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PORTRAIT OF HONORABLE THADDEUS
STEVENS.
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TRIBUTE TO THADDEUS STEVENS.
The Governla. of Vermont—Mr. Ste
vens' native State—has officially commu
nicated to Gov. Geary, the following reso
lutions passed by the Legislature of that
State, at its recent session, relative to the
death of our late distinguished fellow
citizen and representative, lion. Thaddeus;
Stevens :
kr'solved by the ,!..'enate and House of Repre
schtatires, That so great a loss to the nation as
the death of the Honorable Thaddeus Stevens
deserves and should receive of the Represen
tatives of the people of his native State, in
General Assembly convened, a befitting and
appropriate recognition.
Resolved, That we mourn and deeply sym
pathize with those of his adopted State, whom
he so faithfully represented in the councils of
our nation, and by whom he was so nobly
sustained, in this their great bereavement and
irreparable loss of ono so firm, so devoted to
the interests, the welfare and the honor of the
people.
Resolved, That his patriotism, his devotion
to the principles of liberty, justice and equal
ity, his unswerving fidelity to the trusts of his
State, and the trusts of the Union, have left
an honorable and ineffaceable impression on
the pages of history and in the records of a
great republic.
Rrsolved, That we will wmember him as a
ion of Vermont, and will cherish his memory
and point with pride to his life as an example
of patriotism for ourselves and our posterity.
Resolved, That the Governor be requested
to transmit a copy of these resolutions to the
Governor of Pennsylvania.
STRAWS!
“ TI:001's ARE STILL NEEDED IN TILE
SOUTHERN STATES,” says Gen. Grant in
his model annual report. Does any one
doubt what that means ? Let rebels and
cut-throats down South weigh these words,
and let Northern copperheads and weak
kneed and time-serving Republicans un
derstand that Gen. Grant knows who he CONGRESS.
is dealing with, and knows what is nous- t On Monday next the regular session of
nary to secure peace. There can be no Congress meets. We shall keep our read
mistaking what his course will be. i ers fully advised of the proceedings.
In our last article on "The Republicans
of the Democratic counties," We neglected
to suggest a proper remedy for the wrongs
to which they have so patiently submitted
during the last thur or live years. What
they need, is a representation in the Leg
islature— some stem by N 1 tle it
an;] interests may be pr, T eriy
for by the Reptii•lb iii majority.
fears tczo. before the members of the
MI
aL:ro(.(1 t,) nu ,l 101 , ) pted thi
tiou lcavim aII li)eal Ili the
111011114'r,
trict I:cpubliv:lP.: , of' I rcnio
cnliie (*Mint it S :tr . cuptilp >-
dated. IN'e remember well, seVt'll,
and Dille years ago, Messrs. Lawrence,
Palmer aml Iliestand. or the senato. anal
fessrs. Sltzer, E.iimer and
other staunch Itepuhlican Ih'prestintatives
or tlic iloth,e, were akvays ready and
he, to take care ()I' our friends in the mi
nority counties. For instanee. when the
Itepuhlicans 11r1:.s county needed leg
islation calculated to giVt`
eneottrarement and lulvanta s, they in
variably forwarded their bills. petitions
and paper, to Dr. .1. 11. Seltzer, then rep
resentin,, one of the Philadelphia districts
n the Ilouse, and he never failed to — push
thin ,, s," and secure for them what they
needed. if rivld and proper. The Copper
head members from old lierks didn't seem
to like dohl:rs of this "side memher,
or tlicir "colle:igue, — Doctor Seltzer, hut
he Wits just the kind of a Representative
needed by the seven thousand Republi
cans of that benighted county, and for the
passage of several important bills they
are to tins day indebted to the same gen
tleman, who, we are pleased to add, also
rendered some very good service in Penn
sylvania during the late campaign.
But, for some years past, under the new
system of "local legislation," the rights
and interests of our friends in the Demo
cratic counties are entirely neglected, as
we have already shown. The remedy,
which we desire to suggest for the consid
eration of our Republican Representatives,
is as follows :
That the system of "local legislation ''
shall not apply to any bills, or measures
of a political character, or bearing upon
the interests of the Republican party, and
in order to ascertain, and be enabled to
carry out the will of the Republicans of
York, or Berks, or Lehigh, or any other
Democratic county, the proposed legisla
tion should lirst receive the endorsement
of the Republican candidates for the Sett-
ate and house of' Representatives of' the
district at the last election, This would
I give us a good and safi systen►. and, in
our opinion, would prove satisfactory to
every Republican. It would require the
Republican candidates of Democratic
counties to take upon themselves sonic
ukw responsibilities, as their endorsement
of bills of a political nature would, in
most cases, assure speedy passage through
both Houses. Such a system, if adopted
by the Republican Legislative caucus,
would also, in future, induce the licpubli-
cans of the counties in question to nomi
nate their very best, most intelligent and
discreet men, as they would thtis virtu-
ally decide upon all local legislation bear
ing upon the interests of the party. As
some thin! , 114 be done to meet the wants
of our good aml faithful Republican breth
ren or the Democratic counties. and as we
know of no other plan or proposition, we
hope this one may receive at least fair con
sideration.
Gen. GRANT'S REPORT.
The annual report of Gen. V. S. Grant,
as commanding officer of the Armies of
the United Slates. is characteristic of the
man—short, sensible, full of force, and to
the point. It is herewith subjoined :
lIEADQ'RS ARMY OF TUE UNITED STATES,
WASHINGTON, D. C., Nov. 24,1565.
Gen. J. M. Schofield, Secretary of War.
Sir : I have the honor to submit the reports
of division, district, and department com
manders for the past year. These reports
give a full account of the operations and
services of the army for the year, and I refer
to them for details. I would earnestly renew
my recommendation of last year, that the
control of the Indians be transferred to the
War Department. I call special attention to
the recommendation of Gen. Sherman on this
subject. It has my earnest approval. It is
unnecessary that the arguments in favor of
the transfer should be repeated. The neces
sity for it becomes stronger and more evident
every day. While the Indian war continues
I do not deem any general legislation for the
reduction of the army advisable. The troops
on the Plains are all needed. Troops are still
needed in the Southern States. A further re
duction can be made in the way already used
and now in operation, where it is safe, name
ly, by allowing companies to diminish by dis
charges without being strengthened by
recruits, and by stopping appointments of
Second-Lieutenants. If it should be deemed
advisable, the Veteran Reserve regiment
might be discontinued by absorption and
retirement of officers and discharge of men,
without detriment to the service.
Very respectfully, your obedient servant,
U. S. GRANT, General.
Robert Ould--=the infitmous—made a
motion in the U. S. Circuit Court, at Rich
mond, Va., on Monday, before Judge
Chase, to quash the indictment against
Jeff. Davis. The motion will no doubt
prevail, and the farce will end—for farce
it has become, since this same judge has
ruled against the test oath to jurors. Who
would have thought that this would have
' all come to pass ?
THE REMEDY.
THE END OF IT.
THE U. S. SENATORSHIP.
Without claiming to influence the vote
of a single member of the Legislature on
the Senatorship, and having no particular
individual favorite innong those antieutnc
eel as candidates for the honor, we have a
weird to SaV as to the kind eif a man we
want, and if we fail tee _et Snell a one, it
will lee because the thin:r %%111 have been
"•,!.1 up" otherwise.
;111(1;11),,vt, :111. Nvc want :1 I:Erl"it-
Li , AN. vaai t .vcr pll inly tln, 1::(.11t10-
111011 (11 . 1110 Solllll.l' ;111(1 114)11,y ()I' Pepe
sentatives, give IN a senator
»1 :.entinient: , , are kiimvii nHI all tl(
1 ) ~)ple tt, RE(.(
AN, of the Iwnysi, ,;(Icort , : 11,4 rAic.,ll
stamp. We want no more Cowan, ;we
have just won a great REet ta.t , AN vic
tory at the ballot-box, and now we have a
right to expert and demand that our rep
resentatives will follow up our victory by
electing a SALttor about whose publi
canism no question mit be raised. •;11011Id
the election of one aot well known as a
radical Republican rllresentative man be
forc(A through the caucus, Om) elected,
the member or members so Voting as to
bring about such a rt suit, will dcserve to
be homed out Of all decent society, and
pointed at in public and in private, by all
honest people, as the meanest of all mean
men—contemptible creatures, who can be
bought and sold with money, Ibr a specific
purpose, as the Hessian was sold during
the war of the revolution.
Gentlemen ! We mean Republican Sen
ators and Representatives of Pennsylva
nia! We are among those who expect you
to give ns a right kind of a man for Visited
States Senator—A RADICAL Itlipria,icAN
IiEI'nEsENTATIVE MAN, and none other.
If you don't, the people will brand you as
worse, and meaner, than the meanest of
all mean things on the face of the earth!
Money will doubtless be used, or offered,
to make votes for the Senatorship,
as it is alleged it has been hereto
fore. Now, if you will sell your vot , s ;
if you cannot afford to be honest ;
if you did spend as much money in
securing your election as your salary
amounts to, or if even your family at home
is very poor and in need of bread-and
butter, do, we beseech you, sell out—if sell
you must—on some other question than
the Senatorship. If your vote is for sale
on other questions, why, then be it so.
We can't help that, and if you are very
poor, and needy, and mean, and God-for
saken, you can't help it. But, do try just
this one time to elect A REPUBLICAN
UNITED STATES SENATOR. There will
be plenty of other chances fin• you to make
money during the ensuing session of the
Legislature. Probably there will be sev
eral "meritorious" railroad Idris, or some
special manufacturing privileges asked fur,
to allbrd you a chance to make something
for yourselves, or some bread and butter
for your family. And when you do sell,
do it on the sly. Don't do it on the Sen
atorship! And don't sell too cheap!
A DEMOCRATIC SAINT.
Notwithstanding the grand Republican
victory just won, and the final settlement
of our national affairs which it lets already
assured, we must not ignore the fact that
the old enemy is yet alive, and preparing
again to organize and rally his threes—the
grand army of New York burglars, prize
fighters, shoulder-hitters, pick-pockets,
big thieves and little thieves, black-legs,
keepers of rum-mills and dance-houses,
confidenee-men, lottery swindlers, bum
mers, perjurers, jail-birds and subjects of
the devil generally.
The Democrat," published by the no
torious " Brick" Pomeroy, at New York,
is the recognized organ of this party, from
the last number of which we extract the
following :
"The fight for next year has begun. Those
who are not with us are against us. Let our
enemies look sharp—clear the tiock—stand
from under. There will be a lively shower of
potash and brick-dust in 1869, and some one
will get scorched. * * * It must be ac
knowledged that John Wilkes Booth's grand
exhibition of courage was eminently success
ful. After the partisan excitement of the
hour shall have died out; after the passions
and prejudices of this generation shall have
been buried by the next, the Americans of
that day will look back with pride to the ex
ploit of young Booth, and they will flush with.
a feeling of admiration Then, as do the people
of to-day, when contemplating the daring
and courage of the youth who fired the Ephe
sian Temple, and America may then assist in
making the name of Booth immortal, by com
memorating the 14th of April, as the people
of England have immortalized the name of
Guy Fawkes, in celebrating the Oth of No
vember."
GOING-GONE
It is a gratifying filet that the recreants
remaining in the U. S. Senate are gradu
ally and surely meeting their fate. Doo 7
little and Dixon will go into retirement on
the 4th of March. Cowan is already
there, and A. .1., the prince of traitors,
will, also, retire to his deserved oblivion
on the 4th of March, together with the
miserable hangers on in and out of the
Cabinet.
A SURE THING.
The Pittsburg Gazette says, what every
reader knows to be true, that where the
journals of Pennsylvania record the arrest
of a thief or burglar, and the capture of
his "tools," the kit comprises not only the
regular appliances of the rascally trade,
but a batch of the Snowden naturalization
papers. Can anybody account for this?
Or*No notice can be taken of any com
munication, or article, unless we know the
real name of the author.
ORANT AND COLFAX ELECTED.
(hi IVednesday last, the Presidential
Electors chosen by the people, met at the
Capitol, in each State, and cast their votes
for President and Vice President.
; The Electors or thiK State assembled in
the Senate Chamber, :It I larrisbur. at 1 . ..!
o'clock IM., :unl were c.illed to order by
lleu
.henry Johnson. when Thomas
! M. - Ntarshall. Ia 1.. or All.e:dteny, was
chosen President. nil Geor!re W. Ham
; ersley. .1. li. Dunglison and George F.
Morgan, :•-:1 cr..taries: '.catlian S. Thomas,
Ser , ent-at-.1 rms. and Capt. (i. L. Braun
and Isaac Tlamburg. Assistants, nil An
dr,w Alexander, Mt ssetc 4 er. Hey. Mr.
Mitchell offered up an appropriate prayer,
Messrs. Sill, Pollock and Johnson were
appointed tt committee to wait upon the
(;overnor and inform him that the Elec
toral College was ready to reeeive any
communication lie mig . ht be pleased to
make.
The Secretary of the l'oninionwvalth
being introduced. proplitt‘d n niess:i , e
From the (;(I\ - (` I'llor. «Lieli ww;
Genf/erne»: In compliance with the require
ments of the 3d section of the. Act of Con
gress, passed the Ist day of March, 1792, I
have caused three lists of the names of the
Electors of the State of Pennsylvania to be
male and certified in accorda nce with said
act; and also a cotry of the Proclamation o f
the election of said Electors, together with a
copy of the notification given them of their
election, in accordance with the requirements
of the act of Assembly, passed July 2d, 1839,
all of which is herewith respectfully submit
ted for the use of the Electors. I have the
honor to be, gentlemen, with much respect,
Your obedient hervant,
Jolts W. fIEARY.
The usual forms bent ! , preparod, and
Messrs. Stewart, 13: u •nes and Huhn ap
pointed tellers, the ballots of the Electors
were east--twenty-six Mites for 1 'lysses S.
Grant 1.4 President, and Schuyler Colfax
for Vice President of the United States.
The certificates, as required by law, were
then executed, and one placed into the
hands of ,lames S. Iltdan, one of the Elec
tors, to 1w by him delivered to the Presi
dent of the United States Senate; one
placed into the hands of IL F. Wagonsel
ler, one of the Electors, to be by him di
rected to the President of the U. S. Sen
ate, and delivered to the Post Master at
the seat of Government of this State, and
one copy placed into the hands of John
11. Bringhurst, one of the Electors, to be
by him delivered to John Cadwallader,
Judge of the District Court of the United
States for the Eastern District of Penn
sylvania. Five hundred copies of the
proceedings were ordered to lie printed fin•
the use of the members.
THE PHILADELPHIA MURDER.
Some of the particulars of the murder
of Mrs. Mary E. Hill, at Philadelphia,
were published in our last week's issue.
Additional particulars were obtained at
the examination by the coroner, from
which it appeared that her son-in-law,
George S. Twitehel, Jr., induced her to
buy the house she lived in. The contract
was left to Twitchel, who secured the deed
of the property in his wife's name, and a
short time since tried to no )rtgage the same
raise nc •ey. The deceased heard f
the act, atm commenced legal proceedings
to save the property. This difficulty is
supposed 14) be the cause of her murder.
She had been twice m:u•ried. and was about
sixty years of age. The evidence shows
that 7Fwiteliel murdered her by b..at in , her
over the head with a p , )ker. ai'ter• which he
threw her out of the third story window,
to make it appear that she either fell or
Jumped out, which caused her death. The
evidence, completely destroyed the theory
of mlthery and !tinnier by outsiders,
The Jury rendered a verdict to the effect
that George S. TW tCIIC I, Jr., and Camilla
Twitchel, his wife, and own datiliter of
the deceased, perpetrated the deed, and
both were imprisoned. What a horrid
commentary on the wickedness of the
human heart! !fere were two compara
tivelv young married persons, surrounded
by ail the comff iris and, indeed, the luxu
ries of life, incited to commit it dreadful
deed of murder, through a. desire to ob
tain possession, in their own name, of the
property of an indulgent parent. Oh,
to what base and wicked purposes can the
devil entice poor human nature.
PIT SCHWEFFLEBRENNER.
The pamphlet containing• "Pit Schwer
llebrenners'" campaign litters, making
about ten pages inure than we expected,
will not be ready much before the br,th
inst.
STATE NEWS.
You]: COUNTY.—An attempt was made
by burglars last Friday night to enter the
Jewelry Store of Bodenheimer and Alle
welt, Hanover On the 17th ult. a lit
tle son of David F. Miller, of Codorus, was
burned to death, by his clothes catching
tire, in the absence of the family Dr.
IFinkle a prominent citizen of Hanover,
aged (4, died on the 2,lstult Robbing
hen roosts in and about Hanover is the j
order of the night.. .1. costly wedding
suit, and :other articles of clothing, were
stolen from the merchant tailoring estab
lishment of Lawrence Heil, Hanover, by
burglars, on the night of the 18th tilt
The "Temperance Hall' , property, in
York, was sold to Mr. Alexander Hay for
$B,OOO 1. Teachers' Institute wall be
held to-morrow, December sth, at Lewis
berry A firemen's parade, consisting
of the Union and Vigilant Companies,
took place at York on Thanksgiving day,
and on the same evening a festival by the
Union Company commenced at Washing
ton Hall, to raise means to buy a new
steamer. On the same day the Laurel
Company of York visited Columbia
The residence of W. H. Forscht, in Man
chester, was entered on Tuesday afternoon,
last week, by straggling thieves, and robbed
of a lot of clothing. They were arrested
and committed An entertainment
will be given by the M. E. Sabbath School
at Wellsville, to-morrow, Saturday eve
ning Potatoes sell, at York, at 81 to
$1.25 per bushel; eggs, 30 to 35e; butter,
40 to 45c; chickens, 40c, to sl.oo:per pair;
lard, 14 to 20e; apples 25 to 40c per half
peck.
BERKS COUNTY.-JOhU De Turk, one
of the oldest inhabitants, died in oley
township on the 19th ult., aged over SO
years nice young limn from the
country, whilst in one of the dens of Read
ing a few nights ago, became decidedly
tipsy, and was relieved of his watch by
one of the "ladies , of the place The
Reading 7.,',/q/c states that an excitement
was created by a report that a human
hand was found in Deuniir , er's Woods,
near the city. The reportyr visited the
spot, and found th e Lind. hut. upon ex
amination, it appeared to lw an artificial
one, covered with a glove. flow it came
there. or to whom it helongs, is a inytt.ry.
k midnight train between Phi!adel
, phia and Heading is talked of The
extensive printing establishment or the
Dui( ,/ Emile an d the
Book Store, will soup be moved
to Sixth and Penn streets. Heading., the
proprietors having bought the well-known
Schmacker House " for this purpose, for
S1;2.100. They are building an extensi' 0
print lug house in the rear of the main
buildin4r Hon. N. Eisenhower was
taken ill very suddenly on Saturday last
whilst walking out Daniel Baum.
Esq., of Muldenber4 , - a prominent and
'highly esteemed citizen, died on Sunday
morning, front the effects of a strut:4! of
palsy Henry Kirchman, fitrenunt of
Division repair department. East Penna.
H. It., was seriously injured. on Monday,
by jumping from a train whilst in motion.
The _wile, of Monday, gives an I,('-
(.01,111t: or the shooing or a boy named
.14)1)11 Rhode, by a pollee ()dicer. on Satur
day night. Tt appears that the bay at
tempted to commit :in outrage upon a
female in the neighborhood of st.
and Court alley, :Id after arrestim , hint
the buy broke away from him and runt
down the alley, when the otlic.a• fired two
shots, one of which took effect in the hip.
Heading has more lodges of various
kinds, and more lager beer saloons than
my town of its size in the Stat"S
The teachers of Albany township or
ganized an Institute,John R. Lord, Pre-d
-dent Etrals are being iniule ni organ
ize a free Library fi n • ti n voung men or
Reading - The Reading /•.,' , //j( loves
poor ppi)ple !
BUCKS COUNTY.—The dWening of ar.
Francis, residing between Bristl and
Davisville, was entered, on the evening of
the :2 - 2d ult., by a burglar, and robbed of
11 . (0 and a lot of clothing A child 1(.11
years old, of sprin!rtiod township, was
arrested and CI ffinnitted to prison on a
charge (if stealing . a silver watch and a
fifty (vitt stamp 1 Good Templars'
Convention was held in the Doylestown
Court llouse on last Friday, and a large
public meetinr was held in the evening....
1. quarterly meeting of the Ilicksite
branch of the Society of Friends was held
at :Middletown last week Bev. Wm.
Wilder, of the New Britain First Baptist
Church, has accepted the pastorship of a
Church at Bridgeton, N.. 1 New Build
ing. Association, at Quakertown, success
ful Sixty sales of real estate in Bucks
county, advertised in the Doylestown
Dunoreut,
CENTRE ('or vrv.--.\ premium will be
offered for the best baby, to be exhibited
at the next county fair 1 Republican
of Bellefonte, Prof. Hastim , s, won a live
pillion the late election Typhoid fever
is raging at Pleasant Gap Mrs. Divine,
sixty years old, residing at Bellefonte, a
few nights back, seated herself near the
hearth to smoke her pipe. I ler husband,
feeling uneasy on aceount of her long stay
down stairs,'went down and found her
lying on the floor, burned to death. It is
supposed that her dollies eamdd lire
whilst she was asleep, and that she be
came stupitied and unable to give the
alarm Butter, at I lelletiade, sells for
40 cents, and eggs tOr
Com - mttl.k. Corxrv.---The Republican
Club, of Bloom township, held a meeting
on Friday evening .1 Literary society
has just been oro.anized at Ilerwiek ...... A
sabbath school Convention at Blooms
burg is talked of, and the M i otblicon goes
in for it 1 County Teachers' Insti
tute will be held at llloomsburg, emu
mencing on the 14th of December A
number of leading Republicans of Blooms
burg are out in a letter to 1)r. P. John,
editor Of the 11,1»thlbwo, tendering him
their support for the assessorship of the
district, which, however, the Doctor re
spectfully declines.
MIFFLIN - COuSTY.—A valuable bay
horse was stolen from Mr. Samuel L. Ru
ble, in Granville township A deer,
weighing 150 pounds dressed, was shot by
Ifoward Muthersbough, on Jack's moun
tain. A number of deer have also been
killed in Licking and Black-Log valleys...
At Lewistown eggs sell !br 23 cents;
butter, 20 to 40; potatoes, $1 per bushel..
George W. Thomas, aged (2, one of
the leading citizens of Lewistown, died on
the 118th ult.
LYCOMING COUNTY.--A. W. Norton,
a boarder at the American Hotel, Wil
liamsport, committed suicide on Wednes
day of last week, about six o'clock in the
morning, by shooting himself through the
head with a pistol.
SCHUYLKILL COUNTY.—The Cadets of
Temperance are now holding a fair in the
Pottsville Town hail The Lebanon
and Pinegrove railroad is progressing rap
idly. Its total length is 22 miles, and its
extension to Manheim twenty m0re....0n
Thursday evening, of last week, John
Dully was shot by Edward Pursel, in a
drinking saloon at West Delaware mines,
because he would not drink whisky, he
being, as he alleged, a member of a tem
perance society. Pursel was drunk and
in custody, and may is in a critical con
dition Major John 11. Downing, an
old and prominent citizen of Pottsville,
died on Thursday of last week John
Cox and his brother-in-law, miners, em
ployed at the East Mt. Lafee
were instantly killed on Wednesday, last
week, by the breaking of a chain as they
were coining up the slope, carrying the
cars back to the bottom U. H. Tracy,
Esq., Superintendwit of the Schuylkill
and Susquehanna railroad, recently re
signed his office, to take elli.ct on the first
of January next Win. T. Heed, Super
intendent of the Mine llill planes, was
drawn under the wheels, a few days ago,
whilst going up the plain, and whilst at
tending a break, and the cars ran over 011 C
leg and both arms. Ile died On the same
evening A now Lodge of (iood Tem
plars was instituted at Schuylkill Haven.
BEDFORD COUNTY.—Deer hunting is
quite brisk in the county Henry Bear,
of St. Clair township, was convicted and
sentenced to prison for three months, for
voting, not too early, but too often The
County Commissioners, the Grand Jury
and the .Tudges of the court are all at log
gerheads about the proposed new Poor
House, and the Int - parr,. also pitches in.
Location and cost are the points at issue.
NORTH UMBERLAND COUNTY.-- A. large
tumor has been removed from the neck of
G. W. Ziegler, Esq., a member of the
Northumlwrland county bar The pul
pits of the Presbyterian and Lerman Re
-lOrmed Churches of Sunbury are vacant..
Alackey, a frei!;111. conductor
on the Philadelphia Erie railroad. was
instantly killed above Watsontown, on
Monday nkrlll or last week, by titllin
from the top or a ear on a bumis whilst
the train was in motion, 0101 hurstim; a
Hood v,.ssel Butter, at Sunbury. 15e.:
:',11; chickens, GO cents pl• pair: pc
tatoes, ::7 , 1.25 per bushel.
Couvry.--A Connell oc.ftm
ior American - Mechanics has been 0r..-an
ized at Co,ttcsyille A huildin associa
tion is to be organiz e d at I)owningtown...
A mau was driving two teams. near
Coatesville, a few days ago, and stumbled
and 11.11 under the wheel of the rear cart,
which pass. (1 over Into. breaking three of
his ribs Pusly B. NWhols, Esq., is
announced as a candidate fiw t". S. Mar
shal, Eastern District of this State Rev.
Mathew Newkirk, of the Central Presby
terian Church of Downingtown. has ac
cepted the pastorship of the North Tenth
Stroet Presbyterian church of Philadel
phia While oilim, sonic of the ma
chinery connected with :t in
Houston & Penrose's rollin mill, at
Coatesville, John McKeefer's head was
can ht and crushed, caushw . instant death.
John M, Ingram, of East Ilradtbrd,
accidentally shot himself in the foot whilst
out gunning on last Saturday The now
bridge across the Schuylkill, IH.lmy Potts
town. is nearly finished Two Irish
men robbed Jamt.s T. Mullin's clothing
sture of several articles, last Friday.
They were arrested and committed
Iforath . 11eNcal was filially injured by
falling down stairs in his Iniuse at Penns
ry The Commissioners haVV ap
pOilltVd Sa11111:1 C. Harry and Caleb 11.
Kinnard Inspectors of the Chester ('nun
iv Prison.
LEBAN - ox Cot - N - I'v.-11ev. U. H. Heil
man, of Lebanon, has been elected pastor
Of the German Reformed Church of Lew
isburg The Philokostnian Literary so
ciety, connected with the Lebanon Valley
College, at Annville, will give an enter
tainment on Thursday evening the 17th
inst Ten dollars per hundred pounds
flr porkers in Lebantm, live weight
Abner Fox's barn, near Iflumnelstown,
W:tS destroyed by fire, on Alonday night
of last week The new M. E. Church
of Lebanon will be dedicated On Sunday
the 13th inst., on which occasion Itey.
llishop Simpson, of Philadelphia, and
Bev. S. IL C. Smith, of' Columbia, will
officiate The ( n/wit r says the Head
ing 11. R. company design changing their
depot :it Lebanon, to a locality outside of
the eastern boroudi limits, unless some
arrangement can 1 made to secure the
additional space they require fin• their bu
siness.. A committee has been appointed
by the borough council to cow to an un
derstanding with the company so as to
retain the &init where it is now, within
the borough.
DAUPHIN COUNTY.-- Aceordhl2: to the
Telgirii.ph they have an association at Har
rishur, " for the introduction of guilt
into the county." The biggest kind of a
gams will come otr at I larrislitir , early in
January, to be played up on the Hill, with
a few side games every evening in the
several Legislative boarding !pluses A
salute of twenty-one guns was tired on
Capitol Hill, Harrisburg, on Wednesday,
in honor of the, casting of the vote of
Pennsylvania, by the Electoral Coll ere, in
favor of Grant anti Colfax for the Presi
dency and Vivo Presithqicy of the unitetl
States.
( 4Local
IMPORTANT AND INTERESTING LAW
SUIT : Great interest has been felt for some
days in the important law-snit of Merritt
Smith, of York county re. the Lancaster
' County National Bank, which was before our
Court last week. The facts of the case, as we
glean them from the evidence were as follows:
It was testified by James H. Clark, that on
the 23d of October, 1866, he accompanied Mr.
Smith, his father-in-law, to the Lancaster
F County National Bank, and that the bonds in
question were delivered to Mr. Champneys,
the teller of the bank, who called off the de
nominations and numberFrof the bonds, which
were taken down by Mr. Clark; the bond°
were placed in an envelope by Mr. Champ
neys, and Mr. Smith's name written on the
back. Mr. Smith also, at the suggestion of
Mr. Champneys, wrote his name and address
in the signature book of the bank. On the
23d of Jan nary, 1867, three months afterwards,
Mr. Smith hating need of his money, called
again at the bank with Mr. Clark, and asked
for his bonds,
when, after examining the
vaults and not finding them, Mr. Champneys
asserted that they had *ever brought any
bonds there, or if they hail, they had taken
them away again—declaring at the same time
his belief that this was an attempt to swindle
the bank. Mr. Champneys, a short time af
terwards, denied any knowledge of the bands,
in presence of Mr. Joseph Clarkson, from
whom Mr. Smith had purchased the bonds.
In the month of April following, Mr. Smith
brought suit for the recovery of the value of
the bonds, and the trial was postponed from
time to time, at the instance of the bank, until
June last, when the case was tried by arbi
trators, the judgment being given for Smith.
The Bank appealed, and the case came up for
trial last week. After the testimony for the
plaintiff, Mr. Champneys, the teller of the
bank, took the stand and stated that he did
receive the bonds as testified on behalf of the
plaintiff, but that some time afterwards, and
before the time that Mr. Smith applied for
their redelivery, a man who said his name
was Merritt Smith, of Peach Bottom, York
county, called at the bank, produced a memo
randum containing the numbers of Mr.
Smith's bonds, and thereupon Mr. Champ
neys delivered them to him without identifi
cation or further inquiry. The witness de
clared that at the time Mr. Smith called for
his bono, in January, 1867, be had forgotten
both that Mr. Smith had left the bonds there
and that the other man had called and got
them ; but, that upon thinking the matter
over, soon after Mr. Smith's application, he
recollected both circumstances, and informed
the officers of the bank and their counsel of
the same. This testimony was entirely a sur
prise to Mr. Smith and his counsel, as they
had never had an intimation that a defense cf
this nature would be set up on the part of the
bank. After able and exhaustive arguments
by the counsel on both sides, Judge Hayes
charged the jury, in substance, that the law
applicable to the case was, that the defendant
was bound to exercise that degree of care and
caution in the keeping and delivery of the
bonds, that ordinary, careful business men
would exercise in regard to their own affairs ;
and if the bank had not done this, the plain
tiff was entitled to recover. The jnry retired