IWorb Inquirer.
BKDFOBD. PA., FBIDAT, XOV IS, I88.
THE EHLTTS OF VICTORY.
Our grand Union victory is already hear
ing its fruits in the calm resignation with
which even the most belligerent of the op
position accept the verdict of the people.
The overwhelming Union triumph has de
monstrated to the most stupid of intellects
the utter hoj-elcssness of the "Lost Cause, "
and the determination of the people to car
ry out the work of Rceonstiuction in the true
-pint of the Constitution, as construed by
the light of the I federation of Independence.
The news of Grant's triumphant election
has been as oil upon the waters, to the trou
bled sea of Southern politics, and lias caused
a -udden and rapid ebb of the tide of vio
lence, bloodshed and murder that has so
long devastated that fair portion of our
common country. Throughout the North,
to Grant's prayer of " Let us have 1 caw,
all the people have -aid "Amen, and a
great calui has suddenly fallen upon the
country, and ths whole land rejoices once
more in a sense of permanent peace and
security to which we have long been stran
gers. These are hut first fruit*. Our vic
tory il.l- not milr ttlrfml)' eecw®d to thvee,
hut also the assurance of their permanence
ami continued increase. The assurance that
there will be 110 change in the national poli
cy for four years to come enables business
men to -hape their affairs accordingly.
With security of person and property and
liberty of speech and of the press, with free
dom and a fair and equal chance for all, in
the race of life, our Southern States will
soon enter upon a new career. Thrown
open as they have never before been to the
immigration of the country. I ankee energy,
intelligence and thrift, with free schools and
an open bible, will soon penetrate every
available nook and corner, felling their for
ests, draining their swamps, developing
their mineral wealth, and building factories
upon every stream, until the busy hum of a
varied industry, and the cheerfulness horn
of well rewarded labor -hall make the whole
country to blossom as the rose aud restore
the desolated South to a prosperity she has
never yet known. The feuds horn of civil
strife will soon die out. and the terms North
and South, forgetful of past hostility, like
East and West, will only awaken feelings of
relationship, as the homes of our friends,
and a patriotic pride in the grandeur and
prosperity of a common country.
THE PRESIDENT ELECT.
General Grant, the l'residcnt elect, ac
companied by his family and several of his
Staff, reached Washington on Saturday
evening. The trip from Galena to Wash
ington was accomplished in that quiet, un
ostentatious manner which is characteristic
of General Grant. Moving rapidly, seeking
to withhold as much as possible all knowl
edge of bis movements, and to avoid as far
as possible all popular demonstrations, it
was not yet quite possible for the Genera!
to entirely escape the manifestations which
the people desired to offer him. Before
leaving Galena he bid good-bye to his fellow
townsmen, thanking them and all others
who have fought together in this contest,
and intimating that he did not expect to
visit them again for some years. At several
points on the route eastward he was called
out by spontaneous demonstrations of the
people. At only one point did he make a
speech, and it was brief as well as significant.
Greeted by a Republican procession in
which were many soldiers who bad "voted
as they fought." he said: "Gentlemen—l
see many of you in uniforms. You laid
them off three years ago, and j'ou can now
lay them off again. We will have peace.
Good night. Evidently General Grant
understands the character of the victory
won,
At llarrisburg General Grant and his
suite took the ears of the Northern Central
Railroad. At Parkton they were met by
Ocoeiat V.„ Vfcrit. Washington Dncth and
George Small, Esq" , who escorted them
through the city, the transit being made so
quickly as to avoid ail demonstrations. On
arriri :g at Washington General Giant at
or j proceeded to his residence.
GRANT'S ELECTION give., general satis
faction. Honest Democrats everywhere ex
press themselves as fully satisfied. Demo
cratic papers of character and standing gen
erally accept the result as a desirable one,
and express little or no regret at the defeat
<>t Seymour aud Biair, with their revolution
aij platform. The election of Grant is ac
cepted by all parties the best possible
'hing that could have happened for the
peace and prosperity of the countiy. A few
ignorant aria implacable partizans alone
raise a hue aud cry. and profess great fear
of negro equality. Perhaps their personal
fears are well grounded. It would not re
quire a very extraordinary negro to equal or
even surpass some of that class that we wot
of. No wonder therefore that they should
Democratic negro should supplant them'as
party leaders. We are sorry for the poor
fellows an , deeply sympathize with them,
but cannot undertake to repair what nature
has done amiss for them.
THE REPUBLICAN PYRAMID
OHIO
IOWA
MAINE
KANSAS
NEVADA
INDIANA
ILLINOIS
FLORIDA
ALABAMA
MISSOURI
MICHIGAN
VERMONT
WISCONSIN
NEBRASKA
ARKANSAS
MINNESOTA
JiSS
KHODIfiIE"
REWSUVA^II
MASSACH I'SFTTQ
NEW HAMPSHIRE*
SOUTH R'HJ° UNA
. CAROLINA
that ihe
icea of the American character may be 1
briefly summed up as follows Ut An j
inordinate passion for riches. 2d. Over
work of mind and body in the pursuit of
business. -3d. Undue hurry and excitement
in all the affairs of life. 4th. Intemperance
>n eating, drinking and smoking. sth. A
genera! disregard of the true laws of life and
health.
WHAT WE HAVE WON.
ID the election of Grant, the people have
secured that for which they have fought—
UNION, PEACE, and EQUAL RIOHTS FOR
AU. MEN. After 6eventy-fivc years of
struggles over the question whether {he
Union is a league or a nation, and after fifty
years of contest as to the right of all men
to be free, the election of General Grant
finally seals the restoration of the Union,
and founds an indissoluble nationality on
the basis of universal liberty and manhood
suffrage. The n> xt four years may be oc
cupied in part in getting the machinery of
our new system into harmonious operation.
But the principles on which our nation is
now based admit of no further dispute.
We are one indissoluble nation: all inhabi
tants are, or may become, citiaens, all citi
zens have equal civil rights, and all adult
male citizens have equal political rights.
In 1860, none of these propositions were
true. In 1864, two millions of men were in
the field, contending on the one side for,
and on the other again.-t th. in. In 1808,
tLey are settled forever by the election of
Grant on the Chicago platform. Such a
reformation in our Constitution when view
ed in all its aspects is infinitely more im
portant to the American people and to nian
kiud, than our change from Colonies into
independent States, or our adoption of the
Federal Constitution. Both were steps to
ward the birth of a great and free nation,
Neither was adequate to make the nation
great or free. Independence transferred
the control of our foreign and national in
terests from the Crown aud Parliament to a
body elected by ourselves. But independ
ence alone involved no guarantee that our
foreign and national affairs would be con
ducted with greater justice or even securitv
than before. On the contrary, we found it
perverted to aid Bonapartism by a war with
England, and to extend Slavery by a war on
Mexico.
The adoption of our Federal Constitution j
gave us a germ of power which might :
dwindle into a league, or grow into a nation. I
But from 17*9 to 18<",:> there was an imp/-
rium in imperio, an oligarchy ruling through I
the forms of our Republic, and claiming to ;
lie stronger than the nation itself. For a
lime for the take of peace, the claims of the j
oligarchy weri not disputed, and Slavery
was stronger than Liberty throughout the !
land. Slavery sat in the President's chair,
while Liberty swung on John Brown's
gallows. Slavery wore the Chief Ju-tice"s ;
robes, while Liberty fled, pursued by blood
hounds, to the jungles of Florida, thedi.-mal
swamps of the Carolina?, and the snows of
Canada. Our boasted iiberty was definable
in the terms which a Bourbon would have
used to describe Bonrbonism, viz: the right
of superior races to divide power among
themselves as they think proper. Our De
mocracy. like the Britbli peerage, was the
mere equality of despots with each other.
At length the struggle between the people
and the oligarchy came. It seemed long,
dark, and agonizing in the endurance; hut
history, comparing it with its full-orhtd re
sults, will describe it a? wonderfully brief,
brilliant, and decisive.
For the two first years of the struggle the
Government refused to see the Hand of,
God in the war. It insisted on branding it
as a politician's quarrel, a mere contest be
tween States and sections. Lower and
lower trailed our flag before the victorious
legions of the new Southern nation. On
this theory their cause was as just as ours.
When the standards rose, Emancipation
was written on them, and all men rose with
j them. Victory succeeded to defeat, until
tV,a military forces of the Rebellion were
[ subdued. But there were some who "trem
bled when they learned that Emancipation
came to us as our Savior. Universal suff
rage was but a part, the better and more
perfect fruit of Emancipation. After
another struggle it is our--.
We agree with those who regard these
changes as great and radical revolutions in
oar constitution of Government and in our
national and social life. But wc hail them
with joy as the dawning of a brighter, holier
and happier career than could otherwise
havo befallen the nation. No longer can
the aristocrats and kings of the old world
point to Slavery as the foul blot on our pre
tended freedom, or to the irreconcilable hos
tility of our sections as proofs of republican
weakness. We have now a Constitution
purged from ail iniquity—a flag unstained.
All who breathe our air arc free. The
humblest citizen shares in the sovereignty.
Popular statesmanship has proved itself
able to subdue the uio.-t gigantic Rebellion
in all history, to aboli.-h the most deep sea
ted and powerful abuse of all time, to
establish the strongest Government on earth
and to vindicate its national honor from re
pudiation. All this was necessary before
our Union could, or ought to, ext> nd over
the continent and embrace its future
seventy-five States and its hundred millions
of people. The agonies of the past eight
years, so far from indicating the decadence
of our national power, are its birth-throes.
Let those who, under God, have won this
signal and closing victory for Freedom, the
last that remained to he won in our long
struggle wit a American Slavery, now press
forward to the full enjoyment of the fruits
of their great struggle. Let even the van
quished learn that it is better to serve ia
Heaven than it would have been to reign in
Hell. And may our candidates elect, with
charity for all, with malice toward none,
but with the firmness to do the right as
God gives thetn to see the right, make so
noble a use of the powers reposed in them,
a- will vindicate the confidence of the peo
pltS.—xMcw J.ortx
| TIIF. CONSULAR SYSTEM.— We see by the
| report of the Fifth Auditor of the Treasury
that the Consular system is not only self
supporting, but is actually becoming a
source of revenue to the Government. The
expenses of the system during the fiscal
year were $373,750. The total receipts
from the Consulates for the same time were
$435,179, showing a revenue from this
source of $61,420. This is very gratifying.
We hope to see some other departments of
the Government make like exhibits. They
will, we trust, under GRANT'S administra
tion.
GLASS MAKING.— The art of glass making
*as introduced into modern Europe by the
Venitians. Besides discovering the art of
rendering glass colorless by manganese, the
\ enitians also enjoyed the monopoly ot mir
rors, the silvering of which was a secret long
kept from other countries. These mirrors,
however, have now lost their reputation, as
foreign competitors produce larger plates.
Glass beds are still made in considerable
quantities for exportation. Venetian enam
els have always been famous, and among the
peculiar productions of Venice may be reck
oned the beautiful composition called adven
turine, the secret of which is said to be in the
posession of a single manufacturer. The
great glass-works are at Murano, one of the
islands of lagoon. The number of persons
employed in glass making at Murano and
V enice is 6.000, of whom one third are men,
and two-thirds women and children. The
aonn&l cost of the substances employed in
,L- ma ? ufa f ar ?. ,s estimated at about 7,000,-
UMWt , J ° the East there is a constant de
mand for beads and other articles known as
"conterig. ' There are six glass works in
Turin, three in Geona, five in Milan, thirteen
in Florence, eleven in Naples, and twenty in
Venice.
THE STATE.—OFFICIAL.— IB6B.
We are enabled to present full official re
turn:! from all the counties in the State ex
cept Beaver, Crawford, Fulton, Jefferson,
M'Kcan. Susquehanna, Wyoming and York,
hut the figures given in the table are the of
ficial reported majorities; they may, howev
er, vary a little. The majority for General
U. S. Grant will be from 29,000 to 30,000:
Auditor Gen. President.
£r ® £
5 5* \ ?
C< (UNTIES. § •: \ \
A. Urn- 2832 3174 2017 .1170
Allegheny 23860 14021 24587 11171
Armstrong M 3459 4082 3412
Bearer 3140 2175 1000
Bedford 2625 3019 2887 2s9S
Berks 7413 13921 7917 13873
Btair 3841 3183 3981 3018
Bradford 7812 3883 7763 3538
Bucks 6981 7838 7085 7613
Butler 3723 32"2 380:1 SSB
Cumbria 2849 3587 2936 3:> 58
Camera 537 411 508 394
Carbon 2129 2772 *IBB o :i3
Centre 3388 3735 3429 3146
| Chester 8850 0458 917S 1490
Clarion 1908 2956 1998 2928
I Clearfield 1895 3037 1974 "90
; Clinton 1992 2786 2056 2582
: Colon bin - 2077 4068 2143 4022
! Crawford 7U26 5390 1867
' Cumberland 3801 4433 4171 4594
Dauphin 6190 4533 6507 439,
Delaware 4016 2764 4166 2616
Klk 60S 1054 568 lIIV
Eric 7702 4531 8007 4555
Fayette 3745 4773 3792 4608
Franklin 4321 4278 44al 4171
i Forest 352 34S 355 294
Fulto.) 7>2 1113 306
! Greene 1722 3374 1809 3301
, Huntingdon 3473 249- 3417 21.9
1 Indiana 4842 2301 4809 2223
! Jefferson 2078 2091 75
Jur iata 1467 1863 1473 1.6.1
i Lancaster 15313 8570 15792 8513
1 Lawrence 3691 1716 37.-9 1617
| Lebanon 426? 2868 4345 2858
Lehigh 4733 1305 9004 6321
Luzerne 9992 13420 10723 14303
| Lveoming 4680 5031 4713 4839
, McKean 983 809 280
Mercer 4793 4177 4979 41)78
i M.fflin 1858 IS2B 1846 1807
I Monroe „ 735 2789 1900
Montgomery 7948 8905 8083 8803
Montour 1194 1683 1269 1697
I Northampton 4452 7701 2971
i Northumberland 3694 4146 325 4240
j Ferry - 2570 2526 2664 2416
; Philadelphia 60633 80808 60985 55173
I Pike 338 1269 370 1313
Putter 1601 811 1703 693
i Schuylkill 8192 9538 8707 9428
j Snyder 3865 1343 1925 1318
1.- umertet 3195 1)29 3261 177s
j Sullivan 461 846 473 851
i Susquehanna 4682 3377 1600
I Tioga 5410 2051 5549 1951
j Union 2054 1340 2081 1277
Venango 4131 3781 4759 3774
j Warren 2990 1882 3020 1757
Washington 4946 4948 5051 4867
I Wayne 2698 3397 2999 3539
Westmoreland 5335 6569 5285 6360
Wyoming 1549 1765 175
York 6053 9096 2645
Total 351U63 321391
321391
Mo; rities 9677
NORTH CAROLINA.
WILMINGTON, Nov. 7. —The returns now
in ere sufficient to show that the State has
jonc for Grant by about SOOO majority,
j Returns from the Mountain districts to-night
show the election ot Plato Durham. Conser
vative. for Congress. The delegation stands
five Republicans, two Conservatives—a
Democratic gain of one. The official count
increases the Republican majority of New
Hanover county, including Wilmingtion, to
107, being a Republican gain of 245.
WEST VIRGINIA.
The Wheeling, West Virginia, Intellign
cer of Saturday says:
We have Wen surprised to find how great
ly the majorities for Grant in this state ex
ceed those cast for the State ticket.
Twenty-three counties: total gains, 2,602;
total losses, 71; net gains, 2,531. Add this
to the majority in OctoWr, and it makes
Grant's majority about 7,3u0, if the thirty
counties yet to he heard from give just the
same majorities they did last niount.h. The
largest co-nntio a aro reported, but it Will not
be surprising if those yet to he heard from
have given near a thousand gain on their
last vote. It so Grant's majority will be
over 8,000.
INDIANA.
The Indianapolis, Ind., Journal of Friday
has official returns from fifty-seven counties
in the State. It shows by table that the
net Republican gain in these counties over
the State election is 6, 988. The Journal
says:
Should the counties yet to he heard from
show Republican gains in the same ratio.
Grant's majority in Indiana will be about
12,239.
KENTUCKY.
LOUISVILLE. NOV. B.—The Republican
vote in this State has increased to a sur
prising extent, and Seymour's majority will
not be more than 60,000 to 70.000. The
Republican vote will reach 45,000.
ALABAMA.
Montgomery, Nov. 7.—The Legislature
spent to-day in discussing whether this is
the beginning of a new session or the con
tinuation of the old session.
Returns from thirty counties give Sey
mour 14,521, and General Grant, 23,600.
The remaining counties will probably give
Democratic majorities sufficient to over
come the majority of the negro counties,
i The returns indicate that the result is doubt
fa'
ARKANSAS.
Little Rock, Nov. 7.—lt is conceded that
Rogers, Democrat, is elected to Congress in
the Second district. The First and Third
districts are still doubtful. The Democrats
charge that the Governor's martial law
proclamation was a move to justify the stop
ping of the election in eleven Democratic
counties. Reports from various parts show
that the best feeling prevails among the
citizens of all parties and colors. Martial
law will be proclaimed in Little Rock and
Pulaski counties on Monday.
GEORGIA.
Augusta, Nov. 7.—Additional returns
continue to increase the Democratic major
'■Siooa ~ ; - u
How It was Done in New York.
Commercial Advertiser
says: The large Democratic majority in
this city is owing to the want of thorough
organization on the part of the Republicans.
In nearly allot the strong Democratic voting
| precincts, there was no Republican chal
j leoger on duty, and the inspectors of elec
tions were either intimidated from doing
their duty hv Democratic ruffians, or cor
rupted to close their eyes to the frauds be
ing perpetrated. The manner in which
some of the polls were deserted by the Re
publicans was not only shameful, "but cow
ardly. The fact that over thirty thousand
bogus names were placed on the registra
tion, and that the Democrats were permit
ted to vote in excess of the registration in
some districts, is evidence sufficient to show
the infirmity and imbecility of the Repub
lican organization. It is not only worth
less, we are sorry to say, but rotten. Take
lor instance the Sixth ward. 5,651 names
were registered -the vote is 5,033 for Hoff
man, 368 for Gnswold— total. 4,501. show
ing that they voted within 159 of the num
ber registered. No honest man will say
that there are in the ward 1,509 legal vo
'ers - Here is a clear fraud of 2.500 votes
for Seymour and Hoffman. The same
frauds are seen in the Seventh, Eleventh,
Seventeenth and Twenty-first wards. Never
in the history of elections were ever witness
ed such barefaced ballot-box stuffing. The
election in the city is nothiug more than a
mockery and a farce. It is no expression
ol the people. It is the voice of wicked
ness intensified.
GHUAOO.—The total value of taxable
property in Chicago is placed by the as
sessors at $228,444,876, divided as follow.-
I Sl74 '**'" ,l ° 1 perßonal esta^
THE NOVEMBER METEORS.
The annual motoric shower is expected t
this year between the 12th and 15th of No- i
vernber. The astronomer of the Cincinnati
Observatory writes to the Gazette of that ;
city:
On the 12th and 15t_h of November, be- J
tween the hours of midnight and sunrise, '
watch will be kept at this Observatory for j
the so called "November" meteors. In i
this labor it is peculiarly advantageous to :
have thu co operation of several observers; i
and as the observations are of a very simple j
character, the director would cordially in- I
vite all who are interested in this subject to '
unite therein with him. Those who can
not do duty at the Observatory may still
accomplish something at their own resi
deuces, especially if provided with a good
star map or globe. A map of the bright
stars within forty-five degrees of Leo may
indeed he constructed beforehand, and be
used with good results.
Corresponding observations will be made
; at seveiai points within a hundred miles of
us, and it is hoped that some results for
parallax may be deduced.
AH who intend observing will do well to
communicate at once with the undersigned,
stating to what extent they can ta"ke part in
the observations. CLEVELAND ABUE.
Cincinnati Observatory, October 28.
"The curious of Bedford who were such
diligent watchers during the previous me
teoric showers will again have another op
portunity to indulge in an ocular feast. As
but a few of the many watchers on that oc
casion were lucky enough to see the "tall,"
it might he well to enjoin more diligence
(if possible) and if the same general interest
be manifested on the coming occasion as
was on the previous, it might perhaps be
better to have the "watch" systematized
slightly in so much, that a part at least of
the observers will be constantly on the gui
vice to give the general alarm upon the first
demonstration.
FLORIDA.
Conflict of Authority—Apptehensious of
a Riot—Arrest of State Officials.
TALLAHASSA, Nov. 7. —About nine
o'clock last night, citizens to the number of
one hundred or more were summoned by
the city and county authorities to hold them
selves iti readiness to aid in quelling any
riots. At eleven o'clock, p. m., there being
no indications of trouble the posse was dis
charged. The cause of the call was the con
Hieing orders from Governor Reed and
Lieutenant Governor Gleason, and fears
were entertained that the colored people
would be called to support the action of the
Legislature. The citizens are uneasy to day
and will not interfere except to aid in pre
serving the peace, when prompt assistance
will he needed.
There-are rumors on the streets to-day
that the plantation negroes have been noti
fied, to couie in to night, but the repott is
doubted. One company of the seventh
regiment is posted here thirty strong.
The Legislature adjourned this morning
until January. No quorum was present
when the impeachment resolutions were
passed- Several members held seats and
voted whose seats had been declared vacant
by the proclamation of the Governor by
reason of the members accepting and occu
pying other official positions. Gov. Head
refuses to recognize the action of the body,
and declares it illegal. Lieut. Gov. Glea
son this morning demanded posession of the
executive office and was refused by Gov.
lteed. who has brought suit against Gleason
and Olden, Secretary of State, before the
Circuit Judge for conspiracy against the
Governor, and they are now under arrest.
This ease is to be sent up to the supreme
Court.
The California Earthquake.
The people of the Atlantic border are not
in a position to realize the probable gloom
cast over those of the Pacific by the late ter
restrial convulsion. The feelings of the San
Franciscans may Ik; fitly likened to those of
a strong man in the very flower of youth
and vigor, a long way on the road of exalted
prosperity and with a future full of promise,
suddenly warned by a first visitation of par
alysis. Tho ouoocediiig dens of (hat man are
those of uncertainty and lurking dread. The
effect of such a visitation upon the amLition
and energy of an individual can hardly be
said to be entirely analagous to that U(wn a
community, but it is largely so from obvious
reasons. The question, whether the Pacific
slope of the northern continent of this hem
isphere is to be visited by the same volcanic
disturbances that have so long afflicted the
southern one, is pregnant with momentous
considerations and results for the whole na
tion. If these phenomena are to override
all those natural cheeks by which science has
assured us they were confined to tropical
latitudes, aud pervade a region as unfavora
ble to their presence as California, upon the
scientific hypothesis commonly accepted,
what assurance have we that they will not
extend their march to the Atlantic coast? It
is not at all unreasonable to suppose that
the same changes are going on in the motive
cause of these phenomena that are observa
ble throughout the whole natural system.
Assuming such to be the case, we are
brought face to face with prospects that are
novel and disturbing in character, and that
must enforce a radical alteration of things
with us. If followed up by other shocks,
the San Francisco earthquake may possibly
prove to be a national blight, of a greater or
less degree. It certainly must seriously dis
turb the ambition for greatness of that
otherwise naturally favored region. In the
mid*t of the general enterprise, the building
of the great transcontinental railway spans,
and the aspiring and prodigious exertions
being made to control the commerce of the
whole Eastern world, this physical eruption
comes as a monitor. In view of the impor
tanee the case has now assumed, we think
it eminently advisable that some means be
taken, either under public or private auspi
ces, for the discovery of the precise laws by
which this class of phenomena is governed,
and, if possible, the measures which shall be
adopted for the general protection, if there
be any promising protection.
The Variations o( Language.
Mr. Howorth, in a letter to an English
journal, gives his views of the manner in
which a language may be changed. This
may occur, he holds, in two ways, cithet by
the growth of variations of its vocabulary
or by the modification of its structure The
growth or change of the vocabulary depends
on the changed conditions of the race*using
it. An example of this may be found in
the cases of nomadic tribes, such u th Si
berians or the red Indians, who have no
literature to fix their language, and eonse
quently, under new circumstances, are con
stantly changing the expression of their
ideas. On the other hand, plough-boys
fixed to one spot are remarkahle for the
paucity of their language. To educated
classes newspapers and books afford an op
portuuity of adding to their vocabulary
similar to that possessed in another way by
the nomads. A test of this theory can be
found by examining the vocabulary of prov
incial dialects, or those of islands such as
Iceland or the Freisic Islands, off the coast
of Holland, or those in the fiords of Nor
way. The structure of language is affected
differently, Mr. Howorth "maintains. He
thinks that while grammarians may produce
some change, as they have in the formation
of the Latin of the best period, their influ
ence is but slight and does not effect the
"'back bone" of the language—that spoken
by the masses. The causes of the changes
which effect the structure of a language are
well illustrated iu the case of the English
of to day. Thus while the Anglo-Saxon is
a language rich in inflections and possessing
an elaborate grammar, modern English has
"hardly an inflection of a trace of gram
mar." This alteration is referred to the
effect of the romance language of the Nor
man French on the Anglo-Saxon. Both
these languages made mutual sacrifices
when coalescing. The same is true of the
combination of Anglo-Saxon with the
W elsh, and it is argued the same occurs at
every amalgamation of races speaking differ
ent languages. On the other hand, it ia in
terred that wherever a language has Buffet
ed grammatical changes or mutilations, or
has been altered in pronunciation, a new
element has been infused into the original
stock of the people. Hence philology and
ethonology become complementary to each
other. The theory is a plausible one, and
can be supported by a good deal of evidence.
—tVUburgh Despatch
A Man with Two Heart*.
The Hartford Courant says this man
lives in that city. He is ahout fifty years of
age, and is able bodied. He had lived up
wan! of thirty five years before the phe
nomenon was discovered. Singular features
of the case are that there are two separate
arterial connections between the two hearts,
and the best authorities, who have given
attention to the subject, agree in saying that
the smaller organ performs the general func
tions of the body in all blood relations, while
the larger appears to have a distinct exis
tence in that matter, and only operates upon
the nervous system through peculiar mechan
ism not entirely unfamiliar to the profession.
The larger organ shows frequently unusual
activity, and gives evidence of a lurkin
disease, which, it is said, will sooner or la
ter carry the man to his grave. The lesser
organ, dependent only upon the greater in
such degree as the several organs of physical
life are dependent for perfect working upon
the healthful regulation of the whole
uiechuuiMn, has been found to be in an al
most perfect state —the ,-anie as ordinary
persons of good health, who are not distur
bed by the presence of a second organ.
The effect of this second presence upon
the person alluded to is at times melancholy
beyond description. It has a quick, active
motion, showing the presence in the arteries
j of a superabundant quantity of blood to
vitalize the lesser organ; the man exhibits
I considerable elasticity of spirit, but this is
| only temporary; more frequently there is a
sluggishness tu the nervous connections,
which is followed By loss of sleep and great
petulance in wakelul moments. On such
occasions the family of the man find him a
most disagreeable companion. He displays
a mild form ol insanity, which, it is feared,
may develop in something worse. So severe
have been some of his paroxysms of late,
that a council has been called, and it has
j been decided that, the larger heart may be
! removed without the least disturbing of the
blood relation of the body, but the man, who
hs been approached on the subject, declares
that of the two organs he had rather have
the vital one of the body taken out, which
cin not be done without producing instant
diath. This organ is situated under the
vest watch pocket of the man; the other is
in the pocket where he carries his cash.—
Pittsburgh Dispatch.
Threatened Famine ia India.
The London Times contains a letter front
Calcutta under date of September 11, in
whict the writer announce;# the probability
ofanither famine in various parts of India,
owing to the failure of the rice crops. He
says.
"Ftnrine once more threatens Northern
j India, especially all those provinces to which
alone the term Hindostan is correctly ap
plied. There was hardly any hot weather,
in the Indian sense, in May and June last.
Again in July and August, the heavens were
opened with the most disastrous results in
i all tie coast districts, east and west on
i which the monsoon bursts. Ori-a was
swept; the other districts between Calcutta
and the sea are still four feet under water;
even more distant Tirhoot was deluged.
The rice crops rotted; those sown a second
time are now rotting before my eyes. But
in Bengal the crop of the year comes later,
as we have too good reason to know sioce
! 1866. On the rainfall this month and half
i of next depend the fate of the cold season
i crops and the lives of thousands. Now,
j Bengal has already had much more than its
i whole year's supply. No less than seventy
eight inches have falieu at Calcutta, or elev
! en more than the annual average, against
; fifty-three in the same time last year.
"Nor has Western India escaped the del
I uge. At this time last month it inundated
I Guzerat, Ahtnedabad, Kaira, Kurst, and
i the other great old cities there have been
| desolated. The news of a calamity which
jin Europe would have called forth the
lamentation of nations, in India takes three
J weeks to travel across the pemnsuela.
: Houses have fallen down by tens of thou
] sands, and lives, both European and native,
have been lost, while railway bridges have
been washed away.
"At this moment the sixty millions of
human beings who live by the land between
i the Indus on the north, theChumbul, if not
j Nerbudda, on the south and the D.im
! moodah, in the far east, are praying for
rain, in mo.-que and temple, through priest
I and idol. The Lahore and Liodiana dis
i trieuof the Punjab have the Ilaree Dooab
i ('anal or iho Indus; but flour ( atta ) is at
ten pounds a shilling, and in the depth of the
last famine it rarely reached seven pounds.
'Tn Lower Bengal the crops have suffered
j froia too much rain, and up in Behar they
tre suffering from too little. Rice, that used
to sril at thirty seers for a rupee (thirty
pou ids a shilling) is selling at twenty, and
goirg up higher every day. If there should
, be to rain this month nothing can prevent a
j fum ne."
Canons Termination ola Murder Trial.
A murder trial met with a curious termi
n.-ton in Henry county, Illinois, iast week,
i Flo case was a trial of a man named Hatn
iltui on an indictment for murder. A jury
I wai empannelled and the witnesses for the
. prtsecution examined, showing a clear case
ofaurder against the defendant. At this
staie of the proceedings the oouusel tor the
defence asked leave to enter a [ilea of guilty
of manslaughter. This was refused. The
prsoner then pleaded guilty of murder as
chtrged in the indictment. The court ac
cepted the plea and discharged the jury,
thirc being no question of guilt for them to
pass upon, and here is where the case as
sumes an alarming shape. The General As
sembly of that State at its last session pass
ed a law that in all cases where felonies are
punishable with death, the jury may return
a verdict of guilty, and at; a part of the
I verdict are required to determine whether
| ihe prisoner shall suffet death by hanging or
: oe imprisoned in the penitentiary for hie, or
: fur not less than fourteen years; and that no
person shall he sentenced by any court unless
the jury shall have so found in their verdict
upon trial. The judge held that upon a
plea of guilty the court could not sentence a
prisoner to death, but must imprison him
for one of the terms named in the law. This
construction on the law makes it easy to
avoid the death penalty in Illinois.
Freezing the Brain.
The discovery that the brain of a living
animal could be frozen and afterwatd could
recover was made by Dr. James Arnott. who
solified the brain of a pigeon by exposing it
to a freezing mixture. Here research stop
ped. because with an ordinary freezing mix
ture it was not possible to act ou individual
parts of the organ; but the inportance of
i t he discovery is not the less on that account.
■ It was a marvellous revealling organ of mind,
<>t all volition. It took in every motion of
urnvfr*> ru wbrek it wtf cat>*"*'U. It
'took the light and form, and color by the
feye; it took in sound by the ear; sensation
and substance by the touch; odor by the
mouth; it gave out, in return or response,
animal motion, expression—all else that
demonstrates a living animal; without it the
animal was turned into a mere vegetable.
And this organ, the very center and soul of
the organism, was by mere physical experi
went for a time made dead —all its powers ice-
Kound. And this organ, again, set free,
received its functions back again, and, as
we know now by further observation, its
•unctions unimpaired. Surely this was the
discovery of a new world.— Pittsburgh dis.
patch.
A STRANGE DISCOVERY.—A queer ex
humation, says the Wellsville Union , was
made in the Strip Vein Coal Hank of
Captain Lacy, at Hammondsviile, Ohio, one
day last week. Mr. James I'arsons and his
sons were engaged in making the bank,
when a huge mass of coal tell down, dis
closing a large smooth slate wall, upon the
surface of which were found, carved in bold
relief, several lines of hieroglyphics. Crowds
have visited the place since the discovery,
and many good scholars have tried to de
cipher the characters, but all have failed.
Nobody has been able to tell in what tongue
the words are written. How came the
mysterious writing in the bowels of the
earth where probably no human eye has ever
penetrated? By whom and when was it
written. 1 here are several lines about three
inches apart, „the first line containing
twenty-five words. Attempts have been
made to remove the slate wall and bring
it out, but upon tapping the wall it gave
fourth a sound that would seem to indi
cate the existence of a hollow chamber
beyond, and the characters would be de
stroyed in removing it. At last accounts
Dr. Hartshorn, of the Mount Union Col
lege, had been sent for to examine the
writing.
A Church Blown Acvuy.
Yesterday morning about nine o'clock, a
little brick church on the Hardin pike,
about eleven miles from the city, and situa
ted on a point where the road runs between
two lofty hills, was literally blown away, only
about fur feet of the wails being left stan
ding. The wind had been pretty stormy all
the morning, and many trees had been
blown down on the surrounding hill, but at
the hour above named a gust of wind swept
along the road, catching up in its sweeping
progress, every detached object in the way
and whirling them round as if it were a
horizontal cylender. fence rails, branches of
trees, hunks of earth, and even stones were
whirled around by tor ill anger as it came
along with irresistible force and inconeeiva
hie rapidity—it struck the church about,
four feet above the ground, ripped off the
bricks and mortar, and swept the whole up
per part away quite dean. A few bricks
were dropped along the road for two or
three hundred yard-, but the nmin portion
was taken nearly half a mile, to where the
road opened out on a wide stretch of com
paratively flat country, arid there dropped in
the bed of a creek, with the. roof still firmly
attached to the walls. Two cows that had
been to leeward of the building while it was
yet standing, were knocked about twenty
yards away into tt hollow. They seemed
considerably stupified, but otherwise sus
tained no damage.— JSushvilU Press.
A Youug Illinois Diplomat.
G. A. Towosend, in his Washington let
ter to the Hartford Post, pays the following
handsome compliment to a worthy young
Illinoian. while mentioning others in our
foreign diplomatic service:
Among the young men at home, or en
route, is John Hay, the late President's sec
retary. who haiis, I believe, from Alton,
111. Hay has had remarkable luck in the
patronage of the State Department, but he
owed it originally to his tai"nts and main
tained it by his prudence. He is übuttt 152
years old; but doe not look to be more tbati
25. He is small in stature, of a lighr and
rose complexion, with brown hair, gold
tinted. and a clear, fine eye. Fie wa-Secre
tary of Legation and Charged' Affaires in
Paris, and held ai.-o the latter rank in Vien
na. Being lively and well bred, he attrac
ted attention in Loth capitals and from the
household of the Countess Guiceioli to the
private office of M. Thon venal he wa, held
in pleasant request. His literary t dents are
of a notable grace and manliness; Mr. Lin
coln admired his poetry and among his as
sociates in France were Ahout, Laboulaye,
Dore and other bright young intellects of
the period. It is in the civil service that a
man like Hay would deport himself to dis
tiuction, if ,lime and encouragement were
permitted by the demoralized character of
our politic-. He bridged over the space be
tween Motley and Watts so well that it i<
questionable whether we would net do well
to save the big salaries altogether, li indeed
we require half of our diplomatic body.
Extraordinary Suit tor Trespass.
A -ait of an extraordinary nature wa
rned in Justice Aldridge's Court, at Ilud
son City. New Jersey, a few days since, to
recover damages for trespass, in opening a
grave and chisling off a piece of the coffin.
I>a-t summer a son of James R. Knapp wti
burrit d by Henry Stiff, undertaker, and
subsequently, when the bill was presented,
Mr. Knapp refused to pay the full amount
claimed, alleging that the coffin was not
black walnut, as agreed upon. To settle tin
dispute, it was agreed that they should
open the grave on the 12th of August, but
on the 11th Mr. Stiff proceeded to the
cemetery and directed the sexton to open
the grave and chip off a piece of the coffin
from the shoulder with a -barn chisel, which
the defendant furnished, and which would
do no damage. The sexton did as directed,
and in company with Mr. Stiff presented
the piece of coffin to Mr. Knapp for inspec
tion. Thi- act done before the time agriwd
upon, excited suspicion in the mind of Ml.
Knapp, who di<l not believe it to be a piece
of the coffin, and still refusing to pay the
bill, Mr. Sriff brought suit and recovered
the full amount of his demand. The pre-ent
suit was brought to recover as above. The
jury after beiug out six hours, brought in a
verdict of live dollars damages for the plain
tiff. _
Who'll tiet That Banner ?
On the eve of the Presidential contest,
which closed so disastrously to Democracy,
our amiable friend. Sena or Wallace, pro
posed to aive the county which -bowed the
largest Democratic increase over the vote
cast at the October election, a banner, with
appropriate embellishments and mottoes, all
of which was: to cost five hundred dollars.
As the re-ult has shown that the Deuiocra
c.v did not gain in any of the counties at the
; Presidential over the vote of the Octo
her election, what wili Senator Wallace do
with that banner? It has of course been
painted, trimmed and bung on it-staff, but
there are no Democratic hands in Penn-yl
vania tit to hold it aloft. Beaun, broken
actually into pieces, and wrecked so wof'ull)
that no political genius, or skill of political
manipulation, can ever again reorganize
and reanimate the Democratic rarty, all
that Mr. Wallace can now do is to take that
celebrated Clearfield coffee pot, wrap it in
the Banner which wa- not won by the
Democracy, and burv both amid the umbra
geous shades of the pine fnrrests of Penn
sylv nia. wl.ere, after the Democracy have
become weary of visiting Fred Lauer s
lager vaults in Beading, they can repair to
weep over their 'ost cause and threaten
"war to th'- knife—th>* knife to the hilt" to
the hated Radicals. Ulute Guard.
TIIE WORKING PEOPLE. —According to a
recent calculation as to the condition of the
United States the average life of American
mechanics is estimated at 401 years, and
the average number of days of work in thi>
climate at 250 in each year. The average
expense of an adult for board and clothing
in the seaboard cities arc calculated at about
$3fX) a year. On the supposition that a
laborer is paid on an average of $3 a day
for hts work for the 250 days working he
will receive £7.50 a year. Ih'duct price of
boarding and clothing, s3f>o. aud there is
left £450 for all expenses of keeping a f'anii
iy, for amusements, education and contin
gencies. The sum, it is asserted, is insuffi
cient in many instances. The average
working years of a laboring man Iteing esti
mated at twenty, his total earnings in an
average life time, with 350 working davs in
the year, at $3 per day. woulti be £15,000,
or £322,5S per year, $0,20 per week.
EXECU TION or ARABIAN CANNIBALS. —Five
Arabs were executed lately at Constantina,
Algeria, l'bey had been condemned to death
in June last: one for the murder of a beggar
at El Kantra. and the four others for the
murder of a boy at Ain Querfa, aud theeating
r,f Cho bod* titrorwiii-,1.. rn„ „„re
informed at four o'clock in the morning that
the fatal hour had arrived, aud after the
usual toilette, were taken in a covered vehicle,
escorted hy soldiers to the place of execution,
where they arrived a little before seven
o'clock in a state of extreme prostration.
They, however, ascended the scaffold with
out flinching, and betrayed no feeling what
ever when seized on hy the executioner and
his men. A large crowd of Europeans as
well as natives were present.
ONE THOI'SAND women in St. Petersburg,
Russia, are engaged in the remunerative
art of fortune telling. The highest circles
of society furnish the votaries to these
priestesses, who also deal in Asiatic per
fumes, and allow gentlemen to stroll from
the idlest of curiosities into their little
temples, Taking the whole number of in
habitants into account, which would allow
one prophetess to every stXt people. St.
Petersburg cannot surely complain of beiug
kept in the dark about coming events.
AT a recent dinner, at which no ladies
were present, a man in responding to the
toast on '.women," dwelt almost solely on
the frailty of the sex, claiming that the host
among thetn wen- hut little lietter than the
worst, the chief difference being in the sur
roundings. At the conclusion of his speech
a gentleman rose and said: "I trust the
gentleman, in the application of his rhmarks
referred to his otcti mother aud sisters, and
not to our*."
A ( ALIFOKNIAX has projected and fur
nished in model what he expects will prove
the great ship of the age. The size of the
vessel is to be the same as the (ireat Eastern
except that she will draw ten f eet ] e s S water
As the vessel will be used exclusively for
psfsenpprs, the loss in j <
rial. It is calculated that she will make the
trip ,rom Aiew i ork to England in seven
days,
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.
A WESTEBJC farmer has brought 3,600 apple
trees over from Russia.
Tbk average age of soldiers during the late
war was from 28 to 25.
TWENTY- EIYE thousand and sixty-six dollars
have been collected in New York for the
benefit of the South American earthquake
sufferers.
THE Queen of Sweden has turned trans
lator, and the profits of her labors are to
be applied to the foundation of a hospital in
Stockholm.
TAXES IN FRANCE. —The indirect taxes of
France for the first niue months of 1868,
according to the official returns, amount to
$185,976,000, being an increase of $2,177,-
000 over the corresponding period in 1867,
and an itic-eaae of $3,550,000 over that of
1866.
IT is said that Prince Alfred of England is
adverse to the idea of becoming King of
Spain, while bis mother, the Queen, and
his elder brother, the Prince of Wales, fa
vor the scheme; the latter being jealous of
his younger brother' extreme popularity with
the Knglisb people.
IPOI-ATRY ABOLISHED.—'The new Queen of
Madagascar has abolished idol worship, and
openly declared her contempt for the idols
and their priests. The Queen herself has
not yet espoused Christianity, but the impetus
given to the work of conversion is reported to
be such that "the Christian churches cannot
contain the crowds who Hock to hear the
Gospel. - '
FIKE ARMS. —It is stated that ninety-five
out of every hundred instances of the bursting
of a double barrelled gun can be traced tode
feets in the left barrel. The reason is simply
that the right is most frequently used and re
loaded—perhaps ten times to the left being
discharged once. Ever, time the rightbarrel
is discharged, the gunpowder in the left is
pulverized more or less by the shock, and the
settling of the giains leaves a space between
the charge and the wadding. Hence when
the left barrel is discharged, it frequently ex
plodes. These accide its, it is a-serted, can
be avoided by sending the ramrod home with
one or two smart blows into the noudischarged
barrel every time the other is re-loaded.
CYCI-ONES. —A member of the F'rench
Academy of Sciences gives the following
simple method of determining the position of
the centre of a cyclone: "If you place your
self in the direction of the wind which is
blowing so that it strikes you full in the face,
ihe centre of the cyclone will ahcays be on
your left at 90 degrees (torn the dnection of
the wiud. It is evident that in stretching out
the left army horizontally and parallel with
the surface of the body, you indicate at once
(he position of this centre. This practical
method, which is subject to no exception is so
easy Ic retnetnber and to execute, that no
sailor should be permitted to ignore the posi
tion of this fatal centre from which he must
fly at any risk.
INTERNATIONAL COINAGE. —The Royal Com
mission, recently appointed by the English
Parliament, to consider the possibility of es
tablishing an international coinage, says that
before any agreement can be concluded very
difficult and complicated questions will have
to lie settled, concessions will have to be
made on one part and on the other, and it
will also be an important matter for consider
ation bow far an agreement may be facilitated
by making the charges which are necessary,
bear on any country as lightly as is consistent
with the attainment of the common object.
The Commission therefore recommended the
holding of an International Conference, com
prising authorized representatives of different
countries, to confer upon the subject.
MEXlCO. —Letters from the City of Mexico
state that the charter of the railroad to Vera
Cruz has been rescinded by Congiess by a
vote of seventy three to sixty five. The vote
is interpreted as a defeat to the Government
party, and has occasioned much excitement
in the Congress on that account, and among
the citizens, because a great many of the
working people will be thrown out of employ
ment in consequence. Romero has publish
ed his report of the finances. In accounting
for expenditures he is unable to give details,
hut savs that all the revenues are expended.
The national expenditure incurred by the five
years' war against Maximilian and the
French, yet unpaid, is $3,834,807.
A FRENCHMAN named Charlier has inven
ted a new sort of horse shoe which is much
1 raised. It consists of an iron band let into
a rectangular groove scooped from the outer
circle of the horse's foot. This band is fas
tened with seven reiangnlar nails, driven into
oval holes. The sole of the foot and the frog
are thus allowed to touch the ground; the
horse never slips, and never gets diseases of
the foot. The new shoe has been tried by M.
Lauguet, a large livery stable keeper in Paris,
and has reduced lameness in bis stables by
two thirds, The Omnibus Company, more
over, have shod 1,200 horses: and speak of
the improvement in high terms.
BERLIN*, November 4.—King William to
day opened the session of the Prussian Diet
w;th a speech from the throne, and be said
i ; bat new sources of revenue were needed to
j provide for the increased expenditures. The
: relations ot Prussia with all foreign powers
I were satisfactory and friendly. He hoped
! Spain would succeed in independently recon
stituting her affairs on a basis which would
i render the future welfare of her people secure.
| He concluded hy declaring that the wishes of
Sovereign", and the public cravings for peace
would ensure peace, and should remove
i 'hose gtonndless fears of which advantage is
I 'oo often taken hy the enemies of peace.
MADRID, November 3. —A large military
antl naval expedition to Cuba is fitting out at
Cadiz, consisting of four frigates heavily arm
! Ed, conveying a fleet of Government trans
i ports with troops. General Dulce, the new
! Captain General, will sail with the fleet on
, hoard the Ville de Madrid. It is said these
| troops will replace those sent to Porto Rico.
I Gen. Prim publicly declares that the Provis
! 'Onal Government has not even discussed
! 'he name of a candidate for the Spanish
throne. Alazaga has issued a call to the
i moderate Democrats. Unionists and Progres-
I sionists. to select each four deputies, all of
whotn shall meet and frame a manifesto in
favor of choosing u King for Spain by the
pkbixcitum.
PttESEjtes OF MIND IK A LITTLE GIRI.
Foot YEARS OF AGE. —As three children,
named Peter Mitchell. Louis Leach, and Ann
.1. Lindsay, aged respectively eight, five, and
four, were playing on the premises of Mr.
Hollis Boleomb, in the town of Sudbury,
Massachusetts, Leach fell into a hogshead of
rain water set in the ground to the depth of
five leef. As soon as he fell in Mitchell ran
to his mother, at some distance from the
drowning boy, and informed her of the acci
dent; but the little girl got hold of the boy by
the shoulders and held his bead above the
water until assistance arrived and he was
taken out, thus saving his life.
AY HAT Sot THERS LANDS CAN Do.—The Ma
con (Ga. Journal of the 28th nit. gives an
account of a yield of cotton on five acres of
land in Bullock county, near Union Springs,
that deserves mention. The land was prepar
ed by thoiuugb a, Abe. of
fifteen inches, enriched hy the application of
2,">00 ' pounds—soo pounds to the acre —of
mixture of Peruvian guano and phosphates,
and worked at least once a week. The hill
system of planting was adopted, and the yield
was fifteen bales ot clean, beautiful cotton, of
tine quality, each hale weighing 500 pounds.
The Journal has heard of a similar yield in
the neighborhood of Athens, and on land
much poorer. Kernersville. X. C., with
scarcely a hundred inhabitants, h is sent North
this full nearly SIOO,OOO worth of dried fruit.
One house recently sent off" 36,000 pounds of
reach stones, which cost filty cents per bush
el: and one lady in the same place has collect
etl nearly one bushel ofapple seeds, for which
she is to receive twenty five dollars. The two
last mentioned articles are bought on com
mission for nursery men in the North.
( i N. HICKOK,
D E N T IST,
Office at th* old stand in BASK BIHLDISO, JULI
ASA STREET, BEDFORD.
All operation.,, pertaining to
Surgical ami Mechanical Dentistry
performed with care and
WARRANTED.
A uarethetice administered, icheti desired. Ar
tijieiai teeth inserted at, per set, SB.OO and up.
trard.
As 1 am determined to do a CASH BUSINESS
or none, I have reduced the priees for Artificial
Teeth of the various kinds, 20 per cent., and of
Gold Fillings 33 per cent. This reduction will be
made only to strictly Cash Patients, and all such
will receive prompt attention. feb7
Abb KINDS 01 BLANKS, Common, Admin
istrator's snd Kxecutor's. Deeds, Mortgages,
Sudginent Notes, Promissory No.es. with and with
out waiver of exemption, Summons, Subpoenas
and Executions, for sale at the Inquirer office.
Nov 2. 1S
EV EHT I'IIING in the BOOK and sTATIoN
EKY line fur sale at the Inquirer Book Store.
qtaplric.
LECT K I c
TELEGRAPH IN CHINA.
THE EAST IXDIA TELEGRAPH COMPA
NY'S OFFICE,
Sot. 23 Ac 25 Nassau Street,
NEW YORK.
Organized under special barter from the SiaU of
New Y sk,
CAPITAL $5,000,009
50,000 SHARES, SIOO EACH.
DIRECTORS.
Hon. ANDREW U. CURTIS. Philadelphia.
PAUL 8. FORBES, of Russell A Co., China.
FRED. BI'TTERFIELD, of F. Butterf.eld A
Co., New York.
ISAAC LIVERMORE, Treasurer Michigan
Central Railroad, Boston.
ALEXANDER HOLLAND, Treasurer Ameri
can Express Company, New York.
Hon. JAMES NOXON, Syracuse N. Y.
0. H. FALMER, Treasurer Western Union
Telegraph Company, New York.
FLETCHER WESTRAY, of Westray, GiUs
A HarJcaslle, New York.
NICHOLAS MICKLES, New York.
OFFICER?.
A. G. CURTIX, President.
N. MICKLES, Vice President.
GEORGE COXANT, Secretary.
GEORGE ELLIS (Cashier National Bark
Commonwealth,) Treasurer.
Hon. A. K. McCLURE, Philadelphia, Solici
tor.
The Chi nee e Government having (through the
Hon. Anson Iturtiuyame) conceded to thit Compa
ny the privilege of connecting the great eeaporte
of the Empire by tubmarine electric telegraph ea
ble, ire propoee commencing opera Hone in China,
and laying down a line of nine hundred m iies or
once, bettceen the following parte, viz :
Population,
Canton 1,000,000
Macoa „60,000
Hong-Kong 250,000
Swaiow 2011,009
Amoy 250,000
Foo-Chow 1,250,000
Wan-Cbu .100,000
Niogpo 400,000
Hang Chean -1.200,000
Shanghai 1,000.000
Total 5.910,000
These ports hare a foreign commerce of $900,.
000,000, and an enormous domestic trade, beside
which we have the immense internal commerce of
the Empire, radiating from these points, through
its canals and navigable rivers.
The cable being laid, this Company proposes
erecting land lines, and establishing a speedy and
trustworthy means cf communication, which must
command there, as everywhere else, the commu
nications of the Government, of business, and of
social life, especially in China. She has no pos
tal system, and her only means now of communi
cating information is by couriers on land, and by
steamers on water.
The Western World knows that China a
very large country, in the main densely peopled;
but a few yet realize that she contains more than
a third of the human race. The latest returns
made to her central authorities for taxing purpo
ses by the local magistrates make her population
Four Hundred and Fourteen Millione, and this is
more likely to be under than over the actual ag
gregate. Nearly all of these, who are over ten
years old, not only can bat do read and write,
ller civilization is peculiar, but her literature is
as extorsive as that of Europe. China is a land
of teachers and traders; and the latter are ex
ceedingly quick to avail themselves of every
proffered facility for procuring early information.
It is observed in California that tbe Chinese make
great use of the telegraph, though it there trans
mits messages in English alone. To day great
numbers of fleet steamers are cwned by Chinese
merchants, and used by tocm exclusively for the
transmission of early intelligence. If tbe tele
graph we propose, connecting all their great sea
ports, were now in existence, it is believed that
its business would pay tbe cost within the first
two Tears of its sa<cessfal operation, and would
steadily increase thereafter.
No enterprise commends itself as a greater de
gree remunerative to capitalists, and to our whole
people. It is of a vast national importance com
mercially, politically, and evangelically.
The stock of this Company has been unquali
fiedly recommended to capitalists and business
men, as a desirable investment by editorial arti
cles iu the New York Herald, Tribune, Horld,
Timet, Poet, Expreee, Independent, and in the
Philadelphia Xorth American, Preee, Ledger, In
quirer, Age, Bulletin and Telegraph.
Shares of this Company, to a limited number,
may be obtained at SSO each, $lO payable down,
sls on the Ist of November, and $25 payable in
monthly instalments of $2 50 each, commencing
December 1, lsfiS, on application to
• DREXEL k CO.,
.14 South Third Street,
Philadelphia.
Shares can ee obtained in Bedford hy applica
tion to Reed A Schell Bankers, who are authorised
to receive subscriptions, and can give all neces
sary information on the subject.