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In pursuance of authority given the un -40./Aooo' ft:''meeting. of the County Committeklield• on Monday, April 15th you : are; retineSted to assemble in the sevoril:;Waitis of the city . and "bor oughs, and ip the townships of the county, on SATURDAY, the 11th,` day of LAY, 1887, to elect not less than three nor more. than. dye 'delegates, to represent such district in a general County Convention, to be •held on WEDNESDAY, the 15TH day of Mai, at 11 o'clock, at Fulton Hall, in the city pf Lancaster, for the purpose of elect ing six delegate:3 to represent the De • mocracy of the county of Lancaster in the State Convention, to be held at lIARRIBBURG on • the SECOND TUESDAY in JUNE NEXT; and for the further purpose, if deemed advisable, of electine twelve delegates to meet in Mass Convention at Harrisburg, on a day to be fixed by the Chairman of the State Central Committee. The several Districts will each nominate one person to serve as a member of the County Committee for the ensuing political year, and will also elect a President and Secretary of the District organization, who will appoint an Executive Com mittee of one in each sub-division.— These names should be placed upon the credentials of the delegates to the County Convention. The most active and efficient men should be chosen. The County Committee will meet pursu ant to adjournment, at the usual place, of WEDNESDAY, MAY 15, at 10 A. M. A. J. STEIN3IAN, Chairman B. J. MCGRANN. Secretary. Thoughts for Working Men. The prosperity, about which the Rad ical newspapers of the North prated so loudly during the continuance of the war, has been discovered to be com pletely unsubstantial and painfully il lusionary. It was the flush of a political fever, the unnatural activity of a dis eased social system. With each gigantic struggle that we made we constantly exhausted the vital powers of the na tion. The drain upon our material resources was great and long continued. To repair the waste of a war, such as that through which we have passed, must necessarily take many years, • even under the wisest and most states manlike management. Vast multitudes of skillful and industrious laboring men perished ; and with their death the na tion lost forever valuable producers, while it had left on its hands, as a bur then, those whom their labor would have more than supported. It would be difficult to estimate the enormous foss which has been thus sustained. By the war several hundred thousand laboring men have been laid in untime ly graves. Yet those whom they left behind them do not find their condition bettered by this reduction. The national debt contracted has all to be paid by the sweat of the working men of the nation ; and not only that— all the waste of the war, whether iu the North or the South, must eventually be repaired by their toil. Upon their shoulders all the public burthens are laid. If a heavier tax is put upon the owner of real estate, he immediately raises the rent upon his tenants. They cannot escape from the exhorbitant de mand, for the owners of tenement houses act in concert. Is a heavy tariff put upon imported goods, or home manu factures taxed for the purposes of inter nal revenue, the tariff or tax is at once added to the price of the goods, and the workingmen, being the chief consum ers, pay it when they go to the retail stores to make their slender purchases. Capitalists take precious good care to shift the burthen from their shoulders. All taxes of every descripton are wrung from the toil of the laboring men of the country. They are feeling the burthens laid upon them very sensibly. All over the country the complaint comes up that the wages received are not sufficient to support them and their families. 'The rents of the houses they live in, and the prices of everything they eat or wear, continue to rule at most exhorbitant figures. They have waited in vain for the coming of better times. In every city in the mining districts, everywhere, where laboring men are to be found in bodies sufficiently numerous to effect combinations, strikes are the order of the day. These mute but eloquent and touching appeals of the toiling multi tude are not heeded by capitalists. In Pittsburg more than five thousand workingmen have been idle for weelzs. The manufactures refuse to give them living wages. The plea of the capitalists is that they have no market for their wares. That may bepartially true: But, if it be, where is the fault? Why are our market thus contracted? Surely no intolllnent laboring man need ask. They ought all to have sense enough to see for themselves, that it is the dis tracted and unsettled condition of the South which deprives us of our piquet , pal market. While the fanatics iu Con- greas continue to urge their revolti _popery and destructive schemes, one half the public domain, the richest and most productive half, must lie waste. The North has always lived by its manufactures, and has always depend ed upon the South for a market for them. During the war, while a very large per eentage of the laboring population of our section was in the armies, those who remained at home found remu nerative employment. More than, one half our energies were directed to the production of material which was worn out on the backs of our soldiers, eaten up or otherwise destroyed by them. All that was purchased by the thousands of • millions of our national debt was as completely destroyed as if every cent's worth of it had been exploded in gun powder. The working men of the nation have all that to pay. Should they not see to It then that their burthens be made as light as possible? Should they not in sist upon it that the people of the South be allowed to recuperate their exhaust ed energies, and encouraged to put un der cultivation their rich but desolated fields? Every interference by the fanatics In Congress with the rights vested in the people of the South by the Constitution of the United States, has been a new burthen laid upon the laboring men of the North. How long will they continue to tie made the dupes of those who are jeopardizing, not only the liberties, but the material inter ests of the masses of both sections. Is it not enough that the workingmen of the nation have the whole of the vast national debt to pay, both principal and interest; or must they be still further burthened, in order that the present cor rupt and fanatical Congress may be sustained in its usurpations. Let them look at the situation of our public af fairs without prejudice or passion, and then let them act the part of intelligent and independant freemen at the ballot box. The New License Law. The law enacted by the Radicals In our Legislature by which restaurant and other licenses are dou.bled, Is regarded as being harsh in,its character. Solt may be, But there were two purposes to s u beer ve, The "roosters" and "pinchers" wanted to throw a sop to the• temperance folks, and at the same to put a snug pile of , money,ln the State Treasury to meat thetrextravegaut appropriations. These ,4igtotheobit proved to be irreslstlbLe with.the luimeoulate patriots. Alarmed AlionettelegrirTote; - The Radicals are terribly exercised just now about the votes of the South ern negroes. When they made them voters, through the . agencytof, the in famous military,, which they have establisheiN thef expected every ex-rebel in the conntry to array tdiiinAelf in open hostility to the new order of affairs. They : never drenthed that such men as Wade Hampton, Herschel V. Johnson/Henry A. Wise, and a vast majority of the prominent Southern leaders, would be found ready to ao• cept the' situation, and assume control of the votes of the negro population. That was something they did not bar gain for. They fully calculated that they would be able, through the Freed men's Bureau and otheragencies, which they have been keeping up at the ex pense of the tax-paying toilers of the North, to manipulate the votes of four million Southern new& to suit them selves. It was a very ificely laid scheme, and gave promise of' increased power and a lengthened reign of corrupt and fanatical misrule. As things look at present, however, there is every reason to believe that the Southern negroes will disappoint the men who expected to make political capital out of them. It is scarcely pos sible that the handful of disreputable fellows who are the Radical leaders in the South, such unmitigated humbugs and convicted scoundrels as Hannicutt and Hamilton, should be able to over balance the influence of those in whose employ the negroes are, and upon whom they are entirely dependant for sup port. Not all the employees of the freedmen's bureau, all the military su bordinates, and all the Yankee school marms who are maintained in the South at the public expense, will be able to prevent the Southern politicians from controling the negro vote, if they see fit to take the matter in hand. They seem disposed to make the best of the situation. Everywhere we see the evi dences of such a disposition developing itself; and even in the cities, where the negroes have been most under the con trol of Northern Radicals, there is a strong party of them to be found siding with the white leaders of the South. In the rural districts it is not likely that much headway can be made against the influence of those who employ the negroesand have them constantly under their direction. We do not wonder the Radical fanatics are alarmed. It is not at all strange that corrupt scoundrels like Forney should express serious doubts as to the issue. Horace Greeley and the rest have good cause. for asserting that without the adoption of negro suffrage in every Northern State the speedy overthrow of the Republican party is inevitable. We are totally opposed to negro suf frage. We do not believe that the negroes,either in the North or the South, are fit to exercise the elective franchise in an intelligent manner. We dread the evils which are sure to spring from the incorporation of such multitudes of an inferior race in the body of voters. We believe this government should be controlled by white men. We have no fear that they would do any injustice to the negro. Even the probability that the negroes of the South will be influ enced to vote against the Radicals of the North does not in any degree reconcile us to this dangerous innovation. Ten Tariffs In Five Years The New York Post, a Radical news paper, says we have had ten tariffs in five years ; besides the one at which Con gress was tinkering some months before its adjournment. Here is the list : 1. The act of March 2, 1861, which nearly doubled the taxes on foreign goods imposed . by the tariff act of May 3, 1857. 2. The Het of August 5, 1861, which in• creased the duties levied by the previous act. 3. The act of December 24, 1861, providing for higher duties. 4. The act of July 14, 1862, providing for still higher duties. 5. The act of March 3, 1863, which im posed still higher duties. 6. Act of June 30, 1864, which imposed much higher duties on nearly everything. 7. The act of March 3, 1865, which im posed yet higher duties on some things. 8. The act of March 14, 1866, which im posed additidnul duties on various things. U. The act of May 16, 1866, which imposed more duties on some articles. 10. Lastly, the act of July 2S, 1866, which imposed from four to twenty per cent. ad ditional duty on everything. Each new act only put new burthens upon the consumer for the benefit of the New England manufactures. No wonder the Post was disgusted, until it proposes to build a Wall one hundred feet high and five hundred feet thick around the United States, Russian- America included. The Adjournment of the U. S. Senate. The United States Senate, the rump of the Rump Congress, adjourned on Saturday. During the extra session it has presented to the country a most humiliating spectacle. The Senate Chamber was little else than a sort of exchange for the sale of offices. No principle governed their actions or con firmations. It was a struggle in which each greedy Senator grabbed whatever he could get. They were always ready for a dicker of any kind, if something could be made by it. , The character of nominees hadl nothing to do with their chances of confirmation. Many of the bravest and est soldiers of the Repub_ lie were summarily slaughtered because the Radical Senators could make neither money nor political capital for them selves by voting for them. Every Radi cal mem bes had his private axe to grind, and it was made a rule not to interfere with any little arrangements which any one might have set up. Honest men of every party were disgusted, and all wondered at the evidences of corrupt ness exhibited by what was iu better times the purest and most honorable legislative body the world ever saw. It is safe to say that In a majority of In- stances the best men named by the President were rejected and the worst confirmed, Reading Tam Out of the Party. The N. Y. Tribune of yesterday says " Men who hold that none but Whites should vote may be well enough in their place ; but there is no room for them in the republican party. Every one who stays in it keeps at least ten voters out of it." We know a good many Republicans who have always professed to occupy that position. How will they like being thus publicly read out of the party with which they have heretofore acted? Will they go at the bidding of the lead ere of the mongrel concern, or will they abandon their honest couilctions, and cower like whipped hbunds under the lash ? They must decide for themselves, now that they are plainly told what they are expected to do. Surely they can not profess to be in doubt any longer. Greeley tells them in plain, set terms that there is no room in the Re publican party for "men who hold that none but whites should vote." We ex pect to see an immediate emigration. There is room in the Conservative ranks for all who may come, and they will be received with open arms. General Sheridan Appointing Negroes to Office. General Sheridan is appointing ne groes to register the voters in New Or leans and elsewhere in Louisiana. He 15 said to have voluntarily made the lowest and most disreputable, radical political mountebartlie his intimate as sociates. It is also said that he is very dissipated, The Tsifiii teal Estate • Last year the Radicals abolished the tax on real estate in Peonsylvanh4and this legislative , feat was heraldell as a, magnificent, achievenrut. Railscal lUfukAtapercidocigratftlfre'd-Ahe fatfters.: of tl.ie State:thereupon,•?snd assured 'theta' that this was only ..ple of what would'eventually be donee for them. Under sUeli3Ooonomicill ath: ministration of the. State Government as characterized Democratic rule, this reduction of the revenue might not have been found detrimental to the financial interests of the State. ' We could have got along witholit it. Rut not so under the present' regime. The late corrupt Radical • Legisla ture appropriated more money than could possibly be furnished by existing rates of taxation. Even after they had imposed a heavy tax on coal and other resources of the State, it was found that there would be a deficiency. Whatwas to be done? it would not do to restore the tax on real estate, just after repeal ing it with such a grand flourish of trumpets ; and yet the money must be had to pay extra salaries to members of the Legislature, tosupport a smell army 'of dependants about the two Houses, to furnish stealings for petty officials, to pay extraordinary prices for a portrait of his Majesty, John W. Geary, to en • large the Executive Mansion, to keep up a useless agency at Washington, to provide for the maintenance of a stand ing army to menace the foreigners and the Catholics of the min ing regions, and for a multitude of other extraordinary and improper purposes. Radical ingenuity has never yet been at a loss for a device, when an opportu nity for plundering either the State or the National Treasury was presented. They did not restore the tax on real estate, not in express terms and in man ner and form ELS once levied and collect- ed, but they did what amounted to pre cisely the same thing. They passed a law requiring the Commissioners of the several Counties to levy, collect and pay into the State Treasury an additional sum of $300,000 ; the precise amount formerly derived from the tax on real estate. Of course the farmers know who pay the county tax, which is to be thus increased. It is notorious that the rural districts pay more than a proportionate share of it. This is another specimen of the wisdom and the fairness of Radi cal legislation. How much longer will the masses of Pennsylvania allow them selves to be made the dupes of such a set of corrupt political tricksters. Waking Up We are beginning to find out that the seeming prosperity over which we of the North rejoiced so loudly during the war was entirely fictitious. While we were engaged in the pleasant task of cutting the throats of our Southern -- brethren, the Ueneral Uovernment be came a most enormous consumer of ag ricultural products and manufactured articles of every description. Shots and factories sprang up wherever water power could be found or steam gene.r ated. The capital invested yielded enormous returns, and labor of every kind was eagerly sought for and liberally paid. It took immense quantities of woolen and cotton goods, of articles of wood and utensils of iron, to supply the wants of gigantic and wasteful armies. Every branch of busi ness seemed to be flourishing, and while everybody was making money, every body, except a few carping " copper head" editors and orators, insisted that all was well. The majority of the peo ple never stopped to think, while money was so abundant, that eyery dollar being spent in the war was as completely lost and destroyed as if exploded in gun powder. Until lately it was considered disloyal to intimate that we were not the most wonderfully prosperous people in the world. As intoxicated individuals frequently do, we felt immensely rich. We had money in our pockets, and, we spent it with lavish profusion. In the flush of our seeming prosperity, we forgot that the realms of commerce, manu factures and of business iu general are all ruled by certain inflexible laws of sup ply and demand. While the Govern ment was paying treble prices for all the country could produce, producers naturally felt elated. It is not strange that the mass of the people did not stop to reflect that every dollar thus expend ed was being piled up as-a huge moun tain of debt, to be paid by' the grimy toil of the working classes—every cent of it, both principal and interest. We were told by Jay Cooke, banker, who made millions by negotiating theloans, that a National debt, such as ours, would prove to be a National blessing and there were plenty of people silly enough to believe it. We are just beginning to wake up from this fool's dream, and our waking promises to be a rude one. The General Government is no longer the principal consumer ; it does not now stand us in stead or both foreign and domestic markets for the products of our soil and of our manufactories. We are thrown upon our own ordinary resources. For eign market we have none. Outside nations do not need the articles we are now producing, and will not buy them. Everywhere manufactories are stopping and everywhere trade is languishing.— Strikes are the order of the day among working men. These are the cry of the the laboring classes, their signal of distress, their dumb protest against the follies and the crimes of that party which has reduced this once happy and pros perous count Ty to ils presen condition. Everywhere the indications of distress can be seen and heard. Our troubles are only beginning. The future will show up our follies in their true light. We shall yet learn by bit ter experienCe what a terrible price must be paid for the -luxury of indulg ing in sectional hatred. The bur- Wens we are attempting to bind upon the backs of the Southern people will yet be laid on our own shoulders; and we must bear theln as best we can. A day of reckoning will come for the fanatics who have been the cause of our misfortunes, when the masses, taught by bitter experience shall be thoroughly awiened. Election In New York An election for delegates to a Conven. tion to revise the State Constitution of New York takes place to-day. .Ther( as in Pennsylvania, the Radicals have gerrymandered the Senatorial and Rep resentative districts, so as to secure to themselves a majority in both houses of the State Legislature. As the dele gates to the Constitutional Convention elected on the same basis, there is no hope that the Democrats will suc ceed in electing a majority. Indeed, they will refuse to go to the polls in some districts. There will come a time before long when these outrages will be done away with. Tun following picture of the Radical party Is from the pencil of Rev. Henry Ward Beecher. The likeness is strik ing: The men at Washington and Albany sold their country; they sold their humanity and their honor, and the trusts that were put upon them 13y their constituents. They were debauchers of the young; they were the traitors ; they that lifted the sword were not half so much traitors; they that de spoiled the old banner and trod it under footLihey that fired upon the government of the Uniteddlates were not Bo much traitors as were those vermin who were crawling under the foundations and destroying by Corruption the vital power of the govern ment, 't~`epi~eee ''frade~~ It is impossible for any country to pass i ,th • : ':hagreat war without being muelf.; 4 , -m....... rished and e austed . Civil waif rare 1 : . ~:; y : -. 1 - tleatruetiveAhat any :!..,.. 41;'.13eirigeOifineElivitlificthli! natiehal dom4in, all the milk - falls utkon the peopWcomiosini , the Otior44::Let sria a war terminate either in as : division - of territory or a sub jugation of revolting States or provinces, and the ruinous effects are alike severe When we came ou tof the gigantic strug gle in which we were engaged for years, wisdom bad but one course to dictate to Ili. - The first great work set before us was to repair the terribleravages which had been . made by the gigantic con tending armies. We might already have accomplished much in that direc tion had we obeyed the dictates of wise and enlightened statesmanship. We refused to do so, however, and we are beginning to suffer for our folly. The people of the North chose to keep alive the feeling of sectional hatred, and they must pay the penalty. The depression of trade, the great falling off in our commerce, the continued high price of food and clothing, the decrease in the revenue, and all the ills which we are suffering and to suffer, have come upon us as the legitimate result of the insane and fanatical Bourse of Congress. They have been encouraged to pursue the course they did by the support given to them by the people of the North. How can we expect to prosper while industry is completely paralyzed throughout the South, and while one third of the people of thEfUnited States are left without hope or spirit?— Throughout all that rich section, which has heretofore furnished the great staples upon which our manufactures and commerce were built up, the lands are a waste and multitudes of men and women are appealing to the charitable for food to keep them from dying of actual starvation. Self interest alone, a mere sordid re gard for dollars and cents, ought to move the North- to a repudiation of the Radical policy, even if they are incapable of being influenced by any more exalted motives. Not only is the South buying nothing, but it is pro ducing almost nothing. We of the North have deliberately destroyed the best market we ever had for our manufactures, and laid waste the fields which furnished our most valuable ag ricultural production. Hiving done that during the war, we have been en gaged ever since the end of the, rebel lion iu preventing any repair of the ruin wrought. The result is, the labor ing men of the North are compelled to pay nearly all the taxes, whileour com merce and our manufactures are rapid ly declining. If we refuse to listen to any other teacher, a bitter experience will yet make us wiser. The time is coming when we shall be fully sensi ble of our extreme folly. Then there will be au end to the rule of the cor rupt crew who are willing to sacrifice all I the material interests of the nation to heir lust for office. The First Fruits of Negro Suffrage in the South. Negro suffrage in the South, as es tablished by the Radicals, promises to bear an immense crop of evil fruit, and the tree is already blossoming. At the " black and tan " State Convention held in Richmond, where negroes and white revolutionists were sandwiched in to gether, the most notable speeches were made by negro orators. They all went in strong for confiscating the property of the whites, and parceling it out among themselves. One or two . of the whites attempted to oppose this dispo sition of the negroes, but they were summarily silenced by the cry of " Cop perhead." The announcement by one Freeland, of Petersburg, that if Con gress did not give the negroes the lands they would be taken by force, was re ceived with a storm of applause. Reso lutions were adopted lauding Congress and the Republican party of the North. This is the initiation of a revolution which cannot fail, unless speedily checked, to end in a repetition of the horrors enacted in San Domingo and others of the West India Islands. The infamous dogmas of Thaddeus Stevens and his followers promise to be a greater source of evil in the future .than they have been in the past. No true lover of his country can read the account of the doings of the radical State Convention at Richmond without trembling at the prospect which is thus opened up. The applause which was thundered forth at the proposal to seize upon the lands of the whites by force, is an indica tion of what will be the fixed purpose of such :of the negroes as are subjected to the control of the wretched adventurers who are the Radi cal leaders in the South. The Radicals can only succeed in establishing a party in the Southern States, by pandering to the basest passions of the negroes, and holding out to them the promise of possessing the lands of their former masters. What the ultimate effect of the successful organization of such a party must be, the dullest intellect can easily foresee, It must lead to such an accumulation of horrors as this country has not yet witnessed. A Radical Opinion of the Senate. The Antt-Slavery Standard, speaking of the Radical U. S. Senate, says : The chief aim of its members seems to be how best to make the most of their position. It is most notorious that theSonate, repre senting as is presumed, the creme•de-la , elue of American public men, is by far mare corrupt than the House. The latter is too numerous and Its constituent parts change too often to pay for purchase— especially when the bargain is costly. Ignorance is much more at fault there than corruption. But , the select Senate is the home of bargain, barter and sale. No one living here and looking on can doubt this. The casual visitor hero, who knows any thing of lobby management, can see the truth of this remark. What a humiliating picture is that for any American to look upon. How can this nation expect to prosper while such a set of scoundrels occupy seats lu the highest branch of the national legis lature? How glaring must be their corruption, when It is openly denounced by such a paper as the Anti-Slavery Standard I We beg the honest masses to look at this thing in the true light. They can effect a reform, and, if they - are not utterly blinded to their best in if terests t they will do so. •e, Emerson Etheridge. Emerson Etheridge has been nomina ted for Governor by the Conservative party of Tennessee. He is an able man and will make a thorough and efficient canvass of the State,. What the result may be with the negroes enfranchised and one half the whites disfranchised remains to be seen. In spite of the odds against Mr. Etheridge the contest is not a hopelega one. Democratic Economy. A Republican exchange says Bedford county does not owe the State of Pennsylvania a farthing for taxes, and the entire debt of the county is not above five thousand dollars. That is the legitimate result of Dem ocratic rule. Bedford county has always been Democratic to the core. All the county officers are Democrats, and the result is an honest and economical ad ministration of the financial afthirs of the county. If the people desire a aim liar administration of State and National Maim they mustrepudiate the thieving orew now In power, and come back to DemoorAtio rule. • - -- A - TemPernce Humbug. • Harrisburg Telegraph says : Greene county Republican exulting 'v declares that in the - moat trying cam of the war, John W. Geary was one commandenOwhollevEur ck tect It is, therefore;" - leut foe mule temperance the rule • ,the nor's mansion at Harrisburg do not know how tine the asikr tlaiklaig be that Geary carried nettling to ecreWllls courage up diringhideam paigns at Snickersville and elsewhere; but we do remember of reading in a prominent Republican newspaper an account of his appearance at Erie during the political canipaign of last•fill. We were particularly struck liftsperitgraph • describing the attitudes and utterances of this aporitle of temperance before a large assemblage of Germanif, in a beer garden of that city. Elevited on a chair, with a glass of the foaming bev erage in his sword hand, he exclaimed : " My friends 1 will give you a sentiment. (Cries of hear, hear.) The Irishman likes his whiskey and the German likes his lager. That is my sentiment. Gesundheit." And the glasses clicked around, and they all shouted " Bully for der Geary." Since the temperance agitation has begun to create much excitement, the Governor has forgotten the eloquently worded sentiment he uttered at Erie, and has "gone back on" his Irish and German friends. The • truth is, Geary 113 the smallest kind of' a humbug, and eagerly seizes upon anything of which he can make a little clap-trap notoriety. That is why he is now coming the tem perance dodge. Negroes In the Public Schools The Radicals of Philadelphia, not satisfied with forcing the masses who ride in the street cars to be jammed into the same seat with negroes, are now making strenuous efforts to break down all distinctions in the public schools of that city. The Sunday Mercury says they are working at the matter dili gently, but to' some extent secretly. They have not yet attempted to intro duce the negroes into all the schools, but only into a few which they can now manipulate. By and by, they will make the rule general. That is only of apiece with their general conduct. They agitate and maneuver until they gain a foothold, and then they never rest until their designs are fully accom plished. Negroes being once admitted to the public schools of Philadelphia, a general law for the State would soon follow, if the Radicals should continue to control the State legislature. How the Senate Treated Old Thad's Dying Appeal. The associated press report, which was sent to all yesterday's afternoon papers, contained the following item : WesurtioTobt, April 19.—Thaddeus Ste vens, in imploring his friends in the Senate to reconsider the appointment of Wiley, in his district, says it will probably be the last request he has to make. It will be heeded. Later in the evening a Republican of this city received a private despatch in these words: WASHINGTON, April 19.—The dying re quest of the old man refused by a vote of two to one. The Senate laughed al That shows conclusively that even the Radicals of the Senate are disgusted with the mock tragedies of the old rep robate, who has already thrice enacted the farce of pretending to die, for the sake of public effect. Think of the Radical Senators cackling in their seats over what Old Thad styled his last and dying request of them. It must have been an edifying spectacle. Chester, County Radical Convention. The Radicals of Chester County met in Convention on last Tuesday, and appointed Capt. J. R. Potts as Senatorial, and Washington Townsend, J. Smith Futhey, and Wayne McVeigh, Esqs., as Legislative delegates. The Conven tion unanimously recommended Hon. Wm. Butler, President Judge of that district, as a candidate for Judge of the Supreme Court. Resolutions of a de cidedly Radical character were adopted, among others the following: Resolved, That the sectional;alioniation and animosities, which have long distracted the Republic, ending in civil war, had their origin in the denial of equal, civil and po• litical rights to all men before the law, and that speedy and lasting prosperity and peace can only be secured by guaranteeing to every citizen, without regard to color or race, equal civil and political rights—except such as are disfranchised for participation in treason. Petty Pilfering Almost every newspaper in the State, without exception as to party has de nounced the wholesale stealing done by the Radical majority of the recent Leg islature. The Harrisbut Patriot and Union gives an account of the petty pilfering carried on under the auspices of that body. It shows a condition of affairs which is most disgraceful, but the account is unquestionably true in all respects. The Patriot says : We understand that all the nice rugs, mats, and other portable accessaries in and around the legislative halls have already disappeared. This, we are told, is the regular order of things after every adjournment of the legislature. At :the next meeting the halls, committee rooms, &sc., will require to be completely refurnished, in these re spects, at a cost of many thousand dollars. It is a singular Ilia, that, since the Radicals came into power, the public buildings and offices are annually refitted and refurnished, at a heavy cost to the State, and yet there has never been a sale—public or private—so far as the audited reports show, of surplus furnishings. Hundreds of desks, tables, chairs, &a., and thousands of yards of cost ly carpets, oilcloths, matting, drugget, to say nothing of thousands of small portable articles of many kinds, have disappeared and "made no sign." The amount of brooms and soap annually required about the Capitol and public offices is almost beyond belief. Singular to say, however, the larger the bills for those things the more defilement results. We are told that thousands of brooms and tons of soap—so-called—are charged to and paid for by the State annually, whoa, If properly billed, brooms would road beer, and soap would spell whi , ky, brandy and gin. A friend tells us that, a year or two ago, he frequently saw messengers from the Hill carrying suspicious-looking packages from a neighboring grocery. Being intimate with the grocer, he put the question to him —how could lie get liquor bflla audited and passed? "Oh," replied the grocer, with It " that is easy enough. I charge It as brooms and soap.° We presume this way of doing it is still going on, particularly as the amount of glassware consumed Is also immense. It is evident that somebody (perhaps sev eral somebodies) gets the property that dis appears without paying for it, and without any right to it. This is all wrong. In plain terms, it is theft, and should be stopped. In other States and at the Federal Capitol surplus and half•worn furniture and fur nishings are sold at auction to the highest bidder. This plan should be adopted here, and the sooner it is adopted the better for the taxpayers. Tavern Licences In Indiana County. The Court of Quarter Sessions of In diana county at the recent April See elon, granted five licences to hotel keepers in the town of Indiana, but re fused to licence a single tavern any where else in the county. The Cambria County Freeman says everybody is mad about it—the temperance men that any licences were granted in the town, the liquor men that they were refused In the county. THE Booth diary, says an exchange, will be published Just as soon as Holt can find a man who is willing to swear that It has not been mutilated since taken from the body of Booth and placed in his hands. He is searching Massa_ ohusetts now, and it is said has found a man who is ready to take the desired oath. PRENTICE Of the Louisville Journal says, Senator Sherman would evidently like to be a conservative. He occasion ally plants himself with apparent firm ness upon conservative ground, but, sooner or later, he yields to radical pres sure. He would be a strong and man if he had anything but a bullrush or g towstring for i bsokbone. ifoutlifal Murderer. A correspondent in Fairview township, furmahes the York county Democrat with the fiallowing: wiptest dreadful and inhninan act was batted by a boy in this township. near • • silitation,i , on4he XortheXtt t entralz- Railroad, arr, Mey the 15th inat. The lime Of thiVjyo " monster is PAederliat finfatoftWhile-his Mother and elder brother were abitent ftom home; ha 'at tempted to take the life his two little sis -ters audit and in the4iidle shooting them with a reiolver, which ' happened to be in the house at the time. Two rrels of the pistol were loaded with powder and balls, and another with powder only. In firing the first shot he inflicted a flesh wound of the scapula of one of the girls— the second shot took effect iu the neck of the other girl—the third load containing powder only, he discharged in the face of the infant. The injuries are fortunately not of a very serious character, and good hopes of the recovery of the children are entertained. The boy has always been a very bad and desperate character. He is about thirteen years of age and fatherless, his father hav ing died in the army. Much excitement prevails in the neighlborhood,in consequence of this heinous attempt at wholesale mur der. The boy had not been arrested at our latest adviees. Mine Explosion in Schuylkill County. ASHLAND, Schuylkill Co., Pa., April 15, 1867.—About 9 o'clock on Friday evening, an explosion of fire damp took place while twelve men were yet in the mine, eleven of whom have been taken out dead. One man was reticued alive, but in a state of convul sive excitement, caused by the inhalation of sulphur, and raving to such an extent that it required the efforts of five men to hold him. He was placed under the medi cal treatment of Dr. Swain, of this place, who today considers him out of danger and in a fair way to a speedy recovery. As to how the accident happened nothing is yet known; all those who could possibly give any information regarding the cause or origin being killed, excepting (Kinnie) the one mentioned above whose medical attendant will not allow him to be ques tioned on the subject. Those killed were buried yesterday. Most of their tamilies are left in destitute circumstances. One woman lost a husband and a brother. The whole town wears a degree of sadness before unknown. This is the second accident of the kind which has happened in this mine; the first occurring last summer, by which twenty or thirty men wore badly injured, and two or three killed. John Kinnie this afternoon is said to have regained his senses and will soon be able to give some account of the cause of Friday's accident. Had the explo sion occurred in the day, no doubt sixty or seventy men would have been killed. The Recent Elections In Florida A correspondent of the New York Herald writes from Pensacola on the 3d inst. as follows : The municipal elections under Ithe pew regime of "free suffrage" were held in this city two days ago, and the Mayor elect is the first officer In the State who has been elected under the rules and regulations of the Military bill. The issue between the two candidates seemed to be negro or no negro. One of the aspirants was in the Fed eral army and occupied a position of Major in a negro regiment at the navy yard here. The successful competitor (W. E. Anderson) was a Captain in the Rebel service. For the latter every white man in the place, save two or three, and a great many colored men, voted. The former received a very large negro vote, but was beaten one hundred and thirteen votes. The colored population was ex tremely indignant at the defeat of their candidate, and threats were boldly made of their intention to burn the place. Such earnestness was exhibited by them in their menaces that the retiring Mayor sent down to General Seymour, at Barrancas, for troops to quell any outbreak. The Gen oral promptly sent up a uetachment of mounted men. under the command of Major Brinkle, and their presence quickly quieted down t a ,o threatening darkies. Carious Letter from a Burglar From the N. Y. Tribune.l Recently a bundle, containing a complete set of burglar's tools, consisting of 44 safe, door, and store keys, 12 pick-locks, 23 drills, 3 punches, 10 files, I bullet mould, 1 screw driver, 4 cold chisels, 6 steel hooks, used for opening safes, 1 tine saw, 1 brace and bit, 6 pieces of wax fir taking impressions of keys, I screw wrench, I steel Jimmy, and 1 package of powder, was lett at the Sixth Precinct Station-House for Capt. Jourdan, together with the following letter: NEW YORK, April 17, 1867. To CA. T. JOURDAN, ESQ.: Having been a burglar for the past 15 years, and always successful with the exception of once, and that being when I fell into your hands, and your being untiring in prosecuting me, I was convicted and sentenced to the State Prison. After serving my time out I thought you would have forgotten me, and there would be nobody to interfere with me. I started again at my old calling, and the first burglary that I intended to commit was frustrated again by you. I tried again and again, and was always met by your self or your shadow haunting me wherever I went or done. Now lam disgusted with you and thieving in general, therefore I send you through the bearer all my tools, being a selection that many a modern crackeman would be proud to possess. You will find tools there that will open a money drawer, a chest, a trunk ; tools that will open or burst an iron door; tools that will raise a scuttle or go through a brick wall; and again, tools that will burst any safe in the country. You will Lind there a good many keys that will open any common lock, and again, keys for the most difficult locks. I make you a present of all, and think you the only man worthy to receive them, because, asideof all, I can only praise your integrity and admire your ingenuity in ferreting out a case. I never saw or heard of your equal, I can assure you. For my part, I will try and earn an honest living, and keep out of your way, , Most respectfully yours, AN OLD OFFENDER. From Mexico Our Vera Cruz (Mexico) correspondence is dated April 5. The siege still continued, General Cuevas being in command. Two hundred and fifty of the foreign legion were in the garrison and kept a wholesome neck on the Mexican imperialists, who but for their presence would probably pronounce for the liberals. Hunger was pressing the people, and meat and vegetables had given out. General Baronda, the second in com mand of the besieging forces, had been aboard the American gunboat Tacony, and had Informed the commander that Puebla had been taken by Diaz on the 2d inst., and Maximilian was suing for terms of surren der at Queretaro. By way of Havana the news to the same date is to the effect that Maximilian had returned to Mexico city, leaving Mega besieging the forces of Esco bedo In Ban Luis Potosi. Liberal advicos say that Juarez had given orders that Max imilian, when taken, should be treated with all the consideration due to " unsuccessful valor," A Now York steamer, with arms and ammunition for the liberals, had ar rived at Tampico, and would be fitted out as a man•of-war.—.N. Y. Herald. Floods and Distress in LOUIIIII3IIIa. Along the Mississippi and Its tributaries disaster follows disasters with such rapidity that there is danger of the entire country being overflowed. Scores of breaks have occurred in the levees along the Mississippi, Toche, Washita, Black and Atchafalaya rivers. Some have fortunately been stop ped; others have been narrowed, with a fidr prospect of berg closed; but the ma jority are widening. whir the fall of water, which rushes through like a mill race, Hooding the country and driving from house and lands destitute thousands. The overflow Is more serious than last winter when two million acres wore submerged. The water is increasing instead of decreas ing. The crops are utterly destroyed. Tho time is rapidly approaching when it will be too late to replant this year. Misery and ruin are staring these unfortunate people In the face, and if the government does not speedily take action in the matter it will be too late, for the people will be ruined by the destruction of their lands and rendered homeless by the destruction of their homes. 'I lie Additional Bounty to Sailors. Considerable Inquiry having been made as to whether any act was passed by the first cession of the Fortieth Congress grant ing the additional bounty to sailors and marines the same as to soldiers, we would state for those interested, that a resolution having In view this objectpasned the House of Representatives but failed in the Senate, the Naval Affairseommitteu paving repor ted adversely on the matter, they consider ing that allowanc • of prize money fully mot this extra gratuity to the soldiers. The subject may come up before the Senate ut its next session, but judging from the sen timent of that body on this question at its last session, it is fair to presume that the measure will not pass. A Ceremony in Rome A letter from Rome says that great pre parations are being made for the celebration of the anniversary of the martyrdom of St. Peter and for canonization. The fetes are to commence on the 20th of June by a grand ceremony in the Cathedral of St. Peter. The following day the Holy Father will officiate at San Paolo, outside the walls. A daily service is to be celebrated at the Pon tificia' chapel of St. John's Lateran during the Octave. On the 7th July the Blessed Josafat will be canonized ; and on the 14th two hundred and live Japanese martyrs are to be beatified, whose tuirticles have been acknowledged by the last decree of the Pope, Government Real Pilate Bushmen The rumor is yet current that negotia tions are pedding between the government of this country and that of Great Britain for the purchase of all the western portion of British America, including Vanoeuver's Island. The only difficulty that appears to stop the final consummation of the bargain seems to be that Mr. Seward itlllllo upon turning in the Alabama. claim s as part pay ment of the purchase, to which Lord Stan ley, the English Secretary of the Colonies, demurs. News Items. Archbishop Spaltlieg is recovering. Prof. Agassiz retieiveds3,ookfoi: deliver ing six lectures in Nevtlark: The people of. &Mkt:kali Cal., are lux tiiating,vdM luscionil4Pe'ePplea. The population of Irlorida is 140,424, of ii.bich 77,747 white : MAW 677 colored. virchhishoP .§palding, of Baltimore, is reported . to be past recovery.% - • • The registration ofxottiralt(lSouth Caro lina will begin as soon as enough persons qualified to act as Registers dre found. A small store at the corner of Lombard street, London, rents for £22,000 sterling per annum. Charleston, S., C., is happy over the erection of a grain elevator, the that in the South. Madame Ristori's American tour is nearly finished. Throughout the South and West sbe has been splendidly successful. A compitny has been formed in Baltimore to build a new hotel, and a contract has been entered into with an experienced builder. Mt. St. Elias, in Russian America, the highest peak in North America, is necessary to US as a perch for the American eagle. The Virginia Legislature has passed au act levying a tax of 30 cents on the $lOO to pay the interest on the State debt. It is not true, as reported, that the State Department is organizing an exploring ex pedition to Russia America. The Buffal*nats are destroying the stock along the Tennessee river. One planter near Commerce lost fifty head last week. General Schofield has decided that Con federate conscripts are not necessarily de prived of the right to vote. At an election for mayor in Huntsville, Ala., recently, the colored vote assisted to defeat the agent of the freedmen's bureau. Dr. B. B. Colt, the pioneer physician of San Francisco, dropped dead in the streets of that city last Friday. A negress named Ella Garvin has been arrested in Memphis for poisoning three negroes. The assessed valuation of property on Broadway, New York, from Houston street to Union Square is 81.5,000,000. Hon. Myer St rouse, M. C., has had placed in his hands, tor return to the owner, a stolen ring belonging to Jett: Davis. Lowell, Mass., has forty-nine factories, the capital stock of which is $13,650,000. 9,013 females and 4,914 males are employed. A loaded express car on the New York and Erie railroad was totally destroyed by fire last Friday. The loss is estimated at $30,000. Rev. P. R. O'Brien, of St. Peter's Catholic Church, at Wilmington, Del., died sudden ly last week, from inflammation of the There appears to be no truth in the rumor that Gov. Geary's tailor is making him a new uniform in which to have his five hundred dollar portrait painted. A Conservative negroes' meeting was held yesterday in Raleigh, N. C. Speeches were made by Gov. Worth, ex-rebel Gen. Battle, and a colored man. The War Department has issued a circu lar of instructions to army officers, in view of the possible prevalence of cholera during the coming summer. Two vessels, one of them a steamer, are reported to have left New York a few days since, with arms and recruits for the Mexi can Liberalists. A large colored meeting was held in Mo bile on Wednesday night, and Radical reso lutions were adopted. The negroes went armed to the meeting. By the recent earthquake at Mytilenc, out of a population of 80,000, as many as three or four thousand were killed, and starvation stares thousands of the survivors in the face. • The stakes won by Tommy Chandler in his fight with Dooney Harris at San Fran cisco, on Saturday last, amounting to $lO,OOO were paid to him. The mayor of New York has just received a check from the U. S. treasury for $500,000 to pay for the lower end of the City Hall Park as a site for the new postoflice. Over 200,0e0 North Carolina shad have been shipped to the northern markets via the Albemarle and Chesapeake canal during the present fishing season. The Catholics of Lawrence, Mass., are about to erect a house for orphans, at an expense of $30,000. It is to be under the charge of the Sisters of Charity. It is intimated in New Orleans that Gen. Sheridan intends trying some of the promi nent instigators of the July massacre, before a military commission. Troops are moving out upon the plains in numbers that indicate a decisive campaign. Twenty thousand troops are to go to the country north of Platte river and east of the mountains. The women of Wisconsin are not to vote until another Legislature has also passed the amendment, and it has been submitted to and been ratified by the people—con tingencies not likely to occur. The last Radical Michigan Legislature passed a law compelling the admission of negro children into the common schools of that State, but the Radical directors of De troit refuse to obey the law. Gen. Hancock has had a conference with fifteen Cheyenne chiefs at Fort Lamed, but accomplished nothing. There are indica tions of a hostile confederation of the Chey ennes and Sioux. A. coal schooner went ashore near Ply mouth, Mass., on Wednesday, and in trying to save the crew a lifeboat upset, and four men were drowned. The crew were res cued. A man named Ingraham, who is believed to have been an accomplice or the brothers Pixley in the murder of General Bailey, iu Vernon, county, Mo., has been hung by the citizens of that county. Two negroes were arrested the other night in Chicago for body-snatching. They had five bodies concealed in coffee sacks in their wagon—three men and two females. The bodies had been taken from one of the cemeteries. At the late municipal election the Demo cracy of Chicago reduced the Radical ma jority 1,691 on the vote of 1866, and 1,929 on the vote of 1865. Besides this they gained four aldermen. The total poll of votes was 19,880. In 1865 the total poll was 16,537. Advices from the West Coast of Africa states that war has broken out between two opposing tribes of savages, in which sever al of the New Calabar tribes wore made prisoners by their enemies and roasted and eaten by them. It is stated that although more than three months have elapsed since the explosion of the Oaks Colliery in England little progress has as yet been made In extinguishing the body of fire raging at the bottom. All the shafts have been sealed up. A duel occurred at Kansas City, Mo., lately between A. H. Hallowell, editor of The Journal of Commerce of that city, and H. B. Branch, postmaster. Four shots were exchanged, but neither party was injured. It is complimentary to Yankee ingenuity that a commissioner has boon sent from Switzerland to examine the railroad which enables us to make the ascent of Mount Washington, with a view of scaling the Alps on the same plan. During 1860 over 5,000,000 pounds of books were exported from Groat Britain, a large proportion of which came to the United States, The value of these books was $8,010,885 In gold, an average of sixty cents a pound. The citizens of the village of North East, Cecil county, Md., under a law of the Legislature, have voted on the propriety or allowing the bale of liquors In that place. The vote stood twelve for and seventy-one against; so that no sales of the kind can be made there. Mrs. Tyler, widow of the lateex-President Tyler, Is now on a visit to the Virginia Peninsula, with the view of seeking the improvement of Ler plantations and estates on the James river. She will visit the Davis family and the village of Hampton, for the purpose of renewing old acquaint ances and friendships. A party of ladies and gentlemen aro on an excursion to the Rocky Mountains under auspicesofthe managers of the Union Pacific Railroad. They arrived in Chicago on Thurnday,by special train from AI bit ny— quickest time on record: came into Chicago from Detroit, via Michigan Central road, at fifty milealm hour. A Western paper states that there is to be during the summer months, agreat buffalo hunt by nine members of the National Senate and seventeen Of the House, who are to go out as the guests of the delegate front Daeoteh. Probably they will find this a more prolitabledivermion than "fighting the tiger' at Washington. A physician of Goshen, thirty miles from Cincinnati, named Hanker, sixty years old, committed suicide on Thursday because his children opposed his marrying again. He bequeathed his watch and carriage to the widow he bad intended to lead to the altar, and requested that he be buried in his proposed bridal garb. A letter dated Florence, April 3d, says: The great wave of American travel rises higher and higher until Italy Is nearly sub merged. The newspapers tell us to-day that yesterday the train for Venice was not got off until much after the usual time, such was the throng at the station of American and English travelers, with their mountains of luggage. The Springfield (Masa.) Republican says of the case of Wirz, the Andersonville cap tain, that "it is not known, and perhaps may never be, whether the crime was proved upon him or not. Ills was one of those military trials that constitute the darkest page in our recentpolitical history, which we would be glad to blot out forever from human remembrance." President Johnson has accepted an invi tation from the citizens of Raleigh to be present at that place about the middle of May, at the laying of the corner stone of a monument in memory of the Bresident'a father. He will be aquOinpanied by Mr. Seward and ope or two others of the Cabinet. They will go via lilobmond, and may ex tend their trip farther South. 11 9'. PIR.Wat 4a Th allV may l . Yotmg..A, it tbminine id determined to have his and her luxuries, else we should:notaee among -the importa tions (to oe rid for in gold) duringthe past week, such. tems as these:. Cigars, $13,137; champ:lib, $311,100 . ; Jewelry, $74,440; toys, $2,074 ; fanoy goods, $107,484 ;. perfumery, f 26.36; furs, 2,820 ; and so on. At the Waterford, New York, Arsenal, the Galling gun, which is fired off by the turning of a crank, and is said to keep forty-six hundred balls in the air all the while, is now on exhibition. The gun is to be used against the Indians on the frontier. There were a good many of these contri vances in General McClellan's army, but in no force. It was contended, however, they had not a fair trial. The ape of Good Hope papers announce that the. Queen of Madagascar, hy royal proclamation, has forbidden the civilians to wear hats with brims. The privilege its restricted to government officers. The poor civilians are thus reduced to the necessity of wearing scull caps, or of using their old hats with the rims torn off; the latter course being adopted by so many persons that the streets are strewed with discarded hat brims. Chief Justice Handy, of Mississippi, has published two articles in relation to the powers of the Supreme Court in the matter of the Southern injunction cases now before it. Referring to the Military Satrapy bill he says. "To assort that such u violation of the rights of a State is beyond the super vision of the Supreme Court appears to be scarcely less monstrous than ttie act itself." The United States Senate adjourned on Saturday night. Previous to ad j ournment, resolutions looking to mediation between the Mexican belligerents and intercession for Maximillian wero offered by Messsr. Sumner, Henderson and Johnson, and or dered to lie on the table. Mr. Cole, of Cali fon. ia, offered a resolution of mediation between France and Prussia, which was also tabled. There was less than a quorum when the Senate adjourned. The Savannah Republican reports that the condition of things in Camden and Byrau counties, Georgia, Is truly alarming. In one county two negroes sentenced to death for murder and three others to the peniten tiary for other offences were rescued from the jail in which they were confined by a mob of negroes anti made their escape. In another county men were found hanging to the trees within a short distance of the public roads, mid had been hanging there for several days. English visitors - to America in these days tell wild stories of the prices they were obliged to pay for many things, especially clothing and cab-hire. A handsome mull of clothes in London costs from fifteen to twenty-five dollars. A man may dress well enough, hats and boots included, for 4::llss—say eighteen dollars. An English man adds the duties, but he cannot figu up the costs in America. So a lady buy, an elegant silk dress In London for from five to fifteen dolars, and she cannot account for the prices she hears her American triends talk about. The following incident is related In a Paris letter: "An American who Is now here, and who claims to be the rimst adroit man in the world in the handling of the musket and bayonet, went the other day to seek an engagement at the Paris Circuses, offering to fight in the arena (with wooden bayonets) against five of the best musket men in the French army, all at once, one against five. The director of the circus said, ' No, I can't do that ; but if you will dress up as a French soldier and whip live • soldiers dressed up as Americans, I'll give you an engagement!" The Yankee retired in disgust, and at last accounts was still swearing." A lady in the southern part of Illinois, having a few hundred dollars, concluded to try her fortune speculating in wheat. She wrote accordingly to a prominent commis sion house in Chicago, engaging them to act as her agents and ordering them to in vest the entire sum in that treacherous staple. In a short time, contrary to all ex pectation, it went up to a surprising figure, and the fair speculator sold out at a great advance. Shortly after she again tele graphed her agents to purchase a large amount, but they replied in the same man ner that the market was very much de pressed and they would not advise her to buy. For answer she repeated her order, and by the late advance in prices has been enabled to have $40,000 placed to her eredit! The iron tankage at Oil City is estimatol at a quarter of a million barrels capacity. The citizens of Altoona, on Tuesday last. voted against becoming an incorporated city. The large furnace at Gibraltar, about live miles southeast of Reading, owned by Simon Seyfert, Esq., was totally destroyed by fire on Saturday afternoon. The origin of the lire is not known. John Hickey has been convicted In the Crawford county court of manslaughter in the second degree, in causing the death of his wife at Titusville some months ago, while both were tinder the influence of liquor. The wife of William Orms, of the Fourth Ward, Johnstown, attempted to commit suicide last Monday by cutting her throat with a shoemaker knife. A fit of insanity, caused by continued 111 health, was the cause of the attempt. Air. John Young, of Allegheny township, Blair county, died on the sth inst., from a dose of arsenic, administered through malice by some person unknown. The wife and daughter of deceased have been arrested, charged with a knowledge of the crime. The Hanover Citizen says that a strange and fatal disease has made its appearance among the cattle of a farmer named Rude sill, residing in I leidelburg township, a few miles from the borough of Hanover. Two valuable cows attacked by the disease died last week after suffering but a short time. Chambersburg is likely to get anew mar• ket house and public hall. Under an act passed by the late Legislature, a stock com pany is about being organized, with a cap ital of forty thousand dollars, for the erec tion of a building. The borough authori ties are auth rized to sell the present mar• ket house and hall, and invest the proceeds in stock of the new company. A Philadelphia paper say : Delaware shad appear to be pretty well played i out. But few have been taken so far this sea.son, and the price asked for them isonortnously high. '1 he coal tar that escapes from the gas works, and the coal oil or substance or It that mingles with the Schuylkill, and finally with the waters of the Delaware, have a deleterious effect upon shad and perch in particular, and other fish In general. The desire for the formation or Croatlon of now counties in Pennsylvania amounts to a positive mania, and there Ix really no. positive necessity for any more counties. They would only nerve to increase taxation and provide offices fora few hungry poli ticians. In addition to the clamor for new counties from the western part or the State, it is stated that a portion of the citizens or Montgomery county want a division or their territory, and the county of Madison erected. Michael S. Lynch, a man postiessed of some property, entered the restaurant of John Sweeney, in Tidiouto, Saturday night, 6th inst., and called for oysters, stating that ho bad no money with him. Mr. Sweeney refused the oysters, when Lynch said he would mark him. Lynch was then ejected front the restaurant when he draw a re tolver and, it is alleged, discharged one barrel at Sweeney, the lain striking him In the side and inflicting a serious if not Will injury. lynch was arrested, and com mitted to jail for trial in default of ttrteen Thu Pennsylvania Railroad Company has bought, and possesses, the Columbus and Indiana Central Railroad—giving the Com pany a continuous line from Philadelphia to Indianapolis. The bargaining for the Pacific Railroad of Missouri has already been commenced. That concluded, it will remain to acquire the line from Indiunapo- Its, through Terre Haute end Alton to St. Louis, and then the Company will control a lino extending from Philadelphia to the western terminus of the Pastern Division of the Union Pacific Railroad, wherever that may be. A very elegulur incident occurred at Bethlehem a tow days ago. A daughter of Sheriff Dissoway, aged about tan years, left her home one morning, in her apparent usual health, to go to school. During school hours she complained of pain In her eyes, and asked permission to go home. The re quest was granted, and she left the room, but before she reached her home, which is only about 1,00 yards from the school, she became totally blind. In this condition she was found by sonic person passing by and taken home. Up to this time all efforts to restore her sight have proven fruitless. She is so blind that she cannot even distinguish a burning gas-light. A farmer named Abraham Yingst, of Derry township, Dauphin county, 'WM on his way to market at Harrisburg, early on Wednesday morning, and as he was passing over the railroad at Rutherford's crossing, his wagon was struck by the locomotive of the express passenger train. yi ng st was immediately killed, and his son, who was with him, was severely in jured. One horse was killed and the other so badly torn and bruised that It had to be shot. The Reading turnpike crosses at this place, and many people pass over the road to market at an early hour. The night was not dark, and the occurrence of this sad. affair is most unaeoouutable. The Pittsburg Poet says: We received intelligence last evening of a fearful double tragedy at Mount Morris, year Waynes burg, Greene county. An old man named, Martin Cane, aged about sixty years, on Sunday niglit, his wife having retired to. bed and fallen asleep, procured an axe, and stealthily entered the room, approached the bedside, and dealt her a blow on the head, from the effects of wffioh the doctors say she cannot possibly recover. A short time after the oommission of the bloodydeed, the lifeless body of the old man was found suspended from the limb of a tree near the house, behaving hanged himself. No cause is assigned for the terrible tragedy, but it is presumed that the murderer and auloldli waa laboring udder a At et lvssulty,
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