American 4mlituttev. CARLISLE, Pa. tmmSBAT, FEBRUARY G, IST3. HEWS IN BRIEF, The Courts in Ohio granted 102 G di vorces last year. Ix Germany when the jury is a tie the prisoner is acquitted. Fifteen thousand buffaloes are yearly slaughtered in Kansas. The patients in the Alabama Insane Asylum issue a weekly paper. Seventy-five coal mines are now worked in McLean county, 111. lue is nine inches thicker in Kansas this year than ever before. A Newport man married his step mother the other day. Troy, N, Y., has 10 paper collar factories, employing 5,000 girls. The Souix Indians in Minnesota are halfstarved. A St. Louis couple alter lour weeks honeymoon divided the furniture. Bucks county girls wear cornstalk .bustles With comfori. ° I-'lies have a use. it is found that they spread small-pox. A PiTTsnuRG magistrate kicked a lawyer out of the court-room. Oysters are now being raised in Nebraska. Athens Ga., prosperously began the new.year with a surplus of one cent in the treasury. The laws of lown no longer make any distinction between husband and wife in their control over their own property. A Texas boy 10 years old, is six feet high, and. weighs 300 pounds. There are giants in these days. lowa has ninety woolen mills, hun dreds of flour mills, and gin mills with out number. A deposit of epsom salts has been discovered at Mineral Lake, in Grant county, Minn. Judge Trkacy of the Marine Court of .New York, died last Saturday morn ing. Two men, engaged in the attempt to burn the town of Arrow Rock, Mo., wore hanged by Vigilants on Wednes day. A large cargo of Maryland coal was shipped to Halifax, N. S., on the loth ult. A leading gambler at Fart Scott, Kansas; has subscribed $2,000 toward a new church. A Chicago man has invented a trunk which can he converted into a lifeboat or a coffin. It is stated that 80 divorces were ap plied for in Allegheny county Pa., last year. It is said that the mysterious name of the “ monkey wrench” was taken from its inventor, Mr. Monkey, who still lives in New Jersey. A hutouer’s shop for the sale of horse-flesh has been opened at Geneva, Switzerland. In Buffalo, recently, a servant girl held a burglar by the leg until the po lice came. Church fairs in Illinois are now su perseded by mush and milk festivals. A. Danbury man was much relieved to find that the term Credit Mobilier was not a name for hog cholera. Nearly eighty thousand pounds of type has bean received in Now York for the Greeley monument. Two old.bachelors (brothers) at Pitta field, ill., froze to death in their log cabin the other night. They were worth $12,000. Thomas Ci.ay, a grandson of “ Har ry of the West,” look unto himself a bride recently al Lexington, Ky. AN Albany N. V., man is in jail on a charge of stealing a canal boat. Wh"en am-sted it was not found on his per- The president ami cashier of the Chenango Bank, at Norwich, Conn., both dropped dead in the building within a few days of each other. a man in Kentucky placed three perch in a Well two years ago, and on cleaning out the well recently he re covered one of them, but singular to say, stone blind, and its dark natural color bleached to almost transparency. A man died, recently, at Pottstown, Pa., whose liver, stomach, and other internal organs had turned to about eight gallons of liquid. There is an extensive emigration movement to America among the Ger man colonists in Russia. One hundred and twenty families have leit Beresina alone. The jury has declared innocent Jen nie Droz, the Cleveland girl who shot Mayor Flak two years ago. She has all along pleaded guilty; but what is a young girl supposed to know about such an important matter compared with the “twelve good men and true?” A French atatiscian states that Par is contains 1150 hunchbacks, 1224 indi viduals with only one arm, 1115 with one leg, 110 cripples, 17 without noses, and 3 without either arms or legs. The wonderful well of gas in Illi nois, which was used to illuminate the neighboring town of Areola, has sud denly given out and the people have returned to the use of kerosene. Ahout 7000 acres are cleared of tim ber each week day in this country. Of the annual crop $75,000,000 worth goes to fuel, and twice as much to fencing.— The locomotives in this country con sume no less than 700,000,000 cords a year, or 500 acres a day. There have been recently discover ed on the coast of Peru ancient pottery and other manufactured articles highly wrought; and some of glod, beneath a marine deposit of six feet, having trees growing on the surface which were older than the Spanish invasion, which proves that this land must have been submerged beneath the ocean, and again elevated to Its former iiosition, since these relies were deposited. | ASTOUNDING REVELATIONS. The Credit Mpblller investigation by a committee ol Congress, will astound the people of all nations, except per haps our own. Our people have become so dead to shame and so utterly oblivi ous to the corrupt, pratices of public men, that nothing moves them., A man who is a prominent Radical poli tician is privileged to do as he pleases, and to make money in any way that his cupidity dictates. Indeed, wo are beginning to believe—And wo have good grounds for our belief—that una'- dnitorated villainy is at a high pre mium in this country. As an illustra tion—a few evenjngs since the Young Men’s Christian Association of Phila delphia, celebrated their anniversary at the Academy of Music. They had ad dresses delivered, singing, and other exercises. The two principal speakers were Vice President Colfax ami the Vico President elect, Wilson. Only the day before these two prominent politicians had been found guilty, by a Congressional committee, of having re ceived large bribe? from the Credit Mold her Company. This mammoth banking and speculating concern was in “cahoot” with the Pacific Rail Road Company (indeed its inembers were all connected with the Rail Road Compa ny,) in an effort to rob the Government of 8-1,000,000 acres of the public lands, and, unfortunately for the people, the effort, through the influence of bribery, was successful, and this unblushing raid upon the people’s land was fully consummated when Grant affixed his signature to the bill. The Congressional investigation into this transaction has already brought to light the fact that dozens of Members of Congress in both houses were bribed to vote for this gigantic robbery, and these members were all leading men—the able speakers whose course was to in fluence and did influence the unsus- peeling. In the Senate the loading men selected by the land shaika 'who were to be corrupted by bonds and money, were Colfax, Wilson, Logan, Patterson, and others, all loyal Radicals. The in vestigation shows beyond dispute or the shadow of a doubt, that these men were tampered with to favor the great est laud steal that was ever consum- mated in any country. In the House the members tampered with and em ployed by these robbers of the govern ment property, wore Thaddeus Stevens and Judge Kelly of Pennsylvania, Brooks of Now'York, and scores of others equally prominent. That! Stev ens, it is shown, received $BO,OOO in one payment! Wo regret to see the name of Mr. Brooks in this infamously base business. He is the only Democrat who was corrupted; Wo formerly respected him, but we loath him now as we loath the slimy serpent. ■ Well, as we said in the commence ment of this article, the evening follow ing the day when Colfax and Wilson had.been found guilty of hat ing receiv ed bribes from the land thieves, those two brazen-faced Yankees had the un blushing impudence to appear at the Academy of Music to address the Christian young of Philadelphia,and to instruct them us to their duties before God 1 And, the papers tell us, when the two speakers appeared on the stage, “cheering and clapping of hands fol lowed for' several minutes.” Is n6't scoundrclism at a premium? Why, these men should bo mobbed when Urey appear on the streets.. But rro—they are the leaders-the Vico Presidents— of “ the party of great moral ideas,” and instead of receiving the hisses and huntings of an outraged people, they are loudly cheered as they appear be fore the people of Philadelphia to ad dress Christians 1 “ Godsave the Com monwealth.” Imi’eauh Him.— Many of the, more respectable .Republican journals are loud in their demands for the impeach ment of Vice President Colfax. But ho will not bo impeached. His term is up ou tlie-Ith of next month, and ho will be permitted to slide out of ollice with out punishment and lich from his If gotten gains. The 'Credit Mobilier scandal is, to-day only a nine day’s wonder. The whole hatch of .Congres sional scoundrels implicated in the swindle, only laugh in their sleeves at the ugly facts which have been venti lated. Grant knows he won his re election by fraud, just as Cameron did. Caldwell luxuriates in the certainly of the proverbial whitewashing. What is there to fear for the faithful and loyal ? Don’t loyal hands ply the brush, and don’t the Government furnish the ma terial? Conviction! Why there can be no conviction, much less punish ment. What would an attempted im peachment of Vice President Colfax amount to? Emphatically nothing.— The attempt would be a farce, and the whole proceeding attendant upon it- a magnjficiently entertaining comedy. As a fitting sequel to all these in stances of corruption and bribery, read the details in another column, of the pillorying of Pomeroy in Kansas. In a perusal of there refreshing tit-bits of Radical history, wo can only exclaim : '■ o, tempore, 11, mores.'' In view of the recent developements in the Kansas legislature, the follow ing certificate of character from Senator Harlan to Senator Pomeroy is very timely. It was issued a few days be fore the latter became a victim of a “ foul conspiracy “ Those who know him intimately and well believe him to he one of the truest and purest of our public men, us they know him to be one of the most generous. His bene factions have made hundreds of worthy families rejoice. Those who ought to know' him thoroughly regard him as singularly unselfish, caring only for money as ho cun use it, not to aggran dize himself, but to accomplish some good.” Doubtless the ideas of "accom plishing good” referred to are similar to thoso entertained by Oakes Ames .when ho distributed his Credit Mobilier stock where "it would do (ho most good.” Martin, the defaulting teller of the Chester Valley Dank, was on Wednes day sentenced by Judge Duller to four years and six months at labor in the Chester County Prison at West Chester. He is a young man of fine intellect, well educated, and his family comuw tions are most respectable. In the late political contest Martin was the Secre tary of the “ Loyal Oraut Club of West Chester.” He was a strong politician, and an expectant for a snug berth. Ho has got it—four years and six months at hard labor, board paid. GUILTY! GUILTY I Tho New York IleraM, which, dur ing the into political contest was an ardent supporter of Grant, in speaking of the disgraceful and alarming expo sures at Washington, says; “There is no disagreement In the jury- of the' nation. The voice of one and all pronounce a verdict of GUILTY against the whole batch of huckstering Congressmen. They are all in the same category—Wilson, Colfax, Ames, Patterson, Brooks, Allison, Kelly and all thereat. The same evidence incul pates a|l alike, and the difference be tween the offender who. received his hundred and fifty shares and his asso ciate who received his two of ten shares is only similar to the difference be tween the highwaymen ami the pick pocket or between the burglar and the sneak thief.” Will the people now wake up V Or will they continue to retain in power a set of scoundrels who for years have been leagued together in monstrous schemes of robbery ? Thousands of millions of acres of the best lauds in America have been voted to mammoth corporations, without the government receiving a cent. The people looked on in amazement. They' could not under stand wiiy' members of Congress should give those valuable lands to railroads. They will now understand. They’,will now see that these monstrous swindles were effected by' the bribery of mem bers and prominent men connected with the administration. Grant signed all ■ these gift-enterprise bills, flow .much did he receive? Millions, no doubt. Wo ask again, will the people wake up, or will they continue to sup port a party whose leaders arc thieves and bribe-receivers ? POMEROY’S DISGRACE. Exposure of His Corruption—His Successor Washington Jap 30, Senator Pomeroy has finally come to grief, aud his senatorial career will be brought to a close.on the 4th of March. The members of the legislature of all parties opposed his re-election, d ter mined to defeat him at all hazards, and when the first vote was taken on Tues day ho received only 10 votes in the Senate to 22 in opposition, and -10 in the house to OS in opposition. This oppo sition vote was finally concentrated yesterday at the joint session, and Hon. .Tonn James Ingalls, of Atchison, was elected. A special dispatch from Topeka to the New York Tribune, signed T. D. Timelier, says : Light has at last dawned in Kansas 1 Senator Pomeroy was overwhelmingly defeated to-day in the election for sena tor, John J. Ingalls, of Atchison, being elected almost unanimously. As Hie vote \vas being taken in joint conven tion, Colonel York, member of the senate from Montgomery county, when his name was called, passed up to the presiding officer $7,000 which Mr. Pomeroy had given him for his vote. Ho then detailed the circumstances of the transaction in a speech of an hour’s length. The effect was overwhelming. The legislature passed a i resolution thanking Colonel 1 York for his course, and Ingalls was immediately elected. For two weeks Pomeroy has kept a 'loldiy hero of all his “ strikers” at an expense of not less than $1,500 per day and has spent probably $lOO,OOO in the campaign. Mr. Pomeroy has been ar rested under our stajo law. Twelve years ago to-day Kansas was admitted into the Union. To-day she sends greeting to the nation over tne_ down fall of corruption as embodied in S. C. Pomeroy. THE TWEED FAROE, The Jury Unable to Agroo-Mmo for Ac quittal and Throe for Oonviijtion. ■ New York, Jan. ,11.—There was an immense gathering lo hear the result in tire Tweed case. Alter the an nouncement by the loromui that ho thought the jury could not agree, J udge Davis expressed a desire to hoar from others asto the probability of an agree ment. Another juror then said that the jury wero.of the samb mind since eleven o’clock Inst night, and then.' was no prospect of an .agreement. Mr. Peckham, for the prosecution, then addressed Hie court, applying for another trial forthwith. The defendant's counsel thought'it would ho a hardship to go over the ease again now. Tweed’s civil suit was for February Tl, some preparation for it being necessary. , The announcement of the jury created no apparent excitement 1,11 the crowd in the court. There is a rumor that elev en of the jury were for acquittal and only one (.Mr. Hazleton) for conviction; but it is generally understood that they stood nine lor acquittal and three for conviction. “The Wav op tub Trans(ire.ssor is Hard.”—A letter writer at Wash ington to a New York paper, says that the families of Vico President Colfax, Senators Wilson, Logan and Patterson, ahd Representatives Kelly and. Scofield of Pa., are much alarmed at their men tal condition, and they are all watched closely. They are verging on insanity and the worst consequences are fined. •On, this subject the Boston Port's spo ciul speaks of Colfax and Patterson Unis : “The effect of Hie exposures', which, as everybody knows, have increased the dangerous character of the malady, shows itself in a serious manner on Messrs. Colfax and Patterson. Mr. Collax was discovered by a friend, who entered his room unannounced, this morning, bathed in tears and giving other outward evidence of great mental perturbation, while Mr. Patterson, since the testimony regarding him was made public, keeps himself ns much secluded as possible. Ho has made his appearance in the Somite but once during Hie past lour or five days. Both show strong symptoms of insanity.” Local Option in Bradford.— Bradford is the second county in the State which has voted on license or no license under the local op tion law. The election was held on the 17th instant, and, as in Clearfield, the majority against license was very large. Nearly eight thousand votes were poll ed on the question. The Bradford Argus publishes nearly complete re turns, which show a majority of 2250 against granting licenses, fn the town of fowandii the voto was very close, 318 votes having been c.ist against, and 200 votes fy, license. in most of the rural districts tho majorities against li cense were very heavy. This vote in Bradford county, with the result in Clearfield, indicates with suillcient clearness the fate of liquor license in all tho norlherh portions in the Slate. CONSCIENCE-SMITTEN, — J lldgO Kel ly tlie" leading Kadical Congressman from this Slate, and who was fearfully exposed by ihe Congressional investi gating committee, is on the point of insanity. -Hu has written a letter to Judge Pehinil transferring tho Credit Mobilier stock held in his mime, with the dividends thereon, to the Treasury of the United Stales. LOCAL ITEMS. Feed the.suow birds. Look, out for high waters. Sixteen snows. Hold, enough ! Buy goods of men who advertise. Fr you can’t sleigh, get tee creepers. Day's length, 9 ho*ui;s, 30 mlnutea. Business is brisk with our liverymen, Our Market was well attended on Sat urday. Leai’ year has gone, but a good many girls are not. * MealiTliv * - tho whlslje on the Loco motive of the S. M. i. Co. The good sleighing and sledding makes the town quite brisk. Haste makes waste when sharpening a soft lead pencil iu a hurry. Always do as the sun does—look at the bright side of everything. Communications upon topics of local interest are solicited. The tanners complain that hides are so “ cornered” by dealers that they cun make no money. Cooi) resolutions made on New Year’s day are lying loose all oyer our town. House How ers look well these snowy days. The Auctioneer*’ harvest has com menced. Devotional—a son of thunder kissing mother earth while drunk. The question of the day is—how are you going to vote, for or against license? The latest style of woddiugadon’t ap pear to bo popular with the young men. Sleighing .parlies of late keep tho ad jacent village landlords quite busy. Keep n watchful eye ou your chicken c tops during tills cold weather. Butter and eggs still command a high .price. . The Perry county jail Is without a prisoner. * Do not shoot deer, or U may bo dear sport for yon. We now have four good fire compa nies iu this borough. The Governor's salary is now $10;00() per annum. For showy and cheap Sale Bills call at the Volunteer office. The name of coal oil is about to be changed to “canned death. 53 A number of country patrons and sub scribers dropped hi to see us during the past week; but few of them had any news for us. No wonder eaves sometimes look plead ing and soiTowfal-r-rbey are under the lush all the while 1 Salting sidewalks is said to bo a per fect prescription to make sore throats plentiful; This is the rock of ages, said the fath er, after rocking two‘hours, and the baby still .awake. He who seeks to build a. reputation on the feelings of another, has an unsafe foundation. The most irredeemable bonds yet known to the financial and moral world ate vagabonds. There aro three things that can by no means be employed for evil—humili ty, contentment and liberality. A cautious young lady of this town declined to eat a pbilopenathe pther eve ning, for fear of catching the epizootic. Calling a boy a “liar’ 3 produced u knock-down on Tuesday lust, near tho Square. - - Those open-winter prophets were frauds—as proven by ice immense and severe snow storms. In the,rural districts it Is regarded as evidence that a young lady is “engaged” when she works on pulse warmers. The cleanest sidewalk about town Is kept so by a girl—shame on some of the boys. Shovel the snow from -tbe roofs of your buildings, otherwise you may be obliged to.put a now roof ou. Latino pea mils while the Courts are In session, in not allowed in Schuylkill county. If such a rule was tried In Car lisle. it would be regarded us a cause for rebellion. The oldest inhabitant cannot remem ber when Ihero bus been ao much snow aa there has been (ho present winter. Tiir C.. V. K. B. bitched two locomo tives to every train of cars for a fe w days last week. Steam power wins. Waking up in the middle of a cold night and remembering that the front door Isn’t locked, Is one of the horrors of keeping.house. In one of our stores, ns we noted some evenings since, the loungers therein ait on calico, cloth mid flannel, to keep the goods warm. Tun name of Bloody Bun, Bedford county, has been changed to Everett City by a vote of its citizens. The vole stood M for to 110 against the change. Did any one in hia life-long experience ever sou a chicken run over by any vehi cle from a hearse to a locomotive ? liitADKoui) county has voted on luciil option. It gave between .'lOOOund -1000 ma jority against license. Houses should not be driven through the streets without bells attached to them. Life should no': be endangered. A young lady who neglected to re move the an till 1 from her muff came near sneezing her hair down in church 1 at Sunday. A young man ol this place, who is struggling manfully with’ a moustache, sa> h bruins and hair don’t grow well to gether. Tins is the season when the little ones run out, get their feet wet, and catch lota of croup. Then they run home ami moth er's soothing syrupiy administers to them alternate do<es of slipper ami advice. A funny friend of onra remarked that lie would n’t want to bo u farmer ibis win ter, and be compelled to got up morn-, lags and shovel ail the snow off his fields. A young man in town says that be learned the meaning of the phrase “ups and downs” to a certainty the past few weeks better than lie ever did belore, by the slippery slate of the pavements in our town. WmiSKSIiAV anil Thursday mornlngß o Imt week were stingers. Tbo tlier imnneter niarkeU di) degrees below zero ! Tbc cold was more severely felt than at lime this season. - We regret exceedingly to announce the death of Dr. Charles Zttsser, .which occurred at hia residence in this borough, yesterday mornkag. We are indebted to oulr Member of Assembly, Mr. Williams', for Legisla tive documents. Also, to Judge Watts, Commissioner of Agriculture, for a copy of hia month ly Report. The employees of this office respect fully return thanks to Jacob Rhoads, Esq., of West Pennsboro’ township,for a basket of the most beautiful, apples they have scon during the season. THE 22d of February conies on hjatur-. day this year. The 4th of July on Fri day. Ash Wednesday on the 20th of February. Good Friday on the lltb of April. Easier Sunday on the loth of April. Unusual.— On Tuesday morning when the thermometer stood- at zero, a fine large robin was to bo seen on the top of a tree on the Episcopal church square. He was chirping and bopping about quite briskly, and finally flow off. The circular, just issued by the Iron City College, la beyond question tbo fin est thing of tli© kind ever published. Tbo-e who have not seen it should send at once and ob'aiu a copy. Address the Principal. J. 0. Smith, A. M.. Pittsburg, Pa. „ The Coldest Day.— Thursday morn ing of last week was cold beyond any thing ever known in this section of country by the “oldest inhabitant.” Atb o’clock in the morning, the ther mometers of a dozen or more of onr citi zens indicated Twenty-eight degrees be low zero!" Perhaps This was—indeed we have no doubt ii: was—the hardest freeze ever known in this region. We publish this week tbe communi cation of “Spectator,” giving an account of tbe Penn township Teachers’ Insti tute. But “Spectator” must not pre sume too much. He did not give his real name. Falling to do this hereafter, his communications will fall into our basket of rejected articles.- Another Camp Fire Lit Up at Boil ing Springs. -Washington Camp, No. 188, P, O'. S. of A., instituted Jan. 31, 1873, by W. E. Nunemaoher, State M. F. E. C., of which tho following officers were installed : P. P.-A. M. Seib. P.—Smith McDonald. V. P.—Adam Meals. M. F. and C.—Henry Wolf. Rec. Sec. —J. A. Moul. A. R. C.—Jacob Tiller. F. Sec- —John Whitcomb. Treas.—o. F. Bennett. Con. —Andrew Hoffman. ''R. B.—John Caldwell. L. S*—Samuel Day. I. G.—Henry Durr. O. G.—Samuel Cockliu. Chap. —John Hartman. Trustees—A. M. Sieb, Isaac Stone, J. Moul. At a meeting of the “Hamilton” Al umni Association, held at Carlisle, Jan. 27, the following resolutions were unan imously adopted :. Whereas, The death of James Hamil ton, Esq., a Director of the Common Schools of Carlisle, has been formally, announced to the “Hamilton” Alumni Association, this association has received the same with feelings of sorrow and re* gret; therefore, be it ■ Rr.solvcd t That in the death of Mr. Hamilton, the public generally has sus tained the loss of an eminent educator, and a quiet and unassuming philantro pbist, the common schools a Director who has been connected with them ever since their establishment, uml one who manifested great interest in their pros perity and success, and this association one of its best and mefet respected mem bers. Also, Resolved, That wo gratefully remem ber his admirations aud interest in us while scholars, and of. Ills words of wis dom aud counsel to this association.- We unite in-testytying to his life-long and indefatigable interest in the prosperity of our schools, and the unsellish devotion of a greater portion of his time and abili ties to cousumate the same. Recogniz ing his worth, ability, interest and his continued exeition in favor of education, Mid especially of our own school, iudhe-; ed us to give his name to our association. Resolved , That us a merit of respect to bis memory, wo attend the funeral in a body, and a copy of these proceedings be Inscribed ou our record, and published in the papers of our borough, M. F. Thompson, * D. EfSKLES, D. M. C. Gkino, Mrs, M. K. Underwood, Mrs- Julia A. Binder, Committee. Another Social Party.— Obeying the invitation of a number of gentlemen at Mount Holly, to some twenty gentle men of Carlisle, to partake of a supper on the evening of Friday last, four sleighs, containing five each, left our town at 7 o'clock on said evening, aud in less than an hour halted In front of Muhin's Ho tel, at Mt. Holly, where quite a number of the citizens and iron-ore operators had assembled. After enjoying them selves in singing, dancing and other jn nocent amusements for about three hours, supper was announced, ami the entire company repaired to the spacious dining room to partake of a repast such as the Messrs Mullin alone can get up. In ev ery respect It was a moat elegant enter tainment, timetable fairly groaning under the weight of the good things it coA. taihed. After the cloth had been removed, ou motion, Charles H. Mullin, of Mt. Holly, was called to the chair. After returning hia thanks to the company, he extended a hearty welcome to the Carlislers pres ent, aud hoped that the meeting might prove a pleasant 0119 to all. Short speech es were then Dr. Klefler, M. G. Herman, James H. Graham, jr., 1 {Charles H. Hepburn and J. B. Bratton, of Car lisle, and sentiments and toasts were of fered by several others. It was then, on motion of Mr. Smith, resolved that those present form them selves Into a Club, to be called the E. Club of Carlisle aud Mt. Holly, with the privilege of electing additional members, aud transacting such business ns may conduce to the fellowship aud good feel ing of Us members. Mr. C. H. Mullin was elected President of the Club; Edwd. Noble, of Mt. Holly, Secretary, and A. Dysert, of Carlisle, Sergeant-at-arms. The meeting then, at an early hour, ad journed, and the members of the Club repaired to their respective homos, all well pleased with the evening's enter tainment. Our Mt. Holly friends were assiduous In their attentions to their guests (the Carlislers,) and their kind ness and liberal hospitality will long be remembered and properly reciprocated should an opportunity over offer. Tub roof of a building owned by Mr. Jncob Senor, on Pitt street, was crush ed in by the weight of the snow, a few days ago. Correspondence of tho •Volunteer, Two Mon Killed on tlio South Mountain Rail-road. | Mt. Holly, Jan. 31. , On Thursday evening, Jan. 30, about 5:35 r. M., ns tho last freight and passen ger train was near tho crossing where the Gettysburg road crosses the South Moun tain railroad, at Wynkoop’s sidling, one third of a mile above the Mt. Holly Pa per Go’s upper mill, two men, named John and Wesley Day, (father and son,) wfeib seated in a sleigh drawn by a horse ami mule, attempted to cross tho track In front of the fast approaching train. The •engine struck die sleigh, throwing James Day on ouo side of the track, and rolling the sleigh over on Us side, crushing Wes ley Day in the sleigh. The engine pass ed over the sleigh, nud pushed the same 1 with .the mail the whole length of ihe train upon the snow. The suow being very deep.tho truck axles kept tbe' sleigh up against the axles, so us to prevent the engine from passing entirely over tho sleigh and .occupant. The engineer, as soon as lie discovered the danger, gave signal to tighten the brakes, and.aleo re versed the engine, but .the train pushed the engine and tender about 350 feet be fore he succeeded in stopping the train 'The train hands hastened to the aid of tbe unfortunate victims. They found the el'dest lying on the snow, with hia feet towards the railroad; the young man was wrapped up in the sleigh under the en gine. The Conductor of tho train, ac companied by one of the bmkemeu im mediately hastened to Mt. .Holly for as sistance. Those who remained at tho train—passengers and train employees— done all that was in their power to allay the sufferings of the old man, and to get the young man out from under the en gine,. whicn consumed some 20 minutes iu doing this. Tho sufferer was alive when , the men found him under tho en gine, but was dead before they succeeded in getting him out. In a very short time medical aid arrived on the ground.. Dr. William H. Lawman, of Mt. Holly, did all that was In his power for the sufferer. When tho horrible intelligence reached Mt. Holly, many of . its citizens repaired to tho scone of the accident, but all to no avail, the poor sufferer was too seriously hurt to he henefiiled by .any one. Soon us possible, the 'sufferers were placed iu the passenger car, and taken to the depot at Mt. Holly. When the train arrived there, it was found that the old man was dying, and it. thought, best, not to move him. He lingered until'eighteen minutes of 8 o’clock, when he died. The Railroad- Company douo all they possi bly could for the unfortunate man, and when intelligence. was sent to the Super intendent's office that the men were kill ed, the Superintendent at once notified Mr. John T. Crozier, telegraph operator at Mt. Holly, to piocure everything that was necessary, and also to procure a con veyance to take their bodies -to • their friends. The bodies were loft in tbe sta tion house until the morning, when the Coroner, David Smith, Esq., was notifi ed, and empauiielled a jury .composed of the following geullemen-C. H. Mullin, George Noggle, John T. (Jrozler, Win. B. Butler, Eaq., and Edward Noble, jr., who were duly sworn, and an inquest held. John Hefflelluger, tbo engineer, was first sworn* He testified that be was not Tunning over eight miles per hour; that he gave tbe usual “crossing signal that he saw the men iu the sleigh when he was about three hundred feet from them ; that he thought they would stop the sleigh, and that he gave the signal to brake the train; when he (the engi neer) saw them attempt to cross the ruil road, the engine was only twenty-five feet from tho crossing; ho immediately reversed the engine, but could not stop the cars until the train had run its own length, it being down grade and snow ou the rails. One of the brakesmen, who was sworn, said that when he got to the old man he asked him why he did not stop the sleigh, and if they, did not see the train coming. The old man replied that he did seo tho train, but thought they could cross in time. The couduc tor of H. Watta«& Sou's ore train, who was staTiding on hia curs at VVynkoop’s sid ling. waiting lor the train toneme down and lake his cars out, testified that he saw tho train coming; that he heard the signals given as stated by the engineer; that he saw the men driving along in the aloigh ; was not more than seventy-five feet from the men at the time he saw them; told them that they had better ■slop, that the train was coming; that they could not make the crossing in time; called after them a second lime; 'one of them looked at him, but gave no reply; would not be in any danger it they had stopped when ho told them ; the train was running slow at the time (down grade); could not have been run • mug mure than eigiit miles per hour. Other witnesses were examined, their 'testimony corroborating evidence given by the engiueer and conductor of Walts 3 tram. Auer examining the witnesses, the jury g.ave their verdict, exonerating tuo Railroad Company-and train hands I'iom all blame, and “that tbo deceased men ciimo to their death through care lessness in attempting to cross the truck when they saw the train coming. ” Tho horse was slightly hurt, the mule escap ed unhurt, and the sleigh was smashed to pieces. The Railroad Company had coffins procured for the uuloriuuule men after tho inquest was held. Tho bodies woi e, placed in the coffins, and taken to tho homes of their friends.' James Day was an old man, about 70 years of ago. Tho sou, Wesley Day, was a young man about 22 years* They had been'to Car lisle, and were returning home at the Time the accident occurred. The old man leaves a wile and daughter, who are liv ing about \h miles from Zion Church, ou the road feuding from tho Gettysburg road to Boiidei'aville, Adams county, near the line of Cumberland county. Penn Township Teachers’ Institute. Mr. Editor.—-As your very valuable paper has a very large circulation in this-township, I thought it would bo proper to give you a brief report of the Penn township Teachers' ■ Institute.— This Society meets every Friday even ing, in the Centerville school room. It boasts among its members, such men as Bov. J. S. Woodburn and Rev. A. C. Felkor, Dr. W. Longsdorff, W. J. Krebs, John L. Henry, Win. A. Brown, D. Lofovre and dthers, enough to make .any enterprise of-'that kind successful. X attended its meeting on the evening of the 31st ult., when the regular order of business was dispensed with, and the question, “Should a graded school bo established in Penn twp,” wa^ before the institute for each member to give his views pro and con. We.thought it would be a very dry subject wherewith to entertain an au dience, hut we were deceived. One of the most lively discussions was gotten up in reference to the feasibility of es tablishing one at the present time. All the members who spoke on It were in favor of a graded school. 3ome thought it would bo better to have it established now, and others took ground -that it was not necessary at the present time, too many schools being in the town ship atthe present time lor the popu atiou. I think Mr. Wm, Brown, Di rector, and Mr. John D. Henry, teach er, brought forth the best argument that evening, from this fact, 7 arguments wore not of the gentlemen, Mr. B: a comic piece entitled the “ Lancaster County Dutchman,” from which he portrayed the misor, who was opposed to the erection of school houses and taxation therefor. The next question to be discussed is “ Does the orator de serve more credit than the author?” Perhaps I will from time give you some more graphic descriptions of the workings of this Institute, which is a benefit, to the community where it is hold. Spectator. Tub recent “ thawl” did not improve the slippery condition of the pavements. MB, HAMILTON'S WILL, We Imve been culled upon by a Hum*' bor of our subscriber*, ami have received numerous letters from those who are not subscribers, requesting us to publish tire will of the late James Hamilton. Wo comply with these requests by giving a correct resume of tlio will. It might be well to slate, before giving a syuoposis of the first will of Mr. Ham ilton, that he left two wills. The first is dated noth Nov., 1871; the second, thelSth Jan., 1873, in which, after giving Some additional bequests, recites that “Where as, there is an not of Assembly rendering void all eleemosynary bequests and de vises, if not executed a certain number of days before the decease of the testator; and whereas, X executed a will dated the 20th day of Nov., A. D. 1971, (marked A,) to be my last will and testament. Should I dle before the Ist day of March, 1873 ; otherwise the jvili of the 13th of Jan., 1873, shall he and is hereby declar ed to be my last will.” In witness where of, Ac. ' The following,arc some of the religious, charitable and' other bequests made by Mr. Hamilton. We make the synopsis brief, as the will covers about 10 pages of fools-cap paper. Ho gives: $l,OOO to tire Board'of Foreign Missions of the Second Presbyterian church. $5OO to the Board of Domestic Missions. SSQO to the Church Erection, to bo ap plied to one church, at tile discretion of Bov. H. B. Wilson. $5OO to the Publication Fund of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania. $l,OOO to the building fund of the Poly technic College of Pennsylvania, $2OO lo the American Colonization So ciety of Washington. ?I,OUO to the Board of Eegents'of the Smithsonian Institute, the Interest to bo devoted to the purchase.of a medal for a prize essay. $l,OOO to be Invested in tbe name and. by tbo approbation of the Orphan’s Court of Cumberland county ; tbe Interest to bo received by the Board of School Di rectors for the purchase of books for needy scholars. ■The will then recites that,. "Whereas, my father and sister having left the sum of 81,250, the interest to be devoted to the purchase of wood and groceries for the poor of Carlisle, the week preceding Christmas,; I give the further sum of $750, (making the entire sum $2,000,) Which 1 direct my executors to.loan, un der the direction of the Orphans’ Court of Cumberland county, and request said Court to appoint a Trustee of said fund, to distribute annually, on the week on which Christmas falls each year, the in terest of said hind to.necessitous persons of the borough of Carlisle, in the form of wood, coal, groceries, &e. ; the said Trus tee to render an annual account to said Court, without names.” $2,000 to be invested by said Trustee, tbe interest to be devoted to the payment of, rent for indigent persons. $lOO to tbe f’astbr of the Second Pres byterian Church, for the purchase of books for my Sunday school class. $3OO to Mrs. Meek Kelly, of Indiana county, Pa. $5O to the Soldiers’ Mouumenl. to Mrs. Virginia Watson, daugh ter of Isaac Cruse, of N. Y. ■ $5OO, the. interest for the repairing of the iron railing around Hamilton lot in cemelery, &c. $350 for tombstone. $5O to each of the Carlisle Fire Compa nies.' $5O to bo distributed among the choir who sang at funeral. $5O to the officiating 'clergyman. Two diamond rings, value of each $l2O, for Miss Emma Moore und.Miss Bailie Holliday. $l,OOO to Mrs. Ida H. Crooks, now ofN. Y. $5OO to Miss Annie Booth. $500.t0 Miss LaviuiaEmlera. $5OO to Mrs. Sarah H- Line. $4OO to Mias Virginia MoUlellati. $2OO to Mias Ella Martin. $2OO to Field Dunbar. , $2OO to Miss Katy Collins. $2OO to Miss' Bertha Mouyer. $2OO to MissTCute Livingston. $2OO to Miss Alice Law. Of bis real estate, he bequeaths the largo farm below Carlisle, to Robert C. Bmdlflh, son of 001. Jos. Bradish of Eng land. ,The tenant, Mr. Geo. Baker, to hav(s the use of said-farm two years, free of rent. To Miss Julia Creighton, farm on Chumbersburg turnpike, 24 acres, and a 17 acre field-. The properties occupied by Messrs Og ilby and Aiken, corner ot High and Pitt streets, Carlisle, to be sold, the proceeds to be devoted to paying the debt of tbe Second Presbyterian church.. OIISEUVER. The property occupied by Mrs. Blaney, the homestead and tbe vacant lot be tween and $4,000, for-a Female Semi nary, upon condition that the Presbyte rian Churches'increaae the fund to,-$lO - ’ . ’ GO feel square on the corner of Pitt Bt. and Dickinson alley, together with $2,000 for the building of a public library hall. To this library be bequeaths 200 of his bent books, as a 1 nucleus. To Isaac Cruse, during his natural life, thoJarm on which Daniel Yoh resides, and at bis decease, to bis two daughters. To each of his Executors $l,OOO. To Jeremiah Baker the three acres of ground on the Triudle Spring road. To Robert Creighton one and three-* quarter acres In borough of Carlisle. To ftfcv; J. A. Murray my sister's li brary us a nucleus for the Female Semi nary. To Mies Laviuia Nutters ,my gold watch. To Miss Julia Creighton all my jewelry except the gold ease aud father's gold watch,chain and miniature. To Mrs. Eliza Creighton my silver plate aud spoons, except the large silver ladle, which I give to Mrs. Emma Blau dy ; also to Mrs. Creighton all the man tle ornaments in the front parlor, all family paintings and portraits, and nil my letters aud papers. My double-barrel gnu to Mitchell Mc- Clellan. My Naturalists Library aud Life of Washington to Robert Creighton. To Rev. J. A. Murray my ancient Bi ble and coins under live francs. To Robert Bradlal( all above five francs. To Miss Julia Creighton my largo fam ily Bible. To Miss Ida H. Crooks the two email sofas In front parlor, and the half-dozen mahogany chairs. Mrs. Sarah H. Lino a settee and two sets of drawers To Mrs. Dunbar a set of globes, micro scope. minerals, shells, and carpets In parlors. To Prof. Baird Bwaluson’s Treatises. To Dr. Davidson my toltacopo and dic tionary. To pastor of riecond Presbyterian chinch, Dr. McGill's Commentorlea and Josephus' works. To Mrs. Moloy ray kitchen furniture. Miss Julia Creighton to select 100 vm of ray library. “■ The rest of my books I divide betwc, J G. Enders and Field Dunbar. ' ■ Pistols and sabre to Wm. Parker Piano and furniture in her room i Miss Enders. 10 Dinner china to Mrs. Johnston Moore Choice of three oil paintings to Mr Johnston Moore. ‘ ' Law books to Cumb. Co. Law Library All bequests made to young persons not to bo paid until they arrive at the ago 0( 21, unless they are sooner married. Should there bo sufficient after my bo quests are paid, then $5,000 to Juijj Creighton, $5OO to Mrei Annie Eudera $5OO to Mrs. Ann H. Caldwell. ' All the residue of my estate—real, p C r. sonal and mixed—l give to .'Robert C ’Bradish, of England, who is the resiji nary legatee in noth wills. These extracts are from the will dalni Nov. 20, 1871. The Coming Sales We have re cently printed, bills for the following sales of personal property: 11 Feb. 12—Theo. Cornman and H. L Heeker, Exr’s. of Mrs. Melinda Sites dee’d, Carlisle, a variety of household and kitchen.furniture. Feb. 17—Henry T. Darr, in North Middleton twp., work horses, cows, bulls, sheep, and a variety of farming implements. " Feb. 18—D. and A. Fuget, Admr's of Wm. Fuget, Frankford township, 7 head of work horses, milk cows, hogs', sheep, and a great variety of farming implements. " Feb. 19—Jacob Gintef, on the Wag gonner’s Gap Bond, work horses, colls milk cows, and a variety of farminn implements. Feb. 20—Bale of James TV,Stuart, South Middleton township, of 4 horses ■1 .good .mules, cows and young cattle, reaper, grain drill and other farming implements, ' Feb. 22—Elizabeth Bennet, .South Middleton, horse, cow, and a variety of household furniture. Mar. 3—H. S.-Keeny, South Middle ton, norses, cows, hogs, and farming implements. Mar. 4—George Bheaffer, in Dickin son township, horses, milk cows, bulls, sheep, and a variety,of farming impln ments. ' ' Mar. 4—Daniel Dow, West Penns borough twp., horses, milk cows, young cattle, and a variety of farming implements. Mar. 7—Benj. L. Waggoner, North Middleton twp.,' horses, milk cows, and a variety of other personal property. Mar. 7 Samuel A. Bailing, in Mid dlesex twp., horses, cows, mules, and a variety ol farming implements. Mar. 7—John Bailing, Middlesex township, cattle.. , Mar. 8 John Armstrong, Silver- Spring. twp., work horses, colts, cows, heifers, young cattle, and a variety of farming implements. Mar. 12—Jacob’ Rhoads, West Penns, borough township, horses, mules, steers, young cattle, shoats, sheep,aud a variety of farming implements. Mar. 13—Levi Mickey, on the farm of Jacob Wilmer, Middlesex township, work horses, cows, young cattle, shoals, and a variety of farming Implements. ■ Mar. 14-G. W. Swiger, on Waggouoi’s Gap road, horses, cows, young cattle ami a variety, of farming implements. Mar. 18—Jacob Weary, in North Middleton twp., horses, cows, young cattle, sheep, and a variety of farming implements. FniGHTFUL Acci dent.— Upselling of a bltigh- A iroHjau’s Arm Torn out (f Hie Socket—Harrow Escape of Her Husband and Child.— About 1 1 p. m., yesterday, Mr. Phillip R. Yeager, a well-known Harrisburg printer, employed lu Mr.W. H.U, Seig’s oillce,' ttorth Third street, together with his wife and child, (a little boy about six months old,) started with a horse and sleigh belonging to the livery establishment of Mr. George 11. Swartz, corner strawberry and'Raspborry alley, for the residence of Mr, John Stevenson, on the Chambers road, about six and one half miles below'the city. Mr, Yeager drove out Paxtou street, towards Second, In order to cross the bridge; and when reaching the crossing of the Pounsylvaularallroad and Paxton street, Im mediately la front pf Llnsenrayor’s hotel, one of the, Cumberland “Valley freights 'eastward bound, approached and stopped tho horse from c r osslug tho. track. The animal reared up In the shafts, ami turned sharply into a small ave nue called Boyer’s alley. The cutter was tilted up lu a raaiihor, throwing Mrs. Yeager, with her babe, out on tiio loft hand side, and her husband ou the right. After falling the lady managed to push her babe away from her about four yards, -but her left arm was thrown upon the rail aud at least four box cars-passed over it, crushing it fearfully, and tearing It bivcof the shoulder. Mrs, Yeager also had a severe cut, •about four inches in length, reaching from Hie centre part of tho back part of tho head to her left oar, supposed to havo been caused one of tho cast iron boxes striking her while she was lying near the track-. Her loft eye was badly bruised, as also was her right breast, and her back was somewhat Injured. The babe wtu, pulled out of harm’s way by tho father, who Im mediately hurried to the-rescue. Mr. Yeager was only slightly bruised. Mrs. Yeager was carried into Llnsonmyer’s hotel, where Doctors A. C. Rennluger and A’. Rutherford, about - o'clock, alter administering chloroform to tbe patient, amputated her arm at tho shoulder. She was lying in an unconscious state at 6 p-M. last evening, when wo visited the hotel. Palm hopes wore entertained of her recovery. P. S.—About O.BU p. m. wo visited Llnsoninyor's hotel, whore Mrs. Yeager is lying. She hud io turned- to consciousness, and had expressed u desired to see Rev. D. Robinson, of the First Presbyterian church. Rev. R. was sent for ami performed the rite of baptism at the dying woman’s request, She spoke rationally other approaching dissolution. She expressed a de sire to see her bubo, and exhorted her friends to seek the Lord and Saviour, and telling them not to weep for her; that she believed and trusted in the redeeming blood of Chiiat. II was thought, when we left the hotel, that Mrs- Y. could not survive till midnight. Lateu.—After lingering In the most cxcrulla tlng pain lor twenty-four hours, Mrs. Veager breathed her (nst nl 2 o'clock, Monday* - Journal (i/27/ii all. Killed Alone in the Mountain. - it isotn painful cuty to record the death of Mr. Charles lakes; known in this neighborhood simply ns "Charley” lakes, which occurred on Thursday afternoon lust, on a mountain road In IJoublliig Gap, about two miles above the Springs, wi 1 his team, consisting of a slod and twoho'soa, c had been to the saw-mllt.soriie distance above for a load oflumbor, and wason his return when death met him on the road, Whenlouud i° was lying on the ground, his body covered wl 1 lumber all but his head, cold In death, his wml' In one hand and the lines In the o 1 (showing Instant death,) aud his eyes open, vn cantly staring Into the snowy atmosphere ahoy . His homes had remained uulot, but cold anu shivering. Assistance was soon procured an his brdy relieved, now too late,-of the heavy weight that crushed out Ills life. We beMey*J bones were broken and his body had bn bruises. Considerable snow, had fallen by time, making It dinioult to keep in tll0C0 “ , of the road, and a lurch of the sled doubtless caused the load to capsize before ho had oy thought of danger. Charles Ickcs was a nun up In years, but of strong nerve and rhgpetl p turo, and was of a generous turn and ncgio himself more than any one else. Ho leay wife and fanllly living near the entrance o gap.— Nfwcillc Star, In Plymouth, Maas., school teacheia aro allowed $2 a week lor hoard, ami paupers S 2 25. Just liko Massaehusot The school teachers aro white, the pau per.s bluclc.
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