Lancaster jutelligmcer. WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 25 1871 The Bloody Shirt Again Within a year past every one of the so-called Southern Governors has de clared that peace and quiet reigned throughout his dominions. The people f the North have heard these announce ments with profound pleasure. The more timid and credulous among the Radicals have been greatly relieved by the assurance that those terrible and ghastly riders, the mysterious and un known members of the mythical Ku- Klux-Klan, no longer raided It through the swamps and forests of the South at that dread hour of night when churchyards yawn. Republican news papers congratulated their readers upon the pleasing change, and portrayed in glowing colors the glories of yrecon struction policy which had produced such splendid results. We were inform ed that the military would no longer be needed in the Scuth, and there was seri ous talk about a very decided reduction In the army. Every thing was lovely, and everybody was about ready to em brace-and to forget the past. Talk of a general amnesty, by which all vestiges of disfranchisement we're to be wiped out, was universal and hail grown to be popular with the masses of the Repub lican party. The era of good feeling be tween the two sections of our coot inon country seemed about to dawn, and the shadows of a long and dreary night of war and dissolution were being rapidly swept from the horizon over %Odell they had hung like a pall. During this peaceful state of affairs elections took place in a number or Southern States. They were quiet and orderly, except when eullisims were ' provoked by the unwarranted acts of federal soldiery, or by the brutal con duct of gangs of cut-throat militia, such as those which Holden mustered in North Carolina. In laid, the quietude and good order which prevailed, at these elections was very remarkable— Po Much so that the carpet-buggers and scallawags who were defeated had not the audacity, at first, to raise their ens• tonuary cries of fraud and violence. It was not Until Con cress reassembled. and it became perfeetly apparent that I ;rant wou , d be overwhelmingly de feated in 15... '', if the people of the S o uth . were permitted to cast a free ballot, that the bloody shirt was again raised. After Congress assembled, those Most interested hi the re•eleV11011 of I ;rant Ceviewed the situation amid became con inced that all would be lost unless simile eX,II4e meld be devised for sub jecting the South to military rule again. NVith the evidences of renewed strength in the `Yu rliwrn States, which had been exhibited by the 1/M01'411111.1,1111y, li, easy triumph In 1472, with a free ballot throughout the country, was admitted do be certain. I low to niect and avert this danger Was the problem to be solved by the hill -id leaders, .\ fler circling about them In all dlreetiOns, they con cluded that a resort to military force was their only hope. So rumors of violence in the South were Industriously eircula ted, and at length it seas authoritatively announced that tin President was Snout to send a message to Congress In which would be trillistilitted tuppti/litH or the most terrible disorders which were said bi prevail throughout the Southern States, This plan seemed to I,e open to sermons objections, and the more discreet friends of the President advised a mod I IleaLlon—so a den lid that, timid. ever contemplated the transmission of such a message was fil tered through the Assoelated Press / !tunnels, and Instead of a nies! , age a mass of old reports, including all the old calumnies upon the Southern peo ple, which had imeumulated in a!perind of three years was transmitted to Con gress. ThiS litter 11111111 dnriev in 110 he Wall the iItISiS I OI . IIIII . NV I'o_ol , ll°4 soldiery of the United Statc:i are to b employed as electioneering agent, throughout the South in the next l'resi dential campaign, and they are expected to manipulate the [tidbits so its to insure ---<eturn of Illie poll ill favor of I irant. If neeil be the governments of the Ql'll Slates will be superseded again and the old play of ~,,nstruvtion re. enacted over again. It is fitting that Senator ;Morton should be the recogniz- eil leader in this new revolutionary movement. In a body eaten Ilya loath some disease he carries a mind that, is meanly malignant. Ile cares nothing for luu• and is ready to ride rough-shod over every constitutional barrier that stands in the way of his wishes. Ile is IL proper lieutenant to execute the orders of his stolid chieftain. Rut Urant and Morton will find their schemes all frus trated by the people. The masses of the North will only laugh when they see the bloody shirt displayed again. The Hoard of Public Charities General Thomas L. Kane hits made a report to the Legislature over his of ficial signature as President of the Board of Public Charities; and the report which he makes is not in the usual spirit of nuelriloeinnents. Ile does not attempt to magnify his office, and en tirely refrains from laudation of his as sociates. Ile exhibits a blunt honesty that might he expected from a man of his decided and Independent character. After an experience of one year he has heroine convinced that, the board is practically a useless body, and he recom mends that it he abolished. General Kane thinks the work assigned to cer tain prominent citizens, NVollid lit done mueh better by men regularly eau ployed and paid for their services. Ile warns the Legislature that little reliance can be placed In the forthcoming report of Hon. Wilmer Worthington, the I hm oral Agent and tiveretary of the Board, who received a salary of $3,000 a year, and managed to pick up a few hundred extra &Alarm for travelling expenses, stir. The report of General limit, Is not com plimentary to the Board, but his re nuukx suggestions will have much weight with the public, and ought to command the respectful attention of the Legislature. In honor and Integrity Gen. Kane stands above the reach of hostile.or malignant criticism. Death of George W. L. ,Johnson George W. L. Johnson, a well known Journalist, of Philadelphia, died at his residence W that city yesterday morn ing from the ellbets of a fall rvcelved Aeverfil weeks ago. Mr. Johnson dis played decided tact in organizing news paper en terpdzes, was an mile news edi tor and a racy correspondent. In 1848 he established a daily paper in Phila delphia cadet' the Truc Sun, which was quite successful for several years. He was one of the founders of the A'un day Trunlieript, and afterwards one of the proprietors of the A'unday Mercury. Latterly he acted as the I larrisburg and Cape May correspondent of a number of Philadelphia newspapers, and made a multitude of-acquaintances in that capacity, all of whom will be pained to hear of his death. He was a genial companion and a true friend. His death will be deeply lamented. An Abandoned Contest The Amistrong S'entinel i n forum us that Steele, the Radical who entered a con test for the seat occupied by Mr. Put ney, Democrat, in the House, has con cluded to back out. The committee drawn was composed exclusively of Re publicans, but it seems that the Radicals of Armstrong County are not willing to . have the election returns from that .county' canvassed. They fear that an ugly record would ,be made, and have prevailed .upon Steele to, abandon the contest. The Sentinel- insists that an examination would hate shown Radi cal frauds which wryld, have increased the .majority of the Democratic metn ben THE LANCASTER WEEKLY INTELLIGENCER, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 25, 1871. The Failure of Negro Suffrage Confessed. In order to test the fitness of the negro for the exercise of the elective franbtilse, the Radical majority in "Congress made haste to confer the right of suffrage upon the Africans of the District of Co lumbia. As that territory hi subjected to the exclusive legislative control of Congress by an express provision of the Constitution of the United States, there seemed to be no restriction which could be applied to prevent such action. The different amendments to the Constitu tion were not needed to enable Congress to experiment in the District. A decent respect for the property-holders and the white citizens of Washington, and the surrounding sections, might have influ enced the action of men less fanatical, but could not be expected to control the revolutionists of the Radical party. So negro suffrage was made the rule in the District of Columbia, and.has had a fair trial under the supervision of the very men who devised the scheme. The result has been just what Democratic members of Congress predicted it would be. Two or three municipal elections have been held in Washington, all of which have been largely controlled by the horde of negroes who lounge in idle ness about the Federal Capital. The system has been fairly tested, and the judgment of Congress upon negro voting in the District of Columbia was rendered last Friday, when the Lower House voted to take away from the people the right of electing municipal officers. Hereafter there are to be no popular elections in the District of Columbia. The law which was passed provides that the President, with the advice anti consent of the t7 , •enate, shall appoint a Governor, a Superior Council of eleven members,and a Lower House of twenty- two members, together with a Secretary and other minor officials, all of whom are to hold the offices for four years, un less sooner removed. Of course each newly-elected President will appoint his peN.onal and political friends to rule over the people of Washington. This is a complete abandonment of the Representative system of Gin-em inent established by the fathers of the Republic. The evils introduced into the municipal government of Washing but, In consequence of the enfranchise ment era multitude of ignorant negroes, necessitated some change. A complete remedy could have hit.l.ll found In a law depriving the Africans of the right of suffrage, and restricting It to the white' population ; but that would have been too plain a confession 44 the fully of the Radicals, and too complete a reversal of the system they have Inaugurated throughout the country by the fraudu lent endorsement and the enforced ap plication of the Neel' th A awn (linen t. It is a 'natter of wonder that enough Radicals in the Lower House of Con gress were found ready to make the ad mission that negro suffrage Is a failure. , The white people of the Dlstriet have liven so completely disgusted by negro rule that they will gladly acquiesce in title act of Congress. They are perfectly willing to abandon the right of suf frage, In order to get rid of the base and mercenary demagogues who have man aged to obtain power through the !Lida negro votes. Thu property-holders ex pect to be protected front extortion un der an appointed government, and they deem such protection to be worth more than the privilege of heing beaten at the polls by a horde of ignorant Meeks and gangs of northern ,'forks and other tem porary residents, lint,what we desire hi impress upon the minds of all our readers Is the fact that the Radicals have been forced to abaft don negro suffrage In the District of Columbia, where It was first applied. It has worked so disastrously there how can it be desirable and proper else• where '."Phat is a question which Rad ical politicians must answer, an inquiry which they can not evade. The truth is that the negroes are with very few ex ceptions, everywhere utterly unlit to exercise the elective franchise; and the Radicals in Congress have been tiompel led to admit that a gross blunder was committed when the ballot was entrust ed to black hands. A way of escape has been discovered for the people of the. District of Colum bia, but how shall the States he re lieved? It would nut do to give the up pointment of Governors, legislators urn all other °niers, including members o Congress, to the President. The prob. lent is one which Joust be solved one o these lays. How it is to be worked nut renntins to be seen lion. JOllll illekrnall. t was rurnnreit in Harrisburg, on the irniug that Hon. John Cooncle died, that John Hickman Wits also a sudden victim to the "grim monster." Ile is one of the lucky MIPS to live to read his own obituary notive. Papersin the interior are still di lating upon his loss to community.- 71eMer Jedrenion fan. Some good things can be said of John llicktuan. Ills lust appearance in poli tical life was as a member of the Legis lature three years ago. He made quite a figure on the floor of the House by vigorously a,salling various improper measures which were proposed and put through .by the party which elected Among other Iniquities, he bit terly assailed the infamous " calamity act," which sets a meagre price upon the life and limbs of the people. When the bill was finally passed Mr. Hick man exclaimed, " I thank God that we have a (lovernor who can never he in- (Weed to append his signature to to out rageous a Jaw.!' It so happened that his confidence In f fovernor lieary was misplaced. Instead of vetoing the act Geary signed It. When the bill was returned to the I rouse; with the tiov crnot•'s signature alltiched, John I lick now picked up hie lint nod etallied out of the hall In a 11l a nerve indignation, vowing never to return. lie kept lilt word, find liy No doing lie ,Thowed lilt deteetation or the corrupt memo+ by which gigantic co:)01'10.1one manage to 14(!elll'e wry hind Or leglelatlon they way desire. When Julie Hickman ehull die, and we hope the tlnic may be far distant, lei thin net of lilt life be still kept in remembrance. r. Chairman of the Executive Coin mittee or the Republican State Central Committee has called thu Convention to nominate candidates for Auditor nod Surveyor General, to be voted for next October, to Intel at litirrisburg, on the Milt of March. The Democratic Stale Convention will be held some time between the 10th of March end the second Tuesday In May. The probabilities are that Its meeting will be deferred until after the adjourn ment of the Legislature, as It Is likelya wCI be pursed calling a Conkltu don't' Convention, some of the dele gates to which will he elected at large. The election of next full will be invent ed with considerable importance, in consequence of the fact that It will have considerable influence upon the Presi dential election one year after. 'Pitt: loug-pending quarrel between the line and stair of the navy has been brought to an end, so far as the House is concerned, by the passage of a bill, matured more than a year ago by the Naval Committee, which gives the stair of the navy a positive rank by law, and takes the question wholly out of the hands of the Secretary of the Navy.— The bill will probably pass the Senate. THE Senate nas passed a bill with hardly any debate, which increases the payments of all classes of invalid pen sions twenty per cent. which will neces sitate an increased annual expenditure of about five millions of dollars, or twenty-five millions for the five years to'which it is limited. The bill Is yet to pass the House. THE Ways and Means Committee of Congress has agreed to report a bill re pealing the Income Tax. With its abo. lition p , great reduction can be made In the army of officeholders. Off with their costly and useless heads I "Denials and natements." The Executors of Thaddeus Stevens have at length issued a pronunciamento —though not abOve their signatures—in which they make certain " denials and statements" in relation to the delay In filing the Stevens' Inventory. We are glad that these gentlemen have at length waked up to the necessity which existed for their excusing to the public their extraordinary conduct. It would have been far better for them if they had long since descended from the high horse which they mounted at the out set of their career, when they conceived it to be gross Impertinence In any one to question them concerning their stew ardship. We believe that the lesson they have had, will not be lost upon them, and that hereafter when the pub lic sentiment, which is always accurate ly reflected by the INTELLIGFINcEIt, calls upon them for information, they will hasten to obey its lightest whisper. We give them herewith, the benefit of the material portions of their explana tion. They say : The inventory of 11 r.Stovens'personal es tate was taken immediately after his death, RS perfectly as it could then be done, by two disinterested Find highly respectable citi zens of this city. It could not then be per fected, because of a claim of ownership, which was at once wads by another and distant party, upon certain of the personalty and because of the delay of another party entitled under the will to make the selec tion of property therein authorized. That explanation, however, -does not correspond very closely with their affi davit In the inventory, that all ap praisment, including oil of the present one, except what relates to the property at the furnace, was taken in August, 156 ti." Nothing is here said of the "delays" and "claims of ownership" interfering with the appraisment. The executors further say: Not one Union Paddle Railroad bond. nor a dollar of its stock, to or has been among Mr. Stevens' assets. Not one bond of any description is or Ims been among them, except twenty-four $lOOO bonds ob tained by him through a transaction in Lucerne county mat lands. Not the least interest in the Northern Paeitiv Railroad was found among line assets, nor have his executers sold anything, at any price to Hiram Walbridge, And his whole personal estate did not exceed e•40,00e, or about enough to pay his just debts and legacies, but not nearly enough to pay them land the unjust debts claimed and rumored to he claimed from him, should the latter be recovered. I f the Executors had said long ago that no Pacific Italirmul securities " are or have been " tinning Air. Stevens' tin sels, people generally Ivoulll have tic ! ileved them ; and NVe are not indisposed I to do so even at thin late day, should they nay no in clear terms above their slgna• toren ; but this they have not yet done In their Inventory or elsewhere. In their present statement their nuthi ob ject. 01.1.1111 to In 10 crontr [ill' Imprusnlon dint 111.(.11 Presentdouble 11ythe "copperliend " enemies of Thaddeus Stevens' shout they charge, In high sounding phrases %%Atli a conspiracy to blacken 11114 reputa tion and steal the property of his Estate. Inasmuch its the authorities and the counsel of the city and or the emit, ty, who Instituted the all proceedinps against the I . :Xeelltqrs are Well 11110W11 Lo 11aVe eel' the political friends of Stevens, this notoriously false state ment Dr ilip Ex..vutorN will not have a tendency to strengthen public confi dence in the truth of the other " stitte -11100 ts 1111 denials " Wllleli theytnalcoof facts particularly 111111111 their own It nowledge. The INyri,Liw.xt Lit has t:iven the full weight. of Its inthience to unveil " the NV/Iym 111111 are (Calk 111111 trlelcs that are vain" of these Executors, because It has lAt that It 11114 a 11111'11 I shame that men a 114, .11110111 be purmittld for 110e1 two to deliberately violate the law and disregard the oath, through 14111011 they untere.l into the custody of this Estate, and for ‘vlticli It believed that their desire to shield the memory of their bellefacitir, Air. Stevens, ittliirded itu adeqUate excise. It in by no means true that we were animated by a feeling of hostility to .Mr. Stevens, and a desire to Idacl:en Ills reputation. Ile Intsgone to the great Judge of us all; and his friends, if they were wise, would be exceedingly careful not Tel provoke con tinued discussion of hi. titoral chiumc rer " here beloNv." Pensions for tlic Soldiers or 1511 For many years past multitude; of petitions have been presented to Con gress front all parts of the country, ask ing the passage of a general pension act for the soldiers and sailors of the war of 1812. I it recently the Senate seem ed indisposed to recognise these veter ans as having any claim upon the coun try. Those interested will he pleased to learn that the Senate Conunittee on Pensions has at last reported favorably the House till, granting pensions to the survivors of 1812, and to the widows and orphans of the deceased sohlis and sailors who served in that war three months. It is the purpose of the COM wittee to call tip the bill in a few days, when it will no doubt he passed and be come a law. There are few of the soldiers of 1412 now living. Most of them have passed away without receiving a dollar in the shape of pension from the gov ernment they defended so bravely, and there are comparatively few widows and orphans left in a situation to claim the tardily proffered bounty. 1 t will, however, help to make the last days of the survivors more comfortable, and will show that they are not entirely for gotten by the government they served so faithfully. No one will object to the appropriation of the money needed to pension the heroes of 1812 and their few survi curs. The Contested Judgeshlp. A committee has been drawn in Joint convention of the two Houses of the Legislature to decide whether James Lynde or Thomas W. Price was duly elected Associate Judge of the District Court of Philadelphia. The allegation in that Mr. Lynde was " counted In," and it is believed that the charge will be abundantly made good. The com mittee drawn Is composed entirely of Republicans, by some singular fatality not a single Democrat out of the Senate or the House being chosen. This Re publican committee will have an oppor tunity afforded for the display of im partiality and integrity. We are not sure that it is well that Judges should be chosen by a popular election. The office Is one which ought to be removed beyond the sphere of partisan polities. The question whether It would not be as well to return to the oldsystem of al lowing the I iovernor to appoint Judges with the advice and consent of the Sen ate will no doubt be fully discussed in the coming Constitutional Convention, and in the newspaper press of the State. The Negroes of Ohio on the War Path. The negroes of Ohio do not intend to be content with any thing less than what they conceive to be the full meas ure of their rights under the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments to the Con stitution of the United States. At a State Convention of colored men just held at Columbus, resolutions were passed asking for the repeal of all laws on the statute-books of Ohio, ,- which make distinctions on account of color, and demanding that all the schoolsof the State be opened and made equally free to blacks and whites. The negroes of Ohio evidently understand the situa tion. They will either force the Radi cals to accede to their demands, or they will unmask the hypocrisy of the polit ical adventurers who have been Making capital out of the negro vote. . THAT negro cadet is a source of con stant trouble to the Radicals. The House Military Committee has appoint ed another sub-committee to investigate his case. Why not discharge all the whites and give the negro sole posses sion of West Point? That would give him a chance to pursue his studies with out interruption or annoyance. Enterprise In. Columbia The people of the borough of Colum bia have been in the habit of boasting of their public spirit, and,of parading the evidences of their enterpriiing char acter before the world. They claim to be much more: energetic than the deni zens of our city, and have not unfre quently been heard to express the belief that the time le not very tar distant when their town will oustrip Lancaster in all the elements that go to make up a city. We have not been much alarmed at these vauntlngs heretofore, and otir people have laughed at them. But we reallydo begin to think there is some thing ' In the talk we have hitherto affected to :despise —we do begin to believe that there is a spir it of enterprise in Columbia, and an energy abroad among her people which Is unknown to the citizens of Lancaster. Several meetings have been held recently to devise ways and means for inducing capitalists to establish man ufactories ut Columbia. All the promi nent men of the place seem to have taken an active part in these meetings, and all appear willing to make some present sacrifice in order that they may reap benefits in the future. They evi dently believe the Bible Injunction, which says: "Cast thy bread upon the waters, and thou shalt find it after many days." The people of Columbia have not con fined themselves to the passage of reso lutions. They have gone actively to work to secure the control of eligible sites fur manufactories, which are offer ed to capitalists at very low rates. This has already elicited response from per sons engaged elsewhere in manufactur ing, and the hope is entertained, and not, we must say, without good ground for it, that numerous establishments of various kinds will speedily be erected. The Councils are urged to exempt all newly established manufactories from municipal taxation fora certain number of years, and we have no doubt the town fathers will have sense enough to adopt the proposition. But they propose to go still further, and to buy up a considera ble quantity of lands, which will he of fered to capitalists on very easy terms. All these arc steps in the right direction, and we hope to see them fill carried out. The people of Lancaster might learn a lesson of wisdom front those of Col umbia. There is a vast amount of wealth In our midst which might be more profitably employed. If no ellbrt Is made to keep our city in the line of advance it Is not Impossible that the 'olumbians may make good their boast ed Intention of outstripping us in pop ulation and Importance. Ahtoundlng Indlnn Frauds 'rule following astounding chargem made by William 11'elell, of the Indian Pettey Commission, are contained In 0 letter addrommed to N'lncent Collyer, hIM ammoniate, to this enact : Hun. l'snront CV)ll,yer : lit' DEAH "oil ask mu If my state ments c,lim prov Men comr something worse, In the Indian Department aro fully sus tained by the books and vouchers. A de liberate examination has revealed facts even worse than my Katemonts, but as the Investigating Coin toittee will In duo sea son report thereon, 1 do not feel free to state anything beyond a few Indisputable facto taken front the official records. One million and thirty-one thousand dollars were paid to one lavored contractor within a few mouths, All but $90,000 of this mum WM On very private contrluMt. Ono hun dred 111111 seventy-nine thousand dollars of it was 110111 for freights up the Missouri at from 8,, per cent. to 300 per cent. above the rates at which the Quartermaster of the army had effected it contract to take till thin Indian goods, The profit, on the i iiioney paid to thls contractor must have exceeded SWO,• 000, and it does nut appear that he assumed acv risk. On the 10th of August lust he was authorized by , lutninhisioner Parker to pick up two to three million pounds of flour, without limit as to price. Most of It was purchased at $2.20 a hundred, whilst the government pay for it $3.80 a hundred. II it had been bought in August it could have been shipped to Grand River under the quartermaster contract at $l.OO a hun dred pound's, butt under the private bar gain the freight was $0 per hundred pounds. The Texas cattle bought privately on Juno 17 and August 10 were paid for at six cents per pound immediately on their arrival at the reservations, whilst the same contract or, after proper competition, united with others iu furnishing still better cattle at three and eighty-eight hundredths cents per pound, taking all risks ofkeepingdur tog the winter. Yours truly, WM. WELCH, These robberies of the Indians are one great source of discontent among them. They are swindled in the most atrocious manner by a gang of greedy harpies. It Is to be hoped sornething,will be done to break up this organized system of rob bery. The whole country is Indebted for his truthful exposure of the vil lainies which are so shamelessly prac ticed. Abolish the Income Tax General Pleasonton, the new Com missioner of Internal Revenue, has come out in favor of a total abolition of the Income Tax. He appeared before the Ways and Means Committee and re commended legislation to that end. The estimated revenue trout the tax on in comes, at the new rate of two and a half per cent, is about seven millions of dol lars, and the Commissioner thinks it costs nearly that much to collect the amount received. The Ways and Means Committee are more favorable to the' abolition of this tax than they have heretofore been, though Secretary Bout well still opposes the movement. The people will be glad to see the Income Tax abolished, not only because of its inquisitorial character, but because it will cut adrift a horde of officials who are collecting, in an odious way, little more than enough to pay their salaries. Down with the system which only serves to support a set of political drones in comparative idleness. Sumner's New 11 Service 11111 Sumner has given notice of his Inten tion to press to a vote his new Civil Rights 11111. Certain uppish negroes In sist upon Imposing heavy penalties on all who deny them free admission to and perfect 01100111 y In theatres, hotels, res taurants, etc., and Sumner announces his cletermlnat lon to agitate until such a law is passed. Why cannot the negro he left to find his own level In society as white men are. Hotel-keepers fre quently decline to receive white men as guests whom they deem to be undesira ble, and they ought to be allowed to ex ercise the same freedom of choice In re gard to negroes, If they see fit. To make It 0 penal offense to refuse to put negroes In beds prepared for white men, and to compel a landlord to stand a trial for any such refusal before a United States Court, is the design of Sumner's Republican politicians will please take notice. Banquet to Col. Forney Col. John W. Forney has been ten dered a complimentary dinner by the editorial fraternity in Washington city. Among the names of those moving in the matter we find Democrats and Repub licans mingled together. rol. Forney has designated Saturday, the :Nth inst., as a day which will suit his convenience. With this dinner he bids farewell to Washington and will return to Phila delphia and devote himself to the Press. A nim. looking to the erection of Washington Territory into a State has been presented in the House. This Ter ritory casts a total vote of 5,338, and at the ordinary ratio of votes to population must have some 30,000 inhabitatits. Can it be that Mr. Grant's uneasy Itch for re-election Is at the bottom of this State making which every now and then is slyly attempted in Congress? We count this as the eighth move in this direction; three electoral votes for Mr. Grant in •very move. THE Germans of Davenport, lowa, held a meeting on Friday night, and passed resolutions " withdrawing their sympathy" from the Administration, because It allows arms and ammunition to be sold and sent to France. A Ger man meeting in Chicago, on Saturday night, also adopted resolutions de: nouneing the Government for notstop r ping the shipmenrof arms to France. 'iadleal Legislators In a Quandari Captain Skinner, the Democratic member from Franklin, placed the Rad ical members of the Lower House of our State Legislature In a very delicate and unpleasant position the other day, by the Introduction of the following reso lutions : Resolved, That we heartily endorse and approve the recommendations of the Gov ernor, as made in his message, that a gen eral amnesty be granted by the ; United States to all persons Implicated la the re cent rebellion, and that in making this humane suggestion His Excellency but echoes the sentiments and wishes cif three fourths of the citizens of the loyar States. Resolved, That It la the delibeiate judg ment of this body that in sending armed soldiers to the revent elections in the North, with the pretense of protecting the polls, without a previous requisition being made by the State authorities, the General Gov ernment has committed a grave error, looking in the direction of despotic power; and that it was the duty, as well as the right, of the chief magistrate of the State, and, for the time being, the guardian of our liberties, to point out the error, and warn the people against the dangerous ten dencies of such acts of usurpation ; and that, for his prompt and fearless action in our behalf, he merits, and will receive, the cordial approbation of all the lovers of constitutional freedom. A proposition to endoNe the message of a Rep;;;,;iiin Governor sounded strangely when coining from the Dem ocratic side of the House. The re.iolu- Hints were unquestionably proper in themselves, and the Republican mem bers did not dare to vote their}-down. So they were referred to a special commit tee,which will effectually smother them. The usual custom is to make the mover of any resolution requiring the appoint ment of a special committee, , the chair man of such committee, but the Radi cals saw that it would not answer the purpose to have Mr. Skinner act in such a capacity, and a motion was adopted requesting the chairman to name some one else. A committee will be selected which will never make a report on that most important part of the I iovernor's message. The Radicals of the House may bring Captain Skinner's resolutions In a partisan committee, but they can not stay the tide of thoughts excited in the minds of the people of Pennsylvania by the manly words of the Governor. They have been read and approved by the 1111LSSOM of both political parties, and will bear good fruit In the future. the Unnecessary Costliness or the Navy, The Washington correspondent of the New York Tribune says : The Naval Appropriation bill, appropri ates $19,333,1 II 25 fur the support of the Navy fur the ilmcal year end log J une:lo, 1872. This Is an increase of Put),(3v4 48 over tho appropriations for the dUrrunt year. The nen, of pay alone amounts to 81,500,000, which in more than half the pay of the army, although the number of facers and 111011 belonging to the navy In loss than ono half the number which make up the NI Ilitary entablimhmont. Thin In accountedjor by the great disproportion which ox Ins be tween the number of racers and of solution In the navy, and the profane's:sow° of high ranks, Fully ono-third of the naval ollicern have no commands and no Judea, with tint o:cf.:option of mere nominal duties on shore, given them to draw duty pay, while thoru are admirals and commanders enough un der pay to continued a navy as largo as that of (1 rout Britain. Although the high grades In the army had been reduced by law, Con green cannot touch the navy, because the Naval Commlttoos of the two Ilouses ref tine to consider or report any measure of reduc tion. We need add nothing by way of com ment to the facts and figures of the Tr•i bunc correspondent. The taxpayers can draw their own in fel envoi without any aid from us, and it in very certain that the farmers, the mechanics and the working men of the country, from whosemweat and toil the money is wrung which goes to support such a multitude of idlers and drones, will lie heard In re gard to this matter at the polls In the approaching Presidential election. They will LC I n n mood for reducing expenses and refouning ew.lly abuses by that time. Pi(((e I IPIIIIIII There «•ere 313 deaths in Philadelphia last week, being 28 more than during the corresponding week of 1:70. In Sunbury last week a one-legged soldier walked across Market street On a rope , trefebed farm ~cond story win dows. A comply ~ ‘,l gentlemen arc engaged hrstocking iii data just below the vil lage of Christiana, on theeastern branch of the Octoraro, with black bass. Thomas N. John, was killed 'lei'. Laurel Run station on the P. & C'. R. R., on Friday the 13th Inst., by falling from a train of gravel ears which were run ning at an unusual rate of speed. On last Saturday morning, 14th inst., Dr. William It. Cisna, of Ickesburg, Perry county, Pa., delivered Mrs. Solo mon Bower of three living daughters, The mother and children are doing well. Wm. Pugh was almost instantly kill ed by au explosion at D. Hock & Co.'s colliery, Forestville,. on Wednesday week. By the same accident Morgan Pugh, and two brothers named Davis, were seriously injured. Dr. Win. P. Cunnington, of Philadel phia, well-known musician and com poser, and for thirty years leader of the Walnut street theatre orchestra, was found dead in his bed Saturday morn ing. On Saturday night last, between it and 10 o'clock, the residence of Mr. John A. Gardner, in York, was entered through the kitchen window by burglars, and Slo in gold, $B.OO in silver, and sl'.2 in greenbacks taken therefrom. Mrs. Friel, residing at No. It Bride's court, near Hamilton and Twelfth sts., Philadelphia,had three girls at a birth on Sunday lust, all of whom are in good health. The babes are named Ella, Catharine, and Annie. Clara Louis sang in Titusville last night. Like the smooth, unctuous trick ling of the oleaginous commodity from a hundred-barrel well were the liquid, oily notes of the be-diamoned Kellogg to the enraptured Titusvillers. J. King McLanahan, esq., of Holli daysburg, has been re-appointed District Deputy Grand High Priest, A. Y. M., for tills district, composed of the coun ties of Blair, Cambria, Huntingdon, Mifflin, Juniata, Bedford, and Fulton, On Friday last a man named Daniel O. Iferb WUM Instantly killed in the mines of Shafrer & Co., in Stony Moun tain, Rush township, by a fall of slate. Mr. Herb was a middle-aged man, and leaves a widow and nine children, all Audrey.' Ureter, a miner belonging to Mt. Carmel, where he has a wile and child, left Centralia on Saturday even ing last for home, somewhat intoxicated. It is thought he may have fallen Into one of the many deep pits on the itioun tain—the eavings-In of old ml A man named John Overdorf, em- Ecloyed as a laborer on the fiatawhisa xtension, met with a fatal accident on last Friday afternoon. Ile was engaged In excavating near Miller's farm, be tween Williamsport and Mon tou rs vi I le, when to large body of earth caved in upon him breaking his neck. On Monday last an old man named Abraham Spear disappeared from his home at Third and l leorge :Trews, Phil adelphia, and has not been heard of since. He is aged about 711 years, and is five feet nine inches high, and has short gray hair. lie is well known along the wharves, as he was a wood gauger for forty years. On Saturday last, as Wm. Miller, teamster for Aaron Urose, was driving across the railroad track at Michael Krebs' store, in Cattuwissa Valley, the locomotive attached to a freight train from IsilananoN -'rick the 1 o leading mules and k _hem bath. The driver !nude a narrow escape. The mules were quite valuable. Fillmore J. Shannon was convicted in Harrisburg on having committed a mur derorfs assault on Edwin T. Tunis on the 17th of December last. Mr. Tunis was assaulted in the yard in rear of his own office, robbed of $6O or $75 and a gold watch and left for dead. Fortun ately he slowly recovered and fully Identified his assailant. On Tuesday evening last ; Capt. Stain baugh, of East Berlin, ork county, was attacked with apoplexy, and on the following day died. He was a worthy man hnd an excellent citizen. This is the third instance of sudden death in that plate during the last six weeks.— Surely, in the midst of life we are in death. In Scranton, on Tuesday evening last, Roger Lewis and Wm. Doyle, both me chanics, working at the same shop, boarding at the same house, sleeping in the same bed, and courting the same girl, determined to decide who should have the lady by a regular prize fight. Twelve rounds were fought, when Doyle slipped and fell, and Lewis fell on top of him. The spectators fearing a rough and-tumble, separated them, Doyle ap pearing to have the worst of the battle. Letter from New Orleans. NEW ORLEANS, Jan. 11th, 18% Editors Lancaster Intelligencer During my delightful sojotirif lately in your vicin ity, I had numerous conversations with your, citizens concerning the general and apecifiC peculiarities of this section of the South. Since my arrival here I have re ceived several letters of inquiry with regard to the manner, expense and other incident als of reaching Texas. Knowing that the people read the intelligcncer, permit me to answer to them through your journal, as I find it too onerous a burlhen to answer each letter individually.• A. large number of 'people from New England, Ohio,- Missouri, Illinois and Pennsylvania /MVO settled in the fertile sugar and stock growing regions of this section during the last live years and the largest proportion of them have made pro fitable returns out of their Investments.— The most successful of these are those who have settled on the worst as it is called, meaning the lands lying along the Missis sippi River between the Delta and Baton Rouge, also on the Atchafalaya, La Fouche and Techo Bayous. The country in those localities is wonderfully fertile and beauti ful. The greater portion also is very healthy, though this depends on location. Those who have been most successful have farmed on a small scale, raised sugar and used the simplest and cheapest methods of production and eschewed expensive ma chinery. Hence if they get but eighteenth a pound they make more profits than the large planter who indulges in largo and costly appliances and uncertain labor in largo and unwieldy bodies. Hired laborers are proverbiaLly unreliahle in thls country at present, and hence those persons who make farming most profitable do the work themselves, and raise every thing they re quire. The Pennsylvania and I (hiu farmers who are working places in this country and practice a little of the eennotny they use in the North, quickly find their hank Recount in a' most enviable condition of plethara. Every fanner here can also raise all the vegetables, fruits and provisions they require. Every thing grows luxuri antly and the surplus brings profitable re turns In the nearest markets, all of which are very accessible. As all example 4ir the clinuur , the gar deners are busy at the present time in cul tivating vegetables, whirl) grow the year round in the open air. Flowers are as rich, profuse and fragrant now ns they are in the early spring in your latitude. The weather Is deliciously warm and pleasant, and thousands of our people look in the kindly sunshine as your people do in the early September days. The orange crop is being rapidly gathered and will prove, not only large, but also very profitable. This sonnies of riches Is being largely Improved by the now comers. The Texas roast lying on the fluff of Mexico, Is a level, fertile section of country throughout Its entire length, from the Sa bine to the Rio rand°. The largest pro portion of this ' , unlace offers Inviting in (liniments for ((Lock ruinlgK, 115 11111 grammes grow luxuriantly, and herds (il all kinds or rattle feed all the year at no expenso for provender and abettor. Millions or stook range over those v:1,1 plans, and represent untold wealth. In W 1,11,111 TWO', 1111,1111 I 51111 AlltOlllo, 111d1,1110111, llroWll4Vlllll, and all or Central Texas, the country Is rich and fertile beyond all comparison. Tho allu vial bottoms, prairies and seven(' uplands ore adapted to any claw( of grains and crops planters may desire. Stock or all kinds breed rapidly and are prepared for ' market at very little expense, beyond the ' cost of herding, branding and final driving to market, though nearly all the stock of Texas is mold on the farms to speculatorm, who drive them to market rust of the M is sismippl. . In Eastern and Northei n Texas there Is a largo amount of poor land. This eonsists of arid sand hummocks, ridges and plains, whereon only pine and scrub forest trees grow, Between these,however, largo bud lea of fertile and rich agricultural lands Ile, and at convenient distanees from trat.wportation to the greatmarkets. The hunk about Aus tin, Waco, and north of those places are well wooded and mixed prairie. They grow tine wheat, corn, and are splendidly adapt ed la water, grasses, forest shelter and dry items of the soil to tho raising of sheep, the culture of which is oneof the most valuable sources of income in Texas. From the Teche in Louisiana, extending west, arl across the Sabine, Nueces and Bland°, Bayou county, to the line of Hous , ton, Texas, including a space of two hun dred miles north and 1101111, the country is finely adapted to fruits, vines, wheat, stock raising, cotton, sugar and corn. The climate is delicious all the year round. The surface is varied and offers locations of the most choice kind. Lands ill that quarter are in creasing very rapidly in price, because of the improvements ill facilities for transpor tation, which are being rapidly pushed for ward by energetic railroad men. Throughout all of the country I have mentioned, lands range from a dollar to one hundred dollars per acre, according to location, improvement, ,be. The invest ments of Northern farmers, who use the diligence and half the labor they did in the North, return thorn twenty-tiVe per cent. profits yearly. Many persons of small capital and energeticapplieation have real ized during the post five years over fifty per cent. profits, and all ran receive the richest kind of living if they desire it. It is however, very notorious that TOXII, peo ple live very poorly. With moro cows than they know what to do with, they sel dom have milk and never exhibit butter on their tables. With countless herds of game of all kinds within easy reach, they never time any such delicious luxuries.— There is seldom any thing but pork and corn bread visible on the tables 01: the masses, and the bacon withal they itse is usually shipped there from the Western States and bought at high priees, At Boerne, in Western Texas, there is a very industrious and prosperous commu nity of Germans, who have built up splen did manufacturing interests and are becom ing very wealthy. Their neighbor!i them cotton, wool and other products avail able for their purposes, and though they comprehend the reason of the wealth and prosperity of the Germans, they do not have the adaptability of purpose or dispo sition to circulate Omni. Hence It occurs that every energetic northern farmer and manufacturer who gon.l Into T1 , X114, stint her-wiles wealthy and Inlltiential, iinDa wukV fuontlon of lha ex re pow.. ThtoSt. 11 ete lV heeeeleenlunhle citi zens are looked oil with favor, but those trio indulge in polities and wise billy those win become professional ettlrr•.soeicors or control elections, or those who iiroless ultra Itailleitinitti have it hot thee luring their sojourn, ler the masses of the 'people In 'l•exaa mule ou Itailical omit snrs end poll tielans as the moat thoroughly creatures that elOOO the soil Iv ith their presence, henr•.e the advent of nay community throughout the sections I have mentioned, is hlekell ell the sinus as ll' the calamity or MI 1./11 . thfillitke nr Vied( Ellie disease of it poisonou s charaeter hail be Galled the country so eillactisl. Is certainly c.rrect, and so every one NOW goes into those sections has quickly discovered, and hence those who become settlers with the intention of being citizens for life, quickly discern that their best interests are directly adverse to those w h professional politicians advo cate. They find that the Radicalism which panders to the base passions of negroes and herds with the lowest dregs or humanity, for the base purpose of seeking office and to deprt date on tax-payers, is thoroughly inimical to their views, and so they avoid having anything to do with that class known in the South as carpet-baggers and scallawags. They soon learn that the Re publicanism they knew and may have pro fessed in the North, is no kin of the intense and blasphemous Radicalism, which is inimical to every interest of citizenship in the South. They learn, too, to avoid con tact with such in society, fin - the taint of Radicalism, as we know it in this country, ' argues that its professors are Pariahs in social life, and as they are completely os traaised, so those who come hither to stay, find it advisable to recognize the cause and determine their own status by that stand ard. This is so thoroughly understood in this section, and professional Radicals are so despised and contnmed, that it IS often amusing to seehow shy of them republicans ' from your country are when they come here. They find that Radicalism here is tb Republicanism what sans culotteisnt is to Imperialism. The lowest grade of political degradation in this quarter is known un der the specific term—Radicalism, such as Ben Butler and General Grant would avoid if they came to visit us. Some time anon I will give you the grades of the thing. To those of your readers who come hither to visit the section I have mentioned, it will be serviceable for them to learn that they can always and at the City 'Hotel in this city,, a large number of Texans who can give them information concerning every portion of the State. There is also always s large number of people there from every portion of Louisiana, Alabama and Florida. The headquarters of the Texas clnb, the ticket and transfer offices, steam boat and railroad agents, aro also located In the City Hotel, and so it will be found the most convenient to arrive at and de part from. `The fare from New Orleans to Galveston, is eighteen dollars—sixty miles by rail, the balance ,by steamer: time, twenty-four hours. The fare to Shreveport, by way of Red River, in from twenty to seventy-live dollars by steamboat, the price of passage being determined by the condition of nav igation. To Indianola, Matagorda or Brownsville, the faro is thirty or forty dol lars, the passage being by sea steamer. From Galveston a trunk railway runs to Houston, and thence railroads run to ev ery portion of Northern, Central and Wes tern Texas. The fare averages five cents per mile. The same from Shreve port, Jefferson and other points whore there aro railroads. From the termini of railways, and in every portion of Textua where travellers !go by stage the average fare is twelve cents a mile (currency). In all the interior towns coin only is current for expenses of all kinds. When bank notes are offered in payment of bills the discount is usually inconveniently great. The line of stages front Columbus to San Antonio is composed of comfortable covered coaches. Tho same class of conveyance is in use from the points of departure on Northern roads to Austin and Waco. In nearly every otherpart of the State the :items of transportation is by mud wagons, which are about as elastic and convenient as Conestoga wagons on rough roads. The lime is aboht ten miles an hour by coach, and three to live by wagon. Par ties making a long tour will save money, time and comfort by going on horseback, or in their own con voyance, and stopping at private houses, where they will always Lind themselves welisimo if they exhibit themselves proper persons to receive hos pitality. Any of your reedy ru \VIP) cdine here and desire any further Information from toe, and which I will take pleasure in securing for them from proper sources, will Mid me at line St..fatnes hotel, the headquarters of mercantile travele, s from all quarters of ors's Nomor t. ll o ,rt Itn, Ilarrimborir Corr.spondenre 11A12111,111VRO, .11111. 20, 1.+71. With the exerption of the settlement of the llec•herl contest In the Senate and the usual Jiggling in the House, over unim portant questions, the wheels of Legislation have rolled quietly along during the week. Yesterday tho Senate adjourned until Wed nesday, II o'clock A. 21,, 111111 to-ilay the limns will 11/110w suit. The first business, in order, upon the re•assemblinng of the two bodies will be the amending of the contract for the printing of 010"1,0 14 .1nhilIVO Record." It ham not been 1101111tOly uncut tallied who the lucky contratitor will he, but rumor has Is that a certain Job printing firm have borne ell' the prize, hi [tie Yonne, vurluun " '' lire being worsted Into life unit a "snake" or two of magnificent proportions, In perspee thin, have made their appNtrallel.. It will require at few days more to classify and de scribe the exact speelos, but you may rely upon their being properly located. A certain member of the house, who re sembles to personal appearance the bloated bettor Windsor's 'Merry wives," and who exceeds in fatness the:original Falstaff, ex hibits to a marked degree the peculiar traits which portly John displayed when making up his company of recruits. Ile was caught at the trick of Introducing what to known In ring parianee nn "a shell" a day ot• MO since, " A shell " consists of a few pages or blank paper, folded in ortho dox manner, with the title written out, and plenty of space left for tilling In whatever [natter the !cover may desire. Many "a snake " Ilan been thus sneaked through of live yem•s. "Fatty's" shell was 'racked by a newspaper correspondent. I shall keep an eye on all "pinchers" and "roosters," and will not fail to expose each iniquitous scheme as soon as developed, When the two Mosses got fairly to work matters of greater interest in legislation will call for notice, and you may expect to be kept laity and duly posted. IL The money lost by the last Central Paid tie Rail road robbery at AI to Station, is stated at :.. , zSonn in gold. At Boston, on Saturday, Dennis Re gan, convicted of outrage, was son ten cod to Imprisonment for life. The dwelling of _Henry Brodie, near Plainville, Ohio, was burned on Satur day, and a child perished in the flames. The steamboats Chippeway and John ny Sebmoker were burned on Saturday, at La ('rouse, Wis. Loss, about 530,000. It is believed they were set on tire. Frederick Kohers shot and killed Minnie WillingholF, at Covington, * Ky,, ou Friday night. They were lovers, and he was jealous. 0. C. I'erry, Auditor of Drake county, Ohio, shot and killed a man named Ed ward Hurtling, on Thursday. Hurtling, was drunk, and abused and beat Perry. The St. Janice Hotel, at Ottawa, Can ada, was burned early yesterday morn ing, and ninny of the Inmates barely escaped in their night clothes. A special to the \. Y. World gives a report that all the collieries in the Sha mokin region have suspended, except Oa( e or four. An investigation of the affairs of the Monitor .Mutual Fire Insurance Com pany, at .Boston, shows its assets to be less than eighteen per cent. of the amount of its liabilities. Judge \V. P. Chilton, Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Masons of Ala bama, dled at Montgomery on Friday night. lie was formerly Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the State. Henry Welcome was hanged yester day, at iMontpelier, Vermont, for the murder of an old man, named Pery Russel, in September, 186 s. lie left a confession of iris crime. The store of Chirk ,54 Elston, at Union ville, N. V., Was entered by a. burglar on Thursday night. Mr. Elston shot and wounded the burglar, and he was raptured and taken to Jull. At Mobile, Alabama, on Th iirsday night, a raid waa made upon the Jail, and th rye noted burglars, named NVlilte, Blake and Simpson, were released. It In supposed they were liberated by ()flier burglars. Al Liberty, Bedford county, Va., MI Wednesday, t NV, lii)berts, a den tist, was shot dead by William W. John son, ion of Hon. James Foote Johnson. Five shots were tired by the parties, (I II of which entered H.oberts' heart. Johnson Is in Jail. A colored woman, named Caesar, was found dead, with her throat cut, in her residence at Klnderhook, N. Y., yes terday morning. Her daughter, who is said to be Insane, confessed that she her mother, saying that her moth er Intended to kill her. Reports of the weather 110111 all points card and north, show that It was intense ly cold yesterday. The Hudson river is again frozen above Peekskill. At Montreal, yesterday morning, the ther mometer marked 2.1; ,ieg ryes below zero, and at Toronto, IT below, At Newark, New Jersey, Patriek Kelly, aged sixty, committed suicide, at two o'clock yesterday morning, by placing his head under the wheels of a passing train. He had suffered severe iy from neuralgia, and it Is believed that he wart temporarily insane. The 'statement, telegraphed by the Associated Press, that Commissioner Pleasanton had decided that no stamp need be affixed to renewed insurance policies, is contradicted by the same authority, which says that no such de cision has been made. A Boston despatch reports a severe gale on the Western banks on the oth, during which Captain John Powers, of the Yosemite; C3ptaln Jeffry, of the schooner H. H. Jackson, and John Chaulan, one of his crew, were drowned. All were from Gloucester. At Richmond, Va., yesterday, Wil liam Barrett, aged 84, was burned to death by his dressing-gown taking fire while he was sitting In his study. Mr. Barrett was a retired tobacco merchant, and one of the wealthiest citizens of Richmond. At 13a1ti more, yesterday morni ng, MiS. Mary Ann Anderson, aged forty five, was shot dead by Peter Nesburg, Srho then committed suicide byshooting himself in the head. Nesburg boarded with Mrs. Anderson, who was a widow, and she had refused Ills otter of mar riage. A fire in Milford, Mass., yesterday morning, destroyed the Bay State and Alhambra blocks, including 11 stores and portions of two dwellings, also Fisher's stables. A woman, named Newton, perished In one of the dwell ings, and seven horses were burned in the stables. For tho Intelllgenr. The Stranded Ship of Staithern Call A. Lower California correspondent of the Sigto XLI7, cf Mexico City, gives the fol lowing interesting particalara of a Vessel found upon dry land, and miles away from sea, it being' a mystery worthy of solution by sevens how and when she got into her present location : "In the bed of a dry and ancignt lake, some two hundred and twenty miles from the mouth of the Colorado river and ninety-three from the Pacific coast, at a point of the desert equi-distant from Los Palmas and Martinez, and lying upon what must once have been the sea coast, on a level sixty feet lower--than that of the Pacific Ocean, was recently discovered a vessel of large dimensions.(Bso tons ap proximately ), constructed of timber of the East Indies, called by the English teak. This vessel Is an eloquent witness of ter restrial convulsions. Was her present site once a part of the Pacific coast, or did there once exist some bay or inlet that reached what is now a dry, burning desert? Per sons who have seen the vessel calculate she has boon In her present situation three hundred or more years. Scientific men hero having failed to aeeonnt for her loca tion, lot the archives of Mexico be search ed to 800 whether they will not give some light upon the subject. The state of pre servation of the vessel Is as perfect as the mystery connected with her is absolute." The above article has been going the rounds of the papers for the past two mouths, and to those unfamiliar with the revolutions that have continually taken place in the earth's crust, it appears as a matter of eonsiderable astonishment. That the position Where this vessel has been found, was at one time the bed of an ocean, is undoubted, as was every other portion of the earth, where sedimentary rocks are found statitied. Llence it Is no great mar vel, that a vessel should he taint 90 miles from the sea-shore, imbedded In the sand. Similar 'matinees of vessels found on dry land ut some distance from the waters which floated them, are not uncounnon. In the year 1824, there was found in the old bed of the Rather River, In Sussex, Eng land, a I merchantman built entirely of oak. 'rho town of Rye, situated to the south or Romney March, was with the neighboring town of Winelo,l., destroyed by the sea during the reign of Eilwitril 1., by which means the mouth of the Bother was stopped up, and the Itiver diverted into another channel. I Edbiliiiry Jou raid ry ,Silence, so. xi x , page 3,; A vessel Was al so discovered some years since ill a former lied of the )lersey, and another disinterred where, the St. liatharine docks are excavated in the alluvial plain of the Thames. In like manner many ships have been found preserved entire in mod ern strata, formed by the sitting up of Pc tuarlem along the Soull e shores of the Baltic, between Bromberg and Nakal, for example, a vessel allii hetiw. , hors were dug up far from the sea: Vali viii. page fins. A Timelier of vessels have been Putrid hurled in the Delta of the In this, far from where th a t strait!!! now Iloave: Lieut. Carlos,' Ileo, Jour., vol. 'i, 1,1141` I alight go iin enumerating 1111111b1.1 . 1isiS ill• of similar diseoveries (wind upon dry land, fir 1 , 1111/%011 1 . 1 , 111 Matt then, ; 6ul the foregoing wall authenticated 1 . 104,1% W ill i s • Ile,. In prove Ili t thn 01111114 r a ni vassal on dry land far from flu, son, is nothing now In the history of the to which this earth 11114 heal' talliStallliy Tiler, aro three modes by which thin vessel could have been drilled to the place where Mond. 1. The Gull ,f Calirirnia :nay It 1401110 very distant day, within the era civil ization of man, have extended 110rIllW111-11 Nome hundred miles beyond Its present navigable limits and its former beds by 11110111111 elf upheaval, or silting up, beemtin what is now the American Desert. Ilut this upheavid or silting up could not have taken plate within the last three hundred years, for walleye historleal ev Wetter] that KM early as Cabeza Ire who as a follower of Ponce De Leon, and it 111 Mak • ing discoveries in Florida, with three I others, Wits wrecked on Sumo ItOPoll, Island, and with them crossed nu but from Florida to California; It was a two years' Journey, and In accomplishing it they traversed what are now the States of Florida, Ala bama, Georgia, 'cussing the Mississippi somewhere In Tennessee, passing through Arkansas and up the Canadian River, they went westward and to the West—the pion eer voyagers across the wilderness—until in May, 1236, they arrived at the village or San Miguel, on the Parini. coast., in the Province or Sonora. Their route lay about midway between the present head of the Gulf or California and the place where this vessel is alleged to have been found. 2. This vessel may by !licensor the Tidal Pore, or Great Wave, have been carried out northward from the Gulf of California and landed where found. 3. It may also have been carried over the Coast Range from the Pacific by some one of those Immense waves which are common in all volcanic countries. It is certain that the Coast Range and the Sierra Nevada Mountains, while of comparative recent formation have not liven upheaved since the historic period. Mr. Darwin has col lected ample data in proof of the local per nieteney of volcanic action In the entire mountain chains of the Western side of the American Continent, throughout a long succession of geological periods, beginning with times antecedent to the deposition of the oolitic and cretareous fe'rmations and continuing to the historical period, It is therefore certain that the shores of the Pa cific have not extended to where this vessel was found, since the creation of the human Si. Louts, Jun IS.—The Missouri Legislature this morning elected a United States Senator to succeed Charles D. Drake, who ties resigned. The following is the vote: Blair, Dr.: ; Henderson, sn; lien ja • min, 5. The new Senator's term of ser vice will expire on the 4th of March 157:1. lion. 'r. IV. Ferry Dwritor, January 18.—In the election of a sueeessur to the lion. J. M. Howard in the United Snitee Senate to-day at Lansing, the Republimns .'ant their votes for the lion. T. W. Ferry, nail tlw Democrats for the Hon. N. Walker, editor of the Detroit Fr'r•r' Pre.v.e. non. William !Windom-100n. 0. P. elirllol. ST. I'nl•L, January Minnesota liegklatu re yesterday elected the NVilllutu Windom to the United States Sen ate for the long term amnion. U, Stearns for the short term. Both Senators are HO -1)111111011110. 13=1211a= 1N1,%11,t, Jan. lion. Ih.-1',111". II li.4.lwoelc lin% tutu Scilutor l'non Sehramk a. 11,1, Heck Juins (Invorin/rnOman awl ioary In (lenotineing military usurp utionl4. 111 pillym that they do inure harm than goo4l ut Ow %milli. In bin report ho nays: I iespectfully repent 1110 reciOndlifilliill - id my last Minim' report, that mili tary talent, should not Interfere in local civil troubles unless when culled out in the manner prescribed by low, awl that the requisition of revenal ullicere should le ac companied by iftlidayits tfr sane Miler proof that the case vanes within the pro visions or the law authorizing or requiring military intatereneef .114 tile practice now Is, the revenue officer I. Me mole Judge of the necessity Miry guards and escorts. It may he proper to remark In this plats, that I have been :motored by federal officers that the use of troops In executing Judicial processes, and en arcing the reve nue and other civil laws, seems Li/ Increase rather than to diminish the apparent neces sity for using such lace. The badly as posed become more and more examperated at being coerced Icy a fm-vt, wadi they think has helm unconstitutionally employ ed against them, and the [fetter disposed relax their ellbrts w punish local crime 3111,01 Motleyno Marriage Lo DON OFFICE O F"TII o WORLD," S • _' EF.T ST., Jail 1111,Ty IH. M ie..o Motley, daughter of the ex-Minis ter at the Court of St. James, was marl-led to day to Mr. Brlnsley Sheridan at Framp ton Church. There was a large attendance of the nobility, and English literary arid scientific circles were numerously repre sented. 'pie display of toilettes was mag nificent. The bridesmaids were, Miss Sheridan, Miss Sturgis, Miss Motley, Miss Burnpfylde, Mies Norton. The young married couple will spend their honeymoon at Poltlinure Park. The ex-Minister who received the con gratulations from all the members of the Corps Diplotnatique in London, as well as from the leaders of London aristocratic so ciety, will shortly proceed to Holland and reside at the Hague as the guest of the Queen. One Cousin Mill Out In the Cold At last a connection of one of the ruling families has been found to whom President Grant has not tendered any. office. It is the lion. C. L. Vallandighain, the celebra ted Copperhead of Ohio. In a speech at Dayton last week, he said that he was one the "numerous and übiquitous Dent fami ly, though he has not had the slightest sign so far of Executive recognition." The rea son for this extraordiary negligence on the part of the head of the family doubtless Is that Vallandigham has not asked. How can he expect to be remembered if he doesn't present his claims? Let him speak up Ilke a man and a brother-In-law I—N. Y. Sun. The Latest News from Europ Defeat of the French Army of the No The Bombardment of Paris Nricceskive Sorties The Food queellon Particulate of the Late Sortie Ile Complete failure Proposal■ for an Armistice Refo• ==ie!=! General Troche' OlTern to 111pnigin BERLIN, Jan. 2L—The Kaiser tolegra as follows: "VERSAILLES, J:111. 19.--Tho Army the North wan beaten to-day before Quentin, and 4,000 unwounded prison and two guns wore raptured. LoN nos. Jan. 20. —General Goebert tacked Faidherbe yesterday, and after obstinate fight of seven hours drove h out 011111 his positions into St. Quentin. VERSAILLES, Jan. 21.—The advanced visions of Faidherbe's army has been did% from (lan von+ to St. Quentin with a los. 500 in wounded and prisoners and 000 gt Bour.nos a., Jan. 20.—Faidherlm's Chi c staff telegraphs that in the bloody bat betorn St. Quentin on Jan. 19, the Fret fought well, but retreated before the Pr sian reinforcements. The losses were hea on both sides. .1101. 20, Via London, Jan. 2 1 I'. Si.— Faidherbe has arrived here NV his staff. The army or the North is In I retreat. The Prussians shelled St. Quell before its evaeuation, tiring the houses several places and causing great emister: .1.1 , 1. Co -S:3O I. at -'rho (i, 'min,. imvo 'l'ours meeting % no resistance. 'I he journal , . of Lille do that .torus are being removed from .krr Prince tivorge, of Saxony, telegraphs Dresden, that the Saxons, while reeoniu ering MI January 19th, surprised a fn (r.,/, Per,. on the Fen.° ti.olay, and en to nvl lino nlliror' and one hundred a tiny privatesi.. Tho P.tri., rnuliln With gnod results. The reontouler a I I'ntssinu mans trill hr nntit.rd to 1,1111 and Sat Berlin next week. A , lvlon, front l'ar, to rho Ist h , late II the 1111111 tier nd death, from the bond.. ment Im 4 , lllllaivill at fifteen pot tiny. Tiwi 4 , 1 the N repe)rtA, on the 19th, II the ;vrittal, 113 vt , hatterie4;ty,ttlablo I eve Igelin.vt Par,. Her the pall till 1.1 , t111% 1/oWl'Vt•r, le. , lllharllllll.lll 1134 .htel.ll, and li,r the pa , ..tt . v•iMll" )1,1, II:, tally r e,l, It Iwth•vv,l that h, , g,.1 tee p.m.., are pending, II ERLIN, Ettlie,•ror I. eg.11111,14 to,t's In the l' . .ttipron+ A ligty. " Ett,%l Jan 19. -A s,,rtio Ie mad,' nut Valeerlen t.) day, tinder levier higtvy tire, It wa,. I.lltlrt•iV " {.:1,.% I 1.1.E4, .lilll. 211, tree Nlfifit Valor ion, yoNtorday, s% ay 11)..1,, groat Is,ron. Th.. tr".,1,4 nno dill ~~ulail~ I'ari4, and I: i. ,ertalti 1% 11.11 It Ir 11n 111 01111 1 .1 . 11. Tr 11 ..1111 1.114 111•1.14.1 1 . 1 , 1111111 . 1101.11 1,111 111 1 v. 1 111111111..1 11 , 1111i:1Y 111111.N4 1....11.4. 14 11111i1.., tlll. 1.111. 1 i M 1111111. 111•11 Hi , 11111. 1111.1 tilt... gr , Pat 1111 1 16111 Irnln 1111. 1,1, " ., 1,1.1.11 11111 1.1101'111.4 11,1,11111.11....111111. 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I .ll ' r p..r ; 1.1.1511 t 201., itthi 1111, 111 tt , l4llll“it 1 , 0 fig,tritol4, Ili° 1 0•11 , 11 ;mil (Mont hat I. i,..1.11 JIM 1).111y The >luwr iltn apf ilia I.liximshisrg Lan r volved twenty shells wuhlu it lots Isms and Ilw unrivalled emin.ervaMrleit were I tally dentniyed, The i.niasperalli.n pool le In Fri VitlliglL that It h retwli vintu now world bring reruns fright nil to ro tow pimp. liven received nitimve ull Hie wounded liormais Lis those litingiltstlN %Ishii are wlthsis runs ~t the ..nomiom' wins. tilurn yesterday bread has helm mail.. n'tulnlunnn , flour, mixed ins rrvo Isigreillestis, There Is nitsllli•leiit 11,11 r for Irteud nil,' 1110 19111 thin have 1 . 14,1 V. 41 huh rultn the last Ilvn dupe, lit ardor le sit bread I.ir thin populnllnn. Ilnrwellesh w lent thirty days more. Mtivablii n1,,11111 litiVil bore I'Millblinlll,l ht .1111011,M I. punoil 10 Ihn enemy's Ilre, tool nilrelels belirern are wasting night awl dal' ilt II gunnl houses. Thii splendid voiltservalm of thin Jurdln den phmte., whirl, vent na OW cranes, has been iloutroysill wills Ili ra specimenv 1,10.1.11 . phuals Jan. 23 2 A. St.—News trot ['arts to the 21111, hats liven reit 'lred. 1,1 , tors says that the lino of battle on the Mt reached from Montretout tat Sucelle, nu the French numbered I-10,000 moil, NU ported by a powerful force of artillery. Gen. Troctim,. In lilt report, says: ''The day which 0/1111110111..i 11111,(,41 . 1111 Ind not terminate as WiSIII.I Imemy were at first surprised, la subsequently conetettritted great ',MSSa+. artillery anal infantry, and at .1 o'clock I theafternlMl) our loft receded. ‘V,, resultu at nightfall tint Oirl'ilMivo movement, In wire onside to Itol,l the heights wit hut taken. 'l'll,, struggle was sanguinary, an we have ask oil for an armistice." I,,,Nnoiti, Jan. 'Lt.—Count Itininarck lu In a note in reply to .tales Favre's rive , Mr a sale contlawt, declined ituy such neg. tiations. Itismarek says, preNtiining tit the authority of the provisional govern merit has not been recognized lay the Fromm nation, the military government l'i,rtnert allowed F'avre to pass without preludgin the question of recognition. Its now Irtipossi tole to give Fay', a sail Or his declaration that Invitation to take part in the proceeding of the 1,4/1110111111, I.l'olllll Ile a r1.4.01411iti./11 the Republic. In 1.1/111•111otIlll 11141111l1r pointedly enquires whether it is advisald for l'avre to pi...vet! 11/ 1.111111.111 nitro th interest at stake ut l'aris lerniany we l'rtince completely overshadows the ern question. l'rivato letters from I'.rrin state that; th last meeting or the oh stormy. l!rgent detnittals were made Iwo, Gen. 'Troche for grand sorties. The tlen eral proposed to resign, and the 1!,,,111.1 appointed (;enerals Frebtollit, rim lenient, .1111/1111., a [xi tittivi rate, ht roplte.. I”,etitt oft tl y, recoiled from tin retipott.i 1,11 ity of ehtteg lug the Millis for the bionic of Tani uw 'Frooliu was fully sustained. LcLs:l,ON, Jan. '2.3 -A .1 viee from inside Paris to the :List Inst., lIIIV dismatisfata 101) UM despondency precailyd in 1•011sPlillelle0 failure in his la.t rlfort to ',rein through the linen of the enemy. IL 11014 rt. ported that a large and available force 4, artillery . and infantry reservers took Ili part tile artiDn. Trochn's policy IV: oudly denounced to weak anti Letnporiz ing. Denlle of M r. 11.01er Melling/. A telegraphic dispatch was Nll'l l / 1 41 In this city 'tett evening from XI edit' annotinm Mg the death of Mr. Peter filching., till. V(4.011111 actor and manager, and father .11 the renowned pri Ilia den nn, .tI rs. Caroline Riehings Bernard. IL will bit remembered that seventh days Hi 111.1., .‘11". Itichlogs, while driving In 1114 I•arylagil (rum! 11111 VIM a try seat near Niedia to eh it reli, was thrown front the vehicle and WI severely !lured that he 11101 born Nlllllll.l his tee d over and 111,1,101 db restsited from the injuries re• u.,.1 VIA oft that 01,1011011. )I r. Itiehings was about 75 years of and had lean 111111111011141 with the foam awl opera fur a period of thirty-live years. 1111 W. 11011 !ti England, and In his youth W. a midshipman, in the British navy. Ile espoused the theittritial profession soon after his arrival in this country, and made his first appearance at the Park theatre New N'ork, 110 11111110 rapid progress oft the stage, and became one of the brightest historic lights In the yountry. 110 was a gentleman (If vulture and refinement. and possessed great sensibility as an miter, and rare in 11ffiral taste and acquirements. lie wax the first to introduce into this country dramas based upon the popular operas, in which the prifivipal music wits retained. Hsi dint nl• industry and chan up dlrutluu to his profession till, (100(.0(1 111 . 11111V141 competency, the greater portion of which N'iL4 111%144E0(1 111 010 0401E0 near Media, NW. 1.1.111 g ut twentydlve or thirty acres, which 14 (1110 of the most delightful homes in that section of the country. Since his retire ment from the stage lug lets resided at this beitutilill spot. Vr. Melting leaves a wife and an only child—Mrs. Caroline Itichlngsf Bernard. Ile was universally esteemed, and his demise will be filneeruly and gen erally Pay. An Aged Wu ttttt n Hided I Oil 'Tuesday last, about noon, an aged woman, named Mr's. Mary McCullough, an inmate or the family or John Metiovern, at Mount Carbon, wan killed on the rail- road at the lower end of the plank walk, between that village and Pottsville. The old lady had but ono leg, and was forted to make her way with a (!rutels and eano. At the time of the ueeident she was on her way over Use plank walk when her vane caught In a hole or crack, and, being infirm and very old, (over 'seventy years,l she fell off the walk and Upon the Railroad track below. Bewildered and Minuted by the fail; no doubt., she wan unable us get from the track in time to avoid Else 12:05 train, and wan ruts over and instantly killed. ]tor head was eat off and crushed into a shapeless mass. The engineer saw her before coming upon her, but, although he whistled '• down brakes," It was WO late to save her life. Meeting or the' Hli h fiaort . of Impeach, meat—Uov. /ioldeu's Aunwer. BAIA:1(111, Jan. 23.--The high Court of Impeachment convened to.day. flay. Hol den flied hie answer to the article* of im peachment. The answer is very - *I urnin sue, covering at least 200 pages of foolscap. The Board of Managers will make their replication to-morrow at 12 M., and the trial will then proceed regularly. The man agers retain ex.-Gov. Bragg, ex-Gov. Gra ham, and Hon. A. J. Merriman as counsel. Guy. Holden re,taina Hon. W. N. H. Smith, Edward Coniglaud, Richard C. Badger, Hon. Nathaniel Boyden and S. M. Me. Corkle. IMECIE
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