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
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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
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S., Jar it, pr.,•141,014 i , 111 , 111,1,
thr;uuhLhrl .l u'.' l r.l • hate 1” I g I'', t
11, 1 1111 t'ul. it Imv rirt 10 I.ltolt rrurr
Itiltl thy . I.llll4,ffig ‘,l Ilrn pcmr.or
Prit,N 1./r it rillthli, '.1,1; It vitp
lurk °y,
VW. egg . . 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