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THF PENNANYLVNIA RAILROAD
\N OUR UNITED STATES
SENATOR.
The Philadelphia Inquirer of the 26th ult.
announces that all the Republican members
of the Legislature from, 'hat city have
served to support J. Edgar Thompson
Prc-idont of the Pennsylvania Railroad
Company for United States Senator. In be
half of the sbidc individual the United
-ftates Railroad snd mining Heaister says.
"Pennsylvania wants for Senator no. a
second edition of liockalew of the legal bar,
but a statesman as practical in legislation as a
r&iiroail is practical in transportation. And
as a railroad in its operations may be said to
combine and represent all the human indos
tries, Pennsylvania would exhibit wisdom by i
putting a distinguished railroad man in the;
Senatorial office soon to be filled. \\ itb two i
representatives in the 1 nited States Senate. ,
both versed in practical statesmanship. Peno :
svlvania would have her material interests
looked afier and eared for as they deserve
Will she do it ? We believe she will, because
she has a son ripe in qualifications lor the
post, and for other reasons pertinent and |
manifest."
The concord of action to the Philadelphia j
delegation it is said has been I n ught about
by the withdrawal, of Hon. \\ iliiam 11.
Kcmble in favor of Mr. Thompson. To J.
Kdgar. Thompson a.a man of ability and
acquainted with the interests of our state
we can have no possible objection; but to J.
Edgar Thompson as the President of the
Pennsylvania Rail road Company we have
very decided objections. Ihe espousal ol
his cause by one who has grown rich enough
from the profits of the State Treasurersbip j
to have boasted of buying himself into the !
United States Srnatorship, by no means |
obviates the objection. The Railroad and
Mining Register s argument that a railroad
man is wanted v.e cannot regard as a very
strong one. We have the Railroad interest
of Pennsylvania already represented in the
person of Senator Came r on. It the rail
road legislation to he accomplished by rail
road men in the I . S. Senate is to be of the
same character with that which generally
prevails at Harrisburg the less we have of
it the hetter. We believe there arc a nuin
ber of others who will make quite as able
and efficicut Senators as the railroad men
and arc quite a 5 well acquainted with the
material interests of Pennsylvania. New
Voik, New Jersey and Pennsylvania have
already experienced the contaminating in
ffuence of railroad monopolies in their re
p-dive state legislature to such an extent
as ought to make them very careful not to
send the representatives of these overgrown
monopolies to tamper with our national
legislation. However able and good the
man offered for the position of United
States Senator, the fact of his identification
with the interests of the Pennsylvania Pail
road con-tiiutes a very grave objection. The
baneful influence of that monopoly in our
state legislature has loDg been felt ar.d our
people should be very careful not to bind
any tighter the chains that already shackle
every enterprise not managed in the inter
est of the Pennsylvania Railroad. Our
Legislature meets next month and until
then there will be ample opportunity to
discuss the merits of all candidates for the
Senatorship. Pennsylvania does not want
a man identified with any particular depart
ment of her industrial interests, but one of
eminent ability, with broad and liberal
views, capable of comprehending the fact
lliat state and national prosperity depend
not on the fostering of any particular inter
est, but on the building up and protecting of
all, thereby securing to us a varied industry
and consequent prosperity. Oue who while
jealously guarding all the interests of his
own state will be careful to lay no obstruc
in the way of the prosperity of her sister
states, one who while suiveying the whole
field of state and national legislation shall
do the right at whatever cost, who cannot
be subsidized or intimidated but who will
at all times make the greatest good of the
greatest number of his fellow citizens the
pole star by which to direct all his public
acts. Let such a man he elected, front the
many good men offered, and Pennsylvania's
record in the U. b. ,Senate be cleansed from
the blots of the traitor Cowan and the Cop
perhead B-tckaiew and restored to its pris
tine glory.
STATE TREASURER.
The importance of a change in the law re
lating to the office of State Treasurer is be
ginning to attract attention. As it stands
at present the office is prostituted to the
bui .iog up of private fortunes at the ex
r-use of the State finances. Hundreds of
thousands and even millions of dollars of
the money of the State are at times permit
ted to lie for months in the hands of the
.Treasurer, who uses it to speculate upon or
to lend out, thereby pocketing the interest
which should go to the credit of the State.
It is asserted that in this way a hundred
thousand dollars and even more per annum
has been realized by the lucky individuals
who are fortunate enough to get the ap
pointment of State Treasurer. That such a
state of affairs ought not to be permitted to
continue every one can understand. The
need of the State now is that the law in rc
gard to this office he so amended that the
Treasurer may gets fair salary for his trouble
and i esponsibility and not he permitted to
uso in any way the public funds for private
purposes under severe penalties. A law
should be passed for such an investment of
surplus lunds in the Treasury that the prof
its therefrom ntav accrue to the State and
not to private parties. \Ya are opposed to
the creation of lucrative offices bv any party
for the purpose of rewarding individuals for
party services. If men sock office only for j
the emoluments the State will be much bet
ter off if it dispenses with their services en
tirely. Here is a fair field for the Repub
lican Legislature this winter to fulfil its
professions of economy and retrenchment
and we hope it will make good its promises;
it mast do so if it wishes to retain tho con
•idence of the people.
fhc Lebanon Courkr comments as follows
on the hubject:
vania\s^fd°r S ii' e Tlts - urer in Pennsyl
the most, profitabfe I ??St ' ! f T'
Commonwealth Vf? a P ? s,t 'T W ths
wme placed * i,; v ' l!lve * loarJ lts 10
sand dollars annually * iT huadred th 1 1-
thatit may not reach thi! P ° SB1 L b,e
certain it is that every ~o £2 i !,U ™' v 1
rdaee retires with a hW-ro V ° - lns -
of this fact, there ar' to ,! • - N ° W ' lo V,e "
with the office, one of which df* M 0 !
be attention of the 3jf£ |
Holf at - ,enUo ° *' that body desires to 1
do eejual justjce to members ofihe nartv or I
tbeTaU i[."T* 0f doll * ra to the If 1
main as they" any,,!, 0 }%.
a, t y man lo hold the office, ff .he offiw
yields art income ol ono hundred thousand
dollars—or anything like* that sum—to the
I rca-urer, we contend that the class of men
who obtain the office are munifiecDflv re
warded for their party services by one year's
enjoyment of it; rsd it should then rotate to
some other member of the party equally
worthy and equally entitled to the plums
that the party has to distribute. On the
other hand, if the Xecislstnre shall think i
that this view of rewarding members of the
party is not a correct one, let the laws per
taininf? to the office be so injendeil that the
thousands of dollars now pocketed by the
Treasurer from the interest on the large
sums of the State's money on hand through
out the year may inure to the benefit of
the State's Treasury instead of the State's
Treasurer. We shall have more to say on
this subject."
The Berks and Schuylkill Journal quo
ting the above says:
The above article copied from the Leba
non Courier, meets our hearty endorsement.
It is high time that the Legislature puts a
stop to this using of the public funds for
pr vate benefits All our State Treasurers,
of late years, have grown rich by retaiuing
as their perquisites of office the interest of
the funds entrusted to their keeping, which
properly belonged to the State. Let a law
be passed this winter to meet the case, go
that hereafter the Commonwealth will lie
made to reap the benefit of a judicious in
vestment of the public funds not required
for immediate use.
GRANT AND THE-ONE TERM PRIN
CIPLE
Wa learn, from the Washington corres
pondence of the Tribune, with a gratifica
tion which is almost personal, that General
Grant is about to enrol himself at the head
ofAmeriean statesmen, by recommending
the one term principle in hisjinaugurai ad
dress. Washington and Jackson, after
having enjoyed two terms of the Presiden
tial office, retired from the chait with the
solemn and earnest appeal to the country to
limit their successors to one. The more
disinterested and self-sacrificing honor is re
I served far Grant to enter upon his first term
I with the recommendation on his lips that
! he himself, as well as bis successors, should
■ be limited by the Constitution to one term
| only. None could doubt the purity of such
an appeal. Few will demur to its wisdom
and necessity. The bane of Presidents has
been the monarchial grasping toward a fu
ture term. This selfish interest has blurred
the judgments of men who had been thought
the clearest and ablest, and stained the hon
or of some who had seemed pure. As a
rule this "vaulting ambition has o'erleaped
itself," and the President, in hopes of a sec
ond term, has been led like Johnson into
those very combinations which have not
only made a second term impossible, but
have well nigh cut short the first.
Nothing strengthens our confidence in
General Grant's peculiar fitness for the
Presidency more than the convictions he
has already expressed in an unofficial man
ner, in favor of limiting Presidents to
one term. Though we have pressed this
principle zealously in the columns of The
Spirit for roatiy years, our ambition is not
to ride a hobby, but to redeem the first of
fice of the Republic from personal and sel
fish motives—to rescue its vast powers from
perversion to the insignificant and base end
of promoting the re-election of its incum
bent. Whatever reasons weighed upon the
minds of Washington and Jackson in the
infancy of the Republic have acquired four
fold force with its expansion into its pres
ent empire.
The President now appoints 41,(XX) offi
cers, and distributes a direct patronage of
nearly one hundred and fifty millions of dol
lars per annum, and an indirect and collat
eral patronage still greater. His power
over legislation i 3 constitutionally equal to
that of two-thirds of both Houses of Con
gress, aud through his influence over the
appropriations of that body, and the admin
istration of the revenues and the laws, and
the distribution of the contracts by various
departments, the stream of wealth, power,
and place which flows through his hands to
others, is as great as was ever controlled by
Napoleon or the Ctesars. Ilia influence
over the Southern States must be for sever
j al years like that of the hero of Marengo and
Austerlitz over the conquered kingdom of
Europe. The motive of the President,
whether patriotic or personal, is the secret
spriog which moves this vast human mech
anism far good or evil. If his motive is pa
triotic and disinterested, a spirit of integrity
breathes through the entire body politic,
quickening it from inertia, and cleansing it.
from corruption. If his spirit be one of
i self-seeking and personal gain, whether in
abject baseness he grasp at money, or in
i stern ambition he strike for power, all the
i channels of official influence, like so many
nerves, tingle with the thrill of his sordid
I nature and reek with rottenness. Every
where unprincipled parasites and flatterers
i step into office over the heads of honest
: men, and compensate themselves for the
reputations they sacrifice in holding office
under a corrupt administration by preying
on the revenues and the people until they
seem more like vultures than the adminis
tration which appoints them. We have
greater confidence in the personal power and
will of General Grant to withstand and over
rule these influences, than in that of any
other person now living who could be sub
jected to them. But constitutions should
be adapted to secure the best results from
the average of selfish and ambitious human
nature. Those which depend on an unfail
ing supplv of Patriotism may meet with
spasmodic success, but must ultimately
break down. We concede, too. that other
influences Iteside the "ene term principle"
- should supplement and aid it. Our civil
and diplomatic service should be graded like
our military service, so that all should reach
the higher positions thoroughly prepared by
experience gained in the lower, and pro
motion should attend upon merit and not
accident. Our present civil service is an
utterly disorganized maze, which needs
nothing so much as the mind of a military
organiser to rpdneo if tn nrdpr "I remove
you," said General Grant to General War
! ren, after Five Forks," because you do not
j organize; you have no faith in your Division
Generals. I give you an order which one
of them should execute, and you execute, it
yourself. While you, in command of one
division, are thus getting whipped for waot
of corps commander." Just the same lack
of organization is at work in the Treasury
Department. While Secretary McCulloch
is investigating a seizure case in New York
city, which he can trust neither the Collec
tor of the Port to settle, the District Attor
ney to try, nor the United States courts to
decide, the harpies are everywhere robbing
the revenues, and so making confusion
worse confounded that the acutest moralist
could not distinguish the honest servant of
the Government from the tbicf. To pro
vent the 41,000 office holders of the Govern
ment from acting upon a tacit agreement
with the President that they will extend his
term if he will continue theirs, and to pre
vent the entire patronage of the President's
office from being used as a corruption fund
to secure his re-election, by removing all
who oppose his policy, and by appointing
sycopants and toadies in their stead, we
need not only the limitation of tho Preai
dent to one term, but wc need such a Civil
Service Bill as shall render the Civil Ser
vice an honorable profession. "1 hold,"
said a genial and clever officer of the Gov
ernment, a few days ago, "that our only
claim to the respect of worthy people lies in
the knowledge that when we accept an
office with a paltry salary of $3,000, we do j
uot hold our services at that base figure, j
but that we intend to make $13,000 a year j
ont of it, ' As be had entered upon a liko '•
salary, insolvent a few years ago, has lived
op thrice his salary ever since, and now
ownes a thirty thousand dollar mansion, and
is highly respected especially by the Treas*
ury Department, his view of the matter is
doubtless correct. But General Grant,
hacked by the one- term principle and the
Civil Service Bill, will change all that.—
The Spirit of the Tim'*.
OKOItOU.
One of the first questions which will oome
before Congress is, whether the Fourteenth
Amendment has ever been legally ratified by
the Legislature of Georgia, so as to convert
the government of that State from a pro
visional into a permanent one, and to entitle
its representatives to scats in Congress. The
amendment was passed by a body, a large
uumber of wbose members were disqualified
by the very terms of the ameuduient itselt
from sitting in any legislature; and, having
passed it, these same disqualified members
immediately voted that thirty of those by
whose votes the amendment was passed had
never been lawful members of that body,
aud, by reason of African blood, could hold
no office whatever in the Bute of Georgia.
If Congress respects the terms of the
Fourteenth Amendment excluding perjured
Rebels from holding office, it cannot allow
itself to be bound by the votes of any of this
class" If it respects the vote of the Georgia
Legislature to the effect that colored men
cannot hold office in Georgia, then it caunot
count the votes of the colored members for
the amendment; and so the amendment
would be lost. The State of Georgia is not
yet in the Union, and its government is
merely provisional. In such case, Congress
should see that the State Constitution is
amended so as to confer equal political
rights on both races. Or if Congress hold.- -
that the colored members were unlawfully
expelled, it should see that they are lawfully
restored to their seats before the State shall
be readmitted to its share in the Govern
ment —A I'. Tribune.
LIFE INSURANCE INVESTMENT.
There is DO need of urging the duty of
life insurance. Every man having others
dependent upon hinr for support knows that
in no other way can ho so sureiy provide for
their future conilort as by securing such an
amount of insurance as his income will allow
him to pay for. Of course it becomes a
matter of personal interest to know where
the most insurance can be had for a specific
sum. The National Life Insurance Com
pany of the United States of America, char
tered by Congress in July- J 868, makes an
offer of insurance upon the ordinary Life
plan at extremely low rates, the principle
of its operation being that a smaller sum of
cash in hand is better for both buyer and
seller than a larger amount based upon the
contingencies of possible future profits or
dividends. For this small sum itguarantie
a certain amount of insurance, the contract
between iusured and insurer being too plain
for any complications such as may attend the
settlement of notes or dividends. This is a
recommendation to start with, and if tin-
Company is a secure one, its low rates will
naturally be popular. For this security we
find two strong guarantees: one is a paid-up
capital of one million dollars, ample for all
possible present liabilities, and the other is
the character of the managers of the Com
pany, among whom are Jay Cooke, C. H.
Clark, Hon; E. A. Rollins, Hon. W. E.
Chandler, and others of high national re
pute. It is not alone by its low cash rates
that the new National Life commends it
self to those contemplating insurance, for it
offers, beside, a number of novel and favora
ble methods by which the insurer or his
heirs tuay reap unusual pecuniary benefit
from his or her investment. These new fra
tures —the Return Premium (by which the
amount of all premiums paid will be return
ed to the heirs of the insured in addition to
the amount for which he was insured), the
Income-Producing, and other plans—will be
explained in detail by the agents of the Com
pany, whose card may be found elsewhere.
We can see no reason why the new Com
pany is not entitled to a high degree of pub
lic confidence,
HON. EDWARD MCPHKHSON.—This gen
tleman, who is one of the rising statesmen
of our country, has been spoken of in con
nection with the position of Postmaster-
General in the Dext Administration, by a
Cbambcrsburg correspondent of the Erie
Republican, who thus alludes to him :
"Hon. Edward MePherson, Clerk of the
National House of Representatives, is from
this district, from which he was elected to
Congress in 1860. At the close of his ser
vice in the House, as a member, he was
elected to his present position, in which he
has maintained thtr exalted character he
showed himself as possessed of while serv
ing as a representative. Next to Schuyler
Colfax, no officer of the House has been more
popular than lias Hon. Edward MePherson.
His political Manual has made the masses
acquainted with him all over the land, as a
clear thinker and a systematic rfbrker for
the people. We have heard him spoken of
several times for Postmaster General in the
next Administration. If he shall be chosen
to that position, the people will he served
as faithfully as by Benjamin Franklin, the
first head of that department.
We cordially endorse every word of the
above. As Mr. MCPHERSON is free from
all entangling alliance", Gen. GRANT, if he
desires a Cabinet officer from Penusylva
nia could not make a better choice than by
taking the popular clerk of the House.—
Jitrlc* & Schuylkill Journal.
IT is thought that Admiral Farragut will
be appointed Secretary of the Navy under
President Grant. The Gen. is said to be
impressed with the sensible idea that a na
val officer should preside over the Navy De
pat tment and an army officer over the War
Department
GRANT'S official majority in California is
506; but a blunder about the name of one of
the electors seems to be manipulated in the
interest of the gamblers who have lost heavy
bets on the result, so as to prevent the entire
elcctorel vote from being given to the Re
publican candidates.
DISCOVERT OF ANCIENT COINS.—The
Washington House, at Stamford Connecti
cut now being torn down, has brought to
light many ancient curiosities. Among the
relics already found are nineteen copper
coins belonging to the reigns of the English
Georges or their predecessor, Anno; also
thirty-seven other copper and nine silver
coins, many of them too old to tell the
story of their origin. Among the silver
is a piece whose history begins with
the fifteenth year of Elizabeth's reign, only
ten years legs than three centuries ago, and
a third of a century* before a white man had
traversed the realms of the old Rippowams
in Stamford.
Another very interesting relic is a shilling
sbinplaster, printed in red and black ink.
In one corner is the British coat of arms,
and it is a wonder as follows; "This Bill of
One Shilling Proclamation, is emitted by a
Ijaw of the Colony of New Jersey, passed in
ihe fourteenth year of the reign of his
Majesty King_ George the third," dated
March 2d, 1776. On the reverse side it
bears the imprint of "Isaac Colling, Bur
lington, New Jersey, 1776," and the omin
ous sentence, " 'Tis death to counterfeit."
It is sourounded by an ornamental border,
which looks remarkably rude and clumsy in
comparison with the workmanship of the
present day.
CONGRESS will meet on Monday the 7th
instant,
The Paraguayan UiUicultjr.
The following note of the Secretary of
State to the Secretary of the Navy is under
stood to indicate the orders which have been
given to Geo. McMalnm and Admiral Davis
on the subject of the Paraguayan difficulties:
DEPARTMENT OP STATE, )
Washington, NOV. 17. isos. j
To thf Hon. GIDEON WEI.LKe, Secretory of
the Nrtmj.
SIR : A DISPATCH WAS received yesterday
from Charles A. Washburn, Esq., late Uni
ted States Minister Ui l'uraguuy, which was
written at Buenos Ayrcs on the :26'h of
September last. The dispatch shows that a
controversy has l>eeu carried on for some
time between him and the President of
Paraguay. The merits of the controversy
cannot be well understood until a copy of the
correspondence itself shall have been re
ceived. which is now daily expected: tncan
timc, Mr. Washburn's dispatch conclusive!)
shows that the situation of all foreigners, in
cluding United States citizens, at Asuncion
is greatly imperiled, and that especially
Porter Bliss and George F. Mu-terman.
United States citizens, lately in some way
connected with the I nited States Legation,
have suffered personal violence Htid have
perhaps been murdered. A dispatch has
been received from Mr, Webb, United
States Minister at Bio in which he states
that he requested Rear Admiral Davis,
commanding the South Atlantic Squadron,
to send or proceed with an adequate naval
force to A-unoion to protect American
citizens. Mr. Webb is unable to inform the
Department whether Admiral Davis would
assume the responsibility of complying with
this request without special instructions
from the Government. The situation thus
presented seems to me so critical, that I
have thought it my duty to advise the Pres
ident that the Rear-Admiral should be in
strueted to proceed with an adequate force
at once to Paraguay and take such measures
as may be found necessary to prevent vio
lence to the lives and property of American
citizens there, and in the exercise of a sound
discretion to demand and obtain prompt
redress for any extreme insult or violence
that may have IKSn arbitrarily committed
against the flag of the I "nited States or their
citizens. I have the honor to be your
obedient servant.
• WII.LIAM 11. SEWARD."
State Agricultural College.
Dr. Thi in tUS 11. Dth rifW r Chorea I'res
ident. —Another farm to be Purchased.
The trustees of the Pennsylvania State
Agricultural College met at the office of the
State Agricultural Society, on Second
Street, yesterday, for the purpose of choos
ing a President of the College. It will be
remembered that the Convention of County
Agricultural Societies, which assembled
here during the State Fair, altera full di
cussion and in obedience to the universally
expressed will of the people, recommended
a change in the administration of the Farm
School at Bellefonte, as absolutely necessary
to make the institution effective.
At the meeting yesterday there were
present Messrs-. Watts, of Cumberland;
M'AHister. of Centre: KGley, of Allegheny;
Hiester. of Dauphin; White, of Indiana;
Hon. Frank .J -rdan. Secretary of the
Commonwealth; A Boyd Hamilton. K-q.,
Pre-ident of the S ate Agricul'ural Society,
and Secretary M Kee—the last three being
i-x-officio member*.
After some consideration, Tbouias II
Burrowcs, L. L. IX, of lgtncaster, was
elected to fill the vacancy of President of the
College.
The Committee on the selection of a farm
in the Western portion of the State, to be
connected with the operations of the Farm
School, reported in favor of the purcha-e of
one of one hundred and thirty acres adjoin
ing the town of Indiana, in Indiana county,
and Mr. White was authorized to exatuim
the title to the land and report to the
trustees on or before the tenth day ol
December next.
Hon. Thomas H. Bnrrowes, who is tlin
made President of the Pennsylvania State
Agricultural College, has for many years
been identified with the educational in
terests of Pennsylvania, indeed with every
prominent movement in behalf of popular
education which has thus far proved stie
ces-ful. lie was for some years State Su
perintendent of Common Schools, succeed
ing Mr. Hickok, and in that capacity be did
much to develop the system. He was also
the first Slate Superintendent of Soldiers'
Orphans, having been appointed to that
position by Governor Andrew G. Curtin.
l)r. Burrowi - ha for many years ably ed
ited the '"Pennsylvania School Journal.
If he accepts the important position now
tendered hint, the College will certainly have
all the necessary administrative ability
which, it is alleged, is the only thing re
quired to make our Agricultural School a
success.— Slate Guard.
.More Indian Murders in Texas.
The Sherman (Texas) Ct/uriW gives ac
counts of more robberies, u.urders and de
vastation by the savages in the northern
counties of Texas. On the previous Satur
day night a party of tw< nt\ five Indians
stole several horses in Sir ill'* Bend, about
'orty miles from Sherman. Six young men
followed them down the iiver, and on Sun
day overtook them, about ten miles below
When they came up with the ludians. they
immediately charged. Discharging theii
rifles and throwing them away, they diew
their six-shooters, and a terrible fight ensued,
lading about one and a half hours. The
Indians s'ood their ground whilst the gal
lant boys charged again and again thiout h
them. The fight was frequently almost
hand to hand. Finally both patties dr.w
off and retired in sullen silence. One of the
whites named Pace was killed, and one or
two more of the boys-wounded. Some of
their horses killed or wounded. Ten In
dians were killed in the fight.
A letter from Montague gives an account
of a fight between one hundred Indians and
forty while men on Clear Creek, which re
sulted in the killing of one Indian and one
white man —Mr. Fontendbtny, who wa
terribly mangled, and the prairie fired ar
ound him. The people were leaving their
homes. A later account-ays two hundred
and twenty passed on to Denton, killed John
Baily, and all kinds of stock. They came
up blowing their bugle and carrying a flag.
The Indians took four hundred and fifty
head of stock in Denton county, completely
'"cleaning up'" whole settlements; about
forty citizens followed and attempted to re
cover some of thi stoek. The Indians, how
ever, marched leisurely along in regular
military order, making their camps at night
wbh as much nonchalance as though no fins
existed. On the approach of tbu whites
they would form a line, and with buclc
soundingjho charge at each wing, would
drive the whites back. < fne old Texan stood
his ground a little too long at one time, iu
order to git his Indian: as the line advan
ced he drew his unerring aim and got lo
nian; but the line closing in on him he had
a run on his horse for more than a mile,
while the bullets and arrows flew fast in
disagreeable proxmity; strange to say he
escaped unhurt. All this occured below the
line of military posts: the Indians are thick
everywhere in that country, and are steal
ing and murdering almost daily.
The Battery Sew York.
The general government lias purchased
two hundred and fifty feet of the celebrated
Battery ground, New York, on wh'eli it is
proposed to erect a large office ind construct
a basin for the reception of United Sta'es
.Revenue and naval vessels. It is said that
negotiations are on foot for tlie purchase of
the remainder <or other public purposes
The New York Tribune styles the Battery
a nuisance, and congratulates the public on
the sab-, and the probability that that, locality
will soon put on a new lace. On ihe other
hand the editor of Sloan's Architectural Be
view, speaking of the Battery, says: '"Few
cities are gifted with such a superb breath
ing place as the Battery, and no city, save
New York, would freely relinquish its jhjs
session to an institution which at once ren
ders it unfit as a pleasure ground fur citizen*
to enjoy the everchanging, ever new scenes
of moving water, bedecked with sleeping or
dancing craft of every form and size, that
delight the eye of the visitor to that sp„t
once so much sought by our fa-hionable
people. Ihe same writer advocates the
demolition of the unsightly emigrant sheds,
and the conversion of the entire buttery into
huge bathing establishments for tbe u-e of
the million. Uncle Sara having stepped in
ahead, has spoiled this nice little proposi
tion to provide means for cleansing the un
washed citizens of Gotham.
The Violence in ArLnnana.
The Indianapolis Journal has the follow
ing: 'Tu a recent conversation with an in
telligent gentleman from Little Hock, we
inquired why it was that maulers like that
of Congressman Hinds were permitted to go
unpunished, and the perpetrators of them
to run at large in communities where they
and their crimes were well known, lie sta
ted that, in the then excited und prejudiced
condition of the public mjnd, especially in
counties where the Ku-IClux Were numer
ous, it was imjtos-ible to convict them before
the courts, bi cause judges and juries well
knew that (loir own lives would bo sacrifle
ed in attempting to bring the murderers to
justice: that retaliation in kind was di-eoura
ged for the reason that it might ptejudice
the Republican cause, and euibatrass the
northern friends of the state government, as
a hue and cry would at one*; be raised by the
Ku Klux and their northern allies thai the
'carpet baggers' and 'niggers' were mas
sacreing the whites of the South.
"H furtheran re informed u- that at the
Ku Klux headquaarters in Little Rock, last
summer, it had been formally determined
to assassinate Gov. Clayton and all the
other state officers, and that persons were
selected to do the deed. The Governor had
spies in every meeting they held, and always
knew within an hour after their resolutions
were determined upon just what they pro
posed to do. This enabled him to take pre
cautions that frustrated their plans, and the
sU-|-iei<>li that thiy had been betrayed
caused them to act witli more circumspec
tion and forbearance than they designed.
For'roany ni Aits the Governor and other
doomed men, together with a few resolute
friends, slept in the State House, keeping
a sufficient number on watch to give warning
of the approgeh of enemies. These preeau-
tion j . e- utded with the conviction among !
the Ku Klux leaders that, their bloody !
chetnes were known to their intended vie j
tims prevented the oveithn-w of- the state ■
government by tin; murder of all executive ;
officers.
'The dead point of danger is now past, j
and if the sssins who have wantonly shot j
a member of Congress, members of the leg- j
islature by tin- dozen, registering officers, I
wl ite Union citizens and inoffensive negroes
realize what is good for their health, they
! will make haste to leave Arkansas,"
Napoleon's Latest Hobby.
Napoleon lias began important building j
improvements in Bayonnc. They are de- j
-crihed by one of the local papers as follows:
"It is on the same ground on wh eh three :
specimen houses have already been erected
that the new constructions are to be built. |
Thev will besmallerthan their predecessors,
and are intended furoulyooe family.The Em
peror, in order to carry out his philanthio
pica! projects, is said tu design purchasing
all the lots composing the block 011 which
the three first habitations have been con
Strueted; and, to pay the price which would
serve as the e-timatc for putting it up to
auction. i acb dwelling is expectel tu cost
4, j(X) francs, the tenant is to pay 300 francs
a year, out of which sum lot) trances will be
set a-ule as a sinking fund for the capital
employed. The Emperor will give the
property, it is said, to the Society of the
Prince Imperty, which will select the oc
cupants and collect the rents. At the end
of fifteen years the inhabitant will become
the owner. D, by any unforeseen event, be
cannot pay the stipulated annual sum—
which may be acquitted by monthly in-tal
im-nt-—he will be reimbursed the 100
francs a year lie lias accumulated towards
flie redemption of hi- bou.-e, with the addi
| tion of three percent, interest,"
MR. SPEAKER'S BRIHE —The Baltimore
; Star thus gossips about the lady who was
•made Mrs. Colfax on the listb uit., at Au
dover, Ohio:
Mi-s Wade resides with her stepmother,
her father and mother both being dead. .She
is the nieee of Senator Wade, who resides
•it J. ffers.m, fifteen miles from Audover.
Mi-- fi ude i- about thirty years of age, of
t medium size, good figure daik hair, brown
j eyes, and has a p'ea-iog face, indicating
goodness and intelligence. All who know
j nor speak of her amiability and quiet good
j -ense, as qualifying her admirably to preside
i at the huu-e of the Vice President elect.
I Three years ago -he spent the winter in
: Washington with her aunt. Mrs. Senator
\V aile, at the house of Mr. Barrett, on Four
ind a hall street, where Mr. Culfax also
-topped; and the friendship formed at that
♦■tee p .bahly laid the foundations for the
ute-f-nt more intimate relations. Mi-s
Wade wn-one of tin excursion party with
S i. it a- Wade and Mr. Colfax that came so
ei ar In ng cut off by the Indian-on their
! !!• ekv Mountain tip. The other ladies of
he tarty "re Mr-Mat'hews, mother ot Mr.
(' li x: Mis.- Curiie Matthews, his sister;
Mis-Sue Matthews, his cousin, and Mi.-a
1 • i Bow'e-. daughter oi' Sam. Bov.les, of
j lie Sptin ft-Id Rr[)>(l)lic'iii. These ladies
j tire said to have displayed an amount of
' -otoage at: i po--e--ioti on the occasion
tit Indian attack that won for them an
enthusiastic vote of admiration from their
companion- and fiotu the rough mountain
DR. CaosßY", of New Haven, may fairly
rink among the great inventors of the worlti.
For over thirty years he hu- experimented,
with the usual failures, ami obstacles, and
fiseoaragement- that be.-et the dating in
ventive genius upon a machine to make fish
hooks. This is the problem which English
artisans have tried persistently to solve but
it was left for a Yankee to accomplish. He
ha- machines now in operation which will
pour out perfectly made fish-hooks as out
running (torn a reel into the machine, and
on the other .-ide the fish-hook drops out
completed, with the exception that it toust
be tempered and colored. After the wire
reaches a certain point it is dipped off the
requisite length. The next operation barbs
it; the other end is flattened. It passes
around on revolving dies, whose teeth, form
ed like the notched spiike.- ofa wheel, catch
it, and bear it from one operation to the next
until it i- smoothed anil filled, when it passes
between roller- that give it the prescribed
twi.-t and turn, and you see it drop into the
receiver awaiting it. ft is bewildering to
see this delicate, complex, and almost hu
man machinery operate so multitudinous is
it in itsparts, and yet so unerring in its work
and motion. If a single part should vary
the fraction of a hair's breadth from its
accustonu I path, the result must be a fail
ure.
IIOOFUNH'S (I KIT MAN BITTERS. —We are
not in the habit of noticing so-called Patent
Medicines; but we have no hesitation in
commending this valuable Bitters to the
public. [i w eouiposed of none hut the
purest and best ingredients, ani the thou
sands of testimonials to its efficacy, leave no
doubt that it i> the nm-t valuable specific
known for the cure ol Diseases of the Liver,
general Debility, Fevers, and complaints
arising from a Disordered Stomach. This
Bitters is entirely free from all intoxicating
properties. Hooflsnu's German Tonic com
bines all the ingredients of the Bitters with
purr Santa Cruz Hum, orange, anise, dre.
it is used lor the same di-eases as the
Bitters, in eases where seme Alcoholic
Stimulant i- necessary, and makes a prep
aration delightfully p'ea-ant and agreeable
to take. AUniHji Argus.
Principal Office, 031 Arch St., Philad' a.
Pa. Sold everywhere.
The Rutland county (Vt.) .Journal says :
''The history of the growth of wool is very
curious Fifty year.- ago not a pound of
iiuc wool was grown in the United States,
in Great Britain, or in any other country
except Spain. In i 784 a small flock was
sent to the Klecor of Saxony us a present
from the Ki-g of Spain, whence the enti-e
product ol.Saxouy wool, now of suen iut
un n-e value. In 1809, during the invasion
of Spain by the French some of the valu
able crown flock were sold to ra;se money,
lb- Ame i<- n Gonsul, Jar vis, at Lisbon,
purchased 1,400 he id and -ent them to this
country. A portion of tlii- pure and tin
mixed Merino flock is -till to fie found in
Ye wont at thi time. Such was the origin
of *he immense flock of fine wool sheep in
the 1 nited State- at the present time.
OF the 658 < lections for the English House
of Common-, 647 are now known. The
Liberals have a majority of 115 By steamer
we have account-ot the Is g lining of the
elections. The Liberal pap- rs thought the
rc-ult ve y gratifying, and the Daily News
expressed a hope that the final result would
show a majority not much less than a
hundred. The last days of the elections
have therefore been even better thau the
first.
Central America.
NEW YORK, NOV. 30 —Panama advice*
of November 2k states that when General
Uorreoso arrived at Chiriqui he found the
place adundoned. He then went to Santiago,
and found that the enemy bad also aband
oned that place. Proceeding to Hatello,
the enemy. 400stroiiog, attacked Correoso,
and a battle ensued, lasting three hours,
when the enemy fled in disorder, leaving fifty -
two killed, among them their leader, and
many wounded, a number of prisoners, and
sll their arms ami ammunition. The govern
ment lost three killed and eight wounded,
ameug the latter General Pedro Goita.
This battle ha-put an end to the civil war
in the State of Panuma. The revolutionary
movement in Costa Rica has proved suc
cessful, and President Castro has been de
posed, and Jimenez installed in his place.
LOCKING UP GREENBACKS. —A great deal
has been said of late about "locking up
greenbacks" for the purpose of making
money scarce, and to those unversed in
financial strategy the following explanation
o 1 the process hv the New York Commer
cial will be found interesting:
The following was the mode first employ
ed: Several parties would consolidate their
capital to the extent of several hundred
thousand dollars in greenbacks, and leaving
this heavy amount as collateral security with
some moneyed institution, borrow an equal
amount at say seven percent, interest. That
collateral, of course, could not be used by the
institution. \V ith the fresh supply offunds
the operators would proceed to a green
back's and so keep on until they had remov
ed from circulation several millions of mon
ey. Stringency would follow; speculative
shares would decline, and the operators
would step in and reap the benefit of their
sharp practice. The acceptance of green
back collaterals by the banks occaisoned so
much dissatisfaction and complaint that they
finally abandoned the practice; and the plan
now pursued for locking up greenbacks is to
borrow them on railway stocks.
V irginia.
RICHMO.NI>, Nov. 20.—This morning, in
the United States Circuit Court, Robert
Ould, counsel for Jeff Davis, made a motion
to quash the indictment against Davis, on
the ground that the fourteenth amendment
prescribes the mode of puuishnn-nt for par
t ici i at ion in rebellion, which is disfranchise
ment, and no other punishment is prescri
bed. The prosecuting attorney moved to
postpone the motion until the latter part ot
the term. Chief Justice Chase decided to
hear the argument on Thursduy next,
LONDON ate or otherwise consumed 1,250,-
000 rabbits during the year 1867, skinned and
prepared for eating. The animals were
reared by the children of the peasantry of the
departments Du Nord and Fas de Calais, in
France, who thereby obtained $210,000.
These rabhiis are sent over by the Oaterd
steamer. The skins are dis|>osed of in the
country to hat manufacturers. The trade is
entirely in the hands of chiluren who are too
yoong to be employed in field labor.
LONDON, NOV. 30. —The limes of this
morning comments with wonder on the
rapid progress of the Pacific Railway, and,
noting the extraordinary features of the road,
commends the great enterprise of the
American people in overcoming obstacles
heretofore deemed insurmountable, ami ex
plains the influence this great project will
exerci.-e on the commerce of the world.
WE have from Washington a remarkable
stat'-ment of the steadily increasing cost of
our successive Indian wars. The Peace
Commissioners propose to give one more
trial to the difficulties of their task, failing
in which (as they evidently anticipate) they
mean to unite with Gen. Grant in urging
the transfer of the Indian Bureau to the
War Department.
ATTORNEY GENERAL EVARTS has given
it a-hi-opinion that the Eight-Hour law
cannot govern the price to be paid for a day's
labor, which must depend entirily on the
value of the work rendered. The law -peaks
only of the hours of labor, and is silent on
the measure of wages, which is left wholly
to the discretion of the employer.
M ARK K I N.
Pnii.AtiEt.rniA. Nov. 30.— There is a de
cited improvement in the flour market, and
for the better grades of extra family advance
quotations 25c barrel, with ihe demand
mostly for this description. The traditional
prejudices which have existed against spring
wheat flour are no longer recognized and
most of the bakers now prefer choice brands
of ibis description, to the low grades of win
ter wheat fan.ilv—sales of 4'HI barrel* lowa.
Wisconsin and Minnesota, at $8(8 75; 1,00
barrels good Indiana at $lO 25; some Ohio at
$10(6 10 75. and fancy at $11(613. Rye flour
is better and commands $7 50('8 60. Corn
meal-no further sales have been reported.
The wheat market remains without quotable
change, and the only sales reported are small
lots of red at
red and amber at $2 15, 200 bushels Ken
tucky white at $2 45. Rye cornea iu slowly,
and commands $1 55(2)167. Corn —the mar
ket is very hare of old yellow, and commands
SI 25. There is a good demand for new, and
2.000 bushels sold at sl(s 1 10, according to
dryness. Dats are in fair request.
You may be too late.
Be warned In time. Diseases like Indigestion
and Dyspepsia arc not to he trifled with. There
is snch a thing as being too lat in these matters.
Inflsmation, or Schirrhus I'ancer, or some other
dangerous disease may ensue, when all restora
tives, no matter bow potent, would be ineffectual.
Do not delay tben. When the symptoms of Dys
pepsia are first experienced resort at once to the
great restorative medicine, H OS TETTER'S
STOMACH BITTERS, and you will be safe.
But few disorders involve greater suffering, and,
if not in itself immediately dangerous, it is the
source of many deadly maladies. Even if it did
not teud to greater evil, the mental and physical
misery it produces is alone a sufficient reason why
no pains should hn spared to prevent or cure it
In no country on the face of the globe is it so
completely domesticated as in our own, where it
is found in nearly every household. Hosteller's
Stomach Bitters are universally conceded to be
the sovereign remedy for this annoying disease,
as they act directly upon the digestive organs,
correct and tone the stoinurh, and give renewed
v itality to the system. Acting delightfully upon
the nerves and soothing the brain, rendets them
efficacious as a mental medicine, as well as a ge
nial stomachic. If taken as a preventive, they
will be found particularly well suited to the dis
ease- arising from the unhealthy season of au
tumn, and their use will prevent the creeping, un
pleasant sensation otten complained of when the
chills are stealing slowly upon the patient. 1m
•J lltjHtsltury of Fashion. gkom-i and Instruc
tion.'"
J.J Alt PK R'S BAZAR.
A supplement containing numerous full-sized
patterns uf useful articles accompanies the paper
every fortnight, and occasionally an elegantly ool
ored Fa.-hiun Plate.
IIAR' J ER'S BAZAR contains *ls folio pages of
the size of HARPER'B WEEKLY, printed on su
perfine calendered jiaper, and is published weekly.
Critical Notices of the Press.
HARPKR'S BAZAR eontai. e, besides pictures,
patterns, etc., a variety of matter of especial use
sud interest to tbe family; articles on health, dress,
and housekeeping in all its branches; its editorial
matter is especially adapted to the circle it is in
tended to intended to interest and instruct; aud it
has. besides, good stories and literary matter of
merit. It is not surjnising that the journal, with
such features, has achieved in a short time an
immense success; for something of its kind was
desired in thousands of latuilies. and its publish
ers have tilled the demand.— X Y. l'ost.
Whether we consider its oiaim as based upon
the elegance and superiority of the paper, its ty
pographical appearance, the taste aud judgmeut
displayed iu the engravings, or the literary con
tributions contained in its pages, we unhesitating
ly pronounce it to he superior in each and every
particular to any other similar publication here
or abroad.— Phil'a Leyal Intclliyeneer.
We know of no other En glish or American jour
nal of fashion that can pretend to approach it in
completeness aud variety.— X. Y. Times,
It has the merit of bciug setifitile, of conveying
instruction, of giving excellent patterns in every
department, audol beiDg well stocked with good
reading matter. — H'ufcAmun 'and He/lector.
SFBSCRIPTIONS—IB69.—TERMS:
Harper's Bazar, one year $4 oo
An extra cupy of either the Magasi e. Weekly
or Baser will 0e supplied gratia lor every club of
five Subscribers at Ot) each, in one remittance;
or Six copies for S2O 00.
Subscribe.s to Harper's Magazine. Weekly, and
Bazar, tonne address "for one year, $lO 00; or
two of Harper's Periodicals, to one address fos one
year, 7 00.
Back numbers can be supplied at any time.
The postage on Harpers Bazar is' 2 eeuts a
year, which must be paid at the subscriber's poet
office. Address
4dc4w HARPER * BROTHERS, New fork.
pfcfrtiiwrotM.
QOOD NKWB fOH HIE PEOPLE.
J. M. SHOEMAKER
HAS JUST RETURN EX) FROM THE EAST
AND 18 RECEIVING A LARGE AND
CHEAP STOCK OF GOODS,
CONSI TING IN PART OF
DRY GOODS,
GROCERIES,
HATS k CAPS,
READY MADE CLOTHING,
BOOTS AND SHOES,
CEDARWARE,
QUEENSWAKE,
TOBACCO,
SEGARS, &C. &E.
GIVE HIM A CALL AND SEE FOR
YOURSELVES.
J. M. SHOEMAKER.
Bedford, Pa., Nor. 6th, 1868.
B.CB A M E R I CO!
HAVE NOW OPENED,
AND OFFER FOR SALE, AT
VERY REDUCED PRICES,
THE LARGEST AND
MOST ELEGANT STOCK OF
FALL AND WINTER GOODS
TO BE FOUND IN
BEDFORD COUNTY.
THE ASSORTMENT IS COMPLETK, ASD
GREAT BARGAINS
IN EVERY DEPARTMENT
WILL BE OFFERED.
Bedford, Nor. J, IS6S.
GENTS WANTED
il TO SELL THE
EMINENT WOMEN OF THE AGE;
written by Messrs. Partem. Greeley. Higginson,
Hoppin, Abbott, Winier. Tilton, Mrs. E. C. Stan
tpn, Fanny Fern, Grace Greenwood. Ac.
An elegant .ctaro Tolume of 63(1 pages, illus
trated with
H SUPERIOR STEEL ENGRAVINGS.
'this volume comprises 47 carefully prepared
sketches, written expressly for this book, smong
whom are Margaret Fuller, Lydia Mwria Child,
Jenny Lind, Florence Nightingale. The Cary Sis
lers, Gail Hamilton. Elizabeth Barrett Browning,
Anna E. Dickinson, Ristort, Rosa Honheur, Mrs.
ii. B Stuwe, Camilla Urso, and Harriet G. Mai
mer.
The New York Tribune speaking of the pub
lishers, says; So thoroughly have they done
their work, that their volume, in paper, type,
binding, engravings, above all in the excellence
of its subject matter, goes far to remove the re
proach so often urged against subscription books
—"only made to sell."
Agents are meeting with unparalleled success in
selling this book.
One agent ia New York sold 125 in one week.
One agent in New Hampshire sold 12 in five
hours.
One agent in Massachusetts sold 8 in seventeen
calls.
Fordescriptive circulars and sample engravings
address S. M. BUT I S A CO.,
6no4t Hartford, Conn.
\U ILLODGHBY'S PATENT
GUM SPRING GRAIN DRILL,
CHALLENGES COMPETITION.
It is the only Drill that will sow grain
Regularly.
Han no pinn to break and can be used on rocky
and ntuaipy fields and on the hill side with the
sane advantage as on level ground.
As the suppiT is limited and demand greater
than ever, engage what you want soon from
HARTLEY k METZGER,
the only Agents for the genuine Willoughby Drill
in this part of Peun'a Sljuly
Q N . II IC K O
DENTIS T,
Office at the old stand in Bank Bi ildikq, Juli-
ANA BTRKKT, BEDFORD.
Ali operations, pertaining to
Surgical and Mechanical Dentistry
performed with care and
WARRANTED.
Anre.thetice admini.tered, when derived. Ar
tificial teeth ineerted at, per eel, 98.00 and up.
ward.
As I am determined to do a CASH BUSINESS
or none, I have reduced the prices for Artificial
Teeth of the various kinds, 20 per cent., and of
Gold Fillings 33 per cent. This reduction will he
made only to strictly Cash Patients, and all such
will receive prompt attention. feb7
BLOODY RUN
marble WORKS.
R. H. SI PES having established a manufactory
of Monuments, Tomh-stones, Table-Tops, Coun
ter-slabs, Ac., at Bloody Run, Bedford Co., Pa.
and baring on hand a well selected stock of for
eign and American Marble, is prepared to fill all
orders promptly and do work in a neat and work
manlike style, and on the most reasonable terms
All work warranted, and jobs delivered to all parts
of this and adjoining counties without extra
ap!l9:ty.
J_[ E N I) E R S 0 N 1 S
FRESH GROUND EXTRA FAMILY FLOUR,
on hand and for sale by
,B ®°tly G. R. OSTER A CO.
CONRAD MEYER,
Inventor and Manufacturer of the
CELEBRATED IRON FRAME PIANOS,
Wareroome, No. 722 Arch St., Phila
Has received the Priie Medal of the World's
Great Exhibition London. Eng. The highest
Prixe awarded when and where ever exhibited
OctSStkmoe [Established 1823]
gelogtaplw.
J£LECTRIC
TELEGRAPH IN SHINA,.
THE EAST INDIA TELEGR.OH COMPAy.
NY'S OFFICB,
Nos. 23 Jt 25 Nassau Street,
NEW YORK.
Organized under special chsrter from the Bts,. ef
New Y ->r\,
CAPITAL $5,003,903
50,000 SHARES, SIOO EACH.
DIRECTORS.
Hon. ANDREW G. Cf.'RTIN. Philadelphia
PAUL S. FORBES, of Rus-ell A Co., Chins
FRED. BCTTKRFIELD, of F. Butterfietd A
Co., New York.
1.--AAC Li\ ERMORE, Treasorer Michigaa
Central Railroad, Boston.
ALEXANDER HOLLAND, Treasurer Ameri
can Express Company, New York.
Hon. JAMES NOXOV, Syracuse N. Y.
O. H. PALMER, Treasurer Western Union
Telegraph Company, New York.
FLETCHER WESTRAI.of WesiEaj, Gibba
A Hardcastlp, New York.
NICHOLAS MICKLBS, New York..
OFFICER-.
A. G. CCRTIN, President.
N. MICKLES, Vice President.
GEORGE CONANT, Secretary.
GEORGE ELLIS (Cashier National Bar.k
Commonwealth,) Treasurer.
Hon. A. K. McCLURE, Philadelphia, Solici
tor.
The Ckine.ee Government having (through the
Hon. Anton Hurliugame) conceded to thie Compa
ny the privilege of connecting the great ecaporte
of the Empire by eubmarine electric telegraph ca
ble, tee frropoee commencing operatioue t China
and laying down a line of uine hundred miUe at
onee, between the following port*, vie:
Population,
Cantos 1,000,003
Macoa 611.0H0
Hong Kong 250,003
Swatcw 201>,000
Amoy 250,000
Foe Chow 1,250.000
Wan-Cbu 300.000
Ntngpo 400,000-
Hang Chean _].200,000
Shanghai 1,000.000 %
Total 5.010,000
These ports have a foreign commerce of $'.100,-
000,000, and an enormous domestic trade, beside
which we have the immense internal commerce of
the Empire, radiating from '.hose points, through
its canals and navigable rivers.
The cable being laid, this Company proposes
erecting land lines, and establishing a speedy and
trustworthy means 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 ber only means now of communi
cating information is by couriers on land, and by
steamers on water.
The Western World knows that China *
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 Million!, 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 but do read and write.
Her civilization is peculiar, but. ber literature is
as extersive 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 the Chiuese 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 them exclnsively for the
transmission of early lute tigence. If the tele
graph we propose, connecting all their great sea
ports, were now in existence, it is believed that
its business would pay the cost within the first
two years of its su< cessful 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 in the New York Herald, Tribune, World,
Timet, Foil, Erpreee, Independent, and in the
Philadelphia Sorth American, Pre,., Ledger, In
quirer, Age, Bulletin and Telegraph.
Shares of this Company, to a limited numbc;,
may be obtained at *SO each, $lO payable down,
sl3 on the let of November, end $23 payable in
monthly instalments of $2 30 each, commencing
December 1, 1S8, >n application to
I REXEL A CO.,
34 South Third Street,
Philadelphia.
Shurei can te obtained in Bed lord by ap|>lea
tion to Reed A Cchell Bankers, who are authorized
io receive subscriptions, and can give all neces
sary information on the subject.
sep: 1 8. Amee.