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WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 10,1869
WE PRINT on the triad pages of
£hie morning's GAZETTE—Sexond page:
Poetry, "Under the Beautifuil, Moon,"
Ephemeris, Selections. Third and Sixth
pages: Financial, Commercial, Market
and Imports, River NMI. &WA page:
Local News, Clippings, Amusement
11. 8. BONDS at Frankfort, 84
PETROLEUM at Antwerp, 58a39f.
GOLD closed in New York yesterday
at 135:
TuE death of JMIEB T. BB.ADY, one
of the most eminent of AMeriC4ll law
yers is announced in our dispatches this
morning. He died suddenly..
IT is pleasant to learn, from Harris
burg, that Senator LOWRY, of the Erie
District, has so fully recovered from a,re
centillness as to: be able to resume his
official duties.
WB have received various communica
tions relative to the robbing of the. St.
Paula' Orphan Asylum of an appropria
tion made by the State Legislature last
year. We have never made any charges,
ef"and those who desire the information
should look up the records themselves.
TEE HOUSE will take up, to-day or to
mdr,tow, the financial bill from the Ways
and Means Committee. • A. dispatch says..
"Many of the western members oppose
anything looking to an early resumption,
but two of the strongest friends of specie
payments and national honor on the bond
question come from Ohio, Sca:Excs and
GARFIELD."
•
TEE King of Greece stakes his crown
upon the submission of„his people to the
advice given by the Conference of. Paris,
.for the adjustment of the difficulties with
Turkey. Whether, therefore, the minis
terial crisis is to be supported by the voice
of-the nation, presents s domestic ques
tion of more interest to the Greeks than
even a Turkish war. •
\ VW TEE voluntary retirement of General
Dix from the French mission is announc
ed as a probable event, for the coming
mwith. The, statement will ' naturally
lead public expectation to assign to him
a place in 'the new Cabinet. It is not,
however, improbable that General Dix
'himself contemplates his own final with
drawal froth:all public service•
Tuz bill incorporating the East End
Gas Company, whiCh was before Conn
cils a few days ago, was introduced yes
terday in the State Senate by Maj. ER
=TT. It would be well for the Legisla
ture to strike out the provision allowing
the new Company to connect their pipes
with those of the Pittsburgh Gas Com
pany. So guarded the bill would be un
objeetionable.
'rHE present Congress takes no deci
sive action upon the Federal relations of
'Virginia, Georgia or 'Mississippi, the
questions which have arisen will be made
prominent in the Congress - to follow.
The right of Georgia to representation in
the House will come up in the organiza
tion of that body, when her new mem
bers present their credentials. Nor will
the House be likely to embarrass itself by
a premature decision.
i THE PUBLIC itzvEmnr. of, Great Britain
in 1868, was £71,674,000, or say $373,-
000,000
in gold. The expenditures, for
the same period, were £60,889,000, or
i. 5363,000,000, 'either of the totals being
i
somewhat less than the corresponding
'• items of the. American budget. Interest
k - ---
), to the amount of $139,000,000 was paid
on the British public debt.:which is aboUt
t
the same amount as their trans-Atlantic
cousins disburse in the same direction.
Of the entire expenses of the y
~e ar,
land paid $276,640,000, 0r.74 per cent.
items, :
for these three of interest, army
•• and navy, leaving but 26 per cent. for all
;.
} other public expenditures. ` The annual
taxation now averages $11.76 per head of
A .!
the entire population of the United 'Sing
, dom.
f.
AFTER a prolonged and exciting ses
sion of the Senate, which Must ha ti ve s se
riously taxed the enduring qualie
the Senators, the proposed amendments
to the Constitution, providing for impar
tial suffrage, were 'disposed of by substi
tuting what may be deemed much clearer
substitutes. The amendments proposed
ere original with the Senate, differing
mateindly, with those emanating in
the Settee, and those reported from
the Judiciary Committee. Article
'ICV. takes from the State -Legisla
tures the authority of enforcing con
ditional suffrage, allowing no
discrim-
ination on account of race, color, nativ
ity, property, education, or creed, and is
in- every sense equivalent to i partial
and utiversal suffrage for all m ac adults.
Article XVI. deprives State Legislatures
of the privilege of designating the man
ner of choosing Presidential electors, and
confines it to the people thereof qualified
to vote for Representatives in Congress—
a very important change.
It is not improbable that the House
will recede from iti original action and
concur in that of the Senate, and that the
proposed amendraets will ultimately be
submitted to the respective Stabes of the
Union for, adoptionlor rejeEtio4.
SUBSIDIZING CORPORATIoNS.
So far Congress has made land grants
to aid in the construction of railways, to
the amount of 184,812,000 acres; in canal
building, 189,219,900 acres ; total, 884,-
031,900 acres. This is equal to the com
bined area of all New England, New
York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Ohio,
Delaware, Maryland, Virginia and one
half of Indiana. In addition, it has
granted large amounts of government
bonds, all of which the Treasury will
have to redeem.
There Eve now before the Senate forty
one
bills giving farther aid to railway
companies. These bills call for 250,000,-
000 more acres of land, and subsidies or
interest on bonds equal to $400000,0 00 .
The House has before it thitty-seven
other bills for like purposes, covering
about the same amounts.
The grant to the - Union Pacific Rail
road Company has produced this pres
sure. That Company, in addition to
some 75,000,000 acres of land, receives
government bonds enough, with its own
first mortgage bonds, to build the whole
road, and have over $17,000,00 0 left over,
without the stockholders paying in a dol
lar of their own money. In addition to
this princely sum, they will ultimately
realize at least $150,000,0 00 from the sale
of lands, making several millions of dol
lars clear gain to each stockholder. No
' wonder there are now plenty of gentle
men anxious to develop the resources of
the country, by buil4ing railroads on the
same, or on similar conditions.
None but idiots can be made to believe
'that Congressmen will vote the lands and
bonds desired without personally sharing
in the plunder. And, mark 1 when it
comes to this sort of robbery, political
distinctions are obliterated. Let the peo
ple keep watch of the yeas and nays on
these bills.
"CONSTRUCTIVE," INJUSTICE.
We must Withhold our acquiescence in
the validity of the objections made by our
correspondent e"Lex," to the demand
from the recent Editorial Convention at
Harrisburg, for such a revision of the
law of libel as would admit the truth of
the alleged • libellous matter in evidence
upon the resulting prosecutions.
But we concur heartily in the sugges
tion which "Lex" urges with so much
force, that the doctrine of "constructive
malice," as now held in the Courts of
Pennsylvania, should be abrogated forth
with. The iniquitous effect of this doc
trine could not be more clearly illustrated
to the general comprehension, than by the
point which our correspondent so well
puts—that, as the law now stands, it is
much more desirable, for one who is
really innocent of a wicked purpose in
either case, to be put upon his defence on
a charge of murder than for the publi
cation of libelous words. The proof
essential to his acquittal received in
the graver proceeding and is
in ecei
the other
'absolutely debarred. In effect, the law
of this Commonwealth to-day excuses
from its last penalty the murderer,
against whom it cannot prove, by clear
evidence of fact, the malicious intent to
take life, but excludes the really innocent
assailant of mere reputation from what is
usually the-only avenue to his own vindi- .
cation. Is this inconsistency beettuse
the Commonwealth holds blood of so
much less value than reputation, that she
pities the homicide while she crucifies the
slanderer? .
As between the respective suggestions
of our correspondent and of the Editorial
Convention, we- shall agree with "Lex"
that the point which he has made is of
the more, material consequence, for the
protection of journalism. What the press
needs is not an exemption from the just
penalties which shotlid follow the scanda
lous abuse of types, in intended assaults
upon personal character, but the fair and
.unimpeded right to print the current news
without legal molestation therefor, except
under those liabilities which flow from uni
versally accepted legal principles. Observe
that, in the ordinary experience of jour
nalism, for one, prosecution based upon a
deliberatneditorial outrage upon private
reputation, there constantly eists the li
ability under our present laws, x to a dozen
indictments at the ins ce of -individuals
whose names appear in the reports of
local news. As "Lex" says, in these
1 1 cases, the reporter, the editor and the pub
lisher are alike absolutely free from any
malicious design, in gathering up the talk
and the daily events of the town, for the in
formation of their readers. They announce
that A whips his wife, that B is frequently a
drunkard, or C. is a defaulter to his em
ployeis, because ‘ the fact in each case has
become notorious, or_even perhaps has
been shown in the Courts. All lo cal mat
.
ters of this sort are picked up by the re
porter, because the public appetite expects
it, and thc public curiosity has already
anticipated it. The good journalist is ever
cautious not to transgress the line, at best
a shadowy one, which divides the state
ment of facts from the inferential disclo-
. _
PITTSBURGH GAZETTE : WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1869
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sure of opinions, yet, with the greatest
care, he incurs, every month, more or
less liability, under our laws, to vindic
tive prosecutions by rogues whose wits
are engrossed in keeping out of prison,
or by those citizens who have beeh un
justly suspected, and who, declining
every othtr honorable reparation, see a
chance to get a...salve in greenbacks for
their wounded honor. Protect the jour
nalist in the duty of discreetly recording
current events; at least give him as good
a chance as you would a homicide, for
whom the deliberate guilty intent is not
shown, and make him smart as much as
you please for publications which display
a guilty animus.
No desire has been more universally
expressed in educational circles than to
have established in this corrmunity a
polytechnic school, 'whereat our youth
and young men might acquire a thorough
knowledge of and acquaintance with the
useful arts and sciences. All could fully
realize the want of such a school, but in- ,
stead of moving practically towards ac•N
complishing its establishment, the larger l / 4 1
number of advocates satisfied themselves
in theorizing on the good results which
might confidently be expected to flow
therefrom in the high development of the 1 1
rising generation. A few gentlemen,
however, had the subject closer to
their hearts, and labored zealously .
to build up and sustain a school
where many branches of science are
taught by instructors conspicuous for
ability and attainments; and, as the result
of their faithful labors jin that direction,
we have to-day, in the WESTERN UNI
TERSITY, a polytechnic school which will
more thin favorably compare with any
similar institution of the character in the
country. Unless we are sadly mistaken
in the progressive spirit of our people,
their exertions will be heartily apprecia
ted and rewarded by an increased popu
larity and a much larger patronage for
the University.
In 1866 Congress very wisely passed
an act authorizing the President to de
tail from out the Regular Army, officers
to the number of twenty, one to be ap
portioned to each institution of learning
complying with certain imposed condi
tions, who shall teach the military
sciences. The same act provided also for
the furnishing of arms and equipments
to the colleges for use in disciplining the
pupils in military tactics. The latter pro-.
vision was complied with some time ago
with the Western University, and to-day
we have to announce, on reliable author
ity, that Major W. J. L. NICODEMUS, a
gentleman of much learning and one
who stands high in the estimation of his
fellow-officers, has been detailed to ac
cept the chair of Military Sciences, Min
ing and Engineering in that institution.
Cheerful testimony as to his worth, intel
ligence and attainments was borne by no
less authorities than Generals CANBY,
WALLACE, H./amour, F.EIN, Farman,
Moonugap and WEST. A graduate of
West Point with high honors, a soldier
with creditable record and agentleman
of unblemished public and private repu
tation, he will prove a very decided ac
quisitionto the faculty of our prided home
institution, and complete the polytechnic
department, which now stands organized
as follows :
GEORGE WOODi, Z. L D., President.
B. C. JittsoN, M. D, Professor of
Chemistry and Natural History.
M. 8. - Goss, A. M., Professor of Mathe
matics.
L. P. LANGLEY, Professor of Astron
omy and Physics.
Maj. W. J. L. NICODEMIIB, Professor
of Military Sciences, Mining arid Engi
neering.
• Thus without the knowledge or assist
ance of our citizens, with few honorable
exceptions, there has been established,
here in our midst a polytechnic school,
which should commandthe encourage-1
meat and support of all spirited persons,
arid we dare. say the faculty above an
nounced cannot be surpassed in point of
merit or high order of qualification, by
that of any contemporary institution in
this country. We are proud of the
Western University, and trust our people
charged with:the education of youths will
not fail to award it preference in the be
stowal of their patronage, for no where
else can a more complete and thorough
education be obtained.
POLYTECHNIC SCHOOL.
PACIFIC RAILROADS.
EDITORS OF TUB GAZETTE--GERTLE
mEm: I cannot ampatinse with you in
your undiscriminating opposition tecany
further aid on the part of the Govern
ment to the construction of railroads in
the direction of the Pacific; neither been
I
join in the hue and cry which had been
raised through the press of our principal
northern cities against the men who are
engaged in these great enterprises as
swindlers and plunderers; nor can I see
that the policy of granting aid bg grants
of lands and other subsidies to thes to
works is unwise, provided the interess
of the government are guarded as they
ought to be and an be.rs
I freely grant that it was reckless and
unwise to the last degree as was done by
the act
t ot Congress of 1862, to vote all at
once to the companies of the Union Pa
cific Railroad (the Omeha road,) and the
Central Pacific—the first of which makes
the eastern part and the second the west
ern part of the same great line--enormons
subsidies in lands and bonds for the entire
length of their respective lines, and they
give them authority to issue first mortgage
bonds to an amount equal to the bonds
given by the government. To suffer the
government bonds then granted, amount
ing to 16,000, 22,000 and 48,000 r dollars
per mile, according to the nature of the
ground traversed, and then to legalize the
issue of a corresponding amount of first
mortgage bonds, leavihg to the govern
ment hothing but a second mortgage upon
the4oad and its equipments as security
for its claim, was one of the maddest
things that ever was done. No wonder
that the few fortunate individuals who
compose those two companies have be
come millionaires; for since their roads
have got into the mountains they have
pocketed $96,000 for every mile of 'road
they have made.
If the holders of these first mortgage
bonds can manage to so influence the
country as to stop all rival enterprises,
and thus make that line of road a grand
monopoly, they may reasonably hope to
maintain the value of ill* bonds; not
otherwise. The interest on these first
mortgage bonds must first be paid before
the government can put in its claim for a
dollar on the bonds lidvanced, either in
terest or principal, except that it can and
does retain one half of the amoun terryged
by the road for carrying miliand
other stores, troops and mails. That is
all it can get until the interest on those
fifty millions of 'first mortgage bonds. is
provided for. It was a monstrous legis
lative blunder; for, in the way things are
fixed, the government need
. not hope s
of
for
a greater return for the fifty million
bonds advanced than what it can get out
of the half price retained on the carrying
of mails, military stores, Ltc.
Now the question arises: shall the gov
ernment refuse aid to every rival road, no
matter 'rivhat the security may be, and
thus give these companies and their bond
,holders a monopoly of the trade and
.travel between the Atlantic and Pacific
sides of the Continent? If that is to be the
policy, then these gentlemen have gained
&double advantage—they have amassed
enormous fortunes by buildiny the road,
and, if there is to be no competitor, they
can and will multiply these fortunes over,
and over again by operating the road; for
they can then dictate their own terms. •
The sooner that first mortgage bond
policy is abandoned the better; for it
leaves the proprietorship of the govern
ment in the roads constructed under it
not worth a straw. All it has for its sub
sidies, as before stated, is a second mort
gage. If the government furnishes the
means, in whole or in part, to construct
these transcontinental roads, surely it is
but right that its ownership and control
should be maintained at least on an equal
ity with the most favored parties. But
what is done cannot be undone. 'The
fifty millions of bonds, more or less, gran
ted to the two companies of which wo
have spoken, we may take it for
granted, are irretrievably, sunk, leaving
no interest of any value vesting in the
gove - rnment; nor will the government be
!any better off should the stoppage of all
rival enter Prises leave to that line a mo
nopoly of all the business. To do so
would be to surrender all people who
may have occasion to use tie
, the road to*
fleeced ad tibitim, and create a money
power within our midst so opulent that
even the government.of the nation would
be unable to grapple with or control it.
Congress sees this danger, and hence
the committee of the Senate have matured
a bill in which the interest of the govern
ment is made as secure as it is possible to
make it, the object of which is to creates
rival road to the Pacific, or two rival
roads, and thus prevent the creation of a
monopoly and a corrupting - pow, the
existence of which would be worse than
the loss of three timeslfitly millions of
dollars. The passage of that bill might
be bad for the holders of the first mort
gage bonds of which we have been speak
ing—indeed it might render them utterly
worthless; for let the Kansas road once
be built to the Paciticc and the Omaha
line, with its wretched country and tre
mendous snow drifts, cannot hope to
compete successfully with it.
How much of this present outcry to
stop all further work of this kind is trace
able to these Omaha corporators and
bondholders I cannot pretend to say.
Not all I know; but no small part of it
may be attributed to that interest. I have
seen elaborate articles in the papers of
the east and of the west in opposition to
any further government aid so outrage
ously intemperate that any discerning
reader could see that they were not the
utterances of pure patriotism.
I believe that roads judiciously located
across the continent, especially through
the immense mineral regions, will pay
when made; and I have heard the ques
tion asked, "If such roads are likely to
pay, why do not capitalists make them
without the aid of the government?" The
only answer to this is, that capitalists, in
jobs of such enormons magnitude, rea
sonable expect and require the coopera
tion of the entire nation. They are na
tional works; the objects to be achieved
are national; the territories to be reached
and wealth to be developed are national;
and therefore it is but reasonable and right
that the whole people, in their national
capacity, should participate in the work.
But I trust that there will be no more
thrusting in of a body of first-mortgage
bondholders between the nation and the
roads which it has been mainly instru
mental in creating. -
THE LAW OF LIBEL.
EDITORS GazETTE : The recent rest)•
lution of the Journalists' Convention.
asking that in libel suits the truth may be
given in evidence, shows that even a very
intelligent public body may mistake the
proper remedy for i an existing grievance.
The law asked for would be intolerable.
It would authorize the gratification of the
bitterest spite and malice with impunity,
and afford a rich harvest to the black
mailing fraternity. There are few men
or women who have not some old sore in
their private character which they don't
care to have exposed to public view. An
enemy taking advantage of this could
gratify his hate by having it published to
the world, either by hand bill or Such
sheets as would spring.up under the sys
tem. and if sued for libel, he would be
afforded the opportunity of adding insult
to injury, by showiug that what was pub
lished was true. Besides this, it would ,
add immensely to the time and.expenifttuf
trials. Not tone, would be regarded as'
a confeision that the libel was true; and
to sue would involve the truth or filially
of the charge. Hence, if adultery or
anteqinptial fornication bo the alleged
libel, it drags into court an investigation
of all the suspicious circumstances in
regard tci the rivate relations of ail the
families connected with it on either aide.
It would : involve the trial of the alleged
offense, as well as the trial of the libel
suits in every case.
The true remedy, and what ought to
be granted, would be the repeal of the
i z
law of constructive ali ea. Malice lean
essential element of libel, and every libel
must be charged in e indictmentu as hav
ing been done mall lonely; anduntil the
tyrants of England in ancient times, in-
vented the legal fiction of constructive
malice, this element of libel was a fact in
the case to be proved or disapproved, like
any ether essential fact. But by con
structive malice, it was found the con
sciences of jurors could be relieved of
passing on this fact; that by establishing
the rule that publication of a libel, in
itself, implied libel, and that this implicit.
tion could not be rebutted, convictions of
political offendep could be mblishe d ore lead as a ily
obtained, and so it was esta
principle of the common law.
Criminality is of the heart and will,
and where it does not actually exist
never ought to be. imputed by constuic
tion or legal fiction. All natural and
proper inferences ought to be drawn
from the evidence by the jury, and not
taken for granted under arbitrary or arti
ficial iules of construction. The rule is
more severe and unreasonable in libel
than in murder. In murder the accused
may show that it was unintentional or
accidental, but in libel the journalist may
be able to show that he was in Halifax, or
asleep, when the libellous matter got into
his paper through the inadvertence of an
innocentrePorter perhaps. But it is of
no avail; malice is imputed to him under
this arbitrary rule, and the jury is
instructed that, no matter how
nocent actually, yet he is legally guilty
of the alleged malice. Now this is wrong
and inconsistent. The law should be
so changed that the Judge could leave it
to the jury in all cases as an actual fact to
be inquired of, under all the evidence;
and to instruct the jury that they must
be satisfied that the accused was actuated
by malice and ill-will in the matter be
yond a reasonable doubt, and that unless
he was so actuated by such evil disposi
tion and disregard -of social duty, he
should be acquitted. This would save
all who are not personally cognizant of
the matter published; and also all repor
ters and others who_ report libellous mat
ter through ignorance of its nature, or in
advertence, and who in any oer in
advertence, and
innocent of any bad motive th or evil
intent, and this is all that honorable Jour
nalists will need or desire for their uz
pro-
L
tection. "_
Qt gsrioNs as to the legality of the
electoral vote of Georgia, will not embar
rass the Joint Convention of the two
Houses to-day, the whole matter being
provided for in the following resolution
.
which has already been approved by each
body :
Witgar.As, The question as to whether
the Mats of Georgia has become and is
entitled to representation in the two
Houses of Congress is now pending and
undetermined ; and whereas, by joint
resolution of Congress, passed July 20th,
1868, entitled "A. resolution excluding
from the Electoral College votes of States
lately in Rebellion, which shall not have
been reorganized," it was provided that
no electoral votes from any of, the States
lately in rebellion should be received or
counted for President or Vice President
of the United States, until among other
-things, such State should• become enti
tled to reresentation in Congress, pur
suant to ac p ts of Congress in that behalf,
therefore,
Resolved by the Senate, the House of
Representatives, concurring. That on the
assembling of the two Houses on the sec
ond Wednesday of February, 1869, for
the counting of electoral votes for Presi
dent and Vice President, as proVided by
law, and the joint rules of the counting
or omitting to count electoral votes, if
any which may be presented, as of the
state of Georgia, shall not essentially
change the result, in that case they shall
be reported by the President of the Sen
ate in the following manner : Were the
votes presented, as of - the State of Geor
gia, to be counted, the result would be
for -- 7 ---, - for President of the United
States. --_. votes; but, in either case,—
is elected President of the United States;
and in the same manner for Vice Presi
dent.
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--At New York, on Monday, Patrick
Martin, for burglary in the second de
gree, was sentenced to the State Prison
for ten years; Andrew Shurz, for grand
larceny, to Sing Sing for four years; Jo
seph Crawford, for burglary in the third
degree, to State Prison for four years and
aix months; Wrn. Johnson, colored,
grand larceny, to State Prison for five
years; John Maguire, for stealing a wag
on, to State Prison for five years; Patrick
Mauire an old offender, for highway
rob g bery, ,
twenty years iu State Prison.
—lt isstated that the Rothschilds have
purchased two millions of United States
bonds.
WHY IS IT
That the feeble totter, with, uncertain steps,
over the face of the earth, In danger every day
of falling victims to the morbid influences by
which we all are surrounded, when a tested and
proven 'vegetable tonic, capable of endowing
them whh the vigor they need. Is procurable in
every city, town and settlement? It might
reasonably be thought that alter twelve yesra'
er etienee which the world has lia 1 of HihiTET
VEIL'S HITTERS, ALL would thew that its effect
is to prevent disease.
At this season, the atmosphere is surcharged
with the seeds, intermittents. remittents. rhea
mai im, pUlMonary disorders, bilious complaints
and the like. Persona whose nervous systems are
relaxed, are the first to succ ener gi es ese distem
pers. Brace up the phys.cal then„with
this potential vegetable tonic. It is the most
powerful le Arersnt which the botAlilc kingdom'
has cysr yielded to path nt resear ch
. and exp. xi
rul-nt. Tut' IT. Tu. blindest tilscipl of the old
ii.edtcal dogmas will andeast acmit that a tonic
aud alterative, compo d of approved herbs.
roots and barks. can do no harm. while the testi
s/lacy of thousandirtes a trial ot itvvirtnes.
Vigor Is the thing most needed In these cases,
as well as in rime ha a and nervous affectatiors,
and 1103TETTItIt'S HITTERS is the safest.
surest and most wholesome strengthening Prep
aration that human skill has yet concocted. As
a OW, it IS both mild and agreeable to the taste,
and stimulating in it* action upon the system.
Hundreds of physician• have abandoned all the
Oeielnal receipu, and prescribed thia harmless
tonic as 'a preventive and cure for all en-es tit
LhHll!ind Yo'u',!______—..--------------
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• TUE SOUND OF TUB LUNGS.
One of the most accurate ways of determining
whether the lungs are in a healtny or diseased con! -
tinfoil, Is by means of listening to the respiration.
To those experienced in this practice It , beauties
as plain an index to the state of the lungs, and is
as well known to the operator as are_the voices of
his most , intimate acquaintances. The belief that
long standing coughs, and diseases of the lungs
upon which they are dependent, are incurable,
tage
are fast becoming obsolete. One great advan
tope gained from this advanie in medical knowl
edge is It e earlier application of those who be
come afflicted "with those diseases topme
had
one
competent to afford relief. 'I he error ich
taken hold of the public mind-in regard to the
.purOilltty of consumption. or rather non.curabil-
Ity.-la fast ha:prang. oblitessted, and
should lose
it is well
that it should be so, not that persons
that salutary fear which would make them imply
fora timely remedy, but that all might be indu.
cal to use remedies while there is any hope. It Is
the delay in these cases that Ails us with sp.
prehension and alarm, for if every one would
make timely application of DR. lEETBERms
LUNG GOBS In the beginning of scold or cough,
few cases would go so far as to become irremedia-
bie.
Sold at the Doctor's great Medicine Store, No.
140 Wood street. . WILL SHORTLX REMOVE
Te HIS NEW STORE, NO. lb' LIBERTY
STREET, SECOND DOOR FROM ST CLAIR.
R.
N'S
RESIDENT OFFICE FOR
`LUNG EXAMINATIONS AND THE TREAT
MENT Or OBSTINATE CHRONIC DISEASES,
No. MI PENN STREET, PTTTSBUROH, PA.
office Hours from 9 A. Y. untll4 P. N.. and from
I. to 8 at night.
NEW
- -
31ATOWS OFFICE.
•
PITTSBURGH. Febru.ry Bth.
_.1668. 5
M
NP4 ELTIG.— A.
meeting of the citivns of Pittsburgh
and all others interested in tile nuinterrupted
atrigat'on of the Onto Hirer, wille held at the
Mal(okt'S OFFICE at half pot 10 o'clock oil
WEDNEspxy 31010:11,i0. Alarge and prompt
attendance is urgently reque.sted. as business-of
importance will come belore the meeting for ita
consideration.
feltueV, JARED M. BRUSH, Mayor.
far' PETROLEUM ASSOCIA
TION-There will be ameeclo6 or the
M
rETROLEU ASSOCIATION. TILLS (Walesa
-
day) MORNING, at 10% o'clock.
By order of the Presldra:., I
felo:eM A. F. BROOICS, Secret:us,
CENTENARY FAIR!
AT LAFAYETIE HALL, •
ON WEDNESDAY, THIJE SOLI" AND FRIDAY,
February 10th, 11th and 12th.
raNNAlli each day from 12 to 2. . •
A flue Band of Music will be In attendance each
felpteto
CONTROLLittni OFFICY,
CITY Or ALLEGITENY, February 10, 1869. 5
,FLOOD
will GATE. SEALED
office
proposals be, received at Lois
until 3 o'clock, P. M , on the 16th Instant. for
making and attacoing a FLO- BANE %nate
B an elm be seen at ont Street Sthe ewe
or
ffice rlaoius
th au e City d spe Engineer ,
Chas. Davis. Esq., under whole sunervi , ion the
work must be done. -It. B. FRANCt..
110'''NOTIC E.
Manufacturers of Iron are hereby notified that.
JAMES J. JOHNSTON. of Allegheny City, Pa.,
claims to be the inventor of the improvements
In the manufacture of iron, known as the ' 'A 11 e r •
shansen Process;'' that an Interference has been
declared by the Cotnintssioner of Patents between
the application of James J. Johnston and the
Patent 'granted November 17, 186 g, to F. El
lershausen, A. E. Strayner and A. • Gutzman.
Thellsarlng In slid Interference will be had before
the Commissioner of Patents on the 24th day of
May, 1869. fclo!e32_
11:gr''NOTICE TO CA UPF4iTERS.
CONTROLLER'S OFFICE, I
CM OF ALLEGHENY. February 10. 1868. )
SEALED PROroSALn wlll hr received at ati
Office until
forlock r. M. on THURSDAY, the
115th Met, planking the yard of the
SECOND WARD CATTLE SCALES.
SPECIVICATLOYS I
The entire yard to be covered with the but
quality of Pine Grub tlank laid close en plank
sleepers, thre groundrom center to center. solidly
bedded in the and tilled up level between,
the planking to be well spit ed dOWI3. The plan
ing to run acrosa the yard and to be headed on
the sleepers.
R. B. FRANCIS, City Controller.
folo:e30
Mr -MERCANTILE • LIBRA
LECTURE
Mrs. SCOTT SIDDONS,
WILL , GIVE
Two Additional Recitations .
from SHAIISPEARE, TENNYSON, SCOTT,
MOORE, IC., It
ACADEMY OF MUSIC,
Thursday and Friday, Evenings,
FEBRUARY 11th and 12th.
NO RESERVED SEATS.
AdzeNslon to all parts of the house, $l.OO.
TWENTY-FIVE CENTS will be charged on
all Season Tictets•
Doors open at 7 o clo k; Reading commences
felO
om .by at 8 o'clock.
KNOX'S SEEDS.
WE OFFER OPE NEW CROP
GARDEN AND FLOWER SEEDS !
For the season or 1869. Our Seeds, so long and
t svorably known throughout the United States,
are tuatly esteemed wherever tried.
The following Catalogues will be sent free to
applicants :
tiescriptive Catalogues and Mtn 1-Book of
Seeds, Seed Novelties and Seed Potatoes,
Goodrich, Early Rose and Harrison,
Containing Directions for Planting, PreparatlOU
of theS mantgement, particularly adapt
ed to the use of Gardeners. Amateurs, and all
others whom a knowledge of Gardening and
Treatment o f Seeds Is necessary.
.1113-Market Gardeners` Li st, for G ardeners on
thlye
SilrWhletisle Price List, positively the
Td onl o y.
W. W. Ii:TNOX,
(Successor to I. KNOX.,)
No. 137 LIBERT t SE., Pittsburgh. Pi.
felo:ektF
.CROSBY
FANNING ELL.
We have secured the agency of this famous
Siff, and just received a auppiy•
It la acknowledged to be the
Best Fanning. Mill Ever Invented,
And we edvise farmers to examine it before per-
chasing any other.
The Trade suppled at a reasonable discount
W. W. XNOX,
( successor to J. 111.10%,)
telo:euF
AGRICULTURAL ;ROOM.
AU Books relating to the
ARM, GARDEN OR dREENHOUSE I
For Salo at Publishers' Prices.
Price Lists tarnished on application..
• Ws W. KNOX.,
(Successor to J. SNOB. )
telo:ezsF
A GRICULTURAL
VPLEREATB AND FARM NACU Y.•
All articles required on the Farm, CUTTING
BOXES, CORN SHELLERS, FARM GRIST
MILLS, FARM BOILERS, FARM BELLS,
CHURNS, FORKS, SPADES, SHOVELS, etc ,
etc.) eta.
W. W. KNOX, 1
. . (Successor to J. KNO*)
- • 131 LIBERTY ST ' Pittsburgh, Pa.
felOteS7F
TigingtXtocti.lcrp CLOVES•^'
In Pennsylvania. Tor sale at market price.
W. pi. KNOX.
(Successor to .1. Knorj_
fe10336r 137 Liberty street. Pittsburgh, Fa.
No. 137 LIBERTY STREET,
Pittsburgh, Ps
No. 137 LIBERTY STREET,
rittsburgh. PS.
j'll/1118 !(EN SEED