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INDEPENDENT AND PHDORESSIVE
I.4*.CASTEII CITY, VA
FRIDAY, APRIL 2,1869
Economy, Retrenchment, Faithful Collection
of the Revenw, and Payment of the Publle
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IMPORTANT.
. - 4ubseribers notifying us of i chani , e of
the address of their papers, innst be care
ful to give us the trim: , of the Post Otlloe
at which they bare //cm receiving their
papers, as well as the u:uue of the offices
whleh they want then sent.
HATE WE!
"11.1),•0 we a Deinoerati;. party among
ti.;?.. is the inquiry of Louisville Cn
riCr S Journal. Rather doubtful, ex,•ept in
Kentucky. The Tammany Fourth of July
operation knocked the retrogressive party
to " smitl.reens," and the said particles
have been gathered into Kentucky, where
the work of resuscitation is kept up I T
"Bascorn's whisky."
ADVERTISING.
I)ut neighbor of the Erpress well say :
''A little reflection must satisfy any one,
that an advertisement in a paper having
circulation of 4,000 copies is worth just
twice as much as the same matter in one
circulating only 2,000 copies." Just so.
FATI/Elt ABRAIIAM circulates by hun
dreds mere than any other weekly secular
paper in Lancaster, and therefore ofkrs
greater advantages than any other. Ad
vertisers would do well to notice this.
DR. GATCHELL'S SPEECH
To give every Doctor his due, we must
say that Doctor Gatchell, of this county,
recently made an able and pointed speech
in the House of Representatives at Harris
burg, on the Constitutional Amendment.
It contains many good hits, and presents
the question, though briefly, in a very
clear and comprehensive manner, and
with good effect. We feel very grateful
for this much of good coming from the
Lancaster County "delegation' , in the
House of Representatives.
FORWARD!
Pennsylvania, the keystone of the Fed
eial arch, having ratified through her
Legislature the Constitutional Amend
ment, we have eleven States which have
already enrolled themselves in favor of the
measure: Nevada, Kansas, Missouri, West
Virginia, Wisconsin, Illinois, Michigan,
.Maine, South Carolina, Arkansas, Penn
sylvania. One has rejected it, Delaware,
with the eyes of the world upon her; and
another, Georgia, has tried to do so, but
as her entire political status is questiona
ble and involved, her present action one
way or another does not matter much. So
far the acid looks well—says the Prrs.:.
CUPID AND SENNA. TEA!
We commend the following to the at
tention of the wise men of the Lancaster
School Board, who have drawn down upon
them the ridicule of sensible people by
their recent action in separating the male
and female high school, on the ground of
the immoral tendency of the co-education
of the sexes. Senna tea will fix it!
"A dear old lady at Brighton, ( England)
who has a finishing school for young
ladies, finds her great trouble is the pro
,peosity of her pupils to fall in love. "My
only plan," she says, "when I see that
the tender passion has been developed, is
to crush it in the bud." "What do you
do?" "You will smile when I tell you,
for my receipt is the antithesis of romance.
It is a dose of senna tea." Senna tea?"
"Yes, senna tea. Whenever I perceive—
as
I quickly do—that one of my young
ladies has fallen (as she fancies) in love, I
at once take her in hand. I never hint
at anything connected with the tender
passion, but I. treat her as an invalid,
who is suffering from impaired digestion.
I keep her closely to the house, and dose
her liberally with senna tea, standing by
to sea that she drains the dose to the dregs.
This plan is always attended with success.
Sometimes she gives in after the first few
doses; but usually it takes two or three
dews to complete the cure. I had one
obstinate and protracted case that lasted
a whole week; but I was firm to my plan,
and in the end it succeeded. You may
end upon it, that as a cure for a school
V mlf love, there is nothing like aenna
tei6J
GOOD HUM BY A WOMAN.
Th , Independent has a woman eor
rospondent at Washington, who "shoots
folly as it thee," and seldom fails
to bring down the gam'. We take
a few extracts from a letter in
last week's number, which %yin repay
perusal. Speaking of ill , . crowd of people
at the capitol, who are asking for office,
she says :
"I see many faces to s;;:upathize with in
these lobbies—honest country faces, careworn,
sickly ones, who really look as if they had the
right to whatever they may have come to ask
for. Of course, somebody has a right to the
Government patronage ; perhaps those who
come after it have as good right as anybody.
But it strikes me very oddly when I hear
members of Congress and their wives speak
ing loftily and contemptuously of "office.,
seekers," as if belonging to a totally different
genus from themselves. My opinion is that
they are all office-seekers together ; the dif
ference being only in degree, in the fatness of
the prizus which they seek after. 1 don't
know why Itis nofie - honorable anti as mod
est tbr a man to try to get a post-office, consu
late, or a clerkship, as for a man to spend half
his fortune, and sell his soul perhaps in the
bargain, to get to Congress. Looking down
on this luxurious Senate Chamber, on these
black-coated, high chokered gentlemen,
spreading about so utterly at ease, it is diffi
cult to realize that they are not to the Senate
born, that they did not glide into these cush
ioned chairs by the graceful grooves of a
natural birthright. But there is not a man
here who has not worked hard, or hired other
men to work hard, for his legislative chair—
how hard many would not care to tell. The
heart-burnings, the jealousies, the hates, the
lavished fortunes, the bartered honor which
bought some of these seats, their occupants
would not dare to have known. There are men
sitting here for whom thousands of other men
have worked as for themselves to place them
where they are. Before their triumph they
did not feel at all demeaned to ask spoor man
to vote for them ; they deemed no man too
lowly to work for them ; they themselves
"stumped," "canvassed," "electioneered,"
till they were hoarse and sick, and thought
the office they wanted well worth the trouble.
But, the honor once won, it is so easy to forget
the tug and turmoil that bought it ; so easy
to forget the poor man in the shabby coat who
voted for you ; so easy to snub the poor man
in the ante-room who ventures to stammer ;
" Sir, I worked for you, will you do what you
can for me?" so grand to play the great sen
ator,
by waving your hand majestically to
ward a guarded door, and exclaiming in an
awe-inspiring voice : " I have no time to at
tend
to you. My duties are in the Senate
Chamber !'' All this is so easy, and so mean.
The Senate is the nation's guard of honor. If
I were a man, I would not stop sheet of be
ing a senator myself ; hot, having gained that
high estate, I hope that I should have grace
to remember that it was the people quite as
much as myself that made me one, and when
I complained to my wife that I was " almost
bored to death by office-seekers." I hope she
would reply in a wife's most aggravating
tones ; " My dear, when yo , , wanted an office, '
remember how dreadfully vet bored ether
people."
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COPPERHEAD DODGING!
The IN.^l.lige , trivr of last Friday evening
copies nearly the whole of our article on
the Pasting and Folding swindle, which
appeared in FATHER ABR HAM on the
same day, and adds:
" It'a.rnEa ABRAHAM avows its belief that
the Senate will sanction this raid upon the
State Treasury. !it asserts that several Dem
ocrats will vote 'for it, with the design of
"making capital against the Republican party
during the coming Gubernatorial campaign."
We do not. believe that. The Democratic
Senators have shown themselves to be honest
and honorable men. They do not need to do
this thing. The Radical members of the
Legislature have done enough to damn their
party to lasting infamy. They will be held
responsible for the rascality involved in this
pasting and folding swindle, just as ranch as
if it should pass the Senate. We repeat, we
do not believe a single Democratic Senator
will vote to pay this outrageous claim."
But, Mr. Intelligencer, "Democrats"
of the House did vote for this very swindle,
and a number of Democratic" Senators
are "set up" to vote for it in the Senate.
Without support from the Ilemoeratic side
of the House, the grabbers and plunderers
would have been defeated, and without the
votes of the Democratic members of the
Ring it cannot pass the Senate. Billingfelt
and Fisher alone, who are committed
against it, can and will defeat it in the
Senate if the Democratic members are
really as the totei7igereer asserts, "honest
and honotable."
The truth is, and the editors of the
Intelligent-el. know it, that the Ring of
Treasury Robbers is made up of Senators
and Representativus of both political par
ties. The only perceptible difference lit
tween the two parties on this subject is,
the Republican journalists have the inde
pendence and honesty to denounce and
show up all thieves, whilst the Democratic
papers, such as the Intelligeneer, appear
very indignantabout " Radical rascality,"
but do all they can to help their own
thieves to hide their plunder and save
them from the just indignation of the peo
ple. Nor do we find even the most distant
allusion in the Intelligeneer to the pecula
tions of Democratic officials of this city.
Whilst we very much regret that candor
compels us to acknowledge the truth that
unworthy men—thieves and treasury rob
bers—have crept into the Republican party
only for the basest purposes, we are yet
proud to know that the Republican papers,
with very few exceptions, do and dare
speak the truth, openly and above board,
and by so doing will purge the party of
the corruption which has accumulated
within its ranks during the last year or
two. And this is jest what the Intelligeneer
and other Democratic papers dare not do!
THE WORLD MOVES.
Congress has done two excellent thinas
it has passed the Public Credit bill, and a
bill placing the colored people of the dis
trict on a perfect equality of civil and po
litical rights with the whites. The Presi
dent promptly signed both bills. One
can hardly get used to such action on the
part of the President. Andrew Johnson
always sent such bills back to Congress,
or pocketed them. At last we have an
executive who will promptly execute the
will of the people on such questions.
RETRENCHMENT AND REFORM. MARCHING ON ! •
The Committee on itiseetwitchmona and The Itenkticans gained largely in the
Reform of thd Senate, of which Mr: Bit.- election feiborough, at York, officers on
LINC:FELT is chairman, made a lengthy Friday week. Small's majority for Chief
report on the 2:ttli ult. We cannot spare Burg,ess i
is 1%. Last year t was Nil.
the room to insert the whole report, and The Republican candidates for School Di,
must content ourselves at 'present with rectors for the North division were elected
giving the following synopsis. We shall by an unusually large majority. The
have more to say about it hereafter; First ward and Fourth ward— the strong-
That r 31,077.45 was paid last session for officers holds of modern limnocracv—exhibited
in the Senate, and *53,505.80 for officers in the
House amoun ts largely in excess of whilst was greet falling off in the vote compared with
actually necessary, having been inetMod in -
part wit bout proper authority of law. A VITEC• butycsr. in the Fifth ward the Demo
lice hail been indulged, and increased within
the last few years, of paying employees on the majority is cut down more than
warrant of proper officers at the end of fifie sea. t one-half. The Second and Third wards
sion who had not been formally eleetelbst the
opening of the session, and so loose a pawn* bet ter agilk for the Republicans than usual.
in the payment of Legislative employees could 1,
not be too much deprecated. The comm ism election held in the city of Memphis,
say the act of 1868 will remedy th e thie other day, for School Com
duce the expenses of the present ,
253.25, and it earnestly discoun terfumes at. and a Hoard of Education. re
tempt to disregard its provisions.
The necessity of fixing permanently by law suited in a sweeping Republican triumph,
the salaries of the different heads of depart- I
ments, making them more uniform, and not to i the Republicans electing the Commission
be regulated merely by Limgeneral apropria
aad three-fourths of the member s thoi
Hein is Urged, gad a nmwait repot t ed nast
lying the department aj clerks as follows : Chief Board of Education. The election passed
clerks at salaries of $1501) each; "first class"
clerks at +l4oe ; "second class" clerks at +1200; oil very quietly, and with a light vote
and third class" clerks at 4410n0 ; a change that
will red use the expels-es of administ ration 421,-
000 annually and secure equal efficiency. The
oompensation of members of the Legislature
should be permanently regulated by law, and
woo is recommended as the permanent salary,
and no allowance for stationery or mileage to
be made. In view of this permanent regulation
of salary, it has been decre- , 1 wise to cut off the
allowance of $25 to each member for stationery,
and also the allowance for mileage, because of
the recognized fact that members of the Legis
lature, are given the courtesy of free transpor
tation over the different railroads oftbo Com
monwealth.
These items aggregate as follows
Stationery, 633•26; mileage, #7531.20. So as to
provide morecarefully fort he suppl y of station
ery for the different departments, Legislative,
etc. the act submitted provides that an estimate
shall be made annually by the heads of depart
ments of the amount and quality of stationery
required, and by the Superintendent of Public
Printing, Auditor General, and Secretary of
State, of the amount required for the use of the
Legislature and public printing, all of which
estimates are to be transmitted to the .%uditor
General's department. Sealed proposals for the
stationery shall ho advertised for and opened
at a specified time before the State Treasurer,
Auditor General, and Superintendent of Public
Printing, who shall give the contract to the
lowest bidder.
Provision is also made for the delivers
stationery to the departments, an ace r
the distribution of which shall annually set
tled by the Auditor General. This plan, it is
believed, Will largely decrease present expendi
tures and secure a better article. The Gover
nor, Auditor Geners.l and State Treasurer are
created a Board of Commissioners of Public
grounds and Buildings, and are to be responsi
ble for and have control of all expenditures for
the care,
improvement, and repair of the build
ings and grounds. They are to invite propo
sals for the supply of fuel' for the departments
and Legislature, and to award the contract to
the lowest bidder.
in the subject of public printing the commit
tee say that they believed the method recom
mended for the supply of stationery and paper
for printing will redline , the large amt increas
ing amount paid for public printing, an expense
which has been largely increased by the incon
siderate manner of ordering by resolution the
printing' of extra copies of reports of heads of
departments. The passage of a joint resolution
is recommended requiring all resolutions for
the printing of such reports to be referred to the
Commit tee on Printing in the respective Houses
and reported on before their consideration by
either brunch. While it is not hrthe power of
the Legislature to alter the terms at the con
tract concluded last year for public printing
until the contract expires, the committee rec
ommends that in future contracts the lA•gisla
tore shall require the contractor for public
print tug to accompany all hills presented to the
Auditor General for payment with copies or
samples of the work done, and•they submit a
Joint resolution to secure this purpose. The
committee in conclusion ask the adoption of
their suggestions, as by so doing the annual ex
penses of the State government will be largely
reduced. Time report is signed by Messrs. BB
(l.4l44CnstOr), White, ltrrett and Davis,
The following are the salarieztErovided
in the taill reported ley the eoniniiTiao:
Governor, 3 6000
Private Secretary to Governor, 154
Messenger to Governor, 800
Incidental Expenses, 1000
Secretary of Commonwealth, 3000
Auditor General,- 3000
Deputy Secretary of Commonwealth, 1700
Surveyor General, 2500
Superintendent of Public Schools, 2500
State Librarian, 800
Assistant State Librarian, 700
Superintendent Public Printing, 700
Adjutant General, 1500
Deputy Sup't of Common. Schools 1500
Chief clerks various departments 1500
First-class clerks various departments,... 1400
Second-class clerks various departments,. 1200
Third-class clerks various departments,.. 1000
Messengers 800
Members of Legislature each, 1009
POOR STRANG!
Tiara county rejoices in having a Mr.
Strang in the House at Harrisburg. We
have had . occasion to notice him before, in
connexion with the pasting and folding
swindle, of which he wes the chief cham
pion. Well, the newspapers annoy this
Strang very much, and he has taken occa-
Sion to " ventilate " several times. His
last performance in that line was on Mon
day night last, after enjoying a - good din
ner, we suppose, in which he .te**--the
Philadelphia Inquirer in hand. He was
very dyspeptic. and called hard names.
He threatens to have A Bill Passed To
Prevent Any Man From Publishing A
Paper Who Can't Get Twelve Respectable
Citizens To Swear To His Good Charac
ter. What a monstrous threat is this!
We suppose The Inquirer will stop at
once. Poor Strang!
The offending paper takes the matter
very coolly and laughs at Strang—it does!
It says some hard things about the Legis
lature. For instance, it asks:
Why is it that no property oiner
feels the ground safe under his feet, that
no corporation is certain of its franchises,
that no man is found to clear away the
fog of suspicion of fraudulent and bought
legislation that hangs over the State As
sembly while it is in session? While hun
dreds of private acts are hurried through
in a night, and while less than a dozen
measures of public good are permitted to
creep through in three mouths, the con
duct of our 'Representatives will necessa
rily be the subject of the greatest suspi
cions. * * * *
Jobbery, bribery, and ooviyik i a i t r
llarrisburg, are rampant, an t m 3
are not worse than they are ) is due more
to the criticisms of the public press, than
to the integrity of many of our Represen
tatives."
Mr. Strang had better have refrained
from "jawing back." He made nothing
out of his performance. He Is represent
ed as being "very smart," and all that,
but "he has a poor way of showing it."
Poor Strang
—" My dear," said a rural wife to her
husband, on his return from town, " what
was the sweetest thing you saw in bon
nets in the city?" " The ladies' faces,
my love."
OUR HARRISBURG LETTER.
HARRISBURG, Tuesday, Mar. ;',O
Dear Father Abraham : It is pretty well nn
derstootl—though no joint action has yet been
had on the subject—that the Legislature will
adjourn either next week or the week follow
ing, and as a consequence legislation is being
pushed forward with great zeal. Of course, a
large number of local bills will not be reached,
but the most important public measures will
he finally acted upon.
T tll APPROPI:LATION BILL
Was called up on Thursday last, and an un
successful attempt made by the Chairman of
the Finance Committee, IND. Connell, to dis
pense with going into Committee of the Whole.
It required a two-thirds vote, and on a call of
the yeas and nays, the requisite number could
not be secured,. and a disposition was thus
manifested at the outset to consider carefully
and minutely, each section of the bill. The
Senate Committee has very properly stricken
out the appropriation to the "additional
twenty-seven," but its friends boast that they
iJ have the thing "set up"—that arnumber of
Democrats have been secured, and with their
aid provision will be made for them when the
bill comes np in open Senate. We shall-see.
The bill Kill be called up again to-morrow,
and the balance of the week most probably
devoted to its consideration.
DIVORCE RILLS
In a former letter, I alluded to Like large
number of applications for divorce, and to the
indecent haste, with which they are passed.
To give your readers an idea of how little
time it takes to secure the passage of bills of
this kind through either House, I will simply
state that on to-day's Smiate Calendar there
was five applications for divorce, four of which
were passed in less than thirty minutes, and
the fifth postponed till next week. I Have
yet to see an application refused by the Le
gislature. This state of things may he ex
pected to continue, until the sole pow• , r to
grant divorces is vested in the C,ttlf74.,
RETRENCHMENT AND REFI,EM
The Committee on Retrenchment and Re
form, through their Chairman, Mi. Billing
felt, submitted their r.•port last week, accom
panying it with a bill designed to carry out
the recommendations made therein. A full
synopsis of both has already appeared in the
leading journals of the State, and general sat
isfaction is expressed at the labors of the
committee. Whether the Legislature will pass
the bill is another matter. At all events, the
Committee have well and faithfully per
formed their part of the work, and have re
lieved themselves of all responsibility.
SUFFRAGE AMENDMENT
On Wednesday evening the House passed
the Fifteenth Amendment by a strict party
vote, and another State is thus added to the
list of those that have declared in favor of
universal suffrage. Had not the opposition
been so desirous of making buncombe speech
es, the amendment would have been ratified
long since. But better late than never.
BATES' HISTORY
Has again been under discussion in the House.
A responsible firm in Philadelphia offer to
publish the work for $3.50 per volume, in the
same style as that for which in the Senate
$6.50 per volume was allowed and $5 by the
House. The proposition has been accepted
by the latter body. The Senate has not yet
acted on it.
RETIRING SENATORS
The terms of the following Senators—eleven
in number—expire with the present session :
District let. W. McCandless, D.
Vth. Wilmer Worthington, IL
‘, Xth. Charletou Burnett, D.
" XVth. George D. Jackson, I).
" XVlth. G. Dawson Coleman, It.
" XVIIth. Nudes Billingfelt, It.
I " Joseph W. Fisher, It.
" XXth. Alexander Stutzman, It.
" XXIVtli. Thomas B. Searight, D.
" XXVIth. Alexander W. Taylor, L.
" XXVIIth. James C. Brown, R.
LOCAL LEO ISLATION
Mr. PETERS had passed the House to-day,
a bill providing for holding the township elec
tions in October instead of in March, as here
tofore. This is now the law in a number of
counties in the State, and works well.
Mr. HOPKINS introduced an act to refund
the collateral inheritance tax on curtain be
quests contained in the last will and testa
ment of James Buchanan. Passed the House.
Also, a supplement to the act incorporating
the Agricultural Park Association, In Com
mittee.
Mr. Sammy introduced an act to exclude
certain farm' land from the borough of Wash
ington, Lancaster county. Passed the House.
Also, an act transferring a part of the farm
of Moses Parker, of Elizabeth township, that
lies in Lebanon county, to Luncaster county.
In -Committee.
The refit:wring bills heretofore introduced
have passed the Rouse : An act relating to
the - fees of the several connty officers of the
county of Lancaster—continuing the law now
in force. An act authorizing and empower
ing the trustees of Zion's church banding, in
the borough of Marietta, Lancaster county,
Pennsylvania, to sell - the same. An act to
incorporate the Intercourse association of
Lancaster county, for the recovery of stolen
horses and other stolen property, and detec
tion of thieves. An act to authorize the for
mation of libraries in the several school dis
tricts in the county of Lancaster.
The following has passed the Senate: An
act to incorporate the Manor bridge company.
The following have passed both Senate and
House: An act to incorporate , the Lancaster
City Cornet Band Association. Au act re
'sting to the storage of gunpowder within cer
tain limits in the county of Lancaster.
Supplement to an act incorporating the bor
ough of Marietta, in the county of Lancaster,
approved February 15,1834, granting power to
vacate part of a certain street for school pur
poses. An act to annul the marriage contract
between John C. Elestand and Juliet Hies-
Land, his wife.
An act to authorize the Reading and Col
umbia railroad company to build a branch
railroad, and lateral railroads therefrom. An
act relative to the confinement of persons con
victed of crimes in Lancaster county.
An act authorising Jeremiah Wiest and
S. S. Wiest, trustees of a certain school prop
erty in West °malice township, Lancaster
oonnty, to convey the same to the school di
rectors of said township." Z.
I WASHINGTON NEWS AND GOSSIP.
ECUL,LED Pa,) VARIOUS SOURCES.]
,
The rush of ollee-seshoses ho Ara White
House was Butte* interrupts egjoU Sat
urday., by the Suilhouncemont litiat the
President was ill and unable tit see any
body. Last * t aud to-dart** Presi
dent suffered han attack *avalgia,
i
which, in "n to 'the maim* he n con
sequent on t e almost constant : bor he
has undergone since hie inauguration, has
physically prostrated him. Ilveritig the
past fortnight the President lias given
his attention to business fin* eight
o'clock in the morning to nearly istithight,
the only intermission being the time occu
r pied at dinner. Ile has not even enjoyed
a canter on his favorite black.
Political circles are very greatly excited
to-day over the testimony andaccompany
ing editorial in the New York Post of
yesterday, pointedly charging that Senator
Fenton received $20,000 in cash for sign
ing the Erie Railroad bill. The Post says
tins and snails( charges have been made
by certain responsible parties in New
I ork, and the Senator has failed to no
tice them. The impression here to-night
among Mr. Fenton's friends is, that neith
er he nor the Senate can fail to notice the
matter.
The President is worn out with hard
work. Public men and office-seekers wor
ry him more than the country can imag
ine. To-day lie was so unwell that he
refused positively to see anybody but his
family and members of his Cabinet. His
intimate friends are trying to persuade
him to shorten his hours of labor, and re
fuse to see people who want to ore him
about minor offices.
The room of the Rouse Committee on
Elections was the scene of a most unusual
occurrence on Friday. Hon. Job Steven
son and Mr. Burr, of Illinois, were sitting
near each other. Burr and Randall de
sired delay in a report of a case upon
which a majority of the Committee were
ready. Mr. Stevenson offered a motion to
conform to the views of the Democratic
members. Mr. Burk seemed determined
to make trouble over the case, and made
repeated remarks insulting alike to the
Committee and Mr. Stevenson, and final
ly went s > far as to declare the course of
the Committee indecent. To this Mr.
Stevenson replied that he thought they
had all better act in a proper and gentle
manly way. Upon this Burr jumped up
and with gross and indecent profanity
struck a heavy blow at Mr. Stevenson.
The latter partially parried this, and
struck an effectual one in self-defense.
Several members of the committee rushed
between the parties and separated them.
Mr. Randall showed great desire to fight,
but was also restrained. There is but one
opinion among those cognizant of the af
fair, including Democrats, which is that
Burr was wholly in fault. Mr. Steven
son's course from the first was directly in
line, proper and dignified, of the discharge
of his duty, till Burr assaulted him, and
after that his action was that of proper
and justithble self-defense,
The President has found that his Um.,
is monopolized by office-seekers to Bach an
extent, that to give any attention to the
more important concerns of the govern
ment he must adopt strict measures to
protect himself. The constant tax on his
power of endurance, since the inaugura
tion, has been greater than at any time
during the war, and much of the time last
week he was not in his usual health.
The reduction of the expenses of " run
ning" the different departments of the
government is rapidly going on. Secre
tary Boutwell took the lead by discharg
ing whole brigades of clerks and subordi
nates, and other departments are also en
gaged in the work of retrenchment with a
will. The application of this policy to
every branch of the public service will
save many millions, and reduce the ex
penses even lower than the greatest econ
omisers kayo dared to hope.
Fifty female clerks in the currency bu
reau of the Treasury Department are to be
discharged on the first of the month. An
order was issued by Secretary Boutwell
requiring all of the female employees to
furnish their names in full, places of
residence, through what influence they
received their appointments, and whether
they have father, mother, brothers, sis
ters, or husbands capable of supporting
them; in act, they are required to furnish
a complete descriptive list of their age, etc.
General Grant will undoubtedly appoint
to positions of honor and trust in the
Southern States from only two classes of
citizens there: First, from those who have
been always true to the Union and oppos
ed to the rebellion; and, second, from
those who have fully acknowledged their
error and made the honorable amend by
taking the oath and accepting the situa
tion.
The appointment of Mrs. Van Low as
p'stmistress at Richmond, Va., though
it will gall the chivalry, will please every
loyal person North and South who remem
bers the services she rendered to the Gov
ernment, and
.especially to the soldiers,
during the war. filer house was the cen
ter of , true loyality in the city of Rich
mond, and there are hundreds and thou
sand of our soldiers who received kind
ness at the hands of the inmates. If all
the offices in the gift of the new adminis
tration are as wisely bestowed as this, the
country will have occasion to rejoice.
The Tenure of Office law has finally got
into Conference Committee, • the house
lutving agreed to it this afternoon by 106
to 60, a majority of 14 Republicans being
for agreeing to the Senate bill. The com
mittee from the Senate is Trumbull,
Edmunds and Grimes, and from the
House, Butler, Bingham, and Wash
burn of Wisconsin. Of these gentlemen,
Grimes and Butler are decidedly foe re
peal and Washburn moderately so, while
Edmunds is very strong for the law, and
Trumbull and Bingham are for it, but
ready to compromise. The Committee,
on the whole, is an admirable one, and we
may soon expect a settlement of the vexed
question.
Among the army of indefatigable office
seekers at present in the city, may be
counted several colored gentlemen, who
come with the necessary testimonials
from men in the highest positions of pub
lic life, to present their claims. Miss E.
J. Ketcham, a colored woman, from Phil
adelphia, has been appointed to a clerkship
in the Treasury, which is the first ap
pointment of the kind made by the new
Administration.
Conkling, Carpenter, and a dozen or
two more, have each been represented to
be the handsomest men in the U. S. Sen
ate. According to the aggregate opinion
of correspondents the Senatejs a body of
"beauties." When their inWnee is no
longer of service in olit4iiing office, it
will be discovered that tley are, "no great
shakes" after all.
STATE NEWS.
YORK COUNTY. —A party of smart
young men in the employ of the Northern
Central Railroad, ran and elected Rev. J.
H. Menges of West Manchester, for Con
stable, and for this trick they were prompt
ly discharged, when the Rev, gentleman,
to return good for evil, went to the officers
of the road and asked to have them rein
stated The wife of Dr. Caldwell of
York, one day last week, suddenly lost th
sight of both eyes. Operations have since
been performed and hopes are entertained
for a restoration of her sight The True
Democrat says John W. Seeley, was ar
rested last h riday, at York, on a charge
of having administered poison to his
father-in-law, who died suddenly on the
21st of February last Henry Wirt, the
" non - improvement " candidate, was
chosen Burgess of Hanover....On Monday
before last as James Donahue, employed
at Musseiman's ore banks, in Rellam
township, was returning from a sale, he
was thrown from his horse, his head strik
ing a stone causing very serious injury to
the brain The residence of Jeremiah
Cullison, in Beaver street, York, was
entered on Monday night before last, and
robbed of some articles of clothing The
ferry between Columbia and Wrightsville,
is "played out" David Maish, a prom
inent citizen of York, died last week. lie
was Steward of the Poor House.
Poor.
BERM COUNTY.—Joseph T. Valentine,
Esq., has just been appointed Assessor of
Revenue, in preference to Capt. Walter,
who ought to have been appointed. For
Collector, the candidates, according to the
Journal, are Wm. M. Baird and .James
McKnight—the one about as good as the
other and a little better. That Major
John Fritz will be Post Master, on the ex
piration of the term of Major Winer, the
present faithful officer, seems to be con
ceded. Fritz is deserving and competent.
The' Reading R. R. Company have
employed a number of special detectives
to ferret out thieves and pickpockets who
infest the road Joel D. Heffner's barn
in Lower Heidleberg, was destroyed by
tire last week Peter Yohe was arrested
in Lower Heidleberg and committed on a
charge of committing a hellish outrage
upon a little girl nine years old The
family of Mr. Owen Hamilton of Birds
boro, has been severely afflicted by the
death of three children within one week.
Mrs. Hannah Fornwald, aged lte2
years, who was the mother of twenty-six
children, died in the City of Reading, on
Sunday before last 1 German named
John Miller, in attempting to pass
through a coal train, at Reading, whilst
being shifted, was caught betwe al two
pumpers and crushed to death F.. 1.
Obert, Esq., at his extenAive Union Boiler
Works, Reading, made a new iron cell for
the Lebanon county prison - made of
boiler iron and wail riveted together.
This is the way Mr. (Y)ert ge:s ahead of
the jail breakers The first Ger
man Reformed Congregation of Read
ing (Rev. 13. Bausmnan) have just decided
by a vote of 89 against 31, to sell their
valuable grave yard property at the cor
ner oftith and Washington streets. The
dead will be removed to the Charles
Evans Cemetery Dr. T. Yardly Brown,
one of the live and public spirited Repub
lican citizens of Reading. recently bought
two hundred acres of land in the Valley of
Virginia, near Winchester, and is about to
leave for the new home. Virginia needs
just such men A fourteen year old son
of Charles Henry, of Washington town
ship, a few days ago fell from an overhead
mow, in the barn, and was killed.
CHEATER COUNTY.—William Master
son, of Uwehlan, whilst helping a neigh
bor to move, attempted to get out of a
wagon, and fell to the ground and broke
his neck. He was immediately picked up
but died in a few minutes Henry
Loucks, Esq., has been chosen President
of the National Bank of Pluenixville
A large barn belonging to A. L. Pennock,
Ilaverford township, was destroyed by
fire on the 19th ult Shad selling at
60 to 80 cts. each A. little child whilst
playing on a bridgeway of a barn, in Ken
nett township, fell down eighteen feet on
solid ground without sustaining any seri
ous injury.
DAUPHIN COUNTY.—The voters of
Wiconisco township, on Friday last, de
cided in favor of a division of the town
ship by 42 majority Diana Allen, of
Harrisburg, was arrested and committed
in default of bail, on Saturday last, for
committing a ferocious assault and batte
ry upon her husband, and breaking nume
rous articles of household and kitchen fur
niture. Diana was inebriated The
Mayor's office at Harrisburg has been re
moved to the rear of the Lochiel House.
HORRIBLE MURDEIL—A horrible tragedy
came to light in Philadelphia on Tuesday
last. The wife and two children of James L.
Blackstone were discovered to have been
murdered by Blackstone, at their residence,
815 Judson street.. Blackstone, who was
doubtless insane, walked into the Delaware
river on Monday morning and was drowned.
The murder was committed ou Monday morn
ing. Blackstone was a highly respectable
man, doing a good business, and was a mem
ber of the firm of Prinston & Blackstone,
Picture frame makers, 912 Market street. No
cause can be assigned for the murder except
the insanity of Blackstone.
goat pews.
JOB PRINTING.
Handbills, Cards, Bill Heads, Programmes,
Posters, &c., &c., printed in the best style and
at reasonable rates, at the FATELI4II AMU.-
Hem Job Printing Mee. Orders by mail
promptly attended to.
Ixasts : The Shiftier, Friendship, Ameri
can and Washington Fire Companies of this
city, and the Lancaster Fire Zonavee and
Lancaster Fencibles—Military Companies—
will participate in the oeremonies at the dedi
cation of the Mexican monument, at Mania
burg, in May next.
Julius Boden, of Columbia, has received a
patent for an improved Automatic Boller
Feeder.
An owner has been found for the berm and
buggy fitund in the
,possession of Wig, which
we noticed lait week, in the person of How
ard Boyer, a livery keeper of Beading. IWg
is an old offender, and was taken to Beading
for trial.
Wm. Gungle, of Ilphrata twp., reoently cut
• poplar tree which measured ve feet serous
the stump, and In length 11M1 feet.