.-taitte Viitditrg EDITORS AFed PAOP.R7ItrORS _:' - '3O - rxrivimitc-xterzz:: • 633U3DAIrr1t6NING, tr.& 12: 1869 .Butior (kassira'oldirriii. , !-The kllerof tae . ... , .. w a ,*4-. we i r e a ire pibllsh to•day„" Is n o In - smug (o-the demands Made upon lam He la a 111ths races explicit in this letter:than in his femur au; bat he tail to meet the points raised ftt Dor malaise articles, 'and the letter ems be ceesidererbellittle better than'in evasion of the question *brae. It Is probably, how ever, ihn_beet, the iiiiiiiyinenld do under the without ebiolntelY staltifylog tribal statement outdo by the Bishop to i sm" Ne Yak, seeording to his own abating, lea that the Oathedral was fired by as incendiary, dulog aiii prevalence of excitement, and the ins. preaduldlnponthe odnds °fhb hearers wu that It wu the malt of political exoltement directed robs! lb's Carlotta: oluthoh. He afterwards disdained having held oat the Ideathat It truths null ofpoliticat exeitemeit, leafing the charge lOU siOffOlid7lll ea before in its general applies. In Its the • letter which we . publish to-day this tis much 'modified. He th inks the ca. and - was set on ft% and that it • may have bitex Wassail of some iudefudte excitement width is assumed, but net, shawls, to here az , bile& , This is an entirely .111flerent .story from the original on. which provoked all Ibis disus ed= t . Nth it is is pity that the Dishop had not - been ass reseried in his speech then as now. His *twang now, is, that a scan s t is aeon combs desis from the ladder that leads to the saeristy, about bah' an hour before the Are was emu; that there was no fire near from which It could catch ; that it spread rapidly, indicating that the Ire had burned a long time inside be fore being discovered outside; that gerefosi (most lame and iespotent conclusion!) the man seen coming dowt the ladder must hare set it *On ; end that this man may have been le linemosel to the deedlOisi lammed sad amp.- albil Wizallaakiat." which the Bishop takes for granted and which no one else knows anythiog about. There it a manifest halt in this leek,. No person had any business on •the ladder which leads to the sacristy" but those connected with the church,- and this every one about the clusrek ' knew.,... And why, if the fact that this mu was se so Users 'was so, well re membered, - was all remembrenoe of the ap pearance and outward chassoterhdlos of the macro SO= lost! 1 Those who saw him coming ' - down lie ladder mild certainly tell soruttrey thing Isim., - - , ifes he tall or short ? lean or fat ? young or old! What writ of clothes had ha on? What was the color of his hair, and what was his general appearance ? Certainly sense of these points could have been remembered ; and many a thief Sid murderer has been bunted out and brought to justice open • smaller Dine than could here have ben afforded. Yet not a` step _ was taken to Inquire Into the identity of this supposed broendiery, nor has a word ever .been " 'whispered about him'until a begging appeal for fends based upon his alleged crime brings about • discussion which drags this story to the light. ..And then, it Is an entirely different story to the use at first put forth by the Post In conjoin lion with the. Bishop's letter published in that paper. .11,11 well known," the Pori said; "that 1 a rata was semi coming out of the church just before the firs;" and when we demanded why . be was not pursued and arrested at the time, the —Peet said Werth because the church was always. open for worshippers; and ha- was regarded by these wke sow_ him es some one who had been I in to pay his devotion'. The ladder story Is a new' one, end does not tally with that of the Pest; far instead of being a mac supposed to , have bile worshipping, the Bishop says the by standers (the women who . were cleaning up the - ohnith that mooning, we suppose,) took him to be one of thon over-corions heretics who pry about bathe expectation of finding some prison vault or other concealed iniquity which snob fellows vilely Imagine to exist. As the editor at the Past Is one ci the - Bishop's loth who was here at tliat time, Is it too much to hint that one of the two has got hold of the wrong story 1 If the Bishop is right the Pest is clearly wrong ; ~. sad we would like to see some settled soooturt . . agreed upon, bellied of having a new one at everyaew tura of the discussion. • We haveeemeersed with half a dosen men who were vibrates to this Are at its' earliest. deed opemeat, ad they are united in saylagitat a llub *kW ad , amts*, on the pert of Mess baling the building In - cluirge; would. it the be glardegehave saved it from detestation. One of our thfarcants was then a-fireman, and was early so 'VW groturd, and ide amount differs ___ very much From that of the Bishop.. There was no sushiapidepreed of the facies, according to ' his mcsonst, as would indicate that thistle had had !roe course inside before bursting forth; .. 7 and ear informant was an eye-witness, which the Bishop was not.. The letter doebtlese be. lines sheiks says; but es he; has obtained all la impressiccui at .second head, we prefer to take the teitinscaY of those who sawths whole affair, parlicabuty as the testimony of one is air, - therated by all- the rest of our informants. As to the inference of Bishop that his mythical "excitement" may have led some one to snob an ineeidlary deed, ire submit that It farnishes but a slim !mutation for the charge • built upon it. limey have led to it; temp; but then It is just as true that it may not Are things that possibly stlyAt have happened to be taken for Pular , fade. It so, the cathedral way lave caught fire in the roof from some, 110 .400. 121 : 13 4 Wintry; and thoprysig butte who aaata_dowathat ladder stay have been "innocent &Wall! There la a emu& greeter probability .la Me Oust ill the Blihop's theory;end the Bishop will do wait° adoptit instead of Ids own. He will 110VOT - 0011•11100 the people has by such logic that the cathedral fell e prey to fanatical violent.. Wei derecteistretted, in a formes amide, that the sundae rear olnytit, no instlir how fans4loal or admits they might be, bad no tootles to 'eel th~ailiidtal'ea fra. - t_ imaged What Utak *an DB jtia church la M. way, Liao tralldlap non tootting to them— . , 41dillXdbn011.1ilie mt 11111nli worthless . and 'lto' condemn - Mk big its owners bad determined to take down at an early day, • It was 'evoked toast to foundation atone," and mid sot -pad* hare stood much lonpr. Why, they set fire to in affair that was ready to tamblenbout the thesndlary's sari ? It lives sand* Meetly its toll stns, and its dosing. lcr tiri ochelt not,' thanks* do any real barritomire. Ills folly io mimes that * begailtilk MIA coneUtioic could , tempt even selailiiiillinciudad tootle • lo fire it in broad the prams of a crowd of Catholic dams& who wen scrubbies ItrSom. duo aria do isaislairis inzoli"o4lotti, oar rmh a dal Auld *obi for wok. a !Ind. The supposition Is pThjeIiRKIII on NI boa, and se niarrer that - erg abrowd, man siould put it forward . . • ' The leaner vide& we publish Ire suppose, all that the Blahop by loupe or any, altar demands reads upon bba to be sore =AM than La his first Litter. It is , err ski raft s lli !to, ak_alakest satin disclaimer of the statemingiiiripins - imp Wed to him, and -ribishiromptedrui to probe the whole matter to Trost a - dittat" charge that the , 00tbodril ma dostmod by WoadSalm in a ttlindotimottoolOt (Mooted against Catbonolmo, 4 , .:, - I,tlbis drindlif down tato II EMI bolV . i 4 o ,,b , at it ‘ C o 4no finda - nninoesda i ry bo ....,, i;.00 man ~. 11 1 1 ‘17, ;..ltiran. r imut co 2: - 'Loin from •- - , IbilidiV;ll:. 1174da to Uto • -; wbo Snow 4 1....,_ . •,,,!,iriawt.st,bitiii:uu .._,).. _,,,ii It* no , nun of an ,olt-ofittdor Mid WOW . A . • to* 1/ 1 1totiono4 &a Wiffi b -r.&.., ....,thi.,...., „....: ma se \ -..ist the Opting. An, imam willini,bla , *mist. Mom' fai, - 1 - fmn '-• , • IMS*lloigilt; ' ‘l,o:ll.lltiars.- TM.% L 1 1 10 1" A tl ibill 1 "•. 1:: :,I':',,!- , ,•.;' - '&1t1....;:::.... ,-, -y . - 1 / 4 , i„.: '',l e: , -=: , '''''- ': - . ,-fir ---: 1,1,,..7-' •.: -,,,„ ' W[F-_; s,._ °tar tbit. Anew viadt,ftrr.—The Rep Confentadiriere on tfie.arepskftitFWaisidug*lll median Wee_ Debt has bees . Ills telf 4dttett ribilatat leot;=•bne'llikah , efe It is, it presents a very sulking view of Indian j wars is theirtileneisl department. i,The Orelten Melina amount to .$4,44 ,949 - ; those of Wash tattoo .Tetritery to 41,481,476 ; total $5,920,- 424. The war ountinued from about the begin- fling of 7annary,ll3ss;nllll 'Oatober, 1856. The highest number of men in the sersioe of Oregon Territory at ally ohs time was 1846, and the average expellee , or, charge fitr each day's j service was $ll 21 per' an. Some men were paid in three or four capacities, as officers or privates, aa mechanics and teamsters, end even as physicians. One private is reported as hav ing due him $8,829 for personal service, and the Commissioners allow $3.039. Little Mum- j boats were hired at teem $3OO to 8000 per day. Horses ware shod for $l2 each. Laborers were hired at $4 per day, and clerks at $lO per day. Forage for *horse or mule is charged at $2 per day. Horses were bought for $3OO, bat many of them are charged for at. $4OO, - and even as high i $650. Bat when these chargers come to be sold they being the most moderate prices, as 10 for $605, or $6O 60 each. The general price is about $4O. Mules were obtained $2OO, $250, and $4OO per head. Oxen at about the same pricer per yoke. The average price for Hones sad Males Is about $350, and for Oxen about $BOO per yoke. The price of hay varies from $BO to $l5O per ton. Oats sometimes rise to $6 60 per boatel, and Wheat to $7. Peas were premed at 80 cents per pound. The pasturage of animals cost sometimes one dollar and some.; times three dollars per day. ' Blacksmiths charge $l2 per day but the Com. ndsaioneit remorselessly cut them down to T 6. The laborers and teamsters who were themaelves drawing_ four, six, or eight dollars ! per day, managed to eke one a scanty subsistence by hiring to the government Horses, Muleo, sad Oxen at $4,00 a day, half tho pay of a member of Congress at that time, some of these saleable animals thus brought their 'proprietors in. the tolerable income of $l,OOO a year each. , The houses purchased or built for $3,016 Were sold for $266. Biding .saddles bought at $4O each sold for $8,60 ; wagons bought for $5OO each sold for $BB. Remarkable tutees are given . —though the whole account is one of the most remarkable of the muse eeklines on record—of the difference between cash prices and eaript prices, that is between the prices at which things could be and were bought or with money or .with the Territorial war script. Quarter-Master Peters bought oats by the pound, • process which brought them up to $7 ' par bushel, which the Commissioners cruelly out down to $8,70 per busheL It is obvious : that no Territory could live in such prices. Mr. P. bought wheat at seven dollars per bushel, and Commissioners allowed $4,50. Hay also he purchased by the pound, aggregating $l6O to $2OO per ton, cut down, this dry grass, by the scythe of the Commissioners, to $l2O. Mr. P. sold about 1,000 of this seven dollar wheat for about 66 cents per bushel. Biding addles he sell from 88 cent! to $29. One of Mr. Peter's, transactions gives evidence of a rapid advance towards Lhasa-tidal/Li wants of polished Society, I without regird to expense. He bought 150 sheets I of drawing paper at $450. He sold 76 sheets for $11,25, so that the 76 sheets that were con sumed in public service, cost $438 75, or nearly $6 per sheet:the stationer's price being 2 cents I per sheet. Mr. Peters deserves credit, homer for crediting the sheets not used to the Federal Treasury. Had these sheets been misting it might hale thrown a wet blanket over his whole 1 account. Two scow' purchased for $9OO sold for $6O. Perhapa it is not at all remarkable that inns Tilton, Surveyor-General of Washington, at a salary of $3,000 a year, is reported for pay as Adjutant-General of the Territorial forces at over $4,000 ; that Major Rains, 11. 8. A,_, is re ported for pay at $7.81 per 'day as Brigadier. General, to addition to his pay u an °Moss of the Army ' • that Chief-Jastioe E. Lander under • federal salary of $2,600, is set down for a liberal per diva as aid to the Governor ; nor fin ally that this apneas of double salaries, running thronghtbe field and staff and the rank and Me, summed up as due to the one Washington Regi ment $107,467.—N. r Cour. 4. Rag. Flom ILLNlAL—Lenorence, R. r. "Unary 4, 1869.—Brown was blockaded tt Bolton, which is near Nebraska. A posse of Missourians trQm Weston, and some from Bates county, trookkd him up and conic on whiled he had only four tam with him. Their force wan about thirty. Brown took shelter in some empty lorhouses and pre pared for light. The party was afraid to storm him, bat remained out of gunshot slowly guard. iag bins. They sant for help to Weston and also to Itroompton. The Governor, fearful of the effect of a Missouri posse taking Brown, sent Minks' Colby with troops to take him instead of letting them do it. • Meanwhile party of Free State men arrived and raised the siege, the Misiouri party flying precipitately as soon as they ruse in sight, and thus preventing a fight. Brown and all the others bad left that neighborhood, and the troops had; not arrived a day and a, hilt afterwards. ___Ezeitement still culttiimes about the Day af fair. Many of the citizens desire to march our army to Platte City, batter down the jail and re lease thii Kansas prisoners, sad barn the town if there Is any resistance. Before this is :done pacific measurers will be tried. We are informed that Platte City is under martial law. Unless Day and hie sonars released and ant back,aome retaliating measure's?* cetisin. 7 l32. Louis pcm. llssaferso of the Damara& plunder in print ing at Washington, - the correspondent 'of the Philadelphia North drittrican states: 'Stough emidenue ha already been obtemed to prove that engraver In Philadelphia and Rlee when were often taxed 26 per oent. on their bills, smiths money paid over to Div. Weddell, the public printer. This per tentage was sOme ilmill paid over in pretended loan!, but the, *a blation is too transparent to escape detection. The same sort of work is now executed Muter contracts, made by the present Superintendent of Printing, at 60 per cent, on the prices al lowed by. Seamen. The testimony shims ,that large quantities of paper inferior to the saMplee by at least a difference of 83 per cent. were so espied from favored oontrietonu that the de of documents wars reosipted as printed and bound that were never delivered; that thongs's& of calumnious documents were paid for as print ed which were not printed, and that !haulms& of the most valuable publications have disap peared without any amount." Ir is stated that at least four thousand per sons were out on the ice on the river at New Haven. Connecticut, on Tuesday last. The aka ten enjoyed a perfect carnival. There wee a skating race for UM dollars a side, during the day, and the winner made hirmilo in lees than three minutes. In the afternoon a militaricom - pay put on their skates and paraded on the ice, headed by a band of music. On Wednesday a special train was chartered to convey skate's to Lake &Sonata, a few miles from the city,land fourteen ears went out filled to their utmost, ca pacity. The return train brought back eighteen carloads of passengers. One firm in Newts- Ten has sold $4,675 vertigo! ladies' and gentler man's skates since the river froze up. rg/OIXAT/ON from the ooskirof Africa leaves no doubt that the slaves lately landed on the *oast of Georgia were actually shippet , :and brought by the Wanderer, and not by some other vessel to which she served as a consort—a report apparently got up by the Custom Hones officers, who, as an apology for not having tiered the Wanderer, stated that she showed no hal anions of having had a slave cargo on heard.— She was in fact, chased on the Gout of Africa by the Vincennes, but escaped by superior ins. The Kw York. Yacht Club have milled Capt. Cowie.—N. P. Trib. Tunas are now shingleenpon the roof of, the old Farmington Connecticut church which have been there 82 years, and are still serviceable. she Hartford Courant says that . in 1776 the builders of the church chartered a vessel to go to Maine for shingles, sad they brought home some that are 18 inches long and were three fourths of an inch thick at the butt. Put on with six Inchse lap, they are not half when' through to-day, sad are good for many a year longer. Is Pkiladelphia, on the 30th alt , wors t per. formed the funeral rites of Mrs. Tracy Gray, a lady who had passed, by about four montinti , the great age of one hundred lyears. She died at the house of her daughter, In,Shippen street, • • . aphis, and, up to three days previous to her demon, was in the enjoyment of most re markable health. Mrs. Gray was with her hus band, who was an °Moor in the navy, on board Commodore, Perry's ship at the battle of Lake Erie. ' Tan rumor now runs rapidly that an alliance ,ha .been formed between Buchuan and Break larldp with a view to the nomination of one or the other by the.Classieston Convention. Thu terms of this alllssee, contemidato the OftduP^ nlloation of all their strength In behalf of Mr. uchanan, amnia ultbute union upon Brook. forams, 'should the sifortito secure Book's sue. Tun YOZ INIANII (1011702141.2 Anal. —ThlkinatituUou is already filllog up with pa. Beata. We learn from the Auburn "Martins., that large as it ts, It will hardly hen mash emir to spire after accommodating all the insane con-, riots in the State, but'will be crowded from the ootamencement. During the week four hare been emit on from Bing Sing, sad fourte e n mars are to b, taken on non.-41d. Zvi. Jeer. . - MIL BAYARD, from the ,Judielary Committee of the !federal Senate, rsporla that Indiana, in eliciting lase and McCarty treated the &mate with contempt. We think the country 'trillim but one opinion on this heed: Bernd the Bente right —Lou. Jour. Tan .lieltienon 'Papers , noporg an u pp asu i „6 . tithe &yip& bnainee la that city..s..: They sr, thnitirthirteetaltriternike man 47 geode lens birell'WlitCthliliktlyr nina" tinin at ebb ~ , . ..-;;.1 7 :;60WWt - _At: thssasont; of tliores deigns its Ply that then is no - Aratlyin be repots that siren to enceeeetlarir-retrop in thir - Beteite. Ole t Intends to witbdrzurenttrely - froti pubthi sash* t . for the rest of hie life, sod save he prefer' • seat in the Howls to asp - other 'position to the - 1 Government.—Trgetne Dispatch.. arms Rooleftism, who is named se the prob. &Mea:mean:lr of Mr. Dallas as Minister ttrEor land, is described by the Now York Thou as the brother In-law of Lady Gorigtiusely, and a per sonal friend of the editor o be N. Y. Herald.. Tun-Dublin Union states that William Smith O'Brien Le about to visit the United States, and that he will sail from .Galway within a abort time. Mr. O'Brien purposes to travel through the Union. tboralay soonlotc, 10th 1(..L• b 7 8. P. Wolff , Mr. N. D. lILLIZZLL. of ID. Loafs, Mo. to MON OLIVIA W1L11.13202f. of Pittotoargtt, Ps. Illlttoonti Horde= obi Dollard Quote please copy.) DIAD.—Ork Wade.ley evening, February 9th, 1559, MAST MIM York.I, aged 37 teen, wift of Prof. Juba 0. dinicb , lege of New TeftMods otthe faintly are reepectrally Invited to at• tend the tnnerslon thiltiliDAY,l2th instant, eel° o'clock, from their residence on Sidge at, Allegheny city. Carrier.. at9X will leeke the owner of Forret, end Wood-eta., MotoNib Dzaaances.--We have in our po oled= the certificate of • rapecteble citiren, teettlytng tbakte nu entirely cored of thli dreadful &wan by neing Durhavet Ham! Baku. ire shall take pleasuns In showing tilt ontllkate to am porton doubting tht. statement. Cement—Be careinl to ask for Wedowee ilolland Bit. ten. The great populitity of MY medicine his Induced n=i taticue, wb kb the public should {nerd against garßold al $1 per bottle, or six bottles lot $6, by Me pro pcletom.BENJ.P.Bllll, Ja...k 00, Ilanulacturing Mama. centime end Obeintsts,2l Wood street, between Ist and Id Pa, midi:Om:o4a generally. .1•21,MM,T usincso flotires St Cbangro. THE undersigned have this day associated with them ha hoslmes Thomas E Liopi, late of the Ana of Lloyd a Co. The stile of the tizat hEreaftet will be Ma, LLOYD a Forma. AEA A F 011174211. lIRA, LLOYD & FORSYTH, WHOLESALE ()BOOZES, AND DEALERS IN PRODUCE. COMIIIMION DIXRCIIANTS for as ule of PIG METAL AND BLOOMS, No. 75 Water Street„ 14141, ISSIIAII PITIBBITIU3II. PA. rrEIE undersigned have associated with them, In thernannfectore sad We of McLane'. Ymol. ff.ge.l.l Liver 141141. r. P. E, PORTER. The style of the Ana will routines ea heretofore. 7163L12 O CROP.. Pltaiburgh, Jeonery let. ILtin—All3.ltt ISSOLUTION OF CO-PARTNERSHIP. putainblp heretofore mittlaa betemeo W. W. Bradabaer and T. J. Cralg, under the name aod etyle of T. J. Oltalo It CO, wan this day, January. let, Itto, dlasolved by mutual canasiL The rooks of the Ann trill be found M the old etsmi. Ether of the ouCeralgoed are autborieed to use the name of Om late firm to the settlement of Me /to. ermota. Thom bating