Scbfori) Inquirer. I kpford, pa., raip.ii, . t8;0 ELECTION ot STATE TBEABIKEH. Oo the 12 th ii>st. both.houses of the Leg islature met in joint session to elect a State Treasurer. Contrary to expectation R. \V Maekey, the caucus nominee, was defeated, and his opponent, W. W. Irwin, elected. Fifteen Republicans refused to vote lor the caucus nominee and supported Irwin, see in" this, the Democratic members abandon ed their candidate and voted for Irwin, electing him. A great hue and cry L* been raised about bargain and sa.e, corrup tion, Ac. by the friends of Maekey, but without exciting much sympathy for the defeated candidate. We are opposed to bolting as a ru'e, but there is a tyranny of caucuses that'sometimes make.- it necessary, and we admire the courage of the man, who. trorn right motives, dares to rend asunder the shackles of king caucus and obey the dictates of conscience and the wishes of con stituents. Whether the bolting Republi cans have thus done or not, we are unable to say, as we are too far from the scene ol operations. We put but little faith in the accusations of corruption, bargain and sale, Ac..; like "stop thief,'' the criUnual is like ly to be first to join", in the cry m order to ward off suspicion from himse.f. Between Irwin and Maekey we had but little prefer cnceaDd were satisfied that either would make a good Treasurer. We are inclined to thiuk that unlo>s the matter is carried further and the di-position of the public funds regula led by law, but little good will be accom plished. We are loathe to believe that the bolters have any intention of causing a rup ture in the party or in any way abandoning it. as they are believed to be as good repub licans as there are in.tbe Legislature. Gen. Irwin himself is a staunch Republican, and his election i. quite a- acceptable as that ol Maekey would have been. However, ii subsequent events should_prove that the bolters have bargained with the Democrats to the detriment of the Republicans then their course will not only merit but receive the unequivocal condemnation of all true Republicans. We sincerely hope that they will show by their future conduct that there has been no such collusion with the common enemy. On the contrary good results may, and we hope will, come from this contest If both parties, seeing the bitterness engen dered by these disgraceful fights for the pos sesion of the Treasury, the danger to which they expose the party, and the general bad repute into which they bring the Legisla ture, will now heed the good advice which Governor Geary has given them on the dis position of the public funds accumulating in the Treasury, they, as well as the tax-pay ers of the whole State, w< 1 have reason to rejoice that the bolt wa- made. Let us cow have the bond of the State Treasurer in creased to $250,000 or $.300,009, the salary raised to a reasonable rate, and the Commis sionersof the Sinking Fund authorized to purchase the bonds of the State.next tailing due, whenever a sufficient amount, of funds accumulates in the Treasury for that pur pose, and we will hear no more of corrup tion, bargain and sale. Treasury rings. Ac. Let our Legislators heed the voice of their constituents and continue in the Treasury Department the good work ol retrenchment and reform so well begun in other depart ments of the public expenditure. THE AMENDMENTS Mwcwsinpi ratified the Fourteenth and Fifteenth the loth inst. The Minnesota House of Representatives ratified the Fifteenth Amendment on Thurs day the 13th, by a vote of IS to 15. It had already passed the SenatP. The Missouri Legislature adopted the Constitution on the Tth iDSt —it bad been adopted before, but informally. Twenty four states have now regularly adoptfd, viz: Alabama, Arkansas, Connecticut Florida, Illinois, Indiana. Kansas, Louisiana, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minne.-ota. Mis souri, Mississippi. Nevada, New Hamp shire, New Fork. North Carolina, Pennsyl vania, South Carolina. Vermont, Virginia, West Virgiuia and Wisconsin. Twenty eight are required to ratify. lowa. Nebras ka, Rhode Island and Texas will certainly ratify it, and it is now bclie-ed that Ohio also will, though it was ri-jeeted at the last session of her Legislature. The atuend will be ratified by the tequisite number without Ohio, unless the right of the New Fork Legislature to repeal its ratification is conceded, in which case that of Ohio will be necessary. There seems new to be but little doubt of the speedy ratification by the requisite number. SCL'LL VS. U.NDLAY. The scat ot the Senator from this ui>- trict has been awarded by the Senate to Hiram Findlay, two Republicans Lowry and Billingfelt voting for it, professing to believe that Findlay was justly entitled to it. The returns electing Findiay being altogether irregular, we believe that ."scull should have had the prima facie seat. As it is, the patties who planned and accom plished the defeat of Capt. Mullin fur the nomination, who was really the only availa ble candidate, can now see the extent of the mischief resulting from their offorts to force unpopular candidates upon the dis trict. N A GREAT IMPROVEMENT. — Beginning dons a new dress and a form changed trorn folio to quarto. The improvement in ap pearance is great, and the improvement in matter aud arrangement still greater We congratulate the church on the improve ment of its leading paper, and the editor, our friend Dr. Conrad, on the success of his efforts to give the church a paper of which she has good reason to be proud. Themem bership of the General Synod of the Luther an Church in the Doited States, have now a church paper that will compare favorably with the best of other denominations. Let them give it a hearty support. Every in telligent Christian should be a subscriber to and a reader of the representative organ of the denomination to which he belongs. It is a christian duty the neglect of which casts a douat upon the sincerity of his profession. If seems that the State of Maryland has been levying a tax of 20 per cent, on the fares of all passengers crossing the State to Vashington, and collecting it through the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company. At the request of Garrett the President of the Company, Reverdv .Johnson, after in vestigation, gave the opinion that the tax was unconstitutional. Since then a resolu tion of the U. S. Senate has declared it the duty of Congress to prevent the collection of all such taxes. THE fund raised for the relief of the family | of ihe late Edwin M. Stanton, now amounts ! to one hundred thousand dollars. * GOLD closed in New York on Monday at ! mi YOITNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION. —We have received frara the State Execu tive Committee of the Young Men s I hris tian Association, a report of the Convention hekl at William sport, Nov. 2d, 3d, and, 4th, which it says was a grand success—2oo delegates having been in attendance, repre senting every association in the State except two. Many towns in which there were no associations, sent delegates preparatory to organizing. It speaks in the highest terms of the cordial welcome given the delegates by the people of Williamsport. Many ques tions of general interest in association work were discussed, and much practical infor mation elicited. The meetings were of a highly spiritual character. A new impetus was given to association work. Before the convention there were but 27 associations in the State. Since then 20 new ones have been fully organized, and new life infused into all the old ones. Four other towns have begun to organize, and 26 others the com mittee are working in, and hope to organize associations during the winter, Copies o the report will be mailed gratuitously, and information with regard to the work given by addressing any member of the Executive Committee, which consists of Thomas K. Crce, Chairman, Fittsburgh; Peter B. Simons, Philadelphia; Gen. Jas. A. Beaver, Bellefonte; Thomas H. Rabe, Pittsburgh; C. C. Shirk, Erie; H. A. Myers, York; E. Frauciscus. Harrisburg. BOTH bouses"of the Legislature adjourn ed over from Thursday to Tuesday. The session opened with quite a number of flat tering resolutions that excited high hopes that a large amount of good and necessary work would be done; but thus far they have ended with good resolutions. We do not like the dilatory indications of a four or five days adjournment so early in the session. It oueht not require so much time to prepare for inauguration. TIIK LEGISLATIVE RECORD.—The Senate on the 12th inst., passed the House resolu tion rescinding the contract : with Bergoer for the printing of the Legislature Record. This completes the work of abolishing the most gigantic abuse in connection with the Legislature. WelCdooe ! Let us have more of the same kind of work and the good name of our Legislature will be redeemed. THE Notional Intelligencer finally expired at Washington a few days ago. The N. Y. Tribune comments upon its decase as fol lows: The National Intelligencer appears to have been gifted with a tenacity of life truly fe line. It survived the Rebellion;"it endured the editorship of Cowles and the support of Andrew Johnston, and seemed destined to outlive the decay of Slavery and defy the tooth of Time; but at length Mr. A. Del mar got hold of it and quickly made a finish, of it. Peace to its ashes! FECHTER, the actor made his first appear ance at N'iblo's Garden, New York, on Mon day evening, the 10th inst. Though wel comed with hearty applause, his acting hardly met public expectation, and the crit ics vaguely hiDt that he will have to do much better if he wishes to sustain the rep utation that preceded him to our shores. QUITE a stir has been created and a good deal of inconvenience caused by the strike of the operators of the Western Union Tel egraph Company all over the country. The gtrike was eaused by a proposed reduction of wages. The company being one of the most grasping monopolies of the country gets but little sympathy. THE COAI. Drrr.—The Committee ol Ways and Means have refused to recom mend any change in the rate of duties upoi coal. It is to be hoped that Congress nit " n the action of the Committee and continue u> , and foster this most im portant branch of our national industry. POSTAL TELEGKAPIJ. That we are behind in our telegrapl facilities is to be attributed to the fact thai instead of having the wires controlled by the Government in the same manner thai our postal affairs are, they are in the handi and under the exclusive control of a few greedy capitalists, organized into a mosl rapacious and unscrupulous monopoly, thai combines and plot 3to promote its owt pecuniary interests at whatever cost to th< public. There are in the United Statei some 52,000 miles of telegraph wire in ae tive operation, requiring, some 4000 publi< officers to conduct the business. Of this th< Western Union Company own and contro some 35,000 miles of wire and over 340< public officers. This amounts to an aluios exclusive monopoly of the entire telegraphii business of the country, and the franchise! of the company are u?cd solely, and in th< most arbitrary manner, to add to the iargi | dividends annually declared. The most ex j orbitant tolls are exacted, and they must b< ! paid, for the telegraph has become one o ! the necessary auxiliaries in the conduct oi I business, and cannot be dispensed with. There is but one way to break down thii powerful and growing monopoly, and ex tend to the people the benefits of the tele ' graphic system of communication, and that is for the Government to assume con j trol of the wires, and give to the people t i cheap and comprehensive system of posta telezraph. We boast of the great advantages pos sessed by the people of the United Statei over those of all other countries, and in a solemn report to the House of Represen tatives the Hon. John L. Farnsworth, ol Illinois, chairman of the Committee on Posl i Offices and Post Roads, had the hardihood ! to declare that telegraphing in the United j States was the cheapest and most reliable 'IU IMC WUIIU. AT V H TV , !or should know, better than this. If h< j knows anytbiog about the relative cost ol j telegraphing in the principal Europeac ! countries, he knows that the expense oi telegraphing is far greater and less reliable in the United States than in those countries of Europe that have the telegraph as an ap pendage to the post office system, and his I report to the House asserting the contrary is an insult to the intelligence of that body. ! In Great Britainta despatch of 20 words may be sent to any part of the kingdom at the uniform rate of 1 shilling; in France the same number of words can be carried GOO miles for 20 cents. And to-day a message of 20 words can be sent from Marseilles, in the south of Freoce, to the north of Scot land, traversing 1400 miles and two king doms, crossing the Straits of Dover by sub marine cable, for about 55 cents. And yet, if Mr. Farnsworth would send the same message of 20 words to his wife in Illinois, he would have to pay the Western Union monopoly $3. A still better idea of the ex tortion practiced on the American people by this monopoly may be inferred from the fact that a message of ten words can be sent from Washington to Constantinople by the Atlantic Cable and Continental lines for $5.70 less than it will cost to send 20 words from Washington to Oregon by the West ern Union wires.— Philadelphia Morning Post. BLL-SHINO. —It is very well to blush wkeD you are detected in a mean act; but you had a great deal better blush when you think of committing it Modification of the Income Tax. The New York Timet suggest* u one ol the modifications of the income tax, that a distinction of one or two per cent, be made between the taxation of incomes derived from labor and those derived from capital. We heartily endorse the suggestion. The income tax, as we have frequently endeavor ed to show, is in its priociple, and its mam features one of the justest taxes we have. But we have always contended that its weak est point was this very lailure to discrimi nate between labor incomes and capital in comes. To tax the salary of a clerk or the wages of a mechanic, or the earnings of a physician, in exactly the same proportion as the interest of the invested money of the wealthy bondholder 01 householder, is such an obvious injustice, that its retention ob scures in the popular mind the essential jus tice of the income tax itself, and furnishes an uncovered point for the assaults of its enemies. That a man whose income depends on his health or on the caprice or exigencies of his employers and who in losing his in come loses his all, should be taxed equally with him whose income flows in with a sure and steady current, whether he be sick or well, idle or industrious, and who, if he should even lose his income, could live com fortably for years, on his capital—is wrong, entirely wrong. But if now, Congress should enact that the income exemption limit should be raised to two thousand dollars per annum, and then that incomes derived from labor should pay two per cent, while those derived from capital should pay three per cent, tax, we think this gross injustice would be eliminated, and the income tax made the fairest in the country. Thus would labor ol brain and muscle not be made to bear an oppressive share of the public burdens and thus would a very numerous class of capital ists be prevented from eluding their just share of these burdens, as they will be ena bled to do if the income tax be abolished or suffered to expire by limitation.— ffttsburgh Dispatch. [FROM OL'R OWN CORRESPONDENT.] LETTER FROM UARRISBIKO. HARRISBCRG, Pa., Jan. 14, 1870. THE FINDLAY-BCCLL CASE. At the organization of the State Senate two parties presented themselves claiming a seat as representatives from the Twentieth Senatorial district, composed of the counties of Somerset, Bedford and Fulton, and each holding a certificate of election. According to one statement, signed by three return judges, one from each county, Hiram Find lay, the Democratic candidate, was elected by a majority of twenty-three votes. Ano ther statement, signed bv one return judge, gave Edward Scull, the Republican can didate, a majority of seventeen votes. From the latter statement it appears the vote of Allegheny township, in Somerset county, was omitted, which constituted the differ ence in the two returns. As a reason for this omission it is alleged that the returns from this township were Dot received until after the board of return judges had ad journed, and should not therefore be count ed. When the case came before the Senate the whole matter was referred to a select committee of three to examine and report which of the claimants was prima facie en titled to the seat. The committee presented two reports—a majority report signed by Senators White and Howard, giving the seat to Mr. Scull, and a minority report signed by Senator Davis, giving the seat to Mr. Findlay. The question on the adoption of the majority report involved the Senate in a prolonged discussion. Senator Lowry, Republican from Erie, sided with the Demo crats, and in support of his position pro Gaced a loiter from Kr-4tnmpy General Brewster, addressed to himself, sustaining his course. On the question of adopting the report the vote stood fifteen to fifteen- Senators Lowry and BilliDgfelt voting with the Democrats, which determined the ques tion in the negative—On Wednesday morn ing Hiram Findlay was sworn in and took his seat as Senator from the Twentieth dis trict. Scull will, however, contest the seat. As the Senate is now constituted the Re publicans have a majority of three, with one Republican and one Democratic seat con tested. THE ELECTION OF STATE TREASURER. The election of State Treasurer took plac< on Wednesday. Since the caucus nomina tion of Maekey there has been aquiet rumoi of a coalition between the Democrats anc the dissenting Republicans to secure his de feat, which would be virtually a breaking up of the Cameron ring. This rumor wat given additional weight from the fact thai on Friday, W. W. Irwin, the candidate de feated in caucus, was close'ed with Senator! Wallace and Buckalew, though nothing tangible could be learned of the result of th< interview. It has since transpired thai Irwin gave Wallace a list of the ltepubli cans that would support him on the day o: election, notwithstanding the caucus nomi nation of Maekey. On Wednesday morn ing the Democratic caucus passed a resolu tion to support Irwin on the second ballot in case enough Republicans voted for hin on the first to secure his election by theii aid. On the first ballot Maekey received 62 votes, D. 0. Barr, the regular Demo cratic candidate, 55; Irwin twelve, and thre< votes were scattering. On the second ballot all but two of the Democrats voted for IrwiD, the vote standing Maekey 63, Irwin 66, scattering 3, not voting one. Ai this stage of the proceedings the excitemeni was most intense, Irwin lacking but on< vote to secure his election, and the suppor fers of Maekey wild over their impending defeat. Strong efforts were made to secure an adjournment; but all motions looking tc lUu pußijmuvujt.uk nciu quickly mel and promptly voted down. The third bal lot resulted in 70 votes for Irwin to 61 foi Maekey, thus securing the former's election by nine majority. The names of the fifteen Republicans who on the last ballot voted for Irwin are as follows: Senators Ken and Lowry, and Representatives Ames, Bowman, Buffington, foray, Craig, God shalk, Herr, Leslie, Mcfracken, Mcfreary, Reiooehl, Wheeler and Wiley. Senator Billingsfelt, of Lancaster, remained absent from the caucus, and Senator Worfel from the same county, refused to vote on the last ballot. HOW BROUGHT ABOUT. All sorts of rumors are afloat as to the manner in which the election of Irwin as State Treasurer was accomplished. The defeated Mackey-Cameronites make the most extravagant assertions of bargains en tered into by the dissenting Republicans with the Democrats, and that money was freely employed to purchase votes. There are however no surface indications of im proper means used, and the recklessness of the statements made give them but little weight. In conversation with one Repub lican Senator who voted for Irwin I was told that the only shadow of a bargain made between them and the Democrats was a statement by their leaders that if certain Republicans who bad already defined their position on the Findlay-Seull case; as before the Senate, would maintain the stand they had taken against the Cameron ring, the Democrats would aid them in defeating the ring candidate for State Treasurer. INVESTIGATION. The Finance Committee of the Senate has been instructed, and a special commit tee baa been appointed for a like purpose in the House, to investigate the charges of; corrupt means used in the contest for the State Treasurership. Irwin declares he is willing to tell all he knows of the matter, and the Finance Committee is empowered to put any State officer under oath. It is hoped that the investigation will not result, as is usual with such committees, in a mere white-washing and covering up of iniqui tous practices. STANDING COMMITTEES OF THE HOUSE. Speaker Strang, on Thursday, announced the standing committees of the House. The most important, with the names of the Chairman are as follows: Corporations, Mr. Hong; Railroads, Mr. Adaire; Federal i Relations, Mr. Craig; Mining and Manu facturing, Mr. Humphreys; Education, Mr. Buffington; Divorces, Mr. Stephens; 1 oun ties and Townships, Mr. Ames; Ways and Means, Mr. Davis; General Judiciary, Mr- Johnson, of Crawford; Local Judiciary, Mr. McCreary, of Erie. GOVERNOR'S BALARY. A bill was introduced into the Senate a few days ago, and as it passed that body in creased the salary of the Governor from five to seven thousand dollars. On Thursday an attempt was made to call up .the bill in the House, but it was summarily voted down, The House has also refused to print any extra copies of the Governor's message, and are showing considerable hostility to the Executive. This feeling is supposed tc grow out, in a great part, of certain it sinuations in the Governor's message, tba< i some members of the Legislature are not above biibery "id corruption. THE INAUGURATION. The inauguration of Gov. Geary will tak place next Tuesday noon, on the south portico of the capital, if the weather is favorable; otherwise in the hall of the House. A committee of seven from each House have been appointed to take charg-; of the ceremonies, and an imposing civic and military display is anticipated. UAKRISBIEG. The Scull vs. Fndley Election Cases. Majority Report of the Committee, HARRISBUG, Jan. 11. —The majority ol the Committee of the Senate appointed ti report which of the claimants from thj Twentieth Senatorial District is prima fad entitled to the seat have made their report Tlie Committee found two papers. on< marked A, signed by John Mowry, purport ing to be Return Judge of Somercet county THomas Mullnix, purporting to be Returi Judge of Bedford county, and Daniel Lo gan, purporting to be Return Judge of Ful ton county, giving the election to Iliran Findley by a majority of 23 votes. The oth er was marked B. signed by Wilson C Hicks, purporting to be Return Judge o Somerset county. This paper recited the number of vote cast in each of the counties of the disirie for Senators. The number of votes and th person for whom cast, in the counties (, Bedford and Fulton, as recited therein, identically the same as those recited in th paper marked "A." The number of vot< cast for the rival claimants, Hiram Findlt and Edward Scull, respectively, in the coui ty of Somerset, a9 recited in this paper, w different from the recital of the vote of Son erset county for the same parties in pap marked "A." By this paper it appear* that Edward Scull was elected by a majoi ( ty of 17 votes, and his election was so cert fied. There was no controversey as to the of cial character of Mullnix and Logan. M Scull claimed that Hicks was the legal r turn judge for Somerset county, and th he delivered to the board the only proper and legally certified returns of the vote that county, and that Mowry had no rig to act as return judge in that county. The official character of the person x> appeared on the paper as return juos from Bedford and Fulton, and the retw as set forth therefrom being undispu, the paper then signed by Wilson C. Hs contained all the properly certified and - cial returns from the several counties ofe district present at the meetings of the - trict board. This paper gave a majority in favof Edward Scull of 17 votes. The commic decided that they had only to hear evide as to which of the two persons—John M ry or Wilson C. Hicks—was the lawful joe of Somerset county. No evidence aas fered by Mr. Findley to prove that >by was the legai judge, while the evidene n behalf of Hicks was clear. The evideccn support of Hicks' return as the leg'oe consisted in its agreement with the tied returns filed in the county Prothonaijs office, and eertified by him. The committee therefore dccidedthtt Hicks was the legal return judge, arthrt the return handed in by him was the wfal one from Somerset county; but the Jges from the other two counties having fid to , sign it, it did not, in itself, make a imri 1 facie case. It was therefore deci- to blend the two retnrns as the proper 1 le gal course, for which the ease of (roth and KoonU offered a precedent. The aggregate legal returns befi the District Board and of the several cities appear then from the papers to haveen as follows: Findley .t-ull. Bedford county 5,842 1,465 Fulton county 1.071 679 Somerset county 1,898 1,684 S,Bll 1,818 1,811 Majority for Scull 17 The Committee therefore adoptedfol lowing resolution: — Resolved, That Edward Scull, as sears from the credentials and papers frr the proper certifying officers of the Seorial District board and county boarJs of turn Judges for the Twentieth Senatorial Irict has the prima facie right to the vacaseat from that district, and is entitled take the oath of office and occupy such a it as a Senator of Pennsylvania for that crict, without prejudice to Hiram Findley,lim ing to have been elected thereto, to test the right of the said Scull to such s on the merits according to law. Signed HARRY WHITI THOMAS HOW.M A minority report was made by fenor Davis, declaring Findley entitled tote at. The question was then discussed by lenu- Wallace, Howard. Lowry, Graham lr man, Buckalew, White and Olmsteal til ! a late hour. Finally, by a vote of 15 to 15, the See refused to pass the resolution declaring t Scull, Republican, had a prima facie rk to a seat Two Republicans— Billing, and Lowry—voted with the Democs against Scull. Immediately after (he vote was Btinc ced Mr. Findley (Dcm.), claiming to bee Senator elect, presented himself beforee Speaker's desk and demanded to be SWD into office. The Senate then adjourned. On Friday morning, Mr. White offer® preamble setting forth that the Senate d refused to declare that Edward Scull b® prima facie title to a seat in the body, d resolution that, therefore, the contest!, Hiram Findlay, be sworn into office, witkt interfering with the right of Mr Scull a legal contest. Mr Find lay was accordingly sworn. THE poles of a new system of telcgrn ing are being erected between New ik and Washington, by which means iis claimed two hundred words per minute n be sent over one wire. Twenty wordsre as much as the most rapid operator by ic Morse system can transmit, so that one re under the new system will be able to das much work as ten of the wires now in e. The inventor, Mr. Little, of Baltime, anticipates to be able to at once reduce le rate of telegraphing to one half of preat prices, and ultimately to make a unifm tariff one cent per word to all distance, 'is would draw all business correspondee I from the mails and multiply the amoucf telegraphing tenfold what it now is. XL LT CONGRESS-SECOND SESSION r uesday 11. —In the Senate notice was riven of the introduction of a bill to au th.rize the refunding and consolidation of th national debt, to extent banking facili tie and establish specie payments. The fo'owing bills were introduced : More cf fetfnlly to preserve the neutral relations of th: United States. To provide for an in crase of national bank note currency. For fre banking on a gold basis. A bill to ex- B opt certain articles from internal duty, pised. The Virginia bill was discussed at sane length. In the House a bill for the admission of Vreinia was reported from the Committee 0 Reconstruction, and laid over for one day. ibill was reported from the Committee on Java! Affairs, providing for the removal of oe Philadelphia Navv Yard to League lland. After some debate the subject was hd over under the rule. WEDNESDAY. 12. —ln the Senate, joint tsolutions of The New York Legislature, athdrawiog the assent heretofore given to e ratification of the Fifteenth Amendment, iere presented. A bill to refund and con •lidate the national debt, and extend bank g facilities, was introduced. After which le Virginia bill was taken up and discussed (length. In the House, joint resolutions of the ew York Legislature were presented. A ill to repeal the act of 1862. relating to eneral and petit jurors in United States 'ourts. was referred. The bill for the traus :rof the Philadelphia Navy Yard to League shod was considered during the morning | our. The Virginia bill was discussed at j -ngth. 1 HI" BSD AY , Id.—ln the Senate, bills were atroduced and referred as follows: To •rcvent the collection of taxes on property xempt from taxation ; prescribing rules of 1 videoce in certain cases. The considera ion of the Virginia bill was resumed. In the House, resolutions were introduced j j m follows: To establish territorial govern- I aunt over civilized Indians; to provide for ; • the reduction of expenditure and of taxa- j tiou, and adverse to the acquisition of furth- | er territory; The bill providing against do- | , nations by subordinate Government officials i ' to superiors, in the nature of presents, was | 1 passed. Discussion of the Virginia bill was s then resumed. 5 FRIDAY, 14.—1n the Senate petitions re lating to various subjects were presented. A resolution relating to the average cost of e the manufacture of American pig iron in c Pennsylvania, was discussed. The Virgin ia bill was then taken up and debated, and, finally, on motion of Senator Trumbull, it was resolved to vote on the bill on Monday j next, at 4 P. M. The Hou-e engaged in debate upon the' A irginia bill after the journal was read, and ! the discussion was exhaustive. The ques | jtion recurring upon the final passage of the ' t) bill offered by Mr. Bingham as a substitute for the bill of the committee, it passed by a • ( 'vote of 98 to 95. t The preamble was then adopted bv a ris king vote. The bill was then passed as t amended, by a vote of 143 to 49. The biil as passed is in the nature of a | "substitute proposed by Mr. Bingham, to I bill No. 783. I Joint resrilution, declaring Virginia entitled , u to representation in €ongress : i Whereas, The people of Yirgiuia have , adopted a constitution, Republican in form, .jand have in all respects confirmed to the requirements of the act of Congress entitled ~'"an act authorizing the submission of the of Virginia, Mississippi and 5 Texas to a vote of the people, and authoriz . ing the election of State officers provided by J the said Constitutions and members of Con ' gress,approved April 10, 1809." Therefore ( be it. Rcsolreil, By the Senate, and House of t Representatives of the United States of America now in Congress a-sembled, that jt the State of Virginia is entitled to represen tation in the Congress of the United States. The House then adjourned uotil Monday. j, PENNSYLVANIA LEGISLATURE. HARRISBURG. Jan. 11 th.—Bills were in trodueed in the Senate authorizing esecutor g and administrator'' to testify in theiroonw n behalf in suits in which they are intere t.d to decrease the number of legislative officers' to regulate the practice of surgery in Phila-* delphia; to authorize accused persons to testify at their own request; to enable the people at the next election to vote for Attorney Gen'l and Sec y of State; to ratify the charter of the Delaware Bridge Com pany; to fix the salary of the Governor at $7,000; to incorporate the Philadelphia Warehousing Company; to provide for cer tain avenues in Fairmount Park. Nomina tionsfor State Treasurer were then received. In the House, a resolution to appoint a committee to investigate into the manner of conducting the affairs of the State Treasury, was adopted after debate. Resolutions giv ing each member SIOO for postage were re lerred to the Committee of Ways and Means, and various amendments to resolu tions to present each member with a library were voted down. WEDNESDAY, 12tb. —Iliram Findlay was , sworn into office and took his seat in the | Senate. Bills were introduced as follows: To make baggage smashing a penal offence; I supplement to the City Park bill. The following were considered and passed: To ! increase the Governor s salary to $7,0U0; to incorporate the Avondale Relief Associa < tion. A resolution endorsing Senator Cameron's i course on the Cuba question was referred. The joint convention of the Senate and House assembled, and on the third ballot. Irwin was elected over Mackey, caucus nom inee, by a vote of 70 to 61. THURSDAY, 13th.—In the Senate various petitions from citizens of Philadelphia were referred. The Metropolitan Police Bill was reported from Committee. Also, the bill for greater security from fires in Philadel nbia. Bills were introduced as follows; Declaring 7 per cent, the legal rate of inter est; amendatory of the act allowing parties in interest, to testify, etc.; incorporating the Women's Branch of the Pennsylvania Soci ety to Prevent Cruelty to Animals, and the overloading of the city passenger cars. In the House the Park supplement bill was referred. Senate bill increasing the salary of the Governor to $7,000 was con sidered and passed. Both houses adjourned over to Tuesday, Inauguration day. DISASTROUS TORNADO. Tornrulo at Cfiro C ity Station, Kentucky— Seven or eight Persons Instantly Killed—Great Loss of Prop erty —Flood in the Ohio. | LOUILVILI.E, January 17. —A terrible tor , nado visited Cave City Station, on the Lou isville and Nashville Railroad, at an early hour this morning, resulting in the destruc tion of life and property. Seven or eight persons were instantly killed, including the tankman and family, consisting of bis wife and two children, and about eighteen per sons were more or less injured. Quite a large number of buildings were blown down and the timber scattered in all directions. How far the hurricane extended we are un able to ascertain. The storm passed over a portion of this city, accompanied by hail the size of walnuts, stripping the trees complete ly of small limb'. Several drain pipes burstcd, tearing large holes in the street. The river continues rising at the rate of six inches per hour, which is faster than has been known for ten years. All occu pants of buildings on the levee and upper portions of the eity are vacating their prem ises. If the flood continues great destruc tion to property will ensue. The storm passed through Cave City, Kentucky, about four o'clock this morning, totally demolishing about fifty houses in Cave City and vicinity, among which are the Masonic Lodge and a church. PROF. HALFORD, of the University of Melbourne, Australia, may be remembered by some as the enthusiastic introducer of a cure for poisonous snake bites, and who al lowed himself to be bitten by a snake and nearly lost bis life by the failure of his dar ling nostrum to effect a cure. Notwith standing the ridicule to which his devotion to science subjected him on that occasion, he has persevered in his efforts, and un doubted success has at last rewarded him. He has found an antidote for snake poison which has proved successful in the most crit ical cases. It is simply liquid ammonia in jected into the veins. A small syringe with a sharp point for the purpose of making the injection is manufactured and sold in Mel bourne, and now few travel in the country without one. GENERAL NEWS ITEMS. Tire vestments worn at Rome are descri bed as beautiful beyond conception, and ihc Indios say the laee upon tbem surpasses any thing in the world. So dazzling are the col ors of the dresses thai the bishops are liken ed to a bed of tulips in appearance. A MR. CARTER, who labors among Lon don thieves, burglars and pickpockets, has ga' bered a church of one thousand eight hundred members. His wife instructs one thousand i-ix hundred mothers, meeting four hundred at a titne, who, without her labors, would receive no religious instruc tion at all, WOOLWICH, England, formerly the center i of a buer ton at the mines for shipment. The Miners' Union had fixed the rate of wages for mi ners at sl4; inside laborers, sl2, and out side laborers at sll per week, an less coal went above $3 in price, when, for every increase of twenty five cents per ton, five per centum was to be added to the wages of the operators. Now. because the price has fallen nearly twenty five cents below tle standard, the operators and owners desire to lower wages, while the miners insist that they must be paid the same amount as be fore the decline. SENATOR SUMNER'S bill contemplates the conversions of the $500,000,00f> six per cent, five-twenties of 1862 into the same amount of five per cent, ten-forties. He be lieves the foreign holders of the five-twenties will accept the new ten-forties as permanent securities in preference to being pa d off at once. The number of America holders who would prefer beiDg paid off at once he thinks so small that they could be accom modated by the proceeds of an equal a nioutit of five-twenties placed in Kuropc at par for coin. The remaining bonds will en hance in value so a? to become more popu lar, and thereby not only save the faith but strengthen the credit of the Government and aid in the resumption of specie pay- ; ments. All this is predicated upon the sup position that Euro|ean holders of five- j twenties will prefer the new lower interest securities to being paid off at once. SLAVERY IN ALASKA. —Some remarkable statements are made in the Sitka Timet about the prevalence of slavery in Alaska Territory. Slaves can be bought to day from any Indian tribe in Alaska. Parents will sell their children for three or four blankets or a few dollars, and have no com punction of conscience for the use they inav be put to in the future. When one tribe goes to war with another, a" -he prisoners taken by either tribe are called, treated and used as slaves. When a chief or any of his family dies, it is the cu-tom to kill one or more of these slaves, so that the chief or his deceased relative may have a servant in the other world to wait on him. As soon as a chief dies, the slave is com polled to wa?h the body of the corpse, and is than taken out and thrown flat on his back and held there, when a stick of wood is placed across his throat and two Indians sit down on each end of it, and in this way strangle him to death. PRINCE PIERRE BONAPARTE, who shot M. : Noir the other day, is a cousin to the Kui peror, and second son of Lucien, Prince de Cavino, by his last marriage. He was horn in 1815. and has a position in the army. He visited Washington in 1862, and those who met him there were impressed with hi?! celebrated likeness to the first Napoleon That was his first visit to this country, and he attracted considerable attention. In French politics be has been considered more liberal than the Emperor, and at one time was in di-grace with bis despotic cousin for OPPOSING his policy. They were SOOD recon ciled, and the Prince has since been a sup porter of the Empire. The effect of bis killing of Noir must be injurious to the Im perial dt nasty. The French press mat resent the assassination of a brother journ alist. The code of honor condemns the Prince, and the liberals will use it as an ar gument against the Empire. As effort is now making to consolidate the State of Delaware, the eastern shore of Maryland and Aecomac county in Virginia, into a new State, to be called Chesapeake. The thirteen counties in the three S'ates j make the peninsula lying between the t.'hes- ; apeake, the Delaware river and the Atlantic j Ocean. It is believed that these counties | have a population and identical interests ot ; sufficient importance to warrant their crec- ; tion into a new State. Under the proposed j plan, Delaware, ofconrse. loses its identity, 1 but this is to offset the objection which the j people of Virginia and Maryland in the i counties adjoining might have to anneia- j tion to so small a State as Delaware, which by compromise tiny become the larger and more important State of Chesapeake. The plan is not a new one; Simon Cameron, as Secretary of War in 1861, officially, recom mended it, and it has been discussed from time to time ever since. The reason given for rooveing in the matter now is that, if the new State is to he created, it can be ranked in the enumeration, estimates and j statistics of the census about to lie taken as j the State of Cke.-apeake, not Delaware. I>R. FAYEK, an English phvgician in In- 1 dia, communicates to the Indian Medical j Gazette an extraordinary case of the effect { of imagination on the phyical system. lie ! savs: "On entering the hospital. I was ! told that a man had been admitted during j the night suffering from a snake bite, and j that he was very low. 1 found him in a state | of great prostration—he was hardlv able to j speak, and seemed to be in a "tate of depres sion. He and his friends said that durine the night, in going into his hut, a snake bit him in the foot; that he was much alarmed ! and rapidly passed into a state of insensihil- j ity when they brought him to the hospital. ; They and he considered that he was dying, j and evidently regarded his condition as hope less. On betDg asked for a description of the snake they replied they had caught it and brought it with them in a bottle. The bottle was produced, and the snake turned out to ! be a small innocent lycodon. It was alive, i though somewhat injured by the treatment it had received. On explaining to the man and his friends that it was harmless, and with some difficulty making them believe it, 1 the symptoms of poi-oning rapidly disap- j peared, and he left the hospital as well as ; i ever he was in his life in a few hours. THE BUSINESS FUTURE— The Financial | Chronicle concludes a survey of the busine-- j ! future as follows: "In view of this steady j and natural process of reaction from infla- j tion, we are at a loss to conceive of the i grounds lor the vague and settled convic tion. now so general. that the financial and commercial arrangements growing out of the war must sooner or later issue in gener al panic and insolvency. There could be no better guarantee against such a catastrophe than the universal caution which now pre vails. The sentiment of the country is es sentially conservative. An expansion of the currency would be so unpopular to the peo ple at large, that there are few members of Congre-s who have the daring to propose such a measure, no enterprises can he float ed that do not present good evidences of soundness: AVall street brokers find it far more difficult to promote an advance in stocks than a decline; and upon the question of specie payments there is a marked con version of public opinion in favor of an ear ly adoption of the measure. There are plain : ndicationsof a wholesale commercial senti ment, such as usually precedes public pros perity, and cannot, with any congruity, be regarded as the forerunner of panic. PEACH STATISTICS.— The Wilmington, (Del.,) Commercial says: An item is going the rounds of the papers, and has been pub ! lished in this one, stating that "the State j of California has 800,000 peach trees, or I about five to every voter —enough to pro- J ; duce more than one hundred pounds annu- ! aliy for every person. The figures are large, j but they are official, and are supposed to be j correct." These figures may sound large | to people who do not live where peaches j grow, but they seem somewhat insignificaut j in this latitude. California has an area of 188,982 square mile-', Delaware has an area of 2,120, and the eastern shore of Maryland, adjoining ber, has an area of probably about .3,000 square miles. The Delaware Rail road and its branches furnishe transporta tion for the products of these two coneres sional districts, with a united area of not much over 5,000 square miles, and a united population in 1860 of 257,344. In the year 18Gf> there were growing along the line of this road (ihe greater part of them in Dela ware) 1,653,205 peach trees. By the spring of 1819 tbe number (counting none under one year old) had increased to 3,959,010, and from the large number planted lastyear it is probable that the present number alone the line of the road is at least 4,500,000. All the figures except those of the above es timate are official, made from actual couut by the agents of the re ad, for the use of the freight agent. Mr. A. Brown, to enable him to make his estimates. They do not include at all the large ore-hards, the fruit from which is sent to market by water, and con cerning which we have no definito data, but which probably have one-third the number of trees of those along the railroad. Taking only the estimate of 4.500,000 trees along the railroad, which does not rep resent anything like the whole numl>er on the peninsula, and making a liberal esti mate of the population, still these two con gressional districts "have, instead of five peach tree- to each voter, over fourteen to each inhabitant; and in Delaware the pro portion is much greater, as her population is smaller than that of the Eastern Shore, while probably four fifths of the trees arc in her limits. ITIOTfiB II A L LI! NEW STYLES FALL & WINTER CLOTHING. 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