The Beaver Argil's. 1. WEThND. EDITUA AND Morainal: -Beaver. Ps.. Jan. 19. 1870. Gold closetlyeatorday at LW} . STOCKS.--frwln Stock.-111 demand. Commands a heavy 'premium. All taken and held firmly. Mackey Stock—At a heavy discotint. No buyers to be found anywhere. • Quay Stock—Worthless .' Not Inquir ed about. Ono 0. P. Wharton is sup posed to kayo all of it In his custody. THE Committee on' Ways and Meaui on Friday last refused by a vote of two against six to make bi tuminous coal free. They rejected motion for fifty tents per ton by a vote of three against five. The pro position for one dollar per ton was lost by .a tie vote. c o al, therefore, remains as now. SECRETARY lk)trovia.t. approves of the bill reported by Senator Sher man, increasing the, national hitnk circulation $15,000,000, and retiring the same amount of three per cent, certillottes, and also the section in the bill allowing national banks to be tahlished on a gold Last week's Radical was lilmost filled with abuse Of. General Irwin and the details of his defeat for the State Tipisurship, At the last mo ment, hoivever, "stern nee city" romired this cruel paragraph to ap pear in that sheet: . late Trpsottirer.—Tho belt on the State Treasurer hus been successful. Mr. Mackey the CaUCIIN nominee has been defeated by lion. W. W. Irwin by a vote of 70 to 61, alt the Democrats vot ing for Irwin. It in a case of bargain and sale of t h e most atrOclous character. The details will be forthcOmlng licreaf- Wr." THE Virginia bill reported by the Reconstruction Committee in 'the lions° is a compromise in its charac ter, and will probably pas both House+. It is accetitabld to both Willg'S of the Republiams In the louse, and while it is not quite as liberal as they desirtsl, it is 80 much better than they expected that the Virmla Legislative Committee• of nineolow attheCapital will fullyyq dorse it. The oath presented in the bill oil etclude but a sin Vie inember of the. Legislat4"e. 'l'! F. news from and about Domin ica makes it tolerably clear that, in case of the annexation of any part of that "Republic," we shall have a good deal of lighting on / hand, which will probably last for some time. In con sidering the negotiations for the leas ing of the Bay of SUMSI.IIII, or uuy of the negotiations with President llaez, it would be Well for Congress to bear Ibis fact in mind. We ean, of course, "whip" the Dominicans, or any oth er enemy who dares to light us; but Mill lighting cannot be tuned a mat ter of economy or pleasure. A silly story has been put in circa culation in 'leaver to the effect that the friends of Oenend Irwin , in or der to secure the Democratic vote for State Treasurer gave, as an equiva lent, the Republican majority in the State Senate. A little reflection will show that this story is untrue. The State:Senate is (Imposed of 33 mem bers: The sealsof thirty-one of these are unronteded. The seats of two are contested. Out of the thirty one uncontested seats the Republic- LUIS 1111 .verenteen and the Democrats fourteen. Now, guppixse the Demo crats should happen to- gt.d, the • tiro contested seats (which Is not at all probable) the Republicans would still have a majority in the Senate of oire. Thus, that bubble is pricked. Ci INS! DEM NU t h e relation existing a short time ago between our little neighbor down street arid the Penn sylVaniit Railroad company, the fol lowing, taken from his paper cif last week, shield be recommended physicians to their dyspeptic pa tients. Under all the circumstances 1 lieman or WOlllO.ll who (.1111' read this extract without laughing all over, is in a hopeless condition in deed: This eseape has nu lesson more valua ble than Jilts; that the liberties id the people are in pt•rpetual danger from this tremendous intinoply, the Pennsylvania ituil Road; that lighting it Is lighting the battle of the people'. Anti that either its poiver or our 13W11 right to self govern-- MIR 11113 St itllieVitlg this milleoere ly,,:ttlti seeing it at eleatly noon-duly, NVe here anti now commit Tug ]{.%Meal. ON 3 war on this dangerous roo to the State nv " unrelenting - as the cause of the peo ple may regliireantl as bitterns the indig uatiun irhie6 its mitrageotNlnterferatico itt iii tics Ihreign to its inturests, has :u Dined. TIIK friends of Mr. Mackey, here and there throughout the 'State, are denouncing, the fifteen Republicans who supported Oeneral Irwin on last Nl'ednesdaY for State Treasurer, as "boltrs."---They were "bolters" in no'sense of the tern)." They went to I larrisburg instructed by their con stituents,•iiither expressedly or lot-, pileihly, to resist Mr. Mackey's re election. Ascertaining after they witched the Capital that Mr. M. and Iris friends hail the thing so arranged that his nomination by the caucus was a furevtie/eonehwion, they neither went into the 1.11111.1118 111(111I: Seive,t nor meddled in any way with its proecvtlings. Their determination to have nothing to do with the pre--, arranged caucus was 'well know in I iarrislairg for a day or two before it N 1 .11.4 (1111(41, 1111(1 the attempt now to nfake-the people believe that they • were "bolters" will prove as futile ws the efforts made by the treasury ring to re-elect one of their own numlier 'the financial officer of' the State. ,These members believed that a great wrong had limn perpetrated upon the people of the State, in the name of the Iteptibliistu party, in the manage went of our State litianct, sod they comet !led Rtu be their duty to met the evil-in tiro speedicA manner possible. 'When they found therefore that the party •initeidnereiiind Ikea ' seized to perpetuate thewrong. they /took the romonsibility'of 'going out side of their own otrinization ,for a corrective, and We have but 'little doubt that In a short-lime nearly the whole party in the State will', say they did right, and commend their conduct as worthy of example In tlfe THE terrible 'lashing whit:llo6v. Geary gave the Treasury ring in his annual message of A couple of weeks ago, has iacsixl the newspapers in the the interest of that combination to withhold the auSige from their read "ers. (inc will look in vain through thti Heaver Radhvil for either the message itaiif, or any editorial notice that such a docuoient..was over writ ton or .rtmd at Harrisburg. His r e . markson matters relating to the State Treasury, evidently contalifisl infor mation, Willeb the /:adicrileklitor did not wish hbi readers to sixi' items aiienintio6or the iiwls- Mackey Contest. On the receipt of the news in titzt ver that Gen. Irviin had twin elected State Treasurer, on last Wednesday evening, quite' an excitement pre vailed for some time; With the ex ception, of perhaps a dozen of per soda (the Radkrelemployees and two or three others); the whole town was jubilant; and hairUly gad that the Treasury Ring had been smashed be. yond all hope of being welded togeth er again In the future. • The people of New Brighton and vicinity,Withoutdistinction of party, were similarly affected; and, since then, their gratiflattion has manifest ed itself in cheers, the firing of cannon and illumination of their dwellings. A prominent gentleman of this lo ptlityl whose business takes him al moSt. constantly into the rural dis triets,. told us ttday or two ago, that he had nu "met with num, woman. hild'ordog," but felt good over the defeat of the Bing by kieneml They did not regard it simply as a triumph Of one of our own citizens, but looked upon the.reZult at Harris burg, on laSt Wednesday, US a victo ry. of rigld'overwrong ; a triumph of the people over a -baud of the boldest corruptionists that ever cursed this or any other State. On last Wednesday evening, when it became known in Beaver that Gen. Irwin was elected State Treasurer, 0. I': Wharton, the associate editor of the Radical, declared to several per sons that it was Quay's influence that had done it 1 He Atatiml distinctly and emphatically, that those who be lieved that Quay's slate was smashed in Mackey's defeat were deceived, for he—WhartouL-knew, ten days ago, • that Quay 'was working to bring about Gaferal election! The attention of Mr. Mackey is particu larly called to Mr. Wharton's state ment. The former might do a worse net than to give the matter his special attention. Senatorautan, one day last week, wrote to a person in this town, that the belief that the Democrats in the LegislatUre would vote for General .1 rwin, for Treasurer, would avail him but little, "for," tuffif he, in substance: "Mackey will get 11 .4 many Democrat ic votes as Irwin." From this it • would seem that Democratic affili ation was not near so hideous in the sight of the Treasury ring before the election acs it.appeared afterwards.— After all it does matter whose ox is gored. • leather Abraham,wo fear, is poking fun at our neighbor when he talks In this wise: Master Quay.—"Wlwro Is he. and where was ho on Wainendayf And where's lily slate? Did he fall and break it, or did somebody wipe out his tiggers and all his f We fear Master quay has been playing truant, and needs looking alter." A friend at Harrisburg says that during the time occupied in taking the third vote on State Treasurer, the Muckeyites rushed up and down the Hall offering $2.0,000 for four Democratic votes for their favorite. They failed to get them. Result: ring broken:— slate smashed —the people win. I lon. A. J. Buffington, oue of the members.of the House from this Dis trict (the only ono from Washington and Beaver who voted agai n st the Treasury Ring on last Wednesday) paid a short visit to his home during the latter pert of last week. A gen tleman who is cognizant of the facts, informs us that his old neighbors anti acquain tanautvs gathered around him at all points and thanked him over and over again for his wanly and in dePendent mum: on the Treasurer question. The very few Matekeyitm whom we have In this county are just now abusing General Irwin for going out side of the' Republican party Tor sup port. If themselves and friends re fleet a little they will probably re- Member that General Irwin was not the only Republican candidate for office that recently went to the Dein °craw for votes. Oh ! no, not by any 1111:111.1. Two or three weeks ago When our amiable neighbor, M. S. Quay, left 1101111. for Harrisburg, he told his friends that he "would not return un til Mackey was elected." As Mack ey went down in the contest. of course Mr. Quay's majestic presence and portly form will never again be seen in Bawer. We regret this keenly for it may be a 'lung time before his like maybe with us again. .And now farewell! farewell t &dare not lengthen 'fbe4e 'meet, .ad momenta out, bet to gore OD thee In bat. Indeed', yet It but Ilene, to etrengtben The lune that now amounts to +goof: Thu to our law farowelf.'• • STA.TE TILEAAGRT REFORM. Isi qic great reform movements inaugurated at Harrisburg iu re gard to the management of tile pub lic funds it is believed His Excellen cy, tiovernor Ueary, entitled to the credit; riud die more effectually to ac 'complish that cud, it was deemed a commencement' would more fittingly be made by effecting a change of the presiding officer of the . State Treasu ry. lin support of this theory, its ad wattles confidently point to and re produce 'the 'following extract from the (l oveinor!s had annual tpt..sage,in which he .taktri plain, bold, decided ground in favor ofreformingthenum tigement of 'that Deptthment. Ile says:. beg, once more, to remind the Leg' is latine that the salary of the ;hate Treasu rer should at least be ispinl to . that of tin; (inventor: It a, only seventeen hundred dollars, a sum entirely insufficient to coin insind the services of tiny responsible man, who is required to tarnish n bond, with good and I,pprovoti sureties' fur eighty thousand dollars, and to run the risk of handling at least; lve or six millions of dollars per annuni, the unlawful use of the State funds, unit subsidies Irma sources that dare not be revealed to the public, becau* they are posstiveiy prolub lied by l a w . , under penalties of he ordina ry magnitude. 'Yet there nre but few men who have - held this office, however poor they may have been•whiai they, took ithargu ot it,. - who have net become rich. There is certatitly some advantage to he gained, try.the hokling or the position sit Stoic! Tretuwer unknown to the • public, but: widen ventlily , amanita for the dos' ,gruCeful scramble, and for the polil hail and annul debauchery which the people of tho Stati.l.seeni It; be doomed annually to wit mai, :fit the election of that officer; and because, ;be disgrace it brings upon flair 'representatives, the people. hang their heads in indignation, and shame. Ti,, it, in the mime lir the good people of l'ennsylvaina, roll upon ill; members or the Legibtatu re, without distinction of par t)", to rise above the inurklaiss of the pol kaed atintamhelje of the' inestjo the true dignity of manhood and culled patriiit ism, and perity.the election of, Tettattleet, as well as that of every other officer in this Commonwealth: and punish every one wit , . Imnpera with the purity of elections, what ever may be his positioitor pretensions. And then every one who shall have per formed lips whole duty to instant the true Mterestii of the stafe, dad maintain the high'ilignity of her eliaietteri may return unpolluted and within Clear .COMlClellee u. his eallatillicatit, ;who will • receive hint with Open arias, nal ivith . die joy n ex clamation of "well done, good and faithful servant.' " Such testimony as this is overwhel ming, but it is no more than a fair embodiment of the known facts, the settled belief and fixed will of the people. The Case of Mr. Cooke. As the ReV. Horace Cooke's recent elopement with a young woman of his congregation Is Jest now attract ing considerable attention, we will state the facts as steminetly as possible. Me was a Methodist preacher of good repute for piety, learning and elo quence; had charge of a large congre gation by *hem he 'was reverenced and respected. One day, week before last, ho left his wife and two children and eloped with a Mist Johnson-:- about seventeen years of age, very beautiful and amimplished, and the daughter of one of the most wealthy membels of his congregation,—and, as no traces of them could be found, It was supposed they had sailed for Europe. On Thursday, evening last he returned to tke city uud restored Mbe Johnston te her parents, as he. alleges, "pure us when taken away." Ills subsequent conduct proved him inane, nod lie has accordingly been placed in an asylum. The txxitslini was seized upon by some.of the sen sational Papers, to publish all man ner of falsehoods relative to the for meecharacter of the unfortunate di vine for chastity. We therefore draw upon The New York 2i•ibune for the following strictures on this feature of the scandal, premising that we fully endorse them : , "A few days ago the public Was, shocked with the announcement that a married clergyman. in witxl stand ing, had eloped with a young mem ber of his flock. • Over such a story of shame the journalist ought to have been glad to draw a veil as quickly as his duty to the community would permit. But it was seized upon by one or two sensational newspapers us the foundation for a piquant chroni cle of scandal; It MIS embroidered and elaborated with a hundred.pru rient details; the slums of society were raked for more filth to east upon the disgraced minister;' the lying gossips who are always ready with slanderous anecdotes of the fallen were invited to pour their vile tales , into the hospitable '