The Columbia spy. (Columbia, Pa.) 1849-1902, December 17, 1870, Image 2
Clje etitumbia kpy. ' ~~ J w. YOCUBI 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. P !!! 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',