laws nox ALL NAT/011:. BEET: drinkers take their beverage from bane glasses. A CiurrrA - fortune of ti 25,000,000 is FOek ing_lawful heirs, - CasitLEs aTos'os says ho has Summed up his last case. _ Turns are now 714640 miles of railroad iu 9.te United -States. - N,t."Av 1 ork city's_ population is nearly dotble that of Ranasr. 31coina says be don't believe there a grammar in heaven. 13LrE lamp, chimneys for weak eyes. 1114 - have they been neglected? - TT is proposed to form the BlaCk Hills country into Lincoln Territ my. - TrrimE are 2,103 scbOol districts in this c. 11%4K schools, and 20,102 teachers. Esc. 34....0.5.Ei.n COOK, of Boston, calls Naebeth a sublime treatise on conscience. TILE Skinetield - Repusticen seriously Scars that Tilden will not "survive the S::L.TAN IIA:MID is tired of reigning. He rtay allow his brother Resehidto take his , t Tas report of the Bank of Italy shows ti Pope to have ~.:32,(300,000 in that in • 31inneiota Legislature thinks 12 ,pcir cent. a sufficient rate of interest to b.ili.q - Ni the law. lIE Presbyterian church at Jamestown burned yesterday. Lis $lO,OOO. :Built in 18.35. t' - m. E. 314)nntsoN, wanted in Troy, N T.. fur a :,:it)o forgery, -was 'arrested a 'li , .s•,•on, Monday. - Tun attempt to introduce the - fast mail the bill in relation to post routes has loven abandoned. • F.,rmorrt, Jr., is Charlie Wal competitor ft Superintendent o Works of New York.' - GOV. HATES will not re.ign until the rr:iz,iility , -Otiicer_of the Senate announces f,n,ifdecision. l.tr.tr: Goy. Thomas A. Young, will at Crovernor of" ()hip until October, IN !ien a new one will be...elected. AN inspection of history goes to show t 1.1.-. Vanderbilt was literally richer than by several millions of dollars. Dt - ntNo the last eighteen years Eng has spent nearly one tiumvelnd mil -1;:.1,-of dollars on her navy. ... papers are sold...in many 3.1a-_, in Paris and Berlin. New York p...T, , :rsare in special demand in the.. for- City AT the funeral of J. Wiley - Edmunds in worn,. 31ass1;rlast Saturday, the pall 1,..z.r..rs were six. of Mr. Edmunds's sons AN exchange r4marks that when you a cat put up tier back and snarl at, a 1; ;:e of sausages,iyou may know they are . . gt-il time. - property owner in Mexico can go to bed at night feeling, much easier than the hinver who slent between two grizzly 1,..,: '..s. IT is said that since T. Stewart's death, other and wiser management has In tnratl,2, ab l.lluo Use j:.,tablishment. coTiosEr.': , verdict in Arithnsas:l " lind that he,,came - to his death from - tryin4 to cut out -Joe Willit in courting tSasie Jackson." AltoNo the consumers of Ameri cau fabrics are the Chinese, for whom dl squares of carpet on Which to say their prayers - are made. Guit.tis block and Coddiug's_ in North Attleboro, 3fass., were burned ettly .Sunday morning. - Loss, 425,000. Louisa lir t.iocc, finished on Sat urday a most Successful season of English isaa at. tLe Academy of, Music in New - .ll.p=s Adeliade' Neilson, actress, has i• (. areil all absolute'clivoree from her Philip IL Lee.,' „ Tit is Nicaraguan Commission has aban (l,l,l all hopes of successful consumma- - 1.,,a i,f t 4 .Inte.r-Oceanic canal treaty. 'fin; 11",;,•Zirs Albany special indicates I,i4j,,ljun.,c,barles• C. 13. Walker will be to •the continuance of Indian ;fit RODGERS,,, widow of (~truthidore, and mother of•ltear Admiral IL +tigers, died at Rock Island, 111., aged 'R. - • T people who invested , ' heavily in Nov. nth, for the Tilden, mansion, themselves out of eir. money and and once besides. _;. • •• AN ( )maba paper employed an Indian its local stall', and his first. day's work to get thirty-sit red men into a free for the sake of an item. • inn .epitaph which a mutual friend c'tit on a tombstone over a 'married was vett simple, but sadly sug- P —Their warfare is accomplished.' 1:U•onE Island is holding a poultry lbe folks over in 3lassachusetts that they can't sleep •ty' nights for thy oroiving of Little Rhody's roosters. 1 1%1 k, the spiritualistic medium, e.c.nvicted under the vagrant's et. i ; " and it;nienced to three 2 ..•., tt imprisonment. -; 1 - .knE of patent right men who only " ae, a matter of .form. y are gnerally up to some rascality, • : wise man will steer clear Of them: • tVon6EsTEn county, 3lass., clergy ..• :SCC111.111,; 1/0 1 / 3 . sir UCCIVIT, .1C 4,;isted• to, knOw Florida had Theiciily revived him, . and he is recovering. "I'l E lirooki.yn Union and the Brooklyn have - consolidated, and be I . .t••wa as the, Union and Argus. ,Demas lir.rms. of the Argus, retires. AT Cincinnati, Saturday; Albert Roth elnEd. a commercial . traveler, attempted s- He murdered his mistress at .i.!krsort, Texas, where he will be taken I,r trial. ME reason for. Antonio Leon's tnur tlc7-(..assattit on Ifis daughter, in Brook -111. he the fact that she had "4 - --.l.l.fe!•sett to her . husband that she had been dishonQred by her father. PRoprs , on James Iltissell Lowell,-w,ho _tying a series of lectures in BaltimOre :.):•tize. and the Romanic language.a, is a great deal of attention there. .310. Wm.- B. ALLEGRE, the business of the Richmond .(Va.l Enquirer,. the civil war postmaster of -hm,•iid, died in that city last Tuesday.. sl' F.SSOIt NF.w•row, of tale College, to prepare a paper on the great n:rte6r •; . eeti in the west recently, and observers to send him their accounts t f it. .. : ME `;‘ITICF. is given that visitors at the 1V ',qt. house will not be received hereaf -I,r in the afternoon, as the time of the "r. ,:dent's family is occupied in prepara t.orri for r.moial. zi: “`l'ficlo Tom " of Mrs. Stowe's r..inance !has been giving lectures in London on "The Story of. Forty-two Yea -Slave Life." lie is now in his .:,ty-eiglith year. , - , . - AN East India - estate, valued' , . at #25,- (...i,,,sa!, it is stated by a Bostoa dispatch, 1- t. , ip - .! divided amour Mrs. Mary Ann . .H.*.:len - , - of that city, and other . relatives ~.-..- L.'has. R. O'Keefe, of Calcutta. -•- is reported that* negotiations are for the Settlemei t of the Tweed. Tweed has written to O'Connor, latter favOrs the city's accepting t of the . stoleu property as restitu , Sn:c.vror: elect Plumb ; of Kansas, Ex ti,, itor Ross, of the same State, and Rep- ::ice-elect Ewing, of Ohio, were c_tively the colonel, major, and lieu t• :I .n',-c.)lonel of the ElO - enth Kansas during the war. ;WILLIE, FILANCL,, the little hero of todsor, N.. S., is received a medal Yi ,:n Lord Dufferirs, struck expressively in tn.: boy's hono4 and containing, beside tl.-t fOrnial inscription, the portraits in b ' , relief of the Earl and his - - Countess. . HINSDALE, Of Hobart Col l(' nt Genera, N.' Y., has issued an sp. p ?or that institution. He says that its ri n:ial condition is sound, and its in iitozEduess small, -but that it needs money and new professorships. Ps,rAusgr, rector of the of AthiJus, Greece, and an ac t, in _ tr.fber of The Greek 'Arehtelog,ical S. i-ty, 71~ -researches were mainly under his rliree.ion, died .early in . -, •Eary..lie was a native of Crete, but educated in Germany. Nradford = I oxtet EDITOII.IIt Z. 0. 60011111Cle W. ALVOILIO. Tovaai, Ps„ ThaErsday, l'ebraary 2L 1877: nivirsuicAN_ miTALNDING courr- • . • In porsnavitkor reseintion.the Itepetbilein Stead log Committee are requested to meet in the Grand Jury Room, In Towanda, Tuesday, March 13, .1147, at 2 fetlock x., for the purpose of taking salon action In regard to selecting delegates to State Con vention. 'The membe Ware also requested to come prepared to furnish mimes few Vigilance Commit tees. W. S. CAKNOCEIAN, Chairman. nrCILLN, Secrets:T. AT LAST I After , resorting to all sorts of dil atory motions, threats and bull dozing, the Democrats find them selves defeated at last. And still they are not satisfied. By .the united votes of the Democratic members of Congress the Electoral Commission bill was enacted ittWa law, quite against the almost unanimous - voice of Republicans; not because the lat -ter feared the result of any honest method of determining the matter, hut simply because they could see no reason for departing from the old way. " Give us the Commission," said the Democrats, " and it shall suffice. We will loyally abide by its decision." No sooner was it devel oped, however, that a majority of the Commission belieVe from the evi dence before them that HAYES had been legally elected r than a great howl went op. from 'Democratic throats that the Commission was partizan, and niany of the more hot-headed among the opposition counseled re sistance. To the honor and credit of the Southern wing of the, party be longs the credit of wiser counsels and more discreet action, and from pres ent indications no further opposition to the will of the people will be of fered by the Democratic party. GORGEOUS HOTEL CA.RS.—The Rail way World says : " The popularity of hotel ears appears to be on the in crease, and the Chicago and North western railroad company. recogniz ing this fact, 'having constructed for its use by the Pullman company four of these cars, which in conve nience. and elegance are intended to at lead equal any now in use. They will be sixty feet long, ten feet wide and_ tenile_et high, wjth twelve sec tions, one drawing room with table room for six persons, and one state room, besides the kitchen, china closet, dressing- room, etc. The in terior will be- finished with black and white wslnut,'mahogany, French ash and curled maple, the place of the usual head lining being filled in with polished woods. The panels between therwindows will_ be of California. laurel and other California woods. w . sgag,nliWastesVin% persons comfortably, t but as a ride TWO persons. .The glass and chins ware are now being made at Dresden, Germany, from patterns selected from the' Royal Dresden exhibit that was at the centennial exposition. Each piece of silverware, - . ,glassware, and chinaware, will have the monogram of the Chicago and Northwestern road marked thereon. The kitchens will be so arranged that no fumes from thel cooking yiancts can reach the occupantiof the berths. On'each car Will be."' - 's steward; two cooks, three waiters,' and a chambermaid to wait upon lady patrons.- The inten tion is to. commence running these cars about Ms,rch' 1 between Chicago and Dmaha. - .-MEP.E ; does not seem c be any good Mason why our export trade in fresh meats,_ now i n its infancy, may nut- orrntnally,hp nu u lp nnp of our most important and profitable articles, of foreign traffic. During the first week of January; this year, no less than 7,000 tons of fresh meat arrived at Liverpool from the 'United States,- and every- ounce of it was readily purchased for consumption, the best going to London and the other large towns, where ; it was re tailed at prices very greatly under those asked by the ordinary butchers. Sot only is no complaint made of it, but it is highly approved by good judges. YOUNG WELDEN who attempted to assassinate Gov. - PACKARD last week is the son of ,a Lutheran preacher in Philadelphia. Ile went south , since the election ostensibly'for the benefit of his health, but it is now suspected that it was for the purpose of carry ing out the plot of-killing PACKAID. HON. H. W. WILLIAMS, one of the Judges of the Supreme Court of this State, died on Monday last. Judge W. had been unwell and unable to be upon the bench for a year or more. He 'was an able laWyer, and stood high as an upright and wise Judge. HOLDEns of Building Association shares are becoming alarmed at the proposed action of the Legislature in reducing fines, and many of them are 'surrendering their - shares, which ap-: pears to be the wiiest thing they can' 4145. Taz stay law has,been defeated in the House. This will be sorry intel ligence to many- dobtors, who had looked to the Legislature for some relief in this time of almost general bankruptcy. REV. FATHER BERNARD KEENAN , said to be the oldest Catholic priest in the United States, diedat Lancas ter, Sunday, aged 98. . Wz sax pleased to note that H6n. JOSEPH POWELL voted against the diliatory motion of the House on Monday last Tat count goes marching on. Slowly, though: NOW THE VIIMIDICT - 111 11,16CEIVZD. The ileciiiont in the Loath= ease virtually ends do presid•intlal con test. The lestilni 143ppigiiou nett& papers accept thd sltuictioaluice folly, while the Itoptibliean papers -bail the result with joy. :„ ' EPA= the NewXort ItanslNJ The en& of the long uncertainty is in sight Florida has already been counted for Hayes. The •Electoral Commission orders that Louisiana shall be counted for Hayes. There' remains only Oregon. Ther e never wall_any real doubt as to the vote of this State, .or .any but the flimsiest , technicality to hinder the count, and we think it fair to say that "Globble" - i has disposed of the technicality. We are advised from Washington that the Democrats ate so utterly demor alized by the disgraceful exposure of their candidate's effort at bribery in Oregon that they will make no seri ous contest, and may not even raise .an issue at all. Whether they do or not, the end is clear. In the face of the Oregon dispatches it would be impossible to • organise an honest court of either party in Washington that would not count the vote of the State for Hayes. It ,may take Mr. Tilden and his partisans some time to find out. that they are dead, but the remains must soon, be buried out of our,sight. The Country will -ac cept the Louisiana verdict and the Oregon disclosures as the end of the controversy. We attach little impoitance to the threats of resistance, or to the de nunciations of the Commission. The people regarded the dispute much as busines4 men regard a law suit that threatens to be endless. They decided to cut loose from rou tine and "leave it out " to a referee. Both parties agreed to the referee. To refuse to be bound to his decision would send a business man to Coven try, and would 'send Mr. Tilden's party back to the sure defeat and disgrace in' which they have spent the greater' part of their time since 1860 There is absolutely no consid erable body of respectable people in the country who would tolerate any resistance, to the decision of this Commission by either- party. We thought, and still think, the Commis sion a mistake. ;The Country did not think so, overr,bled such protests as ours, and insisted on the reference. We promptly acquiesced then, and anybody who does not acquiesce now will be run over as remorselessly as we should haV t e been. The Country" means that this settlement shall stand. The Country is likely to believe, too, that it is an honest settlement. Few have any doubts as to Florida. There is no longer a dispute as to. South Carolina: It is clear that the law is with the Republicans in Lou ?, , isiana. As to Oregon, people must choose between the elector bought with eight thousand dollars from 15 Gramercy I'ark, and the one who re ceived an undisputed majority of the Oregon votes. We would have been glad if there had been a bigger ma jority in Florida and a clearer case according to Northernideas of equity as well as law in Louisiana. But the evidence warrants us in saying that, whatever may seem to be the shadow on the title of Gov. Hayes, it is as nothing to the blackness of darkness that has settled over the claim of elected - ; and it is certain that Gov Tilden has not been. The end is in (From the New York Mies.) The Democrats are in a quandary. They are oscillating between- acqui, esende in the inevitable and. resistance to what they will, after all, be unable to withstand. The best men of the party, the men who monopolize its brains and give to it whatever weight of personal character it possesses, favor a prompt acceptance of the de cision of the Commission, and a com pletion . Of the count without much ado. - They 4 dO not hide their disap pointment, but, having gone into the plan in good faith, they deprecate as inexpedient and discreditable any fit tempt to obstruct its work. The pet tifoggers and reckless partizans, on the contrary, indulge in wild talk, and threaten in one way or another to frustrate the judgment rendered in the case of Louisiana. There was a tough struggle between the oppos ing forces in the caucus last night, and '. - the result tardlS -, determines whether the recognized leaders or the prrtenders.ti► leadership control the Congressional votes of the party whose future is Involved in the re sult. The influential Democratic newspapers are tolerably unanimous in support of the more prudent policy, and we shall await better indicators of party opinion than the men who last night counseled the adoption of revolutionary measures, before be- Bering that the Democracy propose to commit suicide-for the sake of Mr. Tilden. (From SfcClure's Philadelphia Timet.) That the nation' will be shocked at this decision is bUt the truth that must more and more terribly impress itself upon parties and upon adminis trations, as the full measure of its assault upon the very life of free in stitutions becomes irrevocable his tory. That the judgment was reach ed without intentional perfidy to law or justice by the judicial members of the tribunal we do not question ; but who can estimate the depth or breadth of the wound that a government of law receives by the appalling lesson that it has no tribunal into which the political spoiler cannot drag his pol lution?. A State that voted by thou sands for Mr. Tilden ; whose electo- ral vote was' flaunted for barter on the streets like the charms of her whose steps lead unto death ; whose laws were violated by revolution and actual fraud in open day ; whose less er usurpations in past contests have been spurned from the Senate and from the House and pronounced a shame upon civilization ; whose offi cials from whom the accepted returns have come, must be strangers at the door of the power to be created by by their crimes, and henceforth wan derers from the associations of men— this State has been made to decide a Presidential contest by a return that no judge dared to even look upon, and by a declared computation of-the vote that even the return board con ceals from the country at - the cost of imprison:nent. But it is final, and it is best that it is so. The tribunal was born in the sore travail of an imperiled Republic, and though its offspring be deformed and prove sharper than a serpent's tooth to its parentage, it was the accepted law of the nation, and its judgment is the lawful judgment of the sovereign powet of "the country. Oregon justly belongs to Mr. Hayes, and the only additional wound that the shattered trust of the nation can now` suffer, would befor,..a - partisan vote to decide that State. If there shall be ,seven votes against amt. ing Oregon , for .thi eildidate for whom, the people adclittedly voted, It will. prove that: Mitt 'when the grayest ptobblms °flaw and justice were to be solved befbre the first Ju die*. tribunal of free. government, Hayes had a party and Tilden had a Party, but the Republir bad none. p. s A avyki:44.l:4 The Democratic press and politi ciano talk- loudly and flippantly of the manner in which the States of Florida' and Louisiana have been itolen by the Republicans,and speak in the most complimentary eulogis tic terms of the renegade Republi cans who have lent their aid to the dishonorable truth by which TILDEN sought to gain the Presidency. - The inconsistency and diihonesty of these gentlemen was severely re buked by Hon. Samuzi. SIIDLLABAR- Grit; of Ohio, in his argument before the Electoral Commission. Mr. S. t "I now conclude this argument by an allusion to what has been the weight and burden on the other side. It is in regard to II& alleged outrage in -the -State of Louisiana. Why, gentlerneni_ can you shut your eyes to what ismow, if not the saddest, certainly one of the saddest-chap ters of American history ? By actual count through the aid of General Sheri dan, it is now set down as a part of your, history that in this blighted and blasted State of Lonisiaaaa,:_4,oooand odd citizens have been murdered; murdered by plan, murdered by system, by organization; murdered for - the purpose of putting down the right of the black man to vote and that thing has been going on and on through these dark and terrible years. It was my misfortune, gentlemen, to goonce myself, in 1866, to this State, sent by the Congress of the United States; and I took the testimony of hundreds of men, and when I was taking it I literally sat with my feet in human pools of blood, shed in putting out the free Government of the State of Louisiana, and, they did put it out—oh, right well and effectually. Gen tlemen of america, you have written in the last fifteen years a grand - hiatory for your country in its general aspects. John Bright, of England, once said to me: "Sir, I have been a part of the British Government now for thirty years. In that time we have conducted great affairs. We have extended the right,of English men to vote; we have abolishd the rotten borough system; e have emancipated the Jews; we have elevated our colonies; we have extended the right of the chil dren to be educated," and Babe went on in a grand catalogue and concluded by ,saying, "Sir, notwithstanding what I have said aboit, my country, I say to you that yon have dwarfed "—and he brought his hand down the table with startling emphasis—"you have dwarfed all that we have done in the life of the British na tion by what you have enacted in the last ten years of your life. You have saved the life of the last, the one Republic of the earth, and you have put out of your Constitution, and thereby ultimately out of the earth, the chattelizatiou of the hu man soul." Was t not A grand tribute ? Let me say to you now, if this career of: yours as a nation, which began fifteen or twenty years ago-in this direction by the election of Mr. Lincoln to the Presidency, then by the putting out of the ret.ellion, then by the extinction of slavery, then by your amendment making all men equal before the law, then making all men vote —if this procession of-yours as a nation, which is indeed like the procession of the gods, whose very foot-fall marks a con stellation, and shakes from its sandals the star dust of the heavens, is to end here by your turning back and abandoning to these murderer; this land already del uged in blood for the purpose of disfran chisement, then indeed this career of yours will be like that French astrono— mer's, described so magnificently by_one of our most gifted ,men, : who...enasched.ra until he found it, and then denied the ex istence of the God that made it, and U/S own- sintuow. F toed ebtcidifethi; discussion by saying, gentlemen of Amer ica—that is a higher designation than gentlemen of the Commission—remember that there is on trial here to-night the question of whether those laws made in Louisiana in pursuance of that one hun dred and third article of her constitution, • enjoining it on the Legislature, to make laws - of protection of the right of the freedmen to vote, are to be executed. If you fail to execute these laws you will hare stabbed your country in that place, where we are taught froth ctildhood the life of the country is to be found to reside —to wit, in the freedom and purity of the ballot-box. =EI -THE Independent, and as its name implies, a non-partizan paper, pub lished at Harrisburg ) ;thus character izes the base attempt' made by Mrs. OLIVER to blackmail the .veteran Senator from this State.: • "A statement comes to us from Wash-: ington that 4 lady (?) in that city had sued, pr intended to bring snit against, our venerable fellow-citizen and distin guished public 'servant, Gen. Cameron, for breach of promise of marriage. WI at ever effect such a story may have in other quarters, bere it can only provoke mirth, mingled with honest indignation. For fifty years Geu. Cameron has lived, labor ed and associated with the people of this part of Pennsylvania. In that period he has been a conspicuous man in many fierce conflicts,• the bold leader of politi cal agitation, the liberal promoter of bus iness enterprises., the friend of social ele vation, and the patron of art in its varied efforts, and whatever antagonism he may have provoked, resentments incurred, justly or unjustly, he has never been as. sociated in intrigues with women, never questioned in - his devotion to his marital vows, but maintained an unblemished name in all his domestic relations. He had but one love, whichtegan in his early life and continued through a long series of years. The object of that love now sleeps in peace, in a grave honored by ev- M3ll, woman and child in Ilartisburgh, who repel with disgust every attempt to compromise the venerable man who for half a century devoted all the love of his warm heart to her, and who tee all know still cherishes her memory with an affec tion ardent as the impulses of his younger manhood." Ont. year ago Mrs. BELKNAP ivas the toast, says Mrs. CLEMMEIL " She read so much abet the splendors of her beauty and the wonders of her toilet that she grew to belie:•e'her self above anyof her earthly sisters. In three years she was utterly trans formOd in aspect from a modest, sub dued-looking widow to an airy, su -percillions women of fashion. When Senator CIIRISTIANCY married a little girl who counted scrip in the treas ury, the Society' leaders' met and de= bated whether they should receive her or not. Nobody tabooed her so positively and utterly as Mrs. BEL KNAP. She the daughter of a country doctor, was not wilting to receive on equal terms the little " Countess of Scrip," suddenly elevated to the dig nity of a Senator's wife. But Mrs. Fists went to see the little golden haired woman, and treated her just as kindly as she could any one—and that is very kindly. Already we have ceased . altogether. to hear of Mrs. BELKNAP'S magnificent dresses. She lives at the Arlington, and. no ',doubt keeps still her near personal friends; but she is no longer 'the fash i lon. Nobody cares whether her shoes are ones or tens." GOLD closed yesterday at 104 MIT itoui /*a" *goes .4116. Rtit to = • iCuslinioroll'ett I&.:lthe t • fin...Aro:toes* visig tkpiristiotha Colhiatittoh ' - temained in cOnnultk Lion until near five o'clockl MINUTES OE THE PROCEEDINGS. Art. - - fire o'clock counsel wecosen for and the following resolutions acted on by the Conimisslon in secret session were reported to counsel: Mr. Hoar vibleitted the•following: Ordered, Tt! eirl!leace bei2:ot iczi,ma. • *Mr. Ahbott . o6red another anbati tute: issoleed, That .eeidente be received . 1W show that so touch of the act of Louisiana establishing the Reaming Board for the state is tincenstito tined:, and the acts of mid Returning Beal* are Told. • Rejected by the' following vote: YEAs—Mesirs. Abbott, Bayard, Clif ford, Fields, Bunton, Payne and Thurman.-7. NAYS—Messrs. Brad ley,- Edmunds, Frelinghuysen, 'Gar field, Boar, Miller, Morton and Strong—S. - • - Mr: Abbott offered another substi tute leitcdeol, That evidence be reetived to show that the Returning Board of Loalstana at the e*n ♦autng and compiling of the vote of the state at the last election, was not legally constituted under the laws establishing it thit it was compmrd of four persons of oae political party, instead of five peruses of different.parties. Rejected by the same vote. Mr. Abbott offered another • Resoterd, That , the COmmission reeclre testi mouy ou the subject of frauds as alleged In th , i spe cification of counsel for the objectors to certificates 'one and three. ' Rejected by the same vote. Mr. Abbott °tiered a fourth substi Lute t liescileett That testimony tending to show that the so-called iteturntog Board or Loustans had no. Jurisdiction to canvass the votes for electors, Is admissible. Rejected by the same vote Mr. Abbott offered a fifth: • Resolved, That evidence is admissible 'that the statements and efiliavits purporting to have been made and forwarded to said Returning Board, In pursuance of the provisions of seethes :6 of the election law of 157.1, alleging riot. tumuli, intimi dation and violence at or near eertshipols, and In certain parishes were false and fabricated and forged by certain disreputable persons under the direction and knowledge of said Returning Board. knowing said statements and afftdavits to be false and forged, and that none of such statements and adistavits warts - made lii the manner or form or within the time required by law, slid knowingly, wiffnly and frauduently fail and refuse to canvas or compile more than 10,000 rubes east, its is shown by the commissioners of election. Rejected by the same vote. Mr. Hunton offered a sixth substi tute: • • Reso/ca. That the evidence be received to prove that the votes cast and given ,atth- election on the 7th of November, as shown - by the return made by the commissioners of Election, hare - never been complied or cans/ sued. and that the Returning Board never even pretended to compile or canvass the returns by the Commissioners of Election ; but that the Returning Ward only pretended to can vass the lawns made by the state supervisois of registration. .• • Rejected 14 the same vote. A seventh substitute was offered by Mr. Bayard : Resuirrti, That no person holding an office of trust or profit under the United States Is eligible to be &pi:winced an elector, and that thodeornutiss lon will reeetve evidence tending TO prove said In eligibility. al o!ered by counsel fur the objectors to certificates No. 1 and 3. Rejected by the same vote. Justice Field offered an eight and last substitute : - Resowd. It the opinion of the Commission, evidence I. a imis.ildiV up , ,n the several matt.irs which counsel ter the objectors to numbers t and 3 offered to prove. - Rejected by the same vote. . The question ob the original :irder of Mr. Hoag came up, " That evi dence olrered be not received." Mr. Payne moved to.strike otit the word " not." • , Rejected by the same vote. A vote on the original order was `then taken and adopted. Yaeakt-Messrs. Bradley, Edmunds, Hoar, Mill- NeessrAbbott. Bayard, Clifford, , .3, B tinnton, Payne, Thurman-7. Counsel being asked if they de sired Further argument replied in the negative. - M. Morton' moved that three members of the-Commission be -ap pointed to prepare a report in the Louisiana case. Mr. Strong said the question that hdd been passed upon was the ques tion of admissibility of evidence, and he thought they noW ought to go into the merits of the case. The Commission then went into secret session for consultation. Mr. Payne moved that one hour be allowed each side in ,which'' to make arguinents.. Discussion arose on this, it being Mated that counsel had not asked for further argument. Mr. Everts said his side had argued 'the whole question fully, and covered the whole merits of the case. They had not reconsidered it during . the time allbwed them. The motion was withdrawn, and the Commission went into secret session for consultation on the main question. Immediately after the 400 rs Niere closed Mr. Morton offered the follow ing: Raeolord. That the persons named as electors in certificate No. 1 were,thc lawful elector,' of Louisi ana, and that their Votes are the votes provided by the United Btat s Constitution and should be counted. Adopted by the - same vote, S to 7. Messrs. Miller Bradley and Hoar were then.appointed to draft a report of the decision. with a brief state ment of the reason, therefor, to be Mined by the mc:tilers agreeing therein, and to be transmitted tilthe joint session of the two Houses: A recesss of an hour was taken to afford time to draft the report which, upon reasembling, was presented and after being read was signed by Messrs. Miles, Strong, Bradley, Ed munds, Morton, Frelinghuysen, Gar field and Hoar: TILDEN'S ATTEMPTS AT BRIBERY Yore Light on the Subject—Ypres? Correspondenoe Between Oregon and Tilde's New York Manager. WAsupurroN, Feb.l6.—The Senate Committee investigating the Oiegon Electoral affairs, of which Senator. Mitchell is Chairman, continued the translation of cipher telegrams to-day as follows: Nzw Toes... Dee. 6;976. To Bow. James K. Kelly : Is your matter certain There must be no rale. tate. AU depend on you. Plate no reliance on any favorable report from three southward Lounetter. Answer qulvt. (No signature.] .., Noy. :I, lEl—ln:4S A. 31. to W. T. POlon, N 0.15 - Gramercy Park, N. Will bottemless loose any Elector, In tenet:fel:mg Democrats? State answer. P. Nsw Tonic. Dee.:, Iris. To Row. lames Jr. Zany: Telegraphed P. last night and today. Hare no reply. Ilan ttp left? Answer. c,) . ru signature.] rOZTLAVD, Dee. 1,107 L To IV. T. Taloa. N 0.15 Gramercy Part, S. Y.: Not time to,conrene Legidature. Can manage with lit.ooo at present: Must have it Monday, cer tain. Have Chairs Dimond. No. 11l Liberty's:reek, telegraph it to Bush. hanker. Salem. This will se cure Democratic vote. All are at work here. Can't fall. Can't do more; sail morning. Answer Kelly In cipher. (No signature.? • Dee. 1, 111111. To Dr. George L. Xiffer, *maArs, Yea.: After piece simply. Can't few! tan do noltitng more. Sall suanter Eider morntoz. , . No signature. New TOSS, Dec. I, OM. Mon. lames K. Kelly. Port land, Oregon: Telegraph Renisman P.'s direction of youreelf. Poikrw sundae aeount. Can't change tt. needs. man pareetel. Whoa will P. reach destination f An. SWIM ' (No Agnaturo.) THE Legislittare will iirobably ad• jot= aboutithe middle of March. A MM`OI:O2IINM hi4—Tliti iy/tamottix . ott. , ',4o=tatfitiphild it', cantata.. yes tiard4'and resolied tildeet with the ItoM', Pik:Whale 01dietts;:irk. the tweahii,;:lf,ThcaAtter met At hgt-Rest seven; Ili. tlyiber A resolution was offekell,ProPos ing to abandon the Commission, but eeeived-only-thirteen votes. - Mr..goehrane; of Pennsylvania, of fered a preamble and resolution sub stantially as follows: • lirtinsterae, 'The ItMetotal Commission was Cre ated In good faith with a view to an examination of ovidereee,andall qui:rakes which pertain. Sallie disputed votes of Florida, Landaus, and Oregon; and whams; said .conimbudon, fu disregard of their oaths, fratuhdently refn.sed to obey' the law and will of the people by defeating such molar Lion, therefore, . . . Itiaottid,'Phst It Is the duty'of ecmgiess,iWhiett newest° the Democratic party and Anteriesm peo- ple to defeat the fraudulent sets of add C0111131U sit:ROI all ineans known to the Constitution and laws, to the end that altposslble delay, may he in terlx,i.ea. dilatory motions Made, and objections In. terpesinVto the rote of every State yet to be count, ed. with *view of multiplying the issues, thereby defeating the inauguration of the usurper. • Mr. Reagan, of Tesasi offered' the following substitute needled, 'That the count of the eledoral vote proceed Without opposition to the orderly execution of the act of Congress creating tbo VommLsetan. *hose dectslone shall be received and-acted upon In accordance with the provisions of said law. • A long and animated debate en sued. On one side it was conendted that the conception- of the tribunal to adjust the controverted questions wits a sublime act of statesmanship, freighted with the hopes and wishes o: the nation; but the• result was a disaPpointment mixed with grief and mortification. It would, however, be injurious to the Dethoeratie party, who so strongly supported the eke toral bill, if they did not now abide the result in good faith. On the other &de it was argued hat it would be better to have an interregunm and for the 'presiding officer of the Senate to act as Presi dent until there could be a new elec tion, rather than submit .to fraud, which Ei houl(1 be befeateti by- all means known to the Constitution, and rules of the House. AmJna those who advocated Mr. Cochrane's proposition were Messrs. Thompson, Mass., Hurd, of Ohio, Southard, of Ohio, and Lynde, of Wifoonsin. Among the opponents were Messrs. Brown, of Ky.. - Reagan, of Texas, Singleton, of Mies. Ben Hill, of Ga., and Senators iayard and Kernan. Mr. Bright' offered . the following amendment to 31r.,Reagan's resolu , tion: .• But'this restAutlon is 3Ceompante.d with the sot emn aud elrTlefit protest of the Democratic party a7gatipa, thc3 gro,ot and sttainclevt violations of law, justice and truth rontaloed In the &chinos of the majority who t Ivied the same In the cases of Mr - - Ida and Louisiana. t Mr. Reagan 's resolution asfamend ed was then. adopted, 60 ta 40. • Mr. Field offered _ a resolution for. the appointMent of a' Committee . of five to inqiiire whether it would be expedient to withhold the appropria tions for the - support of the army. Mr. Willis, of N. Y., moved to lay the resolution on•the•table, saying to withhold-such supplies,-would be to alarm the country, and therefore he should oppose any such legislation. Mr. Field withdrew his resolution: Messrs. Field and Tucker suggest-. ed an adjourned -meeting of the cau cus, but it was objected to and the, caucus adjourned.. ' SHOOTING OF,GOVERNOR PACKARD. NEW* OHLE.4.NS, FebuaryOut noon to-day;in,an altercatiOu labia office with a man who is unknown to nolire on duty in the State in the knee-cap. The man who _did the shooting was fired Upon by a bystander and wound ed in the arm: • . HOW IT OCTXRED-A NARROW rscArr. ".At half-past eleven o'clock this morning the vicinity of the Govern or's Room, in St. Louis Street State house rang, with the sharp report of two pistol shots, fired almost simul taneonsly. • " an instant there was intense excitement abroad, and a • rapid hurrying of a crowd towardi the gubernatorial apartment. - "'here it was found that fir. Pack= arci,- while seated in his chair and stirmindeci , by a half dozen calk* tiO been - :suddelily eiSproached by one of the parties, who, drawing,- a pistol and levelling 7 it at Mr. Pack= ard''S heart at • almost point blank range; pulled the trigger. if "At that very instant - 11 r. Pack ard struck the weapon cloth), andlthe exPloded,. and the shot struck Ali: Packard in', the knee. "At that instant Mr. Packard closed with the man and ; threw him to the floor. . " Diligent inquiry. failed to di-. vulge the name of the man, anything about him or anything about the the cause of the attack. • "Report has it ;that he was a or respondent for a northern newspaper, but now all inforthation is vague." DON PLATT TO BE INDIOTED AND PROSECUTED. , - W I ASITIN"GtON, Feb. 19.—An edito rial in the Sunday Copitdsuggests the assassination .of Hayes. An effort will - be made to indict the editor. After an interview with the Presi dent, Secretary of War and ;Secretary of State, the Attorney General this forenoon 'consulted the District At torney concerning the incendiary article in the Sunday Capital. TO BE INDICTED. It is stated upon the-highest offi cial authority that the President has determined upon the prosecution of Don Platt, editor of the 'Capital, for libel, and also for 'editions writing, indictable under both common and statutory law. District Attorney , Wells was this afternoon directed to take the neces sary steps in the matter, and his arrest will be made to-morrow. 1.11:104:VINVOS KOVV(0411;1114 CINCINATI, Feb. 16.—Eph Holland, the principal tool of the October election conspirators in this county, completed his statement to-day. It is a full and fairspnfession as to the means employed tii pile up a fraudu lent majority, but stops short of giv ing the names of the Democrats in East who supplied the money,' He accounts directly for over.soo fradu lent votes, enough to oust Banning and nearly every Democrat inoffice in the county. He testifies alit he was engaged as a matter or business by Banning, Wallace, and other Democratic leaders to get votes by whatever means were necessary, and he got them. Thousands of dollars werclurnished him, and he disbursed the money among the repeaters from - New-York, Chicago and Pittsburg. His confession has made a startling, sensation here, but there' is a feeling of disappointment that he refuses to give the names of the prine;pith.. It shows' conclusively that Stanl4e Mathew's legitimate' majority' Over Banning was not lees than 500. MOLLY MAME MURTIAS 11114! BwoMsfilines l7—.ll l,s. Ati47 , 4 11.0 th• er peacefutflay.zight ne settled down on that quiet country tori, and the courthoutie whlalichful been the: theatre of tlitt sprrhig 4.91,tk which three men are interested for lifififif death, is once more silent in antici pation of the silent Sabbath. It has been an exciting-week.. - The Zetaiis of the murder of Alexander Rea - have been main and again !recalled, and the old story of man's inhumanity to man demonstrated by Many a cold 4blo_odektale of treachery. The cli max of th e great Molly Maguire drama Is, evidently dra,ivink near. As it ripproaches_the" public interest in the proceedings grows greater,' and the efforts •of the counsel on both sides of this great criminal trial seem to be ,redoubled, so" that . they are fighting the case inch by inch with all the ability and stritegy, which they Can command. The prisoners look very much fdtigued from the fierce ordeal through which they have been passing. Hester seems jaded and ill at case. 'The stock of good humor that was his at the opening has evidently abandoned him, and his eye wanders furtively from the witnesses to the bench- and lingers there, as if he would read his fate in the frank, honest fate of the white baired judge, whose prompt decisions on - every knotty point has thus far been given with remarkable readi ness and supported by ample author- ity, It is a matter generally commented upon, by those in attendance that the prisoners McHugh and Tully are en tirely lost sight of by the counsel fur the defence, and that, their sole efforts are concentrated in'behalf of Patrick Hester. This is_ accounted for by the fact that Hester is charged with'orig inating the plot, and it is .believed that his fate will determine that of, his fellow prisOners also. The character of "Kelly the Bum"' formed' the target against which the testimony of a host of witnesses for the defence was levelled this morning. A witness named Dennis MeLolvh 'lin swore that he would not believe Kelly .under oath. Peter Luby and several other Witnesses• affirmed that Kelly's general character was of the worst kind. John Cannon swore that j Kelly once asked him if he. would take; a false oath to save a man from being hanged, and upon the witness answering he would not, Kelly said he " would swear any damn thing to clear a man," anti aaJumber of others . SWOre, to similar statements. ~„. Helen Hester,- daughter of the, prominent prisoner, , Seetns a modest, . agreeable girl, and appeared to ap proaeh the witness stand with fear anti trembling.' She swore that her father was :at home on the Friday before Rea *as murdered, and de tailed his movements. Another . daughter of the prisoner corrobtlrated her sister's statement. • J.lke Riehardson was called to prove that late on the evening of the 16th of October, 186 S, the night wben. • it was said the robbery anti murder I were planned, Hester was in Ashland, drinking with a number of friends. 'Patrick Fahey, of Big - Mine , Ran]; • also swore to meeting Hester in' Ash 'land late on the night preceding the Monier, and that he was asleep in a chair at Captain McLoughlin's saloon • , as late as eleven o'clock.. This wit ness was suljected to a Cross-exami nation, but so far his story remains PRESIDENT GRANT'S 'UTURE :WASHINGTON, Feb.,lB.—The Pres ident will leave the Executive Man sion on Saturday, March 3, and, with Mrs. Grant, will be the guest of Sec retary Fish until their - departure for Europe, which will be early in April. Mr. , and Mrs. Sartoris will take up their residence this week with Mrs. • Lewis Dent,ln this city, and will re main until -May, when they will also sail for Europe. Ulyssess Grant, Jr., the .President's secretary, will leave. for New York on March 4, to begin the - practice of law-with the firm of Which he is a member. .Col. Grant," who has been in Washington-for two winters past engaged in making cop ies of the recorus of Gen. Sheridan destroyed in ihe .Chica,,,no.fire, will return to the headquWrters of the Lieutenant General at once, The :data which he has, been accumulating since here embraces not only l the of ficial records of heodouaiters; but also Official material for a full' history of Sheridan's. connection - with the war. The President, will 'give no . levees nor dinners. — The statement that he would give a farewell dinner to his Cabinet w entirely unatithor ized. As the absence .of the, usual i Presidential levees this winter has .been the sultiect"comrnent, it can be stated that they were abandoned en seedunt, of the excited state of feel ing incident. to the political contest between the friends of the candidates for the succession, and that under the ! circumstanees it was thought best not to hold these levees. The President has no intention at present-of taking up his permanent residence in this; city. The house which he owns here. ' was taken by him only to relieve'pari ties who had . purchased the ground from him which his own house partly occupied. Before departing for In rope the President will-:visit the West. When he leaves the Executive Mansion the public property will; as usual, be placed in the custody of the steward of the household. It is pre sumed that Mr. Hayes =will arrive Jiere. shortly after the fhrmal declara tion- of his election: After his inaug uration he will be formally welcomed to possessiim or the Executive Man sion by the President and his outgo-. ing'eabinet. _ , THE Times reports that CORNECI CS J. VANVERBILT., upon the advice of a friend, .a. companion named TAII.IiY, who lives in Toledo, has taken steps to oppose the settlement of the VAN DEitill LT property. CORNELIGS is debtor to a consikerable amount to TEURT. TAE Meatier:Lotus, which sailed from New Haven, January 23d., with .a cargo olarms and ammunition for tie T.urkiih - Governinent valued at $1,700,000, arrived at Constantino ple with boats and deck house damag ed. " The cargo is alsd reported dam aged. BUT little progress . was made in counting the electoral vote yester day owing to the action of the House in again taking a• recess. But s the end approaches. A_ BILL" has been introduced in the Legislature looking to a material re= duction of the fees o".'county officers. The measure will be supported by our Senator and .Meinbera lamas nu NB mu= lilaantaisulto, Feb. le, ICI. The session of the T eglalstare up to the present time, bail been void of any valuable nsualts. A few pieltical squabbles created - an awakening among members far absitif time. and the, usual too' 'notony followeo.lkei a new school, It was desira ble to measure strength in some manner, so they mounted Me old hobby, bad a tow sharp contests, burnished up r the broken armor and subsided Mil the next occasion, which is not far off. Itesoluilons ateongratiffOons to the country will ply:sflo rot+ low the inalleration.lC not the sward of the Com -mission; and on the heels Of these wilt follow. the rebel yell of dedanee which has been iterated and re-iterated for the past' fifteen years. Perhaps di& cretion may be deemed the t otter pkrt of valor on both ables..for there is art much to blast of on side except magnanimity. and that seems to be feebly apegeelated by -the - retlplents. There are some Democrats, however, who do' not hesitate:l.* seirnowie4mrit theonly right way. A': delegate In the House from Jefferson eetnity; said a day or two slue. thit "no other view could In fairness be taken by that Commlsslon.. Had tbererOnt, behind tb.tketkm of the atates, , ther would have been In-' volved In an inextricable labyrinth, and "tea instl.: toilets scrionsly_endangered If not disintegrated. Ifi was still a states rtghts man. and their errors were not in the purview of that Commission. We must do the best we can with this flearbought ex perience." . Mr. roster: of Bradford, read In place on Thurs day last. a bill entitled, an act to require. the con struction of boundary -fences, and provides that railway compudes bolding charters under the laws - . of tills Commonwealth, shall conjointly - with own ers otriy)d along the various railroads themigb all the open farming lands and even unimproved lands where cattle and other domestic animals are likely to stray or be 'pastured, to construct boundary fences of not less than four and a half feet in height, the bottom rails to be not less than one foot Mtn the ground,"and to keep the Same in ropalr so long as used for railway purposes. - The constant danger to passengers end the destruction of prop. erty, are quoted as requiring the passage of such an ace. Messrs. Myer, Foster. and Gillett have presented numerous petitions from citizens of isradford fa voring a law fixing the rate of interest and prohib iting usury. Mussrs. Young and Elliott, of Vega . ; several pe titions to the mum purport from citizens of Etk land, Knoxville, Ceviugtea, Westfield and West field borough. - The above petitions from both counties were wel tilled with leading citizens. Jackson, of Mercer,.and Jackson of 'Wyoming, bave L presented quite a number, the former num bering C signatures. They, am appearing tram every-part of the State, and people appear anxious that Seine legislation stinnid be had, - If ifosslble, making rates more fixed and ntable. Vziltious continue to faior 'tile re-enactment of a local option law, and quite a respectable number Well filled remunstrattng against the l passage of such an act. It would Tie very difficult.' at present to foreshadow the fate of a prohibitory law. A number of members would support a l atate Jaw, that 'feel reluctant under the constitution to bicallae It. Others again lootillpon . any legislation as clone. They believe It to be one of those evils that can he the most safely and certainly eradicated Ly a thorough oducatlon of th'i people through those Irresi , tlble agents. the press r and the pulpit, and clainiing that these elements of power are relieved somewhat from its care, because it Is in the bands +.4 spetal committee. •Tbey believe a reform. such as Is now insugurated In- Allegheny County anditsewr.cre; to he constitutional and right, need ing no leglststlon to give scop:t. and power 'to the movement. It Is one of those Issues. however, that enll+ts a great amount of zeal, and HS '. actors seem to thiitk it should be forced out exl;tenee In the next 21 hours. If It could be, few would withhold an amen. A large number otthe Indebted etas.% wilt feel as if neglected by a failure here to afford. some leg !!'Vire relief of a stay law. But there seems to be. little disposition In this body to furnish - aid In that direction. The stay bill now before the Rouse will be likely to meet the same fate as the other. The fable of•the dairy maid, who became suddeuly rich, _prospecilvely, upon the Itaie of butter and eggs not yet Ln hind, was suddenly made aware of the insta htittyelf human calculations by the fall of her relit. The consolation that " there was no use crying for. spilt milk." was most ungracious. but skows that we are obliged to submit to the Inevitable. The imaginary happiness 'to realizeff. ifrom legishr .• Is 1310. i i, always sometimes" very eiknesceiSt. The interest bill Is not yet reached.. .linlegs call •ed up by common consent, it Will not ho upon the calendar (or this week. , ' • Judge Williacna, and lion. Mitchell are Melly tarrying at _the Lac:lied.' Theili• are looking serene. as though erarythlug • seas transpiring arti r und us was by dichiB apirir.tment, , and for once they are pruhablY tlgut. Time has d./hit'tcludiy with both. Mr. Mitchell retains the . vigor-of early manhoosi the right as of yore,. - though Ina more adinneecl IBMS MALTA. Dr:SALL& Co., 111,-Feb. 19, 77 Mr. Rtrivoir In:these exciting Gm.* perhaps you will not object to : receiving a few lines from an humble individual like Myself, especially as my. life has always been spmt 'in Bradford County till within the lastlfire years. Well, then, my first point is, that Congress, .In, passing that infaineus Count hilt, exceeded thepow, ers granted them by the Constitirtion;, fur it Kays plainly, "The President of the Senate shall, in pre.Sence of the Senate and House of Representa tives, 'open all the certificates, and the-, votes shall then be counted;" - The question, then,. is, By whom? Why, certainly, the President of the Sen ate, unless he delegfites thatjsower to some other man or lita.n. Then, lia4re is :another ciath4e that st*ares the advocates of this bill in the facer—Article If See. 6 (latter " No Senstor or Represen tistive shall, daring: thu time for which he 1733 eJected, ha appointed to any civil atlice under the authority of the united States . Which shall have been created. or the emoluments whereof Shit! have bees inere.iied ;luring such time ; and no person 1141dIng any citlce under the United ) Ststes shall be a member of either House daring nis'eoatinnance in °M0.... , But what do we see? - Nothihg more =sir less than a Canvassing Board created, with fir teen civil officers as that. Board. to count' the Elec tors; vote. Well, they must either say this Tribu nal is no: an ofil-e, Or admit It to he-Int ohtraven - Hon of the clause Just quoted. This bill, I conceive, strilre.s at the main pillar of out Liberti, and the lesser pillars will soon crumble under such outrage ous legLsiatien. It would have been much more honest and safe if the It,Tublicatt;partYhad let It went to the House, even if. Mr. Tilden had been elected. Then the ConstitutiOn would have been saved even if eon:talon followed: but now the ship of State is cast upon an unknown sea' where rocks and shoals are readY to dash her into a thousand pieces. Whoever may be couated-in now,/ ill be an illegal Pfesldent, because he will be counted An by an lllegai Board. Welh'l nm thinkidi we have one Cain at liast in the Senate of the United States, arid that man is Mr. 7.4lerton ; but. one Cato round not save Rome, and orre riatinot same 'the thited States. Such a gigantic usnrpation in yree America is hardly enderat,:e. What Was the'Credit Mobiller or the Salary Grab la comparison to this outrage : thy irefraudeit the Government out of a few mill ions, but this isstriltiug oaf of exlsietsce all the landmarks of the Constitution. We now see the evil eZects of some: of the Con greaslonal acts slime the war, By remuring the disabilities of,traltors, we have about seventy rebel Congrzss, whose object Is to rule or tuln ; th ,, tat7 3 , ssey have doughfacee at the North (Demo and Republicans) to help them carry their messures. This bill diaers only In quantity front the doings of the Jacoblus - otTrance In 1713. They swept away everything- at one fell anroop.- and cur Congress Is removing the landmarks of the one at a time: It teems to me to be a time for the people to my aloud and spare'not. Now the leaders of this Infamous bill know-it Is not consti tutional. , Whom-they say It Is, they lie; they: know they Ile, and the peopi.e . : know they lie. This is the erect of taking traitors Into the bosom of We Guy erument and theme cherish theta, to receive a stab under the fifth rib. -• al. B. F. B. EDITOR EzrOatEit, Should I point out some of the faults of Pennsylvania legislation, the citizens. of this Commonwealth. who possess a good deal of local pride !n the reputation of the State, would not feel intensely flattered. For some years past, the writer of this communi cation has tried to get our members from this section to remedy some of the glaring defects in the laws. but all effort In this direc.lon has been in vain. Perhaps the better Way Is, after all, to bring the matter before them in a incu4 public manna, or in other words, to bring them "face to face" with the public. In cases of tr3sPa,s, 'the aUttiorirds eapia• to be issued against the wrong doer. The . defendant, if the claim does not exeeeed 1100. is ustaily brnight before a magist rate, If a con tinuance is granted, 101 l is exacted for the appear ance of the defendant at the time fixed. If the plalntitiff obtains judgment, the defeudant can ap peal by giving. bail for costs only. - This curious condition of the, law Is practically as follows: A stranger In the Commonwealth In jures one of our citizens by tresspass to the amount of il. Ills body is taken upon the Preliminary Jroeess of the court.. Ile desires to get out of the urisdiction of the State; with as little loss as possi ble. Ile confesses Judgment to the amount of 'plain tiff's claim, then deposits a few dollars with some Individual to go his bail for cubit and appeals. The appeal Is not tiled in court, the bail pays the costs' and the plaintiff receives nothing. Thu{ It will be We'll...that so long as the plaintiff's claim remains undecided, the body of a trespasser , may be held; but just as soon as it Is made certain ' by judgment, security for a few dollars costs . oper ate. to release Lim. ' This whole illicraccrul ••botch work " could be rcmc•lied In much less time than It taken one In cipient .oation.n to make an ordinary spe;ceb- alaw ho passed r..ptirlog that dotelviatitts in. ',eating from a judginewt In t.rt. shall gate boll oiLollthwed for thn payment of the heart/newt as well as cue*, that riLly be recovered' agains; Cho appellant and the difficulty vanishes. • OTASX SEW ,Zama' D. Foss ; freiteastle; -Law renw county, cOnunitted suicide: on the tad inst. He was cashier of 'the Beaver Falls cuttlery woriut.` THE Altomm Globs says mines of lead and zinc Orel in Sinking .Valley, near Ty tone, are now being worked by eastern eapitalists.. LANTZ, who killed !finery, near Altoo na, some mend* ago; has been tried, con. , victed and sent to - the-penitentiary for 25 months. THE Clinton Democrat says that search es made in Porter townsbip 'after coal are , creating a strange mieletion in' that "kin. ity that a fine vein' of nickel is to be the upshot of this matter. - , THE petroletni refinery at ' port has been purchased by practical re finprs and again•put in operation. It has a capacity of about 50 barrels - per day. AT a late sale of -timber lands by the sheriff of Clinton dainty 4,300 acres were sold for $4,700. The timber tracts bad been cleared of pine trees.. • TitwlSunbury Gazette says a•movetnent is being made among the Methodists of . Sunbury to secure the session of - the Penn.:, sylvania Conference of lon to be held in that place. . Tner.F. are in Pennsylvania twenty three incorporated cities es follows :.Phil adelphia, littsbuig, Scrantm, - Reading. Harrisburg, Lancastci, Erie, Wilkes-Barre, Williamsport, Allentown, .. Altoona, Chester, Tituaville, Meadville, Lock Haven,' Carry, Carbondale New Castle, Oil City, Franklin, Parker ai.d Monongahela City, • .Tne'Easton Ezpresa says: What is be - lieved to have been the 'biggest yield of, iron ever taken from one furnace was made in furnace N 0.4, of the Cramiiison company, at Catasauqua, last week. Two yeara, . ago, 273 tons were taken for a week's work from a furnace of this same compauy, but 43340ns for the same space of time eclipses , that record. THE Berks county prisoners made • 134 pairs of boots and shoes, 2,072 yards of carpet, 100 yards of.inaterhal for pants last year. - The average number -or pris oners nine months of 1576,.0ver 7S; aver age cost to keep, 27 cents per day. - Dur ing that time made 025 yards ingrain and 13,579 yards rag earpeCt- IKtO grain bagS',. 203: yards panting, 1.i•4 yards- shirting, 1,233 pairs of boots and shoes. IT is rumored at Wilkes-Barre that : work will be immediately resumed by tl e' Lehigh and Wilkes-Barre coal company. Doubtless this rumor is.c&rect. When a corporation gets into the hands of a re ceiver it escapes the terrible 'drag of debts due and falling due aud feelfi 'like the Is raelites in Canaan aftei forty years of • wandering. - The Lehigh and WilkesL Barre company can put anthracite in the market now that has not been mortgaged. \ before it was mined and the proceeds of which will be available to pay for the la,- - bor of putting it in market. But alas for Its stockholders A FEW days ago, while travelling a foot through the woods in one of the thinly settled portions of Clintion county, Rev. Mr. Crittenden stopped at a lonely dwel ling to leave some Sunday scol t ibal papers and tracts. A long-haired desperate look ing man opened the door and took the pa pers without saying anything like thank' you sir. As things looked Mr. C, thou? tit it best to travel. on. He hail gone about thirty rods to a turn in the roadwhen he heard ringing out, "Say, old chap, come back here and get these papers _:'or I'll have you • 'rested." Missionary looked . around as if he did not quite hear or un derstaud and moved on at double 'quick, travelling five Miles 'to, 'wrist? , w next 'wri, M where he was glad to id some genuine, generous-hearted and sober lumbermen. the wrathy woodsman was evidently under the influence of strong drink, Mr. Crittenden will nut at present state where - the inciant occurred. 'He give the full particulars _when' he is "'rested." A. Dox.stosos, commission clerk iu the State Department under the Secreta ry of the COmmonwealth during a portion of Gov. Geary's Administration, was .on Friday afternoon arrested, charged-'with issuing, a note for , $3OO, payable in ten days-after elate, drawn to the order'ef.St mon'Caineron and pnrpor,tirig to be en dorsed by him to Jae6b Tausig, a pawn- . ,. ' "A.CccA reelViEig the note, Mr. Tausig had his suspicions aroused as to its (genuineness, and upon inquiring at the First National - Bank where it *as made payable,. discovered that it was a forgery, and making infor mation, had the defendant arrested. Pon aldsoli had been out of employment' for 'some time, anti :having had an invalid wife and a familY to support, it is. sup : :: posed he re.sortsd to this plan to procure' means of living, lie now standScommit ted to answer 'the elytrim'at the next term of•eourt in Thruphin. l ,,county, whi:di will :be held in April, in default of 101 bail. • A Sr TT is being tried' in • the Philadel phia.courts in which Mr.:Greurge .1. Bel: ton. of the Washington,liotel, is' the ,de fendatit, and Jaeot Bros. the plaintiffs. - An agent of the plaintiff alleges •that while, stopping at the Washington Irons° he loSt several watches. -. Judge Eleock chargedd, the jury that if the agent of the plaintiffs did not take care of tht watches, Which one baying such valuable property' ir. his posscsSion should have done, tie fendaut was.not responsible-for the loss of the,pfbperty, noonatter what the neg ligence on his part may have been. Nor was the defendant responsible if th•tre was posted upon the door of the room 1. .notice that a safe was t previded by' de fendanc for the keepingi;!f valuables, etc., and if he bad a safe sufficiently large to contain tlie watches. for it was the duty of the plaintiffs ,agent to ,unload the wafehes from the valise, for the defend ant was not bound to find room for the valise, too, in the safe. He also instruct ed the jury that, before fiodin,g . a verdict for the plaintiffs, they must be satisfied that the robbery was committed in the hotel. JOHN HARTLAND, a very prominent cit izen of Wilkes-Barre, and a man vniver4 . • sally loved and respected, met with a; horrible? death 'on Wednesday - morning last in the Diamond shaft of the Lehigh and Wilkes-Barre coal company's mines, located in the suburbi 'of Wilkes-Barre. Mr.•llariland was the foreman 4 4tlie ma sonry work for the company, and had re cently been superintending the construc tion of a foundation for an engine in the Diamond mine. This morn ing.as he was at the top of the shaft waiting to desend, ha heard the engineer's hell ring, which is the u. - ual warning given before the car riage descended into the mine below. ' Ile at once stepped out to go dcorn with the carriage. aome mysteritnis, manner, 'and with none to see him, he missed his' footing at the moth!) of the pit, and fall ing between the carriage and the Shaft, he was hurled downward a distance of over 450 feet to the bottom. A. miner crossing the foot of the shaft a short time afterward discovered the remains of Mr. Hartland and gave the alarm. • The body was triangleitinto a horrible mass, and was, subsequently, taken in -charge and conveyed to his residence. He leaves a wife and one child. Tau. 19, 1977 A Wonderful Dlsrovery'.—our numerous exchanges are tilled with accounts of most wender ful euXeS effected by 1)r. "31EDICAL WONDXII... It la salt to be the greatest vitalizer yet discovered, giving buoyancy to the spirits, etas tiritv to the step, and tusking the invalid hearty, 'emu:lig...fins and stmt:. It cures All diseases of the Liver. Stomach. Kidneys and - L•pliar: Screrub and all Blood Diseases: cures Nervous Pcostratitm and, Weakness of either 5e7.4 restoring Tone and, to the whole system. ltead the following cures: Prof. It. A. ilitsos:. Saratoga, N. Y., vciitely knowit Mt Principal of . one of our leading institu tions of learning,. says that his wife has used the "31edical Wonder" for a complication of diseases, with the must happy effect. No other remedy ever' touehed the case like it. • I.lr. A. DaLTON,3l4:Yrrisillle, N. Y.: ststvr In bed to o se:tr3 with female and nervous tilimseN; e erect. ALBERT TIZVXSDALF., Tuncook, N. IL. loath some terotuta; buppot , ett to be to cotistitutiota; I= Mrs. 1. S. APARTON, 11111sborolk.N. ff.. sithtal e41-443.3. F- GEO. IIAISEQ. Oneida, earthier terrible:catarrh. ELIZABZTII WOOD. Sheds wornerf,,N. Y., ovarian tumor at.tl dropsy. reduced 15 Inches around lmly. NOICSIAN Ily:vr, Shells Corners, S. Y., wonder. fulenre of dyspepsia amllleart disease. !iris. Z. A. White, Sheds eornec , , N.Y..' terrildo Seraluta and Kidney ll:sense; gained 40 pounds. A. 11. liAlvt.Ex,, Saratoga, eayk!that ".11esileal Wonder gave him health, strength nod appetite. Mrs. onnurvv, coneunl,' confined tohed with female and 'kidney disease; curnd. Nu smeetor 1,000 ether cures. A‘k yoar Draggl,t fr , r ",31'-.llcaT Wender," and , tie. rum,. repartml by 1)r. ti.toi, Co., Saratoga. For fob In Towanda by Dr. U. C. roarnn ,waolOsalo.,by Unzanx CranAX a Co., Ll. T. - ATILINS. 11 MI
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