s .... ,-..,,.,- Jkkm 1X1 1 ' ! THE CM fEH!I FRM1. EDEWSaUC, PA., Friday Morning, - Jannary 17, 1S73. Some wiseacre has offered an amendm ent in the Constitutional Convention providing for the removal of the seat of government fromjHarrilyurg to Philadelphia. We had in our simplicity supposed that this was a question peculiarly -within the jurisdiction of tho Legislature. But this is an age of pi-ogres, and perhaps we have heen labor ing under a delusion. . The regular annual meeting of the Penn ylvania Editorial Association will be held in Harrisburg, on "Wednesday. January H2d, 1873, in the Benate Committee Rooms of the State Capitol, at 11 o'clock?. M. Editors aud. publisher of pajers through out the State are Invited to be present aud connect themselves actively with tho or ganization. e The Demociati cmeiabers of the Mis souri Legislature held a final caucus last Monday evening for the purpose of nomi nating a candidate for United States Sena tor to Bucceed Uen. Frank Blair. The contest was warm and exciting, there be ing a large number of candidates before the caucus. On the seventeenth ballot, when the contest had narrowed itself down between Col. Lewis V. Bogy and General Biair, the former was nominated, he re ceiving504 votes and Blair 42. Col. Bogy is a gentleman of ability and high political and personal standing in his State. 9-tm Tub Pittsburgh Dispatch, a radical or. gan, in referring to that portion of tho Governor's message in which he recom mends a Geological Survey for the purpose of developing the mineral resources of the State, is cruel enough to indulge in the following disparaging allusion to the '"bul-lot-riddled" legs of his Exce llency. Com ing from the source it docs, it is a mot unkind cut, and in nglaud would consti tute a clear aud undoubted case of scandaL um majrmttim, for which a criminal pros ecution would be the appropriate remedy: Mow that a State Geological Snrvej Corps has been recommended for the purpose of developing the miueral resources of Penn sylvania, it might be proper to .ngest that one of tLe first duties of the Corps should be to ascertain whether the retiring Kxecutive really carries a vein of lead in his lower limbs, and also examine into the area and density of the same, and make due report thereof to the State Historian. The evidence thus far elicited by the Committee appointed by the Senate of the United States to investigate the charge against Alexander Caldwell of having pro cured his election as a Senator from Kan sas by bribery and corruption, conclusively shows that money was shamefully used in buying the votes of certain members of the Legislature of that State. It would seem that the average price at which a Kansas legislator held his vote was about $1,000. It is true that there were somo who held themselves at a much higher value and who could not be bagged for a sum less than $5,000. These, however, weie few and far between, aud were honorable (?) exceptions to the general rulo. John J. Patterson, of South Carolina, had a very different kind of material to deal with, and from all accounts was not compelled to pay the negro members of the Legislature who voted for him more thau an avcrago of $200 each, while a few possessing particu lar influence over their more ignorant col ored brethren could not be seduced for a less sum than $400. The market price of votes in these two radical States shows that the blood of tho white man still maintains it supremacy. We trust that Caldwell will be expelled from the Senate, that Pat terson will follow him in disgraceful re tirement, and that tho weeding process will go on even though the radical majori ty iu the Senate should thereby grow "small by degrees and beautifully less." Bm The project of admitting Colorado Terri tory into the Union as a Htt i again vig orously urged upon Congress. We may be mistaken, but our decided impression is that tho Apportionment bill of the last session fixing the number of members to which each State is entitled under tho late census, contains a provision that no State shall hereafter be admitted without having the necessary population to entitle it to at least one representative according to the ratio of representation fixed by that bill, which was over 130,000. If such is not the law on every principle of justice it ought to lie. According to the census of 1S70, Colorado contained a jopulation of 3a,8(!4, which is only 3,2'J.l more than the population of Cambria county, the latter having by the same census yG,.r)C9 inhabit ants. Is it not a monstrous proosituii, that Colorado, with a population bf less than forty thousand, not one-third of the ratio necessary to entitlo her to a member of Congress, should, if admitted as a Stale, exercise the same numerical strength in the Senate of the United States a Penn sylvania with a population of over three and a half millions ? It is not even tine that the people of Colorado are in favor of changing their Territorial into a State government, and if they were, it 'would afford no reason whatever why Congrtss should comply with their demand. It is well known that these movements in favor of the formation of. State governments out of sparsely populated, territories, originate principally with politicians who have per sonal interests to subserve, Rome desiring to le Governor, others ambitious to ortsupy seats in the Senate, and so on through all the avenues of political preferment. The admission of two such pocket Territories as Nebraska and Nevada as States was a sheer outrage, and ought never to he re peated. To permit two Senators from Colorado to exercise the same political jower in the highest legislative liody in the c 'untry as Pennsylvania or New York would not only Le limit injustice but mani festly absurd. the second day of the session of the Legislature, the party that roared itself hoarse during tho recent political campaign in favor of retrenchment and reform, pass ed a bill through the House increasing the salary of the Governor from fire to ten j thousand dollars. An amendment was of fered and carried Sxing the amount at nine thousand dollars. A similar effort is be ing made iu Congress to increase the sal ary of the President from tventy-fire to fifty thousand dollars, but thus far has not met with much favor. We are not prepared to say that it would not bo l ight and proper to add a reasonable increase to the salary f the Governor, but not to double it. We do not, however, re gard the present as' an auspicious time to do it. We say this in view of the kind of men whom of late years the people of Pennsylvania have been delighted to honor with their suffrages as Executive of the State. A Governor such as Charles It. Buckalew would make, gifted as he is with superior intellect aud possessing all the qualifications for an able and honest dis charge of the duties of the potition, vrould be worth infinitely more than ten thousand dollai-s a year to the tax-payers of the com monwealth. Indeed it would be difficult to place a money value on the services he would render. Geary has been a very high-priced executive at five thousand dol lars a year, and llartranft will be likewise. When the people cease to run after spuri ous political gods, and when capacity and honesty assert their legitimate sway in the executive department, it will be time enough but not until then, to talk about an in crease of salary. . The price of the present supply is fully equal to the radical demand. In the debate in the House on this pro position, that venal and brazen-faced tool of tho rings, Stun. Josephs, was pleased to say that "if his side of the House had been successful ho would have beeu ono of the first to introduce a measure of this kind' We have no doubt about it, provided tho prospectve recipient of the increase had paid him handsomely for doing so. If Josephs meant by '-his side," the Demo cratic side, he had no right to speak for it, for out of its mouth he has been siiewed as politically and personally rotten and ut terly unclean. He is now on the Bile of the radical majority, where all the plunder is and that location appropriately aud nat urally becomes him. There let him re main in all hi infamy, as the most thor oughly corrupt raan that has disgraced the House for the last twelve years. The Iloiino of Representatives at ITar risburg contains irty radicals. The sub ordinate officers, including tho sergeant-at-arms and his assistants, the door-keeper and his assistants, the messenger aud his assistants, the folders and pasters, et id omne genus, amount to thirty-tiro, or more than one-half the number of radical mem bers. It would be interesting to know what this horde of pure and disinterested patriots really do. Tbo time was, both under Democratic and Republican admin istrations, when ons-fourlh of the number was found to be amply sufficient. Under the paternal sybtem of government, how ever, which is fast coming into voguo, both inState and national aft'aiis, it has come to be the rule, and not the exception, that every oue-horsc radical joliticiaii believes that he has an indefeasible right to quar ter himself on the public treasury. We do not know the number of these officers in the Senate, but have no" doubt they compare favorably in point of num bers with their brethren in the House. And yet, ilaclay, the radical Senator from Clarion, wishes ' to pile I 'el ion upon Ossa, and on the second day of the session offered a resolution providing that four radicals, named in the resolution, but who had been left out in the cold in the general distribu tion of these sinecures, should each be comfortably provided for at tho piiblio crib. "V hen useless and unnecessary ofli cers thus literally swarm around the capi tol, it ought not to be a matter of surprise that the annual expenses of the Legisla ture have grown into such enormous di mensions. They will go on increasing as long as tho people see tit to entrust tho rad ical party wuii jjuncria Louis Napoleon Dead ! Ho who once wrote himself "Napoleon HI, by the grace of God and the will of the French people, Emicror of France," died in exile at his residence at Chiselhurst, England, on last Thursday morning, in the sixty-fifth year of his age. He was the reputed son of Ijouis, brother f the great Napoleon, and llortenso, daughter of his Emptors, Jose phine. Louis was then king of Holland, by grace of his brother, but by no means enjoyed tho good graces of his meeu, who was reputed to be gay, and the son not to le the offspring of his proper father, who, however, acknowledged him as such by order of the same masterful personage who had placed a crown on his head. The ca reer of "the nephew of his uncle" theuii Miccessful attempts at Strasburg and lio logue to wrest the crown of France from Louis Philippe his imprisonment in the fortress of Ham hi escape in disguise his Might to England his profession of re publican principles his return to Franco lermitW-daftertlie Orleanist "citizen kiug" was dejiofscd and fled his election to tho Presidency of the nation his violent and perjured overthrow of the republic, - and usurpation of the imperial Crown, and the evonts of his reign and final defeat and sur render to tho Prussians are all facts so well kuown that they scarcely need to be recall ed. Singulai ly enough, this country gave the first impulse to his downfall, lie at tempted to take advantage of our civil war to form an Empire under French con trol in Mexico, but the defeat of the rebels and restorotion of the power of the Feder al Government deated his scheme he was compelled to withdraw his forces his Aus- ) tnan instrument lost his life, and ou Na- iHMoon wasciutthc blame, w hile the French j icoplc were indignant alike at his foolish j scheme and its defeat, From that time ho j declined, and at last again finding refuge in 1 England tortured by a painful organic d!iHse, and submitting to a perilous surgi ;' cal operation, he died in torture of body, dethroid, ou alien soil, leaving his one , brilliant empress a widow, and a Prince , I injuria in his minority, but with no em pile to rule, no crown to encircle his brow. Look outbis picture of earthly "greatness " and learn its moral. York True Democrat. The Governor's Message. Governor Geary delivered his last annual message to the Legislature on Wednesday week. It is a ponderous document, cover ing eighty pages of printed matter. After congratulating the country and State upon the triumph of his party in the late elec tions, he says : The credit of the State remains unques tioned abroad, because her public faith has Wen inviolably maintained at home. The following condensed statement of the re ceipts, expenditures and indebtedness of the Commonwealth is respectfully submitted : UECEIPTS. Italance in Treasury Nov. 30, 1871.. .51,476,808 59 Ordinary receipts durinjr tbe fiscal year ending Nov. 30, 17S 7,148.637 45 Total in Treasury during 'year end ing Nov.30.liia ....8,625.446 04 DISBURSEMENTS. Ordinary expenses paid during ttie veur endiujr :- Nov. M, lh72 .2.9G0,631 55 Loans. &c redeemed.... t!.470,XiS to . Interest on loans pnid.. . l.TOC.OiCi SH Total disbursements.. $7,142,990 48 JJulunce in Treasury Nov. 30, 1872.1,482.455 61 rCBUC DEBT. The public debt ouNov. ' - at. 1S71, whs $28,880,071 73 Add Cbambersb'g Cer- tilloues 209,743 81 Add Agricultural Col- -iege Lund Scrip fund, hefd in trust 500,000 00 $29,779,820 64 Deduct amount paid by Commis sioners of the Sinking Fund dur ing the year cuding Nov. 30, 1S72, 2,478.826 00 Public Debt Nov. 30, 1S72 Deduct assets iu Sink- in Fund 19.300,000 CO And cash balance iu the l,482,45o "! $27,303,494 04 Amount of assets and cash $10,7S2,4.r5 61 Italance of public debt unproviJed for $1621,039 03 ten years by which can be extinguished in the aunual payment of $l,ti00,000. The rapid reduction of the Statedebt, and the reduction of taxation, have gone hand in hand throughout my entire administra tion, and have constituted a marked portiou of its policy, attesting, at the same time, the concurrence and, wisdom ot the legislature. and the fidelity of those who have beeu the custodians of tho funds. During the past six years the current of lenslatiou has been steadily in favor ol re duced taxation. Not only have numerous local laws heen enacted, exemptinc church es, cemeteries, schools, hospitals, and other institutions from taxation, bnt many general laws of the same character havn beeu passed I would recoiti mend t hat the en rolmen t tax ujhii private acts chartering industrial com panies, and the bonus upon stock of such companies when organized under general laws, be considered a lull equivalent to the Commonwealth tor the privileges of a char ver; and that all State taxes upon capital stock, net earuiugs aud dividends of nianu lactunug, mining ana improvement com panies, and all co-operative associations be repealed. Tin Governor urges the formation of a ge ological corps to continue the survey of our btates. The expense need not exceed 40, 000 for the first years and would diminish thereafter. Uy an act approved April 12, 1872, estal lishing a "Bureau of Labor Statistics aud of Agriculture," the Governor was authoriz ed to appoint a Commissioner of that depart ment. Accordingly Thomas U. Macdowell, of Dauphin county, wasappoiutcd. But the act docs not appropriate any money to defray the necessary exitenses of the department This the Governor recommends should be done. The Legislature has enacted that "a Statu Treasurer shall be chosen by the qualified lectors of the State, at such times and for euch term of service as shall be prescribed by law." The adoption of this amendment will be officially proclaimed on the second Tuesday of January, 1X73, and will super sede exibting laws for the election of Btato Treasurer. Inasmuch as no provison seems to have been made by law for tilling thisotlice, from the first Monday in May next until an elec tion cau be had by the peoplo under the amended constitution, 1 invite tho attention of the Legislature to this condition of the subject. A careful revision of our fundamental law is imjkiratively demanded by the highest considerations of public -welfare; and it is confidently hoped the action of the Constitu tional Convention may be such as to meet the just expectation of enlightened public opinion. The attention of tho Legislature is again invited to the importance of writs of error iu criminal cases. From tho report of tho Superintendent it appears that the number of children in tho Slate who do not atteud school exceeds seventy-live thousand. Iu Philadelphia, twelve percent, of the children between the ages of five and fifteen years do not attend school. Of the whole number registered as attend ants, forty-six percent, are absent from the daily sessions. I recommend the adoption of a compulsory system of education. The Agricultural College has just closed a most prosperous year, the number of stu dents beiug 10, which exceeds that of auy other year silica the opening of tho institu tion. The organization of the National Guard not yet disbanded consists of 15 regiments and 6 battalions: comprising, with unat tached bodies, 323 companies, viz: 5 artil lery, cavalry and 3'jy infantry. Tho ag gregate of enlisted men is 13,500. '.i-i-- 1 . I.iJ, K-... deservedly regarded as the model priso.t in which the "separate" or "individual treat ment system of imprisonment is applied, and the annual reports of iiu faithful Board of Inspectors, embracing their observations and investigations, ilww that they have ele vated the subject of crime punishment al most to the dignity of a scieuce. 1 earnestly recommend the passage of an act providing for compulsory vaccinnation, which should have such penalties annexed a would iusure its undoubted enforcement. I also recommend an enactment establish ing a State Board of Health. Should the Legislature concur with me as to the propriety of increasing the compensa tion of the Executive to 810,000 per aunuin, I recommend it be done prior to tho 1'Oth of Jauuary, as on that day the period for which my successor has lieen elected will begin. Tho Governor pays a just tribute to the memory of General Meade, and says : I rec ommeud an appropriation for the erection of a monument to his memory upon the battle field of Gettysburg. The applications for pardons during the past year numbered 1,437, about rive for every working day in the year. Of thee, G'J were granted, less than five per cent, of the number applied for, and averaging about one to each county. Under the eleventh article of the Consti tution, the State is prohibited from subscrib ing for stocks or lending its credit lor any other object than the payment of its own debt, or for the purpose of military defence. But it cau and should make such a special donation to tho4Jentennial as would inspire popular confidence. 1 would recommend to your honorable bodies to make a sufficient appropriation for thu purpose of securing the erection of suit able buildings for holding the exhibition, to be under the coutrol of the Natioual Com mission in accordance with the act of Con gress. I would further recommend that your "Committee on Federal Kola! ions" consider the propriety of asking Congress to make an appropriation for such necessary expenses of the National Commissioners as will enable them f work w ith etliciencv. T1k Go -ernor closes with thanks to his Cabu t o icers, ami a compliment to his sucee: or, 1'neral llartranft, who, he says, will t. thfu ly guard the honor aud interests of the , tate. , I Aiioitt 1300 people daily rido acro ,s tho i Miubippi river on tho ice. T:. v t . . . . I , , " "o sain not to be the riffht- , ..-u.. i k . j Acung-oovernor of Douis i iana. I. was jiven to him when he was boating o. t 4.1 Mississippi river on account of the profusion of bogus jewelry with w hich ue adorned bis person. 1 Xiyht of Terror. AN ADVENTURE OX LAKE WINNEBAGO TIIK PEKILS OF TRAVELING ON ICE. . The followincr startMnrr storv ia irivon m by a gentleman from Clifton, who vouches tor its correctness : Our readers are well aware that. fr 9n the wood choppers of Calumet county have, during the winter months, used lake Win nebago as a -highway to transport their loads of fuel and produce to this city. A uistance ot over ten miles or water inter venes, but, in this northern clime, the trreat expanse is Generally frozen over bv the 1st I of December. Still, ereat cracks, and fis- sures will and have sometimes broken open j and interrupted in a degree the smooth ness of travel. . These cracks are, however, seldom over two or three feet wide, and can be easily "scaled" in the day time, if the team hnd the wagon are stout, and the nerves of the driver are steady ; but the greatest danger consists in their liability to spread in a single niguc, ana as suddenly close again. On Friday, perhaps one of the coldest days of the season, two Germans, named resjiectively Lutke and Degol, started from Clifton, each with a load of wood dostined for the Oshkosh market. The latter was a new comer from the old country, and had but recently settled in tho village of the cliffs, and as fate would have it, this was his first trip over the ice. The two, in company with a dozeD oth ers, successfully crossed to our shore, and soon had their loads sold upon the market, after which transaction Lutke and Degol went around the town to see tho Elephant. Night drawing 011, the- fornier went to the hotel barn, where both teams were lodged, and waited for his companion, whom he had got separated from during the course of the day. Lutke waited and waited in vain, and darkness approaching, bitched up his teain and started off, not wishing night to overtake him on the road, as a fear ful crack lay about four miles off the Ooh kosh shore. . Degol, it seems, had met an old country friend, and sjeiit a .longer time waiting than he supposed, for night hud approach ed ere he imagined it time to have. Eight o'clock was struck by the town bell when he gut fairly underway, but he struck manfully out though almost utterly ignorant of the correct course to pursue. . For nearly an hour he kept hi way due east, but suddenly bis horse started back with fright, nearly upnetting their driver, who now peered forth in the pitchy dark ness, and saw a terrible gap iu the ice, yawning directly before. It was, he stales, over sixty feet across, and to jump it seemed impossible ; so turning his team to the , north he endeavored, for two or three miles to find a borrower opening, which however, not seeming to be found, he turned ami progressed to the south. Off Black Wolf Point a place about three feet in width was reached, and whipping 011 the horses, an attempt was made to jump the chasm. For some timo they refused to leap, as, snorting with terror, they seemed to wish to fly away from it ; but at last they were forced onward and gained foothold on the opjHisite side in safety. Degol now breathed free, and kept on his eastward course, seemingly forgetful that his own town was far to the north of the point he was aiming for Brothertown. He thinks that full an hour and a half pass ed away when ho was again suddenly brought to a stand-still by another lissure, this time w ider than before. But the spirit of frenzy jjseemed to have overcome both driver and team, for the driver goaded his brutes, and the leap for life was made. Far up in the air they sprang, sled, and all, and came down with a crash on the other side, nearly nine feet away; but the ice broke! and the square piece on which they landed separated from the rest and floated clear out into the chasm. The situation was almost to fearful too comprehend. The weightof the team and sled submerged the cake for nearly two feet, and it seemed as if that, too, might soon crack and scat ter them in all directions ; and the horse;: snorted and screamed with terror, while Degol himself tore his hair and raved like a maniac. The terrified eqnines stood like statues. for had tbey moved an iota they would surely have stepped off, so small the piece on which they floated. The driver, sud denly gaining strength, tood on the top of the wood-rack and leaped for the sound ice, but fell into tho water. Grasping the sound floe, however, he succeeded in drag ging himself out.. The horses, seeing their master safe, seemed smddciily possessed of strength, and leaped also from their cake, but not having any firm footing to start from, they also mi wed their mark, and, after the most strenuous effort, the heavy iron shod sled dragging them down, they were drowned. Horrified almost bey.nd measure, Degol swooned, but, as fate would have it, was soou after found by a party that had been Mint out to meet him, but had also been stopped by the crack, and had wandered south to find a narrower opening. Almost frozen stiff, Degol was carried home, where a high fever attached him, tmiwill, Mfwl uniiHgr kUowvJOT- ciing. A chill of horror comes over him when he tells his tale the story of a winter's night on Lake Winnebago. Oshkoni 1'ime. Terrible Accident A Whole Fam ily Ku.lkd. One of the most heartrend ing accidents occurred last Wednesday at Morton's station, on tho West Chester & l'hila. Railroad, that has ever been our misfortune to relate. Mr. Win. Carr is a hard-working, industrious niau, a builder by occupation, and has been plyiug his vo cation in l'hila., goiug to that city 011 the morning train and returning to his family iu the evening at tho station above men tioned. The family at home consisted of his wifo and three children, the oldest about ten years of age. At 10 minutes past 5 o'clock Wednesday evening the neighbors were startled by an explosion and a scene of tire, aud upon entering the room it was found to be all iu a blaze, the mother aud ono child doad, aud the other two children badly burned, both of whom have since died. The mother it appears had been iron ing and had a gasoline lamp setting uhu the end of the table. The lamp becoming empty she attempted to till it from a can. The latter being nearly empty the oil had generated gas, and when the cork was re moved the room instantly tilled with the gas, which caused the explosion. The clothes she had been ironing and nearly everything in the room was burned. The distressing news was taken to the father by Miller Snare, the conductor on the train that passes Morton at 6 o'clock, and the unhappy father reached the station at T.otl to iind the awful circumstances above rela ted. With so nany accidents happening, we might say daily, from lamp explosions, it is indeed singular that people will bo so foolish as to stiil coutiuue tho use of light oils. The death of Napoleon is still the ab sorbing topic of conversation throughout .Europe. Dispatches are being received from distinguished persons in all parts of the world expressing the deepest sympathy for the family of the late Emperor. The funeral ceremonies have not yet been de cided on, but it is thought the remains will be temporarily placed in the crypt in Can terbury Cathedral, beneath tho crown of Thomas a' Becket. SriRiTUAL Manifestations. An Un explained Mystery. For some time past we have been in possession of the facts of the occurrence of tt range and incompre hensible doings. called, commonly, spir itual manifestations at the bouse of ono of the most respectable families of the county, but have heretofore refrained from giving publicity to the matter from the deep sympathy we feel for the afflicted one aud her family, and shall, on this occasion, refuse to give names, but at the same time personally vouch for the truth of the facts we now relate. . The family of which wospeak, consist ing of some five or. six members, all well respected and highly creditable, is of that solid, matter of fact class of people upon whom no idle fears can lay hold and ren der superstitious, and yet, strange to say, - for something like a year past the lives and home of this family have been ren dered gloomy and miserable by the almost nightly occurrence 01 a tembie and incom prehensible mystery. The mystery, wit nessed by many of the neighbors, consists.hi an indescribable and unaccountable noise, as of some one knocking, slapping, scratch ing and scraping uin the sides, ceiling, floor, windows, &c, of the house, and upon various articles within the room. The ghost, goblin, spirit or ghoul call it what you will seems to have connected itself with a young lady member of the family aged about eighteen years, and who, strange to say, knows nothing of its presence, or of its cominjr or coin?. At night, when she seeks repose, and just as her eyelids are closed in slumber, three dis tinct raps, as a person striking something solid with the finger, may be heard, she seems to be thrown into a trance, or sleep, frorn which nothing can arouse her, as re peated atttempts have been made to do so, but proved unsuccessful. During the trance or lit, we know not what to call it, her limbs contract, her body writhes and groans escape her lips as though she were under going some great bodily pain, and during the trance the rapping continues by loud knocking upon some part of the house and on the furniture, lifting the bed-clothes, rattling the bail of the water-bucket, and even upon the water, making a noise simi lar to a cat lapping water, answering ques tions, etc,, the same as any other well-regulated spirit would ; and. stranger still, this mysterious power follows the person of the young lady, even when she passes a night away from home wherever she sleeis at night there is heard the knocking, which, however, is never heard only when she is in an unconscious slate. The young lady, when she awakens, nays she has heard nothing of the noise, and has felt no pain, saw nothing in her dream in fact, had no dream, and complains only of a feeling of weariness and lassitude. In all other re sects she seems iu perfect health. These manifestations are as mysterious to her us to any one else, and a great source of mor tification. A number of the neighbors have spent frequent nights at the house, in vestigating and endeavoring to ascertain the cause of the mystery, but as yet no sat isfactory conclusion has been arrived at. We can obtain the testimony of many of tne oet citizens 111 the county to attest the truth of the above facts. Benton County (Mo.) JJemocrat. Xeus ami Political Items. 1813. ANNOUNCE ,r'T, THE PITTSBU (tAIl.Y ohn Huber, of Miles township, Cen- tro county, receutly sold threo horses for f'J25. On the morning of the 11th, a slight shock of earthquake was felt at Brunswick, Maine. At Maysville, N. Y., Mrs. Otis Cram i YlAVJl vm 1 in i. 11 li v nuivu j liiv Addl ing of a tree. The planing mill of Snyder & Baum, at Freejiort, Pennsylvania, was burned on the 11th. Loss 000. U, II i a! 1 . . William f'iaiT rrtij-vi-! rr-rtx?ir A rxf rlofte of t cmi Ti- i, '"T:1.. ......... v...., -..w. xs'i v-v vi , - - - j nr. jii We... J ''111 - - m ;i The Lartest. ..... In making the u() ",r, a felonious assault upon an aged lac'y, was r' new promises to n.:ae . . hanged last Friday at Cumberland, Md. j fel ,.0,tl3 Pnst recor.l a, ail ini '''"r . George Grant, the great dry-gos 1 u WV . ,,e fn,nrr: firs- merchant of Ixmdon, has bought 100 squat e ? V rrarr J.yrnal 'd . -, r, , T r 1 a welconm visitor to tl , miles of land in Iowa for a colony of Eng- Established in 104 7t ' ': hsh settlers. advocate t.. ' li : .1 . tv- Tli hiilf of thp deceased eleiihant Wn- . i. . , '" . -- 1 I uiii ami mose mco na wrn 1 imneti. i- contains 414 cott j rifcin anu iik jc OI.T ., - j ,iU in the future ak i Thl square feet of leather, about three-quarters wi .. 1 . 1 : ic- ' f-w.r r!t. t,t ,.. ":.V. who was recently burned to death in ; shanty in La Salle county, 111., was the i survivor of ten husbands. - j ' A child in Helena, Moutana, who swab-! lowed some concentrated lye two years ' ago, has been kept alive since then only by . feeding him through a stomach-pump. ' ' recently, eating within an hour a fifteen- j Congressional, LKVtiTa!t,ic pound turkey and two loaves of bread, ! l Convention proceedings. fai y wasnea aown uy two quans 01 wiiiskv. ""' u-. uroai. j'0;4; 1 lie post-mortem examination of the ex-Emperor Napoleou's remains was con- I eluded on Friday and showed that the im- i the onlr only as are best cal nlat. to i our wnoie country and ha,mj' i penty to onr people. ' 1 The Weekly Post i a V. pa5r and is a faitl.fnl , ir'rKrV news of earh we k. In a,!,t' t,' ries, jofctry nd otlier literary and General News, &V. the daily r-o.sT IemoTatic il; rou. 1 rts.e. t . A Strange Story. There are now in the Iowa State Penitentiary at Fort Madi son an aged couple who are serving out a term for tho crime of incest, they being brother and sister. The story is this, and is true : At the age of twelve years the male left his father's house iu Pennsylva nia, we believe, to seek his fortune and no more return. He went West, grew to manhood and married, raised a family of children, and finally his wife died. llis sister grew to womanhood, was married, and with her husband went West, and to Iowa. Her husband died, and in time she received an offer of marriage from a man who was a widower. She accepted the offer and they were married. Her husband was w ealthy, and after a time one of his sons wished to have the father give him some property, but the father refused to accede to his demands. The son one day, while looking over the family record of the stepmother, which had been laid aside and forgotteu, discovered that there was a kinship between the families, and a further investigation proved that his Cither and stepmother were own brother and sister. To avenge himself for his father's refusal to give him the bulk of his property, he brought suit against them both for incest. They were tried and convicted and sent to the penitentiary for one year. They are both over sixty years of age, and as inno cent of intent to commit a crime as the new born babe. ten, and it is in cvrv jonrnal. TERMS ALWAYS IK AliViy-! The liaibj V: By mall, per annum - . ' " six months Delivered to eubsrrilen in tb, neiifhlioriiig Iwjrouclm and tow', y,. railways within two lnindn-il n :g burgh, per week, 15 cents. The Weekly I,st : Sinple copies, by mail, per In club:, of five or over, to on 4". 1 tSend for specimen copies, g,.,;.'. t which are sent to any au.in.as ' S Address the publii-h-r.-,. "" Jas. p. H.a j,.,;;. I , Test Buijiiu-jr. l'i;tw. 1 1 ri'Kit i on mi: pj i TBE PROSPECTUS FOR 12; Terrible Storm in Minnesota. .r erai Person Frozen to Death. Milwau kee, Wis., Jan. 12. A St. Paul dispatch says : Tho great storm ot the past week resulted in a good many fatal casualties in this State. It was entirely unprecedented in its severity, and was so blinding that persons terished within a few rods of suc cor, when they knew in what direction to go. Three brot.Uurm, Charles, John ami Stephen 0Neil, and Thomas and Michael Holden, each with two horse teams, start ed for Wilniar with wheat on Tuesday. They were found on Friday about ten miles out, two of the O' Neils and ono of the H oldens frozen to death in the sleigh. The others were alive, but will scarcely survive. Five ox teams in the same vicinitv were found frozen to death, aud the drivers are supposed to have abandoned them and per ished. A man was frozen to death by los ing his way while going from the depot to the tank house-at Herman station, on the St. Paul & Pacific Railroad. A little boy near New Ulm undertook to go home, but lost his way, and his bony was found eight miles distant. A man was found yesterday near St Peter, frozen. A good many other cases will undoubtedly be heard of. The wind blew the snow so that it was impossible to see a foot iu advance, and the storm came so sudden that it caught per sons out, and they perished because they were uuabie to find the way. Good Joke. Dr. G. II. Keyser, of Pitts burgh, is a very lean, bony, skeleton-looking man, and has an office on Liberty street. One day when the Doctor was out, a small boy with a basket came in. Tbe otlice boy, after showing him the odd articles, conclu ded to frighten the lad, and suddenly open ed a closet where a human skeleton was standing, and shaking the dry bones, alarmed the boy so that he ran away, leav ing the basket. When the doctor came in he inquired who left the basket. . On being told, he reprimanded the office boy a' id started him out to look for tho fiightened lad. He soou returned and reported the little fellow on the opposite sido of the street, but afraid to come in. The doctor went to the door to induce his little fright ened customer to come over, and beckon ing him w ith his long, bony hand, called to him pleasantly. The young urchin cast a suspicious glance at him and answered : "No you don't ! I know you if you have got your clothes on!" He mistook the doc tor for the skeleton he had been frightened with. mediate cause of death was the failure of i Pennsylvania, and the ,, action of the heart. Dispatches from Bomliay announce a terrible earthquake iu India, by which fif teen hundred persons in one town are said to have peribbed. "News from "the neigh boring country is awaited with anxiety. A freight train on the Clover Hill Railroad was thrown off by a misplaced switch on the 11th. near Chester station. lrginia, Killing two negroes who were stealing a ride on a car loaded with lumber. Two sisters, Cassie ami Victoria Fos ter, natives of Hampton, N. S.. may well claim the title of 'champion light-weights of the world," Cassie, ten years old. weigh ing twelve pounds, and Victoria, four years old, six pounds. A young lady in western New York has just declined pn offer of marriage from a wealthy lover w hose name ia Hussey. It is impossible not to admire the spunk of that woman who refused to be called a Hussey for any man. Edwin O. Parish nnd Mary A. Cook were married 011 board of an excursion train of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe rail road 011 Thursday. The train was going at the rate of thirty miles an hour when the matrimonial lasso was thrown. Louis W. Hall, formerly of the Pa. Senate, has leen appointed attorney, by Gov. Geary, fr the collection of claims against the United States for citizens of Pennsylvania. The claims are what are known as the "bolder losses." A young man named George Miller, at Pleasant Gap, Center county, jumped upon the tumbling shaft of a separator to try it. The machine proved sufficiently energetic to separate a limb from the young man's body, and he has since died from the acci dent. Mrs. Michael Regan, residing on Wash ington avenue, Albany, on tbe 7th became the mother of three lxys and a girl one boy dead. About ten months since she had triplets and one year previous she gave birth to twins. Nine children in two years! Harry White still holds on as Senator and member of the Constitutional Conven tion, and will likely gobble a salary from each, as he did the several extra thousand dollars from the Senate last year for serv ing on committee. I le should be made resign either one or tbe other. A couple married at East Lyme last Thanksgiving day bad been engaged since 1S1. At the conclusion of this protracted ami agonizing suspense it was found that the bride had pined away a whole set of front teeth, and the bridegroom leen forced to conceal the ravages of time under a wed ding wig. An employee in a mill at Dalton, Mass., was recently caught by his clothing and carried up to the shafting, head downward. John Meagher, a boy Hi years old. seeing what happened, instantly threw a dipper full of soap on the main belt, which caused it to slip till the gate could be shut and the man's life saved. Wife-murder appears to be the prevail ing mania. Almost every exchange brings us accounts of horrible 'tragedies of this character, women leing butchered in a manner the fieiidishness of which fairly btaggcrs credulity. There appears to be an epidemic abroad, which is doing its fearful work in terrible eame.-t. On Sunday evening a fire broke out on the James Wilson farm, near Petrolia, Pa., which soon spread from the oil well where it originated to others in the vicinity, and to several houses also. The town was in great danger for some time, and consider able loss was experienced in removing goods. A large amount of oil was burned. Sad news of the great storm continues to le received from Minnesota. Whole herds of cattle were caught in the storm and frozen to death. A man named Chris topher left Giyndon, Minnesota, forborne Tuesday night aud was found lying under the snow frozen to death. A young man named Borry, of the same neighborhood, shared the same fate. Aliout two years ago, Emanuel Win ger, a son of John Winger, of West Cain. Chester county, while playing with one of me ueiguoor s children, it t r.-; t , 1: e t il r tl tl ti I, ir tc - H Xi h o e t 1 1; jr i:. :Jf til Those of our r adt class daily paper shmnd I scrit for the Pittshnnrli I . 'm li one of the largest, hvci.e! m -pers in the United Statt-s. TV;" has heen estahlisht-d over a-mar.-tury ; is independent in !:;.. 1 always those measures w!.M. p. greatest Ktssihle k'hhI to The number; jrives daily thir'y-vx" matter, einhrachig la!tr i. . graph, the most reliable i.iurVtr latest cablo telegram. The t tive news, the latest Oorcr-i-s ,i with all tho news by ma:',. i: most interesting personal and full telegraphic market rc-:r. points ot importance, eai-t ji i 1 much other matter of an ei:ri instructivn character. It ;-:L: -circulated paper in the Stat. re;.-:? adelphia, its daily edition lxr.---trab'.e over 13,00O, and uew-: --.-every day being a. bled to ;-. ;, per year to maii suowcril .-v.. 0: he ordered llirmipli agfi:'. m-wr-lagt? within one hnudn-ii:-. "';r ' Vittbburgh, at fifteen it:.:': iVi THE WEEKLY LttT To those wishing a pl v' t- . weekly we would rcco:i;;;n ; V: W EEKLV DtSl'ATl ir'.ollf ..!"..- '.ja. cheapest and most re!iai-p.rr Th Weeklt 1isiat'h c-- columiiH of matter, print!';. tyje, and is one the liest. a- it t ong of tlie cheajiest, if not tii .-. lies in tln country. It ront-cV general and as an enterMinii..--. j', tiv and acceptable family .ii-tir:..-celled by any ip the coniiTrv. The WF.r.ki.Y 1Msiat ii i- f -single siibscrilrf-rs at SI .V nyta-. --; of ten to or.e address at f 1 f;. i free paper to th? party p".Ti!:': h Su!H-ritirs m:iy remit by iiiiii: money or by lot-oflice Mnl'-r. wl safer mode. Postmasters ii -;.: -bers for the Dispatch. 1 i'h t Weekly, are authorized tor-: "Rt ler cent, on published rates f. r 5 scrilers, or trn rwr cent. ii eiir Address, O'NEII.b v K K. ! Daily and Wkhk i.v I'ispati 1: Iron Ruilding), OT and iVj Fifth a - hurg, la. 11 --teii Iha r t - Ifcli ii,;- 4 EST! fV nient for all. either sex. at or more a year. New worts t'T X' ml others. Smert pretniuir.s Money inate nipi!lT and easily !L j Write and see. I'nticulars fn"- : ton. DrsTix A Co., lUrtfcrd. C-'- Am-mim U'.il lor V.nnV: NLGBIffSPBOF- The most beautiful edition rof Printed on fdrgant :iier. !'h O'lisite illiiurauons. I'roiit; I.r.t y Everybody wants this 11. l i Inr nud term, address .InllX t. -CO., Publishers, Fhiladcli'liia. 1823. JUBILEE! Ilnr !-,. ; 1 nr i' Tbe tireut American Kmniiy . f3 a Tear with the Jl'BlLKE 1' .MUSKY. K. 51 OK SI". 37 PwrZi ltow. Tr" SEJTD FQIt A SAM I'M TRICKS ad THAIS t,K Ai tv.ii.t ...... 1 ..i.;t ' hr K- . 1, dlersand H urn tints'.' Ken I ihi-"' r , 11 inner . 0 larire. ii nstratt-o paper, Letiutr size. Splendid ,"r, r 1'nles, Poems. Wit, lluuiur. !'"". j t,y if, 11th year. 1 a year "it!""' i, . t'hromo. 'VluMoioi Limiv." fr'"' -Ju' 1. Trv itoxcp. sjtiJ.r.ir;t"ij'-"n" ' ; CO: wanted. Outfit KItKK. Sp.-c"'1: v' . Address IIANXKK, HiliHlar, ' If matters keep going ou as'at present, It may be found necessary to order "colTee and pistols' in the lower branch of Con gress. Tho Credit Mobilier and Union 1 acific scandals are culminating in a crisis that bones no good forsomebody. Let the bcrgcant-at-Arms muster a posse. Zi Tfl ClOrt ?xr day X trnllT ' . . L . '. if Si S ol w Ill I": was struck in tlm stomach with a stone, which caused him to bleed profusely : since that timo hurt, he would bleed freely from the mouth, i TTT?TT7 VAP V HPQTv On last Thursday evening tbe wound oiu- ! & V Ultii Vlpl ect again and he bled to death. One of the flues of a boiler of the up ward bound steamer Julia St. Clair col lapsed near Eufala, Ala., on the nirht of me ltn mst., ecaldiug thirteen persons, j mostly colored dock hands and firemen. One man died instantly, one was drowned! I two were mortally injured, and one unac counted for. Anions? the scalded is Pnni. ueer Den y, w ho is also injured in the face. Laville, first ofticcr of the wrecked ship Golden Hind, who has just arrived from Rio, says that the vessel was wrecked on the westcoastof I'atagouiain June last and fourteen of the crew spent forty-eiht days in two open boats in the Straits" of Magellan. Tbey were compelled by hung er to devour the bodies of live of their com panions who died frem privation and ex posu re. :Mrs Ly1' Sherman, condemned to lite imprisonment in Connecticut for pois oning her husband, has made a confession which is said to be the most thrilling re cord of crime by one individual known in modern times. She. admits that twelve persons died at different times from iwisou administered by her hands. It was her favorite mode of becomii.g rid of matri monial obligations. nl,!ldi,,, C ha a very industrious old lady Mr. Sophrona Graves who is eighty-three years old, and for tho pat fif ty years has lived alone and supported her self by spinning, weavimr. e. ,i i..i,,. "k . "Mil i n r o uyVvWU y of carpeting dur .ov tncuiy years. mile and a half to church on days. Tho women of the ..o are over eifftity years old v urpiiso party the other day, sixteen being tvti, t i a m KITI KU table over two hundred years old. I oanttde cm iter "1 ret i. m Cot fo flo l'u t; in at IL. la the ex: ther 8ex. you nt? or old. tuake i" , time than at anvtliinif eisf. 1 ; Address G. STiNSON Ji CO., i'"'" , (FLITCH'S imperi ' MHitlHnl WholesMif 0,", t W. H HUM A X 1'- fHVKMj It and merchant can 'il-", S-; ? 1 tuailud.oOc. 11. bovunMi KBJ-': to cure tbe Pile, nnd nctini'fc - drucists. 1'ric r.irniV . ... it, ; ? i. . 1 , i.r ttnd nctliii'tf '-" i'nv - TT rm... 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