ed his guilt aud proved that Mormouism will not long protect murderers and cut throats. Wheat. Recent crop reports from Europe indicate that the harvest of grain is better than was supposed a few weeks ago. The damage by heavy wind and rain had had partially recovered, and it was hoped that if fine weather followed much of it would be saved. The rise in the price had been equal to 12 ceuts per bushel in a single week, but at last ac counts it was rather lower. From Russia it is now reported that wheat will yield a fair average. The demand for shipments from this country, however, is still main tained. There resides in Georgetown, this coun ty a family of eight members consisting of tather.motherand six children, all of whom were boru and still continue deal and dumb. They communicate with each other by means of signs, writing, &c, and manage to get along among themselves almost as well and perhaps more peacably than fami lies who have power of all their senses. The parents were both educated in a deaf and dumb asylum, are quite intelligent, and beautiful writers. The father is at present engaged in the shoo business, and educating his children in the same institu tion that he and bis wiie attended many years ago. Beaver Anjua and Radical. A dispatch from the White Mountains says there is a rumor in the hotel in which Mr. Beecher is stopping that Moulton has been in consultation with General Butler, and the result of the consultation is a partially perfected plan to bring an action against Mr. Beecher, in that county, for perjury in swearing to the reply in the Til ton suit, last year, at Middleton. The Late Treasury Robbery. Theodore W. Brown, Benjamine B. Halleck and William II. Ottman have been arrested for the theft of $47,000 from the Treasury, on the 2d of June. Brown was arrested at Saratoga ; Halleck, who is a Treasury Clerk, in New York, and Ottman who is a restaurant-keeper, in Washington Brown and nalleck were taken to Wash ington, where they have been committed, with Ottman, in default of 3100,000 bail each. A dispatch from Washington dated the 0th inst says : "No time has yet been fixed fora prelim inary examination of the persons recently arrested for the larceticy of the 47,000 package from the Treasury Department. Ottman has employed Richard T. Merrick as his council, and an effort will be made to have the bail reduced, but the author! ties demand bonds to the amount of ?100,- 000, and it is thought he will be committed for trial, not being able to give bail in that sum. It has been ascertained that Oilman recently made a heavy deposit in a bank in Alexandria, Va., and officers have been sent to that city to secure the money. The employes in the cash-room at the Treasury Department have been watched in all their movements since the robbery was commit ted, but to day, owing to the recent arrests they felt sensibly relieved from suspicions which may have attached to any of them, nnd exnress themselves accoadindy. The president of the Germania Savings Bank of Alcvandria, where Ottman has a special deposit, had an interview with General Spinner and Treasurer New to day, and consented that the officers should examine the contents of the packages left byjOttman Chief of Police Richards consequently went to Alexandria for that purpose. The package having been examined it was found to contain twenty nine $500 bills, amounting to $14,500. The package was sealed and had Ottman'B name upon it. The money has been brought to Washington. The detectives expect to c " recover 20,000 more of the stolen money, Ottman in the course of the morning appeared with one of his council, R. K Elliott, before Judsre Suell. He waived a nreliminarv examination. Judge Snell after hearing the statement of District Attorney Fisher as to the character of the offence charged, and the participation of Ottmed in the larceucy, required bail in the sum of 100,000, in default of which he was committed. Brown, who was first arrested, will have a hearing before the Police Court to-morrow. Oltman's council will have him brought before a judge ofthe Supreme Court of the district, aud moved that the amount of bail fixed by the Police Court be reduced. Later. This afternoon Major Rich ards and Chief Detective Clarvoe called Treasurer New, and handed him the the 14,500 recovered in Alexandria, where it had been deposited by Ottman. After being counted il was again placed in the custody of Major Richards, to be used as evidence against the accused. Ottman has beeu for several years well known in Alexandria, aud is a stockholder in the bank in which he made this deposit, and was also a heavy stockholder in the Ship yard Company and other enterprises their ft was ascertained to-day that Ottman deputed with Riggs & Co. as follows July 13, a -heck ofthe Commercial Nation al Bank of Saravoa on the First National tsanxoijNew X orK Tor 1,000 ; July a check of William Bryce & Co. to the order of J. C. Vallet on the Phoenix National Bank of New York for 3,500 ; a check on the Mechanics' National Bank of Wor Chester for 550, and that these sums have been checked out July 28. It has also been ascertained that Oilman purchased an establishment in Brooklin for . 15,000, where he proposed to engage in business, aud was making arrangements to this end when arrested. Mrs. Halleck and Mrs, irnmanr-i xf the accused parties, were at the police headquarters to -a ay uJ long conlerenccs with their respective husbands. Halleck is still at the police headquarters, but will be taken before the Po'.ice Court to morrow, with Brown, for a preliminary examination. Writs of altatcbment against Ottman's renl and personal property hoving been issued at the instance of the Government, Ihe Mashei thes afternoon executed them, seizing bis three houses, horse and carriage, diamonds &c. worth probably 20,000, and closed his restaurant. About 20.000 of the stolen notes have thus far been recovered Dr. Blake, chairman ofthe late commission to count the money in the Treasury, dis claims the credit given him in the News papers of having first directed suspicion against Halleck. He says the entire cred it is due to the Metropolitan Police detec tives for energetically bringing the facts connected with the Treasury robbery to light and the arrest of parties implicated. The Philadelphia North American says : The Pennsylvania Democracy may as well take down their Bign and put up the shut ters ofthe show window of their establish ment for the manufacture of political capi tat. For a loug, long lime have they dis played iu that show window the model of a tremendous hole iu the State Treasury; a hole out of which something valuable was supposed to have dropped. UEEIIAL SEWN ITEMS. A new 400-barrel oil well is the latest sensatiou in Butler county. In Lexington, Ky., Governor Harlen had a majority of nearly 1000 at the late election. The sea serpent has turned up again. It is a discriminating animal, aud chooses the dull season for its appearance. The Church of Eugland has just decided that it is necessary to believe in the devil in order to be saved. Rather strange logic that. James Gordon Bennett is reported to have purchased ten highbred English tho roughbred colts, aud intends to become a turfman. To raise 100,000 iu theory is all very well, but in practice it is quite anothex thiug. This is what the Plymouth Church are beginning to find out. The amount of travel Westward on the Pennsylvania railroad for some time past has necessitated the running of two sec tions of the Pacific express. Still failing off. The emigration from Liverpool during June was 2320 less than iu the same last year, and the decrease ou the year is 13,195. In WeBlern Wisconsin the weather has been exceedingly favorable to the wheat, and a large crop is expected. The harvest iu that stale has just begun. A uew issue of five-dollar bills is being Circulated. The note is of entirely a novel design, and the difficulty of counterfeiting has been cons iderably increased. Four thousand three hundred loaded and empty cars were hoisted and lowered over the Mahanoy Plane one day last week. An extraordinary day's work. Curtin'8 iron works in Centre county, Pa., are running . full time with orders ahead. The Williamsport Rubber Company ex pects to make two thousand pairs of shoes per day. Mr. Saterlee, of Williamsport, Pa., has struck a flowing well of salt water and is now engaged in the manufacture of salt. The miners are asking for a reduction of rent in the Schuylkill region to correspond with the reduction of wages. That's fair. Whether a woman is to be considered a widow because her husband is in the State prison for life is the hard question that is puzzling the California courts. A frog as big as a cow's head, and with a voice like a dog, has been seen in Mon treal. There are bigger croakers on this side of the border, however. The Western farmers are making loud complaints about the ravages of the aimy worm. What with floods, grasshopers, and the rest, their lives must be a burden to tbem. Freemasonry in England ia greatly in creasing in popularity. One reason is the opposition of the Roman Church, and the other the royal patronage which is bestow ed upon it. The stock of crude ol tanked above ground in the oil region is estimated ot 0,000,000 barrels, while the stocks at the seaboard and id foreign ports are corres- pondly heavy. The household expeuses of the Sulton of Turkey are 10,000,000, end this when the country can scarcely pay the interest opon the crushing debts which it has been forced to contract. The balauce of the funds left after the Pittston 4th of July celebration are to be presented to James Mclntyre, the gunner of the occasion, who was nearly blown to pieces at the time. An exchange thinks that the recognition by the United States Government of the struggling Cuban patriots will soou be an act of justice which cannot be much longer withheld. The New York World classes the pre vailing Democratic sentiment iu Ohio ou the currency as "the Pendleton scab," and says that as it broke out in 1803 and again in 1875 it must be the seven years' itch. It is said that there are at least three hundred American girls in Italy studying for the opera stage. The cost of a three years course is not less than 5,000 in gold. It is said that the religious enthusiasm roused by Moody and Sanky during their visit to Eugland is unparalleled since the days of Martin Luther. In London alone 2S5 meetings were held in four months, with an attendance of 2,170,000 people. The contract for the construction of the Pittsburs Exposition Building has been executed, and operations begun. Messrs. Frazier Brothers have the contract, and are bound to have the buildings ready for occupancy by the first of October next A Norristown dyer put a lot of potato bugs in a vat of scalding dye, then threw them out on a ie of refuse dye stuff. Under the suu's rays the cooked bugs re vived and again went for that dyer's pota to vines. . . - Travel ou the main line of the Pittsburg Washington and Baltimore railroad is now unobstructed, and trains are running on time. The branch roads, however,, are all interfered with, and will not be in running order for a day or more. A Lehigh county paper says that some poisonous agent is killing large numbers of fish in the Lehigh, and that at that place thousands of all sizes aie to be seen lining the shores, many of them large fisb. Va rious causes are assigned, but uot ascertain cd. The Pennsylvania Railroad have com menced lo use hard coal in as many of the locomotives as have been fitted up for its use, and the result is most acceptable, Their is now but little or no smoke, and no inconvenience resulting from it. All the locomotives will be fixed in a short time. Cardinal McCloskey, accompanied by his Secretary, sailed ou Saturday for Havre, on his way to Rome, where he will receive the hat and ring of the Cardinalate. He expects to return about the middle of No vember. When he arrives in Reme he will present to the Pope 20,000, gold, the gift of Catholics of his diocese. Chinese immigration to California is on the increase. The total arrivals since 1802 are 113,074. The steamer brought 933 Chinese to San Francisco. The Califor nians abuse them mercilessly, but they find it profitabe to go there, and submit to man ifestations of racial prejudice very quiet- iy. During a recent tornado in Minnesota two sheep were carried fully a mile by the wind, and finally landed in a tree top, where they were founded pinned together by a board that had been driven through their bodies. The Boston Herald tells why Mr. Pen dleton is called "Gentleman George." He derives his handsome cognomen from the fact that the late Horace Greely once al luded to him as the ouly gentleman in the Democratic party. San Francisco is to hav e a would-be ri val in San Monica, a new .town four hun dred miles to the south. A railroad is be ing built to conuect with the Union Paci fic Steamship Company are to touch at the port. It is thought that the venture will succeed. At Columbus, Ohio, on Friday night, Heury Wright, colored, bet a friend that ee could drink a quart of raw whiskey and eight glasses of beer inside of half an hour He wou the bet, and the coroner on Satur day returned a verdict that the said Wright came to bis death from an over dose of whiskey and beer, drank iu too short a time. At West-Rutlaud, Vt., last week, near ly three hundred men gathered to witness a ''og-flght, but the dogs only played with each other and could not be induced to fight, showing that their was more good in two dogs than in three hundred two-legged brutes. A company of German monks, who were lately expelled from their native country, have settled in New Jersey, at West Pat erson, and intend erecting a monastery on some land they have purchased there. They belong to the order of St. Elias, and seem to be possessed af ample means. A curious horn drinking cup, said to have beeu the property of Lord Cornwallis and to have been lost by that commander before the battle of Yorktown, October 19, 1781, was yesterday presented to the State library for preservation. A few days be fore Cornwallis arrived at Yorktown he and his army camped on a young widow's farm by the name of Lane. When she arose in the morning the army had disap peared, and under the large oak tree iu the yard where Cornwallis had his tent she found Ibis tumbler and a long necked, tumbler bottle half full of wine. A Lowell, Massachusetts, firm hao just gone into the manufacture of felt shoes, for which it has the entire patent right in the United States. As convincing proof that the grasshop pers read the papers, it is said that they have this season entirely avoided a certain county which was' mentioned last year as raising the poorest quality of wheat in Kansas. Chinese immigration to the Pacific ceast continues to increase. In 1862 there arriv ed at San Francisco 5,404, which has in creased to 15,807 in 1875. Allowing for mortality and those who have returned, the Chinese settlers in this country may now be safely put at 1,000,000. By a majority of about fifteen thousand Alabama has called a Convention to frame a new Constitution. The Southern States are just now very active in changing their Constitutions. , Those given them under the reconstruction acts being generally un acceptable to the late Lords of the Lash. The Supreme Court of Pennsylvania has just re-affirmed au old decision that in the matter of the highways a county, town ship or municipality is liable to any dam ages resulting from neglect of duty in keep ing the highways in a proper state of re pair. The Asiatic cholera is making a deadly attack an Demascus and other Syrian cities. The disease comes in a most violent type, and finds the people but ill prepared to combat it. After suffering a year of Syrian fever and ague sufficiently serious of its self they fall an easy pray to the great 6courge of Asia. They are fleeing, who can ; and those who are not fleeing are in imminent peril of their lives. The heavy rains and overflow ofthe Ohio and Mississippi rivers and same of their tributaries, have caused a considerable destruction in the oats crop, and the plan ted corn ; also the washing ofthe land and damage to whatever crops are within their sweep ; but even in those sections we are verv certain that we have received exag gerated statements. To prevent horses' feet from scaling or cracking in summer, and enabling the shoes to be carried a longer time without injury, the French practice is to coat the hoofs once a week with an ointment com posed of equal proportions of soft fat, yel low wax, linseed oil, V enice turpentine and Norway tar ; the wax is melted sep arately before mixing. The President of the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad, Mr. Gowen, delivered a long and elaborate address before the Com mittee of Investigation, appointed by the Legislature, containing the history of the company he represents, as to the develop ment of the coal trade. The address made a profouud impression upon the committee, and was a strong and brilliant presentation of the case. At Kansas City lately an elephant turn ed pickpocket. A rosy-cheeked apple, in the pocket of a fair, unconscious damsel, was too much for his virtue and he confis cated it. Having once began the down ward career he, no doubt, formed the opin ion that it was as well to be hung for sheeD as a lamb, and so he cleared her t pocket out. Presently he wished he hadn't It coutalned a bottle of ammonia and the elephant's stomach was strangely surprised. Baltimore had a sensation the other day in the marriage of an Englishman of aris tocratic lineage to a colored lady, the daughter of a Florida Judge. When the happy twain appeared ou the streets they were followed by a mob, and as the happy Benedick was making a purchase in adru store for his fair bride he was arrested as disturber of the peace, and would have been seut to jail had not his wife's grand father bailed him. The returns from the North Carolina election, although by no means complete, indicate the defeat of the reactionary Con stitutional Convention scheme. If the Democracy should carry the State it will be a very small majority. At the Mate election last fall their majority was 14,030. The openly avowed purpose of the Demo cratic leaders of the movement was to mod ify for the worst the existing public school system, aud put severe restrictions around the colored citizens and poor whites in the exercise of their right of suffrage, The New York World is very much annoyed by the fact that Mr. Mackey's accounts were found all right, and that a defalcation was not made to appear. In this it has the sympathy of the bourbon element iu Pennsylvania. It would have much preferred an exposure of a robbery at the expense of the tax-payers, so that capital might have been made for its party It will meet with a second disappointment when it receives the election returns in November. Telegraphic News. The Crops in Ohio. Cincinnati, Aug. 11. The Gazette has received special dispatches from one hun dred and forty county 6eats where the late floods occurred, and the prospects are much better than expected. Wheat and oats have suffered ; of the former two-thirds of the crops will be saved, and of the latter less than half can be saved. Of course there will be more than the average crop, owing to the increase of acreage ; potatoes will yield largely, although some few farm ers complain of the rot. At most points the yield will be over the average. The hay crop will not fall short of the average in quantity, but the quality is not as good as usual. Correspondence. Ont XEW YORK LETTER. the police investigation tramps tilton-r.eecheit the bio failure business weather. New York, Aug. 10, 1875. TOE POLICE INVESTIGATION. The committee investigating the police of this city are uuearthing some very odor ous matter. It has been shown that cap tains of precincts have for years accepted from the proprietors of gambling-houses and houses of ill-fame regular sums of money per week, the consideration being that these houses should not be molested And when a new policeman, or an honest one, reported these houses as proper sub jects for pulling, the captaiu would run his pencil through their names and rebuke the subordinate for officiousness. Of course this speculation could not be long confined to captains. The policemen on the beats very soon went into the business on their own account,anu made it pay handsomely. They charged the girls 5 per week for protection against arrest. The same bar gains were made with notorious thieves, and it has goue so far that it is almost im possible to either bring one of them to jus tice or recover property that has been stolen. You may imagine the condition of the city when-the police, its guardians, are in league with the thieves, swindlers, and prostitutes. A little occurrence that came to my kuowledge last night illustrates the working of it. A citizen was coming out of an up-town street at about nine o'clock. when he was attacked by two foot-pads one of whom snatcheu his watch. lie Biezed the thief and yelled to a policeman who stood within twenty feet, calmly look ing on. What did the policeman do t Arrest the thief and restore to the man his watch ? Nothing of the sort. He clubbed the citizen over the head till he let go bis hold upon the thief, telling him, with an oath, that he ha'd made disturbance enough around there. The thief ran away with his booty and the policeman disappeared. Of course the citizen will complain, but nothing will come of it. It was raining very hard at the time, and the policeman had on his waterproof Ilavelock and coat, so identification will be impossible. The condition of affairs in the city is anything but pleasant. I do not know which class is the most feared, the outlaws or the police. Oue thing is evident, no city like New York, with its vast irresponsible foreign population, is fit to govern itself. The decent citizens are largely in Ihe mi nority, and as a consequence the lawless element governs it What the remedy is, heaven only knows. TRAMPS. The hard times affects everything, even the profession of begging. When the times were flush it was easier to give a beggar ten cents or a quarter than it was to be twice importuned. Now it is different Men have not got the ten cents or the quarter to spare, and the beggar, unless it be a certain case of absolute, honest distress, is turned off at short metre. Now, your regular beggar will never work, no matter how desperate his case may be, and, consequent ly when the times got bo hard here in the city, he departed for pastures fresh. They took their worthless carcasses to the coun try, and then an idea seemed to strike them simultaneously. A farm-house, with no body at home but a woman or two, afford ed them scope for. something besides beg ging, And so three of them together march into a farmhouse and ask for food. If the man of the bouse happens to be in they get food and go away, but if they find the house unprotected, they change their tone. The beggar's whine is dropped, and in its stead is the demand of the sturdy tramp, who appears in his true character of thief. Connecticut and New Jersey are fairly swarming with these pests. Indeed, so numerous are they that the authorities in some sections in Connecticut have appoint ed special police to look after them. There is but one way with these fellows. Every beggar or mendicant, genuine or other wise, should be at once arrested and put &t labor in a workhouse. If they are legi timatethat is, unable to make a living, they have a living furnished, for which they contribute as much labor as they can do. If they are frauds, as ninety-nine in a hundred are, they will be forced to work, steal, or starve. If they do the first they will be entitled to live ; if the second, they come within the grasp of the law ; and if they choose the third, the world is happily rid of them. Every State in the Union ought to make mendicancy a crime, and ought to deal with beggars as criminals of the worst class. One incident occurred to me yesterday that shows the material of which these people are made. A tall six footer, stooped and tottering, approached me. and in a voice so low as not to be fully understood, mumbled something of which only "tin cints" and "ate notbin' for forty eight hours" was distinct "Speak up," said I, "I can't understand yon." "I can't shpake loud, I'm too wake." "Get out, you thief," was my response, for I bad seen the fellow before. "To hell wid yezf" was the response of this starved, weak man, in a stentorian voice ; and straightening him self up, be looked what he was, a brawny, muscular ruffian, who, in the night and in the dark, would be an exceedingly uncom fortable man to meet That man is a beg gar to-aay, a looi-paa to-morrow, ana a burglar the next By this time, probably, he is frightening the souls of women and children fifty miles out of the city. f TILTON-BEECHER. There is a disagreeable prospect that this mess of nastiness, which every one hoped was closed forever, is to be opened once more. Tilton has filed an application for a new trial, and asserts that be has new evidence to introduce, that will double Mr. Beecher up in just ten days. What the new evidence is no one knows ; but Theo dore and his lawyers look and act very con fident. In the meantime Tilton is at his boose in Brooklyn, writing a new novel and arranging his lecture tour for the winter, which will be a very extensive one. He has a hundred more applications than he can fill, and they are pouring in upon him daily. Beecher is up in the White Mountains taking his vacation. His church made his departure the occasiou of an ova tion, and a deputation of his deacons went with him in a special car. I should suppose that Beecher would tire of all this fuss. For over a year now he has been in the hands ot his church, who have watched over him, and called on him, and gone with him, and stayed by him, and so surrounded him that he has not had a minute to him self. They were at his house before he arose in the morning, and the last earthly object bis eyes rested on as he went to sleep was a deacon in the hope of hoping that the terrible Tilton and the mendacious Moulton might be confounded, and "our Jbeloved-- pastor" be vindicated. And now that the trial is over, they are going to bore him for six month with their rejoicing over his victory. Were I Beecher, I should pass my summer in Alaska. THE BIG FAILURE of Duncan, Sherman & Co. doesn't look as well as it did. When the creditors came to look for the real estate held by the firm, it was discovered that only a few days before ti e failure it had been all trans ferred to the fathers and relatives of the partners. It was gravely stated by these gentlemen that the sale had been made years ago, but that the deeds had never been put upon record, to strengthen the credit ofthe firm. That is to say, Duncau, Sherman & Co. were getting credit on pro perty that did not belong to them. This may be all right, but it looks, to a plain man, very like a swindle. The failure did not produce a panic, nor did it make any perceptible Impression on the city. Noth ing could, I think. The city is so dull that I can't imagine anything that could make ' it duller. BUSINESS is worse than it has ever been known in the history of the city. There is absolutely nothing doing, and there is no prospect of improvement There was hopes of a little -fall trade, but the floods in the West have cut those hopes down to nothing, ana everybody is bracing for the worst Possi bly the reports may be exaggerated and the damage be less than is supposed, but the outlook is bad at best. THE WEATHER HERE is terrific. It i9 hot, wet, muggy, nasty, uncomfortable, and altogether thoroughly disagreeable. Oh, for a change of some kind. P1ETRO.
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