Lancaster 3ln tigenter. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 27, 1870 The Way to Genteelly Steal a Fortune. We print to-day a long article from the Philadelphia Ledger calling atten tion to the manner in which the country is being robbed by the appropriation by Congress to projected railroads of im mense areas of the public lands and to the mode in which the people are being fleeced by obtaining from them loans of money to build these roads and giving them in return as their only security for their money, mortgageg which are sever al times greater in amount than the en tire sum which is required for the con struction of the railroads. The article is worthy of great attention, because of the facts which it Contains and the well founded nature of the charges which It makes. The time was, when it would have derived great additional force from the fact that it appeared •in the Ledger, a paper which has de voted great attention to subjects of this nature, and which has, until recently, borne the highest sort of reputation for independence and probity in its treat ment of fina4ial matters. We are sorry that we cannot now ask our readers to give any additional credit to this article apart from thntwhich its statements in trinsically merit, because of the source whence they emanate; since the pro found silence which the Ledger saw fit to maintain in regard to the attempted rob bery of nine and a half million dollars by railway corporations from the State of Pennsylvania—a robbery similar in character, but far worse in degree, to those on which it now animadverts so severely—we have lost our confi dence in the disinterested honesty of its management. It is fair also to state that the Northern Pacific Rail road, to the stealing ulcerations of whose managers: the Ledger's article is ''specially directed, is not being manipu lated by Drexel k Co., the largest own ers of the Ledger, but that Jay Cooke & Co., are its chief backers; and it is per haps, under the. recent lights we have had as to Ledgc ( r criticism, not unchar itable to suggest that this fact may ac count for some of "the milk in the cocoa nut." But whatever may be the motives which, have caused our cotemporary to denounce the manner in which the Northern Pacific Railway and other railroad corporations, are robbing the country of thousands ~r Square miles of the public lands and the people of mil lions of dollArs in exchange for mortgage securities of small value, we arc well satisfied that its facts arc well founded and that its statements arc just and true; IL tolls an over true talc of the way in which we are being despoiled and its attempt to open the eyes of the public to the manner of their undoing, should meet with strong support from the Press. The building of Haiku:lds has got to be by far the most profitable business in which men—whose morality is not of the most approved order—can engage. The business requires no capital, but unblushing "cheek" and unlimited au dacity. The plan of operation is very plain and simple. The half-dozen gen tleman about to commence business, meet together and it being distinctly understood that no losses can possibly be incurred—except perhaps certain ad vertising and other preliminary ex penses,-they unanimously agree that under the circumstances they arc willing to share the profits of the enterprise; we find in these "ground floor" companies gentlemen like Oakes Ames, of Massa chusetts, who have an equal reputation for wealth and rascality, and brokers such as Jay Cooke & Co., who, besides enjoying a reputation for wealth, are useful to SheVe the !Meek, having ac quired large experience in that line in disposing of the United States loans during the war, in which little opera tion also, by their way, their wealth and their baronial castles at Jinkintown were aequired ; the money being that hardly earned by the people and wrung from dicta by the las-gatherer. Well, the etimpany being homed, the next step is to look ever the country and to select l ine bust points to ,onneet with a long line of railroad ; for it must be re collected that these ineu are not wholly vicious and de Intl intend to defraud the people nowt. than they can help; they are therefore perfectly willing to 11x upon a good route for their road, if it do n 't ~,st any more than a poor one. The stork of the road is then fixed at any figure MI iell may be deem ed desirable, and is all divided among its projectors. A r”ligh c,ti mote of the cost of the road is lil a •wisr made and mortgage bonds am directed to be pre pinvil fur about Iwire this amount. The next step is to adverti, these bonds all over the country, professional writers being employed to get up glowing, de scriptions of the r,:td. :mil the press be ing subsidized all ever the country 'to pull' it in their editorial colum , . The bonds sold pay all the expensesof build ing the road, and likewise all the inter est upon the mortgage accruing before the road is put ill running order. The projectors hold all the stock, which has cost them nothing, elect themselves di rectors, and manage the roatl at their own sweet will and'pleteetre. Iftheirroadl runs tl u •ough the pultlic domain they seek large appropri;:tions of lands to:aid its building, on thcspeciouspretextthat they are adding to the value of the land which tla: government ha.; left by thus developing the country. If their road is located in any of the States, they go to the Legislature and by exercising a judicious liberality they Me able to secure an appropriation of funds from the State Treasury. Thus would the Sinking Fund of Pennsylvania have been robbed but for the interference of (leary, to whom be all praise and honor for his conduct in this matter. And thus this winter has that distin guished reprobate Oakes Ames got from the State of Louisiana an appropriation of three million dollars for the building of a line of railroad front :New Orleans to Houston, Texas, notwithstanding another large capitalist offered to build the road without 101 appropriation, if he was granted a charter ; but he could not get it, because Ames and his friends used live percent. of their three million appropriation, to bribe the Legislature. Our readers who think of investing in the mortgage securities of any of the numerous railway corporations which are now being extensively advertised, should examine well into their charac ter before doing so. Some of these com panies, we know to be good and an in vestment in their securities would lie, judicious and limit table one. To make a secure investment the proper way is to apply the same test that you apply when investing in a mortgage on houses or farms; and that is,to ascertain the real value of the properiy, sue that you have a first lien upon it and then lend upon only up to hail' of what /pa Mink it is worth ; dealing thus with railroad mort gages, your• investment is safe and pro fitable. nth; Supreme Court of the United States, Wednesday,sustai ned i ts &vision on the Legal 'render question. One of the eases was dismissed, and the other, the Griswold-Hepburn, was refused a rehearing. The latter is the case in which the Court recently decided tha the Legal 'render act does not affect con tracts made pine to its passage. W0.31.1N Suffrage has recently received a severe blow at the home of its princi pal agitators. In Boston the Massachu setts House of Representatives rejected the proposed amendment to the consti tution, enabling women is vote and hold office, by a vote of 133 to IX The Democrats of West Virginia will hold their State Convention in Charles ton, the new State Capital, on \Willies- June 8. The call is addressed to all liberal-minded minded men who favor the repeal of all proscriptive laws now in force in the State, and the enactment of such measures as will give the State :character abroad and harmony and pros perity' at home. NHL LANCASTETtIVIN - MLLIGETOE - W . wiTYNESDA : I r , APRIL 27,1870. Let the Rights of the Black Man be Re cognised by the Radicals of Lancaster County. Now that the Fifteenth Amendment is an accomplished fact, we shall wait with no little anxiety to see whether the Radicals of Lancaster County will consent to share the spoils of office with their colored fellow-citizens. It would, perhaps, be asking a little too much, if we should demand that a negro be cho sen to fill the seat vacated by Thaddeus Stevens. Our present talented member is entitled to a re-nomination, and we do not suppose he would give way even to Fred. Douglass, or any other candi date, white or black. If Mr. Dickey were out of the road, we should strongly urge the claims of the colored gentle man who lately shared all the hospital ities of an ex-Congressman in this city, sleeping in his best spare chamber, din ing with his family, and holding a levee in his parlor. There would be some thing peculiarly expressive in having Old Thad's district represented in Con gress by Fred. Douglass, or some other talking negro. It would furnish an op portunity for an amount of sentimental twaddle that would enliven the Express, raise the Examiner and the Inquirer out of the profound depths of their dullness, and cause the Volksfreund to glow with wit as clear and sparkling as the best Lancaster lager. As Colonel Dickey is determined to be re-nominated for Congress, we must give up that pleasant dream ; but there are other openings for the American citizens of African descent. The Radicals have had very bad luck with their members of Assembly of late years. Somehow, it seem to be im possible for them to pick out honest white men to represent them in the lower House of the State Legislature. Herr, Gottschalk and Wiley—every one of the last batch except Reinoehl—were in the big railroad steal. Suppose our Radical friends try a couple of negroes for that position—make a fair divide, amalgamate on equal terms, and give us a " alf and ttlf" delegation. That would illustrate the great doctrine of equality, and be regarded as an act worthy the great Republican majority n the county which was the home and is the burial place of Thaddeus Stevens. It is not likely that brother Cut!, the Pastor of the African Church in this city, would make poorer speeches than Reinoehl, and we are sure that Joe Le bar would be an improvement in mn ners and deportment upon many of the members from the rural districts whom the Radicals have selected under the Crawford County System, and it would be hard for any black man to become so completely identified with the ring as were a majority of the white roosters who have from time to time misrepresented this great county. Rutty Patterson thinks the Radicals are " making d—d fools of the niggers," and he would not be likely to prove a popular candidate in the rural strongholds of the Republican party, or we would be disposed to urge his claims for some office. Brother Bos ton might make a good Prison Inspec tor. He could at least tell whether the heads of the convicts were properly shaved, and would not be likely to shave the tax-payers as deep as did the white scamps who are reputed to have sold their vote for Prison Keeper. We are in earnest about this matter. If the stuff with which Radical news papers are filled be true, the negroes of Lancaster county have as much right to hold oflice as any white man. Grant ing that, is it not clear that great in justice will be done the blacks if one or more of them are not given a place on their county ticket l i ds fall? Shall it be said that the burial place of Thad deus Stevens has " gone back on" the race which he loved so dearly in life? Shall not the principles of perfect equal ity cunt practical amalgamation which he practiced be carried out in his late home, to their legitimate conclusion under the auspices of the Fifteenth Amendment and the Crawford County. System ? We shall expect Adjutant Iteinochl lu retire gracefully front the contest in favor of Brother cuff, and shall confi dently look to see the claims of Brother Boston and perhaps some other Ameri can' citizens of African descent ably championed by the Ituhcal newspapers of the county. The Columbia Spyspoke in the most glowing terms of the elo quence of the Tow Hill darkeys—let it bringout oneofthoseorators who "spoke as no white man can speak ;" for Congress or the Legislature. Let the newly appointed Notary Public strike ono hold stroke for the rights of the ne -gr,,s of ToW I lilt ; let the Expo. urge the claims of 13rother Cull . ; let the :champion Brother Boston with all the sonorousness of its teutonic thunder; let the Examinor set forth the merits of its dusky favorite; let all the combined abilities of the great lights of the Christiana debating club aid Greist in showing the unsurpassed and 'instil . - passable excellence of some rural "dick" from that section of the county, taking care that it he not one of the Gorsuch murderers. If our cotempora ries believe the doctrines which they preach let them give evidence of the soundness of their faith biy their works. This is a fruitful theme, and we shall recur to it front time to time. We are determined that the Radicals of Lancas ter county shall not "go back on" the negro if we can help it. They must toe the mark or answer fur such a gross breach of faith, such an utter disregard of all their professions. To-day they have an excellent opportunity to de clare themselves on this question. Their colored fellow-citizens invade our city in numbers to celebrate their enfran chisement. White orators orate to them and the colored folks expect to receive distinct assurances that they will be permitted a share of the loaves and fishes. Let them not be disappointed. For ourselves we loudly declare that we favor the rights of the blacks to a share of the Mikes under the control of the Republican party ; and our cotempor :tries had better come up to our stand point or we will get ahead of them in the esteem of the colored folks. The Death of Lopez The Paraguayan war is doubtless ended by the death of Lopez, the dicta tor of the State, and the man whose indomitable pluck and obstinacy has enabled his country to carry on a six years war with llrazil. Lopez was sud denly attacked on the first of March, at his Camp on the Aquidavan river, where he lay with a lOW men, by the Brazilian (,leneral Camara ; his force was routed and he, with his son and a number of his ollicers, was killed. He was but thirty-nine years old and dur ing his life has attracted a very large share of the world's attention. lie is generally considered to have been a cruel tyrant; but his reputation is prob ably blacker than it would have been, hut for the fact tint most of our infor mation regarding him has conic to us through hostile channels. As lie has been beaten in his stniggle, we presume that the lapse of time will not tend to add ally brightness. to his memory, as as there will be inducement to none, to champion and whitewash a fallen man. RECENTLY Wendell Phillips lectured in Boston on the subject " In Christian ity no 'substitutes,' and no 'mustering' out." It was a most remarkable dis course. Among other things he said : I would rather have one great act of social instice, acceptable :mil intelligible to the workingmen, men and women of New Eng land, than a million of pulpits preaching the Sermon on the :Mount,. Yet this man is an accepted exponant of what • right and pure and good in Radical minds. And again You can light the devil with a prayer meeting; prayer-meetings are good enough, but they do not go far enough,: There are people who will call all this smart and original ; but if it is not also disgusting and degrading, what is it 7 The Corruption in Legislation The corruption in legislation is a popular theme with newspapers, and one upon which ,they have o great deal to. say. Our country is governed so much, our Legislatures are so numerous and they meet so often, that the discussion of what they are about to do keeps the pen of the editor and the correspondent busy during a large portion of each year; and the enactment of laws of late years is so universally influenced by corrupt and improper motives that the voice of the press is almost incessantly heard In con demnation of the law-makers. But not withstanding all this aminadversion, the evil, instead of lessening, seems each year to increase its proportions. It is no longer a mark of honorable distinction to be hailed as a member of a State Legislature ; but what the posi tion has lost in honor it has gained in profit. 'The prefix of "Hon." is no longer appropriate, the word honorable being in no manner descriptive of any quality possessed by a modern legislator; the letters "Pur." would be more aptly used as indicating the purchasable char acter of the individual, or "Pro." as showing the profitable nature of his position, or perhaps "A A A." might be properly prefixed to his name, being the letters used by Bradstreet to denote the pecuniary responsibility of the wealth iest merchants. The newspapers are eagerly discus sing the question as to whether there is not some way by which corruption may be weeded out of our Legislature. It is of course conceded that this may be done, by sending to the Legislature men who cannot be corrupted ; indeed is quite a self-evident proposition that the adoption of such a policy as this would secure us honest legislation, and accordingly this 'plan is warmly urged by many newspapers. But then, you know, " to cook your hare you must first catch it ;" and to catch a man who would make an incorruptible legislator, and who would assume the office, will be found to be a feat of such difficulty, that if we awaited its accomplishment to convene our Legislatures, the meet ing of those bodies would be apt to be centennial instead of annual. There is no doubt, however, that we might get better men to send to the Legislature than we do get, and that the character of that body for honesty might be great ly improved. These places are largely sought now by dishonest men, for the sole purpose of making money dis honestly, by bartering away the powers of legislation which the people have con fided to them. Men of good repute among us might be preferred by the people to such men as these, if they had an unbiased choice and knew the char acter of the candidates ; but there is no man who is known to all the voters of the county, and it is the easiest thing in the world for the dishonest candidate to pass himself off as the champion of re form. He expects to make large sums of money out of his position if elected, and therefore can afford to spend a great deal of money and time in per suading the people to select hint. Islore over the people have very little to do, even in the Crawford County System, with the selection of their nominees for office ; the politicians take the business out of their hands; and not being above suspicion themselves, they do not in quire too critically into the moral char acter of the candidates whom they sup port ; in fact many of them would de cline to have anything to do with a too scrupulous aspirant for the Legislature, as they would consider the man a fool who would not, if elected, use his posi tion to make the largest possible sum of money fur himself and for themselves, his friends. We have very little faith then in the practicability of our selecting better men for the Legislature than we now have so long as there is so annum money to be made at law-making; nor do we believe that if we (11(1 elect men who bore in our communities fair reputations for honesty, that they would preserve them long after reaching our State Cap itols. Honesty won't keep in that at mosphere,any more than meat will stay sweet in hot weather. We believe that the only Nvay to stop dishonest legislation is to put all end to the great temptations that beset the legislator; tem Mations so great that experience has shown that very few are able to successfully resist them. To stop these temptations the heavy hand of the late or of public opinion must lie laid upon the management of our mammoth railroad corporations; it is the dishonest onleers of these com panies who are responsible for the evil of which we complain; controlling im mense sums of money they are able to otter large sums as bribes to secure the legisl.•ation they de , ire. And not content with bribing Legislators, they essay to buy the silence or the approval of influential newspapers, so as to make the weight of public opinion bear less heavily upon their iniquity. These great corporations, whose real interest it should lie to preserve the honor and to promote the glory of the State which protects them, and front whom they de rive their being are, as now managed by their corrupt officers, sedulously en gaged in planting in the Commonwealth the seeds of dissolution. For who be lieves that a State can long exist in which gross corruption exists in all the branches of its administration? Let then the public eye, in looking for the means of reform, be directed towards these corporations; and let us try to devise some way by which they may be placed under the control of men who will scorn to use their great power to corruptly influence legislation. The Radicals in Congress find it very difficult to get Georgia reconstructed to their satisfaction. It has gone through their mill several times, and the Legis lature of the State has already elected at different sessions, at least: two sets of United States Senators. The trouble with (;eorgia is that the people of the State, negroes and all, will persist in voting tie Democratic ticket when they are left alone ; and our Radical friends are at their wits end to devise means by which the accomplishment of this wicked purpose of the people can be prevented. The present Governor of Georgia, Bullock, and the present Legis lature scent to be very much to the Rad ical taste, and a bill has been introduced into Congress by the Reconstruction, Committee which was intended to perpetuate their terms of office. It came to grief, however, in the Senate on Tues day last, being materially modified by important amendments. It had previ ously passed,the House of Representa tives, after-helng modified by the adop tion of the following :Intendment offered by Mr. Bingham, one of the more con servative ofthe Republican members: "Neither shall this act be construed to extend the official. term of any officer of said State beyond the term limited by the Constitution thereof, dating front the elec tion or appointment of such officer, nor to deprive the people of ll eorgia of the right, under their Constitution, to elect Senators and Representatives of the State of (leorgia in the year 1870; but said election shall be held in the year 1570, either on the day named in the Constitution of said State or stub other day as the present Legislature may designate by law." This amendment which was intended to prevent the perpetuation of the pres ent (lovernment and Legislatu re of Geor gia for two years longer, as provided in the original bill, was bitterly fought by lien Butler and his disciples, but was adopted, the Democratic members vot ing for it and the bill as am ended_was passed, the Democrats voting against it. When the bill came up in the Senate, however, an amendment offered by Senator Pomeroy was adopted in place of the Bingham amendment and after wards as a substitute for the whole bill, the Democratic Senators all voting for it. It declares the existing Government of Georgia provisional, constitutes it the Third Military District, and directs an election for a Legislature on the 15th of [next [November. An amendment was afterwards adopted authorizing the President to suppress violence in the State; as also was another, which pro vides for calling Into service the militia of the State. The bill passed the Senate finally by a vote of 27 to 25--none of the Democratic Senators voting, while the minority was composed of Sumner and all the most radical of the Republean Senators. The bill now goes back to the House, where it will probably be again amended and there is no telling when poor Georgia will finally conclude its shuttle-cock career between House and Senate and finally know its fate. The bill as it has left the Senate, vir tually defeats the plans of the Bullock carpet-baggers; the Democratic Sena tors managed their votes very skillfully to secure the modification of the bill, and although it is bad enough as it is, we have reason to congratulate our selves upon the success of our repre sentatives in preserving us from the mucli greater evils of the original bill. The Northern Pacific Railroad The Northern Pacific Railroad specula tors have succeeded in forcing their bill through the United States Serrate, and unless the lower House shows more vir tue than the upper has,which is hardly to be expected, the clique of Philadelphians who are engineering this inchoate Railroad project, will very soon be able to congratulate themselves upon the brilliant success which has crowned their bold scheme of plunder. The United States will have given away to them for nothing, lands and privileges worth many millions of dollars; and they will immediately proceed to realize out of them ten times more than they are really worth, by otti ring them as the sole security for immense loans. They will advertise all over the country, that they have issued and offer for sale a seven per cent loan of the Northern Pa cific Railroad at SA, interest and princi ple payable in gold in fifty years; that it is secured upon millions of acres of the most fertile land in the world, and upon other millions, chock full of all the pre cious metals and minerals, and likewise upon several thousand miles of railway running through a country flowing with milk and honey, w here there is per petual summer, and where therefore snow sheds to protect the railroad are not needed. The farms, and the miner als, and the railroad (every mile of which earns dividends at the rate of 50 per cent as soon as the rails are laid on the ground,) they will declare, are esti mated by those who have exam ined them in every nook and corner, to be worth many hundred of millions of dollars, and that upon them the company—which consists of half-a dozen or so of- Philadelphia sharpers and many members of Congrees—only desires to borrow the small sum of thirty or forty millions; a mere flea bite compared to the real value of the prop erty. The accomplished gentlemen who will write up the advertisements fur the party, will state all this and a great deal more, Awe of the same na ture, drawing freely upon their imagin ations to procure seductive facts, and striking language in which to clothe them ; and the people no doubt will be so tickled by the glowing representations of the new Garden of Eden found on our northwestern boundary., that they will rush forward in an innumerable throng, all eager at once to buy the bonds of the Northern Pacific, fearing lest very soon it may be announced that they are all sold and that their chance for a fortune is gone. It is even to bo apprehended that in their high wrought excitement they may be so unjust as to curse the memory of James K. Polk and Janice Buchanan, because they did not insist, when they were respectively Presidcut (toil Secretary of State, upon obtaining front Great Britain the boun dary line of 54° 40' , or tight for it until the last num in the country expired. "See" they will be tempted to exclaim, " how, by their cowardice in accepting the boundary line of 49°, they lost to us this immense strip of the most fertile and magnificent land in the world, five degrees ill width and stretching from the Lake of the Woods to tile Pacific ; land, which Congress, if the United States had owned it, would have given in fee simple to this glorious Northern Pacific Railroad." And they will forget i u their indignation that poor Pierce and Buchanan had not then been enlightened by glowing descriptions of the value of this region and had rashly concluded it was of little account because of its close contiguity to the frigid zone. The Northern Pacific Railroad pro jectors are very fortunate men. As de velopers of the uninhabited country in the North, they will be hailed as bene factors of the race, and will merit a monument of enduring ice, erected on the summit of the coldest and highest peak on their property. They will, moreover, borrow much money ; and, appropriating to their own uses a large share of it in a very genteel way, they will raise robbery to the dignity of a science, and will acquire great wealth. It Made all the Difference Mr. J. Hale Sypher very nearly be came a Congressman on Wednesday. Mr. Sypher is a Pennsylvanian, who ran for Congress in 21 Louisiana District and had the misfortune to be beaten by his competitor, Mr. St. Martin, who had what we Wi.old consider in this neighborhood a very handsome majo rity, it being 9,014; the Election Com mittee of the House of Representatives seemed to think it of very little account, and calmly proceeded to wipe it entire ly out, and to find a majority for Mr. Sypher. They reported to the House that Mr. S. was elected, and on Wed nesday that body by a vote of 78 to 73, came to the same conclusion, and the Speaker called on the Honorable Sy pher to come forward and be sworn into Mike. Sypher stock just then was high, but in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, it went down to zero and came to naught. It must be known that the high-tariff men and the low-tariff men are pretty evenly divided in the House, the duty having been low ered on pig iron the other day by a ma ;OH ty of Inn two or three; single votes:are therefore important. So that when Mr. Brooks, of New York, arose on Wednes day, as Mr. Sypher was corning up to be sworn, and objected On the ground that a bargain had been made with Sypher by the iron interest of Pennsyl vania to have his vote on their side, there was great commotion among the free trade Republicans of the - West. Our Philadelphia Kelly had been indiscreet, and had been overheard telling this ar rangement to sonic of his friends. The fact that Mr. Sypher was a tariff man, worked a sudden change in the belief of his Radical friends as to the legality of his election as a member from Louisiana, and Mr. Moore, Radi cal, of Illinois, moved a reconsideration of the vote by which he was declared elected. The motion was adopted by S 5 yeas to 79 nays. The reconsideration being thus carried, a resolution was at once adopted by a vote of 100 yeas to 69 nays, that there had been no valid elec tion in the First Congressional district of Louisiana and that neither Sypher nor St. Martin were entitled to the seat. The speedy change of sentiment and conversion to righteousness of these Republicans is very remarkable ; it has no rival in its suddenness except that of Saul. „It is a great pity their eyes had not been opened to the real merits of these Louisiana contested cases a week ago, when they put out Hunt and put in Sheldon, although he was beaten by a majority of 10,615, a thousand more than were recorded against Sypher; but then Sheldon had kept his mouth shut about the proper rate of tariff on Penn sylvania iron, and that made a differ ence. But what a flood of light this incident throws upon Radical honesty and Rad ical principles; it clearly demonstrates that they know and will recognize no rule of right that conflicts with their self-interest. "Old Clo's." TUESDAY, April 26 The great negro jubilee comes off to daY, and we understand that our white fellow-citizens who have been assigned prominent parts in the, celebration are in great trouble to determine what they shall wear; they know that their colored fellow-citizens, especially the delegates from the chicken appropriating districts of Tow Hill and the Welsh Mountain, are not greatly blessed with a supera bundance of this world's goods—always excepting chick ens—an d that they there fore will not be likely to come to town to-day arrayed in irreproachable gar ments of the latest cut. In plain language, the white folks ex pect their colored friends to look seedy, and as it won't do for them to let the Fifteenth Amendments—voters now, you know—think that they are stuck-up and proud, they are perforce compelled to put ou a seedy look themselves. The white.. orators and other officials are therefoie expected to make their ap pearance MI the Common this afternoon, "tattered and torn, and all forlorn," so that their worst enemies will not be able to accuse them of being ally better than black men. The portly Mr. Hood does not propose to make any great change in his toilet, as he feels confident that ill his greasy frock-coat and other ap parel of ordinary wear, he may safely bear comparison with the Itardestlookiug negro on the Common, and bid defiance to invidious criticism. The Honorable Reinoehl thinks he can pass muster by encasing his feet in a pair of worn out old shoes, surrounding his neck with a red kerchief and supporting up on his nose, a pair of huge iron-rimmed spectacles. The gallant Major Shenk proposes only to don a dilapidated silk hat of the style in vogue before he be came a banker; lie thinks that in re minding him of former days, it will make hiw look and feel sufficiently seedy, without more. The chid orator of the day, Congressman Dickey, as he stands ill urgent need of negro votes at the nominating election next summer, we understand has serious thoughts of attempting to create a decided sensation in the way of costume, and contemplates appearing, on the stand in turn nether garments, as a veritable "Dickey Dickey Duet, with him shirt tail out ;" if lie does we will guarantee for him, the unanimous vote of his colored fellow citizens. lie will thereby touch a weak spot in their alkictions, for if there is anything they are passionately fond of, it is dilapidated trousers. We are apprehensive, lest Professor Wickersham, alarmed at this bold stroke of the gay Oliver, may rashly conclude to appear entirely "saris cu lottes ;" but we hope not. Sums'.:it and all similar progressive Radicals ire exceedingly happy because the carpet-bag Legislature of Alabama has passed a law to legalize marriage be tween whites and negroes. But :7;uni ner and his political friends should re member that the negro question has already been pressed too far, and that, by force and fraud alone, existing un constitutional and unwise privileges have been granted to the blacks. The lessons of history in which :•41.1Inner pre tends to be well versed, should at least teach him that tyrannical and unreason able legislation always meets with a summary and terrible retribution. THE elections in Illinois, this Spring, have resulted in favor of the Democracy; The Democrats are making great gains in that State; the rule of Radicalism is evidently no longer popular with the, agriculturalist of the fertile prairies of the >lississippi ==! There are a great many wild pigeons in Somerset county. A. Prohibatory License law is in force in Franklin township, Westmoreland county. There are five Justices of the Ponce in Montgomery county- who have held I he office fur twenty-years or upwards. Rev. H. (4. Steelier, a well-known Lutheran clergyman (lied at Itummels town, on the:2oth inst. The people of Jetlirrt. , on county will vote at the next general election Mr anti against a prohibitory law. On the 1. - ,th inst., a! Tyrone a man was kicked by a horse m the head and killed almost instantly. Harman Sponeuse, a Gorman, former ly of Philadelphia, committed suicide in Williamsport on the 11th inst., by cut ting his throat with a razor. Tha boiler of a steam shingle mill about seven milesabove Warren, explod ed, on the 11th inst., killing the engin eer and badly injuring mother man. Wm, Kuhn, of Harrisburg, has been reelected District Deputy Grand Master for the Southern District of Dauphin county, by the Odd Fellows' Lodges composing the district. Saturday night, thetith inst., the hen ery of John Hildebitlle, near the .Mont gomery Alms House, Montgomery Co., was robbed of about no chickens, tur keys and 3 grain bags. John D. Smyser, son ofdhe lion. D. m. Smyser, of Norristown, has receiVed his commission from President Grant, as Second Lieutenant in the Marine Corps. The appearance of the wheat and rye fields, in York county, was never more promising and judging from pres ent indications there cannot fail to be an abundant crop. Seventy-live muskets and accountre ments Ints been shipped, by the Adju tant General's Department at I larris burg, to Captain \V. is. Burchinell, of the Huntingdon Light Infantry, of Huntingdon. Mr. Harry Slep has been elected as a delegate to the International Typo graphical Union, which is to assemble at Cincinnati on Monday, June Ith. Mr. Step will represent the Harrisburg Typographical Union, No. 14. A corps of engineers, under the di rection of John Fulton, Esq., resident engineer of the Huntingdon and Broad 'Pop Railroad, will eommeno , the survey of the route between that place and Mt. Dallas in a few days. Patrick Burns, all outside boss al S. D. Socarez & Co's Silver Creek colliery, Schuylkill county, was shot through the head and killed by some brutal mur derer laying in ambush. AIL Burns was passing dhrough a piece of woods when assassinated. The oil well at Strawsburg, known as the Foggins well, was torpedoed a few days since and is nuts producing, two hundred and fifty barrels daily. A new well reported to be prmlucing a: thou sand barrels daily, has been struck near Brady's Bend, On new territory. A few:days ago at Tobyhanna, Lucerne county, a Mrs. Fred. Schultz gave birth to four children !girls), three of whom have died. One still'hves and with its mother is doing well. The family is poor and destitute of all comforts. The mother was delivered on a pallet of straw, and the father was the aeconeh or. A boy . .l'_ years of age, named Ammon Trout, was found dead :it :t lime kiln, near Snyder's tavern, in l',erks eininty, on the 15th, inst., having perished from suftbeation. Ile had gone to the kiln for the purpose of boiling Easter eggs, and when discovered was found sitting upright on a bushel measure. ('harks Shell, a ; hrakernan, formerly of Halifax, Dauphin county, lost his life on the 14th, inst., by falling between two freight cars, on the Philadelphia and Erie railroad, at Pewart station Northumberland county. The deceased was a highly respected young man and leaves awife. He was buried at Halifax. "A foolish girl in Chester recently died from the effect of tight lacing. To such a fearful extent had she squeezed herself that her ribs were found lapped over one another, and the breast bone was pressed over one lung so that she had entirely lost its use." The best kind of lacing for a young 'lady's waist is a mans arm. The Bedford Grtz,lie records the fun ny Incident Cof a gentleman and two ladies out driving in a spring wagon, when the seat on which the ladles were sitting gave way, tumbling the fair crea tures into the road. The gentlemen did not miss them, immediately, till, on looking back, he found them dusting themselves. No damage done. During the severe storm of Sunday, the 17th, inst., the lightning struck the frame of the Wilmington and Reading Railroad bridge at Birdsboro, knocking off some splinters, but doing no mater ial damage. It also struck the telegraph line of the Schuylkill Navigation Com pany near that place, fusing the wire for quite a distance. k0:1 P.:1041/0:v.1"/ A. (0 , 4 tytl :411. No. IL—West Point. West Point, as every one knows, is the seat of the United States Military Academy, and is ,aitnatedon the west bank of the Hudson river, at a distance of forty-one miles from the city of New York, from which it may be reached in a few hours by rail or water. During the months of July and August, it is one of the gayest and most attractive summer resorts we have ever visited. The plain, upon which the buildings are erected is one hundred and fifty-seven feet above the river, and is bounded on the west by high and lofty mountains, at the base of which are the Academic Buildings, and the residents of the officers and professors. A carriage-way, cut from the solid rock, leads from the Landing below to Roe's West Point Hotel, located at the northern extremity of the plain, within the Governmental enclosure, and directly in front of the encampment and parade ground. The skill of the photographer, the depths of language, and the pencil of the artist have all failed to portray the loveliness and beauty of the scene presented from the north piazza of Roe's. The visitor will be charmed by the grandeur and boldness of the landscape, whether he view it in the gray dawn of early morning, at midday, at sunset, whilst listening to the delicious strains of the band at parade, or in the evening, when hen "The moon looks down on old Cro'nest, And mellows the shades on his shaggy hrolkst And seems his huge gray form to throne, - BM=S==l= A little to the west of the hotel is the siege . battery of rifled guns and mortars; ust below, at the water's edge, is the sea coast battery. Near the former is a grove of elms, beneath which are a number of trophy guns, captured during tho Revolu tion, the war of 1812., the Mexican war, and the late Rebellion. All trophies are in scribed with the name of the field upon which they were won and the date of their capture. A port'on of the great chain, whieli during the Revolution was stretched from West Point to Constitution Island to obs f Inlet the passage of the enemy's ships, surrounds the handsome gull "Le Nlon argue," presented by Congress to La Fayette. Here also may be seen several mortars captured by General Wayne at Stony Point, and an illllllollSo granite ball brought from the Crimea by the American officers sent their by our government. Such balls were used by the Russians, who throw them from mortars to crush the decks of the blockading fleet. The most noticeable of trophies is the immense Arm strong Gun, made in England for the Con federates and captured at Fort Fisher. Tho spot is further interesting at the site of the proposed battle monument to be erected to the memory of the officers of the regular army who fell during the late war. It ivies near here that General McClellan delivered his celebrated oration,June 15t11,150 when the spot was dedicated. A little further west is the Ordinance La boratory; where the visitor may see many trophy guns from famous battle fields; the gun from Elder's Battery" which is said to have tired the lust shot previous to Lee's surrender, as well as a variety of tor pedoes, shell, shot and other implements of war. Proceeding a short iiist:un•c to the east of the hotel, we enter Fort Clinton, in the north-east angle of which stands the mon ument erected in tS2$, by the corps of ca dets to the memory of koseinszko. It is a plain panelled base, surmounted by a capped and fluted column, and hears tine simple inscription "Kosef uszuo." A few yards to the south is the beautiful monument to " Dade and his command." It teas erected in IS-15, and is of whi to Italian marble; the Lase, encircled with stars and supported at the corners with marble can non, bears a fluted column surmounted by an eagle from whose beak depends a wreath of laurel and entwines the column. The monument tells its own story. Major Dade and his entire command were killed in Florida, during the war against the Semi nole Indians, without making an effort to retreat, and American history records but few examples of devotion to duty similar to that exhibited by those whose nannies arc here inscribed. Close at hand is Battery Knox, a Revolutionary relic, the guns of which proclaim the tidings on all occasions of national joy and sorrow. Near Dada's monument is ;MANI—a shelving t errare, overhung with a dingo, and rendered inviting by a spring of cool water. It is said by tradition to have been the favorite resort of the patriot Pole, whose name it bears. The Library is situated at the south of the plain. It con tains about 20,000 volumes upon scientific and military subjects, together with many fine portraitsofdistinguished officers, some few relies, etc. The only building visible from the river is the elegant rifling hall, which is on the road to the landing. The Chapel, located west of the Library, contains a beautiful painting, typical of . Mars and Minerva, by Prof. Weir; guns presented by Congress to lien. Greene; colors taken from the English and I les- SiaTIS ; guns captured during the Mexican War, and memorial tablets of the officers of the Itevolution and of those who fell der• ing the war with Mexico. The Cadet Bar racks, the Amdentic Buildings, the Mess and the hospital, all handsome stone buildings, are near the Chapel. In the unnseum of ordinance and trophies the visitor may see all the various stages in the manuateture of muskets, swords, cart ridges, powder and shot; the anatomical structure of horses for instruction m caval ry; models of siege and field guns ; tor pedoes and shot front many famous battle fields; flagstaffs; flags front Mexico; In dian trophies; and many other interesting and curious things. A model of the Silver Mine of Valenciana, in Mexico, occupied the centre of the room. It was purchased by subscription among tho officers of the army of the City of Mexico in the year 1017. The upper pots tion represents the operators at their various occupations, the sides show the galleries of the mines with the miners at work, while the whole is surmounted by an eagle and part of the drapery taken front over the Vice President's chair in the Mexican Sen ate Chamber. Many of the regimental colors to be seen here bear numerous in scriptions. Among the most prominent are those of the Fourth C. S. Infantry, which have been carried through twenty-eight battles, effinntencing with the battle of in 101 l and ending with IL•neral Lee's surrender in The ettratripMent the Military eXerrises the hors, the walks and drives about Point," our visit to the grave of t ieneral Scott, and to old Fort Putnam Neill form subject matter for another article. A Confederate Meeting--Stall .de% of the Confederate Army. A meeting of the Confederate Relief and Historical Society, Wil.4 held at Memphk, on the ::Oth ultimo, Uovernor Harris in t h e Chair. Dr. Arent read a eiimmunivation on the Confederate Army, which contained the following statistics: Yet,: Kilted Wounded. PriAon,rs. 1461 1,315 4,051 1562 r ) 8,659 Isti3 I 1,576 51,313 71,211 I'¢6.{ 4 000 70,11011 ,11,14111 I f the deaths from disease he added, the sum haat Will present the entire loss. The returns of the field and general hospitals are known for 1861-lid, and if it be fair to 11,411111 C that the total mortality of ISIi3 and 1804 was fully equal to that of 1862, then the total of deaths in the Confederate Army in 1861-82 was at least 160,000, inclusive of the deaths in the Northern prisons, which would swell the number to near 185,000 ; anti if the deaths among the discharged for wounds and disease, and among the sick and wounded on furlough, be added, the grand total of deaths in the Confederate Army, during the entire war, did not fall short of 200,000. According to this calcu lation, the deaths from disease were about three times as numerous as those resulting front the casualties of battle. The available Confederate force capable of active service, did not, during the entire war, exceed 000,000 mon. Of this number not more than 400,000 were enrolled at any one time ; and the Confederate States never had in the field more than 200,000 men ca pable of bearing arms at any one time, ex clusive of sick, wounded and disabled, Neil Wright, the converted thief, encour aged by liberal contributions, which he has acknowledged in the London Times—and to be thankful in that way is the way to get more—lately gave a second thieves' supper —this time to two hundred male rascals, with reporters and other pious people on the platform. Ned caught some of his birds putting bread in their pockets, and he made them sing without hymn-books, because on other occasions they were not returned. Then he read and expounded the story of the Trucifixtion, dwelling on the three thieves in it; told them how he fought two hours and twenty minutes, when his nose was broken the first round ; how he was flogged In the navy; gave an account of some of his trials for burglary ; of his conversion, and how he was now in vited to preach in court-houses, instead of standing in the prisoners' dock, and had always a good suit of clothes and a few pounds in his pocket. The Northern PaeWe Railroad Rill. The following is the text of the resolution, as it passed the Senate, conferring immense land grants and privileges on the Northern Pacific Railroad; Be it resolved, cte., That the Northern Pacific Railroad Company be, and hereby is authorized to issue its bonds to aid in the construction and equipment of its road, and to secure the same by mortgage on its property, and rights of property - oiall kinds and descriptions, real, personal, and mixed, involving its franchise as a corporation; and as proof and notice of its legal execu tion and effective delivery, said mortgage shall be tiled and recorded in the office of the Secretary of the Interior ' • and also to locate and construct under the provisions and with the privileges, grants and duties provided from its act of incorporation, its main road to some point on Puget Sound via the Valley of the Columbia River, with the right to locate and construct its branch from some convenient poin,t, on its main trunk line across the Ca.ountains to Puget Sound ; and in the event of there not being in any State or Territory in which said main lino or branch may bo lo motel at the time of the final location there of, the amount of lands per mile granted by Congress to said Company with the lim its prescribed by its charter, then said Company shall be ,entitled, under direc tions of the Secretary of the Interior, to re ceive so many sections of land belonging to the United States, and designated by odd numbers in such State or Territory, with in ten miles each side said road beyond the mils prescribed i❑ said charter as will make up such deticiency on said main lino or branch, except mineral andotherlands as excepted in the charter of said Company of of ISti4 to the amount of the lands that have been granted, sold, reserved, occupied by homestead settlers, preempted or otherwise :isposetl of subsequent to the passage of the act of July 2, lsti4, and that 25 miles of ..aid main line between its Western termin us and the city of Portland, in the Slate of Oregon, shall bo completed by the lot day of January, 1572, and 40 miles of the re- mai nierg portion thereofeach year thereafter until the whole shall be completed between said points; provided that all lands hereby granted to said company, which shall not be sold or disposed of, or remain subject, to the mortgage by this act authorized, at the expiration of live years after the VOlll - of the entire rind, shall be subject to settlement and preemption like other lands, at a price to be paid to said company not exceeding $2 50 per acre, inid if the mortgage hereby authorized shall at any time be enforced by fore-closure or other legal proveedings, or the l:overnment lands hereby granted, or any of them, be sold by the trustees to whom :melt mortgage may be exeemed, either at its nutturity, or for any failure or default of said Couojiany un der the terms thereof, such lands shall be sold at public sale at planes within the States and Territories is which they shall be sit- late,' alter not less than 00 daysprevious auks, in single sections or sub-divisions hereon,' the highest and best bidders; 'rovided further, that in the eonstruction if the said railroad American iron or steel Illy shalt he used, the sumo to lie .111111111 faetured front American ore exclusively. Sta.. 2. And be it further resolved that Congress may at any time alter or amend this joint resolution, having due regard to the rights of said Company and an y other parties. The vote W ILS :IS follows : ME/M13M!Il Pmekinghain, Cameron, Chandler, Cole, Corbett, Cragin, Fenton, Ferry, Flanagan, Hamilton (Tex:Ls), Hamlin, Harris, How ard, Hwe, Kellogg, McDonald, Morrill Morril (Vt.), Norton, Nye, Osborn, Patters. al, Poillerff, RIIIIISCy, Revels Rice, Robertson, Sawyer, Seott, Spencer Stewart, Sumner, Thayer, Trumbull, \Vil liams, Wilstm, Yates-40. BENZES owljr,lNlct'rjery, Mort,m, I'ratt, Sattio mry, Messrs. Thurman, Vickers, aml fantilton, tAId.l , opposetito the bill pair r ,vith Messrs. Sherman, Edmunds, ail hert and Upton, ip favor of it. Horrible Tragedy---A Woman Cubs the 'fbroalss of Four of her Childress and that of her Mother llAurimonE,April2l.--About four o'clock this afternoon Mrs. Marsh, Who, With her four children, resides with her mother and father, No. lei Central avenue, ',tweedy,' to school :No. 13, where her son .lames, a boy about eight years of age, was a pupil, called hint out into the yard, Crake,' hint behind a shlid and cut his throat, nearly severing his head from his body with a butcher knife. She then went home and cut the throats of her three children, whose Whiles were: aged six years; Mary Jane, aged live years, and George, aged four years, killing them instantly. Their heads were nearly severed front their bodies. She then cut the throat of her aged mother, inflicting injuries from which she cannot recover. At the coroner's inquest the testimony went to show that the woman was insane. Mrs. Nellie Dwyer made an anti-mortem statement that when the daughter came into the house she appeared to be very excited, and she immediately went into the yard where the children were playing and cut their throats, after which she rushed upon her. She being helpless and paralyzed with horror, made but :t (nettle resistance. It is said there was no cause for the bloody deed, as her mother teas 111141, affectionate and remarkably care ful with the children and to her daughter. The murderess truss arrested this evening tilwilt eight o'clock and Watt asked if she (:tidy what. Abe had done. She answered: " Yes; I know now," She is very quite on the subject, but it is very evident she is demented not has no realization or the terrible aet. Site is the Wife of a bar ber named William Marsh, formerly of this city, who left her about a year ago, but who is at present living in New York. The murder has created intense excitement, and thoitsands of persons have already visited the. cene. How They Tole In Texn% We have before Its a copy of a ticket which was voted by the nogrees in Texas at the late so-called election. It is a curiosi ty. tel the bark of it, it somewhat resem bles a playing-card er a piece of wall-paper. It was printed in this way because the iwgroes meld not read; and there was otherwise danger out they !night not vote for the men whom the carpet-baggers had selected. A correspondent front Houston. Texas, says: "The Ita,tion was never asked by the nelroes, ' What name is on the face?' All they cared for was the back of the ticket; they marched to the polls like so inany sheep led to the slaughter-pen." This is the Way nogre suffrage 'snow being exercised in Texas. One William Id Forms was the Radical candidate for State Senator from Houston. His antecedents are thus described : Ile held a commission as Colonel of calvary in the C'. S. A. Just after the close of hostilities he was the most bitter and vindictive man in'the South. He was always an extremist—an advocate of the foreign African slave trade. In a Demo cratic convention held in Galveston, in 1860, Mr. Leland. who had moved front New York and settled in NVestern Texas, appear ed and Was seated as a delegate. Charges wore preferred against Leland for having voted ftr Fremont Mr the Presidency in 1556. This he admitted, but said it was done on :mount of pervonal friendship. A motion was made to expel him, and Forms voted Mr his expulsion. Forms, as we have said, k now the negro Republican leader. Is he not a beauty?—Cincinnati Enquirell A New Ern In Inlnnd Naviiintion—The Letitia Invention in Meninboatts. tht Thin-r-Hcfay last a number of seientille gentlemen and others opposed to the rail road monopoly, met at Trenton, N. for the purpose of witnessing an experiment of a model strain propeller. The inventor is Mr. William F. Goodwin, of Metuchen, The most novel feature of the new pro peller consists in having the propelling wheel placed at the bow end of the boat in-fead of being at the stern. The boat is constructed in the form of a seow:with the sides straight aml parallel and projecting in advance of the body of the boat sufficiently to enclose the propel ling wheel, trade to !boat Upon the surface of the water 1110Ving or vibrating round the driving shah. It ham been considered a well settled prin. eiple in navigation that the :limonite(' water whieh a boat will displace is just the sante, whatever stay be her form, and that the motive power required to three the boat through the water van be diminished only hr the employment of acute angles or sharp lines in the construction of her bow and stern. But•this involves considerable ex p.vise, and diminishes the amount of stor age room, besides lessening considerably the buoyancy of the boat. In like manner there is a vacancy created at the stern, which must be filled by the replacemont of the water before the boat can proceed. It Ibllows that the power reqiiired to effect this displacement and replacement of water must exist in addition to the power absorb ed ill overcoming the inertia of the boat it self and the friction of the water upon her bottom and sides. It is known by actual experiment that nine-tenths of the power used in ordinary steamboats are required to displace the water, while only the re inaining one-tenth is sufficient to propel the boat after the water has beetkdisplaced, The preceding difficulties arty all over come in the new propeller. The projecting sides serve the double purpose or receiving the ,attire body of water to be displaced and confining it while acted upon and for ced down by the wheel, conducting the settler under the boat and at the saute time preventing the commotion of water made by the wheel from communicating with the water on the outside. ==! A terrible disaster occurred in mid-ocean on the 18th inst. The ship Thomas 1.'113°- 121 am; Captain Charles Owen, which had left hew Orleans thirteen days before, was struck by a thunderbolt, which made a hole about two feet square on the port side of tho vessel. Soon after the shock,w Inch had prostrated all on board, the vessel was found to be on tire, but the names were control led until the next morning, when the brig Omega, of Sidney, C. B. Captain Kerr, from Cienfuegos, was signalled, and promptly responding, took off the ships company, including two ladies—all of whom were brought In safety to Boston, arriving there on Friday. The Thomas Freeman when last seen was enveloped in flames and must have burned to the water's edge. The terrors of that night at sea, on board of a burning vessel, can be more readily imagined than describ ed. A reduction of ten per cent. in the fares on the Concord, N. H., Railroad, is to take effect on May Ist. It is prob able that the freights will also be reduced. The McFarland Trial The McFarland trial in New York, yes terday, developed but little that was really new. The witness stand was occupied the greater part of the day by Mrs. Mason, the keeper of the house in Amity street, whereprisoner and his wife, as well as Ricaardson, n, boarded. The testimony was in many respects a repetition of facts al ready stated, with reference to the intimacy of Richardson with Mrs. McFarland. Witness having made casual reference to Mrs. Calhoun, the Recorder decided that it should be stricken out. Mr. Graham, in answer to a question, said that Woman had been charged with conspiracy, and the charge would be made good. Mrs. Maria Benedict, Mrs. Ann McCormick, Diane. Suard, and Miss Eliza Wilson, inmates of the house, testified to the intimacy of Mrs. McFarland and Richardson at various times. A colored boy also swore to certain inti macies in the presence of Mrs. Calhoun and Mrs. Sinclair. Mrs. Charity Ander man of Newark, and Mrs. Ann Callahan, of iM , orris street, Jersey City, related cir cumstances of a similar character. Mr. Frank B. Carpenter and Edwin Booth were next called, but neither put in an appear ance. Miss Anna Burdock, formerly an attache of the Winter Garden Theatre, testified to Mr. Richardson 's attentions to Mrs Mc- Farland after the performance w 11.9 over. C. A. Hopkins, of the Mutual Life Insur ance Company, Jersey Cite. produced polic y No. 5934, assigned to Mrs. McFar land, with an indorsement of its being paid to . Abby S. Richardson, late Abby S. Mc- Farland. The District Attorney objected to this as evidence. The Court thou adjourned. NEw YoRK, April 9U.—The trial or the McFarland ease was resumed, and the fol lowing witnesses WOro examined : Frank B. Guile her, artist, testilie,l that Richardson and Its. McFarland hail been at his studio together. Counsel for the defense offered as ovi donee numerous papers showing tho prop erty of McFarland and Richa - dson, the high character of the thriller, and recom mendations ho had received as a man of integrity from such men as lreeley, Edwin M. Stanton, Samuel Sinclair, Sal tnon P. Chase, Mr. McElrath and others; but the Court excluded most of them. Albert It. Matthews, stablo proprietor, testified—tent carriages to Winter ( tartlet], and once to New Ilaven Railroad, ordered by Richardson. After some further business of an unim portant character, the Court adjourned. NEM,' YORK, April il.--In the McFarland trial, at the usual hour, the ctuirt opened this morning. The city judge appeared in court and allacalaeed thte continued illness of Recorder Haekelt.,:uul that ho was there by prevented from being in court. Both legal representatives, for the prosecuti on and defense, agreed to adjournment, and the trial Was p u t until Monday morning at 11 o'clock. Among the speetators in court this morning Was the tcell ku o tru hhy S. McFarland Richardson. NEW yUItK, Ayril 1/s.—The trial was resume( this nwrning, Reeorder I laokett on the Bench, but evidently the Recorder did not feel (litho restore! to health, as at. 4)110 o'clock he adjourned the Court till to-morrow murning. The prin cipal testimony was that oi lir. Vane, a very capable physician, who, it will he re membered, declared Reynolds, who wire hanged last week, perfectly sane after all others had their doubts about his sanity. This Dr. Vane, who is connected with Bellevue Hospital, and has made the " Ner- VOUS Department" his specialty, pi,- couriers Mr. McFarland to ho suffering from congestion of the brain, caused by long mental and emotional excitement; he swears that he examined McFarland care fully, had at one time a three hours' con •ersation with him; he examined his heart and lungs by auscultation and poreussion ; during theconversation McFarland's ;Mist. rose from 109 to l'2S, and the doctor 0111- chided, from all he had seen and hoard, that the prisoner was not a man who could be held accountable for his actions at the time he murdered ltiohnrdsun. It also appear ed, by the testimony of a night watchman in the Tombs prison, that McFarland (ant not sleep at nights even now, and that he is found awake in his cell Mall halve oldie night. It is now sure that Mrs. (McFar land) Richardson is to be 131:11,1 on the stand, to which, It (1,11,0, the defense will object. If the hater succeed, a statement, made by her and said to be already in typo, is to be published in the various news papers, so as to let her versi,n go buf(we the community before the jury render their verdict. A Funny Debate In the Howie on Cot ton Shirts, Drawers, and Corsets. We find the following debate in the ( gerS.Viron,ll lobe . : Mr. Brooks, of Now• York- I wish to ask the ellairman of the cot.tnittio of Ways and Means whether he intends to let the 5 c•ents per pound remain upon eotton shirts, drawers, Sc.? I understood that the Cl,lll - had agreed ho strike that out. Mr. Schenck—l have looked at the record of the committee on thatsubject, and I Mid that there was a proposition to strike out the whole and insert 40 per rent. ad valor em ; lout no action was taken in the com mittee upon either motion. Mr. Brooks—Will the gentleman state the difference between the duty fixed by existing law on these articles aml that which will be nnposed under this bill? Mr. Schenck—The resent duty is :15 per ad cent. a valorem, awl the 5 rents proposed in this bill is just that lunch additional. Mr. Brooks—Then we propose to add cents per pound on eotton shirts, drawers, tie. I hope all the cotton shirts and draw ers in this House will rebel against that proposition. I Laughter.) Mr. Marshall—l do out see any necessity or propriety for increasing the existing dit ties on any of these fabrics. Indeed I think the changes should be in a descending scale on all of them. The revenues are in creasing at such a rate at this time we will have a surplus of over $100,000,0m Mr. Brooks, of New York—Mr. Chair num, 1 inn Surprised ut tily colleague on the vominittee, the gentleman from Illinois, and 1 am the mire surprised at his want of gallantry on this oe))11,11,11, unmarried Mall as he is. 1 Laughter.; Why what have we just done? We have taxed every WO man in the country all additi.illal twenty live c•ente on her corsets, which will involve an additional cost to e•ery woman on the ligatures around her L a dy. And after we have done that I am astonished at the want of gallantry displayed by my friend from Illinois (Mr. Marshall) in getting up and objecting to the live cents a pound un his own cotton shirts and drawers. Mr. Marshall —lt is On record that I posed the increase of duty on the eorsets. 1 [Laughter.) Mr. Brooks—l and giant that this is on record for the sake of the gsntlentan's char adter in the estimation of the holies.-- I Laughter.) Mr. Kellogg—The additional duties on corsets was fur the benetit a the American ladies, by giving them a chance to Intake thorn at home. Mr. Brooks—The American ladies du not make the corsets at home. The corsets are made by ntadhinery by the gentleman's constitutents and Mille, Wile will by this bill get from 3.5 to 50 cents additional from the Western and Southwestern ladies urn their corset,. All right! Under the gen eral system of robbery and plunder corsets should lie taxed as other things. IEIIIII glad we have got corsets in the bill. We will have the ayes and noes on the corsets, and let the country see all about it. I Laughter.) My colleague from New Jersey Mr. Cleve land), a Democrat, succeeded iu getting the duty reduced on .spool-cotton thread. We are making convert, on the other sink. The chairman of the Committee of Ways and Means donsented to that reduction. My ar gument on seamstresses yesterday hail an excellent elhon.t. Ilut my colleague front Illinois, recreant bnu•helor that he is, un faithful to the duties he "Wes to the sifter sex, declines to carry cut the precedent of increasing nominally twenty-tive cents on corsets, actually forty cents, :and stands by the old duty on cotton shirts and drawers. Ile does not want the additional five dentin. a pound put inn those articles, 'rho question being put, there were— ayes, 2.); noes, 42: no quorum voting,. The Chairman, under the rule, ordered tellers, and appointed Mr. Brooks, of Now York, and Mr. Maynard. The committee divided, and the tellers ! reported—ayes, 52; noes, 02, So the amendment was not agreed to. DrAperate I lempt nt So 'Cid,. In the city of Philadelphia, on Friday evening, 0 policeman on Darby road, near Thirty-fourth street, noticed a voung wo man reeling along tin- road. The officer I elieving her to be intoxicated, arrested her and took her to the Station, when she stated that she had taken poison and that her name was Lizzie Barrett, aged twenty two years. She also said that she hail li red until recently at the St. Lawrenee Ilidel as a domestic, anti that Thursday morning she had obtained a good situation trough the medium of an' intelligence office, but was prevented from going to the place by reason of her cousin (who lives in the neighborhood of Eleventh and ('berry streets) having taken all her clothes. On being searched at the Station house, an empty bottle, labeled ilibirofortn, was Mund upon her person. While the search was going On, she quickly drew a small paper package from her bosom, arid endeav ored to swallow the contents. She suc ceeded in taking nearly half of it, but before she could finish the balance, Sergeant Lynch took the package from her, and at once sent for a doctor, who, on arriving, pronounced thisimbstamnoxalicsu . id. She wag sent to the Almshouse, where she refused to take any antidote. As it was necessary that an emetic should be taken, she was strapped down trpon a bed, and the same administered. At ten o'clock Friday evening, the physicians pronounced her out of danger, anti hopes are entertained of her recovery. The following letter was found in the pocket of the unfortunate girl: "In haste, my name is Lizzie HarretL I poisoned myself; I could not got along for the last ten years since I lost my father • I was sent to this country against lily will give my body to the doctors, for I don't care for it or any one else " A freight train brokethrough a trestle bridge on the Mobile and Ohio Railroad at Humboldt, Tenn., on Sunday. The locomotive and six cars were smashed. The Wur Department has ordered the 17th U. S. Infantry, now in Virginia, and the 11th Infantry, now In Ken tucky, to the department of Dakotah. William Jacobs, Chief of the Six Na tions Indians, has written to the Toron to Globe, denying that any of his tribe will join the Red River expedition, Conimmional WABLUNOTON, April 19. In the U. S. Senate, Mr. Sumner, from the Foreign Committee, reported a joint resolution providing for an Artie Expedi tion. It authorizes the President to appoint the commander of thooxpodition,detail any otlicer of the public service to accompany it, and use any suitable public vessel, and appropriates $lOO,OOO. Mr. Edmonds in troduced a bill to enforce the Fifteenth amendment. Mr. Chandler offered a reso lution directing the President to appoint Commissioners to negotiate with the peo ple of Winnipeg. for the annexation of that district. The resolution was laid over. The Georgia bill was discussed in evening session. Mr. Pomeroy's substitute for the Bingham amendment, remanding the State to a provisional government, and provid ing for the election of a Legislature next November was adopted—Yeas 37, nays 21. Mr. Potneroy's substitute was then etroptcsl in 'Alice of the whole bill. An 111111, 1 11tilitelit by Mr. Drake, authorizing the President to suppress violence in the State WILY also agreed to, end the bill passed, and goes buck to the Goose. In the House, Mr. Butler, of Massachu setts, offered a resolution relative to internal taxation, and abolishing the income tax, which was referred to the Ways and Means Committee. Mr. Jones, of Kentucky, offer ed a resolution directing the Secretary of the Treasury to inform the I louse by o hat authority he 1133 been purchasing S. bonds, but objection was made to Its re ception by Mr. Kelsey, of New York. The report of the Election Committee declaring J. 11. Sypher entitled to the seat from the First Louisiana Distriet, W11 , 1111,3•11S3041, 1311 nut filially 1101.0 d 111/1111. The • Parilr bill was considered in evening session, tra graph taxing scrap iron $4; per ton Isslitt Otkoll up. II WILY11111eUtled:0 1 1 . 111;Ikt. the duty on east scrap iron Crt and on wrought scrap iron jib The first lallse of 0113 1111101t1111, 1 11t. WILY iliktitted itlllllllll 3 the second, taxing wnoight iron scrap ts4 . k by a vote of 71 to iii Without further action the committee r,se, and the 11011,10 adjourned. \ ,4111NoToN, .\ In the I'. S. Senate, hills ,vorc intronlneed incorporating. the Paeille Submarine Tele graph l'ontpany, :tint antlwrizing iunil steanisltip servive hot sites 'edar Kept, Fla., and Havana. 'llia snhject suit sereiee bettveen San Franci , s , and .\ us trails NvaS diSt•ll•Sed, saving that he would more for a joint I , lllMltillo on the matter. 'Hie Norther. l'avilie Itail road. bill WaN Tho (4.or g ia bill, :1.4 1 ,3:4,t•tt the St.:I:110 ; declarers the X idio t ; government tt t ioor - gilt provisional, unit con,titutc, that State the Third Military ; pro%is les for the election of a 1,, , 0n No vember I:•th, next, said Legislature t• , meet inn Ineceinher Clth, 1•70; the President, on requisition or the 1,,,,i,- laturt. or I u\rrunr, to auplarss ilonn,uc violence luny State, exercising thercior the poxver ill' martial I:INN' ; and permits the organiz.ation of the militia inn 111 tile t h e Post -mince :\ppnrprin tiou bill Veils reported t appr.priates On motion of Nlr. Sargent, the Cuinage Committee wasdirec led to inquire into the expediency or issuing a tin clity- Vellt silver coin. NI r. Paine iiiirnduce,l a bill to reduce the duties ten per cont. I'll all it/reign 11111/Ort.g, except liquors, soup and cigars, Itelerred to the \Vays and Nlean,i Committee. The resolut uu ill the Election Coniiiiitte, adiiiitting.l. - pher av Itopresotitative crow the First Louisiana district, lea: 1,:tt.1 Them) was a III:lit :ft ty ill' ii in-n a wet it :It 010 clove of the ridl call, but several incuibcrs changing thcir the result \ :LS TOIL, seventy-right, nays se, rill y-1 lire, Mr. Sypillir tits 1.,• sworn in, when Nt r. Brooks objected, on Ito` ground that he was a resident of l'ennsylviwia, col Of I.lilliSillll,l, hunt said that II tau g:inn hail been 'mimic by which his cute 1t.0111.1 given for the inns interestsof I'etinsylsllll.l. Utls also a protest, Init Iho Speaker decided all to Inr out o! haler. innaliv, Mr. Moore, of Illinois, moved t, reponsiacr the lila(' luid a substitute Micro! by Mr. Filch, de claring that there was 110 Valid nillit•tioll in the First Louisiana District, It'll, adopted by It vntc Of lint) /4.7:01,467. The Senate sill, stittite for the Census hill was tion-,•otic lir red in, itiul n onderence ordered. 'rite Senate Ileorgia bill, with several substi tutes, tents in the It- nslruc;ini Butler again :an milled to introduce his imminican bill, and the iitual objection %vas into] posed by :Mr. 'Smolt's. Adjourned. NVAsittNoToN, April In the United States Senate, M r. Spencer, from the Commerce l'ommitteo, reported a bill incorporating the Cincinnati and Chat anooga Itailroad Company, with a capital of $10,000,000. Nlr. Scott intro/lticel a hill to prevent farmers, selling their own pro duce, (snail being taxed as brokers. Thayer introduced hills for the collecliein of 11061 s from curtain Southern railroads,. A joint. resolution, authorizing dm l'ostmaster Ileneral to prescribe an earliet time far rscrution Of contracts, was pitss(sl. The bill authorizing the Northern Pacific Itailroad l'ompany to issile bonds ror construction (Mks road, and by mertgagu, wa.s considered and passed Vea-S 101), 11.. 111/11 , 1. Aher all ex ecial sysNitoll, the Si.,latt•nil In the 'louse, Mr. Paine 444144ted that ill, Chairman of the \\*ay. unit Means, ,Is ill. and 4,441141 not go on with tho Tariff hill. l'lne bill revising the Patent and Copyrighl kws w l u+l' l, -''' l " l , rodueing salaries inn the Patent e 'thee. The Naval AProPrinni"llllill was e"ll^ideted lii Coninuittoo 4,1 the Whole, and Mr. \\*ash bunny, of Wise, nsin, and Mr. [tale 44.14441,44 tin LllO o'er)' inefficient Snit discredit:lllh condition .1:m11.1105y ut prt•.1011, its inferiority to the 110,11 forces id' other 110(1011N. l'ending vonsideration ihe 101 l the !louse adjourned. WASIIINOTOS, April 22. Tin the I% S. Senate Mr. Chandler's reso lution dfreeting the appointment of Com missioners to negotiatt, for 1114, annexation of NVinnopeg wax referred to the Foreign Conunitiee. The invalid rensie,, Appro priation bill teas passed ; also the bill.. to prevent counterfeiting of forvign trade marks, and prescribing :Lit oath of office lor per Solis not diselualified by the Volirtecrilli allivildnient, who participatell in the I...bil lion. 'l'lle hills giving deputy collectors and 11.4SeSsorS the pay rofatmessors, to resume specie payments, and to protect 111011 from irupertunity of 44111,40-. 4 ,1, 4 .4, were indefinitely postponed. A fterson sessson, the Senate adjourned mold NI "inlay. Inn the 114,144,4, nearly all the session was occupied by the Tariff inn Conionitme 4,r the wie,ie. ill the paragraph taxing iron "ue blooms, loops," A:c., onto ornt pc t pound, Ili, words I.llls, clip pings, and punching: ot new iron" Were stricken nut. The words "one cent par pound" were also stricken, out, "$Pt per ton"beingstibstitin n 0.... proviso wasaddell placing a duty of $ll per ton "on ends, elippingx, punchings, turnings and borings of iron, lit only to be mantithetured into ingobs or bars." An evening session it its held, I,llt. the Iliellihers mull not Is, got to transact any ho sines. Aioril The S. Senate Was licit ill hi,SlOll. 111 the 11C,11,10, Ernt,lnltl4 ii. NW!, wa•a sworn in as member from the Fourth Dis trict of ()hie, to sneered Mr. Mr. I offered ;IL resolution, which was adopted, limiting leaves et ab..rurtr in, day, May 2, unless otherwise entered here after by the lions-. Mr. Schenck reported back the Senate amendment to the income tax hilt and moved a non-concurrence. ll° said that the Commissioner of Interim! ltrvenur had iirritjed tin claim inromc lax for 1870 next spring,. A (tor diseussion,llll4l the suggestam of variou.vum•ndmettle, r. Sargent, Caliternio, mood in, lay 010 rosolutimi on tlll. table, which %vas rejected, the House refusing. to enter the yeam and nays. The Ileum, then refused to ceneur in the Senate amendment, and seen after adjourned. WxsitiNotox, April 25. In the F. S. Senate, Mr. Stewart, from the Judiciary Committee, reported a bill to enforee the Fifteenth Amendment. 'rho 1 Senate insisted on its Income Tax bill, and appointed a isinferenee committee. NI Sumner, from the Foreign Committee, re ported a bill making an appropriation I pay an sward of the Peruvian Clatnis venues. tills were passed ex tenilitn; for three years the time for consolidating the laws !substitute for House lull), and giving priority in I'. S. to eases tic which States are parties. The bill authorizing settlements ofae.mints of army and navy cheers was referred to the Finance Cow miltcr. The bill to prevent importation of immigrants under labor contraeds was r,•- , ferred to the Committee on Education :Lll,l Labor. The bill regulating the foreign and eon-sting trade on 'our northern and north eastern frontiers was passed. Adjourned. In the House, a number or bills were in troduecil and referred—among tbein tic following:—llv Mr. Starkweather, in re• ference to the iiabilitv of shipowners; r O'Neill, giving bankruptcy registers Om powers of C. S. Commis.ioners; Mr. Mer cur, changing the standard weights of sil coy eoin ; Jlr. Judd, to reduce taxation; Mr. Sargent, making a reduction of 15 per cent. !„,,xation —abolishing the income tax—and II) per cent. in the !arid', except on spirits, tobacco and cigars; and by \I r. 1 , arnsworth, to revise the postal laws: r. Ayer offered a resolution declaring against a readjustment of the tariff, and that the pending Tariff bill ought to be indefinitely postponed. The !louse refusing to second the previous question, the resolution laid over. Other resolutions were offered and laid over, including one declaring, for the payment of loyal sotiowmerw motion of Mr. Cessna, the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions were directed to report a bill pensioning soldier. of 11111.1. .' joint resolution Was passed, authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury to volleyt wrecked and abandoned property and other derelict claims. The Tariif bill was resumed in Committee of the Whole, and an amend ment to the paragraph taxing clippings, punching's, etc., of iron $1 1 per ton, was adopted, forfeiting such iron when entered for any articles of manufacture. Pending a motion of Mr. Brooks to make the duty on " iron bars, rolled or hammered", etc., SIS per ton, instead of one cent per polind, the Coinuilttee rose. Mr. Schenck gave node() that he would ask for several night sessions on the Tariff this week. 'Air. Bur dett, from the Election Committee, report ed that Michael Ryan is not entitled to the seat from the Fourth Louisiana Dlstriej, and that J. B. Newsham is. Adjourned,' Among the Presidential nominations yesterday, were Commodore Samuel P. Lee to be Rear Admiral, and Frank Burnett to be Supervising Inspector o( Steamboats for the Fourth District,
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