(pjc Centre Srmorrat.
SIIUOEIIT \ FOIISTEII, Editors.
VOL, I.
2ht €mtrr Jfimomt.
Terms 31.50 per Annum, in Ailvnscr.
S. T. SHUGERT and R. H FOR9TER, Editors.
-Thursday Morning, January 30, 187 P.
ST. MARTIN may be a less adroit,
but certainly he is not u le * rcckle-s
liur than the Jcnks. This is clearly
evident from the published teporu of
his testimony before the i'otter inves-
tignting committee. Such farrago of
contradictious, inconsistencies ami per
juries is seldom read.
IN Beading the Democrats and Na
tionals have united in the choice of can
didates for municipal officers. Bead
ing is a republican city, and the fusion
of the minority parties, may result in
the defeat of the republican candidates
—provided the nmalgamcnts stick,
which is not often the ea-e, when
democrats cuter into such arrange
ments. They are generaliy cheated.
The Republican of this we. k -ays
"the President will sign the new JM.U
sion bill providing it docs not require
more than $2,000,000 per month,
which amount will be paid out in
silver." You arc somewhat late, neigh
bor, and also slightly wrong. Mr.
Hayes signed the {tension bill on last
w Saturday, and without a condition as
to the amount of money it would re
quire jier month or the kind of money
to be paid.
JOHN SiiKitMAN'S new witness, St.
Martin, lias taken hack his slander
agaiust the Hon. W. 8. Steug. r, jti-i j
as it was expected he would bo obliged
to when brought face to face with the .
Potter committee. The lying affidavit
of tiie blundering rogue should not '
* have deceived even Sherman, anxiou
ss he may be to shirk responsibility for
bis own share in the Louisiana rascal
ity by tiying to damage the characters
of other and better men. It bore evi
dence of perjury iti its make tip that
was plain to every other person who
' read it.
PRESIDENT HAYES signed the Pen
aion Arrearages bill last Saturdny. He
said at the time tiiat the bill |>a s .1
that he looked upon it as doing Mile '
stantial justice to the soldier, but he
regretted extremely that it appeared
upon the stage at just this time, in
view of the enormous expenditure it
• entailed. This expenditure can not
begin until an appropriation has been
mode, a* it has been officially an
nounced that no payment will bo :
made under or on account of the hill
until Congress makes a specific appro- j
priation. The appropriation of $29,-
000,000 already made for pensions was
devoted to the payment of claims
recognized by previous legislation. It
to look as though the work of
raising money to meet this increase to
the war debt would fall on the new
democratic congress which meets next
December, though the present congress
may yet vote the money.
IT is now said that the coat to the
Commonwealth of the inauguration of
1 Gov. Hoyt will exceed 920,000. This,
at a time of great depression to the
people all over the State, when they
are well nigh driven to desperation
for the means of living and to pay the
assessed upon them to keep the
Government moving—and when the
Treasury of the State is declared, by
its officere, to be bankrupt and unable
to meet the appropriations, shows a
reckless expenditure not to be condon
ed without crime. Proposition* made
by Mr. Ermentrout in the Senate,
and Mr. Sherwood in the House, to
Jimit these expenditures to 11,000
vtere promptly and unanimously voted
down by the Republican majority.
This reckless waste has marked the
role of the Republican party for many
years, and yet the people of Pennsyl
vania return the same gang to the
Legislature as each year % returns to
afford them opportunity. 4
"EuIAJ. ANl> EXACT JIHTICR TO ALL MEN, or WIIATEVCH STATE OK I-EHMUMIOX, MLIUIOU* Oil I'OMT|. AI„_J,M W .
Tiie Cipher Telegrams.
The ilotennination of the ilcmocrate
in the house of rtquv-cntativca at
i Wiishingtou to thoroughly investigate
i what are known, in the highly lluvor
■od literature of the day, as Cipher
I>-piitchi s, in ■ with the unqualified
' approbation and has the thorough
•ynipathy of the inn-se.-f the dento
: cratic party in all H-cti-m* of the
j country. If there has been an at
tempt to introduce the peculiar tactics
j of our republican friends into demo,
cratic coum ils, the sooner the men
who were engaged in such an effort
j arc put in the public pillory the bet
; tor. For them there will only be the
hissing scorn and withering coiulcm
i nation of all honest men as their re
ward for forgetting the teachings of
i the incorruptible fathers of the great
party hey di honor by their allegi
ance. .S far as these things concern
Mr. Tilden it is imperative that he
{ should be heard, not in a |>cr.somil
vindication, but lie should s|cak as
tiie man who was trusted and honored
by the votes of a large majority of his
!'• How-citizens. Kqeciiilly is it due
i the democratic party, whose standard
bearer he was in tiie mighty struggle
of 187f, that ho should meet his tra
( duccrs in the broad glare of day and
i damp ujton their infamous charges
the stigma of unhallowed falsehood.
The pleadings of friendship, and the
prayers of kinsmen should in- alike
I unheard in the practice of the other
and weightier considerations that bid
| him speak. No man has withstood
more terrific a -aults than he. Beset
from within and without, lie has always
come forth from the fiery furnace of
calumniation unharmed iiccausc the
people Itelieved in him and trusted .
him.
Again tiie shaft* of envv, hale and
malice are aimed at him, and through
him at the great jairty lie led to vic
tory. Already his specific denial has
suspended judgment, and all eyes are
now fixed upon Samuel J. Tilde -ti. ami
the question upon every tongue is,
"Did you bargain with the carpet hug
plunderers of the South for the title
to that high office which the people
had crowned you with at the polis?'*
The answer is awaited calmly nud
trustfully.
In the meantime it might lie well
not to overlook the fact that the elec
toral votes of Louisiana, Florida and
•Sjuth Curolioa were notoriously in the 1
market, aud that nil that was needed j
to inxuruSatnucl J. Tildcn'ssuccc** was
for him to buy his own. It was simply
n question of money, and the votea of
tho three mentioned State* would
have bt n cast in the electoral college
as the people of those states directed
tlicy should be cast. That the money
was toot forthcoming argues strongly
that there was no disposition to barter.
Rutherford B. Hayes occupies a posi
tion to which he was never elected.
The most shameful crimes wCre com
mitted in his name, and the stain of
perjury, bribery and fraud hangs like
a cloud over his official acts. It is to
his purpose and that of the party he
represents to withdraw the scrutiny of
impartial history by wholesale charges
against others of the same crimes of
which he and h'u parly are guilty.
THE republican mem hers of the
Potter committee are not anxious to
let the public know how the cipher
telegrams that have appeared in the
New York Tribune came into the pos
session of that journal. They fear to
have the crookedness of their own
partisans shown and therefore throw
every obstacle they possibly can in the
way of an honest investigation. The
Western Union Telegraph company
furnished a trunk fall of political de
spatches, that had passed over ita wires
in the campaign of 1876, to the Senate
committee on privileges and elections,
of which Senator Morton, then living
and the leader of the republican par
ty, was chairman 4 , and it was from that
rnyptacle qf political secrets that the
alletiged democratic drepatchua were
ItKM.KI'ONIK, I'A., THURSDAY, JANUARY .to, I*7o.
j stolen by sonic one ufter the rcpubli
! can despatches hud been carefully
scoured and destroyed. Prominent
republican senators were in the secret
|of the dishonorable trick, ami it docs
not suit republican investigators to
j have the meanness of the transaction
expo-cd to public execration. If the
truth were known, a few honorable
statesmen of the rndiinl persuasion,
■ who have heretofore managed to main-
I ...
tain a reasonably fair standing in tli"
I estimation of the people they repre
sent in the counsels of the nation,
might suffer a downfall for which they
1 are not prepared. An article from the
Washington /W, tlint u-lb a strange
j story in relation to this trunk full of
; telegrams, will be found elsewhere in
our columns, ami it is worth reading.
The Indian ({aesllon.
'I lie member* of the joint committee
of the two hnti.-eaof Congress Appoint
ed to consider the advisability of
iil>olidling the present Indian bureau
and transferring the management of
the Indians to the war department
six-ill to he as far .Apart in their con
elu-ions its are General Sheridan and
Secretary Schurz, ou the same ques
tion. The committee has given a
patient and impartial hearing to those
in favor of the chnuge ami also to
those who oppose it, hut it is found
impossible to reach n conclusion in
f.ivnr of either side. The committee
consists of eight members, four of
whom are Democrats and the other
four republicans. They recently vot
ed on a resolution declaring that it
was expedient to make the transfer,
and that the transfer should lie made,
aud t .en to have Uivuk-ud politically
—the tour Democrats voting in favor
ami the four Republican* nguin*t the
r< ohitioii. Thy nil say their mind*
arc mad? tip, and two reports on the
subject may therefore he expected.
The Democrats have already prepared
a report in which they handle the In
dian Bureau without gloves. The Re
publicans will oppose any change ex-
ccpt, it is staled, to recommend the ■
jn."sagc of a law giving lire President
discretionary power to place eerlain
trilx-i under the control of the army
during stated [>eriorli or for sjKH-ifuxl
piir|Me''?'. A proposition of thia kitnl
wa* rejected by the Democrat* who
lielicve that nothing short of an en- <
tire and radical change can ever cor
rect tho enormous evil* that for year* j
have prevailed in our present worm
eaten and corrupt system of d'-aling j
with these wild trilies of the far west. '
That a change of some kind i* aa ale j
solute m-ccstsity is evident in this pro- '•
position of those who would rather !
see no chaiigu at all; and the Demo- j
erat* of the committee show their
good sense in standing out against any
thing short of the complete uprooting j
of the costly, rotten and inefficient 1
Bureau that for so long n period has ;
lieen a standing disgrace to the coun- j
try. There may l>e two aides to the j
Indian question, either of which hon- j
cat men can take, but it is difficult to |
understand how any one, in the face J
of well-known and firmly established j
facta, will heretate about the propriety
of breaking up an institution that can
deal neither honestly by tho govern
ment or justly to the Indians. That
it never has, is abundantly proved by
tho expensive and grievous experi
ence of several decades of time, and
that it ever will, judging by the past,
can scarcely be believed.
IT H stated that Justice Hunt of
Supreme Court of the United States,
who was thought to be at death's door
for many day*, has *o far recovered
that he is now able to have the news
papers read to him. His kind leaders
in tender sympathy with his condition,
n° doubly omit the newspaper com
mmoWpbn the intrigue that ©otn
aahingtoo over a pros
pectiWi** to Ids Mat on tho
bench m< n-uit thf It few* of his
alarming thojl city.
TIIE INDIAN .MANAGEMENT.
STASH** orrßEin VOK TRANSFERRING IT
TO Tilt WAR KEI'ARTMEMT.
EtIXSIIT or TIIO.HE MKMIItRH Of Tllk JOIST
COMMITTEE WIIO ARK IN FAVOR
or Tllf. CHANGE.
W ISIIINOTON, January 2fi.—The re
> j>ort of tho four member#—Senator
McCiPsry and Representatives Boone,
Scales and Hooker—of tho joint com
mittee who favor transferring tho man
agement of Indian affairs from tho In
terior to the War Department, has just
I been completed by Representative
I Boone of Kentucky and will be submit
ted to the llouse at tiie first opportune
| ty. The rcjxjrt says the truth is that
1 the past history of our dealings witji the
! Indians is one not creditable to us. nor
! one which u calculated to impress them
I with the belief that their welfare, eith
i er spiritual or temjoral, has entered ift-
I to our minds, but rather to impress
I them with the idea that our object is
| and has been to get from them ail we
j could and to keep all w get. Our
( treatment of them is one of shame and
mortification to all right thinking and
nil liberal-minded men. A proper solu
tion of what is called the Indian prob
lem is pressing itself more strongly up
on the public ultcntion every year, and
today it is one of the important practi
cal questions which the intelligent rep
resentatives of a great people are called
upon to grapple with and from which
there is no e*ca|>e. With impatient
energy and unfaltering courage our
people have pressed their way far be
yond the Mississippi, and step by step
the red man ha been driven back and
still further westward until the reflux
tide pressing Into from the we*t, and
between the upper and the nether
millstonea he must soon be crushed to
death unless our ♦ioverninent shall
throw IU arms of protection around
him. <'ur wrongful treatment of th.-m
is co-equal with our existence, though
not to the same extent in the earlier
and purer days as at present. Indeed,
tho system of nongoment of Indian
affair* which we have pursued (if we
have had a system at allj has been un
equal lo the demand* of our duty. To
such extent have (ramls and j-ecula
Hon crept into the management of In
di AH atlsirs, and so glaring and shame
■i'i have tfii -c fraud, ber on*, that an
indignant public opinion will no longer
look on with uxbsle-rvuce and uncon
cern. That these wrongs and abuses do
now exist, and ton fearful extent, the
• igners of the rejort think no one at ail
acquainted with the facts will deny.
The defect lies in the system adopted
in the management of our Indian at
fairs, connected with the inelficiency or
d 'honesty, or l->th. of those who are
charged with the carrying out of the
details of tins s\ stem.
j It i- well known that in IM-> the Ib
. psrtment of the Interior was crcate<l by
> law, and tiie whole and sole manage
ment ~f Indian ritL.ir* vu at once turn
ed over to that department. But to go
luck a little fur.her, it will be found
that our system of Indian management
IIM always been virtually the system
now in vogue, even while it was nom
inally under the War Ihq.arlment prior
to 1 Whilu it is true that superin
't tendent* and aguls (being few in num
,ler) made their rejK>rl* to tho War
'•lfiee, it i* alvo true that neither the
Secretary of War nor any officer in tho
' War Department had anything to do
j with the Appointment of these officers,
j nor was tho War Office charged with the
I duty of Sll pervising them or controlling
; then, in any number up to P.M. Our
relations with the Indian* began at an
j eerly [teriod of the Revolutionary war.
■ What was necessary to be done either
for defense or conciliation was done,
: and leing necewwry, no inquiry seems
I to have been made as to the authority
under which it waa done. While it ia
J true that by the act of 18-14 the Secro
i tary of War waa given a sort of general
j superintendence over the conduct of
agent* and sub agenta (appointed by the
! President), and white it is also true that
, by that the President was authorised lo
select military men to discharge the
I duties of Indian agents, it ia further
j true that a large n, joritv of the agent*
j selected were from civil life, and much
I the same machinery employer! in the
conduct of Indian affir* as now.
Year after year large Amount* of
money hare been expended with a view
to civilizing these people, and yet we are
compelled to admit that failure 1* writ
ten on every page of tbe peat history of
our effort* in tbi* direction. The in
auguration of the "peace policy in 1SA8"
by President Grant in the opinion of
the undersigned was a virtual admission
that the Indian Bureau was iooapshle
of the proper conduct of Indian affairs
and waa therefore compelled to delegate
much of it* authority to other hand*.
It would teem that there ie no room to
doubt that we should try some method
of dealing wiib thia question different
from that now in vogue. It seem* hardly
necessary to adduce proof to establish
tbe fact that shameful irregularities and
(rose fraud* have crept into every branch
of the service. Tho opinion entertained
by tbe signers of this report I* that
three frauds will forever exist, even
wlfh the most vigilant and scrupulous
honesty which ean be brought into the
management of the Indian Bureau, be
cause the method or system of that de
partment era inadequate to prevent
fraud, however honrel the head of the
office may bo, and for tbe reason that
the system o accountability in the de
partment fa not close enough to detect
corruption, Ae the matter now stands
there wM of necessity be too much
intruded to tbe band* of agonta far
I -* ,
whoso faithful Uiscluirgo of duty wo
have no security save their individual
fidelity and honor, which, alas, has too
often failed when put into the balance
with an opportunity to make gain for
i themselves. Whatever else may Le said
of our afmy officers, they are as a class
rnen of high honor and strict integrity,
their training lias impressed these high
qualities upon them and their associa
tion requires their constant observance.
I'.very officer in the army is a check
ii|s>n every o'ber officer, and such i*
the system of accountability in the army
that it is nearly if not quite impossible
lor an officer to act dishonestly without
being de tected and uj<on being detected,
punishment follows swiftly and m e!y.
An army officer holds his commission
for life or during good behaviour; utwin
this he depends for his living. Tie
civil agents, on the other hand, are ap
pointed generally as parti-ans and for a
limited tune, subject at any time to re
moval and are paid small salaries. We
are decidedly of the opinion that a large
amount of money can and will be suv< d
if this transfer is made, although the
evidence is conflicting and somewhat
unsatisfactory with regard to the pur
chase and transportation of goods and
supplies, i tie failure to honestly dis
tribute supplies Las cost the country
many million of dollars and very many
valuable lives. If it be true that army
officers can perform the duties of lu
dian agents as faithfully, diligently and
honestly as the civil agents have and
•re doing, and if the War Department
can purchase us cheaply as the Indian
bureau, aud if the means of transpor
tation in the War Department are so
much superior, and if the systems of
inspection are equal, and if army offi
cers are not so apt to become tho vic
tims of temptation, and if wo can se
cure a more faithful and honest admin
titration through army officers and
avoid some if not all the Indian wars,
who can *y that wo shall not aave mil
lions of dollars in our Indian manage
ment tf the transfer is made, and at
the same time secure that justice to the
Indians, the Uk of which has caused
o much trouble. It is said by some
that if tho transfer is mule it means
the practical annihilation of the In
dians. The proposition is an absurdity
ii|.on its face, a everybody knows that
in case of war with the Indians the sol
diers do tho fighting, and it is but rea
sonable that of all men the soldi?-*
would be the last to provoae it. We
believe that under the proposed system
the Indian* will receive quite an much
encouragement in all industrial pur
suits as now, and (hat und<-r the exacti
tudes of army regulations in furnishing
sup; lies ntul food, they will enter upon
a raieer of activity and pro}>erity which
has not characterised them under the
present management.
l Another serious objection to the pres
ent system is the divides! or " two-haul
j ed" respousibUity whirl, exist*. This
1 mixed or double accountability oft-m
produce* conflict tiotween the agent
and ofiioer in command, and that con
cert of action is not secured which is
I necessary. We believe the present Sec
j retarv of the Interior and Indian <Jnnt
tniasioner arc making an honest effort
J to purify and elevate our Indian man
• agement, but with the present methods
of keeping accounts with agents to
whom large amounts of mousy and
! large quantities of goods sre inlrtit<-d.
; we do not sew bow it is imwdbie to free
the service from fraud ami |ecu]aUoii
a long a* dishonest men may crr-sp
into these position*. With the array
officer w omld at l<st have the secu
rity of the knowledge ujs> In* part
that the juice of hi* treacli'-ty would be
bis official head and his (.dure and
everlasting disgrace. We believe that
the interest of the Oovrontuent and
; the good of the Indian will t>e best pro
. moled by transferring tho manage us*-tit
jof ludian nilarr* to tho War Depart
j ment, leaving it Utacretiicary with the
.Secretary ol VYar to |i|xuit civil agenta
to those agencies where, in hi* judg
ment, the intereat of all concerned
would he l>eat secured by such an agent,
and officers of the array where tho in
j terest* of the aervice require it.
Senatorial kJrtUou*.
SraiNorißLn, IU., January 22.—Tbe
General Assembly, ia joint seasion this
afternoon, declared General John A.
Eogan elected I'nitod .States Senator.
Mn. w trans. Wis.,. January 22.—The
j joint convention of the are! As
sembly at M*di*on to-day eWtad Matt.
H. C*ri>enter United State* Senator to
succeed T. O. Ho***, tbe vote standing i
Carpenter, 84 ; Regan,'J*: Houck, 13.
AMUNV, January 22.—At 12 o'clock
to-day the Sonate in a body entered the
Aaaembly Chamber lo compare tbe
nominaliona for United State* Senator,
which having-been don*, the President
of the .Senate announced that the two
houses had agreed on tbeir choice, and,
therefore, declared Rosen* Oenkling
elected Paired State* Senator for atx
year* from the 4th day of March next.
The election of Gbarlea K. Smith, of
tho UMveraity, we* also announced.
Haanroam Cbon., January 2*,— Both
hou*es of lb* General Aaeembly met lo
oonveolion at noon to?Uy and ratified
the *leetk>n of OrviUe ]{. Piatt m Unit
ed States Senator.
LITTLE ROCK, January 22.—Three
ballota were token to-day lor United
State* Senator. The following ia the
last ballot t Walker, 44 1 Johnson, 31;
•ell, 24 1 Baiter, 141 acattaring, 7.
Meeeeeory to a choice, 41.
TALLAHAMM. Janusrv 22. —tn joint
•ration of the EepiaUture to-day Wilk
inson Call, tbe DetaooraJe nominee,
waa declared elected United State*
Senator. 1 ,
TERMS: $1.50 per Annum, in A<ltjukc.
| , GENERAL NEWS.
! The repair shop* of the Empire Line
in Krio fix up about one hundred cans
day.
The Kbeusburg Branch lUulroed,
which ha* boon snowed up forever e
month, ha* finally been opened.
The remain* of a lady buried in IWS,
near 'til f'ity, were taken up a few l*y
j *ince and found to hare turned to
j clone.
Kli • irecti, a well-known fat man of
Altoona, mcaKure* sixty-two inch**
around the chest and nearly seventy
around the waist.
The correspondent of the hrrrick,
■ writing from Bradford, warn* tal/or
against corning there, because the place
is already ove-run with ]>er*ons uimwi
ployed.
j The I'itt&burg Chronicle is rmtomiUn
j for the following: Benjamin Whitman,
Esq., of Erie, i* in Harrisburg. ncgouat
ing for the purcliaae of the J'att iJ.
j A cracker manufactory hoe be-wi
I started in <HI City, which, the /M <t
I says, will attract a targe trade that tout
I hitherto gone to Cleveland and P.tie
t'tirg.
Mr*. <'aptain lkiniel lobbin, of Erie,
who died at that place last week in hci
ninety ninth year, went there tro:u Cas
!!•!<, the place of ber birth, in I*oo, <_-a
) horseback.
■I tvcob Eiegler. or !Ls he is more gener
ally known, "Uncle Jake," of IvutL-t,
j is wasting ro opportunities to pro* his
claim* for B<-rg.-*nt-at-arro of tu
L"niu-<1 States Senate.
A young man of lias lon ha* been re
; strained several mouths from marry!"!*
: widow who u fair, fat and forty. U—
j cently the widow fell heir to
( and now the parent* have no objieau*
I to their aoa'a marriage to her.
Wilson lloocb. a juror in Cwnl.ita
county, when hi* name rnu e.,,.eu.....
i Friday, could not be found. A >i:u
I ofljcoe •* dispatched to bunt li ui u,,
j and i wine across him very much in<ov.-
i cated. 11* was fined s2tk) and :<>id UJ
J clear out.
J Tlw boya of Pittsburgh never nei*
the toys of Allegheny auywu-ro wis,.
; out Laving a light. The U*t one oe.ue
j red oo Sunday on the ice, when so*l
; hundred on each side engaged. Uris.
1 ing stoner, l'iatol* were also
several lad* wore womnloi, Tu -
! finally quelled the ui turban v.
iF. W. Conrad, I>. Lb, an ©ana-sot IM
theran divine, and also editor ol <ii .*-
ihfrxn Okmrmr, ha* been placet in tiw
Kjrkbnd© Asylum, owing to „
mental prostration. It i to bo issuaat
; that he may *oon be restored to u . s.ou
and hi* urusl field of labor.
A rare incident in the history of tin*
State <>ccuried Tuesday. Owing to u
inauguration being delayed until
j r.*., the Slate was without t (hnw*w
one hour and twenty ni mutes,
, ran ft'* term having expired U i u*im.
Mrs. Elisabeth Hancock, mother of
j Major (icneral W. S. Hu<u-ork, uu
army, died in Norriatowa ,u
morning. She wa* seventy nine year*
{old. She and her late huil.siid, Jtsrj*.
j nun Franklin Hancock, *n coin *■
il Montgomery county, and tm-ir diettu
guithed son wa* horn in 1524, while Uuy
uvod on a farm. They removed mm
the borough of Norrislowu m Isgjt.
Two clergymen of Muuut VVuho,
1 Ohio, the lb*v. Mr. Burn. a*. 'lougrvs*
: liooaliat, and tlie ltcv. Mr. l*tn,iUp
] Ust, are disputing angrily a o toe j**-.
j con tag© ol alootiol contained in ile
' wine which Christ miraculously few.
dueeil at the feast on Itie ptaiioi uf *ul
lilee. Mr. Burrows alleges that Un<
'wine wa* intoxicating; Mr. lama Av
ium the allegation. Both j'resdmi
j about ft on Suoday evening.
j Step* ltare been taken for the devot
ion ol the Diocese of Central Peeiasy!
j van is. At the last regular msei'ng *f
tlio convocation Kev. Dr. il"|-l.u<s. nr*~
j tor of Christ'* ( Episcopal) ('uiuvJi. st
Williamsport, presented a uwiMnsl
i asking the constitutional eseent t
| the ltishop of the Diocese <t nut
| Pennsylvania to the fortai'.ion ufa t*
j dioceer. It wa* adopted and imosedv
: ately signed by a msjority of Uwe
! present. The new diocese will in tie w
, the cvwinticsof Evcoming, Clioi'si, Be
| trc, Tioga. Potter, Nurtkumkevfo>u.
j Montour, Columbia, Union and Snyder,
j containing a imputation of over a qa-c
| ter of a million. The present dawns.
i which wa* nrgariit d in DO. iaetwde*
J .17 counties, with one and a bail mil been
of people. It extend* from Pike ws
-Ity to Bedford, inclusive. It i* tmauel
■ ered entirely too Urge for one hmhiy w
manage. It is believed Dakif if*—
will osnaent to the division.
The information of the New Yealt
W*t, derived froiu the moat dawnt
source*, warrants it in staling in the
mini |OMtlve term* that the body of
the late A. T. Stewart has not been aw
covered by Mr*. Stewart or Judge V
ton or any of their agent*. Late puhlt
cation* to the enntmty grew wtaf •
aygorated repetition* of hopes pn
etl by Mm. Stewart to her friend* ■
December last that negotiati— dm
pending would remit in the retna df
the body before the end of the jnam.
There hope* wore disappointed. %■
than pending negotiatlM* have boms
described in Ibe TVvhos*. The oadjrohn*
now being followed U the nm|fo >
"Bull " K-iley. whom Chief *"-■ | ,
of Hobo km. ami Chief of Doteatmaa
Capunn Km Iy, of this city, hattoeo ho
hse Ijomi the driver of ih* rnagoo i
which it i* suspected the Wwr twai
veyetl across the Hohokoa Bwii m
N'ew Jersey. KMiry ha* niwr wm
seen hers since the night of theatb-
Wry.
NO. 5.