gnmlrtia Jjrtemmu uaexsBiiie, pa. Saturdij Morning, : March 16, 1872. PDMra(l Stnto Cwwventf wii. Toranont tea resolution of the Democratic ftat Executive Committee this dar adopted, a Dvmoerntia State Conrention in number equal to the reprrsenmtion in both houses of tlte Legislature. Is hereby called to met in lieading-. Pa., on Thursday, May uh. ih.-, at 11 o'clock a. u., to nominate candidates Tor (ov crnor, Judge of '.he Supreme Court, and (should the Leirlslnture so determine) for AuditorOen- . . i . I . 1 . r. ritictit II . WW. wrai anci uncjaifs i .c..w. ...... al Conventloti. and also to form an electoral ticket and ncloct senatorial and representative delegates to represent the State In the Denio cmtlo National Convention. iiy order of the Executive Committee. William A. Wallack, Chairman. Attest Wm. M-Clem.and, Secretary. HarrUburtf, Feb. 15. 1S72. . At the election held in New Hampshire on last Tuesdaj, the radical candidate for Governor was elected by a majority of about fifteen hundred. When Grant ran for President be had a majority in the name State of seven thousand. In the face of Iheie figures the result is anythiug but ft radical victory. Wo think it is well that radicalism has succeeded by a mengre majority, for the reason that if the radical party had been defeated in that State. Grant would not have been renominated. Now lie will be, and that is just what majority of a million of the voters of the country wish, ia order that they may re cord their solemn verdict against Lim. The bill which passed the House pro bibitingthe sale of spirituous liquors, wine or cider by hate! keepers on the day of an election, and also prohibiting the giving of the same on said day by any person what ever, has pasped the Senate with an amendment, striking out the giving away clause and confining the prohibition to persons keeping public houses or drinking saloons. In this shape the bill goes back to the House for concurrence, which will doubtless be done, thus leaving any free" man who may be so inclined the privilege of getting as drunk as Bacchus oa elec tion day, provided ho has a friend or neighbor who will afford him the necessa ry facilities to bring about that result. This action on the part of the Seaate was very kind and considerate. GoTtRNon Geary threw a large bomb shell into the radical camp on laat Tues day, when ho sent a message to the Sen ate informing that body that ho bad ap pointed C. D. Hrigham, editor of the Pittsburgh Commercial, Auditor General the appointment to lake effect on the first Monday of next May, when the term f the present officer will expire. This action of the Governor is not easily un derstood in view of the fact that last week a bill passed the House authorizing Gin. ITartranft, the present Auditor Genera', to continue in office until his successor, to bo elected under the provisions of the bill next October, shall have been quali fied. Our own opinion is, that Geary has no power to make the appointment, but that it in purely a question to be dis posed of by the Legislature. As one branch of lhat body had already disposed of the matter, this unexpected movement by Geary brines him in direct conflict with tbo law-making power, unless the Legis late tj yields and a'lows Geary's will to prevail. The nomination was referred to the Judiciary Committee, and when it makes a report the question of conflicting power must be definitely settled. After Grant assumed the duties af the Presidency, it was very common for his most oathusiastic admirers to refer to bios as the 4:Second Washington." Even cow after bis total unfitness for the high office be holds has been fully demonstra ted, some of his thick and thin supporters occasionally repeat this libel upon the il lustrous Virginian who was '"first in war, first in peace and first in the hearts of his countrymen," Instead of resembling the dignified, anstere and high-minded Wash ington, Grant is only tit to be compared in tbe intensity of his avarice to another and a very different character in history, t'.ie Duke t f Marlborough. Horace Greely, who understands the moral beauty and greatness of Washington's character, and who also knows a good deal about Grant, published an editorial in the Tribune on the 22nd of February on tbo character of Washington, from which we take the fol lowing extract. Its significance is very apparent and indicates the writer's mean ing so clearly that he who runs may read: "Wo suggest that nerer before could tbo character of this man. so long foremost of all Americans, be studiad by his country men with more profit, lie had precisely those qualities which, either from climatic, or digestive or religious reasons, have grown exceedingly scared among us. Of brilliant men we have had a fair share, but Wash ington was not brilliant; of nervous, bead long, desperate chiefs, who off. red thtrir lives and that of their men as freely as water ; Washington knew the value of a private's life ami that of his own, and took care of both. We have had no lack ef rulers who used the government as mere machinery to lift them selves Into lasting notoriety, or itho sat like a pottpus in Us cave stretching out its feelers on every side to draw food into iU mate ; Washington teas not enriched one penny by the chances which his position gave Aim It is worth our while, therefore, to look back at this mao, whose body was six feet two and sound in proportion to its size; who was sober, honest and pure in his every day life i had common sense instead of gsoius ; aod who, in a plain, practical way, aerved jiis couotry, and not himself, to the od." A Suspected Governor; Ever since John V. Geary in bis last annual message undertook to defend the embezzlement of George O. Evans, a strong impression has been made on the popular miad that Geary himself knows all about the defalcation, and that he is in some way implicated in the dishonest transaction. That elaborate defence was so unusual, so unprecedented in an official State paper, that public opinion instinct ively associated the Governor with the swindle. It was a sorry spectacle to see the Executive of a great Commonwealth thus stoop from his high position and be come the open apologist of a man ac cused of haviBg plundered the treasury of a large amount of the public funds. The business of an honest Governor is to aid and assist in exposing a fraud of such magnitude, and not attempt to conceal and cover it up by a studied effort to convince the people that the charge is without any solid foundation and that Evans is more sinned against than sin ning. After the committee of investigation was appointed, the question naturally 6ugcsts itself, why did not John W. Geary presemt himself before it and ask tbat he might, under the solemnity of an oath, be permitted to tell all he knew in reference to the matter T Such would be the course lhat any nan, but especially if be were Governor, , would promptly have taken in view of publicly expressed suspicion against him. But he saw proper, for reasons best known to himself, not to adopt this self evidently necessary course to-vindicate his own personal integrity, and to-day there exists a strong and al most settled conviction throughout the State that her Governor is not, like Ca?sar'a wife, pure, but even beyond sus picion. It is a humiliating thought, but his own conduct in the matter and all the circumstances connected with the fraud irresistibly point to tbat conclusion. The testimony of William II. Kemble, who was State Treasurer at the time of Evans' appointment by Geary in 1867, was recently taken by the committee and is not at all calculated to relieve the Gov ernor. Kemble swore that the appoint ment of anv ooe to collect the amount due by the general government to the State, was a farce that there was no necessity for it that he himself hud ad- justed and settled 2,000,000 of the State claims with the Treasury department at Washington in 1806 lhat Geary had never communicated to him the fact that he had appointed Evans as the agent of the State in 1SG7, aad that he did not therefore know and could not have known that Evans was required to make a report to him (Kemble) twice a year. All this looks dark and suspicions aad is calcula ted to make the cae against Geary much more serious. Wt publish in another column an article from the Pittsburgh Gazitte as an evidence of what are the visws of a lending repub lican organ on tbe financial connectioa between John W. Gsary and George O. Evans. They are plainly expressed and easily comprehended. The Pittsburgh Disputed (radical) has also discussed - the Evans swindle at length, and cn Wednesday of last week closed an article in its columns as follows: "Gentlemen of the Legislature, Gov. Geary should bo prom till y impeached. There is enough of suspicion attaching to him to warrant such action osaiost him This will put him on his defense in these matters. He has defiled the Legislature, and ia suspected of criminal conduct as regards the use of State funds. You owe it to your selves, to the tax-payers, to the Common wealth to impeach him. We are cool incur juJgmeat. but decided. Geary should bo impeached." The House Committeh (of which Mr. Ilewit of Blair county is chairman) ap pointed to apportion the State into Con g essional dis r e's, reported a bill last week for that purpose. In this instance tbe radical mountain, after having been in labor for two months, instead of bringing forth a ridiculous mouse, has produced a very long-tailed rat. In this bill the counties of Hintingdon, Blair, Cambria and Somerset compose a district. It is very evident, from a glance at the bill, that Ilewit blocked out bis own district first, as a sine qua non, and having ar ranged it to bis own entire satisfaction, proceeded to form the remaining districts as best he could, without any regard to political justice and with a supreme con tempt for all the principles of honesty and fair dealing cn( which every apportion ment bill ought to be based. We can only account for this unblushing gcrry mander en the ground that its author is anxious to be sent to Congress a species of political mono mania which is said to prevail to an alarming extent among the radical members of the present able and intellectual House of Representatives. We do not propose to discuss this bill in detail and to point out its numerous abomina tions, as that would require too much time and apace. One instance of its gross and manifest injustice will indicate the char acter of the entire bill. It divides Phila delphia into five districts in a way so pe culiar as to render absolutely certain the election of four radicals and one democrat. We will admit, for the sake ot the argu- ment, that the radical party has a major ity of Jive thousand in that city. No intel ligent republican will claim any. more, while it has always beea contended by democrats, that at n fair election the ma jority is the other way. How then should the city be honestly apportioned ? Why in the very worst aspect of the case, into j three republican and two democratic dis tricts. All right minded men will admit the fairness of this proposition. Is not this bill, therefore, in view of this partic ular feature in it, an attempt toperpetrats a most monstrous wrong T Can any ex cuse at all be offered to justify it! In our judgment, tbe man who will vote for it violates his oath and knowingly dishonors his position. Governor Geary. Whether rightly or wrongly, we do not, at this time, pretend to guess, but some how or other the name of John W. Geary has become connected, in the minds of the people of the State, with the defalcation of Evans, the late Agent. Whether he was an accomplice in the theft, an acces sory either before or after tbe fact, the mass of the people, we reiterate, have come to believe that he is somehow or other mixed up in the matter, and is using his every power to prevent a full investi gation. We admit even so much, with great reluctance and sorrow, as we deplore from the depth of our heart that anything should occur to impair the standing of the Executive of the great Commonwealth of l'ennslyvania. Caa it be possible that he whom we have twice elected to the highest office in our State, has "bent the pregnant hinges of the knee," and stained his hands and his heart by accepting a portion of money known to him to have been illegal ly withheld from the treasury of the State? Can it be possible ? and yet tbe instincts of the general public seldom err. The citizens of the Stale have been slow to admit the thought, of the defilement of the Executive office ; but sundry and di vers curious and unlooked for movements of the Governor have greatly tended to excite the present suspicions which, unless soon dissipated, will grow until the finger of scorn will be pointed, and impeach- meat must follow. Why did not Gover nor Geury ask to be called before he com mittee promptly ? Oi.ce thiie, bis evi dence would have been accepted as truth, until controverted. Jit know, just . as well as George Evany, whetle It 's hands are clean and his heart pure. It does not require Evans' testimeny to establish that. The Governor himself will be accepted a authority on these points, for if, after- j wards, any ae doubt it, let him produce his proof. Wo all know that Evans kept a portion of tLe ramey uf the State, which legally or equitably did not belong to him. He has tuld us that much, and defws us. His testimony therefore is of no use on that point, and all that he is wanted for, is to tell the people, whose faithless agent he was, who shared wit't him the three hundred thousand dollars of public plunder. This he ought to tell, for if his position is conect, viz: that the amount claimed by the State is properly his own, then he bad a clear right to give it to whom he wished. But if he robbed the State, and divided the plunder among those who made such a division a condi tion of his obtaining the appointment, he ought still to make a clean breast of it ; but he will not do it if he can help it. He has probably already sworn not to tell, and he will doubtless keep his word, for honor among thieves ' has passed into a irovein But his flight and his silence will not help the Governor ; on the contrary, liken in connection with the other fact that the latter, supported by his attorney, refuses to bring him back, it will only heap coals of fire upon his head. The Governor, in self-defense, must take the 6tand, if he woul check the belief in his own guilty connection with the flying robber. Let him, at least, tell what be knows about Evans and his labors, and if he be inno cent of all complicity in the defalcation, and has not been a recipient of a portion of the money, let him say so. There are those who will believe him. The people of the State demand to know where this plunder went who got it. The Repub lican party demand thin, as the men wbo were placed in office by their votes are under suspicion. Let Mr. Graham's Committee call upon the Governor for his testimony ; he must not refuse it ; he will not, we frost. lhis is o time for punc tilio, the people have been trifled witb, and every citizen high or low must rei spond. The State is plaintiff and her summons must be obeyed. He who hes itates will be suspected. No honest mao will. Pittsburgh Gazette. Tna Gravest Issue or the Times. The great question of the day is that ef official corruption. This moral pestilence stalks abroad unabashed throughout tbe land, and whether it appears in the Ex ecutive Department or the other high de partments of the Government, or in rings in legislative halls, or in the municipal councils of cities, they must be crushed, or true Republicanism will perish. Great culprits must be brought to tbe bar of jus tice and punished as felons. High posi tions and great wealth must not shield the men who have amassed fortunes by steal ing from tbe people. The power is with the people to correct this great and glar ing ovil of the time, and tbey must handle without gloves the miscreants, whether high or low, who use their official posi (ions in order to rob the public Erie Observer. It is a remarkable fact that on Monday the tenth Congressional investigation com mittee was appointed to inquire into the malversations of Grant maladministration. This time the Secretary of the Navy is to be investigated. Ihe Custom bouse and arms investigations are proceeding, and the Seneca sand-stone inquiry has begun. Was there ever so much corrup lion under any administration before T Meeting on ue Democratic State ' Editorial Aoclutlou, Pursuant to the published call, a meet ing of tbe Democratic State Editorial As sociation convened in the Democratic Central Club ltoom, at Ilarrisburg, Mon day, March 4th, at three o'clock p. m. The President, II. L. Dieffenbacb, of the Lycoming Standard, in tbe chair. After transaction of general business, on motion of Chas. B. Brockway of the Columbian and Frank J. Magee, of the Star, it was ordered that the chairman of the Executive Committee, of the Demo cratic State Association, J. W. Brown of the Patriot, in connection with II. G. Smith of the Intelligencer, President of State Editorial Association, be empower ed to make such arrangements as they may deem necessary to insure a full at tendance of all members of the Associa ciation at Erie, on the second Tuesday in June, and that the members of the Asso ciation and those desirouo of becoming such, be informed, by circular, of the pro gramma of the contemplated excursion, witb instructions to notify the chairman of the Executive Committee whether or not it is their intention to bo preient, and if so over what Railroads they will pass. It was further agreed that the members of tbo Democratic Editorial Association residing in the eastern and central portions of the State, he directed to rtndezvcnsat Williamsporf, Monday evening, June 10, in order to take a special train for Erie, at an early hour on Tuesday morning. On motion of Mr. Z-iigler of the Ar ald, aod Mr Hamlin of the Age, Mr. Whitman of the Observer was selected to take chargo of and perfect preliminary arrangements for the reception of the ex curtioniets at Erie, and ia connection with twoother gentlemen, members of the State Editorial Association, to constitute a com mittee of arrangements and reception On motion adjourned until 9:30 o'clock Tues day a. ni., to meet in Senate committee rooms. skcond dat's session. 9:30 a m. Association met according to adjourn ment in Senate commiitee rooms. Min utes of previous meeting road by Secreta ry. Mr. Hamlin of the Age, Mr. Tate of the Sun and Democrut, Mr. Goodlandcr of the Ripublictn, and Mr. Cornman of the Monitor, signed the constitution and were made members of the Association. Letters were received from a number of gentlemen regretting their inability to be present. On motion of Mr. Meek, of the "Watch man, and Mr. Stable, of the Compiler, it was ordered that the Secretary be instruct ed to procure a suitable book in which to transcribe and preserve the records of the Association. The annual address was read by tha President, Air. DiefFenbdch of the Stun dard. On motion of Mr. Whitman of the Ob scrver, and Mr. Meek of the Witc'uiiun, the following resolution was unauitnoubly adopted : Resolved, That the addiess or the presi dent be accepted and eudersed as an author hive expression of the views of tl o members of the Democratic State Elitoiial Associa tion and be priuted as part ef the regular proceedings of this meeting. After a friendly discussion of matters pertaining to tbe interests of the Associa tion aad its members by Messrs. Ham lin, Stable, Tate, Sansom, Smith and Furey, and there being no further busi ness, the Association adjourned. H, L. Dikkkkn bcii, President. Wilijam P- FciiET, Secretary. Hemarkabi.e Scf.nk. A Whole Congre galion Taking the Total Abstinence Pledge. week Sunday oveuing a most remarkable scene was witnessed in the old church of St. John's (Catholic) parish. Patterson, New Jersey. 1 u Uev. Wm. McNulty, pastor, at all the ni'Tinog masses had read liisnop Iiaylev's Ltnten pastoral, and feelingly dwelt upon the passage wherein the Bishop declares that "the spectacle of a stiong man behind tbe bar, dealing out crimb, muery and death, instead of earning an honest living in some manly way, was the most pitiable sight imaginable." Iln announced that the old church in which they had wor shiped for years would be opened that even ing for the purpose of administering the total abstinence pledge to all who might wish to commence Lent in this praiseworthy manner, and that he had invited tbo Presi dent of the Catholic State Temperance Union to deliver au address, and would him self address to them a tmi exhortations on the subject. About two thousand pereous were packed in the old church at seven o'clock. The altar was hidden away behind draper ies and banners, a platform being erected in front. Pews and aisles on the fior gad galleries were crowdeJ. The pastor delivered an Impressive ad dress which was listened to with breathless attention, and introduced Mr. J. W. O'Brien of tha State Union, who spoke for an hour Father McNulty then called upon his peo pie to join the army of teetotalers, antLluld those so disposed to stand up. Ia an in stant fully one thousand people were on their feet. They reoeated the pledge aloud, aud received the priest's benediction. The presidents of St. Patrick's, St. Joseph's. St. John's, of Paterson, and Passaic St. Pat rick's itocieties were on the platform. The meeting was compared to one of O'Connell's monster emancipation meetings. England has for a long time been deeply interested in the progress of a suit for the recovery of the Ticbborne estate, instituted by an individual claiming to be Sir lloger Tichborne, who it is claimed by the defendants died many years ago. The case catne to a sudden and unexpected end on Wednesday of laat week. Upon the opening of the court, the counsel for the claimant announced that their client had decided, in view of the action of the jury on Monday in saying that they had heard sufficient evidence whereon to base their verdict, to withdraw bis cause from before the court. After this announcement had been made the counsel for the defense asked the lord chief justice to issue his warrant for the arrest of the claimant on the charge of perjury, and to fix his bail at 250,000. This request was granted, a bench warrant issued for his arrest, and he was taken to Newgate prison. Deci dedly a rough time Sir Roger Tichborne will have before he comes into his own. Rire strawberries from Cuba are now being sold in Baltimore. The Attack on the Queen. Her Majesty of England bs just been the subject of another sensation. While return iDg to Buckingham Palace, the other day. in ber carriage, a poor boy named O'Connor, scarcely eighteeu years old, ana evidently warped in naiod. approached her suddenly with something that looked like a pistol in odo hand and a paper in the other. The foolibh youth was captured very easily, and it then turned out that the pistol was an old thing that a whole tun of powder would hard !y induce to "go off," and that there was aothing in it anyway. aDd the paper proved to be a pardon for the Fenan prisoners, which the Queen was to be compelled to sign, under the influence of the old pistol that could not do any one any harm. When the boy was captured, a feat due to the presence of mind of the celebrated John Brown (not him whose peripatetic aoul is declared, in 6uperloyal American doggerel, to be still marching on, but the Scotchman who. as her Majesty's fa vrtrite groom, has been not entirely uncon nected with certain royal scandals) ho turned out to bo a grandson of Fearjus O'Connor, the well-remembered Chartist laader, who died iu an insane asylum some eighteen years ago. Of course the London press immediotely raited a terrible hullabulloo over the freak of the youcg enthusiast, which fic-ak was mag nified into a moit dastardly aud infernal at tempt to assassinate the Queen. And the prsfs was not slow in drawing comparisons between this most dastardly, infernal, etc. attempt and the great demonstration of re gard for her Majesty which was mnde a few days before (by tbe nobility) in St. Paul's Cathedral. But the poor boy really had no more thought of killing tha Queen than he bad of disputing royal claims with the Piince of Wales. Mca with murder in their hearts do not usually approach their intended vic tims with empty anJ superannuated pistols. Young O'Connor'probably thoopht he coull frighten the Queen into signiug the form of pardon which he held toward her, hut he certainly could cot have any purpose of doing her bodily harm. 1 1 is act was most impro per, of coiirsa, but so are the acts of simple tons, lunatics and enthusiasts generally. The boy did not realize what he was doing, lie is eisnply an impetuous youth who fancied that he might immortaliza himself by com pelling the liberation of tha political prison ers, the many petitions for whose release not elicited even an acknowledgment from Victoria, to whom they were addressed. And now Mr. John Brown has a big feather in his Scotch cap fur saving her Majesty from a dastardly young assassin who went up to her carriage with an empty old pistol that would p robably be indignantly njtcted by the most disreputable jubk dealer iu London. Q :een Victoria has had an experience much like that of otl cr rulers in respect of attempts upon her life. The first of these was made iu 1840. by a crazy lad named Jnhn Oxford, who actually firrd at her, Lut whose bullet missed its jbect. Oxford meant to kill, whereas the latest" wou!d-le assassin" evidently had to thought of killing. The second attempt whs made two years Ister, by one John Francis, who was captuieJ. tried ana sentenced to be hangnd, but whose ten- teuce the Queen commuted I t transportation for life. Only two months passed after the attempt of Fraocis when a third assassin, J. . Boan, sought to put an eud to tier Maj esty's life, but his pietul was struck down beforo he had a chance te hre. lie wat im prisoned for eighteen months, and had to undergo the proctsa of whipping, which, ac cording to act of Parliament, was then the penalty fr the cunne. It seems to be a reg ular contingency of royal rule, or political rule of any kiud, that the ruler may become an oti-ci of assassination at any time. Withiu a few vears we hare seen ntinuipts on the lives of Loirs Napoloan, the Emperor of liussia, the King of I'rursia, and lately. according to reports, ou thote of 1 tesident Thiers and Prince Bismarck. The latest was perhaps the most foolish and fantastic of aM, for the whole proceeding partook of tha char acter of a silly, boyish demonstration. Yonog O'Connor is of English birth, but it seems the harsh treatment of the Irish po litical prisoners has preyed upon his mind until he has become a sott f monomaniac. But there may be men of much Bounder mind than his who would, for the same cause, go much further than he did io seeking revenge. It appears that 6ome fifty persons aro still held in custody by the English Government for acts connected with the Fenian undertak ing. Petitiou after petition for the release of these prisoners, all of whom are treated with barbarous severity, have been addressed to the Queen, bnt she has not even deigned to notico them. Certainly it is not strange that the indifference of the Queen, coupled with the cruel harshness of the treatment to which the prisoners are subjected, has exas perated many who symapthize with the vic tims of English law, and led at least one hot-headtd young fellow to risk his own life for their liberation. Arthur O'Connor's act was a very, foolish one. but the cause of it may be truce. 1 to the systematic injustice and outrage of which Ireland and Irishmen have long been victims at the bunds of brow-beat-iag England Metropolitan Record. ITosrtb'.b Mukdes is Onio. Dayton, March 10. A horrible murder was commit ted six miles northwest of this ci'y, last night. A woman named Mary Matquardt. aged about thirty-five, and three children, aged respectively six and eight years and six months, are supposed to have been killed by tbe husband, Leonard Marquadt, who is now in jail. The woman was found in bed naked atid apparently strangled. The children were found on the bank of a creek some dis tance from the house. The two eldest had been drowned and the infant heart was crushed. An inquest will be held on Mon day. Cincinnati, March 11. Further pirticu lars in regard to the murder of a woman and three children, near Dayton, Saturday night. indicate that the murder was committed by the father. Leonard Marquardt. who is evi dentlv insane from a spiritual cause.' The ktorv which tbo man himself tells is that a few dan ego he read a chapter to bis family from the Bible, and then, rising up. accused his wife of being a witch and using witch craft. lie says his eldest daughter confirmed him in his suspicions, lie says also lhat on Saturday night be told bis wife he wanted their children to leave ; that both he and his wife stripped naked, and knelt down and prayed for fifteen minutes.- They then strip ped two of the children aod took them out and drowned them, and laid them side by side on tho bank of the stream. They tnen dashed out the brains of the infant and left it lying in tho woods, after which they re turned home and went to bed. After lying thore for fifteen minutes he told his wifo that he wanted to send her to heaven also, and immediately fell upon her aud strangled her to death. After that bo arose and prayed until three o'clock ia the morning, when he went to the nearest ureighbor and told him the whole story. Marquardt is a German farmer, and has been in this country about eighteen years. The murdered woman was his second wifo. The small-pox has so pauperized tbe pto pl of South Chester. Pa., that public mea- Uures had to bo taken for their relief. Kef vi of tiie WeeXi. An Iowa, farmer .employs nice oik jn the cultivation of his fields. An Indians Bluebeard has married sev en consecutive wives, all nameu Alary There will be a general celebration of j St. Patrick's Day this ytar throughout Penn- sylvania. Pittsburgh now boasts r.f a coal. trsd amounting to three million five hundred tons annually. The Illinois river has cr-ntinupd fr zm over since November, a fact almost unpre cedented. Tru rumor has pno abroad that a cewly-bern isfant. in i'errv county, has a waterfall "oo the place where the hair ought to grow." Steam power will be extensively used for propelling boats, on the Pennsylvania canal, the coming searon. instead of horse or mule tsams. A man named McGo hot himself ac cidentally in Portland. Oregon, on Sunday week, and. driven frantic from pain, cut his throat and died on Friday. Tt is stated that sixteen families have de cided to lesve Bellefonte on account of the high rents. If true, that is a magnificent point for some enterprising builder. A farmer's child, near Biddeford. Maine, last week died of cold and starvation while its parents were away drunk, and a j famished hound mutilated the corps. j A colony of Pennsylvania farmers. I about three hundred families, mostly from ; York. Cumberland, and Adams counties, i will settle in Ilussell county, Kan., about ' April 1st. J Straw, the repuh'iran candidate for eov- i ernor at the New ILimpfchire- election on ! Tuesday, employs over 4. COO workmen, j These were the straws that made a favorable ' wind blow. ) Judge Barrett has printed a stay of j proceedings in the esse rf Foster, the car honk murderer of A. C. Putnam, In New York. The case will be carried to the Court of Appeals. I Samuel Fargue. a fhiftleFs fellow, phot ! and killed his wife at Grnnnsh, New i York, duricg a quarrel ; shot at. but misted. J his daughter, aged 18. and then cut his throat, dying in a few minutes. j Maria Mengel. aged 92 years, the old- j est resident of Windsor towMihip. Berks County, was buried recently. She wan the mother of 9 clr.Idren. and hail 7 1 grandchil dren and 146 great grandchi'dren. A farm is advertised for sale in F.irm Ingtnn, Gnn., for no portion of which any deed was ever given, it having remained in the sarae family f.r two hundred and thirty two ears. ever since the original purchase from the Indians. There are now living in Fulton town ship, Lancaster county, three men and the i , ... same numner oi women wnote united ages amount to 523 years, nearly five centuries and a quartsr. The eldest is 97 and the youneest about 84. Ihe State Senate passed a j int resoln tion extending the session cf the Legislature to April 10th, but tbo II. use by a vote of 8 yeas and 73 nays refused to agree to the resolution. The tim fixed for adjournment is the 2Sih instant. The Wil'iamsport Sun saya : A cer tain young lady in this citv advised a gen tleman friend not to take flatirona to bed with him cn cold nights, as they miht tcarp his feel. The s' lipid fellow did not kuow ocorrgh to take the hint and propose. A mammoth cave, the rival of the Ken tucky phenomenon, is reported ia Grant county, Wis. It is sid to couiaio oceans ef water, and adventurous parties have rowed in hosts to a gr-at distance within the cave. Considerable mineral wealth is also reported. A lew days since tna Mate I reasurer r.f Tennessee footed tip his total receipts at $1 in currency, which moves rur cotemporary of the L uisville Courier Journal to ssv that this is one solitary dollar that the Badicals didn't sieal during the reign of St. Wm. G. Erownlow. At Toledo. Ohio, on Sunday nipht. a drover named J. A. Miller, of Goshen. N.Y.. was robbed of about J 12.000. Eight thous and of the amount was subsequently found in a saloon, where it had been left hv the thief, bnt the remainder, together with the robber, are till missing. j Rev. J. H. Grier of Jeraev Shore is eighty four years of age has preached the Gospel sixty years married five hundred aud eighty-six couples, and from his good hunlth and activity, we have no doubt he will be spared to "tie maay knots" yet. This is certainly tho wUh of his manv friends. A correspondent of the Kansas Far mer writes from Solomon as follows: "From a single pumpkin seed there grew a vine with one huudred and six branches, that mea sured in the aggregate, one thousand three hundred and sixty-eight feet. The pump-, kins were very large, one measuring four feet four inches the short way, by six feet six inches the long way." An English gaoie-keeper has recently brokeu a black sow to hunt game in the woods, and she is said to run in the hunt with wonderful success. She will track game, back and stand and point partridges, pheasants, snipe and rabbits as skillfully as a bred pointer ; meanwhile uncurling her tail and stretching it out as stiff as a poker. She responds to a whistle, aad squeals with delight on being shown a gnu. A man named Bnjman Kanterman, committed auicido on Monday night last, at Schuylkill Haven, Pa., by cutting his throat. Sickness and trouble in his family, no doubt, caused him to commit the deed. His wife and three children are down with the small pox, and as usual in such cases, very few of the neighbors ventured near to render him aay assistance in cariug for his family, they beinjr in indigent circumstances. Emanuel SchafJuer. of West Hanover township, Dauphin county, of thi State, who was arrested on the 2th of October last for tha aiurder of his first and second wives and John Sliarlock, by poisoning, has been on trial since Monday, the 4th instant, at Ilarrisburg. The trial lasted till Mon day evening, when the jury went out. Oa Tues lay morning tho jury returned, and ren dered a verdict of guilty of murder io tho first degroe." A motion for a new trial has been mado. David Thomas, the great iron master of the Lehigh Valley, has written a letter which fully establishes tho fact that ho was the first who succeeded in making iron with anthracite coal. lie brought tho manufac ture to perfection in Wales ic 1837, and was induced to coma to this country, when ho erected a furnace at Easton. Pa., in 1839. From that time until tho present he has con tinued the manufacture cf anthracite iron and 400.000 tons aro annually made in the ! T L! U IT. 11. " . Lieiiiu aiiey. Mary Ann Connors, a voting daughter of Thomas Connors, a farmer, living near Hyde Park, L. I., died in convulsions on Wednesday, after being sick only a few hours. An inquest was held by Coroner Watt, of Flushing, which resulted in a ver dict of "death from convulsions." While the family were attending tho funeral, on Monday, another child died at its mother's breast in a similar manoer. Tho coroner has the matter in charge, and a mor tem examination will probably be tbe result. 1 tie Ieiiiisj 1 anlii Central. Six Thousand Miles) with AIcxU. Nothing more distinguishes the niar.!!is rnrut of the Pennsylvania Central It iilroa 1 Comnsnv thau its uuick and a 'list c.,,'u bje8 to .mineBt people who come to tis fr,jTU Iromptitude aad may ue cueu among uie vinuen ui wjis iii.t. Operated by electricity and steam, it ruowj ; rapidly nnd without advertisement. As au illustration of this thought, the Philadel,l,:4 Press refers to the way in which the Peun sylvacia Company anticipated the wanu ; and provided for the cmfjrts of the Grau l Duko Ak'xis. IPs Imperial Highness te I solved, and perhaps had been instructed, to make a continental lour of America. He lia seen New York, Bstoa, Baltimore, Wash ington, but he or his advisers seemed to feel that tho only way to see the whole country was through the spectacles of such a states man as tho president of the l'nas'y vanu Central. This fact known.it was dtet rains I that a gentleman shonld be selected tosuj.pr iutend the movsmeDts of tho railroad trvr,, &c, and to accompany the Grand D;ik throtigh the United States as the guet d id eation. The choice fall upon Prank Tir ci son. of the Pennsylvania am! Erie r l. s :t r.f the late lamented Judge Th .n-.s-n.; : Franklin county. Peunsylvania. 11 w w he discharged his trut maybe undent, by those who know his care and c mirto; We are not. therefo e. rnrprise 1 at the f ljwing letter from Admiral roiset. tLe heal of tho staff of ihe Grand Duke Alexi. It n addressed to John E lgar Thomson, pn sidei t of the Pennsjl vania Rilmad Company, p will be noted that the Admiral refers i;n gratification to the fact that un 'er Mr. Fr;ir k Thomson's management the Grand Dura! party had traversed over six thousand n.iVs of railway in the United States by spn-ial trains without a single accident or detention upon tho whole journey a circurr.titr, which in itself rflecta much credit npjo hi management of American railways. T.m following is the Admiral's letter: PFNSACor.A, February 2. 12. Sir: On ar ririnjr at the end of his journey, his Iiiiu.tu! Highness the Uraorl Duke Alexis heg-s to us.ir? you that he felt K-reat pleasure in ex) rt-.-in; his complete satisfaction with all the nrrantr"--inents of Mr. Frank Tuompon. To conduct n large party over nearly six thousand miles o? rail many bolontrinsr to muny diirerent coin pa nies without the slightest inisunderst..ud!i V or delay during the whole journey, required an amount of intelligence, experience, foresiytrt nb.l eneriry, which we luckily found c.)ui'.)i;ie I , lo the rentleuian who had charge of the expe- aitioti. ) I tuny add that Mr. Thomson's irentlomrj; : manners made bim no less nirrccalile as u c.iu i pituioii than Ills other qualities made him iuva; j iirtjle as a manager. As Mr. Frank Thmisun ! has been bo useful to the guest of the A mer:ca;i nation. I trn?t you will not regret having been i for pome time deprived of his service". 1 ' . 1 . L . . . I i I uin, sir, jour most obedieut servant, K. Pkisset. J. EIjGAR Thomson, Esq., Philadelphia. When the young Duke returns to his f im ily and friends, and telis the ftory of w,; he haa seen on this coatioent, he will per haps recall the experiment of his aucrM Peter the Great, who had many hope of th future, and who journeyed Ur for ki.ow'ljis aud yet never in his wildest oreama amici pated that ot; of his posterity should lis. verse ix thousand in:'e with a Yankee ! Fruiik Thcinsor, as his pnide, a tai idly h a balloon, and as safbly as in one of his ottu St. PeterbLurg or Moscow dro.-chkas. The CIi air from (be Wheat. Nature throughout all her operation drj precisely what the hut-handman does when he wimows the chuff fiom the wheat too it is with the blood in the hrtraau brdv, as it passes in its course of repaiaiion of ti e various parts engaged in the functions rf life; it winds its way through tl.ia orgao and the other, the drojs or worn ou; m:Triai i separated from the good blood ; thus the liver secretes the bile; the kidney the nrir., tho bowls the feculaut matter t rculiar : thorn, the skin is con'ii.ual'y throwing :r insensible and sensible perspiration, and i: . in this way that the harmony aad health !' the circle of life i maintained. 1 1 acu'o diseases there is a sudden check of ubs frui tion to some one or more of these fuuctiou; in chror.ic diseases it also exists, tut not i the same extent this makes aa acute disee rapid in its course, and a chronic one, as rj name imports, slow and of bng duration. Tbey are both curable. The first by a :z orous and active treatment, and the ia!t-r I v a slower and surer method. Py the i!e r.f Dr. Ketsbr's Less Curb tho obntmciioM are gradually removed, the cough which in duces consumption is aliased, and its cams expelled from the system, the stomach is re stored to its tone and vigor; the kidnevs rl - minate the urine; the liver secretes he'tl.y bile, and thus disease pives way to heal !,. Consumption itself ia cured, especially i;i ti.e beginning, bv ths course. Head Dr. Keyser's treatise on chronic '---i diaeases . to bo had gratis at his me..! lev s store, 1G7 Liberty atreet, Pittsburgh. IV Office hours from 10 a. u. to 1 p sr.. a;.', from 3 P. M until C, and Saturday n'ght until 9 o'clock. A Whistling Baby. The Fu'Uon Dem- crat has an item iu regard to a new p'.xlir io that county in th abat e of a "whistli'i baby." It says : -Tue Chambersburg Re pository yields the palm to Fuiton c uut v a. tho champion producer of prodigita. mon strosities, &c. aud now we come with a pra digy in the Fine Art line which we thi: k removes the dilapidated linen' at once. H is nothing more n.r less than a 'Whistling Baby' a little waif about eight months old. that would claim, if he could, Ayr township as h's residence, and wba delights his doling mother el al, after partaking of the lacteal nourishment, or betwn drinks, with whitt ling, in imitation of the rnot approved mas ters, and in strains of exquisite melody. Thi is commencing young:, aud we predict that he will 'charm the very birds out out of tlie buih by the time he is twonty-one." A Freak of Nature. Mr. L. Hote, who resides a short distance- north of Auburn. Ky., recently bad a cow that, in the course of two weeks, become solargt that she cou'd not stand up, and when lying down, was in bo much misery that ho concluded to kill her. Upon a jwst mortem examination the cow was found to contain thirteen well de veloped calves, two of which were of ordinary sire, tho remaining eleven be'mg tho size cf young pigs. A New Fail field (Ct.) man has inven ted a torpedo in shape of a kernel of corn, which is designed for the beguileraeot of crows. As soon as the offensive bird takrs bold of it, it explodes and blows tbe top of its head off. This affords a cheap and in nocent recreation for the crow, and at the same time does away with thegrievious evil. We have seen it stated in various paprf throughout the country that agents for the Palo of Sheridan's Cavalry Condition Pov ders were authorized to refund the m. aey to any r'tson who should use them and not bs satisfied with the result. We doubted this at first, bat the proprietors authorize as t say that it is true. Johnson's Anoptne I.imimcnt is. with out doubt, the safest, surest, and best reme dy that has ever been invented for internal and external use. It is applicable to a gre variety of complaints, aud U equally heceu ctal fcr man or beast.
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