Eantasfer Sntriligencer. " DID ' - DA . , : • 1:\•' : x ,1870 The Scarcity of Money The financialcolumns of the commer cial journals of the larger cities are a dreary muddle to a majority of country people. They read of the antics of the "bulls and bears" in Wall street with much:of the some wonderment that little boss exhibit when spelling out the foot lines at the bottom of the huge posters with which thomanagers of menageries cover the walls and fences of remote towns and rural villages. Many of the terms employed, though printed in plain English, are as incomprehensibleto one half the community as they would be if set forth in the Egyptian hieroglyphics which still preserve the moral mottoes inscribed upon the tombs of the Pha roalis. The plainest statements do not seem to convey a correct meaning.— Small borrowers in the country can not understand how the city journals can report " money easy, and seeking borrowers at low rates do call," when it is so scarce and so hard to obtain in the rural districts. That, however, ought to be easily comprehended. Inactivity and slug gishness of business in the country nat urally produces a plethora of money in the great centres of trade, just as torpor in the extremities, and a sluggish flow of the blood surcharges the heart in the animal system. When limb and brain are active the life-current rushes with a bound through. every vein and artery, and the whole Ihrface glows with health, while the vers finger ends tingle with excitement. There is a great and prevailing inac• tivity in business throughout the entire country. People of moderate means are cramped, and laboring men find it difficult to provide themselves and their families with the necessaries of life. The farmers are groaning over low prices, and mechanics find them selves without employment. The coun try morchant has few customers, and his stock of goods goes oil very slowly. The natural consequence is that the city merchants and theu faiq u rers su (rem in turn for want of a market. The incongruous and injudicious leg islation of Congress has had much to do with bringing about the present torpor. Men who have money are slow to en gage ill any enterprise when the future is uncertain. With the fluctuations of an unsteady paper currency, it is hard to tell. what a month may bring forth. A return to specie payments would en tail a loss of twenty per cent. on all commodities purchased to-day, and that would prove to be a serious mutter. It is no wonder, then, that money lies idle or is let out at low rates of interest in the cities, where there is always a largo accumulation of capital. It is im possible to predict when a change may be expected. Those who would suffer seriously front a speedy return to specie payments are numerous, and their in fluence is felt in Congress. The truth is, there is not sufficient wisdom at Washington to devisq a sys tent for the relief of the country. The men now in power have shown them selves to be utterly incompetent to meet the.wants of the nation, and the people must bear the ills under which they labor, until they effeet , a chang,e by choosing more competent men to repre sent them. From the dunderheads who are now in office, nothing can be ex pected. The Treasury Inrestlgation 'l'lu• investigation into the manage ment of the State Treasury has not proved to he a inure farce, as many pre dicted it would be when the Committee was appointed. .Mr. llillingfelt had strong inducements constraining him to use his hest endeavors to show that Mr. l‘lackey's management was not satisfac tory, and Senator 'Wallace was anxious that the whole truth should be brought out. 'cite testimony of Mr. :qackey es tablishes clearly every charge which we have made in regard to the evils and dangers which are connected with the management of the State Treasury.— With that skill for which they are dis tinguished, the Rail Wats who have been handling the funds of the State for ten years past, have managed to make the office of State Treasurer a souree of im mense profit, not to the Treasurer alone, lull to a multitude Of other people. There has been constantly kept on hand a balance of about a million and it half of dollars, which vast stun, in otead of being applied to the payment of the State debt and the extinguish ment of interest, has been loaned out, gin easy but still very profitable terms, Lo various banks, brokers and private speculators. To keep up t h is balance, and prevent any disturbance of the ar rangements made with the various par ties who had control of the million and a half of balance, the Treasurers have been in the habit of drawing moneyout of the Sinking, Fund to meet current expenses. The money in the Sinking Fund is by the Constitution of the State made a speeific fund for tin' payment of the public debt, find it is not lawful to employ it for any other purpose. Mr. :Nlitekey was not the only man who vio lated the Constitution in this way. His predecessors for the last ten years have all put their hands into the Sinking Fund, when they needed money for current expenses, and h:n•e thus beer able to suffer vast 5111/15 to remain for purposes (aspecniati.n in the hands of their personal political friends. Mr. Mackey Face a list of the banks ill which he kept the million and a half of dollars whieli he farmed out to his fa vorites, and an examination of his Rad ical pretlecei+sors in (Alive, would show that they originated and perfected the plan on which he acted. Maekey confesses dial in some crises the deposits made in [milks were for the benefit of private individuals-- political and personal friends. Some times these deposits were thus made at the ropiest of prominent Radicals, and /toy. Geary did not scruple to demand favors of that kind for his favorites. Besides the vast sums let out to banks and brokers there has been a vault ac eount kept, amounting sometimes to half a million dollars. This vault ac count consisted largely of checks and vouchers of railroads and other corpora tions, which were accepted in lieu of tnoney and time given the corporations fur payment of amounts due the Slate. Under such a system of management as that which Mr. :%bickey thus exhibits when on oath, the people of the State can see how the treasuryship can easily be made a source of immense profits, not only to the incumbent, but to his many favorites. One man, Mr. Jacob E. Ridgway, formerly a Radical State Senator, has had the use of $lOO,OOO under Kemble first, then under Irwin, and since that under lackey.' Others have held different amounts. If _these sums, amounting in the aggregate to-al most two millions of dollars, had been devoted to the payment of the State debt it would have saved the taxpayers the interest on that amount of money for a number of years. Instead of that the Sinking Fund has been tampered with ill violation of the Constitution, and the money loaned to a set of specu lators. Let the taxpayers take the testimony of Mr. Mackey, and then cipher up how much they have lost by the Radical system of managing the Treasury; and let it be remembered that the abuses which Mr. Mackey lays Lure, have been going on under his pre decessor ever since the Radical party obtained control of the State of Penn sylvania. Who, in view of these facts; deny that the necessity for a thorough reform is immediate and im waive ZIG,IXTY Jialars were no great shakes kor.over 200 Cougresamen to contribute LO the relief.of a patriot aged 108 years. They might have ventured upon giving at Lea§t a dollarper head. J3lit then Mr. 'Xitts did not tight for the enlargement o f the negro borulernen. THE . LA_NCASTER WEEKLY INTELLIGI-ENC.ER, WEDNESDAY, FET.TtIJAItY, 23, 1870. Our Unappreciated Hospitality. Reading is excited and its Eagle screams ; rend its ravings in anothercol umn. The Dutch Commissioners of Old Baricks started over to Lancaster to take a look at our Lancaster County Prison; they came, they saw, they smelled; they viewed Castle Sensenig, and found it fair without but all rottenness within. They found five hundred, more or less, of their fellow-citizens, inhabiting a prison which had but eighty cells ; a portion of a prison-yard had been roofed over for the accommodation of a herd of several hundred who could not be squeezed into the cells. The Berks Commissioners entered this apartment— a fact which speaks loudly in praise of their very serviceable nostrils; our re porters have made divers efforts to ap proach it but have never succeeded in doing so, although every facility was afforded them ; the Berks gentlemen have evidently been brought up on Dutch cheese and are therefore impreg nable to odor. We may remark in pass ing that this marked peculiarity of the vagrant's apartment in the Castle is not the fault of its keeper; the guests of the County are solely responsible, as they decidedly object to the occasional turn ing upon them of a section of hose from the prison fire-plug ; they regard it as a very blame-worthy infraction of the laws of hospitality. Well, the Berks Commissioners saw these gentlemen who occupy this airy apartment in our prison ; they saw them naked, dirty and cold, and they go back to Reading and berate old Lancaster, and Pharisaically rejoice that they arc not as we are, because the jail of Berks is empty. Now this, we think, is very hard to be endured. It is a striking il lustration of how our most virtuous actions may be distorted, and how that course of conduct upon which we have been pluming ourselves as most praise worthy, may become the object of de rision and abuse from the ignorant and the jealous. Needy and wayfaring strangers who go to Berks County from various sections of our country, hoping to be provided by it with shelter from the storms of winter, speedily shake its dust front their feet in sad disappoint ment at their inhospitable treatment and mine to Lancaster. Our reputation for hospitality is world-wide; the offi cials of other counties are hardhearted as those of Berks, but Lancaster is a green oasis in the desert of inhumanity to the weary and heavy laden "tramps" who ',our in upon us at the approach of winter from the adjoining counties and States, and from all New England.— We take them in and feed them, and shield them front the winter's blasts, and conceive that we are thereby lay ing up for ourselves riches in Heaven. We, therefore, feel deeply wounded that after we have done so much more than any other community has done for the traveling gentlemen and ladies in re duced circumstances, who are termed by the coarse-minded, "vagrants," these Berks Commissionersshould reproach us that we have not clothed them in purple and line linen, and given them Brussels carpets to tread upon, and spring beds to soothe to balmy slumber their weary limbs. Perhaps, we should have done all this; but, then it is cruelly unjust that we should be taken to task for not doing it, by those who resolutely refuse to give food or shelter of any kind to these afflicted children of Maine and Massachusetts. The proud reputation which Lancas ter enjoys for unbounded hospitality to vagrants, was earned for us years ago by the humane conduct of the kind hearted Alderman and Constable who adorn the Second Ward. They have long abided beneath the shadow of the Court I louse, and through this proxim ity, and their intimate connection with the members of the bar, and by the publication of a legal journal, they he came at last so profoundly imbued and so thoroughl3 saturated with the knowledge (f law, both statute and common, that it is currently believed that could they only be grafted upon other stocks, as choice varieties of trees are grafted upon the commoner kinds, they would each make half a dozen first-class lawyers. Their great knowledge of the law en aided these gentlemen to find out what nobody else had been able to do before; viz., a legal way of billeting upon Lan caster County the paupers of all other counties and States, and of thus giving to it itcrowuingglory. They called their beneficiaries, vagrants, and invited them to sutliT themselves to be committed as criminals to jail fur a period of ten days, renewable at the expiration of the term, for a like period, as often as they chose' to call at the Alderman's (ace for an other commitment. The vagrants are charged nothing for the accommodation, but little bills, entirely inadequate to compensate them for their trouble, are sent in to the County by the kind-heart ed benefactors, which the County,know ing the lustre which is being shed upon it, cheerfully pays. Lately the Mayor's office has also de veloped itself into an Eleemosynary In stitute ; our two Mayors fired by the no ble example of the Duke street, firm, have determined also to render them selves illustrious. 'rite combined abili ties of an ex-Senator, who is therefore most profound in the construction of statutes,and of an ex-District Attorney, who therefore knows how a jail may be filled, have been devoted to the relief of destitute vagrants; and they have succeeded in an eminent degree; our overflowing jail testifies to their wonderful zeal,and the tax rate of live mills on the dollar,levied for Is7o, speaks eloquently of the readi ness with which the people of Lancaster County reach into their pockets to re lieve the destitute and oppressed— whether these he vagrants orAhlernicn. After the explanation which we have thus given at length of the meritorious cause of the fullness of our jail, and the want of comfortsof its inmates, we have na doubt the Berks Comity Commis sioners will feel heartily ashamed of the false construction they put upon our conduct. No doubt this was all ex plained to them here, but as the expla nation was made in English, they are excusable for not understanding; if. Still, they should not say " Yah," when they don't understand a word that is said to them. It is apt, as in this case, to make trouble. We beg leave to assure the Berks Commissioners, that the Grand Jury visited the Prison in January, and re ported that everything was right, and praised Keeper Sensenig highly' We also inform them that we have half a dozen very respectable Prison -iispee tors, who go through the prison week ly, and they seem to have observed nothing wrong, or they surely would have corrected it. Therefore, Messrs. Commissioners of Berks, we think it was highly improper that you , should have seen what our own energetic and faithful (?) officials have been unable to see. You have certainly violated the courtesy and free-masonry which pre vails among officials everywhere, in thus exposing the wonderful blindness of your fellows here. Tin: House Committee of Congress has reported against the proposed change in trying electte cases. The Radical eprobates of that body are afraid to trust juries drawn from among them 'selves, even when they haven majority of two-thirds. TheS; are afraid honest men of their own party might be in clined to do justice to Democratic con testants. They prefer to keep the mat ter in the hands of such thoroughly unscrupulous scamps as John Cessna. WOMEN who want to vote will - be in terested to know that the following speech, delivered in the Wyoming Leg islature, was the clincher that caused the passage of the net which accorded them the right to vote. A member rose and said : " D—n it, if you are going to let the niggers and pigtails vote, we will ring in the women, too." And they were Immediately " rung In." A Partisan Judiciary There are many indications that the spirit of party subserviency Is attacking the Judiciary of the country. We find this great evil cropping out in various directions. Until lately Judges acted with independent impartiality, but not a few of those, whose duty it is to hold the scales of justice even, seem ready to allow partisan prejudices to control their action. It has come to pass that Courts divide on contested election cases, and on other questions into which politics enters, according to their party proclivi ties. We had an instance of that in the Court of Common Pleas of Philadel phia, and a further exhibition of the same thing in the action of the Supreme Court of this State, when the contested cases of the election of 1868 came up from the Court below for review. This thing is calculated to shake the confi dence of the people in the integrity of the Judiciary, and to induce the belief that the Courts of Justice are no longer above the influence of prejudice and passion. ' But there is another exhibition of this worst and most dangerous form of par tisanship now being made. The Radi cals are dissatisfied with the decision of the Supreme Court of the United States on the legal tender act, lately rendered, and are deliberately engaged in an at tempt to secure a reversal by packing the bench with men pledged in advance to carry out the peculiar views of the party. It is stated on authority that Gen. Grant (lid not nominate either Messrs. Strong or Bradley, the two candidates for seats on the Supreme bench who are now before the Senate for confirmation, until it was definitely ascertained that they were ready to re verse the decision of the court upon the legal tender act. Can anything be:con ceived of more disrepute than such a bargain" What confidence can the people have in the decisions of a court thus constituted? When we remember that it is the highest judicial tribunal in the land which is thus being tampered with, and reflect that its decisions are of vital importance to the whole people, we feel that we cannot too strongly con demn the outrageous course which is hieing pursued. Let the Courts be once corrupted, and the decisions of Judges be made to depend upon party passion or prejudice, and the last barrier that re mains to protect the minority from the tyranny of a reckless and unscrupulous majority, will have been broken down. Then liberty will be slain at the very seat of justice, and anarchy and ruin will mine down upon us like night. Proposed Interference with Nunneries and Convents A. Radical member of the Legislature has introduced a bill, the object of which is to subject all. Nunneries and Convents under the supervision of the Catholic Church to a most unrestrained examin ation. This bill starts out with some clap-trap reference to the abolition of negro slack, and asserts in a second preliminary clause that the system on which Nunneries and Convents are conducted is one of slavery. It then proceeds to enact that examiners shall he appointed, who shall not in any case be of the Catholic faith, whose duty it shall be to call before them and exam ine apart from all other persons every female who may he an inmate of such an establishment ; and if such exam iners shall make a false or partial return 'they are to he adjudged guilty of a mis demeanor and punished accordingly. Any attempt on the part of the maua-• gers of Nunneries or Convents to inter fere with the board of inquisitors is to be punished by severe tine and by im prisonment. This is a cropping out of the old spirit of Know-Nothingism which still lives in the Radical party, a new exhibition of that chronic and implaca ble hatred of the Catholic faith which led to the burning of churches and the sacking of convents. There is no ne cessity for the passage of any such law. The writ of habeas coilniB will reach every real or supposed case of false re straint, and the courts are always open to those who have a right to demand its application. White-House Favorites Since his exposure of the extravagance of Grant's Administration, Mr. Dawes has found it necessary for him to secure endorsers to prove that he is still a sound Republican, and to clinch the matter he proposes to go to New I lamp shire to stump that State for the regular Radical candidate for Governor, who seems to be in danger of defeat, in con sequence of a serious defection among the laboring men of the State. The as saults made upon Mr. Dawes have been very bitter, and it is a remarkable fact that those making them have been the especial pets and favorites of the Presi dent. I ;rant came into power under a cry for retrenchment and reform, but, before the first year of his administra tion has passed away, it is found that more money has bees asked for than his predecessor spent;and that too when tht4e has been no occasion for extraor dinary expenditures. In a word, the administration boldly demands an in crease of the National expenditures, instead of making any attempt at dimi nution, and Grant regards as his per sonal enemies, the men who attempt to prevent the extravagant waste of the people's money. Honest members of Congress are under a ban, and every fellow who favors unlimited stealing, and the increase of useless salaried ollieials, is a favorite at that Court, about the gates of which half a dozen uni formed Generals wait to usher in the toadies and flatterers of their incompe tent eldef. The thieves and rascals of Congress, from Butler down, are pets and especial favorite; at the White-House. That is a most significant fact, a fact which the people will be sure to remem ber when they see how much the first year of Grant's :Ministration has cost them. A Spotted Leopard In a raving and incomprehensible Speech made by a Western Radical in the lower houseat Washington the other day occurred the following sublime per oration : From him operati o n or climate, or An glo-Saxon blood, the Ethiopian is al ready changing the color of his skin, and in time will remove the spots front the leopard at his throat; :tml the tiime has come when it Pan be grandly said "'The Star-Spangled Banner—lolly may It wave Over the land of the free, with !lever a " However gratifying it may be to the gentleman from Ethiopia to learn that the climate, or Anglo-Saxon blood, is already changing the color of his skin," we think he must be desirous of learning something about this mysterious "leop ard at his throat," who is thus about to have " the spots knocked off him." We arc forced to conclude that the " spotted leopard" spoken of by the elo quent gentleman is the carpetbagger. He has the stealthy tread of the animal referred to, and is always ready to change his spots on his entire coat when any profit can be thereby made. The "spotted leopard" is certainly a good name for the carpetbagger, who has fas tened himself or the throat of the poor negro ; and the wretched victim will find himself in the clutches of El creature as treacherous, as remorseless and as deadly as any beast that ever inhabited a Southern jungle. GENERAL REYNOLDS, the satrap who rules in 4'exas, is a candidate before the Legslature of that State, elected under his supervision, for United States Sena tor.• He is at present engaged in decid ing cases of contested election in the two Houses of that body, and when a sufficient number of anti-Reynolds men have been eliminated therefrom, he will permit the eleetion of United States Senator to proceed. He has " organ ized" one of the Houses by appointing 13. Rush Plumley, a carpet-bagger from Philadelphia, Speaker of the same.— Texans should be very thankful that Reynolds saves them all trouble In choosing their "[Jailer! States Senators, Naturalization to be Restricted. The following Is a summary of the provisions of a bill which i .9 now before Congress having for its object the exclu sion of white European immigrants front the elective franchise : "Proceedings for naturalization must be taken before the United States circuit or district courts, or, where there were not more than two terms annually of these, before the United States court of highest jurisdiction of the State. As a first step, the applicant must file with the clerk of the court a notice of intention to become a citi zen, which' notice shall state full particulars of birth, parentage, residence, arrival in the country, etc., and he must give the names of two citizens who know him per sonally. The notice is to be filed, but open for inspection or copying. After four years' subsequent continuous. residence in the United States, he may apply to one of the courts named for admission to citizenship, at least twenty days before the term or session thereof. Ile must have lived in the State for the previous six months, and in the district, county, or parish in which the application is made for thirty days. And he must produce one or more credible citi zens who can testify to all tLe foregoing particulars, as also to his moral character and fitness generally for admission. Any citizen may produce opposing evidence. If the court is satisfied in the applicants, favor, it will give him a certificate of natu ralization, to take effect six months them after, and so stating. " The bill has been devised for the ex press purpose of saving the Radical party from defeat at the coming Presi dential election, and from the permanent destruction which is impending over it. The immediate effect of the proposed enactment would be to cancel every de claration of intention already made by any immigrant, and compel the party to make a new declaration, after W`hich he must wait four years before he can get his naturalization papers, and six months more before he can vote. This would put the inunigrant who has been in this country live years on the same footing with him who arrived yesterday. Residence is to count for nothing, if it is residence prior to the passage of the proposed law. No application is to be regarded unless it was made to the clerk of a flat', d Stoics Court, whereas all previous declarations have been made to ,State Courts. By the new law all exist ing applications would be made null and void, and there will be a total interrup tion of naturalization fro. fuse years and six months. This is a villainous scheme for preventing thousands of white Euro pean immigrants from voting at the next Presidential election. If it suc ceeds there will he no fresh naturaliza tions until the middle of the next Presi dential term. It is a confession of weakness on the l ic it of the Radical party, awl a desperate zdtempt to save it from defeat in the eam•t g Presidential contest. The restriction of naturalization to the United Serde,v Courts must necessarily work great hardship, without any com pensating good. It will render the pro 'cess of naturalization so troublesome and so costly that many will be deterred from assuming the rights of citizenship —and that is the object of the bill. Such an enactment seems exceed i ugly harsh and unjust when the Republican party has just conferred the right to vote and hold office on every stupid and ig norant negro in the country. It is an outrage upon white Europeans which ought to be resented by every man who has a drop of such blood in his veins.— Such a discrimination against the high er and more intelligent race in favor of the lower and more ignorant one ought to call forth universal execration. It is the last, the basest, and the most desper ate resort of a party which fears the re sult of a free election by all the people who would be entitled to vote under the existing laws of the country. A Carpet Bagger Come to Grief. One Wittemore, a canting, hypocriti cal puritan from Massachusetts, who served the Devil in the capacity of chaplain to a 'Yankee regiment during the war, has come to grief. When " the late unpleasan Mess" was over he located himself on some confiscated land in North Carolina, and by dispensing rations furnished by the Freedmen's Bureau managed to ingratiate himself with the n cgroes, and succeeded in being elected to Congress. On arriving at Washington he was greeted by Butler and the whole Radical crew as a welcome acquisition to their ranks. Brother Wittemore kept an eye open to the main chance, and being, Yankee-like, always ready for El dicker, managed to realize a handsome sum of mon, , y by the sale of his einletsliiiis. The evidence fully establishes his guilt, and a motion to expel him would have been at once carried if Butler and a couple of other Radicals had not plead for delay. Out with the scurvy scouddrel I He is the representative of a class of the meanest creatures that ever crawled by filthy ways into places of power. Justice will not be done until every sneaking carpet bagger who misrepresent a Southern district is dismissed to the disgrace and merited oblivion which awaits them all Increase of the Currency The following resolution has passed the Lower House of Congress by a vote of yeas 110, nays 74: Resolved, That in the opinion of the House the business interests of the coun try require an increase in the volume of circulating currency, and the Committee on Banking and Currency are instructed to report to the House, at as early a day MS practicable, a bill increasing the currency to the amount ofat least nifty million dollars. Should the Senate concur with the House the action thus taken will be contrary to the ree(munendations of the President's Message, and in OppOSitioll to the expressed views of the Secretary of the Treasury. Values will he more or less affected by an increase of the cur rency, and a return to specie payments delayed and rendered more difficult. If relief be afforded it will ha merely tem porary, and the resulting evils will more than counterbalance any seeming good. \\•c do not believe that Congress has a constitutional right to flood the country with a depreciated -paper cur rency, and it is a power which ought not to be possessed even if it does exist. The Sale of Cadetships The examination into the charges that Congressmen have been engaged in selling Cadetships promises to pro duce some rich developments. Among the letters on the subject received by Judge Woodward was the following forwarded by a gentleman named Pat terson from Philadelphia: rt—l notice there has been an inquiry started in Congress about the sale of ca detships. Five fir six years ago Honest J— C— sold an appointment for his district for 11,000. Mr. Gustavus Remack, of this city, was the purchaser, for his son, S. Remark, who NV:LS appointed and is now in the army. That must mean John Covode. The initials would not be sufficient to indi cate him but the qualifying adjective "Honest" which is prefixed settles the question of identity. We hope the truth of the matter may be brought out, and Covode exposed and expelled from the seat out of which he cheated the Hon. Henry D. Foster. The Paul Sehceppe Case This case promises to drag on inter minably. The bill requiring the Su preme Court of the State to examine the testimony in cases that come up on writs of error from Courts of Oyer and Terminer below has been passed by both branches of the Legislature over the Governor's veto. We are of the opinion that the Supreme Court have the power to declare this act of assembly unconsti tutional, end, if we remember aright, there is a precedent which would justify such action. It remains to be seen what course will be pursued, and, in the meantime, the culprit gains a further respite. The Fulton Democrat The Fulton Democrat, which was burned out in December, has reappeared in a iew dress of handsome type, look ing clean and bright. It has been en larged to a seven coliinm paper and otherwise Improved. We are glad to see it again after Its suspension, Contested Election Cases We are glad to see that a Radical newspaper here and there is beginning to wake up to the fact that the grossest abuses are being perpetrated by - the representatives of that Partyth deciding contested election cases. The New York 'Tribune has sounded the alarm on this subject, after having, been silent when one gross outrage after another was de liberately carried out. It has come to pass that no Democrat can be sure of retaining his seat in Congress, if a Re publican choses to contest it, unless he has been elected by an overwhelming majority. The proposition which was recently made to provide for trying such cases by a jury has called forth com ment of an approving character froth some unexpected sources. Our readers can judge how gross have been the abuses practiced when the Pittsburgh Gazette, the most Radical newspaper in Western Pennsylvania is constrained to speak as follows: We suppose it is of no use to hope that Congress will act upon that bill of Mr. Somebody's proposing to modify the man ner of deciding contested election cases, until all such cases coming before the pres ent session shall have been decided in the good old way. But when these are so de cided we really do hope that Congress will give its attention to the reform proposed. The present plan as everybody knows is to have these cases tried and decided by a full vote of the House for a seat in which the contest is waged. This !pounds fair and looks fair. But it is a long time since we have read of a Congressional contested elec tion case which was not decided, as the tele graph puts it, by "a strict party vote." No matter what the evidence has been, or how little there may have beenofit,or how hard it bore against one candidate and in favor of the other, a "strict party vote" has done the business. For aught we can see, in no con tested election case for a good many years back would the result have been a hair's breadth different if no evidence at all had been offered, "A strict party vote" would have decided it in that case, just as it has decided it in the actual case—and decided it in exactly the same way. It has become so notorious that considerations of party, not of justice determine these:election cases at Washington, that people are no longer surprised, at the announcement of the "strict party vote" which decides them. Nay, Congress itself confesses its injus tice by persisting, spite of popular re monstrance, in giving the defeated con stituents two or three thousand dollars, as a kind of sop to induce them t ) keep quiet and not get angry for being defrauded of their just rights. There is no other assignable reason fur giving these unearnedperquisites. On the sup position that the Houses of Congress decide these eases justly and impartially, it is ut terly indefensible--this squandering of public money on men who are not elected to (Alice. But the supposition that the Houses of Congress are not honest, but only partisan courts, the squandering becomes if not defensible, at least intelligible. By sticking to the custom it is evident that Congress is willing we should accept the latter supposition as the true one; and we do so accordingly. But if Congress is satisfied to have its honor and justice systematically doubted, the people are not. There is a growing determination that the "strict party vote' system of deciding these contested cases must be "reformed altogether. - The bill we have referred to contemplates the for mation of a regular House jury to decide these questions, to consist of twelve men, six front either party to be chosen by the chair, subject to challenge, etc., like any other jury—and for the same reasons.— These twelve "good and true"—if twelve such men can be found in Congress—arc then to be put on their oaths and try such eases as may come before them. We hope this bill will pass. Not that We are sanguine about the permanent good it would do.— Means would eventually be found to get round or override the decision of this jury. In any event, see suppose, an appeal from the jury to the House would be in order, and then the "strict party vote" would come into play again as the final arbiter of justice. But we would hope for some temporary good from the passage of this bill. The term and solemnity ofa jury decision would force through some very thick skulls the idea that perhaps some thing more than the "good of the party'' is involved in contested election decisions— that possibly questions of justice and common honesty have something to do with them. There is no telling what might not result from the planting of such good seed as this in such virgin soil. It might lead some legislators to east a stray vote, now and then, according to the testimony, rather than according to caucus dictation. At any rate, ire feel that the very agitation and discussion which this bill would be pretty sure to awaken, could scarcely fail to du good. It would certainly draw the attention of both Congress and the people to the evil of the present system, and that is the first, .op to reform. The friends of Jack Hamilton in Texas are sore over the result of the late election in that State, and a delegation is now in Washington demanding an investigation of the frauds there com mitted. They say that Hamilton was defeated by frauds perpetrated under instructions of General Reynolds. But this delegation of gentlemen will have only their labor for their pains, for, as the Baltimore Gazeile truly remarks, "it is a farce to suppose that the South ern States can assert any rights except such as Congress chooses graciously to accord them." General Reynolds was deputed and instructed to carry the elec tion in Texas, just as Ames was deputed and instructed to carry that of Missis sippi. Both have obeyed orders; and whilst Ames has already received his reward by being elected to the United States Senate, Reynolds is expecting a similar recognition from the Texas Leg islature in consideration of his services. Both Mississippi and Texas have been bayoneted into submission, and are thus preparing for a radical millennium, "when the wolf shall lie down with his prey, but—with the prey inside of him." The Georgia Senators Chief Justice Brown, and • Associate Justice \Varner, both appointed under Radical rule by that prince of Radicals Foster Blodgett, have declared that un der the Reconstruction acts of Congress, Messrs. Hill and Miller were duly and legally elected to represent I 4eorgia in the United States Senate. The Gover nor elected by negro votes certified to that fact, and the United States District Attorney holds the same opinion. Ex- Governor Joe. Brown, rendered his opinion after Mr. Hill had been elected over him. Vet, with all this on the re cord, and staring them in the face, a Radical committee of tile United States Senate decide that neither 11111 nor Miller are entitled to thoi r scats. There NV :IS a lime in this country when Sena tors of the United States regarded their oaths and were controlled by a sense of honor, but that was before the Radical party obtained control. Grant and the Canterons When “rant lint came into power he treated Simon (*ameron very coolly, and is Said to 11115 e si•oken of him in de cidedly disrespectful terms. Since that time he has , however, chaimed his opin ion of the great Winnebago chief com pletely, and now we see it ~muouuccd that his son, J. Donald Cameron, Esq., has been invited to spend a week at the White House. It is evident that Orant is determined to have the Cameron ring in this State on his side at the next Presidential election. Should he be re elected we will wager a basket of chain paign that Jolly Jack lliestand will have no trouble in securing the mar shalship of the Eastern District of Penn sylvania, or any other snug berth that Simon may demand for him. Cameron rules the roast in "Kitchen Cabinet," so far as Pennsylvania is concerned now, and Grant's re-election would give him increased power and importance.— Ulysses is now in close fellowship with all the most disreputable Radical poli ticians of the country. ABOUT one in two years, just before a general Congressional. election, Radical Congressmen get u p a temperance society and hold a series of meetings, at which such of their number as may have fallen into notoriously profligate habits are given an opportunity to sign 0 - )e pledge and make buncombe temperance speech es for the benefit of their credulous con stituents.' That ball is just now in lively motion at Washington, and the converts are reported to be numerous. Back sliders will be just as plenty after nest October. SOME wag has composed a farewell song for the Alabama Legislature. The title is " When the Bummers Home. ward Fly." If the Pittsburgh,Gazette's account of the Legislature of this State be true, a like strain would be appro priate to its dissolution. The ht. hoofing° Job. When the question of annexing St. Domingo was before the House Com mittee of Foreign Affairs a year ago, Mr. Banks, Chairman of the Committee, asked Secretary Seward for information cmieerningthedebt and other incum brances upon the territory of the repub lic. At his suggestion Mr. Seward sent a special messenger, Mr. Fabens, to St. Domingo, to make the necessary inqui ries. Mr. Fabens remained two days in St. Domingo City, and immediately returned to Washington, bringing the statement that the debt of St. Domingo was only $600,000 (or, perhaps, a few thousand more,) but he had no infornm tion to communicate to the Secretary of State respecting grants, concessions, and franchises. Fabens was himself at that time supposed to be interested in grants and franchises. This was about the Ist of April 1869. It now appears that on the Ist of May following the Dominican Republic contracted a loan of £.120,000, mortgaging therefor the public domain and the customs receipts until its payment. The mortgage in cludes the coal mine and woods of Sa mane, as well as the guano beds of Alta Vela, so that the United States takes the Samana lease subject to a burden al together of £757,000. Besides this, there are supposed to be other private grants and concessions affecting the same propdrty. The Union League and Cuba We call the especial attention of the Erpress to the resolution in reference to Cuba adopted by the Executive Com mittee of the Union League of the United States, Gov. John W. Geary being in the chair. As the Express has persist ently denounced every movement in sympathy withruba as mercenary, and has declared that all the newspapers which advocated interference were " bought up " we are anxious to see what it will have to say in reference to the following resolutions: Resolved, That this National Council of the Union League of America deeply sym pathize with the struggling patriots of Cuba in the war in which for more than a year they have struggled to throw off the yoke of Spanish despotism, and to secure for themselves the boon of liberty and in dependence ; that in view of the heroism, fortitude, and perseverance with which they have prosecuted the war against the power of the Spanish Government, and because they have further testified their devotion to liberty by the abolition of slavery throughout the Island ; therefore. Resolved, That we respectfully urge upon Congress to recognize the belligerent rights of Cuba as soon as they shall have shown themselves to have established a permanent Il overnment. 'DURING the various phases of recon struction seven United States Senators have been elected from the State of Georgia. Alexander H. Stephens and Herschel V. Johnson werechosen by the legislature of ISH; Joshua Hill and H. V. M. Miller by that of ISMS; and the other day three more were chosen by the same body (partially expurgated of its Democratic membership) which elected Messrs Hill and Miller. Among these is the notorious Foster Blodgett, who is at present under indictment for a hein ous crime. The other two scalawags are so obscure that we have already forgot ten their names. The credentials of these seven persons are now before the United States Senate. Of course the last lot, being the meanest, and, there fore, thoroughly radical, will be admit ted to seats. The Trade In Cadetship The investigation in regard to the sale of cadetships is not yet concluded, but the result so far shows that three mem bers of the last House and one of the present House—all of them from the South, and all Simon-pure Radicals, have sold cadetships to brokers and other bidders. The country will wait with considerable anxiety to see what will be done with the delinquents. Con gress will have no power to punish ex members, but those who still hold seats in that body ought to be summarily ex pelled. Any less decided action will fail to satisfy public opinion. We wait to see whether it will be done. SINcE the acquisition of Alaska that inhospitable section has cost its $597,789 in the way of government expenses, and the revenue and other receipts have amounted to a ta.tal of $21,332. At that rate a few such additions to our terri tory would bankrupt us. We have more than enough of territory at present, and any attempts to purchase either ice bergs in the Artie region, or earthquakes and tornadoes in the Tropics, should be discountenanced. The Duty on Iron The following protest has been sent to each of the Democratic Congressmen from this State by the following gentle men, residents of this county, who are the proprietors of anthracite furnaces: Dean Sin : As DemorraLs we are at a loss to understand the motives of the Dem oeratie members of Congress and the larger portion of the Democratic press in joining the free trade party for low tariffs, espe cially on iron. As manufacturers of pig iron, we do not ask for increased duties on pig, although from the decline in premium on gold the present tariff, fixed at $0 in gold, is 02 70 per tun less protection, with gold at $1 20, than at $1 50, but we do ask that the present rate on pig shall not be lowered, and that an increase of $3 per tun to the present rates be placed on rails, old rails and scrap iron. I*ou will find on close inquiry that Mr. Wells has grossly misled the public mind, as to the cost and prices obtained for pig iron during the past year. Also, that most of the rolling mills in the country have a much larger capacity for heating and rolling than they have for pud dling, hence the desire of the mill owners for low duties on old rails and scrap. That every tun of old rails or scrap does away With the consumption of from four to five tuns of American coal , and more than $2O of money which ought to be paid to Amer ican laborers, besides displacing so much American pig iron, with its accompanying freights of ore travel, and consumption of store goods by operatives. Independent of our interests as manu facturers of pig iron, we think that our country demands, and each year will in crease the demand, for protection to Amer ican Industries of all kinds, until we are altogether independent of foreign mann faeturers, and have taken our proper place Os exporters of an exeess beyond o u r Im ports. We are now producers of a muvh larger quantity of grain than we can con sume, lint even at the present low prices of wheat at $I 25 in paper, at seaports there is no foreign ihilaaild, owing to the exten sion o f railroads on the Eastern Continent, by which grain markets have been reached that were previously inaccessible. Eng land and Frataie call hay cheaper than we are now offering. We iced in reality more and larger manufacturing to ns—andmore mining population to make a home market for our own cereals. Protection would, in our opinion, in a very few years build up manufactories of all kinds, open and fleet by rail more mines, pay Mr further improvements, reduce cost of transporta tion, and, from the natural competition, in the end cheapen the cost of all American products. tin the other Muni, choke off American man ufactures at the present time by admitting foreign goods free or nearly free of duty, and von take away employ ment front many thousands of Americans, and leave us to pay slich prices :is fimeign countries may choose Is ask for their pro ducts. We would call your attention to the fact that the best brands of No. 3 iron have re cently been sold at $3O, four months, deliv ered in Philadelphia—which is the cost price in cash of manufacture at the furnace, exclusive of any charges far interest on capital—the interest in capita 4 freight, and agent's commissions and four months' in terest on notes amounting to $0 per tun, We must, of course, under this state of the business, look forward to blowing mit our furnaces, Respectfully yours, PARIS HALDEMAN, D. S, COOK, S. 8. HALDEMAN, 11. 7.11, NORTH, E. HALDEMAN, AA Y. PArros. C. J. Not:mm, Cotumbia, Pa. Feb. 8, 1970. Sinkina of n Stemmer—Thirty or Forty Persons Stappooed to Have Been Loot. CAino, Feb. 21.—The steamer Emma, Sol 3, from New Orleans to Cincinnati, struck a snag on the morning of Saturday last, while in Chute 35, fifty miles above Mem phis; and while slowly sinking, she went end over enough to upset the stoves, which caused her to take fire, consuming in a short time all above the water. The loss of life is estimated between thirty and forty. The first clerk, Walter Marotta, lost his life while nobly risking it In an attempt to save a lady passenger. Lineberger, first engineer, died from exhanstion after reaching the shore. Paid Fire Department In Pittsburgh. Pirrsnurtort, Feb. IG.—A bill authorizing a paid fire department passed both branches of the City Council last night and was for warded to the Legislature to-day. The bill meets with general approbation, but one section, which levies a heavy tax on insur ance companies, is meeting with consider able opposition. One of the evening papers suggests that if this is right the next step in _that direction will be to have the national banks support the government, Scranton wants the State fair held there next year. Eight per cent. is being offered in Lebanon for yearly loans. Waynesburg, Greine Bounty, is grow ing. A number of new houses are to go up this year. Pottsville claims to have the largest public hall in the interior of Pennsyl vania. A double track has been laid on the Lebanon Valley Railroad, between Leb anon and Annville. A butternut tree standing in Cam bridge township, Crawford county, cov ers over one-sixth of an acre. A bill to make the salary of the Di rectors of the Poor of Lebanon-county one hundred dollars has become a law. The Overseer of the Poor in Pittsburgh is named Fortune, and all the poor say ho is a good Fortune to them. A newsdealer named Whyte has been arrested at Pittston, for selling obscene books and pictuies to young girls and boys. Prof. Henry Coppee, LL. D., President of the Lehigh University, at Bethlehem will leave shortly for a summer visit to Europe. Two petrified snakes, one three feet six inches long, and four inches in cir cumference, were recently found near Providence, Luzerne county. The Pennsylvania Railroad Company is erecting an iron bridge across the Ju niata, at Tyrone, in place of the wooden affair heretofore in use. The Knights of Pythias of Pennsyl vania have resolved to hold their next Annual Convention atWilliamsport on the 4th Tuesday of July. The policemen of Wilkesbarre are about to give a ball, the proceeds from which are to be appropriated to buying new uniforms for the force. The Penn. & N. Y. Canal & It. R. Co. transported north from Wyoming re gion the other week 3,2'99.05 tons, mak ing a total of 40,578 tons for the season. A steel coal spring, sixty feet long has just been made in Pittsburgh, the steel being five inches in width and three sixteenths of an inch in thickness. Rev. 0. Lawson, of Sunbury, has ac cepted a call to the Presbyterian Church at Oxford, Chester co., and is:expected to enter upon his new charge on the first of April. A contract has been signed for the erection of fifty dwelling houses in that portion of Germantown known as Pu heikiville, and building operations will soon be commenced. Messrs. William Painter & Co., finan cial agents for the Wilmington and Reading Railroad Company have sold the whole loan of this road, amounting to a million and a_quarter of dollars. The Montgomery County and East Penna. Agricultural and Mechanical Society will hold a Spring Exhibition on their grounds, at Norristown, on Saturday, June 11th. Alexander Hodgson, of \Vest Fallow field, Chester county, has purchased a farm of 2184 acres, at 547 per acre, about 34 miles north of Richmond, Virginia. Land and buildings good. A new doily, to be called the Evening Mail, will shortly make its appearance in Phillipsburg. Messrs. Sigma and Werkheiser proprietors of the Democrat will be the publishers. Work has been resumed in the Ilroad Top Coal region. The operators com promised with the miners by making the reduction 10 cents per ton instead of 15 cents. There were forwarded east from Mauch Chunk by L. V. It. It. last week 38,930 tons of coal, a decrease of 2,83 S tons, as compared with the corresponding week of last year. The published tax returns show Stilt houses of worship in Phil'a valued at less than a $:11,000,000, or just about 30, 1)00 each. To tax these would add less then :IA per cent. to the taxable property. The bill declaring that Independence Square, Philadelphia, shall be hereafter sacredly preserved as a public square for the use of citizens, has received favora ble consideration in the House. The recent snow storm has made the lumbermen in the Lehigh region quite jubilant, and they are at work with might and main dragging their logs to the streams to get them to the mills. Comparatively little ice is to lie seen in the lake at Erie. This is most unu sual at this time of the year, the general rule being that during February the lake is thickly covered with ice for miles from the shore. Robert H. Sayre, Esq., for several years prominently connected with the Lehigh Valley Railroad, latterly as its very efficient Superintendent, has been appointed President of the Pennsylvania & New York Canal and Railroad. Andrew Stewart, an octogenarian, of Uniontown, Fayette Co., is engaged in building his one hundred and fifty-third dwelling house. In addition to this number of dwellings, lie has erected se ven saw mills and four grist mills. Ben Finch, a lunatic who has been wandering harmlessly about in Luzerne and Wayne counties for twenty-live years, has been murdered, for what rea son is unknown as his only property consisted of a fife and lots of old clothes. H. E. Klein, of Pottstown, has secur ed the contract for the erection of a gen eral Opera House in Scianton, wt•hich is to cost over $lOO,OOO, and is to put up under the direction ofJ. C. Sidney, ar chitect, of Philadelphia. Mary Isabel Moore suddenly left the Borough of Washington on the 14th of December, 1869, and has not been heard of since. Her father, J. M. Moore, of Canonsburg, will thankfully receive any information of her whereabouts. Three slopes are being sunk by the Lehigh t'oal and Navigation Co., on their property at Newport. They are also about putting up another breaker. When finished their shipping capacity will he from 2.50,000 to :“0,000 tons an nually. The remains of Rev. Dr. Franklin Moore, who died recently in Sacramen to, California, have been brought home and interred in the new Cemetery at Beaver. Dr. Moore was a minister of the Philadelphia Conference, M. E. Church. Jacob Haas,an Allegheny butcher, WILS attacked a few days ago, by a bullock which he was about to slaughter, and badly gored and thrown about ten feet. The animal's borne passed almost through the neck. He will probably recover. The coal tonnage on the Lehigh Val ley Railroad for the week ending on the 12th inst., was 44,436 tons, against 42,- 798 tons in corresponding week last year, and for the year 535,279 tons, against 416, 149 tons to same time, in 1809—showing an increase of 119,11)11 lons. On Jan. 2.3 d. a boy named Franklin Fensternmeher, aged 13 years, 01 lierks county, shot a huge eatamount in the woods adjacent to the Blue Mountains, hack of Jacksonville, which measured 19 inches in height, and over 3 feet in length. Henry T. Evans, of Tredyfrrin twp., Chester co., fell from his straw-inow on Thursday, :id inst., and striking one of his ribs, sonic nine feet below it was broken, toil the rough end penetrated one id his lungs. The injury caused his death, which occui red a few days after the accident. The annual re-union of the surviving members of the 57th RegiMent of Penn sylvania Volunteers will he hell in Mercer on the inst. All the sur viving members of the regiment, it is expected, will be present. The citizens of Mercer promise them a cordial re ception and a good (hue. Hon. John B. Jones died in Montgom ery county, a few days ago. In his youth lie was a midshipman in the :Navy, and while in this position was present at the famous bombardment of Tripoli, at the beginning of this century. At one time he was appointed consul to Tripoli, and subsequently consul-gen eral to Egypt. The receipts of the Philadelphia Gir ard Estate during 1869 were as follows: Rents from real estate, $278,093,46 ; from collieries, $102,660.20 ; from personal, $40,797.90; from Timber Leave, $7,365.- 92; from real estate in Schuylkill county, $771 ; collected by City Solicitor, $3,368.- 48; from Lawrence Todd's legacy, $l,- 966.73; from income, $284.28, making a total of $436,308.02. The long-neglected spot in East Vin cent township, Chester county, on the Ridge Road near the " Hill Churches," where a number of Revolutionary sol diers belonging to Washington's army lie buried, is to be properly fitted up and repaired. The ground is now deed ed to the public. The citizens of East Vincent, Springville and vicinity have organized and are collecting money to put the place in order. Since the great coal fever of 1829 the de mand for Pennsylvania coal has been steadily on the increase, but, although millions of tons have been drawn from the mines, the deposits show no signs of diminution. Experiment has establish ed the fact that beneath the soil of our State three hundred thousand million tons lie buried—ten times more than that of England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland combined; more than sufficient to supply the whole world far ages to come, THE TREASIIIIIY INVESTIGATION. Where Maekey Wept the Fonds of the nahaisnuno, Feb. 16. The Treasury Investigating Committee met last evening to continue the examina tion of the present State Treasurer, and re ceive his Written statement of the manage ment of the public funds. In answer to questions by Messrs. Wal lace, White, Billingfelt and Brooke, he re iterated that he had followed the practice of his predecessors in depositing the moneys of the Commonwealth. He stated that he had been obliged to draw upon the sinking fund to a large extent, owing to the fact that appropriations to charitable institutions, to Soldiers' Orphans and to Common Schools had been largely increas ed. Large deficits were also to be mot. Mr. Billingfelt, chairman, and Senator Wallace concurred in the expression that the statement presented by Mr. Mackey was not in accordance with the request of the committee. They had desired a month ly account. Mr. Mackey stated that it was not the statement that he had intended to prepare, but he had been guided by several mem bers of the committee, who had expressed themselves satisfied with it. The following is the statement as pre seined: Treasury Balance, Monday, May 3, 180 Due from the Banks and BoOkers . . National Bank, Catssaqua $ 2,418 37 Bank of Commerce, Eric, (failed 1861) 3,306 48 Venangn National Ban k, Fran k - lin, (failed 1865) 72'24 50 Messrs. J. B. Dick 0 Co., Meadville 3,532 66 Bair .0 Shenk, LIIIWILS. 5,738 62 )eposit Bank 8,504 51 National Bank 5,000 00 F tional Bank, Washing to 102 82 Far and Mechanitoe Bank, Sh sburg 10,500 00 Juniata Valley Bank, Mifflin town 15,002 49 Union Banking Company, Philadelphia 11(000 lAN Citizens' Bank, Pittsburg 16,360 70 Messrs. Stettin:in, Clarkson .0 Co., Lancaster 70,133 35 Messrs. J. F. Mason .0 Co., • Towanda 16,701 55 First .National Bank of Nor thumberland 11,170 00 First National Bank of Warren.. 10,15(1 00 Farmers' and Meehanics' Na tional Bank of Philadelphia (gold) 806 17 Iron City Bank of Pittsburg 12,1163 42 Union National Bank of Lewis burg 10,000 00 I larrisbu rg National Ilank 7,714 60 Tradesman's National Bank ,if Pittsburg 11,076 70 Second National Bank uf Me ehanicsimrg, 15,601 00 Girard National bank of Phila delphia 120 00 Farmers' and Mechanics' Na- tional Bank of Philadelphia_ 17,031 111 National Bank of Middletown.. 70,000 00 Mereur's Bank of Towanda 26,162 10 First National Bank of Harris burg 21,029 70 Win. M. Lloyd d: Co., Altoona.. 50,000 00 First National Bank, Bellefonte. 20,000 00 Jay Cooke it Co., Philadelphia. 70,923 oo C. T. Yerkes, Jr., et Co 100,000 04) First National Bank, Norris town 20,000 00 leelianies' Bank, Harrisburg.. 14,1,04.41 10 Jacob E. Ridgway, Philadel phia 14 , 0,000 00 Vault 211,307 110 'Drawer 3,2:12 23 Coupon Aecount 17,701 50 Advances to Officers of Govern ment 211,405 62 Balance in Treasury, Monday \I ay 3, 1%9 STATEMENT—NiI. 2. Trerrsu ry Miletlter, Jrutua ry :11, 1870 hie front Banks and Bankers. Workingmen's Savings Bank, Allegheny $ 2,500 00 Allegheny Savings Bank 10,000 on Bank of i'oniinerce, Erie 4:4 Venango National Bank 7,224 .5n Fanners and Mech a nics' Na tional Bank (gold) SO2 09 Bair it Shenk, Lancaster 1,001) 011 llernian Sayings Bank, Alle- (Alen)' 5,000 00 Stelunan, Clarkson A C'o., Lan- easter 5,000 04) Indiana Deposit Bank, Indiana. 5,000 (0) Kirk, M'Veigll a: Co., Wi st Chester 10000 1)0 National Bank, :sliddletown 115,1x 0 1 00 Farmers. National Bank, Read J),011 00 First National Bank, Belle fonte 20,450 00 Jacob E. Ridgway, Philadel- phia Ixl,ooo (0) Ilarrisburg National Bank 1,077 00 11leehanies' Bank, Harrisburg.. 25,000 00 :ktereues Bank, Towanda 20,041 Pl Win. M. Lloyd, Altoona 5(4,000 00 G. \l anon ,' Co., Towanda... 15,0411) 39 Juniata Valley Bank, NIMBI, town 33,052 49 State Bank, Ilarrisburg 211,199) is) Lloyd, Hon . & Co., Latrobe 10,000 (JO Dougherty Bros. A: Co., Har risburg 52,1)00 00 _ Danville National Bank 4000 1/11 First National Bank, Sharon... -Union flanking Company I'llll adel phia 140,0n0 oo Kensington National Bank, Philadelphia 75,000 ou Allegheny National Bank, Pittsburg :265,213 OS liummelstown Bank 3,000 Oo Jay Cooke Company, Phila delphia -12,702 First National Bank, Harris- burg 2:33,577 71 - Farmers and Ateehanies' Na tional Bank, Philadelphia COlllll/11 50 Advance to ttiliverm of (iovorn- went . S 7 kdvanee to tffltrers If the House and Senate 414,730 04) Tohd 141,50,1'211 1011 Less, Farmers' and Mechan ic,' National Bank of Phila delphia 144,0•21 51 =II 'rim, hundred and eighty thousand dollars deposited In bank Monday, January 31, Is7o, but, no advice until Tuesday, February I, 115711, The committee ailjouriceil until to-neir row evening at half-paat tieVett o'clock. The Senate Finance Committee continued the investigation into the Treasury affairs on Thursday afternoon. As this Is a mat ter in which every citizen is interested, we subjoin the whole of it as reported in the daily papers: I=l Mr Mackey presented a monthly state ment or the State deposits in dithirent banks and hankers front May 3, 1869, to January 31, ISM. .. , These statements show that the amounts 11w4it:Ile from month to mouth. The ac count known ILS "sau 1 1 " having been questioned, are herewith subjoined: Vault A ev,mt May 3, 19p1 $211,303 In May 31, 1869 1101,502 do June 30, 199(1 346,330 do July 31, 1960 346,172 do August 31, 1569 421,189 chit September 30, 199!1....171,013 do ()et...Ater :31, 1560 170,99.1 (Id November 30, 0940... 5,262 do Deveinber 31, 1501... 2: , 61,940 do January 31, 1970 9,l:iti TII E VA I'LT Af , 01' NT—WII AT IT I,i AND Mr. Walla., asked of what the vaalt at ream or May 2, IW.I, eetedstett ? Mr. Mitektty replied that it W:l4 his pre decassor's vault account, consisting of cash items in bank, and of checks, itc. Mr. Mackey, in answer to further tpies lions, acknowledged that his account had been nercased and decreased its Idiove stated. There had been no less to the Treasury in any of the items. The "vault account`' had sometimes been increaved by sight checks, that lie had carried front time to time to oblige corporations. Every dol lar of it was payable at sight. This was not ;ill unusual thing in bank accounts. Some times these corporations, as friends, would task the Treasury to itecommodate them, and send their checks to settle the accounts. They were accepted in monthly payments as cash. This was virtually giving them extra time to pay, but he felt it was just ins safe Its any bank in which he deposited it. It was the custom of former treasurers to do this thing. The corporations paid by vouchers. lie had never received vouchers as co ill account, but kept separate accounts. The checks werejust sight checks on banks; which were held in the vault and counted as cash ; he was told that he could get the money at any time; he had never satisfied himself that deposits had been made in banks on which the checks were drawn, but they had always been paid when called for. The understanding was that the cheeks would not be presented until he needed them. The custom had existed for years. Question by Mr. Billingfelt. Does not the principle evil consist in that vault ac count? A. Oh ! no ; not any more evil in that than by letting money lie in bank. By holding, you accommodate the persons who are paying the taxes to the State. Question by Mr. Billingfelt. Does it often happen that the papers are deposited in the vault where there is in reality no special security? A. I suppose that does often happen. Mr. Brooko—l see an item of one hun dred thousand dollars deposited with J. Ridgeway. You appear never to have had any of that money? A. I never have, sir; I was requested to leave it there, and asked Ridgeway to put something in my hands to secure me. This was a deposit with an individual broker. Ridgeway put up suf ficient collaterals to secure Inc against any loss. This wag not a check in the vault, but a deposit in the broker's &nee. Mr. Mackey continued further in saying that he saw no reason why the State Treas ury should not be conducted on the same principle as banks. They got along very well. Question by Mr. Billingfelt. What did the vault account consist of? A. I never took paper from an individual and carried it as cash in the vault. ITE MAY YIAVE FAVORED 1119 FRIENDS. Question by Mr. Billingfelt—Was it the system that certain banks probably car ried it for for the benefit of individuals while it was called bank account? Was there any part of thebalanee belong to the State Treasury deposited in any banks for the benefit of certain individuals? A,— Well, I suppose very likely that some of the banks and some of my friends may have had advantage of it in some way. - I believe it is customary where a man can servo his friends to accommodate them. I was a little particular about my vault ac count. I took some from Irwin that was not exactly in the shape I desired ; I was not obliged to do it, but took it at the sug gestion of parties interested. I receipted to him for the balance as cash, because I believed that I would get money for it; nod so I did. Question by Mr. Billingfelt—Can we ex, amino that bunk account at any time. A. Yes, sir. Q. Do you kec a private record of that vault account? 1 es, sir. Q. The laws require that the vaultaccount shall ho kept open for the inspection of the Legislature. Was that private record ready to be exhibited? A. Any person who canto into the office could have copied or looked at it. Q. Of what it eorisiiitett? A. Yes, sir. DEPOSITS IN TII E DANES—SOMEBODY DEN} Mr. Mackey denied that the deposits hail been made in banks to benefit private in dividuals, but that he certainly would not object to the bank discounting a man's note, because the man had asked him to get the deposit. I suppose individuals would have interest in it or they would not ask it. Question by Mr. Itillingfelt. Were any deposits made for individuals who were to have the use of the money before deposits were made? A. I think I know what you mean. There was one deposit In which I did not check all the deposits in the bank ; I guess onoof my friends got the benefit of it; he said he would have to sell some se curities if I checked out some of it, but I did a o so; ono of the friends of the party and f Mins requested me not to do so. M . Mackey said that no other de posit had been made with the understand ing t .at somebody else was to borrow it Out. t/ti ration by Mr. Billingfelt. Do I under stall you to say that deposits score made. at the request of certain individuals, mad you presum ed. that they got the benefit or It? A. No, not that; but I supposed they got the benefit aft. tfBE= Mr. Alackey said, in explanation of tho sudden &crease atilt( calf account, that he simply had deposited checks in bank.- Nearly every dollar was of corporations. Sixty clays was sometimes the longest time of having such checks. In reference to the warrants, none had ever been refused pay ment except school warrauts from delin quent counties. This was not the law, but the practiee for years. I thought it was law until about a month ago. 'the Marine Hospital warrants, at Erie, were three fourths paid before due. Question by Air. Itillint.tielt Were there zmy warrants drawn for charitable instill; tions, whose payment.; were deferred for want of funds in the State Treasury? A. No, sir; I think I know what you mean, viz., a newspaper mango that I refused to ty 1/r. l'urwen, of the Insane Hospital!, ,000; I wag not in the Treusury at the time, but lir. Cnirwen said that any part of it would lie satisfactory, and that he only wanted $15,000 at that time. That is my cashier's story, Adjeurneduntil next Wednesday The Honk of Stair Officer,* In the Nosy. In the house of Representatives on Sat urday, Mr. Mtarkweatlter introduced a hill to regulate the rank of the stall:officers in the navy, which was ordered to he printed and referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs. It provides that after the lot day of April, 1570, the staff officers of the navy shall be as Pillows: rgemax.---I)ne surgeon general with the rank of commodore; 10 medical directors, with the rank of captain ; 30 medical in spectors, with the rank of commander; fe surgeons, with the rank of lieutenant ront mmnder; lii assistant surgeons, with the rank of master. $l, 1:45,11 , 1 !r2 Paymasters.—l paynia.ster general with the rank of commodore ; 10 pay directors, with the rank of captain ; 20 pay inspec tors, with the rank Mention:tinier ; 50 pay masters, with the rank of lieutenant com mander; 30 paymitsters, with the rank ni lieutenant; provided, that paymasters 01 the rank of lieutenant slain give bond in the sum of $20,000, and those of a higher rank in the stun of $30,000. Enoincers.-1 engineer-in-chlef, with the rink of commodore; 10 chief engineers., with the rank of eaptain ; 30 chief engin eers, with the rank of commander; 41/chief, engineers, with the rank of lieutenant ,-0111- ; 50 first assistant engineers, witlb the rank of lieutenant; SO second assistant: engineers, with the rank of master. The, bill further provides that the. Sur geon Creneral, Paymaster general, and the Engineer-in-Chief, shall, in each instance, Lo the senior officer on the active list in their several corps, and shall be respeetively the chiefs of the Bureaus of Medicine and Surgery, of Provisions and Clothing, and of Strain IMgineering ; also, that fleet surge ons, paymasters and engineers, and all other ollicers In the corps of surgeons, pay masters, and engineers who may have charge of their respective department in navy yards, hospitals, and other shore stations, shall always, When practicable, be selected from those with the rank of coin !minder, or above. The sixth section of the bill provides that promotion in the stall corps of the navy shall be in the order of (Midst Section seven provides that all stall offi cers shall be entitled to the sumo pay and privileges as (Anvers of like rank In the line, except as to command, which shall in no case he exercised lay any' st.alt officer, ex cept in his own department.. Section nine provides that all laws and regulations retailing to retired offieers shall be deemed and taken to apply to stall as well as lino officers. A bill was introduced in Coingress on tin 10th ult., by Mr. Stevens, of New Ilamp shire, "to provide an advisory hoard and to regulate rank in the navy of Om United States," etc. That portion of tide bill which refers to the "regulation of rank in the navy," provides fur conferring the rank of captain on twenty medical direc tors; the rank of commander on twenty medical inspectors; of lieutenant volution, der on forty surgeons, and of master on one -hundred assistant surgeons, and pro • vides for conferring like rank upon pay directors, pay-Inspectors, paymasters and assistant paymasters; also, on chief engi neers, first assistant engineers and second assistant engineers. Op chiefs of the bu reaus of medicine, surgery, provisions amd clothing and steam engineering, this bill proposes to confer the r,utk of commodore, with the titles, respectively, of surgeon general, paymaster general and engineer in elder; but no change in the pay of any of the officers above named is proposed. $1,425,10s 39 The Philadelphia DoY "This proposition to confer these ranks upon the different classes of Stall officers mentioned has caused great commoth .11 among the Line officers of the navy. The opposition to the bill appears to have arisen entirely from jealousy on the part of the 1.1110 officers, who entertain a mortal horror of innovation, and who seen, to think that the really serviceable, working men of the navy are unworthy of rank. we trust, Oongross will he able to eonvinee these fossilized sons of thunder that the world, especially , this part of it, has moved very considerably within the last decade; that a new era in naval as well as in land warfare has been commeneed, and that practical men as well as practical science must hereafter be recognized as in dispensahle to the efficiency of the naval service. It is to lw hoped that the Stevens bill, so far, at least, as it relates to the Stall' officers, will became a law. There is every reason why they should be honored as the 'Jill proposes. It is a disgrace to the navy and the country that such men as are required for surgeons, paymasters and engineers have been so long liable to insult and outrage, by reason of their inferiority of rank, by mere striplings and beardless boys, who happen to be labelled "Line officers," but who know little or nothing of the practical duties of the service. It is time all mere aristocratic assumption shoo Id be banished from a navy that is supported by (lie people to defend the Republic, and that all officers who efficiently serve the interests of the public should be recognized and honored, according t , l their merits, laid a better beginning cannot be made than to. confer the rank proposed on the Stall offi— cers of the navy. Cadelklalpm WAsniNicros, Feb. IS.—The t rousu AT fl• itary Committee to-day had before them E. I'. Brooks, a correspondent, who testi fied that he made an otter to Mr. J. 11. Sy pher, Congressman frotn Louisiana, of $10)0, to secure an appointment in the Uni ted States Naval and Military Academy. In tendering him the money Brooks told him to accept it as money to be used for po litical purposes, but if he took the same, he (Brooks) was to nominate the candidates for appointment to each of the academies. Sypher told Brooks to make his arrange ments with his brother, J. It. Sypher, nit agent for the New York Tribune, located in Philadelphia. Subsequently an arrangement ems made for $2,700, which Brooks deemed too high. lie then negotiated with Mr. Blackburn, another Congressman from Louisiana, who, for the sum of $l5OO, secured! the two ap pointments desired, and they are now till ed by two young men, placid thorn a.s the nominations of Mr. Black biro, made at the suggestion of Brooks. The members of Congress implicated thus far by the investigation of the Milita ry Committee on the sale of cadetships, are Collins of Alabama; Pettis, of Pennsylva nia; Whittemore, of South Carolina, and Sypher, of Louisiana. The Frnnking Privilege The blank petitions for the abolition of the franking privilege and the accompany ing circulars, it is asserted by the Postmas ter General, were prepared and sent out by his direction, In compliance with a very generally expressed wish of the public. In response to a call from the Senate for infor mation on the subject, the Postmaster General slates that 75,000 blank petitions and 28,000 circulars were printed, and in cluding the paper cost $499, that the law regulating public printing authorizes the heads of departments to have necessary printing executed, and that in pursuance Of the recommendation of the President and the Post master General the printing of the petitions was ordered as a matter of public interest. No extra expense ,for envelopes or clerk hire was ineurrEsi, as the petitions were enclosed with other tdanka transmitted in the regular order of iniainess.
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