-A - 3f - A* Rho ishot - 1611'mM of himself “" need UOLIAC ashamed - a: hisconditiouid • • life 4.1 u pontio.or E. B: ihtWLEY.Banort.: . • mortrnos E. -Vk,N pelt WIIDNESD.I INDECIIXIDEM 18,1872 The Usuit-Questioni__., Wt: have not adverted-to- the nefarious . practices of a heartiest comhination';ol the money coyotes of onr County and State in a long time for the reason that., no means to prevent.theirsavages upon a defenceless community - was at hand:" BPI the time has now arrived . when the, peo ple have the legitimate opportunity to. protect themselves from their wolfish dep redations and render them comparatively harmless, by petitioning to,..the coming legislature that their blood-reeking fangs nay be extracted, leaving them only the power to frighten the' community -with their harmless bowling. They have piac tioNl every cunning and 'ravenous trick of the pilfering coyote, combined with the baser attributes:ol M. .human Shy lock. When financial darkness overtakes the Weary traveler the howl of theomer ciless "wolves in sheep's clothing" may be heard upon his track. True to the in stincts of the cowardly animal they per sonate they do hot attack their_ victim siuglo-hauded and alone, lest ho might beat them off, but the tvlrole " pack" sur round him, and to use Ono of their own familiar teens, they "carry" him until every morsel of useful flesh is picked from his bones, and Itsn—we suppose— they drop him, shediriag, many "crocodile tows" over his sad fate, and the-financial ruin that has overtaken him ; and in their long and hypocritical prayers in the Sanctuary they ask God to " clothe the naked and feed the hungry," and with a pharasaical nod they proclaim that The ways of Providence ,are mysterious.— This is no colored pieturo . but may be ea sily verified. We.haye only to cite the skeptical to the records of our courtsiund the long list of Sheriff sales which appear from time to time in proof of the analo gy of the simile above set forth. We say that now is an opportune time to :.more in this matter. Our State Legislature meetsahe first Monday in January. nod the right of petition is left you, and God helps those who help themselves. We have assurance from our State Senator that ho will act upon all Petitions from the people and do all in his power to have them granted, and from his pronipt action as to the repeal of the " Legal Associa tion" bill, we have no t reason to doubt it, for party politics does not enter into this issue any more than it did in that. We are of the same opinion that we ever have been that the power of money to accumulate, which is a thing of no in trinsic value, but merely, a representative ' medium pf exchange, ii one of the most corruptio'principles in `human society, and liege more idleness from which lows deban hery and crime, than all oth er causes combined. If this power was wholly taken from it the hoarding np of money-bags, a hich men , sell' conscien ce, body and soul,. to accompAsh, that they may gratify their lustful!, avaricious propensities, or live in idleness upon its usurious accumulation, would be robbed of its charm, and the substance which money merely represents would be of more value than money itself, and industry, the basis of wealth, would be fostered, and ifs attendant consequenses, honesty, and, comparative happiness, would bia engen 4ered. But as the root of the evil is not Aron tined to our State, we cannot entirely eradicate it; therefore we dial] be forced- 1 to be content with lopping off some of the branches which shade our Collamon wealtla and retard its prosperity. Let us say to the money Shylocg: and his dam nable practices, "Thus far shalt thou come, anti no farther," and surround him with wholesome restraints, by stringent legislative -enactments. Circulate your petition at once, for we venture that there are not over a hundred men in Sus quehanna County who will not sign it, and that very one- hundred are those whose "teeth need pulling." Nearly the' same condition exists in ,many other parts of the State and all it needs is a little energetic concert of ac tion to rid onr community of the blight ing grip of • the gaunt class of the -",curb stone brokers." 'ffircx General Banks tendered hie res. ignution of the chairmanship of the com mittee on foreign affairs, Butler, at the _head of a few of the most bigoted and "),liter members of his party in the house, I cag,erij voted to accept. Among the them bets Toting with Butler was General Haw the "gentletnin in. politics" who had just taken the oath. : But the resignation was not accepted, and General Banks re ,mains at the head of the committee, ov ,er which he has presided with so 'much ralit au: 'ability. Messrs. Finiworth and Blair, theotwe other liberal eliaiiiaan did net offer residnitions, and they will ,reutain i fs their positions for the remain ing days of the forty.seamd Congress.— in,tl eSenateitis not probable that such vii eel and inagnanimOus pokey "will.lie by the slit! ore toward Trianihull, tiebuq, Tiptop and Penton... Tho admin istration : Senators reietwd theruselveson Sumner)ast year, by: placing . Cameron nt the head`of the committee on f,.treign af fairs, and heis,now heyand the reach 'of farther indignities-at their Hindi. . The rest of Clio lib rdi republiciine,in the gn at will be seit to i4o:l,i9tt,o4,4o„thAirie.:: Compakv : - ini mak ing it -lively fur Jay Goald. Tim claim torrpill ions of dollars tigaiast . and have Ciiinmeneedactions.to recover ..that amount, Gould giree bowls and -goes in for corners as usual,. Trtzislei York Sun relates how the notoriorisloSephitur,Manstieldt succeeded in getting rid . or hell -ill-gstten., When ehe iippearnd in Paris'Some - ireeks ago.she had nith . .her 'about $31,000 in money. This she deposited , with Bowles Bros., the:banking firm which recently failed for so large an, amount. When the failure of, the house ids_ annotinced .she wrung her hands is grief, and declared she wai ruined,: It is not probahlo that she will recover a dollar. This will, be quad-consoling to ninny of the friends of Fisk, 41111. Ifi February next an electien will take place iu Mexico for Supreme Judge of the highest judicial tribunal of the Republic. We hope an honest, courageous man will be chosen, as the Mayor and sevcralulder men of the City 'of Mexico. have been charged with an attempt to commit frauds at the recent eleetion in. that city. If this practice is not nipped in the bud Ly a rigorons application of the law, Mexico will soon be as bad as Philadel phia under !',Ring" dictation. Tim New York-Tribune announces that the fund which tho Herald had generous ly begun to raise for the family of Mr- Greeley is promptly turned into a fund for the erection of a statue in his honor. George W. Childs,. of the Philadelphia Ledger, with characteristic proniptness and liberality, telegraphs that his sub. action. of 81,000 may be used in any. wa he family of Mr: Greeley may indi-• cafe. \The Lleiald gives the same direc tion. to its equal subscription, and many others are doing the same. It io proposed to erect a monument to the memory of Mr, Greeley, to the yalne of 6500,000, the sum of $200,000 being Already subscrib ed. Tam is again trouble in New-Orleans between the opposing wings of the radi cal party. 0n one side is Judge Duren, united States Marshal Pacddrd, Senator Kellogg, and Secretary of State Boree: On the other Governor Warmouth and his friends, hangers-on and dependents. A committee of citizens are now on their Way from New Orleans to Washington. for 'the purpose of remonstrating against the action of Kellogg, Casey, Durell, and others, who claim to act by the authority of the general government, but at-the same time prepared to pledge to the Pres ident the fealty and support of the people of New Orleans in all *just measures.— The fight is a disgraceful one, and as Ca sey is General Grant's relative, and ie in the muddle, it is fair to sappose ind will be extended in that direction'. When Ca sey used Galling guns to break up a po litical convention in New Orleans, he sowed dragon teeth which are now prodn ; cing armed men. TELE people of Sweeden are making known their wishes to the new king, Os car 11, in a very plain and unmistakable marine/. They-favor a reduction of the army, and desirethat the money thus sav ed shall be set aside for the advancement of science, industry, and the - arts of peace. It is also demanded that the practice of giving decoration.s shall be abandoned, because it has been condeined by public opinion. The sovereign is asked to re nounce a surmient portion of the civil service appropriation to rec Time the annu al sum to 1,000,000 rix dollars, which it is claimed itienough for a poor , Country, with only 4,006,000 inhabitatits to 'pay, Civil Servicellefoim is also demanded by the institution of a system of applint- . ment tht shall confer the offices on ac ' count - a:lf merit, irrespective of birth.— , These, together with the reduction of ex lenditurein the way of superfluous Court appointitents and embassies, are the re forms which are - asked by the people of Sweeden. They will not get all the re forms stated, but flints reform movement will be initiated of vast importance to the future welfare of Sweeden, cannot be questioned. Is commenting upon the late , message of Generel Grant, the New 'York Herald which has a soft side to the administra tion,,sais : " But upon his .eteamsbip snbaidles and inland canal schemes, Gen eral Grant is entering upon a field of cost ly experinients, coinpareclwithwhieh our, enormous Pacific Railway grants arid bonds are mere trifles, and the seven mil lions paid fur Alaska were a bagatelle.— Brit if the grantsuf money suggested as the beginning of. these commercial subsi dies are appalling, What will they be in their full developmot? . if we could boast the full redemption of our nation-. al debt, there 'would still 'be something alarming in these sturiendonsprnpositions 1 of trans 7 /illeglieny .- -cundr. made and 1 steamship lines supported by the Trealn ry; but as it is, in our judgment, we hare Ibut the alterilit , sa or atiandoningg these i of costly schemes or the ultitrial . erePidiatiort l our national- - debt. ,Dismissing the ez--, hibits of the .other departments, which ~ we )care already published, and numerous 1 incidental recommendations;' which are generally well-Canaidered, we - Cane to a 1 Catalggrie of inteTruil improyeateilia sag, -ißested for the action of Congress, and to a list of recointnetuded - steamship `ailbai ; diei tii initiri,tlje bfinea3d - !‘ pli3gicitorf 1 iatilit'il Wiii:6sl(lii.n .1 . 2' ';' lautWel -cstimates ilia • t• I 1 ItE spirit of anistitutionul re wm in will not bO able toll:duce the public debt , its progress bus invaded New Hampshire, ! at the rate .01:more than five millions a an d, i n one reei a t ut i cast , no s t a t e s h un t s month dating. the current year, and that in n i n in,n en d of; reformation: prei 1.874' qte reduction 'will not excede ent.coustitetion'of New Hampshire had thirty-three Millions: ,Itimther words he its oi:igitit in 180;,ittutl is therefore the wtll not.pay out more then he will have oldest in existence; :tinder it ,citizetts.l left 'after lfefraying . the expenditures of I pro n . :A- n :1 g tile tab arc ex-,; government: The 'decrease "Of receipts I eluded from office. This provision is an from imports and internal t axa ti on will outgrowth of New tMglandtbigotry, mkt] not permit a - greater dithinution of the - i ts spirit 14.10, be. fonutl„in , many other debt. Asilloutwell's great achievement pallet Ott tlie.l.Tnited'Statis se strong as to in paytngjOff tho. debt, With %-the .money brivelill'th6 folio orlifir:' 'When the Neiv: dcrired•troM taxation offered the party Hampshire constitntion' shall be freed organs a Monthly opportunity to descant from an article which Is adisgrace to , the on the wOntlerful financial skill and e- state, the country, and to the age, it is to eonoiny of the administration, it is be hoped that an equally liberal spirit will cult to tell what they Will •full back on prevail elsewhere, nfter this! withdrawal of political capi tal. Tua Mobile Register of the sth, gives same 'startling facts in relation to the late municipal election in that city, by Veit a Radical Mayor was returned. A full vote in Mobile is about 8,000. At the last election 16,000 votes were returned. How thi was done is thus stated by the Register d " Squads of negroes rode from poll to pill, voted over and over again, openly and defiantly: of duty law, human or tdivinti without let or hindrance. The attempt to arrest double voters early in the day didn't weigh a feather. The rogues wore turned loose as soon as they were, slug up, anevent forth with fresh zeal foi. repeating. The cunning Legisla tvethab enacted this law, calculated well that thei manhood anffragana' would obey orderg implicitly, white consciences would bd restrained by a respect fur right and white men could not 'play the une qual gatac against loaded dice. We tell the story, for no other purpoSe than to let the outside world know what free suffrage and espeeially-manhood suffrage is under Jacobiu rule in this state. More we have not to sat" Aa in Philadelphia, ,so in Mobile, a" Ring" of corrupt Men manip ulate thci ballot boxes and make whatev er returns they please, A Radical Medley. [Fans. the Montrose &publiean, Nov. 25th,187 . 2.] We are glad to be rid of the whole tribe of dictatorial papers. Both the 149 w YOrk and Chicago Tribunes have committed. suicide, as did old Judas. - It mattersinot to us how they pass off the stage of action. They have ceased to be of us, at we want no more of them. When Judas is restored to favor; when the tories of the Revolution are recalled from Nova Scotia; when treason shall be -rewarded and loyalty punished; when Ulysses S. Grant shall be deposed from the Presidential chair a id Jeff Davis ele vated to his place. it willbe time enough to recall Horace Greeley to the •Brpub lican party. [From the Montrose Republican, Dee. 2d 1872.] "Death of Mr. Gree,ley.—Since the above was prepared for the press, we learn by telegraph that Mr. Greeley died on Friday evening, at ten minutes to seven. Thus terminated a remarkable career. The people of our country will long hon or his memory, for the many good acts of his life and for his long and efficient la bors in behalf of the right. The nation mournsithe loss of a great man - . [From the Montrose Republican, Dec. 16th 1872.] • "Like Mr. Greelef,s, _Senator Sumner's speed:lei Indicate that his mind is dying before 14s liely does. Though long de layed,i will - yet be found that the brutal beating by Brooks - brought' death to CharleslSumner at last." It doOs not require a person with much of an ear for music to distinguish the different tunes in the hbove,or to descry the hand of a modern' Radical organ grinder at the crank. ." A Terrible Calamity. TILE ,'l6lamity at the Pith Avenue Ho tel, New York, was truly heartrending. Eleven ; human beings resisted in the np• per rooms of a building is horrible to con template. Near the. middle of Tuesday i night . the fire ;originated on a stairway leading from theltnding to the sleeping root*eccupied by - the female' servants, , and rest rapidly up the stairs, cutting off the poor girls from escape. The poor crea tures Nvre either suffocated in their beds or criSped into an nudisting,uishuble mass I iti theit efforts to escape. Get -dow.. 'stairs t ey could not. - A flaming senti nel guarded all egress in that direction. There was no other means oflescape save by the 1 windows. Why were • there not some of the entombed sufferers rescued in that way? , Have the firemen no ladders that would reach this portion of the build ing? They have iii Philadelphia.. They. have in Boston. The Herald says, "there was the much anxiety to keep the fact of the firtt a secret;and too little effort made to savthe unfortunate, girls." . Another accon t says ladies were taken to the Albemarle. St. James; tbe Hoffman House and other hotels in the vicinity.' :As soon 'as the re was estirtgaished, the 'firernen COMM need au examination of the top floor, . nd ' made ,the horrible- discovery that ili one servants' room, eleven female servants - had been burned to death.' All 1 this tiple the women hp.(Kbeen.cnlling ford ! help liftam,their fireyprison,and-With,what inceesis? -, , They viere burned,: as .it they bad.lien worthless things: , Hotels should be esiistrtketed in such din:inner that - ee-, cape from any part of . .sl:buildlnd can not be cut off . by - fire, and. th ose who keep ,mart-t lips should be indicted for murder, , when hozenlinfliepplo'nre.consnmed-in ti singlei,horii;',:iinEifth avenue' catastro. Of should iiroitne thenitAtioti or tko authorities in large °West/a-the ,neoossity, or 4 ~ in ling the. hotels,. and :"iieeitg* ipec that*, ey sire - .. n0 constructed ;that .fire, ican-.be - Confined to ii einiili . liiiiii,.anilthlin g'illow;:111 Oieiniiiiiie4 i r eriniiin iii.jinirlin gttela p to escape. Tue proposal to increase the salary of the l.'resident is very inopportune. General Grant; it is well known, is not in indigent circumstances, apart .from his official compensation. That is the high est paid to any publ'c servant, and if it ought to be increased, sdl other salaries, for stronger reasons, ought to be increas ed. It will be is signal for a universal de mand from all 'office-holders for an ad vance of wages.' ThCy all get enough.— There is no lack of aspirants to every place at the present rate of compensation. We hope the matter will not be pressed or carried. ,It seems very inopportune fur a re-elected President to be the recipient of a huge pecuniary favor from tho men) tiers of his pirty,in Congress. None of them will vote against it, none of the par ty organs will rppose it; nevertheless it will be a fresh burden upon the people, and will be followed by a large and gen eral inciease of the extenses of the gov ernment, and be another step away from the Democratic simplicity that has hith erto been among the best distinctions of American institutions. IN referring to the late fire at the Fifth Avenue Hotel, New York, the Firs Mar shal of that city, in Isis report says:—' "Tile loud, piercing screeches of the girls on the-top floor were distinctly- heard in the basement. At this time the fire had made a great headway, but even then the hotel employe, attention was disect ed to the great glare laid: Oh, its no-. thing.' and-again, These girls will scare the ghosts if they go-on in that way:— He also slates that 'no pflicient precau twn had brew taken to guard against loss of life in the event of'a tire at the hotel,' and he finds that no efforts were made by the people in the hotel to rescue the girls. Ile thinks theauthoriCes wereso concern ed about the baggage of the guests that human lives were forgptton. Besides the workmen were )oukiug after the baggage, instead of attempting to rescue the en dangered people. If the statements of the Marshal are time, if no attempts were made to save the girls, if the guests were attended to, while the poor creatures in the upper part of the building were burn ing, then somebody should be indicted t•r is serious offence, and punished to the eKtent of the-ltiw. People who keep hotels should be taughtlhat they cannot roast servant girls to keep their guests from being scared. Such an ,outrage its that at the Fah Avenue Hotel should to treated in a serious manner, and not be suffered to pass over as a nine days' won der. 'MERE is a miserable. scandal over the will of Ilorace Greeley. After the death of his wife he left his whole estate to his eldest daughter, one-half for her own use, and the other half in trust for her sister, who is under age. The will seems prop er and natural, and neither Of, the yon ladies complain of it. But certain -par ties are trying to set up . it former will, in which he left some legacies to collateral relatives. The, last Will eati.only be im pugned on the ground that the testator was out of his mind when he wrote it.— The following is the instrument, which is dated twenty days before Mr. Greeley's death, which occurred on the 29th of November: - I, Horace Greeley, of the town of New Castle, Westchester county, State of New York, agent sixty-one }ears, being in fair health, and -in the possession of my men tat fat:tittles, revoking all. former wills, do make this my last will and testament: 7tent-1. 7 -Igive and ..IreqUeath all the property of Which I may die possessed, including rands, mortgages, bonds, notes or hand, debts. stocks, dues :and obliga tions, to my eider daughter, Ida L Gree ley. one,lialf to be by her used at her own discretion, in the. education ntid,,,aupport of her Sister, Gabrielle. Theother moi ety to be her owd in every -fight. Pent 2.—1 giy9 and bequeath my gold watch, usually worn by MP, to my second daughter, Gabrielle Mi reeki,.arore said. Witness my hand and seal this NI day or November, .1.8.72. •. STAX.PA AccgrrEn IlitaFrs.—The Journal of Conunerco gives--some infor mation of local nacres'. It sass: "A . com mission merchant in thii:.city writes Od that, some of the city bankis in sist that Where a Sight diaft is made upcin him, and he accepts it, 'making it• payable at'tArank, a tiro-cent stet%) -is red, to cover the - 144 . ei - corpnratien, ,ns they think Such an acceptance converts the draft into it bank cheek. 'Ho wishes to •know'if therA ii any method to 'satisfy, these ban Chat en eb, stamp:ii - tiOt:tievd, ed.` We answer tha't we,htit'e ai ready rib : . lished'!'lltittt±4ll'e '