gancottv inttiligtuat
WEDNESDAY, JAN. 6, 1870
A Happy New Year.
We extend the, compliments of the
season to all our patrons, and wish every
reader of the INTELLIGENCER a happy
New Year. May they be successful in
all legitimate undertakings, and find
the coming year one of more than or
dinary prosperity.
The Old Year and the New
The year which has just passed away
has been one of more than ordinary
fruitfulness. The earth has brought
forth of Its abundance in teeming pro•
fusion. The barns of the husbandman
have been filled to overflowing, and the
carefully constructed shocks, which
stand about the farm yards, show how
bountifully nature has rewarded the
toil of the farmer. Not In grain alone,
but in fruits and vegetables of every
description hex the past season been
one of the most exuberant plet ty.
There ought to be nothing but rejoic•
log heard among those engaged in
agricultural pursuits. But, is it so?
Are the farmers contented? Not they.
A false financial system has reduced
the price of grain to the minimum
standard, while nearly every article
that the agriculturist must buy can only
be purchased nt nu exorbitant figure.
Thus the reduction in the cost of bread
stuffs Is pinching the producer without
bringing relief to the laboring classes.
The poor are ground down by a system
which is designed to enrich a set of
greedy monopolists, while the man of
moderate means finds it almost impos
sible for him to meet the demands
made upon him.
Trade of every description has lan
guished throughout the past year. The
commercial marine of the country has
been almost entirely destroyed by In
judicious legislation. anti our ships,
which once whitened every sea, have
been swept froth the ocean. The mer
chant has been paralyzed by the fluctu
ations of a depreciated paper currency,
and the list of banlerupts for the year,
long as it is, promises to be greatly
lengthened. We present to the world
at the beginning of IsTo the singular
spectacle of a people to whom the most
bountiful harvest ever gathered has not
brought the blessings which should
have attended it. Alen of sound judg
ment know that the injudicious enact
ments of a Radical Congress aro the
cause of the evils which prevail.—
Classes and rings have dictated laws,
and the interests of the farmer, the
merchant and the laboring men have
been sacrificed-hy selfish politicians, at
the dictation of the few who have been
interested in securing special leglsla
tion. The welfare of the masses has not
been considered when monopolists
have urged their selfish claims.
The past year has shown a want of
broad and comprehensive statesman
ship In those in power„ The Southern
States Lave been kept iu a state of vas
salage to the detriment not only of their
own citizens but of the country at large.
For the sake of enforcing the doctrine
of negro equality, as embodied in the
Fifteenth Amendment, the State of
Georgia has been rudely thrust out of
a Union which she never had the power
to leave, and to which she was declared
to be duly admitted more than a twelve
month since. Thus has selfish partisan
ship held control, while all the best
interests of the nation have been ins-
p2rilled in order that a eel, of greedy
adventurers nii : ;ht be enabled to
fatten on the of cflice.—
In regard to foreign aftliirs the ad
ministration of (4.tut has been itnbe
rile and uncertain. The Alabama
claims arc no nearer an adjfaitnent
than they sync when the war ended,
and the policy pursued in regard to
Cuba has etu...l.cd the hopes of the
struggling patriots, while it has tilled
Spain with distrust. and provoked the
sneers of every government in Europe.
General I raids promise of peace reads
strangely when placed along side of the
reeent order (lit ceting General Terry to
assume military control and govern
ment of the stall! of Georgia. This, the
fifth year after the close of the war be
gins with tour status still subject to
military eoutiol, kept so for the sole
purpose of mutating the Radicals to
maintain their hold on power.
What the coming year may have in
store for the people of the United States
remains to ba sun. The indications
are that little efilat will be made by the
present t'ongre,s to correct the injudi
cious legislation of the past. The coun
try will be suffered to drift on under
the present pyi , tein of financial mis
management until a crash occurs, or
the people 'nonage to :-.tagger cn under
their burthens to u period of renewed
enterprise and established security.—
Certain it is that no help can be ex
pected from the incompetent officials
who now control our public affairs.
This country enters upon the New
Year without any confidence in the
wisdom or the ability of its rulers, and
witlfit distrust of the future pervading
all the classes of the community,
THE Radical newspmair press seein to
be unable to cease laudirg Stanton for
his honesty, a single virtue which he
seems to have possessed. It is said that
with every chance to steal millions he
stole nothing, with every chance to
grow rich iu the same way that thou
sands have accumulated immense for
tunes, he died poer. At this his politi
cal friends are all literally astounded.
There has been bething in their politi
cal expericoc, to prepara them for the
development of such an eccentricity on
the part of Mr. Sianten. Forgetting
what a commentary iL is upon the lead
era of their party the Republican news•
papers cheerfully accept the fact, that he
was not a thief its the hat eulogy of the
deceased S,crelary. What a significant
commentary does that single fact tar
nish!
Coxotuss annually throws away
many thousands of dollars on docu•
merits that are utterly valueless. One
job coating $25110 is now ly tog piled
up in voltum2s which are only worth
what they will bi lug at the prices paid
for waste paper. The Superiutendant
of Government Piloting thinks the
binding material might he tried again.
Hundreds of thousands of dollars are
thus annually wasted. The Radicals of
Congress crew to have no regard for the
tax-ridden im2s,es, Tory have Intel
high the 11 toil gates of ex travagane2,
and the public money is most reckless
ly squandered in a thousand ways. It
frirt was mad. ,
economizing.
IN response to au inquiry by the
Radlea' member of Congress who in
troduced a proposition into the House
to present every Southern negro with
forty acres of the public lands and a
mule, the Department of the Interior
has furnished a statement of the num•
her of unsold aercs of public lands to
the South. The total amount is 47,170,-
619 acres, which, divided among four
millions of negroes, gives each the
requisite forty acres and enough over to
buy the mule. Over half of the land is
situated in the swamps of Florida and
the underbrush of Arkansas; tine
countries for negro settlements.
THE Mississippi Election was carried
by Gen. Ames, who wants to be U. S.
Senator, and the Texas election by Gen.
Reynolds, who also wants to be U. S.
Senator from Texas. The Conservatives
have sent to the President a document
,giving details of the manner In which
Reynolds is trying to count Hamilton
Asint of the Governorship and Davis In,
The newly elected Conservative Legit!.
lature will be overthrown by Congress.
THE LANCASTER WEEKLY . INTELLIGENCER, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 5 1870.
The Contested Seats in the State Senate.
There are two contested seats in our
State Senate. In both cases we believe
the Democratic claimants were fairly
elected, and the facts will bear us out
in that conviction. In the one case
Hiram Findlay, the Democratic candi
date in the District composed of Bed
ford, Fulton and Somerset counties will
present a certificate signed by a return
Judge from each of the three counties,
while his opponent Edward Scull will
offer a paper signed by but a single
Judge. The only question to be decid
ed in this case is whether the voters of
a township which gave Mr. Findlay a
majority shall be disfranchised because
the election officer who had the returns
in charge failed to arrive at the place of
meeting of the board of return Judges
until half an hour after the time fixed
by the board for his arrival. There is
no allegation of fraud at the poll which
was excluded from the count in the pa
per held by Mr. Scull. If the votes
legally cast are honestly cnitnted Mr.
Findlay can not be deprived of'his seat.
This ca-e is so plain that the Radical '
majority will have to commit thegross
est and most glaring outrage before they
can unseat the Democratic member and
admit his Radical opponent.
The other contested case comes from
' the First (Philadelphia) District. Here
a most glaring and palpable fraud was
perpetrated by the return judges. The
returns were deliberately altered so as
to give the Radical candidate, Wm. W.
Watt, a pretended majority over Alex
ander J. Diamond, who was undoubted•
ly legally elected.. The more consci
entious Radical newspapers of Philadel
phia boldly denounced the outrage
committed by the Radical return judges
at the time it was per! etrated. The
Morning Post in its issue of October Pith
said :
The Legislature alone can decide whether
Mr. \Vatt or Mr. Diamond was elected in
the First Senatorial District. Contested
election cases are submitted to special corn•
inittees, not selected.we believe, but chosen
by chance. The evidence is taken and the
arguments made before the committee, and
its decision is generally final.
We pointed nut on Saturday the facts
which make this case a very grave one.
We ehowed th•tt while the returns gave
Mr. William W. Watt, the Republican
candidate, a maj nrity of 176 in the First
District, the seven wards which compose
that district gave Democratic majorities
for all other officers voted for. Seller's
majority over Ashton is 281; Packer's ma•
jority over Geary is 521. These fin:ores do
not he, but they suggest lying. It is Im
possible for us to see any cause far this
amazing dillerence in the vole of these
wards. We thought we understood the can
vass in the city tolerably well, and knew
the popular candidates. But we discovered
no enthusiasiam for Mr. Watt, no objection
to Mr. Diamond, stallcier t to explain why
the former should get a Republican inej nri•
ty of 176 in a democratic district, ON trick
went against such a popular candidate 11S
Mr. Ashton by 251 votes. If any one can
show us even a plausible explanation of
this political miracle our obligations will
be great.
But till good ca sin for Mr. Watt's aston
ishing and unexpected maj aity to slno wn,
intelligent citizons of both parties will be•
neve that the re:urns are fraudulent. The
Legislature may decide against Mr. Per
mood, but public opinion will declare that
downright cheating has been ectumitred to
send a Republican to the Satanic. This is
stir opinion now; we should be happy to
have It changed, but have no hopes of that.
As the figures stand, as the character of the
contest is now understood, the return of
Mr. Watt appears to be as palpable a fraud
as ever was attempted in this city.
For the sake of the Republican party we
are sorry that any Republican paper should
attempt to deny the apparent evidence of
cheating, and sneer at the just Coal plaints
of the Democracy as mere party clamor.
This the Prose, With its habitual contempt
of facts, did on Saturday. "We must make
allowance," it said, " lor exhibitions of that
spleen which is attributable to defeat. As
to the fraudulent counting of returns there
was nothing to substantiate the charge ex
cept Democratic suspicions. These were of
course strong just in proportion to the ex
tent Democratic election officers are in the
habit of indulging inn that business." Noth
ing? A daferenee of 157 votes is nothing.
Colonel Forney ought by this time to know
I that the Republican party can better stand
I cheating in the ranks of Its opponents, than
rasealay in its own. If Mr. Watt becomes
a Suite Senator 011 the strength of this tin
explained majority, the disgrace to our
panty will has infinitely more damaging
than his vote be ben, ficial. Ntnilung could
uuve hO2ll more I ,rtnionte fir Ile than the
prautpt exposure of toe fraud in the Thin
teenth 1.-gtelative diet rite, by which it was
intend it to defeat Mr, Forsj„•th, Danocratie,
and elect Mr. Geisz.
Such an expression of opinion in so
strong a It:publican journal as the Post
ought to be sufficient to insure justice
being done. But the case does not rest
on newspaper opinion alone. \Vheu
It was brought before Judge Allison,
who is a staunch Republican, and a
strong party man, he expressed his
regret that he had not the power sum
marily to right the wrong which had
been committed. In commenting upon
the action of the return judges he said :
The act c f Assembly providts a remedy
for a wrong like this by giving a right to a
contest. We cannot usurp the rights of
the Legislature. I would go for to cur.
reel this wrong, which I am convinced
it is, hitd I the power, but there are limits
beyond which 1 cannot go, and I cannot
give the remedy pin ask. Tnis is nothing
else titan a Lase return, for which the law
has adopted a separate and distimit remedy.
The contest to which Judge Allison
refers is now to be made before the Se
nate, and we shall anxiously wait to see
whether the Radical majorily of that
body will endorse the " false return "
of the corrupt Judges who deliberately
conspired to cheat Mr. Diamond out of
his seat. There are some Radical Sen
ators who profess to ba honest. The
two members from this district
have heretofore been regarded as
men of conscientious integrity. aloft
P
principles will be speedily tested by the
contested election cases to which we
have ref-erred. The facts are precisely
as we have stated them to be, and no
member of the Senate can vote to dis
place either Hiram Findlay or Alexan
der J. Diamond without deliberately
violating his solemn oath-of otll-2e.
The Ring Triumphant
As we predicted the ring has had an
easy triumph at Harrisburg. Ou Sat
urday an informal caucus of the Repub
lican members present was held, and
Butler B. Strang, of Tioga, was nomi
nated for Speaker of the House. Our
doughty little 'Major Reinoehl was put
in nomination, hut his name was im
mediately withdrawn, and he was after
wards appointed one of Strang's com
mittee of seven to arrange the " Slate "
for the otheroffleers of the House. Nine
teen Republican members were absent
from this Informal caucus, but there is
uo doubt that the action taken will be
sustained. The "roosters" and "pinch
ers" have a good working majority, and
they &bow that they' mean business" by
selecting the man who was their leader
and champion last winter to preside
over the House during the present ses
Sion.
Mr. Butler B. Strang was the recog
nixed leader of the ring lust year. His
first move was in support of the paster
and folder swindle. While other mem
bers contented themselves with voting
for this obnoxious piece of barefaced
stealing, Mr. Strang advocated It in a
mo.rhttl wnd hardi
hood. He was Chairman 01 the Com
mittee in the Bunn-Witham con
tested election case, and bolstered up
bold, bald perjuries of Slavin, Lamb
and Rowan. He championed the
Boiler Job; the Pipe and Tank Mon
opoly; the infamous Herdic Act
which was promptly declared to be
unconstitutional by the Supreme Court;
the outrageous Cattle Bill, which Sena
tor Lowry denounced as "an act to tax
every rich man's mutton chop and
every poor man's tripe it Philadelphia
for the bent lit of a monopoly ; and was
the advocate and defender of other ac!s
iu which the legislative thieves had a
direct pecuniary interest. The Harris.
burg Patriot truthfully says of him:
Not in One single instance did he swerve
in fidelity to his pals. He was always
ready with a specious argument fora legis
lative fraud ; anti this accounts for the zeal
and unanimity which are now manifested
In his behalf. There are other members
who have earned an unenviable reputation
in the legislature; but on investigation it
will be found that each one of them has, at
obe time or another ; shown some compunc
tion, or re,pect for the popular wishes.—
But Strang's career in the House is marred
by no such inconsistency. He has never
cast a vote in opposition to the banditti.
When thepreeentseEelon of theLegieln•
tore commences under such auspices Ms
not hard to predict the results. Roguery
and rascality will be the order of the
day, and stealing the principal business
of the members of the triumphant and
unblushing ring of thieves. With Strang
as speaker of the House and Geary In
the Gubernatorial Chair there will be
ro check upon corruption. A carnival
of fraud, bribery and extravagance will
prevail from the first day of the session
to its close. Such Is the natural result
of a triumph of " the party of great
moral Ideas."
Mrs. StoTre's New Book.
The introductory chapter of Mrs.
Harriet Beecher Stowe's forthcoming
book on the Byron scandal has been
published. In It she makes some sin
gular statements and certain remark
able appeals. She announces that she
has never read a single one of the arti
cles which her former statement drew
from the pressof the world ; but, woman
like, she admits that she has gathered
all the important substance of what has
been said from others. She is, there
fore, not ignorant of the manner In
which her conduct has been re
ceived by the public. She must know
that the article,which she took so much
pains to have si multaneuously published
in this country arm England has been
everywhere received with indignant
protests and universal condemnation.
If she had any regard fir the expressed
opinion of that public to which she
now appeals, any respect for the opin
-1 ions of those"brothers and sisters of the
press," whom she addresses with such
show of affection, she would have kept
silent in this matter forever. By send
ing out the book which she has been so
busily preparing, she only gives greater
credence to the charge that she has
been actuated throughout by selfish mo•
tives We care not whether it was van
ity, cr a sordid desire:for money, which
led her to publish the first article. Eith
er motive is base, and inexcusable nu
! der the circumstances. And she can
I not now convince the world that she
was actuated by any higher or worthier
impulse. Nor all her protestations of
disinterestedness can clear her reputa
tion of the stain which has been cast
upon it.
The world has made up its opinion ,
on the question, and that on testimony '
more extensive and trustworthy than
anything which Mrs. Stowe can fur
nish. No one believes the foul Blander
which she promulgated. In the opin
lon of the reading public Augusta By
ron stands forth Pure and unsullied,
while the foul story told at this late
day by aVankce adventuress is regarded
as the invention of the decaying intellect
of a jealous wife. It is not strange that
I Lady Byron should have conjured up
queer fancies in regard to her moody
and misdhairopical husband during
the long years of her separation; and
there is nu good reason to doubt that
the story which she poured into the ear
of her American visitor was all the
creation of a diseased intellect.
In declaring that she has not real
what was said by the press, Mrs. Stowe
I cuts herself off from the sympathy to
which she so strongly appeals in her
introductory chapter. Had she read
carefully all that has been written on
the subject, we can scarcely believe she
would have ventured to go over the
ground of her manazinearticle in a book.
She would have suffered the matter to
drop quietly out of public notice. We
can not help believing thatshe has been
actuated from the begining by that de.
sire for notoriety.and that love of being
well paid for literary effort which dis-
tiuguishes her brother. Tile right thing
to do would be for the public to refuse
to buy Mrs. Stowe's forthcoming volume.
It would be well If it could be allowed
to remain uuseld upm the shelves of
the pubbahers. It deserves to be re.
ceived with the cold flees of complete
neglcc
THE Radical newspapers of this coun
ty are just now engaged in vilifying
each other, and, if we believe what they
say, there is not a Republican editor in
Lancaster who is not an unmitigated
scoundrel. We are sorry it is so. Some
of them are clever fellows personal y.
It is a pity they are :mob rascals. We
suppose it is impossible for any man to
run a Radical newspaper without be
coming thoroughly coirupt, and we
thank God we never had any
then with that party.
IT is evident that the Radicals iu
Congress will not attempt to make any
vigorous effort to relieve the country
from its financial embarrassments.—
They do not care to grapple the subject
before the election of next fall. The
party is so divided in sentitneut on
questions of finance that there is danger
of its splitting to pieces upon it. To
prevent that is now an ohjtcr, and eo
the country must expect to drift on
without any established financial policy
for another year at least.
HonATIO FAN - mot:ft wet with
a serious accident near Utica on Wed
ncsday. He was thrown from his car
riage, and his shoulder was dislocated.
The last despatches pronounced hum
better, after a night of much pain.
Z=!
Li the rWernlogical list of the year I•St;P it
seems as if tiro losses of our country lire
been unusually heavy. Two at least of lue
present eerier) gene rtitimi of American
Statesmen—Rawiius and Stauton—died
while reinemt•rance for their past services
was still fresh. Fessendeu has passed
away, i.aying n vacancy iu the Senate
which will Itieg be felt. Of political leaders
lest eminent in official position we have
lost Henry J. Raymond ; and aulung poll
ticiarts 01 a last day, whose influence had
measurably passed away, Time has been
unusually busy. Es• President Pierce, ex
Attorney General Bates, ex Secretaries
Bell, Guthrie, Wafter nod Toucey, ex-
Governors Fitzpatrick of Alabama, Pt att of
Maryland, anti Pickens of S 'nth Caroline,
and that cut tons relic 61 . a bygone political
era, Joseph Hinter. sonistime Governor of
Penusylvanie, also ex Governor Unison of
Maryland. These are among the best
known of the host who have been gathered
to their fathers during the past twelve
mouths. The loss of European statesmen
ha. 9 been much smaller. In England Lord
Derby and Lard Stanley of Alderley ; in
Spain, Gen. Duice; in Russia, Prince
Menscbikotf; in France, Marshal Niel and
Troplong; in Turkey, Fund Pasha, are the
most distinguished of the dead, and few of
these exercised a vital influence upon the
government under which they lived. From
the rolls of the army and navy we shall
miss henceforth at home the names of Old
Ironsides and General Wool ; abroad the
Bittish General Lord Gough, Admiral Sir
James Gordon, who fought a British fleet
up the Potomac In 1811, the French Mar
,hall Niel and Reguaulr, St. Jean d'Am
tidy, the famous Russian soldier Menschis
kat; and the veteran Jomintt. Art deplores
the loen 01 Grid% Berk., and Overbeck ;
science nit:urns fur Liengstenberg, Reiden
bath, Jukes, and many lesser lights; and
the charities of two Iremispliel es will feel
tun u,ltt.,i away of George Peabody. In
literature, although rm. as. Le,,: very
few names of real eminence are found in i,
When we have merit ionel William Carlo
ton, Professor Conningtou, Frtdertck S.
Cozzens, Peter Cunningham, Alexander
Lamartine, and Ste Beuve, we have
called over all the most illustrious.—New
York Tribune.
statistics of the :rade for the Past Year
The I*,Hewing is a statement of tLe live
stock received and sold at the Philadelphia
markets during the year 1569; also, corn
Faison with previous years :
Beeves. Calve. Bog,. Sheep.
January... 6,750 590 11,700 25,000
February.. 7 000 670 11,100 21,000
March 7,30) 759 15,500 45,000
April 5,078 550 16,600 33,500
May 8,070 735 17,700 69,000
June......... 6,040 635 13,700 53,000
July 7,400 610 14.400 4.5,000
August ..... 8,550 750 11,300 43,500
September 9,280 650 12,200 48,000
October 10,400 593 15,400 44,000
November 14,350 950 19,900 65 000
December. 8,318 600 14 700 45.000
1569. 99.430 8 035 170,200 530,500
1868. 9,000 9,314 191,900 417,860
• 1867, 90,150 11,464 175,000 368,200
" 1866.100 500 10.830 122 500 512,000
" 1865. 90,450 6,510 138,300 306,000
" 1804 99,850 7,920 140 400 295,000
• 1803.103,150 6,905 174 370 275,100
" 1862. 87,520 4.659 208,000 229,300
• 1861. 82,365 4,214 199,179 269,020
" 1860. 99,845 10 . 673 127,064 324;560
THE LEGISLATURE.
Mrs' Promairs of Reform are Rept.
Oritanistatlon of the Senate and E[olll/0
The Elea. Triamptant
HARRISBURG, January 33, 1870
Saturday, Sunday, and today (Monday)
have been busy days in Harrisburg. The
Radicals have been shaping things to salt
themselves, while the Democratic minority
have been anxionslylooklng on. All the pro
fesslons of honesty on the part of the party
In power have been proven to be the merest
bosh and the moat empty nothingness.—
The preliminary caucus on Saturday settled
the organization of the lower House. Butler
B. Strang, of Tioga, the very chief of cor
ruptioniste, was then made the choice of the
Republican majority for Speaker, and the
regular caucus held to-night only registered
the predetermined decree of the ring. The
Lancaster delegation were "roped in" with
out the slightest difficulty. Relucehl was
elated with the idea of being made one of a
committee of seven to fix up Straug's slate
for the minor offices. So far as we can see
the present delegation is no improvement
on the last. Two of the roosters who were
here last year came up pretending that they
could sell the "votes" of the present delega
tion, but were astonished to find that they
were alreaoS , disposed of for a ridiculously
small cqutalent. The long beard of the
pious gentleman from the Lower End drop
ped an inch or two as he heard the result,
and the ugly mug of the ex-member from
Manor looked more ghastly as the stale of
affairs slowly crept through his thick cra
nium. We can imagine the disgust with
which the stupid voters who supposed they
were doing "the God and morality party "
good service, will read and ponder over
the result of all their efforts. That
will be a rude awakening which shall
bring to their dull minds an appreciation of
the truth which now stands revealed, cin
teased and known to all men, that Relnoehl
is as complete a tool of the ring as Gatchel
ever was, and that Wiley and the rest are
no better or more honest than the roosters
who preceded then/. After all the indig
nant protests of the Express, and the hot s
tory; ebulitions of Father Abraham, the
Lancaster delegation to tie Lower House of
the Legislature succumbed at the very first
onslaught,and were "gobbled up" bodily by
the managers of the ring. They all became
at once the subservient tools of Strang, the
champion of the pesters and folders, and
now occupy a position infinitely more dis
creditable and disgraceful than that of their
repudiated predecessors. We condole with
the lion at Republicans of Lancaster county
on the selection they made in chosiog Rein•
oehl, Godshalk, Herr and Wiley to repro
present them. They fondly dreamed in
their Btuatian stupidity Unit they were send
ing a set of model fellows to lake the place
Of a quartette of agues. How they will
relish the subatautial support given by the
present delegation to the champion of the
pastor and I rider swindle, the cat,le bill,
the Herdic cc', the boiler jib, the pipe
and tank monopoly, the calamity infamy,
and every fraudulent scheme that was set
afoot while Butler B. Strang held a seat in
the last Ligalatura, remains to be seen.
The organization of the House was merely
a preliminary to the nomination of the
State Treasurer. That ono grand scheme
of plunder absorbed all minor considera
tions, and control ed the action of the Rad
ical majority throughout. From the begin.
Mug the Mackey faction had it all their
own way, and everything was bent to the
ultimate result from the nomination. of
Butler B. Strang to the appointment of the
useful officials who,preside over the tern
pie of Cloaclna in the basement of the State
Capitol, And to the movements of this
corrupt ring the Lancaster delegation gave
its assistauce,either as its conscious confed
erates or its egregious dupes. Those who
know the calibre of the men who represent
the Old Guard in the Lower Mouse, will
know in which category to place them.
Strangle nomination in regular caucus was
preceded by the placing in the chair of nis
special tool Webb, of Bradford. Strange
success is universally regarded as a
victory for Mackey. The Lancaster
delegation did much to secure this
double [ilk h. How are you, past
ers and folders? flow is it with the yeo
menry of Lancaster and the unexpended
balance? Where is Billingfeh's bill to curb
the speculations of the Treasurer? What
has been the etTect of the resolution offered
in the Radical County Committee at the
beginning of the last campaign ? Let
Andy Armstrong answer, it he can. The
Mouse slate reads as allows :
Chief Clerk—Jas. L. Selfridge.
Resident Clerk—John A. Smul'
Assistant Clerk-• Ed. G. Lee
Transci thing Clerks—Geo. A. 13skeoren,
Isaac Moorhead, Jas. L. Alien, Juo. M.
Kilbourne, J. F. Humes, Jno. L. Morrison.
Sergeant at Arms—Thus. Wilson.
Assistant Sergeant. at-Arens—G. H. Hal
sey, Jun. F. M' Fadden, Warren M'Creary,
H. M. Strasbaugli.
Doorkeeper—J. H. Hall.
Assistant Doorkeepers—Jno. Role, Jan.
Scott, S. J. Hart.
Messenger—W. W. Gibson.
Assistant Messengers--Anthony M'-
Mauu, W. W. Wright., Geo. C. Anderson.
Postmaster—Augustus Beckett.
Assistant Postmaster—Wm. Shields.
Doorkeeper of Rotunda—A. 13. Wrey.
Superintendent Folding Department—
James Iteems.
The Salons of the Senate encountered dif
ficulties scarcely less formidable than the
rabble of the house. Lowry, with the
buff waistcoat of Lafayette, the blue swat
low.tailed coat of Israel Putnam, the ruf
fled shirt of Louis the XV., and the horns
of a Butler county bull sawed short off,
proved a retromiogent and refused Logo into
caucus. This distinguished gentleman is
intensely fond of notoriety, and seems to
care but little how he excites a sensation
provided he can manage to attract public
observation. He has been known to pre
side over a meeting called to present a cane
to an Andy Johnson Democrat, and to ad•
dress an assembly of prospective negro
voters on the same evening. Efe is ready
to be interviewed by a Democratic editor,
and prepared to repudiate his report of the
conversation had over choice champagne
which stood on the manuscript pages of a
four column temperance letter, with the
ink still wet upon it. Ile makes professions
of political honesty periodically, but takes
good care never to fulfil a single one of
them. He bath on hand just now a pet
scheme of his own. The little axe he wisheth
to grind is the enlargement of the Erie
Canal from Girard to B saver creek, which
emptieth into the Ohio. Ile will be pro
foundly happy when it shall be sufficiently
widened and deepened to drag through
vessels of three hundred tons burthen, with
the superadded weight of Morrow B. Low
ry. After making a display of pretended
virtue sufficiently vigorous to attract some
slight attention, Lowry finally went into
the caucus and took good care to secure a
full share of the plunder to be dispensed in
the way of appointments. Verily virtue
bath its own reward even in Pennsylvania
politics.
The recalcitration of Lowry caused
honest Esaias Billingfelt to pluck up all
his Dutch courage. He has not represented
the meat county of Lancaster in the State
Senate for nothing. He knows his rights!
"and knowing dare maintain." The street
rumor, as it ran, declared that nothing
would satisfy him except the ap
pointment of Pit Schew filAorenner as Clerk
to the Senate. Careful silting of the truth
from many falsa representations, assured
no that common report, is lying jade, was
doing injustice Jo , lie Adamstown
man. m stood upon his dignity and
seemed to demand nothing. He would or
would not go into caucus, just as might
suit him. The dignified hesitancy of our
popular and distinanished representative
in the upper branch of the Legislature
bad its reward. He was offered the posi
tion of door-keeper, but refused to accept
the office which Johnny Martin filled so
long:and with such marked satisfaction to
the gay and festive Senators of his day. A
proposition was made to supplement this
tender by throwing under his contrel an
additional transcribing clerk ; but having
opposed any increase of officials at the last
session the Senator could not see his
way clear to such an arrangement.—
The final result was the making up of the
Shnatorial slate as follows :
For Speaker—Charles H. Stinson.
For Chief Clerk—G. W. Ha merely.
For Assistant Clerks— L. Rogers, E
- -
For Transcribing Clerks—W. G. Bosler,
E. Cowan, J. Bodine, Theo. Riestand.
For Sergeant-at-Arms—A. M. Rambo.
Pit Schwefftebrenner will continue to
indict BgEFFE FMK SCHWESFLETOVN, and
the ex- editor of the Columbia Spy will en
deavor to repair his shattered fortunes by
levying and collecting large fees In the two
Items of Interrst.
The public debt of the United States
on January let, amounted to $2418,-
746,953.
Wm. J. McNash, shot at Wheeling
on Thursday, by Miss Bethem, died on
Sunday. Miss Bethem is in jail.
An incendiary fire in Mobile on Sun
day night, destroyed several stores, and
caused a loss of over $50,000.
Navigation has been re-opened on the
Hudson River, boats having gone up
for Albany and Troy.
The subscriptions for the widow of
Secretary Stanton, in New York, have
reached $20,000.
The Spanish gunboats remaining in
New York bay are expected to go- to sea
in a day or two.
Senator Pratt's resignation is written
out, but he will withhold it until after
the nest election in Indiana, his State.
The losses by fire in St. Louis from
January 1 to November 27, amounted
to $641,770.
Five boys were arrested on a canal
boat at Jersey City yesterday morning,
for stealing carpeting from a church.
The Dominion Cabinet has formally
decided to recall McDougal, whom the
Winnepeg settlers refused to receive as
Governor.
A Pittsburg drover was attacked by
five highwaymen iu Jersey City on
Wednesday night, and robbed of his
watch.
The New York Board of Health re
ports that there aro 20,000 tenement
houses in that city, and that 700,000 of
its inhabitants live in them.
Additional earthquakes, someof them
severe, occurred at Virginia City, Ne
vada, on Wednesday night and yester
day morning.
John Lawrence shot and fatally in
jured Mrs. Atwood, in Bangor, Me.,
yesterday. Jealousy is assigned as the
cause.
It is stated that General Alcorn, Gov
ernor elect of Mississippi, refuses to act
as Provisional Gaverneir uuder the order
of General Ames.
General Terry yesterday issued an or
der assuming the c.miniatid of Georgia
as a Military District and the itscou
struction act.
The word •'State" s: gilled backward
is Etats in French. It is not safe, how
ever, to undertake to learn French sim
ply by going back on your English.
The amount of United States bonds
held abroad cannot be de II u itely v.scer
tained, but are estimated at all points
between $700,000,050 and $1,060 000000
—supposed to be about $500,000,000.
Horace Vernet, the painter of horri
ble battle scenes, was so averse to see
ing any real blood that lie almost faint
ed whenever anybody was accidentally
wounded in his presence.
The new Philadelphia (21:y Councils
met and organized yesterday Samuel
\V. Cattell was elected Pri e hien t of Se•
Itr!'., and Gen. Louis Wagner President
of Common Council.
A game of base ball at New (,leans,
on New Year's Day, between the MUI D
ale, New York, and Southerns, of New
Orleans, was won by the Met us's, the
score being le to 21.
It is understood that the iron-clad
Miantonomah, now at New York, will
escort the British ship Monarch, with
Mr. Peabo ly's remains, into Portland
harbor
In the 1 - nited States Circait Curt, at
Boston, yesterday, the Mus-rs. Starr, of
Camden, N. J., began suit againt the
city of Boston for $4:: !eLi (li, on a cons
tract to furnish water pipe.
During the preseutseason '210,402 bar•
rels of apples have been shipped from
Niagara county, N. Y. At $:1u0 p e r
barrel, these shipments would amount
to $610,16.5 SO. The apples were mostly
sent to Eastern markets.
At Albany and Troy, N. Y., yester
day, an unsuccessful attempt was made
Fate Items. to swindle the banks by the deposit of
Reading now has three malls a day forged checks on the Third National
from Philadelphia. Bank of New York City. The checks
Meadville will dedicate a new court
purported to be signed by S. B. Chit
house soon. tenders & Co.
Newspaper thieves are quite plenty in The Postmaster General has ratified
Reading, the contract for carrying the mails with
j the steamship lines announced in yea-
There are eight hundred places in terday's Ledger. 'lnc first to sail will
Philadelphia where liquor is sold. be the Rhein, to-morrow, which will
Recently the poor-house stables at carry the mails, and has engaged for
Allegheny City were burned. Loss :SO 000 in specie.
$5,000. The January dividends of the Massa
chusetts manufacturing companiesshow
Phoenixville thinks about forming a a decrease, but not, it is stated, to the
vigilance committee. Robberies are extent that might be expected from the
frequent there. duluess of trade. Out of twenty-nine
In Muhlenberg twp , Berke county, companies that pay in B )ston, six pass
a farmer plowed up potatoes on the 2.Bth their dividends.
Inst., something never before heard of The British Pestoffice Deparrment
by many old farmers. made $23 000,n00 net profit last year,
The Belvidere Delaware Railroad while ours ran behind 55,000 000 No
Company will discharge about fifty franking lu England. The Queen,
men—brakesmen, laborers, &c.,—this even who may write a letter by another
week. hand, must put her own head on it to
send it by wail.
Philadelphia has horses so poor that The surveys for the branch from the
owners are obliged to tie knots in their Philadelphia, Wilmington and Balti
tails to keep the body from slipping more Railroad to Bel Air, in Harford
through the collar. eounty, Md., will soon be commenced.
The Ebenezer M. E. Church of Road. Favorable progress is making in secur
ing Las been provided with a new or ing subscriptions to the stock of the new
contested election cases row before the
Senate.
The Governor's Message is said to be of
interminable length, and he declines to
furnish the Press with advance copies.
Its verbosity will prevent minor Radical
county journals from laying it before then
readers in less than three issues.
Thu 3 has been accomplished the organi
zitlon of the two houses for the present ses
sion of the Legislature. The good people
who indulged in a hope of substantial legis
alive reform may as well give them all up
at once. The triumph of Strang,Stinson and
Mackey effectually closes the gate 3, and
there is neither chance nor prospect of im
provement.
•
The present BCssiOn of the Legislature
promises to be uneventful except in private
bills, and that kind of legislation which
pays the ring. The roosters are here in full
feathe - , end they hops to reap a rich har
vest. The ring has had everything its own
way so far, and so it will be until the peo
ple t ff.,ct. a complete change of men and
parties.
Of the temper and action of the Democra
tic minority we will speak to morrow.
TIIE3 AY, Jan. 4, 1870.
The Democratic minority have proved
themselves to be incorruptibly honest end
steadfast in their integrity. Sam Josephs
came to Harriaburg bragging that he could
receive a complimentary nomination for
Speaker. His bark, laden with promises
of good places on important committees,
suffered 'speedy shipwreck. The uncor
rupted and incorruptible members from
the rural districts made short work of this
tool of the ring His little coat of many
colors proved to be of less value than the
veriest piece of shoddy work in a Bowery
slop shop. The Republicans did all that
lay in their power to secure the caucus
nomination for Josephs, knowing that
such en event would silence 'the bat
teries of the Democratic press of the State,
and remove the stigma m hick justly attach
es to the election of that prince or roosters,
Butler B Strang. La• Speaker Clarke and
other pwtnioeut Re-publicans circulated
about the Bolton Hotel, and used the most
specious arguments to induce the new
Democratic members to vote for Josephs.
They wore told that positions on important
committees were entrusted to the control of
this corrupt rooster, and assured that the
men who voted for Josephs could com
mand such appointments as they might de.
sire. We are glad to say that the staunch
Democracy of the rural members, that
honesty which is part and parcel cf the
party creed, prevented them from being
seduced by any such specious promises on
the part of the party in power. The pro
needing, of the Democratic caucus showed
how true and unimpeachably honest the
minority in the House is. That assembly
met at 101 Jclock, and organized by the
seleetiml of the following otli•iers :
lent, George Sou: t, of Columbia
Seer taritm. Heniy Probst, of Berk=, and
Samuel D. Daily, of Philadelphia.
The first ballot resulted as follows :
R. B. Brown, of Clarion, 17: Satnntl Jo
seph=, of Philadelphia, 8; Dr,•B. F. Porter,
of York, 7 ; Joshua Brans of Bucks, 2.
Mr. Josephs finding that he was rekudi
ated the Democratic members resigned in
favor of Dr. Porter, and the proce-rd
ed to a sco,nd be l lot, which resulted as
folio w 3 :
1 1;orter de•
The ßro,; ,, n ri , g 2 ; i n ; .l P s o u r p t a p r o , r B te ; rs ß o u r r
D n
serted him almost to a man as soon as it
was made apparent that he was the favor
ite of Josephs, and he was ignominiously
defeated. Thus ended the persistent :at
tempt which was made to re ince the Dem
ocratic minority to a level with the infamy
of the Radical M 9 lOritY.
gao of considerable dimensions, inanu- i road.
factured at Philadelphia. 1 The Prince de la Tour d'Auvergne,
The libel case of A. P. Tattoo against , Minister of Foreign Affairs in Paris, has
Messrs. Elliott S Shultz, of the Bead• i instituted a series of diplomatic dinners
for the purpose of bringing foreign rep.
fog Dispatch, will be brought up at the
January Term of Court. resentatives into more frequent con-
Edward Burke, convicted of murder
tact, mull-Ails° for the discussion of di•
ploinatic qyestions unfettered by offl
in the second degree for the killing '
of cial authority.
Jacob Settlemoyer, in Johnstown, Cam-
Ju,lge I3usteed of the U. S. Court at
bria county, has been scut to the peui- 1
tentiary fur five ye irs. on
, Mtgomery, has granted an injunc
tiou to restrain the collection of the tax
Au express train on the Connelsville imposed upon the Southern Express
Railroad ran into a flock of sheep near Company by a law of Alabama. The
Uniontown, Fayette county, the other State Auditorhasdirected thecollection
day, kidling forty of them. The train !of the tax notwithstanding the injunc
was thrown from the track, ; tion. The courts will have to decide
The Bethlehem Times says that Hon. the matter.
G. H. Goundie, late State Senator of ; John G. Walker, who had charge of
that district, intends to go to Europe for of the Chinese emigrants that passed
the seventeenth time early in January ' through St. Louis, writes to the Repub-
He expects to remain about two years liCall of that city that there is little
at en t of su
The Pennsylvaniaßailroad Company
prospect g
Deg pres rees. He say
mense grain elevator at Philadelphia s the Chinamen
Chinesp
e
has recently had constructed an icu
are suspicious in disposition, and can-
The , first car load of grain was deposited not be retained excepts[ the eatue wages
therein on the 28th ult. us are paid to other laborers.
;Twenty years ago a Connecticut man
Miss Sidell, telegraph operator at lot a watch with a jeweler, to be clean
Pluenixville, having received her -
ed and repaired, saying that Le would
I
mouth's wages, started home, but in be in town in a day or two and call for
crossing Plitenix bridge, was attacked it. East week the man called in at the
by two men, who-gagged and robbed jeweler's and asked : "DJ you remem•
her. her my leaving a watch with you a
The wife of a respectable citizen of number of years since to be cleaned ?"
Allegheny City wasattacked on astrt et " replied the jeweler, "And here
of that place, one night recently, by a it is."
ruffian, who attempted an outrageous ! In Richmond, VA., New Year recep
assault, but was frightened off by the j Mons were given by General Canby,
approach of other parties. ! Governor Walker, and the Mayor of
Wm. Parsons was knocked down I the city. The Colored Society celebrated
near Newport, Perry county, lately, by ; the anniversary of Emancipation, and
: called upon Governor Walker, who told
three men, who attempted to stab him.
The knife struck a package of crackers them he wouldprotect them iu their
The • rights under the laws. The ex rebel
in his pocket, and glanced off.
fellows then discovered that he was not, General Imbodm spoke in a similar
the man they wanted. manner.
At epy Hollow, near Peuglikeep-
Huguenot Lodge of Masons, No. 377, s i e , N V., on SAturd.iy, V. W. Buck
of Kutztown, Berke county, celebrated him: shot his wife, a New York mer-
St. John's Day by a splendid supper I ehai.t umned Alfred Randall, and the
gotten up by Mr. Daniel Zimmerman, son, Charles Randall. Mrs.
proprietor of the Black Horse Hotel at Suck hi u' and young Randall are dead,
that place. The supper was a splendid and the cider Randall is not expected
affair, and was attended by all the to recover. Buckhout is in jail. The
brethren of the fraternity in the vi-
cause of ilie tragedy is not kdown.
cinity. The etary of the Treasury has
dittcr,,l ;no col:tint/slice during Janu
A new steamboat to be used for pleas
;try t::, sale of one million of g, Id
ure parties on the Schuylkill 1, oeing
built at the boat yard of Mr. pui nhiil-e of oue million of bonds OEI
Hiester, in Reading. It will ne fret weeks, for the sinking fund ;
In length and 10 feet wide, and ; Wk. I in.>nla of one million of gold and
of seating one hundred passeinzer: , . It i ut‘ two million of bonds on
is designed to have it on the watt r et ks, ;ltd alternating with
the let of April. Its probable cost wi!l the ssb. pnreliase for the sinking
be $2,000 when finished.
A very sad case othydropholii.i
occurred in Lower Iffakefield township,
Bucks county. The sufferer was Aftx
ander Ai:Donald, a resident of Yardi,y •
villa, a harnessmaker. He was
by a small dog a month or so ago. Not
long since he was seized with tpmals ;
on the 24th ult. he became ferocious,
and at 2 o'clock the next ruorninq he
died in Loirinte convulsions.
The physicians of the lower end of
Berke and upper end of Montgomery
counties held a meeting in Boyer,to..vu
a few days ago, and adopted a uniform
fee bill. By the new scale 75 cents is
charged for a visit in the borough, or
within three•fourths of a mile from the
physician's residence; over that dis
tance, $1 is charged ; for a night visit,
from $1 to $1 50: for reducing a frac
ture or dislocation, from $2 50 to $5 ;
obstetric cases, s3 to $5, and $3 for con
sultations, wit allowances in case of
poor families.
On Christmas night, a man named
Jerry Hogan engaged in a brawl in
Cincinnati with some drunken com
panions, and one of these stabbed him
in the left temple, driving the three
inch blade of a pocket knife nearly up
co the handle into the head of Hogan.
He was taken to the Hospital in au in
sensible condition, but reviving upon
being placed upon a bed, was asked how
he felt. He said he supposed he was
mortally hurt, but was "too great a sin
ner to die." The five surgeons present
theh united their energies and wisdom
to extract the knife blade, which came
out with a jerk, and it was found that
the optic nerve was uninjured. The
surgeons bellpTe that Hogan will re.
cover.
t,a le of Liaho is reported to
be plc,— ,:og, iv cinstquence of the
e2.lllties recently alfirded for
:11 , 1., 4•I t! skins to the East. A !arge
tract of cuun try on the Salmon river, it
ab meils in the choicest fur
1i aring au,wals, and not being fre
quented by miners, trapping may be
profitably carried on there for several
years.
A Cie girl,Mary Goldsborougb,
was brought up on the charge of appear
ing in male attire. She was fined $l3 Si.
t. -
Sc stated that she bad dreased In man's
garments for the past seven years, and
that she had never been detected before.
Within the time mentioned she had
driven street care in Cleveland for two
years, and for it time she was employed
as a driver on a canal. Her parents tiled
when she was quite young, and since
she had become large enou4b, she had
supported herself. The girl is said to
have been of very modest appearance.
The magnitude of the grain trade of
of Chicago can be understood frufn the
figures of 1809. During this year that
city received 27,000,000 bushels°, wheat,
23 000 . 000 bushels of corn, and 120110,tsso
bushels of other grain. 600,000 barrel.
of 11 Jur were manufactured there. The
city received, since Jan, 1, MS, about
one billion feet of lumber, over 600,000,-
000 shingles, and 121,000,000 laths.—
There were marketed during the same
period, in the Garden „City, 1,872,000
hogs and 400,000 cattle. The receipt of
wool, salt, seeds, broom corn, tallow,
coal, wood, etc., was also Immense.
As Mr. Jefferson Davis was seated in
a railway car In Alabama, the other
day, be was accosted by an Irish widow,
who Informed him that her husband
had been killed while fighting for the
"lost cause e' but the woman did not
complain of this, for she said, in shak
ing hands with Mr. Davis, she felt as If
she was meeting with her father. Mr.
Davis, in reply, recounted the brave
deeds of the woman's husband in such
a manner as to bring tears into the eyes
of his fellow-passengers, and the Irish
woman left the car with a Bum of
money sufficient to keep the wolf from
the door for many days.
The Radical Opposition to the Admix.
Mon of Virginia—More Conditions Ex
pected.
Confirmatory of the newly started oppos
sition to the admission of Virginia, we take
the following from the New York Times,
dated Washington, December :
" Important intelligence reached your
correspondent to night, from a reliable
source in Richmond, concerning a new
movement regarding the admission of Vir
ginia. It is to the effect that since the ad
journment of Congress there have been
repeated efforts made to harmonize the
two wings or the Republican party in re
gard to the admission of the State. Gover
nor Wells has held, and still adheres to the
opinion, that nothing further ought to be
required by Congress. Porter, Humphreys
and the rest of the extremists, reject every
proposition short of Mr. Sumner's plan re
quiring members of the Legislature and
State Officers to take the iron•clad oath.—
On Tuesday evening a conference of lead
ing Republicans was held, which, after a
protracted interchange of views, adjourned
over until to-day, when anotheri meeting
was held. Among those present were Col
onel Jenkins, late Chairman of the State
Committee, Judge Bond, Congressman
Platte and other Republicans of influence,
and it was finally agreed that a bill should
be prepared for the admission of Virginia,
to be presented in Congress, with the fol
, lowing conditions : The State to be admit
ted, and the Legislature to meet the second
Tuesday thereafter, after electing State of
eery and passing such acts as are neces
sary to put in operation the Constitution
, adopted by the people last July, then
'to elect judges; all the acts passed
and officers and judges elected to be sub
mitted to Congress and approved by that
body. The bill will furthermore provide
1 that the Representatives and Senators elect
from Virginia shall be admitted to Coo
-1 greys ns territorial delegates only, until
such time as Congress shall approve the
nets of the Legislature and declare the State
fully in the Union. This bill to be brought
, Washingtou by the 10th of January, and
its passage will be urged by a strong dole-
ggition of Republicans, including a number
of influential colored members of the party.
I It is also proposed by them, as a part of
the compromise, to require all judges to
take oath that they are not obnoxious to
the Fourteenth Amendment. It is said
that few, if any, of the moderato Republi
cans in Richmond favor, as an original
plan, the imposition of the conditions reci. I
• ted, but are influenced to propose them be
, cause, otherwise, they fear the State will
be kept out through the influence of the
extreme men in Congress.
"This view It is stated is supported by
reports from Washington, to the effect that
a majority of the members of the Recon
struction Commi tee have agreed to report
a bill requiring the Virginia Legislature to
I be reconvened, and each member be re
quired to take the oath under the Four
' teenth Atnendment, the election of United
States Senators to be declared null and void
and a new election of Senators to take place
after the Legislature has thus been purged.
These members of the committee, it is also
said, claim that Judge lloar's opinion,
holding that members of the Legislature
are not required to take the test oath, is
erroneous, and that it was not lawful for
the Legislature to take any action of any
• kind until the members bad all su bscribed
to the test oath. They assert that they have
canvassed the House of Representatives
and find a majority with them, and there
fore it does not matter how much unaninii
ty there may be among Senators in favor
of the immediate admission of Virginia,
as the house is master of the situation,
since both Houses must approve what has
been done (under the reconstruction nets)
in t h at State before her Senators or Repre
sentatives can take their seats,"
yer-Oliver Trnactly
From a letter in the Richmond Enquirer
on this eubject we extract the following:
Now I nitll introduce the accused. Look
at him. You see before you a light. haired
man of 52 years of age, dressed in a plain
suit of gray cloth. le is rather under the
ordinary height—about Live feet eight inch
es high, is robust and vigorous, and pos
sesses a countenance that would attract any
beholdsr. His nose is large and prominent,
his eyes large and piercing, and his mouth
of medium size.
His is ;one of those faces that plainly
tells you its owner in a first-rate Man to
have for a friend, but a territue.one to have
an enemy. Firmness, decisiori and tenae
ity of purpose are indicated by his feature.,
and these qualities are so shaded and Bell
sued by au expression of good humor and
geniality that at a first sight it makes one
like the man.
The lawyers in this case talked a good
deal about "cooling time," and an argu•
merit was made by the commountealLes
attorney to show that the period which in
tervened between the time when the accus•
ed first heard of his daughter's condition
and the time when he killed her seducer
was sufficiently long to prevent the provo
cation Iron. being eLlbctive as a legal Ineti•
fication of the homicide; that the frenzy of
mind, the monomania which one of the
witnesses said the announcement of his
daughter's dishonor produced In Mr. Ayer,
would have cooled down and died out, and
consequently could not serve as a legal ex,
cure fur his act.
It may have been so with some persons
whose mental organization was different
from his, but it is not so with Mr. Ayer.
There was no cooling time for him, and I
believe with Judge Robertson that the fire
of passion and revenge which this deep
sense of shame and dishonor had aroused
in his bosom would have become hotter us
time moved on. This was the opinion I
Ica wed of him from his appearance and
conversation with him, and it was strength
ed and coufiruled by toe statement of gen
tlemen wbo had known him long and inti
mately, and who were qualified to judge of
his character.
This is a remarkable case as well as a
sad, sorrowful one. The seducer wa an
Englishman who had recently come to Vir
ginia, and bad already gained in a high de
gree the confidence and esteem of the people
among whom be !nude bin home. Great
sympathy is felt for his innocent f .mily.
The avenger is also an Englishman by
birth, but be Las resided from childhood in
our State, and has acquired wealth, reputa
tion and affection among the people with
whom he has lived, as has been clearly ex
hibited by the presence of many of his
friends from the counties of Friuquier,
Loudoun, Fairfax and Culpeper, to express
their sympathy and condolence for him in
his unhappy situation.
There can be no question of his acquittal
upon his final trial. Judge Robertson sta
ted that there had been twenty-nine prose
cutious in this country for offenses some
what similar to this, and in no Instance had
the accused been convicted. No petit jury
in Virginia can be empanneled who will
find him guilty. The common law of the
State, if I may so speak, sanctions his act
and justifies it. Our statutes do not pro
vide adequate punishment In cases of se
duction. They hang a man for stealing a
horse, and leave theffather to a pitilul ac
ktion for damages before civil courts against
3, man who has blasted the lair fame of his
daughter forever—a proceeding which is
repugnant to the feelings of our Southern
people, and has never been resorted to in
this State that lam aware of. Viewed in
the light rf stern, strict, unbending law,
Mr. n 3 er may have committed a crime,
but when ail the circumstances of the case
are considered, he will not be punished for
it.
l'ew 1311:l000
M. Silberman late!, presented to the
Meteorological Society of France air plan
',fa balloon, Intended lor scientific journeys
and ex plura t ions of short or long durat ion,
winch be pretends will 1 utfit a number or
the desiderata of science, of which the ful
lowing are ths principal leatures • The pus
of ma king'uscents from any point, at
any season, and at any hour of theday or
night, of prolonging indefinitely, Within
certain limits. the duration of the ascension ;
of rising and falltrig without loosing any as.
com,ional t ese.Urnt ; of making safe and
easy de;.e , Lis; of lighting and warming
the machine dor log the night without dart
ger, and preparing warm food in the
cold r gions at the air; of preserving
the iliSt7 uncut franc the action of heat; ol
making signals by day or night by means
of colored iights or firearms; of warding oil
the danger of too great an accumulation of
elietricity on the surfac r of the aerostat; of
preventing the cover from taking tire: of
rendering it uotearaLle ; of hindering it
from c alit rising humidity on the sal face,
and being injured by the action of the bun;
and of avoi die g sudden falls in case of ac
cident. S lour:nan❑ maintained that the
great importance of the physical, astronoin
wahand geographical studies that might be
undertaken stud accomplished successfully
by means of his lin provtd. balloon ought to
be sufficient to induce them to give it a fair
trial. The society then named a commis
sion of competent members to thoroughly
examine M. Silbermann's ideas and pro
posals, and to draw out a report regarding
their practicab lity.
The Imagination
Dr. Foyer, an English physician In India,
communicates to the Indian Medical Gra
:elle an extraordinary case of the effect of
imagtnatt•.n tm the physical system. He
says:
tlome t a:0, on vatting the hospital
L 0 mort.ind. I was told that a man had
'wen eilm:tte.l during the night, suffering
trots a eke blie, sod that he was very low.
I f e. m iu a state of great prostration,
04 \ moi!is to *peak, and seemed
itate s.f great depieszlon. He
s let ti•,ei I that, during the night,
.n, 4 iota his I.ar, a snake bit Win in
the ; that be was couch alarmed, and
rap passed int,. a state of insenstbility
whets eq br-ogia him to the hospital.
They ant he c miiidered that ho was dying,
and evidently r. eluded his condition as
hopeierts. Oa being asked for a description
og'thes snake, they mid they had caught it
and brought It with them in a bottle. The
bottle was produced, and the snake turned
out to be a small, Innocent lycodon. It
was alive, though somewhat Injured by the
treat mi rt It bad received. Ou explaining
to the man and his friends that it was
barmiese,and with some difficulty making
them believe it, the symptoms of poisoning
rapidly d.gappeared, and he left the hovital
as well as ever he was In his life in a few
hours.
Dr. Livingstone—it is Work Nearly Com.
pleted—su Interesting Letter.
The Bombay Gazette, of November 20,
publishes an interesting letter from Dr.
Livingstone, dated May 30 last, and receiv
ed at Zanzibar by Dr. Kirk, Ber Majesty's
Consul, on the 2d of October last :
QUI, May 30, 1869.—My Dear Doctor
Kirk: This note goes by Muss Ka meals,
who was employed by Koarji to drive the
buffaloes hither, but, by overdriving them
unmercifully in the sun and tying them up
t t save trouble in herding, they all died be
f ire he got to Unyanyemb'. He witnessed
the plundering of my goods and got a share
of them, and I have given him beads and
cloth sufficient to purchase provisions for
himself on the way back to Zanzibar. He
has done nothing here. He neither went
near the goods here nor tried to prevent
their being stolen in the way. I suppose
that Fry fur four months in coming, other
four of rest, and four in going back would
be ample, but I leave this to youir decision.
I could not employ him to carry my mail
back, nor can I say anything to him, fur he
at once goes to the Gjtjians, and gives his
own version of all he hears. He is untruth
ful and ill conditioned, and would hand DIT
the mall to any one who wished to destroy
it.
The people here are like the Nil wa traders, ,
haters of the English. Those Zanzibar men
whom I met between this and Eyassa were
gentlemen, and traded with honor. Here,
asin the haunts Male K ilwa hordes, slaving
is a series of forays,and they dread exposure
by my letters. No one will take charge of
them. I have g Thant bin Sellim to
take a mail privately tar transmission to
Unyalineinbe. It contains a cheek on
Ritchie, Steuart at. Co., of Borubey, for 2,000
rupees, aid some forty letters written dur
ing my slow recovery. I fear It may never
reach you. A party was sent to the coast I
two months ago. ()Jo man volunteeteil to
take a letter secretly, but his master warned
them all not to do so, becsuse I might write
something be did hot like. lie went out
with the party, and cave orders to the head
man to destroy any letter he might detect I
on the way. Thus, though I em good I
friends outwardly with them all, I can get
no assistance in procuring carriers, and, as
you will see, if the mail comes to hand, I
sent to 7. amber for fifteen good Laminae!.
to act as carriers, if required, eighty pieces
of merrtteno, forty ph ces of kinitra, twelve
farusalas of the beds called J inisai in, shoes,
ate., and I have written to Sc . ) d beg•
ging [wool' hie guards to sea to the eatery of
the goods hero into '('haul bin Suellitn's I
hands, or Into those of Mohammed bin
Sahib.
As to the work to be done by me It is on
ly to connect the sources which I have dis
covered from 500 to 700 miles south of Spoke
and Baker's with the Nfie. The volume
of water which tlieu north 1(0111 latitude 12
south is so large, I suspect that I have been
wot king at the sources of the Gauge as well
as those .r the Nile. I have to go down the
I eastern line of drainage to Baker's turning
I point. Tanganyika, Nyiga Chowainbe
I Baker's ?) are one water, and the head of
it is 3011 miser south of MIA. The western
I and central lines of drainage converge into
an unvisited lake west or southwest of this.
The out II ire ol this, Whether to Cango or
Nile, I have to ascertain. 'The people of
this, culled al anyetna, are cannibals, if
Arabs speak truly. I way have to go there
first, and d ,wn Tanganyika, if I come out
uneaten, and find my new squad from Z
in
zibar. I earnestly hope that you will do
what you can to help me with the goods
I and men. a:100 to be sent lay fir. Young
must surely have come to
,you through
Fleming .'c Co. I am. Jr.o.,
A ( levelnnd Girl In Mule .Atllre.
'rho Toledo Blade of Thursday says:
" gln e a SenSellen c•aso enure ba C ore
Judge Cummings fit adjudication In the I
Police Court i his more ing, it being that (la
girl charged with trieg men's clothing,.
The nano , of the girl, us given to officer
Barnes, who arrested her last evening, at
the St. Charles Hotel, is Mary G 'hist:for- ,
borough.
The girl pleaded guilty to the ofliinve of
which she was charged, and the court tined '
her til3 mt. On paying th arid promising to
leave the city fir tics:eland to day, the
judge susovnded the balance of the fine find
rel used the defendant.
In the account which the girl gave to the
court of herself, she stated that she bud
dressed in men's garments for the past rev
en years, nod abet alma I ad never been do.
tected LAI ire, Within the time mentioned
she bad driven street cars in Cleveland for
two years, and f it n OEIIO ,he soils em ploy
ed us a driver on a canal. Iler parents died
when she was quite 3 oung, and since she
had beg ante large enough site had sup
ported herself.
The appearance of the girl was extreme•
ly modwa, and while relating ben story she
bowed her head, and u deep blush mantled
her flee. ILI size she was less than the or
dinary bight, and rather Shit. In corn
plexion She was of the brunette, having in
large clerk eye, black hair, cut short and
patted on one side, and skin bearing the
effects of outdoor exposure The outlines
of her face were, in every respect, effernha
ate and girlish. Iler voice was like that of
a boy's, and in her manner and expression
she seemed like a lad about 14 yews of age.
She was dressed in black Pack coat, with a
dark vest revealing between its laps a
white shirbbosom, and dark pants cut in
style. Immediately after her trial, which
was witnessed by a gaping crowd of roughs,
she it ft the court room and disappeared.
PLYMOUTH, Dec 31, Isei3 —There was
nearly a repetition of the Artludale horrorat
this plat-e yesterday. At about half pest
ten A. M. the breaker of the Nottingham
mine, situated at tue southern end of the
town, was discovered to be on tire. There
were lifty five men in the mine at the time,
which Is one of the man-traps like the
Avondale one with but one outlet—yet
notwithstanding this, no notice was given
to the wen below that the building above
was on Lire. Fortunately, It was dittcover
ed soon after it broke out, and with great
exertion was nut only prevented trout
spreading but was extinguished, the men
be:ow remaining ell the while lu Ignorance
of their danger.
The fire was the result ,f gross careless
nese on the part of the company working
it. It appears that two stoves were kept In
the breaker to give heat to the b 'ye em
ployed there to Lick out the elate from the
coal as it goes into the breaker, and the
pipes from these stoves were run directly
throng! . the woodwork of the building,
without any protection. The result Web
what any suite may might have expected.
The wood work heated until It became 01
the consistency - of tinder end then ignited.
Al noon some of the men came up to
dinner, and, although every exertion was
made to keep the tire from their knowledge
the fact leaked out and they became aware
for the first time of the terrible fate they had
escaped. When they went down again they
informed the rest of the men In the mine
and they at once got together and held an
indignation tmeting and resolved at once
lo go up rut of the mine. When they got up
they assembled thereat of the men belong
lag to tne mine—in ad about seventy• live--
and held another meeting, resolving that
they would not again go down into the
mine untill there was built two brick chltu
ne3a for the stove pipes, a watchman placed
In the building night and day and a bell at
the bottom of the shaft 8,1 that they ahould
have a signal whir there was dauger at
the surface. Since that time the mine has
not been worked and the men slid remain
firm
The proprietor=, Thomas Brod.
riek 4: Co., not being able to get any
nun to supply the pleas of their old
hands, hove yielded to their demands
so far as the twn eldnine3s nro con
cerned, and th,ll . ,41st ruction hoe com•
minted ; but they think one watchman ID
the night is sufficient, and decline to place
'one there in the day time. The men say
that this only shows a wit dopiness to protect
their own property, and as their lives are
exposed In the day time they say they shall
tns at on the two waichmeci and also on the
a'a• m be.l.
Dr. Foyer, an English physician In LIL.
communicates to the Indian Medical Ga
zette an extraor ;Mary case of the enact of
imagination 01 !he physical system. He
says:
'•Some time rig ), on visiting the hospital
ono mort.l.tg, I vies told that a man had
been admitted during the night suffering
from a •mike bite, mid that he was very
loiv. I found him In a state of great pros
tratien, he wit, hardly able to speak, and
seemed to be in a state of great depression.
lie and his friends said that, during the
night, in going into his hut, a snake bit him
iu the fool ; that he was so much ;alarmed,
and rapidly passed into a state of luaenei
bltily they brought him to the hos
pant. They 111,1 he considered that he was
dying, end evidently regard, d his condi
non as hopeless. On bring asked for a de.
scr ii.tion of the snake, they said they had
caught it and btougt.t it with them in a
bottle. The Wile was produced, end the
snake turned out to be a small, Innocent
lyeoritat. It was alive, though somewhat
injured by the treatment it had reneived.—
Oa explaining to the trial and Lis friends
that it wan harmless, and with some dim
^ulty making them believe it, the symp
toms of poisoning rapidly disappeared, and
ho left the hospital as well as ever he was
in his lite in a few hours."
Mortality of Philadelphia In 1,460
The following statement tatown the mar
tality of the City f Philadelphia. from the
let ofJanuaty, ISO 9, to Pet:ern her,2. - Al3,!Eti9.
as compared with the total number of
deaths in 1843 S :
Nlontbs. No cd . I) .ettl s. No. cf D.ett Le
January 1857 1249
February 1018 1063
March 1381 148.16
April 1163 1357
May 1001 917
Jut.° 1399 1201
July 1710 1900
August 1054 1570
September 994 1353
October 9116 955
November...—. 1091 878
Decembet • 1050 1154
• rho past week in December Is oinked ,
this added, say 250 as the number of deaths,
would make the total for 1869, 14,779, or 86
more than the entire number in 1868.
. .
Of the whole number of deaths during
1869,1 here were 7523 males and 7005 females,
and 4200 boys and 3801 girls. Of the num •
ber of boys and girls, 5808 were five years
of age and under. The deaths of those of
70 years and upwards, numbered 1109;
from consumi tion 1949, and the atill•born
-773.
Foreign News
PARI9 Jan. 3.—The new Nilnistry bas at
length been formed. The Journal Official
gives the list as follows: Minister of Jus
tice, Emile 011ivier ; Minister of Foreign
Affairs, Count Napoleon Darn ; Minister of
the Interior, Chevandrler de Valdrome;
Minister of Finances, Louis Joseph Buffet;
Minister of War, Edmund Lebotielf ; Min •
later of Marine, R"gnault du Genouilly ;
Minister of alate Instruction, Emile
Alexis Segris; Minister of Public Work,
Marquis do Talbouet ; Minister of Agricul
ture and Commerce, Cbaries Lnuvet ; Min
ister of Fine Arts,Maurice Richard; Em •
peror's Household , Count Valibint l'rtst
dent of the Council of State, E•quiron de
Parlen.
An Imperial decree separates the Mini
try of Fine Arts from thstol ttio Empt•rur
Household.
The Emperor, ou Saturday, In reply it
the usual address of the Corps Legit.!alit,
addressed himself to the President of that
body in the following language: " The as•
surances of devotion which you address to
me in tha name of the Corps Legislatif ren
dered toe happy. Never was our good
understanding more necessary. New cir
cumstances have augmented your prerega
lives without diminishing the authority
given me by the nation. In Mooing its
responsibility with the great body of state,
I feel more confident of "vet corning difficul
ties In the future. When a traveller has
gone a lung j rurney and lays a ride a por
tion of his burthen, he is not weakened. but
gains new strength to continue his inureh.•'
Subsequently, in reply to the address of tire
Archblshop of Paris, the Emperor said :
••I accept, with gratitude, the good wishes
of the clergy of Paris; receive In return Inv
felicitations upon the c 411 you have Ph.; st
in promulgating among the Ll'lthei , ll tte
doctrines of of abnegate:Li and a:roily."
The Emperor's speech and the successlul
formation of the new Minletry have had nn
unusually favoittbie
. effect . in mourtary
circles.
Paris n Isenpot t.
Thu Idea of making Paris a seaport, by
means of a canal connecting It with the sea,
is no now prod, et. It was first thought of
by Sully, was again entertained by Colbert,
and also by the first Napoleon. In the
Palula do P Industrie, at Paris, is a model
In relief, three hundred feet long, giving the•
proposed line between Dieppe and Parts--
Passing through II e valleys i.f Argues.
Bethune, and Tnerai n, it 'rinses at Beauvais
the pre jested canal between Amiens and
Rouen. It then enters the valley of the
(WHO, I.IIN sawn that river into the vulh y
al
theSelne, and, passing St. Deals, enters
Paris On the plainsid St Wien. lin 0.1.1r40
is nearly similar to last or the new rail woy
between Dieppe and Pin is. The length of
the canal is one !rumba d outer , its a lath
two hundred and sixty !eel, and its depth
thirty-three feet, suflldent to °thug td the
free passage of ships-of war, nr even of the
Great Eastern. A new port Is to be made
at Dieppe, and the port of Paris is to consist
of twenty-four basins, capable or contain.
lug three thousand ships. The engineer
ing difficulties appear to be The
greatest obstacle probably to carrying nut
the plan Is the cost, I% tirusled at Btu ty- t wee
miluons alerting
I=l
The Cerise I Utah) Reporter, niter omy
ing an item from the New York evening ,
Post re ating to the mortality animig Mt.
Moratoria, oilers the f Mowing rem,. km:
'• NVe are sorry to ray that the Heats 111
formation Is too true 11l regard LO the 'llia - -
tidily uniting Mormon children. it is mill
however, very well John - med, or else w Wive
to draw it very mild, fOr trial end clamsO of
the haws of :ergo harems like Heti. r
Kimball, burying only forty-eight children,
We Cull show the 1100 gt 1111 1 ,114 grit V,
yards of one fatuity, as they Call I hour here,
that will foot up nearer one hundred awl
forty eight. As this is certainly the MIMI.-
teat etiolate known to toUrt,ta 111.1 rxphOr
era, (1111r1117. ml suit 111.11(1-.11 as if, is, thin
year round, by the salutary inllnevera of
the Great Salt Lake, it is an easy mutter to
point to this mortality evd- it bt p. dy g.itoy
and nothing tine:'
A Gay and I C•Ill We NCnllll•
" Lord Hubert Lelt ly ti. 1111,8 A110.1.•1,••
otherwise a 1101011,110 se imp named ti,ek
Rid ford, who recently created II great ex •
citement In New Yurk fashionable cire'n
by Inducing in Staten Island belle and heir
ens to elope with him has decamped Irmo
Gotham between, two days, leaving, his wife
and an army of credulous eredttots behind
to Burrow and wonder over his unexpected
departure. Tbls notorlotrs ay; i mltv, i:a mil
ler and Imposter has lied, and has taken
with him not only ilk own trunks and
ward rube,but his wife's diamonds • watches',
chains and cases of Jewelry, belaying 110th.
log lu explanation excspt a note informing
has deserted NO ft, that 110 Wan "gone never
to return, ' Mrs. Radford has returned to
the domicil cf her parents, and will lit once
Institute proceedings for a divorce. D,•nee
tiers are on the track of the flying thief,
but it Is thought that he will prove smart
enough to evade them.
=II
The general belief that the bed of the der ti
ocean is as tar beneath t At reach of direct
examination by scientific men as the sub
stance of the solid earth t the same deptle.,
his b+Bl dismited by the tinec•iss of some
bold English Investigators in directly ex.
ploring the depths or the heir. It appeals
that Professor Thompson and Dr. Carpet,
ler, with the aid of a new contrivance for
tl , .edging, have succeeded In bringing up
at different limos I Aids of nearly half a lob
of deposits from a depth of fourteen thous.
and fset (or two miles and two third•)
the Ellf Ince.
or:~1 7ulßlltgeisr
AS OLD ItELIC.—Tae .Yea inc
says that Mr. Tueo. Lichenthider of that
place, has In his possato.i in an our graph
(framed) of Gen. Washington, with h was
pro tented to Mr: L. by a gentleman now
residing at Pittsburg,Pa. The fa:lowing Is
a literal evy :
Head gniarter,, Valley Forge,
F. 22, G7O.
Permission Is granted to Mr. Clymer
with his negro man, Sam, to puss tool re
pass the pickets, at the. Itri.Me, sad on a
Norristown road. Go, Tot.:
RAI I. ROA D Il ut LIDI no. Mr. II 11.130
der, of Strasburg, a well known min's
contractor, ibis morning engaged the set
♦ices of some GO or 70 of our eit . z•ll4 to work
on the Pittsburg and Connelsville railroad,
for the building of which be has a contract.
It Is said that on Friday nex , , the services
of a large number more will b., xl,lllll - '3.1
The wages paid in $1.75 per day, which will
be increased to 82 00 per day la a month or
two.
SUDDEN DEATH —Mts. I:u,ma Trnvers,
wife of Joshua Travers, of Conestoga Cen
tre, died very suddenly yesterday morning
about 7 o'i•lock. She wan apparently In her
usual health, find was sitting on a chair,
miming h, eaten of about a 1114)11111 .14),
when she culled for some Onto )41 open 11:0
window, and fit the epee) tune she got Up
off her chair, but tell over 011 the 11 .or and
expired instantly. The Doctor raid the
cause wait disease of the heart. The de
ceased wan about 120 yearn of fig .
A I3en Cite.t..—Lydia Ann Llbsley. aged
about 14 yt are, was yesterday token to the
[louse 01 Refuge by Constable Baker. She
is the girl who, tu company wiih Emma
Hamilton, was engaged in the r,d,bory of
Dr. Vales some two or three yearn ago—
when they were left olf on RC./ant of :lair
youth. Emma Is also In the 11 , ,use of lief.
age, haying been taken there ',evert,' weeks
ago.
Tut: Mariettian gives the following 101 a
lot of the now officers (.1 the Pioneer Fire
otompavy : President, Jacob S,lttnester ;
vice Pre:ddt nt, John Peck, Jr.,; Treasurer,
-tobert Carroll, Jr., ;,Secretory, M. M. Car
saber ; assistant Secretary, George U. Lied•
.ay ; Messenger, John J. Maloney. Direc
tors; Roseman, Tnotnav, Marlin, Irwin,
McConnel ; A en, George Illidehrand,
'antuel Let zdere; lldnkmen,
Strause, Edwin Maloney ; Ladder men,
John fibtilow, George R Linthey, , Rank
u a t. VII ;am Iffitihy.
ant.lt EITA TE MARK :r.—Tao Columbia
Spy says that tho properties belonging to the
estate of Charles L orkurd wore sold by
Henry Wider, administrator us follows:
The first property, situated rear 11. W al •
lor's was sold for t2OS per acre ; H. Wailer
purchaser. 'rho other property was sold
on Wednesday evenmg at the Franklin
House to iNtillon WMe fur 8.3,810
considered a fair price.
OFFICF.II9 LECTED.—Tbo rollUWill,!, ore
the 01licera elected for I he emitting It rm lu
"Inland City Lodge Nt. Sc Knights of
Pythiiv, of this city :
NV. (7.—Nicbolas B. Hartiey.
V. C.—Harry B McNeal.
W. o.—Samuel Hess.
I. S.—John T. Wom.
0 S —l3artley Meguire.
W. B.—John DeLleven.
F. S.—William H. Poo!.
R. 5.—A. S. Villee,
Trustee.—Jeremiah Rife,
Repreiienlatlce to Brand Lodge, A. S.
Vi !eo.
M EIICA.N TILE APPRAISER APPOINTED.
—Saio.USI M. Mylin, of ;I'..quea township,
has been adpointed by the County Com
missioncrs, ;Mercantile Appraiser for:the
Sear 1870.
MAPS.—The Columbia Spy says that F.
B. Rusin corps of map engineers of Phila•
delphia are engaged in surveying and pub•
Belling maps. They propose issuing maps
of Lancaster, Columbia and Marietta.
ICNIOUTS TEMPLAR.—A ineetng of Cy
-1 one Commandery, No. 31, K. T., was held
In Columbia on Thureday evuviLg. There
was an attendance of Sir Kubota from
bancaeler and other places.
Fifteen members were Initiated, and de
grees conferred. After the meeting a bow.-
uful collation was served, lu which all par
tmMated.—Spy.
DIPMERI.I.—We learn that the Dipthe
.l,t le, at present, very prvalent among
children in this city. A. number of deaths
have recently oncnried. Joa. Mita,
to day hurried two children, who died of
this disease.