Eancaster 3ntelligencer. WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1871 The Fall of Purls After a heroic resistance, lasting through one hundred and thirty-seven day's, the city of Paris has surrendered. The gay populace showed remarkable fortitude and wonderful self-control un der all the terrors of the siege. The pre dictions that there would be scenes of riot and bloodshed in thestreets of Paris as soon as hunger began to oppress the masses were not verified. The inhabi tants of the first city in the world have proved, that they can endure patiently the severest ills that war and famine bring in their sad trains. It would have been infinitely better if terms of peace had been adjusted immedi ately after the surrender of Sedan. From that time until now the people of France have been struggling on without any effective government. The newly creat ed RepubliT had no chance to organize. It was henimed in and constantly ham pered by immense armies of the most effective soldiery the world ever saw. It is not to be wondered at that every battle went against the French Repub. lic,when we remember that all the train ed soldiers of the French Empire and all the Generals who commanded them were prisoners in Germany. The terms exacted by Bismarck are harsh, but the French must comply with them in the end. There may be attempts made at further resistance by the government at Bordeaux, where Gambetta, Glais-Bizoin and Cremieux are still in council. Itordeaux is now really the seat of Government, and the people may refuse to be hound by the action of Favre and Trucial. The South ern Provinces have not felt the woes of war directly, und their inhabitants are passionate in temperament and furious in their hatred of Prussia. We hope, however, that there may be no further prolongation of the strug gle. It has been full of ghastly horrors and it is time it should end. France can rise from her deep humiliation and oc cupy again a prominent place, if not the first position among the nations of Europe. Let us hope that the fall of Paris will put an end to the terrible car nage and the wide-spread d!va,dation which have prevailed. A Non-nartisan Constitutional l'unlen We believe the people of Pennsylva nia are convinced that some of the evils which have cursed the State can be rem edied by the application of proper con stitutional restrictions. IVeare perfect ly sure that a majority I.f votes would be cast in favor of a convention to re form the Constitution of the Slate, pro vided the people were assured that a convention could he convened which would be non-partisan in its character. The eltorts which have been made by Republicans in the Legislature to secure the choice of delegates to a Constitu tional Convention, on the basis of the present legislative gerrymander, have awakened a feeling of distrust in the alias of many. Demovrats naturally rusent such schemes, and they have the best reasons in the world for opposing any action which would give a 'narked partisan character to a body called to gether for the purpose of altering and amending the fundamental law of the State. If we arc to have :Lay true relorni it Must come from a non-partisan I ton- Veldion. There lIMA be llll,opp“rtillii ty given ror the intminction of partisan questions into such a body. I.:veti it the people 01' Pennsylvania were unequally divided between the two great political parties, it would be wise to prevent tither from secur ing a majority in the proposed Con stitutional Convention. But now, when the Republican and Democratic parties are so nearly equal ill numbers.that it is impossible to tell which is the stronger, it would be exceedingly fitting and proper to provide tied the body to which a revision of the State Constitution is to be submitted shall be equally divided in political sentiment. There ought not to be a niajority even 1,1 one given to either party in such a Convention. It ought to be so constituted that no parti san question could be introduced. 'Thus would the temptation todoso be removed, and the delegates meeting on a platform of perfect political equality would apply all their energies to the great questions which might be brought befell. them. A partisan Convention could not be trusted to prepare a system of eunulla live voting. The majority would en deavor to arrange some plan for secur ing and ensuring a preponderance of political power in the hands of the party to which they might be attached. 'Thus would suspicion be excited against any system which ini,j;lit lie devised, and its , , , aooption by the people rendered uncer tain. If the Republicans should secure such a Majority in the Convention as would enable them to carry out any plan tot' strengthening the power of their par ty, the Democracy of Pennsylvania would vote solidly against parts or the wholeof the new Constitutiomand would bring force enough to the polls to defeat whatever might be obnoxious to them. If the proposed Convention is to com mand the confidence of the people of the State, irrespective of party, as it should do, it must be completely lum p atisan. It would be quite as easy to provide for the election of an equal number of Democrats and a similar number of Re publicans as to give either party a ma jority. Forty ineinbers might lie elected at large, twenty by mud' party, and a certain equal number of delegates be chosen by vault party in each Sena torial district. There need be not the slightest difficulty about the organizm Lion of it convention thus constituted. 'rime ',residing officer might be selected by lot front two in. inure 'nein burs of the different. parties designated for such a purpose, and the minor offices could be easily divided between the parties. Tim Democratic majority 111 the State Senate ought ti insist upon such ;t Wilts will make the proposed Convention per fectly non-partisan. If the Republicans are sincerely in favor of reform, they canuot refuse to vide for a bill which will give each party equal representa tion in the Constitutional ColiVeliti.ll. The people would mailer such an :Let to tiny bill giving either party a majority, and only such au ac; olleahl nc alieWetl to p a ss the Senate. 1 4Hurtl . latch ..,cliate \ alms the lint II Leon 111011 tis live new Democratic Senators have been choscu to reimorce We ten now ill that body. inclusive of ex-Goveriou Vance, of -\ortu Carolina, whose scat will be contested by General Abbott, the present incumbent, on the ground that Vance, lint having his disabilities re moved, was wholly ineligible. 1 Georgia is admitted to representation, and the vacancies in Virginia and West Virginia are filled by Democrats, us is highly probable, the political minority in the Senate (throwing out Vance) will have gained seven in the next Congress, making its total vote seventeen. THE trial of Roderick Random But ler, Congressman from the First District pf Tennessee, for forgery, has termin ated in his acquittal. It was proven that he was attorney for the woman whose pension he drew and pocketed, and the court held that his writing her name on the back of a check under the circumstances was not such au act as constitutes the crime of forgery. A wit Once likened the law to a spider's web, which catches weak flies, while wasps and hornets break through and escape. Many a criminal has evaded punish ment by taking advantage of legal tech nicalities. GENERAL FRANK BLAIR, the new Senator from Missouri has arrived in Washington. He was warmly welcon* Rd by members of both political parties. THE LANCASTER WEEKLY INTELLIG-ENCER, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1871. More Federal Interference in Elections With a perfectly free election in 1872 the choice of a Democratic President is as certain as any future event can well be. The Radicals In Congress see that, and they are racking their Ingenuity for some device which will enable them to hold fast to the power they have so grossly abused. In fact they do not at tempt to conceal their design. The Washington correspondent of the New York Tribune, commenting upon the movements now being made by the leaders of the Republican party in Con gress, says : Their efforts willculminate in an attempt to extend the power of Congress in the matter of the election of its own members, so as to give it virtual control of all State or municipal elections in the country. Startling as this announcement may be, it is, nevertheless, true, and two bills having this object in view, are now before the House Judiciary Committee. These bills propose the erection of a system of supervision by the United States Circuit Courts on all elections held either in the North or the South, at which Congressmen may be chosen. In other words State laws are to be su perseded, and all elections to be super vised by Congress. A Chief Supervisor of Elections is to be appointed, and un der him one or more subordinate Super visors for every election district or pre cinct. These subordinates are to attend elections, to challenge voters, to have charge of the ballot boxes, to scrutinize and count every ballot cast, and to make reports to the Chief Supervisor at 'Wash ington. The House Judiciary Committee have authorized Mr. Bingham to report the bill introduced at the beginning of the present session, by Judge Churehhill. The machinery of the system provided for in this bill of iniquities is complica ted, but as perfect, so far as its opera- IL Lim re concerned as Radical ingenui ty C. make it. The Washington cot:- resp cut of the New York Tribune gives the following synopsis of the pro posed act: . . "From the Commissioners of the United States Circuit Courts a Chief Supervisor of Elections is to be appointed, whose duties life described to be to receive reports from subordinate Supervisors, furnish necessary Wanks, books, lists, &a, A:c., and to cause the names of those upon any list whose right to register or vote shall be honestly doubted to be verified by proper inquiry and examination at the respective places by them assigned as their residences." It is made the duty of the subordinate Super visors to attend the sittings of the Boards of Registration in their respective precincts, and it is provided that "every registration made under the laws of any State or Ter ritory for ally State or other election at which such representative or delegate ill Congress shall he chosen, shall be deemed a registration within the meaning of this act 1 and also within the meaning of the enforcement act) notivit/kiditiel oig the .some shall alto be 71111111 . f Ilir epo N e of (troy Mote, territorial, or alum ei pa I It is further made their duty to stun,' the election twid in pursuance of such registrations, " to challenge any vote offered ; to he and remain where the ballot-boxes are Kept at all times after the polls are open until each and every vote cast at said time and place shall be counted, the canvass 11f all vulva polled to be wholly coi. 'acted, and the proper and requisite vertifi i•ates or returns tikle, whether said e , ol O rate, ul. rrNr ns be required a rob, lair of the rioted Vatcs, u, rrrg Stole, fere riot 1111111,111111 1111 r ; 111111 to personally In spect and scrutinize, from time to time, and at all times, on the day of election, the manner ill which the voting is done, and the way and method ill which tlie pull hooks, registry lists, and tallies or cheek books, whether the smile are required by ally Into of the United States, or any State, territorial, or municipal law, :Ire kept; and to the end that each candidate lor the office id* Representative or Delegate in Congress shall obtain the benefit ofevery vote for him cast, the said Supervisors or Election are required ill their districts to personally scrutinize, count, ul. canVasS, em•h and • 'Try hullo( in their ,list riels tnt.st, whoteeer olog be the bolo emonenl on snit/ bollot. or in whatever tiox it may hare been placed Or j llllllll ; " to kirward n 21101 1 ,01 their proceed log, to the eider Supervisors, "and to at tach to the legistry list, and any (lad all ropes thereof, tad to any cerl Orate, .slat oleo( , return, Ir/te7her the 811,111', or 1111 y pare Or r 11 1 .111117 111,1 . 11 . i, La 1 . 1,1111 . 1 .- 01 by 1111 . 1/ 111 W Iy . the United Ntitles, or of o ,('(ale, TerritoriOl, inn any statement touching the truth or accuracy of the registry, or the truth or fairness of the election and canvass, which the said Supervisors of Election may desire to make Or 111111.1 . 11, or which should prop erly or honestly be made ur attached, in order that the huts may become known, any law of ear/ .11itte or Terri/01.y lu the oohs,,') notnolloxtontli ng. They are also mitten : l.d and required, during the regis tration and election days, "to take, occupy, /Old position CM' from time to time, whether befere oe behind the ballot-buireiii, as will in their judgment best enable them to . see each person °tiering himself for registra tion or °tiering to vote, and as will best conduce to their scrutinizing the Man lier in which the registration or voting is being conducted ; and at the closing of the polls for the reception or votes, they are re quired to place themselves in such position in relation to the ballot-boxes, for the pur pose of engaging in the work of canvassing, the ballots in said cruxes contained, or its will enable them to fully perform the duties in respect to vided in this act, and shall there remain until every duty in respect to such certificates, returns, and statements shall have been wholly com pleted, any law of ally State or Territory to he cold rary notwithstamling." It is also provided that the Circuit Courts shall re main open for the transaction or business Under those provisions of the act which im pose penalties and lines for interference with the duties of the Supervisors; that. United States larshals shall appoint. pecial deputies ha' the protection of the Supervi sors; that the military and naval forces of the United States together with the civil 111177., 1,1111 ' 111111.,, shall he at the immediate eine wand MU. , Marshal kir the execution these provisions. This sweeping enactment is to apply not only to cities of more than twenty thousand inhabitants, but to every sec tion of the country, no matter how re mote or how sparsely settled, and the appointmen t of subordinate Supervisors for every election district is made im perative. A supplementary law will provide that the Presidential election, and the elections for Congressmen shall take place in all the States on the same day, and thus will the entire control of the !text Presidential election be placed in the hands of Federal officials, who will he stationed at every had] and given control of every ballot-box. The whole military force of tile country is to he put under the management of the Uni ted States Marshals, and tiny will lie expected so to employ the soldiery as to insure the re-election of Grant and the choice of Radical Congressmen. The authors of this infamous hill expect the malignant partisans, who will be made subordinate Supervisors, to manufacture false returns and to frame excuses for throwing out enough Democratic votes to insure the election of the Radical can didates 'rile plain object of the law is the organization of a system of fraud and inlimidation by which the will of the people is to be defeated, if possible. This is the last and the most ilesper- ate device of a set of political brigands wini , c chief business has been the plun dering of the people. They have met with so little opposition in other uncon stitutional deviees that they fancy the masses Will quietly submit to any form of usurpation. The recent elections have alarmed the leaders of the Radical par ty, but it really seems as if nothing would teach them wisdom. This scheme by which they propose to perpetuate their power will only make their over throw inure complete and overwhelm ing. The people of this country will resent the presence of Federal Oilicials at the polls as a personal insult. The tax-payers will begin to count up the expense entailed upon them by such a system, and multitudes who have here tofore voted the Radical ticket, without question, will abandon the party in in dignant disgust. No such device can save the Radicals from defeat in 1872. On the contrary, every improper inter ference with the freedom of elections Will increase the power of the Demo cratic party. We care not how soon this bill for depriving the States of their constitutional right to control elections becomes a law. It will be a weapon which we can turn against the Repub lican party with tremendous effect. THE bill repealing the income tax, which fortunately passed the Senate by a meagre majority of one, has met with an unexpected check in the House, that body having, referred it back to the Sen ate. This unexpected action may delay the proposed reform, as It is not certain that a majority of the present Senate can be got to vote for the abolition of the income tax at the present session. Istory of the Controversy Between Judge Black and Senator Wilson. The Paper, the new Democratic daily of Pittsburgh, had an able article in Its issue of Monday, in which a review is made of the circumstances under which the Magazine controversy sprang up between Judge Black and Senator Wil son, in relation to the character of Ed win M. Stanton. The story Is brief, and we will repeat it. Upon the death of Ex-Secretary Stan ton Mr. Hoar, then the Attorney Gen eral of the United States, delivered an oration in the Supreme Court, which was not a eulogy upon Stanton, but a libel upon all with whom he had been associated in the Cabinet of James Bu chanan. Mr. Hoar, having credulously received as facts all the calumnies of a partisan newspaper press during the war, and never having troubled himself to look into the truth or the falsity of the malignant rumors which were so industriously spread abroad, held that, "In the hour of our national agony," Stanton, being a member of Mr. Bu chanan's Cabinet, had saved the Union single-handed, and in so doing had pass ed through perils at the hands of his disloyal associates and their chief. The next morning Judge Black addressed Mr. Hoar a public letter, telling him that the story was false, and desiring him to produce any proofs he might have in his possession. Mr. Hoar search ed diligenpy for such evidence as would be worthiaying before the public, but, being honest, was finally compelled to abandon the question. Then Senator Wilson, who had none of the scruples which restrained Hoar from bearing false testimony, undertook to infuse new life into the worn-out slander. The result was his first article in the atlantic Monthly. A reply from Judge Black was imperatively called for, and his answer showed how Wilson had blackened the character of Stanton, while causing the conduct of Mr. Bu chanan and his Cabinet to shine brighter with every word of discusion. This overwlKimed Wilson with shame and covered him with confusion. Smarting, under a terrible castigation he borrowed a lot of old letters, which Hoar had the good sense to reject as useless, and, in his desperate attempt to revise the same calumny called to his aid Sum ner, Howard, Dawes, and a dozen or so more. To use the language of The Pa prr, in the previous article in the Allan lir had appeared alone, like Stanton in Buell:wail's Cabinet—a single, torn loyalist; but here he was again with eighteen or twenty more, worse than himself. 'Without this company, per- Imps Wilson would have been unworthy of further notice. lie stood before the world imputing thirty years of unparal leled treachery to the 'nun:whom he pro fessed to honor, and even naming tin, particular acts of baseness which established his character incontest ably as a false friend, a double and treble renegade, a conspirator against the manic, yea, the very lives of his fondest benefactors—a coarse, vulgar rove, a ,py, a tattler, :od a ruf fian. I "bliappily fin Wilson he easily proved that Stanton was each and all of these, and thus destroyed the credibility of the only witness by whom he could sustain the weal; accusation he had fab ricated against the Buchanan adminis li:at ion. This essay, form id able only in its frightful array of the proofs of Stan ton's guilty duplicity, brought out from Judge Black, that impel - of - amazing grace and power, which we have just laid be fore our readers, and which makes it as clear historically, as the treason of Judas or Arnold, that Stanton was just what Wilson's witnesses would make him— "thr 'nod 1,11 . 1 ., lolls impost, i• In all this controversy Judge Black makes no attempt to defend himself from the absurd charge of disloyally, which was so freely brought against him as the head of Mr. Buchanan's Cabinet. 11e lets the facts which he produces speak for themselves. Yet abundant and in contestible evidence is at hia command to show that he was an earnest and de voted friend of the L'llloll from first to last. The most convincing proof of this exists in the handwriting of Stanton himself. Some important documents which will effectually still numerous slanders will shortly see the light in Col. Ward 11. I,:unon's " Life of Lin coln," a book which it is to be hoped will not be long delayed. A Rascally Indian Agent It xemn to be almost impossible to prevent. gross frauds from being prac ticed upon the Indians. One Colonel Percy 11. Spear has just been prevented from assuming the duties of an Indian Agent. Ile was recommended as 0 suit able person for the office by the Ameri can Board of Missions, and just as he War , about to assume the ditties of his office it w a discovered by 'Mr. William Welch that the saintly Spear had forged the n a me of Mr. Charles E. Smith, who appeared as one of his securities for the sum of $25,000. Of course the gentlemen composing the Board of Missions had been badly sold by Spear. They no doubt considered hint to be a lit person for the position. The matt who would forgean endorsement to his official and would make a nice Indian agent, and his recommendation by a set of guileless ehristian gentlemen shows how easily a rascal can impose upon distinguished divines and unworldly laymen. 1 he Revolution in San Dotning,o The heirs which conies front San Do mingo (has not augur well for Grant's pet scheme. Cabral's fiery appeal to the natives will no doubt awaken a respon sive echo in the hearts of all the Do minicans who are not interested in the mercenary ,chemes of Baez. An at tempt to annex the territory of the D, minivan Repuldie will no doubt lead to a lance of blmid," and an exhausting one it will be found to lie. The losses of France and Spam in their attempts to hold possession of the island by mili tary force are far from encouraging— Nature fought in favorof the black bar barians, and the deadly climate more than decimated tire armies of the Euro peans. It is to lie hoped we rosy not be dragged into such a struggle by the mercenary M - istinacy of Giant. THE Mi..sortri Demw:rut analyzes the vote by which Major-General Frank Blair was elected to the United States Senate. He received one hundred and two votes, and of these twenty were cast by men claiming to be Republicans. Seventeen of these were Liberals or Brown mem and three were McClurg men. Without these twenty Republi cans Blair would have got only eighty• two votes, and would have been defeat ed. It was in the power of these twenty men to elect Mr. Henderson if they had chosen ; but they voted for (ten. Blair instead. Ti:x thousand dollars has been apuro printed to defray the expenses of the select committee to investigate alleged "Southern outrages." This is the way kudieals use the funds of the govern ment in efforts to perpetuate their own power. As carpet-baggers are low priced fellows, and scalawags can be bought cheap, this amount should get up a truly startling tale of Ku-klux klancrs. THE Sub-Committee on Reconstruc tion, to whom was referred the test-oath question, have unanimously agreed to report to the Committee in favor of re pealing the oath. That is exactly right. The existence of the oath has been a bar, preventing the very best men in the South from taking oflice. Let it be wept from our statute-books at once.— It is a relic of the barbarous days of England which ought never to have been revived. THE Sepate Military Committee have very sensibly reported against making Decoration Day a national holiday. Let the bitter memories of the war die out, and an era of perfect good feeling be in augurated. Land Grabs and Ocean Subsidies For several years past the bulk of the laws passed by Congress, have been framed in the Interests of individuals and classel. Many millions of acres of the best laud belonging to the public domain, have been clipped from the heritage of the people, and handed over to railroads which are largely owned by Congressmen and their agents Subsidies in money have also been lav ishly voted, and many millions wrung from the whole people by an onerous system of taxation, have been trans ferred to the coffers of a favored few. Instead of relieving trade by wise legis lation and lightening the burthens of the people by a rapid reduction of taxes, the Radicals in Congress have spent their time in devising ways and means for creating and bolstering up monop olies. The latest, and one of the hugest de vices of the monopolists is now before Congress, in the shape of a set of bills granting subsidies todifferent steamship lines. The amount of largessdemanded from the present Congress for this pur pose aggregates nearly one hundred mil hoc dollars,and the schemesembrace not only the running of steamship lines but the equipment of ship-yards. Under Democratic rule we built ships for the world and made money by sodoing; under Radical rule, which imposes an exorbi tant tax upon the material employed in ship-building, we have not only ceased to build - for other nations, but our carrying trade, formerly so gigan tic, has dwindled to insignificance.— Democratic policy allowed ship-build ers to buy material where they could get them cheapest—Radical policy taxes their business to death. Under the system which now prevails, a revi val of ship-building is an impossibility. Largesses of millions may build up a few favored monopolies at the expense of the whole body of tax-payers, but they will never revive our (lead com merce. A cotemporary states the ques tion as follows: "When any great work is to be done, such as the restoration of our national flag to its place on all seas, it will be done by no schemes for taking and giving the peo ple's money to private corporations; but oy a change in the conditions and tenden cies of trade and in the whole policy of the government. The laws need give no help to trade; they cannot help it directly and efficiently. Let them cease to obstruct it and it will soon b 6 seen whether American shipwrights have lost their world-renown ed cunning, American sailors their b ill ness and skill, or American merchants their enterprise anti forecast.•" The monopolists who are busily en gaged in pushing their subsidy schemes through Congress exhibit Inordinate greed. They are not content with being allowed to draw at once a hundred mil lions In cash from the coffers of the na tion. They demand that they shall be given the exclusive privilege of carry ing the mails at postly figures, and even go so far as to ask that the sum of ten dollars be paid to them, out of the Treas ury of the United States, for every emi grant brought by their ships to this country. And, to make sure of the pas_ sage of all the bills, a meeting of those interested was held in Washington on Saturday, at which it was determined that all would combine their forces.— This system of combining a number of iniquitous jobs into a sort of omni bus bill is one of the most rascal ly devices of modern legislation.-- liy means half a dozen subsi dy schemes may be put through in a batch, when neither of them could be passed if it stood alone. It is by such combinations among capitalists that the most unjust and oppressive features of the different tariff bills have been en grafted upon them. Thus was the salt monopoly created and other similar in iquities perpetrated. Let the honest men in Congress watch closely the action of the ring during the last (lays of the present session. Every hour that intervenes between this and the fourth day of March will be fraught with danger. That period once past the treasury will be comparatively safe from attack. There will he a:larger proportion of conscientious men in the next Con gress, and the people will have good r eason to rejoice when the present one adjourns sinc The Minority Report In the Dechert Case. The Radical minority of the commit tee appointed to examine into the val idity of the petition for contesting the seat of Senator Dechert, made a report on Wednesday which• was paraded by the .9,tte Jourina as an overwhelming defeat of the majority. 'that paper could not find adjectives enough in the English vocabulary to express its admi ration of this document; but before its issue which contained the minority re• port and the comments of the editor had reached Philadelphia, :\ Ir. raham rose in his seat and stated that the most ma terial allegations in his report were ut terly unfounded, and he begged leave to take it back for the purpose of amend ing it. Mr. Graham had been foolish enough to give the credit of correctness to certain false statetnynts and figures which appeared in Fohey's I',,s.s. In fact he had clipped the print of the /'r r. and pasted the paragraphs on the sheet which contained his strictures in manu script. This ought to be a warning to committeemen and the community in general, against giving credit to any thing which appears in Radical news papers in reference to the Dechert case and other questions in which polit ical issues are involved. They are so prone to misrepresentation, that the truth cannot be expected front them. The majority report in the Dechert case cannot be answered, and the amended report of the Radical minority will be as ridiculous a failure as was the docu ment they so hurriedly withdrewamidst the jeers and laughter of their oppo nents. Exempting Property from Taxation When the bill chartering a line of steamships, to run from Philadelphia to different European ports, came up in the House the other day, it was discovered that it contained a provision which read as follows: That all vessels and other property, cap ital stock and bonds issued by, and the earning, of said oompany shall be exempt front all taxation. We do not know whether the discov ery of the above clause was the sole rea son why the bill was referred to the Committee, but it was certainly a good and sufficient reason why it should not pass without amendment. Other cor porations pay lax, and why should this one be exempt It might be proper to grant it the favor of such exemption for a brief period of years, but even that would be a move of exceedingly doubt ful propriety. It would be opening a door which ought to be kept tightly closed. If such exemption is accorded to one corporation others will demand like favor, and it will be hard to pre_ vent them from obtaining it. The true way is to keep up the bars. Not even the Pennsylvania Railroad should be allowed to cast them down, as it is try ing to do in this instance. THE leading Republican paper of La n castercoun ty, the Eraminer, notices the fact that Senator Wallace's deter mination to enforce the rules against unconstitutional Special Legislation has left the Legislators comparatively little to do. The files of the two houses are not being swelled by bills on all con ceivable subjects within the province of the courts, as in tomer years. It was a lucky day that saw Win. A. Wallace chosen Speaker of the Senate. THE Washington ,Star states that Grant has received a memorial signed by 3.5 Methodist and Presbyterian Min isters of Brooklyn, New York, asking the removal of Collector Murphy, on the ground that he is a Catholic, and suggesting Silas H. Dutcher as a proper man to succeed Murphy. That is a specimen of religious bigotry run mad atter office. Are these clerical gentle men to divide the spoils with Dutcher, or are they only actuated by devilish malignity A New Method of Electing School DI A bill introduced by Hon. C. It. Buckalew, which provides for the elec tion of School Directors on the cumula tive system of voting, has just passed the State Senate. It will no doubt pass the House and receive the sanction of the-Governor. We publish the bill else w here in our regular report of Legisla tive proceedings. Mr. Buckalew's bill provides that where two School Directors are to be elected each voter may cast his ballot for one or for two ; where three are to be elected each voter may ballot for one, two or three, and so on. The result of this method will be to give the minority in each School District a fair represen tation, according to numbers, in the School Board. If two are to be elected they can not be both chosen by the same political party, except in cases when one party may have more than twice as many votes as the other. When three Directors are to be elected the minority can elect one whenever they cast more than a third of the votes. One more than a fourth of the votes cast will elect a Director when four are to be chosen. This system of voting is familiar to our people as applied to the choice of Inspectors of Elections. In a few very strong Republican Districts in this County the dominant party manages to elect both Inspectors, by dividing their vote between them and polling for each more votes than the Democrats can mus ter. That is a compliance with the let ter of the law but a violation of its in tention. Still the system has worked well, and the exceptions have only proven the propriety of the rule. The extension of the cumulative sys tem of voting to all elections, in which it can be applied, will meet with the ap probation of a great majority of our peo ple. In Lancaster County there are multitudes of honest and intelligent Republicans who would be glad to see the system applied to the election of County Commissioners, Prison Inspec tors and Poor Directors. It would place a check upon the corruption which has been freely admitted to exist. We have no doubt there are Democratic Counties in which such a law would be productive of good results, though we know of none where such grave charges have been made as we have heard in Lancaster. We hope Mr. Buckalew will push his reform beyond the election of School Directors. Let us have the free ballot applied wherever it can be by Act of As sembly, and then let us have a complete reform consummated by a non-partizan Constitutional Convention. Auditor-General The °nice of Auditor-General of the State of Pennsylvania is one of decided importance to the people. The incum bent supervises the financial affairs of the Commonwealth, and he should be a oar of capacity and of inflexible integ rity. Several persons have already been named in connection with the Demo cratic nomination. Capt. George \V. Skinner, of Frank lin County, will be a candidate. Capt. Skinner served gallantly throughout the war, rising from the position of a private to the command of his company, though one of the youngest men in it. Soon after his return he was elected Treasurer of Franklin County and served in that office for two years with great accepta bility. le was then elected to the Leg islature and was returned again last fall by a majority of nearly six hundred, in spite of the fact that about a thousand negroes had been admitted to the ballot box in the County. This result in Franklin, which elected a Democratic member of Congress in place of John Cessna, was largely owing to the untir ing energy of Captain Skinner. He is the youngest member of the House, a tine speaker and a handsome, affable gentleman. He would be a very popu lar candidate, and would represent the young Democracy of the State. Hon. H. T. Shugart, of Centre Coun ty, has been very favorably spoken of as a candidate for Auditor-General. Ile is a man of ability and of the most un questioned integrity and purity of char acter. He was fairly elected to repre sent the double district in which lie lives, in the State Senate, three years. ago, and was cheated out of his seat by a swindle which was manipula ted by John Cessna. Mr. Shugart would make a gallant tight. D. H. Neiman, Esq., editor of the Easton & /dim /„will also be put forward by his friends. lie served some time in the Legislature, is a pleasant gentleman, and would no doubt make all excellent °nicer. Dr. Markley, of .)lontgomery County, also a former member of the Legisla ture, and an aspirant for the nomina tion, three years ago, Will be a candidate There will be no lack of good material before the coming Convention, from which to select a candidate, and we have no doubt the members will exercise due discretion. Surve3 or-General W. T. 11. Pauley, the veteran editor of the Waynesburg r, will be a candidate for Surveyor4;eneral. \Ve know Mr. Pantry well. lie is a vigor ous writer, a truly honest man, and faithful to principle in all things. The Democracy of Greene County are as gal lant a band as can be found in the State, and in W. T. 11. Pauley they recognize a leader of whom they are justly proud. They will ask his nominatio-. Prison Reform We publish elsewhere the bill report ed by Mr. Reinoehl, which proposes to take the election of Prison Keeper and Prison Inspectors out of the hands of the people :mil to give the Judges ofour Courts power to appoint said officers. A similar bill WaS passed last winter, but somehow it disappeared before it reach ed the hands of the I lovernor. It is supposed that it was stolen and destroy ed by some one who was interested in preventing, it from becoming a law.— That some reform is necessary all admit, though there are grave doubts .as to whether it would be well to give the power of appointment to the Judges. It has been gravely charged that "the pris on ring" would set up a Judge aseasily as they now set up candidatt-s for the Prison Inspector,: who elect the Keeper. That assertion, which was freely made by prominent Republicans last winter, and which is as freely repeated now, indi cates a degree of demoralization in the Republican party of this County which is truly terrible, but we are not prepared to deny the existence of such a state of affairs. On the contrary what we have seen convinees us that those who op pose the giving of such power to the Judges have good ground for the objec tions which they make. The matter is one which will bear considerable dis Conscientious Legislators Mr. C. A. Roberts, a member of the Illinois Legislature, a short time ago astonished the country by refusing to accept a Railroad pass. More recently Mr. Thomas V. Cooper, a member of our State Legislature from Delaware County, returned Railroad passes which had been presented to him, on the ground that he had never rendered the Company any service, and therefore was not entitled to a free ride. Adhird case of Legislative honesty is now brought before us in the person of Mr. R. J. Judd, a member of the Wisconsin Legislature from Oshkosh county. Mr. Judd was formerly a resident of this city, a member of the old firm of Judd S. Murray, booksellers, and will be re membered by many of our citizens as a very intelligent and conscientious man. We have not heard that any of the members from Lancaster County have been of cted with such scruples. Should their consciences trouble them to such an extent as to induce them to give up their free passes, we will be happy to chronicle so positive an evidence of their honesty. The State Printing The remarkable bids for doing the Public Printing, which were lately opened at Harrisburg, have been the means of giving publicity to another mode by which the State has been freely plundered for many years past. It seems that in 1856 an act of the Legis lature was passed which prescribed stan dard prices for the different kinds of printed matter required. Since then bidders for the printing have been offer ing to do it at gradually increasing dis counts on these prices, until a few days ago the lowest bidder offered to do the work at 991 per cent. oft' of the estab lished rates! In other words, he offer ed to do it for about nothing, for he would only receive at his bid, twelve and-a-half cents for what was esti mated to be worth one hundred dollars. Of course every one knows that this could not be done, unless there were other opportunities and privileges at tached to the position of State Printer, which enabled him to more than make up his losses on his contract. There are a number of safety valves of this kind. Large amounts of paper are fur nished by Paper Manufacturers to the State Printer, the bills for which are paid by the State; and it is supposed that a great deal more paper is furnish ed than the State requires, and that the balance is a perquisite of the Printer. Then again, under a decision rendered ' some years ago by Judge Pearson, it seems that only a small portion of the work done by the contractor has been considered subject to the act of 1556 and the supplement of 1662—say one-fifth— so that under the system now in vogue, the contractor has been enabled to make heavy profits from the remaining four fifths, for which he can charge as much as he pleases. The Senate yesterday, however, blocked this game by unani mously passing the bill requiring all printing foi• the State, no matter in what shape it may conic, to be done at the same rate as proposed in the con tract. The recent bids for the state printing will probably all be withdrawn under this changed aspect of the case, and new propositions lie advertised for. The Dinner to Col. John W. Forney. The dinner given to Col. John \V. Forney by the newspaper linen of Wash ington, on his retirement from the 'hroni,fr, was a complete success. In the speech which he made Col. Forney spoke as follows, in reference to the im provements made upon the hilfilig, n ccr and other newspapers since he learn ed his trade under one of our predeces sors: - I eau remember the old Itamage wooden press and the buckskin balk with which I worked oil many "a token," giving a whole day to an edition. As I stand be fore one of line's lightning creations. which throws Mr its '20,000 an hour, I fi•el like standing before some great (Mille born to annihilate error and to uplift the oppressed Mall the world. I go bark to iny native town, and visit the spot where stood the lit tle brick ofliee where I spent the happiest days of my life, setting and distributing type, reading proof, "pulling oft"' a con siderable edition of my emph.yer's papers and then helping to pack, direct, and get them into the one-horse mails of the time, and I 1111,1 it gone, lint in its place a daily paper, printed in an extensive establish ment, with steam presses; and this daily rivalled by another and by weeklies equal ly prosperous, not in the county-seat ;done, but in every considerable village within its limits. There are . hundreds of counties in the thirty-seven States and ten Territories of our happy country, of Which this picture of my native Lancaster, in good old Penn sylvania, may be as truly drawn. The old It:image Press, of whirls Forney speaks, is still in I otr oilier in good condition. It was tuountol on a wagon during the procession of the American Mechanics in this city a couple of years sitter, and worked as it went through the streets, buckskin balls being used to distribute the ink, as in the time when the editor and proprietor of the Philadelphia Pr,,B acted the part of "devil." Justice In I'cnns}lj:uiin The New York Triblou: takes a view of Governor Geary's action in the Fick en case entirely different from that of most Radical newspapers in Pennsylva• nia. For bitter truthfulness the billow ing article can hardly be surpassed: Justice in the land of Penn has always worn a significant smirk on her visage since that. ancient worthy bought in her name his possessions from the red-skins for a bag or two of heads instead of steal ing them outright with his.other confreres. If she is not blind now, she appears to have a certain cast in her eve which promptly turns it the other way if an v body chooses to drop a (Mare flu on One side of her scales. This was noticeably the ease the other day. A ilr. Fieken, a millionaire, and also the owner of a very peppery temper, became incensed at the frequent ringing or his door bell on last Valentine's , arid, posting himself in the hall, worl:ed MI his annoy ance by putting a bullet into a little 1.1,y who NVIIS running past, apologizing whvn the child was taken up as dead and found to be respectable, by saving "he really supposed;it was only one of, those alley boys," whom Mr. ticker, apparently re garded his legitimate prey, considerably' provided for him by nature, as the gorillas for lin A man arrested at 'the same time for stealing a slice of !hurt was kept, we learn, in Mosamensing jail for months; hut ,justice in Philadelphia flows to wholesale dealers in sugar like Mr. Fick en,largely tempered with mercy. 'Phis pis toiler of liabies NVaS released nn hail, WhiCh he promptly forfeited and retreated to rope at leisure, to increase his skill as a marksman. A Week IW two ago he stated to the i:orernor that his long, sojourn abroad would be damaging to the sugar business, and that the payment of the bail by his partner was also a drawback to be avoided it' possible. Upon the boy he had shrewdly settled a sum to that which a suit for damages would have ex— torted from him. .1 umtice, in the shape (Mary, in stantly prom - minced absolution upon aril Fieken, condoning any offenses whir li tie might have committed against the State or civil government. Now, whether the proper course was to hang this Nimrod of the innocents or let him Mo.° upon the rising generation, is a questimi we calllwt decide. The point we note in the matter is that the Pennsylvania iimmrtior pardons before trial. The rartloning louver in other executive oilleers is held to lie in the re mittance of sentence; but Mr. r inary is jury, judge and governor, all in one, lu New fork such an assumption of power svonld lit. tel as eompouroling a tei , nly ; hilt the Philadelphialtv h,lv ill it with Quaker-hi, sub1111,•14111. is open to a rrrtaiu hind of rehm NVIno inlay rind "imprisonment injurious to his business... It the Governor has this apnstnlir power of pardon before trial. why not helm, the act? Why not sell indulgem•es to any sugar heater kith a trustworthy haul: and an idiosynrracy fortrntgin;{liltle 11,,5, an his Front door steps? The Titusville I froibf Saturday 'Phis morning at Judi-pie-t one o'clock we Were startled lit' the from officers 2.l'l(raw and Ilardim berg, that a man had been brutally murdered on Franklin Street Bridge. ( , or reporters im mediately repaired to the spit alai ' , Mail hill, Iping at the South ono of Franklin Street Bridge. Ile was lying upon his hack with hi(J acut e outstretc hed, his head and neck covered with fearful gushes, alai his abdomen pierersi as by a pointed Had°. The instrument used most have been a large knife or poniard. (Justice `grouse. wao was immediately notified, empanelli a jury, who viewed the body anil Marie as full examination of the (Ilseas ppssilde. A wait, of the expiration of a lice insurance policy for ;32,1N00, hp the .Etna Insurance Company (through the agency of 111. W. Was found in the coot breast- l:- et, addressed to James S. Wisnor. No oth er papers or property were found, except ing a pair of kid gloves and handerchief. Th. blood was traced back to within a few feet of the n. AA. R. It. track, on Franklin Street, and thence across the Bridge to where the body was found. The deceased was identified as a clerk for Mr. J. S. Shank, who keeps a provision store on Diamond street. His pockets were turned inside out as though stripped of their con tents, hut his brother, Mr. H. W. Wisnor, informed the jurors that James had very little money in his possession. The theory that the unfortunate wxn was attacked where the first stains were found is rejected by some, who think that the murderer was himself wounded, and thus marked the course of his own retreat. At last accounts no clue to the murderer hail been obtained. D. It. Sheridan, ayoungJersey City law yer, who has a large number of friends and was supposed to have a paying practice, was arrested on Sunday and taken to the station-house, where it was found that he was insane. He had been acting strangely for some time, and finally went to Brady's livery stable and ordered all the horses out that he might show them which had been brought from Massachusetts. Dr. Pendergrast was called in and pronounced Sheridan insane and in a starving condi tion. On partially recovering he stated that he had been without food for over four nays. He is temperate and is regarded as a man of considerable ability. THE impeachment trial of Gov. Hol den is proceeding, Chief Justice Pearson presiding, I:l=EaT=! There will be only one profession al base ball nine in Philadelphia next season. Mrs. Sarah H. Vanderwarker, of Ti tusville, has spent 38 years in bed. Lawrence County is going to have a negro on the Jury pretty soon. It has had him on the brain for some time. The Kemble Coal and Iron Company have erected an additional stack to their furnace at Riddlesburg, Bedford County. The people of Greenville are trying to get the trustees of the Thiel College to locate that institution in that place. They offer five acres of ground and $4O, OW cash as an inducement. A boy named Morris Henlein, of Greenville, was kicked in the forehead by a horse he was leading to water. His skull was fractured, and brain injured. He cannot recover. On account of ill-health, John Mar shall, Esq., has resigned the position of Treasurer of the West Chester State Nor mal School,.and Wm. Wollerton, Esq., of West Chester, has been appointed in his place. A child aged two years, daughter of a Mr. Jones, in Sharon, Mercer County, recently pulled a pitcher of boiling water off a table, spilling it over her head, scalding her so badly that she died the next day, Sunday of last week. A sorrel horse, eight years old, six teen hands high, hind feet white, sear in forehead, near eye dint, and carries up well, was stolen in McConnellsburg, Fulton county some days ago. Twen ty-five dollars is offered for his recovery The clergymen of Carlisle are de nounced as having caused the removal of the troops front the Carlisle Barracks by their persistent opposition to dress parades on Sunday. The removal of the troops causes a heavy loss to the people of Carlisle. Some of the citizens of Phomixville are much excited about the supposed skeleton of a mastadon, said to have been discovered near l'ort Kennedy, below that Borough. A tooth has been exhumed "measuring seven inches in diameter!" Large tooth, that! Mary A. Logan has been appointed mail messenger at Rowlandville, Ches ter county, at $9O a year, in place of J. S. Richardson, resigned. The duties consist in carrying the mail between the depot and the Post-office, a distance of l!no yard.;. The llreenville:ltyfs says the body of a man named John Wilson, who lived at Big Bend, was found about two miles from I ireenville. Ills head wzt.; badly gashed and the skull fractured. Ile leases a wife and several children.— Suspicions of foul play are entertained. A correspondent of the Titusville Thr,ilel, writing front llarrisburg, says that "among the appointees of the House this winter is a citizen of Alle gheny County, who is reputed to be worth nearly a million of dollars. The office which he tills in the Legislature allows him but :::;nott for the session." Female students continue to attend clinical lectures in Philadelphia, but the male students remain hostile, and the other day created a slight disturbance at Blocksley Hospital. About a dozen ladies remained through the lecture, though they were hissed, and two faint ed at the operations performed. Near Turbutville, Northumberland county, recently while Reuben :Ven senmoyer and his brother-itslaw were lifting a heavy log, Mr. Mensenmoyer fell, and hislirother-in-law }wing unn hie to support the weight of the log, it fell on the head of the biriner, crushing it instantly. On Monday morning, about three o'clock, \(r. C. F. Hauer, editor of the ro//,,bbett, met with a severe accident on Fifth avenue, near the cathedral, in Pittsburgh. lie was going home front the office, when, owing to the slippery eimilition of the side-walk, where the boys had been coasting, he slipped and fell, breaking his log between the ankle and knee. 'hristian Spindler, aged 4 years, was killed near Henn,. Station on the West ern Pennsylvania Railroad. lie ran in liont of the locomotive for the purpose of picking up his dog whieli was stand ing on the track. The row-catcher struck him and he fell with his neck across the rail. Ilk head was complete ly severed from his body and the dog he attempted to save was literally torn to pieces. Dr. Neville, of Philadelphia, who was tried on a charge of throwing a child in to a cesspool, in October last, and caus ing its death, was acquitted last night, the jury not leaving their seats. The District Attorney abandoned the case, and the Judge said afterward that the Court would have refused to render any other verdict. The doctor proved a most complete i and irreproachable character. A member ot . the Legislature, last week, had occasion to call the attention of the "louse to standing rule N. 73, which is printed thus: LXXIII. A Radical member, after pouring over the book for some time announced to the astonishing Assembly that no such auto existed. Nlember No. I saw at once what was the matter, and culled out: " You will find it numbered l„ two XXs and three I I Is." Considerable amuse ment was afterward created by other members calling attention to rule " No. X, \' and duce I I " Wi XXs and I," etc. An editor our exchanges reports money dose, but not dose enough to he reached. Seeretztry Belknap has issued:ln order to stop the sale or ordnance at the Ar senals throughout the country., len ry 'Ward Beecher, fin List Sunday, stigmatized f-it. Paul as "an insignifi cant, Near-eyed Jew." \Vile!' a man and n wianan are made one, the iiticstion is " one Scratches. i-Darls and straggles sanue ti settle the Dialler. The one hundred :mil three year old lady, \OM can thread needle with fluency in three dill'erent languages and walk a mile without glasses--still At a fleeting held at the Alansion yesterday, for the relict . ..l : non-combatants in and around Paris, the Lord Mayor read a note from Earl t;ranville, stating that lido Russell had been instrocted to ask Coma Bismarck to designate the route by which convoys of provisions from England might be sent into Paris, and to order that they be not interrupted on the way. The tiring on Paris is still suspended. 'Hie notorious Janie, Haggerty, Was To-day there is continued skirmishing shot. by " Reddy, the Blacksmith," in a 1 around Dijon with indecisive result. saloon, in Now York, early yesterday LosooN, Jan. 0-9:30 A. m.—Bistitarck, morning, and died Lest evening. Ile alluding to the reported negotiations be was J; years of age. ; tv.1,11 Napoll,llll and the Prussian govern -1 /tient, says that the ex-Emperor rotors The President has ortiercd the transfer 1 everything to the Regencv. of the headquarters of the Department Bismarck denies that he has negotiated of the South front Atlanta In Louis- f, the restoration of the Bonaparte..., or ville, the latter 'being the headquarters that he intends to interfere in the doniestie of l ien. 111111...C1C CUlli•ertlS of Francs. It is stated in diplomatic circles that [m ile Mississippi Legklature teasel - ;go [tenons for the surrender of Paris Grand Itapids do-tor dismissed his servant girl for sprinkling ashes on a slippery pavement, in front of his resi dence, to the detriment of business. II I,tiry I:1w,, nod Innl:ine to ti :11.4.1iti00 of ii ISI.OI 111 School An English rai-eate•her, has e•xporte•d over 311 n rats of choice breeds co Fram•e, and has raised thpin of all colors, red, blur , Liven e•olor and tortoise shell. A de,:.patell Irmo Sehettectatly, New York, list bight, reported flit• thrrnioni l•ter tbere nmrking 10,1egrees below zero awl '• filling rapidly." The ice in the Nlohawli river is Is inches thick. The Irish citizens .r i:0,4“,, Irive rangl4l f'm mid resS of Welc•Mlle 1.0 ill, hitelv arrived Feilian exiles, and have appointed committees to rake funds for them, and to present the address, imuse of Wlll. ( * rowel!, adliraid wood, 111., svus lii rued a right or lino since, arid \Vizi. Reynolds and ;two of Crowen's children pori-died in then:lmes. Reynolds peri , lied in trying lo save children. Ten other iwrsolls in the house snore more or less 1,111111,1. In the .-enate of New yesterday a joint resolution was adopted, urging the members of Congress toprocure the passage of a bill effecting a treaty with the Seneea 111 diallS on the Allegheny reservation, and protecting the rights of white settlers on the reservation. A live year old boy of Portland, North ampton county; named Eugene Heller, gained a prize for repeating without mis take :2500 verses from the New Testa ment. The child is too young to read, and committed the verses from hearing them repeated to him. General Meelelhin is waxing rich, and is building another handsome resi dence at Orange, N. J. Independently of other emoluments, he is now receiv ing $lO,OOO a year as constructor of the Stevens floating battery, and :10,000 an nually as engineer of the new dock do partment. The funeral of the late :Mrs. Jane Hol lins Randolph, consort of Col. Thomas J. Randolph, and third daughte^ of the late Gov. W. C. Nicholas, one of the former Governors of Virginia, took.place on Saturday, Jan. 21st, at the Episcopal church, in Charlottesville, Va. The funeral services were performed by the rector, Rev. Mr. Hanekel. A very large audience, composed of the citizens of the town, university and vicinity, was present ott the occasion, one of the no ticeable features of which was the pres ence of many of the former slaves of the deceased, who as sincerely sympathized with the immediate relatives and mourn ed as deeply and tenderly as any of them. There has seldom been seen so many people of color in the funeral pro cession of a white person. PARIS SURRENDERED' National AN embly Called Continued Disturbances lig Paris The German' Occupy the Fort:. Around Etuperor'♦ De%patch to the Empre.ts 1213=1!9 IMMS92 The Terms of foplinlation LONDON, Jan. 28.—[Special to the New York Evening Telegram.]—Though the fact of the terms of the capitulation has not yet been officially confirmed, still it is believed in official circles that terms of capitulation have been submitted by Favre to Bismarck. The alleged terms are freely canvassed at all clubs and-hi official circles. Bonaparte'. Restoration. The report that the Bonapartist intriguers are at work industriously is circulated, and there are indications that prominent of ficials have been interviewed for the pur pose of lending their aid to the scheme. I = LON DON, ran. Versailles eorres pondenee of the London Times writes, un der the date of Jau. 25, that Jules Fay re re turned front Paris yesterday, and had nn other interview with Bismarck. More Disturbance,. in Paris. .mother o,leVie iS reported eurred in Paris. The people in great num bers appeared before the Hotel lie Ville and made a demand on the Government for more sorties, noeomputyitig the de mand with the en• ••Tu Berlin." The riot ing VILt 8111,11r1S•ed by the troops, who tired upon the mob , several or wli,nit were killed and wounded. St. Denis was bombarded on the 2lth instant, the German guns eliciting but a feeble reply front the French Forts Official despatches from Paris of the 23d instant announce the separation of the army from the presence of the Govern went. General Trocho retains the luster office, anti (loners! VCllery is now com mander of the forces. (fit Saturday night a mob forced open the Mzlias prison and released Ur ustave Flour - ell,l, Felix Phut, and other prisoners. t m Sunday the crowd surrounded the Hotel De Ville and fired upon thut officers who refused them admittance to the building. The lire was returned by the Mobiles with such effect that live or the rioters were killed and eighteen wounded, when 11l the rest dispersed front the setale and quiet was restored. Later adv ices fronl Paris t,..tk i state that the I M in • t has stationed a vern large foree of troops ant artillery in the Place De l' l Intel De Ville. Courts-martial have been doubled in number, the clubs rinsed, and the Demo er.aie organs, anti Ix M,tithrit, suppressed. A ilespateh from Versailles of January to the London Trh.greilh, says the bombardment of Paris continues, though slowly, and shells have fallen near the chtireli or Notre Paine. The total loss of the irl`l'lllanti in the three days' sorties was only. 2,01111. None of the German batteries, rar e t on the southern and southwestern sides of Paris, throw shells into the rile, and tires aro still occasionally kindlial in l'aris he the Iterman shut ls. The number of ollieers and prisoners ill Germany on the Ist or January was I 1,160 onivers and men. The ladies of Munich have resolved to present a laurel wreath to Emperor \\ . H. liam and erectastatnet.f Gen. Von Moltke. The deaths in Paris for the week ending. January 20 were-1,413, an increase of 357 oi,itipititiit with the previous week. Gen eral Faidherhe is at Dunkirk making prep arations for the defence of the town. The French havtfilestroyed the bridge of Crecy, near the town tit Larche, capturing thereby a few prisoners. The 14,V11 of Sill/11 4 , 27 miles W. S. \V. of Le Mans, is occupied by 2,000 I ;ermans, with artillery and cavalry. A despatch from Versailles says that Gen eral liourbaki is withdrawing to lie Sane, on the by-roads, an the left bank of the river Dauhs. A portion or the :vrinan army of the South, is in Paris. Itourbakl'm Lamm tit the titlark epee tieu. Werder•s artily was dully 10,1110) men. There is great con sternation aiming the French, and their sick. stet Weetttbal have been ahatelettett bt• the retreating army. The remainder of Nlanteuttel's army has intercepted the emit - !unification in Itourbaki's.rear,and now re occupies tiaint 1 it tiurtigey and .Nlonchard Junction. An official despatch trim Versailles, on Sunday morning, says: Jules Fay re re turned yesterday to Paris. Ile will rout. Versailleslu again to-day, accum pnuie l by a military officer, for floe purpose or set thing the terms of capitulation. There has beet no tiring tou either side since night. Attempted Soleigle of Bourbok I. IlunninnAt'.x, Jail. is officially an nounced that Gen. Clinehard is appointed to the command of the first army in place of (len. linnurbaki, who is no lounger able In perform service. 'Pilo latter seems to have in a moment of mental aberration attempt ed to commit suicide with a pistol. li= LiiNnos,•lan.27.—A special despatch to the New York irerid says: Mr. Fayre was in conference with Bismarck at Mid night, and the latter carried his point, and the capitulation in peace, the cessa tion of Alsace and tiernian Lorraine, and part of tile fleet, a money indemnity, to be guarded by the municipality, a portion of the tierman army to return home, and the war is to cease. it is necessary that some territory be retained to secure the fulfil ment of the compact. The Nlobiles are to be sent home, and the bierman army is to enter Paris. The Emperor will return to Iterlin immediately. Ins ttttt rek and Favre Snot the Capitnia Jan. A. M.—A Versail les ilespa eh 1111111,1111VCS that Omniltic marck signed, on Saturday, with Fapre, the capitulation of all the Paris Mris, and an armistice of three weeks on land awl sea. 'rho army of Paris to remain as pris oners of tsar within the capital. ==! A special telegram from Vienna to the /may Nrit,t represenLs that Turkey iv op posed to Austria's introduction of the I ,tll - in the conrerenee. The Oh- Acre, supposes that the eon rere,,, , will he adjourned on acrd hurt of the capitulation ail Park. Provimloos for Porioisuot. tilarck peat,. Th.! Frt•lti wv , tv.ard hound, cliterv,l I or. Till, ETU peror's%peach to the Enepremm The T:mpernr has sent the following des patch to the Empress: " Ens.sim.Es, Jan. -Last eightf Sat urday) iui armistice fir three weeks was signed. Thelteg Mars and Mobiles are to be retained in Paris as prisoners of scar. The National aivard will undertake to maintain order. We occupy ;11l the forts. Paris re mains invested, but will, lie allowed to be rovietualed as 00011 as the army has sur rendered. The National Assembly is to be summoned to meet at Bordeaux in a fort night, itll the armies in the field will retain their respective ie,sitions, the ground be tween the opposing lines to be neutral.-- This is the reward of patience, heroism and great sari lire. Thank l7nd fir this fresh merry may peace soon ILI 1.w." Signed W I 11l Itismarek, visited Favre, who had come to Versailles, :tfid an hour :therwards a counsel of warivas held, at which, Emperor NVilliain, , the Crown Prince, generals Von :\lolyKe, Bryan, and Von Holm, and Count Bismarck were present. At its conclusion, :t conference took place between Bismarck and Fan - re, and the latter returned to Paris in the after noon. Atter receiving confirmation of the news of the disturbances in the Capital, Favre returned to Versailles, and on the next day resumed negotiations with Bis marck. There bus rein 11 , / correspondence be tween lieust and Bismarck in regard to the preliminary of peace. The Tiunrx this morning publishes the following despatch: VERSAILLES, Jan. '27.—A n armistice has been agreed upon which is to extend im mediately to the whole nit' France. There was great agitation in Paris last night, and the beating of d ruins and shouts of the mul titude within the walls were plainly heard. The German Troo,' Occupy the Fort,. Around Purls. EitsAlM.Es, Jan. 211.--The German troops occupied the forts around l'aris at 10 o'clock this morning. The entire garri • son of Paris, except the National Guard, surrendered theirarms. The armistice ex pires the 19th of February. LoNnoN, Jan. C 9.-5.30 P. M.—A Ver sailles despatch Just received says the lah Saxon corps at 10 o'clock this morning oc cupied Roumanville. It is reported that Rothschild will retire from the representation of the City. of Lon don and be called to the House of Lords with the title of Earl of M clamor. Pere Hyacinthe writes to the La Liberte denying the validity of the Pope'aenayelic aland syllabus, and denouncing generally the hierarchical pretensions of the See of Rome. A despatch has been received at the 13rit ish Foreign office confirming fully the pre vious reports of the capitulation of Paris, and adding that one division of troops of the line besides the National Guards will not be required to be disarmed, and com municotion with Park k provisionally to stricted. There Is no prospect now that Fevre will come to London, and no other person has been accepted to represent France at the con foronee. Qnlet Restored—Revletttaltng the City LONnoN, Jan. 30.—The London Times strongly favors the proposal of the Lord Mayor of that city, to send supplies to the starving Parisians at once, and the public generally are actively engaged in aiding the benevolent project of the Chief Magis trate. Advices were received from Paris this forenoon. Quiet again prevails and order governs the city. The disturbances which so lately agita ted the streets, and which culminated in many instances in crime and murder, have entirely subsided. The citizens now dis cuss the capitulation in a quiet manner, evincing a sad resignation to the fate which has been thrust upon them anti which they were powerless to avert. The secrecy Whil:11 has been observed by the government in all the details connected with the eapitnla• tion has been the object of much "noon,: by the citizens. The city is now being thoroughly revictualed. Ilreat stores of provisions are arriving almost hourly from the districts around Paris, and immense :Inantities aro also pouring in front other quarters and front abroad. Los DOS, Jan.:3o—Noon—Liespatehes just received from Wilhelm:4lmM. state that the announcement of the capitulation of Paris was received by Napoleon and his attend ants with feelings of profound melancholy. The subsequent annonneenient of an elec tion on the nth of February and the convo cation of the constituent Asseintily Go Wciinesility, the 15th, produced the greatest eousternation aniong the friends of the tin perial dynasty, as it is hilly believed b, inane that the deliberations of the National A . s , enihly will be averse to the re-estali lishment of the lionapartes. 'rho Emperor Napoleon appears very dejected and tor the past three days has appeared very little in public. lloaninx x, Jan. n immense politi eat demonstration took place in this city to-day. Bands of excited people paraded the streets bearing banners with iniliontna tory inscriptions demanding war I/ r nil I - ',lire', and denouncing :Itty negotiations hit the cessation of territory and calling II poll Frenehmen to resist the ails auras of six, to the last extremity. Meeting, we,. organized in various quarters of the city cud everYwhere the prevailing seemed to favor the continuance of a Iv with NI. I;ambetta at its head. IttittnEm's, .but. 30.—A despatch Mr warded from .Versailles, dated Ilsth by J u l, Faire to the goVerll Illeta Of no, dean X, says that the treaty was signed to day. There is to be .in armistic for 21 days. The National Assembly is to be votive., I at Bordeaux un Fl`lllll,lry If., .11111 the 1.11•• n 0,,, are In take plat, on Ito Sill 111 . Febru ary. Member of the Paris government leaves at came Mr Itordemix. lAINIIt,N, Jan. :to.— IL reported I r.aa liamh• that numbers ui thateral 14,mrhals army :1110 ertm , ing the intatier anti haVt. nr rived at Itruiltrat and Warteinlairg. ,leellow of Ilav SIMr 1.41110r1al A•voclo Tho l'enn.yltania Editorial Assooiation 'net yostorday morning at II o'clock, in Ibo Senate ( . ”111111illCI. Itootus, at the State lltl - In!, Harrisburg. The meeting ;vas called 0. onlor Lt Henry T. loarlitittion, Prosidont the A 4soviat ion. Thu 11111110.1,4 1.1 0111 111 . 1•61,4 Itlvot3l,, wt.re real alllll.llVed. \V. \\'. 11. 11,i-, of t.,.‘ from the h:Net•titive That artta• t.tat,ttitaittth Wllll Ilif• 1 . 1'1,1111'111 1111(1 St 1 1•114111y, it ,VilS dt•I•1111 1 ti 11i1V1 , 11111 , 111111 a 1 .11111111, Meeting should not 1 / 4 . for lhr rea,lll that it sva. um rr.l tli:t; ticit.nt numb, tv.,t3ttlt.. twtl:l , sit,•lln iiteetitti.: a •111.1,1,... Seerehtry rep.rtehl a I.:thti.a. in lls. the Tre,ttrer (51 thirty-hove. hart. Mr. Smith, th.• and Secretary lie atitheri4ed thin retpleNted L.t urruittze liar a thlteLthg Etliterint ANmeetutiett in the early part hl the •dittither. Saki h....011R td take ph., uL ‘Villithavort, Nettle nth, in Llin Matti. Adepten. The l'residetit appeititen 11. l'hu,o, oldie York \V. \V. 11. Davis. a tho 1) ,ylestown 11..,.. 'rho, E. chuifant, el the D.thville I let, 111 7l'111 • 01 . , a cettithillee Le repot htlivet.tier the ensuing . year. 'Phil ttonttitittee reLit en 1.. it ,Itet ti 11... and 1111 Lheir rettirit roperted the lt,lless hllit•Prm : `lidera 11. 1.1t111,1111•1 . tell we ',err. I're,illvilt4--11,11. .1. Erwin SCUI•iI . , .1. Nllngt.l., .von• EihN ant tir ull , t , on , f Why. 11.( 1 01,111 , 114 St.t . r.•Lary It. S. Nlrnuw ill PI, Wel,' 1:1301 Cerrespeleling 'leek I (elle) . toil.' 11 . 11 ri As,islata Iterclnling :,•erelary A. NI NI itrtin, Jeep 0,1 ;cern. rt. r El w iekt, /../e/•./.4..r I Executive l',,lntoiltee--NV. NV. 11. 1 , 3 I /..yleSt.,,Vll beottoct•lll ; 11. T. 1 , arii,. 14 1.,, Buck county /u lel I Young, York True. .1 h.,'" or re ti 11' tn. N. Black, el , and 111,11.,e•rett, ow ('ratio; Hon. 11. ti. 1 . 111 , yr , Ilecr,rd %v. Capron, j.l It• trul .11,110 tti, 1 1 . ; . It. Isrork way, (;,/,/ilit.,/, , f/id Bloomsburg; J. S. Itlioper, shorts %e,/1/// ! /, Ilarrivlwrg ; \V. NV, I:veil:to, I/11.1,110t. /110 )1 • 111I1C1 . 0 (5 revn,lourg ;.I. t•P I Ycs.s, Ea..... 1,11; .1. It. Syplker, Ilarrisburg. The report of the Colllillittee WOO:I.4I"We.] 'l • he nddresm of the retiring . President, T. Darinignin; then read And or dared to be printed. ni motion id Col. I Ii reported by the ( ~ 1 1111iill'e, nerr elnimil anclitinntion. I. O. Smith, on as,unting the chair, returned his thantot fitr the honor em.frrred, and assured the As4ttehttimt of his earnest. zeal in the discharge of the di,- ties of Ilia office. 11. \-oun g , ~r mach. IL report. from tho 0,1111.1.11.11 dvvrtlming Ilit ren Lucie t0,1% - rd that the 11.1.,,rt It re ceived, and the I and inNtrtirted It, repot t al tlu, nest Darlington moved that the era of newspapers in Pennsylvania hm rot:MIMIC:110a to adopt It unit. trill rate ol conitnission of fifteen per 11 • Ilt. in their transactions with advertising agents iii the principal cities. :\ Inott moved that the ill:1111<M of this ASSOlLiiltiOn 110 tendered 1.1) the Sollate Ilmisrolltepresonnilives, for the hind I,lh r of their eliambers for 1110 11,11, 1,1 this body. Adopted. motion the .\ ssociation meet in summer :it the call of tint Tress lent and Secretary. It. S. :\ I ENANI I N, 101= ollr readers will donlales. rementhoi the Democrats carried Pennsylvania. iu stat e olll.•er', and a majority of the jamular hraneh or tin• Legislature. .lobo Cessna hrc;unr n e.sllcliiiatt, for the Speaker,hip of the House in opposition to that true gentleman and steadfast Den, cral, the I lon. \V in. Ithpkins. Mr. Ilop hims was too high-toned and dignified to resort 0, the arts which his oppoll.lt plibll successfully. R•hen the Democ ratie cane., mot, considerable was 111111101,11 , 1 by the friends if the them, which had 'leen used to Inlthonce the minds of tnenthors. Ilonorahle Daniel Kane, of Fayette, one of the le,ldcet 1110/I ill lan Hide. %%lir, was nit gi von to the ',driving of word... denounced t'w'ee in the emiens ;IS ne•ree nary and unreli:lhie, heseeehlrig the Mole - hers out to entrost yo.ver b, his hand, The remarks rut It T. ICa tr.o ere /11•ellied lilt - necessarily Jim'sh by many heele.t. heal Wile had been 111,011Wi11keli int?! believing that I'ooslla WWI trim and reliable. Mr. I\ ant... 4 Speeell failed to eetivert any or those Wilo had pledgr•il tlienlsPlyl.o tip sm.- port, Jelin 1 . 1,0 , 11 a, and le• received the caucus WPM iII ateel. The minor ottirl'S having' been 1114poSed uI, 4111110 elithll4l:l4tle 111111111rer that the ealle,e4 reSeiVe itself into a l'gffilinith, it the \, hole and proceeded to Bolton's hely' to inform Mr. Ces,int it his tigninatien, and that Mr. Kane •diould :tut as Chairman of the Committee. The Mellen was carried by 111,1:1111:itic)11 before eon hl get. sit opportunity to prat in a Ovenl or prudent. 'l'hc too,, hers berried out of the Home and marched in a body to the 11 , 44 . 1, waft Ile• stately figure 0f Mr. Kane at She head. lu this order they 1111-,1 11110 the room %Ole., Cessna stood, lip rave in hand, with hi.. porn liar smirk, ready to receive them. A 00,11 as stillness WaY Seellred M r. I:atie ad - dres,ed I hc,urcr•snl'ul eand ',tate : Sr R : 1 have Lean appointed Chid Minn ”1 . a C.llllll ittee eln11110,10(11,1 t h e a hole body 4dt theThmmeratic members of the IL Om, to inform you that you have received the c,an cis. nomination tor Speaker, a nomination which I rejoice to say in t•yuivalent to an election. The ehnivc of the party, I may be permitted to remark. 11113 fallen upon one whom the people know where to iind. -- I•:very Democrat in Pennsylvania known where to tind John Cessna, and the place where they rind him is—on Ott. fwo•r. It is needless to remark that Al r. Kant• nerved emmeittees that year. Terrible iiielithinit Accident The inuauguration of the season's sleigh riding in I hailer]] yesterday, WWI marked by a terrible accident, the result of the careless thriving of an amateur sportsman. Mr. James Wa(S011, tilt, County Auditor, was driving down the lane with a friend in his sleigh, drawn by a magnificent learn of horses. When nearly opposite White• beck's Club-house, a young German who was driving tip the road in a hired single sleigh with his wife crossed the road and ran into Mr. Watson's sleigh. The w hom, of Mr. watsoo . ,, team, a splendid'aer rel mare, valued at $lO,OOO, was almost in-, stantly killed by the shaft of the IlermauCa hired sleigh being driven through its chest. The worst part of the accident then occurred. Thegherse of the Cerman's hired team, in prancing and dashing about Mr. Watson's sleigh, it is supposed kicked him in the fore head ; at any rate he fell out of his sleigh with a terrible wound on his lac, forehead, about an inch and a half long, his ek all be ing fractured. Tho elerman, who was in toxicated, was flung out of his sleigh, and his wife, who was with him, screamed fear fully. Mr. Watson was taken to the club house, where be remained last night in a very critical condition. The German gen tleman, who did not know how to drive, was released on giving his card.—N. Y. 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