II iatNittoburolt6aultc, THIIRSDAT. AMYL 4. IMIT A SLICETING of the Board of Trade will be held on Friday (to•morrow) after noon to hear the report of the' Commit- leo on Consolidation, and take such fur tiler &dim:Lila may be necessary HIGH RENTS .Inst now • thousands of families are experiencing the discomforts consequent on changing residence. Why so Many consent to this infliction an uniath- omable mystery. They perform the job every year or two, with surprising reg ularity, and mainly without any solid reason. A. momentary fancy that a dif ferent neighborhood would be more agreeable or convenient often decides them. In multiplied cases rent is ad vanced, and they shift, incurring double the expense in help, time, and breakage that the increased rental involved. Of course, all manner of objurgations are heaped upon the heads of landlords. DI there any reason why a man who owns a tenement should not sell or lease it. for the highest sum the market will give him? Very few persona dispute the right of a man to sell houses and lands for the best price he can get; and those who do obtain no credit for com mon sense. The value of property in fee simple must and will determine its annual value on lease. The law of sup ply and , demand is just ai 'potent here as in determining what price wheat or po tatoes command. If people, in un usual numbers, llock from the Country Into towns, the value of intermural real estate will advance, and just in propor tion to the pressure of population and business. _ Complaints are almost universal, just now, of the enormous advance in rents. A strict and impartial Inquiry will show, however, that rents have not augmented out of proportion to the cost of material and labor required in the erection of new buildings. Every successful strike on the part of mechanics for higher wages tends directly to raise rents. It doss this in two ways. First, by preventing perions who would otherwise build, from doing so until prices fall off. This con sideration is operating powerfully at the present time; Men who have means to expend in building generally feel that the present rates cannot be maintained, especially as to dwellings, and that to in. vest therein now, with the view to hold ing-permanently or for a term of years, is certain to entail serious loss.. Thus the•eopply of tenements is kept below the demand. Then, again, this stoppage in the erection of new buildings, begets sharp competition for those already ex toting. The supply being short, there is no probability of houses remaining va cant-even at exorbitant rites. Hence, the embarrassment- of high rents must be left to work its own cure. When the cost of new buildings recede, the rents of all buildings will diminish, and not tar then. It may relieve the ' feelings of such as are compelled to hire at steep rates to curse the landlords, but imagine noother good will come of doing so. ANOTHER RAILROAD EMBROIL• EMEEI The Legislature .of 1866, granted a chalet for a railroad to run from Potts ville to Philadelphia on the opposite bank of the Schuylkill river 'from the Reading Railroad. Indications at the time warranted - the belief that this legis lation was procured in retaliation for an arrangement entered into between the Reading Railroad Company, the Atlan tic and Great Westein Railroad Compa , ny, and a number of other companies, whereby a new trunk line from the west was to be established, with arms reach ing one to Philadelphia and the other to New York. Soon after the passage of the bill the strongest assurances were given that the work would be commen ced immediately and prosecuted to com- pletion with the utmost possible celerity. The failure of Sin Idoirron Ps•ro, , -and the banking house of which ho was the renowned head, brought to a humiliating end the scheme he had wildly conceived and insanely entered upon. It brought likewise to a termination the project for a second railroad through the valley of • the Schuylkill. The Coal. Exchange of Philadelphia protests against a new road, no body seems disposed to invest ' the millions which would be needed if the enterprise should -go on. But the coal operators of Schuylkill county are eta different opinion, They want the new road, because 'the competition for the carrying traffic which it would ne - eessarily superinduce would tend to les sen freights, and so to increase their profits. These coal operators, however, do not evince a willingness to build the • road themselves, but ask the Legislature . to authorize the several counties along the projected line to make subscriptions. This is so' powerfully resisted from Phil adelphia that the request will hardly be granted. This result isso apparent the Schuylkill people are now threatening to increase the facilities for sending coal di rectly to Ncw .York by 'way of the Le . high Valley-, IT is now apparent that Congress had good reasons for adjourning to July in stead of December. Inspired by tlic President, his Southern friends are al : ready taking measures to bring the Mili tary Government Act before the Supreme jiCourt. Their purpose was to apply (11-1 1 reedy to the full bnch for an injunction to restrain some one of the Department al Commanders from executing the law; . but they have found this cannot be done because the Soprano Court has not origr inal jurisdiction,. and can hear a cause only upon appeal , from a District Court. llow, far the President and his adhe rents may succeed m hindering the pres ent reconstruction movement is not easy to predict; but, whatever delay may oc cur beyond the short period necessary under the existing law, he and they will be answerable for. The Interpolator, l e not offered to facilitate reconstruction, but to protecethe rebel classes who. are disfranchised by the law from its saluta ry operation. - - A wan CLOUD hangs in the East. Russia seems to feel that the hour has ar rived for following her traditio is to Constantinople. The sudden aggrandize ment of Prussia has delivered her from fear of France. England is no longer formidable, as of old, and has employ ment at home and in her North Ameri can- provinces. If the Russian armies start again, they 'will not cross the Bal kan, look upon the coveted city, and then turn back. Let them march ! UICION LSAGUES are being rapidly or ganized. among the blacks throughout the g o ptly- Asa political instrumentali ty speech-making is good, but Union Leagues are better. 4, WILL 131: REiIEIIIIE.r.ED that while PrZsident Johnson was "swinging round the circle," last summer, the platform or bridge at the railway station at Johns town gave way under the 'weight of peo ple there assembled to see hill, some of whom were killed and' others injured. - Suits were brought against the Pennsyl vania Railroad Company to recover dam ages., Two suits were' arbitrated, ,and Pius King recovered $3,000 and Deny 51.'Plke sl,tloo. Since the rendition of these awards, a bill has passed the Senate changing the venurc of the suits yet untried to Center county. THE Judiciary Committee have ceased tAking testimony on ,the impeachment, question far the present. Several mem- . hers of the Committee are abundantly' satisfied that cause tort referring articles. exist, while some others do not want to be satisfied. Most of the Republican memoers of the Senate do not want the case brought before that body. They hold the President to be now compara tively powerless, and think there ate in cidental advantages in letting him remain where he is until his time shall expire. BY a law missed by the present Legis lature the Governor was empowered and • directed to advertise for a new loan of twenty-three million dollars, at par to take up the overdue bonds of the Com monwealth. Eight niillion more were offered than were wanted. One million was bid at par for five per cent. interest, and thirty-one million were offered at six per cent. from par to half of one per cent. premium. This shows that the of. fairs of the State have of late been so ad ministered as to fully redeem its credit. M. Tuttrts made a very eloquent speech on-the 14th instant on the foreign relations of France, in which he said : "Our Goiernmeut waited, dawdled and trifled, hoping that something would turn up. Something has tamed up—the greatness of Prussia. Events last your were lie the hands of France, and now they are in the' hands of Prussia and Russia. That is the change which has taken place in the situation.' ' • Tits bill for the new county does not propose to include any of the territory of Beaver or Butler county. Incidents of tbe Great Frc•het.—A Truly Noble Young Mau. (From tho Jonesboro (Eas . ;. Teuues , ,ce) hobo Flag.) The late disastrous flood in. East Ten nessee, by which so much property was destroyed, and in some places many lives lost, when all the facts are known, will disclose some noble deeds of heroic daring in persons saving the lives and property of others. One instance of this kind has just been reLtted to us. The village of Kingsport, situated on the banks of the Holston, some twenty-tour miles below this place, suffered greatly in the loss of property, and many would have found, watery graves if it had not been for the generous and heroic risk 01 life of Lieutenant Jas. N. Cox. late of the lath Tennessee cavalry, Federal army, and'an old comrade of the senior editor of this raper. It would make this notiee too longue relate all of his risks and adventures, but one demands espe cial attention.. There were two families of movers in a flatboat in the river below Mrs. Ann Phipps', numbering fourteen persons— men, women and children. The boat was fastened to a tree, but the river had sur rounded it, and the sweeping torrent of drift wood threatened every moment the destruction of the frail craft and its in mates. Some fifty or sixty persons were standing on the bunks of the river, seem. iagly,powerless, 'when Lieutenant Cox was 'sent for, who instantly, seized a canoe, and atthe imminent eril of his J own life, dashed through the rushing, turbulent waters to the boat, amid surg ing bodies of ffrift wood, and a still swelling torrent, and 'with his strong, skillful arm conveyed the entire fourteen souls safely to land, among their friends, whose joyous acclamations rent the air. Off; great was the heartfelt gratitude of those women and children amt strong men, when they found themselves safe, and tears flowed freely, and a lon I shout of praise to Lieutenant Cox arose, again and again, from the anxious crowd of spectators. One of the men who 'were rescued had a trunk in the boat itt which was a large sum of money, and he offered Lieutenant Cox a liberal reward if he would return to the boat and secure .t, but with a truly noble spirit be replied: "I will risk lite for life, but not for money," and in a few moments tire boat was collie.] away with the overwhelming flood, and witu I all its contents soon destroyed. One fact connected with this sad scene must not be omitted. The canoe used by Lieutenant Cox belonged to a pro• leased minister of the Gospel, who actu ally refused its use.' But the brave young soldier had seen too much service in the Union army to 'be thus foiled in his noble purpose of saving the lives of these strangers, and immediately took possession of it, disregarding the wishes of the owner, and accomplished hit gen erous work—for which he deserves all raise. The citizens of Kingsport will long treasure up in their memories the I noble deeds and daring of Lieutenant Cox, 'while the heartless owner of the I canoe will not soon be forgotten. lle , should remove where his inlatirous deed will never be heard of. .We learn of a family who resided on the banks of the Watauga, who were all drowned save three small children. The parents, finding their house was about to be washed away carried their three smallest children to the shore and put them in a place of safety, and,with their older children returned to the house, for the purpose of trying to save a portion of their furniture, when the house was swept away by the flood and dashed to pieces against the rocks, all who were in it penshing. These little orphans have, we learn, been properly cared for. tome Change to IVonta Words aro fossil history, or, in better ' phrase, catch and preserve events as 1 amber does flies. The etymology of words is itself a key to their meaning and often their origin and history as well; and in the change - of meaning words undergo from generation togen eration aro sometimes hidden hints of shifting cutouts. Many words show changes which are among the most - curi ous end suggestive of all verbal studies. Thus, conceits once had nothing conceit lyino who them, as but a conceited man w on- one who had opinions of his own, not necessarily what we raft "opiniona ted;" candidate was originally amen who sought the "most sweet. voices" of the people for public 'office, and was clad in a white robe—while now a "candidate" is a nuin who employs professional man ipulators to•pull the wires of primary meetings for him, who hays his nomina tion in caucus, and pays the highest mar ket price for the votes or his constitu ents, and looks after his own interests when eldeted. ' Insperttnent originally meant precisely what • "irrelevant" 2 means now, and has gradually taken on , its present signification; ei::ain meant, only a servant, and "the little villain" IN4 mid once have conveyed no opprobri um; an idiot was merely a man in pri vate life, in contradistinction from those who held public office, but now the ta bles are exactly-turned, and all the idiots appear to be office-holders. Imprudence formerly had nothing brazen about it, hut was simply opposed to what we call bashfulness; puerile was "boyish," with out any implied reproach; sceptic was only an "Inquirer," or a thinker. As an examp l e of Om significance of words upon other grounds, we may cite the verb to trench, which probably took its meaning from the. disposition of an avaricious man, when boundary lines were mailted by trenches, to make the whole of the trench upon his neighbor's land. The tariff derived its peculiar name from the town of Tarifa, a-Spanish or Portuguese town, where the first or one of the first examples of the thing itself occurred, and was carried to a yery "protective" • . is, but custom is i Is no nastier a', i l a y n' sel l e'c'traien.fign3eita'''''srili'd e as reprobated; ew n gx i ''t r redd i nu ti tat v hln entret an "ungentcel" word, but custom is making it so without any defi nite reason. Canyreex and ''congregate" i have acommon origin, and possibly t h e word, in its meaning of "coming togeth- 1 Cr," illustrates the way that plunder seekers "congregate," like binlsof prey, i about the carcass of the public treasury. qnstom with which are the jus, et arbi , triurn, et normab,quelidi, does aalt pleas es, anti for approbation of a word, or its rihMobal ton, or its changes in the signiti cation, has no other reason than the WO ' man's reason, "1 think him so because I think him tiO,' or the concise but inele gant "It is as it is, and can't be no nser;" or, perhaps, that of -the couplet: The reason why I cannot toll; 110 not I , ke thee, Doctor Fell. .-21 - . Y. Eroany Gatette. illteT.l.L.—On Tuesday taut a woman carrying a young babe in her arms got off the passenger train at this point. She at once began seeking a place to work, but without success. Some gentlemen who had talked with her, believing she was in a suffering condition provided her ,i'vith a lodging place, and ascertained the following facts: The womon's name was Mary Barnes, wile of Thomas Barnes, living in Union county, some two miles north of South Pass. On Sunday morn ing last, so she states, her husband drove her from home, whence she walked to Makanda. During this journey all alone and in the cold, she gave birth to the child. It Seems that from Sunday morn ing until she arrived here she was with out a doctor's care, besides suffering from cold, hunger and Nage., tiers she has been properly cared for through the be nevolence of some of 'our citizens.— Car bootiolc (111.) f.'rit,.26tli. A REVERSE OF FORTt'tiE.—The Duke of Hamilton, who three years ago had an income of x•'0,001) a year, is now believed to be the poorest Duke in Europe. His income at the present time amounts to only .C1,:100 a year ! But spare your pity. It is a swift career of dissipation which has brought him to tins.- The only way a Duke can spend money so fast is by play, and the young - Duke of Hamilton has wasted his sub stance amongst gamblers. He is uVarly r.•hited In the Duke of Emden and the Emperor of the French. WANT SUPPLIED London Ale. Bottled Ales, London Porter, ltrown eltout. To get genuine imported London Ale, Porter or Brown Stout. has Been almost en linpossthlllty lu tills el potwßhdasoll,a that there are few tussles more suitable fol . %weakly persona and invalids. The want ns• st been re ',pro'. A larg , aesortment of the Driest !wands, comprising Barclay 2 Perllns • Loudon Biota, Bass A Co 's 1 ale r le. Campbell's Scotch Ale. etc., Jost orelsed a. JOS - l'H IAItUU STORE, No. ell taut street, an lls sold bi the rase or 'lngle bottle, at the lowest roes. Al.o a Complete stock of the Inert r Ipso , for metliclnal purposes; and t'a'n; bell's eparkling Ale. the 114.4 article Itl rose. Lteeramilsr the rlace. 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