1 4tilititteer. CARLISLE, PA Thursday, January 23 , 197 a, NEWS Iff BRIEF. The Modoo WaiS A dispatch dated San Francisco, Cal.,' Janu ary 29. says that a severe battle took place In California, near the Oregon boundary line, be tween the United Stales troops, numbering about 400 men, under command of Gen. Wheat on, and 200 Modoo warriors, under command of Captain Jack. The United States troops wore defeated and compelled to retreat, with a loss of 40‘klllednnd wounded, among whom were sev eral ofllccrs. Captain Bernard’s command, which boro the brunt of tho battle, suffered ter rible. The troops who loft the Garrison at Carlisle some mouths ago—or a portion of them— participated In the battle. We will publish tho full particulars next week. —Wisconsin owes $2,232,057. ' —lllinois has little or no debt. —Kansas averages fourteen births a day —Nose muffs are fashionable In Minnesota, —The empty kettles rattle. So It Is with men. —Blackleg Is killing off cattle lu Union co., la‘ —Coal oil Is called "canned death” In Brook lyn. —Savannah, Ga., Is enjoying her first run ol shad. —The present site of Pittsburg was once sob for a fiddle,. —A nicer stone than the diamond has been found in Nevada. —Syoago gardens are the latest in window horticulture. —lt Is said that kangaroo skins are much used In San Francisco for uppers of boots. —Single sleighs rented as high ns 175 In N. Y. on New Year’s day. —A long logged red worm gels Into the corn iuul kills Iho horses of North Georgia. ' --.Machinery is gradually cheapening the cost of food ; but not bouse rents. —A church collector tolls us Jeweled fingers often drop tho smallest coins, —ln China they tell tho time of day by exam ining tho pupil of a cat’s eye. - ’ —The city of Louisville, will distribute 20,000 tons of coal among Its poor this winter, —An eruption of the volcano of Santa Anna In the''north of Salvador has Just taken place. —A woman has tho contract for painting all the swords turned out of the Springfield armory. —31.8. Quay has sold the Bearer Radical to senator Rutau. —The German Ministry has prepared a bill for the government of the.clergy. —A treaty of commerce between Prance and Great Britain has been signed. —Tho late King of Honolulu weighed .T5O pounds. —AMexcan maiden has Just expired at the tender*age of 150, —China has funds on hand to set three steam ship companies on foot. ' —The latest coal oil explosion comes from Lancaster. Tho same old story. —Another flying machine has been invented In Bremen by a German bolldonatlo. —A California infant In its first year weighs two pounds more than its father. —On New Year’s day there were 32,870 post-of fices in the United States. —Lake Champlain was frozen over last week tor the first time In 58 years. —The N. Y. Star says Tweed sits serenely in ‘court clad In a white choker. —lt is astounding but tfue, that husks are worth more than corn In lowa. —Cleveland, 0.. wants a big wall to protect the city from tho bleak Canadian winds. —The impeaenraont court at Albany, N. Y acquitted Judge Prlndle. —Senator Colo thinks the Modoc's wilt not make peace if pfiered 8/ 00 acres on Lost river. —Slight earthquago shock at Kingston, Ja maica, Dec. 31. No damage done. —l5O workmen were discharged from tho Erie Kallroad shops last week. —St. Nicholas Hotel,- Springfield, 111., was burned Thursday night, Oth. Loss $140,000. —Tho Red River is frozen over so that teams •toss at Denison, Texas. —The pearl oysters of tho Panama coasts are dying in great numbers. —The first piano ever made In the United •States was made at Philadelphia, —A child in Muscatine, lowa,, was poisoned i»y chewing a piece of green pasteboard. —Baltimore sends out $8,000,000 worth of oys ters annually. —813,090,000 pounds of coffee are drank annu ally In this country. —Three-fourths of the writing paper made in this country comes from Holyoke, Mass, —Maryland has 20 furnaces, of which 20 were I u blast last year, and produced oi,ooo. —Brakeford Bros., silk merchants of London* have failed. Liabilities, $500,000. —A small boat, containing three men, frozen to death, was found recently adrift In the Ice floes below Memphis. —John Harrington, a thief, goes to Jail ton years In New York, for trying to kill his mis tress, Julia Smith. ' , —The Massachusetts legislature sent Sumner the resolution denouncing his effort to strike the names of battles from regimental flags. —Kosenzwclg, the abortionist, expects his re lease, the law under which he was sentenced being repealed. —Fanny Hyde’s second trial for the murder of her employer, Geoigo Watson, in Brooklyn, rommetxced on Monday last. Bhe la on ball, In poor health. —Judge Woods of it is feared, wl not live very long. His condition Is precarious. —.Senator Cameron will be seventy-four on the Bth of March next, and if re-olecled will be eighty if ho lives out his terra. —The ex-Empress Eugenio will shortly issue :v proclamation to the French people assuming the regency of France during her son’s minor ity. —Pinchbeck, nigger, was elected United States Senator by the Kellogg Legislature at New Or leans last week! —lt Is said that Cameron tarnished $30,000 of i tie money required to buy up the South Caro lina Legislature for the carpet-bagger Patter son. —lt is said that in Meade county. Ky., there ure 850 men named Shucklott, and that over 700 of them are tiddlers, —China has a new-imperial hag, of triangular shape, the bunting of deep yellow, and n blue devil eating boiled lobster In the centre, —Honest farmers in lowa till ducksjwith water and let tbem freeze before taking them to mar ket. —Valojo. Cal., claims possession of the em balmed body of an emperor who ruled China 300$ years ago. • —The total amount paid to the United States Treasury for cotton tax, while that tax .was in existence, was 8C8.072.885. —The increase in the amount of the precious metals in existence has been greater during the last twenty-five years than during the previous one hundred and forty. —Many young men now wasting the midulgqt kerosene in reading ten cent romances, will be the leaders of progress—the bar-tenders and peanut kings of the sidewalk—ton years hence. —The value of Chicago real estate Is partially ganged by the number of new buildings erected. —Andrew McDonald died In New Orleans on the 7th, aged 101 years, lie has boon a resident of that city twenty-one years. Onion Block, Concord, N. H., was burned Thursday night, Olh. Loss, 8850,800; Insurance *lO,OOO. —Two dead Irozeu men, one lu a silting pos ture, In a boat, drifted past Columbus, Ky,, Fri day. 10th Inst., but could not bo reached on ac count of floating Ice. —The Connecticut State Temperance Conven t'ou nominated Honry D. Smith for Governor and A. S. Beardsley for Lieutenant Governor, —ln the Prussian Diet, Bth Inst., an Interpella tion, signed by a largo number of members, was Introduced, asking the government by what authority of law public Journals bad been pros ecuted for publishing the Papal allocution. —Several members of the International Sod ety have been arrosted,.ln France, with Orslnl bombs la their possession. —Geo, Taylor Bradbury, a large dry goods dealer, and Henry Sturgis, were arrested In New York, Blh lust., for stealing 81,000 worth of silk from a vessel, In October last. Sturgis tried to sell some, and It was identified.' —H. C. Bowen, ol the Brooklyn Union, has suedtheN Y. Jribune for libel, in copying a Brooklyn Engit article charging him with starl ing the Woodhuli slanders. —They are nroposlng In Congress to authorize the issue of 825,0DD,000 more of National Bank currency. Why not make It greenbacks, and save the Interest on that amonut of bonds? can any one toll qs? RECKLESS EXTRAVAGANCE, Tho Office-Holders Raising Their Wages. Among the first acts, on the reas sembling of Congress, was a bill to In crease tho President’s salary from 25,- 000 dollars a year, his present compen sation, to $50,000 a year, just doublothe amount. This, in connection with the presidential mansion, rent free, sump tuously furnished at the public expense is equivalent to about 90,000 dollars annually. Pretty good for the chief magistrate of the plain model republic, particularly when wo take into consid eration that the blockhead Grant occu pies the Presidential chair. At Harrisburg, the other day, a bill was rushed through both Houses, Increasing the Governor’s salary from his present compensation ($5,000 a year,) to $lO,OOO a year. The Qovern oi is also provided with a magnificent mansion, furnished in elegant style from garret to cellar. The furnishing of this house each year and keeping it in repair, costs the people more than they formerly paid their Governor. In all departments of the govern ment this same reckless prodigality can bo seen; and the appropriations made by Congress for one thing and another, amount to millions every day. Late investigations have shown that dozens of U. S. Senators as well as members of the lower branch of Con gress were elected through tho influence of money, and some of them by bayo net argument. A half-dozen or more scoundrels who aro accredited Senators from tho Southern Slates are mere usurpers. Like buzzards scenting car rion, the u e low wretches are on tho constant look-out for booty; and to misrepresent the people of the States to which they are accredited, is witli them a primary object. In the name of Heaven, what aro we coming to ? We hear the cry of “hard times,”,“scarcity of money,” &e., in all directions North, East, West, and South. Taxation is pressing us to the earth, and the farmer, mechanic and laborer is exercised to keep soul and body together. Rich manufacturing companies get along well, of course. •A, high, oppressive and prohibitory tariff gives them (at the expenses of the masses,) enormous profits. Over grown corporations, too, laugh as they put down the screws upon the people, for they aro-prlyiieged to do as they please and to charge what they please. But the people, the producers, those who earn their bread by the sweat of the brow, are the sufferers. We ask again, what are we coming to, and what is to become of us ? Are the people so infatuated with dishon esty and scoundreUsm, that nothing will alarm them ? Can’t they see now, if they, never did before, that a few un principled men—"leaders,” so-called are using the Republican party for their own benefit? Why should Grant, the weakest President we ever had, and who, by “ hook or by crook” has accumulated a million of dollars (for he is worth this sum at least) inside of four years—why should he receive $50,- 000 a year salary, when all his prede cessors received but $25,000? And Hartranft, the most corrupt man—per haps the only,really corrupt Governor we ever had—why should he receive a salary double that paid to former Gov ernors? Let the people reflect, and if they continue to sanction this extrava gance and scoundreMsm, then let them suffer. Wuen President Grant’s administra tion commenced lour years ago a newspaper styled the Imperialist and bearing in its vignette an imperial crown, was started in New York. The title was unfortunate inasmuch as it alarmed too many republican fogies. This mistake has been recognized, and now the Federalist makes its appear ancein that city. Though the editors proclaim the purpose of advocating the doctrines of a strong government and a return to the policy of Hamilton, the articles would do credit to an adminis tration writer under Louis Mapoleon. The Federalist advocates the regulation of all the railways and telegraphs by the general government, its assumption of control over the entire subject of education, uniform laws for tins pun ishment of crime, and other -equally sweeping encroachments of the federal power. The new Federalist differs very materially in political doctrine from that to which it owes its title. — The former would sweep away forty petty state and territorial governments with their conflicting and independent modes of legislation, and centre all po litical power around one magnificent government. They have got far ahead of the political teachers from whom they pretend to derive their inspira tion. Bat it is the same old struggle, with the issue only the more sharply defined. A clear case of wholesale bribery has been made out against Caldwell, the new Radical Senator from Kansas. Judge Spriggs,- formerly Treasurer of that State, lias testified before the Senate committee that Caldwell paid from $l,OOO all the way to $5,000 for a vote. Wo may be somewhat particu lar, but wo really think the man who purchased the votes of members of the Legislature as well as the miserable knaves who sold themselves should one and all be imprisoned for life.— Talk as you please, this sort of thing is the very worst sort of treason, and is becoming alarmingly common under our present Radical dispensation. Governor Geary bus excited no little indignation in Philadelphia by pardoning Robert Lister Smith, a no torious rowdy and ruffian. Mr. Samu el Josephs procured the pardon. It was expected that Mr. Josephs and men of his class would have much in fluence with the incoming administra tion, but it is not so clear how Mr. Josephs manages to manipulate Gov ernor Geary. The reasons assigned by the Governor for granting a pardon to Lisier Smith are trivial and unsatis factory. The President, a few days ago, had an opportunity of showing his revenge on Senator Schurz. When the bill for the relief of Carl Tucson, Schurz’s brother-in-law was presented for his signature, he promptly’ vetoed it. Col. Ij. V. Bogy, Democrat, has been elected U. 8. Senator by the Missouri Legislature, to succeed Gen. Frank P. Blair. REASONS WHY. President Grant having released from tho penitentiary by a pardon, tho noto rious repeater, ballot-box stuffer and scoundrel, J. H., Brown, a Washing ton correspondent of Forney’s Press attempts to defend Grant for the out rage he has committed against society, by giving “the reasons why Brown, convicted of repenting at the late elec tion, was pardoned.” Hero is what the correspondent says: “ Your correspondent called this morning at the Department of Justice, for the purpose of ascertaining the facts and circumstances connected with the pnrdod of James H. Brown, who was convicted of repeating at the recent election in Philadelphia. The Attor ney General stated that the grounds upon which Brown was pardoned were, first,'mat the record showed that he had been a good soldier during the war; second, that he was a respectable mah, with a family dependent upon him ; third, that he was recommended for clemency by a number of the distin guished citizens of Philadelphia. The Attorney General refused to allow your correspondent to look at the list of names recommending the pardon.” 1. “Had been a good soldier,” has been the plea of defense for a good many scoundrels. But notwithstand ing this plea, scores of men who had been better soldiers than the repeater, Brown, are now in the penitentiary and jails for having committed infa mous crimes. 2. “ That he (Rrown) was a respecta ble man !” Just think of the President of the United Stales endorsing an in famous repeater as a “respectable man !” If there is n crime outside of murder that should condemn a man to in famy and disgrace, it is tho crime of repeating at an election. A repeater (and Brown was the captain, the lead er of the repeaters,) is one who uses perjured men to vote once, twice, three times, and sometimes twenty times on assumed or manufactured names.— Brown, for many years, has been the head-devil in these villainous, frauds. He, as a Radical repeater, has become rich from the proceeds of hfs despica ble business. He was at last caught, tried, and sentenced to tho penitentiary as a guilty and infamous scoundrel, and Grant pardons him on the ground that he “was a respectable man!” Is there any man in America but Grant who would dare thus to insult the peo ple “ That he (Brown) was recom mended for clemency by a number of the distinguished citizen of Philadel phia 1” Who were these distinguished citizens ? The correspondent who made the inquiry, informs us that “ the Attorney General refused to allow him to look at the list of names recom mending the pardon.” This was pru dent in the Attorney General, but yet there is a way to get at the names of these signers. Let one of our Pennsyl vania members of Congress offer a resolution calling for the list of names. W 6 doubt if any Radica 1 member would have the tfrontery to oppose such a resolution. Let uS, if possible, have the names of the men who asked for the pardon of the guilty repeater, Brown. This much is due to the men who feel some interest and respect .for the purity of the ballot-box. Give us, then, their names, that we may see who these “distinguished citizens of Philadelphia” are who asked for the pardon of a scoundrel. The Germantown Chronicle, an able Republican paper, thus speaks of the pardon of Brown: ~Weare glad to notice that some of the city papers are plucking up courage to criticise the pardon of Brown, the repeater. We like impartiality in such matters, and while wo are pitching in to Geary for his abuse of the pardoning power, the case of Brown certainly de serves notice. The governor makes at least concession to pur prejudices, that he gives what he calls reasons for his pardons and tells us on whose applica tion they are granted, but we have not so much information about Brown’s case. Brown was a loyal gentleman who went about doing good for the party; lie voted early, and ho voted often, and when an unappreciative democratic inspector objecied to his voting in the mime of another man, he kissed the book with all solemnity and swore that ho was that man. There upon the unappreciative democratic in spector had him up before Judge Usd walader; the evidence was conclusive, and Brown was found guilty, and sen tenced to eighteen mouths imprison ment. No one needs to be told that Judge C'adwalader gave him a fair trial and a fair sentences Three weeks passed, and the order came from Wash ington that Brown should go free.— The judge had heard nothing, the dis trict attorney, Aubrey H. Smith, the President’s personal friend and politi cal supporter, seems to have heard nothing of the matter; certainly the time was too short for any of the customary formalities; who made the application we can only conjecture; what reasons they have assigned we cannot even guess j executive clemen cy was brought into play, and the repeater was pardoned. Now we are not disposed to make a howl about this, but it really seems to us quite as extraordinary as any of Governor Geary’s pardons, and quite as danger ous in its possible effects. The con gressional laws regulating elections in •the states, have no justification except aS measures to restrain illegal voting, but we have not heard of a single case beside Brown’s in which an illegal voter has been prosecuted under those laws. We rejoiced in Brown’s convic tion, therefore, because it seemed to indicate a determination to make tho law a terror to evil doers; his imme diate pardon must have an exactly contrary effect. We dare say that Brown thought his sentence oppres sive; but so did Brill, and Lister Smith, and tho. rest of our governor’s • portegos; the question to be considered was simply Whether his sentence was according to law, and whether the good of society demanded that the law should bo enforced. We do not com monly sentence a convict for his own 1 pleasure, or for the satisfaction of his 1 friends and associates. As we said be fore, the (act that Brown was tried before Judge Cadwalader is sufficient to assure any Philadelphian that his sentence was just and fair, and there can bo no question in tho mind of any ] honest citizen that there is urgent need 1 of enforcing the law against repeaters. But there is no use in sentencing men to tho penitentiary if they are to bo ( immediately released by "executive . clemency.” We have said all this in so often in counection with Governor Geary's par dons that it may seem superfluous to repeat it now ; but we ought to Insist upon these principles as of genera) application, and not merely us applica ble to the actions of an official who happens to be unpopular. It is the cheapest thing in the world to criticise Geary, because everybody docs it; but it requires some courage to criticise Grant, and it is because this case of Brown has been treated so tenderly by most of our papers that wo think it worth while to return to it. - If we had over defended, or passed by in silence, the governor’s startling pardons, wo would gladly pass by those of the President; but as we have always ex pressed our opinion freely in the one case, we should not feel justlfled in keeping quiet the other. It is a poor kind of independence that kicks a man only because lie is going down hill. We must Insist on fair.play in these things, without fear or favor.’’ ■ WORSE AND WORSE. One of the most ingenuous gentle men that has thus farappeared to give testimony before the committee that is investigating the disgraceful , Credit MoLllier business is Mr. H. C. Crane, the treasurer of that concern. There is a fresh vivacious frankness about this witness’ evidence strongly recalling the famous testimony of the late eminent financier, Mr. James Fisk, Jr., before another Congressional Investigating Committee, and clearly entitling him to assume the latter’s shoes cast in disdain from Mansfield’s inhospitable door. When Mr, Crane is asked if he ever gave his check for| ten thousand dollars for the purpose ofl electing a United States Senator toj look after the interests of the Credit' Mobilier in Congress, he says, “No, he did not give one check, ho gave two, for five thousand each.” In 1870 the; ingenuous Mr. Crane also contributed his chock for five thousand dollars to elect a Senator from Nebraska, because, said this vivacious witness, “ every man must do something to save his country.” He had signed a paper giving Mr. Ames authority to deliver over two hundred shares of Mobilier stock to members of Congress. Ames had so disposed of that amount of stock, and the members expected him to fulfil his bargains with Jhom. Mr. Crane, in concluding his testimony, made a re mark which bears very hard upon those honorable Representatives and Senators who received the stock -and Its profits, and who are now trying to make the country believe they did not receive it; he said that he “was sur prised that, while gentlemen should be willing to take the stock at 07, they hail,not the moral courage to say they did so, when it was worth from 200 to 300 per cent.” Although the dividends declared by the Credit Mobilier have amounted in the aggregate to 5 : 15 per cent., w.e have no doubt that many of the gentlemen to whom Mr. Crane refers have con cluded that even with such enormous dividends the stock has not paid them. Some of the disclosures already made in this business Indicate a degree of corruption at Washington among the law-makers of the nation, that is simp ly horrible. Among other things it and other investigations exhibit, is, that in a good many cases seats in the Senate of the United States are mere purchasable commodities. In South Carolina the price is sixty thousand dollars ; in Kansas eighty thousand ; in Pennsylvania even a higher figure; while in lowa it is but ten thousand dollars, and in Nebraska five thou-, sand. yVhat hope can there be for the per petuation of our liberties when corrup tion has become so common and shameless as to purchase Senatorships and when the attributes of the Senato rial office are bartered to the highest bidder. The facts being developed by this Credit Mobilier investigation seem to render it necessary that every member holding the stock of the concern should, in deference to a wholesome public opinion, resign his seat in Congress. We do not see how they can do less But then there is a difficulty in the way. Should the members who hold stock resign, the Radicals would bo left in the minority in botli Houses! Oh, how fast our poor country is sink ing, sinking 1 Corruption everywhere, and yet the people say amen! Mans’ of our exchanges in the State have commenced the agitation of the license question in view of the election next spring under the local option law. It may interest them to learn that a strong combination is being formed in the legislature for the im mediate repeal of that act. A bill for the purpose is now in the hands of a republican member of the house and will probably bo read next week. Tlie apprehensions that the great majority of the counties of the State will abolish liquor licenses have strongly increased since the result of the election on the local option law in Clearfield county was announced.— Patriot. Isn’t it humiliating to the nation at large that fully one-half of the newly elected United States Senators stand openly charged with having secured their election by fraud and bribery.— It was not always thus. The evidence against some of these senatorial frauds is overwhelming, but as they are all on the side of the administration they will bo nicely whitewashed, and the people made to believe, if such a thing be possible, that they, instead of being the guilty, are really the injured par ties. Gen. Oglesiiy was nominated for U. S. Senator by the Republican caucus of the Illinois Legislature, on Thurs day night last. General Oglesby is to succeed Lyman Trumbull, who was prominent in the Liberal movement Inst fall.— Ex. Another "rent statesman crowded out of the Senate to givo place to a pigmy politician. And till tho statesman could not sui corrupt gift-receiver, Grant, Tallahassee, Florida has Mayor. When ho was elected he as tonished everybody by announcing that lie should not charge the'city any thing for his services. Now, some extra fees having accrued to him, amounting to sd7o, he has given these also to the city. —Ex. Our word for it the Mayor of Talla hassee is not a Radical. Gen. Cameron is a Republican in the true sense of the terjfi. We always know whore to find him .—Republican True enough. You also know where to find a buzzard—where there is car rion. Gen. C. is “a Republican in the true sense of the term”—always after tho almighty dollar. The Conscience Fund at Washington lias been increased by $5OO from a wes tern man who makes no explanation. It would bo increased $500,000,000, if all the thieves in the country would become conscience-stricken and dis- gorge. Hon. John J. Patterson tho bo gus U. 8. Senator from Soutli Carolina, has been elected ono of tho managers of the Bridge Company at Mlfllintown, Juniata county, Pa. MlUov of (he Volvntccr Dear Sir.—l saw In the Memlcl of this week that Hon. R. W. Mackey, State Treasurer, has purchased an in terest in the Pittsburg Oommerciat for $lOO,OOO. This set me to thinking how a man, on a salary of $5OOO per year, could save $lOO,OOO in two years beside paying slos,ooo'to the State, for loss sustained by the failure of Yerkes & Co. I cannot figure it out, can you? I could imagine the feat being accom plished by such splendid financiers as Jim Fisk, Jay Gould and Commodore Vanderbilt; but how plain, honest Bob Mackey accompllshed it, is beyond my comprehension. Please explain. Yours, About seventy of the newly impart ed Chinamen employed at the Beaver Fulls Cutlery • Works near Pittsburg, are at present on a strike for higher wages. It is amusing to reflect that these heathens have been but three months in learning the trick of com bining to get the real worth of their labor. " ’A. Radical paper defending Presi dent Grant’s action in the Louisiana affair, • says ho only performed his sworn duty in sustaining Judge Durell. Then, wo suppose, if a District judge were to issue a decree erecting one of the States into a kingdom, it would be the. President’s sworn duty to see the decree enforced. Harry White still holds on as Senator and member of the Constitu tional Convention, and will likely gobble a salary from each, as he did the several extra thousand dollars from the Senate last year for serving on committees. Ho should be made re sign either one ortho other. An interview with Ur. Durant, ex- President of the Union Pacific Rail way Company, foreshadows that Presi dent Grant is likely to bo caught.in the Credit Mobilier net. The Doctor says Dodge looked after his friend Grant and that the Presidential party was not left out in the cold, which means something. The Chicago Evening Post (Adm.) says of the State Apportionment bill, recently passed by the votes of the Republican members of the Indiana Legislature, that it “is an act of gross partisan stupidity, no less discreditable to tho intelligence of its makers than to their integrity as public legisla tors.” A 3an Pbakcisco despatch says that advices from most of the Interior towns of California show that tho Sunday liquor law has been generally enforced. In San Francisco violators of the law have not been prosecuted, because “the authorities will not move in the mat ter..” The Harrisburg Patriot says that although Judge Pearson put upon the record a peremptory order for the trial of Geo. O. Evans at the January term of Court, his case is not on the list published for trial. The Senate Finance Committee has decided that the Secretary of the Treasury is not impowered by the law to issue the 514,000,0(50 of legal tenders which ho claimed as a reserve fund.— This leaves $4,000,000 available cur rency in the Treasury. 22,534 rag-pickers prowl the streets of Paris twice in 24 hours; they fill on an average 48,000 or 50,000 baskets a day ; the average value of each basket is 30 cents, so that $50,000 aro daily found in the leavings of Paris. The World is surprised that, when Geary pardoned Lister Smith, he aid not also send forth a brace of ruffiaus and pardon Mara too; but on further consideration it thinks that that has been left lor the heroic Hartrhnft. The bill of Senator Ames proposing to do away with the distinctive organi zation of the four colored regiments and throw open the whole forty regimental organizations to the enlistment of ne groes is raising a storm, particularly in army circles. Gov. Geary has derived his com pulsory education idea from Norway, Sweden, and Prussia ; and compulsory vaccination from the Buies and Begu lations of the United States Army. There have been four explosions of cooking ranges within a week at Cin cinnati, and the inhabitants are delib erating whether they hadn’t better live on cold victuals* Gov. Geary imitates Secretary Boutweil in paying off the debt, by estimating the sinking fund and cash on hand. It looks very well on paper. The public debt is over twenty-seven millions, not sixteen as stated. The Kellogg Legislature at New Orleaps has elected John Bay U. S. Senator to fill the unoxpired term of Kellogg, resigned. Two U. S. Senators were elected at New Orleans Tuesday, Gen. W. L. McMillan by the Conservatives, and Pinchbeck by the Radicals. MISCELLANEOUS. —Fifty-nine fishermen of Yartmouth weie drowned in a recent gale. —The Chicago money market contin ues extremely active, and money la scarce. —Disturbances are feared in South Wales In consequence of a strike of mi ners. —The news, something chatty, spicy and good natured, is better than all the medicine in the world. —A resident of Sail Francisco recently received from a friend living in the re gion of Puget Sound, a white deer. —Fifteen families in Pittsburg club to gether and pay a doctor $25 annually to keep them in pills at wholesale. —The total number of deaths last year In New York, was .'12,047, an Increase of 5071 on the mortality of 1871. —Some Southern politicians want ex Senator Pool, of North Carolina, ap pointed Postmaster General. —The trial of Mrs. Wharton, on the charge of attempting to poison Eugene Van Ness, began recently, at Annapolis, South Midleton, 1 Jan. 17th 1873. | Farmer. —An attempt was made on Friday to poison the family of A. Culp; at Heqatur, 111. Arsenic had been deposited in the pump, from which water was taken to prepare coffee. Thirteen years ago a man at Wau kesha, Wis.i was buried in a well, where he remained seven hours, but was dug out alive. He now yearly celebrates what he . calls the anniversary of his “resurrection.”. Several now stores have been opened in this place. ■ Tjik Shoe Factory ia this place gives employment to eighteen girls. Coal Oil explosions continue to be the order of the day. Tin-: Court proceedings will he found in another column of this issue. George L. Goucher, bill-poster, Is lying dangerously ill at the hospital. Boys, save your pennies, Gen. Tom Thumb and Troupe are coming.. John F. Hahtranft was inaugurated Governor of Pennsylvania on Tuesday. Another slight snow storm visited this vicinity on Monday lost. We regret exceedingly to state that Mr. Jacob Martin, baker, of this place, is seriously ill. Jack Bear has been retained at the hospital ns a nurse. Jack will make a capital one. Sleighing is playing out rapidly. Young indy, if your boau has not taken you a sleigh ride yet, spur him up; Candidates for the nomination of Sheriff and Treasurer of the county, to be elected next fall, are already going the.rounds. Notwithstanding the Borough Ordl nance, cows continue to run at large through the streets and on the Public Square. The time for holding the Spring elec tions is fast approaching. We hope that good mon will be nominated for tho va rious borough offices. The railing around the scales at the Maraet House has been repaired. The Court, which is in session at the present time, is crowded with business to sucli an extent that it will be impossi ble to try more,than two-thirds of the' cases. Bad Colds are a common thing nt tho present time. Any person who Is fool enough to run after a cold ought to lo catch it. The moat attractive bills we have seen for a long time, were those put up by Prof. Martino’s advance agent. The Ice houses are ail filled with a good quality of ice, and no fear need bo entertaiued of an ice famine during the heated term next summer. The young lady who sat down on the soft side of tho Market House pavement on Saturday morning, has our sympa thy. THE best investment any young man can make is to procure a scholarship In the Iron City College, Pittsburg. I’here is no other school in the Union to be compared with It. —English love of sport my be shown by the fact that during Ibe past financial year British sportsmen havo p. d Into 'the Exchequer more than half a million pounds, the items being : Dog. licenses, £279,425; game licenses, £180,824 ; gun licenses, £03,137 ; and race-horse duty, £0,531. —Secretary Boutwell Is of the opinion that the decrease in the national debt hereafter will not be so great In the monthly statements as heretofore,. —Notwithstanding the demand for lumber wherewith to rebuild Chicago apd Boston, the Michigan lumbermen complain that It has been a bard year Eplzooty and high lake .freights have been their chief banes. . • —A funeral party at Table-Mound, lowa, found the grave, digger frozen to death at the bottom of the grave he bad been digging for the corpse. —The full bench of the Supreme Court of New Hampshire has sustained the recent decision of one of the judges, that when liquor is bought with the Inten tion of avoiding payment under the liquor law, the vender can reclaim his liquors or their value. ' —During the ten mouths ending De cember Ist, 380 railroad accidents oc curred, by which 245 persons were killed, and 799 were injured. One hundred and three accidents occurred in November. —A young lady school teacher in Washington county, has been convicted of assault and battery for punishing a pupil. —The number of hogs slaughtered at Cincinnati for the week ending with Saturday night last, was 42,000. Whole number from November 1 to this date, .'170,000..' —Secretary Boulweli has advices from Boston informing him that there is no doubt of his election as United States Senator, vice Wilson.' His greatest drawback is General Butler’s professed friendship. —The German Government has set tled the provisions of a bill whjoh regu lates tile authority of the superior over the inferior clergy, controls the training of the latter, and sets up rules governing ecclesiastic appointments. —A sick woman at Chester Centre, Mich., was burned to death lately by some kiudhearted neighbors, who put red hot bricks in her bod to keep he r warm. —A Wilkesbarre jury, being unable to agree upon a verdict in a criminal case, tossed up a penny to decide the matter, and. in this way found the prisoner guilty. , —George T. Burrell, of Philadelphia, a negro, was appointed assistant doorkeep er of the House of Representatives, by Speaker Elliott. A large amount of. live slock per ished on the oars, from the recent cold weather and snow storm, between Har risburg and Allentown. . —The counsel of the Erie Railroad anticipate recovering from Commodore Vanderbilt, in their prospective suit, the sum of 53,500,000. —Wanted at Harrisburg, enough mor al courage on the part of the honest members of the Legislature, of both parties, to induce them to array them selves determinedly against the schemes of the “ roosters,” who are anticipating a glorious harvest. LOCAL ITEMS. Oystehs rule at a high figure. Local news ore very scarce. . Singe the Ist inst., seven widows have subscribed for the Volunteer, all of them paying In advance. Good for tlie widows. Dan’l R fr, of South Middleton town ship, slaughtered a twenty-three months old hog a few days since, which weighed when dressed, 551 pounds. A good porker, that. . , Patrick Maguire, an aged and re spected citizen of this borough, who has beep 1)1 for the past few mouths,! 1 is re covering. Every reader throughout the county should send us all the items of iuteresl occurring in his particular neighborhood. Get your sale bills’printed at this of fice, and have your sale, mentioned free Ju this paper. . Board op Health.—ln the State Senate, a few days since, on motion of Mr. Weakley, the bill to provide a Board of Health for the borough of Carlisle, passed finally. ' In the House of Representatives-, we notice, the member from this county, Mr. Williams, is ou the foilowlng stand- Ing committees—Judiciary System (gen era!) ; Education; Vice and Immorality, and Counties and Townships. In December, 3,037,000 cigars were manufactured and spld iu the York, Cumberland and Perry district—the lar gest number ever made and disposed of before in the district in one mouth. Hens are not tending to business, con sequently their products are quite scarce. It is said that eggs are eggs just now, which will be found out by hunting for them. Colored Bills lor sales done at this office in the best style of ihp art, at short notice, and at prices to suit the times. Call and examine specimens Our cousin Charley must'bo a good farmer. The Lewiatowu (Milllln coun ty) Democrat of the 10th Inst., says’; Charles Bratton, jr., of Bratton town ship, on Thursday last, slaughtered live splendid'hogs just 17 mouths old, weigh ing respectively 325, 371, 402, 404 and 407 pounds. ; Skating bn the pavements should be, stopped Immediately. It is an intolera ble nuisance, and a little’ discretion on the part of the Police would wind it up. We witnessed a man apparently’ sixty five or seventy years of age knocked down on the pavement one day last week, and severely injured by a boy, who was skating, running against him. By all means let the nuisance be abated. Almost-an Thursday evening last, we observed two boys sled ding on Hanover street, when a horse attached ton sleigh came down the street *at a full rale of speed, and came very near running over both of them. Sled ding in the street—especially after dark —is rather a dangerous amusement. The Harrisburg Typographical Union, No. 14, at its December meeting passed the following resolution, which we think was right and proper: “All apprentices to printing business, to become eligible to membership in this Union, shall serve at least four years.” Notice. Executors, Administrators and Guardians aft notified that all ac counts for confirmation and allowance at the next Orphans* Court, must be filed in the Register's office on or before the 18th day of February, 1873. John Keep, Register. Accident. —Oq Thursday morning last, Mr. John Pilkay, cabinet-maker of this place, met with a severe accident while crossing the hay scales at the Market House. He attempted to climb over the bar which Is used to prevent persons from' driving over, when it suddenly gave way, and he fell vio lently on the plank ot the scales. He was considerably cut and bruised about the face.. The Lecture in Dickinson Church, by J. Wilson Paxton, Esq., on . Friday evening last, was, we. learn, a success, the building being well filled with an appreciative audience. We regret that it Was out of our power to accept the kind invitation of tho committee to be present at the lecture. Wo learn, how ever, .from several who were present, that the lecture was very able and in teresting, and that all present were de lighted with the evening’s .entertain ment. . The next lecture of tho course will be delivered by the Rev. George F. Cain, of Shippeuaburg. Amusements. —Amy Stone’s Theatre played “Cigarette, or (he Little Leopard of France,” to a full house in this place, on Thursday night last. The playing was excellent. Processor Martino, the great Illu sionist and. Ventriloquist, gave several entertainments in Rheem’s Hull, the present week. Gim amusement-going citizens will be. pleased to hear ‘the announcement that Gen. Tom Thumb and Troupe will appear in Rheem’s Hall, Friday, Feb. 7th, See advertisement in to-day’s issue of the Volunteer. The Harrisburg Patriot bears that Governor Geary, on leaving official life, will enter into a partnership with a wealthy resident of Carlisle, in the In dian Agency business, along with Hon. James Karlau. This “Hon. James Har lan” is the same man who, by bribery, bad himself elected to the U. S. Senate from lowa. He is said to be worth his millions. Four years ago ho was next door to pauperism. Geary is smart in selecting Harlan as bis partner in the “Indian Agency business*” Retired.—Mr. J.' Zeamer, who for the last few weeks has been connected with the Bhippenaburg Sentinel, bide adieu to tbe readers of that paper In its last issue. Mr, Z. is a young man of gooii abilities, and possesses considerable force as a writer. We regret bis with drawal from tho Sentinel, and wish him success In his future undertakings. The paper is now published by Pefier, Brinks & Co., with Henry K. Peffer, Esq., as editor-in-chief. We wish tbe Sentinel success. Child Smothered.—On Thursday evening of last week, John Clemens and wife, of Carrol township, York county, attended a religious revival meeting in the Church of God, in Mount Pleasant, n couple miles from their home, taking with them an Infant two months old. After the meeting they started for homo in their sleigh, when on entering tbe bouse they found their babe dead 1 The weather being very cold, the mother of the little creature bundled it up very carefully, with a view of making it com fortable, and it is supposed that it smoth ered to death on the road from ■ olng too closely veiled. Its parent’s feelings, un der the circumstances, upon finding their offspring dead, may bo Imagined but not described. It was their only hlld, and the Idol of their limits. Mns. EookapbmW haa hp„‘f sS! ' pomtocj po S 0r Mo c h^;;c j» u »P- Rev. Dr.Slioeb, a W6ll itn„. odist clergyman, (formerly Btati U Melll ‘ Carlisle.) is seriously ill at Ball, Home Again.— Our worthvrn.i , BObb, J. M.i Wallace, E 3 , 1 ., teC‘'‘efE"r what protracted visit to his 0111 , °® e - Lauoaster county, returued.to C, lr uT l,l Monday last, and will at ones rea, „ , official duties. Mr. Wallace l ook !7! • and appears to have enjoyed hla ' hugely. ■ 0 8 vi «ll “an Acquaintance” i 9 tcsnwir „ informed that we Insert nothing , ls shape of a communication without lbe ing the author’s name. Moreftban ,h7‘ we think the subject of the want of gallantry, of the youmr a/’ ° r Carlisle, has been sufficiently ve'miin'! 7 It is not a subjeot-if subject It "“'7 called—calculated to interest our reader,' Pboe, Martino's entertainment,. , Bheem’s Hall, on Monday and Tue d evenings were a success. Several valm - bio presents were presented to a numb ’ of our citizens. Among the man, w a handsome sofa, valued at s2o' toT Ing chair, parlor lamps, sets of 'dish!' & c This (Wednesday) evening , ' positively be the last entertain*™ when 140 valuable presents will be c ' en away, including a $2O greenback New Family Sinq er Sewino m CHINE.-This new. family machine is ca pable of a range and varietyhf work such as was once thought impossible to perform by machinery. We claim and' can show that it is the cheapest, most beautiful ami most delicately arranged, nicely ad justed', easily operated and smoothly tuff, ning of all the family sewing machines It is remarkable not only for the range and variety of its sowing, but alto for the variety and different kinds of texture which itwill sew with, equal facility , lm | perfection, using silk, twist, linen or cot ton thread, fine or coarse, making the into- looked elastic stitch alike on belli ■sides of the fabric-sewn. Thus beavor cioth or leather may be sewn with great strength and uniformity of stitch; and in a moment thls.willlng and never-weary ing instrument may be adjusted ferine finest work. This machine embodies new and essential principles—simplicity of construction, ease of operation, uni formity of precise action at any speed, ca pacity for range and variety of work, fine or coarse—leaving ail rivals behind 11. During the year 1871 the Company told !8t,2G0 machines, being 52,000 more than any other company apld in the same time, there are about 700 Singer machine,, in use in Cumberland county, tome of which have been in use. for 25 years and are good machines yet. TheSiuget Machine is not a new and untried exper iment, but an established fact, as they will perform anything and everything that any other Sewing- Machine can do, SaM’l Bixleh, of Carlisle, is the Agent for this county and is prepared at all times to furnish machines to suit all buy ers. Selecting. A Gadkt. — A Board (if Competitive Examination, to examine and recommend to , the member of Com ■ grass from this Congressional District three young men, from which number one is to be selected and appointed a Cadet to West Point, commenced its session in Carlisle on Wednesday of last wuek, and concluded its labors on Friday, This Board, (appointed by Hon. R, J. Haldemtin,) consisted of M. O. Herman, Esq., of Carlisle, Wm, Grier, Esq ( of Bloomfield, and S. G. Boyd, Esq., of York, {Seven candidates were before the Board, and after'a rigid examination, lasting, as wei have said, three days, the following young men were recommended as qualified, in every respect, for the coveted position, viz; Wm. W. Galbraith, Dickinson town ship, Cumberland county. Silas A. Wolf, York county. Jacob L, Market, Perry county. These three applicants, we learn, stood’ excellent examinations. Mr. Haldeman, member of Congress from this District, will select one of the number as a Cadet to West Point. In Court, Monday morning, on mo tion of M. C. Herman, Esq., A; G. Miller, Jr., was admitted to practice law in the several courts of Cumberland county. Mr. Miller read law with Ills brother John, and, wo are glad to learn, passed a highly creditable examination On tbe above evening, after his examining committee had got through with their duties, Mr. Miller gave a supper at Alli son’s to his committee and a dozen or more friends. The supper was a most excellent one, and highly creditable to Mr. ami Mrs. Allison. After all had par taken of the bountiful repast, on motion, Judge Moser was called to the chair. Hod. Lemuel Todd then, in a few re marks, complimented Mr. Miller upon his highly creditable examination, and wished him, Qod : speed in his professio nal labors. Miller replied In a feeling and appropriate speech, thank ing his friends for their good wishes. Three-minute speeches were then made by M. C. Herman, William H, Miller, John R. Miller and E. I. Todd,Esqra, and Judges Montgomery and Moser. A toast complimentary to the Press, was responded to briefly by J. B. Bratlouj of the Volunteer, and at ft au early hour the. company ‘dispersed, well pleased with the evening’s entertainment. A Terrible Accident—A Whole Family Killed.—. One of the most heart rending accidents, says the West Chester Jeffersonian, occurred last Wednesday at Morton’s station, on the West Chester & Pliila. Railroad, that baa ever been our misfortune to relate. Mr. Wm. Carr is a hard working, industrious man, a builder.by occupation, and has been ply ing bis vocation in Philadelphia, going to that city on the morning train and returning to his family in the evening at the station above mentioned. Tbe family at home consisted of his wife and three children, the oldest being about ten yeais of age. At ten minutes past 5 o’clock on Wednesday evening, the neighbors were startled by an explosion and a scene of lire, and upon entering the room it was found to be all ablaze—tho mother and one child dead, and the other two chil dren badly burned, both of whom have since died. Tbe mother, it appears, bad been ironing, and had a gasoline lamp setting upon the the table. The lump becoming empty, she attempted to fill it from a kadi-IThe latter being near empty, tbe oil had generated gas, and when-the cork was removed, the room instantly filled with gas, which oausea the explosion, The oloibes she had been ironing and nearly everything la tuo mom was burned. The distressing new was taken to the father by Miller Snare, the conductor on the train that pasae Morton at 0 o’clock, and tUo unuappy father reached the station at 7'JU, to nnu the awful circumstances above rolateu. With so many accidents happening might say daily, liom lamp ®*P 108 °“’ hn It la indeed singular that peonio will ho so foolish us to still continue the use lit oil.
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