jatker Abr4am. INDEPENDENT AND PROGRESSIVE. Reonomy, Retrenchment, Faithful Collection Of the Revenue and Payment of the Public Debt: GRANT. LANCASTER crrt, 16A. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 24,1889 FATHER ABRAHAM! EVERYBODY READS IT! Nuke up your Clubs! TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION': copy, one year -•• • •••... copies, (each nanieaddreesedd 10 copies. " AS 16 copies, .1 20 copies, 4l And $1..10 for each additional subscriber I'OR CLUBS, TN PACKAGES. 6 copies, (to one address,) 10 copies, " lb copies, " 20 soplos, " 41 And *l.OO for each additional subscriber. - Ali subscriptions must invariably be paid in advance. MARCHING ON! At the special election held in the Bth Indiana District, on Monday last, for a member of Congress, in place of Hon, D. D. Pratt, elected to the U. S. Senate, Hon. J. N. Tyner, Republican, was elected by a largely increased majority, over his Cop perhead opponent. WRONG-DECIDEDLY. The Columbia Spy calls the pastors and folders at Harrisburg a "corrupt crew," and says they have been "lounging and sponging about the capitol." Now, we submit that they are not to blame. They wouldn't have been there, if "the mom ben', had not taken them. Certainly, the Spy has "the wrong sow by the ear." Then to intimate that "the members" are trying to " use the pesters and folders as a means of obtaining money from the treasury to be divided between them and the members themselves," is perfectly awful I LOOK TO THE SENATES The House of Representatives, at Har risburg, has at last began to show signs of relenting, by adopting a resolution dis missing the illegal supernumeraries. But in doing so it framed the resolution so as to legalize their appointment mad.author ize the paying of them out of the State Treasury. It rests now with the Senate to decide whether the outrageous transac tion of pensioning these twenty-seven men shall be endorsed, and the scheme even in part, succeed. It is not forgotten that these men were employed by the House, in the face of the law of last session, lim iting the number to thirty-four, and also in the face of the fact that the Senate re fused to pass the resolution of the House, at the commencement of the session, au thorizing their appointment, and by this action represented truly the wishes of the Republicans of the State. Will the &nate recede! - Why should it ? ADMITTED I We charged time and again that the reason why the number of employees were increased by the House, at Harrisburg, was not because they were necessary, but because every member wanted his man, to redeem promises made when they were candidates. Mr. Strang, of Tioga, has been very persistent in saying that they were necessary, until last week, when he came down handsomely as follows : He said : "Sixty-one might be half a dozen more than were actually necessary for a rigidly economical administration of the House. But how was each man in the House to hare one appointment? This was necessary to have harmony." A more shameless avowal was probably never made; but this is a specimen of the argu ments made use of to sustain the act of extravagance. ROW TREY LIM A respectable colored man of Washing ton, addressed a note to Mayor Bowen, the chairman of the committee on the sale of tickets for the Inauguration •Ball, asking whether any distinction on account of color is to be made an the sale of tickets. The into/hi/nicer could not help lying about it, and says, in Mondayls issue, that Mayor Bowen, has addressed hhn a reply hi which he says that " any person of respectability will be admitted to the ball, Without respect to color." Now, Mayor Bowen said no sueligthing, but replied that , "Any person of rospectable character and standing in this cornlnunity, who applies and tr.s for a ticket 'to the inauguration Ball, to held in the north wing of tho Treasury De partment, will not be denied, at least so far as my action is concerned. The question of color never having arisen in the committee, I cannot of course decide for them." Who will not agree to give the palm for wilful, deliberate and premeditated lying to the pair of worthies—"Socky” Smith and Andrew Jackass Steinman—who edit the Lancaster kiteUigenoer, TUB STATE ComarrrEE of the Demo cratic party of Pennsylvania, "Coffee-Pot" Wallace, chairman, has been called to meet at 'Harrisburg on Tuesday, March 30th, to fix the time and place for holding the next Democratic State Convention to nominate candidates for 'Governor and Judge of the Supreme Court, to be de feated ou the second Tuesday of October 110Xt. RAN OR RONRILI 2 People are not troubled in the least to know which is man or monkey of the Thug organ. The monkey sticks out so plainly that it requires no zoologist to bring his science into requisition to decide the ques tiei. One of them has performed "on tilb street corners" in a way that would disgrace a monkey. 1)o you want to know how ? Somebody has perpetrated: the following decidedly good thing on the senior editor of FATHER ABRAHAM, and his esteemed old friend, George Brubaker, Esq., now the learned District Attorney of this county, and as it appeared only in a paper published at Manheim, we trust our read ers will not deem it egotistical on our part for giving the story the benefit of our ex-. tensive circulation. It is too good to be lost. Here it is : "Some years ago, when Geo. Brubaker was Register of this county, he employed this same Rauch, editor of FATHER ABRAHAM, as his clerk, at a salary of live 'hundred dol lars per annum, and after being in his office three years, and taking In all the fees for Bru baker, he keeps an account of all the illegal. hes he charged in the absence of George, and when Brubaker's term expired Bauch boldly demanded half of The amount illegally col lected, otherwise he threatened to prosecute his employer for misdemeanor in oftioe. We are told that Brubaker had to divide in order to silence his former clerk. Now this gentle man, Ranch, wishes to be the model reformer in the Folder and Paste Department at Har risburg." (Lancaster Inquirer please copY.) • ..., 1.60 ... 7.00 ... 13.00 ... 18.00 ...nal .•! 6.50 .. 12.00 .. 16.50 .. 20.00 ROMAN CATHOLICS IN OFFICE. A late number of the New York Herald publishes the following list of public offices, by far the most lucrative, bold by Roman Catholics in that city : high Sheriff, Register, Comptroller, City Cham berlain, Corporation Counsel, Police Com missioner, President of the Board of Water Works, President of the Board of Alder men, President of the Board of Council men, Clerk of the Common Council, Clerk of the Board of Supervisors, five Justices of the Courts of Record, all the Civil Jus tices; every Police Justice, except two; all the Police Court Clerks, three out of the four Coroners, two members of Congress, three out of five State Senators, eighteen out of twenty-one members of the Assem bly, fourteen-nineteenths of the Common Councilmen, and eight-tenths of the Su pervisors. This vast political power is believed to be used in the interest of the Papal Church, securing for its institu• tions, out of the public coffers, immense grants of valuable real estate in the city, as well as millions of money. The church, thus, in the first place, controls the tax ation of the city property, and next, the distribution of millions of revenue, re ceived from taxation. A BLACK RECORD. The " Observer" letters from Washing ton to Forney's Press, are inimitable in style and force. In one of a recent date we are reminded that in the past ten years the Democratic leaders have had a hundred opportunities to do right, and by so doing to endear the masses to their cause; but in no one instance have they seized the fitting moment to do the proper thing. Let us enumerate a few of the golden occasions which they neglected : 1. They forced James Buchanan to break his solemn pledge that the people of Kansas *Would vote without intervention on the sub ject of slavery. 2. They sustained the Lecompton bill, with all its atrocities, and ostracized every man in the party who would not endorse it. 3. They seconded the proscription of Stephen A. Douglas, because he insisted upon the doc trine of popular sovereignty, and refused to support the Lecompton wrong. 4. They supported John C. Breckinridge for President in 1800, with the full knowledge that he was not the choice of the party, as the result proved, and had been nominated by a minority. 5. They supported the fatal heresy in James Buchanan's last message, denying the right of the Government to save itself from de struction. 6. They opposed all the great war measures of Mr. Lincoln's Administration. 7. They prolonged the war by holding out hopes to the illotitherereople which they knew could not be fulfilled. 8. They encouraged Andrew Johnson in measures which extended the miseries of the South through four long years. 9. They revived all the passions of the war by nominating a ticket at New York on the 4th of July, 1868, and placed it on a revolu tionary platform. Without enumerating other instances these will suffice to show how stubbornly the Democratic leaders have disregarded their obligations to truth and liberty, and how blindly they have rushed their follow ers into destruction. TYMPIIIT IN A 711 A-POT. The Democracy of the State are growing quite lively over the Gubernatorial qua tion, arid really talk and act as if it made any dif f erence to the people whom they nominated for the office of Governor . . By their caucuses and conventions and county committees, their elections of delegates, &c., they . , doubtless, almost persuade themselves that they have something to do with the politics of the State. They even get up spirited contests betwtn rival can dates, and play sharp tricks in the election of delegates, as if it made any odds, when, all the time, the whole thing is merely the result of inveterate habit. They stillplay at the game of politics once a year, just as the ridiculous old militia muster used to be held, in which formidable squadrons marched with broomsticks, and charged sham fortifications with wooden swords, because there had once been a time when they were soldiers. The amusement is perfectly harmless, and affords those parti cipating in it unbounded satisfaction. So we wish the play to go on. So says the Ohamberiburg Repository. A GOOD ONE. iEI3F3 F COPPS'SEAD 41148 Warmth," Istord. Mr. McMiller, (esp.) county, a few days ago o) meat to the general apps the House of Represeutat the pay of members from On second reading of the yeas were 28 and nays GO. from this county voted except Dr. Gutchell, whose appear, being a dodge. Se, wanted to get their extra the nerve to "face the tu amendment was loot, deer their yam, in the neptti, permuted to derscr.—Str. liteheitromr4ller said there had been ocinsidembie dodg ing hei:e to-night, and he liked to dee such birds shot on the wing. There was noth ing now so much needed is publie position as men—men.' Well said, Mr. Nicholson. As the coppettea papers throughout the State are trying to hold the liepubli can party responsible for the pasting and folding swindle, which was , attempted by the Lobby-Thug-Ring or prefessiortal plunderers, and their natural allies, the cheap men of the copperhead persuasion, and which, thanks to the power of a unit ed Republican Press, and an `honest and faithful Republican Senate, with a film Republican represeniii,tive men of the' OLD GUARD as Chairman of the Retrench ment and Reform Committee, was effectu ally squelched, the stubborn fact that this last attempt ,to rob the ,stato Treasury, not to the mere tune of $30,000, but of FIFTY THOUSAND DoLDAßsoand pu the money directly into their Own pockets, and leaving the Lobbyists, Brokers, Thugs and Ring Managers entirely in the cold, was a copperhead party measure, should be kept prominently before all the people of the State. TO, prove, beyond the shadow of doubt that it was, as we assert, a demo cratic party tnovement,ws give the record. Here it is: On the amendment offered by Mr. Mc- Miller, (dein.) increasing the pay of the members, front $lOOO to 81000, the yeas and nays were demanded by Mr. Nichol son, of Beaver, and Mr. Stokes, of Phila delphia, and were as follows; iltAll.—Metsro. Adair*, lerl, Bossiarit iltriNers Bunn, Cloud, Da il y, Davis, ('h Foy, colistsdie: Hervey, Hollow', Tosep , Kleckner, mreui lough, McGinnis, MeMilier, Morgan, Mullin, e r s ,Nelsoa..Nisch GINWM4 t ilogsril# 41 4 44 &ma, and Wesiler.-113. NATB.—Messrs. BerdlY,Hrogisr,nrOstni;(Ciiiilon,) itrown,(Huntingdon.),lMlMlA,Ohmeherlaki,Cherch, Clark, ( Warren ) PerncriNClßOW.§, Dar*, 1 Mc- Kean), Duncan, Ed wary el k Hasufitpd, Hell man, Harr, lierrold, Hoiraisre, opting, M~siiMits, Humphreys, Mores, Jackie:a, &aim Kuril im. Leslie, Longenecker. MoKinstry,...ktruk, odith, Millar, Nicholson, Niles, Painter; Peters. Philli ps, Mace, Ploggiord, AirliW(Oasibrts), Porte*, (York), itea, ltobb, Robinson, (Blair), Hohinsoa, (likoper), Shiveloy, Stephens, Stokes, Btrang"Subers,, , jummy, Taylor, Vanktrk, Walker, Webb, Weller, Westlake, Wilson and Clark, Dosasse,,ost star Voinia--Amei, Beans, Dill, Esishaeh, rf A TCH I . llllltor, Kase, Marshall, Mar. tin, McMullin Dedgewick and Stranahan —l2. Republicans la Roman ; Democrats la dines, and the irrepressible llopaldlean from Use Old (Ward, In AKALL CUPS. Politically s the above record is as follows In favor of the extra grab: Democrats,.... Republicans,. Democratic majority of Grablieu, 6 Against the extra grab: Republicans, 45 Democrats, 15 Republican nukjority against the Grab, 30 Majority of Republicans voting against the Grab, 19 Majority of Democrats votingibr the Grab, 2 And the dodgers, not voting: Republicans, Democtate,-. Comment is unnecessary, as the fore going will not fail to satisfy every intelli gent citizen that the safety of the country against all political extrsvaganee, •corrup tion and plunder, is in the great •Republi can party, and iu the independence and vigilance of the Republican press. I :13 I :4'Vla!! :111:0,11/ s cli :IXI This body assembled at the Court House in Harrisburg, on Tuesday, and continued until 12 o'clock, M., on Wednesday last. Hon. Eli Slifer, late Seoretaryof the Com monwealth, under Governor Curtin, and former State Treasurer, was Chosen tem porary President. Hon. S. B. Chase, of Susquehanna county, the allicient Ex ecutive °Meer of the Order of Good Templar) of Penneylrtudai , wai; 4 4diosen, penualwat Preeidgut, with.facoh parr of Dal** Johni.Gilinstro of Mks nklint, and Rev. W. C.'Beit Of Philiwkitddia, as Vice Presidents; andO. - .1; thihrelVdf Phil sulelphia, E. H. ,14atintt ud t..47WAght. of Imanaater, as•Seeretabitle. A nutnber of resolulletts trete offered, , r which were setern4 knell P 314. S ue Hess Conunittee,,n( vorhlok slitoall: 311 0 1 W4 Esq., of Lasagnes' s ' was eludelinn. The resoluticius adolited Vete itretqrive4With one exception, endOtaeti, With .p.t'unari-' imity. The 'question upon •trM* them was a dithrence• of opinion, waslipen resolution offered by Mr. 'Meek, hi fitydr l of the fOnsiation of a temperance politicid party. A substitute was offered by, Mr. Rauch, setting forth that "local prehibi tion, wherever it is possible to seeurn and enforce it, is the true course for the friends of temperancti to pursue at this most im portant period of the temperance move ment." After a thorough and warm discussion, the substitute was adopted; Col. McFarland also offered a resoldtion petitioning the Legislature to pass a gen eral law, submitting the question of license or no license to the voters of the several districts, which was also adopted. The convention was large, and entire harmony of sentiment prevailed with the exception referred to. A. B A,,Aot.: OUR ORIMISBURG} =ITEM LO, TUBSDAY Eva., Feb. 23. Abraham : The news Market is lull, and there Is scarcely any of note later than what has wed in print. To-day whole on the Private Calendar were , branches, at the rate of about minute, but they are so purely zharacter, that in many inlitall itence is not known Avon in the me they are Intended to operate. ,AT. APPAOPMEATICht BILL In tbsligass Aftsinetday O • the balance es of t e week was f consideration. It passed that iy, and is now in the hands of ;ozbialtillia qf the Sedate. The i as the bill at prikeet stands, _ .....4malisdatlea r siaminuts...in easy nearly s 4,ooo,ooo—abo the same as that of it a 1868. This epee,* nto the amount of last year can bbWdou tbd for by the fact that. there have been three Important contested election-eases this year, the expenses of which amount to a very large sum, and several State charitable and reformatory institutions require more money this year. Besides, the appropriations to the 1812 soldiers has been increased at least $30,000, owing to the large increase of applications for pensions now on file in the proper department. Yonr timely exposition of the pasting and folding swindle, not only saved a large expense in that item alone, but even had a very salutary effect in holding in check any legislation distributing the State funds to ether objects. The section of the bill providing for the pay of the Sena atom and members was reached on Thursday night, and an effort to increase it from $l,OOO to $1,500 was defeated by a call of the yeas and nays. This very modest preposition to feather their own nests, had been "set np," by the Democrats, as they thought, and on a vivo rocs vote it really seemed to be carried, but on a call for the yeas and nays, the mem bers lacked the courage to allow their names to go on the record In favor of such an iniqui tous amendment, and it was defeated—yeas 60, nays 28. I almost neglected to mention that the bill was amended so as "to include peltment of all officers and employees, whether appointed by pitaOrivrtole or act of Assembly." Rather a sharp trick, but it won't win—that is if the Senate maintains the posi tion taken at the outset on thisquestion, of which scarcely any one here entertains a doubt. This amendment will be urgeit in case the resolutions, which passed the House in the shape I sent them to you last week, fail to secure the Senate's concurrence. In either ease, it is necessary'to secure the Sen ate's cotteent before one copper cau be paid these men. It would be much better if the members were compelled to pay them out of their own perste purses, for they alone are responsible for their present:ahem. To-day's Private balaiular being of unusual length, the Metropolitak Police Dill was not reached. It came up on last week's Calendar, but wits objected off, and pieced under the head of objected bilge on 40-day's Calendar. There is scarcely a bops ;entertained of its passage, as two Republican Senators, Messrs. Fisher and Lowry, openly avow their de termination to vote with the Democrats ,sgainat it. The litepubileaw fisnators and members from Philadelphia are earnest in its advocacy, *Warp, nom* appearances it cannot be carried Ilirobkii 'this Session. AFTBR, THE COSTS. liaised u deiegethitti of YOult county officials here last week, and on inquiry I learn that one object of th ei r visit was to urge the passage of the bill pu blished last week in the Express of your city. Apparently very sim ple and brainless on its face, there is a " snake" embedded in it some where. lam informed, if the measure is passed, in.all prob ability the Commissioners will have the power to car.cel all unpaid costs on the docket as far back as 1865, and all fees due on the same will be paid out of the county funds. I can hardly think such an obnoxious proposition will have the support of your Senators, even if it is favored by your Rouse delegation. The Commissioners doubtless feel some inter est, too, in the defeat of the bill requiring them to give bond for the faithful performance of their duties. They are, perhaps, just now consoled by the fact that it has been reported negatively by the Senate committee, but the objections at present to it can easily be re moved by making it apply only to your county, instead of to the State at large, as it now does. I can see that no one will be hurt by its passage, and your community may perhaps be benefitted. The whole of the session of the Senate on Friday Morning, was consumed in the discus sion of the insolation reported some days ago 'by the Chairman of the Retrenchment and Reform Committee, making it the ditty of the Senate postmaster to stamp all letters and documents sent through the mails from that body, instead of having the same done by the postmaster at Harrisburg. Daring the dis cussion it, was stated that great &beset; exist, tied have existed for yeam—that members end Senators are in the habit of applying to the postmaster for whole Sheets of postage stamps, to be eget by them as they see At. To what extent Cris practice, has obtained, is not known, but certainl it should have been stopped long since, as oug ht also sending large doentisente, such as the bohool repOrts, through the mails. The adoption of the resolution, together with novena propositions brought forwassi and urged by the friends of reform, would peril*s reduce the expenses in this dil partroent about one-half. lam sorry the hoer of adjournment arrived before a vote could be taken. It Will come up again in a few days. A Wiry diattiewink accident °centred here ydetarday Burin* the *Hag of a salute from throe aliwoe . dm, In ham of the sanirer- L Kr W -biothw *torso Qinirch mgorob,a4l Qua,. wera t ennaged,in charging . carman, ,and uRt hirrizik time to cool, it mittiuray Went oh, Wading therstirftwi a derableZiataiice, blowili dff thd thumb +of • is rightlimaklind_ hrie the left so badly as to render aalol. • necessary. 'Mn Obereh's right ititiet via al* injured to inch an extent that it trip l et* notarial:7 to amputate it, below the !w'. fie* them mA saved ftithtelly_ iii . t _ _liklp war, Mr. einirdh halal Wlag it a IOIOOI W lirrederGall' 4110* Th. Ellell 'MY Ilrailleii passed o bill providing ter a reality ntillißit to wit of the unfortunates, and she 44•• tel will sot Qu it in • tew dallay c Thera bled link ioAirmido4 7 0 ar • e BUtiantpetilt s tMloced in s the tmi 14 , Mt. puke; a supplement to the set tq try the mania of grataitiee 'and ash Miles to the rob isle the war of 1812. Also, with petitions, an mot to annul she marriage °outrage bemoan IL 11. Keuff now, and Louisa Ids wife. Alec), an act rola sive to proceedings in the several courts of this Commonwealth. By Mr. Billingfelt,(with petition) a supplement to an act to authorize the School Direoters of Menheim township, to borrow money to greet a school house. Passed the Senate. Also, a supplement to an act to promote the improvement of real estate, by exempting mortgages and other monied secu rities from taxation, in certain confides in this commonwealth. Also, an act relative to the Prmident, Managers, and company of the Lancaster and EHsabethtown turnpike road empanr. In oommittee. The bilowing have.passed finally: "An act to iqcorPorlits the Lancaster County Ag ricultural Park Association." "An act, ex ' tending the road laws oft Dalton and Seibibury townships to Marde township." The City Bill has not yet been passed upon by the Howie. S. THE PHILADELPHIA POLICE <. /FRANKING AND POBTAOE BAD AO 011 HINT. laxcAmas oorar,ltir W#LemaaioN WASHINGTODUVID AND i , . [CULLED ribox VRIOUII 545WICES.] , • ..-5 . Inl lo 8 4 The South is largely rep nong% the visitors at Vas% ton. nfed erates like Cffngmrut, North rolina, A. G. Brown of Mi ppi, • Pike of Tennessee, .i.Ar kansas, are mingling freely w former friends, and many of the'. .•rs of the two great armies are seen 'ips,,spcial converse, comparing their martial wskri ences. There istio asperity in their bit,er course, and it is wondeFful how complete ly the ex-rebels yield to 'the double fiat of 'the bullet and the ballet. All of them, without any exception, accept universal suffrage, and many openly declare their determination to act with the Republicans, and their indisposition to trust any longer to the promises of the Northern Demo crate. The XLlstCongress, which meets on the 4th of March, cannot sit less thane mouth. Much of the unfinished work of its pi4de cessors, and many new measures, will de mand its attention. Congress will be in harmony with the Executive for the first time in four years, and this fact will rein vigorate every branch of the public service. The chance will produce incalculable com fort and efficiency. The square refusal of Gen. Grant to ride with Andrew Johnson on the day of inau guration, has given rise to some embar rassment on the part of the committee. To relidve them it is said that the outgoing President will repair at 10 o'clock, March 4th, to the President's room adjoining the Senate, according to custom on the last day of session, and there remain with his Cabnet till nobu, the hour when his official term expires, to consider bills that may be presented for his signature. If this course be pursued, he will not, there fore, be a party to the procession and other ceremonies which will be in progress at the same time in the streets of the city. There was considerable amusement at the Capitol to-day over the taciturnity of General Grant in relation to the formation of his Cabinet. " What do you know?" was the salutation of members and visi tors, every group being busily engaged in discussing the probability of success of various aspirants. The response invaria bly is—"l know nothing, what do you know?" All were as completely in the dark as the thousands .)f people all over the country who are speculating on the same subject. Even Mr. Colfax, and others who are on the wet intimate and confidential terms with General Grant,• assured all en quirers that they positively knew nothing. Mr. -Forney and- a COtnmittee of Penn sylvanians are urging the claims of Gov ernor Curtin to a Cabinet appintment, which are bitterly opposed by Senators Cameron and Scott. The committee on the next census had a meeting to-day, and discussed, the pro posed basis of representation; mai they will probably report in favor of lasing the members of the House of Representa tives to three hundred. :They will Make the Census Bureau a ifemeato de partment, instead of having it, as, hereto fore, connected with the 17rdted States Marshal's office. It is said that the Penkylvitnin delega tion, despairing of obtaining any represen tation in the Cabinet from Ocirovak State, owing to the violent oppoittioa of-Various political factions, have agreed to throw what influence they martutve Vlth Gen. Grant in favor of es .Senator Creswell, of Maryland. The whisky men are orgatdateg fbr determined effort to have the section of the tax bill which extended for one year the time for the withdrawal of whisky from bond, taken out and passed, either sepa rately or in connection with the tobacco sections. . Gen. John C. Fremont and Col. John W. Forney, met for the first lime last week. Both have cause to remember each other. Forney undoubtedly defeated Fre mont when chairman of the Democratic State Committee in 18543, by carrying the State election in October. The Meeting was most cordial. Both had regrets—one that he had not defeated Buchiman, and the other that he had defeated the Path finder. They are now both members of the same political organization, and both warm friends, Mr. C. E. Greecy, Supervisor of irer nal Revenue in Louisiana, has seize be tween three and four hundred thousind dollars worth ofl goods since December last, and suspended three Collectors and ono Assessor, besides, instituting criminal prosecution against twenty-seven promi nent members of the different rings in New Orleans. Mr. Creecy was appointed in November last;. in October, the receipts for tax on whisky were $0,600; in November 813,000; in December $17,000; and in Jan uary $32,600; more than was ever collect ed within the same_ period when the tax was $2 per gallon, and there were forty distilleries running. The refusal of General Grant to ride with Andrew Johnscin on Inauguration day, is not without a precedent. When Getters! Jackson reached Washington, in 1829, the President, Mr. Adams, refused to hold any intercourse with General Jackson on ac count of the Mee. Raton seundel, and on the morning of the 4th of March, when` General Jackson wise ewern into office, Mr. Adams, instgao of going to the Capi tol, went froth 'the biectithe ininsinii to a private dweiiing. General Jackson rode to the Capitol alone, allenilir: Aidanstetook wisest in the earemoniets,,•_. , Congressmen Morri ll , Cate sine Dickey, of r±skwivania,ol/49u0r1. Grant on Tuesday , to express t h eir ope that Pennsylvania would be reforedented in his Cabinet. Gen. Grantliikerried them that their State would be 're s-yi'ntecr, 'ea he had already Wetted. a Asnasylviiniart, fora plate in istsCabinet. raided that , the nit' im Oaten wordd be ea Much • surprised when helteard otitas the nation would be. In conversation at Army ., Headquarters, this morning, (Tuesday) with Senate/ Thayer, General Grant remarked: " I want to say to you that I shall send into the gene* the natmoof Mtg. Gieni-hleho field as SearetaKy of W.ab Out it is likely he will decline and return to his position in the army; I shall •then nominate a civilian for that office and I. want/ the Senate to know'this. )f Turning to Repre sentatives Dickey and Morrell, of Penn sylvania, and hoot, pArimusee,