clumsy Mania Legislature. CLOSE OF 'YESTERDAY'S rßocEnnoros..] Smvern —Afternoon Session.—An act relative to licenses of foreign insurance companies was con sidered. The thirteenth section of this bill authorizes the District Attorneys of each county to examine the books of each insurance company doing business in the county, and to repoo the Ban:L(1_10_1110 Auditor-General. Mr. Lowry stated that the work was now done by District- Attorney Mann, of Philadelphia, and that an amendment which he was about to offer would save the State about $25,000 per annum. He then offered an amendmentmaking it the duty of the Auditor-General to appoint a skillful person to examine any licensed agent transact ing insurance business in this State and his books. Such examiner to receive an annual salary /of $2,000, and the Attorney-General shall enfdree the pent/hies of this act against those who/vio late its provisions. Mr. Lowry's amendment was lost by 9 „ayes to 18 noes. All the Philadelphians voted "no." Mr. Connell moved that the act (giving the ex amination to the county district attorneys, and paying them 5 percent. on, sums under $5,000, and 2 per cent. on sums over $5,000) ehould not take effect until November 80, 1868. Mr. Lowry stated that District Attorney Mann received about $14,000 per annum for the work, and that it was jobbed out for $2,000. Also, that if the amendment of Mr. Connell was agreed to, the present high salary would be continued dur ing the present year. at an extra,_expense to the State. The Senate, by a vote of 16 to 12, agreed to go into Committee 4 the Whole,to insert the amend ment of Mr. Csnnell. All the Philadelphians voted aye. Mr. Lowry declared that there was an Infamous Wrongln thls matter; that the salary of District- Attorney Mann for the service was exorbitant, and that tha proposed legislation was directly against the interest of the Commonwealth. The measure, he believed, would pass, because it was "set up" in the Senate. Mr. Connell said that District-Attorney Mann had done his duty, and that the aceounts should be brought up to close the fiscal year on Novem ber 80. Mr. Shoemaker sakfthat the amendment would coat the State $5,525. Mr. Connell's amendment was agreed to by 18 yeas to 13 nays. All the Philadelphians voted yea. The Rouse till authorizing the State Treasurer to refund to the National Banks the tax levied upon them by the act of 1866, and which was pronounced unconstitutional, passed. - _ Mr. Stinson called up the House bill legalizing all marriages heretofore contracted between par ties within the degree of affinity prescribed by 'the act of 1860, and legitimizing the children. Passed. The Senate bill allowing Stockholders of Bridge companies one vote for each share of stock, passed. The Senate bill prohibiting the sale of ginger pop and other exhilarating and intoxicating be verages within two miles of any camp meeting was defeated. 31r. Shoemaker called up the House bill re pealing the Sunday liquor law passed in 1867, which was passed and sent to the Governor. The House bill allowing insurance companies to transact business in other States passed. The Senate bill authorizing city and borough councils to provide for the inspection of milk passed. The House bill making eight hours a legal day's labor, after July 1 2 except for farm or ag ricultural labotyor service by the year, month or week, allowing such overwork or compensation as may be agreed on, passed. HousE.—Senate bill authorizing and directing the recorders of deeds in the several counties of this commonwealth to record the discharges of all honorably discharged officers ,and soldiers passed finally. Senate bill for the protection of sidewalks upon public roads and unincorporated towns and villages passed finally. House bill, supplementary to an act imposing additional taxes for State purposes,and to abolish the revenue board, approved April 30, 1861 (ex empting all manufacturing . , mining and quarry ing companies that pay a capital stock from the payment of any additional tax on net earnings or income). Mr.McCamant (Rep.), of Blair, moved to amend by providing that this bill shobld take effect on the Ist day of November next. After some discussion the amendment was agreed to. Mr. Thorn (Rep.), of Philadelphia, opposed the bill because it would reduce the revenues of the State $242,000. Mr. Mann (Rep.), of Potter, said that after all the pretended retrenchment and reform, it now required nearly five million dollars, annually, to support the government. Where was the money to come from? Yet here was a bill calculated to disarrange the whole financial system of the State, and it was asked for by rich corporations. Pass this bill, and this $250,000 would have to be taken from the laborers of the country by direct taxation. Pass this bill, and the tax on real es tate would have to be re-imposed. Mr. MeCamant—Do you think this tax on net earnings, in addition to the tax on capital stock, - is just? Mr. Mann—l do. The workingmen already pay an unjust proportion of the taxes. Mr. Smith (Rep.), of Allegheny, favored the bill, because by the present burdensome system of taxation in Pennsylvania, foreign corporations could afford to build locomotives and other ma chinery at greater advantage than could our own manufacturers, who are not now able to compete 'with other States. Mr. Chalfant (Dem.), of Montour, said that to meet the appropriation bill as it stood, it was Thought necessary to scoop out the sinking fund. The Legislature had repealed the tax on real estate—but it had been found necessary to put the burden upon country taxation. Now here was a proposition to take over $200,000 more from the State revenue, at the sacrifice of the ag ricultural and laboring classes of the State. Mr. Linton (Dem.), of Cambria, favored a re duction of the revenues, because by keeping these revenues at a high figure the Legislature was encouraging largo appropriations. Mr. , Mann replied that all the money now in the Treasury was appropriated to pay over-due bonds. Mr. Linton denied that the whole amount de rived from this source of taxation was more than , $120,000 annually.. Mr. Nicholson (Rep.), of Beaver, called the attention of the Douse to the fact that on the fast of December last the balance In the Treasury was $1,782,065 27, and that there was due on loans by the first of July next $l, 866 .134 88, be ing a deficit of $81,569 61. The bill as amended was then defeated—yeas 17, nays 60. Senate bill to amend an act to provide for the incorporation of insurance companies, approved April 2, 1856. Mr. Riddle (Rep.), of Allegheny, moved to amend ry providing that the capital stock of all fire insurance companies incorporated by the Courts may be divided into shares valued at from $lO to $5O each,ss to be paid on subscription and the balance when the Court may direct. Agreed to, and the bill passed finally. Senate bill relative to railroad companies (pro. 'aiding that all companies merging prior to the act of May 16, 3861, shall have all the powers of com p:inlets merging subsequent to that act). Passed finally. Adjourned. .Afternoon Session.—Senate supplement to, an act to incorporate the Plate Glass Insurance Company of Philadelphia, approved April 12th, 1867, (tiring the capital of the company at $125,000). Passed finally. Senate bill Incorporating the West Philadelphia Improvement Association. Defeated. The Senate bill extending to the Twenty-first Ward the provisions of the act relative to the p_aving of footways in the Twenty-first and Ts entv-second Wards (the bill was borrowed from the Clerk's •desk .by a member, and never returned, so the House could not consider the bill afterwards). Passed finally. The Senate bill incorporating the Central Trunk Railway from Jameston west six miles. Passed. The Senate bill allowing the School Directors `of Conshohocken, Montgomery county. to bor. row money for school buildings, not exceeding $15,000. i'assed. - The Senate supplement to au act consolidating the city of Philadelphia, prohibitieg the °awaits town, and Perkiomen Turnpike from erecting a tollshouse and other obstructions in the strots of Philadelphia. Passed. The Senate bill prolonging the charter of the Berthnun Building Association. Passed. The NM vacating a part of the Monument road, Twenty-fourth Ward. Passed. Cl~The Senate supplement to an act consolidating Philadelphia in order to promote the supply of water to the said city and legalizing the purchase of certain ground._ hissed. The Senate supplement an act incorporat ing the Exchange Compan', regulating the man ner of voting by stockholders. Passed. The Senate bill reviving the act Incorporating the New Hope, Doylestown aid Norristown Railroad / Company was objected to by Mr. Josephs./ The Senate bill incorporating -the__Twenty— fourth Ward Market Company passed. The Senate Bill incorporating the American Publishing Company passed. The Senate bill incorporating the Pennsylvania Millk Compaßy for the purpose of supplying milk and cream to the citizens of. Philadelphia 'and vicinity passed. The Senate bill authorizing the African Episco pal Church of St. Thomas, in Philadelphia, to sell certain real estate, passed. The House bill, authorizing •the Seventeenth and Nineteenth Streets Passenger Railway to ex tend the tracks on those streets, passed. The Senate bill repealing the act establishing criminal courts for Dauphin, Lebanon and Schuylkill, passed. The Senate bill, authorizing railroad corpora lions and common carriers to provide means of indemnity against personal injury or loss of life, was passed. Adjourned. The Leaves of the Tree were for the Healing of the Nations. We have published the celebrated medical advertisement of Dr. H. T. Helmbold. Pre vious to doing so, we have received a moderate reward is the usual way, of payment, which We apply to all the wares, wants add business cards we present to our readers. It is our cus tom to examine everything , thoroughly which we offer through our columns, and to refuse all that we cannot commend. Now, as our readers know we never do anything by halves, they can readily infer that when a gio-called medical advertisement occupies a whole page in the Church Union, we mean something by it. It is not our purpose to dodge or tergiver sate, or wink at any such thing. We have no managing agent who smuggles into one column what is boldly condemned in another. The Gettysburg asylum swindle came to us; we judged not by feeble sense, popular disfavor, nor by Congressional action, but we examined for ourselves, and no money in the world could buy one inch of' the Church Union to com mend it. Precisely the same course we pur sued towards Helmbold's btlehu. We had seen it everywhere; it haunted our vision on rock, mountain and curbstone; in the cars, on steamboats, and by the wayside, we saw this omnipresent specific advertised. We never-gave-It a thought—never condemned it, never commended it; did not rush in the face of prejndieCs, and cry out quack! quack! We knew nothing of it; had other, and, we thought, more important subjects for contemplation, than this wonderful medicine. So when it came up for our consideration, we determined to investi gate for ourselves. As we do in theology, so do we in medicine—never ask, "What does ,Dr. so and so think, or say, or surmise?" If it is wrong, all the world may espouse, yet let our right hand forget its cunning; and our tongue cleave to the roof of our mouth, if we waver one atom our devotion. lilt be right, not even the fact that a host commend, and a fortune is being made out of it, shall keep us from fidelity to it. For there be many men so mean in this world that they will never advocate a good thing if anybody gets a good living by it. We know of men who wont hear Henry Ward Beecher preach because he lives in a brown-stone front, and manages to keep the wolf from the door, quite easily. Just so with Dr. Helmbold; because he is making a fortune by his enterprise, we cannot bend our selves to the mean task of condemnation and wholesale slander. There is something about the man you' like at once. He is no quack. A quack is an empiricist, who tampers with disease, by applying remedies he knows nothing about. Dr. Helmbold is an educated man; he is frank in every respect; readily lays before you the ingre dients or vegetable compounds of his medicine. The very processes of distillation are perfectly patent; there is no diabolical decoction or com pounding of elements that arc vile, and,of course, secret. Everything is open and above-board; what he does .he knows; you cannot be in his establishment three minutes without . seeing that he is a man who knows what he is about, All the world may know that the medicine he sells eo largely all over the world, is the very best diuretic known: It is in strict accordance with the text at the head of this .:article. It is but the leaf 01 a shrub or tree, gathered by the wild Hottentots. and has been known for many years. Many others have used, and bear ample testimony to its usefulness. We dare any unprejudiced physi cian to test its virtues and not yield to its su perior merit. There are other ingredients, as his advertisement shows. And now having a good thing, devoted to it with an enthusiasm which bespeaks honesty at once, what can we say, what need we say? The diseases treated are, some of them, peculiar and fearful; but did Our Saviour shrink from • the loathsome leper, becausd the world did? The buchu is a specific remedy, and ought to go over all this world, if it is what any seien lift man can prove it to be. Believing it to be a blessing, we have allowed it place, and shall do ii again, and for any and every good thing. As a toad or a viper, would we shrink from error of evil; whether of Church or State; but every good thing we advocate. Let the insane man who cries out quack at everything medicinal, pause, reflect, and come to his senses. Quackery is em pirical, but such is not the buchu; nor of such is the enterprising and enthusiastic man who is bound to succeed, because he wields right. Suc cess to the buchu. Let the leaves of the tree be for the healing of the nations.—Cluireh Union, March 21. About Consonants. [From the Boston Traveller.) The best abused things within our know ledge are the English consonants. They are c lipped, and smothered, and dropped, and utterly ignored, as things of little or no value i n speaking the English language. And yet. in point of fact, they constitute the more per manent and important parts of the language. Without them the language would be utterly unintelligible, either spoken or written. Most of the vowels might be dropped from the written language, and yet the meaning be quite intelligible of most words and sentences. Just as it was with the Hebrew, without vowel points, as it was anciently written. Let every one try the experiment; take a sen tence and write out the vowels of every word; and then attempt to read it. After that let him write out the consonants •of the same sentence, without a single vowel, and ho will find it quite possible to make out the sense of , the passage. The con sonants are to the spoken English what corner posts and sills and studs are to a wooden building. They give form and dis tinctness and beauty of outline to the build ing. But many of our public speakers treat the consonants as nuisances, which they are justified in abating by every convenient means. Final consonants—the very corner poets of words—are particularly ill-treated; many speakers give no utterance whatever to these important letters, especially if two of them end a word. In private conversation this is bad; but in public speaking it is intol erable. The dropping of the final consonant sound renders words and entire sentences ut terly unintelligible to hearers, Most speakers fancy that they are to be heard by their loud speaking. And so, if auy one complains that he cannot understand what a speaker says, ho thinks he must go to shouting, in order to be heard. But he makes a great mistake. Let him speak in a moder ate voice, enunciating his syllables, and giv ing as perfect utterance as possible to his consonants, and he will be heard with entire distinctness by those who will get little, but sound when the speaker hallooes to him. A deaf old gentleman of our acquaintance sometimes complained to his minister that he could- not bear what strange preachers " ,said. But why not ?"his pastor -asked. " They speak a great deal louder than I do !" "Yes, they speak too loud; I can hear nothing but noise," was the reply. The fact was—and it is true of most loud speakers—they depended on their vowel sounds for making their hearers under stard what they had to say, and these ) with- THE DAILY EVENING BULLETIN.-PHILADELPHIA, THURSDAY, APRIL 2.1868. out consonant sound., are mere noise. Let those who have occasion to speak in public --and who is there In these days who has not sometimes occasions of this ' kind—let them try the experiment of giving the consonants their due; and our word for it, they will find their account in it; a moderate . volume of voice will suffice for their work, and the evi dent comfort and satisfaction of their hearers will reward them richly for their underta king. The London Exanzincr, in the course of a literary review, tells this story : "Some five-and-thirty years ago or more, we recol lect hearing, from the lips of the then cur-a tor of Hunter's noble museum in Lincoln's-inn Fields, the interesting particulars of the way in which John Hunter, not his brother Wil liam, became possessed of the body - of' the celebrated giant, whose skeleton, if our memory does ript play us false, was said to be eight feet three inches high. We recol lect being strongly impressed with the idea that the skeleton wo were approaching to examine was that of a tall man between those of two children, such being the relative pro portions between O'Brien and the skele tons right and left of him. Upon taking a nearer view we found that those which had appeared to be children were in fact the skeletons of men at least six feet high. But to our story, which Mr. Clift, as distinguished for his scientific acquirements as for his love and care of the splendid mu seum of which he was the honored curator, narrated to us. He was also, we should add, a man full of anecdote, and only too happy when pouring out the stores of an exceeding ly retentive memory. He told us that John Hunter had long determined that O'Brien's skeleton should grace and enrich his museum, The giant became aware, before his death, of Hunter's designs upon his anatomical frame, and with a view to defeat these, left by his will a distinct command that his body should be weighted and cast into the sea. His com mands were faithfully fulfilled by his execu tors, and his body launched into the deep somewhere about the Nore. Men were im mediately employed b 3 John Hunter to fish for his remains, and within a fortnight the precious prize was hooked and transferred to the museum, which it has ever since en riched." In the name of God, Amen! I, Timothy Doolan, of Ballyclownderry, in the County of Glare, farmer, being sick and wake on my legs, but of sound head arid warm heart:— Glory be to,God !—do make this, me first and last will, and ould and new testament; and first, I give me soul to God, when it plazas him to take it; shure no thanks to me, for I can't:help it thin, and my body to be buried in the ground at Ballydownderry Chapel, where all my kith and kin that have gone before me and those that live antler me, be longing to me are buried. Pace to their ashes and may the sod rest lightly on their bones. Bury me near me god-father, Felix °Flaherty, betwixt and betwene him and me father and mother who lie separated all together, at the other side of the Chapel Yard. I lave the it of ground, containing 10 acres—rale ould Irish acres— to me eldest son Tim, after the death of his mother, if she lives to survive him. My daughter Mary, and her husband Paddy °Regan are to get the white sow that's going to have twelve black bonifs. Tady, me second boy, that was .killed in the war in Amerikay, might have got his pick of the poultry, but as he is gone, I'll lave them to his wife who died a wake Before him. I be queath to all mankind the fresh air of Heaven, all the babes of the sea they can take, and al/ the birds of the air they can shoot. I lave to them all the sun and moon and stars. I lave to Peter Rafferty a pint of potheen I can't finish, and may Gnd be merciful to him. American Books Published in 1867. The American Publisher and Book seller says that there were published in this country last year, 1,773 books. From this number are excluded 335 pamphlets, 11 new perhdicals, 5 maps, and a large •number of reprints of English and foreign works. In cluding all these the total was 2,121. Of the whole number 385 were for young people. Classified according to subject, 741 were fic tions; 258 related to religion and theology; 107 to history; 120 were poetical; 121 legal; 70 medical . ; 74 were narratives of travel and graphical treatises; r 0 belonged to the department of belles-lettres; 31 to thit of fine arts; 142 were devoted to the me chanic and useful arts; :32 to social science; sto education; 17 to amusements; 25 to philosophy and morals; 21 are indirectly set down as scientific; 3;i discussed the question of government; biography and genealogy in cluded 10:1 works; learned literature 23; there were 11 new periodicals started, and :14 publications described as "other books" were issued. AWARDED THE PRIZE MEDALS, 30,000 Francs !! 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