MI - ISOM ALL NATIONS. -There are 484 prisoners in tbe i Western penitentiary. . • --The Shakers have sidered, badly again from a tire. —The Cameron coal 'company is now mining one hundred Um, per ay. , the losses by theNtlfire at Emporium rea3ti E 75,000, with light Inentitnoe. —lt is announced that the Birds boroaail works will resume mirk this week.. . —President Grant has signed the Civil Rigbte bill, • • - - - , --Broome have agahi advanced 2.s,cents perdozer —all on account of the high price.of broom corn. house., has adopted the rei:olution recognizing the Kelloge govern ment. The vote wiis ayes 163, i nays 89. —Mr.; Gladstone. hai • written rn reply to, Arelibishop Manning'i criticism on his pamphlet on the Vatican decrees. —A.Lincoln (Neb) hOtel has the L•ird'a Prayer, in fall, printed on the daily bill et fare. ' —The whole Baptist population of the United Stated is now esti:mat& ~at eight million!! —Two bnnared horses :are report ei to be training in Now York stables • for the spring races. ; 1 I —The late Canon. 'Kingsley leaves a son, 'Maurice, who is married to an American wife cud de now residing at Chattanooga, Tenn. ' —Delos Champlin, member of the' Clticsgo board-of trade, holdi No. 10,075, which 41row the second prize, 538,000, in theLooisvillo lottery. —The famous steamer, City, of Pekin, ,ailed from San Francisco to Hong Song on Saturday on her first trip. —lticha t !rd Cowley , has been nominated by the President as U. 8. Attorney for the Northern District of New York, —The press of Delaware is boast,' ing that there 6 , not a Bantry lawyer in the resent legisiatum The public whipping•post, however; still existp. --The Lambertville iron works are now in full blast, in consequence of the recep tion of Ordcra for car whbels frb - m the Lehigh Valiey railroad company. • • —MeMillen,lhe convict who es capcd from - the Western penitentiary on Mon day was re-ciartnreci tin„Tnesday, after a des perate resistance. • —A burning gas well in Butler . ccunty makes summer weather in itsneighbor hr,itl. The trees are budding and the grass growing in tbe charmed circle of its influence: • —When Bismarck's j physicians told • h lie musk drink no'.more beer s his countenance chinaed so that his father wonldnt hare - linown him fri',ra Beu Butler the morning e.iter election. —Five men of the. name of JOhn Srnitn are members of the Arkansas legislature, and the ecenMenee is said at times to,be a 'serious impediment to the routine of legisla tion. - • L-LThe statement published in p.ome7 of the newspapers, that Miss Anna E. Dickinsfin will Shortly make her appearance on the iitage, in the character of Joan of Arc, is denied, that lady haring no sack purpose.; .._Tohn EL Farrington ; who was connected with James H. Ingersoll for paitici pitiiig in. ring frands arid sentenced to eighteen months imprisonment in Sing Sing 'was released last Saturday, having served out kis,full term. , , —Judge Metean is going after. the Polygamists right lively. Another first Nur° ttaA been allowed alimony and her attar bet's expenses. That's a gtod way to bring these fellow to time.' • amount of indemnity promised by Spain to the United States in the sattkuunt of the Virginias affair is Eighty Thousand dollars and not Eighteen - Thousand dollars as erroneously printed. -Theo. Burchfield, of Alto One who am reconti7 removed by Gov. liartratat • from the command of a militia company in that cite, has been re-elected by the company to his former positiOEL —The 61.6 r night lit: - Geo. Hommet?_town, awao and found bia be , '.-n om %%HO Fmoite. ! An adjoining . t .,ionni wag all ablaze. It had ;caught from a tallow dip. The flames were extinguished.; —The total receipts of the traPs- At!lin'ic etaamihip companies plying between- Nev.- Kork and Europe were only $.3C.',153,885 in 1574. ncsinst $57,577,250 in 1873, a decresee of E,27,423:EA, • - -An lowa lady - coneltides an anti- Enffraqo P.cture as follows: "You may look at this matter in whatever light ytin like, but aim mot it'down and it is but a iptarrel .with the Almighty that we are not all men." „• —The Louisville Coutier-Journal, or recent "4 - ate. says that the prospeet for ran increase iti the tax on tobacco has greatly incrcas, d order?, and given a general impetus to the fact•;rie.s in that neighborhood. = • —There were printed daring the yf-arjl.E , 7l, millions ,one hundred end iirt:ndnue,ttign- , aud conies. of the Pn'b!ic 1.0 avera::e over ninety thousand copies darts for the three hundred .and thirteen nays on whi..t the paper was ptinted. —John Henry Lane, (colored s ivts arrested at Efamsburg, on Tharsday,ifor striking 'pears Mayers. a boy, across the 'eye with-a luadelnlvp, inflicting - a wound which rtsult.in depriving the lad of the sight of ti:o. eye. —A short time ago Mr. 'hi V. of Pittsburg, took irto his family a fliendleeN boy named Charles Anderson, and en 'Tneiday night tie eloped taking with him, three gold watches, two rings and some silver coin, =Owing to the excessive charges for freights on lumber, the Emporium indepen aont ,'acs Parties along. the line of the Phila. telph.a and Erie railroad are making prepara tionw to raft their boards and trust their luck on the river. • -- —PhiktLelphia ar fi t to be satis- Nfil:i.; vear with the appropriations by eon gr.--ts for their city. -.?75 ,000 for a new poet ufilce building; $535,000 for the centennial $200,009 for Lague Island, and ahottt ; , '300,000 for other yinrposea .] • The destruction of ;the forests: in slnzliern Indiana has ap - Proached such dirnett siol:<, a+ to excite serious 'alarm among the re,ictent population, wha base to travel forty t. , tifty rinks every time they catch a horse ttoef, in order to find a tree ,high enough to hang him on. —Dan . Rice, the, shOwman, 'has fil..)d a petition in the District Court of the United States for the: western 'district; of Peuu-iylvania to b;3 . adjudged a bankrupt. .He declarelthat wets are all comprised, in the clothes that he wears; while his liabilities are abdut 5100,000:. , ; • I • --A. general complaint frorii the - *hole of York county is a want of water. The streams are froz n solid,' and what rain foll and snow melted, all ran off over the surface - of the ttroun,d, Many farmers are experiencing coaaiclerable difficalty in keeping .their stock supplied with water. —Horace licCafftly- was-un Satiar _ - dad committed to the Norristown jail, ondhe charge of setting fire to ,a barn adjoining: the rollirg mill at Conshohocken ' along toe Read ing railroad. • It is.allAged that be was a disap pointed workingman who has been dormerly emplwed in the mill. —. Ili Philadelphia on Sunday mor ning, a man apparently kitty years of age, me dium height, full dark brown beard, brown hair, and dress , d in black coat, vest and panta loons. brown;erereoat and gaiter shoes, com mitted suicide br drowning. I I . , The 'Union foundtptind machirei company of Calasanqua, have increased their working hours from eight to ten hours a day. They appeal- to be very bn'sy, and are at Firem ent stoppinz large quantities of 'castings to flifforent points. ' • • • man —EdwaidSchoenet, a young a azeJ about f•lghteen years, while out "loggiiag" near Tamaqua, was seized with a violent flt of c...ogiiing, tell over and began to froth at lhe mode", and was soon a corpse. It is presumed of heart disease. —Nine years ago an undertaker c - 4111' for a man in Washington town- Itcrk,r c:?antv. The man still lives, and tho rave rezerracle occupies a place under 4:,1,2:1. If the toys were of an active turn of they would put runners on that casket, epnrezt-hints a bobsled. —Tire Allentovrrt nays: •!It . rpt,r,rtf fr• , ir. Sty: re t .i%Ne WITIrc -, that; on .I,vcolowu Irun company *old inlinerp , ... - gala:lily 'lf Fig • Irto; ,it 7 . 13 , 6 ' 1 D - tOn4 ' l for £''9 vr.t. , :t. The he 41_4 rq - Erftitl invoices am tifLitriat "11 1.1.9 psr,t of -the parcbasera of the finis fit meld tpotter Towanda, Thursday, Mardi 4, 1875. ZDITORS aommucu. S. vtr.m.voni Tus Peach buds of Western New York are said to uninjured. Good Tn ;public debt statement, for February shois a decrease of, $l,- 880,183 12. the total decrease since Nuns 20, 1874, is $5,772,251 99: As TEE - DOW County bill noW-!tands in the House, it will require a popu lation of forty-seven thousand to 'form a new County. Quit esteemed and intelligent cor respondent, " CAB eLt.ii," calls public attention to one of the most enor ,mous evils which now menace oar legislative halls. r The denizens of " newspaper row may, well be term ed bandits. THE Civil Rights Bill passed the U. S. Senate on Friday last,' just as it came from the House. .' It was vig (ironsly opposed by Senntor CARPEN TER and one or two other Republi- cans. Both of the able ,Senators from this State's4ported f the mess ure. GTADErross is again worrying the peace of Archbishop Manning and boldly charges that the Romish Church condemns liberty' of the church and of the press. :Having laid aside statesmanship he has donned the weapons of learning and logic, . to confuse and circumvent his Romieh opposers. IN THE session of the 11 S. Senate which is to •commence to-morrow; not one of the old members will be more missed than Hon. Jogs Scorr. His eminent ability, unswerving in tegrity, and fine social qualities have endeared him to all with whom he has been brought in contact ;Iwhile his devotion to the interests of his State and party have rendered him invaluable as a Senator. It cannot be that such a man will long be al lowed to occupy the private station. Hos. A. G. RIDDLE has filed, in the District Columbia Law. Cohen, suits against eight persons shown• by the Way and Means Corrimittee investi gation to have received money be longing to the Paciffid Mail Company , to lobby the Subsidy bill. The names of the parties and the amounts re ceived, are Charles 'Abed, $7,000 H. Corraick, $5,000; Amos B. Corwin, $2,600; Hamilton G. Fant,•-$12,000; J. H. Percy,, $11,000; Dont Piatt, $5,000; W. B. Shaw, $15,000. . Too THIN.—Ie looking over the proceedings of -the legislature, we notice that the model temperance (?) member from this county, 'Alaj. Ten •nr, steadfastly voted with the whisky men until the final vote when ha discovered that thd- bill had passed -without his vote, when he voted with the opponenteof the bilL Such a course justly entitles him to the: scorn of men of all parties. It is well known that he sympathizes fully with the whisky-drinking, - rowdy 'element of society, and pledged himself to aid in securing a repeal of the' local option law, and his double dealing with the questiOn will not .blind the eyes of temperance men. J - His vote against the - reasonable amendment offered providing that the repeal shonld•not affect counties where the majority had voted iu favor of no li cense until 1876, was in flagrant vio lation of the wishes of a majority of the pelople of this county, and the deception attempted by voting against . the repeal when he saw that enough members had voted to carry the bill, will not restorehiin to favor with honest men. I= THE LEGISLATURE Only about two weeks more of the session.of the Legislature remains, and yet but little business has been ac 'co'mplished. The following bills have passed botWHouses finally. and con stitute the work of the Session thus far: HOUSE BILL 21. An act to repeal an act supplementary to an act en :titled an act relative to roads. and :highways in Fulton and Salisbury townshir in "Lancashire county, ap proved March 16th, 1858, extending .the same to Providence township, in :said county, approved Feb. 5, 1869. SENATE 1. Relative to the establish ment and jurisdiction of rciagistrates :courts in the city of Philadelphia. SENATE 9. An act supplementary, to the act apprsved January 2, 1874 entitled "an act authorizing the for mation of partnership associations in ;which the capital subscribed, shall :alone be responsible for the" debts of ; the associktion, except under certain 'circumstances," authorizing such association to use a common seal in the execution of deeds, bonds, mort gages, and to acknowledge such in etrnments by their Chairman and Treasurer. . ! SENATE 11. ' Relating to returns of writs and other process in courts ,Fitich are abolished' or changed by the provisions of the constititntion. SEATE 27. To define and punish the crime of kidnapping and con cealing childien for the pnrpose of extorting money. This bill _affixes severe penalties for thecrime of kid napping, but is to apply only •to Crimes of this - soit, committed in the future. f The local option repeal bill has Passed the House, but has not yet been acted upon in the Senate. - The new County bill has' not yet got through the House. The inefficiency of Speaker PiT mtsos, has greatly retarded business, but the democratic majority are anxi ous for some excuse for an extra session next winter, in rrder to filch another thousand dollars each from the MUM TN: linty. SIGNS SIF THE TIMES. Under the above caption, Reaper's Weekly prints the .following vigorous editorial. It is well known that the Weekly is not at -all friendly to the administration of Gen. Gam, and its utterances on the subject treated, are therefore entitled to much greater weight with those who sympathize with it, on account of its opposition to him. Let the reader give the article a sir perusal, and then ask himself 1 it is not sober, earnest truth: More than three .months have passed - since the autumn elections. It is time to consider what evidence there is from the acts and deeds of the Democratic party since the vic tory in its name at the polls that it is a party-with a new spirit and p.nr pose, and not the same old orgamss thak sustained' slavery,,plunged the country into war, and resisted the guarantees of equal rights in re construction. The first thing that is observable is the fact of-a very gene; al alarm at the prospect of a Demo cratic victory in 1876, and an - alarm which is not in the least relieved, but greatly incicased, by what are seen to be mistakes of policy upon the part .of Republicans. The alarm springs from the perception that while the Democratic party insists upon concil liation, it aims.only to conci ll iate the late di saffected class in the Southern States; that while it preaches the golden rale and brotherly 'rove, it sees the negro hunted and harried without protest; and that it chiefly honors those who were known during the war as Copperheads or Confed erates. The fact that they may be its ablest men is not re-assuring in view of other facts. The Democrats have returned one hundred and twelve ex-Confederate soldiers to Congress. The Southern States, with Maryland, Delaware, and Kentucky, elect one hundred and thirty-eight members. Of these all but twenty-six are from the late Con federate-army. This fact alone dis poses of the Democratic assertion that the Republican policy is one of hatred and revenge, and. that the party rejects concilliation and insist upon tyranny. When the war ended it was left in absolute control of the government. It could' have dictated any terms, and the country would have acquiesced. Bat not a drop of blood did it shed in vengeance. It established no system of , confiscation. It merely made every man free and a citizen, and embodied his rights in the fundamental law. This was not very iniquitous. It was a magnni mity unparalleled in history; and had it been met in the acute spirit by the Democratic party, the peace and happiness of the country would have been assured. But that party bent upon its own interest and not upon the. welfare of the country, sought in every way to perplex reconstruction and bring it to naught. The recent story of the Southern States is familiar. If the Republicans have committed great errors; ii frauds and military coer cion can be urged against them, equal frauds, with political , murder and terrorism—the Ku Klux,the White League, massacres, and open bloody revolution in New Orleans last Sep tember—can be truthfully , alleged againit the Democratic party.- That under abioluta Democratic • domino.- tion in the Southern States a Repab- Heart would be.no safer now than an abolitionist before the war is assert ed in a private letter, printed in the New York Times, and in the state of Southern society such as a late num ber of • the Nation described, nothing is more probable.. Meanwhile, in other parts of the country the Dem ooratic party sends typical Copper heads, like Mr. Eaton, of Connecti cut, to the Senate, and supersedes Mx.;Schurz, the apostle of the De mocracy as it pretends ,to be, by a gentleman of whom nothing is known but that he was an uncompro mising Confederate general. We do not recall such facts reproachfully. ,The more sincere were the convic tions of these gentlemen, the less should they be intrusted with the control of the government. • "Simultaneously events in Louisi ana have elicited from the press and orators of the Democratic party a vituperation of the Administration, and especially of General Sheridan, the ferocious tone of which shows that it is the outburst of a long-pent hatred of that officer, who owes all his distinction to his Marione ser vice in the war. We have certainly not justified his 'banditti,' dispatch Bat we have never doubted that it was the indignant outbnret , of an honest soldier plainly unfit for civil administration. But never by any Democratic newspaper or orator were the treachery of Davis and Lee 'and the wretched Twiggs, or the unspeak able infamies of Andersonville and Belle Isle, or the massacres of inno .cent men at New Orleans in 1865, at Coushatta, and at Colfax, so denoun ced as the dispatch of General Sheri dan. Mr. Bayard, of Delaware, de clared in the Senate that this gallant, soldier, who has done more than the whole Democratic party to keep this republic free, was 'unfit to breathe the free air of the republic,' as re ported in the papers, but, according to the Record, 'Who shall say wheth er he is even fit to breathe the air - of a republican government?' Who is Mr. Bayard, of Delaware; who thus denounces Sheridan and,extols free dom ? He is the Senator of a State in which he and his political friends maintained human slavery as long as they could, and a leader of the party whose sole policy for more than a generation was to make this a slave republic. - • "Meanwhile, in the session of Con gress now closing, the conduct of the Democrats, who have a majority in the next House, shows the old tone— the tone which Democratic success would restore to the government. The episode of Mr.. John - Young Brown's performance; for which he received the censure of ' the House through the Speaker, and the earnest efforts of the Democratic party to shield him from that censure after his plain prevarication, show the fire of the 'old feeling still ',burning--a fire which is not likely to ripen con cord and tranquility should it by suc cess extend and obtain' the mastery. Where in all the orationsand res olutions and leading articles of the Democratic party for the last ten years is found any word of hearty American satisfaction that the rebell ion of slavery was defeated, and that every man within the national' do main is free ? • "Again, and. as another significant sign of the times, there is .tbe con duct of the Dem&ratio party in Illi nois and Missouri in regard to the public schools.. In the State of New York the Roman Catholic hostility to the public school system has always depended epern that party.' his been always the Demtieratic policy to Win the Irish vote. and to do it by grants and favors to the . Boman Church. The, Demonratic gifts Of the public - money and property in ',this State to that sect have been ' enormous. The party' does not dare to oppose the Roman priesthood to the point of incurring their hostility, and its organs revile the exposurevf priestly politics as an attack upon religions liberty. But should the common school system ever be over throisn, it will be by the Democritio party, as the price of the Cathrdie vote. The first measure is the mita rian division of the schoolland, snd the Democratic moviement to this end, especially in Illinois, already powerful and threetening. "These .and such as these are the signs of the time. > Do they suggest the wisdom of a Democratic restora tion ? 'That a party strongest in the slums of great cities and weakest in the most industrious:end prosperous parts of the country is not more tru ly representative of American char acter and intelligence than its oppon ent is obvious. That' the Democrat ic party of the Unionis in any degree whatever' more faithful to law, more respectful of the , Constitution, more jealous of liberty, or ,• more resolved upon justice than the Republican is simply absurd. Could the policy of Aredrew Johnson have been carried out,.and tbe Democritic plan of re storation, as shown in the black.codes and vagrant laws, haie been adapted. the situation of the Country, unhap py as it is many ways, would have been intolerable. The maintenance of the Republican organization, which is the ;only ona under which the elec tion of 1876 can be contested, is therefore indispensible. "No man who has been a supporter of the party daring and since the war, however deeply he may regret what he thinks the serious errors that imperil its ascendency, can con template the possible success of the Democrat without profound uneasi - ness, and in the ' actual alternative that is offered he will not readily re nounce the only political organiza tion around which those who 'can defeat the Democracy may be rallied. Oh the other hand, the condition of that rally is plain to the dullest mind. The elections have shown that Re publicans will not 'go it blind,' nor stick through thick and thin to what ever may be done in the name of the party. Notbihg is more evident than that a'dangerons minority of Repub licans—very many more than those who hold the balince of power— would even think Democratic success a preferable evil to a Republican policy of , desperation or of doubtful constitutionality inspired by political aharpers and toadies. The, concilia tion of firm adherence to declared principles, trust in the American Idoctrine of lawful local government, the statecraft which;.like the sailor's ,skill„makes even a head-wind serve, strict regard "for the indispensible conditions of free government, pa tience, tact, forbearance, are ssential to a policy that shall reuniteithe Re publican party. The times are criti cal, Republicans independent. Let the leaders be wise, and they will find themselves supported by all the old conviction and enthusiasm. THE ROBBER'S DEN. This is not a romance, bat a true story; and the -Robber's Den is situ ated, not in the recesses of a dark forest, in a cavern under ground, with its entrance carefully concealed, but is to be found to day, beneath the dome of the capitol of the na tion; in the City of Washington, District of Columbia. The rubbers live in fine houses of their own, or board at the best hotels, and drink the costliest wines.' Do not think we refer to Congressmen; nothing is farther from. our thOughts; and here we desire to say that, chiefly owing to the robberies committed- by. these brigands, and the coercion they have used, and the falsehoods they have published, robber like, to cover np their tracks, and divert public atten tion from themselves, Congress has unjustly been brought into disrepute, and some people have been made, to believe the slanderous tales which these free-booters have told, and, have come to . think that the two houses of Congress are so corrupt that they de serve, driving out, as Cromwell drove out the long Parliment. Call to mind the men I who have represented this district (in Congress-,-John Laporte, David Wilmot, Galusha A. Grow, Henry W. Tracy, Ulysses Mercur, F. C. Bunnell, J. D. Strawbridge. We have all known some of these men personally; and we know that all of them have had a good reputation for honesty and integrity - . Even their political enemies never questioned their honesty. Do yon suppose the Bradford district is the only one in the United States which has been for tunate enough to obtain honest men to represent it ? The idea Laeprepos ter His. The average Congressman is as honest as the people he repre sents; and our people have not the vanity to believe they are superior to all others in virtue and intelligence. The Pacific Nail Subsidy investi gation, has fully disclosed what many have long suspected, that the , corres pondents of the great city newspapers, now constitute, and have for a long time constituted, the most powerful lob by•that ever congregated at any capitol, and the most corrupt and unscruptt lorti band of pirates ever got to gether since Kid dispersed hie crew and burned his ship. Their , great power is derived from the' papers .which they represent, which defend '-*hem when assailed, hide their crimes froth the people, suffer them to lay this blackmail, and, we were going to say, share in their phinder. So great is the power of these ban dits, and the terror they have inspir ed by their infamous deeds, and the position they occupy as the 'furnish ers of the congressional news for all the chief papers in the United States, that no congressman, or man who as pires to be one, would care to write as we have written, and tell the truth about the den of robbers as he be- - heves it; because he knows by so do- - ing he would incur the displeasure, and be denounced by these great city papers, which are taken and read in his district, to the detriment of the country papers, whieh, though of smaller dimensions, and humbler ap pearance, are far superior to them in honesty and blab:illness- No railroad compat4 or other cor ' poration, ever approached the doors of Congress for legislation, without being told by these buccaneers that they were the power behind the throne, and the grand custodians of Congressmen's votes; and that no measure, whether necessary or not, nuld ever be passed without first obtaining their consent by the pay ment of large sums of money. They enlarge on the power of the press, and the necessity of securing its sup port in favor of the proposed leg's lationiand do not hesitate to threaten its hostility, in case their demands are not acceded to • ; , According to . the testimony of Ir win, the agent of the Pac Mail Company, $750,000 were paid by him besides Lair stunts by, other parties, amounting in the aggregate to nearly $1,000,000, to get - the subsidy bill passed. This enormous sum nearly all went into the pockets of newspa per men - .correspondents and edi tors—not a dollar can be traced into the hands of a Congressman. Schu macker. who received a large sum, though a Democratic Congressman now, was not a member at the time the bill was before the house. Hav ing soldthemselves for a certain sum to be paid on the paeutage of the bill, as in the Peas Had, case, the lobby thieves esti about the job of .putting it through. The' first thing to be done is to' *rite' the ; measure up in gleing colors and show its advents ges to the people and the-necessity of! securing them; immediately. The; next step is to. approach-Congress- I men, and tell them that the press and the people , are in favor of the measure; and 'that "the voice of , the petiole is the v i reo of God," that no member who r gards his own inter est can afford to -stand in the way of the press and the people, and should he venture to j. do so he would be overwhelmed-and trodden under foot and have his place in Congress filled by some other: matt. Is, it . strange that this band of Corsairs should have power tolinfluence legislation, and compel members to vote against their 'Conviction ? Their pens are sharper then the assassin's dagger, and more to be feared;' for in one hoar they can destroy character, rep utation—every hing a- man holds dear. The subsidy bill, was a proper measure, exce pt that the amount of the subsidy was too great to be paid for carrying the mails, and no doubt was made greater at the suggestion of these Algerines, who desired the company to have plenty of funds,out of which to pay them the promised tribute.l Why:do the newspapers em ploy dishonest men for their Wash ington correspondents ? There is an insane rivalry among 'them to publish the news in advance of each other, and hence they employ creatures who do not hesitate at any means to ob taro it for them, even to the stealing of important papers and documents, public and private. A few years ago the New York Tribune. published an important treaty, while it was still under discussion in the Senate, with closed doors, lin secret session. It had been stolen, copied andreturned. The correspondent of anothor paper, who understood telegraphy, discov ered an out- 4 f-the' way place in the capitol building where the telegraph wires were brought in, and practiced for some time taking all the messages off the wires, and publishing such as ' suited his purpose. We call them robbers, instead of journalists and gentleman. To obtain such -large sums of money by such means' as they have employed, is just as wicked and more dishonorable, than to go out on the.public highway with pis tol in hand and demand the purses of travelers. The."great" papers are last loosing the confidence of the people, end the influence which they once possessed, and unless they soon dissolve all connection ' with their Washington correspondents,and turn Over a new leaf, they will sink under 4 load of infamy, which they deserve. CAnuut.-- THE LOUISIANA REPORT. The report of Messrs' WHEELER S , Mai and Film, of the Louisiana , bommitiree is admitted on all hands • 1 to be the fairest and most exhaustive docametit onho subject of southern ffairs, yet_ given to thepublic, and will be endorsed by the intelligent' portion of coMmunity as the 'truth in regard to the condition of the arions parties in Louisianw We egret that Ai great length precludes file possibility of our giving it a place pi the colcimUs of the REPORTER; but , ve subjoin the Conclusion arrived at by the committee in their report to ongress: CONCLUSION OF THE COMMITTEE, On the whole ease we are of op inion : First—That there has been and is on the part of the party calling theni-i elves "The White . M an ' s Party in ; ouisiana," a purpose to *take pox ' ession by force and fraud of the tate Government, without regard O the question of who may have the nmerical majority of a fair election. 1 Second—That in the execution of this purpose they have refrained and Will refrain from the use of no instru tnent which are designed to scam- Plish it, whether those instruments Ix) murder, fraud, civil war, or co ercion of laborers by employers. [,_ Third--While there are many men n that party of more moderate views, Who do not themselves Ilse `nor ap prove these unlawful means, such inen desire the accomplishment !of he same end, and are powerless to entrain their more violent asseciates. Fourth—Three causes have made ft easier to unite so large a number bf whites in Louisiana in this purpose, andhave rendered it more difficult to unite the best men among them in opposition. The fact that the 'ad ministration party of Louisiana is made up by massing together almost the whole negro vote, with a few whites, largely from other States; the fact that there has been great , maladminstration by Republican officials; the belief honestly enter-' tained by large numbers of the white People of t Louisiana that they have been twice defrauded of the result of elections in Which they had been successful. 1 , 1 Fifth—While all those things are great evils ‘ much to be deplored, and likely to exasperate any people, the course of the whites 'themselves has tended to bring them atont and in-' fliime them. I The simple and peaceful remedies of obedience to law, argnmenk and decent treat rienti for their opponents, would, if they had pursued them, have prov e effectual long ago. Sixth—While we believe Gov. ellogg to hav,e received a majority o the votes inl 1872, and while we, believe there was violence ' and frandl which frustrated the will of the people in many of the parishes in 1875, thu illegal order of Judge Dwell, and the illegal conduct of the Returning, Beard in attempting to cure one i wrong by another, naturally inflame d the popular discontent, and lent plausibility to the complainants. Seventh—There has bean indis putably much, , corruption in State, and local administration in Lonisi-1 and. For this the . Republicans, es-1 pecially under' Warmonth's rule, are' largely responsible, although in nu-1 merons instances their opponents have been equally to blamer Eiiihth—The effect of all this bas been to put an end to the authority of law in a birge portion of Louisi ana, to deprive the negro of his free dom of suffrage, and wholly, to de stroy the value of the methods pro vided by law for securing, fairness at elections and ascertaining their. te stae. This state of things overthrows republican government in Louisiana, ; and seriously menet:lees the whole country'. . • Ninth..--4. new election held at this; time under national authority is not desirable; it is not wished for by either side, and would inflame and langment the evil now existing. Tenth—lt is the,duty of congress, to use such powers as ars vested in it - by the constitution ; it should: recognize 'the lawful- governor of . Louisiana by express resolution. We' think William Pitt Kellogg the choice of the majority of the voters ' of Louisiana, and that lie should be, recognized accordingly. Congress should provide further safe-guards foi holding elections and ascertain; ing the result, if any can be derived.; Eleventh—Bat these rem dies are at the beat temporary ands perficial s i curing the' symptoms hu t the dis ease. Efficient aid to e State to establish public education would have gone to prevent the evil, and may yet: I effect a care. The public , senti; ment of the rest of the country, withi out - 'distinction Id party, may do much to remove, ' as it has already done much to aggravate, the evils io Louisiana. ; Tbe people should un derstand that all the authority lodge 4 in the General Government to pre serve republican government and to protect the rights of all its citizens will be ' kindly but fearlessly and steadily exerted, and,that no party in this country will accept the alliance of men who are seeking power by such methods as we have been com 7 pellecl to describe..., Unless this can be done the free institutions of the whole United States will not long survive the destruction of those in the South. BESOLIsioSs. WHEREAS,. Both branches of the legislature of Louisiana ihave request ed the special committee of this House to investigate I the circum stances attending the 'election and returns thereof in that State for the year 1874, and whereas said commit tee have unanimously reported that the Returning Beard of that State, in canvassing and compiling said re turns and promulgating the result ; wrongfully applied an erroneous rule of law, by reason of which persons were awarded seats in the House of Representatives to which they were not entitled, - and persons entitled to seats were deprived of them. Resolved, That it 'is recommended to the House of Representatives of Louisiana to take the necessary steps to'remedy the great injustice,, and to place the persons rightfully entitled in their seats. Resolved, That William Pitt Kel logg be recognized as the Governor of the State of Louisiana until the end of the term of office fixed by the constitution of that State. (-Signed.) GRo. P. HOAR, Wu. A. Wfirrr Wm. P. FAYE. OUR PHILADELPHIA LETTER. PalLADzuntA, 'Starch 3, 1875 OUR NEXT GOVERNOR The present Constitution of the State of Ponnnylvaktia is now in the second year of its existenee. Under our new Constitution the October elections, which in former years de termined Presidential issues, are no longer held ; and as the" people of this' Commonwealth .desire that the adage "as goes Pennsylvania so goes the Union," shall continue with as much force of truth as lieretofore, the strongest efforts will be made by both parties to win , in the struggle for Governor next fall, .upon the pre sumption that whichever party car ries the State in November, 1875, that party Will surely carry it in NO vember, 1876, and that the twenty nine electoral votes of Pennsylvania will decide the Presidential contest of next year... This is the reasoning of the leading politicians of the State, and nominations for State of cers will be. made in accordance with that theory. , - " • The 'Repuhlicans practically, have but one candidate—the ' present. Ex ecutive of the State, Gen. John F. Hartranft although Philaffelphie. will elect a delegation in the interest of Mayor Stokley, who will vote sol idly for the - Mayor, with no 'other purpose in view than giving 'him a " good send off " for the nomination at the expiration of Hartrauft's sec ond term—in the event of his ro• election. • Luzern° will warmly Tress claims of Winthrop W. Ketchum, Congressman elect from the Luzerne District'. They will argue that while the tidal wave of 1874 shipwrecked Republican candidates for Congress in all close districts, and in many where the majority was really large, Ketcham manfully stemmed the tide, and in a district that gave 2,000 Democratic majority for the State ticket, scored a majority of 800 for himself. l Allegheney will endeavor to , har monize , her distarbant. elements by presenting a solid front for Senatoi Graham, as the candidate of her choice for Governor ; and after her turbulent spirits are piled will, like Philadelphia, wheel into line for Hartranft, who, in accotdance with party usages, must become the stand ard-bearer of his party. The strongest m in .yet named by the Democrobrare Senator Buckalew, COL Noyes, of Clinton, Judge' Ross, of Montgomery, and Senator Play ford, of Fayette. That class of Democrats represent= ed by the old gentleman who wears swallcw-tail - blue coat, with gilt mountings, and a three-onnce -fob seal, will support Senator Buckalew ; the young,Democracy will rally round Playford, and Noyes will be as strong as either of them, while Ross will have a following respectable in num bers, and strong in its rough and tumble character. 'Another fraction is to be consider ed in this problem of Pennsylvania politics, is the= probable candidacy of Ex-Gov. Curtin. It is. now, only complex fraction, and though it may not be more than f, of yet Aleck. McClure, who is superior at develop ing whole numbers from common or Complei fractions, is entirely satisfied that this fraction will produce an in teger. He regards it about in this manner: Curtin as a component part of the candidate to be nominated for Governor, becomes, by the aceretion of the `strength of Backalen , and Naves, who will withdrani in his fa vor, the whole number of the free: tional part, which may be represented by No. 1. By carrying the State for Governor this year, he will develop sufficicint strength to carry liimgelf into Tftdon's %blink in Nut event of the latter's promotion from Albany to the White House.. With Curtin 8.1 Cabinet Minister, and lktcOlare—but the best laid schemes of mice, raid even of men, frequently miscarry, and should Eartranft be re-gaoled, the" bottom falls out of the Clurtin basket, and the eggs are smashed and the counted chickens come to grief. JAY COOKE & CO. 1 - now. about eighteen mont,hs sina thu failure of this firm, , and noth'ikg has been done to liquidate their.habilitios, except the payment of a 5-cent piece upon each dollar, of indebtedness, and a propositiOn Ito distributes propOrtionate amonnt'of " day-bird " securities, of a character as doubtful as the . financial standing of the bankrupts themselves ' but, before even these almost worthless securities—mostly. Northern Pacific Railroad bonds—could be distribut ed, some one in the interest of the. Northern Pacific company nominally, but in reality in the interest of the bankrupt firm, claims that Jay CoOke & Co. were subscribers to the stbek of the N. P. R. .R. Co. for a large amount; that their subscription has not been paid ; that - they are borind to pay it, and that the bonds held by Vie bankrupts ought to be applied towards the payment of the subscrip tion on that stock. ' 1 Judge Cadwallader, after hearing the petition of counsel representing the N. P. Co., informed the trustee that any distribution of atonic? to creditors would be at his own ,riak ; and it looks as though Jay Cooke S; Co., as owners of the Northern Paci fic Company, would get nearlyf all the assets of Jay Cooke & Co., ;the bankrupt bankers, excepting that i nt • tle 5-cent piece on the dollar. This firm is expecting to. be dischaiged from bankruptcy at an early day, with - a good character, and will prob ably resume business :again. THOS. A. SCOT VS. JOHN W. GAHHETH'. In Sept., 1574,. a number of rail read officials, iepreienting what tare called the grand-trunk lines, met at Saratoga and :entered into a compact to maintain certain high rates i for freight traffic' and. passenger fares. A month ago John W.Garrett, presi dent of the Baltimore and Ohio com pany, stepped down and out from the "Saratoga Compact," . andini the interest of producers West, and con sumers East, and the travelling-pub lie everywhere, reduced the rates of fares and freight about 40 per dent. This action of the Baltimore presi dent has " riled " Thos.A.Scott, pr es- 1 ident of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, whs has retaliated re fusing to carry passengers over that division of the Pennsylvania Railroad extending from Philadelphia to New York, on through tickets sold by the" Baltimore and Ohio company. This action causes a delay of several hours in Philadelphia for all such paisen gers, and a vexatious disarrangement of freight traffic. It is an ugly quarrel as it, now stands, and, excepting among stock holders of the Pennsylvania CoMpa ny, I find fewlsympathizirig with:Col. Scott.. The end,of it will doubtless be a compromiCe, by which lOwer freights and travelling rates will be secured. Itrnst, however, thati un der the general railroad law of Penn sylvania Hr. barrett will be enabled to build a competing line from this city to New Fork, which, with his probable acquisition of the Philadel phia, Wilmington an Baltimore Line, will give him a through line from New YOrk to Chicago, Wash ington and the South. Ell A 'DkE r IDFUL PRACTICE. It is the practice with a number of our leading retail establishments in this city to treat their lady customers to a glass of Wine wheil „they make shOpping visits, especially during very cold weather, like that we have had this winter. A few days.ago an estimable young married lady, yesid ing in Camden, N. J, came across the river to do some shopping. She visited the dry-goods house where she Usually makes - her purchases, and after baying what she wanted, was handed a giass of wine. She returned after leaving that stere, in a few minutes, to purchase something that she had overlooked, and was handed another glass of wine.' Not being _accustomed to drinking, the liquor went to her head, and she began wandering around town, and soon landed at Sixth and Bedford streets, the lowest neighborhOod in Philadelphia. • Here she was seen by a inan on the look-out for sneh'cases, who was leading her to a house of prostitution, when he was overtaken by policeman John Daffy, and the lady, rescued. As the woman was too much in toxicated to give her name or resi dence, she was taken to the,' 19th , district police station. Severity-six dollars were found in her posession, a handsome gold watch and diamond rings. A few hours after she re covered, and her husband was tele graphed for who had in the mean. time been searching everywhere ler her; and at 1 o'clock the next mor ning he arrived at the' police station and took his , wife, aged only 22 Years, and the Mother of two children, home. The hnsband is one of the leading business men of Camden, and had it not have been for policeman Daffy, the lady would have been robbed and outraged, and it may have !been; murdered.! The Camden family is"too respectable to name, but if*the huspand prosecutes the dealer, it 'will not be libellous to name hini' in double 7 leaded caps as a tradesman who gate` his customers drugged winos. The avera g e yield per acre of corn, wheat, oats, barley, buckwheat and potatoes is greater in Penna. than in Illinois by 15-3-7-6,6: and 29 bushels respectively. In values an acre in coil] yields $l5 more in Penna. than in Illinois; $7.48 in wheat; $1.95 in rye; $5.51 in oats; $6.51 in barley; $5.56 in buckwheat; and $20.61 in potatees. • RALF A MILLION LOST BY I FIRE: I . , . . SCFLANT6N, Feb. 27.—Theiestensive locomotive shops; known as the Cliff Works, situated south of thel Dela ware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad paisenger. depot at Scran ton, and owned by the Dickson Manufacturing Company, took fire about 3.30 o'clock this morning, and were CoMpletely destroyed; The braidings contained. very 'valuable machinery, as well as, three new lomotives jest completed and Materl ials to put' together eleven others. The loss is not less than $500,000, On which there inan insurance of 000, principally in New York com panies. Two hundred and - fifty men are thrown out of employment, some of whom lost their tools in the build ing. The fire is supposed to hay° accidently started in the office, and had gained great headway' before it wasdiscovered by the watchman, a new hand pat on yesterday, the regular watchman being sieb.,l : is the kind of h'teratare placedtefore the young Southerner.' The extract is - from . a primer honed; from the New - Orleansenulletin office, and we leave our readers to judge what will be the charaCter of the citi zens thus 'educated: ! • "This is the picture of , a soldier. He isa General. TheiGeneral says: "I tun not afraid." I. See how he . •strute.—Do You not wish you were a General? It is a fine thing to be a - General ? * • * * 'Here is the picfure of a ban dit.—See, the General; '' ' wants to do something to the bandit, Will he kill the bandit, or will!he write-it let ter ? No,' he will not ; write a letter, he will seed a telegraM. * * * This is the portrait of a President. ' A. cat can look at a President. See, there is a Congress. The Congress is 'afraid of the President. The President can make a G•nvernor, and he can make ,a Legislhtare. * * Here is the Portrait 44 a - - Governor. The Governor loves the bonds, and the 4overnor loves ! the people's money; but the Governor would not take the peoPle's money for anything inthe world. We have a de facto Governor. •He is a very good man. The nople love . He is very pious. rge loves the;' President and the President , loves 111 E. If your hair was kinky and four skin black, you might,some day be a Governor. See, the General, thci Governor and the President are all ruuning. What makes therU all run so ? Are they afraid ? I •Yes, they are 'afraid of the banditti." 'ow Ativertise r moats. I'OR RENT FROM FIRST OF 111.11C11.—Ifalf title b story dwelling on Church Street. I lunge , in kitchen, abundance of water, good gur4en, rent low{ - Inquire of ~ . • MAL IL AI. 2,1YE13,„ . I ' i'Cor. Poplar & 23 St. T 0 R S NOTICE;- E" :gages la hereby given tiat all persons indebted to thi estate of Juilus Widff, late of . Towanda, deemed, aro requested to mike immediate payment and all persons having claims against said estate must pressnt them tO him duly authelitraa• ted, for settlement. WM. WOLFF, March 4-75. I Executor, A UDITOit'S :NOTICE. In the .171- matter of the eState °fie. W. °cott in the Or tiban'tiCotirt of armlfors Comity. The undersigned, an auditor appointed by the Court to distribute feudal in the hands of ad. mirilstrator of I said' eStatti will attend; to the duties of his ippointisieut int his odic° iin Troy borough, Psi, on TCESCAX, the 6th darof 1t.71, at 10 o'clotik a. M at nthrch time and place all persons claim i 9 upon said lands, must present them or bs forever debtrred from, coming in:l4) . on'the &late. wm. E. CIIILSO:C • aich 4.7 -w4 . 7 41editor. WA NTE ACTIVE AND RESPONSIBLE AELE"CTS ,to .. • CANVASS BRADFORD COUNTY, For the sale of the best - WHEEL HORSE! HAY RAKE . In the Wirirla. Address i C. IL TARBELL. March 1-75402. Towanda, Yi ORPHANS' COURT SALE.—Par suant to an order 'et the Orphan's Court of Bradford county, Pa he eold at public sale, on the premises% in Asylum toWnship, in said county, on THURSDAY, the _.sth day of _MARCH. A. D. 1 4 7::.. at 1 o'clock the!follo , aing described rral .estate, property of .late Jeremiah Sickler. to-wit : Bounded on the north by lands of W. R. Storrs, on the east by W.IR. Storrs • and Reuben Vickler,'on the south by Rentien Sickler, and on the west by Mvron W. Kilmer; containing forty-four {44) acres of land, more or less. The improvements are one (1) trame hone , . ope - ot plank hotise, - and a good born, with a - good chance for under ground Ambling. Sant fartn is situated in Asylum ~towuship, on the road learli,:g - from Towanda to FretichtOwn, is 4 miles froM Towanda; and 1 miles from Standing Stone depot. on the Lehigh Valley R. R , is handy , to school and meetings, an'd is in a good state of cultivation. TwRIIS of - flak.: $lOO, neon the property beln struck down; s4th) on confirnaabon of sale, and bal ante in threo equal annuali payments, with intere6 from confirmation.. I G. W. Eu.uxu, Feb. 27-75. i Adininiiitrator. , ' 1 fir RIAL LIST.-- - -51arch Term ]at 1.. Troy. 1575. Meazer Pomeroy Vs. C. C. McClelland bootie Fti Persons vs J Wel` . - appeal A C Moore vs John Cummins .. 4 IS'All 0 Wm - I:rano vs Wm R. Foster debt Win it Foster VS Win ltratiti case S J Delass vs Mark Tyler , zip Peat do d 0 Tyler i •I John Dustin et al John Beliitt ' ' : .! Lafayette Leonard vs Fanning Cole et al eject Lewin & Coon VA Parry H Bring et a 1.,.... „Ea fa Franklin P Persona vs 'Robin F Redington case' James Williams vs N C P.aillcay Co ' 086 Ferderick ulllitms vs do _ - do L &eight vs Homeo Dimond appeal Smith & Hall va Wilmot Soper et al issue T at llaxwell et al vs corn issue T J Irwin va John G llssor appeal S W Pain's assignees vs Gettuait Insurance Co..debt Patridk lit Belly Sze vs J II 4 Geo Drake ..C.3150 Cornelius Insider vs. Eluglillosier's a diu'r.....asst J E Bullock vs Irwin Az Gleason et al ' att ex do • A W Thomas! exr's of al ~.. do' James Fox vs •do I do do Daniel Compton vs L D Brrdford of al appeal Laman Murry vs Ambrose Mu •ry's ainer...asstnp Manly & Jackson vs B L Knight appeal Peter Monroe vs jaines CuwAn. assumpalt Manley k Jackson vs B I..E.uights.... . , ..... appeal Gll Viele vs Fred A Lotig , do Jaraea 11 Brink vs Henry Miller do Joseph E Utter vs John A Fan Wert..........assump F II Persons is John Grist. ,l ' %Teal ••• Subp!lenaS for first' week returnable March 22, 1575, at 2 Wank p. in. 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THE Will be !paned on Sibirflay, March 20th, and crackly thereafter, eontaini43ll important news of. tb'a week; and complete Market and' Financial Be. ports. fer ono year, postage free, at tliefollow- Au rates: J. W. F. ONE COPY - Sl.OO TEN CONES ,• : 9.10 ' TWENTY COPIES.. --,. 16 00 ADVERT/SFIONTS twenti r five cents per line 1 , Remittances 1 14hould be Made by Drafts or'Post Office orders. Address ; . THE I'm ES, No. 14. Sopth Seventh Street. I March 1-'75 . . 1 • •1 Philadelphia. 1 09 TO JACOBS' TEMPLE OF FASHION ' 3IAIP7.BTSEET, FOE:LATEST STILES IN SPRIEG SUMMER CLOTHING . GOODS. TLEC27I7* x-vr..r DAT. E = Ave! Tr WI& A • NNUAti - anal meeting, of the ilowantla Eurelm Mower Co.. for the election of ofli'rors, will take placo on MONDAY,. MANCLt H, at 2 teclock p. in., at the of tae company, is Tf:iwalatla Etwon4o3.. 'Hy ender of trio President,- 1 ; - O. TRACY, Vei!, I.), 1,74, ELECOND Nygrz DAILY ATI) WIEEE.LY IiOTHINp TNVO',CEITTS L Trost A Ikul. 1,. f3PaINL+ OF 1875. Sir o.` FRO 'T i SONS u • Ace now recede- In/ their usual lop. • . pty of Goode for the Spring Trade, and have on hand of their own treks, a fall line of • the boll fungtose be folnad any • ill I • MARKET IN TIE 'I WORLD I:: I' ; { We him la sto4 ,i; s • , OVER TWO' HUNDRED I 3: 111 1 C HAMBER 4SUITSt'.- i 1 , • Irrom $28 : .00 to $300,00, making the largest mad • , • BEST ASSORTIIEIiT OF HOUS4 OUTSIDE OF • NEW YOR4 our,unsortniont of OHAIRS t BEDSTEAD, BIIREXUS, STANDS, ~~ LOUNGES,4O., I '• Wer never better.. A COMPLETE ASSORTMENT. OF PARLOR ,PLUSH; VELVET, AND ALWAY IN STOOK, OR FURNIBREO ; ON SHORT! NOTICE li If you are , in noed of anything in the line,of lln itertatchtg, yon wi 1 flea the BEST ASSORTMENT, AND LOWEST PRIORS, of any lions° in this county ijrnemoipber,we are-selltn4l-goods cbeap, for. cash. GIVE US .t CALL J. Q. PROS r.&; SONS; !Elwell 1•if1.10+ TABLES, =I ROCKERS, , ! II Ell =I HAIR CLOTH, TiRRY j~ ~~ ~ SILK GOODS; I ! 1 , I- BEST GOODS, Slain Sae ate H I 1