Governor Geary's Hai:mural. FELLOW-errizrss :—Having been bon ored, a second time, by the voluntary suf frages of my countrymen as their choice for Chief Magistrate of the Commonwealth . of Pennsylvania, I have in the presence of God and this assembled multitude, renew the solemn and binding obligation re quired of me by law, to support the State and National Constitutions, and to perform with fidelity the duties devolving upon me as Governor. It shall be my constant aim and most earnest effort to observe the very letter as well as there'll spirit, meaning and intent of the obligation I have just taken. Deeply impressed with the most profound gratitude, I (an but express my most hearty thanks to the good citizens of this Common wealth for the generous confidence and partiality they have reposed in me by re election to the most honorable and respon sible position in their gift. But knowing well their exactions and requirements of one who occupies a position so exalted, it is with extreme diffidence I again under take responsibilities of such , vast impor tance, which even the boldest and most gifted might hesitate to assume. Anti how ever determined may be my endeavors to realize the expectations of lily friends in support of the right, and to battle against whatever, in my judgment, may be wrong, still I am conscious of the necessity for some sustaining power, and, therefore, I unhesitatingly acknowledge my depen dence upon the enlightened support and patriotism of my fellow-citizens, and my lien! reliance upon the unerring wisdom and never failing aid of Ilium u ho controls alike the destfilies of individuals and of na tions. The settlement of 11111 vexed que't"s growing out of the armed contliet with treason, devolves a mighty responsibility on the loyal men of the land. A roust re bellion was signally crushed by the force armod loyalty, and the gevernment has triumphantly established its ability successfully to suppress domestic insurrec tion, however gigantic. The war itself has served to stimulate our people to fresh energies, and to the development of new enterprises. our manufactories have !nut tiplied, plenty has smiled upon stir fields, and blessed die labors of the husbandman. Peaeo has ',souls] our people to their homes, and cheered o ur firesides. The rates of taxation 1111 N. 111.11 1,11101.11, .111 the list fir lho t'umuurtnvealth, (nu' State debt is being Nteadily and surely liquidat ed. Immense sums have 1)1,I1 raid 1 . 4,1: f:0 1 11 , 111111,1 :11111 tither charities. The 0:1111 , 1•,pr ,•41,1,:itiou ha, tilt iii,tit.- tions for tin. Nlll,port and tuition of the soldiers' or duets have been liberally stip plin I. have bee, ,ptistrnete,l, and nett - material ri,onrees devel,,ped. -- And thus our Statl l 11111 Nation ate rapidly Proz.ressiteg in the attainment or th,,, monk of greatne:, v..11i4.11 have already placed our country iu the foremost rank of The ;;real railroad hin++ “ 1, Slat , t , the Far \V ,, t,: 11111 it in turn In the orit•lltal Irt: heru vortniploted, and all 1,111 . :PM to lltir finispirity It was my priN 1) . 1,111 this xl:uul, dlr., pia), orip,..iph, ‘,tl ~h 1 1110 ill lllllllllll4lnl- Li,m the otti, or( At that tittle I dwelt up,ln and I•xpr,ss, , ,l 111 . N" Vil•Wii ill rereiTi/1 • 1.' then ..c . ilpVing share of :ktlt•lltion. 1 haVe froiu lin.. I', in IllessaveS to (lii Evg- islattire, sot forth the condition of titotintte, rectunincirletl sueli inea,urt, a, I tier , titti I . X11( . 111, lit and edentate,) In :aß:mr,• her in terests, :tin] my vioxys upon t h e various topics lir the day that %%1.1, of Slat, or National import:tin, All.l having fully retliwt..4l thereon, I ain the more 1•011111111 , 1 1111.1.111, :111 , 1 I,IIOW of It reason NVIly I shall),) 111,1 1•1111,1,12 rvit •ralt• thew as fully, on Ibis ~,,a4:1)11, :Is it I again pro mulgated tlu•m v.orcl 14. word. Anti now, •u•knowludgi,ii.; in iL 111 , 1:1110 .1111,1, to Illy tlll' 111a,,ui tudn nl ' lhl iullrl.lt. tr 111111 luivt• •uwwittrvl b. III)' i•liarg,,, 1 it N 1110111111WIlt 111.11 rel . , then, 113 thi , 11 1 11•1/111 , ,t , indiCati.il, Ihr all outline of the general pinlicy which is intended a. a guide for the illl,lllillg ad ntinistration,rnthrrl•lll•lllllliol. this this audi ence with their repetition. I hnvo 110 lIVW pla.lgos In make, lust refer in the 1,1.01.11 iiiy 1.5 t life, as evidence at least of my zo:o and 41,v0ti.,n to the hest interest of my State and conntr . ‘•, and for tan rectitude my intentions. And al thmign the ahil ity tc hieh. I bring; to the dis charge of such high dillies he I Sllllll emitidc [lily rely upon the hind in dill gen. , of lily fell“w-citi,ons and upon a emisciontiou.elimt t.. unhnld unblemished, and transmit t., iny in otllce, t.,ll.,terity, the I . :drl':unc sung gond name of 111,1:411iliCellt nl.t riilll mmi‘vealtli. 1,01- surnnind ylilll. EXI•1•Illive nillieer in the discharge or the many duties devolving upon hint, emlcerning "i • svilki, 014., may 1,0 ”pilti.ois. It being;, tliota•rma., inhp"4sihlit to satisfy :ill, his only safeguard is 1., a.lnpl, and act in aceordanee with those ,ter . ling unit benelictqlt maxims tin which the early fathers gave utterance, which have In,. by NV 1,1111111 111111 eXI/1 1 1•11 1 111 . 1, 111111 1'1,1111.141 111 the 111/111 grmv Ell pr“.pt•rity 411 . 41111 . 111,t1111t11/11S, 111111 1111 1 11111 . 1 . 1 :11111 11:1111/1111 , i of uur jllll/- Tile '1,11 , 4 it Ilti."1 " Slllll'llll' EX - l'olll iVe 11,1,1 . " “t . State ill the ;OVel . - nor, awl ii 1 .1,1,1 that lII' shall take ear,. [list the lien he faithfully exe,uled." The sill..erne earthly affilmrity by tin, therefore, is the law tile rightfully ile teruailied will tiiii N,i ritiarn in en rs tilr~l as ht Is tutu .11111 11011 e SIP an It he helle'ltil it , prover." 'l'lll. Ex eentive is as itioeh lit vu [Fleet of the Tall, tiiii it, :111 , 1 . 1,1 tilt' Xer'llti., id ' till` , I:INVS, I II:, during my tortn ..1 Faithfully 1.. iHseharge every 44110i:1i duly t% ith a toll referclo, h. toy .Ic..rn :Ltol a, I , hall un .:wcrr at the last grvat. day. It should he our tu faith fully dis,hargo all our obligations and re sponsibilities, II Ult as citizens and magis trates. We should 1 . 1,151` In t.d,ate thing right, that is morally ,vrong,"atul actively proscribe the corrup tion which too frequently marl:, the adminktration of piddle allair. lin evil ill whirl, nll 1,11 II 1111111.1 1,11 1 . 1,111,401 y 1.1 . 11,11 I . i/11,1111y 1/0 ill 11,1. No sign more eertainlN' in dieates the dm, itfall in [inn. 111, iu,lllli rrnrr of the i.,- pi, In 111• u,ornl depravilc of tiinsr in iLtillwrity. All liivMr arns its to hold to our integrity a , ,Vi• Vl.llllll our national ex isleflee. Elll.ll/1y 11111/111,S1•41 With 1111,0 1111111 S, i 1,11 11111111 1111 111141,11111,11, 111111 111.11 a ll .OA I , good citizens, :11111 1,111.1 • i:11 N . upon 1110 1111,, of the - (fie ever faithful sentinels of a free people -to ahl iu giving Thal 1,110 I. 1,111,11, Nllllllllllllll lV111,•11 shall purify our Stale, and relieve her from the of even voittitenaneing those who ,votild in:tl, a trallie of their cnliees in violation ..r 1...nf In it 11.11 111111 C,11,11 - , 111,115, 11,11 1.'4111 . 111 1,111, 1, 11,1011 l u ll svi,:l4ll, that the v. must he obeyed, and that the "public weal" is Inc lirst oltio-t to he at tained inn trvo government. It you per mit Sl/11,111111011 enrich thrulst 1, es uul 1,1 tin. nini al the Slllllll 111110 1101,111/1 11111 1111 V-1111111 111 . 1_1 1 / 1 . 11111•11 of the government, you pave the Nvay to atiareli - , volt Set the 11 - 111111/111 10111.11 1111111111110 1,111111 111111011'011 111 11. 1,11111 .1 OWIIIIIIIIIO, 111001 4111111•111,11 Vll, 111111 self go‘uslittient is a fail ure. ti, iii,' 111,1111' ,I r .o rt , . 11 . 0, o.'l the part or free Ira Iris for the aleilislinient ..f the natural and wholesome proteetiou now afforded to our leine industry and to labor, I consider it a subject which claims a 01011 r tilllti and iltltilltioll. If our na tional industry iinil natural prductions, represented by thousand: of faetories, all other ,:onree, of labor, are t:: be preserved, there should hs no rednetiim of ditties which shall enable the underpaid and overworked population of the World to flood our State with the prodgrt if their mines and w•irkshops at the idist of our tlestruetion. The articles tint: admit ted would undersell the pi...illets or 0111 . :irtizans at our very doors, and our factories would be oh 001, :0 heretofore, by causes. This Will Ihrow nut if employ ment thousands of industrious 111011, and entail ruin upon them and their families, merely for the benefit and aggrandizement of foreign mantiliiet tilers and eapitalists. As 50011 a: our indusininl arms are paral yzed and oimpe:ition isties• roved, the mon opolist can command his 415011 prick., and it is thus vicar that the policy :If Iris—trade calm never permanently benelit any country that will sanetion its aiioption. • Impelled by every feeling of inlereit, humanity and justive for our artizaus and laborers, Hllollld unhesitatingly set our faces against this heresy. IV:' should, therefore, not on ly earnestly legislate for the benefit of capital, but Ihr the toiling sons and daugh ters of our country. It should be our eotodant etiort to improve their soeiai eon dition, to ad ranee their intellectual status, and above all to shield them from the des titution which is threatened by the enemies of protection to 011 r industrial pursuits. In my sevcral messages to the Legisla ture I • have taken occasion to refer to a subject which I regard as of paramount importance to the prosperity and even the stability of our government. No nation inn long exist that attempts to violate any of its obligations. The ilmst prominent among these is the faithful payment of all its indebtedness. Ni. good reason can be given for the repudiation of 11 single far thing,. I said iu Illy message :if January, 15110, "'rho people of Pennsylvania, ever true to the Union, and unswerving ill their determination to priiiiierVil its h4luor integ rity and perpetuity, are proud and free to assert the sacredness of the national debt, and that its ultimate payment in full must be secured." 10 .11y message of 'slit:, I called attention to the same subject, ill these words: "'rite voice of l'ennsylvania, as well as that of a majority of the States, has at the ballot-box proclaimed to the world, that all our national indebted ness,. no matter how heavy the burden, will be paid according to the letter and spirit of the agreements made and en tered into at the [into the dell was eontraet - ed ; and that in this, as in :Mother respects, our individual and national honor must and shall be preserved." These sentiments, so clearly expressed, I have token frequent occasion to reiterate, and it affords mo great satisfaction to observe that manv who have heretofore been hostile to, or siliint alt this most important subject, are becom ing warm in their advocacy - of the princi ples here enunciated. Those who saved this government front the destruction designed by treason, are they who will perpetuate it as a blessing for future generations. All that is asked of the people to to strengthen and uphold the hands of the men who have been called to do the work of reconstruction, and when that work is finished in the spirit in which it has beet begun by the present National Administration, we will havi3 a govern ment and a country mighty in their munifi cence, glorious in their prosperity. The preservation of the peace and quiet of our country, maintaining unsullied our national honor, and the harmony of the Union are among our highest duties. Let us encourage every branch of home indus try, advance the true interests of moral, physical and intellectual labor, and reach ing forward to the prize of the manifest des tiny of ou r glorious Comm onwealthove may hopo for her increasing prosperity, and, above all, for the smiles of an approving Providence. I earnestly invoke a continuance of the blessings and favors which we, as a people, have long enjoyed, that Pennsylvania may be ever ready to extend her sympathies to those struggling for liberty, to succor the helpless exile, and be an asylum to the per secuted and oppressed '• and thus forever identify herself with the cause of equal rights and with the interests of uni versal freedom, justice and humanity.— Then can we with truth and pride proclaim, " - Long live the Commonwealth," whose guiding, principles are found in the motto of our State. "\ usatrE, LIBERTY AND INDE PENDENCE." THE IMPERIAL TRAGEDY! 11111 l tome Throttgli of People In the PARIS, Jan. 12--The Marseilai.ve news paper Was printed in mourning yesterday, and contained the following leading article printed in large type: Committed by the Prince Pierre Napoleon Bonaparte If pollehe tor Noir—. I th,11,111 }pn•der made by the Prince Pierre Napoleon Bonaparte upon the Citizrn rtrr, d,• Fourille. •' I have hail the weakness to believe that :t Bonaparte• omit' he other than tic uvons- Siu. " I have dared to imagine that a fair; du el W:LS passible in that family, where nrnr der and waylay are traditional :Ind habitual. Our, eo-laborer, Paselial Grousset Ims shared my error, and to-day we mourn our dear friend Victor Noir, assassinated by the run plan Tierra Napoleon lions art. For eighteen . ),'ears past ' , ranee has been in the blood-stained handsolthescenttliroats, who nut :vontent with shooting Republ irons in the sirrots, allure them into baited traps t ;r the purpose of slaughtering Menu ;it home. People of France! have you not had de eilledly enough of this?"—//eltri Rer/elm-i. 'nit. Iris very violent again U)-4litv, and the entire iscuo vca., therellne Seined by the ,tuttltlritie,t. puhlishos the 5,110, lug statement or 1), I , sovellv: the hall .r.rantlary, 1070, at I o'clock, I I Victor Nlllr arid myself repaired to the resi den,. of Prince Pierre liana ante, 7,0 it o , ll' A Minot. We were comini,ioned by I Pashal :rousse( to demand of the Prince the 1.0:45/11 for the injurious articles against ! M. Paschal t;rousset, published in the /ft Cor.ve. We handed our cards to two servants, who stood at the 110111', and Wllll 11,41101,d Its into a small parlor on the ground floor, at t sir right hand. After a few iiiMlites we were conducted tip sniirs to the first floor, passed through the feu,- ing-room, and linally entered the tlratvitu-7- I room ; the door opl.llVll anti M. Pierre llonai,artc 1.111,1.1.1 1 N.\ al.I Valleed t4,Warlk hint and the I;,lh,Willg Word , : pawed h..- I tavern us: "Sir, we 1-01111. in behalf' of NI. Paschal I ;I . OIISSI,t, to deliver a letter to you." " You are not ,unto then in behalf , of NI. Itochlort, and you are not I i " " Sir, \Ve are here on other business and : I beg you to look attthis letter." I handed him the letter. Ile approached the window to read it. Ile read it, and after,' rushing it in his hands lie returned towards us. "I provoked Rochentrt," said he, -be cause he is the standard hearer of the rab ble, as for t;roussct, I have no reply to itial:e 1.. him. .\ re you the representatives of these carrion des chargenes?" "Sir, - I :1.115%, erell, "NVO I.llllll` 1.1. 3,111 to fulfil loyally and courn•ously the 4,llmM:sit! entrusted to IIS by 11111' friend." '•.\l'r p/11 the 1.1•111,- Sl.lllatiVl,lll . [hest, wretches?" Victor Noir replied: "We are the represeuMtivee °lour friends. - Then suddenly allValll'ing a step, and without pro'Vottation on our part, Prince Bonaparte slapped Victor Noir with Ms left' hand, and at the saute time drew :1 rovolver, (h . six chambers, ivhich ho had 111111 1111- vented in his poekrt, already cur ked, and fired maul Noir, with the muzzle of the pistol close to hint. Noir staggered, pressed kith hands on his hrewst, and sank. down I it, ihr doorway by tvltielt he had entered ; ' (110 CIINV:l1•111y tlll.ll (I,lll'll LIA/011 MO I :11111 tired ; 1 (hell SeiZellaS111:1111/iSIOIWIliell 1 11:111 ill 1113" l,nrkel, :11111 While I Iris en- ; deavoring to free it from the sheath, the I wretch rushed on me, but when he silty that was armed he retreated, stood behind the ,111' 111111 16111011 I,t. 1110. It was then that c . mtipreliending the am !ins!, into \OM . h lie had fillien, and ' ing that if I tired, there would not be Ivant ing those who would say that we had been the aggressors. I •peried a thmir,Nvliielt was behind me, and rushed out, crying murder. • As 1 wont out, it seVOlld sh..l, followed, and passed through my 'sat. In the street I found Noir, who had strength to deseend the stairs, :and was dead. These are the farts just as they transpired and 7 look for Prompt :itid exemplary just!,,' tit• this crime. l'ouv I.:11.1.E. it .lan. 19. —.ni t , ftittortd of Pieter Noir took pbu•c to-day. The government ' exi)ecting a demonstration, made extensive preparations to preserve order, and at an early hour all its polive and in ilitary ar rangements were complete, During the morning the people began to gather around the house where the remains wore coining partsti nt the city. At 11.05 one thousand worlinien front the Pour bourgs ha, passed up the llouleyards .11 their WIIV to the funeral. Many carriages NVith ladles dressed in mourning, drove to Join the procession. .At one o'clock I'. )1. deputations of worlcuu•n visited the re- mains. The streets from I'lace de La Con- cord to Rile d'Anteuil were tilled with vast throngs ot• people. Carriages containing noted persons mere surrounded by the crowd and their occupants cheered. weather It'll, rind 1111,1 a ileaVy rain tray but the numbers continued to in- two and 1111,e O'clock mare than oar 111111111,1 thousand persons were :tsseni bled in the vicinity of the place where the remains reposed. I lenri RocheMrt attended the funeral, and his appearance vaned forth a great demonstration of enthusiasm from the toeoplc. The rrnhains were taken to Neuilly for interment, followed by a long procession. The crowd wanted to parade with the hotly through Paris, but Louis Noir, brother of the deceased, refused his consent. At the vemetery there were fre illient N 11411115 of "Give la Republique," itinl the Marsollaise was repeatedly sung during the day. While Rochefort and Ras pail were coining blown Champs Elysses accompanied by a great great crowd, who were singing the Marsellaise, they were stopped by a regiment of troops and the crowd was ordered to disperse. Rochefort, claiming his right as a Iteputy, passed into the (Aland re, Wil(ire he arrived pale and much excited. Champs EIVSSCS Was then 1 . 11`31,1 by the troops. Two . hatallions were stationed near the hall of the legislative body, and a fow regiments were massed on the Roulevards Ouse at Imml. The crowd finally dispersed without resistance. but some arrests were made Icy the police. The Clerical Elopement-- 01 the Case The sad ea., of church scandal, which was recorded in our volumns yesterday, has developett IIeW It a •ls, which materially :titer the aspect of affairs. Several reports which appeared in the journals yesterday are en tirely lucorreet, a n d incontestable evidence of their falsity is at hand. I)ur reporter called yestordav" on :%Irs. Cook, and found her stricken sorely with the painful calam ity which had befallen her. Friends have allonled sympathy, and reporters furnish -14 tinnovunee , although none of the latter, except the representative of Thr Tribune, were granted an interview. lir. Stevens, lie. Woodruff, and others of the clergy, ealled on her, and they said it was their opinion that Mr. Cook was inSallo. The insinuations which have lanai made impeaching her husband's hitherto correct lire were steadiastly refuted. Ills former parishoners ill Mamaroneck amply testify to his preeminent propriety during his pas torate there. I I is companion du rayatp• On his recent trip to Europe witnesses to the 'lean record of his life while :throat!. And no One inn point to a blemish in his life mail unaecountable dereliction. That he was not the heartless seducer which he is made to appeal is also shown in the let ters which Miss Johnson wrote to him, and which were in the possession of Mrs. Cook until the other evening, and which .11 r. Johnson now holds. In these letters the young lady expresses her longingeagerness for the day on which she will become IS, and boasts that when she arrives at woman hood she will hazard her life and every thing for the man she loves. The letters arc full of a fervid feeling and affection. She says in one of them that she larks only a little of being 18 years of age, and until that time sbe !oust pay parental allegiance, but-after that she could do as she pleased. Miss Devoe, it seems, has been privy to this improper intimacy, and is nose the custodian of letters which were written by Cook to Miss Johnson. The letters are all without signatures and dates, and are only identified by the penmanship. It teas Miss Devoe who first communicated Miss John son's flight to her family. on Friday afternoon, at about .11 o'clock, she went to Miss Johnson's home, and told the family that Manic had left with Mr. Cook. That Miss Johnson not merely passive in the hands of her elergyman, but that, on the contrary, she did her part to allure and en tice, is convincingly proven. One time she addressed a note to her pastor expressin her disappointment at his failure to fulfill an engagement which he had made with her, and said that ifhe would send his son Baldwin to play chess with her she would be satisfied, Mr. Cook told his wife that he was about to elope with a Young lady, and that when they had made 'their escape she would be surprised at the choice he had made. lie left with but $2OO and left his family with out a cent. The strange willingness he showed to have his wife know all that was connected with the matter, and the reckless improvidence in which he left the disre gard which he exhibited for n wife and family which he has always cherished, is evidence of a mental aberration. When last seen he was at the Jersey City Ferry at 5:20 p. Friday, He was seen by - a man who knows him by eight only, and who remembers the hour distinctly, as he had Just arrived from Philadelphia by the train due at that time, Detectives are on THE 'LANCASTER VVr'EEIT,Y . TNTELLIGENCER, - WDNE;D*, JANUARY 19, 1870. the track of the paity, and the brothers have constituted themselves the avengers oftheir betrayed sister. Mrs. Cook thinks that, because of his slenderly stocked wal let, he could not have gone to Europe. But his whereabouts is merely a matter of con jecture. The above facts are the reproduc tion of the contents of letters which passed between the parties and are not the words of gossip.—N. Y. Tribune. Sharp Letter of Ex-Seeretary Welles to Secretary Robeson. The Hon. Gideon Welles, late Secretary of the Navy, published a long letter in the Courant yesterday, addressed to Secretary Robeson, severely criticising the report of the letter. He replies at length to the para graph in the report relating to the advance ment of officers, and says he acted entirely on his own responsibility. " Whatever errors, therefore, were committed, I am re sponsible for, and not Admiral Farragut." After quoting somewhat in detail from his own reports to Congress, justifying his own conduct in the matter of an economical ad ministration of the department, Mr. Welles says: . . You make no allusion to my several recommendations to Congress, but state that you have proceeded to restore our small force to an effective condition "in the shortest possible time ;" and in an appen dix you enumerate eighty-six vessels re paired and refitted for sm. A large num ber of the vessels thus enumerated von take credit for having refitted are new and have never made a cruise. Your justifimtion and great claim for these expenditures, made independently of Congress,. consists in the vast saving of "fuel." "Vessels," you say, 'have been given full sail power and re-rigged, so that they are independent of steam. Orders have been issued to the coin mandants of so uadrons, directing them not to permit the consumption of coal for any purpose which could be as well per formed by sail." This is a mere repetition of the old regulation issued in Istirc, directly after the close of the war and rigidly en forced, to which, Ii ivever, you make no allusion, leaving it to Ice inferred that it is a now regulation nuns for the first time issued. Alluding to the claim of the present Sec retary that a saving of more than two mil lions of dollars per annum is to be roadein the, item of void :done, Mr. ACelles remarks: In order to ascertain how this inamense and promised saying ill fuel is to be effect ed, it will be necessary to knole hose notell coal is consumed per annum, and at teltat cost. I have no .tecoullt of the amount of ~ , ,a1 actually 01111S111111`11 in any one year, although - I knot,' about the quantity re quired hir the navy, and can state the exact estimates for which appropriations Intve been asked since the return of peace. In lily report, December, 1,4(17, the estimates llo• 14,1 tbr the then ensuing Year were for thirty-two thous:uel tons. 'Tile following year, Deeeni her, bolts, the estimates for the next ensuing year were thirty thousand toils. A consumption of about thou sand tons, or 311 average of five hundred tolls per steamer, the estimate of the equip ment bureau, tint the wants of the service tinder the 1,141 system, as you term it. A contact IVIIO 1101111' ill loliS—tllolllsl Of 1Y1111•11 I have memoranda—for tell thou sand ton, at Philadelphia, at >33.33 per ton. But this 01'110 probably at a less rate than the average purchases, which are about $1; but 1'(Ill at $3, which is sometimes paid, the cost for 11e,0041 mils--a year's eon sumption --Nvould be I;il50,000. This is the the sum total required for coal 114 r steamers annually, ill 111110 of peace; and from this amount, in consequence of having "given full sail power and having rerigged" the steamers at great expense, you pledge yourself, all4l declare "it can be shown by thxlires," that you will make " a saving of more than ttell millions of dollars per an num," in the " single item 4,1' coal alone, as consumed under the old system !" Sir, let nie tell you that the interest of the money trhivh has been expended by the .Navy De partment ill execs of I.lll` appropriations since the -Ith of such, nitwit of it in chang ing the character 4,1 our vessels, without the consent or knoteledge of Congress—and I apprehend without vonsulting the naval constructors—the interest of the money on excess of expenditures over the appropria tions since the 4th of March would vastly more than pay for the coal :uinually 1•011- 511tile,1 by all the steamers ill all 4,111. squadrons. 'rile whole estimate for coal, transportation, storage, 14111,0', ttc., by the equipment bureau was 31541,000. I havt , not vet had the pleasure of seeing the estimates of the Navy Department ill detail fur the ensuing year, :submitted to the present Congress. IVllen they are published, I shall 1,4 , able to ascertain what reduction you have made 0r propose to Intik.> in the quantity of coal eousuwcll, after the large expenditure ill changing the character of their vessels, giving them " full sail power" 31111 "ship-rig." Just so fill• as your esti mate is less than thirty thousand tons will be the saving effected. If you have esti mated for that quantity or fio• a larg,t , r quantity, it will be emichisive that you 1111V0 1111 IS/11C1110111, in your statement or ill your questionable improvements. I am satisfied in this ease, as well as ill that of the advancement of viii errs and in other particulars, you have failed to make per sonal investigation, as is exported of 0111' in 1.0111/11Sillie a position, 111.1 1.11111 you have, ill fact, no reliable data for many of your statements. I don"! charge you 511th designedly practisingan imposition on gross and thecounty lout you have permitted yourself to la , imposed upon I,y a prompter who is careless of facts and makes reckless assertions. There is an obscurity ill your iiintncial exhibit, to which, \riffle writing— although there may havt , been design in making it obscure—l call your attention. 'Flit , statement of expenses and estimates is not an exhibit of the fiscal year. as is usual, but Is a blending of fractions of two years and of two administrations, and furnishes nodefinite orsatisfactory information of the transavtions of the department. You omit to state what were the expenditures for the fiscal year which terminated on the 30th of June. You omit to state the unexpended balances ill the Treasury on the Ist ofJuly, or 01 . 1111 t were the'available resources for till' current year at that date. The apk,rl,pritt lions for the last fiscal 3 - ear were t>,17,354t,- 330.10, but the expenditures exceeded that amount several millions of dollars. hone much ILnt excess is you do not SGte, and it 1,11111.4 1,.11110.11 without till' 11S1131 tchirh is studiously suppressed. .A n attempt is 1113110 to (liven attention 115- a statement that 14.27,880,65 S WiLS expended up to the Ist Deceinla , r, but the:l'reasury year neither commences nor closes in Ifi , eentber. 'file appropriations of Congress extend from the Ist of July to the soul of .11110 of tilt , follow ing year, when the Treasury balances are struck. ore 1101 the usual ex hibit for the fiscal year? The country is entitled to it. The failure to present it, and the substitute in its stead of parts of two 1154511 years 111141 of two administrations, isnot a satisfitetory exhibit. The statement that $7,700.1,373 has been "refunded to the Treasury . ' does not make tilt , exhibit less obscure. 1 [as such an amount been over drawn? If so, for what purpose'7 and from what fund or approlwiation was this suni— equal to about one-half of the entire naval appropriation for the current year—refuntl ed? tilt is made lip of transfers or pay ments from one bureau to another, as pre sented ill what is vatted an exhibit of ex penditures, on the 37th page, it amounts to nothing, for what you call refunding is an absolute expenditure. Tile ~ltat, state ment needs explanation. The refunding fiction inalt.es confusion and is doubtless one of the reasons tvli . v the department evades a statement of the eondition of af fairs at the close of the fiscal year, ill ac - eorilanef , with tisttge. The estimates sub mitted by nit , fur naval expenses in Derem- Iler, Islip, amounted to '320.993,4 14.59. Congress reduced them F.k3,12:2,552.99, and appropriatied $15,570,. - 431.60. Your estimats for the ensuing, year are for >325,20:,,i471.37, or $7,212,3.11b7S more than was a.sked by me, and :1 3 12,335,135.77 more than Congress Ivould authorize one year ago. 'rills 4.1.,4, not intlicatt , retrenchment, a re dnetion of expenses, or greater evononiv, although von represent that the expentli tures made since 1\ larch are, by the latolf.o of the 'rreasury, less Datil the correspond ing months one year ago, when old war contracts were being closed up, and expen ditures were not called " refunding"—amid although you declare you ran show "by tig,ures" Of 111.. re than two millions of dollars per annum in the item of coal alone! This letter haw already extended beyond the limits intended, and, without commenting on or critivising other numer ous errors, fallacies, and exeeptional mat ters, I shall close tvith the expression of a wish that in your future reports, or emu munications to nelvspaper correspondents. you will personally investigate and pos sess yourself of facts and avoid mitt-state ments and misrepresentations. JIB• letter to Mr. Oftley was S,l distorted and falsified, and its isintents so soon made public after it passed into your possession, that I shall, to prevent false misrepresen tations, and for my own protection, make this letter to you Very respectfully, IDEON W ELL,. The Postmasters of the leading cities, at the Conference held in Washington have concluded upon the following alterations in the postal system: Reducing the registry fee from fifteen to six vents; establishing agencies in all the large cities for the regis tration of letters; reducing the fee on mon ey orders in sums not exceeding $lOO to five cents; all unsealed erroulars, newspapers and periodicals dropped into free delivery office for delivery within the limits of that office, be rated at one cent, prepaid by stamps; that circulars, instead of being made exceptional to miscellaneous matter, be classed under that head, and that the charge be two cents for every four ounces. They also recommend a thorough registra tion service between largo Post-offices, by means of a combination lock or sealed pouches, and also giving intermediate re ceipts. There is a general unanimity of feel ing among the members of the Conference that $lOOO is a fair compensation for car riers. When the Postmaster-General sub mits to the country this reduction in the registry and money order fees, he will rec ommend the puplic to send no moneys by any other means than through these two channels. A Lucky Young 'Milliner A young milliner in Fort Edward, New York, to whom her affianced lover, ayoung English nobleman, left $17,000,000 at his death, some months ago, is a native of Glo ver, New York, and the niece of Daniel Gray, of that town. All attempts to set aside the will have been abandoned, and she is informed by her agent in London that an installment of $5;000,000 will be forwarded the present mont h.—Nete York Post. THE COOKE SCANDAL. Commotion in a Methodist Church--The Pastor Elopes with a Sister. The report which became current yester day, announcing the elopement of a prom inent clergyman of this city with a young lady of his congregation, has created sad consternation among a large and influential religions denomination. The facts briefly detailed are these: The Rey. Horace Cook, who has, until his sudden departure been presiding over the Seventh street Methodist Episcopal Church, became enamored of a young lady of his chtiisih, and after paying considerable attention to her, which was scarcely com patible with his position as a clergyman, or consistent with his relations as a husband and father, he left his home, and meeting the young lady by appointment, conducted her to a steamer, and sailed for Europe. The young lady is but 16 years of age, and is of a simple and confiding nature, un tutored in the ways of the world, and rear ed by a pious and cultured family. Her name is Miss Johnson, and she was a pupil in Twelfth street School. She had oft6n expressed her admiration for her minister, Mr. Cook, in her naturally artless manner, but no one imagined that there had been impropriety in their intercourse. Mr. Cook had been very attentive to her, but his manner is very suave and his nature social and his fondness for young people conspi cuous, so that any particular interest which he showed for; Miss Johnson's society did not awaken suspicion. It now appears that he was accustomed to meet this young lady in the afternoons as she came from school, and to walk with her. This was not known to the parents. There were reports about Mr. Cook's attentions to Miss Johnson being very improper, and the mother of the young lady hearing them, reproved her for permitting Mr. Cook to indulge in so marked attention. While Mr. Cook was in Europe during last Sum mer she was in frequent interchange of letters, and it is said they were somewhat questionable. She was at the steamer when he left on his Summer voyage, and handed him a slip of paper with these words inside, "May I lod grant you a pleasant trip and bring you bark in safety to Other scraps which were handed lam by the young Ludy showed that she laud no impure thoughts and that her love to him WIN by no means passional. Since the pastor's return, Mr. Johnson has been carefully watching the movements of the minisk(r and his daughter, and lied determined to cowhide the clergyman if he met lain in company with ins daughter.— But since Mr. Cook's return he has not been discovered in ins clandestine meetings, although they have been many. On Thursday evening last he obtained considerable money from his friends, and packed a trunk anal made readiness for his journey. On Friday afternoon he met Miss Johnson as she came from school, and with her books and in her school dress he led her away. 11cr family is plunged in great grief, and her father has acted like a crazed man. The minister wrote a letter before leaving the city on Saturday, telling the father of Miss Johnson, that he " would for feit his life for the woman he adored," anti assuring him that she should be well eare d for. This inflated the family, for they be lieve that he has heartlessly, 110,i Ved lair and sought her ruin. Talcs. Cook, the wife of the minister, has been prostrated by the sad occurrence. Slav will return to her mother as soon as she sulliviently recovers. II i 8 left unprovided. Both families are deeply af flicted, and seem almost distracted. There is a general condemnation of the clergy man, but the young lady hits been invei gled away, it is thought, by the flattering speeches of her betrayer. Cook was for merly an actor, but seven years ago he be came :t minister of the (losing. The Evening Exprow says: "The brothers of the school girl recently abducted by " Rev." liorace took, tire on the tract of • dm abductor, it is said. I f they should catch and kill him, and another bloody chapter be :added to the ensanguin ed chronicles of the day, the homicide will cling to the skirts of those who have been preaching loose morality, and who have so earnestly and !tastily encouraged seduc tion, :adultery and martial infidelity under fancy names, that even decent people have been ein laoldened to yield to the prom ptings of dangerous passions under impressions Hutt they were not committing such very wicked acts, after all. The Young - Truly Home Again. The elopement of Rey. lloraiie Cooke, came near terminating in a tragedy at last. It seems that he went from New York to Philadelphia and pa up at a hotel. The two were shown to a room together, but ac cording to his report separated, he being so stricken by conscience that he did not at tempt to carry out his original purpose.— on - Wednesday they returned to New York, and Cooke going to Lovejoy's lintel, regis tered himself as Henry I'. of St. Louis, 3,10. Miss Johnson returned to her holm , in the evening, about S o'clock, and about the same time Mr. Cooke registered his name as Sir. Daily at French's Hotel. At ;Ostia 0 o'clock. in the evening Mr. Brown, a son of Paul It. Brown, :did an intimate friend of Mr. Cooke, met [belittler opposite the Astor !louse, and walked op street with him up Broadway as far as Maul street.— Mr. Cooke was fiercely agitated in manner, and drew his pistol fitur times and sudden- Iv returned it to his pocket. Ilis move ments were very nervous, and heexhi Ititedit strange excitability of temper. Mr. Brt own sought to calm hits, anti asked him to go up It., a restaurant, and take dinner, and enjoy a smoke. Mr. Cooke declined the inviiation, saying he had eaten nothing, and did not desire te partake or anything. Ile asked Mr. Brown to go with him to The World “iliev, mid he would "tear the Editor to pieces. - Finally Brown appoint ed a meeting with Cooke at a later hour in the evening, and they separated. Sir. Cooke proceeded to his house, and, entering the room, his wife saw the revolver, and fright ened least he !night do desperate injury to himself, sent into the church adjoining for some one to come in to the rar,”nage. Carter, a trustee of the church, went in, and engaging, Mr. Cooke in iqinversation, ini etly abstracted the revolver from his over coat, which he had left on the sofa. Sud denly Mr. Cooke left the house, and rail swifily down Third Avenue and escaped Mr. Carter, who pursued him. Ile asked the clerk at the counter for a copy of yesterday's Worbi. It was given to that. After reading 5111110 portions of it he became excited—the views of the public on his conduct, as therein expressed, unit ing with the sherry wine, which lie after wards confessed he had been drinking, to disturb his self-possession. Ile made some inquiries of the clerk in reference to the articles contained in the paper, which, of course, that gentleman could not answer. At that moment one of the gentlemen eon peeled with the editorial department of the World entered the publication office to ob tain the key of the door leading to the editor's rooms. As the manners of ''Mr. Henry I'. Daly, of St. Louis, M 0.." were not at that moment Special' unpleasant, the official in the counting-room observed, "There is a gentleman from upstairs; he knows more about those matters than I do." The manner of "Mr. Daly" immediately changed. hits face became livid with auger. Rushing towards the gentleman alluded to, he cried out, gesticulating vehemently: " Who wrote that article, sir'?" Somewhat surprised at the unusual vigor of this address, the gentleman addressed quietly' replied; "Your question is decidedly impertinent. inform you." "Ila! It was you, Men, who wrote this foul slander. I, sir, ant the I! v. Horace Cooke. Ilereupon the soi-M.seiM Missourian rush ed on his supposed - slanstercr - in an in timidating manner, subsequently catch ing him by the collar, and holding one hand behind his back, as it searching in a back pocket for a pistol. This was be coming serious, and as the gentleman as saulted was unwilling to become a martyr, especially as he did not write any of the articles objected to, he freed himself front the threatening grasp of the reverend as saulter. Apprehending further disturl - ance, he bade one of the clerks to send for an °Meer to preserve the peace. " What do I cave now Mr :in officer; hut I would give fcin for the num that wrote that article." After a few moments, in which Mr. Cooke indulged in threats of a similar strain, an officer came. The delinquent pastor was then taken to Beekman street station house and locked up. Ile behaved (luring the night in an excited 1111(1 almost frenzied manner. Ile was released next morning, no one appear ing to prosecute hint. Ilis wife says he has been in the habit of taking laudanum and chloroform in large doses for some time past. Reports which showed that Miss John son was more than imprudent in tier rela tions with Mr. Cooke are strengthened by further information from his wife. When Mr. Cooke first entered on the pastorate in Seventh street, and before his wife hail be come acquainted with the parishioners, Miss Johnson used to enter the parsonage through the basement of the church and the rear entrance of the house, and go into the parlor and play on the piano, with n view of attracting her pastor to the room. At first Mr. Cooke asked her husband what it meant, and he said he did not know.— She went down into the parlor, but the young lady escaped by the rear entrance. Ifor some time Mrs. Cooke did not know who she was. She pretended a great love for Baldwin, the son, and:the week before the elopement, in coming out of the church, she threw her arms about the boy's neck and said she was Very glad to see him. The day before she left she passed the parson age and bowed very graciously to Mrs. Cooke; this was the last that she saw of her. Mr. Johnson told Mrs. Cooke that he had noticed a little flirtation between her husband anti his daughter but he thought very little of it, and fancied that she would soon cease to engage in it. Mrs. Cooke told him that he did her a great wrong in failing to tell her that. She feels confident that she could have crushed it all in the be ginning. We have received the following letter, which tells its own story, and which we print precisely as it reached us: To the Editor of The Tribune: Sits: Will you give the words of a crimi nal a place in your columns? Ido not ask to excuse myself—Oh no! I only wish the truth to be known. If I could only write, I would "a plain, unvarnished tale" de liver, but my head and my heart hurt me so that I cannot. On this day the young lady will be re turned to her home, as pure and as good as when first I saw her. She has been with me as my sister. Of course we did not in tend that,but my wretched heart stung me at the beginning, and my only desire is to repair (as fat as I' can) the injury I have done to all my friends—so good to me—and to the church—but "the damned blot" will never out. (Excuse the blots, they Were mused by the snapping of the pen,) I wish that I could write, but I cannot. Let me make a few statements, and for God's sake believe ice: Ist. I did nol—l have not seduced Miss Johnson. If I had, why should I bring her back? If I was villian enough to ruin her, would I not have been Niihau enough to keep her? It is no fear of personal Injury that prompted me, because I could have eluded everybody, if I chose, and I am back now, and ready to pay any penalty the family may require, only don't let any body else come near me; for inasmuch as the papers say I am a wolf, it must be re membered that wolves bite. 2d. I did not correspond with her when in Europe. 3d. I serer visited the school until the day we loft the city. 4th. I was never in an assignation house with her or any one else, in my life. sth. hie "panel-thieves" have black mailed me, and I defy and challenge any living man or woman to lay aught against my character since I have been a Minister of the GospeL If anybody—panel-thieves or anyone else—have letters of mine, let them publish them. As I hope for mercy—no, I don't hope for any; but on my sout—on everything that men hold sacred, even the most depraved—l swear it is not true. I have done wickedly enough, but don't paint me blacker than I am. 'What I was before I entered the Ministry ought not to damage my character or veracity now. Many actors are better than I am ; and be cause I have turned out a reprobate, that is no reason lity such villainous tirades should be launched against the Church. If I mould be live minutes in the presence of the man who wrote the report in The World I would be satisfied. My ehiefest anxiety is about the young lady. Oh, I am certain that those who know me, who have been intimatety eon riveted with me, will betiere me. I never did wickedly at Mamaroneck or Flushing. I don't wonder they write so, for a man who would do what I have done, it is very natural to suppose would do anything. Don't understand that I ant trying to ex cuse myself., I ant not. I want neither pity nor merry. Let that he underxbusd perfectly. I say, again, the young lady is pure as snow, and I 010 ready to do anything that will tend to eonfirin my assertion. Pardon me for troubling you, and put this in good shape, for I e.ui't write—although I want to. Cootm Wednesday, p. ut. , Jan. 11, Is7o. WEST AEIVS BI TELEGR Innugurntion of Governor Genry .11A it 111,11r10 I, .J:171. 18.—To-day being the time fixed by law for the installation or the Governor elect, the ceremonies attending the inauguration of Governor Cleary have been the occasion of an unusual flutter in our permanent population, as well as of unusual increase in the number of visitors to the capitol. The trains which arrived in the city last night and this morning were crowded with patriotic and curious citizens front all sections of the State, the arrivals being principally of military and firemen's organizations and political clubs having a permanent organization or gotten up speci ally for the occasion. Prow an early hour this morning the streets have ,presented a lively spectacle, and the entire city has entered into the cel ebration of the event of the day with all the ardor of the Anlerieall people. The grand procession was the principal and most attractive feature of the affair. The different organizations which h a d I Well alloted places in the line assembled according to the instructions issued yes terday afternoon by the Ilrand Marshal. During the moving of the procession; a salute was tired from Capitol Il ill and con tinned until the procession reached the cap ital. The Ming began at 11 o'clock and the head of the column moved with the first gun. A negro regiment called the Excel sior Reserves 4it Philadelphia, having been assigned a place in the line, it was reported early this morning, that if the negro,s took part a large number, or perhaps all of the Harrisburg lire companies would leave the line. 'Finery was notch excitement in e011.,111,11, and developments were an - Musty looked for. When the procession had gone over a portion of the prescribed route and hail reached Market Square, the Friendship Steam Fire Engine Co. No. 1, of Harrisburg, left the line and went home. There were some manifestations of both applause and disapprobation among the spectators. The Friendship is largely eOlll- posed of Demovratie members. After the Friendship left the line, ail the other fire companies of Harrisburg followed their example. Fr the Int elligenc, if 27' r•.s. /,' , /aurs i—lt does not require a very long experience to convince any one, that business men need all tha information they can obtain to manage their affairs with success. And a very limited observation will discover that not a few purchase their knowledge at the risk of fortune and repu tation. Business is a source of happiness in many ways, if pursued according to the principles of a strict integrity. And we Clare not promise ourselves happiness as one of the results of business, unless this consideration is rigorously complied with. The pursuit of businesswith a strict regard to right or wrong; with conduct marked with an exact and mwarving conscientious ness, and with an amiable and honorable disposition to satisfy the mind of the pur chaser, advantageously engages , invigor ates and enlarges the mind. In this man ner and temper business is profitable to a nation or community. Though business acuteness !nay degenerate very easily into shrewdness, yet its usefulness is calculated to promote self-respect; its results, if suc cessful, increase the power of doing what the mind conceives and the heart desires. Selene° and literature aid our intellectual growth, b u t the object of business is more especially for the gratification of man's ma terial wants. While the businessman cul tivates, manufactures, gathers together and distributes those things by which the body is cherished or ordained, the scholar orig inates, collects and furnishes food for the mind. Both have their work and place in society, mid upon theta devolve the duty of main Mining the reputation of their vatting,. No one should be so sordid of gain, nor so unselfish of name, to not appreciate the value of a ffiyorable public opinion. Repu tation is a valuable species of property nr right, which should never be violated. With the loss of character -for integrity in any calling, a man loses much of the solid enjoyments of life. And the best evidence that can lie collected of a good or bad repu tation is a man's whole lire. If this is one accumulative argument one way or the other, no transient or mush-room attack or support can 'nave the public mind from the judgment which the general deportment establishes. It is a mistaken notion that business is inconsistent with a high degree of moral vulture or intellectual ability. On the con trary, a man must possess considerable strength or moral principle, and a tolerable amount of mina, to carry oor business with a reasonable hope of success, and to the par fial, to say not full satisfitetion of those con nected with the transaction. Business, in fact may justly be :garded as a more than common test of vi. tue, and almost a fiery furnace to principle. The person who meditates only on ab stract truths, and observes life through the windows of his study, knows comparative • ly little of the trials, difficulties and temp tations of business life. To know what lies before us in daily life is considered the prime wisdom, but if attainable at all by any, much less in most eases of business life. What a day will always bring forth, 11,. one knows; but he who has the expe rience of business to guide his judgment, may nearly conjecture what it might prob ably lie. No man can pass many years in business without either yielding to the temptations which beset hint, or experi ence s hard struggle to maintain his in tegrity. If he is a num of sufficient moral fortitude to encounter the dan ger and difficulties with firmness, which test his principles, he will acme out a mor ally well-braced man. For it should never be forgotten, Ilea courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he haw the greatest o c casion for it; but cour age which arises from a sense of duty acts in a uniffirm manner. Let him, then, who desires to test the strength of his principles or improve his moral nature by useful dis cipline, embark in trade. For experience is the surest standard by which our char acters can be tried. That trade is a severe trial to virtue—too severe for the endurance ofall 111,n—is no evidence that it is unfa vorable to intellectual and moral growth. And that all rogues are fools is no doubt true, but that all business men must ne cessarily be deeply steeped in the vile li quid that dyes scoundrels, we will not without explicit argument admit And if 'rogues and fools•hy fits are fair and wise,' who Will brand With dishonestythe man that struggles through a thousand snares to build a fortune and make a name. CALCULI IN THE STOMACHS OF HORSES. —Our correspondent from Conestoga writes as follows: W noticed a communication in the Week ly Express of Saturday last on Calculi in Horses. After noticing the item published originally in the DAILY INTELLIOENCEII of December 20th, in regard to the nnprece dentedly large calculus discovered in tile intestines of a mare belonging to Dr. John Kendig, of Conestoga ('entre, it says "The writer then goes on to say that the like is not on record. As regards size this may be true, but not as to the concretion." We had reference only to size, when saying "the like is not on record." We are well aware that intestinal, as well as urinary and biliary calculi have been found in horses, though they are rather uncommon, and we would not have considered the sim ple fact of a calculus being found in the in testines of an animal of sufficient impor tance to chronicle in the newspapers, had it not been for its large size-27 inches in circumference one way—which we claim to be unprecedented. The writer in the Express calls attention to some calculi in the possession of Dr. Miller, of La-mpeter, which he says "vary about fromfcru.r.to tea or eleven inches in circumference It. a body 27 inches in circumference weighs 10 pounds, a similar body 11 inches inairaum ference will, according to a strict mathe matical calculation, weigh less than three- . fourths of a pound, and one of 10 inches in. circumference a fraction over one-half a pound. It will thus be seen that the one found in Dr. Kendig's animal is more than 13 times as large as the largest in Dr. Mil ler's possession. The only mystery is that the animal did not die before the calculus had reached such an enormous size. il.ocaL jnttlligencc. SEVERAL interesting items from local correspondents are unavoidably crowded out of this paper. They will appear in our next issue. TYPN Pon , Sai..U.--:We have for sale a large lot of second-hand brovier, minion and nonpariel type, in very fair condition, and amply good enough for a weekly news paper published in the country. Court Proceeding, Monday Morniny.—The January Term of the Court of Quarter Sessions commenced this morning, Judges .Long, Hayes and Libhart on the bench. The Grand Jury was sworn and the trial list read over.— None of the cases had been tried when the Court adjourned at noon. Mr. John Fondersmith, of this city, was appointed Foreman of the Grand Jury, and the returns of the different Constables of the city and county were heard. Monday Afiernoon.—The following eases were disposed of this afternoon : Daniel Trewitz pleaded guilty to a charge of assault and battery on John Martin.— The Court examined the prosecutor, and heard the statement of the defendant. Tre witz was sentenced to pay a fine of twenty dollars, with costs of prosecution. Com*LM vs. Levi NI, IMo—indicted for for nication and bastardy, complainant, Aman da Saylor. Verdict, not guilty ' and county for costs. District AWN. Itrubaker for prosecution ; itiester for defence. Cloin'th vs. John Smith. The defendant was charged with larceny; verdict not guilty. Dist. Attly Brubaker, Pyfer and W. A. WiLsou .for prosecution Reynolds and Denims for defendant. Wm. k. Wilson, Esq., presented to the Court the application of Zion's Church of the Evangelical Association, of Millersville, for a charter of incorporation. The appli cation was filed. Tuesday Morning.—Court wet at the usual hour; Judges Ilayes and Libliart present. Com. vs. Owen Long, intite.l for forni cation and bastardy. In this case no evi dence on part of defence was offered. Ver dict guilty. The usual sentence for nmin tenance, sic., was imposed by the Court. District Attorney Brubaker and IT, 'Wil son for prosecution ; Landis for defence- Coin. vs. Philip Sumter, charged with committing an assault and battery On Henry Breiter, on the 20th of December, Dial, in Bernherd Kuhboau•s Beer Salomi, lids city. (in trial. Coi:Yritv ITEMS.—The roads were in a very tine condition at the beginning of the present week, but the warm days of Wed nesday and Thursday rendered them soft and muddy on the surface, and the existing disagreeable weather will make hauling or driving over them very unpleasant. The growing wheat looks pretty will, that which was sown early is in a very flourishing condition. The fields which were sown late do not look well, but may eventually grow finely and yield a good crop. It is as yet too early to form any definite conclusions respecting the quantity of wheat to be harvested in this county next summer. A large surface has been sown with this indispeusible cereal, and should the sea-son prove propitious the ens ternary large yield may be anticipated. Although !armors are more than any other class of people independent of the fluctuations of the money market, never theless, no class of people watch with inure interest monetary matters. The price oj gold is weekly read in rural districts and the conclusions reached respecting the probable effect of the premium it co m in an t Is upon the price of the commodities dealt in by farmers is very shrewdly surmised. In the country money is scarce and there is quite a demand for loans to meet the wants of the first of April; a large quantity of grain, however, will be sent to market, be tween this time and the first, which will render money more plentiful and erudite most farmers to meerinaturing obligation, without any serious einharitssment. INTERcounsE - A ,drresissideni sends the following: An amusing affair occurred at the o tap last Saturday. An unusually large crowd of sportsmen had assembled to take part in a fox chase. The fox had been confined in a barrel previous to its being let loose, when some evil-disposed person substi tuted in its stead a large red house eat. The (TA being started in the woaxls, the exchange was not discovered by the huntsmen at the 'time. After waiting the usual length of time for the dogs to start, the spurting fraternity mounted their torsos, expecting to have a long and exciting c•lntse, (it being reported that the fox was caught in Mary land,) and after dashing away through the woods for ehout one mile, his catship was diseovered sitting on the top of a large chestnut tree ! The eat giving the turn and hoilifids a glimpse of its claws and bristles. The usual process of " gagging the fox" was dispensed with, and the cat left to find its way back as hest it 'cold. Mr. I leery Hurst, of Chester county, booing the first man at the tree, received the purse, which amounted to something (over fifty dollars. Our Leacock township 111011C . 11 hunt or, have been successful in their undertakings et last. I understand they recovered some SONS under the foundation of an old house belonging to Adam Diller. looney was all old Spanish dollars. UNPLEASANT BEOINN !NO OF E II oN EY MOON.—As Mr. - Benjamin Übie and his wife, residing near Cambridge in this county, were returning on last Thursday evening from the Church in which they had just been married, the front axle of their buggy broke in the centre,precipitating Mr. Vine under the horse and rendering the latter unman:ls-able. After running for some distance Mrs. U. was thrown out, and . the buggy rompletely demolished. Mrs. Übie meaped with ulight injury, hut hor Itukhand wax severely bruised—an unpleasant min mencement of a honeymoon. The aecident mused intense excitement among the wed ding guests, who were aceompanying the party. IAiroItTANT ru BoNiMpl.DEß,—Several of the ominous detached from five-twenty bonds, issued unde'r art of February 125th, Isll2, July 17th, and August sth, 184;1 and presenter) in W:vihington at the treasury tor payment, have been pronouneed coun terfeit hy the treasury ex ports, and after be ing so stamped, returned to the party send ing them. On Wednesday, however, the examiners reversed their derision, and now pronounce the eondetnned ominous genuine. Holders will therefore he glad to learn that they run now get their cash, and that it is believed at the treasury the above-named issue has not peen counter feited.—./ThrrOviutrg Patriot. NEAR DIM NVNINIi,—Tw“ small children, the one aged four years, son of Francis Wilson, of Washington borough ; the other aged three years, and son of Lewis Wilson, came near being drowned on Tuesday last. They were playing t at the ice along the river shore, and fell in. A woman, who was wa.shing near by, espied one of them in the water, and gave the alarm. A man, named John MINI ichael, came to the rescue, and seeing the one child, jumped into the water and saved it. The father of the child that was thus rescued, now came up and espied the other child floating on the water, some distance below. Ile also jumped into the river and caught the child. It had float ed some li fteen or twenty yards from where it fell in. At one time it wai feared that this child would not recover. Dr. W. Binkley was summoned, and applied re storatives, and both the little 1 . ”11:s :tro able to he abollt. Sir EItIFF . S SAL ES. —Sheriff Myers on Saturday sold the following real estate: A farm of ii_! acres of land, on which are a dwelling-house, a barn and other build ings, in Bart township,belonging to Geo. 11. Paschal, purchased by Martin V. Greenleaf, for ~53,800. The following properties of Samuel Hop kins, in Marietta, were purchased, as fol lows: No. I, a two-story brick dwelling house, a ware-house, stable, and other buildings, corner of First and NValnut sts., purchased by F. Waller, for 73,2,400; No. 3, four two-story frame dwelling-houses, on Second street, purchased by I). It. Baker, Esq., for ; No. 4, a two-story frame dwelling-house fund other buildings, on Front street, purchased by A. N. Cassel, for sttlKt; No. 5, two one-story frame dwel ling houses, on Locust street, purchased by J. ft. flesh, for 3175; No 9, a lot fronting twelve feet on Third street, purchased by S. S. Nagle, for ess. No. 2 was not sold, the balance of the properties satisfying the Sheriff's claims. - The property of A. K. Bowers was not sold, the former sale having previously been confirmed. .lons PAGE.—We have received a letter from Messrs. Mumford and Cameron, Real Estate Brokers, in Kansas City, Mo., in quiring for one John Page, whose sudden disappearance in that city, a short time ago, has created fears that he was murdered for some money which he was known to have in his possession. Messrs. Mumford and Cameron state that Mr. Page represented himself as from near Lancaster, Pa., and that he was a man of gentlemanly hearing. Mr. Page, when in Kansas City, stated that he had been from home for some three months. ConnEclioN.—The correspondent who recently - furnished us with the article on "Educational Matters in Eden Twp.," states that from $15,000 to $20,000 was raised in Eden twp., during the late cur, instead of $2,000, (as the types had it,) for educa tional purposes. W e cheerfully make the required correction. All who are familiar with a printing office are well aware that occasionally the most provoking mistakes occur, even when the greatest care is exer cised by compositor and proof-reader. APPOINTMENT.—The Trustees of the Lin den Hall Female Seminary at Litiz, have appointed W. H. T. Frueauff, Professor of French and German at that institution. Mr. Frueauff is a son of the Principal, and has lately returned from Europe, where he -has spent upwards of five years in 11138- tering the language. Logos Tu nnEvs.—Mr. J. B. Shelley, progr)etor of the Red Lion Hotel of Mount Joy,,hrought to this city, last week. three turkeys i; ,wAlching .in the aggregate, 99i pint:ads. ey weighed respectively, 36, 333 'di:la' 30'0 ' Who can beat it I •.1 ; COUNTY has 513 public schooll,"ififth:eontai.ns an area of 950 square miles. Fortyltwo permanent certificates have been issued to teachers in this county. THE OLD BUCHANAN FAMILY CLOCK.- A clock made for the father of Ex-Presi dent Buchanan is still in existence and doing good service in the State of Illinois. A letter written from the town of Mon mouth, in that State, gives the following sketch of this ancient time-piece : Stopping at, the National hotel, (which, by the by, is one of the neatest, cosiest. hotels ha Illinois,) I observed standing in the corner of the office, an old-fashioned clock; originally ten _feet in height, before its ornamental top was broken, solid ma hogany case, brass works, and showingthe changes of minutes, day of the month and the hours, mi and seconds. This re markable time-keeper was made in Mer cersburg, Pennsylvania, in 1807, at a cost of $lOO.OO, to the order of the father of James Buchanan. At his death it was sold to the father-in-law of the present proprietor of the National Hotel, 'Mr. J. 11. Murphy, who purchased it at a sale held by the former for the sum of $40.00. Mr. M. moved from Afercersburg to Sterling, this State, in 1865, and last spnng to Monmouth, bringing the faithful old clock with him. It has been cleaned from time to time, but has never required repairing. Mr. Murphy is a genial, communicative, silver-haired old gentleman. He knew the elder and you iger Buchanans intimately. OVER A MILLION BOTTLES OF PII(ENIX PECTORAL have been sold, and all who have used It buy it again. Jal9-Imw 3 • SPECIAL NOTICES Avoid Quack. A victim of early indiscretion. causing nervous de bility, premature decay. Sc., having tried In vain every advertised remedy, has discovery,' a simple meas of self cure, which he will crud free to fel -1 n ow sufferers. Address+ J. H. REEVE>r, scc.i.sso Sc., New York MARRIAGES FISH —81.1,,AH D.—On the lath Inst., by Ito, W T. Gerhard, at LL' residence, Theodore Visher, of 1,11 voter city, to Mary Ittlecard. of Dillervllle. 1)I•NICI.:1.-111,11;01.—On the 13111 lust.. by Rev. J. J. Striae, at Itht residence, James 11. DuAle to Mist, Marietta Graham, both of Mottle. KurrYsll, - thwou.-Ort the 11th Inst., he Rev. J. J. strife,at his residence, Henry H. Kauffman, of Ylanor. to NlLss Rachel A. tlroorn. of West Ilemptleld. I . 7..srin—litsulat.-011 the 9th Inst., by the Rev. J. V . Eckert. Mr. Daniel Zahm. of Providence twit.. to Miss Mary 11l neer, of Delmore twp. WITII.II,—At hkrrvlilruce , at Willow ,treet, Dr. licit, W. Withers. LAsms.O —n the -Ith Inst.. at her residence In Mt. Auburn, Shelby cu., Ind., Susan Dunkel, wife of the Irate Christian W. Ilndln, formerly of :NI anhelin tier, this county. Irmirsv . .—int the 13th Inst. In this My, r',. Cutha rine Intlow, In the gal year of her age. MCYVt,".—Un Thitnalay afternoon. Jan. 1:;t It, Jahn 31 cEvoy, In the 23i1 year of hie age. . . 315riEns.-015 15th In tlt L. tin', Etlllll4l, tght, of Julsn and Christina Muttern aged -I p.m,. 5 monthm and 15 days. NYMElt.—Suddeitly, on the 13111 inst.. in this city Litonard :Snyder, in 13th t' r oflS age. _ . . EcIITERN.,II.- - Oh literal] Inst.. In Stru.sbnrg. Car. Kline Eehtl,loCh, %%lino( William Echtrrnoel., In the tinth year of her age. MARKETS Phllmlelphla Grain Market Jan. 18.—The demand for Flour Is Molted to the wants of the home on sinners, who purshased (kit/ bbls in lots at for Superfine; s4.soii_ri.B7.i.j for EXtrnsi iTsgil tor lowa, Wisconsin and Minnesota Extra Family, the latter rate Mr choice; Penn'a do do at 51ig5.75; Indiana and Ohio dodont 1.25, and fancy brands at according to quality. lire Flour sells at ES per bbl. Prices of Corn Meal are nominal. There is no spirit in the Wheat nutrket, :tad priers favor buyers; sales of Penn'a and reit, ware Red at $1.=641.2.5. Rye is steady at SI for Western and Penn'. fors is quiet; sales id . 2,000 bus new Yellow at gla-S.Se, according to quality. eats attracts but little u[ ; sales of Pell Nothing doing In Barley tir Nlalt. In the tilisenee of Sol, In hark we quote I querettron at 830.0 U per tun. Cloverseed Is lower ; sales of 310 bur at 8 . 7.7. - kir. per alai, Thoothy ranges from to 831.7:, Flaxseed is taken by the crushers at $1.3.:2/r Whiskey is dull ant nominal at lige for wood Stock 3farkets. PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 18. Peilll'.l Heading 1' li - , Phil'a anti Erle 28 bid. I'. S. 139 1881 117 5 „94117 1 4 •• :4-....44 1813” 115ff4k9//•K‘.'s 113', eidErf ......115*-„mq - - 1 , 945, July 114 \•0114',,, " " 1417 4.4 i 9 114 4 114-N 114 \ ;0114•,', 10- id. 112 ye 112 f, i•urretio 6, 109-gar.llo ifekl 121. f, NEW YORE, Jun. IS, Canton 5.1 Cumberland 31', \fiefd p om s Union Telegraph 12 7 , Quicksil a ver I , f c t, , , Ma " Preferred 17 , \ Roston W. If lb Adams Ur i Wells F.Fx 21 American 'l7 United States 54., Pact tle Mall 42 5 , N. Y. Central and Hudson 114 1 .1 Scrip SA Erie 2:9 4 Erie Preferreil 42 Harlem l'ia , " Preferred 140 Rock ' , land 1117 Reading 90 . Nllchlgan Central 118 Lake Shore 841 Illinois Central 134 Cleveland and Pittsburg 02 Northwestern 73N Preferred slkfc, C. C. and New Jersey Central tit. Paul " Preferred.... Wabash Fort. Wayne Terre Haute Preferred. C. and Alton Preferred O. and M 11. and F. D. L. and W lO6u M. and F ti Marietta J: t'inelanati 2.0 Ifnunliml and Nt..1,,,.r, ((old I 21,; Philadelphia Cattle Market ~. . . The market for Beef Cattle was steady to day, and there was a moderate business effect ed. We quote choice at 19449 1 4 c; prime at WO 'l 3 ig• ; fair to good at 754.7-4..ic ; and common at Sot Ile 70 10gross. :Is to quality. Receipts, 2117 head. The following safes were reported : Head. SO Owen Smith, Western, gross. 9.2 5. Christy Bro., Virginia, +14,1,494.?, gross. 50 Dennis Smith, Western, G 4.161193,?, gross. as Deng!, & Mel leeme,Western, 19,11544 . 1 e, gross. 61 I'. MeFillen, Western, Thak,,gross. (11 I'. Hathaway, l'hester county, 01,(11,9c, gross. :12 James S. Kirk, Western, 80,9 e, gross. SO B. F. MeFillen, Western, 7,lStie, gross. 71 James Menlien, West. - 11, 86, tic. gross. 110 E. S. Melt 1 len, Western, 714.9 e, gross. 7U Ullman & Bachman, Western, 70.5 1 1.•, gross. 2oU Martin Fuller & Co. ; Western Geelk , , gross. 00 M•mnev & Miller, 95 estern, 'RYA'. gross. 63 Thoma . .. , , Mooney & ttro., Virginia, 1410 ; 1,, gross. 4s 11. Chain, Western Pennsylvania, 7018 1 .4 . e, gross. 1: 1 4) John Smith & Bro., Western, 7 1 ,i49.9 1 .4', gross. 09 J. & 1,. Frank, Virginia, fls4S! gross. SIl taus. Shamberg Ca., Western, gross. 100 Hope & Co., Western, gross. 20 M. Dryfoos, Western, 940. 2 c, gross. : 7 ,9 H. Frank, l'lrginia, 791,81?4, gross. 45 Elkon & Co., Irginia, 6(0,7e, gross. 2)) 1,. Branson, Chester county, 11 gross. 47 S. Frank, Western, 64,14 , 47t,.;,c, gross. 42 Chandler & Alexander, l'hester county, 704 ile, gross. 20 1.. Horn, 11elaware,5t.9,,ta?, gross _ln .1. J. Chain, Western Pennsylvania, 11..; 31 Thomas Duffy, Virginia, , I l e, gross. 50 John McArdie, Western, gross. 10 C. Welker, rkt6c, gross. MO El nger, Virginia, OS'/.c, gross. 11 Preston, st; Saunders, Chester county, 13,0 c, gross. 11 It. Fief ler, Western l'en.ylvania,l49 7llc, gross. Prays and ( ' al via were In gond demand; sales of h....51,iaal at 5.50...90. Springings sold at Salta 55. Sheep were ateliee and higher. .10V) heal( ehangeal hands at the AVVIIIIV brier Yard at 5 terns Flogs—The market was 111,0111 of animalinn, and priers materially deellned. Sales were made at the opening at E113.51ia61-1, and at the chase $12.50as IS N WO Its net for earn 111. lie- C allas, tow head. Lancaster Household Market. LAS:CASTER, St' llllrday, Jai - 1111,y 15. Butter r pound 40v Lard, •• 14,21 h. Eggs r citizen 11. - /c Beef by the quarter, front 10611 le - hind . 12th.13e Pork by the quarter lfier.l7e Chickens, 111 N -tor pair 650470 e I cleaned) - e pair Wet 1.00 Vegtl CLII lets, -,, imllll.l 170218 c Lan', - Sausages, ...1 1 ( 1-1 2.'s .• Beef cuts, 1 {kaki Pork Steak, •• :Me Potatoes, r bushel .i0"5.60 5 Pi's peck lee Sweet Potatoes, 1 11 ,:: peck tilte Turnips r is, peek - sea Se Onions, '• - • ISteaki Apples, • - 1ire.155 Chestnuts, r quart 12e Winter Beans, 5 1 , quart Ike Buckwheat Flour, it, quarter 1.25 l'aliliage, r head Tx. Se New Coml. bushel 90c OatA, it bag 1.110 Turkeys, r piece I . . - .cr.2.75 Geese, - 1,110 Ducks, r pair 1.111.1 Apple Butter ' r pint r crock Tiker,2:ic 1.25a1.50 Ciiier,•p barrel •• r gallon 1.-x• LANCASTER U RAIN MARKET, Afox DAY, JANUARY 17TFI, 1670: Family Flour 16 4 bbl - $.5 5o Extra " '6 4 87 Superfine " " 4 25 White Wheat - Ft hue 1 30 Red 1 12 Rye j• 7 bus 1 Ou Corn " 73 Oats " 48 Whiskey j 9 gal 96 Prime Cloverseed It bus 7 so The Lancaster Tobacco Market Is still in a very unsettled state. A few lots have been bought during the past week at prices varying from 15420 ets. per lh. for wrappers, according to the quality of the leaf; fillers brought from 345 ets. The market is expected to assume a more de cided aspect during the present week, un der the anticipated presence of purchasing agents from the large New York and Phil adelphia tobacco houses. NE IV AI)JERTISEMENTS 4 SSIGNEE'S NOTICE.—ASSIGNED EM .A. TATE of William W. Steele, of Drumore township, Lancaster County. William W. Steele, of said township, having by steed of vol untary assignment, dated January 10th 1870, assigned and transferred all his estate and ef fects tothe undersigned, for the benefit of the creditors of the said William W. Steele, they therefore give notice to all persons indebted to said assignor, to make payment to the under signed without delay, and those having claims to present them to SAMUEL CHARLES Willow st., P. 0., WILLIAM J. HESS, Quarryville, P. 0„ Assignees. NEW ADTEETTSEMENTS ACOUGH, COLD OR NOIRE THROAT regulries immediate attention, as neglect often` results_ in an him ruble o Wkj, Lung Disease. RONC Hip, :Brown' Bronchial Troches ; c,. will most s invariably give instant .9 / 4 ?oche relief. For BRONCHITIS, ASTH MA, CATARRH, CONSUMP TIVE and THROAT DISEASES, they have a soothing effect. SINGERS and PUBLIC SPEAKERS use them to clear and strengthen the voice. Owing to the good reputation and popularity of the Troth., many worthless and cheap imita tions are offered which are good far nothing. Be sure LO OBTAIN the true. BROWN'S BRONCHIAL TROCHES SOLD EVERYWHERE, Gruddm T ETTERA OF ADIUNLSTRATION ON JA the estate of John Ounpbell, late of lilanor twp., Lancaster county, deed having been granted to Charles 'J. Rhodes, all persons In debted to said estate will made Immediate payment, and those having claims will present the same for settlement to the, undersigned Administra t or. J. REIODF.S, Safe Harlx,r Jun IS-6t\ 3 CAUTION.—ALL PERSONS ARE CAE TIONEDD against buying or negotiating a note, dated November 6, ISt9, parable to the order of Charles Shute, six months after <late said note buying been procured by fraudulent means. •JOHN SHAFFER. Jan 12-3tw2. NIC HESTER'S DALE LUMBER COMPANY. The Court of Common Pleas of the County of Lancaster In Equity, having decreed the dissolution of the firm known as The Hunter's. Dale Lumber Company, and appolutcsi the undersigned re ceivers to settle Itsaffairs. Notice is hereby given to all persons indebusl to the same to make immediate payment and t 011.... having claims to present them to 1). O. F-SHLEMAN, tleevtp ,•r, Janl2-3lw No. 36 N. Duke st., Lancaster. T S. MARSHAL'S SALE.--BY VIRTUE of a Writ of Hale t he Honorable Jolts nitlwahnier, Judge of the District Court of the United States, in and for the Ranters District of Pennsylvania, to me directed, will lie sold at public sale to the highest bidder for cash, at J. R. Hillier & Bro.'s Warehouse, lancaster, Penn's, on TU ESDA Y, FERRI' A RN . Ist, :1570, at 2 o'clock, P. 41; Casks of Whi,:key, Fr,. the Distillery if J. Li. (load. mv, Id law.cw united stote. EnNtern Distriot of P,onsylvanta H OUSE FrIANISIIIIND GOODS; HAGER & BROTHERS, WEST KINi sTREET, I'ASTPI M=l ENGLISH \V 11111.1 ll= MOMS MIISLINS ! I11.EACII111) AND;VNIII.EArIIED 'I'A II 1. ANI/s t.14.1"1 1 IN 1i 1.1 N N.S I=ll D A YS OF APPEAL FOR 1870 'l't) THE TAXABLE INHABITANTS I)! LANCASTER CoUNTY. Pursuant to the Provisions of the laws of this Commonwealth, the undersigned 'onßalsslon ers of Lancaster county hereby give notice to the Taxable Inhabitants within the respective City Boroughs and Townships of the said coun ty; that the Days of Appeal from the Assess ment of 1570 will be livid at the Commissioners' Office, In the City of Lane.: et!, on thellays lowing, to w i t: For the townships of Adamstown Borough, I Bart, Brecklmek, 1114,101, I! el, Cternarvon, Cocalico East Corinne° Wt...t. Colerain, ('olumbia, I Conestoga, Wedne.day, Conoy, Clay. Donegal East, Donegal West, Drunmre, ,!Tlinstlay, Feb. la. Ephrata, Earl. Earl East, Earl \Vest, Elizabet h, I Friday, Feli.. ‘ ll. Elizabet Mown Bid!. Eden. Fulton, Hemptield East, Hemptield West, , Tuesday, Feb. Lampeter East, Lampeter :West . Lancaster, Leacock, Leacock l*pper, Si','i Ini , tlay, Fe b , la. Little Britain, Manheint. Nfartic, Manor, Mount Joy, Mount Joy Boningh. Marietta Borough, Manheim Paradise, Friday,:rehl Penn, Pequea. Providence, Rapho, Ttn , , ay. 22.! Salisbury, Salsbury. Strasburg, Strasburg Borough, . N,Varwick, " " Washington Borough.) Lancaster City Thursday, Feb. 21. And at the same time and pine°, the Appeals from the Military Rolls and Log Tax will be held. C. H. NIBSLY, JOHN STROHM, Ja., 1 Art lit C. KREADY, Jl2-3bllaw,t3tw CommlNSioners, ITALUABLE CITY PROPERTY AT OR PHANS' COURT SALE.—On SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 12th, IS7O, ShobcCs Eagle Hotel, will be sold the following deserlbed real estate, part of the estate of Emanuel A lot or parcel of ground fronting 2.9 feet 4ti Inches on the west side of North queen street, 83', feet deep, with a Double IMo-story Frame DWELLING HOUSE libel other improve ments, in good condition, adjoining H. M. Pen fork 'l4 property on north and west, with right to take water front Pen flock Well. Three vontlguons parcels of grounii, each fronting 15 feet $!, inches tat West Lemon street, by al feet inches In depth, wit h right to Water from Pennock's well, each with a Two story Brick DWELLINtI HOUSE and other Improvements thereon, 15 feet h 3 inches by 30 feet, In good condition; 4 feet eollllllo,l alley at rear of lots. Adjoining Pennock's property on the east. An excellent.opportnnlty for persons of moderate means to seem, a comfortable house in a pleasant {art of the town. A lot In rear of Shirk's Confectionery, front. lag 32 feet, 2. Inches on the alley running from West Orange street to the Market Place, be tween North Queen and Prince, by ISt feet deep, with a DWELLING-HOUSE and a sub stantial two-story latch building t hereon, slate roofed, now used a.a ben-pin alley, cabinet maker shop, Sr. Adjoins the Week Horse Hotel property on the south. Access front North Queen Street, by a 4 foot alley. Sale to commence at 7 o'cltsik P. M„ when terms will he 111/11Ie known by CATHARINE SIP diElt, Ji tits A.:701 , 43ER, Administrator, Lancaster, 1 . a., Jan. 19, PQM. It u! V ALUABLE FRUIT FARM IN THE VALLEY OF VI 1t33 I NIA Pitt SA LE! I oder for sate my farm, containing Ilan.: Ark.Es, lying in RockingltaM county, Va., on the Val his l'urnplke, SeVell miles north of Harrison burg, and 2, 1 , miles from 1.11,111 Depot. on h. Manasses Railroad. There are TWO ( . 4)3fIq)IiTAISLE DWELLINthi Itn the place, about four hundred yards apart ; tine Cisterns and a Weil of water, with am ple other water for stock. There :are about 71) Aeres of the tract eleareil and In (mill vation. About Ti Acres In Choler !tearing Fruit, em bracing 1. - )00 Peaeh Trees of all the hest varie ties; 51,01. earing Apple Trees of hest qualities; between two and three hundred Dwarf Dear Trees; about the same number of Quinces, Just beginning to bear; arm of Haile/. variety of ((rapes, with a great many !smolt fat vines of vigorous growth in tile yard; several kind of select strawberries; also Plums. Damsons, Pears, Si, The land Is of the hest quality red clay lime stone, and will produce front 31 to bushels of wheat, and front to i4a linsheis of torn per acre, In a fair season. There are limestone de posits in 11111111t111111, Inuneillately In the WOCHIS With a lime house. 'rile Timber is good. There can he gotten oat of it between si2,lxmi or $3,000 , 4rim• Lumber and Locust anti Cellar Post, There is a Steam Saw :11111 within a mile of the plane, The out iIinIAVS are ample, Including large wood house new lee house smoke house, gran ary, corn crib, wagon abort, good stables, barn, .tr. TERMS moderate, and made known by ad dressing the undersigned at Harrisonburg Virginia, or Daniel Decker, at Hagerstown Md. Possession will be given on the Ist of April or sooner, If dsired. S. NI. VI ocr, Janits-11tw-3 T)UBLIC SALE OF VALUABLE. REAL ESTATE WEST BaANDYWINE TOWNSII r.--4IN MONDAY, the 31st day of JANUARY, MO. will he sold at public sale, on the above day on the premises, In West Bran dywine township. Chester county, Pa., the fol lowing valuable real estate, situate on the Turnpike, near the Manor Meeting House, ad joining lands of Dr. Gaston, Aaron Smith, and others, store orjless, 14 ACREN of will,ll 14 Heavy Timber Land. The improvements are a Two- Story and a half STONE DWELLING HOUSE, containing I 0 well arranged rooms, with all the modern Improvements of a tirst-che..s dwelling, Large Stone Barn, with the best of water In the barn-yard •, Wagon and carriage House, Wash House, Wood House, Hog If ouire, large new Corn Crib and many other buildings. Also, Two Good Tenant Houses, both In good order. There is on the premises, a large Apple Orchard containing bout-1a ACRES of well selected trees, In good bearing condition. This in a very desirable property and WOll worthy the attention of those wishing a tirst-class farm. The land is In a high state of cultiva tion, and divided Into nine enclosures with water In each of them. Two good streams of water pass through the property. There is a large lawn In front of the dwelling, planted with ornamental trees and evergreens. The property is 6 miles from Downingtown, 2 miles from the Waynesburg Railroad, and I mile from the Wilmington & Birdsboro' Railroad. It Is better known as the Stanley Brown farm. Persons desirous of viewing the premises previous to day of sale, will call upon Michael Clark, Merchant Tailor, Downingtown, or Leonard Worrall, residing on the premises. Sale to commence at 1 o'clock on said day. The greater part of the purchase money can re main In the property. ARTHUR ROGERS. JONES MCCLEF-S, Auct. N. B.—At the same time and plaee, will be sold a large amount of Terra rot to Plpe. NE IV ADVERTISEMENTS A GIFT. Agents wanted—Ladles and Gentlemen for their spare momenta. A Sewing MichMe, a Gold Watch, a Bible, money and other goods given ns premium. llow,•Whcn, Where, What and nil other partlettlnrs Free. Address C. L. VAN ALLEN. NI Broadway, N. Y. H INKLEY =TUNG MACHINE FOR FAMILY USE—aimple chew, rvliable, KNITS EVERYTHING. AGENTH Vk , ANTED.— Circula r and sample/docking FREE. Adam. HINKLEY KNITTING MACHINE CO., Rath, Me. 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Flower and Kitchen Garden. 21th edit ion of this popular work, which has met with much favor In the past, Is now ready. It has been re-written and Improved, 'dirtied with new type, and on line paper, ll lust mt ed with a beautiful Lithograph, anti many other tine engravings from nature. II rOillaillA full description and the culture of over 1. - .00 leading varieties of Flowers and Veg etables; also deoeriptiVo fist of the novelties of the present 0001011; to which Is added a colleC tloll of due (dance French Hybrid filadiolua, This work, we feel confident, will compare favorably with any snnilar one. From rxri Bartlett, Warner, N. IL have rereiVed a ropy or your iMperbly gotten up Amateur rultivatOrm Ciente. I think It far ahead of anything of tile kind ever before Issued from the American press.” Mint to any add,ss upon receipt of r,r, contla for paper rovvrs. and a) cents for tastefully bound In cloth. WARIIBURN & CO., Boston, Mass. DEP ORT OF THE BOARD OF DIREIN ft tors of the LANCASTER COUNTY MU TUAL INSURANCE. COMPANY, made at the office of the Company al Williamstown, on January 111 h, 1 S : Number of policies in force Jan. Ist, 1870 Amount of lllNUranee onpoliclea hismsl op to January Ist, ISI.OI ..... ...1117,103,n2 110 :l meant Of er feetedon poes issued during the year.. 00 Amount of Insurance can veled for same period 1.47,fr. 00 Increased aml of Insur ance during the year a 510,945 00 Deduct unit of inNurance which has become void from non payment of a SSel. II lents. ..... 302,920 00 237,9711 00 W hole 11111 . 1 of Int:urn:lre In fire,• Jan. Int, Iti7o \mount of premium notes In force January Ist, ISO ..... .7.17,744 tint of premium notes deposited with the Com pany during the year . 71;.N7 tint of premium notes eaneelled for the some period Increased ant't of preml plum notes during the yr. 8 T.',34.1 00 Deduct aun't of premium notes wh leh nave be come void from non payment of assesemitt_ 13,973 al Whole nmollnt of premium notes In ft.ree Junnury Ist, MU S 311,157 KS CREDIT FI'NDSI OF THE COMPANY. Balance In the hands of the Treasurer, January Ist, 1869 Cash received for assess ment No. IS rash received for percent - age paid on premium notes during the year... Cash received for policies during the year • .. rash received for stamp,. on policies during the year (Tall received from Ag•ts of the Company due by them Jan. Ist, 1. 5 09 tari 45 =MEI EXPENSE .S OF THE COMPANY Cash paid, Adam Rutter for a partial loss to his louse.. 'ash paid,lien,j'nWeaver for contents of Carpen ter Ship Cash paid, J. linuswlne for his stable and con tents Cash paid, Eni'l Shots, for loss to his house__ I'ash paid, Henry H. Lan. ills for loss of his barn. .'11.:411 paid Isaac H.Htauf for for loss of his barn... Cash paid 30.'0 Nelson for a partial loss to his house Cashpnltt Brisben Skllrs for loss on contents of house (*ash paid El'shit Fern. note and Intereat Cash paid N. Milton Woodx note and Inter- ...... I 'ash pa hi Tholollo S. M II vain's estate, note and Interest Cash paid Committee of Investigation for looses In the Company. cash paid postage pre paid by agents of Ilni Company 'ash paid stamped enve lopes and stamps...... Cash paid United States tax Crud, paid for cdationery. Cash paid John lirterm Sons for Ledger and In- de X rash paid Register and nth, Cash paid for blank poli cies and premium tinter Refunded to agents oft he Company Cash paid for stamps 14 policies Cosh paid for...printin (Wilt pulp N. Ell maker, r earl., at torney'm fee.... . Cloth paid for Secretary's malary Cluth paid for TreasureCx hatary Camb paid Dlreetorm and Executive Committee for nen . lemi rendered to the Company Cash paid other rent Caoll paid for fuel for of- lice Cash paid for collecting assessment No. IS Cash paid (or Auditlog Committee Due from Agents of the Cnmiamy January Ist, 1870 nalanee In the hands of the Treasurer January Ist, 1870 In exhibiting the annual statement of the affairs of the Company, the Board take pleas ure In eluting that the year which has Just closed has been one of great prosperity, not only In regard to the increase of Insurance, but also in regard to the comparative exemption from loon, the Increase of insurance during the year being five hundred and forty thousand, nine hundred anti five dollars (8540,966), the amount of loss for the same period being at- I elm hundred and thirty-seven dollars and twenty-flve cents (01.',37.25) which has been settled and paid out of the balance of fumes,/ itient No. Is intuit. In November, 1888, and from the receipts of the office. For allot of the looses for tire year, see payments made by the Treasurer. 'I here is yet remaining in the' hands or the Treasurer three hundred and lifty one dollars and eighty-nix cents (0351.86) with five hundred and ninety-two dollars and fifty cents (.5112.50) tine from Agents, to meet future demands on the Company. There has been n .liner presented to the Board by Philip A. Burger, of Milloraville, for the loss of the con tents of his vinegar factory, on the 15th of last September, the payment of which has been retuned by the Board. Suit has been Instituted against the Company, and the matter will be passed titam before the proper tribunal. There haft also been a claim presented by Henry Im mel, of Nlillersville, for the recent loon of his house and contents, which were Insured for one thousand and fifty dollars (111f60.00), It seems clear to the Board, beyond all question, that Mr. Immel has rendered Itix policy void, by a violation of a provision contained In all poli cies issued by this Company, to wit. "Provided and It la hereby declared, that this policy shall not take effect or be binding If the said house, he., be now, or hereafter, insured In any other office, unless the same shall be allowed of by the Directors of this Mace, and specified here on." The Board regret the difficulty with re gard to these claims, nonesuch having occurred heretofore, It is hoped none finch will occur hereafter. From the above statement it will lye observed that a large amount of Insurance ban been rendered void front non-payment of assessment No. Is, members who have been dismissed from the Company for that reason eon not complain, as full notice and ample time have been given for payment, and as it was the only assessment made on their policies for the last four years, should have been promptly paid. • It would be unjust to promptpaying members, that delinquents should enjoy the benefits of the Company, and not bear their proportion of the losses. To any such della quontx who may know by examining their policies, that tilts assessment is not paid, and whose insurance in now:void, we would state that bye resolution of the Board they ran have their policies renewed on the payment of their arreare, but be subject to the expense of a resurvey and new policy. The benefit of the three per rent. originally paid on their premis tun notes will be allowed them. All of which in respectfully submitted. Thomas S. Woods, Adam K. Witmer, ' John Itnnek, Moses Ertby, Samuel Slokom, Albert P. Mellvaine, Jt.hn Seldomrlgge, Clinton filmes, Nath'i E. Slaymaker, Directors. The following persona were elected Directors for the ensuing year: Thomas S. Woods, Adam K. Witmer, Samuel Filokom, John Renck, Moses Kirby, Jno. Seldomridge, Clinton Mmes. Albert P. Mellyaine Nathaniel E. Slaymaker. The Board wan organized by (quoting Thos. S. Woods, President: and Nathaniel k.. Slay maker, Secretary and Treasurer. Thomas S. Woods, Adam E. Witmer rind N. E. Slaymaker were appointed the Executive Committee for the ensuing year. The following persons were appointed Agents I the Company, viz: Joseph McClure, Bart twp. Jacob s. Winner, Millersville. John Stauffer, Esq., East Henipileld twp. Jacob Kemper, Esq., Ephrata twp. Isaac Boshong, Esq. East Lampeter twp. David Lee, Eeq., Salisbury twp. Joseph Clarkson, Lancaster city. Wm. Weidman Esq., Upper Leacock. Martin Hendrickson, Esq., East Earl twp. Geo. R. Esq , Mount Joy. Frederick A. Zttzman, Lffiz. Elias G. Groff, Esq., New Holland. Henry H. Wiley, Bainbridge. Francis Mc Clure, Salisbury. NATHANIEL E. SLAYMAKEIt, nv Secretary. I=l EMCEE] MEE
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