Lancaster 3ntelligenter. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 9, 1870 The state Treasury Bankrupt—The Sink ing Fund Bobbed. The Republican party is a party of shams and pretenses. It seems to be impossible for it to act in an honest and straightforward manner. To humbug the people by some specious cry has been its policy from the day when it first came into existence, and it has suc ceeded in gulling the masses of the North to an extent which reflects very little credit upon those who have allow ed themselves to be made the dupes of Radical lenders. It has constantly play ed the demagogue in all things, and has acted the part of a charlatan in State and National affairs. Many of its pre tended reforms have been discovered to be the verriest cheats, as they have been exposed one after another. Its leaders have not shown any finan cial ability, and the people have suffered and arc now suffering from the follies of those in power. With brazen impu dence it has pretended to be economical while indulging in the most reckless extravagance. It has professed to be the party of reform when almost every official in State or Nation has been en gagedin plundering the public treasury. It has rWeitched about retrenchment of expenditures when each year of its rule has shown an enormous increase in the cost of every department of government. In the spring of 186 G, finding their party failing, and in danger of defeat, the shallow-pitted demagogues who have constituted themselves the leaders of the Republican organization in Penn sylvania, concluded to do away with the tax on real estate. The Democrats who were then in the Legislature warned the advocates of the measure that they could not collect sufficient revenue from other sour c es to carry on the State gov eminent, ill all economical Milli ner, much less in the extravagant style in which it was then and has since been conducted. hut, a new piece of quack ery was just then needed to patch up the decaying fortunes of the party, and the repeal of the tax on real estate was loudly heralded as an evidence of the prosperity of the Stale and as proof of the admirable financial mangement of the _Republican party. It soon became evident that a great blunder bad been committed. There was a decided decrease of the revenue, and no decrease of expenditures. Money to ineet tic demands created by extrava gant legislation 11;u1 to he got, and the ItailicalStateTreasurers boldly put their hands into the sinking funds and drew out such stuns as they wanted. They Lot only unlawfully took of the moneys deposited to pay the State de l l sufficient to meet the current expenses of an ex travagant administration, but they ex tracted it sufficient sum to enable (11E111 shays to keep on hand to enormous unexpended balance, which was loaned Lo ballki , and private individuals. The testimony of Mr. Thomas Nicholson, which we publish elsewhere, shows up this outrage in its true character. lie says, on his oath, that the Vole 7 . ,•ei.rury is not only Imnktupt, but Mal a million and a half chi dollars liarc Inn n boldly takcn from n 1; in!, fund broil In A light tax ou !teal estate is one of the easicst and ntost egnitable methods ul'eotleetingrevenue, and there is nut a farmer in the State Who would not willingly pay his proportion of tax ratlicr than ha vt•the sink ing fund invad ed find the payment of the Statt. , debt stopped. This is not the first time that such a 111111 of denhe 4 uguery iias been attempted in this Mate with n similar result .1 11 , i arter 1{1111( . 1'1V:1S cleCt ed lluvurnur a \\Alia Legislature n.- pealed the tax on real t , state, and this was 1111.11 heralded as a brilliant stroke ‘lf tinanvial policy but it only took. Iwo y,,ost to s how to the people limy foolish and cnsily Niece peiitieni q uackery it revenues were not sufficient 4,11 Ty 011 ri rpm 411 . 11bb, Tluubb•u,":beVt•ll , was rho sold:111(110S( \v‘,rin 11111 road 111 croolte%t tt-pe. The inter,t an Ito sue debt l'enlained undi,harged, and certilleates were issued to the t.tui holder,- for their arrearages, which .•er tilicatcs hove inicrest. The ilitelV-4 1111 1110 111.111 was 11111 , compounded, and the credit 11l the state .1111151 ruintsl. The people of Pennsylvania 11:111 1110 11111 , 11 good 5111,12 i ll Ih,, d ll y: , 11,11 rule as that, and 1/a \id It. Porter succeeded 'tit tier with a strong . Democratic Itt•gis 'attire. The re-1111 was the inintediate passage of II resolution dirceting the pnyilit•nt /fl . 1 he interest (01 the State 1111,1 in ,goll, :11111 the l'l.-11111m,iti..ii of :1 light laN on real c-1:11o. V,1.y5.)11 the 1.1',1i1 1111.. State was 11111 y 1'1 , 1111'1.11, 111111 the 50111111 El 11:111,1:11 pulirl then inaugurated was ,ontinued until another set 111 . wen \vim ti, , iietved the fin:mei:lt vagaries or Thaddeus StoVclls 1•111110 111111 power. NV, 111111, we 111115 heard the last \vurd of hoisting in 1%.!2:111 . 11 to the repeal of the tax on read estale, and the financial ability of the party now ill purer in l'enintylvattin. Their tricl:ery has led to the grossest violation of the laNr, the plundering of till siolt ing fund, 1.1 the bankruptcy of the State Treasury, and to tile fli , .grttee of the ‘vvaith. The Border Raid Claims A horrilde report is in circulation that the people or (lit , border counties or the State, who :ire now applying to the Legislature for an appropriation of SOllle three milli,n,,Nollarsa , c,open , atiffii for the losses sutiered hy them through the raids of ( 'tinfeticrate soldiers during the war aver our borders, have turreed lo give Ow Per , ont - MI" n , v , ' lhcir cloths ellgge, a vertain pereentage or the amount Aihned with the imiberate ,x -p2etations that they Will tile a 11011i1/11 Of CMS ill !wilting the Legisla t.lre to make the appropriation. \Ve van understand very well how there may he an honest difference of opinion as to the propriety of compen sating the citizens of the border counties for their losses by these raids; we can understand how the el:dm:lnk may honestly think themselves entitled to be recompensed and how others may as honeA.ly think that they were not so entitled. lint we are utterly at it I/SS tc, conceive how the people or any county or any tier of counties in the State, can coolly make up their minds to attempt to !tribe the Legislature; it is absolutely too horrible for ere leave that they can thus essay to lay violent hands upon the verypillarsof their governmental l'altrie to drag to the earth. One thing is very certain, and that IS if this report is true, no honest legislator, whatever may be his opinion of the merits of the bill, caul vote for it and retain his character un smirched ; no honest man can advocate it; anti no hone: t newsptt;wr can fail to raise a loud voice in its denunciation. N the day, of Dennieratio rule ime or two Officials won' employed al small salaries is out to the White llouse. Now *u have seyeral full blown Briga dier Generals waiting about the portals of the Presidential mansion and a host of underlings. On motion of Mr. Po land, the other day the wages of two of these minor ollieials Were increased from sl,ooo and SB-10 to $1,200 each. If it is profitable to be " a doorkeeper in the House of the Lord," it does not ap pear to be unprofitable to occupy a sim ilar position at the Presidential mansion. Tit ilitary Cunind ttee made a inis take when they deeided to emiline the examination into the sale of cadetships to the present Congress. If, as has been stated, the traffic in this species of pat ronage is not new, the public have a right to be fully enlightened in regard to the matter. The investigation should be made very thorough, and every loan who was engaged in it exposed to popu lar execration. The corruption which prevails among officials is the greatest curse now resting upon this nation, and no half-way measures will remedy the evil. Gen. Irwin Dodges We are not surprised to learn that the positive refusal of. Gen. IrWiri to sub mit to being sworn and examined in regard to his management of the State Treasury, has caused a lowering of the crests of his champions, and the most decided disappointment on the part of all his friends who have a spark of hon esty in their composition. Gen. Irwin evidently took his stand without due consideration. The State Treasurer is the creature of the Legislature, and, as such, is liable to be called to account at any time by the power which gave him official being. It will not do for Gen. Irwin to say that acts done by him during an expired term are not proper subjects for investigation. He can be called to account for his acts by the power which made him an officer—for acts done in office after his term has ex pired, as well as during the duration thereof. Gen. Irwin asserts, with great posi tiveness, that not a dollar of the public money was lost during his administra tion, and we have no doubt he might be able to establish that assertion so far as the principal is concerned. But that is not the subject matter of controversy. The committee was organized for the ex press purpose of showing up the iniqui tous system of letting out immense sums of the public money to favorite banks and to private individuals. Did that system prevail under the administration of Gen. Irwin ; and, if so, did he profit thereby, or were the gains of such trans- actions transferred to the State Treasury for the benefit of the tax-payers of the State . ."rhat is the question which Gen. Irwin peremptorily declines to answer. The public will draw its own inferences. There is another branch of the subject upon which Gen. Irwin could enlighten the people if he chose. Ile could show how much money was taken from the sinking fund during his administration contrary - to law, to enable him to keep a huge unexpended balance in the hands of bankers mid private speculators. le could also tell how much the State lost by this outrageous misapplication of moneys sacredly net apart for the pay ment of the State debt. For a reform candidate we must con fess I len. Irwin cuts a very sorry figure. Vie hope the committee will discharge the duty they have assumed with ener gy and impartiality. l,el there be no white-washinlz. The Gold Gambling Conspiracy The report of the majority of the com mittee appointed to investigate the gold gambling conspiracy completely white washes Grant and all his immediate family. The pious old reprobate Corbin is made a scape-goat, and upon the head of this wretched brother-in-law all the vials of wrath :ire poured. It is a sin gular circumstance that neither the President nor his wife deigned b+ ex plain the rumors which Were so freely circulated in regArd to them. 'Cite letter which Grant addressed to Boutwell, just before he started off front Washing ton, I). ( to hide himself for a week or two in the rural solitudesof Washington, Pa., was produced. It contained one significant direction couched in the or der 1/1(1re un With Old ('Moil/r. " Such iWtil,ll was all Corbin, Fisk & Co. wanted. The letter• sent by Corbin by special messenger to Grant in his retirement would no doubt have shed a flood of light, but, according to the tes timony .c,,tle or the witnesses,that was destroyed about as soon as received by the President. Grant did not reply to it in writing, but there is evidence to show that his wile did. Corbin testifies to that itt his evasive way, but with suffi cient distinetness. It was addressed to Corldn's wife, and WaS signed, not with the full name of the writer, but with the familiar motmsyllal "Sis." Accot•ding to Mr. Corbin Wally WliStelill an , ill the habit or concluding their 114,1, "Your's affectionately, Sts." "Sts" in formed Corbin and wife of the mind of the President by saying, ",t+,+/ 1111 ,, 11 ,111110.1p1 hil //our' Y , ll , /1111,l cif), th , lit IT Its ‘1,1 ., /,' Tilat Was giving. au "Pin ion ou the subject and sound ativit, in very re, tennis , aid it showed that both hu-d.:111,1 and fo lly cug uiza+t of lbe sporul:dionx which wore being carried on at New York. General Porter in his evidence t,dities t o th e fact (Ind the letter signed "Sis" was ditt tated by I rant himself. It' this is toil unprejudiced reader that Grant. had a guilty knoWleilgi• or the I ;old Conspir acy, then must that person's mind be iulporyious to t h e iullucuco ul uVidulaie, and c•apablr af reaching a conclusion contrary to the most positive and uncoil radicted testimony. Extra Pay for the fasters and folders. \\ldle the appropriation bill WaS un der consideration in the lower house of our Stole Legislature yesterday after noon, a desperate ad - L.IIIW Was made to give all the officers of the two houses !IVO hundred Ilollar,it extra pay apiece. The resolution was introduced by Lish. I tavis, and was earnestly seconded by Sam. Josephs. It was defeated on a full vote, but at the last minute, when many of the incinliers had left the House, it was again Called up, and artyr a vigor ous contest was put through. We are a'shatned to say that some eight or ten Demoonits were found ready to hack up Davis :111d .I,,Selihs ill this Mid on a bankrupt treasury. The offierr, of the two house: t04.1: - . the situations with the understanding that they were It, a rennin ,11m by law, and they have no right to ask for a dollar more. The pastel:: and folders have had noth ing to do but to lounge about tile cellars and to sleep MI the tables deVtlied 1,, t h e fOldillg doeumeio , . It is sure to say that it has already cost more 14, pay fir the folding of the few documents sent out than it did to print them. Should the resolution giving these fellows extra pay pass finally we will publish the list of :lye, and nays, and tho people will seam it closely. Ten lirStire to be Reconstructed a Second Time. Itrownlow and the Radical delegation in the lower house of Congress, are make desperate efforts to have the gov ernment overturned, and a military despotism re-established over the people of that State. The action of Congress in the ease of lieorgia, encour ages 111 cm to hope that their designs may be accomplished. It will only re quire a small step in advance of former action on the part of Congress, but that single step involves the assumption of the right to destroy the existing gov ernment of any State in the Union. If Congress can interfere with the Consti tution of Tennessee, it van do the same thing with Pennsylvania; and if the People submit to the outrage in one ease, there is to, reason to believe that they would resist in the other, A Thieving U. S. Senator The _Radical Senator Harlan is ac cused, on first-rate Radical authority, of being 0110 Of the boldest and biggest land thieves in the country. While Secretary of the Interior, he was largely engaged in the business, and he still keeps it up. He has managed to appro priate and to parcel out among a small and select circle of loyal rogues like himself, the entire reservation of the Kaw Indians, a tract of fertile land ly ing south of Kansas. The theft was committed under the guise of a bogus treaty which the chiefs of the tribe de clare they never signed, The Senate ought at once to investigate the case, and to expel this unworthy member, who appears to he a much greater villain than any of the meulhers of the I louse who have been engaged in selling ca detships. A Negro Cadet Ben Butler has appointed a negro boy a cadet to West Point. The sable youth rejoices in the name of Charles Sunnier Wilson, and hails from Salem, Massa chusetts. "It must be now de kingdom urn n comb And de year Oil Jubito. • THE LANCASTER WEEKLY INTELLIGENCER, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 9, 1870. End of the Treasury InTestigattin Senator Billingfelt is the author of the resolution under which ti committed was iiimbipted to investigate the manage:: , tnentof the State Treasuryand isChair4- rnani,„?ff that ciommiple. ey,therinan ao,.. , fittlarit assailed by'' , eertaiiinevra'paper4.' which professed to be in favor of reform, ap peared promptly when summoned, and answered fully and freely all the inter rogatories which were put to him ; but when General Irwin, the candidate of the pretentious reformers was subpeen aed he delayed putting in an appearance for some time, making one excuse after another, and finally, when subterfuges could no longer avail him, he peremp torily declined to be sworn and refused to submit to any examination. General Irwin fell back upon what he conceives to be his reserved rights, and told the committee in very plain terms that he would not allow them to put him through an "inquisitorial" overhauling. We fancy that Senator Billingfelt and other friends of Gen. Irwin must feel decidedly "cut up" by this action of their favorite. He may have the right to refuse to be questioned, but when Mr. Mackey and Mr. - Nicholson so freely disclosed all they knew, it does not look very Nvell for the reform candidate to decline to say a word in regard to his management of the State finances. If all was right in his conduct of the Treas ury he ought to be glad of the opportu nity thus presented for making u fair exhibit of his official conduct. We suppose this unexpected and un accountable action of Gen. Irwin will put an end to the labors of Mr. Billing felt's committee. Enough has been disclosed, however, to show that Mr. Mackey only followed the same line of policy which had been pursued by Gen. Irwin, who preceded him. That Gene ral Irwin could have made any more favorable exhibit than Mr. Mackey did we do not believe ; and we take it for granted that it was on that account he refused to be examined. Enough lots been elicited to show that a thorough and radical reform in the nuniagement of our State finances is int- Iteratively demanded. That any such action will be taken by the present legis lature we do not believe. It cost (len. Irwin a round sum of money to beat Mackey. Ile was working to secure the caucus nomination fur months be fore the legislature assembled. and was forced to spend money very freely. How much more it cost him to induce a suf ficient number of Republican members to break "the slate," and to defeat the will of their party as expressed in cau cus, is more than Wt.' can tell, but the figures which are mentioned at Harris burg arc not little ores. It is now gen erally unerstootl that a desperate effort will be made to prevent any material change in the management of the Trea sury'. ,Senator Wallace's bill, Senator Warfel'sbilland Representative White's hill, are said to lie sure of defeat, be cause they really mean reform. Sena tor Billingfelt's bill would not prevent (len. Irwin from " getting Ids money back," and that may pass. The people may depend upon it that they are bound to be cheated and humbugged by a bill that means little or nothing, if any ac tion is lout. The Proposed Amendments to the City Charter Denounced by Council. In our City Councils action has been taken upon the proposed amendments to the City Charter which are now pend ing before the State Legislature. The Ith Section which proposes to legalize the election of an alderman in a ward where he doe., not reside, an d to legalize all the just acts of the gentleman NVIIO is now acting in the double elm:lcily of Mayor's Clerk mid Alderman, was con deined ill COMMON Ci,uncil by the very decided vote of I.; to Section g iving the l'ityor and the Mayor,s Clerk power, stiminaril Y , to imprison citizens, in the 1111111 e Of the lar any violation of the City ortlinarn•,, \vas disapproved of by the same majority of more than tNt'o-tlticds. Section 7, atithorizin,goinn ells to burro \V ii i ii2o,lllll) 111 build it 101•1:-111) did 1111 i receive a single vote. We call the :Mention of lie Senators front this county to that very decided expression of opinion oil the part of the popular branch of our city councils.— Tlll , people or r,:me., , t,r do not desire Ilm p , age of any or Ili, obnoxious uod the. ) , have given expression of their wish in the most Authoritative 111:0111,1i through the rero rdcd votes of Willi, (hall t wo-thirds of theirrepresenta lives. \Ve cannot ',thieve that either of our Senators will undertake to carry out the \visite, of a few !nett after Ivhat has been done. 'Flit. voto against the proposed amendment, \vas not a party tine. A majority or it•publie:to, voted to disapprove of them. Such bring the case they ou g ht to he regarded as be yond the bop' of heing passed into a lan'. WV sections of the bill night to pass. There is nut the slightest need ofany tinkering at our e'ity Charter. The people of Lancaster are tired of annual amendment , , whieh :Ire gotten up to meet the wishes or a few private indi viduals. whole system is wrong, and ean only lead to great disaster:4, it persisted in. Neither property nor per sonal rights Call he regarded as being seeure in a government where the Legis lature is ready to uproot established institutions and to make frequent changes in fundamental laws at the dietati4/11 of a palli,lll.ll majority, or at the request of a few private individuals.— Let there be au end of these annual amendments to City Charters for politi eal purposes. If the thing goes on it will lead to ruin in the end. Reconstruction Never to be, Finished. There may be, perhaps, some people who have had an idea that when all the Southern States were admitted or re constructed " upon the most approved plan of negro equality, We should have peace on the subject ; but this idea is a delusion. Reconstruetion is never, so far as this generation can see, to be tin- That subtle apostle and great leader of the Republican party, Wendell Phillips, in a recent number of the Anti- SletVCry ,V,llifirtrfl, takes occasion to say : -TI,, rebels ..f the South, their political ',arty allies of the North, and weak-kneed, dough-thee Republicans, of whom there are a t i •w left, seetn to .suppose that when once these rebellious Shoes have been re admitted to Ctmgresslimal representation the reconstruction period will have ended. They delusively anticipate a revival of the old-time sway of Southern State sovereign ty. They call not too soon have their minds disabused. Reconstruction will not have ended with the readmission of the rebellious States. It will be seen that the relation of the States to the lrnion is to be, so far, especially, Its citizenship it:concern ed, quite otherwise than it. past years. There will be the same uniformity through out the Union, :Li in currency, and the same right of national scrutiny and pro tection, in any and every State, fur the bal lot as for the Lank-note. 'Phe necessities of government, if our nationality is to he served, render this inevitable. Without this national supervision and protection the ballot in the hands of the loyal voters of the South, colored and white, will avail 110'111 little Or nothing. Nor, in its absence, will the majority rule long be respected in the North." Thu l'inuinnati Enquirer, in com menting on the above extract, remarks that it appears to be Wendell's idea that Congress must exercise by force as sharp a supervision over the Southern States after they arc brought back as they did before, and if ally of them do not vote the Republican ticket, exclude their memberS and remand them to a Terri torial condition. So, if the people of of the South dream that they will gain any independence by coming into the Union again or that they will ever be allowed any. iberty of action they are deceived; for in the language of Phillips' "reconstruction" must go on indefinitely just as long and as often as any Southern State will vote the Demo cratic ticket. WE publish elsewhere a detailed ac count of the horrible butchery ofa whole village of sick Indians by one of Phil. Sheridan's officers. It will be pleasant reading for people who cried their eyes half-out over the lies of Mrs. Stowe and her fictitious negro, Uncle Torn. Thillassacre of the Plegan Indians. As a member of . Congress remarked the Otherday, the massacre of the Piegan Indians' will rank in history with the cold-blooded bu tchery of Glen coe,w hich. has &Ist a stain on British arms that can never be effaced. The responsibility for the dastardly deed has been securely fastened upon General Sheridan, and he can never shake it off. Last October he addressed the following letter to Gen eral Sherman : HEADOCAIITEILS MILITARY DIVISION 08 THE /MISSOURI, CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, Oct. 21, 1869. SIR: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of a letter from the Secretary of the Interior, with trcompanyingreports,of General Sully, Mr. Pease, and Mr. Culbert son, Indian agents in Montana, on the sub ject of depredations by the Piegan tribe of Indians. We have had so few troops in Montana on account of the expiration of enlistments as to have been unable to do much against these Indian marauders; but the regiments are now tilling up, and 1 think it would be the best plan to let me find out exactly where these Indians are going to spend the winter, and about the time of a good heavy snow I will send out a party and try andstrike them. About the 15th of January they will be very help less, and if where they live is not too far front Shaw or Ellis we might be able to give them a good hard blow which will make peace a desirable object. To simply keep the troops on the defensive will not stop the murders; we must occasionally strike where it hurts, and if the General in-Chief thinks well of this I will try mid steal a small force on this tribe from Fort Shaw or Ellis during the winter. It num bers about fifteen hundred men, wemen, and children, all told. . _ Very respeetfuliv, P. H. SHERIDAN, Lieutenant General. ITrevet Major General E. D. TOWNSEND, Adjutant General United States Washington, 11. (!. Gen. Sherman nplied approving of the suggestion for a secret raid upon the tribe in the hail of winter, :111(1 Colonel Baker was selected to perpetrate the butchery. In the brutal latigung,e of Sheridan it was to he done " about the time of a lwavy :now," when the poor wretches were - Very helpless." Ilow effectually the infamous scheme vas carried out let the following letter from Vincent Collyer, Secretary, of the Board of Indian Commissioners, to Felix R. Brunet, Chairman of that Commit tee testify: I/Er.% irrmENT NTERIOR, BOARD or INDIAN CoMMISSIONER,, Vi A', II I Stir, IN, D. C., February 'l2. Munn Si it At last the sickening details of Colonel Baker's attaek on the village of the Piegan's, ill Montana, on the '2.3d of January last, have bum received. Of the one hundred and thirty-seven killed only fifteen were what might be called lighting men; that is, mon between the ages of twelve and thirty-seven years. Ton were from thirty-seven to sixty years, and eight additional were over sixty, in all thirty three. There were ninety W , 11.1011 fifty-live or over one half of whom were over forty years of age, and the remaining thirty-the were hetWeell twelve forty years. Lastly, there were fifty children under twelve years of ii2e killed. Many of them were in their parent's arms. 'rho whole villa.ze had !Well Slliferillg for river two months past with small-pox, some half dozen dying daily. The facts were receiver! to-day from Lieutenant li. Pease, [ni ter States the :Agent of the Blaek feet, anti is endorsed by ',mend Sully, [lilted State, Army. With regards, faithfully yours, VINCENT CuLLYEIi, Secretary. FEIA xH. Ni Chairlll:lll,PittSb'gil. The blood of the reader runs cold as the picture of what transpired on that terrible winter morning, in that plague stricken village, forces itself home upoil the mind. It wa: perhaps the ghast liest and most sickening horror ever witnessed in the annals of war. When the subject was under discus sion in (bngre,s the other day Mr. Voorhees, of Indiana, spoke of it in truthful and eloquent terns. lie said: Voorhees— M r. Chairman, in the few remarks I submitted to the 'louse on Fri day 1 did not ('Spirt I teas participating iu any general debate on this subject; but in asmuch as the Indian ‘v: policy of the (;overninent has been brought squarely before the Ifousc, I think it it'll Mr mem bers to seriousl y - consider that question. We have had a p o licy- in regard to the In- tlian, from the ouidation of the Iloverm. ment, and I am amazed to Inn' it scrionsl.- contemplated to a violent change. I am amazed that the gentleman from .1011- Lana [3lr. l'avanatighi and other distin guished and exeollent on this floor can lie Gauul to ri-e in the fill, of the American !weld,. and iidvneatti that our •Ir svarfarii the Indian, -dial' partake a lii: (•hara.•l.4, Ilf the nins,:iere of the l'ieg,an Indian war is not a 11111 thing in this cietittry. NVii have heel' inaldng, war with them two hundred and fifty year,. Indian \var dreve the tribes svheri they were in their power front NON,' England, drive thou from the valleys :if Nosy Vied:, driive them 1 . 1,111 Pellll , ylVallla, 411,5'0 thous rl . lllll I whim., drove thew from ]i,utuel:e :mil , hi , , 110.00 111,111 where they Aro to -day. Ntal•filre ha • been "II 1)114. part by such mune, t Inorge Washington, Andrew Jackson, Amthoity Wayne, Wil liam I [curt' i larri..m, and other bright and shining stars in the firmament of our his tory. I have never 'ward that one of these men ever stained Itis name with tine IllaSSa ere of Meltlell and children. When the Indians were a power in this land we made war on them .tceording to eivilized warfare. We struck them in inanly battle. Now, when they are poor, brok rn , :11111 miserable remnants. eorrupted demoralized, it is proposed to elian2:o our 111011 e 1 - 11' warfare :ltel strike not merely the warrior, but the woman and the l,allo . ill her Milli. I have thought itineli on this subject, and the more I think of it the more it tills nic with horror. If, however, we are to change the policy of the I:overtiment Int it go forth to the country now. Lot it go forth that as the Indians are broken up into little suffering hands, dying here and dying there With the small-pox and other licenses, a new policy is to be inaugurated, a policy of moreiless and Iota: es termination. Let it 12;5 I,rth 1, the nountrv, Mr. Chair man, that we inaugurate a different policy toward the Indian in his feebleness, toward the Indian in his helplessness. Sir, rather than do that, rather than adopt barbarism, rather than that the progress of civilization should be through the blood of women and P=M==9 it is. Ilut there is no necessity for this. The Saint' ptAiry t•: hick OM, prevailed and adorned our annak in thepast mac still pre vail, with benefit alike to all. But ilthis de parture -from that policy is to take place, it the Adininistrdti.ai is to ,all home its peace ful agentsw are end ea v, wing to civilize the Indians, and hi sena inst, ad the sword and the fagot into their midst, when they are in their lodges, in the dead of winter, to strike thew When dying disease, sparing nei ther the mother nor the hahe, till thescreain of the last expiring infant , 4 11:11i Ise heard in its helpless agony on the , •ale. then avow it, avow it 11,ro, avow it betty, a n d say that Indian warlaro in these days means extermination—es terulination without re- g:tltl to age, sex, or health, anything else that usually prteet, non - eoinlJatituts in war. This is the Seel)ll , i horrible Lutz tterY of an Indinn tribe in cold Hood, in the dead of lvinter, which \VI' have had. In the mune of common humanity the people demand that there ,hall Inc no more of it. The Tariff. Our Democratic cotemporary, the Columbia , tnke, our Radical neighbor, the to task upon the tariff lue>tiou.The Edpre ss has the good sense to see that Pennsylvania protectionists are acting the part of the dog which ,grasptid at a shadow and lost the 'neat in his month. The day for high protective titriff- in this country has gone hv. That ha, been ttbundantly demonstrated by the action of Western Congressmen during the present session. Even in NCW Englaiiil the Radical party is backing down from its extreme high taritr position. Witness the action of the Republican -ttatii Convention in Connecticut. In the lower House of Congress the other (lay the following resolution was adopted : Resedrol, That the interests of the coun try require such tariff for revenue upon foreign imports :vs Will fur.rti incidental protection to domestic manufacturers, and as will, without impairing the revenue, impose the least burden upon, and best promote and encourage the great industrial interests of the country. The passage of that resolution by a bare majority was hailed as a defeat of the advocates of free trade, but it is far from being a triumph for the ultra-pro tectionlsts. It was taken, word for word, from the Democratic platform of ItittSl, and embodies the old Democratic idea of "a tariff for revenue, with inci dental protection." If the tariff men of Pennsylvania are wise they will accom modate themselves to the exigencies of the occasion. An attempt to keep up a tariff system which has grown odious to the greater portion of the country will only be an imitation of the dog in the fable—a loss of the substance in grasping at a shadow. Rich discoveries of silver were made recently in New Mexico, near the Ari zona boundary line, in the Apache country. A quantity of the ore has been taken to San Francisco, and yields as high as $2OOO a ton. '34 GraTe Charge Against Gen. Irwin. • The Inquirer, a very Radical Repub-. lican newspaper published, in this city, thakeg a decided and- grave charge against Gen. Irwin, the newly elected State Treasurer. It says: "The reason for Irwin not testifying is apparent to every one whoknows anything about the management of the Treasury while he was in office. He had vast amounts of money on deposit in the banking insti tutions of the State, for which he received interest, and this he did not wish to tell.— He dare not deny it, because the proof was at hand to confront him. During his term he had money of the State ondeposit in this city for which he RECEIVED 4 AND 5 PER CENT. PER ANNUM INTEREST. In this dilemma he refused. to testify. In the words of his organ, `THE PEOPLE NEED NO BETTER EVIDENCE THAT HE IS GEILTT OF THE MISDEMEANORS OF WHICH HE. HAS BEEN SUSPECTED.' " Horse thieves have been - driving a successful business in Westmoreland county. Major Charles Eames has • been ap. pointed sealer of weights and measures forAllekhenylbounty. 'The Philadelphia Conference of the Methodist E. Chinch meets at Pottsville on Wednesday, the 16th inst. The citizens of Connellsville, Fayette county, are taking steps to organize a Saving Bank, with a capital of 5100,000. An engineer has been employed to run the line for a new railroad be tween Norristown and Laneadale, in Bucks county. Carruichaelstown had a railroad meet ing recently. The Greene county peo ple are getting in earnest about a rail road. The finest stone for flagging, hearth stones, &c., in Western Pennsylvania, come from West Newton, Wcstmore land county. Coal lands along the line of the P. - C. R. R., in the '• Tough Regions' 4 , 'Re bringing from three to six hundred dol lars per acre. A new Post-office has been establish ed in York county, called Alpine. Wm. W. Ramsey has been appointed Postmaster. James Hill, a saloon keeper at Curry, was burned to death a few days since, from the explosion of a can of kerosene, with which he was attempting to kindle a fire. The employees in the shops of the , Vennsylvania Railroad Company have resumed work on the ten-hour system, the length of days being sufficient to warrant the change. Within the last thirty days 420,000 pounds of wool have been sold in Wash ington County. It is estimated that the sales during the yearamounted to OW pounds. The negro jubilants of Blair county are to jubilate at the place furnishing the most money. The Huntingdon (.'/obi remarks that the fifteenths have au eve to business. David Paul Brown Esq., of Philadel phia, has accepted the invitation to de liver the address Moro the Literary Societies of Muldenberg College Allen ' town, at the commencement ill June next. John Janos, the present court crier of Debate on the State Treasury Invest'. Bucks county, will, by the first day of gatlon. April next, have occupied that position There was quite a warm discussion in fur forty years, that being a longer time the State Senate on Friday last over the than has ever been served as court crier course pursued bby any now in the United States. by the Investigating The Titttsville Ifehrld says there are Committee in reference to Gen. Irwin. fifteen houses transacting business ill Mr. Mumma, Senator from Dauphin that place to the amount of $4.50,000 to county, offered a resolution designed to $1 000,000 a year, and there are many bring before the Senate the refusal of other business firms each doing a bUSi (ten Irwin to be sworn. Mr. Billingfelt, DOSS of $lOO,OOO a year. Chairman of the Committee, lost his A little fellow, living in Dunbar twp., temper, and allowed himself to be made Fayette county, while driving all unru ly steer was tossed over a stake-and-rider to appear in the attitude of an apologist feller, ten feet high, by the cruel animal. for the course of the stubborn official. Strange to say, lie escaped without in- To that charge the attention of the investigating committee ought to be directed. It touches the very point at Issue. The one important question is, did Gen. Irwin, or any State Treasurer farm out the moneys of the State for his own pecuniary benefit, and for that of his personal and political friends? In view of the fact that the sinking fund has been robbed of a million and a half of dollars to enable successive State Treasurer's to keep an enormous unex pended balance in the hands of pet banks and personal favorites, the question becomes one of prime import ance. General Irwin ought not to be allowed to defy the committee, as he boldly assumed to do. The committee have the power to force him to answer all proper interrogatories which may be put to him, and the Senate will, we take it for granted, be found ready to sustain the committee in the assertion of such just power to the fullest extent. Let there be no attempt at whitewashing The people are anxiously looking on and they will be satisfied with nothing short of a full and impartial investiga tion. Let the iniquitous management of the State Treasury be probed to the very bottom, regardless of consequences to Gem frwin or any other individual. We «•ere sorry to see that. Mr. Bil- Egig lingfelt may not have intended toassume Engineers are now engaged in lo cating the line for a new railsmd to di such an indefensible and improper po ver.,:e from the Readily* Railroad at sition, and he was no doubt hurried Phoenixville, and to run eastward to beyond the bounds of prudence by the the Delaware, thought the Neshaminy excitement of the moment. As Chair- Valley in Bucks county. man of the Committee it is his duty to The deaths in the city of Philadel do all that lies in his power to carry out phis. last week numbered against Of to the fullest extent the objects for which the Sallle period last year. whole number 154 were adults, and the adults, 175 the Committee was appointed. That children---:17 being under one year of can not be done, if Gen. Irwin is allowed age; 174 won. males, 147 female,: (I to defy the Senate, and to escape from boys, and 79 girls. au examination. The peculiar position The I,Vellsboro Ih'inocr(d says: On occupied by Senator Billingfelt, in Friday last a team of horses attached to a sleigh was run over by the Itrie ex having been one of those who declined press,Thear livona station. The horses to abide by the decision of the Republi- were instantly killed ; the driver was can caucus, would seem to render it thrown several feet in the air, and light imperatively necessary for Iran to ob- ed on the soft snow uninjured, serve the strictest impartiality. We A huge pile of Slack Coal at the coal works of Faroe, Oumert Co. a feW 11011 e the result may prove that his speech miles below Elizabeth on the Mr)nontra of Friday afternoon was misunderstood beta river, in Fayette co., slipt down the by those who regarded it as 1111 apology hill not long since sweeping away two for (den. Irwin. blocks of houses. The houses were not occupied at the time. The necessary :lotion is Leine taken to have theSclueppe case brought before the Supreme Court again, under the law which recently passed both Houses of the Legislature over the (lovernor's veto. Ender this law, the court will be obliged to review the testimony. Not very long since several cars load ed with ice, passed over the Pennsylva nia R. R., at Lewistown, the extreme mildness of the weather East having compelledthe dealers in that commodity to go into the frozen regions of the .klle ghenies for their supply of that useful art lilt , . A company under the title of the "Roaring Run Coal Company" has been organized by capitalists of Clearfield. The company, with a capital of non, have secured four hundred acres of land near the railroad, about two and a half miles from that place, upon which they are now operatimr. The following gentlemen have been elected directors of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company : Messrs. J. Edgar Thompson, Josiah liaeon, George Clark, Wistar Morris, S. 'l'. Bodine, .1. it. My ers, E. C. Knight, Washington Butcher, .1. M. Kennedy, and John Rive, .1. Edgar Thompson was re elected presi dent. Rev. Mr. I lallaullet, late of Christ church, Pottstown, preached his fare well sermon in that church on last Wed nesday evening. On Saturday he will sail from New York for his new field of operations in Texas. Mr. O. acknowl edges in the Pottstown Le dyer, the re ception of a donation of one hundred and fourteen dollars from his late par ishioners. A bill of equity has been tiled by Mr. Harrison Shultz, one of the proprietors of the Reading Er, niuy Di.qputch, who claims a one-fourth interest in the estab lishment. This chow is denied by Mr. Henry S. Eckert, who claims the sole Iwoprietorship. Chas. H. Schaeflbr Esq., has been appointed Receiver, and will take charge of the establishment until the dispute is settled. Clem H. L. Leaf, or poti,town, has received a new variety of apples which he calls "Ladies Leaf." They are a lit tle larger than the ordinary crab apple, and of a delicate yellow and crimson color. Soule dine ago, the General found in his orchard a couple of natund slips which he transplanted and nur tured until they Collllllelleell bearing.— The variety is new mud the proprietor has been offered ut the rate of 440 per barrel for the fruit. The Per( M.o.:states that Helen Eck ert, well known as the fat girl of Easton, died recently at rho residence of her father near Easton. She was eighteen years of age, and had been confined to the house for the past two or three years. In early life she was ‘m exhibition, and traveled under charge of Col. Wood, now proprietor of Wood's Ittsetun in Chicago. She was for a time engaged with Banium in New York. At the time of her death she weighed 400 pounds. It is stated that -nits are to be institu ted against the Pennsylvania Railroad Company for foiling to affix stamps to their freight bills. Revenue detectives it is said have found a large number (If the, bills in the hands of business urn. The 1 - nited States Dis trict Attorney will at once premed ill the matter. The Railnad Company, it is asserted. central that they have not violated the revenue laws, and the ease in hand will be a test rase. The Pittsburgh reports the proceedings of citizens of South Side, held at Eichly's Hall, Birmingham, to discuss the question of constructing, a railroad from Ormsby borough to PitLs burgh. llhe large :old rapidly increas ing population of the Birmingham bur oughsand vicinity imperatively demand increased facilities for travel. A resolu tion was passed requesting the Alleghe ny members to sreuro the passage of a bill granting a charter for the Pittsburgh and Ormsby Passenger Railway Com pany. WII TTEM.RE, the Reverend, Radical carpet-hag.ger has gone home and issued an appeal to the negroes of his district. He assures them that a majority of the Republicans in Congress earnestly de sire that he may be returned. It may be the rascal speaks the truth. lie el.ll - his address as follows : "'rho hope expressed by a very large mother of the members of the House, that I stay be returned to Congress is the evi dent, that while they were pressed into a seeming acquiescence in this hasty action by a few lhaspurs, they are still openly friendly, laid they express every vontideinw in iny honesty and integrity in this whole Matter. I shall come again to Illy of mstitn i•nts, whose confidence I have never violat ed. I shall ask them to giveine their votes and send me batik to my place, made vacant by no dishonest action. We shall wait with some anxiety to see whether the mgroes will re-elect Whittemore, and shall then see wheth er he tells the truth when he asserts drat his rascality has not injured him in the estimation of the Radical majority in )11,1' The Last Amendment A pillion of our Republican friends have not yet got things to suit them ill this city and are again asking the Leg tire to amend the City Charter. It is true that but comparatively few of them want this additional legislation, which seems to be intended solely for the benefit of our two Mayors; it con tinues one of them in olliee; legalizes all the illegal acts of the other and au thorizes him to live where he pleases; empowers both of them to cow nit any body they have a spite against to prison and takes away from the poor devil all right to appeal from their fiat; and finally invites tis to erect a marble hick up at a cost of s2li,thio. This is a beautiful law and we think Councils will duwell to discuss its pecu liar features thoroughly at their meeting to-night. Twenty-three of the members we understand, at the solicitation of a Mayor, signed a pct' ion to the Legisla ture for its passage; but they did this we think without having, considered the subject and a db-cussion of it to-night sill be very apt to cans thcm to modify their opinion as ill its propriety. Specie Pa.linents With gold down to 1.10 , vermin merchants in diflierent parts of the coun try have resumed the payment of silver coin as change. Canada is flooded with our silver coin, and it is now believed that what is there regarded a drug, will speedily be recalled, to gladden the eyes of those who are sick of the ragged and greasy shinplasters, which we have been c.anpelled to use for almost ten years. All classes will welcome the re turn of the bright silver pieces which have been so long banished. Its rattle in the till, and its jingle in the pcket, will be the most lelightful inu , ie ti people have heard for year , . AV e hope nothing may occur to delay a return to the good, old Democratic reign of a hard money currency. (tovEnxiin STENiExSoN, of Ken tucky, has very properly refused to ac cept the resignation of Mr. I iiilladaY, who seas accused of selling a cadetship. He insists that Mr. fiolladay shall sub mit to a full investigation and abide the result. 'l'hat is exactly right. If tiol laday is guilty let it be shown and let him bear the consequences. The Wash ington correspondent of the New York Tribune says there is no evidence to show that he is guilty of the charge. However that may Le, the investigation ought to i.e thorough and complete. tiollailay was elected as a Demo( rat, but we have no disposition to shield him on that account. Death of n Foreign Minister %V As it t sows', March 7.—1 lon. J.. 1. Paul, Minister to this country from Venezuela, died suddenly here this morning at Ili o'clock, at the Ebbit House. He hail been lately appointed Minister to the United States, and arrived in-New York on the 25th of last month and came to this city this morning with his confidential Secretary, Mr. A. Hernandez, who visited the State Department early this forenoon and arranged an interview between the Secre tary of State and the deceased. Hernan de;, on returning to the hotel, found Mr. Paul lying on the bed in his room com plaining of dizziness in his head. He at tempted to rise, but immediately fell back in a convulsion, and in a few minutes was dead. Dr. C. C. Cox was promptly sum moned and every effort was made by means of electricity and insufflation to restore animation, but without success. A post mortcon examination was held by Drs. Potter, Cox and Drinkard, which revealed the fact that apoplexy was the cause of death. Mr. Paul was forty-rive years of age, and was a lawyer of eminence in Ven ezuela, where he leaves a wife and eight children. The remains will be sent to sew York to-night. ==l The Philadelphia papers record the death of Mr. Isaac Astnead, at the age of eights• years. llc was connected .Ls printer in P 521 with the Adult Sunday School Society, Which was subsequently merged into the American Sunday School whose printing he had charge of until the time of his decease. He was the first to introduce the present composition roller, and was the first in Philadelphia who used a power printing press, which was driven by horse power, and was erected on a spot now embraced wi thin the present Ledger building. He :Ls also the first to use the hydraulic press for smooth pressing the printed sheets. The Oxford Pre s, says " most of our readers doubtless remember the robbery of Messrs. It. G. I). Hodgson in that borough, about eight years ago, and the abstraction of S3IN worth of bonds of the I'. &B.C. R. Co. No trace of the robbers was ever \ discovered. Last week, however, the stolen bonds were offered for sale in Philadelphia, by a Wilmington broker, to whom they had been sent by a party in New York, for sale. Mr. J. H. Ramsey saw they were offered and knowing the numbers of the stolen bonds, obtained a list of them and with Mr. Henry Hodgson of Oxford, proceeded to Philadelphia, where on examination found that 52,600 worth were the indentical stolen bonds. They at once secured the service of an officer and had the bonds attached." Gov. Warmouth &died an extra session of the Louisiana Legislature, to begin on Monday next. Gen. Horace Porter, private Secretary to President Grant, has isiee' n spending a day in Philadelphia. - The Conmdssionei of Patents yester day decided in favor of the extension of Owen Dorsey's reaping patent. A San Francisco despatch reports the dicovery of new rich gold fields near San Francisco, California. J. G. Harding, a wealthy Englishman committed suicide at a house of ill-re pute, in New York, on Saturday. A despatch from Rochester, N. Y., says that several business houses there resumed specie payment on Friday. Counterfeit twenty dollar notes on the Market National Bank of New York, have just been circulated in that city. The Tennessee Legislature will ad journ on Monday. It has made provi sion for the payment of the interest on the State debt. The city of Portland, Me., has com menced to pay the interest ou its debt in gold or its equivalent, under the recent decision ofthe U. S. Supreme Court. Mishael Tobin, a butcher and sheep deslea, was knocked down and robbed of $12,000, by two men, in New York, on Saturday night. Ex-Auditor Wickliffe, of Louisiana, has delivered up the coupons he was charged with embezzling, and been re leased on bail. In San Francisco, Wm. A. Robinson, a public school teacher, has been sen tenced to six months imprisonment, for cruelly punishing a pupil. A letter from Nice sets \he number ot strangers wintering their at 20,000, America furnishing thej largest con tingent. Gen. Klapke, a noted General in the Hungarian revolution of7B-19 and long an exile, is about to take his seat as a member of Parliament. Mr. Sothern—Lord Dundreary— came near being killed while on a hunt ing party with the Paris llothschilds. He rides most recklessly to hounds. The rear building of the New York State Inebriate Asylum, at Bingham ton, Nvas destroyed by tire, on Friday night. The loss is estimated at $7.".,000. The laborers on the Delaware and Lackawanna Railroad, at Patterson, New Jersey, have struck fur higher wages. The contractors refuse t ei r de mands. The billiard match between Deco . and Rudolph, for the diamond cue and the championship of America, at San Fran cisco, on Saturday night, was won by Rudolph. The game was close. The Committee On Roads:Anil l'atialll agreed to report a bill, authorizing the construction of a railroad from Norfol k tint. Louis, via Louisville, with a cap ital stock of ;40,000,0iiu. There are in Europe, at the present thne, 1,482 theatres, of which there are in France 337, in Italy 208, in Spain lan, in Austria 152, in Prussia 7f , in Russia 3-1, and in England 156. At Stevenson, :llabania, on Monday night, a nogro who had tired a gun into a house, was taken away IT " Ku-Klux" and is believed to have been killed by them. A party of soldiers have been sent to Stevenson. The Board of Supery isors of the count' of 3,lilwaukce, have tendered the new Court house, which is to cost nearly a million of dollars, to the state for a Capitol-house, provided the Capital is moved to Milwaukee. Major Gardner, commander of the Itoyal Marines, of the English man-of war Monarch, at the Peabody procession in Portland, was the first English officer that has commanded English troops on American soil since the war of 181.5. It is calculated that at none on the first of March the sun was distant 92,- 212,632 miles from the earth. This dis tance increases at the rate of 1,067 miles each hour during the whole course of this month. At - Wilmington, North Carolina, on Saturday, an old Parrott shell, brought front a neighboring battle ground, ex ploded in Hart &Railey's foundry yard, injuring three colored men, one so badly that he is not expected to live. Since 1792. to the present time thegold coinage of the United States mint has amounted to nine hundred and forty six millions of dollars, of which eight Hundred and forty-four millions have heen issued since ISSO. The California Legislature has ordered special elections in San Francisco, )I terey and San Luis Obispo counties, on the question of issuing bonds in aid of the construction of tin Southern Pacitie Railroad, northward from (;ilroy. The Governor of Kentucky has refused to receive the resignation of Rcpt., senative lolladay, saying that I . lolla day's duty requires him to submit to :t full investigation of the charge against him, of selling a cadetship. In Boston, on Frsday night, a large wooden building, owned by the Maver ick Wharf Csmpany, and occupied by. Clifton, lumber dealer; Albert Low, rigger, and J. 11. Dahl, naval architect, was destnyed by lire. The h,ss is $llO,- 000, At Laramie, in 'Wyoming Territory, yesterday, the first panel of female grand jurors ever. drown, was sworn in, ii haying been derided by the Territorial Judiciary that they had a right to serve, and none of them making any objec tions. Two men quarreled about the posses sion of eighteen cents, while walking on the Central Railroad bridge over Newark Bay, N..J., on Thursday, and one of them knocked the other into the bay, drowning him. The survivor was arrested, and says he acted in self-de fence. The Banking and Currency Commit tee, it is stated, will probably report a Funding bill. They are at a loss to know whether the fifty millions increase directed by resolution of the House was intended to be in greenbacks or bank notes, and are therefore undetermined 11.4 to the character of the proposed Cur rency bill. A meeting of rectifiers and whiskey dealers was held in Cincinnati yester day, and resolutions were adopted ask ing Congress to change the law so as to allow all the tax on spirits to he collected at the distillery or distillery warehouse, and that all discriminations against distilled spirits after the same became merchandise he abolished. The President yesterday nominated James W. Mason, colored, of Arkansas, to be Minister to Lificria, and the fol lowing Consuls: George H. Butler, of Cal., at Alexandria, Egypt A. A. Thompson, of Mich., at Goderich, Can ada; F. Meig<of Tenn., at Montevideo ; James Riley Weaver, of W. Va., at Ant werp, and bavid J. Williamson,of ( 'al., at Callao. A steamer from Brazil brought back to New York recently, a cargo of ex- Con federates who went off after the close of the war to settle on Brazilian terri tory. Aftersullbring terrible privation, they were chipped home by the Imper ial tlovernment. Several companies of Southern emigrantc, who located them selves in other parts of Brazil, are doing well and will remain. on Thursday night, Sir John A. McDon ald announced that no license would be granted to foreign fishermen during; the coming, season, and that the fovern ment intended to take steps tor the fish ermen in I 'amtdian waters. fir Francis }links stated that confidential commu nications relating to reciprocity were passing between Ottawa and \Vashing ton, and that on the Canadian side there was no obstacle to the freest confiner- vial intereotir,e Nvitli the United State, On Sunday morning, Caninelt How ard was shot and wounded while going to church at Ripley, Ohio, by Victor Pope. A constable and two men went to arrest the latter, when they found him entrenched under the bed in a log house, with a ri tie, two revolvers and u big dog. On trying to dislodge him he tired, wounding two of the men„who returned his lire. His mother then ap peared, and induced him lo surrender, when he was found to be severely wounded. lie is tI Otiliilt to be insane. The certificate of incorporation of the Pittsburgh, Canton & Chicago railroad has been filed at the office of the Secre tary of State in Ohio. The eastern ter minus of the proposed road Is at the town of Smith's Ferry in Columbiana county, and the western terminus at the town of New London, in Huron county, passing through the counties of Colum biana, Stark, Wayne,Medina,Ashland, Lorain and Huron. Capital, ii 1,000,000. The cofrporators are C. Aultman, I Har ter, L. Schaeffer, D. Tyler and George Cook. The Rev. David Fisher, a Bishop of the Dunkard Church at Monticello, Indiana, aged seventy years, was arrest ed recently, for the alleged seduction of a daughter of the Rev. J. Newberger, a pastor in the same church. Fisher was bound over in the sum of $l,OOO to ap pear before Justice Turner, on Friday at two o'clock P. M. The feeling throughout the community, and especi ally in his own church, has been so bitter against him that he was forcibly ejected from the pulpit on Sunday, and not allowed to preach. Samuel Miles, of the same place was also bound over In the sum of WO to answer the charge of the,seduction of Rebecca J. C. Claw son. ' THE STATE IfRaBLIBT BEURIIPT The Sinking. Fund RObbad Of a Million and a half or Dollars, Brilliant FinancialMeyol the Penn syitfnla Radte L . On Monday night the Finance Committee of the State Senate met and the examina tion into the condition and management of the State Treasury was continued. Gen. Irwin put In an appearance at last, but begged for another week to prepare his testimony, and his prayer was granted. Mr. Thomas Nicholson was then sworn, and he proceeded to explain more fully the methods of keeping the vault account, the favors granted to banks and private indi viduals, and other irregularities which have already been exposed by the testimony of preceding witnesses. His attention was then culled to the condition of the sinking fund when the following evidence was elicited by the examination : Mr. Wallace—Has there not been, and is there not now an illegal use of the money that belongs to the sinking fund. Mr. Nicholson—How, illegal ? Mr. Wallace—lllegal in that it is appro priated to other purposes than the law and Constitution prescribe. Mr. Nicholson—l think I have spoken plainly enough on that. I want to say this. I think every person familiar with the Treasury will bear me out, that if the law was strictly enforced—the letter of the law —members of the Legislature, perhaps, would have done something before now, because they would have lieen on short commons. [Laughter.). Mr. Wallace—there is no money in the State Treasury but what lichings to the sinking fund _ . Mr. Nicholson—No, sir; and I think a million more has been taken out. I am safe in saying that every dollar in the Treasury belongs to tho sink ing fund, and that the State Treasury is indebted to the sinking fund for all the money there is in it, and a great deal more. I do not keep the sinking fund books. Mr. Wallace--We have that in Mr. Mackey's report. Inc the Constitution the revenues appropriated to the sinking fund are the larger proportion of the revenues of the Commonwealth? Mr. Nicholson —1 am not able to answer that question now definitely, but I think so. ['Fe Mr. Hart.] \Vas I correct in sav ing that all the money belongs to the sink ing fund and nearly a million more? Mr. I fart -Yes, sir; a million and a half. Mr. Wallace—l want simply to get these I . :Lets upon record. Mho revenues that are appropriated by the law and Constitution to the Sinking fund were appropriated by the commissioners of the sinking fund to the purpose which the law and Constitu tion prescribes, would there be any unex pended balances? Please answer yes or no. r. Nicholson—No, sir; von would have to borrow a million of dollars to make it up. All the money that is in the Treasury to-night belongs to the sinking fund, and over a million besides. Mr. Wallace—All that money, if the law was tarried out, ought to he paid upon the debt of the Commonwealth? r. N icholson—Certainl v. Chairman—The report of tne,otate Treas urer shows that the current fund that is applied to the payment of the general ex penses not only exceeds the fund, but ex ceeds it to the amount of $918,000. `i,•liulson--1 do not know how nun•h. Mr. Wnll.•tee—And is growing worse every year? Mr. Nieholson—Yes, sir. When I left the Treasury in 1863, it was not so. We ilia not owe the sinking fund any then. Chairman- I.ast year it was "vet-drawn Mr. Nieholson--I do not know. l'hairnian—llnw• would you pro prose to remedy that evil? Mr. N icholson —Well, I don' t know. Perhaps if I was to make a suggestion would be laughed at. Air. Wallace—Do you know out of what funds the enrrent ex pens,. were paid, pre vious to Pin:t; what sources of rev roar firmed the bulk? Mr. Nicholson—States taxes. \I r. Wallace—That has been repealed On real estate, nr very much reilueed? Mr.Nicholson—Yes, air. Mr. Wallace—Was the repeal of that his one of the causes why the sinking fund had to he appropriated to the payment of cur rent expenses? Mr. Nicholson I think that. was 11111' of the eauses. Mr. Wallace—Since that tittle has not the practice licen growing worse—to take the revenues belonging to the sinking fund and apply them to the payment of current expenses? Mr. Nicholson— I had heard previous to May last, when I WaS ill the Legislature, that such was the tket, and on inquiry, I found it was so. NI r. Kemble told me that he had tried to get the Legislature to reme dy the matter. I know now, that it lots been so since May. I believe there is a million lost to the Treasury lip the repeal of the tax on real estate. VI r. Wallacr—This inereaso appro priations to oontmon 1.11 1 111m1,1 111111 14111- tlivrs orphan schools has had something to do Nvithswelling theantount, iu aUtlition I tis. rt.pc:il of that tax? :\ Ir. Nit.holson—Ves sir; the appropria tion to 0411111011 `11 . 1111 , 11 , has incrua,i•il frtont $:1511,1100 to $51)11,1100. Mr. \Vallace --Would a dilll'l.l.lll system of :t plying the 'speeitic appropriation of the moneys now devoted to the sinking; fund, month by month, to the payment or pur chase of the Mans of the Cominonlvealth, be a better in vesttnent to the State than loan ine the money to banks :it three or four or iive per cent? Mr. Nicholson— It would most decidedly. I '11.11)0SC tin make a prediction would not tinswer the question. Mark my prediction; if you pass am net to loan the 1111,110 V to banks, you will suffer for it. It would be like gambling dells. paid upon honor. I do not I,ittiNv itnythingaltout but I am told that those debts are paid about I/1,11110.1y as any others. NV° Mt not want to loan any tummy at :ill. We should re duce the publie, debt a reasonable amount. every year and pay it over every month. Mr. Wadi:tee—What would he our opin ion in respect to overooming this ditlletilty oldelicieucies in the fund? Mr. Nicholson —We want laws passed, that those items that go into the sinking fund in pursuanee of the Constitution shall remain there, and what is put in by one ❑et of a.sembly ,annot ha taken out and reverted by another act of assembly. If that cannot be done, then there is no rem edy. r. Wallace -I believe that the collateral inheritance tax goes into the sinking Ilund ? VI r. Brooke—l believe it dues. Mr. White—You would not wish to see the collateral inheritance tax repealed, Woilla you? Mr. Nieholson —Yes sir; I vote for it cheerfully. Ido not see why, if it man wishes to stay in this world without ehil dren, ho should not want to do with his money as if he wits married. Mr. lirooke—This gentleman behind me (Mr. Hart) says we now owe the sinking nind over a million and a half of dollars ? Mr. Nicholson—Yes, sir. Brooke—l have been very much in terested and informed in your examination to-night. !low shall we get out of this di lemma we are in, having violated the laws and Constitution by diverting those moneys? Mr. Niehob.,n—l wits suggesting a rem edy, but Mr. Wallaee would not 144 , 1, 100 Mr. Wallace—l dui not say that. Mr. Nlellolsott i continuingi—'fake the tavern licensee, collateral inheritance tax or anything you please, and divert that front the sinking fund into the VOllllllOll fund. Mr. White -You tiiink that would he preferable to increased the taSatil/11? Mr. Nicholson—Yes, sir. Mr. Brooke-- But still you would have Inn relieve us front this indebtedness to the sinking fund? Mr. Nicholson—You would cart, up. Mr. Brooke—l do not see how. Mr. Nicholson—We have not money enough now to pay the rneniliers of the Legislature and appropriations. If we take tavern licenses and collateral inheritance tax, these would give us three hundred thousand dollars a year, would they not? I have been told in Washington city that things were conducted very loosely in l'ente:ylvania. it hill prepared at ,Ine oil KilOWL•ii it to the A (Min, ( liberal and State Treasurer, and they approved its provisions; it would have shut atue twenty or thirty doors to the Treasury of Pennsylvania. The witness enlarged at length upon the existing :Onuses, for the purpose of showing how abominably not he expressed it) the system of Pennsylvania was conducted, especially in reference to payment of Chief and Associate Judges by county treasurers without warrants. In his opinion there was another portion of the system that was loose from top to bottom—from Governor down to pastor and folder—and that was the drawing if money in advance. War rants are issued before they are due. In looking over I found that twenty-four county superintendents have been paid whose salaries do not become due unlit the first of Nlay. County treasurers are re quired by law to make a report once a month and pay over, anti vet the law is dead letter. There ought to be some way to make then pay and report once a month. Mr. .M'lntire—W hat would be the best may to make them pay? Mr. Nicholson—l do not knots', except it would be to put them In the penitentiary. [Laughter.] Mr. Wallace—Do you know that you are indicting us very severely here? Mr. Nicholson—Yes sir. I think it ought to be stopped. I have no doubt the State of Pennsylvania is defrauded in tavern licenses, in the cities of Philadelphia and Pittsburg, of 81.01,000 every year if not more. Mr. White—Any other places? Mr. Nicholson—l do not know ; there may be. ?qr. Wallace—l move too adjourn until next 'Wednesday evening. Witnesses were then examined who showed that Col. Win. B. Mann, of Phila delphia, has been paid extravagant fees for certain services rendered in the examina tion of the accounts of foreign insurance companies, under Gen. Irwin, when ho was Treasurer before. The committee then ad- journed until next Wednesday evening, when Gen. Irwin will ho examined in re gard as to his management of the State General Irwin Before the Inveatittating Committee—lle Refuses to Testify —Probable End of the In vestigation. HARRISBURG, March 2.—The Senate Fi nance Committee met to-night, Mr. BU lingfelt in the chair. Gen. Irwin, ex-State Treasurer, appeared and made a statement to the•following effect: That It was absolutely impossible for him at this late date to give a monthly statement of affairs of the Treasury dur ing his term. No vault account had been separably kept by him, but it was all kept by the cashier, as the general Treasury account and everything had bean transferred to his successor in office. If the committee asked orexpected a detailed statement, they expected an im possibility. He was not In possession of the Treasury or its books, and it was un reasonable to ask him to go to the labor and expense of detailed statements after all his accounts had been satisfactorily ad justed. In answer to a question of Mr. Billingfelt, he stated distinctly that he declined to be' sworn or make any statement beyond that already given. The acoounts of his admin istration were in possession of the State, and open to the world. He could render no further service by answering any ques tions. It is openly asserted that this appears to be to terminate the labors of the commit tee, inasmuch as all other State Treasurers who have been subpoenaed to appear to morrow evening will propably take the same position as Mr. Irwin, taking the ground that their accounts having all been adjusted, they are no longer liable to be subjected to legislative inquiry. Gen. IrwLW?. Letter to the Investigating Committee The following is the letter handed by (den. Irwin to the Committee, upon his de clining to be examined in relation to his management of the State Treasury : To the Honorable the Finance Cbrnmitler ,J Uu• Senate of l'en nayl vani,i I have been subpoolued to appear befero you, and to give evidence upon a subject embodied in a resolution adopted by the Senate on 7th January, ISM At the end of my term IS Treasurer, I settled my 11,- counts and handed over all moneys and effects in the Treasury to my sureemor. made a final settlement on the first Monday of May, Pififi, with the Auditor Gameral.— During illy administration not a single dollar of the public money was lost, and all the affairs of toy °dice were closed up to the entire satisfaction of the auditing de partment of the State. I defy any one to make any charge against me for mat feIIYAIMO in otlice anti to su hstnnlinlo it with compe tent testimony. When th oecurs, 1 will be ready to meet an, ulo it, but until then I will not re.L...t IIiZU the right of the committee oldie Seuutu or of any tribunal in this land to tun me as n witness a n d examine no , Upon any with nly personal or official integrity. Whilst. I admit the pow,, of a legislati% o committee to inquire into my whole ofileial conduct, and the management of the atinirs of my °Mee, I desire to lie ,listinctly un dctvtood ns objecting to the exercise of any such inquisitorial power as referred 4h, lu ill the absence or O.IIV charge or nix:n.40,11% affecting my otlirial integrity. It would hu subversive of every principle of law lind di% violation of that right which enables every 111:111 to demand that his accuser meet 111111 face to thee. I only wish to add that I am not animated by any want ideottlidence in this commit tee, or by any disrespect towards Its mem bers, lint Ueiled by what I conscientious ly believe t ote a proper respect for myself. I am, gentlemen, very respectfully, Feb. 9,16 TO. %N. W. I uwiN. The heaviest swindle that has been pn, jeeted in this State during this heaBoll is the scheme to take three inithons of doll., out of the State Treasury, under the pretext of paying claims for (homages sustained by residents in the loonier counties from rebel raids. lint' , nu In,intlion lu denontkulitg tithe stthemo as a monstrous swindle; and ever intelligently connects himself with IL must accept the reputation of those who manage monstrous swindles. The bill now before Ole Legislature, the ugly features of WhichniaVe already boon exposed, is ex pected to fail in its present shape, But this is only because Its engineers have relied upon pro hi the instead ill Upon More tangi ble argument, at 1 larrishurg. But a new scheme is, as We aryl very credibly in formed, now being hatched m this city —not in the border counties supposed to be most interested in rebel raids.- Either an entirely lieW bill, or an allielnd likent to the first one, is now tieing "set up," and It is well understood Una it re• sponsible ;gayly has undertaken the engi neering 01 It through the Legislature, Out of a Chinn of three million; these raiders upon the State 'treasury can afford m par well for votes and We feel fully fustitieil in the belief ffiat not one rote will tgc cast for tio.4 othiadoux Measure that is nut paid for. Why should it 1,07 There can be in. nian in either branch of the Legislature so, utterly devoid of intelligence as to believe this it , Raid bill to be an honest one. No man can liopp to keep his munu untar nished or his record clean who helps to dip out of the public treasury three millions dollars under the pretence of pitying these bogus claims, many of which are doubt less manufactured out of whole cloth, and the remainder of which hove been bought up to he speculated upon by the vultures that hover over the tat pickings of the Treasury of Pennsylvania. '11,15 swindling scheme has been ' set up" to succeed; mild We have heard exdw , rieliced pelitichins express the belief that it will he sprung Upon the Legislature and the ilovernor next week, and with mileco...s. \VI. do not believe it. 'f l ies,' raiders upon the people's Money hate untied too high. Not only are the proportions of the dle too target , . allow of it being igerpetrategt in a eoriler, but its transparent, dishonest) is too glaring not to abash the most shame less corruptionist in IlarrisbUrg. There is no member ggf the Legislature from Phil adelphia, hold or brazen Meng!, to stand up and Mier, or Vol,. row such a bill. Then • g is no constittieney in this city or In tht. Syne that would not repudiate its elder 11,- 1 mite, if he were found guilty or eotopii oily in such it Wrong. And Governor Geary's worst enemy cannot hope to trap the Chief Abutistrate of Pennsylvania Into such a fatal snare. That high official would I lie the very first to expose ' and denounce, awl defeat such a scheme off public void d. s, ry, should it g , 5 or reach the Executive ffiamiger. That it is seriously and ismtidently con templated to force this outrageous bill through the Legislature, probably next week, we have little doubt. list it shall nut he dune in a curlier. It is the duly of the press of this city, and it the State, In warn the Legislature and the Governor that this plot is laid, and that the money has been provided to bury ifs Illtere,l4, It Is till , duty of the press to warn the people of design whisiso sole purpose is to take three millions of dollars out of the Treasury, to go, no one will ever know where; three whieh Pennsylvania can not af thrd to pay into the pockenii of the men wh o are now working so hard to get it. With thepeople, the preen , the honest men of the House and Senate, and the (iiiy crime, all on the watch, this anaconda of legislative snakes will scarcely succeed hi wriggling itself Into the coffers of the tress. ury of l'ounsylyania.—Phifodrfp/oU 1 1 .1- (oin. The Germans in America Emilio Castelar, the eloquent member of the Spanish Cortes, has recently written a letter to the editors of the New Peer Pres.r, of Vienna. In reply to the ninny letters re velved by him from different portions of (ft - inn:my, congratulating him on his speeches upon religion and monarchy. Af ter giving an analysis of the Spanish char acter, he explains the principles and the plans of the Spanish republicans, and states that their objects are to form the Cnited States of Europe upon a sifnilar basis as the United States of Americo. The frun law of social grouping, he says, will eon. stitute of freemen a munielpidity ; of hen m fin ieipal ities, a canton; of tree maims, a state; of free States, a federal republic. fit concluding, he says: "Turn your eyes to the great rope blle that the German races havf• founded in that par adise of the future, America. There all men acknowledge fine country, and all consciences one altar. The but of its hUni blest citizen is More to he envied than tho palace of the first of our kings; periodieubt laid and grow In its cities like leaves in a wood; associations form there its regular ly as Mrm the organisms or the natural world; churches support themselves, and exist iu complete independenes of each other; every municipality Is a sep arate state, which calls all Its mem fier,, t o th e same politival life , and renders them all legislators, magistrates and sovereigns. The school and the library, those disseminators of ideas. educate the people to self-government. films discov • ered steam, and eentripled human forces; it has concentrated the lightning. Invented the telegraph, laid lave unexplored forests, populated improvised cities, and united tin. Atlantic and Pacific by a line of railroad, It has plunged into the ahysees and eterna silence of the waters, and suspended there II telegraph cable. Why should not we, the people of Europe, with all our appliances of art and eivllization, follow In the foot steps of A merit. Forelble Cytniniz of !Tip.° Daor“ 4612,1 0=!I Ct scixxiirr, March 7.—Last week, dur ing the session of the County Courts of Charleston, West Virginia. three men ar rived by a steamboat from the Upper Kan awha river, proceeded to the jail, unlocked the doors with keys in their possession, and threatening the inmates with death in ease of disturbance, released two men, White low, awaiting trial for counterfeiting, and Cox, charged with burglary. The released prisoners were furnisheitwith arms, the prison doors relocked and the key holes plugged, and then the five separated to es cape. Tho Prosecuting Attorney met Cox just after his escape, but, aware of his des perate character, made no attempt to arrest him. A large reward is offered for the, capture of the party. The African nder th ve Am Trade Still Carried on the The resolution Introduced by Senator Wilson has as its object a more rigorous policy in regard to the suppression of the slave trade. IL is understood that this traf• tic in human beings still exists on the coast of Zanzibar. The United States govern ment, in order to put down this !Illegal trade, appointed judges some years ago, It is stated as a singular fact that the Judges so appointed, instead of attending to their business, are very busily engaged In stay. ing at home drawing their pay, allowing the Africans to tattooer° of themselves. It is also understood that several consuls on that coast execute their official duty in the same convenient manner. It is a tact that the largest sharo of the trade is carried on under the American flag and in American, bottoms. This matter wlll receive an oyez.. hauling.
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