NHIUFRT A FORSTKU, Editors. VOL. I. Or (Crntrr jOrmorrnt. Term* tI.AO por Annum, in Advance, 3. T. BHUQERT and R. H. FORSTEn, Editor*. Thursday iforning, April 3, 1079. THE Berlin mission supplied lit last. The Hon. Andrew L. White,.of New York, carries off the prize. lie is spoken of ns a competent man, and one of the very few yet named by the fraud who will be a creditable repre sentative abroad. Tin: Hon. IX J. Morrell,by instruc tion of the American Iron and Steel Association*, has issued a call ii.r a convention of manufacturers of iron and steel and all iron-producers in the United States, to meet at Pittsburg on the titli of May next. LOUISIANA HA* abolished the lotte ry system which has existed in that State for several years by repeal of the charter of the State Is.ttery Asso ciation. Tiiis was a mammoth corpo ration of great power and made a vigorous fight to maintain the iniquity. The war will now be transferred to the courts on the question of vested right-.. THE Philadelphia Timet says : "It must have been a very pleasant sort of experience to Senator Hoar to sit as a member of senator Wallace's • committee and bear a reputable citi zen of Philadelphia, who had all his life been a Republican, tell how he became a Democrat in consequence of the the theft of the Presidency. As Mr. Hoar was a conspicuous member of the Electoral Commission he bad unusual advantages for observing how some things come home to roost." Cot. TV. K. REYNOLD*, of Belle font", claim* that be has acquired n title t<> the spring from which that place derives it* water supply, aud will ini*t upon being paid for the water used. The case will Is. taken to court. We clip the almve from a Philadel phia pajier. If Col. W. F. Key nobis ever tries a suit to recover the claim indicated above, it will be when his avarice has run away with hiscaution ary judgment. He jsissesscs about as much legal right to our spring as the King of Biam,|and just as much claim as one of his horses—the right to slake his thirst in the refreshing beverage, when dry. GEN. FITZ JOHN PORTER. —The board of officers ap|>ointed to revive the cruel and unjust scuteuoc pa.-sod ujK.fi this gallaut and accomplish ed officer many years ago by a biased court marshal, have reported his com plete vindication to the President. Gen. Porter never lost the public con fidence in his integrity or patriotism, and but few doubted a favorable re sult, if the case was ever submitted to review by just and impartial officers. He and bis friends labored persistent ly for yenrs to obtain this simple act of justice from the tyrant who presid ed in the White House, without avail, aud it is creditable to Mr. Ilaycs that soon after his induction into office, he gave the case the attention that could not be drawn from his predecessor. THE Washington papers announce the occurrence of a miricle at Mount Vernon. An Ohio man, one of Hayes* constituents, on visiting the tomb of Washington, was tempted surrepti tiously to appropriate one of the eaues growing upon the Mount Vernon es tate, for which a charge of 25 cents is made by the managers of the property. After getting l>ark to Ohio with his plunder, the relic troubled the con science of the thief, and ho was forced to remit one dollar to appease the spirit guarding the sacred tomb of the Immortal. By returning four-fold, according to the Divine command, the spirit subsided. But how about that other man from Ohio,jrho stole the honored chair once occupied by Wash ington in the federal city ? IsjMre any spirit of sufficient pospetealed,nnd that among those who sttp ported them and forced tln-ir passage by congress in that manner was this same able and conspicuous Republican leader, General Jamc* A.Garfield, who now see* danger and revolution in their IT |M-al by the same method* that were adopted for their enactment. Oh, no. General Garfield! the prece dents for similar legislation are too numerous, and when you helped to make them you used no magic art to call forth an opposition of danger. Your sense of propriety was not even startled, and it is too late to raise a false alarm now. THK traveling caravan of $50,000 men which the Stalwart* are getting up to meet Grant, at San Francisco, for the purpose of proclaiming him the Republican candidate for Presi dent in 1880, won't pay. It is stupid ly conceived, and will die of its own weight. The 50,000 pilgrims of every shade of political views ran readily IK> found to take a free or cheap ride to the golden state, but it will take a great ileal more than that to place the old tyrant again in the Presidential chair, against the free American states as now organized with free Stale gov ernment*, supported by a free people who cauuot he agniu coerced by bayo nets, or overawed by the tyranny of political power. When this man wa* elected Presi dent in 1860, Indiana, Illinois, Massa chusetts, Michigan, New York, New Jersey, Ohio and Pennsylvania, had ninety-three Republican congressmen, to twenty-seven Democrat*. Before the end of his second term the repre sentation in the same states were fifty eight Republicans to eighty-one Demo crat*. This does not indicate such rising strength, as to render the novel*, ty of a traveling convention alarming to the Democracy. • K U.LOGG, the only remaining carjiet- Inigger of the United Htatea Henate, does not sit cosy in his chair. Judge Bpoffbrd, the legally elected Bonn tor of Ixmisiana, is after him, and says that if he, Hpoflord, cannot prove his right to the seat, Kellogg can be unseated on the charge of bribery. Is Tr possible that Garfield would exaggerate the truth and falsify fact and history ? The "stalwart*" of the republican party will be loth to be lieve this, but Ihe record seems to prove it. larfield boa evidently put himself in a hole, an he wHI have some trouble to get out. BKLLKFONTK, LA., THURSDAY, APRIL 11, 1871). The Turning Tide. The most gratifying evidences of the continued increase of business and rc- turning prosperity reach us from every part of the State. The Car Company, at Harrisburg, start out with contracts that warrant the employment of five hundred bands. The same activity in that branch of business is apparent in Reading, York, Wilkcsbarrc and many other places, while the iron business at Pittsburg, Reading, Allen town, Scrnnton, I'hoctiixvillc and else where appear to be ablaze with excite ment and activity. Indeed all branches of biisim-ss and trade are springing into life every where, giving employment to thousands who have heretofore been idle, or working on short time to avoid starvation. 'I hesd evidences of returning prcucer, has forgotten Alabama, the Slate he once pretended to represent at Washington. At laat advices ho waa giving hia lu minous thoughts entirely to mining iu Caftbrnia. IT ia gratifying to know that Sena tor Thurman, who ha* lately been con fined to hia house by sickness, ia again able to occu|y hia seat in the Senate- No mtgre IhyoneL elections! De mocracy acctffe the issue. I * M A I.KHRON or two like that given to Senator Anthony, of the great State j of Rhode Island, during the closing moments of the Monday session, of the United States Senate will, it is to I be hoped, in due time, give the Repuli- 1 lican Senators a realizing sense of the fact that they no longer constitute the majority of that august body. Sena- ' tor Anthony, according to the rejiorts, desired an executive session for tin purpo-e of confirming some of the i nominations to office that have been -■• ill in by Mr. Hayes, and would! ; doubtless have be<-n grati(i>-d had he ; IM-CII content to make his motion with- out prefacing it with a fi w- preliminary remarks insulting to the majority. " If," said the Senator, " the chairman of the various Democratic caucus and stib-r .mucus committees have no bui- LIES* to attend to, or H|Me• • j Mr. Henry Faucett, of Rilworlhtown, si one timn purchased a pair of wild geese from winch be has raised a flock of seven. These geese have become very tame and inore rea-Uly caught ami handled than his domestic ones, but sull they have a strong dc*ire to migrate, and to prevent which he has been com |>elled to clip their wings. .t Friday by a vote of 85 to 82. At meeting of operative weaver* nt Hlackbtirn f Knglsnd) on Saturday it wit* agreed to accept the five per cent, reduction. The storm on Monday did considera ble damage in KfHtighaui county, Geor gia. A sou of Fx (yongressman Bawl* was killed by u falling tree. I In- I rc-d man's linspitid, which was owned and supported l y the city of Augusta, fin., was destroyed by fire on Sundny, entailing u loss of SIO,OOO. Tin- f'lty flour null at Minneapolis, Miotl., owned by the Firt National Iltiik of that city, was destroyed bv fire Sunday morning. K-lima ted loss $70,- ism ; insurance email. An east-bound passenger train on the Carolina t'entral railway ran off the truck near Pedeestation on Friday, kill ing a colored brukemun and slightly wounding one paasenger A broken wheel caused the accident. The Senate of Virginia, on Wednes day lost, concurred in the House amend ment to the Senate bill providing for the <-tU< mi nt of the State debt known a* the "McCulloch Com prom is# bill." it now goes to the (iovernor. I*r. Carver, the American rifleman, gave an exhibition of rifle shooting re cently at the Welsh Harp, Hendon, and, although the weather va> unfavor able, Sport* ma* nays "aucb consummate skdi *M never before displayed in Kng - land." j 'l"h* executive committee upon the world's fair proposed to be held in New- York, ho* decided to hold the fair in | ""entral Park. The action fixing the ' date in 18*5. w* reconsidered and it is ! probable I**3 will be decided upon at the next meeting of the committee. John Clark, of Chester, I'a.. n mo rocco dresser by trade, in Burke's aloon Mohdsy evening, fell dead. He had been drinking freely all day rind : wo* nt the act of taking a drink when he drop|H*J. His death ia supjtosed to , have been caused by heart disease. The Cincinnati AV/mrrr published on Monday morning careful estimate* of the wheat and fruit crops from neatly etarv county in Ohio, Indiana and Ken lucky, from which it is indicated that the wheat crop will be bounteous while there is a jioor pros|ect for apples and peaches. It is officially announced that the Mexican government i* not di*|io*ed to enter into a commercial treaty with the United States on the basis of the Mc l.can Ocampo treaty because it would be disadvantageous to Mexico. The country is congratulated that the treaty was not ratified. About two third* of the employes of the Heading cotton mill struck Monday morning against a ten |>er cent, reduc tion in their wages, and operations at the mill are completely stopper!. The hands number about 250 people. The *ii|>erintendent state* that O|ieralion* will not bo resumed except at the re- Mi** Ixwmer. after excelling the best quarter mile record ever made by a fe male, was withdrawn from the track at Alston Hall, Boston, at 10 minute* bc loro I o'clock Monday morning, having made 3.004 quarter miles in as many consecutive quarter hour*, the last quar ter having been made in five minutea. Her condition at the close was excellent. Nearly the entire business portion of the town of Xeni*. 111., was destroyed by a fire that occurred last Saturday night. The flame* originated in under Hill's hall and quickly poead toother building*. The town being without fire apperatu* all effort* to stay the flame* proved fruitless. The loo* ia estimated at $50,000; insurance, SIO,OOO. From a late estimate ve see that among the English speaking people of the world Kpiacnpeliens rank first in number, with 1 <.750,000; Methodist* are next, with 14,WO,000; and Iben come Roman Catholics, with 13,500,000; Presbyterian* witli 10,000,000 ; Baptists with 8,000,000: CongregationaliiU with 7,000,000, aud Unitarian* with 1,000,000. The fastest time* in which a mile has been run are 4m. 25., by W, Lang, down hill, at Newmarket, Kng., apd 4m. 171*. by W. L*og and W. Richards, on level f round, in a dead beat si Manchester, he fastest quarter mile is 48)*.. by U. Buttery, and the faalost 100 yards 9}s., by George .Seward, an American. The fastest time for a mile walk ia 6m. 235., by William Perkins, of England. The Democratic State Central Com railtee and a large number of represen tative Democrats met at Columbus, Ohio, and spent five hours in dfacuming the time and place for holding the next State Convention. Governor Bishop's friends all favored the holding of the eonvention prior to June I, while the friends of (fan. Rice and den. Thomas Kwing favored the holding of in there on June 4, that being the day the State Greenback Convention will meet there. The State committee after an executive session decided to hold the convention at that plane on the 4Ut of June. TKKMN: s!."><) JMT Annum, in Advanee. The stable attache! to a lime kiln 5 Brooklyn was burned on Monday night together with four hones. The body of David It. I'ulver, who 'occupied part of the building,. wa* found completely burned under several feet of charred embers. A Boston despatch say* that at G o'clock Tuesday morning the night ex press from Bangor on the Lantern road, with two locomotives, jumped the track and both engines, with the express, mail and'baggage cars, were comnletcly wrecked. No pernon was injured. 1 he bill l/efore the House appointing a commission to adjust and pay the losses incurred by the Pittsburgh riot* wus discussed at length 011 Tuesday, and motion to | ostpnne action on it indefi nitely was defeated by a vote of 76 yea* to Hi nays. The bill came up yesterday for a second reading. In the United States District Court before Judge Butler, Tuesday morning, an application was made by Lucius It. Warner and other* for a receiver to take charge of the a. -et of the Mer chants and Mechanics' insurance Com pany of PolUville. Hi *||egeeen driven out of the Milk river ooun J "7 by ibe Indian hunters belonging to , Sitting Bull's band. When they reach ed the river they ventured u|on the ice with their customary confidence, com ing upon it with a solid front, and be ginning the crossing with closed rank# I he stream at this point was very deep, i '•*. hen the front file, which was stretch cd out a quarter of a mile in length bail nearly gained the opposite shore the ice suddenly gave way under them. Some trappers who were eye-witnesses of tha scene said it seemed as if a trench I had been opened in the ioe the whole length of the column. Some four or five hundred animals tumbled into the opening all in a heap, titbera fell in on top of them and aunk out of sight in a twinkling. By this lime the rotten ice was breaking under the advancing herd. The irappers say that in leas than a minute the whole body of buffaloes had been precipitated into the river. They were wedged in so thickly that they oould do nothing but struggle for a sec ond and then disappear Iwneeth the eakee of ioe of the swift current. Not a beast in all that mighty herd tried to escape, but in a solid phalanx they matched to their fatal bath in the "Big Muddy." In a minute from tha tiuo the first ioa broke not a buffalo's bead or tail was to be seen. NO. 11.