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r Amendment, Amu:men Directory.
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PrrnoLnum at Antwerp, 57®57,ff.
Gou, cloeed•ia New York yesterday at
SENATOR ERRETT-THE ICITTH
ARTICLE.
We printatfa report of ' t he very able
— largument of Hon. &realm. ERRETT,
lapan'‘thainew Suttragearticle,. as pro
, mounced in'the Pennsylvania Senate last
Irtanapty. This speech is an exhaustive
mal:Ouvindne presentation of the,iffir
athre argument, reflecting equal credit
ltpaathahead and the heart of our Mk
.lbl Senator. We commend it to the
-vareftfl•perusal of our readers.
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Timfannmerefai Makes a distinction
between politicians and statesmen. .Will
it tell us how statesmen, as it uses the
term, are to be developed t except by ex
perience as politicians ? It seems to us
- that if the whole body of apprentices or
learners in a trade were squelched, there
would soon be no journeymen.
GEXISSAL NECILEY, Representative
limn this District, his been honored with
aposition on the. House Committees on
- WWI Affairs and Revolutionary
'Claims. Mr. Pitimps, of the Ellid DLs
-triEt, has been placed on the Invalid Pen
sion and Expenditure on Public Build-
Inge' Coranlittees.
Tag That= OF OFF/CB LAW is likely
lo 'be mil:leaded for a period, but not
wholly repealed. We have anticipated
lhat the matter would ultimately be corn
:promised in some such way, and find
:nothing to surprise us in last evening's
report-that thissuspension is recommend.
-ed by the.lndiciary Committee of die Sen.
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..4.mowas ap pointments for these Dia
, - tricts, by the President,, have not yet
lama .It. 'is not known yet who
- wU-o4iictipy:the Potdefllce of either city,
the'office of U.' 'S. ifarshal or the Dis
trict Atteruayship. It is con Ceded that
Ike Assessorahip and Collectorship have
beea supplied, but who are to grace the
other °fifties has not been developed-
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10un liticiaurammenvEs, at Harrisburg,
.pOstpone the discussion of the joint Mao
lutions ratifying the XVth Article until
Wednesday afternoon,' of this week.
That and each succeeding evening will
be devoted fo the discussion, without'any
effort, on the part of the majority, to
bring on a vote until the opposition mem- s
tiers have Stilly expressed themselves.
Vuelioemns to be the Understanding which
Isis been mutually arranged. The final
vote seed not, therefom, be expected for
*Ono ;days. :
'TER MlZoimit 07 Da. DARDEN,
_ at
VsFrenton, Georgia 'was one of the most
oehl blooded 'and biutal exhibitions of
snob ..violence that has of 140 ganged
Southern society. His death resulted not
ihr 9 agh- Amp_ desire to help on the morale
of the oomminity,' but Isom aivi c k ed ,
_ - wanton and macious spirit to get rid of
itim : llctuule he WU a Republican, and in
_no symitelbY with the terrible Xu-Riux:
Ilan., The military,authorities should
be as swift to mete out justice to the mob
as were they to ' commit a cowardly
lehtbus crime, in the name, on one whose
,gravest fault, was his pobtical preference,
2fintsnunPrr finds relief none too soon,
In the - President's late order for the re
,
sonvalaf Gen, 94a.zif front the command
of military departnient; Fre= every
qinkiter Of that Bate, the stories are all
one, vrai—that he:has uniformly failed to
repress outrage, or - to punish offenders
ngatnst the laws. Indeed, the aggrieved
Unionist, whose plantation has been
harried, his buildings burnel, and his
own- life threatened;a n d perhaps barely,
liaved from assassin violence, has long
..slice Ceased tdlook for protection or jus
-fate from this man, Oxman.
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..Pzons who think an Indian war a
trivial -affairs may be astonished to dis
coyer how much money their government
hair expended in such hostilities. The
,Ipublic records officially prove 'that, in the
pasta thirty-seven years, these wars have
Coinuri 20,000 !West- and more than
$750,00,000.- Indeed, it is not two ,
inc i nilitante we were expending $1,000,:
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Zditars and Proprietors.
000 per week, Tifton the operations of
Salmi-AN and his officers against the
savage tribes. • Had all our relations with
the red men been pacific, for . the two
years past, a sum of nearly, if not quite,
'V10,000,000 could have been applied to
the further reduction of our public debt.
THERE is something consoling and sat . -
isfaclory in the announcement that the
Indians are quietly and orderly settling
on their reservations, and that the mi 11 .%
tary authorities are endeavoring to have
them educated in agricultural matters, to
that 'end appointing a farmer to each band
to impart the necessary information. if
the Indians an •be civilized so far as to
make them as industrious in farm matters
as they are in hunting and fishing, a new
and peaceful era will dawn upon them.
Would it not'be - well to colonize the
agents who lave been engaged in de
frauding poor Lo out of the better por
tion of the appropriations set apart for
him by a Government disposed to be as
generous as just, and make them give up
nefarious speculations for legitimate agri
cultural labor? The red skins, agents
and traders all made honest rimers there
would be no occasion in the future for
Costly and provoking warfare on the
frontier.
Tun Crry Cot:wens assemble this af
ternoon for the purpose of taking final ac
tion on the Paid Fire Department bill,
which has occupied the attention of those
bodies for several weeks. Considerable
opposition to the proposed innovation hks
'developed itself in some quarters, on the
ground of retrenchment, economy and
expediency, butit is stated that the main
fight against the measure will be made at
Harrisburg, should Councils determine
_to recommend its adoptlTon. It is one of
those questions which should be calmly
and Ailspassionately discussed, and if
Councils believe that the system will ac
complish good and have advantages over
that now in operation, local prejudices
and objections should be set aside when
the vote is called. If, on , the other hand,
they believe that an extraordinary - ex
pense will be incurred by the city in its
adoption, without corresponding advan
tages, the strong pressure brought from
outside, for the recommendation of the
system, should not be permitted to have
weight in the final disposition of the
question. However Councils may act in
the premises, the people represented will
acquiesce, and satisfaction follow.
IT SEEMS to be the general impression
that the Revenue appointment; in the
EXIld district will be conferred upon
two persons whose names are received by
the public withmarked satisfaction. Pion.
RUSSELL ERRETT, at present our State
Senator s IS to be the Assessor, and the
Collect9rship is to be given to T. W.
DANIS, Esq. _ Each of these gentlemen
have heretofore conciliated the especial
good will of our Republicans, and the
sincere esteem 'of citizens generally.
They fill the true bill, being honest,
faithful and capable in every business
capacity. As Republicans, they were
among our moat efficient co-workers in
securing that great triumph of last year,
which enrolled the 11,000 majority of
Allegheny for President 42taanT. Such
nominations are fit to be made.
Tn3l ohownt of the Americimpoptda
tion has been marked for seventy years
by =uniformity so regular as to enable
us to predict the future with something
very near to certainty. Enh recurring
decennial census from 1790 to 1866 shows
a percentage of increase varying from
32.67 per cent., the lowest, to 88,45 per
oent., the highest, to e average of
the seven periods being 34,47 for
each ten years. Estimated upon this
average, the census of 18-76 will return
the population of the 'United States at=
42,822,710; in 1880, 57,966,368; in 1890,
76,676,731; in 1900, which many a man
-living will see, 108,205,880. Nor is it
likely that the great variety of causes,
foreign or domestic, which have con
taibuted to ourrapid increase of popula.
tion since this, century came in, wil
cease to be operative, or substantially be
less effective before the century's close.
WooL-Clsowilos in the. Western coun.
ties of Pennsylvania and the Eastern and
South Eastern districts of Ohio, where a
peculiarly desirable grade of wools has
been largely gtoWn during the past ten
years,. We' : not altogether 'escaped . the
fatal temptations of .the .past winter. to
diminish their flecks. The hitch oost
forage, and the low prices which have
ior a year ruled for,theirtleeces, have led
to a general thinning out of the flocks,
not a few fainieis' retiring IrCm ` sheep.
husbandry altogether; - While irisfair to
presume that a fair Pii'.'aeittiime= of the
asimaisthus 0141'We/1 , were the Indiffer.'
ent weeding ; froM the'ginerai stoek, the
better animals being retained, it is not to
be denied that many a disgusted Winer
has sent the whole of lila flock to the
butcher, and washed his hinds alto.
gether 'of so unProlltable a business.
Such as have. been prudent enough to
retain the best of their: flocks, waiting
patiently for, better times, may reason.
ably cesuntimon a speedy reward. While
the aggregate number of sheep in the
country has been reduced in the year
past not lea s - than-ten per cent., the half-
Ilieceshive been absorbed by the
current manufacturing demand, under
vilifeW 044;1 the wool-Market 18 still .
reported-bttoyanti and with the most in.
vorable.outlbek for the grower. It seems
tO.ar, that the June market for this yeai's ,
friidar shearing Will open on a dintinii*.
PTTrimROI GAZETTE: TUESDAY,- MAJtell 16, .1869
ed43upply and advancing rates. Farmers
who have kept their nooks up, and in a
thriving condition, have reason to hope
for better times than they have knotin
for the three years preceding. To very
many of them, both in Pentu3ylvania and
Ohio, the year's "wool -money" will be
an item of great consequence; indeed, in
some districts it will be welcomed as the
only solid revenue of the year.
WATER SUPPLY AND DRAINAGE.
In strictly rural districts the natural
streams furnish most of the facilities
needed for the drainage of superabundant
waters and impurities prejudicial to the
health of the Inhabitants; while springs
and wells ordinarily supply the waters
required for domestic uses. But when
population increases; when hamlets ex
pand into towns, and towns nto i cities,
that is, when commt i
ce or manufactires
took root and expind, causing large num
bers of persons to concentrate in particu
lar spots, those appliances become alto
gether insufficient, and recourse is neces
sarily had to the skill of both engineer
and mechanic to provide for the de
ficiency.
In all considerable towns and cities the
unfailing and copious supply of water is
of the utmost importance. In proportion,
as human beings and domestic animals
are congregated within Ilinited areas,
springs and wells not only become insuf
ficient, but are defiled. Impurities aug
ment until the fluid becemes a miserable
compound of animal mucous and vegeta
ble slime, impregnating all organisms
which imbibe it with disease and death.
Resort must necessarily be had to
creeks or rivers. •
But, as intimated above, all natural
water-courses are open sewers, into
which the impurities of tributary regions
flow in their count() to the sea—:that vast
crucible in which the most various mat
ters are reduced to their elementary prop
•erties, and from which those properties
are redistributed to their ' appropriate
places throughout the world. Hence, in
precise ratio to the necessity for
giving up springs and wells as means of
water-supply, and going to brooks and
rivers, do the waters in those ultimate
sources of replenishment become unlit
for use.
Take an' illustration near at hand.
Starting at a point on the Ohio rivet three
miles below this city, and coming up to
the confluence of the Monongahela and
Allegheny,. and thence going up the lat
ter stream twenty miles, both banks are
found to be thickly studded with large
manufacturing establishments, and the
resideacee of an industrious population.
Here are iron, copper, steel, glass, leather,
cotton, woolen, salt, and other factories;
oil refineries, paint anillOiltriol mills, dis
tilleries, breweries, and what not. The
debris of all these establishments,
gether with the regular drainage of two
L cities and several small borcaighs, all
flow into the open channels of.the Alle
gheny and Ohio.
Oat of the Allegheny, in the very thick
of this mass of is all the water for
the two cities lintriped; not water sump.
ly for manufacturing and mechanical
purposes, but for cooking food and
quenching thirst. The most delicate
palates, as well as the rougheet, have no
alternative, but must accept this mixture,
such as it is. • This is why we Dave, on
many occasions, expressed the opinion
that, in the line of public improvements,
the procurement of reasonably pure wa.
ter, and in abundiutt quantity, was, by
large odds, of superior importance to
any other, or, all others, now before the
Councils of the 'weenies. ,
As the Allegheny has been decisively,
adjudged to be our true source of water
supply, a bill has been finnhel and sent
to Harrisburg for enactment into a law,
to prevent the drainage of refineries and
other manufacturing establishments into
that stream. It is not our'purpose to ex
press any opinion as to the merits or de
merits of that bill—which is a subject of
debate among our citilens—but to submit
such general reflections, bearing upon
the whole. subject, as the particular cir
cumstances suggest.
By the common law ro person, corpo
rationor municipal' body has a itight to
defile a flowing stream. No manufac
turer above the city or in it, has a right
to eject the debris of his eitablishment
into the Allegheny; nor has either of
these cities a
,right, to discharge sewers
therein. The right to defile a natural
water-course is no broader at common
law in the one casc than la the other.
It is'a fact, doubtless, that water, run
ning in a natural channel, becomes puri
fied; but, at what distance, depeeds upon
the amount of iinpurities contained in it;
and the nature of the :territory. thrpugh
Which it flows. •Philadelphia obtains its
ater from the behnylkill.' kis been
observed that the• volume of defilement
in that river proceeding from Pottsville,
Reading and other towns, and interven ,
ing manufacturing' &Wets, extends a
little lower down every year, just in pro.
portion to the increase of population and
business, so that the period can be ap
proximately computed when the filth,
instead of being eliminated from the wa
ters, will descend tabu the pool of Ale
Fairmount dam. How long it will be
before the filth discharged into the Alle"
gheny and Menongahela, at this point,
Will relief,: Steubenville, Wheeling, Chi"
elarieti `aid Leuisville, we shall not etop
to coniob4ei but, we apprehend, that
PPPie the towel, and , cities; below us'
on the"Olde, who` Alraw their froth
Ilie- . 16 1*• ( , 441 7 etlettet'attibies, that
The annual report of the Superinten
dent of Public Braidings, in New York,
discloses many facts of great interest to
the amusement-seeking public. A Ilitt is
given of seventeen .places of. popular re
sort—theatres, -&c.—with 'the proper
capacity of each, and the numbers;lvito
have actually been received at onetime;
it . appearu that in every instance from
thirty to fifty per cent. more of people
' have been suffered to'crowd hi than there
were any proper acconunedationa 1 , for.
The average time for discharging: the.
audiences was from' rive to eight minutes
—quite long' enough, with the mot or
derly movement from an eier-crowded
auditorium, for the suffocation of the list
few hundreds in the flamesand smoke'of
a tinder-box theatre. This slaughter'
would be fearfully increased,
nine cases of each hundred, by the in
evitable panic and reuniting crush in the
narrow door-waysand on the steep nights
of, stairs which too often'afford the only
avenue of escape. , The mndemihithion
of feminine attire makes the danger still
greater, since three women out of f four
will persist in trailing long skirts over
three or four steps at a time,.offering
always a temptation or 'it nlague to the
feet of their followers, and certain; in:a
calamitous event, to overthrow a rushing
crowd. Let one man orwoman fall upon
a narrow stairway at such a moment, and
the entire passage would be choked, di
ten seconds, with an indistinguishable
pile'of struggling, suffocating humanity.
Ohio' hart a la*, which ' other States
might profitably adopt, requiring ehnich
es; theatres, halls and, all other rooms of
public resort, to be inspected by a special
officer, with reference to their facilities
for the speedy and safe exit of the Audi._
ence,:before such places shall be thrown
op* to, the public. The statute *vides
suitable penalties for any evasion or other
disobedience of its salutary regulations in
the interests of the public safety.. A. sim
ilar law governs in:New.York,,where the
Superintendent has carefully enforced .it,
—as also another wise regulation forbid.
ding the use of stools or chairs in the
aisles:rind passage-*itys.
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they get-an unpleasant and unwholesome
flavor of Pittsburgh in their drink.
It does not follow, however, that all
things which are nuisances at common'
law are readily abatable by legal proceed
ings;- Tin hundreds of factory fires,
which shroud these cities in a pall of
smoke, are all nuisances at common law
in the same sense as the chemical works
above that croject their residuum into
the Allegheny. The enforcement of de
cisions already made by the Suprem
Court,would put an end to both these evils.
But, then, the question starts up, How
far is it wise to put -impediments in the
way of business, either to get rid of the
smoke, or to save the expense of taking
the water supply from the stream above
the business districts? And that ir, in
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substance, substan, the qinstion we do not here
propose to discuss.
For centuries the sewerage of London
was discharged into the Thames; a stream
no broader than the Monongahela. As
the city grew, as its ten thousand inhabi
tants swelled to four millions; the
Thames became no better than a cess
pool. The stench arising from it became
so intolerable in mid-summer that peers
and commoners were compelled to fly
from the Parliament House In quest of
air fit to breathe. Then-,aame up the
question of London sewerige. After a
careful investigation it was determined
to run a trunk•sewer along the river line,
at such depth as to receive all the intersect
ing sewers, and of size sufficient to carry
the contents of the whole; this trunk-sewer
to extend far below the city, to a large
reservoir or receptacle, from whence the
mass should be pumped into vats, and
there subjected to such chemical treat
ment as would precipitate the solids, and
leave only the deodorized water to go in
to the river; the solids to receive such
manipulation as would -convert them into
manure. This scheme was executed,
and with such effect as to become a
source of revenue to the city, and of fer
tility to wide districts of territory. It was
found that manuring propertiee, worth
many millions of dollars a year,Juid been
unwisely cast into the river, thence to
float out to sea.
How long this waste, by discharging
the sewerage of cities into rivers, is to
continue in the United 'States, Is a ques
tion difficult to' solve. But the wide
,spread deterioration of the soil, which,
results from slovenly and linskilthal agri
cultural processes, indicates that ,a time
will come when, from the necessities of
the case, ft wholesome, economy in fer
tilizers will be brought about.
Another suggestion will be found not
out of place. In various departments of
manufacture in Europe, notable improve
ments have resulted from piohibiting the
discharge of residutim into streams.'
Manufacturers have thus been forced to
consider and find out if the matters they
were discarding could not be put to prac-
tical account. It has imported, in re.
pasted instances, that What had been
regarded as waste, to be , got rid of on
any terms, has heed so' utilized as to
become a fruitful sourest of revenue. do
far, this point has not been much dealt
with or thought of in this country. The
general improvidence which characterizes
most manual employments among' uti,
has been almost absolite. But a peridfid
will come, in the national order of decal-
opment, when thisprcaliwklity will rcat
correction. Whoever. shall make -
ginning will not only prcrov tobeiWisdror
himself,' but a pnbllc benefictor throagh
the force of his example.
PERSONAL „SAFETY OF iounipiip
GATHERINGS.
FACING THE 11
We place no confidence whatever in
the telegraphic rumors which intimate
that 1 Postmaster General CRESSWELL
finds any difficulty among our political
friends in inaugurating those reforms, in
his department of the public service,
which the people have demanded and to
which President GRANT has heartily and
thoroughly pledged himself. Mr. CRESS
WELL le ts on the threshold—and as
was to expccted—the most powerful
cabals, formed among the personal friends
and Official dependents of Certain subordi
nates in his department, and which are
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sparing no influence or exertions to se
cure the retention of these subordinates
in office. The country is entirely con
vinced that this great work of reform
which' it desires', will be blocked and ab
solutely defeated, unless the purgation of
every bureau and place under . govern
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ment be thoroughly performed.
The President has wisely charged hie
Secretaries with all the responsibility,
each for his own branch of the service,
and we have no doubt that 'he has con
fided to them the justly corresponding
discretion in the selection and revision of
their .subordinates. Mr. CRENWELL is
therefore entirely right in asserting the
proper prerogatives of his trust. He is
quite as right in beginning this reform in
the principal bureau of his department.
There ? if anywhere, are hidden the se
cret springs of departmental mismanage
mentind corruption, and the Postmaster
General cannot and will not subceed in
making his service what it should be, in
justice to the country and to the admin
istration, unless he ineflxibly fight it out
on the line which he has chosen. Let him
adhere to that line faithfully, and he will
be sustained in every quarter where a
good opinion is worth having.
THE SAULT CANAL.
We heartily second the movement of
the Lak e Shore press, to secure the cession
by Michigan of its absolute control of
this Canal to the, United States. This
cession ' is due ahhe to the comity of States,,
and to the vast importance of a com
merce which concerns, relatively, Mich
!gm so much less than ledoes the entire
'lforthein and Middle sections of the
• Tile question Is said to be favorably
bhtertalued In the Michigan Legislature,
where the impolicy or the injustice of its
exclusive control—over a work which is
essentially the only gate-way for the
,traftic by water of a dozen States and of
(ten millions of people—begins to be
wisely Understood. In this connection,
we quote the appropriate observations of
the Cleveland 'Jerald:
Michigan's now one of the least inter
ested of the lower lake States in the com
merce of the Sault Canal. Ohio and
Pennsylvania each have more than quad
ruple the interest of Michigan, the iron
furnaces of the two former States ab
sorbing the greater part of the iron ore
brought down through the canal. New
York is'also interested , to a less extent
in the present, but to 'at least an equal
amount with the other named States In
the nearifutnre, when the grain products
of Northern' Wisconsin, Minnesota, and
the Northwestern States beyond will
,seek water transportation at the head of
Lake Superior, and will have to pass
through the Sault Canal to reach the
chain Of Lakes below. The New England
States will also be interested, for the con
struction of the Northern Pacific Rail
road; inwhich New England capital has
been largely invested, will throw avast
amount: of commerce on Lake Superior,
and this will all have to pass through the
Sault Canal. 'There is neither right nor
reason -In subjecting ,a commerce, in
which'sO malty States are interested, to
the absolute control of a single State
whieh has but a comparatively small in
terest in the matter, and which shows no
disposition to increase the' present lim-
Red facilities:
THE PUBLIC CREDIT HEEL.
The Senate-has passed what is known
aitho Palle Credit Bill, and it will now
go - ,to the , President for his signature to
becgmo a hr. As finally passed it reads
as , , •
Atc;det /Mating to the Public Debt.
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Be it enacted, That in order to remove
any 'doubt as to the purpose of the Gov
ernment to discharge all its just oblige
tions to , puDlib creditors, and to settle
conflicting questions and interpretations
ofthe law by virtue of which such obli
gtions hive been contracted, it is here
by provided and declared that the United
States is solemnly pledged to the pay.
went in 'coin, err its euivalent, o all
obligations'of the Un q ited States, f
except
incases where the law authorizing the
issue of any such'obligation has express
ly provided that the same may be paid
in lawful money or other currency than
gold and diver. •
The following section, inns3ed with the
above by the Fdrtieth.'Congress, was
stricken out:
Sze. 2. And be it further enacted, That
any contract hereafter made 'sPeddrallY
payable in coin, and the, consideration of
which maybe a loan of coin or a sale of
property, Or, the rendering Of labor or
service of.any, hind,. the price of whioh
ai carried'iinto the Contract onmy have,
been adjusted on the-basil of the, coin
value the/lef at the time of such' salei;bo
rendering pf such set. rice or labor, ahall
be, legal and valid', and may be enforced
according to its terms. . ' •••
Trot LATEST railwayquarrelilsiiittwe(M`
the Union Pacific RailroaftComplinyind
FISK, •of the Erie. road. The latter de
mended to vote ;upon • twenty thousand.
shares, 'at the annual election of Directors
last week, and upon the rejection of Ids
ballot sued out an injunction against any
canvass of the votes received. Some
light may be shed upen the mysterious
stock transactions of the Union Pacific
Railroad Company by P/811'13 proceed...
ings. Ills 'complaint substantially em.
.
bodies the ;folldwing remarkable state.:
ment
'That he bargained fora great number
of shares of the coMpany's` stook, and
paid such a sum of. money,as was neees.
sary to shoure them; but for reasons
known only to the Directors the road
,_ , •
they failed to give them to him, and by
thouubt that where they could declare a
dividend i n the Credit - Mobiliere of A mer
les, under their control; through a fraud
ulent contract for the construction of the
road, of thirty or forty per cent. per
month, he was either entitled to the bend
etit of the purchase which he had made.-
or to know the reason of their refnaal so
to do."
WASHINGTON TOPICS.
MILITARY DEPARTMRST£4
General satisfaction is expressed at the
new assignment of the department com
manders. General Thonias will proba
bly be assigned to the command of the
..
Department of the Pacific. Gen.i Scho
field takes • Sherldan's late command in
the Indian country, with headquarters
f
at either St. Louis orFort Leavenworth.'
Colonels Schofield au Wherry and Cap.
tains Rathbone and nnis are relieved
from duty in the Wa Department, and'
accompany General hotleld. General
Campbell remains on duty in the War
Department with Secretary Rawlins.
it is now probable that General Sheri
dan will not go to New . Orleans, as he has
been in continuous service ever since
the beginning of the late war, and Will
now probably be granted leave of absence.
for Bottle time, at his own requqst. He
said yesterday that he did
,not — desire -
to go to New Orleans. It •is believed in
military circles that General Howard
will be sent to the command of the Fifth
District at New Orleans, since Sheridan
does not care about assuming his old
command.'
BENA.TE'CAyJCVS.
The caucus of Republican Senators yes
terday nominated for Public Printer
C. W. Cb3pp, of the Buffalo Express.
For Sergeant -at-Arms, ex-Congressmail
John R. French, of North - Carolina. For
Chief Executive Clerk, J. M. Morris, of
Connecticut. All the other officers were
nominated for re-election. The defeat of
Defrees and Brown was hardly unex
pected by them, being the result of a
combination between the Southern Sen
mons who supported Piz French and the
friends of Mr. Clapp. Repeated attempts ,
have been made to oust Brown, but he
has always been successful in retaining
his position.
TExuaz.or-omcz ACT.
In the Senate the.Tudlciary Committeft
reported back the House bill repealing
the TenuTenf OffiCe Act, with a subetr
tute simply suspending its operations
until the next session - of Congress. There
were so many conflicting opinions as to
what should be done, and the subject
was likely to provoke such a prolonged
debate in the Senate, that the Committee.
who concurred unanimously that the
President ought not to be hampered at
this time, decided to report in favor of
suspending the law, and leaving the ,
question of repeal or modification to be
settled next session.
TWENTY SECOND DISTRICT (TA.)
Pozwrispcirs.
The appointments of Collector and As
sessor for the Twenty-second District of
Pennsylvania have been decided upon
by President Grant, and will be made
within a few days.
The report that General Neglev and
Senators Cameron and Scott could not
agree as to who should receive the.itp
pointments, and.that in consequence no
harmony existed between them, proves
to be incorrect. They have cooperated
throughout and agreed as 03 the candi
dates.
The contest for Assessorship between
Russel Errett and F. C. Negley has been
satisfactorily settled, and the former will
receive the apptlintment. T. -W. Dityis
will receive the appointment of Collector
of Internal Revenue, having been agreed
ral
upon by Gene Nle, Senators Came
ron and Scott Ther eg e is y n thing definite
in regard to the other appointments.
BE CAREFUL.
At no 'season of the year is the above Injunction
of more weight than now. The changes oilers
perature have been so sudden from warm to ex
cessive cold, that the human constitution. like
everything else In Nature, feels the shock, - and
gives way Wits impressions. , Thousands of pee r .
ple who lie down at night, unconscious as it
were, of idury to the constitution, wake; up with
hoarseness and coughs, which, unless the flirt
symptoms are heeded; are , apt to involve the
lungs or acme other of the vital organs In deep
seated and Incurable disease. If,the fact were
m well known to all our readers as to ourselves,
that an infallible cure for most of these incipient
aliments May be 'procured in . DR. xErentis
LUNG CUBE, the Doc'or!s new ,store would .
soon be too small. to meet the exigencies re
milted of it in the manufacture of this minable
medieine. Dr. 'KerSer's Lung Cure Is White - he
doubt a valuable desideratum in the cure of dis
ease, a Diet well kilo no to thousands of people
who have been relieved by its ht atilt- giving Pew.,
Cr. If the proper esilmate were placed on human
life and health. those who neglect coughs and
colds would be 'fewer In nuMber. Dr. Keyser
would in no Am, of a serious character, advise
the dispensing with n doctor, butt ow misty hun
dreds are there who, in the beginning "of
ease, could be cured before a doctor could be
reached. It is In these cases, as well as others of
a more serious nature, thst the lung cure canes
to our aid and dispenses lualth and comfort,
which otherwise would never be obtained. . It is
thus a handful of roots and herbs *remade Into a
healing syrup, which is often.'the precursor of ,
health and usefuln,se. The suffering invalid
weuld often apply for relief if he knew where to
promptly obtain It; and that-it can be promptly
obtained in Dr. Keyser's IMg Cure is no longer '•
'a doubtful problem. Let not•'the March winds
make dangerous inroads upo4 your health. whin,
with &few doses of this syrup, you can fortify
your system as well as drive out of it thoze next- ,
one miasma which Undermine lts strongholds and
render its exertions nugatory. -
BOLD AT Till: DOCTOIrs NEW. MEDiCINR
STORE. 187 LIBF.RTT STREET, Ong DOOR FROM
OLD ST. CLAAS, Now SixTII STiticitT.
DR. KEYSER'S OFFICE FOR THE OHRE
OF OBSTINATE CHRONIC DISEASES AND
LUNG EXAMINATIO'NB, No. 190 PENN
STREET, FROM 10 A; M. UNTIL 4 F. M.
-WITHOUT A GOOD DIGESTION
All other temporal bleu:rings are comparatively .
w- The drive' ptic millionaire who has
tried nh ar the potions of the medical profession in
vain, and beileves his comolaint to be incurable,
,would give half his* fbitune to bo freed from the
' horrOrs of lndlgeatio 4 and thus enabled to enjoy
.
the other half. Of course ft would. . ....
~
Perhaps HOSTEVTEIPS ST9IIII.biIBITTITIII
has been recommended to such &sufferer. Polk
to he has 'turned front the friend who rude the
suggestion, with a ant er , latlentinir that be his
110'ra:thin any "patent medicine." If this hu
naen. the
dise,,,to mugs Mt some for, im: ' His
. , Increduillty. dooms hintlo a life of misery.. 411
the in:metes which wealth can Jeurchase ire at
`bis..,conimand.',ltbt-onc-of gum' can Aire bl
1 pleasure. l lfr own lielfronat obstinacy ls' his
.liatie.
The wisaser,..happlly for themselves. are less
skeptics . There Is stied a thing as bigoted unbar.
Lief, as well as bigoted cridulL tr. and re golden
mean between the two, wide men and women
who are- gitted•with +common sense adopt and
profit by. These are the ~loss that patronize and
recommindliOaTaTTEßll BITTZ.Rii. Why 'dor '
t heraPPrevethis fit ' , ohs anti. clyabbptio and aaai..
bilious preparation? Simply because they have
not been too mach the slaver of tenseleas preju—
dice to &milt a fair trial. anti have [multi that
when all ether tonics, al imulants and stornachics
filled, It produced the desired agent. - -
..filtrike, but hear." wild the Woman sage. whirs
hla. Ignorant .. ei.euilea were.' aasalling bim.
"Doubt, but try." says tne - maa who haa
been cured of Indigestion -or billouonesit or in
termittent fever. bv the- Bitters, as he relates
his experience of the ziedloine to s invalid
friends. Wheerer is so we d ded to his foregone
theoretical imaclusions, as. to riecl'ne to teat the
properties itifca.lnediclue,enierised by the testi--
thou,' offUelusent men, fr i every Walk of iIIV.
awl
* aggrolvuiry at people at large, deserve* ro!
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