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TBUIISDAYi . ,DII7,CPIBEEt,3I, 1868.
Tins Nizziaar oluarrre i irauags on'Wed
sat
ssesdaysaid krakzr ys, is Me best and eheay
fit family no! .- in Pennsyivania. . it
presents each forty-eight . columns of
soiici reading matter. It gives the fullest , as;
wen as the most regabiemarkeireports of any ,
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papkin *Mat& Its; lbles art used aciu
sieelkaytie Civil oirts of Arkgheny minty
for reference in fin nt issues Co determine
tie ruling prices i Us markets at . the time of
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$1,25 ;in clubs of $1,15,; and one free
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ma free to any address.
"iferiairr on the inside pages of this
morning's GraErriz—Secind page: roam
.Iffphegneris. Third and Sieh Pages : Com
.Ffna_neial, Mercantile, River News
and Imports Betentli`page: Poetry, Clan.
Custar's Battle, Miscellaneous Matters,
Amusement Brn.
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Gorm elOstetriri New York yesterday
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at 1344.
F`raratris of EMS S 0 N LAMB propose
to, test the value of Mr. Jonissow's - procla
nation of Amnesty, by 'judicial • process in
his case. He bl to return from England, be
given up by his , bail, sad the,question then
brotiiht- up on a writ of Libma corpus.
That is the programme, but his consent to
taki: tlie' chances haa not -yet been an.
nouiced.
.I:ozsa:mt thinks that the aramshis of
Lurc,oLN, now confined at the Dry Tor
tsgasp - should be ielesied under his recent
proclamation. Such a result wordd sym
metrically round up his own Preaidential
career. • If he would try the country with
a preposition to exChange • places with
MUDD Co. after next Hitch; we can
pronlisti to him the undivided assent of his
countrymen-` •
Tax year's cotton crop, maturing' early,
yieldingiargely, gathered in tine condition,
and Commanding tmeipectedly good prices,
is making the South so nearly iich," that, as
they confess, each another season would
bring Imck to the planters their palmiest
4ays of old.' ;Bays the Macon (GL,) Tele-
It took our planters two years to learn
how to deal wit h free'-labor. They now un
derstand it perfectly, and every year hence
will btit add to the. wealth and prosperity
of both -races.7
Timat are said to be pending in the Sen
ate one hundred and ten bills and resolu:
Ilona; and in the .11011138 one• hundred and
twelVe, alI proposing to grant material aid,
in latida and bonds, to the Pacific Railways.
The amount to be given away is estimated
at $129,00m00 in . bands, land 120;000,000
acres - of- land. ' '
Add to' these aggregates; the amounts to
be pledged by the pending ship-canal and
oeean-steam-line bills, and $200,000,000
would hardly cover the grand total.
Well may Girt. lanaui , say, "Hold hard!"
IT is asitertained that neither the present
Senate nor the President-elect have ex
pressed any such opinions as have lately
been attributed to them, touching the pro
per adjustment of our "Alabama" &inn
:upon England. All that is really clear is
that a majority of, the Senate concur with
General Gain' in holding it to be a condi
tion precedent, that England shall concede
her hahility for the depredations' committed
upon our flag by rebel privatem fitted out
in her ports. ThisPolnt is in effect already
conceded 'on the other.side "of 'the Atlantic ' )
the collateral queition of the effect of, her
reengnition, premature or etherwiie; of the
Confederacy' , being entirely • out of view:
England accept: her responsibility in dam..
sgea eimPlinienthet ground
~,which Mr.
Nita, stated hi ihe'COnitioni,` that; by her
sufferince,in the Alahama me; hostile ex.
pediti°n was fitted out 40J/oiled from her
ports to ravage the. commerce of a friendly
paweT; :That-fact is known te be ' keld sa
conclusive on both sides, and. Oat is thd
basis of itaPrelent agreemast, •
We have reason to betel% also, Usti the
CommissionCommissionEtobe itipilidtd Irlif be filly
empowered 41 4 °49 1 13 W PP°,?l;s44;
claims' oiTgaikoui Governme nt, 9xcePt ceT"
Lain claim : which shall: be . excluded t here-.
from:Slider tlie \ sotuidestiiinfiPlei of Public
ais-. Cana* Ontario is note in Bogota. ,
guild is • said to;_he,in. behalf- of this
government, to close *contract for a canal
scroes ,, the: Isthmus of Paruuruh toward
which this million
of dollars. bese tumors ate possiby cor
'rect. Anather 'adds that General Grum
hasheen - - eifinehltedfabonr this ship-canal,
and'it wanelY in /nor of the. Wffle•
is siso - lat
Inference sought to he conveied from these
rillsonitlinedzif l / 2 - thst General F aitarri
tsv°ll, Pecuniary , tee, and that
his "Warm" aupportof the scheme means
twit favor of, its being eubildized
by our government in alder its constnto.
ton.. Of thiai - Itote won' le worthy of
a moment's ciideria the has
any eilitunitturce - to mobs for such Works,- of
however grn4 nohnialwittternationial con-,
9errsi 9BIAT would Pear $9 -
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have' the money laid. out at hoine rather
than upon, a'foreign territory. And it is
only the other day that he declared his mi
.
yielding opposition to spending another
dollar In that way, even within our own
borders. - '
It is well that our diplomacy should se
cure to . American enterprise and capital the
control of the proposed canal, which, upon
its, completfon, will rival the Suez Canal in
international value, and to American inter
ests must be of
t inealculable advantages.
Beyond this there is not the remotest pos
sibility that the new Administration will go.
As forMr.Ctratario'smission,it is not unlike
ly that the facts, when they shall all trans
pire, will show that the scheme iapromotnil
now as a nice piece of jobbery in the iliter
ests'of high officials under Mr. JOHNSON, in
ComUnation with toe wealthy corporation
of Ike Pawn= Railroad. ,
OFFICIAL TENURES.
As ,we expected; the inisthievons report
froin Washington that . General GRAFT had
opjected to ,the conti nuance of, the Office,
Tenure Laii, is now denied, and by rel
spcm*ble' authority. , A ~casual .remark( ,
from the Pieeident-elect,—thit, in 'riots of
the changed circumstances of the country,
the 4cessity for ins& a statute seemed to
bays goner by, but that the . question was
one exclusively for thOongressionai judg
ment,--was picked up 1 , by some eavesdrop-
Ping reporter, and telegraphed to the country
in a form so distorted, as to present the
General in a position UM most incompatible
with' his well-known caution. When he
also added that he had given no attention
to the Subject, that remark wits not IS desir ,
able qualification for the sensation-loving
( Bohemians, who therefore omitted it bodily
from their dispatches.
Nothing is better knoin among the intl.
mate'friends of our next President, than that
helm no love eitherfor rebels, or for that
large class of their sympathizers whom he
does not hesitate to stigmatize as "Copper
heads"—a term of reproach usually made
use of only by people of intensely and rad
cally 'patriotic opinions: , Taking office in
March, he will be enabled," by the session
ef the. XLlst 'Congress, protracted 'for at
least two months as that session will be, to
availlimsielf of the cordial'" cnciperation of
the Senate, inpurging from the public ser
vice the'very large number of officials who
meet exactly those conditions for which he
has constantly expressed such abhorrence.
His inclination is equally well-known to
spare, in this work of removal, the few
honest officials, Republican and sound from
the ground up, but rarer than white crows
just now, whom the Jou:Naos Administra
tion will bequeath to him. And here, too,
the Republican Senate will juit as cordially
hold up* his hands, for Senators, no more
tluinGinews,'no more than all good Repub.
Beane everywhere,-no more than ourselves,
have not yet found_ out that Republicanism,
as we all understand it, means the exclusion
of faithful and corripetent officials from a
service which suffers only because there are
so few of these in it. These exceptions,
unfortunately / too rare, are not likely+ to al
leviate., to z any noticeable extent, the great
task wh ich awaits the RepubVcan President
and Senate in this connection. They will
haye'qulte enough to do, and let the good
men alone; if they chance to find any such
among Mr Janzrsow's official tail.
—Poi the rest, it enough to say that
the law will net be repealed at this session.
The sentiment• of a large proportion the
members of either House is decidedly
averse to any present interference with the
matter. In this connection, we quote from
a dispatch before us, thus:
A prominent Benatorseld in conversation
to-day "that the principle of the act was
right; that Webster alirays sustained the
co-ordinate poiver of the Senate and Execu
tive in the matter of removals, and de
:dared it equal to the Senate's right of con
firmation; and that the Republican party in
Congress would not convict itself, by a hasty
repeal, of having been guilty of such
special legislation as this demand for - repeal
Implies." The general 4 impression is that
the law . wiil be modified, but - not repealed.
RESOURCES. OF .THE PACIFIC
SLOPE.
• On the 2d of August, 1866, ,Mr. H. Mc-
CIILLOCH, Secretary of the Treasury, issued
Instructions to Mr. J. Ross BROWNE, to
baire a report Prepaled on the Mineral Re
sources of the States and Territories West
of the Rocky Mountains. A brief prelimi
nary Report, embodying no more than a
genend: Summary, Was submitted to the
Treasury Department before the expiration
of that year. • This was followed on the Bth
of March last by a full and detailed Report,
which has quite recently been brought out
by D. Armwrins & Co., of New York, in
a royal Octavo' voltunoe_ontaining 678 pages.-
addltion,there is bound up, in theseame
covertos Sketch of the Settleinent and Ex.
ploration of Lower California, by Aratuat.
DBE S.T+YLort, a gentleman who has Won
a high reputation aka writer upon subject;
relating to 'tie regions bordering wen the
Pacific coast. This Appendix contains 200
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paga--mamw 8,78 ' .
Great patzurhave evidently, been taken in
the preparation or titese documents to‘pre
sent, 'ins condensed and hicid fowl,: all the
essentialtscts bearing Upon the Mineral Re
sources of so much of this Continent as is att
ested beyond the Rocky Mountains. up .
to this this is incomparably the com
pleted and most reliable statement that taus
been made of those great natural delimits,
Of the extent to which : _ they have a lre a dy
been worked, and, bi - infetinCe, of what
will, even in the near future, come of them.
The gencril.impremion ileft, by aspertusal
of the book is that these deposits are on a
scale if piofisiou and vastnelyininntatahed
in any othes_Rot:tton of the globe . Ne•ooe
,can doubt that intke jneinuat.agi t aid in the
possession of the people of tlie United Otatels,
tilde •'deposits; long hid sway from. sight
mid use, are:destined speedily to be Janda
available for indlyidn4,'comfort aid na
tional opulence. ,
Time 'Fee, .end not long ago, whfueratini
of the richest miiidrid OtttrictCdPsollird 14 :
tide Report' were: reiatded:a4oVenmpaia
triely *ll,'*BlPC. swere judged ofa
by *elf agilanitnmtltmalts, and condemn'
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ed a s affording, in sufficient quantities, and
at easy cost, none of the products essential
_
to human sustenance. lint, in reaching this
disparaging conclusion, important conside
rations were either overlooked or else
dwarfed below their actual. consequence.
In all the regions of the temperate zone, and
in most other regions besides, a system of
compensations exists. All the desirable
gi
fil e
of Nature are not -concentrated la any
one pot. Many localities, that ,Ito outward
and superficial observation, present . a for
bidding aspect, are found upon] closer and
ext 3 ienced examination, to abound in ele
men essential to human happiness, - and,
coniequentlyi readily convertible into all
other articles, whether of comfort or huitiry.
On the whole, the distributions of Nature we
uprin a scale of tolerable equality. The
separate wealths of ocean, with commercial
goings to and fro upon it; of frequent and
inexhalitible water rower for the propulsion .
of machinery ; for ,mechanical and manufac .
turlag industry; of coal, Jima and metals;
and of soil tee ming with vegetable life, are
never 'comb ed in one vicinage. Eio great
a prodigality in crea tion would be in con
travention of Unli t order which is found
- condrici've, if , not indispensable, to the
widestind most abundant *diffusion of hap
piness. -'' i ,-
Localities here in Pennsylvania
. can be
pointed out from which the- early prospec
tors for farming lands turned away with a
sense of disgust, which are now yielding
vaster revenues 'than the moat fecund al
luviums that the plow-share ever opened to
the approaches of air and heat. Nature,
often accused of falling into mistakes, never
zaakes any.
But, how shall the immense mineral ter
ritories existing in the midland sections of
the continent be made profitably accessible ?
Every man of sense comprehends that rail
ways are the great modern instruments of
civilization; and, in :a subordinate, sense, of ,
christianizing as well; for it must be re
membered that each type of civi ization h
many elements entering into it, of which
. Zhe religion of the special country is never '
sully one, for which cause it happens now,
as it has happened through all, the cycles of
recorded time, that the people having the
highest type of civilization have necessarily
the highest type of religion. These two are
so interblended that they cannot be well
separated, if at all, so that the operator may
absolutely affirm this is civilization, and that
religion,
Unquestionably railways are hot only
to span the continent, and on several. par
allels as with ribs of steel, but are to in.
tersect it in all directions. This develop
ment of railways is yet in its newness, but
cannot - be long in attaining such expansion
as will astound slow-going conservatives,
:who stand with their faces to the Past, la
menting all departures from the approved
methods of antiquity.
Under what auspices, and at whose cost
shall these roads be constructed? This is
an important .question, relatively as well as
intrinsically, for it involves sums of money
of immense magnitude, to be derived from
one source or another, and a national policy
which ought to be carefully examined be
fore adopted.
Shortly after the Rebellion broke out
Congress made haste, as one means of re
taining the loyalty of the States and Terri
tories on the Pacific slope, to grant liberal
subsidies of lands and bonds for the Con
struction of a continuous line of railway
from Omaha to Sacramento. So far as this
measure rested upon the idea of retaining
possession of the districts lying between
the Rocky Mountains and the Pacific Ocean,
it was susceptible of justification. On no
other Weis could it be defended. The Gov
ernment had pressing need of all the re
sources it could command for the vigorous
prosecution of the war; and so large a use
of the national credit in a differertt general
direction, whatever its special tendency,
was a departure from sound, principles of
administration, both anomalous and start
ling.
Nor is this all. jt may well be questioned
whether care was taken to ensure the best
route, or: to confine the national' subsidy
within proper limits. At all / events, the
Men who are managing the enterprise have
the reputation of realizing/ lerge- fortunes
therefrom, while there ar'e somewhat more
than conjectures that the line, when com
pleted, will encounter impediments, through
the force of natural causes, which will se
riously detract from its usefulness. Admit
ting that they who Manage such enterprises
ought to be roundly compensated for their
industry and talents. it must be remembered
that the people look with deep distrust upon
governmental largeues out of which private
wealth, in fabulous proportions, is extracted.
Bubsidies'equally liberal are asked 'for a
number of other 'lines of railway. It is
stated, on what seems to be good authority,
that the subsidies tone applied for, during
the current session, will amount, in bonds,
40 the iftu3of in(10,000,00d, In addltten.tn
every alternate section of eland for a width
of sixty miles. In the actual condition of
the National Treasury, this is apPalling.
But this BUM does not coves' all the tallway
'projects soon to be pressed upon Congress.
This may rather be regarded as the second
installment of the great demand; the most
of whiCh is yet to -come. •
LasisPring Lieut. Gen. Bnnnar certi-
Add that the, construction of one of these
roads would effect such a reduction in the
cost of traneportation for goverwoontal pnr
poses' alone, as to make the extension of the
detdred an economy. No doubt he 'cu
ll/led to what is actually true. But that is
deciding the caskupon one aspect of IC
the nation was not in the pangs of a Marini
'struggle for the Maintenance ot its financial
!wnor; if , 'the burdens- of tendon did not
press almost up to the - limit of popular en- ,
durance, it would be rellsenablelo urge this
considemtion and to act upon it; What is
'Most essential is to fortify, ,the national
credit by a rigid retrenchment of enema.
and the scrupulous application of all moneys
-robed, beyond wliat is necessary for cur-
rent parposes of administration, to the ex
-*kW the;pnigia ludebtedzmm.. Such a
policy would materially reduce the ride of
.
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Interest the government has tc i pay, and so
lighten the burdens of the people.
But, it is urged that the gOvernment is
Only asked to loan its credit to these com
panies, not to advance moneys. This is
trite. That, ought the national credit to be
esteemed so excellent as to be loaned for
vast sums, when its bonds, in order to be
sold, have to bear nearly double the interest
paid on British loans? When; by a course
of rigid economy, the 'rate of interest on the
government bonds shall be reduced to four ,
or three per cent. it will do to felicitate our- .
selves with the thought that _ -national
credit is established on a proper foundation.
Past experience, however, contradicts , the
assumption that bonds loaned by the gov
ernment to improvement companies will bet
paid by them upon maturity or, at any other
time. State loans have been made to many
such companies, but We can recall not more
than two or three Instances in which the ad
vances have been reihnded. In view of
alinost unbroken experience to the contTary,
it is simple folly to go upon the l presumpan
that. these-low. are not an actual addition to
the national debt. It is much more'prudent
and reasonable to conclude that the gov
ernment will have to provide for the re
.demption of its bonds, and trust to a long
chapter of contingencies for ultimate relay
ment. 1
Whatever railways may be needed for
the full development of this continent will be
built, not all by this gentratiort, but in the
end, as capital shall be collected and its in
vestment in this *ay shall be demonstrated
to be remunerative. The day may even
come in which it will be wise and beneficial
for the government, recovered from existing
embarrassments, to extend money aid to
those enterprises. As the facts stand,
Economy, Retrenchment and Accountabili
ty are words representing ideas which can
not safely be defied.
APROPOS to the pending Senatorial qties
lion in this State; the N. Y. Tribune presses
a point of vast political and general import
ance thus: I I
Pennsylvania Das vast interests staked
on the legislation of the next few years.
She cannot be ignorant that powerful inter
ests and influences are silently combining
to establish. on The ruins of Oar present
Tariff, a financial policy which mast in
evitably extinguish half her thrpace-fires
and silence the clink of the pick in half
her.alreadff opened mines. She is in peril
of baleful legislation even nom the XLlat
Congress. already mainly oxen; either in
that or its auccessor—perfillps in both—her
mineral industry must battle for existence.
She will need therein the very ablest and
most influential representatives: she could
well afford this hour to give Ten Millions
of Dollars for a Henry Clay or Walter For
ward to put into Mr. Buckalew's place.
We do not say she has him not; we only
insist that she shall now put her best foot
forward:
Holt. E. G. SPAULDING, in a
New York Tribune, makes tti
statement, mi follows
At the request of Secretary Chase I
drafted the National Currency Bank bill
during the holidays of 184 L While doing
so I came to the conclusion that it would
not meet the exlgency,and at the close of the
bill I drafted a legal tender section, which.
I think was published in the Tribune some..
where from the - 25th to the 30th of Decem
ber, '6l. That was theoriginal begat-Tender
act. I soon after turned it into a separate bill;
and introduced it into the Houle on the3oth
of December. .
Longstreet on the situa l tion.
The ex-Confederate Gem Lorigstreet, who
him, since the war, shown an intelligent com
prehension of the situation, and who has
given much good but unheeded'coansel to
his fellow-citizens, has written a letter, in
which he offers some more salutary advice.
Longstreet admonishes the Beath to aban
don the idea that Grant' will turn out to be
a Democrat He adds. that Grant's "ante
cedents clearly mark l him as a national man,
and as such he gives assurance; of his adhe
sion to the party whose basis is the Union,and
that the influence of his admintstration will
be applied,t6 its, complete and-prosperous
restoration." In this.workofi restoration,
the new President, Longstreet observes,
needs / co-operation from the Sct t uth and it is
to / this point that the writer devotes the
concluding portion of his le, ter. Long
'etreet's theory is that the South must en
courage labor and protect labor by law.
This protection he finds in appropriate State
legislation and in_ obedience to the acts of
Congress. He expresses hituself in the fol
lowing language:
"The politicians of the old school seem
anxious to impress upon the minds of our
young men the importance of rejecting
altpropositicns coming from ' the Republi
can party, or else they , dishonor their own
blood, and the blood of their fallen com
rades. But gentlemen should remember
the they only dishonor their comrades when
they_ dishonor themselves, and that there
cannot be dishonor in ready Obedience to
law and a proper care for our own welfare.
On the contrary, to discard the !law and ex
pose ourselves to unnecessary'difficulties is
near akin to dishonor. It 111 true that.
many worthy persons are disfranchised un
der the law, but the readiest' and surest
means of relief are through thee. I con
clude, therefore, that Interest, d duty, and
honor demand that we ehould place our
selves in a condition to support, the laws of
Congress. When we have done so, we
kW receive abundantly of helpfrom the Et
exutive, and from Om, other membOrs of the
Government." • ' i ' • '
This letter will aid in making thenew
public opinion which is alreadi taidng shape
at the South, and which has in it the spirit
of acquiescence in the situation. All the
violent and revolutionary talk of .the late
political canvass is abandoned, sad Blair's
letter no longer furnishes a text for the the
eaters of 1868, who rivalled their predeces.
sore of the years before the war.
Tun Penitentiary. artesian ell at Joliet
has revealed a new web th to Illinois im
agination. After boring through a "splen
did quality" of blinding stone at a depth of
fifteen feet, and a thick bed of white mar
l* at ten feet, the workmen struck a vein
of ,silver. The drilling dust, On being sub
iected to chemical analysis,' developed un
questionable silyer mineral.. The extent or
richnesi of the vein cannot be definitely
known without digging a bug& hole. The
presence of silver in ' the geol o gical forma
tion
of Illinois has never beforebeen dream
4't scientific -- 1
Wa congratulate the sewing women. The
A. B. Wilson patent 'for the r qive-inotion .
feed" used In all' sewing - machines has 'et
pired, and COmmissioner. Foote has refused
to extend it. Now let. Congress resist the
money of /the of: „Blias Bowe , who
want to Perpetuate his patent another seven
years', 04 tho•bitsineeS 'Of. making' and Ira;
proving sewing machines will be continued
and the manufacture cheapened. -- The pub-
BO have paid $6O long enough for machines
thitt it costs no nom Qin $lO to Produoo.
: <+~-~z~ s ..ice tr~.r .S k~` c. a~" ...~aW.:.....~.5:Y ~.
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For the Pittsburgh Gazette
AN ELEVATED IDEAS
"Pleased with a rattle,
- Tickled with i straw.”
This must be the opinion which the Penn
,
sylvama • Railroad Company entertains of
our City Councils. The rapidly increasing
travel by the accommodation trains needs
some protection of life and limb, and the
crowd is growing too large •to be Piessed
through the long, narrow fcmnel of the
Union DePot. The people saw it, and the
employes of the road also saw it, that the
obvious remedy was to consult the conven
ience as well as the safety of the passengers
by letting them enter and leave the cars at
Seventh street, in a clean and clear and con
trid.Part of the city; and consequently this
project has been much agitated for , some
time. '-- I
But it seems the company has discovered
that a good thing may be made out of the
peoples necessities in this respect and that
an opportunity is afforded to drive At good
bargain with councils. Hence, the coun
cils are informed that if they . will surrender
to the company's private use, half of Lib
erty'street, the best half of Grant, and; also,
Eighth and Washingtonetreets, and all; the
alleys in the neighborhood, the company
will be graciously inclined—not to place
their accommodation station on Seventh
streetrno i not that. Instead of that I desi
rable object they will put up a beautiful
boardwalk on stilts, seventeen ,feet high, beau
tified with cast iron knobs and crooked rail
ing, whereon each and every man, woman
and child may—nay must climb every time
they enter or leave the city, climbing to
a level with the second story of the Grain
Elevator we.will have the privilege of walk
ing on this beautiful avenue to the Mansion
House, or to Penn street, and there climb
ing down again:" Not,l however, without
jostling our way among the drays and car
riages, which may be able to get, up there by
the delectable elopes, and the horses of Which
are not so scary to jump over. ' _
This is to be the Pittsburgh Boulevards,
and it is said will in time be extended to
connect one of its prongs with the new,City
Park, to be laid out and beautified also,
somewhere near Cresson. People feel cu
rious to see how Councils will entertain the
project for streets on stilts to accommo
date the Railroad Company and unaccom
modate the passenger travel of the city.
The Railroad Company got a nice slice of
Liberty street already—the entire side-walk
between the Union and outer depots, and
hence they suppose this will be as easily ac
quired. • EAST LEBIRTY.
The Bedford papers bring us news of the
death of Hon. William - T. Daugherty, of
that town, who died on the Bth day of _De
cember in the flfty-eighth year of his age.
lir. Daugherty was :one of the many self
made men that have been produced in l otu.
country. Born and reared in obscurity, he
very early in life developed an unusual ca
pacity. The section of country in which
he lived was greatly indebted to him for ex
ertions tending to its improvement; and he
was particularly instrumenlal in the devel
opment of the Broad Top coal region;con
tributing valuable services and meant to the
measures which were necessary to' bring it
into the market.
letter to the
'e interesting
FREE MAsoss.—lt is estimated- that the
Masonic order, at present, contains' about
1,250,000 members. Of this number 150,-
000 are in England, 100,000 in Scotland,
and 50,000 in Ireland. There are about
600,900 on the continent of Europe, 300,000
in the United States, and 50 , 000 in other
parts of the world. 'ln England there ,are
two or tbree thousand persons initiated ley
cry year, and the Masonic body is , said to
be everywhere increasing.
•
COUGHS, coucns, COLDS, COLDS,
When a person takes . cold the lungs become
charged with' phlegm, which oppressing the eon•
stitutton a natural effort Is made for a relief.
This effort Is a cough: .The only safe and prudent
remedies to be adopted are those which asstsi na
ture in Its mirk, by loosening the phlegm and excl
tlng i freedom of expectoration until the evil ll la re
tuoved. DE, SARGENT'S COUGH TRUP
adapted to promote expectoratiOn, e a se the
breathing, loosen the phlegm, abate the fever, arid
allay the , tickling which occasions the cough, with
out tightening the chest, or in any way injuring the
system, and for all temporary and local affections,
such as irritation of the throat, hoarseness of the
voice, influenza, Ac., it Is of incalculable value:Ea
pecially at this Inclement season of the year it
would be well for every family to have this valuable
remedy at hand. Prepared by GEO. A. BELLY.
Wholesale Druggist, corner Wm d street and Second
avenue, Pittsburgh. and for sale by all druggists
ana dealers In medicine. 50 cents per bottle.
THE GREAT PICTORIAL ANNUAL.
Hostetter's United States Almanac for 1869, for
distribution gratta, throughout the United States
and .all civilized countries of the Western Hemis
phere, will be published about the first of January,
and all who wish to understand the true philosophy
Or health should read and ponder the va'nable sug
gestions It contains. In addition to an admirable
medical treatise on Ili cantos, prevention and cure
of • great variety of diseases, it embraces a large
amount of information Interesting to the merchant,
the mechanic. the miner, ths farmer, the planter,
and professional man; and the calculations have
been made for such meridians and latitudes as are
most suitable for a correct and cunprehensive NA
VONAZ CALLNDA.II. •
The nature, uses, and • extraordlitary sanitary ef
fects of HOSTETTER'S STOMACH BITTERS. the
staple tonic and alterative of more than half the
Christian world, are hilly set forth la 14 pates ,.
which are also Interspersed with pictorial Maitre.
lions, valuable receipts for the household and farm,
humorous anecdotes, and other instructive and
amusing reading matter. original ~ a nd selected.
Among Ananals to appear with the opening of
the year. thit . will be one of the most useful, and
may Si Aad for ihr =beg. Send for copies to the
Central Matinfeatory, at Pittsburgh, Ta.. or to the
=ism dealer* HOSTETTER'S STOMACH BIT
TERS. :The BIT/TEEM , . sold in every eft', town
and village; and ere extensively used throtighout
the entire civilised world. -
THE GREATEST. OF ALL GO MM
INES.
At this time of the Yekenwben the streets and
pavements, are covered. with snow and slush, t
no wonder _that the natural pores and conducts of
the body become obstructed,'and, whole communi
ties become ideated with soughs and . pulmonary
and throit ailments. One of the very best cures Pm
all these diseases Will be found ,InDR. REIMER'S
PECTORAL SYRUP, which at ones sets tree the
imprisoneff anther, removes 45 obstruction, and
allays the irritability of the nervous system in such ,
a way as to do no injury to health, or Interfere with
one's usual avOcations. ghat a blessing It must be •
to have so potent remedy in the house as DEL
KEYSER'S PECTORAL 11yRUPorbic14 its over
twenty years, has 'paine4, on the affections and re
stored the health of thitalids of our people. To.
get the best of What is going is a good rule in, any
thing L but it Le especially tree with seed!.
clue„ and there, is ne cough medicine. 'that we know
pg, of equal pothsey,-both sew cure and preventive
than DR. SAUERIS PZOTOBAL SYRUP.
Sold at the great Medicine: Store, No. 1•0 Wood
'met.' WILL. BICINOVN MIER .11NUARY Ist
to lel LIBEIRTAr eiTsar i titidiors below &tint
DB. ICZYBZWI RINEDICNT 01 1 11103 fbr 'LUNG
ZNANDIATIONB AND TDB IRTATKIN'i Olt
OBBTINATRAJNBONIO DIIINAIIII2I, LSO P 213
MONT; priereitypeli. TA. Ofikii'llbara , from
fp A. u. Imm 6 r. xi
December 110. - 111011; • - •
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Singular Incident of the War.. ' v .
In one of Stonewall Jackson's periodical
attacks upon Winchester, on, his way down
the glorious old valley of 'Virginia, Capt.
Dave Workman, a brave and gallant officer
of the Ninth Louisiana Regiment, who sub.
sequently lost his life in the shadow of the
Blue Ridge, was wounded lit the body 4,.
painfully, but not dangerously. On the cap- •
ture of the town he was removed from the. c
field to a large hospital, established by the . 1
enemy, and in company with many federal
soldiers, wounded-in,the attack, waited watt f`
such patience as he could master. his turn -
for attendance from the over-worked sur.
geons. • ,
The groans of the wounded and dying,
and the misery , of a , stiffening, undressed
wound, lengthened the tedious night, but
amidst it-all, Captain Workman was struck
with the stoicism of a stalwart Yankee, oc
cupying an adjoining cot, who was evi- •
dentlymortally wounded, but whose torture l • , I
failed •to wring a murmur from his !lips., 1
Day broke at last, and with it came one,of 4
the captain's company to inquire after his
iVase. Approaching his cot he addressed 4'
by name, but was - interrupted bY. the
kee next to Workman, over whose eye •
glaze of death seemed setting. Rousing,
himself; and with-great effort, raising in his.
bed,
bed, he said: "Are. you. Captain Work.'
man?" "Yes." "Captain Dave Workman,
of the Ninth Louisiana regiment?" "Yes."
"Then, sir, I have something for you. Two
weeks ago, my captain was mortally
wounded. Calling me to , his side in the . .
midst of the fight, he gave me this package,.
with instructions to send it across the lines /
the first chance. I didn't think, then,"
continued he, with a wan smile, "I would
be able to deliver it so soon; in person, but,
here it is." "And your captain, who was
he?" "Your brother, Captain James Work
man, of the Ninth New . York cavalry,"
and with a gasp, the faithful fellow, '
as he
had only lived to fulfill his prouiise, fel;
back on his pallet and died.—[if. 0. Times.)
Death of Governor Moorheinl of Kentucky.
Some months since Goiernor Moorhead,
findinghis financial affairs to be in a very 11n.
satisfactory condition, determined to avail
himself of the benefits of the bankrupt law, 7
and filed the necessary papers to accomplisl
that purpose.
The results of the cotton crops on his -
plantation proving very satisfactory, yield
ing nearly nine hundred bales of the staple„
he found his affairs so much improved that
he withdrew his bankrupt papers, feeling
confident of being able to meet all his
bake.
His crop was all gathered and safely stored
in his gin -house awaiting transportation to
market, but alas i for human hopos and val
culatimm, on the morning of his death, the
Governor, On stepping to the door of his
house was greeted with a view of , his gin
house enveloped in flames.
The violent reaction caused by the sight,
brought Itin an attack of the heart disease,
from which he dropped dead in his door,
without uttering a single word.
DIED:
`MARKLE—PaddenI December 30th, 1888,
Mrs. ELIZABETH MAEELE. relict of the late
Ben. Joseph Markle, or Mill erove, Pa., aced WO
years.
Pipers! on FRIDAY MORNlNGilltiatrlat, at 11
o'clock.
UNDERTAKERS.
ALEX.AEIKEN, UNDERTAKER,
Ll No. 166 FOIIIII3I STREET. Pittsburgh, Pa.
COFFINS of all kinds, CRAPES, GLOVES, and ev
ery description of Funeral Furnishing Goods Inr•
ribbed. Rooms open day and night. Hearse and
Carriages furnished. -
Iterzassress—ltev. David Kerr,'D D., Bev. M.
W. JacobaN D. D., Thomas Ewing. geq.. Jacob IL
Miller. Esc.. . ' •
LES 84PEMLES t ErNDER•
TAKERS AND LIVERY STABLES, cornea of
8 lISKY STREET AND CHURCH AVENIIR.
Allegheny City. where their Cairl'lN BOWLS - We,
constantly supplied with real and tation BOO&
wood, Mahowany and Walnut Coffins, at prices irs. -
Tying from 84 to $lOO. Bodies prepared for Inter- i
meat. Hearses and Carriages •furnisheAl: all
rinds of Mourning Goods, if reuulred. Office , opea
at all hours. day and night.
JCBERT T. RODNEY,__
A;
UNDER
TAE.ER AND EMBALMER, No. 45 OHIO
ET, Allegheny. geeps constantly on hand a •
large assortment of ready-made Coffins of the fol. • ~
lowigg kinds: First, the celebrated American Bu. •
rig Cues, Metallic Self-sealing Air-tight Cases -
and Caskets. and Rosewood, Walnut and Rosewood
Imitation Coffins. Walnut Coffins from $23 up
wards. Rosewood Imitation Coffins from $3 up.
wards, and no pains will be
. spared to give entire
satisfaction. Crape and Gloves f u rnished free of
charge Best Hearses and Carriages furnished an .
.short notice. Carriages furnished to funerals $4.
GrairlaNX •
SCOTCH PEBBLE
SPECTACLES,
WARRANTED TO IMPROVE THE MET
YOB BALE BY
DUNSEATHA HASLE,TT.
r.1141'40:1 , 5 , 4:14:11
HENRY G. HALE,
MERCHANT TAILOR.
Corner ofPeim and Eit,Mdr EknAzi, -
Hu now In stock one of the largest midmost vatted
usortmenta of
Fall-and Winter Goods
ever broanht to this city. • His stock embraces al
the latest trench and English manufactures of 4 !
CLOTHS,IIABEIDLEBES AID OTEIOOATIffek
a toll line of Gent's Pornishinn Goods.
SQUIRES', ~(LONDON),
GRINELAIL IMUESCING PUPigiTIONS. -;
, -
°ran r Nita Inuits; PtCar,Potssil. .. 1
do do Ylchr:lalsr...d... i
do eleidlfts Powder% i
do • do ILllssengsa Water .
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SQUIRE'S TRUE GLYCERINE SOAP,
Contains 40 per cent. Glyeerlnc
ILIIKINI:VIIINNA soar
contains 80 percent. Glycerine
SQTYMETS CEEELIMICAMS,
Imported and sold only by '
SIMON JOHNSTON.
Corner Sniithileld and rceiirth Streeto ß :
NEW GOODE
31°2'rrei
NEW GOODS.
TOR A STYLISH OVNBCOAT,_
NOB A STYLISH DIMS 004_,T
FOB A STYLISH BUSINESS VOA 4
NOR A STYLISH WALKING 00A
TOR A S TYLISHTyL 'V PAIR OW PANTA,,,...
FOB A VEST or ALL
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For all the latest styles eat elothea, msde of the hest
material. an mby Ilyst•eiaaa workmen, and - at OW •
rtalnaly low, so to the well known ilealliallti
- W. WE.EilinE/P.,' ,
10. 50 ST. OLSIIINTRINN new Use.
?ROB. 7. MILLI. X. D _ 11. 8172T0N. D. 14.
ryes trsnEssioNED
JL. 800LiTZD thersoolna t•oolither for Us
PRACT/C.E OF 14111:1113IN74
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