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THURSDAY, DECEMBER. 11343131
Tsz WENELY Gamprrie, issued on Wed
nesdays and Baturdigi, is the be 4 and cheap
set family newspaper, in Pennisdvania. It
resents each leek torty-eight columns of
sad reading matter. It gives: - the furled as
well as ths mod reliablemarket reports of any
- ,paper 0 . 1 thi State. /ta Pe are used exelu
dock by the\ Civil Courts of•Ategheny county
for reference in important issues to determine
the ruling prices in the markets at the time of
the business transaction in diftlnde. Terra:
Fy"
ffine6 copy, one year, $1.50 ; in dubs offive,
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WZ PRINT on the inale pages of Ms
snorniv's ci#zirr:ritileeond page: Poetry
fight PeroVe lt,Oristnlas," Ephemeris.
l'isird and Sixth Page: :Financial, Comrner
' eiai,, Markets and Imports, Biter News.
Seventh Page: Poetry, Holly Tints, Gout of
Thelight, Mark Twain's Visit to General
frant,':/nteresting Miscellany, Amuse/host
'Clow closed in. New York yeaterday at
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- Tan NATIONAL TfsAIUBT WILL cosourse
next week over thirty millions in gold, for
interest on the yarlons fotms of its debt.
PEIIBSIL invites the Great Powers to a
• conference for the'pacific ac justatent of the
questiona between Turkey land Greece. If
t3ie prOPosition be acceded to,. appreben
skins; for the peace of EnrOPe, will be gen!
easily dismiased.
•
Gaz. Siuruns.w will close the Indian
wax by the 4th of IdaFf44 when he will
the command of his old military
trict, including Texas and Louisiana. It is
understood his appointment thereto has
"been already decided! upon.' The entire
ILionntry iecognize,s:pre-eminent fitness
'.for dealing with savagea,l , whether red or
'Sate, and with equal success. "
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SiMMTAIM',74OOuLLOoIIes- estimates; for
next yearls expeyises,lmiti pe• - , cut down at
Leask tyrenty:filve, millions, by the House
on - Appopriatlons. The Been
iarY is Ids& PrePalint a financial bill, based
upon the recemmendationanontained
-seport, and Which Will I be , laid before the
• Couunittees of. both Houses when they as
‘senible; and Which is likely to fare still
worse .than his estimates. ' „
Own mous State election is yet to be held
this year: Florida! will, on !Tuesday, the
29th, chooses Representative in Congress,
ten State Senators and five Members of the
',ewer-house. For Congess, there axe three
;;:cahAlid one TemOdiat, and two , Repub.
11*is, whose division may ensure, the elec
-thniof the former.. The legislative elettions
'are to fill vacancies caused by,death and
talification, in the present body.
rx.rtmrcrona FBm of Mr. PirxrDLE
TON, in Missouri, has just published a letter
on the "greenback theory," which that
eminent financier tldressed to him in Au
gust last. We incline to look upon thispub
licition as a great mistake, if kindly intend
ed, or, as a malicious and wanton blow at a
-man When he is down, the act should be the
; mere severely reprehended. Mr. Pinni.x
von's • only, possible chance for political
honors in .1872 will. depend upon his coil
, plete and conscientious abandondonment of
fallacious ideas which the people spurned,
'lest month, with So much contempt.: Let
• : - bla wiser and truer friends save him , from
fndiscreet admirer's, by.ignoring or oblitera
ting the last trace of his great financial mis
take. The only sight for Yong Greenbacks,
\ Is
_to change back his colors and trot him.out
the next time, on the hard-money track..
' THE eirrArsa of thit Commonwealth
were, for upwarde of twenty years, so ad
millißlered.
b one and the same party that
V f d
a public debt of forty one.• millions.°l-
o
lais, without any prospect for its reduction,
.3DArked its retirement from power. More
that,. to the burtien of this honorable
obligation,, had bean added, by ,I , he same
administration,aYti ea the b
umiliatint
z Ssoa of an attempted repudiatio n..:' That
.
party,
responsible as much for s debt as
fer this .disgrace, was neker _Whig , nor Rer
• can. Bat there came better days for .
-:proud' bill dishonored oleCinnmon
: . - :W ci ei ' dth: Its public obligatlons were recog
-`f........,4;1 its faith was ^a-asserted, its credit . was
.restored. Since that hour, a filliLllClapo rt.
.uniformly wise; comprehensivearo just,
has inade good every engagement of the
„:1 nry, Juts discbarged eightanilliOna, or
:t weli ty per cent. on the principal of an "nor
debt; and this, fog, with an setae; re
- ductionof theiburtb.ens of teatttion. And
ibis has been accomplished by a Whig and
Republican n a •
REST PROCESS.
fltir - lecent references to the' new process
Of inin;marinfacture, by which opidlizig is
— ::"04144y firspeued with,, and Which has
4hienlittratclaned is this city, , ha" attracted
i(yeiyirneral attention from the Prdst Ia
*Oditiorito what hat been already • 'kilted,
Witleain farther that practical men think
Xatnt-thezan.fr proms, that it is the .beat
seidon ma de, ;:but that n.,practical
4-:***4-"*Rlloglo2ir Put , af.lt hlea
ti:lll l **lnfitaion pre by in
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`than was done fotmerly ;go stir in some,
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Was. always done to make ironcotne quicker.
To stir in somewhat more, (transformed it
to steel, which is the BESSAMIER process. To
stir in still more, renders the iron malleable.
This is the process now used here. ,This is
not supposed to be patentable, because al
ways practiced, except as to the quantity
of oxides used. But =the inventor has a
method of manipulating the iron,. which is
patentable, and has. been patented,. and
will prove of value.
The .disconier is a Ger Mall; of New
York. He reade his hit by experimenting
to avoid the difficultieswhich - render the
Bessemer process unreliable aid wasteful.
That procees disengages the =bon so rapid
ly that it consumes the metel. He kept stir
ring in oxides of trim into" the molten mass
until the steel producing *Ant was passed,
and bundle had malleable Iron.
. boiling process is not dispensed with,
"but puddlersate pretty much laid aside. The
ore I}lc f onducted from the melting furnace
directly into the boiling pots, instead of be
ing-cast 4nto - pigs:' •It ill on this spedal
manipulation that the patent rests, es we
understand it. Much as this improvement
accomplishes, practical men regard the ulti
mate improvement as still ahead.
THE POST...OFFICE , DEFICIT.
Mr. Jot:melon's Postmaster General re- .
ported to Congress a deficit of $8,000,000
in. the financial accounts of his department
for , the last year, but favored the public
with no satisfactory explanation of how .
Ws -condition of _affairs - has come about.
The needful information on this point is,
however, coming to light, by piece-meal
to be' sure, but .in such fashion, with each
precision of - statement , and revealing such
enormities in swindling the Treaftury, that
the wonder nn longer is hew' the Depart
ment has cost more than It hai earned, but
why the deficit is not yet more monstrous.
For example, for 'the overland-mail ser
vice three bids wire - made, froth $850,000
to $1,850,000. The lower bidders never
- showed themselves, and Mr. RAND=
seems not to have been =happy in finding
himself at the mercy'of the highest, WHLLB,_
Fano° &_Co., who soon prevailed on him
to sign a contract giving them $1,750,000,
for a route eight hundred miles shorter
than- the same firm covered last year. for
$750,000. Thus went at least a million and
a quarter of the deficit.
Again, a route in , Arizona was awarded
to the brother of the Congressional delegate
at $90,000, and although ample evidence is
at hand to show that not a letter or an ounce
of mail-matter was ever. carried over the
route. the contractor has been paid for two
years' service, (1) the second bill being
shoved through the unwilling hands of sub
ordinate officials by the express written or
der of Mr. RAI;IDALL himself..
Again, all the foreign steam-lines are well
paid by the simple and regular rate of seven
cents, sea postage. Yet Mr. Rexna.t.t. is
notoriously paying large extra sums to.what
appear tobe regarded as favorite lines.
Remember that the instances cited are
only those which, by some mismanagement
of the parties, are suffered to leak out of the
secresy of the "ring." These may be taken,
however, as fair specimens of a vast amount
of corrupt favoritism'.and unlawful expen
diture which is still covered up from the
public eye. Thus, on every hand, in every
branch of the public service. among all the
officials, from the highest to the lowest, the
nation is bled, the depletion being, in each
case, faithf4y proportiuned to the powers
and the opportunities of public cservants.
Was it not well that the people have taken
order for a thorough and speedy reform?
RAILWAY NEWS.
The several PaCifiC railway companies are
likely to engage in a very bitter .contest,
in the lobbies of Congress, this winter, and
with results probably , beneficial to the in
terests of the people.:
Our.
Our Wheeling neighbors very justly con
gratulate themselves upon the fair prospect
for the construction of the needed link, in
the Hempfield ' line;' which will complete
their connection with Baltimore, via Con
nellsyille, by a route forty 'miles shorter
than the present route by Grafton, and
avolding.the topographical difficulties which
seem to have made the . latter line a monu
ment of> engineering skill rather ,then a
formidable and remunerative competitor for
,
the trade of the West. The needful link,
only thirty miles
, in length; will not only
supply `' the' iriditipensible_ conditions of a
great triinkllne, but will itself be profitable
as a local work, developing, as it will, a
corresponding breadth of the rich soil and
the exhaustless coal-fields of our own Wash
,lngton county. „ . , .
The progress of railwaymnterprise within
the municipal limits of Baltimore presents
points which have interest for the people of .
Pittsburgh. The Northern Central Com
pany have just effected the sequestration of
eighteen acres of land for depot purposes,
at their new location at the Charles street
bridge, for ss,ooo'per acre. The combined
• . •
companies, amen which the Central con
spicuously leads, propose to sink their new,
connection-tracks and the depot itself under
ground, the • trains passing Charles street,
as well as along nearly the entire line
through the city limits, under ground. The
contracts are already made for excavation
and grading, one firm .having engagements
to the amount of over $8,500,000. And the
, •
tunnel of the Baltimore and Potomac road,
a mile and a half long, under the city,' will
cost millions more.. All these works arerm
dertaken by a combination which excludes
the Baltimore and Ohio road.
The Hagerstown Mail, under the heading
of "Battle of the Giants," says:
The fight predicted is between the Presi
dent of the - Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
on the one side, and the concentrated Pow
er of the, Pennsylvania Railroad System,
Congress`and" the Pennsylv ania
of Wash
ington, with innumerable auxiliary , forces.
In other word., the parties to the tight are
John W. - Garrett, single-handed, against
EdgaliThompson and Thomas Scott, of the
Perinsylivania , Central Railroad,Stmon Cam
eron, of the NorthernrCentral Railway,
.oden Bowie, Governor elect of Maryland,
of the Potomac Rallroad,,Saylea Bowqn,
Mayor of Washington City, John Sherinan,
Chairman of the SenateSpeoialitkitiliniqoe
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on Ridlive.* Jay Cooke
banker. and a host of smai
to enumerate would be to
tion merely "the giants;"
suggested itself to the rea
a tight as this Mr. Garrett,
his hands full. .
Alluding to the surveys in progress in that
part of the valley, under the direction of the
Pennsylvania Central, • the Mau says: _
The bridging of the Potomac and Intro
duction of a competing line with the pres
ent railroad system in the Valley of Vir
ginia, controlled by the Baltimore and Ohio
Railroad Company, has for some time been
a favorite project of the Pennsylvania Cen
tral. This is the great prospective highway
between the Atlantic seaboard and the
Gulf, for the benehts of which the rival
giants have been shaping their conduct for
many months, and with the bridging of the
Potomac will commence 'the long threat
ened etreggle. The power from' _ Maryland
under which this right Is claimed is, we
believe, quite` an ; ancient one, while recent
legislation in West Virginia grants, _to" the
Pennsylvania corporation the right'of way.
as we have understood, in that State.
CONSTITUTIONALITY .OF LEGAL
TENDERS.
The original act of January, was
1862,
introduced by Hon. !B. SPAIMarmo, the
member of the "louse from the Buffalo dis
trict. He now prints a letter, addressed to
Secretary MoCuwocu, commending the
annual Treasury report, and the fidelity* of
that officer to "the first t and important
duty of , returning to th .specie-standard at
the earliest possible' moment." Briefly re
capitulating the facts of the situation seven
years since, which ; led to the adoption of
.
the Legal-Tender, Act as a war-measure,
orle of necessity, nudes the pressure of a
great emergency, "a forced loan, only to be
justified on the grounds of necessity"-Mr.
SPAULDING proceeds to remark :
As a war measure passed duritog war,
continuing during the war, and an . long as
the exigency lasted.- I belfeve it was neces
sary and prop& to successfolly carry on
the war, and was therefore 'constitutional.
I am equally oleic that as a peace measure
it is unconstitutional: NO' one would pow
think of passing a leghl tinder act ranking
the promises Of the Government (a mere
form of credit) a legal' tender inpayment
of "all debts public and private. "Stich a
law passed while the Government is on a
peace footing could not be sustained for one
moment,
I think. now, that it is . unfortunate that
we did not ha% incorporated intothe orig
inal legal tender act, at the time of its pas
sage, a provision that the legal tender
clause should cease to be operative in one
year after the close of the war. In that case
all parties would have shaped their busi
ness accordingly, and the law would have
served its purpose as a war measure, and
would not have been continued (as.l think,
unnecessarily) so long after the close of the
war. •
I see that the constitutionality of the .aw
has finally come up for decision before the
Supreme Court of the United States at
Washington. If the Court had been called
upon to decide this question during the
war, or at its close ,, they would most like
ly h avei decided that the law was valid, inn
asmuch as Congress had decided that it
was a necessary, and proper means to be
used in crushing the rebellion; but the law
has been continued in force so long a ft er
the close of the war - without any real ne
cessity for . it, that I should not be much
surpnited lithe Court should . now declare
it unconstitutional. -
Three great measures Were, adopted by
the Government, which. in
. iny judgment,
were necessary to, crush the rebellion, and
maintain the national unity, viz: .
1. Vie . . legal-tender act. by Which. the
credit of the Government.vas brought into
immediate action in the most. available
form.
. 2: Emancipation, by which four millions
of slaves became intensely interested in
the Union cause.
S. The draft, by which the army was
speedily re-enforced at`the lamb's point of
the rebellion, _
Thole three measures, backed* by the pect
ple, and enforced by the. army and navy,
finally gave us a national triumph.'
If Congress will not actpromptly in de
vising some plan for bringing the legal ten.
der greenback currency on a par with gold,
rather than continue the demoralization in
cident to a postponement of specie pay ! !
ments, it will, perhaps, ' be as.'well for the
country in the•long run, illthe Court, on due
deliberation, should decide the legal tender
clause to be unconstitutional. This would
inveive serious consequences fora while,
and business arrangements would be ma
terially affected, but we would very soon
accommodate ,ourselves to the situation,
and we would then emerge from the evil;
of an irredeemable currency, end all bum
ness operations would be established on a
firm and enduring basis.
LITERARY.
•
MADAME DE BEAVERS. By Mrs. C. Jen
kin; New York, 'Leypoldt 41c Holt.
This is another of that series of ;French
novels, written in English by an English
woman, which has attracted so ,much atten
tion from the novel-reading pu blic: Who
Breaks Pays, • Skirmishing and Ok. Psyche of
To.dPy have all been popular bdoks, and the
volume before us will not detract any from
the reputation of the authoress.; Well writ
ten, entertaining, sensational, are the three
qualities of the book, which has been given
to the American public in •the usual elegant
manner of the Messrs. Leypoidi &Holt.
A BOOK ABOUT DOMINIES. B• Aseott R.
Hope; Boston, Roberts Brothers. •
. • It was so late ; when:we received this vol
ume that we lutiebesn unable to read It, but
give instead of . our own opinipn pat of the
London Morally ,fgfer, wiiichfeaYs: "''A
Book about Dominias' is an extiemely clev
er and amusing sinies of skate* by one who
describes himself 'of
,tlO yroffnion. In a
modest, prelim: - tie expresses a belief that
such a book nay be made as amusing as
many novels Bindle's Mary: The
'Book about Domihiea' is a hundred times
more muting and interestingthannine out
of, ten of such novels."'
RELLMAIL By Arthur Helps, Boston, Rob
erts Brothers. •
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This book, like the ''Book about Dominies,'
came too late to be careiblly read, but we
have glanced over it and can saythat it looks
like an interesting book, , and like an odd
one, seeminglo be a story and a dothe!.tic
drama within a story. The names of
author and publishers are; bowever,
cleat etiarentee that it hi worth reading.
•
TEE official report from the officeri of the
Freedmen's Bureau of Geotgli for the year
ending on theist of this
,rnonth, show' that
71 colored citizens were , munTered during
that tine by the whites, foz,: iy hichld whites
were arrested._Three were acquitted antr ,
right. and none were Fugate& Thereport.
also shows thaois viiitevivege Murdered by
negroes, for which 14 anvils were Made--
seven hive been Finished, WO acquitted,
apd the rest are On trial. 'A comparison be;
tweet' the niimier' widish. white. sod
black murderers' are treated in - Georgyi is'
aur" . - 13 74:. thesn'snatietbmj, The report
ad that tour_biacks,died of_injuries inffiet
ed by whites, threiweretterinanontly and
74 Oevere* blurs&
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tug. We men;
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CTIRUPT. JURC;F t S. '
Rev. IL W. Bauer= rePliesi with a long
,
letter in the Nett/ York Timei, to sonie stric
tions by a correspondent, upon one of his
recent sermons upon public corruption, but
especially as to the degradation of the bench.
We copy his closing paragraphs
A Judge owes something more to his
profession than his own personal purity
and fidelity. It is a part of his business to
keep the profession move reproach. Patri
otism demands it. His own self-interest
demands it. Having done nothing to sig
nify his horror of corrupt Judges, he has
no right to complain if their exposing casts
re shadow upon him too!
Allow me to say, in closing, that I have
nothing to take back, nothing to explain,
nothing to soften.. X stand by my sermon,
and in due time others shall not be want
ing-
We have just finished one battle for the
life of theßepublic. Another one lies
right before us. It is the battle of Mam
mon. Capital tightly employed is civili
zing and beneficent. As a corrupter it is
almost omnipotent. Already our govern
ment is assailed by it. If a new Admirds
tration can find no remedy, and things go
on as they have, the end is at hand. The
purse will outweigh the Constitution. . The
lobby will control the public policy. If
not arrested Mammon will soon . be might
ier than President, Senate, and Represen
tative! ° • -
• Is it for citizens to sit calmly by, without
a cry or protest, and see one thing after an
other swept away b 3 this yellow stream
that beats against Congress, Legislature,
and the Judiciary, and threatens to under
mine them. • '
OF the political situation in Arkansas we
have the annexed opinion from the Mem
phis Post, a remarkably weiLinforrnedtand
cbctenfavely . trustwarthy journal:
The outcry against Governor Clayton's
militia is just what might be expected of
those who yelled so savagely over Presi
dent Lincoln's proclamation calling for
troops for the suppression of the rebellion.
It comes from the same throats and is in
spired by the same lawlessness and defi
ance. The country may rest assured that
no county in Arkansas where the laws have
been impartially and vigorously enforced,
has been, is being or will be visited by the
militia. It is a painful fact that the best
men of the South, hoWever much .physical
couragh they may have, are moral °awards.
They cannot face a barbarouspublic senti
ment and they do little or nothing to cor
rect it. The loafers about cross-road groce
ries are allowed to ride ropgh shod over the
lawe and the rights of the humbler class
of citizens. The very life of the latter is
held by them as a matter of sport. There
never was any law in Texas, and in many
counties in Arkansas. Private revenge and
Judge Lynoh held almost undisputed
swa
Govy, -
Clayton, who has always
proved himself in whatever capacity he
has served the country, as a firm and .fear
leas Officer, is determined , to put an end to
this chronic lawlessness, and every one
looking for a brighter future for Arkansas
should wish him. God-speed. Martial law
la the only efficient cure for these disor
ders. There are several counties in this
State which would be benefitted by similar
treatment.
BONE time ago we reported the seizure of
large quantities of silks made by the Col
lector of New York the probable value of
which was estimated to be upward of $100;-
000. These frauds, committed through• a
series of years turn out to be the moat suc
cessful and long-continued ones brought to
light in this country. It appears that two
persons by the name of Fedgelatock and
Bentina, who did business in Rftde street,
were` for some time, suspected of bringing
goods into New York under cover of fraud
ulent invoices, although the cases sent to
the Appraiser's store for examination agreed
always perfectly with the invoices, deposited
and sworn to at the. Custom House. The
ease sent for examination to the Appraiser
contained clocks and ether goods on which
but little duty is exacted - by the Tariff,
_while the remainder, which were sent di
rectly to their respective stores, were filled,
as it appears now, with valuable silks and
velvets, In this way, it appears, :an im
mensely large stock of goods was clandes
tinely brought into this country without
payment of duties. The amdunt involved,
as far as sow • known, is somewhat more
than $500,000.
BIINDitY evening last a woman, carrying
a child about two fears of age in her arms,
entered .a small chbrch in the western part
of the city of Rochester N. Y. and took a
seat near the aisle. In about? the middle
of the sermon the woman. while holding
the child in her lap, fell asleep, relaxed
her hold, and the innocent but wide awake
baby fell to the floor and rolled into the
aisle. The audietice were convulsed with
laughter, and the baby, who bad pfobably
learned his first lesson by "falling out of
bed," as babies usually do, uttered not a
whimper, but raised its little. head, puck
ered up its little lip, and looked upon the
mother with utter astonishment. The Tall
of the child awoke her to consciousness,
when she sprang up exclaiming, "Oh, my
God !" at the same time rushing for her
prostrate offspring. The unusually quiet
and orderly assembly now broke out into
uncontrollable laughter, and the aston
ished minister was obliged to stop his dis
course until quiet was restored.
ONE man has seldom two funeral services
performed for him. Bus an eccentric old
gentleman has just died in New Orleans, ,
and was buried with the usual rites.
Many years ago, also, he was sick and
died--as was supposed. Preparations were
made for the burial. On the appointed day
the coffin containing the body was placed
in a handsomelearse, which, followed by a
long train of mourners, was proceeding,to
ward the cemetery, when the horses sud
denly took fright and ran away, the coffin
being thrown violently to the ground, and
burst open. The surprise of the spectators
may:be imagined when from the coffin was
seenlo arise the atippredAead-man still in
stinct With life: Be very quietly
~borne, Preteliiing against beininkt away In
so eummary a manner, and declaring Wein
! tention to live for many a long day.
Tmt Superintendent of the St. Louis
County farm informs the St. Louis Republi
can that the boring of the artesian well at
the „Insane Asylum is still progressing, and
a depth of 8398 feet has been reached by
the drill. What may be regarded as a sin
gular fact, is that the temperature of the
water at that depth—as- ascertained by a
registering thermometer—is two degrees col.'
der than the water found in the same well
at the depth of s,ooa feet. If the oVserVa
tioa, as stated, wait' made with due case,
and proves •correct, it evidently militates
against Cordiers' • theory, and heretofore
considered well attested by all the ; observa
tions made in artesian wells, viz: That the
temperature augments at the rate of one de- i
gree.for every thirty meters as we descend
toward, the interior of
si the earth.
•
_ TEED/MT PrenionvAN4:—abriHer•
neat& reregivph says : "The actual debt
on the 80th of November, the endof the
of the fiscal year, was thirty-three. millions
two 'hundred anti slimy-Ai' thousand nine'
htindred fortpehe dollars and thirteen
cent& ($88,288,948,113,),a reduction of some
tea' millions of dollert mider aßepublidan
Republican.
administratioh, anti the, payment of some.
themore ,forltm. expenro4., Let
the Retntblibinirahs kftirrapelonger and
I ;the Siete debt will be:entirely wipe outs"
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Boasted to Death is an Iron ?uandry— A
and Mysterious Affair.
arm tbe Baltimore American, Dec. led
A man named John Britt came to his
death on Saturday night, at Wilmington,
Delaware, under the - most horrible circum
stances, having b ee n literally roasted alive.
He was a work at J. Ir. Rice & Co.'s
Phocenix Iron Foundry, where he has been
employed'seven or eight years. He has
been a steady, industrious man, and not
much addicted to drink, except that he
would occasionally go on a spree on Satur-,
day nights. He had charge of the stable
and of the foundry, carrying the keys. On
Saturday night a ranaber of men were em
ployed about the foundry later than usual,
getting off some work that had to be fin
ished that night. At about a quarter before
ten o'clock Britt started with the wagon to
take some casting down to the Diamond
State Rolling Mill. He had been drinking
some, and a man who went with him testi
fied that they took a drink there together.
That was the Ipt those about -the foundry
saw of the deifased; but 'he must' have re
turned and put the team away, as , it was
found all right next morning. At about a
quarter before eleven deceased wentto Rob
inson's restaurant, near the foundry, where.
he got something to eat. He stayed there
until about a quarter atter elerven, and then
went out with a man to whom he stood
talking until twelve o'clock. He remarked
that he thought he saw a light in the foun
dry, and would go and see what it was.
That was the last that was seen of him
until his children went into the foundry on
Sunday morning to hunt him, and found
his burning body. They ran for the fore
man, Mr. Harvey, who went down to the
foundry immediately and foundßritt's body
lying in the trench and against' a red hot.
casting,, the body , in a 'blaze and one leg
partlY burned off, so that there was no sign
whatever.of the lower part of it, except the
sole of his boot. This trench bad been dug
the night before around the rim of a large
flywheel just cast, so as to expose it to the
air and let it cool fast. Deceased knew the
wheel was there, and saw the trench being
,dug; and how he 'ever got into the trench
with one side pressed up against the red hot
iron is a mystery. Though he had been
drinking, he does not appear' to have been
so drunk as to be unable to control his own
movements, while he was so familiar with
the foundry that he could go about at night
without a lamp. The a ffair is as mysteri
one as it is horrible. The body, burned out
of all semblance to humanity, almost, was
taken to the deceased's residence. The cor
oner held an inquestAn it, but'elicited no
facts beyond those stated. Britt was a na
tive of Ireland, has lived in this country
several years, and leaves a wife and a num
ber of small children, who were dependent
upon him for support..
Railway Matters:
It is said that the Pennsyliania Central
has placed one thousand cars at the disposi
tion of one of the•. great Express or Trans
portation Companies for the purpose of
controlling the freights from the Mississippi
and its connections over that road.
Rumors of further leases • of Western
roads by the Erie Company are circulating.
It is stated that arrangements have been
completed vvlthlhe Columbus, Chieago and
Indiana Central Road which gives the Erie
Company connection with Chicago and
other important points West.
It is rumored that the New Yorl Central
has leased the Boston and Albany Road,
and is negotiating for the Cleveland and
Cincinnati Road, so as to have an unbroken
line to Cincinnati. The Erie Road is nego
tiating for the Indiana Central' To
morrow will probably witnesta ' renewal of
the excitement both on the streets and in
courts. Erie is almost fOrgotten, and noth
ing will be known for several days but New
York Central.
It is stated that the Central dividend was
so suddenly made to save Vanderbilt from
the result of the threatened suits. and alto
to countenance the 'Erie Directors in their
aggressive measures against the Central.
At any rate, Vanderbilt's course is 'a coup
de' eta. and awattens the admiiation of Wall
street.
Numerous failures of the members of the
bear clique are expected, and some of them
have already suspended. Their losses are
declared enormous, not to be covered by
millions. The bulls engaged in , this move
ment borrowed from ten to twelve millions
in gold and exchange on stock colLsterals,
and converted them into currency, render
ing the operators fully able to hold•the Cen
tral shares. The vast amount will, it is re
ported, be returned next month, and may
cause great fluctuations in the stock market.
Suffrage In . Great Britain.
The returns of the late - Parliamentary
elec i tionin Great Britain show a total vote
of about 2,000,000, of which the Tories ob
tained 800,000, and the Whigs or Liberal
party'l,2oo,ooo. The popular vote of the
United States at the Presidential election
was about 6,000,000.' The population of
the United States is now somewhat greater
than that of Great Britain.
• The latter country is evidently approxi
mating toward universal suffrage. Nearly
one-half of her men mist now be voters,
whereas a few years ago only a small por
tion of them were so. The English aris
tocracy may well fear the success of the ex
periment which is now being made of main
taining monarchial institutions resting •ipon
the basis of so enlarged a system of popular
suffrage. If they, are so maintained it will
I be one of the most remarkable political
events in all histoq. If the, experiment is
for any time successful, it will afford astrik
ing instance of the popularity of the British
Constitution with the people. •
Tariff Sentiment in the West.
The Dayton, (Ohio) Journal spoke for
vast Interests in the . West, when it said the
'other day.:'•" The fact is understood by
all intelligent people,
~that the best way to
build up manufaettu:es in this country is to
put a stiff duty on the foreign articles which
compete with thosamadp at home. If lux
uries,and such articles as we cannot produce
in this county could be made to- bear the
whole.hardest of taxation, and everything
which we could produce or • manufacture
here should be saved from any foreign com
petition whatever, the country would be
the better for it. The clamor againsta . tar
iff which protects domestic industry is sim
ply an assault upon the prOsperity of the
country and upon the wages of the work
• ing
I men.
Tint nusuurs of this year's harvests in
Russia are published. In the provinces of
Livonia, Esthorda, Oourland, Lithuani a,
Kalouga, Smolensk, Novgorod, Olonetz,
(one of the largest,) South Podolia, and
rultava, the drought was so great that
there is some reason to fear a renewal of the
famine of last year. •In twenty , other dis
tricts the harvest was a - little better than
was expeFted; but it had Only bean really
satisfactory in the North. The crops -in
th4gOVernment of Archangel, which suffer-:
ed most from the famlne, have this year
been exceptlonally good: Large sums of
money have been forwarded by the Gov
ernment to the threatened provinces ' and
Courhuad has been specially, exempted from
the import duty
. of corn and meal.
A porn's:mon of the editors of Central
Penaeylvanta• willr be held on: the Bth of
Jimnary next, at Bellefonte, for the purpose,
mainly, of agreeing ona scale of prima for .
Overdsll4 and lob Work..
.
Price of Lan4 and Living in California
Carlton , s Correspondence Boston Jonrnal.l
I\ doubt if there is a State in the 'Union
where land is held at such high prices as i n
California. Farming lands fifty or a hoz_
dred miles from San Francisco, cannot be
bad for less than one hundred dollars an
acre. The beat lands are held at double
those rates. Good landsuitable for market
gardening is cheaper within ten miles of •
Boston than it is within - that distance of
San Francisco. Land is cheaper within ten
miles of London than it is around the me
tropolis of the Pacific. Bents are cheaper
there than here. Five hundred dollars per
annum will hire a, better tenement within
five miles of Weeihninster Abbey `than it -
will within five miles, of the City Hall of
San Francisco! Laid is now held so high'
that farmers with limited means cannot per.
chase. Everybody in expecting a rush of
population as scan ,as ,the railroad is com
pleted, and there is consequently great
speculation in real estate. The farmers of
Northern California are selling out and .
moving southward, where lands are cheaper.
It is possible that I have in; previous let- •
ters set forth the capabilities of this State in
too strong a light—or rather without the
proper ehadin ,g. it is one of the richest
States of the Union. Nature has wonder i.
-
fully endowed it, but there are drawbacks •
—dust in summer and mud in winter—a
community of all aortae-society in the
rough, civilization crude. It costs much
more to live here than in Massachusetts.
There is no, cnrrency smaller : than ' a dime.
The smalleat trifle from a store costs tea
cents. The bootblack, the newsboy, the
blind fiddler and the man with the monkey
and hand organ will turn up their noses - at
a five cent piece. The barber asks fifty
cents fora shave, the - hackman five dollars
for a ride of a Mile—this in gold. PPeOple
are as grasping here as in other lands. The
7harf owners of San Francisco will exact
a quarter of a dollar from you if a team takes
your trunk from the steamer—an exaction
practiced nowhere else in the world. No
where else in the wide world is the dollar
more worshipped than in San Francisco.
There is no other city so materialistic. Lit
erary culture is at low water mark.- lam
informed that it is impossible to sustain
a course of lectures. There are able litera- ,
ry men here, as is evidenced by the articles
in the Overland Monthly, but it is doubtful
if that magazine will be long lived.
AxerrrvE 3lnsicny rx PLasrre.—The
COUllitr des Sacks et Marches says: "An
extremely =ions C,hinese plant called , the
Hias-taa-tom.chom exists in the Flowery
Empire. The name of this singular plant
means that during the summer it is a veg&
table, but that in winter itbecomes a worm.
If it is observed closely at the latter end of
September nothing simulates better to 'the
eye a yellow worm about four inches In
length. The apparent trtmaformation takes
Place gradually, and one can see head, eves,
body, itc., in course of formation. This
plant is extremely rare; it is to be met with
in Tidbet, and in the Emperor's gardens at
Pekin, where it is preserved for medicinal
purposes. The Chinese savants say it is' a
capital strengthening medicine." -
AMONG the toilettes worn by the Empress
Eugene, at the late State Ball at the Tuil
eries, the most remarkable was a robe of
poult de acne rose peche (a pale and rather
yellowish pink) trimmed en faMier, with
flounces of white and silver tut* falling
over others of tulle the color of the dresh.
At the edge of the skirt an exquisite Gen:
oese fringe of white silk, with silver bullion,
fucblas . of silver w i a::enced, • train
of white satin was 100 up - en panic. at
the sides, and edged w th rich silver friss%
the sash'of rose peche, putt de sole, in foubr
large loops, heing ; lined with white satin.
A bodice of hose peche trimmed with white
satin, and the same Genoese fringe and
silver inching tastefully disposed thereon
completed the dress.
COUGHS, COUGHS, COLDS, .COLDS,'
When a person take' gold' the lungs become
charged with phlegm,. which oppressing the con
stitution a natural effort is made for ,a relief.
This effort is a cough. The only safe and prudent
remedies to be adopted are those ehich moist na
cure in its work, by loosening the phlegm and excl..
ting a freedom'of expectoration until the evil is re
moved. DB, SAROZAT , B COUGH SYRUP is ad
mirably adapted to gromoti expectoration, ease the
beaching, loosen the phlegm, abate the fever, and
allay the tickling which occasions the cough, with•
out tightening tee cheat, or in any way thy:Lengths
'system, end for all i emporary and local affections,
such as irritation of the throat, hoarseness of the
voice, influenza, &a., it is of incalculable value. Ea
peclally at this inclement 'season of the year it
would be well for every family to have thle valuable
remedy at hand. Prepared by 6E0.• A. REL.LY.
Wholesale Druggist:;conter Weod street and Beeorid
ay, nue, ,Pittsburgh. and for sale by all druggists
ana dealers in medicine.. SO cents per bottle.
TABLE "TALK WITH A VICTIM OF
• INDIGESTION.
„Reader. we will sunrOse you a martyr to dyspep
.sia: If 3ou are not, so much the better for you.
you are, perhaps you insurailt by this paragraph.
Yon havejnat finished your dinner, we will say, and
feel as if you had swallowed lead instead of whole
some food, Yon. have, a sensation of tightness
round the upper part of the diaphragm, as if some •
*nuke of the constrictor tribe held you In its ere
.brace, and bad knofted tie colts over the pit of Year
stomach. lon feel supremely miserable; and such
is the penalty which your complaint, exacts after
every meal. What do you desire? Ease, of course.'
An exemption from the Incubus that robs you of all
enjoyment during the day, and disturbs your rest at
!debt. . Take, then. tbis piece of informstion: You
suffer needlessly. 1109TzTTER , SisTOMACIEI ELT- •
TEES will as certainly bure all youragonlaing symp:
tome as the day on which you read this article will
be succeeded by another. Yerhaps 3on are leered-
tam; but if YOU have read the testimony of the eml.
nent citizens in every wait of life, who have tested
the preparation, and submitted the - results of their
experience to the public throttch. the press, you
ought at leaf to have sufficient Wth to make a trial
Of it in our ease. It is a pore vegetable _tonic and
interative„—Oe only inedicfne in•the World entirely
adapted to your complaint. 1011 ale in ahe habit
Of taking any alcoholic excitaut t eke pa uat,ive.-,
abandon it. and tryialive:WttOtssoam ughtuATICO
eTtumearr. Iris does you no-good; /air Sa: buiyou
will not do that..for it has sever yet fahed; Ina
sin
gle instanco, to cure dylpepsia, billowiness, and. • .
their various ounComitants. -- • . • w
TSB. GREATEST OP ALL C9IIGH .
MEDICINES.
At this time of the year, when the streets and
pavements are covered with snow and slash, itis
;no wonder that the natural pores and conducts or
the body becomt obstructed, and whole ,Commusii
, ties become alieeled with coughs and iraiinoritrf
and throat ailments. ODO of the very best Cures far
all these diseases will be found in DR. REVAMPS
PECTORAL' STOUP, which at 'Once sets free the
imprisoned matter, rein oveT ti Of Obstruction, and
allays tbettritabllity of the nervous system in such.
away as to do no injury to health, or interfere with :
' scone's usual avocations. 'What abtesaing it must be
to have so potent • remedy. in the house' as tft.
IKEA:SEWS PECTORAL SYRUP. width. fur, over ,
twenty years, Chas gained on the affection* and TO - •
stored, the health of thousands of our people. To
• get the hest of wbat*golig is. a good rule in gni,
thing.; hnt it Is ispeelMly tri a with regard to lima
; clne,said there is no cough medicine, that we know
Of, of equal gamey, both as &Cure and preventive
than DO. - 111CYBER , SPROT0EAL entur. •
Sold at the great Moak:Ate:Store; No. ISO Wood_
street. WILL REMOVE alma JANUARY Ist
to 18T LIBERTY WIESE% two doors below Saint '
Olair.
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