ganaota intinigetutr. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 18,1887 The spring Mentions. The spring Elections will take place in the townships throughout the County on Friday the 18th inst, and our friends should not overlook the fact. The act of Assembly approved the 30 th of March, 1806, requires the names of all the can didates to be printed or written, or partly printed and pArtly written, on a single piste of paper similar to the tickets voted last fall. In the town ships the tickets must be headed "Township," and the names of all the candidates follow, with the tickets so foliied that the word " Township" ap pears on the outside. The tickets for the boroughs are to be the same, with the exception that "Borough" must be substituted for "Townships," as the heading. These elections are very important, and we trust that the Democrats will not allow them to go by default where there is any possibility at all of accom plishing anything for the good of the party. We suffer greatly at every fall election because of the election officers being opposed to us, and we should use every exertion to remedy the evil as far as possible. Go to work, prepare your tickets, and have them printed in conformity to the new law. The Situation. Political events are crowding upon us with startling rapidity. The Constitu tion of the United States has long since ceased to control the operations of our Government,and a revolutionary faction and its representatives systematically violate and defy the most sacred pro visions of our organic law. We have scarcely chronicled one fundamental change in our institutions before an other is announced and accomplished. While we may not anticipate what al terations another day may bring forth, we can profitably devote a brief space to the consideration of the present po• laical situation of the country. For the first time in our history, a body calling itself the Congress of the United States is assembled in perpetual session at Washington. Its term of ser - vice expired at noon of one day, and tile very next moment the members met again and resumed their proceed ings. While the country contains tiarly-seven States, the Congress which thus treads on the heel of its predeces sor contains the representatives of but twenty States. Seventeen States are un represented in its more numerous branch ; ten unconstitutionally exclud ed under the pretext of their late rebel lion, but the remaining seven, loyal, faithful, adhering States, are denied their share in the government without any color of pretext whatever. The avowed object of this perpetual Con gress Is to usurp and administer the functions of the Executive branch of the Government. It is sitting, not in the character of Congress, but of Presi dent of the United States, for the ex press purpose of discharging in its own way the duties which the Constitution entrusts to the President, and for the further purpose, if needs be, of deposing this ()Meer and putting its own creature in his place. The late Congress, virtually the same as the present, established an undis guised military cle.spolism over one-third of the population and one-half of the area of the Union. One half of the country is about passing under a des potism Inure odious in its structure and less restrained by law than theOovern ments of Russia and Austria. This tyranny is fastened upon loyal and dis loyal alike. Life, property and free dom, of person, press and speech, are subjected to the absolute caprice of mil itary officials and their subalterns. Every right of British liberty (we do not say of American, because there is none) is obliterated. Citizens of the United States, Northern or Southern, loyal or disloyal, covered perchance with scars of honorable wounds re ceived in the service of the Union, may, in this region, be arrested without charges, executed without trials, and plundered without redress. The laws of the South have been abrogated, and none enacted in their stead except the WILL of a satrap, whom the President cannot even remove for tyranny with out the consent of the Senate. This despotism is rendered still more galling by the infliction, in defiance of the Constitution, of negro suffrage upon the people. A horde of degraded and uneducated negroes, but recently re leased trom abject slavery, and by in stinct and capacity little superior to brutes, are entrusted with the political power of the South. To secure their supremacy, a large proportion of the whites is disfranchised. The destiny and horrors of Jamaica and Saint Do mingo are presented to the fairest por tion of our land. And the proud Anglo- Saxons of the North are required to re cognize the Southern negro as their equal at the ballot-box, (though the bal lots are cast in different regions,) and as their peer in the Federal Senate and House of Representatives, where, un der the new system, he will soon make his triumphal entry. In Missouri, Tennessee and West Virginia, a large portion of the people are disfranchised by test oaths and for political causes. In Pennsylvania, hun dreds of the bravest soldiers of the war are branded as deserters and outlawed from political rights, despite the Consti tution and the Courts, because after peace had arrived they hastened to their homes in advance of the formality of being mustered out of the service. Ne groes rejoice in the possession of every privilege under special protection of law, while while serfs and slaves abound botli North and South. Extravagance and corruption without limit and without shame pervade every channel of legisla tion, State as well as Federal. The peo ple are ground down by unjust and 0n .% equal taxation. Tariffs are carefully prepared and enacted for the avowed Purpose of enriching a few at the ex pense of the many. When judges vin dicate the majesty of the law and the liberty of the citizens, they are vilified, insulted and threatened by a pampered Congress and a venal press. And it is neither disguised nor denied that these outrages are committed in order to maintain the supremacy of a political arty and rivet its rule upon the country. Thus far the people of the North have unreservedly sanctioned the course of this revolutionary faction and its leaders. Will the Northern people approve their recent and advancing measures? If so, the future history of the Great Republic will be speedily written. An additional section to the Sherman act, merely ex tending its operation over the whole country, a roll call in each House of Congress, a passage over the veto, and what now remainsof American freedom is buried forever. The sacred necessity of preserving the Republican partyinay at any time demand slnfh action ; and once taken, the safety of its authors will require it to be perpetuated. The prob lem of man's capacity for self-govern meqt is not yet solved, the experiment of republicanism which our generation has so ' boastingly presented is not yet determined ; and it remains to be seen whether the American people of this day possess, as they claim, more Intelli gence, virtue and self-control than the civilized nations of Europe, which in all ages have succumbed to monarchy, for the sake of aecurity, now the plea for military despotism in the South. Ben. Wade—for President. Ben. Wade, of Ohio, was elected Pres ident of the United States Senate on Monday. This 'makes him heir-appa rent to the PreahlehoYy of the United States, and as the Radleahr hliie deter mined to make a vacanciin the office at an early day, we may expect to see him installed in the Presidential chair in the course of 'a few raenths. It was bad enough when Mr. Lincoln, a lawyer of very ordinary ability and no statesman in any sense of the term, took the place once adorned by Wash ington and Jefferson, but Ben. Wade's accession toit would be infinitely worse. If Mr. Lincoln was ignorant and un couth, he was also good-natured and well-intentioned. If he sometimes, or even frequently, related anecdotes which neither pointed a moral nor adorned a tale, it was not because he was himself immoral or altogether re gardless of his accountability here and hereafter. But Ben. Wade is a man of different mould. Even more ignorant and more uncouth than Mr. Lincoln, he has neither the good nature nor the good intentions that characterized the lat ter. Whilst Lincoln was negatively gocd, Wade is positively bad. It is questionable whether another such coarse-grained ruffian has ever had a seat in either house of Congress. A vulgar blackguaxd and profane swearer, he is unfit for the society of gentlemen. His bad heart is mirrored in his repul sive face, where no gleam of sunshine is ever seen. The expression of his mouth is brutal; the glare of his eye is devilish ; and " on his brow sits Hor ror throned." Where Mr. Lincoln would have in flicted punishment with regret, Wade will do it with joy. He would lap the life-blood of his victim with the eager delight of a hungry tiger. The crunch ing of the bones of the least guilty rebel iu all the South would be music in his ears. He would mock the cry of a Southern child for bread. He would strip the Southern maiden of the last garment she had to hide her nakedness, and jeer at her as shame and sorrow struck her to the earth. He would walk a mile through rain and mud to curse a dying rebel, and he would repeat the journey to offer an indignity to his corpse. He would erect a continuous line of guillotines from Maryland to Texas, and he would blaspheme the living God for not giving him eyes strong enough to see all of them work at once. This is but a feeble sketch and a faint picture of the animal called a man who has been made President of the Senate, It would require the hand of aMacaulay to "hold the mirror up to nature" such as his. And yet the election of this brute to the Presidency of the Senate, and his prospective elevation to the Presidency of the - United States, are bailed with acclamations of Joy by the Radicals everywhere. God help the country that is ruled by a party hold ing such "great moral ideas" as are embodied in Ben. Wade. Pile, United States Assessorship The llillowing note from Mr. Stevens was received this morning. We cheerfully com ply with his request: Tothe Editor of the Dotty 1 - rrress WASIIINOTON, MttrOh 0, 1807. Dear Sir :—Do say that no Assessor is yet appointed. It was a mistake. lam run down, THADDEUS STEVENS. It is understood that Mr. McCulloch announces Unit he is ready to appoint to the Assessorship and Collectorship of this county, any good Republicans who have not spoken severely or contemptuously of Andrew Johnson. There are no such per sons in this county; and, we suppose, we will have no Revenue officers, and do with out paying taxes for the next two years.— Yesterday's Repress. We congratulate the Radicals of Lan caster county upon their patriotism. It is a goodly sight to see " the old com moner" run down by applicants for the office of Assessor of Internal Revenue. Not long since these same Radicals were in a rather rebellious frame of mind. They swore that President Johnson was a traitor and that none but traitors would take office under him, Their pure and undefiled hearts rebelled at the very thought of accepting an appoint ment from a Man who was "in league with rebels and copperheads." They appear to be thinking better of it now, however, and to be animated by a patriotic desire to serve their country in the good fat office of Assessor. The commission empowering any one of them to fill this office would have to bear the hateful name of "Andrew Johnson," but we presume the success ful patriot of the crowd now running down Mr. Stevens for this appointment might manage to get over that. The commission, after being looked at once, just to see that it really did contain that detestable name, might be put away out of sight. Mr. Black, who regards the President as the most venemous of "cop perheads," might, if he got the commis sion,, and if his teMperance principles didn't interfere, preserve it as natural ists preserve reptiles, inspirits. Corked up in a stone jug or a black bottle, it would be out of sight, and in a short time Mr. Black's righteous soul might cease to be vexed with the disagreeable recollection that he belonged to "Andrew Johnson's Bread and Butter Brigade." The Express is venemous. It is as blind as snakes become when they get too full of poison ! It don't appreciate the patriotism of the score of Radicals by whom Mr. Stevens is "run down." It don't see matters in the same light that they see them. Instead of helping them along iu their patriotic efforts to get into office, it gives them a backset. It pronounces all of them ineligible under Secretary McCullough's terms, asserting that there are no good Repub licans iu the county!Aho have not spoken severely or cedfemptuously of Andrew Johnson." We presume this is true; but then "good Republicans," in the Express' sense of these terms, adapt themselves to circumstances with great facility. Though they spoke con temptuously of Andrew Johnson yes terday, they might speak very respect fully of him to the Secretary of the Treasury to-day, and to-morrow (with a commission in their pocket and a Radi cal Senate at their back) they could say what they pleased about the President and his Secretary. The Political Tide Turning. The returns of the city and town elec tions held in•the State of New York on Tuesday last show splendid Democratic gains and com•spo d rig Radical losses. Look at the following table of majorities in November, ~ (;6 and March, 1867 : VOL IW7 . Dent. (lain Troy .7)ftl Rochester , qt; f:',r2. (I,c r, .) Lausingburg _Mt (Rep.) 1:0 I I 'cm.) 101 These figures are very significant. They show that the people are begin ninglo realize the necessity of stern rn lug the torrent of Radicalism which has engulfed Congress and threatens to carry the nation along with it. Butler's Albany speech in favor of the impeach ment of the President and the repudia tion of our National Debt no doubt aided to produce these excellent results. I f that speech, which was made only the Saturday evening before the election, (leaving but one working day for its circulation,) had been delivered a week or two earlier, so thatit could have been read in every district in the State, the effect would have been still more dis astrous to the Radicals. It was only in the rural districts, where neither But ler's repudiation speech nor the Presi dent's convincing veto message ,were received before the election, that the Radicals held their owp. Butler Proposes Reptidratlon. General Butler made a speech to a meeting of Radicals at Albany, the; capital of New York, on Saturday last; . in which he strougiy.a4voeated Peachment of President iolinsofi:- ferring to,various objections that, have been urged by , prudent: Republicans against this extreme. measure, he ,dis posed of one •of them in - the following startling remarks: Let me call your attention further to another trouble. "Why," I am told, "don't do this, if you do you will injure our bonds abroad—you will shake our credit abroad." What has our credit to do abroad? We carried on this war, and the bankers of Europe would not lend ns a dollar until we got through substantially, and showed that we were the strongest and ablest nation on the globe. And then, when we got through the war, they consented to take our bonds at 40, 60 and 60 cents on the dollar ; and I believe now they have got up to 72 or 74 cents, or somewhere thereabout. Well, they say that our bonds will go down in Europe, and the people in Europe won't take them. I may be mistaken, my friends, but it seems to me that if I could bring about that result, I should almost be will ing to be impeached myself. [Laughter.] Let us examine it a moment to see if I am right. When I am borrowing money large ly I want my credit to stand good at the bank; when I am paying money largely I' don't care a snap how my credit stands at the bank. When we were borrowing'money we could not borrow any In Europe; when wo are paying money, I don't care any thing about Europe thinking we are in good credit or bad. [Laughter and applause.] More than that, let us examine it in another form. These bonds are now selling at 72 cents on the dollar. What do we get for them? We get an immense importa• tion of goods, paid for with these bonds. We try to pass tariffs, but tariffs are use less, because we are trading with from 23 to 30 cents in gold against us all the time, in this, that we are buying goods and paying for them iu our bonds at 72 cents in gold, and those bonds bear interest at six per cent. on one hundred cents. Of course Europe never expects a country to pay the principal of the.r debt; they only want to be sure that the Interest is regularly paid. They get the interest on 100 cents, and these bonds are as good to them as 100 ; and the cheaper they get them the better, so long as they feel sure we will pay the in terest, and so long as they take 72 cents and charge us 100. And we wonder about the great importation—we wonder that our tariff and revenue acts do not prevent im portation. Now then, I say again, if we could prevent these bonds from being sold abroad, and if we could bring them home at 20 cents on the dollar, in my judgment it would be a great matter of gain to the country. I have heard of countries, but they are very few, that paid their debts dollar for dollar, but I never heard of a country, and I am afraid I never shall in the tone that will be allotted to me of the years given to man, that paid its debts 100 cents for 40 received. It never has been done and never will be done. And, yet, here we are twisting and turning, and bringing our business into all sorts of disaster, and trying every way to return back to specie payment, and what for? What do we expect to accomplish by it? We expect to raise the $000,000,000 bonds in Europe, which are bought at 40 cents for 100, and to put from $200,000,000 to $400,000,000 . in the pockets of the Jew bankers of Frank fort and Bremen. And, now, I sin not very anxious for that; and if impeachment or anything else will stop that, it does not frighten me that that won't happen im peachment comesl It is said it would make financial troultle3 It would make a ripple —and that is the trouble it would make. If it would give a severe fright in Europe, and our bonds old coine hack for what they went out for, I should be glad ; for it iseasier to pay $300,000,000 than 3000,000,000—520,- 000,000, than $40,000,000. And if they came back at le tents on the dollar, all the better for the poor laboring classes, out of whom they came. [Applause.] The " wooden nutmeg" morality of these propositions will strike the honest reader very forcibly and very unfavor ably. "When lam borrowing money largely," says Mr. Butler, "I want my credit to stand zood at the bank ; when I an paying money largely, I don't care a snap how my credit stands at the bank." Iu other words, though scarcely plainer English, when you want to borrow money, you take special pains to satisfy lenders that you are able to pay ; but when pay day comes, you tell them to go to the devil. You do not deny that you wanted the money badly, that it was of great benefit to you, or that you solemnly pledged your honor to pay it back ; but you allege thatyour present interest stands opposed to the redemption of this pledge, and therefore you will not observe it. Any merchant or business man, or other borrower of money, who would thus "go back" on a bank from which he obtained accom modations, would be spotted as a scoun drel by the whole community in which he resided, and his name would be dis honored wherever it was known. "Now, then," continued Mr. Butler, alluding to the depreciation in the value of bonds that would result from the im peachment of the President, "I say again, if we could prevent these bonds from being sold abroad, and if we could bring them home at twenty cents on the dollar, in my judgment it would be a great matter of gain to the country." Certainly if the Government could buy up its bonds at one-fifth their par value, that would be a great gain to the public treasury. But what would be the effect of such a depreciation in their value upon our own citizens who hold them? Whenever this Radical Congress shall do anything that will cause our bonds now held in Europe to be sent here and sold at twenty cents on the dollar, all of our bonds—as well Those held at home as those held abroad—will of course go down to the same figure. What would be the effect of this enor mous reduction in the market value of Government bonds? The effect would be ruinous to a very large number of our people, as well as highly disastrous to the public in general. The owner of bonds of the par value of twenty thou sand dollars would realize from their sale only four thousand, thus losing six teen thousand out of an investment of twenty thousand. Does the bondholder flatter himself that the party which saddled our debt upon us, professedly from patriotic motives, will never agree to repudiate it? Listen to Butler, a recognized leader of that party and a member of the Congress now in session at WaAingt , m, who said in this Albany speech—" I have heard of coun tries, but they are very few, that paid their debts dollar for dollar, but I never heard of a country, and I am afraid I never shall in the time that will be al lotted to me of the years given to man, that paid its debt 100 cents for 40 re ceived. It never has been done and never will be done." Bondholders, how do you like that? Here distinct notice is served on you by one of the High Priests of Radicalism, that the Government bonds you hold never will be paid al par. Do you fall back for comfort on the plighted faith of the Government? That would have been a safe refuge in Democratic times, but it is not so now. For proof that it is not, we have but to recur to the ac tion of the Pennsylvania Legislature two sessions ago, when, with a Radical majority in both branches, and a Radi cal in the Executive chair, the plighted faith of the State to pay her interest in coin was deliberately violated. It was down in the act of Assembly authorizing the loan, and it was down In the bond, that the interest should be paid in coin, and yet the Radical Legis lature, with the approval of the Gover nor, directed the interest to be paid in paper, a breach of honor and of contract that called forth a dignified and well grounded remonstrance from a distin guished English creditor. It will not be Gen. Butler's fault if the Radical Congress of which he is a leading mem ber does not repudiate a large percentage of the public debt.. Ho says expressly that this shall be done, Butler said if our bonds " came back at ten cents on the dollar, a . ll the better for the poor laboring classes," how is this? The poor laboring Masses are deeply interested in the general pros perity of the country. They want plenty of work at good wages, and they want to be paid In good money, Run Government bcinds down to ten cents on the dollar and you will produce a general suspension of business. Mann. factitiers would shiA up their establish-. • meets, and,merchatibiand traders would have nothidg to do: . .isTot - onip niechanio or laboring man in ten would find a daylp work In a week. "The poor laboring classes" are, above •all others, interested in a sound circulating medium. Before the Radi ads came into power, we had gold and silver in abundance. But our "money" now is composed of two sorts of paper issues—greenbacka resting on the credit of the Government, and bank notes resting on Government bonds. Destroy the credit of the Government, (by im peaching the President or by any other extreme measure,) so that our bonds de cline to Butler's favorite figure of ten cents on the dollar, and the greenbacks must inevitably fall to the same point. Both resting on the same basis—the credit and good faith of the Govern ment—the one cannot go down without k sinking the other. So also with the National Bank notes. These are supplied to the Banks by the Government at the rate of ninety thousand dollars in notes for one hun dred thousand dollarsin bonds deposited in the National Treasury. Run down the bonds to ten cents on the dollar, and the bank notes will immediately fall to the same figure. ' Then we should be without a circulating medium at all, for whenever paper money declined in value to that extent, or to anything approaching it, it would cease to fulfil the purpose of a circulating medium. Capitalists who had faith in its ultimate redemption might buy iton speculation, but business men would refuse it alto. gether. Would the utter prostration and stop page of business of all kinds, the reduc tion of the value of our bonds token cents on the dollar, and the total de struction of our circulating medium, be " all the better for the poor laboring classes ?" Butler says it would, and he invites all who agree with him to join in the Radical cry for the impeachment of the President. We say it would not, and we ask not only the poor laboring classes, but men of all classes, (except ing rogues who live by robbing honest people,) to ponder well before they yield their sanction to Butler's cool pro posal to repudiate our debt and destroy our currency. Land for Negroes, but not for Whites. Sumner, the leader of the Radicals in the Senate, seems to think that the chief end of white men is to supply the ne groes with farms. He called up, yester day, the resolutions he had introduced three or four days previously, one of which reads as follows FO`thly—Not less important than educa tion is the homestead, which must be se cured to the freedmen, so that al least every head of a family may have a piece of land. Being asked where the government was to get the land to bestow upon the freedmen, Mr. Sumner made the vague answer that "there were several ways of getting it." This is true. One way to get it would be to confiscate the lands of the Southern people and divide them among the freedmen. Another would be to settle them on the public lands, paying their traveling expenses and putting up buildings for them. Still another, (and we presume the one most likely to meet the approbation of the Radical constituents of "the old com moner,") would be to purchase improved farms for them in such choice locations as Lancaster county. But can any poor white head of a family in Lancaster county who sup ports Charles Sumner and Thaddeus Stevens, give us a good reason why the Government should provide farms for Negroes and not for White men? Have not the poor White men of the North done at least as much to sustain the Government as the poor Negroes of the South? What has our boasted free labor been worth, if our free laborers are not as well entitled to the paternal care of their Government As the ne groes who have performed the despised slave labor of the South ? This matter deserves the earnest con sideration or the poor white men of the North. If they do not soon see it in its true light and join hands with the Democracy to arrest the further advance of the Radicals, they will have presented to their eyes the extraordinary spectacle of four millions of Negroes provided with houses and lands by the General Government, while ten or fifteen mil lions of White people are left to toil on in poverty, stinting themselves in food and clothing in order to pay their taxes. " Laughter on the Republican Side." When a Democratic member of the House protested against the passage of the military reconstruction bill over the President's veto, declaring that it would be "the death-knell of republican lib erty on this continent," the report in forms us there was " laughter on the Republican side." There has been a great deal of " laugh ter on the Republican side" in Congress since the winter of 1860. When the Democratic President then in office sent them message after message warning them of the approaching danger and imploring them to take steps to arrest it, and when Democratic Senators and Representatives repeated these warn ings and added to these calls for action, the response they got was " laughter on the Republican side." Like madmen on a locomotive under a full head of steam, the faster " the machine" they were running went on her mad career to ruin, the louder they laughed. They continued to "laugh on the Re publican side" till the disastrous battle of Bull Run awakened them to a con sciousness that a gigantic civil war was no laughing matter, when they sobered up long enough to consider and adopt Mr. Crittenden's resolution, declaring '• That the war is waged by the Govern ment of the United States, not in the spirit of conquest or subjugation, nor for the purpose of overthrowing or in terfering with the rights or institutions of the States, but to defend and main tain the supremacy of the Constitution, and to preserve the Union with all the dignity, equality and rights of the sev eral States unimpaired." But having got safply through the war and beaten the South, at immense cost and with prodigious loss of life, their jovial humor has returned. They are full of laughter, and are " ready to burst" whenever al lusion is made to the solemn promises of the Crittenden resolution. They grow as merry at the mention of the cheat they imposed upon the country when they passed that resolution as any Yankee peddler ever grew after making a "smart" clock trade, and the slight est allusion to the peril in which they have put our republican institutions convulses them with laughter. How much longer shall the sober rea son of the country be insulted by "laughter on the Republican side ?" How much longer shall this troop of gibbering political apes be permitted to play the role of Robespierre and his as sociates beneath the Statue of Liberty that crowns the proud Dome of our Capitol? It is high time for the strong and steady hand of the People to let down the curt i ain, upon this unendura ble exhibition, this offensive admixture of the elements of tragedy and farce. Rheems' Hall, Carlisle, was partially destroyed by fire on Tuesday morning.. The Herald printing establishment, which occupied the first floor of the Hall was also destroyed. - The - City Ward Bill. The more we have examined the bill _now pending in the Legislature for the 'division of Lancaster into nine Wards, the more are we confirmed in the opinion" giat it is a gross outrage upon the rights of a majority of the people, and, if car ried into effect, will be the entering wedge for a large increase of taxation to our already overburthened commu nity. But what care the little knot of scurvy politicians who concocted the infamous gerrymander about the in terests of the people, so that they can accomplish their purpose and get their hands deep down into the City Trea sury ? Let us look at some of the provisions of the bill: In the first plies it divides the North West Ward in such a way— into the First, Fifth and Ninth—as to give the First, with no more territory or population than the Fifth, one more member of Common Council, and leav ing the Ninth, with double the territory of either of the others, with only one half the representation of the First. The reason is, the First Ward will be strongly Republican, and the Ninth Ward strongly Democratic. The Fifth Ward will be debateable ground. The South West Ward is to be di vided into the Fourth and Eighth Wards, with twice the territory and a large preponderance of population in the Eighth over the Fourth, and yet entitled to no more representation in Councils than the former. Reason—the Eighth is almost unanimously Demo cratic, whilst in the Fourth the Repub licans may have some little show for success. The same gerrymander is at tempted in the division of the South East Ward into the Third and Seventh Wards. The Third will cover but a small portion of territory compared with the Seventh, and with no greater population, if as great, as the !after; but then the Seventh is strongly Demo. cratic, and the Third will be debateable ground. The North-East Ward is, perhaps, as fairly divided as could be into the Sec ond and Sixth Wards, so far as popula tion is concerned ; but in point of terri tory it also is . unequal. The Second Ward will be Republican—the Sixth Democratic. So much for the gerrymander of terri tory and population. B t ut there are other features of the proposed change equally objectionable, and which more directly affect the interests of the tax payers. We shall notice only one or two of them. In the first place, that wise provision in the old law, and which has maintained the credit of the city thus far, which prohibits any assess ment of City tax above one per cent., is repealed, and the Councils are author ized to add fifty per cent. to the amount heretofore collected off our already burthened tax-payers. In other words, they are authorized to spend about six teen thousand dollars a year more than has heretofore been deemed necessary, and which it is believed is not needed if the government is economically ad ministered. The new bill also provides for the election of nine constables, all of whom will have to be paid out of the City Treasury. The five Constables now in the City are amply sufficient for all useful purposes, and auy addition to their number will only be a large addi tional expense without any correspond ing benefit to the community. The above are some of the principal objections to the new charter or law. There are others equally transparent, but we have not room to notice them at this time. The leading objects sought to be accomplished by the cabal who concocted this bill, are, arst, to smother the voice of a majority of the citizens, and, secondly, to plunder the Treasury, That a large majority of our people, of both political parties, are opposed to this whole project, does not admit of a doubt. They were not consulted in re ference to their wishes, and are indig nant at this atterur t to make the city a mere foot-ball' for a few scheming, un scrupulous and dishonest politicians. This movement should have originated not with a political party, but with those who have been elected to take charge of the interests of the city. Any citizens who desired our form of city govern ment to be altered should have laid their views before the City Councils, and urged them to have such changes made as would be conducive to the interests of the city. Then an apportunity would have been afforded to all our citizens to express their views, and a bill might have been framed for presentation to the Legislature which would have given satisfaction to all men and all parties. There are some provisions in the bill now before the Legislature to which we give our unqualified approval. Such, for instance, is the provision giving the veto power to the Mayor; the one ex tending his term of office, malting it two years instead of one ; and the sec tion which requires the collectors of bounty tax to give bonds for the faithful performance of their duties. These are most excellent provisions ; but our radical objection to the bill is the in creased expense put upon the city by its division into wards, instead of into elec tion precincts; and the very unfair manner in which the division has been made. Now that this bill has been made pub lic and its provisions thus brought to their attention, we think it is clearly the duty of the Councils, as faithful guardians of the interests of the city, to meet together for the purpose of con sidering maturely the radical changes which it proposes in our form of govern ment; and having done so, they sbould lay the result of their deliberations in an official manner before the Legisla ture. But some may say the Councils are Democratic, and the Legislature be ing Republican, will pay no heed to their recommendations. We cannot believe this ; but even, if it be true, the Councils will at least have done their duty, and the responsibility for the evils which will flow from unwise legislation, will not rest with them. Let the Councils meet. Rotten National Banks People who put their money in Na tional Banks when Chase started his grand financial scheme for binding the monied interests of the Country to the car of the Federal government, imagined that they had made both a profitable and a safe investment. The collapse of some of Culver's National Banks in this State, and of the Merchant's National Bank in the city of Washington, broke in upon this comfortable dream of security, but the apprehensions then awakened soon passed away. Now, however, the country is startled by the simultaneous failure of three or four National Banks located in different States. These institutions have gone down through the dishonesty of some of their officers. But other causes may bring about the failure of hundreds of National Banks—as, for instance, the impeachment and removal of President Johnson and the installation of that ignorant and vindictive ruffian Ben. Wade in the Presidential Chair. These events would create a financial panic that would break half the Banks in the country ; and as the Governpient Bonds would run down to less than half their par value, noteholders as well as stock holders would suffer greatly. A friend of Forney says that he "grew like a rough oak among storms and whirl winds." Prentice says: "Never mind, For ney, you'll probably be a hot-house plant In the next world.' "XI-IL" The "Pastors of Harrisburg" have united in what the Telegraph calls "a sublime profession of confidence" in "the moral attitude of the Governor of Pennsylvania," John W:Geary. It is a very common thing for the spiritual advisers of a fellow who hasjust gone through what Webster in his reply to Rayne called "the .ailkward business of dying without touching the ground," to unite in "a sublime profession of confidence" in "the moral attitude" of the culprit. These clerical expressions of confidence are, in general, less to be relied on than the ancient female's cer tificate that "Old Dr. Jacob Townsend's Sarsaparilla" had 'cured her of a sore leg of forty years' standing. But as Geary has hanged himself for the bene fit of the intemperate temperance fanatics who propose to prescribe other people's meat and drink, no one will find fault with the spiritual advisers who attended hlm in his last momenta for giving him the usual certificate. Though of no benefit to him, it will be a great consolation to his sorrowing family and friends. A Doable-raced Radical. General Logan, in Connecticut, the other day, stumping for the Radical ticket, declared himself unqualifiedly in favor of universal suffrage in the South. If the Radicals will look up Logan's " record" in the Illinois cam paign last fall, they will find that he embraced every opportunity to declare that, though he was a Radical, he did not advocate the extension of the suf frage in Illinois. A Palpable lilt One of our Democratic exchanges, re ferring to Forney's glorification over " the election of that stern Radical, B. F. Wade, as President of the Senate, and that equally stern Radical, Schuy ler Colfax, as Speaker of the House," wittily remarks that there is a manifest propriety in selecting stern Radicals as presiding officers of a rump Congress. Appointed Deputy Collector. Col. E. G. Roddy, editor of the-Union town Genius of Liberty, has received from Wm. H. Markle, Collector of the Twenty-First District, the appointment of Deputy Collector for Fayette county, vice William Elliott, removed. This is a first rate appointment, and we con gratulate our friend, the Colonel, on his good fortune—if the office is a fat one. FROM WASHINGTON. WASHINGTON, March 6 RADICAL CAUCUS. The Radical members of the House of Representatives held a caucus this evening at the Capitol. There were about one hun dred and twenty members present. Gen. Banks presided, and Mr. Ferry, of Michigan, acted us Secretary. Mr. Ashley, of Ohio, offered a resolution directing the Judiciary Committee, when appointed, to continue their investigatiops into the charges preierred against the President on the 7th of January last, with power to sit during the session ot the House, or any recess which may be taken. Mr, Covodo , ved to amend, by substi tuting a select r,mmittee of thirteen, _the seven members f the Judiciary Committee of the Thirty-ninth Congress to constitute a part of the same. This resolution is understood to have beet prepared by General Butler, of Massachu setts, and placed by him in the hands of Mr Covode. Mr. Spalding, of Ohio, wished to know if the Judiciary Committee had auy facts bearing upon the material charges, not known to the public. If so, he would like to know what they were. Mr. Wilson, of Ohio, replied that it would be improper to make any communication on that subjeot. Recurring to the F.endingquestiou,Messrs. Farnsworth and Kelly thought the matter should be left in the hands of the Judiciary Committee. Mr. Pike, of Maine, was In favor of the Judiciary Committee, but thought it more important to determine thetirne of adjourn ment, as that was the point which virtually affected the question or impeachment. Ho was willing to adjourn over until the autumn, in order to afford the committee ample time to investigate the subject. General Butler made an earnest appeal for a special committee, and thought that the Judiciary Committee had no prescrip tive right in the premises. Mr Bingham, of Ohio, said the eiuht pre cedents of impeachment cases in this coun try were, with one exception, in favor of re ferring to the Judiciary Committee, and that exception had led to a ridiculous blunder. General Butler inittilrect whether Mr. Bingham - was in any event in favor of an impeachment. Mr. Bingham replied that he was not like some gentlemen, in favor of Impeach ing first and hearing the testimony after wards. The question was then taken on Mr. Cov ode's amendment for a special committee and voted down by an overwhelming ma jority. Mr. Ashley's motion to refer the question of impeachment to the Judiciary Committee was then adopted with scarcely any oppo sition. Mr. Stevens, of rennsylvania, moved that when Congreas adjourn it be until May N. Mr. Wilson, of lowa, moved to amend by inserting October 20. Ile thought the in vestigation a grave one, requiring time, and that all the States entitled to representation should be present to vote on the articles of impeachment, if presented. Those States would be absent in M.iy. Mr. Shellabarger, of Ohio, thought there was much gravity in this point, but it was not of pressing importance in view of the fact that the Senate, which is the body to try impeachment, is full. It was not so Im portant that tho lions°, merely presenting impeachment, should have every State present. Mr, Blaine, of Maine, Inquired of Mr. Shellabargol how it would be, In ease that articles of Impeachment should bo carried in the House by a majority loss than the number of members to which the absent States were entitled. Mr. tihellabager replied that It would not affect the va,idity of the action of the ilouse. Mr. Boutwell hoped the question of im peachment would be decided one way or other promptly, and not be postponed until autumn. General Butler said that the postponement until autumn was simply to abandon the whole idea. Mr. Wilson's motion was lost in a call of yeas and nays, 37 against 80. Mr. Steven's motion, that when the House adjourn, it be until May 8, was adopted without opposition, Mr. Allison, of lowa, offered a resolution that it was not expedient for this Congress to adjourn for more than three days at any onetime, until the question of impeachment was disposed of. The resolution was dis agreed to. Mr. Pomeroy then moved that Congress will take a recess on Monday next until May 8, which was decided in the affirmative —yeas 64. nays 54. Horrible Murder near Buffalo. A fiendish and probably successful at tempt was made to murder an old man, named Mr. Jacobs, at Black Rock, last Saturday night, between ten and eleven o'clock. The victim was employed as night watchman in the firebrick works of Hall & Sons, located on Scajaquada creek. The cry of murder was heard, and as soon as possi ble Captain Rhinehardt, with a force of men, repaired to the building, where they found the old man weltering in his gore, and apparently dying, from the effects of inj tides inflicted upon his head with an axe, which was found lying near the spot. It was ascertained that. Mr. Jacobs had re ceived sixty-one dollars at sundown as the wages of himself and son-in law, and it was surmised that this money was the object aimed at by the assailants, but fortunately Mr. Jacobs had sent the money home by his son-in-law. A number of men were seen to visit the place a little while before the cries were first heard, and during the excitement which followed, their efforts to fasten suspicion on somebody else were so marked as to create mistrust, and five were arrested. Their names are Thomas Kelly, William Carr, Thomas Bowers, David Carr and Owen McCarthy. At last accounts the victim was lying in a state of unconsciousness, unable to give any account of the horrible affair.—Buffalo (New York) .Rcpress. A Baby in a Baffle The Mobile Times says a lady left in des titute circumstances by her husband, yes terday morning disposed of the last of her earthly possessions by a raffle—a baby, large enough to be two or three years old. The amount realized was some twenty-five dollars. The " sur-weet little thing" was won by'a gentleman connected with the typographical department of that office. A Long Fast John N. Aughinbaugh of West Man chester, missed a sow, weighing about 200 lbs., on the Ist of November, and on the 24th of January she was found under a stack of straw. On cowing out She was very weak, but has reeoVered heiself so far as to be as heavy as When she was Aro weighed.— York Gazette. News Items. The only shares that are sure to turn up all right—ploughshares. One-third of the nominees recently rei ected by the Senate were soldiers. Maine has 14,000,000 acres of unbroken !bract. A negro woman in Virginia killed her father by throwing a skillet at his head. Punch says it is dreadful to hear of a child, only one month old, taking to the bottle. The Virginia Senate yesterday passed the bill calling a State Convention, by a vote of 24 to 4. The Mississippi Legislature has appro priated $20,000 for the defense of Jefferson Davis. deneml George H. Thomas declines the nomination for President proposed by the Union men of Tennessee. Since 1821 Mexico bas been governed by 23 presidents, 7 dictators, 2 emperors, 1 vice .president and I generalissimo. l!deerschaum, similar in appearance to that found in Europe, has been discovered in Franklin county, Missouri. There are only five persons in the West moreland county jail. Two former inmates were sent to the Penitentiary last week. Governor Bullock, of Massachucetts, has appointed George L. Ruffin, colored, a jus tice of the peace. Articles of impeachment against Gov ernor Wells have been referred to a com mittee of the Louisiana Legislature. The Postmaster General States that not less than t 2,000,000 are now in the hands of clerks of postollaces destitute of postmasten3. George C. Heywood, a planter, was mur dered by the negroes on his plantation, near Savannah. The Virginia Senate has appointed a com mittee to consult with the authorities at Washington as to the requirements of the Reconstruction act. General Gleeson, who is vow military di rector of the Fenian Brotherhood, has given a contract for two thousand uniforms to a large clothing firm in New York. Five members of Henry Ward Beecher's church have been arrested for distilling contraband whisky. It is lucky Henry was not among them. A decisive battle between the Imperialists and Liberalists in Mexico is said to bo im pending. Maximilian will command the Imperialists in person. A gay and festive preacher in Richmond is now undergoing tho slow torment of a church trial on a charge ofhaving promised to marry twelve different women. A lady in St. Louis;advertises fora " help" who " knows a slap jack from a boot-jack," and who will nu( "wash her feet in the wash tub." An old lady, reading an account of a dis tinguished old lawyer who was said to he the father of the New York bar, exclaimed: "Poor man! he has a dreadful set ofchildren. An atrray decurred a few days ago, at Webberville, in Texas, resulting in tho death of a Mr. Glasscock and the wounding of a Mr. Miller. A bar of Montana gold worth 8100,000 is to be sent to the Paris exhibition, and Penn sylvania will have there a pebble of coal weighing six tons. LONDON, March 11.—Artemus Ward has directed in his will that hie property shall, after the death of Ills mother, be used for the erection of au Asylum for Printers. The steamer Clermont struck a snag and sunk, near Memphis, on Friday night. The boat and cargo, consisting of 200 bales of cotton, are a total loss, One of the passen was drowned. A man named Douglas, on Saturday waved a flag from an upper window of n hotel in Providence, shouting " I am almost there," He meant Heaven, but was taken to the lunatic asylum. It is asserted by a western man, as one of the funniest coincidences in the world, that almost every alternate section of land on each side of the Pacific railroad belongs to some member of Congress. The Nevada Legislature adjourned an Thursday. Before adlournmeut, the Lieu tenant Governor told the Legislature it " had done no credit to itself or the State." The closing scenes of the session are said to haVI3 been 'disgraceful." A German iron master will send to the Paris Exposition a house made entirely of Iron, at a (Jost of $5,000. It can be taken to pieces, and is easily heated, for the walls are hollow, and may be connected with a furnace or a hot water chamber. A crazy Second Adventist in New York State has for ten yura been feeding a big ox for a (east when Christ should appear. He has starved his other stock and spent nearly all his property in purchasing food for that ox. A negro cut the throat of a Mrs. 'Vincent with a razor at Opeka, Alabama, last week, and was pursued by the citizens of the neigh borhood. When overtaken and summoned to surrender be defied his pursuers, and was shot. A negro girl, living with a family named Evans, Madisonville, Rails county, took an infant six or eight months old, a child of Mrs. Evans, and placed it upon a hot cook ing stove, and held it there until burned in Eluoh a manner as to cause its death. A burnishing powder in use In Belgium is composed of half a pound of fine chalk, three ounces of pipe Clay, two ounces of white lead, three-quarters of an ounce of carbonate magnesia, and as much of jew eler's rouge. It is said that chloroform is an excellent article for the removal of stains of paint from clothes, etc. Portions of dry white paint which successfully resisted the action of ether, bouzole and bisulphide of carbon, are at once dissolved by chloroform. Michigan is to hold a Constitutional Con vention which will have power to prepare an amended State Constitution. In New York a Constitutional Convention is also t. be held ; and the subject of bolding a con vention to revise the Contifution of Penn sylvf,nia is being agitated at Harrisburg. Floods are still reported on the Western rivers. For three weeks, it is announced, the Ohio river has been very high, and the losses by the overflow of bottom lands have been enormous. The river is still rising, and grdater disaster and more suffering than have beers known from this cause for many years are apprehended. A. W. Lee, the Treasury clerk, wino ab sconded from Washington last January with some forty thousand dollars in United States bonds, which he had stolen from the Loan Bureau, has been arrested in St. Loos, under an assumed name. Thirty seven thousand dollars wero found in his possession by the officers who made the arrest. Some boys playing on a vacant lot in Cincinnati on Friday found, in a partially buried wooden bucket, the horribly mutila ted body of a male infant about two months old. The head had been severed from the body, the left side of the face cut off as if to prevent any recognition, and the bones of the skull crushed in. The Japanese have ordered to be con structed in France several large iron -clads, each of which is tocost about $700,000. Ilad It not been for the great cost of labor and materials in America, our shipbuilders would have secured this contract. The vessels are built on American models in Wilburn Waters, a famous hunter and hermit of Southwestern Virginia, was lately murdered for the sake of $2OO bounty for wolfs' iift alps which ho had Just received. Waters was a half-breed Catawba Indian, a man of eccentric habits, but excellent character, and a most persevering enemy of the wild beasts of the mountain region which he inhabited. The reason that a bot resists the action of agents administered is his power of driving his head into the walla of the stomach by his tentacles. But he cannot resist the chloroform. A tablespoonful of chloroform screened by a couple of spoonsful of any good mucilage will make him lot go his hold on the stomach even after having bored nearly through. The richest man of the world, it is said, will probably be the young Lord Belgrave, the grandson of the Marquis of Westmin ster, if he lives to inherit the property of the latter. The present income of the estate is estimated at $5OOO a day; but ten years hence, by the expiration of numerous long leases at nominal rents, it will probably be $lOO,OOO. Earl Grosvenor is the father of Lord Belgrave and the son of the Marquis of Westminster. Lord Belgrave is now 13 years of age. About nine months since a boy residing near Buffalo, N. Y., while amusing himself with a pistol, accidentally discharged It and the ball entered his brain. The boy came to his senses after a while, and is still alive, though all attempts to extract the ball have been unsuccessful, and would probably re sult in death. He cannot speak, and the ability to read is gone but the accident re sulted in increasing his power of the organ of calculation, and he now figures up with marvelous celerity very abstruse sums. An apparatus has been Inverted in France for tracing the course of a ship. It consists of a system of wheel-work fixed inside the binnacle, which gradually unrolls a long slip of photographic paper with a given ve locity, and horizontally in the direction of the ship's motion. The card of the ctim pass is pierced, atthe point usually marked "North Pole," with a hole carrying a small object glass. The light, in passing through the latter, strikes upon the photographic paper, which, being in motion, thus receives tho impression of a line which is the exact rep ressentation of the ship's course, whatever change the latter may have undergone. The costliest watch that over was made is said to have been one which was constructed in 1844 for the Sultan Abdul MedJid, who must have found it rather inconvenient, since it was live inches in diameter, and struck the hours and quarters on wires with a sound resembling that; of a powerful cathedral clook, It goat twelve hundred guineas. Another !anions watch was in serted in the tope!' a peneU ease, and though It was but three•stxteenths of an Inch In diameter Its dial not only indicated the hours, minutes and seconds, but also• days of the month. It was made In Geneva, was displayed in the ozhibition of 230/i Bank DeAdeations and Failures. BALTIMORE. • A heavy defalcation has been discovered in the Mechanics' National Bank of Balti more. It runs through a period of twenty seven years, and was discovered finally last week by Government Inspector Cal lender, and amounts to three hundred thou sand dollars. The parties implicated are Samuel H. Wentz, general book-keeper, who has been an officer In the institution thirty years, and John 11. Rogers, paying teller, an officer for twenty-five years. Both were arrested on Saturday, but wore re leased on bail of $lO,OOO each. This Is the third heavy embezzlement which has oc curred in the same bank within the period in which this hits been going on. Both of the accused are men of family • the forma* is quite an elderly man, and has a large famlly. The Mechanics' is oneof the largest banks In Baltimore, and much excitement prevails in consequence of the affair. The stock of the bank is held by a large num ber of private individuals, widows and orphans. The depositors are numerous, but the latter class of creditors will cer tainly be paid in full, as one of our leading banking and shipping houses has offered and will hand over to the bank saoo,ooo, to enable It to meet all pressing claims. Thu stock, of course, will be depressed; but with a change of the officers and manage ment of the bank, and its yet untouched capital, it will be enabled to continue its business on a diminished scale, and again, after the lapse of some years, regain the confidence of the public. There was considerable excitement in Boston on Saturday morning, occasioned by the development of irregularities in transactions of the cashier of the State Bank in certifying checks of Mellon, Ward it Co. brokers, who suspended payment on Friday. These checks wore presented through the Clearing House, but the direc tors of the State Bank refused them, and declared that they never entered into any arrangement with the city banks for the certification of checks. Other parties be sides those named are Implicated, and the sum involved is upwards of half a million dollars. BOSTON, March 3.—The failure of Mellen, Ward Ltt Co. has given rise to various rumors. The whole loss resulting front the suspension of, this firm is said to be nearly one million of dollars. The First Nationtil Bank of Newtownville, of which Edward Carter, a member of the suspended firm, was a direetor, has closed its doors, having, it is reported, suffered to the extent of $200,- 000, nearly twice the amount of its capital. Mr. Carter was elected President of the Copper Fall Mining Company sonic weeks ago; since which time there have been operations for a " corner" In thostock, which carried the price up rapidly , from tit!. to 75. The failure of the firm throw then . stock on the market, and of course the pros pects of a " corner" disappeared, the price. tumbling to 20 and 2tii(63o at the close. 't'ho Merchants' Bank holds $025,000 of the mr tilled checks of the State Bank, which were certified as good by Charles .11. Smith, the cushier, and the Second National Bank holds $125,000. There will probably be liti gation as to the banks upon which this losN shall fall. Julius F. Hartwell, the Cashier of the Sub• Treasury, who has been concern ed in these transactions, has resigned. The Government, however, does not lose a dol lar. Mr. Smith, the cashier of the State Bank, has also resigned. NEWTON, MA Ss The cashier of the First National Bank of Newton, Massachusetts, E. l'orter Dyer, Jr., absconded, on Friday last, leaving the bank short $llO,OOO, out of a paid -In hand capital of 8150,000. The President of the bank gave notice that Dyer went to Boston on Saturday at 11 o'clock, and had not since been heard of. The bank has authority to increase its capital stock to $300,000. It redeems in New. York at the National Park Bank. 19= The Dollar Savings Bunk of Pittsburg-, Pa., has been defrauded out of the HUM of $113,000 by A. V. H. Elder, general book keeper. The way he did it was, when a depositor left $750 for instance, he would enter the correct sum upon the depositor's bank book, but upon the credit book of the bank It would be entered as VOO, Elder, of course, pocketing the balance. A gentleman who deposited the above amount and who, sometime afterward, had occasion to draw $2OO, incidentally re marked that lie had PH) still left. A com parison of hooks revealed the slate of the. case, and the books having been sent for, the above total was found missing. The First Natiomil Bank of Iludson, N• Y., was closed on Saturday for examination of accounts, it being alleged that Peter S. Wynkoop, the cashier, is a defaulter to the amount 0r.?..50,001.1 The directors of the bank are investigating the matter, and may have to report a larger amount. The cashier makes a clean breast of it, and aek nowledem that he has lost heavily by speculations hi fancy stocks. The bank has a paid-in capital of $200,000, and power to increase to half a million. Its notes are redeemed at. the Ninth National Bank of Now York City. Wynkoop has been taken into custody ut the instance of thu President of the bank, any lodged in Jail. Diabolical Outrage—Attempt at Rape. On Tursday evening, Feb. 31st, a horri ble attempt was made to outrage a young lady residing near Mount Jackson. The circumstances are given us as follows: The lady in question left her home about six o'clock for the purpose of attending a wake at a neighbor's house. She had occasion to pass through a large field some distance from any house. While proceeding along she observed that she was followed by a stun. She quickened her pace, in order to escape him, but he rapidly pursued, and soon overtook and threw her down, mak ing threats of killing her in case of refusal, to his demands. Nothing daunted she strug gled, and succeeded in thwarting his at tempts, until he became frightened and left her. She immediately went to the house of Mrs. Duiman's and told the occurrence. Several men soon were on his truck, and about nine o'clock he was arrested by Samuel Dittman, constable of that town ship, who brought him over to New Castle and committed him to the county Jail, to be tried at the, next session of the County Court.—New Ca.vele Gazette. A Nublo Act. A mere lad, probably a resident of the vicinity, In walking along the track of the Illinois Central, near Council Hill, on Fri day morning, discovered the end of a rail thrown out of the "Chair" in such a man ner EL .9 to form aY at the point of displace ment. Scarcely had he made the discovery when he heard the morning passenger train thundering along with almost lightning speed toward the terrible place. 'rho little fellow fully realized the position, and with eager steps he ran toward the train, waving a tiny red handkerchief, which he luckily had in his pocket, us a warning of the danger ahead. The train was speeding swiftly on a down grade. Fortunately, the engineer saw the b,oy's signal, whistled his "down breaks," and the precious invoice of human freight was stopped on the very verge—it may have been, of destruction.—Dubuque Times. Death of the Rev. Dr. Livingstone A cable despatch announces that the cele brated African traveler and missionary, the Rev. Dr. David Livingstone, was born at Blantyre, upon the bauks of the Clyde, near Glasgow, in 1817. As a youth he earned his livelihood in the cotton mills of Blantyre, but by hard labor he was enabled to pursue, during the winter months, his studies at Glasgow. As he grew up he resolved to devote himself to the life of a missionary, hoping that Africa or China would be the scene of his labors. After studying medi cine and theology, he offered his service, in 1838, to the London Missionary Society, and was accepted. He reached the shores of Africa in the summer of 1840. For sixteen years be labored at variousstations in South Africa. In 1855 the Royal Geographical Society of England conferred upon him the Victoria or Patron's gold modal. In the same year, Dr. Livingstone successfully made a journey across'Southern Africa. Ile visited England in 18.56, and met with a magnificent reception. In 1858 he returned to Africa and continued his geographical explorations His works on his travels in Africa have had an immense sale, and en deared his name to tells of thousands In both hemispheres.—N. Y. Tribune. Death of Bishop Sonic A telegram from Nashville Tennessee, announces the death of the Rev. Joshua Soule, D. D., senior bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church South, who died in that city at an early hour yesterday morning. The deceased became a minister of the Methodist Church before the commence ment of the present century, and of course long prior to the memorable division in that church. He was born in Bristol, Maine, on the Ist of August, 1781, and had attained his 86th year.—Baltimore Sun of the 7th. Family Names There is a family in the town of Colon, Branch county, Michigan, whose surname is Thurston. They have twelve children, named as follows: Ulysses, Ithicus, Leo dis Iphigenia, Chrysthomus, Andronitxt, Epainitiondas Epaphrobatus, Achilles Ly curgus, Miltiades Aristides, Cassius Brutus,, Solon Kossuth, Agamemnon Riland, Dul cons Dulcerado, Patrocles Antilacus and Wendell Phillips. The eldest of these clas sical Mlchiganders, upon going to school for the first time, though a precocious youth, could not speak plain, and when the teacher asked him his name, after much lisping and hesitation, he announced him self as "Useless little cuss." A terrible case of hydrophobia is chroni cled in the Detroit papers. A little daugh ter of Mr. Alfred Woodbury, of the town of Greenfield, Mich., was bitten, Borne time ago, by a dog, but no symptoms of hydro phobia were at first shown. At length the poison, which, acting as a sub-cutaneous injection, permeated every tissue of the sys tem, broke out in g severe form, causing: the most intense sugaring. A consultation was hold by physicians, who decided that, as the sugercr could not possibly , survive,, every. consideration of humanity domanded that her sufferings be ended by some means, in accordance with which, during a severe paroxysm, theobild was smothered to death..
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