Lancaster Alutellfgencer. WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 141 1870 t San Domingo In the Senate. The fathers of the Republic were wise when they provided by an express con stitutional limitation that no treaty should be made with a foreign power, except with the concurrence of two thirds of the members of the Senate of the United States. To have committed such power to the Executive without proper limitation would have been dan gerous in the extreme, and it would have been scarcely less so to have allow ed the Lower House of Congress, or a mere majority of both branches, to de cide upon questions which require to be handled with so much care and discre tion. If the President had been allowed to conclude treaties himself, the tempta tions to do wrong might have proven too great for human nature to resist, and to permit the Lower House or a mere majority of the two branches of Congress to do so, would have been to allow the gravest matters,which can en gage the attention of our government, to be thrown too much within the sphere of passion and popular caprice.— It is not to be supposed that two thirds of the Senate can be induced to act rashly. The members are supposed to be carefully selected by the Legisla tures of the different States, and to be Chosen on account of ability and fitness:, they hold the office for six years, the elections occur at different times In dif ferent State's, and two Senators are rare ly elected at the same time by any State. All these things are calculated to make the Senate of the United States a conservative body, to which the mak ing of treaties with foreign powers may be safely entrusted, especially under the Constitutional restriction, which renders it necessary for two-thirds of the members to concur before any such treaty can be made valid. The attempt of Omit to remove the San Domingo Job from the control of the Senate and to force it through by a' majority vote of the two Houses of Con gress, is made in violation of the spirit and letter of the Constitution of the United States. Had lie not been spur red on thereto by .improper motives lie would never have recommended such action. We are glad to see that the bet ter and more honorable men among the Republican members of the Senate are preparing to make n vigorous efrort to prevent the consummation of the out rage proposed by the President. They are doing battle for a great principle when they thus boldly take grounds against General CI rant's pet scheme, and are protecting the most valuable prerog ative of the Senate. Let them stand lirm In the position they have taken and they will earn the thanlcs and compel the admiration of the people. Another Negro] In Congress J. H. Rainey. the negro who was elect ed to succeed that immaculate carpet bagger 13. F. Wittemore, has been sworn In as n member of Congress. He is a light mulatto, with black hair slightly crimp and disposed to curl. When he took his seat on the Republican side of the 'Muse Horace Maynard, of Ten 1104- nee, was the only Radical who went for ward and congratulated him. All the rest hung bark as If they were ashamed of their new associate. Even Colonel Dickey, the successor of Thaddeus Ste vens, gave his black comrade theleold shoulder. The first vote given by this negro Congressman was in favor of repealing the Tenure-of-0111mi 13111, and the second in favor of Grant's San Do mingo job. He is evidently prepared to stand by the President. We have now one negro in the United States Senate and one in the 11ouse. In the next Congress the negro representatives in the lower House of Congress will amount to about half a dozen, and there will be very few white Radicals from the South. It will not be long until the Republican party in that section will be utterly without representation in Congress, unless they can secure the return of an occasional darkey front the strongest negro districts. Senator Drake The recent election in Missouri was not a mere defeat of the Radical party ' In that State—it was an extinction, a complete annihilation of the organiza tion. Nobody is more fully aware of that fact than Senator Drake, and he at once made up his mind to locate him self elsewhere. He evidently anticipat ed such a result when he induced Grant to promise him an appointment to the position of Chief Justice of the Court of Claims. This promise was extorted from the President during the trip he made to St. Louis last summer. His Radical brethren in Congress urged Drake to hold on to his seat in the Senate, knowing that a Democrat would be elected to take his place, but Mr. Drake evidently considered a bird in the hand to be worth two in the bush, and did not cease to importune Grant to make his promise good. With no little reluct ance the President finally complied, and the Senate could not refuse to confirm the appointment. 'So Drake becomes a Jildge and will hereafter reside in Wash itrgton. We have no doubt the Demo crats of Missouri will choose an able:and proper person to represent their State in the Senate of the United States.— Drake's departure will cause very little regret in the Statewhich he has so com pletely misrepresented. The War In Europe The reports from France show that the Germans still hold a tightgrip upon their prostrate foe. The sorties from Paris have proved ineflbctual and the armies outside have met with disas ters. Fighting is still going on along the line of the Loire. It is said the bombardment of Paris, so long delayed, . has at last been determin ed upon. There seems to be little hope that the French will ever be able to retrieve the disaster, and the fall of Paris can not be much longer delayed, unless the armies outside can make more successful efforts than they have heretofore done. The latest news will be found elsewhere. Fitom the tone of the Radical news papers in Philadelphia, we are forced to tionclude that they regard their chances in the First Senatorial District as more than doubtful. If there is a fair count of the votes cast, we have no doubt the Democratic candidate will be returned. Covode has gone there to practice all the rascally tricks he ever learned, but he will find the Democracy wide awake and prepared to check his manteuvres. THE negro cadet at West Point has got into trouble again, and has been sen tenced to be confined to the area of the cadet barracks until the let day of Feb ruary next. This punishment is inflict ed for "submitting an explanation re flecting on the conduct of the officer who raported him for an offence on the 28th ultimo." Several white cadets have been dismissed. THE North Carolina Legislature has repealed the infamous military bill, whereby Holden managed to inaugu rate a reign of terror, and to commit the grossest outrages. Thus is one ty rannical device after another being swept away before the advance of the liberal ideas which make up the creed of the Democratic party. Journalism The Easton Argus and the Corres pondent and Democrat, an Influential German newspaper of that place, will - hereafter be issued from the same office under the editorial management of James Shunk, Esq. Mr. Shunk is one of the ablest political writers in the coun try. . GENERAL SCHENCK has been nomi nated as Minister to England, and ac cepts the position. That ends all talk about his contesting the seat of his Democratic opponent. THE LANCASTER WEEKLY INTELLIGI-ENCER, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1870. A Check to the Ban Domingo Jobbers. When the San Domingo treaty was defeated In the Senate during the last session of o:ingress it was supposed to be killed ; but those who so concluded had not calculated aright upon the in ordinate greed of Grant, or made due allowance for his obstinacy. Whether• it be true, as Sumner asserted, that cer tain valuable lots in the chief city of the island have been staked off and labelled "Grant," or whether our avaricious President expects to profit in other di rect and indirect ways by the consum mation of his pet scheme, it is certain that he has set his heart, upon the ac quisition of the island. Disregarding the admonitions of many of the more honest Republican journals In the coun try, he made this job the prominent feature of his message, thus displaying such a disregard for public opinion as is really astonishing. Any man who pos sessed fine feelings and a nice sense of honor would have scorned to become the open and avowed advocate of a scheme to which so much suspicion bad attached. Not so, Grant. Having resolved to put his project through at any hazard Grant boldly pro poses to take the matter out of the hands of the' i trenty-making power and to trans fer it from the Senate, where a vote of two-thirds is necessary, to the two houses of Congress, by which the State of Tex as was admitted as a State on joint reso lution. With the exception of Texas all the territory we have annexed has been acquired by treaty. Our people had emigrated to Texas in large num bers and It was by them that its inde pendence had been acchieved. They had formed the territory intoa State and came asking admission into the Union. Upon that question our people had de cided in a Presidential election, and the popular voice had thus sanctioned the action afterwards taken by Congress. Grant's San Domingo Job has not been sanctioned by his own party, much less by a majority of the people of the United States; and, to-day, there are numerous Republican journals which refuse to countenance the scheme, and not a few Radical members of Congress who are prepared to vote against It. Knowing that the Senate would refuse to ratify the proposed treaty, the propo sition to accomplish his purpose by the passage of a joint resolution through the two Houses, which only requires a najority of votes in each, suggested tnelf to (Anna. But the Foreign Com olttee the Senate stood in the way. &s constituted, It Is composed of six Republicans and one Democrat, Mr. lanserly of California. Sumner, the Chairman, Is bitterly hostile to the pet project of the Pfesident, and Messrs. ~burr,, of Missouri, and Patterson, of New Hampshire side with him. The addition of Mr. Casserly to these three Republicans, gives the opponents of the job a majority in the Committee. To that Conlin Ittee any treaty and any joint resolution for the purchase of San Do mingo would be at once referred In due course, and an adverse report rendered against either measure. Such being the condition of affairs In the Senate, the friends of the project undertook to reconstruct the Foreign Committee by displacing an opponent and tilling the place with an adherent of the scheme. Casserly, being the only Democrat on the committee, could not be vi ry \yell thrown out, and Shure was of.too belligerent a character to be thus treated with safety. Patterson was the only man left, and It was thought he 'night he content with advancement upon ether Important committees. But Mr. Patterson being a sensible and up right gentleman, resented the attempt which was thus made to further a de sign at which his conscience could not approve. The result was a row in the Radical caucus, and a signal defeat of grant in the very first week of the ses sion. . llc has managed, by giving the disposal of ollices to those who support his San Domingo Job, to influence the m inns of some Senators who were origin• ally opposed to it, but the Foreign Com mittee of the Senate will continue to op pose any treaty or any joint resolution for the purchase of the island which may be put forward. Grant has lowered him self greatly in public estimation by the course he has so persistently followed in relation to this San Domingo atfliir. There are multitudes of honest Repub- hVILIIS Who believe that he is actuated by selfish and mercenary motives in the matter. He may manage to force the project through the two Houses of Con gress by the use of all the influence which he can command in his Execu tive capacity, but he can never con vince the people that he did not employ improper means to accomplish his pur pose. SENATffit WI Ls(,N, of Massachusetts, has introduced a bill providing that hereafter no government officials shall be taxed for political purposes. The punishment for the offense is to be made line and imprisonment. A telegram to Forney's Press says : It is understood that the objeet of the Senator is not intended so ninth to reach the departments in Washington as the cus tom house in New York, where this mat ter has been carried to such an extent as to amount to an abuse of it. We think the verdict of all honest men will be that the thing is an abuse wherever it exists—an abuse which ought to be at once cut up, root and branch. The Donaldsonville RION We publish elsewhere a full account of the Donaldsonville riots, which the Radical press of the whole country pro claimed to be an uprising of the rebels of Louisiana. It is a sad but an interesting story. It is sad because it shows what a terrible State of affairs prevails in the South under the rule of negroes and white carpet-baggers and scalawags; it is interesting in that it so completely refutes the lies of the Radi cal press and gives a true statement of occurrences interesting in themselves. We publish it in full because it is a clear exposition of the whole affair made through Republican sources. It must be taken for truth even by the most big oted Radical. Read it. End of the Alabama Troubles The Radical usurper in Alabama has finally been forced to abdicate in favor of the Democratic Governor. What with the expulsion of the Ohio carpet bagger who misrepresented the State in the U. S. Senate, and other substantial gains, the victory In Alabama Is very complete, Indeed. In that State the reign of Radicalism has ended forever. As usual our Radical cotemporaries in this city are quarreling vigorously among themselves. The Express denies that Senator Billingfelt voted for Irwin in the caucus last year. The Inquirer proves that he did, thus making good its charge. The Express is fast losing the reputation for honesty which it made by hypocrisy. Am, over the South the Radical news papers which subsisted on Federal pa tronage are dying out. The last in stance which we notice is that of one in the home of Andrew Johnson, which has hauled down the black flag, changed its name and become an advocate of the principles of the great Democratic party. ONLY a single ocean cable remains unimpaired, and this has been so over taxed with business that the company, to diminish the volume of despatches, has advanced the tariff. There is great danger that the broken cables cannot be repaired nor new ones laid during the Winter, and we may be deprived, in large measure, of the telegraphic facili ties heretofore enjoyed. JOHN Q. HODGES, a negro member of the Virginia Legislature, from the Nor folk district, has been arrested for bur glary. Of such is the Republican party in the South composed. The. Inventory of Stevens' Estate. The community may congratulate It self that there is some pirospect now that the EiiecutOrs of Thaddeus Stevens will be Compelled to flie:in the Register's Office . , the inventory of theestate which they have so long withheld. Our ener-. getihirlendieol.SaM Price, has brought the matter to the attention of Councils, and he has been instructed to assist the City Solicitor in taking legal measures to compel the production of the inventory. The Councils have come to the conclu sion that the city has been defrauded out of Its taxes on this estate long enough, and they are determined to ascertain whether members of Congress are not just as much amenable to the laws as other people. Mr. Stevens was an M. C., and one of his Executors is his successor in office, while the other two are ex-members. The law requires au Inventory to be filed of every decedent's estate within thirty days after the is suing, from the Register's Office, of the letters of authority to his legal represen tative. Over two years, however, have elapsed since Mr. Stevens' death, and his Executors have been so busy ever since in building fine houses, that they have not found time to exhibit the in ventory of his estate. The State authorities are patiently waiting for their collateral inheritance tax, and seem to be quite willing to wait In this special case for au indefin ite period of time, though ordinarily they are after their money, " hot-foot," at the expiration of the first year of ad ministration. The County Commissioners and the Finance Committee of Councils ought to have long ago Instructed the Asses sors to assess the estate of Mr. Stevens at what they conceived, under the best information they could get, that it was worth. As the Executors refused to tell is value, they would have done no in justice by assessing the estate at the value put upon it by public rumor, viz : 5200,000. :The authorities of the County and City displayed great eager ness lately in assessing a heavy tax upon Reigart's estate, valuing it at the amount exhibited In the, inventory, which was duly filed at the proper time ; and it is therefore the more strange that they have shown no disposition to assess a proper tux on Mr. Stevens' estate. They can not excuse themselves by saying that they could not levy a tax upon the latter because no Inventory was tiled, for they could have compelled, at any time, the tiling of all Inventory, or could at their election have assessed the estate at the reported value. But to pounce down upon executors who have compiled with the law In tiling their Inventory, and to let go scott free those who have deliber ately violated It for two years by not tiling an Inventory, Is to offer a premi um for the violation of law and the non payment of taxes. The City Is interested,besides its claim for taxes, in knowing how much of an estate Mr. Stevens left behind him.— Under certain contingencies, the whole estate Is to go towards the building within our city of a grand negro Col lege or Almshouse, or Institute of some kind, for the benefit of our African citi zens; and Councils,solieltous for the wel fare of their colored constituents, are anxious to know the value of the estate, so as to be able to determine whether the projected negro institute is to be ac commodated with a marble palace or only a frame shanty. Coder the terms of the will moreover the Executors are likely to enjoy the handling of the whole estate for many years, and as they have given no bail, the Councils wish to know how the moneys are invested, so thatithey may be satisfied of their safety and nifty have a reasonable assurance that they will be forthcoming when the tine shall ar rive for their appropriation to the negro Institute. The Executors are all pro fessed :negrophililts and we hope would not wilfully defraud the negro institute out of its inheritance, but it would be satisfactory to our negro fellow-citizens to know just how their funds are invest ed, and to be quite sure that the Pacific Railroad stocks have been converted in to more reliable securities. We have no doubt that Col. Price will prosecute the inquiry Ile has set on foot, with his cus tomary energy, and that he will soon cause that inventory to be forthcoming. Porter to be Made Admiral. Porter has made his peace with Grant through the intercession of Borie. The would-be Admiral got down on his knees and ate dirt with such wonderful avidity that the President's anger seas mollified and his confidence Ii human nature, restored. Grant has kindly con sented to overlook all the harsh things Porter said of him, and has sent the name of his traducer to the Senate for the position of Admiral. The President can not resist the appends of a toady, and when Porterand Boric combined against him he was quickly and completely overcome. The world admires a good hater, and Grant will not add to his popularity by thus reconciling himself to the man who reviled him. This re conciliation reminds us of the quarrel between :Grant and Ben. Butler. (rant bottled up the brawler from Massachu setts, and the venemous supporter of Jeff. Davis was about to publish a book, showing that Grant was to blame for the interruption in the exchange of prisoners which resulted in the death of many thousands of the brave defenders of the l'nion. Before the manuscript was given to the compositors an amnes ty was concluded between the belliger ents, and Butler is 110 W not only high in Presidential favor but is regarded as the mouth-pieceof our forgiving chief mag istrate. What a mild-mannered and for giving personage Grant is, to be sure. The Strike in the Coal Regions The strikes in the Anthracite Coal Mines of the State which occur so fre quently are not generally caused by the miners. In most Instances the large companies are responsible for these periodical suspensions of labor, and for the consequences which follow. The consumption of coal during the fall and winter months, which have given us such wonderfully mild weather, has been greatly less than usual, and there has been a vast accumulation of the stock on hand, and a consequent dimin ution of price. Three great companies in the Wyoming Valley recently lower ed the wages of theiremployees very de cidedly, with the design of Inducing them to cease working, which the men did. The strike has not been generally throughout the coal region. Most of the mines in Lehigh county and about the usual proportion for ,this season of the year In Schuylkill are still in operation. Those who are best informed upon the subject say there ought to be very little advance on coal at any point, and none in Philadelphia and other sections which depend for their supplies upon the Lehigh and Schuylkill regions. The market is well supplied with coal and there will belno lack of this indis pensable commodity during the present winter. Prices ought not to advance materially, and we see no good reason for believing that they will do so. Reports of Departments We publish elsewhere carefully pre pared abstracts of the reports of the Se cretary of the Treasury, the Secretary of War, the Secretary of the Navy and the Comptroller of the Currency. With the other reports which have already appeared in the INTELLIGENCER, they are sufficient to give every intelligent citizen a clear idea of the working of the Federal Government. They con tain many things which every citizen ought to know, and will be found val uable for future reference. James Kerr, aged 16 years, robbed his father (a miner) at Leechburg, on the West Pennsylvania Railroad, of $955, a few days ago. Another Radical Device Defeated. The attempt of the Radicals to manip ulateithe vote of Nevada has proved a , melanchely failure. The Dernocrata had carried the State, most unexpecto' ly to their opponents. There was no chance to fabrlcaten pretext of " vlo; lence or intimidation ;" no loyal Afri- cans kept from the polls; no dispute over the votes of the "heathen Chinee;" no technical informality. What was to be done? The case presented great dif ficulties; but the greater the difficulty the greater the fertility of Republican ingenuity and resources. A lucky thought occurred. Pioche, a Democratic township by 136, lay very near to Utah. The United States surveyor, who had already once run the line, was sum moned to the front and told to do his work over again. If he could only suc ceed by a new survey in throwing Pio che into Utah, then Fitch would be elected; so they thought at the first blush of the figures. But, alas! even this stroke of genius failed. Pioche could not, upon any decent pretext, be thrown into the Mormon country; whether from political, geographical, or religious considerations, it obstinately declined to be divorced, and the Gov ernment surveyor was obliged to con fess it lay some twelve miles inside the Nevada line. A little circumstance probably helped to conduct the Government surveyor to his conclusions. It was ascertained that even if the vote of Pioche should be thrown out, the majority for Kendall, Democrat, for Congress, would still be some 300. So it was deemed best to leave Pioche alone, at least for the pres ent. The case is so hopeless that Mr. Fitch does not think It possible to at- tempt to get into Congress by the back door for contestants. This attempt to exclude a Congress- man by running a United States Sur veyor's line around certain Democratic districts and summarily thrusting them out of a State and into the domain of the Mormon ruler and prophet is the very latest and most ingenious Radical de vice. It only failed because, when he liad done his level best, the Surveyor found it utterly impossible to stretch his chain sufficiently to accomplish the de sired result. If the exclusion of Ph elle ownship from Nevada, and Its transfer o the dominion of Brigham Young, lied proven suffiLient to bolster up the claim of the Radical candidate to a seat In Congress, the Inhabitants of that die• trlet, would, no doubt, have found thew- selves added to the tribe of the Latter Day Saints. Then every man among them might have concluded that he was at liberty to have us many wives as he wanted, and to have spiritual consorts innumerable sealed unto him. The present scarcity of women is Unit region might have interfered with this change of life for a while, but the de ficiency could have been supplied from the redundancy of females which the census has shown to exist almost every where In the Eastern States. For ways that are dark. And for tricks that are vain, The Radicals they are pvcallar— Which t h e same WO are fret. to mai alai it. :Canada and the United States Congress is disposed to stand by the President, who stands by Butler, on the fishely question, and Canada and all the British provinces respond that, with a disposition to be at peace with the Uni ted States, they are indisposed, backed by the Horne Government, to yield any of their rights to the attitude taken by our liovernment. It is easy to see from • this how soon the two Governments of the United States and Great Britain might be at loggerheads upon a matter involving much more of feeling than of practical importance. It is feeling, however, even more than principle, which leads to all wars. The bad man ners of the French Ministers, in July last, fired King William of Prussia, and behold the results. The Fire-Eaters of the South and the Abolitionists of the North, not live hundred in all, "tired the Southern heart" to fire upon Fort Sumter, and we read of about one mil lion men destroyed by the war, and a debt which no one in the United States, now fifty years old, will ever see extin guished. A King of England lost his American colonies upon a matter of feeling. Austria struck at l'russia in ISO 6 from a matter of feeling, and be came dwarfed in consequence. The first Napoleon aspired so high for himself and France, that Waterloo ended his career. The second Napoleon started with a large French army to Berlin, and via Sedan, was marched off to a German prison, though in name a palace. It is a very easy thing for the chiefs of nations to strut about with tall plumes ill their hats and chips upon the brims of them—but wise rulers do not use bi g words in their palaces nor in their raSen ate houses. Justice, equity, order and peace are the interests of the world, ;Old governments like Great Britain and the United States ought to see that in jus tice, equity and peace—always more easily secured by kindness and fairness than by mere partisanship and temper —much more is to be gained than by the bullying of John Bull, or any cunning tricks on the part of Brother JoHathan. This fishery question is as old as the Government, and was one of the first things considered by it; and, one way or another, it has entered into every im portant treaty with (treat Britain, from the Administration of Washington to the Webster-Ashburton treaty. Some day, it will end—if the United States Government is wise—ill the absorption, by consent of the people, of Canada by the United States. Defiance on either side settles nothing, while good sense and good temper ought to solve every difficulty. Cessna Left Alone Daniel J. Morrell, the Radical camli date for Congress in the Seventeenth District of this State has written a letter in which he formally declines to contest the seat of Mr. Speer. He says : By hunting up the scattered fraudulent votes, over one hundred of which have been reported to me, I could doubtless make a successful contest, but being fully satisfied that my defeat—indeed anything short of t,200 majority in the district—is due to the base treachery and debauchery or professed Republicans, I should spurn to hold the seat at the cost of gathering up the petty frauds of our opponents. The fierce indignation of Mr. Morrell is refreshing to witness, and the pro fessed Republicans, who were so easily debauched and so basely treacherous, Must wither beneath the hot scorn of thegreatßessamersteel monopolist. Mr. Morrell it seems would disdain to take his seat in Congress with a majority less than twelve hundred. His assertions in regard to Democratic frauds are all bosh. He was beaten by members of his own party who were disgusted with the idea of being represented by a man, whosechief business in Congress was the securing of enactments which enured to his own pecuniary benefit. They were not debauched, nor do they deserve to be styled traitors for preferring such a man as Robert Speer to Daniel J. Mor rell. Mr. Morrell's declination to con test leaves John Cessna alone in that line of business. If he told the truth he would also confess that he owes his de feat to the action of Republicans who were dissatisfied with him and his course in Congress. Porter's Opinion of Grant After making a feeble attempt at de nial, Admiral Porter has owned up to the authorship of the letter which we publish elsewhere. He has not only made this confession, but has written a most humble letter to Grant apologizing for the epistle. Grant took the matter greatly to heart when he read the letter, and declared excitedly that he had "lost all faith in human nature." It remains to be seen how Grant and his humble toady will reconcile their diffi culties. _,„Pentisylvailla Railroad Management. ,- We find in the Philadelphia Evening 'Telegraph the following editorial article, whreli states very cletirly and Correctly the-motives which control the policy of the present managers of the Pennsyl vania Railroad. Philadelphia and the other Stations on the line of this road, have Indeed very little to fear from any change which can possibly take place in its control. We confess, however, that we are greatly surprised to find one Philadelphia newspaper which dares to raise its voice in adverse criticism of the almighty managers of the Pennsylvania; Railroad, as to whose steady oppression of Philadelphia interests, Philadelphia journals are habitually as dumb as oys ters; we notice that but one or two of them even dared to print the petition of those Philadelphia merchants who, the other day, complained to the officers of the Company of the manner in which Philadelphia interests were discrimina ted against in the carrying of " fast freights," by the fast freight line, of which those officers were the original stockholders, and which, somehow, has secured the cream of the freight busi ne:s of the railroad, graciously leaving to the stockholders of the latter the skim-milk. The old rumor, revamped from time to time, that New Yorkers were buying up Pennsylvania Railroad stock has recently been repeated in an unusually emphatic form, and it derives a certain air of plausi bility from the fact that eight thousand shares, formerly owned by the city of Philadelphia, were recently sold in one lot to tiothamite purchasers. That such sales should occur is not at 'all extraordinary. New York is a great railway share market, and when her speculators are tired of buy ing and selling worthless or overpriced stocks, it Is not surprising that they should invest in the shares of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, which, if we consider the vast amount of its property and the brilliancy of its prospects, are much cheaper than the stock of the New York through lines. It is alleged, however. that a deeper motive than that of finding a pro fitable investment or a promising specula tion has prompted some of the late pur chases, and that a scheme is on foot to gob ble up a controlling interest in the Penn sylvania Railroad. to revolutionize its management, and to run it hereafter ex clusively in the interests of the city of New York. We litnr•y- that this danger is some what remote, and that it has not yet be come necessary to sound very loudly the tocsin of alarm. It is possible, in an age when Asa Packer owns half of the Lehigh Valley, when a controlling interest in the Reading Railroad is held by in very small number or persons, when Vanderbilt is credited with the virtual ownership or the New York Central, when Fisk and rroulil have bagged the New York and Erie, that a small knot of speculators may asnire to the control or the Pennsylvania Central; hot WO opine that they will have quite a good time in securing possession of in majority of its stock. If, however, by any combination or accidents, should be effected, it Is cimiectured by corns alarmists that Philadelphia will speed ily and Inevitably be ruined. Wu rust Vollfees, however, that we scarcely under stand why our merchants should tremble in their boots over the transactions or the stock market. All railway's are run now, like most other modern institutions, to make money; a n d the chief difference be tween them is that while one class is man aged for the benefit of the StockholdLrs, another chess is managed mainly for the pecuniary benefit of the officers or mana gers, and another class in part fur the enrichment of the officers and in part for the enrichment or the stockholders.— If the Pennsylvania Railroad should full into the possession of speculators or the Fisk and r rould stamp, stockholders might sigh in vain for dividends; while if Van derbilt bought a controlling interest, his fellow-stockholders might have their in terests lad well protected as at present. But so lire as the business community of this city is concerned, the day scorns to have gone irever When their special interests could be paramount objects of solicitude either with the present managers of the Pennsylvania Railroad or their possible Tire Railroad Company ill, in time past, and will proba bly in time to come, do what it think best for itself, accommodating Phila delphia nierctiants as firr as the business de rived frour thorn can be made a source of profit, but manifesting equal, or, if possi ble, even greater, readiness to accommodate t he merchants of Baltimore and New York. The great substratimr of tire prosperity of the Pennsylvania Railroad is the local trade and travel between Philadelphia and Pitts burg. This of itself affords a sure arid mag nificent income; and the numerous through-trade projects which extend be yond the confines of this Common wealth derive their greatest vitality from the fact that they make the Pennsylvania Railroad a formidable competitor for the through business of New York rind Baltimore as well as that of Philadelphia, In this sense the Pennsylvania Railroad has been for years managed in aruotropulitan spirit; and Ilia change in its management occurs, we pr °saline that this portion of its policy would red be materially modified. The mer chants of Philadelphia have made many complaints of the indisposition of the exist ing management of the Pennsylvania Rail road to exhibit special regard - for their in terests, and they are even now anxious to secure a reform in several matters connect ed with freight charges, so that, if their special wants cannot be better served, th,y will vitro comparatively little how soon our giant railways become, like all other smaller corporations, the prize of the highest and best bidder in the open stock market. The present management will scarcely be sustained through thick and 'thin /LS an indispensable adjunct of Philadelphia interests unless it shows a deeper and a more exclusive devotion to One special interests of this city than it has hitherto displayed. Where the welfare or the road and the interests of Philadelphia are identical, we do not doubt the pres ent its best for both parties; but in the various questions where the interests of the road prompt one policy, and the interests or this city could be best promoted by another, the welfare of Philadelphia becomes a secondary con sideration—and this is nearly the worst that can happen under any conjectural manage ment which proved honest and efficient. Voting for Dead Men The New York Trihmi , makes a note of a ease of remarkable circumstance which happened at the last election in Buffalo county, Minnesota. It appears that the itepuldican candidate for As sembly, died the night before the elec tion, and the population 'being too scat tered and the county too large to per mit an agreement upon another candi date they voted solid for the dead man. A similar circumstance occurred in this county upon the death of Thaddeus Stevens The tickets to be voted at the primary election were printed and dis tributed with the name of Mr. 6tevens at the head as a candidate fur Congress when the news of his decease reached Lancaster. So he was voted for and nominated for Congress while he lay a corpse, and that with the full knowledge of all that they were voting for a dead State Finances It appears front a statement of the Commissioners of the Sinking Fund, that there was in the Treasury, on the :loth November, $1,250,!)95.82, of which 8054,1 , N.26 was applicable to the pay ment of overdue loans, relief notes and interest certificates, in gold. There was redeemed of loans, during November, $122Ni.1. The debt bearing interest in coin, -if, Sand 0 percent. bonds, amounts to ;. , ' , -:,n77,1in0..19. I tebt bearing interest in 1". S. Currency, 5 and 0 per cold. bonds, •..02,500,105. Debt on which in terest Ims been stopped, 5 and U per cent. bonds, :A57,720.30. Debt bearing no interest, $100,75.05. Deb:redeemed since November 30, 1500. 51,702,579.05. Total debt November :In, 1570, i , 31,111,- 661.9 n. THE Republican newspapers expected so little in the Message of Grant that most of them seem to be satisfied with what they have received. They are not extravagant in their laudations of the document but pleased to find that it is no worse. This is another illustrailon of the old proverb which says: "Blessed are they which expect nothing, for, verily, they shall not be disappointed." THE Lower House of Congress has promptly passed a bill abolishing the franking privilege, and the matter is now In the hands of the Senate. It is to be hoped that a proper bill for the reformation of the abuses connected with this system may be put through during the present session. Rough on Butler The Charlotte (N. C.) Observer gets off the following hard, but happy, hit on Ben Butler: "If I were a Capo Cod Fisherman," said General Butler, in a recent speech, " and anybody interfered with my rights, I would fight." lie wouldn't do anything of the kind. He would attempt to blow up his persecutor with a powder ship, dig a canal, around him, or slip around and confiscate his spoons." FORNEY wants to sell the Chronicle. It has ceased to pay, and that is another evidence of the rapid decline of the Rad ical party. The Religious Press on Grant For some years the religious journals of the Country, with a few honorable ex -ceptlOns, have Ikon used - as pack-hotses for the Rttdical party. No matter how heavy.cii dirty:a load was piled upon them by the party, they carried it, not onit , Wlthout . murmuring; hut / with songs of rejoicing. They wafted men to Heaven, who met their deaths In places interdicted, "banned and barred" by all the canons of their theology ; they threw the mantle of pulpit tapestry over scoundrels and thieves who were on the Radical ticket; they turned the public mind into forbidden and polluted chan nels, and preached partisan politics, in stead of pure and simple word of Him who said : " My Kingdom is not of this world." All these offences, and more, says an exchange, can justly be laid at the door of the religious press of this country. But at lasts rifts can be seen in the clouds. Some of the re ligious press have paused- in their ca reer, and one, at least, taken a new and clean departure for the future. The Bos ton Congregationalist regards it as "ex tremely painful to be forced to believe that the President has so ingloriously retreated from so just and noble a posi tion, and surrendered without discretion to the dominion of the most undisguised and profligate party spirit." In plain English, the Congregationalidt consid ers it a mournful failure, that the Presi dent has "backed down and caved in to the herd of unscrupulous politicians which afflicts and curses the Republican party at the present time." These re marks are pointed at the conduct of Gen. Grant in relation to the Missouri election and the case of Secretary Cox, and they show that one Saul has been smitten on his way to Damascus, and had the scales taken from his eyes. Specie Resumption The bill offered by Mr. Lynch, of Maine, will be considered at an early day in the House Committee on Bank ing and Curreney, though it is the opin ion of most members that it would be unwise to its any way disturb existing conditions at this session. Resumption, however, under Mr. Lynch's plan, would, It is conceded, be gradual and sure. Hence the measure is regarded with interest. All greenbacks received at the Treasury are to be destroyed, and gold-bearing notes, payable In twelve months, issued in their place. Banks are to redeem their currency In legal lender, which, when paid into the Treasury, Is to be destroyed and replac ed, under stipulated conditions, by the gold-bearing notes. wArrt.:, Democrat, o•as yesterday elected U. S. Senator for six years, by the Alabama Legislature. The disabilities Of Senator elect tiollithwalte have been removed by Congress. His election causes great rejoicing in Mont gomery. Republican Convention of the First;4enatorial District of Philadelphia, met yesterday, and nominated Joseph It. Lyndall for Senator on the nth ballot. There are three hundred and thirty inmates in the Almshouse of Schuyl kill county. There are 10,Na) )Insotts in Philadel phia, and shout mw-third that number in Pittsburgh. The products of the petroleum wells in the oil regions l'or November, were 53;012 barrels. The relaying of the track on the Ger mantown Branch or the Reading Rail road, is almost completed. The Cambria County Jail has four prisoners, and the Fulton County Pris on none. A line allowing. A new well in Sugarcreek township, Venango county, is producing one hun dred and fifty barrels of oil per day. James Kerr, son of a miller living at Leeeliburg, Armstrong County, robbed his father of &0.5;5, last week, and left for parts unknown. David Snyder, of Jackson township, Perry County, claims that he has shot 1,000 wild turkeys in his day. Ile once killed live at one shot. The Catholics have church property in Titusville valued at :-.=llm,Ouo, on which there is a debt of .7. , 2.1,000. Number of cominunicants 2,000. Christine Nillson wants to sing one night in Titusville. The Titusvil- Hans will not pay this small sum, and Nillson constquently will not appear. lion. C. A. Washburn, late [lilted States Minister to Paraguay, has re turned to his home iu Iteading from a trip of several weeks to San Francisco. A motion has been made for a new trial in the case of Lloyd Britton, the negro convicted of murder by the Ly coming County Court. An infant in Ebensburg, only a few days old, is said to be the possessor of one tooth fully developed, tind another partially so. The Roman Catholics of Ilarrisburg and vicinity have purchased live acres of ground located on Allison's hill, for 5. , 33,111111. A college or cathedral will soon be erected on the premises. Mr. Moore lots discontinued the pub lication of the builil Si., Altoona.— After an experience of seven months he Las discovered that "Altoona is not yet prepared to support a daily paper." A son of Lawrence Hutchinson, of Newtown, Bucks County, died, last week, from the tdrects of drinking sub limate, dissolved in whiskey, which had been prepared for killing :nits, Jacob Gabel, a notorious criminal, fa tally shot a young man named Devitt, at Erie, on Friday night. The act was premeditated, and the perpetrator has been arrested for murder. An imposter giving his name as San ders Wirt, Thomas, has been arrested in York and lodged in jail, on a charge of obtaining money on hilse pretence. His plan was to represent himself as a mem ber in distress of the 0. U. A. M. Cambria county is blessed, or oilier wise, as the ease may be, with twenty nine praeti,ing lawyers, the oldest ill the harness, lIIIW 'Whig JOllll Wa, adllliltCll to the landll 'Fayl..r. in the ISlair County Court, has decided that the running of the emigrant trains on the Pennsylva nia Itailroad is not it violation or the Sunday law. Ile looks :it it that the running of such trains is a. " work of nt.cessity amt There are ta•o hundred and sixty-fur church edit Mes in Allegheny County, valued at :7 , ;( . 0 . ,,h0u. l'atholics have the most vat athle prop,rty, and the Methodist and l'resbyterion denom inations the hugest numherof (•11 u !The, —each tifty-six. The bee keepers of Peni.,ylvania will hold t State Convention In Meadville, on Wednesday, January 11, IS7I. The Object .1 the meeting is to organize a permanent 'State Association and en courage a large attention at the Ameri can Convention at Cincinnati. Quite a riot took place at Ebenezer's Church, E. Whiteland, Chester county, (colored) on Sunday last, between the negroes and some Irish of the neighbor hood. It originated by some white girls and buck niggers being too intimate.— They are only practicing what the Re publican party teaches. (hi Monday night the reshlence of Mr. Geo. W. Buehler, at Harrisburg, was burglarionsly entered by the door front ing on South street, and an overcoat, a valuable meerschaum pipe, a cigar hold er and a jar of fruit preserves carried oft. The door way unlocked from the outside by the use of nippers. On the morning of the 7th inst., the barn belonging to the Poor House of Delaware county, was entirely destroy ed by Lire. The Superintendent bad been about the barn at four o'clock, when there was no appearance of fire ; about an hour after it was so badly in flames that it was impossible to rescue the ,animals. Twelve cows and one horse are reported to have been destroy ed. George Aaron, night engineer In the Cedar Dale Woolen Mills, just above Mount Airy, was crushed to death by the machinery early on Thursday morn ing. The mill is run in part by a large water wheel which is enclosed to pre vent accident, there being a man hole which may be entered for the lubrica tion of the immense journals of the wheels. Into this man—hole the engi— neer entered while the wheel was in motion. He was caught and the hun dred bolts of the wheel crushed his skull, broke almost every bone in his body, tore his clothing in shreds, and left him a horrible, shapeless, lifeless mass. He leaves a wife and three chil dren. News Items. Ex-Senator Gwin, sortallforn la, the well-known ex-rebel, is in New Orleans. . A colored woman offered her ballot at the polls at the recent municipal election in New Bedfora,•Mass. Wm. Beales, senior of the firm of Beales S Co., proprietors of the Boston Post; died yesterdarat - BQston, aged BG. H. C. Mclntyre, charged with com plicity in a baby farming case, has been held in $15,000 bail at Concord, N. H. A New Orleans despatch reports the arrest of Elijah White for killing "a rebellious Chinaman," on MlBandon plantation. There were_ 37 deaths in Philadelphia last week, being 10 less than during the week previous. The citizens of Tricaro co., Cal., have Iyuched,two Indians who recently mur dered the Bousall family, and are in pursuit of a third. A "wild woman" recently scared a half-dozen men, who were chopping wood, in Maine, so badly that they ran away. The nomination of Vice Admiral Porter to be Admiral was discussed in Executive session of the Senate yester day, but no action was taken. The various appropriation bills are well advanced, and It is stated that those who have them in charge intend to report them to the House before the holidays A locomotive on the Virginia and Georgia Railroad exploded at Knoxville on Saturday, killing the conductor and fireman, and severely injuring the en gineer. The eleven States that, in 1591, de clared their secession from the Uhion, had, in 1960, a population of 9,1t14,3•21. By the census of 1870, their aggregate population is 10,010,537. Mr. Sumner having introduced a bill to secure seamen their wages, the New York Post thinks it would be a good thing to Introduce a bill to secure them also a few ships. A despatch from heart's Content, on Saturday, reports a heavy northeast storm, with a high sea running, and no prospect of grappling the cables that day. In the National Board of Trade at Butralo, on Saturday, a resolution ofrer ed by Mr. Wetherill, of Philadelphia, demanding, a return to a specie stand ard of value, was adopted. 'I lie President yesterday nominated Senator Drake, of Missouri, for Chief Justice of the (Wirt of Claims, anti the nomination was con tirmed by the Sen ate. The Supreme Court of South Caro lina has struck from to docket the ease involving the validity of the new bills of the Bank of the State of South Cam- On Saturday night week, a valuable horse was stolen from the stable or Mr. Thomas Foot, hi New Garden township. At the time the horse was stolen the owner was lying a corpse in the house. The funeral of Gen. I liram Walbridge took place on Saturday, front Ingleside, near Washington. It was attended by a number of distinguished persons, in cluding President Grant, I Mneral man and most of the Cabinet officers. A despatch from Santa Fe, New Mexico, dated Saturday, says ox-thw ernor McCormick, of Arizona, has been re-elected delegate to Cl/11140111S, 11101 has started for Washington. Ills ollicial majority is over 000. A despatch front Towanda, Pa., an nounces the death from apoplexy, on Wednesday, or John P. Cox, General Superintendent of the Pennsylvania:old New York Canal 11101 Railroad Com pany. The (lerman soldiers have each a.bot tle or wine per day, and each bottle contains two °tutees of alcohol. The surgeons say the ration Is a valuable one to the men, the alcohol sustaining and the vegetable matter nourishing ex hausted nature. 1)r. Duvall, formerly of Newark, N. .1., the celebrated wife murderer, who is in the Wisconsin State Prison for lire, sets forth thst he has lr.scorne extremely pious, and asks that . he may be appoint ed Chaplain of the institution in which Le is incarcerated. The most perilous feat that has been attempted in Harrisburg for sonic time was the climbing of the Ilag-stallon the dome of the capital this afternoon, by a man who ventured tip to the topmost part, for the purpose of adjusting the ropes, &c., that the American flag may again float over the Capitol. The top of the flag-stall is about one hundred and fifty feet high. The Radicals in the Bloomington Sen atorial District of Illinois have made a curious blunder. They wanted to send Michael Donahue to the State Senate, but printed the name Patrick on the tickets. They had a majotity, but arc immensely disgusted when an obscure ditcher named Patrick Dormhue conies forward and claims the election, while Michael takes a back seat. F"r the Intolligenrer The Three Pref.,' Boym The llonorahle ex•Sherth of Lancaster county, ex-United States Marshal of the Eastern District and ex-member of Con gress Anthony E. Roberts; the Ithnorable V. J. Dickey, our present inennher or Con gress; and the Honorable Edward Mc- Pherson, ex-member of Congress, and now clerk of the I louse of Representatives!!! The above-named gentlemen were ap pointed by the late Thaddeus Stet ens Ex ecutors of his will, and were severally sworn or affirmed that they "would well and truly administer the goods and chat tels, rights and credits of the deceased ac cording to law, and also would diligently and raithruily regard and well and truly comply with the provisions of the law re lating to collateral inheritance." Among other duties required of them as Executors was "to make a true and perfect inventory of all the goods and chattels of the deceased as far as they might know or could ascertain Mein, exhibit the same into the Register's office within thirty (lays from tine time of administration granted, make also a just account and settlement thereon inn one year, or when therewith legally required. Mr. Stevens died Aug. lath, Isms, his will was proven A try. Pith, I stis,and these gentlemen received their letters testamen tary a lbw days afterward. Although two years and four months have since elapsed, they have tiled no inventory, rendered no account and complied with none of the laws relating to cell inheritance tax, which should have been paid within twelve months thereafter, M r. Stevens having died without lineal heirs. this political oppo_ nents have repeatedly stated in the public newspapers, that among his assets there were fonnd, ,r that at the time of his death he held bonds ,if the Pacitie Railway Com panye, to the amount of iilluu,Of t which his many per,aand arid politic friends be lieved to be untrue. It was t lerefore hoped find desired, that his executors, wino have all been his espevial fiends, specially rt,- warded by him, and who have been :ad vanced to the several official positions thcy held and nuns hold by his influence, wouid have gratitude enough and regard enough for his char.teter to refute this slander by tiling an inventory and otherwise admin istering upon 010 estate according to law, as they were severally bound by oath or affirmation to do. But, strange to say, they have been immovable it these particulars, (leaf to all the clamors against them, and have maintained a persistent silence in re gard to all attacks upon his 11:11110 and fame, and have thus virtually admitted the truth of the charges made. This is but a poor return fur all he has done fur them. It only proves that when a Mall is dined Mid powerless to do more, the good he has li , aa, is speedily , Mrgotten by the recipients of his favors, and that a testator ear not ex pect justice at tine bands of his executors. I am, however, glad to sco by the news papers that justice Is likely to be done to the memory of the good (lid Commoner and to all interested in the es tate. Art application has been made to the court fora citation to the Executors to show cause why an inventory should not be filed. An application to have them dis missed from the trust would be more ap propriate, as they have shown themselves not only faithless and unworthy, but re gardless of the law, of all interested in the estate and of all respect for their personal friend, whose character has always stood uninmeached and unimpeachable until by their extraordinary conduct people have been constrained to suspect it. As two of the Executors, the third not residing in Lancas ter, have been putting up expensive build ings in the city since Mr. Stevens' death, and an no one is aware of any expenditure of money on account of the estate, it be gins to be whispered about, that possibly, sooner than the money of the estate should rust for want of use, it may have been bor rowed by the Executors, and have gone into tire purchase of brick and mortar.— Who knows? The parties interested as heirs or creditors, if any, might as well look after it, especially as immediately after his death it was reported that Mr. Stevens died worth two hundred thousand dollars. LANCASTER, The Me.ege In ,Conadn... 9 plnlonos of the;Press.--- A despatch from Ottawa of the ith says: President kirant's message excites a con siderable amount of comment .1n political circles hero. It is understood that the Do minion Government have no Idea of aban doning their present line of policy, al though thoroughly desirous of behaving In the most friendly manlier to the United States. They feel, however, that the peo ple of Canada have endorsed and Will sus tain their policy, and, also, that the Imper ial authorities have approved of the action of our Government in the matter. Tonox - ro, Dee. 7.—The Globe, In a long editorial on the President's message, says: The navigation of the St. Lawrence Is possible only by the aid of canals, which are the result of Canadian enterprise. Thu river cannot even be reached unless the shipping of the United States pass through a canal cut in the Canadian territory. 'The President surely hardly expects us to rec tify the un fortu n ategtiogniph teal difficulties of his eight States. Tu throw open our ca nals to American shipping, without some equivalent, would be a little too much for President Grant to ask. As to the fisheries The Glohe says : Does it not occur to President tirant that to coins down upon Canada with his threats and bluster is the reverse of courage? Bow is it that ho is going by his acts to recog nize, as an equal an independent power, the Colonial authority known as "The Do minion of Canada," of which, as his lan guage implies, he has nu o tidal knowl edge? The roust ru n t ion of the Treaty of ISIS is for the United States anti Great Briutin to settle. In initintenalit,i or the treaty for the rights and preservation of fisheries, England and Canada have com mon interest. If President Grant cannot see the false position in which he has placed himself, it may be hoped that Con gress will discover it for him. Ile may ex clude Canadian vessels from hisierts, and try by any other petty means to harass us; that game was tried When the Reciprocity treaty wits repealed, and we have thriven ever since beyond all entieipations. lint if ho has the right on his stile, and does not want the courage, he will put all the ships front British ports, the Cunard and Inman steamers included in the saute category.— President tirant May not Ito equal to the oak ing of a limo! inal littoral view of the case as its circullistatices require, b u t his will is not omnipotent, and should Weigh but lightly against the clear and oliViolis inter ests or the nation. These point at once to the removal of all gistuntis of irritation; all pretexts for tirades by unscrupulous party leaders ; and all risks of collision be tween the 1.,V01,1 that should set the world an example Of amity uud peace ; and it is certain that in thus payinq homage to the nights* principle, pecuniary gain to both Canada and the United suites would be be t real all valetilathat. The Lcrei, say,: There is un Ilse concealing from ollr 'wire,: that till. , is 11. grave Well:lee this country, Which luny he prisluctivii of seriele: 1.11 our trade and prosperity. It may require all thri tint energy ,if our government to moot such a contingency as I'rrstdent Uranus language itillllllllishrs lIS IS likely to arise, anti all the An tittle of the people to sup port the government in the pokey It may determine to lmrsue• ' (tilt Pres.- dent Grant he permit, himself to 5111,1,,,51. that, ViCak he teas Le lieve lIS Ui be when emniatred with the Viiited Stale., we will yield to threats what cannot he demanded till till , clear ground or right. When the 1'1111,41 States ilovernment is prepared to CIIIISItIer Snell 10111110111110 101 . 01s11111•111 01 . 11w 111104- 11011 M nt issue, WO will lit• '4llO to enter lute migiitiations with it ; law we say, in all earmistness, that by bold and Ladd 1.111 . 001,1 We 01011101 11101 still nutlie N,Snyvil. - The farm of the threat offered 11' 1110 IlrOS illOnl is Ilia, 11111rOilVer, so 1111011110 g its to Willie LIS reverse The repeal Itills' bondingsysient Nl,lllll &Uhl -11,01 injurious to this country; 'nit it would he equally damaging to American inetirests, winch profit by the carriage of our product and niiirchimilize, while the constrii of the intere,,i , mial railway Will, inn sear or two, give tis iitt outlet. to (1101100,M tt hirh Will rr 101, r us entirely in dependent of our neighbors, should they carry the President's threat into execution. .1s for the admission of Canadian vessels merle:in port., that is a privilege already so lettered by 011011111 S 11101 Imrtial dues and other illilairal conditions, that Its withdrawal altogether would scarcely be Ii lt as an adilitionitl injury. The claim m hich l'resident (irot mattes to the Free navigatirm 01' the tit. LaWrellee Will strike 1110 Ill:01111i iir this 1•0111111 . y its a pretension scarcely less uujustilinhlo titan Hutt of I f rinisi iiiirtschakiill to set aside, tit the mere pleasure of Itusssn, the stipilla ti.n4 of a trii.ity I.titored into by all the ICIIIIOO.IIOI trots of Europe. 'lke navigation of the St. I,a‘vrence would, in itself, be of ugi iivail to the I . oiled IlliellUSo the river is hill of natural illistacles to its free 411111 001111illile employment for commercial purposes. Canada has expended large SUMS in 1•011,11 . 1141011.1 01111111 S lil ilVerootne those obstacles. Does H.. President /1111140 that those 11111011 the priiperly of the l'ffited states as of this emitary, and ought, as it matter of right, to be as free to citizens of the Itep,lblie us 10 1111rSVIVCS? Gunuli:ulS alas[ 1,100010 to regard the St.. Lawrence as a purely river, the advantages of whusu navigation may be shared by the United States upon reasona ble terms, law not as 101 inalienableund in tlefcasiiiiii right. T,) right, to allow the ,\no to ride rough shod giver us in this fashion, WO might as well at once surrender at discretion all we I hold dour to our country, as well as the principles turd illSllllllo/104 We aro striving I to perpetuate it, this part of rho Itritish dmuin,ol,. Is this the end which rn,itieut. Grmit. desires to ,W0CoIllpliml) Inlere%tltig . eline Derldt4l---colinter- Three years; ago Jay Cohkp sent twenty three government bonds of $l,OOO (melt to the Tresury Oepnrtment end they were re deemed. The bonds turned out to he counterfeits, :hid Cooke, wheh rellyd u po n, refused to refund the money, The govern- 'omit thou .rued him, anii IL jury in New York has jos( given the thi immtint rhiinlod. The 111011 :11"0 ',Lid to hl over from Washing ton say,: “The principal topic of conversatirm among treasury officials is the verdict ren dered in New York making the bankers responsible l i ar the cialliterreit. Seven-thirty bends purchased of them by the govern meia in 1 , 67. The clatter has been under consideration for a long tulle, and it was thought by some that the troy erninelit would he compelled to hose the eighty thylisand exellangel lor these spurious l ijonds. Until there was a probability or vstablishing their identity hold fixing them h_pon the parties from whom they were ul loged to have been renewed no one believed buLthat the government would be t h e loser. 'rho 'Tsui orthe trial, 'however, puts quite a different :Isf,eet on the ease, and the I . :Letitia/ the bonds in question store pronounced genuine by the former superinlendant of the bureau or engraving:cid printing gives additional importance to the verdict of the jury, which establishes the testimony of experts, who pronounced them eoun lerfeits when first discovered. It is not knOWII W [either Jay I'ooke ,t I'm will appeal their case or abide the Ver dict that, hats Pint been rendered. The so lieihir id the treasury holds that the gov ernment has no right to recognize coun terfeit notes in its business tnutsaa•tiuns— that in redeeming its bonds and notes it can only redeem what it has lawfully is sued. let the other hand, the government has redeemed the counterfeit legal tenders and placed the suin to the itevotnit or profit and loss on the books of the 1; tilted Slates ccoriling to the verdict, the question arises Whether the goVernilient require, parties from wholti !lofts are rereiViiii rior 1'441(.1111,0.n, and W hill, are not detected until alter the amount has been paid OVer, to !nuke good the hiss thus iieeitiiiiiined.” =la= M=Z=l Thei . 11ited States Treastirer yesterday received, through the agency of the lote,l - corps of the Treasury Department, lii the "1 the Treasury in lust. 'l'lie :Wove mentioned atm:tint was paid by one 01 the thieta s to it liyery-stable liceper in Nils' fork, who deposited it in bank, and the ileteeu yes hissing got ell the track of the deposit, entered stilt against the stable lieepor arid recovered the money. Ito al leged that he hicl given sal in: for the mon ey ; but not living able U show clearly u but thBl:,in,ideratiiin wa.s, and the money being identified by the numbers on the notes its a part of that Laken, the case NVlell. against /1.1111. amount thus reisivcroil is precisely tho saint+ as that ntolori from the lrrarurer recently by young. Edwin's, who is now in jail, :mil he tried for the theft tho pres ent term iif the Court. Soon alter the theft Of $20,000 from the l'reasury last su minor the Secretary issued ;LII order to the Cllited States Treasury, 41i. re,tinv the rigid enforcementof the rule I,f which all persons not members of Congress or of the Administration are excluded from the rooms in which money is received, as sorted, or kept, except upon written per mission oldie Secretary of the Treasury.— This rule has since beon scrupulously ad hered to, but very recently the Treasury has been so numerously importuned by mem hers and Senators desiring, to •go through the Treasury vaults, scomnpanied by their friends, that, wishing If possible to accommodate them, ~ .ienersi Spinner ap plied to the Secretary to know whether the words " members of the Administration " were to be construed literally, or whether Bureau officers or the immediate friends of the Senators and members might be con sidered to have the privilege when accom panied by them. The Secretary replied that the order only excepted Senators and members of Congress and members of the Cabinet from the prohibition, and that they alone were to be entitled to the freedom of the Treasury vaults, without his own writ ten permission.— Wrzehington Pal7'iot. A Paid rice Department Hill to Ex citing Time. PHILADELPHIA, Dee. B.—After a warm debate the paid lire department hilt passed the Select Council with some minor amend ments, providing for live lire corn mission era—three Republicans and two Democrats —and appropriating four hundred thou sand dollars for the expenses of the first year. The Common Council refused to con cur in the amendments. A committee of conference was then appointed, and the bill agreed upon, but most of the Republicans having left the chamber the Democrats re fused to answer to their names. No quo rum being present the final passage of the bill was delayed one week. Thp utmost excitement prevailed, both chambers being packed but good order was preserved. THE OPANINII THRONE Speech of senor Castetar In the Cortes Upon the Candidature of the Duke of Aorta. In roply to Print's speech In thu Corte:, Intrvxhneing the .kosta cant! itlatu ro, Castolar moved a vote of censure. Ile passed on thus: "Now, then, to the candidature. NI yawn-- ing the grandeur of the point as eninpared to lily weak forees, If lily considenee dill not Impel 1110,1 would renotinve illy thank less titsk. 'Pilo present situation of Spain outs be summed, tip in ono graphic de scription—substitution of the personal pol icy of General l'rini fur the dynasty pol icy of Isabella has brought On a series of evils—in the interior, elutes itt Lilo exterior, war. If I were given to re crimination, there would now spring from my lips the records of the countless times 1 have prophesies) that the attempt to NV cure a foreign king would result in a fear ful catastrophe. Sod wore Illy pre.eittl menLs, but far sadder has liven the reality ! till, when I hear the lamentutioiN of with mvs and orphans—when I contemplate the ruins of the cities destroyed--when I Mel the heat or the tires which send up clouds of blood into the air, tilled with hen I see half a million of unburied 1.01.1141, I.\ - haling pestilence from their remains, and Parts, the great cannel of mankind, threat ened, like Itoine, by Alaric— I etunt,t ,siiiiiireliend you monarchical Millisttss ''l Spam. how it is you base nut disappeared front View, buried beneath Ole w eight ~1 your OWII rellll/1,10. (it' course Castelar did not omit allusion to maximitliao or Mexico. Ilerehe hruughl Ills impassioned elotpletice into full plus : " I will present tat (Jett. Print tilt exantple he ought to recollect as to how diplentatlt monarchies exist. The monarchival thplo. ntacy of Europe salt', ivith horror, In America, a land without a king, as they sa.. , with horror another hind on this sideof the oeciiii without II king. 'rind land is calk d New Spain, and this hold is .•alled 111(1 Spain. In Nall lien. ('chit 111111 It promi nent part to discharge. .\n illustrious of the House of Hapsburg \sent to seat himself on the throne, elevated lhrrrlo by European diplonmey, behind the ha, i. of the great- North American Itepuldie, then compromised in :1 'Ile:MI.1 %tell, 114 „ . 11.111: the Itelllll/111. o f 1. rancl• 11., compromised itt a It \vtlt • A I w ntilalt of great heart and grand 1n...41i genre + l, Yell l l ,3l lied l" litl lee, Whet It tragedy I amt Shakesilo.ll, !MVO ul,t W 1.1111.11 hotter. In a le‘v years that Entia.ror Ins Iteati ittorced by Itepullhcan halls was n roe p.c; and that Empress -her heart 1111'114,1 111 lit grief -I..•,•iiine ors° than a roe pse, Mean,. iiiml .sensation.) llh, you 11111.' gay, to a monarch a weal peoplk.llV, 11 1111111 111 r ule. a groat ,•rowli to Weer, 11111 1'11:11, 11 1 rid in Nt leek 141 ,ItVl.ll, 1110 lhl',lr 111 5.11, Fernando for a footstool, vitalmis reeords to Motor Ills pride, magical scats ill the bend tol . the titkolarratil.t nleunlnins, or 1., the batiks of the 11111.1041.111 ricer l i zed intr.-11as, to recruit los Ir e ne, the Spanish glories 114 11111114 e, Gar 1114 .41111.1 d. 111111 tin K414/1 . 110 fill . 1114 teeth, 11111 hclllllll all those grandours, Joining t“ the sliallos, or I ;000ra f r ill l will wo 11 ,, nt00.; H", two ligeres 1,1 Ili, Elnperor and Empress a ma, too, id, 1110 two Ih:tiros " in tern," ..1 shedding ricars or teats I and risers of bleep, 111111 leaching In' their .a.l example Ito \v, under 4111111' .111114 till, 41111111 1•111/1.114/11111.4 111•11 nlllOllll4l In 1110 leeze4 litsb.rs.. - ith ieneral I'i Castelar was \ suture. Ile said : " \Vital thcy ‘s co. It nig to hi nig \vould not be the king el t in. nation, or 1,1111 111 11 party, but the log ill a fraction of a party -the secretary .11 ['lie Conned ot NI misters the responsible tor of ',a,. thou. lto s halllllla a I;000,..1 Prot, ronovtod from do, throw., iss.s4Mal government 11 1111 ,t e 1.111,41 , anr0. \Vas lioneral Ih nit 11111. 1,1 1111/511,11 ellll 11,11 11e1.1114, like u htil4Wne, who r Ice because th: , c have Mill] In 111 1 / 1 1Y n o t. \VIVI 1;1'11111,1 I'lllllllll el 1111.41 great statesmen like favour 1111,1 1114111 AI el., who attempt high enterpri.o.s and a:ratan , 11411 their people? Certainly not. Ile had had Lis o aPllurllnlities allorded inn ot lilt -1 lowing such pohey, but he hall lest 011411 ‘Sa . • his ; Iris eels rrliunr,•. IL,• oritiy ; his only laith, ion,: his only ; nod Ills 111111' thc future, the retention ill po, el to ills purty. "Ellis great sentiment helependems• 1 the tiro t)I our 113(1..1111111y. ‘II our prn‘•inces experience ill the .ante ,li glee their butane's,. lor 51111111411 11111111'11 The 1111,1111, 1111111,1. 111141,11 N 1 4 sprang from thou . Heil likllh e ir ails' b, their the notaatv 1 , 1 ooa. noel they gar) , 111 11, Or ha, nig nosed 111,-1. blood with other blood. When 11th , r nations . sr lfer s, - on , oussain..,,,scon, Ile' French in l'aris- Fichte exciting the hernial,. against. Napoleon, and N.'ietor I Ingo ...oil mg the Freneli against Is ing \VIM... :old Ityron with the lyre in 11111. 11111111 1111 , 1 I h,• Load,sda, in tiou other itotooda.. (;reei•o against the 'l'll I - all, all In ~ their eyes to our imintry, and pommy!: those 1111,1 light for 111011 . 11.41114•(1t I' n to 1,111. 41111/lillll4 ruins, 51111, the 111 11011 1., overthrou their .soniner, is, .111.1 lion 1., light anti die tow their ccuittry. I 1,11.1 .qt planse,) And you or,' 01;1110 E.; gis loi 1111111 It foreign ',mg? II 51111111 del, 11..1 struggle agtrnsL 1.1114 11111,e, 4,11.4,1111 e, 1.1 11111.11 4:M1111111y, We Mlll3ll \Seep tor SI,III, 111111 IVe Sllllll 11/11111, III". 1111/1110114 , 4 Cllll deco, for the most chi 1 ach1 , 11.41, I mules 1.1 our racc will 111, I' 111141, and the shunt..l °luminary will lee, heconie extiordosbe I in the world." I . 4Jrtvr ha, NVrittvil lii Iht. 1 . 1 . ,•••1 tient the rc)ll“Wilig lu , nilrntiP I I,.tit•r: Der•r•mhor Itiu Prc.llrlrtit I%ly Itr4t reading the totter published in the Nee. York 11 - ortil, was Ili )1111 at 1111141 1111.1 immosite•o it a fabrication, Mr its such I eonvidered it; but, :as it in 10 have boon- written six years :1g.., anti puldis`hoil by 11 J11, , 1111 W lie 11,110 a prominent posit son en der the gl/V01 . 111111•11 1. I Ii 11,1111111 I 1 , 1 ascertain Illll\' if 1 had ever malted ..te•li it letter hodM . o. addre.sing you on the eull jert. Neither myself or illy ,e,•retasy, who has served svith me eight year , ,, cosmi call to our revolleetion ally ''arum stitinie or the kind. 1 could 111111 I 111111 uttered sentiments I 1,111.11 . I never felt, whieli areSni at VIII• 1.1.11 ,1 W 11 /1 1.11111. 1 have 11111 lone ly expr,,,l•ll I' - ward you. The letter, it appciti,, 11.11 private one, :nal vindic try,. have 1,.11 the heltrt, of the 1111111 11131 1 . 1111111 be 1_ , ,11111% 111 so grave a breach of confhlesi. , ; and de prayed, indeed, must be thecharacier, who, to gratify his nii , whievons instinct, could wußu public a confidential letter, ss ran ii, perhaps, under great eXciLI , 1111•111, :11111 this iiisotn t day not even remembered. It seems like a poor return for yosir 111111111 in confidence and kindness to me, and I am too glad that I reiliewher iiitthinti 1,11111,11 , 1 with the letter. A t :thou t the Ilane of the lid ler I had passed through a long and fatiguing eontest with Fort Fisher, arid sity 1111111,1,04 fleet wits almost overpowered by the 111011 1, I Sat , : the ~ovt.ted prim. Nllllllll 111 c grasp and then slip trim tun. For stle,lll, month I had to battle with the stories iti winter, anchored 011 1111 Opel] 1,1114, with liii• responsibility of that large Il vet nn 1111,' hands, my mind and 1111110 1111111.41 iii extraordinary fatigues. withal iivas lool:iin.; nn exeited, ilreading a defeat t sat might prolong a contest that was al - teady sapping its vitals. You amt others know what 1 had to undergo bodily and mentally. I presumo it was 11'11111. tinder this excitement that I wrote the letter tvliieli you say has Made y o u Inst, your faith in hu man nature. I have no recollection of it any more than 1 would have of other i,as4- ing ciretismaances of ...ix years itao. When several persons have al 111111 . r..nt 111111, In 'brined 11111 [halo letter 11111111111• 1.111111 , 111 , 1 ill which 1 111111 111111141:11 treated the matter with think ing it impossible that such it letter eilishl exist. Ido not write for the ptirposcl,t e\- r+llcratina myself, for 1 month rather he the writer id . the letter than its publisher. '1'1,1• peace tailitivid parties and el >newt v ',amid he placed in great jeopardy !Fall the private letters written Irthnt the last e• years wears 11111/l1,1111•11. N,allirig that I lulu said Will ll 11 1 .1•1 your lalr tame, and your tunny friends 111111111 lorii.llllly want ing in ,indgment If they were at sill influenced by the silly ex idtalsons of 11.11 linserniallons persiii,, %vie, :titer ad, are only rejoicing ioVI•r the most:contempt ible breach 11l 1,11 lilll . lllill I ever hoard ..f. I regret ext•evilingly the 11154111 your ship, and do not 111 , i111.10 to 11i,1411.1 . 1,11 1.11.11Li1110111,1 of 1111111 I 5111,1,4 O' I 11/11,11 hair 11113 011i11111. They appear Ii a letter of which 1 has, no r 5111IVrtinn ; tin y are •ito different Irian the sentiments I allvays express VIWIII-11.1 yourself and the gallnitt olneers or 11111' army, said arc no 1111 . 011 ,1 1 , 1- (.111i with 1111 my antecedents, that I , ear..ol,' consider them entitled to It moment's thought. 1111111, tilt. honor to remain, v. ry respectfully, your obedient. servant. (Signed) DAVID 11. Puler lilt, To the }:ltem cold 34Issern' Flirll.4 • The strip' aiming the veal lamer, at Seranten, and the determined spirit evipeed by parties there un hoth sides, is the ,ih jeet of general ennversatien among the-o el the trade. Thu Philadelphia r says : '• Parties interested in the trade of the Schuylkill region look upon the Scranton strike as greatly in their favor, awl the owners of the more favorably Incited ul the mines there Still In operation hope 6.r it good winter's business at good prices fir coal. It is currently said that the last Scranton sale of (sad was a fraud on the trade and on the public. That prices were reported very low for the purpose of de pressing wages and of affecting unfavora bly other coal regions, thereby giving to the Scranton company the control of the market at low usages at the 'nines. It is reported that not it ton of the coal sold it the last public sale of Scranton coal has been delivered, and is not likely to be. The manipulators of the movement seem to have overshot their mark. Schuylkill tin • erators and Reading Railroad Stockhold ers are happy in the prospect of aft in creased coal tonnage front the Schuylkill region, over and above what was hoped for a week ago. Should the Scranton strikers hold out, as they threaten, both the other hard coal regions will try to keep up the supply that all would have furnished in the absence of the Scranton strike. It is not probable, we hear, that there will be any increase in the price of coal, oven should the Scranton men not resume work this winter. The supply at the distribut ing centres and the capacity of the other regions where there is no break with the men are considered quite equal to the de mand for ooal."
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