ISM, had been furnished by President Johnson, at the request of the Governor of that State. Adjourned. The State Legislature LlARRlSlttlltri, Feb. 7, 1871. SENATE.—Mr. Evans offered a resolution requesting the Committee on Printing to inquire into the expediency of abolishing the office of Superintendent of Public Printing. A resolution to purchase 500 copies of Sin till's Legislative Hand-book, was postponed,objeet ion being made by Mr. ltillingfelt. The bill to transfer the Soldiers' Orphans' Schools to the Department of Common Schools, passed a vote of 2.5 ayes to fl nays. A report was nn et that the Pest-011ie° bepartnient had decid d that the - 117y, 343 Legishaire Journal could be cir.ulated as a newspaper, saving the Stateflotne $12,01:10 postage. Mr. Wallet intrAuced an act to incorporate the Lancaster and Farm vine Turnpike Company. Mr. Buckalow intro duced a bill providing that in all stock holder elections in this Commonwealth, for Directors or Miinagers of incorporated companies, each stockholder for each share of stock owned by him, shall be entitled to as tinny votes as the whole number of Di rectors or Managers to be chosen, and may cast his Vote in person or by prosy, for as many persons as the whole number to be chosen, or may cumulate his votes upon ono or more candidates, as he may think lit, and candidates highest in vote shall be declared elected. Tho bin incorporating the Lancaster Monumental Association, passed, us also that incorporatinv the Al stint Joy liislirance Company. Adjourned. Iforst.....—The report of Committee on l:ontested Judgeship of l'hilitdelpliht was made, onulir Inning I.yitil in his sent. Three hundred dollars were voted to the clerk of committee, :mil three hundred more to clerk in the eilse uCStaolu vs. Putney. Mr. Iteinoehl wantiiil to make it ;.• -4 1114i. A joint resolution, authorizing the Speakers MOM two 110Usiiii to draw their warrants for Postage . on 1, Vi. 1,, ti , e Juurn , t l , 1).. 4- ed. 'rho amendment, limiting to 101 l years the exemption of the American Steamship Company, wits repeaed and tine hill passed, exempting iL forever. Whitson voted for eternal exemption, Wiley dodged, and liei nuehl and Engle voted against. An net for the protection of sheep in \Vest Earl, Elizabeth Mild Upper Learoek to‘viiships was passed. House bill No. 113, a supplement b, all act relative to the laincaster County Prison, approved Eel,. '27, came up ill its Or der. The bill iirovideil that the .111dgcS of the Court of Quarter Sessions should ap point the Prison Ins's...tors, Mitt' elected by the the Prison Iluyur IEOI the Way (10We stairs, and tllO 11011 Wheel nod 1/111111/ Ware examined. They worked smoothly, the crank-wheel making thirteen revolutions per minute, with a very slight retardation 00 it passed the centre. TllO water on the wheel was from six feet eight inches to seven feet in depth. Neither of the old pumps were running. A worthless gunge attached to the main Mine:ilea by its Vibrations from Of to 110 pounds pressure to the square Melt-- standing at 05 pounds when the pump stop ped—which is some 90 1101111110 11e1OW the mean pressure. In half an hour the gates were closed, the new wheel stopped, and t h e steam-engine geared to the pump. It started off at the ' rate of more than twenty I evolutions per minute, but settled down to about eighteen revolutions. It ran very smoothly, net the least retardation being notified in passing the centres. After running for some it was stopped and the 110 W wheel again put in motion. Just before the visitors' loft the works the weight securing the safety-valve Of the boiler became in some way diSpilleed, al lowing the escape of steam into the mill, which in a short time became filled With al dense volume of steam, rendering every thing invisible and almost suffocating those ill the upper stories. 'rho mishap was soon remedied, and the party returned to the city. PROJECTED RAILROAD.—The last Bran dywine and Waynesburg R. It. Company propose extending their road to New Ilol land, aiming ultimately at a through either to Ilanheim, forminga junction with the Lebanon and Cornwall road or to Lan caster city. Their charter granting the right of extension to this place, books have been opened for the subscription of stock. About two-thirds of the stock necessary to grade the road is already subscribed. The Pennsylvania Rallrbad Company has guar anteed au amount amply sufficient to put on the superstructure of the road, and It is now only necessary for the co-operation of the citizens to make the enterprise a suc cess. BIG Yundt slaughtered a hog last week which weighed 028 pounds. That puts Illnkletown ahead of Adams town, but does not touch Strasburg town ship, which leads tho county. A Champion Cock• Fight Chestnut 11111 Against 111161ellot Lancaster Racks the 11111 and Harris berg Stands by the River. Eig . ht Bplriled Contetaw—Cbehtuut Hill Winn Five out. of the Eight- "It will be an old-fashioned main !," "And lots of greenbacks won and lost!" "You bet, my boy! Seven pair of the gamest birds that ever cluttered'" " Who's a doin' all this`" " Them Hill fellers, backed up I, Lancas ter; and the Marietta lilt mid, with Harris burg to help •eni." This was the ollieitanee of a conversation we heard between' a couple of Lancaster " sports" some tell days ago, as we took a half-dozen on the shell in a queen St. res taurant. The language was not perfectly intelligible to us, but on inquiring of the gentleman who was dexterously dividing the shells of the mollusks, we learned that a grand cock-tight wason the carpet, osten sibly between Chestnut Hill and Marietta, but in which numerous persons in Lan easter and Harrisburg had an inter est, Lancaster backing "The HUI, - and the State Capital standing by its sister town on the Susquehanna. Tlie oysterman promised to let us know when the grand contest took place, and we de termined to let thin public- know whether such an affair as was spoken of could come ott within the peaceful borders of this staid old county of Lancaster, which always gives suck an overwheltnning majority for the party that claims all the morality and ail the decency. We had quite forgotten the circumstance, when a phiz dug we recog nized at inlet was poked inside the room, where we sat dressing up a local, about noon on Friday, and We were informed that the bloods had left tile city fur the scene of the contest, which was to take place that afternoon. " Then and there was hurrying to and fro," and horse-flesh wits not spared as we hastened over the hills that make the Marietta pike a MILS:Mee. At the end of nine miles we came to a large brick tavern which stands on the left side of the pike, in West Ilemptield township, and is kept by a well-to-do t;erman of the old Lancas ter county stock. THE SCENE OF 'ME FluilT. The landlord met us at the porch, :old glance around the yard skuWed more than fifty carriages and Wagons arranged in or der along the fences. A motley crowd surged to and fro through the long hall of the building, and the bar-room was packed until it seemed las if it would be impossible to sandwich another male biped in edge• wise. Three liar-keepers were kept buoy handing tip drinks to the crowd around the counter, but as beer was the bevelage most ly called for, and as the glasses had been judiciously diminished for the occasion, the liquor seemed to produce very little effect. A singular hug, is that we did not nold.s , a drunken man in the ',arty, though many of thorn seemed tin be s kin:La little !minim.. 111/IMIIIIIMI There were staid (drillers flan, the neigh borhood round about, men in broad-cloth, with silk hats of the latest city pattern, workmen from the unities, and a fair repre sentation from Africa. Too hill hall sent forth the elite of its inhabitants, and one of the 'waviest betters was the American citizen of African descent, who marshalled the negro vote of Columbia in favor of the successful candidate for Congress last fall. The landlord had given 1111 his whole 1011, , e to 11111 assent bled "sports: . Ascend ing the sours, we saw a dozen or more bags suspended front the walls or a large 1,0111. Mlelt of these contained nothing but a 4pia rt, or two of nuts and corn mixed, but from several of GIN,' the sharp beaks of gamecocks protrnded,and as they eyed each other with tierce looks, they sounded their clarion antes of defiance. At the doors of two smaller rooms, men who seemed to recog nize the impurtance of their positions were posted, and you had bi be well vouched rios before you could pass these vigilant senti nels. Itneeded 4n one to inform yonwhat the rooms contained, for the tsmstant crowing that eallle from them, rising high above all the din of the crowd Mown, told that will in were the combatants upon whom the hopes and the money el the adverse the Mats Were soon t,, Is , staked. We entered the rtsmi che,t,,,11 IEIII party, with out the slightest difficulty, a Radical t:ity rather vouching, for us. 111=1111= Here one of the queerest sights we ever beheld met our gaze. ltanged around the sualla were ware than a dozen flour barrels, covered with coffee sacks, and having an aperture or about rear helms made in Mu middle of each hp sawing out a piece of :1 stave. Through each of these holes pro truded the head :mil neck at a ganie each, and they crowed defiance at each tither continuously. The Alarietta room W:I , a duplicate al' the one we first entered. It had been agreed several Wet•ks two that a 1115111 01 seven rooks each ILr 32111) should be fought between the contend ing sections, but it was discovered that the birds could not lie evenly matched, and it wan finally agreed that n "shake-bag bat tle" between a single pair of cocks should decide who was entitled to the torfeht mo ney of ;;••; - 2. - p, already put up. A "shake-bag battle" is a contest in 0 ideli tot stipula tions we mado as to weight, each party put ting its the best bird they have, tel keep ing him eonvealed until placed in the ring. The preliminaries I wing .linsted the real work liegan. A Laneasterian ul known skill prepared the Chestnut II ill eiielis for the light. Tide is really an artistic plot, of . business. With it strong pair of the beta and sharpest scissors in his right bawd the "heeler" passes his left un der the long leathers that cover the neck of the cock, aria, raising thorn tip, clips them neatly, cutting oft• front One to two Mars. When the picrnage is permitted to drop leek to its place, the bright rotors that devorated the front of the boil hare dis- appeared, and a plain gray or brown is all that isseen. Thu skillfully handled shears have done their work as doilly as those of the most fashionable barber, and the short ened feathers lie perfectly even over the neck. The long bright plumage back of the wings iv 111 away, sad cavil feather of the wing shortened, not bluntly, but so as to leave them with sharp points that will be damaging when they strike. The tail is also clipped. We asked the "heeler - wiry he trimmed the fowl SI/ closely, and he replied by asking Ils, whether we didn't take ta tar UV elelMt. when We went to light. After the overcoat of the cock has liven taken Mr, the nt,t thing is to arni hie heels, for unlike Achilles he is strong est in that part of his bialy. The Nall, a a game cork look to be fermidable enough, but they are !joule touch Mat , killing by the galllem. A gallle, or gall', as It is vont tnonly called, is a sharp spear, eboot Iwo Inches lng, 'mule of the 'taint finely trin• penal Sleet, and given the sal oral curve of the rock's spur. In order Lllst Ihr gamier nay be properly lilted the spurs nn cut down, leaving a ntitilip oi about u quarter of an Inch, over which a leather band Is Jil -1 led, the genie resting against OW leg of l ie base aOw spur. The leather hand vontaining the glalllo Ie ramten ed to the leg by flee, strong twine. All this preparation we watched the tine' with ow observant eye us bivh a Cepertee Masi. have In hie head. While the births were being trimmed and heeled the butters snore busy. rellowe whose etude were torn and sylinso lusts needed thatelllng, rent•hoil into streamv wad lots and drew forth rolls of green (uu•l