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J. NV. YOCTINI, 1 Publishers and
J. A. WOLFERSBERGER,f Proprietors.
Columbia, Pa.
Saturday Dec. 17, 1.970.
" Great Prosperity of Iron Masters."
Under this caption, the Lancaster Ex
press of Monday, refers to the article in
the last issue of the SrY, in which we set
forth the advantages which Columbia pos
sessed, and the inducements she offered
as a greatmanufacturing centre. We are
right glad that our free trade cotempora
ry has itself been attracted uy these ad
vantages, and that it notices the oppor
tunity which it has, of helping to make
Lancaster one of the leading manufactur
ing counties in the State.
The Express asserts that our Iron man
ufacturers, during the pending of the
Tariff bill last Spring (which reduced the
tariff from S 9 to Si) declared in public
resolution that if the reduction was made
they would have to blow out their furna
ces ; and then asks why it is that these
furnaces are still in full blast, as we stated
in the SPY of last - week, and why they
have not stopped
The question asked by the Erpress,may
appear to the casual reader as a very harm
less one, but it smacks of silent disap
pointment because such has not been the
result,and because our "iron masters," as
it chooses to call them, have not been
forced to suspension—a suspension which
would have thrown upwards of two thous
and men out of employment, in this sec
tion alone.
The reduction of the tariff from $9 to
S 7 will not go into effect till January Ist,
IS7O, and of course so far as the market is
concerned has not affected the price of
pig iron or its supply and demand to the
extent it will when the law - goes into oper
ation. But it has had such a prospective
depression that although our furnaces are
in fuZ/ blast, (and "full blast" does not
mean excessive prosperity) not one of our
iron masters would be unwilling to sell
out and withdraw his capital to-day, if
he could.
The average mai ket price of pig iron of
all qualities is $30.75. The cost of manu
facture, according to the following me
morial of honest and trustworthy gentle
men, was in 1869, $29.63, from which it
has not materially varied since that time:
" Your memorialists, representing 37
furnaces in the Lehigh, Schuylkill and
Susquehanna regions, producing annual
ly in the aggregate, over 270.000 tons of
pig iron respectfully express their belief,
based upon personal knowledge that, the
statement of the Commissioner [that the
cost of iron is $24 or s26] will be found
upon a critical examination to be errone
ous. We beg leave to state that the aver
age cost per ton at the furnaces we repre
sent, exclusive of any interest on capital,
and the expenses of moving products from
the furnaces, in 1868, was 29.16 k, and in
the first six months of 1809, $29.63, while
we believe the cost for the last six months
will not materially vary therefrom."
The editor of the Express will easily see
that making a liberal discount in favor of
the cost of manufacture and placing it at
s2B.oo,there is an actual profit,not count
ing interest on capital, of only $2.75 per
ton.
A furnace, its cars, mines, machinery
and all other necessary outlay will amount
to an average of $150.000. We blow of
several which cost twice that amount.
The average product of furnaces in
these regions is about 5000 tons annually
which at market prices, as the editor of
the Express can calculate, will afford but
a mere pittance of a profit for the amount
of capital invested. This too with money
selling at the rate of nine per cent. inter
est.
But the Express will certainly not for
get that the European war, and the hope
that there will be a foreign demand,if the
war continues, has made a ready market
for pig iron : that as soon as That war
stops, and further armament, naval and
military, ceases, the activity in the mar
ket will cease, and that then with the ad
ditional crushing depression of a lower
tariff, will dawn that millenium of idle
rolling mills and blown-out furnaces, and
suffering laborers for which the Express
has been so faithfully preaching.
not the editors of the Express grant
that a business which involves capital
from one hundred thousand to a quarter
of a million of dollars, should nei a per
centage equal to any other business with
the same capital ? Will they not concede
that our iron manufacturers should make
as much money and be as prosperous as
the editors themselves ? And yet why do
these same men advocate free trade to the
detriment and ruin of those industries
and interests of a county, through which
they were enabled to return, only a year
ago, an income of upwards of ten thous
and dollars on an investment involving a
capital of not one-third of the cost of a
single furnace. The only intelligent an
swer we can give is found in the fact
that Mr. Mahlon Sands, the Secretary of
the Free Trade League, stated in his
speech on the 28tleult., "that they had
the names of 4,000 co-operators, from
every State in the Union—that 2.000 pa
pers are kept supplied with Free Trade
documents—and 14 persons were in the
"service of the League, lecturing and writ
ing for the Press, and performing detail
work;” and of such is the Express.
The pig iron interests in this County,
have not reached such a stage of profit or
:,lability, that our iron masters are ena
bled to pile away acres of irou,to wait for
some national or foreign fluctuation in
the markets, and then sell at profitable
rates. They are still small capitalists and
must put their iron in the market as fast
as manufactured.
The Exp 7 ress seems disappointed that
our furnaces have not blown cut out, and
that they are still in full blast. From per
sonal knowledge we can state that sever
al of our manufacturers would willingly
withdraw their capital if they could with
out loss ; and when once the reduction of
$2 per ton goes into effect the Express
may realize the fruits of its free trade
teachings. If there is no other remedy,no
other way of stemming thetide of British
free trade, let us have it as an experiment
for a few years,and the nation will learn.
Finally, as to the question of the Ex
press, why our furnaces are still in blast
and why our rolling mills are running,we
have to reply that this is accomplished
only through a reduction of wages, and
that when the $7 tariff goes into effect,
there will be necessarily a further reduc
tion. If the Express has a mission, and
that mission is the reduction of the
American Mechanic to the miserable and
starving condition • of the foreigner, it is
fast accomplishing its purposes. It is al
together a question of labor, (a question
of the cost of hours of labor,) and value
of the raw material is a mere bagatelle in
comparison. Reduce the tariff and wages
must be reduced. Protect us and the me
chanic shares the profits. Laboring men,
which side will you choose ?
Tar. Senate on Tuesday, was the scene
of one of the most exciting and eloquent
debates to which the galleries have been
treated for a long time. Mr. McCreery,
of Kentucky, rose in his place, and asked
leave to introduce a resolution to appoint
a Committee to inquire into the owner
ship of Arlington nights, and to consider
the expedience of removing the remains
of the Union dead interred there, and the
restoration of the property to Mrs. Lee.
Objections were made, and the debate
arose on allowing the resolution to be in
troduced. Hardly had Mr. McCreery ut
tered a dozen words before the news was
known throughout the lobbies, and the
galleries were filled with a throng of in
terested spectators. Senators who were
bending over their desks engaged in writ
ing laid down their pens, and all listened
with astonishment to the speech they
heard. An eloquent eulogy on the 'char
acter of Gen. Lee was pronounced on the
floor of the United States Senate. When
Mr. McCreery was done, the whole Sen
ate seemed ready to rise to its feet in pro
test, not so much against the restoration
of property to Mrs. Lee, as against the
desecration of the graves of the Union
dead. One after another, the leading Re
publican Senators took the floor, and in
dignantly opposed the introduction of
the resolution as an insult to the Senate,
an insult to the country, and an insult to
the memory of the patriotic dead. Sen
ators Edmund and Morton, Patterson and
Scott, and Sumner and Nye, each inspir
ed by the sacred memories of the past
threw back in his teeth the words of the
unlucky author of the resolution, and be
fore they were done he wished to with
draw the request. Mr. Sumner's speech
was conceded to be the most eloquent of
the day, and his description of Mr. Stan
ton, as he gave the order for the burial of
the patriot dead at Arlington, and his an
noucernent that he meant to bury the
dead there as a permanent guard over the
ground, so that no member of the family
of Lee should never come upon it, was
grand. Mr. Sumner closed with the words
inscribed over the tomb of Shakespear,
" Curst be he that moves my bones," and
said that he would write those words,that
had kept the dust of Shakespear sacred,
over the graves of our patriot dead at
Arlington. Mr. Saulsbury alone stood
by Mr. McCreery on the floor, and even
ne would not think of removing the
Union dead. The majority of the Demo
crats, it should be said to their credit,
were as indignant as any that such dis
honor should be brought upon their party,
thoughuone of themmade speeches against
it. When the vote was taken, but four
Senators—Mr. McCreery, Mr. Fowler,and
the two Marylandt,Senators—recorded
themselves as in favor of allowing the in
troduction of the resolution.
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Editor
Mn. EDITOR :—Your various articles
in favor of the election of Mr. G. Danson
Coleman of Lebanon, as State Treasurer,
on the ground of his personal honesty,
have met my hearty approbation in so far
as they look to a protection of the inter
ests of the State. But permit me to state
briefly, the great plum for which the
State Treasuryship is fought over,year af
ter year. The monthly balance in the State
Treasury has during the last three years.
never been less than one million and of
ten as high as three million of dollars.—
On this balance the Banks and Bankers
have been paying from four to six per
cent interest, which has heretofore gone
into the pocket of _each and every
State Treasurer by custom, abrogating
the statute law to the contrary. - Sow
agreeing that Mr. Coleman will not pock
et any such stealings himself, what guar
antee have the people that be will not al
low this balance to lie in the Banks of
his friends, who elect him, without any
interest ? Thus paying for his election,
and not aiding the State in receiving
what belongs to them. Let Mr. Coleman
pledge himself that, as now, safe banking
institutions holding this balance,
shall be compelled to pay for it, and that
it be paid over to the State Treasury
monthly, instead of as now into private
pockets, when will the public endorse
his nomination and election without the
strong suspicion, at present so well found
ed, that he is merely used as a cat's paw
to draw out the State chestnuts from the
Legislative fire, without singing the old
(as the fable has it) who is now
using him,
We endorse the views of our correspon
dent, and in order that no treasurer in the
future may use the public funds tothe ad
vantage of his friends. let the legislature
make him loan to the highest bidder the
monthly balances in the treasury, upon
government or other safe collaterals as
security.
Praiseworthy and Glorious, if True
It has been asserted that "ex-State
Treasurer Kemble, recently purchased
the Brady Hotel, Harrisburg, price 542,-
000." As Mr. Kemble was worth noth
ing when first elected, his three years in
office must have been very profitable on a
salary of $1,700 a year horn this splendid
example of financiering and good private
management, what may we not expect
Mr. Mackey and Mr. Irwin to do, as they
both seem to understand the advantage
of having the notes of editors mid politi
cians bid away in the vault of the Treas
ury, as well as Mr. Kemble, who seems to
have been their Schoolmaster in roguery,
if they did not take it in the natural way.
The Brady House will, of course, be this
winter, the resort_ of all the lobbyists
and scalawags of the State, who design to
corrupt and control the Legislature.
W. 33<tx›.;.tx, the able editor of the
.31iners lota-nal, at Pottsville, in com
menting on the proposition to vote away
the Sinking Fund to certain speculative
companies, adds the following :
" If the people are to be robbed of these
$9,500,000 by a set of purchased legisla
tors, we hope to God that the people will
rise en masse and hang the scoundrels on
the Capitol grounds."
There must be a stop put to this rascal
ly swindling; or our Republican institu
tions will be a thing of the past. The
time has come when the press of the
country must speak out, even if it is
dumb in our Cities, where nearly all this
corruption and rascality springs from.
Internal Revenue Commissioner
It is asserted positively that Gen. Pleas
anton will be appointed Commissioner of
Internal Revenue, notwithstanding it has
been announced for weeks past,that a Mr.
Douglas, of Pennsylvania,would, through
the influence of General Cameron and
Col. Forney, be the happy man. There is
many a slip twist the cup and the lip, and
we presume the President has rightly pre
ferred the man of his choice, a soldier and
companion in arms, independent of any
political dictation. So mote it be.
' Tar war bulletins represent the French
and German armies in almost daily con
flict, with successes in favor of the Ger
mans. Tours, the seat of the Provisional
Government has been abandoned, mid the
Government is now—in the saddle. The
early capitulation of Paris is looked for.
No CAUSE Fort ALAnai.—There was
considerable excitement during the week,
founded on the rumor that New York
Parties were buying up Penna. IL it
stock for the purpose of gaining control
of it. The Philadelphia Icager of Tues
day explains the matter, and puts a qui
etus to the excitement thus:
The unusually large amount of sales of
Pennsylvania Railroad shares last week,
at steadily advancing prices, was made
the °cession for the revival of a story of a
year and a-half ago, that an attempt was
making on the part of certain of the great
railroad interests at New York, to get a
controlling influence in its stock. Intel
ligent capitalists at New York, and in
various parts of the country as well as in
Europe, were then, and from time to
time have been since, buyers of that stock,
but solely, as fa i as we can learn, as a de
sirable investment, paying more than 6
per cent. per annum on its cost price, and
not with any special view to its control
or the absorption of its business, to the
prejudice of Philadelphia. There is, per-
Imps, no large company - in the country
in which the managers enjoy mere of the
confidence of the share-holders than do
those of the Pennsylvania Railroad, nor
is there a company in which an effort to
buy up control would be more difficult
were the attempt to be made, for the rea
son that the stock has never been a spec
ulative one, and is not, therefore; to any
considerable extent, held in large blocks,
but having been originally subscribed for
in small amounts for investment, to a
la , ge extent remains in its original shape.
Last week's activity in the btock is thus
explained: The city has a small loan of
some $300,000 maturing on the Ist of Jan
uary next, and to provide the means nec
essary to meet it, the gentlemen having
charge of the sinking fund decided to sell
5000 of the 8000 shares of the Pennsylva
nia railroad. The company was inform
ed of this purpose, with the offer made to
take it at the market rate if the officers
desired. They did not, and the 5000
shares were put into the hands of a bro
ker and publicly sold at the stock board.
That it was not purchased by New York
ers for the purpose alleged, or wholly for
New York account, is very conclusively
shown in the in the fact that it was pur
chased by eleven different brokers. and in
twenty separate lots.
Ax examination of the war record of
Governor Vance, elected Senator from
North Carolina, shows that he was thy
most violent in declamation and acts of
any civilian in North Carolina. A notice
of his message and speeches may be gath
ered from the following extract from a
speech made to a rebel regiment Ca mutt
to Lee's army, February, 1564: " Iloys.
fight till hell freezes over, and then fight
on the ice; fight until you fill hell so full
of Yankees that their feet will stick out
of the windows." In May, IS6S, he said:
"If I have any consolation in the past, it
is that I was zealous and faithful to the
cause which my State commanded me to
embrace." In February, IS6S, at Raleigh,
N. C., he said, in a peech in Tucker Hall:
"When the democratic party get posse
sion of the State, they would make the
cvndition of the Republicans worse than
in Sodom and Gomorrah." Vance was
one of the ringleaders who were arrested
in 1565, and was brought to Washington
to be tried and hanged for his treason:
but in July, 1865, he was released by An
di eiv Johnson on an appeal by Governor
11 - olden. The effort to relieve him of his
political disabilities failed last season.
Tar. Philadelphia „Bulletin says:—The
whole number of votes cast in. the election
for Congressmen in Pennsylvania was
nearly one hundred- and fifty thousand
less than 'the whole number of voters in
the State. In 1845, at the Presidential
election, the votes cast amounted to 655,-
662. Allowing for an increase of say
35,000 in. two years, the full vote of the
State now would be 680,662. But the
whole number of votes polled last month
for Congressmen was only .531,638 or 124,-
024 less than the Presidential vote of 1565.
and 149,024 less than the estimated full
vote of the present time. The greatest
falling off in the whole number of votes
was in strong Republican districts, With
a full turnout of voters. the Republican
mojority in the State would he full thirty
thousand, and if a few hundred more Re
publicans had gone to the polls last month
in certain districts, we sould not have
lost a single Congressman.
A TAX PAYER.
Tttx unparalelled impudence of Mackey
and Irwin's efforts to force themselves
over the head of an honest man like Mr.
Coleman, into the State Treasury, is not
only wonderful, but from its extravagance
is almost laughable. They know that the
people are aware of their fraudulent con
duct as public officers, and of their total
unworthiness, but believing, that the
members of the Legislature are no better
than themselves, hope by bribery and cor
ruption, to secure the election of one or
the other, and keep the office between
them alternately like a shuttlecock.—
Their success for the last three years has
emboldened them to believe that any
scheme of roguery and plunder they may
concoct will succeed by the proper
manipulation.
BREVET-BRICIADIER-CONSUL-GENER
AL ADAM BADL•AU has written an article
in Fraser's 2111ailazine showing that the
German conquest of Franco is precisely
similar to the Northern conquest of the
insurectionary States of the South. He
says King William is just like, Lincoln;
Moltke is the counterfeit presentment of
Grant; and we deeply regret that at this
point a spasm of modesty seized the inge
nious warrior and diplomatist, and pre
vents him from saying what must occur
to any observing mind, that Bismarck and
Badeau are as near alike as two B's.
Gov. GEARY has issued his official
proclamation announcing the cancella
tion in the year ending with November
30, 1870, of $1,602,321. 31, made up as fol
lows :
Five per cent. loan redeemed,
4ix per cent. loan redeemed,
Relict notes cancelled
In State as well as National adminis
tration of finances by the Republicans,
economy and retrenchment are having
their legitimate effect, and every month
and year witnesses a reduction.
A Washington correspondent of the
Cincinnati Enquirer says :
"President Grant informed Senator
Wilson that he was not in the least con
cerned about the Revenue Reform Party,
and as for the Chicago Tribune, in his
opinion, that raper had long ago aban
doned the Republican Party, and was
therefore without influence in the coun
try."
TILE current number of Harper's Week
ly in addition to the bountiful supply of
miscellaneous reading which it always
furnishes, and its attractive pictorial em
belishments, contains a splendid map of
France on a large scale, showing the dif.,
ferent points of interest in the military
movements of the Prushms, and forming
a useful accompaniment to the daily
newspaper reports.
Orp Day in the House
The following graphic sketch by a cor
respondent, shows that the House of
Representatives has not lost any of its
interest :
This has been a day of sensation in the
House. Immediately after the reading
of the journal, Mr. Dawes presented the
credentials of the Hon. Joseph H. Rain
ley, elected to fill the place made vacant
by the resignation of Whittemore, the
South Carolina cadetship peddler. As
Mr. Rainley, a bright, manly, intelligent
looking mulatto,walked down the aisle to
the front of the Speaker's desk,and raised
his hand to take the oath,the hum and buzz
of voices ceased on the floor, and almost
every inemlxr turned with an air akin to
respect, towara the first representa
tive on that floor of the newly-enfran
chised race. Immediately after his ad
mission, Mr. Rainley was surrounded. by
a dozen of the more prominent members
of the House, who warmly congratulated
him, and welcomed him to the seat which
his predecessor had left in. disgrace. The
good impression which his appearance
produced on the House was a subject of
general remark, and no one seems to
doubt that he will honor himself and his
race during the short term for which he
is elected. Mr. Rainey was born in
Georgetown, D. C., and is 3S years of age.
His parents were slaves, who bad bought
their freedom, and with them he removed
to Charleston, S. C., when a lad, and has
resided there most of the time since.—
His educational advantages were very
limited, but he has so improved them
that, though he never went to school, he
has a cultivated mind, and will fill his
his new office intelligottly• He took his
seat to-day on the Republican side of the
House, in the extreme north-east corner
of the hall. After the call of the States
for the presentation of bills and resolu
tions for reference, Gen. Butler introduc
ed a bill sweeping from the statute books
all of the civil Tenure-of-Office acts pass
ed during the late administration to re
strain Andrew Johnson in his wholesale
slaughter of Republican officials. The
bill met with little opposition, and passed
by a vote of 157 to 25. Then Gen. Banks,
to try the temper of the House on the
San Domingo question, offered a resolu
tion
authorizing the President to appoint
a committee of five persons to negotiate a
treaty with the authorities of San Domin
go for the acquisition of that Island, with
authority to report to the House the re
sult of such investigation, and the infor
mation they may obtain, and that the re
port of the commission shall be one of
privilege. Objection was made to this
resolution, and after it had been so modi
tied as to authorize the Commission to .
inquire into the expediency of negoti
ating a treaty, Gen. Banks, seeing that it
would be suicidal to press the "previous
question" under a suspension of the rules,
allowed it to be referred to the commit
tee on Foreign Affairs, of which he is
Chairman, with permission to report at
any time, after giving five days' notice.—
This action on the part of the House is
generally considered as equivalent to a
defeat of the project to annex San aDo
mingo by a joint resolution, the treaty
apparentlY having gained no friends in
the House since last session. When Gen.
Logan presented his bill abolishing the
ranks of Admiral and Vice-Admiral in
navy, to-day, and moved the suspension
of the rules that it might be passed, there
was great exc tement in the House. Mr.
Schofield opposed action on the bill to
day, and desired that it be referred to the
avai Committee. of which he is Chair- j
man. He did not think it best to pass
the bill just now because., if for no other
remron, he did not like to "ck - a Man'
when he is down." Mr. Schofield's
speech brought Gen. Logan to his feet in
defence of his present action. He had no
reference, in offering this bill. to any per-
SA), but he desired to have it prised now,
because there is a vacancy in the office of
Admiral, and if Congress postponed ac
tion the vacancy might be filled and then
there would be no need of the law. He
seowed that though there are only 8,000
men now in the navy, there are 110 of
ficers holding rank as high as General,
Lieutenant-General, Major-General, and
Brigadier-General. This (ace, too, was
created to do honor to Admiral Farragut,
and there was no intention that it
should descend to others. Mr. hale of
Maine repeated the old argument in favor
of allowing the office to continue, and re
ferred to the Porter letters.
Gen. Logan interrupted him with the
question, " 11 ,1- hy do you lug that in
"I do it on my own responsibilitt," re
plied Hale. "Yes I see you do," sneered
Logan. Mien Mr. Hale had finished, a
scene of disorder ensued, in the midst of
which Mr. Scofield asked permission to
make an explanation, and Gen Butler ob
jected, unless he should be granted per
mission to reply to Mr. Scofield. Half a
dozen were at the same time attempting
to get in their words. Mr. Scofield claim
e that the Military Committee's reform
bill, passed last sesssion, required a larger
appropriation than was asked for before,
and that while all retired naval officers re
ceived only the half pay of the rank on
which they were retired, army officers re
ceived three-quarters of the pay of their
rank. When Gen. Butler left his seat
and came down to the front of the Speak
er's desk, every one in the House knew
that it was with no dainty lingers that
the subject was to be handled, and the
members crowded around him and a per
fect. silence pervaded the House. Refer
ring to Admiral Porter's letter, and the
allusions to him which it contained, Gen..
Butler said that if gratitude for the let
ter could influence his vote he should not
he opposed to this bill. Then, warming
wilit his subject, he made one of the most
scathing speeches heard on the door of
the House for many a day. The words
Caine " red-hot " from his lips, as he de
dounced Porter as a man who did not
know his own mind two days in succes
sion, and who one day lauded his corn
mander and the next day abused him.
Then comparing Porter, the author of the
lately printed letters, with the "sainted
and brave Farragut," he protested in the
strongest language that he was unwilling
that such a man should be held up as an
example for the brave and noble youth of
the United States navy. But the end of
Gen, Butler's speech was its climax. "As
the friend and associate of the noble Far
ragut," said he, "I say that I shall ob
ject to placing this honor upon a man
who has dishonored himself and dishon
ored the President." The look, the ges
ture, the tone in which this speech was
delivered added emphasis, and when Gen.
Butler sat down the House cared to hear
him no more. Mr. Cox added a few
words, and then the vote was taken viva
- wee, hardly a single voice being heard in
the negative. Mr. Kelley's resolution
abolishing internal taxation, a copy of
which was printed in the Tribune last,
week, caused a great deal of squirming
among the Democrats and "Revenue Re
formers," who tried in every way to dodge
the issue. Mr. Cox moved to adjourn while
the vote to suspend the rule and pass the
resolution was pending, and called the
Yeas and Nays. The Honse refused to
adjourn and then Judge Kedey,determin
ed to make the members place themselves
on record, demanded a call of the roll,
when a majority of the Democrats and
Free Traders made very wry faces and
Voted "Yea," Mr. Cox and fi ve others
only voting in the negative. Mr. Law
rence of Ohio announced that he paired
off with Gen. Butler, who would vote
"Nay," and so the last nail was driven
into the coffin of "Revenue Reform."
The House voted to-day to adjourn on
Thursday, the 22rtd inst., to January 4. ,
$1,351,903 31
215,401 00
15 00
81.602,321 31
IV..s.siriNGTox, Dec. 12
Items of Interest
One Muine editor has sued another Maine
editor for defamation of character, and the
defense is under Stood so be that, in the first
place, the plaintitrhad no character to speak
of, and that, even if he had, nothing the de
.endant could say would injure anybody.
A Western paper speaking of an after
linner speech, says: "Mr. Barlow's Mimi:,
dile style of elocution and gesticulation
knocked into a cocked hat the most sublime.
powerful ancl successful tragic efforts of For
rest, Macready, Murdock, Booth and Foch
ter.
A new ticket printing machine, which has
just been patented in England and Prussia,
prints railway tickets on both sides, perfor
ates them, and numbers them consecutively
by one process, and does all this at the rate
of two hundred a minute.
A few weeks ago a bull belonging. to Mr.
Doak , of Columbia county, fell into a well
that was being clog in the barn-yard. In
order to extricate the animal, the well was
tilled with straw, until, by tramping it clown,
he gradually mac higher and higher, and
finally walked over the top and out of hls
prison.
The New York Commercial thus tells how
King William is to become Emperor of Ger
many ; "King Louis, of Bavaria, tells King
John of Saxony, that he has invited King
William of Prussia, to become Emperor of
Germany, and King John, of Saxony, tells
King Louis of Bavaria, that King William,
of Prussia, is a "honky- boy;" whereupon
William pats them all upon the head and
says, with a voice choked by his paternal
emotions, 'Bless you; bless you, my child
ren, this is, indeed, the unification of Ger
many ! '
A gang of spurious detectives were arrest
ed at Chicago last week. They had been en
gaged quite extensively in restoring proper
ty on the Jonathan Wildprinciple. Having
nad a large connection with rural thieves,
who used to place stolen horses in a way to
be returned to the owners for a consideration
the "detectives" contrive to make plenty 01
money and live in splendid style.
The following very proper advertisement
appeared lately in an Arkansas paper:
" Whereas, I, Daniel Clay, through misrep
resentation, was induced to post my with,
Rhea, in the papers, now I beg leave to in
:orm the public that I have again taken her
to wife, after settling all our dornesrie broils
in an amicable manner. so that everything,
as usual, goes on like clock work.
James Kerr, aged 16 years, robbed his
rather (a miner) at Leechburg, on the West
Pennsylvania Ilailaoad, of $933, a few clays
ago.
A child had its dress saturated with pe
troleum in Allegheny city on Friday, went
up to a fire and was so severely burned that
it died.
A colored woman offered her ballot . at the
polls at the recent municipal election in New
Bedford, Mass.
Al "wild woman" recently scared a hair
do :fen men, who were chopping wood, in
Maine so badly that they ran away.
A locomotive on the Virginia and Georgia
Railroad exploded at Xnoxvilie on Satur
day, killing the conductor and fireman. and
severely injuring the engineer.
Mr. Sumner having introduced a bill to
s ecure seamen their wages, the New York
Pest thinks it would be a good thing to in
troduce a bill to secure them also a few
ships.
On Saturday night week, a valuable horse
was stolen from the stable of Mr, Thomas
Foot, in New Garden township. At the
time the horse was stolen the owner was
lying a corpse in the house.
The German soldiers have each a bottle
of wine per day, and each bottle contains
two ounces of alcohol sustaining and the
vegetable matter nourishing_ eshauste-d. na
ture.
At laeron. Ohio, while a father was
thrashinz his, son, the shed fell and broke the
old man's shonlder.
After a wedding it was formerly a cia.stoin
lo drink honey dissolved in water for thirty
inoon's age. Hence the oriain of
the honeymoon.
Oyer fifty New York street car conductors
have Been arrested this week for withholding
part of the fare, they collect. Women were
employed as '•spotters" to detect them.
Prairie chickens are so numerous in Illi
nois this season that numbers arc killed by
flying against the telegraph wires.
Norwich, Connecticut, has on exhibition a
silver shekel, said to have once been in one
of the vaults of King Solomon's temple.
A listener complains that in the debate at
a late meeting of the "Milk Producers' As
sociation," nothing was said about water.
"mistur tomtit; brown, president of nash
urnal bank, fellerdelfy," was the superscrip
tion on a letter that passed through the Bos
ton post otlice, recently.
An editor in the West, whose journal "went
up" some years since has been selling his ex
changes to a paper mill ever since, realizing
a considerable income,
Paris Figaro declares that carrier pigeon
which was shot while going into Paris with
important despatches, swallowed and thus
destroyed the same while rolling its eye in
its death agonies.
A Paris letter, per balloon, saysseven hun
dred people have gone crazy since the siege
commenced; the abuse of spirituous liquors
is said to have caused six hundred of these
cases. The writer says he never before saw
so many drunken people in the streets. Peo
ple drink to drown care; they often drown
reason with it.
As an evidence of the amount of business
transacted in time Internal Revenue Bureau,
it is ascertained that it takes eight men two
hours every day to open and distribute the
mail which relates to the business of the
office, and during the late assessment seven
teen tons of paper were required upon which
to print the blanks necessary for the income
tax alone.
THERE are over a hundred million ar
guments i•i favor of continuing the pre
sent Administration in power. The de
crease of the public debt since March 1,
1870, has been $104,010,082. If it is the
Dent family who are running the govern
ment, as the enemies of Gen. Grant are
prone to assert, they are certainly a won
derful family for thrifty management, and
the country could ill afford to part with
them.
TINDER our Republican administration
off go the taxes already. Before next
summer we shall probably have no inter
nal taxes save on liquor and tobacco, and
the expenses of the Government will be
paid by foreign manufacturers. This is
revenue reform that means something.—
Internal Taxation hereafter will only be
remembered, with war, drafting, and de
preciated currency, as one of the relics
and burdens of Democracy.
It is getting to be very unsafe to under
take to thrash tditors nowadays. A dis
patch says that the attempt of United
States Senator Stockton, of N. J., to cow
hide S. W. Frieze, editor of the Trenton
Sentinel, recently, resulted in his receiv
ing a severe punishment by Frieze, who
broke a large cane over his head, then
siezed the rawhide and beat him till he
made his esca-pe.
A Western Democratic journal de
nounces the divorce laws of Indiana as
disgraceful evidences of "Radical rule."
Inasmuch as they were passed when the
Democratic party had control of every
branch of government, and twenty thous
and popular majority, this is poor chron
ology. Those laws are simply relics of
Democratic barbarism.
8.1-l_EafllL ff Oil C_ES.
DECE:MBEII.
Tho Great Pictorial Annual
nostetter's United Almanac llrr Ib7l. for ells
Iributlen gratis, ihrein;liour I lie Cnned 6tatA•s,
and all civilized count' les of the Wth , tera llem-
Liphere, will be published about the titot of Jan
uary, Ul3llllll who we .it to understand the trill
philosophy of bealthslional read and pendia tit,
valuable suggestions It ciandins„ It addition to
an admirable medical treatise en the causes,
prevention and cure of a great variety of discus
es,i t embraces u large amount. of Ml'ol'lllllooll 111-
wresting to the merchant, the mechanic, tib
miser, the tamer, the plantei, and pro!.
man ; and the calculations nave It mad, I r . ,
such merkhans and lath Fav ale Stni•
able for a correct and comprehensive I.NIATtuNAL
CALENDAR.
.
The nature, uses, and extraordinary mini tar 3
effects Of Hostetter's storn , teli lianas, ;fiesta le
ionic anti alterative of Inure Ulan hall the Cl/11s •
clan world, ale lolly sot fo tit in its which
are also in terspei scd WILII pictorial lb 0 ,tract on,
Vain i:ne recipes for the li.usel old anti tar..., lin
morons 11110 dotes, and et. er Insti nett CC an
,rionsing relining Matter, 01 Ipnlicl and selected
A.inoug tee Minuets to appe with till, 01)011 LI,
of tile year, this will be one of tato year, tilts WI!.
be one of the lau 1 useful. and !nay LK; ha I for
the asking. 'The proprietors, Alessi . s. host, ttei
4v.• Sin al], on receipt of a. two coot sbunp, 11111
1.CW11.1%1 tt copy by Mall to may person WhO can
not prOctire nut bb DA: Liittgei,
,re soul in every city, town and Village, 11111
Are eXteliblVely 11,,Cti throughout Illls onLAre
.lizvn
To the Nervous and Debilitated
Whose sufferings have been protracted front
ridden causes, and whose cases require pi stop.
treatment to lender ,xistenee desirable: 11 you
.ire suffering, or have suffered, from involun
tary discharges, what effect does it produce upon
your general health? Do you feel weak, debt 11-
rated, easily tired? Does a little extra exertion
produce palpitation of the heart? Does your
liver, or urinary organs, or your kidneys, fre
tmently get out of order? Is your urine some
, hues thick, milky or flocky, or is it ropy or.
.ettling? Or does a thick scorn rise to the top':
or is a sediment at the bottom alter it has stood
awhile? Do you have spells of short, breathing
or dyspepsia? Are your bowels coast ?
Do you have spells of fainting, or rushes or Mothd
so the head? Is your memory impaited? is
your mind constantly dwelling on this subject?
Do you feel dull, listless, moping, tired of COM
parry, of life? Do you wish to be left alone, to
get away from everybody? Doesany littiu thing
make you start or jump? Is your sleep broker
tr restless? Is the lustre of your eye as Mil
:hint? The bloom on your cheek as br girt? Do
you enjoy yourself in society as well? Do you
pursue your business with tiresome energy ? Do
you have as much confidence lu yourself? Are
your spirits dull anti flagging, given to hits or
melancholy? If so, do not lay it to your liver
or dyspepsia. Have you restless nights? Yon'
back weak, your knees weak, and have hut
tittle appetite, and you attribute this to dys
pepsia or liver-complaint ?
IN:ow, reader, seil-abuse, venereal diseases
badly eared, and sexual excesses, are all capa
nloofproducinga weakness of the generative
organs, The organs of generation, when itt
perfect health, make lire man. Dui you ever
think that those bold, defiant, energetic, perse
vering, suceesstul business men are always
those whose generative organs are in periect
hearth? You never hear such Men COMplaill of
being melancholy, of nervousne , s, of pal miat ion
01 the heart. They are never afraid they Can
not succeed in business: they don't become sad
and discouraged; they are always p lite and
pleasant in the company of ladies. and look you
and them right in toe face—none of your down
cast looks or any other meanness about theta.
I do not mean those who hoop the mogul.. infla
ted by running to excess. These it ihi not only
ruin their constitutions, but also those they do
business with or fon
Dow mans men, from badly cured diseases,
front the effects of sell-abuse and excesses, have
brought about that state of weakness In those
organs that has reduced the general system so
much as to induce almost every other disease—
idiocy, lunacy, paralysis, spinal alleetions, sui
cide,and almost every other form of disease
which humanity is heir to, and the teal cause
of the trouble scarcely ever suspected, and have
doctored for all but the right one.
Diseases of these organs r equ ire the use of a
Diuretic. HELMBULD'S FLUID EXERACT
ts UCH:IJ is the great Diuretic, and is a certain
cure fur diseases or the Bladder, likineys. Grav
el, Dropsy, Organic Weakness, Female Com
plat nts, General Debility. and all diseases tit tnu
Urinary Organs, whether existing in Male or
Female, from whatever cause originating, and
no matter of how tong stionting.
If no treatment is submitted to, Consumption
or Insanity may ensue. Our flush and blow! lire
-upported irom these sou lees. and the hi alth
and happiness, and that of Posterity, depends
upon prompt use of a reliable remedy.
Helmbold's Extract Bucnu, established up
ward of lit years, prepared by 11. T. HEi,ll
- Druggist, ail Broadway. >eW YOI k, and
.hi South Mtn Street, Philadelphia, Pa YRICN:-
11.25 per bottle, orb bottles tor 91.3 u, delivered to
any address. Sold by all Druggis s ev. rywh re.
NONE ARE GENUINE unless done up in
steel engrrored wrapper, with km-smoke of in)
Chemical Warehouse, and signed
April 1, H. T. HELM BOLD.
OR THIRTY 1 1 14.:Alt8
Has that will•lcnown, standard, and popu
lar remedy,
'PAIN KILLER
manufactured by Perry Davis rt son, Provi
ri,-net•, It I, been before the public, and iii that
Lino has become known in aif pints of Ihe
world , and been used by people at all nations,
It remains to-day that same good awl Mil
debt remedy, Itswonderful power in relieving
the most save re pain, has never bre]) equalled
and It has earned its world-wide pepul.d•' my bit
its intrinsic merit, Ito curative agent, has had
so wide-spread sale or given sucb u+ucr oil
saus'action, The various Ills for which Me r in
Killer is an unfailing cure, are too well knot,
to require recapitulation in this adv.
As an external and Internal medicine the rani
Killer stands unrivaled, Directions iic,onipany
each bottle, Sold by all druggists, 11 ice Ci et s ,
Sects, and $1 per bottle,
NE W ADVERTISE3IENTS
COLUMBIA GAS COMPANY.
An election for President and Manners of
the C. tumbia Gas CO7ll pans, wit he held at
their virtue, on SATURDAY. DECEMBEtt lOth,
between the hours of 10 .1. Al, o od 4 I'. M.
UHAS. H• MCCULLOUGII,
Svvrelao
_ .
order
no% 19-1 L
INORTANT lIIMUACENEW
TO TI 1.-,
People of Colutub:a Sz, Vicinity 1
B. EISEILAN'S
EMPIRE CLOTHING HALL,
FULL OPERATION.
LARGEST ASSETMENT
A ''D
LOWEST PRICE S I
CALL AND SEE
Astonishing Bargains
READY-MADE CLOTHING!
AND
Gents' Furnishing Goods!!
The Goods hal= all my own manufacture
I can Sully guarantee them to be
Superior in Every 'Respect,
:hod I am selling them at
PRICES THAT DEFY COMPETITION !
So It you Want to save 2.1 per cent. In purchas
ing your goods, go to
B. BISBM-A_N"-'S
EMPIRE CLOTHING IIALI„
No. 43 Front St., between Locust & Wal
nut, Columbia.
imunisrn No. 45
ph. —LIE %)).-) LET. ...—HEADS
Jjl litj • N ESS CARDS., &c., by th, thousand
at the at'Y OM co.
HOLIDAY GOODS!
MUSC ATTE LL RASE :CS.
MUSCATTELL R SINS.
.11U,S.C.Irs.TTELL RASINS,
CRANBERRIES,
CRA Nl3 ER RI -.S,
CRANBERRIES,
,NTRON,
CITRON,
winnErn - -; AND ATMORE'S MINCE MEAT,
WBIOII'PS AND ATMORE'S MINCE MEAS,
WRI,JEIT'S AND ATMORE'S MINCE MEAT,
MI
HOLIDAY GOODS!
We call particular attention to our iinmensc stock of SPICES, consisting of
CINNAMON,
CIXNA (),
WHO LE MACE, WHOLE MACE,
WHOLE .M AC E, WHOLE MBCE,
GROUND MACE,
GROUND MACE,
ENGLISH LI, CARD. SODA
a-TY - All these Spices are warranted Pure and Fresh, at
HOLIDAY GOODS.
CROSS & BLACKWELL'S ENGLISH . PICKLES,
CROSS & BLACKWELL'S ENGLISH PICKLES,
CROSS & BLACKWDLL'S ENGLISH. PICKLES,
HOLIDAY GOODS !
We have on hand the largest, assortment of
FINE GLASS AND QUEENS WARE,
FINE GLASS AND QUEENSWARE,
CELERY GLASSES, CELERY GLASSES.
CELERY RY GLASSES, CELERY GLASSES,
GLASS BO VLS, COVERED & UNCOVERED,.
GLASS BOWLS COVERED & UNCOYERELY,
GL ASS SETS,
G LASS SETS,
O LASS PITCHERS,
GLASS PITCHERS,
GOBLETS,
GOBLETS,
SUIT:VI:LE PC )11 CH RISTMAS PRESENTS,
SUITABLE POR CHRISTMAS PEESP,NTS,
at R. HAYES',
HOLIDAY GOODS !
Just received a large lot of
PRIME NEW . ORTIE.A.NS BAK LNG MOLASSES
PRIME NEW OELEANS BAKING MOLASSES
TWEN Y-FIVE CENTS PER QUART
TWEN Y-FIVE CENTS PELL QUART
YORK COUNTY BUCKWHEAT,
YORK COUNTY BUCKWHEAT,
GOOD'S EAGLE 31ILLS FAMILY FLOTTR
GOOD'S EAGLE MILLS FAMILY FLOUR
Also, constantly on hand a large stock of
F 1 I aN
FRESH FAMILY GROCER,IES. 9
Better and cheaper than can be bought elsewhere.
The undersigned would call the attention of the public to his large and well-selected
stock of FRESH GitOCEILIES AND I'ROVLSIONS lust received from the City,
which he will sell WIEAPER THAN EVER I—FOR CASH! His s t oc k compr i ses
SUGARS, COFFEES. TEA S. SYRUPS,
SPICES, MACKEREL, CHEESE, POTATOES,
HAMS, SHOULDERS, SOAP, CANDLES,.
DRIED BEEF, DRIED AND CANNED FRUIT,
Also. BROOMS. BuUSIIES, BUCKETS. BED CORDS, and everything ita
the Grocery line. He ditcets special attention to hi., new and superior stock of
GLASS AND QUEENSWARE,
Which he is selling at prices LOWER than ever before offered jn Columbia. Callan
examine tor yourselves. Also, on hand FLOUR AND FEED. ..50- AGENT FOR
WM. GOOD'S EAGLE MILLS FLOUR,
The BEST Tawoly Finur in the Market Every barrel Warranted. Sold Cheap for
e„ s h . liae4mi purelnise , l toy gnarl- elleap Cacti. lit au prepared to otTer them cheaper
than) any 'jrV dealers. Goods sold for CASH ONLY.
A
R. HYES,
South-east Corner Fourth cf, Cilierry Sts., Columbia.
RAS 'is,
NSINS,
RASI SS.
SE ED TYBS
SE P. DLESS
S t , .;EDLE SS
South East Corner Fourth LP Chen y Streets.
GINGER,
CLOVES,
CLOVES,
GROU:CD PEPPER, jor Butchering purposes
S. E. COR. FOURTH & CIIERRY STS
SODA BISCUITS,
SODA BISCUITS,
BISCUITS,
BISCUITS,
WINE
WINE
AMERICAN PICKLES,
AMT . liICAN PICKLES,
FRENCH MUSTARD,
FRENCH MUSTARD,
CORNER FOURTH & CHERRY
CORNER FOURTH & CHERRY
S. E. COR. FOURTH d CHERRY STS
NEW CROP
NEW CROP
ONLY
SOUTEL EAST CORNER FOURTIT S. CHERRY STEFETS
VA LE NTOTA BASINS,
VAN ENCEA 11 A SINS,
VALENCIA. RASINS,
CRANBERRIES,
CRAN }3ERRIES,
ORANLERRIES,
CITRON,
CITRON.
CITRON,
R. HAYES',
CLOVES,
CLOVES,
CINNAMON,
CINNAMON,
R. HAYES',
R. HAYE'S,
GLASS SETS,
GLASS BETS,
GLASS PITCHERS,
GLASS PITCHERS,
YORK COUNTY BUCKWHEAT,
YORK COUNTY BUCKWHEAT,
R. HAYES',