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Aground.
The Secretary of the Navy is getting
deeper and deeper into the mire. The
nominal Secretary is a good looking,
good natured Jerseyman, who knows
•no more than the law allows about any
thing, and far less than It allows about
the business of the Navy Department,
so that Admiral Porter,—a naval gen
tleman who habitually entertains the
profound conviction that he was born
to do what he pleases, and that he can
do nothing wrong,—has been 'allowed
loy Secretary Robeson to run the De
partment pretty much as he pleased.
As might be naturally supposed, the
self-confident and conceited individual
has run it among the breakers. In less
than six months he has used up all the
money appropriated by Congress for
naval purposes for the whole year, and
is obliged to ask for an additional ap
propriation of three million dollars.—
During the debate on the subject, in the
Senate, Mr. Davis, (Dem.,) Ky., said it
appeared to be generally conceded that
the Secretary of the Navy had admin
istered the affairs of his Department in
defiance of the law, forbidding transfers
of money from one bureau to another,
and that such had been his incompeten
cy and prodigality that in six months
he had rushed through with the whole
appropriations which Congress intend
ed should last for twelve. Six thousand
men had been discharged from the pub
lic service in consequence, and unless
this appropriation was now made, other
discharges of mechanics would follow.
It was asked for under the head of
" charity," in order that these men
might have work through the winter.
A resolution has also been introduced
Into Congress requesting the Secretary
of the Navy to state the cause of the
presence in Washington, at the present
time, of so large a number of line offi
cers of the navy and midshipmen from
the Naval Academy at Annapolis. It
seems that Porter, in his anxiety to have
Congress endorse his order, degrading
the staff' officers of the navy, has gath
ered at the Capital a large number of line
'officers and midshipmen, In order that
they might have au opportunity of
prejudicing the minds of Congress
men in favor of the claims of the line In
the dispute which Is raging between
them and the staff.
Our sweet and frothy Porter has been
contemplating for some time the taking
of a cruise In great style in the European
waters next summer, accompanied by a
numerous fleet. But he has exhausted
all his money and can't get any more,
so that his projected cruise has conic to
un untimely end. Besides, after the
recent hard raps and terrible scorings
which he has got In Congress and from
the newspapers, in feels very unwell,
and 1111.9 no stomach for even a junket
ing cruise through Europe.
Counted Out
The ElpreNB has some pluck. flay
ing set itself up ns a pattern of honesty,
it does not hesitate to tell the truth
whenever It can help its own side of a
ease and damage that faction in the Re
publican party upon which it makes
war. In its issue of Tuesday evening it
says:
Recent developments Justify us in be
lieving that John K. Reed was thirty and
honestly nominated to the onion of County
'Commissioner, but that. the returns of it
certain district were so arranged hetween
Saturday night and Monday morning :LS to
count him out!
If such a thing was done it was done
for a purpose; and we 'mist conclude
that purpose to have been the securing
of a County Commissioner who would
not oppose the money making schemes
of the " ring " which now controls that
office. The charge is a very grave
one and is calculated to excite no little
comment. If the allegation of the Er
press be true, (and we see no reason why
we should doubt it) then is it certain
that a combination of desperate men ex
ists In this country, who are ready to re
sort to the most villainous means fur the
accomplishment of their purposes. The
Crawford County system has proved to
be a failure, if such things ran be ac
complished under it. It has not produc
ed reform or prevented_ corruption.—
According to the Express, one of the
main champions of the system,the Com
missioner's office and the C'ounty Prison
are dens of corruption. We see no way
to remedy the evils coinplai ned of except
the adoption of Saunter Buckalew's sys
tem of cumulative voting. Leta law be
passed which will insure the minority a
representation in all such bodies as
County Commissioners, Prison Inspect
ors, &c., and there will be a prompt ex
posure of dishonesty, and a check to ras
cality of every description. Asa majority
of counties In the Commonwealth are
Democratic, the Republicans - ought not
to oppose the adoption of the proposed
plan. It is right in principle; it is in
direct accordance with our theory of
government; it promises to afford a
remedy for evils which cannot be reach
ed and cured under any system now in
use; it would leave the majority in con
trol of the offices, but would enable the
minority to place nt least one honest
and competent man iu a position where
he could see all that was going on in his
department. Such a law Is exactinwhat
Is needed in Lancaster and in other
counties of the State. We hope no nar
row-minded views may prevent the pas
sage of Senator Buckalew's bill.
Contested Seats In Congress.
We arc glad to see that three Repu b l 1(.0 0
members of the Committee on Contested
Elections, in the lower *use of Con
gress, are willing to allow Democratic
contestants some little chance to }rave
justice done them hereafter. By a vote of
seven to four, the committee has agreed
to report a hill providing for a new mode
of adjusting contested cases. Each case
is to be examined and decided by a sep
arate committee composed of members
of the House. Seventeen names are to
be placed in a hat and drawn therefrom
by a blind-folded boy. The contestants
are to have the right to object to any
name, the same as a erhninal does In
the selection of a jury, the drawing to
be continited until nine are chosen. A
system something like the above is em
ployed in our State Legislature. For
some years past the committee On con
tested elections in the _lower House of
Congress, has been composed of seven
Radicals to four Democrats, 401 a ma
jority of the Radicals have been men' of
un unscrupulous character, such as Joint
Cessna, of this State. To that commit
tee all contested cases were referred, and
the result has been the summary rejec
tion of nearly every Democrat whose
scat was contested. Even if there should
be a majority of Republicans on the
committees drawn under the newly pro
posed plan there would be a chance of
getting some honest men among them,
men who would decide according to the
evidence, and not according to partisan
prejudices.
BEFORE the war there was very little
of official corruption in the Southern
States, and such transactions as have
disgraced the Legislature of Pennsylva
nia were unknown ; but since the inau
guration of Radical rule under the aus
pices of reconstruction, all the vices
which are common in the governments
of Northern States, have become famil
iar in Dixie Land. The Governor of
Florida has been impeached for steal
ng, and corruption and rascality stalk
broad wherever Yankee Carpet-bag
gers and negroes rule. Such is the legiti
mate fruit of a bastard system of recon
struction. ,
Haan was rejected, not because Radi
cal Senators deemed him unfit to occupy
a seat on the bench of the Supreme
Court, but because they had , ii lively re
inembrance of snubs that he, had given
them when they were seeking offices for
their favorites. Had he been obsequious
and servile lie could have commanded
more than the necessary number of
„Radical votes.
THE
Another Infamous Tariff BM.
When the Committee of Ways end
Means reported the amended tariff.bill
the other, ay, Mr. Brooks ofNew York
desired to make a minority report To
this our Congressman, Mr. Dickey,streni
uously and successfully objected. This
attempt to stifle freedom, of expression'
on an important subject was agross oufc.,
rage. We have had no less than eleven
tariffs already since the war began. At
least one bill is put through at every
session of Congress, and sometimes two.
The reason for such frequent changes is
to be sought and found in the greed
of a setof grasping menopolists. Differ
ent interests meet together at Washing-,
ton and form combinations sufficiently
powerful to compel or purchase just
such legislation as they want. As
few of the monopolists are ever perfectly
satisfied they are ready at any time to
open up the tariff question anew, in hope
that they may be able to gain something
in the scramble which is sure to succeed.
The pending bill is more obnoxious and
oppressive than any which has pre
ceded it. It takes millions from
the pockets of the consumers,
the farmers, the mechanics and the
working men, and transfers the money
thus wrung from them to a favored few.
It is a bare-faced fraud ; a gigantic and
unblushing swindle. The New York
Journal of Commerce, the leading busi
ness paper of the country, in speaking
of its pretences.very aptly says
"It is like the 'letting up of the boys'
proposed by the tyrannical old school
master, who kept school an hour later
every day from Monday to Friday inclu
sive, and offered to the oppressed juveniles
as a compensation to keep school also on
Saturday, which until then had been a
whole holiday, and let the boys off on Sat
urday afternoon an hour earlier! It re
minds us of a ' screw ' contractor who bid
off the town-poor in a New England village
for an annual sum and substituted for the
daily meal ono kind of meat the former
keeper had furnished, n provision of four
different kinds of thin gruel. When the
hungry paupers clamored, he replied that
he had quadrupled their allowance. This
was nominally true, but there was less
nutrition In the whole week's supply of
the four kinds of gruel than in a single
meal of the meat."
Yet we suppose It will be adopted.—
There is so much money at stake that
the monopolists can afford to pay well
to have it pass , and every body knows
that money is very potential in all leg
islative bodies where the Radicals have
a large majority.
The Metropolitan Police Bill
The Metropolitan Pollee Bill passed
the Pennsylvania House of Representa
tives last week, under the gag of the
previous question, and as it had previ
ously passed the Senate, it is now before
the Governor for his approval. It is
doubtful whether lee will give it ; for
the measure is of such an outrageous
character that he can make a good deal
of capital for himself among the respec
table people of the State by refusing to
sign it, and will offend thereby only the
few politicians who are personally in
terested in its passage. Its peculiar
friends, too, are not believed to be the
friends of the Governor ; that political
leper Win. 13. Mann, is supposed to be
the author of the bill, and his tools are
in the majority me the Commission. It
is likely that Gov. Cleary will be unable
to see the propriety of putting power
into the hands of his enemies and fur
nishing them with a powerful . weapon
for his own scourking ; so that this bill
will hardly receive his approval in the
present shape.
13y the bill Philadelphia is divided
into live police districts. The govern
ment and appointment of the police Is
given to a Board of six Commissioners,
who are named in the bill ; they are
Peter A. B. Widener, W. J. Pollock,
John S. Ititteelhouse, George Truman,
John M'Carthy and Mayor Fox,r.r officio
—they !mid their offices for the term of
live years, at the end of which time the
voters of each of the live districts are
allowed to sleet a Commissioner for an
other term of live years. The Mayor of
tie city who has been elected by the
people to be the Executive officer of the
municipal government is shorn of all
power and responsibility, but is permit
ted to consult with live other men, who
have been appointed by the Legislature
to attend to his duties. 1l is a very
nicely devised measure to pass the con
trol of the 1111.111 let pal government into
the hands of a few men to their grt♦t
enrichment; but it will ruin the party
which shoulders the responsibility of its
short-lived iniquity.
The Fifteenth Amendment
Twenty-six States have now ratified
the Fifteenth Amendment to the Con
stitution ; the consent of twenty-eight
States is necessary to its final adoption.
Sonic of the Republican newspapers
have already made up this number by
counting in New York and Indiana;
but New York, this year, withdrew the
ratification it gave last year, while the
consent of Indiana has never been le
gally obtained. Ohiois properly counted
among tIY6 ratifying States, as its Leg
islature approved the amendment this
year, although last year it rejected it;
Ohio and New York have thus changed
phices.
The amendment is not adopted ; it is
quite probable, however, that this ad
ministration, after another Southern
State—Texas—has been whipped into
the measure, may claim to count Indiana
and declare its adoption by the requi
site two-thirds of the States. The ques
tion will then, sooner or later, get, into
the courLs, when it will be deter pined
whether the eccentric way in which the
consent of Indiana and the reconstruct
ed Southern States has been obtained,
will stand the crucial test of the law.
THE Radicals of the Senate are in
favor of expanding the currency to the
extent of forty-five millions, and the bill
passed through that body proposes to
make the increase through the National
Banks. To do so will cost from two to
three millions of dollars annually. That
amount of money will be extracted from
the hard earn i ngs of the people and given
us a bonus to the rich managers of Na
tional Banks, when it might be saved
by issuing greenbacks instead of Na
tional Bank notes. It is apparent that
the National Banks are part of the
Repuliliean programme, and nothing
short of a Democratic onslaught like
that of General Jackson against " Bid
dle's Monster" will shake them. The
sooner a divorce is effected between
banking institutions and the govern
ment, the better it will be for the tax
payers.
THE Fourth of July 1876 will be a
great day in this country. Congress is
already preparing to appropriate money
for the celebration of the centennial
anniversary of Independence. The
House Committee on Manufactures have
discussed at great length the question of
holding a centennial exhibition on the
Fourth of July, 1876, with a view of
showing the civilized world the im
mense advance in wealth and prosperity
which the United States Government
has made during the last 100 years.
They propose to have it on a scale
worthy a great nation like ours. Con
siderable discussion has been had
whether it should be held in New York,
Boston or Philadelphia, but no decision
has been reached.
TilE Cuban Revolutionists under
General Jordan are reported to have
achieved a signal victory over the Span
ish troops on the first of January. A
force of the latter under General Puello,
attacked a fortified position of the In
surgents near Guaimaxo, but were re
pulsed with a loss of more than three
hundred killed and wounded. '
MR. SinCcER, in the discussion of the
Virginia bill, denounced Gov. Walker
as a " traitor" and almost every thing
else that is vile. On the othet.hand, in
the House, Gen. Butler eulogized this
same Gov. Walker as "a true and hon
est man." How can these pure patriots
and philanthroplate differ so'widely,
while lovingly laboringtogether forthe
promotion of the "gfeat Moral ldeas"
of Radicalism ?
AN - CASTER'
The "Prison Ring."
. .
The Express says:
The decree has gone forth from the lanai
Ring of the_ Castle of Thuggery, that any
looking to a reform inthe man
, t cif, the Prison, 4 4 ' must be defeated
any cost." ;The agent tntsrry.out this
decree has been seleeted, bepd UM mine
t o,
'agreed upon. .- Re ;Ferasiented th at by'
can 'control atintigh biro of the debt.
pdim from this CQ ‘t# ' dereikn:y hlli
that may be introd ' dig...mtefei to the
Prison Ring, and hae iamilly bargained
for the job at the modest price of $lOOO. Of
course this " fee " and the other "expenses"
are to come out of the pockets of the tax
payers through the enormous profits which
they pay to the Prison:Ring for boarding
the prisoners.
That is a nice state of affairs truly.
_What. do the go9illatople fg,-4tnenster
county think of it? It is idistinct ad
mission on the part of a leading Repub
lican newspaper, that so much money
Is being wrongfully appropriated by
what is styled the "Prison Ring," that
those who constitute that combination.
can afford to raise large sums to defeat
any legislation which may be likely to
interfere with their nefarious business,or
to cut down the profits which they reap
from a well arranged system of plunder
ing. OPcourse all the money thus ex
pended comes out of the pockets of the
taxpayers. The Express is right there.
But, how comes it that the Crawford
County System, affords no remedy for'
the evils complained of? The Express
gleefully announced last fall that the
people bad achieved a grand triumph
over the Thugs and all other corrupt
combinations. If it told the truth then,
whence the wafflings in which it now
Indulges? Are there no honest men
among the Radicals of Lancaster coun
ty? Do those who have borne the
character of upright citizens byeome
corrupt, mercenary and thievish the
moment they are chosen Comm issioners
or Prison Inspectors? Have all these
officials their price Can they all be
bought up without difficulty, and in
duced to act dishonestly forlittle money?
Such is the only conclusion which can
be drawn from the tenor of the editorial
columns of the Exprem, and we think It
would not slander its party without
cause.
The remedy proposed by the Express
would seem at first glance to be likely to
prove effective, but what assurance have
the people of Lancaster county, that the
Thugs and other interested parties
would not put a tool of their own
in the Judicial Chair, that they would
not bind the successful candidate with
pledges to appoint those whom they
should from time to time name as Prison
Inspectors, &c. We have a high respect
for the integrity of the legal profession,
but we are not sure that a seemingly
honest lawyer might not be induced to
bind himself by secret promises made to
active, i ntluential and corrupt politicians
during a close canvas for the nomination.
A President Judge must be elected short
ly, and so far no one stands forward so
prominently as to occupy an indepen
dent position. There will no doubt be
several aspirants with claims nearly
evenly balanced. Who can say, there
fore, that the corrupt rings may not
prove strong enough to nominate their
man whoever he may be. The truth is the
only true remedy is to be sought and
found in Senator Buckalew's system of
cumulative voting. Let the Express
support that stoutly if it really desires
reform.
Radical Designs
The Federal Congress, as we have
said, have serious intentions of absorb
ing power in all the old States, as well
as in the reconstructed Commonwealths.
It is not enough that Negroes have the
ballot, and are upon the Bench, and at
the head of Departments, as in South
Carolina, in the State Legislature of all
the Reconstructed States, that they vote
taxes and appropriations upon white
people millions upon millions all over•
the South, but. now Mr. Abbott, of N.
C., has adopted in the United States
Senate a " resolution, instructing the
Judiciary Committee to inquire what
the powers of the General Government
are, and also to inquire into the consti
tutionality and expediency of establish
ing a national police force for the better
enforcement of law." A National Guard,
after the mode of Napoleon the First and
Third, or in the style of Russia and
Austria, is the next scheme in order.
General Ames is at the door of the
United States Senate, fresh from his
military laurels over civil power. Gen
eral Sickles is doing up things brown in
Spain, after his experience ill South
Carolina. General Reynolds hopes to
get a United States Senatorship from
Texas. General Canby is second in the
head of a new military department.
General Terry is making a Legislature
for Georgia. And the vocation of these
Military Governors being over, for the
nonce, a National or Federal Police is
the next thing proposed to retain and
make power. Well, as the Radical party,
facilis descoisas ap,•rni, are on the down
ward road to perdition, there would he
no occasion to cheek them—but for the
fact that they are the dominant party of
the country, and drag the country along
with them. Be it remembered, however,
that "a National Pollee Force" is the
next thing in order in Washington.
SENATORS MCINTIRE, of Perry coun
ty, and Linderman, of Bucks, both
Democrats, were absent from their seats
when the vote was taken on the infa
mous Metropolitan Police Bill. Their
conduct is being freely criticised by the
Democracy, and rumors are not wanting
that the absence of these two Senators
was the result of a corrupt bargain with
the Republicans. We hope these reports
are false, and would be exceedingly
sorry to be compelled to believe them.
It is the duty of the Democratic minori
ty to be always on hand in both branches
of our State Legislature. Only by active
exertion and concert of action can they
hope to checkmate the evil designs of
the Radicals.
IT is Liiiigniticant fact that the Democrat
ic press of the interiorof the State, with but
few exceptions, is opposed to League Island
as a site for the proposed iron-clad navy
yard.—Forn,V
It is a'significant fact that the Demo
cratic press throughout the country is
opposed to all costly jobs of every de
scription, and that the Radical press fa
vors them. The Democratic press advo
cates economy, retrenchment of expen
ditures and true reform; the Radical
press favors extravagance, lavish ex
penditures, an increase of useless of
ficials, high taxation, and all manner of
crude schemes and costly jobs in which
there is a chance for plundering the
Treasury.
IT has been definitely ascertained that
some Congressmen have been selling
cadetships to West Point and the Naval
Academy. The following advertisement
recently appeared in the New York
Times:
United States Naval Academy.—Vacant
cadetship to be tilled before June. Parties
of means address "Congressman," Box No.
142 Times Office. Also, 'West Point vacancy.
—X. Y. Times, Feb. 2, 1870.
The exposure of this traffic has led to
an investigation, and it is to be hoped
there will be no white-washing. Let the
mercenary rascals be exposed.
NEPOTISM has reached its climax in
the appointment of Master Dent Sharpe
as a cadet to the Naval Academy at An
napolis. This youngster is the only
appointee at large to the Naval Academy
who is not the son of an army or naval
officer; but he Is the son of Dr. Sharpe
Marshal of the District of Columbia,
and nephew of President Grant. It is
doubtful, very doubtful, whether there
Is a relative on either side of the Ameri
can family royal, down to. the last de
gree of bousinhood, left unprovided for
now.
MR. DAWII3 states that there are five
- hundred 'unnecessary 'officers in the
army, whose annual pay is $1,250,0001
This is one of the' filets- which Butler
I ustly said tend to impair the confidence
,of the 'country In the administration r.=
Why are: 'such abuses allowed t 1 ..con-- 1
tinue.
IJY T E
Independence Square.
Philadelphia is a city which is Pios. -
santto the eye cit the stranger. Its
streets areont, of sufficient
width, iieitarally - ittiai,ghkand numer
oui- Squires , stanct Open, as breathing
plate for the population.. It has some
places whicl;attraetconsiderable attain
Win; A.4sleasaitte'liotmam be. Whiled.
away in the Academy of Fine Arts, the
Hall of Natural Science Is full of objects
of interest, and the magnifleent pile of
marble which has been reared by the
money of Stephen Girard, is well worth
a visit. But there is one spot in the
City of Brotherly Love to which every
strangerwithinlier gates bends.his foot
steps. That is Independence Hall, the
place where the Continental Congress
sat when they framed and signed the
great charter of freedom. To this build
ing, as to a sacred shrine, American cit
izens come from the remotest bounds of
the vast domain which Ls now embraced
within the limits of the United States.
There is the old bell which pealed forth
the glad tidings on the 4th of July,
1776; the chair in which John Hancock
sat, the table on which the Declaration
of Independence was signed, and other
cherished relies of the clays which tried
men's souls.
When thesquare en which itst9ds,and
the old State House itself were transferred
to Philadelphia by the Commonwealth,
a proviso was put in the deed, declaring
that Independence Square should be
kept open as a " public green for the
people forever." That is the quaint
and distinct language of the doc
ument. One would suppose that its
terms would always be faithfully ob
served ; yet, we are sorry to say they arc
about to he ruthlessly violated. A scheme
is now on foot for the erection of public
buildings in a quadrangular form all
around this memorable and fatuous spot.
The old Hall will lie left to stand, but
it will look dwarfed and insignificant
beside the new court rooms and other
structures which it is proposed to build.
This is clothing short of vandalism.
Instead of encroaching upon this sacred
spot of earth every thing except Inde
pendence Hall should be removed, and
the Square should be decorated In the
most tasteful and elegant manner. It
should not only be kept open as "a pub
lic green forever," but it should be made
the most attractive place of the kind in
the world.
Tome time before the war, we do not
remember the exact year, but It was
during the term of Governor Bigler, a
convention of delegates from the original
thirteen States was held in Indepen
dence Hall, and it was resolved that a
monument to the memory of the signers
of the Declaration of Independence
should be erected in the Square back of
the State House, worthy of their fame.
A number of the States had already
taken action on the matter when the
war broke out and put an end, for the
time being, to the praiseworthy and
patriotic project. The idea will yet be
properly carried out if the City Councils
of Philadelphia do not complete the odi
ous scheme now under way of erecting
a set of marts, law Offices And other
buildings on what is the property of the
people.
Wehope the press in the interior of the
State will speak out upon this subject.
No mercenary spirit should be suffered
to interfere with Independence Square;
no parsimonious disposition permitted
to mar it ; no petty plea of convenience
allowed to deprive the people of the
State and the nation of the interest they
have in every foot of it. Let not a spade
be stuck in that sacred spot of ground
except for its adornment. Let the trees
already there iiVe and flourish ; let
flowers be planted ; let statuary grace it;
and let the thirteen original States unite
to erect there the most elegant monu
ment that genius can devise. Let au
other location be found for the Courts
of Philadelphia county. I ndependence
Square belongs to the people.
Cumulative Voting
f7fenator I-fuel:Mew has introduced
bill which, if adopted, would do away
with sonic of the evils of which-Lancas
ter county now complains. It reads as
follows :
Sec. I. BP it inualted by the Senate and
House of Representatives of the Common
wealth of Pennsylvania, in General As
sembly met, and it is hereby enacted by
the authority of the stone, That in all elec
tions hereafter held in this Commonwealth
for the choice of county. township, ward or
borough officers, whenever inure persons
than one are to be chosen by the same con
stituency to the same office for the same
time or term of service, each qualified elec
tor of the proper county, township, ward or
borough, shall he entitled to as many votes
as the number of persons to be SO chosen to
any such office in his county,township,ward
or borough, and in polling his votes may
distribute them (or equal fractions thereof)
to and among candidates as he shall think
fit, or may concentrate his votes and bestow
them upon one candidate, and the candi
dates highest in vote shall be declared elect
ed, but nothing herein contained shall be
held to change or affect the manner of
choosing inspectors of election and jury
commissioners as fixed by existing-laws,
Sec. 2. The provisions of the foregoing
section shall apply to elections of directors
of common schools for the several school
districts of the Commonwealth.
The above bill would work as follows :
There being three County Commission
ers, every voter could either cast one
vote each for three different men, or one
and a half votes for two, or three votes
for one man. This would insure the
minority one member of the board of
Commissioners in every county in the
State. In Berks there would be one
Republican elected and in Lancaster one
Democrat. The same relative distribu
tion would be made In other offices, as,
for instance, Prison Inspectors. That
such a law would have a tendency to
prevent corruption and be conducive to
economy we have no doubt. The mi
nority would make it a point to select
a perfectly upright man of good
capacity to represent them, and the cer
tainty of exposure would insure integrity
in the conduct of the majority. If there
had been one Democrat like William
Spencer in the Board of Commissioners
for this county during the last three
years, there would have been no collu
sion with bridge builders, no snug jobs
of painting, &c.; and the tax-payers
would have been saved thousands of
dollars yearly. if the Democracy were
allowed to chose a minority of the Prison
Inspectors they would be sure to select
men of incorruptible honesty, and the
abuses now so loudly complained of
would be broken up. Similar evils, if
they exist in Democratic counties, would
be remedied in a similar manner. We
hope to see Senator Buckalew's bill
passed into a law. It is eminently just
and proper, and ought to be approved
by every good citizen, without respect to
party.
PH ILA DELPH IA is jest now exercised
over a project for running a railroad
through Fairmount Park. A bill grant
ing such a privilege is now before the
Legislature. The Philadelphians may
give vent to much indignant comment,
but the company will be certain to se
cure the privilege it asks if it can afford
so pay enough for it. It is only a ques
tion of dollars and cents. The Legisla
tive roosters are very hungry, paying
bills having been rather scarce so far.
A REPORT has been made in the Ala
bama Legislature stating that the mem
bers cannot spell correctly or write legi
bly, and a committee has been appointed
to put bills in a readable and grammatical
shape. It was with great difficulty that
a sufficient number of Radicals were
found possessing the necessary qualifi
cations. Such are the fruits of recon
struction.
AMONG other telegrams. . sent from
Washington to the newspaper press,
within a few days, was the following :
.
•" General :times 'was before the commit
tee lids morning., and merely answered a
feW questions; Saidihat the.State' Was
now under such codtror that • the 'Repub
licans would probably retain it for live
Wain."
And, for this It was that so long a time
ivas YMgnlred to ".t'ecoristrtict",,
, .
LIGEIC ER,
Items of AU Berta,
I. , : ,...tiebletropolitan Police bill was sent
3 Governor (Gearyfor his signature last
timing.
Bridget Meloy.was burned to deatliit
iitandwich ed. , Mass., on Sunday; w h ile iii
lazfeat • . .
Twoyoung men, Frank Newt& and
Edward Packard, were drowned :while
skating at Torento on &May., e"
The King of Prussia has been black
balled in the Masonic lodges of France,
Norway and Sweeden.
Mr. Dalrymple, the great farmer of
Minnesota, is said to have madeslso,ooo
clear gain in three years of farming.
A Boston magazine writer , has gone
into the grocery business, 'asking that
the highest salarya good story writer
can get is $5OO per year.
The Russians are actively pushing the
culture of the tea plant in Turkestan,
and the results have proved very satis
factory.
The steamship Ontario was sold at
Boston yesterday, to satisfy 'llainas of
bondholders. The sale was by auction,
and the vessel brought $250,000.
When they want to see a little fun in
Alabama, they pour a pint of whisky
down a mule and the way he goes ou a
tear makes things'get out of the way.
The drought in Southern California
continues. In Monterey county, own
ers of sheep offer to sell them for fifty
cents a head, fearing they will die of
starvation.
The residence of ('ol. Walton Dwight,
at Binghamton, N. Y., was destroyed
by fire on Sunday morning, causing a
loss of over $70,000. It was formerly
occupied by Hon. Daniel S. Dickinson.
The Alabama House of Representa
tives has passed the Alabama and Chat
tanooga Railroad bill, with an amend
ment reducing the amount of State
bonds loaned to two million dollars.
Butler County, Ohio, has a drove of
hogs which it challenges the world to
match. In one lot of 40 animals, 22
months old, the average weight Is 013
pounds.
There are sabhto be 7000 laborers out
of employment In San Francisco. The
old Parisian ?km 'of street improvements
is proposed hi silence the clamor for
bread.
The father of the "Welsh fasting
girl," who was scientifically starved to
death, has been found guilty of man
slaughter by a Coroner's jury, and com
mitted for trial.
Prince Arthur left New York for
Boston on Saturday, and attended
church In the latter city yesterday morn
ing. He will attend the l'uneral off keorge
Peabody to-morrow.
The Virginia Legislature meets to-day
Governor Walker's: message trill recom
mend the appointment of u board by the
Legislature to 1111 vacant offices until
the election can beheld, and will depre
cate the continuence of party hostility.
In the Senate of New Jersey, last
night, the Suffrage Amendment, after
three hours, debate, was defeated by a
vote of 13 to 8. In the House, a bill was
introduced exempting from taxation
personal property engaged in commerce
and mauufactures.
In the ease of the Providenve Rubber
Company against Charles Goodyear, the
Supreme Court of the United States
yesterday rendered a decision allfrming
the judgment of the Circuit Court for
Rhode Island, in favor of the complain
ants.
The Election Committee decided yes
terday, by one majority, to report to the
House of Representatives a bill provid
ing for the trial of contested election
cases by jury, drawn from the members,
each party having the right to challenge
until the last twelve are drawn.
The Washington Chronicle makes the
startling statement that the agaation of
the question of removing the Capitol
"has already cost the people of AN ash
ington not less than 512,500,000 within
a year in the depreciation of real es
tate."
Sonic profoundly speculative minds
are agitated by the enticing possibility
of putting a steam engine and screw
machinery aboard of an arctic iceberg,
andpropelling the concern down to New
York to sell for high-priced ice in the
dog days.
It is understood that the Senate, in
executive session yesterday, by a vote of
33 to i 4, refused to take from the
table Attorney General Hoar's nomina
tion as Judge of the Supreme Court. The
nomination will probably be withdrawn
by the President.
At a caucus of Radical members of the
Missouri Legislature on Wednesday
night, it \V AS agreed by a nearly two
thirds vote to submit to the people a
constitutional amendment enfranc•his
ing all who are now deprived of suffrage.
This will allow ex-rebels as well as to—
groes to vote.
Among the nominations confirmed by
the Senate yesterday were W. S. Wood,
as Attorney, for Nevada ; S. H. M.
Byers, Consul at Zurich, and the follow
ing postmasters: Al. I'. Barber, Pleas
antville, Pa. ; Geo. W. Forrest, Lewis
burg, Pa. ; F. 13. Penniman, Honesdale,
Pa., and Jonathan Emerson, Smyrna,
Delaware.
The latest marvellous feat in Machin
ery is a "Hone Clipping Machine,"
which works by means of a comb capa
ble of being readily run through the
hair in any direction, while a sharp
knife revolving close to its outersurface
clips the ends of hair off smoothly and
rapidly.
The New York Dunocral, in its lead
ing editorial of the 24th, states that Ed
win 31. Stanton died of suicide by cut
ting his own throat, in remorse for the
murder of Mrs. Surratt. The sudden
ness of the death, and the fact that no
one was permitted to see the face, as is
usual at funerals, give color to the report.
The results of the direct tea trade to
Chicago via San Francisco are said to
have been very satisfactory. During the
month of December, 53,303 pounds of
tea were shipped east from San Francis
co, most of which, it is believed, went to
Chicago. The ocean freight to San
Francisco by steamer was $3 25 per cwt.,
and the railway charges, $4 20.
There is at North Brookfield, Massa
chusetts, the largest shoe factory in the
country. The flooring covers an area of
nearly three and three quarter acres;
about 8.50 hands are employed in the
shop, and 150 outside. The work con
sists of pegged boots and shoes chiefly
for the Southern market, and fast year
the business amounted to about three
millions of dollars.
A newly-married lady in Chicago
complained to her ma that on her recep
tion day her curd basket was overrun
with circulars from lawyers, announcing
terms for divorce. "So absurd, you
know ma, before our honeymoon is
over." "True, dear," replied ma who
had been twice divorced), "but I'd put
them in a safe place ; you may find them
very useful in a year or two."
As a remedy for the inconveniences
resulting from excessive perspiration of
the feet evinced in the softening and
peeling off of the outer skin (especially
between the toes), a lierman physician
recommends the application of tannic
acid or tannin, by width the outer skin
or epidermis is converted into a kind of
leather, without obstructing the pores,
through which the perspiration still
passes readily.
Thereare now published in the United
States, 5244 Journals, of which 542 arc
daily, 4425 weekly, and 277 monthly.
New York publishes the largest number
—namely, 675, Arizona the smallest
number—namely, 2, Pennsylvania
stands next to the Empire State and
prints 495 papers. Illinois has 415; Ohio
277; Indiana, 169; Missouri, 246; lowa,
228 Wisconsin, 216; and Massachusetts
only 219.
The annexed fish story is a Maryland
production : A man fishing in a river in
this state found that his hook was at
tached to something, and pulling it up
with sonic difficulty discovered at the
end of his line a jug holding about half
a gallon. Not wishing to lose his only
hook, he demolished the jug, and to his
great astonishment found that the hook
had been swallowed by a monster cat
fish exactly the size and shape of the
jug.
The human heart is a marvelous
pumping machine. Its energy equals
one-third of the total daily force of all
the muscles of a strong man; it exceeds
by one-third the labor of the muscles in
a boat race, estimated by equal weights
of muscle ; and it Is twenty the times
force of the muscles used in climbing,
and eight times the force of the most
powerful engine yet invented by man,
viz : the locomotive Alp engine " Ba
varia," which lifted herself through
2,700 feet in one hour.
THE poor Republican party, according
to Quay, of the Beaver Radical, is gone,
hook and line. He says :
We have lived to see our great party,
after a brilliant victory, openly sold to the
highest bidder at public auction. To see
Sam Josephs—a leader of the Democratic
party—Thomas A. Scott—who never cast a
Republican vote—" General" Jim Burns—
a copperhead rich from fattening on cor
ruption for thirty years—taut Moon—a
_political hybrid and a "borer" employed
by the Pennsylvania Railroad tObore, and
that onlyt—leading the Republican party in
the interest of a monopoly wlMse friend
ship is tyranny, and whose policy is de
struction to everything but itself.
la dreadful, if true.
EDN~'SD~Y,
The expenses of Montgomery county
for the year 1869, are reported by the au
thorities at $106,871.49.
Simon Cameron has fallen heir to
$4000,000 by the death of his father-in
law, James McComdck, of Harrisburg.
I rhicitizens of Montrose, Ektsquehanna
dun are are pushing preations for
b s ulhif g a railroad from 'lkhannock
to that place.
A woman and her little child fell
through a railroad bridgeat Mill Creek,
near Wilkesbarre, one night last week
and were drowned.
The anvil upon which were made the
first type moulds ever used In this coun
try is in the, possesSion of Mr. Gates of
Germantown.
McFailind, the killer of Richardson,
was visited in the Tombs recently by a
Mr. Rogers, of Philadelphia, who prof
fered $5OO to the fund for his defense.
The Odd Fellows and Masonsof
Waynesburg have combined in a build
ing association, and already more than
ten thousand dollars have beensubscrib
ed toward building.
The oil interests on Dunkard Creek,
Greene county, are beginning to look up
again. The " Boston well" is now
throwing oil at .the rate of fifty barrels
every twelve hoins.
Isaac L. Monroe has been appointed
by the Governor, and commissioned by
the State Department, Associate Judge
of the courts of Columbia county, vice
Charles F. Mann, deceased.
At Wilkesbarre a short time ago, a
young man named Veasay, while intoxi
cated, stepped into the trough of the
great fly-wheel of a rolling mill, was
caught and crushed to jelly and thrown
forty feet from the place.
The rolling mill belonging to the
Philadelphia x Reading Railroad Com
pany, at Reading, turned out last year
seventeen thousand and thirty seven
tons of finished rails. The company
- made in 1868 about half this number.
Mrs. Olivia Lynn, who is now resid
ing in Fayette county, is one hundred
and six years old. She has lived to see
her children of the fifth generation, the
whole number of Lynnets being now
two hundred and fifty-nine.
A heroic boy, only eight years old.
named Brown, of Traceyville, near
Honesdale, sacrificed his life fora broth
er aged live years, the result of a despe
rate struggle to save his younger brother
from drowning.
A number of chess amateuis of the
city of Pittsburg are agitating the ques
tion of a grand chess tournament, that
city having, a number of skillful players.
Some of the arrangements have already
been made, and the final steps will soon
be taken.
The Post (Vice Gazette is the title of
a new paper just started In Philadel
phia. It is to be the of eial organ of the
Post Office Department and to furnish
official and general information on pos
tal matters to the emPloyees Of the 'de
partment.
The work on the Birdsboro' and Wil
mington Railroad, says the Reading
Evening Dispatch, is being pushed for
ward very rapidly. The track-layers
are nearing 'Waynesburg, and the whis
tle of the iron horse can la' distinetly
heard at that place.
There is a proposition before the Leg
islature for the incorporation of a Rail
road Company to make a railroad from
the borough of Franklin,Venango coun
ty, to a point somewhere near Harris
or to the coal fields of Butler co.,
with the privilege of extending it to
Butler.
Twenty-seven families have moved
from Stockton, the scene of the late
mine catastrophe, to Hazleton, fearful
of their houses sinking, It is said that
a general exodus is preparing. Seven
bodies are still buried in the debris of
the sunken mine and houses.
The Louisville Courier says " a bill
has been introduced into the Pennsyl
vania Legislature depriving any person
of the right to recover pay for milk
which shall be found diluted with water.
Such a bill is a failure, for the dairymen
will get their pay for water diluted with
milk, just as they have always done. "
The Beaver Argus states that a young
lady, Mrs. M'Cormick, of Independence
township, that county, having recovered
from a very lung and severe illness and
being yet very weak, attempted to place
a hoop filled with coal oil on the mantel
piece. To doing so she stumbled for
ward, the lamp fell from her hand on
the fire, exploded and scattering the
burning oil over her clothing, which
also took fire; and, before assistance
could reach her, she was burned to death.
A 'Washington correspondent of the
Chicago 7'ribunc, a Radical newspaper,
thus sketches Kelly, the Radical Con
gressman from Philadelphia :—" Kelly
is a type of the giraffe-ass. Tall, lank,
with one sore eye like a red lantern on
a pole, and a deep reservoir of sound, he
represents, to the aspiring young man,
the prosaic, professional censor who gets
across the threshold of reputation either
as an editor, an orator, or a moralist,
and discharges sepulchral warnings and
objurgations at anyrash orardent enough
to cross his vision. Amara of much dull
acquirement, of incomprehentible con
ceit, or bitter prejudices, he has not a
particle of imagination, nor of sympa
thy, nor of charity, and, moving like an
industrious scavenger on the turnpike
of legislation, he regards disdainfully
the birds of the air and the passing
locomotive alike."
Two Negroes Hung
Ntaw CAsrLE, Del., Eeb. 4.—The two ne
gro men Lewis Carpenter and Joshua
Jones, were executed at this place to-day,
for outrage upon a married woman. While
upon the platform, Jones made a short
speech, confessing the crime, but asserting
the innocence of Carpenter. At fourteen
minutes past twelve o'clock, the Sheriff
cut the rope and the two men fell.
The drop was not sufficient, and a horri
ble bungle was the result. Carpenter died
hard, working his legs and contracting his
body. Jones swung to and. fro, but died
easier. At twenty minutes past they were
unmanacled. Dr. Ferris pronounced them
still alive. At twenty-life minutes Car
perter's pulse still showed life. At forty
four minutes past Jones was lowered down
and placed in a coffin of stained pine, plain
make.
Carpenter was next placed upon a board
and carried into the prison to be delivered
to his friends. Whilst the -bodies hung
the crowd gave vent to their anxiety by
asking, "blow long are you going to let
them hang 1" The Sheriff finally stepged
on the stand and announced that they
would be taken down in a few minutes.
Inside the enclosure the best of order was
preserved by Chief Dougherty, of Wil
mington, with a force of eight men. Out
side the men and boys who crowded sev
eral tree tops indulged in profanity and
rabald jests.
The day is clear and line, the sun shining
brightly. The prisoners in the cells had
looking glasses fixed in position to obtain
a view of the scene. The platform being at
right angles with the cells.
G=El=rl
The aggregate production of all the
',Meilen of Wisconsin and Minnesota dur
ing ISW is estimated at 012,400,000 feet of
lumber and log,t. The pineries along one
river alone in Wiseonsin, the Chippewa, on
which there are 39 mills, employing n total
capital of ten inillions of dollarn, turned
out 198,000,000 feet of lumber, be-sides 15,-
600,im of logo sent to market. The growth
of the trade is shown by a comparison of
these figures with the pr o duction of 1966.
In that year the Chippewa valley produced
but 22,000,000 feet in all. Nearly 400,000,041 U
feet of lumber and logs were cut in Minne
sota last year.
St. Louis claims to have extraordinary
titcilitics as a lumber mart. lier lumber
trade now employs annually a capital of
from fifteen to sixteen' millions. The total
amount of lumber received at that city in
18139 was 176,082,5 2 / 3 feet, including '-ti,907,8-11
feet of logs, 42,0132,200 feet of shingles, and
18,860,900 feet of lath. Twelve million feet
of thin total were from Missouri pineries.
Of the balance, 157,196,793 feet were frolic
NViseonsin, Minnesota and Michigan, and
6,985,143 feet from Illinois, Tennessee and
DlabollealAttempt at Wholewnle Murder.
Tho Buffalo Courier says yesterday after
noon Officer Frank Myers returned from
Aurora in this county, having in custody
John Rathgeber, charged with obstructing
the track of the Buffalo and Washington
Railway, about one quarter mile this side
of that town, by placing across it a rail
taken from the road and a large and heavy
stone, with the evident intention of destroy
ing the first train passing, doubtless for the
purpose of plunder. Fortunately the con
ductor of the train detected the obstruction
in time to prevent a disaster • and obtained
a warrant for the arrest of Ritthgeber, who
it was ascertained had admitted to a Ger
man his having made this heinous attempt.
As this is not the first time similar crimes
have been committed in the vicinity, it is
strongly suspected Rathgeber has had more
or loss to do with them.—Rochester Union.
Feeding Voteni
The Charity bill passed by the Senate a
few days ago, giving thirty thousand dol
lars of the public money to Brown, How
ard t Co., ostensibly to be distributed to
the poor of the District of Columbia, but
probably to be used as a financial lever to
secure negro votes for the Bowen party in
June neat, came back. o the Senate to-day
from the other end of the Capitol with an
amendment which gives the distribution of
the fund to the officers of the Quartermas
ter's Department of the War Office. This
assignment of the funds would, it is pre
sumed, insure a fairer distribution of the
money to whites as well as blacks;. but the
Senate, it is thought, will not agree to the
amendment willingly. The obvious Radi
cal idea seems to .0e that charity is not
charity
thf unless its bestowed mari with an eye
aingle.uture Radical joties. ..
1 1- FIIIIOJARY 9;-1
The reindeailiffil'efriiismiurrs.
There is such s thing air:fridecent baste
even in the exerciseptitifitrary power.—
The tyrant who condemns hl vic. In de
fiance of justice, and refuses all appeals for
clemency, will aeldodl deny him a mo
ment for pre paration -bet . bre striking the
fatal blow. Bat this Radical Congress, in
the pride of its • consciousness of supreme
power, has become so wanton that it no
longer cares to preserve even the appear
ance of a decent regard for public opinion.
The action of the Rouse of Representatives
on Wednesday reveals with startling dis
tinctness the progress of that mighty revo
lution which has placed the destinies of the
nation in hands that feel no restraint.
In our last issue we noticed the flimsy
excuse for Congressional interference af
forded by the Commissioner of Internal
Revenue in his plea that the taxes of divi
dends and salaries did not expire with the
rest of the levy on incomes. - Finding this
utterly groundless, we suppose, a move
ment was made in the House of Represen
tatives to interpret the law as requiring the
whole income tax to be paid another year.
Under the plea of some ambiguity "in
the act, Mr. Schenck offered a joint resolu
tion continuing the tax to the year 1871.
Thus at one bold stroke has the House,
in a moment, without reason, discussion or
argument, voted to impose a tax on the
people of this country of say thirty or forty
million dollars,
not a cent of which is col
lectable under the present law. There is
not in the whole history of legislation a case
that approaches this as an exhibition of tho
sublime audacity that accompanies the con
sciousness of unfettered power.
There is nothing whatever to Justify the
assertion of Mr. Schenck with which this
measure was introduced to the House. The
language of the act is entirely 'Tree from
ambiguity in the definiteness with which
the date of expiration is fixed. This Is fully
explained in another part of the paper, but
may be again referred to here. The act, as
it now stands amended, authorizes an in
come tax to be levied on the first day of
March, and be due and p ayable on or be
fore the thirtieth day of A.pril, until and
including the year 1870, and no longer, the
levy to he for the year ending the thirty
first day of December next preceding the
time for levying and collecting Mid tax.
The last day of levy is thus fixed absolutely
in March 1870; and the levy is to be for the
year ending December 31st next preceding.
Mr. Schenck now proposes that this shall
be set aside for ambiguity, and the tax
collected Mr another year. It is the baldest
pretext ever made for a wanton exercise of
authority.
It is easy to see why the Revenue De
partment and the Radical tyrants, who
govern us according to their pleasure, de
sire to continue this exaction. In the first
place, they are bent on corruption, through
every form of extravagance, as just ex
bosed by one of their own party, who could
e muzzled no longer. The more money
that can be squeezed under any pretext out
of the pockets of the people, the more there
will be for those whose arms are so deeply
in the public purse.
But there is still another reason, and ono
more to bo dreaded by a people vvho would
be free than any growing out of the greed
of these legislative leeches and their friends.
It is the desire to hold their gripe on the
business, the persons and papers, and the
inner, domestic life of those who might he
restive under their intolerable tyranny..—
No other form of taxation gives such a hold
as this on persons likely to prove restive
under official exactions. It repeats the
terrors of the inquisition, and places the
instrument of torture in hands that are
daily learning the ninny lases to which it
can 'be applied. That the tax is ilconsti
tutional adds to the luxury of its adminis
tration. Congress has proved itself in many
ways superior to that ancient instrument,
and delights hi humble the only authority
which could impose ally restraint tin the
exercise of itspower.
And can nothing be done to stay this
gross injustice? Absolutely nothing. The
will of those who have taken this step is
the supreme law of this land to-day. Hav
ing submitted so far to It, there is a prece
dent for further patience. After awhile our
masters will probably follow the fashion of
other associated tyrants, and take to quar
relling among themselves, in which
case, if the proverb be true, honest
men may retake their own, and ven
geance come upon the wrong-doers.—
Up to that time there is no hope of even a
decent administration of pu bli c affairs. This
is not partisan rant, but plain truth, which
good people of all parties may as well look
squarely in the face. The evidence has be
come too palpable for denial, now that those
who rule us feel secure in their it.ssuinp
tion, and as long as this coherence is main
tained the people will be robbed and op
pressed beyond all former example, and
without any present retnedy.—N. a - . Jose
n of Commerce.
The Oldest Moo In Ohlo.
[Correspondence Wooster Republ Icon.]
MR. EDITOR—You were under a slight
mistake in your last issue in announcing
the death of Mr. Sweick, of Ashland
county. You say he was aged ninety-eight
years and was the oldest man in Ohio. That
I might know much how you were mis
taken I visited Mr. John Folgate, of Jolter
son, Wayne county, since I saw your
no
tice. Ile informed me that he had lost his
I family record, but that he was born March,
17115, and would be 105 years old next
March. That would make him about seven
years older than Mr. Sweick was. Mr.
Folgate said he was too old to be in the
army of 1812; that he voted for General
Washington at his first and second eleo.
dons as President, and has voted at every
Presidential election since, voting succes
sively the Whig and republican tickets.
I found hint making a whipstock. He
had a number of others finished and a lot
of axe handles standing in his room, which
he lately made. He makes a good axe han
dle yet, and up to the last five or six years
he was in the habit of making weekly trips
on foot to Wooster with a load of axe han
dles or hay forks, and would return home
before some of his neighbors were out of
bed, having walked about nine miles. He
says he was always an early riser, and when
a young man followed.,vagoning, and would
be off for Baltimore with his team before
other teamsters were up. He was then in
the habit of taking a morning dram, but
for many years has used no intoxicating
drink, nor tobacco in any form. I have
known him about forty years and never
heard of a fault laid to his charge. He has
for many years been a faithful, exemplary
Christian, and a member of the Evangeli
cal Church. His mind shows but little of
the pressure of years. His sight is a little
dim and his ear somewhat dull of hearing;
buChe is cheerful and converses freely; is
willing to live on, but is waiting patiently
the will of the Divine Master to take a
transfer to the Church triumphant.
The Emancipation of the ELuaidan tier&
The Pall Mall Gazette says:
"On the 19th of February the emancipa
tion of the Russian serfs will be complete,
as from that date they will be allowed to
leave their communes and settle in any
part of Russia they please, instead of being
adacripti glcbw, as hitherto. It Is pretty
generally admitted in Russia that, whatev
er may be the future consequences of the
emancipation, it has so far greatly dimin
ished the general prosperity of the country,
and it is feared that the new state of things
which is to begin on the 19th of February
will only add to the evils which have al
ready been produced by the measure. The
want of capital and the badness of the cli
mate in the north of Russia have made
agriculture a very unprofitable pursuit
there, and it is probable that many of the
peasants who are now compelled to inhabit
the northeni districts will make use of
their newly acquired liberty to emigrate
to the South, where the land is exceedingly
fertile, and their work would consequently
be far more remunerative. In that case the
peasants who remain will, according to the
Russian law, have to pay for those who
have go e, as the emancipation dues are
levier of on the individual, but on the
con rune; and if the emigration is any
thing like so extensive-its good judges ex
pect it will be, it must reduce the com
munes in the North to utter ruin, besides
musing heavy losses to the Government."
Jenny Lind xuShe ly To-dny
From a letter describing Jenny Lind's
recent appearance in Exeter Hall, London,
we quote the following:
" We waited very impatiently through
Herr lioldseinnidt's ambitious Instru
mental Prelude,' and through the lust of
his Jerky choruses. It was nut entirely the
fog which made our eyes see dimly the
sweet-faced woman sitting on his left hand;
thinner older, sadder, but still with the
same winning pathetic atmosphere about
every pose and every expression which
conquered all hearts twenty years ago,
disarms all criticism to-day and will contin -
us to do so long as Jenny Lind's soul dwells
in Jenny Lind's body. If there be such
things as perfect grace of clumsiness per
fect beauty of homeliness, she has them;
and they are more lasting than the grace
of gracefulness, or the beauty of good looks.
As It is with her face, her movements, her
attitudes, so It is with her voice. Sacred
aboveall it has lost,it has kepta certain some
thing of such individuality that one would
know it for Jenny Lind's voice. In spite
of the husky chest stones, In spite of the
strained and hardly reached upper C., there
is a peculiar soul-full quality in it which
has been rarely heard on any stage, except
when Jenny Lind has sung. Critics would
say—and, perhaps by rules of art, their as
sertion can not be contradicted—that Jenny
Lind's voice is gone. But men and women
are still moved to their heart's depths by
her singing. I believe if she sings when
she is three-score years and ten it will be
the same.
Fashions Affsinst Bones.
Before the recent excitements in Paris,
says a correspondent, the American colony
there, especially recent importations, have
shown the usual avidity for a court presen
tation. The serious question in these affairs
is the decollette feature for ladles past their
youth, and of lean habit. The court rule
requires bare neck and shoulders but for
those who are of Pharaoh's lean kine, and
have no pearls or diamonds to cover the
bone and - the shriveled flesh, the rule is
exceedingly vexations. So say the ladles.
Suicide of a Wealth.* MAn.
Win. Garrison, of Plattekill, in the lower
,put of Mater county, New. York, com
mitted suicide in the most horrible man
ner on Thursday afternoon last. He was
found by Ma daughter-in-laW in the act of
trying to disembowel himself with a large
dull table knife, and had already terribly
mutilated his person. Medical aid was
ailed in, but he died In about halfan hour.
Mr. Garrison was about 70 years old s And
leaves, it is said, a fortune of. $250,000.--,-
Ellenvills (N. Y.) Journal.
CougressionaL
' .W.lfiffillt, Feb. Ist.
In the C. S. Seilato„,,, , :ernimunication
Wax received from thrAitorney Ger eral,
stating
hng h n elnui G ve ttn o ol i c n i s a lbuptln ih
0200 infOrma Ereada g priv M a4 memoran
duniiofiliis. to the General of the
Army. Mr. Morrill, from the Appropria
tion Corainittee,, reported the. bill authoriz
ingtranalkins to.the Bureau of Construction
and Staittii Engineering in the Navy De
=aent,. The bill was laid over. Mr.
imy offered a resolution directing the
Foreign Committee to consider the expe
diency of our Government mediating be
tween the Red River insurgents and the
Dominion of Canada, with a view to estab
lishing a responsible government in Cen
tral British America, etc. It was referred
to the Foreign Committee. lir. /Ramsey
introduccsla bill to regulate public printing,
and discontinue the publication of books
by the Government. Mr. Conkling intro
duced a resolution for the admission of
Mississippi to representation in Congress.
The Currency bill was considered and Mr.
Morton's amendment, for the distribution
of $13,000,000 Of the circulation among the
States and Territories having less than their
share, the demand to be made first on bank's
having more than $lOO,OOO capital, was
adopted. The Senate adjourned, postponing
the final disposition of the bill for another
day.
In the House, Mr. Booker, member elect
from the Fourth Virginia district, was
sworn in. Mr. Farnsworth, from the Post
otliee Committee, reported a bill to prevent
improper matter being sent by mail, and
asked Its passage, but Mr. Wood objected.
Mr. Schenck, Chairman of the Ways and
Means Committee, reported the Tarltibill,
and moved its reference to Committee of
the Whole, and that it be made the special
order for Thursday, the 10th instant, and
until disposed of. He said the bill was
amendatory, and not a general revision
Mr. Allison, of lowa, a member of the com
mittee, suggested a postponement for at
least two weeks, to allow a proper examin
ation of the bill, and declared that It was in
the interest of manufacturers, not of con
sumers. Mr. Schenck said that the com
mittee bad endeavored to keep in 11111111
revenue, protection and consumption. Mr.
Brooks quoted from the bill to show that
reductions had been made in mere revenue
articles, such as tea, coffee, sugar, liquors,
etc., in order to have an excuse ftlr raising
the duty on iron, steel, jute, car eting, and
even old hype; while the ob ectionable
duties stood on coal, salt, lea „lumber,
hides, etc. Ii r. Sehenek said a reduction
on pig Iron had been reported, and while
tanners and dealers in hides favored their
being put upon the free list, there were
other interests to be consulted. After fur
ther discussion the bill was ordered to be
printed, anti made the order for 'Tuesday,
the lid,. After some unimportant debate
in Committee on the Legislati v e hill, the
I louse adjourned.
WASIIINUTON, Feb. I.
In the V. S. Senate, the 1,111 In regard to
the resignation of Judges in certain eases
was reported front the Judie Jury Commit
tee, with a recommendation that it be indefi
ni ely postponed. The Curreney bill wits
taken up and passed with ionenaments, by
a vote of 30 to 23. As amended, it provides
for the issue of $45,000,000 additional bank
ing circulation, and the retirement of at
equal amount of three per cent. certificates.
The additional issue Is to be given to those
sections having less than their proportion of
currency, and when the E 45,000,000 issue is
exhausted, a transfer of $20,000000 is
authorized front the States having an
excess to those having a deficiency. The
removal of banks front States having an
excess of circulation to those having an in
sufficiency. is authorized, and the amount
of their tareulation is not to be deducted
front the amount of new issue. The fourth,
fifth and sixth sections of the bill provide
for banking on a ruin basis. The bill au
thorizing transfers to enable a resumption
of work in the navy yards was taken up,
and opposed by Mr. Trumbull, who favored
separate:appropriations. It IWILS then laid
itsicie, and Mr. Howe spoke in support of
his bill to repeal see much eef the neutrality
laws as prevents Americans from enlisting
in a foreign army, and American ship
builders from furnishing vessels to cruise
against friendly foreign powers. Adjourned.
In: he House, Mr. Swann, from the For
eign Committee, reported a resolution re
questing the President to communicate
information in regard to American citizens
confined in British prisons for political
offences, and the treatment they receive.
It was discussed until the expiration of the
morning hour. On motion oMr.f Logan,
the Foreign Committee were directed tee
Inquire If there are any reasons why the
republic of Cuba should not bo recognized
as a belligerent power. Mr. Paine offered
a joint resolution, which WAS passed, pro
viding for meteorological observations at
the military stations and other points tee
give notice of storms. The Judiciary Com
mittee reported the Naturalization bill,
which was recommitted. Mr. Clarke pre
sented a memorial front the Kansas Legis
lature, asking the removal of the Capitol tee
Fort Leavenworth. In reply to an inquiry
by Mr. Banks, Mr. Dawes said that a hal
to relieve the navy yard workmen would
probably he reported to-morrow, after con
sultation with the Secretary of the Navy.
The bill to relieve the poor of the District
eef Columbia was considered. Pending its
final disposition, the House adjourned.
WASHINUTON, Feb. 1.
In the United States Senate, Mr. Chaiid
! ler intrud toed a bill, which was referred,
reormmizing the Marine I hospital service.
On motion of Mr. Abbott, the Judiciary
Committee were directed to report what
legislation is requirmi for the protection of
1 citizens in the South, and to inquire into
the constitutionality and expediency of
j establishing a national police f, roe. On
motion of Mr. Kellogg, tho Commerce
Committee were directed to inquire into
the expediency of abolishing unnecessary
ports of delivery. Mr. Sherman, from the
Finance Committee, reported his Funding
bill. It provides for the issue of $1,200,-
000,01 X) In bonds, in three classes of ;4400,-
000,000 each. The first class is redeemable
in ten years, bearing 5 por root. interest;
the second in fifteen years, bearing 41 per
cent., and the third in twenty years, bear
ing 4 per rent. The joint resolution
au
thorizingtransfers in Naval Appropriations
for the relief of navy yard workmen was
taken up, and an amendment, offered by
Mr. Morrill, of Vt., was adopted, yeas
nays '22, which provides that no higher
wages shall be paid the workmen than is
paid by private citizens. The bill was then
laid aside, and after a speech of Mr. Car
penter, in favor of Mr. Howe's resolution,
repealing part of the neutrality laws, the
Senate adjourned.
In the House, Mr. Cullom's bill to pre
vent polvgiuny in Utah was reported and
recommitted. Mr. Allison introduced a
bill to bring into use the metric system of
weights and measures. Mr. Reeves intro
duced a resolution, which was referred,
taxing dog,-4,2.50 each. The lfillextendingthe
benefits of the Bounty act to widows, chil
dren, tte., of soldiers who had enlisted for
less than ono year,was passed. On motion of
Mr. Shumacker, the Banking Committee
were instructed to consider the propriety
of granting to any citizen the privilege of
banking on all tufted States bonds. Ott
motion of Mr. Schenck, the tax bill WILY
made the special order for March Ist. Mr.
Butler, of Mass., from the Reconstruction
Committee, reported a bill admitting Mis
sissippi on conditions similar to those in
the Virginia bill. The bill was passed, a
substitute by Mr. Beck, for unconditional
admission, having been defeated by a vote
of let to 85. 'the bill making transfers of
naval appropriations, etc., was reported
and passed, with an amendment reducing
the amount one-half, to 81,500,000. The
House then adjourned.
MIEDM=IiIII
In the U. S. Senate, yesterday, a bill WILY
passed, authorizing the Secretary of the
Treasury to withhold moneys due to States
which have not paid interest on any of their
bonds held in trust by the United States.—
The bill abolishing franking was taken up,
and amendments were offered, continuing
present provisions in relation to newspa
pers and periodicals. 'rut, morning hour
having expires' the census bill carne up in
order, when Mr. Ramsey moved to proceed
with the bill to abolish franking. Ills mo
tion was lost—yeas '22, nays 34. On motion
of Mr. Carpenter, a resolution asking the
President fur information in regard to af
fairs In Georgia, was adopted. The joint
resolution authorizing meteorological ob
servations to give warning of approaching
storms was agreed to. 'rho bill authoriz
ing officers in the Executive Departments
to administer oaths in certain cases was
pawed. A bill relieving the political disa
bilities of a large number of ex-rebels wins
taken up. Pending Its consideration the
Senate adjourned until Monday.
In the House a resolution was adopted
authorizing the Military Committee to in
quire whether any member had sold, or
offered to sell his influence in securing ap
pointments to the Military or Naval Acad
emy. The committee Is empowered to send
for persons and papers. Mr. Bingham, from
the Judiciary Committee, reported a bill to
permit Francis F,. Shober, member elect
from North Carolina, to take the oath for
those relieved of disabilities instead of
the test oath. The bill was tabled by a
vote of 89 to 78. Mr. Lawrence Intro
duced a bill prescribing a mode of pay
ing pensions through the postinasters,
revenue officers or banks throughout the
country. The bill giving $30,000 to relieve
the poor of the District of Columbia was
passed, with Mr. Logan's amendment au
thorizing the issue of rations. Mr. Negley
introduced a bill to prevent tho sale of illu
minating oils that will ignite at a lower
temperature than 110 degrees. Mr. Cake
introduced bills to create the Northern Ju
dicial District of Pennsylvania, regulating
the currency and preparing for a resump
tion of specie payments. The House ad
journed, agreeing that to-day's session
should for debate only.
WASEILNOTON, Fob. 6
The United States Senate was not in ses
sion. In the House no business was
transacted, proceedings being confined to
speeches by a few members.
WABEINOTON Feb. - 7.
In the IT. S. Senate, the resolutions of the
Georgia Legislature, accepting the °ouch
dons imposed by Congress and rathying
the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amenamene,
were presented. Mr. Edmunds, from the
Pension Committee, made a repo, stating
that the Governmentwould not be t Justified
In enlarging the pension list for men not
disabled. Mr. Trumbull introduced a bill
to protect owners of trademarks. Mr. Mc-
Donald, from the Post-office Committee,
reported the bill for conveyance of mails to
European and Asiatic ports, : ttc. Mr. Colo
introduced a bill providing for mail steam
ship service to Australia. Mr. Stewart in
troduced a bill to enforce the Suffrage
Amendment, which - woe referred to the
Judiciary Committee. The =prohibiting
recommendations to office by Congressmen
and the Canons bill, were considered, ,Tlie
deith of Mr: : cmg, of 0. 0, being =noun=
cad, the Senate adjourned.
In the House,bills were introduced by
Mr. Morrill, oMe., to allow a drawback
of 90 per cent. on home materials used in
constructing sea-going vessels, and 85 per
oent. on foreign material ; by Mr. Kelly, to
promote an international metrical system
of coinage; by Mr. Ridgeway, to abolish
Vie oath of office and remove political disc-
Wittier: from all Virginians; by Mr. Dock
ery. requiring uniformity ofemilread gauge;
by Mr. Stevenson, to extend the time for
proceedings in bankruptcy; and by Mr.
Arnell, giving women employes of the
Government the same wages as men Wilke
positions. Mr. Marshall's resolution, de
daring for a tariff for revenue only, came
up int order, and was tabled by a vote of 89
yeas to 77 nays. A motion to reconsider
•W(1.9 tabled—yeas 91, nays 80. On motion
of Mr. Orth; the President was asked to
furnish diplomatic correspondence with
Spain, relating to. Cuban uftairs with such
information'as ho may possess in regard to
the struggle in that Island. The Indian
Appropriation bill was reported. It appro
priates $30,088,030—1e5.s than half the appro
priation last year. After the announce
ment of the death of Representative Hoag,
the !louse adjourned.
State Landatam
TUESDAY, F 01). 1.
In the Senate, the Metropolitan Pollee
bill was argued at groat length, and finally
passed by a vote of id yeas to IS nays.—
Among
the bills passed was ono relative to
fraudulent creditors; one increasing the
number of the judges of tile Suprenfe Court.
The bill allowing writs of error in the eases
of murder and voluntary manslaughter
was finally passed. Adjourned.
Among the bills introduced In the House
was one relative to damages for the open
ing of streets. The bill extending the term
of the Commissioners of City Proper ty for
three years was finally passetL At ourned.
EDNESDAY , ob. 2.
In the Slate Senate, the House bill giving
one hundred dollars' worth of postage
stamps to each member and clerk was con
curred in. In the I louse, the Metropolitan
Pollee bill was mimics' as passed by the
Senate, and a motion to hold a special after
noon session for its consideration WWI tar
ried by a vote 0(10 to 45. Seven Republicans,
Church, Reed), Ltelie, Marshall, Smith,
Stephens and Tyler, voted in the negative.
At the afternoon session, a substitute con
taining no less than sixty-to u`r sections was
offered by :11r. Josephs, anti fend. The su b
stittlte Was rejected, and the original bill
being reported from Committee of the
Whole to the House, WILY passed to a second
reading by a strict party vote.
TnI , RMDAY, Feb. 3.
In the Slate Senate, a hill was introduced
and road twice, providing that no tom rail
road shall over hereafter be constructed
within the limits of Fairmount Park. The
bill authorizing the laying, of passenger
railway track on Locust street by the Thir
teenth and Fifteenth Streets Company WILY
passed. In the House, the Senate bill, al
lowing writs of error in murder eltAl`el
the Supreme Court to the Court trying the
case (wideh will affect Dr. Sehoeppe) was
ncised to a third reading. The bill to pun
ish publication of a certain chess of oliheene
advertisements was passed.
MI:E!=M1!113
In the Senate, among the bills reported
favorably from committee, was ono allow
ing seven per cent. interest. A resolution
was passed, declaring It improper for news
papers to comment on the action of vont
mittees in contested election cases, during
their pendency. The resolution allowing
husband and wile to testify In divorce eases,,
passed finally.
In the House, the Metropolitan police bill
was concurred in by a strict party vote. It
will be laid before the tiovernor early neat
week.
C=SZE
In the Senate, The Fairmount Park bill
WIL4 laid over air the present. The resolu
tion relative to the celebration of the Cen
tennial Anniversary of American Inde
pendence was vonsidered.
In the House, A bill was introduced urg
ing Congress to accord the Cubans belliger
ent rights. An act was also introdueed
extending the charter of the Erie Canal
Company. The Highway. bill was then
passed.
Memorial Athircan on Geo. D. Prentice
The Kentucky Legiminture met on Wed -
nesdny evening hint, when Mr. Wale! -
house, the principal editor Wyllie LraMwilic
Churier-Journal, delivered a lengthy And
eloquent memorial n(1(111%414 on 11w late
tWorge D. Prentice. Speaking of the
peculiar pinto which Prentice held in Jour
nalism, Ito said :
Prentice was 27 years old when he came'
to Kentucky. lie was obscure and poor:
The people of the Went were rough. The
times were violent. In those days there
WWI no such thing as Journalism 11.11 we 11111,*
understand it. The newspaper WWI but a
dull affair, owned by a clique or n politician.
The editor of a newspaper Was nntbing If
not personal. Moreover, the editors who
had appeared alcove the surface had been
men of second-rate abilities, and had served
merely as squires to their liege lords, the
politicians. This much Prentice reformed
at once and altogether. Ile established the
Louisville Journal ; he threw himself into
the ntirit of the times as the professed
friend of Mr. ('lay and the (champion of Ills
principles; but he Invented a warfare hith
erto unknown and illustrated it by a per
sonal identity which very noon elevated
Jinn into the rank of a party leader an well
al a partisan editor. I fancy that the story
of giants which has come down to us
through the nursery illustrates the sugges
tion that in the early days of the world there
was room for the play of a gigantic, indi
viduality which population and tiv iliratice
exclude from modern concerns. Originally
men went out singly in quest of fortune,.
and a hero Willi, ill laith, a giant ; then men
moved in couples. Next in clusters.
now travel in circles. Combinations are
essential. One man is nothing by himself.
Our very political system Is an organism
of " rings ;" and the Journal of to-day no
longer represents the personal caprices and
peculiarities of its editor, but stands as the
type of a class of public opinion quite be
yond the reach of personal influences.
Personal Journalism is a lost art. Journal
ism is now a distinct profession to which
the individual editor holds the relation
witch the individual lawyer holds to the
mitts; and, as oratory ix becoming loss
and less essential to the practice of law, to,
mere literary culture is becoming less and
less essential to the practice of Journalism.
Mr. Prentice, the most distinguished ox.
ample of the personal journalism of the
past, leaves but one other behind hint; and
when Greeley goes, there will be no one
left, and there will hardly be another. As
was said of the players, they die and leave
no copy." Prentice, like Greeley, knew
nothing and cared less for the nuwitinery
of the modern newspaper, its multitude or
reporters anti correspondents to be handled
under fixed laws known to a common
usage ; its tangled web of telegraphy ; its
special departments and systematic mech
anism. For complications of this sort he
had no concern ; they belonged to a differ
ent degree of Journalism from that in which
ho had made Ids fame. But ho adapted
himself to their necessary exactions with
itperfect cheerfulness land he wrote as read
y and vigorously in an impersonal char
acter as he had done when he was not only
speaking solely in his own person, but
when there was no knowing at what mo
ment ho might be called upon to back to
bon mot by a bullet.
How Noon Does the GnMoline End Cow.
rellousneur 't
The late execution In Paris ham revived
the old question whether death inskuitime
ouslv follows upon the severance of the
head from tho body. In a letter to the
Guatei.! Dr. Pinel asserts that decapitation
does not Immediately affect the brain. The
blood which flows alter decapitation comes
from the large vessels of the neck, and
there in hardly any call upon the elreula
tion of the cranium. Tho brain remains
intact, nourishing itself with the blood re
tained by the pressure of the air. When
the blood remaining in the head at the mo
ment of separation is exhausted, there com
mences a state, not of death, but of inertia,
which lasts up to the moment when the
organ, no longer red, ceases to exist. Pr.
Pinel estimates that the brain finds nour
ishment in the residuary blood for about
an hour after decapitation. The period of
inertia would last for about two hours, and
absolute death would not ensue till after
the space of three hours altogether. If, he
add:4,4 bodiless head Indicuks by no move
ment the horror of its situation, It is be
cause It Is physically Impossible that It
should do so, all the nerves which servotor
the transmission of orders from the brain
to the trunk being severed. But there re
main the nerves of hearing, of smell, and
of sight —Pell Mall Gazette.
Punishment of Female Don Jamul
According to the Albany correspondent
of the Buffalo .Express, the following bill is
to be offered in the New York Legislature:
Section 1. Au' female of chaste character,
under the age of Seventeen years, who shall,
with evil intent, winningly, winsomely,
and wilfully' decoy and seduce from his
domestic duties a married man (he being
the father of a family and having children
over ten years of age), and by artful wiles
draw him away from his fatally, shall, on
conviction, be deemed guilty of a misde
meanor, and shall be imprisoned in a house•
of refuge for not less than two days. If, on
the trial of such young and artful female,
it shall be shown that the married man so,
seduced and enticed away is a minister of
the Gospel in good standing, the offender
shall in like manner be sentenced to not
less than ono hour nor more than two
hours' Imprisonment In the county jail.
Decrease °title Negroes in Kentaeky.
It appears hem a recent report of the State
Auditor that the blacks of K.entucky, who
in 1860 numbered :: 36,167 are now reduced
to 140,466—a loss of two-fifths in nine years.
At this rate the negro element will disappear
from Kentucky within the next fifteen
years. But this rate of loss will not be
kept up. Unquestionably throughout the
South there has been a much greater mor
tality since the beginning of the war among
the blacks than there was before the war.
This increased mortality has resulted from
emancipation, which, in casting thetlacks
(who were slaves, cared for by their. trust—
ers) upon their own resources, ignorant
destitute and improvident, east thent forth
to Idleness, hunger, exposure, disease and
death. Under their white masters then.
Southern blacks, from the new-born pick
ininny to the poorest field hand, repreaent
ed each so much money, and it was the
master's interest to takd care Of his capital.
Something like.order lowever, is super
seding the fatal conhision which emancipa
tion brought upon the poor hteakti comers
.ed, and they. are learning to takesere of
themselves, and beneath° mort=teeto;
tin 3 l l l --X
dinninshing.