8 padford Ntplorttt dOODICICEI, ED11.04. I TOWEtIIIII3I Pa., Thursday, Dec. U,1879 TrtEjmany friends of Senator Pt..►'rr, of Connecticut, will learn with regret that his health is Seriously impaired. Tna indications are that the receptiOn of Gen. GRAtT at Philadelphia, on the 16th, will be one of the grandest ovations ever given to any man, in any country. ' HON. ALEXANDER IL STEPHENS &dares that those papers do not I misrepresent him which say he prefers,Gnswr to Tn.- DEN to:MI . /resident. And; what is more, he insists thaethis is not a thage of heart. ONE of the most readable of our eFbang el is thel'hiladelphia North American. editorilalsiare always timely and sensi ble, while pie news items are carefully pm pared, ar4cover the whole country. Tun exodus fever has. reached Texas, and p despatch -from Dallas, on the Texas Pacific railroad, says that "crowds of negroes are passing northward, both in wagons and in call; en, route for Kan sas.?' , " -C CoNputss adjourn over from Thins day until -Monday. The Confederates want a little time to make up their minds exactly what it is best to do. Meanwhile, let us give them credit for being . on their . good behavior. TuE recent Democratic delegate elec tions in Philadelphia resulted disastrously to .nu R.V.6A . 1.L. Ills friends were rout ed id almost every ward. Good-by, to Sk3WEL'A Presidential aspirations. Ills boom is yap come. Fitoat all parts.of the State there come reports of the scarcity of water. Many strcamsare so shallow that grist and,saw Mills are not able to operate. dried up, and growing crops i dge suffering for want of moisture. i • JuDoE'Atantlawr, of the telligh Corn, mon Pleas, who was accused!of embezzl ing pension money; has been , acquitted after a trial in which it is alleged his ac cusers committed perjury. The Judge's vindication is full and complete. PURIM VICTORIA is seriously ill, but as sbe comes of a long-liredlateily, has al ways taken excellent care of herself, and is but sixty-one years old, will - probably recover. , ! The heir-apparent will have to wait awbile before he take's the,crciwn. HEIRE'S more comfort for Sfraf Senator WAiLACt explains the late over whelming defeat of the Democracy in Pennsylvania as duo to the "supreMany of the Itmcn,u,L faction in the State Con vention" and the management of the campaign by that faction of the party. _THE recent election in Louisiana shows how thoroughly successful has been the shot-gun policy. In a few of the parishes,_ where there was a determination tnani-.• fested fo vote; or leave the State, the Re publicans were unmolested. But in most of the parishes there was the usual amount of butt dozing. VANcrY of vanities ! All is ; vanity Eieu TAT GOULD bas beconie:„sgieted • with wealth and finds no ,substantial pleasure in adding to his millions. He says he only does business for fun. We should like to indulge in the amusement of drawing.a check foi $3,500,400--and know. that it would be paid—aii be did the other day. THE Wa.shiugton correspondent of the Cincinnati . Comnarciai telegraphs. that there is information, through) private sources, of a project on foot in p'hiladel pbia and Ne* Tork to raise by subscrip tion a purse of 4250,000 for General - GRANT, so as to make. him financially comfortably and relieve him of the neees •sity of:accePting a situation of any sort. ,Tnr. lie-adjusters are in a decided ma jority in both ii?tisetoof the Virginia Leg islature. In the , . caucus; they gave the RePublidans a ithare of the offices, and plenty of assurances to the colored Re publicans that equal and exact justice would be dor it° their race ; but promises they will pi obably . keep so long as the Republicans liolif:tbe balance of poWer., Mu, Scut xur.tt, chairman of the ligtsoi Committee on Elections, is, said to have ,intimated that .T:adge ORTII, representa .. tire from the . district of indiatta, Whose seat is or, was contestedjby Mc- • i s . Cum, will not be 'Oisturbed. likeknu to present any testimonyslfewing that he rewired a majoritylof the cotes caet at ' the election,: consequently the contest will be dismissed. Tiii llarrisblirg Patriot has= a spas modic fit of honesty and propriety, and breaks out thus : " The leader of Tues (l:l2 • riots in Philadelphia instead of be in in the clutches of the law was a con s! - L nons participant in one of the l), niocratic conventions in that city and received thirty-three votes for the nomi nation 4 Of police magistrate in another. Oh ! shame, where is thy blush !" TUE distinguished , free-trade mission ary, THOMAS BAYLEY POTTER, W:110 has been visiting this country in the interest *of the British manufacturers, has been constrained to admit that- the free-trade boom in this country, upon which many English manufacturers bad been pinning their hopes, is conspicuous by its absence. He also says that so far as he can see, Americans are more' prosperous and in: dustrious than their English cousins. , Os the Ist of December -the interest bearing debt of the United States was $1,786,917,650. To this mist be added the called bonds on which interest has ceased 11(518,247,595); also the legal tender notes ($ . 16,764;348), certificates l of deposits, and gold and silver Certificates, which bring the total - debt up to $2,223,- 267.410, or if we substract the cash in the Treasury ($207,217;6&4), the whole, amount is $2,016,849,645. Ir will remain uncertain until after the meeting of the State Board or Canvas sears who was elected Lieutenant GovernOr of New York a month ago. The 'offi cial returns, - which are at length all in, `are said to give the place to Mr. Hossnes, but the result of the canvass yet to be made may show Mr. POTTER to be the winning man. While the change of ,a few hundred votes, by reconrse to ways that arc dark and tricks that art, vain, might count in a 'Democrat, such an interfer ence to alter the popular verdict, if it really were' expressed the other way, would be the reverse of advantageous to the Democracy of New York and the No t ion in next year's campaign, "UNEASY rests the bead that wears a crown," is a truthful saying, if it is an old one. Tho Czar of' Russia, ALEXAN DEB, has just escaped the fourth attempt upon his life. Explosives were placed . upon the track in Mciscow, intended to blow up the Imperial train, but the explo sion only destroyed the baggage train. The baggage-smashers in this country would have demolished the Czar's bag gag about making such a fuss about • thrtnert States Bonds are virtually out of the British market, if we may credit the London rimes, and the prices quoted are only based upon the New York re ports. The credit of the Government is so well established, that what' bonds re main abroad, are kept as a safe and perma nent investment. The amount of. money sent abroad, to pay interest is less year by year, as the financial condition of this country improves, and asiwejearn to con sume our , own manufactures. A special despatch from Washington says that Senator CAMERON and some of the other Republican members of the Pennsylvania delegation are , working to get Congress to adjourn for several days when General GRANT visits Philadelphia, in order that the members may attend the General's reception 'there. Au the members who have been seen thus far are reported favorably, and Senator Csartuos• ' is confident . that Congress will adjourn 1 on that occasion: Jr is announce from Washington, tbat i Senator WALLI:ft has indicated a de termination to have an equal share in the election of Supervisors in PennsYlvania, and that if refused ho will ask his Democratic colleagues to reject the Mminees. We can hardly Believe this, such an attempt at coercion would be. firmly resisted byithe Prasident. It would a new departure, to use the confirming .powers for the purpose of bull-dozing:the appointing power. THE production of anthracite coal this year will reach 25,000,000 tons, which ex. ceeds any previous achievement in this in dustry.v The nearest'approach to this was in 1873, when the production was over 21,00000 tons, and these figures were regarded with astonishment. The extra ordinary demand upon the coal fields this year and the promptness with which it` has been met furnish an excellent idea of their,iast extent and bow rapidli thpy are being di3velord. TUE TWIN RELIC The first Imblie arraignment of Mormonism and its social abuses by politiCal party, may hu found in the platform of principles adopted -by the Convention that nominated JOHN C. FasmoNr, in 106. In that platform polygamy is voted as a twin relic of barbarism with slavery. DA VID Virtotoi was the reputed author of the phrase ; and iSo far as We know, and as we have reason to believe, he was the author. The Mormons were, 1 and are to this day, the defenders of slavery., They knew well enough that crimes are mutually dependent. A blow at slavery was a blow at a demoralizing influence, and any step in that direction involved a step fur ther. The Mormon leaders" knew that the moral sense of the American people, once aroused and vitalized in action against slavery, must logi cally proceed further and deal with other , departures from social and moral-,rectitude. Hence, Mormonism and Democracy were allies then, and so have continued to be ever - since The people of ittali were in sympathy with the rebellion during the war, and for the reasons just given. The President has arraigned !po lygamy in his Message, and as may be supposed, the arraignment has stirred up the Mornion leaders to revolt—in words, at least. The lead er upon whom the _Mantle of BRIG HAM YottNo descended, has already sounded the key-note of revolt. He says that good . citizens Must obey the taws and respect the rulers, but h£ adds that Clod's law ordaining plural marriage is. a higher law than acts of. Congress. polygamy was a feature of ancient society, but we seek in vain for any divine authority for it. It was tolerated then in the Orient,'and is tolerated now among rude peoples. But manythings are tolerated in this wdrhr which are not in accordance 4/fith moral law. And unless it be assumed that every. , thing permitted is divinely ordered, there is no warrant for saying that polygamy was commanded by the Almighty. To admit such a doctrine is to condeinn the whole civilized world as in revolt against the law of 00 in that particular. The only way to deal with polyga my is to treat it as we treat any vio lation of the law of Monogamy. - Utah must be condemned to a state of perpetual pupillage,unless its pea pie conform their social institutions to the law of the ln& The Govern ment of the United States cannot afford to become a party to such a gross violation of morals. It is of no moment whatever how many rev elations/ the Mormons pretend to have received, for the question relates to established order, which must be maintained. - With the religious be lief of a sect, the Government has nothing to do. The Mormons can believe in one or a dozen gods ; in Joe Smith or Sam Jones as prophets; or they may become fire-worshippers, if that seems to be good in their sight. But they cannot be, permitted to turn back • the tides of eivilizetion, by borrowing the imperfect social sys tems of the ancient world and mak ing the Republic a party to the reac tion. Hence, it becomes the duty of the people to urge repressive meas ures as torn polygamy. It Must be torn up root and branch, and.giv en to the Mmes. -Should this COn gress presume to admit Utah as' a State with a constitution silent about plural marriages, or allowing 'such ;marriages, the Demeemtic party need never again present itself before the kmerican people and ask for favors. Wedo not believe Congress will dlre t anything of the kintt W. IV. KETCHUM, Judge of the Unita. States District Court for Western Penn sylvania, died at Pittsburg, Saturday morning last, of apoplexy. His sudden and unexpected demise Will be deeply re gretted by his many friends in Bradford county. He was in his usual health Fri day, and hold Court during the day. Returningto Ids -hotel he ate a hearty dinner and mtiredto }cis room, where he was attacked hy a headache. A physician was scut for, and pronounced the symp toms those of apoplexy. Ile grew rapidly• worse, and - despite all that physicians could do, died soon after midnight. Judge KETeutin was born in Luzerne county, was fifty-eight years of age, and was ad- - mitted to the Bar when twenty-eight years old. He represented the • Luserne district one term in Congress, having de feated Ilnisintsci B. WU:WIIZ who in turn defeated hint when he was a candi date for re-election. He was appointdd Judge by President Gnaw? -1878. Ile succeeded Judge IdeCaimnss, who re ; • tired on account of old age, and who sur 'rives him. He leaves a wife and ono son. Ttra hanging of Truer, at Smethport, on Thursday, last, was badly managed. The knot slipped, and the unfortunate man was again placed on the drop, more dead than alive. The sepend attempt was more skillfully and suCcessfully ac complished, and tire, penaliy of the law was carried - -out. Such revolting spec tacles must necessarily occur so longtas we continuo the barbarous method :of taking the life of condemned, murderers. As the _object •of capital punishment is not vindictive; but to protect the commu nity,,and as it bas been proven that the . - ,act.ixt7bamging is• calculated to exert a vici*i influence, why *Flake it as hu s'( mane as possible. The garoto is a much bet, tir. way of taking life, and we notice thg?:,4some philanthropist proposes to die,- peeiSlof criminals condemned to death, by suli eting them to .severe shocks of oleo trir4 y which would kill inglantariconsly, `without causing pain or suffering. • : popNewl'ork Tribune yields to the ular demand, anti will hereof; be PUblished daily, Sundays not ex tcd. Tile inmposed necessity for Sundai;news :r. ,papers is a part Of the general tendency of the times to break down all;the old fashioned teacivings as to the sanctity of the Sabbath as a day of rest, to be given to devotional and religious employments and teachings,; If this feeling. must be catered :to, much of the berm to come or it may be reantliied by wise and conscien tious management. •The Sunday paper which is conducted. with an elevated-pur- ; pose, and devoted only to the advance ment of the •cause of morality, may not do much harm.; 'but unfortunately amt. , of the Sunday papers are mere scaven gers, gathering 4 the vilest garbage, and pandering to the lowest andmost debased tastes. . ; THE situation in Maine; la unchanged. The Democratic officials reftusp to allow an examination of the returns, and are ap parently aniti4us to`consurnwie the great wrong which was coneoeted.toy the defeat led candidates. The Suprethe Court haa issued'an injunction orderMg the Secre tary of State to 'prOduce the returns on the 9th instant /or public inspection., Under the circtrthstances, however anx ious' the Democrats may be to consum mate a fraud, it is very unlikely that they will see their way'clear to make any fur ther attempts in tlsaidirection. Maine in not Louisiana, and the men whose votes elected the Republican:majority last Sep tember will not stand quietly by, like ,the bulldozecifteerneilik, the South, and al low them_ selves toibo swindled out of their rights. TIIETLE applarg to •lie some dissatisfac tion amongN the Western Republicans with the President's, reemmedation to repeal the lcdal tender act. But the late elections babe definitely settled that the people desire hard' money, and that the • Government should gives up the business of banking. A Washington despaitch, - af-, luding to the subject, says that the Presi dent represents that he did not iiatend to convey the meaning that has been placed upon his message, and is not really in fa vor of immediate radical action, in taking away, the legal, tender qualitiet of the greenbacks. lie did not favor a y move meat that would unsettle the value or dis turb the financial centres. 'jilt; desire was bring the subject formally before the people, that th‘rinight be educated upon it by discnssion,and otherwise. Scamrts to, deplete the Treasury are hatched every day. Some of them have merit 4 but more are the attempts of dem agogues to acquire a little popplarity. The latest proposition is contained in a bill introduced in the House by DIr.,WEa. van, of lowa, requiring the Auditor of the Treasury to ascertain the difference between the gold value and currency paid each soldier or sailor iti the late war, and pay the difference to theisoldier or sailor, or their legal represtrtatives. The Hon orable gentleman froth lowa cateulates that 000,000,00 Q will = do this, and has placed.a clause in his bill authorizing the Secretary of the - Treasury to issue that amount of legal tender notes to make such payments. - Ov the governors-of States the Demon crata/willjiavu, After January Ist, prox.j nineteen and , theAtepublicnns nineteen This is outtu; theory that the Democrats do itft: succeed in defeating the election of the Republican candidate by the Legisla ture of Maine. Of the nineteen Demo cratic governors three only are in the States known as e the free States : lAMS of _lndiana. MCCLELLJN of New Jersey and THAYER of Oregon. Of the Republican hovernors not one is in Atte States known as the late /slave State: - . 0 -sft the late elections the Republicans have gained a governor in California, in Maine, in New York and in Ohio, and have lost none. Ts's President has renominated GEORGE W. MCCRARY Of lowa to be circuit judge of the Eighth circuit. This nomination was made at the last session of Congress, and after some time was withdrawn from the Senate, for the reason that the Pena ocratic Senators, in dissatisfaction with Secretary Dices/a:Ws approval of Presi dent HAYES', votes, threatened the rejec tion of the nomination. Time has allayed their anger, and he will no doubt now promptly confirmed. Tan death of Judge Kircnum leaves a vacancy, for which, we suppose, there will be no lack of applicants. Prominent among the names suggested is that of Judge Wua.uxs,• of Tioga county, than whom no better selection mild be rrufde. - He has ability, experience and integrity, and would adorn the bench. Jtrnot Prausorr, on Monday, deltiered Ms opinion in the Legislative briber) , cases, virtually quashing the ililictizients on account of the illegal construction of the grand jury. New bills may be pre sented in January, ,but the probabilities are strongly in favor of UV) presumptioa that ills will be au end of t)b,, }natter, COMMUNICATED. The goAdveitiaer". and die Radiaads. -Self-Interest is such scent/oiling power n the human mind, it is , bard for some to believe flue; any person will work long and faithfully for another without the hope of reward. Evert toludonariee, the most unselfish' of men, must have , their temporal wants provided-fob, or few of them would bo able to preach the gospel to the heathen. The Elmira. Advertiser has for some time past been laboring with suchlastnnisbing zeal to lustily injustice, and defend the railroads' in their outrage _axis practice of discriminating against the East and in favor of the West in their charges, that borne of our Granger friends are inclined to believe it has been bought up by the , Erie Railroad Company, is now running on tbair time-tables and s?abject to their orders. 4 iVe do not share in this bttt ire of .the opinion that - the editor is like those knight-errants in the age of. chivalry, who, from motives of philanthropy, love of adventure or fond ness of strife, started out slatted in mail and-sword in hand to fight the battles of the' weak or ,redress dui . wrongs of the, poor In the discussions that have taken place of late on the subject:of freight dis crimination, the railroads. Seem to be get ting the worst of the battle ; and it is not at all strange that this valiant editor, in pity for the weakest side, sbouki throw I himself with his erhole soul into the thick est of the tight as their great champion and defender.. Manlius, almost siegle handed, saved : ; Rome by mounting the walls of the capitol and hurling the as saulting colunin of Gauls. from its battle ments ; so thiti knightly editor hopes ,his name will go down in history as the man :who saved the railroads* .from the attacks - of the farmers and shippers 'in Hie East. Mr. Barris Lewis. ,in giving hell Teeny . before theWew York IA Committee on lisilivads, declared th the freight discrimination practiced• them virtually placed his farm . the banki of the Mississippi. In - tieing ibis statement, the editor saikit was allbosh; that Mr. Lewis would / not sell his farrnfOr five bin:A - red dollars per acre, whereas land equally,gixid mould be bought on the banks or-the Mississippi for ten dollars per ac editor, probe ably, does not know hostp Mr. Lewis values his farm per ac*-Sny tterlihan we do ; but if he , values it at that sum, it isbecause he has ibeconia attached to it by long residence, by its nearness to churches and schools and good neighbors; or, perhaps, because he expeeta to sell it off for-viiiii,g,e.lots. Certafn it is, that his farm is not worth that mach for farming purpose' : to raise grat4 hay, horses, hogs, . cattle, or dairy p - rWucts, or any thing •else that is extensively produced in the great West. • With tower rates of freight to the seaboard, the Westein fanner, alreacly'having the, advantages 'of a richer soil and fewer obstructions to-the plow, can easily drive Mr. Lewis—and us, too—frirm every Eastern market. If dis tance is measured by, the amount of the freight bill, then ;She Illinois farmer is nearer to:the New - York and Philadelphia markets then we are. - Emphatically, we say that Mr. Lewis was correct: railroad discriMingtiou i: as placed his farm—which he suppoited to be in the Mohawk Valley, and ours, which w e thought was on the banks of the Susquehanna—so far as freight is concerned, on the western bank of the Mississippi. The editor tries .to jusiify the conduct of the rprdroads by the action of the gov ernment in establishing the rate,' of post-; age. He says that -a letter ie co:lVeYed from Elmira to Alaska, a distance of sev eral thousand miles, for three cents ; a.,7 l d_ from Elmira to Horseheads, ,a - distance Os two miles, for three cents. - If the goyim ment charged a'larger sum for a shorter distance, then his argument' Would be nearer the point; and altheugtf it would not excu,sathe railroads, (as °tie wrong does not justify another); it would show ,chat the railoiads were rio worse than the government. ' Due theintelligent editor and ex-Postmaster of Flrruira ought to know that; the goveminent does not pre tend to perform theimail service for the people on business prineijiles. The mails are carried to the distant points of the Union, and into the Oarsely-settled re;'; gions of the West sand of the South, at a. loss of - several millions of dollars per A min). ilt is dem because public opiniOn demands it * for public, convenience, and fur the - benefit pf those poor emigrants and enterprising pioneers' who who have gone beyond the borders of civilization to find a home, and could not; have any mail facilities without it, Its object is to cement and strengthen 'the Union by making all classes feet that they receive advantages from the National Govern ment. •=..' : ' , . He says:' "The Legislature has no more.right to interfere in the management , of a railroad-osthan it has in the manage ment of coal mine or a-cotton factory." That depends altogether on the fact whether the coal mine and 'the-cotton fac tory are operated by conniallies who have outaino acts of incorporation from the ,Legislature ; in such case, the Legislature has a perfect, right to ipterfere- in the management of them all : Railroads, as common carriers, are su , feet to interfer-• erica from the Legislate e, whether they have obtained any speci privileges from the State or net. • Again he says: "T o Legislature has no right to interfere in the business man agement of anything withal *the State. does not - own." A , man of his intelligence ought to know that the Legislatures of several Western States lid interfere in the business management of railroads hy es 'tablishiag more equital . rates for freight, ( ) and,,that the Supreme curt of the /hilted States decided those laws were constitii tioual. If he knows this,- he must be one of those persons soe4tituted by natnre that they cannot helibelieving their own opinions are-of greater authority than the decision of the Supreme Court. No lawyer who values his reputation at the worth of a 4 strait will say that the Legislature cannot interfere in the man. agement Of a railroad, if their manage tnent is wrong. If he means that the Legislature ;138 no moral right to' inter fere, that will depend - altogether on the practice of the railroads : whether their charges are just and eqeal to all in pro portion to the amount fof service per formed. "Thus Faith the Lord, keep ye judgment and do justice." If they always do right anif are impartial in theircharges, the Legiilature has no moral right Wan terfcre; ,hint if, on ttte contrary, they favor -the grcal shipper, the great manufacturer, coal operator or merchant at the expense of the Small shipper, manufacturer, coal. operator or merchant ;—in other words, if they favor the rich and reckless at the expense of the poor and - the cautious bus iness man ; if they invite the great and the influential to ride in - their cars„ free and drive out,the poor who cannot pay,. then it is the moral duty of the Legisla ture to interfere and establish justice. The Advertiser, on account of its ability [ to furnish nines, has obtained a large cir culation in Northern Pennsyliania, and it is- a great -pity that- its teachings are so unreliable and its influence frequently exerted on the wrong side. Within a few years past it has advocated 'running the street-ears on Sunday, attacked.the free academies of , New York, stirred up the Free Masons with a sharp stick; and cen sured Dr. Quell for preaching against sin. The editor probably means well, 'but in an argument depends too much on his imagination for his facts and on his own assertions for evidence. He says he is a member of a Christian Church, and no doubt be is a good Christion, but be would be a better editor if he would always keep cool and not pitch headlong into questions which he don't understand, and then flounder and slosh about like a . hen in a swill barrel. CASTELAB. be _ PHILADELO*IIA L E TTER. PIIILADaiTITA,Mber e t 1879, The discordant and belligerent DriFloc; racy held their primary elections on Mon day night of last week; and gave the com munity an opportunity of judging what would be the condition of things bele, should that party ever be lark, to get con trot of the city govenuoent. The battle was for supremacy between the Vanz and MeGowan factions--which is really a Til den and anti-Tilden scrimmage. 'Barn Randall is the, factfriend of the sage of Gramercy Park, though it is shrewdly surmised that- hisLadeocacy of Tildeir's fortunes is done to be the residuary lega tee, if not the chief heir, When the cipher candidate is ebelietl, Sam hes the Presh dential bee blueing in his bonnet badly, being satieffid in hie own mind that be la the moat available aialidate for the Dent *vatic 'party. Unfortunately foe tlia stio- wad wacompliahmont o(. his ileidgisqc there are is great mean Den:mists who do not foal upon his tribition favorably, arid in feat, are bitterly opposed to both Tilden, and his lieutenant; Randall. Sen ator Wallace is not supposed to be kindly disposed, and in this city there is %bitter and string opposition. The conventions on Tuesday were for the iurpoee of nominating Magisterial, Slate Convention and Comity Committee delegates, and at amend Mandy scenes were enacted. The. bloodiest, row was in the Fifth ward, where a gang of roughs, heeded by the notorious BM McMullin, broke into the room, and the chairman and the delegates took safety in flight. But here literally "Greek mete Greek,", and the two contending failiona engaged n a free fight. Pistols, knives, and black acts were brought into use with Wonder- ons erect. One man was; shot dead, and several dangerously wounded. The police - finally cleared the house, after a hard fight, The work of preparing for the reoep• tiod and entertainment of General Grant is going on very thoroughly. All .tho in dicitions point to a monster demonstra tion. It will probably exceed in inimberrs and display anything ever before known in this country. It Will be participated in by the Grand Army, by the State mili tary, and a large representation of the manufacturing interests of ,the city.. All the trades and occupations will be in die line, some of the establishments contrib uting alt their employes. It in estimated that sixtrthousand men will be in the precession, including :eight thousand troops, five thousand of_the G. 4. R., and live thousand school Children, l and one. thousand mounted citizens of Chester County, marshalled by Colonel Hooten, Chairman of the Republican State Cam inittee. Philadelphia willpe decorated as in Centennial times, .and will give the General a. welcome of which be may be proud. The city if Philadelphia has owned nearly_sixty thouisand shares of Penney'. yania Railroad stock, and fearing that mightlso sold and go into the hands:4 parties not friendly to the interests of the city or the railroad, the company offered to take the stock at par. The offer was' accepted, the money paid, and, the cash invested in city fours. Drexel & Co. then offered to take the balance of the funding loan often millions•- . -the balance being - . about $1,250,000. Dr.' Magoon, of the Broad and 'Brown Baptist Church; is probably very 'cortho dox in his faith, but deeidely heterodox in his actions. I Recently he . allowed Rev, Chauncey Giles, the Swedenborgian min ister to deliver lectures from his pulpit ou the tenets of his faith. Now ats meet ing of the. -Philadelphia Conference . of Baptist Ministers, resolutions were adopt ed disapproving of the action of Dr. Ma goon. lie is, sustained, however, by the trustees of his Church. • An exciting scene occurred at the Pen itentiary on thinday last, while religions se .' vices were going on. The doors of the eo n s of the.upper corridor ire usually left o p en a t such times that the prisoners may hear the services. There was aw:lextra force cf.choilstens and some of the best ex h or t ers to the city to preach, when, as the services were , about to comm ence, Colonel Rolland, eoallned on a charge of of attempting to •iob the Chambera,burg National Bank a few years ago, juipped out into the corridor flourishing a knife. The keeper at once covered him wati his revolver, and as the convict for a momeni; hesitated, reached out i bis band and caught' i Rolland's arm, and placed the pis tol at his head. • He qualFed, • laughed do risiVely and dropped' the knife: to the floor. In an instant he wriggled: 49it of the 'embrace of• the officer, and ' -with a snakelike moiement turned a somersault .and leaped over tike railing of the corri. l dor. He landed d-on the first floor below, having junipedoVer twenty feet. He was up in a flash, Andra/dea dash toward the crowd. . The ladies screamed and rushed toward the.door. - Three or four keepers grabbed Rolland and knocked him to the The Very costly and elegant Presbyte rians-Church, at the corner of Broad and 040 streets, was-.destroyed by:, fire 4'idnesdey morning. A new orgdn had just been placed in the Church, and a fair was being held to raise funds tti pay for it. The fire was occasioned by a defect. ire flue. ;There is some insurance, but the loss Will fall heavily upon the oongrc. gation., - ' A young woman, giving this name of Mary Rolland,- applied it the - Woman's Christian Association Rooms for lodging t on Thursday evening, and was taken in. In the morning she leaped tam the third story slat through a sky4ght directly over tile kitchen, falling on a boiler over the range, and escaped without serious injury, but causing great damage to the crockery. On being questioned she said she had heard a bell ring r And . thought that judgment day had come. Looking from the windows, she conceived the idea that thesky-light was heaven, aki believ ing that she was pursued, leapbd from the ;window. M. S. Quay, late Cindrinan'of the Repablican ,State Committee, has been sued by Markley & Sons, • for printing .don© for the Committee. Mr.4Quay de nies a personal liability for the' debt, as the work was done for the committee. Tire officers of the Grand Lodge of Ma. Bone; of this State, just elected, are : Grand Master, Michael Nisbet ; Deputy Grand Master, 'Samuel B. Dick ; Senior Grand Warden, Conrad B. Day ; Junior Grand Warden,' E. Coppee Mitchell; Grand Treasurer, Thomas R. Pattonf Graild SeCretary; . John Thompson ; Trus-; tees of Girard Bequest, 'Samuel C. Per. Gegirge Thompson, Charles M. Pre vot, 'Henry C. tlOwell, Jacob Roberts, M. D.; Tristees of Grand Lodge Charity Fund, -Jacob Landenslam, George'Gds.; corn, Daniel Brittain , John Banold and Edward Strickland. ' The iron building at Broad . and Locust streets, known as the Colosseum, has been sold to a Boston capitalist, and will be removed' next week. The structure was brought from New York during the Centennial year, and it was used to ex blbit the 'picture of "Paris by Night." Subsequently it was converted into ama r ket hinise, but this venture did not prove lucrative, and hence the isle. One of the Park Guard found a man ly ing in a pool of blood and almost dead in the East Park reservoir Wednesday after noon. "In his hand was a Remington re volver, with which he had shot himself back of the right ear and in the left breast. Wednesday night Carrie Streeper com mitted suicide at her home on Ridge av enue, in Roxborough. She was only twenty-one years of age, aud accomplish ed her end bylanging herself in her bed room. The Philadelphia Mint is coining eagles and half eagles at an average of $200,000 worth daily. The lArger proportion of this amount is in eagles: It is anticipat ed that the coinage , of this Mint during the present month -will aggregate $lO,- It has been proposed to erect a monu ment to , the late Morton McMichael, in Fairmount Park. The efforts of tbat gen tietnan towards the erection of the park, his public services, private - virtues and unsullied reputation are as fitting a sub ject fora tribute of that nature, to his character as Philadelphians could possi bly select. He was a citizen whose mem ory we all should delight to honor. .I.Application was recently made to the War Department for ; the use of arms and equipments for the military and citizens of Philadelphia, on the occasion of Gener al Grant's reception in that city. The Secretary said he had no more power to lend the' property of the Government than Secretary Sherman had to lend the money in the Treasury vaults. • One hundred fish baskets, weirs end other obstructiOns placed in the river to catch fish unlawfully, have been removed from the Susquehanna" by order of the State Fish Commissioners. Now, if they will only openthe dates so that the shad canlhave a free run up'the river, possibly you may have that fish is as great 'abund ance as years ago. It is in the memory ,of your "oldest inhabitant" when shad fisheries werenumerons, and the catch large. A z yvASHINGTON LETTER. ' WARIMIGION, D. C., Dec. 8, 1879. After a session of four days the Demo cratic Congrirc' bad to take a recess nail next week, end the prohabilitieeare that on or about the 26th, an adjournment will be bad to the first or second week in Jan uary. The appropriation committees haveliotigot tokviork yet, and the man agers do not.seace anxious to push busi ness. One excuse for a long holiday recess, perhaps, is that . members want to go to Philadelphia to participate In the reception - to General Grant. It - will be a grand affair. But the fact is, the Demo :crate alirlry willing poitpone all legislation#Jong as possible, in the helm of thereby avoiding fatal legislative errors. Financial legislation will be given the session, notwithstanding the President'icxecommendation. A' canvass of the Republican members has -been made, and the result is that they are almost unanimously against; any legisla- Reis that will disturb the business boom or into the party. We propose to go into the next campaign without any drairback to success. Speaking of this subject, reminds me that the man who appears likely to bo Chairman of the Re publican National Committee—William E. Chandler—has arrived in town, and it is announced that he has come , to stay. If he conducts the campaign next year, it will be a red=bot one. A good deal of interest is taken in the meeting of. the Union League, called in Philadelphia next week, and many lead ing Republicans will go from here to take part .or to confer with the managers of that potent organization, which will have an important place in the work next year. -/The Louisiana election slioWs that the kuklux are still alive and a verrimport ant part of the Democratic organization. It is probable that the ; Brigadiers would have kept them quiet 's little longer, for policy's sake, had it not been for fear that the Republicans wouldcarry the State. But the exigency called them 'into service ..again. They hanged , ' several colored leaders in time to spread terror among the voters, and thereby were enabled to carry strong Republican dristricts with out votes. This is another point for the Republicans; to make a note of. rife Buckner. bill, so called, which re quires the national banks in certain States' to keep one-half their legal reserve in gold and silver, is intended to effect a dis tribution of the surplus coin in the Treas ury, and to rglease tbellegalgOer notes now held by the banks!, Secretary McCrary says that some Democratic Senators, will oppose his eon finnltion as United States Judge, because he hoe stalwari Republican. The Brigadiers in the Senate aro Touch troubled abcu# the matter of pationak,e, and. are trying to deiise means to increase it. In :a few months_ they ll be more troubled. IllovrAnn. I STATE. NEWS. , • PREPAW 4 IO2•4B afe being made in /Erie to rekindle the fires,of the blast tturnaee at that place. ,t Tan ; Easton - Express reports that hands are being employed , to work the Delaware rolling mill. ' 1 Tag Pennsylvania Coa4ompany has conceded an adV l andej, of five cents a ton to its minete: Ax advance of ten progni. in tha wages of miners has taken place throughout the Wyoming region. Tag new mill at Etna. Allegheny minty, 'recently built 'at a post of $500,000, will be started up next week. ' THE Erie Forge Works were de siroyed by fire' on Monday J,night. The loss is $30,000 and the inatirance $14,000. Tax Easton Free Press is willing, so it intimates, to. compare subscrip tion lists with any other paper iri that city. 'Tun Bradford Star has been:im. larged to an eight column paper, and there are many more improvements noticeable in it. Mims of the Birmingham and Castle Sharron Coal Company have struck for an advance of half a cent per bushel for digging coal.` WILSON Garza, of Washington, Washington county, was' crushedto death by the fall of an embankment, near that place on, Monday after noon:** Faom Milford, Fike county, heavy freshets-are reported in the Delaware rivet and its tribatgies and large quantities of thither are being floated dowti. THE house of William Borden, at Allenville, Huntingdon county, was destroyed: by. fire on Monday, and two of the children perished in the Banks. ON Thursday night Jack Miekey and Frank Coyle had a fight in Pittsburg, when the former was so badly stabbed that 'his life was des pared of. FRANCIS Muslin; the temperance apostle, is to remain in Pittsburg for an indefinite period, during which thus there. will be a grand temper ance revival. Tire Reading Eagle has the opin ion of what it considers a competent judge, that the tobacco crop of Lan caster and Bergs ;coutitis this year 1 3 411 self for $4,000,000. . Tau Titusville: Herald says that since proceedings hate been institut ed in Clarion county against the Standard Oil Company, for alleged discriminations, many of the )evils upon which the charges are based have been mixiiiled, if not wholly re moved. Tome is a temperance revival at Easton, which has enlisted the live- Hest interest. Ladies engaged in the cause visited -the saloons in the interest of, temperance Thursday afternoon. . Tun - committee to arrange for the reception of General Grant in Pitts burg have selected Hon. Daniel Agnew, : Ex-Chief Justice of the Su preme Court, to deliver the ad dress of welcome. .1 Ar emecting of the Lehigh Pres bytery in Reading, on Tuesday, was decided not to accept the resig nation of Rev. Wallace Radcliffe as ' pastor of the First Presbyterian church of that city. A MA& in - Bradford called Dr. Butterworth, and who played the violin at dances where an .orchestra could not be afforded'has been called to New York to take charge'of a large fortune left him by the recent death of - his father. A YOUNG man named Dove) , died at Shenandoah, on Monday from the effect of swallowing his false teeth the week previous. The phisicians en deavored to melt the plate by admin istering alcohol, but - this failed, and he died in terrible agony. GENERAL NEWS. THE seventieth birthday of Oliver Wendell Holies was commemorated at 'Boston by a' breakfast given 'at the Hotel Brunswick. OLu lumbermen estimate that over 2,000,000 feet °number are now tied up along tbe Delaware river, between Milford and Narrowsburg, N. Y. NEIEVILLE'S mills, in Roctiester, owned by Alden Itounseville,' Jr., Were burned Wednesday _by al, incendiary. The loan is $9,000 ; no insurance. i' .i .OvEn. 4,000 turkeys, and 1000 geese and ducks were !hipped from Inger slit, Ont., and a large number of geese and turkeys Rom- Stewiacke, N. S., for England. •, , MEDFORD WATERS, colored, eigh teen years old was banged, 'near Cecilton,. Cecil county, Md., for the murder,, on November 12, 1878, of Jenkins Whaley, colored: - A. J. HAMILTON, City Tax Collec tor of Los Angeles, Cal., has almond ed with. 0,000. This 4 ist the fourth defalcation on the part•Of, officers of that city in the last five years. , GENE*, GRANT Da9 accepted the invitation of the World's Fair Com mittee to; preside at a public meeting to further that movement, to be field in New York • city , about Decehlber 20. THE partially decayed - body of James Smith, a retired grocer„ was discovered in the Orret of the Ex change Bank missing i)it Montreal. He had been Missing since Septem ber. , ' tr TUE Domieion GoVernment agents in Englandses 4 el4ly censured for deceit praetieed_in sending emigrants out to Oneida: Fifteen men of this class are objects of charity of Mon treal. , . Toomai BoLANn, inspector of elec tion, cony . *ed .of falsely issuing a certificate I - A votes east at the New York city election of. 1878, was sen tenced to twos years in the State Prison. . , "GOVERNOR TRWII , I has certified to the President and Congress the vote California on he Chinese ques tion, .accompanying itwith the me morial required by -the act calling for the vote. , A MIRE at Bow Park stock farm, near if Bradford, Ont., on Tasday night destroyed all the out. buildings except three. f , Twelve horses were, burned, besides a large _quantity of hay, straw, grain, etc: . BERRY RUSSELL, formerly Presi dent of tlld, Bank of: taeayette, was indicted K, New Orleans by the Grand Jury. for embezzling bonds and moneys of the bank in Jime, 1878; .Bail was fixed at $lO,OOO. WILTz, Democrat, was . electd Governor of Louisiana by 20,000 majority, and the new Constitution was also carried, The debt ordi nance, which was voted Ott separate ly, is thought to have been defeated. 1. • Tut Ogden News; the Mormon Church organ, 'says it does not think that the expressions of the President in his Message will have the slightest effect toward the solution of therMor mon question or the suppression of OlygaMk- . A SPECIAL from St. Martinsville, La, i says - : Emile••Deliege Republi ban ,eandidate .. for / Sheriff, has just killed two brothers named De La Iloussa34, whose father is also a ca=n didate for Sheriff, Dellege is •arso -said "to be mortally wounded. . AT Springfield, Mass, on Tuesday :Mayor • Powers, Republican , was 4leeted by 1,304 majority. 'Abe ma jority year , was thirty-five. In 'lllolyoke l- the: Dethoerats elected Wiliam' Ruddy Mayor by 54 major ity, and ? carried the majority of the city wards. 1, • • ' John (N. B.) Globe says that the steamer Circassian has claimed $50.000 salvage for towing the disabled steamship. City . of Rich mond into Halifaa.... The Inman peo ple &Cline to pay more• than $20,000, and - the case has gone into the Admiralty Courts: Tut mail from White - River at Rax;rlins, Wy., Thursday brought the. news that on the night of November 30 the Ute Indians - attacked and drove in the herders in - charge of a herd of beef from which the emi r; !nand was supplied with meat at White River campAand drove o 1 the entire herd. . AT four o'clock Thursday afte.rnoon the SpotTonf-Kellogg ,coMmittee de cided to receive no more testimony at New Orleans, and adjourned to meet in Washington to, prepare their report. The committee have exam ined one hundred and seventeen wit nesses, several of whom were recall ed. ' ANDREW McCAITEtt7r, sixteen years old, living in Willismsbnrg, employed in the Prentice Hat Man ufactory, on Nostrand street, Brook lyn, was working near the machinery, when hiticlothing came in contact with belting and he was drawn over the shafting and instantly killed. L- 7 Lizzte -Farts, laundry girl in the employ of the Russel House, in De• troit, while decending into the freight compartment of the hotel elevator was caught between the elevator and a projecting beam, and her neck and lower jaw so horribly crushed as to cause instant death'. - Tun Will of the late Peter Goelet, one of the eccentric Goelet brothers, was 'filed .in the New York Surro gate's Office. The estate is various ly estimated from 46,000,000 to, $12,- 000,000, and the.. division of the money •is entirely among the re latives. Ethridge, T. Gerry, bis nephew, gets $500,000. . Tun schooner L. C. Butts, with a, cargo of. 40,000 bushels of corn, front Chicago for Buffalo, went ashore at- Ninetmile Point, near Alpena, Mich., during a severe snow storm on Thum day night. She is now lying full of water on a sandy bottom in twelve feet' of water. The crew are all. safe. SCOTT STEPHENSON, a notorious character of ~Columbus, Tenn., at tacked.• Deputy A. A. Nicholson in the streets of that •place the other night, knockinL him down with .a brick. Nicholson drew a revolver and shot Stephens. through the abdomen from which he died on Thursday. Nicholson has i 3 urrender ed himself. Tug examination touching the alleged poisoning of Charles E. Blair, of Chatham Four Corners, N. Y., by' Joseph and Mary Volkener, vas con cluded in New York Friday. Justice Duffy hefd Volkener and his wife for the action of the , Grand jury, fixing the bail for each at $5,000. Blair and Mary Connelly were com mitted as witnesses to the House of Detention, bail being fixed for. Blair at $l,OOO and for Mary Connelly at $2,000. FRIDAY afternoon a floor in the grain . and flour mills- of Ellis Earkard in -Brooklyn,, ifus., gave wiy under a heavy nines of wheat resting upon it, and precipitated three men into the cellar, - who were smothered by 3,000 bushels of wheat' falling upon them. - The dead 'bodies were subsequently gotten out.: The unfortunates were C. Nourse, miller, :thirty-two years of age, rvhp leaves a wife and one child, Dennis' - Reardon, thirtygears of age, a wife and two childr a, anitDennis Lynch-, thirty five years old, ai-wifeand two chil dren. . I ONE EXPERIENCE F 110.11; 314-Scr.—"t bad beensick and miserable so .. - lohg and had caused my busbafid, so mulct twuble and expense, no one. seemed to: know what ailed me, that I watr:coMpletely dis heartened and discOurageiV,ln this frame of mind I got a bottle of s '.cilop' Bitters and used them unknown tor-my family: I soon began to iinprove an4ained so fast that my husband and family thought it strange and unnatural;, but wfien told them what bad belps l. me, theft, said,, " Hurrah for Hop Bitters ! long inay_they prosper, for they have made mother well ,and us happy. '—Tho Mother. —Home Jour,nal. • " • Reporter. Clubbing List , Ibr, 1880. • We hare made arrangements with the ymbilsbers of the following periodicals.by which we can offer any otie of them In connection with the liar OnTElf at greatly reduced rates. lte will 'send the .llft- PORTER with any of the. papers named below, for one yeir, at the figures indicated: Reporter and Weekly Tribune ' ' ' 12-10 - _ i " Seitni-Weeitiq. -• ' '3 10 l i " 11 4 'v•eitlyTime ~, - '2 00 " "- Seml-Weekly' ' 3 AO . 116 " Weekly Evening Post • ' 2.33 ' " I I" Seini-Weekty ' ' ' 1 3 . 60 ..,. " palladelphla Ptess ' 210 " " " Tirana 2.30 .. j Amaleazi Agrioulturi St ~i ( •• " C'EnutrY Getitleman• ". " Rural Nair Yorker A. " . 1 tiarßg es Weeizi • S—A,... . 4 4 ;a: . i Bazar i • - c. , , :" - Magazine " "' Scanner " i!A " St. N•lehola. " Awake litalsy Land " Littel's Using Age " The 'Nursery I 44 & LI " Applenna's.Journal 2 50 Pei : name Science 3t0pth1y..... 5 21. as Petcrson's Magazine 2 9 a.G eqey's :2' 65, " I.ippincotre ' as r . 4 2i' illa " .otlanticlitonthly '4 23 " 91110 Farmer - 2.39 Lancaster Farmer 00, `• Dernorest without premlanl 2 6q " with prenkain..... 3.420 grew AbnerMentents. QOLDIERS S1101:71;D MAKE their applications for Pensions before Jatigary 1, 1i..1680. in order to V.P.Wn arrearages: E. Nit Lts. At.hens, 4 tra., Attorney in such matters, will file your claims - tor you. Dec: TABER HOUSE, . CA;NTON, Dec.ll4o. JOHN N. WOLTE,;Pi.ovit ISSOLUTION OF PARTNER TT SHIP. The , Bartnership .heretofore exlstrug between I.abella Rockwell aril A. L. RockweNutlk• the arm name of A. L. Rod well. /I. Co.. is MB: day ISABELLA ROCKWELL, Monroe. Pa.,.Nr , c, 24. 1679.4 u • THE ANNUAL 3.IEETIO OF the stockholders of the First National Bank of Towanda, for the election of Directors. will be held at the calce of the Dank, in Towanda; on TUESDAY,JANUARY between .the hours of one andshree o'clock, P. M. N. N. BETTS, Cashier. Towanda, Dec..' ; ',A. , • • TllE 'ANNUAL' MEETING 'the stockholders of the Towanda Bridge ; Company. for the electtot of a President, Tn , a4.... tiro' and AZ 3fanigers to serve the.ensuln year, wlll be licJd at the Plrst National Rank—Towanda, Penna., on AVEDNESDAY, JANUARY 7, IMO, between the hours Of one and three o'cliirk. P, 31: N. N. 11F:TTS, Secretary. Towanda, Dec. 4. Wit. ' INCORPORATION N0T1C17..-- .1 Nonce:l3 hereby given, that applteith.h whi 14 made tote Court of Common pleas of Bradford Conitty, or",the President .Indge thereof., fur the incorporation of, the Firy,tlstCh arch Society of - Pettlgilry, In Ridgbury lowns.htp. oCssid asextlthin.art• the mato tenahee of the pub. tic "mishit, of God In accordance with the rotes an(l,4llsciptine of the Baptist. Church. • .• DAVID I. ARlsi JMINU. Mcl EE, - • 14OREITT CL ARKS. WM: O. GO,%ZALES, E., M.TIiTON .12tdcb4ry, Soc. 27, 1879=1;1: I • HAIX FORsi r SALWAN . D FARM LLOne mile east of Burlington Borough. Bradford couitty, Peun'a (one'of the best In the nn Sugar Creek ; containing, SO acres, mere or jess;l• young orchard, eserlasting .tiprings, good house atul other outbuildings. lingo ire. for partic- Wars o 4 premises (Knapp fartn), or of 11. 11, Knispp.:Waverly. S. Send "in your bids early. 'ovember 27,-187a•tvd. . 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Frankyn Street, Boston; Maas FOR - THE PRESIDENTIAL • • • THE LE4D74. , YG .11rEtue.1 , .v . trSPAI:4T.R THE NEW-YORK TRIBUNE' MR 1880. , ,:During.the coming Presidential year Tits Tot- Bukt will Lea more etreotive agency than ever for telling the news best Worth knovring, and fii,r,eu forcing str:tid '"Yroni the - - day Aim war closed it has been most anxious for an end of sec tional strife. But it saw two years ago, an* was the first persist.ntly to prpriahn the new dangerlto. the country front the reviled alliance of the Solid South and Tau/runny •-.A pine; that danger it . sought to rally the old party of Freedom anti the' Union. It began by demanding the Ahta.kinneli4 of persona; r.t . lsllk es. and Net the example. It called for an end AO attacks upon each other instead of Ito' enemy: antll , ,r the ; heartiest agreement upon whatever itt candidates the majority - should plit up against the eunittiori r6e. sine,. -then the tide of di.iaster• bat been, turned hack ; every doubtful State has been won, and tke omens for National victory were never more olieerfng. • . Tiff. Tntr..N rE•s rosivN o'. , 2 85 , 1 25 4 7.3 3 so 2 50. 1 23 8-00 . 25 ,Of Tilt Mint's:F.'s share in all those speak. most, erithri...fastically ivhn have . seen 1n0;..t of rho struggle. - °lt „will - faithfully portray the ,carying pha.se3 campaign now . beginning. earnestly` strive that the party of ,Freedom, Union anti the, Vul, le Faith may select the notn s.nrest tO win. anti surest to make'a good 11,restdent. LEttrt in this crisis It can 'concelve of nominaiqon this paity.couktiinakethat would not be. pre Wiable to the - best that could possible be supported by thu Solid South anti Tammany Tilt Tlituffs.it: is now spending more labor and tuoney than.ever,before to hard the distinction it haS !jug ealayetiof a rgegt etrcrilatiwva!a.n cy 'the bud people.: I t , Sv etllred,i and IIII:111/S to lIet:11 , / It. by becoming the medium of the 'best thought and the voice or the - best conscience C.)f the fire. by k&eping abreast of the highest - progress. favoring , the freest 41scassion, heariiig.4lll sides. appealing atWay 3 to - the finest Intelligence and - the Incest morality. and refusing , to cater to the st this' vile or lie prejudices of the ignorant'. . FEATURES. • • The disilnvtlye - . features 'of TM:. Tr:Mrs:lZ .ate. known Its everybody. It gives ail the S. It has the I. , St cocrespCmtlept,, and retains tin na rroni year tee year. It is the only paper that 'talus a special telegraphic wire of Its O, A befWe , l2 .Its onice anti Washington. its scientific. literar, firtistie anti rcluVous 'lntelligence is the ftille:47. Its book reviews are the best. Its commercial 41 d Altianci.l re..ws is the ntest exact. Its typ • .is ti 0 largest; and its arrangement the Most Near the Depot • . THE SE.MieiffE TINEE'srE( t% by far the moat successful tOentl , : tWeekly 'the country. having tour time. the clrenlatinh vt any ',Aber to .titew-Poi U. It to opeolaPy telapted to tlid large claw of lutelllgetito prorcooienal . or huoiness rer.ders ton far font Nov-York to dopend WI our papers for the. dally tteov§, whoneverthe'l&s want the - caitorials, cortesrmlente, book revien—., sewn-. nib , matter, leetareo, nterarr tutsecfanr, eta., for ivlrlch." Tit Itt TI:11,112,:ii: is Linton.. Like THE WEEALY It routalito slxteeut pages, and I a In ewe. veutent torn' for binding. • THE WEEKLY TIHI3tIE -. remains the great faVorlte . of 01 nleo.4t:11311:11 try pcipnlatiora and has '-the largest rime stir of any Weekly iskted from the oelce or a Daily Fepor to New-York, or. so far as we know, In the ratted States. It re-vbs.:3 and condeni , es all- the ni.ws.of tho Meek Into .readable thape. Its agricultural department ts 'lnorkieare fully c.nuriwted than and It ha; ait,ay ilet.»' C1 , 11,1th.3 CO for be.t. 'market reports are the (Metal standard for the Dairytfien's Assisiatiou, and have long;lieeti the. authoritv Oft catrie..lgrain and g.•;.eral country proilifee. here 'aro site - dal flepartment.s for thn young. and to household Interests; the new handiwork departitient, aireadyektretnelym.Mar. gives' iinusuany ae.larate and comPrefirrisise in structions In knitting, cri.s , iietlng, and ; kin-lr, rt subjects; ,white Owtry.-fietilin and the humors 1 - 4 the day are ati aim:id:luny supplied.. eriiiet of the ; ietis of th.7 . l3.anlis of Mil trailerwho in iv” returti.l to It dur.ibt: the pass: year is that :Ivy rand it better than, lintthslttg ,pationage nil facilities enable to to reduce the rite; t!, the lowest paint we have ever touched. anirtn.tilfer the' Itift+C auttiztug priiiniym yet git.eti, 4s toilews.: • IIAIi.YTIIiIsuNF.: one yc , r ' 4 % P,t9 t.O TILE - SEAI•WF.EKLY TRIP:T.SE. pz 00 .. 2 30 eat s li VO v;C:h Single :copy, oke year Fly . e envies, orte car Ten cople, one ;year. Single cony, one year Five copies, erica year Ten copies,- one pear. Anr number of comes of either vatijon above at the same rite. Additions to dram may bo at any time at club ratt.s.' Remit by Draft tin,"&eic...l, York, 1'031,00/co Order, or in Reglctere!! Ntte'r. ; To .auy,one hebnrrillifli: for, THE. Tot . - att - nit fur fide years. remitting u, l 0 ,. amt,l l 2 more. we will 'send PlamtißTVA Kncyclop:c dld.. unabridged, In fultrtetfti IralutneA..wiln all £1,,, reel 'ono of the Edinburgh tiellaion of 3,47 e, and WitOotia additional %0111111. n. cdvertng American. tnpiel, not fully treated In Ow original work :--the w tittle e tubraci lig, by art n al prin turs ; !newel renicnt, twelve per cent. more matter thatV'Appleton , ,, ctorgrdta, which sell,. for g. , 0 he 15,000 trad ers who procured front on ibt•Webit.trUnaieldged premium we treed only Nay that wh;te this odes: iA Crigionore,riber tl, ire shalt carry it on; Ut a 1n34. ner evally saiisfaCtory.., The ri/iloWillg are the aerials in detail; • t ' , CFI A3t.FMIW:i ENCYCLOP-:DIA.. A I.thrttry of Untversal Knowledge, li votal,lth additions 'on 'Ameriesii , For 812. i " 1 , 14 ,,, 4 s s , elgi r ate e,1,,,,. :1 , 0 rot'_- In 1 . -- ' . alb.stibstantlally bound in cloth. and Ttt.n. Wr.A.auv, Tutuuttr, a year, to, - one tabscriber. . -. - CII.I3IIF.It . S'S ENCYCLOP.Itni .1, *For ffilS. 2e1• 1 9,713... as above., and .Tut : 4 1.:mt- WitaKtir TultiVan 5 years. - i CIIA.IIP.F.RS•ti rn):(tYttLOP.ltill A. Foe 8113. <2O vols., as,, abovkt .. and ten copies of ((tnt ati.g.f.irLY Thlist:str..eue year. . ,Cli At ItEitS'S ENCYCLOP.N,i)IA, For $27.' " . 20 yids.. as above, and 214opies of Tun A' iiKLY Tut nua'S, midyear: • i ' - CliA3l - 11ERS'i ENCYCIAOP.EI)I,4, For $20., 20 vtils, as above, and TIME 1).‘11.1 TIMM NE two years. - . •, . _ The boot:swill in all cases be, sent at ihe soh scilher's eart 7 nse, but with no charge for parking. We shall begin sending, them iit the order In w ld , lt intbscrlytlons have been received on the ISt of t an toty, when certainly five, and perhaps-sic. volumes will he ready, and shall send, theneeforward,• by express or mall, as subscribers may direct. 'rho puhlleathot wlllyontntne at trio rat., o f neo eo;ennus pei mouth, concloilitig lii September next. - A Magnificent Cift. - Worcester's O'relt Una6rt,dirtil Dictinstar'y Fr.! , TIT THE NE- ORK TIMIUNE will send at_ ant, scribers expefiselor freight, or deliver in New York City . .. pee,: Worcester's Gast Unabridged Quarto lihtstnsted Ittettonary, tx.ond in sheep. edition or 1579, the rely latest and rery beat edis tlon ot that grtat.work. to any 000 remitting $lO !lir a single yeais' subacriptien in ad an c. /or Ilya oho year subscriptions_ to- Tilt: WEEKET;or. - $l5 fors stogie lire yeltv subscription in ad vart: , e, or five one - year a se Options to TIIE WEEKLY. or, $5O for a single three years' subaerif'dion In ail -.,vancetoTllE UAILY - For ow froTher extra tlu Itictlottaryt can be seri! by mall to any part ot the I:nitel States, same tot short distances the eTIOr.9 141131t1e11 eheapers, Address., TUE IFItIIIII.'N E. 'Now -Tor It . - • - - I Vent jthvertionnents. FOR 1880 oeR Ammuc4.y.Aii...l7sTs. CONCORD PIC-xIC•DAYS. ericr'J+► the Starry liesvea• 1 I TOPTIS of The Tribuoe. P•ortirge F'i At in Cy: enitf.l St•tero THE WEEKL,Y TIIIX NE . . Amazing prerniurii: $771 1 :7t"1,1,,"."5c.7 1 ,1 . -"aggr.',V, f t i 4l. , 7i t ! , 11 6 . 00,. i SO cash , 100-e5