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