’r • , c it ,* ... fiBKAIISDCCIUIMIB. I&OF0B82O. v;'•-!.i i|; 'V" "■ - To anyone sending 'os $2O < tl 'gßndS'gGilffHE PBESENTDATB, ! TXNTIL' jIKCfABJ' 1, 1872, FIVE COPIES Of. t2ft.iiVjE2mLY;iBCEELM-; GracEß/tMrfflJ to Bihglesiibacrfbers, $lO, and FIVE . COPIES of the “Hearth and Home,” a Uterary*and>£&rm journal of greatex- cellence, published In New York, and editedby “Be Marvel” worth at the regular subsoriptionprice io single eub eefibers $2O, or $4 a copy. Each paper .win be sent to a seperate address, and a fine opportunity Is pre sented for energetic men to make money in getting subscriptions. For every five copies of each paper they, get subscribers for at the regular price, they will make slo.—an average of one dol lar on each paper. It will be remembered that neither of these journals can be had at the Offices of publication, in single subscriptions, fori lees’ than $2 and $4 per annum respectively. Wanted to Complete Files. Weekly Intelligencer’s of the following dates are wanted at this office to complete files, vie: One of June sth, 1867; one of February 12th, 1868; and one of April 29th, 180 S, Subscribers who may Bend ub copies of either of the _ above dates will confer a decided favor. The State Treasnrer. The salary of the State Treasurer of Pennsylvania iB only twenty-five hun •dollars per annum. A meagre one in deed. No one could expect to get rich upon that, and yet it 1b surprising how ■eagerly the office is sought after, and fltill more surprising what large sums of money are paid by candidates to secure the votes of members of the Legislature. T woyears ago General Irwin was chosen Treasurer; last year he was defeated by Bob Mackey, a rather fast young bank clerk of Pittsburg. Mackey was sup ported by the Cameron interest, and Republican newspapers openly charged that a corruption fund of seventy five thousand dollars was raised and expended In bribing Radical members of the Legislature to vote to make Maokey the caucus nominee of the party. Where did the money come from ? Did Bimon Cameron furnish it out of the funds of the Middletown bank, or subtract the amount from the profits derived from some of his many speculations of legitimate and illegiti mate character? Not he. The money which was expended to elect Mackey and to defeat Irwin was contributed by different banking institutions, with the distinct understanding that they were to be fully compensated for the amount thus expended. It is well known, not denied in fact by any one, that under Radical rule in Pennsylvania, a system has been origi nated and perfected by means of which millions* of money, that ought to be promptly applied to the payment of the State Debt, are allowed to remain at the absolute disposal of the State Treasurer, Those vast sums are distributed by him among different favored banking insti- tutions, they paying him a percentage, ..which in the aggregate amounts to many thousands of dollars annually. Two years is the term generally allotted by the usage of the Radicals to a State Treasurer, and that period, is deemed amply sufficient to enable any man, after paying a liberal sum for the office j to make a fortune o,ut of it. Just now a certain portion of the Radical press of this State is making an outcry about the manner in which Gen. Irwin was treated a year ago. They have the impudence to assert that he was defeated because he was pecu liarly honest, when they know that he pursued the very same lino of conduct which they condemn in his successor. If the Lancaster Examiner is to be be lieved, and its editors are men who are always posted in such matters, General Irwin paid fifty-eight thousand dollars down for the office two years ago; not quite what it coat Mackey, but fully as much in proportion when the greater scarcity of money with the banks and the higher rates of interest latterly pre vailing are considered. The truth is the fight now going on over the office of the State Treasurer is merely a disgraceful scramble for ille gitimate plunder. It is not a question of superior honesty or greater capacity between the contestants, but merely a paatter of spoils. One set of banking institutions are ready to furnish large sums of money to subsidize venal Radi cal newspapers in favor of Gen. Irwin, and to pay Radical members of the Legislature to vote for him in the cau cus of the party, while another set of banks are backing up Bob. Mackey.— The successful bankers will be more than mad© whole, and they and their candidate will reap a rich reward by plundering the taxpayers of the State. We have made a plain and unpreju diced statement of this matter. Not a single allegation .contained in this arti cle can be impeached. It is a subject which demands the attention of the people. There ought to be a speedy and complete change in the method of cbos-. ing and compensating the State Treas urer, in order that a fruitful source of outrageous corruption may be broken up. Wickersham Preparing Tor Martjrdom, The Beaver Radical quotes the para graph from Prof. Wickersham’s speech before the Teachers’ Institute in this city, relativo to peculations in the State Treasury, and calls upon him to make good bis charges or to resign his office. The Radical is owned and edited •by Mr <J,uay, Secretary of the Be publicau State .Central Committee.— Zfc calls upon Governor Geary to •compel Prof. Wickersham 11 to estab- JUsh the truth of his accusations, retract a r resign.” The Radical states that the, Recounts of the Commonwealth are suditid monthly, and that peculation cannot he carried .on, as the Superin tendent of Common Schools asserts, without the complicity and .coopera tion of the State Treasurer, the Auditor Generaland his clerks, and the Secre tary of the Commonwealth. It will be seen that Prof. Wicker* sham has got himself into trouble. The probabilities are that the little breeze he has raised by the speech which was first reported In the Intelligencer, •will not blow over so easily. It is cer tain that good ground has been laid for A rupture between him and Geary. As the Professor is a putative candidate for Congress he will be apt to try to make capital out of his decapitation should his official head be taken off. We may look for a lively Congressional contest under the Crawford County System next summer, should Geary follow the /advice of the Beaver Radical, Col. Dickey will have to look to his tramps should Wickersham turn up in the guise of a martyr to honesty. That will be a strong card iu favor of the ambi tious and pedantic professor, and it Zooks as if.he wo* deliberately prepar inghimself for martyrdom. ?arrqgfit*Porter Difficulty settled. Admiral JTarragtifc and Vice Admiral fajweAome to an amicable un derstanding relaUye to the distribution ,gf the Jfew. Orleans money. They <vill agree to an equal division of the cpolls, an,d tbps Jet the naatterdyop.— Tide is ,a happy (armJn/itlpn of what threatened to be a ieilons rupture be tween tbp guqs of tbelfayy. T hi Tariff On 'OmO. It 1b stated that Preeident oRmt has already expressed the desirbTth&t the present high tariff pn. ( be not re-, duced. -If thlsjtateineiit the; President hasMliedhimaelf to the itailsts, and has taxed nposition onistio to thebest interests of the wholes people.' of our-peojite are coal ‘consumers, noi coal producers, and while they are willing to accede to all reasonable demands of the capital iflts.who_Qwn.the coal mines, _ theyjire_ very unwilling that they should he made tp pay a high price for an indis pensable article of home consumption, merely to further enrich men who are now In the enjoyment of .enormoUß wealth/ ■ It is Wrong-that .any' Government, whose true ’mission is to protect all classes of people, should favor one por-. tion of citizens by oppressing another.; The just policy is to let all have an equal chance to earn a livelihood; to distribute! the taxes necessary, to main tain the State and National Govern ments, in Buch a manner as to oppress no class ofcltlzenß. Our CoDgress meets ostensibly to pass laws for the benefit of the people it represents, our Presi dent is elected to guard the interests of the people, and has granted him, by the Constitution, a veto by which he is to condemn bad legislation on the part of Congress. But when it Is published prior to the meeting of Congress that the President desires certain oppressive lawß to remain in force even those Radical members who may be favorable to repealingthem are influenced by the Executive, or rather by bis patronage, to remain silent and permit the workingmon with their wives and little ones to pay exhorbitant prices for the necessaries of life bo that the monopolist In the future may be the more arrogant, the more powerful and the more exacting in his demands of a weak Executive and a corrupt Congress. It should not however be owing to any remissneßs on the part of the Democrats in Congress if the attention of that body Is not, at an early period of its coming session, called to the present high coal tariff. The people should be informed who it is that seeks to fasten taxes upon them, and to make them the slaves of the rich and powerful. The working men will be anxious to ascertain what membersof Congress vote to make them pay exorbitant prices for their fuel, in order that the few may be enriched at the expense of the many. The party in power must remember that there now prevails in many States a great stringency in the money market, and that the inquiry is being made by the people, why Is this the case. Enor mouß federal taxes are being paid and yet there is no apparent diminution of the National debt. The inquisitorial In come tax, the Revenue tax, Stamp tax, etc., are still in force and a vast array of well paid tax-gatherers meet the busi ness man at eyery turn to extort from him the largestshare of his profits. But the November elections, particularly in the Western States indicate that the peo ple are determined to rebuke the party in power at Washington, and to make those who have so long accumulated wealth by oppressing the people, feel that they are but the people’s servants. The immense sums of money expended by Grant’s administration have been furnished to a great extent by those who labor from dawn until dark for their bread, anff these men Intend here after that the well fed Radical office holders, who are as numerous ns the locusts of Egypt shall account for the funds entrusted to them for the purpose of paying, in some measure at least, a great and burthensome public debt. Telegraphic Message*. The current of Judicial opinion in this country, has been to regard telegraph companies as common carriers, and to hold them responsible both to sender and receiver, for damages resulting from mistake or delay in the transmission and delivery of messages. In England the Court of Queen’s Bench has recent ly decided that a telegraph company only makes a contract with the sender of a message, ahd that the receiver can not recover for damages caused by an incorrect delivery of a message by the employees of the company. The ruling which has found most favor in this coun try, is approved by the English news papers. Telegraph companies are not, however, held to be common carriers in the Courts of all our States, aD<i a decision adverse to that view has just been rendered by the Supreme Court of Georgia. The English newspapers express well grounded apprehensions that parties who may be damaged by delays and mistakes, will have no rem edy if the business of telegraphing should pass into the hands of the Gov ernment, as is there seriously contem plated. The Crown can not be sued. We are opposed to the proj ect of putting the telegraphic lines of this country un der government control, and believe that it would work badly in every re spect, but there is no reason that we know of, why Congress might not pass some law regulating the responsibility of the different companies. A Candidate for Speaker. When Major A. C. Beinoehl wa3 elected to the Legislature, two years ago, we took occasion to give him some good advice. That we did in all kind ness, in consideration of his extreme youth, a youthfulneas of that peculiar character which is so graphically de scribed by Thackeray. Had he taken our advice, the probabilities are that he would not have been subjected to the intense mortification of being converted into “a yearling. l7 Certain it is that he would not have out such a ridiculous figure in the House, and would £ot have been made the butt of even the dullest members on the Democratic side. He is starting wrongly again. The unsophisti cated youth, untaught by former experi ence, seems determined to begin by mak ing a dunce Certain interest ed monkeys, who have chestnuts roast ing In the fire, have gotour dapper little friend in their clutches, andare making a cat’s paw of him. If he will not heed, us, let him take the advice of the Ex aminer, whose editor tells him the truth about his chances for the speakership. He is only being played upon by a set of sharpers. Let him resent the insult, and avoid being made a laughing stock at the beginning of the session. We have a kindly feeling for the little fel low, and would save him from mprtifi r cation. The New York Sun t a Bepublican newspaper that did all in its power to defeat the Democracy of the Empire State at the recent election, is not so blinded by party prejudice as to ignore all the faults of prominent Badicals.— It sometimes exposes in a very sarcastic and telling manner the inroads made by those in power upon the National Treasury. The following comment by. the Sun upon the extravagance of the Badical Postmaster General, Mr. Cres-, well, will be read with interest: The Hon. E. B. Washbnrne lias written a letter to the Journal of Commcrfie deny ing that he has asked for $15,000 for the contingent expenses of bis mission. He still adheres ,to his original principle of economy in public matters. We wish we could say the same thing of (be Postmaster General, who sent Senator Ramsey to Paris at an expense to tjje Government of $9,000 in gold, to negotiate a postal treaty, which Mr. Washbprne, already .op the spot, was perfectly competent to do. Aftorall, Ram sey failed, notwithstanding the nine sand dollars. Mr, Washbarne'a idea of, economy is the only true ope, and' the' Postmaster General ought to bn rebuked’ by Congress. flirty iron steamships are now building on the Clyde, Scotland. And no Iron or wooden steamships are building in the United States. Ship builders meet end deliberate, but with their own Congress and government discriminating against them, they see no prospect of bettering their condition. There is a loud demand now, not for subsidies, but for the removal of pro hibitory duties and anti-commercial restrlcflotls, : The lUIMoIs KlecUoii. It appears thktthe recent election members of the Constitutional tlon in Illinois Mas resulted in aDemo| Biyihat f thej;^al(tesiiU;stodsforty-r evidp- that tim two JOadepefe d&te/whol-were elect#! ty Democrats,' will vote with thtjr Radicals. The De mocracy have certainly-won in Illinois a splendid victory; they have secured amajority ofdelegates to the State Convention which meets to revise and' amend the Constitution of that greati and growing State; they have wrested from the control of : w!cked r fanatical men the framing of the new State Con stitution. •= . The extent of this triumph. can be judgediof-from the fact that, last .fall, Grant had 61,150 majority.in that State. This change of opinion, in so short a •time, indicates that the people of the fertile valleyofthe Mississippi are being awakened to a sense of their true interests. They now perceive that the success of the Republican party at the Presidential election, one year ago, did not bring them relief from onerous taxation. The economy and reform promised by the Republican leaders consequent upon Grant's election have failed to be inaugurated, and to-day with high taxes and great scarcity of money the people ol the West are in a worse condition than they have ever been Bince the close of the War. Many great enterprises in the West cannot be carried out on account of a want of the necessary funds. The Radical majority in Congress have steadily legislated In aid of New England to the injury of the Middle, Western, and Southern States. Capital has been concentrated in the Manufacturing districts of the extreme North Eastern seotlon of the Union to the manifest inconvenience and detriment of the vast and fertile agricultural districts of the West.and North West. But the farmers of the West are now beginning to see the results of this poli cy of the Grant Administration, and have severely rebuked the party in pow er at Washington by placing Illinois - Grant's own State—in the Democratic column. It will be interesting toobserve what effect this defeat of Radicalism in its heretofore great stronghold in the Mississippi Valley will have upon the Radical leaders. The line of policy, so far pursued, of making the West sub servient to New England must imme diately be abandoned by the Radicals if they would entertain any hopes of carrying the next Presidential election. The present method of entirely ignoring the claims of the West must be relin quished, or utter rout at eyery future election in the Western States will.be fall the champions of the Fifteenth Amendment and an oppressive protec tive tariff. Specie Payments. Rumors are rife to the effect that measures will be taken at the coming Beasion of Congress to force an early re sumption of specie payments. A cor respondent of the Beaver Radical , a newspaper under the control of the Sec retary of the Republican Central Com mittee of this State, gives an account of a free talk he recently had with Grant, the conclusion of which reads as fol lows : The last point mentioned was the speedy Resumption of specie payment. The President thought this would put an end to the infamous oporatjons of gold specula tors, and by putting n Btop to flactua* tious would strengthen the industries of the country and restore greater confidence and unparalleled prosperity.” Attorney General Hoar, who is en gaged in the preparation of Grant’s Message to Congress, recently wrote to Mr. F. G. Spaulning, of Buffalo, as fol lows; “I am one of those who believed that it was the interest os well as the duty of the nation to return at once to the true and solid standard of value as soon as active hostilities ceased; that wo should have treated the currency as we did our armies —regarding the volunteers and the green backs alike as necessities of war, to be dis pensed with as fast as possible on the return of peace.” Mr. Horace Maynard writes that “ the currency should be convertible intocoin at the pleasure of the holder. Senator Sumner said in a recent let ter : “lam not content with tbe long post ponement of specie payments. I believe that tbe time has come for this blessing, and I begin to be impatient when I see how easily people find excuses for not accept ing it.” Gen. Garfield and other members from the West now announce them selves to be in favor of a speedy re sumption of epecie payments. The subject is one Qf great impor tance, and it must seriously affect the entire business interests of the country, The debate upon the subject.will devel op the vjeyes of Congressmen, and the final result of the vote on the subject will be awaited with great interest. in Important Temperance Movement. An important movement against the present license system i 9 now going on among the Good Templars of this State. Petitions are being circulated by them praying the Legislature to pass a law giving the citizens of each election dis trict the right to decide by ballot whether the sale ofintoxicating liquors shall be allowed therein or not. If a majority of the voters decide against the sale of liquors in any district, then no license to sell such liquors is to issue to any tavern, restaurant or other place therein. The Good Templars are a secret organization, now extended throughout the State, with many lodges and a membership which can exercise great power when their efforts are con centrated, as they will be in this mat ter. The Legislature will be flooded with their petitions, and the passage of the proposed law will be very strongly urged at the coming session. The lec turers who are employed by the organi zation are engaged in makjng stirring appeals in favor of the proposed enact ment, which they regard as the step ping stone to the passage of a general prohibitory liquor law. The New York correspondent of the Philadelphia Ledger says: The prices ot breadstniTs at the Produce Exchange yesterday were lb* lowest since this year’s harvests were gathered, and re duced to a gold basis, lower tbai. those cur rent at the corresponding period of 1859 ten years ago. When it is remembered that the present crop was raised on in flated cur rency prices for land, labor and supplies, then the present values calculated m gold, realize relatively less to the producer than at any time fof a period of twenty years past. We call the attention of farmers to this evidence of the benefits they have reaped from Radical rule. If everything else was as low in proportion as bread stuffs there might be some compensating advantage, but none know better than the farmers and the workingmen of the country that this Is not so. The u situation ” on the fifteenth amendment is as follows: Whole num ber of States, 37; pecessary to adoption (three-fourths), 28; States which have ratified, 17; States whose ratification has been defective (Kansas, Missouri' and Indiana), 3; States which have re jected the amendment, 4; States which have not yet voted, 13. Of the latter, five (California, Maryland, Oregon, : New Jersey and Tennessee) are certain: to reject the amendment, and if any ope of the others (Alabama, lowa, Minne sota, Mississippi, Nebraska, Rhode Island, Texas or Vermont) holds out against It, it is dead. The most Radical Republican State in the Union has decided against pyen thatmildest and least objectionable ad- Hon. Leonabp MyEgs, of this State vance toward female suffrage, which intends to Introduce ihto.CoDgress,early proposes to secure to women, who pay in the coming segslpn a bill to abolish | taxes, the rirfitto ypte for School Dl the complicated system gf whiskey rectors. _ A proposition of that Wad was taxation, and to levy theta* entirely, sgmmarlly voted do.wjn .by the Jjegisla upon the capacity of the still. There rure which has just adjourned, aud it are strong reasons why the plan sag- appears that tfie'result was duetoafear: fested tar Mr. Myers should be adopted, that euoh partlal : &tfceaslen might lead t wopld dispense with a multitude of to universal whip an suffrage' The most l officials and be eopdnplve fp honesty In Radical State in our pnion refuses to; the returns made.' ' go asfar as England has gone, ‘ aodtbe Sla£ tfioolfl of military eda* &dvib4 GOvernmen tagbe.but of tohrhttoand'exoldslve feeUngjwhlcßis instilled into thegptndlipf the: pupps, Bo;marlted adegreejhelr \dep&rtmehtin wfter-llfe. So'farasthe feeling tends to prodace a proper esprit du corpa, itis well; but so far as it causes onr army and navy offlcers-thus -educated at the pnblic ex pense, to look down upon and despise their' fellow-citizens in civil, life who have been taugh t In humble schools and who are unadorn edwith gilt laoe, it is, In this. democratic country -of equal men, an unmitigated evil. ' The line officers of our navy are par tially open to reproach in this regard. Graduated at the naval school at An napolis, they seem to have become im bued with a most Inordinate idea of their prerogatives and of their superi ority oyer all men who have not rubbed their noses against the wails of that by no-means thorough Institution of learn ing. They are greatly opposed to allow ing equal rank and consideration with themselves, to the staff officers, of the navy, who are-the surgeons, engineers and paymasters, ail men of first-class, abilities, who have at their own expense received a liberal education .and who have entered the navy in mature life, and after passing moat rigid and Bevere examination not only as to their profes sional qualifications but also as to their general information. The Jealousy of the line towards the staff officers, who are about their equal in number, has cropped out more abundantly since the general applica tion of steam to our war vessels, of late years, has rendered the employment necessary of a new class of officers—the engineers. They did not care to turn up their noses too disagreeably at sur geons because it was manifestly essen tial to their well-being that they shouU have firat-class men for their doctors, and also advisable for them to keep on good terms with them, ao that they might secure medical attendance to their families on shore without cost. — The paymasters also they were disposed to cultivate, because it would not bead visable to offend those who held the money bags. But the engineers stood on a different footing as they were not dependent on them for personal favors; and besides it offended deeply the aris* tocratic feeling of the line officers that they should be compelled to association terms of equality with persons educated as mechanics.. So a war was inaugurat ed by the line officers against all the staff officers. Heretofore the latter h&ye been awarded equal rank with the former, according to their peri od of service. But since Admiral Porter has become the acting Sec retary of tiro qavy, the fact that the line officers of the Navy are a superior order of beings to the staff, has been officially recognized, and the latter have been degraded. But this great man whose record during the war was by no means a particularly brilliant one, who failed on the Red river, and whose work on the Mississippi was done for him by Farragqt, con duct since the war as chief cook of the Navy department will be no more likely than his war services to raise an enviable monnment to his fame. The question between the line and the staffofficers will be taken into the next session of con gress, and if the sentiment of the news paper press affords any indication of what that body will do in the matter, it is quite certain that the line officers will be rudely awakened from their great delusion that because they have been educated by the charity of the govern ment, they thereby have been trans muted into a superior sort of clay to that Which composes the bodies of their fel low citizens, from whose taxation they get their bread and butter. The Opening or the Suez Ship Canal. The opening of the Suez Ship Canal, is justly regarded as one of the most important events of modern times, and the sovereignties of Europe and Asia and Africa, join In the festivities of the occasion, w hich are of the most impos ing character. The days are taken up with processions, in which France is represented by the Empress Eugenie, Austria by her Emperor, Prussia by the Prince of Prussia, Italy by Prince Am adeus, Egypt by the Viceroy, and a host of smaller Nations by officials who swell the pageant which moves with pomp and proud array beneath the bright sun of Northern Africa. The nights are made brilliant by the glow of the innumerable colored lamps which hang suspended from balconies on shore and from'the ships of all Na tions now gathered in the new and commodious artificial harbor of Port Said. There are feasts and balls, and all the appliances necessary to mark the occasion as one of the grandest tri umphs of the power of man over the obstacles which nature presents to the advancement of commerce and to the intercourse of Nations. The completion of such a canal as tie 1 one now formally opened, has been a > cherished dream of monarchs and con i querors in all ages of the world. The 1 Ptolemies, Amron, Alexander, Cte3ar 1 and the First Napoleon, were all im -1 pressed with the importance of opening this new and short channel to the trade of the world. Napoleon, in an address to the Directory, said : “One© established, in Egypt, theMedit eranesn becomes a French Lake; we shall foqnd a colony there, nnenverated by the curse of slavery, and which will supply the place of Saint DomiDgo; we shall opeu a market for French manufacturers through the vast regions of AfncD, Arabia, and Syria. All the caravans of the East will meet at Cairo, and the commerce of India must forsake the Cape of Good Hope and flow through the Red Sea. Marching with an army of GO,OOO men, one can cross the Indus, rouse the oppressed aod discontent ed native population against the English usurpers, and drive the I nglieh out of In dia. W e will establish governments which will respect the rights apd promote the Interests of the people. The multitude will hail us as thelr'cleliverprs'lrotn oppression. The Christians of Syria, the Druses and the Armenians will join oqr We may change the face of the world ! M The stirring events which claimed his attention, and culminated in his banishment to St. Helena, prevented any steps being taken to fulfil his gor geous "dream, but now, by thejjhande of a French Engineer, andunder the con trol of French enterprise the great feat is accomplished. If the work proves to be as perfect as it is represented to be, and as well adapted to the purposes it is intended to subserve, a revolution in the commerce of the Western World With the far East, will have been effect ed, sn4 wUh other Nations, we shall share largely in tbo benefits to accrue from the final realisation of a scheme which has engaged the attention of great men for thousands of years. 1 Ex-President Fillmore, presiding tffleer of the recent Commercial Con vention at Louisville, Ky., in accord ance with resolutions of that body, has appointed Blanton Duncan, of Ken tucky, and Robt. T. Sanders, of Ten nessee, delegates to attend the Russian Exposition in 1870. Other delegates will be appointed by President Grant. One hundred thousand specimens of American products are called for, in order to show the rastness and diversity of our manufactures and agriculture. Beecher's Thanksgiving Sermon; Ward Beecher ia aiUnfojlaalJ' : Sensational preacher* «dnmtageH>f occasions :to ah? * npunce prised, his hearers jioigft littieJJ Aftm; Alluding to the vast tictepf immigration xwip-setting In upou %s ffonr7the pld worldjWMchhe'regardedaaagreat good mixed with some j eyil that would be' counteracted, he promulgated the most heretical opinions upon the question of the Union of the Stated Ueexpressed l - aconyfotion ihafc the time was not;.far distant 2 when great 'sections of the' county might deemit best for them to separate from thereat of the States.-He professed to foresee and. plainly predict ed the dissolution of the Union, and the formation of some ; half dozen new | nationalities within .the present bounds of theUnitedStates. He declared that he , should not feel somuch opposed to such movements hereafter, when itappeared t that they were made with some unani mity of sentiment.: The following extract will show the tenor of his remarks upon thissdbject. He said: The recent failure of the attempt at disin tegration ought not to breed undoubted se curity. Few knew how near it came to proving a success. It was an attempt founded on bad grounds, in his opinion; rounded on t-at which was odious to the moral sense of the world. It had bad coun sellors. Bat shoald the Pacifio States, in another generation, without slavery as a vile enrae, with strong commercial reasons, undertake separation, the issue would prob ably be very different. Oar late success, then, must not argue success in every sub sequentcase. The failure must not lead us to suppose that no other attempts would be made. Should the Southern States, now temporarily exhausted; renew the straggle for independence, on the ground of political economy, the issue was not to be perceived from the issue of the recent war. It was preaumptaous to rest in the belief that the question of the Union was settled forever. Tbp Siates could never be prevented from bopurai ion if their real interests lay in sep aration. Unity could only be secured by making it to the interest of each section to remain united. Rhode Island might not be able to withdraw alone, nor New Jersey, I nor Connecticut, nor South Carolina even, nor any single State, but the whole South, the whole'Sonthwcst, the great Northwest, anl the vast Pacifioslope move on different planes from single States. It was moral power, and that atone, which conld secure the perpetuity of the Union. f *That or nothing.’’ And, while he would look upon the disintegration of the Union with the de?pest feelings of sorrow, he still would got regard such an event with the same abhorrence t}Q did tbs struggle, If four great re publics sprang into existence, in the stead pf the Union as it is, he'sbould regard such qn occurrence as the result of reaction. Absolute political union' was better, so far as we could now see, However, separation would not be fatal. In conclusion he alluded to the <|ues- Lion of the reading and teaching of the Bible in the Common Schools, and took ground against it. He said : The common sohools shoald not be secta rian. He would not force the hearing of the Bible on a Jew in the public school. It was the lack of toleration, It should be ro membered, which drove the Puritan fathers to this continent. ■\Ybpli the great moral teacher of .the Radical party, their foremost political preacher, begins to talk in such style on important questions, what are we to expect ? He has led in the contests of the party more than once. Are his present utterances to be regarded as the authoritative announcement of the dawning of a new political era? Mr. Beecher’s remarks upon the prob able advantages of a dissolution of the Union read liketheutterancesofSouth ern clergy men just before the war. They only spoke of a separate government for the South, but our Brooklyn prophet foreshadows four Republics, We do not regard it as at all unlikely that tbeNew England States will favor a dissolution of the Union so soon as the increasing power of the rest of the country shall destroy that preponderating influence which they have Btriven so hard to maintain. Mr. Beecher may bo only announcing their ultimate design. Specie Payments. A special telegram from Washington says, the moment for speedy return to specie payments, is becoming very pop ular aqaeng members of Congress, and the opinion is freely expressed that it will be brought about within a year.— It is well understood that Gen. Grant and Secretary Boutweli, are decidedly in favor of the project. Let people who are interested begin to put their houses in order. The popular majority for the Demo crats in the late Legislative elections in New Jersey is upwards of twenty thou sand. In the Legislature tjie Demo crats will have 13 majority on joint ballot, a gain of 7 over last year. Hon. Henry 8. Little is to be re-elected Presi dent of the Senate, and Hon. Leon Abbett, of Jersey City, Speaker of the Assembly, there being no opposition tothem. Actiononthefifteenthamend ment was postposed last year to the next session, which commences in Jan uary, when undoubtedly the vote of New Jersey will be recorded in the ne gative. The luka (Miss.) Gazette uses the following peculiarlanguage in speaking of one LoveriDg, who is said to be an Indiana carpet-bagger, who has some how slid into judicial honors down in Mississippi i His head is about as large as a coon’s, and recedes so rapidly from the root of his nose that if a stream of water were poured perpendicularly upon his brow, more of it would run off the back of his head than off his face. His organs of intellect, if he ever tad any. Nave vacated, and taken up their abode ii. p. sterior part of his brain, which n: •!> s ibe cerebellum appear like a market basket hung to tbe back of his head. His teeth seam to be all gone, and his gums closed up to keep Ids chin out of danger. His nose looks like the butt end of a blood beef, and LU eyes like.auger-holes in a muskmelon rind. Late returns of the Minnesota elec tion reduce the majority of Austin for Governor, to one hun dred and sixty-eight—with fifteen counties yet to hear from, ft Is possi ble that Austin is beaten after all. Sccretury BoatfVCll’B P|an fqr t|i» |tc. somptloo of Specie Pajmepf, A special Washington despatch to tho New York World of Sunday has the fol lowing sketch of Mr. Boutwell's programme for a return of specie payments : From semi official sources I have ascer tained that, after consultation with leading New York bankers and also with western financiers, Secretary Boutwell has decided to submit at an early day—probably in his annual report— tlje following programme for a return to specie payments, to the con sideration of Congress. 1 1. The national banks to redeem their notes for greenbacks by July 1,1870. 2. The government to redeem its* green backs In gold after Januury 1,1871. 3. Free banking for all parties upon bonds bearipg interest at 4 per cent, in gold. - 1 4.' This point is not quite sealed. There is sopae division in regard to the question whet>bpr tijo banks shall be permitted to' issue notes as dqw, or whether the United States shall take chargeofall circulation by the issue of greenbacks’ on a plan some what similar to that of the Bank of England. It la, however, understood that no green backs of a smaller denomination than 85 or $lO will be Issued. The free-banking clause of this, pro gramme, which finds great favor among those who havp been permitted to see it, was inserted io Bftfiefy the Western States,. where tpe greatest obstacles to h resump tion Of spede payment exist. ’ ‘ J ' Thrilling Story of Shipwreck. The bark Naomi, bound for Chicago with coal, was lost on the,4th inst., near Man istee, The details are thrilling and sad. The vessel struck bottom duringa gale, and the water rushed in, driving ail on board to the roof of the cabin, where they were exposed to fcheTury of the wind and waves. Captain Carpenter fastened his wife and himself, to a?masfc. A sailor, at the captain’s request, set out to swim asbqro, but bis strengb gave out and he was drowned. The boats having been washed away, no ruepus of escape seemed attainable. On the next dav, however, Captain William Calaway, ofthe sphopner Toledo, with a number of other brave volunteers; took a boat and pnt out from Mafatftee to the ’Wreck, though with great pdril to themselves, the boat sev eral times filling. Reaching the bark they t fonnd the captfiff s wife dead from expo sure, and the captain barely aUye. Alter two or three trips theyjracceeded in rescuing the rest of the crew, seven in number, but the captain had diedbeforetney (Sold take him off, and the two bodies were left on the WFeck, which soon went to pieces. The res- ZMfriXJs. 5 C ? r '. y but The recemftto'rpiido ‘disaster af Hew Or leans hah ijansed the anthorities of that elty to prohibit their use. Jfitro-gljcerine is reported to be used ip. tljeir.mpjmfacture, • : ‘‘‘ r :m r . ?ji r . - ?■ Mmwholeeoarae of thegreat Suez Canal from the Vedlten*ne(uUo the Bed Sea Is audQyJfiaJdlometen.nr lfiOdiQea. It has Sn averago wldtb of S2S fo6t, the width at .Qyrtaaefai^SMtiandthdidepth of jrater about t&lathihaii: and ouOuTOWddl# B5 feet afcthe wjdert.' 3Sawtttrifnta«'batJQio ls now in: draught. 'These particulars will show thacapadty of the canal. The entire cost ofthe general con struction to Jane 30th, was fsfrQOoooo gold. The population of the Isthmns has increased from 150 in 1849 to 50,- 000 in 1809 - The northern entranoe-of- the canal Is situated oh the eastern sfioreof the Mediterranean, 124? miles> north of Alex andria. The site of this tuwnwaa ten years ago nothing more than an arid, dreary waste, aflbrding-noanohomge oftshetteafor. shipping. A: port was repaired for the ships arriving from Earope, and there was no alternative bat to form one at the initial point of the cabal, now Port Said, where a magnificent harbor - has j been created.— Thousands of miles of voyage will be saved to the commerce of nations by this canal. Thus the distance from the English Chan nel to Calcutta, via the Cape of Good Hope, by the ronte taken by. the best sailing ves sels, is about 13,000 miles; via the Meaiter- -ranean and Suez Canal, It Is about 8,000 miles; gain in distance by the latter to or from Calcutta, 5,000 miles. By the Cape route to Bombay, the distance is 11,600 miles: by the Bed Sea route, 6,200 miles; gain in distance to or from Bombay, 5,800 miles., from New York to Cal' cntta the distance, ,bv way of the Canal, is 9,700 miles. The voyage from New York to Baez, including deten tions at the usnal places (of call, can be made m sixteen days. The opening of the Canal must evidently be favorable to Amer ican commerce. Ithaa bean absurd enough to purchase Indian products in England for transshipment here; bat the economical laws of trade cannot long sanction onr pro coring Eastern products at Liverpool when a voyage of sixteen days will bring onr steamships to Suez, and from thenceenable them to trade with the great entrepots of the Orient on the same basis as England her self. The United States will also share la the increased prosperity of the Mediterra nean cities, Egypt, Arabia, and the Indies, which must result from the completion of the canal. Already there is a movement to transfer a large share of the cotton Industry of the north of JPranpe and Northern Aus tria to plaoes nearer the Mediterranean. Should, therefore, the oountries bordering on that histone sea regain their pristine grandeur fre shall share in their prosperity and advancement/ Professor J. C. Nonrse, United States Navy, communicates to the national In telligencer the first of a series of articles on the great canal, Professor Nonrse things it promises aq entire revolution iq naviga tion In the past, breaking np tho route by the Capo of Good Hope, and speedily af fecting there an almost entire substitution of steam marine for sailing vessels. Com merce in the East \s looking to the earliest practical results of an unbroken voyage from Liverpool to Canton in less than forty days, instead of one hundred. England is building new lines of steamers for the Suez navigation, and in this country a lip? of steamers pag beep organised under tpe nacqe of the “ Mediterranean and Oriental Steam Navigation Company.'* Professor Nourse thinks that a canal across the Isth mus of Darien would even surpass in valne that of Saea. Arrival of the lonngaratlon Fleet at Baez. ißy the Atlantio Cable.] Suez, Nov. 21, via Alexandria, Nov. 21. .The canal inauguration fleet of forty-five vessels has arrived here. They were not obliged to employ pilots, and the only diffi culty was that owing to their numbers. Seme were crowded upon tbe banks of the canal at various points, but tpey got oil vyithopt difficulty, fhp sqpdy bottocp of the canal neither hurting nor'bolding them. Near Ismailia several steamers came into collision, but no serious damage was dope. The water in the canal between Suez and Ismailia is fully twenty feet deep in the shallowest part, and in several places it is less than twenty-five feet deep, but at *ll these points the canal can easily be deep ened. Steamers drawing fifteen feet can navigate the canal from Port Said to Suez with ease in fifteen hours. Tbe banks do not wash as much as was apprehended, and the complete success of the great work exceeds all expectations. The arrangements here for tbe transporta tion and care of the visitors are excellent. 4U the rolling stock on the Alexandria, Cairo, and Suez Eailroad has been brought into requisition to carry tbe immense crowds, and the mails to and from Bombay have been much delayed in consequenoe. The canal is pow clear of shipplpg, tbe whole fleet having anchored in the harbor of Snez. To-morrow the statue of Wag horn, the English officer who first suggest ed the building of tbe canal, will be erected here, and on Tuesday tbe fleet will leave for Port Said, where a statue of Do Lesseps, tbe builder and president direotor of the canal, will be raised, and with this cere mony tbe inauguration/efes will terminate. The Empress Eugenie returns through the canal with the fleet, tbe Aigle taking the lead., Remonstrance Against nentcai noasnr* Being; Attended by Allied Classes ofAlido and Female Students of Medicine, A meeting: was convened, on the 15th inst., at the Udiverßity of Pennsylvania, to oonsider the subject of clinical instruction to mixed classes of male and female stu dents of medicine. At this meeting the following remon strance was unanimously adopted and signed by the Faculties of theUniveraity of Pennsylvania, of Jefferson Medical College, by the Medical staffs of various Hospitals of Philadelphia, and by the members of the profession at large: The undersigned, professors in the Uni versity of Pennsylvania, professors in Jef ferson Medical College, members of the medical staffs of various hospitals of Phila delphia, and members of the medical pro fession in Philadelphia at large, ont of re spect for iheir profession, and for the inter est of the public, do feel it to be their duty, at"tbe present time, to express their con victions upon the subject of clinical instruc tion to mixed classes of male and female students of medicine. They are induced to present their views upon this question, which is of so grave importance to medical education, from the fact that It is misunderstood by the public, and because an attempt is now- being made to force it before the community in a shape which they conceive to be injurious'to the progress of medical science, and to the efficiency of clinical teaching. They have no hesitation in declaring that their deliberate conviction is adverse to conducting clinical instruction in the pres ence of students of both sexes. The judgment that has been arrived at is based upon the following considerations: 1. Clinical instruction in practical medi cine demands an examination of all the or gans and parts of the body, as far as prac -1 ticable; hence, personal exposure becomes for this purpose often a matter of absolute necessity. It cannot be assumed, by any | right-minded person, that male patients | should be subjected to inspection before a class of'females, although this inspection I may, without impropriety be submitted to j before those of their own sox. 1 A thorough investigation,as well as dem onstration, in these oases—eo necessary | to render instruction complete and effec tive—is, by a mixed audience, precluded : while the Clinical lecturer is restrained and i embarrassed in bis inquiries, and must therefore fall short in the conclusions which he may draw, and in the instruction which I he communicates. 2. In many operations upon male patients exposure ol the body is inevitable, and de monstrations must be made which are un ! fitted for the observation of the opposite sex. These expositions, when made under the eye of such a conjoined assemblage, are shocking tQ the sense of decency; and entail tpe risk of unmanning the surgeon, of 'dis tracting bis mind, ana endangering the life of the patient, sesides thjs p lprge class of surgical diseaaos of the mpleis of ep delicate a nature as altogether to forbid inspection by female atqdents. Yet a complete under standing of this particular olass of diseases ts of pre-eminent importance to the com munity. Moreover, such affections can be thoroughly studied only in the Clinics of the large cities, and the opportunity for studying them, so far from being ourtaiied, should h© extended to the utmost possible degree. “ * '' - ; *• To those wjio are familiar witb suoh cases as are here alluded to, it is Inconceivable that females should ever be called to their treatment, 3. By tho joint participation, on the part of male and female students, in the instruc lion and in (bedemonstrations which prop erly belopg to the Clinical Lecture .Room, the barrier of re/pect is brokpq down, and that high estimation! of frotaftnly qualities, which should always be snstalhed atad cherished, and whlfah had its origin In do mestic and social associations, is lost, bv an inevitable and positive demoralization of the indiyidnale concerned, thereby en • tailing most serious detriment to the morals of society, ! In view of the above considerations, the undersigned do ' earnestly and solemnly protest against the admixture of the sexes at Clinical instruction in medicine and sur gery, and do respectfully lay these their yiews before the Boards of Managers of the Hospitals in Philadelphia. TJie Bojlftonßanh Cleared Oat. Boston, November s2.~Tbe Roylston National Bank at.the oorner of Washington and Boyiston streets, was entered, between Saturday and this morning, ana a dean sweep made of all the valuables on deposit In the outer vault, mostly belonging to in dividuals. The valuables were largely in United States bonds, and were contained in twenty-five or thirty tin, trunks, belong ing to as many different individuals. It is not possible at the present time,'to give the precise .sum of money taken, & the bank officers do not know Just what amounts the depositors individually had on hand, bat it is believed by the cashier that front $400.- .000 to $500,000 have been stolen. ■ Oh the giQtb of October a to an giving the name of W. A.. Judaea hired a‘room ad joining the bank as a dealer in Califtafcla Wine Bitters, putting in a large stock of bottles: thus .iabolledy and; constructing a closet next to the safe waU, which was of brick two feet thick, /t this point tse ma sonry fpokd drilled through," endue debris removed. The pagihg 'tb the safe Was then; bored, probably donng faferday night and Sunday, enabling the operator to reach the property In the outer department" of the safe;' The property stolen,-asprevl- was in Borne thirty tin boxes, ranged upon shelves, and deposited in the bank fbr; safe keeping, NoVonds of the bank were stolen, ■ ■ t . , • Sear Hnstisidoa ‘ mSd •■ xSSsi‘*<& fckTs'ZMJBBBJ.'V - ;_•■ HPHTOoDOTtNor unusually qgi»t been startled from ,** Pv®™v by Qoq lofUkdaost cruel and brattimorcferatn tt,antodaoforime. Tt»: IwrpafrytrdneatPleaaant Grove; ftboQ^/ mlloyifrom thV place. Tho «<»ina were a feraftr named John Fergh m 80011 a»a- Qf al>out ten or twelve years of age, Thedeceased were universally known and respected by all-in the .neigh borhood,. and none. but win Individually feel their loss greatly.' Between six and seven o’clock last evening the victims were -qaietly.AeataLai ibfc .table enjoying their eveningmeal alter a bard day r s work on the Jkraa. AU unoonsdonai were they of the nothing but the work of to-morrow, chattmgaWay blether, they were progress - ing with their meal when Perghtal and hia soti were ahat through thebead and in atently killed.. Mrs. Perghtal was also shot, but not fatally, and the villianß for there were twoofthem'Sprang tor abatehet which happened to be lying conveniently close at hand, and with that dispatched the wound ed woman. perpetrating their bloody deed the villains proceeded leisurely to ransack the house from top to bottom, securing all the money in the house, amounting to several thousand dollars, which was In coin and greenbacks. Securing all the booty they ! could beside the money, they deliberately eetto work to cover up their traces. Plac ing the bodies side by aide, they piled on top of them all the old clothes and bedding which they cohid conveniently lay their hands on. Striking a match, one of the villains then set fire to the whole. Bat, fearful that they would be discovered by some neighbor, who might by accident visit the house to see the Perghtals, they made a speedy exit and fled from the neighborhoods In their haste the fire was but imperfectly lit. Instead of blazing up and destroying everything, as they had fondly hoped, so as to create the impression in the neighborhood that the Pergbtais had been burned up in their dwellingby an accidental fire, it smouldered on and on until some persons passing by were attract ed by the light and large volumes of smoke which were issuing from the house, and ventured in and discovered the true state of affairs on investigation. As all bad news does, this flew on the wings of tho wind, and qoqq for miles around every one was acquainted with the fearful deed of blood which had been perpetrated in our very midst, and which, but for the timely dis covery of the flames and smoke, might never have been discovered. The commu nity was startled, and knew not what to make of it Many who had, and many more who had never known the viotims, flocked from sit quarters to the farm-house to see the murdered family. Old and young gave vent to their feeiings of sorrow fpr tho three victims who hafl |hqs been cut off untimely in their ewer hy tho hands of assassins. Rumor was quickly at work, and many were the surmises as to the cause of the deed, and, who had committed it, but suspicion at once rested upon two sin ister looking men wbo had been seen lurking in the neighborhood during tho day. As soon as this suspicion gainod ground a messenger waa hurriedly dospatched to the depot, and by dint of inquiry, soon ascertained that two persons answering the descriptiop which be gave had taken the night train West. He then telegraphed to AltoonaApMntercepfc the parties on the train, if thajj had gone that far. Not long after the arrival at Altoona be was gratified by the reception of a telegram announcing that bis request had been complied with, and the parties placed under arrest, At noon to-day they were brought to this place, where they were recognized by a number of persons as the rpeq who had been lurking about the premises of the tpurflered family.' On tho person of the priso.ners were fqund two hundred aDd seventy dollars, part in gold, and part in greenbacks. The bal ance of the money is supposed to be concealed in tho neighborhood of the murder, where, it is thought, they inten ded to return for it after the excitement at*, tendant on the deed had hlown over. The men aro Germans. Their names are Oliver Badenberg and Cottleib Bohrer, alias Charles Moore. The latter *was convicted here about threejyears.ago of larceny and spent his time in the penitentiary. Godfried Bohrer, one of the men arrested for the murder of thePerghtal family, near Huntingdon, has made a partial confession of the transaction. This is it t I was born in Wayiemberg, in May, 1827, and cafro tq this country in 18(54; I was never married: I served aa a private in Company C, 70th N. Y« Volunteers, for two years and two months; after beiDg dis charged from the army I lived first in New York, then in Huntingdon, and latterly at Altoona; I worked in the coal mine on Broad Top a couple of months for Robert Hare Poweli; I was never acquainted with the family of John Perghtal, but passed there one?, and asked for work. I first became acquainted with Oliver (Albert) Bodenberg at his boarding-house in Altoona, in September last; we slept to gether and boarded at the same hoose: soon after I got acquainted with him, he told me that Perghtal had money; he said that he had slept there twice; be asked me to go along and stay outside* not know wbat he did inside; we came down on the cars on Monday evening from Altoona, and walked from Huntingdon by way of MeUonnelatown to Perghtal’s that evening ; and slept all night in his (Pergh tal’s) stable loft; on Tuesday we walked over .the neighborhood and inquired for work, and staid all night in a barn further down the road ;on Wednesday morning we came to Huntingdon, and I did not want to go back (this was on the morning of the murder); Oliver (Albert) said if I difl not go back he would shoot me* we started back after dinner apd walked to Perghtal’s, but went by Broad Top to avoid getting there too soon. We stopped a while at Conriellstown station, and a while at Pleas ant Grove. We reached Perghtal’s about 7 o’clock. I stayed on the railroad and Oliver (Albert) went to the house. I heard only one shot. The wind was blowing very hard. Ho was in the house about one hour. He brought out tho bags full of gold and silver. He gave me one of them and said, “ Now, let’s go.” I think Oliver (Albert) had about twice as mnch money as 1 had. He told me in the lock-up at Altoona that he had put the money away while he was down in the onthonse, by digging a hole with his hand and burying it. A story was afterwards told by Bodru* berg that Bohner committed the crime while he (Bodruberg) waited on the road, but in all the other details he corroborates Bohner’s confession. Tho Train or Cars That Was Blown From the Track. W>H [From the Hudson Dally Star, Noy. ]£ On Wednesday mornipg a tornado visited Boston Corpers. The train which left Chat ham yesterday morning at 9 o’clock was blown off the track near Boston Corners, and a b°y, who was a passenger on the train, was killed, and many persons were injured. The. train consisted of the locomotive, b ®ggage and express car, and three passen ger cars, and it is now said that word was communicated to some of the emploveeson the train, by some of the men on the'/reight train bound West, “ that they had better be on their guard when they reached Boston Corners, for tbQ winfl blowing very hard when they came by thp place l ,” No attention, was paid to this it seepis, and the mail train dashed along, the passengers suspecting nothing until they found them selves struggling to escape through the windows of the cars, which lay on their side down an embankment. The rear car was first blown off ond the others followed, including the “tender” of the locomotive, the eDgino itself being left on the track. By the upsetting of the stove iu the mail and baggage car the car was burned with all |ts contents: and a boy who was inside at the time of the aooident, being nn - able to extricate himself, was released by the aid of an axe in the handp of a passen ger. T|}© so strong that a freight train brought to a stapfl still wjjon wilflln a quarter of a mile of Boston Corners, and gradually forced baek'so that it was found necr-saary. In order to reach the station, to cut loose the train and take two cars at a time. The locomotive was one of Mason’s make, and as powerful as any on the road. This is, wo bolieve, the third train that has been blown off tho track at Boston Corners, aud on one of ll)em a resident of ChhthUrpj' naojed l>alhbqqe. killed. At the point where the trains have been toppled over, the track pitches to such au angle tbftl the wind has a fair chance to render comparatively easy the upsetting of the trains \ and we are informed that con doctors, engineers, aud brakemeu have united in petitioning tho Company to grade the ground at this place so as to guard agalgst repetfliops q( accidents such as wo bave’ebronicied, Fropa the Oil Regions. The Titnsville Herald contains tbe fol fowing petroleum i|ema t A new fifteen-barrel well was struck on the Toles farm, between Lower Cherry Run and tho Allegheny River, a few days ago. It la owned by Messrs. Phillips, Mnnhall, Mawhinney and others. The well owned by Emery Bros., on the Walter Scott Oil Company's tract, Upper Chejry Run. is reported to be producing from J5O to 200 bartola dgilv. * * The '6ld Harmonlkn Well, No. 9, oh the Armstrong farm, PieAsantvllle, which was drilled into the sixth shnd rock about ayear ago, and which prod peed a small quantity of green oil for some time, was recently drilled deeper and torpedoed./ It is how yielding ten barrels of green oil dally.— The success which has. attended the late operptiops QP this well proves conclusively that a green oil belt underlies the Pleasant ville black oil producing rock. This well is located abont a mile-north of the large green oil well, on tho Independent tract, and Is of mooh importance, os it indicates tbe course taken by the green oil. Messrs. Hukiil, Mitchd and Davis struok a new twenty-five barrel well on the Shaw farm, near Lower Cherry run last week, 4.t!park«*a landing tho production is steadily increasing, ahd ngw strikes are being made ht th& rate of Two p&r week. About atweek ago a new'fifty barrel* well was struck on the upper island by Messrs. Shannon <fc A few dayp prkvious the Jsoterfirise well No. 2 was struck. This well Commenced to product at the rate of swenfy-flve barrels daily, but the yield has Bines inoreqspdf and pow is about slxtybar rels-per day* ~ • - r ' •• ' On Saturday last two mew Wells were struck on Fisher Brothers” farm, formerly the Tyrrel hum. One of them is produc tag twenty barrels and the otherflfteen barrels daily. 0 The oid'St Woman in Delaware. ■S^psmss&st >«d upoftks the utmosiUmlt "of a ripe old agKaudovUryeariirfexeeaof the Uttar P**?°dla generally oonaHered added by the almost epeolat Interposition ofDlyine Pro ■ndeneei The Revolutionary herot* have passed sway; none are. now left wbo took an aotlve Dart in thestlrrlDg times that tried men a eonls. -Theirbrilliant achievements ue freennpon onr memories, bnt tho forms that wielded the arms of mortal strife upon w na ‘Lexington, lhe heights of Bun *“*Ull| at the surrender of Cornwallis, at Torktown, have passed away. Tradition g a U tt s*2s of Independence on the'4th of July. H 76.. Here and there Uvea an old. veteran who baa passed an ootogenarian age,'and maims to be as old as our nation’s birthday; but none are so old as she whose name heada this article, and who lives, hearty and well, la Delaware City. In the State of Dela ware “'i - ‘ •• HannairFennlmoro was born on the 11th day of December, at Amsterdam, Germany, in the year of ©nr Lord 1761, and will;* on the 11th day of next December, be 108 years old. She removed to this country in > the Bth year of her age, and has consequently been in. the country of her adoption one hundred yeara, arriving here seven years 55!? ri0 of Independence, and when the old bell was sending forth the proclamation of liberty throughout the land and to all the inhabitants thereof, Bhe, in the maiden blush of “sweet sixtUn ” was living at tho month of Mantua Creek in New Jersey, where she was soon after wards wooed and won by Matthew Bigger, a young Revolutionary soldier, whom she married, when she was 21 jeans of-age, and by whom she.had eleven children, the youngest of whom is now 55 years old, and the oldest, if now living, would have been 82. Bhe is now living with her son, Charles C. Bigger, who, with one exception, is the youngest of her children, ana who is 63 years of age. Her husband dying when her youngest child was an infant, she remained a widow a short time, and married a man by tho name of Fennimore, with whom she lived until his death, which occurred in 1846. since which she has lived with her son be fore mentioned. She is remarkably active, and goes from house to house, calling upon ber neighbors, and talking of old times, when sbo was a girl. Like most old people, she recollects events that haye transpired 80 or 90 years ago more distinctly than events of a more recent date, ShftjffiflJnctly recollects tho frequent visits of General Washington to the house where she lived, and bis often dining there; and until recently sbe recol lected all the principal events of the Amer ican Revolution. On Wednesday of last week she tripped right lively down the main street of Delaware City, to a daguer • reotype gallory,and hud her likeness taken. Prom present uppearances she bids fair to live for a numher ot years jet. This remarkable old lady ia indeed a connecting link with a past age. Only 20 years younger than General Washington, 14 years old when the battle of Lexington took plaoe. and 21 years old at the close of the Revolution. She first lived in tho Kingdom of Holland eight yeara from the time of her birth, in 1761, to 1760; then in the British colonios, under tho reign of King George, a period of k soven years, until the Declaration of Independence, when the colonies became a free and independent nation, under which shebaaeyer eluce re sided. A G»Ycromont Detective Badly Sold. The New Orleans Tribune says, a few days since, a well dressed jand dapper lit tle person was seen to manifest a very in quisitive interest in the manufactory of oar enterprising young citizen, Henryßonna bel, Esq. He inspected internally with great care, and apparently made notes with a pencil. Was bo a purchaser or a special artiste detailed to present to the public a view of the manufactory of the bisulpbate of lime? Very soon this observant visitor met the active proprietor, who was engaged with some other gentleman inmaklogsome change in his business arrangements. With all the dignity of new clothes, the visitor presented his card, the Hon. O. Sneakem, detective extraordinary in the service of the Internal Revenue, “ Allow me to inquire,” asked he of Mr. Bonnabel, ‘‘are these whiskey barrels?” “ They were, sir.” ‘‘ Will you allow me to see your receipt for the manufacture of this whiskey ?” *• I never made a gallon.” “ Then this ia not a distillery?” observed the detective, with a slight shade of disap pointment. ‘* No, sir. It is a manufactory of bisui phate of lime.”. “ Allow me to inquire, sir, what is bisul pbate of lime?” asked the detective. It is a chemical preparation oflli p » used by sugar planters to promote the gran ulation and parity of sugar.” The detectivewas not to bo tbuß thrown off the track of a rich forfeiture. This bisul pbato was gammon. It could not fool a New Yorker. “Will you,” persisted he, “permit mo to have one of these barrels opened ?” “Here. Owen !” sung out Mr. Bonnabel, " knock the bung out or a barrel. This gentleman sayß we are manufacturing whiskey without paying license.” Owen .was indignant that a “thafe of a gauger” should cross oyer from Ireland to prosecute honest people; so he struck a barrel such a vehement thnmp thut the bang bounced oat, and the detective throat his official nose into the opening. The effect of the pent-up sulphuric vapor on the pro boscis. ; lungs, and eyes ef the dapper gen tleman from New York, was alike sadden and conclusive. He tumbled over like a bed bug exposed to corrosive sublimate.— Tt was only with the aid of. Owen and some other disinterested spectators that he was taken to his room, and it is said to. have been some days before he could leave his bed and resume, bis “wild hunt” after whiskey. • A Horror of tlio Seo. Havana, Nov.' 11.—A “drama of the sea” that, in scenes of horror and incidents of death, stands forth with unfortunate prominence, haa jast been brought under public notice here. Since Sunday two vessels carrying coolies have arrived—tho Salvadorian ship Macao, with 400 Ootonos Asiattcos, and the French bark Tamarls, with only 68. It is upon the latter vessel that the “drama” occurred. HaviDg left Macao for Havana on Febru ary Gih, with 300 indentured Chinese, a Chinese doctor, Portuguese interpreter, a captain and a crew of 18 men, lhe vessel sailed to within 270 miles of Java Without anything notable happening on board: bnt then and there the indentured Chinese re volted and killed the captain (Rannie) and the interpreter. The crew, powerless to resist the infuri ated Celestials, took to tho boats, which they launched and (hen abandoned the vessel. They were fortunate enough to reach Java In a few days, and reported the affair to the Dutch authorities. A Dutch war vessel was at once sent in pursuit of the Tamarls, but had to cruise for ber thirty days botore meeting her.— After a slight resistance the mntinled Chi nese in possession of her surrendered, and the Chinese and other Chinese offi cials installefl on board after the crew aban doned her, as well as the majority of the other Chinese on board, were loaded with chains and kept in the hold. The Tamaris was then conveyed to Pa dang, where a new captain (Casolis) and the old crew of eighteen men were put on board, and then she started once more for Havana. Of the 300 coolies taken on at Macao, fifty five perished in the mutiny aud in resist ing the Dutch war vessel,so that the second start was made with only 245 coolies on board, these coolies ascertained that thpy were after‘all to Ho taken to Cuba, they be came desperate, and at every opportunity jumped overboard. Many, deprived of the opportunity to drown themselves, commit ted suicide by actual starvation. Thi ß felQ del ing continued nearly the whole voyage, so that whep fhe Tamaris reached Havana she had, as stated, only sixty-eight Chinese on board—no less than 232 having perished during the eventful voyage of nine months’ duration. It is useless to add that the trip* has been o losing one to those who chartered the vessel and indentured the coolies. The Agrteaßdrial Report, Tho monthly report of the Department of Agriculture for October shows a fair aver age, taking all the cereal Rod root crons into the account. Tbe corn crop, in the Northern, Eastern Middle and Southern States was below the average, but west of the Missouri It was un usually large, TFftedf.—Had tjiesprlng wheatbeenequal to the winter, tbe crop would have been enormous. In the South tbe yield is un precedeDted/and taking the whole country over the crop is much'above the average. Cation.’— More than a million of acres were added to the cultivated era. and 2,750,000 bales is tbe estimated yield. OaAi.— Few of the States show less than ten per oent. increase, and tbe grain is gen erally of a superior quality. Bye.— The crop, upon the whole, is about an average. Barley.— The quality is generally good, and increase about 14 per cent. Buckur&at.—Tbl* 'orop Is loss than an average; except Id the New England and Northwestern States, - JPotaloet.— The orop is a failure in the Southern and Atlantic States as far as New York. The crop is a good one in New England, and unusually so in the West Sweet potatoes show a decrease. Tobacco.— But little over two thirds of a crop is anticipated. &yrgham.— The orop has failed to a con siderable extent. A slight increase is reported in the aggre gate number qf fattening cattle, os well as in their average condition. . The largest average amount of rain ‘fall for the month is reported from Mine&ots 9,72 inches, and the smallest averaged oau-’ lity in Illinois, 2.05 inches. The highest average mean tetoperatprewas in Florida. ■*% Ww «£in Mlfmesota' 69.1 degrees, except In Montana, whlchia reported at 61,4 degrees. •: ’ " mon 18 by : the defendants; acting as a Ylgiianna SggHfV l * lB <alcgad Shelboraand were bong op until almost, dead to ertort oonlMaloiiß 0 f oertaln, crimes, and Were then ordered to leayo the coutoy,' t emp, ° y A libel salt U pending against Ihe Dela wareooaniyDemocrat. - ;i .. Barite and Schuylkill oonnty bomcepathlo phyalclans hays organized an auodatlon for mutual benefit. . Poultry in HUltown, Bucks county, fa dying by the score." The chicken disease haa attacked them. „ Old Soulh Bethlehem, in Leblgb county, Northampton k It la aald that the black marble found at 1 - WUllamaport, la gralnlese, and la excellent: for utbograpb work.. . A young man,named Wllllame, while vfi»- itlng a-relative In Bedford county, ate raw cheennls and drank.cider until! bn killed himself* . A train on the Milford and Sawktll Rail road, Pike county, went down an embank ment last week. Three men woreol ll y Injured. . J totumema^ure^ofralSr' 1 10 8 ° ..Jacob Greenawalt, of Westmoreland cc.. p. into the muzzle of a loaded rifle, anu 4he.rifle blew into his bead, but did not kill him. “ Mao,” the noted horse presented to Gen. P-KSH? 5X a Mexican,.and by him presented to W. W. Smith, in the spring of 1867. ia dead. Professor Davis Garber, of tho Trappe has been chosen Professor of Mathematics' Physics, and Geology, in Muhlenberg College, at Allentown. b Luzerne county miners have drafted a ™,KtJ^i tho m l n o veutllalion, which they will attempt to get passed by the Legislature this winter. J The receipts of tbe'tbreo principal Agrl #k« Eastern Pennsylvania, Xi s wer6 m/oIIowb: Doylestown, fB,- 500; Allentown, $0,930; Reading, $0 205.55. The epidemic Is still raging among tho chickens in Middletown and surrounding townships. Some farmers have lost their ontire flocks. The congregation of Rev. T. H. Robinson or Harrisburg presented him with ftve hun dred dollars on Thursday as n thaukssrivioK present ° Two sportsmen of Lykens, Dauphin county, recently wont on a duokßhootlng excursion to Havre de Grace and returned with sixty-six canvas-backs, tho result of. two days* work. Tho Pennsylvania Railroad has erected snow fences along its lino between Phila delphia and Harrisburg, at all points where tho enow Is llnblo to drift into tho deep cut tings. Jacob Root was arrested in Philadelphia on Saturday, as a fugitive fromJUßtfce from, Easton, Pa., where, it ia alleged, he broke, jail about six weeks ago, while serving out, a sentence for horso stealing. Thore are four individuals now awniiiqgv execution in Pennsylvania, viz: JunW Field, of Lycoming; WlUluin A. Black, of Butler; Abraham Titus and Dr. Paul Schooppe, of Cumberland, Father O’Callahan, of Youngstown, Westmoreland county, startod for Rome u few days ago. Before he left, his pariah loners presented him with f 1,600 and a largo trunk ofclotbingand other accessaries. The anthracite coal trade for the past week has been fairly active, and though the sup ply from tho Schuylkill region Is 11,738' tons less than the previous week, the total tonnage for tho week shows an increaso ri 2736 tons. Recently the boose of Mr. David Obor near Churchvlile, Dauphin county, wiih forcibly entered by burglars,with the Intent of robbing tho boase. In defending their proporly Mr. and Mrs. Ober were severely injured. *■ Zachary J. Hockenbery, confined in But ler county jail, and soon to be hung for murder, made an attempt to escape last week, but was caught and held by a girl, antfl tflo sheriff came and fnstoned him up again. Berks County Commissioners objected; paying high charges for making post mor tem examinations. They resolve hereafter to pay no more than from *JO to $2O, unless in extraordiD&ry cases, when they will ex*- act an oath, to establish tho fact. James McClnskoy, who, aboQt a yea* ago, was convicted In the U. S. District Court of removing distilled spirits to a-placo other than a bonded warehouse, was on Saturday sentenced by Judge Caawalader In Philadelphia to pay a fino of $2OO and to undergo three months' imprisonment. The Postmaster General has made the* following postal changes; Jackßon Station „ Erie county—Mrs. S. A, Rice, vioe William J. Whiteford, resigned: Havelock, Wash ington county—J. B. Fife, vice Jos. Ewer, resigned; Chenango, Lawrence county— A. P. Shaffer, vice E. Carpenter, resigned* At the recent meeting of the Convention to take measures for erecting anew Odd. Fellows’ Hall, in Philadelphia, it was an nounced that fourteen lodges had sub scribed $lB,OOO. The lot on which it la pro posed to build is aituatcd.at the 8. E. corner »? roQdand Cherry streets, and the sum of $60,000 Is asked for it. There appeared to be at the meeting a determination not to allow the total cost to exceed $300,000. The Allentown (Pa.) Democrat has u no T®* way of donning delinquent sub scriberp, as witness the following: c Joo Lazarus, of Catosanqua, has been reading our paper since August 1, 1860, without paying for il. Would like to seo you corno down with $18,27, Josheph. If you don’t wo are going to make the best ‘local’ or you tbatonr readers have seen in a long time. So take your choice, Joe.” Applications have been received at tho Headquarters of the Stato Camp of Penn sylvania; and charters granted by the Ex ecutive Committee for two now chartorafor 5f e .-rri m ?? of two new Camps oi tho Patriotic Order, Sons of America; one to be located at Saxon, Bedford county, and another at Bhamokln, Northumberland county. This order is represented to be :in State” 1 " Bhl ° 8 CODdltlou throughout- tho The Delaware Breakwater oommeuced.so years sgo, has at last been completed. Moat of the stone entering into Its construction f a ?°i rom t , he Lpi Por Quarries, near Chea ter. From the year 1833, when the Break water was raised above tho surface of thu water, to the close of 1807, the following ves sels were sheltered flehlhd (he works: 2 660 J 1 ® 3 ® 6 ™,; 9 j ( ’, 53a , ehfps « 2‘°Bl barks, 11 l/(i hoone , re .> n ' 725 and vessel? lot k OOl3 ’ makln 6 total of 187,5j0 The Gtreenabarg Berate Rays that Mr. Nathan McGniw, of Bostraver totroahip, Weatmorelaud oounty, has an Bpple trad lD of his door which was planted In 17G7—one hundred and two years ago It la one of nineteen which hni o .^h n to J e !l tLo “oontalnsona puck horae the tall of that year and planted by D. Hammond. The ground was then known “ Pttr “. a °d the deer deslroy ' p ot this one. It is a sound heultby “7 f. et ' aod “PPenra to have yigo r enbugh to last another ceqtury. " * * * l Effects of lh© faro Storm. Later accounts of disasters by tho recant storm show loss ot life. Tho schooner-A-#- row was wrecked on Lnkb Michigan, naar Chicago on Tuesday, ond on the following night nor officers ond craw, eight In num. ber, were drowned whtle-jSying to tret ashore in a life-boat. A ach&ner wS; nsbore at Port Ontario on Thursday night and her crew are supposed to be loku F iT e lives were lost by the wreck of the brlc Cono °r<J. Detroit, on Lake Erie. It £ P r °^' e lhat further losses of life are to bo reported. Numerous vessels, principally schooners, aro raporlpd nahore*at yaHotfi points on the Lakes and along fhd Atlahtlp coast, and manV of thorn are total wreck'd. “PfPPoNcrTkomas A. Soott was wreck ed by striking areef in the Straits of Mack n,ighi; si)o w “ ™iue d at JSg, OOO , and a valuable cargo of profluoo and merchandise op board, No nvwaro believed to have been lost. 1 •** * cu A Large Number ot Workmen Burled Btnentti a Balldlnx* < • ; St. Louis, Nov. 19.—A large stone build- J n S at *iftnand Olive streets foil with a terrible crash this morning, burying a large number of workmen beneath its ruins. Six men were takep out seyerely Injured, and men are at work endeavoring ter reach thri others buried lfl the Tains. The wall of the buildings bad settled and the men were en gaged in shoving up a ooluran in the base ment when the accident occurred. Eight or ten men are supposed to be still in the rains. Druoken Hen out on and Shot b, ■ roVitfiy!. ce“ f . < f’“ dnc,,r - A *«n»?r About 10:80 last evening as car 13 of the areenpeint line was leaving tho depot on he down trip. Richard Cullln, a driver on I ‘°° wh ° was off duty at tho time, and “ an ’ both intoxicated, ateped on (o ride homewards. Shortly afterwards' ihu conductor tried to collect lb. fares, bat Onllen and bis friend refused to psy theirs and a dispute arose which ended by tbo randuotor stopping tho car at tho lnteraeo tion of Oreenpoint avenuo and Franklin street and batting the pair off. Cullen re sisted, whereupon the conductor drew a re volver and shot him In the stomach, wounding him mortally. Tho oondnotor Immediately pulled the boll, and the car drove rapidly down town. Cullen' wiis Ul ? °, re ® n P?tot police station, and police started after tne murderer, —JV. X. IOIiTV ’ w«wv tea,p i. to Blow up m JTall, 22.—Early this morq n«i? n was made to blow up tbo 1 Count y ai, » New Jersey, with gunpowder. A loud explosion took plaoe. windows were broken, surrounding tulld- i D n 8 w S re Bhiken and a great crack In tho r ? a^ ft 7 niD « e Th-attempt was frustrated. Suspicion rests on two notorious criminals confined there. Balog o VJ|lUqco CommKUfi, . Two men in Kentucky who J were hanged by a vigilance committee, but upon whom the work was not done very effectually, have oome to life and are suintf a dozari members of |he committee for »ixty.th6u sand dollars damages. This is a very unu sual case. "Vigilance committee" la now a common name for a sort of organization that commits murder gad does other vie? leuoe in the pame of the law and order f bat of ooareethe murder and violence touat be the Bame before the law, whatever names they are done In, aothatJf the half-hanged litigants get a yerdict in their favor there .will be a dear'case for the criminaloourta against the vigflants. ,
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