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NEW BLOOMFIELD, PEXN'A.
Tuesday, May 1S70.
On the 23rd ult., Application was
made to the Supreme Court, at Philadel
phia, by counsel on bcluilf of several
llailroad Companies for injunctions to
restrain the revcuuc officers from assessing
and collecting an income tax from these
corporations for 1870. The bill raises
the question whether the act authorizing
the collection of this tax continues for
1870. The U. S. Dist. Att'y. appeared
for the revenue oflicers,and after some dis
cussion, it was agreed to allow the in
junction to issue for the present. After
hearing argument, a temporary injunc
tion was granted.
In financial circles the legal tenders
decision continues to be the subject oi
much discussion. Some argue that were
the present decision to stand, every sol
dier and Government contractor, whose
relations withtheGoveruiiicut commenced
prior to the passage of the Legal Tender
Act, could now collect the difference be
tween gold and greenbacks. .Several
hundred thousand men contracted with
Uncle feam betore tnat tune to serve as
soldiers for him for three years. They
were paid in greenbacks ; whereas, in ac
cordance with the chief Justice's decision
they may now call upon the Treasury for
the gold dillercnee sucli being the case
the Philadelphia Press thinks the claim
agents nave tno prospect or uriving a
brisk business for some timo to come.
A Good Law.
Among the few good laws passed by
the Legislature, is the lollowing, as it en
ables capitalists to loan money, securing
in place of interest, u portion of the pro
fits of the business in which the capital is
invested,without the restraints heretolore
existing.
Be il enacted, That from and after tlio
passage of this act it shall bo lawful for any
individual firm, association or corporation
doing business in this Commonwealth, upon
Agreement to receive a snare ot the 'prolits
of sueh business as compensation for the
money so loaned in lieu of interest ; and
sueh agreement or the reception of profits
under such agreement shall not render the
person or persons making such loans liable
as a co-partner in such business to other
creditors ot sueh individual, linn, associa
tion or corporation except as to tho money
.so loaned : Provided, That such agreement
for loan shall bo in writinir. and tiiat this
act shall not apply to any such firm, asso
ciation or corporation, or to one who holds
himself out as such, and shall not be con
strued to repeal or atl'ect any portion of the
law relating to special partnership : 1'rovi-
tied, however, That any person so loaning
money under tins act shall not hokt lumscll
.out as a general partner, so as to induce
credit to bo t-iveu to any party or parties,
Association or coriioration to whom tho said
ioan shall be made.
A BlLL has been introduced in Con
gresa to enforce the provisions of the
Fifteenth Amendment, " It provides that
citizens of the United States who are or
shall be otherwise qualified by law to
voto at any election by the people, in any
MV-it .1:...
parish, township, school district, inunici
pality, or other territorial subdivision
ahall be entitled and allowed to voto at
all such elections without distinction of
race, color, or previous condition of ser
itude, any law, custom, usage or rcgula
tion ot any State or Territory, or by or
under its authority, to tho contrary not
Withstanding. Aluo, that if tho laws of
;auy State or Territory shall require any
act to bo done as a prerequisite to voting
it shall be tho duty of the officers of the
law iu iid State or Territory to give
equal opportunity to all citizens of the
United .States to perform such prere
quisite; and aD such official failing soUo
do shall forfeit and pay $500 to tho per
son aggrieved thereby, to bo reoovercd at
lair, and in cage of conviction shall also
Jjejiued not loss than $500 and imprison-
d from one month to one year. The
offer of tiny citizen for whom sueh prere
quisite is required shall be deemed a per
formance in law of such net, it sueh act
fails to be carried into execution bv reason
of the wrongful act or omission of the said
officers charged with the duty of receiving
or permitting such peformuuco or offer.
All the officers of the Uni
ted .States Courts are required, under iv
penalty of $1000, to institute ami enforce
proceedings thereunder, and the 1 resident
is authorized to employ the land and na
val forces of the militia to enforce it ex-
cution.
A Diver Visits the " Oneida."
correspondent ol a California paper
furnishes the following report of the visit
of a diver to the United States Steamer
Oneida recently sunk by the British
Steamer Bombay. :
Od the 2-ith day of February the
borrowed" steamship Arouxin,-, with
Cli.ii les and J. S. Lougee, practical and
experienced divers lroin fcan i'rancisco
went to where the Oneida lies in one hun
dred and tweuty-fhreo feet of water
fter the usual preparation had been as
certained that the deck as the Oneid;
was one hundred and fhree feet beneath
the surface of the hay; alter every caution
had been given to eight strong sailors
to keep the air-pump constantly in motion
(lid allow not an instant ot time ftoppa
to occur, as thereby depended the lite
' tho bold diver; alter Charley Jjouuee
id been helnn ted, and shut from air,
except that supplied through that slender
tube of coiled rubber, with a life-line
around his body and leaden clogs to his
loot, with " (rood bye and ' bod bless
you lroni nil aboard lie was dropped over
the side, and slowly disappeared in the
blue waves, while a nervous tremor shot
through our frame as we realized the
fearful risk undertaken by that man who
was seeking for truth in over one leet ot
water.
Away to tho leeward, borne by tide
and wind, came floating bubbles to the
surface life signals from below. The
men at tho pump were laboring manfully,
but becoming fatigued, they attempted to
change for fresh hands, and there was a
stop, " Great God! you will murder my
brother ! Quick ! For heaven's sake,
quick !" And as the men recommenced
the revolutions of the air-pump, the elder
Lougee, with blanched face and trem
bling lip, gave a signal on tho life-liue
below. For an instant there came no re
ponse, and the face of that brother seem
ed to turn to marble ; but then wo saw
two quick motions from tho submarine
station, and knew it was the welcome sig
nal of " all right," and then Lougee turn
ed to the men at the wheel, who came ko
near sending both below and simply said
" iMy only brother s lite depends upon
your efforts in keeping that pump eon
stautly in motion stop again at your per
if. Mho oalm lace and passiouate eye
told those men not to btop again,and with
Lieutenant Tanner close by they kept at
work until stopped by orders from Lou
gee.
Meantime, while we were on the deck
of that "sand pan," counting tho tedious
moments which lengthened to halt an
hour, Charley Lougee was searching the
Oneida at the tremendous depth men
tioncd. At last came the signal for ' sur
face,' and instantly tho life line was put
in motion ; slowly came to the coilin
hemp and rubber on deck, and at last,
away in the deep blue waves came in
sight the diver, shrouded and panoplied
iu wicrd garments. As ho came up tho
surface he reached Minister BeLon
sword and a lacquered box, and then was
his. helmet loosed, and our party crowd
ed around to hear of the gallant ship.
Among our party were many ot tho Kur.
vivors of tho Oneida ; among thorn were
Wm. Crowninshield, Captain Clark, Mas
ter Yates and Dr. James Suddard, who
were intensely excited to learn the ti
dings.
By this survey the testimony of the
living is verified, and tho memory of the
dead without a stain, for the position ot
tho ship as found, and the positions of both
the Oiwitla and JJumbai, as testified to
by tho navigating officers, shows that it
was impossible for tho captain of the
Bombay to have ever seen the red light
of tho Oneida, and that the order of
' Port your helm," by Captain Eyre, was
wrong, and tho " Starboard, hard-a-star-
board" of Master Yates was right.
. T 1 TI' II . 1 . .
B3U Josji jJiinngs says that tho poor
mosquito was born ot poor, but honest.
parents, who bad iu their voins some of
of the best blood in tho country.
A TERRIBLE ACCIDENT.
A Floor Gives war Killing niid Wounding
Urer two liunurcu lersons.
A terriblo calamity happened at Rich
mond, Va., on last Wednesday, caused by
the falling of the floor of the court room,
of the State Capitol, killing and wound
ing over two hundred persons. Among
those killed are many of the influential
men of the State, so that their death is a
loss to the public, as well as to the imme
diate friends. The crowd was assembled
to hear the decision on the mayoralty case
of Ellison vs. Cahoon. The beginning of
the trouble was tho falling in of the
gallery of the court - room, which
was crowded. The floor followed, and all
thereon descended thirty feet to the floor
below, which was the floor of tho House
of Belegatcs of Virginia, on which some
few of the members of a caucus were
waiting around. There was a general
crush of all the timbers, and tho falling
of the inside wall, causing instant death
to about sixty persons, and injuring near
ly two hundred others; many of whom it
is feared will die.
Directly after the disastaster occurred
tho fire alarm was used to give notice,
and the hook and ladder companies of
the city repaired atnec to the scene. A
cordon of police was drawn around the
building, and ladders were thrown up to
the windows. For three hours tho scene
was full of horror. Minute after minute
there appeared, swung out by a rope tied
around the middle, the body of some pop
ular tavonte, who, alter being swung on
to the shoulders of one of tho fire bn-
ade, were brought down the ladder into
the green of the public Park, where it
was instantly surrounded by two or three
thousand of those who had .gathered to
recognize the slain. J. he park was tilled
with anxious weeping women and anx
ious men until two o'clock, when the last
victim was drawn from the building.
After this tho polico closed the park,
refusing admittance to any one. Tho
bodies of the dead having been sent out.
all the stores iu the city were closed, and
placards put on all the doois, " Closed in
consequence of the disaster at the Capi
tal." No more business was done dur
ing the day.
The day following all the business houses
remained closed and hunir with crape.
The streets were filled with funeral pro
cessions, and the whole city was occu
pied in the mournful duty of burying the
dead. It was impossible to obtain hear
ses enough, and furniture wagons draped
in black were used to convey some oi the
bodies to their final resting place.
l'roru various parts of the country sums
of money are being offered in aid of those
left destitute The Governor has recom
mended that Wednesday, the 14th inst.,
be observed as a day of fasting and prayer.
In 1811 the same city was visited by a
calamity fully as terrible, at which time
the theater took fire, while densely crowd
ed, and before the audience could escape,
about seventy persons were suffocated, or
otherwise injured in such n manner as to
cause their death. The accident of last,
week vividly recalls to mind the former
catastrophe.
A Kentucky Trial.
A few days ago, in IJreekinridge coun
ty, a rough rider entered a small town,
got on a spree, and assaulted a citizen of
the place. Toward evening the commu
nity determined on his arrest. Ilo was
taken before a magistrate, and his case
demanding more legal knowledge than ho
possessed, the prisoner was sent to a mag
istrate in the country for trial. The pris
oner remarked, " they had better hurry
up, as he had no time to fool around ; if
they didn t look sharp lied get on his
horse and leave." Thus admonished the
majesty of the court was brought in re
quisition and the trial proceeded. The
prisoner seemed to object to tho whole
proceeding, and observing a pistol in the
pocket of a coat hanging on tho wall he
drew it out, and as it happened to bo the
only weapon in court, held a winning
hand. 11 o requested the magistrate and
officers to dance on tho floor and conduct
themselves in a highly ridiculous manner.
AVlien ho was satisfied with the perform
ance, ho ordered the 'Squire to have his
horse brought out which he niouutod,
and then made that officer of the law
show him a short cut to the nearest main
road. Seeing a clear way out of his dif
ficulties he dismissed tho 'Squire and gal
loped off, remarkiug that ho had captured
tho pistol iu war. aud he claimed it us his
own. It is needless to say the rough ri
der disappeared from the vicinity in all
haste, and left no traco behind him, save
tho recollection of his ludicrous impudence.
Miscellaneous News Items.
fJTGold closed on Friday last, at 114 J.
t3F"The last legislature in N. Y., passed
an eight hour bill which tho Governor ap
proved. tfT A thief recently robbed a corn-crib
in Calloway county, Ky., but dropped his
pocket-book, which containud 3.1. Tho
owner has not applied for tho money.
tW A Cincinnati druggist declares that
there are no less than a thousand arsenic-
eaters in that city and immediate vicinity
mostly young women, who take tho drug
lor tho completion.
1ST A "Jam"oflogs has been formed
just abovo Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin,
which is lour or live miles long. It already
contains from forty to sixty million feet,
and is constantly accumulating.
tW Andrew J. Bander, clerk at the Cleve
land and Pittsburg Kailroail ollico at Cin
cinnati, killed his wife iu that city on
tho 28lh inst., Misconduct on tho part of
the wit'o was tho alleged cause. Bander
surrendered himself.
A Woman's Rights advocate insists that
divorced women have a right to vote under
the loth amendment, which provides that
tho right of suit rage shall not bo denied or
abridged on account of race, color, or "pre
vious condition of servitude."
W McFarland'a trial was continued on
Friday further testimony being otl'cred by
tne prosecution to prove that tho prisoner
had threatened to shoot Kichardson. After
the adjournment of the Court an unseemly
quarrel occurred between Mr. Graham and
Judge Davis.
EST" A young lady inMonson, Mass., was
recently ottered $51)0 for her hair which
lacks but half an inch of being six feet long,
On her refusing tho offer tho would-be-
purcnaser asked it 10uU would be any in
ducement, to which she replied. No, nor
$2000."
I'ly" G. A. Pickering, secretary of the
Saratoga Pavilion Spring Company, occupy
ing a room in the 1 reniont House on Uroad
way, was found lying dead in the yard of
tho hotel about one o clock on the morning
of tho 28th dressed in his night clothing.
He is supposed to havo fallen from tho win
dow of his room.
tST In Charlottesville, Va., the other
day, upon the return homo ot a party
of young ladies and gentlemen who had
been practicing at a target with pistols, one
of them, Miss Eveline Goodloe, laughingly
pointed a pistol at herself and was making
some plavtul remark, when tho pistol cx
plotted accidentally, the ball passing directly
through her heart, causing instant death.
IMF" In a village in Southern Missouri,
a few days ago, a nice young man put a
':heet around him to scare a Dutchman,
Tho Teutonic gentleman says : " I just
jump oil my wagon and vip der ghost all
the time. 1 would vip him it ho was a
whole grave-yard." Some ono asked tho
young man what ailed his black eye, and
he said he. had received bad news from
Germany.
tW Commodore Vanderbilt was arrested
for fast driving, Wednesday night anil con
lined in the Manhattan police station for
two hours before Justic McQuade found out
who lus distinguished prisoner was, when
tho gallant commodore was released, and
went Ins wav rejoicing.
We copy tho above from a N. Y. paper
and as we read it wonded if the law exem
ted certain prominent persons from liability
to it s penalties.
Frederick IUilland, tho Patterson
butcher, who was hit over the head in a
melee, and was supposed to have died in
consequence thoreof, has been cut open by
the doctors, who found that his lungs were
made of hard soapstone, which had caused
his decease. The man was gradually turn
ing hard, and had ho lived might havo ri
valed the Cardiff Giant. Kohoe, tho man
who was arrested for assaulting him, was
released, with a reprimand.
13?" John Ilandrahan, a switchman on
tho Erie Railway at tho Ilackensack river,
was found lying on the track with his head
decapitated, about half half a mile oast
of tho river. Ilandrahan was discharged
and paid oil' on tho 20th ult., the day pre
vious but when found there was no money
on his person. Tho impression is that ho
had been robbed and murdered, and then
placed upon the track so as not to excito
suspicion.
tSf" On the 25th inst., tho Auburn City
National Bank was robbed between tho
hours often and twelve o'clock, of $31,000
in greenbacks. Three persons, strangers in
town, are engaged tho in transaction, and
accomplished their purposo by the following
means :
Two of them went in at tho front door
and engaged tho only two bank officers in
attendance at tho time, one of the robbers
negotiating for revenuo stamps and the
other making arrangement to make a depos
it ol lands belonging to some orphans.
While thoy woro occupying the attention
of the two bank officials, the third robber
entered tho back window, which was open,
and going into the vault, seized a package
ol money and made his escape by tho win
dow. Tho robbery was not discovered un
til 3 P. M. A reward of 500() is offered
for tho arrest of the robbers. The surplus
of the bank is sufficient to protect against
embarrassment.
IAI3Sr KILLER.
It is a balm for every wound, our Unit physl
clans use anil recommend Its uses tlie Apothecary
Hilda ltllr.it among the medicines called for, and
the wholesale druggist considers it a leading article
In his trade. All the dealers In medicine speak
alike hi lis favor, and Its reputation as
A Medicine of Urcat Virtue,
'is fully and permanently established. It is th
FAMILY MF.D1C1NF. of the age.
TAKEN INT EltNALLY, It cures Dysentery, DI
arrluea, Cholera. Cramp, rain In the Stomach, Bow
el Complaint, Painter's Colic, Liver Complaint,
Dyspepsia or Indigestion, sudden Colds, Coughs,
Sure 'throat, &c.
TAKKN EXTERNALLY, It cures liolls Felons.
llruiscs, Cuts, Hums, Scalds, Old Sores and Sprains,
Swellingof the Joints. Toothache, l'ain in the Face,
Neuralgia, Hheuinatisin, Chapped Hands, Frost
bitten Feet, c.
rAIN Is supposed to he the lot of us poor mortals
as Inevitably as death, and liable at any tiiu
to eiiine upon us. Therefore it is Important that
remedial agents should he at hand to be used on
emergency, when we arc made to feel the excrutia-
ting agony of pain, or the depressing inilucnces of
disease.
Such a remedial agent exists In Terry Dayli
l'ain Killer," the fame of which has extended
over all the earth. Amid the eternal ices of lh
l'olar regions, or beneath the intnlciublc and bum
ing suns of the ttop.cs its virtues are known and-
ippreciated. And by it sintering humanity has,
found relief from many of its ills. The eueetot'th
l'ain Killer upon the patient, when taken internal
ly in cases ol Cough, Cold, liowel Complaint, Chol
era, Dysentery", and other aliections ol the system.
has been truly wonderful, and has won lor it
name among medical preparations thai can never
be forgotten. Us success in lemovhig pain as an
external remedy, in cases of lturns, llrinses, Sores.
Sprains, Cuts, and Stings of Insects, c, aud other
causes of sutiering, has seemed for it tne most
prominent position among the medicines of th
day, j-Hcware of Counterleits and worthless
Imitations. Call for Perry Davis' V egelabie "l'aiu
Killer," and take no other.
Sold by druggists and grocers. Prices, lie,, 50c,
and SI per bottle. April li5;lin
G. W. lilSSKLL,,
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