ebfortr Inquirer.
BEDFORD, Fi-t FBIDAT, DEC. 18, 1868.
THE MESSAGE.
To the exclusion of much other, and per
haps more vaiuable and interesting, matter
wo lay before our readers the fourth and (let
us he thankful) the last annual message
of President Johnson. It is a document
not entirely without merit, but what good
there is in it is not new and what is new is
not good, but unmitigatedly bad. Audaci
ty, impudence and egotism are its most
prominent features, and frequently crop out
all three together at a single point, as when
he says of the Reconstruction measures,
that, "The repeal of all such laws would be
accepted by the American people, as at
least a partial return to tbe fundamental
principles of the Government. The dis
honest and unreasonable comparison of the
expenditures of 1790 and 1791 with those
of the past few years, at the close of one of
the most gigantic wars recorded in history,
could only have been made by tbe most bra
zen- faced demagogue. As to the recom
mendation of repudiation there can be but
one opinion among honest men; the sentence
"The lessons of tbe past admonish the len
der that it is not well to be over anxious in
exacting from the borrower rigid compli
ance with the letter of the bond'' is highly
suggested of a Dick Turpin code of ethics.
The brilliant financial talent of tbe Presi
dent has by no means solved the currency
riddle, that his genius is much better suited
to planning a highway robbery than to the
solving of abstruse questions of finance will
readily appear to any one who takes the
trouble to wade through bis twaddle. Our
opinion of the President's so called import
ant improvements in our postal arrange
ments with Great Britian and other coun
tries by the late treaties will be found in
another column; the less we have of that
kind of improvement the better for us. In
discussing the efforts of our neighbors in
the West Indies to establish Democratic
Governments be 3gain indulges in a charac
teristic malignant fling at the reconstruction
measures, notwithstanding the fact that the
people have endorsed those measures, much
as he deprecates them; he seems not to have
lost faith however in our institutions as ap
pears from the following:
"I am aware tbat upon the question of
further extending our possessions it is ap
prehended by some that our political sys
tem cannot successfully be applied to an
area more extended than our continent; but
the conviction is rapidly gaining ground in
the American mind that, with the increased
facilities for intercommunication between all
portions oi the earth, the principles of free
government as embraced in our Constitu
tion, if faithfully maintained and carried
ont, would prove of sufficient strength and
breadth to comprehend witnin their sphere
and influence the civilized nations of the
world."
hich is coupltd with an almost direct
recommendation to purchase, annex or oth
erwise obtain possession of several or all of
the West Indies. The message closes with,
what is very remarkable for so devout a
worshipper of the Constitution, a series of
recommendations, by no means new, but
nevertheless perhaps good, to change the
Constitution, in relation to the election of
the President, and Senators, to limit the
office of the President to one term, the more
specific designation of the Presidential suc
cession in case of death and the limitation
of the Supreme Judges to a term of years.
Altogether it is Dot a mtt*>* of sumrise
that, the Senate, indecorous though it was.
adjourned in disgust before the message was
half read by the clerk.
A BUNGLING TREATY^
The new Postal Treaty with England that
goes into effect on the first of January next
seems in some respects to have been made
for the benefit of foreigners alone. By this
treaty English books in packages to the ex
tent of a hundred pounds are carried
through the country at 16 cents a pound or
one cent per ounce while American books
arc charged at the rate of 96 cents a pound
and no packages over four pounds can be
sent at all unless the sender prepays letter
postage on them. It is both a cruel wrong
and a burning shame that we should send
out ministers to Foreign nations to take
care of ocr iuteresLs at high salaries, who
arc either so shamefully ignorant as to per
mit themselves to he hoodwinked, or so
brazenly venal as to be bribed, into selling out
lor Lritish gold the best interests of our
country. One would suppose that some
agent of the Southern Confederacy had
negotiated a treaty of this kind, that rebel
hi>tories of the Rebellion might be printed
ii England by Expatriated rebels and sent
to Southern rebels at the expense of North
em taxpayers. It could not have been bet
ter suited to such a purpose if it had been
d rawn up for it expressly. The extension of
mail facilities to the Southern states has
caused an excess of over 5,000,000 dollars
in the postal department the past year over
ret cipts, so much for ministering to our ene
mies at home; next year we are to pay a
similar tax for the benefit of our British
enemies, so that the Lairds and Roebucks
may be enabled to transmit their brochures
at the public expense to their Southern
friends. What a blessing it is to a free
proud spirited people to have a drunken
J resident, who sends toady ministers to
foreign courts to barter away their best
interests to alien enemies.
InTKNTON BCTING KE.II, ESTATE.—Ca
leb Cashing has gone to Spain to try to
bay Cuba for Seward and Johnson. We
would suggest that it may be a little difficult
to determine who has the disposal of Cuba
at present. Spain herself is without any
established government and is likely to
have a contest between the monarchists and
Republicans to determine what shall be the
character of ber government and who shall
conduct it. At the same time Cuba is in a
State of insurrection and may have set up
for herself before Mr. Cashing reaches
As Uncle Sam is a little short of
unds just now, would it not be quite as well
to wait a little and perhaps Cuba will come
erse . Jp y ewar( j an( j
ex P' a ' D what became of the
f~j > ,* Dd OTer ' that went into some
' 8 11 00 the Alaska pnrchase.
wir^'oi not very rapidly to-
Governmen^' 5 Th' L^ mBDt ° f *
that Bourbon in
encouraging either to h
or of free Government Th
s;ii . nt - the monarchists
C ° aSlJer&ble stren * th and there
w ,mm, r Dt bloody
ar between the two parties Tt
been well for Spain if tbe on J\
Napoleon's death had been true. *
TUB farce known as the trial "of Jeff. Da
\is has been on the boards during the past
week and passed to a new stage. It seems
to be rapidly drawing to a close. The Arch
Traitor, as was designed by Andy Johnson
long ago, will soon be released and go scot
free. So much for punishing traitors and
making treason odious.
IT is given out io cert*in quarters that
J. Edgar Thomson having declined to be a
candidate, his friends will not press him for
United States Senator. The story is circu
lated for purpose, and the truth lies in the
opposite direction. Mr. Thomson wiff be
pressed with all the determination the King
that has been made up can summon. So
repugnant is the idea, however, to the Re
publican party that special means are to be
employed to disguise the intention until the
trap has been securely set Mr. Thomson
is not only a candidate, but he is extremely
solicitous; and a combination made up ot a
variety of very questionable influences is
preparing to thrust him upon Ihe Repub
licans in the Legislature, and even now
speaks with confidence of being able to pro
cure his election. — Pittsburgh Commercial.
We hope to bear of no buying and selling
in the election of United States Senator.
Let the election be made alone on merit and
fitness. Let integrity especially be made a
test of fitness. And in this connection let
freedom from entangling alliance with rich
corporations and monopolies that have axes
to grind be made a requisite. We want
for this high office ability and integrity
combined with that freedom from all tram
mels that could in any way warp judgement
or'.iDfluence action. We want Statesman
ship and not pettifogging in the United
States Senate.
CONGRESS has not yet got fairly to work
and will not until after the Chri>truas holi
days. Enough however has been done to
indicate that the national finances will come
in for a large share of attention at tbe
present session. Tbe question of suffrage
will absorb considerable time and the neces-
I sity for a reform iu our naturalization laws
| will be brought to the early consideration of
Congress. Altogether an unusual amount
of very important legislation is likely
to signalize the last session of the fortieth
Congress, and the session though a short one
will be an unusnally busy one.
SPANISH AMERICA is again full of trouble.
In Colombia the President refuses to obey a
decision of the Supreme Court, and gath
ers an army to resist it by force. Peru is
threatened with a new revolution. In Chili
the Supreme Court has been impeached by
the Senate, to the great delight of the Cleri
cal party, while, on the other hand, the
Liberal party are greatly excited against the
Senate, and have even insulted the Arch
bishop of Santiago.
THE Supreme Court, according to the
latest advices from Washington is likely to
pronounce the Legal Tender Act unconsti
tutional. What offect such an announce
ment will have upon the national credit
and business interests generally it is im
possible to foretell.
The Relief needed to manufactures.
The country, we think, looks for relief to
its manufacturing interests and productive
power as one of the surest means of adding
to its taxpaying capabilities, to the increase
of the assessable basis and securing the eon
sequent reduction of internal taxation. One
of the surest modes of this relief is by a re
duction of duties on the importation of the
rate material , which has to be brought here
to assume, under the added labor of our
home industry, a new shai>eand added value.
It is to this result that England has been
led, after many years' experience and final
abandonment of contrary systems,
found, under her present tariff, that increase
of receipts and larger opportunities for em
ployment to her citizens are both secured by
the free admission of such articles. An in
crease of the free list so as to admit the raw
material at the lowest possible rate of duty,
has been of late years her constant policy,
until at length all such articles as furnish a
basis of 'labor are now admitted free.
Twenty-five years ago the British tariff
enumerated nearly twelve hundred articles
on which specific duty was levied. This list
has been reduced to less than forty at pres
ent. Yet the English revenue has enor
mously increased, and it has increased in
consequence of this liberation of these articles
which are required for English manufactures.
The lowering or abolishing of duties on such
articles thus increases occupations, opens up
new branches of industry, and, by so adding
to the wealth of the people, increases the
basis for internal taxation and gives the
ability to prosper under it
Mr. Wells, the Commissioner appointed
by the Treasury Department, to report on
the condition of the country, its resources,
taxable basis, rate of production, Ac., so as
to enable a proper apjustment of custom
duties and taxation, will show, we under
stand, in his forthcoming report, how
necessary it is that this adjustment should
be made if we would not compel, under our
present system, the abandonment of many
branches of home industry. In consequence
of the high rates of duty imposed on many
raw materials, such as wool, copper, hides
and the like—which are not the subject of
immediate consumption, but require to be
turned by labor here into a new shape for
use—many branches of our manufactures
will have to be abandoned, as not only un
productive, but actually causing loss to the
projectors. For our rates of labor hero are
so high, that unless we can get the raw
material as cheaply as the workmen of other
countries are allowed to get it, we cannot
compete with them in the production of the
manufactured article, and are driven out of
our own home market even for its sale.
Thus it is cheaper at this moment to import
and pay the high duties on many articles—
on umbrellas for example—than to engage
in their manufacture here, and the present
high duties on the articles we have named
has broken up a most profitable trade with
Chili and the whole west coast of South
America.
The folly of such acourse is further shown
by a look at the consequences of the oppo
site method in other countries. In France,
under the president Emperor, shipping,
the steam marine and foreign commerce has
enormously increased—at a greater ratio
than in England, even —under this very
policy of bringing in free, or nearly so,
every article which is, as it were, a prime
necessity of labor, and which French in
genuity, taste and skill can convert into
objects of use and elegance, which, in their
new shape, and with largely increased value,
are sent again as articles of necessity and
luxury to the country from which the raw
material came. The wise design of the
French Government in this respect, follow
ing the English example, has been to offer
every inducement to French labor, to ena
ble it to produce the finished article at the
lowest posible cost, and on which, if export
ed, drawback of all interna! taxation is paid,
so that their_ exporters may undersell all
others in foreign ports, and so secure the
markets of the world.
England levies no duty cotton for the same
reason; and she exacts none on copper, al
though copper or wool are largely English
home products. And the reason for it is
proven by the result. English cotton and
cloths and brass manufactures exclude in
all markets our own; tor our workmen are
not allowed to receive the object they work
up vrtthout paying a heavy duty to the
Government Nor is this paid back even if
the article could be exported for sale
abroad.
The non-revival of onr shipping interest
is in part traceable to the suicidal policy of
this onerous or prohibitive duty on raw
material.
To foster onr market abroad, two meas
ures are indispensable. First, such a re
duction or abolition of those duties as will
enable our factories and workmen to have as
cheap raw material as others; and next, a
drawback of all taxes or duties levied on
the product or its ingredients, at different
stages, to be paid on its importation. It is
useless for us to attempt to tax the consump
tion of foreign countries by an impost to be
paid or retained, in any way, or any thing
sent there, unless it be some natural pro
duct of which we have the monopoly. Unless
we exclusively make an article, unless we
produce here something which can be pro
duced nowhere else, we can have no mono
poly of it in foreign markets except what
is given by our producing it thtaper than
any other. Ana it is useless for us to ex
pert to produce any article oheaper—on
the material of which we exact a duty of ten,
twenty or thirty per cent, advaloran bo
fore it shall be given to workmen who get
three times the wages they get elsewhere—
or as cheaply as in England or France,
where they exact none at all, or else a very
small duty on the material, and then repay
even that when it is exported and so not
consumed at home.— Baltimore American.
The Power ol n Court to Strike ofl an
Attorney.
Over a year ago, the Judges of the Untied
States District Court, of the District of Co
lumbia struck from the rolls of practicing at
torneys tbe name of Joseph 11. Bradley, for
contempt of court; he subsequently applied
to the United States Supreme Court for an
order setting aside the order of dismissal of
said Bradley, and the Supreme Court direct
ed a rule to issue upon said court to show
cause why a mandamus should not issue to
compel them to restore his name to the rolls.
A reply has been prepared and printed,
stating that "said rule ought to be dis
charged. first, because said Bradley was re
moved from the said office of attorney of
said court only after due notice had been
served upon him, and he bad been heard in
defense, and after mature consideration by
the court; that said order of the court was
a judgment of the court in regard to a matter
within its own exclusive jurisdiction, and not
subject to review in any other court, and
especially not in this form of process."
A number of precedents are quoted, and
the circumstances leading to his dismissal,
which, it will be recollected, was the calling
of the Judge a "liar" in court, andatasub
sequent time sending him a challenge to
fight a duel. They add —
"Whether viewed as a contempt or as mis
behavior, therefore, the Supreme Court of
the District of Columbia possessed exclusive
jurisdiction to make the order removing Mr.
Bradley from its bar, and that decision is be
yond a review."
It concludes;—A court destitute of the
power to protect its judges from such ex
periments as this upon their fears, would
[ soon be driven from its seat; or, if possessing
the power, but too pusillanimous to use it
must sink into deserved contempt."
It is signed by D. R. Cartter, Chief Jus
tice; G. P. Fisher, A. B. Clin, A. Wylie,
Justices.
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.
Ix the face of a duty of $21,00 per ton, of
2,000 lbs. for iron, and of forty-five per cent,
on the invoiced value of steel, the importa
tion of foreign railway bars has trebled with
in three years, showing, for the same period
of nine months, in ]B6f>, 70,405 tons; in 1807,
137,884 tons: in 1888,209,3G8 tons.
A New and most profitable source of
wealth has been very lately developed in
Louisiana. The rice-culture of the State
was. only a few years since, confined to a few
small coast-planters, whoße product attracted
little or no attention in tbe local markets.
Yet now. as we learn from the New Orleans
Republican . such success has attended the
cultivation of this grain as to warrant an esti
mate of the Louisania crop, for this year, at
an aggregate of five thousand tierces more
than the entire product of the Carolines.
Large additional investments of Northern
capital in the business have also recently been
witnessed.
GOLD FIELDS IS NEW YOIK.—T% gold
fields said to have been discovered near
Kbinebeck, Duchess county. New York,
were recently examined by a party of engi
neers with satisfactory results. The evidence
of the existence of gold is believed to be
undeniable. The ore is described as a fer
ruginous quartz with the metal interspersed.
The veins, it is claimed, are more extensive
than those of North Carolina, and form a
part of the auriferous deposits extending from
Nova Scotia to Georgia. The extensive
outlay of capital required to work the gold
mines of Georgia and the Carolinas, it is high
ly probeble. will also be demanded in New
York.
THE Mobil Register says Southern plant
ers are better off to-day than they were be
fore the war. They are free from debt, and
receiving more for their cotton than ever be
fore. Formerly they were always one crop
in debt, and belonged to their factors. Now
they have learned economy, and are their
own masters,
_lx is reported that the authorities at
Washington favor the calling in of all three
and five cent pieces now in circulation, and
their coinage discontinued. Complaint is
made that postmasters are required to take
these tokens in large quantities in paoucut
of stamps, yet, in the settlement of their
accounts, the Post office Department refuses
to receive them.
THE loDgest artillery range on record in
England, viz: 10,300 yards, w.-i-:attained at
Shoeburyness last month, by Whitworth's
•J inch muzzle-loader gun of fourteen tons,
firing a shot of 250 lbs, with a charge of 50
lbs. It was claimed by Northern artillery
officers in Charleston that the "Swamp An
gel'' threw three shots from below Fort Sum
ter into the upper part of the city, a distance
of seven miles.
IT is said that investigations are now in
progress at Washington to ascertain the
truth in regard to the alleged corrupt use of
money in-order to secure the passage of the
bill for the purchase of Alaska from Russia
A resolution on the subject will probably be
introduced in the House of Representatives
early in the present session of Congress.
CONVERSION OF THE JEWS.—A vigorous
effort for the conversion of the Jews is be
ing made by the Presbyterians of Illinois.
The method adopted is to distribute books
and tracts among the Jewish population,
which shall set forth the distinctive poiuts
of difference between Jews and Christians,
to preach the gospel in public as well as in
private houses, and to organize day and
Sabbath schools for the special instruction
of Jewish children in the truths of the
Christian religion.
THE crooked and narrow streets of Bos
ton have at last become a nuisance not to
be borne by the inhabitants, and energetic
efforts are being made to open wide thor
oughfares in the business part of the city,
to remedy the present blockade of vehicles.
To carry out this measure effectively some
of the old landmarks of Boston will have to
be removed. A slice, it is stated, will be
cut from the venerable State House.
THE Gettysburg monument, the design
and contract for which were awarded to
James G. Batterson, of Hartford, Connec
ticut, is in the works at Westerly, Rhode
Island, and is nearly completed. It will he
set up in the Spring. The design for the
Antietam monument, furnished by >lr.
Batterson, was accepted, but the contract
for executing it has not yet been awarded.
The design is for a colossal statue, standing
on a pedestal, the height of the statue to he
twenty-one feet To cut this a block of
granite weighing one hundred tons will be
required, and the statue, when completed,
will weigh at least eighty tons.
THE President has pardoned Benjamin F.
Olid, who was convicted in the Uuited
Court for the Southern District of
New York, at the October term, 1867, and
sentenced to ten years' imprisonment for
embezzling from the Post Office Depart
ment. The pardon was recommended by
Mayor Hoffman, Congressmen Brooks, Fox,
Chanlerand Stuart, and by nine of the ju
rors who pronounced him guilty. The ex
ecutive clemency was extended in conse
quence of the previous good character of
the prisoner, his present ill health, and the
destitution of his wife and children.
WE learn by the New York Tribune that
the East ludia Telegraph Company, of
which Ex-Governor Curtin is the President,
have perfected arrangements for commenc
ing the construction of the line at once.
But a few shares yet remain unsold, which
maybe procured up to the twentieth inst.,
when the subscription books wi'l be closed.
Whatever balance of stock there may be
untaken will be subscribed by capitalists
already engaged in the enterprise. An agent
will at once proceed to Europe to purchase
the cable, which will probably be found
already manufactured.
DICKENS'S READINGS.—It has recently
transpired that the reading tour of Dickens
was really a venture of his American pub
lishers, Ticknor & Fields. He was paid by
them SI,OOO for each reading and his expen
ses, and the enterprise was conducted under
the joint management of Dolby for Dickens,
and Osgood, their confidential clerk, for
Ticknor & Fields.
It was chiefly due to the executive tact of
Mr. Osgood that so notable a success was
The net profits accruing to Tick
nor & Fields, under this arrangement,
reached $98,000; and in gratitude to the
gentleman who so sagaciously managed it,
the firm has recently become Fields, Osgood
X Co., by the retirement of Mr. Ticknor
i with some $300,000, as a reward for his
| thirty-fjve years' industry,
FOREIGN IMMIGRATION. —But few per
sons hate an adequate idea of the nntnber
of immigrants annually arriving in the
United States, or of the amount of wealth
they bring with them. Statisticians esti
mate the number of immigrants from
European Stales to this country, since
1790, at six millions five hundred thousand,
and that their descendants to day number
fully twenty millions, or about one-half of
the entire, population. From 1820 to 1830,
the number of foreigners who landed on our
shores was 244,490; from 1830 to 1840,
352,000; from 1840 to 1850, 1,788,300 from
1850 to 1800,2,707,624. The annual average
of immigration since 1860 is put down by
Mr. Bunks at 350,000, and actual investi
station has proved that each immigrant
man, womau and child —represents from
eighty to one hundred dollars. Thus, in the
aggregate, nearly $30,000,000 in gold is
added to the resources of the country
annually by immigration alone. A cotem
porar.v says: "But wo must look further
than the money value of the immigrant, and
consider his productive capacity." Estima
ting his labor at five hundred dollars a year,
at this rate our annual immigration would
add one hundred and fifty millions a year to
the cash value of the country.
FORNEY'S "Olivia" has been asking the
Washington correspondents where they get
their news, and received the following reply:
"Why, we hunt for if; we go where it is
likely to be found—to the Department,. or
to the White House. For instance, now,
this Paraguay difficulty; Minister Washburn
and all connected with it. We shall first
try to pump Fred. Seward. No use going
to the old man. He won't see any of us but
Gobright. Probably Fred, will have little
to say. Then we shall go to A. Johnson.
He will tell us all wc want to know. A. J.
treats us well. There never was a time ho
hadn't something he wanted 'sent off.'
When Mr. Lincoln was President wc should
just as soon thought of going to a private
house for news; aye, sooner, than to have
gone to the Executive Mansion. It is alto
gether different now. The President ap
pointed. 'Data,' one of our own number, as
one of his private secretaries, in order that
nothing about him should be lost sight of
by the people." The question was asked,
"Whether Mr. Johnson did not show some
preference to some particular newspaper?"
"Not much; though Mr. Johnson hates the
World. lie has never forgotten that bitter
article denouncing him the day of his in
auguration. I don't know how wc shall get
along without Mr. Johnson.'
PAY OF Out MINISTERS AND CONSULS.-
The United States neither sends nor has it
sent to it any minister of the "Third class
of Aniba-sador." The biggest rank our
practitioners take is "Envoy Extraordinary
and Minister Plenipotentiary," which sets
them as high as Franklin and John Adams.
Mr. Johnson and Gen. Dix receive $17,-
S(H) apiece, each with two Secretaries of
Delegation at $2,625, and $1,500 respective
ly. Mr. Clay, Mr. Hale. Mr. Bancroft,
Mr. Marsh, Mr. Webb and Mr. Ross Brown,
receive $12,000, and one secretary at SI,BOO.
Our ministers to Peru and Chili get $lO,-
000. The rest get $7,500. An interpreter
in China gets $5,000. Our highest Consuls
get $7,500; the most of them less than 81,-
500 The man who sits out in the jail of
Napoleon at St. Helena, receives $1,500
for it. For SSOO more he would probably
go to the penitentiary. Havre is a better
eomularship than Faris, the first being $7,-
000 and the last $5,000. Calcutta is worth
$5,000. Melbourne $4,000, Montreal $4,-
000. London S7OOO, Dublin only the fees,
St. Petersburg $2,000, Havana $6,000.
THE Sub-Committee of the Congressional
Joint Committee on Retrenchment, compris
iug Messrs. Van Wveke, Jenekes, Benton
and Ha!sey,has been in session. Among other
things they inquired into the reasons why
the indictments against certain individuals,
the Kentucky Bourbon Company and others,
for violation of the revenue laws, were not
tried; and as to the reasons for the great
delay that has occurred since the cases were
fir-t put on the calendar. United States
District Atomey Courtney was sworn and
testified although he was ready to proceed
with the trial, the delay now occasioned was
by orders received by hitn from Washington.
The Committee are endeavoring to ascertain
why this interference from Washington is
made to still further postpone the trial of
tUcw ck>, as It Is claimed tlic, ; u j;,Muala
thus receiving the Executive clemency have
made themselves useful in making charges
against certain officials obnoxious to the
President, and that they stand ready to
perform similar services in the future. The
investigation will be resumed tomorrow.
ACCEPTING THF. SITUATION. —After the
election of Grant was known in south Caro
lina, a number of prominent. Democrats,
including Wade hampton, called in a body
on Governor Scott, and declared their de
termination to accept, cheerfully, and abide
by the decision of the people to stand by
the State government in its acts, and to Use
all their influence in inducing the people
throughout the State to do the same.
They expressed conviction that the future
prosperity of the State depended upon a
unanimous and hearty support of the Gov
ernment, and reliance upon the ballot-box
alone in the future, as a remedy for the
evils of unwise legislation. In reply, the
Governor expressed the great pleasure their
visit had given him, and his belief that this
action on their part won'd do more to res
tore unanimity among the people, and place
the credit of the State where it deserves to
be. than any political expression could pos
sibly effect.
Tin: Rev. Dr. McCosh, in a speech which
he made before the National Christian As
sociation, -aid that an (Ecumenical Council
of all Christians would be held in the city of
New York during tho autumn of next year.
The object of the meeting would be to pro
duce harmony and good feeling among all
the denominations of professing Christians
everywhere. Discussions wore to be held
upon the great leading topics which are now
agitating, or may then agitate the religious
world. It is not to be confined exclusively
to the clergy, although some of the greatest
clerical names in Christendom would be in
cluded in the roll of guests. Lord Shaftes
bury had promised to be present, declaring
that nothing could give him greater pleasure
than to meet so many excellent persons in
so good a cause. Various authors and jour
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vited, and were expected to attend.
TRADE MARKS.— Secretary of State has
issued a proclamation, giving notice that the
additional article to the treaty of commerce
between the 1 nited States and Russia, bav
ins been ratified by* both parties, is now in
full force. 1 his article provides that any
counterfeiting in one of the two countries of
the trade marks affixed in the other on mer
chandise to show its origin and quality, shall
be strictly prohibited and repressed, and
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in favor of the injured party, to be prose
cuted in the courts of the country in which
the counterfeit shall he proven. The trade
marks 0 f citizens of the United States must
be lodged in the Department of Manufac
tures and Inland Commerce at St. Peters
burg. and the marks of Russian subjects in
the Patent Office in Washington.
WHO PAID INCOME. —The report of the
Secretary of the Treasury shows the follow
ing figures relative to income returns for the
fiscal year 1867 and 1868: Number of per
sons who paid incomes la-tyear in Pennsyl
vania, 3.182; this year 29,439. Ohio, last
year, 19,618, this year. 18,172. Kentucky,
last year. 5,877; this 5.555. Indiana, last
year, 5,122; this 5,084. Michigan, last year,
5.616: this 9,637. Illinois, last year, 15,-
349; this 16,369. Wisconsin, last year,
3,900; this year, 4,544. Minnesota, last
year, 11,052; this year, 10,023. lowa, last
year, 3,213; this year, 3.169. Missouri, last
year, 4,531; this year. 4,942.
DIVIDING THE STATE OP NEW YORK.—
The Rochester Chronicle, on account of the
incompatibility existing between
New York city and the rural districts, so
called," favors a division of the State. It
would set off New York city and county,
and the counties of Richmond. Kings,
Queens and Suflolk as a separate State. To
this it would give the name of Manhattan
or Tauimany, and retain the old name for
the other part. The part set off would
have uiue Representatives in Congress, two
Senators and eleven votes in the Electoral
College. Ihe other part would have twen
ty two Representatives and two United
States Senators, and twenty-four votes in
he Electoral College.
SECRETARY MCCCLLOCH officially reports
the entire reduction of the public debt, for the
year ending Nov. 1, 1668, at a little more
than thirty-fire millions of dollars.
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YEAR.
A New Story by Charles Jleade, Author of
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The Chinese Government having (through the
Hon. A neon llurlingame) conceded to thie Compa
ny the privilege of connecting the great eeaporte
of the Empire by eubmarine electric telegraph co
lle, tee propoec commencing operations in China,
and laying do ten a line of nine hundred miles ot
once, bet ice en the following porte, viz : '
Population,
Canton 1,000,000
Macon -.60,000
ll— s ,230,000
Swatow 200,000
Arnoy 250,000
Foe-Chow 1,250,000
W an-Chu 300,000
Ningpo 400,000
Hang Chean -1.200,000
Shanghai 1,000,000
ToUI 5,910,000
These ports have 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, tho commu
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social life, especially in China. She has no pos
tal system, and her only means now of communi
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steamers on water.
The Western "World knows that China as
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 popnlation
four Hundred and Fourteen Millions, and this is
more likely to be under than orer the actual ag
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years old, not only can but do read and write,
ller civilization is peculiar, but her literature ii
as extersive as that of Europe. China is a land
of teachers and traders; and the latter are ex
ceedingly qnick to avail themselves of every
proffered facility for procuring early information.
It is observed in California that the Chinese make
great use ef 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 tbem exclnsirely for the
transmission of early intelligeuce. If the tele
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ports, were now in existence, it is believed that
its business would pay the cost within the first
two years of its surreesful 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
mcrcially, 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,
Times, Post, Express, Independent, and in the
Philadelphia North American, Press, Ledger, In
quirer, Aye, Bulletin and Telegraph.
Shares of this Company, to a limited number,
may be obtained at SSO each, $lO payable down,
sls on the let of November, and $25 payable in
monthly instalments of $2 50 each, commencing
December 1, 1868, on application to
PREXEL A CO.,
31 South Third Street,
Philadelphia.
Shares can ho obtained in Bedford by applica
tion to Reed A Schell Bankers, who are authorised
t6 receive subscriptions, and can give all neees
sary information on the subject.
vep: If. 6 mot.