THE LANCASTER INTELLIGENCER, PUBLISHED EMERY WEDNESDAY BY 11. G. SMITH & CO A. J. STEINMAN 13/IXIBEM TERMS—Tivo Dollars per annum payable In all cases In advance. THE LANCASTER DAILY INTELLIGENCES. Is published every evening, Sunday excepted, at $3 per annum In advance. OFFICE—SOUTTIWEAT CORNER OF CENTRE sQli A RE.. Vora)). E=l =EI Rill Sts! seven's u• , '` unit in last night With both .4 her reran In mournln, And 1).4 ei11114( CUT Up 111 It TI .P ntl her tiuwu ! W. 44 n1:0.1.- rd. • --I don't know, nut Mom.. thin Hill. It) II row Wouldn't midi.. murk sho‘v, Sh. W:l4 Sr lit for quill' tlie.y'il 1 , 1/1 11, 11110 11.• t•vii ; 11.4 i look iI In 1111,13 set ;41,1111g, At first. I emtl.in't Jt,i sl.”141on Una bench In earner, I dE111111..-111) sort 0 . way, hall ull htivaitiltig urvuud lwr 11at what she ha.l away, Intl nicer n whllo—lti‘vitrils rnorfi fi i r t.fi , nutfi, 't 3,1 whAt H.nlnl 111.1,:011. 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Then,. ore delicate I:11111y hI'OVVII, nlll - ti t , ur it lode ,•1•11,,,v, just tuned down (though with the brow]] Ito avoid anything ghiriiit_tt. thost• htitts tin v, ty Ilie (Team c‘nlinr knil lke darker .bode ul luiliht•r Thi,,• are intended mere ill Ma' evening ,vear tilt, newest :ire ; tlie 11111 , 11 01:1,11 has iit•i`ll 11,•41; wilder Sky, a 1.1 . 1111 y .s4llll`, N:ie green. very blue ivhieh I , e‘i'eeilingly i n ie n niing intermediate init., pretty ,i 1 1 ,- hir :trt• ill iu 11,111 , 1 W SI :Ind Whitt', Blue anti I.l' allti ruler. :\lny or 111 , area Amer irail uutke, twit are =ail to Nveiir adwi rattly; iii.•y err alwt very iniiiierate in prier. or ravelling sdrule+ pr gray will he I) , e!erre.l , tl,irable and very purL•lty. provalt•rit I Iliac full t,r I ilt• 111a1,1:11, ourdcll 1111 ruck edgy ttiitli blade, \chit, or a contrasting corm'. For colort•11 univrirsid, evror I)II and :1111 rpnltitigiit which have so long provailed. cur tvorsittirl hi2l-4 h:11111 "r hlnolc ~111111. 1 'e usurp :11111 many &Liss,: arc trim noull With 11'111gC, iS it 110,'Cily. hull 1,1a4•1; rrincrit,, jP(..,if Mint( la 111111• II hut, ,liper,-0,1,1 guipure, Hui faVolitt. ILr Willit•l'. 1/114 . 11i . , lar • I'l Whin. 11/1 . 11,1,1111111 g I'o bruin tell,. ilu,c :11'0 n l 111:1 , 1, Otis , ti that is 1/fr Lrj,illtd. 'I . IIC absurd sly lo that sonwsilly have attempbal io introduce tliis muddy spring, of alluLving their dresses to trail in the min.., recalls the li' miliwialf. at I.on4chainps. Any trained dress is suitable only fora carriage, and if it lady be not, so fortunate as to oLvii IL walking dress, she had better not tikplay her poverty by walking in a lion dress. rl'he,si:irts are not WOlll SO short as saute bell yellrrillgO, when here IV:IS SUCII a liberal display of 11101mi:1es of our fair Na,'. Yorkers, but are [bade to clear the ground about two iuchc, bellillll, three or four in front. A very pretty suit of gray anti black striped silk %vas made with the under skirt trimmed %el t a box plaited flounce set on no that the oilier edge was raised twice on every breadth in a setni-cirele, and the ilinmee caught. up at the low points,. so as to present somewhat the appearance a a CUELttill looped up at Lire 11111 v; in each depression was a how ol the material. 'Fire itpper skirt had a very narrow ruffle oi Ate material head. WI With two bias bands. The waist %Va., Wilh the skirt in Trout i a polon ,tisc, %011ie at the back a small banyue Was net over the fulness ut the skirt. Tire sleeves were tight to the elbow, and fell below in a big on body heart-sliap,sl in front and pointed at the A I ‘V:I , \vit.!l bias folds tilitelt oushint.ro and worsted fringe. 'lite skirt hail one dross flow:co, tilt. ovor-sitirt. t%'11.-1 !WWII Luncurd Ilt the Luck :11111 in 11'011 t ; the Ila , 411.1l• was tlght-tittiog, cut jut six tabs ',ohm* the tvitist, making stylish finish. exetsilingly u.tdul ilfuss tvus of ctrl pout uglily-proei, trintowil with bias Itiltin eulgeul with Whitt', ante uu 1111,41111 e, :Old Skirt, 110 thalllCV. Very pretty ilre,se, are :tire:lily in nutt•kct. I'hi•.,e:re ill ,1101,ti of gray and bruo•n, which will be pn•l:erred to bull. Thu west styli-11 arc wade with the un der:dila trimmed kith a wide side plaited Iluuucu, set nit tcitlt 41as baud covered tcitlt n •k; \ollie, or any color that, is lane:id. The tipper skirt is hull, a iuuned with anti Ltvu bias hand.. 'fist, jacket loose, Open coder the arms, and trim. ivied lip the back to the neck; louse sleeve,. An elegant suit in two shades of cameo had the under skirt of the lighter shade, edged with bias at the darker, and flounce headed with a ruche of the dark. 'rhe upper skirt of the dark shade trim. rued with bias of the light, open in frnt, and turned bark sous In display a liuiuc Of the light shade. Th., basque hail tight, very long ;IL the t h e (lark shade, profusely triunn,l with thelighl. Sleeves reminding one of antique 1)k:- tures, is they are tight Ot the eIOOW fall below in a broad L o t-shaped ruffle. while a (anion, iioutuel 'Huge of the dark shade edged liasque acid upper skirt. These are cut with long trains, orshort under:kil,: and long enurt train falling at the hack. An elegant one or Nile green silk had the low body trimmed with duchess lace cut biii•Gic, the skirt long and plain, with a small [loonier al he back, trainined with lace, hoogiietdc sausage of lotus flowers aril trailing grasses. For a young holy a lovely dress in white turietan was made with demi train, underskirt of ruse color, with milks of pink and white, looped with bunches of peach blossoms, corsage with three ruffles of pink and white and large bouquet of peach blossoms. White French mush a overdresses are still very bishionabla ; these arc trimmed with puffs and 'Valenciennes lace The pret tiest have the two bretelles of the waist Joined In front und back with rows of ruffs and lace, simulating a low corsage, the skirt very full and long at the back, looped. MORNING ROBES For married Mullen the peignoir is pre ferred. These are cut gored, full at the back, fastened at the waist with cord 31.;. - ;.t.tazt/e/4t .'.-Tilatttig,eite't VOLUME 72 , and tassel A very pretty one suitable for a bride was in white cashmere,faced , with quilted blue silk up the front and around the neck. Sleeves oriental, and turned buck with the silk. lIESINEM Quite a variety of fancy sacques and jackets have made their appearance this season. It has been so long the fashion to wear Allits of all sorts that man: gar ments had quite disappeared, but for t he list time in several years It large variety of them is offered this spring. First their are the black caslitnere sacques, tritn med with black passementerie and , guipure lace. Dore fanciful ones areof black cashmere or drop d't tc ern broid er ed with colors in Persian patterns.— Some of these combinations of shades are very beautiful, and the execution l of the work most admiral)! r. A good deal of this, we are glad to hear, is done in this country, anti so well that it readily pa—es for French work. These jackets are edged with very full narrow inge, containing all the colors in the 111 . 11/1111 ,• 111Zili , 111. A very pretty new shape of clonk has appeared, 111111 e 11(.111, With ,1t,Ve...1 and deep cape ; u is made f etkhontre, tonitroidered aith wll it° :111 , 1 trimmed with I and ' white fringe. ;Mort jackets of gray cloth are eery pretty for early spring Wear; the-, on wade with mot',/,' cull:, awl large side pockets, ur littrilt•red with bias -ilk of the ',two liuc with ,fringe. The sty le in these u s eful 111, l'ololiciaist with lung innprii -.l:i rt. foriniuu eustuniii. These cut tight iu the Continuous do‘VII the front, and iusertiul ul the back over tile panniers, trimmed 111 various styles of black gimp., :mil laces, fringe. suitable for %veal' over walking iir,•-ses, :ire cut loose, open under tile u.dlll l the back, open sleeves. The new style iu bonnets is decidedly the gll.-y s11:11.0. This is larger thall 5001.115'0 some lmv-crown cil, as I approaciiing to IL ea p , . A beautiful bonnet WILY ill pearl straw, very white, with blue ribbon put 4111 lull around the cniNvii, and IL 1 , 11 Neil or white sweet brier• r”SeS 011 the front. Another, suitaliii- rim an old lady, was or gray ponied silk, will] :1 large builidi ribigill Or two same color oil lilt' Side, 111111 pink 10/Se ill tile centre. Another Minuet or ithtoi: strain, (vas trimmed with ribbon or carneo-yellow, with a large bunch or pansies on the side. IMIENEEZI The new shape Inis a moderately wide with a medium crown not very high, and sloped kick atztaid deal. Some tit the new hats have the brim depressed in Irma, behind, and on the two sides. A beautiful hat M snow wit iii st ra iv was bound \yid' green velvet, had a broad band of trreeti velvet edged with narrow black lace around the crown and it bunch of berries and green leaves on one side. A wither very costly hat was tri'lltiled With yellow Hilton and purple poppies. mill ant „ t i ter, very st yli s h, wa tt black, with Muck and yellow ribbon and profuse bungle, or when[ ears. There must be pride ornrtakill to that ora painter iu his wort: when a modiste perfects one of these beautittil and really artistic cre ations. :some of the huts display real their combinations. MEE A very li a.ssiirt went or raiwy shawls I. in illat I:et this Tilt: A Ilitinian Is of sill: and %void, white growiti, %vitt' silk stripes in !wilier and gold colors,— The levi•rsi lily Ottoman is precisely'ulike on laith soles; iv hite ground, with broad stripes iii most gorgeous colors running atooss, and trithisverse. ,Lripe6 ul /.I;4zitp, patty] iti yellow anti searlut. silk. I'lioapi•r shawls have the broad stripe, without this oarrow silk zigzag; others liave a groutol or plaid in Iplm•ks or Mark and white, with bright-colored stripes t•rossing it. Itriarous Itinuolf might find covering nir his Illany hand, it; some of our ghive ,wren, awl adorn each Wind will' IL isiiiir. The iletoptis, is the at st style, having the \vim-Ls slashed with hlack or white kid and the Lack stielled in shade In match. Very ei.gaiit gloves have wide wriits rich design:. Ili rolwrs .i . gh4PS'eS, any shade matching the suit. even Iltestrings the Wit, are alloWallie the brightest blues nnil e'reeiis, that w•itild wive have been Ihwu lht decidedly " vulgar " :ire "good st 10." evening wear ilelicaw lints of vellir.v, lilac, or 11,11- etihir lii pi•••;',.i . ri•il, allll Ire uuulc with ittly 111.11111,er of buttons from two In six. The la,hien or ro-ette, , , and bows On bouts has i;:15S1.11 ; embroidery, which has come info such general use ier trimming, is preferred. The liallil s”111,4 I.IOIIIS around the top as \yell a, en lie toe, and very elegant ones are made stitched with -Intdes to match the dress. Forgetter:ll ose, however, while stitching is pre- Cerred. Itrunre 1,00(S are lie longer wore, but gray leather, worked with [davit el' purple, are suitable l'er %veal' with light drosses. MEM= 1 lowcycr lioriert the outer garments may hc, no woman caaJhave real ((hie unless the " tinder-pinning" we use as del irate a phrase as possililei a well constructed. We feel g.ateful to Fash ion in that has decreed that small waists are no longer stylish. A IV:LSI/II :WI,. Shiite iii ut cou r se desirable, lint " wasp-waist" is to be found no whom but in remote country diarists. SCI! a Wtillittil with a pinched waist immediately proclaims her ig norance what is whla.' Hoops al-o are doomed. We wish we could -(ay as much of (ournurcs, hut fidelity compels us to record that an artificial , upport, for the skirt at the buck is cn ccyir, while the rest of the fulness should lie doe to a crinoline or grass cloth jirpc, and 110 t to steel springs. And now, having constructed a lady not like Venus from the truth of the sea, or like Frankenstein's wooster rrom " unearthly chemicals," but from all the materials that go to form a nnal ern well-dressed woman, it will not be our fault if all are not " by n hire nippy, . Mahe a Scrap• Book Every intelligent, progressive farmer takes a paper. That is a fixed fact. It is to be hoped, too, that he has half a dozen journals, or one sort or another • ;ming every month; but, however hat may be, when he reads them over ne iirteu says: " Now I wi-h I could remember that item, and put. it ill prae ice next season. I believe I will cut it out :Ltd save it somewhere." He does gut it out and put it in his vest-pocket, .)r between the leaves of a book, or in , oine odd, not-of-the-way place, where Were is little chance of his ever seeing t wtnin. Now, when he cot it out, he took a -Lep in the right direction. Why did lie not go a little further, and paste it into a scrap-hook ? Then it would have evil permanently saved, and very con venient for reference. P-eserving iia pers in tiles would save all the articles, out few would ever take the trouble to had( all through them for some point bey wished to road over again. It .would seem' too much like looking for the proverbial " needle in the hay mow." The scrap-book gives you the very crealil Or all pair papers. There are usually only a few articles in each one which scenic to have been written ex prossly for you, and you In not care to save those belonging to everybody else. YOU iii !OA Care to read the columns on bee-keeping, when you never owned a bee in your life; but probably your neighbor takes more interest in that de part cent than any other. It is the beauty of a good paper that it has some thing in it for every one. The house-mother can never buy us as good a recipe -book as she can make, by carefully saving Oa useful recipes nod suggestions she meets with in her weekly paper. The book should have a simple classification ; the recipes for cooking should be placed by themselves, those fur general housework may be placed in another part of the book—the came for directions on gardening, care of children, &e. Such a book is a great means of econo mrsing in the course of a year. Just the right thing in the right place often saves dollars of money and dollars worth of time and trouble. Just such hints and directions we meet with from week to week in every good paper, and it is the carrying them out into practice that Makes thedifference between the thrifty, successful farmer, and his opposite. Of course if they are forgotten they cannot be put in practice. The mind, unless it has been severely disciplined, is apt to hold knowledge much as a sieve does water. It needs many helps to make the memory useful. The very act of c utting out the slip and pasting it in, is a great help towards recalling it ; and if the details are forgotten, there is the ar ticle itself—you can turn to it readily.— Thus you can benefit by the experience of hundreds of people 3ou have never seen, but who have kindly noted down their own success or failure in the vari ous departments in which you are most interested.—Mainc Farmer. Our Diplomacy Disgraced Two swift witnesses, who figured In the recent pretended investigation of the condition of North Carolina, have received the rewards of their revolting infamy. Our history furnishes no ex ample, under any tormer administra tion, of public patronage being prosti tuted to the heandalous purposes which are revealed in the appointments, to which public attention is now invited. Thomas Settle was known in North Carolina as one of the most violent se cessionists and enemies of the Union during the rebellion. When Holden and offiers like him, who had dragged the State into suce:-sion, recanted and made a profitable transfer of their 'prin ciples' to the ['Mon side, Settle joined them, and was alipointed a Judge of the -lipre:ne Court ill t4oui. in consideration of Ids new-born " loyalty." But he could not take his seat without bring first purified iii the crucible of a Radi cal Congress. This fact was reluctantly extorted from 111111 when lie appeared before the committee, and We tale it, in order that Ids true Rtutas may be under stood : QlP•stion —.Were you ever under pc). Aips..ver—Yes sir. Question—Were they removed A nswer--They were 'in l)11S. This person labored lb rmighou t his testimony to 'produce the impressilm that disorder 'neva:led in North Caro lina, and he Prame prepared with a re hash of all the old calumnies and re ports, which Mr. Morton had elaborated with such little (Mut upon the public mind over a year ago. After his parti- Sllll recital, he was compelled to admit that it had no present application, us will be seen by the following passage : Question—l understand you to say that all thcsr roars of irose otteragex but oar were committed ei,y/p fren months Tr, Answer—Yes, sir. In order to understand the interested inotiVe of this witness, it should be stated that a convention to reform the constitution of North Carolina is about to be called, by whiPPh Holden's cor rupt courts, of which Settle is a judge, and otherofficial impositions which now oppress the people will be swept away. Ile had hardly completed his testimony before the committee when he was tip. pointed Minister Plenipotentiary to Peru. Flagrant as this case is, it bears no comparison with another which has just occurred The coutitry is familiar with the names of Kirk and lieigen, two hired ruffians whom holden imported from East Tennessee i la) North Caroli na last Summer, and who, at the head of several hundred men, perpetrated many atrocious outrages upon the most re spectable and peacUul citizens of Casc well and Alaniancu counties. These outlaws were brought before tile Inves tigating Committee to testify against the very people whom they bad so cruelly 11111 barbarously treated, and to swear in their own behal r against th'e damning, evidence which exists against them and their employers. In order that the public may have some idea of the character about to be presented to notice, a few extracts ale taken from his own testimony: (icorge It. Bergen sworn and exam ined : Question— \Vero you, at ant - time dur ing the car Is7o, Lieutenant-Colonel under Col. Kirk, in command of the North Carolina State mil.tia? Answer—l w•ts - • Question—Of what State aro you Answer--New .Jer,ey. quustion—W,R. yuu CVVI' a North Carolina? Answer-1 stn not sufficiently well in formed to Ilit,%ver that fille,ti4 , ll. Question-11'a- , the ,of y.tir ser \lee there the only purnal of your resl thatee in that .itate at thd.t. time? Ai,w , :cr—]",•,; 1 twvi.r IV:Lm in the Late before. Questi.ll--I'iam what charges were you arrt,ted al I)anville Aii,wer—[lron the charge of larceny ,tettling_4 pistol crow F. A. Willey. rush i, the de,cription tcliich Llergen N.sv let us see what 1, ,aid ui hini I , v , oriue of the peopl. whom lie :l:1 hi: gang outraged ,o shockingly Lucien 11. 'Ar urray, a wet - eh:tilt, sworn. and cxainined : Answer-- • Colonel Bergen came to my tent with II candle ill Ilk hand. 1 had not untie to sleep. I raised up my head. Said he, "In that .you, Murray'" Said I, "It is," and he walked back to his tent. In a short time 'meanie back again Withollt :illy candle, touched me 01l my feet, and told me to get up and come out. 1 asked him if 1 could put on my shoes. Ile told toe, No, you won't have any use for them long." I went nut, and he look toe into his tent with three other men. They all had pistols. He told me I 'oust now inake a confession ; If I did not he would blow my damned heart out. Question—He had a pistol in his hand Answer—Yes, sir. Question—Cocked '.' Answer—No, ; he did not have it cooked then ; he was sitting on the bed. Question—How many men had he? Answer—Three men. I told him I knew of nothing to confess. . Question—You then told him about what you had told us? Answer—Just what [ have told you— about the saute thing. He told me then, " You area damned liar," and got up, and all four of them cocked their pistols, and he told me if I did not con fess he would blow my heart out. Question—Pointed the pistols at your breast? Answer—Yes, sir. Then lie put a rope around my neck, took me out to a piece of woods :bout seventy rive yards, tied my hands behind 1111.., and led me up to a tree, threw the rope over a limb, and asked me if I WAS read to make toy confession. I told hint I had no confession to make. Theo they drew me up oil' the ground, and let me hang there a little while—not long. Q,uestion—Hy a slip-knot? Answer—lt was a clip-k nor.' Q u est ion—C ho ked you ? A nsw er— Yes; choked me pretty bad: let me hang a little while. Then let me down, and asked me if I was ready to confess; I told him I had no confes sion to make. Said he. " If you don't confess I will break yourdatnned neck;" and he gathered the rope again, and he and another one piffled me up very roughly, and suspended me a great deal longer than he did before; I can't tell how long; 1 hung there till I was un conscious; suffered all the pain till I became unconscious. lie then let roe down ; I was not aide to stand. When I came to. I was leaning or sitting up against the tire, and a few men were rubbing me. Question—To rouse and restore you to consciousness? Answer.—.l suppose so. They had taken the rope off my - neck. When I got so I could speak, he asked me if was ready to make confession ; I told him I had none to make—that I knew nothing to confess. lie then gave the order to put the rope on my neck again, and told the sergeant, " Hang him up of the limb, and let him hang till eight o'clock to-morrow; then cut him down and bury hint under the tree on which lie hung;" and he just remarked to me that if I-had anything to say—my last words—to speak. I told him I had oothing to say, but if he hung me up to that tree until I was dead, that he would have but three more days. He asked me to give an explanation of that word. I did so; I told him, "You may be alive to-morrow morning, and you may not; you may be hanging to a limb close by. If you hang me dead I am sure you will go through the very same thing." The colonel stopped then, staid a little while, and gave me till ten o'clock the next night to make my confession, and told me if I did not confess by that time he would take me out and kill me dead. I told him, "I have no confession to make; never expect to make any more than I have." Then the rope was taken from my neck, my hands untied, and I was carried back to the camp. He told me I should not say anything about what passed that 'llea ; if I ever divulged it he would kill me on sight. Well, of course, I never did say anything about It till I was released by Judge Brooks, at Salisbury. Question—Did you make au affidavit LANCASTER, PA., WEDNESDAY MORNING MARCH 29, 1871. that he did Intend to kill you, in order to have him held to bail by Judge Brooks? Answer—Yes, sir. Another witness, George S. Rogers, a farmer, passed through nearly a similar experience. Here is part of his testi mony: Answer— Then Bergen came to the tent where I was, and told ine he wanted me to go to his tent. He told me I must tell who hung Wyatt Outlaw. I told him I did not know. He said, " You are a damned liar; I know you do know." Then he remark ed, "Don't you know that 'Dolph Moore and Jim Hunter were the men who hung Outlaw?" I told hint I did not.know. He said again I was a damned liar. He told me he would give me till that Wight to tell, and If I did not tell he would make me tell. He said, "I will break your damned neck if you do not tell." Then lie told me to go to my tent and stay there. That night, about 10 o'clock, be came to my tent and told me to conic up to his tent. I went there, and he asked me then if I would confess that I knew who hung Outlaw. I told hint I could not—l did not know. Again he said I was a damned liar, and went for a rope. Pis tols were Icing on the bed, awl lie pick ed up his pistul. I stepped outside of his tent. He put a rope around toy neck, and led me to the woods about seventy-live or one hundred yards, and asked me then if I would tell. I said I could nut tell—l did not know. Then he ordred the lieutenant to pull me up. Question—Was the rope put around your neck with a running-noose:' Answer—Yes, sir. He stood in front of we with a pistol cocked, fastened the rope, and the lieutenant pulled it until it was tight. (2.te!. , tion --Did it rni,t , pi' p)nr feet,? Answer—No, sir. Que6tion—lt was. pulled until the rope wa6 light Answer—Yes, sir. (Zuestion—Did it choke you somewhat? Answer—Yes, sir. question—Mow long did he keep you that way Answer—l suppose about a initiate ; he told his lieutenant, " That will do" —I think these are the words—and the lieutenant let me down. He asked me then if I would confess. I told him I had zio confession to make. Then, after malting several threats to kill or shoot use, he took the rope off Illy neck, and, going back to the tent, he said : " I believe, Rogers, you are tell ing the truth, and I will do all I can to release you to-morrow, but I cannot do it without orders front the Governor," Jlolden.) There is much more proof to the same effect, and it is notorious that Bergen is now a fugitive front justice, here in Washington, with various requisitions hanging over his head, but protected by the Radical administrators of the law. Yet, in, the face of these astounding facts. this same George 13. Bergen was nomi nated to the Senate on Saturday as United States Consul to Pernambuco,. and as hailing from North Carolina : where lie haul never appeared except in the character of a brigand' It is to such base uses as this that the public service is prostituted in order to reward crimi nals for partisan perjury. If Bergen were surrendered to the authorities of North Carolina, he would ein the pen itentiary for life as soon as the law could reach his crimes. liut tieneral Grant appoints him to a high and responsible trust, and Mr. Fish, who affects such regard For the diplomatic and consular service, endorses this notorious mercen ary with the favor and seal of the De partment of State. Settle as Minister to Peru, and Bergen, as Consul to Per nambuco, are practical illustrations of those reforms in, the civil service which the President has professed so much de sire to perfect, by degrading and cor rupting it in every possible way.— rush ington Patriot. The Wife of Hawthorne We tied in the editorial columns of the New York Tribune' the following touching tribute to the late Mrs. Haw thorne: "We noticed briefly when it occurred the death of the widow of Nathaniel Hawthorne in England, and there per haps it is the best that we should pause. When the gentle, quiet life of ii woman such as this ebbs away into the gentler quiet of death, silence over her grave I as 'note meaning than any requiem. As a cheerful song, or a happy day in the autumn fields, her memory becomes a pleasant, tender reality with us for ever; but we cannot, if we would, im part or share it with others. There is a morbid curiosity through the country, however, about Hawthorne and all that surrounded him. arising out of the as yet half-acknowledged feeling that iii him America lost her greatest poet ; and it is only right that this curiosity should he so far gratified as to do justice to this woman, whom it' he had never loved, Hawthorne would in till probability have died undeveloped and unknown. "No biographer of the great romancer can ever delineate the strange elements of character that mixed themselves in hint, and were expressed in his n ..gure and face; the hereditary abnormal ten dencies towardssolitude and gloom ; the almost insane dread of contact with his fellow-men ; the oblique and shadowed aspect in which, as he stood apart, the world appeared to him. Friendly hands may give us the outside facts of his life, the cut of his dollies, the attitude and gestures which he used to those about him while trying, out of a keen fear of being ridiculous, to lit himself with their alien habits of thought and speech ; but the only glimpses left to us of the real liawttiorne are in his books. The man was of his own blood, alone in the world of thoaght, awl has left no kins man. Between him and the outer world came Duly his wife. There was some• thing at once comical and pathetic in the dismayed appeal with which he turned to her when the ordinary busi ness of life bewildered and Jarred on him, and the alertness and bright gen tleness with which she served as his shield and shelter. l'ihe belonged to one of tho s e old families in New England who have imbibed culture with the air. She had an intellect of quick • arid liar monious movement, which found apt and pleasing expression both by her pen : pencil. llut there are so many of whom all this may be said ! Now, when won en seek primarily self-development, there are so tnany artktsand authors! It may do us no harm to look for a moment :it this one who had no other aim than to be simply a wife. There is a signifi cance to all women in the fact that, while the genius and idiosyncrasies of her husband placed him on an entirely different intellectual level from her own, the infinite love between them made them one, and fitted her with her keen tact and wholesome sweetness of temper, to interpret between him and the world. If it had not been for that cheerfulness and sunny temper, which kept daylight about him perpetually,the moody genius of Hawthorne would never have struggled through its shadows into light. The world owed a great debt to this woman, who was contented to be only a wife. " There is a pleasant hill-slope near Concord, full of shady lanes and dusky with apple-trees, where Hawthorne and his wife were used walk at. evening, cheerfully talking as they went. He sleeps there now alone. We cannot bear to think they will leave the gentle, bright-faced lady to rest in one of the damp churchyards of foggy London.— But, however that may be, we think that somewhere, where he waited for her, they must have met ere now. We like to fancy that the wife's work is not yet all done ; that even in the limitless possibilities of the hereafter, the home ly love and care which are left behind us here are needed and waited for; and to believe that through the lives to come this man and his true wife will pass on side by side together." A Chinese Sermon The following discourse by a convert ed ChL..ese tailor, with reference to the merits of Confucianism, Buddhism, and Christianity, is worth preserving: A man had fallen into a deep, dark pit and lay in its miry bottom groaning, and utterly unable to move. Conine' U 9 walked by, approaching the edge of the plt, and said, "Poor fellow! I am very sorry for you. Why were you such a fool as to get in there ? Let me give you a piece of advice: If you get out don't get in again.' A, Budd hist priest next came by and said, Poor fellow ! I am very much pained to see you there. I think if you could scram ble up two-thirds of the way or even half, - I could reach you and Eft you up the rest." But the man in the pit was entirely helpless, and unable to rise. Next the Saviour earns by, and, hearing the cries, went to the very brink of the pit, stretched down and laid hold of the p or man, brought him up and said, •Gd, and sin no more' The Greensburg Tragedy. On Saturday the town of Greensburg was thrown into the wildest state of ex citement by the development of one of the most deliberately planned and des perately•attempted murders, followed by the suicide of the would-be murder er, we have ever been called upon lose cord. We have been enabled to obtain the following facts connected with the tragedy, which resulted from the un happy domestic relations existing be tween Oscar W. Rayand Cynthia Girty Ray: Between four and five years since Mrs. Ray, who was a daughter of the late James Harvey, Esq., formerly Pro thonotary, of Westmoreland county, visited some relatives in Indiana. Sue was very prepossessing in appearance trod winning in her manners. During her visit she was introduced to Mr. Ray, anti about four years since the couple were married. Some time after the marriage the husband commenced drinking, and soon became very disco• lu•e. When sober he was kind and in dulgent, but as soon as he tasted liquor all all Yet ion for b is wife seemed to van ish, and he treated her most brutally. With the hope of breaking away from old associates, and with the determine tion of leading a better life, the husband induced his wife to remove to the town of Anderson, Indiana, where they con tinued to reside until within a few weeks past. The promise of reformation, how ever, was not kept. The husband still drank to excess, and the ill-treatment of his wife was continued. Smile months since the wife was driven front her home by the husband, but after a brief absence she . was induced, by tile most s dcnnt promises and renewed pledges made by the husband, to return to him. About two weeks since, the wife and her little child, the only one remaining of the four which were born during the four years, were again com pelled to leave the house to escape the fury of the intoxicated husband. Mrs. Ray at once determined to return to tit eensburg, and made up her mind that the separation should be permanent. She reached Greensburg some two weeks since, anti took up her residence with the family of Lieut. John Kyle, who had married her sister, and with whom her mother also lived. As soon as the husband ascertained that she had departed, he became furi ous, and asserted that he would either compel her to return home, or he would kill her. Ills threats were made in public, and were repeated so frequently that telegraphic despatches were sent to Mrs. Ray warning her of Ids intentions. On Thursday last a telegram was re ceived stating that Ray had left Ander son with the avowed intention of visit ing Greensburg, and advising Mrs. Ray to be on her guard, as he was determin ed to have revenge, ' if God spared his life." Information of the coining of Itay was given to Officer Cline, who was instructed by the District Attorney to watch for his arrival. On Friday Ray reached Greensburg. Next !Doming he was observed passing Mr. Kyle's house. Alter making a thorough examination of the house and surroundings, lie stop- , ped at the door and rapped. Mrs. Kyle I opened the door, and Ray, after intro- ducing himself, asked for an interview with his wife. This request was re- unless he consented to bring cer ('line with hint. The officer, who had been keeping Ray under surveil lance, then made arrangements for an interview in the afternoon. In the meantime, Lieutenant Kyle, who was working at Mt. Pleasant, was sum- moned, and arrived home about two o'clock in the afternoon. Ant hour later (lay, accompanied by Officer proceeded to Ky le's house and were met at the door by Mrs. Kyle and conduct ed into the parlor. After they were seated, the officer demanded that Ray should give up any weapons he Inight have in his possession. Ray readily as. sentem and banded over a single-bar-' reled pistol, which was capped but not loaded. The wire, who was then in the din i ng room, immediately in the rear of the parlor, was invited to come: She at first refused, stating thatshe wa_s afraid ; but, being assured that her husband had been disarmed, she finally consented, and entered, accompanied by her little child. As soon as she entered the par lor Ray arose and approached her. Ile said. " Gel tie, can I (lo anything to in duce you to come and live with me again Mts. Hay replied, "No, Oscar ; I ca tm int live with you." Ile then plead ed with her, in a very excited manlier, to change her determination, and sev eral times repeaed the expression, " Von It now, Uertie, I love you as I love my life." She made no answer, fait was not in the least shaken in her purpose. He then asked for a drink. Mr. Kyle handed hiin gloss of water, and while he was drink ti g Ray heard the child crying in the hall and went to see what was the matter. She did not wish to return to the parlor again, but was Induced to do so by Mt. Kyle, who thought it better that the interview be ended in a more friendly manner. During this tempo rary ahsence Ray inade profuse prom ises of reformation, and stated that if his wile wouldifily return home with him she would have no further cause for com plaint. When she returned, he again asked if he could not induce her to liVe with him, and received, as before, the reply, "No." Ile then asked, " Are yoll afraid of me'." to which Mrs. Ray replied, " I am." Ray then paced the floor for a moment or two, and then stopping suddenly, coaxed the little child to come and kiss him. By this time lie had reached the doorway lead ing to the hall, and after kissing the child he straightened himself up and said " Gertie, farewell." At the same moment he drew a revolver from his coal-sleeve, and taking aim at his wife, who was seated on a chair at one side of the mantlepiece, tired at her. She drop ped upon the floor, but upon examination it was found that the ball had not touched her, but grazing her head, had buried it• selfin the man tlepi eee. When Mrs. Ray swooned the in rdererevidently thought the bullet had hit the mark intended, as ie turned immediately to Mr. Kyle and ired. Mr. Kyle is as so near Ray before is fired that he was struck on the fore lead by the barrel of the revolver. The however, passed harmlessly into he ceiling. By tins time Officer Cline 1:1,1 hold of the now infuriated man, and succeeded in throwing up his arm in time to avert theshot aimed at him. Ray was ejected from the room into the en try, and just as the door closed another shot was heard. Mr. Kyle mid the offi cer opened th 6 door and found Ray lying on the floor. He looked up at them and said. "For God's sake shoot me," and then became unconscious. He was drag ged out, of the house and then placed in a wagon and hauled to jail. When he reached the jail he V: US searched and on his person was found a four barreled revolver of Sharp's patent, and a single. barreled pistol. The two shots in the parlor were tired irom the revolver, while Ile reserved the pistol to put uu end to his own life. When the wagon con taining theinjnred man reached the jail, Drs. Loin ison, Waugeman, King,Cowan and Singer proceeded to make au exam ination of and dresshis wounds. He eon tinned in iii unconscious state-until 10 o'clock, when death ensued. Previous to the removal of Ray to the jail lie was searched, and most convincing evidence of his determination to murder were found. In addition to the revolver and pistol, a new knife, with a large, bright, keen-edged blade, was found ready open. A number of cartridges were also found in his pocket, as was also a vial labeled laudanum, but which contained only a drop or too of the liquid. It is supposed that Ray had taken the fatal dose before he fired the shot at his wife, so that if he were prevented from shooting himself death would still be certain.—Pittsburgh chronhqc, March 10. Nfwmpaper Pay. The managing editors, Croly, of the World, Beni, of the Tribune, Blankam, of the 11.:1.0d, and Jennings, of the Time?, have each salaries of $lOO a week, amount ing to $5,200 ayear. Of the editorial writers, those on the Herald receive the smallest in New York, ranging from $55 to $5O per week ; those on the Tribune are rated at from $5O to 850; two of the writers on the World are paid $lOO weekly ; while on the 'folios the heavy writer receives $l5O per week, and others from $BO to $75. Most of the writers of the Sun (Hitchcock, Bartlett. Dana, Cummings, and others) are stock holders, and the profits of the paper for the past two years have secured them incomes. Nordin:di, of the Post, gets $7,500, Most of the United States troops re cently sent to South Caroltha have re turned to Georgia, being no longer needed in the former State. 'There She Blows Down on Nantucket Island all the male inhabitants are sea-faring men.— They are whalers, absent for years; at home only for weeks. But during these brief intervals [row toil, these hardy sons of the salt sea tell over the dangers they have passed ; the hair-breadth es capes, when whales proved unruly or the wind blew great guns. The boys of the Island listen with rapt attention and open ears to these yarns, and in wardly resolve that they will go on a whaling voyage when they get to he men. The whole island is oily and nautical. Over all the feinale inhabit ants there hangs a cloud of anxiety.— Many a fond, fearful wife, lies awake and trembling all night, as she hears the wild wind sweeping down upon the Island, as if to carry it from its moor• ings, and then off upon the water lash ing the waves to fury She thinks of the loved one far, fur away, perhapa wrecked, or his white bones bleaching upon some desert coast. The duties of the clergymen of the island are largely those of visitation, to give personal con solation to the pentunian widows. It was a sunny afternoon On Nan tucket. when Hee. Mr. Cheerful ealled upon Mrs. Bubstay, whose husband, an old whaler, had just sailed for the "spermy city " of the broad Pacific sea. Mrs. Bobstay was low in her mind, and required a cheering word from the good man. On the contrary, It -r son, eight years old, Jack Bobstay by name, was full of nerve and hope. The old man had tilled his son's mind with seayarne sufficiently thrilling for a dime novel, and the lad nightly dreamed of spear ing whales, of reeling ice plated sails otr the ever-boisterous Cape Horn, of - tak ing in," and "trying out," etc., all of which he had heard his father talk and swear about. Many an eighty-barrel whale had Jack captured while sleeping snugly in his little bed, which his fattier had triced up hammock-fashion. The scene was a quiet one; the do E minie was earnest in his low words of comfort; the mother, her heart upon the outspread ocean which she could see stretching away southward, to where the good ship Oil tub disappeared against the lowering sky, listened at tentively, gracefully. Jack, on a little stool, sat drinking in the worth sun shine, which streamed gloriously iu through the open dour. The good man had his heart in the work; he e:ilined the fears of the sorrowing wife, told her of the help and comfort she had in her boy Jack, who would soon be a ❑tau, and was about to place a soothing cli max upon his words of consolation, In an appeal to the throne of grace, when a denouement of the most startling char aeter burst upon the prevailing serenity like a fatal bolt from a smiling sky. In listening, the mother had dropped her knitting—a stocking just begun the ball or yarn lay in her hip unheeded. All unnoticed, Jack pulled out several fathoms, and coiled it with sailor-like precision upon the floor. That done, a new thought struck hint. A large carv ing fork lay upon the table. Jack se cured it. He ran the prongs through the newly begun stocking. Then, just as Hee Mr. Cheerful was about to kneel, Jack poised his ingeniously constructed impromptu harpoon. Placing the left foot forward, as he had heard his father having done, he drove the harpoon with all his force at the Unetwseiuu, cat sleep ing in the sun. His aim was true; he struck the feline, as his father would I have termed it, just "abaft the starboard for'ard Nuke." Persons sleeping in rooms with sheds adjacent, which are nightly frequented by cats, can possibly imagine the yell that rose from the half-impaled Tabby. :She sprang to her feet, darted out the door, bee speed running out the coiled yarn rapidly, while above her screams, ruse the voice of the delighted boy whaler, "Pay out, mother; thunder and lightning, pay out; there she blows." The attitude, the flashing eye, the startled dominie, the crushed look of the troubled mother, all presented a picture the effect of which stilled the intended prayer. The minister ran off, and Jack •' coiled in," while the mother mourned over the emphatic demonstra tion of the bias of the boy's mind. This WaS years ago, and Jack is now " pay ing out" in the chill North Pacific wa ters. Remarkable Prophecy As far back as isilo, upon the return of that noble statesman and patriot, Ex ; President Millard Fihnore, from Eu , rope, he made a speech at A I bany,which it is well to recur to even now, after more than a decade of years have elapsed since its utterance. lie language was indeed prophetic, when he said : " We see a political party presenting candidates for the Presidency and Vice Presidency ' selected fur the first time from the free States alone, with the avowed purpose of electing these eandi "dates by suffrages of one part of the knion only, to rule over the whole I'M thc I States. Can it be possible that those l ! io are engaged in such a measure can " N e reflected upon the conQe seriously. - q ences which rust inevitably follow In cute of success? (Cheers.) Can they have the madness or fully to be lieve that our Southern brethren would submit to be governed by such a Chief Magistrate. (Cheers.) . ''' " Suppose that the South, having a majority of the electoral vote, should declare that they would only have slaveholders for President and Vice President, and should elect such by their extensive suffrages to rule over us at the North. Do you suppose or du you think we would submit to it ! Not for a moment. [Applause.) Anal do not believe that your Southern brethren are less sensitive on this subject than you are, or less jealous of their rights? Tremendous cheers. I If you do, let tine tell you that you are mistaken. And, therefore, you must see that if this sec tional party succeeds, it inevitably leads to the destruction of this beautiful fabric reared by our forefathers. ceinent• ed by their blood, and bequeathed to us as a priceless inheritance. I tell you, my friends, that I feel deeply, and therefore I speak earnestly upon this subject, (cries of 'you're right,'( for I feel that you are in dun ger. 1 ant determined to make as clean breast of it I will wash my hands of the consequences, whatever they may lie; and I tell you - that we are treading upon the brink of a volcanic,, that is liable at any moment, to burst forth and overwhelm the nation. I might, by soft words, inspire delusive hopes, and thereby L . win votes. 13ut I can never consent to be one thing to the North and another to the South. • I should de spise myself, if I should be guilty of such duplicity. For my rouse itce would exclaim with the dramatic poet, '. ••,, ~ 'ls t'lere 11 .1 •nrip , ci, ,,, eu curse, .me hidden thlllitler In the stores I,f 11 , ,I.Ven, !;,. I withLincOnll.ll,ll wrath, to biLi4l the Mali \AM° gra . itlneq, town Colllury s gall) ?" The coal strike begins to 011 seriously upon every branch of industry, and at a meeting of manufacturers of plate iron it has been determined to advance the price of all grades of boiler plate three•oighthsot a cent per pound, in consequence of the rise in the cost of pig metal, caused by the heavy increase of the price of coal in the Schuylkill region. To make !natters worse still, the rumor runs that the bituminous coal-miners have joined with those of the anthracite region, and a general strike arid suspension i•s threatened. 'The consequences of such ill-advised action would certainly be very bad, to miners as well as consumers of coal. The investigation by the commit-. tee of tho Pennsylvania Legislature is still going on the whole story on the part of the Coll I panics is a latne iteration of the general cry against the miners. It has been conclusively shown, however, by the most one-sided opposition testiinuny, that the miners in few cases make‘over $0 a week, yet in no instance was it shown that opera tors anti railway men failed to receive less than from 35 to 50 per cent. on their invest, men ts. Crashing War Indemnity Upon France. With all the other dreadful disasters and humiliation France has to bear a 9 the re sult of the war the indemnity imposed up on her by Prussia is enough to keep the nation crushed to the earth and must add greatly to the difficulties of maintaining a stable government. The debt of France is about $3,000,000,000. The indemnity im posed by Prussia will increase this $2,000,- 000,000—i. c., the Germans demand $1,000,. 000,000 cash, and France will not be able to raise this, probably, at more than nay cents-on the dollar. Indeed, it is calcula ted that when France pays off all her obli gations and the demands upon her result ing from the war, and her debtshall be cast up two or three years hence the total will hardly be less than 'six thousand millions of dollars—nearly three times the amount of our interest-bearing debt. France is a rich and populous country, and the people are Industrious and economical, it Is true, but such a stupendous burden is fearful to contemplate and very hard to bear. Grant In Phllndelphl.--Who lie Row =Mt:K=MI John W. F r.ley furnishes to the Waah ini;to❑ Sunday Chronicle the following ac count of limit's visit to Philadelphia : The event In the city during the last week was the arrival of President Grant, his short stay, strange conduct, and the new blends he made while here The Presi dent and family left Washington on Thurs day of last week and - on their arrival went immediately to the palatial residence of A. J. Drexel, in West Philadelphia, where they remained until his departure on the following Monday. On the Friday evening following the dis tinguished arrival the Central Democratic Club of Pennsylvania, of which Mr. Drexel is a member, held a special meeting to ju bilate over the Democratic victory in New Hampshire. Mr. Drexel excused himself to the President far the evening, for the purpose of attending the meeting of the club in question. In the meantime our amiable Mayor, who is as sly a Fos as can lie found, iu company with lieneral Patter son called upon the President and invited him t, attend the banquet of the 11 i tiernia society. lIME=I Doubtless it was the intention or the President to visit the Union League on Fri day night, but seeing an opportunity to ex ecute another one of these flank move inents for which he Is so famous, gave the great League a wide birth, and WILLI Mayor Fox and Gen. Patterson dropped in on our Irish tel and captured them bodily. This flank movement the Presi dent considers equally as good as the one he executed on President Johtinon when he became his war minister for the pur pose or flanking him in turning this g, v - er n eut over to Southern rebels. Mayor lox you know ; General Patterson is the same hero who failed to come up in time with his army corps to prevent our defeat at Bull Hun, and it was believed by many that his patriotism was unit of that . •- terNent character that would carry him foremost in the tight Mr the defense of the Union. At any rate the great t.ineolu was of opinion that the country would nut suf fer by his retirement front military set vice and so after Brill Hun retired him. On Saturday evening, in company with Mr. Drexel!, Ceo. W. Childs, our popular Democratic candidate Mr Mayor, and that great naval hero and renowned statestnan, Adolph Rorie, visited the Chestnut Street Theatre, sad I assure you the applause that greeted Min on his entree was indeed faint. So intense was the ilidignation at the re moval of Senator Sumner that 1101 one cheer greeted Inin. on Sunday morning lie attended divine service at the Methodist chard), Broad and Arch. In the afternoon he drove out to Ctiestnut 11111, and paid a visit LO the re nowned horseman, Aristides Welsh, the owner of Flora Temple, her three colts, the imported horse Leamington, and tither fast horses. Many believe that by simply do tutting the threo-year Lilly of Flora 'rumple LO our horst) loving President, Aristides would Bice no difficulty' in making the Collectorship of the port in this city. On Monday morning he returned to Washington. During his stay here his st int:Mons were with well-known Democrats, ••ttplionsly avoiding the leading Republi cans. Indeed, the only preffilliellt who called upon him was Mr. Dorle. lint he spent the evening of St. Patrick's day with his Ilibernialla and that made up fur loss of prestige on the Republican side. The collectorship of the port is the lead ing topic under consideration. There is a strong teeling here in favor of the appoiut meat of lion. Ctn.. (YIN eil, late Member tit Congress from the 2cl district. It is difli oult to understand why Messrs. Kelley and Myers, who have served with him eight years in Congress, should pass hint by and insist in recommending another. Tile political campaign for 1871 in this city is beginning to open. 'the Republi cans will probably nominate Mr. Hall Stanton for Mayor, Col. Wm. li. Mann for District-Attorney, lien. C. If. 'l'. coins for City Solicitor, Peter B. Widener fur City Treasurer, holm 'l'. Gill fur Prothonotary, District Court, and Major McCuen tbr City Commissioner. Senator lienszey will, in all probability, be returned, as no candidate as yet has been able to make any headway against him. Senator Connell is without opposi lion, and as both their districts are largely Republican, they will fraternize among you at the Capitol for another term of three years. The - Democracy are somewhat at sea; the capture of the Fenians by the President, and his desire to have his friend Heorge tV. Childs, the Democratic nominee, for Mayor, has sornewbst demoralized them. True, fir this loss, they have the victory in New Hampshire to compensate them ; but for all, the fraternizing of the President wall so many of the leading Democrats 01 the city, has bewildered thorn. The Re publicans adopted as their rallying cry in the campaign of 190.4 the memorable words of a great military chieftain, " Let us have peace," and we are having it with a ven geance. A Prominent Lawyer cots a Woman's M=tn=n!CMll The Scranton Bcpublimn of ,yesterday has a Wilk csharre letter of Monday, which Say` , : The town teas thrown into a high state of excitement this evening, between ti and 7 o'clock, by a report which spread like wild fire, that an attempt at murder and suicide had been made at a house on Northampton street. Thu report proved true, and the Mllowing particulars were gleaned. The man interested Is a lawyer, and has con siderable notoriety throughout the county as a Democratic politician, and 110111 justly has been credited with being a man of more than ordinary capacity. But a too tree indulgence in strong drink, and a life of general dissipation, have incapaciated hint for business, anti before this he has been attacked twice by mania-a-pout, which attacks were to be dreaded by all likely to come in contact with hint, for, being of strong frame, and goaded to a fearful frenzy by imaginary wrongs, he hesitated nut to threaten and attempt to perform the meet terrible acts. The woman who was attacked by him was the wife of a respectable merchant on Northampton street, now divorced from hint, but still liv ing in his house and acting as his house keeper. Returning last week with this at tack of mania-a-pout upon him, the law yer west to the above house, where he has since been con lined. Dnagining there was 12.a11,1•Led arrangement to poison him, he determined on putting her and himmelfout of the way, arid thus frustrate it accom plishment. Ile seized her, and in the strug gle, with a small penknife, succeeded in i•utting, her throat in a most horrible man ner, making a gash on one side from which the blood spurted with a hissing sound awful to hear, and inflicting be sides a gash in her breast, in one arm, and lint 0110 thumb. Ile then commenced on himself with the same instrument, tirst at his throat, ',liking a cut of con siderable length, from which the blood flowed very freely, and then in the region of his heart, where he triads five stabs.— ISy this time—it was all done almost in an instant—outsiders were arm used, policemen came, and surgeons were called. The WOlllan was immediately attended to—the blood vessel severed was tied, etc.,—and there is hope that she will survive, al though the cut is of a serious nature, and sill demand close attention. The wounds of the man were dressed, and both he and the woman left in as easy circumstances as can be expected. In a talk with the man we found that he realized what he had done he was more sane but he still regretted that he had not made a clean job or it. Him prior instrument, he say; was the cause of his failure. CCS,IIa vs. Meyer,. The Committee on Elections of the House of Representatives had before them on last Friday, the case of Chorpenning Cessna against lion. B. F. Meyers. The hearing was postponed until next session. Cessna way very much chagrined at this decision, and moved that the parties be required to tile their arguments with the Clerk, by July lot—that he should have them printed and sent to the members of the Committee, and that the case be disposed of at the open ing of the nex t session. This extraordinary proposition was resisted by Mr. Coltroth, who was present, acting as counsel for Mr. Meyers. He proposed that the briefs of coons d Le filed at the meeting of Congress to December, and that the case be argued th • pleasure of the Committee. The proposition of Mr. Coffroth was adopted. Oral arguments will be made before the Committee at such time as they shall fix. his was Cessna's second defeat. He was anxious to have the Committee dispose of the case in a summary way, after the man ner in which be was in the habit of manip ulating contested election cases himself. But be was surprised to discover that there was a disposition on the part of this Com mittee to decide this case according to the testimony. He doesn't want this coos de cided according to the evidence. He knows very well that a careful examination of the testimony will increase the majority of Mr. Meyers. We have reliable information that a fair count will give Mr. Meyers a majority of over ono hundred. We drop a tear over Cessna's disappointment, but we insist that he ought to be removed from the Presidency of the Board of Trustees of Franklin and Marshall College.— rtlfry Rumor has It that the beginning of the quarrel between Fenton and Grant hap pened in this wise: Fenton said to some one, " Grant is a wooden-head." This was reported to Grant, who has never forgiven lt.—N. Y. Sun. I=2 Grant has been in manya tight place be fore, but there was always some one to pick him up. Who will pick him up now ?" N.l'. Sin Disirroeefni Seminole for Ol flre-•-The President is Vieilin--Ex-Congress. flea os Plate Hunters. Tho Washington correspondent of the New York Herald says: \VasnINGToSt, Mar. 20, 1871.—The out going Senators and Congressmen stub bornly refuse to return to Moir homes, but cling with barnacle-like tenacity to this, their old haunts about the Federal city, in vading the Capitol, the Departments and the White (louse, with all the impos ing show of former greatness. They em• harrass the President by their demands for otlice, all claiming they have a prior right upon his patronage, and must lie taken cure or. They Insist that Grant's renomination largely depends upon their active ser vices, and thus a conflict is created be tween them and their old constituents, who naturally dislike to be supplanted in their clainat for °thee by the brighter refulgence of defunct Congressuteu.— W'henever a Democrat has succeeded, the outgoing Republican demands the control of the patronage of his district, the Maine as if he hail been ro•eleeted, and if there Lap • pens to exist a good fat Mike, "a game worth the candle," he presses his claim therefor upon the President, although it in volves the removal, perhaps, of the very imminbent originally appointed through his innuence. here never was, perhaps, such an unreasonable pressure fur ollieells • exists now, :ind the President is in an unpleasant dilemma from these vexed importunities. which involve removals of Republicans 'appointed by himself.— The most prominent and pushing of these unfortunates are the retiring members iron.' Tennessee and Alabama. A rnell, of Tennessee, late Chairman of Lb.] commit,- tee on Ed neat ion and Labor, and who infects the scholar and poet, proposes to lo cate in the Federal city as a claim agent,un- In such time us he can wheedle the Creel dent into a foreign portfolio or the Coin missionership of the Bureau of Education. Ws colleague, Win. It. Stokes, familiarly known as the •' llaid.headed Eagle of the Mountains, - took a filly at the position of Sergeantrat arms of the liouse, but met with ignominious doh at. lie pro poses to go the way of all o:ogress:tonal flesh, unit as a drro ler be,onies also a claim agent, to vibrate between \Vashington and the Tennessee Mountains. Prosser, also a colleague, is pushing for the Post-ollice at Nashville, vice the fattier in lay; of ex-Seuator Fowler, wile, being functus officio, can no bilges' I,peet to lu laiu his relatives in NI r. Buck, of Mobile, who was cruelly supplanted in Congress by Ben To ner, a colored brother Republican, worried the President out of tile appointment or Appraiser :it Nlobile.— His name WWI subsequently withdraw it, hot it was sent inn again to-day, under the heavy pressure of the :Slain,, Senators - Mr. Rock having originally carpet-bagged from the Sunrise State to the warmer cli mate of Alabama. 'l'h, colored member iron' MMUIe proposes to tight his pre. deeessor's confirmation to the bitter end. Ex Senator Warner r aliases to part with his position in the Senate, but appears daily on the floor, lobbying for official ima m:nage, in which hi, is aided by Senator Soerinan. Ile haunts the White House and the Departments, and is apparently obvious of the fact that the glory of his lehabod has departed. Dis thought he Is pressing himself for the post of Collector of the port of Mobile—a Dille little plum Si official patronage—to supplant one of Ins own appointees, a native anti prominent Unionist or Alabama. Tim only real gen uiue privilege left in NVashington to those raja ex ercr , bie3 is the Avenue street cars, whereupon they are still deadheaded until the close of the year 1871. They also retain their passes over the vari ous railroads of the country, but those are only valuable to return Mime upon. After the adjournment of the present session they will, one by ono, be unwillingly forced to retire from their household gods of Wash• ington, unless they all locate hare as elaiin agents and form a gigantic ring with the newly appointed Collithismionerti of South ern Clams, to enjoy an absolute monopoly of that practice. Ex-members of Congress soon tied their level in Washington society. When they lose their 1A.600113 they lose their importance. Nobody cares tor them here. They may haves:ollle status at home, but in Washington they become valueless relics of the past. MEE By the Internal Revenue laws, as amend ed in 1670, it is the duty of every citizen whose gross income last year exceeded two thousand dollars, to make and render to the assistant assessor of the division in which he lives, a return of this income for taxation On or before the lirstday of March. The neglect to do this leaves it in the pow er of the assessor to make a return for Mtn according to the best in formation he can obtain, and to increase the amount of tax fifty per cent as a penalty for the neglect. Flu duly of nuking these returns has been very generally neglected, under the expectation that Congress would abolish the tax, but it is now improbable that any thing will be done at the present session, and in order to avoid the penalty, citizens calumet be tan prolopt in handing in their returns. Thu taxable income or each person is , leternuned by adding together the follow mg items; The gains or profits of business Mr the year; the wages or salary received fur service from ally government, corpora tion or other employer ; the rents received trout houses or lands, tlw interest on notes, bonds or mortgages, or on money lent on any or no security; the profits of specula tion in stocks, bonds or gold, and those oh Mined Upon the sale (tinny houses or lands (luring the year, Which lout been purchased within two years preceding; and the divi dends upon stocks or shares, except that of the dividends or corporations which have themselves withheld the tax from stockholders, and paid it to the United States, are not to be included, nor that part of the salary or officers of the Pnited States from winch the tax has been de ducted at the time of payment, nor any pension paid ton soldier or a sailor. l'rorn the aggregate Income as thus de termined, each taxpayer Will deduct the minimal, State, county and municipal taxes paid by him during the year; all losses in business, riot including any esti mated depreciation of values; the amount 01 interest paid during the year; the rent of land for cultivation soul of premises for business purposes, and the wages or labor paid- out tier business purposes; the rent of ilia house and rooms occupied as a resi dence; but not the rental value, if owned by the taxpayer hitnselr; and the 101101111 r paid lor ordinary repairs, bUL not fur per manent Imps et:mounts. The remainder of the gross income, after these deductions are made, constitutes the net income fur the year; and two thousand dollars are farther to be deducted from this amount. Tho remainder is the taxable in come, on which a tax of two and a half ner cent. is iii be levied and paid. This tax is due and payable on or before the 30th day or April next; and a penalty of Live per cent. upon the amount of the tax, and of interest at the rate of one per cent. per month, is to be levied fin neglect to make payment at that tune, or within ten days atter the collector shall have demanded the Lax. The returns of income made this year are not to be published ; and the officers administering the law are required to keep them secret. Nor is any penalty to be levied for neglect Or error on the taxpay er's part, except after a full opportunity is afforded Min to be heard, and to present evidence that he is not guilty of such ne glect or error. But there Is no provision in the law requiring the assessor to demand a return, or to many citizens of their obli gati-ins to make their returns. Every roan is supposed to know the law; and a failure to obey it is ouch a neglect as incurs the penalty. It will therefore, Le necessary for taxpayers to seek their assistant asses sors at once, and tender to them such a statement UN we have described. -V. Y. Post. The New . Currency lII❑ The Currency bill now before Congress, and supported by the influence of many banks and bankers, is merely a scheme taxing the people to benefit a few banks. It provides for the issue of bonds, bearing interest at the rate of one cent, per day on one hundred dollars, in exchange for paper money at par, to be exchanged at par and Interest on demand for paper money again. The banks will then put all their reserves, held for the redemption of their own bills and deposits, into these bonds, and draw interest on them from the public treasury. In practice, however, the scheme would work greater evils still. Every man who holds greenbacks would like, of course, to have them growing in value in his hands. The new bonds would pins everywhere as money from hand to hand, at their value with accrued Interest, and would take the place of the greenback circulation. When ever the interest on them grew to a consid erable sum, it could be drawn and new bonds for the amount demanded. Thus the effect would be to Inflate the already enormous paper circulation of the country at the rate of about twelve millions of dol lars a year. We do not believe that so absurd and costly a measure, which offers to the gov ernment and the people at large no single advantage, has any chance of passing. The danger Is that the serious discussion of it may prepare the way for some rash meas ure concerning the currency. So long as Congress is resolved not to take a step to wards the resumption of specie payment, it is important that it do nothing, and let the business of the country be permitted to find its own stable level as well as it can under the embarrassments and interfer ences with which an unsettled currency troubles Y, Post, The boiler of a saw mill at Bermuda Hundred, Va., exploded on Thursday, killing Andrew Creoy and a Penusyl nian pained William Strange. BUSINESS ADVERTISEMENTS, 812 a year pe square of ten lines; $8 per year for each addl Lionel square. REAM ESTATE ADVERTISING, 10 cents aline fo the first, and u cents for each subsequent In insertion. GENXIIAL ADVERTIAING, 7 cents a lino for t !Ind, and 4 cents far each auhmegnent tlon. SPECIAL NOTICES Inserted In Local Column lb cents per line. SPECIAL NoneKs preceding marriages en deaths, 10 cents per line for first insertion and 5 cents for every subsequent Insertion LEGAL AND OTHER NOTICES— Executors' notices 2 rtu Administrators notice Assignees' notices A mi thine notices 2 nu Other " Notices," ten lines, or less, three times 1 50 NUMBER 13 H EART•REN DING DISASTER -..- The Indiana (Pa.) Democrat says: On Tuesday night, 7th instant, it young man named William Hopkins, Jr., son it Hopkins, residing in East Mutilat ing township, in this county, returned home to his father's house sonic time alter the family had retired to bed. l'pon ep tering the door young Hopkins remarked that there wits an odor as of something burning in the housa% Il is mother, oho with the father slept on the lower floor, thereupon arose front bed, and she and her son intuit , search for the suspected tire. Finding no cause for alarm they retired lo bed, the young man lc the upper story.- - On the upper floor, in another bed. were sleeping two tiaughters of Mr. Hopkins. aged respectively eighteen and tweet: , years, and a little nephew, also named I lop kips, aged between three and four yearn, who had been adopted into the Lute in the night the elder Mr. Hopi:ill. was awakened by the crack ling of lire. Instantly perceiving that the house was ablaze, ho gave the alarm, and his son up stairs sprang from his bed and rushed to the stairway, which, being enveloped in dames ion] partly consumed, gave way un der his weight, but he fortunately Vlllllo on with his lite. The other unisinscions nleep• ors up-stairs were called to with ago:O . /Mg energy, but from whom came no response, alive that the little boy was 111101., heart scream. A ladder was hastily priieurtsi and raised to the upper window, and an at tempt 1111.10 to rescue the unlortuttates, but loud culls could nut rouse them, and to rear!, them through the wall of thine ell veloping them was Impossible. Tlui older Mr. Hopkins in the attempt to do nil, and to save his children's lives, was SO MINIM,- ly injured by inhaling the Haines that his own life was well nigh naerilii•ed, and he is yet in a precarious couelttiou. A num ber of the neighbors who hail now caught up the alarm arrived, but only in lime to witness, not to prevent, the sickening ca tastrophe. I lelp was unavailing. The Ilitintis leaped and swelled with 3 lll lousily, and stun the upper thor tell • and with it the shreds and remains 1,1 the lied in which the three had slept. When at lust it became possible to roan rr the remains of the unliodunates who had so fearfully perished, a truly dreadful sight was revealed. 'rho Is,' young ladies and child bad been burned L, literal cinders and ashes, except that a portion if the ate or the ladies yet IYY:l1110,1 5.11110 lit its limn, though blackened and charred to a crisp. Never before has so heart rendmg nn oce urrenee happened in !Tuthill:l county. The remains of the three were gathered to gether, placed in the salmi collin, and after wards interred. Various theories are sug gested 104 to the rinse or the tire, the most probable cow being Lisa IL C,riginAttql tram IL spark that hail iallen into the wo o d-box and there smouldered at last into Mime. The people living on the Nlerri 11110' I Ice] in Masstiehusetts have been hlghl • y de lighted Wall the liberality of Congress in appropriating $ . ..!: - .,00t1, in addition to the zj.50,000 voted last year, for Improving the navigation of that stream, as the judielee, expeuditereof that elleellit, it was thnughl would render it navigable at any time of title to Haverhill, the head of navigation, for vessels not drawing over ten feet. Their delight nil hearing oldie appropri ation, however, was not to he vompared to their tillrprimo when they leitcrred that the trovernment surveyor and a large 1111113' of workmen had commenced operations at Methuen, ahem Haverhill, picking stones from the bed of the river and carrying them ashore, while pie ledge at :%litchell's just below them, which runs entirely avross the river could not be removed sn as to ul low vessels to puss ep the locality where they are now operating fir less th a n quarter of a million of dollars. Their astonishment moderated, though, when they learned that. the Hon. Major- Vieneral Benjamin F. Butler has re,..ently purchased a large tract of hind in Methuen bordering on the river, where these "inn proven' ennui in navigation" are progressing. It iv stated in the Boston //crab/ that oral Butler haw been informed 6y .•uwpe tout engineers that. he hay fall enough to carry as many spindles as either Lawreins• or Lowell, and the people in that region look upon It as a singular etelleillollee that the Government should be clearing out the river just where the lieneral woad aunt his mill-pond should Inc undertake to build mills, while the stones taken ashore would furnish a good part of the material necessary to !Mild attain. An honest Congressman is the noblest work of God.—A". Y. Sus. Narrow Escape from Death by l'ohota. On Thursday of last week Mr. Nicholas Bell and family, who reside in the filth district of Hariord county, narrowly es caped death by partaking of ionic) poison ous root, resembling horse-radish, whiell had been gathered by mistake, and pre pared along with some of the latter article m a dish for breakfast. The entire family, consisting of live persons, partook of dish. Shortly after breakfast Mrs. Bull wiy taken ill, and sent a colored servant girl to a neighbor for assistance, and a boy for a doctor. The girl was overcome by the el . - leas of the poisoned Mod, before reaching her destination, and the boy, who was de spatched on horseback, WI. shortly after wards Mond by a neighbor along the road side, In an almost helpless condition. Ile was conveyed to a house near by, and fresh messenger despatched for medical help. By the time this arrived Al r. Bell himself was prostrated, and the condition or the entire family appeared very critical ; but by prompt efforts IJII the part of the physicians—Dr. S. W. Scarborough, Dr. t ;. If. Roberts, and Dr. S. .1. Ramsay—they soon ex perleneed relief. The root whieh it is supposed caused the trouble closely resembled horse-radish, but had a scam, what bitter taste. I only a very small por tion of it was left unmixed with the horse radish, and as nothing similar could be found In the garden where Lao 11 , 1r5,n141- itill was dug, there was no means of discov ering what the plant w;e4.-- 114 .111.1 The Cincinnati is level mi thr naval advan Lagos and rout of Mania Bay. \Vu may misty that. when ever, If ever, the United States RNMIIIIII,I the debt, it will ho large enough hi matinfy the most ambitious lover or heavy nation a! obligations. 'rho Ottninismitiners are pertain lint to aisrortal by whine tlin seve rities or the Dominicans are bold. Thu list of bouillailtiurs is a State secret. iips only the diplomatic Italamiiic has chit nterrnation. lirantint; that tie Island in eautiral—how ran we make this beauty serul? The only practicable preposition to prepare aVal SLILIIMI 111 SilDlllll3 flay, that we may rumoured the seas. This weans that we are to build up an A tee:loan Sebastopol. That manna of enormous SUMS of money—hundreds of millions of dollars. Annex San Domingo and there will be an ou day of uablo lives and public money in that quarter, as long us we consent to support the drain upon our resources. It would bo better 'o sell the navy yards we have than to buy Islands for the establishment of others.— Ships of war are useless In aggressive war fare, and we can (Wend our chores with a few torpedoes. 'rho mind of the President must be purged of the longing for San Do mingo, that it may be given to affairs at home. Mixed Jurgen of Men and Women in Wy The grand and petit juries of the Albany County District Court, Wyoming, this term as at the term previous, is comp rued of equal proportions of men and women. The judge took occasion to compliment, in the highest terms, the Intelligence, discrimi nations, honesty and propriety of conduct with which the women acquitted them solves last session, saying they had gone far to vindicate the poticy, justify the exper iment, and realize theexpectations of those who had clothed themselves with the right. The bar, the bench, and the intelligent men of the country had long felt that some thing was needed to Improve and justify our Jury system ; something to 'Mit above prejudice and passion, and imbue it with a higher regard for law, justice. oath and conscience. The court would assure them the fullest protection against everything which might offend the roost refined, mod est and educated woman in any walks of life; and would punish severely any at tempt to throw ridicule or contumely up on them. Paymaster McKean Buchanan, of the United States navy, who died at Charles town, Massachusetts, a few days ago, was a native of Maryland, being a sun of the late Dr. George Buchanan of Baltimore, and grandson of ex-Governor Thos. McKean of Pennsylvania, ono of the signers of the Declaration of Independence. lie entered the navy in 1826, and during the thirty-live years following of active service passed nearly sixteen years of it at sea, the last being upon the frigate Congress, in 1861, when that vessel was sunk by the Confed erate ram Merrimac. A few months later in the same year he was retired, since which time he has tilled several posts of duty on receiving ships and naval stations.—/M/ti ?n San. For weeks past nearly every boat arriv ing at New Orleans from up river has come loaded down with cotton to the guards.— Over a million bales have already been re ceived in that city, and thousands of bales are still daily arriving. From all quarters of the cotton-growing regions of the Valley of the Mississippi come reports that there aro largo quantities of cotton awaiting ship ment, and there are still miles and miles of acres which are white with the unpicked staple. What is here said of New Orleans is also true of Savannah, Mobile, and In a less degree of Charleston. The price of cotton now rules about as It did before the war. Burned to Death Nan Domingo Tin , Late Paymaster Buchanan The Cotton Crop
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