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    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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