Lancaster 3ntelligertrer. WEDNESDAY, MARCH S, 1871 Preparing to Rob the Sinking Fund. Inasmuch as corporations have no souls to be saved or damned, they are, of course, destitute of moral faculties. They cannot have a conscience and are not expected to be governed by any other than purely selfish motives. A corpo ration will pay a debt, which it cannot avold,without affecting its creditand de preciating Its stock ; but it Is not expect ed to exhibit any of the higher traits of commercial integrity. To make all the money it can, to hold fast to all it gets, and to advance its interests by every means at its command, is held to be the whole duty of a corporation. The In terests of the State from which these creatures derive existence are disregard ed; when the greed of managers is to be satisfied, with as little concern as are the wishes of individuals or the wants of communities. The consequence Is that the men who control corporations very often become imbued with a doubtful morality, and commit acts in their cor porate capacity which would shock so ciety if done by them in any individual line of conduct. The result of these latitudinarian ideas in regard to the duty of great cor porations is seen In the management of various railroads throughout the coun try. The history of the principal New York railroads within the past ten years furnishes a record of u nblushing ras cality which has excited the wonder of the world. Legislatures have been bought, courts of Justice have been con trolled by improper influences brought to bear upon Judges, and a few bold ad venturers have run great lines of travel in their individual Interests, swindling the stockholders and imposing illegal burthens upon the public. Gould, Fisk, Lane and Vanderbilt have pocketed millions of money to which they had no more right than the vulgar pick-pocket has to the booty he secures at the risk of being sent to the penitentiary. I here, in Pennsylvania, it is admitted that our great through railroad has virtually owned the State Legislature for several years. The managers of 'he Pennsylvania Central have annually bought up a majority of the members early in each session, and those who were purchased have bound themselves to, vote, as they might be directed, upon all measures in which this gigantic cor poration had an interest. The agents of this railroad could be seen at all times in the lobby, or .0 the floor of the two I louses, watching the course of legisla tion, and forwarding or checking the passage of hills. No men in the city of Iharri.sburg arc better known, and none have a more distinctive and well-recog nized avocation than the lobby agents of the Pennsylvania Railroad. They arc the first to arrive at the commence ment of each session, and the last to take their departure. They have learn ed by long experience how to ply their foul trade successfully, and they are adepts in all the arts of intrigue, and skilled in every species of corruption and bribery. They could have instruct ed Catallne in the arts of debauching men, and that arch-conspirator would no doubt have succeeded in his impious designs' f the Homan Senate Mal proved to, be as mercenary as the Pennsylvania Legislature. Believing that it might be well to have a representative in the highest legislative body in the country, the managers of the Pennsylvania Central purchased for one of their salaried soli citors a seal in the Senate of the t • nited States. John Scott was never dreamed of in connection with that position, un til the corporation which he served in structed its servants ill the Legislature how they sliould cute. Seeing a chance e II pocket a couple of millions, the men who run, this powerful concern deter mined to remove nearly ten millions of s .curities from the Sinking Fund of the Slate, and to use them for speculative purposes. A bill for that purpose was put through both Houses of the last Legislature with re ally marvelous. The story 4 its doing is told in another column of this paper, and it is full of instruction and interest. That a similar hill will be speedily Presented and rapidly hurried through the present Legislature there is no rea son to doubt. It may be offered any day now. A majority of the members ol Loth I louses are said to be like the tough old virgins of Ismail, anxious fur the assault upon their virtue to begin. The German Entry Into Paris The Germans have made their tri umphal entry into the City of Paris.— n new uniforms, with all the precision of dress parade the soldiery marched rough deserted streets. 'the shops were shut, the blinds closed in the win dows of the houses in which the Paris ians had shut themselves, and ;in air of desolation met the eyes of the conquer ors wherever they turned. The tier /111MS might have foreborne this tri umph. They had already humiliated their enemy sufficiently, and a little moderation would have prevented much hatred and ill-will. The new ly made Emperor no doubt . ' desired to ride through the streets of Paris as a conqueror in Is7l, as he did once before iu 1511, and his troops, remembering the French entry into Berlin fty-six years ago, were eagerly anxious to finish up the great war through which they have passed so successfully by a triumphal oc cupation of the Capital of France. The humiliation thus put upon Paris will not be forgetten ill the next liall-een tury, and who can say what events may take place in the meantime. It may lie the seeds of revenge implanted in the minds or the French people, by the harsh terms exacted of them now, will .eventually bring forth another harvest of blood. Moderation in the hour of victory is always the best policy for in dividuals and nations. Furnaces Blowing Out It is not the miners of coal alone who are put to suffering by tne present sus pension. In the Lehigh Valley alone there has been a decided decrease in the production of iron. Eighteen stocks of the furnaces located there have blown out, and the chances are that all the rest will be compelled to follow. The Allen town Deniocrut says that the blowing out of these furnaces will leave not less than twenty thousand people in idle ness, and lead to great suffering. The Democrat demands that the Legislature shall lix.a regular rate for carrying coal, beyond which no railroad shall be al lowed to go. If our cotemporary will ask sonic well informed lawyer he will .have the satisfaction of learning that the Legislature of Pennsylvania has very little control over the corporations it has created. In its lavish generosity it has parted with the power to protect the people against such a combination as now exists between the great mining companies of the anthracite region and the railroads. Release of Napoleon The war being at as end, the ex-Em peror Napoleon ceases to be a priyoner, and has been released. Wilhehnshohe Is about to lose Its imperial guest, who will retire to his chateau at Arensberg, In Switzerland, where all preparations for his reception have been completed. This chateau was bought by 'Napoleon 11, some time since, and is beautifully situated In the Canton of Thurgau, near Lake Constance. The other prisoners now In Germany are on their way to France. From Harrisburg We publish elsewhere a letter from a .prominent Democrat of Harrisburg.— The view which he takes of affairs at the State Capital are not encouraging to honest men, but we do not know that the picture is overdrawn In any respect. Ills letter will be read with interest. ki14111:10011f411401+16104.01111101DIDONOPIA1111611101.Dieritelaii: - ", 44 II ' 4 • ' ' , MARCH 8, 1871. The Dead Congress The Forty-first Congress of the United States, which expired by constitutional limitation at noon on the fourth day of this month of March, has gone to the limbo prepared for departed legislative bodies unmourned by any human being, unless indeed It may be some lobbyist who failed to get his job put through.— For two years it vexed the people and plundered the Public Treasury. It gave I us none of the reforms which were promised with the election of Grant Making sure of an impregnable two thirds majority by turning out Demo crats who had been honestly elected it reveled in unrestrained power. The people looked to it for relief from the burthens which paralyzed trade and crushed individual enterprise, but in vain. No wise measure of financial policy was adopted, no relief was brought to prostrate and ruined commerce. The Pandora's box of reconstruction was re opened, and a new swarm of evils let loose upon the country. The Radical majority neglected pub lic interests and busied themselves with partisan legislation and private schemes They did not hesitate to strike down the right of States to control elections, and stationed Federal soldiers at the ballot box to overawe the people. They seized upon the public domain, and par celled out the homes of the people among railroad corporations in which they had a pecuniary interest. Under the pretense of protecting home indus try they laid a prohibitory tariff upon articles of prime necessity, and filched from every laboring man a large share of his earnings, in order that monopo lists might reap a royal revenue. To keep in place the army of officials whom they had appointed, they refused to re peal the odious, inquisitorial and un constitutional Income Tax. Pretending to favor the abolition of the abused Franking Privilege they connived at its continuance. But, why sum up their evil doings? The follies and the crimes of the Forty-first Congress are fresh in the minds of the people. The most un scrupulous newspapers of the Republi can party have been compelled to an nounce their satisfaction at its decease, mud there is no one who will dare to de fend its action. The people, without respect to party, rejoice to know that it has ceased to exist, and that its power to do evil is at an end. The Nei' Congress The Dotty-second Congress was duly convened immediately after the expira tion of the second term of the Forty first. In the House there are now nine ty-eight Democrats and one hundred and thirty-one Republicans. The elec tions yet to occur will not materially alter the relative strength of the two parties. There are fourteen members yet to be chosen, anti the _House, when full will contain over a hundred Demo crats. The Increased strength of the Democrats in the new House will make a great change in legislation.-- The two-thirds majority, through the agency of which so much evil has been wrought, no longer exists. The Radicals will find it impossible to suspend the rules at will for the consideraton of party measures, as they have been in the habit of doing for six years past. The gag-law can no longer be applied, and the minority can secure all the time they want for debate. While the Republican majority will still be respon sible for legislation, they will be check ed and restrained in the exercise of the power they Lace so villainously abused. In two years front now we expect to see a Democratic Congress assemble tu wit ness the inauguration of a Democratic President. The Local Option Law We publish elsewere the Local Option Law which has been passed to third reading by the Lower Ilouse of our State Legislature. It provides that the legal voters of each ward and township in the State Audi vote at the next general elec tion for or against license, and periodi cally every throe years thereafter. IC a majority or votes in any such district shall be cast against the lieeuse system then no license for the sale of spirituous, vinous or mull liquors shall lie issued to any person therein ; and persons selling such beverages without license are to be punished for the first offense by a tine of 5.50 and an imprisonment of not less than six mouths, and for the second offense by a line of Sion and imprison mmit not less than one year. The bill elieited a warm discussion and various amendments were offered, all of which were promptly voted down. A vote was taken separately upon each section of the act. and they were all passed up to third reading by a decided majority. On motion to suspend the rule of the house, which prohibits bills from being read twice the same day, the yeas and taws were called by Mr. Schatterly, Democrat, of Fayette county, and there were .51 ayes to 37 nays. As It requires a two-third vote to suspend the rule the bill was laid over. That it will pass the House thistly in the shape iu which it was presented there is no reason to doubt. The question of prohibiting the sale of liquor is one which has given rise to an immense amount of discussion in this country. The plan which is now being so strongly urged upon our State Legislature lias never received any gen eral trial. ruder it the chances are that the wards and townships which suffer least from intemperance will refuse to, allow license, while those in which the sale of liquor is most extensive and most injurious will reject theprovisions of the law. The respectable taverns will be de nied license Mid the places in which a Inherited and poisonous liquors are sold will be left to continue the traffic. It is to be regretted that the temperance reformer cannot give us something bet ter than law which promises to du no good. Radical Delegates An election for delegates to represent Lancaster county in the next Republi can State Convention was held on Sat urday. The vote polled was very slim in most of the districts. In the city it is said Mally more votes were returned from some wards than were cast. The set up" ticket went through easy. The following are the delegates chosen, viz: Frederick Myers, Esq., High Sheriff ot the county ; J. P. Rea, U. S. Revenue Assessor; 11ehj. F. Rowe, of Providence; Theodore Hiestand, of Marietta; ('yrus 'l'. Fox, of West Co calico, and Christian Musser, of Eat I. The Frauds In the Indian Department. We publish elsewhere an article taken from the Philadelphia Ledger which completely ex poses the manner in which the Itovernucent has been swindled un der the very nose of the Commissioner. Every man in Pennsylvania knows that the Ledy, r is distinguished for the care it takes to be always correct in its facts and figures. The statements given by it will be credited much more readily than any thing which may come from a partisan Congressional Committee. The Phlladelphla Age A change has been made in this ex cellent _Democratic newspaper. Mr. Welsh has retired, and Mr, James M. Robb has associated with himself In its management Colonel Charles J. Biddle. Colonel Biddle is au able and accom plished journalist, and has for some time written for the editorial columns of the Age. Tllkillassachusetts Congressmen voted to repeal the duty on coal. That shows how little of principle and how much of selfishness there Is among the advocates of a high protective tariff If the sys tem be right in Itself, there Is as much reason for keeping up the duty on coal ai upon any article in which Massachu- Fetti Is interested. The Coal Monopoly The trouble in the anthracite coal re gions continues. The miners have In dignantly rejected the proposition made by the powerful combination of opera tors and railroad managers. The Read ing Railroad, finding that 'Sothis of the smaller operators were sending coal to Philadelphia at the advanced rates al ready charged, has made another raise of two dollars a ton, thus increasing the cost to six dollars, or about three times the Price ordinarily charged for the transportation of a ton of coal. Another carrying companies will make similar advances should the present exorbi tant charges prove insufficient to stop production. This action has been taken just after the reception by the State Legislature of a message from the Governor in re : gard to the matter, and the passage of a resolution through the State Senate, directing the Judiciary Committee to take action for the relief of the miners and consumers of coal. We happened to be present in the Senate Chamber when the subject was under discussion, and we were not_ surprised to find that the members of that body were much embarrassed by the position in which they found themselves. For years they have gone on granting to corporations almost unlimited powers, until they are now suddenly confronted by difficulties of the most serious character, which have grown out of their own loose ac tion. When they should have applied proper restrictions to the corporations they were creating, they utterly failed to do so. In some instances the words of restriction which they un dertook to use are found to be per fectly inoperative, and the creatures of the State have passed completely be yond the control of their creator. The . opinion of the Attorney-General of the State was not calculated to solace the minds of anxious Senators, or to en ! courage those who professed to believe the Legislature still possessed the power to protect the people of the mining re gions (rem oppriAsion by capitalists and the poor of our cities from perishing ; from want of fuel to keep them warm. It appears that the charter of one of the companies, which has greatly increased the price for carrying coal, contains these words: "the tint on any species of property shall not exceed an average of four cep ts a ton per mile." That these words were understood to lix the maximum charge for transport hag goods over the road seems to be per fectly clear; yet after the company gut its charter and went into operation it construed the word toll to mean simply the charge for the riyht t i tymi.tiit over the road, and not as a word of Iltuihdiou upon charges to be made for transports- tion by the company of freight ill its own cars drawn by its owe engines. And Judge Strung of this State deliver ed an opinion sustaining that inter , pretation of law. So the manifest design of the Legislature has been thus easily defeated. The Sena tors who prated so loudly about the power of the Legislature to control porations and protect the people, ought to have known that most of what they said was the elliptical buncombe ever gotten off in a legislative body. The truth is that the Legislature of Pennsyl vania has placed railroads and other cor porations completely beyond the con trol of the b u tte. The COUrts have held that frapchisus once granted can neither be withdrawn nor disturbed so long as the corporation lives within the law which gave it being, and they Will no doubt hold that under their charters the railroads which have conspired with the operators to break down the miners are acting within the limits of the law.— That there is to he a great battle in this country between the peopiti and corpor ations which have been made too power ful there can no longer be any doubt. Radical Gm ernment at the South lu'J'emoessee a body of lazy uegroes get up what they call a state Conven tion to complain of outrages and to de olare that wages are low. Thoy cod by asking Congress for protection. If they all go to work tliey can protect them selves by honesty, sobriety and indus try. What is seen in Tennessee is seen in on;-half of tlic Southern states, and it is this elas.; of people and their white allies, who make politi;•ians of them, who send out one-half the complaints we hear of fls outrages. Let us pause for a moment to give evidence as to the real cause :not source of most of the out rages at the South. Take the evidence given in the impeachment trial of Gov. Holden, of North Carolina. Lucien M. Murray testifies, at Raleigh, that he was tied, manacled, shot at, hung up and pulled down, and Own hung up and pulled down again, and a man named Bergen testifies that he was acting un der the orders of Gov. I folden. Patton testifies to having been hung up by the neck. A pistol was put to h•is head and threats made to shoot hint if he did not tell who killed Outlaw. He was brought to Raleigh, and made a confession that lie !night be relieved. George Itogers, a young man, was next called. He testified he was hung up three several dines by the neck. These facts are gathered from the testimony of two days' proceedings. Our Crowded Peoltentl4rirs The Eastern Penitentiary is SOC.III - crowded that the managers of the institution have been compelled to notify the Governor that they are in serious difficulties. They recommended the pardon of twenty-live prisoners, but the Governor, in a message which he has sent to the Legislature, declines to turn the criminals loose upon the community. The Western Penitentiary is notso much crowded, there being room in that institution for some fifty more than are there confined. The Governor recommends that sonic of the criminals be transferred from the Eastern to the Western Penitentiary, and that crimi nals sentenced to short terms, be held in confinement, so far as practicable, in county jails, which arc fitted for the purpose. The facts show that crime is increasing at least in proportion to the population of the State, and it will not be long until a new Penitentiary will have to be erected. THE subserviency of the deceased Congress to monopolies was abundantly manifested even in its expiring mo ments. The powerful lobby of the Pa cific Railroad managed to release that corporation from its just obligation to the government. hereafter instead of applying money due for freights to the payment of interest due on the road, one half of the gross amount is to be given back to the Railroad to assist in paying Its running expenses. The New York 7Wbunc thinks most men would find it extremely convenient to pay only half their debts, and that nothing would be easier than to mak a such an arrange ment if the creditor's agents should lake aides with the debtor, That is precisely what Congress did. iEN ERA I. WHITE, as a party leader in the Senate, is by no means astweess. On Monday he made no less than three speeches in support of an amendment which he offered to the bill changing the terms of the Supreme Court for the Western and Northern districts. On the passage of the bill he called the yeas and nays with the following result: I:=l== NAYS—Messrs. Allen, Anderson, Brod• head, Brooke, Crawford, Davis, Dechert, Delameter, 1)111, kvans, Graham, Henzey, ILnight, 111111er,lupitna, Nagle, Olmsted, Petriken, Furman, ftandall, ktu tan Turner, Warfel, and Wallace, Sprol:er. Tit tutu are live negroes In the Forty second Congress, one of them black as the ace of spades, and of the true Congo breed. The rest are composite niggers. There was much stretching of necks In the House when the colored Congress men stepped up to be sworn in. The Apportionment of the State. We publish elsewhere the apportion ment bill reported froin the Senate Com mittee. It is not an easy matter to frame an act which will do exact and equal justice in such matters to a great State like Pennsylvania. The bill pre sented seems to be very fair. Wherein it has been found practicable to do so counties have been given separate repre sentation, and the abuses which caused so much just complaint in regard to the last apportionment have been avoided.. That some modifications will be insisted upon by the House:we have no doubt. Members of that body will have their own views, and will want to provide, according to their plans for their Dis tricts. There will no doubt be prolong ed discussion of the points at variance between the two Houses in a committee of ;conference, but that a fair and equa ble apportionment bill will finally be adopted we have every reason to believe. The Harrisburg Telegraph assails the bill bitterly, but it can not be expected to look with favor upon any measure which promises to prevent its proprietor from plundering the State Treasury, as he has been in the habit of doing for years. The Stale Journal shows good sense and honesty in its remarks. It considers the bill to be fair and reasona ble. The Telegraph demands the defeat of any bill which will not insure a large Republican majority in both branches of the Legislature; the Slate Journal is ready to support any equable apportion ment. We have no doubt a sufficient number of Republicans in the House are of the same mind A Legislative Contrast At the last session of the Court of quarter Sessions for Lancaster county, certain tavern-keepers who had failed to comply with the requirements of the existing law, were refused a license to sell liquor. Thereupon, John B. Liv ingston, Esq., a very good-natured I lawyer, who aspires to the position of President Judge, went to Harrisburg and had a special act passed through the Legislature covering up all the defects in the applications of the tavern-keep ers, and allowing , them to pursue their calling without interruption. Thus for the first time in the history of Pennsyl rania were tavern licenses granted by direct act of the Legislature. Mr. Liv- ! ingston's little bill had the hearty support of the Republican members of the House, and even Mr. Mann, I of Potter, had not a word to say against this very singular piece of legislation. The seine men who voted to license taverns in Lancaster county which the courts had closed, voted solid ly for the Local Option Rill, and those who lieard or read their speeches would suppose them to be the bitterest enemies to the liquor traffic in every conceivable shape. We confess we cannot under- stand the code of morals by which Rad ical legislators scent to regulate their lives. How they can consistently vote to license taverns one day and pass a' law to shut them up the next is some thing that passes our comprehension. It is another : p4bibition of a:peculiarity which has marked many of the auto of the Republican party. There Is some thing about the leaders of this organiza tion which resembles hypocrisy so closely, that we can not for the life of us see the distinction which makes the difference. 1" Is It a Pincher too much We have the authority of a promMent 'oSrrlieky'ectruiefeorrtel.:l'uactnidon' somethingi view e of the facts Republican member of the Legislature that we have an ex oensiva uctrnrit tt. for saying that the Local tlption Law . et. , onopically adtplitister and an immense These i are some of was passed in the House for the pur- national iie,iusir debt grievous to p s a i F n . pose of " pinching" the liquor dealers, 1 , gress, which we hope s N o ve l s i h e aTl x go ir t il l -C e on to ff what our informant states be true, I charge upon that which succeeds it. Much certain Radical members of the ring i o c f , t n he untiyished business which the .S.List 1 Congress purei .ib b doubtless o to er b y , ~ e ,h w o rked i c, euect to make lots of motley by finally over killing the bill. if is said that the should have been strangled at its birth, but liquor dealers of the large cities will I I o ; 6 ii i .;l 4 l t N t v i e iis h i emily rejoice to siee expire, contribute. many thousands of dollars to I c red i t—ir a 11 e, i mt i tour. % . e itcrt virtue ' c uil can ) a beZ7 to s insure its defeat. In these days we are be worthy of honor—of having done far prepared to believe almost any thing 1 l4„,isiserniele is r i e ieZ ,n tl i l l a i n o m ti a ,i n n y k o t l i, i a ts i. pr ( edecessors. which can be said in reference to (tor- more respectable minority, s'tr p o ' n s g se e s n si o n ifgl a i to compel debate, and able and dignified at Harrisburg, and it is not in:_ enough to maintain it, the X LI Id Congress possible that the Local Opt hm Law will present a still better record of less has may turn out to be nothing tiore q,,,, a ty and consequently more honest and ben gigantic "pincher" 0041 le,,,,,isiatiou. ONE of the, means by which the Radi cals hope to secure success at the coming election in New Hampshire is the dis franchisement of adopted citizens. They have deJcided that the "Selectmen of every town zlyalJ strlke from the polling lists the names of all naturalized citi zens in the State, and permit only those to vote whose natural ipition papers have been perfected in the United States Courts, and can be duly produced.— Even of the greatly larger number who were made citizens by those courts, many will be unable to produce their papers on call, and many more have either lost or destroyed them. Cer tainly, none of those who for years have been allowed to vote unchallenged, ex pected to be called on to show tile proof of their citizenship now. The ground on which so preposterous a party order rests is this: The Supreme Court of New Hampshire recently decided that all naturalization papers issued by crim inal courts within the State were in valid, although it had been previously decided by the United States Court, that such courts were courts of record, which would empower them to issue naturali nation papers. IN order to conciliate the negro voters of the country, numbers of the African race have been gi VC n federal appoint ments. A negro who has been mail agent on the Louisville and Frankfort Railroad, in Kentucky, has given great dissatisfaction, and disturbance has en sued. The Postmaster-fieneral has been ordered by the President tosuspend the mail until the people of that section cease all opposition to the negro official. Grant is evidently working vigorously to secure the negro vote, but he will find enough of disgusted white Repub licans to render his re-election imposi hie. TILE CO4t of The ronificsdional is said to be $1.. - ,un for each Senator and Representative. Tina is a very high price to pay fur the speeches of mem bers of Congress. The speech of Mr. Knott has been published all over the country free of charge, but very few of the speeches with which the (lobe is tilled are worth publishing in any shape. It is a waste of good white paper to print them. rt,ItNEY'S P,,ss says "The •• Third" session of the defunct Congress was chiefly marked by the pas. sage of the bill chartering the Southern Pacific Railroad Company ; one providing a new form of government for the District; the appointment of a cominission to vimit San Domingo." What a record 18 there, my country men ! Two big jobs, and nothing inure T E Now York Timcs is sadly trou bled over imaginary dissensions in the Democratic ranks as to a candidate for the Presidency In 1873. The MIMS' need not fret its gizzard About Demo cratic dissensions. It will have quite enough weeping to do over its own di vided household to keep It in employ ment. A ritocosrrioN to amend the Consti tution of Rhode Island so that natural iced citizens can vote without owning real estate, has been defeated in the Senate of that state, which is decidedly Radical. The Constitution of Rhode Island permits negroes to vote without owning real estate; not so, however, with Germans, Irishmen and other nat uralized citizens. A Word of Encouragement The Pottsville JVandard says: " The Reading Eagle and LANCASTER IN TELLIOENCER, two' sprightly and Influen tial inland dailies, in the cause of the work ingmen aro courageously attacking the gigantic railroad monopolies of this state. This Is indicative of a good time coming, we hope, when the newspaper press will be disenthralled from subserviency to mo nopolies of every kind. Speed the time. The Sale of the State Securities The report of the Senate Committee upon the recommendation made in the Governor's message that the railroad bonds now belonging to the State should be sold and the proceeds applied to the payment of the public debt, is the weak ait document which ever emanated from a Legislative Committee, and that is saying a great deal. They say that the Pen nsyl van is Railroad Bonds should not be sold because a small part of their principal is payable annually, which fact would make capitalists unwilling to purchase them ; yet these are the bonds which the Pine Creek and other embryo Pennsylvania Railroad bant lings are so anxious to get hold of and which the very men on this Commit tee voted a year ago, and will vote in a few days again, to exchange for the bonds of these wild-cat roads, doubtless esteeming these latter bonds more valu able than those now held by the State, because they do not expect any part of their principal to be paid annually or even centennially. The Committee cannot tlud anything to imperil the market value of the Sun bury and Erie bonds owned by the State, but theythink that theyshould not be sold now and the proceeds be applied to the extinguishment of the public debt, because before 'they become due sometime in the next century, at the present rate of its liquidation, the State debt will be all paid off anyway ! There is legislative wisdom for you! Com mon people now would have taken quite a different view of the matter, and would have supposed that, as we will not need the money In 1900, we had bet ter sell these bonds now, when we can use their proceeds in paying our debts. The members of this Senate Com mittee know very well that their report is absurd, and that the real and only motive for keeping these bonds in the Treasury is that they may be stolen from it by railroad corporations, whose second raid upon them is organized and will commence in a few days. # Flattering \otlce The 4111141)0ns, .Republica4, tlw handsomest newspaper in the country, gives us the following very Mattering notice : Tlae Lauvalter We see by the Jest number of this val uable journal, that the publishers intend to add a new feature to its already interest ing contents, by devoting weekly a portion of Its oolunina to agricultural purposes— under the superintendence of a gentleman who we believe, Is not only a praeticle farmer himself, but whose writings upon that subject already entitle him to promi nenee in that line. We are glad to note this improvement on the part of our friends, Smith A:Steinman; we consider the INTEL IINCE a, not only one of the best, but one of the ablest edited papery among our ex changes. In politics, it is thoroughly Democratic, and always has the'ring of the true metal. We have always read it, not only with interest, but profit; and the val uable agricultural matter W blob we are confident it will contain in the future—will !oaks it a still noire welcome visitor to our sanctum. The farmers in Lancaster and adjoining eounties, who take the NT l; MICE it, will not lose much if they take no other paper. We give our hearty wishes for the continued success of the old LA N CASTER INTEL 10 ENCER. The TrMine oq the Oefkd Congreh4 Nobody has Ft word of good to say of the Congress which has Just expired. The New York Tribune bids farewell to it in the following phrase: The Income Tax repeal has been defeated by shallow and shabby legislative trickery ; the abolition of the Franking Privilege has hp tt pre;entea by the coiltitYance Of mem bers not bold enough to openly oppose the measure. There has been too little of Civil 0 B 1 T IL' A R . General Andrew Porter IV/Non General Andrew Porter Wilson died at his residence in Huntingdon, on Tuesday morning:, the _9th ult., after a lingering illness, in the fitith year of his age. The deceased was born in Franklin county, and studied lip with f.;oofge 11, Porter, Esq., of this city, afterwards I loventor of the then Territory of Michigan. After reading with Mr. Porter for two years, General Wilson entered the Law School, at Litch field, Connecticut, where he graduated. Returning to Lancaster, ho practiced law In this city for two years, when he was ap pointed District Attorney for the county of 11 untingdon. Ile discharged the duties of the office with ability and laid the founda tion then of the extensive practice which he held for many years. Ho was a cousin of lion. David R. Porter, who seas a resi dent of liuntingdon, and afterward (lover nor of Pennsylvania. Few men in cen tral Pennsylvania had a more extensive practice than General Wilson, and he was remarkably successful as a lawyer. Ile seas intimately connected with all !natters of public interest in Inns soetion of the State, and foremost in advocating and advancing every improvement. He acquired a large fortune by skillful management and active industry. Ile never married but kept open house in a hospitable mansion, which was presided over by one of his nieces. In i ol itics he was an ardent Democrat. He never sought office, but consented to run far Congress against an opposition which could not be overcome. lion. R. Bruce Petri ken, none Democratic State Senator from tine Iluntingtlon district, studied law with General Wilson, and was associated with him in practice for nearly twenty years. Hon. It. Alittoll Speer, Congressman elect from tile Huntingdon district, was also a student of “eneral Wilson. The deceased was a man of nirr i it, liberal character, and many poor will miss the charity which dropped so liberally from his open hand• There are many in the centre of Pennsylva nia, whose hearts will be saddened by the news of the death of General A. P. Wilson. Grant mad Bribery • The most dishonorable and culpable act yet committed by President Grant was re ported in our colowns by our correspond ent at Cincinnati yesterday. Capt. H G. Stouts Will an A 54045.1 r of Internal Revenue in that city, lie Wail ap pointed by Andrew Johnson, and alter sev eral other nominees to the ollice had been rejected by the Senate, he seas continued, because he was a satisfactory Republican. When General Grant became President, Stows was retained ill <Wive, as Jesse It. Grant, the President's father, gave out, by his in tilience. Through the action of Strom; a certain gauger lost his situation because he was Mond to be unfaithful. .lesso R. Grant urged Stools to recommend this gauger for restoration to his place, saying: "Ile has offered we .SSOOI fur re-appoint meat as gauger. Ile is a rascal ; but if you reognmend low, 1 wilt lal.e hi.s money and glee you one-half." Stoles relused to do this; and then lie was waited upon by the Rev. Mr. Cramer, the President's bru then-in•law, whom Gen. Grant has recent ly appointed Minister to Denmark.— Cramer also earnestly endeavored to per suade Stows to restore the dishonest gau ger, telling Mtn that Rile did not comply with this request he could no longer count on the support of Jesse R. Grant at Wash ington. This baso proposal was also made by Jes se It. Grant to the father or Capt. Stoma, who was urged to induce his son to accept the offer and to secure a place for the gau ger already mentioned and another one• Grant said that he k new these gaugers were rascals, and that or that reason he would take their money and divide with the As sessor if he would secure the appointment fir them. Grant also told Mr. Stunts, in the presence of lion• George Crist that 11 his HON did not comply with his wishes he would soon be punished for it. Soon after this President Grant turned Stoma out of oilice, as Jesse R. Grant had threatened.' The first duty of the new House of Rep resentatives should be to impeach Pres'. dentfirant for his share in this transaction. lurk Sun. The impeachment of Governor Clay ton, of Arkansas, is likely to fail. The Impeachment managers have again been instructed by the House to an nounce the impeachment to the Senate, the first notice having been void, for want of a quorum in that body. The managers, however, refuse to obey the Instructions of the House, apd say they will ask to be relieved, on the ground that it "impossible to get justice." I=l Letter from Ilarriebtarit Messrs. Editors :—I regret to learn by an article in your fearless and independent paper of the 27th ult., that the City of Lan caster is afflicted with GeyelinwheeLs; the mismanagement of Water Works ; threat ened famine of money and water; and, what is still worse, the permanent rule of a corrupt ring. These, certainly, are great evils, well cal culated to excite the Indignation and fears Of your good old-fashi 'ned, honest citi zens. But, Messrs. Editors, while your city is striving to break np the ring, and to re-Instate her credit, lot her worthy citi zens console themselves with the reflection that they are not as badly off as their neigh- bors of Harrisburg ! That, while they are talking of raising sio,ooo to pay the forfeit of the stupidity of their Councils, we of Harrisburg are threatened, through the extravagance of our Common Council, with an additional debt of 071 r ',zillion of dollars, to satiate the greed of their masters ; for, Messrs. Editors, I do not believe that this Common Council of Harrisburg, repre sents the citizens of this city--not at all. Most of them are men wearing collars, upon the brass of which is engraved, re spectively as the case may be, Pa. R. R. Co., or N. C. R. R. Co. This device of en graved collars, ingeniously avoids an an swer to the query inscribed on the eccen tric John Smith's dog's collar, viz: "I am John Smith's dog; whose dog are you r In fact, everybody knows these collar-men, and it may happen, that after the city is ir retrievably bankrupt, and is compelled to repudiate her debt, her citizens may refuse to elect to her . councils, railroad men and the tools of railroad companies, who are directly or indirectly paid to act the dis graceful part of mercenaries, blindly obey ing the orders of their superiors. But this is not all. While we feel at home the oppression and mismanagement of the hirelings of the aforementioned R. R. Cos, we are doomed to behold in our Legisla• tore the systematic efforts, of these same railroads, to rob the State Treasury of its last dollar I The time for the onslaught is near at hand—the vultures which soar over the battle-field and fatten upon the reeking carcasses of the slain, are already here. Their notorious and ignoble countenances forebode deeds of villainy. There is no hope of safety iu either }Louse. The last refuge of the people is in the Governor, provided the Senate is not corrupted to the amount of two-thirds of its members. If this great robbery of the State Treasury is successful, the Democratic majority in the Senate will be broken 111) and demoralized. Then will follow in quick succession, in the Legislature, a series of raacalities more disgraceful and more fatal than any that have heretofore blasted the fame of Penn sylvania; and the people will find out, when it is too late, that the Democratic members of the Legislature, who wear the collar of the Pa. R. It. Co., are nothing but the vile serfs of a Loge power which robs us here—robs the COIN Moll wealth, and aids and abets the bitterest Radicals of the Fed eral Government, to rivet upon the people the chain:nor sery Undo. Aye I Nl,"hile these collar-men denounce in the Senate "the bayonet election law," they give their sup port and servile aid to the mammoth cor poration that favors centralization and im perialism, and vote through their tool Scott and their ally Cameron for the bayonet election law. Thee Call themselves Dem ocrats, and yet they are the cringing„ sub servient servants of a corporation which is the beau-ideal of a moneyed aristocracy on the pattern of ancient Venice, with its se crecy, its hypocrisy, its tyranny, its injus tice and its corruption. Yes, at times these collar-men prate of the Constitution ; en veigle against coal monopolies:ma railroad outrages; Lott, wl,at dines all this fuss amount to, when the Honorable Sow uel Moon, the Charge d'A !fairs of the Pa. It. R. Cu., near the government :of Pennsyl sylvania, at Ilarrisburnr, interponnea his dic tation All tine patriotic din is hushed as suddenly as when Grimalkin unexpected ly appears in the midst of a tribe of gam boling mice! They all take to their holes; and so do our - patriotic collar-men, content to have raised a deluive howl over the falling liberties of their country, to hum bug their constituents, while they aro si lently and treacherously aiding their task plasters to sap the very loundations of that glorious temple of liberty, which was ce mented by the blood of our heroic revolu tionary ancestors! Believe me, Messrs. Ethltors, there is no hope in the Legislature. I f the State Treas ury is to be saved (rout utter spoliation— if the disgraceful and unconditional surren der of the ttovernment of Pennsylvania to a mammoth corporation is to be averted—it can only be done by the intervention of the iievernor's veto. Some have lately ex pressed the opinion that the governor had materially changed his views, as expressed last Spring in his veto message, intimating that he had gone over to the enemy. 1 do not believe a word of this. tin the contra ry, I feel assured he sternly adheres to the principles of his message. Instead of doubting his integrity, I look upon hint, in the possible contingencies of the future, as the leader under whose triumphant banners the patriots of the country will hurl ilOlll power the imperial usurper of our Constitutional llexernment. Tine excitement growing out of the sus pension of production of anthracite coal has very sensibly calmed during the past week. This is the result of several causes, promi nent among which is that the highly sensa tional reports of an impending coal film ine, made to sell newspapers rather than to give truthful information to the mailer and con sinner of coal, have pretty! much spent their force, aided by the !ett that the pre dicted famine and twenty (toilers per ton for coal, hay :not conic. Indeed, holders of coal are more anxious sellers than they were a fortnight ago, and at lower prices We aro also having milder weather, and much less coal is required fur domestic purposes. Those who have been using three tires are managing tin get along with two and to keep Ilnelessened number go ing with about half the amount of coal per day heretofore used. In addition to this lessened consumption, those great eonsunt ers of coal, tine forges anti !unlaces, have almost entirely stopped work. But very few of them are in operation in any of the regions in the eastern part of this State. There is, therefore, no fear of a coal famine in any event, for the 110 X t three months, within which time we feel quite sure that arrangements will be effected by the oper ators anti carrying companies to produce coal ' if not by the resumption of work by those now at the ninnies, then by others with whom may Inc , made ini,de satistaeto ry arrangements. No one can reasonably object to miners anti laborers getting as high wages as possible, nor to their coin hitting peacably to effect that result, but no intelligent, right-thinking person will pre tend to justify violent interference to pre vent other workmen the same privilege of fixing their own prices. Tins is tyrannous and oppressive, and, if n o t generally, inn many individual cases is the cause id meek loss and suffering. 'fine fact that there is no probability of a coal honine, that the ditlbrence between the operators and min ers:ls to wages Is 80 very slight, and that the way at the last meeting nnt the (Mineral Council was left open to arbitration by re ferring that quest 101 l bark to the several county associations, give reasonable nuts r anee that an amicalnle adjustment wall the linen now at the mines may be effected Intuit early day,and full work be resumed almost at once thereafter. The action at Harris burg we eau but believe has done harm, as tending to prolong suspension by holding out hopes of legislative redress that are not likely to be reamed against alleged Wrongs. The outrages reported at Sit. Cannel on Friday night, the shooting in his bed of a man who worke.l ouksid e of the Union, and the blowing up of a part of his house with powder, are lacts that cannot fail to provoke the condemnation of all the better disposed miners, and by the shock such acts must give of a wholesome inablicsentinient, hur ry the crisis that will end present ditferenees and afford an easy and satisfactory mode of adjusting by arbitration those that may arise hereatter. We have already stated the fact that tine Reading Railroad Compa ny has raised IL, coal tolls and freights to ,1,0, from and after to-day. This fact quick ened the coal tonnage over that read tor the week ending on the 9th inst., making the supply from that source alone about 3.5,50 e tons, an amount which will go further in meeting the present market demand than 100,010 tons would a fortnight back. IN aV oration is now open and void is passing th Ince to points is 110 csupplitcaresuetteat. lie coal tonnage fur the week ending on the 25th tilt., was BO light that see do not go at all Into detail. The total amount of an thracite reported by the carrying compa nies for the week was 119,985 tons, and for the year, from the Ist of December, 1,335,107 tons—showing a decrease of some 823,700 tons on the anthracite tonnage to the corres ponding time last year. The bituminous tonnage for the Week was 11,715 tolls, and for the year 116,703 tons, against 17,1127 tons to corresponding tittle last year—a decrease of 074 tons. In this city the retail price of veal Is a good deal unsettled, with a very little dbmualtion to buy beyond the small est amuwtts to Meet current wants. In our last Aloinday's coal article the amounts there given as the wages paid last year at the tannest named represent the net earn ings, exclusive of all eXpellseB.—Phdoclel /duet Ledger. A man named O'lleagan, watchman for some years at a crossing on the Reading road just below the borough of Pottsville, was also run over and killed on Sattirtley. Letter frogs South America Correspondence of the Intelllgencer. CORDOVA, Argentine Republic, S. A., October 31, 1870. ) MESSRS. EDITORS: I think I took leave of you, in my att letter, in "deep water." Up to the 7th of August we had made about 2000 miles of our trip, with but little of the past week's incidents worth naming, save that we were visited every night with a squall and shower, which came up sudden ly and lasted only about 10 minutes At the latter date we were nearly in the Trop ics and not far from the African Coast. The mercury stood at 78 in the warmest room of the vessel on that day, and strange to say we had been at no time uncomfortably warm. After a squall on the morning of that day one of the sailors caught a "boni to." We had noticed a number of them before, and observed the peculiar power which their tails possessed ; but on exam ining this one, we found that it had fins which fitted into fissures; and n large ono on the back, all of which we could shut and open like the blades of a pen knife. They are about as large as a good sized shad and very good eating. This, with the dolphin and other large fish, per secute the flying-flsh under water, and when in imminent danger the latter take refuge in the air. On the 14th we saw some Medreok Gulls, a new kind of bird ; and on the 10th we saw a white bird from Africa. On the 20th the sea was filled wi'h multitudes of delicate little creatures, about au inch long, and lighter than gauze; they were like a transparent tissue, spotted with blue. On the morning of the next day wo found the clouds in the neighborhood of the sun tinted with all the rainbow colors— a peculiarity of this latitude; and in the afternoon we saw a number of fish, from to 15 feet In length, each having a pointer protruding from its mouth, like a sword fish. On the next day Mr. Rock captured a curiosity of the sea. It is a deep blue, with a body 11 inches long, front which project Si arms pointed and spread around a fish-formed body, until it looked very much like a thistle. In the evening we saw the North or Polar Star for the last time, and gazed upon a portion of the Southern Cross and some other constella tions of peculiar brilliancy, which never appear in the northern heavens. Un the evening of the 24th I felt like cry ing with delight as watched the phos phorescent light. We have seen this nearly every night, but. when the sea is rough it it peculiarly attracting. (ere night the waves were foaming end dashing about our vessel, and as they receded their tops were beauti fully illuminated with this wonderful in sect. At times the waves looked as if a bright light had struck their crest, and fol lowed it until it separated into many ...parks that died far away in the .9: - .lonther water ; near where see stood they were separate and large like distinct stars. On this night, however. as we looked over the verse; it appeared as if brilliant ;iglu bad been fixed along its sides-like the fot-lights On a stage. h'ar down in the motor balls of light as large as tumblers reflected their light, and then came up to the surface and separated Into thousands oflesser lights. At the stern we could see the rudder, and there, instead of foot-lights, it looked as if a chan delier was making brilliant the whole alter part of tho vessel ; while in our wake we could see. the ~sure tr;ootparted bursting lights for more than Al feet, tine of the passengers secured one of the insects. It is white and delicate, in form like a mulber ry, but hollow and as frail as the most del icate production of a skillful glass-blower. Sometimes it seemed inflated, Sod would glimmer with a blttlan light, again with a greenish-yallow light ; but of the light from the myriads that glow in the wake of our vessel, I can give but the faintest . idea.— Capt. Lewis has seen their light for half a mile ahead of his veonal, .4ud so bright , Wag it that tha masts and sails were illuminated by it. It is peculiarly line north of and near the equator, and that is just where we were on that night. At to e'elecl; the colt morning wo cross ed the line, but were not sensible of any change. Our Captain killed a taint, in honor of the event, and we did justice to a dinner of roast lamb, (In the 1;.allt, three Hying;-tish fell on our deck, and we had them served up with biscuit in oic.nic style. They were very good ; particularly sn, as we were eating fish and fowl with every mouthful. un the next day we saw seven snow-while and five black sea-gulls. tut September ad, we made :Au wiles, the only good day since leaving Ilotlland. In the evening we all sat on deck enjoying the moonlight and mush.. It is the Ilrst moon that I ever saw with horns perfectly erect. When we got further south we saw the horns turned in just the opposite direction from what you see them in Pennsylvania. On September 7th, we saw a number of birds; and one strange one which proved to be a Cape Pigeon, the firAt wo have seen. It is like your pigeons in form, but it measures about 2.5 inches from tip to tip; and has two white spots about as large as the palm of my hand, on each wing,. It gets its name front the fact that It comes front the Cape of (bud Hope, and never flies farther south than that point, nor far ther north than Cape Frio, which point wo passed yesterday. While WO were watch ing this bird, we saw an albatross Mr the first time. Sept. 10th, the sea has Leon very rough and we are all more or lees under the weather. We wound up some what to watch the movements of the Cape pigeons of which there were about 30 near us. The Captain put out a line baited with pork, and at one time there were a dozen following it over and in the trough of im mense waves; sometimes flying after it when the Wave culminated in a white cap, then, in a smoother trough they would sulk upon the water, then again swim like ducks, and again fight each other to get a morsel. If one was fortunate enoug to get the pork which was at least 2 inches long by 1 inch wide he would swallow it whole, and dive for another piece. At last the Captain caught one by pulling in the line while it was striving to get the bait. They cannot run on deck, nor fly from it unless you raise them in the air and give them a chance to free both wings. We kept it all night, and the next day, Mr. Reek Wrote on one side of a piece of wood, the name of the vessel, and Sept. Ilth ; and the other side, he wrote the name of luis wife; then tying this around the pig, on's neck, he sent him on his way. Ile seemed glad to be free, but nit not appear to lie inconven ienced by his tablet. Tuesday the 13th, Captain Lewis eanght two pigeons that measured 43 inches front tip to tip. We counted 130 birds about our vessel, many of whit•h were very tame. The next day the captain took soundings and found that we were in '216 feet of water. The work rut drawing the :ichor front the hold voinmenced this day. They were carefully stowed away Ulm') lancing Portland. There are two anchors, one weighing :Nue lbs: the other 11,S. Each fathoms in length, and each has been tested to hear the strain of tons.— The two chains weigh I I tons. Beside these large anchors are two small, r r:nes ealled Jerk anchors. On the 15th, at 13:30 'A. M. the :mite stood over my willeow and called "land, ahead!" It link but a ..econd to get on deck. It AV AN the coast of rraguity, or rather the first we saw was :1 mountain peaks 15 miles dis • tent from the roast. Their names ere "Sugar-load," Mount of all Souls, and Cerro Belet. At 9A.M. we saw the isle of Lobes, and to the left the light house and the town of Xlaldonado. Seal- fisheries are located near Lobes, and we saw quite a number of seals during the day. At 1 o'clock the pilot came aboard. He was a sharp fellow. lie wanted $9O in gold, but as our captain would only give $7O, he shrugged his shoulders, and inti mated In a tudsture of Italian and Spanish, that such a thing was unheard of. In a trice he' VMS oil in his hoot for the sloop that had brought him out, but when about 50 feet from her he turned about, pulled for our vessel, and came aboard as innocently as if he had never shrugged his shoulders, nor muttered Spanish. The ahnighty dol lar, you see, is potent hero. From this time out the pilot was supreme, The cap tain and crew obeyed lila orders Implicitly. At five P. M. the lighthouse on the island of Flores was distinctly in sight, and II miles distant, the lightship. From "the bow," Montevideo was vowing in sight. At 5 P. M. on that day, we bid you fare well, and remain, until you again hear from us, Faithfully, thine, "YOU KNOW WHO." THE income tax with its inquisitorial agents is to be retained a while longer. The prOposttion to repeal it has been defeated in the House. With the pass ing away forever of the 41st Congress there will bean end of this and of many other nbusenveslneerely trust and hope. TILE NEW CONGRESS list of Members SENATE. [Republicans in Roman; Democrats In IDit,r.) =MEI Term 41st Congress, 42,1 Congres.s. Ex Ores. George E. Speneer.........George E. Rp.neer...l/irl Willard Warner George Goldthimite..l,l77 ARKANSAS._ Benjamin F. Moe Benjamin F. Rice. 1X73 Alex, MeDonahl .Powell Clayton. 1,x77 CALiFoRNIA. Come[lnc Cole. Cornelius Cole 1,73 Ete,ne Ois.erty P:llf7,lle. CON N I.:LI'ILDT. ... .. ... Orris S. Ferry Orris S. Fr rry ...... ...1573 Wlil. A. Duck 11.1011.71 .. W. A. liucklllgluon.ll37s DELAWARE. Thorna.l I.'. Baurtrd .........Thomus F. 1:.11, rd. I 575 Winos!Setztl.s . hrtry AU Satolslntry ' VC; FLORIDA. Thomas W. Osboni ThomaA W. Oshorn.li:7l 011bert ...... A Gilbert Joshua Hill joh t ia MIL .. Is,1 11. Miller Foster Blodgett, ...177 ILLINOIS. Lymnn T l r , u ,t i L ? .., lnt I I ib,u lav ßl, hard a 011,..er P. Marlon .1,71: Daniel D. Prao. lOWA. Oliver Morton. l)11.111 V/ D. Pratt . James Harlan . James It. Howell James Marl. n "e , lrge U. Wright . Is 7 KANSAs. S'mmel C. Pomeroy Imund C. Russ..... .So fuel l'ottlerov.lsT.l K ENTI CE V. . Garret: r . ..Uarn it 1%7: 77Jontrz, loh n . .1,7 With Pitt I:tillotar Vint. Pitt Kohlarg John C. Harr, ...I. Rodman \‘ • tinit LN7 MAINE. ...Hannihnl Hamlin IC M. Morrill.. 1. Hannibal liamlin Lot M. 1t..n.r111 M A RY LAND. (;eoryr I:rorge I• 7 ' Inn 7: .Hll,lllll. W 11 IhiIII ab I/I 1 , 7; M Chillies Stunner l'harbis Stunner. Henry Wilson. Henry IN;; MI,:HI ii.k 'I Chandler ... Jana', M. Hawa , d Tl unn \V. Furl - ) 1 , 77 111 INNE. , arI'A. Alexander RonlAey Alexander Raiasey.l,7:, Oznra. arm: Wlnd‘nn 1,77 I+l ISSISRII , II. A Iderbert Alderlaa Ante, 1,71 Hiram R. Revel, _James 1.. Alen... 1,77 BEMIS] Fratiri, ;Lairr Carl Sehurz P',..meit P. Mt, - I , Carl Schur, Is N ElittAsK A. l'lnann, W. l'lpton John )1. Thay, """"-" 71 Y`°"''' . P, MEM . Jana, \V. Nye .haws W. Nye \Vuu. M. Stewzirt Wm. M. Stewart IS: NEW 11. k 11`S1111tE. . l'allererm juts. \V. Put ter•eal 1:17 I,kroa 11. Crogla. . Aarea it. Cragiu NE. \V .11 , 1C-tEY ./uttit 1...N1rk..At,:i F'.'l'. 1rdingli11),•111•7 Calle NEW l'Ulth. Ru Colikling • ..Itt.roe Ittight•ii Ft•il lon Itk•uhell 1...11,,0 1 , 1 CAR .1.1N.1. , .I,xllll V 4 ,01 Joht•ph l'..11,151)11 John SIB, rltut t) t. .. ri rio t.rm,tr, J , b1:11 N 1 rui :lib, G. //4/trui.in 11, ”r \V. "rbt li IN , Henry \V.r,rhett I'N.NNNYI.VAN lA. Shnon l'ameron S.non k.:kmrt-on l'. John Montt. John 50.,11 4i14( , .‘1 , ISLAND. Spraur.. 14etay 11..klithgony \Vinton] Sprovuolr Henry Whim)] I, MMMIE Mail Saw T. J. KubVrinu❑ F. V(.I Itubvrtsou I YEN:, WIII, (i. itrONVIIIOW NVIII. 11. 111 . 1....)11. , W In 11: \.\d. .J. W. Flatl,tgan NI. I'. limmiton h. EtiM,)NT. .1. W. Fial):4nn, C. .Jost In S. F. Edmunds Justin S..M01111) Lie, F. I...:llLttuklN..,i, John F. IJovis Jahn F. Lewis ME=QI DEMMEM . . . NN'1 , .,1; VI Itl:LNI.k. A rt'..u; T. lior,inan Arthur I. ll.• , rvinnn I , w. 'l'. ~' I I I,y ...... .. lieu,' G. /iii.. I, T. U. ii l'itryt•ltttsr. \I. 11. 11111n•t11 otyvt not . A let.m. It IA 1,1111111,(1, Win 1101 in W10(11 , 1011' clm•ro Is it prol.tiolllty 111111 :If. Hovel,. tunny 111• re-elt•ttlt.ll. w 11111.• Ity S.,:tt , tr A t , limit, wit., t•lttlitts tt.ltitvt" ed. :General J. J. Ito unl,l sn 1 ttltl. kom.in g ,of the IJI.• henof the HU112101.1 Itepre4entatl yrs :Orel elected In the Forty- , etld l'athrres...., 'I nattle4 of the Detnwralq art. idth.ell lu /fn/ and I }IP negro member, .11 +MALI. l• PITA I. An asterhAt lialleate% II..• I I • ii/1/11 I =ME= MIZE I Lill.. \l'lllntkl 2-I.ulit• 1.1)11m41.• l•-.1atnes RW11111,11. , ki-Nuth ll' linukH.• 7--t.lontge M Brooks - (Jittery S-licerge Ilonr.• I-1 , 11114nel Hooper.. H-Wnt II Witslanir -llet.j F Butler.' lt,---Ilenry I. Dawes.. I=l I- I' F::iii~i•. EIREIM I -1.•1,1d TorunA,,M, 17 - WmAWIL,Ivr. Kon.ve//.. —./.,14 3/ 3 Ilrnry Il'SNcorm.• 19—EllzUr 11 l'rl 4 II 1c00,,,,./1. 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"21-11',t .11 , 1, DEL AW I I-Iff 1),411,1111 7' I:Y LAN D. 11 , rmid, bot.• rd M=MMIM 3- . • =ECM MMM —.111311., 11 Plat Port., ' I;Na,u .1f W.III/tm II vton•,•II. , 11 . 411„1111 rra ROI.I NA. I-- I'l Inl on I. 0,1,10' s—James NI Leach =DM —.I / rcr M lilt II sffi - TH cIFOLIN.‘ 1—.1 , .s II I NEV.• H I.:1.1.1 1—.1Io•x ti =BIM 2-1t1.•11 It r 3—.1,111ti I—T11( 'nuts .1 li,"11,/ 1I Pri ALAIIANIA I - 2—(7ltarl,, Ilueli.l,•y '75-1' , 1•••• ::-11',// .1 II S, M I El -, 155111 . 1. I (1 , . ,, rv , I . : Hari i. • • I r NI, K 3-1 - I,llry W Burly.' Those meTribt•rq rlaltri t“ 1111. i., an .•''.•r• Iluu itind.• at 111,• 1111,1 1,1.1 ilk C'ungrt,s. 1--. I I.1.111(.1 slwlel.)n. , s -Fr:1.111( 3- (2 B 01110. -.14•1p F: nson.• 12-/' I) ,rlrophell. .13-I,•orqr 110 ,I F 31,.11 . 1,..,11 --.hones .1I ~,,, I - ill. P ,rrague. G-john :' tin, tt .‘ BlEoghum 7 tikliClSltell. , ,:truer. , 7-.1. , 11, A .%1:11,1er.• .• Imo. A . m. II l ' ll , ll/1 • 9-1111,1 t, Foster. lt , --.1.011cs H-Eruslilu, 11 l'et•k.' I Belo mol - 11 . 7 n. 3—.lf perid, II • I, oroo• 31 Ado 9 11 . oil. It Item?. `.• ✓or,,, ti 16 , 0 • Bowl Irio, lo rb r,' TENS 1:1.:. 7 Itittlitrittl, It }Stiller • 1--F.ltt..tti/ / Mitvilarti. , I,— H I,lMor . 7- 11/, ,r I' tad re I--.1%i1r It if • IC rot. Fitt, dt.ttt. INDIANA. 7 ‘1,111 , ,it -.1a211 , 4 N tivr.• 3- Who. S • 4 .14)1in PI • !•11:ink4. I--. 1 rl•. LI \V 1. ,, 11. I"—WIII. %V1111:,111, -.1,1111 l'ohilrn.• 11--.1041., I 1.1.1N015. I *ll3l It , II l'arwt•l I. —.l tio. F If' /g• - 131114.1.r.1.•1 , /—Erhe // iete • . I —John II II nn' ley.• I I —.`iftyrorel 11ardwIl. .V :Vet 1, 4,12 - .11411i 11. H ny.• lurt,,,, r took 1.1—,1.1it . rch, • 7 II I In' ii- \ :t. niwy A Flilkelliburg.• 7- 1.. r C 3--jr/T. K jp-oyr work.• • -.11.111, fl.l I-11 I.: Haven,ll--. I ito/reti. kt.g. S 1411.,14.1t.• A Iti AtiS.\S. I 3 N, 1•rvoIet111..1 , 1.• 2 411,, Snyder. cel v.I. I-• llt•nry Woldren. 4--Var.itnry, —Win I, SIM/01[c on.' 1'4,111;.,.• Li , - dub , : FD , RIDA, I- T TEXAS. The Legl•lal pre lias purposely ,t, 4.1.1e.1 I I x Ing :nne tor un elect lon.lh older, prevent .leni rrnile triumph, ;Old none i. expeoe.l 1111 1c72. lOWA. iecirgc SlO'rary.• , Mad I.olt NI Walden :I- s it R Ull[ , u. J- Frail: W. \l'llllltrti U DOllllllll. 6—Ja(.1, ,, 11 orr.' WISCONSIN. ifilehe•ll. I— Cho • .1 Eli 2—Bert}' 5-Ithlletur saw, et..• Allen Barber. G—Jerewlall M NN ESGTA. I I: Dunnell, 2 John .\ crrli 1, URF.GON. I—.lams II Sint,. KANSAS. P. Lowe. WEST VIRGINIA. s 3—lrma 101 a 2—.ln irew.• NEVADA. I- -Clt rl 11'. Kew!, dl. NEBRASKA. I—John Tatra.. ftECAPITULATION. Repubricans Democrats Independent.. ~ Vacancies Necessary for a majority The vacancies are as follows:—New Hamp shire 1, election to take place March 14; Con necticut 4, election occurs April 3; California 1, election September It; Texas 4, no time fib for election ; Illinois 1, member at large L., IA elected In place of Logan, chosen United States Senator; Arkansas I, i he candidate elected In the Third district having fulled to procure his credentials. The members elected nre s divided In color as follows : White Black 5 .• • Of the member. , who alit talc.' thelr seata to day, Morel. 4th, 113 are now and 111 are men) berm of the last Congress. The Apportionment of the Slate Tho following apporlioninent bill ha. heen reported from the Senate Conlin ittee Philadelphia : I. First, Second, Third, Fourth, Seventh, Eighth and Ninth wards, 1. IL Tenth, Thirteenth, Fourteenth, Fit teenth, Twentieth, and Twenty•nintl wards, 1. 111. EMI. Sixth, Eleventh, Twelfth, Sixteenth, Seventeenth, and Eighteenth wants, I. IV. Nineteenth, Twenty-first, Twenty second, Twenty-third Twenty fourth, Twenty-fifth, Tw'entysl xtb, Twenty-soy - en th, and Twenty eighth wards, I. V. Chester and Delaware, 1. VI. Montgomery, I. VII. Bucks and Northampton, I. Berks, 1. I X. Lancaster, I. X. Schuylkill, I. XI. Lehigh and t XI I. Dauphin and Lebanon, L XII I, Lti write, Monroe, Pike, Auld XI V. Bradford, StiNitlik1:1111111 Wy I. , ....tttitig and lulls XV I. Potter, 'riega, )11•1:.ealt 1111ki FI , II. I. X V Northuittherhuhl and I.tltonlr. 1. XVIII. Itlair, I'.lllllJria, Elk, I. X 1 X. 1•ilitilwrIN1.11lI111 York, I. N X. Aditills and l'ranklitt, 1. XX I. II Iledfiml, tot Ful ton, I. X X 11. Snyder, tit.iatn, Cent! t., 111141 XXIII. A Ileghetty. :t XXI V. Indiana, .leltet ,ott, anti Arm strtmg, I. XX V. S,lnerset ;eel NVI,I 11,1'011111d, XXV I. Fayette, and Wastlilll,. toll, I. N XVII. Itt,vcr, 1,1,‘ 'once, 1111 a N. XVIII. rh!!!!!!!!. XXIX. Craw furd Erie, ati.l Viuvren Ailarns Allegheny, , A ruistriing, I ; Am! I ; Itrrkx, :1; Blair, I; Sullivan and Wyoming, 2 ; Itimk..;;; Itiii lei . , I ; Cambria, I ; Cainerion aml I ; I ; Chester, 21 :Itl ; and Partial, I Ciolumbia, I ; 2 ; I ; Ihwphin. 2; Delaware, I Erie. 2 • Elk and Jetler,iiii, I ; I . ;revile, I ; II I ; InJlana, I •Itiniata, and Perry, 2; :; Limi - viii•e, I ; I ; Lehigh, ; 11,110 anti M ,, lll . lit` ; I,yeiiming, Snyilez and 1..11141, lerel , r, 1; Nlt•lean anti - ter, I ; Nliiiitviimerv, 2 ; unit NorlhalliP l,ll . ; alntl Wayne, I; Selmylk ill, 3; 51,1110,. I, I ; Siisquellaima, 1 : 1 ; Warreu, I: Wt,limirelanil, 2; 2 • \'. 41.11 i , 1; 'I lie 1444111 , of stale ' the fallowing report trout (lee ( . 01/1111ill, ,it 1110 41114 10..d143 ill ret , Oren,' to lhe 111,1141mi11,11 t,. .4.1 j. :Lao Stalo I Bonds: The Colllllliltet, 1.1 l'eferred th.it telrt M . the 1 MHerk‘ , W . ,1111 ,. . , ,,:1. , Wending (Ile I.egtstl.ture to make !WI, 1 , -1 , 1. to sell all the assets in the p , lsessi.el ea the ('l,lll I,li.sioliers of the Sinking speeibilly ,idea It the milo‘viinj report 111 relerrmg to This ..1111iert lltl , it, structed the ('aluluitteereport Ih r. Illlll , llllt 11.111 i kind of 11:sse l .1 .41,/l1 Of the 1 'ominissioner4 the 51111,1141 11(1111, Whitt 111,1.1)miLion ought U. made of (Ile sani assets ntr the best inter rate of 1.1. e l'ominonwealth. And the. Mve . ..nor, in his last animal message L.. the Legislature, in speak in)t of the assets to. the possession of the the. Sinking 111 whieh he revotimiended to lr sold, fixes (ho amount. at In Ins 1111.411;4e designates HI , as sets in the po,session of the Commissioner,. of the I.iiiking 10011 a. tho huntl4 of the i'ente+ylvania Company and the sand itiortgag,e bonds of the Allegheny Valley Itailroad. $5,51:2.,5:1 1.11 the assets re ' furred 11/ I.)'the resolu-tion of the Senate yea the Governor ill his 1111,sligll, \Seri...llolol ly the 1.11114 of the Pentisylvama Itadroa.!, Company executed to the Stale when it purchased the main line of t/, public works under the art of the 1 , 31 h 11l titilNetmently, in persmume 1,1 tin act of 7th of .\ larch, ista, the State :11141 LI,. Itail road I'oniptuly entered Mtn it now tract which untterially rlnauged the or der I,l * payllietlt aud the nature of the liability Sty the act of the 7th ot, Nlarch, the 1, , 01114 151,1011 awl been delis, red by the Itailroad Cmo parry lc, the State for the purchase M Ihr. eosin line or the 'midi(' works were II org,ed, into the written vontrart entered iste. he tweet] the }tail road Company 111141 It is clear that the lorv-ent liabil ity of the ItailroadCompany PS' 1.14 in 1110 said 1./Illy. IL is Ir,u , Illy of lgival 11,111kk r 0 111 the 110451.551111, 141, Ihr l'.nnuias ion acs „I the sh.king Fund but they call L/0 reg./Udell only 0111111Iertj le, till' contravt entered 111 I or the !nen , leirpove (dt pre,prvhig the OVI dent . , Of the .rriginal I ramoteti , ,h and the •eetiritiev then giVell. AM the =II I gitween the :state :toil the Railroad Coin puny, any sale that might be tuudu by the of the sinking Fund wit all be by the new contract anti nut lit- original bonds. it einiteimilation of the. law the liability of the Railroad Curl g tny to the Sian. IS 1111011 the new ilgret,tnitUt, S. that atIV Mule of the bonds by n snit, anti transfer of contratii, would pass no title or ri t gist of Ill'Uon n14;61011 the Railroad Company t.n the In" i•llivier. And the contruet ninth. it, ISil an entirety, although payable in iioital• meats :no wit,Liom the consent of the Rail road l'itinpally to a ilitlerent arrangement: would have to lie sold as Murh..l lure we have thepropositionto as an en tirety, paying sunk-antinally instalment, ei2lto,nUli until thetv hale !MILL LS putt ntl 'rhe committee think that very few capi talists would purehAse suelt a sum and lent retviired to receivo the amt., in such, U. wents, Thu nature of the coutratit pro• posed to be sold, as well as the character the payment of the same, would forliiq rather than invite voittpetition at the sato, and therefore the whole sum would la. very likely to fill into the hands of Vlllll. ,aie at it 110111111;d price. Thy tat would 11y1, in the opinion Ufa,. coati...init.:, wittingly sanction au all of thwir servants,. although thine 111 the lIIILOO of rehirui, which would siteritice their interests, not oppose au oriel to pay op the slaty ttylit, which would waste Of put to ILlZerti s. large au amnuut of thy 11,101, of the c.u.t . inenwealth. Upon principles of snunal public policy the Committee, after a very careful consideration of the subject, think that this contract between the State and the Pert lisy IN aria Itall road Vimpany ought lint to be sold, and that the sale of [lmmune would result in a Very large leery to the State. The remaining it t..", 110,000 referred to by the resolution or the Senate and the t;o% ernor's message, were originally the bonds of the Sunbury and Erie Itailroad.Company 'flies() bonds were given pUrseatrive of the act of the '3lst of April, imns, for the purchase by the Sun hut ry and Erie Railroad company of all the public works al the State which remained unsold at the date of the said itet. Afterwards, Under en let el . the Legislature, these b. eels were delivered to the Allegheny Valley Railroad Company in exclutiwe ti n Irk,, inneldit (And mortgage bowls of caul Company, guaranteed by the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, the Northern Central Railroad Company and the Philadelphia and Erie Railroad Company. The first of the thirty live bonds, each of wine!) calls for isloo.nial, lolls due on the first day of January, 1 5 7 t, and one annually thereafter. until all aril paid. The last of tires() bendy tuxlurew Jentlary first 1901 i, and they all hear inter est from January first, An eX:iiiiitlation of the linallehll cnudi tion of the Commonw,alth, er the several .ourres of revenue, of the rapid growth of the commercial, Illkilltifactilring and agri cultural interests of the saline, certainly goes far to prove the futility of the propii sltion to sell these bonds. From the last annual report of the State Treasurer it appears that the receipts for ti o, local year, ending November :10, lsiy, 1110 in excess of the preceding year, $1,091,• 8,11 ; and la excess of the receipts of Lim fiscal year or lsen, of i 3.2,557,345 43, The public debt on the :kith of November, 1870, according to the last annual message of the Governor, was $31,111,101 W. Sup posing the receipts of the rellilleal wealth to increase in the succeed tug ten or twenty years as it has done in the lost ten years, :old the entire public debt will be paid off long before the kitlit of these bonds matures; anti Wath a proper economy and retort') iu all the departments of the government, the public debt could be paid at the rate or 1.2,- 000,000 per inn tun, les] taxation might still be reduced and modified, so its to be lens burthensome upon the people,. in vie, of these facts, anti with the reasonable cer tainty that these bonds, it sold, would hp sacrificed, the Committee think they might not to be sold. 'cilia was the opinion of the Finance Committee of the Senate In leee, after, as appears from 'their report, it very full extunination of the subject. While the Committee have to don tut that any attempt to sell any or all the llSStta iii the sinking fund would prove retile, or if carried out would prove ruinous to the lfl terests of the Commonwealth, yet, as the governor has twice reemmitended the sale of these assets, we suggest that he shall, it ho deems It proper, invite bids for the sanie, and report the result to the nest Legislature. 'rho Committee annexes the aecompanv log statement of the Commissioners of the ',lnking fund. A. A. l'unaux, A. H. Dim., L. BILLINOEELT, GEORGE CONNELL, I. D. DAVIS, Committee Coroner's Inquest NEW YORK, March 7.—The Coroner's Inquest commenced today In the case of Patrick Murphy aged 19, who Is supposed to have been killed on Saturday night by C fllcer Tuorny of the fourth ward. The Court-room:was crowded.
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