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.
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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
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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. Nur rlt
wiihm. le , il, , rts. 21 —Ellis 11 Itoberts.
ti—Seitnric/ S \V JIMMIE 1.141,,i
11.11..1.1 1414.11
ESeei , !l".
2;,—W II Lainto,l . l.
10 0 , 11 . A.v.0t \' Potlcr.' 1:r, Milo Uootirivtl.
ll—Charles µ13 , 4.M1, 1 27 —llorlleo II Slllllll.
H ::. , --Frct•umn Clarke,
111--.70,e7/11 11 0 01 01,11,011.
In/I/0/0 11',111.14
1..--.l".veph 11 Wart.,-, 11 \Valk, I. 5e. , 1 , 0
I.; ./oho
non
WISZEIDE
11:NNSYLVAN
J •
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/-1,011/11,1 Nlyt•rs • I.")---/e1rh..///tt/4/ , ,t,t
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—Alfro.l Hurner. -1;
Pelirrtini /, r arg Ale',
—AII.II 14 ,V11,1•Ili I.• 19---tilt.t»)lW ) 4 t.littllt-
S— .1 1,..re 1:r t,.• •', , 111111, I Grtlllll,
to—ttllv, .1 I tlt•ltt•y.• 21—/f,rtry
III—Jolt» \V, Klllittut,'.•.).--.l:ttio-sS
It
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DEL AW I
I-Iff 1),411,1111 7'
I:Y LAN D.
11 , rmid, bot.• rd
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3- . •
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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
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sffi - TH cIFOLIN.‘
1—.1 , .s II I NEV.• H I.:1.1.1
1—.1Io•x ti
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3—.1,111ti
I—T11( 'nuts .1
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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
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3- (2 B
01110.
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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.•
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9-1111,1 t, Foster. lt , --.1.011cs
H-Eruslilu, 11 l'et•k.'
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3—.lf perid, II • I, oroo• 31 Ado
9 11 . oil. It Item?. `.• ✓or,,, ti 16 , 0 •
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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.