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MONDAY, APRIL 13; 1868
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• We print on the inside pages of this morn
ing's GAZETTE : Second - page—Epigrams
and Condensed News. Third page—Mar
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Sixth page—Pittsburgh Markets, and Yinan
dal Matters in Neu, York. Seventh page—
Poetry and Pive Years, on Guard, a pleas
ant story.
Goan closed in New York on Saturday
evening af134(40381.
TEE •TIIREE-PER CENT Certificates are
now held by the Treasury authorities to be
redeemable in kreenbacks. This has not
been officially declara until within the imst
three days. •
THE OFFICERS at (;arlisle Barracks hav
ing disregarded the army regulations so far
as to permit some of the private soldiers to
hold a political meeting a: few days ago,
Gdn. Grier, commanding that post, has been
ordered to duty with his regiment in Mis
souri and Kansas. Indian skirmishes Will
be more in the line of his profession than
the politics of impeachment.
.ME foreign immigration of .1868 prom
-
ices to be of extraordinary magnitude. Ger
many is pouring out thousands of her skilled
mechanics and hardy laborers throngh the
ports of the Confederation, while every har
bor of Ireland to which American shipping
resorts is crOwded with the .rush of emi
manta, which fully equals the great exodus
0f1866. Fr6m England. the Baltic States,
Belgium, Trance and Italy, the movement
is equally active.
THE NEW Constitution of North Carolina
confers the right of suffrage upon thousands
of "poor whites " whol the aristocratic
ride of former days disfranchised under the
property qualification. These very "mean
whites" are expected to follow the ungrate
ful example of a man who sprung from their
class, and who in a few days will be remit
' ted•by the exhausted patience of the people
to the obsCurity from which 4o should never
have emerged ; they will take the first chance
to turn against their benefactors by voting
the Democratic ticket.
To vows early and vote often, has been
understood to be a cardinal maxim of the
Democratic electioneering policy. 'The ma
jority which this party has infthe I%Tew
Jersey Legislature evidently intend to heed
tits' injunction,
.as they haVe repealed the
"Registry. , Lami auft_also the "Sunset" law,
'which required the polls to be closed at stm.
set. Having thus abolished all the existing
restrictions by which' wise piii'vision had
been ;wide for the purity of the suffrage,
' they propose to ensure their State for the
Demoaratic ticket by voting early and late,
and as often-as need be to count out a ma-
TBELerrEit rABT of last week witnessed
the gathering at Harrisburg„ 9f ex-Senator
; Cowxs, Generals STEED3IiNo EGA N and
GRANGER, CORNELIUS WEiciar,ix, and with
thein came . Mr. LEW. CeatmmLL, late of
the'Rio 'Grande. Speculations were rife as
to the object which brought these persons
to .our State Capital, by a curious coinci
dence, at the same.time. Time was, when
these gentlemen were regarded as dangerous
pohticians, but, as each and all of them are
today without a particle of official or jai
_ldual influence upon public affairs, the con
clusiou was tilt Whatever intrigue or petty
plot, if any, they might be ;'endeavoring to
'hatch by the combined incubation, could
• never be distinguished for aught but its im
potent audacity.
THE Republicans of Wisconsin have
eleeted their Judicial ticket. by . a majority
exceeding 7,000,, being again of about 3,000
from last autumn and against a violent op
position" tO• width various factions and
cliques }nude, of our Own party, lent their
aid. In that State, as in Michigan, Ohio,
Indiana, Illinois'and .I.linnesota, the local
eleCtions of, the spring show the. Republi
can-paity to be as strong as in its paimiest
days since 1664. All the " reaction " we
'can anywhere discover is in Connecticut,
where, upon a largely increased poll, and al
thot. aided by whelesale naturalizations and
direct !rands? the Democracy find the ma
jority' hi the legislature nearly doubled
against them, and have only succeeded in
gaining about six hundred in the majority
for a Gubernatorial candidate whom they
',;,luitig in effigy, during the war.. as being al
.l,4gether too loyal in his patriotism.
,
' IMOILET 'to find our exchanges from
;nearly all quarters of the country concur
ring in the opinion that the fruit crops of
the fettalong' this parallel of latitude will
amount• to : little, or nothing. With the ex
ceptio* of ropotts somewhat more favorable
from the jew.lying belt of country adjoining
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higher _latitudes, in which the later, season
keeps back the swelling of the buds. Fruit
prospects which have been gloomy in the
spring have frequently been followed by a
yield far more abundant than was antici
pated, but we see but little reason to hope
for such a result this year. Our Missouri,
Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, and Kentucky ex
changes,l with those of our ( own and other
Middle States, express but one opinion, and
that a clear and decided one, as to the fatal
consequences upon the fruit of the unu
sually severe weather which has uniformly
prevailed from the middle of March to this
date. It is not only the unseasonable cold
which 'has done the mischief, but the low
temperature has been so frequently pre
ceded by wet, clinging snows, which, sur
rounding the buds, have been frozen with
them into a solid mass. ( •
THE GREAT TRIAL.
Technically, the Managers closed their
case early last Week,. and Mr. Jonicsox's_
counsel have engaged the attention of the
Senate since Thursday. But this, it seems;
was only a stroke of policy on the part- of
the Managers, the result of which has re
fleeted the highest credit upon their pro
fessional skill and has displayed more con
spicuously than ever the strength of their
case. Affeeting to yield the 'floor to the de
fense, they have submitted with the best
grace possible to the infliction of Judge
CURTIS' five hour speech, preliminary to the
introduction of testimony for the President.
This, under a searching cross-examination,
goes directly and powerfully to support the
articles. Judge CURTIS' argument did not
make a solitary Senator more doubtful as to
his duty. Forty - of the Senators are con.
vinced that the President removed Secre
tary, STANTON, because he was determined
to resist the law; no argument can shake this
conclusion and no testimony seems likely
to show it to be unfounded. , Certainly,
there is no likelihood of this when the con
spiracy to resist the law is proved by one of
the conspirators, Gen. THOMAS, who con
fessed on the stand thathe intended tosuse
force, and had so stated to others. He also
swore that he was hiniself Secretary and ac
knowledged as such, although his co-con
spirator, Mr. Jorixsolg, denies the removal
of Mr. STANTON, and; by his counsel, in
sists that he still remains the Secretary.
This, too, in the face of the President's
official order removing him under the law
itself. No evidence which was offered 14-
the Managers in chief went further than
,this' to establish the validity of the Im
peachment.
It is not to be wondered at that the Sen
ate should be disposed to indulge Mr. JonN
sox in the widest possible latitude in offer
mg such testimony. The plainest princi
ples of the law of evidence have conipelled
them to exclude the testimony of General
Sirgnmax as to what the accused may have
said to him concerning his intentions: If
an accused party should be suffered, to es
tablish his own innocence in advance, by
his own declarations artfully contrived
with an express view to their use in his own
behalf upon a future frial, the rules of evi
dence would become but a mere . mockery.
But whate4er witnesses may be legitimately
offered by Mr. 501INSON'S counsel will have
the widest liberty of testimony, and will be
found, tinder the test of cross-examination,
to be, - as TitoatAs has proven, efficiently
supporting the prosecution.
We are justified, therefore, in our remark
that the case, for the Managers, although
technically closed, is still proceeding with
the accumulation of proof, and that this has
been considered in heir tactics froth the
first. The oral and documentary testimony
for the defense will all be in this week,
perhaps by Friday. The Managers will not
require more than two days for rebutting
proof, and final arguments' will begin early
next week, probably by the 21st or 22d of
the month. The country hopes to see the
trial ended before May-Day, and the indica
tions that way are quite encouraging.
NATURAL it EALT I II`OF NEW
Hon. CH-hRLES P. CLEVER, delegate in
Congress from - New Mexico, has just issued
an interesting pamphlet of forty-seven
pages on the resources of New Mexico—
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" her necessities for railroad communica
tion with the Atlantic and Pacific States—
:her great future," which will add materially
to the very limited stock of knowledge yet
possessed by the world at large respecting
that exttaordinary territory. .
It is now a little more than twenty years
since our Government acquired possession
of New Mexico; yet until 1867 we knew
very little about it. 'We thought of it as
a region of arid plains and barren moun
tains; cut off from the civilized world on all
aides; inhabited by a few Mexicans of the
lowest grade, <and overrun ,by predatory
savages. We thought of it as a portioti of
our national domain of ,no present and but
little prospective value—a sort -of Zahain
sti'e:tching between the good part of our
territory on this side and the good part, on
the other side—an impediment to national
progress rather than a, spur—a possession
something like the rough and sterile ,lands
of Pennsylvania, of which it is a common
expression to say that " the more a man
has of them the - poorer he is."
Never was there. a greater mistake. In
climate, New Mexico is probably. not sur
passed by any other-portion of the globe.
About latitude 86, deg. the great RoCky
Mountain system begins to break down into
an extensive plateau, having afi altitude of
from four to seven thousand feet above the
sea level. -The atmosphere is exceedingly
pure and clear. Some snow falls .in the
winter season, bunt rarely. . lies more than
a day or two. - The surnmers, owing, to the
great altitude, are never Oppressively hot.
Much less rain falls than in the States east
of the Mississippi; yet the entire country,
mountains, valleys, and even the forests,
are well covered with grass,,uutking- At, one
of the best pastoral 'regions in the world.
. The timber consisispf .pine; : , spruce, ced ar ,
Ai, and otber::424red trees These are
found mesat - orlo4i,
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pinyon,) a
. yaluable timber, often
mixed with cedar'. On the streams the,nat
ural growth is principally made up-of cot
tonwoods, sycamores, hackberry, . willow,
&e., with some walnut and oak.
The higher lands, including the moun
tains, afford excellent pasture. The valleys
of the rivers and lesser streams can all be
successfully cultivated, but mainly- by the
help of irrigation. Irrigation is effected by
leading the water of a stream on a level
along the higher part of the valley; or bot
tom lands, very much as it is carried in a
race with us to a mill wiled; and is let off at
proper intervals, to be led by plough-fur
rows over the adjacent fields. These ditches,
or little canals, are called acequias in the
vernacular of the country. Sometimes a
farmer will have one fbr his own exclusive
use ; at other times the whole people of 'a
district will unite and construct a "sakey,"
as they call it, several miles in length, and
appoint a water master to deal the water out
fairly to the several stockholders. "It is
true (says Mr. CLEVER) it costs some labor
to make these ditches, but then .the farmer
is sure of a crop ; and the running over. his
land of water highly charged with detritus,
made up of decayed vegetation and rich
mould from the mountains above, is a source
of fertility. In this way the land never
wears out. Irrigation thus becomes a fer
tilizer." He continues : "The agricultural
interests of New Mexico have heretofore
been confined to the raising of wheat, corn,/
beans, oats and barleY. In some localities'
in the North potatoes grow well, but along
the valleys they cannot be successfUlly mild ;
vated. "
Agriculture among the New Mexicans is
still prosecuted in the most primitive fash
ion. The plough is a little better than" a
crooked stick, with which they can only
scratch the surface of the soil, yet their
crops average more per acre than ours; and
having the needful water perfectly at corn-,
wand, their crops are sure. They suffer
neither from wet weather nor drought -In
some valleys irrigation can be dispensed'
with; and it is believed that when deep
ploughing shall be instituted, the necessity
for artificial watering will he greatly abated:
In a country so fall of mountain peaks
and ranges, valleys and stfeims are very-nu
merous, and many of the "bottoms" are
quite extensive. That of the' Rio Grande is
from two to ten miles in width for a dis
tance of more than a hundred miles within
the boundrics of New Mexico. That of the
Pecos is little if any less. Both are among the
best vine growing regions in the world.
Mr. Clever remarks : • "The variety of the
grape which is most cultivated in New
Mexico cannot be surpassed for flavor by
any grape in the world. The wine made
from it surpasses the best Burgundy. It
requires but little labor to cultic ate the vine,
as no trellises are used.' The same is true
of the vines of Southern California. In fact
the two countries, in soil and climate, are
very similar. Grape culture and The manu
facture of wine of the finest quality will soon
become a business of enormous magnitude
in New Mexico, Arizona and California, a
continuous region stretching at least a
thousand miles along the line of the Uni t on
Pacific Railway, Eastern Division—a dis
tance equal to that between Philadelphia
and St. Louis.
But, after all, the great wealth - of that
territory is in its mines of the useful and
the precious metals, and in its exhaustless
coal mines. Our apace will not permit us
to go into details; suffice it to say that the
number of ledges of gold bearing quartz
which may be profitably worked are some
thousands in nuMber, while new discoveries
are constantly being nuide. The silver
mines are but little less numerous,_in many
of which the metal is found in combination
with lead. Copper ores ,of various kinds,
and yielding about the same per tentage as
the iron ores of PennsyYvania, abound in
lodes from two to ten feet thick in many local
ities; and iron mere, strongly resembling that
of the Iron Mountain of Missouri, exists in
masses practically inexhaustible,' Very rich
hematite ores are also found in great abun
dance. Coal of excellent quality, having a
much larger per tentage of fixed carbon
than the bituminous coals of Western Penn
sylvania, is immensely abundant for a long
distance along the base of the mountains
this side of the Rio Grande. The veins are
four to fourteen feet in thickness. Other
veins are found - west of that river; and there
is a report that a coal vein fifty feet in thick
ness has been found on the San Juan river,
a tributary of the Colorado.' Anthracite
coal, in a vein of about five feet in thick
ness, exists near the line of the railway, a
few miles southwest of Santa Fe, but its
extenthas not been ascertained.
There is enough of mineral' wealth in
New Mexico to give profitable :.employment
to millions of men; but there it must lie
until 'a railroad, can be constructed to p it.
There is not a mile of navigable water in
the territory, nor within hundreds of miles
of it; and to expect that such a country can
ever be developed so as to yield up its bound
less treasures to the fise of mark, while the
only connection‘betviven it and the rest of
the , world is the slow-moving ox-train, re
quiring three Months to make the trip from
the Kansas to the ilk) Grande, is simply
preposterous.
OF THE distinguished „Representative from
the Allegheny District, a:Wasithigton letter
says :
Mr. Williams, who has' not opened his
mouth thus far in the trial, has nevertheless
been of great service in the preparation and
arrangement of evidence, and in the prompt
citation of huthorities. His absolute silence
has surprised those who know his abilities,
but he has not failed to render sufficient
support Messrs. Wilson and Boutwell
have done the same, and Mr. Bingham, of
course, besides his occasional speeches, has
had the general direction..of the proceediti:
MR. JOHNSON 88,Y8 that, if convicted in'
the impeachment he will take the stump for
the Democratic Presidential ticket, and it is
understood that he hasidready invited 'a
particular friend, to accompany hi m as . .hte
bade-holder. can - only regard this as
a n . avail attempt_ to "blaelc-mairt the De.
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WHEN we have expressed ourapproval
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of Fenianism , no intelligent reader can
have understood us to object to the natural
sympathies which 6iy. Irish-born citizens
Must ever feel touching the political and
material condition of their native Island.
Our criticisms were applicable only to those
overt manifeaations of hostility, against a
foreign power with which the Republic is
at peace, which were iii violation of our
laws, of our treaty-faith and,Of the true and
loy' allegiance which this class of our peo
ple
t
gave sworn to the Republic, when ad
ini ed to the privileges of its citizenship.
We i have Ito censure for hearts which beat
still warmly with love for the native land;
indeed, in that very sentiment, we can dis.
cover t the truest and deepest foundation of
all the higher qualificailons for a good Ameri
carcitizen. This sentiment has its. legit'.
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mate effect, morallY, upon public opinion,
at home and abroad, and aims to reach
the Correction of a national wrong through
the general condemnation ofun enlightened
world. With this, it ends; it should vio
late ho law here or elsewhere, nor should it
disregard the paramount - obligations of
loyalty to our institutions and our laws, one
of,which forbids any hostilhacts Azainst
other nations at peace ',with us.
We have condemned, as plainly and for
ierwe know how, the schemes Of mili
tary, intervention with . which Fenianism
has proposed to array our Irish-born citi
zens iu unlawful hostilities against a friend
ly power, but we have never' accused them
of designing to advance the interests of
Ireland by any mean or cowardly way. We
shall be very far, therefore,. from hnputing
the assassination of D'Ancr M'GEE, at Ot
tawa,
to a Fenian plot for the' taking' off of
an opponent by midnight murder.' We are
quite sure that lab such crime has been con
templated, or could ever be Sanctioned, by
the Brotherhood, here or in Canada. The
murderer may have been an Irishman, but
he was not necessarily a Fenian, while it is
far more probable that a private grief or
sorUe domestic wrong has been avenged by
this, assassination. Those who best knew
Mr.k IV GEE while living, will understand
the anger In this way to which he .was
frequently exposed. 1 We decidedly prefer
this explanation to the other and more gen
eral one which represents the crime as a
Fenian outrage. The Brotherhood which
violates our neutrality laws have not, andove
are confident, never will countenance mid
night assassinations.
1 IT mks come to be pretty well understood
in both monetary and political circles, that
the financial policy of the gOvernmentiis not
likely to he altered or even materially dis
turbed for twelve months to come. Among
all the schemes which have teen proposed,
affecting the volume of the 'currency, the
status of the public debt and the National
banking system, the only one upon which
Congress hai been able to agree was that
suspending the contraction policy. The
effect of that Vote. and of the reception
which all other new propositions meet at
Washington, is to establish the fixed policy
of the government in the continuance of the
present state of affairs, withorit other legis
lative intervention, and subjept only to the
influence of events as they may naturally
arise in the progress of, the country. All'
parties, except the extreme 'Pendletonian
wing of the Democratic inflationists, are
agreed to let the entire subject alone, at
least until the next Session of Congress,
For the present, thereviill be neither ex
,Pension nor contraction, 'redemption nor
repudiation, nor will any measure whatever
be entertained ,having ; in view an accele
ration of specie-resumPtion. .The - country
is doing very well as it is, and 'everybody is
willing to forbear an injurious and meddle
some tinkering upon a state of things
which is, on the whole, so _ gen
erally satisfactory. Specie payments
will be resumed as soon as •the country is
ready and able to take, care of all its debts,
1. e., just as soon as the great body of its
-creditors shall become ronvinced of its sol
vency—that they -
can• have the cash now if
their claims wish, or thattueir claims are Absolutely
safe to be paid, dollar for i dollar, when due, in
case they incline to prefer the interest now
and the principal- to ibe settled hereafter.
Trade and business generally have already
-reached the hard-pan,lvalues in almost all
- eases heing estimated ripon the, specie -basis,
and in due time the public finances will be
controlled•by the same standard. The ar
bitrary, forced value given to our paper, cur
rency and secnrities, under the pressure of
necessity a few Years since, must, when
that pressure is removed, yield, sooner or
later,,.-'to the inevitable laws of political
economy. , In business, as in every other
field of human experience, whateer is facti
tious and unsound is sure to give place, in
duik time,to a more sound and:natural state
of things, unless bolated up by the 'arbitra
ry -force of- unsound 'legislation. So, we
trust that Congress will keep their hands off,
and• permit the country to continue with
out interruption in the natural course,which
is leading slowly but; certainly'. back' to the
normal and, healthy condition of affairs
which existed eight years ago.
COLFAXWADE AND UOL are likely to htIVO
for
close, contest the second place upon the
ticket at Chicago. 4 Washington „letter
speculates as follows:
Minn the delegates, so far as,elected, the
friends of Mr. Wade count upon Ohio, Ken
tucky, Maryland, Kansas, California, solid,
and part of New Jersey and Michigan, mak
ing one hundred and thirty-four delegates.
The friends of Mr. Colfax claim Indiana
and all of New Jersey; and Michigan, and
part of Tennessee and Missouri, fifty-two
delegates in all. Senator Wilson expects to
carry the majority of , the New England
States. Rhode island and parts`of Vermont,
Massachusetts and Maine, have as yet 'elect
ed nc delegates. _ Should Pennsylvania or
New York or both, !cast their'votes, after
complimentary ones for Fenton and Curtin,
for Wade, he will be nominitted-450 being
a majority of the whole—oven t though he
should not get all the • esters States.
—A young man named Elias Rpe4 ob i ,
twent3 o -four ,years of has been ii - Moss
Milwaukee for murdering young. i t i r
Tesoh last November . Need- bsa a a
full eonfeeaion. 'Money was the object, ftsid
,Tesah - , Vorunknown;tp him as Wen* te'
hieaooomplide, frtigge 4 ..usrhe he reales to .
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A - Fatal Panic in a cnttren.
The services on Good Friday evening at
St. Mary's Cathedral in Chicago, were
interrupted by a false alarm of fire. The
edifice• being crowded in every part, a
fearful panic ensued, and With shocking re
sults, three women being crushed to death
and two others fatally injured. The Repub
lican reports this melancholy affair as fol
fows :
They had proceded as fhr as the third
Psalm, and were singing the lamentation
commencing "Domuerunt Sdmniuni &MUM
—Sle i eping they." tt - c., when a scream was
heard, and in a moment all Was confusion.
No words can convey the horror that in an
instant filled the scene of peaceful worship.
Those persons in the body of the church,
feeling their utter inability to move, fearing
the fall of the crowded galleries ; those most
remote pressing toward all the avenues of
escape.
The Rev. Father Halligan was chanting
the Tenebrae at the moment. His voice
was drowned by the screams of the women
and Children. In% moment some one near
the door, cried "fire." This was the signal
for a panic. With great presence of mind,
Father Halligan cried out at the top of his
voice, My Children, keep quiet—there is no
,fire—no cause for a larm." But his words
of assurance had no effect upon the terrified
people; and, to add to the trizlit and con
fusion, the cries of, "The galleries are giv
ing away," sent a fresh thrill of terror
through the auslience. Many of the women
swooned away in their seats, others fainted
-in the aisle. Some of the men maintained
their composure under the trying circum
stances, vand did much toward restraining
many in the body of the church from rase
ly crowding upon each other.
The people in the galleries, on becoining
panic stricken, quickly poured headlong
down the stairs: In descending from the
south gallery, in their impetuosity to force
their way rapidly to the street, the people
ran, jumped, and tumbled, until they had
got themselves into an entangleicand strug
gling mass at the bottom of the stairway;
opposite the door, which opened inward,
where were many human beings literally
piled together in horrible confusion. There
lay, pressed tightly together, the living, the
dead and the dying. The harrowing groans
that issued forth, told of the intensity of the
suffering that was being endured 'by many
of the unfortunate people. It was a work
of great difficulty to disentangle thli tightly
wedged mass of humanityVso impacted that
the rescuers found themselves at times liter
ally tearing the clothing from the bodies of
the victims.
Mrs. McNulty, an old lady of immense
size, whorl:tad been among the first to gain
the stairs, but- who had in the excitement
missed her footing at the top of the flight,
rolled to the' bottdm, , and when reached,
was found with her head on the floor, with
her feet in an upright position. Life was
extinct. Crushed about her, lay others dead
and dying. AU the victims- were remov
ed as speedy as possible to the Convent of
the Sisters of Mercy, adjoining the Church.
Here the dead and wounded were placed
on the parlor floor—side by side; and every
thing that tended to alleviate the pain of the
sufferers, was done by those kind ministering
angels—the - Sisters of. Mercy. Medical aid
was immediately sent .for, but some delay
Was experienced in obtaining surgeons, as
many of the nearest who were called upon,
were absent in attendance upon their
patients.
The Lake Michigan Disaster.
Of the hundred or more human lives on
board the steamer. Sea Bird, burned on this
Lake on Friday mprning, but three were
iaved. Of one cause of the siveeping fatal
ity of this disaster, a Chicago journal says:
From the, best evidence it would appear
that no effort was made to stop the engine
until circumstances prevented its, further
motion. The result was that, the helm
having been put a-port, thz boat described a
circle of nearly a mile in diameter. The
belief of those who ought to know is that
had the progress of the steamer been stop
ped at the first alarm the boats might have
been gotten out, and all on board saved.
The Steamboat Inspector of this District
has decided to issue an order to engineers
of all steamers on the Lake, andtheir assist
ants, to stop their engines on the instant of
a fire alarm, without waiting orders from ,
their superior officers, and not to start again
without an order delivered personally by the
chief officer.
THE Detroit Tribune says of the recent
election in Michigan :
"The new Constitution is -badly defeated.
It was opposed by all the enemies of Impar
tial Suffrage in this region, and in many
sections in the interior by the Prohibition
ists, who feared the success of the revised
instrument without the Prohibitory clause.•
It also encountered a heavy adverse vote in
the Republican party on the ground of its
increased salaries, its . exemption clauses,
the railroad question, the agricultuial £Ol
- location, and other points involved in
its variou%sections. These questions invi
ted the shattering fire of thousands in the
aggregate, all over the State."
T E Homeopathic Medical Society of
Massachusetts has just finished a sharp
wrangle over the question of admitting into
its ranks a woman who has been graduated
with all the honors,
and is already,a success.
full practitioner in Boston. When the final
vote was taken there was very nearly a
tie—thirty-three doctors voting against and
thirty-one for the admission. This was a
defeat for Mrs. Mercy B. Jackson, of course;
but 'a defeat which:came so near a victory is
a sign of promise: .'The two or three physi—
cians who inade:Up the
.adverse majority
will be', quite 'fikely to change their minds
before the yearls'out. The women doctors •
are, doing excellent_ seririce, .:if in no other
way : than by demonstrating the capacity of
BRIEF PEWS
Pennsylrmia, hasaKu Klux
club;
Carbon county, has aKu
Klux Klan. • -
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Chief Justice Chase is going to.try Jeff.
Davis in May:.
—Theire .were thirty-six deaths-In Louis
ville last week.'
—Two new furnaces are being built at
New Castle, Pa. •
—Bishop Kingsleyll.3 presiding over the
M. E. Conference at Binghamton. 3
—The profits of the .Catawissa Railroad
company last year were $185,893.28, ~
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-At St Louis there:was another rain St
urday night, and still another last night,
accompanied with, thunder andsfighttimg:
..—The reported strike at the riillroad roll
in,g mill, in Reading. is confined to a por
tien of the pudlers. It does not hoWever,
in re , with the working of the:mill. '
, , , .
a hands in, the Allen rolling
nyare at present ou a 'strike for higher
wages. It is expected that . the, - difficulty
w ill be amicably settled in a few days and
the mill will again be, put, into. operation.
flaow Storms_ at Ioledo.:-Qhlo.
(sy Telegraph to the Plttahaeth fueett4.3
Tom I April Your inches of
mscrw-tell here , - the twelve hours end 3t 's > ltobti .
' The weather to-night'
is- clear drat 604, wi t ud . .. , , AMUR/Ear ther:f
snifolatorli - i 5 a
r-. 44.141 v"lf.
MEMO
, .s.,
van'pAryte toAtt.
The Revolution i Lower Californisi-..Des
perate State of airs--Banquet Prepares
tug tbr _Anson Burlingame and Chinese
Embassy—ll.ab r Excuange Organize..
tion.
[By Telegraph to th i Pittsburgh Gazette.)
?SAN FRANCISCO, April 11 .—Mazathui ad
vices to April' 2c say: About 3,000 troops
were daily expectedla con flict r
pressing,
force with the object of demorsliring him
previous to his I:orming a junction with
Corona. Gen. Isiartinez is suported by
Gen. Toledo and is Palaceo and Grena
des. Col. Granacs,who raised the war
cry in Culiacou, and-appropriated seventy
one thousand dollars from the mint to de
fray expenses, 'publishes a -.circular to
to ills compatriots denouncing - Corona in
strong terms as the author of the troubles
in Northwestern i Mexico. Goy. Rubi is
still in the Penned Mountains, awaiting the
arrival of Corona. A ff airs are represented
in a glodmy state. Foreigners are awaiting
a change for the etter. Some assert that
secession will be f6ll6wed by annexation to
the Western Statet. - 1
The new steam hip contracts on the Pa
cific coast are looked upon as a matter of
great future significance. Leading busi
ness men and merchants would greet the
change with approbation, but many exhibit
animosity against l Amerieans from the be
lief that a large :portion of the territory
will be wrested from them by force of arms
and intrigues for the aggrandizement of the
United States.
.1
The mining intOrests are ruined by the
military operations, laborers being gen
erally pressed inte;the army co_rp. . ; S inola
cotton is almost ^ a failure. many fields
barely pay expenses, of picking. Early
and late crops suffered equally. Planters
are abandoning raising cotton and turning
their attention to chreals. Many foreigners
are locating in the; country between Coll
een and Trento where the land is repre
sented equal to the best on the Pacific
coast, free from military troubles, and the
climate salubrionsi
In San Franciscol arrangements are-bein g
made for a banqnetto Anson Burlingame
and the Chinese El bassy. The affair will
be on a grand scale. Gov. Haight pre
sides, and Eugerie Casserly and other
prominent citizens will participate on the
occasion.
. . , . . .
Leading merchahts and business men
have organized a Übor Exchange, for the
purpose of obtainkg information and 'mai
pAyment. Numerous imigrauts are ar
ming from the East and Eutope.
ST. !!LOUIS. . .
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Succesafal Iron EXperiments--New Trial
Granted for False Swearing --Arrest of
Lottery Men—T4 Weather and Fruit.
to y Telegraph to the gittsburgh Gazete.l '
Sr. Lours April 11.—The experiments.
which have been made during the past few
months in reducing- Iron Mountain ore to
pig metal, with What is known as Big
Muddy coal, reach6d' the most successful.
result last night at; the furnacejust com
menced at Carondelet, six miles below this
city. A final trial was made in the pres
ence of a numbed of experts, capitalists
and iron men, all of whom were highly
pleased, and say the iron produced was
first quality.. Thellig Muddy coal contains
less sulphur than hay other known, and
metal can be ma e with it for less than
twenty dollars per, n. •
A new trial has bee n granted Timothy S.
Fitch, of Chicago, 'Who was fined five hun
dred dollars for all' ed false swearing. .
Themanagers ofeveral real estate and
other lottery soh' es in this city were
t r n
arrested to-day for a violation of the State
law, and the wholet lot of gift enterprizes
in operation here will be broken up, if the
law is strong enough to do it.., .
The weather cleared ,up finely and turned ,-
quite warm. Much' damage has been done'
to fruit in this region; but it is believed
there will still be a tair crop. - -
GOOD DEALTH
IS THE GREATEST OF ALL BLESSINGS,
And to preserve it is the privilege and duty of all.
11H. HARIGENTIN
ANTI-DYSPEPTIY AND LIVER PILLS
Are the III
great severelgni speedy And. enrelcura of the
age, for Dyspepsia, either in Its :inlidest or weeet
stages. and hundreds who have lour suffered under
the - inilletions'.if this ml.tit annoying'and Aangerous
dlieise, have by the use of this invaluable medicine
been restored to health and the enjoyment of Life:
Is your Liver in a tcirpicl condition of inaction,
thereby deranging the: hole system? '
. _ •
DR. SARGF.N I `S.LIVER PILLS • i
11 ,
,
Will speedily remove the secretions and restore it
to a healthy state...
Are you troubled witi 7 loss of aPpotite, foul stem
'soh, eructations of vein , sick headache and general
derangement of the dig stave organs 1:
i t
DR.
vE
BARGE. , 8 LIVER PILLS
. .. , .
Are a sure, safe and pe, anent remedy; and by their
mild but certain actin will. cleanse, renovate and
reinvigorate the syatem . : • ' . '
DR. .SARGENT'S I. R PlLLSstand high as
ti li
one of the standard metlicines of the age. For the
cure of'ail diseases arising from a disordesed state of
the liner, as can be attested by. the eeTtificates bt
large numbers of onroci),l.zens who have been bene
fited and cured by their :itse. - .
These Pills can. bepbGtined, either Plain or Sugar
Coated, tera all Druggists in the country. . ;
. -
'othing that has'eve been known or beard Cd, a
1 tonic.adds - so much to the resistant power of the . I
- human system. Under circumstances unfavorable `to
health. as HOSTETTIit'n STOMACH BITTERS.
Volt llf would escape ti! interniittent fevers. tits of
indigestion. bilious atqwks and bowel complaints,
of which told , and damp are the frequent causes,
use the BITTERS as a PROTECTIVE AtEplcirrx.
Thi' is the Wisest course: but if already an Invalids
try the preparation as RESTORATIVE.
In either
easeful' reliance may be placed upon itseficacY•
There is no mysteryabout the causes of its
cess. It is the only stomachic and alterative in
which are combined the grand requisites ora mild,
_pure and unvitiated vugetable stimulant, with the
finest selection bf tonic:Mutt-bilious, anti-scorbutic,
aperient and depuratie. herbs, plants, roots and
barks that haveever beds Intermixed in a medicinal
The Bitters have this aLstinctive quality. which is
- not shared, dt Is believed, by any tonic, tincture, r
extract Its the world. It does not excite; the pulite,
though It infeses a wonderfr mi rce of vigor into
the nervous systeni, mei :.t ens and sustains
the - whole physleal organitat on.
California and Australia' have emphatically' en
dorsed it as the MINER'S MEDICINE
_kw ores/ -
knee, and in Spanish America and all the tropical
climate, it is considered the only reliable antidote
to epidemic fevers ; 1. . „ • . •
The already Immense:and stlll-biereasing con
sumption of MOSTETTEE'S STOMACH BITTERS,
back.ed by many of thamost innuenttsl physicians
throughout the county'', should convince the most
skeptical that it is worthy the confidence anti UPitro
bation, of all. . '
• ANOTHER . CUBE OF. DEAFNESS:
I lost my hearing dniing the' hist year.; Part.' of
the time I was totally deaf. In April of thla year I
was induced, froin.an advertisement;to. make ,ap
plleatioti to DA:ltitgatr, no Weill' etreet, Pittse
burgh. 'After having tried various Medielhes from
; doctors, without 34 birieilt, I hare beeaunder4:kr.
Icerter's treatment now for nearly two montha r and
'am entirely restored to :ity hearing, so that I can
hear a pin drop JOHN SCAIcLAN,'
• - • Coaltiaira; wistdngion Co:, Pa.
AN?TIES CUSS` ;
• ' A MIA called to4ag it p r . , 'K erie r i office to in
form him ofa great oum made' by yLltpulm Cra.F.„ or
iesaicalinr Itiiribita4z*i. , Rat th eie cares
„ . , .. :
are trade with the Poottir's preparatiaool be clealres
, .. _
`,lt to'be distinctly uaderftood that art of hit great
: . _
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cureswith are made La accordance th e' •estanuithed
iawl'Oqlt itoverrkthe'scipice of medictne, la which
he has been ett4ifinipe past` tle”tY7th's!, Yore.
1 r
Last week be tine also . .reeelptat kieLL4 . triint a
eieriamilifii the gnat!: °bite' detailing another
most wonderful apse. .3 '' ''
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