6tit etriumbia gpit. - ,•e , ; A. M. EAMBO,:. Columbia, Pa. Saturday, February 27',1869. COMMUNICATIONS, letters, contributions, generally of merit and Interest to the render, will be acceptable from friends from all quarters. Half a Loaf Better than no Bread— Fasters and Folders—Contestants for Seats in Legislature. The corrupt crow of pastern and folders finding from the 'universal detestation in which they are held by our honest Mx pdyers that they can have no hope of paymentfrom the Treasury, have very ad roitly consented to be dismissed (although they were never employed) provided they get pay for the time they have been loung ing and sponging about the Capitol, which is now about one half of the session. And it is greatly to be regretted that the mem bers Of the House, who would be highly offended if they were called dishonest, will espouse so heartily and stick so persist ently to a measure which they know is a wrong upon tiie Treasury and their con stituents. There must certainly be a cat in the meal-tub, and the people are be ginning to consider it a manauvre;on their part to use the pastors and folders as a -means of obtaining money from the Treas ury, to be divided in certain shares between than, and the members themselves—who have been sent to Harrisburg for very different purposes—as some of them will End to their sorrow, for Thuggery can't save them next fall. We, therefore, hope that the Senate will at once put the seal of condemnation on this rascally effort and if such a thing is possible put a blush upon the countenances of those who are dishon est enough to vote for it. • In •connection with this matter we beg leave to saigmicst another very reprehensi ble practice introduced into our State Legislature which deserves equal expo sure and condemnation. Every session there are several contests for seats in each House, which occupy the time and atten of other members at great expense to the State, without any great correspondent benefit, for most of these contests are gotten up on the most trifling pretenses and solely for the - purpose of obtaining members pay. as the defeated contestants are always paid the same per :diem and. mileage that the legally elected member is, which we deuountie as entirely wrong. If a man brings a suit claiming money or damages from another and fails to re cover, he is obliged- io-pay his lawyer and not only his own costs but also those of the defendant,and no one thinks of making the court or county in which the par ties live pay. • But no matter how shallow the claim of ,any aspiring contestant, a committee is appointed, witnesses scut for, expenses- incurred and the time of the members consumed fbr most if not all of the session, and , when a report is made, the claim found entirely t groundless„ and the contestant is awarded full pay while "themembers of the committee in addition to their $l,OOO, sahiry demand and receive from two to four hundred dol lars each for extra services, and no other end is accomplished than that some one who wanted to spend,a winter at Harris burg eating, drinking, feasting and lobby ing at the public expense is gratified. Expenses of contested elections should be borne by the contestants themselves or by the political parties to which they belong or by the county which they wish to rep resent, and we most heartily remonstrate against thisr gowning evil of compensa ting people for going to Harrisburg for their own selfish purposes. A. Cat in the Meal Tub The Lancaster Express states that the County Cominissieners,-their solicitor, the Sheriff and otherofficers about the Court House, made a descent upon Harrisburg, a week ago, and that While they were there our economical member,Dr. C a tehell, offered a till authorizing said Commis sioners, at their-discretion, to pay costs in viol prossa cases, and in forfeited recog nizances, when the same cannot be col lected. Upon its face, there would seem to be but little objection to its provisions, but to those who have scanned the manner in which large sums of money have found their way into the pockets of those who are ready at all times to go bail for the criminal who happens to have enough money to deposit with him, under the pre text that he must be indemnified, it is seen in ,a different light. The vio lator of law who thus makes his bail the-depository of money, under the pre text of securing him' from loss, makes his escape - Trom the Jurisdiction of the court, atd.the ease is continued from term to term, when finally a motion is made to the - court to havCit'notprOssed and the county 'for costs. The bail money - thus deposited is absorbed- by .sorec person or persons otheithan-dhe-who purchased immunity from a'just punishment ofthc laws. The money thus forfeited-seldom-finds its way Into -, the County TreaSury: The facts being .known only, to , those interested:- the matter- is. : passed . over without remark. Should , 'pass it 'would • give the District 'Attorney opPorttuaities to - settle a" certain elas . ofcmisdenreanors Where the parties are wining to pay large sums of money to keep out' of prison 'or run the risk of being Mulct' in: fine and' Costs. Their cases could be continued from time to time. Whew thematterwas-forgotten the accomodating District Attorxey could innocently remark to the court that bet-: thought the case could .not be made out and ask to have it no' prossecl, and the county for costs. Should this bill pass, it will open the door through which many a rascal will effect his escape. 'When the Representatives of the people come to rea lize the fact that.the press is 'on guard, and ready at all times to thrust manufac tured . rags and lampblack the - face of thosewhoweeld betray the trust confided in them by their eonstitueney,there will be Jess of - doubtful and corrupt legislation. np With s' isitq:a'to .attend the• inauguration. $3 , 10w 8.t0nix..0.13 FX.I4Y. Newspaper Privileges. A suit is in progress in Cincinnati wherein a journalist is sued by a public officer for alleged libel, because, in discuss ing a matter of public concern, the officer was charged with abuse and corruption. The case is not yet decided, but from the tenor of the argument it is likely to turn upon the point whether malice was in tended on the part of the journalist, the burden of proof falling on the plaintiff. This trial is an important one to newspa per men as well as the people generally outside the city in which it is being tried. Take away the right of the press to dis cuss public matters and it would be diffi cult to define into what a hopeless condi tian the administration of public affairs would relapse. With all the exposures of fraud and corruption that now daily fill the columns of newspapers we find but little reform in the operations of govern ment officials—high and low—and yet there is no doubt that the fear of such exposures has a wholesome efl'ect upon those predisposed rascals who have not. the moral courage to ?ace the odium that attaches to a newspaper ventilation of offi cial derelictions. To assert that the owner of a newspaper has not the right of any other tax-paying citizen to show up the abuses and corruptions of any servant of the public is to assert an absurdity, no matter what legal twist the lawyers may give to the point. Deprived of such a sentinel to sound an alarm, of such a safe guard to protect the interests of the com munity, an the public sewers in the world would scarcely be sufficient to carry off the volumes of rank official corruption that would surge up around almost every department of national and local govern ments. No, the vigilance of the press must not be relaxed, especially in these days, when the national 'Treasury is be sieged by grasping jobbers and the State and city coffers are but little less than resorts from which rogues may fill their pockets with the people's money. The verdict in the Cincinnati case will be looked forward to with interest.—New York Ucruhl. :Editor Tai; various new processes which are almost daily being developed to feciliate the manufacture of iron are being hailed by a liberal percentage of public interest, as more' than likely to become permanent features in the trade. The rolling of cold iron into shafting by Messrs. Tones & Lauglilins, Pittsburg, Pit.,has, within itself; proved successful. Thu assertion of its acquiring greater. strength than that of iron rolled by the heated process has been proved beyond a doubt. besides riving to its finish more, beauty, &c. The thought of such an undertaking w as deemed an in sane one, but time has proved the con ' trary. The Ellershausen and Bessemer processes.to obviate the labor and necessity of puddling, although of not so long- an existence, appear to be gaining hirer. The latter plan seems, however, to lose grijund at the approach of the former, though its friends are numerous. The process advanced by Ellershausen, from trial by various manufacturers, receives encouragement from its coal-saving fea tures, asserting that an average of at least six dollars per ton can be saved, while other sources swell the figures froin ten to thirty dollars. Excepting either as true, the item is one to claim attention by such consumers as those engaged in our iron man ufac.iires. Oen Washington correspondent explic itly corrects the impression journals un friendly to Gen. Grant are endeavoring to create, that he ignores the leading mem bers of the Republican party, and refuses their advice. Between thd Gencral and the principal men of the party the utmost cordiality and frankness exist. He listens to their views, and when the time comes it will be seen that they have not been without influence. We have nothing of the log-rolling and Wire-pulling so much seen in Washington about inauguration times, and we have a confidence that when the Cabinet is formed it will be found to be something more than the creation of the Lobby, the Caucus, and the Bar- Room. As our correspondent says, the position of Gen.'Grant is one of " absolute delicacy toward those most concerned." In the mean time, we trust that the General will continue his present policy. All the country wants is a strong, healthy, working Cabinet, composed of men icho can serve the Stale—not mere trading, office-holding politicians.— • THE ex-Vice President of the South ern Confederacy, Mr. A. IL Stephens, is now inclined to take-less sombre views of our public affairs than lie has heretofore indulged in. Ever since the downfall of the Confederacy he has been looking for the establishment of a great despotic Gov ernment, in which the rights of the States and the liberties of the citizen should be restrained by a military power somewhat similar to thaCwhich exists in France. sow, however, he holds that 'though the future of the country is uncertain, the prospects are hopeful. Ile says that all the country wants to restore its high pros perity is good government, and he has great confidence in Grant, whom he des cribes as possessing the " rarest combina tion otplements of character of perhaps any man living." .A. - xnaEw JOHNSON is making.a vigor ous , _ . - strike for nest -"Governorship of Tennes.see, as is evidenced by the activity of his friends in that Stare. Several pa pers have hoisted his name. lie desires to make that a stepping-stone to get into the United States Senate. If he should succeed in again reaching that position the Senate will be compelled to listen to that old speech about thei:liZati4iutiand the stars about six times a week. WouLD it not he well for the Juternal I:Revenue Department to direct its atten tion to Philadelphia ? The law is now -so rigidly erdoreed,il3 New believe no ware whiel:3- is made in ~ t he city.- A great portion of the:artiele that is sold , for than the amount of excise and the cost of production comes from Philadelphia. The Death of the Whisky Dings. With the departure - of-Andy Johnson from the White , House' the> whisky , rings will receive their death blow; for, though he may be personally honest, and may not hate participated himself in the enormous frauds upon the government, the rings have flourished under his administration. He has been the tool of those around him who bad his ear and confidence, and his Secre tary of the Treasury has .been the centre around , which these rings revolved. The Senators and Members of the House, and particularly the Senators, have made hos tility to him a pretext -for sustaining the rascals who have defrauded the govern ment. With the 4th of March all this Will' be'ended; for, whether the Tenure of Office. act be repealed or not, General .Grant will see that the revenue'be.faithfully collected .and the government purged of criminal and incompetent officials. - ' [From the Daily SrY.] 'Telegraphic Summary James F. Barhock has been nominated for Congress by the Democrats of the Second Connecticut District. The Newfoundland Legislature by a vote of 20 to 8, has adopted an address favoring confederation with Canada. The Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad Company have purchased the Morris and Essex Railroad, and-secured a perpetual lease of the Oswego and Syracuse Railroad. One hundred and thirty-seven. Cuban re fugees errivey at Key. West on Wednesday. 'James Weaver. and Jimes Mcgunil were arrested in New York, a few days since, for the robbery of-$121,000 from the Nation al Bank of New ANTindsor, , hfaryland. $95,- 000 of the bonds were found in their posses sion, and they were yesterday surrendered to the authorities of Maryland. . Gold closed yesterday at 13. Q. The gen eral stock market was moderately active and quoted steady at the close. The de cline in Governments continued, the fall in seine being • SATURDAY, ,Feb. 20.• A bill was introduced yesterday, in the New York Legislature, incorporating a company to build a ship canal around Ni agara Falls, with a capital of .560,000,000. The Governor of Wisconsin has vetoed a bill, passed by the Legislature of that State, empowering minors to convey real estate. The Nevada Legislature has passed an amendment to the State Constitution, pro viding for biennial Legislative sessions, of 00 clays each ; also, a resolution asking Congress to yield Nevada the territory south of Snake river. The Legislntureof British Columbia, by vote of II to 5, has decided against confed eration. A. San Francisco despatch speaks of an increasing mining excitement, and says 54 companies, with a nominal. capital aggre gating :: ,- ;62,000,000, have-been formed to op erate the White Pine region. An earthquake of several seconds'• dura tion occurred at Port Townsend, Washing ton Territory, on the 11th. MoNDAr, Feb. 22. Tbe President bus pardoned William H. Dempsey, sentenced to ten days imprison ment and two hundred dollars fine, for as saulting Assistant Commissioner of Patents Dunce n. Governor Geary has respited Gerald Eaton, but not decided upon the length of time. A party of white men went to the house of Col. Thomas Dickens, near Raleigh Springs, Tenn., on - Friday- night, and mur dered two guests, named Humphreys and Wilson, and a colored woman, besides seri ously wounding Dol. Dickens. They then tilunderediho house and wont -- off. The steamer Fairy Queen was snagged and sunk in Black river, Tenn., on Thurs day night. No lives are known to he lost. A woman was run over and killed by the cars, at Foi'd ha in , N- Y., on Saturday. . A powder mill at Gorham, Me., blew up on Saturday, and one man had his legs broken. Leonard Chouta, an alleged incendiary, has .been arrested at St. Paul, Mimi., by detectives from Neu. buryport,Mass. Choate is accused of baying burned over fifty buildings, including four churches, and be has been the terror of Newburyport, for EiME An examination of the books of the to bacco firms of White Erricksou and Thotnerand A; Co., of St. Louis, shows fraud upon the revenue. The 'former owe a tax and penalty of 5'21,000, and the latter of .526,500. There were 23S deaths in Philadelphia last week, a decrease of 36 compared with the number for the preceding week. .TUESDAY, Feb. 23 The vesolutions offering...Zresident_John son the hospitalities of Baltimore, on his retirement from Washington were present ed by Mayor Banks, and a committee of the Baltimore Councils, yesterday. Mr. John son accepted the invitation, and said he would designate the day at a future time. James Rogers was murdered, in Rich mond, Va., on Sunday night, by a man named Willis, whom he had ordered off his premises, a few hours before. A young man named Bell was shot dead, by a policeman named Tyler,• at Southwick, Mass., on Sunday. He was killed in re sisting an arrest for assault. Two men were killed, and a third serious ly injured, at Fonda, N. V., yesterday, by a blast explosion. Wm. S. Balch, Treasurer of the James Steam Mills, -Newburyport,----Mass., is charged•with ,embezzling $30,000. ,His em- ployers have. accepted-his resignation, to take effect when work now in progress is finished, after which an investigation will take place. At Harrisburg, yesterday, George Church 'and Marshall Quay had each a hand blown off by the premature discharge of a cannon, while firing a salute. The Union Park Congregational Church, in Chicago, was burned on Sunday evening. The loss is about $16,000. WEDNESDAY, Feb. 21 Dr. Schoeppo has been committed for trial at Carlisle, Pa., on the'cbarge of having poisoned Miss Steinecke. Henry E. ChaMberlain, aged fifteen, banged himself at Akron, Ohio, yesterday. His father committed suicide several years ago. One man was killed-and foilr were badly injured by the 6:plosion of a steam boiler, at llcansville, Indiana, yesterday. The steamboat Peoria City was sunk by a snag, in the Mississippi, on Sunday night. No lives were lost. The Allerion School House, near Carlisle, Pa., was blown down yesterday. Only the teacher and two children were in it at the time, and they; n - cironotserionsly injured The Fourth Naliontil - Bbiladel phia suspended yesterday% in coniegWenco of a defalcation by ondOfits °Ricers. The banking honsoof Willliam R.Brown ; Co., at Toronto; suspended. yesterday. • The severest snow storm of the season has just been experienced in Canada. ' The snow is reported to be four feet deep on a level between Windsor • and. Quebec. A snow storm has also prevailed in•Aew Eng lend and Northern New York. Atyßuffalo, the trains were delayed by it for 'several hours. ' Gold closed yesterday at 1.32E.' The stock market was steady; and there was' no ma terial difference in governments:.: '• T thins Feb: Two men were frozrn to death'while ing across tin• pc.l.lrie, near Carroll Station, lowa, yesterday_ morning., third was so badly frozen that ,141 feet and , hands most, be amputated. , , ",, A woman, named Welch, •killed a many, named Devlin, at Alton, 111., on Monday night. He had .attempted-an-aggravated assault upon her James Inc l'inliams,tt farmer, cc:ant - ult. ted suicide yesterday, in ehango county, The boby of Capt. Wirz, of Audorsonville Prison notoriety, has leen-giv'eulitp to his friends, by order of the President. The ,Grand Jury of the District of Colum bia has indicted seventeen persons for ille gal / egistratjon at the late municipal ,elee- . tion.. A fight occured between a party,oi Wost point soldiers and some citizens, at High land Fulls, N. Y., on Saturday night, and one man, was injured. FourOf the soldiers were put under arrest. •The Huth House and two stores, in New Orleans were burned yesterdny morning. The loss•is over $lOO,OOO. A fire in N05..135 and 137 Lake stree,Chl cage, yesterday : , destroyed $40,000 worth of property,_ana pne,at Alton, .111., on Tues day evening,, Caused, a loss of $30,000. Crouch's sawmill, at Rochester, 'N. Y., was burned on Wednesday night. Loss $25,009. Editorial Brevities. —Baltimore is measley. —Newham feasts on shad, —Frizzled curls are doomed. —ldaho has two feet of snow. - —Crop insurance is proposed. —Bad oysters made Jeff. sick. —Put up your furs in camphor. —"Kossuth is poor and decrepit. — . Western crops promise hugely. —Maryland farmers are plowing. —The Spring fever has broken out. —San Francisco is the dirtiest city. —April Bth will be the National Fast. . 7 -Chicago has over five miles of hose. —This year has fifty-three Thursdays. —Louisville police arrest velocipedists. —Cheaper iron is the problem of thong() Chicago has had a colored bat masque —Beecher'says ninepins are evangelical —Missouri "has prohibited prize fighting —The gossips are marrying Edwin Booth —Bonnet strings of bias velvet are proper —Paris has a journal. devoted to balloon FRIDAY, Feb. 19 —An eight-foot ghost agitates Elkton, Ohio. —Bobby Lee is president of a Bible So ciety. —The Reading Eagle is progressing back wards. —Six London theatres are managed by ladies. —The Chinese barber strops his razor on his leg. —The Grecian Bend is fast losing its pop ularity. —A Connecticut doctor velocipedes to his patients. —Alex. 11. Stephens is not expected to -live long. —The earth has not done quaking, •in San Francisco. —One million postage stamps are used every day. —Largely red uced—t he I space occupied by a lady. —The only gazelle in the country is at Peoria, 111. —Torchlight sleigh-rides are popular in Minnesota. —Selling dog meat for mutton is illegal in Minnesota. —Beecher, having undertaken another novel, is sick. —A brilliant sunset elicited a tire alarm in Salem, Muss. —Mr. William Wheatley is - suffering from incurable cancer. —lllinois strikes the word white front the general school act. —San Francisco thinks of having a '• World's Fair"ln 1870. —The iirst raft of the season arrived in Marietta on Wednesday. --The Tribune association has insured Greeley's life for $lOO,OOO. —Heating cars from the locomotiye • is to he tried in Pennsylvania. —Real, the New York murderer, is to be executed on Good Friday. —"Old Pluto" is the latest rebel. nick name for Senator Brownlow. —Plowing has already commenced in some parts of Chester e0u.1143...- -The Prince of Wales is a Knight Or the :Masonic order of Charles XII. —San Francisco did a real estate busi, ness of more than 1,427,00000 last year. —A large hotel is to be built in Manhcint, Lancaster county, the coining Spring.' We should have another first-class hotel in Columbia. It is badly needed. —Coburn, the bruiser, intends perma nently settling down in San Francisco. —A card posted up by SNOW reads as fol lows: "so lofting in this her skitchen." —Governor Wise is described by a South ern journal as a "powerful man of pray er." —Boston Las to sprinkle' and sweep. its streets this winter, to keep the dust down. —I. M. Conklin offers it valuable dwel Ling house at private sale. See. aclveilise tnent. — . Massachusetts makes a hundred mil lion dollars worth of boots and shoes an uually. —Alexpder IT. Stephens was severely injured, recently, by a heavy gate falling on him. —There have been sixty days of sleigh ing in central New Hampshire thus far this winter. —The Shoe business is brisk. Lynn is senta ns -tlarca—tim,.-nr.---nritTry /115t,..." . ear at this time.. .'Velocipedes have become a nuisance wherever there is Nicolson pavement in Philadelphia. —lt is reported that the water will be let into the Delaware Jr Hudson Canal about the let of March. -17,259 births in Philadelphia last year. —6,371 people were married in Philadel phia during 1868. —Crime has increased to an alarming ex tent in Massachusetts since the repeal of the prohibitory law. —Gottschalk made a success and money by a festival of three hundred and fifty musicians at Montevideo. —Senators Pomeroy, Wade and Wilson are in favor of female suffrag., but their wives are said. to oppose it. —Boise City, Idaho, has only one female, Miss Harper, and she is a physician. The lack of girls is bad for Boise. —There are twenty-seven young men in Columbia under marriage engagements, only waiting, tor better times. —A doctor in Meriden, Conn., visits his patients on a velocipede. It is sogent le that be leaves it without hitching. —A girl in Paris who has neither arms or legs, sews very nicely, embroiders, and writes with her lips and teeth. —Brigham Toting has'-'fixed the legal length of Mormon ladies dresses. +They may extend to the top of their shoes. —Proposals are out for holding the next annual exhibition of the Pennsylvania State Agricultural Society - in September. —George W. Lefovre, Esti., of Chatham, Chester county, Pa., has been elected Pres ident ofthe Doe Run and White Clay Creek Railroad. • —We mean just what we say Mr. Dis patch, that the beef market of Columbia'is little ahead of any othet town in the State, both in quality and price of the flesh. —Columbia had a literary society in 1535. They met in the old brick school house on Second street, same place our Literary So ciety now meets. J. W. Fisher was Presi dent, and Cyrus S. Haldeman Secretary. —A mathematical Blind Tom has made his appearance in Richmond. Ile Is but 17 years old, blind and entirely uneducated yet, by some mental process solves the most difficult problems in figures with rapidity and precision. —At a Sabbath School meeting in fork, a young lawyer made a motion that they choose a committee of ladies and gentlemen to raise children for the Sabbath School. Another gentleman immediately rose and asked to be put upon the committee. —A new law in Cincinnati prohibits the operation of commercial agents or " drum mers'? in that city. A traveling ifg3nt - tif a New-York hat and cap establishment has just been tined $5O and costs, and another agent double that amount. —This is the seventy-fifth day of con tin mous sleighing (Feb. 19th). Since the. 30th day of November the hills in sight of this village have been carpeted with a deep layer of snow, and the roads have been 'capital: • So says the Wellshoro, 'flogs coati -In Agitator: To - remove freckles, cut them out with it razor anil 'throw them away, They will never return. To bring tilt a mustache, tte it to a strong cord; tWenty feet long, to the other end of Which attach a heavy smoothingiron, and throw the latter from a fourth story window. To produce a fair complexion, go to sea In a crazy old boat, end the first gale you get into, your face will become white. To get rid of red hair, hold your head for a few minutes in a strong blaze of gas. To preserve your eyes, put theta in a bot tle filled with alcohol. NEM To avoid corpulence, quit eating. To 'Conceal bad teeth, keep yeur s mouth shut. . -- To keep out of debt, acquire the reputa tion of a rascal, - rind no one will trust you. To become a complete book-keeper, bor 7 row all the books you can and never return ' • To keep your doors from being broken open by burglars, don't close thorn. To keep out of a fight, stay by yourself. To gain time, steal a watch. To keep from stuttering, &Sul talk, Garlands of natural:floWersare now used in Paris to adorn the hair of ladles in the bail room. These are kept fresh all the eve-• ning by quills being filled with fresh water and sealed at bothOnds. Tn. these the flow er stocks babe their tips. plaits of hair hide the mechanism, and sometimes false hair is rolled round the quill, which seen red by hair pins afteruiird. yaluable Receipts Pennsylvania Rail Road. Philadelphia has no pommunication so important as that opening through the whole length of Pennsylvania to St. Louis, with connections NOrth and South, and number less branches that have superseded canals and stages, and is fast giving us superiority in trade over New 'York. The late signal victory won by the Pennsylvania over the Erie, cutting that from its proposed West ern advantages,and so saving our local bus iness, are fresh to all. It was a greater vic tory than will be appreciated unless the map is used in connection with the report of the road, and all the bearings of the matter are mastered. But, greatly as we aro indebted to this corporation for developing the State, and improving and enriching the city, the value of its services is yet to be be computed. It is the work that it is to do rather than what it has done. that deserves attention. Now, it has carried its tracks completely around the city, and erected great storehouses, and built wharves on the Delaware. Now it is prepared to unload from and into steam ships.. At the same time it has perfected its roadbed, its bridges, depots, ,workshops, and personnel. It has effected all of the financial arrangements it needs, absorb ed such small roads ns can be serviceable,, and allied itself with greater on favorable terms. The twenty-second annual report was made on Tuesday by President Thompson. It shows the earnings of last year to have been $17,233,497.21, and the net earnings :35,342,513.43—an increase of ;06,30.95 over last year. There was a decrease of emi grants carried, of express and miscel laneous matter; but an increase in mails, regular freights and first class passengers. There were 3,747,178 passengers carried, the freight amounting to 4,722,015 tons ; or 321,477 more than lest year. The Philadelphia and Erie road, operated by the Pennsylvania Central, under the able management of Alfred L. Tyler, Gen eral Superintendent, earned $2,804,250.25. The receipts from both roads were $20,037,- 747 and the costs $14,748,405, leaving a net profit of $.7,288,338. All of the branches op erated by the Pennsylvania have left a profit. The company have sold the canals. The assets are amore thansufficient now to pay all its indebtedness, except the State bonds, and these are being annually re duced : last year $142,978 I3eing applied to the purpose. The report sketches the victory over the Erie without any unseemliness, and men tions the compulsion that has forced the company into uniting with western roads. The sums needed to perfect the arrange ments will be raised by stockholders' sub scriptions, without touching the Company's capital. And with this contribution it is still expected to maintain a ten per cent. an nual interest. The increase will only make the capital $32,050.000 and it is allowed by charter to be $35,000,000. The road is so lixed now that it will connect favorably with the Pacific, to be completed this sum mer. These are the litchi carried in the report. They are their own best praise. The plans of Presidents Thompson and Scott, though denounced while unknown, are approved when seen into, and the most doubtful. can not fail to perceive that as the very highest order of stragetic genius was required to initiate and carry forward these compre hensive plans, the most perfect administra tive skill was needed to sustain them. And the whole has been elfe.cted with less trouble than sometimes attends the relaying of a rod of one of one passenger railway tracks. 'rite competition that -had to -be• met ..was that of the largest and richest New York railroadgambline. interests. And it is de feated. The road has thwarted all opposi tion, aided its friends, increased its iicctli ties, decreased its debts, paid its usutil divi dends, and is now ready to seize the busi ness of the Pacific Railroad, and bring it to oar wharves. vote of thanks was awarded to 'Messrs. Scott and Thompson, by whom all of this has been achieved ! That is all: Perhaps more might have been, as more certainly will be in the end. Nothing has done so much for our city, and for all its varied business for years. Nothing else could be so lasting and ineradicable a benefit. There it stands, daily growing; daily aiding State, and city, and country ; daily developing and distributing wealth. Five years hence it will control the through business of the middle States, and all that of Pen nsylvaniir, and unload curs laden with Asiatic freights at San Francisco into Liverpool and Bre men steamships at Philadelphia.—Phila delphia Sanday Morning Times. Le:tter from Washington. WAstuxerrcee, Feb. 22nd, ISee. Mu. EDITOR :—.lust now this city has at tractions which draw the attention, and the bodies of vast numbers of citizens from all parts of the-Union. The railroad bills, .the tax bills and doings and sayings of our Solons with the hopes of many that a haul may- be made somehow on the U. S. Trea sury, before Grant comes into power, com bine to till the lobbies and galleries of both •Houses of Congress, with an anxious, per sistent, moving mass of humanity. I could not, were I so inclined, give you an outline of the scene that transpired on Wednesday, the 10th inst., when the elec toral vote was counted. You have had all this portrayed better than I could even hope to do, by the reporters of the different newspapers, whose business it is to do such things. I have read many of these pen por traits of that disgraceful scene, yet to lily mind none came near to the reality, and NVily ? because, it is an impossibility to con vey on paper the shouts, and calls or order, from both sides of the House, amid the con tinuous rapping of the President of the Senate. Theme were words spoken and actions performed that would be worthy of some or Mr. Morrissey's constituents in New York. After the Senate had retired from the House for the last time, and the gen lie menly Speaker had resumed the reins of government, he ordered the floor of the House to be cleared of the vast crowd of .ladies and gentlemen, who had bean per mitted to occupy the floor in the rear of the members desks. The Hon. B. F. Butler, of Mass., commenced a lengthy argument on the ruling of that old and sturdy friend of -law and order, lien. 'Wade, now Presi dent of the Senate. Speaker Colfax, having vacated the chair previously, replied to Mr. Butler, in one of the-caltuest, most lucid speeches I have ever heard. It was like oil on the troubled waters. I felt thankful the people had elevated that noble young man, to the seoend highest position in their gift. You may ask me why I, at this date, write to you about a matter that has transpired so many days since; just for this reason, Mr. Editor, that when we hoped such I doings would never be repeated; another scene quite as ridiculous, hut having less danger in it, was enacted on Friday night last on as call of the Mouse. While the House was in cionunitiee of the whole on the Post Office Appropriation Bill, it was found that there was not a quorum present. A motion was made thr a call or the House, and Mr. Boutwell, Speaker pro tem, took the chair (Mr. Colfax having a reception at his house). After roll cull, the Sergeant•at•Arms was ordered to bring in all the absent members who were not excused previously, or who were not then excused on account of sickness. Then commenced a scene of to me unpar alelled confusion, laughing, and attempts at wit, motions being made of such rklicu ions character as to draw roars of - laughter from the assembled wisdom (sa ye Che mark) of thii peoples representatives. When a batch or members was brought in by the Sergearttrens, what noise -and eon sion appeared before to ho at its height, teas now redoubled,and criesof "Impeach him," to Ashley, of Ohio. and i .tvliezi did your nature give way" to anything, with cries of louder, when a member was giving to the Speaker the reason why he had absented himself, &c. This farce was kept up with out intermission to one o'clock ten min utes, A. M., of Saturday. To say they were ell sober would be saying a great deal. The meeting of the Baltimore Conference in the 'Foundry M. E. Church, corner or and. Fourteenth streets, west, will take place on the rhird of next month, and as the whole world knows on the fourth of the same ta mth,Grant and Colfax will be sworn in as President and Vice President of the United States of America. Then we may hope that um Overuling Providence will in answer to the prayers of- loyal thousands, 'Grant us peace in all our borders. The closing scenes of the Fortieth Con gress, with the assembling firth° -Forty-first Congress, will be well worth the time and attendance of those to whom such proceed ings are rarities. You will please excuse me for taking up so much of. your 'time, and, if on perusal you think my rambling remarks are worthy of printers ink, well; . if not, you know where to pat them. I may send you a few jottings by the way about Inauguration times. The hotels and private boarding heusee are fast filling up, very fast indeed. '" anon, Ax editorial article in the New York Herald predicts a revolution In political affairs in New York city. 'lt says the Irish vote is becoming of less consequence, while the German element in the oily is growing every day more formidable, and the Herald argues that in view of these facts politicians will not he so anxious to ..„ "con ciliate" the Irish vote, but will hereafter pay more attention to the Germans. If the heralds promises are not at fault, its con clusions are eminently correct, for as soon as the politicians discover that the Teuton Is the "coming pan," (be son of Erin will bo unceremoniously dropped, and the "stars" will soon be worn by Germans in stead of Irishmen. - SPECIAL .NOTICES. FARMERS AND GARDENERS Do you want to duubtc dour Crops, Do you want them to ripen ao weda earlier Do you want carty and large rcgebbles If you (10, ei-Buy the Loth Double Rrfined l'onarctle AL SILO per Ton In Phila_ equal to the best SOO Phosphates. Send for pamphlet to 1:30 South Wharves, Phila jan3bGt] DEBILITY' Every one at limes feels the necessity of some thing to tone up the system depressed by mental or bodily exhaustion. At such times let every one, in stead of taking alcoholic or medicinal stimulants, which afford only a temporary relief, reinvigorate his debilitated system by the natural tonic elements of the PERUVIAN SYRUP, or Protected Solution of the protoxide of Iron, which vitalizes and enriches the blood by supplying it with its Life Element, IRON Being free from Alcohol in any form, its energiz ing effects are not. followed by corresponding reac tion, but aro perifirment, infusing strength, rigor, and new life into all parts of the system, and build ing up an IRON CONSTITUTION. C STERLING, Esg, of Poughkeepsie, N Y, says: Since taking the Peruvian Syrup I feel better•, my strength is improving, my bowels are regular, my ppet ite first-rate. There is an of i Physicion in this city (older• than I am) who has been in the Drug business for forty ye ar s, who has used the Syrup for three months, and gives his decided opinion, that it is the best al terative Tonic Medieino he ever know." For Dyspepsia, Deldlity, and Female Weaknesses, the Peruvian Syrup is n specific. A :I'2 page pam phlet sent free. The genuine has "Permian Syrup" blown in the elms. .J P DINSMORS, Proprietor, No 13 Dry street, Nev York. Sold by all Druggists. SCROFULA CURED AFTER SEVEN YEARS' SUB LEMEII W rforner. Fs% a prominent lawyer of Parkers burg, W Va, says: '•I had :17 RUNNING - ULCERS when I commenced taking Dr Anders' lodine Wafer. My breast, throat and face was one continuous sore. I am now a well man, and am satisfied the lodine Water saved my life." Circular: , in regard to this remedy will be sent free. .1 1 1 DINS7[ORE, Proprietor, No so Dey street, New York. For snle by Druggists generally. fetid lmdfiw ALLEN'S LTJNG BALSAM. Charles Former, druggist, writes from Ovid, Mirth. " I have just sold the lest bottle of Allen's Lung Bat sum. It sells like 'hot cakes,' and gives universe imtbditetion." Stanley A Skipper, Chippewa Falls, Wis.. writes: "We wish you would send a good supply of Allen's Lung Balsam, as it is getting to be one of the neces sary institutions of the con ntry. It sells well, and gives entire satisfafflion to those using it. F. L. Allen, a well-known druggist at New Lon don, Conn., writes us that, Allenrs Lung Balsam is tlivcrably received by the afflicted. lie says: "I have retailed neatly four dozen bottles over my counter, arid it has given good satisfaction." Many letters like the above are daily received from all parts of the•country. The demand for it from California is large for a medicine so recently altered for sale. We hare sold hundreds of dozens to go to that far-oil' region of gold. It cures, and that necounts for its great success. None use it, who do not, in return, recommend it to their friends. Bence its great sale. Price el:per bottle. feb6-ImdAAr THE GREAT MEDICINE OF THE WORLD. Perry Davis& Son's "PAIN KILLER. - may more justly be styled the great medicine of the world. for there is no region of the globe into tt hich it bins not found its troy, and none where it has not long been Inigoly-cru'ed ann highly priit:ed. Mo r rediMr. there is no •lime to which it has noc proved to be well adapted for the cure df a considerable variety of disem.e.; it is a speedy and sate remedy burns, scalds, ems. bruives, wounds and various other injuries, as well as for dysentery, diarrhom, and bowel complaints generally-it iv admirably suited for every race of men on the faro of the globe. It is s very significant fact, that notwithstanding the long period of years that tie" Pain Killer" has been before the world, it has never lost one %%hit of its popularity, or shown the least siga of be.ionling unpopular: but, on the sontlary, the call for it has steadilyinerea4cd front its first discovery by that excelletit and honored man, Perry I hive:, and at no previous time has the demand for it been no great, or the quantity been so large, as it is this day. .Mother signaleant fact is, that nowhere has the Pain Killer eve' been in higherrepute, or been more generally used by families rand indivoluith=, than it has been here at home, where it was first discovered and introduced. and whore its proprietors, Messrs. Perry Lbw. is & Son, have ever been held in high es teem. That the Pam Killer will eontinue to be allot we have styled it, the great medicine of the world, there eannot be the shadow of a doubt.—Prot How Atirrrl INCr. IfebOlmtletw 13L.CHLJ [From Dispensatory of the United Stnie,...l DIOSMA CRENATA— . 4IUCEIU LEAVES. - - - - - Properties.—Their odor is strong, diffusive, and somewhat aromatic, their taste bitterish, a:M.:meta gous to mint. Medical Pronerlit.T and tiser.—Buchu leaves are nea tly stimulant, with a peculiar tendenev to the Urin ary Organs. They are given in complaints of the Urinary Or gans. 'itch as f; ravel, Chronic Catarrh of the Bladder, Morbid Irritation of the Bladder and Urethra, Dis ease of the Prostrate (Rand, and Retention or Incon tinence of Urine, from:, loss of tone in the p iris con cerned in its evactiation. The remedy has also beep recommended in Dyspepsia, Chronic Rheumatism, Cutaneous Affections and Dropsy. lielmbold*s Extract Buchu is used by persons from the ages of la to "5, and from :15 to 55, in the decline or the change of life; after Confinement or Labor Pains ; Bed-Wetting in Children. In affections peculiar to females, the Extract Due h is unequaled by any other remedy, as in Chlorosts, or Retention, Irregularity, Painfulness or Suppres sion cf Customary Evacuations, Ulcerated or Seim bons State of the Uterus, Leneorrbon or Whites. Diseases of the Bladder, Kidneys, Grarel, anti Dropsical Sicellings,—:Tlio- medicine increases the power of di gestion, and excites the Absorbents into healthy ac tion by which the watery or Calcareous depositions, and all Unnatural linhugemonts are reduced,as welt as Pain and Inflammation. Helmboors Extract Buchu has cured every case of Diabetes in which it has been given. Irritation of the Neck, of the Bladder, and Inflammation of the Kidneys, Ulceration of the Kidneys and Bladder, Retention of Urine. Diseases of the Prostrate Gland, Stone in the Bladder, Calculus, Gravel, Brick Dust Deno., it. and 31uens or Milky Discharges, and for enfeebled and delicate constitutions, of both sexes, attended with the following symptoms: Indisposi— tion to exertion, Loss of Power. Loss of Memory, Difficulty of Breathing, Weak Nerves, Trembling, Horror of Disease, Wakefulness, Dimness of Vision, Pain in the Back, Hot Hands, Flushing of the Body, Dryness of the Skin, Eruption on the Face, Pallid. Countenance, Unit ersal Lassitude of the Muscular System, - 11cImbold's Extract =to:lm is Diuretic and Blood- Purifying, and cures all diseases arising from habits of dissipation. excesses and imprudences in life, inTpurities of the Blood, .4uperceding, Coptubis in affections for which it Is used, such as Gouorrlitea, Gloms of long standing, anal Syphilitic Affections— in these diseases, used in connection with Helms bold's Rose Wash. Sold by all druggists and dealers everywhere. lie ware of counterfeits. Ask for kletrobolit's. Take no other. Price, £1.2 per bottle, or d bottles for f. 4 .1.10. Delivered to any addaess. Describe symptoms to all earninuttications. Address H. T. lIELMBOLD, Mug and Chotnical Warehouse, 391 Broadway, N. Y. IS one are genuine unless done up in steel•mtgrnyed 'wrapper, with the-simile of my Chemical Warehom.e and signed H, T. HELMBOLD. fel •e-gind,ew THE FACTS AS THEY ARE: We began In isr,l to make-Improve ments In tie style and tnake of Ready-Made Clothing, and continued to do so, introducing new styles and Ideas every year, so that the entire char acter of the business is now vastly better and totally different from the f•ys terns of older houses. Our firt.t, idea is to learn exnenv WHAT THE CUSTOMERS WANT, and Instead of persuading him to bny what may be most conveniently at hand, we take the utmost pains foment HIS wishes. Imp rot ea. in' t Clt.tomers Wel it. The building we occupy is the MOST CONVENIENT SIZE, LARGEST AND BEsT ADAPTED for our, business of any in Philadelphia. .4 r x 130 fug Ctedemers can ace a bat they are buying, oar Establishment being on the corner of three large streets, -Mar (ket, Sixth and 3linor streets,) abun dant light it afforded from all direc tions. A light store is far better for customers than a dark one. 14i Irimforr • Merchants know that our sales are ITY-4 , `ZitNitf 9- Liar'lLoet??Lnt'e7",;',.e. have to buy larger quantittea or goode, and so get them at tower prices, es pecially as no buy altogether for cash. Buying cheapest, we can sell cheap est. T'he Large Pu, elasoa. We closely examine every inch of goods that comes into our Eetablieh ment, invariably rejecting all Mir perfect, moth-eaten and tender fab rics. Inspection 'rho timo wastod in looking over the steas of a dozen stores maim avoided. fc.., under son roof, we offer for sale an assortment equal in varlety.and ex tent to that embraced by a score of the ordinary houses. Great Sating We have 600 hands employed in the manufacture of Clothing, who are constantly making upstock to take the place of that daily sold; this gives our customers moo and limb gooca to make aelectiuns from. Fresh Gh,cds It is an undisputed fact that this Department,' (a large Hall on our second floor frontlng on ,Minor street,) has nothing in Philadelphta, to epic/ it.• We have here concentrated the best - skill and workmanship, and those who prefer Clothing made to order really have advantages they do not re• ',eke elsewhere. DEDUCTIONS- Custom Depart ment. From all of the above we deduce this one fact, that Oak Hall has ALL the advantages of any other Clothing Es tablislitnents in the city, and in addi tion these, Deduc tom!. lot—A,firm composed of young men of the present , generation, fullyAn sympatifY with the tastes wf the day. 2d.—An Insight to the wants of the people and an en terprise to meet these wants, which in seven years has placed Oak Ball in a position not al ways attained experience of twenty-fire years. 3d.—A Building better located, bettor lighted, better adapted and newer in all its appomtments. 4th,—Virorkmen, especially Cutters, who are not only from among the best and most experi-. enced, but are artists in their professions and couple with good work a stylishness, in which Philadelphia tailoring has been particularly • deficient. It is the liberal patronage with which wo have boon favored that has enabled us to offer the us paralleled advantages, and this patronage continued and extended will Multiply advantages, which we divide between our customers and ouradves. A visit to Oas. Hall will Patna every fact above stated._ _ , " WANAMARIER Ia BROWN, OAK HALL • • Porous. Ctornwto_Hoess. Corner of Sixth and Market streets. BUSINESS CARDS.: PRINTED AT this make as low as al.oar thonatuad. TVA2, 7 IIED -&C.s fl 5 TEACHERS WANTED. $75 to slso per month : for full particu ars address "The People's Journal," Philadelphia Pa. I febl3-4wc&D $5OOO A YEAR can be made by live agents, selling my new and valuable invention. Address 3 —AHEARN, to Second street, Baltimore, 111 d. freb2O-Iwc&D ViTAN T TED.—Salestuen to travel to sell by sample a now,line,ol goods. Situ ations permanent, and good wages. Address with stamp, H. H. RICHARDS & CO., 413 Chest nut street, Philadelphia, P. [l:ebl3-Iwesaa Pus.AINTS FOR. FARMERS. Unsur passed for any purpose. 00 for a bbl. of 300 Send for circular, GRAFTON MINERAL PAINT CO., 23 Pearl street, New York. [febl3-can PAUL POHL, Zr $lOO to $2OO per mouth salary paid to good agents to sell our Patent non-corrosive White Wire Clothes Lines.. State ago and past occupation, and address the American Wire Co., 75 William street, N. Y., or 16 Dearborn St., Chicago, DI., or M. A. Held, Columbia. Pa. [lcbl3-4wc&D AGENTS WANTED.—For The "only steel engraving of Gen. Grant and his lam published with - their approval. Engraved by Sartain. Size 15 by 10, 0:100. 100 per cent, to agents. Address GOODSPEED at CO, Chicago, or No. 37Park Row, N. Y. febl3-IWC&D NEW BOOK-200 ENGRAVINGS The Farmer's and Mechanic's Manual, ed ited by (4eo, E. Waring, Jr., author of "Draining for Profit," " Elements of Agriculture," he. A book of great value to every one. Send for la page elrculat• 2 Agents wanted. TREAT CO., r Itshers, 604 Broadway, N. 1. Llebl.t—twesm WANTED ! WANTED ! Agents of either sex, In every town and village, for the largest ONE DOLLA.R. SALE m the country. The smallest articles sold can be exchanged for a Silver-plated five-bottled Re volving Castor, or your choice of 200 articles on exchange list. Commissions to agents larger than ever. Send for Circhlar. S. C. THOMPSON 4: CO. teb2O.4WC&D] 130 Federal street, Boston,Alass. AGENTS WANTED FOR THE SIGHTS AND SECRETS oF THE NATIONAL CAPITAL. A work descriptive of Washington City; inside and outside, unmasked' and exposed. The spiciest, most thrilling, most entertaining, in structive and startling book of the day. Send for circulars, with terms, &e. Address UNITED STATE.S PUBLISIIINC4 CO., lit Broome street, New York City. febti-iwc.tiu THE CHRISTIAN, 60 CENTS. A large, live, S page monthly rel ig ions and tamily paper, full of facts, provklences, inci dents, music, poetry, true stories, pictures, read ing for young old, saints, sinners, one and all. No sectarianism, controversy, politics, pith* pills or patent medicines. 60 cents a year; 10 copies $5. For Sunday Schools, 10 copies $4. Send 10 cents for 3 specimens before you forget it. Vol. 4 begins Jan. 1809. 1000 pages.new live tracts for $l. Address H. L. HASTE.CGS, Scrip tural Tract Repository, 19 Llndall street, Boston, Mass. [febl3-4wcan DR. JOHN.V. BURTON'S Warranted to remove all desire for Tobacco. Is entirely vegetable and harmless. It purities and enriches the blood, invigorates the system, possesses great nourishing and strengthening power. Is an excellent tonic and appetizer, en ables the stomach to digest the heartiest food, makes sleep refreshing, Anil- establishes robust Smokces and chewers for Sirfy Yeare cured. Price fifty cents per box, post free, An interest lug treatise on the Injurious effects of tobacco,' with lists of testimonials, sent free. Agents wanted. Address DILI% R. ABBOTT, Jersey City, N. J. FOR SALE BY ALL DRUGGiSTS. ,f'CAurtov.—Bownrc of humbug itnitations [l'ratteinctrt: X copyrighted.] Tl YOI: -WISH Having had larger experience, we are con dent of succes+, in our One Dollar Sale. We will present to any person sending us a club in our great One Dollar Sale, Silk Dress Pattern, Piece of Sheeting, Sewing Machine, a Carpet, a Watch, &c., Se. Greatest inducements ever offered. Circular and sample sent free to any address ALLEN, ATWOOD & BATES, Nos. 57 Milk, 78 81 Devonsh ire Street, feh?.(l-twesn) , • Boston, Ma.S.s WE ARE COMING AND WILL PRESENT TO ANY. PERSaIs: ONE romArt SALE or Dra - AND FANUI Goons, A WATCH, piece of SHEETING. SILK DRESS Our induri 4 m,nts auring the pzuq few years have WE NoW DOUBLE OUR RATES OF PRE We have made many important additions to our winter stocks, and have largely extended our Exchange Llat. and we now feel confident to meet the emands ofour extensive patronage. Send for new circular. • • . Catalogue of Goals and Samples sent to any address free. Send money by registered let ter. Address all orders to S.S. RAWES & CO.,' l 5 Federal street, Boston, Mass. P. 0. Box C. holesale Dealers In Dry and Fancy Goods, Cutlery, Plated Ware, Albums, Leather Goods, &c• • Ldecl9-.l2twc&D want•to rouse each sleepy lead, Who stands upon the brink. Where yawning gulfs disclose the dead Who might, but cild•not, think. I want to warn the living ones Who blindly grope along, Ye fallen:, daughters; mothers, When perils round you throng. Look out, my reader, are von free, Or do you wear the mark? 3lost all are blind and cannot see, Yea, groping in the dark. Catarrh. a demon in the head. Consumption is its son; Kills hosts, yea, Countless millions, dead Perhaps you mayfbe,one. • , •„ • • That hacking, hawking, spitting, shows Catarrh affects your head,. Nailer and slime in throat or nose, Runs down your throat instead. our lung , : and liver soon will show, Consumption has Its birth; enturrh, its sire, will feed It too, Till you return to earth. If cold , : street your head and throat. . A:stNuntx..A.Ton buy; Now don;t. forget ;what Naive wrote, Or think this subject dry. ! WOLCOTT'ri A lATC.II. u'ure Catarrh—the demon Ines; sreves Ihe I urozs, g,ond health Inntsres, And Cntarrt- quiekly dies. I want to gratify my friends, Who wish to understand About PAIN PAINT, its use, its end,, And w•hy its great demand. want to show you, plain as 'Why PAIN PAINT stops all pain That you may never have to say " not try paint again." Pats PAINT will cool but never stain ; Pumps Intlammation out ;; e , 'Tis harmless on the breast or brain, A trial stops nil doubt. When intbunmation leaves the frame, All pain will cease at once. Remove the cause, 'lts all the same; :None doubts, unless a dunce. The pores will ope and drink PAIN' rAt:rr Absorbents till with ease; Restores the weak, the sick, the faint. The greatest skeptics please. Evaporation cools the place. As Inflammation riles Hot blood at the absorbent's base Makes PAINT ill vapor rise: • • 'Tis thus PAIN PAIN= removes all doubt, Removes the very cause By pumping inflammation out; On this we rest our cause. ' Wolcot l.'s Pain Paint is sold atoll Drug Stores; also, Woleolt's Annihilator, for the cure of Ca farm and colds in the head. - Sent by, express on receipt of the money, at 181 Chatham Square, N. Y. R. L. Wolcott, Prop. [feb2o-4twcsn Ali SSIGNEE'S NOTICE. Assigned estate of SPRENGER. k WE115.- .1., of Columbia, Lancaster county. Having by deed of voluntary mod guru ent, tinted January 6,18119, assigned and transferred all their estate 'and effects to the undersigned, for the benefit' of the creditors of the said Sprenger & Weldler, he therefore gives notice to all persons Indebted to said assignors, to make payment to the under signed without delay, and those having' claims to present them to . . . H. GAR& Assignee, jan3o 7 6tsc] .Residing in Lancaster City. OBACCO FOR- SALE.? - sylt EIGHTY-ONE BOXES of Splendid Pen.n {ran% Leaf TOBACCO is offered for sale at reasonable rates, by DAVID AI EX Tan. 18, '6S-tf.) Front Street, rot um bin, TOBACCO ANTIDOTE. Try the combination of IIL,EN, ATWOOD & BATES, GREAT MAMMOTH SALE LICENI4ED BY TOE U. GOVT NOTICE. -Z ALL FREE OF COST Sending tn. a Club in our great 'ATTERN, Sc., .le OF COST been large. NfIUMS FINANCIAL, &c 1,000 MILES C3SEEM UNION PACIFIC RAILROAD ARE NOW' CO?iPLETED As 500 miles of the western portion of the line, beginnlni: at Sacramento, are also done, but El= - To be ilnished, to open the Grand Through Line to the Pacific. This opening will certainly take place early this season. Besides a donation from the Government of 12,800 acres of land per mile, the Company is en titled to a subsidy in U. S. Bonds on its line as completed and accepted, at the average rate of about 820,500 per mile, according to the difdcul ties encountered, for which the Government takes a second lien as security.. Whether sub sidies are given to any other companies or not, the Government will comply with all its contracts with the Union Pacific Railroad Com pany. Nearly the whole amount of bonds to which the Company will be entitled have al ready been delivered. FIRST MORTGAGE BONDS AT PAR :r By its eluther. the Company is permitted to Issue Its own FIRST moirrtitAGE BONDS to the same amount as the Government Bowls, and 110 1110)Y. These Bonds are a First Mortgage upon the whole road and all Its equipments. They have thirty years to run, at six per cent. and both PRINCIPAL AND INTEREST ARE PAYABLE IN GOLD. • Such securities arc generally valuable in pro portion to the length of time they have to Tun. The longest six per cent. gold interest bonds of the U.S. (the Srs) will be due in 12 years, and they are worth 112. If they - had thirty years to run, they would stand at not less than 123. A perfectly safe First Mortgage Bond like the 11111011 Pacific should approach this rate The demand for European investment Is already considerable, mid on tile completion of the work will doubtless carry the price to a large premiuna. SECURITY OF THE BONDS. It needs no argument to show that a First Mortgage of $20,500 per mile upon what for a long time must be the only railroad connecting the Atlantic and Pacific States Is perfectly se cure. The entire amount of the mortgage will be about $a0,000,000, and the interestSl,Boo,ooo per annum.in gold. The present currency cost of this interest is less than $2,500,000 per annum, while the gross darnings for the year 1808, front way business only, on an average of less than 700 miles of road in operation, were more than FIVE MILLION DOLLARS. The details of which are as follows From Passengers Freight • Express " • .Al..scellanecap= Government tr00p5...... freight. • Contractors' men.. Me= ME This large amount is only an indication of the hmnense traffic that must go over the through line in a few months, when time great tide of Pacific coast travel and trade will begin. It is estimated that this business must make time earnings of the road from Fifteen to Twenty Millions a Year. _ _ As the supply of these bonds will soon cease, parties who desire to invest in them will find it for their Interest to do so at once. The price for the present is par and accrued interest from Jan. 1, in currency. Subscriptions will be received in Columbia by SIMON C. MAY, At Columbia National Bank, and in New York AT THE COMPANY'S OFFICE, No. 10 Nassau Sireet. and by' - - - JOHN J. CISCO & SON, 13 A.:xickas, No. 5) Wall Street,' and by th eCompany's ad vert ised agents through out the United States. . Bonds sent free, but parties subscribing through local agents, will look to them for their safe (lelivery. A NEW PAMPHLET AND MAP WAS Issued Oct Ist, ecntaining a report of the pro gress of the work to that date, Ruda more com plete statement in relation to the value of the bonds than can be given in an advertisement, which will be sent free on application at the Company's otlices or to any of the advertised agents. JOTIN J. CISCO, TREASURER, jnn2o•d.tw] New York, AYERS' PRE.PARATIO_YS. AYER'S CATHARTIC PILLS! FOR ALL THE' PURPOSES OF A LAXATIVE - MMMM Perhaps no one medicine is so universally re quired by everybody us a cathartic, nor was ever any before so universally adopted into use, in every country and among all classes, as this mild but ()Indent purgative PILL. The obvious reasons for it is, that It is a more reliable and far more etlecteal remedy than any other. Those who have tried it, know that it cured them; those who have not, know that it cores their neighbors and friends, and all know that what dt, does once it does always—that it never fads through any fault or neglect of its composition, We have thousands upon thousands of certifi cates of their remarkable cures of the following complaints, but such cures are known In every - neighborhood, and we need not publish them Adapted to all ages and conditions in all cli mates; containing neither calomel or any de leterious drug, they may be taken with safety by anybody. Their sugar coating preserves them ever fresh and makes them pleasant to take, while being purely vegetable no harm can • arise from their use in any quantity. They operate by their powerful influence on the internal viscera to purify the blood and stimulate it Into healthy action—remove the ob structions of the stomach, bowels, liver, and other organs of the body, restoring their Irregu lar action to health, and by correcting, where ever they exist, such derangements as are the first origin of disease. Minute directions arc given in the wrapper on the box, for the following complaints, which these 1'11..1.s rapidly cure. For DYSPEPSIA° ON, LISTLESSNESS, LA:sat:on and' Loss OF Arerrirk, they should be taken moderately to stimulate the stomach and restore its healthy tone and action. For Ltvga CoMptAtzfr and Its various symp toms, BILLIOUS HEADACHE, SICK HEADACHE, JAUNDICE or GREEN SICKNESS, BILIOUS COLIC • and BIL/OUS FEVERS; they be Judkdously taken for each case. to correct the diseased fic tion or remove the obstructions which cause It. For Dvszzirgar or DIARIHEA, but one mild. dose is generally required. For RHEUMATISM, GOUT, GRAVEL, PALPITA TION OF THE HEART, PAIN IN THE :SIDE, BACK and LOINS,' theyshould be continuously taken, as required, to change the diseased action of the systole. With such change those complaints disappear. For DROPSY and DROPSICAL SWELLINGS, they should be taken in large and frequent doses to produce the effect of a drastic purge. For Sureatssiox a large dose should be taken as It produces the desired effect by sympathy. As a DINNER Pr's., take one or two PILLS to promote digestion and relieve the stomach. An occasional dose stimulates the stomach and bowels into healthy action, restores the ap petite, and Im - orates the system. Hence It is often advantageous where no serious derange ment exists. One who feels tolerably well, often finds that a dose of these Puss snakes hint feel decidedly better, from their cleansing and renovating elfect on the digestive apparatus. DR. I. C. AYER ,k CO., Practical Chemists, ocell'6B:4lndwl Low km., MAs.s., U. S. A. A YE R'S Hair Vigor, FOR TH F: RE NOTATION OF THE HAIR. THE GREAT DESIDERATUM OF THE AIM A dressing wh lcli Is at once agreeable, healthy and effectual Mr preserving the hair. FADED Olt GRAY lIAIR IS SOON RESTORED TO rrs ORI GINAL COLOR AND TILE GLOSS AND PRESUNRSS OF Yount. Thin - 'hair is thickened, falling hair is checked, and baldness often, though not al ways, cured by its use. Nothing can restore the hair where the follicles are destroyed, or the glands atrophied and decayed. But such as re. main can be saved for usefulness by this appli cation. Instead of fouling the hair with a palsy sediment, it will keep it clean and vigorous. Its. occasional use - wlfrprevent - the intirrrour turn ing gray or falling off,and consequently prevent baldness. Free from those deleterious sub-' stances which make some preparations danger ous and injurious to the hair, the Vigor taut only benent but not harm It. If wanted merely far a HAIR DRESSING, nothing else can be found so desirable. Con taining neither oil nor dye, it does not soil white cambric, and yet lasts longer on the hair, giving It a rich glossy lustre and a grateful perfume. Prepared by Da. J. C. AYER & Co., Practical and AnaJytical Chemists, LOWELL, SLLSS °call '138:1) . (1c1 PRICE 8100 SPECTACLES. VAS. AND COMFORT THE BLESSING OF PERFECT SIGIIT There is nothing do valuable as perfect sight, and perfect sight can only be obtained by using PERFECT SPECTACLES, the difficulty of pro curing which is well known, Messrs. LAZARUS Lt. MORRIS, °OCULISTS . AND OPTICIANS, Hartford, Conn.,manufacturers of the celebrated PERFECTED SPECTACLES, have, after years of experience, experiment, and the erection of costly machinery, been enabled to produce that grand de-stdemtum, PERFECT A SPECTCIX,S, which have been sold with un limited satisfaction to the wearers in Massach usets,' Rhode Island, Connecticut, New Ha mpshi re, Vermont and Maine, during the past nine years, Those celebrated Perfected Spectacles never tire the eye, and Itu,t many years without change! 3fessis. LAZARUS & MORRIS, have appointed , . MR. CHAS. P. SHREINER, Watchmaker and Jeweler, their solo agent for this place. • L. &.• 'M, would caution the public against un principled persons, who represent that they have our Perfected Lenses for sale, as stetraer hero or elsewhere do we employ ped,diers, or supply any but our duly apkmtnted agents, .$1,024,00.5.97 .:,040,,.33.79 51,423•0 K . 136,23.5.59 • 91,626.27 . 101.077.77 . 449,440.33 . 201,179.09 964,330.3 i: $5,066,651.61
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