News From -all - Nations. —The Methodists are actively at Av4E in UM. r —The Baratoga . new gas company are extending their mauls. ---The Venezuela revolution -has enddonly Increased in importance. —Mormons are classified as Prig bunnies, Gobeites, arid dosephite& —Texans are complaining. of -the Potato bas. —The Mont Ceneis tunnel is 'to be completed in Aavutt. —The free-school system is rapidly adnadng In Arkansas. - —AnothOr plot against Napoleon's life has been discovered. ; Chief Justice Chase is not going to Europe, as reported. --General Robert E. Lee is said to bo threatened with heart disease. —A bbinarnattlelievis he can't get to heaven it his head is cut off here. —Mrs.defferson Davis is in Europe, and was in NAB at the last date& —Adelina Patti'spil j e of j ewelry is greater than the EmpresilT.ngenies. —The Union Pacific Railroad has sold 150,000 acres of land. —Croquet has been resumed, and mai oe very fashionable this season. •+ —The Sultan objects to the judici ary reforms to be introduced in Egypt. —The new fractional currency of Canada has already been counterfeited. —A one cent piece of 1800 brought !Slat a solo of old coins in New York. —A western freight train was late ly loaded with a million and a half of eggs. —The Japanese government pro p3se introducing railroad lines. —Collector Henry D. MOore, of Philadelphia, has gone tonrope. . . —Stores and volunteers or the Red rirer expedition aro collecting at Tor Onto. —john Russell Young has started a, now paper in New York called tho —Detroit is exercised over stran gen and mysterious boxes, snuffing Fenianism. —A ship canal from Liverpool to lilinchestcr, England, is again proposed. • .—Maine has appropriated $50;001 additional for the State agricultural college. ' —Six amendments to the Missouri constitution arc to be votod upon at the fall election. —ln Milwaukee a rage to lea 'to cook has sprung up among the fashionable la dies. —The Georgia colored people say "MUSS cash" is hotter to work for than "mu ss lash." —Gen. Irwin, the new State Treas urer, entered on the' duties of the office on Monday. —Virginia oysters are sent to Eng land packed in mud, that they may reach there alive. —Out-door- poor relief in Paris comprised 10,570 persons last year,. at the ex penditure of $BlO,OOO. —Three Japanese officers have ar rived at Berlin, with the object of studying° the organization of the Federal army. —The Navy Departnient, it is an nounced, has decided not to raise the wreck of the Oneida, but to Bella to a wrecl,dng company. —At Quincy, Illinois, the Mississ ippi is ten miles broad, audidill rising. Above Quincy, at some points, the river's twenty miles broad. —Hon. John P. Penny, of Pitts burg, has announced himself as a candidate for Congress in that district. —Samuel Myers, for thirty years publisher and proprietor of the Berks county Press, died on Fnday at Reading, aged 70. —Some one remarks that if the Lest man's faults were written on his forehead, it 'would make him,pun his hat over his eyes. —A kerosene Ilamp explosion' at Anderson, Texas, recently kilted a German wo man and fatally burned two men who attempted to rescue her. . —ln some places in Maine, com mercial travelers find a hard time in getting' an interview with merchants, who are disgusted with the drummitig system. —The citizens of Fort Bend coun ty, Texas, held a meeting recently, and appoint ed a committee of five, three white and two colored, for the suppression of horse stealing. —The receipts of cotton at Galves ton now exceed the estimated of many for the Whole year, being 201,378 bales. The stock on baud is now a little over 80,000 bales. —The coming centenary fete in honor of Beethoven. at Vienna, will last three dare. The corner-stone of a monument will be 161 —A terrible gale and flood on the river Plato destroyed MO,OOO worth of property at Buenos Ayres, and 100,000 sheep in the coun try districts. • —Mr. Childs, of the Philadelphia Ledger, has contributed a thousand dollars to wards the ?fillet' of the suffers: in the recent ac cident at Richmond. —The Missouri tobacco crop, for last year is reported at 10957,000 pounds, grown on 13,765 acres of laud; Illinois crop, 15,160,000 pounds. on 20,026 acres. —The world is safe from collision for a while longer, as the consoling intelligence is afforded that for the next hundred years the distance between the earth and the sun will gradually increase. —The Sfr.ockciale beef-packery, near Brenham, Texas, began okrations last fall, and for its first seasons work killed 4&)0 cattle, packed 9000 tierces of beef and shipped off 1,000,000 pounds of hides and tallow. —The book written on the Alaba ma claims by Professor Montague Bernard, off Oxford, is exciting great attention in England: It is the opinion of an able jurist, and tho Eng lish call it an impartial-examination. —At a meeting of the stockholders of the Albany and Susquehanna Railroad Com pany it was resolved to ratify the lease of the road to the Delaware and.iludson Canal Com- UM • —The cold cast winds of Boston are Very destructive of human life. Last year, it is stated; they imposed fatal forms of con sumption upon 916 persons, and killed 146 with bronchitis. —An old Arkansas bee hunter saw a fine swarm on a bnsb, miles from home. Ito hadn't any hire, so ho took off his shirt, tied up the sleeves and neck, scooped them into it, and carried them home. ' =Captain Commerel, of the British steimer 3fonareli,las written Secretary Robe son, inlbehalf of the Queen and ine British na vy, to express . thanks and acknowledgements for the attention which their officers received while in this comitry. -Eighty persons who were nom promised in the promiscuous arrests at the Par is riots of January' are still• in prison, and the Judges seem ready to take no action in their ease. This fact creates much indignation in France. - —The landowners in Ireland now never go abroad without guns in their hands, and tho wealthiest generally have a corps of soldiers picketed upon their estate: These-sol diers say that their own lives-are endangered, and in many eases refuse to serve. —A man and woman, both drunk, while staggering alorig a street in Newt York. on Sunday night, fell into - an open area', When found by the police,.jhe man was dead, and the woman was lying across his body, asleep. The man was connected with a respectable family. —ln Ireland landlords are often "warned" now-a-days by finding graves dug in their front yards. —Wife beaters in Fort Wayne, In dian;„ are fined $309 - for indulging in that pleasant exercise; - - .Pierre Bonaparte's head is de peribed as so flat that you could set out a small cold bupper oa the top of it. —in Ohio woman Who killeTrer husband two years ago, and was sentenced to prison fur life. is satisfied that sho did wrong and wants to eoine out. —From the egg of a Brahma hen in Rochester, there was hatched a few days since a tally developed chicken, having four perfe c t legs, With fUet and claws complete. —Two American War steamers ar rived at Raring on the sth instant. —The Indians of Wyoming Teal tory are rohbiug the fame:role their Jive stock. —The Vanderbilt ticket was' elect ed in cimienu l d on the fourth instant. at a meet lugof themp s an tockholders of the Lake Elora Bail- oad Coy. =2Vg=== 141tford felgrin. • EDITORS • D. 0. GOODRICH. . ALIHRU*: Towanda, Thursday, May 12,1870. THE NEXT LEGIIIIITATIIRE. --e We last week referred to the very generalpractice of the press of this State heaping indieerkrthrate censure upim the /ate Legislature, and re marked that the newspapers were re! sponirible for the character. of their legislators. The time for selecting candidates for the next Legislature is nearlt hand, and we would again remind Our brethren of the press of the great responsibility resting upon them. Men-who were known to be guilty-of corrupt practices dining the past winter, should be exposed, and, if candidates for .re-nominatir, vig orously opposed. The Erie Gazette, in speaking upon the subjeck.says: "We find in the communitywdeep seated conviction that the next Leg islature of Pennsylvania. must be a reformed one. The people demand that those who offer • themselves as candidates shall be free from the odi um which attaches to the members of the body which recently closed its session. They will seek out and find the men with the requisite ability and moral courage to say No, if need be, to all sorts of schemes for adroit ly voting - away valuable franchises and sacred funds—men who will set their faces firm, as the solid rock against all specious bills which come under the appellgtiOn of local legisla tion—men 'Sill() *ill only to the general good of the Commonwealth, and act accordingly. " We wish to warn the people that boasts are made that the passage- of the Border Raid bill and Omnibus Railroad bill are only temporarily deferred, not defeated. In view of this, we believe, written pledges will be demanded of all who aspire to be members of our next State Legislat ure. But this Will be of little avail, if men of character for honesty and integrity men in'lwhom the confidence of the people is \unsho.ken—are not selected. Such men can and will be found. "Fortunately, we have already the Governor siding with the people in this crusade against thieving legisla tion. To uphold him, and save the Sinking Fund from the audacious at tempts to rob itf , for the benefit o monopolists, it is clearly the duty of the people to rightly direct their ear nest desire for reform. With them we leave the responsible duty of .se lecting for candidates none but hon est men !" THE FIVE GREAT STATES If the House basis of 275 members of Congress should be Adopted for the next ten years, Ohio will have 21 members, Indiana 12 and Illinois 15; total for the three States 52 members. This is nearly one-fifth of all the House. It : is nearly equal to the number of Members of the imperial State's of New York and Peunsilva nia, which will . have 58. members be tween them. The five States lying . side by side will cast 110 votes in the next . Housa, or within 28 votes of 'A majority of the :whole Union. There are thirty-eight Statedin the Union, but practically the political power in the legislation of Congress and in the election of President and Vice Presi dent, is in the five States we have mentioned New York, Pennsylvania Ohio, Indiana cad Illinois. United with the;Arnaller States thy will car ry, they will be irresistable. It is probably safe to say that of ter 1880 a majority of all the people in this country will reside within their bor borders. They aro the seat of Amer ican empire. • Look at their present majestic populations New 'York Pennsylvania EMI FE= Indiana Total Here is a population within mill ion and a half of the whole popula tion of the Union in 1840, thirty years ogo MP The shocking calamity at Rich mond becomes more and more la mentable as its details are better as certained. Over sixty lives were lost instantly, and not a few of the • two hundred or more who' were injured are likely to - die. This sad occur rence will recall to many minds the terrible story of that calamity still more fatal, in, the same city, more than forty years ago when by the burning of a theatre,,which had taken fire during the performance of a play, more than one hundred of the audi ence perished. The one city has thus been the scene of two occurrences, each of a peculiar nature, and each the most fatal,in its results, of any events of this kind which ever occur red in the country. i.. When the Republican party came into power in 1860 in Indiana; they received as a legacy from the Democrats a debt of over . $10,000,- 000. To this amount the war added $3,000,000. The Republican admin istration has fad of the debt $7,000,- 000, and hopes to wipe it all out before the Ist of January, 1871. le' The New York -Democratic State Convention met att. Rochester on the 27th ult., and made nomini ions as follows ,for the Court of 4.. peals, to be voted for at the next elec tion: Chief Justice, Sanford E. Church; Associate Judges, Charles A. Rapallo, of New York; Rufus W. Peckham, of Albany; Martin Grover, of Allegany; and Win. F. Allen, of Oswego. We' And still the good work goes on ! The Secretary of the Treasury reports for this month . a reduction in the public debt of nearly twelve mill ions of dollars, being at. the rate of almost a hundred and fifty millions a- year ! - Nothing should more strengthen the securities of the Unit ed States than such returns as these, Evety hoed paid Off makes tho rs maising ones better. • '"=TILEVIPIPMMMID.2IM,.' .The great - jute at trying Damn MTARLAXD killing of RionAsn- Yfrilrior the :tog : t r* 0147 4. l de l d* ' Tiodsi7iniiiOyihe Terdiatat*-10. The jur3tintiredat tbregO'clea.," and at ten minutes to five returned:. A silence of =death prevailed as they took their vets,- and the prisoner tarnell . pale as a sheet. The foreman finally - roes to answer the usual ques tion, and MCFMILAND stood up to face the jury. He trembled violently and clutched the railing beside him, as if for impport. - " Is the prisoner at the bar guilty or not guilty ?" came the , question at last. " Nor Guivry," was the answer.— The scene that ensued beggars deer cription. The whole audience cheer ed as though determined to shake the building to the foundation& Even the court officers joined in the Cheer: ing. The ladies divided• their atten tion between the liberated than aed the counsel. McFAßLexe 'was Teri much affected lTivngelf He soon af ter left the court room, and the • peo ple dispersed. DEMOCRATIC ROOVERT. The following, which we copy from the Buffalo Express of Tuesday, shows what dishonest shifts the De mocracy are capable of resorting to when political necessity .seems to re quire it: "You have the law, but we have' the administration of it," said a New York Democratic member of the late Legislature to a Republican, speak ing of the Excise Law. The New York Board of Excise is showing now hat he meant. Too cowardly to throw off all restraints upon the rum traffic by open leigislation, the party in power passed a bill which pretend ed to decently' retain some - of them. The Democratic Attorney General, being applied to for an opinion, gave it to the effect that so much of the act of 1857 as required each appli cant for a license to procure the names of twenty freeholders as in dorsers, was still in force. But, lo ! when it comes to the administration of the law, see what follows. The New York Board of Excise, meeting on Saturday, declared that it had doubts" on the subject and "would therefore give the applicants the benefit of the doubt, and •not require the signa ture of ,the freeholders." You have the law,lonest citizens, but the grog gery-keepers and their friends have the administration of it. PROTECTION OF TENSER LANDS. —The 'following bill for the better protec tion of timber lands in this Common wealth, drawn up and presented in the House by Mr. Creitz, one of the members, from Lehigh county, pass ed both-branches, and is now a law. The act is a timely one, as the de struction of timber by fire 4hrongh carelessness annually amounts to hundreds of thousands of dollars:. " Whereas It is important to the people of the State that timber lands should be protected from fire, which owing to malicious eonduct and care lessness of individuals is causing vast havoc to the young growing timber, especially upon our mountains, there. fore " Section - 1. Be it enacted, Ike., that it shall be the duty of the Commis sioners of the several counties of this Commonwealth to appoint persons under oath