Hoer the Flue . 2lllllott Steal wan Put
Through
In the North American Review Charles
Francis Adams, Esq., of Massachusetts,
gives the following account of the manner
In which the bill to rob the Sinking Fund,
was put through our Legislature last win
ter
• The Pennsylvania Railroad should need
no introduction to any American reader.
It is probably to-day the most powerful
corporation In the world, as indeed, it
owns and operates one of the oldest of rail
roads. Its organization, as compared with
that of its great rival, the New York Cen
tral, bears the relation of a Republic to. an
Empire. thosarism Is the principle of the
Vanderbilt group; the corporation Is the
essence of the Pen nay vanian system. The
marked degree in which the character of
the people have given an insensible direc
tion to the management of their corpora
tions In those two States is well-deserving
of notice.. In New York politics, the indi
vidual leader has ever boon the centre ; in
Pennsylvania, al ways the party. The peo
ple of this last State aro not marked by in
telligence; they are, in fact, dull, uninter
esting, very slow and very persevering.
These are qualities, however, which they
hold in common with the ancient Romans,
and they possess, also, in a marked degree,
one other characteristic of that classic race.
the power of organization, and tin ought it
of command. They have always decided
our Presidential elections; they have al
ways, in their dull, heavy fashion, regulated
our economical policy; their Iron-masters
have in truth proved Iron-masters indeed,
when viewed by other localities through
the medium a the protective system by
them imposed. Not open to argument,
not receptive of ideas, not given to
!lashes of brilliant execution, this State
none the less knows well what it wants,
and knows equally well how to organize
to secure it. Its great railroad affords a
striking Illustration in point. It is proba•
bly the most thoroughly organized corpo
ration, that in which each individual is
Joust entirely absorbed in the corporate
whole, now in existence, with its President
and its four Vice-President-s, each of whom
devotes his WllOlO soll to his peculiar pro
vinee,' whether It be to fight a rival line, to
develop an inchoate traffic, to manipulate
the Legislature, or to operate the road,—
with this perfect machinery and subordina
tion, there is no reason %why to-day the
corporation should out absolute
control or ell the railroads of Pennsylva
nia. Indeed, it could take possession of the
State thiverethetit., if it rally desired to di,
sum. Ilia EX,ll(alcy the Governor, might
very appropriately laiiineof the Vicif-ria,-
iiielara ni OM caul, and, indeed, Winn , such
a laillillitairon Wolin] add largely to the Ex
ecutive influence, it is doubtful if it would
proportionately increase the political power
of the corporation. Snell solidity in cue
party to a conflict is almost sure ultimate
ly tO tiVereollio lino Oft, or rivals like those
it has lo New York.
Such is this great corporation, high in
credit hi the money markets ,if the world,
eareful repute, ap
parently tinlionieled in its resources. I.r
-gitnizett no long ago as 150, it. 11,1,1 thirty
wiles nl' ru:ul .ready for operation iii the
t-itceitetling vett, Not milli 1.," I,
tinewas P -I,llllS'l can is !tailroud proper
I.olllllllll'll. It then VI/la./11141 tIll• line
from Ilarristairg bI Pitta bu rgh, Iwo 111111
tired and hill miles, wIlit•11 had east in little
lONS than '.17,0011,1/110, and represented
by about $112,0110,11110 of stock and $7,000,0n0
lII' indebtedness. 'rids ;night 110 cousidrred
the stitrting-point; s3,siiii,nlll of 11111111a4
g earnings on a capital a little less than
:j.2.U,0110,000. For many years its growth ,yids
o mimed to l'ennsylvania. lit isit9, how
ever, its policy in this respect underwent a
change, aunt it Inirst through State limits,
extending its field of operation over it vast
region lying netween the great lakes and
the (IM upon the north and south, and the
issonri , lui tint'llVsl. ie. corporation now
owns nearly four hundred nines of road in
Pennsylvania, and directly controls Ltnelve
hundred miles mere, ItlItlIV•t. 0110 rl.ly Within
the State; beyond its limits it leas,
and operates nearly sixteen hundred miles
in addition, holding the stock and bonds of
radio:Ms, emods, towns and cities, likescane
vast ('re.dil .110/iiher it has indeed, no hi:,
(ball $211,11110.61/1/ Standing MI iiS 1101/1,5 as
represented by these investments. Nleini
while in the sixteen years its olnit capital
mud indebtedness hits s‘nollen 101111 $O,-
1/011,001) LI, i:41;.5,1/10,0111), 11111,1 y secured
LI, increase them to nearly ; at
the same time the system of it
holds in its hands returns a yearly inisime
of hardly less than $10,0110,000, Ilf
about .: 1 111,000, 1 1110 is its net profit.
W111:11 it is 1,1111 , 111 bored that one-third of
all the miilruad lllilellge ill
directly vontrolled by this ....lip:lily, some
idea may le, formed oldie intliienee e•xel.-
rised
by it in a legislative body, fitinous
sine° the days of Nieholas Biddle for sub
servience to money influenve. 'finis cor
poration, however, dues not stand alone:
mighty in itself, it is also the aeknowledged
head of that secular railroad hierarchy
slutpes the destinies of l'ennsylvania,
and is immediately represented in every
branch of the National I:overninent. It is,
indeed, intrenched in 'silver, and, while it
avoids all noisy scandal, it unity also defy
attack.
111 the \\inter yf 1070, the l'ennsvlvania
combinat 011 11110 IS busily engage(' as ever
in the SChelllnS 111111 10110 1•11.41.-
ing its eitg,iir eyes about, in search of Ways
and 1111.1111 S. These finally rested on no
less it iiiiarry 111111 the Fund of the
State itself, solrwnly pledged by cottstitti
tional provision 1,1 OM pityinent of
tire pulilw debt. It amounted to sti,-
110,050, and an attempt. 11111,11 it \SUN
resin veil. The necessary arrangements
were silently perfected. The l'onsti-
Union of the .State bristled With 1111 Vlll,lO
111,V1,11,110. 11, order to tulivent "log-roll
ing„" it Wil4 provided that but a single
measuro euuld Ile tiontaineil il, 011 y 0110
1/111 ; ILtmtlier clause directly inhibited the
Commonwealth from having fitutneial re
lations with any private corporation ;
third clearly asserted the sacred charaeter
tit' the Sinlcing Fund, and guaranteed it to
specific purposes. Each of those dillicul
ties was circumvented. Every step of the
ealsotaed 11 011111 y in legal legcr
domain. 'rip several at•ts necessary hi
t lievariiii is enterprises Nvllll.ll con -
S(11111,1'11 lhr CllllllllOll 11111111 a the
combinn
lion evre pusscll mparmely, in lli.1.111,111111•0
Wilk constitutional requirement; to out
ward appearance they were proper, and
desirable :immures. 'flieorganie acts
thus lay on the stattito•book, dead letters;
it remained to infuse into them the breath
of life. The I,tigislature could still in
clude but ono subject in any single
act, and could loan neither the pub
lie credit our the public 11111110 y to
private corporatitios. Nub 1-111110 the
0111,11.1 . 1110,.. ullO sweeping general act
ill relation to railroads directed the sub
stitution of the 111/11,IS of these rompanies
not yet organized, and whose roads were
not commenced and might never,be prof
itable, for the undoubted securities which
represented the Sinking 1 , 111111 il, the'l'rea
stiry ot the State. Legishlture thus
Mil not. loan Um credit of the tale, did not
lay its hands ilium the Sinking Fund, it
I tily, in the exercise of a sound diseret ion
substituted one seem ity in the Treasury
for another ; that the tine security was un-
doubted, and the ether less than doubtful,
was neterieus, but n o t sel forth in the act.
A more u,uxsch e ',feeder could
trdly have been des iced. fille influence
111 great corporate Nvealth wit, sharp
ly illustrated in the subsequent his
tory of this measure. It encountered
almost 1111 1111DOSition until it was sub
mitted for .Execi'Live approval, as
a law. The very press of the State was
dumb, and it it did not actively sustain,
was contented silently to acquiesce. So far
as public opinion - and the legislative de
partment. were 011.1411(41, a railroad coin
binatidit owned the rommon tvealtlic
Through some oversight the Executive had
not I,o ' sli secured ; the 101 l was re roused
d;overtior I ;eary with:, veto iii,‘mage, which
reinenilwreil 10 hisered
it. That the grounds taken itt this dont
meta were irrefutable, by 11,, means ac
t:omits fir the miler° of the I,egislature to
enact the measure into a ladv by the tieces
',try tivo•thirds vote. It is diflietilt to say
why the oorporatesti shrunk from the con
tliet,—svliether Irma motives or policy, or
front pure surprise at such unwonted te
merity. Shrink however, they did, and,
for the moment, the Sinking Fund or the
coottooolVt , ,Lith was .salt!.
Tile Pennsylvania hierarchy is, however,
never discouraged. Thissaine measure, or
any it sees lit 1.11
urge, will ultimately beedino a law. Its
method of pro,titi e iu all such cases is so
organized, so silent, so sure, that it has east
it sort of spell over the mind :old vonseienee
of the Slate ; resistance to it seems hope
less; a I.l.t.itilly 11,4,111p:01i., its progress,—
Discuss the propriety of opposing it with
intelligent Pennsylvanians, and their lan
guage is that of hereditary bondsmen; they
may abuse it and pass all manner of harsh
and, perhaps, tinjustilbiltle critiei,tits upon
it , C.l urse and Method of dealing, butt to
resist it, to regulate it, seems to them like
it suggestion of the impossible, like a prop
osition to resist the tide rr to regulate the
snit.
Lientenani -Governor Cumlatch, of Indi
ana, as President of the Senate of that State
hay decide.l to refuse to recognize the exis
tence of a quorum in the Inoiana House of
'Representatives, and Governor Baker
hacks him lip. The utter contempt of the
Radical politHans for i• insisteney was
again strikingly exhibited in the late Iwo
eeeflings in the 1111111111 a Legislature. In
18th), when the Denifferatic members of the
I of Representatives resigned in order
to destroy the quorum and thereby pre
vent the ratification ”f the fifteenth amend
ment, the Radical majority in,isted that
two-thirds of the members actually pres
ent constituted a quorum, and on the
strength of it proceeded to ratify the
amendment. 'rho Radical Supreme Court
declared this ratification valid, and it was
accepted as such by Congress. The Demo
crats were denounced at the time for their
"unjustifiable and revolutionary course "
At the session this year, however, the boot
was on the other leg The Democrats had
a majority in the Rouse, and in order to
defeat the passage of the Apportionment
hill the Radical members resigned en
masse, Now they hold that two-thirds of
the tnembers actually present do not con
stitute a quorum, and therefore the passage
of any bill under the circumstances is not
valid. Cumbaca thinks so too and refuses
to recognize the acts of the House, and all
the Radical papers pipe to the new tune.
The Democrats at least preserve their in
tegrity. They hold to their positions as
assumed in 1869, admit that the House can
not now legally pass auy bill, and submit
the whole =se to the judgment of the peo
ple of the State,—N. Y. World.
THE LANCASTER WEEKLY INTELLIGENCER, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 8, 1871.
•
The German Entry Into rarls•--Scenes
and Incident.,
PARIS, March L—The only incident ob
served during the march of the Germans
was when a Frenchman, respectably dress
ed, went up to a hussar sentinel and spoke
to the soldier, who replied civilly. On his
leaving the hussar some workmen near by
kicked him severely. In response to his
cries of "assassin" the G erm an officers only
laughed.
On Boulevard St. Honore, at eight o'clock
this morning, when It was dark and cold,
three members of the National Guard, and
a few women carrying bread were the only
persons visible. I turned the corner into
the Rue Royal and saw a cordon of sentries
stretching across the street and a line of ar
tillery caissons interlocked. No carriage
was allowed to pass. The approaches to
the Elysees, the Pont do la Concorde, the
Quay, and Rue Riven were all barred in
the same manner. A few troops were vis
ible, but no spectators.
There were not more than ten people on
the Champs Elysees from one end 'to the
other. Not a sign of the coming event was
visible, all was so silent. The dullness be
came almost oppressive, especially as it WAS
impossible not to feel the saddening iniu•
epee that seemed to be floating in the air.
As I reached the Aro de Triomphe, at a
little after seven, half a dozen men wear
ing blouses were standing with their hands
in their pockets, gazing down the avenue
of Neuilly. A little farther on. I pieta
group of Englishmen.
At ten minutes past eight, looking through
my field-glass from the bridge a mile on' I
saw ono horseman, then another, and then
more, approaching at a rapid gallop. I had
hardly time to cry: "Bore they are!" be
fore they had reached the barrier at Porte
Alaillot. Two others who had been riding
on the sidewalks joined them.
In another instant, at precisely at thir
teen minutes past eight, the first Prussians
were inside of Paris, directly within the
gate. Six hussars spread out such caste up
the avenue of the Grand Armee at u rapid
trot, sometirnes breaking into a hard gal
lop. Teri paces in advance of these rode a
young officer of about twenty years, sword
In hand—lt is said, selected tier this honor
As u reward for his great personal bravery
in the field. 'l•he men carried carbines
resting on their thighs. On they came at
a rattling pace. The young leader looked
so gallant I could not help admiring him.
A small party dashed to the Arc de Tri
omphe, and under it they went, without
drawing bridle, over heaps of stones and
sand, which hail been leftpossibly to pre
vent their passage. They reined sharp up
at the top of the cliwoo,, Elys,os, with tho
drailletics ill front, That was a sight Lo
see. I was dust stairs alter them in a
seemnl, As I turned towards the A r c
Triomphe I saw another officer with a
trumpeter at his side galloping up the ave
nue, and behind them, at a little desttta•,
a dozen or more hussars.
A cloud of infantry was seen approach
ing, Hit at such a distance that Hie It'dle
squad of sentry was entirely unsupported.
V , . hen I crawled the Are I asked the young
odic, lu, tonne. lie replied politely Lieu
-1,11:l111 iternhartly, of the Fourteenth Ilits.
stirs. That. 11a1110 1)01,1,1 by the hrlive
lel-
Io 111•,, Ves to go down to history. As he
.peak leg his captain joined the party.
There was an expression of exeited satis
faction ahout kith, but no swagger.
After a Few minutes pickets were detach
ed to each avenue. The midi starterl on a
gallop, hitt soon returned with reports.--
liernhardy sat coolly stroking the inane of
his horse with his hallrV, not noticing the
rapidly growing crowd which his arrival
had provoked. More 1111,45a1, Sl/1111 cattle
tidiuti~a p. Ily half-past eight the whole
11,5e1111,11.41 on the Neuilly side of
the are.
A 110 lb of 1110k011 ou with a mixture
of indilberence and indignation. There wan
no external sign r.frage. At 8..15 the stall
arrived, with tier'. von Kaineeke in t h e
front, follmved by lin.y officers with all
arms and in all sorts of uniforms. Thos'
did not stop, but rode down the Champs
Elysees to the house of tpmen Christina,
Nvll, l "re their heaMputrters were established.
Gine of the officers, Count, \\,•aldersee,
halted tq sluffie hands with one of our
group, an bffiglistinian. They chatted a
few minutes, but directly after the l'rus
sian had passed this gentleman was at -
tat•ked by three men iu blouses, but he
managed to keep Iris temper. Three hun
dred yards behind the staff ,an,t, battalion
eighty-eighth Wills drums and tiles; then
carne a troop of blue dra , mons whose regi
mental number 1 could not see. Alter
these marched a mixed detachment of Its
variants, composed of infantry and cavalry,
followed by '2.00 men nl every variety of
the Prussian, line . A corps, consisting of
:dint a dozen officers nit - artillery, at tine
head of a little column, which was closed
by alllO thirty rod horse., and containing
•
ahogether alum( 2,000 men, I.mught up t h e
rear.
By fifteen minutes past nino o'clock the
whale body had passed the Are de Triom
phe, and was ascending the Elysees. Sev
eral hundred had now assembled but nu
real crowd. All seemed tranquil :out the
people present manifested little ill-temper.
Stealing 'lntl° Ens.,
The report of the Committee on Appro
priations, which was directed by the 'louse
of Representatives to make int investiga
tion into Indian affairs, is in the main a
sensible, just., and practical document; but
it involVl, as statement of 1111hIllliAlell
i~luity and of official impotence which it
is hard to read with patient.. A part of 1
the dillies devolved upon the Committee
by the resloution of December 12,1570, was
to inquire whether fulyportion of the snot
of f,t00,000, appropriated tor the Quapaw In
by the act of July If, 107 u, had been '
paid to other parties, or diverted from its
intended use. By that act the sum men
tioned was appropriated to fulfill the stint.-
lations of the treaty made with those Lult
aus, by which pre rub/ payments were to
be made personally to each claimant. Or ilia
heir, according to the usages of the tribe.
To insure the exact and honest execution
of these provisions a clerk was detailed
fruw the utllce of the Secretary of the Inte
rior to !cake the payments in accordance
With his special orders. This nett thole
last October, in a manner which would
scarcely appear satisfactory to the leant
prudish eon:science.
We are indebted ton It r. Earle, of Wor
cester, fOr same account of the way in
Which this extraordinary operation wins
managed. lle was one of a Committee
"appointed front New England," as the
report informs us, "to take a general in
terest in behalf ut the Indians..' Ile Metril
of this occasion, and went to the room
where the worthy gentlemen were assem
bled who were to carry out the intentions
of the t fovernment, and mentioned that lie
interested in seeing justice done to the
Indians, and asked if he might assist, "it'
there was space in the room." 'rho 1,0111
seemed sufficiently capacious, and he took
his seat and observed with Massachusetts
clearness of spirit the dayment of the Ju
di ms claims. It was as simple asgood morn
ing. "For instance," says Mr. Earle,
" No. 7,1 mine in. Ilis el aim was $33,..21.
-VCiltetinoun, l the clerk from the
Interior Department,) sung - out the amount
and handed the money to The
'Milan, in the presence of Mr. Williamson
and of Mr. Mitchell, the United States
Agent, that gave the store keeper what
ever he said his debt was, mid to tieneral
James G. Blunt, to whom he owe I nutti
ng Whatever, one-third of the whole
mount. It had all been arranged before
.
hand, and there was no €101027. The scene
is too cynical. These cowardly officials,
evidently afraid to insist upon justice,
though they claim to have made a Mrinal
protest, stood by and permitted this shame
less robbery of the poor and ignorant sav
ages by one of the leading men of KallsaA.
it was clearly the i'esult of a conspiracy
,etween Blunt and Mdcheil. These tour
(111VeS had persuaded the Indian,: that
Unlit had induced the President to make
he treaty and i:ongress to make the appro
ulation, and that therefore 331 per eentum
d• the sum mining to them Wll5 11110 10
Blunt. This scoundrel, in his own testimo
iy before the Committee, adinits that in ad
idiot) to this robbery of the Quapaws, he
had taken 10 per 'nentinn from the t'hne
aws, and 511 front the Chickasaws. Ile wa.s
o thoroughly steeped in the corruption
eel demoralization which seem inseparable
from the conduct of Indian affairs on the
border, that he related these ilisgraveful
huts with the greatest ilmilor and uncoil
ccru, evidently regarding the transaction as
a laudable stroke of business—unconscious
is. confessed that the amount he had stolen
wifs sufficient to suite the voice of conscience
in any naturally vicious mind. Out of
the payment of 3123,000 to the Chicka
saws, Blunt received $02,300; out of $ O l, O OO
to the Choctaws, he received $33,000, ; and
out of $llO,OOl to the Quapaws, 330,001; in
all 3120,110, out of payments amounting to
$299,000. This is, for Blunt, a handsome
fortune—enough to Guise ;journalists to
speak with respect of the tlaneral, and to
make him an object of interest to venal
legislators. If he is permitual to keep this
booty, it will not be dtflicult to foresee the
taint of rottenness ho will bring into the
politics of his State by 1115 restless rascali
ties and more pernicious example.
Is there no remedy, no redress, for this
open robbery? The 'ommittee languidly
say there is not. '` Your Committee me
not aware that anything can be done to
punish those who have heretofore extorted
money from the Indians, or aided others
in so doing, except to cause strict inquiry
to be made into the eouductof such of these
persons as are still in the employ of the
Government, and dismiss from the service
all who have knowingly violated the law."
This they recommend, and also additional
legislation to prevent and punish these
robberies in future. But all this seems
futile. What do these rogues, with their
packs bursting with plunder, care for dis
missal? If punishment be escaped this
time, a way will be found to circumvent
the laws of prevention. The impunity of
Blunt and Mitchell is a fact more powerful
in influence than any :statute that can be
framed in Washington. Their rascally
prosperity will make thieves of hundreds.
Lot them be compelled to disgorge, and
the works of prevention will be vastly
simplitied.—Nres York Tribune.
TRENTON, N. J., March 7.—ln the Senate
the second Anti-Erie bill was lost by a vote
of nine to nine.
The joint resolutions authorizing the sale
of the Stevens' Battery, and asking from
Congress an appropriation for life.savin _
stations, have passed ; also the bill to pro
hibit bribery.
The bills creating the 15th Ward of New
ark and the new township of Eatontown in
Monmouth county, charged by the Demo
cratic party as being Republican gerry
mandering measures, have been lost in the
House.
Congressional procebettnirs.
Tilio3DAY, Feb. 28.
In the U. S. senate the Credentials of
John A. Logan, Senator elect from Illinois,
and Phineaa W. Hitchcock, Senator elect
from Nebraska, were presente* The
House bill authorizing the duplication of
registered bonds in certain oases was pass
ed. The remainder of the session was oc
cupied with the Army Appropriatian bill.
Pending action on it, the Senate adjourned.
In the House the "Omnibus" Appropria
tion bill was passed, a motion to strike out
the appropriation for League Island having
been defeated by a vote of 104 to 91. A
conference was ordered on the Southern
Pacific Railroad bill. The Philadelphia
Centennial Celebration bill passed. On
motion of Mr. Wood, of N. Y., the rules
were suspended, and a bill was passed re
pealing the duty on foreigh coal, by a vote
of 142 to 46. The House soon afteradjourned.
WEDNESDAY, March 1.
In the United States Senate, the creden
tials of Senators-elect Frelinghuysen, of
New J ersey, IC el ley, of Oregon,and Wright,
of lowa, were presented. The resolution
continuing the investigations of the Com
mittee on Southern Outrages during the
first session of the next Congress, was
passed. The army and Indian Appropri
ation bills were also passed. The bill re
pealing the duty on coal was received from
the House and read, when Mr. Vickers
objected to its second reading. The Naval
Appropriation bill under consideration was
continued in evening session and passed,
whereupon the Senate adjourned.
In the House, the bill providing that no
tax shall be imposed upon any undistribu
table NUMB added to the contingent fund
of Insurance Companies or on unearned
premiums WIS reported and passed. All
the Senate land grant bills were objected to
and laid aside until after the first reading
of,the calendar. Mr. Allison moved to sus
penu the rules on the Senate amendment
to the bill prescribing the time for the elec
tion of Congressmen, and ask a conference.
The amendment provides fur apportion
ment. The motion failed for want of a LW/-
thirds vote. A substitute for the Senate
bill granting lands for a railroad from the
western boundary of Minnesota to the
Winnipeg District was passed; also the
Senate bill providing for a Government
building in Trenton, N.J. The conference
repqrt on the Indian Appropriation bill was
concurred in after voting down motions to
take up several land grain bills, the House
adjourned.
TH URSDA Y March 2, 11471
In the C. S. Senate, the! credentials of
Senators elect Hover, of Tennessee, and
\Vest, of Louisiana, were presented. The
I louse bill to provide for collection of debts
dile from Southern railroads was passed.
Mr. II ill presented a reihonstrance from
present and former members of the Georgia
Legislature, against the election of Foster
Blodgett, as C. S. Senator. Mr. Sawyer,
from the Conference Committee on the Le
gislative Appropriation bill, reported that
the isantnittee could not agree. A new com
mittee was then appointed. The Deficien
cy Appropriation bill was passed. Confer
ence committees were appointed on the
A rlny and Navy Appropriation bills. On
[notion of Mr. Morton, the President was
asked for information relative to restric
tions OD the passage of the Straits of the
Dardanelles. The River and Harbor bill
was taken up, when the Senate went into
Executive session, and soon after took a
recess until evening. In the evening ses
sion, the (louse bill for the recovery of
damages for the loss of the Oneida was
passed; also,
with amendments, the River
and harbor bill. Pending the considera
tion of the Sundry Civil Appropriation bill
the. Senate adjourned.
In tile house, a 81 11 was passed allowing
mileage to meal hers of Congress elected
after the day fixed for the first meeting of
Congress. Mr. lyashburne, from the Com
mittee on Claims, reported the bill provid
ing for a hoard of three commisioners to
csuwiuo claims of loyal citizens of the
States lately In rebellion, which was passed.
Conference coinw ittees were ordered on the
Army and Navy Appropriation bills. Mr.
Townsend, from the Committee on Educe
tii in, reported a resolution, winch was pass
ed, declaring that the policy pursued by the
I..nited States towards the enfranchised peo
ple, in seek ing to provide for their education
and render them self-supporting, is a source
id just rational pride; and that the House
acquits Major-general G. U. Howard of the
charges against him, and he is 'deserving
the gratitude of the people. Mr. Ilooper
moved to suspend the nlles and pass a bill
repealing the income tax. Lost—yeas 91,
nays lilt. This ends the chance of repeal at
the present session. A new conference was
ordered on the Legislative Appropriation
bill. Mr. Negley, from the Military Com
' mittee, reported that the charges MS to the
management of the National Asylum were
without foundation. Ordered to be printed
and recommitted. A Senate bill removing
disabilities from several K felting:inns was
passed ; also, a bill removing the disabili
ties of several Tennesseeans. Adjourned.
ThensnAv, March 3.
In the U. S. Senate, the credentials of
II; it. Davis, Senator elect from West Vir
ginia for the six years' term, commencing
March 4th, were presented. The House
resolution amending section 4 of the act of
July 20, 1868, so as not to apply to ferment
ed liquors used exclusively fer the menu
facture of vinegar, NAILS passed. The bill
providing for the issue of new national
bank notes in place of old mutilated notes,
was passed; also the H OLISO bill regulating
telegraphic 0011111nunication \\Atli foreign
countries, with an amendment limiting the
cost of cable message if tell words to
°set usi e of address find signature. Cou
r!bronco reports on the Deficiency, River
and Harbor, and Naval Appropriation
hills, were agreed to. Mr. Morton pre
' seated the eredendials if General 'Joseph
I .1. Reynolds, as Senator elect from Texas
I for the six years . term, in place of Mr.
Hamilton. 1 lamilton claims to have been
re-elected.) Conterenee reports on the
I Arms , unlit Legislative Appropriation bills
were adopted.
In the 1 louse a new conference was or
ilered on the Legislative Appropriation bill.
I A conference report on the Southern Pacific
Railroad bill was agreed to. The House
resolution, admitting free of duty animals
1111 ported.sfrom Canada for breeding pur
, poses, was passed. Mr. Garfield moved to
suspend the rules and pass the bill for the
re-issue of national bank notes, but his mo
. thin failed—the yeas being 54, and the nays
Mr. Washburne, of Wisconsin, moved
to suspend the rules and pass the St. Croix
and Bay field Railroad bill, with a provision
that no additional lands be granted. Lost,
for want of two-thirds—the ;yeas being 93,
and the nays $9. This makes the eighth
defeat of efforts to pass this bill. The Senate
amendments to the bill relating to tele-
I graphic, communication with foreign coun
' tries were agreed to. The Senate bills
amendatory of the Patent laws, and provid
, Mg for the redemption of copper and other
I token coins, were passed. The conference
I report on the Fortification Appropriation
bill was agreed to. \lr. Cox—Mr. Ferry
being in tile chair—offered a resolution of
thanks l'or the able MD I courteous manner
iu which Speaker Blaine had discharged
the ditties of his position. After a graceful
speech tai' Mr. Cox, his resolution was
adopted by acclamation. Mr. Mungen only
I being heard to vote "no." A resolution
was passed paying Thomas B. BitirdA of
Georgia, $2,500 for contesting a seat to
I which he was entitled.
WAsnixtrros, March 4.
SfixAtfi.—ln accordance with the invita
tion of the Vice-President, the organization
of the Senate was proceeded with, and the
tbllowing new Senators came forward and
took the oath of office; Messrs. Anthony,
of Rhode Island; Caldwell, of Kansas;
Cragin, of New Hampshire; Frelinghuy
sell, id New Jersey; Kelley, of Oregon;
Logan, of Illinois; Morrill, of Maine;
Robertson, of South Carolina; Stevenson,
of Kentileky ; Eli Saulsbury, idDelaware ;
Cooper, of Tennessee; Wilson, of Massa
chusetts; Wright, of Iowa; Windom, of
\I innesota ; and West, of Louisiana
The names of the Seuators-elect, Alcorn,
of Mississipi, anti Clayton, of Arkansas.
were not called. The Vice-President stated
that the mune of Mr. Vauce, as a Senator
from North Carolina, would not be called,
as the legal and political disabilities of that
gentleman had not been removed.
When the name of Mr Goldthwaite, of
Alabama, was reached during the calling
of the 1,11 of new Senators, Mr. Sherman
objected to his being sworn in, and askod
to have read a memorial signed by forty
live members of the Senate and House of
Delegates of Alabama, protesting against
that gentleman's admission.
The Senate adjourned till LI ti'cloek on
Tuesday.
HousE..—Mr. McPherson, clerk of the
House, summoned the new House to order,
and proceeded to eall the names of the
members by States. The States of New
pshire,Connectieut,Texas rind. Califo
rnia were unrepresented, the elections in
those States not having been held yet.
The roll having been completed, the clerk
announced that 222 members had answer
ed to their names, the full representation
being 218.
Mr. Blair then moved that the House
proceed to the eleetion of Speaker. Agreed
to.
Mr. Blair then, in behalf of the Republi
can members of the House, nominated
James U. Blaine, of Maine, m Speaker, and
Mr. Wood, in behalf of the Democratic
members, nominated George W. Morgan,
of Ohio.
The clerk appointed as tellers Messrs
Banks, Cook, Beek and Eldridge, and pro
ceeded to take the vote for Speaker.
The vote having been completed, the re
sult was announced by Mr. Banks, as fol
lows: Whole number of votes cast, 219;
necessary to a choice, 110, of which James
Blaine had received 126 and George W.
Morgan 9:1.
The clerk thereupon declared that James
Blaine, having received a majority of
all the votes cast, was duly elected Speaker
of the House of Representatives of the Uni
tes States for the Forty-second Congress.
Mr. Blaine was conducted to the chair by
Messrs. Poland and Morgan.
Mr. Dawes, the senior member of the
House in continuous service, administered
the oath of office to the Speaker. Then the
Speaker proceeded to administer the oath
to the Members, beginning with the mem
bers from the New England States, who
ranged themse] ves in an arc of a circle in
the area in front of the Clerk's desk, and
took the oath with uplifted hand. They
wero followed by the members from New
York and New Jersey, then by the mem
bers from Pennsylvania and Delaware, and
Maryland, and so on.
Two members from the Southern States
took the modified oath.
Mr. Maynard. objected to the swearing in
of Alfred M. Waddell, of North Carolina,
as being disqualified from holding office.
Mr. Kerr objected to the swearing in of
the Tennessee members on the ground that
the election law in Tennessee had been re•
pealed and that they were elected without
sanction of law. He presented a protest
from citizens of Tennessee, and explained
that the Tennessee Legislature had by one
veeph3g measure repealed all the acts of
a previous Legislature, including the elec
tion law.
Mr. Bingham moved that tho Tennessee
members be sworn In, and that their ere
dentlals be referred to the Committee on
Elections.
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The motion was agreed to, and they were
sworn in, three of them taking the test oath
of 1862 and live the modified oath of 1868
Mr. Kerr stated the grounds of the objec
tion to the swearing In of Mississippi mem
bers. Their credentials presented no prima
facie evidence of a right to a seat,
The constitution submitted by the con
vention to the people of Mississippi, and un
der which the Representatives to Congress
were to be voted for, had been rejected
by the people, and Congress had sub
sequently passed a law directing that the
Constitution should be again submitted to
the people, and that the election should
be ordered by the President as a
military act. It was conducted by
military officers and it was at that
election that these members. claimed
to have been elected both for the Forty
first and Forty-second Congresses. Ile
contended that the act under which the
election was held within a moment of the
opening of the Forty-first Congress did not
and could not contemplate an election for
any other than that Congress, and that con
sequently the pretended election for the
Forty-second Congress was a nullity. The
credentials were not issued by the execu
tive of the State ofigississippi. but an Mb
car at the military headquarters of the
Fourth district.
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Mr. Eldridge suggested that if these men
could be elected to occupy their seats for
three years and three months, they might
as well be elected for twenty years or for
life.
Mr. Kerr assented to that proposition,
and said that the attempt to elect men for
the two Congresses was made for the pur
pose of preventing and forestalling a legit
imate and fair election by the people for
Representatives in the Forty-second Con
gress.
Mr. Bingham moved that the Mississip
pi Representatives be sworn in, and their
credentials be referred to the Committee on
Elections.
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Mr. Dawes offered a resolution declaring
the following persons officers of the House
for the Forty-second Congress:
Edward McPherson, Clerk; N. ii. Ord
way, Sergeant-at-arnis ; (1. S Baxter,
Doorkeeper; W.S. King, Postmaster; and
Itev. S. G. Butler, Chaplain, being the offi
cers of the last House. 'they were elected.
Mr. Dawes offered a concurrent resolu
tion for an adjournment sine die on Wed
nesday next, March 8, at 12 o'clock.
Mr. Farnsworth suggested that the reso
lution should lie over until the committee
appointed to wait upon the President should
make a report.
The resolution was agreed to without the
yeas and nays.
The House then proceeded to draw for
seats, a proceeding attended with the usual
uproar and confusion, Mr. Dawes. being
permitted, through courtesy, to select his
seat before drawing, and then, at 4:21), the
I louse adjourned till Tuesday next.
The Slate Legislature.
HAnatsnuno, Feb. 2.S
SENATE.—A large number of petitions
were presented in favor of the local option
license law. Mr. Olmstead from the Com
mittee on Judiciary offered a joint reso
lution relative to the Centennial Celebration
in the city of Philadelphia in 1570. Mr.
Warfel introduced a supplement to an act
relative to vagrants and disorderly persons
in the city or Lancaster, and an act relating
to the Coroner of Lancaster county. A mes
sage from the Governor, on the subject of
coal corporations and the power of railroad
companies in relation to freight charges,
together with an opinion of the Attorney
General on the same subject were received
and read, and 1000 copies of each ordered to
be printed for the use of the Senate. [The
documents will be found published in full
in another column.] After a lengthy de
bate the following resolution offered by
Mr. Turner was passed: "That the mes
sage of the Governor, with the opinion of
the Attorney General as to the power of
railroad companies to impose exhorbi tan t
freights on anthracite coal, be referred to
the General Judiciary Committee, with
power to send for persons and papers, and
report to the Senate by bill or otherwise as
speedily as practicable.
Horse.—Petitions were presented from
more than 15,000 citizens of Montour,
Schuylkill, and Luzerne counties, in ref
erence to the rates charged by carrying
companies for the shipment of coal, and
asking for legislation to regulate the tolls.
The subject was debated at some length,
but no definite action taken. Mr. Parsons
reported from the Committee on Ways and
Means, with a negative recommendation.
the bill transferring the Department of
Soldiers' Orphans' Schools to the Depart
ment of Common Schools, The orders of
the day were called for, and the House
proceeded to first reading: of bills on the
private calendar until noon, when the Con,
mittee of the House introduced the Speak
er
and members of the Senate for
CONVENTION,
on the subject of public printing. The ob
ject being stated by Speaker Wallace,
Senator White moved that when the con
vention adjourns, it adjourn to .12 o'clock
on this day three weeks. Mr. Miller (Phil
adelphia) moved to amend so that the con •
vention will meet three weeks front to
morrow, whi c h would avoid interference
with the calendar. The amendment was
accepted, and the motion agreed to; when,
on motion of Mr. Mann, the convention
adjourned, and the Senate retired. A pre
amble and resolutions were passed instruct
ing our Senators and requsting our Repre
sentatives in Congress to oppose the further
passage of laws granting subsidies of publi
lands to railroad companies or corporati Ti
under any pretext whatever. The after
noon session was occupied in reading bills
from the calendar for the lirst time. tine
or two local bills were passed, and the
House adjourned until to-morrow morning
at 10.30 o'clock, without beginning the last
reading of the calendar bills.
HARRISIIitIM, March 1, 1871.
SENATE—The Finance Cominittee to
whom the question of selling the bonds in
the Sinking Fund, reported against the
expediency of so doing. Various private
bills were considered, and some of them
passed.
Ho use—The entire morning session was
occupied with private bills. An evening
session was held, at which the local option
law was discussed and passed to third
reading
SENATE.—The Speaker laid before the :
Senate a communication from the Board of
Managers of the House 01 Refuge of West-
ern Pennsylvania, stating that LI. L. Ring-
wait had appropriated 312,000 of the funds
of the institution to his own use. The !
Speaker also laid before the Senate a corn- I
munication from the Workingmen's As-
sernbly of New York, calling the attention
of the Senate to the present condition of the I
coal trade, and asking for such legislation as
will afford relief to the consumers. A large
number of petitions were presented asking ;
for the passage of a local-option liquor law. ;
The acts relating to the Coroner of Lancas
ter county, and to amend the charter of the
Harrisburg District Camp Meeting Associ
ation at Landisville were reported affirrna-
lively. Mr. Rutan introduced a bill regu
lating marriages, and for the protection of
clergymen and justices of the peace per-
forming the marriage ceremony. The bill
provides that it shall be the duty of any
person empowered by law to join others
in marriage, to first require of those pre
senting themselves for marriage, a li
cense, issued by the Clerk of the Orphans'
Court of the county where the marriage
ceremony is to be performed under the ;
hand and official seal of said clerk ;
within thirty days after the marriage cer
emony the person or persons perform
ing it shall return the license to the clerk
issuing the same with an endorsement
thereon giving the date of marriage, the
name of the person performing the cere
mony, and the names of some of the wit
nesses present, in case any are present.
The refusal or neglect of the clerk llf court
to issue a marriage license to any person
legally entitled to and applying for the
same, or neglect to record a copy of such
license, or the return endorsed thereon,
within 30 days after such return, or any
person performing a marriage ceremony
refusing or neglecting to return the license
within the time specified, shall be guilty of
a misdemeanor, and upon conviction shall
be fined in any sum nut exceeding 51,000,
to be recovered With costs, for the use of
the county.
Horse.—The act supplementary to the
several acts relating to the State Treasury
and the Commissioners of the Sinking
Fund was discussed in Committee of the
Whole, and the further consideration of the
bill postponed until next Thursday. Mr.
Chalfant stated that the Committee of
Ways and Means propose to make a trip to
Danville to-morrow, and it was desired
that there be an understanding that noth
ing but the regular orders be taken up to
morrow.
SENATE.—A number of bills were intro
duced and referred to the appropriate com
mittees, among others the ffillowing relat
ing to this city:—By Mr. Warfel—An act
to increase the capital stock of the Lancas
ter Gas Company, and to authorize the
treasurer thereof to witness the transfer of
stock, and a supplement to an act to author
ize the city of Lancaster to borrow money,
for the purpose of improving the water
works of said city, and of increasing their
capacity, approved April 11 4 1868. Mr. Con
nell introduced a bill to incorporate the In
ternational Society of the United States for
the promotion and protection of immigra
tion. He also introduced a joint resolution,
instructing our Senators, and requesting
our Representatives in Congress to vote fur
additional protection to emigrants to this
country. Passed, under a suspension of
the rules. A message was received from
the Governor recommending, in view of
the crowded condition of the Eastern Pen
itentiary, that a law be enacted transfer
ring some of the convicts to Allegheny
county; also a message enclosing the offi
cial copy of the act of Congress relative to
the Centennial Celebration, and urging the
Legislature to liberally encourage the ex
hibition by necessary appropriations. A
joint resolution relative to the Centennial
Celebration was passed, being amended so
as to make the Commission to consist of the
Governor, the two Speakers, and three
Members from each I - lonse. An appor
tionment bill was introduced and made the
order for Tuesday afternoon; it will be
found in full in another column.
HousE.—A large number of petitions
were presented for and against a prohibi-
Wry liquor law, or local option law ; for re
lief from the coal famine, and against ap
plying the State funds to any other purpose
than extinguishing the public debt. The
Committee of Ways and'Means reported
bill appropriating $3,534,597, for the ordf
nary and general specific purposes for the
government for ISM. Mr. Reinoohl intro
duced a bill incorporating the Lancaster
narrow-gauge railroad; also a joint resolu
tion for final adjournment on the 20th of
MnApril. McJunkin othired another for
the same purpose, fixing the 23d of March.
HARRISBURG, March 6.
SENATE.—The Senate supplement to the
public printing and binding bill was con
sidered, and while being discussed the gas
went out. The Senate then adjourned.
rlousE.—The Speaker presented a me
morial from the Philadelphia and Reading
Rallroad Company, declaring that the La
borers' Association bad made exorbitant
demands for wages, and was alone respon
sible for tae continuance of the present sus
pension, and that the arbitrary decree of
the association keeps 40,000 men in idleness.
The speaker also presented a memorial
from the Workingmen's Association of the
State of .New York, urging the Legislature
to relieve the laboring men in the anthra
cite coal regions from the Conspiracies and
combinations which had been made against
them by capitalists and railroad managers.
Petitions were presented fur a local option
haw; for a prohibitory liquor law; fur a
law assessing damages against dealers in
total. testing liquors for all injuries caused
thereby; for a law exempting religious
and charitable bequests front the payment
of collateral inheritance tax. The bill ex
empting all property used as parsonages by
the religious denominations from taxation
was taken up and passed, yeas, 42, nays 41.
The local option bill,[after being amended
by striking out the 4th section, which in
flicted severe penalties for violation of the
provisions of the law, was passed finally by
a vote of 51 to :15—Engle, Reinoehl auc
Whitson, of this county, voting "aye," and
Wiley "no."
Indian" Invektistition
It will be remembered that William
Welsh,of this city, made an extended tour
in the Sioux Indian country, last Novem
ber and December, on Government busi
ness, and that upon his return he reported
to the Secretary of the Interior what came to
his knowledge, of abusesand frauds in pur
chases and contracts for the Indians. This
part of his report may be briefly summed
up to this effect, that the Coinmissioners
of Indian elixirs, in disregard of law and
without necessity, had made extensive
private contracts for beef and other pro
visions at exorbitant prices both for the
goods and the freights, with favored con
tractors, when sufficient contracts and oth
er means were in existence for furnishing
the Indians with the same provisions at
prices far hover both fur the goods and
the freights; and that in addition to all
this there were• gross abuses and frauds in
short weights and short amounts in the
delivery of these goods, which the Commis
sioner of Indian Affairs Was notified ,if, but
paid no attention to. To this the Commis
sioner replied to the effect that said con
tracts were made under the pressure of e"
igeney to provide for tine support of the In- 1
uians in the absence of any appropriation
of money; that the contractors required
higher prices to cover the risk, when no ap
propriation to pay them had yet been made,
and subsequently he made a general deni
al of all the charges. The subject having
been taken up by Congress, the Committee
on Appropriation of the House was charg
ed with the duty of investigating and re
porting on the subject. That Committee
nude its report on Saturday last, and is
brietly—very brietly—referred to in the
proceedings of Congress as published.
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As the subject is one ofgreut consequence,
involving the expenditure of many mil
lions of the public moneys, and the admin
istration or mal•administration of one of
the most important of our tfovernment
offices, we propose to give a brief sketch of
what was brought out in the rrid,nor laid
before the committee, so that the public
will have some materials for forming a
judgment in the matter.
In the month of June, IsTd, the Commis-
sioner of Indian Affairs became persuaded ;
to purchase beef, flour, bacon, and other
provikions fur the support of the Sioux In
dians, lrapd near the Jl issouri river, to be
supplied after, the first of July, there being
an alleged exigency to buy them, but no ap
propriation to pay Ilir them. Uu the 17th of
June he made a private milliwct for large I
numbers of beef cattle, at six and one-half I
cents per pound, gross weight; flour, and
other provisions, at proportionate prices.
These cattle were to lie received, and were
received by the agencies in the Indian
country, iintorediafrly "II their etri•il , lll . llPre, •
and not as D.ey might heart ally required
by the agencies, which arrangement was
equal to trout one to two cents per pound,
additional, in facur ”t the eontractor,
as it relieved him from the expense
of the keep of the cattle, and risk or
loss by death, “stampeding. - &c..and turn
ed all this expense and risk over to tine
Government. A t that very time the
missary Bureau of the War Department
was receiving the sumo quality of beef
cattle in thesame neighborhood under con
tract for less than 4l cents a pound, the
contractors taking all the expense of keep
and risk of loss, and delivering then, as
they were actually required for consump
tion. From these cattle xt this far lower
price the Indians were Own twmg h al, and
the Conunis:sary Department had a large
excess of said cattle at its command, and
any additional quantity that might be re
miffed. from which the Indians could
Wave been continued In be fed utter
Judy Ist, 1570, and the Commissioner
or - Indian Affairs was duly notified of
the one tart, and could have easily
informed himselt of the other. This evi •
derffe disposes of the " exigency," which
is the only delence for this prinHe bontract
for cattle in disregard or law, and at the
seine time shows is hat exorbitant prices
were paid, and to what a censurable ex
tent the private contractor wan favored,
And et the very time when this enntract
was being privately negotiated, there was
a written offer on the in the Indian office,
by a responsible cattle-deader, to furnish
the salmi quality of cattle, at times and in
quantities desired, at 4l cents a pound.
which otter was refused by the Commis
sioner on the express ground that he could
make Us 10111,1,1 No• because there was no tsp.
prnpri , awn.
' Phis private eontract was privately re
newed at these exorbitant prices um the lOth
of August following with the same con
tractor, and this time in double disregard
of law and duty, for at this dine there wits
all appropritaion a month old, and there
fore no pretense of extra risk to justify ex
orbitant prices, and no pretence of •' exi
gency" to excuse disregard of the law, as
there Was an abundance of cattle then forth
coming. Under these contracts for cattle
the I iovernment paid at least two hundred
and lift y thousand dollars orcr mut short
what should have been paid, ir the
business had been transacted openly,
regularly and according to law. In
addition to the exorbitant prices paid,
the evil rnce 1.3110W1+ that there were
large losses by means or short utciyht.—
Whole herds of these cattle were paid fur
as the evidence MK/WS, without ever being
weighed, their weight on one occasion at
least being estimated by a man " who rode
through the herd." Four hundred and
fifty cattle were thus lumped at 1200 pounds
each, and were SO paid tor, although Capt.
George M. Handali, an army-officer, noti
fied the Commissioner of Indian Affairs
that said cattle averaged when actually
treig/o but 924 pounds each, and that there
was consequently an overcharge of 120,000
pounds more beer than was actually re
ceived in this one transaction. The Com
missioner of Indian Affairs paid no atten
tion to thiawarning and the bill was paid.
The evidence is tull of similar subjects
for comment, but we have not space to go
through them. Flour, bacon, freights—
' everything under these private contracts
was, aecortling to the evidence, excessively
• overcharged, In both prices and quantities,
the gross lox to the Government being
3.1,111 fililt a million of dollars. Of these
last mentioned articles we ran 01113 - N4Ol l lO
that part of the testimony which relates to
the contract For freights i❑ Is7O, which in all
its parts was a most extraordinary trans
action. The Government had at that time
a contract
.then rimming to transport all
Indian goods to the :%lissouri river agencies
at rates ranging trout $1.:;:l per hundred
pounds to $3.11, according to the month
when the freighting was to be done. But
notwithstanding this running contract. id
the prices named, the Commissioner of In
dian Affairs made a private contract to pay
au average of tll.tiu per hundred pounds,
In this contract :3179,247 were paid, not di
rectly In the
. frerght but to the
beet and provision contractor already re
ferred to, who deposited the money to his
own credit, and afterwards paid to the
freight contractor '‘ ,1 i5,14:; 73 . out of the
;3179,217! As this amount of $65,143.7.5 is
about what the Ilovernment ought to have
paid for the service at the puido• contract
rates, there is I'oolll fief inference as to raw
111111 among whom the excess was divided.
The Committee of Appropriations say
that they find no evidence of corruption
against the Commissioner, nor do we; but
they also say that they find much to criti
cise and condemn in the administration of
his office. After a perusal of the foregoing,
which is written as dispassionately as the
case admits of, we are persuaded that no
reader who has business or his own to
transact, would be willing to employ as an
agent one who discharges important duties
iu that style.—Philadelphia Ledger.
A Fierce Tornado In Calvert Connly,
Maryland.
We copy the following from the Calvert
J011111(li :
"On the ISth of February a furious tor
nado, which blew down trees, fences, chim
neys and barns, swept across our county
and near Prince Frederick. It came upon
us from the westward, and its pathway was
nearly similar to that of the destructive
hail-storm of last Summer. We have heard
of the following losses, viz: A tenant-house
and the chimneys of the dwelling-house on
the farm of R. H. Hagner, Esq.; two barns
and a tenant-house on the farms of Pere
grine Bowen, Esq. ; one barn on the Hol
land Point farm of H. E. Morton, Esq. ; a
barn and the shed of another on the farm of
V. Gantt, Esq.: ono barn on the farm of
Collin M. Williams, Esq.; one barn and
the shed of another on the farm of Mrs. R.
D. Sellers; one barn on the farm formerly
owned by John Hardesty, deceased. Be
sides these losses great damage was done
to other barns, and also to various chim
neys, stables, tc., located in the path of the
storm. Fortunately no lives were lost,
although many of our farmers were then
in their barns stripping tobacco. We also
°am that at Benedict, on the Charles coun
ty side of the Patuxentriver, the warehouse
on the wharf of the Weems line of steamers
was blown away.
A western paper has au article on
6 * the of care idiot..." A contemporary
says that paper is always dragging fam
ily affairs before the public.
The Local Option Law
The following is the text of the Local
Option Law, which passed second reading
in the lower House of our Slate Legisla•
Lure:
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SECTION I. "That at the next annual
municipal election, in every ward, bor
ough, and township In this Common
wealth, and at the annual municipal elec •
tion every third year thereafter, In every
sneh ward, borough, and township, it shall
he the dnty of the Inspectors and Judges
of elections in said wards, boroughs, and
townships to receive tickets. either written
or printed, from the legal vote.e of said
wards, boroughs, and townships, labelled
on the outside "license," and on the in
side "for license," or "against license,"
and to deposit said tickets in a box provi
ded for that purpose by said Inspectors and
Judges, and Is required by law in case of
other tickets received at said election ;
and the tickets so received shall be count
ed and a return of the same made to the
clerk of the court of quarter sessions of the
county in which such wards, boroughs, and
townships are situated duly certified, as is
required by law, which certificates shall be
laid before the judges of the said court at
the first meeting of said court after said
election shall be held, and shall be tiled
with the other records or said court ; and it
shall be the duty of the Mayors or cities,
and of the constablesor boroughs and town
ships, or of any other officer whose duty it
may be to perform such service, to give
due public notice of such special election
above provided, for three weeks previous
to the time of holding the next annual
municipal election in every such ward,
borough and townshly, and also three
weeks before the annual municipal clee•
tion every third year thereafter."
Sec. 11. "That in receiving and vomit
ing, and in making return of the votes east,
the Inspectors, Judges, and Clerks of said
election shall be governed by the laws or
this Commonwealth regulating general
elections, and all the penalties of said else
Lion laws are hereby extended to and shall
apply to the voters, Inspectors, Judges,
and Clerks voting at, and in attending upon
the election held under the provisions of
this act."
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SEC. 111. Whenever, by the return, of
elections in any ward, borough, or town.
ship, aforesaid, it shall appear that there is
a majority against license, it elm!l not he
lawful for any license to issue for the sale
ca spirituous, VlllOlll4, malt, or other intox
icating liquors, in said ward, borough, or
any time thereafter, 'anti' at an election as
above provided a majority shall vole at
favor of license."
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Soa. IV. •• Any person who shall here
after be convicted of selling or tittering for
sale, in this Commonwealth ' , any intoxica
ting liquors, spirituous, vinous, ur malt,
without a license, shall be sentenced to pay
a fine of S3U, and confinement in the W.
house or county jail, 1 . , a' six month fur the
first offence, and for the second and each
subsequent offence a line ,if Slue, and con
finement in the workhouse air county jail,
elne year: Provided, That it shall not. be
unlawful for the owners of vineyards to sell
on their premises, wine of their own man
ufacture in quantities not less than tole
gallon, to be
. removed and not drank en
the premises. '
/Loral 3ntelligencE
MR. B1:11.110W ES . Fr NEWA lie renttins
of Hon. Thomus 11. Burrowes reached this
city on Wednesday in the 9:05 o'clock train
of cars. They were aecompanied by a
number of the Faculty and Trustees of the
Agricultural College and other distinguish
ed gentlemen, who were met at the depot
by the Mayor and City Councils, Ull'Scl”..)
Board, the Judges of our Court and the
members of the Lancaster Bar, besides
large concourse of citizens. Hon. A. E.
Roberts, Col. Wm. L. Bear, lir. Win. C.
Blackwood, John W. .l a rk son, Newton
Lightner, and \Vrn. B. Wiley, Esquires
acted as pall-bearers. 'Elie coffin covered
with black cloth, and handsomely mount
ed With silver, was placed in the hearse,
and conveyed to the burial-ground of St.
James' Episcopal Church, the funeral cor •
lege following on foot. The funeral service
was read by Rev. Thos. B. Barker, rector
of St. John's Free Church, assisted by Hi,.
Dr. Watson, rector of St. James.
Among other prominent men present on
the occasion was Hon. Francis Jiirilan,
Secretary of the Commonwealth ; Col. H. A.
McFarland, late Superintendent. of Sid
dier's Orphans Schools, and Prof. .1. F.
NVickershaw,::!tati.Su petit) tvmlent C,n) -
Mon School:;.
SiNoubAn Cod Notot:Nct:.--.1 private let
ter dated San Francisco,
23, received hy one of our prominent busi
ness men from a former resident of Lan
caster, eontains the following paragraph
which we have been permitted to copy :
" I notice with deep regret the death of
Mr. Boardman. There was a strange co
incidence in that affair. 'When I learned of
his death and the manlier of it, I thought I
would on my way down town step in and
see a Mr. Winters, to cork-dealer, with
whom I was trying to negotiate for Mr.
Boardman's patent cork-mro•hinery,) and
inform hint of his death. Imagine my sur
prise when I learned that he had met the
same fate about the same time. Ifis
troubles appear to have been about a fe
male. There are so many such things "e
eurring here, that I seldom take the trouble
to read them, which was the reason I did
out know it. My wife thought there must
be a fatality in the cork business, and
wanted to throw the sample he gave
0111. I told her I thought the suicide Ini,i
ness did not run ill either of our
The only thing troubles me iv that the
lease of life is so short "
A 111 - szAwAy.--t m Tuesday, Samuel
Fagan and John t;. Inmwootly, of Fair
lick!, started away front the hotel mil' the
former, on South queen street, in a two
horse no-top buggy, but the buckle of one
of the reins cuing entangled in one of the
haute rings, the driver had no control of
his horses. Pulling upon the reins and
striving to disentangle them, resulted in
drawing the horses on to the pavement, in
getting oil - of which again, the buggy was
upset. The horsesimi oliup the street, lout
were soon caught. Mr. Fagan jumped out
before the upset and was somewhat brui.cd,
being; thrown down by the horses as he
was striving to catch their heads. Mr. Due
woody went over with the buggy and had
his wrist 4slocated and one of the comics of
the arm broken. clr. It. was the original
proprietor of the line of stages that rue
mans* years ago between West Chester and
Reading; and has recently received the
contract for running a daily mail Inc' -
tween Peach Bottom and t lx ford.
QUARRYVILLE DEIIATING So ,
(living to the absence of those prepared to
discuss the question adopted for debate on
the last evening, "Should the right of Suf
frage be extended,to Women?" its consid
eration was postponed. -After the reading
of an 'essay on " Modern Superstitions,"
those present proceeded to informally Its.
CURS the license question, and the expedi
ency or the Local t Iption" bill. From
the discussion evoked, it 'was apparent
that a decided Majority of those present
favored the latter, pr any practical Incve-
Ment looking to the promotion of the 'lose
~f temperance. At the meeting held Feb
2S, the question "Resolved, That Capital
Punishment should be abolished," was
taken up and discussed in the affirmative
by Messrs. Wm. Phillips, (leo. Knox and
James Givens, on the negative by Messrs.
Thos. C. Collins, Robert Montgomery anil
Cornelius Collins, Jr. A spirited debate
was elicited, and the subject not being e,91-
eluded at a late hour, Wa , continued for the
-ext evening. The effect of these debates
has been to awaken considerable interest
in the subjects iliscussed among the citi
zens of the neighbood, and attentive ;Mill
(wes are always foltral to list,a, to 110 ,
speakers.
K 0,, Nlonday last, the 27th ult., nue., I; Mau heist. I; Penn, 4; Provi
an rid wail aged years, was a•eidentally deuce, I: Strasburg borough, I ; Warwick,
run over by cars on the Pennsylvania Id. 1 ; Lancaster city, 2. Total 39.
K., at Columbia, and his left leg severed /I/Md.—West Citealieo, 2 • Drumm - e, 1;
from his body. lie died in 20 minutes alter . Ephrata, :I: Earl, 1 ; East ' Earl, I ; \Vest
the accident. old man has been in the • Earl, 2; Fulton, I; East Ilemplield, 2;
habit of spending most of his time in Bath- Lot - mock, 2; Ulmer Leaeock, I ; Manor, 4 ;
ering waste coals, and has been frequently. Mount dily township, I ; Salisbury, I ;
removed from the railroad track, and Warwick, 1 ; Washington, I ; Lan•aster
warned of the great danger, to which he • city, to. Total :It
often replied, that "Ile didn't care whether •
F r aird, mid a verdict rendered in ac. i idd
into with the facts.
St'ent:s DEarus.—Benjamin Shaum,
aged 65 years, died Of aimpleay at Taylor•s
National House, about !I o'clock on Sunday
Un Saturday evening he was as well :to
usual, until about S !,'clock, when, as he
was standing near the bar, his countenance
was seen to change. Ile was asked if any
thing was the matter, and he said no, -
but in a little while he sank helpless into
the arms or those about Min, and on as car
ried to his MOM, where he lingered for
about 25 hours. and then died.
Jonas D. Bachman, formerly of this city,
died suddenly in Washington, on Satur
day. His body will be brought to this city
for interment.
THE LABAJEST TOBACCO T Daniel
Landis, in connection with his two 4011 S,
raised 6 acres of tobacco from the broad
leaf Connecticut seed, which is said, by
competent judges, to be the largest and
finest leaf in texture ever raised in this
county. The 6 acres yielded 12,3i18 pounds,
being an average of 2,000 pounds per acre.
One of the acres, however, yielded 2,675
pounds. The tobacco was purchased by
Joseph Welchans & Sons, from whom the
seed was procured, at 2:5 cts. per pound for
wrappers and fillers, making the proceeds
of the 6 acres 33,099.50, and the net proceeds
of his best acre 3668.72.
COMNIITTED.--.Jacub Mohow, charged
with adultery, and the seduction of a young
girl 15 years old, formally an inmate or the
Children's Home, and at present a domes
tic in the family of Daniel Smeych, of this
city, had a hearing before Recorder Evans
on Tuesday, and in default of 2500 bail
was committed for trial. The little girl
swore positively to his guilt. Report says
that lilohow is guilty of a similar crime
committed some years ago against a little
daughter of his wife by a former marriage ;
that he took his wife to the west and aban
doned her and then came east and married
the daughter!
DROWNE.D.—kieo. Doer, a colored man
in the employment of McGrann, Malone,
Scott .'c Co., at Milton, was drowned on the
2d inst., by the upsetting of a boat in which
he and four others were crossing the river.
The boat;came in contact with a guy rope
attached to a pier and threw the five occu
pants into the water, and, strange to say.
the four who were not swimmers escaped,
while Dover, who was a good swimmer re
lying probably on his ability to reach the
shore, sunk in a few moments after strik
ing out.
Court of C,ommou Clem
The greater part of last week was occu
pied in trying the case of Eckman vs. Eck
roan, for the recovery of the undivided half
of a plantation of 100 acres of land situated
in Strasburg township, and the parties toil
are brothers. Daniel Eckman, the plaintiff,
and Benj. B. Eckman, the defendant, are
the sons of Jacob Eckman, who owned a
plantation of 100 acres in Strasburg town
ship ; Daniel Eckman, a brother of*Jacob's,
and uncle to the parties in suit, also
possessed a plants im of 100 acres, In
the same township, and was without
children. It was therefore arranged be
tween these two elder brothers, that the
stile of Jacob should each have a Ilan-
Wiwi, and Daniel did proceed to make
deed of assignment to these young men of
his 100 acres—reserving to himself the right
to all rents, issues and profile therefrom
during his natural life,and these 100 acres of
I trot led to the present controversy. Jacob
Eckman, the father of these partiee,died and
alter his decease Mesons met relative to the
disposition of th e twoplantations. It was
arranged that Benjamin should take the
home plantation—that of his father, and that
Daniel should have and possess the 100 acres
he'onging to the uncle David. The deeds
were taken to Mr. Strohm for final adjuat
men I, when a dispute anise, and hence this
action. The point in dispute is that Ben,l.
Eckman, who was to receive his father s
plantation, would immediately coins into
the benefits of the rents, issues and profits
thereof; whilst Daniel Eckman, who was
to take the uncle Daniel's estate, was de
barred from all profits therefrom arising,
by reason of such reservation on the part
of the uncle—until alit his the uncle's)
eb , r(lo. Hence it is claimed that the divis
ion was not an equitable one.
tier the examination of a number of
witnesses and lengthy arguments by coun
sel on both sides, the case was given to the
jury en Friday, w ho, after a short absence,
returned a verdict in favor of plaintiff.
CONESTOtiA Lrkms.—The following is the
report of the Sandstone School, of Pequea
township, near Conestoga Centre, Ulrich
Strickler, teacher, for the past month, dur
ing which the weather was very inclement.
Whole !mintier CU rolled, males, 20,feinales,
Ill; average of attendance, males, 19, (or
more strictly a intetion less than 191, but
no account is taken or fractions less than
one-l.alli; females 10; per ventage of at
tendance, males, 95, (strictly 97) ; females,
100; IlUmber of days all present, IS; 1111M
tier present every day, 19. This is the third
month of the present term, in which the
average attendance of females is 100 per
cent If any school in Lancaster county,
or elsewhere ( tOWII or rural) can beat the
attendance of this a purely rural school, we
Sill/11,1 be pleased to sec a notice of it, and
would say well done." There were also
57 visitors present during the month, not
including a number of pupils from other
It is frecitiOntly asserted by parties not
well-acyounted with this class of people,
that the Mennonites and Dunkards aro not
favorable to education; for the int , trination
Of all such we will state that all the families
;with one exception) who belong to this
school sub-district are Mennonites and
Dun bards, principally Mennonites. They
not only manifest an interest in the educa
tion of their children by sending thorn to
school regularly, but also by exerting
themselves to secure the best teachers to
he had. and by frequent visitations to the
school. They make up quite a liberal snot
Gtr the teacher besides his regular salary
front the Petard, of Directors, WllOll they
can amain one who is satisfactory to them.
Th,•“idt "Sandstone," though the smallest
in the nuntner of pupils, is, in other re
spects in the front rank of the schools of
this section,
The contractors of the Lancaster and
New Danville turnpike, Fletcher and
Boyle, have thrown up their contract, and
ceased work thereon. A bouttwo miles are
cull from the Conestoga to about a
mile south of Note Danville, also it short
distance at the southern terminus. The
remainder is all graded, excepting about a
mile immediately south of the city. It is
tigain to be put under contract immediate
ly. and completed as soon as possible.
Protracted services have been held dur
ing the last two weeks, in the Reformed
Church of Conestoga Centre, of which the
Rev. A. B. Shenkle iv the devoted pastor,
The farmers have been engaged in plow
Mg the last three days; the roads, previous
to Friday, hail Iteetime quite dry; the
blue-birds, robins and black-birds have
returned to cheer us with their cheerful
songs—all this in connection with the warm,
sun-shitly days of the present week, re
11d1111 us that Winter has exhausted itself
ill its late effort, and that it must now sue
t•unt b to its more genial successor, Spring.
That it will yet make some desperate ef
forts during March to maintain its su
premacy, does not admit of a doubt, other
wise it would be false to its ancient and es
tablished custom, but they will only be
the dying struggles of an expiring giant,
violent but short lived; and amounting to
nothing but blustering and blowing, soon
to be permanently overcome by a stronger
thotlgh milder combatant.
TA 1,1 TOWNSIIIPS.--The follow
ing are the Tsxables for this county in de
tail as furnished by the Commissioners,
and on which the apportionment for Sena
tors and Members of the House is made:
Adamstown Borough
Bart Township
Brock nook Tow t,ll p
nernar von
'oeal ico I•:ast "
Coeal i \\.ot "
erain
(%,111n, bia '.or,ffigh....
1'.)nr5.1,1,..t 'l%,,,hip -163
I ',oloy 450
(lay 31k;
Ihmegal I.::,l " M 4
Donegal NVe..4 " 241
1/runiore 708
"
Ephrata .781
"
Earl 750
"
Earl 1.:,,,t 5.54
"
Earl West 439
"
Eliy,aloulli A 228
Elizabethtown Borough 2211
1.51 en Township 258
Fulton " 459
Ilemptiold, East, Township 714
1149npliekl, West, " 816
Lampeter, East, 572
Lanipeter, \V " eNt, 434
Lancaster " 107
I.eacock " 442
I,eacock pp, " 725
"
Link , Briton 3 ss
M o anheini 595
"
Startle 412
"
Manor 11119
"
Mount .1.,- 508
Mount °boy Borough ..... ... 448
litriet.t.a. .5112
"
Manheint :113
l'aradi, , Town , hip 323
Penn 499
P " equea t'll
Provid,9l., " 197
Ralph., 717
Salisbury " `-'417
Sadsbury " 384
Strasburg " 444
Strasburg' Borough ....
NVarwil•k 'llownship ...... ..
Washington Borough
Lan,a,ter (lily, 1,1 \\lard
3,1
4th
" 51.1 i
" lith
'Fond 2.552'
rr ;14 bumb.--W est Cueatico, 3
Cmmy, 1; Ephrata, 2; East Earl, 1; Eliza
heti], 2; I•'ulton, 4; East Ilemplield, 1
West llemplirl,l , 5; liiast Lampeter, 4
West Lampeter, 1; Manor township, 2
Mount Joy township, 2; Mount Joy bar
M M is , •IIIEF.-I,la , A lidersoll,
Ilcnry Johnson and .los,plk Reed, had a
hearing bellire Recorder Evans nit Mon
day, charged with breaking a lock, chain
and bolt, on the Pennsylvania Railroad,
:Ind obstructing the road by appropriating
to their use a hand car belonging to the
company, Upon which they rode for sev
eral miles before they were finally captured
in the neighborhood of Bainbridge. In
default of s2oo bail each, they were com
mitted to answer the charge at April Court.
A SlaS
W.:ORM:TOWN LVCEI'M.—A regular meet
ing of this association w•as held on Thurs
day evening, March 2d. The President and
Vice President being absent, M. C. Weiler
was called to the chair. quite a number of
questions referred at last meeting, were
answered. The paper " La .S'eella" was read
by the Editor, F. M. 'front. It consisted
of many contributions of wit, humor and
solid sense. The resolution, "That the
visits of parents to our Public Schools are
a benefit to the cause of Education," was
sustained by G. Knox and E. I'. Moore, and
opposed by U. U. Steacy. The following
officers were elected to serve the ensuing
year:
President M. C. Weiler.
Vice President—G. Knox.
Secretary—J. M. Kaby.
Editor—E. P. Moore.
Treasurer—F. Good.
The following question was selected for
discussion at the next meeting:
licsofecd, That the Teachers who have
taught Schhol two years before the election
of the County Superintendent, should be
allowed to vote for him."
111011N - IMM ITE.M.S.—Michael 11. Kauff
man, of this place, has killed 13 foxes and
captured two alive, which is one less than
ho and his brother killed last yea,. Mr.
Kauffman is one of the most skillful hunt
ers in the county, and one of the best Dem
ocrats.
Rev. Mr. Isaac Baltzall, of the Highville
United Brethern Church, preached his
farewell sermon on the night of the 2d inst.
He is now going to the conference. He
has discharged his duty faithfully during
the past year and we hope he may meet
with a happy lot hereafter.
TURN PME ELEcTio.N.— On Wednesday,
the Ist inst , the following gentlemen were
unanimously elected officers of the Manor
Turnpike Road Company:
President—Abraham Peters.
Managers—Jacob M. Frantz, Jacob K.
Shenk, John Lintner, Abraham Hausman,
Samuel Bausman, Benjamin Landis.
Treasurer—Geoffp Breneman
A SUPERIOR ARTICLE —NfaJor.l. Rohrer, No
23 North Queen street, has recently stored In
his warehouse, six hundred casits of pure
doubled distilled 5f artineburg, ( ) Old Rye
Whiskey, which Is pronooac.l by competent
Judges to be of a very superior quality. Hav
ing remained In a heated bonded warehouse
for more than a year, It Is well ripened, and
fully equal to ordinary rye whiskey live years
Old.
IT STANDS TO itKA. ,, JN.—PeOpie will no where
they buy the best nrssls for the lewd looney,
and In the clothing line the> do that nt \Cana•
maker Lt Brown's )11k I ILI I. It is no wonder
then that Oak Hail Ln 111 hpoitte ,, plan• in
Philadelphia.
Sl • Ef lAI, zit I ent lon In Invited to adv. ul AMON
44 N. Tenth St., Phi la. rills
is an old reliable Furalturv, 'Matt rnes, Feather
and Bedding Wan - Immo., rorelmn,rn enn
par
chase from them with the most Implicit CO,
fidence.
SPECIAL NOTICES
' Corns. Bunions, lugram ing
&X.-The enormously Increasing salmor BrISSs . A lievi•
aloe and Curative,. for the prevention and Cure of the
many painful distmses of the feet, hear wane , . to llu•Ir
wonderful superiority over all other like ifreparations.
For years they have been steadily growing In favor,
Until now the great majority O !to are troubled with
had bet will use no other 1,11101.11t . v. fold by drusftlst4
48—Internnl. External and Itch
ing. Tills dist re,slng and hnrrowing disease IA alarm.
Ingly on the Increa.so. More so, perhaps Rom the
fact that those who are ndlilcted .0 It are, Both
flake notion of delicacy, afraid to itsi, for a icinedy;
thereby making their condition knwn. Bow wrong
and total it this neglect. At the lied Animation of the
appearance of this complaint they atom ill procure
Briggs' I:ortvalled rile Remedy, and, 'using it -
lug
Co dlnrtluuv , Immediately check and perinam•inly
cure It. It Is easy of application, inn% thorough In its
aired', Above nmiliclum sold he C. A. Locher, A.
A. liubley, Dr. 11. B. Parry, Dr. I'llo.nar Ellmaker•
W. D. Baker, Laucuauut W. T. sitopson, Park...too - 0 .
J. D. flower, Christiana, T. S. shookera. NI taint
and druggists generally. DI-knots..
11:11.Mynille Water Fronl Illivatl's Well.
The great 1)ILILLITIC, TONIC and A LTERAT I V E
remedy of the age, holds to nolutton the Prow:tole of
Iron' and other valuable compounds, and to being
proved by the unerring test of repeattal trials, as ono
of the hest known remedies for Kidney Nat./as., Irv,
pepsia, Nervousneas, Liver Complaint , . Catarrhal .0 f
halloos, L'onsoniptlon, In Its early stage , , I nahetes.
Intestlnui Disorders, and lielleral Celn:v. It paroles
and enriches the Wood, Incr....et, the appetne pr
motes thgeetion, stlintlinte , the •ccr.`l 1(1..4 and ertaL
Ises the nervon , sytoton. It is highly reeononended
by Physicians, af the ttsttnnonntls of int Rol , re, eal
11,, seer et power ,lo . It Is ...Hat the Lee ol I I per
box of cow dozena••l , l. 0 LI
1%, to he ex presosi u..i Y
s. cis I.T.A r I': R.
10 , 6 I,L..,•:Arvvi, 1.11110.
arir II:NIV-
I'll' WATER from Ow WELT..
sa Dertfuetl. and Cala rrh
rent,' With the ult.,. J. NI. 1,.
nut! Professor of DISCILSt , of the 1. ‘• nil t r. k Ins
sht,halty) In the Ni••ilical of Pen.y IN inn,
years experience. ,fnrmerly of 11.11..1. , No
8115 Arch Street, I'lolo. l'e,tnunntal , can be seen 01
his office. The medical incully a ,It 0d Acotn,
puny their patlynts.. In prno'.
tint. Artificial erg., la,f•rlf4l ;Jai,
fur examination.
ittarcli t7a-Iyw.l I.
Sir Vi'boopit.gl'ollgli la really i*terrible
dLYVIISP, but the I X l'Et - It M.\ L. ullluul\.• 11. t.
npells roughing nsuch
the durati,m "1 the aura,...
Zlttle'm II ttttt (reel Ve4•1••• .
.1;..) cent-. to J. ti. \
Ent recrivt: "r
. hich i. w•krlti Ii. , 11“ k.. pi•r.
twl I
air Piles Instantly Relit wed null Soon
cured by using Dr. J. liriggi Pile Itionedle3. They le
duce Inflammation. moothe the irrita,cl par,. 441111
have proved a libi,slng to the afflicted. nut,
nal, external, bleeding or 11 , 111111.: nII I. All hind , in
all stages Inuit yield to the ivondernil In deeure+u~
thome to, er.falllng hove
tie+, ac.-11 11 . 1
eVery ten pt•niJILA ar.• tr 001.1,1 ith
their feet. Very Dr. J. Ilrahis' Pol.
ulurrenn4ll,—lurid Lye and Alleviator are reliable
and rertaln lit their elleets. The Curative for sore:int!
anJercori, LlOlllllll.,
Jahn fur wounded feet, and I ore, the h r,t
cam,. The Alleviator, for the c‘,.. ....minim eorib.
and landous and the prevention of all pitz
Lle to nuleelllle minds. rob! hY
uSi,..2.ivealle.' Special Branch
For Ow 1,11j11.111,11
Rup - rvilF.TitussF,," ot
EltS ANI) MECHANICAL ItENIEI,II.,"
Ills 011lou fur the :tante iir,coluloct...l st it II .1:111..1.1
ability. Tile duties pl'llliltllll,, t.. ill,. al 1r...
ent, elude familiar. by many y var. of
parlance, fur livt Ih.parinadibt 111.• oddid , nr..
and approbation ul hint
The I.AIIIFiii OFFICE at No. NllltTli
TwEl.l"rit STREET. iv conduct...l .liy
at...ainpliLiol FF.:MALE YsICI
C. 11. NEEOLES, l'huritmodu.
S. \V. and Rao , 5tr....14,
Jy 1 lyw I
MAIL ES
li,lol, -51.1111.-011 the sth 111,1-1, 11c, \V, 'l. ~orh
ur ut. bis resitlettee. Allan, M. , W. , ,
Lu Lucian 11. t-hurp. ut Nettssulle.
flits ,t 1 hi, 1., Roy Nl' T.
Gerhurd. nt his ru,i.buice. JucoU 1, 1,11 1.. l'utuluu•
L. C. ',viler, bull, of Lauct,tur.
111,..w5,,--IVIKNANI.. 111 ,
u, ,t 111.•
llortsng Ischlott's Hotel. by tho Nlllll, .1
‘,..,Fer to Margaret. Whollutul. hut!, ot Mom, Ju,"
10111AS-111,1(11,11...- 1 /11111, ',lli 1111., 111 ill, r. st
donor of the britir's paretds. by Hy. T ,rhard.
I,.s.sisted by Revs. IV. tout tu•rlturd. Ito, IP.
Tubb., of Llt ir., to Miss EllllllB J. Itorhurd. J,o r.I 1111 r
of the utlieltanig dergYttntn• , t`rd ,
CtEtcrit-Ilarit.- -1111 Thurstlay.l'..h...,l , , It , . 11. 11.
Bruning. Iteurg , lterth, of 1:1o, and 1 , j.z..,h1h
Ruth, or Strnsburg townslttl..
. • ,
. •
1-,ItY. I,v. 11.11. Itrinilw
Jb Keeruur art Mary A. 'I.-Iffy.
vffle.
FRANTZ—B., 11,1.. by l'or
nry, itt the erse/..11 , t• •pi 111,11•,
Frentn, LI, II Ral , • thoLghlut et 1 , 0,1
Best, all of thls ray.
Ow Gut If.L.at his ri.tidi.noi•M. , r•
chautville, N. J., Mr. AlllO, M ) 11.
Ills relatives and friididt art. r , -tiiitt.hill) int
attend hit faunal front the ri.tiih.n. i• tif eir I.i.diii
Mrs. itaveley, Willo Lamp. i• r 1“ , i.
ship, on 'flitirsila.). March id 1., ut lo A. M.
Stsvr.s3 - zr.L.— In this env. March h. 1 , 7 I,
ritn•swentarl. lu the mgd your et It, age.
'rho relatives and friends are invited to talerel
tune ral Thunalay nest. at 3 o'clock P. M., I relll Ilse
residence or.l. B. DVing,lll. E,l..Nlath
Itsctivas.- 1 111 Saturday, Man It It It, 1 , 71. tst \Vasil
inntoth It. Bachnian.lll the 01111 s ear er
Ws age.
linsest RIEII.-011 Sl/1111aY nterning Marel.".lh,allet
a lingering Illnesa, Miss II eurretnt I lot! ;laser.
Itgetissas.-111 the. city. ati the grth hest., \t'.7ll.trn
Buchanan, tulle rod sear o his
/iENIII,K.- 1 111 gtill hesn.r
courtly, Mrs. II arrset Bender, in her t..Sth sear.
31e11,:ni.e.-1 , 11 lip, , an ill 11v.
Cnthartz cilLughte/ 1...1,10. 1,.
yenr ol her no..
l'hursday. ?A:Lrell 2.1, 1 , 71, lu ,
plain, Ilnrry Hari, n]. , l I. ~”1/.
ngerl II
KKl — rs. i1e...1t1 the,
th, s 1 :, ,r her n.:e.
MIRKIITS
Philadelphia Grain Markel
Fn ILADELPHIA, Nfareh 7. No. I ttzuerell ron
bark is utrered at t::41 p, r Hal, bill 11a-b. I, ti. ,
demand I, It Itt, this figure.
'llere Is less actlytty In etp I ..ttly
a few small I,,tm sold at
Timothy all.l Flax Seed very skurre, la?
Is wattled Ity ertv , lters at 5211". , L, le is, hte..
'('litre Is a marked off in
Flour; Ihr lugnlry helttu 1 , ,,01 nO.l to , rrotll
lots for supply ill 100110 trade, 1.111 (11,0 k
dispomlllon to ;weep( lower 01 , 011
11.100 built, were tli,posed 0111111401 y l rit
llyal 51i7rect.,7 62' 2 ler 11 1 1.0,00011:t0,11$10110. , o10;
5650.7 for Hit. Li 011, 0101 17 , , 7 for 11011101.
nut 01110 inelutlluu sumo Faucy ••,.,
9 715.
About 100 bids Ili, Flour .01 , 1 at
493
tkiti
(20r11 Meal ts- nOlllll3 tl lit
firnntl W Ile.
The jArerltivy or \‘'ho ttltol 1.1
mteatly: salt, of 31,...1 1,11.1 wk It.sl
at SI 01115 I tts; Amber al SI tta.. I 70.1ta.1
at SI al.
Rye sells at SI IC,.
C.trtt 1. tell
Yellow at slit. and Nvw 111.1t1 :11 stt.rsl,•.
Oats are Itl steady I'vcilli•St 1,11 , 1le:4
Pellll . ll. SOld at 1111,4(;,
I•.t
hound al
NEW Y..K, Mar. 0. —Pot 1,1 ilt•ltVy aud Irreg
ular; sale s,',!OTlhale,,,tl I I ',.•
100; sales at Sit let , : ;or •upernite west,
and slate: $0 ICs67 for r,llllllOIl 1., good exist
do: $7 , 7 5$ for good to choler ; 5.1 ,, for
common to choice iv hill. wheat ttest, rn extra;
$7 , 7 07, for common to good extra t lo ; Ilea,
II for common to eholve ext ra Si. Lotos.
key firmer, at 9e,11,1! hell! at .11 for
spring; Si I:11,161 for new spring In shit,: Si
tor winter red and atoll, Wo•Nit•rll 111 •. , I , ir.•.
rinsing heavy. Porn advantssi 1,42 e; sales. ni
sosti o lkle for new o stern liflOat. Hosing
rather I W
IoW Pitlll tan.
ere firm at tr7,7oe tar western and I Mio. Pe
troleum quiet; moth'. I II,e; relined, gin:. rink
steady; new 111,-•n, 7lt; old ‘2l "/“.
Beef quiet. I.ard •11,11\ IT' , -0;
kettle, FP
Nuw Yonu, Morph 11.—Vattlo opeto..l
with u downward tendeney. Price. or bee, eh
(Jll the hoof were quite low,ll,,Llie, being reign
ing tlgures for eholee Westet 11 steer,. Poor to
merilandeattlo, luctlle.; medium to fair steers,
11411! ; good steers ;11111 fat oxen, 12,12 , .',e,;
prime to extra steer , , 12!:2,13e,; rhoiee, 1.:(
Cal vo,_Nfj,rke t for dee=med a 11. i Il ye very
much depre , sed, especially for the former. --
Prime calves, lirs,lle.; go, d, ; eiun•
mon, 50,ne, Sleep and Lambs Iteeelpt far In
excess of the wants of Ili,- trade; common to
fair, ralte„; good to Kline, ; Ern,
(5,7 c.: choice, 70L7r.?..
Swine remains in the same state.as far :is re
ceipta are concerned, no for some lime past,
nearly all arrivals going I. slaughters, the few
live hogs which arrive selling slowly, most of
them bet rig of different urailei , ; Western dress
ed hags dull and lower; prime heavy
S 7 50(Es7 65 for lice, 111141 I for dr•-...,•.1;
medium, r 50,7101 for live, and for
dreamed.
Claris +n, Mareil 6.—Colt,nn dull and nom
inal; middling, I4e. Flour firm and scrce,
and an advance asked hut none established;
family, 86504675. Wheat out of market, hold
ers anticipating higher prices, with SI Is offer
ed and 81 42 ;irked. Corn In good demand nt
full prices at 57. Rye firm and In fair demand
at 8141 05. 0010 steady. with a moderate de
mand at 50 52e. Barley advate•ing and In fair
demand at K6.4111(11, the latter for very choice.
Mesa pork dull and drooping; sales 370 tibia. at.
851 75. Lard dull, and holders unwilling nr,
cede at 1T%55121,,•e. Bulk mento doll and droop
ing; asking 7%, 9s It) and lIN e. Bacon dull
anti drooping: asking s%, II and : 141liVS
near rib at Ile. Whiskey quiet anti unchang
ed; asking 6k•; sales at sic.
Nt.,Loolslllnruel
, i r
ST. LOC IS. M t. 8. Cotton nominally lower.
Flour steady; •Innee superfine winter, 56; ex•
tra winter, Stk 621; double ex tra, tki 50; triple
extra, $6 75(0' 2.5. s', heat better: lowa
spring, SI X 1 1 .," ; fall, firm; prlme to choice red,
Si ,5.56 4 ,1 liiL i ore firm; to I sed in bulk, Wt.:de ;
yellow, 5212.5,te ; tin. 7 white. Me. Oats doll:
l'Co. 2at :Ale; In sacks at 516 , 56 e. Burley quiet
nt $1 221 i for choice lows. Bye declining at Ittle
for prime. Whiskey dull at k,e. Tobacco
firm. }temp nominal. Bagging — unehunged.
Provisions quiet; mess pork, 921 30 ; belt
shoulders, Or; clear i II), ll'le. hams—Sugar
cured, 15‘,4,16 , 4e. Lard—Betaill In: at I!';i. , ,
121i,,e. loe, lower at £6(.,6 7.5. Cattle unehanged
Chicago 31nrkeig
CHICAGO. March H.—Flour—Sprint: extras
firm but quiet at $5 NW. Wheat—No. 2 quiet
at Si 27t4, seller April iin the afternoon.
steady and unchanged tor N 0.2. Corn quiet at
53%e., seller April; In the afternoon, quiet and
unchanged for No, 2. Oats quiet and steady at
tie. for N 0.2. Rye quiet at9oe. for No. 2 Bar
i •y firmer at 77c., Highwineo quiet at Rae. Mo
visionq firmer but quiet. Mr,. pork, 4 21 25
each. Lard 12%e., cash. Premed lingo dull at
17 7e , i7 75. Live hogs dull at !PI 25,4f1 75. -
tie:quirt et ffcao
stook Markets.
Ds Ilavrac & Bao., Baricsita,
Philadelphia, Man , ll
0114;
Penn's
Reading.. ....
and Erie.
a. 8.6 e 1881
5-20 IStr.;
LO-0N
PaZak,:
Currency as
Gold
Union Pacific R. R let ala 614,11
Central Paclllo R. B. 4 14,
Union Pacific Laud °rent, Sonde -750 5t71.15
NEW YORE. March 7.
Gold
Olnton
Qvuberiand
P•tern Union Telegraph
Merchant Union
Quicksilver
Preferred
Marl p ! ..•
Freforred.
Boston W. P
Wells F. Ex
American
!Warm.
United StAleS
Pact fle Mall
N. Y. Contra!
.• scrip
Erin.
Erie Preferriiil
Hudson
Harlem
Heading
Michigan enntral
Lake Shim ,
Illinois Central
Cleveland and Pittsburgh
Northwestern
Rock INland
HI. l'aul
az=
Wabaah
Fort Wayne
0. and M
C l aud Alton
FTeterred
New .Inree)•
Plillndelphin nitrket
Till•rt . S S 110 W featurc in rceonl In 111..1110 l'•
kit for her vattle. The tlumand voixilnet ,
and exelusivt.ly t , .
111.. I,lt, .Iv,•riptlon, .111t•It emilniantl fell
II bile the Inedlein .141 low grtult, nr.•
ilt•glk , ol. of vliolee [Mr 04,
g 0. 1 70, HIM CllllllllOll VOW
g 00... 1tcj,11.1., 1773 hoss,l.
on p:trtleulnrs Ihe
/had.
th,vn Sttillll, nz.t. 7'
••, Smyth .t I.ltiiet;Nter omul
1 - 1,1 - :11 , S/11) th, coonly, I:d7,
I. A. Chrklv, WeNtortt,
6 James 116 . 1.t.y. 1./tri,t,tor
i.trtos,
D,•110, S.Vt,tvi 11. 71q, 7'
P. I.nuctuit,
gro , ,
Ph. Ilathasnky, vounly.
=II
i \v
It. 'l,'l-'lllen, e,atmly 0tt,.1
gross.
7, Jamen Wentern,7.,Se,glL , sv.
E.
I.C. te1 , 111,1. La:waster cottnt,
Bachman, I.nnea.ler voplitity
gros..
Ili,, I.ltricavt, county.
"A, WeNtern,
30 11, t'llnltt, \VeNli•rti, stross.
1 ..1/11111 , (1.111. \V t•stertl,
I.'nm I.,:k.traNlt.r cmtill), IP ,r.•
in Gus. Shaml,..n; ..(; Igrov.ani, x. ster ts.11:113
111,1,.• twaster county, ill .?,u.S'
51 It. Nlay
J.:Ml . lo6l*r ‘,lllllly,
:is J. Vr.4llk V 1
a l,yrv..v..
Pi Nl.4•llt•rtt lS
El===
Cows and old% en are unchanged; Sales of . ..IC
head at F 414.7..
Shotip without Halo nlterittlolt, Ina privet.
tatotti itt fn.
xUri head.
114. g.: ure dull awl hav e dollned. Sales of
;.! ju..o 1.. r ii 31.1
Hot 1.. r
N , ASI Ell (:ItA IN M leN ET, M. 0.: I, I',
NI ARCH 6, 1571. —'l'll4. fluor kind ilrulu
market k better,
Family Fluor "r? bbl
Extra "
Superfine "
Whim Wheat 11 1 bus
Rol
Rye bus
0,11 "
0at.,1 "
WllitilioV - 0 ga1...... ..
Sales ref Gtm blrls “11 , limr ut th,t
Clarivilana liralu Markel.
CHRISTIANA. Ala!,h 7.
'W heat $1 206,,1 as to quality
Prime old IVheat. 1
\Vhittt IX heat
fare 7()
(has
Rye !HI
l'ic,verseed 6 506 y; 06
V Ell" A D I'ERTISEITIENTS
SSII:NED ENTA'I'I.: OF 14A31111E1. N.
\Yel , ll.—Ha marl S. NVelsh, r,f llottehlotot
loa , lllp, Lanetr , ter ettunty, having by to,, of
tIIIIIIiaIy 11,SIVIII111 . 111,1111.ted flit day al Morel!,
I,7l,l, , ittned tea it,lerrecl all their eatille
ellects to the tintlet , ltuted for the Itetielll
eftle• etedlthrt. or the ,al.l Sunittel H. Welmlt.
Not lee I, hereby gtveri h, nII persotat Ithlehletl
Mtili le malty Immediate telyaleaL
Irr Ilu• n derstatted all heat delay, anti tleeio
la, lag /•Ittittei to',remelt! theta to
, DR. 11N.NJA SUN H. KENDIO,
VATATIE 01' ItIiNJA MINNI('11,
1:4 MP. Ml'mmy ilee'd.—Lelley M
A.mpipp,Lem 1.. n ml said eniale havlia.;
grance.l m the underna.med, all pry
lu
deLted RN' rc11111,11.,1 tnake
payment. and till).• 1111%1111Z ,111111118 or de
mand., agalmt Inn Millnt! AVII: PreSelli 111.11:tor
, 1 111. mem m the anaer.p.med.
CATIIAILISE
Campy tmenalllp.
\ 111.1.1 A NI A. ADA
IlarrlrMorg.
I, , SI'ATE (OF Itl Alt NW ISII Eli,
Ij
.1 I 'ol,:nizn. I.•wit , lllp. I'ollllly.
, 14.1,11511.11. - Lett , rsTr•statno.nttiry 011 .1111•MIIIII•
11,111114 1,14.11 granted 1 , , the undurslgnetl, all
pk , ,ns 111111 4 / 1 1'11 4,1111 ilve,ileut are recolont
to ti1:61.• soltletnont, trill Lbw..
having Vlllllll4 nr nu:di - vil the extute
/.I nto.l decedent, h.:nuke IS !town Ilul R: •
the 111clershou.,1 wllhout delay, rt•shllng In
I township.
SI NI EON \V. SW: ISIIKIL. Executor.
n0.,11, 111 E I Hi Pont.
. : 1.1 8 O'CLOCK:4,v
MAGIC COMM WILL CHANGE
1 any c , ,ltorvd Imir or heard to u per:nu:ten!
Mark or brown. It rotaulnx no Tolson. One
comb sent by twill for SI, De2.lers suppllnti at
ratnet.ltlretts Win. Patton, 'Frew,
Sprltvgni.l.l, Muss.
WA ST ED----All EN TS EVER Y II ERE
I. .1•11 uur new Hook, viz: ••IIISTr,1:1
e,/ . TA 1. Y," M r.
hot I. A spliaulld ,111.11.aa awl popular author.
Publialwr, Boston, Maas.
To 820 A DA Y:---DO YOU WANT A
1• sl IMO iOll zts salesman at or near hom.
lu iour new 7-,trand W hite•Wire Clothr,
Line lo vr. built wlaa thin 1:1111,1e,
iree. Ad.ireSS Hurl von ItArrr
%Vllllatil reel, N. V., or 11l Dearborn
street, iliiimgo, 111, marl- lw
I - ) El. FNESS.
A lady who had suffered for Menra Dion,
i'alarrli and Scrofula was Purrs! by
idni pie remedy. I ler sympathy and gratitude
prompts her to , ientlftlii• receipts free of charge
to any one similarly affected. Address Mrs.
It. C. Id.bh cir, J ersey City, N. J. mar lw
171i1"11T•JAK MANEFACTURERN AND
E al,r, it re riot I tied, I hat a better and (70-ap
,r Jar Tutu was ever kuuwn will be supplied.
This Jar excels in every quality and require ,
neat, hurl will outsell stud ran undersell any
and allot her , . It will sell itself. Important
Price list, far Pill, now ready and sent free.
Address it. I)ILAY Jr SON.
mar I-1w Na.'...:Jl Pack tit., Philadelphia, PL.
I)
n it i i!ft 1. 1
' Tr i o
cript Irooloi, 1. •TlLynl.,l Training of Chil
dren," Just out, I r has splendid Steel Plates, is
n, hlv tmunti, and every lather and Moaner
who N., t wants It. It has no opposition and
delivers elegantly. The first agent out cleared
121.tia In tin, nn.,. I N., modern hook like this
IMO. Splendid terms Circulars sent tree.-
'arivtisklitg Books only Si. New 'World Pub,
Co., H. \V.:tin and Market. Stn., Philadel
phia I.:1. marl-1w
iiAR
IS A PURE
ISLACK 'PEA
WITH THE UHF:EN TEA FLAVOR.
WARRANTED TO BUTT ALL TA.IITF.S.
FOR MALE EVERYWHERE,
And for male Wholesale only by the
lireat Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company,
P. () Bo x, 5506, 8 CHURCH ST., N. Y.
SEND FOR TB E THEA-NECTAR CIRCULAR
mf-4w
TINTED. ---85000 OR 80000 IMMEDI
y arel, or on April I, 1571, In one or morn
sums. htr whleli extra Interest and llrst-class
seeurlty will be given. k,ply to
ITH LU. \V. HERR,
114,1 Estate and Collection Agent,
11,14 v. , Lancaster, Pa.
TO MY CREDITORN.
Flew, to take notice, that I have applied
to the Court of Common Pleas of the County
of Lancaster tor the benefit of the Insolvent
Ines, and that the Court have appointed the
Third Mondny in March. 1871, nt IU o'clock, A.
M., at the Court House, In the city of Lancas
ter, I. the time and place for tile hearing of
Illy petition, when anti where all persons Inter
ested may attend If they think proper.
MARTIN GROFF.
pEN/MON ' S FOR WAR OF 1812.
Officers and soldiers who served sixty days
In War of 1812 are entitled by a recent act 01
Congress to a pension of $8 per month.
The AV idows of such soldiers, married ;beforo
the :f.2.1 day of December, 1811, are also entitled,
providing they have not again married.
F'or /MOUE lon to omit cases apply by:letter or
person I kx
JAMEY BLACK
No. Fa Kant King atrcet,
Lancaster, l's.
B UILDERS AND CONTRACTORS!
The undersigned haslng Just added Hanle of
the latest Improved Machinery for making
DOORS, BLINDS, SHU7T/OLS. SASH, ETC.,
all of which he runs by water-power, enables
him IO as good work, and at less prier,
than ran be clone by stea to. Employing the
hest bonds, lie will warrant all work to 0,3
suti.factiva. H. C. LOCHER
BRACEETS AND RCR01.1.9 HAWED AND
CARVED fur Carpenters and Cabinetmakers.
Always on hand a large assortment of
MOULDING from 34 Inch to l Inches wide,
sold at Williamsport prices.
feb 23 at d.t2mw H. C. LOCHER.
1111 uul
1 2 112
112 (dlr.',
112 411';
11U ~collll '
111 110
111' , 1 , 111
li Gl,,~r.rlln
$6
t,_
.4 7 ,
. I t
. 1 •1.
. 1 t,