fiebfortr Inquirer. , Kft FORD. PA., I'tilitAY, DEC. 10. 1860. J-'ItKE SCHOOLS ASO AS OPES BIBLE- The action of the Cincinnati Board of Kducation in excluding the Bible from the public schools, and the attending discus sions, have become matters of such impor tance that as a faithful chronicler of passing events we cannot pa=s them by. The action of the Board is thus stated by the daily Press : "The Cincinnati Board of Education has decided, by a vote of twenty-three to fifteen, to exclude from the rublie schools not only the Bible, bat abo all religious books, and the singing of religious song* Of the votes in favor ol excluding the Bible there were: Protestants three: Catholics, teD ; free thinkers eight." This action at once raised a cry of alarm, and roused a spirit of resistance. Protes tants at once charged that it was not only an attack upon the Bible but also upon our American system of free schools. The Catholics promptly and frankly acknowl edged the charge and proceeded to defend their action. The Tahiti of New York City —the high est secular authority of the hierarchy of Rome in America, —says bluntly, that per mitting the Bible to be excluded, will not modify the antipathy of the church to our mode of secular education. Not only is the church opposed, it avers, to the Pro testant Bible being used in the schools, hut if that translation were supplanted by the Pouay Bible, their hostility would not be cooled. No. not if Catholic lessons from the Popish Bible were chosen, and these alone, with commentaries by the most learned theologians of the Cathofic Church, were made the only christian education in our schools, the Cat ho ics would yet oppose the continuance of the schools with a deter mination which nothing but their total sup pression could, or can, uoder any circum stances, weaken or allay. The Roman Catholic Telegraph, teroark ing upon the succsscs gained in the Cincin nati Board of Education, says: "It was a blind worship of expediency to sustain a sehonl system that tramples upon tbe rights of Catholics. The blindness has driven these defenders of the common schools to a second def at, which, by a skill ful manoeuvre, they imagined they had escaped. Tbe first chapter in this school controversev is now closed : it ends with the triamph of the law. The second chapter will open with agitation against the law it self in the name of Justice and the right that both l'rotestants and Catholics have to positive religious instruction in seperate schools. If the school law be modified to secure denominational education for ad, Catholics will cheerfully pay their portion of the school fund. It' this wise amend ment cannot be made, taxation for school purposes must cease. Now that the Bible has been excluded from the schools, if the professed Protestants have been sincere in all that they have Mid in it* favor they must agree with the Catholics in the second issue of this question. Consistency will make them our friends in the future." Tbe Freeman's Journal, their mouthpiece io New York city, says: "If the Catholic tran-iation of the Books of Holy Writ, which is to he found ;n the homes of all our better educated Catholics, were to be dissected by the ablest Catholic theologian in the land, and merely lessons to be taken from it—such as Catholic mothers read to their children ; and with all the notes and comments, in the popular edition, and others added, with the highest Catholic endorsement ; and if these admirable Bible lessons, and these alone, were to be ruled as to be read in all the public schools this would not diminish, i> any substantial de fine, the objection ire Catholics have to bi ting Catholic children attend the public schools.'' Such evidence as this must convince all unprejudiced minds that the movement is a preconcerted and systematic one. In Cin cinnati tbe work is in its first stage, in New York City it has advanced to the second. There they have succeeded in getting $214,028,40 appropriated to sectarian ! schools and of this they have obtained the appropriation of $l7l, C ; t,40 to Catholic schools. It will be remembered that a few years ago the Pope in his encyclical letter not only condemned our free schools, but our free government. All these things point to a systematic, though insidious war fare again.-t not only an open B ble, but against free schools and free institutions. \Y e cannot believe hat the more liberal and intelligent Catholics of our own and other communities, approve of these proceedings. On the contrary'we believe that every one who loves our free institutions, be be Pro testant, Catholic or even free thinker, will and must unequivocally condemn every movement that looks to the destruction of our free schools or in any way attacks out in-titutions. It is true that Henry Ward Beccher, Horace Greeley an.l the editor of the Independent have declred themselves ready to yield thi- first position, if the Ca'ho lics will compromise there and cease their attacks upon the free schools, but they are contemptuously to'd that the schools are the mam object of attack and that they will make no eompromi e. In all charity, kind ness and christian love and forbearance we would come to the discu-.-ion ol this ques tion. At the same time we wou'd mo.-t positively and distinctly declare thai we can not for one moment think of surrendvring either our open Bible or our Free Schools. There is no one of ordinary intelligence, not even the merest tyro in history, but knows that to au open Bible, and that the Protes taut Bible, the world is indebted for all of either Civil or Religious liberty that it to day enjoys. IcTc-warned is lore armed. The friends of our free institutions are here plainly and clearly notified that the founda tions of our civil and religious liberties are deliberately attacked with a viefr to their ultimate destruction. I.et it be as distinct ly announced that we regard an open Bible an l Frea Schools as constituting the chief bulwarks of our liberties, that upon them, without regard to church or party, we plant our standard determined to defend them to the uttermost against all assailants. CONGRESS. The second scs.-ion of the forty-first Con grcss met on Monday. Both Houses are organized and consequently ready for work at onco. Ihe Senate stands 57 Republicans to 12 opposition, with one vacancy from Ar kansas. Virginia, Texas, Georgia and Mis sissippi will supply eight more Senators curing the winter, six of whom will most likely be radical Republicans and all of whom will support the Administration of Grant. In the Housj there are 140 Republicans to 1 2 opposition, while thirty representa tives are yet to come in from Virginia, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi an d Texas. 1 heso new representatives will probably be two-third Republicans. Regular work will begin at once ; no important legislation is likely to be completed before the holidays, hut the general work of the session will be mapped out and the initiatory steps taken in the shape of reading bills and referring to Committees Ac. AT the Texas election held oa the 30th ult., General A.J. Hamilton, conservative Republican, was elected by a decisive ma jority. There were three candidates, one radical RepubliciD, one conservative Repub lican and one rebel or copperhead THE ONLY WAY. The State Treasurer contest is raging pretty fiercely already and the partisans of the opposing candidates are telling ugly sto ries, that make honest men quite doubtful if any of them are fit for the place. The salary fixed by law for the Treasurer is 11700, yet the friends of the respective can didates each accuse the other as well as pre ceding candidates of having spent from $20,000 to $50,000 for the purpose of se curing the election. If such things are done, and no one doubts but that they have been done more than once, it is proof con clusive that the office is grievously abused and the public funds deliberately misused. Now in the first place no man who has ever made use of money for obtaining the office stould receive the vote of any honest man. But we have little hope of seeing any very .-tartling exhibition of spartan virtue like this in either party. The next, and abso lutely necessary thing to be done is to in crease the salary to an amount sufficient to remunerate a good, honest and able man for giving his attention to the work and then vigorously enforce the law, which at present is a dead letter on the statute books, pun ishing any use of the public funds for pri vate purposes. If there are any defects in this law, let them be remedied and then let us have it vigorously enforced. The Re publican party has done ard is now doing nobly in the work of retrenchment and re form, but it still has much to do. The Treasurers have been derelict we have no doubt; they have abused their trusts and have been liable to indictment and punish ment —why were they not punished? Where were the Auditor and Attorney Generals? Why were they not about their duty ferret ing out the abuse and prosecuting the crim inal ? Is it not the duty of these officers to attend to matters of this kind? Has the magic wand of the Croesus of the Treasu ry blinded the cerberus that should guard our treasure ? If but one officer were guilty and ail the others were active anl vigilant, the guilty one would soon be found out and exposed. This Treasury business impera tively demands reform. It is true we have dene far better than the Democracy in the management of the finances, but the - leaks by which they drained the Treasury are cot all stopped yet. We rejoice at and aie proud of what the Republican party has done for our State, but we none the less de mand that she shall do more. Let every newspaper in the State, that is not bought up by tbe liug, demand reform in this mat ter and let every commuuity hold its repre sentative responsible. We want positive woik. Who will beein? THE tariff question is severely exercising the patience of the free traders at present. Judge Kelley's amended bill is not quite sat isfactory to tbem. The.Harrisburg Patriot of the Ist inst., says: "When tariff reforms are to come from such political economists as he. the friends of free trade may well despair." We are heartily g'ad to hear a cry of des pair from men who labor for the destruc tion of the best interestsof the state. We would be better pleased to hear the editors of the Patriot say they were ashamed of their ingratitude toward their native state. How sons of Pennsylvania can be such in grates as to advocate free-trade, which all experience has shown to be most iminical to our prosperity, passes our comprehension. We sympathize with them in their distress but cannot wish them any relief. We rath er like Judge Kelly's views on most matters and believe that every true Ptnnsylvanian will be pleased with, at least, the main fea tures of his bill. The Cop 3 have at last been forced to acknowledge that a revenue tariff is good, if not a necessity ; now if a little is good, why should not a little more be better? If absolute free-trade is bad for us is not free-trade in any shape bad ? Per haps the Patriot will publish Prof. Perry's argument in favor of a little tariff, since he had to back down from free-trade in his recent lecturing tour, even though he got his pay for preaching free trade from the agents of the British manufactures. ALBERT D. RICHARDSON died in New York on Thursday morning the 2d inst. from the effects of the wound received at the hands of Mr. MeFarland in the Tribune office on the 25th ult. He was but 36 years old. Mr. Richardson was one of the rising literary men of the country. His writings were mostly confined to newspapers and maga zines. He only wrote too books, but they were among the most successful ever pub tished in America. Field, PuDgeon and Escape, written after escaping fiom the reb el prisons in January 1865, after Dearly two years imprisonment, reach -d a sale of 100,- 000 copies. Beyond the Mississippi, writ ten afterward on his return from an over land jiurney to San Francisco with Speak er Colfax, also reached the extraordinary sale of 75,000 copies. The extent of their popularity will perhaps be better understood from the above figures when it is known that a book that commands a saie of 15,000 or 20 000 copies is considered a great sue cess. On whomsoever the responsibility n ay rest for the bloody tragedy, which re sulted in his death, the untimely decease of Albert D. Richardson, in the very prime of life, will be mourned by every literary circle in America. *7,371,454 15—571,1)13,524 78. Nothing is more conclusive of the success of Republican financiering than that, in spite of the efforts, wishes and prophecies of the modern Democracy to prevent the pay ment of the public debt, to-day at the end of nine months of Republican rule restored, no less than $71,913,524 78 have been paid off or nearly eight millions per month. The statement of tbe public debt shows that $7,571,454 15 were paid during November, showing that the good work still goes brave ly on. If we keep on at the same rate the whole national debt will be liquidated in a little less than thirty years. MEXICO has adopted a new plan of pay ing off uational debts. The debt is large, the interest heavy, and her credit bad, so instead of paying off interest, she quietly g<)es into the market, where her bonds are offered very low because of her ba J credit, and buys the bonds at a heavy discount. YVe have heard of bankrupt individuals practising this sharp trick but it is tbe first time wc have heard of a nation outflanking its creditors in that, style. THE Mississippi election which took place on the 30th ult., resulted in the election ol General Alcorn, Republican, I y a large ma jority and a Legislature also largely Repub lican. ______________ MOB law still reigns in Louisiana. On I>ec. Ist G. M. Stnrbinger, Sheriff was shot by a negro at New Iberia, when tbe mob turned out and hung the negro, making a doable murder. THE latest news from Texas indicates a probability that Davis the radical candidate may be elected Governor instead of Hamil ton the conservative Republican. A LETTER from White Pine, Nev., ajs: Winter set iu two weeks ago. Times are very dull. Several hundred laborers have beeu discharged this month. Wages have been materially reduced. Report of the Comptroller oi the Cur rency. WASHINGTON, Dec. 5. —The annual re port of the Comptroller shows 2,620_ banks i n active operation. Their condition is more gratifying than formerly. The opportunity afforded speculators to manipulate the mon ey market is almost entirely done away with, and banks have more complete control of their affairs. The Comptroljer recommends the passage of an act requiring all banks that go into liquidation to deposit legal ten der notes for outstanding circulation, and take up their bonds deposited with the Treasurer of the United States as security for such circulation within sixty days from the date of the vote of the stockholders to wind up. He also recommends that all tax es on banks ba made returnable and payable to the Treasurer of the United States, in cluding the special tax and dividend tax now payable to District Collectors; that the com pensation of Bank Examiners be increased and provision be made for its assessment upon banks examined, and an increase to fair compensation of persons employed un der him in the Currency Bureau. The recommendation looking to the es tablishment of a central redeeming agency in New York in his last annual report is re newed. The Comptroller says tbc_ legal prohibition to banks to hire deposits is not sufficiently explicit or positive to prevent it. and hints at legislation to that end. The Comptroller argues in favor of tbe National Banking system as the cause of the ease in the money market and lower rates of inter est than would otherwise be obtained. _ He thinks the Government circulation, which is not convertible and therefore not elastic, should be withdrawn and substituted by National Bank notes, which are nominally redeemable and are certainly amenable to the laws of trade. No check or limitation should be imposed on the latter other than the law of supply and demand. A self adjusting system I of currency is the only one that is adapted i to the exigencies of trade and to the _want3 i of the country, and it is a vital question at ihis time whether this result can be reached before tbe return of specie payments. If possible at all it is only through tbe agency of National Banks. The machinery of the Government is not adapted to such ends, and further, if possible, it is so only upon the adoption of a policy which will_ tend gradually but surely to the resumption of specie payments. It must be a gradual de velopment of a process which shall absorb legal tenders and put in their place a paper currency which shall at all times and under all circumstances be exchangeable for coin, either of paper legal tenders or of gold—a paper currency which shall gradually in crease while the legal tenders for its re demption shall gradually decrease in such ratio as a healthy demand for banking fa cilities may determine. While free banking may thus be established with safety anterior to specie payments, conditioned only on the withdrawal and cancellation of a legal tender dollar of bank currency issued, free banking upon a specie basis may also be permitted with equal safety and without delay. With details properly adjusted banks may be es tablished with authority to issue and put in circulation gold notes limiting the amount only bv the ability of the banks to comply with ihe necessary conditions and redeem their issues by the establishment of banks on a specie basis. The resumption of spe cie payments is only anticipated, and famil iarity with gold values will do much to re licve the subject of the mystery with which it is associated in the minds of many. Look ing forward to the day when uniform values shall again prevail, it may be that by wise legislation now a banking system can be es tablished truly national in its character and scope, which will furnish a sound currency of uniform value in every State of the Union. FOREIGN. ENGLAND. LONDON. Dec. 3. —Her Majesty's steamer Monarch is now ready to sail with the body of the late George Peabody, though she will probably remain a few days for the rest of the fleet to come up. Her cabins have been tastefully and appropriately draped with black cloth and white silk. FRANCE. PARIS, Dec. 3. —At the sitting of the Corps Legislatif to-day Henri Koehefort rose and demanded that the National Guard be ordered to guard the hall of the Corps Leg- I islatif in the future, for the protection of the members. The demand took the Cham ber by surprise and created an extraordinary sensation. Expressions of astonishment burst forth from all parts of the hall; cheers followed, which were answered by cries of derision and disapproval. The Opposition members generally applauded, but the ma jority protested against the demand and the demonstration made in its favor. SPAIN. MADRID, Dec. 3. —Several other Car list conspiracies have been discovered in various parts of Spain within the past few days, and a number of persons have been arrested. The authorities are taking extraordinary precautions to guard against any new out break. Several of the Republican journals, the publication of which was suspended at the beginning of the recent insurrection, have been permitted to reappear. PRUSSIA. BERLIN, Dec. 3. —The Chinese embassy, headed by Minister Burlingame, was yester day received by the King and Queen at the Royal Palace, with the most imposing cere monies. Mr. Burlingame presented an address, and was received with marked attention by Count von Bismarck, who declared the warm friendship of Prussia and North Germany with the United States, and pledged the hearty co-operation of Prussia with the Em bassy in its movements. The reception was a grand affair. ITALY. LONDON, Dec. 3. —Dispatches from Rome announce that a pre-synodical conference was held yesterday, when the Papal Allocu tion was delivered, and oaths were adminis tered to the officers of the (Ecumenical Council. The Times, to day, says things at Rome are auguring ill for the Council. Gallicauism is rampant Austrian and German bishops demur to the dogma of infallibility, and dis cord is apprehended among the Italians. Antonelli shakes his head at a conference in which he never felt sympathy. THE CONGRESSIONAL COMMITTEE, charg ed with the investigation of the causes of the decline of American shipping, completed their labors in Philadelphia Thursday. Be fore commencing their investigatiou there, they had been engaged for some time in tak ing testimony in Portland, Boston and New York. The testimony taken covers about 800 manuscript pages, and is now being printed in Washington. The remedies urged for the great decay in American ship ping interests have, in nearly every instance, resolved themselves into three propositions: 1. A drawback of the duty upon all mate rials entering into the construction of vessels and a subsidy equal to the amount of the duty when American materials are used. 2. Permission to purchase and admit the American registers foreign built vessels. 3. Subsidies to American lines of ocean steamers. The committee have proceeded to Wash ington, and in due time they will submit their report and the above propositions for the action of Congress. RAILROAD COMBINATIONS. —The Balti more and Ohio railroad company appears to have been over-reached again, says the Washington Star , by the Pennsylvania railroad, which on Wednesday secured possession of the Cincinnati and Zanesville railway. This, line, which is in many re spects a most important and valuable one, has from its opening been a large contribu tor to the traffic of the Baltimore and Ohio route, and its ultimate and permanent con trol ha? long been looked upoq as a highly desirable acquisition by the friends of both the ereat rival corporations. In buying it the Pennsylvania Central secures not only a line which can be made profitable from its local business alone, but by constructing a few miles of new road, connecting Zanes ville with Dresden, Ohio, it will be able to tap Cincinnati and all the rich country be yond that city by a much shorter route than it has jet been able to secure. Indeed, it may he said that thirlaat move gives to the Pennsylvania Central control of the most of the main arteries of trade in and through the great State of Ohio. The Credit Mobilier. The Receiver of the State Taxes. The Evening Telegraph of yesterday has the following special despatch: HARRISBURG, Dec. 3.—Departmental cir cles were stirred not a little this morning on reading tho news contained in a Philadel phia paper of yesterday, in regard to the celebrated Credit Mobilicr case, us contained ia the following article: The citizens can hardly appreciate the im portance of the verdict which has just been rendered against the Credit Mobilier of America, and by which the State Treasury has been enriched $1,407,000. Tnis was the tax due by the corporation for the year 1868. This does not end the matter. The Treasurer and Auditor General will now proceed to the collection of the tax on "net earnings," and also filo claims for the taxes accruing in 1869, and both officers feel as sured of being able to add at least $31X1,000 more to the treasury. In this matter Messrs. Ilartranft and Mackey were assisted by Mr. J. M. Foster, the able assistant of the form er. This is the case in which Attorney General B. 11. Brewster took so active a part, and after months of labor succeeded in putting it in such a position as to render a verdict for the State a certainty. Now, the fact is well known here that the late law officer of the Commonwealth Lad nothing to do with recovering this money for the State. The case was worked up by J. H.Foster, Esq., of the Auditor General's Department, and Lewis W. Hall, K>q., of this city, who was especially retained by the Auditor General for the purpose. It will be noticed that this was an appeal case, which did not require the Attorney General to even issue a writ against the defendants. A set tlement was made by the Auditor General against the company, which settlement, if not appealed from, would have become an absolute debt to the Commonwealth. The eompany, on appealing, as required by law, filed witn the Auditor General the specifica tions upon which the appeal is based, and gave bond with security to abide the result. These specifications were then filed by the Auditor General in the Dauphin County Court of Common Pleas, which put all par ties in court, ipso facto, without any action by the Attorney General who afterwards tried the ease. Here the only steps taken during Mr. B. 11. Brewster's time were those in which tho Attorney General bad no part, and tho trial was conducted by Mr. Hall, assisting the present Attorney CSener a!, Hon. F. Carroll Brewster. The Cuban War. [Through Spanish Sources.] HAVANA, Dec. 3.—A military govern ment w ill soon be inaugurated for the Cinoo Villas district. Great results are expected from this measure which, it is supposed, will lead to the complete re-establishment of Spanish authority in that quarter. Advices front Puerto Principe to the 24th ultimo have been received. Information was brought by a negro that the insurgents were approaching San does, garrisoned by Catalan volunteers. Twenty volunteers, with officers, sent out to reconnoitre, were cut off and captured. Next morning the in surgents attacked San Jose, and after fight ing for an hour, raised a white flag. The garrison responded and sent out an officer and four men, who approached the rebel lines and proposed capi'ulation. The soldiers, without orders, fired a volley and killed two of the Spaniards. Fighting was then renewed. The Cubans fought desper ately, and endeavored to scale the entrench ments, but reinforcements coming to tho garrison, they finally withdrew. Eleven Catalans were killed. The affair caused much excitement at Puerto Principe. The colonel commanding the Catalans had been sent to Havana to be court-martialed. A dividend of four per cent, has been de clared by the Havana railroad company since the road has been under the manage ment of General Clavijo. HAVANA, Dee, 3.—A letter, dated San tiago de Cuba, Nov. 23, says : A well au thenticated report has reached this city that the steamer Teaser has landed a party of filibusters in the Bay of Nipe, with a large quantity of military stores, and that they nave reached the interior in safety. On the 20th the Spaniards attacked the insurgents intrenched at Mogate. The troops commenced by shelling the rebel po sition, and then charged with bayonets, but were repulsed with great loss. Many of their wounded are coming here. The gov ernment is seizing animals on the streets for the use of the army. Treasurer Spinner's Report. Treasurer Spinner's report says between the eleventh of May and twenty-fifth of November, there were paid for United States six per cent, bonds on account of the sinking fund and for the fund held subject to the order of Congress, interest and pre mium paid thereon included, $89,282,270. These payments excel half a million dollars per annum. There has already been re ceived for interest on these bonds $704,304 in gold, which has been invested in United States bonds, representing $788,800, which are held for the two funds above named. If the same rate of purchase is hereafter maintained and the accruing interest in vested semi-annually in like bonds, the whole National debt will thus be paid off in less than thirteen years. From New York. NEW YORK, Dec. 6. Samuel L. Blatchford, who was charged, with Caldwell Mulligan and othets, with de frauding the government by means of false aDd fraudulent drawback claims, appeared before Commissioner Osborne to-day, and said he surrendered himself. He was held in SIO,OOO bail to appear for an examination on Saturday next, his uncle, Richard M. Blatchford, the father of Judge Blatchford, becoming his bondsman. It is believed that Mr. Blatchford will either be arrested by Col. Whitely, chief of the secret service of the Treasury Department, or feared that he would be, and surrendered himself to avoid certain arrest. XLlst CONGRESS-SECOND SESSION. SENATE. WASHINGTON, Dec. 6. The Senate met at noon, with fifty-five members present. The resignation of Senator Grimes was received. Mr. Lot M. Morrill was sworn in as Sen ator from Maine. The credentials of the Virginia Senators : were presented and laid on tbo table. A Committee was appointed tc inform the ; House and the President of the readiness of the Senate to proceed to business. The Mississippi Election. General Alcorn's Majority Increasing— Judge Dent Carries but three Counties. JACKSON, Dec. 3.—Additional returns from six counties give Alcorn several thou sand additional majority. Dent has carried but three counties and those by very small majorities- The whole radical ticket, with few exceptions, has doubtless been elected. Reduction of the Revenue. Commissioner Wells expresses the opinion that the revenue can be reduced $12,000,- 000, and to this end the Committee on Ways and Means propose to cut down the tariff $25,000,000, and internal revenue $50,000,- 000. On the vote to take off the duty on coal, salt and copper, the committee are a tie. _ THE city of Buenos Ayres has a popula tion of 180,000 souls, of whom one third are foreigners, and about 40,000 can read and write. The province outside the city has 300,000 souls, of whom one-eighth are for eigners ; aboqt 24,000 can read and write. Tho other thirteen provinces have an ag gregate population of 700,000 souls, includ ing 40,000 foreigners; about 35,000 can read and write. This would make a total population of 1,180,000, including 147,500 foreigners, and the number of persons that can read and write will be about 100,000. ACCORDING to a moderate estimate, the amount of money paid for intoxicating drinks in Trenton, N. J., in one year, is twenty five times as much as the whole sum paid for the support of the public schools. Add to this three-fourths of the sum expended to maintain the police, and to pay for pau perism and crime—for at least that, propor tion of these items is legitimately chargea ble to tbe account of liquor drinking. GENERAL NEWS ITEMS. A MAN recently arrived in a town in Minnesota, bought a lot, built a house, and set up housekeeping within the space of forty-eight hours, awl had a son and heir born to him before tho first meal was eaten in the house. Gov. GEARY has just approved the bill, passed last winter, relative to the payment of taxes on unseated lands, requiring the county Treasurers to keep a receipt book to enter the receipts of the payment of taxes on unseated lands ; certified copies of said recorded receipts to he the only evidence of payment. It also allows owners two years from tho present date to record in. This is very important. A FIRE in GalvestoD, Texas, Friday morn ing, consumed four entire blocks and three fourths of two other blocks. It originated in the clothing establishment of Coben Bros., corner of Strandt and Fremont streets. A liigh northwest wind swept the flaun s in a southerly direction, burning three blocks on Fremont street between Strandt and Fost offieo streets, and three blocks between Mechanic and Church and West and Twenty-fourth streets. Now that the Colombian Government has accorded permission to the United States to survey the Isthmus of Darien preparatory to digging the canal, there is no doubt that tho great work will be carried out to a suc cessful accomplishment. Truly does the world move; and great indeed will be the change in the Isthmus, when the two oceans shall_ be connected, from the time when the discoverer, Balboa, cried, "Eu reka !" at the first sight of the Pacific. IN England there are 2,405 cotton mills, in which are employed 152,056 men and 204,396 women: woolen manufactories num ber 1,420, employing 52,000 men and 5,000 women; 587 silk factories, employ 1,200 workmen. The total number of factories in England and Wales is 5,698, giving employ ment to 278,788 men and 390,380 women. Scotland has 507 factories, employing 30,- 000 men and 80,200 women. Ireland counts 198 factories, employing 22,622 men an 50,301 women. A SHREWD TRICK has just been played by a Pennsylvauian iu the oil regions. It appears that he had lost everything by spec ulation, and determined to retrieve his for tunes by getting up another petroleum ex citement. He obtained a quantity of crude oil, wltieb he buried in tbe cellar of his shanty, and afterwards pretended his land was full of oil. Some live Yankees from Bath, Maine, greedily grabbed the bait, bought the supposed rich oil tract, formed a eompany, sold a gieat amount of stock, and prepared for an active development of their petroleum property. Wells were sunk and machinery set up, but no oil was to be found, and the Bathites are out nearly a mil lion of dollars by tho coliapse of the concern. They acknowledge tbe gullibility of Ameri cans is about equal to that of Englishmen, THE Commissioners of tbe Sinking Fund have decided to redeem the live per cent, loans, $1,642,000, on maturity, July 1, 1870. On Notember 1 there was in the State Treasury an available balance of about $1,200,000, and on that day Treasurer Mackey issued a circular in accordance with his instructions. The remainder of the money necessary for the above purpose, $400,000, the Treasurer lias every confi dence in his ability to raise. By the pay | ment of this lean the State will be saved the entire interest, and tbe Commission deserve the thanks of the community for thus get ting rid of that much-talked of unexpended balance. This is the first time in the histo ry of the finances of the State that the in debtedness of the Commonwealth has been anticipated without making a new loan for the purpose. GARIBALDI AND THE FOPE.—Notwith standing tbe widely published reports, that Garibaldi had put by the sword and gone into the peaceable pursuits of literature — not because be thought the pen mightier than the sword, but .-imply because Italy was satisfied witb Victor Emanuel and de sired quiet days—the Pope is not sure of the rea-shirted patriot of Caprera. The Ecumenical Council, as all the world has been informed, shortly meets at Rome, and the I'ope fears that among the expected crowd which that august assemblage will attract to the Eternal City there may be some troublesome mountaineers, red-shirted and violent. Evidently he has communi cated his anxi ty to France, for General Durnont has offend his Holiness, on behalf of Napoleon, five thousand troops, to be stationed in Rome while the Council is in session. How ro GET A DlVOßCE.—Various and infernally mean are the subterfuges often re sorted to by parties desiring to be rid of matrimonial fetters. The New Albany, Did. Commercial says : We have beard of a ca>e illustrative of this statement that occurred not many years ago in this county. A widow woman held property which she might transfer while she remained single, but which, according to her husband,s will, she could not dispose of it if she married again while in a state of coverture. Well, she did marry again, and in the course of time she desired to transfer the property left her by her first husband. This, of course, she could not do, the pro visions of her first husband's will inhibiting her. Here was a quandary A lawyer of this city was consulted. He "set thingsup" for the wife and her husband. She went borne, told Iter husband what advice the lawyer had given her, and he thought it "just the thing." And what, reader, do you suppose that advice was? Simply this:—The husband and wife were to quar rel and fight every day, and this was to be done in the presence of the children of the wife, who were well grown, and they were made to believe the quarrelling and fighting ; was genuine, instead of feigned. The pro gramme was carried out to the letter, and then the husband applied for a divorce. He set forth "incompatibility" in bis complaint, the wife admitted it, and the children swore to it. Judge Bickoell granted the divorce. The same day she transferred the property as she had desired to do, and the next day the divorced couple were, remarried. Such is one of the phases of the divorce prac tice. sU*wUnmtjs. fTIOWER HALL!! NEW STYLES FALL & WINTER CLOTHING. OUT Stock is unusually full and complete, comprising many entirely new and desirable \ styles ot goods manufactured into MEN'S, YOUTHS* and BOYS* P.EADY'-MADE GARMENTS of all kind*, style* and size*. Tbe most stylish goods, cut in the latest , fashion as well as plainer and more moderate ; styles, suited to all tastes, and better in STYLE, FIT and WORKMANSHIP, than any other stock of BEADY MADE CLOTHING in Philadelphia. Also a choice selection of NEW FALL AND W INTER GOODS IN THE PIECE. which will be made up to order in the BEST and FINEST MANNER for theme who prefer. ALL PRICES GUARANTEED LOWER THAN THE LOWEST ELSEWHERE. AND FULL SATIS- i FACTION GUARANTEED EVERY PUR CHASER IN ALL CASKS. OR THE SALE I CANCELLED AND MONEY REFUNDED. fitdf Sample of material tent by mail when de- j tired, for garments either ready made or made to order. Halfway between ( BE.VXKT A Co., FIFTH AXD - TOWER HALL, SIXTH STS. ( 518 MARKET ST. PHILADELPHIA. ASD 600 BHOADWAY, NEW YOBK. 22oct3in LAWRE NCE D. DIETZ & CO. IMPORTERS & DEALERS IN NOTIONS, FANCY GOODS, HOSIERY, GLOVES, &c., Ac. 308 W. BALTIMORE STREET, Jletween Howard and lAberty, loctdrn BALTIMORE. I,3ORTY THOUSAND CASES OF GOODS were shipped from Our house in One Tear, to families, oluhs, and merchants, in every part of the country, from Maine to California, amount, ins in value to over ONE MILLION DOLLARS. Our facilities for transacting this immense busi ness are Fetter than ever boforc. We have agents in ail the principal cities to purchase goods from the Manufactures, Importers, and others, for Cash, and often at an immense sacrifice from the original cost of production. Our stock consists, in part, of the fallow in z goods:— Shawls, Blaekv.lt. (guilts, Cottons, ft iughom*, Dress Goods, Table Linen, Towels, Hosiery Qlaeet, Shirts, Corsets, n two equal annual payments thereafter without interest. Sale to be opened at 10 o'clock A. M. of said day, OD the mansion place in Juniata township, when doe attendance and all particulars will be made kn.wn by FREDERICK HILLKGASS, 26nov4t Administrator. PUBLIC SALE OP UK A I. ESTATE. The subsciiber, executor of the last will and Testament of Nathaniel Elbin, late of Southamp ton twp., dee'd and under an order of the Or phans' Court of Bedford Co., will expose t„ sale on the premises, on SATURDAY the ISth day of DECEMBER, next, at! the Real Estate of said dee'd, situate in Southampton twp.. aforesaid consisting of the MANSION PLACE, being a tract of patented tan 1 containing ONE HUND RED and FIFTY-EIGHT ACRES, and now oc cupied by the widow of said dee'd., about sixty acres of said land are cleared and under fence, three of which are good meadow, the residue is well timbered. The improvements are a small LOG DWELLING HOUSE and sn old apple orchard. ALSO, tbe other tract containing one hundred and twenty-five acres more or less of warranted land, now in the occupancy of George Elbin, about forty acres of this land are cleared and under fence, tbe balance in timber land. The other improvements arc a one and a half story log dwelling bouse and log stable. TERMS, one half of the purchase money in hand, bal ance in one year without interest, to be secured by judgments. Deeds delivered and possession given on the Ist of April next. BASIL BROWSING, 26nov4t _ Executor. ORPHANS' COURT SALE OF REAL ESTATE. The undersigned Administrator of the estate of PETER MOIVRY, late of Napier township, dee'd, will sell at public sale, by virtue of an order of the Orphans' Court of Bedford County, THE K A R M of which said deceased died seized, on TUESDAY, the 28 th day of Detrmbtr, A. D. 1868, to wit: ALL TII \T FINE FARM situate in said township, on the Shawnee Cabin Creek, con taining One Hundred and Eighty-nine acres and 65 perches, adjoining lands of John A. Burns, Charles Colvin, John Doliard and others; about 150 acres cleared and under cultivation, having thereon erected a dwelling bouse, barn, and other improvements. This is a beautiful tract of land, fine meadows, creek bottoms, and upland, near the village of Scbellsburg, convenient to churches and schools, and agreeable neighbors. TEU.M.S—One-third at confirmation of sale, the balance in two equal annual payments there after, without interest. Sale will be opened at 11 o'clock A. M., when due attendance and full particulars will be given by . JOHN A MOWRY, 26nov4t Administrator. ADMINISTRATOR'S SALE OF VALUA BLE REAL ESTATE.—By virtue of an or der of tbe Orphans' Conrt the subscriber will of fer at public salo. on the premises, On SA TUR DA J', December llrA, 1859, all tbe Real Estaje late of George Deitrich, dee'd, in Harrison town ship, Bedford co., being A TRACT OF LAND lying about three-quarterF of a mile North East of Buffalo Mills, on tbe iine of the Bedford and Bridgeport Railroad, containing 185 acres, more or less, one hundred and twenty acres being clear ed and under fence and in a good state of cuitiva i tion, twenty acres being meadow, and tbe balance well timbered, with chestnut oak, black oak and white oak timber. The improvements are a two story LOO DWELLING HOUSE, with kitchen attached, a bank barn and other out-buildings, a large apple orchard, a good supply of small fruits and a good sugar camp. The property is conve nient to mil), churches and school houses. Sale to commence at 11 o'clock A. M. of said day. TERMS —One-third in cash and the balance in two equal annual payments. Any person wishing to examine the property can do so by calling on William Deitrich, on tbe premises. DAVID MILLER, 19 nov Administrator. TRUSTEE'S SALE OF VALUABLE REAL ESTATE. By virtue of an order of the Orphans' Court the undersigned will expose to sale at public cutcry, on the premises, on SATURDAY, the IS.'A day December, 1569, THE MANSION FARM of JACOB BIVKL, late of St. Clair township, dee'd, containing 240 acres and 141 perches neat meas ure, 140 acres cleared and under fence, about 20 acre- being good meadow, the balance being veil timbered. The improvements arc a two story log D WELLING HOUSE, DOUBLE LOO BARN, and other building?. Also a large Or chard of Apple, Peach and Cherry trees. Also, a good Sugar Camp. This property is about two miies west of Pleas antville. bale to commence at 10 o'clock of said ! dav t when the terms will be made known. ROBERT BLACKBURN, Truetee for the tale of the real eetate of Jacob Bitel, deed. 26nov4t ORPHANS' COURT SALE OF REAL ES TATE.—The undersigned Trustee, appoint ed by the Orphans Court of Bedford County to sell the real estate of Robert Glosscn dee'd, will sell at public sale, on the premises, on WEDNES DAY the 22nd day of DECEMBER, 1569, the One undivided half of a tract of land, situate in Londonderry twp., in said county, containing 78 acres, 145 perches, about 45 acres cleared and un- I der cultivation, with a dwelling house thereon i erected, adjoining lands of John M. Buchanan, Christian Albright's heirs, and William Porter's ' heirs. Terms cash. Sale will be opened at 12 o'clock M. of said day, when due attention will 1 be given by JACOB L. ALBRIGHT, 26nov4t Truttce. pRIYATE SALE OF VALUABLE REAL ESTATE. The following lot of ground, situate in the town of Duncansviiie, Blair 00., Pa., fronting on Main street (or Turnpike) 75 feet and extending back 180 feet, more or less, and having thereon erected a large two story BRICK HOUSE, with base- 1 mcnt and kitchen, an.l good cellar, frame Black smith and Wagon-Makei's Shop, frame stable and other out-buildings, with fruit of different varieties on the lot. This would be a good stand for a Tavern or Boarding House, being conveni ent to the Rolling Mill and Nail Factory, and the Railroad. The House is in good repair and very pleasantly situated, with water at the door. Also, A lot of SIX ACRES, near the Chalybeate Spring, one mile frota the town of Bedford, with a Log House thereon erected. Adjoining lands of C'benowith, Amos, Shannon and others. Also, 14 acres of Timber Land, adjoining the Colfelt farm, and convenient to good loads. For further particulars apply to JOHN LUTZ, INQUIRER OSFICK, or J. G. BRIDAHAM, ISdectf Bedford. Pa. TORM AT PRIVATE SALE. The subscriber offers at private sale a good farm of 192 acres, lying on the south side of Dry Ridge, within 2J miles of the line of the Bedford and Bridgeport Railroad, adjoining lands of Jos. Ling, Leonard May, Peter F. Lehman, Esq.. and others. The improvements are a two story LOG HOUSE with kitchen attached, a log barn and other outbuildings. Tbe land is well w a tore d having a good we'l and two never failing springs. There is also a fine young apple orchard of 109 bearing trees, besides cherries, plums, peaohes Ac. Sixty acres are cleared and under fence and the balance well timbered with white and chestnut oak. A large qnancity of Chestnut oak bark can be cut on the land and find a ready market, as there arc several tanneries in the neighborhood. For further particulars address ABBAM RITCHEY, West End, Bedford 00., Pa., or JOHN LUTZ, 19feb.tf Bedford, Pa. A FINE FARM FOR SALE IN DUTCH CORNER! NOW IS THE TIME TO BUY CHEAP! The subscribers will sell all that fine farm in Bedford township, containing 180 acres, 95 of which are cleared and nuder excellent fence, and the balance, 95 acres, well Umbered, adjoining lands of Charles Helsel, John Schnebly, and oth ers. The buildings are a two and a half story LOG HOUSE and BANK BARN, with other out-build : ngs thereon erected. Water in every field, with an excellent Saw Mill seat. A splen did apple lire hard also thereon. Price SIOOG. TERMS: One third in hand and the balance in three annual payments with interest. JOHN LUTZ, June 21, 1567,-4f Head Estate Agent. •YALUABLK TRACTS OF r " LAND FOR SALE. The subscriber* offer at private sale the follow ing valuable tracts of land, vis: No. I- The undivided half of a tract of land, containing 227 acres, situat; on the south-east ride of the Broad Top Mountain, lying partly in Bedford and partly in Fulton county, and ad oining lands jo Samuel D inner, James Brin. hurst and Wishart's heirs. TWO VEINS OP COAL, one 51 feet, the other 6J feet in depth have been discovered on this tract. No. 2. A tract 0f230 acres near the ab > joining the same lands, and supposed -o , i..,„ the same veins of coal. No. 3. A tract of 400 acres, within two and a half miles of the above tracts, lying on the North side of the Harbor across the mountain, well tiia beredwith oak and pine. May 3,-tf. JOHN LUTZ. AT PRIVATE BALE. A BARE OPPORTUNITY TO BUY { HOME. The subscribers will sell a number of lots ad joining the CHALYBEATE SPRING PROP ERTY in Bedford township. AT VERY LOW PRICES. On two of them dwelling houses have alrcadv been erected. This is a splendid opportunity to buy a cheap and most desirable home, as the lots lie immediately opposite the Chalybeate Spiin- Park, on the road, and not more than 120 yarl from the Spring, at the following low prices: 1. One-half acre lot with dwelling hoase and. other out-buildings, garden and frait trees, an the best of water convenient, at S7OO, cash. 2. Hall-acre lot SISO, cash. 3. Half acre lot SIBO, cash. 4. Half acre lot slßo, cash. 5 and 6. Half acre lots with dwelling house, brick ya-d, garden and fruit trees thereon tor sßso,cask. 7. Contains three acres eovered with fruit trees, and in a good state of cultivation, adjin ing the above lots, for S6OO, cash. Any person desiring to buy a home, a few yards out of Bedford, will find this offer worth serious consideration. JOHN LUTZ, mayS.tf Real Estate Agent, Bedford, Pa. jP OR SALE OR TRADE. FIVE lots of ground in Bedford, 60 by 21", formerly part of the Lyons' estate, Twq tracts of 160 acres each within three miles of a depot on the Pacific Rail Road back of Oma ha. A tract of bottom land timbered and prarie two miles from Omaha City. One third of 7,000 acres in Fulton Ccunty Pa., including valuable Ore, mineral and timber lands near Fort Littleton. Over 4,000 acres of valuable ore, coal and tim ber lands in West Virginia. ALSO, Twenty-five one acre lots, adjoining the Borough of Bedford, with lime stone rock for kiln or qnarry on the upper end of each. Also, 320 acres of land in Woodbury CO., lowa. 80 " " Franklin •' lowa. 109 acres adjoining Bedford, with house, barn, Ac., known as the "Amos farm." Also, a farm of 107 acres in Harrison twp. Also, Six acres near Bedford, with 2 houses, stable and brick vard thereon. 0. E. SHANNON, June 21,-tf Bedford. Penn'a. NNHE SAFE DEPOSIT COMPANY, OF -L PITTSBURGH. PA. INCORPORATED FOR THE SAFE-KEEPING of BONDS and OTHER SECURITIES, Ac. No. 83 FOURTH AT EN: E, GUARANTEE RATE?:. For a Year, or less Period Government and allother Coupon Securities in- r $1 00 per SI,OOO eluding Bank Bills, J Gold Coin or Bullion, 1 25 " 1,000 Silver Coin or Bullion „..2 00 " 1,000 Silver or Gold Plate, under seal. ) on owner's estimate of fullNral- 1 I 00 " 100 ue, and rate subject to adjust- f mcnt for bulk, on a basis 0f.... ] Deeds, Mortgages, Valuable Papers gener ally, when of no fixed value, $1 a year each, or according to bulk. Wills, So. which premium covers the re mainder of the life of the maker. Tbe Company is also prepared to rent Small Iron Safes, (each furnished with a Tin Box,) inside its Burglar Proof Vault, the Renter exclusively holding the key thereof, at the following rates, viz: sls, S2O, S3O, SCO, $75, and SIOO per annum. Also, to Store Books of Account, Records, Valuable Title Papers, etc., at reasonable rates. No charge less than one dollar. President: WILLIAM PHILLIPS. Vict President HENRY LLOYD. Directors : WILLIAM PHILLIPS, BYRON H. PAINTER. HENRY LLOYD, JOSEPH S. MORRISON, WILLIAM REA, GEORGE BLACK, WILLIAM M. LYON, CURTIS G. HUSSEY. JAMES I. BEXXKT, Secretary and Treasurer: S. F. VON BONXHORST. 22oct3m EL). THOMPSON, MERCHANT TAILOR, No. 90S Walnut Street. PHILADELPHIA. Especial attention is invited to this commodi ous and beautiful establishment, thcexlen- I sivc stock of seasonable and desirable goods al ways on hand, the reputation obtained as a lead cr in fashions, and the great facilities possessed for the fabrication and prompt dispat-h of all orders. Although eminent in the prosecution of EVERT branch of the trade, for the particular benefit ot the great nouiber dissatisfied. PANTALOON CUTTING, AS A SI-EIIALTV, is announced; which is an art not obtained by imitation, but through close study, experience and practice. Those desiring easy and stylish Pantaloons, arc invited to give this method a trial. Boct3m QV S 111 NG S & BAIL EY , BOOK SELLERS AND STATIONERS, 252 Baltimore Street, BALTIMORE, MD. The Largest and Best assorted stock in the city of SCHOOL, LAW, MEDICAL, DENTAL, CLASSICAL, and MISCELLANEOUS BOOKS. General, Bank and Counting House Stationery of all kinds. Blank Books made to order in any style of binding and ruling. 20aug6m AGENTS WANTED, AGENTS WAXT- Ed, $75 to S2OO per month, male and female, to sell the celebrated and original Common Sense Family Sew ing Machine, im proved and pertected ; it will hem, fell, stitch, tuck, bind, braid and embroider in a most superior manner. Price only sls. For sim plicity and durability, it has no rival. Do not buy from any parties selling machines under the same name as ours, unless having a Certificate of Agency signed by us, as they are worthless Cast Iron Machines. For Circulars and Terms, apply or address, If. CRAWFORD & CO., 2'2oct6m 413 Chestnut St., Phil's. J3AINTINO. The Subscribers respectfully inform the public, that they are prepared to do all kinds of PLAIN and FANCY PAINTING, PAPER HANGING Ac., at shortest notice, in town and country. And all kinds of Wood Imitation ear full j executed. Price moderate. The patronage of the public is respectfully solicited. Shop on corner of Pitt and Richard Sts. M. P. SPIDEL, A WM. MINNICU. 9apr1869 lyr jyjASONRY.— HARRY DROLLINGER of Hopewoll, takes this method of informing the public, that he is prepared to exccnte at short notice and in good, and workmanlike style, Brick and Stone laying, furnace building and repairing and ail other work in his line, in Bedford and adjoining counties. Parties wishing to secure his service, will address him at Hopewell Bedford county Pa. Sootly.