ree "N. A. 01- ItAlgei3.o Mk . • . ....„ • s-c.• SAturdAY;Jan. 12,1867. • Advertisoments,.te secure 'lmmediate insertion ,muntilon hinded-inon of lidera Thursday evening each ,areet. . The News. The Board of-Directerss ot 'the Penn sylvania Reserve Association, met in Harrisburg on t ueiday"at the: §:riireme . Conrt-room,- Gov. Curtict, , the President, in the chair. • He made an eloquent ad; deess. 'ln the evening the Board met again and adb . pted a ccinstitution, and appointedo'committee -of arrangements for the first annual celebration of May aQth.. About,one,:,third of the Board aZ3 .now members of the Legislature. Everything passed off -pleasantly. Alr. James O'Brien - dropped dead in the Holidar' Street , Theatre,, on Wednes day ;night, while Mr. Jefferson was play ing-27±.he .house was densely crowded, ;and,.the tragic 'occurrence created con siderable excitement. ,'The cause of ,death was congestion of fliAraiu. .The,vetoed to confer the elective ,franchise on, the colored -citizens of : The Federal District _of Columbia, which passed : the Senate so promptly on Mon in:efLance of the veto, was passed, by the llotise by the constitutio•ml two thirds majority ; and is therefore now ,a the republic without the Presi- 4en'ia] sanction: • - , .llon. Arthai P. flayne, and, officer on the staff of Gen. Jackson at the battle of Grleans,_d.jed . at Charleston, S. C.,- on Alonday last.. • ,T . ho'President has pardoned 295 rebels • who hdn' been 11:i}-Generals :in the rebel army, members of Ponficlernte,Congress, aryl•others in high station.. Between 15,- •1?OO;and-16,000 persons of lower grades have been furnished with a pardon, and large number who are. candi dates for—:Presidential. clemency. Johnsen ought to 'have .a machine to do for it mast' be, a heavy drain these-bnef ens thitieS. r. The dimensiens of the Monument at Gettyabiirg'iS - 23 feet square and 55.,feet high. 41* fi. , e.colosSal figures of Italian The rest of the struc . tune 'eelatiaets-hae 'been made:4'dr the sum of 47. 3 000. _ `'i' iera;.isere;Ss_railroad eidents United. 'States in the year just_ ended, • • eausipg; the loiS, 'of 115 lives, and the ;sounding of 07p - en:ohs. For the Violas year there were 183 accidents, 325 _ persons killed and 1,427 'Wounded : EleVen hundred . Poor families in Toronto weresupplied withprovisions on: Chiistmas day by, benevolent, societies. In New York, -on Saturday evening last, e.t . a boarding house, a police officer . 'assassinated a Young lady 'Who had reject-: ed his attentions, and then committed ,The lady's, naite was Willard, and she filled the position of forewoman in the 'female departnient at the New Tort World office..,She was also fashion -editress of a Sunday' paper: .••••• A train on the Cincinnati, Dayton arid Erie -Railroad-was thrown off the. track by . . a Ibioken - rail, near . Cr:reell •Springs, on ''Saturday last. -Two persims were killed and eight severely wounded: , A' terrible earthquake has occurred in Algeria . . Many villages were destroyed, and a large number of hies were lost. • Rumors of the death of • President Johnitin' prevailed- in . -London • During the'past year there were 501 fires in the United •States,_each involving it loss' of over _320,000. Total loss •by these fires ViG,-110:,000, - against 3'4139,- •'OOO :for 'the` previous year, when there - Were 'only 35* of sueh•fires: • ,The Kansas Legislattfrellas Met-and - 'organized. he GOvc.-rnoes 'message ioSPerou:g condition of the State,' • reeonamends the ratilieatiOn of the (Jon: etitational - a'niendpient,.. - and:'stiggests .the extension •of- the fran'ais6 to riegioes. Two U.S.` Senators.: ars - "to be-chosen, hy . the : - - = r.,-Thq Georgia Legislature ,his toted to extend thesgspension of speide payments }n Georgia until_ April, -1868., F4Butler has hegun,,snit.for against - "Brick'sPoineroy,l of, :the CrOise -Democrat, laying. damages at -.,5100 3 900. z . _ The. delegation of Philadelphia - facturerg. .now . ; in ;Wasl4ington• had - „„an. rAludjen •beknrel :the • Committeegf..ll - krys aad'leans;• and asked the re naov ,of the, :Ave eep t:tax. op _go o 4 s, . d „4.1 cents. per ou - ar-• dada in-tnanufactures: They pro • imposed !a-*tax, on :faiejg,p7.lnuried, : and - ::rspreiented :that the 'aioverpment , ; by not ag - re nif • `tir''tlieir concedingi. whereas, by •could . ; •t 6.3.4 v?. . - —A 16 .41 : itt . yassaohusettiii, while at fote,o ,t.,lll,l