ti 1 m.i&ms-aHt,Mi-, r.!'-.' Ji J4 eh: THE ClBRii Wmi& ECENSDURC, PA., Friday Mornin, - December 20, 1S7'2. , . 11.... 1 ct Cameron, ins t;o-"-, """"i -'"ve , (1. at liisc feet be ":ls l"?n taught pure principles of political morality, j j There, too, lie can iiojei sweet connel with Clayton, of Arkansas, Ames, of Mississippi, j Poineroy and Caldwell, of Kansas, ami I possibly Spencer, of Alabama, and Grant's I brother-in-law, Cncy, of Louisiana Vii f rt Ohtov. ProVulentof the "" , : . . 1. rVintl.1IIV, lunula shares of the ; L nited States was legardod as the aiic-t ern Union Telegraj Vi()mft the owner of f fty-one capital stock of the -New York Tribune Association," constituting a majonty of the shares, lias assumed the control of that jnirnal. Wlutelaw Reid, who has edited the p.1 per since Mr. Greeley's nomination at Baltimore, retires, and it is said ihat Schuyler Colfax wi;l be his successor. Hereafter the Tribune will be the mere shadow of what it was under the manage tuvnt and control of Horace Crecley. It will be like the play of Hamlet with the part of Hamlet left out. - Pitsce it has been stated, apparently on Triable authority, that a radical Croesus f-om Schuylkill county named Tower is a candidate for United States Senator, the orgaus of Simon Cameron throughout the brate manifest a decided feeling of alarm. The Tlarrisbiirg Telegraph is especially uneasy, and fearing the blandishments of Tower's greenbacks, threatens that gen tleman with the terrors of the District At torney and Grand Jury of Dauphin county, if he resorts to legislative brilery to secure his election. This is decidedly cool com ing from a paper which on all occasions f a Senatorial election lias been the unblush ing apologist and mouthpiece of Simon Cameron. lias the Telegraph forgotten how Cameron bought his way into tho Feuate in 1857 by corruptly purchasing the votes of that immortal trio Lebo, Wagon-keiit-i and Manear? Has he no recollec tion of the next contest, in 180:1, when Charles R. Buckalew was elected over Ciiuieron by one vote, and in reference to which a report of a committee of the House chrrged Cameron, John J. I'atterson (recently elected a Senator from South Carolina through purchased negro votes) ai'd others with bribery, and that a resolu tion was adojtcd by the House instructing the Attorney General to prosecute them. At Cameron's last election the fame dis graceful scene was re-enacted and radical mcmWrs, pledged to Curtin, Stevens, and Forr.ey, were bought witb Cameron's mnncv like sheen in the shambles. (am nion never yet held an oflice in this State except by bribing and debauching the rej reseutatives of the jieople. This has al ways bceu his political stock, and when bis tools and understrappers raise their hands in holy horror at the enormity of corruptly using money in securing votes for a &eat in the Senate their brazen hy pocrisy can only be paralleled by tho spec tacle of a footpad inveighing against high way robbery or a drab interposing a plea in behalf of female chastity. Cameron will be re-elected beyond all peradventure aid the member from Cambria will cover her with lasting shame and dishonor, and will gibbet himself in the opinion of all her people, by aiding with his vote to con summate the disgraceful fraud. There was a time w hen the Senate of the and most dignified deiilu-rat it e body in tne world, but now it has become to a very great extent a refuge for mere political ad venturers and a haven for feurvy, second rate and meicenary politicians. ! &j-cr and Town send. John J. I'atterson. Tor forty years prior to tho commence ment of the late rebellion, no State in the Unicm was represented in the Senate of the United States by men of purer charac ter and more distinguhhtd ability than South Carolina. Calhoun, Ilavne, Pinck ney, McDuffie, and others of almost equal renown, were giants in their day. The in tellect of he South encountered that of tl-.e Noith in high debate,, and the memo rable contest between Haynear.d Webster, ia 1S30, on the nullification question, w ill be lead and admired for its unsurpassed eloquence and power by millions yet un born. That State is now under the domination of ignorant negroes and corrupt carpet baggers, and as the stream cannot rise higher than its source, her representatives in Congress are the exact counterpart of their constituents. There is an old and a true saying, that when the political caul dron boils the scum is sure to come to the surface, and hence, on the ioti innUnt. the disgrace and degredation of South Car olina culminated in the election of the man whose name heads this article to the Uni ted States Senate as the successor of F. A. Sawyer. Patterson, is a native of Juniata county, in this State, and was always the willing and unscrupulous tool of Simon Cameron, and, like bis master, was always rt ady to assist in debauching members of the Legislature in case of an emergency. His reputation at llarrisburg, where for laany sessions of the Assembly he was one f the chiefs of the lobby, was of the most corrupt and infamous character. Four or f ve years ago, stimulated by the marvel ous pecuniary as well as political success of Northern carpet-baggers who had pitch ed their Arab tents in the South, I'atterson emigrated to South Carolina, and, true to his natural instincts, became identified with a ring of white and black plunderers thro' whose systematic villainy that State has been reduced to a condition of absolute and hredumable bankruptcy. Patterson ha become rich through his ill-gotten ipuils and is regarded as a tii st class states man in that negro ridden and plundered State. The negroes, who are in a large majority in the Legislature, sell their votes as they do their ch iekens or sweet potatoes, fjr a consideration, and Patterson invested largely in the purchase t f negro ballots. Hi prominent competitor was Elliot, one cf the negro Congressmen from the State, but Patterson's greenbacks threw Elliot iu the shade and rendered Aw (Patterson's) calling and election sure. On th same day that he was elected he was arrested on charges oi onbery based upon eleren affi davits of negro membersof the Legislature, but was released on bail, if ho could only be sent to the penitentiary instead of to the Senate, it would be a happy deliverance both for the people of the State he has I We give below a running debate which i took place in the national House of Repre sentatives, one day last week, between Mr. Speer, member from this district, and Mr. Townsend, whe represents the Chester dis- ' trict, and in which several other members ' participated. The subject under discus i sion was a bill relating to land bounties to j soldiers. "We are not familiar with the j ' merits of the bill, and if we were, it is not ! j necessary here to discus? them. Suffice it j say that Mr. Speer supported the bill, while ' Mr. Townscnd opposed it. The right of tho latter to urge his objections to the measure we do not of course dispute, but when he saw proper to reiterate the radical slang of the day by asserting that '"the sol diers of tho war were Republicans," and that "nine-tenths of them were Republi cans, while the remainder of them may have been Democrats," lie deliberately and knowingly uttered a falsehood, and the truth of history demanded that he should be promptly informed of the fact by Ml, Speer as representative of the party thus wantonly and falsely assailed. Townscnd impudently sets up the claim that the re bellion was overthrown entirely and solely by soldiers belonging exclusively to the Re publican party, seemingly forgetful of the fact that niembeisof the radical faith of much more prominence than himself have not been afraid to avow that it was the negro troop who broujjlit the contest to a successful termination. Roth declarations are false, as every intelligent man knows. It is a source of peculiar gratification to the Democracy of this district to know that they are represented in Congress by a manlike Mr. Speer, who is always prepared j to give a reason for his political faith, and who is ready on all occasions boldly and eloquently to repel low and unfounded as saults upon the party to which he belongs and of which he is so able a defender and so bright an ornament. Mr. SrFrit. Mr. Speaker, the general policy of granting lands to actual settleis needs no vindication at my hands. Time and the experience of the country have jus tified it. Jiut the step proposed by the pres ent hill is supposed to he a departure, at lua.-t to some extent, from the homestead policy, and therefore it encounters most serious rip position on this floor. The homestead bill requires a residence of five years to make title. Under the law passed at th last ses sion of Congress the features of the home stead bill were preserved, but when a settle ment was made by an honorably discharged soldier, his widow, or orphan children, the time wliirh he served in the Army, or in ease of death, the time of enlistment, was deduct ed from the five years required of the citizen to complete his title. This bill, M r. Speaker, goes a step further, and the step is, as I con ceive, in the rijiht direction. It proposes that not only shall the time the soldier served in the Army 1m; deducted from the time in quired to complete the title, but the soldier shall have the riiht to substitute a party or other person to make that settlement for him in his own right; in other words, that ho shall have the rijrht to sell his certificate to any one who will mate an actual settlement on the land. Now, the Government, it will be, observed, Mr. Speaker, loses nothing by ths except what it already loses under the existing law. It loses from the live years' service the time the soldier served in the Army, and it can niakenodirlerenco to the Government wheth er the settlement on the land be made by the soldier in person or by the person who takes his place. That is the step made by this bill, lint it goes still further, ami provides that those soldiers who have become maimed and crippled in Ihe service of tho Government, who by reason of th-jr wounds or loss of limbs are unable to lrave their homes ami go to the wilds of the western country and there settle upon the Government land for themselves, shall have the riht to make that settlememt by an agent or attorney; and this provision is extended to the widows and or phan chlidren of those who died of wounds received or disease contracted in the service; and this, in my judgment, is a most just and righteous provision. If a wounded soldier does not wish ro sell his right under this hill tO locate due liuulrctrmifl Utracra UnH he can employ an agent to enter upon it for him. It will lc observed, Mr. Speaker, that the element of settlement is preserved, the ele ment of the homestead law; but where the soldier by reason of the service he has ren dered to the country, resulting in the loss of limbs or of liodily health, has liecome unable to make that personal settlement himself, then he shall have the right to contract with an agent or attorney, who shall make that settlement for him. Now, what does the Government lose by this provision? This bill proposes to substitute for the actual set tlement of a crippled, wounded, or aged sol dier the actual settlement perhaps of an able hodicd citizen, who in the vigor of health and in the bloom of younger years shall go upon the land and make it blossom as the rose. In all this the interests of the Gov ernment are protected, and the. interests of the soldier, the wounded, maimed, and crip pled soldier, are protected. I regard this as the most beneficent feature of the bill. But it is said by the gentleman from Con necticut Mr. Hawi.f.yJ that these certifi cates Wing assignable, the market will be overflowed with them and they will liecome valueless. It will be observed that the bill does not. compel the soldier to make tho lo cation within a year, but it compels him within one year after the location is made to complete the settlement ; so that it may be one or five or ten or twenty vears before tho land is actually surveyed and tho certificate issued. Hut after the survev is made and after the certificate is issued' then onlvt I year can elapse before the. settlement is maun ; so mail nave no doubt under tho present bill, if it should become a law, manv of th-soldiers of the country w ill perhaps wait for some time lie fore thev elnitn ;L benefits, before they have the one hundred ; and sixty acres surveyed and set apart for them. They will wait perhaps until their children, now little In.ys around them, shall I have grown to manhood, and they will then i assign their certificates to them and let them go upon the laud and settle upon it and ac ' quire the title, if, Mr. Speaker, there should j be in this age of railroads and monopolies j , and laud-grabbers, any of the Government j domain left at that time. Thus, the soldier ! and his family will he benefited, the Govern- j ; ment land will be settled, and an act of ins- i nee win im cione oy me nation to the brave men to whom it owes its life. not represent the private soldiers of the country; thev lvpresent the political sol diers of the country, and ll;.i officers of the country, who are controlled by the railroads and the moiioriolies. And when I made the c harge on the stump in my district that the Governor-elect of Pennsylvania had signed suc h re solutions as these, and had forwarded them to both Houses of Congress at the last session, 1 was denounced by a paper in his interest in iny district most bitterly as a liar; and yet my Cilieagiit? presents those resolu tions to-i-jry upon this lloor, signed by Gen. Har'ratift, when the man who signed them, by the papers supporting him tor Governor, and through his friends on the stump, denied that he had ever indorsed them or knew any thing about them. They are presented hero as the expression of the" honest sentiment of the soldiers of Pennsylvania, when inthe re cent canvass in my State, General Hartv ranft's approval of them was earnestly dis avowed. Mr. Townsekd, of Pennsylvania. If iny colleague w ill allow me, I wish to inquire oi him what meinlx-r of that committee has ever denied that he signed these resolutions? Mr. Sl-KKK. I sav the Governor-elect, by the newspapers advocating his election, and through his political frie nds on the stump in mv district and throughout the State, during the canvass, denied that he had ever signed them. , . ,,, 1 Mr. Towssesi), of Pennsylvania. vill ; mv collea-'iie allow mo a moment merely to i sav that thtf Governor-elect of Pennsylvania has never, so far as I know, or so iar as me gentleman can prove, denied anything that is in those resolutions, or denied that he sign ed them.' And 1 wish to say in addition that that convention was not a political con vention of soldiers, but was a convention of soldiers without respect to party. Mr. Spr.KK. My colleague evades the point. He well knows ticut the Governor elect of Pennsvlvania neither asserted nor denied anvthiiig on the stump in the recent canvass. "lie was not a stumper. Mr. Towxsf.sd, of Pennsylvania. Nor did the President of the United States. Mr. SfKFK. I did not allege that the Gov-erii.ir.elei-t had nersonallv denied that ho thU House. I think this bill appeals to the sense of justice of every man who desires to j legislate lor a class or citizens wno ueserve well of the Republic. Men of all parties and creeds laid down their lives for the life ot the nation ; the debt we owe the living and tho widows and or phans of tho dead can never be fully paid. TbJta bill is but a partial recognition of the ob ligations of the nation for their heroic servi ces and it should be passed by a unanimous vote. I understand that the gentleman from Tndiana Mr. IIolman lias an amendment to oiler, which adds additional safeguards to night enve the provisions; but with or without it the bill uticct side. shall receive my cordial support wltu the sin gle regret that it still does not go far enough. Here the hammer fell. Death of Edwin Forrest. At nine o'clock on Thursday morning the house keeper at the residence of Mr. Edwin For rest, on North Uroad street, proceeded to his room door and rang the bell for break fast. There was no response for twenty minutes, and at the end of this time the housekeeper again proceeded to the room, and, ujioii attentively listening, heard Mr. Forrest breathing heavily and gasping. The door being locked, the housekeeper finally gained access to his room through the library and bath room, and, upon reach ing his apartment, found him lying on his back across the bed. He was fully dressed excepting his coat. A pair of lightjdumb liells were on the bed, and it was evident that he had been exercising himself with them. The position of the pier glass or mirror was such as to indicate that Mr. Forrest was dressing before it when he fell backward on the bed. AY hen the house keeper entered the apartment of the dying man she saw his eyes rolling, and there was slight froth about his mouth. From the fact that he paid no attention to ques tions asked him, it is very evident that he was unconscious at the time and was stricken with death. A physician and a neighbor were sent for, but before they ar- signed those resolutions, l.ut 1 clo aQirm j j.f f M Forrest WAS appaient- stairway and repeat that ft"" rrehs ot ly extinct. This was at half-past .line o'-! in the b M r": TmvN of Pennsylvania. I cock. Though the health of this eminent fourth h won 1.1 like the irentleman, if he can, to pro duce anv paper under the influence of the Governor of Pennsylvania that denied any of these reso'ulions. Mr StK?U. 1 name a paper in my own district known as the Radical, published in the city of Al'oona, which charged m, I think, fourteen limes, w ith In ing a liar for making that statement among others in a public spe ec h in that city and yet w have these resolutions paradea hsre tolay and read at the instance of my co.' -ague 'vl denoe of the fact that, the sol.lie. s or xvlrania are opposed to this trill. 1 lh priratfli, the unknown and brave lu -,m they who of all others deserve the name Di soldiers, are for this bill. Itut the officers, the men who wore epaulets and who never simfl'ed the battle exc ept in the dim distance are opposed to this bill, as they are opposed to almost everything else to w hich the cor porations and land-grabbers of the country are opposed. M r. Tc iw'Nsknti, of Pennsylvania. T want, to ask my colleague one question, and it is whe ther the gentlemen who signecl these res olutions were not during the war on the field of battle? Mr. Spkeb. I believe they were ; I did not say they were; not. Mr." Townsf.ni, of Pennsylvania. You made the charge by implication. Mr. SrEEit. They are not the men who carried the musket and the knapsack ; they are not the men who stood upon the lonely picket and did the actual duties in the fie!d; they are not the men w hose orphaned chil dren gather around the desolated hearth stones of Pennsylvania ; they are the oliti cal soldiers who are put forward by politi cians to represent them and to win their bat tles. Mr. KiLi.isr.FR. My colleague will allow me to say that one of the gentlemen named lot a leg in the war ; that ho entered it as a private ami fought his way up, and now holds an oflice of honor in the State. Mr. Speer. To whom does my colleague f refer .' Mr. Killinoer. To Colonel Heath. Mr. Speek. Ah! he is now surveyor gen eral of the Slate of Pennsylvania. Mr. Town send, of Pennsylvania. My colleague will allow me a moment to inquire of him whether General llartranft, against whom he directs his remarks, was not in seventeen battles during the war? Mr. Speek. He may have lieenin seven ' ty times seventeen; 1 make no charge against his gallantry ; the gentleman seeks to evade the imint I am making. 1 only say that when tragedian had become more or less impair ed, yet on Sunday last when he returned to Philadelphia he seemed to be in excel lent spirits. On Wednesday his good health was the subject of special remark about the houe. At five o'clock on Wcd uesday evening he ate his dinucr, as usual, and during the evening wrote two letters, which, at nine o'clock, be directed the housekeeper to have posted, lltfore re tiring for the night he gave some diiec t ions about his ait gallery, showing that he had full' possession of his mental facul ties as well as bodily health. l'hila. 1'ub Ue liecord. Terrible Catastrophe. FIRE AT TIIE FIFTH A TENCH IlOTEb, SEW TOHE ELEVEN LIVES LOST. New York, Dec. 11. A fire broko out at a little past 11 O'clock last night in the upper part of the Fifth Avenue Hotel, on the Twenty-third street side. The engines, when the alarm was given, were quickly on the spot and soon at work pouring streams unon the flames which at mid- lOpeCl IUC3 V utile l Hvuiy-fiiioi Many of the guests had retir ed, or were about retiring, when the alarm was sounded, and when the firemen bro't the hose into the interior of the building a panic ensued among tho more timid of them, and a rush was made for trunks, etc. They demanded a settlement of their bills and left the hou5. After the fire had been pretty well extin guished the firemen, in going through the rooms on the top floor, occupied by the scrubbing women, were horrified by stumb ling over the remains of human beings, which were piled on tho floor. Lanterns were immediately procured, and a horriblo sight was revealed. On the floor of a room about twelve fct square were found no less than eleveu lnidies, all burned beyond"re- cognition. '1 he bodies were lounu lying near the only window of the room, which was barred so that escape by that means the staircase leading to the room being on fu e was impossible, and they wei com pelled to wait for death with whatiesigna tion they could summon. It is supposed that many were burned to death w hile asleep. The positions of some of the chai red ren;airs showed that the un fortunate creatures died in great agony. The New York Sun, in commenting on this, dreadful calamity, says : Eleven ser vant girls lost their lives by the fire in the Fifth Avenue Hotel. The girls slept in a wooden attic, partly alove the roof of the hotel proper. An elevator and a private stairway led from this attic to the laundry asement. 1 he lire began on the oor of the hotel, run up the laun dry elevator and private stairway, and fed upon the wooden attic. A second siair way led from this attic to the floor below. The most of the girls escaped by this stair way. The eleven who lost their live s slept in the rooms nearest the elevator. The windows of these rooms opined upon the roof of the hotel, but they woie barred on the inside by iron screens. Four girls tore a screen away and escaped. Four others endeavored to remove a screen, but wccie suflbcatcd ard burned. Seven d:cd in their beds. Xetvs aiul I'otitical Items. A few nights .it, 1 -j Half the business portion of Chester- ern-bound freight train '"t,'r ville, H. C, was burned Sunday moruing. i cific railroad received in,,, -Loss $150,1)00. ,r j kce o "proceed crtre fiillvv'' i' Captain "Ward, of Ludington, JUich., train No. 5." He W;w- owns 7O.0OO acresof pine lands and a $500,- j vigilant of .men, and he ,i; . ,' f 000 saw-mill. A baby four months old, near Oil City, weighs fifty pounds, and the Pittsburgh Leader calls it an infant-ile prodigy. A ditch a0 feet deep, on the premises of the insane asylum, at St. Louis, caved in on Satuidav, killing five workmen. rw.L-out Kiiitdm.li. l - . light ahead through tl-.e ' ': ' ' ing his train to a stand -v ' t flag and lantern and n., J". them most lustily, till f;uj,j v- Yi coveted he was H:"in" t. r"" '. BW an A man inNew Hampshire bought four ! cently attached at the se.it f' ''' rarnis of bees ten years ago, and has now on account of the rcr. t ( ' , - 1 i income of $1,200 per year f;om honey. ! mond swimlle, publishes a .. .,',, .- nonORs. Horrors, like plagues and pestilence, says the Phila. Sunday Daicn, seem to be epidemic at certain seasons or in certain years. Like the tides of the sea, their occurrence ebbs and flows. Their frequency seems to be governed by some law of nature, yet concealed from the un derstanding of man, the victim of their at tacks. They now seem at full high-tide. For three or four wfc.ks they have been sweeping over this imtndiate neighbor hoexl. First the Baltimore Wilming ton Uailroad accident, in whicij everything was bunglingly done, except t!:e work of honor itself. Then came the Pennsylva nia Railroad crash, which claimed no l."101"6 than five victims, merely because a 6lte, ing car had no more persons in it to be crushed and mangled ; and this week, the third, we must put on the credit side of Horrors, two others that have been un surpassed writhin this year at least ; the burning of Fifth Avenue Hotel, in New York, and the wreck of an emigrant ship in the North Sea. By the first, eleven servant girls were scalded, scorched, burned to a crisp, dying the most excruciating death known to tor ture ; huddled into one room, panting, suf focating, despairing, dying. And they might have been saved but for negligence, so over confident that it could stand coolly by for"a half-hour aftet knowing the fire was in pi-ogress, without sounding the alarm, and calling in aid from those who make it their duty to rush through flames to save life at the risk of their own, the firemen! Some iersoiis about the Fifth Avenue Hotel rendered most effectual aid Eleven poor servant girls are dead, but thousands are living. In nearly all our hotels the servants are packed away upon the upper floors, from four to twelve occu pying a single sleeping room. Over one hundred of them slept in the attic of the Fifth Avenue Hotel. It is remarkable that only eleveu lives were lost. these, gentlemen coine to Congress w ith a i to Horror, last Monday night My colleaiiue from Pennsvlvania fMr. Townsekd had read by the Clerk certain reholnt ionic niirnnrtiniT to hri-cn Itn.-i .i ...1 robbed and the Senate which he will dis- i by the Grand Army of the Republic, w hich " grace. The Senate, however, is not withoat ProfeSReti to declare the hostility of tha sol .i,poen, in political infamy. Ther. he will IXlU" memorial opposed to the passage of this bill thev do not represe-nt the real soldiers of Pennsylvania, at, d I ask my colleague wheth er he can furnish me with the resolution of a simile meetinir of private soldiers or the let ter if a single private soldier in Pennsylv;i- ma, or elsewhere, who carried a musket and kuatisack during the w ar that contains one svllabte of opposition to this bill? If lie can, 1 pause for him to produce it. Tho gallant rank and file of our Army look to Congress with anxious hearts for the passage ot this bill. Mr. TotvysETST, of Pennsvlvania. I will answer the gentleman's question by asking him another, and it is whether this conven lion w as not coin psed of delegates who were elected by soldiers, ami whether some of the members of that convention were not private, soldiers who had carried the musket and the knapsack during the w ar. Mr. Speek. Mr. Speaker, we all kno how these conventions, are managed and ma nipulated. This (i rand Army of the Repub lic lias been run. as we ail know, in Penn sylvania in the luterest. ot apolitical party. Mr. Manson". And everywhere else. Mr. Speek. Yes, sir; and as my friend sujrpests, everywhere else. It has become a scmi-peilitical organization. It has liecn used by politicians, and its loaders have lieen put forward by politicians, ami occasionally rev warded themselves with nominations for their party services. Mr. Town send, of Pennsylvania. My eolleapue will allow me a moment toexplain to the House why the Grand Army of the Republic seems to be a politic al organization. It is because it is composed of the soldiers of the war, and the soldiers of the war were Re-publicans, while the men engaged in the rebellion were? Democrats. Mr. Man so f. That is not true. Mr. Speek. I denounce that statement as unworthy of my colleague. Mr. Mokran. 1 think it was entirely worthy of hiin. Mr. Speek. I denounce it as false in fact, and as disgraceful to a representative from Pennsylvania. The graves of every battle fiehl, ami the widows and orphans all over the land, declare it a foul slander. Mr. Townse.su, of Pennsvlvania. Allow me to reply to the remark just made bv the gentleman. What I mean to say is this": the rebellion was got up by the Democratic par ty of the South; it was carried on by the Democratic party of the Scuth, assisted by the moral influence of their coadjutors, the Democratic party of the North; and nine tenths of the soldiers of tho Union were Re publicans, while the remainder of them may have been Democrats. Mr. Speer. May I ask my colleague in how many battles he w as personally engaged during the war ? Mr. Towssr.KH, of Pennsylvania. I was not in any. Mr. Randall. No; you were running a bank at home, making money. Mr. Townsend, of Pennsylvania. And where were you ? Mr. Randall. I was in the Army. Mr. Townsend, of Pennsylvania. I nev er heard of it. Laughter. Mr. Randall. 1 went as a private. Mr. Townsend, of Pennsylvania. I nev er knew it. A high private, I suppose. Mr. Steer. Yon were too far away to know who were in the Army. My colleague Mr. Townsend w as like Job's war horse; he smelleth the battle afar off." Laugh ter. Hut this is a divergence from the ob ject I had in view w hen 1 rose to address the House. I hone this measure will not 1m run into polities, but that the interests of the soldiers who are to be benefited by this bill will be considered outside of and irrespective Of the second horror, the sinking of the emigrant ship, we know no particulars, only eighty men, women and children found death in the waves. This is the climax of hejrror. Yitat Came of a Tomboy. An ex change tells the following story of a tom boy : Miss Martha Tvnight is a good looking girl who was bom in Boston, and very early in life mortified her parents and their friends by being that childish feminine monstrosity called the "Tomboy." She cared nothing for dolls and miniature house keeping, like other little girls, but wanted gimlets and augers and saws and hatchets, and nails, and lumber to work with. In stead of learning to sew on dolls' clothes, she made sleds and wagons and kites for her lazy, numbskull brothers, and finally became a wonder of mechanical genius. liar taist - ri (hat w v, find her friends concluded to let it go when they found they could not stop it. Miss Martha Knight being poor, went into a paper bag manu factory to earn her livelihood. Of course such a girl could not live at home and drone away her life at the family fireside. She went to work like a man, and has now become famous and the pride of the old folks. She has won the distinction of be ing the first inventor that ever received a patent for a complete invention at "Wash ington. Her invention is a machine for making paper bags. Several attempts had previously been made in this direction by men of mechanical genius, and all had fail ed. This "tomboy" has now done it, and made a success. Unaided, she drew her plans, and she superintended the putting up of the machinery at Amherst, Massa chusetts. It works well, and her everlast ing fortune is made. A Bit of Romance. This little bit of romance occurred at Corry, according to the Blade: While the late storm was rag iner there a vouncr ladv while on a mission of mercy on the street, discovered a man persons in England, misled by . Deceitful "Woman. "Ma's Cousin" A Sleepino Cak Incident. The De catur (111.) liepubliean of the 7th has the following base insinuation : A few nights since the attention of the passengers on one of the trains on the T. W. & V. 14. It., was called to a handsome lady, accom panied by a little boy probably six years old. It would seem that she had been vis iting in Ohio and was on her way to St. Louis, her home. As we said, the passe n Trs took particular notice of her beauty, jlfc r exquisite and fashionable clothing, ancl her perfectly natural and artless manners. Everyv.''-"T,J indicated that she was a lady of much ce-'ture and refinement. A gen tleman entt.. ""d tnc "ar al)d upon seeing our heroine see. to ue greatly pleased. She made room 'r him and they were soon engaged in no I'oubt an interesting conversation. She asi. " llim about all the folks, about the new b-rIe.of bonnets, and what was the regulation s.'7-e for bus tles. The little boy iu the inea MlT!C w:is quietly sleeping on a seat just Oj."j'os'te our interesting couple. The night w o. on and some of the passengers had aboru concluded that they were husband and wife, and that there was no chance for them to show her any kindness. Towns were parsed, passengers came and went, and all were about disposed in the arms of Morpheus when the couple got up, and, wonderful to tell, they went to the sleeping car, leaving the little boy asleep on the seat. This aroused the sus picions of certain of the passengers, and soon after the couple had gone to the sleeping car the little boy was wakened, and one of the passengers asked him "if that gentleman was his pa?" "No," was the answer. "Then who is he?" was asked. "I don't know guess he is ma's cousin." The conductor and passenpers said noth ing, but thought a great deal, when, just before the train reached St. Louis the cou ple appeared, and the gentleman got otf at the first station this side of St. Louis. Of course he had busiucss there. The train sped on and at last reached its des tination. The lady was met by her hus band and the passengers witnessed an af fectionate meeting. She threw her aims about his neck, kiss ed him, and seemed to be overjoyed at again seeing him. The gentlemen who had witnessed the performance in the car said nothing, nor has anything been said of the affair before. We will not give her name. Her husband is a prominent busi ness man in St. Louis. Further comment is unnecessary. After a protracted trial of cundurango in the cancer wards of the Middlesex hos pital, in London, the medical authorities of that institution have arrived at the con clusion that the drug has no effect on can cer. The British Medical Joernal says that at ajneeting of the Clinical society in London, jnipers were read by the two gen tlemen who had been conducting this in vestigation, in which it was distinctly stated that not one single indication of improve ment has been observed in any of the cases treated by the alleged remedy. In fact, either the disease ran its usual course, or the patient showed symptoms of derange ment of system which might fairly be at tributed to the drujr. At the meetinc the fact was mentioned that a large number of A fire at Toledo, Ohio, on Sunday, de stroyed $125,()0 worth of projierty. One fireman was killed and several others were injured. The Very Eev. Thomas Mulvey, vicar general of the Catholic diocese of Virginia, died Sunday evening at his residence in Petersburg, aged sixty-three. William Wellhouse, who four years ago, w hen only 8 years old, was page to the Cleveland city council, was so puffed up by the distinction that he now weighs 1G3 pounds. A young son of Georpe F.hler, of Lan caster, fell through a hatchway a distance of sixty feet. He walked to a physician's oflice, and afterward complained of being hungry. The menagerie in winter quarters in Girard, has been purchased by Dr. G. It. Spaulding and Pat. Ryan, and will next season do the country under th manage ment of Col. Dan Hice. A young woman at Torquay, England, was fatally shocked recently by hearing a door slam in the next room, which she thought was her husband shooting him self. She died almost instantly. This paragraph is to say that Agents may learn something greatly to their ad vantage and obtain specimensand full par ticulars free, by addressing M ood litera ry and Art Society, Newburgh, N. V. At Puffalo, on Saturday, John GafT ney was sentenced to be hanged the 2d of February, for the murder of Patrick Foy, the judgment against him having been confirmed by the Court ofvAppeah1. At 11 art fuel. Conn., on Satuidav, ! Charles Pdakeslee was found guilty of at- ', tempting to wreck tho Boston and New , York Express train, near Windsor Locks, j some time ago, and was sentenced to ten , years imprisonment. i At the intersection of the Tyrone and Clearfield and Paid Eagle i ail roads, recent- i ly, some eight or nine cars were thrown i from the track and an employee, Charles McDonald, severely, but not fatally, in- jured about the head. J At Sharptown, New Jersey, on the af- ! temoon of the PJth. two coloied bovs, named Henry D. Smith and Thomas James, ! aged respectively eighteen and sixteen yeais, while skating on a mill Mnd, broke ' through the ice and were drowned. j The Clinton Hrpvllian says Mis ! Jennie Ward, of that county, week before last, on the promise of a new tw elve dollar j dress, husked in standing corn, thirty-two I bushels in eight and a half hours, besides doing up the morning chores in the house, j A Ledford county boy, who had been j playing with a pistol, was recently found ! in an almost insensible condition and con- ! veyed to his home, where he died in a few j hours. Nobody was about when the acc-i- i dent occurred, and the liy could be per suaded to give no particulars. Hon. A. G. Curtin lectured at Delle fonte, Pa., on Friday night, to a crowded house, on Russia. The intricate and ro nianti history of that wjiiderful people was a fit theme for ths eloquent ex-minister. The manner in which he held the audience for over two horns showed that he was at home with his subject. It is generally believed' in the inner Republican circles at Harrisburg, that Col. M. S. Quat-, of Reaver, or Hon. Francis Jordan, present incumbent, will bo Gov ernor llartranft' s Secretary of State, and that the Attorney-Generalship is between Hon. William II. Armstrong, of Lvcommg, and Judge Thayer, of Philadelphia. . An Ida Lewis has been developed in a fishing hamlet on the southeastern coast of Irclac'e?. This heroine distinguished herself by ics'uiug, amid a ruthless storm and raging sea, four men who were cling ing, after a ship, reck, in the last extremi ty, to the rocks tha. bound the c-ia.-t. Mr. William Fin.i. of Green county, Ky., is one hundred anti seven years old. He has been engaged in the business of making wooden bowls for perhaps seventy five years, and can turn two bowls per day now. He was born in Virginia, and left that State when seventeen years old. The Henderson (Ky. ) Heporter says : "A child was born in this city last week that forms one of the great number of nat ural curiosities. It had no bones in its neck, which consisted, apparently, of hard Hesh or something like gristle. The mother and child both died." The Freeburg Courier says th.it Mr. J. M. Hoffman, of that place, sold a Ches ter White hog last week, to D. F. Kr- stetter, lor ?u. t or curiosity's sake -Mr. Hoffman measured if. It lencrd, we r feet 9 inches, circumference T feet, and around the neck 5 feet 4 inches. Its weight is supposed to have been TOO pounds. An extraordinary case came before the Louisville courts recently, the dispute be- I ing over the ownership of a babv. There i were two elaimauts, one a while woman ! and the other a colored woman. Each brought witnesses to prove that she was ' the mother of the child i the court eventually decided in favor of the colored woman. . TT1er 1Iancock Cont7 Courier my : Billy Hooper has more vim than any mail carrier in this country. Last Thursday he left I lttsburgh with ninety pounds of mail the Louisville Courier .,, be denies the charges u,;i. 3 ,'.':'' saying that he never . a ' ;" of property to Lent, e,r ,al ,v','v ' with or received any :i 't,pv f , anytime. He denies th.it "t'v.." salted by him. Arnold covered a silver mine in Kt..",... 1 100,000,000, and ha t ,,. 7; 000 all the property in t!ie"l. ,T' mine. "' The newspapers in Wtr, vania, says the A'je, notice placement of fifty Amerieat, w , the Reaver Fal's Cutlerv ( ' make way for Chinese lab .r. ',t always deprecated this -r,v! tile to the best interests f'f onr :-,' highest good is rot cheap !.-.lK,r, v, . maintenance of citizen s in tl e vi- of productive industry. Anc-V chanics cannot live likethe li:!, and we have no desire t'ee th. to the same condition. r m v.. scheme when it was first br have seen nothing to rocon difriUrinnts Aa-Mf Wintee1 for (abbii, Child's Commenta! OX TII K Uim.E, for the ICOltt;l 1.200 paes. 2 V) Enirravf nr. Thrt. of t he ye ar forf ents. Kt er f; -r: - yntiih'O lt.txt (! puMiWr.. f. tc-., dress H. h.GoODsrctU A CO..S7 Ptr,..' . VeliF.XT WnnlMl-Wr jriixn -T ment for all. either K-c.m 1 v, or more e yenr. New works t.r ! and oilier. Suyerb premiti r, r;r-' Money mHde rapMly rH fj sr 'w . " Write and ee. I"ut ieu.i-s fr,.m' it ,1.' Ton, iji sti c.o., nan; ,r ;. i $5 TO $20 ;.er eiT .-.,,,,, . ttier sex, ycum or old. inaie m work 'or u m I lifir . are miti."--. tim thn at mi vthirjr :- 'a ' ... AiI(Jre8 i. STIN(N A ( ( .. 1 vr:.. I CCIDEM Insure in the TRAVKtTRS of ii,. fl LITCH'mperial Rit: - J!iltr?. Whulr-ft!" t't'ir-i., t g-le cmo S'-nt. postpnH. ..r. r.-'i 'i r 't ' W. II tli.M AN T. FUl K.U H.h-. l)(HIKKF.KIIMi Jt-1- F. :'.. I, J anrl merchant ean Iwicrn -mailed. 50c II. (ioui.Divw Hhtast E.! , AGENTS! A RAnETrUT We will pay all Airent lirt;. who will enje-ajre w ith us at iim t. I' furoisueil aiel expense pant. A:-. COL" LTCK 4 C ( ur -r i j BOORS, SASHES, ELM win lor iiiotiraird OOf. BitAni.rr a- cchiher, h v , jA GREAT i We liar cideI to ipr w j stock of llU.I.lAKI TAW .!-.: :- .u. j mIiovc cot. First -claaa 5i I N '. . v ; plete. f.3C0. Second-hand IV t i iiw.M .1, fS.Si'A ic. A u vr ! all buyers. !er'l for f .i K.WANA-.a !"""' j Cor. r.-ir.Ml i ( Vntr. .- .V 1 -MMSHIEBim : 1 tiimirpn"' ! h n rrnnmt' ri ' " : th lialrati'l Wl.iakrra. ltlar . -! sri-i).tpt it sntteriSiinel s-nr i 1- r lietter anel more permuneMiTit i i.i. : . Vomile. l"ie,l a Hair Ir ' j the moat heautifiilainl lntr'.ui . ( j ! perfectly hariulesa. Ik r i j is quite iinri Vhle!. I.eimr ' - . . ' wirM-renownd Koaea f, . '- hottle nnlv V eft. Aetreti .. H'-V MILLER. 400 N.3.1 ?t.. l'U.ai:': Xlio "Weoklv , Jol -un.;for Only SI a Year. Tli Brt Family Taper. Th Beat Arrlcclt oral Ptprr. Tho Bant Politirtl Pp!r. Tfce B.t Story rpr. Th Brat Faahloa Brpprtf. The Beat Tattlr ?Irl Et;' Th Brat Central Bsrlrt it Th Drst Tiper Iicry TflT. WEFKI.Y Nt.W VOUK Sl.lT paye. 56 columna. fil a year, or cent, a number enel jonrcto'liir ' Address TH I" M'N, New Yd TRUE TIME for SU Maefnof ic 'lime- Keeper. "ompnu'!i! lr A pi-rfect (i EM for the pocket - f rr-r' er. ir;ider. boy. farmer, and for EVPS' I-Mri.ir a feliatile tiine-ke epc r. nr.1 1 riir co;upass. I'anal watch ei". all in h nratOltoiDRcajw. WAKKO denote run e.'1 time and to kee j in nn ly naed for t''o years. A fiKi 'Ve 1 perfect triumph of mechanism " a neat case, prepaid to any adiirras.f-.'-": 3 for 2. Circular!, dent free. TY' '" frorn the iiinnuf.ieturoi-a. VKKk. TV WORKS, Rrattlcfboro. Vr. 1- in a wheelbarrow, wheeling it twelve miles to Heer s Postoffice, and carried it on his u.ick irom t nere to tins place, thirty miles, Well bet there isn't another one-armed man in America wlm u-.,i.i .... -. . ,1Jr Saule trick. Epizootic horses don't bother him." ciTi?,1?. ,C,isfiell Old-) Leader decUres that Mijah Somers, a colored man, living near that town, is one hundred and fifwS years old, and that, though he cannot boast t alk r i ' inongn ne cannot boas of having voted for all the Presidents, ye he can out-swear, out-drink and out-wall lying in the ditch, very drunk, and cover ed with slush, ice and snow. She looked about to see if there was any one she could call to her asM'stance ; not seeing any one she proceeded to drag him out and help him upon the walk. After some trouble she got him to stand up. He was pretty well chilled, as well as drunk. lie said he thought he could make his way down town alone. He started and went a few steps and fell in again. The young lady went to him and gave her hand to try to pull him out. In her effort she was pulled into the ditch, where the water and snow was at least a foot deep, but nothing daunted she succeeded in getting him ou the side walk. She then started with him down town. Ho fell several times, but she as sisted him up, and got him where he could be cared for. The young lady was nearly exhausted with her exertions. On seeing him to a place of safety she returned to her home. The rescued inebriate was a total stranger, and it is hoped the lessou will be a warning to him iu tho future. The Bedford Jnqvirer informs us that one of the feeders at the Kiddlesburg fur- that had come from America! exorbitant prices for the nosti feeling was stroitclv expressed desirable that the public should be made aware of its utter worthlessness. '"IMIE tet Belling- Bonk to iff JL I Th HI ruf g-let of Petroleum V. It is Illustrated bv Tllow.H Rrentest of American Artista. an 1 ft' introduction ly lion. ('hm l- Sun. n' r. wanted for this and other popular : '' dress 1. N. Richardson & Co., IJ. s!e:i--" St. Louia, Mil. OLDEST IN THE STATE. B. F. BROWN & CO- lie ft in It till Id .Street. IMIIshnrl' Collect Pensions, Iloiintio. I'l-in- M ". Special attention paid to sn:etn!i-'l'' ed claims. Applications bv uiai! 'fr.. ' tlie reports I J ' "eci 10 scarcely half his j " t' '"- t , werenaviner .' '"'re irost bitten, his eve I .-s -t - . - - rjm. and the a"r aRd bls mind somewhat enfeebled - i A .Ml) A 111. C- that it wa Ml11' hca'i tell stories, walk as erer-t f irv ir j r i.. i t:LS anv m.-n arl ; . . . . . J j " i"w"o to laugn at his own anecdotes. . . Awrn, Fate of a Woman. The Beth lehem Times of the 4th instant says : This morning Mrs. James Gunning, of Bingen, on the line of the Norti Pennsylvania rail road, while standing on one of the ore breakers at Ball's iron mine, near Bingen, was struck by a car and thrown downthe shaft to the depth of about twentv feet, into one of the ore-washers. These" wash ers are large revolving cylinders, w ith pro jecting spikes, driven by steam. The ore is thrown in and separated from the earth by the spikes, and washed by a continual llow of water. The unfortunate woman was caught by these projecting spikes, and made two revolutions with the wheel before the washer could be stopped. The result may be well imagined. She was lit erally torn to pieces. The men were awe- m-ricKen at the spectacle, and scarcely knew X& h ithi v r () rndaj morning last a boiler in Maugh s saw mill, on Black River. Wayne cemnty. Mo., exploded with terrific force. The mill was literally blown to atoms. I ieces of the boiler -er l,i.i - distance. Iracments we. e rv.j ... !. Fragments were found nri. quarter of a mile from the mill, and wlis was left of it was rolled out rlt kv.., men employes of tho mill, were killed out- right, and three others dangerously wound- I cd. Clogging of the boiler Hues with mud . . uppoeu 10 nave been the cause of the explosion. lriivri1-' i" ?ntz- ,who was recently killed, with his wife and child, by a rail road accident near Mifflin, was not a m Vn - th Vr""; Rtated' btdoorkeeper of the House of Representatives at Wswh- Sawyer, of isconsin, offered a resolution reciting th telec-ranhie IV Vi""0 ?h Ai1"? th.at arrangements be MALE Oil FKM.lI.C. Te make the above" a iiom.t f-U'.nx COMIilXATION NEK11LE C A!' ; MONXA1E. This is an art i let eessiity with everv laiiy. nnl p.ij" tYr I'ircular and Terma'aeMr. 12-13-3in. 1'itUbar; h.pplr Co.. rttW at BOSTON AND ITS DESTRH'' .m lne woman's husband made to transport theho.f m . was an unwil nr .nwu,,, r .i. ' .'"-'V uie oody of Mr. Dantz , r -1 ui hid iiuij i unci lamiiv Dack to i idmir Mtuimrh. . j ,r n- 10 their late home, at iiaiifn uirai irw uaib aL-u t j 1 1 1 iiib tijiriTiji l iirm i -i h iiri in m. v. . , .. . . w lain iiiiiiih u i . of the politieal prejudices of any ineiber of ' of escaping ts.s which inhaled. ni2h ornwd. fc-"v'-J"' a w f ""n, . d hava th.m int.rrwd v uiw iJ'WM ot th Hrte A full, detailed and tfrphfcai-c"r.' :(. irin, lroirrcs:s. suirerin. losses a"'' "V1,-. the Rreat ceintlrtunilion. A rare , -Sjrents. as every parson wants tn v," particularsof this grc-at .l:sater. p for 50 cents. W I I.I.I A llm.l I'hilndelphia. Pa.. nndJJ- great om:i:s to ag ttm rxirlr, l.l" Ttl W KlTIKIItY EVES'N'4' ' : Ton Lapv's Fkiknp. A lu-autif ul - Rn'!;'' I lIIILD-rKorilET ' -SAM I ttt worth S.O0. Ijjrlvenwith the lion prie-e ) or with the Mar.uii'' , j; J Do not fall lo examine into tlneni . ( A CHEAT OOMlUXATIO-- Address for particulara.3i"ir,''t"';V t 1'etermn, ais l eilittif .St.. l'hniJs Hk" KIT f KM. W. "T7ILL1AM at-X.xw, Kbenshunr. F- Rw. GeTitwr street. n r 1 T SO o m r: r P I t t t t t c h I V w lr ' 11 t tv G. tli O. pei y. XV ! la . r w tb b T C , 1 v : ct ti fit an oa ClK (Hi v.h Th , to the hoi cbt anc res p'a Uo cei edit th ha 1-S or fre: th, on lik "I res e; c' th ro P' fct ti C o i; ti w to fc ec r is th U G rt C bi tt o 1 h T it, d, O! g' L i b ti U a ti it w h 1 ce 4 IT
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