The Patton gemonat.
E. B. ILIWLET, EDITOR.
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Witumssmit, Pm. 0, 1870.
--the committee on territories has per
fected a bill to abolish polygamy in Utah.
It will be reported in a few days.
—Virginia has at last been &UMW to
a representation in Congress The Presi
dent signed the bill on Wednesday last.
—Prince Arthur is being feasted, pet
ted atd danced by the government coin
ciaLr at Washington. We presume when
which shall carry him back to
the land of " Alabama claims" is moving
away from shore, he will put his thumb
to his nose in the most approved yankee
style, and think as Dickens, did " havn't I
fooled you nicely."
Another Gun from Dawes.
Butler, assisted by his confederates,
thought to offset the broadside volley
which Mr. Dawes poured into the
Radical ship of corruption by a general
denial of the facts, claiitiirg that he had
given erroneous estimates of the appropri
ation, stvl by Boutwell's style of adding
and when necessary, claimed
to have rebutted his arguments,
gift on Thursday Lsst Mr. Dawes reit
erated his former charges-of wanton ex
travagance of the administration, and re
quested members to Bend ont for the book
of estimates, and follow him and Bee if he
was correct
He then completely e x ploded the sta
tistical statement of Mr. Butler. The
speech was listened to with the deepest
attention, and created a profound sensa
tion. This is nothing but the old Demo
oratic story, but it comes from a source
that cannot be scouted or frowned down.
Grant can "bottle np" Butler, but But
ter cannot throttle Dawes.
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1.01577 Rena VOL
The life of the Radical party has ever
been the tyrannical oppression, and incar
ceration of their opponents, and the in
timidating. lash of party persecution of
their own members who have shown the
least inclination to hottesty of pnspose.
It has been a notorious fact that no exec
utive officer like a revenue °dicer, for in
stance, dare open his month, or even hint
at the criminal stealing that has been per
petrated under cover of official law for
instead of bringing the guilty Forty tojus
tice, the honest informant has been ous
ted to give place to one who will not
"leak." And the moment one of their
number believes himself an American cit
izen, entitled to his personal opinions and
honest convictions of principles, and will
not be farther led on by fraud and corrup
tion exercising his constitutional liberties,
the well trained Radical blood hounds
are let loose to drive him back into their
den again if possible, and by the aid of all
the abusive and slanderous epithets which
can be used, many have been weak en
ough to yield. But we are pleased to be-
Neve that in the person of Mr. Lowry,
these- is the true Democratic metal, and to
be read out of such a party of corrupt
legislative brokers as has infested the leg
islative halls is just what he has courted.
We do not wonder that the Rings and
cliques tremble and howl, for their de
struction is enevitable.
The Evil and the Remedy.
At a public meeting of farmers of Ches
ter county, Pa., on the 12th ult, they re
solved, in view of.the hard times and fall
ing prices, to reduce the wages of farm la
borers 25 per cent. That excellent Dem
ocratic paper, the Lancists7 Intelligeneer,
in view of this action of the Chestereoun
ty farmers, gives them some wholesome
Mate r which will apply with equal force
to the party ridden unfortunates in this
county, who are forced to vote the Radical
ticket. The Inlelligencer says :
4 " . A pretense has been made of favoring
the agricultural community by the party
in power. No direct tax has been laid on
the land or its crude products ; and be
cause they did not Meet the Fcderal tax
gatherer face to face, many farmers were
foolish enough to think they were the sub
jects of special care on the part of our
Radical rulers. While all agricultural
products commanded an exorbitant price
the farmers had no sympathy for those
people who found it difficult to buy
They were selfish in theirimag-
Med , good fortune, and did not seem to re
alize that a greenback dollar of the Radi
cal dynasty was but 65 cents; but the evil
days have some.
The farmers of Lancaster and Chester
counties have• been among the strongest
supporters of the policy which is now
pinching them se severely. A majority of
them have steadily voted for Radical can
didates, and against the Democraticparty.
This they have done, partly from mista
ken manes of self-interest, and partly on
account of a blind , and unreasoning prej
udice.
They have helped materially to sustain
a false financial system which makes gold
and silver mere commodities of merclmu
laze, and floods the country 'with depreci
ated and fluctuating paper currency ;
they have, propped ape national banking
system, which ;takes twenty ...millions, a
year out of the pockets of the producing
classes, without rendering them any com
pensatory benefits therefor;
they have
aided the Bing to frame and, keep in force
the most odious tariff that ever was devis
ed, for the purpose of discriminating in
favor of a . few , grvedy - monopolitts, and
against the great body of. consumers;
they hs,ye masted in destroying Anteriau
ship bplldwg, And have tbue prevented
thar grain from being carried abroad at
c k lev rates ; they have voted against any
reduction of . the exorbitant rate - of biter
rat sow toingind4 ',On the. Milit*Stlite4
bonds, and het thus lathed ttp capital
which ehould thtnlate freely, and have
added largely to the taxes under which
they ttoW . grentll they have encouraged a
tonstant increase of the vast army of use
tees ertkials, a majority of whomaremere
drones in the hive of Industry and hare
given. Countenance and sanction to 'the
grossest and most unrestrained extrava
gance in National and State Govern
-meats. They have not only steaditl
ted to keep up these abuses, but they have
used all their influence to compel those
under them to vote with them. For these
sine tff omission and commission they
ought to repent in sack-cloth and ashes.
The Radical farmers of Chester county
may succeed in grinding the faces of the
poor. They may compel laboring men to
toil from daylight until dark for one
fourth. less wages than they now receive.
They may , make the home of the laborer
utterly cheerless. They may deny him all
the luxuries of life, and place many of the
necessaries beyond his reach. They may
compel him to go about clad in patched
garments, and clothe his family in rags.
They may reduce those who toil in the
fields to the degraded coudjtion of the
peasantry of England. or Ireland. But
they will find in the end that the evils of
which they complain are not to be reme
died by any such:narrow minded policy.
The Whole country is suffering from the
effect of false an.dpernicious legislation.
What is needed Fist now is wise and pure
statesmanship. So long as a corrupt Con
gress is controlled in its action by a cabal
of monopolists the farmers and laboring
men, the. producers of the country, may
expect to be ground down by an accumu
lation of burthens too grievous to be
borne.
Let the axe be laid at the root of the
tree, which produces such evil political
fruit."
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Free Newspapers.
Our readers will recollect that a short
time since, we mentioned that a bill
would probably be introduced into Con
gress extending the circulation of news
papers free of postaor outside of the coun
ties where they are pnblished. Such a
bill has been proposed, and we fully agree
with the Philadelphia Age that :
Since the franking privilege seems
doomed to sink under the abuses piled
upon it, we hope that in the interest of
the people, other modes of informing
them of' the doings of theirpublic ser
vants will not be curtailed. Of course,
public documents will not be printed un
less they can be circulated. Congress
men will not pay the postage out of their
own pockets. The people will then de
pend wholly upon the newspapers for the
messages, reports, documents, etc., that ex
hibit the proceedings of the government,
and the state of the country. • There
ought, therefore, to be no impediment to
the circulation of the papers ; it ought to
be fostered by every possible means. Yet
the bill just passed in the House, cuts off
the privilege hitherto accorded of free
transportation in the mails within the
county wbe.te a paper is published. On
the contrary, this privilege 'ought to be
enlarged. We recall now as peculiarly
appropriate the proposition of the Hon.
J. J. Lawrence Getz, of Pennsylvania. It
was that newspapers should be transpor
ted free in the mails. This would be a
cheap and perhaps effective substitute for
the privilege to be ahnlisthadi, 'blob
more the privilege of the people than of
the Congressman. The papers will cost
nothing to the government for the print
ing. They are less bulky in form than
any other printed matter, and will be the
cheapest to transport. There will be no
party favoritism in an accommodation
which will extend Wall frarties,aod which
will diminish the expense of what ought to
be done by every intelligent citizen, to
wit : Take a newspaper. We heartily
commend Mr. Getz's proposal to the spee
dy attention of Congress.
Irezmsylvanta Lesidature.
In the Senate, Jan. 24th, (he following
bills Accre introduced and referred:
Anthorizinz 7 per cent. as the legal
ride, and Doe oier-12 per cent. by special
agreetnent,
Authorizing married women to sell their
property when deserted by their hus
bands.
Increasing the number of Judges of the
&plane Court by two, to be elected at
the October election.
Repealing so much of the law of 1869
as prevented the publication of documents
and abolished the franking privilege. The
repealing bill of Mr. Turner was passed
and sent to the House.
The Senate bill authorizing the reduc
tion of the sentences of persons confined
in prisons and penitentiaries, for good
conduct. Passed.
The Senate bill punishing for injury or
destruction of baggage, Passed.
In the House the resolution from the
Senate was considered ordering 3,000 cop;
ies of the Auditor General's report.
A resolution authorizing the committee
which was appointed to investigate the af
fairs of the late Treasurer, to examine for
the last three years back.
, • Mr. Davis moved to amend by inquir
ing for ten years back. Not agreed to,
and the original resolution paned.
The Home defeated the Senate resolu
tion restoring the franking privilege, and
refused to concur with the request the
Semite to send the bill back.
In rh.- Setiate, ian. 25th, the Speaker
announced that a number of letters had
been deposited iu the post office by inem
hers without stamps. (Laughter.) All ef
forts to restore the franking privilege so
far have failed.
Nearly one half of the Senators presen
ted petitions for the abolition of the death
penalty, and in favor of allowing local dis
tricts to vote upon the question of licens
ing drinking houses in their limits.
The report
,nf special committee on
printing was indefinitely postponed.
The remainder of the session was occu
pied in diecnssing roposition's to dis
charge the pesters and folderi, who have
notbing to do an consequeuce of the aboh
tien of the franking rrivilege, which has
put a stop to the circulation of public
documents.,
td theiUm the Park bill , and other,
Philadelplia bills were introduced ask
discussed at length.
Jan." 26, in the gitnite, n bill was report
ed creating 111 Bodied of Control, the Gov
ernor, Setretey of State, Auditor General
and Attofffey General, to attend to the
financial riffling of the Commonwealth.
Alsol a bill permitting accused parties
to give testimony.
In the House, the committee reported
a bill that the Court of Quarter Sessions,
upon the petition of one-fonrth of the vo
ters of a district, shall order an election
to determine whether jntozicating liquors
shall bo sold.
Also a bill to prevent and punish the
publication of obscene advertisements and
the sale of noxious medicines was report
ed favorably.
Jan. 27th, in the Senate, a bill was in
troduced authoring the election of a Nisi
Prins judge, and fixing his salary at $3,-
000.
Also a bill enlarging the provisions of
the act which authorizes interested par
ties to testify, and extending the same to
administrators and executors.
Also an act, to limit and define the pun
ishment of contempt of court. The limit
of punishment is fixed at rive years.
The finance committee were authorized
to extend the time of the inquiry into the
affairs of the State Treasurer for ten years
back.
In the House the special order of the
day was the consideration of public bills.
The bill repealing the third section or
the act relating tojudicial sales, and the
preservation of the lien of mortgages, ap
proved March 23, 1867, was passed.
The bill to require interrogatories to be
filed in cases of attachment an or before
the return day of the suit, and to allow
garnishees to answer without a rule or co
py being served. Passed.
Senate resolution giving the contract
of printing the Daily Record to George
Bergner was considered.. It was bitterly
opposed by Mr. Reinhole, who made a
speech denouncing the manner of publi
cation in past years.
CONGRESSIONAL SUMMARY.
SENATE, Jan. 24.—Quite a number of
petitions were received and appropriately
referred. Mr. Stewart asked leave to make
a personal explanation, but a threat from
Mr. Sumner that he would take an hour
to reply prevented its being granted. The
bill for the relief of certain naval contrac
tors was reported and read and then laid
side. Mr. Norton offered a resolution
directing the judiciary committe to report
by what: authority Gen. Terry had con
vened a military commission to inquire in
to the eligibility of member* of the Geor
gia Legislature ; laid over. A resolution
pensioning Mrs Lincoln was referred.
The Senate then proceeded to consider
the bill to provide a national currency of
notes, and to equalize the distribution of
circulating notes, and Mr. =Sherman ad
dressed the Senate in its support. At the
conclusioon of hie remarks the Senate went
into Executive Session and ut the expi
ration of one hour adjourned.
In the House the call of the states bills
were introduced and referred. A reso
lution was adopted declaring that the
wmmitte on elections was a judicial body,
and that in deciding contested election
cases the members thereof should act ac
cording to all the rules of law. withnnt
partiality, or prejudice, as if under a spe
cial oath in each case. The Legislatiie,
Executive and Judicial Appropriation bill
was nported and made the special order
for Wednesday next. The reply of the
General of the Army in relation to Gen.
Terry's usurpation of power is appointing
a military commission to decide upon the
eligibility of member of the Legislature,
was taken up. The Senate amendments
to the Virginia bill were next taken np.
Mr. Farnsworth moved to concur. In the
discussion which ensued, Messrs. Bingham
and Butler bad sharp words, Butler re
ferring to Bingham as the murderer of
Mrs. Snrratt. Mr. Farnsworth then han
dled Butler without mercy, much to the
delight of the Democrats. The Senate
'substitute was adopted by a strict party
vote. -The house at five o'clock, adjourn
ed.
SENATE, Jan. 25th.—A joint resolution,
authorizing the passport clerk at the De
partment of stateto administer oaths to ap
plicants for passports, was Ftela
ting to the seizure of distilled spirits d.
in
California, was called up and after brief
discussion informally laid aside. The
currency bill was then taken up, and 31r.
Fenton, of the Finance Committee, pro.
ceeded toaddress the Senate. Mr. Sum
ner moved to amedd by substituting his
bilL Mr. Sherman urged the Senate to
take prompt action. Mr. Morton deman
ded that thereshould be some understand
ing as to whether this bill was a finality
in reference to the distribution of the cur-
Toney, and argued against contraction.
Mr. Stewart favored the passage of the
bill as an experiment. Mr. Davis spoke
against the •bilL and at 4:20 P. it. the Sen
ate adjourned.
In the House a bill that no title shall be
acquired or perfected to any
_agricultural
public lands in California not heretofore
disposed of, except by settlement under
the homestead or pre omption laws, was
After some further bovine's, the
Et l nTe L resumed consideration of the League
Island bill. Speeches 'were made by
Messrs. Myers, O'Neil and Reading. The
committee on elections made a majority
report, that A. S. Wallace, radical, has the
prima facie right to a seat from the fourth
Congressional district of South Carolina.
The other claimant is W. I). Simpson.
The minority report, that neither claim
ant was entitled to the seat, was adopted.
The House then took a recess till 7:30 p.
m. There were not more than a dozen
members present during the evening ses
sion, and after some unimpertant speech.
es, the House adj.
SENATE Jan. 26th.--The credentials of
James B. Newell, elected by the lowa
IRgislature to fill the vacancy occasioned
by the resignation of Senator Grimes,
were received, and he was sworn in. On
motion of Mr. Ramsey, the bill for the dis
posal of the Fort Leavenworth Reserva
tion, was taken up and discussed until af
ter the expiration of the morning hour,
when it was recommitted. The consider
ation of the Currency bill was then re
sumed. Mr. Corbett favored, and Mr.
Sumner opposed the measure. After fur
ther discnanon by MessraSherman, Thur
man, and others, the Senate, at , W 0 p. m.
ad .
ta the house several resolutions calling
for information and instructing commit
tees were adopted. The consideration of
the League Island bill was then resumed.
Messrs, Washburn, Dawes, and Wood
ward, oppos 4 the bin, and Messrs. Hill,
Calkin Ind Nadal!, suppoTted it. Mr.
Scofield closed' de 4434. Mr. Dimes
moved that the bill bo laid on the tablet ;
to, yeas 94, nays 67. The Senate
extending the limits of the part
New Orleans< was passed. The Horise
then went into committee of the Whole
and took Up the L4gislative, esectitive and'
Judicial Appropriation bill and Mr. But
ler addressed the Conitnittee sate the ex
penditure of the commiseration. He at
tacked Mr. Dawes, for like Ham, " dis
covering the nakedness of the administra
tion and leaving him (Butler) to act the
part of Shem and • Japhethi and cover its
nakedness. " At the conclusion of his
speech, Mr: DAPCS Moved that the Com
mittee rise, but gure notice that he would,
when the committee was again in session
show the truth of hr. former Statements,
and the occasion and propriety of making
them. He then briefly responded to the
personal attack upon him made by Butler
and the radical press. At the conclusion
of his remarks the committee rose, and
the house adj.
SENATE, Jan 27.—Petitions for the ab
olition of the franking privilege were re
ceived. John G. Lewis was sworn in as
Senator from the state of Virginia. The
Mouse joint resolution prohibiting assess
ments upon or collections from subordi
nate officials to make presents to their su
perior dicers, was passed. The resolu
tion relating to the recent seizure of dis
tilled spirits in San Francisco, was indefi
nitely postponed. A bill to establish a
port of delivery at Omaha. Nebraska, was
passed. The currency bill taken up, and
Mr. Howe reviewed the various proposi
tions before the Senate.. He was followed
by Messrs. Merrill of Vermont. Morton
Sawyer and Patterson. The senate with
out action on the bill adj.
i The house by unanimous consent a
!number of hill, were introduced and re
ferred. The hill to amend the Virginia
bill by construing the word "oath" to in
clude affirmation was passed. Several
resolutions of inquiry were offered and
adopted. Mr. Platt, radical, and Messrs.
Ridgway and Milnee. Conservatives, mem
bers elect from Virginia, were sworn in.
Mr. Wood objected to Mr. Porter, radical,
being sworn in, on the ground that he
had been tried, convicted and sentenced
to six months imprisonment, which sen
tenec was approved by Major Gen. Benj.
F. Butler for using treasonable language.
Mr. Porter was then sworn in. The post
office committee reported a bill abolishing
the franking privilege—yeas 174, nays,
14. The Cortimittee on elections reported '
a resolution that H. D. Foster was not
entitled to a seat from the twenty first
Congressional district., and that John Co
code was. The house went into commit
tee of the whole. Mr. Dawes then ad
dressed the committee in reply to Mr.
Butler's speech, and reiterated his former
assertions iu reference to the extravagance
of the government At the conclusion of
his speech the committee ruse and the
house soon after adj.
The Tai on Retailers of Produce.
The following letter from the Commis
sioner of Internal Revenue will be read
with inteuest by those who buy and sell at
our markets :
" Complaints are made at this office
that the Assistant Assessors are giving
too strict a construction to the law and
the ruling under which a person who
makes it his business to sell the products
of his own farm from a stall or stand, is
required to pay a special tax as produce
broker.
-ic is enacted in paragraph 13 or sec
tion 79, act of June 30, 1864, that every
person, other than one having paid the
special tax as a commercial broker, or cat
tle broker. or wholesale or retail dealer, or
peddler, whose occupation it is to buy or
sell agricultural or farm products, and
whose annual sales do not exceed ten thou
sand dollars, shall be regarded as a pro
duce broker.
" In determining the liability of a far
mer to the special tax of a produce broker
it is necessary to inquire whether it is his
occupation to buy Qr sell agricultural or
farm products, and also whether he is ex- 1
empted from that tux by any `other pro
vision
of the statute. It is provided in
section 74 of the art of June 30, 1864, as ,
amended by the act of July 13, 1866, that
no special tax shall be required of produ
cers for selling their own products at the
place of production, Lte., and in paragraph
32, of section 79, that no mall shall be ra
quired to pay a special tax for pedlin t'
"the products of his own farm or garden
" These are the only exemptions I find.
If as it has been claimed, it was not the
intention of Congress to tax a farmer for
belling the products of his own farm in
any way whatever, it would seem strange
why these special limited exemptions and
exceptions should have been made in his
favor. Why should he have been exemp
led from a sum existing tar ? However
desirous I may be to relieve farmers from
tax for selling the products of their own
farms, lam unable to find any legal au
thority to do it, it is their occupation to
' sell them, unkss they fall within one of
the exemptions or exclusions above men
tioned. The ruling, under which a person
who makes it his occupation to sell the
products of his own farm from a stall or
stand is required to pay a special tax as
produce broker, shoula be constructed
frith the utmost liberality, giving him the
benefit of all doubts respecting his liabili
ty. It cannot ordinarily be said to be the
occupation of a farmer to sell his products.
It his occupation to raise them. The sell
ing is an incident to the production. It
is only when he makes such selling his
regular and constant business that he
should be required to pay the tax.
" Assessors will, therefore give their as
sistants the necessary instructions, and
will take special pains to cause a liberal
construction of the law in this behalf to
wards producers."
[Signed]
READ Orr.—The llurrishurg Tekyroph
reads Senator Lowry out of the radical
party; cause he will not be inAramental
in allowing Watt, of Philadelphia, who
holds a fraudulent certificate of eleetiuu,
to usurp the seat of Diamond, the regular
ly elected Democratic member.' rbe ref
egraph sae:
" Mr. Morrow 11. Lowry, has definitely
left the Republican party. But with the
devillish malignity of the unclean spirit
he has torn her before he departed. How
ever much ho may have injured her, how
ever permanent that injury may prove.
this at least is it consolation.: We have at
last.been relieved or his presence,. and
time—while it will cure our hurts--will
warn us against again trusting a man
whose private Character and public career
are alike a warning to be studied and avoi
ded."
—A man of 101 years, has just moved
to Chkago, aqd they aro happy them
over the Idea that one•oitizen is likely to
remain sr resident for. the , rest of his days.
The Gli,eatTornado.
CAVE Celli Ity., January 18. j
particalats or the doings otitiet9T
tad. which cut off and deirtolished veer
ly one third of this little town •yesterday
morning will never be known. Ihe stottn
had a beginning apd an end,' andlthe
end was not more than two minutes later
than the beginning ; but a description of
the scene, during those two minutes, or of
the sad havoc which was the result of the
storm, can have no beginning, and can
never be made complete. The storm be
gan about 5 o'clock in the morning With - "
a heavy fall of hail, which continued but
fur a moment, and was immediately fol
lowed by a long continuous sheet of flame
lasting another moment. The wind
stoma then commenced its terrible work.
No words can portray an idea of the
scene. Those who had witnessed the
most terryfying• battle scenes say they
never saw or heard, or felt or conceived of
anything so perfectly hideous and terrify
ing as the bowling of the winds, the vivid
flashes of lightning, the crashing of hou
ses, the drenching rain, the heart rending
shrieks, and piteous wailings of the tern
fled and the wounded, the whole of which
occurred in two minutes, or probably less
time. Thu wind shrieked, screamed,
howled and roared. By the occasional
flashes of lightning, it could be seen that l i
the air was filled with flying trees, timber,
houses, fragments of houses, stables, and
buildings of till kinds, furniture, stoves
and cooking utensils, clothing, bedding,
animals, fowls and every conceivable
thing, animate and inanimate, that came
I within the range of the storm. If the
fiend had furni, it was that of a heavy,
angry cloud, which swept the earth, aid
tore everything it touched from its fixed
place. The crash was quick and;terrifie,
but the noise of the breaking houses was
music compared with the bellowing winds
that preceded it. The destruction was
complete.
About fifty houses were demolished,and
there is not to be found a portion of a
building, a piece of. furniture, an article
of jewelry, an article of clothing or bed
ding, a book or a pieta of ware of any
kind that is worth the sum of fifty cents.
The remains of the houses may serve for
firewood, the fragments of furniture fur
kindling, the clothing and bedding for
old rags ; but there is nothing left within
I that track of a half mile in width, and
I extending at least twelve or fifteen miles
in length, except in two or three singular
instances, that is worth a farthing, or ev
er will be, in the way it was originally de
; si,:ned.
l'he total loss can never be estimated.
It is enough to know that several hun
dred persons are homeless, without cloth
ing, or food. except such as they have re
ceived from kind hearted citizens. Most
of the destitute are poor and unable to
purchase clothing or furniture. or even
food, even if they could find houses to live
in. Eleven will be taken to their narrow
homes to day. It is indeed wonderful
that this Daintier is so small How any
creature could exist in that storm and
survive is a mystery beyond the compre
hension of even those who were in the
thickest of it.. Many of the survivors
were terribly lacerated and bruised by the
flying splinters and timbers, and some of
the dead were shockingly crushed and
mangled.
The Infatuation of Gambling.
The in fa t nation of gambling is strongly
illustrated by a tale told by one Collins,
employee in the Boston city treasury,
who has &vn arr,sted fo stealing from the
department about ttlU,OOO mostly in gold.
Collins says :
" When arrested I bad $2,400 in gold
and some few green backs—some 170 or
180 odd dollars. I there acknowledged
that I had been gambling, and also that
it was with money belonging to the city
of Boston. No one induced me to play,
I have played before and won. A few
days ago, a near relative asked a loan from
me of $l5O. I had but eighty ;
I gave
fifty and took the other thirty, and played
at 135 Court street ; I lost it; I thought
I would try again ; took $65 from the
treasury and lost that ; I next day took
$l5O with the same result ; nest day $4OO
with no better luck ; I saw no way to re
cover myself, and day after day I drew
and lost, lost, lost; I had gamblQ before;
I played when I was in the water board
at city hall, and lost $lOO, but this was re
covered for me ; in California I made
money, and returning, I took an oath, to
myself that I never would again gamble ;
but—l have broken my resolution ; the
amount I have taken, which is about
$9,000, has been lost in gambling; hardly
$5O has been spent for cigars or hack.
hire.
The day he was arrested he secreted
$5,000 in gold in his desk, intending to
tyke the night train for New York and
the steamer for Europe. The $2,400 were
" to pay expenses" with.
- -
We are called upon to record the death
of one of our must estimable citizens, Da
vid Bates, Esq., who sank quietly to his
final rest on 1 nesday morning last. Mr.
B. was well known alike in the circles of
business and literature combining, as he
did, in an unusual degree, the strongest
practical sense with the finest poetic inns
gination. He was born in Hamilion Co.,
Ohio, on the 6th of March 1809, and in
early life had a severe struggle with for
tune. On coming to Philadelphia, he en
gaged in business as a broker, but he al
ways found those " hours of leisure which
even the busiest may create," wherein to
court the muse, and was known among
his bit-iness associates as the " broker po
et." His poem," Speak Gently," has be
come a household word, not only in this
but in other countries, while the popu
larity of many other gems from his pen
attests his genius., Ho was a frequent
contributor to the prominent magazines,
several years ago, and in 1849 published a
volume of poems under the title of" The
Eolinn," which met with rapid sale. In
all the relations of life he was sans pear el
sans reproche, maintaining unto death
that integrity of character and nobleness
! of soul which are the jewels of n good,
man's life. In hie departure, society totes:
one of her worthiest members, literature
an ornament, and a sorrowing family its,
nearest dearest friend.—Dkv. • '• '
" C. DELANO."
—There is a man in Philadelphia, not
yet thirty-two years old, and doing about :
a million dollars worth of business, every
year iu clothing, who , has already on his
life nearly ono hundred thonsand dollars
of life insurance and is continually adding
to it. That shows how a man who knows
how to make money regards life insur
ance. His largest pohcv, (s2.o,(XXR_fis
taken with the Amencanlitc Ifiluihmco
Company of Philadelphia. ' • - • .
Obituary
Fashions tbr February.
49 remarkable changes have taken ,
ptao,in fashion since the advent oft.hertor me=
abort \FOAL' ig dresses, and the"traina fur 4.D a a b ,
eienink wear. The difference between
tbiS winter and last consists mainly in the
.factAhatecloaks are more worn, iadiet ap
parently finding suits hardly wurni - e - iiiiugh
for our cold climate; also, in additional
height of the hats and bonnets, and-the
vogue of the handsome Astrachan tars
which have been received with great,:fii
vor.
—.Fitriernot -much used - for- trimming: ,
though it is somewhat taIV . VI-: it is
probably . toiicostly;and hits too much com
petition in newer and fresher styles toren
der it popular.
The arrangement of sliairls as cloaks
and mantles, which commenced here last
winter, is very common this season, and
therefore less distiuguishetL Plaid shawls
as well as cashmere shawls, are arranged
in this way—plaid shawls being also worn
as Arabs.
Cashmere shawls are simply looped up
in the middle of the back, and confined
at the waist with an ornamental tas s el
containing the cashmere colors: The
neck is laid in folds at the back, and fin
ished with an ornament corresponding to
the waist. The unique pattern of a real
India shawl is seen to great advantage in
this close-fitting disposition Of it, but it
soon gives it a worn and somewhat shabby
appearance.
Velvet cloaks have been established
so closely in the affections of American
hulks that it would be extremely difficult
to displace them. And after all, there is
nothing so handsome and ladylike as a
costume composed of a well-cat velvet
cloak, richly trimmed with lace d a neat, ,
graceful set of furs and a becoming velvet
bonnet, with feathers to match as a decor.
ation. The effort to get rid of upper
skirts has not at present succeetPd. l'hey
are as fashionable as over with both long i
and oshort dresses. With trained dresses
they are made longer than formerly.
The fashionable use of China crape in
white, pink, blue, and - corn color, has
broughtl into regulation crape shawls for
tunics and over-dresses. These shawls are
looped on the back or sides very high, but
fall in deep festoons. The fringe forms
a bordering, and additional trimming is
arranged with ruches of satin ribbon above
the fringe, and loops or round bows of
satin ribbon as ornaments.—Demorexrx
Monthly.
Drunkenness In the OW Time
A law to prevent drunkenness by prohib
iting the public promiscuous sale of in ha
, icating drinks was by no means original
.in the State of Maine. The vice is as old
'as our race. Our ultimate ancestors, the
Vikings, drank fire-water upon earth and
quaffed mead in Paradise; our more recen t
progenitors in Great Britain drank gin and
groveled. A gin-shop in Southwark,'
London, a hundred and thirty years ago
had this alluring sign: "Drunk for a penny
dead drunk for tuppence: clean straw for
nothing." What more could man, the
nun , - of his Maker, ask? And is it won
derful that Swift, diseased and half fren
zied, poured out his profuse contempt on
Lapilli and the Honyhnlinms ? People
often died of drunkenness in the taverns ;
and there was a temperance party, even
then, that demanded a prohibitory
and they succeeded in carrying a bill
• dim' Parliament which laid upon liquor
t a , heavy that it became too costly
for the por, and which prohibited the
gsale of drams. Sir Robert Walpole, whose
b, ozing orgies at Ilaughton are not un
known, finally acquiesced in the law.—
: Harper's Magazine for January.
Every reader of the Deapwrat
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r. DEAFNESS, BLINDNESS
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that Jodicious etimut lion le required. To resort
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to Illercl ao. ere inq man. Yet is done every day. Yew.
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the teeth of the great fact that physical weekoeste
alt the uvrvon• disturbance. that accompany it. IS =CO
rapidly Rod C. lately removed by ifostetter's Ditties
than by any other medicine at present Moon. It fe tree
that general debility is often attended with torildityler
irregularity of the bowels, and that this symptogreggli
not be.overlooked. Tut while the discharge of the write
matter of the system Is expedited or regulated, Hireling
must be recruited. The Bitters do both. They combine
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acts directly, it gives a healthy and permanent impetus
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