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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. ,