IBebfort inquirer. BKBFORD. FA.. FRIDAY. MARCH 11, ISitt HOW IT WAS DOSE. Gold ct 112 is good news to almost every one, except the gold gam blent Every in telligeat citizen wiU scree that tbw desira ble condition of our financial affairs has been brought about by the policy of, no-'; only promptly paying the interest, but also rap idly reducing the principal of our national debt. The most rampant free-trader trill admit this without hesitation, and applaud the policy as the best that could DossibJy have been adopted. But* while he is ap plan ding the policy be forgets that he ha been all the while opposing the principal upon which that policy was based. The immense revenue necessary to carry oat the policy of paying off the debt, could only be obtained by levying heavy taxes upon our manufactures, and those manufactures could only be sustained ucder heavy taxation by a high protective duty upon similar manufac tures imported. The tariff in itself couM not have sufficiently protected oar manufac tures if the gold premium had not also act ed as an incidental protection. Under th* combiod favorable influence and protection of the two, oar manufactures, particularly of iron and woolen goods were enabled to bear an extraordinary taxation, and from them was derived a very large proportion of the interna! revenue by which we were enabled to redeem our national credit. The free trader rejoicing in the prospective early return of specie payment forget- th_t he has always bitterly opposed the very policy by which we have so admirably sis - taiocd our finances. Without that prole • tion to our manufacture- the immense reve nues could never have been obtained and we could neither bafe subdued the rebellion n r have raid our debt. Free-trader- to day are advocating their old doctrines and endeavoring to destroy this bulwark ef our national finances. Abolish our protective tariff to-day, as the free-traders ask, and in one year the revenue would so fail off that we wonld not be able next year to pay the .interest on our debt, much less to pay t'JO,- 000,000 of the princ-pal as we l ave done the past year. Now if protection gave us strength and prosperity in time of war, if it also enabled us to restore out finances from a condition of comparative bankruptcy to one of prosperity in tbe short -j ace of a few years, why are we tailed upon to abol ish it now? Taat which enables us to pay our debt and restore our credit should not be abandoned without good cause. It h.>s been the source of our safety in the darkest hours of our country's trial and if continued will enable us rapidly to pay off our del i and make our people rich, prosperous ar.d bappy. DON'T KNOW THEIR OWN PLATFORM.— The Democratic members of Congress were caught napping ?n Monday the 28th uk., in a way that does them little credit a- men of intelligence and principle. Mr Spink of Dacota, alb publican, offered a resolution in favor of a tariff fur revenue on foreign imports that will incidentally protect dome tic manufacturers, and, without impairing the revenue, impose the least burdens upon and best promote and encourage tbe great industrial interests of the country. An ef fort was made to table the resolution but defeated. It was (hen passed by a vote of 101 to 48. It afforded a good deal of tntr riment when it was announced that the res olution was a plank of the Democratic plat form of 18CS. The whole thing was a joke, aod the cops were qni-e chagrined at the awkward predicament in which they had placed themselves. Their knowledge of the Tariff question must be of a very extraordi nary character. Do they oppose mea-un s upon principle or only because Ib publicau advocate them ? We did tainly hope to see intelligence enough, and independence enough among Democratic Congo-- men to recognixe a plank of their own party plat form, and vote for it even if it a-off.-red by a Republican. CIVIT. SERVICE.— Mr. -T nckes ha- agaio introduced a Civil S -rviee hill iuto the House of Repre-er lativcs. It proposes to appoint a committee to hold office for a spo oned term, whose duty it shall be to exam ine all incumbents in office, and ail appli cants. The only objection to a Civil Ser vice bill seems to be that it wi : l spoil the patronage of Congressmen ambitious of re ti mination. We -inctrely hope that our < ongressmcn will redeem their character in this respect and show tltemselves a- earn est in serving tbe country a- they are in advancing their own per-onai and party in terests, and give us a Civii F-rri - hill It i- high time we abandon the Democratic programme of rotation in office and appoint men for fitness and not for favor. Let us hare the bill forced to a vote and a call of the jeas and nays. We iike to see the black sheep. msrV-d. THE SALE OF CADET-SHIPS -till COMB .. - one of tbe chief topics of interest in Con gress. Delinquent Congressmen it; ling their guilt Lave attempted to escape the consequences of their guilt by resigning, hiolladay of Kentucky has just attempted this dodge, but the Governor has refused to accept his rc-ignatioß. ar.d demands that he establish bis inaocense before the Hou-e, while the House refuses to permit him to retain bis scat, and the speaker declares hs is no longer a member. We think he should b? permitted to return to his seat and then he ignominious!}- expelled. That would ef fectually settle his status. THE NATIONAL DEHT was reduced six millions, five hundred thousand dollars dur ing the m >otb of February. The good work goes steadoy on, in spite of coppierhcad cries of corruption. The people don't see the but they can understand that paying debts is a commendable work, and are conscqu . tly quite satisfied with Grant and his administration as long is thev pay off the debt at the rate of from S9O - 000,000 to sloo.ooo,Otm ye r year. As election for Slate officers took place in New Hampshire on Tuesday. The Cop perheads despairing of success in an open contest, organiz-d a temperance and a labor reform ticket, hopting with the two to defeat the regular Republican nominee. As we go to pre-g there is, as yet, no Dews of the I result, but it is believed the copperhead ruse j will fail tr, w ; n . brn.L DOWNWARD. —Gold closed in New lork on Monday at H2| with a downward ; tendency. Many of the business men of the city senoosly contemplate the resump ior of specie payments in their regular trausac- ! ttons. It is quite possible that within a month or two we may * e the glitter and t,,e j'OJtlv of gold and silver in our daily busine** transaction?. THE rebel.km- subjects of Queeu Victo ria, in the Red River region, have ioaugu rated hostilities by captariag fifty seven men out of a party of two hundred Cana dians, English and half breeds sent out by tie Briti.-h government for the purpose of quelling the imarrectioo. WU.4T A YEAR HAS DONE, I We like tc keep the fact pefore tfcftpeo pie that the aduiinistratioa of President Grant has been true toils promises, prudetr j in its ;K)Jy. and faithfni 10 the perform 3i;:> | of its manifold duties. One year ago this day. at nooti, says the ! Pittsburgh tr azette of the 4th iitst. Presi dent Grant was inaugurated at the Capitol. One-foc-th of his official term has now ex pired, b>* n see what his administration has done, in the faithful elocution of it great trust! It has paid off eighty-eight millions c' dollars of the public debt. It has largely increased the public reve ones, Without adding new forms of taxation. It ha# largely decreased the public expen ditnres, without detriment to the National interrsls in any department. It has advanced the value of our depre riated currency from 132 to 115. bridging j over one full half of its margin below the par of coin It has brought up the market value of ' tar bonded debt from S6(ffi'Sß to 97(3 par, J ao-1 even a premium in gold. It has conducted the finances of the gov rrament and people, from their former con lit ion of qualified bankruptcy, to the Ten j verge of a general specie resumption, and ! this without any crisis or marked public or | private distress. ' It has completed the radical reconstruc tion of H the Southern State Govern tueut j on Republican principles, finally and happi j !y tranquibzins the peoples lately in armed rebellion against the Federal authority. It has restored the full Southern repre 1 -rotation in Congress, with two exception is bieh now await only a technical approval. It ha* assisted in the final establishment ! of that great, cardinal, underlying principle on which alone free republican institutions ) eao stand —the absolute equality of all men —citizen# of the republic—in personal and political rights. It enters upon its second year, enjoying the increase i confidence of the American people, and the enhanced respect of the civ- I iiued world. The problems of a year ago are become j certainrie* to day, and the promises of the beginning are sfen to he already redeemed L> t the future he judged by the past! ; Tennessee seems to be unreconstructed i -till. A regular reign of terror exists ov„r J the li -le State. murders and outrages of various kinds being of daily oceurronce; and the officers of the rebel-eopperbead state • government take no cognisance of them. In i this >trait Senator Browniow asks to have | her remanded to a provisional government j again. The Tribune says: '"Things have come to such a melancholy i pa-s in Tennessee that the loyal Repul lican i ot that State have been faiily driven int', action. Two large meetings of loyal men were held in Nashville on the 16>h ult. to j consider the position of public affairs—ths Hs-assioatiou of unoffending citizens by the I\u-K]ux, the oppressive actbu of the I>g :i-lstureand ('..nvention, and the abolition fof the Free (Yuimoo .School*. '"We are," ! say# the Tennes-ee Loyalists, "completely ;.t the mercy of Rebel hate and Reb 1 vio -1 lent*. We have absolutely noway to defend • "ii lives front any drunken scoundrel that from malice or mere wantonness may see fit to waylay us. These m-n say that they cannot help themselves. Tlo-v "must have l.rlp iiom outside." Tin- National arm should put down the Ku Klux, by simple, speedy, and summary methods. The Four teenth Atnerldnient should ho applied to the present Legislature and the Convention—in the former it would leave a quorum, but it would bring that quorum to its ,-eDse-. As for the Convention, it is unlawful ab initio, unlawfully called, and made up of disquali fied c.en, its doing# being really null and void. It nothing else will do. Congress i -hould tut the State under territorial rule. ; The-e Republicans say, that practically they have no new-papers to plead their cause in the State. Not one of the Nashville daily journals so much as mentioned these meet :n.s. nor were they alluded to in the Asso ti tfe• d in ; prolonging an investigation that is generals i regarded as the most srupid kind of a farce. PROTECTION OF MISERS. The bill for the better ventilation of ' mints and tie protection of the lives ol j miners, passed the House during tbe week, j and is now a law. Tbe bill, as wa | framed in accordance with the wishes of the ; Miners' Assoeiaffoi, aud grants them all I 'he legislative protection they have asked. The measure was vigorously opposed by cer : tain operators, and Hon. W. W. Ketch urn, of Luzerne county, has been in Harrisburg i for sometime to either secure its defeat co i have it amended so as not to accomplish j the end desired. The law is very cotr.plett | m its provisions for the thorough ventila j tion of mine?, and requires the protection of miners in .-oca away as to render a | repetition of disasters like that of Avonda'e i among the impossibilities, j TBE GENERAL APPROPRIATION BILL ! has passed the Hou.-e, and is now in the J hands of the Finance Committee of the j Senate. A great pressure is being brought i to lear upon that Committee, as we'd as I u| the mcmls-rs of the iterate, to make i some very material modifications, and Leg's | iattve delegations, from nearly every section [of the State, have been very plenty in j Harri-burg during the pa-t week. Until the i hill is finally di#po scd of it is almost itn | po-sibie to conjecture what its provisions | will be when it becomes a law. I.EUAL RATE OF INTEREST, j The Senate has defeated tbe bill to make ! the legal rate of interest in this State sevin j per cenj. Although an efTott vtiil probably j tie made to reconsider this action, there i> i not much chance for the bill to pass both j branches of the Legislature. The proposi i ion has been before the Legislature each ' -ession for a number of years, but has uui j 'orm'y met with the same fate. | HISTORY OF PENNSYLVANIA VOLUNTEERS. The first two volumes of this work have | tx-en published, but the Legislature bas a- I yet failed to make any provision for their ; distribution. The State Historian is Lard | at work on the third volume and will have jit i—md within a£ w months. He e-ti ; mates that a founh volume will complete ; 'he history. A joint committee of the two j Houses ha.- been pp int.ed to make tome provisions for di.-tiibut'ng the work, and their rep>ort will be looked for with con siderabte interest. THE DIAMOND AND WATT conte.-ted election case iu the Senate is still dragging along Without much prospect of an early termination. A large mass of testi mony has been taken, tending to prove such irregularities in conducting the election in certain wards that it is likely the entire vote in several Democratic precincts will be • brown out. Watt, tbe Republican, feeis quite confident of retaining his seat. FINAL ADJOURNMENT does not appt ar very near at hand. A large number of important measures arc before the Legislature, which to dispose of finally will in all likelihood prolong the session well into April. PENNSYLVANIA LEGISLATE BE. The following bib- were up during the past week: One by .Mr. Bnffingtoa, that any election officer who shall refu-e 10 teceivc and count ibe vote of any citizen in his district on ac count of race, color, or previous condition of servitude, shall be deemed guilty "f misde meanor, and punished by fine and impris onment. One by Mr. Daih-y, incorporating the o'ion Club of I'hiadelpl.ia. Mr. Dailev. asked that the hid be laid on the table. This was n* jeered to by Mr. Creitz, of L-high, and the h i", at the rr to February 26. 1862 -hall tender in payment there.vf, when and after the same may be due and payable, the full amount of any such debt or liability in legal t. nder notes i-.-ued by the authority ol the I nt'ed States, and the creditor orp°r son to whom the saute is payable -hall refuse or decline to accept such iegi-t nder notes in payment thereof, either before or after -u : t brought for the reeoviy o r any such debt it law or in equity, the planiifT in such niit -hill not he entitled to judgment or damage exceeding ths amount of such debt with interest (hereon to tho date of such tender: but such judgment shall bear interest only at the rate of three pi r cent, per annum, and no execution shall js-ne thereon until ail the liabilities and debts of the United S'ates shall be uiad • payable in gold and silver coin by act of Congress. Provided, however, that this act sh ill expire on the fir-r day of Jo'y. A D. 1872." Senate bill for the election of Attorney General and Secretary of the Common ■ ahh was kilhd. Senate bi 1 authorizing married women to sell their property when deserted by their husbands Passed. Senate bill repealing the five hundred dollars ii-cence lor foreign insurance com panies, and taxing them three and ooe-half per eenf. Passed. Senate hill authorizing jndges to commit persons guilty of perjnry. Ps-ed. Ilou-e bill exempting sewing machines used by and in families, from execution. Passed. S-nate supplement to the Sunday liquor law. au-horiz-ng the court, at its discretion, to infiict a fine tif from twenty five to one hundred dollars, or to imprisonment, wa pasaed to a second reading by 16yeas to J3 oars, and was then laid over for the present. S nate bill exempting beque-ts for chari table and rellivious purposes fiom taxation, wa- called up and sustained by Mr. Count'!) in an eloquent speech, but was lost by 17 to Senate bill exempting mortgages and other securities from taxation except for State purposes ail ov this Commonwealth, wa- amended to take efi-ct next November, and passed. Adjourned. House bill authorising tbe Govenor to is-ue commissions to officers of the lute War ws defeated. Senate bill authorizing husband and wife to testify in divorce ca-es was pssed. Senate bill authorizing corporations to capita'ize their earnings was pas-ed to a third reading and laid over. Adjourned. GOLD 113*. —Gold reached 113} for the firt time on the tbh of Jnly, 1862, and rose no higher than lib} beiv-in that day and the 'Jth day of August following, when it fell to 112}. After thai it continued toad vanee, ai d on the la-t day of 1862 it reached 133?. Gold reached its highest point in New York on the 10th of .luly, 1864. when it sold at 286. A higher price than this > -aid to have been reached, but this i* the highest regularly recorded at the New York Gold Exchange, and no one will di-putcthat this was htch enough. Yesterday sold elo.-cd at 1134, the point reached Juiy 9, 1 st-2. Sis months be lore ibis there was no premium on gold, and we pred ft that wiihin that apace oft: ue in the future it will command no premium over g-eenbcks. or, iu other words, that the de -irtd d-ry of siictfie payment will arrive on or l-eforc the 4tb of September, 1870. — PMTO. Day. XUIM cos'ieJMESs.sEcojm SESSION. During -be past week ft* Funding ' andTarrff Mis have ben uMer d>Wti si. o ' ev fff .iay,; t>ut no action Ira-yet beaflfcaken. ! >he oinpr hu-iness bftffh} up, , not'cdi the' following When 'be funding 1-dJ was tStewp in tire Senate on the2Bih alt,, alter the reading of the substitute report, ■; f by the committee, Mr. Sherman add.Cs<-ii • the Senate on the provision of the hill. -aid the (treat question was whether the piesent state of the national debt was sii-l as tojug'ifj thy Government is jinsj tank u: strempung to'red.qcj the mfgM by the -ytem of miMwg pre-aweaw the pre* • - measure. He proceeds to explain the diffi culties of the present tending laws, ami went over the course which led to the a daft tiou af the final c.il policy cf the Govern meat which, the exiritatxse of the war com fe-lh-d i"he country to a-^ume. Mr. Sherman referted to 'he attempt in 1866. and again in 1.807, to fund the debt, and the defeat of those project*. The time is now a' hand when tfcis funding must la done. The difference between paper and gold w only C'een to IWOttty per cent., and •t present our bonds are a premium 11 proceeded to ex plain the provisions of the bill and comment upon the advantages to ac crue from funding the debt at a lower rate of Interest He argued at length upon the policy of exempting all bonds proposed to be issued under this act from taxation. In regard to die manner of the negotiation of j these bonds, ihat must be left to the best ; discretion of the Secretary of the Treasury. 1 Mr. Sherman hoped that the negotiation i of these bonds abroad would lead to the es j tahl'-hmem of n international currency, so . much,to lie desired In regard to setting | apart a sinking fund of $I50,00t) QOO annu | aSy for the payment of interest, an 1 for th. i reduction of the principal of the publicdebt. i Mr. Sherman said this provision might pay Lpff every dollar of the public d< hi in twenty five or thirty years. lie tead from the fpa ! tistics of ihc Treasury Department, to "how ! thit during the past three years we bae i paid three time* as uiucb of the public debt las we stipulated to pay. lie read abo from , the statistics to show that the expen-en of : the last year of Johnson's aduiini-tratiot, | as compared with the first year of Grant s > adminis! ration, was most favorable anl j creditable to the latter, and adt-monMratios | to the superior financial ability of the pret ent administration. In the Hons- on tbe Kt inf., a rote w:# ; tl;en on Mr. Marshal's amendment to M . j Hooper's sub-mute for Mr. Beck'- bill, '-x --j tending the time for the withdrawal of dip I 'illrd spirilla to three years front date of e> try. Tne amendment was not agreed to— ! ves s. 5.4; nam. 86 Mr. H "per*' subsritute, imposing one , cent per month on each I" tided proof gsll-tt of spirits, which spirit- shall remain in the : warehouse any time over one year, was ! agreed in—yea', 80; tkav*. 'J2 Mr. Washburn, of' Wisconsin, moved to ij the bill on the table. Not agreed to— j >e*s 52; nays, 104 ' Tbe bill was then passed by vea, 78; nays ! Mr. Ha'efct submitted a resolution asking 'he I'iesident to communicate any f-ets in bi< pp-e-essioii relative to the attack of G- n era! Sheridan on thePn-gan Indians Ol> j jectkin was made, and the resolution was i dropped, Mr. Logan, from the Committee on Mili tary Affairs; -uh-iott- d a report in the cs-e if Finn. John T. Peweese, charged wi'h ' soiling earbt-hip*. The committee were j convinced that he had been influenced in : making appoint men's of cadets to the Naval j Acad'-my by pecuniary consideration-. They, therefore. recommend the adoption of a resolution declaring Mr. D -wecse unwor 'hy of a seat in this House, and condemn i ng his conduct as unworthy of a repiesenta ! tiv-- of the people. The testimony of Mr. Bean, of this ci'y, 1 who-e son has been an pointed a cadet at Annapolis, was read. He bad nor paid Mr. ; Ib-worse any nionev directly for 'he appoint j ment, but bis son Frank had paid Mr. De wce.se the sutu oi SSOO. The latter had paid the money back to young B-an ince 'he commt-n eiuent of this investigation, i Deweese. in his statement before the com mittee, said he did not know that he was ! doing wrong when he took the money, end I that as soon a- he heard that such action !vr i- improper he refunded the money. In ; addition to this, Mr. Deweese said be had I promptK resigned his seat as soon as he die | covered thai he wis unworthy of occupying it. As an evidence that he was not influ •-need by mercenary motives in the matter, i he stated that he had plenty of money, ar>d - 'hat ho had given sl2,t'(gJ to aid in the la-t ; Presidential canvass iu North Carolina and i the Sooth. Mr. Logan slid that since if bad been de : eided in the ca-e of Mr. Wbittemore that | utenil-rrs could re-ign at pleasure to escape • xnu'sion, the only course remaining wis to ; call the previous question on the resolution ! of c-n-ure. Mr. Woodward demanded the tea' and "sys, and tbe resolution was adopted—yea-. ! 170; navs, Done. I _ Mr. Logan a-kei tbe House for in-trm - [ tions relative to the further prosecution of ; -he investigation. The original resolution ' includes the members of former Cong res-Re - j This carries the iovejligation back to 184-, I when the law relative to oadet appointments i first west into effect. The committee had j tak°n testimony against members of the la-t and former Congresses, but waited further instructions before r, porting in their cases. Mr. \\ • cdward thought the Investigation -h-'tild include the members of former enn vi'-ssrs, and all jiersons oonm-ctcd wiib 'h'-e transtctions—not sj mueh as a per i -"ml inittcr, but as bearing upon legislation , proposed to be had in thiC mgicss relative '0 tbe Annapolis and West l'oint Acadt tire-. Mr. Garfield offered a resolution of its -truction to the committee to investigate he case of any member of the Forty-first Congress, or any per-oo holding an execu tive or judicial position under the United State' Government, provided that nothing coot lined in this resolution shall prevent the investigation and report on the cases al ready before the committee. The vote was tir-t taken on the proviso, ard it was agreed to by yeas s2; nays, 35. SENATE. March 3, Mr. Trumbull mov ed the immediate consideration of the hill 'O change thejndtcial districts or the United Sta'en. The bill was taken up and read. It pro vide- that the judicial districts shall be con stituted as f *]!>,ws : First f/istricl —Maine. New Hampshire. \ rinont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, at,d Connecticut. S>niil District —New York. Third District —Pennsylvania, New Jer sey. Maryland. Delaware, and Virginia. Fourth District —Mississippi, Louisiana. Texi-. and Arkansas. Fifth District —North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida. Alabama, and Tennessee. Sijrth Ih'strict— Ohio, Michigan, Ken tuckv. and West Virginia. .Seventh District— lllinois, Indiana, and Wisconsin. Eighth District— Minnesota, lowa, Kan sas. Nebraska, and M'—ouri. Einth District— California, Oregon, and Nevada. O" motion of M-r. Sargent the House went, into Committee "f the Whole on the Indian Appropriation bill. After an hour spent theiein the committee rose and reported the bill and amendments to the House and they were then passed. About three million one hundred and eighty eight thousand dollars are appropri ated by the hill. On motion of Mr. ih-hcock, the House went into Committee of the Whole for the consideration of the tariff bill. The New Translation or the Bible. —Lord Shaftesbury has written a letter to a London cotcuj| oray on the subject of a projw.sed translation of the Script urt S>, uu del the authority of the Bishop* of the Eng ii-h Ep soopal Church. The great ol frc •i'-n to the propo-nl is that the new transla tion wouid be received with suspicion, or openly r jeotcd, bv sect- out-ido the Epis c-'pal Church. Iscd Shaftesbury -av.a; "The English Bible, as altered by the Ri.h <>p<, will cease to be the Bible, not only r,f the N- n tonforiuist*. but of the Scotch and Irish Pr. 'LytraGri Churches; it would c.-i-e to be the Bdde of our brer hern in the United States of Ameiicsi. and every Protestant >peakirg the English Gneitags over the en tire su' tiee of the gh.be." In the lace of oppo-ith-n such as this l-tter foroabadow —wd it mu-t be remembered that Jy„d Shaftesbury has a veiy powerful party ai his back -it is rearcety probable that the new translation will be attempted. COLONEL UAK Kit's EXPIUITIO.V Ei?f rtwcn of Frontiersmen. The tlfj. Colorado, nf : JflThc down Ke( versanti of Colom-i R iker"? ri#i t* icported in the teh vrms, j, q life a aiffi rent on • fi m that published by ihe papers. The latter say* that tin- band of Indian* had made numer ous raid* ttport thjt stock of the -ettlor.l ; thwf ik WA or t ne pttp-derr r* sliuw'd he given opj that this demand bad been made sever al ifciest' that no attention had been paid t<> ir. nwf bariw no ambittw tvi "snff-r and be strong," they determined to bnak that ramp op, which they did most effectually. From oar experience in this conn:ry we havu most faith in the .Montana vcrsiea. The Commission speak of the "sickening 'details" of the fight. As tney give them I ihey are so, but it i* j'lut possible tliut some ' intere-ted party ha* made them up to tlioch j an argument that licked the necessary bc'< bow*. It is also rot her a ' sick erring feel ing" when a ranchman wakes up in the morning to find every hoof of stock, for which he has perhaps endured solitude and deprivation to accumulate, run off by the Iry red*kius. who find it easier to steal than hunt! It i* ai*o "sickening" to see the mutilated bodies of whole families brought into tie settlement lor burial, to have an innocent boy of oiily afew-umm' r piereed full of arrows near his mother's doer, or to find a herder shot in hi* track*. But the genuine, situnn pure pbilambro pist, of the I lncent Collyer type, makes lit tle account of all this. The frontiersmen are tresspassers, and must expect to endure theft and murder without giving a blow in return. The uiillemuro may be at hand dovre East, but wc feel no symptoms of it here. Keductioo of Wages.— W !iy Strikes* are Failarei. The New Yoik Sitr which is an organ of the working people sgys th.it it i.- a fact ap pateot to all who have watched the course of our markets, that the price.* of many com modities. following the downward cour-e of the gold premium, are being r-duc- d. It is also apparent that tbi- is making it-elf telt in the wages of labor. During the past sea-on there has been le*s for the laboring ela-- -* to do titan fbiuierly. arid large nu.ii bars of mechanic* have been and are eon stantly being thrown out of empfoyme t. la the building tn.de noth'ng like the pre sent stagnation has been •xprrieuced for at least seven year* pa*t. and thousands of men, whose service* have hitherto been in active d-mand, ate now vainly seeking work. Thts has caused a glut in the tabor market, and employer* are every where re ducing wages, intelhgence ot wluch is brought u* by our exchanges fr- w nearly every section of the couotiy. The labor strikes at pre-rnt. particularly in this city, are, with hardly an exception, to prevent a decr< H-e of pay, while last season they were generally to secure increased pay. The me chanic who last suuiuier wa- not content with what he was receiving hot struck tor a more righteous eompen-ation, is now quite satisfied if his wages are out reduced. '1 nere is no di*gui-ing the fac' that the condition of affairs renders it morally impossible that a reduction of wages can be prevented in many of the trade*, so many idle hand* be ing reaoy and anxion* instep into the place* of strikers, so that, a* a te-uk, it is found that many of the strikes this sca-on are failures. CHICAGO. H i- .. .i in Ltb St. l\-trr and hi* siicce-sor*. and that St. Peter was so included, St. Paul give* us an evident tirool when he le-isred this Apostle; and so, also, if Pop.es resist, they can be d<-pased and excommunicated. CANAKU. Extraordinnrv Sensnt.on Death of Na poleon—Keign ol the Prince Im perial— How it Was Hone. NEW YORK. March fi —The World has an extraordinary sen-afion in its Paris let ter of February 21, published today. Ac cording to th' gos-ip of the French salons the Emperor Napoleon 111, dtednn ihe 9th of September bi-t ntnf r the knife of the Surg-00. iticord, and in his place there reigns the Prince Imperial a* Napoleon 111., while Empress Eugenie is Begem. The story runs that a near relative of the Emperor, though not in the line of succes sion, and bearing s c ose resemblance, up pear* ia place of Napoleon op the lew oc casions on whieh he is supposed to appear in put lie. The correspondent sys the plan originated with the late Emperor who feared European complications, arid that before hi*death be received a promise from Eng land, and it is believed from Russia, that they would aid in maintaining the Prince on the throne. The letter gives various rea-ons for crediting the story, and say* it explains the recent remarkable change oi policy on the part of the Freoch Govt.ro ment. Nevertheless it appears very like an easily constructed canard. A NEUEO KILLED VOU TEN CENTS A fow days ago, a negro named Prvor ILn tnn, living on Mr. Albert Raney's farm, in PriDee George eonnty, Virginia, was -hut und killed by a negro named Thomas Tay lor. It appears that the deceased man owed Taylor the sum of ten cents, and on Satur day morning Taylor, accompanied by a col ored friend, went to sec him atxiut it, and to collect the debt. While tog-tbi r a rre pute arose between Hintoo and Taylor, dur ing which the latter fired upon the former with a shut-gun he had in his hand, and .-o badly wounded him ihat he died shortiy fterward* —living lone enough to tell th creuiugiances of the shooting. Taylor aid his friend vi re arre-ted and lodged in j*;l to await trial far mm ter. CORNKUPS YANDERRII.T hold* $7,0*1,- ■AJO o! the bo litis ot the iLarkui Ilai.roa.ti <;ENFCAL NEWS ITEMS. A FtntMelienilt ray? that thnty pound* of fle-h, thirty two pound* < f blood and sixty- two pounds of S- ! heat farm jard manure for the purpose of j repetition. | The Journal of HenJth objects to tKe coto j moa praetieo of puttirip aa open vessel of water on the Move to prevent the air of the ; room from getting too dry. It says that hy : thus jffittc the air with steam it is made far le- salubrious. and also renders the jywiton ; breathing it extremely liable to take cold. ; Pure air admitted from without i* better than filling the room with vapor of water. SASTA he, march —A gentleman wh-. has ju.-t returned from Chihuahua, Mexico, reports that there is great excitement in th-it and the other border States of Mexico, and that the feeling in favor of the overthrow of President Juarez is strong. Many of th< • best citiz-n- favor annexation to the United j States. The United States District Court I adjourned to-day. TtlE terrible pass to which affaire have been brought in New York city must !• ap j paren' to the dullest comprehension, wlr-n ; even Captain Isaiah Renders, the Pemi j cratie "wheel horse." can -ay this- "There's I no chance for an hrme-t man in New York i politics any longer. Why, I took a thief - up the river not eight months ago. and I ! came down to the eity hall the other day. and I found that same rhi-f there, and he ; had more tossy about things than I had. • CONGRESSMEN 18-BRED. Washington, ! March s.r>—A party ot hureltr* hreke into ' Mrs. Cuobing * Ism-dir-g house here last j o'ght and fir-t rnf- ! • 1 the apartments of Senator Morrill, of M rine. of f-160, which | sum wis tnlreu from his vest hanging onth" ; bed port. They next entered the room of i Congressman Ferris, of N w Fork, where they trot tT*> in money, a gold watch, and all of Mrs. F-rr - j.-welrv. They next en -1 fored the room of Cnngre-sman Peters, of Maine, hot he awoke and struck a Haht, whieh alarmed the robbers and they tied. THE SPEAKER of THE Ohio HOUSE RECENT LY presented to that body a communication trnm citizens of Zanesville. asking ' That females in this State be allowed all the .rights and privileges, including the ballot 'now granted to male citizens; that female* shall 1-e liable to military nod road duty: =me to hitu. his fellow monks found that the jovi d brother had been spreeing at the expense of the mon astic treasure, which he systematically rob bed. The Franciscans thought his conduct "eccentric." It looked iike it. A CENTURY ago seven VESSELS loaded with bullion coming from America found-red in • small harbor ->n the the frontier of Spain. Fshn'ous tales have been told of the value of their cargoes, but as yet no attempt has been made to recover them, owing to the gr-al expen-e and ccn-equent risk of failure. An t-xp dtion has. however, been organiz d in Parts and fi'ted out with electric appara tus, diving bells, an 5 every known con'ri vancc for recovering sunken treasure. Half the trea-ure. if recovered, goes to the Span ish government. TREASURY EXPENDITURE*. —The expen ditures of the Trei-ory Department for Fehruarv wc-e . Civil aaoi Mtsre.lane-jus .- ,5J.412.441 War j,8ej,75? Nary !.57*S Peosiooi - J2W9M Indian 2b3,227 Total.. - $1,3,4S The above does not include the expendi tures on account of principal and interest of the public debt. CONGRESSIONAL EXPENDITURES.— The pfr a beginning, has spent a gizeab'e pile of money in tlo-ir investiea tions. Tfie Committee on Elections has spent 826,416 U5; the Ways and M ans Committee. 50,772 52: Foreign Affsir-, $6.- sOT Judiciary. $: 5-4 OS; Special Com mittee to invesrigate the dec'inc of Ameri can commerce. S2.t> t0; Cifflntlitreon Ninth C -nsns. 83 143 I*, amounting in the gross to £47.72 ; ]3. Twenty-sii thousand of this amount has been paid. An appropriation is required to meet the balance. The con tested elections are not half di-posed of. Too GREAT caution cannot be used hy the holders ot coupon bonds of the United States, They are virtually ! ink notes, and f lost, cannot be stopped. Treasurer Spin n r was recently applied to to know whether he would cancel certain five-twenty bonds and issue new ones in their stead. His answer states: "The law has not conferred upon the department any authority to grant rtliefin such cases. The bonds and coupons both being payable to bearer, a nd trasfera bie by a bona fide de ivery to an innocent purchaser, payment of originals cannot l-gally BI sto DOC lor refused, E\e th->ugh C 'ngress should authorize the issue of new bonds in their stead.'"' NEW STYLE OPERA CLOAKS.— Hie new models of *ortir rf>: bat. or opera cloak, are mtwtly don Me cireu'ais or bourtnous. A tasteful mod i is of white cashmere, lined with quibed c ri-e colored silk. There is a small hood; fined in the same manner, and gathered up with a ruby-colored silk cord and tas-el. A rich Oriental iwrder, em broidered in silks of various colors, follows the whole outline of the mantle, with a fringe of small round hails corresponding in tints to the parent of the border. Very wide, pointed sleeves arc trimmed in the same strie. Another very elegant model is a double circular, the upper patt of which is tdack velvet, and the under j trt b!a>k cash mere; both are slit open in the middle of ihe tuck. The sleeves are ample. The velvet port is trimm-' i with a double row of gild braid, dotted with gold; the cashmere part with a deep border of gold braidwork and a black and golf fringe The sleeves are of cashmere, and triuiuied like the uu der part. AMSTERDAM, Feb. 17.— 1t IS generally thought that the reduction of interests by the hank- here and fsewfrere on the con tinent will create an improved demand for the United S'aies securities. VIENNA. Feb. 23. —The birthday o ; Washington was splendidly celebrated in this city last evening by a banquet given by Mr. Jar. the American Minister. A great many celebrities were present, ioc'uditig Brron von Beu.-t, the I'rime Minister of Austria. Mr. Jay toas'ed the European sovereigns. Baron von B'-ust replied in the English language. He said the close and un disturbtd relations between the United States and Austria was a matter of con gratulation. Union and freedom was the motto of both countries. Union alone pro moted progress, and freedom alone gave pi ace. In conc'u ling his remarks he gave the sentiment, "The memory of Gcurge Washington—the champion of' Freedom and Peace.' Other speeches were made both in the Kng ish and German languages and the guests did not separate until a late hour. ON Wednesday of hist week, a sail case of drowning occurred in Rridgehainpton. Long Island, ber-aving an industrious family of i heir only off-pring. Two little girls. g e d six and eight years, daughters of Dane 1 Crouin, in company with a male playmate named Howard, went out upon a poud to slide, the water forming which had collec ted in an excavation on the road side some six feet deep. While enjoying the slide the ice broke, and the two little girls -were sul - nidged. Young Howard, with commenda ble bravery, endeavored to rescue them, and would have been successful, but for the sud den breaking of the ice. which also submer ged him. bnt, succeeding in regaining the ground, lie ran to the house of the C'ronins, and informed tbeir mothi-rof the sid cir cumstance. She. frantic with fear, ru-h.d madly to the spot, only to U hold the life less forms of her children. The ice not be ing strong enough to bear her, she plunged into the water and forced her wav throueh and succeeded in bringing the little ones to bnik, but not without receirini? getv e htui-es and being cut about the body by-the ice. The water was up to her nei-k, sn-1 it was feared that -be w.odd | s „ peri hin the water. She i- now confined to her bvf. and may not probably recover from the effects of the shDck and the leas of her only cLiidren. A roc.NO W. laid a train St i owdcr through the kiteh- n and then fired it, "ja-t to Mate ma." He "n dr—<-il in a pair of susjpendete wbt n the smoke cleared away. IJP GHAND HAIHW, Michigan, tbere is a Newfooudfad dog that is in the habit of pivkmjt np he daily paper as soon as deliv ered by the carrier boy and carrying it direct Ito bis master. The other day the carrier failed, for some reason or other, to leave the paper as usual, and the faithful dog. after , swelling around for it umit i-ati-fid that it ' had not cotse, started off on tbe jtimp, and, ! going about .wo blocks, foui.d a neighbor a ; paper on the step of his house: he iromedi affely took it in his mouth and carried it to bis master, SUDDEN BI.AKCHLVO OF THE HAIR.— In the East Indian rebellion, ('..lonel Franks, < after an engagement near the village of ; Chaiuha, took uia.iv prisoners, one of whom, ;a Bengalee, aged 54. was conducted befoie i the authorities to undergo certain interroga- I tions. The changes which this man s ap pearance underwent are recorded by Sur | geon Major Famy. The prisoner, for the first time, seemed to realize the danger of bis situation, when be found himself strip ped. and surrounded with soldiers. He trembled violently, terror and despair being depicted on bis countenance: and when reply ing to questions addre-sed to him. he a; - i peared absolutely gtapificd by fear. ' Then, j tinder our eyes," continued the narrator. Mr. Famy. "and in the space of some halt an hour, his hair which we bad seen to be [ of a brilliant black, became gray on every < part of his bead. The sergeant who bad i charge of the prisoner cried out "he is turning gray." and called our attention to ! this singular phenomenon, of which I thus, with many other persons, was enabled toob serve the completion through ail its phases. SCICIPE or A (iIBL FOR LOV*.—The Peoria, Illinois, Transcript of February 12, says : "We have the following particulars of a horrible suicide which was committed a , few miles south of Pontine, on the Chicago : Si Alton Railroad, on Saturday afternoon : last: A girl by the rnmcof Lueinda North i aged about rixteen, living n ar that place. | lia> been for some time keeping company |wi ha man whom her father opposed. On Friday they had a quarrel over the matter, j in which her father whipped her and finally I turned her out of doors, and told her if she married the man in question he would kill j her and her husband. On Saturday after noon the engineer of the train going north i discovered her a short distance ahead of the train in the act of throwing her bonnet, j shawl and muff into the ditch. She then deliberately laid down inside the rails, with [ her head ou one ol them, and beckoned the i engineer to come on. He was unable to I stop the engine, and the train passed over ; her iitera ly grinding her to pieces. The I only way by which she was identified was by her hat and shawl. Our Correspondent adds that she ira- a nice little girl, who had worked in hi.- fam*!y, and left some two months ago wit b the intention of being mar i tied." AN EXTENSIVE SAL* OF MUFFS.— Some : young 1 aoies and gentlemen who were ta'rii g : advantage if the fine sleighing not long -inc. in attending a donation, surprise ■ r wedding party, or something of the kind, were obliged to sit three on a seat. One of the seats contained two gentlemen and ore lady. The gentle a-n of c urse. w.jtt d n< t a'low the lady to tike an exposed seat; she therefore sat in the middle. As the night was extremely cold. geot' - man number one qui tl/ pi< ei his hand a lemarkah'iy sma 1 hand by the way I into the lady's uiuff. As the muff was Dot very capacious, the lady quietly removed one of ! her hands from the same. In a few mo ments she felt a movement on the other side, and found g r.tleman number two at tempting to pa-s his band into the muff on the other side. She then quietly drew ber hand from the muff and allowed bim to do so. What took place in the ntaff afterwards she i- unable to -ay. Brit each of the gen tlemen privately reported to a small circle of friends how warmly the ladv bad returned the pressure of his hand in the muff, while the lady as privately reported to ber friends the magnificent sale she had made of both gentlemen. Saginm their use in any quantity. Tbey operate by their powerful influence on the internal viscera to purify the blood and stimu late it into healthy actio*-—remove the obstruc tions of the stomach, bowls, liver, and other or gans of the body, restoring their irregular action to health, and by correcting, wherever tbey exist, such derangements as are the first origin of dis ease. Minute directions are given in the wrapper on the box. f r the following complaints, which these PILLS rapidly cure For DYSPEPSIA or INDIGESTION. LIST LESSNESS. LANGUOR an i LOsS OF APPE TITE. they should be *ake moderately t* tim> utate the stomach and restore its healthy tone and actiot. For LIVER COMPLAINT and its various sympr ms. B I LI 01* S HEADACH E, SICK HE AC AC HP, JA IN DICE or GRFEN SICK NESS. BILIOUS COLIC k BILIOCS FEVERS, they should be judiciously taken for each case, to correct the diseased action ur remove the übstruc tioßf which cause it. F r DYSENTERY or DIARRHCRA, but one mild dose i- generally required. Fr RHEI MATI M, UOCT, GRAVEL, PAL TIT A J luN OF THE HEART, PAIN IN THE SIDE, RACK and LOINS, they should be con tinuously taken, as required, to change the dis eased action of he s>stem. With such change those complaints disappear Fur DROPSY and DROPSICAL SWELLINGS tbey should be taken in large and frequent dopes to produce the effet of a drastic purge. For SC PPRESSION a large dose should be ta ken as it produces the desired effect by sympathy Asa DINNER PI LL, take one or two PILL; to promote digestion and relieve the stomach. An occasional d se stimulates the stomach an bowels into healthy action, restores the appetite and invigorates the system. Hence it is ofiet advantageous where no ser.ous derangement ex ists. One who feels tolerably well, often flndi tbat a dose of these Pills makes bim feel decided ly better, from their cleansing and renovating ef fect on the digestive apparatus. DR. J. C. AYER A CO., Practical Chemist, B. F. IIARRY, Agt. 10de Lowell, Mass YY ALL PAPER. WALL PAPER. WALL PAPER. WALL PAPER. WALL PAPER. WALL PAPEIi Several Hundred Different Figure-. Several Hundred Different Figures. Several Hundred Different Figures. Several Hundred Different Figures. Several Hundred Different Figures. Several Hundred Different Figures. Largest lot ever brought to Bedford county Largest lot ever brought to Bedford county Largest lot ever brought to Bedford county Largest lot ever brought to Bedford county Largest lot ever brought to Bedford county Largest lot ever brought to Bedford county for sale at the for sale at the for sale at the for sale at the for sale at the for sale at the INQUIRER BOOK STORK. INQUIRER BOOK STORE. INQUIRER BOOK STORE. INQUIRER BOOK STORE INQUIRER BOOK STORE. INQUIRER BOOK STORE CHEAPER THAN EVER SOLD. CHEAPER THAN EVER SOLD. CHEAPER THAN EVER SOLD. CHEAPER THAN EVER SOLD. CHEAPER THAN EVER SOLD. CHEAPER THAN EVER SOLD. OTICE TO DROVE RS. The H tB.T.R R. CO. have erected a lares and eonveni nt Cattle Yard at M'. Dalla* for the purpwa f aeeumuiiHtatiug Dn.vers and others rrotn Bedford and adjoining e -unties. Stock cart win be furn shed at all times. S- JdcKILLIPS, Sajth. i QRPHAN9' COURT ALE VALUABLE FARMS. Js of ota * r o f Orphans' Court of Bedford County, th undersigned Admbtistra tor of tbe estate of Christian Albright. fete of Londonderry tp., deceased. will '( at public H i, ' ritam "> • t township. on TL ESI)& Y, Ike tin rf of Muck, A. 0 187P | tbe foltowior described raiusb-V Farm*, t> wit. ' j No. !. MANSI'tN PLACE, containing 13ff acres nod 112 perches, ihal 125 acres elearei d under cultivation, having thereon erected a I>R ELI.ING HOUSE, ban It barn, blacksmith (bop, (prior berase, and other outbuildings, ad joining lauds of James Matt Ugly, Jobs Start!, Alex. Kin? and others. No. 2. Containing 2-7 arrea and 52 perches, about 140 acre* cleared aod under cultivation with a DWELLING HOUSE, bank barn, aad other outbuildings thereon erected, adjoining land* of Jacob Wilt, Joke Low.y. Wm. A- Per ter'e heirs, John M. Buchanan and other*. The** eery desirable properties are fnvorabiy located on the line of tins PITTSBURGH A COXXtLLfi ILLK RAILROAiI, near tbe Cats, beriend market, and in a Tory pleasant neighbor hood, convenient to churches and schools, with facililiea of spring, and running water. TERMS—Gee third io band at confirmation of •ale, and the remainder in two equal anneal pay ments thereafter. Persons desiring information, or riew of the premises, are iorited to call apon tbe aahseriber or Juo. P. Reed, of Bedford. JACOB L. ALBRIGHT, 25feb4t Administrator pt'BLIC SALE OF VALUABLE BEAL ESTATE. By virtue of an order of the Orphans Court, the undersigned will EXPOSE to SALE at PUBLIC auction, on SATURDAY, March 19. 1870, on the premises, in Harrison township, I DESIRABLE I ARM adjoining 'and* OF ; Daniel Earnest. Hez. Miller. Hugh B. WERT and others, containing 140 acres, about 70 acres cleared and under fence. 20 acres of which is good meadow. The improvement* are a Two Story Log House, a LOG Barn ASD other buildings. Also, a small Orchard of choice apple trees. Tbe above farm is !N a good neighborhood and within a tni.e of Black's Steam Tannery. Sale Jo commence at 10 o'clock. JACOB HCFFTNER. Adm'r 2-jfebH of Tbos. Cook, dee'd. YALUABLE FARM FOR SALE The subscriber offers at private tele, a goo-j improved tarm (ituated in Snake Spring Twp., Bedford Co- Pa., two miles from M<-nnt I'*:!** staiion, on the Huntingdon and Broadt