lltMbUrC " iltttN l 1 Jt'lirs I'lkilliMbuTg Iw. .I' O llrrlin*r Khlllrt.ru • 2 w Sol Bebnidl . ;|W A V.C®rpl*f VniouTlll. bnro. P J M-:n..n.M IVtinor l*p . Wm Ihl-r RrllrS-ntr t.p. Kr.uk T A.lm. M.l-tm.s. tluriwlJ" t*P llriiTjr M.wkrr Plna Hlriiii I'oil.c. t vd .lohu Rp ....Imni • 'urelii twp J-. 1 ." Mr( l.iakrT II .m.ila IVniisn o. P I. T Mrilorniirk sut < oil**-- .. >|> L. W. IV't .Ikark syrinx*. I ■ r.- S P John OuMrun Sprlnp WIHs. . i .. % p Win Low Farmrr Mill. I llalurs K. P L H St-.Trr U.-lssr.t M W. I* ;w• IL "i Auruiiol'iirf JUlf vloou tW|> I • Or'fllii -ts 1111ßl .*! Jl.rrl. 1|. 1' W Mrrrr 11. •I-' "'-; '|.W*rl twp Jollll IsUMIH liuo.n twp l"hn Q Mil— ■ Jnlwn. . i:..,u lap lam— P Linn ..... HI ii.rh.i-i -L.rl.'O lap. .I'll-. • w -l*" r Mil- LP Kin* I- Hl.o-r ... Molla ohur. i'-t'tgn tarp. l|SSi EsUsfSJr. Itlin f— ( Croo tap p 11. Stotrsr I'.Htar Np. . II J M"rr Lolr. Hall ; H. P Sanill.lßl.o l Vnaay*llln | K,„h S P Wlllwm I'ultrn ... Ph.llpal urg | S l> .IT Krrrly Sainlt Kt-li" I sb'O lap W'i R Ha a nr. Hn-a Hn - . Ilap. ■ C. 3 B.o!rf-nl- | Tarior lap. . 11. pi tire |U..arra K.ialrr f nl -u lap . * K RmarteS Kl.-mlog Vt ikr tap. .. .!••" i h Km. rick llnl.l- a'.nr* Wvftb tap . MB .a >tl Nfl Mai oia ! tVa C. IIEINLR. Cbttirmtn. j VI. Wtun WALK cm. H*rrrtmrj llos. Simon CAM i:RON celebrated hi 4tb birthday mi Tuesday last. THF. people of Pennsylvania should be thankful that at last we have a Governor whom uo unholy influence can awe. SPEAKER KEIFER got the vote of thanks the last session, that he missed the first session of the 47th congress, hut it was a shabby one —86 to 8, less ; than one-half the whole number of members voting. I'ROF. .TAKER M'Am.IRTER, of Mil waukee, will, in all probability, he elmsen Superintendent of Public In struction in Philadelphia. Kduca- , tional timber must be scarce in the city of Brotherly liove. THE record made by the Democrats in the late'Congres* i< a subject of just pride and gratulat i<>n. It is rlear, patriotic and unstained by any act to lie ashamed of. If the same could IN* 1 said of the Republicans we should giadly publish it. WHETHER or not the Republican I Congress, which has just gone out of ' existence, ischnrgeablc with betraying the people in not providing relief from the onerous war taxes, there will be no excuse for any neglect on the part of the next congress. Instructions to , them were clear, pointed and direct. ' LIEUT GOVERNOR BLACK has de termined to call a special election in Chester county to choose a succes sor to Senator Kverhart, who ha been elected to tho 4Xth Congress. Here is ! another opportunity for the stalwarts ; and half-breeds to test their relative strength in the harmonious party. THE share holders of the Pennsyl vania railroad company ought to be j satisfied with the splendid manage ment of their affairs. The annual re- , port shows that the gross earnings du ring the year were nearly fifty millions of dolb.rs the net earnings within a fraction ol fifteen millions. The sura of 11,800,714.95 was divider] among the share-holders, and after paying all fixed charge)! mid expenses, 81.850,. 510 07 was carried to the credit side of profit and lose account, which foots up $12,195,039 41. The securities held by the eompauy amount to 8112,657,- 306 50 at par value ; but the eom pauy puts them on the books as worth 181,037,618.44. The income derived front them duriDg the year amounted to over three and a half million of dol lars—a sum almost sufficient to meet the interest on the entire funded in debtednew. The business of the com pany has very greatly increased. The groM earnings were larger, as com pared with those of the previous year, by about five millions of dollars. The Governor's Message. On the Ist instant, Governor Patti snn sent to the legislature his second message. It related chiefly to the charge made by !•'. B. Gowen, to tin effect that K. G. Patterson, employed hv the Slate in the action to recover taxes, which, in thcopinion of the Aud itor Generul, were due the common wealth by the Standard < >il ( unipany, bad been paid by that company's offi cers to suppress the testimony he find collected and thus debarred the State from receiving its just lues. The message was accompanied In papers giving the facts in the posses sion of the Governor concerning Un charge, atul while he dd not express an opinion on the subject, he consider ed it bis duty to lay before the legisla ture the facts as lie was aide to ascer tain them bv calling upon the de[ art ments, and suggests the appointment of a committee of investigation, with power to send for persons and pnjH-is that the State may vindicate its an i tbority and force corporations to obey the luws. The nicK-a r e : I' ton tiet-o |>iihlirlv assarted by Mr J , F. H Onsen, a repuim le and reaponsi ! • la- citizen, in till- hall of Ihe hoilae cl j ■ represelllAlive, that one K. rd Oil Company to ih- coin j tiinnaa-Mllh, *as pair) hy the officers of j s id corporation to inippre-a th" triimo j tiy he had collected. nd the Mate tfo-re- | In wa. prevented from obtaining inaju.t i •toes. I'lie-a- Ciiarge*. H* made bv Mr. | (i.nren, are substantially a lollow : "In j * suit by this gra-at (Sinttoon <• eal' h ' tjainat the Standard Oil I'ompanv tor the collection of taxes which it reiijaed to pair, he had been employed I• v the < ornnionwe.-iti h to colla-cl ta-atirnony. '■ He admitted under oath tti*i theS-and rd ltd Company paid turn ST.. r sE) to 1 leatimony. lam prepra*d to furnish testimony, and I make this j charge openly and publicly before the j legislature of the commonwealth." GRAVITY or THE CHARGE. Though 1 have had toroti" doubts a* to the propriety ol the official recogni ' tion of such accuations, I havoenme to i the conclusion, alter a careful survey of j the subject, that the matter in the pros- j ent instance i of sufficient gravity to i warrant my laying before you the fncta I have been able to ascertain. I here with submit to you the following pa|>ers : ; A paper purporting to he a contract be j tween said Patterson and the state , through the auditor general, sa-cretary ! of internal affairs and the attorney gen j eral, hy which the said Patterson was employed to procure testimony on the suit against the Standard oil company; also four letter* Irotn the then attorney general to said Patterson ; a letter from the auditor general U|>on the same -ob ject, and a copy of certain testimony siirt to have been given by Patterson in a subsequent suit hv bim against the Tide Water pipe linee. It will be seen by these papers that Patterson *ll employed hy the state ; and that he subsequently was employeal hy the Niandard ois company, at large profit. Without expressing any opinion upon the subject. I deem it my duty to lay before the legislature the (arts I have been able to ascertain hy a call U|w>n the departments. I also suggest that a committee of investigation he appoin ted by your lodies, with power to send for persons and pa|wrs, in order that the truth of the assertions made m.y lie determined, and that the slate may be vindicated in its efforta to compel corporation* to be obedient to the law. It injustice has been done either by the commonwealth or any individual, it t* ot the first tm|>ort*nce that the tact he ascertained and the guilty puniahed, and the state rnab|o-d to obtain her legal st.H jut duea, TL'GGTSTIXG TUX LAW'S RFF'K AL. I al-o -ugg-st, while tl|ion this suh j'-ct the propriety of the legislature considering whether it might not he well to repeal the law g'Vtng to the auditor general and attorney general, the authority to employ private attor iieys to Collect claims due the sla'e at a compensation tola paid by said officer*. The law U|a-in litis sutject was passed April 17. IH6I, and ia as follows; "Tuat whenever, in the opinion of the auditor general or attorney general, the interests ol lite common wealth requite It. they, or either of them, shall have lite |Kwer to employ the services of resident attorneys, to assist in the pto# ectiiioti ami trial of cause* and the prr-entstion, a* the rircuntsirnrea will lU-lify, or a may have iteen agreed upon, shall he allowed by the auditor general. Such methods as that here authorised are of quo-alinnable propriety, and are opwn to much al-use. In the present r**e. which calls for this message, l'at teraon might, if successful, have been paid $Jt) 000—a sum much greater than the compensation of the attornwy gen eral. within the line of whoae duttea such matter are, or of any other officer of the commonwealth. The whole system is one that ought to receive your ca.-rlul consideration, with a view to ita app. l or. if possible, its reformation. It seems to me that the attorney general could collect all such claims without other rcmuoera tion than that now allowed bim oy law. ROBERT K. PATTI to*. V "KGUAL AN 1 K X ACT JUSTICE TO ALL MEN, or WHATEVER STATE <>K PERSUASION, MELIQIOUS OR POLITICAL."—J.FF.RIOII lIKLLKFONTK. I'A., THURSDAY, MARCH 8, IBKI. A Bud Practice. The encouragement given hy the committee on elections to the contes tant speculation in the laM eongrctw made that huHinetts unusually lively, and Mr. Calkins, the chairman of the committee, must he well sat ia lied with ihe progress he lias made in establish ing the business upon a solid fiasi-. Most of the ea-ea were so entirely des titute of HP tit as to leave no t-xcuse for their being present at a I, only that there was a fund on hand to pay de feated Republican candidates, who were mean enough to a-k it. This sys tem of fraud on the treasury lias Inert fully commented on and condemned. But comment and protest hud uo ef fect on the last i !f course he ! could not he received. Thi he | knew if he p tssetscd sufficient in j telligetic" to T> prsi<-iit u walrus, j hut the precedent v.as e>.tahlished— he | could visit the haunts of t irilization, I and avail liimseif of the fraud, ostah | lishtil and cneourHgetl by congress, to j draw pay from the government tocov er cxpens- s. Titough the committee ot ■ election" refused to admit him they j made a report recommending that I four tho\i - 1 mi, fix hundred and •" ten- j ty-fivtdollar* be paid him out of the treasury. This claim, HO totally want j iug in merit, has really more justice ; in it than the thousands of dollar* ap | propriatcd hy the 47lit Congress to reward the numerous sa>nt thieves who 1 had DO xense tor their raids, and iu | deed no motive outside of the question of plunder recognized by the itepuh l lican coogrcA*. THE "Tax and Tariff Bill" ha j Ix-en signed by the President, and is now the law of the land, it falls far abort of public e*|ecta(ion. Little or no relief is given the producing t lasso* Three fourths of the unnecessary tax ation will still be collected. It could not have Iteen passed earlier in the | session, and fully nine-tenths of those j voting for it did so unwilliugly. The people asked for bread and they were given a stone. ■ - Taking Caro of his Frienda, In the Dyir.y Ilours of Cougrcos, It did not re|uirc the lost act of Speaker Keifer to prove that the American Congress, for the last two years was under the parliamentary direction of a very low-grade man. The act referred to hy the Washing ton correspondent of the Pbila. Timet wa* the dismissal of one of the official stenograpers against whom nothing was allcgid and the appointment of his nephew in his place, Ixvidtw ap pointing his son as private secretary to draw pay during the summer mouths. The correspondent says: "The contract for stcnoarsphic work is made for the t ear at #5 000, the stetio- i jrraper to py hit own rx|H-ne for as stslance. OI course, in such a contract ; the stenographer takes into cattsidera- ! tion the po-aihle length of session and : the probable rt-resa. The money expen ; •iel hy htm during the session is made up in the summer vacation. In the caee of the stenographer this is the legiti mateprofit. In the case of K*ifer'ap p intee ii at sit ecure, a nine m n hs' -alary without any pretention of work to do or meritorious work already done. The speaker simply dismisaea a compe tent employe and nuts hi* hand into the treasury and lake* $4,000 and givea it to liia relative. Keifer ia no longer Speaker, but he has fastened three of hi* family on the Treasury for the summor. with oo er | vices to perform. Keifer will get hie pay as a member during tbi* time. If the Keifer faroi.y by ibis arrangement i>on| their issue* they will get about SIO,OOO fordoing nothing. If the late Speaker divides with his relatives he will not suffer any loss of salary by rea son of his retirement from the Speaker ship. This is the way the matter is be ing commented on to-d. - and the gen eral verdict of all parties is that it it an abuse of power." Doath of Aloxandor 11. Btovenn. At 3:15 o'clock iu the morning, Murcb 4, I*M3, the immortal pnrt ol the subject of this sketch winged its flight to the great unknown. He was horn on February 11, 1812, in that part of Taliaferro county, Georgia, which wan then known as fVilk-s county. Me graduated from Frank lin college at the age of twenty. Fot the following eighteen mouths h< ; taught school, devoting all the time he could spare from his duties to tin 'study of law. He pursued his legal studies so industriously that iu Ix3l I lie was admitted to the Bar ai Craw fortlsvillc. He at once entered ujioii the practice of his profession and was soon known R- one of the cleverest young lawyers in Georgia. He look a deep interest in politics, and in 18.5 i was elected to the legislature of his I native state a- a representative from Taliaferro county. In 1812 he was elected JNat-- Senator from the same district. He was identified with tin- Whig party, and in 1*43 was sent t>> | Congress. In February, 1847, he sub ; milled a series of resolutions a- to tin 1 Mexican War, which afterward form ed a plank in the platform of tlx Whig party. The breaking up of tlx I Whig party in 1855 lesulted in hi" i adherence to the D inocratic party. ! He repr scnted hi* district in Con 1 greaa until 18511. At the close of the I I hirty-fifth ( (ingress lie declined to IK- I | a candidate, und on duly '2, 1853 j made a spo ch at Augusta in which he ' | announced hi* intention to retire from ; public life. He opposed secession, but when hi* native state went out ol , ; the Uuiun he continued to serve her. | lie was elected a member of the Con- I federate Congress which inet at Mont- ' gomery, Alalrama, and wa made Vice I'rcaident of the newly-organized Gov ernment. In February, 1865, Mr Steven* wgs one of the three repretw-n --tatives of the < who met ('resident Lincoln on a steamer in Hampton Itoad*, when the situation develojed by the war wa* discussed earnestly, though to no purpose, j When Generel I>-e surrendered, Ste- ' vena retirinl to hi* home. Thrrr-, ' on May 11, 1865, he wo* arrested, i Ho wa* brought North and confinerl in Fort Warren, in Boston harbor, I where he wa* kept for several months -1 He was placed in a damp dungeon, where he contracted rheumatism, which disabled him from walking for the last twelve years of hi* life. (>n October 11, he was released on parole. Steven* favored President Johnson's jKiliey of recognition. In 1866 he was elected to the Senate of the I'nitcd States, but wa* prevented from taking i his seat because Georgia wa* consid ered not to have complied with the conditions of reconstruction. He wa elected to Congress in 1872, and he retained hi* seat in that body until last year, when he announced hi* in tention of retiring from public life. He WHS induced, however, to become a candidate for Governor of Georgia, and was elected by a large majority, in 1870 he published ' A Constitu tional View of the War Between the States." Physically Mr. Stevens was very frail, being small of stature and light of weight, lie was gentle and } synipatlx tic and noted for his gener ou* hospitality, a* well a* for his force : of character and remarkable elo quence. He wa* never married. ♦ Money in Elections. Whatever may be thought of the doctrine taught hy Mr. Ileury George in his "Progress and Poverty," he ho* done good service hy the thoughtful article he contributes to the March I Nor*h American Review on "Money in I Flections." There is no gainsaying Mr. George's assertion that the use of money in elections tends to dcatroy our institution* by poisoning the source of the stream from which they draw their nourishment and sustenance. The evil ia one of comparatively re cent growth, and it* extension is alarmiugly apparent to even superfi- cial observer*. A* Mr. (ieorge argues, the tremendous levies made on cupi tali*t*nixl Government employes are rather a result than a cause of polit ical corruption. The election heitig the initial point in our political *y* tern, *o long a* it i* to In.- gained b\ the u*e of money, and so long a* ii cannot he gained without it, no *ub "equent precaution* will prevent cor ruption. Mr George point* out that in vari ous pari* of this couutry only rich men ntest so costly a district. This deadly lepro-y of the IKHIV lolitic will not tie fully diagnosed ! without keeping in mind that its in- 1 | fectiou* growth ha* IK-CU coincident | with the amassing of enormous wealth | by the holding of corporate franchises- ' It is only a phae of the millionaire evil to find a refuge from which gran gers, and green-back er?-, atxl anti-mo nopolists have been so anxiously grop ing. Mr. (ieorge offer* a remedy i which we can at least sec would be a [Miliation, hut what certainty is there that the money power will let go any of the machinery which it ha* found souaful? Mr. George would make' it possible for even a pour man to run for any office by having all the neoes- , *arv expense* both of primaries ami elections paid for hy the Government. Among other thing* he would have the Government print ail ballots, to have on n scperate slip the names of all recognized candidates for a partic ular office, and let the voter scratch out the names of those he doe* not want elected. He would otherwise arrange hy statute to give no excuse for spending money. We concur en tircly with Mr. George in this. The people cannot too soon take steps to stop the purchase of offices. The ris ing flow of corruption threatens to i swamp the Kepuhlic. It is now in many vital respect* in a condition analogous to that of Rome just In-fore the death struggle between the rich oligarchy ami the corrupted prole tariat, which ended in the triumph of Caesarism, and finally in the over j throw of the once great race itself by the barbarians and the submergence fur centuries of both the Hellenic and the I>>stiu civilizations. THE legal fraternity generally will be pleased to know that Ovid F. John- j •on, Esq., of Philadelphia, has been induced to attempt to re-write his treatise on the law af mechanics' liens, a subject upon which he ha* become oft-quoted authority. The original manuscript was destroyed, just after ita completion, in the disastrous fire on Library street, recently. TOMS: $1.50 per Annum,in Adtanre. The Houao Appropriation Bill. lieferring to the work of the House Appropriation Committee the J'atriot ha* thin to fay complimentary of its work : " During tlie two month* which have passed -ince the organization of the legislature the appro|iriation eom nittee of the house ha* accomplished a splendid work. 1 here have been referred In that eornraittee hill* appropriating in the aggregate 8',722,34 I o, 'J,-{07.31. M'-asure* appropriat mg an aggregate of 92,015,303 were re|srtwl affirmatively, having been r< duccd in committee from the original, to tho extent of 8*32,700. The bill* rejKirted nagatively, in addition to the I wo above named, aggregate §72*,214.* , 31. Ihe committee ha* in it* posse*- ' 'i,in yet hill- appropriating money to ; the amount of *lo3,o capital stock. Sworn statement* |of the receipts and expenses of the Kastcrn Penitentiary, the House of liefuge, the Deaf and Dumb fastitutc and the Northern Home, all of Phila delphia, were received among similar reports from other institutions, in ac cordance with the new rule requiring *uch information before appropria j tioua can be passed. MI CH ha- been said lately against the fee system of compensation for pub lic officers, and the conclusion seem* ;to IK- pretty generally reached, by (hose discussing the subject, that all fees should be abolished, and fixed salaries for all officers, whether county or state, to be paid out of the public I funds. The question may have anoth er side, and the experience of Cook county, Illinois, it would appear by the following extract from the Chicago Timr.i is developing, to some extent, that phase of the conundrum : When in Illinois it was found that several county officer* were enjoying immense emoluments trom the fees of their offices, the efficient remedy, it w.s thought, was to establish a fair sala ry and require thai the surplus of fees 1 be turned into the county exchequer. What was the resultT The officer, no longer realnut to keep down the expen ses that he was not compiled to dis charge, or collect fees which were not specially teneficial to him, saw his office (x-onme a charge upon the county. With a single exception no Cook county office is now self-sustaining. The special trou hie does not arise from the failure to collect in full, but in the distribution of ihe service that ha* been performed by a few low i need men among a great many ul>ordinat* receiving high aala i ries. Hi. HK Morris not meeting with the •ucceas he expected. The American 1 workiugtuan, artisan or laborer is too content with his lot to be influenced by the idle braggadocio of that coum raunist. It is well for our institutions that this condition exist*. • JOSEPH MM. IU* A* Box, cloak man ufacturers, Philadelphia, have sus pended. Liabilities, 8150,000. NO. 10.