umm mm. i- --- - EliCnsburg, Fa., Fllt 1A 1" - - - 1JC. 1S IS74. iT Fink, of Ohio, has introduced a bill in Coiigif.-n to repeal the Act re riuii ir.g tl.o oif -payment of postage on n;vf.-papers. ; YK hope a majority if the lower House at llnuilutg w id g' c t lie right o,l,n- to tlieir Legislati'- nets by voting fur Hitch and .';, and ihat tlie Senate will do tlm same s far a ;' is coiiceimd. ; A r.il.l. bar. been int ifduci l into Con- . giiss rtoi iog tho s-ilaiy f the 1'issidcnl : b.ok to v -".'' ;1- If it should p.U'S it would ii.-.t, under .1 c'.i u hi tlio constitution, re- ; a Csant's salary of ?.";cr,!) one cent, a j flit of when la was well mvare when ho ! .'gi ed the subtly fctnb iu:iuity. it would j o ! j alV.ct tl.a pay t.f future I'ret-ic'eals. j Tna Jobn.fown Trilune Fays ''8 rc" ' sitcts to Fen jnmi'.i F. Wade, once a shi-j ning light in the Kadical party, after the f.. Hewing fashion : ' 1'oor old Fen Wade, once tho in-Mcsl hero of all the Anti-Sla-veiy champion?, is a c inuion luUby ist in Washington. He was jesteulay with Col. 'Ilunas A. Stoit Iffoie tho Senate Ilail iad Cunmittoe in the interest of a subsidy for a railroad. Towluit base u.ies do wo come at lat T' 3--a -oa A Nashville paper confidently aborts j 1 that Andrew Johnson will go into the next leglslatuio of Tennessee with three times the strength of any of tho other aspirants who may I befoie that body, for a eat in the t'niied States Senate. We are inclin ed to think that in this in.-tanco the with i father to tho thought, although tho cx Fiesidont will no doubt make a powerful elloit to succeed and wi!l throw into the contest ail his well known energy and forco of character. -3 e It seems thpt there i c.nnidoiKble oppo sition in the Senate to the ci-firma! ion of Fx lioveinoi Jewell '.lie recently ippointed I'oatniaster :enera!. Ths prominent lead ens in tho movement ate said to tie Simon Camel on and Flanagan, ane. of thoSonaiors from Texa. What Mr. Jewell has done or In ft urdone dining his hi ief occupancy of the depaitmrnt to incur the displeasure of these two ladical patriots we are not civen to umJeiKtand. Mr. Jewell is regai ri nd as an honorable man, urvd we predict that it wi'.l require something more sub stantial than thepersonal hostility of Cam eron ami Flanagan to ostracise him and pievent his confirmation. F. 8. The nominaticn of Mr. Jewel woa ronflnned by the Eena'e on Tuesday. Tib teini of Cail Schur, one of thn I'nitril States Senatora from Missouri, will expire on the -lib of next March, end it wtrri to be generally conceded that Iv itar.4.n no efcwrco whatever of a te-elcction. rTe is i ent Vman of very great ability, and a a ready and tVient speaker has no snpe rior In tL Frnate. llo has dealt Graft noino severe and stunning blows, especially o ! CTiipt Ban Iliningo job, and other kiiilieU measuies. lie was a devoted fti.r.d f I'rrsMent Lincoln, hut could never mdciso thff iuiuities of Giantism, and wbcii the hbeiul republican f asty was or ganized he- identified himself wilh its pol itical fortunes and presided over the Cin e:ni:ati Convention when Hoiaco Greeley was nominated for President, although he preferred another candidate. IJi personal integrity is beyond suspicion, anil no man's absence fr m ti e Senate will be nioro gen c:ally regretted than that of Mr. Sehu:z. I'snsR an Act of Congress which pro vides that a jo.dre of any of the I'niteJ Fta'csCou:fs who has artived at. the ag of 7f may ritiie on full pay, JndgePwnyro t of Ohio, one of the Associate Justices of the Supreme Court, who reached that age last week, f.s signified his intention of availing himself rf the provision i f the act leferifd to. This wiilgive Giant an op jiortiini'y to f.d the vacancy. Th;j court consists of r:n mcml eis, of whom Mr. Lincoln appointed Ar, viz :Swayne. Miller, Paris, Field, a!'d the late Chief Justice Chase. Grant has appointed ftnr, viz: Strong, Fradlry, Hunt, and Waite, the suc cessor of Jf-dgo Chafe. The remaining Associate Justice, Clifford, was appointed by Mr. Fucbanan in F?". Tho Southern F'.alss areentiie'y umeprescnled on the tench of the court, an anomaly i: its or ganization CThioh oug'it not to exist. That there are men in that section St for tho yositiou no on doubts, hut as they do notf Velong to the Grant school of politics they will bo passed by ar.d some thick and thin s-ipporler of the administration will bo nominated. T'trUF, w;n some discussion last week In the lower branch of Congress on th financial question, and the fact was plainly developed that tho Piesulont and the rad ical innjoiity are as wide apait as the polos. The President in his mcs'ajo took st 10:15 and decided ground in favor of an a;!y resumption of specie payments and against any 'nidation or increase of tho giconback currency. He believes that the rwitai.i cnie for tho financial ills under which tho business of the country is suffer ing, :4 a return as soou as possible to tho l.i l uioi:ey of tho constitution, gold and siher. and in this opinion he enunciates Found Pcimeratic doctiit.e. His views are iolintiy epposed by Judge Kelly of this M;;te nnd Ilnjatniu F. Butler, hi:e Dawes j a:.d Gaifick sustain him. Tho Sccr.tary j ... . , .u .1 of the lieHMiryui kia icpoit holds tbo , k: w e views that the Pi evident dots in his n.es. age, nd enforces them in strong and , v'goi bus language iiurtot hisirrecou- r (l,Hl!l li:rfi.c. utixn u.u.a aim , iilb!c difference Ulmeu Grant and one w'ng of the lUpub'.Wan paity in Congrtr.a 1 n .!... ..C l.n A. . ' ) A Olltflll'll el TM.I A UMI VI IUO V It I - ' .... ' rei cy. it fiiav lafely I'O assumcu mac no . it did; 'ed: In letj-s-Riiou oil me fcu.yci;. win j! i:. : 1 1 t place at the present seseioti, b wliich t wnt the country will bo the gnjndi. An interesting presentation took place in Paris at tlio American Knthassy on the 9th instant. A short time after the surrender cf Cornwallis at Yorktown in , lrtol,cr i;si, General Washington prc- c,.,j to Lafayette as a testimonial of his high regard, a gold watch on the l:ick of wh icli was cnuraved an appropiiato in scription. "When Lafayette made his last visit to thi country in l.SCo, ho went to the Hermitage, to see General .lacifon, ami then passed on to Nashville, whero hi wks received with distinguished honor. When he ret bed to his bed late at right, his body servant placed his waich inside, of a large trunk in the General's room and neg lected to lock it. Tho nest morning it was discovered that the watch was mia ing, and although n large reward was offer nl .'or its tttcrn it was not forthcoming. About two or thioj years ago this same watch was purchased by a gentleman re sided in Galveston, Texas, from a Jew pawnbroker i.i Memphis. Having often read tho story about tho loss of the watch is Nashville, and Feeing tho inscription on its baok, he wrote to Mr. Fish, Secretary f State, about eighteen months ago and proposed selling it to tho government for t'jUO, in order that it might bo restored to the heirs of Lafayette. Mr. Fish sent a communication to Congress on the subject, and on the 2d of Juno last that body pass ed an! act sui'.Loi iziug its purchase. An i interview was afterwaids had with tho Memphis Jw, w ho stated that some months bufore he sold it to the Texas gentleman, it tin! !i.ti T.nivnort will, t.ifvt 1 tt f 1n.1v . 1 c , J living in the intei lor of the State as securi ty for the loan of a certain sum of money and that the time for its redemption had ! expired. The ladv was visited and solved the mystery f its loss, stating who took it fiom Lafayette's trunk and the accidental finding of it by hei?flf several years ago in her mother's house in a secret drawer in an old secretary whcio it was placed in IP?."), together with a written statement made by tho person who had pilfered ir, in which he expressed a deep feeling of re morse for his act. Mr. Fish transmitted it to Mr Washburne, the United States Minister to France, and that gentleman on the S'th in an appropriate address handed it to M. Oscar IM Lafayette in the prcs etiroof the rrtne Lafayette family and a largo number of Aireiieans whjare spend ing tho winter in I'aris. M. Lafayette made an sppro riate reply, expressing tho (hauks of the Lafayette family to Con gross and the government for the restora ion of tho long lost and invaluable relic. I Toy. niRSTHK Ci.TMnn, w ho soablyrep rc sents "Old Feiks" in Congress, isagen tleman in whom the democracy of Penn sylvania feel a just pride. He occupies a c u mandir g position in tho House and is respected for his ability as well as his un doubted integrity. Ho addressed a letter to tho Otmi ciats of I'liiladelphii who re cently celebrated tho victories of October ami November, in which he said : Let ns not vainly imagine that it is purely partisan that we, as an organization, bare won it r aidi d by tha good and just men of oilier poliliial affiliations. Let us rather ft'Cf pt it in its true signifn anre, as a pr"t-t hy the linmt nun nf all partits against nr eonstitutional ami illegal rule against 1 r ecutire usurpation anl aggrandizement agaiimt lejislaiive abu?-' and corruption acainst ih insidious and dt basing intlucncea of I'orporatod power against thit villainies and robberies of organized ringn and handed piunderni s ag;iinst iuc ompetrncy and faith lessness in paces of trust and power ar;:.int tlia terrorism uf executive patrceape ami the nnbluhin g nepotism of an attetpteil ilrras tr, and rtnally and above all against that fell spirit of centralization, which would wipe out the reserved rights. priri!fga and in m uu: t '.m of Pctci i-ipn Ftate ar.d l!,n the Ki ileral Govornn-o-nt with absolute ai.it supremo paw er ! TbeSB are among the exist ing ev i!s against which the result of the latti e-Iei-tions is a solemn protest, and to all men that remit is not only a w arning, but like ivise at: abselntr comma nd. It rhairsus sperially to whom powr has been enirnsted Ihat wo should restora the benign rule of thi Constititntion and of law that wh thnnM not only Latsis!i thievesand plunderers, but that !n all things we should be Iionrst ourselves that we should do ex art j:islii to all men of evory rare, pvotei-t-ing tlieni in their guaranteeil rights and delvnding their every constitutional privi b'u ihitt in all go rorr, mtn a J ex pend it ures there should be wiie. economy and r'gid ae- j ec-nntability that there should be nospecial Ugis't-on fur, nor largesses to corporations or individuals that tlM finances sh:i:l tie re stored to the ci-URti'nfional l.-asis that the industries of the laud hhall be relieved of tli.- existing paralysis so Ihat onr vast ari ciiltuil, iniiirral and ollwr resources maj ! df'velopHtl, whereby honest labor may be rewarded, ami want r.nd misery banished that the people of eat h sla.'e must bo un tncleated in iheir right to control their own domestic atfiira nnawed by flral power that the hort'.ea of niiii.Teant'and plnuderers, who, prnyirg upon the fuara and ignorant porjiiiiice ef a recently enfranchise)! race, have bronght financial rui'i and the horrors f civil ar upon peaceful ceiiiia unities, shall bs ilrlveu forth, and finally that thcr- shall be lilrnseil peace throughout our whole land, found-il upon the genral good will, thi tiprichi ilt alii'g, the generous sympathy and the mutual dependence of all the Inhabit ants thereof. A few ykav.h Ai'.o the Supreme Court of Iho United Slates, Chief Justice Chssode liveiing the opinion, decided that tho Act of Congress making greenbacks a legal lender for the payment of debts was un constitutional. This decision gave mortal oflfet ce to Giant and tho large and power-, tnl rail road coi pcrations of the country, and an organized eiToit was set on foot to have it reversed. A bill was accordingly passed by Congress, authorizing tho ap- pointmont of two additional judges of the Conit, aad Grant nominated Strong, f PennsyU atiia, and Hraiiley, if New Jersey both Attorney for Rail Road corpora tions in their respective State. This was exiled at the time parkin the Peach of tho Supreme Omit for .1 certain anil well known purpose. Aftrr Strong and Brads ley had taken their Seats, tho cause was regarded before a full Court and the result was, ;ts had bern anticipated, that a m;i jority of th Court overruled the opinion of Chief Justice Chase :i d pronounced the legal tender act constitutional. And now Grant in h.s message strongly urges Cons gress to r eye til this same legal tender pros vision iu the law the repeal to tke effect at some future day, which he leaves tons Pre to determine. The Pcmociatic party has always ops poseJ lhe constitutionally of the loal ten. i?r act, and Grant, singular as it may ap- pear, is now found endorsing the views or ln nomocracy iiihi ipies. us rn - tin the question of a speedy resumption of . navments. Poilics. like Ul SCI V. n,aue a ,an acp.iaintcd with strange beds CU'...-o f n ofrWrl- ia mnilA ill f'nnfrrpcu 1 . e.. w.-v. .... ... " in .tfv rvnf vIia ii)iininpnititiiin .if tlin y -j - Ii).i ,U., t it will o!v risa to oxoitin.T ul discussion, and will most certainly f:,j iti tha Senate even shouht i pass tbo llon.se. Great Suffering in lVestern Kansas, OVER E'GIITEEN THOCSAMl MtBSOS SUF FEKIMI FOR LACK OF FOOD ASD CLOTIt IXO AS fRr.ENT APPEAL TO THK IiK SETOI.KNT VOr.LU CAPTION AGAINST IMPOSTEF.S. Corrctreindenre of the ntti&'jrgh Gazette. Pf.rrt, Kav., Dec. 8, 18 71. In tho enclosed report, issued one week ago by the Kansas Central Relief Commit tee, 3-ou will find an approximated tabu lated statement cf the destitution in the western counties of this State. This shews Ihat in twenty-four counties 12.0S9 persona are destitute of food and clothing, and that half as many more are sufiering for lack of clothing, makiug 1S,134 in all. On Iho reverse side of the sheet which T enclose you will find an appeal in behalf of the sufferers in five contiguous counties in the northwest, signed by a representative of each, which allbrds as true and succinct a picture of the state of aQ'airs in that af flicted region as I have seen. I have met and talked with men whoso business it was to invest igate the destitution of other coun ties similarly situated, and sadder narra tives I never heard of families with noth ing to subsist upon but boiled wheat, and not enough of that ; of women and children whose scanty clothing was so raggca that they could hardly keep it on without shoes or stockings, and sometimes almost without fire just entering upon the win ter, and with no prospect of relief from theirowu resouices for the next six mouths. Tho following is the appeal I speak of: OSBOKNK ClTT, KoV, 2ti, 1S74. To the Generous Pvhlir: We, the under signed', a committee duly appointed and au thorized to represent ths destitution existing in our respective counties, de respectfully say : The five northwestern frontier counties in Kansas, to wit, Osborne, Smith, I'hillips, Norton and Rooks, constituting a natural geographical nnit, on the upper Soioinnn and away from railroads, snfi'rret' a loss from grasshoppers, last summer, a! root t if tt quite equal to the value of taxable preper;y, as indicated by ths last general assessment. Corn Is the pioneer's first crop; it was our principal dependeueu for bread and meat and clothing, and our corn was entirely de stroyed. A small portion of our people hare alight crop ef wheat to iivo on, and that is a 1. Calculating it only for a part of their bread, it must furnish all of that, feed for their teams, a fiirplus to sell fr clothing, and other necessaries, or tliny must go witkeut, or they Biust ask for hwlp. In the nature of the! caso, there could be no Insurance to eorer a part of the loss, as ia the case of great flies in cities. Most of oar homesteader! are poor men, wilb ao resources to fall baek npon. We are full of courage and faith in the ultimate prosperity of our country. Giro us three years to dertdop our resources and diversify our industry, and no'-eveu grasshoppers can mako us beg. P.ut, in the prosest emergency, to avoid actual surTc-ritg to avoid, ;i wu believe, thedanjer of dvath to some, from starvation and exposure, we ask a generous publle to give us back a s:call portion of our loss. The aggregate popuT:tt:on of these five counties is about twtlvn thousand, and the destltutiou is greater thau we supposed be fore making in vestigatio.. On the surface, things look much as r. 5.11. llut penetrate beneath the surface, and you will find a great many families lying cold of nights for want of softloient bedding; hundreds if not thousands of women ami children barefoot, and tho ground covered with .snow; many men coat less; hundreds of families with their last wheat ground, llour to last a fow weuks onlays, and then nothing, acd aomn families already living on bran. The majority ef our men anil womon would be glad te sll their labor for tho ne cessaries of life, at any p:icn. lint tho mi nority, who have enough for themselves, Anve only enough., and cannot buy the labor of their more unfortunate neighbors. We desire by this appnal to prevent tho extremity of suiYeriiig which we knew will tie npon many of our people hy New Year's, and upon a majority of them by Spring, if relief does not come. To carry us to harvest we noed from oat side, in provisions alone, 10.000 in Osborne county, 412,000 in Smith, 10,000 in Phillips, S"i,(i00 in Norton and the uuorgauized county nf Ieeatnr, and 55,000 in Rooks and the un organized county of Graham. Wo need as much morn in clothing and bedding. Second-hand clothing, if serrieeable and warm, will b gratefully received; shoes, especial ly, for men, women and cliik'ren, are needed. We greatly desire that sufficient supplies should be sent without employing traveling ageiats. At the best, the traveling ex penses must come out ef their collections, ami that will sometimes absorb all they get. But bc worst of it is, that a crowd of impostors, under that cover, palm themselves o3T 011 tho public at our expense. We earnestly urge the public to scrutinize carefully the credentials of every solicitor, and give noth ing to tht smooth-tongued stranger whose papers are "coming by the next mail." NVe sincerely hopo this appeal wiil not be thrown a;le unnoticed, and that it will not o'-ly enlist tho sympathy of our Eastern friends, bu. that they may receive it as truth and send us immediately, as liberally as their generosity will permit, the substiu lia.1 articles of food and clothing that shall make discouraged hearts rejoice. Anything sent to alleviate the sull'erings of this dis trict may bo scut to W. L. Hear, rtusell, Kansas, or to the Kansas Central Relief Committee, at Topeka. Respoetfully, Johk Hissri.l, Phillips county, Lafb E. Smith, Rooks county, R. B. Foster. Osborne county, ,T. G. Foi.som, Norten county, W. M. Vr'ELLMAX, tfroith county, Committee. BASF. IMPOSTORS. Once mora I caution tho benevolent to beware of impostors of the basest kind, who are known to be abroad over all tho Btatos east of us. Some honest men have gone who have no credentials except such as a popular meeting can give. These may do something whero they aro personally known; but it is not safe to give to stran gers whose credentials are no better Let mo mention a single instance: A few days ago a plausible stranger went into Iowa and succeeded in getting generous dona tians of corn, and which ho very soou had collected at a railroad station, ready for shipment to the riestituto district, from which ho pietendcd to como. Ife then sold the whole lot, pocketed the proceed, and cleared himscif. Very likely be and tho purchaser wore in collusion. THE APrAT.i.lNO FEATLlii- Tho most appalling feature in this busi ness is, that it must be kept up for at least six months.' People will make their bene factions say this month, and feel that they have ilons their part; but before January is over, all may bo consumed, and siiil there are at least four months until the harvest. Alas! dear friends, death may reap a brod and terrible harvest ere those four months roll 1011 ml. If these people are to be saved from starvation, benevo lence will have to be systematized, and the supplies kept up. The State cannot do much, for tho con stitutional limit of indebtedness (a low one) had been reached before this calamity fell upon our people, and a little fropi that quarter does more harm than good. TI!S F.ASTErt PART OF THE STATE. In out pait of the State the farmers, and with them every body else, were seriously impoverished; but there is not much des titution none but n hat can be provided for at liomo-ct least we think so at present. This remark holds good of all that, part of the iftato lying east of tbo meridian of Fort Riley or Junction City. Tho reason why the west suffered so severely, and we of iho east partially escaped, was that tbo locusts came upon them about three weeks earlier than upon us, wbilo the corn was still soft. ; while ours what little wo had after the long and severe drought was for the most part too hard to be devoured, s-till we had not one-tenth of an average crop. In this county, or.s of the best in the 3'tate, many farmers are buying com brought from Iowa and Missouri. Iu tho western counties Dot a bushel escaped. Truly yours, Josiah Copley. Tho writer of the above letter desires its publication in all papers, frieudly dis posed toward the destitute people of whom he writes Eus. "Jf.kins" Outdone. The marriage of Malia, daughter of Do Souza CabrnI, the great diamond merchant of &nth America, to George Arthur Thockmorton, late of Kentucky, but now engaged in railroading in Uio Janeiro, causes the Xewlands-Shar-on nuptials, magnificent though they were, to sink into insignificance. The father of the bride is the richest man In the world, his fortune being estimated at fifty billions. Mr. Theckmorton himself is no beggar, for he counts his dollars by the millions, and will some day be richer than his father in law. The w edding took place atCabral's residence, near Rio Janeiro, and the mim ber of guests exceeded one thousand, the invitations being inclosed in boxes of sandal-wood, costing f 1,200 each. The rooms wete decoiated with camelias set with dia monds, one hundred music boxes set with precious stones played the wedding march, and a pavement from the railroad to tho mansion, of more than a quarter of K mile, wasspiead with camel's hair shawls. The bride's dress is literally indescribable. It cost millions of dollars. The bride's gifts number 1,840 among them a dinner set of 280 pieces, given by the mother, each piece bearing the Cabral-Throckmorton mono gram in diamonds, tho whole costing $4, 000,000; one t housand yards of point lace; "(V d-esses ; a title deed for a magnificent town and country house in each capital in the world ; a steamship, with a full com plement of sailors under contract for ten years' service ; one dozen milk-whito Ara bian steeds; a necklace of thirty of the lar gest and finest diamonds in the world, with a fantastic face cut upon each stone the necklaco costing $.10,&80,0O0.7o. There w-re other wonderful presents in profusion. Now, let Jenkins hang his head i:t shame. Who will read about a common wedding after this? or who believe anything writ ten about this one ? Tun KiDNAPr-Ens of CriAni.F.s Tlo9 Shot Dead. New York, Dec. 14. Early this morning two notorious characters at tempted to burlnrizo the residence of Mr. Van Brunt, at Hay Ridge, Long Island, and were shot and killed. They were iden tified as William Mosicrand Joseph Doug lass. It appears that the house of ex-Judge Van I! runt, at which the shooting is al leged to have taken place, was empty, and it was the Judge's brother, bis son and a farm laborer named Scott who did the shooting they having come from the broth er's house when notified by tho burglar alarm. Albeit Van Hrunt, killed ?dosier, and Douglass was killed by tho laborer with a shot gun his bowels being fright fully mangled. Fie survived half an hour. In bis confession he said he and Mosier wero well known by the police. While he declared Mosier was the kidnapper of Chars lio Ross he aJmitted that he was an ass sisUnt in the then of tho child. lie as serted that the hiding place of the child had been kept from him by Mosier. He was unmarried, btit Mosier had a wife and six children. None but tbo robbers were wounded in the conflict, though Sve bar rels of their revolvers were found nischarg ed. They were supplied with burglar's tools. The police entertain hopes of find ing the missing boy. The police have beeu hunting for these men for some time. IDENTIFICATION OF TIIS BT.'IUH.AKS. SiUeck, of tho Central Office, who was pent fo Fort Hamilton to identify the bnrg lars killed there, returned shoitly after 2 o' clock, and reported to tho Superintendent that they were the men who stole the Ross child, Mosier was shot iu tho head. They arrived thero early this morning in a sail boar. The polico are aware of Mrs. Mo sier's whereabouts. McRnittt Wii.t, Oct. A startling story of murder, most foul and unnatural, is re ported by jorrcsp'T.det.t residing at Leb anon. Ho writes a3 rollorrei Ou Friday last a hotel keeper living a short dir.tan west of Lebanon, appeared voluntarily be fore Francis II. F.bur, and said "there was something preying upon his mind," and then made the following coufcslion: About ten years ago the sister of tho hotel Keeper's wife mado a visit to his bouse in Anuvil'e, Lebanon county, where upon tho hotel koepcr and his wife went out into the stable to catch a chicken for dinner and while thus ergagert a diffi culty arose between theni which ended in the commission of the horriblo crimo of murder. It appears, according to the con fession, that he struck his wifo a blow which sent her under the heels of the horse, and that tha animal subsequently kicked her, causing her death. At the time of the occurrence everybody thought that the death had resulted from tho kick of the horse, and it was so stated by the husband. A fow years subsequently tho hotel keeper married a second wife, and to her ho made a full confession cf the crime, and to no one else, until a few days ago, when ho also mado tho confession to his son residing in Philadelphia. The hotel-keeper is said to be a sober man, and has always borne a good reputation in the neighboi hood where ho resided. Hut the terrible weight on his mind, and a goaded conscience, compelled Lira to make the confession. The Sistki?3 of Charity. There is a bill at present before the Mexican Congress restricting tho powers of the Catholic Church, ono clause of which provides for the expulsion of the Sisters of Charity from the Republic. What do the Mexican law-makers mean ? Do they not know that the association of woaieu which they pro pose to expel is one of tho noblest and most humane societies ever organized in the world ? The merciful deeds of thes.o meek anil holy women are inscribed npon tbo pages of history of every land beneath the sun, and it seems outrageous even to suppose that they could be guilty of any thing deserving of expulsion from a coun try. We should rather think that a Gov ernment would offer them inducements to stay instead of threatening them with a penalty for not leaving, but the ways of some governments are past finding out. Since i'ismark began Am war npon tho Jesuits and the Pope, it seems to have be come fashionable for lesser powers to follow his lead. Rut the Sisters of Charily, who go about doing God's work, will not be deserted by Him when their hour of ex tremity comes, and He will raise up friends to fight their battles in the councils of the nations. The prayers of the sick and suf fering, of the wounded and dying, will reach Heaven in behalf of these good wo men, and the edicts of governments against them will be of no avail. -Iidllef. Watchman. The Pennsylvania Railroad Company owns lfi.000 eight-wheeled freight cars, 1 valued at froi: each ; l,S00 four-wheeled freight cars, worth 170 each ; 521 passen ger care of all grades, worth $3,."50 each, and 170 hiconiotivo engines, worth 11,000 each. The leiifft h of the track controlled by them isiijfvJ-t miles. JYiv3 ami J'ofitieti Itcuin. The name "Kalakaaa," King of tho Sandwich Islands, is pronounced Kollow-kow-ah. -A dispatch from James M. Ross, who went to Chester, Illinois, to'investigate the ehild there, announces that it is not Chars iy- Another terrible conflagration in Boss ton on Tuesday swept away property to the valns cf nearly three quarters of a million dollars. The house cf John Mangiu, in Renoille county, - Minn., was burned a few nights since, and his wife and one son perished in the building. A committee of seven republicans and two democrats, appointed by the house to investigate Louisiana affairs, goes south in a fow days, and expects to convene in New Orleans. King Kalaknnaselected an unfortunate time, if health and comfort are considered, for visiting this country. The change of climate has exarted a very disagreeable in fluence upon him. Kalakaua is tall, dark-complexioned, black cnrly hair and side-whiskers, and a jolly good fellow. He is a vocalist and song composer, and in his better days was connected with the press. Senator Buckingham and other promi nent eitizens of Norwich, Conn., have invi ted ex-Governer liigler, of Pennsylvania, to visit their city and address them en tho subject of the Centennial. One reason why female telegraph ops erators are not more numerous is because if one of them wished to go a ball she'd get up and go, ven if tbo President's Message was coming over the wires. C harles P.- Harris, editor of the Con cord Sun. and a descendant of John Harris, the founder of Harrisburg, announces his intention to bring suit to recover the greater portion f the site of Harrisburg. Tho tleet horse which bore Collins Graves to warn the dwellers of the Mill river valley of the coming disaster, last May, has seriously injured himself by prosaically run ining away and leaping into the river. Jay Cooke's estate is turning ut woree than anybody expected. The creditors are thoroughly discouraged. It seems that prefer! d claims have been allowed sufii cient to consume the bulk of the assets. Tho Poston boy murderer, Jess Pom eroy, whoso freqvent crimes can be attribu ted to no motive other thau innata maligni ty, has been found guilty of murder in the first degree, ami will probably bo hung. As the King of Wnrtemburg has no children his nephew will inherit the throne, and it i announced that thi3 Prince will many the Princess Mane, tha eldest daugh ter of Frederick Charles the Red Prince. The five children of John Dotterich, ranging in aga from six to sixteen years, were drowned on Sunday wbilo amusing themselves with a sled on a pond near their parent's resideuce, at Preakness, New Jer sey. Letters patent of Louis Phillippe, cre ating Adolph Thiers a lia ron "for eminent servioos to the monarchy." have been found in the National Library at P;ris. 60 they say in the Guulots ; but they are great jo kers. The conductor f a Philadelphia street car found a 100 bill lielonging to a cauntry market-woman, and promptly restored it to her. TLe company by whom he is employ ed make him carry a btll punch all the same. The younger-t member of the nest Con gross will be Hon. John D. Whito, who is now in his twenty -sixth year. His father, John Whito, nerved ten years in the House and wns Speaker of the House during tha Twenty-fourth Congress. Count Reust announces that the medels for merit in connection with the Vienna Exhibition, were distributed during the past month, and the diplomas of honor and the co-oporators' medals wiil be given cut during tlio prcsont month, a rapidly as possible. J. N. M'Crca, of Philadelphia, has bren appointed Superintendent of the Mid dle Division of the Pennsylvania railroad to fill the vacancy occasioned by the resig nation of Col. S. A. Rlnck. The new oih cial will as.'uime tha duties of bis position about the first of January. On Tuesday a woman's head was found in a tin box, in the woods near Nashau, N. II. Oilicers have since found several pieces of blood-stained clothing marked Mary Walsh. The skeleton of a horse, tied to a troe was also found There is at pic-wt no clew to tho mvrtery. Mr. Ucnry R. Myga:t, r Oxford, Nw York, bus a quatt bottle of old Marten wine in his possession which was put up and hermetically sealed by Robert Moiris, of Revolutionary Treasury fame, in 1774. He wiil have it on exhibition at the Centen nial Kxhibition at Philadelphia rn 1876. It is expected that Mr. Beccher's exam ination iu the coming trial will last two days and his cross-examination five days. There will be hot woik :f they ever get down to business, and whether imiocont or guilty. Mr. Beeeher will certainly have cause to regret the day he met Theodore Til ton. In Beaver Falls, Renville county, Minn., a few nights ago, the residence of John Mangin was burned, and bis wife and one son perished in the flames. Mrs. Mangin feared to follow her husband throueb the Harries of the burning building, and conse quently sho and her young child were burn ed to death. The singular and apparently reliable information is uow developed that the men who abducted Charley Ross are known but dead. They wero shot wbilo effecting an entrance to a house one dying at once, and the other shortly after confessing the Ross abduction. It is thought the child will now bo found, V Michigan paper says : "Young man, if you are looking for a wife come to Mich igan, tho noble Peninsular State, and we'll put you on the track of a young lady who can husk her fifty bushels of corn per day, yoke oxen, drive horses, toach school and saw with a cross-cut saw. She wants to be loved for herself alone." For full dress Kalakaua wears a fashionably-cut black broadcloth swallow-tail coat, studless whito shirt front, boots of the box-too pattern, a parti colored ribbon in his buttonhole, three immense plain gold rings, a bracelet on his lft wiist, a turn dowD collar, and a black tio. llo also wears a pair of trousers. Cosgrove, the chief. of the Yellsboro bank robbers, was sentenced to tho peuis tentiary for sixteen years and nine months. Cook, his confederate, was sentenced for thirteen years ar.d nine months. Cosgrove did not criticise the action of the court in his own case, but took violent exception to the penalty imposed upon Cook. The ground work for another big row in Louisiana is being laid. The Radical majority iu the Returning Board are deter mined to count in their candidates notwith standing they were largely defeated by the people. Of course, Grant and his friends wil insist that the people of Lonisiana have no rights that his carpet-baggers are bound to respect. The army w ill be held in read iness to keep theivca and scoundrels iu of fice there. There will be at loast one relic on exhi bition at tho Centennial in Independence Hall, which tha red nosed patriotic toper can gaze upon long and lovingly. It is a wine-glass once owned by John Hancock, engraved upon which are the words : ,,Suc cess to Wilkes and Liberty." It Is one of a dozen presented to the celebrated John Wilkes, while a prisoner in the tower of London, and by him sent to John Haucock befoie tho Revolution. It is intimated that Iho wife of L-eu- j tenant Colonel F. D. Grant will secure tho reputation of being the mot elegantly dressed lady in Washington society this , winter. Her wardrode is said to be exten- j sivo and elegant, and made in the advanced ! French fashion whatever that may mean, j The largest rrTnn in the State o? Penn- ; sylvaniadied at Douglass Mill, Ueiksroun- j ty, last week. His name was William ' Knpf. Although only twenty-one years : old he weighed four hundred and fifty . pounds, and the calf ef his leg measured twenty-nine inches in circumference; He was five feet eight inches in height. -Monsignor Capel'i latest appearance T F. . Tt was in performing the marriage ceremony between Miss Virginia Brooks, daughter of !. tT lo.V,-o rf NT;. V..L. and Mr. Alexander Mac! ier of Ealti-nenel in the Roman Catholic church of the As- sumption, Holborn. The wedding break fast was given by Iord and Lady Tenterden at their town hone in Loudon. Mrs. Mac tier was the only daughter of Mr. Brooks. She has been traveling abroad with her mother for over a year lat. On Wednesday of last week a weei n passenger train arrived in Reading, and as the inspector was tapping and testing the wheels he was astonished to find seciet ed on top rf one of the wheel trucks that supports the body of Eho passenger car, a middle-aged man, who in this manner bail stolen his passage from Harrisburjy to Reading. He stated that he had come all the way from California, and had traveled altogether in that manner. A few years ago Treasurer Clark of Columbia county, in this itato, speculated with and lost the public funds intrusted to him. He stood well in society and general esteem, and was not suspocted cf crim inal motives. His son, at that time a half owner of the Trey Pre, was one of his bondsmen. The son died soon afterward, and in the adjustment of his affairs Colum- bia county finds itself a newspaper pro- prietor. A committee of the Board of Su- psrvisors has been appointed to leok after the public's half of the les. Mi i' iii in 1 r rtkpti: 1 i , mar 1 rpsrnr ....... Y - sow clays ago tound a cumber ot potato ugs wiiiie digging in his garden, lie eaysttiey were found at the debth of about six inches below the surface and when j turned out of their earthy beds were fat ! and as buxom as though the potato crop i was at tho zenith. Thi would suggest the strong probability that next season's I crop ol tins pest will he earner, more nu merous and henceor more destructive than ever. -V mysterious basket, addressed to lhe station master at Clapham Junction, Eng land, on being opened was found to con tain a living child. The stationmaster de clining the gift, a porter volunteered to accept it, and took the basket and child. On lifting the child $300 was found in the basket. The storv roes that tha station master then demanded the basket and its contents, which the porter very properly refused to give up. One cau hardly doubt to which of the two tho mother would in trust her child. Three little girls, tho oldest less than ten years old, were caught plundering a toy store in San Francisco. They had car eful ly planned the robbery, and having climbed in through an unfastened rear w indow ear ly in tho morning, while the porter was sweeping the sidewalk, were .jut rcti-eating with their pockets and Jianils full of dolls and other playthings. They were thor ouhty scared by an hour of detention in a police station, and then sent home for j spanking' by their parents, who are repu- i table peopl?. Sunday afternoon, at Charlestown, Mass.. William II. Jones of Somerville killed Mrs. O. R. Barry at ber residence. 1 51 School street, and immediately after- ! ward cut his own throat. Jones was mar- , ried and had grown up children, and ths i two families were very intimate and co:i- j sidered highly respectable. The deed was I doubtless premediated, as it was done with I a razor which he had taken with him from i bis lwme in Somerville. There w&re no! witnesses to the affair, the rest of the Larry family being at church, and the bodies were found about half past three ciojk oy a son ot tne murrterea woman ly- ing upon tne Iioor atxiut tour feet anait. A shocking highwa' robbery and tnur- j tier was accomplished on "the Notch," nar Hcranton, on Jlonday evening. Tbo victim I was a farmer named Klein, who wai re- j turning to his home from the markets, j anoni ren o ciocic lie hail two teams, one of which wasdriven by his arm, about twelve yars old. Six highwaymen made the first attack, but Klein l.!rre!J up his horsss and escaped from all but two. Tl-fs two pulled him from the wagon, shot him through the heart. ro. ed him. and then disappeared, leaving the b ny almost petr tri" d'is fled vritb fear. The whwle neichboi hood' arotisod over the a-Tair. but tha dostem docs thus far have escaped. About eight weeks r.gn, pays tho New Castle Gazette, a little cbilH of a man named Book, who lived in the neighborhood of the coal mines about this city, drank some con- centrated lye w hich bad been thoughtlessly left in a tin cup with which it was in tho habit of playing. The lye which it drank did not kill it outright but st injured and en (lamed the irsophagns that the same has become contracted to such an extent a not to admit the introduction of the smaller catheter. The consequence is that the lit tle su Merer cannot swallow a drop of water nor a paiticle of food though it is constantly j crying for something to drink and eat. j Eight weeks it has been kept alive by mean I nijcviiuin vi urn mil scstner or later it must meet the sad death from hun ger and thirst though surrounded by plenty of food and drink. In the terrible stofrn which passed over our neighboring town of Tuseuinbia. s.iys the Inke (Miss.) Herald, the railroad bridge near that town was blown down. It occurred just before the mail train going east arrived. In the pitch darkness John Hall, tho engineer, did not discover it until his engine was very near the terrible chasm. He, with a heroism rivaling the ancient martyrs, stood firm at his post, though to n uaraan appearances, cfeatli was certain. He threw on the air-breaks and stopped every passenger car, and went down into: the fearful abyss with his hand upon hi? lever ami nerves calm and undisturbed 1 liose passengers were saved from a cata?- trophe too dread ThI to contemplate. Tie engine took the leap of forty feet, bit, thank God, the angels, with outstrefchid arms, preserved tho noble man, and he ras extricated, though severely injured. The Pittsburgh Telerjrnn'h says : Sme three years ago Mr. Robei t McClellai, a resident of North township, Alleg'-eny county, buried two very interesting iittle girls, twins, aged about three years. The children took sick and died about three days apart, and were buried side by side. Last week Mr. McClellan came to the conclusion that he would remove the children to an other part of the cemetery, and after raising one of the children the coffin was opened, and it was found that the remains of one little girl had almost entirely disappeared, and he proooeded to raise the second child, when it was found that tho oottin was tin' usaually heavy for a child of that age, and on opening the coffin it was found that the child was petrified into solid stone. Its lit tle cheeks wero as sound, and even to its finger nails it was as pei fect as when living. Those who saw it, state that it ba.l not. changed in the least, the month, nose, and I other features being full and perfect. It " is certainly one of those strange freaks which natmc occasionally performs. late isMi -r ., baltimore American civ-s thn r. 11- account of a tro io of Irumj t '."'"i la llle 5uetu of "When a suitable lar table is o;ened and the bir.lc turned loose upon it; they manifest Bo " at the crowd, and do not o:lr to . r tl r . eVM,fc - 1 o pi rmeiu r 1 : : trundling sma'.l wheelbarrows. Tlarl, .mi' 0.1 pisiois, oareiBi : ing eaclr other in small swinj I imitation of a trapezo pe: f ,: inane0''''1" I number ef other eonaliv ir.!.'..:. e Bri lhe m?ft underfill r.i,t of Ul0 f1' !nr however is r? i. It!!. " . . . , ;, ' . , ' " i Tl"9 hlril tf tb CF:i! ! ni "r OOWIIlg to tile Clf "lJUt't. 8 tal,;f j ?f,f in a J"!" ,,1,r ,jr?r WH. w rlapoer of the bell there is att.rUnl , , . , corn, aiiu nov one in ins C 'owH - 1 riiril i t i.t nor nn in I . to ask the bird to atriW,. I ..... ... imv v.uwq , -1 times upon the bell. If asU.i tj T ten timea, be leaves the chair s-i "" bell rope and pulls it ten tiui.s.'yf,-,.'0 tL he bows and returns to his Ht. y. 11 fil repeated a great many tin, aud " exception the l.iid made noinimavi V tird will strike t wentv-?eve n t;r ' after that he refuses ; and hi, owner....al that he has woiked near'v a v-r . this bird to etrike un to tHrfr , lt R,t pears that his memory Kive;'otlt ' point, and it i unablo to c.u,lt t,Lx A collection i. rf cour-o, fkeil & each exhibition. ' 1 cr n ... 1 TrtE Acti'AT. Co-it ok S7 r t, familiar with the cost of i,o?a,t;r"?, general business fcavn oftr-n ,j CS " dered what there was in n (',vei Tab! ics f iron to make tLm s0 ,r.. to uerorthe?o. Compared f.,!M j. V.'"' chairs, carpets, and other art tVs r,-"' necessity ia lumli l l they are eL;' iiiny uiKu. nev la.-t m .nr..,. .1.., mostie wares ge';rnl'j- ar.-i itwovt 1 ought toapprox;mae in pi:oe too her j sils. The life of a g?o.l st ,ve is fio.'" to ten years, according as it js iw.'i JV'T r- 1 . , . . . "u n ! 1 - 1. c : . - ..'-.')'., aanwiwua-i. iua-i iruri hjm r ..,, : inner inniiMir?i K : i'sr ini i- ... I uro. mo i.-fi .v 1 4; r- - - . . I. . . r . . - which are of general intent. r 'j ' S. Perry, cf Albanv, ealcu'.ites-lntact.wi ton of iron will make 2. 12 p , u i-.,f rv lftt !n(-o rtJH TA)ll4 r.t-r..l. - .i-.iiv:S.(,t nl !t!H! ninnHiA9.li T T f . . 1 . . ... .... . , . , IIVI r.iicii!ai that the cost of moulding 1 11 iw-nrid i fl.37J, whii-h wonhi make tha wt.-.Vmia stove cost ?4.1f for moii'd.n. S.. i Foundry iron wa q toted in YuiV September 10th, at 10 per t m. wlirh Mr. Perry's fizures would mike the iron ii n 300 pound store cost ?4.C3 : the net for the stove in ques1 ion being s.4 . stoves are sold by drn'm w irhout an? fu - nituro or fixtures at J-.' ai:d J Z, ajcn.l.;i: - ! to finish jvt? w a u ve n tis i: m i: v i T H E V E K L Y SUN, . T.1?f)"TI"TiT, br-is.J ouinmns. espeeiallv -- ! f-. ii er. t fa merhsnrn. the miTchan' n - t I lonal man. anl thptr win s nrl - ' to TP, ke ih '.Troltt V ":ri i paper In ilie w.irH. It I ?Uii ' err m-.Ti'iy ;;.xj i r t'nlr '. ini'rurttre re-1r; of ev,ry f ' tnir o!T'u.1 the mt :rn j ;e. IV'-e. ft I .- p?r vn.-.r. I The rbo ippjt oni-er j.'i'.l.ili-t j The Sim, New fork ( Mtv. I '. t-a: V i u u. StCi m ? W O O r- i r r - x' imii w j e-. i:. '"T criil t eonf -Hr it. f I lrit-I Muster. ir:U f-r ?, at I vr.-r Prl--- I'll'!. r n:i Its sf it 1 1 Ti-i-n ...,- '..r ,'. 01 t'J t or Cmistry, ,: M'I K H ITU I SOS. )! nro.KliTRT. t.iin Tirhi( nlTri-r I in tj.-t Tri-ii. tj.-i:! nirl t f'i.'l VnterV evr P1.13 tn, .t 1 ! r-rfo rxH 01. I ! I '? I r Vt ln-:nn 5Iii:ie.-f. 1Jr-.il In-.l 'f r 'ntt'm t,,'h- ini!'. U A 'nr? -f lro:i nt rentiers, Tf,tisler, -BK BlRVKI. FT;5K W;K! Itif-rsfa WUr It fir. ? restorf.i thesan 1 fr.trn ibi hr'.Dk ... thifriv: (flvi ha'th n.n t r?u;ib tn ih. dofict.l b"VD-.i1 tti res-h nf a'l tn : licl t !? . an.l trnl t;.e nta pi ma'.-t.on to cn i.t a t3"l !n th t!-einx! Wih.n t; v':Ttu-. !-, tlieiteally r.r!h 1 .1 s?nre ant Jitnr.;:-:. eates nil a!ini of the ki-fnev : res- ,r- ; J iTOry ori'sr. s q "Tr.th an i power 1. j i !! na.irl r'Pt"rer t beau h. ai t 1: .r .r! ary known ryts.r.e cm th s. AJ irt; circaiars. .s .a. f. .-. , T I".t-. ..nf . ! .i.. i.i' COPYING mK"- 'T. 'o cam part of k"r exptn.-.j ;i; 1 '.V. H. ICI N.JSIJUItY, 1-i.Hcs" S-x: i town, Y. Tit- F Ef.T ' A v. rr.ns t:. 'KIKt'l Tot rnomi i"! t. I noill InO an ! pkt, adJr ? J. J. FAY, 5 i a p i i .; p:-; rw Jcr-T C ion per.lavat l.ctpe. T-i i:i trr VII I J MiTlli.v .iv tfuarinti'' to - iin ! nt, in tlie r own !-& ' ; is trv ir. Tirilr ire - : VI r. . Vli.' Terms of Aitverttitng ftrc Wl. r n. !a tl:e State cf PENWSYLVAA ! StLl fi r lset of ,sj.eri ft l ech? lale of ri -!. i-Jrvse i -JJi i ft 1 feaiii$ ' NO. 41 PA lit BOW, 5I W 0Bk. Barn to Knirea fr this Piraa. .1 yew Subcrit!OH Hock. Wm OF THE m YORK 1$: Tie Serrrtn. Ijntcrlcs nr. Uinn" Lire In ew Xork; tit!.er.-1 i?rl" Satton, Warili-B of the Tcin::. L;ROE HVO., 6S0 PP., 1 1.1.1 STKA Tri'. S1 J "b'.s is not a yfrfetly si-nnattui il r'' rS '' " t. c.nmenile 1 by t!ie bv.st :u. n-.f a ?l ' : K- iiy!" re?t.iin it vi .n nu. . . : itt DARK CHANCK rOUI' JtwMENT.-A SPI.KNI11 fl-'X FAR 4 FOR SALE A valual j-r JlflrrMk Farm ia WestTnor'.-lsn-.! o'U!i' !,- Pa.. w!thto on-foarthof a in,!Cii,:3r of HirsvUle an t not far from tl.u I viiiavro of t:okeviii, in ttcrei ti-r ilat ant eoutatiiliig Ac. on the ern Pennsylvania for raisinKSto.' ,,r '. ,ti tho !irr bminei. For further m' " term? aiply to or a.Mn A. FKl, ''T""""-, ,:' ;;. F irs. V. A. FOKIV H""-,v " Nov. 20.-tf. POT.T.iK JOTIXsTON k l- irimtialilll'P'. 2- liriu reotitve money on ap,f?li,.,"l ana collect notes, n l'r. ,.ito kii8taes in uaily de,n p; '"VVi ii o.k'1 SeptO.tf. JA3. D o- - I.OYI) A CO. ri , - i, oi l, .-mt-i. . ' . . n . . i . 1 1 ; . . I-.O otner Securities, i-oniri.i ,. ..;.,,, n .-i r.wvti mi i nuv 'T: I.,t,...l4. t - - .. - i ... a ... I hi' I I..I"'1 . Hit ll-t-Hr.;ic mii... - fr-. trun-'e'i treuerul uaivkiiiic llwln r i oYl t '0 . v .... .... -....,. TOON ".I lV't on the i ' ii'-'!'"' ,"';'1. .v oot t for .i'e. roiiii-uoii ;:';,,:, Cf 5l on .Irpostt. osvhI.Ii-'1 -t u., r interit. or on tiiiie wilh im IJ'i'Tr.ii B:;iv. A Hi wilt le-trn h"w ttin-v un. r. . I .'aim Mehonev, written .y lifm-:!. - .' ; . I ! ,rlee of h b-k. The vt eclilr.i: '.fha.l ; o sv I1 'ir u-n,. K:-;-'''1 I ilven. An n'irrnt w-intft In every t .-en UyU'tnSTATKS IM liLiSri:V)' y 13 IT.11VKKS.TV n ' I ... t Kf- tij term?. SH Farm ein'a r- . v. h.ts thereon erect ei! a ici.! M ' ".' . . 7 rooms, a K'".'1 l" ,w. , .V ( Kl i- tlit; Mill rS ri. 1 1 K A .o i 1 ...,r.HT.r . an.l there is an exeeiU-ut pr.Tiir;'. i ,, i.r"n;ri- There i no ht' 'r'' .". ... -i J XT