EBENSBURC, PA., Friday Morning - March 23, 1877. Last itect HajCE nominated and the Pet) ate confirmed Fred. Douglass as U. 5. Marshal fr the District of Columbia. A Yfgorous effort was made by tbe members of the bar of the District against bis cou . formation, not on the ground of bis color, but because, as they alleged, fee was incom petent. If all tbe Democrats in the Senate b id voted against blm be would have- been rlrfeated, but a number of them withheld tiieir votes, while four Southern Senators Garland, Jones, Morgan and Beu Hill voted for him. SfMOS Cameron's man Friday, John J. Patterson, formerly from Juniata county, in this State, and now a carpnt-bag mem ber of the U. S. Senate from South Caro- liua, was sensibly impressed last week with the idea that Lr had discoveicd a method which would not fail to relieve the people of South Carolina aud Louisiana frcra the manifold evils under which they have suf feied, and produce harmony and peace w ithiu their borders. i'a.lteiou'& panacea wns a new election iu both States. He seems to have been ignorant of tbe fact, thai in neither State is there any law to warrant such an election, and that if Con gress could even provide for holding one, which it manifestly could not, the two houses were not then in session. Patter son's plan fell still-born and was universal ly jeered at aud scouted as a most senseless and impracticable proposition. Hayes laughed at it, Hampton spurned it, Cham berlain repudiated it, and Ly common con tent the absurd scheme fell into general contempt. When Wade Hampton beard of Patterson's new way of settling elections, be is tepoited as saying that be would con tent to ru" the race over again with Cham berlain only on oue condition, and that was that Hayes would agree to a now elec tion bvtneen himself and Tilden. That was hitting the nail straight on the head. It seems now to be a fixed fact, that an rxtra session of Congress will be called to meet about the 1st of June. The necessi ty for this step grows out of the failure of Congress to pass tbe appropriation bill for the support of the army. That bill con tained two leading elements first, a reduc tion of the foice from 23,000 to 17,000 men ; nnd, secondly, a clause prohibiting the 1 resident from using any part of ihe mou t y, or any of the troops, in sustaining Ille gal governments in South Carolina 8Dd Louisiana. The bill passed the Democrat ic House iu this share and was sent to the Republican Senate. But that body, ltd bv lilaiue and all the otLer extremists, rc- ! Stafos Senate, which bas just been so sue fused to accept the bill with these two ! CC8sfulIy played at Ilarrisburg, will not clauses inserted iu it. Repeated meetings -f the cocft-ror.ee committee of the two l ouses weie he'd, but without any agrce- netit being reached. The bill was thus "epuoucan party iu Ohio than in the same lost because a Republican Senate refused VT? m Pennsylvania, or whether the rad io agiee to a reduction of the army ai:d in- j xc politicians iu the former State are sistrd upon the right of the President to ! mo,e fckilful and adioit than their bretbreu cse the troops iu the Southern States for j iu the Keystone State, or fiom whatever political purposes. For eight yeais the I cu8 il certain that even before the urmy was used by Grant to pulldown bon tt and set up fraudulent governments in the South. A Demociatic House of Repre sentatives decided that this business must stop, but a Republican Senate stubbornly insisted upon a continuance of the old or der of things. Even Grant himself, before be went out of office, repeatedly declared that the countiy was tired of seeing the army used to prop up State governments like those cf Chambeilain and Packard, i either of which commanded the respect and confidence of the people. The money i ecessary to marutain the army was appro- j pi iated a year ago up to the 80th of next nor tue positrons they fill. The Republi Jnne, beyond which date no funds can be cans f Pennsylvania were literally outlaw drawn from the treasury to pay the troops ' e DV Grant. It is true that for personal without a new appropriation bill. Tim ! reasons be made Borie, of Philadelphia. people, understanding the position taken by the Senate on this question, will fix the lesponsibility for holdiug an extra session where it properly belongs. The Senate of the United States, which met in extra session on the 5th of Ma.ch, adjourned finally on last Satuiday. Its time was almost entirely occupied in con firming nominations for postmasters, U. S. marshals, Indian agents, collectors of cus toms, etc. No foreign ministers were ap pointed, uor was a successor to Judge Da vis nominated as one of the Justices of the Supreme Court. Kellogg confidently ex pected to be admitted to a seat in the Sen- ate. U, fill on ..fil MMo.. r, T..;; una, and Moiton, chairman of the Commit- I tee on Piivileges and Elections, succeeded in getting a majority of the committee (all Republicans of course) to decido that Kellogg bad a prima facie case, aud for the present at least was entitled to be soin in. He intended to present the re port to the Senate on the following day and force a vote on it. When he entered the Senate chamber, however, with that intention, be discovered to his utte; amazo- meat that, owirnz to the abseuce of four or tive Republ c iu Senator other causes, the Dcniocr time iu sixteen years were iu a majority i.ilhtl hn.lr a... I ll... If I,. I- I. .u., UI9 If i hoped will only have a few days to wait jo 'itil that frandule;iilycountcd-in executive brmself wl be comielled Lo step down and rut of an office to which the people of the htate never elected him, and, like the Arab, fold his Lent and silently tea! away. No action wa taken iu the .case of Corbin, who claims to have been elected fro in Soutii (Carolina by Chamber Iain's Legislature, iu place of Robertson, whose le. ... exphed ou tUIT. IU th- 4th insui.t, and Corbin uuist tlwefo.a muru to Lb- Ph1.etr..Ki-i f 1.;. .iovied Senatorial honors, aiul what i oi-c mil, oliis kaUry. port it would certainly be voted down. and Kellogg's case was suspended until , ,,; .,m. .l noluer 'o had . can carry the army over upon the general lb. meeting of the Senate next December, j Jff" . m nA , mney " f ROU,ce ?f Treasury and then have When he returns to New Oileans he will 1 , " piU,y' Th weie E5 7 ress kindly allow his little deficiency eceive the heartfelt sympathy of Packard ffL"'7 ? Bd-. lower, by Mr. j X?? . ' J Hayes, that no remoralo -n..i 1 nugin wane up next. December and the Returning Board Governor of Louisi- mitt eautZT thm! "ch ,,,oub il " . k,. !.; 1 . ... ououi, yvvu cause ana that no man nnvr personal ixuinsnM Ar. . . On Wednesday last tho Legislature rat ified the transfer made by Simon Cameron to bis son Don of all the right, title, inter est and claim of him, the said Simon, to a seat in the Senate of the United States, until the 4th of March, 1879. Tbe vote iu the two bouses resulted as follows ; -3. Don Cameron, Rep., 140 ; Andrew II. Dill, Dem., 93. Considering tbe peouliar man ner by which this result has been brought about, it may.be regarded as one of Si mon's best master strokes. The Camelon faction, or ra'her the Cameron ring, embraces at least two-thirds of tbe energetic and active, but unscrupu lous, Republican leadors in this State. The three most pronr.ineut men who man ipulate and control this ring ate R. W. Mackey, lat State Treasurer, M. S Quay, present Secretary of the Commonwealth, and John S. Rutan, late State Senator from Beaver county, that nursery of great men. What these three pure and immacu late patriots don't know about bulldozing a Republican Legislature, a State conven tion, or a county convention into the sup 1 a. . r t , . -. poi i vi iamerou s personal ami poiuicai projects, is not worth knowing at all. Si mon of course duly appreciates their val uable services, and when either of them desires a public office, which they all often do, the powepful aid of their great chief is cheerfully and liberally extended. The political power which Cameron has wield ed in this State, as well when he was a Democrat as since he dishonored hits Scotch blood by taking- the Kuow-Nothing oath in 1 S54, is not difficult to explain, and is well understood throughout the State, but more especially to at Ilarrisburg. He owes nothing to superior mental qualities, for he is not a Webster or a Clay, but in po litical cunninjr and trickery, and in the dark ways of driving an adversary from the field, be has never bad an equal. His career iu toe Senate has been lame and common place, when contrasted with that of Rigler, Cowan, Ruck a lew, Scott and Wallace, and he leaves it without having added'anything to bis reputation for ability when be entered it. Of bis son and suc cessor, all that can be said is that at oue time be was President of the Northern Central Rail Road, an officer of a bank in Ilarrisburg, and recently Secretary of War. As a political manager he is said to be ! 6hrewd, adroit and without conscience, and in this respect is a chip out of the old block." That he will ever make his maik in the Senate is neither believed nor ex jected. The peculiar surroundings of bis f candidacy and his success will come back ! to plague the men who elected him. The i tone of the Republican press of the State ! is hostile to the whole arrangement be I tween Cameron, bis son and the Legisla ture, and is a warning, not to be mistaken tbat t!,e Ranno fur a seat in the United win a second time in January, 1879. Whether there are more brains in the j iiandoient -accession of Hayes to the Prcs ) idercy, Ohio aehiovrd a wonderful success iu obtaining a very large shaie of inipor- taut public offices. She now Las the Pres ident, defacttj Sherman, General of the Army; Waile, Chief Justice of the Su preme Couit of the United States ; Swayue, an Associate Justice of the Eame Court; Wood, Jude of; the U. S. Court in Flori da ; Bingham, Minister to Japan ; Potts, Governor of Montana Territory ; and last, but not least, John Sherman, Secretary of the Treasury. There are others, but we cam,ot just now remember their names, au unknown man, Secretary of the Navy, but being unfit for the place he soon re signed, aud a few months before the end of his term he appointed Simon Cameron's son, J. Don Cameron. Secretary of War. Haves has followed in ti, fWat, I ' J ft I j Grant so far as the Republican leaders of this State are concerned. He was right in not retaining young Cameron iu his Cabin et, but there are other Republicans in Pennsylvania who are more competent for cabinet honors than the sou of Simon. It I is quite natural, theiefore, that the leaders j of the Ilajes' party in this State should I feel indignant at being thus slighted and l'"" snouioer oy Hayes, after Mtwn 1 J - 1 1 l . K'vea him her electoral j votes. The countless throng f patriotic office seekers who swa-med into Washington at the inauguration, from n.. -.., -j .i west, from tbe north and the south hsvino. 1 . " ' e soiun, having c 1 caob mill I lie I ueoome tnorougiiiy disgusted with the Hayes method of doing business, has dis appeared from the capitol, like mist before the rays of a morning sun. This loyal '. Sinn a , r . ,. . ' " 71 " " r ''" " -l'P"w or ap- is fro-n sickness and ' P,om,me,,t to Pt.ons from the highest to j n December the policy he has inaugnr is r.o.n sickness and , aWt tU IowMt d j atcd will have so far broken the party lines ocrata for the fii.t j aatteiinff nnctipn JlLelrBoll1 'd,lh I J"- South that it will be impossible for were iu a majority K . " "'cre i the Dcmooracy to control the orcanization , " H"-ou UCIL mil mat , , . . , ... . . -"-" ucm, hum mai , UHU eiu oince under Grant , d,sc,,arei,'K duties in a satisfactory manner shnitM 1.- I feredwitb. Tbis is the ,osition Mr II-... i.A"t.lhy L",Tf. no lHd' 10 irJ their has taken and if it i. ni,. j . ,y i ph'"inK qoalihca on and no Sx.utheui .as taken, and if it is adhered to will shat- elections to regulate, the troops seem dia ler me Kepublican party into fragments. 1 lHWi keep their hands iu on our citi It seems to us, at least, that there can be ! zen"1' mi,i,,,,y "alrap shot au.1 dan no other possible result gerously wounded a very respectable geu- a ,mt' , j tleman one day last week 011 Pennsylvania Th T?,.m.n 1 . 1 avenue. Oh! Iiad our soldiers shot tho Ihe Koman Catholic peers in Eno in.l S,r,x itK 1 .1. , L -Y? miul.. I .1 . . -v." , one d,,L ' L " " . ' ZCD ,,,udJnf is.,-,.. L...... v cvn .carw' ,0,,r I l'iT. "".. - , . . . . v VBW uaiijiin miiii iiim wrn r 1 there ifT..I S" -'J.10! t?.wi,icn olit,tj. r v" "u vaiuouc Dar- Our Washington Letter. "Washington, D. C, March 1C, 1877. THE SENATE adiourned tne die on Saturday at 4 V. is., much to the delight of all, and now the country will remain at test for a brief spell until Congress is called together iu Jane, which seems now to be definitely settled upon. So you see we are to have "the boys" with us agfiin, ranting and canting over divers matters and keeping the public in constant turmoil atd strife over con firmations, army appropriations, eto THE TROOPS IH THE BOCTH. From all reliable information gatherable here, it bas been determined by tbe poweia that be to withdraw in a few days the U. S. troops in the State Houses at Columbia, 8. C, and New Oileans, La., thus leaving Packard and Chamberlain to stand or fall as best they caD. THE RPANI8H MISSIOT. Dan'l Sickles was here on Saturday last and in an interview with bis Fraud nlency expressed a desire to return to Spain. It is a well known fact that Sickles practically superseded Zach. Chandler as manager of the Republican proceedings iu three dis puted Southern Slates Jor tbe benefit of Hayes and Wheeler, and tbe management thereof was conducted under bis immedi ate direction. His services are therefore entitled to the fullest recognition, and Mr. Caleb Cushing may as well commence to paok up bis traps and return hither. CART, 8CHCRZ, Every day sines his induction into office Secretary Schurz has received several hun dred applications from countrymen of bis for office, written in their native language, and as his clerks cannot read "DeiteA," Schurz has to read all these letters himself to see what they are. His labors w ill not be so easy as be thought. A CONTINGENCY NOT PROVIDED FOR. The Senate adjourned Saturday without electing a President pro tern as usual, to be prepared for the contingency of the Vice President dying during recess. Ferry bas vacated it by his absence, and eveu if be bad returned before the final adjournment a new election would have been necessary. Should Hayes and Wheeler both die before Congress is again in session there would be nciiner a i resineni oi Hie benate nor a Sieaker of the House to succeed, and the office of President of the United States would remain for a time absolutely vacant. THE COLORED POPULATION. The colored folks are now pietty well represented in the Government. Siuce the confirmation of Fred. Douglass (colored) by tbe Senate to be U. S. Marshal for this Dis trict, his Fraudulency.Hayeshas appointed Langston (colored) to be Commissioner in charge of tbe Agricultural Department, and to-day it is whispered that our woithy postmaster, Edmunds, of the local P. O., is to be superseded by a colored bi udder of African 'scent. These three depaitments, in consequence of their chiefs being ne grs, will be packed full of blacks, the white c'.eiks, both male aud female, being dismissed to give place to "Sambo" and "Jfinah." Bo you genteel white people when visiting your national capitol can have the agreeable pleasure of bowing and scraping and playing flunkey to tbe corn field poilion of your countrymen. You may uot like this pill, but you have got to swallow it. These dark-skinned Americans were appointed to these three prominent positions for no peculiar or special qualifi cations, but simply because they are "nig gers" whose votes and influence aie deemed worthy of radical recognition. 6ENATOR BLAINE FROM MAINE. Blaine in the debate in the Senate upon the confirmation of Douglas (col'd), herein before alluded to, said he bad known Fred. Douglass for twenty years, had invited him often to bis house and received him within the domestic hearth of bis family when to do so and treat him as an equal was almost a crime, and had a warm admir ation Tor Mr. Douglass. There are a great many white people iu Maine whom Sun stroke Blaine would not invite into his family cir cle, and if they can stand Blaine's conduct we can. Where are the noble yeomanry of New England to allow such a man to represent them in the Senate ? GRANT. Io all the political discu&ions of the day it is remarkable that the Grant administra tion, though but two weeks dead, seems to be almost as completely forgotten as though it bad existed before the flood. No reference is made to it except in the lan guage of condemnation. There are a good many things only worthy to be remembered in order to avoid them in the future. NO FAMILY RELATIONS TO BE APPOINTED. Gov. Hsjes has said unto a Mr. Slillwcll, of Illinois, that there was one insuperable objection to bis appointment to any federal office, arid that was, "his wife wan a favorite cousin of Mrs. Hayes," so at present all is Hill-well. SIMON CAMERON. Probably no man ever departed from public life followed by such a pelting of T- u.uUU as ciroon. It remains V L A 6een whether the of Pennsylvania is a true expouent of pub lic sentiment in that State, where the "old man s" bidding elected bis son to the U. S. oenatc, aud "Simon says wiggle waggle." TOOMBS, Robert, of Georgia, sajs he sees no result in llayes proposed conciliatory policy to wards the South beyond a "gr,od time for the boys who obtain the offices, and the disruption of the "Radical party." A RAILROAD RRAKEMAN ELEVATED. Mr. Davis the wealthy U. 8. Senator from VI est irginia, is said to have been formerly a minor official on the Baltimore aud I Ohio Railroad. Now tbe Lord help the It. K. s. THE ADMINISTRATION is in quite a state of mind about the extra session. n , i . . - '-..-.t ij y lucre are several irimini ml.n w,Bh d calling au extra Bossion if he possib v can. rl.iAf .,r -,k;k is the fact thatabouthalfoft.be Democrats and near ly all the Republicans do not want K 11. f . ... . . cipitated into a long Tipperary fight for the speakership under the broiling nun of a ... v"-"- uiiucr in in man mmAr s nrf rm oiuimieion juiy. lie be p ti,at i. nouse on t&e caucus htkipii. "IB llOUSOOn h Mneii. T.. ... . ..... " "- HI ; w "'ese considerations the President : cpresent the temper or the country ' The D. 6. soldiers. ; -' nirj Bllinil, IDC Cll- izen we would not now have a Sitting Bull to Mmluiater our Indian affairs. POOR RUTHERFORD B. his best to condone for his crime of Stealuig the Presidency, and last week II - ---.---ww...v v?i,iuntK iu , 4 f uraiwiy ginia at which horrible inovation t! Radical party elevates its ebenezer as if it smel'ed something. PINCrtBACK is to receive a foreign appointment, ne is to be sent io Pernambuco. linch wants to know where "in li is Pernambuco?" It is not in li , but close to it, aud calls for (00 in gold to get there aud ouly $10 to return in a box as freight. PENNSYLVANIA. What a comment upon the practical working of our free institutions that a great State such as this can be dictated to by such a man as Cameron in the selection of bis successor ! Shrewd dishonesty nomi nates educated imbecility, and tbe misera bly degraded State confirms. THE DTINQ WINTER made a pitiful spurt at existence by trying to get up a snow storm on Saturday. It was an amateur affair, and petered out in to thin slush and rain, but to-day, ye gods! (with a little g) what a storm and still a storming, White flakes as big as a hen roost, and laying too. We announce tbe fact as it affords tbe best opportunity of the reason for original poetry on the Anderson. A Distinction W ithout a Difference. On Saturday the Irish population of New York celebrated in their usually festive style their great occasion of St. Patrick's Day. At the bead of their procession marched the famous 69th regiment, than which no more gallant and heroic one fought on either side during the late war, and at their annual dinner Gen. W. T. Sherman was a welcomed and an honored guest. Nobody objected to this display of the military, and nobody had a right to. Had Rutheiford B. Hayes, who claims to be commander-in-chief of the armieBof the United States, sent word to the commander of the United States military in New York that be ebould not allow tbe C9th tegiment to parade and that the federal troops should, if necessary, interfere to preveut any display of M.e military in the Iiish parade, it is safe to say that such an order would have been disobeyed. Indeed, had its enforcement been attempted it would have been resisted. The federal troops would have speedily been overpowered, they would have beeu not only beaten back by tbe gallant veterans who marched in A I A. J 1 . . 1 a. innv ainur, oui iney would nave been held subject tu eiril process for a violation of the law and order of the city. New York city would have asserted its right to regulate its own internal affairs. New York state would have sustained it in that right and if necssary the aid of all the states would have been extended to her in defense of her preiogative. And had Gen. Sherman lent himself to the execution of any such a federal order as we have sup posed, he would have been just as amenable to the municipal and state law of New York as the meanest bummer who ia:scd a 1 ow on 6t. Patrick's Day. But how was it iu auolber state a month ago? Souh Carolina is a sovereign state like New York ; her citizens have the game right to bear arms; her militia have the same right to parade on civic occasions ; her people cherish the memory of George Washington as warmly as the Irish cherish that of St. Patrick; the Washington Light Guards of Charleston, is a far older orgaui- Eaiion man ine oatu regiment, its founders were the men who marched with Wash ington and Greene, who fought at Cowpens and Yorktown. And jet when it was an nounced that this Washington LightGuard, of the eity of Charleston, of the state of South Carolina, proposed to parade ou Washington's birthday, the Uuitcd States military in that state weie notified by President Grant, commander-in-chief of tbe army, to not allow such a parade to take place: and because of cmii a ti.,1.0. of interference and to prevent bloodshed the DftrnrlA wak oKan..... s-i . , uu..u-., t niiu vienerai Mierman, though he in his speech of Satur day before the Knights of St. Patrick in New i ork, challenged any man to point to any act pel formed wher ein tbe soldiers of the army of the United States had prevent ed any man from fulfilling his whole office as a citizen, found no tongue to denounce this iustairce wherein the soldiers of liis army had been used to prevent tbe exercise of the undeniable right of citizens. He knew that the act which bis silence has de fended, if indeed his active sympathy did not encourage it, could uot have beeu men tioned in tho company wherein he then stood without evoking the execration of freemen, and it is to be regretted that when the challenge fell from his lips there was not some one to demand of him wheth er or not he approved of the use to which the army had been put iu Charleston a use of it which would not le tolerated for au instant In Democratic New York or in Republicau Philadelphia, and the verv at tempt at which would overwhelm those who undertook it by the universal storm of popular mdiguation. -LancatUr InUUiQtn- A Benighted Community. At the re cent election in New Hampshire the people defeated the proposed amendment abolish ing the religious test which has disgraced the Slate constitution for ninety-three years. By the old constitution noCa'holic is allowed to vote for a Governor or legis lature, and none but Protestants are per mitted to bold any position in the common schools. This evidence of intolerance, worthy of the days when the tests of water and fire were applied to the witches would scarcely be looked for in any intelligent community uder such a government as that or the United States at the close of the nineteenth centuiy. It is a significant tact that Mr. Blaine advocated the amend ment. He is srewd enough to know that rhe day has passed for such displays of bigotry, and was no doubt anxious to head r.ff any ill effect of his previous complica t lobs with Know Not hingism. The people of Jsew Hampshire, by their adverse vore. have ynly proved that they are behind the civilization of the age. Let them picture the indignation that would fire the New Hampshire heart if Louisiana should adopt a State constitution stopping Methodists or Congreirationalists of the elective franchise on the Governor mirl T.ril..f .. 1 . tmg out all but Catholics from the public schools, and then they will be able to form an idea of the seutiment which their own stupid intolerance excites among the people of less beuighted States. Xeio l'ork Her. aid Captain Rogardus has just accomplish ed the wondeiiul feat in New York of breaking one thousand glass balls in one hour Torty-two minutes and fifty seconds, lie was matched to break the balls inside two hours and forty minutes with oue gun ana the privilege of two sets of barrels. Betting was near!y three to one against him bctore he commenced. The balls were sprung out of a patent trap, aud Hogardus stood eighteen yards from the trap. He fired rapidly, and with unerring a:m, astonishing those present. He filed at 1,138 balls aud broke 1,002, missing 134. - - fi ra 111 TVl fcl-... 1. , ", on ounoay n.orn- y. v. . a.roi & .,o., loss $ 140,000. insurance 25,0O0 ; Wilson, Snyder & Co., iron and brass founders and pipe fitters, loss $la 000, insurance $10,(Ko ; Mausfndd Ac Co-, brass finishers, hiss $20,000, fully insured. Cause of fire not known, but thought to bivp originated from oue of ihe furnaces In the bias, fouudiy. iVeu? antl Other Xotings. A woman eighty-eight years old is do ing the household work for a family of fire persons at Taunton, Mass. Abner Huntleydied at Cuba, Alleghe ny county, N. Y...on Sunday, March 11, at tbe ripe age of one hundred aud uiue years. Senator Christlancy thinks that ex Secretary Bristow is tbe man who should be called to tbe vacancy in tbe Supreme Court. James Whitmer, of Snyder county, raised 1,500 bushels of potatoes on ten acres of ground last year, for which be re ceived $1,200. Hayes says that be will give '-tbe same weight to tbe recommendation of a con gressman as to tbose of any other respecta ble gentleman." The furniture factory of T. M. D. Pitcher, and an adjoining saloon, in Ath ens, Ohio, were burned on Friday morning last. Loss $30,000. A gtii of sixteen married a man of fifty at Wolverhampton, England, a few weeks ago, and is now in custody for attempting to cut her own throat. Tbe Chicago Timet says that no one should smile at Judge Davis' 33 incb chair, ns 1 Minors nas oui one rtenator. naiuer hard on Dick Ojjlesby. Dennis Dnane, aged 75, and bis sister Maria, aged 56, were fatally burned Mon- ; day morning, during a fire, at No 227 I Cherry street, New Yoik, An old man engaged in hauling coal in Ashland fell heir to $111,000 some time ago, and on Saturday last be died, leaving the fortune to an only son. A Du Bois correspondent of the Brook ville Jeffertonian says that seventy-five thousand feet of lumber is daily shipped from tbe lumber yard of John Du Bois, in that place. The Sunday ilereury suggests that tbe name of the state be changed from Penn sylvania to Cameronia, as it has for years been "a sort of farm or domain, or barony owned by the Camerons." Thomas M. Butler, of Fredonia, Ky., bus a spring of water 15 feet in diameter, whose bottom bas never been reached, al though weights with ropes 300 feet long have beeu lowered into it. There are some men who can put on a white choker and look as if they were only a little lower than tbe angels. Colfax, the Smiler, and Hayes, the Returning Board President, belong to tbis class. Patrick Dolan, a laborer at a Pitts burgh brewry, on Monday last fell into a vat of bot ale and was scalded to death. His body was not found until tbe contents of the vat were about to be removed. In Chain bersburg an infant child of Mr. Shatzer, while asleep, was attacked by a rat. When tbe mother, awakened by the child's cries, went to its relief, the rat had already bitten it in ten different places. Mrs. Louisa McCall of Canton, Ohio, has been elected a director of tbe National Bank, of which her husband was President. She is tbe second woman chosen to such a position, Mrs. Bradley of Peoria, 111., being tbe first- Edward Henry Howard, tbe new Eng lish Cardinal, belongs to the great Ducal family wh:ch heads the peerage of England and was a favorite in society before he took holy orders. He is the youngest of the Cardinals. W. B. Lebo, esq., wbo fell dead and was found near his office, in Taraaqua, last week, is the person accused years ago for selling bis vote in tbe Legislature to Simou Cameron, thus electing him to the United States Senate. On Monday la6t a young married roan of Laceyville, being unable to get work, and his wife threatening not to live with him unless he did work, shot her and t'.eu himself, dying instantly. There are slight hopes of her tecovcry. An eleven year old son of Mr. Stit graves, of Pittston, Luzerne county, com mitted suicide last Thursday by banging himself. The boy bad been confined in a room by bis parents for some offense and while there committed the rash act. Maik Shiiver, a young man residing near Waynesburg, Green county, was found dead on Sunday of last week uot far from his father's residence, and as he bad beeu in perfect health a abort time before, there are suspicions that be was poisoned. A New York taxidermist is stuffing a lion for P. T. Barnum, inside of which he is placing machinery that will cause the beast to roar loud enough to be beard two miles. It will be mounted on a chariot, and a steam engine inside will move the auimal to utterance. The steamer Governor Garland was buined p.t Red Fork, forty miles from the mouth of the Arkansas river, on Thursday of last week. Three deck bands and a cabin passenger perished. Her cargo, consisting 0r G50 bales of cottcD, is lost. The boat is valued at ?25,000. Mis. Carolina F. Shugart committed suicide by banging in a woodshed attached to the bouse in which she lived, in Erie, on Saturday. Her husband had gone for a doctor and when he' returned found her suspended to a beam and lifeless. The cause was sickness, poverty and despair. The wife of Joseph Nutting, who lives at Forsythe's coal works, opposite Califor nia, on the Monongahela liver, tried to commit suicide on Sunday by drowning herself. She jumped into the river from a skiff, and was rescued by her husband, who saw what she bad done aud swam out to her assistance. A remarkable case of inherited longev ity is reported from Kingston, Me,, where the last of a family of twelve brothers and sisters has just died. The youngest of the family died at the age of sixty-four years, the oldest at the age of ninety-three yeais, and the average age was eighty-three years. Two of the eight children of the un fortunate conductor, George PowelL who was killed by the cars at Concord station, Philadelphia & Baltimore Central Rail road, last week, are blind from an attack of the measles and bis whole family, which lives at Chester, are in an extremely destitute condition. On Saturday Ellen Devine, of No. 26 High street, Brooklyn, left her six months' old infant in charge of Hannah Dougherty, a neignbor, for a sboit time, andou ber re turn found that Mrs. Dougherty bad got drunk and lay on the infant, smothering it to death. Mrs. Dougherty was arrested and locked up to answer the charge of homicide. A boiler exploded in tbe saw mill of nunter Bros., five miles east of Worthing ton, Ind., Friday afternoon, killing twelve persons and wounding seven all that were iri the bnilding. The mill ground corn on Fiidays, and was trying a new st of corn buiTs, and, the day being wet, several neighbors bad gathered in. A meeting of workingmen was held in Cincinnati, on Sunday, to protest arin.t the execution of the Mollie Maguire mur- ueiers in tuts Mate. A memorial to tbe Board of Pardons was adopted, and, says the Enquirer, "tbe meeting separated feel ing determined that ita protest should be felt by the Pennsylvania authorities." As a panegyric on St. Patrick was be ing concluded on Sundav nil.t 1., m.- Catholic chnrch of St. Mary.s, Hobokeu, the pastor of the church announcer! ti.ar & ! fire had brokeu out in tbe stable near the j church, and requested the congregation to j leave the building quietly and not to get , excited. The congregation heeded the 1 advice, and tho best of order was main tained while the people, numbering about 1,000, Qhjd out quietly - dLiOTnEarzuriG-. WANAMAKER & BROWN, IN THE OLD PLACE AT THE OLD TRADE. ' All the beet talent, experience and can command, continued at OAK Hat i . . . ( BEST and CHEAPEST CLOTHING for man and I For sixteen yaara -wa have lived at the o!d (n 41 SIXTH and MARKET, and the busin.. h , rQf H Deen eo aatiefactory to the public and ourselves th have decided not to change or move the Cloth'' fcueinese away. Tha people like the place end wi v!?' pleaae the people, and we believe that wa cn better than ever at the old place. 11 The eales of the paet year far eurpa.ted anyth n we ever dreamed of, and thie puts it in our pout start the Spring of 1877 with a STILL LOWER SOLJr OF PRICES, and a class of goods soexcellent that,.. not afraid to follow each sale with our warrantee receive beck the goods unworn and hand overtoil customer the money paid. 4 The store has been largely refitted, and thr ne was such a splendid stock of Men's, Boys' and Children clothing under the roof, nor were we ever a bio to ,-, cheaply. Our word for it, and we are your frisnd cf sixteen years. VAHAMAKER & BROWN, T OLD place, OAK HALL, 6th & Market. PHILADELPHIA. r aetire to call Ihe attention of the ptiltllc to tin fad llol rentodled, rcfiltteil and removed lo r LARGE NEW STORE ROB IN THE ZAIIM BUILDING, EBENSBIKG, FA, Wfcere we have Just received an immense stock of Comprising f)KT GOODS, DRESS GOODS. NOTIONS, FUNNELS. FUKF.7.F lRKlTS, SHOES, CLOTHING, CARPETS, 4c, &C. Weaiso keep (in. j FRESH GROCERIES AND PROVIS Consisting of FLOCR, FISn. SCGAIL COFFEE, TEA, SALT, S0AFS.SFICE5. SOLE AGENTS IN EBENSMG FOR 11TLAFLIYS WIRE CABLE SCLD GJVE XJS V TRIAL! AIVD SAVE SO XMIl? CENT The Highest Market Prices paid for Grain and rr" The Len-iaiowii Gatett says : A. M. Shoop, of Yealtertown, Mifflin couuty (who Las beard lira twenty-tbird cliild), was re elected justice of the peace at the late elec tion, which lands the veteran hero at the threshold of his twenty-fifth year as an ex pounder of justice to those that err. The inkstand iu his office has been in use over one hundred jeais and sixty years iu a jus tice'a office. Paul Boyton narrowly escaped cominp to grief in bis last grest feat of paddline himself from Caprea to Naples proper. At starting a strong current almost dragged him on to the point of Sorrento, the rery upot where Virgil placed the Sirenum Scopuli that Ulysses so cunningly avoided; but by the help of his own siout arras and a favoriug breeze, which suddenly sprang up, lie pushed himself towards Isehia. At Chartiera, Allegheny county, on Monday, a five year old son and six year old daughter of John Sweeny were left alone in a room by their mother. In her absence the boy playfully thrust a billing stick into an oil can, an explosion ensued, and the children were soon en re loped in a 6heet of flame. The floor was ignited, but the blaze soon died out. The little boy died of bis injuries Tuesday morning and the little girl a few hours later in the after ncun. The TJloorP8burgCo(Mtn5ia says: Mrs. Sal lie Snyder, an aged widow, committed suicide on Wednesday, February 28, by drowning herself in a spring, near tbe res idence of Phineas Young, in Orange town, ship, where she bad been living. The water in the spring did not cover her head, and she laid with only her face in the water. It is said that she bas tried to freeze her self to death several times tin winter. She was about 75 or 80 year old, and bad been supported by the poor directors for number of year. Tbe New Haven Journal and Courier says: A brother-in-law of a well-known New Haven gentleman, engaged in the gun business in this State, dropped a pis tol car ti nge in the yard of bis residence at Middletown, a while ago, aud bas sine found out where it went to. One of bis hens, not at all apprehensive, picked it up and got down tbe wrong kind of a shell, not favorable to egg-making longevity, for a day or two afterward she was blown iuto mincemeat by the explosion of the cartridge inside of ber digestive apparatus. This is a fact. . Tha Pittsburgh Pott of Friday says : A horrible story of human depravity comes from tbe South Side, to the effect that on the 5th of this mouth a woman enticed a young girl into her house and drugging ber with prepared black berry wine, and afterwards allowed two men to violate ber person while unconscious. The girl, it seems, said nothing about the matter until a day or two since, giving as a reason that she was afraid to do so. The accused were arrested yesterday and committed for hearing this afternoon before the Mayor, when somethiug more explicit may be J learned. AT OAK HALL HTXm MARKS STU.L TO BE HEADQUARTERS PGR ECLARED AGAINST J3V BUYING FOlt C PRYCE, BAXTER, JONES & A Smart Thief.-Ah robbeiy was ci-nimitifd in Tuesday uibt ff last k 1 hi noon, wuen me txy-wm reached Brady Be. GecT I HIBVUIU " - .'liirfl OUJfI Itiicuutin, V . . . r t,u mrklH lng Ulin 10 irnuMci i--- er' Landing, and I. o .mall St&tioD 01 tlx till! IO ..in.... " -oir,,-;irnarf fiftT miles s fr. where the Buffalo npt north aud smith tfop 1 the train ieacbed Temj-W ped Into the Mirescrt; f r:i....n tpWrani ;rm. sengei uii'K"""' ,. i) :..i,m 'nrxiaddresvcw lioi", " . s... !, lattertO ! nisi uci . , t ..i..f..n xnl brine t.n to Pittsburgh. Bii-ph B"u fer, and took tbe ninth n while Brooks went to I! or the eipresf car. Arn-4 Brooks chockeo off t-c ana goi nu . deliver tbe pood l . . . a ic nuu 4 When me "rr riur of the office, the nbbr trcea iy tMli I the office, hrtf? J money FsckHgerf Hjfa1 appears vu. -telegraph wire lfZ into a wstch b'-, strurucnt M.t 'f.rof5! him to cany out , - . Tbr' : A ir. Ihp Nf '" . ?LtaJJtSS- Dlirgiarj, in.". e- 1 attempt in order W , State Wisou. Benf J to go to tbe State I f Jadge,Ibveon.yj lias, tbi-, benslwrrf State Prisou for bu'6J p. out by Gov. Hy., United States. ! am wreck. l ,irti. I came out of P' irl I was pardoned on pardonea wi. 1 I went to t. but failed. I went to Cwcinnaii j,., K.,t f.fled. Fn'in tww burgh, and met Ti.en I tranul . i.t Yk, where I tf M . work from tbe tf .1 sleeping where I Vii ? eating wbeUevef me a crosu . - tjs before I was a ennu ' t 1 was a " v IB ' I can't get yt r and been k b me gutter kill m kin my". fir.n' ; , .til before pnson 111c not "' So back.. There ; , me." tiansou - .M which he wa w-y k , the Fir-st Xtro J xy :
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