Lancaster jintelligenter. WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1871 The Pennsylvania Railroad in Virginia. There is at present extraordinary quietude in legislative affairs at Harris burg; which we presume is mainly owing to the fact that the Pennsylva nia Railroad officials are now busily engaged at Richmond, in laying siege to the Legislature of Virginia. These famous manipulators, although perfect ly competent to manage one State at a time, seem to doubt their ability to prop erly attend to two big ones at once; and HO we may expect the quietude of Har risburg to continue for a week or two, until; Virginia being swallowed, the boa-constrictor is ready for its old meal upon Pennsylvania. Virginia being a' virgin State, which has never heretofore been corruptly approached by the se ductive managers of the Pennsylvania Railroad, has naturally given them a great deal of trouble, and there are even indications that they may be unsuccess ful in their present vigorous attempt to take possession of her. Our readers will naturally wonder what railroad connections the Pennsyl vania Central Itailroad, running east and west, can possibly want with roads running north and south in eastern Virginia ; since it would seem to he phy sically impossible for the latter to throw any important trade upon the former. The simple answer, probably, is that the Pennsylvania Railroad has no such wants or interests, but its managers and the freight monopoly barnacles that are attached to it, may obviously have im portant private interests to subserve in eontrollingfreightsanywhere ; and they ire sufficiently unseruptilous, to use the Immense power and resources of the railroad which they manage in 11111:ii ing this control. The ponn,yivanin Railroad managers are stru, ing now to get of a through line of rail ro:ol front New York t o N, along the Atlatiti , coast :Id through tile tie il' 01 . 4,1 deing t o obtain control o f t i t , ,em.r freight of the South and southwest. of which they si ll rroi.:dy throw scud Ihcy ran upon the s‘ COIIIIC, of their maul line at I 111C111113ii. They anilkut iZt•I any or . this freight upon the lino of ti:' Pennsylvania Hail -11111,-, :noun , ! from Baltimore I , y tt as of I larrisburg or Lan , Aster. They, hoiieVcr, :ICI ill Cclleeni Si tilt iiiC IFI ,• I lines front New Nod; m Baltimore, from whirl iiitiCr City they have lately finished a road of their own to \Vashington. They have a charter railroad front \Vashingtiin Fred eriel:slitirg, in Virginia. They :it-0 l•nii trol the line of railroad from Richmond to the Southwest, passing through Dan ville, Va., colunibia, S. C., and Augusta. 'There is, therefor,', waiting in their through line only the short link be tween Richmond and 'Fredericksburg and this is \vint they are striving nos\ . to oldain from Cite Virginia Legislature. They areenentintering tieree4ippr , Sit :lila have fouutl it itcct., , ary 1,, newspaper in Rieltiniind to obtain all organ of their views. The proprietor of the , Richmond could not be bought to :etym.:de their ,cIICIIII, Litt he sold 011..111 1111lICT their conduct this ancient organ of the Democracy is daily demeaning itself by advocating the surrender of Virginia to the mereenary cohort of Penits Ivania Railroad 11111.11ilger.. The press ofthe State is nearly unanintiet , ly opposed to assuming the yoke whieli Ibesc men would impose mum :mil it is to he hoped that they may ire in their effort to evade it. They :ire aided by diver, railroad interests, the parties coneerneil In whirl, though they are probably as selfish in their mo tives as the Pennsylvania Railroad people, are still doing a good work in striving to prevent the people of Vir ginia front being laid, hound hand and root, at the feel of a gigaittie, soulless railro:,4l corporation. It should he 1111 , policy iir the Legis lature of :is of the Legislatures of all other States, in chartering rail r.cails to 11kt . ..fully guard against the pos sibility. of Ihrir creature acquiring too great power, and hecoming greater than its creator. 'They should he anxious always to eiseate diver., and competing railroad interests their herders. and should strive to 1111110: . 1111'111, as 11111( . 11 as1111:4;.illle, equalllOWl.l'; to sic control them th a t i m m. ill them may ever grow to be such big fish as to attempt tii sttalluw the .011;11101' OOPS \V MI several pwpcling I . :011'0;1 , 1S 111 ;I. State, none of are all o wed to become sic power -111 as lo engulf the olliers, the !Oral in erests the Slate will prosper; ;mil the people will govern their State and (heir railroads. New Jersey and Pennsylva nia 111:0 shining examples of the fate which overtakes Slates \Odell fl travet,ed Icy mammoth through-line railroads of overwhelming tower; they :ire governed Icy them. 'l'll, , number of largo and distinct nutty 051st ill Virginia, will ren der it comparatively en-y for her Legis lators, If they are \\lSt', tp control them (or the hest interests of the State. The aint should he to keep their power in and prevent pile from over ,lcadowing :mother. NVith the Balti more ;old Ohio, Chesapeake and Ohio, .\ Haunt., Mksissippi and Ohio, Penn .-ylvania and other great railroads, to play Mr against earl other, this should not lie dillieult. Virginia will he fortunate it' she cs rapes the deadly grasp of the Penn s.) lvania Itailroad. Vie in Pennsylva nia. have hail sail experience of the man a ;ement of this road, which uses our State but as a pathway Icy which the products of the West may reach the ships or New York. Local interests along the line of the Road are ruthlessly sacrificed and manufactories are pre vented from springing up thereon be cause of the discrimination in freights made against the towns on the line fur whose carrying trade the Itailroad tuts tin competition, and in favor of localities .outside of the State which are blessed with a choice of railways to take their goods to market. lien , in the City of I.aneaster, a town of 22, nod population, no less than three pas senger trains a day rush at rapid speed across our streets, tud deigning to stop an instant within our limits to ;teconclinc date the travel of our city. Such may be the fate of Rielimond if this road gets its charter to Fredericksburg. Sonic of these days it will see passenger trains being driven rapidly across its outskirts without stopping, because the exigencies of competition for " through " travel forbid the accommodation of focal traffic. Even Philadelphia is treated in this way by the Pennsylvania itailroad, and a through train rushes through it every night front New York Mille \Vest with oat stopping. The interests of Philadel phia, the mother of the Pennsylvania /Zallroad, a city that built itand nursed It Into vigor, are saeri lice,' to those of New York because the Road finds its profit hi so dicing; and Its managers 11110 W Oct guide but self-Interest. As their organ, the Richmond Eitquircr says, " they are not bothering themselves with the question of building up this or that LOWII." NO indeed! they bother them selves about nothing but the building up of a railroad monopoly. They coil- Ll'ol a grand and mighty work which has but one fault; it is too vast. It con fers too great power:upon the men who wield it, and perhaps they would Ice more than human if they did not abuse it. Is Philadelphia negroes have been admitted to the Jury-box. In Laneas• ter county, with its big Radical majority, not n single darkey has been allowed his " Inalienable right" to dispense law un der the XVth Amendment. Is the ne gro to be thus ignored in the Court where Thad. Stevens practised? THE LANCASTER WEEKLY INTELLIGENCER, WEDNESDAY . , FEBRUARY 22, 1871. The Insecurity of Our Prison The ease with which prisoners effect their escape from our prison is certainly remarkable. Every few months some desperate villain picks his way through the walls of the building and goes forth to prey again upon society. The ac count of the escape of the negro burglar Hamilton, which we publish elsewhere, shows that the prison was poorly con structed. No doubt the contractor was bent upon making all the money he could out of the job, and that will ac count for the inferior character of the mason-work. One would suppose that where lime is so plenty and so cheap as it is in Lancaster county, enough would be used to make good mortar for laying the stones of a prison which is used as a penitentiary, but we find that even in so small a matter the builder cheated the tax-payers. It really seems as if nothing can be honestly done in this country any more. Almost every branch of business seems to have be come dernoralized,and public work of all kinds is apt to be poorly executed no mat ter what may be the price paid for hav ing it done. If the Lancaster County Prison cannot be made secure,the public will soon demand the repeal of the law which allows felons to be confined with in it for any long period, and our crimin als will have to be sent to the Eastern Penitentiary for safe-keeping. That the numerous escapes which have occurred at our prison might have been prevented, by proper care on the part of the officials, the fae very clearly ,hurt. When Le Ilarron, the burglar, escaped, the watchman whose duty it was to look after hint wal• boozing in a beer-house down town. Smith, the horse-thief, who made his exit last week, duped the under-keeper by a show of good conduct, and let himself dawn by a line from the tower. Th, truth is that our prison has been run as a political maeltine, instead of conauchal ,uch an 11.11 iii L'. t has been Made a harbor or incompetent persons who have owed :lprOilltlll , lll to political influence. •hr officials have been chosen, not MI cilium of any fitness for the peculiar luties attaching to their offices, but on count of their relationship to the I pectin s, the Keeper, or some intluen ial politician. [oder the new Prison till the keeper is made elective. C the people choose a lirst-class man nany of the evils which surround the irison may be done away with, but the hire fail ilia( the office is maile elective does not insure any reform. A ring of clrrupt politicians will tight desperately to secure the nomination of one of their creaturei, and he will be elected if lie .eetires a hare majority or a plurality (4 he votes east at the primary eleetions. It will require more vigilance than the wople of Lancaster County have hereto ore exhibited to insure such reforms as re needed under the provisions of the new Pris.oti Bill. Let that fart be kept teadily in view by every conscientious man in the Ih2publit'all party. The Spring Elections The old plan , of electing township offi cers in the Spring worked well fur many yems. The people of the different town ships met together, put up good men for the different positions to be filled, and elected them quietly. As ageneral thing the party which was in the ma jority succeeded in carrying its regularly nominated ticket!through at the i , :pring eleetions,but it frequently happened that improper candidates were beaten. 'rho sturdy yeomanry of the State would not be brawl by party usage at the Spring electrons, told that fact, which was well undertood by the managers of each party, led to the nomination of un exceptionable men in most eases. A couple of years ago a law was passed abolishing the spring elections, and en acting that township officers'-should be chosen at the general election lit Octo ber. The change was not found to work well, lulu] the people or the rural districts desire a return to the old system. In accordance with (heir wish a bill re-esta blishing S)oritig elections Into passed the Senate by an almost unanimous vote, and is now before the I louse. We have no doubt it will pass that body, toll un doubtedly ought to do. Iu the excite ment attendant upon a general election the people of the different townships eaunot pay that attention to their town ship tickels which ought to be given to thorn. 'Township affairs are 1111 port an and the officers who control them should be the best moo Within the limits el' these Stale. The IWO- Ide of Pennsylvania would be less af fected by the acts o f an in,,mipetpnt. (;,, , ,r1,,,r than by the combined :lethal of incompetent township olllvials. Let the Spring elections he restored. Adjourned Mei Ilii , inuss has been dull at llarrisburg this ‘% inter, and the members are not Isontent with the usual adjournment front Thursday or Friday of each week Lo the following Monday night or Tues day morning. 'Flue House has adjourn ed over to the fTtli, and the Senate un til the 2:td. The probabilities are that the pre, , ent session will be a 11/11g one. The apportionment will take inuelt Hume and there will likely lie a protract ed struggle over the question of calling a Constitutional l'ont•ention. So far very little business of importance has been tramueted. the power of our Legislature was restricted to the passage of public laws, as it should be, and the mass of private legislation which engages the attention of members cut up by the roots, as it ought to be, we could get along very well with biennial sessions. • In thir teen States the Legislatures only ,meet ones in two years, and they have better laws and more honest legislators than those States which have annual sessions. B=M= Bills art . .; now before Congress creat ing half a dozen or more new Judicial Districts in different States. The New York Tribune insists upon it that there is not the slightest necessity for any in crease in the number of Federal Courts, and it eharge3 that the newly made dis tricts are to be established for the sole rpose of providing corn fortable places of retirement for defeated members of Congress. The Tribioic wants to know whether representatives who thus lib erally dispense public funds and places to their fellows, fear that they will be in need of like favors in the future. The results of recent elections are calculated to remind Radical Congressmen of the uncertainty of the political future.— Numbers of those who went forth last summer full of itionlidence, returned to Washington after the froybs of October saddened by unexpected defeat,. It is for these forlorn gentlemen that the, new .ludicial Districts are being created, .1 A lienulne Negro In Congress A genuine negro has at last take!' his seat on the Republican side of the House. He Is a member of Congress from South Carolina, and his full title is honorable R. 11. Elliott. He is a Simon-pure African, as black us coal, and with all the distinguishing features of the race. The other negro members are very much mixed. The white Rad iealti is Congress did not exhibit any marked degree of cordial feeling toward the new brother. He was Just a little too much African for most of them. Pensions for Soldiers of 1812 The President has signed the bill granting pensions to surviving soldiers of the war of 1812, and to widows who were married to soldiers of that war at the time of Uietr enlistment. As most of the w4dows of the heroes of that struggle were zruuTle,(l after the war was over, comparatively few w ill receive relief under this bill. THE railroad monopolists will attempt to control the political conventions in California this year. They have decided to labor against the renomination of Governor Haight by the Democrats, as he has shown them no favor. Congressional Interference In EleCtione , On Wednesday the right of Congress to regulate ,suffrage in the States was the .principal subject of discussion In each of the two houses of Congress. In the Senate Mr. Morton, who is regarded as the mouthpiece of the President, took occasion, in noticingthe joint resolution of the Indiana Legislature withdrawing that State'salleged ratification of the Fif teenth Amendment, to make a bitter as sault on the Democratic party. He de nounced all such action as that taken by the IndianaLegislatureasrevolutionary, and Indulged in much of thatcoarsevitu- Peration which makes up the body of speeches delivered by Radical orators In Congress and on the stump. Senator Blair replied to Mr. :Morton in a very vigorousspeech, showing how the odious Fifteenth Amendment had been forced through the Legislatures of the differ ent States against the will of the peo ple. He admitted the binding force of a Constitutional amendment which had received the form of legal sanction, even when such formal endorsement was made ' in opposition to the will of the people. Neither Senator Blair, nor any other Democrat in the country proposes to make violent resistance to the Fifteenth Amendment, notwithstanding the fact that it was passed by Northern Legisla tures over the remonstrances of a ma jority of the people, and put through Southern Legislatures at the point of the bayonet. Whilst the Fifteenth Amendment stands it will be obeyed, but obedience will not prevent denun ciation of the method by which it was forced upon the people, or a free discus sion of the ellect of negro suffrage upon our institutions. Mr. Blair's answer til Senator Morton completely demolished the wind mill, which that gentleman had created out of the action of the In diana Legislature. In the House the bill reported by the Judiciary Committee to enforce the rights of citizens under the Fifteenth Amendment, came up as the regular order of the day. It was championed by leading Radicals, and opposed and exposed by the Democrats. Very able 1 speeches against it were made by Messrs Eldridge, Cox, Woodward, stiles, Ax tell, Mayhant and Voorhees. The Re publicans replied without effect.to the convi tieing arguments of the Democrats against the bill, and the military featu r e, against which Governor Geary so vigor ously protested, was finally stricken out, enough of the more decent Republicans voting with the Democrats to kill that ' provision. Thus amended the act pass ed, and it now goes to the Senate. The bill is an infamous attempt to create an tinny of federal Officers to whom is to be intrusted the supervision and control of elections in the different Stales. It is founded upon false as sumptions and is a mere blind to cover up contemplated frauds and outrages. Though every Democrat in the North and many thousands of decent Republi cans were bitterly opposed to the man ner in which the Fifteenth Amendment was given a seeming ratification, no at tempt Was made to resist its operation. In Pennsylvania, and throughout the entire North, the negroes have voted without let or hinderanee at every elec tion which has taken place since the Fifteenth Amendment was declared to be adopted. In this State the Demo crats had a majority in one-half the elec tion districts, but, not in a single in stance was a colored man denied. the right to vote or hindered in Sri doing,. The Democratic party is a law-abiding party. It yields a ready obedience to every ellaCilllVlli. which I, binding upon the citizen, and appeals to the people to remedy exkting evil.- t hr. aigh the peace ful agency of the ballot-box. The bill which has just po,Fed the Lower I I ou,e of Congress is the crowning art of the many usurpations of pourer which have been attempted by the Radical majority. It strikes at the very basis of our sys tem of free elections, and proposes to tranaer the entire c mind of them to a , set of uncials who are In, he ap p ointed by underlings of th. , administration. There is not even the slightest guar_ rutty that the creatures who will be chosen to control the election officers of the Slates, and In over-ride the laws of the land try their arbitra ry decrees, wilt be either honest or 1 capable. The basest trunk that partisan 1 malignity can select. may I ns chosen to stand in front :Hid in rear of the ballot box In which the citizen deposits his ballot. At the last election in New Yuri: City the federal officers, who were selected to liii:ierViiis the lillillit-bliXeS, ! Wl`l*o in 1111111 y 111. , 1111144, , ;!iill Vil'o . ll Crilll link :Ind i ii ruinous creatures, who would freeely perjure themselves IMr a very slight consideration. The law just passed by the llotie extends the system under I which such outrages were (qtmtnitted, adds to the power of tit,. ~m,h,k, and :tugmenta , Ille jamallies for opposing their decrees. 1 This law has it mivill lit the desper ate needs of the Radical party. Recent elections have alarmed the leaders of that corrupt. organization. They see ' that the Democrat.y will sweep the country in 1572 if a free el( etion is al lowed, and they propose to provide an agency, by which a fair and honest ex pression ~f !while opiniun way be pre vented. That any such device can save the Republican candidate for President' from defeat we do not believe. 'fire tjealousy of the people of the North ern States has been aroused, and this act will In tonsify that feeling. The citi zens of Pennsibiania will resent any at tempted interference by Yl:lheral officials with elections in this l'oniwouweall.h. They know that the Constitution of the United States reengnizes the right of the people of each State to determine for themselves who shall be entitled to exercise the right of suffrage, and every attempted interference of the Radical majority in Congress with that cherish ed right will add largely to the strength of the Democratic party. More Cumulative Voting, The Senate Committee on Elections has unanimously reported a bill pre pared by Hon. C. It. Iluckalew, apply ing the cumulative system of voting to the election of County Commissioners and Auditors, and to the election of bor ough, ward and township officers gen erally. We have repeatedly expressed our approval of this system, and we hope Mr. Buckalew's bill may speedily be conw a law. It has been put in operation in the town of Bloomfield, Mr. Bucka lew's 'ionic, and has been found to work . admirably. There is not a county in the Commonwealth which would not be benefited by having the minority rep resented in the Hoard of County Com missioners and Auditors, and not a bor ough, ward or township in which the cumulative system of voting would not be productive of good results. GENERAL KII.PATURT is talked of a the next Radical candidate for (Inver nor of New Jersey. We hope he may he nominated and beaten. Ile is one half blatherskite, the other half black guard. He took a disreputable woman with him to Chili, and disgraced this country loy attempting to introduce her into the society of respeetable ladies at Lima. Gov mcvon STEvENsoN, of Kentucky, vacated his office on Monday to accept the United States Senatorship. Ile takes his seat on the 4th of March. Lieuten ant-Governor Leslie succeeds him as Governor. Mr. Leslie will be a candi date for the nomination for Governor before the Democratic Convention, which meets in May. THE Young Men's Christian Associa tion of York have engaged Nasby to lectum for them. They will be likely to hear such a harangue as no Christian can listen 0 w,ithout blushing. The church which employed him to lecture In Lancaster was heartily ashamed or him. He wound up by getting liettary drunk after the lecture was over, The Democratic State Convention. The Democratic party occupies a pe ddler positlen in -the State of Pennsyl vania at the present time. After strug gling manfully inthe minority-for more than a decade, i 1 has at last reached a stand-point from which it may start anew on a career of success. It has placed within its grasp the means by which it may carry this great State at the next general election, and make sure of its twenty-six electoral votes in the Presidential contest of 1872. It holds the vantage ground and can break down. the Radical party. That result, so devoutly to be desired,can be achieved by wise councils and careful management, or it can be forfeited by folly. The peo pleof Pennsylvania are eminently con servative in their methods of thought. Ordinarily they move slowly, anil they adhere to opinions once formed with great obstinacy. Gradually the voters of the rural districts have been attracted to the Democratic party, until the ma jority against it has been reduced to nothing. To-day parties in this State are very evenly divided,with thechances of future success in favor of the Democ racy. The Slate election which takes place ext fall will excite much interest. The leaders of the Republican party will see and feel its importance. They will understand how great an influence will be exerted upon the elections of Is7B by the result of 1.371, and the whole power of the State and the National administra tions will be exerted to prevent a Dem .ocratic triumph next October. No means will be spared to secure the election of the Republican candidates for Auditor and , Surveyor•(aeueral. It is well that the Democracy should understand in the start that they will have no light task set before them, if they propose to carry the State. That they have the advantage now, we do believe, but that it may be readily lost we are just as conlident. The next election will be sure to bring out a very full vote of both parties. The Slit' e will be redistricted and members of the Legislature will be chosen under the new apportionment. That will add largely to the interest of the election. We can not rely upon the apathy of Republicans in the coin ing contest. We must carry an undis puted majority of the people with us if we expect to gain a victory. In view of there eircumtqanees, 00 me will attempt to deny that a very grave responsibility will rest upon the delegates to the next Democratic State Convention. They can give us either victory or defeat. If, being actuated by unselfish motives, they look only to the interests of the Democratic party, they can frame a plat fmln which will lie en dorsed by a decided majority of the voters of Pennsylvania, and nominate candidates who will be sure to be elect ed. There must be no unseemly scram ble over the offices, and care must be taken that the best and most available candidates are selected. Neither local claims nor personal preferences must be allowed to influence the delegates in their action. They must come together in a proper spirit, prepared to make ally sacrifice which may be demanded by the best interests of the party. Of candi dates there will be an abundance, and it will not be difficult to select the right kind of men from the list. All that will be required to insure success is a proper degree of prudence cm the part of dele gates. They will make or mar the future of the Democratic party i f Pennsylva nia. Let each one .1 own' remember that. Constitutional Reform IVe publish elsewhere the bill pre- are few American households in which pared by lion. It. Buck:dew provid- ! her announcement of death will not ing for the call of a Convention to re- cause a pang of regret. We publish else vise the Constitution of Pennsylvania. I where a very interesting sketch of the NV° understand that it is so arranged two sister poets, who have been separ as to Insure an even distribution Of rated by the death of the elder. In a era.- inenibeN between the two political icism on her works, the Westminister parties, If the Democrats carry I.u- I I,' it w says,' No American woman has zerne county, of which we suppose evinced in prose or hoetry anything like there can be no reasonable doubt. Put the genius .if Alice Cary." Ally applying the system of ennui 'alive voting to other sections, why not extend it to Allegheny and Lucerne, as well as to the rest of the State, anti thus render It itr,possiblv for either party to secure a nuijority of the convention. - \\'e (teem it to be absolutely ....ssential that the convention should be perfectly non-partisan in Its composition. Only in such a convention will the people of the State have entire confidence. When the Constitution of New .lersey was rer vised, though the Democrats were large ly in the majority, a convention evenly divided between the two great pat ties was prOVidt'd fur, and no body ever assembled In the State which con tained so niany of lb" men. We hope Mr. ISti,;l“llP•i',4 hill may he so amended as Io r infer It ab:.q/letely tain that u, i r party can have a Ina forlty in Cie convention, and then be speedily adopted by both houses. If the demand of the people for constitutional reform is to be defeated let the Republi cans take the responsibility or rejecting a bill which provides for a non-partisan convention. We do not believe they will dare to do so, The Coal questloo There is much excitement among the coal-miners in the Anthracite regions of our State. The miners have been suffer ing greatly from the elliwtsof tie strike. They expected to resume work on the rdh, but just when they had settled a basis with the operators the railroads put up the price of freights. The Lehigh Valley and the Lehigh and Susquehan na advanced tolls between Wilkesbarre and Port Johnson and Elizabethport from to $7.10. Similar trouble has been experienced with the Reading Company. This increase in the tariff' of freights compels operators to keep their works closed, and the miners are left in a destitute condition, and without means of support. The Legislature of the State should take prompt action in this matter. A regular rate of charges for carrying coal should be fixed by law, and so fixed that the law cannot be evaded. The interests of producers mid consumers alike demand such protec tion front the Railroad monopo lies have hail things their own way in Pennsylvania long enough. St.:NAM!: SuNNEtt. proposes to mix. the white and black children together in the schools of Washington city. The negroes, with a very few foolish excep tions, would prefer schools by them selves, but Sumner, with the stubborn, ness of a true fanatic, insists upon doing violence to the feelings of both whites and blacks iu order that his ideas of equality may be carried out. The forc ing of two or three negro children into some of the public schools of the city a year or two ago, damaged them greatly. Sumner and such as he, would break them up root und branch, rather than see their peculiar notions abandoned. Tut.: bill changing the name of the Alexandria and Fredericksburg Rail road to the IVtaillington and Richmond, and extending it to Ull:b111011d, hats been ordered to engrossment In the Virginia House of Representatives by avote of 75 to 31. This is the bill which gives the Pennsylvania Central connection With the Southern Railroads. THE Democrats of the l 4, enute have very properly taken a stand against the adoption of the report of the Commis sioners who were appointed to revise the Civil Code. It is a very imperfect piece of work, and should be carefully revised by a Committee of eminent law yers before adoption. THE son of John Y. Mason, of Vir ginia, was a sub-lieutenant in the Im perial army of France. In a series of recent battles he was wounded four times, and is now a captain. A WAR of races is waging among the pupils of the white and colored schools at Galesburg, Illinois. Tho City Mar shal was obliged to interfere in a recent combat, Loss of Lancaster under the New Appor tionment, A Comparison of the table of taxabies, upon which the apportionment of the State for members of the Legislature is to be made,shows that Lincastercounty cannot expect to have more than one Senator and three members of the House during the next seven years. Other parts of the Commonwealth have out 7 stripped this county in population. The mining and manufacturing sections of the State have drawn to them immense numbers of inhabitants, while the agri cultural districts have barely held their own. The great farming county of Lancaster has increased its population very little during the last ten years.— That will account for some of the loss we shall suffer in representation, but the truth is this county was given more than its fair share of members when the last apportionment was made. The Examiner has heretofore admitted that 1 we were not entitled to two Senators. I It has, however, held that we ought to be allowed four members of the lower House under the new apportionment. It is now forced to admit, that the fig gores only entitle us to three. An examination of the figures shows that the number of taxables to each Sen ator under the new apportionment will be nearly 25,000, and for members of the House d,OOO, or over. The number of taxables returned by the Commission ers of Lancaster county is :14,525, just enough to give us one Senator, and a fraction of one-fourth more than is suf ficient to entitle us to three members of the lower House. Of course we cannot expect to be allowed a member for the fractional fourth, and so the loss to Lan caster county of a Senator and an As semblyman is certain. The Entininrt: is of the opinion that a careful enumeration of the taxables by the County Commissioners would have ;liven us a larger representation. It does not mince matters, but speaks out in very plain terms. It says: During former administrations of the Commissioner's °Bice, when it was not ,•ire in the interest of peculation and rascal ' its, and when Peter G. Plierrnan was Clerk, assessors were impressed with the iin por tenet, of making a thorough assessment of every taxable, whenever such assessment was to be used in apportioning the State. But of late years the interest of the people or the party was secondary to deviiiing ways and means to plunder the treiqury, or any unfortunate who might happen to fall into the clutches of those who ruled by having the emit rol of two (;,ntinissionerx. The charges contained in the para graph which we have quoted are of a grave character. To say that the Coun ty Commissioners' otlice is "run in the interests of peculation and rascality " is such an arraignment of the majority of that body as might not to he made ex cept upon the basis of the very best and most satisfactory evidence. We take it fur granted that the editor of the Examih, r speaks by the card. He is no doubt prepared to back up his charges with the proof, if the Commissioners who are alluded to should feel inclined to appeal to the Courts for the vindica tion of their character, which is so mer cilessly assailed. We shall wait with anxiety to see whether the Commis sioners will allow this assault upon their official characters to pass without an attempt at VlllO iO4OOll. To 00 so would be such an admission of their guilt as ought to damn them forever In the esti.. oration of every honorable man in the con n f v. Death of Alice Cary. This gifted woman, the moat gifted and genial of the female poets of our day, died In New York last Sunday morning, after a severe and painful ill• ness, in the 50th year of her age. There .Auditor• General The Carlisle robin(' Cr pays the rollow i lig well merited compliment to our townsman, lion. t;eorge Sanderson: A number of our exchanges have ex pressed ,1 preference for I lon. George San derson of Lancaster, for the °filen of Audi tor t lettere!, and desire to see hitn nomi nated by the approaching State Convention for said position. We coenoil the motion with all our heart. have )0101%11 Mr. S. for noire titan a quarter era century, and have always found hint the same uncoin pmtnising Democrat, honest man, and able defender of his principles. to man In the State would command a larger vote in old Niother Cumberland than her Fortner re spectM.l citizen, Deorgo Itianderson. Tilt; number of mercantile and ill - Mistrial failures for Is7o is larger than those of the two preceding years. Rut, at the same time, the amount of capital intereted id smaller, 'fills exhibits an increasing disadvantage fu+• small traders, which grows out of the enor mous wealth of a few capitalists but another reason is strikes among work men, inflicting heavy losses on em ployers who have small capital, and who cannot wait events, as richer men ran. (i n.% NT is said to have given a liberal pontrlbotion ip money In the Congres sional Teinpersoco Society. lie can the more easily ailbrd hi do that, inas much as sll the line wines, whiskeys and brandies On which he regales Con gressmen and others have: been pre sented to him by aspirants for fat offices. A roxvicr in the Tin liana peniten tiary 13.1;,1 a part Jon for the following "It is true 1 have only 11 months longer to serve, but it is now thongl4 that our present superintendent will be removed and a Democrat put In Ids place, conse quently we fear we will have a hard time under a Democrat superintendent, as the (soviets rue principally Republicans." At Dayton, Ohio, on Saturday, a quar rel (wen rreol between James Mack and 11. Keller, ending inn tight, in which Flack woo killed . Ifeller gate himself up. Patrick Burns, eon en:tett at I. Louis of murder In the first degree, it) having been accessory to the murder of a man named Oukes Myer, has been sentenced to be hanged on the 13th or April next. At West. Lynn, Mass, yesterday morn ing, a farm laborermaniedVolin McKim ney,wasburned to death in the tenement house lie occupied. Ile leaves a widow and five ch,ldren. An exchange aitys that "gnu)) Grady, a pretty servant girl, lately voinntitted suicide because she loved Henry We d.!), and Henry wouldn't love her hack," What wa, the !natter with her back ? William it. Wiggins, ex-Mayor of w ii rffingtffil , Delaware, has been arrest ed in West Virginia, by the Freedmen's Bureau, for alleged frauds on colored bounty clitimanLs, and has been taken to \Vilmingto❑ for trial. At Memphis, Tenn., yesterday, two boys, named Graves and Boston, charg ed with hangl riga boy named Schofield. in July last,were convicted of murder in the first di- gree, but recommended to the mercy of the Court. The captain and crew of the schooner Forest King, wrecked in Barclay Sound, have arrived at Victoria. They saw captive among the Indians a white child, supposed to he the daughter of the captain of the bark Johe Bright, about two years ago. A burglar named George Smith, en tered a dwelling in Truntun, the other day, and stole therefrom the following articles: a Addle, a set . of false teeth, a lady's bonnet, a silver-plated cup, two coats and a vest, With such a niiscel laneouw assortment of plunder, his cap ture was an easy matter, and George is now in jail. A mammoth fog-whistle, which has just been completed at Portland, Me., for the Lighthouse Department, Is the largest ever manufactured in the United States, and probably in the world. It is an 18-Inch whistle, weighs some 450 pounds, and will require a steam boiler of 50-horse power to furnish the steam to blow it. A hurricane on Friday night destroy ed or damaged a majority of the build ings left by the recent fire at Helena, Ark. Mrs. Stewart, a widow, was fa tally injured and her little son instantly killed. The Baptist Church was de molished,_ and a number of other build ings were either demolished or badly damaged. MITE2=I The post-office at Bellevlew, Lebanon county, has been discontinued. A son of Andrew Henry, three years old, was drowned in the race of Stoffer's Mill, Franklin county, on the 10th inst. In Lebanon, on Saturday afternoon last, three frame dwellings, occupied by poor families, were destroyed by fire. Coal has been discovered in Dover township, York county, and is pro nounced by those who have tried it, to be the best kind of blacksmith's coal. A man who registered himself as W. A. M'Kean, of St. Louis, has been ar seated in Scranton on suspicion of being one of the Kensington Bank robbers. The Chester County Republican Con vention has elected delegates to the State Convention, instructing them in favor of Col. Frank C. Hooten for Auditor- General. Mr. Herman loch and wife, of Allen town, recently became insane—she of religious excitement and he of conse quent grief. They have been removed to the County Lunatic Asylum. Rev. Robert James Dodds, a native of Westmoreland county, died at Aleppo, Syria, on the 11th day of December last, at which place he was laboring a.s missionary. Bucks county, l'a., has within its limits 470 manufactories of cigars and one snuff mill, the latter being at Bris tol. These factories employ front thirty to fifty hands each, and pay a duty of SISO,OOO a year to the Government The long talked of introduction of Coolie labor into the coal regions is about to become a fact. A contract has been signed for the itnportationof a number o f Coolies to work a Schuylkill county col liery, and the first batch will arrive about May Ist. W. J. P. White, of Philadelphia, has been appointed, by Governor Geary Coal-Oil Inspector, very much to the disappointment and disgust of the late Inspector Evans, for whose especial benefit the office is said to have been created. The Paxton Furnace, ILarrisburg, has a capacity of lito tons of pig iron a week, or Won tons a year, and is doing a busi ness of $2.00,n00 a year, at the present price of iron. The firm employs so men, to whom it pays in wages a month. 30,0011. a year. The :Whirrs' Jo,uniil says: " Mt. Car bon is excited over the stirs that the woman who recently had her head out olf on the railroad at that place may be seen nightly at 1:2 o'clock, parading the board-walk with her head under her arm." In Philadelphia on Sunday afternoon, while Rev. John Chambers Wag. preach tog in his church, at the corner of Broad and tiansorn streets, he was attacked by partial paralysis of the face. Ire left his discourse unfinished, and was tattoo to his residence. There are sixty-two breweries in Pil ts burgh, Allegheny and vicinity. The aggregate product Of these for the year 1870, was 172,0:32 barrels, the cost of pro ducing which was about 51,028,267. The capital invested in the business is about $2.,0t0,000. A negro preacher, named William Itenry Thomas, has been held for trial in Allegheny countV on charges, first of threatening to kill his wife; second, of breaking up all her queensware, and third, stealing a gold watch bequeathed to her by her first husband. There has as yet been 110 resumption by any of the collieries in the Pottsville, St. Clair and Ashland districts, and there is no immediate prospect of any. Seven collieries at Shamokin and one at Minersville have resumed, and three are to resume at 'laniaqua.' Jacob Schneider, of Hopewell town ship, York county, was engaged in threshing on Monday. He went into thg house, apparently well, but a few moments later was halm! dead. Hotta disease was the supposed cause of death, Aged about 53 years. Charles King, confined in the Perks County Prison on the charge of stealing a horse front a Mr. Koller of 'Phormiale, Chester county, was removed to that jurisdiction yesterday for trial, by Con stable Diehl and Detective Lyon, on a roquisition from the proper authorities. A man named Dunn, while watering horses in the Susquehanna river, near Susquehanna,fell through the hole In the ice, and after floating down stream un der the ice, some distance was saved by coming to a "rift," where the water wits not frozen. Well, Dunn! The pupils of the Pennsylvania I nsti lotion for the Blind gave an entertain, meat in the House of Itepreseitatices tat Harrisburg on Tuesday evening. Long before the commencement of the exer cises every seat and all the available standing room was occupied. Andrew Provence, foreman for Mo intim, Malone, Scott . 1 t Co., at Mont gomery ;station, on the ratawissa Ex tension, was killed at that place by Jumping from a train of ears while in motion. Ills remains were sent to Philadelphia on ‘Vednesdav, where his widow and one child result. A Yankee sheep-dealer, named \\'. J. Wright, liar been arrested.in Washing ton county charged with stealing a yoke of oxen. Suspicion also points to him as being the person who has run off whole flocks of sheep from the wool-growers Of the saute neighhorhood. When ar rested he attempted to commit suicide. A fellow convicted In the Clarion younly court of last week,of two charges of Violating the law,in regard to the sale of liquor, blandly requested the Judge to suspend sentence for a few days till he could get married, as he feared his "girl" wouldn t have 111 in after he hail been in jail. Ills request was granted. An extreme ease of avarice has come to the surface in Venango county. Ben ninghotr, the millionaire, :it the last HerisiQn of the rrintinal Court at Frank lin, actually fed an attorney to defend two of the into who robbed him, in or der to save the Slo,ono reward which he had offered fur their arrest and convic tion. There will he a public celebration of Washington's Birthday in the York County Court House on Wednesday next, Feb. '22d, under the auspices of the A Meeting of the society will be held, followed by an oration by John Gibson, Esq., and there will also h appropriate music on idle occasion. John Hausman, for the past eighteen or twenty years Lock-keeper at Schuyl kill Haven, died on Wednesday last, aged about •H years. He was remark able as being the largest man ln Schuyl kill county, if not in the entire State, welghing . at the time of his death not less than )12 pounds. Notwithstanding his immense site, he was active enough to follow hit, employment regularly, An incendiary has made four ;:ttecesi , .. ful attempts within the past year 1111.1 the property of John Spangler, in Mount Joy ti /Sr First his barn-was burned : then a mew barn just completed; then some haystacks, and then a large stalde and three horses, and farming utensils. A man David ClApSafid le has been eharged with the crime and hpen toyesp Some of the girls ate! heiys of Nov:. port, Ferry county, having behaved badly at a religious revival, It member of the church, in a communication to the paper, takes them to He says the girls "chatter and smirk, and bob their empty :toads about like senseless monkey's; and shift and twist their' bewitching bodb s, as though the benches were cushioned with chestnut burs." The nuroller 14 - 1 lailliFos, in Pennsyl- vania iu 1 , 17 U was 44.:, and their aggre gate amount z-Ill,!N,l,O0U. In 10.7 t h e number of failures were 30c1, aild their aggregate amount Uor busi ness is evidently not in a healthy or satisfactory condition. 'fhe long coal strike of the summer paralyzed many dependent industries and Drought ruin on many more than thwe directly in terested. Dr. James M. lloillnan, of Reading, who for the past six months has been acting as Surgeon in the Prussian Army, returned to this country in the steam ship Samaria, which reached New York on the 11 th inst. Dr. Samuel C. Ermentrout, also of Reading, who went out with Dr. Hofrrnim, still remains at Coblentz, in charge of a camp or French prisoners. He Will, however, in all probability, leave for home shortly. Scranton, Pa., claims the champion Newfoundland watch-dog. It is owned by Mr. D. E. I.; istler, and Is two years and a half old. ' It Measures six feet two Melte.; in length , and is thirty-five Inches high. The fore lega are ten )11;4)cm 1p circumference. The noble animal note weighs two hundred pounds, and 1:3 valued at one hundred and twenty-five dollars, while by judicious feeding. they hope, by the close of winter, to get his weight up to two lnindril and twenty five pounds. The following clerical changes and ap pointments in the Catholic churCh have recently been mullein the Diocese of Harrisburg : Rev, Thomas MiGov ern transferred from Bellefonte to York; Rev. Edward Murray transferred from York to Lykens; Rev. Edward T, Field transferred from Chambersburg to Renova Clinton county, Pa. ; Rev. Murk ( recently ordained) ap pointed to Milton; Rev Matthew O'Con nell appointed to St. Patrick's, Harris burg; Rev. Emilius 3ooh appointed to attend the Poles at Shamokin, Mt. Car mel and Lykens. EUELOPEXN REWfi The French Assperibly Prospects of Pe/ce. Speech of 4. Thierm LONDON, February 20.—A report WAS current at the stock exchange to-day that Germany would demand of France as the terms of peace the payment of a sum equal to two hundred and eighty millions of pounds sterling and the cession of the province of Alsace and the greater portion of Lorraine, with the fortified cities of Metz, Thionville, and Belfort. The special correspondent of the London Tines telegraphs from Versailles as follows: The Moniteur says a prolongation of the armistice would injure the position of the Germans. Germany is resolved to continue the war if compensation for the past and guarantees for the future are not given. Germany must insist on guarantees, and especially those procurable by the ()cove , tion of Paris. No food is now allowed to leave Ter , sallies for Paris. BORDEAUX, Feb. 20.—1 n the National Assembly to-day, M. Thiers delivered a speech in the capacity of Chief Executive of the French Republic. Ho dwelt upon the distress and suffering which had been caused by the war and the Berman inva sion, and upon the necessity of peace. "Nevertheless," said M. Thiers, "the terms of peace would be courageously dis cussed with the Prussians, and would be accepted if consistent with the honor of France. The task of the administration is to pacify and reorganize the con airy, re store its credit, and reorganize its lals.r. When this is accomplished the country it self will decide its destiny. The assembly subsequently adopted a proposal made - by the government to send a commission of fifteen deputies to Paris to act as intermediary between the nego tiators and the assembly. M. Thiers pro posed that the assembly suspend Bit sit tings during the negotiations. Thiers, Picard and Favre lull for Paris this evening. LONDON. Feb. 20,—The marriage of the Princess Louise is fixed tor Ow _lsl of March. All the British members of the High Commission are now on their way to the United States. Sir Stafford Northcoto sailed from Liverpool on Saturday in the steamship Russia, for Rev York. In the }louse of l'ommotis to-day, Mr. ladstune, in reply to an inquiry, denied that Her Majesty's tlovernment had not received any proposals for the purchase of the British dominions in North Anieriea. Mr. tiladstone took occasion to deprecate the introduction of questions of this char leter pending the sittings fif the di tII Commission 4(.. - - - l'unstAlitlionnt Relorta. 0111V1•11.111111: W.lllOll 55110 prepared and otter- , oil by Senator liackalew, provides that question of calling a convention, to reeler and aniend the Constitution, shall la , sub mitted to the people for their derision nu the second Tuesday of .1 line next, :it which thlio also members for the proposed vention shall lie voted for, and ifs majority of the legal voters shall lie in favor of aeon volition, then the members chosen shall meet in the hall of the thinse at I larrisburg, at noon, on the second Tin:ad:iv of her next and ' , record to business, with gen oral powers of e ljournutent as to time and place, and with authority to prepare and submit to the people all such r [hinges mid amendments of the Constitution as they shall think proper, subject, howeYer, to the following limitations upon dem powers : • lot. 'rho sittings shall not extend beyond I one hundred days of actual session ; 2-I. That onmtliffil of all the mein lairs of the convention shall liave the right to require the separate and distinct submission to a popular Vloto of any change , or amendment proposed by the iq:11V1'11111011. Thirty•two members are to be elected at large, each voter to vote for not noire than sixteen, and the thirty-two highest ill votes shall be declared elected. one hundred and eight district members al-F0 :11,0 to 1:10 CIIOBEIII, divided as follows: Philadelphia to be entitled to nineteen—the first , See -1 ond, Third, Fourth, Fifth, Seventh, Eighth, and Twenty-sixth wards of that city to lie the First district, and to select six mem bers; the Sixth, Ninth, Tenth, Eleventh, Twelfth,Thirteenth, Fourteenth, Fiffeellthi Six Month and Seventeenth wards to be the Sooond, and eleetsix I the Eighteenth, N inc -1 teenth, Twentieth, and Twenty-linh • to he the Third and elect four; the Twenty , tirst, Twenty-second, Tweilipthird, ty-fourth, 'Twenty-seventh, and Twenty , eighth wards to be the Fourth, and elect three. The remainder of the Stiff° shall lie entitled to eighty-nine, as follows : 2; MontgOinery, 3; Chester and Delaware, ; Lehigh and ('arbon, ; Norlhanipton, I 2; Derks, 3 • Schuylkill, 3; Lancaster, I; Dauphin and l ebanon, ; Northomberland I and Eldon, Lycoming, Montour, Colum bia, and Sullivan, :1; Luzern e, TI I and each voter or Luzern() to vote for no more than three candidates )•' Monroe, Pike, and Wayne, 2; Susquehanna, Ilrailforil, and Wyoming, 3; 'reign, Potter, idol McKean, 2; Clinton, Cameron, and Centre, 2 ; Clearfield, Elk, and Jefferson, '2; Blair, Huntingdon, and :NI ittlin, 3; Indiana. qrvi rlitrilo/1, VI:1111.111:11 111,111 1 1: 1 01118 t, 1 .2 I'4 o lo null NV:U.II'II, :1; ( 1 1111 - - 1 11, 1 -11, 2; 3lllllllllr, Lawrence, and Heaver, :1; Butler and Armstrong, 2; Westmore. I land, 2; Fayette and ;rutin°, 2: Washing ton, 2; Allegheny h nn, voter of Allegheny to vote for 1111)111 tllll.ll 11V0 1,11111111illeSi; SOlllerSl't ; Beilnird, awl Fulton, 2; Frank lin and Cumberland, 3; York and Adams, ; mot Juniata, and Snyder, ...I; The members tiveript in .\ :01,1 La :Lerma, arm h, Im Olooll'll Ly thn vIIIIIIIIILLI system. The lhlnt Sootion providos regula tions Mr the election as to form of tickets; the fourth providos for the 111,43011 g of the Itoturn ilia Thursday niter the oictition in Philadelphia, and ou Friday in limit Miler portions iil thi• State. The re turns are to hl opened In the Si orvlary of Stall. day, alba. Lilo VlPlaioll, Mitt it the majority 4,r th 4, am For it the LILLVerIII/1" "ball tlOolartl the fact giving Om result. Tho :secretary Slide In Lr, call to order, and at preliminary protaiiiilintts the chitilchirl:s nt the Senate and !louse, If present, shall net its Secretarion. in is It, Igo ux fi,ll4)sys: Salary, mileage, lu emits IL mile, circular, to he ullott,lL I/lll.t' fur till, sessions; postage, stettionaly and 1=1:1 Tin. mutter i' froiglit nil 010 railr.cul Inn, in the \vo,4 k attracting ninon all , • 11- liirll. It ii nail kIIMVII that •,111. ,, 1X weeks ho tWl.l.ll lhu I'MUis running ‘vo,l iron Nosy York the Pennsylvania centra it. which it ;mil; inn rate of freight Was upon. Mesa news were coiripililla nn the pan Of ahippers.-- Tile Baltimore and (Mi. Railroad Wits net ill the combination, and has been carrving freight on much lower schedules titan charged by the combination voinpanie - i, tyhich has resulted in the diversion of a large aininintolheavy freights to that runic. The rates fir first-class freight, by the Bal timore and Ohio, to Chieago is one dollar and thirty cents per len ' , minds, while the New York Central, Erie and Pennsylvania combination charge till° dollar tool eighty cent;. This stale of affairs has aroused the attention abd rot:itch:Mt:nig of the Phila delphia and New York trade to extent that in New York goads mu bring shipped by sea-going steamers at merely 110111ilial charges, so as to give their cus tomers the lame* of the lower treights of the Baltimore and (UM, Itailroad. The Pentisylyania Central is also charge 1 with tract, hp keeping their agro , in..nt thr• letter while violating its spirit, in o -mg, a tilm.portation r•rnnoany Cdr. line, - clritlt to I,e mvned prineipaEy hp t,tanapar•:'', PennSyl Van ia . the ine:te., t hi. compltny taking first-chess freight at our titoliar and sixty file eetrts vents , below the 111111illairull St:illS111111. 1 . 110 11111.11a2,1, of the l'elinsylvamia Central al lege that they cannot exerei,. any contr.,l user the "Star company, - as turtlis.llll.ll . l" i,WII 1.111,r own ears, which are oar LllO toa d girl, a Sp•H al contract, without refereileo to tin uric Il•ov :y Char , .• for freight. This state of to break up the combination between the New York and l'hiladelphia roads, MI6 re store the gnotl times of rivalry and free oorupetition whi,:ll , b,irable , n every ly The examination at witnesses in this eiow Inns concluded. The BedMM (Ir,,lte sacs: al . L . ,liut ' ev.l nl v i•ominining mitirc thirty days allowed by law in which to give rontest ; ant Mayors having been compoliiiii, oil tictstont of the extant of the distriet and the tardi ness of the mails, 1. oirupy the ( . 1,11i1114 thirty days in preparing hw 11114 , Aa-r, (has giving Cessna sixty d a ys to prepare his rase and enabling him to la-gill taking testimony as soon a. Mr. Mayers . answer waa handed him, the latter then requiring thirty days lonia La I , rapare his Casetrrtql eriy, Mr. Cessna had consideral.lo van ;Age, so far as time was concerned, ill tak ing testimony. ),Ir. 3.leyers took testioomy tots days, Mr. Cessna twenty•four and tin account of the want lit Mi•yers ohliguLl LI) It1)1111)1 ,, i) his itn'rsti;;atil.o in FORM' comity, and to discharge about Sou witnesses unexamined in various counties of the district. Notwithstanding this dis advantage on the part of Meyers, lie has xuc eoeded In proving two illegal Votes fir Cessna to one proved by Cessna for Meyer-i. in Somerset and Bedford enmities alone, at least one hundred and lifty Illegal mite for Cessna were shown. Nut 'mire than GO have been proved fur Meyers in these two coon -I'es, in - Fulton mit more than ", and In ~r atik fin and Adams, Meyers ultinrovied consilernj , ly More than Cessna. if Con gress will act Justly in thin tnall;,:,Ces,ma's chances of getting Lilo seal are gone where the woodbine twineth." 4 specha to the St. Louis Demorat, from ItouL,Arkansas, says that the arti Hes of impeachment against (4ovefuor Clayton passed the iiolll4o by a coin bination of twelve lOpublicans with the Thirty ltemn cratto members. The thirty-eight mem bers who voted against impeachment are all Ijepublicans,_ ft is asserted that the ob ject Is to suspend Governor Clayton from office, so that Lieutenant Governor Johnsen can getinto the executive office and sustain himself there againstthe judgmentof the Su premo Court by calling out the On the other hand, It is stated that Clayton will refuse to surrender to Johnson until the latter shall establish hLs claim to the Lieutenant Governorship. A collision and perhaps a revolution Is linmlnent._: A Yonnit Woman Falls Into the Hopper of n Paper Mill, and to Ground to a Bloody Pulp. A gentleman from Hamilton, Ohio, gives the particulars of an accident so horrible in its sickening details as to be almost beyond credence. The circumstances are as fol lows : On Saturday morning Week, carpenters eet to work In the third story of Beckett's paper mill, in that town, for the purpose of making repairs and improvements in the third story of the building. In the course of their repairs it became necessary to take up part of the floor. After this had beendune it seems the car penters went to some other portion of the building for the purpose of preparing ma terial to complete the improvement. It ap pears that this aperture was directly over the huge hopper on the second door, used for grinding rags. The carpenters had it seems—carelessly and culpably—failed to erect any barricade around this hole, thus leaving it a death ! trap to any unfortunate who might happen to pass that way. During the afternoon a party of young ladies employed in the establishment were passing through the third story, milieu one of their number, Miss Martha Breckin heart, who was in the lead, suddenly dis appeared through the hole. No sooner did her companions discover this than the horrible thought flashed upon them that she had fallen into the huge jaws of the ragohopper below. Indeed, they had not much room I'm . doubt, for the nest in stant the shrieks of the unfortunate girl rang through the building, curdling the Mood of all will, heard them. The screams were heard throughout the building, but none but the persons who had witnessed the fall knew trout whence they Vallee. Several of the girls, - knowing that the only salvation for the girl was in the stopping of the nuichincry, rout down to the first story and had it stopped, but, alas, too late, as the sequel proves. As soon its the pondrous inaellinery could lit Drought to a stand still, the whole force of the establishment rushed to the hopper to see Nyhat haul become of their friend and complution. The hopper was found to be nearly empty, but the shreds of 1:11:1:11 stained rags gave painful evidenee of the tragedy that haul just been enacted. littrried examination of the receiving trough below du n e ed the remains of the girl crushed into a shapeless lltH V, and ground into pulpy mince twat. The horrible news soon spread through out the village, and ie ithin it teat' 'leers the Mother 01 the girl suits Upon the ground be seeeintig ;it . the tine of her d aughter frolli the spectators. hi illi . ..1"111 lit•l' of the t.a.rible r:lh . 11i Imr daughtt r, and vvcry etT,rt mado to limit the grivi-strick tai mother away from the ,hapeless mn., of tle,h that a felt . hour, 110611, ti tha Ilrrrkin Martha Nsa+ hilt seventh, viar,t :I;Zi . ;11111 Is ileNeribed n. a very beam:lid, nnlus trig 11, anti alfecibmate p.”lnglist 1111 l It 111 . !I I/e.a•rU111011 Of Almo.kan • 1 lady who was formerly a resident .1 Svriieuse, NeNv fork, wales frt.Lkil, as rlititl \NS: Tho last smolt), litts Itecti I cm:irk:tidy pLm , uut and dry; Ns(' hat! SO,•11101.11(13\:v of plei,ant {VP:ldler, not ILroken by a .111- Vie shower; stattethintz Sit ha ottllttt 11.1. mist of brDnr. T.lk no, en' saiv anything so splendid. Italy, with sill her balmy nit, :Old il/.111, 'asset rgttal tittka in sunsets, I enjoy our nine harbor ever so much. Could rail sea uu• rowing admit in in)-Intle manor, alining the islands, there are more than sixty of them in the harliiiro you would have it )4,41 laugh. A row üboul the harbor is one 4 oar greatest delights when the as is lamnble. The water is too wild for: bath ing, but on a li•w wanu days a salt inter bath wav refreshi me. 111 Ii 1110 We lll‘lllllls oill I/1111 (;rout Ltlp Lu 1.111 . country. My husband entinlovs quite a nastier in the fisheries, and he hl:tis thew better Fur laborers than the Rus sians. They hat ti had very good luck fish ing this season. Till•y tt 11l have :theta a thousand harriils salmon. Tile fishing' is now nearly ever. Thy 'e i• atch lasts :Wont lour at other limes the Indians bring tutu 1.,,1 a Art . “l many tish caught with hook and line. \V hatever else it may lark Sitka has all 1011111111/1113 ”I' stint gllule, so that wehad plenty to rat even before ,vti were fu receipt of regular supplies of fpllll, wets, Prow Portland. The delicious, and also the prairie chickens. The young our , ; of faller arc like yl)tmg spring chickens. We hay, 110 `11.1 . Vi , 1 , here, nothing Let sithhaiit school, itiostly attenilcil vixus.'l by have ,ervitvo Li:ve Nveek. Thelr t,al,l.ath our Satur day. They do net have seats, but stand or kneel throughout the service. IL be very tedious, as there is a great deal of lantving and crossing, and about every live minutes they tiring their heads to t h e 1101)1 . . Sunk a mode. ,t‘vorship in ;141\111/Aid land! are so degraded that I look on them :vs heathens. \Vliiit Will becomi , of them fled only knows. 11011 51111111 , 111111, fearful th?re will not he a spark loft In toll lift tale of linve. 111111 111111/1•11bILIII'' will sand Slll,ll , 1/110 111.1 . 1 , lnt proach. It Will 1111'11 /11.1.111 Its if we wit•re among the A Gallant IL' fl•Ilrrlllll 1V(.1 , 111,1i , 11 It)ll,,wing crow 111 pen III;PI). U. 11. 11111, editor the 11.1111', Cliarbatt., North Cart)llna. \I witn,•%s ,kys th,lt 111 r inr•rling hel.Nvi.on General :mil Captain Itand , dpii wq•t Unndl- In.: Tii tho r<Lrr•nn•: I'd 1.. 111111 ILL 1110 11(.1.LIL in IlltlO liiiv 1 . .1111,11H nr,nlt l‘r I ,p's iyriny dying of 1...11- Ito haul been mpidating nnuin lilll4. ul. A II:t•n, South Carolina, :LIU! WILS trying to I,IC II 11.11110 in Virgil.. to de. thcro. Cartain It:m(14111i In Hio gl gr.iii.kaiti I'rovidrnl. .I rllrrrvun, amt iir icandoirh, inn! Fodor:tie Soorotary id . \Var. 110 iuhurllyd the null d'art ilgurc, the iron constitution, and the 0(0111 pllr nwiti sirengtli of blip - 1'1.1 , 01,, Nil LIW night, rt,r hiv vi.as to th, Minty of hi 4 pv,11..n. the '4,111,1 fr,,. 111:11 11110 n 1.111,11 .0,11 1114. 1.11m4. thy , nowt. 1,- 111011 i kW' i.o hat,' iiil , J%vll, I 'apt. Itail.loll.lt t•1,1011.(1 lLa It.11 , 1 , 111111111.A . 1( hnitnv Fr0,11,- I,l(4iturg, anti %%via tturnsitle'm 1111(.4. .\ilrr IL 111,01,4 4 , Lcc I'llll tho strt.ligth, 1111i1 lo . ,ll,l,lllll.l , l,leralgetieral - Inn ,Ith th, pts‘. 11111 held 14 1. 1 ..... 1{(•n. Itr:olloy 'l'. ttio-litoolt•.1 1111114 roi“,rt "I,•1•01.1 relight ihii tie ',vile,: II 1411111 "II the 1"r0- ill'lld killed him instantly. TIII.I iii Or his rawly think such it wan dying With 14111,11111f/0,1! the g•ill's gay, light hearted, chivalriii44 athlete dying of cun ennlptinn a rallreiel train-dyinir, hilt talking ii‘voetlyiiihl4 Saviiier snit iflyfilliV of 1,j,4 hopev or Ft I,lro.Nod A Slo,ollttr WIII.-4 Illat to M 1,1.14 iltal May III• Profitable. • • A w ill, ‘11111•11 N a.+ admitted LI/ ',rel.:U.. in l'inciehati last week, be,plenthe,lone•third of 11p - , test,ter'H 4 , ,tate Io fie, wideW, ails! OW reel:Wel, to hie daughter. The will kit), Ihnt the Widoll . SI1:111 reevive hut 1)I10,Alliril, th e demanded by 1a)e,1.14,1114,1 `OM 11/1,1 an :utiplo f.rtene of her ewn, and be cati,e she deprived hint id the opportunity , to make more money by paitiving him to give tip sootier limn he ether- wise ‘4 , 111111. 111/ I le,irvti that. diutir•ria•o types ul himself shall he pre,titeil to two or hi, friviiiis, and that a worli got ; , p hr t h e original play hirr, given it, II,IIII1 . 111:111 1., 10' 1,1,-er:ill in the 1.'1.. 0, to give for the 1,..• ln•dr:lirl i 0 prolrssiuu at his 110,111. Ile pr., ides th.tt his ex,iimr shall pay to the Tro,tecs ut Spring have 1 . 1,110- teiy 1,4,11 itl ftp:111 . hi., 1,/1,1111 , 1 makes the remark, " ..1,1 folk dio and their money is ilia riLutrd, their graves .ire often Iteglo.cu.d." Ile ako leav Ire In hoop 111 repair mother's grate, in 's ismititssiiiii with this hr.igrvt, that seariiht4l in cnin tor his father's remains, desiring . to them be side dn., of fij, mother,': the 11.101( 4 11S oolli hits hopes to balith 14 churches. This is called Christianity. Ile ttlititis tvotilii not hi, ',boa ,l,:phia he loaves his lOU.° :arid 113gE:011.t. I leery VIM :\ I eier, Shone death Cl - g..r, Nl:tine, at the ail Velleeil age Or 1/110111111- dr.! :Mil tilt yl•ar , , is reported, ,vas else illlereNtillg 1,101,41 nlen in Ole rountrY• I lelllll4 Ihr. itevolutionary war Ile NVil, a ~lace hr I tnvernor Nelson, (41 t:inia. After the close td the war hit wits sold :tint taken Sett of the Blur Ridge, to the extreme frontier, wilutree he made his rositaite to Ciru•innati, thee IL hu•ro heel lie beeltllle the servant of an ollicer in St. truly, and 411,. !ninth dangerous ,erviee ill the northwest. After the peace of 17'1. - , he livid for n lilllo in Chillicothe, ithi:r, and thou retro cod to Philndelphia, tv here he We , ' , eel. V.I. the first time, by Seel° 1111.1.11 W, el' the Society cit . Friends, and learned to read and write at the age or linty'. Ile subsequently Miele several voyages to It.iirope ILA , e mor t ion sailor, and on the outbreak or the war of ISI2 shipped as Seel' in the privateer Law rence. flu Weli captured, sent to Plymouth, England, anti outlined tor some tithe in Dartmoor, where he witnessed the 111114,1- elle or Lc LI. q any years ago lie took up his rt,itlettett in Bangor, where he lived an in dustrious and respectable life, in the almost n I :II pstired enJoymont or ioe roootto,,, or toimi ;td body, to the thee or Ilk M3=lllE Dr. SehoeppenAir•••Plett car In Pardon. tfArtn,saruo,, mornlng W:4 , 4 Ca apart by mlnli•ters; hLwyei.luni other ciIiZOIN 01 Carlisle, to wan on the tmvernor, ill company Nrith lb:presenta tive I,oi,lig, of Cumberland, and other legislators, met present sundry papers In Dr. Schoeppu's ease, Including some after-discovered evidence, and a petition for mp.doe, op the cround plainly of ill health, signed IQ' several thousand eitipms of Cumhorlapd,meluding the best people and many who °nee believed hint Mr. Leidig waited on the Uovernor yester day, and informed him of the contemplated interview, when the latter said he would, of course, be pleased to see them, but that he would hear no more speeches In the matter, and that anything in regard to It must be communicated in writing. The result was that the supplicants for Schoep• pa's pardon did not come, but the papers will be presented as soon as received.— Phiht. Evening Bulletin. The Tennessee Nafe•—Arrival of the Com m lasionem at Nan Domingo. NEW YORK, Feb. 20.—The steamer North America arrived off Sandy hook this morning and reports the safety of the steamer Tennessee at San Domingo. No particulars yet. QUARANTINE, N. Y., Feb. al-7.50 A. M. —The steamship North America, from Rio Janeiro, via St. Thomas, has Just arrived and brings news of the safe arrival or the United States steamer Tennessee at San Domingo with the Commiasioners. SANTO DOMINGO CITY, Feb. 3.—The Com mission arrived here from Satnana Bay yesterday. Every one connected with the party is in excellent health. Want or coal ing facilities detained the ship six days at Santana. The Commission found that the inhabitants of that Peninsula very gener ally favor annexation. A full investi gation made with the ownership of land around the harbor, showed that no United States official is involved in any Penstransaction there whatever. Psi bens and associates, and I) Sullivan hate it perpetual lease, at a nominal price, or nearly all tl.o available water fronts for large vessels around the harbors of Sainana. There is no valuable mineral land In that section. The Commission landed hero this morning and were favorably received by Baez. I% fr. Wade explained their charac ter and object. Baez and his cabinet gavt• them It hearty welcome. 111107,1 H. peaky and stable goVOIIIIIIOIIL would follow a union with State's. I'"'- plc were all an xli tie for the union. Cabral had no Dominicans with Min. The commanders or the force he was sup posed to coin alum Were 1111y11..11,1, and flay ti was the real mover in [lto whole matter. lie had in6irouttion that an inenr• seal seas tO be 11111110 while the t - 0111111INSil , 11 was here to intluenee then., and from agents had learned the whole movettiont. Ile expressed the hope that the commis sion would examine all ell L.S.NI-t, 1111t1 pract ised la , •X1.1111%1 every facility. Five of the party r:uno arras the islana Irmo Santana lii this place. ']'he commission ilint this fill' no appearance or ',oldie ilistorbanees , o . tlissensions. The staason is very healthy. 'rite littleers fuel crews nt tha I • iiitcll States steamers Tennessee, N antueket mei now ill this harbor, are oil well The commission will lie hero 11 WIWI.. 14,111Z0r, amt 111 - 01)11111y Visit As1.11:l 114 . 5.1 week. stories cif trouble (hero is un true. The commission intend to slant hm boom ill about. Emu . ai.;ri•ed :I sail' Vt1111111.•t to C:11 , 1,11, ni lily of his 0111,,, Lol . ollll' her, iktlti !two. the 6.• tlisiiatilloa nl wilt,. Ti.q. Virginin Wnr. I....ener. In *het...g o -1%11.1.re 11t4 fon , tivo 010,0 of 111'han . in t 14 . V i rVio is 111 , 11 , t,1 I )I.ll.g:livt•Vk 011 Wa4ll- olglon Ito•Innoml It.iilway 1)111. sokoo ul lite intense lirlulß existing Juries; ili P1,111 . 1"ii•li,1111rg, Intl at •gun leri..ll .31 debate, am f.,llnty.: 'Tht. tall, it.. a new road, Lit the stvalinsvic.g 111/.d Ihv Itirin nand, I , rellerit•k.hurg an.l 1'.31,311, 11 \Vt , " 1,1 l')' the Ihr iii nlnil I'.nu pan y that r. o':uued to Lund a r..a.1, :Ina tint ...m,alhk, kip an vxi,ting Virginia rand. lir.nl.l I Intl ecnuld tc ililnintw sith.titilit., bttt lhr ati,n nt the lute to erllug ill Vrt•elt.: - b.l..l.ttri_t, by \thief, Ito litt,lttveti vallett to gct tunaher instil twill. Ills ,ml.,Litni. wntil.l give , thy Al4.xatithia eud Vred,rl.4.4 bur! the 4.pititrtiltlity they %sot, vt,t•t, I,l* blitlthto.t a r“ad, 4.1 pntu int: their 11.0,1,1 trt•a,ttrem ittt“ irw t tt, and nl ilevo•l,,pillv and billblinkt her 111. I . the bill !WM.'S, tht , Putit,yluatlia Central. ,iii he et. pondedin Virginia. Then. , toll Lo uothu,y_ 1 nirintt . ni tIl t, pluttn•nl \t , IVntul worth ,11Niat1.011,,, tht.t., , i a 1.,..,h Ltd , . iy 1.1) . 1•1"111).! iul . .1111..1..1111.•11I 1.. U., the Wilithillgt..llll,llll RWIIII,III I:allunad Company 0t ,, 111 , 1 wake no .1, untn ll,ll , ll,, tt 1.1111.01,g i it... 1.1,4(.1.51,4 ~,, unnitt enhat. Thi, th,irtlvr, hint thu conlintal wholly to tint 1ta,11. - al -ode th , I louse. Mt-,1,1. Popham . whin. , coni'n•••/,l , ,und , anokt , 4harply and pl.tin..t, agamat the amenthnunt a, :a rink and a front. Thu, negro ttaatiberm and the in.' gr., in the galleries, applainlud 1 1 1 1, in, , Itys a t•nrreanlaident, nt 160 ftr.l. in the 11,tnry ut 1,1114 I.etzt,hit nue t h at AI, 1,1111,1, 111,1 1 1.1,11 •L., Thu St , eak er over Lint.; .11.11111.1 him wain his 1.10 nrder 1111 lin Wus, 111110. Ott , face, threatening the u‘ith thu surge/int-at-arm .*:l4 rn.tored the tint' lalcun, and the 111111'11411111 - 11i. wn , k111...1 by Int! mat' , to I , \ It apiwars ah.,) that tia halth. (•..111,1 ha halvht 1411)..ry, lir alt . Slrlll 11111Vail'ill, ill 111 , 1ral rIl 1, Chanzt.4 Own , (.1. .k reporter slati, that w hil, th, 11.11140 ‘VlV•iliVillitlV,llllll , o , L ~ ,.•1 Wl4.lllngton and 104 , 1111, ml rally...id hilt ,b)wtt stalirv, a 1411111111th, up nluird kive4tigutiwg who has rv.4.1‘...1 ni , mPy, awl hmn much, an,l suit intim , tivo their v‘.ws on the bill." lint thud Ihr the te,..timmty derived 4.0 V 41140.1,s that Vayurinati, the ~ 1 , , v0l J 0 11:11l, from Peti.r.burg, acemilimi hi 1. hi+ t.ss Stlalllollt, was approavhkl , lit the ruttmil s by n mail Whim tital.tiowth %vim 4mitzht 11111111 , 11,14 In I)LV.r tin hill, amid left lu h 1.4 laiu•htil, and raft ot); huh that M. rayorp„titit)ar.,,,irlis naught lhn Ithittan.t rvtti tiled him his \i y Hlatol I y tvlowruph, lb.' 1,111 Kiln ilrlierTll 1./ Ili 1.1114r,41111•Ill. Til.' Mond ii ,. /1/!/ vnyn ... 11114 lIV 110 111141114 1 . 0111•11.1.111, Ihr ROO • Th(l hill 1.0 1,1111. up 00 it+ 01110 pa' rosoilL 111111. 1111 41)1',5' It IlilS VISO] to 1,1,01 til,o Sllllllt, 'nu. g1..:41 14WIlii0Weli up thirty ..r impro rival 1.011111 lu Vlrgllll, \V11.110:1( Up tai.,ll Ilich /11111 I• 11.1,1 1111,1.11. i their po.perily, may, 11.11,1 1.11 . 110Ve 1% I ro•evivo stick 1•lit.1•1. tho Nonnlo,uu.lvu , ll I,llllki-1 1114 will SVIld IL siaggvritig ha,l, I 1) bill, LAI", vita, of unuwn, null milppw.illg that 1110 1 . 01111•1y1V110ia 1 . 01111 . .0 ,Vllllll.ti th• h.hhhhhtt•hhhhtihr m 141111,1, griutt trim lieu Llwow,4ll \ hrghthin and Nhhrilt null col 1 , l 1.1.1 I illll, hlimihmst rill,, him hi III• ci-imity Lim h•hohlitrtiolihm I.(,titting: iu thfi Itypen 01 u„, Tewl 411‘1.11••-Premlili.0 l • . i (1011. NV A4ll I Nt.Ti,N, February la.- Thu Gdluu nu,e.u(;cul • Ihn l're.adlutil. c,•i , nln Hai rl•penl uY Ile, 1101.011111 bill ; T o lA,. tivinate Ilia antootticeitiatiat, Iltut that Sonata, hill Ni ?la, an act preaerlblans alto ahttla adipaa In lan taken by persona what ['mall., lamed in the late rebellion, hot what are tot ffsail 110111111 g, (alive Iw Iln• of that (if the I toted Slates, hat lata•onte a 110. V in the manner preserilayal lay the rota•atitutioal nviLliont than aignatore of that l'remillent. It Lida were at hall par the repeal art' It test-oath raluired nt jaermull4 elet• led or appointed to orlaa•es adl honor or tratat,it %vandal lily apptoyal. Ina tra•i•t. ,at liar lane, lanweva•t, in tat relieve from taking at pro.aetilaed oath all those veraotas winant it Milan irmli swell offices and to rtalialr, at trona all otliors. ily tltia; 1.110 who tonglat and hied for Inn auattntry as ti swear to tilt loyalty holorta killetinlia, w Mist thogeneral what clan- Ilianlincl Mists her Ilan overthrow cat tiara gnynriitiliall is atllx any nunte to it kw nslai.•ll aliavrianinate, againat the upholder of government. I behove, however • that it not wise jadiey in keep from tube hy an oath those who are si,a(ll.,imiliiied by 160 Cmioiliiipm, nnil aho nro h it ,•ti ,, t4w .•11, pgl hilt ivlr Istmlicviui; I ii. 911 ..! ,10 tnitil .111 , 11 they I rfrouiumml the rVil,t,e, 41,1111 Lim ~.ti It bus 111, upplirntiu u. S. ii u.tvt. I{sri rrtV Feb. 1,71. LME=I The ljbulug x4,01e. Emily! 1 . 11 , the bodies of Sits roan a , the engineer, and the Strarlgt, 111311 WllO tray nn the eng,ll4 , With him were recovered. From papers and letters round on the latter his name... aseertaintid to be dames Murphy, or Val Pit. The latter part of his holy was bully mutilated. Thu body lit riin, 0 ,115 WWI lilt !rm•h hurt. Wll-4 a ell L tinder the right oar, oho inside 1111,1 0111, on the ell !wither risible when 110 M. as mak oil from the water, but e w discovered when his body wit. bring washed. The remains both were neatly eolllned, and thn i.n ilertaker's r 00111.4 were thrown open to Ili. , public, and (ill - M1.44 111 m,ql, Wi,t111•11 :111(1 children Weil by the copies, will t o taken to New York this This mattes Creepy-two bodies in all, r.— eovereil, and it is thought there are more. 'l'o-mol'row diver will wake antitlicr descent to bring up, if possible, the sunken baggage and express 'natter. F. sti•ritl of Alley l'ary Pub. li, 1,71. -\olcrith SWIIIIIIII4 the storm, the funeral .\ lei,. Cary, at the Church the Strangers, 111 Mercer street, thin afternoon, V:11, very nu merously attended by pan nalists, artists and 11001110 Of more or less modal distlnetion among whom Worn HUN'. Ur. Prothinghnm, Rev. C. F, lan, James Parton, :firs. Par ton, Ur. Ilalleek and John Savage. The officiating clergyman was Rev. Ito. Deems, No funeral sermon was preached Irian the pulpit., but nt few fondling words at the bier at the slums of the servielf moved the hearts of nll liniment. Tito 1.111-1/llarer, WOrU Bayard l'itylor, Horace thitifficv. Frank lb Carpenter, f diver Johnson, Rich and It; Win ball, I/r, li - rederick Holcombe, and A. J. Johnson. The wief literally burled In flowers, bit In "flier relmrifiits rarlingelialitm Clore remarkable 1%1 . r lack of ostentatlon porell by n Mad II .flock torday morning a Wollllt/I, aged 50 year", named Mary Tay 'wing, of I:,wt Colam het, wan gored Liy IV ingd Veer, antl win no in3ured that 'ter rfwvvry In Nosiderpii impossible. The engineer of the (.11(11111)WD wan al. terribly hart whilr en deavoring to nave her. 'lint steer was kill • cd, after it number of chola had bore tired with apparently From Voncord. N. IP Co:wont), N. 11., Fob. IN.— Prores,,,w Charles 11. young, WhO lea been with Protrossor Mimic obsorvltur tho recorti of tho solar tlellpto In Spain, has toturnott to his Buttes at Dartmouth College.
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