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WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 27, ieca.
61.p.NW00D., January 110, VW*
ggrMEETING OF REPUBLI
CAN, STATE CENTR AL COMMITTEE.
..-The t Won Repub Scan State Central Com
',settee will meet at AItRISBUBO on TEIURS
DAY. TdE FOUBT DAY OF FEBRUARY, 'at,
TWO o'o lock P. M., for the Purpose of fixing the _ ;
time and place of holding theenext State Cods- ,!
vention, and other appropriate* business. , ' ,
A full attendance Is earnestly desired. i
OAILLISRA A. GROW,
Chairman of Committee.
'GSo. W. litiluntsLY, semtaries
J. R. licem,
PETROLEUM at 4twerp, 59(359if.
IL S.-Soigne at Frankfort, 794
GOLD closed yesterday in :New 'irk
a►t
WE PRXET on the inside pages of
.thie morning's - GAZETTE—Sixond frzge:
OrtginaZ Podro, Ephernerte. Third and,
Sixth pages:, Binaneiaid, Commercia I, _Mar
- lets, Imports, River HOWL Seventh page:
Interesting Letter , from Kansas, Tic Com
ing Ship, A Manna Velocipede, A.
'Liter
ary instittnion, An Act to
.Provide for the Registry of ;Lobs in the
City of liitteburnh.
THE HOME ERZ repealing theVenure
of•Office let gains no strength.in:the Sen
ate. Its ,passaimin the ipresent shape is
.rcgardedis most improbable;; ‘E adopted
. at all, it will be with essential modifica
'tone.
IT is cindersteod that the -gustices of
the Streme Ctourt .are imecnsultation
upon the•decision of the cases involving
the constitutionality of the (Legid Ten
der Acts. An adverse •'opirEon Is not
generally •expected.
Tux, IRepublicair rr_embere•af Congress
from Ohio-agree to opposed/a BOI)TWELL -
Suffrage bill, but favor ev. A:mend matt
in terms specifically providir.g for .iver-:
sal suffrage, 'without either prop •rty or
educotiorralsqualifitations.
Focr WAYNE stock continues ac ive in
Wall -street, the purchasers tieing the
same {parties who have taken largely of
Ohio and 51issiesippi, Cleveland and
Pittsbergh, and Mock Island The im
pression is still-stronger that this clique
have secured the control of Fort Wayne.
To make a sere thing of it, one of that
party, Sir. .LANE reported -to be
now on his way to Europe, to secure ad
ditional proxies. -
AN searz.ormAnnecrueof the most in
teresting mature, seemsuto be made be
tween two well-known public men. Esc-
Secretary Smovion is reported as deny
ing, in the whole or in detail, the truth
of the sensational story ?recently Made ;I
public, purporting to state that the War- I
el
Office had ordered Gen. Minns to super-d
cede Gen. +Guam , prior ge the fall of )
Vicksburg. And now comes a r pacts.:
ble journal, printed in Gen. 'BANK Con
;
' gressional district, which declares from ;
must
.personal knowledge, that such orders ,
must have been given, forrtaat th origi
nal
and offinial autograph orders me now
:in the bands of Gen.. GnArtm Here is a
-direct contradiction and upon a most in
-Iterestin g point, whiair, perhaps, the pub.
lication of these ordari-wouldnid rnateri
.ally in reconciling.
"Tizte iournal of the last Pennsylvania
House o-f: Representatives shows that
. ..early in the Session,the whole inumber of
its officers:NA3r the Session was fixed at
forty-three. .-Bvlt at the close of the ses
sion the number paid wasnearly &square
.one hundrild as ,asuld *veil be:!"—Com&
essercial.
;Why did you aot, bring .out the whole
-truth, instead ofa-stating facts ea to gtre
-them. the effect .of falsehood . .? If. yam
really searched the Journal, asyou inti
mate tyou did, you doubtkess found that
the House did not appoint to °Mee any
-thing like the whale .nsmber of pies who
were,paid al officers at or after 'the .close
•of the session. To this extent the-fault
was withtthe higheroftleers of the Home,
and not with the House itself, Why cot
say so, in stright-forward„ manly terms,
and be done \ with it? Is the object to hold
tip the actual offenders to reprobation?
.or, by setting the public ow! false • scent,
to screen them? _
SERATou Tstzoceum, who distinguish
.ed himself in the Impeachment trial by
his peculiar' views of Republican duty,
insists now• that thc. Senate should admit
the Senators who dam seats from Geor
gia. Mr. .3 - 6inssoze,s counsel from
Illi
nois supports' their case by citing the loyal
action of the ,Georgia .Legislature, before
the rebels had violently' revolutionized it
by expelling; as intrudei - s, the majority
of, the members to whom these Senators
owed their election. Mr. TRUMBULL'S
inclination to take an impracticable
and mischievous view of c very pUblic
question, is only equalled by his . reluctance
to deprive the rebel element of whatever
advantages it may claim through trick or
fraud. Renee, • his view is usua2ly the
rebel view, Unless where they are likely
to prove too much ttgainst their own case.
This is illustrated iciy the present Senator
rial question, chich 'should go out of
court upon the rebel s.rguments and rebel
facts.
"WE don't knr.w of anything worse
in any ; public functionary than wasting
and stealing the people's meney."--Re
pubtic.
Exactly so. But, theii, the Commer
cial howls oerpetually abbut, the Compar
atively wary sum paid by the Legisla
ture for Poltroon's Digest and for Pasting
and Felting, While it stands as indorser'
to thehetne for selling at public auction,
to the +highest bidder, millions of railway
bon6s held by the Commissioners of the
Sin'shag Fund. The Pennsylvania Rail
rorol Company must, from the very' nature
of the case, be deeply interested ,to have
that sale made, for it would then doubt
less be able to buy up its own obligations
..at a great discount. Next to the releaie
.cf tbe.Tonnage Tax, this wOuld prove to
be the most favorable movement for that
'Company ever made by the Legislature.
.The Commercial must be aware by this
time of the truth of what we say in this
regard, yet it - maintains an ominous si
lence. Once again, we entreat it to speak
out: '
las
THE ELIJHRSHAOSSEN PATENTS, cover
ing the new method Of manufacturing
iron, of which we gave an account in yes
terday's Gsarirminr,, have been conveyed,
to trustees, the iron interests of Pitts
burgh, New y art, Detroit and St. Louis
being represented in the Board. These
truitees Issue five hundred share:.certifi
cates at tll4OBO each, one hundred of
which are to be 'preferred stock, and as
such entitled to 8 per cent. dividends.
•Etmhshare.carries with it a license (trans
ferable) to manufacture 2,000 tons per
SAM= free of royalty. Licenses to non
shareholders are to be granted for a roy-,
ett}= ofV2:00 per ton of pig blooms.
We learn that the process is covered by
patents 'from every European govern
ment, and that one of the trustees goes to
Europe 'next week to promote the inter
, ests of the company, and especially to give
:personal attention to the introduction of
the process at the great Dowlass Works,
,(Sir aortic GuEsT's,) an agent from which
has recently inspected and approved it at
the mills here.
VINDICTIVE DAMAGES.
It is reported from Washington, by the
- reporters whose business it is to pick up
, and renovate the cast-off opinions of great
men, that the President elect condemns
the new Alabama treaty because, paying
• only tor the value of the property directly
destroyed with English connivance, it
provides no redress for the resulting or
secondary damages, such as were our
flag driven:from the sea, the war pro
, •
longed :and the lives Thereby lost and
the pecuniary cost entailed upon our
people. The reporters leave it to be in
ferred that the President elect expects
•these resulting damages, to be paid for
through another and more comprehensive
'method than is now plovided. Thi•
omission is very tantalizing. Doubtless
•ff;General GhAzix has stated these obje
•tions as reported, he has also indicated
'the amount of damages justly due to us
and how we may expect to realize on th
claim. Damages of that sort were certain-,
ly inflicted on our National and individual
i• interests, but we think it will be difficult to
state the precise amount thereof in dol.,
len and cents. luch damagee are not
I usually satisfied by a money-payment, in
;1 the transactions of either nations or
viduals. The reparation is sought by
1 1. proceedings in personam; that is to say, a .
good sound thrashing in the one case, or
war in the Other, are the only avenues tO
a complete, satisfaction.
The opinions liow attributed to the
;.President-elect must bear this construe),
•tion, and hone other. We shall be par
kdoned thei for believing that General
' , GRANT has said no such thing.
SENATORIAL CHEEK.
- -
The railroad ring is stiff strong enough
in the Senate to prevent its opponents
from giving a coup de grace to pending
applications for subsidy. --/For example.
Pomanaz succeeds, day after day,
always - only by a sharp fight, in keeping
his hill relative to the`Central branch of
the,Pacific road upon the calendar, and
,in the way l of more valuable measures..
Oflate, weperceive a gleam of hope for the
country in !the partial disorganization of
the ring itself. The Pacific Railway sec
tion refuses.to support the Congressional
Railway job, that is, the proposition to
give a Federal 'charter to certain lines
radiating from Washington, and the
friends'ef the latter retort with amiable
'efforts to knife the little speculation of the
ring whit* Mr. POMEROY represents. A
dispatch, iyurporting to give some Inter
esting facts touching this Central branch
proposition, incidentally lights up the
position of its Senatorial champion 'in
very nieaorly concluaive colors, thus:
Pomeroy's bill grants a subsidy in
bonds of two Million four hundred thou
sand dollars to extend a road located in
violation of Jew, and the right to issue
first mortgage'txonds to the same amount,
and eland gravrt of one million nine hun
dred and twenty four thousand acres.
There are exactly t hirty-eight stock-hold
ers, and Mr. POalerOy'S cousin Is Presi
. • ent of the road, be having succeeded
: the Senator, who, before the last electicu
for officers of the road, was President,
and his brother-in-law Vice President.
The road has already boon subsid,zed at
the above rates for on&' hundred miles
from Atchison to its preseint terminus.
It is satisfactory to feel assured, as we
do, that even if this bill gets through the
Senate, it will stand no chance in the
House at this session, and still less at the
next.
TIMIXAGH. GAZETTE : -NcTI,)IESDAY, JANUARY
FINANCES OF THE COMMONS
EALTH.
Some years ago the tax for State pur
poses upon real estate was abrogated.
The last year this tax was levied and cot
leeted, It amounted.to the sum of $1,344,-
0n.14. Last year, towards the close of
the session of the Legislature, when the
general approprlation bill,. ; was under
consideration, it ,was found that the re-
- • -
sources of the General Fund were not ad
equate . to the deMands the bill laid upon
it. Two remedies were proposed ; one to
cut down the appropriations ; the other,
to take some sources of revenue freak the
Sinking Fund, and make them over to the
General Fund. Another remedy existed,
and that was to restore in part, at least,'
the tax on Teal estate; but this expedi
ent was not proposed. In accordance
with the Oevailing instinct for lavish ex
penditures, in public as well as private
life, a strong disposition was manifested
to trench upon the Sinking Fund ; but
thetut, was urged tha' items, whether
actor, assets or sources of revenue, once
assigned to that Fund, could not legally
be taken Out. The „force, of this consider
ation was yielded to, and the Sinking,
Fund was left untouched. The approprl
ations were then out down so as to enable
the Treasurer to get on, and the consid
eration of the general subject sent over to
the present session. It will doubtless
come up before the final adjournment.
- Those best 'acquainted with the condi
tion of the State Finances insist that the
tax on real estate ought not to have been
relinquished entirely; that the wiser
course would have been to release the
tax on'personal property and let off half
the tax on real estate. This would have
diminished taxation by the :sum of $BOO,-
000:nnd more, annually, and still have
left the Treasury in an easy condition;
whereas, there is now, and is likely to be
for some years to coins, a steady pinch.
It is also stated that the Treasurer has
been using temporarily for general pur-
poses half a million dollars of cash belong.
ing to the Sinking Fund, in order to prof
vent running aground. This condition
of affairs ought not to exist, and the duty
ef providing a remedy fox it devolves on
the Legislature now in session.
. Now, while we hold that it is most un=
wise, if not illegal, to take from the Sink
ing Fund assets specially appropriated
thereto, we are not prepared to say that
sources of income designated fora the use
of that Fund may not be diverted to
other purposes. It seems plain that any
tax laid by one Legislature may be re
pealed by it or by another, whether the
moneys arising therefrom are assigned
to the General or Sinking Fund. This
greater power of repeal seems to include
the lesser power of diverting from one
Fund to another. The real iluestion,
therefore, is whether the Sinking Fund is
in condition to bear the abstraction with
out impairing the public credit, or, which
is the same, putting off for too long a
period the possible cancellation of the
State debt.
During the last financial year the Com
missioners of the Sinking Fund paid in
terest on State bonds held by them, more
than $1,500,000, bought bonds to the
amount of more than $2,000,000, and had
$084,000 left over. It will thus be seen
that if the General Fund is short, the
Sinking Fund is flush, and could spare
half a million a year without prejudice to
any interest, public or private.
If, therefore, the case shall be found to
stand in this wise, either that the State
tax on real estate must be restored, or
new objects of taxation hunted out, or
certain sources of revenue now belong
ing to the Sinking Fund be given to the
General Fund, it may happen that the
latter.expedient will prove.to be the best.
But, whatever members of the Legis
lature may do in this regard, they must
remember that the tide of popular senti
ment has turned against the spirit of ex
travagance which was engendered by the
war, and which was one of the worst
legacies it left behind it. Not unlikely in
the reaction a degree of retrenchment
will be insisted on incompatible with the
public welfare. But this is certain that
lavish appropriations for meritorious ob
jects will be closely scrutinized and cav
iled at, while unnecessary appropriations
of public moneys will provoke storms of
popular indignation which will over
whelm all upon whose heads they may
fall. _
UNIVERSAL SUFFRAGE.
If Democracy means anything, it means
a government by an the people. If an
aristocracy means anything, it means a
government controlled by certain classes
to the exclusion of others.
It does not surprise us that the Post, or
any other organ of what is known as the
Democratic party, is opposed to Univer
sal Suffrage; that is, to acknowledging
the right of the_ whole people to partici
pate equally in the administration of cub
lic affairs. That party, for thirty years,
has been the unflinching champion of
caste and privilege, occupying substan
tially the same positiOn in this country as
the Tory party does in Great Britain and
the - party of Reaction in Continental Eu
rope. Repudiating all its honorable tra
ditions, erasing from its banners the le
gends which made it illustrious, entering
into the - worst conspiracy against civil
liberty that defaces the annals of civilized
nations during the last thousand years,
and becoming the most facile instrument
in the hands of reactionists for over
throwing popular government on this con
tinent, and establishing instead a.govem
ment based upon usurpation, bigotry and
selfishness, it is every way fitting and
congraonsfor it to restrict suffrage 'with
in as narrow limits as is now practicable,
and to avail itself of all opportunities
which may hereafter arise to: tighten the
restriction so as to exclude other classes
whose prerogatives it does not now ven
ture to assail; '
Nor does it surprise us that the Post de
liberately misrepresents our clearly ex
pressed sentiments, in declaring that it is
our hope that the next Republican State
Convention will inscribe Universal Suff
rage upon the banner of the party. The
upshot of our remarks, thus distorted,
was clearly to dissuade the Convention,
in view of the piesent attitude of public
opinion within this Commonwealth, from
making that experiment. We left no
room whatever for misapprehending
either our purpose or desire. We are for
Universal Suffrage, in the broadest , sense
of that - term; that is, we believe that all
persons, arrived at years of discretion,
upon whom any of the burdens and re
sponsibilities of, government rest, are en
titled to share equally in its rights and
privileges. Rights and duties are the ex
act measure of each other. There can be
no duty to obey, that does not imply the
right to direct in matters of political gov
ernment. But we said explicitly that we
did not believe the time had come to
make a distinct and square issue upon
this point at the ballot,box. We do not
mean to defeat or delay the end we seek
by prematurely forcing a decision.
We have learned to wait. Mingling in
political affairs for thirty-five years,
always in the advance, an having no
other cardinal ideas than to abolish slav
ery, dignify labor, elevate laborers, and
establish Republican Government on the
foundation of immutable justice and
equal rights, we have never been disheart
ened by the delays incident to all' large
movements, but have been encouraged by
the vast progress made. We abide in full
confidence that what we desire will cer
tainly come. Slavery fell, though but
tressed about by prejudices as venerable
and puissant as those to which the Post
now appeals in order to maintain the ut
most distinctions of caste which are pos
sible under the circumstances. Caste. in
all its political manifestations, is fore
doomed to follow into the tomb the
parent institution of slavery from which
it sprang. The period in which it can
flourish is short. The Post is its chink-
pion to-day. Five years hence, when the
thing shall be dead and buried, the Post
will look, back upon It as mournfully as
it now does upon slavery. ,
WHAT THE RECORD SHOWS.
The attention of the public having been ,
pointed to the so-called extravagance of the
last Legislature, 14 the employment of a
large number of unnecessary officers, and
believing that blame should at all
times attach to the wrong doers, and not
be visited upon the heads of others, we
propose to some extent to review the
'subject. We start out by alleging that
the House
. of Representatives as a body
are not responsible for this condition of
affairs, and presuming the Auditor Gener
al's figures to be correct, we charge that
some persons must have received fr'om
the Treasury . large sums of money, to
which they had no claim.
To explain this it will be necessary to
go to the Record. On page 34 1 of the
Journal of the House we find that there
were elected one Chief Clerk, - one Assist
ant, one Sergeant-at-Arms, one Postmas
ter, five Transcribing Clerks, one Door
keeper, and one Messenger. On page 35
of the same document we find that there
were appointed one Asssistant Postmaa
master, five Assistant Sergeant-at-Arms,
five Assistant Doorkeepers, and five Mes
sengers; this number together with the
Resident Clerk making twenty-elght offi
cers upon the floor. At the same time there
were appointed fifteen pasters and fold
ers, These however, do not appear upon
the record; making in all forty-three offi
cers employedby the House.
The records fail to show that any au
thority was ever given for the employ
ment of any others. On the contrary, on
page 191 of the Journal we find that an
effort was made to appoint a Mr. ILLTUB
as a transcribing clerk, which was re
fused by a 'vote of twenty-five yeas to
thirty-six nays; thus showipg that the
House was opposed to an . increase in the
number of its officers. _
Further, we find on reference to the ap
propriation bill, page 22, Painphlet Laws,
that when the work became too pressing
upon the transcribing clerks, in the latter
part of the session, they chose, rather
than to increase the number of officers, to
give additional compensation to- two
platers and folders.
As we have not - the names we must take
the aggregate of the salaries to discover
whether more officers were paid than
were employed or authorized by ' the
House.
First, we find under the head of Trans
scribing Clerks, $7,697 90. Five were
authorized at a salary of, $l,OOO, and an
average of $5O each for mileage, amounts
$5,250. Balance .on this account $2,-
447 90, or sufficient to pay two extras.
There appears to have been paid to the
Sergeants-at-Arms, Doorkeepers and Mes
sengers the sum of $27,291 90.. Authoriz
ed to be employed, twenty, at a salary of
$9OO, and say $75 each for mileage,
amounts to $19,00. Balance on this
account $7,791 90, or sufficient .to pay
eight extras. Paid to the Pastern and
Folders $37,723 10. Authorized to be
paid : The Superintendent and Assis
tant each $9OO, and sill $75 for mileage,
and thirteen other* at $7OO and $75
mileage each, .amounting to $12,025.
1869.
Balance on this - account -11,25,68& 10,. or
sufficient to pay . thirty-three extras.
From the Auditor General's Report, it
appears that these extras' were paid.
If payment was made to other eer
sons than those duly appointed, the
moneys must have been disbursed
upon orders drawn by the Speaker
of the House, the same as to persona
legally employed. That personage was .
Mr: ELISTIA‘ W. Davis. He owes it to him
self, to the reputation of the body over
which he prealdedond to the Republican
party of ,the Commonwealth, to explain
how and why this , occurred, if there is
any valid defence to be offered. To this
, end these columns are at his service.
HISTORY OF PENNSYLVANIA VOL=
UNI EERS.
The loyal nation is willing to accord to
Pennsylvania the honor and glory of
having performed a lion's share of work
in conquering rebellion and sustaining
the Government in her hoar of trial; but
there are, few who have any proper idea
of the large measure of credit due our
army of volunteers who so promptly
responded to the call for troops and made
themselves felt in many of thi3 most im-,
portant engagements of the war. That
the present generation, and those who
follow after, may not under-estimate the
part played by this Commonwealth in the
suppression of rebellion, there pea just
been published, under the auspices of the
State Government, a militarY history of
Pennsylvania Volunteers, whichiembraces
an account of the organization, and , ser
vices in - the field, of each regiment to
gether with a roll giving the name, age
and residence of each officer and soldier,
the date and term of enlistment, the pro
motions, the discharges and casnalties,and
the places of burial of those who died in th%
service. The important duty of compiling
and writing this work was wisely en
trusted to Mr. Suomi, P. BATE., mem
ber Of the State Historical Society,
and a gentleman of rarge knowledge, ex
perience, ability, culture, and in every
way competent for the discharge of the
task. We have just received the first
volume, and cheerftilly add one word of
testimony to the high terms of admiration
with which the work has been greeted by
the press of our own and adjoining
States. It supplies an existing want,
and will find a welcome place in thos
'sands of households. As a concise, plain
and intelligent history it is unsurpassed,
and not only reflects credit to the State,
but likewise to the /earned• gentleman
entrusted with its preparation and publi
cation.
THE ALLEGED EXTRAVAGANCE
By the Auditor General Report for
1868, we find that the officers of the two
Houses, last year, cost *111,841.05. By
a law enacted at the last session, limiting
the number and fixing the pay of the offi
cers of the two Houses—a law framed and
passed by Republicans—we find that the
officers of the present Legislature are
fixed as follows :
Two Chief Clerks, at 62. 0 C9 $ 4 . 000
Four Assistant C,erks. at 1, t.O 4 SCO
Ten Transerlb ng Clerks, at .... SOS 8,000
Two I lor.trlans. at 60U 1.600
•
Threervsltuastersand As4st.nts bW '2,400
Eight Sergeant.at•ArllLS and As
sistants 000
ststants ' 608 1.800
Seven Door-Keepers and 'Assist.. 600 4.%0
Seven Messengera and Asslatent 610 4.00
Two Snipts Fettling ktoonV 8 0 1.000
Seventeen Pesters and Folders... 600 10.800
Total, this year
Total last year..
Baying this year,
To this number of officers the Rouse pro
poses to tdd 17. alleging It has not
enough, at/ at $6OO each 110,5:*
Deducting which leaves
as the total saving this year; or, in, round
numbers, $50,000 saved by the present
Legislature on last year's expenses..
But, we do not believe the House will
appoint the 27 additional l'asters and
Folders, in which case the saving will
stand over $66,000.
Why persistent efforts are made by Re
publican journals to conceal these facts
we do not comprehend. If there is rea
son for punishing this Legislature for the
shut of other people, we fail to discover it.
CARBON OW AND LAMPS,
A. supplementary 'report from Professor
Citannt.En, to the New York Board of
Health, states some results of his experi
.
ments, showing the effect of combustion'
by the wick upon the oil in the lamps.
The entire subject is of interest to our
readers. Prof. C. says : ‘
In continuing the Investigation with re
gard to dangerous kerosene, it was consid
eredtd smatter of importance to awe in the
temperature to which the oil is hen hi
the /amps while they are ' binning as a
ti e
knowledge of . thin point is ob usly
a preliminary to the establishment of a
proper standard for safe 011. To th end
twenty-three , different lamps were pur
chased, such as are commonly, sold n the
l ie
Metropolitan District
metal, mostly ° District - eleven we of
-4
brass, twelve were of lass.
These were all filled of the same o and
allowed to burn for seven 'hours, th tem
perature of the oil in each lamp being de
termined at the end of one, two, fol, and
seven hours. The temperature o the
room was nearly constant during t e ex
periment, varying from seventy-th e de
grees F. to seventy-four degrees F. The
range of temperature observed was from
seventy-six to one hundred degr s F.,
the highest temperature of one h a dyed
degrees F. having been reached in a rasa
lamp at the end of the first hour. That
i t.
this is an exceptionally high temper tore
is proved by ; the fact that the highest tem
perature reached in any other lam was
ninetytwo degrees, F. The temperature
reached in the eleven metal lamps varied
from seventy-six to elghty.six degrees F .
the average being about eighty-one de
grees F. The average temperature of all
the observations on all the lamps was
eighty-three degrees. Ido not consider
these experiments to have established
any claim to superior safety on the part
of glass lamps. On the contrary, the
greater liability to fracture fully counter
balance% the slightest 'difference is the
heating of the oil. The 'comparative
safety of the different lamps in : e can
only be determined byzn elaborate scrim%
of experiments, which is beyond the ,
e*lpe of thil present communicatim;
• Moreover, if the retailers of kerbsene
are ComiAled by the Board of Heilth to
sell safe oil, the comparative safety of
different lampi will be of little. conse
quence. These experiments prove that
in the lamps generally used in the Metro
politan District the temperature does not
often rise above ninety degrees F., and.
that an oil which does not evolve an ex
plosive vapor below one hundred degrees
F. and does not take fire itself below one
hundied and ten degrees F. is perfeetly '
safe. I would, theretore, respectfully re
commend that in making laws to regulate
the sale of kerosene oil in the Metropoli
tan District, the Board fix one hundred
degrees F. for the vaporizing point, and
one hundred and ten degrees for the
burning point of safe eil, and permit
none to be sold which falls - below thie.
standard.
The Atabaina Claims Treaty--General
Grant opposed to It. ,
The New York Tribune's Washington
dispatch'has the following: ''Gen. Grant
is strongly opposed to the pending Alk
bama claims treaty. The following is
his position towards it in his own words:
"The treaty is unjust to the United States,
because - it assumes to measure the injury
inflicted upon this country by the 'money
value of the ships actually destroyed,
whereas, the chief damage to our com
merce was in our ships being driven from.
the seas by Anglo-Rebel pirates in addi-
tion to the sympithy extended by the
English Goyernment to the South, pro
longed the war least a year, and for all
the lives lost and money expended for this
time England is directly responsible. The
treaty proposes' to settle all these things
by the payment of the value of a few
ships."
The Ximes' Washington dispatch has a
similar paragraph, and says: "This seems
to iriaicate that Reverdy Johnson will be •
recalled at no very distant day, and that
the entire question will be re-opened on a
totally different basis under the new Ad
ministration."
SPAM—The right of 'suffrage in Bpain
has been greatly extended by the recent
change of rulers. Under the old mon
archical system the qualification of elec
tors for the Cortes was the payment of
$2O in direct taxes. In the elections of ,
1864, there were only, 166,291 qualified
persons on the lists; only 102,610 voted.
In 1865, there was an extension of the
suffrage, and 318,271 persons were placed
on the lists, of whom 223,311 voted for
the Cortes chosen that year. The right
to vote has now been given to every male
over 25 years of age, and 3;619,642 per
sons are now qualified to choose the mem
bers of the Cortes. If persons 21 'years
old were allowed to vote, 500,619 names
would be added to the lists. •
—At the Wheeling, W. Va., municipal
;
reform ticke was elected by handsome
election, on onday, the entire citizens'
majorities. epublicans and Democrats
united In vot ng for the best men with
out respect te politics.
DR. SAADENTPS BACKACHE.PILL.S.
The most efficient DUMB I IC, for treatment of
all complaints r.suiting from wep':ness and de
rangement of the Kidneys. such es pains and
weakness in thel Back or Loins ; Gravel, Dropsy,
Incontinance co Urine, Stranguary, Inflammation
of the' KidneTs, ala., &c. DB. SARGENT'S
BACKACHE IqLLS can be used with perfect
safety In all cases In children a s well as adults
12MM21!11
proven this inelicine to be the most uniform and
efficient Diuretic ever discovered, besides being
tt the form of sugar coated Pills, making them
easy to take, and not being a purgative, never
aterferecrith the regular discharge of duties.
These Phis can be had at wholesale and 'retail
114.5 L. WO
e Sil
from the Proprietor
GEORGE A. KELLEY,
Eff
Wholesale Druggist,
MEI
CORNER OtrOOD STREET AND SEOOND
AVENUE, PITTSBURG&
and from all Druggists and Dealers In Medicine.
50 cents rrr box
WHAT ARE YOU TAKING!
Probably two-thirds of the adult population of
the united States indulge. Tame nr lets. in bar
room stimulants. tiot alcoholic beverages are
habitually imbibed by thousands of people in the
winter months to "keep out the cold." The al
coholic material of all these drinks is more or
less potionou.e. and Is rendered all t e more del
eterious In consequence of being taken warm.
Avoid theee.dengeroue excitements. Shun, as
you would shun the deadliest drug, all tavern
dame/ants. They paralyse the di.estlon, con -
ger t the liver, disturb the natural act - ion of the
kidneys, irritate the bowels, shatter the nerves.
and impair the reston.
The operation of HOSTETTER'S STOMACH
BITTERS is diametrically opposite to this.
They spur no organ into unnatural activity; but
they Sone and regulatO all. If the digestion is
feeble, they awaken the dot mato enereles of the
stomach, and promote the work of tos,milation.
If tee, liver is sluggish and torpid. they regen
erate it. If the kidneys- All to perform their
functions a roperly s they are regulated without
being Irritated. if the bowels are caistipated,
the peristalic action is moderattly increased,
and the discharges become natural and regular.
the nerves are tremulous. they are strength
stied. if the mind Is ctoudedthe . BiTTEßS tend
to diaper e Lite gloom.
These are the effects of the great yEGETABLE.
TONIC AND C .I.ILICTIVZONNICh for twenty years
has een . a staple medicine in this country, and
the demand for which steadily-increases in all
parts of the Western Henospltere.
. It Is not offered as ,a beverage , lint ass tnedteine;
nor will it ever be used to satisfy a crating for
alcoholic stiMelants, because-tie efft et is to caeek;
not to crease. a false appetite for excitants, The
champions of temperance will do well to mark.
this peculiarity. and to eoolnutend it as the only
safe preparation oontainifig alcohol, that can be
used or mt dicing& purposes
MD SOUND OF THE LUNGS.
One of the' most accurate ways of determining
whether the lungs are in a healthy or diseased con
dit lon, is by means of listening to the respiration.
To those experienced in this practice it becomes
as plain an inuex to the Mate of the lungs, and is
as well known to the operator as are the voices of
his most Intimate acquaintances. ' The belief that
longstanding coughs, and titseasee"of tae lungs
upon which they are dependettt, are incurable,
are fast becoming obsolete. One great advantage
to be gained from this advance in medical knowl
edge la tt e earlier ; application of those who be
cOme afflicted with those diseases to some one
competent to afford relief. 'I he error which had
taken hold of the public mind in regard to the
.cnrabillty of consumption, or rather non-curahh
lty, is fast becoming obliterated, and it is well
that It should be so, not that persons should lose
that salutary 'fear wide h mould snake them apply
for a timely remedy, but that all might be indu
ced to use remedies while there is any hope. It 1
the delay in these cases that ells us with ap:
'prehension and alarm, for If every one would
.make timely applicatioa of DR. KEYSER'S
LUNG CURE In the beginning of a cold or cough ; ,
Pew cases would go so fares to become Irremedli-
Ile.
Sold at the Doctor's great Medicine Store, No.
40 Wood street. WILL FHORTLY REMOVE
TC 1115 NEW, STORE, NO.- 10 LIBERTY
STREET, - SECOND DOOR FROM S P. CLAIR.
DR. K.EYSER'S RESIDENT OFFICE FOR
LUNG EXAMINATIONS AND THE TREAT
MENT OF OBSTINATE CIIRON IC DISEASES,
No. 140 PENN.STRF.ET, PITTSBURGH, PA.
Office Hours frOm 9 At R. until 4F. tr., and from
7 to S at night.
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