4 Y. U s -rabbit* SalEttt. Ihe-BaUway Subsidy Polley. The f prTut phase of the policy of the . Cpngressipnal lobby is shown in the fol , Owing reports from Washington An omnibus railroad bill will be sub mitted at an early day, and strong efforts made to carry the same. It is very ably drawn, and includes the guaranteeing of ' bonds for:$40,000 per mile to the North , ern Pacific, running from Hu Oboldt river, e ra 5 by Klamath Lakes d the CalicadeMonn. tains, to Portland, Oregon, tii which ten : alternate sections f land on either side are also to be giv 1,.2 fors southern relit°. The bill includes the ,Atlantic and Pacific Railroad,' starting at Springfield, Mo., going to Van Buren,,Ark., where it is to be joined by the Texas Pacific road, start ing at Marshall, Texas, and both proceed westwardly by the Canadian river to New Mexico, where the Union Pacific, Eastern Division, is to be met, and the three cor porations form one, under the title of the Souther&'Continental , Railroad, and are to proceed to the Rio Colorado and form a junction with the Southern Pacific Cal ifornia. "The four routes named are all asked to aid, by the :guaranteeing of bonds, the Unioil Pacific, Eastern Division, from its present stopping place and others from their starting points. The bill is well drawn, and the interest of the Govern ment and . owners of mortgages seems well guarded. The point of junction for the propiised Southern Continental road must be somewhere between the 34th and 36th parallels. - Another dispatch says : The Senate Pacific Railroad Committee have bad sev- eral meetings, at which a subsidy and "lafid policy was agreed upon containing these features : First, the Government to guarantee interest on first mortiage bonds at six . per cent. in gold for $30,000 per mile; second, to hold hack all moneys due front the Government for mails, and • to pay said interest, and to' require, after a certain time, that two per. cent. net earnings of roads thus aided be reserved for a sinking fund from _which' to pay bonds- ' , third, to open all Government lands for settlement 'along the line of roads from the first; fourth, • this subsidy to be extended to rthe Northern Pacific, and_to such a combination as can be agreed upon from competing" lfiterests for a Southern road. 'lt is understood that thereommittee divided on the ques tion of immediate lgislation, six voting for, immediate ac , ion and five tor post ponement until next Winter. ' The. same division was also had on the proposition for GoTernment to hold all the lands granted; sell the opPorttinity of. fers, and retain the proceeds as a sinking fund fott,he'payrkent of mortgages. ' The Great Excursion. The most extraordinary railroad. event of this railroad age is in preparation—the magnificent trane•continental excursion ; which,"in the coming, month of July, is to open #ie Pacific Railway route from . one ocean to the other.- it will be 'the world's.•-great - representative- gathering, that will meet la the heart of the- 40Rti nent to see the 'last - raft spiked home. • From this side .the Party will consist of one thonsand guests,;in a superb train of forty-free cars , finished expressly for this occasion. Dr. Durant will, we learn, commence the excursion proper at Oma lusi leiving it to tueats from all over the country to reach that point by their own choice-of routes., Alt,the head of the list of inviteirguests will „be President Groat and hiiCalainet. ' There will also be dele gations of our foreign'cousins from over the water. 'We leign that the Pullman company are building several splendid sleeping,and commissary cars for the call to be made on these facilities. Altogether it will-.beau affeir.itt American railroad annala unlikely ever to be surpassed; since no possible achievement, of equal magnitude waits to be .pexformed.—Glii eago Republican. - W ashlngtop Items. , John Cochrane iii he4elooking after his ~, • chance;', for the Attorney 'Generalship. , Evarts Can remain if he chooses, but he says nothing can • indince to him keep it. His intimate frlene4 - say .7 , ,,if the State • Department were offered him, he would accept. Captains William H. Brown, Reitz -hoover, Gray, and oera; of Pittsburgh, r arrived here to-day to consult with the 'committee having 1 charge the bill for bridges over the Ohio river. They are N s strongly. Opposed to the . short spans pro- Tosed by the railroad-men, as destructive to the- great coal interests, as well as Aif, steamboat interelite. They designpress ing the passage of the amendment, pass ed by the Senate, appointing a corps of engineers to report on this subject before • any bridges are - erected. ' - • The proposed Congressional excursion of last Fall is renewed to take place next Spring.: The object is to show the seat country , watered by the Ohio and Mississ ippi, and the necessity for levees and other improvements. - A "WONDER ON FOUR LEGS" has , ar rived in Louisville from the Cumberland Idortdtains. It is about two feet in height and might be mistaken for a fawn at a distance. Its colors aredirk-gray and pure white, its legs and face being more or less spotted...ltis a female, has : the nose of a sheep; is' knock-kneed, has crooked hind legs, flat shoulders, large heavy ears o and ;a tolerably long, busby tail. Its feet resemble those of a sheep. When standing naturally there is a hump on its back; and it'would be asuccess ',as a camel were it only tall enough. It sub sists on food similar to that, 'very' for„ sheep.' -- Itti littinriJeeeitt 'very' docile; though it will sometimes jump at stran gers: "Wben captured it:,was , swimming the Kentucky river,and'slaM very rap A- 1101111IBLE OM of poisoning has just come nearnearsjJnionport,-.4efferson county, Ohio. Tivo old hales, Sisters, holding a dower on apiece of land, were, last month, Wahl suddenly ill, ;resulting in the death of 'one; end ithe other at the present,moment is lying in d critical cow; Last Saturday the body of the deceased wadeihtinted, and a coroner's jury sum moned, whoa , rendered a verdict of death by poismi:' The manager of the farm is strongly suspected—as the property would fall into his hands at their death. Some of the Sour i and, bread .haye been sent to °intim:LW for`analysis. -g-Heury -.Walters, an old citizen of Ke okuk, lowa, "Was murdered on Sunday aft erno on by four men who shot him as he was mounting his horse, a -few miles west of the city. After shooting him his murderers brutally be at hi m wit e, clubs and stones. Two men have been arrested on suspicion. ll= ~ , . Postal Fac il ities in England. i:1 The Post Office has won the confidence of the pe ple of Great Britain. The Chamber o !Commerce of Edinburgh, and the associated Boards of Trade, and many -leading merchants of England, have peti tioned Parliament to empower it to assume all the telegraph lines of the kingdom; and after several elaborate reports and estimates from commissioners and offi cials, a bill has trien carried through the principal stages in the House of Commons prOviding for the purchase of all the lines in the kingdom and the reduction of the chirge for all telegrams to a uniform rate of twenty-four cents for each message of twenty words, beside the'address, with an addition of ten cents for ten words or lees lidded to the message. ) It is proposed also to connect the wires with the Postoffices in all towns and vil lages whose population exceeds two thousand, and that each Postoffice and each pillar-box should be made a deposi- , tory for telegrams to be written on paper , bearing a 'twenty-four cent stamp, and addressed to, the nearest telegraph office; to be transmitted free from any further charge for transmission or delivery with in,Postofficelimits. It is also proposed, as a further facility, that a book shall be published yearly, and sold for sixpence,; containing a; list of all post and telegram; offices; and that, when a telegram is ad-' dressed to a town not reached by the wires; the telegram , on its arrival at the; end of thrH wire, shall be sent free of; postage by the rat mail, or, if stamped , express, shall be sent on by a special mes senger. 111 Thus the ptate is bringing telegraphy , home to the people, giving facilities for the most rapid interchange of thoughts ' , and, desires, providing new safe-guards for life, promoting human happiness, ad-1 1 1911CiDg commerce and public improve- I merit. It is the ambition of England to be foremost among nations in placing on a proper footing the department of the electric telegraph,' as she has already pre seated to mankind aperfect system of pos tal communication. Shall the 'United States, which invented the steamship, which first made electricity useful, which established between Balti more and Washington the first line adapted for the transmission of messages. resign to England the supremacy in both steamships and telegraphy I . —Atlantic Monthly for February, Going Rohm with the Glrle. The entrance to society may be said to take. place after boyhood has passed away, yet a multitude take the in itiative before their hearts are presenta ble. - It is a great trial to tender or tougn age. For any overgrown boy to go to a door, knowing there are a dozen girls within and knock or ring with absolute certainty that in two minutes all their eyes will be upon him, is a severe test of courage. To go before these girls and make a satisfactory tour of the room without stepping on their toes, and then sit down and dispose of one's pockets is an achievement of which few can boast. •If a boy can get so far as to measure off 'ten yards of tape and manage to cut it short at one end he may stand a pleasant chance to spend a pleasant evening ;:.but let him not flatter the trials of the even ing are over. Tere comes at last the breaking np. The dear girls don their hoods and put on their shawls, and look so saucy., so mischievous and impressi ble, as if they did not wish any one to. go home with them. Then comes the pinch, and the boy having the moat pluck makes up to the prettiest:girl, his heart in his throat, andhis tongue cling ing to the roof of his mouth, and crook ing his elbow, stammers out the words : "Shall I see you home?" She touches her finger to his arm, and thus they walk walk home about a f oot apart, feeling as awkward as goslings. As soon as she is safe inside her own , doors, he struts home and really thinks he has been and done it.- , -Erie Dispatch. Lower California Adriees Saar FRANCISCO, February 2.—Mazat lan, January 20: An outbreak of the peepple, which occurred on the 11th inst., was quickly suppressed by, the civil and military authorities. Serious difficulties are liable to be inaugurated at any mo mont. There is a rumored prounncia. mento at Durango, and a military force has been sent there from Mazatlan. Gutierrez, General of the fourth di vision, and said to be the chief of a bind of robbers, has fled and was pursued by the military with orders to shoot him on sight. He has gone to Guadalajara. The new Federal officers of Mazatlan, Collector, Coimptroller of Customs and Commandeiof the Coast Guard Service, have arrived and assumed their duties. General Corona's successor is a'man of dissolute habits, gives universal.dissatis faction, and will receive little sympathy in case of overthrow. The Collector called a meeting of the merchantse of Mazatlan and requested them to pay over four thousand dollars, deficit of last year's customs. They com plied With toe request. Several earthquake shocks were pelt at Mazatlan January 9th and 10th, which frightened the people, but caused no dam age to property. . • Three German Captains of European merchant vessels in the harbor of Mazat lan were grossly outraged by the Cue tome authorities by insults similar to those offered to the , Captain of the Eng lish gunboat Chanticleer. Real Estate Tranatera. / The following deeds were filed of record before H. Snively,_Esq., Recorder, February 2d, 18611.; Edwin *lles and John S. Slagle to Shoentwrger, Blair it: Co, August 31. 1868; log In Robinson township, contalal.• g live acres and sixty-Ilse perches, with buildings • *Ad John F. Seville to John M. / at., February 1669; lot on Federal street,near Robinson street, sbegheny. 1W ny 124 feet, with buildings,i7.o9o Samuel H. Ralph, eVal. ao ' , hum , lihunble, Jam , outl7 1863;- , tract or land in Frstil4in town ship, containing seventy-two acres: .... —419 260 John N. Furvisuce to Henry Grelsemer, April 14, 18.53; lot in *haler township, on the Kittan ning road, containingfthirfeen acres and eighty 5 peronds. _ 0. W. M. Day to Catharlse Kimmell. NOVember 4,1868 •otois Carrot street., Third mord, Alle gbenY, 20 by 100 feet, with hulloing, 101,100 Pnfllpp Ludwiek to Wm. Cf: Jitanasyl, t_2968: lot, Ross_tp... Contititdng 6 5er,e5.....5.1,218 Peter SoYder 10 Mary Josephine Pe•ret - Fetittiz try Ilida; lot in McKee's plan; Birmingham.. 20 by 80 eer, with bnildingss... 000 -John N. Purviancie to Henry Orlowski r, .Dco