Newt thin fiUjaitim 16 _ . . . —44ngral rarraiiitia.ll/:1414... , . , ; -The pries di ' . 0 . 11 . '' i!lik;biiii3o. Morning • oar loiiitdreiiibigi t'oqtlis—ranch. • wa n it7C—t Lopez, the Paragis' Lysol ,is • — A Pralluul t° ja:o 3 atia. h,clFlo , . —The foundry for nalftaPif is located in the ea 4 . . Indian hes thirty-seven towns rimed Jackooft. —The cadetship 'market is quoted kat now very AdL . „•-• —Wall street to}tare another female broken'!►rth. ' —People • are now crossing Lake Champlain on the tee: • S; C., is to manufacture Iu own los this sawn. —Washington, complains Of scar:- c'.y of coed house minute. —The book trade of Mew mrl.rantit to $9000,010 • per. —Early reAligies have made their ppwnnu la Alto; Mauls. —North Brookfield, ilaft. has a t:•sby born-with oily ooti win - —Oldstockings. are the favorite 1 'sag and pocket-boolcs in Canada. ' —A. paper in Canada very solemn :, asks, " What does shoo fly mewls —They are to hate what.they call trligious plays" at the Prague Theatre.' • --Dickens is to give readings in Paris, now that his nay naval is Aida's& —Bitimark is reduced to! economy ualacky apseslatiaasia stocks. ' ' —A Methodist church has been in Uinta* on*, lowa, is Slava days. —A great German bank: is to be established at Berlin. with 112000,090 capital —Opera glasses can now be seen i u , ome of the hshionable Sew York churches. —Free' lunches are going out of t.t,L•ion =tong the New 'fork saloon keepers. —The grasshopper that was seen n the fields two w...-ckt ago, is now stiff in the —The price of a night's lodging at The Cleveland Bethel is tea cents. --So far from being in a dying •utc, Senator Orisnes is said to Be improving in twaltla. —" Write me as one who loves his rellow teen," u the estutibil said to themi u eep- —The leaders of the 'Church in Italy were came the chistsupporters of the stage. —Washington is reported fall of ,Lby agents plying their vocation.-' --Calumny is the homage which .+gniatisni has CM' paid to eoudlencs. -Richmond has a society Of color -a women called "The Danghtora of Enoch." -,--Fast young man, count the cost cigars, mu, riot and min. litop and think! . —Thackeray calls all journalists • h , '....orporation of the' goose quill.' —A German savant has succeeded malting wine from the tea plant. —Somebody wants to know whet h. r s windlass can Le considered an airy nymph? --The Boston Post thinks it very nipitel eat in man to promise Lea doctor *legacy. =The Emperor Coubtantine untr .l-red hlp wire by pluzignig her in a boiling bath Livingston's last death is doubt, d. He is used to buityg Weil by sews papet► - -Hon. W. H. Seward is again ~itiging aro:Jul the circle" LI& this eortstry. —Philadelphiuke cannot agree atrio to locate their new public buildings. --A whiskey man, on trial for de rra ug th e Gov'tmust, in Philadelphia, plead uirmnity. --Tho ocean hteanier, City of Boa . =lsaias. Fault it. yotertaia•d that she —Buller of Tennessee, will proba bly. be forced to resign. for selling a •tahip. ----A. strong effort is being made to 4.!.ittace thu pn,sittit Haperinteadent of the can• %rte. —Gold and United States bonds ii,ar the Immo premium. This is pretty sear payments. --The Delaware & Hudson canal ,umpany have leased the Albany dc Suiquehast . • Pe railroad. - —The stutlemts of Bellevue lioapi ,al. New lost, amkept quiet by the preemies .r —The i'eported discovery of silver iuit><e in li«iitneky, it caluang mach incitement that State. —Niue men were killed by.the ex vlogion of a bested furnsco in a rota's; mill at Scranton, on Monday. Three men have been held to bail ti) Eric, one charge of iationdiarisui. One has Nme.h.: a coatessiork. —The Recorder of Hudson city has decided that a man is •ot obliged to .rapport all his wife's relations. —The • father of the late Anson liatiLagame, new nearly 70 year., of are, k a Termer near Denton, Itl, —Michael Callahan, of New York, aged 20 years, has boea arreeted for an attempt 1.3 murder his father. —N. B. Greeley, the brothel. of Home, is lumbering near Clymer, .1., end ent 3,000 logs this winter. • 1, —The bill constituting Crawford rouat •n independent Judicial District kis been .14rnea by the Governor. —The New York World still hacks stray st Tammatty ; the sachems of that tribe are pulling each other's scalps. —ln the tenth century, an Abbess named Herswitbs, composed religious dramas which were acted by ours. —good news for the Undertakers -1413 Doctors graduated from Bellevue Hospital Medical College the other Lay. Can. a black man hays a white emu s ?. is a question now being' disci:used in 'II 0 of the medical schools. —ln 1430 Jews were.admitted into Florence, on condition that - they - should not charge over 20 per cent usury formoney. —A Cincinnati man mistook four dullgrs in greenbacks for a lamp of . and is surprised to And himself in Jail. —The Supreme Court has decided Cro purposes of litigation, the tear shall be reel t i have clwod Aug. 30, 1866. —The New York Tribune says " the moat widely opon far the eroplopru3nt, of •r,nnen in tlit, ht *Ward Statos, is ruin sad star- •—A Scotch chemist - discovered a Way to proem-ire batch • ' .. eat fresh for p-ar, ant in any climatal. It has bees fatly mom(' in London. —New York had eight business is:larss daring list Week. , —Cotton stock on band at all ports tha unitthi tgat., 556,879 bake. —The. United States Hotel, at w,sb:n g toa, suffered on Friday by fire to the -otount of st,ooo. —Fire houses had their upper sto rad burned out in Wanhingten Friday morning. Dataage $lO,OOO. —Alfonso Chapin, father of the Rey. Dr. K 11. Chapin, of New York, died on nun .lay et ruing, at an adranced age. —Gotham has had a " Fat Women's 1411," at which a maiden, "fair, fat and tarty," only 318 poonda, carried off tho palm. —The steamer Druid has returned trent Sable Island, where sho has been cruising .earch or the City on:niacin, but has obtained ieformatiou.of the missing steamer. --President Grant has determined 1 , .) sustain General Boot, Collector of Laternal tterenna for the Thirteenth district re cant rk, and has withdrawn the narneof the norn :Uell fur the place. —The Kentucky State Senate las ' , sesta bills granting matters for the establish- Jaunt of four Mate banks, it is believed, mainly a the of testing the temper of the lie. tionsl orernmpnt in resat to sash instins. tiems, fritifni Otp EDITORS $. O. 600DBION. Towanda,nmiday,Maroh GOVIMILIIINICIIT BONDI A' Yesterday morning, says Evening Part of the 24th idt., for the first tune awes: tieieo~on uT, the nationaliivirmirentitisifibitoii= segment depression of the national credit l 4 1 #l4l,4l44ll'Part of the ad ministration of 'Maim Bccussas, the fornaiiirdelit - 6r thirtraltediftfeff' sold in open market at par -in go*: Immediately after the Trot election of Mr. Lareoza, in Ncritnaber, 186 . 0; the United States had na high credit in the markets of the world as any nation. The five per oent. goldhon4l ware at a 'premium of from two' to three per cent, and five per cent. , was then a lower rate of interest in New York than three per cent-in Pa ris. It is not desirable that our gov emment should borrow at the satin rates as those of gn g land and France, for a low rate of interest always means a low•rate of profits on private =pad. The actual measure of a government's credit is to be found by comparing the rate of interest at which it can borro* with the rate paid in its own maikets by private borrowers on the best security. The determination of the southern democratic leaders to break up .the Union if they could, was then as well known as it afterwards became. But the administration, the national gov ernment itself, lost its moral strength, and thus seriously impaired confi dence in the future. Its manifest be trayal of its high trust .was immedi ately felt in the markets; our bonds fell rapidly, and in February, 1861, when the government was compelled to borrow five millions of dollars for immediate use, it could only obtain the money at an average of 10: per cent.; the highest rate of interest at which any of the leading civilized governments ever negotiated a loan. This was the lowest point the cred it of the United States reached, ex cept for short periods during the darkest hours of the war. Ar soon as we again had a government which represented the strength and patriot ism of the nation, its credit rose; and the Treasury was never compelled, even in the midst of its struggle for existence, and when its wants were for hundreds of millions, to pay such rates of interest as Mr. BUCHANAN paid in a time of peace for the small sum of five millions. The year 18C4 was that in which the war was practically decided. The re-election of Mr. LINCOLN establish ed the Union forever, and with it the credit of the government. In the summer of that year, while the polit ical contest seemed doubtful, our bonds reached their lowest point, representing an average rate of in terest of from twelve to fifteen per cent. But from that time they have" improved from year to year, with only minor fluctuations. Our long six-per-cent. bonds were worth, upon the average, in gold, in 1864, less than 50; in 1865, 67; in 1566, 78; in 1867, 79; in 1868, 81; in 1869, 88, and already early in 1870, they are worth 100. History has no example of so stea dy, rapid and final a recovery of cred it from such a 'depression.. Nor is the present standing of the nation as a borrower fully 'represented by the sales of these bonds of 1881. Being limited to a definite period, and hav ing now but eleven years to, run, they are less desirable as a permanent in vestment then longer bonds. The five-per-cents., which though redeem able after four years, are likely to ran much longer, sold yesterday at 95 in gold; showing that, on a long loan, the United States could borrow at a small fraction above five per cent, and probably at five, on a consolidat ed bond redeemable at pleastile af ter ten or twelve years. There is but one obstacle to fund ing the entire debt at a rare of inter est not exceeding five per cent.—the lowest rate at which our government, even when its debt was smallest, was ever able to negotiate a new loan. That is the unsettled state of our cur rency. Letthe government now de vote its great resources to the speedy restoration of our money to a specie basis, and the five-twenties can be at once redeemed with five per cents.,— saving $17,000,000 every year in coin for interest, and placing the entire debt in a permanent and easily man ageable form. * There appears to ho a misap prehension on the part of many of the people of this county with refer ence to the laws recently 'passed for this county, respecting the holding of courts and the appointment of an additional law Judge. The truth is 9 "" theTT*l3 are entirely disconnected. The business in the courts of the county has increased so rapidly of late years, that it became impossible for Judge sTax to transact it and asp remedy the bar of the coun ty almost unanimously petitioned the Legislature to appoint an additional Law Judge. The lair creating a new judgeship was not passed for Cue purpose of haring a judge appointed to preside at the courts in Troy. The new appointee, Judge Moasow has equal jurisdiction with Judge &Bursa, and will hold courts any where in the district. The necessity for another judge existed before the law requiring courts to be held in Troy was thought of. PIIILADELHHIA owes a larger dch by several millions than the State The total debt of the city on the is of January, 1870, was $42,401,932 This we think exceeds the highes sum the debt of the State ever reach 133 President Grant. —l iiieinqi - iiiiftif" r— galiite,%sia= 1y1412400,740. Of this $44,882.- 840 is the property of depositors;-gad is represented by certificates payable on. demand; $39,882,891 is represent ird'fiftilifelraii+OYWeini Iseirrn`: ad; so that only 410;784509 remains for tie *o*e fund of the Treasuiy: T.* is an PiereasetiA near. ,Pon dollar a since ,FelumarY, ~ ,' ,.The coarse of this relarve, sines Mr. llocr: wu.z. began his Sales of gold and par chases of bonds, has been follows 1. ' $41.911.511 Nov it ember 1 —311.211,111 Dermuteml.• ••• • .21.025.121 lamsery 'l. 1810 Tebrosry • 11.111,411 With 1 114110/ Of this stamittbetweeen fin 'ma six millions are in bullion, leaving but a little more than thirteen -mill: ions in coin. This is all the gold now in the Treasury which can fairly be regarded as the , property of the United States. • In addition to the currency in' the Treasury the United States has a claim upon the Pacific Railro ad ni co panics for $4,887,590 of inter est which it has paid upon their bonds, and which must, in some form, be refund ed. Adding this to the balance in hand, the total amount of the public debt, principal and interest, above the cash in the Treasury is now somewhat less than $2,400,000,000. Were the whole of this, including the greenbacks, funded at five per cent., the annual interest -would be but $12%000,000; a sum which would im pose no serious burden on the Peo ple even now, and which would be felt less and less every year. The administration of our finances for the past year has conclusively prov ed that if the affairs of the Govern ment are continued in the -hands of the Republialn party, but a few years will be required to wipe out entirely our national debt A GnatviNG SENSE or JUSTIM—The attentive observer of current events cannot have failed to perceive of late a very marked Change in public opin ion in favor of the great Erie Railway, as an avenue, of transit to and from the Metropolis, and a very general acknowledgement on the part of the press and traveling public. Slander at one time so widely circulated by interested parties, to the, prejudice of the line, are not only unfounded in fact but calculated seriously to incon venience travelers, by inducing them to take more circilitous and less lux urious modes of journeying. The truth is, the public, never, as a body far from right in its conclusions, has come to look with mistrust upon the oft-repeated assertions prejudicial to this great route. They find that, not withstanding all said to the vonirary there is no line which in point of comfort, punctuality and reliability. offers such inducements as the broad gunge Erie Railway, which delivers its westward-bound passengers either at Buffalo, Dpnkirk, Cleveland. or Cincinnati, without change of cars, and provides for their comfort and accommodation, during the journey; spacious and luxurious coaches, pro vided with all the accessories of a first class hotel parlor or bed-rOom, and fitted up in a style which can on ly be compared to the fabled glories of the palace of Sardanapalus. Seeing and appreciating all this, the Amer-- eau traveler unconsciously exclaims, . " Can this be the road which has been so persistently represented as unsafe, irregular and inconvenient to travel ers? If so, - (to use the words of a recent correspondent of the Cincin nati Enquirer.) all 'have to say is, I wish all the roads in the country were "badly managed too. It is without exception the most comfortable line I ever traveled over." And this testimony is daily corro borated by scores of people, who, prompted by curiosity or by the advice of those who have already traveled over the line, give the Erie the prefer ence, and before their journey is half over are enthusiastic in their admira tion of its merits. Every day this reaction is more . apparent in the aug mented demand at all the central of fices for Through tickets, in the in creased length of the passenger trains leaving Jersey City every morning and evening, and in the construction of some elegant new Sleeping Coaches, Which for beaujy and luxnry.of finish mu 4 tie seen to be appreciated. Phblic opinion, long misled by the indOstriously circulated slanders of rivals, is at last beciiming settled in the conviction that there is but one great National route between the West and East, and that that is the Broad Guage Erie Railway. lokam LABoasas.--OLThe average wages paid to farm laborers in 1869, according to the report of the De partment of Agriculture, was $25.13 witbbnt board,and $15.88 with board. The average wages for the different sections of the country in 1868 and in 1869 were as follows : In 1868 Eastern Stake $33.30; Middle States, $30.07 ; Western Stites, ;$28.91; Southern States, $16.00 ; California, $45.71. The rates of sagas is 1869 were as follows: Eastern States,s32.- 03 ; Middle 13tates, $29.15 ; Western States, $27.01; Southern States, $61.- 81; California, $46.38. 118. Among . the jurors drawn for the March term the Albany county (Wyoming)Court were eleven ladies, some of them the wives of the most prominent citizens. The excitement caused by thiti proceeding is im mcmse. bean eiiinined 'Ana eicsii.aiiiiibOd until the ednunittee can thinli'afici more qiestionik to-ask. Mr. hum, Mammy eleek t cativeAlowever4- able th'n'Commillee litive not been. to leani bozo him Of the 'inkidein'whicit the at le of !he 13 4!• 1 14e,enU ; aged during .lun prelim's term :of; 'lt is generally tin&rstool here that. the Isfrit 'mon - wt . 11:446, the, bill noiilieforit.the L egislature, ing the State the benefit of ixiterest on' the 'aurphi funds - In the Tram* Its passage world; interfere yttfe With the prohts of 'the office. The Senate bill .for. the protection of coal mines has passed both' Hous es andbeen signed by ,the thiveinor.. Operators are allowe d four months to change their mines Li conform with the law. A bill exempting mortgages and other money securities from tax ation except for. State purposes, has passed the Senate. A bill authorizing the Goternor to kin° commssions - to officers of the late war, has , been, defeated. The bill allowing husband and wife to testify in divorce cases, passed. A" bill has been reported in the House absolutely prohibiting any evasion of the three hundred dollar exemption law. Bradford has reason to be proud of her representatives this winter. They are alWays in their seats. and are honored and respected by all the members. nos. suson CAM ROY An instance -of Gen. CASIZRON'II foresight and correctness in deducing ; results from causes in the political world came out the other day, in the . Senate, when the admission of the colored Senator from Mississippi, was under discussion. On that °ma: sion, Mr. Caxralmt said: - I remember very well, Mr., Presi dent, that just before the southern Senators left this Chamber, in 1861, I had a conversation with Mr. Jeffer son Davis, in which he complained that the people of the north had in terfered with the rights of the South, especially in taking from them their slaves. I remember that I said to him, "You of Mississippi have no right to complain; I do not think a single slaveholder in the whole State of Mississippi ever lost a slave in the way you speak of; you are too remote from the border to have been inter fered with in that way." The con versation continued some time. I said to him, "Sir, let me tell you that if you secede from here, the moment a gun has been fired against the flag of this country, slavery ceases; and the logical conclusion after that will be that the slave will be recognized as a citizen; and he will come into the Halls of Congress; and I believe, in thejustice of God, that a negro some day will come and occupy your seat." [Laughter.] lam glad to be lieve to-day that what I thought then might happen in the future, has come to pass. ir, we ought to remember how much these people have helped us in saving the country. Ido not think I should have attempted to say a word if the honorable Senator from Oregon had not got up to make an argument that this man has more of white than of black blood in his veins. What do I care which pre ponderates ! He is a man; and his race, when the country Was in its per il, came to the rescue. Mr. Stanton, who is now, I trust, sainted above for his virtues and services here, said to me; "This whole contest would gone against us if at the last moment 'we had not got two *hundred thousand negroes to come and join our armies and turn the tide, of victory upon our side." I admit that it somewhat shocks my old prejudices, as it probably does the prejudices , of many more here, that ono of the despised race should come here to be my equal; but I look upon it as the act of God. He in his providence allowed the war to take place; and it destroyed the only blot upon the escutcheon of our country, which was slavery; and the logical conclusion now is that after having freed the slave he becomes a citizen, and when ho becomes a citi zen, and when he becomes a - voter he as naturally becomes the recipient of office. In 1861, In a report wliich I had the honor to make ' in which I riromended the use of slaves in the army, I said.the conclusion must be that the moment the slave becomes a soldier he becomes - a citizen. So it has been. This is a great country of ours; the negro did great service in saving it; and I am glad this conclu sion has come. WHEN DOES Spam Draix?- -We notice, says the Pittsburg Chronicle, that all our exchanges speak of the first flay of March ' f as the first day of spring. This is au error, according to the very hest a thority. Herschel says that "for the Northern Ilemili phere the astrauo iCal spring begins at the time of the ernal equinox, or on the 21st of h, and ends at the time of the sun= solstice, or on the,2lst of June, when the sun relh es its highest position in the heavens at mid-day." Accordill to Hersehel theiefore, the ' spring season begins March 21st, and ends June 21st; the summer season begins June 21st and ends September 21st; the fall season begins. September 21st and ends. De cember 21d, and the winter season begins December 21st and ends March 21st. Woroestei defines spring to be the "season in which general vegetation begins." Webster speaks of it as the "season of the year when plants begin to vegetate I , ll o,ffise." - • The result of •ne year of Re public= rule--March 4, 1869, gold 143; March 4, 1870, gold 113: Does any sane man desire to see the De mocracy again in power ° Boot, ' 44111 1 lfei& - erne ; ib w: itek enure y only e b einthrire ' - ........ .1 new. , ere sVe*A 1 ,09. the th 4 ef that ft was set inthe caipentee's sliep, an iti ii sio,thit; thiPetigintieti heard Brim portion' vrt plftee, laid tilt: soon I.fterthb , fire broke nut; anothert'iirthat ittook. the engine ''room - and 'thence apread thOngtklut and igatn we heir,that thifirenrigmatrithillie kiteheiiind emninuniceted -to the carpenter's fhb* `!- • trporkthe alarnottlre.;thepatiente, the_.`of,•Dr. - Driy;;- and - the' eer Tante Of the" institution' turned ' , out and removed a greet dial:of thele& •: , hunk*, froinlbe occupied . ;s a rif theAayhtin upon the lawn in front of the blinding, - supposing that the fire would succeed in getting into the main buddin' g and gut the &nth wing, destroying the entire' id- , ilia, brit the him doors between 'the ' two portions proied to 1* a sure pre ' ventive, and though getting red hot, kept the fire out and saved the prin cipal portion intact end free from the threatened: conflagration. We !ma that's great deid of faring and stealing took 'piece of "the bedding, coverlets, and other articles which were removed'ontside for-safe ' ty, which is much to be.regretted, as itch a spirit of vandalism and rapine is evidence that our Lefty, is infested with characters that deserve a , resi dence at Auburn. - The loss we hear variously estimated at from $50,000 to $lOO,OOO, while it is probabld that it is about $75;000. and, we learn that on the part of the building consnmed there is only, an insurance of $25,000, which will leave the loss something about '550,000. Binghamton Demerol. 1 THE LEHIGH VALLIHY RAILBOAD.—Tho vast importance of this Railway con nection. with Elmira is beginning to attract some degree of the attention which it so richly merits. Beyond all doubt. it is of more consequence to this city than. all other projects named together. There should be a public meeting called by our leading citizens and capitalists at once to arouse increased interest in the mat ter, to gather statistics, to appoint committees to canvass for subscrip tions, and to decide upon plans for the vigorous and successful prosecu tion of the work. If capitalists here will only take a reasonable share of the sum required, there are gentlemen of wealth elsewhere who stand ready to assume the balance. If Gen. Dzvuu, who is about returning among' us, with hi? great railroad knowledge and experience, 'could be induced to take hold of the work, and our lead ,ing capitalists would also give it their aid and encouragement, the success of the eterprise wonld be assured.— We urge upon the .public both the propriety and necessity of action in this matter. Who will lead off with a call for a meeting ?—Ebnira ildr. U. S. COLTOV Bourn,.—Too great caution cannot be used byt he holders of coupon bonds of the United States. They ate Nirtually bank notes, and if lost cannot be stopped. Treasurer Spinner has recently been applied to to know whether he would cancel certain Five-twenty bonds stolen and issue new ones in their stead. His answer states the law on this point so clearly that we give it editorial prominence this, week, and' invite attention ; to its ,well-wpighed word : "The law has MAI conferred upon the department any authority to grant relief in such cases. The bonds art coupons both Ur' ble to bearer, and tray bona jide'Oelivery to an chaser, payment of ori; let Tally be stopped or though Congress sho the issue of new hi steat 3 / 4 . - ffi POTotowv.—Unitea States Asses sor Taggart, of Salt Lake, thinkst p at the Almighty,fts provided for ex tinguishing ygamy among the Mormons. ,fle says : "I base the opinion on the fact that out of every hundred children born in pologarny, seventy-five are males. I have the statistics of two hundred and , fifty seven families' names, just picked up here and there, not selected with any reference to this question and in those two hundred and fifty-seven families eighty-three out of each hun dred of the children are males. The day before I left, David Candland, chief clerk of the Zion's CO-operative Mercantile Institution, told me that he, had fifteen little boys under eleven years of age and six daughters." WHILE in this latitude we are h4v- ing a remarkably mild and open win ter, in northern Dakota and in the Northwestern British Possessions on this continent, 'the winter has , for several weeks Past been intensely cold, and the snow unusually deep ; and advises frthn Russia state that " never before, ii the niemory of man" , hask i such cold wcather been , experi enced in that part of the world as during the present winter.. \ Ocif• New York has the gratification of having put her spite against nui renal liberty on record, to no pur pose. She would undoubtedly, have been compelled to standby her origi iml ratification of the Fifteenth Amendment, had her aid been nee cessary. As it is, she takes nothing by her factious motion, but the &- credit of being left,out in the cold,in company With New Jersey, Delaware, , and two Or three other small allies of . Slavery. , • ft.. The 4iUnge of Addison, N. Y.,i was visited by quite a disastrous fire, on Sunday morning last. The fire' ori4inated in a Ball Alley. The loss in much greater than insrirancP. ..v, _ was ane and owing it's) idea,_aa well as the sulk. aegnAO of my tiiiirbf five nionthi Itrforialig part4l4, Illefy preliminary arraiignmeilti been wholly with . 11t4r4MtpIldtr‘ ticaik baring contributedto. its suryn tenth of thetJusszonnt-cfuned. for thefentiro.. paesagei try !raja- Ise outing aatate?room.,_ But arriving. _in•NeW York a couple 01.14aykbefore the , timeiAtf. sailing—rafer ,ey!krileing thexessel'efacoon unodatienn fink* refte-. tending r pleat/mt.- Wahl]; the , proposed ,passenpra .-4 1 1- , Bench's ui Brooklyn, .1 inaolred wPow mature.eonsiderationlp abandon project ;arid if -I, should goabroad, havomymovenientai ewe, ea- .far. as possible, under tay.own control. Capt. Duncan; the commander of the expedition, was _an active -and prominent.member of the:,:lyttiotith Church - of BroOklim,, Ilairing been recently somewhat unfortunate in Pe - - cuniary ma Wm, .14e exeursion I gotlip principally with a,v ientO benefit.. Had the number 'of .passen gers been as . great as anticipated—. (the vessel being, -calculated to .ac (*nonwhite about 25)—it would of course have been a much bettelpay- • ing affair than with only . 74, the num her, actually accompanyuig the voy age... The deficit in the calculation of receipts must Imve stood, as the mathematical reader will Observe, aboutthas: sl,2soxsl.s7,soo,green back currency ; from which may be subtracted certain unreclaimed de posits in: advance. It is stated, however, in the annals of the voyage, that t here were still passengers-enough . " to create a fain- Me and a sensation; wherever. _they went." In resigning my chances on board the - Quaker was, certainly nut without " illustrious company." Gen. Sherman, mentioned in. the pro gramtaena certain to be - one .of the party, weut in quite an . opposite di rection, on - a profetisional visit to the Indians 4:1 the Plains ' • Henry Ward Beecher, - also at one time proposed as a passenger, found it necessary to tarry at home to 'complete a tale for the " Ledger." The Drummer Boy of the Potomac, still `tuother, in -a very unprincipled mariner got mar ried and ran away—and so on. oue of the "lesser lights" of the Pil grimage (or so intended), I can only say, that there seemed to my percep tions a certain delicate but =mis takable odor of humbug pervading the whole thing. And it seems prob able that Napoleon's remark on re turning from his famous Russian Ex pedition—(" It is but a step from the sublime to the ridiculous ")—may serve as apropermotto for all "Grand Excursions." ' With the-history and mei* of this " extraordinary voyage," the public aie sufficiently acquainted - through, certain letters published in the jour.! nals of the day, and still more fully from the pages of "Thu .liinouents Abroad."! .I will merely add, - that the mysterious letters " Q. 9." sn joined to my address on my t-bag, served co stimulate many 'a curious enquiry abroad.* For, it known (mid I.had frequent oc ion to con : - gratulate myself upon/he fact), that though depositing one trunk in New York, another in i tiverpool, and a third in Paris, I was, during most of my travels, literally and .simply a ." Carpet-bagger —on the principle (which, whoever may .. try : it will find a correct mie, especially • upon the " Continent ") that much baggage is a continual weariness. It is a / matter of some curiosity to notiee/ihe various causes that may be ;lasi -, aied for a trip abroad. While so e asserted, in my case, that it was the improvement of health, others ?, maintained that I had gone for the improvement of myfortune, and that my errand was to establish a claim to that not tuakequently to ile heard of thing, a property in the " Old Country "—anywhere from 10 to 40 millions—anxious for heirs. Some, hearing that I was bound for the civilized, halt-civilized or barbarous regions of the far - Orient, did ine the honor to suggest. that I had gone on a " Missibn." Just as if ono might nut travel, like Dr. Syntax, merely "iu search of the picturesque," or like , Lord Lovel, .1 One friend greeted me on my return with the remark; " Well, I am glad to see you safe home I again.. But I hear it was a very narrow escape you had !'# "How so?" "Why, I was told that the ship on which you sail ed was lost at sea—only yourself and one other person, of all on board, es eapinq with your lives.'" . —But I find I am not yet afloat. The same morning on which, before rising, I had fully and'finally decided to abandon my brilliant chances in the "Excursion," I proceeded to Pier 45, North River, where lay the " City of London," belonging to the Inman line of steamers, and to leave . port next day fdr Liverpool—large, com modious and *ell-fitted. Two hun dred dollars in gold paid for a ticket of passage—not to Palestine, but to Paris—by _way of Queenstown, Liv erpool and London, and return ; good for one year, with privilege of tarry ing as ono might choose along the way. Positively na adjournment on account of the weather, as we steam ed away from the wharf in a rising storm at noon on Saturday, - Bth June, and had passed out into the open sea from Sandy Hook, before night came on. Meanwhile our friends, the Pil grims, sullied forth the same after ' noon, but finally concluded-to remain in porta day or two, to await the re -1 turn of more favorable weather. "I undertoak a full explanation in each case-- under tbe apprehension that otberartie the Un enlightened-Foreigner might consider them as denoting a membership in some such Order as that of " Queer Critters." Common'. statistics show that the balance of trade against this country for the closing ralf of 1868 was $24,- 120,049, in a total exportation of $153.865,980. The balance foi the corresponding period of the current fiscal year is only $1,978,264, in as exportation of $199,224,111. The specie balance against the country also shows an iniprovernent of $6,- 874,607. The ;trade: carried on in American, ships in the former torn' coveredmerchandise valued at $125,- 756,903, and in the latter $156,235,- 216, n gainlof ¢ 10,498,313. "Far ttauntries fur to v.:c C. C. P ER OLORII El! Owneur drew election. Porn for Gor Repnbtx., a preeem bent; John Bedell,Democrat; Samuel PlOrioaligrA**ll.4 l 4ll44 , 44,lW. 11118‘ for Connussi 4 151 std X.Danshoe, Gee. Roberta and.ll. 0. Pierce. The returtufup to nine o'clock are in one hundred and fifteen tawny ;Rfiriratiow a - *Abbe=erg ci nearly - eiationi&o4._ Stearne r :il 'ell4; but hie majority not:a:peed five hun dred, restat is looked uponasdunbt- Inl. About one-half otthe Abate has been heard:anti - over _haWthe votes. Coscosto, March 8-10.80 P.114-Re turns have - been , reeeived from one hundred and forty-seven towns, over :twoithirds of the State, which gives Stearns 20,554,. /7.881, Flint 4,877, Parrows 88L Stearns' loss from list year is over ,1,600. His majority last year was 3,781. Stearnes, is probably elected by 1000 to 1500 tmOority., The !Jegislature is Republican with - the majority- .redueed from last year. Oar Cammander Williams, of the United Stites - . gunboat wbo heroically shared the fate of his Tea sel'When she sank - in :the Japan St;a, -was an officer who wou distinction in the war of the rebellion. He was on board one •of the monitors Which made the celebrated night assault . on Vort Sumter, and commanded the party which landed on that occasion. He was then captured and taken to Columbia, where he was chained to a fellow officer, as was stated, in, re taliation for an attempt to treat cer tain confid4ato sailors: aa pirates.• He remained in chains in' a loath= some dungeOn for six months. Be fare he left the United States for the lust time he lost his wife by death, and he placed his, only child, a son of six years old, with some relatives living in Kane county, Illinois. Awe Ambassador Burlingi,Me hav ing been removed by untnnely fate, his grand work, incomplete, now is Minister Curtin's great opportunity to undertake the guardianship of the Chinese orphans and / assume the pro tectorate of an 'eMpire. On the spot with the embiissy, andih p _e re resentative 'of thi country of Burlin game, he willbe naturally looked up to by the berofed Mongolians as their next friend, / and it will be his own fault if he does not' accept the posi tion andgiasp its magnificent respell sibilitied.-1-1,re.5.4. - 4 e4...---------- irmsl" Gvld sold in New York on. T ursday at 111. Many business . throughout the ' country l hive resumed 'specie payment. We understand that one of- our mer chants will commence paying out specie next week, igm.. The election which took place in New Hampshire on Tuesday, re sulted in a complete Republican-tri umph. There were three candidates for governor. Now Advertisments TOWANDA MARBETS ! J.. WOLE.I.I LE PRIOES. Corrected every Wednesday by D. B. PATCH, sub ject to changes daily : Wheat, bush 31 15 q„„ i r Rye. 14 bush Buckwheat, bush Corn, It bush Oats, r bush! Beaus, tr. bush.... . Butter trolls)'-1T.. . do (dairy, ll lh.. Eggs "ft dos Potatoes. 1$ bush Flour, 11 barrel 000 i 800 RIM 'el fi 16 20 Onnios 'lll busy • 61 00 Wxuarrs or GlUM.—Wheat 60 lb. : Darn 156' lbs.. Rye 50 lbs.; Osts 32 lbs.; Barley 46 lbs.; Buckwheat 48 lbs.: Beans 62 lbs.; Bran 20 lbs.: Clover geed 60 lbs. ; Timothy Seed 44 lbs. ; Dried Peaches 33 lbs.; Dried Apples 22 lbs.. Flax Seed 56 lbs. • ;04 rt.' t< ;a: 0 .44 .. ® E-i M 0 - ;Pi C) .tt r. 4 g R r 4 L, ,4 _ . - 4 .. ...: • •-•1' Z..) Q 1 c , E-4 i - a . = .: 4., Q -i • E- , ,, ~ ~,..i r, 4.1 . :c ~..) 4 C Ck , , 5 .v2.n Q - - ° 0 et 1 • . A• .. 13,..' .4 6 ' . :i •,. . • i. 4 CI g ' A .._. ••• ....4 . • 4 1•• iri X a . :4 ..T ._. c) 1. ~ • i • TUT OLT. CELEIMATED i Pi P 4 .1103 4:1100” CHEWING TOBACCO. 0 P FINE CUT IZI put up lu all style'. 7: 124 0. 0 E't g A 04 600 The eery best quaLtico of Bj.JCR, BROWN, & Spawn ;; 0; • great s 0 variety or. th e most pope . Mr bread.t FANCY 8110K00 A -4 1;4 0 , 4td ..• TOBACCO. P r p'E.S ! 0 i of almost every description from (issue Bfxritscattm OT o P/ COMMON. CLAM Tarticatar atication fjlfoll to sop. aj W coning ie rents of po~tleVeil in t!W WHOLIN A.T,E . pßicEs . " annZNT, MAI= MT, AND PLASTI Cwiding, Russell, 4 Co Toirauda, Dec. 2, 1%9, We finite attention Pot*ltte "1- 9 1 — l>*7 l s saythipg,of before ogenat It Kr cousin osiiWiiiiii.l4le4 turimTiiti of the knife. Will cat '-tong or short-slid . feedwwithOutlionlitif:' and eea or lesid tor a circni - keeo . :-"f:"'"•) _- - - uSin ''' Wit 1;100 -' 'E .-.'.. ii.. ;: ''' - - ..1 .. - , - 1 - .'., , A..:.)- t:f.s, -,::1 ..: ;',;-:.:-. , tifpba *OfLI* CHAFFEE'S? FANNING mn,Ls, a4c: dot•D*(xl-:_', :,iti*U - '.. - I, ; '-40: • -Cmtintie to 1411 e• ti;IASIIOWE/EitWING After having Sold and tested these m - achines for the past year, they feel : - justified -in elahning for them - a •• . , • degree / of perfection' ki; not excelled if even equaled by any other known machine. Mr. J.' P; Culver will put these inachinea for a reasonableliial at any • point Where parties wish to purchase. - . . a . • - 6 Q 0 44 1 • , 0 0 . : 0 1 g . 2 , 4 fo 2. g A. .... cs -0 c , aa - . LEATHER PACKING, BELTING, MILL, CIRCULAR, AND C.R4”S-CIIT 'SAWS.'. ENGLISH FILES ALWAYS ON HAND. _ . . . .. • m ..;,..." . ril i?i • cn A. H. G ' E-i P . z. . o- -.. 1- U €4 4o -.4 ~ : d. . X m r . E. 4...4 - P 4 - • • .4 g fra t-, 1 .-; 0 Z •-•- z -: - 14 z 1 • . ~ .41 , 11 , ' Q C LAMPS, LANTERNS, REVOLVERS, GUNS, RIFT F s , . & OAR:MIDGES : :4 . . • te ~) E., t. . 0 as At ,4 r g , CI3 ,IN 14 A . r 4 E 4 s • Ei 0 :4 :1 • 41 • ti -a , ' '', -4 • .41 a o • 0 r ' O. ,•-i tZ g ' l t 0 -e :4 EiMI SPOKES, HUB?, FELLOES,. rO z • - 01 . . • . P 4 CARP)3MWM TCK)LS, LTHE, TmnmL, Jan. 3 , 'Ha &modi II& !WM; Russell & Cos. BEM =EMI= ---w1 MACHINE! C' AND (M.TTER Wrurf. ! ir .4113111"1#4011EXT. CNNlastly iliEltuispi eit nay. ji-etivzi. , s44 l / 4 -k: " 4 1.6,41-..'4,-, ..:. - -....- .. Mew4s PMtIPSESE AND SALT ).;F,4.,,t 1,/ pm," tlrau t , ..: . MIIIIAGfor •-,, -- = LAU, '''... .33 -1 iet 3a- •. Millar - '? - MO- 'THE URFA . %., ~, , , 01163121 ILECTIVED ihtiLT 1111 (mitt Daitir be .ftripmfard ea a Iwo or • m oa nbort Rota, et, - stand, Crarrs.. *wpm .31opyouds El a k door nor th or Dr. !triers. • • '` COM" 2211.1111. IttLIXIL Tea. Nvu.ora. I •• Zeb. 24, 187041 , - GROCERY"' ANI 'PROVISIO‘i ,:8 ..r..0'1'2. la. .\•,i- . in.:gm:de end Roan Leder" in M FAMIL-Y GROCERIES MEE P.R o 1.8 .o S, 11121,Cru. S NEW IILOGIC. 'RWANDA. I,A We do not deem' ueeeaugwy to etralateste diluent artielf.e we keep. • Onr awsortownwe ALWAYS COMPLETE. We sea Whiz( but FIRS &. CLA_SS:GOODS. Cull paid 4a. Parma:as produce March 1, MO THE OTTOMAN MECHAM:BRE! A tit* ABT/CLE. OF FCENFI nth CONVhNIENT TO EVERY ONE `DIDISPENSII3LE FOR INVALIDS AND CHILDREN Avoiding the unidahtitnees and aupyreeona iG offensive odors of the Inch foam and Nomer,-. at cnaoto metal and ornamental. It ai mere w e f t ) than any article of Purnitare of the same coo_ Per sale b 7 all principal . Furniture Dealer'. Price $3.00. f,bl7 T - T A large block of nett crop Ztte. e4o.4sztly • YOUNG HYSON,. OLD RISON: IMPERIAL. • . . • GUNPOWDER, OOLONG, -JAPAN AND ENGLISH BREAK FAST TEAS s ! . Juil reeeived which we are? try : ll4!. pormd, caddy at cleat, ves7 crimp, and warranted to gtv. elifwfw. lion. • .Tbis moans afe.*iese.- Call and OOP. LUNA, k 'KEELEY. Also • ran assortment cif - SUGARS, COFFEES, SPVIP-S. DRIED & CANNED FRUITS, CRACKERS. FLOUR, FEED, MEAL. &C., Whicli at. win sell at prices to suit the tarp.. Fob. 3, 1871E-2to LONG it FEELER. CONSU3IERS OF • ' CONFECTIONERY! LET LS . -REASON TOGETHER: Hew ran an person manufaiture Confet.6enery. and mall it at 15 cents a paled, when au t ,mr to wrrin 16 cents - at the Seinen% (unkers It I. terntdy adul terated)? How ran any Healey ri ail such a zile uorg.pourd his cnatomera and ban) a coneclence void of ntent,d' . . How can any consumer expect to purchase purr Cenfectionery at twenty.flve and thirty cente per pound when a pure article cannot be manufactured leas than thirty to forty cent. per pound, eonsihung of MAW, buds. burnA althonde. and each class of goods? Within a few days we have been offend ciaana buds. etc., for fifteen • cents per pound, and Cliocc. - late Creases at twenty cents. and the ascent 'anew. ledged that they were adulterated ten per cent, with Teri* Alba ; and It is fact that tons of this chief, Confectionery are mad& and old In this country every year. and the consumers are the only parsons. Injured by it: 2.r010 i .A/Ske betwfa of those stk. wi th a Purr artier of Coo loamy, we will warrant nay artick oar num allure Strictly Pare and free - hum etcrY jolino• client deleterious to health. A. HART. Store formerly worded by John Oarman,Maln Strad Towanda, October 21. 1869. CENTRAL EXPRESS, We navr i eibinded our RUCS through vx . CVai r N.Y.. and are nprepared to renegre and Ye and money and ateiratallse, nal collect notes, dralts. checks, kc., with despatch and at low rates. Wo, run car nlaud expertinoed toemengors throstql betweende.rphlit sod :":evr York and Ws -•erlJ daily, eV. Sundays. tneurhag quirk exn...lzl prompt drlivery *3—SPECIAL ILtrEs naLl be allowc.dr..rular peril of Butter sod Egg•, and pari:rular attention given tkeirProoept drh rrry Philadelpbis and N'oe York. • EDis'. E. TARE, Aslit.,Supi General Office —320 Cticstunt St. PhiladelyCla, Sept. 23, 1339 ROUTE TO PHILADEL NORTH PENNSYLVANIA LAII.ImAp. shortest end moil direct Eno to thitedelpnie, 913110219. Washington. and the *nth. Passengers by thni , •route take Pointytrams •New York Itailrowl train. passing Towanda rd 9 5,6 make dose conbection aktlethielniu FA' Pions train of North Penn4P.Padmull, and ernvern Philadelphia at 813 P. M.. in time to tale tort' timing either for the South or West. / Citrpueoniter ors are at the Depot On arrival et all trains to money. r to. the vapon. Den" stidto al/ parts of aritrzinx..), Leirie North Penn's Railroad Deped. comer Duke and Atherbaz sheets. Philadelphia. et SAX) A. 31- &Minn at .Tcnizzida 6:311 P. If.. um^ evening* Bagepwirspeess_ collects and ill:liven. We' Ma. cacs Ne. 103 Bon* nth sheet. Ptulad . elphia m:uw: acoointoroarznxe. Freight received at Prontand Noble stretti, P6:1.. &dais. and forwarded br Daily Fast Freight trwins to Towanda. and all points In' Sni mbannal with quick dlsigadah. ' ELLIS CEA EKE. item AA. N. P. P. L Front and Willow Rea. Jan. 17.1!70. • PulladOphia. TOWANpA 3LEAT. MARKET . ? brkrwa. ;fISII A:VD CLAMS. L Lich in their season. The subserfberi wilt keep constantly on Land s fall stock of • OYSTERS, Fisu .0i1) CI JJl)i at whoksale and retail where all parties am be enp. plied at - reasonable Atm also s full stock of Masts Consisting of - BEEF, PORK MUTTON, LAMM 911.14A6E. MEADCHEESE. BOLOON.‘. TALLOW. LAE% hc - - Market first Caller 60110111 f. Ward jioaso. Hain-at. Towanda. Pa. • av91.69-3m 1111AVND & CO A. - PULL STOCK OF WOODEN iramat C. B. PATCH'S. .* Way 20. MACKEREL, TROUT, WHITE Fish. Codfish m.l Herring. reCABE :RUTTER TUBS AND FIREPA ifor, ready lit of April. t Feb. 24. • McCABE & NTT ME JA3IIII X.c.till. HAUNT Mli. 12=3 81111.1 E. Je.. Supt
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