_ anction CluntEgr. CARLISLE* PA XtWBSnAT, APRIL 10, 1973, NEWS IN BRIEF. —Now England toads oat Uonoy bees. —Canby’s troopa want to fight Ibo Mbdocs. —Many Sioux Indians aro going on resei-va- lions. —A Washington nmnliaa Invented “IUo lung billers." -Tlio Graiul Dako-Alexis has arrived at, ShnngUii— -AU Omaha husband of sixteen Ims 8273,000 to hco life on. ' —Stokes is cheerful, ami continent, of escaping the gallows. -Franco is reinforcing the troops on the Spanish Irontlov. —Prince Jerome Bonaparte asks to be ulWo » citizen of Franco. —Hon. John T. Mason,, Secretary of Slate, Maryland, Is dead. —Strangely enough, Taylorsville. Kentucky , .hasn’t a single tailor. _U. W. Waul fatally .stubbed and boat bis wife, at St. Louis, 2:lth. - -Tbo Legislature lias fixed tbe Util of April lor final adjournment; ,-The Hudson Railroad has been leased to tbe New York Central. -A tornado considerably damaged Franklin, 'J'enucsso, on tbo 2d Inst. -Hon. Carl Scburr. refuses to accept the extra salary voted by Congress. -Captain Williams of tbe lost Atlantic Is cuavgod wltU druukenucßS. Twenty lives were loat by the hurricane In Mississippi, on the 28lh ult. ■ Janies Gordon Bonnott died at Kusulg- Kleln, Baxony, on the 27th ult.. —Tho Steamship Atlantic was, Insured for 5150,000 In Loudon Companies. -Mrs, Moo, of Ihdlan'a, shot herself while tem-* porarlly Insane, and Is no mo’. —A new Ml E. Church, nt Powhatan, Ilaltlmoro county, Md., was hlowu down last week. —A hill has passed tho new York Somite llx iiij- railroad fares at three cents per mite. —A block at Cheyenne, Wyoming Territory, was burned on tho 2Sth ult. Loss, S5O 000. -A ten-year old hoy has boon expelled Horn a school in Lexington, Mo., for drunkenness. —Richard Staples died in Washington lately of hydrophobia. Ho wash,lt lour years ago. —Grnut has pardoned two-more alleged Ku Hoys and Martin, of South Carolina. —Tho Postmaster General says uo moro posl masters will he removed, "except for cause,” -Ex-Gov. Hoflmau. who Is now In Europe, expects to return to New York In September. -A workman In a sugar refinery in PUllnaol pbla was drowned in a tank of molasses lately. -Otto Hoars was arrested in. Now York last week, charged with couuterileltlug ten-cent notes. —A twenty-four hours’ rain caused a Hood panic along the Upper Hudson and Mohawk itlvera. —Catharine Kcruan was murdered by her hus band, in New York, on the 291 h ull. Uolh were drunkards. -The Ohio Idouse of Representatives, defeated tne bill to abolish capital punishment by a largb'iunjority. —Secretary Belknap and General Sherman have gone to the Texas frontier. Important re- Mills are expected. —A negro farm laborer and his two mules were killed by lightning In Maryland, during the storm lost week. —Two brothers in lowa married two sisters, and afterwards their father father married a sister of their wives. -An explosion In the Calvert sugar refinery, Baltimore, on the -Ith Inst., killed Wm. Jordan and wounded two others. -California Chinamen kill and eat buzzards, which they think are more palatable as well as cheaper than roast turkey. Congressman Brooks has gone South in the hope that a change to a warmer sea-coast may aid In restoring his health, —Cheyenne Indiana murdered three survey ors on Cinnamon lUver, Kansas, March —d. Other parlies are in danger. —William H. Clnggett has been appointed government agent to Investigate the alleged Indian troubles In Montana. —Three hundred and five survivors of tbe steamship Atlantic arrived in New Y'ork last Sunday by the steamer Newport: —Charles Manley, colored,, was hung at Alex andria, Va., last week, for the murder of an old white clock-mender named Monroe. —The city councils of Atlanta, Ga., passed an ordinance exempting cotton, woolen and Iron tactorles from taxation for fifteen years. —Professor Lay went up In a balloon at Siui Francisco recently, and came down, on the Coast Xlauge Mountains, 103 miles away.. —George Bryan, a negro, was hanged by a mob at Chilllcotho, Ohio, ou Wednesday night of last week, for assaulting a white lady. —l>. B. March confessed, In the Charlestown Police Court, to having taken the life of his in fant child, by drowning, In September, 1871. —Mrs. Nowihau and Charles, arrested in Lea ver, Colorado, charged with poisoning William Newman, have been discharged from custody. —Michael Nixon, who cooly shot Charles Pfei- fer, a carlmau, dead in New York, last an ary, has been sentenced to be banged May Ui. —The Ocean House, at Rye Beach, N. n. p w burned last Thursday morning. Part of the h uliuro was saved. The building cost SIOJ.U'JO. —Among tbo nominations'not confirmed by the U. S. Senate was that of Ed. Kuho to bo Col lector of Internal Revenue for the Oth Pa. List. —The jewelry manufactory of Tlngely, Shln nock &. Co., in Newark, N. J., was* robbed of goods to the amount of 83.000 lust Saturday night. —The Schooner Lark was wrecked off L» California, recently. All on board w'erc drown ed, Including six. convicted murderer-, who were washed ashore, chained together. The condition of James L. Rldgloy, ol Bal timore, Grand Secretary of the Grand Lodge of I. O. O. F. of the United States, who has been very 111, la rapidly Improving. Ills physicians, regard him convalescent. —A Connecticut woman was recently bereft of the faculty of speech by being hit with a snow ball, and many' married men In that part ol the country haye been heard to remark that, after all, winter has advantages not afforded by any other season. —Asaw-mlll boiler explosion at Wilmington, N.C.,on the 3d lnat„ killed two men and one woman, and severely Injured one man and one woman, all colored. Cause-probable want of water In the boilers. —Ar. unknown assassin shot at Richard Ray mond, colored, Fusion Bherlfl-elect of West Ba ton Rouge, La., last week, and killed Ray mond’s wife, 8500 reward is offered for the ar rest of the assassin. —A dispatch from Bukerlleld, California, says u young man named McCra had an altercation with a man named BenueLßriggs, and shot him with a Spencer rifle. The same bullet struck J. I*. Stillwell, an old citizen, who died shortly af terward. The murderer escaped. —Tlie livery stable of Stewart & Uordon, and a U the contents, including lb horses, were burn ed Thursday night. A largo brick building and contents adjoining were also destroyed. Loss, $25,000; Insurance unknown. The fire was the work of an Incendiary. —Advices from Prescott, Cal., to March 2 ( J f slate that Major Biown’s command struck the Apaches Indians at Undo Basin, and killed thirty-eight warriors and captured seventeen squaws. The Apaches became frightened, and many have surrendered at Camp Verde. Owing to the prevalence of the horse disease the sol diers operate principally on loot. —A largo fire occurred at X’arHer’s Bunding, this State, last Friday night. It broke out at U o’clock, and was not brought under control un til 2 o’clock In the morning, destroying the Parker House, Central Hotel, Exchange Bunk, Havings Bank, Postomco, Western Union i Pa cific and Atlantia telegraph onices, and a num ber of other offices comprising the most valua ble portion of the town. Boss over S2OU.UOO. The the Is supposed to have been the work of an In cendiary, as Ills the third fire that has occurred in the town within thlrty-slx hours. _Ti,o Bocrotury of til" Troukttry Inni inlormetl the infanta of the varloua Urltlnli linos uf stea mers rßimlni! to tills country, tlmt tlio trfullcH between Uri-ut ItrUiiui .and tbo United Htlltes do not support their claims for the exoir- of their vessels from tlio tux on lonnuuo 1 <•(1 liy law. 'ldo Secretary also deride foot! sliull bo oliiTßWl by collectors of in for corty/yfntt »>“ orlslmil invoice toil goods presented by u mnrelmnl or Im l,or put that no foo shall bo charged for a por .o,’, t .of tbo oflleer to u duplicate invoice THE FARMERS AGAINST THE THIEVES. At ft fanners’ State Convention in session nt Springlletd, 111., on tho -d inst., it resolution was adopted by moro than a two-thirds vote censuring members of Congress for passing, and tho President for signing, tho increased salary bill. Tho day f ollowing, how ever, scores of office-holders and politi cians heseiged the Convention, and, at thoir suggestion, tho resolution was reconsidered, and then tabled by a small majority. Tho confusion that followed was so groat that the Conven tion was compelled to adjourh sine die without finishing tho business for which had assembled. Ifwill thus ho seen that tho minions f tho Grant administration cannot permit tho solid farmers of the country to meet together for the transaction of business without their impudent inter ference. Wo have arrived at a beauti ful pass indeed when no body of men, bo their business what it may, religious or secular, can assemble together, with out being annoyed, cajoled and bullied by a set of hirelings who would not hesitate to betray and sell their country if by so doing they could fill their own pockets and sustain their rotten, thiev ing and treasonable party. It was-a most grievous mistake in the farmers composing the Convention to give car to these political buzzards. Had they taken them by their necks and flung them out of tho windows it would have been what they deserved. The fact, however, that the resolution of censure was passed by the farmers, notwithstanding its reconsideration by a meagre majority, is a good indication a glorious omen. It furnishes proof that tho solid men of our country—tho men who earn their bread by tho sweat of the brow-are at last beginning to reflect. Tho intelligent portion of them are convinced now if they never wore leforo, that our country is going to the devil at a speed frightful to. coutem plate, and that something must be done to save it from the threatened ruin.— Speculators and' thieves are now and have.been for years entrenched behind positions that enabled them to appro priate the people’s means with utter impunity. The Itadical party has been a party of fraud from ■ the first. Its loud professions were.hollow, deceptive and dishouest, and made for the pur pose of drawing attention from its vil lainies. During the war its members made great professions of “loyalty,” but yet few of them ventured to face a liye rebel. Tens of thousands of them were camp-followers office.holders, contractors, dealers in stolon cotton, &c., but currying the musket was not to their liking. The Freedman’s Bu reau, the Credit Mobilier, the granting by Congress of millions of acres of the public lands to rich corporations, and the thousands of other set up jobs, have dor many years afforded rich pickings to the unscrupulous scoundrels who show such wonderful anxiety for the welfare of “ our party.” It is lime, then, wo repeat, that the real meu of the country—the bone and sinew—should think of these things seriously, and rise in their might against the marauders who are plun dering the people. Det all good men swear in their hearts that scoundrels must aud shall bo put down. LIEUT.-00L0NEL EREDDY GRANT. The promotion of.tho stripling Fred dy Grant from a Second Lieutenant to a Lieutenant-Colonel in the regular army, over the heads of battle scarred veterans who were in the lino of pro motion, is another evidence of the President’s greedy disposition like of this was never heard of in any country, and is an insult to every officer in the army. But what cares Grant? The fact that he is President of the United States he looks upon as a matter of luck, or an accident and ho intends, even at the sacrifice of honor,’ to quarter all his relatives on tho Goy ; eminent, at high salaries, hreddyis 10 more lit for tho position to which 10 has been promoted than any raw recruit in the army, hut no difference —ho is tho .President's sou, and his promotion gives him a big salary. This consideration occupies Grant’s thought by dayand his dreams by night. Grant is utterly shameless, and cares no more for public opinion or decency than a dog cares for bis daddy. This last act of Grant’s cannot and will not bo defended by any oiie, ex-- eept perhaps obsequious tools who are on the look-out for official patronage or plunder. Wo have been watching the Kadical papers to see what they thought of this last Grant-grab. Not one, that we have noticed, has dared defend it. A few papers published by office-holders, in speaking of tho pro motion of Freddy have ventured to say that tho President had the power to do this mean act, but 'that is about all they do say. Ah, yes; ho has tho power to put all his relatives in lucra tive positions; has tho power to dis grace veterans of tho army and place his stripling son over them; hut ho desent man, no man of heart would thus prostitute tho position of Presi dent of tho United States. Would to God that tho days of Badicnlism and Grantisrn wore numbered. Tun verdict in tlio ease of David Scull against the Kensington Bank, of Philadelphia, giving judgment against the bank lor $37,000, is an important matter for the consideration of banks throughout the' Slate, that aro in the habit of receiving valuables of their friends and customers for safo-koeping. Mr. Scull had in tlio bank at the time when it was robbed a tin box contain ing a considerable sum in bonds, and the contents of this box were among tim plunder carried off by tlio thieves. If the judgment in tins case holds good in others, the banks which provide storage'for such valuables aro responsi ble for their loss. A iiEi'UJii.ic.VN convention of Ohio lias asked General James A. Garfield to resign his seat in Congrcss lor voting for the increase of his salary. There Is never a word in the resolutions about President Grant signing the bill, nor is the most distant allusion made to Garfield’s connection with the Credit Mobllier. What nice distinctions these republicans make. Hon it. .T,.IIAI.r)EMAN designs dona ting live thousand dollars to Urn Home of the friendless in Harrisburg.-- hx. •Wouldn’t it be much better If litlch ard would donate the above amount to Iho poor of Cumberland county? isioras LOSS OF THE WHITE STAR STEAMFR ATLANTIC. On tho first page of to-day’s issue will ho found an account of tho terrible dis aster which occurred to tho .steamer Atlantic, about forty miles from Hali fax, on tho morning of tho first inst., with nearly ono thousand passengers on hoard, Tho accident, no doubt was occasioned by the incompetoncy of the officers who had charge of tho steamer and the company in not furnishing enough coal to supply its engines. Tho idea of a company sending a steamer to sea at this season of the year with a short supply of coal Is truly preposter ous, and the. White Shir Company should, (as it will) receive the condom ha tion of tho people of tho whole world. When our patrons read the account it will cause thoir. minds to wonder how it came that a vessel so staunchly built and so thoroughly equipped with life-saving instrument alities as the Atlantic, should have gone down carrying seven hundred and fifty of her one thousand passengers to a watery grave. Tho foundered ship belonged to'tho splendid White Star lino whoso vessels are reputed to bo un surpassed in point of safety-as well as fast sailing. Nautical science is appar ently behind (he age. According to the account of this disaster given by the third officer of the Atlantic, tho weather encountered by tho ship at the time she struck was heavy but not thick. That is, the dayknoss was not such as to render the steering' of the vessel difficult. The hcaOon of a well known* light-house was observed, too, just before tho fatal rocks wore reached. If .these statements ho correct, there certainly was a lack of skill or a want of prudence in the management of tho fated ship. The running.a ship on a reef, in tho absence of a severe gale and on a night blit moderately dark, with a light-house in full view to warn oil dangers impending, is a disgrace to modern navigation. But tho vessel had exhausted her supply of coal, though but nine days out of port; She had made her usual speed. Why did it'happen that she had not sufficient fuel to run the engines to tho end of her voyage? If she had not been obliged to put into Halifax for coal the fearful accident which lias shpeked both hemi spheres would not have occurred. Thd disaster will he thoroughly in vestigated, and the men who put .in peril the lives of a thousand human beings will bo held to a strict accounta bility. CONGRESSIONAL APPORTIONMENT BILL, The' following Congressional upppor tionmeut bill lias passed both houses of the State Legislature—in the Senate, yeas 10, nays 12. In the House, yeas 58, nays 30. Mr. Williams of Cumberland, voted in tbe negative, for which lie de serves thanks. This Bill is at ©nee an outrage aud gerrymander. Under this bill, the Democrats, if in luck, will elect six Members of Congress, aud the Radi oal-Credit-Mobillerites SI! More anon. The following is the bill; First District-Ist, 2d, 7lh and 20th wards, Phila. Second district—Bth, 9tb,. 10th, l.dli, 14th and 20th wards and that part of the 17th ward lying west of Second street, Phila. , „ , Third district—The 3d, 4th, sth, oth, Util, 12th aud 10’h wards, Phila. Fourth District —I'."- loth, 21111,27111, 28th and 29th wards, Phila. Fifth-district—The ISlh, 10th, 22d, 23d and 2olh wards, and that part of tha lull ward east of Second street, Phila. Sixth district—Cheater an.d Delaware counties. Seventh district-Montgomery county and all that portion of Bucks county not Included in tho Tenth district. .Eighth district—Berks county.. Ninth district—Lancaster county. ■ Tenth district—Northampton and Le high counties, and the townships of Dur ham, Millfurd, Springfield, Bichland, Bockhill, Haycock, Nockamixon and Tinicum, and the borough of (iiuiker town, in Buck a county. Eleventh district—Columbia, Montour, Carbon, Monroe and Pike counties, and the townships .of: Nescopeck, Black CreeK, Sugar Loaf, Butler, Hazel Foster, Bear Creek, Bucks, Spring Brook, Roar ing Brook, Hollenback, Hun tingdon, and that part of the city of Scranton south of Roaring Brook creek and east of the Lackawanna river, and the boroughs of Dunmore, ISew Colum bus, Goldsboro’, White Haven, Jeddo am* Hazleton. _ Twelfth district—All that part, of Lu zerne county not included in the elev enth district. " Tho Thi.rle. nth district Schuylkill. , . , T , p'ourleenth district—Dauphin, Aurl nmherlaud uml Lebanon. Fifteenth district—Bradford, Susque hauua, Wayuo ami Wyoming counties Sixteenth district— Counties of Tioga Potter, M’Kean, Cameron, Lycoming and Sullivan. , Seventeenth district—Cambria, Blair, Bedford and Somerset. Eighteenth district—’l ho counties of Franklin, Fulton, Juniata, Huntingdon, Snyder and Perry. Nineteenth district—York, Adams and Cumberland counties. Twentieth district—Union, Clinton, Clearfield, Elk, Millliu and Centre. Twenty'first district Westmoreland, Qrecne and Fayette. Twenty-aocoud district— Pittsburg city and the townships of Charticrs, Union, Scott, Stowe, llobinson, Upper and Low er St. Clair, Baldwin, Wilkins, Penn and Snowden, and the boroughs of Mans field, Chartiers and Braddocks, in Alle gheny county. Twenty-third district—All that por tion of Allegheny county not included in the twenty-second district. Twenty-fourth district—Washington, Beaver and Lawrence counties. Twenty-fifth district—Clarion, Arm strong,' Indiana, Forest and Jefferson counties. . .. , Twenty-sixth district —The counties ol Mercer, Butler and Crawford. Twenty-seventh district—Erie, Warren and Venango counties Kxtka Pay. -The Legislature of Illinois promptly passed a resolution censuring Congressmen fo'r the extra pay grab, and the members gave evi dence of their integrity by refusing to increase their own salaries and that of the ollicers employed about the two houses. The legislature of Pennsylva nia has taken no action in reference to the salary grab of Congressmen, and the conference committees of the two houses are now quarrelling over that clause of the appropriation bill reported from the house which increases the pay ol members from $l,OOO to l,sU(i. The lower house ol the Illinois Legisla ture was elected on the cumulative plan, and is said to bo the ablest and most honest which has assembled in that State for years. PiU'stDENT Chant has gone to New York, where ho and Torn Murphy will have a jolly time. Postmaster-Genera! Cresswell has gone South on a pleasure trip in company with Simon Cameron. The Hummer Junketing of Iho federal ollkials begins early this year, and promises to bo kept up with spirit. PHILADELPHIA ELECTION BILL, A correspondent of Uio Now York Tribune, writing from Harrisburg, says: Apart from this mass of special leg islation, the chief feature of the session lias been Hie effort to reform Hie elec tions in Philadelphia, set on foot by Col. M’Clure. There is a special elee ,tiou law for that city, passed in ISjil), which lias proved so convenient an in strument lor .fraud that it is pretty clear that it was devised for that ex press purpose. Under its provisions the entire election machinery is in the hands of the dominant parly, and thcro is no access to the courts for redress of the wrongs they commit. A ring of corrupt politicians systematical y make false registrations and fraudulent re turns at every election to keep them selves and their favorites in power. The people are absolutely without a remedy. In 1871 Col. M’Olure was de feated for the State Senate in one of the Philadelphia districts by unblush ing frauds. Ho exposed these so com pletely that ho dot his,seat on a contest. At tho October election last Pall tho most gigantic and outrageous scheme of fraud over known was devised by the King, and successfully carried out, bo 'crimiiiur with the registration and entl** incr only with tho final publication of tho returns. With a population of 300,000 less than that of the City of New York, a registry was made of 20,000 more voters, and yet thousands oi qualified voters were refused .registration on va rious pretexts. ■ Tho Democrats were denied representation on the Board ol Ca nvassers, and disreputable politicians who cultivate fraud as a profession were appointed as nominal Democrats. The outrages' practiced by the return judges were ns bad asthoso committed by the canvass crs. ' It has been ascer tained beyond any question that they made a change of at least 4,000 votes. This is admitted by everybody. How much further they went will never be known, for there is no motive lor a thorough investigation. COIj. M’CEVKE’S SPEECH, A low days ago, Col jSl’Cluro made a speech on this subject, in which ho ex posed the manner .in which these Wands were committed, and advocated as a remedy for their recurrence, a hill prepared by him. lam tempted to (inote'a paragraph from this speech; it is as good reading in New York as in Philadelphia. Speaking of the causes of the corruption of the ballot, ho re ferred to the largo class of cultured gentlemen of wealth and leisure who belong to the Kepublioan party, but disdain to have anything to do with the work of political organization. Ut these he said: “They are not blameless, tor they have actively or passively submitted when they should have bared their arms to strike a death-blow against fraud in the name of thoir own. once honored organization. An overwhelm ing majority of them desire no prefer ment. and discard politics as a perni cious trade. They have very largely contributed to degrade our political system by withdrawing from partici pation in political affairs, and by teach ing the fatal theory that reputable meu cannot be politicians. They are an im mense loose aggregate of excellent men, I who are faithful to every duty but ! their country, and mean to be most faithful to that. They are without or ganizntlon and without’ the taste, the skill, or tho experience to make and maintain.- organization. They have political convictions' and prejudices aa have other men ; and when the battle is at their doors, they find 1 their ban ners streaming, their candidates se lected, a flood of defamation, as they readily believe, against their party, while reform is emblazoned on then party platforms and promised in every speech, and they tall into line or fall out indifferently to tho rear, and sys tematic fraud gives them returns winch are called the verdict of the people, in vain do they protest and remonstrate with those in power when no elections are nt band. T’ifty thousand may thus protest and complain individually, m their places of business or in then boards of trade. They are but play things for thousands of ofiico-hojdcis who have framed laws to perpetuate their own power, and who cannot bo assaikid m their humblest supporters without electrifying the whole body lor defense.” THE PROPOSED REMEDY The remedy proposed by Col. M - CUiro, expressed in a s»glo sentence, is “Give each party equal restraint, upon the other,-nnd give the responsible ju dicial tribunals ample restraint upon all.” His bill, applicable to Philadel phia alqjie, provides for a hoard ol four election comniisioners, two ol each par ty, who are to divide the city into small precincts of not exceeding 200 voters each, By a unanimous vote ol the board two canvassers are to ho ap pointed lor every precinct, ono.ol each party, who must go together to every house and register the voters. Bis puted names must he registered on separate lists, which are to ho printed and posted up, and the canvassers must sit ten days prior to the,close ot the registry to hear evidence with re lation to these eases. Any one finally refused registry can appeal to the courts. The canvassers act as inspec tors of election, and one judge is to bo elected for each precinct from the par ty having cast a majority ol votes at the last election for Mayor; also, two return inspectors, one of each party. Hourly and aggregate returns are to ho made in duplicate to the Hoard oi Can vassers nnd to the Prothonotary, and the complete returns are to bo counted . before a majority of the judges of the Common Pleas Court. Tins is but a brief sketch of the leading features of Senator M’Clure’s plan. His speech created so strong an impression that the King managers became alarmed for the safety of the present law, and last night they put lorward Senator Harry White, of Indiana, to reply. Mr. White made a conspicuous failure, and his at tempt to dclend a vicious system that has proved to he a device for facilitating and protecting fraud only gave to Senator M’Clure another opportunity to denounce, the system and demand re form. This second speech of Mr. M’- Clare’s, delivered to a crowded Senate, is the town talk to-day. His reform bill will probably pass the Senate, but will no doubt bo beaten in the House, which is a body composed in the main ol petty politicians of not much intel ligence, who rode into ollico on the Presidential wave last Pall. The Ke publican majority aro such narrow minded partisans that they are not disposed to correct any evil that results to the advantage of their party. Xho Philadelphia King says to these mem bers: “ P’or Heaven’s sake, don’t pass any relorni bill, for if you do we’ll loso tho city next Pall, and wo’vo got a dead sure thing of it under llio present election lawand tho compliant members promise to kill Col. M’Clure s bill if it comes to the House. The real hope fur election reform lies in the action ol llio Constitutional Con vention—a body of intelligent and pa triotic men, measurably free from party prejudices, il the Legislature tails to provide any remedy for tho crimes against the franchise in Philadelphia, it is believed that tho Convention will make some provision to euro the ovil. It is said that they will not submit the now Constitution to vote under tho present election law, but will pass an ordinance providing for sumo such safeguards against fraud in llio city as are contained in Mr. M’Clurc’s hiil. Thu emi 11 ty o. This niun Butler has done ' fu t w “en debauching Congress than a) men have done, collective- Vj ' tnl:ea formation of the governme' J to a thief, a swindler or naturally as a duck takes ' v^ tel> ““ has converted the House; n ?m P ,nd in tives into. a.srim 1"»> and troduced into It the slang Ho has the cunning of the Old d / r of ovory been the professional , swindle and other dlBb /„,. e .. aov k rB i Q oo milled by membersof r “vbrs nee the House has been to the euce—from the ealoo __ r man U c?“heXoHv6 wouldhave daied in .p, . vas clause in thosaaiy man profes too b .‘ u ' | /criminal lawyer to sional criminal pr , . attempt. Just lot 1 * 1 tbu mas ~ .1 .. nlw i i.4»ccojnpUces bad con* i fl/ wnrl> tlie people of the tracted ™°.. period of two years, Fehworkman receive a certain yearly e a / stipulated allowances, salary and ot em p| o yees understood ? m p I T/' 9 V nrcontended that there, ■“ " a - iJleratundmg. Not a word “lansuffleioncy of the com nonsni ion a^ ed upon was raised. Had ponsaliou a m eveu eX p reeae( j simple °h y ?;'!?,/n on that score, ho would hnvebeen 1 uak,B c l ulckor tbnu »ehton n J rpuaarket was glutted with eager .snirautf 1 ’ tbe P° 9itions - . Hundreds of «nim- nrhouester men than many of /ion would have been glad to do t e w/ for half the wages. But the men B oted were all anxious to serve, ,‘ ,J r iy of them moved heaven and fmrtb secure their places. The terms , ; tl r contract were more favorable to A.mlian their employers; for they were en required by it to complete their r, of service, It being understood i) they should have the privilege permliiating the ongageraeut at any 1 jr, without assigning any.reason for , . O act, and that they should receive pay This righteous measure Ims been do-; ~ n 3 | OI , BUa they had served, while their foated in the .Somite, nil the Republicans,mployeis bound themselves to retain but Mr. M’Clure having been whipped-^ into voting against it by the Unlade bb i vi , Bi provided they conformed to cor nhia Radical olllee-holders “ ring.” tain rules and regulations which they 1 __ 'were generously empowered by said em ployers to establish for themselves. A contract more intelligible, morogouorous to employees, could not have been devis ed. And so the latter apparently regard- As.NL'Il berth — tilO OIIICC of .Sit' 1 of Now York Oily. U is worth »'•* (ml) u your. OUR ROISTER WELL AGAIN!! ALL HAIL. CONNECTICUT ! JNGERSOLL (Democrat) ELECTED GOyERNOR by A,OOO MAJORITY I LEGISLATURE. CLOSE! ! ! TJovvn Witli tlio Tliieves I I Haiiti-ohD, April 7- Midnight—Hcv enly-tlve towns give Haven 18,010; lu gersell, 24,122 ; Smith, 083; against Jew cl, 23,370; Hubbard, 23,080 last year lugersoll’s majority .over all, as tar as heard from, is 4,733. Towns yol to hear ftom gave Joivgll 1721 majority last year. Ha RTimitb, A pril 7.—Stark weather (K) for Congress in the Third district is un ■ douhtedly re elected. Gen. Hawley runs about 10U0 ahead of the Republican State ticket lu his district, and is elected by about 13110 majority. The Legislature will be close. Kellogg (Rep.) for Con gress has about -SOO",majority m .tins C °HAUTiwn, April 7.—At midnight the Evenin'/' Post- has returns from 150 towns which show a Democratic gain over last spring of 7555, of which ISGT.'aro for Smith, Temperance candidate for Goy-. druor. Ingersoll’s majority will bo about 0000. ......... In the Second Congressional District Kellogg lias 255 majority, with four towns lo heartrom. These towns gave a Republican majority last year of 140. in the First District Hawley lias 1288 ma jority, with live towns to hoar from - , which gave a Republican majority last year of 4. • ' . In tho Third district StarkweaUier is re-elected hy about 12,00. In the -Foiirth district Baruum (Dem.) lias 1249 majori ty, with two towns to- hear from which gave a Democratic majority last year of ■l7. Thu total so far us received, foot up : Haven, 03,485; Jngiraoll, 44,101 ; Smith, 3050. OUE WASHING-TOE' OOREESFONDENOE, Washington, x), (J., I April "tb, 1873. ( ./. B. Bratton, Bsq I have yet to see the first senator or representative who does not admit that the reasoning whiuh seeks to justify the retroactive legislation initiated by Butler of Massachusetts, by which some $1,600,- 000 ol the money of tliis- heavily- taxed people were taken from their treasury, immediately after the adjournment of the 42ud Congress, and divided among the members of that delectable body, would apply with ' equal propriety to an act for giving extra pay to the members of the ■flat orany other preceding Congress, even back to the Ist Congress—for that matter even to all the members of all preceding Congresses, or their heirs. The only dif ference 1 would he in degree and applica tion. There would he none in principle. If this kind of legislation is constitution al, the oaganio law needs a little more “tinkering," or wo shall wake up one fine morning and find Butler and his gang curling away from the public treas ury our entire pile, having acquired the right' to do so, the night before, by the simple process of a majority vote, and the approval of a coarse-grained, underbred President, to whom had been awarded, for his official signature, a lions share of the booty. Never before was there such a barefaced breaclt of trust committed by a legislative body, perhaps because, never before was there congregated under one roof, a rep resentative body containing so many un* scrupulous men under a leader educate! and qualified for the infamous position by a lifelong association with criminal and enriched by his shares of the process of their crimes turned over to him for o *" feuding them—for having, in -tuer words, lime, lime and again, conpnieu to become, for a pecuniary oonaldeatiou, a professional “ accessory after tie tact to any crime on the calendar. . It is simply conventional tush—inis parting about the profession of the crim inal lawyer being respectable and usetm. True, it la respected, and mote a the pity, but it is no.t respectable, in any sense of. that word. But never mini words. Bet us look at facts, and see how far they go toward rcspeetabilizing the calling or the criminal lawyer. A professional liner who has not done an honest day s wink. for twenty years robs somebody ol iriuu, 000 and is a'rreßted. Ol course, ho sends for Ben. Butler, who, before ho will even listen to him, must have a ‘retainer, after which he will hear the thief through, and then toll him how much h will endeavor to clear him for, Nov where does onr respectable criminal la; yer think tills “retainer'’ c.ime fror Where docs he think this fee for wh“ ho stipulates is to come from? Hoe” not know that it must necessarily f portion of the proceeds of. the crier which hia friend, the thief, stands t-" 3 ' ed, or of other crimes which he »a®“‘ - milled? 4.ud what difl'eience la'"-‘“’ morally, between this criminal ‘"i"* who endeavors to defeat the end’ J ■ tico for a portion of the “swap'""^ 1 difference is there between hint 1 " 1 • “fence," or receiver of stolen g 1 secrets and disposes of them fo' ‘t**- i ward. " cd'lt; for not a whisper of dissatisfaction wiis heard until within a few hours of the Close of tho eosalon, when, lout noted by this man, Butler, who had ' cured aa a pall the Iresident.of ho U It ed rffates by a bribe of t-100,000 stolen money, they suddenly Ignored their con tract, took tho bold, piratical ground that tbev were entitled to aa much money as [bey waited, seized upon SI,DUO,OOO of their employers’ binds, for the econom ical and lust disbursement,of which they were the oonlldcutlal and well-paid aueuls, divided It up. among themselves, and incoutieutly adjourned amid the ex ecration of an outraged people. 1 bat a all there is about It. It has been so long the fashion, all over tho North, to depreciate the business ca pacity of Southerners, that many of the. latter have at length assumed ha an ax iom the proposition that they are natur ally Inferior In that respect to men born and bred north of Mason and Dixon’s Hue, and are waiting for tho ‘‘infusion of Northern blood” so complacently claim ed, by Ne wEu glanders especially, to bo a sine ijnadnon to material progress In tho South. Now, this ie simply sheer hum bug, and la doing more to retard progress there than all other causes combined. • if * » » 1 Two men, for example, to whom'tho peo ple of the United States are largely in debted for having transformed the Na tional Capital, within a few years, from a dirty, straggling, neglected, overgrown village, tho butt and by-word of travelers and writers, into one of the most delight ful cities In America, were born and bred on tho Southern aide-of Mason and Dix on’s line. One of them, A. IC. Shepherd, Vice-President of the Board of Public Works, isa,native of Washington, and has never resided nor done business any where else; yet it is safe to say that not one among tho most successful men of tho North had, at his age, (for Shepherd is ayouug man) conferred more sustain - tial benelits on his fellow-citizens than has this same Washingtonian on his. The other to whom I refer is Col. James At Magruder, Treasurer of the Board, a Marylander by birth, but a resident of .this District from his infancy. It would not be no easy matter to Hud a man who possesses more varied qualifications than Magruder for the successful prosecution, of largo public or private enterprise. Even those of his neighbors whom he has offended by his quick temper and posi tive character look upon him with a cer tain sort of pride, as one, of their princi pal representative men. One of these re marked in my hearing, a lew days ago, in a little coterie in which Washington, ’its prospects and its .public men were being discussed—“ Gentlemen, it’s no use talking; I’ve known Jim Magruder since wo were Boys together, and I’m no friend of bis, nor is he t a;friend of mine; 'but thatdou’t hinder mo Item saying that I know him to be an honest man as a private citizen and a public officer, and Unit there’s no more able man to be found anywhere. Talk about Yaukeesl I’ll back him for capacity, industry, pluck and pertinacity, sufficient to conceive, manage and successfully complete any project, however large, against any Yan lice you can trot out. This District owep a good deal to Jim Magruder.” What the South- really wants is rjj “an infusion of Northern blood” so m' cu aa native Shepherds and Magruders _ A. • LOCAL L'LLM {• Tjibek attempts wore mr‘° to fira Hagerstown recently. Jack SiiEfiruni), war in tow “ lll3t Tuesday. AN argument four held iu Eerr y county laat weuU. Tuk sign “to 1' ’ oL)9erve,i ou a number of dwo IUgB * u town. Large st ,n " 3 of tish are taken out of the creekt a ‘*y - The p-ilication of the Irue Republi can, at’tlsahanicsburg has neen sus pended pjj-.'ABPS of one huudreji students Ijoyalroady engaged rooms at the Nor m, School, neat Shippensburg. Building i? brisk iu Harrisburg, Houses are go'ug up iu all directions. ' So says the Patrol. Under tt'3 Local Option Law of this State dlstUurs and brewers, are allowed to retail ivo gallons aud upward of-li quor. Ail. Kyseut, No. 4 East Main street, has ju-'received a splendid new stock' of bets, shoes, slippers, &c., all of whip he is sol ling cheap for cash. Goods waranted. 'ANTED LItMEDIATEEV. A good B.i" hand, or Beam hand and finisher. (Jjd wages paid to a steady sober hand. /ply to The Meeluuiicsbufg Jndcpcndeni says 'Unit lead ore has been found in Upper Allen township, on the farm of Mr. Miller.’ Two hundred pounds of the ore has been taken out. Court.—The April term of Court convene? on Monday next. This will bo an excellent opportunity for our friends in the country who are indebted to us to pop into our office and settle their accounts. Bain Storm.—This vicinity was visited by a terrific rain storm on Saturday evening, accompanied by heavy peals of thunder and vivid lightning. Wo are informed that hail fell during tho latter part of the night. Bun Old?.— On Saturday last ns Al fred Cutty, a teamster in the employ of Mr. Win. M. Henderson, was driving a team up North,street, his horses took frijght and dashed off at a lively rale of speed, throwing Mr. O. out of the wagon, who sustained serious injuries by the fall. The wagon was almost a total wreck. Puoi’. Joe Kimball, the original European compound man, was at the Square several evenings during the present week, disposing of a compound manufactured from barks; roots, herbs, &c. The compound is to bo put into a pint of whisky and stand six hours, then add a pint of water, and you have a quart of compound bitters. The Prof, claims that it is not a beverage but a standard family medicine. Death op Mabtin P. Gardner. —ln our last we stated that Mr. Martin F. Gardner, oldest son of our townsman, Mr. Franklin Gardner, was seriously ill of typhoid fever. On the following Saturday morning ho breathed his last. Mr. G. was a very promising young man, beloved and respected by all who know him, also a first-class mechanic, and his loss will be greatly felt by tho company under which lie was employ ed. Ho was a member of the church and triumphed in tho hope of a glori ous resuroclion, anfl bade his weeping wife, “ moot mo in heaven !” Tho remains of tho deceased wore interred in Ashland Cemetery on Monday afternoon, followed to their last resting place by a largo number of relatives and friends, and idso by lit o or six lodges with which ho was associated as a member. Coming wit—young chickens Aiiout gone—tho .snow and ice, Milliners wear a happy look Pater Hour barrels aro proposed iVairouttino is now in order. Gut your buck In order for garden making. How does Local Option work, any way ? Young men aro, agitatiting tho ques tion of spring suits. The diminutive onion awaits inser tion in this gardens. ; Thu soda fountains will soon.com mence running. To keep the Indians quiet requires considerable Ingin-nnnuity. Shad have got up the Susquehanna as far as Harrisburg. Moving is about over. Business will now revive. Next holiday on the programme is Decoration day—May 30th. , , , And now Young Americans are hunting up rods, hooks, lines, etc. ° Wild ducks aro reported in largo numbers along the Conodoguinot. The “bizzy” bee will soon interview the fragrant flowers of lovely spring.. “The coming man” for Sheriff has not published his card yet. “Credit Mobilier” paper collars ore the latest. “Ten cent overcoats” are the latest thing reported. They are of liquid texture. The fashionable “liump” is increas ing in size. Look out for a rise in pa nel-. Blacking tho hind part of your boots-which doesn’t show— is a waste of energy. A. large tvpio crop is. promised. A nip in the Rid may spoil this calcula tion. The hgh winds of late did consider able (tuaago in many parts of tho count/- p.D Sol is beginning to assort his gray, and will soon raakeit hotonongh or all hands. Sassafras tea is good to purify tho blood this time of year, and it is a pleas ant drink. • . The expectant young Americans are hoarding up “hen-fruit” for Easter pur poses. Childlike. The young man who boasted that ho could marry any girl ho,pleased, found that he couldn’t please any. General tho moonlight. The promenade is filled nightly with gay and festive revelers. The scarcity of mousy is never more strongly felt than when the tax collector puts in his appearance. This is the sea- “Non-exploslve oils” exploded about 5,000 people last year, and crip pled about 20,000 more. To give brilliancy to the eyes, shut them early at night and open them early in the morning. Shad have made their appearance in our market'. Too high in price to, be indulged in by poor painters. Waste of wealth may occasionally ho retrieved ; waste of health, seldom ; but wasto of time, never. We learn that some little gardening has already, been indulged in by some of our citszons. Don’t foroo tho season. The question of local option having been decided, wo decline publishing any more communications on the sub ject. ’ The man who tried to sweeten his tea with one of his wife’s smiles, has “fallen back on sugar.” If there is any truth in the old saying that “a cold winter makes a healthy Hummer,” the physicians hud better soon commence looking up stray jobs. jAOOJi Kost, It is greatly feared the rattlesnakes have been mostly killed or frozen during the past cold winter, and that the crop will be light next summer. Carlisle, I’a Fourteen years ago, fourteen black bass were placed in the Potomac river at Cumberland us an experiment, and now that river affords the best black bass fishing on this continent. How many people put a two-cent stamp on u newspaper of ordinary weight, requiring only one centto pay the postage. Hut it’s all right; carelessness ought to he taxed, as a luxury. The Border Bill.— The bill to parti ally reimburse the citizens of the Border counties for losses suffered during the war, from the failure of the Government to protect tliem-against the rebel raiders, was passed to u third reading, by courte sy, in the House of Representatives, on Friday of last week. The hotel keepers of Chamboraburg have adopted the following scale of pri ces, to take effect on and after Tuesday, Ist, hist: For hoarding juror's or.wit nesses per day, $1 50; single meal, 50 cents ; man and horse over night, $2 00; Oats per peck, 50 .cents ; ‘horse in stable, not less tbah 25 cents. When the votes, cast at Three Springs, on the license question, were being coun ted, says the Huntingdon Qlohc, the fol lowing was appended to a ballot *‘ against license”; Cut this Out.— When you meet with a sprain, wot the injured part with a flannel dipped in hot water ; if the sprain be very painful, wet the flannel with laudanum and cover the whole with a dry cloth. Then, with the arm in a sling, if it be tbe wrist thatls sprained, or the leg In a horizontal position if It bo the angle, wait and see if it be necessary to send for the doctor. Veuv many of our lady readers are possessed of exquisite taste in arranging and ornamenting their gardens. The time is fast approaching when they will commence operations in their gardens, and to them wo suggest the trial of u novelty in a hanging garden. Take a white spongo of large size and how It full rice, outs or wheat. Place It for a week or ten days in a shallow dish in which a little water is constantly kept, and as the spongo will absorb the moisture, Iho seeds will sprout before many days.— When this has fairly taken place the sponge may bo suspended by cords in the 1 sunshine and wet moderately every day. “ A TOAST. To the memory of tbo man, Who owned the farm, That raised the corn, That fed tho goose, That boro.the quill, That wrote the Lccal Option bill.” There Is sweetness in the trees Put coal ashes on wot, heavy soil . Still coming in—Now subscriber, 'A. SEALED proposal—tho cngag^ ...Shad and base ball flies will aonn , hero. , be SoEool girls jump ropenow. Don't do it to excess. , Youngsters who sit on tho dam ground and' play marble during the day time, enjoy themselves at niMn with tho croup. ° Wives aro presumptuous creature; They always ask for a lock of their l ov ' or’s hair before marriage, and take h without asking for it after marrhwo The Constitutional Convention has fixed the term of State Senators at r out years, and that of Representatives al three years. Lancaster county rejoicolh over n pig with two'pairs of oars, ten legs, t ffo distinct bodies and only one head, p is needless to say it was born dead. “Mryoko is easy and my burden is light,” as a youth said jvhen his g i r |. was sitting on his lap with her arms around his neck. Tills Is the time of year to make a general cleaning up your premises. l! e sure to clean and ventilate the cellar, mid by so doing you may not have a doctor’, hill to settle. , Clean up the streets,alley, and yards. A.HILL bus been’ reported in tho Sea a to of this State do lining what days slid be legal holidays, namely; January 1,,- Eebruary 22d ; July 4th ; December iiiii;' and any day appointed by: the .President qf Hie United States, or Governor of tlii,' State as a day of thanksgiving. “ Women of_ the age of twenty-, years and upwards shall ho eligible hi any office of control or management un der the school laws of this State. 11 Tlic-c words were adopted in committee,of tin Constitutional Convention, on Mnmlir, as a new section for the 'organic, law-of Pennsylvania. ■Worth Knowing. Thu law require, that every person elected to the oliicoof Justice of the Peace shall, within thirty days after election, if he intends to ac cept office, give notice of his acceptance' to the prothouotnry in writing. It would bo well for the, justices of this county, who have been elected, to send fho nec essary notice to the nrothouotary. Storm Theory.— The law of slur us 1- very simple—very. It merely requires that.theaontlierly winds sbuuW enter Hie storm vortex om the eastern side, and as ■lbis is the side upon which tho greatest quantity of vapor is to be,found, and tire' side of condensation, of the greatesteva-, lution of. latent heat, hence of tho great est rarefaction and baromolic fall-l» this side the heavier air from the west will push ns into a grant-hollow, livery man. who reads’ this explanation over several limes will bo able lo become lib own Old Probabilities. Bure Cure for Neuralgia.—Tli« Newark Gazette says ■ “A friend of ours who suffered horrible pains from neural gia, hearing of a noted physician In Ger many who invariably cured the disease, crossed the ocean, and visited Germany for treatment. He was permanently cured after a short sojourn,'and the doc tor freely gave him the simple remedy used, which, was nothing but poultice, and tea made from, our common. Held thistle. The loaves are macerated and used on the parts afflicted us a poultice, while a small quantity* of the loaves are boiled down to the proportion of a quart to a pint, and a small, wineglass of the decoction drank before each meal'. Out friend says he has never known it to fall ■ of giving relief while in almost every case it has effected a cure. Accident. —The following wo take from the Shippenaburg News : On Thursday of last week, John Stine, a young man employed at one of the ore banks, south of this place, received eori ous injuries from the kick of a horse wliile leading him to water. He was kicked iu the face, cutting Ula upper Up cpmpleielv through, and knocking out several’ teeib; besides injuring one eye so badly ad « deprive it of sight. Notwithstanding ttf severities of bis injuries, Dr. ■ VWr/JKt apoon informs us, he is getting aloag quite comfortably. On Monday, John BarkloW was acci dently shot in iho leg, and received a severe’and painful wound, in the lower part of the leg near the.foot. It appears he was making preparations for a day's shooting; his fowling piece was loaded, and standing in a distant corner of Ue room from where he was, and from some cause unknown, fell down and discharged the entire ‘ contents of the gun, entering hla leg as above mentioned. Dr. Wither spoon was called in arid dressed H' e wound. He found several arteries cut. and the bone fractured. What Shall We EAT?-This is an important question in these times of . prices. Dr; Hall in a late number of Ms Journal of Health-* good authority ; uj the way—says the cheapest arlic es ( > food at present prices are bread (especis ly corn moal),.butter, molasses, bean and rice. Ho shows that twenty, coats worth of flour, at eight cents pe pound, contains as ranch nourishment U 552.25 worth of roast beef nt t' ve " > five cents per pound ; and tlmt a P of white beans costing seven cents, the same amount of nutriment as and a half pounds of beef. Furtho a pound of Indian meal will go a, fa a pound of line Hour, coating twice as much. ,’ « r ildes Here are some of the comm ol of food, showing the amount o i raent that is contained therein, a time required for digestion: Am -tof Time of di- niurim’t gcstlon. Hours Mm. ia Apples, raw . * -in £ Donna, boiled - -JO * y Beef, roasted ’ ; ;i0 £ Broad, baited •* ( j Unitor, . V ill) !i Cabbage, boiled 1 _ Cucumber, raw, - m *. Flab, boiled f V . a • Milk, fresh , r, \r, ■ S Mutton, roasted Pork, roasted . jJ ,jr, Poultry, roasted - jju 3 1 Potatoes, boiled T 00 w 5 Illco, boiled ;hj , 4 su«or, „ , ;;o :i Turnips, boiled f w .»j Veal, roasted • * 00 Voiiblon, boiled 1 , . lo caCUIA" According to the above table c« bore are of very little val “ Cl “^ toe3 are cabbage, turulpn,.und even 1 01 bles an il expensive eating. Some veg t J#Bll | y fruits should, however, for consumption. oven i those which sanitary reasons. Among nl(llter , contain tlio most ea taanll carrot* st'omach'to healthy article of diet.
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