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Patlford fgorttt EDITORk; E O. GOODRICH. Tchurplay, Pet 21; 1878. THE OLD ENEMY • During the exciting political strug gles of the last fifteen eyears,,says a fcoteniporary, the Democratic party • has , managed to 'put forward at all . times the issues about reconstruction and - the enforcement of the incident= al changes by . milits.ry' force. Dux . , ing- all this, time it ;has evaded the • tariff issue; malting: any- profession that might be found convenient to secure success. While the Repulih , can; majorities in 1 - Congress -were large and -decisive, tinny DemoCratic members were 'found Serviceable to • the cause of protection, but no goon er does Congress become .Democratic than that party is found to be prac tically united for free-trade. . All, forms of Liberal Republican.: Civil Service Reform, ete, are t found to work in the same way and to . conceal the same purposes.' In the' Liberal platforM of 1.72. the sub ject was ingeniously dodged. But all the remarkable reformers who were; subsequently elected . ; to the Senate .have turned out to be dis, guised free-traders. The present is. apparently deemed so promising. a time for the betrayal of the cause of domestic industry into the hands of its ...enemies, under the pretext of fai:oring Americari commerce, • that the -Demobrats and , their' allies are OWing off all restraints, and pro pose.to g&to such extremes as were never thought the old times when the; long struggle raged be tween piotection, awl free-trade . Men in` position , seem to 'be willing to concede any measure demanded on ' behalf of th^c foreign interests in ex change for. some conspicidns offices in which their own weaknesS and Lase "ambition ' will consign, their . naintS to such obloquy as that Which was, the doom Of li. - Kf.LAs,BILOANAN, JonNsoN, FlLi.monE and TY.i.F.R.` Northern statesmen 'Who'are no longer able .to' sell themselves • to shri:eholders for_the perpetuation and ektension of slavery -are found seek-. in; to.play similar trade with the foreign enemies of, home production. It is.not now-'a struggle against a recision of the tariff, it has became struggle to-prevent the value revenue system . or 1 the Republic into a aiseriul- iantion - in favor of the foreign manti -2 factures and d foreign. produce, and against home industry and home produce. :Proteetion, has become a condemned terin. 'Even free-trade fails tb express 'the purpose of tariff tinkd,v. A low tariff wlll uoG serve the *I in view. It must be the next thing to no tariff at all. Wherevel• the ditties can hurt ; the home/pkodueers they must be abher ed to and insisted uoon, and is4er. ever they can help them they must be abolished. Revenue _is ; not- the object but only - the incidental 'pun. pose,' The, .ShibbOlettt is now .to fos ter Amerman .conimerce, meaning thiit portioU r of our exchanges which are ,n(5 4 C.: cimuestic in their origin. This is a thing to be borne in mind by the tax=payers. - I{I'.TENuE• Vs. PltorE7 lON. The tariff tinkers, at- Washington, will no doubt have their? han - A- full" in 'con- f4iileration of. the .innumerable pro " testations of the people, in the vari ous sections the country, as against any hill .iwhich has .for l its object the adm i ission.. of -foreign manufactured goods, frpd of duty, . while trade is prostrate:here.. As a producing-State, Penns - ylvania is ut terly epposed to using foreign wares of inferior manufacture when -In3r own willrksholis can turn out better, and very reasota-bly Insists that no discrimination shall be made against .home labor. • :Hist now, when even ° England concedes our superiority in. many qrticles of textile fabrice, as, 4of iron, steel, 'kc., is no time to try d - angerous experiments. We need our `forges, manutactories and mills; in "full and active operation. We ths. ''sire that the wandering' population of "the country who tramp from one State• to another in the effort to .ob iain labor for . 'ilibsistence shall be „employed and any.measnics of leki;- .lation that have .either directly or in divectly. .a tendency to discriminate against us on the transparcrit plea of, fr venue, are snicidal :in the extreme, and oppOsed to the welfare o(. all. During, the Sessicar.of Congress there haVe been over three thous:l[4.l)Hk introduced, and of these, ten -acts t and resolutions; passed. That body haVe .managed by their supineness,Ll however. to unsettle values and ,pro= • diice gencralcoilfusion. — Let us . hope ...._ • • that. tliey•will not resume an offen- V sii:e activity hy.the passage of the • r WOodTaritf which, in a - prpper •serise, is_ .notariff at :liras f►r as pro . • teetion is _concerned. The Montgomery (Ala.) Adyerliser appeals to, the Greenbackers not to forsake the Democracy, and assures them tliat \ there is nothing that they desire that the Democratic party is not *fling to afford them. Tile Bellefonte Rept in a eingtbr and able article, presents Gen. BEAVER as a candidate for Governor. Gen. B. was ajwave soldier, and is one of, the ablest and purest men: in the 'State.. THE Greenbackers were' defeated at the election in, Williamsport on, Tuesday._ The vote was quite evenly divided between. the three candidates for May - or, but the Democrat was elected.. • (3 . (q.1) closed iesteidity at $l.OB. • IF ever there was a inky geyoted- - to.intrif!ue and double , dearing,- the Democracy deserve to , be charac terized as such. ; Abandoning princi ple, and giVing uP honerabie contest for men, they have sei'theiris — elves to work to take advantage of every and all- political situations out of which to extract succss Hit is-possible to do so. ' 'ln the spring election 'the Democracy are particularly anxious' to make as good a showing as can be presented. Hence, they are ' work ing to have the Labor Union and Greenback 'panty to nominate Demo crats for all important offices as can= didates for that petty, and give the unimib tant places to Republicans who eau be:duped into this accep tarToe. All this, mast be inilepubli can strongholds, and when the Dem.: ocrats thus put forward ere elected, as they will be if the •Republiehns who profess to be.Greenbackers stick . to the chfrse, they ?rill instantly be clizimi:d a. 4 rickwies for the democrat ic party, and act in the interest' of of that organization ,in the fall elee tion. There never was a more trans parenttriek attempted by Democrat:: is intriguers..liepeblicans need only examine the position of parties at once to discover - it. and.having - ,done this wecan scarcely" kelieve'they will suffer themselves to be caught in so weak a trap._ I. W. ALLVORD THE liarriShurg correspondent of if tlie Doylestown Litrilifri;ncer gives his impression of the tailitical situa tibti in this State: • The Republica c n race for the head of the ticket is far' more dotilitful than it was a month ago. If . Quay was to-'enter he list he would make a strong candidate; but he is tired oclfarrisburfr, and longs to mingle ur Philadelphia politics—an oppor- , tunity which Will riot be denied him when, the Rrcorder's_ act is. changed. ),poet, of Luzerne, is still strong with all - who look to expediency.- 116 is as silent as an oyster, has a large personal - acquaintance, is strong with the laboring men or latzerne and Schuylkill, and is not publicly iden tified -with tiny faction. But Grow.of -Susquehanna and _Armstrong of Ly coming are pressing his . lines. In nrental ability the last named is the strongest ; in 'qualities peculiar to •the reformatory times Grow leads. It his Grow's picture which embel kites the 14ainting 'of nnancipation and his intimate and prominent con nection with those trying times Woulti_entiluse, -our colored brethren and remind-them again that His authorship Of the homestead act endears him tctiworkitsff menjor that. measure is above Inineonibe "and apti peals to all alike. The element strength is a little mixed and somewhat damaging in,,a nominatinff conventiort, but not injuriou , at the polk. 11 Rasa . friend rof,. G reetey, and would= have voted for him had he not from in Texas., Unlike 'inost4 Greeley men, however, 11.6 was a sup porter of flartranft, and squarely opposed to the election of Buckmew • II ERE is a practical dembnstration • of whatl - we bare all along contended would be. the result of a "double standard, - of varyingn - values in our money. The - Philadelphia Presd of 11 iulat, contains-the t' "More effective than any argument, so -far uttered against_the silver bill bv-our Senators and Itepr•esentat - ives is the s.late ment made in our ativertiAing colunne',' to day by; .t . t leading dry-goods firm. There in an experienced merchant suites/that on the propos'ed act bottoming •ti law, dry goods bought with gold and sold fur silver trust Met itably advaliee in price .ceires pundingly, and be sets his sails according ly. Tilts must 'mold everywhere, and we wait now_to see 1 Ike. in prices of etwy thing sinniltaneously with. the deprecia tion of the purchasing power of the cui rency, and this 'rise cannot be an exact one, but must depend on the judgement or cupidity of the 'seller, so that the pur chaser will suffer evyu beyond the actual clippage of the coin.'' - For voting to protect the people against, such a state or affairs, Cu!. OVEATON should recede" the , unquall. fled endorsement of every candid, sober-minded man in the district. Tire DAN) ELY . ERsTrit, at .Marshfield, ,destroyed hy tire, with its contents, early last Monitay mornin - g. The large • barn, and gut-houses were save. I. The origin of the ire is unknown. The building was owned by Mrs. FLETCII ER WEB STER, who, with her son, wen! the i sole cectipaots. They made great 'exertions to save the historical relics, and succeeded in rescuing ;Iz:quantity of silver plate, - pictures, and other priceless mementoes of Mr:WEBSTER. The library...was not deStroYed,•hav -log been reMoved some time ago. The latest account ruts.. the loss . ,at -$4),000 ; insurance., $15,000. Her.' TilomAi4 WAISE ED #sltl”4. who recently died in :Eng land, pulled stroke in die - first ei!rht oared racti . ever rowed at Oxford. lie was probably the oidesst free holder in Enland, 'haVing held his Testate for eightpOne p':ll's . anfi nine months . : lle was a6orpne 1('. the 01de.4 beneficed eh:lin-men r• , Eng land. The . ,race in wpich lie papttei pated as a student of Jesus Coll9ge was rowed in 1,15: IN our remarks introductory to the historical sketch of 11013 G. A. fast week, occurred one of thoseper plexing bltuulersi which occasionally occur : in the best regulated news papers. We wrote, " freelom and slavery," but the-types wade as say " frecchen and, liberty." .F • Tiie Ilarrisbu'rg , Patriot - Z s time.s to us in a "clean new dress . ," -which makes it look as bright as a trade dollar. , The Pa' triot.6 ." joined to idols" polit'eally, but iS an excel -lent newspatier.‘. — - THE Republican candidate for Po lice Commissioner' in: Philadelphia= Ras elected by 3(V10.0' majority. The Labor-Reform vote . 'was less than twenty-four hundred. TIRE Labor-Reform party seems-to be in its decadence already, juding from the result of the election ;n va rioua places In thin State. "John Itr(o.b'sl...:y A-inouldeilng In the grave. , THE SILVER BILL PANED ET THE or THE WASHINGTON, Feb. 16.—The Ben, ate at five o'clock this morning, by a vote of forty-eight yeas to twenty-one nays, passed the bill to authorize the edinage of the standard silver dollar, and to restore its legal-tender charac ter. The vote was as-follaws; Yeas—Messrs. Allison, Armstrong Pailey i Beck, Booth,Bruce, - Cameron, of j!enn., Cameron,. Mich., Davis; of Illinois, Davis, of :West V irgin a, Den nis, Dorsev, ustis, Ferry, Garland; Gordon, Grover, Hereford, HOwe, In- JohnstotiolGries, of . Florida, 'Jones, of Nevada, Bello g, Kirkwood,. McCreary,McDonald, thews, Maxey, Merrinion, Morgan, Oglesby, Paddock, Plumb, Saulsbury; Saunders, Spencer, Teller, Thurman,' Voorhees, Wallace, Windotl2,. 'and Withers—total. 48. Nays—Messrs. Antllo4, &rnul, Bayard, Blaine . , Burns► Cfiris tianey, Conkling, Dawes.; -Edmunds, Haiilin, lloar,l(trnan, Lamar, Me l'itrson,-Mitehell, Morrill; Wand°lo, Rollins, Sargent, ' Wad)eigil, and Whyte—tOtali - Mcssers.. Harris' of - Tennessee 4..1 Patterson of South Carolina, who would have voted in the affirmative, were paired with Hill of Georgia and Butler of South Carolina, who would have voted in the affirniative,• was absent on account of sickness. Of the twenty-one-Senators whose votes are reoorded ,as against the bill fourteen are Republicans and seven - Democrats. • Senator Eaton of Connecticut, was. the only - New England. Senator \ who did not:vote against". the. bill;'andle did! not cast . any Setittnr Cliristianey, of Miahigan, was the. only western man, with the except tion of ,two Pacific coast Senators (Sargent, of California and Mitchell, of Oregon,)who 'voted in the nega-. tive. The opposition from the south was quite strong. Senator Cameron and . Wallace, o the State of Pennsylvabia; both- cot ed in the affirmative. TEXT OF THE BILL The following is the full text of the bill as it passed. "Be it enaeted t by the Senate and lfousz of Representatives of the United States of America,' in • Con. nyess-assembled, that there shall be• r. coined at the several. mints of the. United States, silver dollars of. , the weight of four hundred and. twelve and on'e-half grains,,,troy-, of stand ard silver, as providjd in the act of 'danuary, 1tl,;1837, on which shall" be the. devices and, supey,scriptions pro vided by said act, which coins,. to- ;etherwith all silver dollars' hereto find coined by the United States . of -like weight and dueness, shall be a• legal-tender at their nominal value for all debts 'rand dues, public and private, ex?efit where otherwise ex.: presslv •stipulated In the contract, .and tile , Seeretary of. the Treasury is authoriZed and - directed_ to purchase,. from time to time, silver bullion at the marhet price Utereof, not less than two million- dollars' worth per month, nor more than four _million dollars' worth per month, and cause I the same to . be coined monthly, as fast as so purchased,., into such 1101- 1 Lars. And a sum suflicient.,to-carry• out the foregoing-,provlsion of this act is 'hertby appropriated .out of any money in the Treasury not other- 'wise appropriated. And any- grain • or scigniorage arishyrfrom this coin-. age shall be accounted fur and paid into the Treasury as provided under l'xisting laws relative to - subsidiary coinage:, Provided,llat the amount of money at any one time, invested in such silver kullion, exclusive - of of such resulting, coin, .slfall not ex ceed five' million dollars; and gro vidtil further, that nOthine in this act shall be construed tia authorize the payment in silver of certificates of deposit ksu i ed under the provision of section 25410' the ' Revised' 'Stat utes: - Section 2. All nets and parts of acts inconsistent with the provisions: -a this act areihereby repealed. "Section 3. :That immediately, , after the passage of the Act the President shall invite the 'govern ments of the courtries composin g _ the Latin Union, so called, and of suet' other' Europeah nations as he may deon adds:ago, to . join lkse United States in - a conference to adopt a common ratio between gold and . silver,. for thS purpose of estah lishin,,,i, internationally the use of- bi metallic Money, and .s - ecuring fixity of relative value between those met als. Such r conferanee to be held at such place in Eniope or in the United States, at such time within six months as may .be mutually agreed, upon by the executive-of the goy , ern-rents so invited, or any three of them. shall have signified their will. bigness to unite in the same. The President shall, by and with the ad vice. and conslnt of the Senate, ap podit three Commissioners,Nlo shall attend such.conference on behalf of the United States, and shall report thedoings thereof to the President, who shall transmit the sane to Con gress. Said Commissioners shall each: receive the sum of two thousand five hundred dollars and their rea sonabliT expenses, to be approved by the Secretary .of „Stlite, and the amomit necessary to pay such com pensation and expense is hereby ap- Thropriatcd out of any money in the .Treasury not otherwise• appropriat- . ed "Section 4. That any,holdef of the coiti authorized by this act may. de posit the-same with the Treasurer or. any AssiStant Treauret of theVnited States, in SinWs not lesS than ten dol lars each, corresponding with the de nominations of the United States notes. The - coin .deposited for or representing the Certificates - Shall be retained in the Trersury for the pay- Meta of the same on demand. Said certificates shalt be receivabie for customs, taxes and public tines, and when so receryed may , he reissued." SILVER MONEY. Few people have an -idea. of the glut of silver in this country-. The metal is tot only plentiful here, but the world over. The product of our own mines little estimated. In 1876. Colorado furnished three and one-quarter dollars. In 1875 the _product wag reckoned .to reach from four and a half to six mil lions. Utah gave the quota, too, of five millions or thereabouts ; Califor nia followed suit, with another.. mil lion ; Nevada piled up' : six .millions; the rest of the States.andTerritories Made up two and -a. half, 'millions, summing up the annual silver pro duction at forty millions in the United States alone; With the aced - - Initiations of previousiyears in Ilse to be added'4o the - product. But silver mining fellow's a singular law. " Tit scarcely over givestiont. And the 1. new stimulus. given by silver olnagc post: increase the prOdnet beyond conception. ThtMexican mines dis covered in the days of the - Isteces, the Spanish Met worked before the conquest -of- Hannibal, the . South American bonanzas, !skiable for the past' three hundred years, the Hunga rian Silver product', old as the time of the Saviour and the Romans, thoge at Fleiliurg, Germany, earlier titan the time of the goof Barbarossa, the Norway, Sleden and ReiSian mines have all proved . themselves inet haustible. -In truth the yield, in total, is greater than ever. Note the .skatistics of the leading mines onthia cdritinent': • " The Biscenna silver mines have already produced over $10,000,000; the Santa - Anna silver mines nearly ,$22,000,000 ;. Itio -Grande, $050,000,000; Sirre Madre, $800,000,000 ; Madre, $336,000,- 000. The silvermines on the Corn: stock lode paid their stock- holders the enormous sum - of $20,000,000 dividends for one year alone.. The Panilan silver mine produceds2o,ooo per day for five y-earsochen it was stopped by a flood Of water. After being opened again it produced in len years $10,000,000. It again lay idle till 1871, when. work was once more resulned, and an annual .yield realized of $13,400,000. The - Potosi mines -have produced over one thou sand millions of dollars: All of these mines are being worked to-day and 'producing as large a yield as ever. Is it , to be supposed "that, with a lair stimulus for speculation, the possibil ity of these could not, or would not be intensified an - hundred fold P' • The Comstock lode has, recently, shown- the richest developments in its history. During the past- year a gang of speculators who have capital, writes a Colorado correspondent, have got control of the 'principal ail -yer mines in the State, and have been working them largely, taking out tons of silver ore and,running it into bullion, and Ilve stored it aray, waiting . to make a big sale When they, can get one hundred cents in gold for ninety-two cents -worth of silver. The results thht at all the smelting works at Central- City and Black Hawk, Georgetown, Boulder, Canon City, Lake City; Del. Norte and Sit verton there are tons of silver bul lion piled up like cord wi*Kl along a railroad, waiting' •to be hauled to market." The same writer adds that his observations in Utati, Nevada, and other silver producing districts, bore out the- statement in each case, and that every one who wasa\produ cer Uf sliver, even to the smallest es-• tent;was storing- his bullion aivay, until there ,are• literally thousands and thottsands of cords of silver bricks hoarded up, under the impress sion that if this bill passes, they can get4l- in gold for ninety cents or thereabouts in silver. No, the result of the. Bland bill will be to flood the country with sil ver fstun all these sources. The far famed mines of Potosi and the neigh— boring deposits of the Peruvian Andes range had just been re-opened, after a silence of years, under the pushing energies of Henry• Meigs, the "millionaire .South American speculator. Their products are ready to be poured into the silver marts or the -world. Meigs estimated that these would produce as much! in value as all the silver and gold mines of the World., if the countt decides, therefore, to have silver, it will have it by the flOod. And what the effect i of such a !Tint of the inferior metal be it needs no prophet to tell. It will be plenty' as lead. If that condition of things restores cied prosperity then political eeono , my .is a sell and a fraud.—Elmira Adrertiser.. WASHINGTON NOTES. The Trilmne'e special says that anxiety ls felt among silver inflation ists. It is not' believed that two thirds of the House will vote for the bill in its origival form. A repre sentative from Ohio who conversed with the President yesttrday says he will certainly .veto the bill on the ground that it is an injury to the public credit, a breach of public faith, and unconstitutional, in that it in terferes with 'vested rights, and is a violation of contraets... z The' Ohip 'Republican delegation in the House, except Garfielo have agreed to vote for, the silver bill with the Senate amendments, and not.for extreme niensures. Mr. Briggs,of Wiscohsin,-introduc ed a bill in We, House providing for the disbandment of the army upon the failure of Congress to. Provide an appropriation Tor its support. The Times speciakaays it is stated that the Returning Hoard officers will be pardoned On ctinditton that they vacate Federal offices. " Packard has been called home by the death .of ,another child,"Anq in tends to make no further effore in re; gard to the New Orleans collector ship. it is stated he would have been nominated some time since but. for Stanley Matthews The Senate Judiciary. Committee have decided Co recommend g . the j re jection ot. Parsons, nominated for the Alabama District. Attorneyship and Northrup, nominated for the South Carolina District Attorney ship. The adoption of the Silver bill in the Senate by such an overwhdrning majority, leaves no doubt.of the re peal. of the resumption act. The House Ctimmittee on Banking and Currency yesterday authorized .Chairman Buckner to report his bill, which'.propoSed to substitute legal tender notes for national banknotes. They . previously in the• morning heard Comptroller of the Currency Knox against the bill. He contend- ed that its enactment would be an infringment of vested rights, and that the government has no constit utional power to take this action in regard to national banks, while their charters continue in existence. . . WE CAN see little in that feature of journalism which, seizing hold of some flying rumor, sees merely enough corroboration to:give color to the story and then launches it, some times with and sometims without a qualification *Well does not extract the sting, to work its injury. Yes terday worning the aCcusiation was sown broadcast that, implied 'that the well-known shipping-house of Peter_Wright & Sons had been de tected in frauds_ upon the govern-, meat. Declining to give publicity to ,a suspicion which was felt to be groundless] The' North American fused its-knowledge of this Charge . to :better purptse., To-day we feel that the injustice_ done these -gentlemen demands the strongest reprobation for the false spirit of enterprise which gave place to a slander upon evidence unwor - thy_otcredence.. The firm as sailed need no &fen& ; they have Cominittedno crime, and arc inca -iiible of any • but their accusers have done a cowardly thipg.—Phil. North: American. • - TEELIAT WAR. , Bliaaapk•a - Masters la Um Goes V far Craelllatlni=-7110 ea, of Peaeallsre Favorable , - - Verraapoadeilee sad , na. , -user General. MANCH/MEN Feb,lB,--A London • orrespondent Bays: Few English men care to trust the delicate pro oiedings of .the congress to Lord herby. . it is far more probable that . Lord Salsisbury, - Or Lord Lyoim will represent Englund. • LONDON, Feb ; Is.—Conflicting ex planations are given of. the German intervention, whiCh . seems to have tided over the recent trials. Friday's North German • Gaz. tic of Berlin stated that a request was received . from St. Petersburg 'Thursday; Ali* the .German influence would make it self felt. _ That influence could not but be peaceful, and that the relation of the three Iniperial powers were a sure guarantee - of pehce. . • A St. Petersburg despatch o yes terday. says there is the greatest dis appointment there, because -the peo ple expected 'the support of Germany whereas, now they hear the Emperor of Germany, in a speech, from the throne, referred to the programme of the Constantinople conference as a basis for settlement. A_ Paris dispatch says Russia has eagerly accepted Bismarck's friendly offices, and took an attitude which would facilitate an early meeting of the conference.. P- A . Vienna correspondent asserts that Russia eagerly deferred to Bis 4 marcks's view, when the latter in timated to GOrtschakeitt that he was straining the.situation beyond reason able •bounds. The correspondent adds: It suited Bismarck to a cer tain extent,\that Austria and Rdssia should be at variance, but it vas altogether contrary to his calcula tion that _.Austria should form a sep crate alliance with England. There are still wide divergencies between Russia and Austria. Bismarck will compiete the reconciliation at the congress.. 'There is nota statesman the continent., outside 'of those diiectry - concerned, that does not-ad mit the chief object of the . triple al liance,.is the, annihillit:ion of British influence. - A Berlin dispatch says : is loubtful if Bismarck will make a full expossition of the eastern policy -as wain expeeted . in reply to the inter pellation in the Reichstag of Tuesi day. A. Vienna.'eorrespondent says Gen. Ignatietf proposes to Surver Pasha that a million and a hal*os selm'ari inhabitants of, fhilgaria be withdraWn to some other part of Turkey, I in the house of Lords,. Lord Der, by 'read a telegram from Mr. Layare., denying -the recent statement, that Server:Pasha declared Turkey , :was encouaaged to tight by a promise of English support. WHOLESOME Tat Til hi. i C IT - is • seldom that we find "mofe , __./ truth in a short . space.than is on- d \., taine in the following \ extracrfrom an artic in the North American, on the recent disgrace:ul democratic row in the House of Representatives.: " Now, -neither Mr. Abram. S. Hewitt nor any other person `will ever be able to .convince any man\of average intelligence that barefaced, fraud upon' the- ballot revolts, the average Democratic Soul. Nor will he or any other per%on \ be able to Convince anybody that any amount of crookedness ,ever did orever can 'revolt the moral Sense of' those southern gentlemen." Everybody knows that- fraud upon- the hallo has been the right- bower of the Deis o cratic party for thirty years at leas. and that its leaders have enjoyed place and its . emoluments quite as often in 'spite of 'popular will as by favor of it. And so far as the south is concerned it has always borne the palm for: forcing - the ballot, to speiak precisely thelanguage.it pleas ed., - There is no objection to urge in bar of the revolt of the Democratic party against anything or of the south - in..the same respect, only neith er shaltput the cause of revolt upon moral grounds without at least one vigorous protest. Morality has noth ing whatever to do with all this shrieking about, fraud. It. is the baby cry of a lotOf individual frauds and political hypocrites; and were it in them to be ashamed of anything, they ought to be ashamed. ' Mr.. Hewitt" has the repute of an honest man, as honesty goes in politics, and we will - assume that-he is entitled to that .repute. - But he knows that were all the elections in the smith to be tried by the law the result would' show that there Was no election iu at least four of the States that cast their Electoral vote for Tilden.. He knows, and more than -all, those southern gentlemen' know that not .-only was M'r. -Tilden not elected, but Olathe would have bear overwhelm ingly defeated. had there been no ter roriam in the south. When he and they, say they know otherwise, he and they say what they know to be explicitly- false. .And-it is the duty of the presS of 'the' couutrY to affirm this fact and to stand by it. , To re affirm it,.to \reiterate it, until it is burned into pnblic'consciousness: " But the public : ought to be glad that this baby, cry- i ,of fraud leads to , such confidential dia'closnres.as that. of ,Mr.- Hewitt. If tlie, south is to be ,fed on sugar-plums every time it gets a - political ,stomach ache, • why the I people ought •to know it and keep a box of sugar-plums hfindy,for use after every election:" ,For the next election bids fair to give Mr. Hewitt, and his nursery a billious colic' in stead Of a mild fit of flatulence.. We do not:believe that the people of five=: eights of the Union intenitto'study the pecnliar wishes of the. ther three.: eighth when they perform their duties as citizens, or that that _portion of the ' population to -which the -nation owes its existence "intends to .'fetch and carry for the gentlemen who tried to destrOy the I.Tialori. We have had enongh or forgiv6ess.of, sins which figure as cardinal virtues in the speeches of, southern gentlemen, and a-little too much of conciliating The north will have to: stop playing ,hOy and play man; and if anybody cries out that they cannot .stand man's. play-so much the worse fo-itheni." THE New York Sun rarely gives any thing editorially that is sound, eithtichunorals or politics, but here' is au exception: 4? "The only destiny we can see for Bob Ingersoll is that of a man who suddenly shoots lip like a rocket and comes down like its stick. Our, ad vice to hini is to devote his attention rnither'to the defective processes of earthly justice, and not try to im peach that awful,Tribtinal which ex ecutas judgment beyond the grave." . , Wort(' dispatch, trout. Waihlng toU•say.: "li‘ranein Murphy, the tern-. pereuce apOstle, hag beenJahating hers.for two weeks pat. Some time ago Pelson Newman and some. of the . Yong 11012 9 13 Christian 'Associa tion conceived: the idetti of having Murphy here for and wrote to him On' the . .subjecO : Murphy re plied that his heart warmed toward Washington, but be etuld, not come for less' thin taco per week - and his expenses paid at • the best hotel in the city. A contract Was-:plosed, and Murphy invited to came on ; but be fore he ,arrived, after., tyiberation, the association conclAded it would be best . to annul the • contract, and was about to inform Murphy of this determination when, he arrived - in the city. It was then decided to allow matters to go on according to the contract, and certain meetings. were I set apart When an admission fee was . • to be charged. Business was not prosperons, boirever. The meetings Isere not -largely attended, and at Murphy's suggestion the pay nights were abolished and Other Means to raise money were to be underttiken. /Last night Murphy announced his determination t;'6 return to New York. His bills at the hotel were $4O for . bodrd, $lB for incidentals, and $53 . for the board of Mr. and : Mrs) Wil son,wlth were broughtPon from New Yak to take .charge ofthe music at the meetings. The association also paid. $4O for Mrs. Wilson's services. Murphy. was given $lOl for his 'ser vices. --He said that during his stay in the city he had given $l2 to the poor. which he demanded should be repaid. his request was complied with, and then he wanted turned over to him the proeeeds,of a collection taken up for the poor at • one of his 'meetings.. At this request the asso ciation rebelled.. To night a meeting was held by the citizens tO invite him to return, but the Yong Men's Chris tian association people say they will publicly-repudiate him if he ever sets foot in Washington again." . ALBANY correspondent of the AOr York Times : tl;he paymasler's car of the New York Central Road piss ed through this city loaded with-sil ver, with which •innetal the company is paying its employes, The saving. is very.large. There are thousands of men to be paid, and every man who receives 00 per month, receives to-day only $36.60. The Delevan House paid off a large proportion of its colored help in Mexican ' silver dollars. Not wishing to carry so in convenient a weight of, metal, some of the men men , went to get the dollars changed, but the banks refused to take them - for more than 92 cents. The State has many, :hundred work men in its employ here, and by pay-. ing them in silver it could save about sl,ooo a week. AnothersaVng could be'made by paying menThers of the ,Legislature in silver, or at last those Members who have distinguished the selves as advocates of silver, mpseprominent among whom .are the workingMen'S representitives. Con troller 04.COTT, in the course of con versation On s the silver swindle, re lated his exPetience With a man to whom the Stab owes a large sum of falling dine, , neit .July. The knowingthis, and having 1- in . the Treasury, offered to at once, principal and inter- debt in full, if\he would take it in silver. Had this offer been • accepted the State would have made great saving, but bough the Silver advocate was quite ready to pay . his debts. to others in that metal, he ein : =\ phatically ranks to allow the State to pay its debts to him - in it. TIIEIiE are now lying;_idle in the Clyde river,ln 'England, a large num ber of half morn out vessels, with an aggregate tonnage 0f . .:M0,060 tons. These vessels are - dead stock on the hands of their 'owners, because the' decline of British commerce has left nothing'for them to do. The Eng lish owners'are . now moving , heaven and,earth to secure such legislation' from 'Congress as will enable them to unload this stock. of file ships upon Arnerica,,to the closing of our im_ mense ship yards and the throwing out of • employment of thousands of American workingmen'. • Under our existing navigation laws, no foreign built:vessel can be provided' with an American register nor sail under the American, flag. English ship build ers.and owners:are anxious that these proper ; measures of .eotection : to American ship builders workmen shall,be removed, to the distruction of that branch ; of our home industry and the benefit 'of - the foreign ship builder and his half-paid workmen. A "TRAVEL-CONTRACTOR" proposes to wry a• company of \2OO 'persons from Omaha to see the Ptris Exhibi tion, and to make a European tour. They will go to Newyork in\a,spec train ; thence to 'London,'to 'stay five days ; to Paris, remaining thre Weeks;, to Liaise, on the Rhine ;•t&,.1 Geneva, to Lyons,, Marseilles, Mu d°, Rome, Algid's, and Gibralter. From the latter to New York, and home. For the round trip for a mar ried couple, he asks $6OO in gold ; for a single person, $350. Passages arcs to be, first class, as well as board and. lodging. The trip will take about ten weeks. • Tuz library of Mr:. HENay D. Grum, once Attorney-General of, the United States, - has just been :solcrif . , Philadelphia. Among the books was. one containing letters on agricultural topics tipm President Washington to Sir Joi3n - Sinclair, with an original letter to Judge Bushrod Washington at Richmond,V,a.,and dated at Mount Vernon oa: the 29th of December, 178'1, and referring to the , ejection of people from the writer's lands. THAT OUR COBBEVONDENTIL MUTE LETTER #11.61 Rthilithirie. • • ~ Itialusinnii, Tab, 16, 1676. Wile legislation work of thid week Was commenced by sessions. of both Senate and House on MOnday evening, that in "the former body being devoted to reailing. bills the first time, about thirty of which 'were thus' ispOsed of.' . in the House the session of MozidaY evening was devoted to considering upon second reading, the Senate bill making an appropriation to pay the military expenses of the late riots.. A. number of different amendments were- offered and debated for over two hours, the session, all except a few moments being thus occupied. Among the amendments which were agreed to, was one increasing the amount to each enlisted man for computation for blankets and uniforms from $2, to: $lO. The discussion on the various propositions to inercaso!the pay of officers, ete., was rather lively, but- the bill passed second reading, increasing. the whole amount ap propriated by the Senate bill, about $lOO,- A resolution was adopted provjding for afternoon sessions of the Houss ,on•Tues= days, IVednesdys and Thursdays, and 'dispensing. with the evening . session on 'Thursdays. Provisions were added .to the resolution that the morning sessions should begin at. 11 o'clock, - and that tote speeches of members shall be limited to Live Minutes: - . . In the §entite, on Tuesday morning; Mr. Newinyer introduced a series of ,re; solutions, in favor of protec ve tariff, protesting..against the reducti s contem plated by, the :Wood tariff ill, and in structing ,our Senators and liesting our Representatives in Congress to vote against it. The resolutions embody the principles and ideas cOntained in 'those adopted a few days ago, at thC great. tariff demaCstration in Pittsburg. The ,yeas and nays being called, the Nolu- Lions were adopted, yeas2s, nays 1. The yeas were all Republicans except Mr. Corbett, of Clarion, while the solitary nay, the : Democratic. Senator from Greene, Mr. HayS, all the other: Demo cratic Senators refusing to vote. The course . of the gentlemen, in thus : sit ting in their seats and declining to re- cord their vetcs on .so important a clues looks'a little queer, to_ say the least Of . it. • • The senator from the vicin ty Of the Virginia line, War, the only Democrat who seemed to have sufficient sand to face the music and record himself itillivor of the old free trade doctrine 'of his . party. Among the bills Paskd finny, in the Senate, on Tuesday, were the following : An act to provide for the mannerof de creasing the capital stock of corporations. To give- the benefit of the pension laws of thismmonwealth to every.soldier of the wa r'f 1812 ,and his widow, notwith standing any , provisibns which- Congress has made or shall make for them, and to repeal laws inconsistent therewith. To provide -for the adjudication -of claims against the. commonwealth by counties, on account of - tax on personal property. . . Supplement to an act authorizihg ap peals from assessments in this Common wealth tii the Cotirts of Common Pleas. • • Au act to provide . fur the arrest and punishment of persons carrying danger -014 substances upon public conveyances. 'Among the bills- introduce.: -in the ilotise on Thesdav, wiis one .making an appropriation of it 5,1100 for the erection of a mom ment over the' grave of Gov.. Ghat y ; aiSo, one fixing the compensation of directms and- overseers of the poor at xi per day for the time actually, eth: ployetl. •The Philadelphia Recorder bill, with an amendment empowering the Recorder to appoint three mercantile appraisers and ' the State Treasurer tip o, every two years, in ease of death, resignation or other cause of any of the appraisers . ; the suc cessor to be of the shmo political faith as their predecessors, was passed third read ing and laid over for final passage. The motion. to gu into committee of the whole, to make this ameudfneut, was made by a Democrat front Philadelphia; which would indicate that a eomproise had been effected. '• The bill to secure to operatives and laborers engaged in And -about 2 uthracite coal mines the paynielif of their wages fp the lawful - money of the United -States was considered on second reading, Mr. Schnatterly offered.a long substitute mak ing the bill general, and extending its provisions 'untoall persons engaged in mining and manufacturing.- The amend ment also provides for the payment of wages in negotiable store, orders, bearing six per cent interest and nerotiabie,in thirty days in lawful money, allows ,em ployees to deduct the value of mining 'supplieslind house rent and prevertestore keepers from delivering goods - to em- Voyees on any ()the' orders except those. indicated. Mr. Sehnattcrly explained the elfect and purposes - of Lis substitute; when, after more further discussion, it • was agreed to, and the bill laid over for fatal passage.' : • • The bill appropriating $:19,000 for the paynient of transportation, sikbsislence, etc., passed the House finally Iy°a vote of 164 to '2. - The afternoon session of the House on Tuasday was concluded by reading a number of bills the thst time. , T.uesday evening having been set apart specially, for the consideration on second reading, of thelocal option bill, the gal leries 'and other available space in the Douse were crowded i.vith spectators. After more than two hour's were ocenfiled • by the . friends Of the re-enactirerit of the law :Mtimitting the question of granting licenses \ hi a vote of the people, ico elo quently advocating, the passage of the bill. withent reaching a vote the House.. adjourned. - • The. AlloWirig bills, passed the Senate finally, on Wednesday: . Authorizing ffie \ assignment and ratifi cation of . record and validating former ratifications ofrecord of married women of mortgages-belonging to them. , Permitther surVm ivg partners to testity to matters Flaring occurred between the surviving partners, plainti 's and defend ants: - Providing for the settlement, Of...certain military claims on file in the taco of the Au_ si itor (icon:rah. • ' - .10 enlarge the jurisdiction of the courts of - common pleas, relative to gninting: charters of incorporation, to mutual )4av ings fund, land,' loan and building asti 'Mations and confirming charters' hereto fore granted. Increasing the amount to be paid to soldiers of the war of- 1812, or their wid ows as pensions, gratuities or annuities 1 on account of services rendered by such soldiers. I The balance of the morning session of ' the Senate, and all Of ;lie afternoon ses , 1 h :Sion, was occupied in discussing the joint I resolution proposing amendments- to the constitution, redueing - •the number of Senators atidßepresentatives iu the Leg- islature. On the vote being taken, pre vious to adjournment, . Wednesday ; evening, the . yeti were 24, nays 19. Less than a majsyity of all the Senators having voted " aye " as required by the consti tution, the question was decided in the negative.. Mr. Davies,voted in the affirma . :• tire. Among the bills reported. favorably from committee in the iloirsc, on Wed ' nestlay, was one providing.. fur the taia thin of crude petroleum, imposing a -tax i of a quarter of a cent on each gallon pro. , duced, or ten cents a barrel. ' The estimated revenue from'thissource lis put at $1,200,000. Also a bill provid -1 ing for the creation of .a middle peniten ktiary district and the erection of a peni , tentiary. I 'A goodly portion of the morning sea -1 sion, as well as that of the afternoon in. , the House, s.as taken up, in codside,ring, on second reading, a` bill - fixing the Zorn- I pensation, of county superintendent of I common schools. The bill as it passed 1 second reading; provides that superinteri.- • dents of all the counties except 'Philadel- Vida shall receive $2 for every school and 175 cents for every square mile in their county. If the amount rdo not reach $BOO they shall receive that amount. In every county haling lir schools, and over the salary shall be at 9 least $1 000 and not, exceeding - $.2,000. The local option bill next„Coming up. on second reading, an amendment exempt ing native Wines and malt litinors from the-operations of the. bill, reimbursing I , :awners of distilleries, etc., together with i a-motion to postpone indetiniteliovere , vet t ed down, when a = vote was taken I squarely, on the first section, which •• re isulted\ yeas 75, hays- 77, which kills 'the I measures for this session. • - _ • N , i Speaker, Myer, and'Messra. Foster and 1 1 Gillett voted in the affirmative. -- -.- In the St>nate. on Thursday morning, I the vote ,by 'which the joint. reisolution, pfbviding amendments to the COXistittil Lieu was defeated;, was . rqpmaide . red .by/4- Note of 26 to 14. The'resolfition was then recommitted to the committee on consti tutionat reform. • • The following among other bills passed tbe'Senate finally : Prescribing the proceedings and-penal. ties in cases of failure to keep turnpike and plank roads in repair. • • • To.provide for a change of revetue in actions for ..the recovery of purchase money of real estate-in certain cases. Helatinglo conintitments:by the Cour ts -of Quarter Session to county workhonses. To provide for an appeal to the Su. preen° court in . contended elections of Judgsii of Courts Of record wherein con stitutional questions are involved. . To•authonze the courts to correct do fective certificates of acknowledgment in certain cases. 4.t the afternoon session of the Senate, an act to - create a Banking department, slightly amended, was Passed third•read ing and laid Over for final passage. 'rho joint committee appointed to exr l amine into the ,cause and circumstances of the riots at Pittsburg and other points, submitted a report to both Houses/on Thursday, in which it is . set forth that', the investigation cannot be thoroughly made unless more time-. be allowed to prosecute it.. It is stated in the-report that the examination of witnesses was conducted - in the following order : First, railroad officers ; second, railroad em ployees, including - strikers4. third, city officials ;. fourth,.coufity o ffi cials •, fifth,' citizens .in general. The coMmitt l e x ii de; sire to accumulate testimony in' o er to. enable them to- get at the 'true state of, affairs. 'Aireinpanying the report is a resolutipn asking thqygislatnre - to giant an extension of time, Which was adopted. The committee are of, opinion that the investigation will not , be' , completed in . 'less than a month. The testimtimy, al 7 aeady taken will make about 4000 pages of foolscap. • • ' The appropriation providing for the. ex penses of the committee will be increased froth 62,000 to-4,000. • • Differences existing betwesn Tile Senate .and House on the military expense bill, providing for the.payment of the soldiers for services in the late riots, etc.,. com mittees of conference were appointed yes terday , to arrange the points in 'dispute, The report of the committee, which ap propriates the sum of 6713,000 for the payment of these expenses •:was - adopted in the House yesterday. afternoon and in the -Senate this morning. The bill' now goes to the. Governor, who will untloubt edly sign it, _when . the " bould roger boys" get their pay. In the Senate this morning, on motion of Senator Davies, .Senate bill, No. 70. "An act to provide for the adjudication of claims igainst -the commonwealth by counties thereof on account of tax'.on per sonal property," which passed the Semite finally, en the.l'-itli inst., mad was sent the House, was recalled from the latter body.. This bill passed without OpposiL tion, no one thinking it contained any. thing' wrong, but upon_ closer 'examina 7 • tion. I Senator DaNies - Was convinced that under its provisions 'difpredations upon the State Treasury-to a large amount were pimilible, if not probable, and he 11.141 the 'bill repealed reconsidered and recommit ted to the committee.on Finance, When it can be amended or smothered. The following bills passed the Senate tinnily, thiS morning : 6n act to authorize the investment of money paid into court pendente lite. , An actlelative to the dividends and profits of fire and marine insurance corn. panics organized under. the the - provishlns of the act of Assembly approved April 2; 1856. An act authorizing the - Governer to/ap point three commissioners to the Inter national Industrial Exptisipon to be .held. in Paris. in . 1878., The name of. Frank 11. - liarrif; Esq., of Athens, Bradford Counry; Was'sent to the Senate this morning,4s' t Notarr Public. The appointment willio'confirmed-next week., A number, of bills were also- passed to day the Senate second reading. Among these was . one called up by Mr. Eat* is, to preVent,t / repassing upon.' rail road cars is the commonwealth of Penn sylvania. In the Hopse of Representatives thifi morning, - a gOodly portion of, the session was taken pp discussing the report and a 'resolution attached, in reference to the ventilatiOn of the Hall. The - resolution, authorjr.ing the Chief Clerk to make cer tain iniprovenlents, and limiting the cost to : 4, ;i50,00 was finally adopted. • The resolutions 'passed in thee: Senate, introduced -there- by Mr. Newmyer, on - Tne'sday last, in favor of A protective tariff, the vote on which the .Democratic Senators, with one exception, .dodged, this -morning passed the Iht& without division. • Resolutions in opposition to discrimina tions by railroad companies in carrying freight, were also passed. Lieut. Governor Latta, President Of the Senate, and Speaker Myer, signedhe bill ay agreed upon by the Conference com mittee, providing'for the payment of the soldiers for services in the late riots, this morning. - Speaker Myer did all he could to then tate the passage of this bill, and to him more than any other man connected With the Legislature, are the private_ soldiers and others interested in its passage indebt ed, for getting their " ducats' even as early as they did. in accordance with the resolution pass ed last week, both Houses to-day, ad journed to Wednesday evening, the 20th inst.. CI:SSEWAGO. LETTER PROM WASHINGTON: wAspiNGTON, D.C., Feb. 11, 1878 ED. ItEroirrm: :—The prostration lof business throughout the •country has caused wide-spread distress and pem4 among-the laboring- clasSes. The wail of distress goes up from many a household that' never before knew want.. The coun try is overrun -with trapips'and people out of employment, - and so much - destitution and idleness was never before knoWn within our borders. "Hard times" haVe closed up our factories and workshops, .and where thrift and industry once ruled - ghostly want now. presides. There is . a. wail of distress that goes up from the laud and the prayers 'of the unemployed mil lions ascend to heaven for bread. This is, indeed, a sad picture . for. a country whose natural resources are. far 'superior to that-of any country on the face-of the earth, yet such is the true state of affairs yin this country at. this time. \The -oppressed people looked' to Con gress for'a remedy, and thus Jar have imiko in vain. The extra session passed and nothing-was done to revive the 'pros.' trated 'business of the country, ; %early two and half months of the regular ses sion have gone and nothing has yet been accomphslied to 'Vesture confidence and give an' impettis, to business.- The silver bill now pending was brought forth ostensibly for that purpose and' ,many members have bct4i \ deluded into. sup port. Instead ,Of relief it must bring wide spread. destruction tohe country; if, it be comes a law. It is load of infamy and , a fraud upon the .people. \lt is a metallic , imposter and bears a lie upon itsface,- and , is a legalized robber of tbelabprer. -While it.professeh to be a dollar it fails tar short of it, and the laborer must needs lose'the discount in receiving it for his services.. The trade-dollar authorized by Congress for commercial'transactions with •China, contains 420 grains of silVer, while "the bill now pending in Congress provides for only 412 i grains, which is IT grains short\ of the trade-dollar, and about 12f grains/ short of a genuine dollar of gold valpe. Now, why this discrepancy? Are not our I own, people as fully entitled to real money as the 'heathen Chine° ?" Is not blood • and sin e ew; which is the real capita 'of ev ery nation, entitled to be paid in goOd - 1 money as that of the•trade and ffic of a panan,nation? Cannot the g atest Re public-on the face of the ea qii afford to l• put the intrinsic value in the coin which stamp's as money, or must/ it legalize a fraud upon the the peope: - which °must . brisig the government into contempt with all foreign .nations? This 'bill .proposes to give • short „weight • and adulterated goods,' which, in private individuals, is an indictable offense. / . • • Now, what we/ontetid' for is a silver dollar equal in every particular to a gold dollar.; A silver dollar, that . is worth a dollar in all places-and under all circUm •'stancea and/the people 'Will. be: satisfied With no other when they come to under- . stand:theiniatter. Senator Blaine's great speech throws much light upon the ques tion, and it should o read by every -citi zen of-the country. I hope you will pub lish/it. - 1\ Colonel Overton; the Member from your ' district, recorded his vote in favor of bon -ist,money, and in opposition to this '"bob-tail " fraud which is about to be fastenettiipon the 'people. :The Colonel is an indefatigable:worker, and pcpssOse4 • of sound sense, and hemsty of. purpose, the interests of the laboring port ion'of his constituency 11111 not suffer-in his bands. Ili* efforts to secure the passage of a-law which gives to-the country a silver dollar worth its face, certainlyplaoeahimusgnare on the record as a man of sound . financial views. His colleagrie . ,'Hen..7. Mitch ell, of the Tioga dist rict, is also an "hon. eat "silver dollar" man, and , his vote, with that of Col. Overton's, was recorded - against - the Bland 'swindle. As Tioga was a part of the Olcll l 7ilmot District, I sup. pose Bradford still keeps st_ parental eye on its member. Mr. Mitchell, like Col. Overton, will bear scrutiny, and the eon stituency-of both may, well be proud of their Members. . L. GLEANINGS. Trofrrthrrtzs bavo been - renewed in Tbessaly. • CoNsitrzasni.E . Russian ri3inforc.anenta aro arriving 'at Jassy. THE reported wreck of the Italian frig ate Terrible is untrue. ' FLORIDA ha wild .jeasamine anal Tag- Jab peasla blotim. at pkeaiseiat. • THE Sun's Neiv Orleans special believes that Anderson will be pardoned.. • 1108Ty.ITIES hive been suspended. in Cuba pending negotiations for peace. " Tim Erie Railway Company has paid 4400,006 to lawyers within three years. Tue. argument in the Tilden iitenme tax suit ended Saturday ; declaim' reserved. THE Czarowitz is expected at Bouchar est shortly on his way .to St. Petersburg, THE average salary of Boston's teachers is Males, $l5O 21 a month ; letriales, $64- THE Black Sea blockade has been rais ed. Many ships aio going there fur IM A. 250 0 pound jyrty - ,recently sat• on a case in Virginia. The indictment. *ask quashed. THE Moody and SankOy Ituilding about to do erected at New 'Haven, will hold! 5000 sinners. * SOUTH CIatOLINA is to have a new ssireolt iystem, with a State Board of Examiners.. for its centre, WALLACE ROSS agreesto, row Hanlon on the Kenuehecasis river at st., Johu June 25th. ;Las year two cows in Lawrence county yieldbirtlicir owner $131.80 in butter -4i6 poungs. • ,- • Rcisyst. , service betvteett • Ruseia and Turkey, by the tray 011Odesisa,-will short ly be resumed. • RmrEiton„Williairt; of Germany, has subscribes) $2,000 to 'the International Refugec.Fund. . . . ROU.ltAigiA' , ol taking measures for ma bllizing all her nble-bcxlied men 4gainst Contingencies. ? Tn.f: steamer Gen. Whitney, ,overdue, from this . port to New OrleanS, has ar rivecl,there safely.' • Maxr petitions againat the retrocession of Bessarabia Russia kr a reaching the 'Roumanian Government. TnE Central road of New Jepey denies that it has ordered its engineers to leave the Locomotive Brotherhood. S.w.p.i.iroX and fever, are Increasing among the Turkish Refugees at Ciistst . .aa• tinople. The distress is very great. ThE Biebmond; which sailed for Brazil on TharSday from Ilhiladelphia, .has 40 cabin passengers and 500 laburews.. ' ANASIIVILLE lady -deposited $lOO in a Philadelphia bank twenty-seven yea ago and this:week received therefrom :Pr. - Tim Times reports that a private dis: patch says the Cuban Insurgents won a decided yictory recently near Cientnegas. THE coasting steamer C. 31: Palmer has been sunk in a coll,ison neir.l.larwhich England. Fourteen persons were drown ed. ; JAcksoNviami Florida, 3.drices - stab) that John Morrissey is troubled with organisAiseas.e of the heart 4nd kidneys, which incurable.. 314 1 11111,1 AN W_Qtx, a teacher commit ted suicile Saturday at Newark with a pistol.' He had complained than life was kburden to hirh. . SATOWAY Frank WeGovern,.'a noted desperado of Dead Wood, in an altervttiorr . with a merchant named Jos..Lndwigvat. fatally . kiliot. PATItIcK, NORTON, who committed. an• yo outrage', on a two year and a. half old in fant in :,Luzerne county, has been arrest-' ed for-the-terrible crime. , • • AT a greenback meeting at Lock Haven • $. Woods Caldwell,'of that City, wairimn ed fOr secretary of internal affairs and lion. J. Quigley for Cougre,ss. • - - PuotiEsson RILEY, Chairnian of the Grasshopper 'Commission, reports that there will be no devastation from grass hoppers during the -preseut•year. I I . . . : . . - THE Island Ledger -lions° at, -Well's '4 Beach, :Me., one of the finest on the coast,; was . burned last week. Loss, $40,000 ;' fully insured. Probably incendiary. Witrt.E sitt:ng in front of a Wood fire in Washington county the clothing .of Miss Rebecca M;Conibs was Wrapped in flames, and was fatally burned. :' MASKED men tired .the .cabin of some negroes near Jy., Friday and killed . 'Reuben Dennis, the lair,- inmate 'Who escaped. _Dennis bore a bad . name. AT ',Kennedy, N. Y., Andrews Gogto fauson,. unable . to- obtain employment, coolly folded his :tress plaCed his. neck on a rail and was instantly killed bY a train: • SENATOR BARNUM- has- postponed the meeting of the.NationalDemgeraie Coni mittne until the. 22d `of May. Dues lie think• that his chairmanship-will be better secured by that time. $.• W. ADAMS .. tki Co; heavy lumber dealers of New - York, .have become in volved by-the failure of a Philadalphia and Williamsport bauki, Efforts to save the tirm'are lieingMado. • THE Orleanists of France finding it im possible to sleet- Duke DeGazes lite sena tor, have surrendered their Right tb the Legitithists-who have nominated M. Ca frayou Latour. Election Saturday. THE body of Mrs. Sophia Brantley, was discovered part* , ..eaten by rats in her house at Jellem - onvilleilnd., on Thursday. It is,supposed she was so reduced from starvation aiito be imaide to fight off the 'rodents. 7 - AN Erie stockholder has` begun a suit in Orange county for the removal — of Be ceiver/Jewett, and to compel ,Jay, Gould to substitute cash for nine millions of se-_ curities which he gave to the road in settlement of affairs. .Tottri great nephews of. George Wash ington have . asked Congress to 'purchase ‘fril them, for the government, a large number of relics of our first. President. They \ ask $12,000. Professor , Henery Commends the purchase.• . Jews \S. MORTON , ex-president, and Samuel I\ Huhu, cx-treasurer of the, Philadelphikpassenger railway company,, both pleaded'guilty to the crime of -over issuing the Market street passenger rail way stock, and both are in jail, Titn decision of\the Commissoner of the General Land Office in the" matter of contested applications \ (or patent on loca tion, of valentine strip matters of the con teat in South Chicago will establish im portant precedents unless oVe\rthrvwn: AT. a conferance of the Chamber. o Commerce and other committees at the New York Grand Central Depot Saturday morning, regarding freight discrimimition President Yancliirrbilt, promised ho would do all in his power to.remedy the er . sils cornplianed of. • - • \ Tux, Sun says the Venezuelan Commis sion frauds exposure came about througit a death-bed confession of Colonel Nobles, (one .of the persons; interested i the fratidelent claims) to his brother, Rev! J. Nobles, of Newark, The dying man en joined upon his brother that rekit!nution nit Yc mule. II