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NEW BL003IFIELD, PENN'A.
Tuesday, December 13, 1870.
A Total eclipse of the sun will take
place on the 22d inst. It will not bo
visible in this country.
Congress has gotten fairly to wprk
and already some important bills have
been introduced, among them, one to re
peal the income tax, from the 1st of Jan
uary next ; oue to prepare a way to return
to specie payments by prohibiting the is
sue of fractional currency in less amounts
than 25 cts after July 1, 1871, and all
denominations after Dec. 31, 1871.
President's Messago.
The President's mcssago was laid before
Congress lust week Monday. It is
much longer than was expected it would
be, and as it is impossible for us to pub
lish it in full, we give our readers a short
summary of the most important parts:
The President opens his message by
referring to the prosperous condition of
the country, and then touches upon the
success which has met the efforts for re
constructing the southern States ; Georgia
being now the only one not represented
' in Congress, and that state he expects
will be properly represented early in the
year.
The war between France and Prussia,
he says, has rendered it necessary to issue
neutrality proclamations, owing to the
large population from both of those coun
tries now residing in our midst. The
President has evidently caught the Ileal
Estate fever from Secretary Seward, and
is firmly convinced ot the necessity of
adding to our territorial limits. lie con
sequently urges upon Congress the impor
tance of purchasing San Domingo, and
suggests that a commission be formed
to see what are the best terms that it can
bo bought for. The " Alabama Claim" I ""ns, and in tue wnoi.e civilization or tne
is referred to by stating, that as yet, Hug- j country, and finally, in securing a pure
laud has shown no willingness to negotiate untrammelled ballot : that every man en
for the settlement in a satisfactory man- titled to vote may do so just once at each
ner and suggests the propriety of commis- j election, without fear of molestation or
sion'crs beinc appointed by Congress who i proscription on his political faith, color,
shall collect all claims, from private indi-
viduals and receive power to settle them.
Regarding the difficulties which are so
frequently occurring between the fisher- j
men of the TJ. S., and the Canadian au
thorities. the President thinks that the
St. Lawrence river and its outlet should j
be free to both countries which would ob-
Tiate all further trouble.
Th Riihinct of encouracins the lines of i
American steamers is briefly alluded to, I
and tho nroorietv is succestcd of aid t
being extended to enable them to compete ! creeks for tha purpose of carrying local
with foreign lines. He suggests the trans-' freights and passengers,
fer of the pension bureau from the Into-1 They propose using the Farley engines
rior, to the War Department. The j ou a narrow track, as the costs of con
amount paid for pensions during theyear j struction and equipment is only one-third
ending September 1870, was $27,780,- that of the wide gauge roads of 4 feet 8
811,11. i inches. Tho speed on these roads is
In regard to tho 'qualification for civil ! from 20 to 25 miles an hour, and freight
office, tho President makes some remarks ! can bo carried at 1 cent per ton per
which cannot fail to meat the approval of; mile and yield a handsome revenuo upon
every citizen, regardless of party. We j tho investment.
quote from the message on that subject as These roads are used extensively in
follows : Wales and in many places on tho conti-
" I respectfully call your attention to i neut, in Australia and in Canada. In
one abuse, of long standing, which I the latter place they are now building a
would like to (see remedied by this Con-; road of this kind a distance of 120 miles,
gress. It as a reform in the civil servico j The Pacific Railroad Company are em
of the country. I ployed building one a distance of ninety
I would have it go beyond tho mere miles as a tributary to their main road."
fixing of the tenure of office of clerks and ; This is the kind of a road that could
employees, who do not require the ad- J easily be built and mado self-supporting
vice and consent of the henate to make
their Drnointments complete. I would
have it govern not the tenure, but tho
manner of making all appointments.
There is no duty which so much em
barasses tho executives and heads of De-
DartmeBts. nor is there any such arduous
and thankless labor imposed on Senators
and Representatives, sb fhat of finding ,
places for constituents. 1 he present i
ystem does not f-ecure tho best men, .
and often not even fit men for public
places. ' .
The elevation and purification of the
civil service of the Government, will be
hailed with approval by the whole peo
ple of the United States."
The President approves the present
system of taxation, being evidently
impressed with the belief that this
generation should cancel the national in
debtedness, but hopes, if the people will
patiently bear their present burdens a
few years, the collection of the Revenue
can be so arranged that the visits of the
tax gatherer may bo dono away with, and
the luxuries may be so taxed that a suf-1 had to sell their farms to pay the costs,
ficieut amount may be raised from them J t-A man who was lost on he Plains,
to meet the requirements of the Govern-' and who has lived on raw fish, desiring to
lnent j vary his bill of fare, sayR he pursued a toad
We are glad to see the President has for two days but thout 8uceess
placed himself squarely in favor of a UTAboyin Franklin county, Indiana
Protective Tariff, as he succests that the lighted a match for the purposo of burning
- - - j oa
interests of our homo Mechanics be pro-1
tected against the pauper
labor of the
old countries. He calls the attention of
Congress to the importance of an increase
of the Navy, in order that the govern
ment may be enabled to properly protect
our line of sea coast, and enforce our
foreign policy. The policy of conducting j
the Indian affairs as a missionary enter
prise, has worked to the entire satisfaction
of the President and ho proclaims his in
tention of continuing the workings of
that department in the same way.
The suggestion of the Post Master
General, regarding the repeal of the
Pranking Privilege meets the hearty ' ap
proval of the President, and he urges Cou
gress to take some action on the subject.
lie declares his approval of the " Home
stead Laws" but thinks that Congress is
too liberal iu its grants of land to railroad
corporations, believing that the public
land should be reserved for the use of ac
tual fcttlers.
The number of Patents issued during
the year was 10,411.
The President closes his message as
follows :
" In conclusion, 1 would sum up the!
policy or the administration to De a thor- I
L..ipMM.nf nr. 1 n f,.;tl,rl
(.umiLwiuuiiv v. j . rt
collection ot every lax pruviuuu lor euuu-
omy in the disbursement of the same, j
prompt payment of every debt of the j
nation, reduction of taxes as rapidly as '
the requirements of the country will ad
init.- reductions of taxation and tariff
to be so arranged as to afford the re
lief tn the greatest number, honest and
fair dealings with all other people, o the
end that war, with all its blighting con
sequences, may bo avoided, but without
surrendering any right or obligation due
to us.
A reform iu our treatment ot the In-
or nationality.
(Signed) U. 8. GRANT,
Executive Mansion, Dec. 5, 1870.
yarrow Gauge Railways.
The Lebanon Courier says: "'A nuni-
Der 0p gentlemen from Reading, Lebanon,
Harrisburg and Allentown are making
arrangement to build a two feet six inch
cause railroad from Allentown via Read-
ing and Lebanon to Harrisburg, running '
along the lulpehocken and bwatara
in this county.
fitt A short time ago, a bull belonging
to Mr. Doak, of Iiriarcreck township,
fell into a well that was being dug iu
the barnyard, and a novel expedient was
resorted to in order to get him out. The
well was filled with straw, until, by lramp-
ing it down, ho gradually rose higher and
higher, and finally walked over
aud out of his prison.
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Miscellaneous News Items.
KTAn Ohio chiropodist travels in a
wagon built and painted like a human foot
with corns and bunions all over it.
tW A mail bag, containing letters for
the Washington and Pbiladephia distribu
tion offices, was recently stolon from the
mail wagon at New Haven.
tWA. wild monian has been discovered
on West Mountain, near Kcenc, N. II.
She takes to the thick woods when pur
sued. tW A couplo of farmers in Hardin county
Iowa, went to law five years ago over $25.
The suit has just ended, and both farmers
a bug. Ho succeeded in burning his father's
barn. 1 lie rate ot tuo Dug nas not Deen as
certained. t3T A physician in Toronto has sued a
newspaper of that place for asserting that
he was "formerly a coachman." The sum
of $20,000 damages, he thinks, will heal
his wounded reputation.
t3F"Miss Addio Miller, of Washington
Mich., lias sued her brother-in-law, the
Rev. J. L. Wicker, for breach of promise
to marry, estimating her anguish at $10,
CC0. .
tW Judge Fisher of Missouri, has de
cided that a white man who had been liv
ing with a negro woman before emancipa
tion and after, was under the laws-and
Constitution of the State of Mississippi, her
lawful husband.
IS" Messrs. Willits & Wilson, faimeic
in North Hempstead, raised this season
2,400 barrels of squashes on eighteen acres
of land, for which thep received over $10,
000. They also cultivated eighty-five acres
of cabbages, and received over $22,000.
t3$ A girl of fifteen years, daughter of
David Myers, a well to-do farmer, of Field
i township, Jefferson county, Illinois, com
j mitted suicido, recently, by stabbing herself
i through the abdomen, because her parents
' objected to her receiving the attention of
. a young man of the neighborhood. .
C3T Samuel II. Ross, a wealthy farmer
of Kno county, O., sent a letter and fonr
Papers in one envelope, not long ago, put-
ting lour cents iu stamps tnereon. mst
week he settled for the rest of the postage
duo with the United States Court m Cleve
land, and it cost him $109 80.
A man by the name of Farley, at
Rockport, near Clevf land, sold his property
for $10,000, put the money in a belt about
his person, and started for Tennessee to
buy l'nd, on the night express train. He
fell asleep near New London, and on
waking at Crestline, found himself divested
of the belt and money-
tT Mrs. John Miller, of Oakland, Alle
ghency county, Md., recently presented her
husband with four children at one birth.
At last accounts the mother and children
were all doing well. The neighbors have
presented the mother with a purse of
$300.
Hf Benjamin Howard, aged 82 years,
was found murdered on Saturday morning
near his dwoling, threo miles from West
port. Mass. Ho was shot through the body
and bis head and right leg had been cut oil'
wiih an axe. He lived alone. An attempt
had been made apparently, to bury the
body, which was found in the woods.
tW The hunters of Siberia, when hard
pressed by hunger take two thin pieces of
board, we are told, and placing oue on the
Eit of tho stomach, and the other on the
ack, gradually draw together the extrem
ities and thus allay, in some degree, the
cravings of appetite. A similar practice is
known among the South Sea Islanders.
This is supposed to be a very economical
kind of board,
tWA man entered a houso at Lake
View, Illinois, the other night, and made
a stirring impromlu discourso, in which he
exhorted the inmates to fly to heaven with
all possible haste, in order to save them
selves from imponding doom. He then pro
ceeded to assist them out of the world, and
had injured several very seriously before
ho was driven from the promises.
iW As a citizen of Long Island, was re
cently leaving the midnight ferryboat at
Hunter's Point, a well dressed and hand
some young lady took his arm, and uttering
terms of endearment such as are used by
newly-married people only begged him to
go in an opposite direction. The gentle
man is a bachelor, and the familiarity of
the lady astonished him. When they
stenned under a street lamp, the lady
looked up in the face of hor protector ut
tered a shriek, and rushed back toward the
ferry. Bho had mistaken tho bachelor lor
her husband, who unknown to hor, had
stopped at tho ticket office to pay his fare.
tW A sonambulist in New Haven jumped
down the other night sixteen feet upon a
tin roof and still asleep, deliberately walked
off on to another roof six feet lower ; then
walked through a skylight, and lodged on
a table ten feet below, and then in some
way crawled back through the disman
tled skvlight, cutting his feet badly in his
struggles
The noise awakened a man in
the house, who found tho sonambulist
standing upon tho tin roof with nothing on
but his shirt, and entirely unconscious as
to how he came there. Ho was wounded
and nearly frozen, and was taken back into
the house and properly cared for. ' i
A Good Offer.
It is well known that tho regular ejbscr'p
tion to Demorbst's Monthlt Magazine Is 93.
Tiiat wo may bring our Journal to every house
in tliis county, we have made arrangements, by
which we a:c enabled to send tho S'ootnflcld
Tim: and Dcmorcsi's Jfontfihj for one year
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This Moutbly ntain's unrivaled as a family
magazine. Its choice literature, Us superior
music, its largo amount of valuable lnforma
t'ou la regard i.o ihe Fashions, and u.tiotic il
lustrations, give It a jusi claim to lis well-earn-ct'
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Ballots Magazine for jAKCinr. The Jan
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executed, and the stories arc of the best quali
ty, and of such variety that even the most fas
tidious must be suited with three or four.
There is an illustrated artlclo on the " Oro
Slunigullitfn Marriage," something that will bo
read with interest ; there is a " Juvenile Craze,"
by 15. P. Shlllaber ; the great story of " Guess,"
by C. A. Stephens ( the "Crystal Palace, Lon
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an interesting novel by Fraaccs M. Schoolcraft j
Swcct-Wllllam,' a sketch by Theodore Arnold ;
" A Happy New Year," by May Hamilton j
"Copenhagen," a California story; a funny
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zine can uo loir.ui at any peiiouicalde.iot in the
countiy.
"Many a MicLle ..nikes a Mucklc."
Many sales and small profits amounts to
tho same as few sales .and largo pro. its.
Wanamakcr& llrown do the former, and
make so many sales that they can bo con
tent with very small proms.
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XW Tho Five Dollar Sewing Machine pur
chased bv mc, Januarv. 1800, from the Familv
j Sewing machiuo Company, 8(1 Nassau-Street,
sh. i ., lias been In almost constant use ever
Biuce. It has not been out of order once. Has
cost nothing for repairs, and I find it simple
and reliable in operation, and always ready to
sew. Those friends of mine who use them with
tho new Improvements are very much pleased.
The ouo I have I would not part with.
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County Price Current.
Bloom riiLU, December 12, 1870.
Flax-Seed $2 00
Potatoes 75 cents.
Butter V pound 30 "
Kggs dozen, 28 "
Dried Apples V pound, 6 "
Dried Peaches 8 10 cts. !.
Pealed Peache 15 18 cts. "
Cherries 00 cts. "
" Pitted 15 6 18 cts. "
Blackberries 8 10 cts. "
Onions 13 bushel 75
Corrected Weekly by Wm. Kough iC t-ons.
Niwpokt December 12, J'i'il'.
Flour. Extra fii 50
Bed Wheat 1 10 & 1 15
Kye 75
Corn, 65 05
Oats V 32 pounds, 40
Clover Seed 6 00 O600
Timothy Seed, 3 00
Flax Seed 1 75
Potatoes 70
Ground Alumn Salt,.. 2 25
Llmeburner'ft Coal 2 40
Klovo Coal, .' 5 6 00
Pea Ceal 3 40
Smith Coal 25 cts. V bks.
Cross Tles,8; feet long . . . 22 tO 42 cents.
Philadelphia Price Current.
HWrecteil Weekly by Janney Amlreirx.
No. 123 MiitKlT Htiiebt.
PiiiLADKLpnu, December 10, 1870.
White Wheat 1 1 40 O 1 45
Bed Wheat 1 1 08
Kye aiiaia
Corn 70 71
Oats, 53 55 .
Clover Seed , 10.60 10. 75
Timothy Seed 4 25 & 6 00
Flax Seed 2 00 Q 2 00
Country Lard 12 14
Eggs 30 35
Butter, so"d In bbls.' IB 17
WiMhad Wool 61 cent per lb
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