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MONDAY. MARCH 2,2. 1869.
WE PR.INT on the pagea,of this
isaminp'e GAzzivs, -- Second page :
Ephemeris, Miscellaneous. Third and
Rath pages : 'Commercial, Snaneial,
ifereantite and River News, Markets,
Imports. Seventh page: Interesting Mis
cellany of Spicy Reading Mailer, Amuse
ment Directory.
0....130tens at Fraakfort.
PETROLEME at Atit*eitiit4gs4if.
Goto closed in New York on Saturday
at 181@134.
•
HUNTINGDON COUNTY adopts, the
‘'Crawford county system' ' . for its Repub
lican nominations hereafter. •
Trot Lake Shore line of railway from
Buffalo to Toledo.has been entirely con
solidated, by an almost unanimous vote
of the stockholders of each of the two
companies.
_ BY the premature explosion, at Church
Sim, on the 18th, of a torpedo charged
with a new fulminating composition, the
Inventor, Colonel DANTIMON, and three
vther Men, were killed.
THIRTEEN &miss have ratified the
'Mirth Article, Arkansas and Massachu
netts being the latest accessions to its sup
port. The Legislature of Georgia, after
a painfully uncertain experience, voting
'sometimes one way and sometimes the
ether, aAjourns finally without a ratifica
tion—which, as events may prove, was,
creditable neither to their prudence nor
to their patriotism. •
Cortesses is the 'local Legislature for
the District., of Columbia. As such, it
ims properly obliterated all the distinc
tions as to civil rights heretofore existing
between the white and black citizens of
the District. The "Equal-rights" bill
Ihr that purpose, twice passed by the
XLth Congress and as often vetoed by
Mr. Jemasoar, has been re-enacted.
signed by the President and hi now a law.
Mir, Senate bill, to qualify parties in
interest as competent witnesses in litiga
tions, awaits the action of the House, at
Ifalrisburg. similar law in Ohio has
be 6 found to promote the ends of justice.
•
While the experience of the . profession
has -enconntered no mischief from the
new rule, which, in a majority of the lit
igations, adds nothing to the body of reli
,able testimony, yet in a limited class Of
- cases it has materially aided in the expo.
anion of the truth.
Oriu inteNcs of the Delaware legiala
,
• lure has passed resolutions summoning a
convention, for the first Wednesday in
May, of delegates frota d that State, from
nine counties of Maryland and two coun
ties of Virginia,—thus comprehending.
the, entire Peninsula East of Chesapeake
Bay,—to advise upon the question of
uniting the Peninsula under\ one State
government. The concurrence of the
9ther branch is prorabied, and this will
fairly inaugurate a movement of the
greatest importance for the populs dons
concerned. The consent of each, State
and of. Congress will be required before
the project can be consummated.
The investigation which the country
desires, in the matter of the alleged Para
guayan outrages upon American citizens,
las been ordered by ;the House, upon
the request of the Committee on 'Foreign
;Affairs. A. thorough enquiry may vindi
cate the Admiral on that station from cer-
Ilan serious charges, and will clear the rep
utation of one of our diplomatists—either
of WASHIMIRriII, or of his successor, Gen-
Cral Moß4uoN—at the expense of the
other. American citizens have be vio
lently outraged and even put to death by
a petty despot, and the 'People desire to
know whether any, and which, of our
officials lu‘ve come short of their duty.
Truz Prutsrnr:ur was advised. on sat
urday, of the wishes of the Republican
delegation in Congress from Penneylva-
Ida, touching the official payonage of the
Government within this Commonwealth.
Our readers already know the terms of the
understanding " upon which Members
have agreed among themselves. The in
terview with the President was altogether
satisfactory, General Gwarr assuring
them that their wishes would. . have such
consideration as might be compatible
with the paramount public interests.
There no reason to apprehend, there
fore, any disturbance of:-the principles
whiCh have heretofore recognized the re!
sponsibllity of each Member for his own
district, ensuring therein . a general pub
lic satlifaction. •
Bzwerons in the "Indian ring" were
ims broadly acCused of corrupt , motives, in
their ettectegla efforts to amend the In.
idian appropriation bill of the last session
in the intermts of public plutider, and
these imputations were so universally
credited, that the defeat of tike bill in the
House very properly followed. The
same bill, without the obnoxious amend
ment, has again been passed by the pres
ent House, after a debate, on Friday, in
which the same imputations found ex
pression in the plainest language. The
vigorous English employed by Judge
LAWRENCE, of Ohio, is the more :Worthy
of attention, since thatmember enjoys the
well-earned confidence of the House. and
the just regard of every , citizen who
knows his inteiritv and capacity. If the
few Senators to whom a common suspi
cion turns are really , discreet; they will
not provoke the issue which the }louse is
evidently ready to make.
I
SINCE the House has voted, afte: dis
cussion upon the merits of the qu
which the opposition are said to have
brought prematurely forward, to give the
representation of the 'Westmoreland dis
trict 4) Mr. Covorm, pending the prose
cution of an investigation, we are in
formed, by Washington despatches, that
his opponent, Hon. - 11 D. FosTER, "says
he will not contest the case upon its mer
its, but vlaeittly,
that gentleman concurs' in the confession
made by our neighbors of the Post, that
"this is about as unblushing a case of
fraud as was ever perpetrated upon a free
people." Instead of blushing, however,
Mr. FOSTER apparently prefers to decline
the investigation to which he has been in
vited. Such of his would-be constituents
as are familiar with the facts will applaud
his discretion in declining to assist in their
ventilation. Unconditional surrenders
have been ;made quite fashionable elnee
the mode was first Introduced at
son by that eminent Democrat, General
Bucrums, who; like Weetmoreituad!s
Congressman of a week, saw n9thing to
be gained under the proposition to Move
upon his works. Post, copy
Tna DEBATZ on the Tenure-of:Office
law still continues in the Senate. We
quote elsewhere the latest Wieliington
gossip on, this subject. The final vote,
which was looked for on Saturday, has
been deferred, and may be taken to-day,
at any rate before the close of the week:
4 1, count of the Senators is thought to
show a majority in favor of a suspension,
but not of an absolute repeal of the law.
If this Itnticipation be unstained by the
ultimate vote, the suspending bill will go
back to the House, and then to a Confer
ence Committee. Reacbing that point, it
seems safe to predict that neither branch
will readily yield its position to the other,
but that the House must either concede
the point, compromising upon the sus
pension as proposed by the Senate, or
that the present law will continue to
stand undisturbed. ; A vote of the Senate
for suspension be likely, how
ever, to prolong the contest, so far
as to transfer the office-seeking pressure
directly upon the Representatives, who
will find it difficult to resist the urgent
personal appeals of their interested cone ti -
nerds. If the latter cannot secure a
repeal, they will be likely to grasp at the
only attainable approximation to it, and
urge this upon their friends in the House.
SENATOR SCIYTT.
The concurring.testimony. of Senators,
of the press-correspondents and of the
crowded audience who listened to_ the
speech of the new Senator froth Penn
sylvania, on Friday,- upon the question
of repealing or suspending the Tenure
of-'O nce Act, was highly'flattering to Mr.
Scan. The speech was his maiden of-,
fort, and won for his ability; candor
and just 'perceptions 'of Senatorial duty
the highest encomiums on all sides, none
being more cordial in their congratula
tions than were those Senators who held
to another view of the question under
discussion. And the people of this
Com
monwealtht haVe reason to felicitate them
selves upon Its representation by two
statesmen who, however they may may
differ 031 particular questions, are an unit
in upholding the jnfluence, the dignity,
and the Republican faith of the Keystone ,
State. •
AN UNFORTUNATE. SrEP.
The Senatel of Georgia consists of forty :
one members, of whom twenty-seven are
nominally Republicans. Yet, upon the
proposition to reconsider the Indefinite
postponement of the %Nth Article, eight
of these Republicans absented themselves,
and eleven, others voted, against the mo
tionovhich was lost by twenty to thir
teen. This • minority repdsented the
moderate sentiment of both parties, but
the extremists of each patty united to out
number them in the negatih. , Had, the
Senate voted for ratification, the` same
policy thuld doubtless have controlled
the House, and Georgia would have pre
sented herself in an attitude fruitful of the
most beneficial results for all her political
and national interest •
By the grave mistake to which they
have committed themselves, the Repub
licans of Georgia have contributed to this
question an element as pernicious as it
was altdgether needless.. At a single
step. they have forfeited every sympathy
of loyal 'patriotism at the North. It will
be strange if they . do not hereafter look in
vain for that moral support from 'other
quarters of the Union - , which, we can as
sure- them,, has . 'been exercised in their
behalf,'doring the three years past, with
a potency of Influence far beyond' that of
any mere legislation,, no matter how
searchhig and broad its provisions. Hereaf
tar,' it should not surprise theta to perceive
that the qtrelitioi of Ge orgia n reeonetiue,
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PITTSBURGH, GAZkaxie,,: ,310AD4T„. • MARcli, .221,1869.
tion must stand or fall, in Congress or
among loyal people, simply upon the
meritorious principles involved in it, and
altogether without the hearty inipulse and
the direct point which have hitherto
marked the Federal legislation. No longer
disposed to help those who will not help
themselves when they can, Congress need
look for the future only to those consid
-erations which belong to an elevated and
diskterested public policy. •
THE PUBLIC TREASURY AND
CREDIT.
We learn from the new Secretary of
the. Treasury that its condition Is quite
satisfactory; that he has a large sum of
gold on hand ; that the receipts from
Customs, for the current year; promise
to reach 090,000,000, and perhaps $200,-
000,000, a sum not only some twenty or
thirty millions in excess of the estimates,
liut also larger than• before know' in the
history of the Government; that the in
ternal revenue bids fair to reach $150,-
000,000, or even more, quite making good
the largest anticipations from that source;
that, the harmony with which Con
grew; and the Executive 'departments
are moving together In the retrench
-11:01'05f1111,1 j 'aioldable 'expenditures,
taken k, in connection with the large
revenue-receipts, leaves no doubt of
his ability to apply a large sum to the
reduction of the public debt; that be will
sell gold only when the public exigencies
require it, and always in the most public
manner, that the existing legislation does
afford to lam' ample authority for the ap
plication of surplus funds to the purchase
and retirement of : public bonds; that this
process can be pursued without any per
nicious effects upon the money-markets;
and, in fine, that no additional legislation
is 'needed to enable him to conduct all the
affairs of the Treasury for the general
benefit of the people. ,
The Passage of the Public Credit bill—
declaring the pledge of the nation for
the 'coin-payment of all the nation's obli
gations, except when another mode of
payment has been expressly provided,—
has been attended with the moat gratifying
results to our financial reputation. The
economical policy of the new Adminity.
tration contributes powerfully to the
same end. Our five-twenty bonds have
gone up to 84 in the English market,
equal to 92 in American coin; the British
consols, a favorite investment ail over the
world, stand at only 93. We hear that the
sale of our bonds,at the cicise of last week,
in the American markets, and for foreign
account, has been enormous : the trans
actions of Thursday alone, in New York,
amounted to ten millions of dollars, all
to go abroad as the Investment of solid
English and Continental capital.
While every departmer4 of our domes
tic business begins to fee the good effect
of last November's election, we have
these gratifying proofs th tt the same con
fidence is equally entertamed on the other
side of the Atlantic. N 4 is there any
reason to fear any inteiruption in the
continuance and steady increase of this
sentiment. On the contrary, if the coun
try should be blessed with ample harvests,
we may safely count upon such a marked
advande in public and private prosperity
that, when Congress shall meet next De
cember, there will be no questions as to
the National ability to meet all its obliga
tions. It will then be practicable for that
body to devise and adopt further meas
ures for the consolidation.of our debt, and
the reduction of interest upon the bonds.
CONGRESSIONAL FILIBUSTERING.
The State Department advises,Congreas
thafit has no' information, relative to Bl
ahs in San. Domingo and Cuba; other
than what has already been given to the
public. And what the public already
knows is meagre 'enough. This an
cannot but disappoint many
people, who have indulged the hope that
the pertinacity with which General
Hums has kept the annexation movement
before Congress, might be explained and
justified by ample ftcts officially in the
possession of the Government. We were
rewired to hear that formal propositions
bad been made by the Dominican author
ities'ind by the leaders of the Cuban re
volt; that the detailed overtures for
the annexation of those islands
covered every point important to
be considered, and were sup
ported by the clearly • expreased consent
of those , poptilations; that the exposure of
our archives would astonish the country
with such an array of diplomacy and of
fact, as to show that General Hums had,
throughout, been sustained by a situation
in full accordancewith tate expansive,pro
pagandism of his resolutions. We must
confess that we have now to share in the
general disappointment. It seems that
the Chairman df the Hoive Committee on
Foreign Affairs knew. no more than did
the country, and that the State Depart
rant was , - no ,wiser. That significant
.
evaidon; with which General BANES, at
the late session, met the direct enquiry
Whether the government had any infor
mation not yet made public, replying
that "he was not at liberty to say,"
seems to have been only a bit of parlia
mentary strategy—that is is to say, hum
bug. He' will be less linceessful hereafter
in misleading the publlc.mind. '
In view of the very limited extent of
our reliable information from either of
those West Indian islands, it would be
well for the House to defer, for the pre
sent, the adoption of any reselution look
-Mg to either:annexation, or_ recognition;
'and clothing the Epaident with the need.
fill authority, at his- discretion, in the .
premlaes4 ' Such an . Executive diieretion
would be wisely sad not prey ahtrely
ercised, for it is well known that General
GILLET is at present disinclined to extend
to these movements any edictal favor, in
delegation of treaty engagements, or of the
judgment of the great body of the Ameri
can people. But the i resolution would
be itself premature, since no reliable ad
vices are yet at hand to justify it, and its
adoption now by the House could only
awaken a general suspicion that the West
Indian movement is but another name
for some sort of a Congressional job.
And whether it be a job, or merely an
honest but indiscreet ebullition of Ameri
can sympathy, the Senate may be': relied
upon to smother the resolution,as it did a
similar one at the preceeding session.
When the people of San Domingo,
through their recognized authorities, shall
make formal, specific and detailed pro
posals for annexaXten, and when the in
surgents in Cuba shall have established
properly their rights as belligerentaL-with
some reasonable prospect that they can
maintain the independence at which they
aim, and that the annexation which they
profess to desire would not involve the
RePublic in a Spanish war—it will then
be time ito consider such resolutions e as
General Bintts and his coadjutors - now
urge Upon the acceptance of Congress.
That period of time new seems very re
mote—and the more patiently we may
wait for It, the greater the likelihood for
that ultimate expansion of the Republi
can boundaries which, under just condi
tions, will secure the general approbation
of Our enlightenedpeople.
WOMEN AND WORK.
No question has ,been more frequently
discussed than that arising from the diffi
culty experienced by women in earning a
livelihood when thrown upon the world
to gain a subsistence or perchance to pro
vide for the support of hefpless others.
The broad difference between the wages
paid to men and , those begrudgingly be
stowed upon women has been often cited
as evidence of injustice and oppression,
and the abuse heaped upon employers yk,
lug such discrimination has.been beyoall
all measure of reasob. Writing and talk.
ing for a whole century of years can never
accomplish Any reform in the matter or
elevate the weaker sex to the plane of
equality with men in the amount
of wages obtained, provided no
practical method of reform be adop
ted. All labor, like commodities, finds
market value just in proportion
to the supply and demand for the same.
Educate women to perform a certain
class of work in which there is a scarcity
of workmen and a large demand for the
products, and she will have no more
difficulty in obtaining remunerative prices
for her services than have men.
It isnot surprising that the skilled pad:
dlerin the rolling mill exacts and receives
from his 'employers ,wages for his labor.
which double, those ! paid , to the ordi
nary hand, whose work perhaps is much
more arduous, wearing and' exhaustive.
No clamor israised about the injustice of
the wide discrepancY in wages in , his
case, inasrancn as all recognize the fact
that it is the quality, the brain and expe
rience put in the labor, that commands the
higher prices. Hundreds and thousands
of men who never saw the interior of a
rolling mill or factory could perform the
drudgery of the rough bands as well as
those who have ha& years of experience
in that direction; brit there are few pos-.
sessed with that large training and educa
tion acquired by experience which would
render theta capable of discharging the
work falling to those engaged in the lugh
er departments of labor. It is the capa
city 6 do, not the ..amount done, which
regulates the prices paid for labor next to
the unalterable law of supply and demand.
Hitherto women have depended almost
entirely on the needle for support. They
have not been educated to occupy the
'higher positions in the ranks of work
men. A whole army of women follow
in the same path, perform similar work,
and employers are compelled to take ad
vantage of the over supply ottbe-market
and pay what the unthinking py,lanthrop
lc world style starving, priced. For the
seeming injustice of poor wages those
who-go into the market to purchase labor
are not respoOble. They would not be
just to themielvea4 their customers did
they pay moire- ffiithii" services they buy,
than the fair market value et the same.
Women are capable of performing a
variety of work if properly educated and
trained, and if, like men, they master any
branch of the lighter . , mechanics, their
compensation mast rate equal with that
paid the stronger sex. Lately many
women hale, been introduced into the
profession of telegraphy, and die experi
ment has been attended • with the most
flattering results. They prove peculiarly
fitted for the work, and, discharging their
duties equally well a 8 men who pre
viously monopolized die s places, receive
the same compensation.' True, they are
unfitted for the demorriliztigifttud health
breaking night dudes :peCiiiiitfio the city
telegraph offices, yet • for'the lighter day
. ,
service they are in, every respect equal
to the men. Watchmaking, gold work
ing, tißning, paper box making,
marble cutting, manufacturing of del
icate machinery, wood carving,. Mgr!
painting, type setting, clerking,' book
keeping, copying, editing, and bun
dreds of • • other vocations-_ in busy
life now entirely , tilled by men who might
as well be chopping wood or rolling iron,.
could be occupied by *omen whose fair
hands and tertile brains would deielop
equal proficiency if the Proper' training
and ',education were affoited. •
therefore, idle to' la of no opportunities
being offered woman to obtain a liveli
hood, Or 'of the gross injustice of the
world in awarding her pOor pay for her
work. The responsibility should be
charged on those upon whom devolves
the d uty of educating girls, and not upon
business, men and merchants. If they
pre fitted for places in the trades and pro
fessions they can demand and receive the
same remuneration for their work as men,
and until they are so fitted will be com
pelled to eke out a miserable subsistence
on beggarly poor wages.
A SUGGESTION.
Some time since the members of Con
gress from Pennsylvania presented a pe
tition to the State Legislature asking an
appropriation of a sufficient sum of money
to defray the expenses of erecting a colos
sal bronze statue of the limented THAD:
SrovEns on the National Lincoln Monu
ment. While we earnestly.hope that the
Assembly will generously respond to the
request, and thus do honor to the , entire
people of the Commonwealth in honoring.
one of the most illustrious statesmen she
has ever contained, Estill we have a sug
gestionin make. Tn. the State there are,
according to the last annual report of the
Superintendent of Common Schools, 800,-
515 pupils obtaining education to fit them
for active life and make them useful mem
bers of society. Would it not be a grate
ful and pleasing act that a dime volunteer
subscription list should be started among
the pupils, and the better portion 'of the
desired amount be thus raised as a tribute
to the Old Commoner. who was the Father
of the School system of Pennsylvania ?
Prom pupils now in attendance, aided by
those who have received education in the
Common schools and others who prize,
adadre and cherish the system of free and
universal education asi one of the greatest
blessings of our government, there could
be raised nearly the entire amount neces
sary to accomplish the purpose .vith but
trifling, exertions on the part of those
taking the matter in charge. Twelve
thousand dollars, we believe, is the out,
side sum required, and whatever de
ficiency ?n that amount there might be
after the voluntary contributions are
gathered, could be made up by the Legis
lature. Ts our
.suggestion. practical?
Can it be acted upon ?
WartWigton Items.
The President stated to-day, to a New
York member of Congress that he intend
ed to appoint Moses H. Grinnell Collector
of the Port of New York.
The New Hampshire Congress delega
tion united in recommending ea• Gov.
Harriman for the position of Consul Gen
eral at London.
The appointment of Henry D. Moore,
as Collector of Qustoms at Philadelphia,
gives very general satisfaction, and is
spoken of in the highest terms. Senator
Cameron is dissatisfied with it simply be
cause Mr. Moore is beyond the control of
any faction. Senator Scott, of the same
State, warmly indorses the appointment.
A telegram from Ogden, on the Union
Pacific Railroad, reports 1,640 miles of
track down, and the construction corps
laying about two miles per day. One
day lest week about four miles were laid.
The connection will be made by the last
of April or early in .May.
There is an evident feeling of restless•
ness in the Senate, growing out of what
a few call Grant's dictation in the matter
of the Tenute-of-Office law. The propo
sition to repeal the law is weaker than it
was a week ago. Severalgentlemen then
et:punted on to vote for the 'repeal are for
nothing more than suspension and,; one
or two are against either repeal or sus
pension, but for some modification. Sen
ator Scott's speech for suspension'and
against repeed was one of the finest yet
made in the discussion and that of Schurz
attracted close attention from a crowded'
gallery,
The prospect for an early adjournment
looks worse than ever this evening. Busi
ness multiplies, and if Congress remains
three weeks' longer it may stay three
months. The' House is restive, but the
Senate poirs out e'flood of arguments
and takes the situation asif it liked it.
Alez. McClure, of Pennsylvania, had
another long interview with the President
•and came away satisfied this time. Mc
Clure is pleased with Moore's appoint
ment? perhaps principally because Cam
eronia displeased.
There is a strong lobby here pushing.
for a recognition of the Cuban independ
ence by Congress. Many, Senators and
Representatives are said to be for the im-
mediate recognition, but the cautious and
.tlioughtful oppose it. Messrs. Sumner,
ressenden,. Dawes, Schenck and such
members are against all hasty action, and
the• administration agrees with thein. The
President's sympathies are enlisted for
the revolutionists, but he does not favor
premature recognition..
Public Credit.-Equal Rights.,
The following . Is the full text of the
new publie-eredit bill as - signed by the
President:
Be it enacted, etc., That in order to re
move any doubt as to the purpose of the
Government to discharge all just obliga
tions to the public creditors, and to set
tle conflicting questions and interpreta
tions of the law by virtue of which such
obligations have been contracted, It is
hereby, provided and declared that the
faith of • the . United States is solemnly
pledged to payment in coin, or its equiv
alent, of all the obligations of the United-
States not bearing interest, known as
United States notes, and of all the inter
eat-bearing obligations, exeept in cases
where , the law authorizing the issue of
such obligations has expressly protided
that the same may be paid in lawful
money, or in other currency
_than , gold
and silver; but none of the said interest
bearing obligations not already due shall
be redeemed or paid before matunty, un
less at such time United States notes shall
be convertible into coin at the option of
the holder, or indess at such' time bondi
of the United States . bearing ,a lower rate
of interest than the bonds to be redeemed
can be , sold 'at par in_ coin: And the
United States also solethnly pledges its
faith 'to make proyision at the earliest
...';:!';'- - " T :::..71;:' , .'7;::::'...;!7,'
practiiible 'period for the redlemphon of
the United States notes in coin.
JAMES G. BLerss,
Speaker cf the House of Representatives.
SCHUYLER CO LFAx,
Vice President of the United States and.
Preident of the Senate.
Approved: U. S. GRANT.
March 18,1860. •
The bill for the further security of
equal rights in the District of Columbia.
is a law, and is as follows:
Be it enacted, etc., That the word
"white," whereygr it occurs in the laws
relating to the District of Colombia, or
In the charter or ordinances of , the cities
of Washington and Georgetown, and
operates as a limitation on the right of
any elector of such District, or of either
of the cities, to hold any office, or to be
selieted and serve as a juror, be, and the
same is hereby, repealed, and it tit shall be
unlawful for any person or o cer to en- •
force or attempt to enforce et ch limita
tion after the passage of this act.
The Tenure.of-Office Questloh.
•
Washington dispatches say: Scott,
Schttrzy Sprague, Nye, Corbett and Bay
ard made speeches, that of Schurz being,
perhaps, considering its brevity, the
ablest yet delivered. It created general
comment, not only for its choice lan
guage, but for the eloquent manner of its
delivery.
The argutnent was especially effective.
His reinark, that he could not,believe
that Grant would endeavor to force - :the
Senate to repeal the Tenure-of-Office act
by refusing to make removals, created a
profound impression. There is consid
erable anxiety felt among Republicans
lest the Senate should unconditionally re
peal the act, and the disposition increases
to make a strong stand in this matter
against executive influence.
Mr. Scott's speech was worthy of the
interest manifested by his hearers, even
if it had been the effort of an older mem
ber, for it was replete with pointed argu
ment, and at times remarkable for the
brilliancy of its rhetoric. The Senator
male a marked impression by his review
of the President's power of removal.
• All interest at the White House and
departments, as well as at tio" Capitol,
centres on the question. •
The prospects of the repeal have grown
dimmer and dimmer ter some days.
Senator Morton staed distinctly in the
Senate tfiat the President will not
make nominations, except to fill vacan
cies, while the act remains, not even
while the Senate is in' session. That
appears .to be 'his interpretation of the
law. The office seekers say so, and they
must know. And further, these men,
now that nothing is being done at the
White House, swarm around the Senate
chamber, urging the repeal of the act.
They care nothing for the principlea in
volved, but clamor for repeal, that the
appointments to office may begin: It is
astonishing that this tremendous outside
pressure has not had more effect on the
Senate. '•
Art English Court has had to decide
what a velocipede is. A gentleman
crossed a toll-bridge mounted upon a bi
cycle, and was stopped at the toll-house.
The collector examined the machine, and
then pored over his list of rates, but could
not find anything relating to such a ve
hicle. At last he decided that it must be
a wheelbarrow, and required the rider to
pay two-pence toll. The latter was in
dignant, and brought a suit against the
toll collector. . ,
EXAMINE BEFORE CONDEMNING.
One of the most important considerations to
those woo wish to live haPPIIT. Is that of human
health: a fact well known and deeply deplored
by all who have lo:t or hid it impaired.. We
know well enough that the thousands of com
pounds for its restoration are in many instances
merely the inventions of those who desire to be
guile th e public and enrich themselves. • It there
fore Deeming those who do not wish to be im
pend upon. to examine the proof of the el:lnsley •
of a medicine, tot fore trusting to its merits, or
tampering with their health. DR. ]GEYSER'S
BLOOD SEARCHER. In the class of diseases for
which he recommends it, is without a peer or a
rival. It stands =hung blood purifying and a n .-
terative medicine, as the Alps among mountains,
overtopping them. The rich vegetable juices of
which it is composed are sure to renew the blood
and re-invtgorate the frame of man. We wish it:
understood, however, that we speak solely of
chroaio diseases-and ethose which have their
origin In a depraved and cachectic state of the
system. We would much rather that not one bot
tle of this great Blood Searcher should ever be
sold, than It should not do good; and In every
case to which it is suited, it will do good. There
are 'thousands of readers of the Gazierre who
have some slight indisposition Or aliment incon
veniencing or • interfei ing with the • enjoy.
mein of life, who could he cured by the
use of 'less than a b Atti of Dr, Kei
ser's Blood Searcher. Especially is this
true at this season of the year, -when the Powers
of lifb, , like the changes of the' seasonii"ere
emerging from the state of winter to spring. and
spring to summer. 'The dollar that you expend
to buy it will be regarded as ol little consequence
when placed in the scale with that renewed in-'
ergy and elasticity of health which It wltlbe sure
to impart. And besides, the tone which it gives
is lasting and reel, Wholly, unlike the fiery and
spasmodic glow imparted by most steed:tone
stimulants; fur whilst these corrode and depress
the system when' thelr stimulating. effects have
pasted off, that invigorates the stomach, reneks
its vital powers, 'bols 'its irritated coats, and
enables It to concoct and convert into chyle the
food which is received into it ibr tbat-Aend. No
one can overestimate the value-to health of a
single bottle of Dr. E. yier's Blood Searcher at
this season of the year., It will makenfe and
health to bloom underite is iluence like the genial
rays Of the sun Ipvigoratee and starts into file
the whgle Intel of Nature: SOLD BY THE
GROSS, DOZEN OR SINGLE BOTTLE, AT
' THE DOCTOR'S GREAT NEW 'MEDICINE
-STORE, NO. - 167 LIBERTY STREET. DR.
IrzysitlVS CONSULTING OFFICE FOR ALL.
ormolu° DISEASES, NO. 120 , PENN
STREET, FROM 10 A. M. 'UNTIL 4P. M. .
WITHOUT A GOOD DIGESTION
Ail other temporal Vessings are comparatively
worthless. The dyspeptic millionaire Who has
tried all the potions of the Medical' profession in
valn. and believes his coin/debit to be incurable,
would give half his fortune to be freed from the
horrors of indlges , t 0 ,.. and thus enabled to enloY
the other half'. Of course SO P ould.
_ erhaps HO4TOI'PrEst'STMACH BITT'FiRS
has been recommended to such a sufferer.- Possi
bly he has turned front the friend who made the
suggestion with a sneer, intimating that he has
no faith In any "patent medicine." If ibis has
twen the case, ea musit the wsree for Alen. ...His
ineredullity dooms him to a life of misery. All
the luxuries 'which wesith esti purchase, are at
his command. Not one of them can give him
pleasure. .H ownirrational obstinacy Is his
The mosses, happily for themselves, are less'
e.
skeptics . There 15 such a thing as bfgoted tmbe
her, as well as
the y tw o and a golden
mean between the two, which men and women
-who are gifted with common sense. adopt and
profit by. These are the doss &hat patronizetand
recommend HOSTATTEIR:S BITTN.RS. Why do.
lbilliPPrevethis ns r ohs anti-dyspeptic and anti
.bilions preparation? Simply because they have
not been too much the slaves of lenselesa preiti-A
dlce to give It a fair trial , and have found that
when all ether tonics, stimulants and stomachica
failed. it produced the desired effect.
"Strike, but hear." said the Homan ssge:when
his ignorant enemies were assailing Mim.
"Doubt,- but tjiy," says toe man who has
been cured of.ibdigestlon or biliousness, Orin- •
lermittent fever, by the Bitters, as he relates
friendserience, of . the medicine to his invalid
Whoever la so 'wedded hit fbregune
theoretical cOseinsions. - as to decline to test the
properties 'of a medicine endorsed by the telitl.
moor. of Intelligent men In every w : k.pad approved by. the people at large trees to
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