shocked at Old Regintdd'a dishonestytbat
not only did he decline to corroborate his
story, but actually, and I think very , prop
erly, identified him as an accomplice.
And Old Reginald was also sentenced to
penal servitude, and he and the ;Honest
Burglar worked for many years together
on the same works, and had many oppor
tunities of talking thematter, over
_film
its moralsocial and political point of view.
—London Fun.
%be L i: ontrost, ganotrat
- 3. B. HAWLEY, EDITOR.
WEDNESDAY. MEAT S. 1841.
"DEAD ISSUES."
It has become a dogmatical maxim
with the colons of the Radical party, to
parade before the people the mazy illusion
that they are, the only progressive party,
and that their heretical doctrine that the
glorious Magna Charts, which was con
ceived in the blood of our Revolutionary
fathers, and reduced to the practical science
of a republican form of government by
the pure minds of the Washingtons,
Jeffersons, Hamltons, and Monroes, is "a
covenant with Hell and in league with the
devil," and might do for the "old fogy"
Democracy who guided our prosperous
ship of State in days of unequalled pros
perity, but that all such "issues are dead."
We notice even that some of our Demo
cratic politicians who get their ilk from a
few of the Metropolitan journals take up
the cue, and attempt to gain popularity
by the same cry of "away with dead issues,"
which demonstrates the fact most clearly,
that, "evil communications corruptood
manners." What is meant by adead
issues ?" We ask those who flaunt this
before the world to explain, and tell the
people of this nation, the true meaning.
With the advent of the present party
in power came one of. the severest strug
files for sectional predominence that the
world ever saw, and the "then living is
sue," as proclaimed by the Radical leaders
was to maintain the dignity of the Con
stitution, and resent an unwarrented in
sult to the national flag, and a nations
blood and treasure were poured out
at the feet of its rulers, with a unauimity
''of feeling and zeal, unparalleled in the
nals of history. During four years of
ar the people under that partisan
cination, necessity, surrendered many
off' heir personal and state rights, altho'
under, protest, into the hands of their
Executive, and ;the very Constitution
which was assumed to be maintained was
ignored as a present emergency under the
pretext that when peace should again
encompass our borders it would be re
instated. Five years of peace have passed
under Radical rule and we charge 'upon
the political demagogues who have manip
ulated, the peoples' rights, for their own
base purposes, that they have not only
refused to release the nation from the
galling fetters of tyranny imposed upon
them under military sway and the plea of
necessity, but base boen constantly
usurping, one after another, their con
stitutional liberties, until the danger of a
military dictator, now surrounds us.
Well and truthfully may Radicalism raise
the cry of "dead issues," for these are the
tissues that led our forefathers to rise in
their might and forswear allegience to a
government that usurped their rights
without just representation. Glad in
deed-would. the Radical usurpers be if
they could paciffthe restive' wi-vves, with
the cry of "dead issues" until they can
strike the bud guarantee of personal
freedom, and republican government frOm
the nation's archives. True Democracy
may submit peaceably to the powers that
be, and bide the time when the down
trodden masses may speak in thunder
tones at the ballot box, but never until
the ono tree and tiring isstrei the rein
stating of the Constitution and &republi
can form of government which has been
made null and reid by a Radical "Rump
Congress," aided by a would be military
usurper, shall be decided. As well might
we say that the principles and teaching of
,the Holy Bible are "dead issue's" to mod
ern progressive Christianity, as .to say
that the pure principles of Dem:it - lacy
which gave us "libertyand the pursuit of
happineits", under it wise Constitution, are
sass liringiesues to-clay as in the days
of '76. W,estrust return to those first
principles; and carry back to our Nation
al shrine, the gods of liberty, and pure
deniocracy, or republican government will
surely prove a failure, and some aspiring
"military usurper" will wield a Kingly
scepter.
—Gold was quiet on Saturday and
nearly steady, the only fluctuations
throughout the day being 1111 and 1111.
The opening and closing figures were
1111, the Mite as, before reported. Ster
ling gichauge, 122ia123}.
E'St will be seen by the apportion.
*lit that. Wayne County has been added
to this Senatorial district.
tgrA trial is going' on in the Web- I
field County (Coon.) Court that ont-Her
odiuses HeiWius in enormity. A father,
who has for:years seemed respectable, was
recently found to have been living in in
cestuous relations :with his six daughters.
The horror has been continued for ten
950/TB, and 11118 resulted in the birth of
eight or nine children, some of whom
have, been murdered at birth. .He began
his ructieel when the children were 13
years old, and by threats and the keeping
Oahe girls sway from the eyes of the
public, has prevented the discoverty of
the enormity.until about two months ago.
A t —The Indiana in the West, generally,
siveludication of causing trouble short.
#i 7 they uomplaining That tbeir annuities
are tritheld from them. • -
"...:.,lionfibiree,l 4 .yodele late Secretary
ofState of . inerdemd. at
Sp-infield al : Rota, Way morning.- x t bife
ow hie weyte tlifiAkdr;)rl idation. ,
„ „
TO THE'PEOIML•
ADDRESS BT THE DEMOCRATIC MEMBERS
.OF 00301111:8&
- Vasamororr, April 20.—The - Demo
crat:flu Congress havejust issued the fol
lowing address to the people of the ITui
ted States:
"Our. presence and official duties. at
Washington, have enabled us to become
acquainted with the action and designs of
those who control the radicle' party, and
we feel called upon to utter a few words of
warning againet•the alarming strides they
have made towards centralization of pow
er in the hands of• congress and the exec
utive. The time and attention of the rad
ical leaders has been almost, wholly di
rected to devise such legislation as will,
in their view, best preserve their ascendin
g, and no regard for the wise restraints
imposed by the constitution has checked
their reckless and desperate career. The
President of the United States has been
formally announced as a candidate for re
election. The declarations of his selfish
supporters have been echoed by a enbsid
ized press, and a discipline of party has
already made adhesion to his personal for
tunes, the supreme test of political fealty.
The partisan legislation, to which we re
fer, was decreed and shaped in secret can
ens, where the oxtremest counsels always
dominate, and was adopted by a subser
vient majority, if not with the intent, cer
tainly with the effect to place in the hands
of tho President power to command his
own nomination, and to employ the ar
my, navy and militia at his sole discre
tion, as a means of subserving his person-
al ambition. When the sad experience
of the last two years, so disappointing to
the hopes and generous confidence of the
country, is considered in connection with
the violent utterances and rash purposes
of those who control the President's pol
icy, it is not surprising that the gravest
apprehensions for the future peace of the
nation should be entertained. At a time
when labor is depressed, and every mater
ial interest is palsied by oppressive taxa
tion, the public offices have been multi
plied beyond all precedent to serve as in
struments in the perpetuation of power.
Partisanship is the only test applied to
the distribution of this vast patronage.
Honesty, fitness and moral worth are
openly discarded in favor of truckling sub
mission and dishonorable compliance.
Hence enormous defalcations and wide
spread corruption have followed as the
natural consequences of this pernicious
system. By the official report of the sec
retary of the treasury, it appears that af
ter deduction of all proper credits, many
millions of dollars remain due from ex
collectors of internal revenue, and that
no proper diligence has ever been used to
collect them. Reforms in the revenue
and postal system, which all experience
demonstrates to be necessary to a frugal
administration of the government, as well
as a measure of relief to an over burden
ed people, have been persistently post
poned or artfully neglected, Congress
now adjourns without having attempted
to reduce taxation, or to repeal the glar
ing • impositions by which industry is
Crushed. and impoverished. The treasury
is over-flowing, and an excess of $80,000,-
000 of rrenne is admitted, and yet in
instead of some measure of present relief
a barren and delsuive resolution is passed
by the senate to consider the tariff and
excise systems hereafter, as if the history
of broken pledges and pretended reme
dies furnished any Letter assurances for
future legislation than experience has
done in the past. Ship building and the
currying trade, once sources of .national'
pride and prosperity, now languish under
a crushing load of taxation, and nearly
' every other business interest is struggling
without profit to maintain itself.
Onr agriculturalists, while paying
heavy taxes on all they consume, either
to the government or to monopolists, find
the prices for their own products so re
duced that honest labor is denied its re
ward, and industry is prostrated by in
vidious discrimination. Nearly 200,000,-
000 acres of public lands which should
have been preserved for the benefit of the
people, have been voted away to great
corporations, neglecting our soldiers, and
enriching a handful of greedy speculators
and lobbyists who are thereby enabled to
exercise a most dangerous and corrupting
influence over state and federal legisla
tion. If the career of these conspirators
be not checked the downfall of free gov
ernment is inevitable, and with it the ele
vation of a military dictator on the ruin
of the republic.
Under pretense of passing laws to en
force the fourteenth amendment and for
other purposes, congress has conferred
the most despotic power upon the execu
tive, and provided an official machinery
by which the liberties of the people are'
menaced, and the sacred right of local
self government, into states is ignored, if
not tyranically overthrown, modeled upon':
the sedition laws so odious in history, as
they are at variance with all the sanctified
theories of an institution, and the con
struction given by these radical interpre
ters to the fourteenth amendment, is to
use the language of an eminent senator
[Hr. Trnmbnlll of Illinois, " an annihil
ation of -the states." Under the last en-i
forcement bill, the executive, May, in his
discretion, thrust aside the government
'of any state, strapt.nd the writ of
habeas corpus, arrest its governor, impris
on or disperse the legislation; silence . its
judges and trample down its people under
the iron heel of his troops. Nothing is
left to the citizen or state which cuff any
longer be called a right. 'All is cbange:d
into mere inffrance. Ouihopes for re
dress are in the calm good sense, and the
sober second thought of the American
people. We call upon them to be true to
themselves and their posterity, and disre
garding party-names and minor differen
ces, to insist upon a decentralization of',
power, and the restitution of federal au
thority within its just and proper limits,
leaving to the states that control over do
mestic affairs which is essential to their
happiness and tran9uility and good gov
ernment. Everything that malicious in- .
miinity could suggest has been done to
irritate the people of the middle and
southern states. Gross and exaggerated
charps of disorder and violence owe their
env' fa the Mischievous minds of polit
ical managers in the senate and house
of representatives, to wrhieh the executive
has, welegTet to say, lent his sand thus
helped te'ntenute the popular fieling. In
Al this course of this hostile to islation
and' harsh resentment, no word of concil n
uition, of had encouragement, or frater
nal fellowslnY has ever been - sPoken, by,
the President or by congress, to the people:
of the southern kat& They have, been
addressed only in the language ., of inns;
cription. We eiwnestly'entreatonr tl Mort.
citizens in slip:ids ottlMlTniOnin spite
no effort to nntininia penee‘ and onler; - to
mime kindlyretstiong:4ll3n_en,
and-to discourage any
tlieftlitedrigirpiiition of
the people secured under the constitution,
or any of its amendments. —Let us, in
conclusion, earreatli beg of you not to
aid - the pre s ent attempts of :wheal parti
sans to ritirtin strife in theland, to renew
_the issuetrof.warjo obstruot the return
of peace and, proaperity to the southern
I states, beameeit is thus that, they seek to
divert the attention of the country from
the corruption and extravagance in their
administration of public affairs, and the
dangerous and profligate attempts they
are making towards the re-election of a
centralized military government. In the
five years of rad, folliming the rear the
radical administrations have expended
81,200,000,000 on ordinary purposes
alone, being within $200,000,000 of the
aggregate amount spent for the same pur
poses in war and in peace during the sev
enty-one year's proceeding June 30,1862.
not including in either case the sum paid
upon principal or interest-of public debt.
It is trifling with the intelligence of the
people for the radical leaders. to pretend
that this vast sum has been 'honestly ex
pended. Hundreds of millions of it have
been wantonly squandered. The expend
itures of the government for the fiscal
year ending June 30, 1861, were only
$62,000,000; while for precisely the same
purposes civil list, army, navy, pensions
and Indians, 8164,000,000 were expended
during the fiscal year ending June 30,
1870. No indignation can be too stern
and no scorn too severe for the assertions
by incrupulous radical leaders that the
great democratic and conservative party
of the union has or can have sympathy
with disorders of violence in any part of
the country, or in the deprivation of any
man of his rights under the constitution.
It is to protect and perpetuate the rights
which every freeman chooses; to revive
In all hearts the feeling of friendship, af
fection and harmony, which are the best
guarrantees of law and order; and to
throw around the humblest citizen, wher
ever lie may be, the protecting Agis of
those safeguards of personal liberty which
he fundamental laws of the land assume.
that we invoke the aid of good men in
the work of peace and reconciliation. We
invite their generous co-operation, irres
pective of all former difference of opinion,
so that the harsh voice of discord may be
silenced; that a new and dangerous sec
tional agitation may be checked ; that the
burdens of taxation, direct or indirect,
may be reduced to the lowest point con
sistent with good faith to every just, na
tional obligation, and with a strictly eco
nomical administration of the govern
ment, and that the states may be restored
in their integrity, and true relations to
our Federal Union."
The Force Bill
We give below the main features of the
Ku-Klux bill as passed by Congress, the
remainder being only to enforce the Four
teenth Amendment and protect 13 egroes at
the polls.
Ssc. 8. That in all cases *here the Insurrec
tion, domestic violence, unlawful combinations
or conspiracies in any state shall so obstruct or
hinder the execution of the laws thereof and of
the United States, as to deprive any portion or
class of the people of such state of any of the
rights ; privileges, or immunities or protection
named in the constitution and secured by this
act, and the constituted authorities of such
state shall either be unable to protect, or shall,
from any cause, fail in or refuse protection of
the people in such rights—such Clete shall be
deemed a denial by such state of the equal
protection of the laws to which they are enti
tled under the constitution of the L`nited.
States; and in all such eases, or whenever any
such insurrection, violence, unlawficl combina
tion or conspiracy shall oppose or obstruct the
laws of the United States, or the due execution
tbereoG or impede or obstruct the due course of
justice under the same, it shall be lawful for the
President, and it shall be his duty, to take such
measures, by the employment of um militia or the
land and water forcer of the Unitad States, or of
I either, or by • other meads, as he may deem
necessary for the suppression of such insurrec
tion, domestic violence or combinations; and
any person who shall be arrested under the pro
visions of this and the preceding section shall
be delivered to the marshal of the proper dis
trict, to be dealt with according to law.
Sac. 4. That whenever in any state, or part
of a state, the unlawful combinations named in
the preceecling section of this act shall be orga
nized and armed, and so numerous and power
ful as to be able; by violence, to either over
throw or set at defiance the constituted author
ities of such state, and of the United States
within such state, or when the constituted au
thorities are in complicity with, or- shall con
nive at, the unlawful purposes of such powerful
and armed combinations ; and whenever, by
reason of either or all of - the causes aforesaid,
the conviction of such offenders and the preser
vation of the public safety shall become in such
district impracticable, in every such combina
tions shall be deemed a rebellion -against the
government ot the United States and during
the continuance of such rebellion, and within
the limits of such district which shall be so on.
der the sway thereof, such limits to be prescrib
ed bk proclamation, it shall be lawful for the
President of the United States, when in his
judgment the public safety require it, to sus
pend the privilegeof the writ of habeas corpus
to the end that such rebellion may be over
thrown : Provided, That all the provisions of the
second section of enact entitled "an act relating
to habeas corpus: and regulating judicial pro
ceedings in certain eases," approved Match 8,
IRO, which relates to the discharge of prisoners
other than prisoners of war, and to the penalty
for refusing to obey the order of the Court,
shall be in fall force so Gar as the same are ap
plicable to the provisions of this section : Pro
vuiedfurthar, That the President shall first have
made proclamation, as now provided by law,
commanding such insurgents to disperse ; And
provided, alto, Tbat the provisions of this sec
tion shall not be in force after the end the next
regular Makin or congress.
Sze. 5. That no person Admit be a. grand or
petit juror in any court of the United States
upon any inquiry; heating or trial of any suit,
proceeding or Prosecution based upon or aris
ing under the provisions of this act who shall,
in the judgment of the court, be in complicity
frith any such combinations or conspiracy; and
every th 4 juror shall, before entering upon any
Odd" hearing or trial, take and subeeribe
an oath itopen court that he has never, Judi
reedy or.diteetly, counselled, advised or volun
tarily aided any such combination or conspiracy;
and each and every person who shall take this
oath and shall therein swear falselyshall be
guilty of pm•jum am:18Wl be object to the
pains and penalty declared against that crime,
and the first section of the ail entitled" An act
defining additional causes of challenge and -
scribing au additional oath for wand, petit jur
ors in the United States courts ,' approved
June
17,186_2, be and eleventh is hereby repeated.
SEC. That any perion or persons having
knowledge that any of the wrongs conspired to
be done ano mentioned in the second section of
this act are about to he committed, and listing
pourer to prevent or aid in preventing the !lime,
shall neglect orrefuse so to do, and such wide
ful act, te be eOmmitted, each person or.pcolons
shall be liable to the person Inland, or his legal
representatives, for all daniages caused by any
such 4rongful act; trith.such named partaln or
persons by reasonablediligeace could Wrier. pre.
vented; and anch &triages train be I. ,, rerM to
an action= thecise in We proper circuit court
or the United Sates, had any number. of per
sons oullty-of such errOneollnct dirWISMI may
be- joined aillefendintitn such sztlou, provided
that such action shall be ,corturrenced within
"cine.ye.ar alter such cause of rittion _shall bare
accrued.; .and,.if- the death of may person shall
hocanied by stieh."sirengful act and neglect.
the lczal repreentatives of swab deceased per
eentiban Urania action therefor:find may ni;
cora4ziatiooo daicatra Rit ;
beratflastAboittiaew•of euth id,o2eitsed pee.
asailfw_tbeishe, or, it Of- e be no widow, lot
tbabea dr,llo4trat, of Vlit • sof such decfneed.
' Leglassitiek - Akseittiniment.' '
Below we give the Apportionment of
the State into Senatorial and Assembly
districts, together with the number of tax
ables in each district, tut passed by; .. the
Legislature,
, minting •
. sm. Mai.
: : 158,622 4
Chester and Delaware : : : 29,910 1
Montgomery : : : 21,520 1
Bucks and Northampton : : 81,705 1
.Lancaster : : 28,525 1
- Schuylkill : .1: r 28,142 1
Lehigh and Carbon ' : : 24,588 1
Berke : 25,003 1
Dauphin and Lettinon : 22,945 1
Luzerne, Monroe and Pike : 49,054 2
, Bratlford,Susqlreh'a,Wayne,Wyoming 82,0e4 1
Lycoming,Montour,Columbia,Sulliven 23,292 1
Cameron, McKean, Potter, Tioga 16,002 1
Snyder, Perry, Northumberland : 20,127 1
Clinton, Carnbria, Clearfield, Elk 22,047 1
Cumberland and Franklin : : 22,278 1
Adams and York : • : 25,190 1
Bedford Fulton, Blair, Somerset 2,4,018 1
Centre,Juniata, Mifflin, Huntingdon 23,745 1
Allegheny . . . . 85,995 8
Indiana and Westmoreland : 25,658 1
Fayette and Greene: : : 18,502 1
Bever, Butler, Washington .• 80,184 1
Clarion, Jefferson, Armstrong, Forest 21,582 1
Lawrence, Mercer, Venango : 29,727 1
Crawford • • • • • 17,853 1
Erie, Warren : : : : 23,049 1
lIOC6P. APPOIITIONSIDLIT.
DISTRIC'tEI
Philadelphia : :
Adamas : : :
Franklin : : :
Armstrong : : : :
Beaver, Butler, Washington
Bradford, Fulton :
Berke :
Blair : : : :
Bedford : : :
Bucks : : : :
Cambria : :
Potter, McKean : :
Carbon, Monroe : •
Allegheny :
Chester : : :
Centre : : : :
Clearfield : • : :
Clarrion, Forest
' Clinton, Lycoming, Sullivan
Cumberland
Columbia : : :
Crawford :
Dauphin, Perry : : :
Delaware : :
Eric : : : : :
Elk, Cameron, Jefferson
Northumberland, Montour
Pike, Wayne : : :
Schuylkill ; : :
Snyder, Union : :
Susquehanna, Wyoming :
Fayette : : : :
Huntingdon : : :
Indiana : : :
Juniatta, Mifflin : :
Lancaster : : :
Lawrence • • •
Tioga : : : .
Venango :
Warren
Westmoreland
York
Greene :
Somerset
Lebanon :
Lehigh : :
Luzerno :
Montgomery .
Mercer
Northampton
Death or Hon. Jame► El. Minion
This distinguish Virginia statesman
died near Alexandria, •in that State, on
the evening of the 28th ult. James Mur
ray Mason was the grandson of Colonel
George Mason, the brat of the family who
rose to prominence in this country, and
was born in Analostan Island, Fairfax
county, Virginia, on the 3d of November,
1798. He received a good education,
which was completed at the University of
Pennsylvania, in Philadelphia, where be
graduated in 1818. He then studied law
at the college of William and Mary, in
Virginia, and was admitted to the bar in
1820. At an early age he torned his at
tention to the subject of politics, and was
chosen to represent his district in the
Virginia House of Delegates in 1826, a
position in which he immediately exhibi
ted those traits of character which were
consincnous in after life He was twice
re-elected to that position. In 1837 lie
was elected to Congress, and in 1847, en
tered the United States Senate, as succes
sor to Senator Penpypacker, serving by
successive re-elections until the outbreak
of the war, the last term for which he had
I been elected not expiring until 1863. For
several sessions he acted as Chairman of
the Senate Committee on Foreign Rela
tions, in which position he was frequen'ly
brought into more than ordinary promi
nence. When Virginia joined the other
Southern States in the late outbreak, Mr.
Mason followed his State, and was ap
pointed a Commissioner from the Confed
erate government to England. The seiz
tire of Mr. Mason and his associates by
United States officers on board a British
vessel created a decided sensation at the
ime, and after some correspondence be-
tween the two governments they were re
leased, and proceeded to their destination.
At the close of the war, Mr. Mason re
turned to this country, and has •sinced_
lived in, retirement in his native State.
The wife of Mr. Mason was a member of
the Chew family, of Germantown, and
thus he was, in' some measure, connected
with Pennsylvania. Mr. Mason's talents
were practical and useful, rather' than
showy and brilliant. He was well inform
ed upon political matters, and belonged
to the old school of Virginia statesmen,
whose wisdom; foresight and patriotism
were conspicuously displayed_ in the early
history of the country. The public life
of Mr. Mason was unsullied by an act re
flecting upon his personal purity or integ
rity, while in all social relations he was
kind, genial and blameless.
The National Teachers' Anoelatlon.
The meeting of the National Teachers'
Association for the present' year will be
held at St. Louis, Missouri, commencing
on Tuesday, August 22d. The National
Superintendents' Association ' and the
National Normal School 'Association will
meet at the same.time and place. And
we see it stated that the Central College
Association, " composed of college pro
fessors of the ten or twelve States from
Tennessee to Pennsylvania twelve,
Minneso
ta, will, this yeAr merge their deliberations
in those of the National Teachers' Asso
cietion.n Altogether, these various bodies
must take to St. Unison the occasion re;
ferred to, more of the influential educa
tors of the nation. than ever before assern , '
bled at one time and place Land it, cannot
be doubted that St Louis will receive-and
entertain than all 3vitp true Western boa.
pitulity.
GRANT% itzturics.—="The Orknow
eth his owner, and thi ass his master's
crib." it is on - this - principle that Grant
'hopes for renomination. As the people
draw away froin him, he falls back-on his
officeholders for Support Those• who
stand tire he'rehiiniv -,Thcise who sbow
signi_of - defection be turns out • - He has
already Cut id iblibeads Of sOino; , of. the
friends of Sumner, TrombullandSohnrs;
aMI hisis noirbringing to .the bkck those
:realm lubiVreelpf-A. r. Now :-
—Difficulties have arisen in the Peace
Congress at Brussels.
are,fieeing frum_Paris at the
rate of two thousand a
—The inble-repcirts'the death of Thal
berg,. the Olebmted.pianist.
—The workmenpf Paris, on'SaturdaY,
issued a revolutionary address. _
—More prisoners released•by the Ger
mans have just arrived in France.
--The imprisoned Archbishop of Paris
is reported to have been released:
. —The wounded soldiers of thelate war
as well as eivilans have been impressed in
Paris. ,
—Fort d'lssy has been abandoned, the
garrison becoming panic-stricken and
mutinous.
—M. Thiers is charged with using
Prussian weapons of *warfare against the
insurgents.
—The soldiers of the Versailles army
are accused in Paris of shooting some of
their prisoners.
—The Lower House of the Austrian
Reicharath has ratified the naturalization
treaty with the United States.
—On Saturday a Masonic procession a
half a mile long planted their banners on
the ramparts of Paris under a heavy fire.
TAXA- 11E11-
—Throughout all of Friday and Satur
day the forts south of Paris were vigorously
bombarded; and the Nationals prepared
to ationdon them.
—The troops of the Commune are rep
resented to be only twenty-five thousand
ii number and rapidly falling off owing
to the murderous fire of the enemy s
guns.
—The Napoleonists consider that the
Versailles Assembly does not represent
the popular will, and that when present
strife is ended it will be necessary to con
sult the people anew on the question of
government
Mississippi Crevasse.
Nxvir ORLEANS, April .24.—Assistant
State Engineer Hatch, writing yesterday
from Bonnet Carre crevasse, says, It is
now six hundred to six hundred and fifty
feet wide, and a vast volume of water rush
es through with a roar like thunder, pil
ing itself np in the middle in the form of
an arch, of which the centre is five or six
feet higher than the sides.
The torrent has cut its channel through
the front Battu° and far out into the fields
to the depth of probably forty feet, while
steadily foot by foot the great levee crum
bles into its boiling waters. The closing
of this crevasse is beyond the range of
possibilities, so the nest best thing is to
prevent, if possible, the widening of the
breach. A continuous sheet of water ex
tends from here to lake Pontchartrain and
for many milei above and below. This
disaster is great and deplorable, but is be
yond reach of remedy, as every one who
has seen it admits.
LOUISVILLE, April 24.—The crevasse
which occurred in the levee of the Missis
sippi river at Bonnet Carre Point, above
New Orleans, some days ago, has been
gradually increasing in extent until. it is
now entirely beyond control. It was last
evening 650 feet wide and eighteen feet
deep. The danger to the city of New Or
leans, the Jackton railroad and our tele
graph lines are very serious.
NEW ORLEANS, April 24.—A dispatch
from Bonnett Carre to-night says the cre
vasse has been gradually increasing in ex
tent until it is now entirely beyond con
trol. It is nearly 1,000 feet wide and from
twenty to thirty feet deep. The entire
country for miles is one vast sea of water.
The damage to property - is incalculable.
NFW ORLEANS, April 29.—The Bonnet
Carre crevasse is over twelv,e hundred feet
wide. There is no change in the situation
there.
Washington Matters.
Mr. Jay, the American Minister to
Austria, contradicts the report, in the
Vienna journals, that he is to be trans
ferred to Constantinople. He states that
he is going to visit Turkey and Greece,
and will return to Vienna. •
Of the twenty-one members of the
Joint Confinjtttee to inquire into the Ku-
Klux outrages, eight are Democrats, there
being six Representatives and two Sena
'tore. The Committee will meet on th 10th
of May.
During the first session of the XLIId
Congress, appropriations to the amoun t of
81,313,098 were made.
April 20th, the President issued a proc
lamation for the assembling of the Sen
ate on the 10th of May, "to act upon
such communications as may be made to
it on the part of the Executive."
The Mexican Claims Commission makes
but little headway with the business be
fore it. It is said the President will ask
for it an extension of time.
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Patrick,. cGinness recently applied to
the Chief '. Police for force to put him
in the Will e House, which he claimed as
his office, having been elected by the peo
ple. A change was deemed advisable for
him, and he was shipped to. Rhode Is
land.
Senator Sumner is about the only Sen
ator who will not leave Washington prior
to the special session. Ho is overhauling
the questions involved in the treaty to be
submitted to the Senate by the Joint High
Commission. It is said that the Joint
High Commission has made such progress
with the qustions before it, that its labors
will be concluded by the last of April.
LEGAL TENDER ACT CONSTITUTIONAL.
The decision of the Supreme Court on
the cases involving the constitutionality
of the Legal Tender act of 1862, will be
announced in open court May.lst. The
decision bas.already been made, it is said,
in favor of the act. Justices Miller, Davit,
Swayne, Bradley, and Strong toted in the
affirmative, and Chief-Justice. Chase, Jus
tices Nelson, Clifford, and 'Field in the
negative.
We have nothing 116 W to report in rein-.
tion to the miners. The dead-lock con
tinues with seemingly no prospect for
disentanglement. The delegates of three
'large companies met on Monday, in Hyde
Park; but there is no prospect of an Ira-
mediate settlement, so &r as the delegates
are concerned. .
. James Sealy; President,of the W., B.
'A, has issued wean by telegraph..converk
ing the General COVlnciliatPottaville, ter.
day. Attached to the call is a of
the notice published, by, the -Aaseeiated.
Press, that the Centralia miners Were
ready to resume,work. He sayethat.Co
lumbia county-rejects the proposition of
the mrators, but will meet them. in- ar
bitration • • - - - •
Wuddell'entine in Pittston,hos,resumed;
_and is now.il ► fall bast.
Washipgtoo despOph cap Omit the,
Spanish Governmeni is . wry saximis to.
dispose 41-cuall tft-tbeVniteil fitoteq. r-,
The Coal Troubles.
It is alwaA,,well to avoid saving every
thing that Atm:Troyer: but it is especial
lylfo before ebild.ren. And here-parents,-
akOiliers, are often at fofilt. Child
ren hayoaa many ears as grown persins,
aiiil the fare generally more attentive': to
what is"-,sai4„,'hefore 'them. What they
hear, they are very apt to repeal,' - and
they have no discretion, and not suffi
cient knowledge of the world to disguise
anything. it is generally found that child
ren and fools speak the truth. :See:limit
littleboy's eyes glisten while you are
speaking - of ismeighbor,. iu-langum,, -- you
would not ,wish, to, have repeated. He,
does not fully niidershind What you mean,
but he will remember every word ; and it
will be strange if lie does pot cause you to
blush by its repetition.
A gentleman was in the habit of callin,g
at a neighbor's house, and the lady had
always expressed to him great pleasure
from his calls.' One day, just after she
bad remarked to him, aeusual, her hap
piness from his visits, her little boy enter
ed the room. The gentleman took him on
his knee and asked :
"Are you not glad to see me, Matty ?"
"No sir," replied the boy.
" Why not, my little man ?" he contin
ued.
" Because mother don't want yon to
come," said Matty.
Here the mother became crimson, and
looked daggers at her little son. But he
saw nothing, and therefore he replied :
"Because she said, yesterday, she
wished that old bore would not call here
irrain."
That was enough. The gentleman's
hat was soon in requisition, and he left
with the impression that "great is the
truth and it will prevail.:'
Another little child looked sharply in
the face of a visitor, and being asked what
she meant by it, replied:
"I wanted to see whether you had a
drop in your eye ; I beard mother say yon
had frequently."
A boy once asked one of his fathers
guests: "Who lives next door to you r'
and when his namewas given, asked if he
was not a fool ?
"No, my little friend," replied the guest
"he is not a fool, but a very sensi
ble man. But why do you ask that ques
tion ?"
Because," replied the boy, "mother
said the other diiv, that you were next door
to a fool; and Y wanted to know who
lived nest door to you."
goal Or nielligenct.
Business Matters.
Read Guttenberg & Rosenbaum's Advertise
ment. They are not afraid to advertise ex
tensively because they well know its good ef
fects.
--Sayre Brothers announce the Improved
Hubbard Mower. Now nnttly . at their shop.
—Also the revolving Horse Rake.
—Dr. W. W. Smith dentist gives notice by
card of his place of business.
Improvements.
—fa. J. Brewsteris raising up his dwelling,
enlarging his cellar, and otherwise greatly im
proving it.
—Billing, Stroud has made a very marked
improvement in the property lately purchased
of S. F. Lane, by ditching, draining, painting
and otherwise ornamenting thepremises.
-.-John IL Baynsford basso changed the ap
pearance of the building and lot lately bought
of Bin Crossmon that it would hardly be recog
nized. It is nearly completed so that he will
occupy it soon.
—Dr. Canker has commenced the foundation
for a large barn 40 by 84 feet, as a hotel barn
for the Exchange Hotel kept by C. 31. Bonn.
The timber is nearly framed, and the lumber on
the ground. It will be completed In a short
time.
—Jefferson Griffis has his dwellingnearly com
pleted. It takes rank among the first dwellings
in our boro for style and convenience.
—Tlspough. the enemy of Rev. L. B. Ford, the
pastor, the Baptist church has undergone a
thorough repairing inside, and become quite
modern in its appearance. The Desk and pews
have been materially changed and very finely
cushioned, and grained, and the whole aspect of
the room is vastly improved.
—Marge amount of: other repairing and im
proving bas been, and is now being done, so
much so that the caspenters arc ail driven with
work.
—As fine a pair of Drams oxen es we
have seen in many a clay, were purchased by
us (the boro) last week of N. P. Wheaton of
Franklin, and they are in the hands of Mr.
Henry Sherman our street Commissioner, who
has commenced the work of "mending our
ways" and we may look for some wholesome
improvements in the condition of our streets.
Fire In Bridgewater.
A barn belonging to Robert Kent, of Bridge
venter, about two miles from Montrose, was to
tally destroyed by tire on Mondoy night last,
together with its contents, consisting of bay,
grain; of all kinds, and all his farming tools, and
seven head of fat cattle. The names were first
observed' about nine otelock in the evening, but
when under such headway as not to be control
able. The loss is estimated at trAv to 1111,600:
Mr. Kent has all . his other buildings insured ex
cept this barn, ivhich he considered old and
omitted to insure. :The fire musthave caught
from some unaccountable source, as no one bad
been near the hunt with anything that 'Mild
ignite.
Montiose Rath , ad.
meeting of Stockholders of the Montrose
Railroad was held at Springville, on Thursday,
Aprill7th; for the purpose of organizing the
Company. Notwithstanding the storm..l,thare
was a large attendance, and much interest was
manifested. The Commissioners who have had
the management of the matter hithertOoOw
yielded up their„tru.st i having first, as directed,
by law, appointed three Judges of Election.
They appointed L. F.Eitch, Gem Walker, bed
Amos Nichols.
,On motion the meeting: then
proceeded to tiorkinfiteCindklainffor President:
Only 3. Irwin Blakeslee, of Mauch Chunk, was
nominated for that office.... Nominations for the
twelve Directors were then made;:.att -the
meeting proceeded tervoter by ballot for Candi
dates. The following.oniccravvare elected,: , ;._
PliEttntirr.-4areetiTrwiii Blakeslee-T.,
Dmr.cTotts..Wza. M. -poem-Wm H. Jessup ! ,
EL H. Baire, C. 41. - Mere ond - .P i .l4.ltrown, of
'Montrose; Sylvarnis Tyler, of Dimock.; IL F.
Bliikesleeil EL Thou — R.M. Sherman, of
t 3 G. E. Palen Oitisart,,l*4 8 . 1. 1 64 0 1
Staili,'Of Zink!' iannock.
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Good Templar.,
• The foltonfogininiect tionforui were ee:teden
officers in the Montrose Lodge, No. 443,L O. of
G. T.,•on• lirQu*.eveningr APIA 24th,
term ending" :W r .O. - C T., Henry
Bends; V.Miltottie Elnithonssl34 Cbaties
Istricl.F. W,N. 1.. Co. x,; Frank
;0,,-gerrib V e t.' BettniWOrtig Y.
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tilPile:UcFr t r 3 4 ii 9, 0 714.1 gtl3*-o,ieT..
.Ic-Sneak - Thtet-
A young sneak thief on Friday morning last
who was enjoying the hospitality of Mr. J. H.
Webster of Franklin township by being allow
ed•to stayall.night, arose' about 8 o'clock, ax.
tancted pifcntyfive dollars-which he saw Mr.
Wctatet:'place in a trunk at the foot of his bed
nind saibly decamped, with his booty. Be is
tlescribo as having eddy black hate, dark eyes
and apparently about twenty years-of age.
ctre at tratoadnie.
O geiturday night Ap&22, the atom in
linimidile this county, belonging to Potter &
Ketchum, under the firm name of Gee. D. Pot
tei& - err., was utterly destroyed by fitc. None
of the gotxle,• books, or any thing about the
store were sted, as the fire had completely
enveloPedthe butfAing Defeo it was discovered.
The Post 01fir.e and Its contents; which was
kept in the store were also bitmed, and about
$4O or $5O in money and stamps, It fa con
jectured that the fire originated frem the stove
pipe in the uppikereoax- as they Itsct been burn
ing a Wood fiM muff quite a late hour in the
evening; The loss is estimated at $7,000 or
$B,OOO. Thege was an insurance on the stock of
goods for $4,800 acid 0,00 tiptin the store build
ing
"New Milford Item?
The following we clip from the Nati/urn
Pennsylvanian of last week :
"Of the 33 Pennsylvania State Senators 18
are, lawyers and 2 farmers, and of the 100 Rep
resentatives 25 are lawyers and 18 farmers, and
not one "typo." This is probably the first in
stance on record in which printers have not
been found In bad company. We are proud
that the craft have soma respect for themselves."
The above statement is the most "neutral" on
politics of anything we have lately seen, end
coming from "the spiciest local paper in North
ern Pennsylvania" makes it still more ponderous.
As there are quite a number of printers In the
Legislature, and Democrats at that, would it
not be welt enough for Mr. bailer to more fully
explain himself eo that his readers may be a
iittle'better posted? In his " etrict mamma' to
local matters; be undoubtedly referred to the
Town Council of New Milford Boro, or his
"neutrality" on politics will be considered gross
ignorance,
Large Eagle Caught.
Therehad been seen for some little time pro.
vious a very large Eagle hovering about in
West Dim'ock, which had been several times
shot at, and on Monday, April 24th, was caught
alive on the farm of H. N. Crisman where he N
now on exhibition. His eagleship proves to be
of the forked tail species, and of foreign ex
traction, as none of the kind are natives of this
part of the country. Although a prisoner and
at the mercy of his captors, be seems to fall
back upon his dignity and importance as the
king of the feathered race and utterly refuses a
personal examination, or even measurement of
the extent of his wings, and no one yet has felt
safe in attempting it. He is judged to measure
8 feet from tip to tip. The idea stegests itself
that be is cognizant of the effort which 'ffte
great bird fancier," Grant has been making to
stretch the pinions of the "American Eagle"
from the Pacific to San Domingo and he does
not propose to be "stretched."
Odd Fellow's
With odd Fellows. the 213 of April has be
come the grind holiday of their order and is
celebrated ass a day of Thanksgiving. Last
Wednesday, was the .32nd anniversary of the
order and the brothers and sisters of the Lodge
in Montrose hoped ro have the interest of the
occasion greatly increased by the presence of
General Grant and Hon Schuyler Colfax, but
were unfortunately a little too late in extending
their invitation, they having alreinlv accepted'
one from Lafayette Indiana. The public prints
announce that• the day was celebrated at the
latter place in an enthusiastic manner ; that the
President, Vice President, Senators of the
United States and many distinguished men were
present and that the adars of Mr. Colfax was
one of his ablest efforts
But the clisappointmerrt caused by not secur
ing the presence of these distinguished gents,
did not dishearten the brothers and sisters here.
Providence smiled on them in giving them one
of the most pleasant days of the season. The
brothers set up tables in their spacious and
ellegaul tfall, and the sisters! how they did
provide biscuit, loaves and piles of cake, in
endless variety,cofd meat, canned fruits, cheese
elegant batter, =tam, tea and coffee for ex
eellence—noWhere surpassed- - -tho best dishes
were brought end laid upon the etnhs of snowy
whitesiess,aud liberallylntersperseclamong them
In choice vases, were boquets of rare beauty
and fragrance.
A little after 6 o'clock aft was ready those
who had litres took scats beside them at the
tables, and those who had not, sat down beside,'
their mottles:l; sistersonvectbearts or whoever
changed to be tbeir right or left supports. Al)
heads were devotedly bowed, 69 the clergyman
asked a blessing, and straightway all proceeded
to the consideration of the subject before them,
in a manner that evidently meant business.
There was hurrying to and fro among the fair
volunteer waitenkbut no delays, confusion or
mishap, no upsetting of dishes, or emptying
cups of tea or coffee in each others laps, but the
faces of allowere hemming. with joy, and a more
social. happy company is rarely assembled •
aroundri thanksgiving board. ' Thus half en
boar or more was spent. when the tables were
cleared andlettuived„ to leave the room in readi
non for _the exercises of the evening—mean
while two pgitesble 'and unexpected surprises
were effected In the presentation of handsomely
ornamented kwavea, of cake, one to a brother ;
and the other - to a sister., each of whom were ,
unable to express their emotions except briefly
in thanks. •
Over the*ntrer of the Hall, was suspended
the simple but beautiful banner of, the order.
while the : walls were adorned with paintings
trimmed with evergreens. An ex judge, one
of the oldest members of the Ledgeoffidated
as f 'resident, and the - Oiereities` Were opened
and closed with prayerby the cluiplgo. Sever
al choice odesivere tune with the itmompeni
meat of the Ude& flue Organ. A. good deal of
solicitude ]tad been felt in regard to the mimic,
the musical director who had been engaged
gave notice at the last moment, that ,be should
be unable to
,be, present. lad 'thlt'gave way to
; feelings 'of` high' satisfaction. Interspersed
among the piles were , brief speeches. by Past
Brands, which if not of the highest Order were
listened terWilli prtifotitid'tttentitiri. A hearty
vote of thanks, was. tendered by tbe btothets,
to the ladies for their labor of love In prepar
ing and dispensing he bountiful feast, for their
presence axed Wilk*, =dew Utis Tong to be Ye
. membered rfieeting eivae to an end oslittle after
the reasonableleur of 0 o'clock. The widows
and absent ones were not forgotten in the ,die-
Position of die •Itrovbiod: tomatolog, arid' Om
-;all were . hiatelsiord:booiid **dip, fatiato - the
einbraeott the sleepy 00.1.- ?.• '; •"-; •S.
. . .
exclhanga says that there is living
in Reading & this time ii oOrmart who is
the happy father V forty child4n. > He
is 55 yeare otage, and is..iimet.riring.. with
his. third wife, who is'37 years old,' His
'first 8 yefiirs and toormontlis,had
17 ebildien; having had triplete_con Vireo
.
forty t eliiidrp42l were
Ws WA:UOOi 30 :40k4010 ate dela,