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"WEDNESDAY, JAN. IN, 1870
Encouraging signs.
. • ,
Although the political 'sky about - the
State„ Capitol has so long been tivershadf.
owed with the " murky" atmosphere of
corruption to that extent that the' chief
magistrate of the Commonwealth has be
come frightened at the inevitable result,
unless a reform is immediately inaugurated,
Vet we are happy to be enabled to record
that on Wednesday last, one stray and
struggling beam of pure light penetrated
the mist of pollution, and we hail it as a
harbinger of a forthcoming day of reform
in the political management of the affairs
of state.
The Let which so inspires us with hope
is that Gen W. W. Irwin the independent
candidate - for State Treasurer wits elected
over the Radical Ring candidate, Robert
W. Mackey, the present incumbent, by a
vote of 70 to 61.
We do not rejoice over this as a strict
Democratic victory, but we are reedy to
swell the chorus of joyful acclamation
over the breaking prof one of the basest
cliques that ev'r conspired to rob a . tax
burdened people. We have still further
room for exultation in the fact that by the
unswerving perseverance of the 'Democrats ,
who unflinchingly allayed themselves in
solid phalanx on the side of honesty, the
independent portion of the Republican§
have been vested with power which they I
claim- to desire to correct the abuies which i
have been so long apparent in the admin
istration of the fres:sriry.
Thu' Democrats breve set as an example
of what a minority cue do if they will but
set aside all bigotry and superstition and
accept the true basis of success, which was
when perfect victory could not be obtain
ed to avail themselves of the nearest ap
proach to the carrying out of their pen_
ciplee, and instead of raylug in stubborn
idleness because tire full goal could not. ho
reached at one?, they placed themselves
on the side of integrity of purpose, and
united with honest men who had the trite
interests of the state in view, without
party predilections, and by this means the
true men of all parties &go to day rejoice
in the breaking up of that accursed Ring
of legislative 'brokers that has so long in
fested the State 'Capital. We are firm in
oar determination 'to ever be found stri
king hands with the good and true to
break down all corrupt organinti nis
without any party prejudice. Tree De
mocracy is based upon irrtlividual freedom
of thought and action, held subservient
only to pare and honest motives.
We believe that a new era in, the poli
tica or the, states or: PeraugyVcsriiia"Nerts .
be
gun on Wednesday last, and we earnestly
hope that the stubborn lethargy which has
so paralyzed the democratic party will he
shaken off without swerving in the least
from the glorious principles which must
characterize it, but let the dead past bury
its dead, irnd arise and follow the living
issues of the present time, and in the lan
guage of the HarrislArg Patriot we be
lieve there is a great change in the poli
tics of our state. "Let the Rip Van Wink
les of the time aware and realize -
The Radical :nuzzle
Nothing which the Radical Congress
has done more clearly shows the cloven
foot of centralization of power thaw the
bill that has been introduced into the
Sen
ate to prevent state legislatures from,re
ein ding acts of ratification of proposed
amendments to the Federal Constitution.
That a legislature had the iight to enact
laws for the government of a state fully
implies that it has the right of reconsider
ing and repealing the same. The se
quence is plain that Congress is at its old
business legislating from necessity, Which
necessity is to perpetuate Radical power,
and to perpetuate power the Democratic
principles of ile constitution must be
ignored. Haying assumed the Executive
and Judicialy branches of the Federal
government, and trampled upon the sa
cred principles of state rights,with impu,-
nity, their apparent desire is• now to abol
ish state legislatures.
Crawford County System.
Although there has been a powerful ef
fort put forth on the part of the "Ring":
masters of Susquehanna county to whee
dle the unsuspecting portion of the Re
publican party.. '111.0,a measure apparently'
fcasable, but which from the leading
lights who are managing it, savors of the
straggling of that Old rotten clique whose
rascality 'wag so apparent at the Converi
tien.dast fall: . We see that the pill, altho'
sugar-coated, does not gwilown with the
thinking ilepnblicans 4.---the county:—
They cannot see . wh "the'systern hereto
fore adapted and used; is not an honest
system, and thathonest,-men manage
it,it will meet the interest -of the people:as
well as min mid the pdopting . of a new
system, with the 'same dishonest, rotten,'
Grow clique to manage it, Scr,re
to perpetuate-the very thing :trlifelt--11*
profess a'deterinination to destroy. - -
The - Net is plain that you may
thief it' a pulpit; • and' lie will be a' thief
still, aside freitii4ll - thelafluence thatthe
pulpit' Will hate ttpoil lim ; 4tia you taaii
.
adOPt . *...iiany . qrsTford systens .. as yon
please,zadlethe%sornod.ooius Planage,.
and you irW; : bateithe:sititto'. : reatilts.
are indeed. Mtn' the*itjtfittt . 6 7 '
hannOetuitk sr f Set tip
honiat, :P08194 - :ikna::prekdi 3 Oe.)
fast gisine;loylo Aker sense axid ) rea - sop:,
The 86nlilPhiaier base.
Our ireaders are aware that the coun
tiea,.cif:Pomerset,Bgdford and Ziltonform
al3enatOriatYbiatrlit. b. OctOker last,
atielee r titin was held': be Senator
tor Stiitinaa Intl been.renominated bythe ;
RadicOl Senittoriatt cinferees, lint a gen
'etal bowl went tifi froth the better class o'f
the party against hint, so that he `MIS
obliged to witlidmiv.• Then arose the
question, who is to: be his successor Z,
Cessna ',stepped: in, and answered this
qiteetioii immediately; " Edward Scidl
must be the inait;',
We Were not present at the meeting of
the radical leaders 'of .the district who fix
ed this matter nit, but we feel sure -that
Cessna stated hp case. in about this Way.
" When the aplaiiiitnient of Assessor of
'lnternet Revenue for this Congressional
!District was to be made, there were lin
merons applicairte for the place. Tl:tel
most prominent of these hi Fritirkiiii Co.;
were Col. Ritchie, of ..lilercersburg, and
Jere. Cook Esq., of Chaitthersbur,r. I was
a candidate for Con , wres.S. Scull threat.
.
I coed to kick up row in Somerset coun
ty unless I would prinnise him the same
position in writing,: 1 found that I could
not affonl dissension in Somerset county,
sto I promised Senll.. • When the election
was over, I had him appointed. Thistip
pointment caused me to nap a Whirliriud
of wrath "front the friends of flitchie and
Cook. To appease Cook's anger, I pro
cured him an appointment as Assistant
Assessor. Ritchie's friends have indulged
in the most terrible threats, and, if I run
for Congress eosin, I may expect to have
my throat cutheautifully. Now, my plan
is to give'Sealro position to Ritchie, end'
in order to do this, Scrill must be provi
ded for. Hero is the opening. Let us
stow Scull away-in the: Senate, and I can
remove thisditticulty from my path."
Thus argued. the astute Congressman,
and his reasoning prevailed. Scull was
put on the trackior Senator as the nomi
nee of John Cessna, and with such. a load
of unpopularity on his shoulders, was
beaten as a matter of course. He was de
feated by the radicals of his own County,
Arlie , preferred the Democratic candidate,
'limn Findlay, to a man who allowed
himself to be used as the tool of John
Cessna.
But there was a little informality in the
return presented from' one of the Demo
cratic election districts. There was no al
legation of fraud, or illegal voting. But
the return Judge had . Forgotten to bring
with him one of the papers usually pre
sentettat the - mectingof the return jruig
es. This paper. was supplied, and, after
wards, at n meeting of the return judges
for the several counties, they all signed a
certificate declaring Mr. Findlay elected
by twenty one votes.
(!Cessna saw that here was a chance for
,political trickery. Another return judge
was manufactured for Somerset county,
and lie signed a certificate declaring Scull
elected by seventeen votes, his calculation
being made by throwing out the vote of
the election district, in the retprn of which
this informality had occurred. On this
certificate, thus signed, Cessna induced
Scull to go to the State' Senate to
Contest with Findlay for the scat. He de
termined deliberately that the will of the
people must be thwarted in order to (teem
' plish his purpose of providing'fin lificefor
Ritchie, so that the radical forces ,
mighi Le-harmonized . in this eoitnly for the
next Congressional contest. That Mr.
Scußperinits himself to -bo tniecl , by Cees
oain thiswoy. iis• :nothing , bitutreditable
to himself. He is a clevergentleman, and
we had always thought him -above such
political chicanery. •
When the Legislature convened, both 1'
Scull and Findlay asked for admission to
the :Senate. Senator Wallace presented
Findlay's certificate and asked that he be
sworn in on the strength of it. ' Scull's
certificate, signed by one man; was also
presented, and, contrary to all precedents
and the plainest principles of justice, not
to speak of the common sense view of the
matter, the case was referred to a commit-
tee of three appointed by the Speaker, to
determine which of the two had the pri
ma facie right to the seat. Cessna was on '
the floor of the 'Senate, making • sugges
tions and controlling •the whole move
ment. A committee was appointed com- ;
Pr
sal - of two radicals,-:who had already ex
?
pressed -an opinion that Scull was entitled
the seat, and 'one Democrat. They
made:a report last week, declaring, as was
anticipated. theprimafacie right to be in
' Scull. The -Senate was not ready, how
ever, to endorse such an absurd proposi
tion, and it was laid over until Tuesday:
of this week. Whether or not all the - radi
cal Senators, except LOwry, am so horri
bly fanatical as to be guilty of such politi
cal depravity as a tote'in support of this
report implies, it.is impassible to telL
Senator Lowry fought the report bravely
mid insisted upon a vote on • it. Senator
Billingfelt, of Laneaster, has ail excellent
` reputation for personal integrity. We
shall see whether he can " throw con
; science to the Devil" and vote for this '
re
port, and then prate about his honesty
hereafter. For our part - we can have no
faith in the personal inteoritz ., of any sen
atort. who supports such a aid political
iniquity as this is.
But Cessna found 'trouble ahead. In
fixing this thing so as to accommodate
Ritchie, he entirely forgot our friend - Jere.
Cook Esq.. of the Repository. We are in
formed—of course we cannot vouch ff.r
the-correctness of our information—that
Mr. Cook told Cessna that whenever a
vacancy occurs in the Asse.s.sorship—for
Seidl holds on to the Assessorship until
Safely seated in the Senate—lie is to be'
considered. an applicant for the position.
Whereupon: our reformation is, that Cess
na induced. Mr. Cook-to go to Harrisburg
to labor. for Scull's , interests, by making
hini a direct{ explicit promise, that when
IScull is made Senator, he; (Cook) shall
bedtime the Assessor. ' Now; somebody is
bound to be deeieved again. Either Cook.
or Ritchie. 'Mist be a disappointed man.
And, no, natter which it -is, dire yen
geatice trill be sworn and Oxeelited against
Cessna. Here is;aA'psek of trouble" now
wlrieh willgrew jilt° scrotal
fore next election.. God Speed i the day
wliCn this political triekster shall receive
the condemnation . at the hand's of tiro
people,.which.his dOubledealing :and- po - -
r liticaltriekeiycsu richly'deserye
!•
14-+ra. . ...
'.•4ltAS:Eailt that Rhode 'lsland till net
.ratify the Fifteeith% Athendment;' beeanse
the titizene 443fidnehised by the - Coiistitn
tioxisDf Avoild'iweetn&teiteie
. I makr theoperatiOn - of "that Aniendiiient;
and little RhOla:i.#atild'- , then
by the Aemoehitit- - The 'tddicilg of - thdt
State don't..: l kant ittriverealvitilfra
• ret fiery ' MUVa. , ' = r;;".! •-!: ‘-'
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.44dinnesota bee'lititied the' 11.fteantil
Aziendment i l and-it bail passed the Setitte
ftit &mai
The Gertcrnor and the State
rVTTII'a
pft
It is Igte to,comment ilpcni, Governor
Gtnry'AilessO; but "it is xfever too late
cIo gocld."
'Referritiettl,tho' Alleged: alibses in the
- State Tfeasnicies offiee ? - the governor up
-Pei:fed to' the - Irgislattfte, " ifilbe name
of the good people of Pennsylvania," to I
correct these abuses, and to provide menus
for preventing their continuance.
In view of existing laws Ton this polio
nlar subject, and of the fact that tltd Crov-'
,ernoeti.hite Attorney General was anxious
to prosecute the alleged offenders, and
thus obtain " indemnity for the past, and
security for the future" nianagentent of
the Treasurer's office, the Governor's ap
peal to the Legislature nssnmes the up
ransom of berneombe, if it may not be
abelled bosh:
• If his Excellency had referred to a copy
of " Pardon's liigest"—a work which
seam to be popular in the Legislature;
and of which the Governor doubtless has,
at least, one copy—he might have found,
in the ninth edition, on page 228, the fol
lowing :
&arum 70. If any officer of this Com- .
monweallh, or of any city, borough, coun
ty or township thereof, shalllortuout, with
or withont interest or return therefor any
money or valuable security received by him,
or which may be in his possession or un
der his-control by virtue of his office, he
shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor in
office, and on conviction be sentenced to
pay a fine not exceeding 01113 thousand
dollars, and undergo an imprisonment, by
separate or solitary confinement at labor,
not exceedidg live years ; and if still in of
fice; be adjudged thereafter incapable of
exercising the same, and the said office
shall forthwith be declared vomit by the
Court passing the sentence.
SEc. 71. If any such officer shall cuter
into any contract or agreement with any
bank, corporation or individual, or associ
ation of individuals, by which said officer
is to•derive any benefi r t gain or advantage
from the deposit with such hank, corpo
ration or individual, or association, of any
money or valuable security held by him,
or which may be in his possession. or un
der his control by virtue of his said office,
he shall be deemed guilty If a misdemeanor,
and on conviction, be sentenced to pay a
fine not exceeding 81,000. and to undergo
an imprisonment not exceeding one year,
and if still in office, be adjudged thereafter
incapable of exercising the same, and the
said office shall be forthwith declared va
cant by the court nzissing.sentioicu,
For further information, if rimnired, the
Governor might have referred to (he
fourth section of the act of 16th of Apail,
1840, I'. L. 444; tenth section of the act
or 27th of May, 1841, P. L 402 ; the sev
enteenth section of the act of 16th of
April, 1845, P. L. 536 ; and the first and
second sections of the act of 26th of April,
1855. P. L 328. The sixty fourth sec
tion is part of the fifth article of the tenth
section of the act of 16th April, 1830, P.
L. 482. (Report on the Penal Code, 21.)
So much for the remedy furnished by
the criminal law. There is, also, a civil
remedy by bill in equity, by which any
state Treasurer, or ex state Treasurer, may
be compelled to give an account of all his
operations, and of all earnings acquired
by him through any mi.use of the public
funds. The laws already on the statute
books furnish all the means necessary to
purify any impure State office—to palish
any , mat feasance itr the!oftite7te • tirliMptir
find thus to provent n ret-nrrenc , of abuses.
Had the Governor permitted Mr. Brews
ter to proceed, as he desired to do, the ob
ject which his Excellency calls upon the
Legislature to accomplish, might have
beeh attained months ago, and the Gover
nor might have been able to congratulate
the Legislature and the public upon the
restitution of some of the " fortunes,"
which ho alleges have been made by the
state Treasurers on a salary of $1,700 per
annum, and upon- the prospect of a speedy
purification of the Treasurer's office.
By way of comforting the public on this
subject, however uncomfortable the fact
may be to certain individuals we would
remark that, although a Treasurer may
have !matt " settlement" with the state,
and retired to private life, years ago, both
he and his accounts may be brought into
court, and, if it min be proved that he has
violated the above sections of the statute,
he or his sureties con-.be compelled to pay
to the state the full amount of all the
"earnings" received by him through any
misuse or misapplication of the state funds;
and we may add that, if the Governor
deemed it impolitic to prosecute such ex
offenders before the October election,
when his then Attorney General desired
thus to do the state some service," there
is nothing to prevent his excellency from
ordering the present law officer of the
Commonwealth to prosecute them. The
statute of limitations is inoperative as to
the state.—Day.
CONGRESSIONAL StilnIARY.
'SENATE January, 10th. —,Several COM
munimitions were laid before the Senate,
and a large number of bills were intro
duced. A resolution in favor of including
the annexation of British Columbia in the ;
subjects for negotiation with Great Britain
was discussed during the morning hour. ,
The Virginia bill was then taken up, and
Mr. Stewart argued in favor of its paSsa ,, e.
Mr. Conkling followed; on, the same siav,
Mr. Sumner urged delay. Mr. Howard
thought the Senate might very properly
hesitate, as the state once admitted, it
would be incompetent for Congress to pre
scribe qualifications to her voters. rim
discussion was con tin md at some length.
Without action on the bill the Senate.
shortly after four &dock, went into exec-
Mire session; mid soon after adjourned. '
In the House under the call of the states
a large number of bills and resolutions
were introduced and referred. Mr. Bing
ham intreduceda bill for the adfitissipn of
Virginia, and demanded the_ previous
question on its, passage. Tlfe previous
question was seconded, and a motion to
reconsider was apparently lost suk a tie
vote by the' Speaker voting in the,nega
tive. It was discovered however, that, a
mistake in the count had been made; and
'that the motion to reconsider was, carried.
The hiouie then refused to order them* .
question, and the bill went over.., Under,
a suspension Of the rnles,the bill to define,
- theduties 'of pension agents, and to. pre
seribe-the method of paying pension*,
';was taken, up and :disciissed at length.
Tending a'S:ote to recommit, the Honse.at
four 'clock, adjourned. ' • .„
In the Senate 'notice of the introduction,
Of 'authorize - the rein tiding . 7:0
.008914.1Atkin of the natienaldebt,.to ex. -
tend:banking facilities,,rand establish spe
`cie-payments, .The • following .bills were
Ilitroduced'i'.l6re effectually..to preserve
.the'netitrallelntiona of the United States.
To:prolile :for:* Trierciito ofnational
banktioN eunenev FOi' free •bankitig to
a golf' basis. A bill to exempt certain ar- '
titles from internal duty, passed. The
Virginia bill was discussed at some length.
In the House a,..biltfor the admission..of
Virginia mei reptorted,)froni the ccomniit
tee on :IteCiinstructbiti, find laid oi!er tor
one day. bill was reported froin tbe
Committee on naval affatriti, ppoiding, for
the removal of the Philadelphia Navy
Yard to League Island. 'After some de
bate the subject was laid 'over under the
Tale. , _
Jruinary the Zetniti, juin S. reso
lution of the New York Legislature, with
drawing. the assent heretofore given to 'the
ratiticatton.of the fifteenth amendment,
were presented: A bill'to refund and
consolidate the national debt, and extend
banking facilities was; introduced. After
which the Virginia bill was taken up and
discussed at lcfr'th.
Ilouse,.—lii the House, joint resolutions
of the New York Legislature were presen—
ted. A bill to rpeal the act of 186; rela
ting to general and pVtit jurors inUnited
States Courts, was referrld. The bill for
the transfer of the ,Philadelphia Navy '
yard to League Island was considered du
ring the morning hour, The Virginia
bill was discussed at length.
Jaisunnv 13.—Li the Senate bills were
I introduced mid referred as follows : Tu
; prevent the collection, of taxes on proper
ty exempt from taxation prescribing rules
of evidence in certain cases. The consid
eration of the Virginia bill was resumed.
In the House, resolutions were intro
duced as follows : To ;establish territorial
'government over civilized Indians ; to
provide for the reduction of expenditure
and of taxation, and adverse to the aeon'.
I sition of further territory. The bill-pro
viding against donations by subordinate
government officials to superiors,
it) the
. nature of presents, was passed. Discus
' sion of the 'Virginia bill was then resumed.
In the Senate, on the 14th, petitions re
lating to various subjects were presented.A
resolution relating to the average cost, of
the man u fact tire of American pigiruu in
Pennsylvania, was discussed. The Vir
ginia bill was then taken up, and debatol
and finally, otynotiott of Senator Trum
bull, it was resolved to vote on the bill on
Monday next, at 4 p. m.
The 'House engaged in debate upon
the Virginia bill after the journal was read
and the discussion was exhaustive. The
question recurring upon the final passage
of the bill offered by Mr. Bingham as a
substitute for the bill of the committoe; it
passed by vote of 98 to 95.
- rennartrasiltit Leguiutuiro.
Jan. I lth.—Bills were introduced in
the Senate authorizing, excntons and ad-
ministrators to testify in their own behalf
in snits where they are interested ; to de- I
crease the number of legislative officers;
to regulate the practice of surgery in Phila
dolphin ; to authorize accused persons to
testify at their own request; to enable the ;
people at the next election to vote for At
torney General and Secretary of State; to
ratify the charter of the Delaware Bridge '
Company; tolix the salary of the Gov
ernor at $.8,000; to incorporate the Phila
delphia Warehousing Company ; to pro
vide• for certain avenues in Fairmount
Park. Nominations for State Treasurer
were then received.
In the House, resolution to appoint a
committee to investigate into the manner
of conducting the affairs of the State
5t5. 7 ,,,,- J - s7 sys;:oresotssi atter debate. Reso
lution gis-log each nnanhor 4/00-fia 4
tage were referred to the t.ommotii.,'l?
Ways and Means, and various amend
ments to reesilntions to present each
member with a library were voted down.
12th—Hiram Findaly was sworn in
to office and took his seat in the Senate.
Bills were introduced as follows : To make
baggage smashing a penal of fence; sup
plementary to the• City Park bill. The
following were considered and passed; To
increase. the Governor's salary to $7,000;
to incorporate the Avondale Relief As
' sedation.
A IN.-solution endorsing Senatnr Came
ron's enurse on the Cuba question was
referred.
Tile joint convention of the Senate and
House assembled, and on the third ballot,
Irwin was dleeted, over Mackey, cacus
nominee, by a vote of Pi to 61.
Jan. 13th.—In the Senate various peti
tions from citizens of Philadelphia were
referred. The Metropolitan Police Bill
was reported from Committee. Also, the
bill for greater security from fires in Phil'
adelphia. Bills were introduced as follows'
Declaring 7 per cent, the legal rate of in
terest; amendatory of the act allowing
parties in interest to testify, etc.: incorpo
rating the Women's Branch of the Penn
sylvania Society to Prevent Cruelty to
Animals, and the overloading of the city
passenger cars.
In the House the Park supplement bill
was referred. Senate hill increasing the
salary of the Governor to f 37,000 was con
sidered and passed.
Rascally Legislalion
The very first act of ottr present radical
state senate was to commit an act of per
fidy even more outrageous than any pre
vious doings of that body—we refer to the
giving of the seat in the Somerset Dis
trict to Scull, radical, in place of Findlay,
the legally elected. Democrat. Mr. Wal
lace presented the certificate of the elec
tion of Mr. Findlay, signed by the return
judges of all the counties, and asked that
he be sworn in. To this, that meek and ,
blatant hypocrite, Harry White, objected,
mid rresented a certificate signed by some
one man in Somerset county, declaring,,
Sall elected, and moved that the whole
matter be referred to a special committee,
fur the purpose of finding out who was
prima facia entitled to the seat. Mon
strous and outrageous as this proposition •
may appear to our readers, it was carried—
every radical senator, except Mr. Lowrey,
voting for it, and 'to his honor be it saik
party lash could not force him to do this
r l wrong. He declared them was d wrong
intended by the proposed reference, or if
it was not intend*d, it would unavoidably.
result. This thing of allowing a certill
cate. to be accepted that had but one sign=
er would Win to ashes on the hands of
any.party that tolerated it, and, if be had.
to stand alone in defence of fair dealing be
'would deeo before' his constituents and
the world. '
Every, body. knew, ofcourse what this
meant; and whattlie report of ;his special
committo would be—to give Scull the seat
and. force the burdenof contest upon Mr.
Findlay, who the return ,judges declare
was legally elected:and so it proved when
the' committee made ,their report on Fri
day. an act of political rascality is
unprecodentod and we trust that it will
turn to ashes on their hands, as 3ir. Low
ry predicted,
—A bill .will be introduced into the Le
gislature *reeking the pay at jurors.'
Nowl4rettis,
—The report ramie by Capt. ltaymoud,
of,the 'engmeet, corps, dmribes,,Y-okon
river ii Alaska, as the thirttlarOst
-tothe
•
4—A subscription
.list has ibeen, openCA
throughout. Germatiy to raise 80,00040
complete a colossal statito of Arminins,
commenced in 1816.
—A splented marble colossal statue of
.ESenlapiits was &Mad, by a 7 tou ntryman
in a field at Pozzuoli. It belohgs to the
.best.aehooLof „ ..„
—Three thousand lAters, from fools to
New York switidling-firins have already
accumulated at the dead-letter office, un
der the recent order of .111...Creswell. .
—The Postmasters General reports to
the Senate that the l'ostal Convention
with France failed because of the Direc
tor of Ports claiming an unequal Aare of
the postage.
—Heavy gales have prevailed through
out Ireland since last Friday; damaging
the shipping. Many lives were lost and
much property destroyed. They have
now subsided.
—Henry Ward Beeeber's salary has
been increased from 612,50 to $1,7,500.
—A Mobile negro demonstrated his
civil equality by biting off a white man's
tongue the other day.
—Greeley's first es.say on Agriculture
will be upon the best method of planting
Cardiff giants.—Boston Past
—An old Arizona trapper, who has just
scalped his fifteenth Induin i -.says; " It'is
good slaying out here this season."
• —Tho ox-King of Naples is in great
financial embarrassment, his revenue
being reduced to 10,000 frames per mouth.
—Six men had a fight in a justice of
the peace's office in Butler county, Mis
souri, about a watch. When time was
called two were dead.
—A clergyman said, in a recent ser
mon. that the path to rectitude had been
traveled so little of late years that it was
completely run to grass.
—Hubert Quigley, formerly of Balti
more, was crushed to death in St Louis
between two ponderous castings, at the
foundry of G. B. Allen.
—The London Times has won a snit
against the elerkenwell New, which pa
per printed its own name in very small
typo at the head of its sheet, with "Lon
don Times" in large bold letters beneath.
—There is a rumor that sufficient evi
dence has been procured to convince the
people that Geary was not legally elected
and that the documents will be given to
the people. 'Mom business fur Covude.
—A man was run over by anon-cart in
Wilmington, Del., and for this brought
the driver of the team before a justice.
The justice dismissed the case, it being
common law that any man slow enough
to be run over by an ox-team is too slow
to sue.
—At Cheyenne, lately, a missionary
preached on a dry goods box, his choir
sitting in a Baggy. The horse got fright
ened and ran away with the choir, pro- .
rokin t ,a the inquiry from the Protestant
chnrehman "Could not that horse he
brought East? Ile would command a
larbe price."
•it • • •• • •
ur , ,
In general order" t • acat Of enera
Mover, than whom, he says, a better
soldier or 11 braver man never lived.
—The last injured husband lives in
Clinton, lowa. Ile is a negro, and he
pounded a septuagenarian grocer to death
with a shovel for yielding to the fascin
ation of his sable sponse.
—Andrew llvnes Ewing, son of An
drew Ewing, of Nashville, rennessee, was
shot and instantly killed near Guthrie,
Kentucky, by a man named William Yan
cey. The difficulty arose from a law suit.
—Gustave Fischer, the High Sheriff of
Cook Co., Mo.. left for parts unknown oh
the 15th of December. lbe took with
him favorite son, about four years of
age, and between $15,000 and 820,000,
borrowed a few 'days before. lie also
drew about 88,000 in fees duo to his of
fice, and neglected to pay over the stare
due to his deputies. Nothing has been
seen of him since he heft.
—Think of this! If you are under
thirty years of age and in the habit of
smoking, by economizing to the amount
of only one segar a" day, you an pay the
premium on a polio) , of two thousand
dollars in the American Life Insurance
Company of Philadelphia. The Ameri
can Life Insurance Company of Philadel
phia is a company reliable and well man
aged. Messrs. Stroud & Brown, is the
Agent.
MEM=
WFIO n PIREBE BAKER ?—A strange
history, as well he seen (see advertise
ment). But most important of all is,
that those small trail boxes of her Won
derful salec(given away by the Druggists)
has set the neighborhood all in a blaze;
and now there is a perfect panic for fear
the *l.OO Pots (for families) won't hold
out till more can begot.
STOP THE LEAKS.—The Pennsylvania
Senate instead of restoring what is called
the franking privilege, has agreed+O - allow
each member $lOO for postwv. - This is
quite an improvement over the old prac
tice of the state paying the members post
age. Last year, if our memory serves us,
the postage of our Legislature cost the
state some thirty three thousand dollars,
but nutter this allowance, it the House
shall adopt it likewise, the cost of postage
will be but *13,000, a saving-of about
*30,000 a session. Ono hundred dollars
is a large allowance, it seems to us, for
each meniber, bat nevertbOess. it is a large
saving in the item of postage. 7 Let a few
other Harrisburg leaks be stopped. .
LET IT BE EXAMINED. —ln the Penn
sylvania Senate the other daft, Mr., How : -.
ant offered a resolution authorizing the
Finance Committee to examine into the
cenduct of the State Treasurer for the last
:tht*er.years in respect to the use of the
state bonds • and state • funds, which was
udOpted. This is a move in the right di. ,
reetion, and if ,the Committee will only,
do iits duty,i they can discover the process
:whereby £he state Treasurer grows rich on
$l7OO a year. That is just what the lax
payers want to know:- -Let a little day
light into, these. dark places. . ;
—The Legislature refused to authotize
the Governor's meamge,to be printed—at
which Geary was wrothy, and , says hard.
things about the . menibers. 'Om not
from any,dispOsitien toretrench, lint
earise the Inembeti do net like Gem, !"
Eclipses.
-. lle six eolipses of the year will occur
asSollows
. first* It total eclipse of the moon
on:the meiiiing of Jan. 17, visible inA:Sis
EttrimeOMl the western part of;No,ith
Alisericii - .'4 In the region of Culiterals said
-the interior of Oregon the mocrti' , will - ii3t
totally eclipsed on the morning of the
17th atabout sunrise. Near the coast in
Northern Califarnia, Oregon and Wash
ington Territory the total phasepesses Or
before the moon sets. In 3lissoiiriJoiiii,
Ninnesote t ,Nausas.._and _.Nehruska_ the.
moon sets paitialyiclifised.
A partiakeell_pieof thO, , sulf".!hikes place
on the 31st of ' is visible on
ly in the Antarctic regions.
Another ef ; the su takes
. place June
28,1iitt is hotvisib m
le - in Ainertca: It can
be seen only in the Southern Pacific ocean
east of Australia: • -
A total eclipse of the moon will occur
July 12, also invisible iu the U. States.
Along the easteru.e,ztremity of S. America
and of North Ainerica, at Nova Scotia,
New Brunswick and Newfoundland, on
the Atlantic,Ocean,, in Europe and Asia
the eclipse
,Will be. visible. It will be a
partial esclipse on the northeast coast of
the British proyincVs •at the time of the
muon's rising." 'At Greenivich, England,
the first coutaet with penumbra occurs at
7:16 p. in. and,the last at 1:22 a. In. on the
morning of the 13th.
A slight partial eclipse of the sun, visi
ble only in the Arctic regions, takes place
July 26.
There will be a total eclipse of the eun
on December 28. The
- - line of .total ob
scuration - ruhis through Southern Spain,
Algiers, Sicily, .Grecce,, Turkey and into
Itusea. It is visible ns a partial, eclipse at
Greenwich, Prerpeol; Edinburg Dublin
and other important places in Europe.
y-.'Duu't £•ail to read the fallowing
Complimentary Notice Auk:RICAN &STOCK
Jou RNA L. Specimen copies of this Jot:R
-NA L will be sent free, by enclosing stamp
((fur postage) to the Publishers, N. I'.
BOYER & Co., Parkesburg,,Pa.
THE AMERICAN STOCK JOURNAL is a
monthly of thirty-two largo double col
umn pages of original matter designed
for Farmers and Stock Breeders.
Republican, Havre De Grace, Md. •
Would not be deprived of it for four
limes its cost—Monroe Journal, Monroe
ville, Alabama.
A very interesting magazine devoted
to Agriculture and stuck raising—Me
chanic d Inventor, Detroit, Mich.
Handsomely bound,.and about the size
of the Atlatantie Mouthly.—C/n•islui n
Freeman, Chiago.
A friend of ours got a receipt , from
A )(ERICA N" STOCK JOURNAL that cured a
horse(worth $500) that was given up to
die by a veterinary surgenn.—.NOrlliamp
lon, (England.) Press.
A splended Agricultural papei.—Sulli
ron Co. (Ind) Union.
Worth fen dollars aear to any stock
raiser—American R l
escue, Shelbyville
Trim.
Every Farmer should have it.— herald,
Traverse City, Mich.
Valuable to the Farmer, Planter and
Stock-Breeder—Zaynescilla (a) Daily
ti' ignaL
Those that sec a copy come down with
the stamps at once, only $l.OO a year.—
Prairie t'hief,,Toulial,7B:=.
For the amount of reading matter the
Jot - aNAL contains, we Consider it the
==E
CANNOT BE OBLITERATED.—The Re
publican journals evervWbere, says the N.
Y. Erpres; are inaging in exaggera
tions of Mr. Stanton's importance as a
public man, and in famantutionsover his
demise. What, however', they cannot ob
literate Prom the past, soon to become. his
tory-, is the fact, that he was a tyrant liv
ing, and heartless in" his tyranny. lie fill
ed the public prisons. shut tip public
presses. and did everything a tyrant could
do, with bonndless power in his hands
save taking away life—of which I) 0 weret,
he was guilty in the rase of Mrs. Sari-att.
A, Two-LEuomt Cour.—The Rochester
Union says : "One of the, greatest freaks
of nature ever exhibited is now in Aiken's
Museum at Chicago. It is a two-legged
colt which was foaled in
_Medina bourity
Ohio, and is now seven Months old. it is
of Black-hawk and Arabian stock—black
in color and remarkably intelligent in
action. It tae no fore legs and stands erect,
eight feet high upon the hinder ones.—
Messrs. Northrop and Dean of Cleveland.
who have purchased it for- *7,000, - will
bring it cast in a short time." • • •
BUG 3 AtiII;COOKROACIIEE.—TibtI Jour,
nal of Chemistry publishes this remedy
for water bugs and cockroaches:" Boil
one ounce of poke-root in one pint of wa
ter until the strength is extracted; mix
the decoction with molasses and spread it
on plates in the kitchen or other apart
mentt which are infested by these insects.
All that have partaken of this luxury
during the night will be found 'organic
remains' the next morning." '
To PRFSEIIVE meat, cut it iii. from two
to four poltuttldcces; place the pima iu
an' earthen or wooden vessel; spit4le
with salt, and Cover with powdered : char
coal. Li this manner meat-may be kept
fresh more than fifteen days, no matter
how warm the weather may be. 'The
covering' of charcoal shoUld he from' Mt
inch to an inch and a half in thickness,
the thicker the better.—Exehangd.• '
=EI
—Another careless sale of poison' , for
physic, resultingln the death, of a child,
took.place in Pittsburg last Friday. These
fatal mistakes. are * becoming. ,frequctit of
late.. They arise ,from a .recklee.s
Bard of the commonest precaution against,
accidents..
Until the , test. of fitnesi, shall
be applied to candidates for the,-respousi,
ble position of, druggists' c'erks, these
tragedieiwill frcquenily shock cum:Runk
tics. In the case before us the clerk testi
liekthat the opium jar and the rhubarb
jar stood one above the :other,' 'mid' were
labeled alike. - The , outlandish
breviaticitis which= obscure the iarS in all
'ilyug,atercs aro ()tie , notlgh,;' , bnt;l:talititi'
opium is kept in ajar labeled Klllinbardj'
'hotk far are wc.fron tolerating systeinatin
poisoning? 1 , ,_,,:•-. • •-!A • • ,
THE poor man's purse may bo.ehiplY,
but he has as inuch . gold,, in the Sinw
ana . 42nuch ,tio'liiobn t.,
1 .4 f :pal,
Vitt etaugens, dvei iii oar :
but,irtpQ 'tonsolesbgi even in our jiuina `
•
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VEB1311 4 " • SPECTACLES-;-sliti":e r itini=
:meth atodiettcreir ion,enPpej tby tale by.-
,
Montroao,liovoo:lPV., - . 4E14 Itftei.Teif
.
Plitsbn:righ ,C4)irispsleitiee.
The eald snap Weal to Byeini-ke treather-77b
„,Nrer,pufincii- . -a ilia 0 etlttemee, Ohlo—Jft.
Cirnion liVege—the ie‘edueation if the enesater
ydughliaiatt pre:dial* fated—es Model higqll
- ',Oh:43*am Matte* •
Prrnsittn:irart, :en. 12th, 1870.
The severe cold snap of Banda,' last has bees
followed by a mild season, and while your ear.
reepOndent Is now writing the 'rain Is pdtedig .
.pmatuit:liie window panes, suggestiverof mew
116 ion of high 'water in the kllegtienyi is we
have hesiv,yanow above na, and the telegraphic
reports M.day note rain In almost Iron dine-.
(lon. Our coal mort areinexticiesoiseverstnee
.!
the latter Part Or NOveinbce we hiriitiad an tie-,
gent boating stage in both - idiom), the cones. •
quence &WM& frail:teen ft:Beth:sit rddisients to
lower river ports of over 18,000,000 or bushels,
giving employment to hundreds of steamers and
barges, and nearly two thousand men. No won
der the rains, and, snows of pals- winter bin
•
proved a bleailifg
In my last communication to tba-Donoctst I,
touched principally upon educational natters,
which Is a theme as interesting to me as It Is to
many of your Intelligent readers, for I believe
the people of Susquehanna county are 'much in
terested in school matter*, and If You'andloul
readers will pardon me, I Will give you &Wet
aetount ors celebrated .College rot the coislucit.
Lion of the seXes; WhiCh I *cagy visited Id
Ohio. r ,
This subject of co-education has been attract
ing the attention of intelligent minds, both male
and female, during the past year, a majority of '
whom have given the system the cohl shoulder,
and no wonder, because perhaps they'badnever
seen a practical test. This your correspondent
has had the phi:ollie to investigate.
'At'Alliance, Ohlo, or rather jina 'Onthe edge
of the young and beautiful city, is Mount Union.
Here twenty-three years ago a small school of
six scholars was inaugurated' in the loft of an old
woolen factory, which has grown Into a famous
literary institution for the joint educed= of
males and females, now known as Mount Union
College.. It is presided over by the Rev. I. N.
ilartshorn, D. D., a noted eduoationlat,igentle•
man of fine culture and extensive 'travel
From the small school of only six pupils, a
splendid College has arisen, which numbsra
among its members representativei from near
ly every State in the Union, mid which has an
1 annual attendance of over 500 males and fo•
males. A corps of fourteen instructors, highly
appreciated as eduCators, assist Dr. Ilartattorst
in the government of the, College,. ; The depart
ments of study are six in number, s follows :--
Classical, Scientific, Normal, Commercial, Mum':
Iceland the Fine Arts, each coursed wpleh - is
very thorough. The scientide dePartment con
: tains some valuable instruments anctadjairetk.
the Chemical Department an extensive —Ls
' Itoratory, and the Museum and Fine Art gallery
contains some , athe'rnost rare, Perfect and beau
! tiful specimens t Ife f audio any institatiou it
o o
the kind in thetUited'States.
The College is beautifully situated on spacious
. grounds, on witieh are erected several large and:
elegant buildings at a cost of nearly a quarter of
a million of dollars. The scenery adjacent is
beautiful and the location heolthjr, beside the so.
eiety in the neighborhood is very intitilgeat and
I refined.
For twenty years or more at Mount Union
College this co-education system has been test-
ed. without any evil results. The co-equal, coe-'
joint anti thorough education of both acme la
then not only right, but it 111 to . thems*as and
to society an absolute necessity. It'ls-rtnt . only"
promotive of more thorough scholarship; Mt Sl
so, as in a family, of the batteernanners of birth; •
4.1.....6.....6.......1 • - - r,xxsuicor„,trusro _then- -
ful solicit ude,andtts firme r residve to adopt pro- ,
per self-goventment to sustain a good character.
. which alone will go further even than parental
`vigilance in conserving their social, t
respectabill-
I tar and safety.
I. There is a peculiarity in the government and
discipline of this College. The government hi
parental—mild but firm. Self respect, decorous
conduct, pure morals, and true religion, are the
sequences. No peculiarity of any Sect is taught:: .
Though the College is largely Methodistic, sec
tarianism is not its feature. No religious tea-.
troversy or political discussion is allowed to itt;
terfere with the opinions of the students, end in
this respect, if not iu any other, Mount Union is
a model College. .
The Normal and Commercial departments of '•
Mount Union College are very thorough and. -
comprehensive. eince the organization AB a'
College over' 5,000 -'teachers; male aiid female,
have gone from its portals, highly recimumended .
as educators, and have made their mart lathe
education of youth.
• In the Commercial' department, pima of the' . ,
best business men in the West have gradruded, -
and stand high in business circles...Su& is but
a few brief facts concerning Mount Union poi
`lege, at Alliance, Ohio. Its rates of tuition are
remarkably low, for the benefit giyen toa_tetl
dents, and it has feature which is perhaps dilfer'..
cut than many other, institutions.
,Studentscan
enter at any data during the scholastic mr,anti
receive a thorough education: ••
'' •
Business is slowly reviving, and'we are look
ing for a good spring trade. Our iron and Omit
trade is looking up, - and . people generally are
feeling more confidence as their January bills:'
aro being settled. We hope for a better state of
affairs. W. B. R. •
11370.. , ,
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