Eancaoter 2intellfgencer. WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 21,1870] The Case of Tennessee Butler. The indictment of Roderick Random Butler and his trial will show up the rascality of one of the brood of repro bates who have managed to crawl into Congress under the sheltering folds of reconstruction. There are two indict ments now pending against Butler, each of which contains six , counts. The first countlof the first indictment charges him with having forged the name of Bethany Farmer, the widow of J. Cal vin Farmer, of Ashe county, North 1 1 Carolina, upon a check drawn by the President of Raleigh National Bank upon the National Republican Bank of illew York city, in favor of said'Bethany Farmer, for the sum of $473.12, with in tent to defraud said Bethany Farmer. The other five counts are framed to cover other parts of the same transaction. The second indictment is similar to the first, the party in this instance defrauded be ing Rebecca J. Madron, of same locality. Both the women are the widows of members of the 13th Union Tennessee Cavalry who died in the service. Pen sions were granted and the checks duly made out and sent to Butler, who was acting, or professing to act as the Attor ney of these widows. They never re ceived a dollar of the money, or saw the checks until they were shown to them in the office of the United States Dis trict Attorney at Washington. The endorsements were forged by,Butler and the money drawn and pocketed by him. When Butler was first confronted with the charges he made light of them.— Subsequently he asserted that he had a power of attorney from Mrs. Farmer authorizing him to sign her name and draw the money, but un examination of the document he presented showed that it had also been forged. The Washing ton correspondent of the Cincinnati Ga zette, who on August let published cer tain particulars of the ease, said at the time, referring to this power of attor ney : "Sometime afterward the charge was rondo Butler appeared with two-half sheets of paper, on ono of which was what pur ported to be a power of attorney from Mrs. Farmer, bearing date in October, 1800, and previous to Butler's endorsing her name. rho other sheet contained a sworn state ment front Mrs. Farmer, dated In April, 1870, setting forth that the affidavit she had forwarded a short tinie before was written under a misapprehension of the facts, and was erroneous. "Both those papers were sworn to before a notary, and attested by the clerk of the Court in Tennessee, who, in title case, was Mr. Butler's soil. " When they came to be closely exam ined at the Pension Office, it appeared that the paper was not only the save, but that both documents had formed part of a sin gle sheet, as wits HbOWII by LIM fart that along the torn edges the ragged projections on ono side exactly fitted the indentations upon the other." It Will be remembered that Butler was crested last summer, during the cam aign when he was a candidate for re election. lie had a writ of lutheas cor pus served on his captors, and being taken before a United States Judge in his section,was released. 'Phe action of the Judge was open to grave suspicion. The adherents of Butler threatened to mob the pension agents who had ar rested him, and they had to leave the country. Subsequently the Pension Bureau turned the case over to the De partment of Justice, and the result is the indictment of the accused. Not withstanding the charges hanging over him, Butler daily occupies his seat on the Radical side of the House, and he made a speech in the Republican caucus the other night against amnesty. Ile declared, when he arrived in Washing ton, that he intended to rise in his scat and make an explanation of the mat ter, but has never attempted to do so. He will now haves_ an opportunity to make his promised explanations before a Court of Justice. Would it nut he better to Iu the First District of Tennessee represented by an ex-rebel than by such a repro bate? Would it not be better do allow the people of the South to send their representative men to Omgress. than for the 001111113• to be disgraced by a set wretches such as have come int( power under the reconstruction acts'. These are questions which it seems t( u , any decent Republican would tied i easy to answer. Houtuell and Grant The report which was current in siVashington a day or,two ago, to the ,ffect that, Secretary Boutwell was about to resign is now denied ; but there is no loubt that he is dissatisfied. The causes if grlevani-! on the part of the Secretary ,re said to be, first, the evident disposi i ion of Congress to do away with all in ternal revenue taxes except those upon wines, spirits, malt liquors and tobacco, as evidenced by the almost umutinmus passage of such a resolution by the _House the other day ; aml, secondly, the impression prevailing that the President has been converted to the theory that our taxation is much too heavy. Secretary Boutwell holds that to cease paying ohr the nabonal debt would be an abandonment of that poli cy upon which the administration has prided itself so much, and he is nut dis posed to yield to the sudden change of programme which is now proposed. If the:President insists upon making a com plete departure from the course which has been pursued, the probabilities are that Mr. Boutwell will feel compelled to retire from the cabinet. Ile Is pledged to the rapid payment of the National Debt, and that can not be effected with out a continuance of the present heavy rate of taxation. The shrewder poli ticians of tile Republican party have sense enough to see hat such a course is unpopular, and th y want to balance the boat and trim sail for the Presiden tial contest In 1872. If Grant takes -ides with the politicians, Bout well will ,nave to go overboard—if he sticks to his Secretary, they are sure to founder to gether The dilemma Is not a pleasant one for either party. The Devil's Political Career In North LCarollna. A resolution was offered hi the North Carolina House of Representatives, re questing the delegation in Congress to use their influence in favor of a general amnesty and a repeal of the:test-oath, and reeeived On affirmative to la. nega tive votes. Of the 13 nays 10 were negroes. Many Radicals, however, vo ted for the resolution. One of this party said in debate that he was willing to "endorse the individual application of Zeb. Vance, Joe. Turner or the devil," to which Mr. Jones, a Conservative, re plied that the" devil had certainly been tiler no disabilities in North Carolina for the last two years. He was in near ly every office, and his cloven foot cold be seen in almost every act done by the party so lately in power." Connuvrio.ts; and bribery seem to lave become the order of the day in bis country. A recent investigation ws that a publishing house in Phila- This (Eldrigde St Brothers) 111L4 been oing the school teachers of that city 'enure patronage. The report of the ~ innittee establishes the fact, but we zkre glad to see that only a small number of the teachers have been implicated in •his serious and disgraceful charge. Bribery in Congress and in our Stale 2gislatures is bad enough, but has be so common as no longer to excite wonder. Bribery in the Common Schools of the State is the very latest exhibition of the degeneracy of our times. Archbishop Spalding's Lecture We publish elsewhere a complete ab stract of the lecture of Archbishop Spald itig upon the temporal power of the Pope. As this is a subject which is ex citing no little attention throughout our country at the present time, the lecture of Archbishop Spalding will be read with interest by all classes. THE LANCASTER WEEKLY INTELLIGENCER, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1870. The Art of Gerrymandering. It is natural for any political party to seek to perpetuate its rule, and experi ence has shown'that politicians are not scrupulous aboutthe means they employ to accomplish such a result. One of the devices which has been much resorted to of late years is the dividing up of States, districts, and even cities, in such a manner as to defeat the will of the majority. The speech of Senator Wal lace, which we publish elsewhere, shows how effectually this thing has been done in the State of Pennsylvania. There is no honest or right-minded citizen who can read Mr. Wallace's speech without being convinced that great injustice has been done by the gerrymandering of Congressional and Legislative districts. Ours is professedly a representative government, and whatever prevents a fair representation of the people of any district or of any party is in contraven tion to the spirit of our institutions. There is no decent Republican in the State of Pennsylvania who will under take to defend an apportionment,which requires Democratic candidates for Con gress to receive nearly twice as many votes as are necessary to elect Republi cans. There is no honest man who will dare to utter a word in favor of a gerry mander, which allows 3,700 Republi cans to elect a member of the Legisla ture in Philadelphia, while it requires 0,000 Democrats to elect one; which. gives three members of Assembly to the Republican County of Chester, with a population of 77,824, and only two to Democratic Montgomery, with a popu lation of 81,512 ; which allows only one to Democratic Cumberland, with a pop ulation of 93,855, and two to the com blued Republican counties of Tloga and Potter with a population of only 48,256 ; which allots two members to the Repub lican counties of Bradford and Sullivan, with a population of only 59,2110, while it gives but two to the Democratic counties of Columbia, Montour and Northum berland, which have a population of 85,- :,1311; which permits the Republican counties of Susquehanna and Wyo ming to elect two members, with a pop ulation of 42,115, while the Democratic counties of Wayne, Pike, Carbon and Monroe, with a population of 63,521, only elect the same number; which gives Lancaster county, with a popula tion of 121,425, four members, and two Senators, and Luzerne, with a popula tion of 150,951, only one Senator and hree members. The above figures are taken (ruin the re- turns of the census just made publie,and the apportionment was made when the relative population of the counties was about the same as it is at present. For further evidence that the apportionment was made on a fraudulent basis we have only to refer back to the census of 1860, which shows the following great dis proportions. Then Chester had a popu- ation Of 74,578, and Montgomery a population of 70,500 ; then the Demo cratic counties of Columbia, Montour and. Northumberland had, a population of 07,040, and the Ilepublican counties of Bradford and Sullivan only 33,466; then the Democratic counties of Wayne, Pike, Monroe and Carbon had a popu lation of 67,18:,, and the Republican counties of Susquehanna and Wyoming but .18,607. These figures are sufficient to show how the last apportionment of the State was made. That it was vil lainously dishonest, no one can deny. It is by such means that the Repub lican party has managed to keep up its large majority in the Lower House of our Legislature and to control the Sen ate for seven years together. Just now the Senate is more nearly balanced than it has been at. any time since the present outrageous apportionment was made. It is only so because one of the double dis tricts and one or two of the single ones have disappointed the expectations of Republican politicians. The death of Mr. Watt leaves the Senate a tie, and its political complexion will depend upon the result of the coming election in the First District. That district is Demo cratic, and a full and fair vote will elect the I)emocratie candidate. The Repube licans have complete control of the Lower House and have the Governor. If the Democrats obtain control of the Senate a fair apportionment bill will be adopted, one which will give to all sec lions of the State and to both political par ties a fair representation in the State Leg islature. The .I)emocracy of Pennsylva nia ask nothing more. \V hen they were in power they never gerrymandered the State as the Radicals have done; nor would they do so now if they had the opportunity. They recognize the fact that ours is a representative government and would not attempt to do violence to that great principle which lies at the basis of our republican institutions,— Not so the Radicals. Should they sue- ceed in electing their candidate for Sen ator in the First District, the State will be again gerrymandered as it now is.— The appeals which we daily see in Rad ical newspapers show that such is the fixed purpose of the party leaders. We hope and believe they will be defeated in their evil designs by the triumphant election of Mr. Dechert, the Democratic candidate for Senator in the First Dis trict. The people of Pennsylvania will not rest satisfied until an amended State Constitution shall cut up the system of gerrymandering, and other Legislative evils by the roots,. giving a free ballot and fair representation to all parties, and rendering our Legislature pure and respectable. The Mayflower a Slate Ship Fred. l)oughtss made a speech at the New England dinner, given in the Con gregational Church of Washington City the other evening, in which he asserted as a historical fact that the Mayflower; which brought over the Puritans, was subsequently fitted out by them as a slaver, and a cargo of slaves brought front Africa in her. He claimed that, as a descendant of that slave cargo, he had a peculiar and an indisputable right to speak at a meeting called to celebrate the landing of the Pilgrims who came over the Atlantic In the Mayflower.— And, why not? According to Fred. his ancestors were Pilgrims as well as the Puritans. The white Pilgrims crossed the Atlan tic in the Mayflower voluntarily, the black Pilgrims were brought across it in irons. The white Pilgrims soon forgot that they had been driven out of Eng land by persecution and began to hang Quakers and others who differed with them in religious belief; they professed to be "the Lord's anointed people;" but they thought it all right and proper for them to tear negroes from their homes in Africa and to reduce them to slavery. It was not until long after the immediate descendants of the Puritans had sold the ances tors of Fred. Douglass to the Catholics of Maryland, the Cavaliers of Virginia and the Huegenots of the Carolinas, that the New England conscience be came alive to the iniquity of the slave trade. It was by the votes of the New England men that the clause containing the slave trade was inserted in the Con stitution of the United States. Fred. Douglass has a splendid text in the fact that the Mayflower was converted into a slaver, and Ile might get up a grand sensational lecture upon the subject.— Its delivery would no .doubt create a de cided impression in Bostma, Hydrophobia We publish elsewhere an able com munication on the subject of hydropho bia, written by Dr. N. 11. Smith for the Baltimore Sun. Dr. Smith is one of the most eminent physicians in the coun try, and his plain statements of the man ner in which the dreadful effects of a bite from a rabid dog may be avoided ought to be made familiar to every pie. The article is of great value and should be preserved for reference. Defending the Fraudulent Apportion.- The Express Is the only newspaper in Pennsylvania which has the hardihood necessary to defend the infamous Leg islative and Congressional gerrymander of the State, which;was made by the Re publican party. Other Radical news papers have indulged in ill-natured flings at Senator Wallace, but the Ex press is the only one which has attempt ed to refute the facts contained in his recent speech, or which has dared to ex cuse the injustice which he so clearly pointed out. The Express asserts that its party only followed the example set by the Democratic party,:ha concocting the infamous gerrymander by which the Democracy have been cheated out of a fair representation in Congress and the State Legislature. How false that charge is may readily be shown by a reference to the past political,history of the Com monwealth, without entering into de tails. Up to the time when the present ap portionment bills were:passed, the party which carried the State on the popular vote was almost certain to obtain con trol of the Legislature, and to secure a majority of Congressmen. The Demo crats paid due regard to the principles which underlie our form of government, and did not violate the great doctrine which recognizes the rights of all par ties to be represented according to their numbers. The consequence was that when public sentiment in the State changed, the sentiment which proved strongest was fairly represented both in Congress and in the State Legislature. It was reserved for the Radicals to vio late the principles on which the govern ment rests, to give to Republican coun ties and districtsa representation greater than was accorded to Democratic coun ties and districtswith a larger population, and to join together counties which had no natural relation to each other, for the express purpose of swamping Demo cratic majorities and securing an undue preponderance of power in the National and State Legislatures. Had the Democrats been as reckless and as un principled as their opponents have proven themselves to be, they might have prevented the Republican party from securing fair representation, and might have held the State Legislature and u majority of the Congressional districts in spite of all the nwtations In public sentiment Which have taken place. They did not do so when they had the power, because they were re strained by a higher sense of honor and a more conscientious regard for princi ple than has been exhibited by the leaders of the Republican party. The Exprem. does not refute a single one of the long array of damaging facts which are so clearly set forth in the speech of Senator Wallace. It says: "A r e could easily point out districts where, under the:present apportionmen t the Democrats get more than they are entitled to." If so easily do: e, why not do It Why make a bold assertion with out backing it up by facts and figures? The truth is the E./pr0,.. , can do nothing of the sort. All the advantages of the existing fraudulent apportionment are on the side of the Radicals. The gerry mander is so palpably fraudulent and so grossly outrageous that no newspaper in the State, except the Exprois, has attempted to defend it. It stands alone us the apologist of the most infamous political swindle ever perpetrated—and it does this while professing to be Ott in dependentjoumal,audlwhilc pretending to be an advocate of legislative reform. We do not pretend that there is no danger that the Democratie party might be induced to follow the bad ex ample set by the Radicals, though the fairness of apportionments made under its rule would justify such an assump tion. We want to take away from any party both the power and; the tempta tion to indulge in such political swin dles for all time to come. We are, there fore, an earnest advocate of such changes in our State Constitution as will ensure a fair representation of minorities as well as majorities. The course pursued by the Express, which also professes to be a friend of sull reform, and the action of prominent Radicals in other parts of the State, are calculated to shake the faith of the people in the pro fessions they make. U a Constitutional Convention is called, it must be entire ly divested of a partisan character. Till: ninny after it had published a full report of Surratt's lecture, Forney's Press spoke editorially as follows: Yesterday morning tine rr,,,,v alone of all the papers inn Philadelphia or New York, contained a full report of the revelation of Joint IL Fitirratt, as made in his lecture, delivered at the inaecessible little town of Rockville, Maryland. While the coin mim class shoots contented themselves with the meagre abstract of the Associated Press, One or two of the ranking journals of Now York published considerable portions of it, but none had the enterprise or ability to lay the whole, without note, colnillent, or sy 110psis, before their readers. We commend tine above to the editor of the Eril COM. It may have a tenden cy to remove the redundancy of bile from his troubled stomach. Qrand Army of the Republic protested against cleneral Pleasanton ass Commissioner of Internal Revenue, and nearly all the politicians were op posed to him, but grant sent his name iu, thus showing that he is as obstinate and untractible in such matters as ever. He evidently regards (dikes as some thing provided for the express purpose of enabling him to reward his personal friends, and can not be induced to con sider them in any other light. ADM MAI, C7i.ISSON, .a relative of ex- Senator Drake, was sent only a few months ago to relieve Admiral Itadfo•d front tire command of the European squadron. Aiu,l plow he is conning home to be retired on his net; rank, and of course to be provided like otbers, with easy and profitable shore duty. Under this extraordinary system, there will be more admirals than captains in a few years, and the cost to taxpayers of idle officers will be immensely increased. Tin•: Postal Bill has passed the House with a clause abolishing the franking privilege. The free exchange of news papers and magazines is retained, as it should be, cow let the Senate concur in the action of the Jjouse, and do away with the abuse which costs the people an immense sum of money, without conferring any compensatory benefit upon them. Da. SAMUEL BARD, editor of the True Georgian, who was nominated by the President as Governor of Idaho, nut after concaniation declined, has joined the Democracy. in a letter to the Presi dent he gives his reasons for the change, opposing the Republican policy in re gard to the South, but declares that his high personal regard for the President is unchanged. THE New York E.cpre.s thinks Fred. Douglass might buy the Washington Chronicle from Forney, and combine it with the paper he now publishes. Fred. would be just the man to run the Radi cial organ at 1.1,1 e seat of ,government. He is in favor of universal amnesty, and in some other respects mare Jiberal and decent than Forney has proven h/auself to be. Amorcu others who are spoken of as likely to be the candidate of the Demo crats for Speaker of the next House of Representatives is P. Gray Meek, Esq., of the Bellefonte Watchman. Meek has won kvr himself a high reputation as a man of ability, and he would be an un exceptionable eandidAtte. He has al ready served two terms in the Legisla ture. NArruitif has finally accomplished what Ben. Butler failed to achieve. A great flood in the James River washed out the Dutch Gap Canal so as to allow the passage of steamboats through it. This shortens the route to Richmond considerably. Grant's New Dodge on the San Domingo After all Grant Said in his message in regard to San Domingo one would sup pose he would scout the idea of sending a commission to the island, to Inquire into its value and Its condition. In his message he gave to the country a de scription of the coveted territory, more particular and circumstantial than the advertisement of any ptoperty in the catalogue of an auctioneer, whose profits depend upon the price he - gets. The immediate and unconditional pur chase of San Domingo was first urged upon the Senate all last win ter ; falling to secure the necessary two thirds in that body, the proposition to make the acquisition by a majority vote of the two Houses of Congress was made the prominent feature of the late annu al message. If the Republican members believe and trust Grant they ought not to demand any further information on the subject. The message ought to be enough to satisfy them. But they evi dently do not believe the President. Out of their distrust of his word springs the proposition to send out aset of Commis sioners to begin the whole business anew. If Grant knows the scheme to be proper, honest and clear of fraud, he ought to be able to prove it to his party friends in Congress. He is the man who seems to be chiefly interested in the proposed purchase. A few men, like Morton, of Indiana, champion the job out of favor to the President, but the majority of the leading men of the Re publican party are opposed to it in tots. The people of this country do not want this new domain ,with Its turbulent pop ulation of barbarian negroes,hitched on to the United States, and the belief uni versally prevails that Grant is only eager in the matter because lie (.apeets to make money out of it. The Cost of Contested Elections Under the encouragement given to this business by the Radicals, contests for seats in Congress have yearly be come more numerous. There have been before the Election Committee of the present House thirty cases. In salaries alone $50,000 have been paid to those who have failed to establish claims to seats, and the expenses of these contests has amounted to fully as much more as the salaries paid, the printing in a sin gle case costing $7,000. Last winter a bill was presented providing that uo payment shall be made to any contest ant unless he establishes has right to a seat. Such a law would be just and right In every sense of the word. The probabilities are that there will be nearly as many contested seats in the next House as there were in the present one, and there is no good reason why the thing should be encouraged by of fering a premium in the shape of a handsome salary, and the payment of all expenses In the case of failure to make out a good claim. During the past fourteen years, under Radical rule in the House, a quarter of a million of dollars have been wasted by this iniqui tous system. If a candidate for Con gress believes that he has been cheated out of an election, let him make good his case at his own expense, and let him be given the full salary for the whole term if he succeeds in unseating his opponent. With a committee which would decide contested cases on their merits such a plan would insure sub stantial justice, and no man would claim a seat who was not honestly and fairly elected. If such a law were passed, and in connection therewith an act remodel ing the method of deciding contested seats, the people would be saved expense and there would be greater fairness in the conduct of Congressional Elections. A partizan committee, such as that of the present Congressis an unfit tribu nal to decide upon'fa contested election cue. Some of the decisions of the pres ent committee have been simply out rageous. All Democrats ask is that the evidence in such cases shall decide them, and not the ;mere partizan bias of the men who 'are constituted judges. Let there be a thorough reform in this mat ter. Honesty and decency imperatively demand it. SENATiqt. SrMNER, has introduced a bill which proposes to prohibit the fur ther printing of greenbacks and frac tional currency, and then to retire grad ually the fractional currency, so as to get rid of the whole of it within a year, and to begin at once, retaining in the Treasury the gold interest payable to the banks on bonds deposited as secu rity for their circulation. If this bill passes it will be the first practical step taken by the government in the direc tion of a return to specie payments, and Mr. Sumner will deserve the thanks of all the friends of a sound currency if lie gets his bill through. IT .is said that Grant intends to name Fred. Douglass us one or the Commis sioners to report upon the propriety of purchasing au Domingo, should Con gress authorize the sending out of such a Commission. As the inhabitants of the island are nine-tenths negroes, Grant might as well make the Commis sion up entirely of " American citizens of African descent." lie will, in any event, take good care to appoint no one who is not committed to the job, on which he has set his avaricious heart, and by which he experts to profit so largely. Morals of Radical Congressmen The New York Tribune says . The XLlst Congress is not likely to go down to history with a commendable repu tation fur good morals. 'lwo of its mem bers have been expelled for selling cadet ships, ono resigned to escape expulsion, three or four others got o ff only by the hard swearing of their accomplices, one has con victed himself of attempting to procure counterfeit money to pass among the poor negroes, one is charged with cheating soldiers widows out of their pensions, and now the indictment of another fur bigamy is reported. T4e fellows who are thus held up to scorn are members of " the party of great moral id 12118." IT Is stated in North Carolina papers that Senator Abbott will exert himself to prevent the removal of Gov. Vance's disabilities, and then assert his claim to the seat to which Vance has been chosen, on the ground that lie (Senator Abbott) received the next highest num ber of votes in the Senatorial election, and is therefore entitled to the seat should Governor Vance continue under the congressional ban. That is just such a trick as we might exneet the Radicals to indulge in. A mm. has been reported by the Ju diciary'Committee of the House for the relief of parties whose lands were sold for taxes in the South. It provides for repurchase by the owners or their heirs on payment of taxes due, expenses and costs. 'lbis tsiU relieve some who would otherwise suMr grievously. Tnn appointment of the Rev. Mr. Cramer, brother-in-law of (len. Want, as missionary to the Danes, has been rapidly followed by that of Mr. B. F, PeixAnte as Missionary to the Rouma nians. Is there no end to the list of the President's relations? TIM bill abolishing the grade of Id mind in the Navy, which passed the House, wiij meet with more opposition in the Senate. Cinnit is doing all he can to defeat it and to secure the con firmation in the ofllee of his friend Porter. THE amount of internal revenue col lected from the Ist of July to the 12th df December, 1869, was $80,493,238.60. For the corresponding period of this year the returns a decrease of 1,972,918.71. C. C. BOWEN, Radical Congressman from South Carolina, has been indicted in Washington on a charge of bigamy. Of such hi " the party of great moral Ideas." Counterfeit Dealers In Counterfeit Money. One of the most remarkable devices ever invented for extracting money from the pockets of the simple, is that which has been largely practiced by certain rascals In New York city, who profess to be dealers in counterfeit United States currency. Circular let ters are sent out by these scamps all over the country, and the parties re ceiving them are assured that they have been recommended and carefully chosen as proper persons to be entrusted with an important secret. The circulars then go on to state that counterfeit United States currency of different denominations will be forwarded at rates ranging from fifteen dollars of good money for a hundred of the - bogus, down to five dollars, or less,for the same amount., according to size of bills and quantity ordered. These rogues do not trust to the mails but have the money forwarded to them by Express. They avoid the mails In order to avoid the eyes of the police. They pretend to have an un limited supply of counterfeit currency, which, In the language of one of the circulars, the agent will "take a solemn oath will never be detected." That oath might be safelytaken, for the dupes who would be knaves never receive any thing in the shape:of money. Either they never hear from these fellows who addressed them as "Dear Friend," or they receive by Express a package of brown paper or shavings. The extent to which this infamous trade has been carried has been made manifest by the arrest of a couple of the sharpers engaged in it in New York. On examination of their memorandum book it was ascertained that they had. received in forty-seven days thirty thousand dollars from their dupes. Among the letters found in their posses sion were two from a Radical candidate for Congress in the State of Georgia, which we publish elsewhere. Mr. Wim by no doubt intended to use the " bogus" to buy up negro votes, and the near ap proach of the election will account for his extreme anxiety to receive it. We can scarcely lind it in our hearts to pity the fools who are duped by this dodge. Every one who has forwarded a dollar to them has not only lost Is money, but has superadded thereto the con sciousness that he was ready and will ing to engage In ,the worst kind of knavery. The adtual dealers • In counterfeit moneyl, resort to no such devices. When they have perfected what they regard as a suc cessful imitation of a bank bill they quietly distribute it by careful hands among those who are known to them, and known to be worthy of the evil con fidence thus placed In them. Them, simultaneously in different parts of the country, "the queer is shoved," as'they say in their thieves' jargon, as rapidly as possible. In plain English an effort is made to get rid of the greatest possi ble amount before the ebunterfelt is de tected by experts and the public warned through the press. All who have sent money to these counterfeit dealers in counterfeit money have been served right. They deserved to be swindled and have been most effectually tricked out of money which they risked for the purpose of being enabled to cheat others. A Strange Report About Forney The New York Journal of Commerce, a paper which is not given to sensation al reports, has the following among its Washington despatches: ".1. W. Forney, it is said, has abandoned President Grant after au interview with the President on Thursday, when the latter in sisted upon his advocating the purchase of San Domingo. This he refused, on the ground that he is opposed to it, and that he would not write against his convictions for a person who had never substantially re cognized Ills labors in the party." If Forney is indeed about to desert Grant, it must be on the same principle that rats desert a sinking ship. He never supports any party or adheres to any man any longer than he finds it pecuniarily profitable to do so. We should not be surprised to see him john the Revenue and Civil Service Reform Party. That would only be a slight re turn toward the principles which he so zealously advocated when' he was a Democrat, and edited the haelligeneer and the PeinWi'ilittan. It may be he only intends to advocate the claims of some other candidate for the Radical nomination in 1872. He will look well before he leaps, and try to light 113 near as possible to some pile of public plunder. The tone of Forney's feces leads us to conclude that the paragraph which we quote from the Journal of (nnmerec is correct. In a special telegram from Washington he berates Grant severely for his appointment of I. len. Pleasanton to the office of Commissioner of Internal Revenue. He accuses him of falsehood and duplicity in the matter, asserting positively that the place was promised to :gr. Douglass, of Erie. We may look for open war soon, unless Forney should be appeased in some way. (irant can stop the mouth of this Cerberus by a lucrative appointment, and in no other way. inoN CAmmtnx and John W. For ney have " lost faith in human nature" since Grant declined to make their man Douglass,Commisslonerof Internal Rev enue. If Grant does not soon do some thing to appease Cameron, he will not be asked to go on a fishing spree next spring, cud will no more taste the deli cious ehampagne which Simon imports direct for the use of guests at the hospit able mansion of Lochiel, Boutwell is to be removed, we would suggest that Wimpy, of Georgia, should be made Secretary of the Treasury. He has shown great financial ability in his efforts to secure a large supply of greenbacks for his negro constituency. If he should be defeated for Congress he ought to be rewarded with a fat office, that being the order of the day under Grant. secret of Grant's renewed friend ship for Porter has been discovered. Porter is a paitner with him In the San Domingo Job, and one of its most earn est supporters. Our worthy President swallows all the insults which the Rear Admiral put upon him, in hope that lie may be put to good account in this dark transaction. If Porter is not confirmed by the Senate, Urant will be greatly disappointed. L,ss•iyear Ilolden and his supporters wanted to get rid of some Conservative Judges in North Carolina, and they passed ii, lily providing that any State officer who might be impeached, should be suspended from office during the trial. Now Holden has been impeached, and he will be suspended by the operation of the law he had passed. This is an apt illustration of the old proverb that, " curses, like chickens, will come home to roost." THE price of votes RI the lat.e Senator ial election in South Carolina was $,500 for the average, and for influential mem bers as high as $2,000. The Radical members are said to he rejoicing in their honest gains, and waiting with anxious concern for another election. Tilt: House Military Committee have rejected the Senate 33i11, extending the time for reduction of the army to July Ist, and in so doing they have acted rightly. The people of this country do not \v¢l}t, to be taxed for such a purpose. JoiLN, - W. GE4Ry beep re-elected President of the National union League. He is sufficiently bigoted, narrow-mind ed and self-important to make a good figure head for a proscriptive, secret po. litical society. BRICK POMEROY and Mr. H. B. Ghanaler, late financial manager of the Chicago Times, hate purchased the Mil waukee News, and took possession on the Ist. A Hard Hit at Cameron General Morgan, of Ohio, made a tell ing point in a short but vigorous speech against Butler's bogus Amnesty Bill. Commenting upon the clausewhich ex cepts from amnesty whoever, having been educated at the:Military Academy at West Point, or the Naval School at Annapolis, shall have engaged in the rebellion and insurrection against the United States, or given aid and comfort to the enemies thereof," he called atten tion to the fact that, according to the official Army Register, one hundred and eighty officers of the regular army were allowed to resign after Fort Sumpter had been captured by the Confederates. Simon Cameron was then Secretary of War, and he received the resignation of Robert E. Lee, April 2.3, 1881; Joseph E. Johnston, April 22; James Long street, May 3d, and others less distin guished within these dates. Referring to this matter, the Washington Patriot says: If they committed treason, what is to be thought of the Secretary of War who col luded with them, and by whose official act alone their services and skill were furnish ed to the enemiesof the country? They did not issue those resignations from conceal ment, but in the light of day, and in the face of the startling events which had then taken place, delivered them here in Wash ington to the head of the War Department, whose special duty it was to protect that arm of the service against defection. If Lee and Johnston and the others who laid down their swords are guilty, then air. Cameron, who accepted them, is a double dyed traitor, for he conspired with them, and thus officially gave aid and comfort to the enemy. He kne - w of their purposes, for they were avowed, and with that knowledge ho sent them forth to make war. Had Mr. Camer on then and there arrested these chiefs, as he was solemnly bound to do, if there be any truth or sincerity in his present pro fessions,the Confederate armies never could have been organized as they were, and the calamities which befell the country might have been averted. The fact that he failed to perform that duty, authorizes the suspi cion that he was either conspiring with "treason," or that he desired to provoke the war for ulterior designs. In any event, ho stands guilty of criminal complicity with whatever offence these officers rosy have committed. If they nro traitors, he is worse than a traitor, for it was by his agen cy and his treachery that they were enabled to perfect their treason. He is the rnan to be punished If there be justice In human tri bunals, and to be Mandell with ignominy for all time, if history be fair and truth ful, Tlf E °Mend vote of Alabama by coun ties is given as follows: For Governor, Lindsay, Democratic, 77,721 ; Smith, Radical, 70,21)2; Lindsay's majority, 1,429. The majority for Moren, Demo crat, for Lieutenant Governor Is 4,777. The Radical vote is about the same as that cast for Grant, and the change arises from a handsome increase in the Democratic vote, which has risen from 71,412 to 77,721. THE CinCliinati , if (1 tenders this Presidential advice : It is to lie hoped that, during the present session of Congress, Grunt will never at any time cease to remember those words of his inaugural, in which he ostentatious ly proclaimed that, during his administra tion, he would have "no policy in oppo sition to the will or the people. - We did not consider the saying tremendously wisp when it was uttered, and yet we think it will be a good enough Idea for (;r4nt to keep in his bead during the winter," Turkeys and chickens are a drug in Lebanon. A beautiful white swan was captured near Punxsutawney, Jefferson county, on - Wednesday. A brakeman on the Penna. It. Road was killed at Brinton, Allegheny coun ty, on Wednesday. A car load of wine and brandy direct from California by the Pacific Railroad, has just arrived at Meadville. • A. Normal School will be built in Clin ton county next summer. The build ing will cost $S5,l' l ". 0. E. Shannon, Esq., or Bedford, has struck a seventy barrel oil well at Stump Island, in the Allevheny river. The first locomotive that ever did ser vice in the United States is now lying outside of a foundry at Carbondale, Lu acme county. The Reading Relief Society has com menced the regular distribution of soup to the poor. This is done three times a week. There are 632, prisoners in the Eastern Penitentiary, 10 of whom are women.— More than 50 of the inmates are sen tenced for life. A son of Simon Baird, of Sinking Valley, Huntingdon county, had his hand torn oft by a threshing machine last Wednesday. Lloyd Britton, the negro who stabbed and killed Jacob Bay, a white man, at Williamsport, on the 10th of November, was tried last week and found guilty of murder in the first degree. • Erie advertises an English hound, nearly six months old, with the front feet attached to the lower jaw, and hav ing no nostrils or teeth, or hair on its body. The editor of the Lebanon Atli, rtim r, butchered on Monday, and complains that his two hogs were not as tine as usual—only weighing 551 potunk , -4:,0 and 430 respectively. The Fnion League of Philadelphia has a library of 2,906 volumes. During the year the receipts of this league were i. 4100, 0 ,19,50 and the expenditures :7:': 1 ,- 534.35. The membership Is 1,740. While the School Directors of Somer field, Somerset County, were discussing the propriety of getting a bell for the Public School House, the voung school misses raised money by sub.;cription and had the bell put up. Mr. Jacob Gotwalt, a citizen of York, and one of the oldest carpenters in this vicinity, recently fell from a building on the outskirts of that town, receiving such severe injuries that he died on Thursday, aged about ;I•-) years. Jacob Casebeer, of Somerset township, Somerset county, boiled this season, 1,000 gallons of apple butter; made be tween 35,000 and 40,1101 gallons of cider vinegar ; sold about ndd bushels of ap ples.; and raised -lon bushels of potatoes. On Sunday evening 11ev. 11. H. Stinchileld was found lying on the pave ment at Sixth and Spruce streets, Phil adelphia. He was conveyed to the Pennsylvania Hospital, where he died in a short time. North Beaver township, l.awrence County, boasts of hall ng the youngest member of the Forty-Second ('ongress, Captain William McClelland, and the tallest member of the next Legislature, Samuel I), Clark, who Is six feet seven inches in height. Mr. Wm. Noble, of \lilllintowu,while engaged in putting a pump into a well at Duncannon, Perry county, on last Friday, slipped and fell into the well a distance of about thirty feet, and strange to say received 11,, injuries more than a sprained foot. The oldest couple of Pennsylvania, If not of the rnited States, are living about nine miles southwest ()I' Tionesta, Forest County, Mr. and Bags. Allio, aged respectively one hundred and six and one hundred and four years. Each is the other's first companion. They are natives of France. On Wednesday last, Mr. Jacob Schaf fer, of 3lohreville, Berke County, had the misfortune to pierce his lett eye ball with a nail while carpentering. He was in the act of driving a nail with a hammer, when he missed it, and the nail glancing oirstruck him in the eye as stated. Fears are entertained that he will lose his eye. Ebene:wr Henderson, of Elizabeth township, Allegh'eny County, shot him self fatally last Friday. He was seventy years of age, and held the position of elder in the Presbyterian church. A fracture of the skull, received several years before his death, is supposed to have resulted in mental aberration and led to the commission of the euicide. Ou Thursday evening last, the Sth inst., James Itubeclit, aged about twelve years, son of Jacob Rubecht, residing n Perry township near 'Windsor Cas tle,Berks county, accidentally shot him self. He had just returned home from school, went into iris father's shop and took down a gun. 'While examining the same to see whether it was loaded it was discharged, the contents lodging in his head; killing him almost in stantly. A. J. Hartzell, of Newport, Perry 'County, has been missing since thed of November. He is a heavy set num, aged about 33 years, 5 feet 4 inches in height, dprk hair and whiskers. He took a boat load of coal to Baltimore, consigned to gcc ullou g h & bon, porner of Pratt and Frenroht'Strdets, who paid • him his tolls in full, and took 'his re ceipt ; this occurred about ll o'clock, A. at., on the 22d ult. His triPOS are very much alarmed at his absence, and fears are entertained that he has been foully dealt with. Any information as to his whereabouts will be thankfully received by M. L. Hartzell, Newport, Pennsylvania, OUB BUNDLE OF „NOTHINGS No. 32.—Siuida7 Funerals "I would not die in Spring time And tee would not die on such a day of the week as to make our funeral fall on Sunday. As a general thing the body should not be buried until three full days after the spirit has left it, therefore we would not die on any day whereby the three days should terminate on Sunday.— There may be circumstances under which the thing might be unavoidable, but ordi narily, if we could have our desire, we would request not to be buried on Sunday. We indulge in no morbid sentiment of sanctity for the day, but we cannot refrain from the feeling that Sunday funerals, generally speaking, are gotten up for more effect, especially if the deceased happens to be a military character, or belongs to one or more societies, which aro in the habit of making an imposing funeral dis play. These societies, doubtless, may en tertain a profound regard for the dead, but too often, mixed np with it, is a vain exhi bition of worldly show, in which their own personal importance may be more. concerned than any special esteem that may be entertained for the departed. Sun day funerals offer extra opportunities for such displays; for it is one of the weak nesses of our fallen humanity, that we lean towards ostentation, and feel flattered w ben our love of show is largely seen by others. We aro far from regarding Sunday funerals as sinful, or even an evil, in themselves; but too often the martial strains of music, and the levities which accompany them, aro strangely in contrast with the sanctity and quiet harmony that ought to give character to the day. Sometimes the equa— nimity of a whole village, or a whole neighborhood, is disturbed by the advent of a Sunday funeral; the usual devotional hours of the people aro interrupted, and extra burdens are imposed upon the offici ating minister. Even the family of the deceased may have its mournful musings invaded, and the profitable reflections which such a sad event ought to engender, surreptitiously broken in upon, on the one band; or it may lightly regard the un toward event, and be carried away with some of that feeling of vanity which the world's notice too olten elicits on such oc casions, on thoother hand—the admonition of the death, contending with the admira tion of the living. Therefor, if,under the rule suggested above It is suitable, if it is unavoidable; or if it Is han'ilt, that a funeral should take place on Sunday, then let it be held on that day ; but do not prolong the time, (for the nacre sake of a Sunday funeral,) when it ought to take place on Saturday, nor hasten it, when it ought to be held on Monday. It is of no consequence to the dead whether the funeral is a small one or a large one, and it is a mere mockery to the living, to manifest an excessive show of esteem for ono for whom they exhibited no special regard, if they did not totally neglect, when such a regard would have been of use to him. We would not circumscri be, nor limit funeral displays, but wo would have their. in reality what they outwardly purport to be; and therefore, to our mind, a dozen sincere mourners would be far preferable to a thousand cold, formal followers to the grave. These are our personal reflections upon this subject, alter the observations of many years, but they are not intended to debar any individual from the privilege of manifesting that personal respect for the memory of a neighbor, or a citizen, to which le deems his character, whilst liv ing, hits entitled him. In this respect we would leave all men, socially and morally, in perfect freedom. Intimately associated tsvithsubject, whether the funeral Is held on Sunday or any other day, Is the question of pancheilli ty. The dead must be buried; the very fact of death has already sundered the chords between them and the living; and, therefore, if any relaxation of the rules of custom is allowable, it ought to lean to the side of the living, and nothing would be more grateful to them, or more conducive to their comfort in attending funerals, than punctuality in all their appointments.— Long, prosey services inside of the house —extended far beyond the appointed boor su treeing from excessive cold or heat which reigns outside, is a heartless cruelty, both to the Family of the deceased and to those who may be in attendance at the funeral. Therefore, punctuality in these engagements, as in all ,other , , would en sure physical comfort and a better and more lasting spiritual impression. Funer als and funeral sermons have a more direct relation to the living than to the dead, and their moral effect is confined entirely to the former. Event ministers may errone ously suppose they are in sonie manner benelitting the dead—not so. neir " die is east." (loci has permitted this casuality, and would overrule it for the moral in struction of the ficiinfl. I.lm.r.fi-V I.: \v. M coons. EDITORS :—Our attention was called to a communication in a recent num ber of the Examiner, over the slgnaturo of Reporter," concerning the spelling exer cises at the late County Teachers' Institute. We confess that that list of too hundred words was the most ridiculous idiair ever brought before a Teachers' Institute of Lancaster County, and that it proves that the one who hunted them up has no judg ment of what a fair list of words would consist of, or what would be a true test of one's ability to spell. We believe, with nearly all the teachers with whom we have spoken on the subject, and they comprise nearly all the leading teachers present at the liistitute, that the gentleman who eon: dueled that spelling exercise wished to make the impression by giving such a list of words, that he was the superior of all other teachers in spelling. In fact the re marks ho made in awarding the prizes, were calculated, ft not intrlll.l6li to convey this idea. Ile tried to make It appear that they were nearly rill but ordinary words, and found fault with the teachers for mis spelling so many, just as if they were easy to him. No doubt they wore, after having hunted them up and studied them, but we will venture the assertion that if some one else had made the selection, SI r . 7. w oloq have missed more than some of the other teachers did. We have nu apology to offer fur lain. But " Reporter" says ; "It has become quite all evil practice in our public schools to compel scholars to study - lust xg ch spell: ing lessons as were given at the Teachers' Institute, and we have no doubt that emi nently ovine I?) teachers will take the list of '2Ol jaw-breaking words thorn propounded /701//11 with them, and display their good sense and judgment by trying for the bal ance of the present school term to ' craw' thorn into the heads of their pupils." If we are not mistaken " Reporter" wits for merly a teacher himself, and prol,ably not keeping yam with the progress being made was loft behind, and must:goodly thinks that pupils are compelled to study too much, when they make more rapid pro gress than they iii in his time. We are not willing to admit, that it has bemire; u practice "to compel scholars to study just such spelling lessons." In fact we know it is not the case, unless it be tat " Report er's" district, (West Coe:Moot whichstood so long, solitary and alone in Lancaster County as non-accepting, having but two years ago accepted the public school sys tem, and from which hails the teacher that mis-spelled 46 of the first (the easiest) series of 50 words, given at the late Institute. Nor do we believe that any teacher, at least none possessing any professional abil ity or standing, will take that list of words and endeavor to ' , cram them into the ;beads of his pupils." We conversed with many of the teachers especially with a:majority of a:: that continued spelling through the four series of 50 words each, and they without any exception denounced the list of words as unfair, ar;(1 ti 9 denouncing them, it would be unjust to accuse then, of giving them to their pupils, while thO remainder of the teachers Who would not spell after the first or second series, would not be so unreasonable as to give their pupils what they themselves roftised to try. Believing that the teachers, in general, (there being exceptions of course) haye better judgment, than "Reporter" has ascribed to thorn their defOilsP has been undertaken by TEArg En. Win. Colton, charged with voluntary manslaughter in causing the death of John Bond, in New Oxford, on the rith of last August, was on last Wednesday acquitte,d •atOrettysburg, the jury ren dering a: verdict of notrguiq. Colton was constable of New Oxford toWnship, and while both he and 'Bond were un der the influence of llguor he aTtested Bond, and in the scuffle which ensued the latter dropped down apparently dead. All efforts to restore him to life The Island of Nan Domingo The New Orleans Picayune gives the fol lowing sketch of the Island of San Do mingo : The island of San Domingo is a large link in this chain, the largestof all but Cubs. It is a large domain, nearly 28,000 square miles in area, extending from the 67th meridian on the east to the 74th meridian on the west and of an average width of 140 miles. It lies oast of Cuba, and is separated from it by the Windward Passage sixty odd miles in width. It is about 130 miles east of Jamai ca, 75 miles west of Porto Rico, 350 miles north from the nearest point on the coast of South America, 600 miles east from Cape Gracios, the nearest point on the Central American coast, and about the same dis tance from the southeasternmost point of Florida. It is divided Into two sections. The west ern section is Hayti, with over ten thou sand square miles, or two-fifths of the whole island. This section is mountain ous, with rich valleys, well watered, rich, luxuriant, productive of lumber, dye woods, drugs, coffee, sugar, tobacco, cocoa, indigo and cotton, but with very few man ufactures and none for export. Twenty years ago it had a population of 572,000, and exported products valued at more than five million dollars. It is governed by the Code Napoleon, having a Roman Catholic population, under the supervision of a Vicar General, with au army of 30,001 men, and over 90,000 pumls in 025 schools. It has six principal towns, Porte•au-Prince with 10,000 inhabitants, Cape It aytien With 0000, Jaemel 6000, Gonitives 4000, Cayes and St. Nicholas. In 10.11 Hayti exported 1,200,000 Ins. of cotton, 43,000,000 Ihs. of coffee, with drugs, dyes and timber. It imported every year liweign wares and products to the ag gregate value of three millions, consisting mainly of liri ash manufactures, French Sr hies, lumber, naval stores and provisions front the American States, in value from three to live millions. Santo Domingo or the Domiuican Re public occupies three-tifths of the island on the east, nearly 10,100) square miles, with a population (I 855) of 136,500, or nearly eight to eat:h square mile. Nine-tenths of these inhabitants are either pure Africans or of African descent, (Sr mixed white and A rri ram The whites are chiefly Spanish or Spanish trestles. The Republivan section of the island is divided into live provinces. The main towns are Santo Domingo, with 10,000 inhabitants; A zata, ItlOo; Seyba,2luo ; Santiago, 7000; San Vega, :Polo. Santo Do mingo is the chief plate, capitalllllll harbor. It is the most important seaport, but not an efficient harbor for vesselsofthe larger class; a city noted as the Iliall.detlWllll O.IIIIIOMM for a long period, and for its visitations of earthquakes, and no less for the bombard ment all)" British Admiral Drake, nearly three hundred years ago. It is a singular old city, Where even the wealthy people have much trouble to realize metropolitan comfitrts. Th.. 105151 inicans hays' tine for ests of mahogany, Brazil WOOll, rustic, lig uum 'apart vastquan lilies of ornamental wood and dye-woods, with a considerable amount of tobacco, hides, fruit:, and I . IIIIIIIT textile fabrics. They import a considerable quantity of American flour and meats, and much gen eral merchatutise from Europe. Twenty years ago their annual commerce amount ed to nearly three millions of dollars. Their government is nominally republi can. They harp all army of tirt,en nr 11V011- ty thousand men, and a nominal navy M . tour, live, or six vessels, The religion of the country iv inanity Roman Catholic. Education iv seriously neglected. Interim' difficulties and wars with the near Ilaytiens have measurably 'rippled their resources. 'raking the whole ishuul together, their productions aro in meagre proportion with their numbers and their great productive advantages. Napoleon 111. and President t. rant are famous saving as nearly as possible the saute thing. The Conner said, twenty yearn ago, ' /•://lriPi 1.1 anti loelliWith phlnged into the t ;Human war, the Cochin China war, the Chinese war, the Italian war, the Mexican war, and last, the Pugh vertainly not least, the Prussian war. I leneral rani, on accepting the Presidency, said "Let hare 1,011 T ," and has kept just RI 04,11 t faithlully the implied promise of au pensive peace estahlisliMent such as ex isted beim° the tear. M'e have before us the expenditures tier the War Drpllflllent, (luring live years of itetual peaty under a Democratie government, and the famous yoar “Let a., heir,- /woe,' expenditure under (:orient! Grant. here they aro Alt 19,1:01,774 In (la 'Total in live year,: the 3Vl'Mpi pupulatiun during the :Wove live yea, to have been 35,000,- 000, the annual must per capita for the war would have heun a f7alqi()ll ICON than :30 ,sellt.S. During tile year of grace 157 0, under the "Let ao liar, peer," the expenditure for the War Urpurlmcut Wits $.)7,655,67. - ,.10, which, divided by the pros cud 'emulation of o,ood,oun, gives its an nual cost per capita of over $l.-li. We certainly have not been at war dar ing the year, though we have Iteeidniassa cring a few Indians and (Di:dieting the rest. The chief service of the military during the year lots been 10 !introit from one Radical Sillither, rill In refuse to march on the tsillstitlitielhil ap peal of a loyal governor W protect his :State from donwstie violence. trout Brit ain, with a population in her island 1101110 of thirty-one uuillion., and a population in her colonies of at bust thirty million more, expended in ISUs, for the army I7s. I d., or in dollars about $77,0011,- 000; which, if divided among the 61,1in0,0u0 who received military benefit therefrom, is a fraction overBl.'2.n pereapitaannuallyonly or IS cents less per capita than under our highly favored "/,et hurt art nonharation of ri republic. This is both wasteful extravagance and it costly subver sion of the civil to the military power. The sting of it is that the people pay in taxes for the privilege of bring dragooned mit of their rights.-V. I. W•d•bt. The importers of salt have Sc lit 0 memo rial to the Ways and Aleaus L'onouiltee giving a ntateinent or t he I.lerventage of duty On the save to the invoice cost of :1 tow car goes imported during the present year. They say that they "present a liberal aver age sample of the present duty on salt at 1 , ~rits per one hundred pounds in bulk :nit eonts pounds 111 Sal•h.. The freight will average shillings per ton, ur 19. - . per cent. of rust. This protects the (mondaga Salt l'unieuly, who are ;Wont the only parties benefited Ily the present really exorhitant rates, about.; per cent. of the value of the articles prepared by them for sale. The very high rate of duty not only affects lh , importtT l.ttt af fects on A inerh , an inalioraetVei'M 6r salt, who aro ground into obscurity by the positions of the fitvored and wealthy o Mon daga monopoly, and the consumer, who meets all the OXIWIISe of a monopoly striv ing to absorb the entire salt trade of the country. The burden in too heavy to [mar in times of 10•41., and prosperity. NVe there fore, earnestly, on behalf of the millions to be benefited thereby, call for a reduction of the tariff (In imported salt to the following rates, viz: salt in bulk, t 1 cents per 1 , 0 11;s, ; In sacks, 1 cents per 1(10 lbs. Illogol Toting of WnM hlugloulnn~ In Mary' , Tho Washington J'irtiot may 4 ': AL , is well known, every snort was ovule by line ltepliblicans of this city to de feat .Nlorrick fur Congress in the fifth Congressional District of lUarylunil. Num bers of those, white and colored, who have been accustomed to hold forth in tllO 11.0- I til 1,111.11 warn6minelings in this cif v, weld out weekly to pnlnelcinsletpj anti other places, and attempted to get up a show of enthusiasm for the Republican cause by hawking around Chinese lanterns and howling out denunciations of the Demo cratic party. hush this, a large number of colored men, wino !wry at the last municipal election, were imported as voters in thin various precints of Prince (ieorge's county. 'fine grand jury of said county have found true Mile against about fifty of those Imported citizens, and on Tuesday last lour were caught at liladenslairg, by virtue of bench warrants issued under the indictment, and are now in Jail at Nlarl \Varrants are in the hands of the of lieers of Prince I:rni-go'. for the arrest of the whole batch, and from indications they will be punished to the full extent of thin law, if caught and von Vieted." A Negro Buried Alive In Pif!tsiuFmn. A strange story was lately told a coroner of Pittsburgh by a colored woman calling herself Mrs. Thornton. She said that her husband had Leen subject to "trances," during which ho remained apparently life less l'or several days, lint then recovered. Hu laid been in this condition several times since she married /UM, tWoitn , l a half years ago, and again fell into it last Monday. morning. She seas tout Lie to waken him and sent fur physicians, tint they refused to come because she had no 1110111 T to give them. In the meantime some friiimis noti fied the health officers that there MIS a dead tnan, in her house, and these intim to bury him: She, explained her condition and pointed theta; to prep( of her assertion, to the tact that his body wai. moil:A.l4nd warm. Still they insisted that the Man Was dOad; She was removed to the house of a neighbor, and while she was there her husband was taken away and burled. She told the coro tier that several of her neighbors could tes dry to the fact that after the holy was laid out and pliweil in its coffin, it was yet warn and Theist, 'and she .misted on having It taken from the grave and examined. It the woman is not crazy the health authorities have acted in a culpably precipitate way. Plllll 110 W. The ini.i-Jog o.cetprnept in the vicinity of Alexandria, y 4., is in uu wise abated. A letter says, a dog belonging to Mrs. Markham, living at Fairfax Station,. was discoVered to bo mad' last week, and was killed ! Ho had been bitting a'ealf of Mrs. Miirkhaufs, s. dog of Mr. ll opk ins', a val uable horse belonging to Itr. Bichard Burke, and a cat in the house ofSI r. Mitchel. All the animate so bitten have since died, the cat havingpreviouslyattacked and bitten and scratched a little sou of Mr. Mitchell. The buy 0u not yet been seized with the 'milady. The horse was taken to Aldie fur the foolish errand of the application of a mad stone in posSesslon of wwcfmart there but it would not adhere to the Wound. The excitement in regard to the matter in Fairfax is at a great height, and there is a general outelaught on all the dogs there abouts. Affairs In the Coal Region/1 Tho following letter to the Now York Tribune contains matter that will bo found Interesting. It gives a clear account of the disturbed condition of affairs In the i nthra cite coal regions of this State at the present time: WILKES-BARRE, Dec. question whether a general suspension of mining operations will be ordered by the (;nand Council of the Miners' Union still continues to be an absorbing theme Mr capitalists and laborers in these parts. The effect of the strike of the companies' wen has been an advance of :about a dollar a ton in the wholesale prices of coal in New York, which makes the operators here, who are still working, rather anxious to go on as the business is now profitable. The dis trict Unions of the miners hero have been voting on the question of suspension, and the majorities have been ❑t floor of stop ping. llut the time and place of the fleet ing of the (trawl Council are as muell mystery as ever, The tibJect of the MaSponsion, if it is re solved on, 11.4 now seems probable, will be, in,lain terms to advance the price All ' the miners who are now working re ceive wages which would be increased by a rise. The basis here is $3 a ton at wi e .l,- sale in New York. For several months they have been receiving the minimum ..r basis wages, anti even the above men non ed advance of $1 in coal brings the price little, if at all, above the basis. The wages are increased 12', per cent for each rise ( $1 above the basis pri or per ton. 11 . tllll rises cents wages are advanced six pot cent. 'rho calculation of the miners is tint' a suspension of work for live or six weeks would clear Mr a good share of the surpltt... now in the markers, ad Vance prices a dol. bar or so above the basis, and make busi ness brisk for some months atter the te surupti..n. It way be in justitioation of the . ., liroposeil Lenin, tliat atanit half the vollier les in the Schuylkill region 11:tvo alrend sloppy,' tar lack col' business, and that 11.11 i the miners there are consequently meant out of einph)yment. Sow, if all work Is snippet' for a 11101111 or two, when mining is resume,' there trill 1,0 It W . 111:11111 for tle , services of the entire fraternity, as well a a considerable advance ill It Itgo • • 11 , I 1... t 11111 t y, w hero the hasls and minimum of wages :ire much lower than they al here. If there Is a general suspend.,.of mining . operations on the Ist. ul •1.1.1- nary the reasons slat.' stillbe Ihr••• • ion of it, and 100 2111 y hetsveen the ilitrerent 1.1 lighi the gr. at companies who halo 11111 . 1111 , 111 010 1,41 II ct it .11, a1it)1 , ,,•.i , i. , 111 4 t the pi strike. The till tiers' II Illo,114“1 1,1-. counties are, at I,seill, like ..i nl. my ropean State.. The (troll eminaittli•s hot ,• at least eileeted this much. The .1111.,..111 section:: Illay 11111 k, treaties and 'nlleulrr ~ and 111.1)• carry MI war together, 1.111 the. have yet ill 1 , 0111,•( (hat vhssor II 1114.11 t , 111,1 010 t•Mli 111011 110 . 011.0 and ‘‘,l 414 , 111 Ito rwluire. II I 111. all lelj.:1:1•Ii snsponsiou is carried Mit anti i.tsl, 11 111,11'1, itwllldotuuralu unltt. iht. tlillerent at) strengthen their coil fed , r.teV 11 b., Continental Congress is flow anything ,in their lire, 101, 111 , 1..1 Th. , y have never yet :let,' In coneert 'MI S ti L; "bj ee t l i w ,; 1,11111 ' tt1111,1;, 1 tht. is I`VlTli.thittil nit the 41 . 111.1110 its projoctors, i, to re,,aihtte th, supply of rout, and, to• regulating thus, t.t regulate the market prices and the rate wages, llvvr-prduction is cettonly it 11, bottom of 1111tal. of the l'itt•ctllt iiilhrnlle 4 lit the lit/itt yogitlllst. There are alretttl v nitaes and ly through the Vltitr, to turn out ••••lit. 'rho Selittyl k ill I 'kV to 1 . 4 ri 1 . ,1.1 low i,rlees, !tax, not here worked this meat up to ball their t•Illiill'lly, tottoths tho markets have mining lilts been a toning lat , iness. The consumption of anthracite coal tor the cur rent vcctr will not ext•t.,l 1.•,00nooti yet-tiut wines nod I to furnish front 20,it00,00n to 2. - t,1100,11110 Ettit, .1 . 110 ttlllitlill 111,0,1,1, in Olt` t•ttli.lllllitilttil 11111Ittt now ht. place, I higher than I,ttott,ttoti tons, so that the disproportion lads Luc it. continuo Fit!' 401110 years, The eau:icily of n tm,:11I1111‘., 1144itir,t1 thatiJl 1110 breill,rcprcill,ll - TiliN IS :4 largo awl very es p,•usnr of 11111011illery. 511.8111,811,1 furnishing einpliiyinclit ton groat nitiohr of men and boys. fiti4ng,ll eoal miff, g, t from the winos bola a' to no, in., chine running. Thooperator r.oolol in rronsu or llitlinish Itt Will the prodoclioll of the mine, or the number 1f ,11111..,, I.llllllop, lto i 4 praoticidly very loirro‘V limits by the power hot breaker. NVliim coal Calls belo,v prices the operators have ini alternatu lint to leduce wages or 1..111•111.1111 work entirely. Tin , niliier, barn heel/111e perfectly ;mart. or the neia,sity of keeping the supply !thin ro numerative limits. They study the moo lint reports as closely IN they do their employ ers. They trill invariably tell yon that they' prefer to work onlv 111011(10, mit mf tavelve, rather than %,.ork t‘vels o . inontlis for nine months' wages. It is, then, one the chief ohjects of their Dolan to ilIallt.:11r• ate it system olgeneral,mspensions thiriugh out all the coal region,, tor the espies, purpose of keeping the price of ,•sal ;it paying point. .k !though there is ❑ t„trett deal 10 be sail against this policy, also something to he tirgtal in its ravor. It " , 1 1 t , L. than the that too many are already engaged in the business, the difficulty is not likely to be remedied by maintaining reigns :mil pro tits at so high, a rate that. still more capital and labor trill be tempted to eiiikarli in it. Supposing the ii rand Comm] of li. Miners' I to be emnplotely successlid in its efforts to 1 • 1Introl the mai 1,01 :mil maintain wagon, coal mining would Ilea I ecome an employment which tilleieq higher wages and nor, i.,•riaiii 'won! , than any other. of roil romid 1.0 la altalll 'OW I.tt.l.ttter potential magnitude than is at 'pres ent the case. t Itt gthe other hand, a vl.l le,v general suspensions I.r mild :1111111 l•1/11- yllitte Ltle miners that they were taking too lunch of ow Inad "n their own shoulders. 'They would have to ...111, ender to 1110 laws Or 110111,1111 1.1111 m111.1.1y. They W'.llllll !Wither 1/.. :11111. Ili Inc vent the competition of laborers Iron, having its natural ellect, clot . .....1,111 they keep tip the price of coal in the face of ill, constantly inereasing tendency of the slip. ply to go ahead M . the 110111:L11.1 ; 110,1111 g that they should la, temporarily sin.- cosl,llll, eumld they prevent lensli capital from embarking in the 1111MilleSs. NI.IIIO .O,LI nor any other article will long be pi o -111.11,1 :Li tt lons, lint uolhiug lilt 1111 1,11,0.11110 1111111.opoly 0.111111 ray high I.t age+, inal,t , large profits, and at the SalllC 1.11111. restart prialuction. if that LIII. during their periods olgoneral 511111.11,0.11, ,Vl/11111 110 earning nothing, and that nuc advance which might by these sacrl tce. be occasioned in,the 'wive 111 0.110, SV.Otl.l 110.1 t illlllll.llitltttly on their f.l the cowl paion norms pretty c tear That they %meld not suspend except WI 1/0...0.1./lIS it pressing urgency. 'Milers have not attempted, I be lieve, to limit the number mho Irlluns their calling. 'Thep ill, limit, lions ever, the num ber of ears which make a day's If sklllthl and industrious 111011 W,04 hilt 10 striated hl this Nvity, nod norm 11.111,V0il ( . 1111110y ttvu lallortits 110.1011 d 4ir 01111, hu could cut double his present quantity of coal. All accounts agree that the limier Masi not usually perform morn, than front three to six hours iir steady 11110/r. lie gm, down in, the shaft between S end 9 and come,. up between 2 std It. re strictions, however discouraging they linty be to skill and industry, are irony estai. lisheil throughout this region, as well ill 1111, 111111E01 of great collipalllllll4 in the others. They are also•open to the ehjection Mitt they increase the cu t Or lin/4110 . 1011 , - mlll whatever imireanes the cost 01 oral in, ereases W solllu extent the cost of almost. everything that is bought inn! IL i IIOLL IIIII /. o V l, l loll Llio Aline'', I.lin ile however powerful it linty become, sviil it impossible to maintain high L, :igen and enable thin operators to make large 1,01,14, 10111111 the ellllll, dine restrict production, beeituse stud) n condition of things would be sure to attract fresh lalsir and istiMal it.,• to the buninens. fiat how meld it lieshould the great comanien succeed in, obtaining a monopoly of t his whole northern coal Mild? —and they are not tar Irian it at thin nee went. agent informed 1110 11101111V,111 the 1.0i(11 , 11111,110)' , 1,1 . tins, 1.0:1:1%Vitr1 1 , 1. 1 1e4,1• Wll.llllll, Weideril C.:01,01,00y to pay bet ter wages than the saute labor would eonimatid under siiiiihtr circtitinitaiices elsewhere, The policy of every com pany, 10.1 will 101 Of every individual engaged in, buslitess, is to make the largest prolitm it 1 . 1111. lions . otherwise could both these be done than by ri,trieting pro tinetioll And tilts 11 000101,01 y ore.nu bind • tion mottotailion L1M0.... du. AL pr e. 'lr tine compimiem are ileyeroping thloir Moil nens with amazing energy. I 011 . 111011101 t 111 my last. letter that breakers had linen erected and new shafts sunk nettL.oeit her, and :•ieraatoti sonjehmt to add t . molll 1,500,- One to 2.ooo,llentonn annually to the present supply. Smite estin.itteo place the 11110111 Ma even higher. This, taken in, connection with the capacity of the wonting mines to over-supply the Markel,. 311 1 /ws that the eOIIIIIIIII.IM are looking to the future 111 , 111.1 11111/1 to 100 present. 'rho U . 1„ and IN, Company, since they at.quired the :\lurrln and Essex Instil, have been engaged In making inn IfiellSe improvements in that reed, sluirtening 111likr0 1 ..111g grades, and providing in other whys 14, make it 'Nei expensive to carry their coal to New York. 'they are at., their leased road between here and Sorithil ton, laying an itilditional track anal putting down new iron. nights portend, Mr the immediate future, it not for 101 time, cheap coal. Alt art crude In' the New furnishes a Short Sketch of Itothttriliers great work, ' , Pie Battle or Gettyslitirg'," lii which the figures of several generals occur, but "nary" Geary. IL is well known that the present Governor of Pennsylvania, whoop lep tire filled with lead (and some if, his head) was a Itrigadier upon diet Kuwaiti and was the most conspicuous character, during the fiercest of the conflict. Ile was, as Ito dashed around the sturimit of II on in magnificent black charger, tbp admiratioit or the Vttion, as he oeyftpfp : ly the dread uf the Retail army. 1.1 o report, himself as having saved Me day, afar par : riled the stars and stripes triumphant user that bloody field, and not. to appear in Ruthermel's picture, which is to hang u?, der his eyes iu the Capitol, is an insult to the State. We hope the Legislature will promptly take action in the matter, and if there finite room for Geary, it would tie well to paint out the face of General IlancociP, who is a central figure, and substitute that of Geary, whose gallantry is only exceeded by his modesty.—Pittsburg/ Post
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