rim rot ALL NATIONS. - ; • THE 'Archbi shop of Sevin°, . is lead. Aik; extensive revival is pregressb2g.at Vassar'Colle,ge. . .-. .-- THE Anglo-American cable - is again in ,Nvorking prier: , lionlerm SENNOVII and Ttoscoo - Conklin are brothers7in-law. PRESIDENT ' G RANT was fifty-four years old on Friday last. . - ComtturLsonY education is- pronounced a failure;in England. .. • 'l`nt ice pack in Buffalo haihor extends out fifteen miles from shore. Tun New York Lotus Club banqueted Offenbach Saturday evening. Dcr.LiN University will send a crew to the Centennial Rowing Match. tan condition of Commodore Vander hilt.is not so favorable as it was. TTIE fire of Stonewall Jackson, is to be published by J.)3. Lippincott &:Co. Tun-? 6,000 hotel bill of King Nalakawa is vet duo to a New York hotel keeper. -Whisky makers are willing to pay. atax of half a dollar a gallon, not more. 21 s.rntex jur):has-been secured in the ',";,000,00.0 suit against Peter B. Sweeney. BISItOP SIMPSON -made the prayer, at the opening of the CeLtennial Exhibition. r_tuL Mourily has declined to play chess at Philadelphia during the centen • '. Tim sale of cattle will bring into Texas this year, ' four or fire millions of dol lars. .. . . TUE Russell Cutlery company, at T,ur , ncr!'s Falls, Mass., are running on full time. ' '.. . , 1 , ~. Tar, country about Quin4i 111., is under wat er,` by an overflow of the Miss - issippi. 1 A -STRONG and flexible paper. is made from rice grass which abounds in the country. - • t • TUE women of New York city have raked $21,162.72 for tho Centennial show. , .. • Mn. Wrirr SykF.,: , F , , Olive Logan's hui band, has been nominated Consul to Florence. ' , . . 011{DINAL MITI.OSEEY is improving, and expects to icsume clerical duties in a week or so. • , • Rvi..iNn's Trade Journal greatly la,. m,Mts , off of orders to Enolane r Manufactories. . DrniNt; the month of February our expiirtS exceeded 'our Imports by more than $1::,000,0 0 4, . Mts. B.llEqEti WILLIAMS teas taken the I;‘ss of her husband so nuich i to heart that • her, life is threatened. • , . , Titt: Spanish Cortez, ffi3 to" 12, has de creed that dissenters shall enjoy tote same civil rights as Catholics.. A 1 - 110r5ioNn- -- (Va.) lady 'bas - the re mains of a bouquet of floWers sent to her - by General Lafayette.. THE Philadelphians want the admis sion fee to the Centennial reduced from tiftY to twenty-live cents. TrrE first propeller of the Season I - U • readied the ice barrier which shuts out Buffalo harbor from the lake. ;Dom Pr.rutoid Pittsburgh on Satur . day. and thence journeyed to Oil City to inspect the petroleum business. TfiE Northwestern Lumberman, of Chicago, is a large and. beautiful paper. devoted to the lumber business. .1. , "; California the grain crops never looked better; and ininamse yields are ex -pc eted. Fruits also -promise well. MRzS BLANCHE TUCKER, an American, he'r de but.recently,at Convent Gar don, London, and . was well received. • Titnr..x .now accuses John, Kelley to have tampered with the Canal It;ng, to bring about his defeat at St. Louis. ,A MAssAritt - SErrs paper company, re made.a sheet or roll of .paper four 4" miles long, which weighed half a ton. I:N . 61,1;11 eUpitalists are said to have Lost about $500,000,000 in twelve months iu Ttirkili, Egyptian and Peruvian se- curdles_ u....TErrEnsoN DAvIS arid her daught er Lase left Memphis. for New Orleans. aria r ilFsail . with Mr Davis for Europe in a few days. - IT is reported that Russia, at the I3er . • =lin cfmference of Powers, will propose to make Bosnia and Jlerzeggrina Turkish vassal States. , t TlLE.incoxr,from the sale of business privileges on the Centennial grounds ag• gre. , itte three hundred and fifty-one - . 7 l.ltonsand dollars. TIIEEE is a fair pi:Ospect that the. En glish Colleges will b . e represented at'Sar ' Cambria :op will certainly comp, 11111 Oxford probably. SENATint Tnytmas keeps gaining del egates to the '4-416 'Democratic state con vention, and his chance of carrying the state IS visibly improving. I.AIV:E. lake. iecently 'discovered fbolit forty miles from Laramie, W. T., Ines a thick deposit of sulphate of maple ; siain.almost a . pure state. k`N a farm at th'e Gap. Lancaster coun -tY. there are chestnut fence-rule, well preserved, which were made in 1760--one ,butifircll and sixteen years ago! A trieklayer recently died in London Ica,ftind tiilrave the heaviest brain on weighed • sixty-five ounces, _ The man coubLiteither read or write. Tkiu Tfit - mj: -is gleing to Texas to live, meld the Chicago Pinot thinks that some day we shall hear of Tom being waylaid maid abducted by a Texas grasshopper. TIIE heirs of the late George T. Cobb, of New-lersey, have endowed the chair of New Testament ExegeSis in the Drew Theological Seminary by the gift of Si-10,000, • - _ • tunnel is t(lbe constructed un der the !Thames lliVer at Woolwich. It is to cost sloo,ooo, will be for root pas sengers only, and will be wide enough for fiveto Walk abreast. • . NI - 311;ER of the dry goods houses of Boston have arranged with the different railroad corporations to have parcels chocked from the sfores to the depots for • out-of-town purchasers. p oEsIDEN - i• B A T:NAii . o of Columbia Col- le e has .accepted an invitation from the facility of The Vanderbilt University in Tenn., to deiiver an address at the next 'Commencement. Mr. will of tf:e late Edward. H. Per or, Hartford.. Coini.. gives 57-1,000 each tfi - the American Home Missionary Society and to . . the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions. TnE new coach imported •by Mr. Ben-. volt, of the .71er;i1d, cost $17.000, and is the athninition of envious observers. It is essentially English in make, is very very-handsome and very showy. ' 'NEW Yotu lady on a visit to Europe has lift t*O - poodles in charge ,of a dog (Viet cess; for the keeping of which she is to pay iil,o yearly and provide a carriage once a month in which the, pets are to be • air"...d. • ,Ttuf Indian, Commission of the Prates- Episcopal Clllnrh has issued an an.; Hal for funds. schools are full and the religious services well attended. The r.chotd at;, the :potted Tail Agency has 1704410;i. • _ Tut. story that Don Carlos and three of his AeneraLs arrived in Halifax two weeks on the steamer ,Ilibernian, , is - cohtradieto by a gentlethan who was a rossenger,by that vessel. and who is per- S 4 ;pally :164n:tinted with Don Carlos. A corY :)f the painting of the battle of }',tanker Hill. Six. feet by nine, worked in si3-thread on broadcloth, containing ,- C4o,otiO Stitches, the work of forty-nine wcekS, is to - be exhibited at Philadelphia by ,the Wcied Sewino. Machine Comparo 1' of Hartford. , impils i of one of the public schools . of Des - Moines. lowa. have written a book a t;” n t scholars mid school iu 1S71;. - Afser exhibiting the volume atAbe Ceu tenniartbey will base it carefully pre . *4.n-ed.-that dt may tell the children of 1976 aboui . the children of to-day. . ' AV TEL: company in Holyoke, :nags., has manufactured an immense ream of .p:for the Centennial. The sheets are by Is: feet, the ream weighs about atop, the valtie of the •D•4l shuts is $1.7i110. and : cut intOlo'rdinary sheets of note paper they Wouhl make .7,00,000 sheets. -_, • , Tilu4.inisas Legislature' at its last ses • s ing anui.ticled the act relatino• ' to public ' bystriki ou t the work " white," thus virtually abolishing the colored -• selmols 'mid making the public ,schoids eq irrespeet ive 'of color. This bats eatved somv (14turbance in Leaven- mi,rtil patina *pinta, r - '7T'7ll E. 0. GOODBICEI. 0. W. ALVOI.IO. Towanda, Pa., Thursday, May 11. 1371 . IILEPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONY N. Tioat. The next Union Republican NationaMonseatios for the nomination of candidates for President and Vice President of the United States, will beheld In the city of Cincinnati, on Wednesday; the it 1114117 of June, 1376, at 13 o'clock noon, and will conslat of delegates from each State equal to twice the bum b,:r of Its Senators and RepresentaUres to Coneri.rit, and of two Delegates from each 'organized Terri tory and theDistrlet of Columbia. In calling the convention for the election of dele egates, the committees of the several States Are.. Vi- ommended to invite all Republican electors, and all other voters, without regard tOpast political direr. I vices or previous party difficiiities, who are %aliened to reviving sectional Issues, and desire to proitiote friendly feeling and permantMt harmony thivitigh mit the country by maintaining and enforcing - all emistitutlonal rights °revery citizen, Including „the full and free exercise of the right of szrOige without Intimidation and without fraud; whif ate in favor of the continued prosecution and puhisb mmt of all gt>icial dishonesty, and of an ecoaoml• cal administration of the Government by JoiSiest ' faithful and capable officers, who are In faviw of making end, reforms in government as experience May from time toilme suggest; who are opPiteed to Impairing the credit of the nation by depreniat- Mg any of its obligations, and In favor of sustaining In every way the national faith and financial hatter, who hold that the common school system If -the nurse' of American liberty, and . shonid be itaaln tattled atorduteiy free from seetarlin eontroh, , yrho helium that for the promotion of these ends this dl recttoil of the Government should continue in be confided to those who adhere to the prinClpii<of 1778, support tifent as Inetirporated In the eonifitn tion and taws, and who are in favor of reeogniilng and strengthening the fundamental prinelp/e of national unity In this Centennial AnniVersa4 Of the Republic. EDWIN D. MORGAN Chairman Republican National Committee. WILLIAZr. CZIANDLTAM, Secretary. DELEGATES TO THE CINCIN34II CONTENTION. • , The followlugnamed gentletnedwere sclectet by the Republican Convention to represent Pen'Wayl- Tanta in the Cincinnati Cony - oral* with two Oter , uate3 from each District : • . - ELECTORS-AT-LARGE. **- Ilenj. 11. brewster, J. 11. Chalfant, AlPg'y , • CONGRESSIONAL ELECTORS. Diet. Dist I. John Welsh. ' 15.-Mlles L. Tracy. F.- 2. Henry Dil:•'sion. 18. 1 8. W.Eitarkweathri. :LT. S. Ito!ratan. 17. - - 4., • C',.haries T. Jones. Is. J. S. Lyons. 5. - rdwin If. Fitter. 19. Wm. Day. •, i;. Benjamin Smith. - 20. Wm. Cameron. -, 7. .1• W. Bernard. 21..1. U. Donnelly. ~.. 8..lacol) 'Knob!). 22. Dante' O'Neil. ! ' 9. John B. Warfel. IL Wm. Neel). . .- M. Jof•xpli Thomas. 24. Andrew B. Berger. 11. Arlo Pardee. 25. S. B. Jackson. 12. Lewis Pugh. 24. James Westerman.- /3. E. S. Stillman. 27. W. W. Wilber. .:. 14. WM. Calder. ~ The alternates from this District are: A. STE rticcsi, Sumuehanna county, and ROBERT SiutTil Waynd, county. - • :',.. The Following named gentlemen were placed" ion the electoral ticket : ALTMNATES-AT-LATIGE. Min Cameron, Henry M. Hoyt,- Wm. H. Lee,ls, Hobert W. Mackey, RE 1 . 11 ES EN TA TI E [I EL EG ATES Dist. 1. Henry H. Bingham, 15. J. E. Carman, t Wm..% Pollock. W. T. Davies. "..'john 1.. 11111. 16. John R. Bowen, Morton McMichael. L. Rogers. 3. Georre W. Falrman, . 17. John Cessna, M. liall Stanton. . Edward Seoll. 4, Win. B. Mann, 18. J. 31. Stewart, -,,- W. H. I:entitle. -John Winer, 3. .1. 31. Byram, i In. Charles H. Ifailin, - i James Johnston. ' Eduard 31ePher84tt, 6. 11enryT.3tarlington, W. John B. Linn, •-.':,-; Alan Wond, - jr. J. H. Murray. • , • ":, 7. (co. E. Darlington, 21. D. 8. Atkinson, 1 „,', • g It. Donnelly. '..:.. . • .1. Smith Fathey. ...-. A. W. S. McManus, 22. C. L. Magee. F. E. (;r I c !... nte r . H. H. Hampton. ' • 9. O. J. Dickey. - = H. W. Oliver, Jr., ; Henry S. F.berto. 7 .7. A. Chambers. • : . 10. IT. J. Reeder, 24. M. S. Quay, ,_ F. 11, young. ".V. S. Moore. 11. ('barter Albright, - :3. R. Itulolison. .. 11. A: Berkley. Simon Trull.. :-.. • 12. F. N. Willard. , 211. 1.. G. Linn, ."...• --. 11,•nry W. l'altner. 11. C. Illoss. 13. Lin ltartholotuew, 27. Thomas 31. WalkOi• • Daniel F. 31dier. J. 11. Osman. . -.,;- . 14. SUmnet F. Davis, .. J. W. Grovo. • ~ i I. ELMIRA had a $20,000 fire Sun day morning last. The fire ri natal in SPAULDING'S lumber l; near the depoti The cars and track of t 4 L. V. it. it. Co. - were damaged. '''• . „Wm the independent (?) press of this county, who are just now manor. festing, such a ihorror of the :‘ Bra 4,. ford County Ring,” tell the publfe when any "incompetent" or "knave'' has been foisted upon the party thrci . , the instrumentality of the " ring ? 110 w SUSCEI4IBLE some seemingly sensible people are to the seductive wiles of the " green-eyikl - monster.! Our llarrisburgh correspondent ; a feW weeks' since, indulged in a little . pleasantry in regard to the Nev: County Lill, and in his comment perpetrated a pun on the name of our, respected Senator; whereat.' llooKEft snarles at the REPORTER.; and charges us with "slurring" reycted sister town, when the letter bears no such construction. Ttir„Neiv York Times is thus sar castic : Every intelligent Democrat: must see the folly of wasting time by; accusing Cabinet officers and ex : Governors of using the public funds to suppress. illegal voting and to Tgilip Federal soldiers, While the far greater criminal, ULYSSES S. GRANT, is not called upon to answer for his outrages at Vicksburg. That GRANT Was for years a zealous and'indefa tifrable tool of ithe United States; that he deliberately caused thousands of men to be shot down at Vicks burg and its vicinity, merely because they ,ventured to oppose his will ; and that in carrying out his appoint ed task—which there is no• doubt that he undertook with alacrity—he, directly or indirectly, caused the Na tional Treasury to be drained, no Democrat who can read cherishes the slighteSt doubt." A Providence, Rhode Island, man has just received information of a child of his that .he didn't know he had, and it opens up quite 1 roman tic story. About twenty years ago, he was divorced, and his wife shortly gave birth to a daughter, without his knowledge, she having kept her con dition secret. She removed from the city i and gave out that the child was her sister, which was readily believ ed, as she was quite young. Some time after she became engaged to a young clergyman, •but a report was circulated that the little one was her illegitimate child, and, as he was not satisfied with herstatement that the child was her sister, and she did not dare to tell. hint the truth; she lost him. When the little "}ister " had grown up she married, .Gul her bus bind learned the whole tru l th, which he divulged to her: She has commu nicated with her father, who is still at Providence, andbe has started to make ' , her a visit. Now to complete the story, he should be reunited with his foimer wife. CLOSE OnTIBLE SESSION. On Friday last, May 5, at twelve o'clock, the Pennsylvania Legili a- tare adjourned ., sine die. It is not our ptupose at this time to er.ter Into any extended review'of,the work of the body. While much has been done that would not bear the test of dose public scrutiny, a large amount,, of valuable work has s aceom plished. A correspond:. tof the Philadelphia Times furnishes the fol lowing account of the closing scenes and resume of the labors of the ses:. 61011: "The Centennial Legislature, fp" its members delight to style it, was adjourned without day between 12 and 1 o'clock. The scenes were of the usual cbaracter,except that` in the Rouse the sense of the Speaker's un fitness for his place and of wrongs suffered by individual members drew forth thirty-nine very emphatic nega tive responses to Mr. Gunster"a reso lution attesting his "ability and im partiality,' about the most unfortu nate choice of words that could have been made. The vote was mostly Republican, but associated with them were Fincher, of Luzern, Pluntimer, of Crawford, and some other Demo crats. There were the usual presen tations in the House,- but it was sig nificant that the most costly and ele gant of the gifts went to an over worked and faithful subordinate at the Clerk's desk, Mr. .Herbeit, of Mercer. The Senate, with great good sense, abandoned the custom of pres ent-making, and devoted its closing hours to pleasant speeches and legis lative reminiscences by Strang, Dill, Jones, Lawrence, Davis, Wood and the Lieutenant Governor. Senator Strang, in speaking of the latter, said his ' fairness, ability and a per fect impartiality, challenged the ad miration of every Senator on the floor.' ' Newmeyer's brief speech was rather in the nature of a valedictory than a salutatory. The message of the Governor, iwithholding his approval of the appropriations to pay the ex penses of certain investigating com mittees, 'contracted without previous authority of law,' was not unexpect ed. It was received a few moments before adjournment, read and laid on the table without comment. , THE LEGISLATION OF TUE. SESSION. The number of bills sent to the ex ecutive for his approval was 233, -of which 95 originated in the Senate and 138 in the House. Nearly one third of the whole number were ap propriation or pension and private ,or local acts. The prOportion of laws passed to the number of bills intro duced is shown by the fact that of 595 House bills but 138 were carried through both Houses, and of 303 Sen ate bills, but 95'were sent to the Ex ecutive. To get at the really import ant work of this Legislature is not an exhaustive labor by any means. Many of its sins of omission and commission will be condoned by the people, on account of two laws that have been placed on the statute-book. First in importance is the revenue bill, ".relating to the sinking fund, and throwing such guards and publi city about the treasury balances that its use hereafter to promote schemes of political management will be well nigh impossible. The treasury ring is cribbed; confined and " busted;" it is a thing of the past. Next in im portance is the law abolishing the fees of county officers in Philadel phia, Luzerne and Alegheny coun ties, and substituting salaries. This became a favorite idea in the Legisla ture, and a bill extending the princi ple to all the counties of the State, only failed from want of time to act lon it in the 'Senate after it had pass ed the House. A. chattle mortgage law, applyirier to lumber, iron and petroleum in bulk, is regarded- as of importance in the existing depressed condition of these interests. The stay law failed, although it was pass ed as a universal panacea. General insurance and banking laws were passed which revise and codify exist ing statutes,`witla such additions as were deemed proper. A bill reported as of the utmost iniportante in some parts of the State is the one relative to voluntary assignments, authorizing assignees, for the benefit of creditors, to make sales of real estate encum bered by liens. There has been ex traordinary demand for copies of this law from all parts of the State. It seems to have reached a sore spot. The general corporation law of 1874 has been extended to include addi tional branches of business and in dustry. The law regulating appeals , from sumary convictions by aldermen and justices, was an urgent need in cities of the State where committing magistrates have been playing the tyrant on a small scale. A bill to encourage the erection of watering troughs on the public roads, and the ." skunk-scalp" bill, created more dis cussion than almost anything else, .except the boom and new county `bills. The former passed and the Matter was " scalped." A general Printing law, very lengthy and going 'into the most minute details, was also passed. Just - what particular :snake it contains has not been de veloped. A general poor-house law, &ming to cure some of the frightful 'Sbirses prevalent in these institutions, and changing their names:to " Homes for; thepestitute," was passed, and is ri propbr and berteficient measure. Among the b more importhnt bills de feated, were the new county till and the judicial salary bill. The framing a laws on these subjects is made Mandatory by the Constitution, but it is doubtful if there will ever-lie an agreement, interests and opinions are so varied and conflicting. A, careful revision of the tax laws, introducing Many important reforms and modern ideas, failed from want of time HOW THE MONEY WAS yoTED. Besides the general approPtiation bill, for the ordinary expenses of the government, there were some forty, fiVe bills - making specific appropria ,tions. _Grouping the most important piirposes, the following sums were Voted: . Educational st,sso,ooo Interest on public debt 1,=,000 *Eiecutire. Legislative and Judicial 1,160,000 Prisons and Rerortnatorie* 296,175 I tii•ane licopitals .438,060 neat, dumb and blind 311.000 Public printtng and binding 97.500 Public building* and grounds 17.3541 :The Legislcdiee Record, so'skilfully lids it been " p2dded," will probably-, riin up to twenty-five hundred'pages, costing the State upwards of $30,000 for something worse than waste pa .pr.. , A . et.upose the "ring " of. this _c6uilty ? W ill those who are raising such a hue and cry about the "ring ". tubs us who are included in the cor- relit organization ? We will cheer fUlly give space in these eohimna for the names, and for the enumeration of any specific charges of guilt. aa~sßsssl. The Confederate 'nudority in , the' preunt Eonse of Representatives at Washington" never lied ;any very great adniiritio4for Gene* GRANT *on& the day his military skill and genius foreshadowed the doomof the rebellion in which they had engaged in order to ,overthrolr the Govern ment. Ono !of the latest Indications • of their animos i ty was the adoption of a resolution of inquiry as to his absence occasionally from Washing ton. The President promptly for warded to the Ro use the following .message in answer to the insolent resolution, in:whicli he furnishes precedents for his actions in this re gard : . To the House of Representatives : • I have given very considerable and at tentive consideration to die resolution, passed by the House of Representatives, on the third day of Aprii, requesting the . President of the United States to inform, Um House whether any executive offices, acts, or duties, and if any, what have, within a specified period, been yerfomied,' at a distance from tho seat of Government , established by law, I have never hsitated and shall not. ' hesitate to communicate to Congress and to either branch thereof, all' information which the constitution makes it the duty of the President. to give, pr which my judgment may suggest to me, or *request' from either House may indicate to me• which will be useful in the discharge of the appropriate duties confided to them. I fail, however, to find In the constitu- tion of the United States authority given to the House of Representatives to re quire of the President such information. The necessity of the performance of ex ecutive acts by the President of the Unit ed Statse exists, and is devolved upon him wherever he may be within the Unit ed States during his term of office, by the constitution of the United States. His civil powers are no more limited, or capable of limitation to . a • place where they shall be exercised than are those which ho might be required to discharge in hik capacity of commander-in-chief of 1 the army and navy, which latter powers, it is evident, be might be called upon to I exercise possibly, even i without the limits of the United States. Had the efforts of - those recently in re billion against the government been anc cesaful is driving a late President of the United States from Washington; it is manifest that he must have discharged his functions both civil and military,,else ' where,than in the place named by law as a seat of government. -No act of Con gress can limit, *suspend, or confine this constitutional duty. I am not aware of the' existence of any act of Congress which assumes thus to lim it or restrict the exercise of the functions of the executive. Wore there such acts, I should nevertheless recognize the su perior authority of the constitution, and should exercise the power required Aare by of the President. The act to which reference is made in the resolution of the House relates to the establishment of a seat of 'government, and the providing of suitable buildings and the removal thereto of the offices at tatched to the government, &c. It was not understood at its date and by Gener al Washington to confine the President in the discharge of his duties andpOwers to actual presence at the seat of government. On the 30th of March, 1791, shortly af ter the passage of the act referred to,. General Washington issued an executive proclamation, *bairn* reference to the subject of this very act, from George town, a place remote from Philadelphia, which then was the scat of government, where the act referred to directed that all offices attached to the seat of govern ment "should for the time remain. " That none of his successors have enter tained the idea that their executive offices could be perforMed only at the Leas -or government is evidenced by hundreds upon hundreds of such lacts performed by my predecessors in an Unbroken lino from Nit ashington to Lincoln, a memorandum of the general nature and character of some of which acts is submitted herewith, and no question has been raised as to the validity of those acts, or to the right or propriety of the executive to exercise the powers of his office, u any part of the United States. 1 ' [Signed.] U. U. S. GRANT. ]MEMORANDA. Accompanying the message is a memo- randum of absences ofd Presidents of the United States from the national capitol during each of the several administra tions, and of the public and executive acts performed during the term of such absences. , ' Thisimemorandum contains the follow ing information, and much more of some general character. Only the most im portant of the acts recited in the memo: tandem below are mentioned in this ab stract: President Washington was frequently absent from the capital. Ile appears to have been thus absent at least 181 days during his term. In. March, 1791, the scat of government being then at Phila delphia, ho issued a proclamation, dated Georgetown, in reference to running a boUndary . for the District of Columbia. He signed at Mount Vernon an official letter to tho z - Emperor of Morocco, and from the same place issued the commis sion of Oliver Wolcott as Comptroller of tht Treasury, anti a proclamation respect in the whisky insurrection in Pennsylva nia ; also, a proclamation of the treaty of 1795 with Spain, and an exqcntive order of August - 4th, 1792, relative to duties on distilled spirits, ctn. When at Germantown -he signed sun dry commissions.' He proposed to have Mr. Yrujo officially presented to him at Mount Vernon, as Envoy Extraordinary. and Minister Plenipotentiary from Spain, and Mr. Yrujo went there for that pur pose; but the ceremogy of presentation was prevented by an accidental omission orthe Minister to bring his credentials. President John Adams was absent from tl4 l capital during his term ol four years on:various ixicaeions, 385 , days. -Tresi dent Jefferson was absent from the seat of government during his two terms of office 796 days, or more ,than on&fourth of the whole official .pi4riod. President. Madison was absent CM days, and Presi dent Monroe was abse4 708 days. ' Independent of the jeer 1824, and two months of 1825, for which period no data are found, the - latter transacted public business wherever ho ~ happened to be, and sometimes while traveling. Presi dentlohn Quincy Adarria was absent dur ing his single term 222 days. President Jackson was absent from the seat of government 502 days. Among other important acs performed by him when away from Washington was his signing at Boston the famous order for the removal of deposits from state banks. The memorandum at this point, refers to President Jackson's refusal in 1833 to furnish the Senate a copy of a certain; pa per alleged to have been read by hini to the cabinet, and mentions that in Janua ry, 1837, he refused to allow a committee of the:House of Representatives to make a general investigation of executive de partments without tmeeific chargers on the ground amongst others, that the , use Of official books and records for such'pur pose interfered with the discharge of pub lic business. *Other Presidents were absent from Washington and performed numerous official duties:vihile absent. Van Buren 131 days, Tyler 163 days, Polk 37 days, Taylor 34 days, :Fillmore 60 days, Pierce 57 days, Buchanan 54 days. No mention is made of the absences of President Lin coln or Johnion. MR. MORTON, in the Senate,disposed of the last Democratic slander, which arraigned him before the country for the embezzlement of $250,000 of public ,money, and very effectual and confusing to the authors of the libel was the disposition. The money was borrowed from the General Government to organize the military of lodiami at a time when the Demo crats who were in temporary ascend ancy were attempting to tie his hands as Governor and carry the state out of the union. A subsequent investi gation by this Democratic Legisla ture showed that his accounts were correct to a cent, ikaifflOß ORTON. The Charge of thrush* Against Bla inn On. mot of tient Onfolootaily Expand. Wasumaron, Kay B.—With re gard to the , dumb brought, against, Senator. Morton of having been-guil ty of corruption` while 'Governor of Indiana, that, gentleman made a short but highly satisfactory explanation in the Senate yesterday. He gave a concise history of the organization. of the Knights of the Golden Circle and Sons of Liberty, and their at tempts to get control of the State Government in 1863, while he was Governor, and how they aided the rebellion and constantly interfered with the State Government. The Democratic Legislature appointed an Auditing Commission to go over his war accounts, and, after performing their work thoroughly and finding not a single erroror any misappro priation of funds, the Democratic members refused to make any report to the Legislature, leaving that for the. Republican minority to do. 7=rM':wneyls.f.l:l: Oral rfro Mrs' SaturdayDrenba,g Lighten' =on rest of Itaufsotu ed Lumber Destroyd —Loss 1288,000, Issursioe $208,000. WILLIA4SPOST, May 7,1876. --The ' Lumbermen ''of our city experienced another disastrous fire last evening, one which was more destructive than that which occurred some eight days ago. It commenced at haltpast eight in the west portion of the lumber yard, occupied by Barrows /it Co. Coal oil was used to start the fire, it having been spread profusely -in that part of the yard• Hy ten o'clock the fire had extended from the canal to the river, and had spread westward to Hebard & Smith's yard. At this time it .was 'moving eastward and westward. Two frame'itwellings on the south side of the banal and Lo: cust street soon went down :under the flames. At this time the heat became so intense that the buildings on the north side of the canal were greatly endangered. By 10:30, the. flames had assumed such gigantic propor tions that Mayor Starkweather promptly telegraphed to the neigh boring towns for assistance. Fire companies from Lock Haven, Muncy, Watsontown and Milton were soon on. the ground and rendered valuable aid. .At midnight, there was no perceptible diminution in the' immense volume of flame. At one o'eldek, when the lumber piles were nearly all 'burned. the fire was got under control. About twenty acres of manufactured lumber, comprising abOnt eighteen million feet, were burncll. LOSSES AND INSURANCE. Ilebar .dr, Smith's loss about $65,- 000; insured $50,000. BurrowSk, $125,000 ; insured $lOO,OOO. Beaver Mills 'Lumber Co., about $B,OOO ; in. sured $B,OOO. B. 11. Taylor $60,000 ; insured $50,000. The Catawissa 1L R. Co. loses about $lO,OOO. TERRLFIO STORK AND TORNADO Cutc Go, May 7.—A.bout '5 'o'cloek this 'afternoon a terrific rain storm, accompanied by a. rotating tornado, visited this city and did great dam age to property. The storm spent. Itself chiefly on the north and south sides; the west side escaped almost uninjured. The wind seemed to come from above, and dropped here and there over the city, skipping some portions which lay in its course. Amongst the- casualties reported are the following: The Michigan Southern, depot was unroofed, and six laborers working in the vicinity were more or less hurt, one of them seriously -,.• the - massive steeple of Grace Church, 175 feet high, fell, and crashing through the roof, penetrated the aisle. The choir were practicing in the church at the time, ' but were not injured; the loss to the church, exclusive of steeple, is ,estimated at $7,000. The spire of the Wabash Avenue Methodist 'Church also broke off, and fell into it lot adjoin ing; the upper portion of the roof of the Old Country Hospital was . car ried away ; the chimneys falling on the lower portion caused much inju ry to the building; the patients were removed, but none were seriously hurt. A three-story frame house was r i Id wn down, one boy killed, and sev -1 of the tenants were injured; the fo bell at the Crib, - together with th newly-erected tower, were swept into the Lake and totally destroyed ; the loss will probably be $5,000. Trees, lamp posts and other debris strew the streets. In some portions Of the city sidewalks were turned Over and jammed against houses, breaking glass, etc. Hacks and car. riages were wrecked in . the streets and abandoned. Nearly fifty vehicles Were seen on the south side after the • toroado, turned over and some of thein worthless !on ,account of - the storm. Innumerable chimneys were toppled over and signs hurled into the streets. • `On the lake the force of the storm *as less, hut nearly every vessel ly ing inside the harbor and in the river, as well as those outside, lost sails or masts, or portions of their ; rigging. Lightning struck several-, times, but in' only one case was a man injured, and. he only slightly. The storm last ed but a few minutes. Total damage - 1 about $250,000. There were no great- basses but innumerable small ones. KANSAS ALSO OETS A ViSITATION. LEAVENWORTH', May 7.—At half past three o'clock yesterday morning H this vicinity was visited by one of the heaviest' and most destructive wind storms ever known here. The loss to the city and county cannot be ! less than $150,000, and may reach $250,000. ; . A DESPERADO'S ORIME& George Kent, who was arrested some three weeks ago and lodged . in jail at Honesdale, Pa., on charge of attempting to burn the village of Forest Mills, is a .desperate criminal. During the ' past ten years lie has been a terror to that section. He was first arrested for alleged murder of his wife. He escaped punishment by a mysterious disappearance of the re mains of his wife, which had been-ex humed for analysis.. All the parties who were active in causing his arrest for the murder afterward suffered by theburning of their mills barns and other buildings. Kent was afterward arrested for the commission of sever al high Way robberies and burglaries in the western part of the county, but escaped fro m his captors on the way to the jail. For a year he chided the officers and hovered about in the Woods, burning saw mills, farm build •-• ings, and other property. To escape the consequences of his revenge, the partici', seeking his punishment set tied with him, and he again made 4:s •appearance. ." Shortly afterward he waylaid the adopted daughter of a wealthy farm er in the woods of Salem turnpike as she was nittirnifig from school, and assaulted. her. Complaint ivialaade, against Kent; and he Wilietedi Indicted, pd-admitted to hedl,f , week before : : 11a tritd; S. Spelling school in the distrio* aelfuol houSe in: The ofititwitaoss against. Kant was the girl he had outraged. She. loft home ihiitit-dark to attend the spelling ac*l. She. 'has never been seen or heard of since Kent was arrested on charge:of kill ing her, but - no evidence ;C ould be brought warranting his detention. Kent has since been in custody on charge of rape, burglary, araon and attempted murder, but • managed to escape puntAment in everkcase. . Ileorecently appeared in the manu facturing village of Forest Mills, near the Luzerne County line. In cendiary fires have been prOalentin ' that section ever since, andf;although Kent was believed to be the 'nem= diary, the fear of him *as so great that . no measures were taken by the sufferers to have him pradahed, 'A number of disastrous conflagrations occurred in the city of Scranton dur ing the past winter, abd 41 of. un doubted incendiary origin, 'and since the .arrest of Kent for tlfe Forest Mills outrage, it is said the t . circum stances pointing to him as UM incen diary have been dise&vereC Kent was discharged from the em ploy of the Forest Milts Maufactur ing Company, - some montheagO. The dwellings of Certain empl4es were burned soon after., Three weeks ago a German living at the mill* revealed to the superintendent late at night a plot of Kent's for destroylOg the en tire village. Investigatiori. , showed that kerosene oil and othey,imilarn mable stuff had been piaced*bout the factories and many ofothe and was ready for the toieb. The doors of a house occupied by one the:, oremen and his fitmily'llad been fastened with chains, so 'thoy could not be opened froM the inside. Kent would have been lynched if the incensed .operatives had found him, but , he escaped to thei. woods. He was captured a 'few days after ward by officers and lodgedln jail in Honesdale, and. it was believed that he was at last to meet. his'just de serts. On Saturday evenibg last, however, he escaped from the jail by rushing suddenly by the Sheriff, who had entered his cell with hi*rrations. lie reached the street; and ;;; escaped in the darkneis. lie was afterward captured. CONTROLLING THE NEGRO VOTERS . The Democratic organs oft'en point us to the fact that in-these SOtithern States where their party has , gained. 'Complete control there is Jte-farther trouble about the black vote:or vot ers. The old Roman historian says : ' They make a solitude, and . call it peace," and we imagine Oat.; if the voice of the colored peoplo in the States referred to, could he fully heard,, we should 'get a similar idea of - the quiet and satisfactioitisaid to' be produced by the • Demociatic poli cy. What we know is, whereVer that policy prevails, the freedreen—no matter what their strength:.= , at the polls may have previously been—are practically blotted out of the field of politics. The vote that was given to them by the nation as a weapon for seat-protection, as a means for secur ing their own advancement in all the qualifications and privileges ';.of citi zenship, as well as a testimonial of their fidelity in the`, dark night of their and the Union% trial, becomes of little more value than if wit had been formally - surrendered to their old masters: It is true, the! brutal iniquities of Ku-Kluxism are no longer practiced systematicaliy, but its objects arc too. widely attained by means scarcely less reprehensible and much morel, effectual in the pres ent condition of the country. • The Southera correspondeat of the New York Timezi, whose citations show him to be a careful and consci entious observer, details the Methods which have been resorted to in differ ent States for controlling the: negro vote: In North Carolina, for in stance, separate ballot boxes are pro vided for receiving the votetOf dif ferent officers,qt being stipulated that "all tickets deposited in wrong boxes shall be thrown and not counted." It is a very easy matter; therefore, for the negro voters, malty of wlicisti can not read, to deposit their ballots in the wtong box—even' where they are not misled to it by Democratic by standers—iind thus they are disfran chised on the spot. In Geiirgja the chiefdevice for excluding negro votes is the poll-tax law,which requires the payment of $1 a year, in default of which the right to vote is denied. It Is a question whether this coMlition does not apply 'wholly to thi year in which the citizen offers ltisYote ; but the Democratic officials haVe con strued it to rbean that .a nianiltnust pay all his back poll-taxes befiire)he can vote. Records of 'all the negroes are mostly poor or negligeht in thfs matter—are carefully kept arid used to exclude them by the whole sale. To challenge a white Detniicrat,i however, on this ground *Odd be considered a gross insult, and would not be safe in many precincts. •( . i This is particularly the case in the country districts where there are but few white Republicans, and Where violence •is still employed on :occa sions by individuals whose crimes are winked at. The correspondent mentions counties where there are thousands of black men, and not: one, hundred Republican votes arc He also saya: " lii Georgia nt least,' ten ,thousand negro votesare betight otf by the Democrats at each :elec tion. The pricelpaid to each Man is , one silver To the credit, of the. negroes it should be stated Oat', this can only be done in those States or localities, where they are deraiiral ized by the impossibility of 'baying their political rights recognized. Of a similar nature is the threat of. being thrown out of employinent, in lljus tration of which it is stated thatin Atlanta, Augusta, Macon and ColOm bia there are thousand's of negroline chanies, draymen and others #ho never vote. They have wives, and • children depemient upon them -for support, and they knew that••they would be obliged to leave their attn. atiOns five minutes after they had:Ae posited their ballots." Such facts us these cannot be ikon cealed or forgotten in the pending Presidential campaign. ~.They serve to show the foundations of the bOast of a solid Democratic South in :the November election. The voting of these disfranchised Southern citizens must be done for them by their friends of. the North who gave citizenship, and wil6 mean thu( it shall tint be a mere empty name , and lure to treachery and injustice. Other isspeti are coming up and demanding serious attention, but this can never be forgotten so long as We remember the bloody past or hope for the tutee and securities of the futtire,—BOion JOurnat: mins nos on oonuttsolsto OUR WASEDIOIOI LETTER• °m g"" ad 11 = k irrotlatkas tb. Wu d B Immo sal tirl,Dl* natio ApsevpriatkOM.-So PIS of ' Bißminxelit-00847m w yids". WAssilminex t Ka! .. 1 1 K 0 .! Spring with Its "etherlal mlldoesot la age epos us; sad once wore the carol relator the molt grinder sad the sweetlrolee of the shad-peddler are heard In the land. "Tbo 'rioter of ourdbeontinfr no longer exlsbq and very soon the earpet4tbresbOP. the whitaireasier and the bop' hease.clesner vrttl begin to shower blessings on happy homes. The early violet , awl the datntest of chip helmets hair}, already pet la an appearance;. and -very soon the season of plc-Hies, strawberry-festivals and de plated pocket-books must follow. i; : At the Capitol, in eapectatlon of an ali-annimiir session; our legislative aoloni.;atiaties of departed statesmen, forgive us I--appear to be tilting thlogi easy, evincing In their legislative movemeats none of that haste heretofore Widmann" upon the 4r pniaeh of the hot season. One of the reasons for this dallying with legislation and so prolonging the session, is, Mit the Confederate Democracy, reeh ing with the malaria of defamation, are anthills for an - opportunity of putting the nominee of ti Cincinnati Convention through one of their C grvitslonal Inquisitions. /or the sole purpose defaming and blackening the 'reputation of wile Meer of the Government, If possible, the abutlet countless Investigations are still busily going - on, with no evidence that they are yet anywhere neer to the close. do long as them hi money in the puli Ile treasury which they an devote to this purposes, the bind believer in Democracy who may wish fds the enactment of some practical and needed tette. baton may rest la the assurance trial the investign. Lion business will be continued, even If they have, top back to and beyond the time of , the flood 44 =Aerial. Ii will, , however, be altogether untie* , nary to assert that, long before they reach to Gni time of the deluge, this slaughter-house of rept:* - dons will find-more work on_their tuiuds than they have had at any time yet 'The suppression and concealment of the evidence of their own frauds and rasealltles, practiced it a period,not so remote all to lie forgotten, will be quite as much ay ; the* pure-minded statesman will. be able to manager. With closed doors and In the greatest secrecy theSe committees are now, sitting; and aithougb theft* investigations are ostensibly for the purpose detecting and correcting abases, yet, In their tria nlitulation`of the testimony elletted t every particle of evidence reflecting discredit and"-dishonor bix#l. "Molt own party Is most scrupulously suppressed and withheld [ruin the public. But with all their combined efforts to bring dlO grace upon tho Republican party and upon Govern:- Went oflicials, so tar no wonderful dishonesty Wu. been brought to light, and none o[ those fearful corruptions which wo were told weie about to Ip unearthed have yet been disclosed. I Flee Ince/Gil have now elapsed since Congress cinnmenced present session, and the result of their deillieratioccil has only proved that the charges which they no boldly made were altogether unfounded, When the unthinking public see so many serious accuser Ross of ofthilal venality and rascality prove gtound7 less anditino way suieeptible of Trout, they will; without question, billed to think thatthe smoko has boon greatly In excess of the fire. The fact it undeniable, that the liennOcracy,, shrewdly as they made their calculations, have most signally Trading on the credulity of the voters, they have succeeded In again 'placing themselves in powet! bnt how have they fulfilled the promises which * they so freely made and with which they mailed the people? Blinded with passion, prejudice ,and hatred, and as eager for the overthrow of • the Re: jislblican party as they once were for the destruc tion of the Government, the Industries of the couni.:., try have been - allowed to languish, and the business' men throughout the length and breadth of the land , have been allowed to cry In vain for relief. Instead of attempting io do theft duty to the people, every? thing bait been subordinated to the desire to prove, the Republican party corrupt and dishonest. 114 they will find the masses of the People are altogetill,-, er too Inteillglint to be led to believe that the Rer, publican party is to be held responsible and unwoe'r thy of confidence by te)(son of the crimes arid' abuses of a few of its members. They will Midi that the people have not 'yet forgotten that mai!: feasance and corruptlon'were, Indulged In to th4l fullest extent, that It wis the rule and tic* the emir-, ception, when the Government - was in the bands of, the Democracy. There Is not a Department of the . : Government that does not cocitt the closest scruti4l ny into all Its transactions. With no wish for on effort at concealment, , the Congressional lorestiga4', tors will at any time,» afforded every facility tq investigate as long and as much as they desirej. Will the Democratic party, with its blackened and stained record of years of official turpitude, cortup. thin and treasonable PlOttings, do the same In the proceedings of the House of ffepresentt:' tives4 with the exception of their investigations there Is the usual lOck of Interest which has pre.il vatted throughout the entire session. In the eir - ,;, traysgant and reckless manner with which thei: putllc money Is expended, the professions cif ecuti..' omy and reform with which the House began thelrit work are being daily falsified In thy most flagrant; manner. Whenever It app'ars to be the interest: of that party there Is no hesitancy evlnc,ol in pass.. Ing siproprlation bills, ho matter what may be; their character. In evldence. of this the recent' passage of a bill appropriating 'half a million of, dollars for certain uncalled-for river and harbor. Itupirvements In the west, Is anfilcient. ;This 1,111„ tinder various guises, has ht.ezt before the House . every session for thO last dozen years. an& has always been regardeftu'one:of the biggest kind of steals. - The'refusal of tho Senate, by a vote of .t. 10 to 4. to pass'the Diplomatic Appropriation Bill as it came front:the House, Is pretty giod evidence that the Senate Is tot going to concur In all the unwise movements and foolish ideas so largely indulged in by the House. What may be the result of this action of the Senate with regard to the blitcannot yet be predicted. as no committee of conference bra yet been asked for. Should the Senato.yemain firm in the position It has taken against the whole sale slashing inib appiopristious made by the House, It is evident enough that the two branches of legislation will come to a stand-still, o r , as It' is termca, a dead-lock, That such a state of affairs may happen. is thought by many as being not at all Improbable; •but the fact Is doubtless overlook'ed' that the Democratic majority of the House is large ly made up of the hungry ex-Confederates of the South, and that, sooner than have the ipproprlailon hill which provides 'for -their •own pay fail, they will gladly recede from the preposterons position which they hare taken, and which they now de clare they will uticempminislngly adhere to. To reiterate, the present session of Congress has, so far, been a most remarkable one, and will with out question stand alone In the legislative history of the country. Under the rule of the Democratic majority, live entire months have been devoted almost exclusively to no purpose other than ening characters , and destroying reputations. Trusting to the fidelity and patriotism of the South, one branch of tho National Legislature was allowed to pass Into their hsnds; but in what manner And_ In what, spirit lutsibis inagnanintity upon the part of the people been treated! what r manner has the South come back into the Union? ! For five months their ex-Colonels and ex-Brigadier Gener als have done nothingbut sit In judgment upon the deeds of Union men. The “little brief authority" which was so generously given them his been exer.; clsed with a vengeance and vileness of purpose un paralleled. Not a Union man from the highest to the'. lowest Is •alloWed to escape their tanntiand wicked spite. The blood-hounds of political' war have been put upon the track of every one that they could scent or follow, while the and land has been filled with rumors, scandals, and rovaings unknown In the history of nations. Congress, it IS expected, SY OS adjourn from the fifth to the thirteenth last, in order to allow Its members to visit the opening of the Centennial Ex position at Philadelphia. Darltm l that time the mud-throwing committees of the ffonse, we sup pose, will cease their operations, and the public will consequently have the bCriefit of a i fevf days' rest fur which they will doubtless be thankful. OUR PRILADELMA LETTER. PrimAi:maxim. April 2 WO. TUV( ♦KD NOW They who visit tho Centennial Exhibition will ale for themselves what our city now is. What It was 100 years ago cannot be fully comprehended by the livilest Imagination. One hundred years ago the central avenue of our city was called High street. The erection - of eight or ten squares of market houses, - directly la the centre of the open street, was the cause for the change, the appropri ateness of . which none questioned. 'Now that all those market houses have been removed, another change of urns would be ,very proper; either of these three names would be more appropriate than Market street, "Pennsylvania Avenue," "Lincoln Avenue," or "Central Avenue." The streets of the city of Philadelphia, running parallel 'with Market :street, and north of it, were named Mulberry, Sassafras, and Vine streets. Those south of It were Chestnut, Walnut, Spruce,. Pine and Cedar, and those eight squares , or blocks, comprised the northern and 'so uthern limits of our city 100 years'arAnow 60 streets are laid out and built upon north of Market street, and almost an equal number south of it. the, most of which are lined with substantial brick edifices hum the DOt , ware to Inc Schuylkill. Mulberry street was long ago ebangwd to Arrh street, and I doubt if tlasmfras street, although 1.0 labelled upon the street •r enters. wai ever caned anything else than Raps street. This name was given to it becanSo of . the horse races constantly tatting place on the street. For many years the racing waste a straight Me, from below Fourth street out to flreati, and as early as nx, the Grand JIII7 to their presentment held 4, that since the city has become so very populous; tbi usual custom of , . bone ruing at fan, In igassafnu street, is vert dangerous to Ills; al l oy It le an emit that they whei erliCSults booths, te l , la that Oleo!, it the fairs, di NU 'inserts of Mu" ie. , ' l.-• ' • . . • lb* wing appears to have been lopt , up until the Misanimnoulient of. the revolutionary war. ".Ali gilittoillildiess la those days were pacers; a trotting bone intideented • base breed " soya T. Matlack, Sk the Itithiir of Watson's Annals, - Cock tlghtlag was exceedingly popular with ail elasseirOich and poor, grave and gay, all joined ,in the sport, and such a person as Dr. Wm. Shippen one of the most eminent of rblhulelphht's first fam ilies, was in the habit or taking his best lighting cock under tips arm, would 'walk out to his friend .Dr. Gardner, and these two estimable gentlemen— reipeeted ta Wee and irtrate life and honored In church circles—would enjoy an hour ar two in w kt nearing the contest between their Pima Chickens; Bali dogs, for the ptpose of . bull-bal GOV. Were • bred by the most taint able or our gentry during = the period Weeding the first war. • This amusement was brought to a sadden close by Squire Wharton, who went to witness the sport, seemingly as 'a friendly observer. When all was prepared, and boll .and dogs were about to be let loose , for the enjoyment of the young bloods and butchers—the ladtintrwas:mostly maintained by the latter—the spunky Squire stepped suddenly into the ring and said ha- would, at the risk; of. his life, seise and commit.the. first man who should begin: then advancing to the bull, he unloosed hire from the stake, at the same time declaring he would never desist from bringing to condign penishMent future abetters of such exercises. That stopped the game forever after. , The early Quaker boys of our goodly Quaker city were shout as mlschievous as other boys elsewhere. On one occasion some of the boys at the Quaker school, In Fourth street, went into the second story of the building, and boring a hole through the board floor,, they lowered a pin -book,. attached to a cord, and when the teacher, Robert Proud, took his afternoon doze, ,the hook was fastened Into his bushy wig, and when be awakened and leaned for ward his wig avenge!! his beed,and Woe raised yap idly towards the ceiling by a boy drawing the cord; of course teacher Proud, after he recovered from his astonishment; went up stairs for the-boy, but as the boy had taken the precaution to, throw the cord from the second story window Into the yard, where from the window directly in the rear of the teach er, where he could see all thatwas going on, the lad had the good sense, to eater the schoul4Oom and take his accustomed seat.`just as Friend Proud I mounted the upper story. - It was with dilllctilty than staid . young Quaker bays and girls cOutd maintain their usual sobriety as their teacher entered the 'school room and looked at his big red wig suspended_by a cord above his reach. The work of royal hands-will bo quite largely ex hibited at ,our great exhioitiOu. A. c umber -of samples of embroidery.. executed by the "Royal School of Art of Needlework," under the auspices 'of Queen victoria, I.rinceiss Christian and other distinguished ladles'of Engiand, - haS.now reached here, -a description ofwkleh will doubtless Interest the lady readers of your paper-, One of them Is an ezqpisite design 14 the simple,. severe, classic etyle,intended for the end of a room. The wall hangings are Worked In arabempes of green4talgolti,andthe portiere curtains, valance, frieze and pilasters upon white cotton staff. The hangings covering the doer Itself, aro embroidered an either side with, two feMalc figures, '.holding aloft serallsupon: which are the Wcirds, "Salve," and " Vale 7 --" Welcome 7 and "Farewell': to the coming and parting guests. Oa the balance of the door are the three fates—CMl6o, .I.„aeltesis and Atrepes—busy With the - thread of life. The-frieze Is embroidered with a most beautiful and 'graceful pattern, and over It are, worked the Words, " Ars longs, vita brevls "—Art Is loogi life Is stmt.': M. F Another design:ls a:mantel valance, of soft blueish green material; embroidered with pale primrosefq the effect of the whole' Irina , particularly delicate., BM' 'undoubtedly, the best of these productions; and. lndcel, the gem of the entire exhibition, is.a four pannelled screen, upon tstilch the needle has skillfully por.rayed the fable at; the , Jackdaws and the pcacock. Art and taste can surely' go po fur ther than in the conception and dxccotion 'of .this design. .• Mr. Morris, the eminent designer;: is in 'great force with a dade, which displaye his characteris tics in a re Markable manner.- - It'consists of golden cries, on a peculiar green, sr'lth peacocks at Inter val-4; also, - wall hangings in eticato and flowing arabotpiZ.,, so cunningly, blended and harmonized that at a distance the parts become lunited in one indefinable tint. • • • - . Mr. Pollen has a portiere of crimson velvet, very magnificently .Iworked gold and colors. This truly regal plece of work , would be out of 'place in anythidig.but a palace, sp massively gorgeous is it. The Princess Christian exhibits a screen of dark green satin, ulx,n which, In applique - work and ens brol4ery intermingied, are foliage and buds. Princess Louise has embroide red for her nuOthe r's palacia of Windsor, curtain borders, showing illicS on a background of deep red select. The lion. 3lrs. Percy Wyndham, Shows a beautiful portiere - covered with sunflowers, the harnionlzing of colors being In the most perfect taste. Miss • Gemmed has four velvet plumes; each em broidered with a boldly designed flower, the poppy and the;fo:Cgluve being especially remarkable. . A quilt embroidered in gold from an ancient pattern, 1n the posicssionof Countess Lhownlow, is one of he most Milking objects of the exhibition. I= The Ere:tang Star or this city is willing to take silver In tiny for accoulth, of long n - nil quesilunable standing.. We are now in the very 'heighth oflifie season when passenger car tr.erefer'Et - are regaled - with the rich fragrance emitted by tender yonng onions,' liberally scented with the ettrly morning drink of Crooked Whisky and imported Connecticut Ilaran, na Cigars. A few days 'Ago an expert pickpocket was seat up 'to Cherry 11111 Prison, until after the 'Centennial iShall come and gone. The young gentlentah'being, ;In delicate health, was allowed to exercise In the : Prison yard; on Monday as the bakerswagon was' :abotit teaving the premises, the deliciiite youth hastened himself.ty the bottom of the besly or that ;hread wagon With a clutch remarkablyrlgorirus in - 4 sickly young man, and without the knotriedge'or consent of the. Warden was ridden to. Freedom. ,That same afternoon, while the, young man. was -promenading Chestnut street, in the most - fasblnba hie attire, he saw an elegantly dressed lady with a :Mont pneketxbook temptingly protrudineroin her hip pocket,' , and the felfow being-In- want of ;funds to attend the opening of the Exhibition nu )fay 10th. dextrously:removed that well tilled purse 4 A policeman saw him, and now he has live years' . more added to his first siintence, and Is 'extremely , 6 desirous that another baker will give 11 another tree ride. A %AMA) SIiENtS A SMALL AFFAin.—Most people neglect it. Who minds it? Yet a cold may,, turn to Consumption, and then followslalmost certain death. Take i'COld in tithe, then.: that is, taka,l)r. 'D. .rayne's Expectorant, the well known' Standard remedy for Coughs,- Coils, Con-, siimption, Asthma, Bronchitis, and all Pulmonary Complaints, !and your Cold will disappear, as well as all apprehension or danger. Coal and Land. ( 'lO AL, COAL, We keep on liatuLat our.yard all Rlzes of Pittston and Wilkes Barre coal, and Loyal Sock rim!. from tliiiSoinlvan County Mines. Also, Barclay Lump and Smith. . *e keep the 'hest quality ofllme. 1101 r 'anti Ce meht, Brick and or which we will sell at bottom prices. - PIERCE Sc SCOTT. Towanda May Ist, 07C LAND FOR SALE. ITTIREE HUNDRED ACRES, , Of beautiful LAND FOR SALE. 3 miles from Towanda. Will be sold for easlk.or ON TIME, Tb suit purchasers 100 ACRES IMPROVED; With house and barn thereon;.balackee WELL TIMBERED, Aiid easily cleared: Whole farm well,caler4l Will be .341111 in luty of 50 or 100 acre::, or morn, ail puripAsers shall pptir . • of 11. C. LOCKWOQI),-- Wellmburg. nr or J 7 P. KIRBY, or JAMES WOOD, roxy4 t Tvv ! ho as, rat "DOWELL it -I- • We are now opening- our ,Large Stock of, New . = SPRING GOODS All the novelties in DRESS. LINENS In Gros Grain Siik,''and Dra . • NEW SCI' TIES; 010yES, COLLARS AN .PARASOLS! .'r AN . V CARP C OA It. GREAT BARE NEW GOOODS Towanda, ?AO'. 8 1 1. 1 01 . 1 . i . W =II ~ ~ o 1M Mil ILIROS . GOWA LH . 1 , =I ME 1151 i I .; - Il Barinins in ME A,T41:1 - • , [ CL ELEGANT SA.CQUE i , \ Ok of f Elegant stp, HOSIERY, CORSETS FRINGES, 11121 lIMMZ CUFFS. And small EMI i j~ MEI All the New St PARASOLS! tcx:k of Atiother Large' MI Which! we are Sc ling at A UsT EVERT DEP I PO WE 41., A-, Co. i II NM 11 =I I El I TllB ~.. ' -11e-efi'.. 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