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VaiPaticersliurg. Times is to be eon
gratulateti,upon the deelded iwproveznent
in its mechanical uppeet. Next to their
o*n industry, ' the'good. people of Park
ersburg Will owe. most to that of ,the
Times, arid shoUld upheld..their own
journal heartily; - •
: - .frEarciirrii Aim, already, being made to
Induct? the belief in the pOlic mind that
kinwintur. the boy-muiderer, is, in
sane and not accountable• for 'his terra
tie deed of blood. • Ilanging is an excel
lent remedy for the kind of insanity which
'miffed Mtn to commit the crime.
• Taz DEMOCRATIC majority in the Ohio
Legislature are agreed,ainong themselves,
24 keep political prejudices out of legis
lation so far as compatible with Invent
live duties to the party. The explain-
- tion for this-virtuous resolve is found in
• ' the rising influence of a non-partisan
'lobby, which tempts thesii politicians into
a more,inviting field. • • - -
Tun Ren,wev StSTEM of the Union
comprehends forty-two thousand miles of
_road actually built and in running order.
Of this aggtegate, Pennsylvania has 4,397
miles, or more than ten per cent., and
M.
largely , iavance of any sister State.
- The twenty' thousand six hundred. and
forty-five Miles or road now projected and
under cow:din:Lotion lie, for the most part,
in the new States and Tenitories.
Tint. Holm, discussing the army ap
propriation bill, is likely to amend it by
cutting down the figures as first reported
Tay some ten millions of dollars. With
,the experience of last year before mem
ben, it is to be presumed , thatAhe re
trenchments of this session will not need
tobe represented in next year's Deficien
cy bill. _ln recommending the ,reduction
of the army by-.ten thousand men, : the
Committee declare their opinion
that, in our new President, one man quite
__makes good this abatement of the rank
and file. e-
Tn . s. immunity from accident on the
littsburgh, Fort Wayne 44 Chicago Rail
"way has won for its management the
_highest praise and largest measure of con
lidenee of the traveling millions.' It ap
pears froin the statement of the Ohio
Commissioner of Railroads that the Com
pany has two hundred andfifty-one miles
of road in Ohio, and is literally an "ar
laialline," and fet out of the 1,310,000
passengers—no doubt 800,000 of whom
were in cars in Ohio—only one was killed
iuid two injured, all of whom by their
..own. fault. To this, be it added, only
one employee of the Company was
during the year.
rs
-eountryr is indebted to someone
the'o4nsolidation of the pending ap
,plieatiene for subsidy to Pacific railways
Unions gener a ] bill. • Whether this was
the work of the
,friends or of the oppo
nents lo the it is equally
to the public advantage,. that the broadest
range of the prOposed mortgage upon the
Treasury shciild -be plainly' declared at
ones._ This ,one bill givee t .the guanuitee
.f• the public faith to a . corporate
deii&friess'Of " one liundiidalict:fortylour
insUfonsvfiloikrrs; Tliat , is'efisilv under
_stood ; the bill makes palpable to all
comyrehensions. - The people will make
a iesne equally plain With that Senator
-;,or EeprEeeatative w ho gives his vote'for
;:,-,this InAlsiegard of their ploinly
aisapfirqval. .-,
THE Punric DEBT was increased dur
ing lafttuiryb the annicif $15,418;458.83,
that is the total of otttstanding obliga-
.tionswakimumed in thcstim $10,000,-
00b, and 4lie cash
,resources dimin
ished 'about ,10,10000. .This additional
debt is mainly with Out Interestott,unall
•. liart only bearing currency interest, and
41,090,000beingto railroad bonds." 7 The
' ' farther Issue geld-bearing per,
.. , cents., apart. from the Agway demand,
seems to have Ceised, that item 'Ebeling .
only a few thouiands Of , l increase overate
prei , toui They large amount,
$1,000,000; of debt bearing no interest.
and most of whicht awaits payment, and
the reduced balance of cash on hand, seem
to renders re&iction of the total-debt im
suniable during the current motth.
IMPORTANT MEEIING.
Mayor Buren elsewhere publishes a
call for aineeting o r citizens and others
interested in the uninterrupted navigation
of the Ohio river, to be held at the Mayor's
Office tomorrow at ten o'clock. The
Committee of citizens charged with bring.
ing the I subject of short span' bridge ob
structions on that river before the National
Legislature, will be present' at the meeting
to report _ the progress of their labors.
'Unless vigorous action on the part of
those_ interested in the Ohio is at once
taken, Congress will hardly take any
more notice of the matter _at the present
session, and if it is 'suffered to beliost
poned damages will be wrought in the
completion of short span bridges now
wader construction, Let there be lener
oni3 attendance, asthe free and unimpeded
navigation of that great artery, of trade is
of vast consequence to every person in
terested in the business prosperity of the
WHERWTIIIE MINCH IS,
We shall know something about the
new, Cabinet by the rs close of the , present
week. -At present, all speculations upon
its personnel are the merest conjecture.
Public opinion very generally agrees that
tlie..,War and Navy Departments will be
filled by General SCHOFIELD and Admi
ral Plums, respectively., Of course,
Gen. SHERMAN, at the army headquarters,
will also occupy a confidential. position.
But, with two of the seven Cabinet offi
ces thus disposed of, speculations as to
the remainder ,diverge widely, and the
names of the suppositious candidates are
The friends ''of every aspiring
politician in the land are industriously at
work to make public opinion in behalf of
their favorites, and against all rivals.
" 'SCHOFIELD is expected to retain the
War Office, becallse he - deservediienjoys
the' personal cenfidence of GRANT him
self, as well as the trusts of tbe new
President's Republican supporters. His
official career: has given entire satisfaction
to all parties, and not the remotest reason
could be offered to justify h change. Cer
tainly, it could not be urged upon the un
founded charge that, either as officer 'or
citizen, Gen. SCHOFIELD has been in any
way besmirched with the offensive stain- of-
Johnsonism. Moreover, It is considered
decisive as to these departments, that Gen.
GRANT his committed himself to the po
sition that the Naval and War Offices
should bellied from the professions most
•Amply interested in their efficient admin
istration. • •
The country wotild be less at a loss to
'anticipate the composition of the Cabinet
at large, if we could boast of any states
men pOseessing such marked capacity,
and enjoying so preeminently the public
confidence,, as to lead the general judg
ment directly from each, office to that
citizen who, of all others, should, - by the
common consent, be held the most fit for
the place. Time was, when the vacant
Treasury was given at once, with an uni
versal 'acquiescence, to HAMILTON or
4ALLATIN, and any other choice would
then have - astonished their countrymen.
But all that is clumged now. We have no
great financier of merit so conspicuous as
to command the general respect, and
whom = the Treasury would await as a
matter of course;. no publicist of such
eminent ability and wide experience, in
foreign and domestic affairs, that the
charge of our public diplomacy is as
signed to him by the unanimous voice of
his countrymen. Perhaps ADAMS or
MOTLEY would be more acceptable in the
State Department than any others of the
score who . have been named, but, what.
'ever the real merits of these gentlemen,
an expectant public eye has not yet sin
gled them out to this end. '
The field of American politics swarms
with public men of insatiable ambition,
supported by barely moderate capacities,
but inflamed by the inexplicable good for
tune which has throWn them just now
into the lead in National affairs. There
are two score of great men In the Halls of
Congress to-day, who, instead of them
selves wondering how they got there, or
of appreciating the dazed, surprise of a
country which understands the mystery
no better, look , upon the lucky accidents
of local politics as the infallible proofs of
their own vast abilities, and `aspire to
still more influential stations. In or out
of Congress, the two parties which divid-
ed last year's popular vote might be, raked
with a fine comb,. to and a scant dozep of
thoroughly bred and altogether capable
statesmen. Of all that clamorous mob of
mit - self-constituted leaders, how few can
_tracea hrilliant public record back to pe
riods anterior to the - - Rebellion!' The
civil contmotiona-andlthe fearful struggle
of 1861-'B5 threw a froth to the top which
subsides very slowly; but, lei us be thank
ful for it!•very surely,, - while the substan,
tial -merit which long years of peace had
witnessed, or which, here ,and there, the
Rebellion itself had evolved, will be more
and inerePre4minettily displayed, as the
• kileat tide of national affairs regains- the
old and peaoeful channel
iiiniself a Woriderflil exceUtion from
such criticism, General Guam has exhibit
ed, in the brief,bout eventful . years which
hive sufficed to-convince the world of his
extrordinary Sumas for great affairs, an
aOrring , Teuetration and accuracy of
judgment in his SeleCtion of the right
men to co-okrate with him and to ex
ecute his puiptisifis.' In the field, the Gen
eral-neverinade a mistake in that direc
tion; in the. War Office and at heaciguar-'
ters, the public voice has given a unani
mous Rprpv,c4 to his judgment in every
i t
case. ame b u one unworthy
officer,
military or civil, who has enjoyed and
PITISBURGEL- 'GAZETTE : - TUESDAY; -FEBRUARY 9; 1869.
abused the confidence of our new Presi
dent!. You would seek in vain for the Ex
ception, in the records of the past eight
years. We can safely rely, then, in this
matter of the Cabinet, as in that of his
entire administration, upon the prudence
of a man who has yet to make his first
blunder, and upon that discriminating
sagacity which never yet mistook a fic
tion of any, sort for a fact. We may de
pend, therefore, upon • his doing always
the best that is possible under the circum
stances, and with the material at his com
mand.
lAN ADMIRABLE SPECTACLE.
' Less than four weeks remain for ; the
present session of Congress, which began
two months since. Convening close upon
the heels of an election of great interest,
and - expected, as• it was, to face many
prominently offensive features in the pub
lic situation, this o:ingress has earned,
by its forbearing magnanimity, good
opinions in the most unexpected quarters.
The friends of free trade and European
industry discover that, in expecting the
adoption by this Congress of any policy
for the more perfect protection of Amen
can labor, they were needlessly alarmed.
• A political party, which has so far
thriven by illegal practices as to owe its
very existence to-day to its traditional
frauds upon the suffrage, was, about the
beginning of December, justly apprehen
sive that Congress would weakly yield to
the tide of popular indignation, and do
something with the naturalization laws—
which would impair the immemorial
Democratic privilege of converting . raw
foreigners, less than ninety days from their
native land, into good and lawful voters
through the corrupt, connivance of the
State and Federal Courts. But Congresa
shows itself equal to the situation, and the
Democracy grateftelly appreciate the gen
erosity which declines to rob even an
enemy of his time-honored rights.
The old rebel aristocracy of Virginia,
the Ku-Klux assassins of the South-west,
the defiant traitors of Georgia and Louisi
ana,, and a hundred thousand malting
traitors in Texas very foolishly gave
themselves up to a panic last November,
under the threat, from some inconsider
ate quarter, that the ensuing Congress
would meet the loyal sentiment of the
nation by enacting suitable remedies for
the mischiefs which made half the South
ern States uninhabitable by known sup
porters of the Federal authority. Here,
again, our Congress dares to be self-deny
ing, and not yet by one single act, or by
one solitary vote, attests its sympathy
with a sentiment so shockingly vindictive
as to demand the safety of the innocent,
in the punishment or the repression of
the guilty.
We might thus multiply the proofs
which have won, for the closing session
of the XLth Congress, the grateful plaud
its of every enemy, in this land, to home
Industry, to a pure suffrage, to the su
premacy of Federal law over rebdl oppo
sition, or even to the bare security of the
citizen in his property, liberty or life.
We might even add that the same Con
gressional forbearance has given the live-
Hest satisfaction to more than one ad
miring and much-profited people of Eu
rope.
We don't like to be premature in our
congratulations, but, as it looks now, we
may be reasonably safe in promising to
all of these good friends (over the left) of
ours, foreign and domestic, that the XLth
Congress will fight it out, on this line of
self-sacrificing and hiuh•toned magna-
nimity, if it takes all the small residue of
the session. There may be mach harsh
talk, from a few rash, hot-headed, incon
siderate members, bat there really does
not appear to be the faintest shadow of
any dangei, that the majority will consent
to any such invidious legislation as shall
justify the apprehensions of December,
or dash the hopes of February.
COUNTING OUT
The two Houses of Congress meet in the
Representatives' Hall at 1 P. it. to-mor
row, to count the Electoral votes of 1808.
The ceremony will be brief aid formal,
unless exception be taken to the count of
the votes from Georgia. and 1.0111E118138.
But it is hardly possible that the Georgia
vote, at least, will be canvassed. Senators
who deny, and justly, the title of that
Statecto a voice in their body, will stuLify
themselves in according sovereign rights
as a'State to her in any capacity. The
occasion will be scarcely compatible with
a prolonged discussion on that'point; and
as a majority., Of the House are, clearly
with the Senate in the opinion, we pre
sume, thin the votes -claimed for Georgia
will be withheld from the tellers. As for
Unit:data, her vote'is no more :likely to
be excluded than that of New York; the
certified 'majority ih each case is undoubt
edly fictitious, but no suitable measures
have been taken tiptesent the evidence
adequately impeaching the popular au
thority behind the respective Electoral
Colleges, and the Joint Convention may,
therefore, be expected to waive the ques
tion in both cases.
After the votes are canted and the re
sults'annoUnced by -the presiding officers'
order will be taken for the notification to
the President and the Vice President
elect, and with that the busiross of the
day will close. With that official notifi
cation, probably on Thursday, will fol
low an early disclosure of the new Presi
dent's selections for the various Depart'
ments. - With the elose of all the electoral,,
preliminaries, and not before, will prop
erly come the first of his official declara
tions.
SPAIN, CUBA AND SLAVERY.
The Spanish Cortes. or Congress,
meets on the 11th, Thursday next, and
will consider the new Constitution which
the Provisional Government are ready
to submit. This instrument will c.,ntain
a clause abolishing human slavery
throughout the Spanish possessions. That
article will be ratified by an almost unan
imous vote.
The result has been clearly foreseen by
the Cuban insurgent slaveholders, who
are fighting not for liberty, but against it,
not against Spain, but against the Span
ish abolition of this peculiar institution of
their island, for Cuban independence
with slavery preserved, and not for the
annexation to that Republic whose exam
ple, of Liberty for all men, Spain now
follows. The insurrection still keeps its
head, but must eventually yield to the
Spanish authority, and with that submiss
ion the end of Cuban slavery is written.
Only Portugal and Brazil will then re
main, to uphold that accursed standard of
barbarism and cruelty. Those govern
ments also must speedily yield to the ha
perative sentiment of Christendom, so that
.the day is not far off when the personal
liberty of man.. of every race and birth,
shall be recognized by civilization all over
the globe.
Washington Items.
The Reconstruction Committee having
examined ex-Governor Brown and, other
persons from Mississippi, who called to
be heard in their case, will make their
report on Wedneday. It is understood
there will be two reports, the majority
being against the admission of the State
with the present constitution. Judge
Bingham and some other members of the
Committee will make a minority report
in favor of her admission, with certain
restrictions which the Legislature Is to
carry out:before she will be admitted.
The last meeting of the Committee on .
the Georgia case will also be held to
morrow. It is expected a resolution will
be presented by the Committee, declaring
that as Georgia has not been reconstruc
ted under the law of Congress, she is not
entitled to representation in the House.
The manner of reorganizing the State
will be left for the action of the next
Congress.
For some time the House Comniittee on
the revision of the laws have been
preparing a bill to amend the naturaliza
tion laws of the United . States, Two bills
on the subject have been prepared, the
principal point of difference being that in
one bill it is proposed that the subject of
naturalization shall be left in the United
States Corrts, while in the other it is pro
posed to place the matter with the highest
District Courts In the States, whether
these be United States Courts or other
wise. It is probably the leading•features
of these will be incorporated in a new bill
to be hereafter drawn by the Committee,
and the members expect to get some
measure through during the present Con
gress. _
The Committee of the Senate on Post•
Offices and Roads have not as yet agreed
on any report whatever on the - Enbject of
the telegraph; and have not even come to
any conclusion as to the general policy of
Mr. Hubbard's bill.
The atilltary 8111.
It is stated that the details of the pro
posed bill for the reduction of the army,
agreed on by the House Military Commit
tee, is as follows: First, consolidate quar
termaster, commissary and pay depart
ments Into one, the department to be
called Department of Supply. Second,
consolidate the ordnance and artillery in
to one corps. Third, reduce the number
of-infantry regiments from forty-five to
thirty. Fourth, no - more Brigadier Gen
erals of the line to be appointed beyond
the present number, thus abolishing two
commissions now vacant. Fifth, no more
Brigadier Genervls to be appointed on
staff, except chief of supply._department.
Sixth, to abolish regimental commissaries
of subsistence for cavalry.' Seventh, re
duce the number of non-commissioned
officers in each regiment. Eighth, abol
ish brevet ranks. Ninth, the term of
enlistment to be five years. Tenth, the
mode of reduction to be by absorption;
that is, in military phrase, by casualty,
expiration of term of enlistment, dis
charge, disability, dismissal, resignation,
&c. Eleventh, all staff departnients to be
reduced in the - number of their officers.
No new appointments to bo made - either
from West Point or civil life, until. this
reduction is atcomplished, which, it is
estimated, will require two years. The
number of officers thus cut off is about
slx hundred. The measure •is _ ;- pro
posed under a suspension of the rules, as
an amendment to the Army Appropria
tion Bill. •
The Acquisition of Cuba.
- The New York Berard argues that
from events transpiring in Cuba; a policy
of American intervention la iniperatively
forced upon the incomingiihninistration.
Spain should be Impressed with the-con
viction that she will not be permitted to
destroy an American community becanse
it refuses to be governed by her antiqua
ted notions of public policy. In adopting
this course, General Grant has the oppor
tunity to lay the corner stone of the com
ing Great American 'Party iti our natiOn
al politics on foundatiotts as broad' and
secure as were these laid by 'Jefferson
and Jackson. The tone and temper
of the people require such a party organ
ization which shall ignore old party Bugs,
and be free from old party' corruptions.
The circumstances of our public affairs,
both domestic and foreign, are favorable
to it, and General Grant himielf has the
prestige necessary for it successful ac
complishment. The initial ;step is in
'volved in the Cubati - question and General
Grant should be prepared to give it an
early and prompt rccognition.
Mn. Gttow's injuries by the , accident
on' the Lackawanna and Bloomsburg
Railroad were not of a serious character.
He was °nide way to his home in, Sus
quelmna county from Pnrrisburg,where
he had just attended a meeting of ,the
State Central Committee. The rear car
of the train was thrown doyin an em
bankment ten feet in height, and made a
complete revolution. The , stove broke
loose from its fastenings and setfire to the
car. Mr. Grow was at theitove; and had
a narroweseape frbin being fitapy burned.
None of the pissengerw.were seriously
injured. Mr. Grow's clothing was neatly
burned from his person.
A VERY LARGE and fashionable audi- -
dience was present at the opening of
Mr. Edwin Booth's theatre in New York
Wednesday evening. The play selected
was "Romeo and Juliet;" but before it
had commenced Mr. Booth made his ap
pearance before the audience, and in a
few well sele,cted remarks referred to the
calamity which nearly two years ago de
prived the community of his services,
and of his subsequent resolve to build a
theatre worthy of the metropolis and the
The play then proceeded. Of
course the inevitable watts attending a
first night,- marred in some measure the
beauty of the performance, but the gen
eral verdict seems to be one of success..
Mr. Booth divided the favor of the audi
ence with Mr. Edwin Adams, and both,
were called before the curtain. Miss
McVicker's Juliet was injured by timid
ity. She wore a white satin skirt, looped
with pearls, and cut pompadour, trimmed
with silver bullion fringe; a pearl neck
lace and a tiara, of diamonds, and her long
black hair flowing. pie scenery is de
scribed as absolutely perfect. Some fault
is found with the theatre itself, which,
"though a splendid triumph olupholstery
and mechanical contrivance, is not in any
high sense a work, of art.. The most gla
ring defect is a want of a lobbproom.
Tan temperance movement at Howell,
Mich., has engrossed the attention of the
most prominent men in the place.. In
compliance witti , a requgt of a committee
appointed for the purpose, the saloons
have been nominally closed, but are Still
accessible by the back doors. To remedy
this at the last public meeting an organi
zation was formed to' be known as the
"Citizens' Temperance Society." A
stock company was formed to defray the
expenses of prosecution, and shares taken
at $25 each to the amount of $2,025, two
per cent. down, and the remainder to be
paid if needed!
Tan Crown-Prince of Prussia intends
to sell his model farm. The experiment
did not prove successful. Neither the
Prince nor his wife care much for life In
the country; and as the model farm cost
the Prince iibotit fifty thousand dollars a
year, with very unsatisfactory returns,
hewishes to get rid of it.
NEW YORK CITY.
Gen. Grant—Burnazde Expedition Seel
ety—leemales to be Employed as Com.
poritors—Wtdoky Fraua Cases—The
Ice Supply. •
[By Telegraph to the Pittsburgh Gazette.,
Naw YORK, February 8, 1869.
General Grant, after driving to 'the
Park and visiting the Union League
rooms, received the Republican General
Committee this afternoon at the Fifth
Avenue Hotel. There was no speech
making, and after the members of the
Committee had been fofthally intro
ducedand had shaken bands with the
General the latter withdrew.
• -The military and naval officers of Gen.
Burnside's North Carolina expedition
met nere at noon and organized perma
nently the "Society of the Burnside Ex
pedition and Ninth Army Corps."
General Burnside was chosen President,
General J. G. Parke Vice President,
General Louis Richmond Secretary, and
General D. R. Lamed Treasurer. On
motion of General Burnside all honor
ably discharged soldiers and sailors of
the expedition were admitted to mem
bership. The first annual dinner of the
Society took place at the Fifth Avenue
Hotel to•night. Among the officers pres
ent were Major General John G. Foster,
of the regular army, and Generals. Cox,
Wilcox, Griffin and Hartranft.
The employing printers held a meeting
to-day and resolved to continue resist
ance to the strike of the book printers
ann.empioy fbinales as compositors.
Iti the United States. Circuit Court to
day, Watson and Crary, defendants in a
whisky case, did not appear and their
bonds were declared forfeited and war
rants issued for their arrest. Ex-Collect
or Callaghan's case, with others, were
postponed.
A movement is on foot in this city to
unite,.. the various ' French societies .
throughout the United States and Can.
ada.
The brig Brillant, from Cape Fear riv
er with rosin and turpentine, was lost in
a storm January 28th. The second mate,
Asa Bryant, was drowned and the Cap
tain and crew were rescued from the
wreck by the steamship Europa and
brought to this port;
Contrary to the general belief a full ice
crop has already been gathered and at
less expense than last year, and the sup
ply for Now York will be abundant next
summer.
Two men committed a bold robbery at
half past seven o'clock this evening in
Benedict's jewelry store, 691 Broadway.
One smashed a plate glass window and
the other seized a tray of diamond rings
valued at 810,000. The rings were scat
tered, but the robbers escaped with 81,900
worth.
James 'tallent, one' f the party in cus
tody on suspicion of having murdered
Mr. Rogers, was this evening discharged
on his own recognizance.
Lower Callibrnia Advlees—Arrest . of
Bandits—Damage and Loss of Life by
bloods.
(By Telegraph to the Pittsburgh Gasette.l
Sax Fanxcisco, February B.—The
steamer John; L. Stephens, from Mazat
lan, has arrived with advioes to January
31st, and bringing one hundred and
twenty - 411 , e thousand Mexican dollars.
General Gutierrez, the bandit,- has
beep captured and was imprisoned - at
Durange.awalting trial fora number of
highway robberies. Two officers, sup
posed to be his aceoin . pllces, were arrested
at Mazatlan and 119,00 dollars in coin
and a quantity of valuable Jewelry. re
covered. A conspiracy to rob.the mint
at ISlazitlan, containing 11200,000, was
frustrated by,the atithoritiea. . ,
Heavy rains had prevailed throughout
the State of. Atmore. , The rivers over
flowed, iminditing,the country, destrOy
ing several villages entirely and exten
sively damaging many. other.s The loss
of life is not knowk.but it feared it is
great. Of one family not a seal escaped.
The'people sought high land' and tree
tops, whence they were rescued by boats.
A fund for the immediate relief of the
sutfetelri is being raised. Great suffering
must result to the poorer classes on:ac
count of the destriittien of new crops.
Son Francisco Nevin.
City Telegraph to the Plttaburgh eillette.3
SAN , FRANculoo, February 6.—The
steamer Golden Age. for Panama, sailed
toilay, with seven hundred and:thirty
nine thousand dollars in treasure—New
York one , hundred thousand, England
sin hundred and nineteen thousand, and
Panama twenty thousind,
Hong Kee, a Chins Man, victimized
several San Francisco merchants to the
e.xtend ofeigtiteen thousand dollars, and
sailed for Ctilos on - Thursday's steamer.
T q le g rains have been sent to Hoeg Kong
via'Ceylon to arrest him and recover the
goods.
The revenue steamer •Wayatida, from
Sitka, has arrived.
BRIEF.TELEGIUMS.
-Ex Gov. Hubbarcii - of Maine, died in
his office, at Hallowell, on Saturday.
• —Rev. Father Peters, pastor of Trinity
Church, in Detroit, Michigan, died Satur
day morning of Small pox.
—Mr. mno. A. Whittal, a prominent res
ident of Waterbury, Conn., and manager
of Great Brook i Woolen Company, died
svddenlyin the First Congregational
Church; Sdinday afternoon, froina stroke
of apoplexy. •
—The contract' for completing the gig)
in the Memphis and Little Rock Rail
road has been awarded to Sarvin &
Sickles', of New York, who obligate,
themselves to complete it by the first et
next February.
—Senator Fuller is prepared to intro
duce another railroad restriction bill in
the Illinois Legislature thst will be
equally binding upon railroads, and as
sert the power of the State to regulate
and control tariff rate&
—The excitement over the sudden
death of cattle at Fishkill Plains, N. Y.,
has subsided. The four that died were
found by a stream of water, having been
poisoned. The remainder of Mr. Haight's
cattle are , in a healthy condition.
—Advices from Bolivia state that a seri
ous revolution had broken out, add
though the revolutionists had been twit°
defeated by the government forces, they
were daily receiving reinforcements
and the final result was considered doubt
ful.
—Two sudden deaths occurred on Sat
urday evening in Chicago. P. C. Far
rell, a olerk iu the Galena Division of the
Northwestern Railroad Company's offiee,
died of apoplexy, and Mrs. James C.
Frazer, who lived at No. 81 East White
street, died of palpitation of the heart. I
—lt has been ascertained, in the inves
tigation now, progressing, that a large
banking house in Wall street, New York,
which has branch houses in St. Louis
and Philadelphia, has been using a spe
cific capital in its business without malt
', ngany return or paying taxes thereoP.
—The Memphis Avalaitche publishati, a
letter from Major General W. S. Harney,
stating Major_ St. George Barney, re
cently shot by_ the Arkansas militia, was
an adopted son: of his, and that his re
mains, which were buried here, will
.lie
taken to Alexandria, Va., his natiye
place, for interment
—The large whisky distillery of J. N.
Fowler, of Cincinnati, was taken posiiess
ion of by United States Collector Mc-
Goarty on Friday last, together with spir
its and beer in process of manufacture,
amounting in the aggregate to about
eight hundred barrels, for alleged viola
tion of the Internal Revenue law. _
—By an accident to the eastern bound
passeugertrain on the Missouri and Pa
cific Railroad, on Saturday night last, at
Smithton, Charles Brownell, the -engi
neer, was fatally injured, and Henry
Buckhart, the fireman, and another man
on the locomotive, seriously • injured.
The accident was caused by a switch haV
ing been left open.
.
—The House of the Alab3ma Legisla
ture have adopted a resolution to submit
tho question of the eligibility of coloied
membersto the Court, but a bill Instruct
ing the Judiciary Committee to bring the
matter before the Court -immediately
was voted down, as algo was a motion
pledging the lionor of the House to abide
by the decision of the Court.. p
-;-A letter from Palmyra, in the State of
Cauca, Republic of Colombia, says the
Rag of the American Consulate was
hauled down and torn to pieces by the
natives, and that previous thereto tt-na
tive attempted Consul Elder's life. He
was knocked down by the Consul and
killed, and the Consul was confined in a
filthy dungeon awaiting a second trial,
having been once acquitted.
—The Governor and Legislature of
Nevada are at loggerheads. The Gov
ernor vetoed the Legislative fund bill.
The Senate unanimously passed the bill
ever the veto, and there was only one
dissenting vote in the House. The Gov
ernor and Attorney General are about
procuring an order from the Court re
straining the Comptroller from paying
warrants. The Governor Is threatened
with impeachment in his abuse ~o f the
veto power.
—Thomas Allen, President of the Iron
Mountain Railroad, has presented a me
morial to the Missouri Legislature, show
ing that he sustained damage to the ag
gregate amount of 11.316,724, growing
out of the seizure of that road by Gov.
Fletcher. Of that amount the sum of
8518,482 grew out of the suit brought by
the Attorney General, and the balance of
8800,242 from the seizure of the road by
Governor Fletcher, for which the mem
oralist asks to be reimbursed by the
State.
WRY IS IT
That - the feeble totter, with uncertain steps,
over the face of the earth, in danger every daT
of falling victims to the morbid influences by
which we all are surrounded, when a tested and
,proven vegetable tonic, capable of endowing
them with the vigor they need, le procurable in
every city, town and settlement? It might
reasonably be thought that after twelve years' ,
Cgs erienee which the world has be , . of 110eTET
TER'S HITTERS, ALL would ke ow that its effect.
is to prevent disease.
At this season. tbe atmoapnere is surcharged
with the eeeds, Intermittenti, rembtents, rhea
tatithin, palmonary disorders, bilious complaints
and toe like. Persons whoee nervous systems are
relaxed, are the first to succumb TO these distem.
Dec.. Hraee up the phys.cat energies,. then, with
this potential vegetable tonic. It Is the most
powerful recut - erant welch the bot'.nic kingdom
has ever yielded to path nt research and expt ri
ne nt. TRY IT. Tee blindest oiscipl, of tne old
medical dogmas will at least *omit that a tonic
and alterative, compound d of &ppm , ed herbs,
roots and barks; can do no - harm. while the testi
men), of thousandlinvites a trial of its virtues.
as
is the thing most deeded in these cases,
as wells+ In clyspe II a and nervous affectatious,
anti Miff VETTER'S BITTERS is the safest,
surest and moat wholesome strengthening prep
nration.that human skill 'has yet concocted. Se
atonic, it isitoth mild Ind agreeable to the taste,
sad stimulating in its action - upon the system.
Hundreds of Wiliam:et have abandoned all the
(melted ieceipts, and prescribed this barmleas
tonic' as a preventive and cure for all cs.es et
ttbllls and Vever.
THE SOUND OF TELE LUNGS.
'One of the most accurate ways of determining
whetherthe lungs are inahealthy or diseased via-
Alden. la biMeana oflistening to the.respiration.
To those experienced in thli practice it beoiiine*
as plidn &flint:lei to the, state of the lungs. and la
as well known to the operator iss are the voice. of
w e most intimate aixtuatutance a. The belief that
long atandltig.coughs, and diseases of the hinge
upon which they, are depe.ndent, are incurable.
are fastheeotatrut obsolete. One great'advantage
to be gained from Ala iiii,fince In monies], kuowl
edge bi e earlier, apidication of those who be-
COIIIO afflicted With those dlseaSea II some one
competent to afford relief. The error which hid
taken..hold of ,the public mind in regard to the
curabilityof consumption, or rather nott-curnbll
ity, is fast becoming obllteisted. 'and It Is well
that It should be so, not lbw persons should lea°
that salutary rear which would make them anplp
for a timely remedy, but that all might tie India
,
oed to use remedies while there 1a any hope.. It;Is
the delay in:. these eases that , dlls us with ap
torehension and alarm, for If every one would
make timely application of DR. HEYl3glt.'l3
LUNG ODRA in the beginning of scold or cough;
few mines would go so far as to become tiremedl4-
.
ble.
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