■PVBIJC OPINION. >xof OSB WOMAN (SAVED.” ~F ur bund red men saved, but pne *" , one boy saved, but not one * we look for .some silver ffo ®^ wc s re confronted with this fringe J *intenßer blackness U) the “Atlantic” mj draw their more obvious 0 * the disaster. It may be that serais from j g teß 0P twelve •’““I * bread* ft 'in* e,eaier (ot **X w e o n iyU«itot un»aw«- i!r! »fotes nothing on the subject ; for » '■' r ,nisU f»" e 0“ wo " ld g 0 w pi "*’ ,f ?p al unslacked speed against a sharp dr fl We only know that for speed and * f Atmfort at sea the the larger vesselis) be hotter. It may be that the captain U careless and reckless, though we fcsv . seen no absolute evidence of-it as ~" It may be that the vessel was sent with- a-short, supply of coal aud ' ro ‘ T Ui„DS although 1 this is denied ; and ,j, e possibility of putting into Halifax Ji time for supplies, ks some sleavderS . do, should not bejbveiriobked in blame. We suspect that con* failed to supply a full amount at Re present high price ofcoal in England, ‘“d jjjfti the officers oi the company did ct { dhwver the failure. It must be. and •t soc.y seems the certain cause of the a cideot, that there was some fatal error ’c the reckoning, and that the officer in charge, now passed beyond our judgment, mfc how msitook the lights. Nor can fail to deplore that the point was not -roperly pr sleeted by a lighthouse. ' But al! this does not explain why four hundred men were saved and not one womaD. We do not believe, as a corres pondent has charged, that the hatches were closed oc the women ofthesterrage. Certainly one of them got into the, rig g:nc. Being in the stern, which sunk first, they hardly had lime to escape. But ibis was not \rue of the women in the cabin. They had the same chance ot life fcs the men. They came on deck, or njigbi have done so. They were lashed lo the rigging. For some of them every ming was done that devotion could do, and one man died beside her rather) than km his bride, though entreated bjr her tr> save his own life. To us ibis awful catastrophe suggests' a of direr import than any one man's carelessness or any one company’s reck* lessees?. Oar women are brought up to be physically feeble and incapable. There is no reason why a woman should be sick her than a man. Her different organiza lion is no excuse for it. Indeed, of the two, ;be female possesses the strongest Stalky in plants, among the lower ani mals, and in infancy. A vigorous pine lm will produce a redundance of the pist'Jk'.t cones ; a depauperate one can cearsh only the staminate catkins. Sta tistics of three countries prove that boys saccumb to disease more readily than girls during early childhood. We have never beard that among savages the women are iess hardy or healtby than the men. Does &oy one believe that among a cabin full of Esquimaux or Modocs, there would have been “not one woman saved ?” It is one of the saddest blunders of oar modern civilization that it discriminates against women’s health, while assuming to spare them. It should be the aim in the nature of the human race' to secure to our men all the best qualities of wo men and to our women all the best q(aali* lies of men. Physical strength is one of the grandest possessions of mao, because it is the foundation of mental and rcmal power. The education which dis parages it in women is radically wrong. Our boys are growing up to be athletes and our girls to be invalids. A young man wh > cannot march from twenty to forty miles in a day is regarded with dis cij:n A young woman who can do It is a P‘-').lidy, These things ought not so to fe The trouble is in a vicious public sentiment, which thinks it degrading lor ajhr! to run barefoot, like a biy ; to be c "'Ted by the sun ; to ride and shoot and and swim ,- m short, to live out of ( ' o!,rs aQ d- feel as friends- of the wind aad ram, the sunshine and the host? Un le>s present vicious culture of girls be Erected, we shall have in a generation rrtwo, if we have it not already, in the 2'V;;.2-d variety of the human race, the health of its females develop is a genuine instance of what Darwin “ a *' s secondary sexual characters, as , con s-ant-as tie mane in the male II »n or the I'tDc.' cd feathers in the female Hamburgh fowl, Tbe strength of women at the crisis of die depends on .their physical cul tare w liiie children. Let parents be no fflore ashamed of their girl’s brown /aces fists than of their boys’. Let them lr &in and clothe them so that they can t Qd and climb and care for and protect Let them take them with eir brothers into the harvest field. A {) y is not ashamed of work ; no more should be a gif). The refinement that s itus a gi r i out 0 f Q 0 snnghfne, and * °ws her no rougher work in-doors than 1(1 embroider worsteds, or lap ivory keys, ’|f dost a ourble mantel is refining her off b face of the earth to giro place to dHi;gi)! ers afthe servants in the bitch- Their coarse work is healthy and °DDrab)e. We-honor it; and among our contributors there is hardly of whom we feel more proud than of D _ a lady— who is not ashamed to WnV er * iv ’ ng as co °k housemaid, r ,Q o Lr month’s wages.—lndeien - o(Ttt. • ' THE PRICE OP SENTIMENTALISM. fiendish murder ot one of the no blest officers connected with tbe army of the United States is the price of dealing with savages on a sentimental basis. The frontiersmen who understand Indian character know that nojnore fatql blun der could be committed Utah to depose any faith in the professions OTHie IndKn, The red man of the Pennsylvania forests was crafty and cruel, but he bad some good traits; he was brave and oftentimes generous. Tbe savage of tbe present day is without* redeeming quality. He is a vulgar thief and assassin, afid the manner in which he has been coddled And hu mored has justly excited the indignation of the white men and women of the bor | def Tfh° have been exposed to hii depre dations being allowed \6 j>rotecl themselves. The alrocioUa. murdef ol Gen. Cauby and Dr. Thomas will put an end at once and forever to all sentimental •rifling with these wild beasts in human shape, whose crimes have long since war ranted their Jt really passes alt comprehension why these das tardly scoundrels who barbarously muti late women and childrenin. a fashion which oven the Malay pirates wop Id shrink from, have been so long permitted to hold formal conferences with officers and Commissioners, to pay visits tolWasb ington, atfd generally to bo treated as if they were deserving of the utmost con sideration. They laugh in their sleeves at -the credulity of the whiles, or attri bute all concessions to feat. The utter baseness of the savage at this day leaves no margin for any improvement of him. All efforts in that direction will certainly fail. He may be apparently tamed like the wild animal ot tbe menagerie, but his blood thirsty nature will assert itself des pile any training which may be exercised upon him. His sinister face filly photo graphs the evil his dark heart holds. No people save our own would have so long tolerated bis unspeakable atrocities, and it is now to be hoped that the' infernal fiends who butcher women and children will be treated—as they deserve to be treated—-like beasts of prey and not like civilized beings. The army officers and tbe men of the border have all along been of one mind as to the necessity of dealing sterolv with the Indians. Men like Gen eral Marcy, thoroughly familiar with the savages, have emphatically protested against any mild policy with them. But something of that spirit which has made it almost impossible to hang an assassin in this country has operated recently to put the lives of our people on the frontier at the mercy of such cut-throats as th is Modoc chieU* The terrible perfidy and crime perpetrated on the 11th has roused tbe entire nation from its supinenese, and soldiers and civilians alike 'echo the one sentiment, that of swift and full retribo ! lion. The teoderest sentimentalist per haps realizes now what the Indian is, and how he should be dealt with. Force is the only influence to restrain him. Local Option tn the State. Complete returns of the vote of the State on the Local Option question show that thirty seven counties voted against license by %n aggregate majority of 36,- 771 while twenty seven counties voted for license by 58,821 majority, giving a net majority for license of 22,050 in all the counties of the State except Philadel phia and Potter, which did not vote, Pot ter having bad no license for many years, and Philadelphia being appointed to vote on the subject on the second Tuesday of next October. As we understand, the statement above given includes the votes cast in the cities which voted ’separately from the counties in which they are situ ated. It will be observed that the larger, number ot c mnties voted against license, but they were overborne by the very heavy maj iriliestiu the other side in Al legheny, LiQCiSter, Bifks, Northampton, Lebanon and certain other counties. The effect will b.* to deny licenses in the thir ty-seven counties which voted against them unless there be cities In them, as Scranton in Luzerne, which voted for li cense, and have a right, therefore, to en joy all the blessings of liquor selling in their corporate limits, subject to existing laws. Woen a vote was taken in the State in 185 d for and against the enact ment of a prohibitory law, the majority against such a measure was over 5,000. It will be observed that it was much lar ger this spring. The Constitutional Con venlion will probably submit to the pop ular suffrage, by separate vote, the ques tion of prohibiting the manufacture and sale ot intoxicating liquors as a beverage The people can then squarely declare their decision on the subject. —True Dem ocrat. The flowing is the military bill as agreed upon by the Legislature : That forty be the minimum «»f a company ; that the maximum force be 10,000 officers and men, formed into two hundred companies, and fixing the maximum fund to be paid out of the State treasury annually to each company at $4OO. The Postal Car diffiiulty is now under going an investigation. It Is to be hoped that an amicable adjustment of the diffi culty will bj reached, satisfactory to the parties concerned. The country could ill afford to dispense with th« postal car ar rangement. Ah earthquake his aUnost cutirelv de stroyed the city of Salvador in Central America. Tne amount of property de stroyed is enormous, and the loss of life fearful to contemplate. THE RADICAL: FRIDAY, APRIL 25, 1873. The-Louisiana Sfasaaere. The political conflict in Louisiana has f re hope of independence of the island than at any time since the war began. Supplies of various kinds are tolerably abundant, and the military successes of late, have been quite onsiderable. A spirit of hopeful ness pervades the army, and desertions from the Spanish ranks are quite frequent. 1 They believe in the speedy downfall of the Spanish republic, which will benefit them in that It will give foil employment | for Spanish troops at home. There is, in | the hopefulness of the Cubans, that which ought to command sympathy and | admiration. For years bitter, relentless, barharious war has been waged upon | them. Property has been confiscated, and ( their families, in many instances, destroy j ed. Yet despite all, they maintain a hold I front and fi'bt steadily on, for the boon lof iniependence. They certainly deserve the sympathy of the civilized wirld.— Piitnbargh Commercial As exchange records the destruction by fire of a “two story brick spring -led foe lory.” A. New Yoek paper depior« ductmn of absinthe driokin | young men in that city. H. FRANCIBCUS & CO., 613 MARKETS TREET, PHILADELPHIA. We have opened for the PALL TRADE, the largest and best assortedStookof PHILADELPHIA CARPETS TaMe, Stair and Moor OUCloths, Window Shades and Paper, Cotton, Tam, Battxng, Twines, ' Wicks, Clocks, Locking Classes, ■Fancy Baskets,'Brooms, Bas kets, Buckets, Brushes, Clothes Wringers,Woodr en and Widow Ware <. in Ibc’XJfnUed States. Oar large Increase in basinets enables ns to sell at low prices sod famish thebe?* qaality ofgoaJe^, J^ERICA^fwASHER * - r" ‘' The Most Perfect ond Successful Waslier Agents wanted for thb AMERICAN WASHER to all parts of the State, marSMm-sel-Sm , rjmOS. KENNEDY & CO., “ SUCCESSORS TO WM. BtJECHLING. - 1 t • *V , . wt., ROCHESTER, PENN *A. DSADBB&XS DUUGS, MEDICINES AND CHEMXCIt^ FANCY & TOILET ARTICLES, SPONGES, BRUSHES AND PERFUMERY, PAINTS, OILS AND DYES: Prescriptions carefolljr.compocsded at all boon. eepO Tt-Iy - - - A VALUABLE INVENTION I Sewing Machine! Only Wive Dollars I With the New Patent Button Pole Worker. The Most Simple arut Compact iitfaVorietruction. The Most Durable andEconomlcM in Vse. A Model of Combined Strength and Beauty. Complete In all its parte, uses the Straight Eye Pointed Needle, Pelf-Threading; direct i upright Positive Motion, .New Tension, Seif Feed and Cloth Colder. Operates by Wheel‘and on Table. Light Running, Smooth and Noiseless, like alt good high-priced machines. ‘ Has patent Chech to prevent the wheel being : tarred the wrong way. Use* the thread direct from the spool. Makes the Elastic Look Stitch (finest and strongest.stitch known;)firm,dnrable, close- and rapids all kinds of work, fine add Coatee; ifoxd'Cambric to heavy Cloth or Leather, and nses ail descrip tions o( thread. The best mechsmtcaf ln America and Eu rope has been dowdted-to Improving and simplify ing on r Machines, combining only that which Is practicable, and dispensing with all complicated eorwmndlnga generally- folind tn other machines. Speciftltetme&nd oxl4a Inducements to male and female agents, store keepers; &c., who will establish agencies through the country and keep oar new machines on f ambition and sale. County rights given toemirtagents free. Agent’s Com §lete outfits furnished, without any. extra charge, amples of sowing, descriptive circa iars containing >crmA testimonials, engravings, &c., sent free. - .. , : ‘ BROOKS SEWING MACHINE CO.. • ’ , No! 1389 Broadway, janSl-l* NEW YORK. QLAIM AGENCY, OLDEST IN THE STATE. B. F. BROWN & CO., 116 BMTTHFIELD STREET, PITTSBURGH, PA Collect Pensions, Bounties, Prize Money, Special attention paid to suspended and rejected claims. Applications by mall attendedto as il mmtn in person- [scptlS-fitt JOSEPH C. &UUir. THOMAS BBOWM. JJAILIFF & BROWN, PLUMBERS, GAS AND STEAM PIPE FITTERS NO. 55 FEDERAL STREET, ALLEGHENY CITY Agitators and Tanks lined by a new process, wilt Hydro-A«taosphericßlow Pipe. feblTtl-1 HOUSE, No. 48 MARKET STREET, PITTSBURGH. PA. OPEN DAT AND NIGHT. Tbe best Brands of WINES, LIQUORS, ALE, BEER, &c., always on hand 1» the Bar. Oysteis stewed in every style. marB’7l-ly C. B. STEIN. Proprietor. JJELCHIOH HABLEY, Manufacture and Dealer In BOOTS, SHOES AND GAITERS OP EVERY VARIETY. NO, 188 FEDERAL STREET, , ALLEGHENY CITY, PA. Par*tcular attention paid to Custom Work, febimi-ly JOHN SI. ItUCK & CO., Agents for James E. Stanbnry’s Celebratec * OYSTERS. AlsO DEALERS IN GAN, BUCKET AND SHELL OYS TERS. ALL KINDS FRESH PISH, GAME. CANNED FRUITS, &c M &c. 184 Liberty si. per 1000; fl per 100; prepaid by mail. Trade list to dealers. Seeds .on commission. Agents wanted. : ■ B. M. WATSON, Old Colony Nurseries and Seed Warehouse. Ply mouth, Mass. Established 1843. mar?-(It Ready for Christmas. ■ ’ We have received, on elegant stock of WATCHES,! CHAINS.; CHAIN AND BAND RINGS, STUDS and RINGS CAMEO, AStATHYST. TOPAZ. ONYX and GOLD BETS OP JEWELRY. FINE NECKLACES and LOCK ETS, SLEEVE BUTTONS. STUDS COLLAR BUTTONS. GENTS’ PINS, GOLD AND SILVER HEAD CANES. SOLID SILVER and SILVER PLATED WARE, VASES, TOILET SETS, PA RIAN MARBLE AND FANCY GOODS. All suit able for Holiday Presents, and will he sold low at WATTLES & SUEAPEB’S, decfi-lm. 101 Fifth Av., Pittsburgh, Pa. 1250 A . MONTH * * 350 - WBWANTID,'«)O AGENTS, MALE OR FEMALE. To make the above. amount, selling BRIDE’S COMBINATION NEEDLE CASE AND PORTE MONN AIE. This is an article of absolute necessi ty with every lady, and pays a large profit. For Circular and terms address PITTSBURGH SUPPLY COMPANY. decfi-Sm. .PUtBbufgh,Pa. S. J. CROSS. Q. W. HUNTER, Proprietor Is»w#b «»A gmtmt. JOHN CONWAY & CO., BANKERS &BROKERS ROCHESTER, PA. Dialers nr Exchange Cots and Exchang# Account® of Manufscturers, Merchants and ladi viduais Solicited. INTEREST ALLOWED ON TIME. DEPOSITS Correspondence will receive prompt attention. Rochester, Aug. Ist, 1832—aug2-€n>4 JgEAVER DEPOSIT BANK OF SEA VES, PA. SBESL ALLISON, . . COLLECTIONS PROMPTLY MADE AND BE. MITTED. | CORBKSiPONDENCB AJ*» [ACCOUNTS «,*. SICITED. 1 }J ' INTEREST FAIR ON.TIME DEPOSITS. EXCHANGE, SECURITIES,