Eancaster 3ntelligenter. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 16, 1870. one End of the Treasury In• , Yestlgatlon The much talked of Treasury Inves tigation has come to a sudden and un timely end. When the Senate ordered a warrant to issue for the arrest of Gen eral Irwin, we took it for granted that he would at last be brought to the bar of that body to answer for his refusal to testify. We never dreamed that the same men who voted to maintain the dignity and to assert the lawful powers of the higher branch of our State Legis lature would within twenty-four hours deliberately record their votes in favor of a reconsideration of the action they had so publicly taken. Why this hasty retreat? It certainly could not have been caused by considerations of public policy. The interest of the State de manded a full and complete investiga tion, and the people expected that at the hands of the men who had ordered it to be begun. Does any one need to be told that some potent influence of a secret character was brought to hear upon members of the Senate ? The warrant issued for General Irwin not only alarmed him, but it also fright ened other ex-Treasurers. If one could be forced to answer, so could they all— and right well they must have known that their transactions would not bear the light of day. Mackey, Kemble and others were interested in stopping the warrant issued against Irwin. They were present at Harrisburg and able to and appeal to members of the Scn- ate. What kind of arguments Irwin, Mackey, Kemble S Co., used, we have not the means of knowing positively, but they must have been weighty to have produced the result they did.— home secret motive must have influ enced the action of every Senator who thus voted to stifle an honest investiga tion. Those who predicted that the investi gation would never be pushed to a proper termination were right. There is not sufficient honesty in the State Senate of Pennsylvania to render such a result possible. The refusal to compel the ap pearance of Gen. Irwin ends the matter for the present session. It also assures us that any bill which really means re form will be defeated. Things will be allowed to run on as they have been go ing, and the man who was supported by iprtain newspapers as a reform candi date, will be permitted to make money enough to pay all the expense to which he was subjected, with a very handsome margin of clear profit for himself. Imperfect as the investigation neces sarily was, with Gen. Irwin standing mute and Mr. Mackey refusing to an swer material questions, enough WIIS elicited to establish several importal farts. It was proven that the Sinking Fond, which was Oct apart as a sacred deposit for the payment of the State debt, was robbed of over a million and a half of dollars; it was shown that an average unexpended balance of a Ind illiondollarsofthemoneythusstealth l ily transferred was loaned by Mackey Irwin, liemble S Co., to banks and pri vate speculators; and it was rendered ideal' that principal and interest on the State debt were permitted to remain unpaid, to the great damage of the tax payers, in ordert hat the State Treasurers and their friends might make fortunes by an illegal use of the public money. Mr. Mackey declined to .state what in terest, lie received for the moneys lie loaned to banks and private individuals, and Cleo. Irwin chose to refuse to be sworn, but the mute confessions of these two men is as tot elll,i Of their guilt :is an optm admission would have been. The investigation has shown that a complete and thorough reform in the management of the State 'treasury is imperatively demanded, but the action of the Senate assures us that it can not be had at the present session. The ques tion is one of prime importance, :mil i. will Mrin an issue at the election next fall. let the people see to it that no man is returned to either Rouse who is not pledged to a radical reform in the management of our State finances. Plundering Schemes In the Legislature. "This has been a tl—d dull anti un profitable session, but business will be lively here next week." Such was the remark we heard fall from the lips of a I well known lobbyist at II arrisburg the other day. Two articles which we take from the Mario/ will show that the shrewd manipulator of legislative votes knew what he was talking about. Rail roads and other corporations have con eluded to purchase exemption from tax ation. I They have counted the cost carefully, and have ciphered out how much money it will take to buy up a majority of votes. That there is great danger of the passage of the obnoxious mid infamous measures which have call ed forth the condemnation of the Demo cratic organ at Harrisburg, no one who has spent a day in that city during the present winter can fur a moment doubt. The election of Butler 11. Strang as Speaker of the House was an ac knowledged triumph for the roosters, who sit on their perches and obstinate ly refuse to come down until some lib eral hand hand strews corn in the but ' tont of the coop. The customary food of these foul creatures has not been plenty until lately. The sharp lobby ists have allowed them to go hungry until their appetite for bribes has become exceedingly keen. This has been Bona with a view to economy. Corpor ations which desire to be relieved from 'taxation, or toplunder the State in other ways will save money thereby. The market price of votes is regulated by lobbyists who contraet for the delivery of a majority of the two houses. We heard a Republican Senator say the other day that a certain extensive dealer in votes owned a working majority, loth in the Senate and House, which he would:agree to deliver at any time for a stipulated price. That he spoke the truth we have not a shadow of doubt. Let the people watch the conduct of the Legislature from this day until the close of the pres ent session. The iktiriut promises to expose every corrupt piece of legislation which is brought forward. It is the only paper published at the State Capital which can be expected to do so. Let its exposures be made freely and fully ; let it show up every plundering scheme, and it will do much to overthrow the rule of Radicalism and corruption in Pennsylvania. THE Radicals have succeeded in ruin ing the public seh onto of Washington City by forcing the admission of negroes into them on an equality with white children, The whites have taken their children away from the public schools, and are sending them to private in structors. This is of a Niece with the conduct of the Radicals generally. They are willing to ruin the public schools, or to risk the destruction of any established institution for the sake of enforcing their fanatical notions. There are plenty of proper schools for negroes in Washing ton, but the ambition of a few ambitious blacks leads them to demand perfect equality, and the Radicals who are so licitous of their votes are ready to accede to their demands, no mutter what the sacrifice may be. ME Philadelphia Post insists that Gen. Irwin shall either resign the office' of State Treasurer, or voluntarily sub mit to an examination into his conduct of the office when he held it before. It declares that no man can afford to go into such an office under a cloud of sus picion. The Foci will find that General Irwin will be far from taking its tutelee. Ho will hold on to the office and keep his mouth shut as tight as an oyster. IF JOHN COVODE Collid not find a white youth in all his dristriet fit to enter West Point Academy, why did'nt he follow Butler's - example and hunt un-2.-neATo'7 •-.- • The Fifteenth Amendment. A despatch from Washington informs us that Ulysses S. Grant has appended his official signature, as President, to a proclamation declaring the Fifteenth Amendment, to be part and parcel of the Constitution of the United States. The publication of the proclamation has been delayed on account of some irreg ularities connected with the action of Mississippi and Texas, but it will be laid before the country in a few days. When it does appear it will come as a pretentious lie and an unblushing fraud. The so-called Fifteenth Amendment has not been adopted in either of the ways prescribed by the Constitution of the United States for its amendment. It was - _ not passed by two-thirds of a legally constituted Senate, as is required, and it has not been legally ratified by three- ourths of the States The pretended ratification by South ern States, is a sham and a fraud. A partisan Congress made the passage of resolutions ratifying this amendment a condition precedent to their admission into the Union. And herein partially consists the fraud which has been prac tised. They were either not States in the Union when they acted upon the amendment,orelse they were never out of the ITnion. If they were out of the Union they could not ratify an amendment changing the Constitution of the United States, and through it the Constitution of other States; if they were in the Union, then were the reconstruction acts of Congress all unconstitutional and void, and the acts of the bogus State Legislatures set up under them of no force or effect, the ratification of the Fifteenth Amendment included. Were the Supreme Court of the Uni ted States still a free and independent judicial tribunal, there could be.. no doubt about what opinion it would give in regard to this Fifteenth Amendment. It would be at once declared to be un constitutional, and that would be the end of it; but with judges selected, as they have been, with especial reference to future decisions, little confidence can any longer be placed in what was once the authoritative expounder of the Con stitution. We call hardly believe the Supreme Court, even as at present con stituted, can decide the Fifteenth Amendment to be legal and binding, but there is no telling to what extremes a partisan bias may carry a majority of the men who now compose that body. The Democratic party has opposed the so-called Fifteenth Amendment steadi- ly from the beginning. This it has done, not ou account of any mere prejudice against the negro, but for good and sub stantial reasons, based on sound states manship. We have held and still hold that the admission of so large an ele ment of ignorant and irresponsilde crea tures to the ballot box, must lead to disastrous results. Even with suffrage restricted to white men, as it has been in Pennsylvania, we find our Legislative halls tilled with a set of corrupt trick sters and low demagogues, whose venal voles are openly bought and sold every day. The purest and most competent cit izens are no longer elected to office. Our polities has degenerated into a dirty scramble, where shabby shysters rule seine. To admit a large class of the )st ignorant men to a participation in c elective franchise, can only increase evils which, if they be not checked, ist end in the destruction of Repub- 'Alp ID p) the this I an dtovernment among us. Another reason why the Democratic party has steadily opposod the Fifteenth Amendment is because a partisan ma jority in Congress will claim the power under it to assume complete control of the elective franchise, and of the con duct of elections in all the Stales. Even now a hill is being pressed which, should it pass, will deprive the States of the right of regulating even their local elections. Against this, as an unwar ranted interference with the fundamen tal principles upon which our govern ment rests we have from time to time protested, but so far without avail Rent upon achieving temporary political success, and regardless of the great evils which must necessarily follow, the Radicals are ready to adopt any desper ate expedient in order that they may accomplish their designs. The masses, tired of the intense excitement which prevailed during the war, have sunk into a condition of apathy, and appeals to the people are made in vain. The great heart of public virtue seems not to have blood enough left to make it beat sure with feeble and convulsive throes. If we are to preserve the form of free government bequeathed to us by the fathers of the republic we must recall the lofty and unselfish spirit which an imated them. In our opposition to the Fifteenth Amendment we have not been actuated by any selfish motives. We have be lieved from the first that the native whites of the Southern States would control a sufficient number of negro votes to insure a large Democratic ma jority in every one of them ; and the elections held there have proved that we were correct in our judgment. The Radicals may be able to carry municipal elections in some of the Southern cities by pandering to the passions of the blacks, but in the rural district:, where the bulk of the negroes are to be found quietly working on the plantations, those who employ them will control their votes. At the next Presidential election the South will cast a solid vote for the Democratic candidate, and the Congressional delegation to be chosen by the South next October will have precious few Northern carpet-baggers or Southern scalawags in it. Even in the border States the Democracy will- COll- trol a sufficient number of negro votes to hold their own in Maryland and Ken tucky, while Missouri will not remain Radical a day after the repeal of the in famous disfranchisement acts. In the Northern States the negro vote is too inconsiderable an element to affect the result of future elections seriously. The Radicals will loose ground among the whites if they attempt to pander to the blacks, and theycan not hold the negro vote without doing so. We repeat it—the -Democratic party was neither influenced by selfish hope nor ignoble fear in its opposition to negro suffrage. It based its opposition on the broad grounds of true statesman ship, and there it stands to-day as firm ly us it did in the beginning. When Grant issues his proclamation, and en thusiaQstie Radicals fire cannons in honor of the event, they ought to shot every gun to show how the pretended ratifica tion was achieved. From fraud and force the Democratic party appeals to the patriotism, the pride and the good judgment of the people, confident that the near future will abundantly prove the wisdom of their course and cover their opponents with shame, confusion and defeat. SENATOR WARFEL, made a very sen sible speech the other day in advocacy of Representative White's bill for re forming the abuses attaching to the State Treasurer's office. Mr. Warfel is an earnest and honest advocate of substan tial reform, and is ready to lend all his influence in support of any bill which will effectually accomplish the much needed result. The trouble is, as Mr. Warfel says iu his speech, that the Ring does not desire any change, and there is little hope that anything will be done this session. IT is rumored in Harrisburg that Gov senor Major General John W. Geary was recently invited to address the children of a Public School, and in alluding to Washington's Birthday, put the follow ing question : " Now, boys, why should we celebrate Washington's Birthday any more than mine ?" In the midst of profound silence a lit tle fellow at the foot of the class rose and repl.led; "Because HE never told a lie." ANCASTERWEEkLY" INTELLIGENCER, WEDNESDAY, MARCIII6, iB7O. The Funding Bill. In nothing is the incompetency ofthe men now in power more clearly dis played than In their management of the financial affairs of the nation: Grant Is' densely ignorant On such subjects, and thort does sea* to, be a single member of the dominant party, either in the Cabinet or Congress, who is fitted by nature or training to grapple success fully with the most Important problem of the day. One crude theory after an other has been advanced, only to be abandoned after being riddled by the newspaper press of the country. After protracted labor the Senate has passed a Funding Bill which is meeting with very little favor from those who know most of the needs of the country. All the Democratic Senators voted against the bill, and Mr. Thurman and Mr. Casserly opposed it in vigorous speeches. Of the Republican Senators Mr. Morton and Mr. Sumner spoke against it but voted for it ; Mr. Cameron, Mr. Hamlin, and Mr. Morrill, of Maine, argued against it but abstained from voting; and Mr. Buckingham, Mr. Corbett and Mr. Norton voted against it. The prin cipal features of the bill are these: The issue of $400,000,000 of five per cent. bonds, redeemable in ten and pay- able In forty years. The issue of $00,000,000 of four and a half per cent. bonds, redeemable in fifteen and payable in forty years. The issue of $400,000,000 of four per cent. bonds, redeemable in twenty and payable in forty years. A compulsion of the national banks to exchange the bonds at present pledged for their circulation for bonds of the new issues, of which at least one-third shall be of the four per cents., and not more than one-third of either the five or the four and a half per cents. Unlimited permission of new banks on pledges of the four per cent. bonds, with the cancellation of an amount of greenbacks equal to their circulation. An appropriation of one-half of one per cent. for the expenses of negotiating the new loans. Should the new bonds find a ready market Some saving of interest would be effected, though the amount would be but a mere trifle in comparison with the huge total of our extravagant ex- penditures. But will these bonds be freely taken? Mr. Sherman, the author of the bill, asserted in debate that the five per vent. bonds would readily sell at par in the financial markets of the world, but that was mere assertion.— That they will not do so is proven by the fact that the six per cent. bonds duo in 1881, having yet eleven years to run, are now selling at a premium just about equal to the premium on gold, which makes their gold valueabout par. They have a longer time to run titan the new live per cents, and are in that respect more valuable, and yet, with one per cent. higher interest they are only at par In gold. To suppose that a five per cent. bond will sell as high as a six per cent. bond of the same character is absurd.— Should the bill become a law it is safe to say that the only immediate market for the new bonds will be the compulsory one supplied by the national batiks. The banks already in existence o posed the adoption of the bill in the Senate, and they will bring their influ ence to bear upon the House. It is said a very decided majority of that body are either officers of national banks or oth erwise interested in such existing insti- tutions. How far that may affect their votes remains to be seen. The banks now in existence hula :11,out $300,000,000 of bonds, on which they receive six per cent. interest in gold. Under the funding bill they would be required to take an equal proportion of the three sorts of new bonds, and the average rate of interest on the whole would be dh per cent. The 6,eurninent would there fore seem to save 5i,50U,000 ; but this apparent saving would be more than offset by the creation of an unlimited number anew banks, and the exchange of bonds bearing -.14 1 per cent. interest for the four hundred millions of legal ten der notes now in circulation, which rep resent that amount of debt upon which no interest is paid. The government now pays to the national banks nearly twenty million dollars a year, and if the Funding Bill becomes a law will pay these favored institutions over thirty millions a year, even at the reduced rate of interest ; all of which might be saved to the taxpayers, by doing away I with national banks and their notes, and substituting in their stead green backs issued directly front the Treasury of the United States. We publish elsewhere a leading edi torial front the New York Herald, showing what effect this Funding bill will have upon the currency of the country, and what an immense swindle is contained in its provisions relative to national banks. We hope none of our readers will fail to peruse it carefully. The New York Tribune, in advocating the speedy passage of the Funding Bill through the House, bases its argument upon the assertion that "Members of Congress chosen expressly, avowedly as supportrrs of un existing Or in-coming Administration owe some deference to the wishes and ,forts of that Adminis tration." In other words this Funding 11111 must be put through by a partisan vote, because Grant and his Secretary of the Treasury have seen fit to recom mend it. That is tin argumentem ad hontimm which many Radical Congress men will comprehend, and about the only one a considerable proportion of them could understand. It is evident that Greeley has measured the calibre of these gentlemen to a nicety. He fears, however, that their connection with existing national banks, and other little disturbing causes of a pecuniary character, may influence them to vote against the bill, or induce them to emas culate it completely. We do not care how it is defeated so it is beaten. Bet ter by far that we should go on as we are now doing, limn to risk the evils which this measure is sure to entail by fastening upon the muntry a new batch of national banks with entire control of the currency mutilated to them. The Proposed Annexation of St. Do mingo. When St. Domingo was annexed to Spain, in 1801, there was apparently a more complete acquiescence of her peo ple in the arrangement, than there is now in the proposal for annexation to the United States. Manifests from all the towns were sent to Madrid, in all of which it was stated that every body was anxious in good faith to form part of the Spanish Monarchy. Then there was no civil war going on, and there really ap peared to be no opposition to the move ment. Yet, before the transaction was concluded, in 186.5, by the with drawal of the Spaniards from the island, eighteen or twenty thousand Spanish troops were killed, and some thirty mil lions of dollars expended. Who will insure us against a similar result now, when a fierce civil war is raging and the party with whom we are treating is barely able to hold his own. The part in insurrection is thickly populated and contains a number of important towns. Grant and Fish will be likely to discov er that they have a more costly bargain in St. Domingo, than Andy Johnson and Seward found in Alaska. Better barren icebergs than a land of earth quakes, inhabited by negroes with a civil war raging in it. CERTAIN Radical army officials have taken Ben Butler to task for appointing a negro cadet to West Point, and it is said Ben quieted their complaints by assuring them that the darkey could not stand the examination, and would be rejected on that account. Butler pre tends that it was only done for buncombe Wait till Revels and the negroes who are coming to the next Congress make their selections. They won't appoint negro cadets merely for buncombe, as Radical armyoflicials will find to their Intense illsgusfi Rascally Land Grants - Duritig the Fremont campaign the Radicals frightened many unthinking people in the Worth by picturing out to them the horrors and the disidvantage of having the virgin soil of the Republic desecrated by the touch of htmiamslav ery. The white Working man was told that the boundless fields which belong ed to the United States ought to be kept sacred as a cheap heritage for him and for his children after him. We heard an immense amount of talk, then and thereafter, about homestead laws. 7 " Land for the landless"' was one of the most popular catch words of the Republican party before the war.— The howl about the advance of slavery was all the merest claptrap. There never was the slightest danger of its establishment on any part of the na tional•domain, for the very good reason that no portion of the territory we-pos sessed in the West was fitted for the production of the staple commodities of the South, in the culture of which alone had slave labor been fooud to be profitable. The war has brushed away slavery as dead rubbish, but the ques- tion of providing cheap homes for the masses is still a vital one. The Republican party, which came into power with such loud professions of devotion to the wants and wishes of the white men of the North, has ruled ab solutely and without check for ten years. How has it kept its promises on the itn portant question of providing and pre serving cheap homesteads fur the peo ple? Let the record of Congress answer. Railroad monopolies have "gobbled up" nearly two hundred Million acres ; and to effect this wholesale robbery of the people they have freely bribed Radical Con gressmen. Ninety-nine out of every hundred men iu the nation have been wronged that a few speculators might accumulate V11.:,i fortunes. The soil which belongs to the people, the grand domain in which the masses have a direct proprietary interest, has been voted away by the bribed representatives of a party wldoh came into power pledg- ed in favor of a liberal homestead law. And the end is not yet. Every day new schemes of plunder are projected, and new attempts made to Inch the property of the people. in vain does the Demo cratic minority protest. The Radical ring in Congress takes the bribes offered by railroad corporations, and robs the people and the nation at will. This is a subject which would have aroused suf ficient indignation in the better days of the Republic to insure the defeat of any party which might countenance such outrages, and it can not tail to move the masses now. The lands once in the hands of soulless corporations are gone from the control of the people forever. 1 f engrossed in the hands of an individual they would go, at Ids death, either under the statute of descents or the terms of his will to divers hands, to be cut up and divided ; but as Mr. Thurman, the Democratic Senator from Ohio, said in an able speech the other day, "a corporation endowed. with perpetuity knows no death; and just as long Its it sees tit to own its land, just so lung may it contin ue to own it. There is no statute of partition to divide it; there is no statute of descents to mute it out here and there; it makes no will or testament by 'which its possessions are scattered far and near; and therefore of all monopolists of land the worst is a perpetual corporation."— And it is to such hands that the Repub lican party is giving up the domain of the people. The St. Domingo Swindle All the familiar means of corruption known to Washington lobby agents are now being actively employed to force the treaty for the purchase of St. Domin go through the Senate. Ii rant has bestir red himself actively to secure a ratifica tion of the job. The NeW York Sun says he is "going directly counter to all his professions of economy and retrench ment, and is playing directly into the hands of a set of unscrupulous knaves who will make fortunes by the assump tion of the almost worthless and unde termined-debt ‘if St. Domingo by the United States." Ilesides this he is risk ing the chances of a collision with Spain. In 14;5, when Spain withdrew her troops from the island, she issued a proclamation declaring emphatically that dm war was not at an end. That proclamation has never been withdrawn. It is to be hoped the Senate will have virtue enough to withstand the cor rupting intluem'es which :ire being brought to bear in favor of what will prove to be a very costly job. The American Trotting Turf. The trotting horse is a Yankee inven tion, that style of motion having been brought to perfection in this country by judicious breeding and careful training. The rich men of our cities delight in fast stepping animals, and the best trotters that ever appeared on the American turf are now in private hands. No agricul tural fair is considered to be complete without "trials of speed," and there arc many fine tracks in the country prepar ed expressly for showing off the gaits of "the noblest animal" to the best advan- I tage. So many irregularities had crept into the management of trotting and pacing contests that it was deemed ne cessary to apply stringent remedies, and a meeting of the managers of all the prominent associations of the country was held at the Everett House, New York city, on the 2d ult. A constitu tion was adopted, and a set of by-laws were prepared fur the government and regulation of the trotting turf. A glance at these regulations shows that the nien who were present were honest in their efforts to accomplish a perfect weeding out of all the abuses which have crept in. We may expect, therefore, to see all the objectionable features lopped off from the trotting turf of the country. SHERI DAN attempts) to palliate his Piegan lintelwry by saying, first, that Vincent Colyer is in some Indian Ring and, second, that there have been eight hundred !limiters by the savages with in his (Sheridan's) command in the last eight years. What 1111.9 Uolyer's being in the Ring to do with Sheri dan's massacre of one hundred and forty women anti children down with the small-pox? And is it not shame ful that this seeks to cover his atrocity by pleading his own wrong? If there have been so many murders in Sheridan's department, who is to blame but Sheridan himself? Let there be less capering by the command ant in Wa.shington bull-rooms, and there will be fewer outrages on the border. Negroes in the Next Congress There seems to be a strong probability that the negroes of the South will in sist upon -being represented in the lower House of the next Congress. There arc quite a number of districts in which the blacks have large majorities, and they will naturally incline to the support of candidates of their own color. The ex rebels will vote for negroes in preference to Yankee carpet-baggers, and will be justified in so :doing. Black Congress men will at least represent their own race, while the miserable carpet-baggers will represent no class of the community in which they have located. We should not be surprised to see from tweufy to thirty negroes in the Forty-second Con gress. The ventilation of the House will need to be improved. Specie Payments The financial editor of the Philadel phia Ledger does not think we are so near to specie payments as many people seem to imagine. He says: The idea of the present tendency running on so as to bring us back to specie pay ments is simply, preposterous. With 'only some twenty or thirty millions of gold in the Treasury which the Government can properly call its own, and $100,000,000 of demand obligations outstanding, there re mains a great work of preparation before the Government can undertake specie pay ments. While all rejoice that the currency has so much appreciated, that does not mean a general resumption of specie pay ments on demand for all obligations. Coiode's Cadetship John Covode Is a shrewd and unscru pulous political trickster. He began his congressional career as an investigator, and managed to gull simple country folks.lnto the belief that he was eafies- Edvely honest. The transformation of a dull Westmoreland farmer into a politi-. cal detective was the strongest meta morphis ever witnessed. To this day his notorious report of 1860 is still going , through the mails free of postage, and, as he has managed to cheat Henry D. Foster out of his seat he will have an opportunity to ship off the thousands of Copies which are still Piled up in crypts in the basement of the Capitol, proVided the franking privilege is not too speedily abolished. Here, in Pennsylvania, the title of "Honest John," in which Co vode delights, has been long ago turned into a term of reproach. It is never used except by his political Opponents, and then is only ironically applied. The corruption of the man who raised such a hue and cry during James Buchanan's administration has been established during the cadetship investigation by such a chain of circumstantial evidence as would be deemed amply sufficient to hang him. The very statement made by his apologist, John W. Forney, con victs him of selling his cadetship. The Harrisburg Patriot sums up the testi mony in the following convincing man ' ner : In the Washington correspondence of the • Press of Monday is contained the result of the investigation made by General Negley and Mr. Witcher, the sub-committee of the House Committee on Military Affairs, which was sent to Philadelphia to take the evidence of the Hon. William Millward.— The committee found the llonorable Ile was "quite sick," but according to the committee, exceedingly anxious to testify. The Committee do not go quite so far as to say that it was the confession of a sinner in extreutis, hut, perhaps, they meant to convey that impression.— The Hon. William testified that in 1862 he requested Mr. Covode to appoint a friend of his to West Point. This was a very singular request for the Honorable William to make of Honest Julio. Covode refused, on theground that the Honorable William's friend, the young man, did not live in the district of Honest John. He was so scrupulous in his regard for the law! Subsequently Mr. Covode appointed two young men in succession, neither of whom passed the examination atWest Point. I n his selections Honest John seems to have been exceedingly unfortunate. It is a painful reflection on the dullness of the youth of the XXlst Congressional District that Co rode, after a rigid search, could not find one that could run the gauntlet of the Min ! tary School, after so many blockheads have I safely passed its portals. About tins time Covode was going out of Congress, and the Honorable William again approached him, promising that the young man should ac quire a residence in Covode's district. This satisfied Honest John's delicnte regard for the law of his country, and the son of Gustav Itemak was sent to West Point.— The Honorable William swears that Corrode I was ignorant of the transaction. Ile indeed "satisfied the committee" (consisting of Negley and Witcher) "that he and his confederates sold the cadetship, got the money and divided it, and that Mr. Covode had no hand in or knowledge of the busi ness." It remains to be seen whether the rest of the Committee will be quite so easily convinced. _ . It is naively - added in the report to the Press, that Mr. Covode did not trouble himself any more about the matter, "than to see that the appointee did actually ac quire a residence in his district." ConIII there be a more scrupulous regard for the law of Congress? This appointment was made in 1862 or 1863. At that time Honest John could not find in all his district a youth to send to West Point, when the hills of Westmoreland, Fayette and In diana were aglow with military ardor.— Could he not have appointed the younger brother of some constituent who was baring his breast to the bullets of the enemy?— The Investigator says that he appointed two who were rejected, and then gave it up in disgust. He was finally compelled to go much nearer the Orient than Philadelphia, and found a Remak for his western dis trict, who had a thousand dollars. His vile excuse for the appointment is the gross insult of a knavish boor on a brave, gener ous, intelligent, and all too confiding con stituency. The paltry pretext that he ap pointed Remak after the rejection of two of his appointees, reveals his guilt, in spite of the testimony of the Honorable William M inward. The crime of Whittemore and Deweese is trilling compared with that of Covoile. Exit Investigator. The Democrats have already indicated their settled determination to run Henry I). Foster again as a candidate for Con green, and have boldly challenged Co- vode too contest which would determine whether lie is honestly entitled to the seat lie now holds ; but the investigator declines. He dare not trust to a verdict of the people of the district. He knows he would he overwhelmingly defeated. Many Republicans of Covede's district are disgusted with the injustice and partiality which was shown by the Rad ical majority in Congress when Henry D. Foster was deprived of the seat to which he was legally entitled. Covode knows that, and so he declines to be a candidate again. 'l' lie Fayette .Slumlord, a staunch Radical paper, says he can not be a candidate without being " dishon ored and defeated." The good people of that district know "Honest" John Co vode, and no amount of colonizing could save hint front being consigned to that obscurity from which lie ought never to have been suffered to emerge, He is a dead cock in the Radical pit. The Plegan Massacre Certain Republican newspapers at tempt to shield those who are responsi ble for the horrible butchery of the Piegan Indians; but the New York Tribune says: "The responsibility• for the Piegan mas sacre ought to lie at once fixed, and the offender punished. The fuels as develop ed by the It, inquiry show it to have been a most inhuman massacre, and wholly without just cause. (len. Sheridan in planning, and Gen. Sherman in authorizing the expedition, seem to have acted in viola tion of the peaceful Indian policy inaugh ted and clearly enunciated by the President; while the behaviour of the immediate par ticipants was cruel and monstrous beyond belief. ii ens. Stanley and Sully aria the Secretary oftho Interior condemn the action of the military authorities in the strongest terms. We expect to see the responsibility of this terrible crime fixed precisely where it belongs, no matter who is hurt. We trust present appearances may he incorrect; but in any event we want the exact filets." THE Georgia bill as presented in the House, was so foul a concoction of carpet bag rascality' that sixty Republicans voted to qualify it by the Bingham amendment. Against this the carpet baggers are raising their outcry, and the Radical press of the North echoes it. All this is in the hope that the wicked, brutal carpet-bag domination, which is a burlesque on free government, may be continued-a little longer for the per sonal profit of rogues like Whittemore, and imposters like Brigadier General Albert Ames, self-elected Senator from Mississippi. We say; govern the South openly by the sword, or rekore there the free popular government, which is the birth-right of American citizens; let us have done with these carpet-bag schemes for prostituting the forms of liberty to the purposes of a crew of plun derers. IN KANE county, 111., Frank Jackson has received a verdict of $lB,OOO against the Ch ieago and Northwestern Railway. He was employed by the company, and lost both his legs while coupling cars in November last. A law was passed in this State last winter by a Radical Legislature, and signed by Governor Geary, depriving employees of any railroad of the right of recovery in case of accident. JUDGE HOAR has gone home to Massa chusetts, and it is rumored in Washing ton circles that he has concluded to withdraw from the Cabinet. It is said he feels deeply the slight put upon him by the refusal of the Senate to confirm him as a Judge of the Supreme Court. A resolution has been passed through the lower House of our State Legisla ture, urging Congress to accord belliger ent rights to the Cuban patriots. The policy of Grant's administration in re gard to Cuba, does not seem to meet with favor from the American people. The vote in the popular branch of our Legislature in favor of recognition was almost unanimous, and it reflects the sentiment of the masses of our people. Judge Strong Sworn In Judge William Strong, of Philadelphia, was qualified yesterday, and took his seat as one of the associate justices on the bench of the Supremo Court of the United States. He was cordially welcomed by the Chief Justice and the other associate justices. Judge Strong's seat is the outside one on the right of the Chief Justice. He is re garded es one of the finest-looking men on the bench, State Items. The new jail at Easton is nearly fin The jail at Greensburg, Westmoreland county is tenantless. - The Post-office at Flieksville, Lehigh Co., has been discontinued. • An opera boats is tube built in Titus ville The 4.oeatilne r's'l,2oo pe ens. The Washington "County Jail has fourteen inmates—twelve males and two males. There are In the University of Penna., at Philadelphia, 797 students, 35 profes sors, 5 Instructors, and 4 teachers. resh shad are plenty in the :Reading market at from so cents to 'sl.oo each. They are brought from the South. f - A young man named Phaon Sell was recently burled alive by the Gavin in of the roof of an ore mine near Fogelsville Lehigh county. Mr. William Forsythe, of Birming ham township, Chester County, had a valuable horse stolen on Friday night, the 4th inst. . Prof. Coppee, President of the Lehigh University of South Bethlehem, left for Europe on the sth inst., accompanied by his daughter. Maj. F. J. Cope, of Hempfleld town ship, Westmoreland County slaughter ed two hogs recently that weighed 1222 lbs., net. Mr. J. 0. Collor and family left Read ing recently, with the intention to settle in the northern part of Missouri, to en gage in agricultural pursuits. There is an association of ladies In .Uniontown styled the Anti-slandering Society. They meet once every month at the residence of one of the members. The Allentown rolling mill netted a profit during the year ending December 31st, 1869,552,459.80. The rails cost $71.- 04 per ton, and were sold at $74.63 leav ing a profit of $3,60 per ton in the rail. The Franklin County Horticultural Society, at a meeting of its members, fixed upon the 10th and 11th of June next for holding the spring exhibition of fruits and flowers. A little boy at Greenwood furnace, Mifflin County, aged about three years, recently killed a little sister lying asleep in a cradle, by striking her on the head with a hammer. W. Baldwin, a little boy, six years old, son ofJohn R. Baldwin, West Brad ford, Chester county, recently fell and struck his head on the sharp edge of an ax, cutting his right ear and the side of his head severely. Norristown is getting a had reputa tion for burglaries and highway robber ies, and one lady WaS pursued on the street by a man, and had to take refuge in a house of a friend. Several ladies have been robbed recently. Recently the office of the Lehigh and Susquehanna Railroad Company at Al lentown was broken into and robbed of two overcoats belonging to the agent and telegraph operator, and sundryother articles that lay around loose. George W. - McFadden, a young man employed at the rolling mill of Alan Wood & Co., at Conshohocken, had his clothing caught in the machinery and was dragged through the couplings and instantly killed im the 7tlMnst. Thomas Jackson rescued a boy, named Higgins, from drowning in the river at Hollidaysburg the other day, by plung ing into the icy cold water and swim ming to his relief. The boy had broken through the ice. Such heroism deserves dl praise. Two large chill rolls are being manu factured in Reading, for a rolling mill at Coatesville, Chester county. The size of them are 0 feet 2 inches in length and 29 inches in diameter. They are the largest chill rollers ever manufactured in this country. A little daughter of Mi. Samuel Clen denning, of Lock Haven, aged 12 or Fl years, met her death last woek by fall ing against a board partition in the freight depot, striking her forehead and iiheek. • She died in ten minutes after the accident. The office of the coal yard of Peacock & Orth, corner of Second and Franklin streets, in Reading, was entered on Thursday night by breaking the bolt of the shutter, and seventy cents worth of stamps, and a double barrel gun, yalued at i:45, were stolen. The Bradywine Baptist church at Vhadd's Ford was dedicated a few days i ago. It is the third elmrchbuilton the Isnot where was founded, in 1775, the first regularly organized Baptist meet ing house in what was [hell known as Chester County. An ex-policeman named O'Brien, has been convicted at Erie of permitting a horse thief, whom he had in custody, to escape, in consideration of a larger sum than the reward offered for his capture. The punishment for the offence is im prisonment in the penitentiary for five years. A new oil well owned by a company of English capitalists, called the Button Well, was recently struck on the Central Petroleum Company's farm. It is yield ing from fifteen to twenty barrels per day, and has a powerful flow of gas, which, when lighted at night, Biomes the country for miles around. Great preparations arc being made by the different German societies of Phila delphia to hold a grand festival on Whit Monday, at Engle and Wolf's farm. A committee of arrangements from the Maennerchor, Sangerbund, Junges and Harmonic Societies has charge of the matter. A lot of Whiskey-suokers raided Shupe & Wade's Bonded warehouse at Mt. Pleasant, Westmoreland ('aunty, re cently and stole a half-barrel of '' Old Rye. ' The warehouse is over the hog pens and the thieves got into the latter, and bored a hole through the floor and " tapped a barrel. The Cumberland Alicyha,ian says the work on the Pittsburgh and Connells ville Railroad is progressing favorably. The contractor for the first ten miles east from Connellsville will have his contract finished as early as the Ist of July, when trains will run castwardly 1 that much further. • 1 On Monday the 7111., a mad dog made his appearance in Landingville Schuyl- I kill county, and bit fifteen dogs, and three men, named John Mill, Joseph Seibart, Jr., and Irwin Guertler, before lee was killed. The bitten dogs have 1 all been shot, and the men received medical attendance. 1 Thomas Cheyney, an old and re ' speetable citizen of \Vest Chester, met, on the Tile, inst., with c u e accident which ' resulted in his death. The old gentle man had arisen about live o'clock, and in coming down stairs fell, and in ' jured his spine and head that he died with in :in hour. Ile wets :WOW s:1 years of age. The Bethlehem understands that President Oaten, of Lafayette Col lege, reached Paris on the :list of Janu ary last, where he has since been doini cifed. On several occasions he has offleiated in the pulpit of the Anleriean Chapel in that city. Mr. Cattel is not expected to return to Easton before the Ist of July next. The Reading . Ef rill,' says that a gen tleman of that city recently went to the "far West," 19 miles beyond Harris burg! on business connected with a patent scrubber. He went out hunting one (lay and shot a " handsome fox with two brown ears and a brown rillg:lrOUnd his neck, and of a silver color all over." He also shot "1073 partridge., 5.5 pheas ant; and 7 ordinary foxes!" Recently while (teorge Lewis was crossing the Welsh Mountain, eu his way from Waynesburg, Chester County, he was attacked I.y a man whose inten tions were no doubt to commit a rob bery. In the scuffle Mr. Lewis fell from the wagon, when the thief got frightened and took to the woods, 'and in the darkness made his escape. The thief got nothing. A little daughter of Martin Frantz, aged about two years, was burned to death at Hellen, in Elk County, on the 4th inst. It appears that Mrs. Frantz, the mother of the child, had gone to the next neighbor's, a few rods distant, and on her return found the child's clothes almost enterely burned off its person. It lived a few hours in great agony, when death came to its relief. Jacob Snyder, of Butler county, chal lenges the United States to complete with two steers he has at present on hand. The steers will be six years old in May next. One is white and the other red. The white steer is six feet high and girths ten feet ten inches around the body, and weighs 3,423 pounds. The red steer is six feet two inches high, girths ten feet and two in ches around the body, and weighs 3,430 pounds. John Maitland and Job Nailor, of East Fallowileld, Chester county, met with a serious accident not long _since, in driving from Coatesville to Mode ville. They were on their way home, and passing along the road, which is very narrow, the horse shied and threw him over the embankment upon the railroad track—falling a distance of 20 feet. The wagon, which was nearly new, was mashed and Mr. Nailor had two ribs broken, and was rendered in sensible for some time. Mr. Maitland was able to unharness his horse and proceeded to the house of Mr. Young and obtained assistance. It was dark —fortunately there was no danger from the train, which bad just passed. Items of All Sorts. -. A Female Suffrage bill has been de feated in the Wisconsin Legislature. An Illinois dentisthaslatdto pay $2 , 50 for extracting a tooth trfakWfullY- It is believed the new.postage stamps will be ready for sale brake Ist of April. The Louisiana Legislature has passed a biltimx-tpon'mette mtinicipal elections in that State until November. The King of Prussia has "decorated " Miss Pauline Granville, an'English wo man, for her care of wounded soldiers at Kissin gen. Swedish and Norweigan emigrants in considerable numbers are coining to settle in Aroostook county, Maine, next summer. A " petrified snake," which has for some time beeu puzzling the savants in Indiana, has been discovered to be a tough pine knot. Rock county, Wisconsin, has not at present a dollar In bonds out neither is it paying Interest on a dollar of borrow ed money. A passenger train on the Flushing, Long Island. Railroad, was fired into on Friday night, and several passengers narrowly escaped being shot. There is great excitement in San Francisco over the recent gold discover ies in San Diego county, Cal., and many persons are emigrating to the place. In Williamsburg, Va., on Saturday night, two men mounted the same horse, when they were thrown against a post and both instantly killed. The Senate of Ohio, by anearly unani mousvote, has requested Congress, in ad justing the tariff, to favor agricultural interests, or at toast not discriminate against them. Three millions of dollars in silver are expected in New York from Canada this week, for the banks. One New York Bank is reported to have fifty-two kegs of silver in its vaults. The product of the National Copper Mine (Mich.) for February was 12. tons I,ooBlbs. It is reported that another several-hundred-tons mass has been met. Forty years ago there was such a noise made about a New Hampshire member of Congress sending home a package of ga.rdensceds under his frank, that the offender failed of reelection. In Ashley county, Arkansas, on the 26th ult., Warner K. Herning, while crazy from drink, shot and killed a school teacher named Johnson, and two colored men. "Two suicides of women, with razors, were reported yesterday. One was Eliza Geary, aged 59, of Jersey City, and the other ➢Lary Hedges, a young lady of Sag Harbor, N. Y. At Saco, Me., on Saturday, a sleigh containing John J. Sawyer, Oliver Tra cey and H. Partridge, was struck by locomotive. Tracey was killed and Sawyer fatally injured. A strong religious revival has for seine time past been going on at Cincinnati, and it is stated that the converts in 90 churches of that city and suburbs already number 2092. General Sheridan, on Saturday, issued a general order, annuucing the complete success of Colonel Baker's expedition against the l'iegans, and congratulating the people of Montana upon the pros pect of security which it gives. Washington, Washington County, is to have a Publio Library. Dr. F. L. Le Moyne, has given SlO,OOO, and the cells are providing the room—lire proof, in the new Tio.vn Hall. There will be a public reading room connected with it. 'Fhere were 348 deaths in Philadelphia last week—an increase of 2,5 compared with the return of the week previous. Of the deaths 05 were from consump tion, 26 from inflammation of the lungs, and 29 from scarlet fever. Terrence Cassidy, the man who threatened the President with assassi nation while lie was walking along Pennsylvania avenue, in Washington, on Thursday, has been examined and pronounced insane. The Grand Jury of the U. S. Circuit Court at Now Orleans has found sixteen indictments against ex-Collector Perry Fuller, and five others for conspiracy to defraud the revenue, and removing merchandise from the bonded ware house. The President has pardoned Thomas and Alfred Brown, colored, imprisoned in the New Hampshire penitentiary, for the murder of Addison 'furor, in Virginia, in 18ti5. They were tried by a military commission and sentenced to imprisonment fur life. In Congress, thus far, 1500 bills and resolutions have been introduced. The progress of the session has been so slow, and so many public measures are to be acted upon, that many members think there will not be an adjournment before July. Indian Superintendent Janney, being temporarily absent from the Northern Superintendency, that district is in charge of his daughter, who has been appointed a clerk there. The Indian Bureau received a report from the kidy yesterday. Salt Lake, in Utah, is seven feet higher than it was ten years ago, and is con stantly rising. 'lt has been urged by those who have paid attention to the subject that the rise of water there would produce a solution of the Mormon ques tion before Congress would act upon it. The latest returns from New Hamp shire, place Governor Stearns' majority at about 1200. In the Senate there will be six Republicans, four Democrats, one Labor Reformer, and a vacancy. In the House, the Republicans, will have about fifty majority. Pennsylvania is strongly represented in the hoard of directors of the new North Pacific Railroad, both in num bers and character. S. M. Felton, J. Edgar Thompson, and Charles B. Wright are the Philadelphia members, while the western section of the State is ably represented in George W. Cass. A snow storm prevailed, yesterday, throughout New York and the New England States, andialso throughout the Northwestern States. At Boston, the snow was nearly 12 inches deep, and it was apprehended that railroad travel would be delayed. In Wisconsin and Minnesota, there was a generaldeten tion of trains. ! The Adjutant General's Department has received notification of the organ i cation of a company under the militia law of the State, at Donaldson, Schuyl kill county, to be called "The Russell Guards." The following officers were elected: Captain, John A. Horn ; First Lieutenant, Bertram Trefsgar ; Second Lieutenant, John J. Tobias. The Grand Inquests of Washington County, have been examining the Poor llouses for said county, and they report it, badly located, illy contrived, insuffi cient in accommodations—in short a disgrace to the county, and recommend the building of "a new House in a more eligible situation with all the modern and necessary appliances. " The U. S Senate was not In session on Saturday. The House met for debate, about two dozen members only being present, and there was nothing of pub lic interest in the proceedings, exci , pt, perhaps, an endorsement by Mr. Eld ridge, Democratic member from Wis eonsin, of an editorial on the Georgia bill, which appeared in the Chicago Tribune, a Republican journal. Different ideas of what constitute ad equate punishment fur crime, prevail in Pittsburgh and Cincinnati. In Pitts burgh a short time since, the wife-mur derer, Campbell, was sentenced to a little less than ten years in the peniten tiary, for one of the must frightful crimes imaginable. Friday in Cincinnati a man was sentenced to thirty years for seriously stabbing a policeman. Among the many gallant men who went down with the Oneida were Lieu tenant-Commander W. F. Stewart, son of HMI. Andrew Stewart, of Uniontown, and Engineer J. W. Phelan, son of Hon. John Phelan, late a member of the Legislature from Greene county. They were both graduates of the Naval Acade my at Annapolis, and were young men of fine promise. The robbery of the Waverly N. Y., National Bank, took place early on Sun day morning. The doors of the vault and safe were blow open with powder, the explosion shattering the windows of the bank. The loss to special depos itors is large, to the bank small. There was no one in the bank on Saturday night or the following morning, and the robbers were doubtless aware of that , fact. At North Platte, Nebraska, yesterday, two burglars named Ward and Bates, were taken from the Sheriff's custody and hanged by a mob. There was evi dence 'against them showing that they had robbed a jewelry store some time since. A man named Keefe was robbed in North Platte on Saturday night, and so badly beaten that he is not expected to recover, and it was also believed that they were the robbers in this ease. The black coated gentry, the crows, evidently believe in the doctrine that it is good to exercise before breakfasting. They roost sometimes hundreds of miles from their feeding grounds, and may be heard every clear morning at early day break flying over head. A West Chester paper says that the crows in that vicin ity roost in the Jersey pines, and fly thither in huge flocks in the evening, returning again itithe Mortar:4 ; th Ches ter county for their daily nourishment. The Funding Bill—The National Ban'■ Get the Cramer In looking at the text Of the Funding bill as it passed the Senate on Friday it is evl dent ihat thismessare has been worked up for the special beirefit of the national banks, and that the apparent opposition of these institutions' was to cover up a gigantic se.heme for plunderingthe public. The last section of the bill contains the gist and purpose of ;it. Any banking association organized or to be organized, upon deposit ing with the Treasurer United States notes to any amount net less than fifty thousand dollars, may receive an equal amount of registered bonds of the kind provided for by section three of the act, and may deposit the same as security for circulating notes; and thereupon such banking associa tion shall be entitled to and shall receive circulating notes upon terms and conditions and to the extent provided in the National Bank acts. And now mark, this to be "without respect to the limitation of the aggregate circulation of national currency prescribed by such acts; provided, however, that as circulating notes are issued under this section an equal amount of United States notes shall be cancelled and destroy ed." Here, then, iu this insidious manner, and at one stroke, the legal tender notes are to be pushed out of existence and the whole currency of the country to be given to the national banks. The three hundred millions of national bank circulation is to be increased to six or seven hundred mil lions. There is no limit but in the amount of greenback currency, for which tho na tional bank notes are to be substituted.— The aggregate circulation, therefore, of the national banks, will lie little less than seven hundred millions. The only condi tion is that as fast as new banks aro organ ized and notes are issued to them, or an In creased issue is madeto the old ones,an equal amount of United States notes are to he cancelled mint destroyed. If this bill should pass the House arid the President should sign it we shall soon lose sight of the legal tenders. Mr. Chase's bull from the Supreme Court against this cheap currency of the people will ho thus practically car ried out. The father of the greenbacks dug the grave for his own offspring, and Con gress will close It up beyond the hope of resurrection. When the whole cireulation of the muntry is in the hands of the nation al banks it will be a long time before we see any other. These assisaations are far more powerful than the Bank of the United States was. They will control Congress, the administration and all the material in terests of the country, and, of course, for their own benefit. If it should not be to their interest to come to specie paylllelltS, or to remain on a specie basis, the people will be compelled to submit to a paper cur rency. And why should they desire a specie basis when they derive eniirmous profits 011 a purely paper circulation? Wlly should they want coin, which would yield them no profit, and which heal, no interest when held in their coffers? It scents to is that this Funding bill, in getting rid ot the legal tender notes and in giving the nation al banks the whole circulation of the couia try, will prevent a permanent return to specie payments and is ill perpetuate a very dangerous monopoly. A great deal has been saint In Mr. Sher man and those who favored Ins bill about the saving that would be made. Let us see how the bill will operate in this respect.— Suppose the three classes of new bonds, bearing a lower rate of interest, can be ne gotiated at par with our outstanding six per cent. securities, how much will be saved? On the first class of four hundred minions, bearing five per cent._ interest, four millions a year would Inc VaVell ; on the seen nit class °flour and a half per cents six millions it year would be saved; and on rho third class of four per cents, night I millions a yir would Intl saved. Up(111 the twelve hundred millions the aggregate saving would be eighteen, millions a year. It is doubtful if these bonds can be nego tiated at par fur six per vents, which have nosy risen to such a high value in the market. But, for the sake of argument, admit they ca n t, there is something to be placed as a balance against the eighteen millions saved. First, these bonds:out the annual illeollie from them are to be ex empt from all taxation by national, State, municipal, or local authority. This ex emption alone takes away a large portion of the eighteen millions proposed to be saved. Then one-half of one per cent. is to be given for negotiating the new bonds— that is the cost, will be six millions, inde pendent of the large expenses of the Treas ury Department in transferring the delit.— but, to proceed With this analysis of pre tended economy or saving, let us look at what the country will lose by changing the greenback currency into bonds. Four hundred millions of legal tenders turned into Live per cents would increase the an nual burden of the people twenty millions. But, take the four and a half per cents, as the medium class, and the yearly burden would be increased eigldeen millions, the full amount proposed to be saved by the bill in annual interest. So that there will be a positive loss to the Country of theyear- Iv exempted taxation on the bonds, besides the six millions job to foreign and home capitalists for negotiating them, and the other expenses of the Treasury. With even the reduced interest—and it is doubtful it the interest rata lee reduced through nego tiating the new hums for our present six per cents at par—the burden of the people would he increased some millions a year. Such is the financial legislation if our stupid representatives in Congress. The national banks derive a profit on their cireulation now of nearly twenty mil lions a year in gold. The Funding bill will increase that to thirty-two millions. Should gold go up by any cause again and specie payments be deferred, these lianks would have a yearly profit in eurreney on their circulation, probably of fifty mil -1 lions, or more. And why this enormous gratuity to private corporations? Thoy render no service in return. It is taking the money from the people and giving it to the rich without th • least consideration. In fact, it is strengthening and perpetua ting agigantic and dangerous monopoly that will control all the material interests of the country and absorb the profits and that in the end will be master of the gov ernment. If the six to seven hundred mil lions of ei roulation which the national banks will have were in, legal tenders, which would cancel that amount of interest-bear ing bonds, the saving WOlllll be now forty millions in gold a year, and even under the proposed reduction of interest would be some thirty-two millions. And is not the legal tender currency as grand ins or bet ter than national bank notes? We believe we should reach specie payments under the former sooner than under the latter. In deed, it is doubtful if the banks would ever desire specie payments, for they will derive the greatest profit from a paper circulation alone of their own notes. The Funding bill is wrongly Dallied. It should be called a bill " fur the, benefit of national bank as sociations."—N. Y. Herald. Meeting of Border Claimants, In accordance with previous notice, Mass Meeting of the Border Claimants of Franklin County was held in the Court llouse in the Borough of Chambershurg, on Wednesday, tho 9th inst. Maj. J. C. Austin. was called to the Chair; Jacob lloke, Hon. John Huber, John I 11.1. J. L. Black, J. W. Fletcher and Dr. E. Culbertson appointed Vice !'residents; lir. Win. 11. Boyle, .1. h. Brand and J. N. Flin tier chosen as Secretaries. The object of the Nisding being stated' A. If. McCulliell, Esq., offered the following Itesol utii inS, which were unanimously adopted : We tit:au:as, It has been frequently assert ed in certain newspapers of ;his State, that I the claims of the citizens of tile Border Counties fur losses during the Rebellion, have been assigned by them to third par ties, for a small consideration, and that such parties, for the purposes of speeula• tion, are endeavoring to preen re the pas sageof an Act of Assembly for the payment of said claims. And Nl;"hereas, such as sertions, published in respeetable newspa pers, are well calculated to excite undue prejudice and prevent a fair and candid consideration of the 13111 now before the Legislature far the relief of the citizens of the Border Counties: Therefore, Be it Resehic , /, By the ants of Franklin county, in >I ass Meeting assembled, That such allegations are en tirely without foundation, and utterly de void of truth; and, so far as this county is concerned, that not a single claim has been assigned, nor has there been at any; time env effort inaile to a...Nig - II zilch :Ed. That the citizens of the Border Counties having born the coninnat calami ties of war in 0)111111On with all the other counties of the Commonwealth, deem It but an act of simple justiee and right, that having been a break water for the hosts of the rebellion, they should be compensated for their losses to which their exposed sit uation subjected them. 'dd. That in order that the Bill now before the Legislature may be considered in a spirit of candor and j ustiee, and be disposed of upon its merits, we request the :News papers that have published these injurious and incorrect statements to recall the same. The Recent Jail Delivery In W. Virginia Orwarilzationa a Myth. WHEELINU, March 11.—The Kanawha Republican account of the jail delivery 011 the 2d instant differs very materially from the account given in Marshal Slack's letter to Governor Stevenson. It makes no mention of Ku-Klux organizations, and gives utterance to no alarm. It says that Cox and Whitlow, the former known as a horse thief and the latter as a counterfeiter, both of whom were in jail awaiting trial, concluded on Wednesday last that it was too long between term and term, and in broad day-ltght quietly made their exit. It is rumored that somebody turned them out who is now disposed to dispute the state ment. The article concludes with n sug gestion to change the doorkeepers and pro vide a more substantial jail. loddenDenth of o Doctor rand Wife-- finspiclong of Fool Plny BosTos, March 11.—It has transpired at Quincy, Mass., that Dr. Ebenezer Wood ward and his wife, who died suddenly at that place some months since, may have been poisoned. It seems that before the death of Mrs. Woodward she made a will in which she bequeathed to Dr. Ogden, who was to succeed her late husband in his professional capacity, ten thousand dollars. Doctor Ogden, It is rumored, pre vious to the death of Mrs. Wood ward, gave her domestic, with whom it is alleged, he bad been engaged in criminal Inter coarse on several 0e , ..40n5, a recipe for a cold, which had a druggist furnished, would have caused death, this circumstance, taken in connection with the bequest of Mrs. Woodward, gives a rumor that both the doctor. and Mrs. Woodward were poisoned. There have been no arrests made up to the present writing. THE LOSS OF THE ONEIDA Thrilling Account by One 'Who Went Down With the Ship—ket Diraeuloom Escape--Gallant Conduct and Heroic Death of Lieuten ant Commander Stewart. Wo are permitted to copy the following interesting extracts from a letter written to his sfstor y Mr. W. W. Crownlnshield, the clerk of Captain Williams, of the United States steamer Oneida. Tho letter was written without any view to publicalon, but the deep interest in the subject makes it of special importance and value: YOKOHAMA, Japan, January 31. The Oneida is no more! but, thank Heaven, I am one of the surxivors of an awful catastrophe. We started two days ago with our ship for Hong Kong, and in two hours our good vessel was at the bot tom, having been run into by an Eng lish strainer belonging to the Peninsula and Oriental Company. All are drowned but Dr. Suddards, Mr. Yates, t he boatswain, fifty-two men, and myself. My escape was most miraculous. At the time of the collision I was asleep in the cabin, on the transom, at about ten minutes to seven in the evening. The steamer struck us near the fore part of the cabin. I found myself on the floor, Just coming to from being stunned, and on opening my eyes I saw the whole stern was cut MT and all exposed to the starlight. I had sense enough to climb out of the stern over to the spar deck, and to look down into the cabin to see If Captain Williams was there, but could not see him. I seizeti a cap within reach and put it on with the strap under my chin. I had on a tide): suit, overcoat, and boots. I went to the quarter-deek, met Paymaster Tulloek, amid inquired how the ilisaster happened. I met Captain Williams and told him ho, serious the damage was. Ho was going on the bridge. I spoke to one or two more officers, told finding the ship was sinking, I went into the main rigging, and in five minutes one good ship commenced to sink rapidly. I was ten feet above tan rail, when she had sunk so as to have the water reach net, I pushed myself as far away front the ship as I could, but the vor tex carried me down, and it was a long time ere I came to the surliest. When I did I saw nothing of the ship, but many heads above water. I saw tweet' our Istats near by toe, and had just strength enonalt to reach her. I was pullet! on board exhaust ed, and found Mr. Yates, with tffirty-sei eit of the crew, on hoard. We steered for the nearest land, four miles :may as near as I ,',told judge. I was nearly frozen, and soon had a chill, but aller a while w I,lllli !War till' brnvh, 1111,1 11111,1(1 a 1111111- illg in 011 1 Sllll, where I teas j u.t 111,10 tO get ashore, being very still with the roll!. WO reached a Japanese village and found shelter and rest for the night, twenty-eight miles from Yokohama. My !wart is too full to tell you more of in v • self, although all I had went down in tile ship. Captain Williams anted as bravely as he has always done. Ile would not leave his post nil the bridge, although he was al nn tst pulled :may, and when urged by M r. Yates, replied, "I go don n with my ship," A petty officer urging hint to go, lie grasped the iron rail, and said "No, this is my plum, and here I remain." tiod bless him! tho country and rho world have lost a noltlo telleer, who died rather than leave what be. considered his post of duty. 'This her. conduct was followed by t.vory tffileer and man on board the ship; not a 10,111 , 110 had a station left it, but fatted death in such manner that makes rue feel prowl; we've, Americans, and were it not In you till at home, I could wish I Was locked in their arms. Through all that I have passed during my life, nothing has tnadc such in imprus slim upon me. 1 will SCV each and tit ory of these wino have gone, and they all le' • each other ti , l 11111011 They Were proud of their country and took such interest in its prosperity! In that devoted hand there were many thoughts, b u t only one heart. The Oneida was the favorite ship of lie, station. cella you see what the popular feeling was here front every one, VOll ,011111 think that all loved the ship and introffitanst better than I did. We left the port nuttier the most favorable auspices, the Mhip 111,1110- ward hound. All the men-of-war cheered us, the merchant ships dipped their flags, telling us of their good wishes for a safe and plete.ant passage home. But in tine boor wo were facing death as only Americans do, for not a 'mintier, not a try was heard when the good ship Oneida (which had thew her duty through the wart was sink in gmitil everyone knew that :lant death. Through all my experience during the war, I nail nothing to compare with it. But I tattitne write more—my heart is too hill, Shall ever get over it? is Willa I ask nlystlit January 29.—Nothing has been "ward from the ship or of the erns ; rest have gone down to the depths of the sea. Some pieces of the wreck have been seen along the shore, and aiming them all empty trunk of mine Yvhich was stlowetl away. Boats have bum looking out and tiro still doing as Kir any bodies which !nay come to the surface. The 511111 . 14 m a ne th a t ran into us Is the Bombay. The captain is having an inves tigation, both as regards the collision and his conduct in leaving us. It will go bard with him, for had he stopped and lowered his boats be could have saved nearly all on board. Our Minister is conducting the ease 011 behalf of the living and the dead, and the case is strong against the British. January 3l.—The investigation drags slowly along. Last evening they found the ship, and have marked the spot. The ends of the roasts are visiable some foot a two at low water. No bodies louse been found yet; but it is hardly time for any to appear the water and weather being to cold. In a day: or two we shall have the painful duty Of identifying them, its all Japanese fishermen have orders, millet penalty ttf death, to bring 1111 osi to Yokohama. The following letter, detailing the loss til the United States st.oner Oneida and the gallant souls who mminanded and sailed her, has been received by Mr. Andrew Stewart. of LMiontown, Pa. llow bravely 1 Lieutenant Commander Stewart tort his death is feelingly told by the writer: (is BOARD Tali A nottsTottg, Bay oF J Else°, J span, Jan . 30, Isla. Mr. A no !reit , Nieuwe • iffy DEA a Sin—A sad, sad duty is mine. sly heart aches and my pen almost refusen to write words that sviii rend y o ur heart and carry mourning to your household. Your son, Lieutenant Commander Wm. Stewart, went down with his ship (the Oneida) and nineteen eomrades, I: a nansakl Point, On the night of January 2-1, The particulars of this terrible disaster, which has sent 1 - returning to so many households, I will not detail to you, Mr by the time this reaches you the papers will make them known, and publish to tho world the inhuman, brutal desertion of the Oneida by Ca pt. Evre, of the Pacific and Oriental Mail steluner Bonffiay. At Btu time the Bombay struck the Oneida the officers were at dinner In the ward rtgulll I half-past six P. M.). All rushed on deck and took their several positions. Fro m the bridge Lieutenant Commander Stewart hailed the Bombay saying, "Ship ahoy! Stand by us; you've cut us down!" Bin the Bombay kept on and made nu reply. Again he cried, 'For God's sake stand by; you have cut us ill two!" But no answer, and un this Bombay went. Your Mill awl one of the midshipmen (Adams) loaded and tired three guns; the engineer turned on the whistle—all of which the captain of the Bombay says he (lid not hear, and did not even stop to see what damage he and done, which, had he have done, all or nearly till might have been saved. Tw tint y miles away, at Yokohama, the gulls were dis tinctly heard, and still this brute of a enp-. tain—not more than a mile assay--says Ito did not hear them, ur see the flash. The Oneida had but three boats, ono of which was cut into by the collision and the tailor two word tilled with into, the offieers refusing to take to than. The oflitter of the (leek, .1, J. Yates, who is saved, says he Vied to get the raptaln INVilnatlis) and your son to get into one Of the heats, hilt they both refused, the captainsaying, "No, I'll go down with Ow ship," and your son replying, "My duty is hero, nut in the boat." Nothing could have been more heroic. As he went down he said, "My (lot'! this is the way we must die," Ile was last seen in the water swimming for one of the boats. Never was heroism more heroic—never bravery more brava The Minister (Mr. De Long) and myself break • fasted with them all on board at I o'clock I'. M., of that day, and your son expressed himself ns drmuling for some reason to go to sea. lie had gotten leave 1, gu home from Hong liming by Pacific Mail steam ship, via San klaneisco, and rather eXpeet ed the Admiral would send up his relief to Yokohama, but as he did not he was going. (long Kona - with the Oneida rind return by Prwitie Mail. The Minister has chartered the late grin brad Aroostook and we are doing all in our power to secure the bodies and property, and rest assured that as tenderly mid oarn estly will thev be cared for and forwarded as it is possible for them to lie. Fur any inquiries in regard to or requests in relation to this sad, sad affair, or for anything, com mand me at any tine. My svmpathv and tears mingle with yours, anti may Isle who holds us all (vi in the hollow of his hand from fort and uphold you. Yours truly, sympathizingly, tenderly, C. O. SHEPHERD, Mited States Consul, Jeddo, Japan. THE CITY OF BOSTON The City of Boston Finppoked to Have Been neon In Distress----('he Gale Very Heavy. NEW Pons, March I.l.—The following despatch has been received this afternoon : LIVERPOOL, March 1.1.--The hark Mary Johnson, front 14ahia, Brazil, has arrived it this port to-day. The captain reports on the 13th of February, latitude 50 north, longitude 24 west, they passed a large steamer which was hove to and heading northeast. She displayed the British colors and signals to denote that her machinery was broken down. She had two white stripes and one red on her funnel, about two-thirds of the way up, and her captain thinks she may have been the missing steamer City of briston. The gale was very heavy at the time and the Mary Johnson was not able to stop or get near enough to make closer observations. . . [NOTE.—The Inman line authorities iu New York state that the funnels in their ships are not marked in the manner de scribed above, and hope that owing to the great distance tho captain of the Johnson may have been mistaken in his observa tion. The locality given Is precisely tvhere the City of Boston ought to have been on the date given. While the agents are of the opinion that the steamer was ono of the Allan (Portland) line, they admit thepos sibility of lie being the City of Bostou:] A number of Easton moneyed, met' have failed In an attempt to dibtatn I. charter for a State Bank. ty;
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