Ntadford ftpMet 'Toitrsuida, Pa., Feb. to, T . .Greenbackers meet in Chicago in to Conn a. new aiganintiou to be Walled the . P.x t ple's party. Tun Kentmity Congressmen, with the exception of Senator Saar, have joined In a request to President Gamma) to give Jose B. Bowiwt; of that State, a place in his cabinet. A sm. has been introdnoed in the Leg islature to repeal the present Jury Com missioner law, and place the selection of Jrirors in the hands of County Commis- sioners. THE Senate Pinata) Committee has re ported in favor of a 5-20 loan at 3,} per cent. interest, this .being an advance of one-half per cent. over the rate which - the House regarded as sufficient. REPRESENTATIVE liVaLsa," of &Amyl kill county, has introduced a bill to COM 'pel coal operators to have ambulances at the mines for,the conveyance of sick or injured persons to their homes: THERE seems to be but little doubt but A that tramps are carrying the smallpox disease about with them. Undoubtedly they have carried the • disease to Allen town, to Bethlehem and other poinui where it is-now causing consternation. TIME Makes many changes, 'and has aptly been styled a whirligig. When the Twenty-third Ohio regiment marched to the big wars. W. 11. ROSECRANS was Col onel, STANLEY 'MATTHEWS Lieutenant Colonel, and RErrnEnFonn B. HAYES Major. SOME of out Greenbackers will be inter ested in knowing that, a State convention of their party met in Reading on Wed nesday of last week, and I assed resolu tions against refunding the national-debt :and demanding its immediate payment by an enormous issue of greenbacks. TnE Governor bas - re-appointed C. L. 'EURENFELD State Librarian. Ho also; appointed the following Trustees the State Lunatic Hospital at" Harrisburg : JOHN L. ATLEE, Lancaster; TRAILL GREEN, NprthaMptoll; and W. W. JEN- NiNos - and C. BAIL . EY, Harrisburg. I THE Census Bureau, although most of ita outside work is completed, is never theless about the liveliest department in Washington. -There are still more than twelve hundred clerks employed in office work as copyists,- computerS, tallyists, messengers and; the like. Much has already. been done, but the work is far from complete. TIME: are not 'good - days for the specu lators wAiii are- planning to prey upon the public throng:: the agency of a telegraphic monopoly. - -, The current of feeling and opinion is running so strongly against thini that they are likely to be over whelmed. Several bids Tor their confusicin have already been submitted to the con sideratiOn of Congress. REi:onTs from along the Hudson, I.,be tween Poughkeepsie and Newburg, seem to show that a shock of at earthquake was distinctly felt in parts of • Ulster and Orange counties, on Thursday morning last at half•past four. It is thought by others that the supposed earthquake was canned by the.action of the frost in the Hudson river and other streams. • THE ,chances are that the position of the ViCripPreildent during the Forty seventh congiesi will - become more im portant as a c2ntroller of - legislation than ever it has been. Vice-President Awinua will find responsibilities resting upon him that will test both his statesmanship, his pati , iOtism, - and therefore in a large de gree, his devotion to the Republican party. Tns New York Board of Health has adOpteff an ordinance which inflicts a pen - alty of 12.50 and a poskble six months imprisonment upon any and l all persona issuing invitations to the funerals of per sons who have died of contagiOus diseases. This is a good-move. -Such diseases are often spread' in a community; and much suffering caused by thoughtlessness in this partieular. Orr of . 82,532 firms doing business in Pennsylvania dUring the_ yeaf 1880, there was only 422 failures, 131 of - -which were in Philadelphia. In 1879 there was 711 failures and in 1878, 1,027. Thisdemon strates that our country prospering rapidly Mad trade reviving. i_During 'the last fifficars the - amount (Cliattilities of failing, firms in this Statit in - ached the im mense sum of 1f109,030,944 - . Tns Forty-Seventh; ConiresaCwill be memorable for its cases of cuptested seats, more of which are announced than in any previous Congress for yelp. Only one Feat, that of MONF.V, Wili4ko un contested from the State' of Mississippi. loUr seats from Alabama will be contest ed —three from Louisiana—three from South Carolina—two from Virginia, and two, if not three, from North Carolina. Orrat *35,000,000 were brought to• the United States last year by - foreign immi grants. This ought to be sufficient to compensate for what is lost, by the influx of pauper iinmigrants, and: probably it does, but it unfortunately happens that the community which supports the pau pers profits nothing by the thrift and prudence of the provident. The latter go West, upon their arrival at Castle Gar den, while the former stay close to port. Tun Indian-school at Carlisle Barracks, this State, has 110 boys and 44 girls. When it was started more than 100 of them had never been inside of s school of-hotute, and . when brought there won) covered with vermin. After three and a half months the boys cuuld recite fairly in geography and arthmetic. They learri the use of, tools as readily as white child ren and some have already become good wagon-makers, blacksmiths, carpenters and shoemakers. ALL over the country the ice harvest has been unusually large. :k9n the' Hud son, down in Maine, ii,..rywh&e, in fact, the• compantis have been hard at work cutting and storing ice of the first quality, and ranging' in thkkness from fifteen to twenty inch.* Every Ice house is full already, and more privets houses than,usual have been packed. Stores of privets_ families, who newer thought of storing ice before, have improvised houses • and filled them.,. 1 11,xt .... price of ice, next imrtairdt ought to be loiter . than it hai been for many years. The - Cpera. lions Of the companies have not limn divs turbed even by the accustomed letiittil , lac CBE Waityna or not ,hmasylunis is to be represented in the new (*bind is a point in dispute. Run= said a few day" awe that Senator CAMIROX had been asked by the Prcsident elect to name a Pennsylvar nian for the place, and had accordingly submitted three names, either of whip, he declared -would be acceptable to the, people . of the State. This is now being vigororudy contradicted. The fourth of March will soon be here, hoirever, and and then all doubt respecting who will be 'president Geniis:Ws constitutional ad visers will be set at rest. " SENATOR WALLACE has introdncid a 'constitutional_ amendment proposing 'change in the mode of electing a Presi dent, . by ,direct vote of the people:. It proposes 'io• divide each State into as many districts as it has Senators' and Representative; in Congress, and each district to have one vote for . Presidenl:. The returns to be canvassed by State offi (sera and their decisiln to final. The two henses.of.Congress to declare the re sult iu joint convention. This embodies the - pricciple of minority representation in the votes of the several States. - Tus, lottery pep are up to all sorts of devices to entrap the unwary and gullible public. Lately they have been publish ing in such paperi us admit their adver tisements an account of a man who twice drew very largo prizes in the Louisiana State Lottery. We do not know whether such is really the fact. It is about as un likely as that the lottery is managed hon estly. In all probability 'it is the merest canard, putout for the ptiipose of en ,traping the cupidity of thelireak and.pn- :wary. The only personi w 5 have grown rich through lotteries area _swindlers who conduct them. " ; I t, } .. ' THE new Democratic 'iloctrint , now preached in the South is that the North rebelled against the State rights doctrine, as this was sought to be establishedln the I effort to maintain the true idea of a Union in the Confederacy. DEN 4tr.t. now says that if it had not been for Gin "the one, man, the rebellion of Ift6l would not , have been a failure." 'ibis is the idea with which , the Southern Democracy went into the e ff ort to establish the Confedera cy, and on this single prinCiple the Dem ocratic party of the South will be conduct ed and its Senators and,Representatives in Congress will shape their course. SEVERAL of the safes whicliwere in the fire at the recent railroad disaster at Tio ga Centre, N. V., have been sent to the Treasury at _ Washington. Etcperts are now identifying the contents. In the burnt inaslWer found jewelry, including diamonds and watches, gold and sliver coin, legal tender notes and - national bank' notes, governMent coupons andeiailroad bonilla. The coin, 'which was melted in all manner of shapes, will go to the mint as bullion. The jewelry, except the dia. afonds, is worthless. The burned, legal tender notes are being skillfully separated. Already the express company is sure of getting back $7,000 fOr these notes. Very likely every note, coupon and bond that was burned, will be ideptdied. HISTORY Or A' TIDAL WAVE In a few weeks the present Con gress will expire, by limitation, and its going will mark the total reces sion of the : _ "tidal wave " of 1874. The history - Of that tidal wave is in teresting, and may, prove instructive to politicians of any age. It has been customary with some to attrib ute that tidal wave to the policy of ' I Gen— Gatorr's administration: In fact that policy: had no more Ito do with it than BEACONSFIELD'S admin istration had in determining the re sult of the election in this country last November.l The tidal wave of 1814, which cha 'ged the complexion of the House aria led to the reversal of the majority in the Senate, follow ed as a logical result of panic 'and financial disaster. No person with any considerable knowledge of the laws of trale, regards the panic of 1'873, and the depression that fol- lowed, as due to th - policy of .any administration. Dr if any should at tribute it to' that they would be call ed upon to explain , how it came about that that policy has remained constant twit 1819 to the present moment, aid at present perMits the; country to enjoy a deirte of ''.riros--, perit never before experienced. W h depression : came discontent, which is strictly in conformity with the law, and the crowding to. the front of every financial th , Joristin the country. Every man had a griev ance and was aniious to redress it by striking at the most proininent head that presented itself. 'The Re publican patty had been in power for thirteen years. It was held respon sible for the disaster. Every ruling party must expect to be held respon sible for disasters, the causes of which are obscure to the mass of men. Hence, At the next election all the' discontented, led by demagogues as ever, joined with the opposition to obtain a redress of grievances. The result was seen in the election of a Democratic House as a first effeet: What followed is history. • , We may give the people credit for trying to Obtain redress 'by putting 11 .the Derac4;ratit in power in the House: But did they obtain redress? They did not. The policy of the government, _remains unchanged. Every - law under which the Treasury ( does its' work to-day was enacted by . a Republican Congress. All the funding measures were perfected by a Republican Congress. Resumpt,ion was effected under a law passed by a Republican Congress. Every law out oft which the financial policy of tbe administration issues to-day was en , acted 't by Republicans. What, then,,l did the country pin by the tidal , wave 44,1874 ? No man can point to a single particle of gain.. It entail ed a dead loss in time, in legislation, in prestige, and in progress. In short; the history of Congress since 1875 is a history of incapacity, and time wasted in trying to build'up the Democratic party at the expense of the country at large. The evil effects of such blind and prussionatestriking for redress of grievances will not dis, appear in, twenty years. - For the panic of' '1'879 was the logical out- ' comp of pdprilir astraveganeal The =il people thereselies invited` ft, pot u they hivitedtihat.of an 4 "gab in 1847. -1 The* w ascv e r64ai d b 9i a n d #ier'OnOdet4. ll o** l l:F i t eric Y,*l sPecilligve 4.l 4 :.? 0 : - # 7 9* did