A Etts MONDAY. DECEASED 113. ISM SOUTHERN LOTALIIIII, by whatever party aeeignations they may be distin guished, evidently prefer Mr. &P. Chaco for President to any other man who has been named. - . NOTIIKII railroad tragedy occurred on - aturday, on ate Boeton, Hartford en Erie h u e, near Walpole. Fifteen or werity rerwas were injured; two of lb so badly re to Prove fataL I Fenianism In this country dwin dle to s firer, It has assumed formid able proportions In England, as is doloonstrated by thp unceasing and pro digious ollorts of the government for its suppression. Bonn of the democratic newspapers are trying to extract , consolation from the notion that *Gen. Grant would not, under existing circumstances, write another letter to the President, kindred i n tone a nd purpose, to the one recently .published. Bow do they know that? 'Tim General ;has not seen occasion to recant the doCtrinet and sentiments of that letter. Is not that conclusive? • )in. EtANTON't friende aay he would him resigned months ago tad' he not remind a letter from Republican Sena tors and Representatives lashing him to hold on. That may be•l but will these friinds explain what ind 'seed the afore sald gentlemen t ( write hat .latter ? If Kr. Blanton had mile the same face to them the Presi dent ea she did to him, such a letter could hardly lava had ci f's:nee. 1 klit.'WENuntul Panama holds that eenductore of public journals ate lack. ' In proper independence because they will not print exactly what they think of every, can and everything. -It he should start OD a pioruenade down Tin =out street, MIMI' fine ramming, resolved to tell entry may be met, whom be knew, what he :bought of him, add should really carry ibis resolution into effect, he would doubtless get knocked down several times Lefore finishing his with, and would deserve tbs larger part of the castigation. A man It net, and ought not, to be privileged to say all he thinks about his fellow-citims. &tete ty could not be held together on that • basis. IT IS C1...a1= that the opening of the Allegheny Valley Railroad shortens the I distance between Franklin, in Venango tensity, and the c ty of New York, by thirty-six miles. This is accomplished by usingthu Allegheny_ Valley, West ern Pennsylvania and Pennsylvania Central, and the Allentown lines, instead of the Atlantic and Great Western, and the Erie railroads. It is further claim• ed that the distance from Franklin to Philadelphia is shortened twenty-Ave - miles, by taking the Allegheny. Valley, Western Pennsylvania, and Pennsylva nia Central roads, instead of the War ren and Franklin, Philadelphia and Erie and Pennsylvania Central. TUE GENERAL. ASSEMBLY On the seventh day of January,.boleg the first Tuesday of the month, the Leg islature of l'eunsylvanis,in conformity to the requirement of the Conshintion, will convene in regular session-fa the Capitol at Harrisburg. The Mat thing in order will be the selection of officers. Mr. GILLMAN, It is altogether probable, will be continued as Speaker of 'the Senate, and Mr. Hairanstv as Clerk; and few cheat/Ware likely to be made in the subordinate offices. For the Speakership of the House the content has pretty much narrowed down to• Mr. Mc- CaIiANT of Blair, and Mr. DAVIS of Phtladelphla. The friends of each of these gentlemen appear to be sanguine of success. Of course, one of them is destined to disappointment, hut which, we cannot undertake to say. Mr. Sus- SELL thinks he will make the Clerkship of the House, as the successor of Mr. BEMIDICT, deceased. The change, made in the membership 'of the two Rouse!, at the October elec tion, were, in the aggregate, favorable both as to intellectual ability and per - tonal character. , Not that all has been gained in these valiant's; that le de sirable. There Is still abundant room' for.iMprorement, which will be sure to follow so coon as the men of sense and stability in both of the political Parties • partielpste. as actively as - they ought in the pibnary arrangements thereof. Business men, absorbed in private pur suits, are wont to extend the idesathey sold and practicc therein as to thc.divis. ion of labor farther than they are . appli cable. They turn over the manage. =ant of political affairs, not only with. ont remonstrance, but gladly, to whom. waver it may please to take a special in terest thereto. What they seek is to rid thereeelvas of the Inconvenience or burden of attending - to their duties as freemen; and havine accomplished this they, fancy they have shakenoff all res ponsibility in the premises This Is the basis of their standing complaint' that political affairs are badly engineered, aid that sweeping reforms ought to be speedily Inaugurated. It is • a funda mental principle that they who demand equity shalt 'do equity. To vary lb,. form but not-the essence 0' the maxim. they who make complaints hbcut their `fellows, touching any. Matter, cright be sure they have so demeaned then , selves as not to afford grouitt fir coos. ter cOMplaint. - When politics shall longer be left practically to the manage• meat of a few, but when all citizen, shall • recognise and discharge their obligations regarding the coarse of po• litical affairs; a most beneficial change will be wrought, and many sources of elimination will be dried up. At present but one question of State I'olicy excites general interest, and so hrusspecial prominence; and that relates to the enactment of a Free Railroad Law. The last Republican' State, Convention, not less from • the convictions of the members than from the pressure cf pub ltc opinion; took strong ground in favor of such an enactment. That party has a majority in each branch of the Legis lature, and has the Governer' besides. • It is so situated that it can offer no fair or reasonable excuse for action shall amount to a breach of faith in this re gard. We do not suspect it of a dispo sition to-do anything else than to meet its voluntary engagements. As the new • year is the year of the . Presidential election, strong tenthtationa Will be presented to the two Homes, to indulge freely in the discussion of na. tional politics. It Is earnestly to be hoped that the tendecey in this direc tion will bo rigidly restrained. The General Amiably has its appropriate function; which is to enact laws Pori the ' people of Pennsylvania. It has no other function; and though precedents can be urged for consuming days and weeks in debating matters altogether beyond its jurisdiction, and authority over - which belongs exclusively to Congress, these precedents are "better honored in the breach than in . the ohm - lance.", The sooner the Legislature can perform Its • specific duties, perform them well, and permanently adjourn, the better will citizens of all 'shades of opinion be sails fled. This will not remit in any lack in - the dimuulon of national politics daring the coming year. Congress is holding its long session, and the poorde are cer tain' not to suffer a dearth of oratory from that quarter.. Resides, durlag tke summer and autumn. there will be thou sands of coni,ocations, held under the auspices, of each uf .14 2 gleat parties, which will afford an abundance, If not a surfeit; of political talk. Let the Legis latnre stick tu its Kuper 'vocation, and spare the people a supernumary and tireless Infliction. Tar. Toledo Mode makes a strong preeentatiou of the advantages which i would result from connecting Pittsburgh and Toledo by a more direct line of rail way communication than that which now exist.. Having made this presen tation, it adds : "Let tra suggest to the Pennsylvania Central and the Pittaburgh and Fort Wayne directors, that an extension of their road from Wooeter to Toledo, and thence to Ann Arbor and Saginaw, in Michigan, is a short line that would soon give them a great boldness. It would not watt the development Of the country for its bosinesii, but running side by side with the Cleveland and Toledo Railroad through Monroeville, Norwalk and Fre mont, would compete at once for the business of these thriving towns, as well as the greater business of Toledo, and the great State of, Michigan beyond." It will be seen from this quotation that the appeal is basal on the presumption that the Pennaylvanla ,Railroad Com• pany, and the Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne and Chicago Railroad .Company, if not Identical, aro peculiarly related to each other. This laandsapprehensiint. They are run in connection for mutual profit, but in ownership and Mansgenient are totally disconnected. The Permsylva mia Railroad sold out, some time ago, all the stock it: held in the Fort Wayne road. ' That the propoied line would be vantageona to this city, it beyond die- pate; but some other scheme than that suggested malt, we apprehend, be bit upon, before it can be consummated. Mn. VAN Wycs„of New York, in his place in the Howes of Representatives, recentlyanade a vigorous assault upon the Gettysburg daseelatlon.. Efe de clared that the diamonds offered for sale by the Aesoclatlon, and valued at $300,- 000, were a lot of worthless stones, and kat the farm which they had valued at $8 . 0,000 was not worth more than pO,- 000. This is one tide of. the question. Brown S Spaulding, of Broadway, Hatay, of Maiden Lane, and Hermann, of Broome street, New York, all jewel ers of reputation, declare the jewels to constitute the largest collection of fine stones ever brought together in this country. Smith, ex-Recorder of New York, who owns the farm, says he re fused $45,000 for it, and was offered $15,000 for the water-power of a saw mill on the ground with twenty acres of the land. That la the other aide. What ever may be the declslon relative to tWa lutpute, there is no question but a great raLstake was comadtted in chartering the Laudation with lottery powers. Puncts.re as damaging a &Large as any other made against the President, is that which has the Secretary of the Treasury for Its authority, and is to the effect that If the right sort of men were employed In the Department of Internal Revenue the whisky tax as it stands Could be col. tented as certainly as any less assessment. dud this comports with reason. One hundred and twenty-five million dollars, plundered from a single source of reve nue, because the President insists on having tools of his Polley rather than honest men in office! It is fair to infer that most of the other fountains of in• come arc depraved proportionately, and for the same purpose. Yet there are men and newspapers, claiming common smile, that look incredulmudy when the !km peaehment of the President is demand ed, and want to know what evil he has donelo call down such wrath upon his innocent head ! EPHEMERIS —Cord wood is excessively dear in Baltimore. —AnObetth or African witchcraft case e troubling Quincy, 111. —Albany is trying to get female . con doctors for its horse ears.. —Waukegan, is to have a large iaaonfactory of serge gaiters. —There are twenty-hve acres of vine yard in the vicinity of Peoria. —Sweden has the questionable felicity of having 800,000 starving paupers. —Holland is going to abolish wrpital punishment because it is amapensive. —Somebody says that the greatest age reached by dog or onion is the saus4c.. . "—Russia has an army of two hundred thousand met on her Turkish. frontier., —The New York Hardn wants the government to buy the Sandwich Ulan& —The Franklin Institute into htte an exhibition in Philadelphia sometime in 1868:, • • -:-The ,grand Duchess. of Geroldatein has had a ma of twelve weeks is New York. • - —Henderson, Kg., Is to be lighted for the Brat tiAte with gas • on Citristmis everung. • —ln Louisville the anew has all melt. ed and the citizens expect a sudden rise in.the . , . —There are 34 dioceses and 44 bishops of the Protestant Episcopal Church in Jimerm. . --Fourteen thousand Quaker reaidents are among the inducements for !migra tion to Indiana. —De elmrdinsaya, "look at s Chinese woman's Onot, and you *Whore an idea of Franca freedom." —Fifteen hundred and slaty-five Byes were lost in the coal =tines of Great Britain last year. —Edwin Booth realized over . eleven thousand dollars for his recent twelve nights in St. Lodi —Semmes thinks he is like Paul Jones. /le went, n't dare to say so if he didn't know. Paul w•s dead. —Tee Chief of the Cherokee nation is ,exious to have a neweliaper In his capi tol, printed in English and Cherokee. —s , mbasinpnwtagetasinelrer IS the name of an Indian in Milwaukee. In English be is called Beautiful Shadow. —t'A Life of Augustus" is the yltle of Napoleon's new book, Which is to be a companion piece, as it Were, to the Life of Ceaser. —Roebling, the suspension bridge builder, has commenced farming in lowa. He has taken 23,000 acres to start on. - .—There Is said to bola region in Peru where the climate restores consumptive persons to health as Certainly as night follows day.. —This • house of a French gentleman In St. Louis was entered on Tuesday last and a very valuable collection of sliver coins-taken away. —A. Western paper !aye that Captain F , Xitchei was recently tto pieces by a uireati - maw, and gently ' killed. Strange consequence of being cut to pieces... , , . .—A. man' in Sokonio, Indiana, while ` boring for water, struek a vein of gas in his own cellar. This be has tubed and so confined that he uses It to light his house. —lt is said that two gills of sweet oil, swallowed by the person most concern ed,. is an antidote for, every . kini or poison, no matter how virulent or strong. —A. wonderful tiunsformation Lee occurred In Canada! recently. An edi tor who was attackOd on a bridge, \by a rascal, threw his assailant out into the ~ river and made sat t mof him" —K, Prase sn sallo committed teAcide In Philadelphia, on ednesday, by tak ing arsenic. He ga eas a reason , for the deed that he had en crossed In love and dui not want to "ve any longer. —Panay Jananschrk, the great Ger_ man tragedienne, has been mekillg a sensation to Philadelphia. The pressor that city is unanlmoris end loud in its praises of her acting. Her reditioe or Medea and Adrienne is said to be espec ially fine. I —A boy, in Bt. Louis, was carrying home a tumbler of molasses, when he fell, breaking the tumbler, a piece of which entered into 1 . 4 Women, making a very ghastly . wound from which' the entrails protruded. 'The attenclingimr= geon says the boy 4wlll live if he' can prevent infamatior which Is doubtful. —The young man who wan shot late 1y In ieconain, being. mistaken for a deer, is recovering, and his nurse, a pretty young woman, "aye she doesn't blame the man for 'Mooting him at all, for he's a perfect dear and no mistake. —Dubuque is' the largest to in lowa, and has 20,000 inhabitants. Then follow Davenport with 17,000, Des Moines with 11,000, and Burlington with 11,000. No other town, we be lieve, in lowa bas ten thoaaand inhabi— tants. —Madame Tassand has added a figure of the Emperor Theodore. as also those or Allen and t were hanged, to her chamber of horrors. The figure of the Abyssinian is thought td be that of Franz Muller dose over again. —llia stated that Gin. Dix is coming home from Paris to he a candidate for nomination for the Presidency at the Democratic Convention. Such a nomi nee would hare every personal reqruslte, at least for the .office, which is far more than can he said of many Democratic nominees. locomotive on the Pittsburgh, 1 Fort Wayne and Chicago Railroad • struck the horses, of a street car on • Archer avenue, in Chicago, on Wednes- , day last, and killed them, mangling ' them terribly. Fortunately no one in the ear was hurt, although all were frightened. —John Brotherton died recently In Springfield, Illinois, leaving his brother William, of Lock Haven, Pa., sole ex eeeutor. When the will was opened and this fact discovered the brother was telegraphed to; but a reply from friends announced that William had did about half an hoar before John. —A. bank clerk, who was unable to get any vacation during the summer, wis at last granted two weeks about the beginning of this month; be returned at the end of the time and said he had been nowhere& He bad startedto visit some friends in Connecticut, but after battling with snow 'on several roads for nearly two weeks, be went back, having been emphatically snow bound without reach ing his Connecticut faleuds at all. —A. man in St. Louis recently set up a fashionable shoe store, which was fill ed with the finest stock he could procure 'on credit. lie was of an insinuating disposition and address, and be succeed- I ed in borrowing several thousand dol lars in vinous amounts. On Sunday morning his shop door was closed and draped with crape. The gas was burn ing in the store, and it was not swill Friday that his confiding creditors found that he had gone off on Saturday, ached most .of his stock. —Benjamin F. Orcutt, the Sheriff of Kalamazoo, Michigan, who, es we have already recorded, was shot several weeks ego by a band of desperadoes in trying to deliver some other desperate charac ters from the jail, died on Friday last. Every decent citizen of Kalamazoo has taken upon himself the duty of trying to find out the murderess. The general Impression is that the gang came from Chicago, and therefore search was insti tuted Were, resulting in the arrest on Tuesday of two well known roughs, whose participation ifs the crime remains to to prove*. PURE LIQUORS. rare Liquor., Unaart, Pare Lddnor, ~Para FUR Liquor.. Ir.< Liquors, Par medlelnyl purpo:ca. For medminnl rnrpue Candy Toy Manufacturers de1.:144 211088111 ANN. VITA letwasi !mei 1 Mika ALL, Cunsiellh and Dealer In Bardware. Prot duo goods of all defOrtpttOoo LIM. on Mod noel sold o‘ %la loom. prices. liapolliolf doo. osiotoUf. oe :e o n notice. . .I.lsMaa NDIA RUBBER CLOTHING, of PaiMutota. itinema ftptimal Pa n ts, 5037 , li f it r amts. NEW ADVERTISEMENTS , 111 i CARPETS! FOR 30 CLEARANCE ALE. We are selling all. Goods in our line at a Great Sacrifice for Cash VELVET BRUSSELS, THREE PLY, And INGRAIN CARPETS, CIS .A.ll Ciracitofir. OIL CJl.o'rll%, Of Every 17171ci.t13. MAft...xur IVCA-EI, OF =VERY DESCRIPTION Carriage Robes, Piano Covers, Hassocks. Velvet and Brussels Rvgs and Mats, ASTONISHINGLY LOW PRICES OLIVER Bi'CLINTOCIE & COMPANY, No. 231 Fifth Street. lOLIDAY GOODS! J. B. McFADDEN & CO. • WOVLD RESPEC 'TOLL, AN .. .91011S0o to tliofcosh:oasts tloft Mel hove moor on exhibit.to4 £2 efefrut cotk of GOODS IMITABLE FOB TIM SEASON, restecthily tat t the public an •MIXTT examloalloo. Mcr .14.1. of WITCIES,DIAIONDS, JEWELRY, Silver and Plated Ware, . DLE, : 1 1 .1n:u a j t.t., and having been partaiss.d DECLINE IN GOLD, Art matted at inlets G.,to aWI BATIsiAC TIQN. J. B. 1111cFADDEN & CO, 95 Market Street. O is • Novelty. v an latsod , lol.l the "VII ESE SKATE BAG," Eolaal►lna 00w aod •a,7 a•ndwalat. UAW. ♦!L SZE TbX.Ol. IrEMCI 1867.7. - !"" GHRISIIKAB GIFTS. MACRUR & CARLISLE; 19 Fifth Street., GREAT HOLIDAY SALE. OF MAGNIFICENT PRESENTS. Jew.; and Wort Bonn.: MS•dkorultird And tiloTo 101 e. 1 4=1411=relas; /Ma Iran. wad Sol. Osamu • las des aent Fanny J.grair7 Mcnoaca Walla's •nd Bana t • Real and Imitation Laos: 11.1. sun Zrabroldend HAndk•lnt 11.. enahm.n. eir•rf.; • nue• Cloth nod Kid Moves. • cost:att.! Mel Of Undershirts and :Prawers, 'AT Vial( LOW ?RIO= 312/6.111FL 111Z112 Just .tia for Ulla cold nay.. ► complrto Ilea of iutrunces. comm. SKIRTS, ZICP/ITIL •10 LIM 00008. • At 00011 SILT IT TIPTITLY 1411 RICK MACRON & C&RLIBLII, "go. 2.0 arms& mi; FDRTT.FIVE 086!•318 AripmEL9DEoNs. Trost the /eateries of Ueo. •. Prime& Ue•tMercy •• Co..ed fleece. Ufa.. !”.;10iLfar.f rw il APZetda. Cay &ea examine MA Ket:ttlittA 4 0 0000 0. WO . i1e230 • 21: 1 •1 13 - 3... GO ; 4zl AN ELEGANT HOLIDAY PRESENT. TWENTY REALSONs rthi BUYING • MASON & HAMLIN CABINET ORGAN. 1. Mr Lb* lOW INTOSYMINT yon eta mato; aster and Orlog4ig greater • rotorny that 1•001 , 7 lonard'on latorint Or lororted In bonds or (and.. • • . . undue home attractive, and MT* mu. expensive and lees benallutal unneements. I. Its mule will cultivate good Ruling. and have the but inAzance. 4 . It 4.111 . castle your sons and dauthters to learn to play. and so (lye them a 'Wasiak , 14 , comullaurnans. 6. It will Ova them [unities to qualify them. selves as teauhers ol mats. , " which it as good • trade or prefestlan. Tlousaud• of ladles arc now pleasantly supporting themselves O f I..th- Ng mad., witch they trailed icerrly -b -oom clubmen, If your ElLP•hter has 50 , 00 ISM. fat Made. 000 would bettor Eire her a good nernment solo" sad aaacarate her to learn Lb play cult, Still to give her thousands of dollars some years lasoca. 6. It talll be a ipletture and comfort 1ndf. 4641 darn as the fang Fluter evenings. • 7. It trlll Wt. lifetime. and 7011.111 valve It mere sag morn Utsbly. A Is Ilearn to piny on than • Piano Porte and etiete tech len. 9. The Mason 6 IhmeilnlCabluet argues ate THE BERT Instrument* of this ciars In the world. ', "1I I It. Thu le priiied by the testimony of the beet edge. They eta been awarded hlgneet pre mium et 9 VILEI EYENTY Intl.telal cox yetis Cone, Includ6 it the /that. PRIZE MEDAL at the' Woulillla EXPOtIITION AT P • RIX. the. Year. In their t aircular. Y. a H. Pilot the tee tin our Of More' then three bantered of the beat musicians let FEe country that their instrameate excel ell others;;l When one who tithes to sell you en Instiane t claim. that We recommended ;tette beet by l ariOdeadrot the molt dutlngulebed organist., nab him to /note you their reritmome. 4/ adds rue Dien nisi», he refit Artie If fa prier. 11. Compere the testinments made by K. it H. tide by side Witt; any' o ..... ; "compere them critically and It;roughly, tensity tone. and you cannot fall to to *charterer., le many rained.. .." Le. Thep:tease temente Scathe only ones having the celenreted 1 orollenC Bni.t.ohla SWILL, the meet to po i ut Improlement In reed 'mitre. • ' meats for termite' year.. It. They ere 'See only instramente having PAT. •er ilite•Ale Elmo Henn Vst.vas, and the = var ou i odour To t Hamlin, Too they ire I= 12:122=12 be exteriors. sad absent tb MEM= or 11. 1. It. bale the belthoeMY tionte to the toll; reel eholl loud black Keys: deal made en t Ix% rothe . erot three inmate the Insttuteenf of luy; woof and not tnerelt n the toot t nob. lined togethe/. dad vol. lurid Thl. thoroodboesl of work pieces of 1.4 to brest. • • • - maastdp. land', •• se of only beet =Mesta' e runs through taa sto•lo Instrument. IS The Monaighness of comtruetton of these lostrumens gives them the gm Moat OnMbillt7. They arelt I =de to gat oat of order. IL: They still Improve by age, gett in g ore. Letter to a all t 7 of tons. IL TILLE LSE THE. CHEJLEAST INETRO• HICHTISOT THIC LAPS; not the lowest prleod. Indeed, Mitosis trot ditfersam to peke between these dad l tart.. lastrnmer.ts Is not great. It eo u a little m l,`o to do the very best work, but ts ohs siege la o end. LS It la not eto trust to the Judgment of dealers. Olio Ars tempted to think Mom lustre. ulna. ore 't/to tort on =fon they CMS rooks fas orsmset PvoAti. 1. AH. bare loud thelr =lees so low that 12e7 cannot afford to pa? the large aoromizslons stoma to dealers by soMete l or .1= =tor vorlt. ML Suety lostrumett made by Mason* Itendla Ss folly ' , Smutted. If. It proves defects's, you CA'S sotro p no toss, as thelE suarantae =above questlon. lir Sena dor. f Ideate - , ehlett ell w Nat gramatioallf. a:Odell:Ling fall delaelptlano and Illastrattoti of the elfferuat styles sad prteea, whist, dary [roux 1170,t0 St.ooO and etnrsede, eseht sits w lh testnnond la full foam the die ttrutnlshrd rganitts of the country to the Mee slortty of. se Instruments. • . . CHAS. C. MELLOit, N'o, SI Wood Street, I NANA i s HAMAN ORNkI HOLIDAY STOCK JUST BiCHLYZI). AT Pll36lffil 20 PER CENT. SAVED. ADISGOIINT of 20 PER CENT. from regular wines allowed on the entire