|Eatticaflta fatrißgawfl. "WEDNESDAY, DEC. 1, 1869. GREAT INDUCEMENTS. $3O fob 920. *To any ohft sending us $2O we will send FROM THE PRESENT DATE UNTIL JANUARY 1, 1872, FIVE COPIES of the Weekly Intelli gencer, worth at the subscription price to single subscribers, $lO, and FIVE COPIES of the “Hearth and Home,” a literary and farm journal of great ex cellence, published in New York, and edited by “ Ike Marvel ” worth at the regular subscription price to single sub acribers $2O, or $4 a copy. Each paper will be sent to a separate address, and a fine opportunity is pre sented for energetic men to make money in getting subscriptions. For every live copies of each paper they get subscribers for atthe 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 Bingle subscriptions, for 1 lesß than $2 and $4 per . annum respectively. Cheap Government. The English are just now crying out for a cheap government, and public meetings are being held at which this most Important question is agitated* The extravagance of the different de partments of their government is being freely discussed and openly criticised. It is to be hoped the popular agitation now going on in England may produce proper results. Cheap government is just what tlie American people now need even more than do their cousins oyer the water. The administration of our government is more costly than that of England, the extravagance of our public officials far greater, and the taxes under which all classes among us labor more oppressive than those endured by any other people in the world. The masses in our country feel the weight of the burthens which are im posed upon them, and they know that much of the money which is wrung from them is recklessly wasted, but there seems to be a remarkable apathy prevailing. The fierce excitement of the war wearied the people, and left be hind an indisposition on the part of many to contend for their rights. The assumptions of arbitrary powers so fre quently unnecessarily indulged in by the Federal Government confused the popular ideas upon the subjectof official responsibility, and, as a consequence, irregularities of conduct are not so promptly resented by the voters as they should be. The immenseexpenditures of money made during the war were submitted to as a matter of necessity, and the continuance of undue extrava gance has as yet failed to arouse the tax payers to a proper appreciation of the manner in which they are being robbed. That great reforms are imperatively demanded no one can deny. The vast army of salaried officials must be greatly reduced, and “ economy, retrenchment and reform,” ouce the watchwords of the Republican party, must again be made the rallying cry of the masses. A cheap government is what we now need. It can not be had by continuing in power those to whom extravagance and waste has become so necessary as it seems to be to the Radicals. The people will soon see this, and then we may expect to witness a complete revolution. A Bad Argument. Senator Sumner argues that the ne gro is our equal because our ancestors in Europe a thousand years ago were as degraded as heis now. Admittiugthis to be true, which it is not, it only dem onstrates the more forcibly the inferior ity of the negro. The white race has had the ability to elevate itself out of its degradation, but the negro race has not been able, notwithstanding the persevering assistance it has received from the white man, to advance its condition above that of its remote ances* try. The negro races of Africa are as barbarous and uncivilized to day as they were a thousand years ago. The white man has civilized himself. Tho Chinaman by au independent effort, unaided by us, has attained civiliza tion. But the negro is as ignorant and degraded as ever. The negro Is not the white man’s equal, and the latter is not called to admit him to a political equality with himself iu the hope that in the future, ifthe black man is fostered and cherished, he may be come the white man’s equal. We are under no obligation to submit to any such debasing alliance. Let the negro work out his own salvation, and when he has done it and has raised himself to our level, it will be time enough to talk of grautiug him political and social equality with us. But this feat he will never accomplish, for he is constitu tionally our inferior. Senator Sumner argues that because the white and black races had both their origin in God, that therefore they are equal. But that ar gument would provo too much, as if would demonstrate that a vegetable, which is also God’s creation, is equal to man, or that the slender vine was equal to the giant oak. Tiie scarcity of money, excess of im portations, aud the difficulty of dispos ing of the crops iu the West, at a profit to the farmers, are among tbe reasons given by mercantile men for the de pressed condition of business. Rumors of fuilures, aud of difficultiesin meeting monetary engagements, are common, and there are an unprecedented num ber of stores iu our large cities tenant less. Such are the results of Radical folly. The Grant administration instead of wisely conducting our National affairs ha 3 managed to involve tne nation in great financial difficulties. Poor labor ing men are thrown out of employment, while rich over-paid Radical office holders exact high taxes and live sumptuously. Iu the meantime one of the most prominent Radical Senators, Instead of devising the means whereby the impending financial difficulty can be solved is' now perambulating our State delivering a course of lectures iu which he eudeavors to prove that the negro is not only the equal but even the superior of the white man, Oun Thanks are du9 and hereby tendered to Messrs. P. Brehm, Sr., and A. Holzworth of Petersburg, East Hempfleld township, this county, for furnishing ua with the three missing copiesof the Weekly Intelligencer, which we advertised for last week to' complete our files. Also, to Mr. E. S. Killian, of Hinkle town, this county, for copies of the Sheriff Fry. Sheriff Fry retired on Saturday last from the official position of High Sheriff of the county,which he has filled for the past three years with native and unpre tending dignity, fairness, liberality and Integrity. He has made a good officer, and retires from office with the kindliest feelings of the entire Bar and cominus nity towards him. , A Kkj'Lbl/cajv State Convention as sembled in Richmond Jaat week. Chas. H, Porter was elected President, and on taking the chair he said, that if O.n greas did not apply some remedy the Republican party would soon he dead In Virginia. In ouroplnlon H is already 4ead and bur Jed, THE LANC ASTER ~W Hi S’.KT Y TNTELLIG-ENOER^WEDNESB AY, DECEMBER 1 1869. Forebodings of Financial. Troubles. The meeting of Congress is looked forward to with dread by the business men of the country. They expect to 8 see a renewal of that injudicious tam pering with the currency which has al ready been the cause of so much seri ous difficulty. Nearly every Radical politician of any note seems to think it necessary for him to broach an indi vidual theory for managing the finan cial affairs of the nation. What should be most free from legislation is the sub ject of the greatest amount of injudic ious tinkering. The insignificant in“ teUects, which make up the Babel that annually vexes the public ear in the halls of the National Capitol, have never yet comprehended the moat simple rules of political economy, The petty politicians, who have taken the places of our great statesmen, seem to suppose that their crude enactments will control and counteract the great laws of supply and demand which rule the trade of the whole world, and which are as imperatively binding on this na tion as if we had no Congress to set up futile edicts. It is safe to say that nearly as many financial theories will be proposed in the coming Congress as there will be speeches made on the subject, and these will be numbered by the score. There will be no concord of sentiment, no agreement of a party or of *a section. The East will not think with the West, and the North will not act with the South. The diversity of sentiment will be wide and irreconcilable. The advo cates of a speedy resumption of specie payments will meet fierce opposition from those who will demand an increase of the paper currency, and between these extremes a hundred shades ofiliy defined opinion will meet and mingle with an uncertainty and chaugeable ness eb varied as the shifting hues of a kaleideseope. Is it any wonder trade is stagnant and business of every description depressed, when the finances of the nation are com mitted to the keeping of men so utterly unreliable, and so generally ignorant of the great principles of political econo my. There is no security for the future. Business men know uotwhata day may bring forth. This uncertainty paralyzes enterprise, destroys public confidence, prostrates business of every kind, saps the vigor of trade, and puts a check upon all commercial activity. Thecrude and unwise financial legislation of.the past forbodes future disaster, and there is no telling how sood a crash may be precip itated. It iB no wonder the faces of merchants are long, not strange that the whole community feels the pressure of the present and dreads what the fu ture may speedily bring forth. The Chesapeake and Ohio Ball Hoad. Arrangements have been made with prominent New York capitalists, such as W. H. Aspinwall, Fisk & Hatch, C. p. Huntington and others, which in sure the raising of the necessary funds to complete this great Railroad through to the Ohio river. The heaviest work on it has already been done and trains are running through the Blue Ridge and Allegheny Mountains, to the White Sulphur Springs, the present terminus of the road. When completed it will conuect Richmond and Norfolk by a direct line of road with the great net work of Western railways, and will probably effect for the latter city that commercial supremacy which, it has long been predicted, its great harbor near the sea would some time or other obtain for it. The harbor alone has not been enough ; but harbor and railway together may reasonably be expected to have a magical influence towards erect ing Norfolk into a first class seaport. This Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad as far as it is at present completed, has been constructed in the most substantial audelegantmanuer. Tunnels have been lavishly built for the purpose of obtain ing a low grade, and consequently the gradient of the road when the tunnels and bridges are all made, will nowhere exceed 29 feet to the mile, which will be far less than that of any one of the great railroads to the north of it con necting the Atlantic seaboard with the Western plains. Stagnation In Business. Tho New York correspondent of the Philadelphia Ledger says : City trade of all deserip'dons continues very dull, and from present appearances, llie prospect of improvement is not very flattering. The steady decliue in tbe gold premium has the effect to persuade buyers to defer purchases. Iu the expectation that still lower rates will be attained, while the corresponding shrinkage of every descrip tion of merchandize that has been imported on a gold basis, without any busiuess even with the shrinkage, causes a feeling of al most universal depression among the mer chants. But few of them are making any money, and it is not putting the case too strongly to say, that a majority of them will bo satisfied il they can but hold their own at tho close of the year. It is more thau probable that, if gold con tinues to run down much farther, some of the large dry goods houses iu Broadway will “let go” at gold prices, rather than hold on any longer in expectation of a reaction that may never come. In that event tbe smaller houses wfili have to follow , suit. This contingency was earnestly discussed in tho counting rooms to day. The same state of affairs exists in Philadelphia. The Ledger in its finan cial article says: “The business in the city in every walk and of every character is exceedingly dull. A languor aud distrust of the future seems to pervade every department of traffic. The tendency of all prices being downward it is next to impossible to realize profits, conse quently, in the absence of opportunity to make money, resort must be had to the next best thing—to save money.” So it is throughout the country.— Everywhere there is a stagnation of trade and a gloomy apprehension of what the future may bring forth. IVliat tlie Government Costs, The following is an official statement of receipts and expenditures of the United States Government during the fiscal year ending June 30, ISG9 : Customs Lands Direct tax Internal revenue, Miscellaneous Total recciptB,i-xchv?;vM ofloanp, (>.47l,o(ji .v; Interior, PL-UHiousund ludLiu •M.oTHoM si War ts-o 'I inn) til Interest, on llu* public debt Ihij 001 “42 fc ) Pruuium on 7-'tU Treasury notes.. ':;u/i'irj co Premium on bonds purclmsed In uccouutofsinking lund 1,371 two 05 Total expenditures exclusive of princlp.il of public debt j,"77 mi Principal of public debt ‘Jol’ol2^7lS 31 Total expenditures. No Democratic administration ever cost so much as the eighty four odd millions which follow the figure five in the above vast total. The difference is perceptible at a glance, and tbe five hundred millions of increaae tells how the Radicals keep their promises of re trenchment, economy and reform, Let the taxpayers look at tkejfigurcß. Virginia Radicals. The Radical party of Virginia has split into two miserable little factions. The majority voted an address to Con gress declaring the recent election “a Confederate triumph, achieved by in timidation and fraud, the secret of the Republican defeat being the submission to a separate vote of test oath and dis franchisement clauses.” The minority were not willing thus to condemu Grant, and they seceded. The majority ask Congress to order a new election under strong military restrictions, the minority, among whom are a couple of carpet-bag Congressmen are opposed to this. The result is a complete separa tion of the leaders of the now powerless and dying Radical party in old Vir ginia. We have no tears to aV-d over such a result. Wjiat'h in a name? George Wash ington was yesterday sentenced to im prisonment In the Washington jail for stealing a barrel of cider. Will Grant be Renominated? Ifcis perfectly well understood that: Grant is an aspirant for re-election.—r Daring the late Gubernatorial canvass, in this State,-Simon Cameron formally! renominated him in a speech which he made at Harrisburg, and BoutweU and Delano gave the people of Pennsylva nia distinctly to understand that their chief would again be a candidate in 1872. That there will be serious opposition to Grant in the ranks of the Repub lican party is as certain as that he will be an aspirant for the renomination. — The best and wisest men of the party which elected him are disgusted with his conduct and ashamed of his actions. The apparent and notorious want of ca pacity in civil life which he has exhibited; bis greedy acceptance of presents of every description; his undisguised nepotism, so constantly and so- improperly displayed in the ap pointment of his poor relations to re sponsible positions which they are un fitted to fill; his avoidance of the duties of his high office and his constant jun ketings about at the fashionable water ing places of tho country ; his failure to announce or to follow any judicious policy in regard to foreign or domestic affairs —all these, and many other bars, will be set up against his renomination by certain leading men of the Republi can party. He was originally accepted by them, not as their choice, but as a political necessity, and they are sick and tired of him. Some of the leading Republican journals are already speak ing out boldly against his renomination. The New York Sun says : Too experience of the Republicans with Grant has been such as to give them a dis trust of shoulder-straps in civil office; and even if he should now forsake his follies and make a sensible and successful ad ministration, be can hardly recover, either for himself or for other statesmen of mili tary education, the confidence he bus for feited. It must not be supposed, however, that Grant will abandon his aspirations without a desperate struggle. He Iras, allowed himself to be openly and for- ’ mally put forward as a candidate for re-election, and vanity, pride and self iuterest will all urge him to the most desperate efforts to secure that upon which he has set his heart. He has found the Presidency to be a profit able a 3 well us an exalted posi tion. Tho many rich presents he has received have gratified his cu pidity, and he will not give way to another without making a vigorous fight. He has au almost numberless army of officeholders under him, every one of whom will be busy in the selec tion of delegates to the next Republican. National Convention. Their name is legion, and their combined power is enormous. That Grant can, through, the agency of this übiquitous force, every man of whom is dependent upon him, so pack the next Radical Conven tion as to insure his renominatioD, we regard as almost absolutely certain. — That this will be done against the earn est protest of many of the best, the ablest and the most honest and patri otic men of the Republican party, we have no dekibt, and that there will be great dissatisfaction with the result, is just as certain. These considerations should all be early taken into account by tho De mocracy. If they should display a proper degree of sagacity in the adop tion of a platform and the selectionof a candidate, they can defeat Grant as easily in 1572 as any other man who may be named by the Radical office holders. We must not throw away our chances of success as we did at Chicago in 1804 and in New York last year. The Credit llobllier Case. For some days past the Court of Dau phin county has beeu busy with a case of more than ordinary importance. The defendant in the trial is a corporation created under an act of our Legislature. As such it was entitled to certain privi leges and liable to certain burthens. The corporation was established in IS-59, under the name and title of the Penn sylvania Fiscal Association, and by a later act the name was changed to that of the Credit Mobilier of America, the present name of the company. The company paid the taxes assessed against it by the authorities of Pennsylvania up to November, ISG7, when it ceased, and refused to pay. About the first of last June a statement of the liabilities of the company to the Htate for taxes and penalties was prepared, which showed an apparent liabilty to the amouut of $2,820,000. This claim .was exhibited to the officers of the corporation, and their attention called to it. The officers came to Harrisburg, and at their requests re-settlement was made, and a credit given to the com pany 0f52,290,453.13, leaving still due to the State $529,540.87, $481,401.26 of which is for tax on capital stock for the year ending November ISOS, and the balance for penalties attached to failure to make the returns required by law. For this sum of over $-520,000 suit was instituted by the Commonwealth in the courts of Dauphin couuly. The case was stubbornly contested. E. M. Stan ton uud R. C. McMurtrie, E?qs., being retained for defendants, and the At torney General, assisted bv L. W. Hall, Esq., appeared for the Commonwealth. Kx-Secretary Stanton was prevented from attending by ill-health. The de fendant claimed nud tried to show that the profits set down to the Credit Mobi lier of America were not the profits of the Company, but of individual mem bers thereof, and therefore not liable to taxation. . Auoiher point raised by the defense was that -1 one of the declared dividends was worth less thau it was represented to be when declared. The plaiutifT held, and the court so ruled that the Credit Mo bilier was directly or indirectly liable to the tax and penalties, inasmuch as it was proven that the profits were realiz ed. In case of the value of dividends it it svas held that this matter might be taken into consideration by the jury, which was done, and a verdict rendered in favor of the commonwealth for the sum of $407,533.39. Such are the facts of this important case, as we glean them from the Harrisburg papers. The de fendant asks for a new trial, and that motion will be argued next week. • SIS I G til •i.o u,;ih :>j 7G.j-.s-, hi . ].j\;t.",G,.)tuj sij . KID 77 “ Am I My Brother’s Keeper ? ” Schuyler Colfax has made a temperance speech in Baltimore, in which he un equivocally auswers Cain’s inquiry in the affirmative and plainly intimates that he is going to take Grant in hand and keep him from his cups, even if he has to lock him up iu the Baltimore Inebriate Asylum, aud thus relieve him from a living death worse than the death of the tomb. He says that no mau is fit to be in public life who uses intoxicating drink, and for one he has turned his back on it forever. Whether Grant will consent to be “kept” by this baby-kissing advocate ofcold water, and give up his bold on the public teat and the exhilerating bottle, remains to be seen. si.?;:,yyj n Judge black, The company owning the railroad at the South, on which Judge Black was injured last summer, has been called upon to pay a doctor bill of £-5,000 for medical attendance. This the com pany refuses to do, but is ready to pay tbe amount to tbe Judge. Wo learn that the Judge has no use of his right arm yet, and that it is likely to remain permanently crippled. He has already acquired the art of writing well with his left band. The latest reliable information from Cuba represents the revolution to be rapidly declining, Tbe insurgents hold not a single town on the island, and seem to be doing nothing except wan tonly burning, up the sugar cane iu the fields. Family Jars* The Radical editors of this city are; now-engaged in showing up the char acters of each other.: Th Abra ham- hinted, very strongly that the Inquirer whs engaged in printing ob scene pamphlets for certain parties in the larger cities. To that charge the Inquirer replies with the emphatic declaration that the only obscene sheet ever issued from its establishment was the Father Abraham, which it printed for a while, Other personalities are bandied back and forward between the parties, and so far the Inquirer man seems to have the beßt of the battle. The Examiner and the Express are at it, hammer and tongs, and if what they say of each other is to be believed the Rapublicansof Lancaster county arede* pendent for their political reading upon a set ofgraceless scamps. The Examiner goes for the Express in the following fashion: The Express, judging from its remarks on our State Treasurer article, baa evident ly been “seen” and fixed for General Irwin for State Treasurer, and tbe ‘ seeing ’ editor of that paper evidently thinks that the editor of tbe Examiner should be “ seen ” with tho view of fixing him also, or he might say something which might make the support of the Express on its favorite ground of honesty appear a little weak. It was scarce ly necessary for the Express man thus to advertise himself as on the “make.” The Inquirer and certain “ dealers ” have long since satisfied the public mind on that ques - tton, and his effort to libel the Examiner in order to make his own infamy the more re spectable will deceive no one. This is about as convenient an occasion as we are likely to have, to “ make a lew I remarks ” in reply, on this subject of “see ; ing ” and “ fixing,” or in other words buy j ing us for our support of candidates for i office. We decided many years ago that no fman should ever secure our individual or : editorial support for any office for money, ! and we have that one proud satisfaction { now, that no man, in the county or out of it, I that wo ever supported or aided to get an ] office, ever paid us one dollar. We know 1 we are many thousands of dollars thepeor ! er for it. Whatever else we may have done, 1 wo never charged a friend, or supported an enemy for money. We have helped to office—Sheriffs, members of the Legislature and Keepers of the County Prison, and no , “loan” not returned, or strait “purcha.-e money ” ever swelled our wallet. Cau the i editor of the Express say as much? If he j can, he is as much lied about, as he is try ing to belie us. The charges against the Express, which are thus plainly made by the Examiner , are commonly current, and can be heard on the street among any knot of Republican politicians. The allegations are of a serious character, and they ought to be met by our neigh bor. The position in which ike Express is thus put is a most unenviable one.— Nothiug more discreditable could besaid of it. The newspaper editor who makes his paper the means of levying black mail upon his political friends is a dis j grace to an honorable profession. If the 1 editor of the Express is guiltless of the I charge he should call his accusers to j account. j We do not know what estimate tho j Republicans of Lancaster county may ! put upon their local newspapers, but certain it is that they do tell hardstories of each other. If they are half as cor rupt as they charge each other with ■ being, we do not see how any one of them listobe trusted or believed. The best I thing the people of this county can do is to quit taking any one of them, and to subscribe for tlie Intelligencer, the only live newspaper, and the only hon est political journal published in Lan caster. The Spanish Gunboats The libeliugof the thirty gunboats at New York created a fierce but tem porary excitement in Wall street, and gold went up, only to fall again when the matter was understood. It appears that the movemeut was madeat the in stance, and on the affidavit of a repre sentative of tlie Peruvian government. There seems to be no likelihood that any complication with Spain will spring out of the transaction. The President was bound to listen to the complaint of the representative of the Peruviau government, and, if it can be shown that the gunboats are designed for use against Peru, or any government with which we are at peace, they would be liable to condemnation under act of Congress. But they cau not lawfully be detaiuedif Spain should give satisfac tory assurances that they will not be so employed. So long as Cuba continues to be a province oi Spain, and until wo recognize the revolutionary government now attempted to be set up, we could not object to the building within our limits of boats lobe used by the Spanish Government against iU rebellious sub jects. Such being the case our Govern ment will feel compelled to release the libeled boat 3 so soou as Spain gives satisfactory assurances in regard to Peru. The Spanish government will not ap pear as a defendant in our Courts, but the contractors who built the boats will assume that character. The contractors are auxiutis to get them out for the purpose of delivering them and re ceiving their pay. The warlike ru mors that prevailed for a moment are represented to be tho merest sensational stories, and it is pre dicted that the guuboats will speed ily be released aud handed over to those who contracted for their construction. We notice that certain newspapers are calling loudly for the instant recogni tion of Cuban independence. We fancy Graut will not be in sogreat a hurry as these hot heads would have him to be. The status of the Revolutionists is cer tainly not such as to demaud recogni tion at present. The Methodist Book Concern The committee to investigate the charges of alleged losses and frauds in the New York Methodist Book Concern have reported ti at in their judgment the general management has been such as to merit approval and command the confidence of the denomination. They admit that there are evidences of loss and mismanagement iu the bindery. The report is denounced by some of the newspapers as a piece of artistic white washing. A bill authorizing the construction of a railroad Troni Cincinnati through Eastern Tennessee lias just passed the Legislature of that State. It will open up a new aud shorter route from tbe great West to the South, and will not only build up the section of the country through which it passes, but will be come one of the mostimportant lines of trayel in the country. Nearly all the stock necessary to complete it has al ready beeu subscribed. • The opening of the Suez Canal will be apt to revolutionize the carrying trade between Europe and India and China. England has long had the monopoly of it with its clipper ships, but as the trade will now be conducted by way of the Mediterranean and the Red Seas in steam vessels it seems like • ly that French vessels will supercede the English. Freights from England via the Cape of Good Hope have already fallen much below the old rates. The so-called speck of war, which sensational journals professed to see in the Spanish gunboat affair, has blown over. No protest has been made by the Spanish Minister, as at first reported, and the coutest is admitted to be con fined to the contractors and the U. S. authorities. It is not supposed that the boats will be long detained, as it is gen erally conceded that there is no author ity for doing so. It is refreshing to read the Republi can papers and note the affection ex isting between the respective editors. The Examiner charges the Express with levying black mail. The Express denounces the Examiner as the cham pion of a ring of thieveß. Father Ab raham charges the Inquirer with printing and binding obscene publica tions. The Inquirer retorts by calling lather Abraham an unprincipled liar and slanderer. Verily these champions of “great moral ideas” have a strange way of showing up each others excel lencies. Hie Express on Ike New York Sun, - The Express very fooUshly argues that the New York Sun is notf a Repub lican newspaper, becauie, forsooth, ifc exposes the weakness and the follies of General Grant. Does the Express inr tend to read every newspaper and every individual out of the party who may, in the exercise of a manly spirit of in dependence, criticise the conduct of the president ? If it should do so the party would be more than decimated. By the same rule which itapplies.tothe&m.the Express can be proven to be no Republi can newspaper. Ourneighbor has repeat edly assailed members oNts own party who held positions of trust and profit. Is it, therefore, to be ranked as what it isfond of styling the Sun, a‘Copperhead newspaper?” If not, why not? Its offence is identical in spirit with that which it charges upon one of the most influential Republican newspapers in the country. The Sun is universally so ! recognized, notwithstanding it refuses I to belie its claim to honesty, and to sac-* ! rificeall pretensions to truthfulness by I indulging in indiscriminate and ful some adulation of Grant. It treats him j as it finds him, and exposes his blun ; ders and follieswiththatfreedom which I should characterize au independent journal; but it is none the less a lead- I ing, Radical Republican newspaper — i and very well the Express knows that. Tax on Market Men. The many farmers, aud others who are in the habit of attending market in our city, and thus disposing of their produce, are interested in a recent de cision of the Commissioner of Internal Revenue. It appears from the following letter, addressed to tho Assessor of Wil mington, Delaware, that all who make a business of selling produce on market are liable to be regarded as produce brokers and taxed accordingly. The letter to which wereferreadsas follows: “Your letter of the 4th inst., inquiring ‘it farmers who go to market regularly twice a week and sell their product'from tbe curb stone along tbe market at any place they cau find not already occupied, should be regarded as produce brokers, and required to pay special tax as such. Farmers are exempt from special tax when selling their produce at tho place of production or in tbo manner of peddlers, but selling at tbe mar* ketplace, even though a different stand or station is taken every day, is not soiling in the manner of a peddler. The farmer who is in the habit of going to the market place regularly twice u week and selling in the manner above indicated, thus makes it his business so to sell, and should be required to pay special tax accordingly.” Those who are interested will please take notice and govern themselves ac cordingly. It is said that an attempt will be made at the approaching session of Congress to reduce the ratio of federal representation with a view to the in crease of the number of Representatives. The argument in favor of such a course is, that the constituencies are now so large as to prevent members from at tending to all their demands without employing clerks. That they cau attend to all requests, which can be complied with in person, is an undeniable fact; the truth is the time of members of Congress is taken up in boring foroffices for political friends and hangers on. If they dispense with this work, the rest can readily be attended fo during tho session. The Woman’s Suffrage Convention, The advocates of female suffrage have finally constituted a national organiza tion, and elected Henry Ward Beecher President ©f the Association. A resolu tion was adopted declaring that no dis tinction should bo madein theselection of officers of the Association between men and women. The convention which has been in session at Cleveland for some days then adjourned. The old set of agitators were present. Excitement lu tnc Treasury Department at Wah Illusion. Washington, Nov. 28, IB6o.—There was quite an excitement in the Currency and Printing Bureau of the Treasury last night. Late in the evening it was discovered that $750 in fractional currency was missing.— The alarm was sounded, a search com menced, high and low,-but no trace of the sum could be found. The discovery was made iu what is called the separating room, to which the packages of currency are brought from the drying room after counting and comparing. After they reach the separating room they are again counted and compared before being separated, and it was during thin examination of the sheets that tbe fact of $750 being missing became known. Superintendent McCartee, finding that au ordinary search was not successful, wus obliged to order that each person iu Lhe separating room, male and female, should be examined, A highly respectable lady was employed to search all the females, and the men were taken to another department, where they were compelled to undergo the same rigid overhauling. The young girls were literally obliged to take themselves apart. Dresses, petticoats, waterfalls and every article of their attire were stripped ofl*, but no currency discovered. Notwith standing all tho searching aud hunting no trace of the missing money was found. In the meantime, while all this was going on inside, a crowd of the friends of the girls were wailing on the street, won dering what could be the matter that kept the employees locked up In the treasury so far beyond the usual .hour. It was fully eleven o’clock last night before’tho girls were released and allowed to go home. I am informed that this morning the missing currency was found in the drying room, where it hud remained through a mistake in counting. The packages ai e put up in one thousand sheets, separated by slips of paper into tea one hundred divisions, and the counter last night instead of counting tbe ten divisions only counted nine, which were sent to the separating room in that condition. Tit * Dccliue’lu Price of Coni. Them, .rue! . _“oal tradefor tho past week was (pii although parties interest ed in it ... t a little astonished by the jq exaiuph i decline in the prices of coal at the last public sale by the Scranton Company. The average falling off was about one dol lar per ton. There are various causes as signed fur this. Coal producers, interested - in keeping up prices, ascribe tbe decline to tne waul ofg-.od faith toward buyers ou tbe part of sellers at the public sales, fail ing, as j. eburged, to make satisfactory de livery of the coal, in consequence of which buyers l.ceume disgusted, and refused to bid at lhr» lan* sal *. Consumers, who nat urally favor low prices, ascribs tbe deelne to the fact Lhut the coal production is equal to tbe demand, and that prices, which havo been arbitrarily udvauced during the sum mer and fall, can now, near the end of the eea-sou, be so mninlaiued no longer. - The truth as to tbecause ofthe decline probably lies between tho two reasons here assigned. As yet there has been no material change in the prices in this city since tbe public sale of Scranton coal. The production for the past week was quite large, and in ex cess of that ofthe previous week. The Read iug Railrua 1 leports u tonnage for the week ending on tbe 25th insf, of 126.213 tons, against 122,086 tons the previous week, and for tbe year 4,147,381 tons against 3,523,099 tons to the same time in 18GS.au Increase of (!2-1,252 ton.--. Tne Schuylkill Navigation Company shipped for the past week 2G,20G i tons against 23,540 tons the previous week, j and tor the season (MG 31G tous against 910, ! Gl5 tons to the corresponding lime in 1868, a decrease of 300,279 tons. Tho entire ton nage of the week reported by all the several carrying companies was 395,57U0us agaiuat 394,744 tons the previous week, and for the year 12,998,771 tons against 13,350,978 tons to tbe same time la<*t year, showing a de crease this year of 358.207 tons. The increase | iu the production of bituminous coal over last year is estimated at about 600,000 tons, ! making tho year’s production of the two ■ kinds of coaJ, anthracite anti bituminous, i nearly a quarter of a million of tons iu ex’ i cess of their production lust year. These 1 figures show an active production, aud il 1 will probably cuntiuue.tu Ibeend ofthe sea son although there were differences last ! week between miners and operators in ad- j justing a basis for wages, tbit for a timo I threatened a strike. Tbe Oldest Inhabitant. There is a man living in the town of 0.4- sipee, iu Now Hampshire, named Joshua Kanuock, who is, according to the best in formation, 160 years of age. He is extreme | ly imbecile, and takes the simplest kind of *° p °d; He 111076(110 Ossipee from the State of Maine some thirty years ago. He is a native of Scotland, where he lived until he was about forty years of age. He married and lost his wife in bis native country. He had one daughter, who came to this coun try, and with whom and her descendants he has resided eversince. The family who have tbe care of him now are middle aged people, and are his descendants in the fifth generation. He served in theold French war was with Rogers in his campaign up about Lakes George and Champlain, and on his retunr recollects seeing Governor Shirley and his secretary, William Alexander, near Albany. He was also oat id the Revolu tionary war, and his recollections are quite distinct as far back as that. He speaks of Colonel Aaron Burr as being a young, smart ’officer about New York; also of seeing Washington and Lafayette, and especially recollects Colonel Alexander Hamilton as one of Washington’s aids, and that he used occasionally to bring orders to the officer in command. He has used tobacco from his youth, and has probably chewed and smokedmorethanatoninhlslifetime. He says ho thinks it has hurt him, and that its use will shorten his life many years. Sr* David Llvlagstonf* At a meeting in London on November Btb, of tho Royal .Geographical Society, Sir Roderick I. Murchison produced) and. caused to be read, a letter dated July, 1868, writtefi by Livingstone, the African Ex plorer, to Lord Clarendon. This letter gives ah-nccount of Livingstone’s gravels since February, 1867, the last previous date on which he bad written to ms friends in Eng land. In July, 1868, Livingstone being near Lake Bangweolo, South Central Africa, expressed in the letter his belief that the chief sources of the Nile are situated be tween 10 and 12 degrees south latitude, or nearly in the position assigned by Ptolemy, tbe famous ancient geographer. The source of the Nile, Livingstone asserts, is not from one lake, but from over twenty. Another letter dated Ju)yBth, 1868, addressed to Dr. Kirk, Consul at Zanzibar, contains a con densed statement of the geography of the country, and intimates that Livingstone in tended-to proceed down the Luulaba to ascertain its exact locality. Livingstone, in his letter to Lord Clarendon, states that only one of his attendants had consented to remain with him, the others“being all tired of Ibis everlasting tramping.” On account ofthe Inundations, Livingstone was obliged to travel in the lightest marching order, taking nothing but the most necessary in struments, and no paper except a couple of note books and his Bible. On unexpectedly falling in with a party bound for the coast, he borrowed paper from the Arabs, and his communications to his friends were neces sarily limited, and confined to the brief space famished by the strips obtained by mere chance. The letter to the British Con sul at Zanzibar reached that point in Sep tember, 1869, over a year after it had been written, and the information therein con tained was published in the Ledger of No vember stb. It may be remembered that iu IhQ Ledger of November Bth it was an nounced thatlater, bat indirect information of Livingstone had been received. An Au gust 29th, 1869, an Arab caravan nrrived at Zanzibar, bringing a letter dated June 12tb, 1869, from the Arab Governor of Anyay embe, in the country of Anyamwezi, to his brother, at Zanzibar. This letter contained the following postscript: “Be good enongh, when the slave returns, to send a box of brandy, similar to that wnicb came for the white man, one of which was broken on the way, so that none remained. And he (the • while man) has reached Ujiji and may pass , this way, and on his coming we will give it to him. Do not neglect this. [Dated 4th ; Rabin-el Awful, 1286] (12lh June, 1869.”) , The “ white man ” was supposed to be Dr. ( Livingstone, and members of the caravan stated that the native messenger who saw him at Ujiji was one month in travelling t , from that point to Anyayembo. It was iu i ; ferred from this intelligence that Living . ! stone was at Ujiji In the beginning of May. ’ i 1569. In confirmation ot the report that ) | Livingstone was at Ujiji in May, 1569, it l | may be mentioned that in his letter to Lord > Clarendon of July, 1868, he sayß that he had • attempted to reach Ujiji, where he had ) goods and letters awaiting him, but when . within thirteen days’ travel of langaupika, • he was brought to stand >llll by the super i abundance of water in front. Philadelphia > Ledger. 'itiomas Waghorn. On November 20, a monument was erect ed on the Isthmus of Suez to tbe memory of Lieutenant Thomas Waghorn, of the English navy, who first proposed the estab lishment of a mail route to India by way of the Mediterranean and Red seas. Waghorn, who was on duty in the East, in 1627, de vised the project of communication by steamers aud by land transportation across tbe Isthmus of Suez, but the authorities of tbo British Postoffice and of tho East India Company did not believe/the plan to be practicable. At last, in 1829, Lord Ellen borough, President of the Board of Central India, gave a quasi epdorsement of the project, and directed to proceed with despatches thrqugfi Egypt to Bombay, ordering an English steamer to meet him at .Suez. On reaching Suez the steamer bad not arrived, and Waghorn, taking an open boat, sailed down tbe Red Sea, with out a chart or compass, He arrived at Jed dah, C2B miles distant, in six and a half days, and thence took ship to Bombay.— Encouraged by this partial success, Wag horn continued his exertions, and was en abled to complete the overland route full three years before it was adopted by the British Government. Waghorn built hall* ing places and established hotels in the desert between Cairo and Suez, supplied carriages and vans, placed small steamers on the canal of Alexandria, und on the ' Nile, and suitable steamers on the Red Sea. He personally superintended the transportation of the India mails from IS3I to 1831. He proposed to the Pacha the buildiugof a railroad from Cairo to Suez, and proved a saving of thirteen days to be possible by embarking at Trieste instead of through France. The prosecution of this line, however, ruined his fortune. The British Government, ashort time before his death, in 1850, granted him a pension, of which he lived to receive the first quar terly payment only—dying in the 491 h year of his age, worn out by exposure and anxious labor. The Peninsular and Ori ental Steamship Company added a small amount to this pension, which was not con ferred until after Waghorn had given his unrequited toil to England and India lor twenty years. Before Waghorn’s time the mail was four, five, and sometimes six months in passing round the Cape of Good Hope to India, but he reduced the time to as many weeks. De Lesseps, the engineer of the Suez Ca nal, with unusual generosity, has given his testimony as to the value of Waghorn’s euergy and unconquerable perseverance, aud their influence upon his own labors. The monument to Waghorn has been erect ed chiefly through the exertions of De Lesseps,— Phil'a. Ledger, The Income Tax* The New York Hun takes General Grant to task on learning that be intends to recom mend the re-enactment of tbe law impos ing the inquisitorial and odious income tax. It says: The income tax was imposed at a tune of the greatest danger thiscountry has ever known. Tbe people did not like.it, but they submitted to it for tbe sake of National safety and success. The law was univer sally regarded as a war measure, or it nev er could have been passed ; and the 119th section of the act itself contains a most em phatic pledge that the tax on income should cease with the ww. It says : '• “ Anti be it further enacted, That tbo taxes on incomes herein imposed shall be levied on the first day of March, and be due and payable on or before the thirtieth day of April in each year, until and including the year eighteen hundred and seventy, and no longci'.” Now, when President Grant began his administration, he appointed Mr. Stewart, Secretary of the Treasury, in total igno rance of the law which forbade that gentle man to accept the place. We should hope that a similar want of information might not mislead the President in regard to the income tax. It is by no meaus certain, however, that knowledge will teach him wisdom in this case any more than it did then. He began by requesting the repeal of n law which had stood on the statute book fifty years, in order that his personal friend und pecuniary benefactor might take office under him. It would not be very surprising, therefore, were he now to advise Congress to violate the solemnly pledged faith of tbe nation. But should he do this, he will commit an enormous wrong. We have shown that in tho internal revenue act which contains the provisions relating to the income tax, tbe national Legislature promised the people that the tux should cease to bu levied after 1870. “ Until and including the year eighteen hundred and seventy, and no longer ,” are tbe words. Instead of a recommendation from tbe President that the law, be reenacted, it would be his duty, in case Congress should vote to continue it. to veto tbe bill. Tho Government of the United States, powerful as it is, must not bo at liberty to disregard its pledges to tho people, just because those pledges wore made five'or six years ago. No statute of limitations runs against tbe public, by which tlie rulers of the land cau escape* the just performance of their prom ises. So high is the public estimate of ihe im portance of national honesty, that all our recent elections have pronounced the doom of the policy which had for its basis the re pudiatiou of the natioual debt. The peopl * insist on the fulfilment of every obligation growing out of the war, although proportion of the debt is owing to foreigners. Can they do this, and at the same time per mit the Government to break faith with tbe public here at home? We think not, and President Grant, in advocating the renewal of the income tax, advocates repudiation of the nation’s promises just as clearly as do those who ask us not to pay the national debt. Interesting: from Rome,—Cnnoniza lion, Ac. A Roman correspondent of a New York journal, writiog under date of November Gtb, says ; “ His Holiness has ordered ‘acts’ to be prepared for the canonization of Eugenius 111. and Urban V. Eugemus is the Pope to j whom St. Bernard, in the twelfth century ! addressed bis famous treatise, “De Con sideratione,’ in which he advised the re nouncement of the temporal power. Eu genius died at Tivoli on the 7th of July 1153, and is buried in the vaults of tho Vat ican. As soon as the process is taken out for canonization, the tomb will be opened and the faithful will bo admitted to adore his remains. Urban V. was one of the Avignon Popes, and, though he made a fiy* ing visit to Home passed his pontificate under tbe «Jgis and on the soil of France. “Pius IX. has been persuaded by the Jesuit fathers to prepare a bull which, in case of his death during the Bitting of the council, shall make known the meats which he wishes to be carried out, and his instructions for the government of the church. “The Holy Father Is in expectation of a visit from Queen Isabella of Spain, who proposes to come here to attend the coun cil. Both hia Holiness and Cardinal An tonelli are mnch disturbed at Ihe prospect, feeling it will be impossible to deny the fallen monarch the honors paid to a sover eign, aud fearing this may lead to compli cations with the de facto government of SpaiD. The Regent Serrano Is now looked upon as a good Catholic, and the Court of Rome wishes to avoid any ground of offense; and, indeed, to enter into more friendly relations with him. The Spanish subsidy is of very great importance to' the Pope, and the Regent has not only con tinued it, but has made payments in ad vance, which the government of Queen Isabella was never in a position to do. Butler’s "SUvenaie” Exploits. The reported arreet or Sen. Butler in New York. .for nne of his transactions in this city, in the way of appropriating privnto property, may result inplacing on record proofs of one of the many charges which have been made against him. The account is confused, the persons are improperly de scribed, and the snm is greatly exaggerated. Bat there was a case In which the family mentioned are said to have been despoiled of silverware and other property by violent acts of Gen. Butler; and it is inferred, from the institution of the charge in New York, that it has been ascertained that a portion of the articles did not reach the public treas ury, but has been traced to the possession of Gen. Butler. The outlines of the Twiggs case, as popu larly believed; are these: Before tho fall of the city Gen. Twiggs, who had been in command of the city for the Confederates, had resigned, from age, aggravated by acute disease, and be had been carried away from the city in a failing condition. He died shortly afterwards, leaving an infant son who, in right of his mother, was the owner of Lhe fine, large house iu which General Twiggs had lived. Before he left, the Gen eral made dispositions of articles of personal property os presents-to friends, and de posited others in places of security, appre hending that sort of spoliation which did come. Gen. Buffer, after his arrival, and when Gen. Twiggs was dead, took posses sion of the house of Gen. Twiggs as his headquarters. Everything in the house was appropriated to the uses of the General, his staff and the coterie of males and females he gathered abont him, in those nightly feasts, for which the place became notea. This appropriation included the clothes and jewelry of the married daughter of Gen. Twiggs, wife of an absent Confederate offi cer. Desiring to state the case moderately, we forbear reporting the scenes in which, and sort of persons to whom these trophies were exhibited, or the distribution which is said to have been made of the spoils. Not satis fied with the contents of the bouse, as he found them, Gen. Butler instituted inquisi torial searches after supposed articles ot furniture and pieces of property which he was informed Gen. Twiggs had caused to be removed before he left the city. Geu. Butler bad taken into his own service a negro servant of Gen. Twiggs ; and, under his direction, sent his military subordinates nil over tho city hunting for stray articles in every corner, which his negro confidant pointed out, as a likely place of deposit for anything that had belonged to Gen. Twiggs. In this way he got a good many housekeep ing articles, table and bed linen, etc., which have never re-appeared in any list of re stored property ; and, like the $50,000 gold of Smith Co., will not be found .mentioned in any return to the Government of tbo proceeds of captured property. Some of the valuables of the house, as the proceeds of :his foraging, may have been found in 1 Lowell. The city gossip abounds with anecdotes of the eagerness with which But ler prosecuted the search, and the brutality wilh which he assailed and browbeat every body suspected of haying anything which had ever belonged to the dead old Confed ■ erate officer. Butler hud a great passion for taking the ! sword-- of dead men, as military trophies : | witness the breaking open of Sidney John ston’B tomb, and exploring the coffin, hop ing for a sword ; and his sending a file of' men, with a negro spy, to break up the floor on Martin Gordon’s premises, to cap ture the sword of ex-President Zachary Taylor, dead and in his grave twelve years before the war. Ho wanted the sword of the dead Twiggs to grace his victories here ; and hunting it up with the tenacity of a blood hound, lighted upon it in tbo posses sion of the family named in the despatch from New York. It was the legacy of tho moribund father to bis infant child; a sword of honor bestowed upon him by the Legislature of his native State, many years before the war. It was now given iu charge for the same purpose, to a lady. As a mark of friendly regard, the General bestowed on the same lady articles of silver plate, but nothing like the sum mentioned in tbe dis patch. On the information of the spy, the lady and her mother were made to fol low a military guard to tho presence of Butler, iu his offieo. They were rudely, assailed in his customary style, driven to tears by his brutality, and the secret of the deposit wus extorted from these terrors. All that was iu their possession was given up. Here it was that he obtained that sword of Gen. Twiggs which was sent to Washing ton as one of the trophies of the capture of New Orleans, and this it wns which a pub lic proposition was made to bestow upon Butler himself as a reward for his valor. Nothing could have been more appropri ate, iu perpetual memory of the achieve ments of Butler in New Orleans, than the sword of a dead septuagenarian, the prop erty of an infant, won, by ruffianly vio lence, from tho fears of a woman. The sword was given up to the Govern ment. Its sale would not have netted any thing to compare with the glory of having won it. In the same package were two other swords of honor, belonging to Gen. Twiggs, presented by other Legislatures, all very costly. But among the articles captured with it, were, we haye said, some articles of valu able plntr; nnd tho oiiso ugaiaat Geo, Dut ler in New York must relate to the removal of this property, the failure to make return to the Government, and possibly tracing some one of them into Butler’s possession. —Sew Orleans Picayune. Piles of Gold. The transfer of the sub-treasury at New York from General Butterfield to Senator Folgor has necessitated tbo counting of the gold in the vaults. The reporters thus got a glimpse at the government strong-box and the piles of gold therein and describe them as follows; “ The vaults of tbe sub treasury are two in number, and situated on the main floor of the building. The sides and roof of each arc eight feet of granite mAsonry and two feet of iron plates. Between the plates are musket balls laid in loose. Tbe floor is thirty feet of masonry, and two feet of iron plates,betw en which is also a layerofmus ket balls. Each wault is closed by four iron doors weighing two tons each, aud fastened . hy two combination locks to each door. The three inner doors are locked without a key, while the locks on the outer ones are operated by means of an instrument übuut au inch long by half an inch wide, which may be carried in a vest pocket. Each vault is about twelve feet square. Ou the sides of each apartment are built"one hun dred and twenty chests of iron, each ofthe capacity of a quarter of a million in gold coin. Each ch» st when full is closed by on iron door, and : istened with a lock which is sealed so that the door cannot be tamper ed with without breaking the seal. “At present there are abouL $75,000,000, in gold coin and about ’540,000 iu shyer contained in atout 159 of the 240 chests. The “ loose cash ” is in boxes, placed by tbo respective tellers in the vaults each night after tbe close of the day’s business. “ Many people are under the impression that each piece of coin is counted separately in these examinations, but a little reiiee tion will convince them thatthis is an error. One man could scarcely count $lOO,OOO on an average in a day, and to examine at this rate would consume too much time, nor would it be necessary. Each denomination of gold is packed separately, and the bag labeled witha tag, showing the character of the coin and the amount. In the process of counting one of the sealed chests will bo opened, the'contents carried on Lrucks into the gold-room, and then one bug will be counted, and the remainder of tho same denomination weighed against it in accu rately adjusted scales. Should any per ceptible difference in weight bo noted the contents of the deficient bag will be counted, and thus any error will be guarded against. •Should nothing occur to prevent, the ex amination will progress at the rare of $lO,- 000,000 per day.” Custom House Frauds. Tbe Philadelphia Ledger says i ‘The frauds in the Customs Revenue De partment of the country are steadily grnw | ing into frightful proportions, before winch ' even the frauds of our “whisky ring” be i gin to pale. Tbe drawback and other I frauds in the New York Custom House, j known to cover u million or more, are ! not probed to tbe bottom before tbe au : nouncement is made of a similar discovery lat California, and the truth comes out I that Supervisor Fulton’s mission to that ; region is not exclusively to look af ter distillers but into the alTairs of ■ Ihe Custom House there. It is discover ed, among other things, thut fine liquors | were shipped from Han Francisco iu j bond, and when tho vessels arrived at their ■ destinations, iustead or containing liquors, I tbe barrels were filled with water. Also, 1 that tbe compromise fees paid revenue ofli j cials amounted as far as discovered to manv thousands of dollars. These and kindred | frauds of more recent date are the causes of 1 Mr. Supervisor Fulton’s visit to tho Pacific coast, and ulurining developments in that connection may be expected. Our revenue laws are shamefully neglected through the scarcely covered corruption of men in offi cial plac«. The contraband traffic in opium has been worked into a well-established system, and is carried on uninterruptedly byjway of tbe Isthmus, as well as across tho Canada borders. Tho practice by way of the Isthmus point is, first, to ship the opium from China to Callao, Peru, or some other point in South America where connivance of customs officers is cheaply obtained, and thence to Panama, where the shipper’s bond is cancelled upon production of a landing certificate. At Panama it is put iu trunks or packages labelled “ through baggage for San Francisco,” or New York, «nd sent for ward by tbe next steamer to its destination. This illicit trade was formally carried on from Victoria, Vancouver’s Island, from which point the opiam was shipped in bond and transferred in lumber vessels plying between Puget Sound and San Francisco, but that has been brokeu up. An Advertising vodgre. Dealers in hair oil have sometimes ox» hibited a young bear in front of their ton sorial temples with an inscription statiDg that he would be “killed to-morrow.” A furrier in Cincinnati recently conceived the brilliant idea of sewing a man up in the skin of “ a grizzly” and sending his bear man out to distribute shop-bills. As the kindly animal-proceeded down the street, with a club in one paw and a bundle of circulars in theother, children fled, women screamed, dogß barked, horses reared, a milk-cart was demolished, the police rush ed to the rescue, the bear wax'marched to tbe Mayor’s office, and the enterprising dealer in skins found himself most nobly and gratuitously advertised in all the news papers next morning. Attempted iisfuslaafloa of Albert D. lUebardsoß. FnU Particulars of ttao Adair. At about 5$ o’clock Thursday afternoon, Mr. Albert D. Richardson, an old and val ued attache of The Tribune, well known to the country as one of the war correspon dents ol the paper during the Rebellion, and as the author of “Beyond the Missis sippi,” and other works, was fired upon and shot in the publication office of The Tribune by Duniel McFarland. Mr. Mc- Farland, it appears, had been in the office “about an boarbeforo Mr. Richardson’s ar rival, and seemed to have known that the latter would call at or about 5 o’clock. At the time of Mr. Richardson’s entrance into the room, McFarland was standing behind the desk opposite the right hand door open ing on Nassau street, and was therefore concealed from view. Mr. RichardsoD, en tirely unconsciousof the danger impending over him, and ignorant of the presence of McFarland, advanced to the lower end of the counter, aud asked for his letters. Be tween him and McFarland, aud outsido - the counter, a gentleman was reading the paper, or searching .the pages of the Directory.— As Mr. Richardson leaned over toward the desk of the advertising clerk, McFarland rushed from his hiding place, raised his pistol, aud aiming directlv over the head of of the stranger at Mr. Richardson, fired.— The ball entered the body of the vic tim at a point midway between the breast and the abdomen, and lodged in the stom ach. The wounded man turned, and for the first time saw his assailant. Without speaking a word he walked to the Spruce street door, thence into the street, and up four flights of stairs to the editorial rooms, where he quietly lay down upon a t-ofa, called a geutleman to him, remarked that he was badly wounded, aud asked to have a surgeon sent for at once. In a few min utes a physician arrived, and Mr. Richard son was removed to the Astor House. So apparently unmoved was he on leaving the publication room, that the fact of his being wounded wa9 not known to the clerks un til the arrival of the surgeon. In the mean time McFarland had escaped. Detectives were put upon his track, and at 10 o’clock be wus arrested at the corner of Irving place aud Sixteenth street, by Capt. Allaire ofthe Fourth Precinct, and Detective Flinn, who at once carried their prisoner to the room of the wouuded man, at the Astor House. On beiug asked whether the pris oner was the man who shot him, Mr. Rich ardson answered quietly in the affirmative, aud McFarland was then taken to the Fouitb Precinct Station House, aud lock ed up. The trouble which led to this unfortunate occurrence dates back to the spring of 18fi7, wheu Mr. Richardson occupied rooms in i the same house in which Mrs. McFarland, ! wife of Daniel McFarland, was a boarder. The indy was a member of a theatrical company, and was at this lime living on bad terms with her husband. Mr. Richardson frequently escorted Mrs. McFarland homo from the theatie in which she was employed; and this fact, coupled with the d< sire of his wife to bo separated from him, infuriated McFarland. On the eveniug of the I3th of March, IStVT, as Mr. Richardson and Mrs, McFarland were re turning to the boarding-house, thoy were met by McFarland, who, without a word of warning, drew a pistol und tired, the shot taking effect in Mr. Richardson’s thigh. The affair created some excitement at the lime, but as the wound did not prove fatal, and as it was not deemed advisable to give the matter more publicity, the assassin wus not molested. Long after Mr. Richardson’s recovery, Mr. McFarland asked for an insertion ol bis version of the difficulty in 7'he Tribune, The request wus granted. Mr. Richardson, a few Jays later, published in reply the following card, woicU'wo reproduce, us containing a succiuct statement ol his posi tion in reference to the assailant and to Mrs. McFarland : the m’farland shooting affair of 18(17 —CARD FROM MR. RICH ARDSON. A statement baa just appeared from Mc- Farland, who attempted to assassluute mo two years ago. lie alleges that he was “ a temperate, kind hearted, good man,” and a kind, affectionate, and generous hus band but that I “reduced the affections of his wife ” from him, and “enticed her from his home.” Both allegations against mo are utlorly and preposterously fulse. These are the facts: l. With the full sanction of bor fam ily and friends, Mrs. McFarland left her husband, charging him with gross cruelty during bis paroxysms of intemperance; with neglecting to support her, und with living upon aud sometimes squandering berown Liard won earnings. Tbochargeof ill-treatment did not rest solely upon her statements, but stood, und yet stands, ex plicitly admitted in his own hand writing, and over his own signature, long before I knew either of them. That will appear in due lime, before the proper tribunal. At their last interview, in presence of several witnesses, she distinctly announced that the separation was final aud irrevocable, and he us distinctly acquiesced. 2. After this formal and dual separation, und while she wus beginning life anew, with two little children dependent upon her, it came to bo understood between her and myself that whenever she should be legully free she true to boooma my wifo. Severn! of rny frieuds aud several of hers were acquainted with the fact. 3. About three weeks after the separation, McFarland intercepted a letter from me to her—such a letter as one would naturally write to the woman he ex pected to marry. McFarland claimed that it “frenzied him,” but there was method, not to say deliberation in his “lrenzy.” In stead of meeting me face to face he kept this letter in his pocket three days, and tioally at 11 o’clock on a dark, raiuy night, crept up behind me in the street, und with his re volver within fourteeu inches of my buck, began to shoot. Before be could tiro the fourth shot, I succeeded in throwing him to the ground, where I held him until the police came up and secured him. One ball only took effect, keeping me in bed for a week. I refrained from prosecuting him, partly because I knew I bad been rash, but chielly to withhold the lady’s mime from an additional uud unavoidable publicity. •!. For weeks and months after this, he earn estly sought to induce her to return to her “kind” and affectionate husband. Finding this hopeless, ho seems since to have de voted himself chiefly to slandering her, and reading an alleged copy of my letter, with many drutnulic accompaniments, to every acquaintance or strunger who will listen to it. Sometimes ho ends his tale : “ And now, after all, I don’t believe the scoundrel will ever marry her!” But his common peroration is that if I ever do, he will kill me “on sight.” Finally, he has brought suit against me for civil damages, rating the money value ef his wounded affections at $-10,000! that, at least, ought to prove some equivalent for being deprived of the “ uffeclionate " privilege of striking a help less woman in the face, or terrifying her with a brandished knife, and bo filed in the “ temperate ” act of stenling up in the dark behind un unarmed man and shooting him in the back. Whatever tho intercepted letter really contains, ho would better print it, and save himself the troublo of many future read ings and declaiming. I wrote it for but one person; yet I did write It, and I pro pose to stand by it. Whatovor fault there was in holding such an attitude toward a lady who had very recently separated from her husband was solely mine, and I shall not try to palliate it. Whateversum twelve unbiased men may determine that I owe this “good” and “temperate” antagonist, I shall with alacrity pay it, if it comes with in my modest means. And, finally, what ever violence he may ro-threuteu or rout tempt, should the lady over be legally free during my life-time, she will certainly bo come my wife, ifsho will accepFsn poor a man as I. Aluert D. Richardson. New York, March 12, Since that time, McFarland has boon heard frequently to threaten lhat wheu the opportunity offered he would kilt Mr. Richardsou ; but willmi 'lie past voar, both belore and since his trip to the WYhi, ho has often come In contact with McFarland, who has never once In his presence mani fested the slightest desire to molest or injure him. Six weeks ago, Mrs. McFarland through her counsel, tho Hon. A. G. I’or ter cf Indiana—succeeded in procuring a divorce. Mrs. McFurland and several wit nesses were preseut at the trial; but Mr. Richardson was at this time on the Plains west of the Mississippi with. Cyrus W. Field's buffalo huutiDg party, nor lias he, so far us is known, seen Mrs. McFarland since. She has been living at the West ever Mnce the affair in IS*TT, and has refused to have any communication whatever with Mr. McFarland. At 2 o’clock ibis' morning Mr. Richardson was still in a very critical condition, but his physicians, Drs. Sayre and Swan, outer tuinod strong hopes of his recovery. MCFARLAND IN THE STATION-HOUSE. A representative of The Tribune called on Mr. McFurlanc! lust evening, at the Fourth Ward Station-house, where he suw him comfortably quartered in Capt. Allaire's private room. Tho only person present was a policeman, who had been dotailod to watch the prisoner. Mr. McFarland was smoking, aud seemed calm and quite unconcerned. He was indisposed to converse about the shooting or tho cir cnmsluncos attending it, aud remarked that the whole affair seemed like a dream, and that ho was very much confused at tbe time. When asked if there was any additional provocation for the deed beyond thut which had been made public by his shooting Mr. Richardson in March, ISti7, he answered that be had just been in formed that Mr. Richardson had procured for his wile a fraudulent divorce somewhere in tho State of Illinois, and that he (Rich ardson) had iften married to her. Not having the means legally to prosecute Mr. Richardson, he bad been compelled to ac cept tho situation of affairs, nod content himself with the possession of one of his children, allowing tho other to remain with his Being informed that Mr. Rich ardson was making preparations to leave' tho country, that he hud sold his properly in New Jersey, and believing that he contemplated taking with him his wifo and child he became frenzied, and com mitted the deed which he claimed was but tbe law of nature. Mr. McFarland object ed to being interrogated with reference to the circumstances which cuused him to visit The Tribune office last evening. He said ho did not notice which way Mr. Rich ardson weDt after the shooting. On leaviug the office, which he did immediately after, he walked up Ceutire street, and feeling weak’ and hungry stepped into a restaurant —he did not know exactly the location, and partook of a stew and a cup of coffee. Pro ceeding up town ho called on his brother, and in company with him went to the Westmoreland Hotel, where bo registered bis name and was given, a room. He ar rived at the hotel about-7 o’clock and was arrested about 10 o’clock by Capt. Allaire. Mr. McFarland received a number of re porters last 'evening, to whom he gave many particulars of his troubles with Mr. Richardson. Ho Inquired of The Tribune reporter the condition of Mr. Richardson, it being then midnight, and when told that be would probably recover he received the news with apparent indifference, although he had previously expressed his sorrow lor the act hehad committed. Hesoemed quite comfortable, and was smoking tbo entire time and evidently sought to assumo a non chalant air. MR. RICHARDSON AS A JOURNALIST. Mr. Richardson is a native of New Eng land, and a brother of the editor and pro prietor of a religious journal iu Boston. He was the secret correspondent of The Tribune in the South, while tbo acts of se cession were being passed there, and the army correspondent of The Tribune in tbo West daring the war. While in the dis charge of the dutieaof tbut position ho was captured, and Buffered confinement for a time iu both Libby and Salisbury prisons. Uo escaped from them, and, crossing the country, reached the Union lines. Soon afterward ho published the “ Field, Dun geon and Escape,” a book which has reach ed the extraordinary circulation of '.)(> oOu copies. Ho subsequently published tbo file of Uen. Grant, regarded as one of the most complete of the many books written-about that distinguished General. On the open ing of the Pucilio Railroad, Mr. Richard son was sont over that roiul by The Tribune and gave to this newspaper much inteie.-t ing correspondence, replete with facts i»*.t previously known in relation to the far West. He has also published n work en titled “ Beyond the Mississippi,” which al ready has obtained a circulation of 70, ihji) copies. Recently Mr. Kichurdt»o;i wus sent by The Tribune to Chicago, St. Louis, uud other pluces in the West uud Southwest, lrorn whence ho him ouly returned about a week, aud tho results of his observations In those sections of the country have appeared in these columus. Mr. Richatdson has for many years been known as one of the most industrious workora oti the press, und his writings have always been noted for their simplicity und power of expression, and for the great amount of valuable and mb r esting information they eoutuin.— ,Y. I*. Tribune. Albert D. Richardson, the Tnbunc co respondent, who was shot by McFarland, is iu a very critical condition. I'oritoiiit-k Ims set in, but bus not as yet ihmiiiii d an aggravated firm. The mutter thrown up s of such character as to indicate the slough itig of the wound made by the ball. A consultation of physicians was held, at which it was determined to remove the ball. The ball, which.is a eaitridg' ball, aid consequently quite large, pcnetraleo both walla of the stomach, aud was found at the back near the surface. J F.FFEKNON I»AVtN. A Fonr Dny«T Journey Willi the I'onlnl crate Chief- —Slow lie l.oouetl au * thing an entire aud absolute falsehood. Mr. Davis’ conversation giving some retrospect of his travels in Great Britain was deeply Interesting. Like every educa ted American, whoso Ideal associations with the tilings ofthe past, ar«- derived from books, he seemed to lmvo intensely enjoyed his visits to tho cathedrals and tho runia ol monasteries and abboys. which carried him back to tho days of early Christian civili zation. Ilis reception in i-eothiud lie kjxiUi. of as particularly cordial, and his visits to difibrunt points of interest there, uffording the greatest gratification. Tho ucoount oi his visit to the Giant’s Causowuv, Staffs, and more especially that to the Island oi lona—he nuratod with much enthusiasm.— lona—a littlo rocky island which lies afi w mile off the west coast of Scotland, no;id for its curious basaltic columus and cathe dral like caverns,but uow desuJuUramJ.lmr ren—he pictured as it oneo existed’ thosent of learning and piety, and the point whence Christianity is said to have spread over the whole of Great Britain. lle|vislted the me mentoes of its past glory, its rtiiued m