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NEXT! —Kellogg—Lcthimgo. He
has no more right to be in the senate
than Corbin, and ought to give place
to the duly elected Senator from
Louisiana.
POOR HAYES. —The general ap
pointment of all the rogues, and presi
dential thieves to office, has deprived
him of the slightest pretext of
personal innocence, that might have
been attached to him, for the great
fraud which reversed and made void
the verdict of the people in the last
presidential election. He occupies a
place to which the universal judgment
of the country believe and know he
was not elected. His position is a pit
iable one, but, wheu he called to the
head of the treasury the leading con
spirator, he was forced to take ail the
minor rogues in his train.
GEN. BUTLER, one of the Potter
committee, makes a separate report as
a matter of course. He reports that
the majority of votes cast in Louisi
ana were given to the Tilden electors
and Gov. Nichols. That if the bull
dozed parishes were thrown out, a por
tion of the Tilden electors were chosen,
and Packard elected Governor. He
also states that the counting in of Mr.
Hayes was by unjustifiable irregulari
ties and fraud. It is all true as gos
pel itself. Every body believes it,
and it would be very difficult for an
able lawyer, like Gen. Butler, to form
a judicial opinion to the contrary.
PATTERSON PARDONED.—John J.
Patterson, the ex-Senator from South
Carolina, has received a letter from
the Attorney General, granting him a
full pardon, for any indictment* pend
ing against him ip that state.
If this rogue had robbed ajhrn-rooet
or stolen a sheep, nothing short of the
peniteniary would have satisfied the
law. But as a thief on an enlarged
scale, he was entitled to the immunity
usually awarded in such cases —par-
don, or an office under Mr. Hayes' ad
ministration.
A FANCIFUL writer in the William
sport Gazelle and Bulletin deplores the
fact that Mr. Seth H. Yocum has no
"Organ" in Centre county. That this
should be so is at once alarming and
harrowing. No man should for a
moment think of taking a hand in a
Congressional contest without first
providing himself with five or six good
' newspapers. They are always con
venient and especially so when a man
has a number of lawyers lying around
loose who are not good for much else
but writing about facta that exist only
in their imagination. There is a won
derful amount of versatality about
f the Bellefonte lawyer of a certain
type. When he discovers that he can't
do a thing one way, he does it the
other. To illustrate: When he is
employed to manage a case that comes
within the legitimate province of his
profession, and finds after a careful
examination that there isn't anything
in it, if he follows the beaten path he
1 just takes to the underbrush and be
comes a journalistic footpad. In
other words, when be finds be hasn't
any case to speak of to try before
die proper tribunal, he immediately
throws up his brief and thereafter
conducts bis cause in the newspapers.
This is why it fe unfortunate for Mr.
Yocum that he has JIO "Organ."
The Chinese Question.
The veto menage of Mr. H*)
upon the bill to restrict Chinese iiu
in ignition to thin country, it is now
evident was not conclusive of the sub
ject In discussing the question Mr.
Hayes was careful to discard all the
spurious scntimcntalism about the
" rights and equality of man " tliut
had been thrown around it, and pro
jierly confined himself to the relations
which the bill he was considering bore
to our trcuty stipulations with the
Chinese government. With all his
regard for national good faith and
treaty obligations, however, ho docs
not leave the public to infer (but he
thinks highly of the results of the ex
periincnt of immigration initiated by
the Burlingame negotiations. The
most earnest anti-Chinese advocate has
scarcely presented a stronger picture
of the character of Chinese immi
grants than does a single sentence of
the veto message. " The lajxm of ten
years since the negotiation of the
Hurlingamc treaty has exhibited to
the notice of the Chinese government,
as well as to our own people, the
working of thin experiment *>( immi
gration in great numbers of Chinese
laborers to this country and their
maintenance here of all the traits of
race, religion, manners anil customs,
habitation, mode of life, segregation
here and the keeping up of the ties of
their original home, which stamp them
us strangers and sojourners and not as
incorporated elements of our national
life and growth." It is altogether
possible that this treatment of the
question has encouraged the hopes of
those who suffer from the presence of
these Asiatic "strangers and sojourn
ers" thnt another bill, drawn to obvi
ate the difficulties likely to arise from
an arhitrary abrogation of the treaty
with China, might not meet with ex
ecutive disapprobation. Be this as it
may, it as already announced that
senator Jones, of Nevada, will intro
duce a new bill of restriction as soon
as the extra session of congress begins.
The agitation of the question will
therefore be renewed and probaby he
continued until some measure of re
lief that will at least mitigate the
evils entailed by the inilux of these
people upon the Pacific sloj*> is ob
tained. Free immigrants who come
to us to dispose of their labor as free
men, to assimilate with our people and
to become supporters and defenders of
our free institutions are always wel
come. But it becomes a different
question that requires different tri-at
mcnt when vast numbers of an Asiatic
race are thrust upon us, not as free
men, but virtually as slaves under
contracts with the six Chinese com
panies of San Francisco that give the
management of these companies the
right to dispose of their lalwr in com
petition with free native labor.
THE New York Herald with its ne
cuatomcd generosity has kindly volun
teered to sec the democratic party :
through the trouble of nominating
a candidate for President in 18*0.
With much care it has collated the
views of the leading democrats in
Congress and therewith has launched
itself on a boundless ocean of specu
lation. Thurman, Hendricks, Bny
ard and Tilden present themselves in
a confused mass, and for the life of
bint the editorial Warwick of the great
newspaper can't sec his wny clear to a
solution of the knotty problem that
will please everybody, and to please
everybody is exactly the mission of
the Herald in this sinful world.
Home days it exhibits an alarming dis
position to nominate them all, and on
others it is morally certain that none
of them fill the bill. One thing it is
absolutely certain of, and that is that
New York is the "pivotal" State and
without her electoral vote nobody can
be elected to anything. That settled,
the next proposition we expect to see
elaborated is, that the Herald is the
"pivotal" newspaper and candidates
will be invited to conduct themselves
accordingly.
As FAITHVL r I. observers of passing
events we are obliged to announce the
sudden, though not entirely unexpect
ed, explosion of an inflated bag of
conceit and pomposity. The catastro
phe occurred one day last week, at
Wilkeabarre. A multitude of per
sons present were for the time being
in imminent danger, but we are
pleased to say that the damage suffered
was confined to a venerable ass called
Hendrick B. Wright.
Last Hours of the 45th Congress.
The points of difference between the
two houses oil the Army bill, referred
to a conference committee, wore two
clauses put in the bill by the House:
one in regard to the army reorganiza
tion, and the other to prohibit the pres
ence of troojis at the. polls of elections.
To the first jsiint the committee could
easily have agreed. To the last point
it was evident from the first that no
agreement could bo reached unless the
Senate receded. The democrats in
sisted, and gave as evidence of their
earnestness in doing so, that the time
had come when it should no longer be
lawful for a soldier to be ut the polls
on the day of election. The republi
cans claimed that the law authorized
the President to order soldiers to the
polls,and should lie maintained. This
was the issue, and on this issue the
conference committee disagreed and
were sustained by the respective houses
and 1111 extra session of Congress be
come a necessity to obtain means to
carry on the government.
Presenting the action of tiic com
mittcc to the Iluuxe antl explaining
the jHiintu of difference, Mr. Hewitt,
of New York, enid :
Mr. Speaker, this present* an issue which
involve* the very essence of free govern
ment. Tim difference between a despotic
government and a free government i* this;
that in a dc*|>oti*m the military |>wer is
ruj>erior to the < ivil; in a free government
the civil dominate* the military power.
And thi* principle wa* one which we never
fought for ; it came to u a* an inheritance
from our father*. It wa**o well recogniz
ed that when the Constitution wa* formed
it wa* not even deemed necessary to insert
an article to that effect, Hut a* a protec
tion against military interference provision
wa* made that citizen* might l**ur arm*,
and that no soldier* stiould In- i|u*rler<d
upon them without their consent. No
hnglish speaking man for two hundred
years has questioned the principle that
soldiers should never lie present at the
poll* ; and the question could never have
been raised in this country, the demand
rould nev r have been made in our land,
hut for the unhappy calamity of a civil
war. In time of ,'ivil war all political
rights must be surrendered to the necessi
ties of the conflict. And so it was here.
We surrenders] the right we had inherited,
and which up to that hour we had exer
cised, that no soldier should show him
self at the polls. We surrendered that
safeguard as wo surrendered many other
things that were dear to us. A convertible
currency, specie payment*, almost every
traditional right, disappeared in the pres
ence of the great danger with which we
were confronted.
Now, for fifteen long year* we have
been striving to recorer tliat bet gr<-und.
We have made gigantic effort*. sacrifice*
such a* the world never saw, to get back
to the resumption of specie payment* ; and
yet we have done nothing for the reeumje
tion of our political right*. th right* which
lie at the very foundation of ibis Govern
ment
The time has come to rwitn thU lost •
ground, and I think it in a reproach to our
patriotism that Ui resumption of specie
payment* should have preceded the re
sumption f the right* i..--o**ary for the
preservation of free government * It i an
imputation i|n this liberty-loving pimple
and iu representative! that they have al
lowed the time to pa** by until how. when
the question is finally about to be M-ttled in
the bill, and in another bill, the result of
the conference on which will toon be re
ported to thi* House,
Now, Mr. speaker, can we surrender
thi* <jue*tion ? Would we be justified bv
the |>eople of thi* country, now that the
issue ha* been raised in conceding the prin
ciple in time of profound peaca, fifteen
years after the clone of a civil war, that
•oldier* may be ordered bv the executive
power to the poll* on the Jay of election ?
I, Mr. Speaker, of all men "in this Hou*e
am most aniiou* that there shall bo no
extra se*ion ; 1 have everthlng to loom*
and nothing to gain by it. All that I have
tn the worid ta engaged in busine** opera
tions which are always damaged by extra
session* of CongTiw*. I am sure f speak
the voice of the industrial interest* of thi*
country, when I say they want thi* Con
gren* logo in peace. Hut, Mr. Speaker,
there are thing* greater than monev,
greater than profit*— without which money
disappear* and profit* are an illusion
thing* for which men have sacrificed for
tune* an<l family and life In every age of
the world, and the greatest of all I* the
right of self-government. And thi* ques
tion in thi* bill lie* at the very foundation
of the struggle for civil liberty which ha*
lasted since government* were founded and
survive, a* thi* scene bear* witness, to
this very hour. I/et me say that the re
covery of these right* I* almost a* difficult
a* their elabli*hment. If when thi* op
portunity come# once and i* passed by un
heeded, then rarely doe* the opportunity
come a second time. If the provision au
thorizing the presence of troops at the poll*
•ball remain upon our statute-book*, when
an un#erupulou* Executive—and we may
have such a one— shall occupy the presi
dential chair with hi* power to control the
troops at the polls, the people of tht* coun
try will never elect hi* successor. That
danger confront* u*. We are asked why
we pre** thi* istue now. We press it now
because we have had an admonition that
when the Army bill failed in the Forty
fourth Congress the Army was maintained
without law for months, nearly to the time
of the next election, before Congress was
called together and provision* could be
made for it* support.
Unless the provision for which we have
made so zealous a struggle goes into this
bill, if the Army exist* on the 30th day of
June, 1880, then under the precedent*, we
have seen the Army can be continued with
out law till the next political election. If
there should be a disposition—and I trust
there will be none—but if there should be a
disposition to use the Army for political
purpoees, it will be impossible ever again,
in my judgment, to elect a President of the
United 8 take* by the voice of the people.
It is for that reason that conferee* on the
part of the House have felt themselves con
strained to plant themselves firmly upon
the ground that they would never yield
this provision, end I trust that they will
be sustained by lb* unanimous voice of the
House.
The issue thus made to one which we are
* j
ready to accept before the country. Let
the people decide whether they are pre
pared to surrender the sacred right of un-
Iruimnelod suffrage which this hill seeks to
gunrd, and the provisions which In the
legislative hill are designed to maintain
unimpaired the trial hy jury, which Is the
great achievement of oiir race. Unless the
blood which courses In our veins has de
generated from the vital fluid which ha*
made the Anglo-Saxon people great and
free, I cannot doubt the result of the Kje
peal which I now make to the country,
j Loud applausa on the democratic side of
the llousc and in the galleries.]
To Pensioner*.
It may be of interest to those per
sons entitled to arrearages of [tensions,
to slate thut under the new law appli
cations for arrearages must lie filed
before August, 1880.
We would also direct their attention
to the following article which we copy
from the Washington Pott. They
should not l>e caught by these swind
lers, hut treat their demand for con
tributions to a testimonial to Capt.
Dimiuock with the coutempt.it de
serves.
The Pension Coiwpirar>/ Testimony of the
Implicated Agents Jlefore the House Sub
committee.
M<-*sr. liockwood, of New York, and
Willits of Michigan, a suo-cornmitlee
of tho house committee on expend!
tares in tho interior department,
wero engaged in t.ikiug testimony rel
ative to an alleged combination be
tween certain claim agents and others
of this city, to exact money from |>en
sioners under tho pretext of "a testi
monial''to one of their number for his
labor* in securing the p*iage of the
arrears of |-ni>ioti act. <>ne of their
numerous circulais. njqn-aling to the
generosity of beneficiaries under the
recent pension law, sets lorth that to
one R. A. Dimtnick, more than to any
other man, is due the enactment of that
law. This document is signed hy J. C.
8. Burger, war department, H. 11. Brow
er, inu-rior department, and W. L.
Trembly, war department, and has an
indorsement from George Bancroft, with
the evident purpose el leading the un
wary into the belief that it was the
eminent historian of that name who
gave his support to the scheme. Tho
names of a number of local claim
agent* uho ap]H-ar on the document,
some of whom, however, to their credit
be it said, deny any knouledge of. or
concern in. the propoaed plan. The
plan of njienttinn* *a* to send the fol
lowing little printed slip or "dodger"
with other circulars to pensioners and
agents throughout the country:
*s ACT or limit.
In recognition of th labor of Capt. R.
A. Dimmick, of Washington, for the pat
three years in conducting the prosecution
of the arrears of pension bill, which has
resulted in a law, I hereby subscribe the
sum of $ toward a testimonial to him,
payable when I receive the arrears of pen
sion due me. ______________
• Address ■
Death of Lilhn Kurrltt.
Klihu Burritt, who died Thursday
night at bis residence in New Britain,
Conn., woi a nativeof that place, where
he was born J*e©einberß. 1811. He was
the son of a shoemaker, and was edu
cated in tho common schools of his na
tive village. At the age of ICt he was
apprentice.! to a blacksmith. A de
sue to read the .Scripture in the origi
nal led him to philological studies in
the intervals of laiior, and be soon
mastered several languages. He re
moved to Worcester, Mass.. to have
the advantage of the library of the
Antiquarian Society there, and while
still plying bis trade studied the prin
cipal ancient and modern languages,
and liecaine know as "the learned black
smith." In 1844 he edited at Worcester
the Christian <\tiisn, a joiner advocating
a peaceful settlement of international
difficulties. To the same end he de
livered many public lectures. lie was
also very prominent a an advocate of
temperance and of slavery aliolition,
antl later, of cheap ocean postage. In
IB4A he went to England, where he
formed the "League of Universal
Brotherhood," whose object was "to
employ all legitimate means for the
abolition of war throughout the world."
He was constantly engaged in writing
and lecturing, and took a prominent
part in all tho European Trace Con
greases. lie was for several years Con
sul at Birmingham, and returned to the
United Htate* after residing altogether
nearly twentv five years in England.
He has published ".Sparks from the
Anvil" (London, IM8), "Miscellaneous
Writings" (1H50), "Olive I-eaves" (185.1).
"Thoughts and Things at Home and
Abroad" Boston, (1854), "A Walk from
John O'Groat'a to land's End" (1845),
and "Leeturea and Speeohoa" UHfluj.
Mr. Burritt has been in failing health
for several years, and has not recently
engaged in literary or other active pur
suit*.
Father Beeson and the Indiana.
Father Beeson, who haa lived for
many years with and among the In
diana of our western plains, and who is
well-known a* an anient sympathiser
with thom in their rights, ha* addressed
an open letter to Mr. Hayes, calling hit
attention to the necessity for taking
prompt measures to suppress the pree
ent lawless aggression upon Indian res
ervations. lie alludes to the starvation
and massacre of the Mannocks and
Cheyenne#, the forced removal of the
Nex Fercea and Sioux in violation of
treaty obligations, and the recent raid
upon the reserve of the Ctes, in Colo
redo, prompted by the discovery of
gold, and says that unless the sentiment
of justice, enforced by the strong srm
of the government, put a stop to those
outrages another Indian war is certain.
He recommends the appointment of a
peace commission, composed of persons
whose characters will command the re
spect of the whites and the confidence
of the Indians, with a view to bringing
about a better understanding between
the races and a change in the present
tree toning aspect of Indian affairs.
Things Accomplished.
A Congress Democratic in one branch
and Republican in the other must nec
essarily fail to Hdopt measures of public
policy distinctly embodying the princi
ples of either party. For this reason,
those enthusiasts who pre "ited the in
fusion of the Democrat spirit Into
National legislation when the control of
the House passed from the Republican
party have been disappointed.
Hut while a Republican Konate, lag
ging superfluous long after the country
had repudiated that party, has been
able to check economy, impede reform
and add greatly to the burden of taxa
tion, it bos not been able to prevent
substantial progress toward the desired
end—the most simple and economical
government consistent with the best
good of the entire country.
The Democratic House of the Forty
: fifth Congress battled persistently and
incessantly, and with even more success
than could have been expected, against
the extravagant notions that had come
to be accepted theories with the Radical
party. It knocked off millions at a
blow, and repeated such telling blows
wherever it was possible. It studied to
learn the actual needs of every branch
of the service, to find out what the
public interest* required to have done,
, and to provide for the doing of it. But
it set a face of flint against those loose
and corrupt ways that, under disputed
Radical domination, had grown into a
system and had made the civil service
wf the foiled .States fairly reek with
corruption.
The country ha* heard a great deal
about civil service reform under the
lfidie.il Administration* of the last ten
year*. Grant and hi* crowd had their
way of reforming. The type* of that
reformatory movement wera Belknap,
Ito bacon, ''handler and the whisky
ring. Hayes came in, pledged to carry
the work of reform forward through
thick and thin by tnain strength and
awkwardness, and over all obstacle*.
The title thieve* in office, paid out of
the public Treasury for stealing the
Presidency, ahow bow Hayes has kept
the faith.
But a genuine reform in every de
partment. in every branch and section
•>f ttus public service lias been effected
by the ical, energy and economy of the
Democratic House. By cutting off mil
lions of money that were annually
squandered, by close inquiry into the
details of department and bureau man
management, thousands of leaks have
feen stopped, hundreds of sinecures
abolished and such economical customs
introduced as were unheard of from
1800 to 1815.
With a itepublican Administration to
create dcficienr.es ; with no democratic
official* t-i stii-ervi-e exj>etiditurea ; with
m*n in all the departments controlling
affair* who bad been thoroughly imLued
with the spirit of reckless waste and
wanton squandering that has sprung
into luminous growth ; with all these
disadvantage*, and the still greater one
of having lb-publican Senate to stub
bornly contest every foot of progress in
the path of economy, the democratic
House wa* aide to sweep out of existence
the absurd pretext upon which scores
j of million* were annually voted from
the Treasury into the {sockets of seedy
partisans, rapacious thieve* and gigantic
ring* of swindlers. The last liouae,
like it* immediate predecessor, was in
defatigable in this work. It resisted
most strenuously the wild schemes fos
tered in the Senate, and succeeded in
clearing most of them from the appro
priation bills that were paased.
Aside (roni the routine busineas of
the *eion. the most im|>ortant mesa
ure* passed were the reduction of tbo
tax on tobacco and the arrearage*
of pension* hill. We have reason
to believe that, ao far from decreasing
the annual revenue, the reduction of
the tobacco Ux will actually increase
receipt*. Commissioner Kaum admits
that at present not more than half the
tax i collected. As ws the case with
whisky when the tax was reduce! from
M to SO cents, and increased revenue
followed, so will it be with tobacco.
Of the pensions bill it is enough to say
that it is a measure of justice long de
ferred. The Democratic partv can well
afford to take the self-inflicted responsi
bility ot doing right.
It wa* predicted last autumn that
when t'ongrees should convene the
lemocralic House and the lemncraU
in the Senate, with the aid of three or
four rather tender-footed Itepublicans,
would unsettle the finances of the
country with wild schemes of inflation.
As a matter of history, the Democracy
in Congress gave a very cold shoulder
to everything of that sort, and John
Sherman, should his plana be checked,
cannot lay the blame on the 1 democra
cy. He baa had pretty much his own
way.
We have thus aeen that with power
only in one branch of Conjnwa*, with a
Senate and an Administration oppoaed
to and thwarting iu effort*, a* far aa
poasible, the 1 democratic party ha* per
formed signal -aervice to the country s
ha* decreased expenditure*, lessened
taxation, promoted economy and en
courage-! a genuine spirit of reform.
Thia is a splendid promise for the future,
when the I democracy will occupy a field
admitting of broader influence and
greater usefulness.
Two Orators Rnjiuw.—The great
scarcity of marriageable women in the
state of lowa is the reason assigned by
Louis Bode, of Shenandoah, Page
county, of that state, for writing to
Superintendent Jackson, of the Board
of immigration here, asking the latter
gentleman to select and send him a
wife. Bode prefers a woman who haa
recently arrived either from Kogland or
Germany, of sound health and physi
que, and promises her a good home,
lie says he is a farmer in comfortable
circumstances and thirty-nine yean old.
He is a widower without children, and
wants milters,fixed up with business
like dispatch, as he wishes to he mar
tied this spring. Another letter re
ceived by Jackson, from 734 South
Seventh street, St, Lottie, Mo., and signed
Anton L. Anton, says he has read in
the papers of the case of Catharine
Fasahauer. a young woman, now on
Ward's island, and about ut become a
mother, and he is inclined to offer her
bis hand in marriage and a good home
if Jackaon can conscientiously recom
mend her as likely to make a good wife.
Report of Uie Pennsylvania Railroad.
rmm Uw I'itul-nrgh fort, Moi'li 4.
The annual report of the Pennsylva
nia Railroad, printed in today'* P<*t,
in the magnitude of ita atatemeut of
receipt* and expenditure*, read* like
the balance aheet of an Empire. The
froaa revenue of the line* east of Pitta
urgh laat year was in round number*
931,600,000, and expouaea $18,600,000
and on the linea weat of Pittsburgh
$8,600,000 income, to $7,000,000 ex pen
aec, making a total of over forty mil
lion* income, and over twenty-aix mil
lion* expeniea, within the control of
this one corporation, setting aside the
business of Mix other important rail
road companies in the Weat in which
the Penmylvania i* largely intereated
but which retain tbeir individual or
ganisation. It waa not until 1860 that
the annual revenue* of the United
Ktate* passed the line of forty million*
of dollar* now attained by tbia great
corporation.
I lie number of paasenger* carried on
the lines east of Pittsburgh during 1878
was 12,792,305, at a decrease of 216,000
from 1877. The importance of the local
j traffic of the road is shown by the fact
that the average distance traveled by
each passenger in 1878 was 27 3-10 mile*.
In connection with the passenger busi
nea* ',*72,008 pieces of baggage were
handled during the year, and of tbia
amount but out putt waa actually lost.
This seems to demonstrate the perfect
lion of management and discipline.
The magnitude of the triegbt busi
neas over the passenger traffic I* shown
by the lact that out of $31,600,000 re
j ceipts of the year, on the lines east of
Pittsburgh, but $7,256,000 was from
passengers, while about twenty-three
million* came from the freight traffic.
The company, including ita own fuel
and material, moved 11,627.228 tons of
freight in 1878 including 6.007,811 ton*
of coal. The freight movement showed
the enoouraging fact of an increase of
i I -M0 per cent, compared with 1877.
Thi* certainly mark* an improvement
in business, and *how* we are on the
ascending scaie. There i* hardly any
!>etie.r teal than railroad business.
On the New Jersey leased line*, be
tween Philadelphia and New York, the
freight and passenger receipts last year
were about equal. The first class jaa
*eng<r receipts were $3,513,998 against
$.1,176,596 on the whole of the main
line and branches from Pittsburgh to
Philadelphia. We presume there i* no
raiiroad line in the country that show*
the same proportion of passenger re
ceipt* a* the New Jersey road*.
The gross earnings of the main line
(358 miles) from Pittsburgh to Phila
delphia in 1878, were $48,860.32 per
mile, while the cost of operating was
62 91-100 per cent, of receipts.
The Teller Inreatig-aUoa.
TBI U'G COMMITTEE CALLS tl-OX TBI AT
TOSMT CEXEMaL TO S IXf.'SM AIIOX.
Wasbixotox, March s.—The sub-com
mittee of the Teller committee, consist
ing of Senators Hoar, Kirkwood, Mc-
Millan, Wallace and Garland, held a
meeting yesterday. Their business is
to inquire into the Thurman branch of
the resolution, under which the com
mittee are acting, including the subjects
of Supervisor* of Election* and sasesa
me nu for political purpose*. A* tbe
President has issued bis proclamation
for an extra aeaaion of Congress on tbe
18tb instant, it was concluded that the
committee could not proceed to business
at this time.
<>n motion of Senator Wallace it was
resolved that the Attorney General be
requested to furnish to this committee
a detailed statement of the number of
Itoputy Marshal* appointed under the
Federal statute* by tbe Marshals of the
United State* in reference to tbe direc
tion of elections in the several state*
during the past year—where employed,
the names of such deputies, how much ,
paid to each, tbe length of time each of
such deputies waa employed, and state*
and districts in which they were em
ployed.
Tbe committee adjourned to meet on
the 19lh of March.
The Prospect fer a General Strike.
rmm tb* rhil*sipki* Tisms.
Msccr Catxa, Match 7.— The move
ment among tbe miners in the anthra
cite coal fields looking to a general
strike, on the 16th inst., is becoming
formidable and promises to be success
ful. The negotiation* are not secretly
conducted at all. The miner* allege
that, owing to the oourse pursued by
the Urge carrying companies, the wages
have been reduced to tbe starvation
point, with only half-time werk at that.
Tbey believe that a strike will improve
the trade and that, in any event, they
might as well starve in idleness aa at
work. The individual operator* are not
averse to the strike. In fact, they be
lieve that it will result in benefits to the
trade. A prominent operator said: "It
cannot make matter* worse and tb*
present state of affair* means destruc
tion." Tbe operators 'say that, even
with the recent reduction in tolls, they
cannot ship coal to tide over the Le
high Valley Vailroad. With miners and
operatives joined, a successful strike
may be expected. Tbe difficulty now
appear* to oe to induoe the Schuylkill
men to "go out."
K. Rraxcaa MULES, the well-known
member of the Philadelphia Bar, argued -
the demurrer in tbe Moselnt Iron Com
pany rose before the Supreme Court on
Thursday, and at two o'clock in the
afternoon returned to his office, appar
ently in his usual health and spirits.
Almost literally without a moment's
warning, be died et four o'clock in the
arms of hi* assist ant. 8, W. Reeves. So
sudden and unexpected waa the death,
that the ink on n oheck which Mr.
Miller had just drawn in favor of one of
bis colleague*, Richard Ashhurst, wee
wet when he expired. He wee accus
tomed to work in hie private office, at
the rear of the bouse rot Walnut street,
n few door* below .Seventh, his students
Mid hi* assistant occupying the Boot
offices, facing the square.
A rorxa nan in Pittsburg has sued a
young lady for $126 worth of jewelry he
gave her when she was in a state of
single blcMtjinsi Midi rathfr jsttfti&l to
her society.