patifora *porta. s E. 0. GOODRICH,. EDITOR. Zovattas, Pi, Thursdv, *AL* 13,187°. ' ATE%G IL3 AVERY. VISDI We shall i have to take the Demo- eratic party by the ear and lead it back, and confront it.with its record and its utterances during thu Admin. igtr 4- ation of General Gworr. That party has a triel: of forgetting all it has said and done at the end of every live years. Its leaders deprecate il lusions to party action dating b4li more then a year. They are always saying something not pleasant to member, and doing something they make 'Taste to disclaim and, deny. But prior to the time at which Mr • GREELEY: askimed the command of the:Tarty, the leaders had never been able to devise a method by which to' escape the ainsequenceg of their fol lies 4 Mr. GREELEY never did any thing by halves. lie• saw the disa- bilityi under which the Demoed . ey labdri l 4l, and with characteristic bold nesi.•, proposed to dispose of the Dem ocratie, past by expunging its record from the pagesi!of histoiy; and. t h o' lie'did not succeed, he tbrui,shed the party leaders will a subterfuge. When caught in lies and inconsisten cies, they pull on a lone,face and say, " But that was a long tie ago—let bygones be bygones." But we cannot pen tit bygones to be bygones. If the Repdblicans have said and done foolish 'things, they are held to account; and with the best reason. That is th&way to make Marty leaders` circumspect. We do apt - cdaim the, ; „privilege of' oblivion for the •Repul,tlicari pa,Tty, and shall not admit such claims-urged by oar opponents. We cite them:- to their uttertinces and to their criterions of judgment while General GRANT was President. If be ,made a bad selec- tion of men, the-Democratic press at once charged it:upon him as a proof • that he was himself knavish and in competent. if an oilice=holder be trayed his trust, GaANT was declared to be hand-in-glove with knaves - and . thieves and dimbtful characters. Whatever happened to discredit a placemaniwas held to discredit Gen eral GRANT..But now the Democratic party sick; and it must take its ow•n prescription: Its great head '(Mr. Tii.DiN) is convicted 9f having in his confidence and employ a pack of self-conissed knaves throughout the entire campaigh4T,lB76: Ile was rich, and willing to purchase with a liberal portion of fortune what . the American peopie Would never have conceded to dim as a free gift. Ile was willing to acc4t the electoral vote of any State, even at the cost of every species of violence. In less than forty-eight hours after the eleh tion, he saw that he had lost. From that. hour he was in the handsrOf us consci4nceless . a pack of knaves as eve: followed a leader. They set about „corrupting the electoral eol. leges,.4 some States and the elective officers of others. Money was prom ised freely, and thousands were plated at the disposal of knaves by t&e graph. This disreputable bussiness was conducted by Mr. TILDEN'S confiden tial friends under the shelter of his own roof. Corrupt propositioris .were sent from and to these . agent!s, so domiciled. Upon being ; confronted with these rascally proceedings, the agents substantially admitted their But„ when Mr. TILDF!N was plaired.on the stand, he made a gen eral and emphatic denial of all knowl edge of tljh, rascality.- Ile did, in-. deed, admit that in his statement to the public-lie suppressed the truth ; i but beinf , N . lawyer, he set 'up a dis ' Unction betiieciiiieila' ring What was untrue and suppressing what he knew to . be. true, and which, had he stated it; would have prejudiced his case with the public. Anknow we are told by Demo , • critic editors that Sir. TILDEN is •cOmpletely - vindicated. Admittedly .surrounded by knaves and corrupt men, big denial of knowledge of what was being done by his confidential friends under his own roof is assumed to excidpate him. Gentlemen, that Kill not do. You have set up Crite rions oP judgment to apply to General RA ;Ind You'tannOt . escape the just inference. You must not object, to tbel use of your own half bushel because, as purchasers,' it is not • profitable. The measure you meted out must be Measured to you 'again. You are on trial before a cflurt of I your own creation, and must take the law as you laid it down to others. But you have not a packed jury this time, and ,the verdict cannot be forced. You will he forced at last to swallow. your own prescription, and adtidt that in stalwart villainy the Democratic leadership is without a rival. - .• EV-Es the Grenbaek party has its 'troubles, resulting from the large number of great and aspiri4g men who- crowd its ranks. Our oldfriend, and sometime neighbor, Bald: Post- Ener, thinks he deserves_ to be .the candidate of that. paity for the Pres idency. To further this laudable ambition, a National Greenback Con *ention was recently held at Chicago. It was a boay with eminently practi cal ideas, as a resolution was passed to assess each of the seven thousand Greenback clubs in the United States three dollars to reimburse POMEROY ;or money claimed to have been ex pended by- him in organizing the :arty. -If collected, tins' would trcioniit to the handsome sum of twen • ti•-one thousand dollarS, which would •e Much more desirable than_ to be a 'retglential eandidate. • TUE EXTRA sEssiox or comutzlis. \ .-- The forty-fifth Congress, which came to an end , by constitutional limitation at noon on the fourth of March, having failed to make the 1 • \. necessary appropriations for . carry. \ ing on the governmenyt became the ,duty of the. President tO \ provide for {an early meeting of the new \ Cougress, 'that the wheels of the government might not be blocked for want, oflhel ;ITI ean sto pay expenses. Thiancees- Isit,y was brought about by the e fn ',tious course of the Democrati c`ma jorityt in the House, who sought, to force the minority and the President , into acquieseence with certain meas l, ures which were deemed essential to • Democratic partisan success. Prominent amongst, the unreasona ble demands of the Democratic lead ers, was the repealing of test-oaths for United States jurors in the South; repealing the law authorizing and 'paying United States Marshals and Supervisors to regulate elections; and repealing the clause of the army law authorizing the use of Federal troops at the elections. These unjust demands were insisted upon by the Democratic majority in the House, with the alternative of an extra ses sion if not conceded, and of with holding the necessary approprktions should the President inteilere with his veto. The persistency With which these arrogant, demands were urged and insisted upon was probaely strength ened by the fact t hat the new Con gress, which is called to meet on the 18th instant, will foe the first time iii many years be Democratic in both branches, and will be unmistaka bly under, the control of the Con federate or Southern element: In the-Senate the Democrats will have forty-two members, the Republicans thirty-two, Independents one; so that the .Democrats at the extra ses sion will haven clear Majority of nine votes. In the House, there are 287 A.. members elect. The Democratic vote is put, by the best .judge 4 at 146 ; the- Republican vote, 127; with 14 1 _members who were chosen by a corn bination•of the Nationals with one or the other of the great parties. In this list is placed M.essis. WRIOLIT and Yocum, of this State, who are, we judge, good . enough Democrats fur all practical purposes. In all i events, the Democratic majority will ' be'suflicient to secure the control of the organization in both bodies, and to direct and mould their action; The probable action Of Congress may be reasonably inferred from the rev olutionary disposition manifested by the majority of the House which has just ended its legal existence. The sameLapirit will dominate the new Congressin an enlarged degree, and will force upon the Republicans and the ExecutiVe the issues raised by the factious contract of - the late House. The assembling of Congress, and the re-opening of these irritating qUestions is a national calamity, but the fault is not with the Republican party. The responsibility rests with the men and the party which would wipe out of existence all legislation that reminds the country of treason and rebellion, and remove all the•ob- I stacks Put in the way of illegal vot ing and bull-dozing in the South. 1 The same intolerant, rebellious 'spirit 'that - brought , upon the nation the horrors of civil war now dominates in the councils of the land, and-the result it is neither easy nor pleasant to forecast. All the barriers broken down that stood in the way of intim idation of the voter and the corrup tion :of the ballot-box; . all the re quirements of loyalty and devotion to the government removed ; all; the guarantees of a free and untrammelled . vote set aside, and 'the solid Smith will be a unit in favor of the Demo ceatie. candidate for President at the next 'eleetiOn. The great struggle is for the con trol of all the branches of the gov eminent. So long as the President stands ready with his veto•to prevent the - consummation of the- scheme of plunder already matured, the De mocracy will be unhappy, though the country may be the gainer by it. Congress will leave nothing undone to promote the success of that party at the next Presidential election. Should it then succeed, the Union and our institutions will be in greater peril • than when - the first jun was, tired on Fort Sumpter. SINCE the days of BEN WA DE, there has been no bolder, fearless, outspo ken man in the United States Senate than Z4ll CHANDLER. lie is accus tomed co call things by l their fight names, and when he speaks of a trai tor he calls him a traitor 4 as witness his remarks about the arch-traitor JEFF DAVIS. It is - a healthy indica tion, that such words as we publish in another column can be spoken in the United States Senate,—by their boldness and truthfulness, Silencing the most beligerent of the Confeder ate Senators. THE constitutionality of the Legal Tender act, so foi as it applies to the issue of government notes in time of peace having the quality of a legal tender for private debts, is about to be brought to a test in the courts, and of course finallYin the Supreme Court, by an argument between Mr. S. B. CII.LTTENDEN, member of Con gress for the Brooklyri- district, and General %malt, each agreeing to bear the costs and other expenses on his side of carrying a case through the lower courts, and up to and through the Supreme Court. 4- JOHN •R. :14.nosuALL, of Marion, Ohio, an old and respectable citizen, was found dead in his hed early Tues day morning, with a small bullet hole in his head and the bed clothes on fire. • It is.supposed - murder, rob. berg and arson Were intended. CHANDLER 03F DATIL The Xlelalwain .sialor Calls 'Treason by Hs UAW Now* " Following - is el foil speech of Senator Men COODLEIL, delivered in the U. S. Senate Sunday night, on theproposition to - exclude Jere. Maria from the; amendment'- of Senator Stuns's granting pensions to .Idexi• can veterans. . • Mr. President, , twenty years ago, I, in company with Mt. Jefferson Davis, stood up in this chamber; and, with him, 'swore by Almighty God that I would 'support the Constitution of the United States. Jefferson Davis clop: from the Cabinet of Franklin Pierce into the Senate, of. • the ' United States and took the oath with me to be faithful to this Government. During four years I sat in this body with Jeffer son Davis and saw the preparations going on from day to day for the overthrow of this Government. With treason in his heart and perjury upon his lips he took the Oath to sustain the Government that he meant to overthrow. Sir, there was method in thisimadoessi. He in co-operation with other men from his section and in the Cabinet of Mr. Bu chanan made careful preparation for the event that was to follow. ir our armies were scattered all over this broad land where they could not be used in an emer gency. Yonr fleets were scattered where ever the Winds blew and water was found to that them, where' they could not be used to put down a rebellion. Your Treasury was depleted until your bonds bearing l per cent 'interest, payable in coin, were sold. for 88 cents on the dollar for current expenses and no buyers were found. Preparations were carefully made. Your arms were sold under an apparently innocent clause in an army, bill providing that the Secretary of War, might in his discretion sell such aims as ho deemed fit . for the Government to sell. • Sir, eighteen years ago last month I sat in this hall and listened to Jefferson Davis delivering his farewell address, informing us what our constitutional duties ‘,to the government were, and then he left and entered into a rebellion lo overthroir the Government that be had sworn to serve. I remained here,. sir, during the, whole of that terrible rebellion. I saw our brave soldiers by thousands—l might almost say millions—as they passed on to the, theatre of the war. I saw their shattered ranks returning. I saw steamboat after steamboat and railroad train after railroad 'trail] bringing back the wounded; I was with my friend (pointing to General Burn side, when be commanded the Army of the Potomac, and saw piles of legs and :inns that would make humanity shudder.• I saw the widows and orphans made by °this war. 31r. President, I little thought at that time that I should live to hear in the Sen ate,of the United States eulogies upon Jefferson Davis living—a living rebel—on the floor of the Senate of the United States. Sir, lam agrazed to bear it, and I can tell the eentlemen,on the other side that they little -know the spirit of the North when they, come here .at this day with bravado on fheir lips, utter.ng eulo gies upon him whom every man, woman and child in the North believes to have been a double-dyed traitor. CoL. nourrr.denies,. rather indig- t nantly; that he. was in Washington for the purpose. of adVocating Mr. THAAN'S Presidential aspirations, or 'that he had any interviews with Speaker RANDALL. 'We publish his card to the. Press, as an act of _justice to the Colonel, not having the slight est desire, to do him an injustice much less an injury : To ..... the Editor of the Pres* : WYSOX, Feb. 28.—There is no reason known to me why you should,desire to do me an injury by falsifying. my views or misiepresenting my actions. The state ment c s, of your Washington orrespondent, under date of- he 24th ins ~ alleging that while in Washington I con rred with Mr. Speaker. Randall and othe with a view to unite the Grangers and , Greenbackers in support of Mr. Tilden, etc., is untruth ful, in every particular: So far from hold ing a long conference with Speaker Ran 'dell, I have not sposen with that gentle. man for months, including the 24th last. My visit to Washington had no connection whatever with polities,: nor have I com mitted Grangers, Greenbackers or myself in the support of Mr. Tilden as-a candid ate for the Presidency in 1880. Nut hav ing corresponded with any person upon the subject of the future action of the political parties, it would have been hn possible for me to: have said that I did. The entire of this Washington special to the Philadelphia Press, 'February 24, is a fabrication and an aspersion upon a private citizen. Your respectfully,. VICTOR E. PIOLETT „Ttrr. Supreme Court of the State Made a very important• decision last week, which is of vital importance to most owners of real estate. Under ex isting rulings and practice holders of properties purchased and sold” under and subject" to a mortgage have been held personally liable for the differ ence between the face of the mort gage and the proceeds of the sale of the property, in case it has depreciat ed below the amount of the mortgage. Divested of its technicalities, afi elaborate opinion delivered by the Supreme Court, reverses the rulings of the lower courts and a long exist ing practice, ancl!makes the holder of the mortgage dependent wholly upon the property itself for his satisfaction unless the ownerhas expressly prom ised to be liable for any deficiency. If the property falls in value below the amount of the mortgage there is no claim on the owner beyond what is satisfied by the sale of the property itself. TEN ruling settles a principle of great importance to all owners of real estate upon which there is any mortgage. OVER one million and five hundred thousand dollars of, appropriations made last year by the Legislat4e of Pennsylvania remain unpiovided for. There is no money in the Tres*miry which can be applied fur the purpose of payment, , except the money which may be diverted from the sinking fund. By proper legislation the sinking fund money may be made available tolpay present 'obligations and to defray current expenses with out resort to further taxation. SHOULD the bill • now before the Legislature making Lackawanna a separate judicial district ,become a law, it will be necessary for.the Gov ernor to •appoint a judge for Luzerne County. It is said that the place will be tendered to STANLEY WOODWARD, of Wilkesbarre. - Mr. W. is a son of the late Judge WCiODWARD, has al ways been a staunch democrat, but supported the election of Gov. HOYT upon personal grounds. lie would adorn and dignify the bench. Tna sight of JEFFERSON DAvis drawing upon the United States Treasury ( — fi - ra pension would not be a peculiarly encouraging one to the loyal people who spent their blood and .treasure in maintaining the in tegrity of the nation he sought to destroy. But it. is within the'clear probabilities of the near future. Ex-Senator Saxon , Caatiaott cele brated his 80th birty an Saturday last, having been' born in the village of Maytown, East ponspl township, Lancaster eounty,. 'On the ' Bth of Mitch. •1799; The house, in which he was born is yet stiunliug. The ndfather of General C. was named SIMON CAMERON, who with his brether, JOHN . CaMr.iolt, came from the Highlindi of Scotland, s the beginning of the Heroin- On in company with a..Presbyteritut clergyman named MAO . FARAPTARAIN who preached at the D4negal church, and the Cauttioss became tenant farmers on the sharei of the glebe lands belonging to the church. The father was .CIMILLIIS CAMERON, and his mother's name was Manna PrOUTZ, a daughter of CONRAD PIVOT; who resided near Strasburg, Lancaster county. The Pro :Tura were Huguenots, and came to America, as did most of the German Continental emigrants, that they might enjoy 'religious liberty. The father of General CAMBRON'S mother 'was evidently a man of considerable ability, and was a companion of the, celebrated SAM BRADY, famed for' his daring in all the wars of his time, and for his many adientures with, , and escapes from the hostile savages. The General informs the editor of the Lancaster Examiner, from which paper we glean these 'genealogical facts, "that all the talent I have, came from the Proultvzss, all the good I have from the teachings of My mother, and her mother, and very much of my inclination to "kick back" from old CONRAD. and the Scotch rebels." \Few men attain the age of eighty years retaining so much of mental and \ physical vigor as General CAM ERONI:Id the lives of few men are crowded, with so many honors, and the reminiscences of so many gen erous and noble deeds. AN animated contest for Speaker of the House \ sis now going on be tween RANDALL, who presided over the late House, and Repiesentative BLACKBUBN;of Kentucky. The con test for the Democratic caucus nom ination• is between these two gentle men, and both profess ti;; be sanguine , of success. The Nationals claim a sufficient number of votes to prevent the election of the DemNtralic nomi nee, if a coalition can be made with the Republicans, but we Judge they •are counting noses which, when the time comes, will be found in the straight Democratic- ranks. From present indications we prophesy that SAM RANDALL will easily capture the Democratic nomination, and that he will have votes enough to make him Speaker of the next House. Proba bly; will be generally as accepta ble as any member who is likely to be selected for the place. AN interviewer from the Cincinnati Commercial has been roaming about the country talking with TILDEN Democrats to find out who they de sire to have nominated for President in 1880, and he has come to the con clusion that there is a very strong feeling in favor of the renomination of Mr. TILDSNJ This condition of things is, perhaps, not wh`olly mar vellous, and if lie will take a little trouble he can find a very strong sympathetic feeling among the Re publicans for his renomination also. Tat four per cent. loan has already mounted up to over four hundred mil lions of dollars, soleli through the skilful financial manipnlation of Sec cretary SHERMAN.. it is the greatest fiscal success since the war debt was first funded. Yet it has been oppos ed vehemently at every step by the whole mass of the inflationists. Usurp Octal StUl. When Henry Watterm said, about a year ago, to Manton Moses Marble,-" You and I are probably the only two Democrats of any prom inence in the country who would like to see ,Sammy renomisated," he left out of the select party of admirers of Samuel J. a very important and in fluential member in the person,. of Samuel J. Tilden himself. This was a great mistake. Mr. Watterson's remark was true, and the Democracy is in dreadful alarm, not of Tilden's growing popularity with the party, bat at the settled conviction St Gra mercy Park that the proper thing to do is to renominate Mr. Tilden. The party has been undecided as to what they ought to do with Tilden, but bless their innocent - souls, the real question is what will Mr. Tilden do with the Democratic party. He has sacrificed his reputation for intelli gence to save 'his character for hon esty. The scapegoat has started for the wilderness, and the leaders who had only-intended to give him a de cent and respectable burial, find that he is altogether too healthy for a corpse. Iterrible Death. ST. Louis, March 10,- , --Early yester day morning a fire btoke out in the wagon shop of Mrs. Bausch, East St. Louis. Owing to there being -no fire apparatus in the city and no call be ing made on the fire department of this city, six buildings were destroy ed. In the second story of the wagon, shop, occupied as a residence by Mrs. Bausch, were sleeping her three chil dren. The oldest, aged sixteen; Henry Schoepperkoetler, a black - , smith, and Catharine-Borst who was spending the night with Bins. Borst, all were burned to death, being un able, to escape by reason of the doxor, leading to their apartment being fastened on the outside. Mrs. Borst jumped from • the window and was Severely injured. She will probably die. John Borst, the husband of Catherine Borst, Andrew Marshall and Thomas Hammond have been arrested on suspicion of having start ed the fire. The loss on the building will be in the neighborhood . of $lO,- I 000. A ROCKLAND Me., dispatch says at the second balloting for Mayor Tuesday, there was no choice. One thousand, four hundred and twenty votes wers•cast, of which the Bepub lican received 580, the Oreenbacker 516, and the Democrat, 324. zErrn.nor MIADELPIEW tinizacsireu., So 1 .7 14 Henry Ward Beecher, lectured st Abe Academy of MIAs, out Tinnioduy evening. to a large and appreciative auoilsncii. The subject of his lecture was the Chinese question. end ressacks Inns mini? in answer to the Isle speech- of -Senator Blaine. It was the first time I ever had the pleasure of listening to the celebrated divine, either on the rostrum or in the pulpit, and I met wafer to s feast of, disappointment. I bad melded too ranch, perhaps; but certainly *as an ora tor he IS ALMUlled by very many of the popular lecture - vs of the do. Ho spoke from Dotes, interspersing his remarks with clippings final Olesnrsisgsns• and In a rambling , unommeeted manner, more atter the style of s lawyer arguing a legal question to the Court, than an advocate addressing *jury. He was very severe in his critidi aof Senator Maine, and his position upon the Chinese question, show ing the fallacy of his arguments, and the unreliability of his statements and statis- ties is regard to the numbers of the Chi nese, immigrants, their mode of living, andlheir reputation for morality and in.: dustry. At times he approached some what to the borders of the eloquent—but the attempts at wit or humor wore few and pointless. His answers to the points made by Senator Blaine, were however full and explicit, and to an argument, his speech, for, inch it was, was able and con vincing. It ian't to be controverted how- ewer, but that as a lecturer he "pays," for the Academy was packed to overflow- The Baldwin Locomotive Works have just received orders for six locomotives for the Louisville and Western RailrOad, and four for the Northern Pacific Rail road. They are at present very busy with orders, pt ncipally on South American and Australian roads, and part of 'their force of 1,700 men are working until late at night. Robert Fox—who gave the police - offi cers such a long chase, when needed at the Quarter Sessions—was convicted last week of selling liquor on Sunday, and sentenced to thirty days! imprisonmedt, and to pay. a fine of $5O. The attempt to punish him for opening his theatre on Sunday, failed, on account of sorry legal technicality. Notwithstanding the im perfection of the law, the Mayor has suc ceeded in breaking up the indecent Sun-, day performances, for which he deserves the thanks of the community. Political readers will be interested in hearing that the Keystone Democratic Association of the Nineteenth Ward has settled the Presidential question by adop ting the following resolution : Resolred, That this. Association recommend that Ron. Samuel J. Tilden be renominated by the Demoeracy for President in 1690, as he was the' choice of the people in . 1876 and the President-elect this day. But some man from Ohio is. unjustly filling the Chair." ; Of course there can be . no further con troversy, ; Ile the sarcasm contained in the last Ise f ence, is an extinguisher. The wa weather of the past few days has met the ice and snow, and partial ly removed the unsightly mounds that disfigured the streets. The highway cleaners were endeavoring yesterday to make mounds of the accUmulated . filth of t . months, with only partial success. Phil adeiphia mix had the reputation of being the cleanest city in the Union, but now it is one of . the dirties; and its Alleys and by-ways are seldom if ever, relieved from the rotting mass of vegetables and garb. 'age that accumulate and breed disease. 'the Tiesei.is taking an account every Sabbath, of the church;goerit, for the pur pose of ascertaining the number of wor shippers, and the relative sexes. It would not appear frem tha figure given that the Churches are ever over-crowded; which as is usual, in all good works, the women vastly outnumber the men. The American line steamship which sailed Thursday for Liverpool, carried ,a large cargo valued at ;192,133.26, in which were 32,000 bushels of wheat, 2,122 packages provisions, 915 bales cotton, 100 hogsheads tallow, 800 barrels apples, 526 Ibexes cheese, 117 barrels oil, 399 bags oatmeal,'2'7o sacks Hear, 50 barrels oys ters, 1,088 quarters fresh beef, 250 dress ed sheep, and 350 dressed hogs, The reoent regulation of the British government, has stopped the shipping of live cattle to England, and operates very serionsliupon those who were engaged in that important traffic. The cattle are now slaughtered at the abbatair here, and the quarters wrapped in cloth, are placed to compartments through which cold air is continually forced. The meat comes not in good condition at Liverpool, and finds a ready sale. , The Ameriew3 Club of Ms eity, illuminate their house, on the evening of the.lBth instant, in honor of the Demo cratic thajority in both branches of Con gress. The dominant party in Congress will probably -take an early opportunity to illiminate the cxratitry with the electric light of the'results l of Democratic rule. Tom Thumb and family have' been ex hibiting themselves at Concert Hall, to large and admiring audiences. The ap pearance of the tiny carriage and diminu tive ponies of the General, on the street, reminds one of the advent of a circus into a country town, being followed by the same crowd of gaping adults and enthu -gestic boys. - , Benjamin %slimes, tax-receiver for the Twenty-third Ward of this city, is wanted to explain an apparent •discrepan cy in his accounts, estimated at .$30,000. Be doesn't appear to be anxious to vindi cate his reputation for honesty. as ho is sup' ossi to have taken the advice of the late philosopher of the Trauma—sod gone West. E. Spincer Miller, a prominent lawyer of this city, on Monday, alter arguing a case in the Supreme Court, went to his office, where he died suddenly, without a premonitory warning:• His sudden de cease was caused by heart disease. Signs of reviving business : the locomo- tive and car works a are working on full time, with extra hands, and have orders ahead. The demand for oil and steel pro ducts is better than for several years past. The mills and manufactories all report an increase of orders, and the prospect of a lively spring trade. • Dr. John Hugh McQuMen, Dean of the Faculty of the Philadelphia Dental Col lege, died suddenly . Monday morning of heart disease. Dr. MeQuillen was the son of Captain Hugh McQuillan, who served under Decater during the war of 1812, and Martha Beattergood whose'ancestors came to America with William Penn.* z‘ The annual report of Health Officer, Addicts, for 1878, gi in detail the re cords of births, / deiths and marriages in this city during the past year. The total number pf - births was 18,346 ; of mar riages,ll,247 ; deaths,-15,748. The num, her of deaths from diphtheria amounted to 464, an increase over the previous year of six, while the number of deaths from scarlet fever was 554, an increase of 176. It is somewhat remarkable that when diphtheria incomes scarlet fever deem*. el, and when scarlet, fever incresece *aria decreases. During the past'. year not iaingle'death from small-lox 'Occur red;;-rather a singular circumatance In a city with *lard of 1,000,000 pOpsdatiom In fact fact awe has been no death since "g ut * 187. • • A sneak thief entered the bruise of E. 0. Peabody, Germantown, on Wednesday afternoon while the family - were at din ner, and gathered ugdiaugnOs and inwt airy to the value of $11), and tiaie off with them. Strawberries' bare already made" their I aPPearance the:lib:dews - of the fruit Stores. They can be bad at about -a dime each,' if any of your readers desire to • in- dulge in such a luxury. Sayre, who murdered his wife e by shoot ing her in church, 'sentenced to be hung on the 18th instant, will be respited for a few weeks, in order to allow of his case being considered bythe Board of Pardons. The matter will come up before, the Board of Pardons on the first Tuesday of April. The Courts arapaying•aitention to the variety shows. The pulpits are preaching ' at the legitimate drama, and the actors are answering, 'defending the profession I from the criticisms of the pulpit. , The Supreme Court room, this morn ' ing, was graced with the legal luminaries from Bradford County. I should judge from the number, that all the members of your bar were present. The cases frOm Bradford were to be taken up today, TROY' HARBIBBITP.G. Special Cortespondeoce of the Itiroraztt. IbutatseuttG, 31areb 5, 1579. In the Senate, 'on Monday evening of this week, the session was devoted to dis- posing of tho 7 ealendar of bills ,on first reading. The resignation of Senator Fish- er, of Huntingdon county, who was elect ed to Congress in November last, was re ceived and read. • In the House on Monday evening a communication wait received from the Fishery Commissioners, in reply to a res olution of inquiry on the subject, giyjng the amount of money experded for the propagation and culture of fish since the creation of the Fish Commission, during the years 1873, 11.374 2 1875, 187 G and itepr, as t 48,468.60. Among the new bills introduced was one. to enable the different school districts in the State to provide and maintain night schools, and for the payment of teachers therein. • There was a spirited - discussion on a motion to commit the railroad riot bill to the committee on Judiciary General, but on a call of the yeas and nays it was lost. Yeas, 50 ; nays, 54. . The resolution condemning the anti -Chinese bill recently passed by Congress, came up, but the President having vetoed it, after two or three .gentlemenlad got off their speeches on it, the further con sideration of the .resolu - tion was ineeilnite-- ly postponed. ' The House sustained the committee of Ways and Means in reporting negatively the Senate resolution for the appointment of a committee to revise the tax laws• of the State, for the reason that alt such measures should originate in the House. In the-Senate on Tuesday the following, among other bills, were passed fi nally An act authorizing the several courts-to_ erect any ward of, any borough, city-or cities, except cities of the first and Second class, into an independent school district on petition or petitions of not less than one hundred taxable inhabitants; more Providing for the oe speedy relief of poor and indigent persons. Providing for the registration of prac titioners of medicine and surgery. A lengthy debate on a bill designed to abate the tramp nuisance and suppress vagrancy. occupied a goodly portion of the time of the session of the Senate on Tuesday. During the ilehato Senator Davies ex pressed doubts Whether any law could be passed to abate the vagrant nuisance, say ing that the tramps were first observed in New York during the campaign of 1876, and remarked that tld; refoimer of Gra mercy Park might suggest a way out of the difficulty. After some further discus sion, the bill was committed to the com mittee on Judiciary General. The nomination of Alfred Hand, a prominent lawyer and bank president of Scranton, to be Judge in the Lackawanna and Luzern° district, in place of Wm. H. Stanton, who resigned to escape impris onment, was sent to the Senate on Tues . : day by the Governor and unanimously confirmed. The nomination of E. 31. Far rar to be a Justice of the Peace for Or well township, Bradford county, was also sent in ' and confinneet at tiler wane time. It is hoped that both gentlemen will wear I the judicial ermine with mine ease, grace and dignity than did the disgraced Stan . - ion. In the House nn Tuesd, on motion of Mr: Miner, the bill whichltad previously passed the Senate—au act to provide for the division of counties of this Common wealth and the erection of new counties thereupon—was taken up and passed finally. This bill relates particularly to the 'division of Luzorne county, - and cre ates a separate judicial district of Lacka wanna county, thus mending up satisfac torily the troubles growing out of the Stanton infliction. Among the bills passed finally in the House on Tuesday, were the following : An act extending the powers and au thority of 'county auditors—authorizing them to settle, audit and adjust the ac counts of the directors of the poor of the several counties of the State.- An act fixing the salaries of the several State officers, the number of clerks to be employed in the several departments and their compensation, and providing for the incidental expenses of said departments:: This bill makes as general reduction of the salaries of State officials of about 25 per cent., and about 10 percent. in the number of clerks and employes. The amounts of the salaries were given in a former letter. The bill passed by a vote of 147 yeas to 23 nays. An act to provide for the conveyance of persons injured in or about the mines to their homes. An act to prevent fraud and, fraudulent practices upon or by hotel keepers, inn keepers and boarding-house keepers. Among the bills _reported : favorably from the committee in the Senate, o. Wednesday, were the following : An act to establish a State board of Also, House bill diverting one-half the tax received from corporations into the general revenue fund. An act to extend the I:teneflts of an act for the relief of .1. Murray Morehead tu other bona fide holders for value of bonds of the Milford and Matamorrits railroad company, upon the faith of the appropria , tion to that company, was reported with a negative recommendation, and a "j•rb" which' propoied to wrongfully take from the treasury about if 105,609, -was thus "squelched." • Among the bills passed finally in the Senate on Wednesday, were the follow; fug: • • Au act to regulate the payznint of costs in criminal eases. An act regulating the colleetkni,ottaz es in the Banal counties anot_tairougha of the State. " _ A further sopploinent tha sevaral acts providing:for tbo.diaciPline and co& duct of tho National Guard, recodifyiui the military laws and proVidiag for a alz days' encampment. In the Bori.se on Wednesday, a number of appropriation bills were from committee favorably, but none of local interest to tbe pedille of Bradford county. The most of the time of the session of the House on Wednesday was devoted to the consideration of bills on second read ing. Among the bills reported favorably from committee, in the Senate on Thurs day, was an act requiring all Sheriff's deeds to be recorded in the (Alice for the recording of duds, in the - sever' counties. Mr. Everhart, chairman of the special joint committee appointed borne weeks ago, for that purpose, submitted aPream. ble and resolutions in reference to: the death of- Bayard Taylor., The Senator 'followed the reading of 'gm report by the Clerk with a mast eloquent and touching- lq beautiful oration upon the : life and character of the distinguished traveler; historian and poet. He was listened to with the most breathleals attention, by ev- ery Senator that he inight.the better see the orator, and . catch every word of his im- passioned eulogy, I When the happy ef fort was concluded, the report was unani mously adopted, as was a motion to print 2500 copies of the oration nand the pro ceedings in the two Houses on the sub ject, for the use of Senators and Mem bers. Fifty-lour bills were passed in the Sen ate on Thursday, on second reading, but as those of Wein that pass finally will - be noted hereafter, it is not now deemed necessary to give their titles. The session of the, &into on Friday was almost wholly taken up talking about the judges' salary bill.. On Thursday last it had been 'made the special order for next Wednesday, but the vote fixing this time for its consideration was reconsidered . to enaide a Senator to get an amendment In giving the judge in his Clistrict4.l,ooo. After thiS was done and several Senators had given their views on tile till, it was again made tiles pedal order for Wednes day afternoon next. .Senator Davies said while the talk was, going on, as he Would necessarily be ab: sent from • his seat in the Senate next week when the bill - would probably be considered, he desired, in 'the most em phatic manner,. to put himself on record , against this bill, or any other increasing the salaries of 'the judges, which he claimed were now high enough, and that not ten -of those on the bench made- as much when practicing law. The . Sena tor contended that this was no time for increasing salaries. It may be added that there is not the least danger of- the I dill passing. , • • In thellouse on Friday after the,trans• action of \ routine business, the 'general appropriation bill was reported favorably from conniti c e. . . ' The rest lqf he day Yeas devoted to a kind. of legislative circus, frequently in dulged in on Friday, upona resolution to place the Colurnbidam'removal bill, pre viously reported With a negatlve - meow mendation, ' upon the, calendar. After a considerable amount o!\filibustering the resolution was lost by a Vete of 30 to 122. Senate adjourned until Tuesday morn ing and the House'until Monday evening. The Monotony of legislative - business was relieved or varied a little oh Wednes; day morning, during 'the session- hoofs, in the rotunda, immediately ontiithi the door of the Senate Chamber, wheret re sort to personal violence was ihad, and a member of the House of Representaties assaulted Mr. N.. M. Jenkins, of Phil 7 adclphia Times. . Mr. Jenkins in aletter` which appeared in. the Times, stated that Rep. Petroff was meant in an affulairit that spoke.of "Pete" in , connection With something not exactly spuare in reference' to the appropriation fur the Norristown Asylum. Mi. Petroff, who was expelled from the House in 1876, for „alleged ir regularities, feeling aggrieed at the men tion made of him in the Times, called out its reporter, and upon that gentleman re fusing to give the name of his informant, dealt him a blow over the left eye. Mr. Jenkins is a small, quiet,lineffensive look ing little Quaker gentleman, a.non.resist.l ant by education,.and apparently by in elication, hence, it is g,ernaKilly thought the fiery Frenchman did not. cover himself with glory in striking a man who . could not strike back. - . I •. . Immediately after Petroff committed this outrage, ,he :went hate( the . House, where no cue knevi;` What he had done, and made a statement about the "infernal lie," as he called it, that had been told on hint in the Ti.ini.e, when a resolution was passed calling - upon Mr. Jenkins to give his authority, .k.c. The\ next day Mr. J. sent a respectful note to the!House justi fying his conduct and denouncing:the at tack made unon - him as an uncalled for 'outrage, but declining to' give the name of his author. 'The members of the House in the ,meantime, having learned that Petroff had taken the matter into his own bands, in the ruffianly manner he did, appeared entirely willing to let the matter drop. It is needless, perhaps, to add, that the sympathy - 'oi - all decent people is with the newspaper man, . - IN 1867. during the . great excitement - which Oillowed the discovery of oil iu Pennsylvania, •the King Oil Company was formed in 31irbiletown, N. Y. The lease of a large tract of laud from owners in the Bradford district was secured. The terms of the lease made it incumbent upon the company to sink a well within two miles of the tract. A well was sunk 900 feet -200 hundred feet deeper • than usual at that time, without finding oil.' .The stock litdders became. discouraged and one after the other, -they withdrew. Boring was .finally discontinued, and the company Ithrety up its lease. Five years ago wells in" BradfOrd were -sunk 1,1100 feet, resulting in the produc tion of oil in large quantities. The tract of land previously leased . by the King Oil Company was situated in; the very heart of the most Produetive belt - of the oil•ter ritory: An effort was made by the corn way to establish its title to the lands, but it was found that the property bad been sold and re-leased.aini was. covered with Wells yielding more oil ',than- any of tte other wells in that region. The-occupants lefused to . acknowledge the validity of the previous lease, whereupon , the company sub-let its claim to an extensive operator in oil at Bradford, with the understand ing that the company's • title to the land should be contested hi the courts: The case came on in Lie lower courts several months ago; and a deision was rendered adverse to • the King Oil Company. An appeal iitto.be taken. The present value of the property is estimated at $2,000,- 000.. MAttili NEWP.-11up Bitters, which are advertised in our columns, are a sure cure for ague,. biliOnsneis and kidney. cam= plaints. Those .who use them say they cannot .be too highly recommended. Ylio:•:e afflicted slitiold give. them a fair trial, and will become enthusiastic in the praise of their curative ipialities.—Port taPd .ittrertieei% &am D. Melimax, an ex-alderman of Allegheny, bas been arrested for .burg- WT. .. • Tax tern of Litiz, Lancaster county, is rtnieb agitated by parties digging for hid deli treasures. - • ,- AT Centralia, on Thursday evening last a little daughter of James Dougherty was fatally burned while playing with tire. Josnru Cox, an employe of Hillside Colliery, near Scranton, Was killed on Wednesday last by falling down as air - ZnMEBMAN, farmer. of Schuylkill county, died suddenly in his wagon while driving to Schuylkill Haven, on Thursdaylast. PLEURO.PNKUMONIA has boon discover ed among the cattle of Ikfaware county, Isaiah Ifforrall, of ILlrple, has lost eight cows by the disease- ' . ' Maxie McDossip, a wealthy citizen of Glenwood, - near Scranton, committed suicide,on Saturday, by cutting Lis throat: It is said he was insane. L . this State last week a post dace- was established at West Bridcwater, in Beaver county. The office of Two Lick, in Indiana county was diseontinued. SAstEEL IlunTEn, a boy crop:eyed at the Bessmer Steel Works. near /had dock, was * found dead on March :ith, and circumstances indicate that he was mur dered. • THE Wilkesbarre Record of the Times computes the population of Luzerne county at 161,068, or 331 more ibin the combined population of Limerne acd Lackawanna n 1570. . SIXTEEN freight cars were tiIIOWTI from the track of the Pennsylvania Railroad, near Marietta,. Friday, four being badly wrecked. The accident was caused by an axle breaking. Wednesday evening last, Wm. Bald. wiu, residing near Newton Square; Chester county, while driving in a buggy to West Chester, was met by three colored high waymen and robbed of about $20,. ions LAWLEIL and_ lartin Murray have been arrested for the murder of the boy Samuel limiter, whose body was found floating in Tuttle creek, - at Iliaddnek.'6, Allegheny county, on -Wednesday. Two students •of the Hill school at Pottstown, were struck by a train while walking on the railroad track 3larch one receiving serious and the other..slight injury. They belong in .Morristoivn, \.J. - • . . ipADFORD is intensely aroused over a newspaper war for the possession of the Era. The deposed editor is backed try, half the town. and the new editor by .the other half. Both the leaders aro under bonds. Mies. ENsuccEn, of - Harrisburg. aged flay years, who disappeared plysteiionsly some months ago, was titowne4 in a mill foal in the lower part of the tow where her body • was found 31ouday.. She. is supposed to Lave committedsuicide: Tgr, directors and stackholdei-s of _the Dino Favingi Inst t itiou of York, Friday appointed It illiam IT. ;lordan.as receiver. It is expected that the bank's dividend of 40 or 50 per cent. will be paid by the be ginning of April. CtramEs and • William Gressley and Ambroso Itaright, hoyS, stole. a ride on a coal traiu float Auburn tit Hamburg, in , Schuylkill cp•iitty, on Saturday. They jumped off the train whi)o motion, at Hamburg, and Charles Gressley was kill ed. ' The others were injured, Itubright seriously. • • WORK. is steadly progressing on the tidewater pipe line and it is expected it will be ready for the transportation of oil during the month of April. The whole Tength of the line from .Corryvillc Mc- Kean county,. to Williainsport, is 110 miles. and the aggregate cost of the enter prise is neatly $700,000. - Its ;capacity is rated at a delivery of tlOOO bbls per day, requiring large stotiea2:e tankage at the points of iveeption and transhipment to bulk cars. -7, Emit: Burtntrr, the. " black smith," died in New Britain, Cona., ui Thursday night. E Governor of Connecticut has desig nated Friday; the 11th• of April, as a pub lic fast day in that State. Tnur.r. colored children, aed - froni one to live years, Ntere burned to death by a fire in Georgetoviu, D. C., on Saturday night. Jous It. 6.AY, a well,known broker of New Orleans, being pecuniarily embarass ,cd, committed suicide on Saturday by ,shooting himself. • . _ Tlik total mintier or emigrants who ar \tived in the United 'States.-during the calendar year of 1878 was 153,207, aztinst 130 503 during the calendar year - 1877. • TikE cashier of the Thew York Jciurnal of Commerce was committed -Friday for trial fiq& embezzlmg moneys --collected by him while in the employ of -that Journal. Ili:snx\3lAncu, aged 40. years, a Well known citizen . of Rahway, N. .T.,, was killed on the Pennsylvania Railroad last Friday by. jumping from a moving train.' LEaa ,T VirriON T of College : Point, Long Island, disppeared in BOittli z abollt the end of December, anti her 'friends ' begin to fear tha; she ma have been the victim: of the Lynn tragedy.\ , ATTORNEY GENEIAT. 'FIELP, of Vit.- ginia,has arrived in Nl\ashintgon for the purpose of bringing hefOre the Supreme Court the matter . Of alleged usurpation of Tower by Judge .Rives. Tun boiler of a freight engine on the Buffalo,'New York and Philadelpba Rail road running from Emporium t s O Buffalo, exploded at Ebenezer Station, 6kl Satur day evening, scalding the engineer.and fireman, but iiót fatally. : I.NeENDIAntsm, is reported- to be pre;-11- ent in Coltinibns, Ohio. A mass. meeting of its' citizens was held last week. 'at which a memorial to the City Council was, adopted, asking • that'll reward be offered for the arrest of incendiark s. - DOCIIT has been thrown upon the-state mutts of - Treasurer Ingalls,, of N. H.. who reported' that lie had been robbed of a large amount of public funds on Tucsday night. It is strongly suspect ed that ho has made improper use of the moray.. THE International walking match between O'Leary, Harmon and Howell, begau Sunday night, •Gilmoie's Garden; where the match takeii .place, was crowd ed, and several thousand . were unable to get in. The crowd carried away: the trout door. . CusiEwAGo EX-SENATOR PATTERSON'. Or South Carolina, received a letter froth the At torney General of that State on Saturday, granting him full pardon and oblivion for all indictments pending against him.. It is said that Patterson has accepted f‘ an important trust.'! under the Sonthern Pacific Railroad Coutirsuy in Arizona. A LAnor. Portion of the pork packing establishment of T. M. Sinclair Vo., at Cedar Itapids, loNvpoicas destroyed by tire Friday afternoon. • The loss is eptimated at $75,000. A tire at Fort Fairdt hi, Mo., on Thursday night, _destroyed -"trafton's block Mid five other - Loss, 1530,000. THE boiler of George ssaivmill, sair three miles - southeast of Sullivan, 111.,' ex pleded Saturday, demolishing the Mill an machinery. Jonah Ilaugher, the head sawyer, .was blown into atoms,and frag ments of his body were scattered- in all directions. ' • A. F. CtAuxa Democratic member of the Council of Cincinnati' ' .was convicted in that city on Saturday of negletting his duty as:Judge of Election, and permitting the returns to be tampered with and changed. The penalty on each count is imprisonment not exceeding one year and a fine not exceeding WOO. • Two burglars broke into, tlai residence of John P, ltichardl, in East Eighty-sixth st., New York Sirriday night Mr. Rich ards surprised the burglar, shot one of them dead, and captured the other. The dead man was recognized as Timothy easy, the raptured ruffian as James Ditn gait, both well known to the police. • TuE• actual 'amount • tln ezzledl by Paquet, ex•cashier of the Bank of lloche laga, Alentreal; is $77,500: it is alleged that be stole the money -to buyaidios pliate mine from Henry William Golding and the latter his •been -arrested on a. ea iiias for the amount. Golding has brought suit for $lOO,OOO damages for false im prisonment against the •-bank as a eorpo• ration, - and, its President perSonslly. • !MATZ NZWS. GENEBAL NEWS. sai'l'/tb'mtWmth. FM smooth Menses grarantowl to Aroita., a l Outfit Cm- .1111A.w.k Co.. August!. Mitise. SPECIAL NOTICE! STEVENS • LONG trttl retooto.abotuf thp flat of April to tiro LARGE AND. CONVENIENT STORE, ' - comer of Bain sod-Pine Stroets rerrnerlrorre. pled by Vox. Stereos &Mercer, olielesatogrucers—. bow by Becker Brothers. elotlalen. . • In their NEW LOCATION they propose to keep it ALL TLIIEi FULL -AND COMPLETE. AS SORTMENT OF GOODS IN. THEIR LINE, - and hnii...with MORE no lot AND I:ETTER FACILITIES, to ,„,ree theictrleudsalid the public acceptably. - Towanda., F. lA7I 4 wk WILBUR'S DIRECT DRAFT EUREKA MOWE TUE.DESTMOWER IN TILE WORLD. _LIGHTEST DRIFT. GLE‘T e.krACITY For. u,trlD wciuK. A SIX - FEET SWATH cut with less -Draft than , the average side-cut mower uses in cutting four feet. • Grass cut U 3 the Eureka cures one third quicker and more evenlY than after any other Xower. rarir.ers curittally Invited* In rail at the Facto!, t:.:itrtirie the Eureka, aad maku their own • . hargaln.,. PRICES .REDUCED. . CA.SlliisrtfZ.!.a.r.i,nne,kvxiisttL;;l-eAGEN't SENIIVItIt CIRCI.TLAE.S. • ECI:EKA 31011" 7"waLlia, L. IL BEARI33LEK, A•XcnL • Warrenham, Towutt,la, 1 elituA6 - 13. inf. 13; & F. H. Owen, DIEM RED,- WHITE 4: BLUE tEA. STORE, Promo to reduce their st,ck BY :• . 3. F. L 4.1 N .AT BOTTOM muck>: (Wholesale and Itetall) r r XTi 1 . AV TO 11 F. O'S' XL ON 'AM Iti TO CORNER: 4 3:f MAIN al_11111,)6E-TS In store now occupied by 'Geo. Staten , - We have In btock a 11111 Hue of TEAS, COFFEES, SUGARS, SYRUPS & MOLASSES ME HAMS, PORK, 'SPICES 'OF ALL KINDS RICE, RAISINS CANNED GOOD In fact, evorything lu Ili?. Grecery Itnc Coale and see us and we will you sue• CASH PAID FOR BUTTER & EGGS .M. B 4& F. 1.1. OWEN, T.o a 1 da,.F1.1). 27, ItiTo - VI F.4•C•0,., / • DEALER'S IN GROCE!RIES d PROVISIONS TowANDA, rA. Stana of C. U. ratcho Wo have millanet a large stuck of CHOICE GROCERIES, which we offer to the public at the LOWEST MARKET VERY HATES 11 • - FLOUT:, At.:, price not to in ((AL IA elsev.here subject to be returned IC n4et i.itisfactory.. ,Ity.we ofTei au exstra grade of I= w m TB . . . • \ A; fresh sovidi of I trie , l it'eUlts lost recelvol. ,ttiong *ltkelt can lk,. found Cerle9it Prunes of out ut.n ltiaror t •- WE *ILL :NOT BE - USO L D . . . ~ , . .. . \ F,. V. DITTUICII & CO. - \ Towanda, Jan. 30, 1079. T .E..otp MARBLE YARD STILL' IN OPERATION. The undersigned haying purchased the MAR BLE- Yalt I) of the late G EMU: NicCA lig. de sires to nein the public that havingiretploced ealwrieneed men. ho is prepared to do all Mud; ut work in the line of -. • - • MONUMENTS; HEAD STONES, _• • . • • • 'MANTLES a SII f INES, In II I° very best nanner and.at ITilit rates. ' l'emotin itesiting anything in the Marto tine 3, - .4 incited to call - and exanaine wont, and mire agents' coma Luton. JAMES 11cCABE. • • Towanda,' 1'.%. N0v ,18 . 1878 . 2.0 f FECITTOR'S NOTICE. :- -.Notice is hereby . given that all perunts 'indebted to the estate or Caleb Abell, late et- Warrett un6e ship, dee'd. utast make inttuisliale payment, and all persons having claims against said estate, mnsr present them,' duly aullnmticated, to the under signed for Settlement. . C. T.'AIJELI, ' NN'artyjyra., Feb. - 2.0, 1tt414. Vane utet.• F . LOLTII,
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