4 THE BEAVER RADICAL. SMITH CHRTIS, Editor. BEAVER, PA.. Prldtf moraine* march Slot, 1873. BBAVBB FALLS’ EXA9IPLE. The Economies, in their answer tot.be citizens of Beaver Falls, say Vn substance, that within six months ■\jj the substitution of Chinese at cheap wages, for white skilled workmen, the cutlery has been placed upon a paying basis; that before the introduction of Chinese the works were losing money, but now, with Chinese cheap-labor, I hey are mak ing money. • JThe statement is re markable, and almost incredible, but, if true, it is well calculated to rouse the fears 6f workingmen not only in Beaver Falls but throughout the country. Wjien other;, manufac turers discovert that the Beaver Falls experiment is a decided suc cess, and in so short time, how long will they hesitate, if nndftered by fear, to follow the bad but re .niaserative example ? Other- like establishments, in order to success fully compete in the market with Beaver Falls Cutlery Company, will be compelled to employ the same kind, of labor; so much seems clear. If the Chinese are apt workingmen in making cutlery, why may they ' not be equally successful in other kinds of employment? Why may not and why will not other manu facturers import hundreds or thous ands of thefn, under long contracts, to be substituted for white work men m their manufactories ? The Beaver Falls experiment with the Chinese proves conclusively that money will be made by the change, and money-making is the object of all manufacturers. Would it sur prise any one to hear now that some wealthy companies in Pittsburgh or Allegheny had determined to follow the successful experiment of -Beaver Falls Cutlery Company? Were workingmen submissive, they might soon be struggling and competing with the Chinese for labor, the re sult of which would be to reduce its value and lessen its dignity. There is danger to the work ingmen in the success of, this |lß?ymcfiI n srCfiTne6e,'and It is un reasonable that they should be ex pected to quietly submit to such in justice and tamely await impending disasters that are now so clearly foreseen. If this Coolie experi ment bad not already been pro claimed a success, as if .to aggra vate the sore hearts of 4he discharg ed white workingmen, there would be some hope from its uncertain re-: suits that the example would not be contagious, and that Beaver Falls would be the only place blighted by the presence of the heathen Chinee. Bnt the very success of the enter prise is the most dangerous feature about the business. Crowded Chi na could vomit forth thousands and . tens of thousands of laborers, and then realize only a temporary relief. The supply is unlimited; the de mand is only to be made. Success with them will stimulate the de mand for more, and when the tide has fairly set in who can stop it ? and what will be the end of it ? These are serious questions, and American workmen will do well to ponder them well. Ti3E recently elected United States Senator from Massachusetts, Mr. Boutwell, has bad a large and varied experience in public busi ness that will be of good service in the high and responsible position to which he was chosen. He was elected Governor ot Massachusetts by the Democrats in 1851, and re elected in 1852. In 1858 he was a prominent member of the State Constitutional Convention. For five years he served as Secretary of the Board of Education, and since 1853 acted with the Republicans. He was Internal Revenue Commis sioner for a while, and for six years represented in Congress the old Seventh District of his State. Since then he has been for four years Secretary of the Treasury. While in Congress he was promi nent as a leader and took an active part in the impeachment trial of Andrew Johnson. His record is that of a staunch Republican, a true patriot and a wise Statesman. He is well fitted by preparation, knowledge and ability to fill the place left vacant by his illustrious predecessor’s promotion to. the Vice Presidency. We have occupied considerable space this week in the publication of the able, instructive and interest ing report of the President of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, to the Directors thereof. The report, shows that the management of this Company is in good hands, and that the present commanding position and vast wealth of the Pennsylva nia Railroad Company is largely due to the energy warn :jpraist icMs h&C'ady af forded towards developing the re sources of the State. It has in pro gress of construction or to be-built other and vaster improvements, by which, not only the State, but the whole country ‘ will be immensely benefitted. The report is well worth" a careful perusal and ean not fail to do good, by showing that the inter ests of the Company are identical with those of the people. The. bill to increase the* salaries of members of .. Congress has been severely handled by the press, and those persons who voted for the in crease will have to face a storm of indignation respective dis tricts that uHll take the political breath out- pf their bodies. An an alysis of the vote, which we pub lished last week, shows that it was not in any way a party measure. Our Congressman voted against the steal, but we do not know whether he profited by the passage of the bill or not. Some Congressmen re fused to receive the extra pay, and in that were consistant with their record. The Local Option election on Fri day, the 14th inst., in Green county, was warmly contested and called out a large vote, bnt anti-license carried the day by 1500 majority. All the townships but two voted no license. A bill repealing the special road law for Darlington and Big Beaver t.nwnflnEi FROM SARRIBBURG. The miners* Screen Bill—The Reaoln uon Agalnct the Importation of Chi nese will Pass the Senate—Appropri ation BUl—Tax Reduction—Appor tionment BUl—Final Adjournment on lOth of April—Supreme lodge and Treasurer Candidates* Correspondence of the Radical. Harrisburg, March 17, 1873- The bill known as the “Miners’ Screen BUI," which passed the House some time ago, passed the Senate on Friday with eomC slight amendments, which will doubtless be concurred in by the House, sod the bill will becoihe a law. The mi ners hare been demanding this bill for years, and it was passed in the Senate last year, but was defeated in the House by the friends of the operators. The /bill, as it passed, will satisfy twenty thousand miners In Western Penneylva - nia who clamored for it, and will not se riously cripple the operators. Senator Humphreys, of Allegheny, was the work ingmen’s champion in the Senate, and be fought their battles ably, making two strong speeches in favor of this bill. The joint resolution, introduced by your Senator, instructing our Senators and Representatives in Congress to vote against the further importation of Chi nese laborers, will be passed in the Sen ate when it is reached. Senator Wallace announces himself in favor of the resolu tion, and it is expected" he will make a speech in its support. The House passed the Appropriation and Apportionment bills last week, and the Finance Committee of the Senate is at work npon the first and will report it this week. It is the worst bill passed in the House for years, and the Senate should reduce the appropriations nearly one million before it is allowed to pass, Every proposition offered in tbe House was incorporated in the bill, no matter how absurd or unjust. Every officer who asked it had his salary raised, and there was so little opposition to the increase of members that it may be said it passed unanimously, but will be stricken out in tbe Senate. Tbe Senate passed a hill on Friday, without opposition, taking the State tax off of personal property, that is horses, oattle, &c., and off of net earnings and gross receipts. This, bill will pass tbe House tbisi week, and it will reduce the revenues of the Commonwealth nearly or quite one million. This large reduction of revenue will require a reduction of ap propriations if the credit of tbe State is to be maintained, and this may prevent the squandering of the public money. The Senate will take up the Appor tionment bill this week and dispose of it so that it may go to a conference commit- THE RADICAL:. FRIDAY, MARCH 21, 1873. tee next week, where the t>ili bfwaHy made. The western districts Will changed much from what was stated by your correspondent weeks since. Law rence will go to your district And Boiler somewhere else in the final make u)>. on ; i ' less some unexpected difficultysnsea. The Finance Commiitee 0/ the Senate will report a resolution, with, the Appro priation bill, for a final adjournment on the tenth of April, in which the House will doubtless concur. This is much earlier than was expected, and members are much gratified at ths prospeOt of get- ting away so Soon. " . There is no talkyet olcallinga-State Convention, audit is very uncertain when it will be'held. Judge Gordon, ofiJefiefson, was here last week looking after his chances for the nomination ofSupreme Judge. rHe has many friends and will be a strong candi date. Judge Butter, of West and Grech; of Baatoo, are t the candidates most talked of in ihe east at this time. If Philadelphia presents fid candidate But ler is likely tp be thenominee, although Green is regarded, with- much favor both here and in Philadelphia. Attorney General also, been suggest ed; and i? he consents to be a candidate the rest may as well all stand back. A few members complain that he is writing too many vetoes, but notwithstanding this hois very popular and : Justly regarded as an Able, fearless and industrious officer, possessing all thequalities for a candidate for the Supreme Bench.. If the east gets the Supreme Judge the west will get the Treasurer, andso far the names of Ora hatn and Errett, Of Allegheny;are the on ly ones suggested. There are very few local bills from yonr district On the Senate calendar this week there Is not one from county. Mr. Cross passed one in the House repealing the special road law. for Darlington and Big'Beaver townships, which will pass the Senate to-morrow ; also one relating to certain school funds in Moon township. The bill to fence the railro&d track in Big Beaver town ship has been reported to the Senate with a negative recommendation, as was a bill of a similar character in the House, which virtually kills nil bills of that char acter for this session. Bills to fence rail roads have been defeated so often it is on ly remarkable that the effort to pass them is persisted in from year tPjreih > ‘OBSERVERS” BEPiT TO “T. G.” Editor Braver Radical— Dear Sit: I have read the reply of “T. G,” as pub lished in your issue of March 7th,and am in about the same condition of the man who, alter bearing a sermon preached by a noted clergymen on the fall of Adam, was asked bow he liked-tfae discourse, re plied that he knew almost as much about the subject as he did before having it ex uui trespass npon ybur patjence in following “T. Q.” in all bis meander’ ings, but, at present, be confined to a few leading ideas. The first argument he would overthrow* is that the wine Paul prescribed for Timo thy, and the wine Christ made at the wed ding feast, was not wine- Now I pre sume it was the same kind of wine that made good old Noah drunk at that jolifi cation be and his sons had after Qod bad saved him from the deluge, and all the objection I have against Noah is that he used more than was. necessary; bat inas much as Qod did not censure him I will treat him leniently. Now this was wine, or it was not. At the feast they called it wine, and Christ did not say aught to the contrary. If it was wine it contained al cohol ; if it was not wine He perpetrated a gross fraud upon them and proved him self an imposter and a juggler. Grape juice, or the juice of any vdgela ble containing sugar, is not wine until fermentation has taken place; then the sugar is changed merely in the arrange ments of its constituent parts, converting one portion into carbonic acid and the other into alcohol. Suppose a gentleman calls on me to-day, and I offer him some juice of grapes or elderberries just pressed out, would he not think my wine wa very flat and insipid ? 1 \ IT Now the wioe ChHstmade at the Ad ding feast was pronounced, by the best judges, to be the best they bad drtnk, that day, and I can’t believe that Christ, by any mesmeric power, wanted to make them believe we ter was wiim “No guile or deception should be attribu* ted to His pure char actcr.” 'T. G.” thinks rye whisky contains no element of strength or nutriment. Now if we find all the nourishment, or nearly all, in the whisky that was in the grain his arguments fall, and he is like one beat ing the air. How is it? We grind the grain, mix with it water and a ferment, then put it in a still and volatilize it. In amission and commission been establisb doing this do we allow any nutriment to 3d; not only have incompetency, escape? Certainly not. The alcohol sfflciency and recklessness been shown and a portion of water passes over which >ut forgery and fraud have been busy at we call whisky, and the residue hese polls. Impressed, tbefefore, by a we call slop. There is nothing lost iense ol official duty, conscious of the re but the small portion of the carbon ponsibility under which we act, sustain of the sugar uniting with the oxygen id by judicial precedent, obedient to the of the water, and escapes in the form eras and spirit of the election laws, we of carbonic acid gas, the hydrogen of the trike unhesitatingly frouji the genera] re water unites with the constituent parts of lorn the whole poll of the First, Second the grain and forms alcohol or whisky Ind Third districts of the Twelfth Ward, : which contains all the elements of no- that of the Second district of the trition, with the exception of the small Ward, of Scranton." portion left in the pot, ale or slop. Now j In this statement of the Judge are dis if there is poison in this whisky, it must blosed the extensive and astounding be first in the gram, the water or the frauds that were practiced on behalf of the yeast. pemocrats in order to defeat General Now in b.e case Mr. C,. “T. G." sayslhe Harlranft and the whole Republican Stale is very low, just at the verge of the grave, ficket. As the Judge truly remarks, out i his slock of vital power is just about ex- If a registered vole of 407 persons a bem t : hausted.scarcely enough vital force left to kwp Jn operation the functions essen tial to life,” and he wonders why I would give good whisky punch. I answer I unite milk,, sugar and-whisky (a little water if yon think best,) and call that ‘‘punch.” Now Amman's stomach cannot digest or his system asslmulate the grosser kinds of diet, but whisky punch contains all the elementary constituent parts of (ho grain, the sugar and the milk, and can beappropriated to the nourishment and building up of the system. It is a kin(fbf food that viery little ©i ertion of the digestive powers, enters the circulation freighted with the nutrition' of the grain without any of its courser qualities. This j&au every day prescrip tion of every good physician .in such: cares, until tWman'sslomach has gained strength enough io digest grosser food, but! suppose, these- disciples of varuna would give ‘‘hot .water.” One word in respect to prohibiting the use of alcohol as a medicine. All our tinctures, many of out Syrups, our ethers, our morphia dkc., are made in part with alcohol, or it is more orlesrused In their preparation. Takeevery remedial reme dy iu which alcohol is used away from the physician, and yon might as well send out ah army without guns or ammuni- tion. " “T. n mnection with the elective franchise has jbeen uncovered and fathomed in these four districts. Not only have the election [aws been knowingly and wilfully viola- ated; not only have acts of criminal Use Chart. ocratic vote of 1631 was produced. 1 This multiplication of registered.voters is un* surpassed in the history of voting. The Democrats have said much about frauds being committed in Philadelphia, but Scranton beats'll all to pieces. LITTLE YORK’S TAIN HI ANY. The Bobbery of »l»e Coart Honse—New and Interesting Disclosures. • A letter from York, Pa., to .the Balti more American, written adder date of the 7th inst., gives an interesting account of the strategy of the Tammany Democrats of York county to prevent" the discovery of the wholesale robberies committed by them. The writet; says : 7 Your readers will no doubt remember the robbery .of the Court House, In this borough,' on the 6th day of March ,1872, and the /abstrac tion of all the vouchers for moneys paid out by the county officials for the years 1864 to 1871; Inclusive. The affairs of the county, it was'charged, had been cor ruptly and the fact that there was a county debt of over $300,000, with nothing in the shape of public improve ments to show for it, went very far to sat isfy the Legislature that "an investigation of the accounts of the county should be made. Accordingly a bill ftas passed ap pointing a Board of Reaudltors, consist ingof Hon. Thomas £. Cochran, C. B. Wallace, E^i, and Col. Marsh, to make a re-examlnation and; settlement of of the accounts for the years above named. On or abodt the time the bill was pass ed, the CoUrt House Was robbed and all the vouchers from 1864 to 1874 inclusive were stolen. The' affair occasioned a great deal of excitement as it was regard ed as confirming the popular opinion that things about the Court House bad been mismanaged, to cal) it by the mildest pos sible name. A meeting of the most prom inent citizens was called at the Court House the Very day the robbery was dis covered, and the County* Commissioners were recommended to offer a reward of $1 ,000 for the detection of the thieves- After a time the services of a detective named Flinder,' from your city were secured, and who came to York and put in forty-two days at five dollars per day and expenses, but aside from drawing his pay no good was ever done, and no trace of the thieves was discovered. The Court House, Auditor’s room, where the Reau dit Board held its sessions was broken into in October last, and some papers bf longing to it, together with some books that the Reauditors bad been using for reference were carried away. This time the thieves made a “clean sweep,” and it was supposed that they had effectually stopped the investigations which bad been in progress. Al 1 excitement about these matters bad, however, nearly died out, until Saturday last, March Ist, when David Oemmill, fnnnfirlv mu a( tbo Pnnni« Auditors, made an information against, Roben, rick, the janitor of the Court Souse, and be was arrested on a charge of stealing the vouchers. A bearing in the case was bad on Thursday at the office of John A. Metzel), Esq., when Gemmill made sub stantially the following statement: He said that, on the morning of the 6th of March, 1872, be came down to the stable in the rear of Reiser’s Hotel, and which is Just below the Court House yard, to bring down a package wb icb he w ished to Send down to the lower end of the county by the Peach Bottom stage; that he could not get into the stable, and just then he heard the Court House clock strike two. Coming op the Court House yard, bis attention was directed to a light which he saw shining out through a crack in the door t the door being partly opened. He then got upon a wagon to see what it was, when he saw the janitdr, Hetrick, come out of the door with something which looked like a basket of papers, and go towards the cellar door, through which access is given to the cellar containing one of the furnaces by which the Court House is warmed. He then went home, and as soon as the news of the robbery was made public he suspected Hetrick, and on the Ist of March he made the information as above seated. It is said that Gemmill has told two or three different stories about this to as many parties, and that be will be confronted with these different ver sions when the case comes before the Court. Hetrick will no doubt be bound over to appear at tbe next sessionl of the Court of Quarter Sessions, and tbe case sent to the Grand Jury. Whether any thing will come out of it remains to be seen. Ths Harrisburg correspondence of Pittsburgh Commercial says : The shower of vetoes continues- The latest was the ve to of a bill to pay the State printer $25,000 for printing for the Constitutional Convention, which was sent to the Senate last night. The Gov ernor shows, conclusively, 'that the act calling the Convention provided that all bills for the expenses of the Convention should be paid by warrants drawn by its President on the State Treasurer, and that the Legislature had no right to in terfere. And it is probable it would not have interfered bad the Convention been prompt to pay its bills. Since the passage of the bill just vetoed, the Convention has ordered its printing bill to be paid, so that Mr. Singerly will get his dues,thanks to the suggestive action of the Legisla ture. The Convention has been in session over three months,and might have afford ed, long since, to order its bills to be paid, without needing to be stirred up to its duty by legislative remainder. But, if vetoes fall thick and fast, to the ; alarm and terror of those who are affected | by them, the fear of coming veto much greater than that felt on what have already come. Yesterday I°' to day, over a dozen bills have been * called from the Governor by j„i nt r } lion of both houses* to save them T* the ruth less guillotine. All of th ese bank bills; and I confess to an utter * bility to pump up any tears over th* fate. Whatever others may thinke r es satisfied the Governor is right. - has been something too much of ihi B *** for special bank privileges; and the chet imposed on it has been wholesome serviceable. No one can realize, now * tell, the lull extent of the good d one ’ , or the Governor’s ringing call to We shall know it, perhaps, hereafter V fur the present we must be content i? thp .ibat a great good b been done in this, if,in nothing m ()re the public has been thereby brought, face the. bilking question and look at ? in its many varying aspects. One oJ gopd, too, I am sure It baj also done I has convinced many of the men who 1 1 year, refused to extend their wnfldewr Gen. Hartranfl, that they gro Ss i y J ; judged him and did him injustice. GENERAL NE\V^ -The late James Savage, of 80-tos s4o,' 00 to Harvard College. ' of —Kx-King Amadeus has formally retacmed h rights as an Italian citizen. h 1 -President Grant will leave Washington f O -. homestead m Missouri some time m, April * -The funeral of Chief Justice Bellow*. 0 , s , Hampshire, took place at Concord, Saturday Vm was largely attended. —Y. 8. Walter, of the Delaware County s m -,, can, Chester, is working heroically lor the (,'cm*! nlal. We wish every county editor would show the same perseverance and energy. —lt is said that in the event of a dissolution oj the British Parliament John Bright will, in cot*, quence of bis poor health,?retire altogether fr CQ the House of Commons. —The Hon. E. G. Dilbonm, a prominent j»ti. tician and highly esteemed and useful citizen,(fed on Thursday at his residence in Anne' Ataad*.! county Md. He was a lawyer, and waSiSpeaker of the House of Delegates of Maryland - in iSdo, and presided at the famous extra session held r, Frederick m 1851, when a number of the member? were arrested. The deceased was a native ofSe* England. —A full bench of the Supreme Judicial Conn :: Boston has declared unconstitutional the act c' the Massachusetts Legislature, at the recent spe cial session, authorizing Boston to is-ue $20,000, 000 of fire bonds. —The New Jersey Railroad hill, which passed thq Senate at Trenton, know as the Pennsylvania Railroad Company's project to, head off the Na tional Railway bill which passed the Honse, ha been stricken from the calendar. —Hiram W. Johnson, deputy collector of Tec nessee, is missing. Custom officers are luvestigs; J ng his accounts. —Six townships iu Greene county give five her dred and fifty-one againsllicccse. —On both sideS'oTthe Susquehanna, at Pen De posit, the channel are again open through the« gorge. —Private dispatches received at Cincinnati a Thnrsdav of last weet -■* iue Florence, Italy, of the Right Rev. Bishop M vaice. His body will be taken to Cincinnati to interment. ' —ln the Ohio Senate the joint re solution cen soring tbe Ohio members of Congress who voted for the retroactive salary bill was adopted after amendment, including censure of ibe member* who voted ago inst tbe bill, bat took tbe cm day. —A fire in Parkerebcrg, West Virginia, destroy ed a block of stores in the principal bosinee portion of tbe city. Tbe total loss is (80,000. —John W. Osborne,the murderer of Mrs. Adel;* Matthews, was hanged at Knoxville, Tenn. Pre vions to the election he wrote a full confession o' to hie crime. —George Driver, who killed his wife, in Chicago, on the morning of the ISth of last November, by shooting her with a pistol borrowed from his son, was executed in the county jail of that city. —Bradford connty is entirely free from debt. —The Cathedral at Read! ng is to be enlarged. —The snow in the mountains at the head-wa ters of the Susquehanna is estimated to be over six feet deep. —John Blott, a Berk's county blacksmith and farmer, blotted oat hi* existence the other day by banging himself. —Spotted fever is quite prev&leul in portions ;* Centre connty. and is generally fatal. —Mercer connty is in about the best condition financially of any county in Western Pennsylva nia. It has an excess of available assets over !.* bilities of $9,291 93. —Quite a scene occurred in the lower bonsc the Missouri Legislature, one ol the member* stating that an offer had been made to bube bio to vote for the insurance bill before the Hoa-e. He accused Frank Hickox, a lobbyist, of offering him one hundred dollars. Friends of the bill **f that they do not know Hickox, and say that "• charge was a ruse to defeat the bill. Gienl i-xci ; <- merit prevailed for a lime, and the further dtsccs sion of the bill was posponed. —A new trial bas been denied to James McE hany, under sentence of death for the murder c his wife, at Boston, and his execution will place on the 21st inst. —The widows and orphans of the firemen killed by the Hanover street catastrophe 1 . In Bostoc. have been provided for by the trustee? of tb{ Firemen's food. —Commodore W. K. Latimer of the L nited Stales Navy, died at Baltimore Saturday morninf* Williams and Brown, escaped Sing Sing cob vide, were sentenced at Philadelphia, Saturday, to four years imprisonment each lor an attend ee rob the Corn Exchange bank on Sunday 1» 9! - —The New York Constitutional Convention jonrned sine die Saturday. —Disraeli has not yet been able to form a neW Cabinet for Great Britian. : —Figneras believes that the peopie o! Bar-clo D * will stand by their resolution to have a Feler*- Republican iu Spain. -It is said that all parties in London opp° se * dissolution of Parliment, and many think tha. Gladstone will vitbdaaw his resignation. —Hiram W. Johnson, deputy custom collect® of Memphis, has absconded under 9usp'‘ c > ou * c,r camstances. —At Kansas City, Missouri,'on Thursday. "- 11 the Union German Savings bank was on fir '. 1 van It was robbed of about fTWO, —Bon, Frederick A. Pike has been cleifc - 3 Congress in the Second district of >’e" H a ®P shire by a majority of nineteen votes. —Postmister Jones of New York city, h i dered his resignatior. He sat present ir. " r.gt on