Eancaster 3tttelligenter. 'WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1870 DEMOCRATIC EDITORIAL CONVEN TION.. The members of the Democratic Editorial Association of Pennsylvania are 'requested to meet at the Bolton House, in Harrisburg, on WEDNESDAY, the 10th day of JANUARY next, at 11 o'clock A. H. Punctunl attendance is requested. Those editors who were not present at Al toona when the Association was organized are respectfully requested to be present at this meeting. J. ZEIGLER, President P. GRAY MEEK, Secretary. Democratic editors please copy.) The President's Message We lay before our readers the Annual Message of President Grant. It is long and treats of a great variety of subjects, hut it will be read with interest by men of all parties. After a brief allusion to the fact that the past year has been one of peace and plenty, the President plunges at once into polities, and presents the following remarkable paragraph It is to be regretted, however, that a free exercise of the elective franchise has, by violence and intimidation, been denied to citizens, in exceptional cases, in several of the States lately in rebellion, and the ver dict of the people has thereby been revers ed. To what does his Excellency here re fer? Does he intend to announce thus publicly what all the world knows, that lie lute sent Federal troops into different parts-of the South to control elections "by violence and intimidation It must be so. We have heard of nothing else which would justify the use of such language. If the President means to make a confession of the sins against liberty which lie has thus committed, we can accept his words of penitence as an assurance of future amendment ; if, however, he intends to intimate that the overthrow of the Republican party in the South has been owing to any vio lence or Intimidation on the part of the conservative citizens of those States, it becomes our duty to deny the truth of the assertion and to demand the proof. The paragraph which we have quoted has much truth in it, if meant to apply to the unlawful interference of Federal troops in elections in the South, but none whatever if intended to apply to the white voters of those States. until the President more clearly defines his meaning we must take it for granted that he intends the second paragraph of his message to stand as a public confes sion of the grievous slits lie has been led to commit. Being, so interpreted, it r(,- fleets credit upon him. Except that dubious :illusion to the lute elections, which, we Lice nodoubt, grieved our gracious President very sore ly, there is very slight allusion made to the condition of the Southern States. There \vent rumors that u .4cucrul alit- licitly for lionestpolitical offences be generousiyrecommentled ; but we look in vain through this long ines,age fruity thingoltheltintl. I tiltaisnot breathe one generous sentiinet;t toward the people of the South. I t does not. contain a single wont of encouragement for them. It does not hint al a removal of political disabilities, whereby Iliti be,t, thepurt!st and most intelligent men of that sec tion might ht• allowed to represent their States in the council ol• the nation. overthrow ol• the Ih•publie:ut party in .Missouri :ind elsewhere in the South, seems to he regarded by President (Irani as a personal insult and a private mis fortune. It lessens his chances of re clectiun, :Lll,l has no doubt. greatly em bittered Ids mind. It tt•ould be too much under chili eircunistan•es tit ex pect hini to rise to that high level where a sense of public duty overcomes pri vate resentment. Ili, nature is too nar- 11,W ul 1114 illtellela (1,1) Lm • ha• that The President gives a concise state metit of the course he has pllrStlell it regard to the belligerents note contend ing iii E 11 1 ,11 1 ., ',CMS to hope that a Re Judithc may he established in France anti reiterafts his inttattion to prosurvt the strictest notitrality. This part of Ills loess:Igo is xvortlty of taanatentla Ili , treats l'obans coldly as heretofore, atid 1111,1 not a ovord lif sympathy for those who are there striving to secure the right of sc If-government. Ile an nounces that our relations with Spain :ire satisfactory. A considerable portion of the Mes sage is devoted to the advocacy of the s , qui Domingo Job. I lere the President grows eloquent as he looks forward with covetous eagerness to theprolits he expects to reap, if lie can succeed in forcing his pet seheme of plunder through. Ile has evidently abandoned all tape that the Sellateetla be eallXlat at coerced into sanctioning the treaty on which he tool set, his heart, and he now urges the passage of a joint resolution authorizing him to appoint a Commis sion to negotiate a treaty for the pur chase of the island, the action of said Commission to be made valid by a ma jority vote of the two houses hereafter. Such is the guise in which this corrupt scheme is again put forward. We hope there may be virtue enough left in Con gress to defeat it. There is a decided tone of hostility to England in the 1\ lessage and the language used shows that Butler's recent speech at 1 1001101 reflected ton considerable ex tent the sentiments of the President. It is recommended that the Alabama claims due our citizens be purchased by the government, and that the account thus made be held open against Eng land. This is to check-mate the recent movement, whereby it is expected that fireat Britain will settle these claims privately with the losers by Confeder ate cruisers. A more serious question in the mind of the President, seems to be the action of the Canadian Authori ties in regard to the fisheries along the coast, :11111 in regard to the navigation of the Si. Lawrence. 'File President asks Trout Congress the power to suspend by proekunation the law authorizing the transmission of wares and merchandise across the territory of the United states to Canada, :ind, should he deem it uec_ essary, the pow,.r to suspend the laws whereby vessels from Canada arc per mitted to enter the ports of the Fnited Status. 'Nils is a nnalitication of the ideas of Ben. Butler, and shoWs how closely he and the President :ire in ac cord. It would recut that t rant shares with Butler in the belief that the Re publican party can not win future vic tories on iast issues, and that he is ready to attempt to ride into the White House in 1872 on _Butler's hobby of a war with England. That nag can't win, as ( irant will find if lie attempts to put him on the track. The lire:Aden( shows that he dreads the action of the revenue reformers and h: attempts to put himself right upon that subject. Ile expresses decided dis trust of the theories advanced by those who are loudly calling for reforms which are confessed to be needed, and suggests that the present system of taxation shall be continued for sonic ,years say as long as he may desire to be President. That part of his message Which relates to a tariff, is claimed by such newspapers as Forney's Press to be a complete en dorsement of the ideas of the high tariff wing of the Republican party. We may look for a fierce tight in Congress over the ideas contained in that portion of the message which relates to revenue. The balance of the Message is com posed of references to the facts and fig ures contained in the reports made by the heads of departments, most of which have already been published in the IN ./..ELLIGENCIM. Report of the Postmaster General We publish elsewhere a carefully pre pared al?stract of the Annual Report - of the Postmaster General, which will be read with interest. THE census returns of Pennsylvania are now completed, and the total popu lation is ascertained to be 3,492,602—a gain of 580,388 since 1860,being 20.18 per cent, THE LANCASTER WEEKLY INTELLIGENCER, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER, 7, 1870. The Meeting of Congress On Monday the Forty-First Congress re-assembled, happily only for a short session and for the last time. This Con gress can not fail to be marked as infa mous in history. By it very little has been done calculated to benefit the country, while much evil has been ac complished. From the day when its members first assembled under the fret ted and gilded ceiling of the National Capitol, until the present hour, they have busied themselves chiefly In job bery. Paying jobs of every conceivable description have been prepared and put through. Monopolists have com bined to secure the passage of laws which enriched a few men at the ex pehse of the masses ; the public lands have been parcelled out among railroad corporations, and the heritage of the people has been despoiled. Never in the history of the world did any legisla tive body show such a complete lack of moral honesty, and such a reckless dis position to plunder the public treasury, and to enrich its members by robbing the taxpayers. The men who have so boldly betrayed their trusts re-assembled in Washington on Monday. Manyofthemgotherelga publiccapacity for the last time. Not a few of the more greedy and unscrupulous have been repudiated by the people. This State furnishes numerous examples of just retribution. Donley, Morrell, Gil -1 filial], Armstrong and Cessna have all been beaten in districts which were re garded as sure to give Increased Repub lican majorities. Thus have the people of Pennsylvania marked their disappro bation of the course pursued by the Forty-first Congress. The present session must of necessity be a short one, as this Congress expires by limitation on the 4th day of next March ; but the probabilities are that the Forty-first Congress will be a very busy body while it continues to exist.— ] t:is likely that very few measures of public importance will be considered or perfected, but there will be a multitude of paying jobs put through. The rep robates who have been consigned to po litical oblivion by the votes of honest men will take good care to feather the nests to which they reluctantly retire. Over a score of bills granting lands to railroad companies remained on the Speaker's desk when the House ad journed last July. These Mils had pass ed the Senate, which has become as corrupt as ever the Lower House of the Pennsylvania Legislature was known to be,but they were postponed in the House because the Radical members imagined they could not face their constituents if they should be put through just before the pending election. In addition to these there are many more in the Sen .l ate and in the Committees of the two houses, all of which will be forthcoming at the present session, and most of which will no doubt be passed. Jobbers of every description can secure all they ask during the present session if they go to Washington with plenty of motley. The purchasable trash which makes up a large part of this Congress, will be in the market ; and any villain ous scheme can be put through that may he well paid fur. The people of this country will have cause to rejoice when the Speaker's gavel falls on the morning of the -ith of March, 1571, and the infamous Forty-first Congress ceases to have an existence. The Sortie from Paris Gen. Trochu, at last, has been making a determined attempt to raise the siege, but crediting the reports received, it has resulted disastrously. One cannot well resist the conviction that these sorties come too late to be effective. }lad they been made a month or six weeks ago, before the Germans had time and op portunity to make themselves so strong around the devoted city, there was, at least, a strong probability of success. As it is, such demonstrations as those we are now called upon to record seem born oidy of the "energy of despair." Gen eral Trochu, no doubt, expected a sim ultaneous movement against the enemy on the part of the Army of the Loire. Some such movement really did take place, and the despatches speak of it even as a " heavy and general attack," but the Prussians were so quick with their reinforcements, that it ended in a "repulse," with a " heavy loss of killed, wounded and prisoners," followed by the withdrawal of the army itself. The French army that has been open acing in the vicinity of Amiens seems to have been equally unfortunate. Paris hence has seemingly nothing to expect in the way of outside help, and in future must rely upon itself. The general situation, in the light of these despatches, is as gloomy for un happy France as her most implacable enemy could possible desire. If there is any silver lining in the dark cloud which overshadows the land, it:is as yet scarcely discernible; unless, indeed, we look for it in the comfortless pro verb which tells us the day isalways the darkest just before the dawn. Report of the Revenue Commissioner. We publish elsewhere a very full ab stract of the report of Mr. Delano, Com missioner of Internal Revenue. It is an interesting paper and will be read by all who desire to see whence the reve nue of tie Federal Government is de rived. Mr. Delano shows that sixty three per cent. of Internal Revene re ceipts comes front the five Stales of New York, Ohio, Illinois, Pennsylvania and Kentucky. The report was furnished to newspapers for a price by some en ierprising and not very scrupulous em ployee. It will be remembered that a great fuss was made about the prema ture publication of reports under An drew Johnson. It seems the present administration does no better. The Luzerne Democracy The Democracy of Lucerne County held a Convention the other day at which the rules governing 1101ffillati011s were remodeled on what seenfs to us to be a most excellent plan. The Con tention was largely . attended by the best men of the party, and its action was perfectly harmonious. The men who soil the party out to the Radicals last fall, and their tools who deceived honest Democrats by putting Republi can tickets in their hands at the polls, will find their occupation gone in La /TM., and we may look for old-fash ioned Democratic majorities up there hereafter. Presents to Democratic Presidents mom; the many articles of value which Treasurer Spinner has charge of iu the vaults at the Treasury, area large bottle of otto of roses presented to Pres ident Van Buren by the Inn ILnaun of Siam, valued at $soo; a lot of fine shawls, and other rare gifts presented to diMrent Democratic Presidents. There has been no accumulation of such articles during the reign of Urant. He is ready to take any present offered to him. The only thing he was ever:known to rafuse was that pointer dog, and he would no doubt have accepted the animal if , the donor had not neglected to pay the express charges. Colonizing the First District The Philadelphia Evening Herald says the Radicals are preparing to colo nize the First Senatorial District, so as to secure the election of their candidate. According to the Herald one of the newly elected Congressmen has been ou to Washington and secured the co-oper ation of Grant in the scheme. A vessel is to be sent to the Navy Yard and a large force of workmen to be put on her, under the pretense that she needs re pairs. The men are to be taken from other districts and paid by the General Government. This is a nice scheme and perfectly practicable in the hands of corrupt politicians. What will the people of the State think of a President who can lend his aid to such rascality, Thieves at Harrisburg The Harrisburg Telegraph complains that the State Capital is just now over run by a set of petty thieves whose pil fering propensities cannot be repressed, and whose cunning baffles the attempts of the police to capture them. That must be exceedingly annoying to the good citizens of Harrisburg indeed; but the time is fast approaching when a crowd of robbers will assemble there whose stealings will throw in the shade all the little pilferings of tfte petty thieves Unless the next Legislature should prove to be vastly more honest than any which has preceded it, since the Radical party made sure of a major ity by an improper and unjust appor tionment of the State, the Telegraph will find ample opportunity for com ment upon the rascality of members. Already the carcases on which the vul tures will fatten are being prepared. First will come the State Treasury fight, and the Telegraph cannot help seeing much in that worthy of comment.— Then, there is the robbery of the Sink ing Fund, which is sure to come up ! again. The publication of a Legislative Record will be . , another nice little job, and we should be greatly surprised if the proprietor of the Tdeg mph would prove to be sufficiently honest for once to abstain from an eflbrt to filch from the State much more than the work is worth. We hope the Telegraph will be as ready to comment upon the conduct of legislative thieves as it is to con demn the petty pilferers who pick up little things which are left lying around loose ; and we trust that the proprietor of that journal will try to clear 11 is character as a church deacon from the grave sus picions which have heretofore attached thereto. Memorial of Abraham B. Hutton We have received from James B. Bar clay, Esq., Secretary of the Pennsylva nia Institution for the Deaf and Dumb, the address delivered by him in com memoration of the virtues and services of Abraham B. Hutton, for many years principal of the institution. This ad dress of Mr. Barclay gives a succint and very interesting account of the eflbrts made in different parts of the civilized world to impart instruction to the deaf and dumb. The success Which hasattend edbhe establishment of institutions such as that over which Mr. Hutton presided so ably for upwards of forty years, has been largely owing to great self-devo tion of the men who personally engaged in the work of teaching the deaf and dumb. The spiritual darkness of those who are thus cut oil from the principal sources of human knowledge is very great. From a careful examination into li the mental condition of those born deaf it has been ascertained that they had no idea of Clod; none of their own souls; none of spiritsorof a spiritual existence; in sonic cases roue of Clod, and when any idea of the Great Creator had been imparted by friends, it was generally found to be exceedingly imperfect and limited, the unfortunate creatures re garding the Creator as a mere man. They had no idea of the origin of the world, and thought of death only as a physical change passed upon the body. Tney seemed to have no innate ideas upon such subjects, and derived their first ideas upon them front instruction in the Asylum. Large numbers have been educated in our State Asylum to a high degree of intelligence, and during Iris long and useful life Mr. 11utton con ferred incalculable benefits on many of these unfortunates. The system of teach ing the deaf and dumb has been brought ton marked degree of perfection by the unceasing labors of such Men, and Avluzns for the instruction of the deaf mutes are among the noblest charities of the world. We recommend the address of Mr. Barclay all to who feel an interest in the subject. Military Despotism In North Carolina Affidavits have been tiled before the North Carolina Legislature Which ex hibit the nature of the outrages to which President Grant lent his sanction in the interview with Mr. Brown. Lucien 11. Murray was seized by Kirk's militia and twice hung up by the neck to a tree, in order to make him confess his alleged complicity in the killing of Wyatt, out law. This was only , a part of the violence resorted to i n this case. D. IV. Weedon was arrested without a warrant o rany specific charge made against hint, and shot at by one of Kirk's militia merely for tell ing him that there was danger of his shooting some one. Ile was manacled in a most brutal manner, and denied even water to drink. George S. Rogers was carried to a tree and a rope put round his neck, in order to make him confess his knowledge of a murder. This is only a small part of the violence anti brutality practiced by the State militia, to sustain whom General Grant sent down Federal troops to North Carolina. Such are the iNes to which the army is put! There is :1 StrOllg di:TOSHIO!' to impeach Holden, and he richly deserves to he summarily expelled from the Ex ecutive elixir. The Conservative mem bers of the Legi,dature are not a unit, however, upon the nuestion, and it is likely the rascal may escape the punish ment he so richly deserves. Ile is harmless now, awl when his term of office expires, the last vestige of Radi cal misrule will disappear from North Carolina—a consummation devoutly to be wished. New Senator from North Carolina Hon. U. 13. Vance, Denmerat, has been elected by the North Carolina Leg islature to represent that State in the Senate of the ['tiled States. He receiv ed nearly a two-thirds majority of the votes cast. mr. Vance was born in lion come county, North Carolina, May I 15130. Ile was educated at the State University, studied law and was admit ted to practice in 151:3, He was elected to the Legislature in 1554, and in 1555; tie chosen to till the unexpired term in Congress of Hon. T. L. Clingham. He was re-elected to the Thirty-sixth Con gress, and was Uovernor of North Car olina front 1501 to 1563. Ile will make an efficient Senator. `•The raper Under the above title a new Demo cratic daily has made its ,mpearance in the city of Pittsburgh. It is a morning journal, of large size, well filled with news and admirably arranged in all its departments. The names of the pub lishers do not appear, but we understand that it is under the management of Messrs. Searight & Gibson, both from Fayette county, and both men of expe rience in the newspaper business. We welcome our new Democratic contem porary to our exchange list, and wish it a career of great prosperity. The only thing we do not like about it is "the head," which we cannot help thinking in bad taste. A weekly will be pub llshed in connection with the daily. Now that Nevada has gone Demo cratic, it but remains for Nebraska to be redeemed and Radicalism will have lost every one of those live States which, having been either created or recon structed for the sake of their votes in the United States Senate, are nominally re sponsible for so much of the noxious legislation of the five years past. In turn, Tennessee, West Virginia, Mis souri and Nevada have shown that they never were at heart Radical, and it but remains for Nebraska—the State brought into the Union by a regiment of troop ers—to approve the true feeling of its people in the same way. Opposition In the Next Congress A special Washington telegram to the Philadelphia City Item, says : There will be a hidden but formidable opposition in the next Congress to the Pres ident in some matters relating to his cher ished friends. They will try to hurt the hero, Porter ; they will again oppose St. Domingo ; there will be speeches made, in the course of which, the President's Cot tage at Long Branch is to be attacked.— They blame Tom Murphy for this affair. Let us have peace. Iteverdy Johnson on the Alabama Claims. Hon. Reverdy Johnson, having been requested to give an opinion upon the question as to whether those who were losers by the Confederate cruisers fitted out in England, during the rebellionin this country, could properly apply di rectly to the English government for redress, has written a letter, which was published in a recent issue of the New York Journal of Commerce. In that letter Mr. Johnson gives a clear state ment of the origin of the Alabama claims, and of the negotiations had be tween our government and that of Great Britain in relation thereto. Mr. Johnson states that the claims for directlosses by our citizens amount to some thirteen millions of dollars. When a demand for redress was made upon England, immediately after the close of the war, Earl Russell indignantly rejected the proposition for a convention to consider them. When Lord Stanley succeeded him in the Foreign Office, Mr. Adams renewed the proposition, and his lord ship agreed to submit the question whether England was liable by reason of not having fulfilled her neutral duty in the premises, but refused to submit the other question of liability from hav ing accorded belligerent rights to the Confederacy, holding that every nation has an absolute right to decide for itself such a matter. Our government insist ing upon the submission of the latter question, the negotiation failed, and nothing more was attempted until Mr. Johnson went as Minister to England. He arrived in London in August, MS, and on the 10th of November following an agreement was signed, by which the two questions were to be settled by sep arate protocols, England having yield ' ed to our demands in both instances after first refusing to do so in either ease. The agreement entered into by Mr. Johnson was rejected by our govern ment on the alleged ground that it did not provide for losses which the govern ment,itself had sustained directly or in directly by the conduct of the British Government. Mr. Johnson's instruc tions in regard to the Alabama claims only extended to individual losses of citizens, and he expresses the confident belief that every dollar of such losses would long ago have been paid if the agreetnent entered into had been car ried out. The question of claims by our government was discussed be tween Mr. Johnson and Lord Claren don, and an official note was at length signed in which it was agreed that any claims which either government might have against the other should be consid ered. Feeling most anxious to close the controversy Mr. Johnson telegraphed to Secretary Fish Idle new administration having come into power,) in relation to this last concession on the part of Eng land. Mr. Fish replied that the terms of the proposed convention, as previous ly made, having been laid before the Senate, President Grant (lid not feel at liberty to change it, a reason the force of which Mr. Johnson declares his inabili ty to see or comprehend. As is well known the Senate rejected the proposi tions made through the instrumentality of Mr. Johnson, and from that time to the present no effort has been made on the part of General Grant's administra tion to renew negotiations. Great _Britain seems to Ire of opinion that she has yielded as much as her honor will permit, and such also would no doubt be the opinion of any set of arbitrators who might be chosen from neutral nations to decide the contro versy. England is not bound to renew the negotiations so suddenly broken ott by us, and could not do so without such a sacrifice of national dignity as we have no right to demand. If the quixotic ideas of Stunner are to be made the rule of our future conduct in this matter, those of our citizens who suffered loss by Confederate cruisers, must abandon all hope of obtaining indemnity through the action of our I government. Their losses were severe, and justice demands that they shall be settled. Sonie of the parties who suffered loss by Confederate cruisers having taken steps towards securing payment di rectly to themselves from the Eng lish government, have been very per emptorily informed that it is a seri ous misdemeanor for them to enter into any such negotiation with a for eign government, and that they will be punished if they do not desist there from. Mr. Johnson shows very clear ly that Secretary Fish is greatly in error in regard to the statute of 179 h, under which he attempts to arraign parties for punishment. He makes this point exceedingly plain in the following forcible language: The act of 909 was passed to effect a wise and constitutional purpose. It would be mischievous to permit individual citizens to interpose in any negotiation between our own and any foreign government. To do so was, therefore, properly made a misde meanor, punishable by fine and imprison ment. The act, however, was passed when states men administered the government. They knew what its legitimate powers are, and that these were intended for the protection of individual rights, not their destruction. They, therefore, provided that nothing in the act "shall be construed to abridge the right of individual citizens of the Uni ted States to apply by themselves or their lawful agents to any foreign government, or the agent thereof, fur the redress of any injuries in relations to persons or property which such individuals may have sustain ed front such go verinnent, or any of its agents, citizens or subjects." Believing it to be perfectly certain that a grievous blunder has been committed in this matter by the administration. Mr. Johnson very properly advises his clients to proceed to make a settlement of their individual claims with the Brit ish 6overnment. That they will do so there is no doubt, and it seems to be tak en for granted that England will at once acknowledge all properly authenticated claims and proceed to liquidate them. Should that be done in good faith, it will be impossible to keep up any ex citement in this country hereafter upon these Alabama claims. if Sumner's silly advice should continue to be re garded and ti rant's administration de cline to re-open negotiations in regard to them, it is very certain that the Courts of the United States will protect private citizens in their ellbrts to secure indemnification fur their private losses, and the threat that they will be prose cuted for so doing will prove to be a mere beutum ft/I/m.7i, the only effect of which will be to make (}rant, Fish and Weir law adviser ridiculous in the eyes of the civilized world. Whatever they may do in the premises it is certain that the public sentiment„of this country Will sustain the claimants. The truth is that we have been placed in a wrong position in regard to these Alabama claims, either purposely or blunderingly. The speech of Senator Sumner was a tissue of absurdities, and the administration of General Grant acted very foolishly when it undertook to follow his lead. Had wiser councils prevailed, the Alabama claims would long ago have been satisfactorily ad justed, the losses of our citizens would have been paid, and all just demands on the part of our Government have been satisfied by England. In this, as in very many other matters, the admin istration of General Grant has blunder ed sadly and made itself ridiculous. GRANT is being terribly bored just now by the contending Radical factions in New York and Pennsylvania. If he favors one he offends the other. He is at his wits end, and ready to exclaim, "a plague on both your houses," only he dare not do so for fear he may not be renominated and allowed to reap a rich harvest for himself and relatives during a second term. TILE total of estimates for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1872, as prepared by Secretary Boutwell, to be laid before Congress, Is $1180,272,386. The total for the year ending June 30,1871, was $298,- 116,732. Grant's Contempt for Public Opinion. Just at the time when the whole coun try is disgusted with, and is exclaiming against, the nepotism which Grant prac tices in favor of his relatives, he ap points his brother-in-law, Brigadier Dent, as a Lieutenant Colonel of the Second Cavalry Regiment, in order that he may not come under the operations of the new law mustering out all army officers who are unassigned on the Ist of January. Dent has no employment except dancing attendance on Grant as a gentleman usher at the White House. In order to retain him there in the pay of the people, he assigns him a place where no duties are required that will interfere with his sinecure. This inter ference in behalf of a relative to shield him from the operations of a just and equal law—this contempt and disregard of public opinion—is worthy of the shameless and stolid man who now dis graces the Executive Mansion. Had Grant been a man of any sensibility, he would, under no circumstances, have thus prostituted his office in order to ag grandize his family relations. While the kith and kin, the blood roval, are promoted, the deserving officers, who are not of it, are summarily dismissed from the service. Senator Vance Not to be Admitted From the tone of the Washington despatches, we , are inclined to believe that the Radicals will refuse to admit the newly elected Senator from North Carolina. Mr. Vance was a staunch Union man up to the time his State se ceded, and then, like nearly all the best men of the South, he stood by the ac tion of his native State. He is a man of honor and of the strictest integrity. If the Radicals refuse to admit him, the Legislature will speedily return some one who has had his disabilities le moved. This discrimination against the best and purest men of the South, oil aecou lit of their participation in the rebellion, can not be kept up much lon ger. The feeling which sustained it at the close of the war, has died out among the people of the North, and there are comparatively few who would not now gladly . see a general amnesty proclaim ed. A refusal to admit Senator Vance to his seat will only embitter the feel ing of the people of North Carolina without being productive of the slight est compensatory benefit. Declining to Contest Win. 11. Armstrong, the Republican candidate fur Congress in the Pith dis 7 triet of this State, acknowledges that he was fairly beaten by Sherwood, the Democratic candidate. The Harrisburg Telegraph professes to be lynch sur prised that Mr. Armstrong should de cline to contest when the majority against him was only 27. It has been so used to seeing every Democrat thrown out of his seat who could not show an overwhelming majority that it cannot understand why Mr. Armstrong should own up to an honest defeat like an hon est man. Honesty in politics is some thing beyond the comprehension of the proprietor of the Tdcgraph. It is said Mr. Daniel Morrell, who was defeated by 11 votes, will not contest Mr. Speer's right to his seat. Should that report prove to be true, the little renegade and trickster, John Cessna, will be the only contestant from Pennsylvania. He was fairly beaten, and ought to be ashamed to attempt a contest. Talk That Soldiers ('an Appreciate Gratz Brown, the new Governor of Missouri, told a few wholesome truths at a complimentary serenade given him by his political friends in St. Louis the other evening,. Among other things, addressing the veteran Union soldiers present, he said: SOLDlERS—Wherever I have gone in the canvass of this great State, I have ever found that those who bore the brunt of bat tle were the first to extend the right hand of reconciliation—[cheers]—prompt to for get all animosity, and to consign to obliv ion obsolete issues, bygone phraseology, past nomenclature. It was only those who held high carnival in the rear that w ould still prolong the note of discord, hoping for continued pillage. [Cheers], This pointed rebuke of the ultra Rad icals, who opposed the enfranchisement of whites when the same privilege was bestowed upon the blacks, was well timed and well merited. Words like the above have the true ring and will find an echo in the breast of every true American citizen. The Turkish Mission The Harrisburg Telegraph denies the report that Wayne McVeigh is about to abandon the Turkish mission and return_ home. As the Tdcgraph is the home orean of Simon Cameron we suppose we must believe what it says in regard to the son-in-law of our virtuous Senator. The "howl set up by certain dyspeptic politicians, I that is the language of the T fe'graph t may have prevented the ambassador from following up his in tention. Cameron cannot afford to give the Curtin faction so good a chance to make capital, and McVeigh must bear his banishment as best he can. the Northwestern Woman Suffrage Convention, at Detroit, Mrs. M. A. Haz lett was elected President for the ensu ing year. Miss Anthony denounced Congress for "permitting ignorant ne groes to vote, while they disfranchise refined women," and said, " the women of the Northwest, during the coming year, might cause Messrs.Trumbu II and Bingham to tremble for their positions," anti compel them to pay attention to the matter. We do not wonder that the strong-minded are mad about the cava lier treatment they have received from the leaders of " the party of great moral ideas." AN attempt is flow being made to t.e lieve Grant from the odium of having ordered S. troops to Now York with a view to influence the election. Wash ington despatches appear in Radical newspapers stating that the only reason for the concentration of troops was a fear that a riot might occur and the sub treasury be robbed. That is so paltry an excuse that it can avail nothing. Its only effect will be to show that Grunt is conscious that lie committed a great po litical blunder when he attempted to control the election by bayonet, TiE liartford tur ni,ol Poet, hereto fore a Republican paper, has come out for Revenue Reform. The Republican journals which support this movement, such as the Chicago Tribune and st, Louis Dem 0,-101, are mostly strong, prosperous papers, with a large circula tion, and are wholly independent of State or Federal patronage. The jour nals specially devoted to the Adminis tration-are very bitter against the Reve nue Reform movement, but, with some few exceptions, they are inferior in cir culation and substance to the presses which favor a reduction of duties. IT is said that Simon Cameron will succeed in inducing Grant to appoint Mr. J. W. Douglas, of Erie, to the lin portant position of Commissioner of In. ternal Revenue. That will be a triumph over: the Curtin faction of which Si mon may well be proud, though it is very doubtful whether the Republican party of Pennsylvania, as a party, will be in any way benefitted by the ap pointment. It is evident that Grant has surrendered to Cameron, and the old Winnebago chieftain is now a re cognized power behind the throne. GEN. TERRY has some decency about him. lie has ordered the United States troops to be withdrawn from the Ala bama State Capitol. That is exactly right. The usurping Radical Governor has supplied their places with a Sheriffs posse of negroes. It looks as if they might have a "Buckshot War" in Ala bama. If it should come all the Democrats will ask will be for Gen. Terry to leave them free to deal with the Radical usurpers as they deserve to he treated. The First Senatorial District The Democracy of the First Senato rial District have nominated Colonel Robert P. Dechert, Deputy District At torney of Philadelphia, as their candi date to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Mr. Watt. The nomination is so good a one that it extorts praise even from the most radical Republican news papers. The Evening Telegraph speaks of him in the following flattering terms: The Democrats of the First Senatoral dis trict have shown their appreciation of the importance of the political struggle on the 20th instant by nominating, with great un animity, one of their best men. All per sonal aspirations and factional divisions have been sunk by that party, and Colonel Robert P. Dechert :has been made their standard-bearer. He is a gallant soldier, and a gentleman of ability and culture, and of blameless private character. He entered the army as Sergeant-Major of the 20th Pennsylvania Regiment, under Colonel John K. Murphy, on the lot of July, 1861, and shared the fortunes of our gal lant army until July 17, 1865, when the regiment was mustered out of service. lie participated in the campaign of General Banks in the Shenandoah Valley in the spring of 1562, and was at Cedar I4ountain, second Bull Run, And all the battles iu front of Washington in the disastrous campaign of Pope. He won especial dis tinction for his gallantry at Antietam, Chancellorsville, and Gettysburg, and then was transferred under Hooker to Chatta nooga. He became Assistant Adjutant General on the staff of General Slociumand with him served in the memorable march to Atlanta, and tnence to the sea. He was at intervals promoted lieutenant, captain, major, and lieutenant colonel for "gallantry and other meritorious services," and after the victory over rebellion was complete, Col. Dechert returned to his profession of the law in his native city. lie is at present an Assistant District Attorney under Mr. Sheppard, and by the courteous and faith ful discharge of his duties, he has won the respect and confidence of the bar and of the community generally. lle is not a poll titian by trade, and is free from " and all complications which would embar rass hint as a Senator. Such is the nomination made by the Democrats in the close Senatorial District whose decision on the 20th instant is to de cide the political power of the Senate, and it is an admonition to the Republicans that they must, "do likewise" it they would win. A Democratic candidate with a bril liant record as a soldier, and unobjectiona ble either as to qualification or character, will demand the best candidate in the Re publican party to defeat him. No nomi nee of any ring or faction can hope to suc ceed against Colonel Dechert and a united and earnest party supporting him. Let the Republicans be up and doing, for they have a task of no common magnitude be fore them. They can carry the district, but it can be done ,only by presenting a man who will deserve the support of the entire part 3. The Usurpation In Alabama The bold attempt of the defeated Rad ical Governor and State Treasurer of Alabama to hold on to offices to which Democrats were duly elected has called down indignant rebukes from sagacious Republican newspapers. The Philadel phia Eceninll l',/,gnudi says : The Republicans of the South seem to be as much in need of reeonstruction as the Rebels. Reinkirced by an immense cote and protected by the armies of the United States, they manage to dissipate enormous majorities by selfish or stupid dissensions, and after thee have provoked defeat they appeal to Congress or the Courts for relief from their self-imposed dilemmas. The latest illustration cf those disastrous pro clivities is furnished by the recent pro ceedings in Alabama. In a fair contest, managed with a reasonable degree of adroitness and an avoidance of dissension among the Republican politicians, that State can poll a very decided Republi can majority. But the Democrats at the late election carried the whole State ticket, ac cording to the official return, by majorities ranging from 1,-IZ9 to -1,4:0. This result is acquiesced in by all Republicans so far as it affects all officers except the Governor and State Treasurer; but the present Ile publican incumbents of these positions have obtained an injunction from the Courts to prevent the count of the re turns which would exclude them in the hope that their lease of power will thus be prolonged. We scarcely know on what lire text this desperate device was adppted, but if we can believe the despatch sent front Montgomery, many Republican members of the Legislature and respectable Repub. lican voters are bitterly opposed to this at tempt to nullify the results of the election, and the ill-feeling thus generated threat ens to breed a nosy crop of dissensions in the Republican organization from which it may never recover. It is a notable fact in these unfortunate difficulties that the colored voters rarely or never cause them. They originate nine times out uC ten in the greed , " selfishness or vain ambition of dis honest or inflated. Southern white a Repub lican politicians; and these men have done more injury to the cause which they pro fess to love, during the last tire years, titan all the Rebels south of Maien and Dixon's line. IN the debate which sprang up in Congress on the President's Navigation Message, lion. 0. J. Dickey ridiculed the idea of a war between France and Germany, and, with that peculiar voice for which he is distinguished, asked "whether anybody had received any private intelligence of the approaching strife." In that Mr. Dickey acted a na tural part and showed the true measure of his statesmanship. It may be some consolation to Mr. Dickey's friends to know that Simon Cameron acted and spoke still more stupidly. Truly Penn sylvania has no reason to be proud of these would-be statesmen. A se II ITE girl in Leavenworth recent ly applh.4l to a magistrate for aid in se curing possession of her child, which had been kidnapped by the father, a genuine African negro, who has been but a few years in this country. She says that when she refused to marry him (they were servants in a family) he assailed her with spells and incanta tions, and made her so ill awl " full of pains" that she submitted to be hid prey in order to be restored to health. This, dear reader, is the century of pro gress. CALLICI)T, the fellow who sold out to the Radicals after being elected as a Democrat to the New York Legislature, and who took to stealing after being appointed a Revenue Collector, has been pardoned by Grant. We suppose the President thought it hart that one thieving Radical official should be com pelled to endure all the discoiuforts of life within the walls of a prison, while such a multitude of s:milar rogues walk about in Mond cloth, :111,1 ill members ui tin party. ,„, „han g , iu Ibr• Alai..., and Ti.E.N urcr still retain ilwir offi ces in flit , by :t ha^ signed s bill whii•li thy Leg islature. Tlii i i . llliti-e nit yi•i i ti•riliiy, and dill tlitire \Va'i 11, SeS , illti of 1110 S 1 .11,t, THE 1,111)1iV debt Siatelll,llt ft)r cellibl , r Ist shows a reduction during the month of ::. , 7,475,51;0. Amount in the Treasury, ,f1:2,:,,5 - 21,565, hioh :t6c,.)77 is coin. Jr is stated that Chief dii , t if,' Chase is " slowly recovering his health, — but that his physician "gives hint no hope as to the time when he turn• resume his seat on the bench." Month Carolina lonlvialiare. - IS7I. Whiu, Senate II 211 house ,!‘) -1-3 91 M Negro majority "To this complexion nimit ice route at last." 30.--I'he i:overnor, Chief Justice and Secretary, sitting as a Board of Canvassers of the late election, have just closed an open session of three days. '1 hey heard arguments and awarded a certificate to Moses K. Armstrong, Democrat, as a delegate to the next Congress. The vote was very close, as follows: Armstrong, Democrat, lieps hi can, 1102; Spink, Republican, 1003. The Money Paid 10 Soldier.. The following figures from the official records will give some idea of the amount of money which the (Mvernment is devot iegto invalid soldiers and the heirs of those who died in the service. There was paid on account of pay and bounty during the past year to the heirs of soldiers $4,160,776; to the account of the national asylum, $l,- 70:1,346 ; to the account of the Soldiers' Rome in this city, 391,329; to invalid pen sioners, $8,963,475; and to widows, $19,164,- 509 ; making a total of $33,990,435. These sums do not include the amount, reaching over a million dollars, paid on the account of artificial limbs.—N. Tribune. State Items. Philadelphia is twenty-three unites long and five mites wide. The stable of Jobn L. Getz, In York, was burned on Tuesday evening. Two Lebanon policemen have just been dismissed for being drunk. John Hull. a night watchman of the Pennsylvania Railroad had his leg cut off by a freight train yesterday. Mr. John Wiekers, of Lewisberry, York county, lost three children by dip theria within the last ten days. A wild cat was killed in Cuml errand county and another in Somerset last week. Thos. P. Fenton, formerly of Ebens burg, has been elected to the Kansas Legislature from Leavenworth. It is rumored that the miners in the coal regions of this State will strike for higher wages before the holidays. Mr. Dick. Head, of Harrisburg, shot a large wild cat near Latrobe, Westmore land county, last week. There was a severe storm, with thunder and lightning, at Pittsburgh yesterday afternoon. The Mercer Dispatch says there is a young man in that county, who valks to Mercer, a distance of nine miles, every Saturday, to get shaved. Only ten able-bodied men were left in Phillipsburg, Centre County, on Thanksgiving Day, all the others hav ing gone a hunting. Singleton M. Ashenfelter, formerly of Reading, has been appointed C. S. Dis trict Attorney of New Mexico, by Pres ident Grant. The new German. Masonic Temple in Allegheny City, Pa., was dedicated yes terday. When completed, it will cost, $44),0u0. Improvements are steadily going for ward all over Reading,. Go where you will, brick masons Zukd carpenters can be seen at work. The Berks County Medical society, the oldest in the State outside of Phila delphia, was disbanded ,at its regular meeting last week. It was organized in P 524. The passenger earnings on the Cum berland Valley Railroad during the year ending September In, 1570, were NI 5n,735.88, and the freight earnings were 338,910.55. Wa.shington county contains per sons between the ages of 90 and 93 years, and four who are over 101 l years old. One of the latter, Robert Collins, is IU3, and can still read without spectacles. As a farmer, named Ving,sh, was driv ing across the Mine Hun bridge, in Dauphin county, the structure gave way, precipitating load and driver into the stream and killing hint. Scranton has 2S clergymen, 43 doctors, 69 lawyers and 1 policeman. 'nut must be the reason Why they have so many murders and robberies in the "third city of the State." At Altoona the pollee furnish the liquor dealers with lists of persons to whom it is unsafe to sell intoxicating drinks. The satire thing might be done elsewhere, and different communities be the better for it. Mrs. Rachael Tracer, an old lady years of age, residing near Douglassville, Berks County, fell while walking to the residence of a neighbor on Thanksgiv ing day, and fractured a leg, and was otherwise injured. The eighteenth annual meeting of the stockholders of the Pittsburgh anti Con nellsville Railroad was held at Pitts burgh yesterday. The earnings of the road for the year were reported at ono, an increase ,d $17,000 over the pre vious year. A boy named Charles F'. Shade houglit three-quarters of a potuut of powder in Harrisburg last Wednesday, put it in his pocket, set tire to it with a cigar and blew lii nself up. His clothes were nearly torn off him, and he was badly burned but is likely to recover soon. Rev. Dr. S. M. Andrews, of Doyles town, married his eight hundredth couple of matrimonial candidates on Thanksgiving, day. The editor of the heinoorat is trying to calculate the number of descendants they will have in a hundred years. l'rof. Eberley, of Cottage Hill Female Seminary, in York, caned a young Mall named Gates E. Weiser last Sunday Mr speaking in an indecent manner to some of the young _ladies who were walking in the garden of the institu tion. Weiser has prosecuted the Pro fessor for assault and buttery. A. professed minister of the Gospel was arrested in Harrisburg on Tuesday, charged with fornication and bastardy and an attempt to procure abortion. Ile was taken to Schuylkill county, from whence the complaint came. Ile is a married man, his 11:1111C is F, L. Clay man. The building of a railroad from York to I iettysburg direct is beginning to be agitated with decided earnestness. It is said that parties abroad will furnish a large proportion of the means—probably two-thirds—if the people of \ ork and I iettpdairg and along the route will sub scribe the balance. Two youths in Franklin, planned the robbery of a merchant tailoring estab lishment, and then ordered a full outfit of clothing to be made, timing the bur glary at the date the clothes were fin ished. They succeeded in getting the garments, but were afterwards arrested, and are now in jail. They are brothers, named Amy. A fire at Laurencehurg, Armstrong county, yesterday morning, destroyed the Revere House, Butler House, Hor ace Hotel, New York Hotel, Adams Foster's dry goods store, Crichlow's grocery, Lewis & Co.'s cigar store, thir ty dwellings and the Legal Tender and IndepeudeutOil Works. Loss $1,000,0u0. It was the work of an incendiary. Some scurvy rascal, not having the fear of God or a proper terror of the law before his eyes, broke open the coop of the editor of the Chambersburg Cooky ,Cpirit, and stole the Thanksgiving tur key which a generous subscriber had presented to him. The editor is a law yer and District Attorney of the county, and the thief will be likely to iiiry dearly for that turkey if caught. The Conneautville (Crawford comity') Record says: 'l r. Andrew Ryan and wife of Woodcock township, this coun ty., celebrated the 130th anniversary of their marriage on the L'ilth of October. Seven persons, whose ages aggregated 502 years, were present at the golden wedding who were at the wedding fifty years before, all belonging to two fami lies, and all, save one, born and reared in Crawford county. The census-takers in sonic portions of the West have as funny experiences as those in the large cities in this section. One has discovered a lady in Indiana who is happy and contented in the name of Jane Juliette Isalinalraminta Mu,a dora Peeks; and in Ohio a family lias been found where the firmt son is named Imprimis, the second Fink, and the three others Appendix, Addendum, and Erratum Greencastle, Franklin county, has re eently been perplexed by the physical formation of a colored nun, lie has a double organization and can change his heart in four di tkrent positions, whilst his bowels revolve around like a hall WWI great rapidity, backward and Ward, and when their motion ceases an extra set of ribs slide down and rover the entire abdomen. Ile says he does not suffer in the least from this curious freak of nature. The Delaware County sa y, : The establishment of Rh inebriate asy luar, for the use of females exclusively, is contemplated by a number of philan thropic gentlemen. This is a good move ment. It is sad to have to admit that such an institution is needed, but from the increased use of stimulants by ft— males the fact can no lenger be con • cealed that intoxication is rapidly spreading amongst every class of fe males in this country. This evil is not confined to the illiterate or vulgar, but pervades every class, even the most re fined and intelligent. Whitemarsh, 'Montgomery county, is the place where the contemplated asylum will be erected. The New York Son devotes several col umns to a description of the various rein Lions of Grant now enjoying salaries from the United States Treasury. The following is a recapitulation : U. S. Grant, President $115,000 J. F. Carry, Col. C. N. U 30;M John Dent, Indian Trader .1.5.01 Alex. Sharp, IT. S. Marshal 7y,00 .1 rose Grant, P. M., Covinant, R 3- ...... 3,•' , 00 F. T. Dent, Doorkeeper, White house ... r,utu George W. Dent, App. S. F aOOO Rev. .0. J. Carmer, L. 5, Minister 7,410 Orville Grant, partner of a Collector 4,1l:ro1 Louis Dent, fees in Washington 40,15.A1 "old Corbin " fees per Fisk .to,ooo Ex -Repel Longstreet, S. N. 0 311,001.1 G. li. Johnson, Assessor Internal Reve nue 10,000 Addison Dent, Clerk I,it.ill Second Lleut..7. F. ,S. i 11.013, _U. S. A 1,500 Second Lieut. J. Simpson, U S. A 1,500 Col. Hudson, 51InIster to tinatginala 7,500 Col. Legit, N. Y. C. 11 50,0(k) Alex. Sharpe, Marshal D. C 12.0 K) Orlando H. Moss, Auditor's Other I, Son Miss E. A. Magruder, TressUry Lout) Annually from Government Of 1,5,000 Indirectly from United States business through the President 130,000 Total one year for:the family Indictments Found LEAVENWORTH, Dec. 3.—The Grand Jury, yesterday, found seven indictments against John Speer, the defaulting ex-Col lector of Internal Revenue, in this State, and five against each of his Deputies, Bar riskland and Van Horn, The Census of Pennsylvania. The following table exhibits the popula tion of Pennsylvania, as footed up by the returns made to the Marshals of the East ern and Western Districts: WESTERN DISTRICT. 1870. 180. Allegheny 202,483 178,731 Armstrong 43,385 35,797 - Beaver 36,132 '29,140 Butler.. 30.485 35,594 Blair 38,051 27,929 Bradford. 51,100 48,734 Bedford 2.9,636 16,736 Cameron 4,273 now Co. t Cleartield 25,779 18,759 Cambria 30,572 '41,155 Clinton 23,213 17,723 Columbia . 2..9,76.5 •L 5,116.5 Crawford 63,827 49,755 Centre 34,394 27,000 Clarion 26,542 24,998 E1k8,315 5,915 ... Erie 65,977 49,432 131=11111 Greene 25.893 '21,343 Huntingdon 31;252 git,l,o() 36,123 21,661 18,27 u 17,491 Indiana. Jefferson Juniata Lawrence . 27;216 '2'2,119J Luz° rn e 160,971 90;211 Lveomin , * 47,63 s 37,399 \fekoan Mclver 5,126 49,9:41 36,55 t; 17,509 16,340 15,3:11 13,053 Montour Northumberland 41,440 t 1511 2 42 Potter.. 11,418 11,470 Snyder 15,6,k1 15,03.) Somerset ..!..5,22. - , 711,775 Sullivan 6,191 3,637 Susquehanna 37,330 36;267 Tioga3s,ll l '2 31,044 U. [lion.. I 3.569 14.143 Venango. -10,:0 25,1143 2.:;,597 19,190 45,451 46„5(6 Warren Washington 53,731; 14,W, 12,540 WeNtmoreland Wyoming 1.713,t67 Increa.se in ten yearn. 30,1 , 1'4 Barclay township not yet in. thew eminty, formed out of Potter and I':AsTt:RN DISTRICT, 30,:M3 25,111 106,739 93„s Adams Ibieks Carbon Chester Cumberland Dauphin 1 /elaAvare Franklin Lancaster.... Lebanon Leh dgli Mnroe Mntu4anery Northampu in leery Pike s, I It 5L1,310 Wayne York T;,17 G5,',21111 Philadelphia 5,15,529 Go ' ll 11 1 lUi 3i,11 - - 1, 1,1,1 1,. - 6:1,(17t; The uw pletu ropulatitm ,1 thu star, tlit•rul,pre, : .I)ist rill.. 170. 1561). I no. Iret Estern... 1,77 , „ - , II; f!'.25,-470 We5ter1....1,71:;,957 1,:;. - .3,039 30,11 K ;26.1'04 The following tallies will shiiw the it the Varic,ll, ViCIPS in the State. That given ILr 1'1111:IA1011,11k is the original return: IMICEI9= SVCOllti . • • il , ,..!.S.,SiXt.l'elltil P..,./ . 22. Tilint I'd, ili2'4eVellt.l.ellth... ....:0,7i.; 1'01.111.1/ i9,673Eighteltlltil 21,963 Firth 1. - ) , 51,N1f11 . 1,1 . 111.11..... .13, , ./ 0, - . sixth l'.:,l!.7l'nventieth. ..... ,I,:12.11 Seventh '3,),.-...lTwenty-lirst.. , 1.1,5,4 i Eighth. ....... .... :'.ll,:',lili T‘venty-see'cl.. ..!:2.,70'.!. Ninth 17,104 T‘venty-third.. 211,4 Pi Tenth :21,0:25j'I'vventy-fmlrtil 23,7..0 Eleventh 15,31:21Twenty-lifth... ts,t l otu Twe1fth........_.1-I,34o,Twenty-Nixtli. Thirteenth Twenty-sev'th IT STS Fourteenth =,:293:nventy-eightli 11l -IJI r rOtal 111 1:•01(1 AVards. l'upnlathon.;NV:trtk. I.,pulati,)n. Fir,t. .1336; Fourteenth 4,71 E; Second . 3,util ' Fifteen ti,.. ...... . 3:2.1u Third 2,1;32 Sixteenth 3,090 Fourth 4,3:;*2 Seventeenth -,,1til Firldi .I,9 , Eighteuntli...... :-.22 Sixth 7,0i15 , N ineteenth '2,41, Seventh , 1,7";:; Twentieth Eighth 7 ,01, l'wenty-tir,t.... '2:,11 . 2. Ninth .1,931 Tsvciity- , e..,,En I Tenth •1 19•:,"1' w,•nty-lin rd... 1,39, Eleventh. . ...... Twelfth . Thirteenth In the \Vattern District. Allegheny City South Side Borough 46,.015 Scranton Erie....... tl' illi:uu.pur[ ...... NVilk,harre . Taw, 11l . Meadville.. I . I,h it cn Cerra........ Pitt t n iArlsaelale 13,39:1 New Castle , .Jullestetre Et.ternn 101%trict. ll• rrisbut6 I In r Pottsville 12,3: York 11,012 Easton 10,991 Progress In Pennnylvnuln. The progress ut'our population tiinro lirsi .111'11er:1nm), that hal hoen KM f011,IWS: Year l'opulatiol). I nrrenoo. l'rr scut. 1790 131,373 1000 602,31)1 187,908 30.07 1010 010,091 21)7,730 :31.-49 1.010 1,01' 1 ,1.10 2)19,3117 20.55 1030 1,340,233 297,775 20.47 1040. ...... ... 1,72-1,033 375,000 27.87 1050 ' 311,700 507,733 3-4.404 160.... ...... 2,900,115 59.1,329 23.71 1070 3,192,503 570,304 20J0 The Population of Il ti ii more The census of Baltimore, which has re cently been taken by the United States au• thorines, being oonsidered imperfect, the City flouncil has had a new census taken, the result of which is a sum total of 203,1175, vie: males, 133,404 ; females, 149,1171. Tho Federal census gave a population (1 1 :9 1 ,5,59, and the present enumeration, consequently exhibits an increase of 12,471). In Isle, the population was 212,415. The increase shows that the city Inas advaneed even more rap idly than the other Atlantic eines, and the ride will compare favorably with that of the Western cities. Popolnt ~,,, of Chicago 'lle population of Chicago as returned by the United States Marshal is about an d that o f St. Louis or 16,000 greater than that ut d'hioago. It LIMY fir 'War, that, St. Lnuis Lakin prcrcQe tutu of any city in pnpulauun, tedwith,tand- Mg the lo,s of trado con.o.mout upon the tutu iuid the diminution of Southern pr.',s perily. The poplthlti , ,ll lit rl:s emnlty u, be 16,739, and that the ('lto ut U0 , 1 , 1;1112; : ' • ' ,97 1 ;. The populatiwn of PA.:tiling i n lot; was 23,171, and of the county 93,1,71. Freghtful Holocaust In Perry County-- Nearly n Whole Family. Burned Up. About three o'clock this morning a lire occured near Markleville, Perry county, eight miles northwest of Newport, totally destroying thedwelling of M r.. 1 ohm P. Boy er wish alt the contents, together with .the. Boyer, his w.f.', and tiro riardren !a boy und girl„ aged respectively 11: arid 1-1. Tho one saved way Mr. I leyer's son Thomas, tele) etienpltil Iro u t the devour i ngelement he jumping out of in window in his night clothes. The lire is SllppeSell T. , / have or iginated from the explosion 4,1' a coal oil lamp, the !lame of which had been low arid burning. The whole vommunity is in mourning over the heart-reading calamity. The following additional particulars have been received since the above despatch : The house I,ught fire from the explosion of a coal oil lamp, which had been kept burning low, owing to the illness m . 011(3 of the children. The fire Was first discovered by an older son, (ex-Deputy Sheriff of the county 'Bionics, who was awakened by the smoke. lie occupied a room up-stairs, while the rest of the family slept down stairs. Attempting to go to their rescue, he was baffled by the smoke and :lames. and for his own safety was compelled to jump out of a window in the upper story in his night clothes, injuring himself so that he was unconscious for some time af ter. Ile filially succeeded in alarming a neighbor, and both returned to the burning building. They could see the four mem bers of the family—Mr. Boyer, his wife, and two children—burning in their beds, but no earthly power could save them, and all efforts to render assistance were una vailing. The bodies, when taken from the ruins, were burnt to a crisp, mid beyond recognition. They were found side by side, the children having occupied a trun dle bed. The mournful occurrence has cast a deep gloom over that and the adjoining community. Mr. Boyer was about 40 years old, his wife 52, son about 12 and daughter 9. Outstanding Currency There is now outstanding of United States currency, of the old and new issues, W.)4,80(3,650 ; of one and two year 5 per cent. notes, $2.31,232; of compound interest notes, tk 2,0 9 1 , 19 0 , and of the tirst, second, third and fourth issues of fractional currency, $39,- 045,616, giving a grand total of currency furnished by the Government of $396,287,- 309, besides $300,000,000 of National Bank currency. In round numbers the paper currency of the country is seven hundred millions of dollars. THE WAR IN EUROPE. A:Review of the French Movements.- Brovery of their Officer.. LONDON, Dec. 2.—The special correspon dent of the Tribune, at Verstdlles, telegraphs to-day : " The lighting on the 30th ultimo was followed by no fresh movement. Yes terday there was a lull in the French can nonade. Several ambulances came out to collect the wounded. To-day, again, there is neavy tiring in the direction of Charen ton. The bright weather and hard ground are very favorable for the Germans. The following aro the details of the before Paris, on the 29th ult. "It is clear that a very important sortie was at tempted against Choisy-le Roi, and that feigned attacks upon Montretout and 110- rous would have teen pushed home had the Prussian lines proved weak. The French began the movement against ile ums in the middle of the night of the 28th, by a heavy cannonade from Mont Valerie,, and all attempt, real or feigned, to throw bridges across the Seine. "A musketry tiro ...exchanged bet we, n the opposite sides of the river. The whom Prussian force was on the Ind usula at Car ricres. The forts of St. Denis was ma the alert. Meantime the French were prepar ing an attack on Montretout with Infantry. moving up from Su reuses, under ouc, r of the guns of a new outwork of Mott Yalta eat. This attack commenced at eight yes terday morning. The Prussians were vig orously shelled. Detachments of l,arde, Mobiles began skirmishing. Several Prus sian field batteries advanced, and it large force of line infantry was soon in position to support the Jagar companies of the Jtla oorps of the French. 'rho gunboats in the Seine took part in the action, and shelled the Jagars. The Prussiim batteries did net re ply to the French cannonade, because they were prepared solely against the F reuvn infantry, Which did not advance. There were two or throe crude altavlo, non Mentrchout, na if to storm the Prll,illlll orks; lout the French supports so ere inameuvreNl as to give the impression that no, orders reached them to advance, al though they wore in strong force. The French ollicers,continually ex posing them selves to Mold their troops steady, suthore.l much from the .agars' tire. -I b u nt 11,11 , 11 the fire from MI/lIC Viderien slackened, inol the Gardes Mobiles were withdrawn. Tin , sortie against little litter than the feint against Montret eta. About lity 10.1E101.11S e3lllOlllll 11S 9111111 Ck From vw,,nnr, and ad Vi1111•1`ki 4.11 1110 13131(1.111 ut'tha itil P/31,413111311 rm. Butt, u(st 111,1' NVIII . I, 111. llllrjuil 3111,11,,rtA,1 the attack hy 311 11,3,-111.111 tire, reaching mainly the right ~1 the Ica, .t la i corp., and nitlieting slight lesses, 'I he hozininny et the 1110 N3'113•111 qlll the part of the French teas o,.llalliqed is ail great energy, hilt thes speedily her:tine dis•entirus:ed tinder the sharp lire of the besieging cere,s, whit nu uutsked held hattesries, is Inch ly proved exceedingly annoying to the 1 ',l_i 11 'll 31 , 11 4 1 47,P01 N4.t ,vith,tantling . the groat ext.ttioh,,i their olliror the ,hark log6a~al~ary Hero ,hmorilor. 'l'lloirmttppot•t, •kl to arr, aira, ua, ,pt or in Itto She 1 , 1 100 of 5010111...0 tt ere Itttvatrtah,; the rt•,t sums of the kill corps. 1110 it as from pri " tots aril l'hoiNy-10-1101, I totintl the cisuntry alive with 1 . ”1,1,4, 1111,- tt•ring to repel the sortle. 'clic, Ns eye 000 capable of c“ltcetltratmg :Lt. ally I,olht. weather w a, r,t,v anti 111,ty. The 1.1•I' Wall, Were in l'xcellnlit spirits at Illt. pert of artier work, the 111,1 Sill:2:111g, spit the I , laying• "Thu Vt tirtellikerget,, on the extreme left, NVl•re WO, about 11110 I.W eV, \ Shells. Tiler° W/LS 11111111 artillery ht 111,, during tho night front the ii In pie ILlu southern forts. The French overy vrhrrr are displaying great activity. 'I'M, final rEtort Is believed to be imminent. Th. , reckless waste of 11111/111111ith IS I/;te Trochit knows that Ills lIIS/VISIMIS w ell I:ul ImMrt , his supply of powder is exhat,tv.i, The rnuuuuadu doily groves Ilea, r." ihs.. 3. -[1 et . ,(1,1'.v mpectal .1 It is quite curtain that no junction has been iorined wills the army of the Loire b, :trod that the :Ill.ollli it of tht. Frt•llt•li in this direction was /t till lu re. Iteport of the Ihtke 01 /fleck lettberte The Duke of :qeeklenheri; uiat e, th.• follotving, report : Yesterday earning a hatilii 1 , 111,111 , 1,14 ,1 near Itagoches .\ !ter a 11.,‘ light the 151.11 French l'..rps \Vav idea/, 0 . and driven hack to A rtheinty, and French Corps was driven laty.m.l Several hundred prisoners and II gun. were taken. 'line enemy's Ite, 1, 0.1, dl.l /tide our It/SS iv 11111,1111Wil, but is 111110 h smaller than that of the oneley. DIA•01111R, Ilh, J it. 111. —The lighting at lint . , .1 very ,tevere, the I;ernhtte4 being 1,131,...: 3 . 34i a steady tire from the French flirts, hot at :3 p. to. the French retirod, leaving 1, hind many prNoners. d. ,1 ) , ., 1 I.v the French, ha, not been by the i;erinans. Tho Fronett wont.l.l who have Wien into tho minute of the he sieg,ors, otter to be mutt 1,‘,1% t , . Paris. Th,,(;erinan In:lev.+ am lining much their uvertveannig venthieneu III•toll,• 911,1,0 111 the recent mil:Lary t Prince lieerge, in a dispatch te the KJ,: ut Sexnny, states that Brio-and l'lnenine ny have been reenptured, ulthentth thi I•roneh bmintht heavy ma ces int , / Ill•tIi.lk that OM SILXI/111.1 Nullered grill A speeial M the Nosy Yorl: Wort,/ .ay A telegram dated T.mrs, Deo. soya: "It Is utlirially stated that 1110 ur [lsis days must yet elapse her ore the fruits it the 1111,01111.311 t, iti progress may ht• Hilly reaped. Up M this time the omtiplete suceess has SILLCII , IOiI the sue r.. steps talien, and e‘Ory t,rings mill other the ,illlll/•-1 got the I, ire am! Paris. French Acconnt. TOUR., Via Prus sians yesterday attacked the liah and 1.711. Army Corps. 'rho result ~1 the nnFngn tu•eL arc.,l,llllg to lit Fouire, huts the .Voilitclu . Pat icians deny that they asked it true,• to fiery their dead, and declar , th it the de mand 4,1110 fr , ,111 1.110 TM, A rtlnma and A ngurvlllo ruby strongly intrenellell po.amn..., wlnoll it remains fur tin, priks,nt, p0..0 ing its ad Valloo Mali ;1 bettor opportntnty is olrered. Alvan while, (ion. Uurrul, witty the :truly winch lie led nut 44 Paris, Is di-- engaged, and will he able. to it t me.: , l rt••• 1, not !hiding helot' him 1.1111 1111“.14 ul 111. 1 4 110111 y, Whi.•ll was supposed g. ollig 11103.1 whioli really mural v.utli of Urlt..ans. t:A.N I 1;1.:1-1..\. 'nt ~1 UPI TOM'S, (AI I.llolr %V.lp to the Iron:, mant. 'rho weathor is int,nsely rnll LILLE, I/0,4.- •The ov,Lotiati..l) .pl Anti Otis liy the I;ert..anv is cotilirisi..l. Th., enemy, as they retired, !dew up iii bridge. I/OLWeell tll.l Arhux, lei prote,t their retreat. Nothing has sir heoll heard or Nlon • toulrel, and there is Hutto doubt that In, ha, :tbandoned Lia march on slur north, and 11,, ix hastennnr, all Ilk forma tin Parts. siirtio troll, l'aris was cossful, atilt lie is wilt iron., Juni:Linn with lion. The vrom,•-tiretirm beaton the ',imp, at Ti,loblity. 1,,,N0nN, Due, Tim losses sustained by the Saxon, in the ltttle4 111 - 011111 i Pat I, from Nnvember 311th to Deeend,or '211,1, o• estimated at ahnut !Soil men. Four reg,• tnents the Saxon f,dees, the Mith, 107th tun' 10Stii, lost 17 (Anvers lulled :Lllll 43 WOllllllOl. Tile tOtJti Ill 11111), Of Fr 3•111•11 prisoners Laic en was about:1,000. Adrives from Parim havo boon rooeivod up ton lato hour on Sunday night. Tiwio had 'wen no I art hPr attruipL In harp Mu I'ru•ni:ui !mos. Lt 3. Fighting .wouria,l day nu Saturday,hctw, , n , iq•neral (;:trahal ,ll's I",c, and th.,,0.,1the Priot,laum r;eileral Werllarh the .11 LIIII 11111/al ut arul may Ic I /11, in thr 111,:1t111,1, Cote d'or.Tho Fremln were sile...•+sful and n /Cll. Cromer 14 uu,c actively pursning fl y ing Prussians. LosfioN, Dee. [Special to the NO," York Il . med.—Major McLean sends Me word from Tours, to-day, that I :corral D'Aurelles lie Pal:Mine-I, has written to the Bishop or (Prleon4: "We have h a d a series or Slll,l,St, Ido not say of Vlcti t ries, reserving that word for to-mar ow. To day a general engagement i+ take place to elf-set a Joill•t1.111 bet.Wl,ll arum, or Paris and of the 110 - .• Etampes. Tho battle raged hJr six Imnrs, when the Prioviktes were tiredly drive.. II; bath from Brie slur Main and foal, - piguy. They were Mho repulsed from the positions of met' Marine, between Brie Uhanipigny and roneilly, a small hill, wooded and crowned whith a eillaieall to the south-east of Chanipigny. The lat • ter position, however, finally rotnained the pomncnrion or the Berman,. To the north of Paris the French also hold ;en nevilhers and Eptuuls St. Deni, Th e ,„ petition,. were captured Iron, the ( on the ::oth. The loaaea rho (ierman+ u. the two Jays fighting, i Wednesday fuel Thursday,) were 0,000 men. The Saxon , . lust 2,00 men. The Sad Prussian alley corps '..t,n;00, and:the NVurteinbergers 1,7181. Thu losses of the French are not known at Versailles. I=l=l 'rho official canc•ass of the vote at the ri• cent election in New York has boon corn pleted at last. For ilovernor it stood: John T. 1-batnan, Denen•rat, 399,272 ; Stewart L. Womllbrd, Republican, 36.",, , 107. Deunn•ratic Inajority 33,272. Dettim•rati, majority, May, 1071), 07,097; 1101110ertlLit• majority, November, 180, 20,241 ; Den,- cratic majority for President, Novernla.r 1068, 100)00, The majority of the Denweratle candidate for lieutenant Governor win,. 30,815, and for Controller, 31,101. Langer". CnuKtit In n had fix SA LT LAN x, Dec. 3.—A few days since, T. F. Tract', Vela of Wells, Fargo d: Eo„ in this city, received a despatch truce Elko, Nevada, stating that two iawyers,. named lionnalield and Rand, of Elko, .sa id L 0 be employed as counsel for Dan Taylor, one of the Central Pacific Railroad Express car robbers, hail, after a consultation with 'ray. ler, suddenly gone eastward. Air. Trace put the matter into the hands of the police here, and as soon as Bounafield and Rand arrived on the train, they were tracked by detectives and followed west t'roin this city to a place near where:Taylor was captureo, and arrested in the uct of digging up the stolen treasure. The detectives took trout the lawyers forty-five ounces of gold dust and two thousand dollars in greenbacks, and digging over this discovered threo tatuldred dollars la gold coin.
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