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ON Thursday last the de jado Presi
dent entered upon the fourth year of
Mr. Tilden's term of the Presidential
office, for which he receives $150,000
of Mr. Tilden's salary.
THE contiuued agitation of Kear
ney, in California, and the threatening
attitude of his partisans seems to have
frightened the Chinese residing in that
State. They are now leaving in large
numbers the Pacific aud making their
way to the Atlantic coast 1n hope of
finding peaceful employment. Many
are locating in New York, Philadel
phia and Chicago.
THE editor of the Washington
Pott, in Monday's issue of that paper,
makes the following grave charges
against Mr. Defrecs, the public print
er, which, in view of the large defici
ency asked for the Printing Bureau,
neither Congress nor the public print
er can afford to pass without investi
gation or explanation :
SOME FACTS FOR THE HOUSE.
The House Appropriations committee
will report to-day a deficiency bill, in
cluding, among other items, one of
$400,000 for the public printer. Before
the Democratic members of the House
vote upon this proprosition we respect
fully ask them to consider the following
plain fact*:
The deficiency in the public printer's
accounts has not heen brought shout in
a legitimate way. It has been caused
by u violation of law and general dis
honesty. For the two years just past
Mr. Defrees has been filling up his of
fice with new machinery, which he had
no right to buy. It was not needed,
and, in many cases, is not as good as
that which has been thrown out, but it
has been bought in order to help two
middle men—Painter and Goff—make
large sums of money in the way of com
missions.
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fraud and imposition on the Govern
ment. We hold ourselves responsible
for the statement that in one purchase
of type alone over twenty-five thousand
dollars were either thrown away or di
vided among Mr. Defrees and his
agents.
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ther, for the statement that this type
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material was melted up to make room
for it.
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printer is either personally corrupt or
knowingly permits his subordinates to
be so. We can show that men have
atolen and still retained their places
and Mr. Defrees' apparent confidence ;
that false time has been kept and paid
♦ for, and that Mr. Defrees has done
nothing to prevent it or repair the
wrong.
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ly appointing persons of disreputable
character at the request or dictation of
those whom he had reason to believe
could help or injure him. In other of
his appointments we accuse him of
having been offensively partisan.
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is a very large deficiency in his accounts
going back a number of year*.
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under indictment for swindling the
Government unlets the charge has been
dismissed very lately by some service
able District attorney.
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retaining in his employment confessed
thieves.
We charge him with keeping in his
employment scores of worthless, igno
rant and inexperienced persons who
are paid the highest salaries for the
slightest possible amount of work, ,
We have already proven before the
House Printing committee that his ad
ministration has been wasteful and cor
rupt, and have challenged him to
disprove particular allegations, which he
* has wholly failed to do.
Mr. Defrees relies upon the fact that
lie is related in some way to the Fraud
ulent Executive, and the further fact
that he has made fast friends of some
prominent Democratic members by
giving them a large amount of patron
age as a protection against punishment,
or investigation even.
POLITICS AT WASHINGTON.
WASHINGTON, I). C., March 8, IRBO.
Much has been telegraphed frotn
Washington concerning the confirma
tion of Kerna as Murahal of Philadel
phia. The facts in the case, as they
appear of record, are as follows: When
Mr. Kerns' nomination was received by
the Senate, it was referred to the Ju
diciary committee, and by the latter to
a sub committee, consisting of Messrs.
McDonald and Garland, Democrats, and
Edmunds, Republican. McDonald and
Garland were also members of the com
mittee that investigated Kerns' known
as the Wallace committee. To them
Senator Wallace wrote a protest against
Kern's confirmation, accompanying
which was a copy of the testimony tak
en in Philadelphia concerning Kerns
before the Wallace committee. Hence
it will be seen that this sub committee
had all the facts before them. Notwith
standing this, they reported favorably
to the full committee, and the latter re
ported favorably to the Senate, result
ing iu Kerns' confirmation. The rea
sons which induced this action by the
committee and by the Senate were, that
Kerns' behavior oa an officer on elec
tion day was not objectionable ; that he
had testified that these deputy mar
shals were not needed in Philadelphia ;
that he was compelled by law to ap
point them ; that their appointments
were made upon the recommendations
of political friends, who hud deceived
him as to the character of some of
them. It was thought best by the Ju
diciary committee to confirm n man
who openly expressed himself as against
the use of the deputy marshals on elec
tion day, rather than to risk the ap
pointment of a new man.
On the question of the deficiency ap
propriations for the Post Office Depart
ment the point of contention between
the Senate committee of appropriations
and the House was whether tfie Senate
would agree to strike down the expect
ed service on the 107 western routes.
This was the test question before the
committee, and on it the vote stood,
yeas, lieck and Baton, Democrats, and
nays, Davis, Wallace and Withers, Dem
ocrats, anil Windom, Blaine und Booth,
Republicans. On the preamble Mr.
Wallace declined to role, as it contain
ed, if true, impeachable allegations on
which he might be required to vote as a
judge in the Senate on an impeachment
trial.
General Coit, of Norwich, Connecti
cut, who for many years has been the
leader of the Democratic soldiers of
Connecticut, and also Chairman of the
Democratic Town Committee of that
city, has taken strong ground in favor
of General Hancock's nomination. lie
writes as follows-. "Hancock would
surely carry Connecticut as against
Grant or any other man the Republi
cans may nominate. He is the best
man yet suggested,all thing* considered.
He is competent, honest, loyal and
popular, and believes with the people
that the civil authority should take
precedence of the military. The senti
ment in Connecticut was, until recently,
divided between Bayard and Hancock,
but is now overwhelmingly for Han
cock. From all the information I can
receive, I believe Connecticut will send
a Hancock delegation to Cincinnati."
General Coit is, perhaps, over sanguine
as to Connecticut's preference for Han
cock, but it was a well known fact that
the delegation from that State to the
1870 Convention was divided between
Tilden and Hancock then as to prefer
ence, the majority being for Tilden, he
securing the whole vote of the State
under the Unit rule.
There is every indication now that
the session of Congress will he prolong
ed beyond the time generally agreed
upon by the majority at its commence
ment. Since the certainty that there
will be no legislation directly Hostile
to the manufacturing interests, there
seems less awe of a prolonged session.
Pennsylvania politics seems to inter
net every one at the Capitol, and one
frequently hears the remark that she
will decide who shall be the nominee at
Cincinnati in 1880 as she did in lKftfi.
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A Dangerous Counterfeit.
BOGUS $lOO NOTES ON Till PITTBBUEG NA
TIONAL BANK OP COMMENCE.
WASHINGTON, March ft.'— -A very dan
?erous counterfeit $lOO note on the
'ittsburg National Bank of Commerce,
of Pittsburg, Pa., has been detected. It
Eurport* to be of the "series of 187 ft,"
aving the scolloped seal instead of the
old seal with points, and bearing the
words "Heries 1875" across the face in
red ink under the charter number, and
the imprint "Printed at the Bureau of
Engraving and Printing, U. H. Treasury
Department," i the upper right hand
corner. It is printed on an imitation
of the fiber paper, and la the first coun
terfeit which has yet appeared on thia
aeriea of national bank notes. The
printing of the aeal ia somewhat imper
fect and the figures in the boat in the
vignette in the lower left-hand oornor
are inferior to the genuine. The most
not icuble defect is the face of the stand
ing figure in the bow of the boat, which
looks like a death's head in the counter
feit} in the genuine the figures are
much more distinct. It bears the signi
lures of John Allison, Register of the
Treasury, and John C. New, Treasurer
of the United States.
LETTER I ROM WASHINGTON.
From onr regular Corr*pond.ii t.
WASHINGTON, I>. C., March Bth, 1880.
The House has ceased ita labors upon
its new code of rules by adopting them
us liually amended, under the call for
the previous question made by Mr.
Hlackburn. Of course, they were adopt
ed by a party vote, for the Republicans
contested to the last, Mr. Conger even
compelling a yea and nay vote, though
he did not attempt to fillibuster. The
new rules are undoubtedly open to fair
and independent criticism, notwith
standing tiie many improvements made
in pruning them of obsolete and useless
provisions. No appropriation of public
moneys should be permitted suve upon
a yea and nay vote, And no appropria
tion bill should contain general legisla
tion on any pretext whatever—the
specified permission of retrenching ex
penditures is a specious one which will
permit easy evasion. In other, though
minor respects, too much latitude is
given for depletion of the Treasury by
designing persons, and we predict that
the most pernicious legislation of the
future will, as in the past, be rushed
through Congress by means of the loop
holes afforded by the lack of the safe
guards above. Senator Randolph open
ed up the ball on the Fitz John Porter
case in the Senate, with an able and in
genious defense, and there is a promise
of a prolonged debate. Senator Fogan's
rejoinder occunied several days, and
should other Senators deem the ground
insufficiently covered by him, the end
of tlio debate is problematical. This
discussion is not upon the House bill,
which proposed pardon and reinstate
ment and the payment of (75.00U as
back pay, but upon a substitute offered
by Senator Randolph, which gives only
pardon, with reinstatement on the re
tired list. It is unfortunate for Gen.
Porter that this matter, BO vital and im
portant to him, should have been made
a political issue between the two par
ties in Congress, for there is much less
likelihood of impartial justice being
done him. We have often urged his
pardon on the ground that be was no
more guilty of wrong than Gen. Mc-
Clellan, whose disobedience of the Pres
ident's peremptory orders of August 10,
11,24 and 27, arc wholly indefensible.
Porter was made the scape-goat, and
now, owing to the political aspect given
his case, it will be hard for him to se
cure rebel.
The pension question is becoming a
most serious one to Congress, and how
to best dispose of it perplexes the
minds of no few of the Solons. Mr.
Coffrotli has introduced into the House
a bill establishing a Pension Court, to
which shall be referred the many cases
rejected by the Pension < iffice. This is
a most judicious and commendable
measure. The Pension Office cannot,
in the nature of things, be otherwise
than technical, hence the need of
another tribunal empowered to rule
upon the equities of a case. Congress,
in view of the immense national busi
ness before it, is certainly not the place
to hear and adjudicate upon such small
matters as rejected pension cases, since
it is clearly within the province of an
ordinary Court or Board of Judges to
perform such duty, and it it to be hoped
Sir. C.'s hill will soon become a law.
.Soldiers will then hare a proper court
of appeal, instead of the present most
unsatisfactory course of procedure.
The citizens of the northeastern por
tion of the city are intensely excited
over a brutal and murderous assault
and ra|>e committed recently on a
young woman by a negro. She was
knocked senseless by A blow which
severed one of her ears, aqd then had
her person outraged. Her face and
l>ody were covered with bruises; her
throat bore finger-marks of severe chok
ing. and so severely injured was she
that her life is not yet fully assured.
Within the last three years several sim
ilar outrages have been committed in
(his locality, an>T naturally ita citizens
nre aroused to a fever heat, and are de
manding increases! protection. Senator
I Harris has taken one step in that di
' rection by introducing a bill making
| rape punishable with death. The sup
I posed perpetrator in this case has been
1 arrested, and, though the girl herself
is unable to identify ber assailant, yet
the circumstantial evidence against him
is so conclusive that, were he not strong
ly guarded by the police, he would un
doubtedly be lynched.
The trial of the Hirth murderers ter
minated with a verdict of guilty, but,
as "hanging is played out" here, of
course, they will luxuriate a year or two
in the penitentiary preparatory to a re
turn to former haunts and vices. An
other negro murderer, Stone, under
sentence of death for the murder of
his wife, and for cutting the throat of
her sister, has been respited thitly days,
and doubtless he, too, will soon be snug
ly ensconced at Ring Ring.
Mr. liefrees, the Government Printer,
is stirring up matters by indefinitely
furloughing over 1,000 of hia employes,
on the ground of want of funds to pay
them. He claims that the printing for
the extra session exhausted all his ap
propriations, and, as the law bars him
from incurring debts, he has no alterna
tive before him but to discharge hit
force and stop hit work. A "little de
ficiency bill" will be reported in a day
or two for his relief, and then the small
army which he sent upon the streets
will resume their duties. In no depart
ment here la stoppage of work more se
riously felt than in the Government
Printing Office. All ita employes are,
with rate exceptions, dependent upon
their daily wages for sustenanoe, hence
a furlough necessarily carries hardship
and distreaa with it, Fsiax.
Report of the Auditor General.
INTERESTING FIGURES SHOWING TIIK RE*
CEII'TA AND EXPENDITURES OK THE
REVENUES OK TIIE COM HON WE AT II
1)1' HI NO THE LAST FISCAL YEAR.
Many interesting facta regarding the
financeaof the Commonwealth may he
gathered by a careful examination of
the annual report of Auditor Generui
William P. Kchell, which has just been
issued. During the lineal year ending
November 30, 1879, the total receipts
into the treasury, including a balance of
$1,021,531.20 on hand December 1, 1878,
were $8,443,895.16. The total amount
paid out during the year was: Expenses
of government, $3 597,710.05; loans re
deemed, $1,084,952; interest paid on
loans, $1,246,394.69; total, $6,539,003.24,
leaving a .balance in the treasury De
cember 1,1879, of $1,914,831.92, of which
$1,202,042.18 is credited to the sinking
fund, and the rest, $712,189.74, to the
general fund. The revenues of the Com
monwealth were derived from the fol
lowing sources :
Land* $l.OlO 71
Tax un corporation flock l,oHti,o*4 02
T*x on gnHM rel|iU, corporation* and
Notario* I'llVilic 640,102 43
TUX on lonna, count!***, boroughs, and
ciUaa.. I.Vi.ru& 06
Tax ou hank stocks 310.U64 49
Tax on lift'-aruiug* or hiftnn- 10
Tax on coal couipHiiU* 1*44,992 27
Tax on foreign insurance comjMni'*N 190,724 34
Tax on gfow* premium*. 41.H id SO
Tax on log*.. 7<M (MI
Tax on certain ffl< 10 47
Tax on aalc* of fertilisers.. D.'o 00
Tax on rit, will*, dtali, ©tc.. 93,603 *2
Tax on collateral Inheritance...... 394,949 12
Tax on personal property 379,310 46
Tavern licenses 345..V.S 09
Retailers' licenses SV'.THI 0 1 .*
Fating house liconiM 31,14s 26
Distiller* and brewer*' |ircaai 9,644 19
Billiard license* 7,917 97
Brokers'ltoensea... s,3o* 37
Auctioneers' license* 9jl6h 4-i
Liquor licenses, 20,036 60
P*< Pliers' I Ice rnH-*> 1.4*9) 62
Patent uilt< in© license* 4.1670
Tlo-atre, cirt ua, etc , licence*. 3.9*4 14
Notary Pullic iounit*siou t lO.fluu Ou
Accrued interest 16.770 *2
Bonus on charters. 21,136 12
penalties IfftJ 01
Office license fees 1.1.14 2*l
Allegheny \alley Railroad Company ]26,<Mfi 00
Hale of public property 49 29
it ••funded ca*h 3,9*4 72
Fees of the public offices 4i,7u7 SO
Conscience money 2 00
Pamphlet law* 377 07
C* .in nni tat lon of tonnage tax 4VHNM KO
Eerheat* 6,003 77
Pennsylvania archives 93 00
United State* U>-*rrriuerit 9,2% 66
Annuity FOR right of way I<HMIQ (*•
Four |er cent, loan of April 1, 1479 2,(130,002 IB
Mu< ellantuu 6o
Total _ $7,422,*96 10
THE PAYMENTS.
The following is a Mammary of the
disbursements for the year:
Ki|en*ea of lh government.
Jt>dt<iry ...... „ 9139,476 66
........ 149.7 <4 92
llous- 4jr 69 I
Put.lie printing and binding. 2*7.924 \A%
legislative Rmord 2M.974 24
Fxeriitivr I)rp*rtmsst... M 21,05s 44
Auditor General's Department 26.676 o4
State De|wrtinent ... 27,793 M
Trwaanry lh>|rtnicni 14 old oo
Altornet General * Department 72*94 34
Internal Affairs Department ... A5,444 7t
Ivmnwn School De|wrttuent 17.4*1 26
Holdiers' Orphan Hrjnol Is lartuf-Dl ... 12.1*0 00
Adjutant General'* Department............ 17>16 19
lu*iiram.. Department H.790 6*
Mate UWn 16,147 76
Inspectors of coal mines 69909 09
Public hutldtngs and ground* . J" 412 M
Board of Pardon* -... 3.916 46
State Bosnl of Agriculture 4,367 B
State Military lur I *2,N>) 00
li>ard of Resenue Commission era... 30 00
Board of BAIIo i tisntc-s * 69
IfiSlfanUefl eipfMM, 1179 4.09S 11
I Joint committee to attend funeral of
Bayard Tailor . 32 24
Joint committee to investigate Pennsyl
vania fftate Agricultural C011ege.....*.. 634 60
Joint committee to Investigate alleged
over t**U# of Htate hrid% .... 6,942 09
Port Wardens. Philadelphia * 2 291 96
Harbor Master, Philadelphia 4,*76 00
( •uiiiiissi'tier* ..f .airtkmg Fund l.tssi
Assessors of t<ank st k .. 13.017 40
Repairs to Kxecutive tmilding 9.119 76
Mercantile appraisers 2.4H M
Costa in suit* sgslnst delinquent dealers 6,19$ 1 r„*
Hperlai commissions... 39.920 36
Advertising for proposal* 14,71
Htittdry advertising —. 1.642 24
Advertising asle of turnpike stocks...... 92 20
Total expense* of government 11,714,676 06
l/vans redeemed.. 1.9*4 96-2 0u
Interest on i<an 1,246,394 69
Cbaritatde institutions 629,(30 (9
Holdiers' orphan *eb<*>D. 673.4*4 *6
Penitent iarte* 119,471 Z'<
National Hoard of Pep dm I v5uia........... 171.222 44
Biota, 1*77. 3,699 06
Military claims J.M 14
Escheats .. 4)94 69
Secmd Ueologh al Harvey 47.900 <6
C*<itMtUuti<>iin| i onventi i< | <4
Petmsvlvanis Htate Agricultural H<*riety.. 2Jfc*) (SI
Mechanics' High Ikhool of Pennsy Ivauia . 199 40
liarrtsburg ft re companies *(< l 00
Common schools 646.136 76
Pension* and 66.110 11
Miw cllaneous 32.269 40
Total payments 24
The lots! amount paid for advertising
for pro|M>aaU for stationery for the two
houaea of the Legislature and the dif
ferent departments was $ 14,7tt.'>.26, and
for miscellaneous advertising (1,642.24,
makinit a total of (16,427.52.
The statement of the public debt
shows the total interest-bearing debt to
be (21,389,950; debt bearing no inter
est, (X 00,718.86; total. (22.190,668.86.
The new loan of (2,000,000 was issued
during the year, and (1,684,952 of old
loans were redeemed.
Poetic Justice Knforced by the Senate.
W ASH INO TON, March 4. —The Senate
to-day in executive teasion rejected the
nomination of John McNeil, of St.
Louis, for United States Marshal for the
Kastern IHstrici of Missouri by the
very decisive vote of 32 to 7. This
action was based npon an adverse re
port from the Judiciary Committee, ac
companied with a statement that Gen
eral McNeil in 1862, while in command
of United States troops at Palmyra, Mo.,
ordered the execution of eleven citicens
of that neighborhood who bad been ar
rested, but not yet tried, on a general
charge of "bushwhacking," and did ex
ecute ten of them without trial, as a
measure of so called wtaliation for the
alleged abduction and supposed mur
der of a Union man in the same coun
ty. McNeil's orders required the exe
cution of these prisoners if the missing
Unionist was not returned within a oer
toin period, and aa nothing was heard
from the latter, the order* were parried
into effect by McNeil's provost-marshal
upon the deaignated day. A very scan
ealoua atory was also told about this
provost-marshal, and it was asserted
that General McNeil oontinued the offi
cer in service under him after the dis
graceful facts became known. General
McNeil early in the administration of
President Hayes was appointed to the
position of Indian Inspector and still
holds that office.
The Rev. Henry C. Leonard, pastor of
the Univerealiat church at Annlaquan,
Mass., died Sunday morning. Ha served
as Chaplain to General O. 0. Howard's
department daring the war.
Our Military Records.
Kroin th Pliiyt>l|ihli Tiro**.
Little by little the country learnii
how mean ambition ruled among our
military commanders, and ho# they re
sorted to "ways that are dark and tricks
that are vain" to advance themselves
and hinder the advancement of others.
Even the military records of the govern
ment are complete, und it happens that
the gaps in them are always made in
chaptera which might uliect the fame of
aspiring chieftains.
Is was distinctly charged by Senator
Randolph in the Senate on Monday
of last week,that General McDowell de
liberately suppressed for seventeen
years a dispatch he received from Gener
al Fitz John I'orter on the field of the
second Mauasses battle, that would
have explained Porter's action and ac
quitted him before the fir*t military
court that heard his case. If this state
uienl be true, the man who should be
dismissed in disgrace is General Mc-
Dowell and General Porter should suc
ceed to his rank.
It is an open secret that the military
records of the last campaign from the
lUpidan to Richmond are incomplete,
and that important dispatches relating
to that series of battles have disappear
ed beyond the reach of history. The
recent conversations with General
Grant, so well reported by Mr. John
Rusael Young, show that there were
abadows between Grant and Meade;
but the world has Grant's record as be
h&a made it, while Meade's record, as
made by himself, is either no longer in
existence or not accessible
It is an open secret, also, that there is
no accessible record of the court of in
quiry that investigated General I'uell s
Kentucky and Shiloh campaign. It
has often been sought, for by interested
parties, and the press has repeatedly
called for its testimony in disputed mil
itary issues, but it is not to be had. Was
its destruction a necessity to shield the
blunders of Shiloh?
An importaut chapter of the military
history of Pennsylvania, that is inti
mately connected with the vindication
of the patriotism of the Slate, has been
lost from the military records both at
flarrisbnrg and Washington. The cor
respondence between General Patter
son, Secretary Cameron itnd Governor
Curt in on the question of the govern
ment accepting the twenty-five thou
sand additional troops called out by-
General Pat'ereon in the spring of
1861, is not to he found at either Capi
tab It disappeared at Harrisburg dur
ing the administration of Governor
Geary, and it has not been visible at
Washington for a dozen years or more.
There are many things in military
circles which may l-e wisely concealed
and without injury to any one ; but the
systematic destruction or suppression
of facts which lear U|on the history of
the war, or which attest the innocence
or guilt or errors of military men, is
not dictated by considerations of pub
i lie policy. After all. military heroes
: are but men, with a full share human
nature in them, and they have contrib
uted their part with lilteralitv to bring
dishonor and distrust upon the govern
ment that has made them great.
Scbnrz ant) the Indians.
NEGOTIATIONS WITH Til It RED HEX TO BE
CONCLI'DED TO tAV.
WASHINGTON, March ?. Secretary
Schurz says that he is in hopes of con
cluding negotiations with the l ie In
dians to-morrow. As soon as the matter
is definitely settled and the signatures
of the Indians obtained the text of the
agreement will t>e made public. It has
! not yet been determined what will t>e
done with the two Utes now here who
are supposed to have been immediately
connected with the Meeker massacre.
It is not probable that their trial will he
commenced before the I alance ol the
Indians asked for by the Secretary are
surrendered. Chief Itouglass will re
main at Fort Leavenworth for the time
being. The delegation now in Wash
ington will be retained until Congress
passes the legislation required to move
the Indians in conformity with the
[tending arrangement, after which they
will be returned to their reservation
and the details of the agreement im
mediately put into effect. This being
done the mineral lands of Colorado will
probably soon he opened.
AN AMICABLE SETTLEMENT WITH THE T'TES.
WASIIINOTON, March 7. —The Ute
chiefs and head men yesterday signed
the agreement hy which they hind
themselves to relinquish their reserva
tion lands and accept 160 acre allot
ments to each bead of a family at
three different specified points, if Con
gress agrees to thus selile with them,
and accepts their reservation lands,
giving them foe the latter an annuity of
$50,000. There are about four thousand
Utes. The cash cost of the treaty will
he about a quarter of a million dollars
aside from the annuity. They surren
der about twelve million acres of land,
the greater part of it mineral bearing
and a Urge part of it said to he very
rich, which, as soon as Congress accepts
the offer of the Vtr*, will become open
to the exploration of the miners and
the settlement of homestead seekers in
the agticultural valleys.
The Cincinnati Enquirer, as will he
seen by the following, is exceedingly
lavish in its hospitality :
The l'aris of America
Presents the Compliments of the Season
to
Messrs, Tilden, Hendricks, Seymour,
Itsyard, Hancock, Thurman,
Jcwctt and friends,
And begs leavs to request the pleasure of
their company
on Tuesday, June 2s, 1880.
Will do the handsome thing to you or bust
atiue.
GMAMT a*n BLAINE.— A Washington
letter aaya the Blaine men assert that
if Grant is not nominated on the first
ballot, BUine will he on the second. "It
is an open secret that the Blaine people
claim they can capture fifty votes from
New York and Pennsylvania on the
first ballot if they Can assure the bolt
era that their votes can give Blaine the
nomination. This tempering with del
egations under instructions to vote as a
unit for Grant is causing an ugly feeling
among Grant's friends, and toer* are
murmur* of revenge."
STATE HAWS.
Six million of hats are made in Berks
county yearly.
A large furniture factory is beirq- t, N i,
in Lock Haven.
Horse stealing is unpleasantly
quent in Monroe county.
An Albir.o rnuskrat, with perfectly
while fur arid pink eyes, was killed
Port Carbon, on Thursday.
A Petrolia school teacher attempted
to correct one of the larger girl, and
after a lively tussle lost a handful of
whiskers.
A fire at Petrolia. Roller county, o n
Friday morning, destroyed five bu'ii l
ings, causing a loss of $25,000, which .
partly covered hy insurance.
A man named John Raymond of
Harrisburg, while travelling between
l'itlshurg and Altoona, on Thursday
afternoon, lost $5OO in currency i
$1,500 in drafts.
Cyrus J. I'inkerfon, one of hen
known lawyers in Tremont, Schuylk, 1
county, has become insane from ilh, ( -.l
and has been removed to an asylum at
Harrisburg.
Hon. C. B. Hrockaway, a prominent
citizen and lawyer of Columbia county
died at Bloomshurg a few days ago. I]*
wai a member of the Sute Leeidalut,
of 1873 and 1874.
An explosion of fire damp took <, ]* a.
at shaft No. 7 East Naniicoke. (i, l( .
man was killed and eiglit men are Mil
tn the mines and are supposed to have
been killed by the foul air.
A man of Union Mills, Erie county
who was disappointed in a love atfs.r'
haa not spoken to a woman for twenty
years, lie is a miser, and Hvertu h:s
head when he meets one of the ot ; o
site sex.
An orphan hoy named Swntziag
employed in the family ora Mr. Dale-' a
-hippenville, Cambria county, blew •
his brains on Wednesday afternoon.
reason for the act is known. Jt i,
probably because of his name.
The salarv of Tho. A. Scott, I'm.
dente f the Pennsylvania Railroad < r .v
pany, is 8-'4.300. But then he superb.-,
and directs the business of over To
miles of railway and canal, hendes'tbt
large coal properties of the company.
Andrew Hopkins, Esq.,died at Wash
ington Friday morning. He was one
the founders of the Harrisburg 1 tr •
and connected at different time., with
[other papers. He was a brother of.
i Hon. Jame* 11. Hopkins, o( Pittsburg.
There lives near Newport. Perry coun
ty, a lady who has attained the age <[
one hundred and five years, and who •
-aid to he almost as sprightly as a maid
en of twenty. She make, a full hand in
the house work, such as washing, iron
ing, baking, sweeping, etc.
There will soon be sent out from the
Stale hatchery,at Corry, between p. •
and 500,000 brook trout for stocking the
streams in Western Pennsylvania. Fih
Commissioner lU-njamin L. Hewitt, at
Hollidaysburg, or Robert Dal/ell, box
422. Pittsburg, will give all the informa
tion desired.
A correspondent of the Remrd write
from that a violent wind
storm passed over that place on Friday
afternoon, unroofing the main building
of the college and the University Acad
emy. Timbers were hurled a iong dis
tance and the campus strewn with <ie
bria.
The coal miners have been on a strike
at ' toceola. Clearfield county, for two
Aveeks. The operators and miners held
a meeting on .Sunday, hut the result of
it has not been made public. The prob
abilities are that work will not he re
sumed before the Ist of April. There
has been no trouble as yet. The strike
of coal miners in the iloutrdale district
is in full blast, but no serious trouble
has occurred. Tbey will probably re
sume work soon.
A fire occurred at Reed's Station four
miles south of the town of Indiana, on
1 Friday night, involving the destruction
| of one of the finest (rouses in Indians
county, owned hy Mr. A. L. McAllister.
; The flames caught in the rear [ortion
I of the structure and, as a high wind
was prevailing at the time, it was soon
reduced to ashes. The contents of the
building were also consumed. a the
fiames spread so rapidly as to allow
barely time for the family to e-cai-e
with their lives. The loss which Mr.
McAllister sustain* will reach about
$12,000.
Judge While, of Allegheny county,
charged the jury in the case of K-tin,
of Pittsburg, that a license for a tavern
was no good for selling liquor in a tent
on a picnio ground. The jury thought
otherwise and brought in a verdict of
not guilty, besides putting the cost on
the prosecutor. The Judge informed
the twelve men, alleged to be good and
true, that their verdict was no good,
thst he wouldn't have his construction
of the law ignored in any such style.
His manner was so emphatic that the
jurors would ot have been surprised at
being ordered to hand in their resigna
tions. The verdict was laid aside.
The following are the postal changes
in Pennsylvania for the week ending
Saturday : Established—Arthurs, Clsr
ton county, Elisha Mix, |>osim*ster:
Cordelia. Lancaster county, W. V. Mc-
Hose, postmaster; Craley, York county,
A. H. Uraley, postmaster; llskes. York
ooudty, 8. B. Hake, postmaster; Knowl
ton, Delaware county, K. Tyson, Jr.,
l-oatmsster; Seitzlsnd*. York county, K.
K. Bolinger, postmaster; Trowbridge,
Tioga county, J. Losing, postmaster.
Discontinued—Painter's Bridge, Ches
ter county. Name changed —Beck's
Run, Allegheny county, to ttedmsn
Mills. Post masters appointed—A. O.
Seyfort, Beartown, Lancaster county;
W. Hugbee, Cambria, Luzerne county ;
H. Ilenry, Connelton, Beever county;
Henry Welhorn, Crosakill Mills, Berks
county; J. H. Turner, Kirkwood. Lan
caster county; Lydia Hay man. Leop
ard, Chester county ; 8. 8. Butts, Ltme
Hill, Bradford county ; P. G. Weaver,
Lycippus, Westmoreland rountv; Robt.
S. Cummins, MoAlevys Fori, Hunting
don, county; 8, Uehrer, McKwensville,
Northumberland county; J. A. Gillen,
Mount Pamell, Franklin oounty; 8.8.
B. Ramey, Ramey, Clearfield county ;
Eliza Leigely, Kohinaonville, Bedford
oounty; Wm. A. Shaber, Slack water,
Lancaster, county ; John R. Mulvauey,
V alloy For|* t Chester oounty,