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