NEWS PEON ALL %mud- • MAsunn dinners area new bind inl'a • rasian society. - ~ ' • Ea FAY. 'Hendricks is Kentucky's favor ite for the Et. Louisnomination. • . ALL of the decayed . roots of the old , Bestsn elm have at last been removed. - THE drive of cattle from Texas during the present season will -number .about -3u0..000 head. NOWAIAL education in Kansas is now e‘incentrated - by an Act of the Ligislature - at the State University. • , .3tonE than one thousand' head of cattle dted in.the neigbborhood of Pioche, Net, - during the late Storms. .111:sqA contains 12,313,458 Children be tween seven and. fourteen, years of age, andonly'69 per cent. go to school.. THE Legislature of Ohio has adjourned, • after a session o,ff 101 days, which is the shortest seiSion, in fifteen years. :; ' AL,Ex.c.atF i n; 31cClurtE, editor of the Philadelphia 27'inzez,, has been indicted for libelling A. McKay, the naval contractor. Tx. duties on 19,122.138 pounds of sal - gar' ithdrawn from bond at the port of 'Boston in March, amounted to $414,427.- •t-t . - THE ildegate;, to the Cincinnati Con= . x-rent ion will number 754, and' the majority required for the Presidential nomination' is a3B. - A. NI:31131:P: of parties - who went to the Black Hills have settled there permanent ; lvhaving found ;rounds for r so dOinc , 0 in • • new cemetery. . THE Ohio Senate has passed a bill pro viding for holding Congressional elections . in that State here?fter in November in stead of October: - BLAINE delegates have been elected from Baltirriore county to ..die Maryland ;State .Cmvention—a triumph for the Ful toniyarty• in that State. , • FOR the first' time since the death of President Lincoln, ,eleyeo years ago, the ;anniversary of his assassination,`.bceurrilig 'last week, fell on Good Friday. , . • LATE indications in. comection with newly-discovered lead mines in• Kan -saN promise well, the deposit being gen erally rich and near the surface. I3osTos has been mulcted again in a snit for damages for personal injuries. time Elipbeth E. Moulton recovers • for slipping into a coal hole. • • THE populatiqn of Philadelphia,'-accord _ ing to the census taken on.the 3d of !7517.448, a gain 0f1143,420 in five years, compared with the cnited States cen- IP. A. JENNtscs, the commissioner frOm gneciastand, New South Wales and • • Tasmania to 1..1112. , Centennial Exhibition, has arrived at 'San Fhtteiseo fronat-.Aus- TnEn.E . are said Lobe over a thousand • pupils in each of the .forty4wo school bitildins in 'Chicago ; the 36,953 school • -children Of St. Louis are distribute among buildings. THE Democratic jOurnals of Mississippi — a - s;ert that all the -Democratic Represen-. tatives Qom that Stateexcept Mr. Lamar, - whyhas.been elected United States Sena-. tor. !Is be re-elected. ' THE Boston AdrerliSer notesl . hat at the -opening of the Centennial Exhibition uany distinguished persons are expected, including, ex.:Governors; . gx-Mayors, ex pressmen and ex-hibitors. ' GENERAL SABERT OGLES BY, command ' ed the division of General Jackson's ar iiny nearest the river at the battle of New Orleans. is still living in Texas. He was ' 'one hundred years old last February. CAI , TAix Jl W. LA.NtArt, of Buffaloville, Spencer county ; Ind., has in his possession • a neat little cabinet of black walnut made by Abraham .T.incold while he was still a .. lad and a resident of that county. Ilittuquo conductorS in Ohio have re cently had' police powers conferred upon them. ;by an act of the Legislature, for the • arrest of three-card monte men. Why not =1 ave . the same plan adoptedeveryWhere ? IT will cost the Sonth Bostdn Gas Light Company .$:30,000 to settle-the claims for damages growing out of the Federal St. explosinn,l the matter having been ar-. ranged without resorting to the Courts. THE fifty-seventh anniversary of the in , stitul'‘ h ,f Odd Eellowship in this coun trY'lviii ty2 observed on the .26th in Bald ' mere by a grand proceSsion of the various Lodges of that city, orations, banquets, rid.. • I)ETRoITic about to lbse one of its most , biem.i. The l'ece Press says a I.l)othlack - Of that city starts for Philadel ' • pilia next week, and, calculates to'• make t wenty miles a day when he strikes a plank read.. • ilost6n erf , tt rnal says that Harvard r send a representative efew to +•” )tend i with the oarsmen. from Cam . briage and Oxford, England i in the eight , o:ii ocl race, .if the • latter -row at the Cen t!„.iinial regatta. . ' Wixssow is reported to have written to a friend in Boston to•the 'effect that if the government fails to eitnujite him he shall 'u-tuth ; to this country as soon as he is re ' 3-a:fedi and that he will "make it hot" for some ilf• his old friends. EN-SENATOWBEN WADE of whose , • preferences in the matter of Presidential clralitlatcS have been doubtful, has writ-, ten a letter • approving of Hayes, and promising to support him strenuously in tip; Cinkinuati Convention. • THE Ohio (louse of Representatives has jußt. passed two praisiyortny bills, one compelling, railroad - elnductors to eject gamblers, and another. forbidding, the em- . • 14oyment ofleitildren under fourteen years of age as_.,gynthasts or public singers. regularariny of the United States t consists of 23,346 membe'rs. of whom the • onicers. including the professors and ea -Ilet.at 'West Point, number 2,M6,, There are ten regiments of cavalry, live of artil hely, and twenty-five of infantry. A MAN named Miller,has been arrested at Chester, Pp., who_has been taking ad . _ vantage of .11: religious excitement in dif , fcrent parts of the country to adyeitise, s:trescopi e views of the Holy Land in re ,lfgious journals. In answer to his adver , .'t iseatem s lie received large sums of money for Which he made no return. ez • . .4., CU ONT EltrEIT ~VC-QCII, pied' is in cm - culation which fails to be genuine only beeatise it is not. iSsited by a UnitedStateg . as it cozgains the full amount of mend in 'weight and fineness. It is said that:the five-cent pieces cost the Govern nient Only half a cent apiece. ' LAST Wednesday morning a tank of oil containing twelve thotisand barrels at Bear ('reek station, on the Allegheny Val ley Railroad, was set on tire and exploded by lightning. At last reports oil ambunt iitgto tifty4ive thousand barrels was burn ing! and a loss of about ,' 11 ,100,904) had been caused. • TILE Greensburg., Pa., Dellineratie :Tidies of the f;th_ instant Says: "It is re ported that a Glasgow, Scotland, iron firm have purithased 'the coal Underlying the Kemp farni, south of this place, and dur ing the coining summer will erect a large nuinber Of coke ovens and manufacture cute on an extensive scale for shipment 1.• Scotland." • Tor JudiciarY' Comrnitleb of the 3Lts •;••aehtt.4etts Senate ,has unanimously re -1•• •rtc d that the bill legalizing the marriage between _,Tames Parton and Elen Willis Eidi . cdgo ought not to; be rejected on ac -A'')unt of any doubt aS'to ifg, constitution ality. and a majority of the Same commit -tc.• recommended that 'it was expedient _t•i• pass the bill. IN • Gm:NikNv the: movement for the higher edUcation orwonien and for the, op..xiing up of new avoimttons is making Leiulway by means of the foundation in. Vat ious • towns of first-rate grammar schooh; f6r girls, equal.to.those for boys. ns well as b' the exertions of the different i'muen-Vereine, or.woments associations, vvhich recently niet in a delegates' confer- MEE • - A 4Geonctl darkey was found with a pi,tul in Lis pocket the other day, tined audrsentenced to a year's hard labor , in the chilitigalig, under amobsolcte law _against 'cOncealed NV a eons. It would ,be a curicNity to . know how mans of the jury and other oflieers.of the court were carry-' ii”r; - seven-i , h(x)ters in their pockets at the xi, ment this heavy judicial decision was leached. ' ' ' • TUE Lancaster Exprfis findS in.an old 11(i)k. dated 1772, and entitled "The I:M7 ersa' American Almanack and Yearly 3lag - aziue," the following curious old ad vivrtisernenf: "The ; Lancaster Stage- Niaggon sets off from Itudolph Bonner'g, ai the King of Prussia, - in 3farket-street„ 01 Friday-, and arrives at Taffvtaffer's at the Buck in King 'street, Lancaster, on ::iaturday ; each passenger, paying ten Shillings, and leaving Lancaster on 'Mon day, comes into Philadelphia tt~aiit on l'uesday, each passenger paying the same ,- L i c . e. !! • padfora *porta EDITORS; E. 0. GOODRICH. S. W. ALTORD. Towanda, Pa., Thursday, April 20. 18764 ONE RAT OF HOPE. Now that one step has been taken in the right - direction, let Congress' go forward in - the, good work and pursue the plain course to honesty and the fall payment of the floating debt that remains unprovided for. It should be a 'great cause for rejoicing with every true and right-minded person Wilds Government that we are to be relieved of the due-bills of less denomination than one dollar, and no longer to be in the luirdlia ting piisition of having government due-bills for ten cents without pro vision for payment. A 4?-, per cent. bond due in fifty years would sell for par in gold, and in any event the floating debt should .be paid if a 5 I per cent. bond is sold ; which would yield a direct profit of over 5 per cent. in taxes, at the least possible rate, on the bank that furnishes the circulation. If the banks furnish the circulation the taxe r s will be 15 per cent. on the circulation, which would leave a profit to the people of 10 - per cent. over 5 per cent. bonds if issued to pay the floating debt. It would be necessary for the banks-to' have more capital compared With the cir culation if they were to redeem in gold, and they now average 1 more capital than circulation, and are taxed on the whole %apital, and there is no reason to fear that the banks will have any more advantages under the, present law than the interests of the people demand,' as competition will regulate that, and the people will not be annoyed with too many banks, and the dividends will probably be sufficient to induce the necessary