THE DEMCSCRAT. E.. 8. 8d WLEY di CO., Editors. Wednesday, May 13, 187.1. Gold dosed in New York, on Saturday nignc bat, at 1121. The work on a second tunnel of the Alps is progressing rapidly. This tunnel pierces Mt. Saint Gothard and will unite southern Germany with Italy. Tne Senate has adopted the joint reso lution of the House, fixing the 15th day of Hay as the time for a final adjourn ment of the legislature. At s meetiug of the Democratic State Committee, held in Philadelphia, on Monday, May 4th, the resolution of the 23d of March, which rued the ume and place for holding our next State Conven tion, waa re-considered, wheat it was amended to fix Pittsburg as the place and Wednesday, August 26th us the time for the holding of the next Convention. This is better,. a.id we feel sure that it meets the desires of the entire Democrat ic party of the State. Music in cominOn schools is good, and should be encourard as a matter of taste. To enforce it as a matter of compulsion is not so well. There are some other- wise excellent teachers and otherwise promising pupits who have no capacity to instruct or be i.istructed in this direc tion. The senate bill, now under consid eration, to make music an enforced branch of learning and to appoint a "del uty superintendent of music," who is to in grunt teachers in the science of harmony, will hardly get to third reading. If it is to be made slaw, it should be amended to provide also for a deputy dancing mas ter. Let Terpsichur share with Apollo in our devotions. During the six months ending in Dec, 1873, the balance of trade was in favor of this country. The exports exceeded the imports by over 815,000,000. During the same time the balance of trade in France was in:favorable. Imports into that country hod exceeded exports about 81.5,- 004.1,000.—0 n every principle of inflation reasoning it is flourishing America and not impecunious France which should be again taking its.place among solvent spe cie-paying nations. That such is not the case is possibly owing to incompetency at Washington. It may tarn out aftur all that the private want of the country is more brains instead of more currency. The Columbian says the impression pre vails that Gen. Allen was elected Auditor General in 1872 fur a full term of three years and that therefore there will be no election to fill that office until 1875. This is an error. Our attention having been called to the subject, by request a legal friend hunted Op tue law, whicu explicit ly declares that the election to fill a va cancy in that office shall be for tt•e unex pired term of the person who carried the vacancy. As Dr. Stanton, whose death carried the vacancy to which Gen. Allen was elected in 1871, the term for which he was elected will expire in May, 1875, and the election for tie term to succeed that to which Dr. Stanton was elected, and to which Gen. Allen was elected to fill out, must take place November 1874. After a fait ful and arduous service of ten years the Hon. 11.-tary Li. Smith has witudrawn from the Lancaster Daily In tell.:;zacer. 'An Smith is s 47iter of much ability and culture and uu kiss will be felt by the uewspaper press of tee state to whose members he hail endeared him self by his zealous efforts in behalf of his profession as well as by his many excel lent personal qualities. We learn that Mr. Smith intends to remove to East T•miles see where he has already purchased real estate. A. J. Steinman. esq., his partner, who is an excellent writer and possesses much experience as a jourrialist,lias asso ciated with Unser' W. U. Hensel in the editorial management arid proprietorship of the Intelligencer. Tuere is not that condition of brother ly love between the friends of contract ionist Scott Lind inflationist Cameron, hich consists with political solidarity. The result of a late contest in Pittsburg has been favorable to the Scott faction ; but success does not destroy bitterness. The Harrisburg Telegraph says: We state Etl a fact that there is a move ment on foot to defeat Senator Scott, which will be illustrated by the chicanery and trickery of the worst phase of Penn- sylvania politics and po;itcians ; and fur ther, that this defeat is contemplated be .caus+ he paSsests powers of intellect, in tegrityiind devotion to the interests of the state which dwarf all efforts at rival ry by his venerable colleague, and make him master of the senatorial situation. It is not -he Snit time brains and integ rity have been proscribed in the interest of impudence and fraud. We believe the re publicans as a mass io the state should know these facts as well as the leading paliticiaus, that they may defeat the con spiracy. Taiation Without Representation. In this State, undei the new constitu tion, the quota of votes to each member of the lower House is 3,338. Since the majorities average about 300 it would take about 3,000 votes of one or the oth. er party tb elect a member. The new Apportionment bill givestheDrinocnita 73 members, which would represent a Dem ocratic vote of 219000. The Democratic r `.l ate e itn the is 317.7G0. C. , Will be tirsitally vurepreaente►l•iathe 7x~~ t iatr►ure, eiectfi plaits the Apportionmeor billnew peed lug. These 98,000 citizens will be taxed II Legislature, although virtually unrepre sented. It is for this violation of the noblest pnnciple that ever was purchased by heroic deeds ant human blood that we oppose the bill. When, therefore, we style it iniquitous,unjust, outrageous and infamous, the language is only too weak. Now that the House have passed the Sen ate bill amended by the House Commit tee, bristling with the iniquities we have pointed out, the Senate should not con cur. For the sake of justice and both parties a fairer bill should be elaborated and passed.—Palria The New Orleans Republican, in esti mating the approximate damage of the overflow in Louisiona, has carefully pre pared a table which contains some inte resting -figures. Tbr whole area of the State is 30,094 squar. miles, or about 20,- 000,000 acres, Of these about one-tenth are improved. There bare been seven teen parishes more or lees injured by the flood, comprising 587,949 acres, which produces 13,894,550 lbs of rice, 132,070 bales of cotton, and 48,817 hogsheads of sugar, in addition to live stock and other farm products. Estimating the probable crop of rice, sugar, and cotton of these parishes as below, thU Republican thinks the proportion of damage may be approx imated at one-sixth of the probable pro , duct. Thus on the. crop of anger, 4R107 bcgsheade (estimated with mt. Luet , ) 5,000,000 Maim, 131.C70 hales 10.00,0C4 ice. 1 . 4.001,100 pounade T0ta1.... ............. ~ 00J would give about $3,000,000 as the non production of these staples alone to which must be added a great loss in live-stock, poultry, vegetables, and other articles of farm produce. Tho severity of this Im mense loss is tempered somewhat by the fact that crops and lands damaged by high water have great power of recupera ion. The Sanborn Report The Committee of ways and Means have submitted a lengthy report on the subject of the Sanborn contracts and the evils growing out of the system in augurated thereunder. It is more gene' , at and sweeping in its denunciation of the system and the parties engaged in it than wat to have been expected in view of the composition of the committee, and the long prevailing custom of whitewash ing prominent Federal officials. But it would seem that this day is about over. Day by day they become more glaring in their corruption and more defiant of the public complaints, until it has even be come impossible for a cemmittee of Con gress to whitewash them any longer. Of courre, the rebuke is pat in as mild A form as the nature of the case will al low, but it is still a stirring indictment. While it does not charge that Richardson, and Sawyer, and Banfield, had an actual corrupt connection with Sanborn in his transaction, it declares that they deserve the severest condemnation for their con ,radictory statements, for their efforts to throw the responsibility upon each other, and fur allowing the infamous business to be carried on with a full understand ing of its character. But stripped of its charitable verbage, with referance to the Secretary, Assistant Secretary and Solicitor of the Trei sury it is a plain and simple accusition against their official integrity, and would warrant their immediate impeachment for the mal-administration of their respective offic.. , s. If Mr. Richardson is allowed to continue at the head of the Treasury Department after this report, it will be strange indeed. A Secretary of the 'Crewing , who would engage in such prac ,ices as he has been proven to be connect ed with in the Sanborn and Jayne affairs is nut only unfit for the place, but is not to be trusted with the custody a the public ' treasures. liow far he has gone m other “irections to help his friends and favor , ' ties no one can tell. Mormon Polygamy Congress will soon have before it a bill providing for the total eradication of po ligoiny in Utah. The bill contemplates the u,ual panishment for plurality of wives, and, to attain the end desired : makes provision by olialleage for excin :ion of Mormons from juries on cases in voking poligamy. This causes us to re vert to some facts in relation to the prac tice. Poligotny was not in the least rec omm.•9ded in the original so-called Book of Mormon, as promulgated by Joe Smith in 1823. In 1843, however, he pretended to have had a revelation "permitting and even recommending it." Yet it was very little practiced or not at all, except per haps by himself before his death at Nan voo, Illinois, until the hegira of his dici ples to Utah. It is scarcely to be looked on as one of the essentials to their relig ions faith, which are:(1) Belief in Christ's atonement ; (2) remission of sibs; (3) bap tism by immersion ;(4) the laying on of hands for gift of the Holy Ghost, to be administered by apostles and elders. The practice of poligamy must be regsrd ed then only as a licens.d condition which the Mormons of one sett profess to believe will conduce toan improvm3nt in society. There is another sect, which split off at the lime of this hegira from Illinois, who conscie ntionely oppose the practice, believing in Monogamist and marrying accordingly. This schism is small ; its members are to be found here and there in lowa, Missouri and Illinois The reason of Joe Smith's pretending to have had a revelation sanctioning and ev en recommending a plurality of wives is not certainly known: Common rumor in Illinois reports it the same that in duced Henry VIII. to behead several of hie spouses. Joa %rallied to marry a vc ,ond and time before the death of hi, drat and second wife, and through his pretended revelation attained his ob led in a less bloody manner than by be heading. This, however, as was said, is only rumor. If the bill before Congress should pass as it is, there must be anoth er hegira of ali polygamous Mormons, having its objective point in ono of two places—the penitentiary or some foreign laid.—New Age. • Limited Copartaerablpl. An important - bill was introduced in the senate by Mr. Wallace on Monday authorizing the formation of partnership assdciations in which the liability of in dividual members Is restricted to the amount of the subscriptions• to the capi tal stock. Any three or more persons can enter into an association of this kind for conducting any lawful business for a term not longer than twenty years. The agreement and the amount of capital subscribed by each individual are mat ters of record. The word "limited" is to be a constant affix to the name of the corporation in all transactions of what ever kind to be painted on its sign, print ed in its advertisements, and appended to the signature and used- in all official transactions. The omission of the word "limited" carries with ti liability above and beyond the capital of the concern as in ordinary partnerships. The bill provides for the transfer of interest in the Brock ; for election of officers ; division of prof its ; nse of its credit, and dissolution or winding up of its affairs, with other mat ters of detail. The value of a careful law of this kind will be seen at a glance. It allows the employment of capital for fixed pur poses and specified times, with such cur tailed or limited liability that the inves tor can only Mee what he invests. Cap ital embarked in an undertaking based on the limited liability principle may be entirely lost, but the loss is measured by the original investment ; and with this surety very many undertakings may he carried on from which investors now hold prudently aloof from lack of per sonal knowledge and fear of indefinite This plan of organization has been satisfactorily tested in England and has worked well. It is not to be doubted lib eral legislation of this kind in Pennsyl vania will have the effect of stimulating many new enterprises, by the introduc tion of outside capital. Mr. Wallace is entitled to great credit for the industry and intelligence he has used during this session of the legislature in perfecting and developing revisite legislation in re gard to corporation s.—Patriot. A Confession of Failure Bills have b2en introduced it both the Senate and [louse of Representatives at Washington to rioolisli the present form of g overomeiit in the District of Col n ni bia. It is proposed to relieve the people of the district of thi burden of self-go% - srnment in the as same manner an intair person is relieved of the charge of lii., personal snit A, by the desperate expl1;• ent.of a commission. The President is to appoint certain gentlemen to admin i - ter the government in all Its details. They are to bold their offices four years and be entirely irresponsible to the people they are calk I upon to govern. Five commissioners are also to be a )pointul to audit, adjust and report upon the debt. and estate of the bankrupt co duration. Congress will be expected to settle the This is the end of an expensive experi ment, commencing a ith the abolition of negro servitu le in . the District of (Mum bia, and keeping even pa e with the se ries of measures which have advanced the negro, step by step, until the elective franchise watt thrust upon him, and the servant transformed into the master. To what ends African ascendency has been used the people of the District of Col umbia eau' bitterly testify. Under the very eyes of republican congresses the negro elector has turned ever the capital city of the nation to thieves and plunder. era. Bankruptcy, now confessed, has on ly been heretofore delayed by vast raids upon the national treasury. At last the evil has attained such a magnitude and exposures have been so frequent that congress has become alarmed. The sore cdn iso longer be salved over with appro priations. What to do has been a most puzzling question. To restrict the suf frage would be an offense to the whole negro vote of the South which is now looked upon as the last refuge of the re publican phrty. To allow the present government to continue was to invite dis aster by a standing argument of infa mous maladministration. It has been therefore adjudged most prudent to strike the District of Columbia from the list of self•governing column nities. Thus has a sentimental experiment run its complete course. The end, i¢ will be observed, is practical, radical misgovernment. The remedy is despotism. Civil War In Arkansas. The contest between the rival governors of Arkansas has-precipitated that unfor• tnnate State into the horrors of rival war. A battle has taken place between the contending factions, andethere is no tell ing when the war will stop, unless the federal government interposes for the purpose of preserving the peace. Recent events have thrown considera ble light upon the controversy. The rani who sustained Baxter and made bite gov ernor, undertook to use him for base poi. poses. Ssuator Clayton and other lead ing Republicans wished him to sanction acts which wuold rob the people and give all power to a corrupt triumvirate. Bax ter is a native of . Arktuisas,and could not consent to see those among whom he had lived all his life given up to unlimited spAiation. Because he refused, the men who had elevated him to the governor ship turned- spina. bins. Brooks, who is '1 carpetbagger from Keokuk, had ap pealed to the Supreme Court of the State in vain. With only tne tPssmiting voice, that of Cheif Justice McClure, ahci first. supported Baster,and then turned against him because he declined to be corrupted, the Supreme Court decided that no Judi cal tribunal in the state had any right to settle the contest, that the legislature was the only body which could examine into contested gubernatorial election under the constitutioa of the State. The legisla ture sustained Baxter by an almost un animous vote. Brooks got a deerte from an inferior court and took forcible pos session of the State capital, in which he is now entrenched. The battle which is reported, took place some distance from the State capital where the two rival Gov ernors are held apart and the peace pre. served by a detachment of United States troops. This occurence is only alother result of the Mingling and rascally policy which has been pursued by .the adminis tration party throughout the South.— Whatever oh bloodshed, confusion and national disgrace may fall will all be just ly attributable to the course persued by Congress and President Grant. It re mains to be seen how the President will meet the grave responsibilities which now stare him in the face. Our bodies are not as vigorous ncr our minds as clear as they might be. This remark is Ult., of at least two-thirds of civilized society , and of these two-thirds probably one-half is labor ing under bodily Inlinuitits of a tharacter litre ly to shorten the lives of the sufferers. This is is melancholy exhibit and furnishis abundant food for reflection. Can the evil be mitigated ? It can. Lack of vitality is the primary cause of most of the physical ami tment! suffering to which we are subjected, and therefore a vital izing medicinal agent is the remedy required.— is there such a medicine? There is. llostetter's titoinitehe Bitters will I , `lSe and energize the mind and body when the life tamer of the sys tem Is in a compantlively dormant state,. 96c languid, feeble, desponding invalid is riot as 01 the latent cue, gies that underlies his ileitility. Ile thinks there is DO element of vigor lett in his frame, when the tier is that ills pllysi,ll capabilities are merely asleep and only require waking up. Let him stimulate anti tone his animal machinery and endow it with in SW 1110- tire power, through the agency of this incom parable in vigorant, and he will soon feel like a new man ; or rather liken man who has ren•ivetl a new lease of life, and the rettitisite health to enjoy IL Many business men sutler ir o n chron ic languor and depression caused by too close application to business. !lasi students are of ten oppresses! with melancholy from rt like emu, Mechanics and workinu men are affected in the same wad• as a result of over-labor. To •ell who are In this condition, 111,111 whatever eause,llo, Letter's btnintich Bitters will prove a signal blessing. It is a Ito - feet panuem for physical debiliiy and menial gloom. la ,trengthen , the hotly, clears mind and calms the nervous S, tern ; while as n remedy for intlige,dion.lilllions ISMS, conNpinoimi, rheumatism, and intermit tent and relnirient fevers, it takcs precedence tl: all other 3las. deli, rdew Ad-vertisements , MOTIPE IN BANKRUPTCY —ID the Tthot-i.-t (treat ~1 the Culled 'Pot,. for the •.e.terl. 131-1, Ct PC , 111.1 /,11,1 In it, W. I. 11.. ea Bantirti,t. Win. 3 AI In 11,061 opter Notice et her. by 21i - en :tilt there ntll he a'.l M.,11112 of the ttt the•l .”1 pt • for tee t.orpo, etottempt tt.4l th • •Zi.h tttert... or the R...4ritizt. Act. ott, tee , ~ t ettih .1.•• .1.11, 1,71 ttt wit .t n I i.et 01 - 11••••• tr K tw Or, N. NS . It. L•raa, r 11.1tit:tuph ). CC/4111Ni, .111 . 1 an eretlao, ii,. hat,• rOt.ett their tie'ttt-. Ire it.ret.y ttttl del to he ttreeettatt.t..ght met t BUTTER! BUrT ER ! ! BUTTEE.' Sill ' V'E 9 REIJUQED RATES D. L. A: W. EXI 1117::'S rose, May ISM, r. Ilambletonian ani Fatchen Stallion, MAX MARETZEK. PoaL•d M trNi, MP, hay brae with .tor, tip npd near plod Ivo. aid. a trifle plate, 15‘ hapdn, virtnt by bat of DOT EMILY BRONTE. by A FATE , : S SON OF GEO. H. PATCREN, g gr. I. Abu Aam of .113 1 1SIE PATCITFN and e 0.1.10. 1.0 au Inbred Ra•6aw Marc. /SNICK ERBOCK EFL by Ity.dirl'ol.:Wotan, out of Lady YnL h ° 11/ bleorge M. P 3.101 n. d. by Abdallab. g. gr. u. by ?day Day. PROPIIRT, by Moro bred Nero, out of Meg Dodds Ka 1. kerhorker, Prophet. Geo. M. Paschen. and Atm. tiu'a son of Geo. >i Patriten, were nil bays, without marks, and Itt hands high. MAX NIAMETZP.K lo brother. on the elms tilde. to Prugutty. the Winn,. when not two nar• cola. of the three-yeat-old rtake. N.eltuleon tact tear, !shed Uoytia toy Mrs that ted If trial in the V{ II- Rams colt. AI Ito7co, Canary bird. and other* MAX MAIIETZEK will berry it limited Dumber of mites berldea hie owner's at tho riOn of Jamey. E Car malt. nor Montrone, I - A. at t. 20 to Insure If paid be biro Mardi lat. Im7l. or $2 to inouro a •t.aitliti4 cult. - For farthar 'brown:1110ml addri-io May 13. T4.—&w MONEY SAVED ! NEW FIRM, NEW STORE, ' NEW GOODS, NEW PRICES. GRIFFIS & SAYRE, !Pyre opened, at the old locattbn rf M. 8. Wilson, In the Brick Block Montrose. and we 'hall be pleased to •a all of ~u r old friend. and the many new ones we hope to gale. Our stock will consist of Iron, Nails aid llardwaro, CROCE:MY It ausswAss, In Large quantities and varlets. Stem*.Were, Wood- Ware.lloarolusnlvhiny, Groxis and (3mceries, We shall givopart:cular atierdloa to the Ilroesiy Trade, and keep a tall aesoruneat of Teas, Sugar, Coffees. Family Groceries & Provisions, In (011 varlet,. Rat and Moor. We shad keep mu stardoy on hand no belied. of floor at ninth leva than old paces. and warrant It to please. Goods delivered promptly to , oar town customers. TEEMS:— Our berme will be strictly IlLectelsrw.Viimy, (mob or produce.) Tide It rrUl . Is well In rement• Err, at Otto will he the secret to our low prices: We aro enter:ant that by tilting and examining cur gond. and mica* yoormill tind that it will be for your tutu. eat to try oar goods end terms. hisrszsoir Charm - - - d. SL fithsr.• lissussio;3lol7, l!b, . . I • , .. PLASTER I, .PLAt3TER I I . £ P. lINES, Sit. - P,,. Tito Sulverthar is now papered to furolah,...lll the Gradtato of the antaeretty of Illeblasor Ann AfbOt. Itorolgh of Mos troe e,lt utS. and also of Jefrenfon. !ladles; Collole of Phila. . . deltalla. 18:4, has returned to Friondeilll . ke. where he . , wilt attend to Antall, in hie profosslon jai Olnind.j.— Fresh Grog CayllEa Plastof . ResidenCe In desate lloefortra house. Odlettthe name as heretofore, 1 Prlendirille,Ta., April felt., 1674...-Bcu, ....:,,,j - 3': either by the ton, ear load, or In smatter quantifies Limo, Cement, and Sand, constanqy on hind Montrose. Mny 13th, '74.—tt. The Doubt Dispelled ! \Vat. Ilavlvo, fear 111.tord, Pa., le t•ow ofrerlag entire ace , ei..ck ur DRY GOODS earefu , ly e elect ed (or Spring Oncl Suit:leer Trade BOOTS AND SHOES, the turoe•t and bust variety In Northern Nannylvitnia cic eGa,p.s, Gents' Furnishing Goods, Yankee Nc tions, etz , etc. Every arttcle WartAtard Rcprre•ct.tcd. %%trial lot. lit Pro, Nor .1111fuld, Mu) 13111,'11.-If. SSIGNEE'S SALE OF Ur. 'IL ES it. VI.L:ABLE STORE PROPERTY, DWELL INO 110 USE, AND F 1.1.1 N,; LAND:" IN BROOK LY N The umler.tigned,.‘44ix,nee or the Cliris:...ol,r Bank virt LII• %.1 .01 E. B. 11.1 II LEI" CO. , r t oi Inc (..u.le I M.o.troor.March 11. lor 11.... , eru 'iim:tir:•eit ual, Wit ,d; A. It., cunm.o.l till at „ • %Sr REWS SALE UNSEATED LANDS IN a in , at Illy ed,•re liondiog & .Cll. 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W.. 11., he secured by bond and tool t,ga;e uu tLe Yo 1 TI e tirsl picre nr pnrrel thereof in the t , n tts , ll:, ol tn.'', vii nlore-aid ne Brooklyn Centre atld Loun,le , l and tlesrritaql a, it.llows, to wit : Beginnite at a imiht in !b•• coffin. of tie• high. tii , thence I,y other lot of said Itlnkropt (No. 2., south Ittlegrees 1,1:4 hl) fret. thence oy huall of .1 0. Bullard to di, 74 , 2 degrees west :11 fem. thence liv I uid nt .1. 0. littlmr I north II .legrees west 12 feet, thence I.y 41:111.: :"': tll 74! ; di•_:re.o ',nil .5 f•rt, tln•ure al., by •:•en,• north It degrees nest as reef ni the vent,. ut hither a:'. thence nloog centre of sun,,• 11..111 71 , .; M.grees ett-1 (eel to I.l.sce of beginning, a nil b ,vieg thi•rcua a stun•: 13..111,911g rr,v.•ri.ig all of sal 1 1.41. Also situ,!. in Bro.:den Centre ttbove tom sl.teminietl end d,•srrihed a 11.sritoting st a p..int in the high .1111, lo nest di a. filled (NO. d.n•~ or the alley south 11 ,:oat feet, thence by same son I, '79 111%!re,n nest .1.1t 4 feet. renning 12 feet southerly from the store Midrib - 1g herein, thence by the lot 0,..0.e scribed nor It 14 degrees eve•