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THURSDAY. MARCH 25. 1869
Ws nazaii on the inside pages- of this
morning's GAzErzz—lilecond page : Poe-
Sry, Ephemeris, Miscellaneous. Third
and Sixth page.: Commercial, Mercan
tile, Rnanciat and River Hews, Markets,
Imports. Seventh page: General Miscel
lany of Interesting Reading Matter.
Pa"raoLainr at Antwerp, 54@,56f.
U. S. BONDS ai Fralakfort.-871®87i
GOLD closed in New York yesterday at
31f.
'DEMOCRAtIC fraud is an expensive
pleasure. The judicial election infest!.
gstion cue of Philadelphia cost the State
-over six thousand dollars.
Tun bill to repeal the Tenure•of-Ofllce
act was again before the Senate yester
day, and the substitute reported by the
Judiciary Conuni : dopted.
wriorts and laws in these
Unaware like turn.pikes—made to be
liampledon."—Louueilis Journal.
What a pity the Democrats are no lon
zer the toll gatherers,
As WE anticipated, KAurrmax, the
child murderer,: was found guilty of mur
derin the second degree, yesterday, by the
jury trying his case. He will be sen
tenced on Saturday.
Tire inaugural . address of President
- Grum , has been received with marked ap
probation by the Intelligent masses of for countries, and has had the effect of
reassuring the confidence reposed in the
willingness and ability of the country to
discharge its obligations.
TER NAME of liostmaster THOMAS, of
Cincinnati, is presented by a correspon
dent oP the Enquirer, of that city, for
Mayor, in the hope of smashing up the
party machine. Mr. Thomas appears to
be regarded by his friends as one born
not to breathe outside of a good paying
office.
IT Is asserted that the bill creating a
Paid Fire Department will come up in a
new shape at the meeting of Councils
next Monday. The ' people are tired
reading the discussions of the City Filth
en on the subject and would be glad to
have the measure` settled one way or an
other.
Mn. PHILIP Homan, a very worthy Re
. publican, and one who lost his leg at
-(Jettysburg,, has received the appoint
ment of Postmaster for Birmingham, this
- present efficient incumbent, Mr. E. G.
Kesusn, declining to continue in the
service. We are sincerely glad to record
this action of the President, as no more
worthy selection could have been made.
A " TRAVIELLING" . cotemporary in
dulged itself in the prediction, yesterday,
that the new Tenure-of -Office bill would
not pass the House, and, therefore, that
"some time will elapse before the Presi
dent makes any changes except where
vacancies exist" If the wish werereally
ether to that thought, it would, be un
charitable in us to say so.
casi of hydrophobia has been re
'ported in Cincinnati. With this terrible
disease prevailing mist and west of us we
think some active measures should at once
be adopted by the Mayor to rid our streets
of the thousands of villainous curs that
roam at hill liberty. Must we wait for a
ease of hydrophobia in. Pittsburgh before
any action is 'taken to guard the lives of
citizens from the awful danger to which
they are dallyaubjected?
• Axiom , has been paued by the State
_Legislature incorporating the Young
Men's Ohristlo Association of Pith s .
burgh, for the ptupose of improving the
spiritual, intellectual and social condition
of the yoing men of taese two cities and
vicinities. We are gladsto note this tak
ing of new life by an association that is a
credit to, the city containing it, and we
trust the ilember3 may push forward the
amble labor voluntarily and for the . good
of k y taken upon themsel
Mn. Bowmen of the New York Ledger,
is not yet dead to enterprise. Nearly
every exchange we take up, great and
small, contains the opening chapter, pub
lishedlat so much per line. of the brilliant
lew story of "Red Knife," which has
conmmnced in his journal. The :Ledger
is the beet living evidence of what ad-
Teribng will accomplish. Its circula
tion can hardly be counted, while its
character and attractions are worthy the
Ayer of_the millions who cling to it as a
family hearthstone journal.
THE TRAMS upon which the Tenere.ot
office question/ hie been' adjusted, at
Woadilgtclif were fully stated in yeater
day'e Gleurrs. The new bill has been
reported to the Eienatti and will soon be
sent to the House. Its provisions are en
tirely satisfactory to the President
which disposes of the rumor that he
would veto any bill providing for less
than an unqualified repeal. Indeed, there
is no longer a question but that the House
will also concur in accepting this solution
of a troublesome problem.
Ott
THE NEW Burman Mnirismr has
achieved its first victory fox Liberty In
Church and 'State.. A decisive majarity
in the Commons upon the Irish Church
question responds to the expectations of
the nation and to the demands of an en
lightened progress. The majority 'for
diseitablishment was fully up to the best
figure which has been, claimed since the
close of the elections, while its vote was
welcomed by a popular enthusiasm which
revives the recollection of the anti• Cor
n struggle and triumph under PEEL:
THE SELECT Comm/Tax on the Cen
sus bas reported a bill to the House pro
viding for the taking of the census o '
18701 which will probably be passed by,
Congress. It provides that the work
shall be done by InspeCtors, specially ap
pointed by the head of a census bureau in
the Department of the Interior, for the
Various Congressional and Territorial
Districts. The work is to commence on
the first of April, 1870, and to close in two
months thereafter, but the bureau is to
have eilstence till May Ist, 1872. The ba
sis of representation in Congress is to be
fixed hereafter at one member for every
170,000 of population. If so, the Twen
ty-Second District will hardly gain one
more member, as generally anticipated.
TES UNION PACIFIC RAE/10AD is now
open to travel and trains are running its
full length. The • recent statement of
passengers who complained of the hard
ships endured coming over it eastward
are denounced as ex parts and unworthy
credence, having been made, it is charged,
in the interest of a rival enterprise. Our
experience on that road was such as to
I give us high opinion of its management,
and when the card referred to was pub
lished, complaining of the inefficiency
andindifference of the employis, we con
cluded there was some grave mistake, as
no road in the country has better, more
accommodating and courteous gentlemen
in its service. We are pleased the state
ment has been authoritatively denied,
and to learn that the impediments to
travel have, been no greater this winter
on that route cutting through the back
bone of the continent than on many of
our own railways penetrating mountain.
ous regions.
nat rzoPoarrioN to commit the con
'duct of our Indian affairs to Friends, at
least so far as to select the Agents from
that denomination, does not meet the ap
proval of the Indian ring. When we
consider-that this ring Is made up of men
eminent for their Christian philanthropy,
we need not be surprised that their con
sciences tenderly protest against the em
ployment of Friends in a business which
might conflict , with their peculiar peace
principles. As the Agents have usu*ly
had frequent occasion for the use of mili
tary force, the ring proposes to spare
Friends the pain of such distasteful busi
ness—and, in short, not to employ them
at all. But the President has an idea that
if more Quakers and fewer soldiers are
employed in that department, it will re
do and to the interests of the country, as
well as of the red men themselves. • The
experiment is worth trying, even without
the approbation or in spite of the consci
entious objections of the ring, which now
attempts to prevent it.
IT is swan than probable that a thou-
sand newspapers throughout the country
will to•morrow herald the annonnoemem
that Pennsylvania has taken her place
among those States that have ratified the
XVth Constitutional Amendment. This
night at half.past ten orelock the final ,
I vote on the measure will be taken, and
we risk nothing in asserting the verdict •
in advance. _We believe the masses are
in favor of the Amendment ; if they are
not now willing. to award long deliyed
justice to an oppressed race, -we are mis
taken. in their intelligence and love for
freedom, liberty and equality. However,
whether the measure be popular or un
popular, the Republican representatives
in the Legislature cannot afford to refuse
to !to right, no matter what consequences
may follow their votes. A party that
fears to do what it knows to be just and
proper, had better crumble than thrive'on
false principles and cowardice.
tlur Cenzr, a demogogue of the first
water, has been taking high= grounds
against the Goverruzient of Great Britain
for daring to hold - American American• Citizene of
Fenian proclivities, as prisoners. Poor
CARET has had an eventful career In poli
tics. and it does sound strange in the ears
of his adudruns to hear him give vent to
the deep love he has
,suddenly found for
poor Pat, who, • few years .ago, he was
willing should take second rank to the
negro, and, if his religion was Catholic,
should be deprived of holding office or
even participating in an e!ection. But
helium wants to be Governor of Ohio,
and he must pave his way to Imi:4mm:o
-riel honors, no matter how much he may
have to swallow aids past recoriL In his
new role of Fenian he appears about as
ridiculous as he did in addressing the la
bor reform party here liar when
\ he forgot to lay aside his gold headed
cane; heavy watch chain and fine broad
cloth, whichgave the lie to his sympathy
'end Identity with the bone and muscle
PITTSBURGH GAZETTE: THURSDAY; MARCH - 125, 1868
arrayed against the monied princes of the
day. But we should be grateful to SAM
trEL. He helped to defeat Btruriy the
soft-handed champion of labor, more than
any Republican orator on the stump in
the district. Let him give up his aspira
tions for the Goveniorahip of Ohio, and
we will sign his petition for appointment
as Consul to Cork, a position which may
fully develope his lately discovered Fen-
ian proclivities.
SAVE 178 FROIII OUR FRIENDS.
The solid claims of home industry are
too thoroughly and intelligently appreci
ated in this community, to be successfully
obscured by the stupidity or the malice of
some of our journalists. We have here
a number of such people who are alto
g.ther ignorant of the first principles of
political economy; who are entirely too
obtuse to be capable of comprehending a
broad, cosmopolitan idea, unless It were
fired into their brains from a RonmAn
gun; whose knowledge of the laws of
commerce is practically confined to the
petty Tange of their own personal experi.
en4e; and whose code of professional mor
als'seems to be constructed upon the soli
tary principle of keeping themselves at
the expense of their neighbors. Suffered
by an inscrutable Providence to control
Presses and type, they appear to be ani-
mated by no higher ambition than te howl
periodically in unison in a sort of mad
dog-cry of "free -trade" against any ar
gument or proposition a bove the plane of
their feeble comprehensions. Upon the
old principle, that everything unknown to
them is of necessity monstrous and false,
they instinctively attack whatever they
may fall to understand, often assailing
with their noisy clamor, the oldest, truest
and most intelligent friends of industrial
protection—especially when these have the
hardihood to present an established pzin
ciple in any novel light.
Thus, once a month or oftener, we hear
them snarling upon the footsteps of the
GazierrE, Luckily, we are well used to
this sort of thing and it gives us not the
least concern. This journal has been too
favorably known, as identified for the
generation past, with the American move
ment in favor of industrial protection,
to be damaged in the public estimation by
thi stupid ignorance and jealousy of any
of its cotemporaries. We might be con
cerned by apprehensions, that a great prin
ciple be made to suffer in the popular
regard, by the damaging friendship of
advocates who have .ntither information
nor prudence. For the worst enemies of
our home industry are those journalists,
whose clumsy antics bring needless odi
um upon an honorable cause. But, font"-
rudely, they, have little influence at home,
and none, whatever, abroad. No enligh.
Weed advocate of home protection looks to
them for instruction or valuable aid, and
not even the enemies of. the American
system would do it the injustice to hold
it responsible : for the blundering stupidity
of a portion of the Pittsburgh Press,
ERIE AND TADDRANY.
A new element and a new agency are
about to be introduced to New York pol
itics. It is stated that the Erie railway
and Tammany Hall have formed a close
alliance; for their mutual benefit, and now
present a common front strong enough to
prevail over any opposition. This Start
ling programme seems to be verified by
such facts as have transpired. Messrs.
TWEED and SWEENEY, new Directors of
the Erie, are the well-known leaders of
the New York Democracy; with Messrs.
GOULD, FMK and LANE, thoy monopo
lize the exclusive management, , of the
sway, and its extended affiliations
throughout the West. Hundreds of
towns and villages are traversed by these
roads. which earn a gross annual total of
more than twenty millions of dollars, and
employ in various capacities nn army of
twenty-five thousand men. These men
may be mobilized, and their votes cast at
such points, and in such States, as the
ring needs to secure, electing county offi
cers, legislators - and even turning the
scale on State tickets. The road has al
ready controlled an average of twenty
members in the New York Legislature;
Combined now with the Tammany ring,
making a body "rolled into one and
turned loose on the field of politics," the
machine is organized which may tempo
rarily triumph over all opposition.
It is New York which must suffer from
the resulting mischiefs of this organized
corruption. There, we can readily see,
in the light of past experience, that it
may prove irresistibly' potent. In Penn
sylvania and Ohio, there is little to be ap
prehended from it. This field offers to
the Erie-Tammany ring but one really
serviceable railway ally, while there are
opposing interests with a local jealousy
and popular vigilance quite strong
enough sllsogether to take care of the
free-booting intruders,
With New York, the case is different.
Its great metropolis, with the whole of
that Southern tier of counties through
which the Erie line sweeps, may be ae
:eerily and efficiently controlled by the
new combination, as was that narrow belt
of New Jersey in which, last November,
it delivend its first successful blow,
throwing the State over to SEYMOUR and
Butts. Commanding, through the. Tam•
many organization, a majority of forty
toeiithty thousand in the city, and holding
this as its fulcrum. enough of the rural
districts can be colonized to sweep the
State Legislature and deliver over New
York to the domirdon of financial and
political corruption tor years to come.
Erie and Tammany have both found that
they have need for each other, and it was
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altogether natural that they should
equallrgravitate into this infernal alli
ance against commercial morality; and
public integrliy. The league may pros
per for a while—but not always.
SPRING TRADE.
Hereabouts, merchants, manufacturers,
traders and mechanics are hopeful
of the good times to be encompassed by
the present year, and are preparing for
a harvest of profits, in the coming
Spring and Pall trades. Since the
cloSe of the war our merchants have
acted with extreme caution and prudence.
They have, as a general thing. made no
rash adventures, risked little on specula-
Lions and conducted their business on very
small stocks, thus ensuring a safe basis.
Oat of such a system they have garnered
strength, and, as the markets become set
tled, and as trade resumes its wonted chan
nels, they are found fully prepared for the
successful trnnsaction of business. Many
of the leading manufacturers have amassed
heavy stocks to meet expected orders,
while most of our jobbing houses com
mence the spring trade with much larger
supplies of goods than have graced their
shelves for many years. Considerable
ti
portions of e crops of Western Penn
sylvania, Ea tern Ohio and Western Vir
ginia are ye held by the producer, and
as soon as e weather opens will be
moved to the city to give fresh lifeto
business and put more money in circula
tion. Awaiting the spring rise in our
rivers, there are acres of coal destined for
points below, from, which money.rettis
may. be expected about the beginning of
May. Labor will be in demand, as about
the middle of April the erection of hun
dreds of new buildings for business and
private purposes will be commenced and
large numbers of men will find emploY
ment on them up to the opening of win
ter. Altogether our prospects fOr 1869
are brilliant and rosy, and when the year.
closes it will be upon one of the most sue-'
cesaful and' prosperous terms we have
enjoyed since the close of the rebellioM'
A LETTBR from Cheyenne to the Al:.
bany Evening Journal discusses the
culties winch the current winter has pre;''
sented, obstructing business upon the• !
Union Pacific Railroad, and concludei
with the opinion:
"That the Union Pacific can be made
as serviceable and reliable a road as the
Pennsylvania Central. There is no more
snow over the one than over the other. ,
It will be necessary to shed and wind-1
break the track over the mountains. The'
Pennsylvania Central found that to be,
necessary, and promptly accomplished
it; the Unio Pacific, now undergoin ifs
first winter cam n paign, has already ton g
ed
It necessary, and they will Pe as Prompt,
to accomplish it as was the nnvivanis
Central. They mast do it, otherwise the
road will, as the St. Louis men assert",
prove a failure.
Wass the new Administration prompt.
ly relieved the Union men of Mississippi
from the Johnsonian infliction upon them
of a rebel sympathizer, in the person of
General Gmatt, as their Military Com
mander, his departure was made the oc
casion for an outburst of rebel sympathy
and adulation favor his especial friends.
At a meeting held in his honor at Vicks
bhrg, the ex-Rebel General Wiwr Anexs
said,:
I cordially approve and indorse the
objects of this meeting. In the adminis
tration of General (Allem, I have seen
nothing but What I could heartily ap
prove., He was sent here to execute
some infamous acts of Congress, which
were oppressive and utterly unconstitu
tional, but with unlimited power to op
press us, he has protected us. He might,
like that Infamous Sheridan, of Loulat
ana, or that atrocious Sickles, of Caroli
na, or that tyrannical Meade, of Georgia,
have seen fit to execute the power im
posed. He has allowed the civil affairs
of the State to remain in the hands of
our friends. He made no appointments
that the people cannot approve,nor has he
given any carpet-bager any show. His
administration would have done credit
to one of our citizens. Recently he made
a plignmage to Washington, to ward
from as and prevent that Infamous Con
stitution from being imposed upon us,
by a lot of political knaves in Congress
ge went before the Reconstruction Com
mittee in our behalf. This noble soldier
has won greater honors (in my opinion)
Innis administration of the civil affairs
in Mississippi, than as a soldier. Indeed
I can compare this man to but one -man
in history, that is to that noble Atheni
an, ' , Aristides the Just," for the , great
service he has rendered ns.
Time's Last Whirligig.
It has taken eight years, less one
month, for the whirligig of Time to take
its revenges and to make its changes.
Andrew Johnson has finally swung clear
around the circle, and here is where he
brings up.
A dispatch from Washington, dated
the 19th, says: ' 4 Ex-President Johnson,
Mrs. Johnson. Judge Patterson and fam
ily,
ton and Col. Robert Johnson left Wash
ing for Greenville, Tenn.. ,
this morn
ing. The ex-president has accepted tho
invitation of the citizens of Lynchburg,
Vs., to. partake of the hospitalities of their
city.. He will remain there to-morrow."
Turn we now to history. Mr. Johnson
"left Washington City on hilreturn home
in April, 1861, and on the 21st of that
month he suffered,' personal peril at
Lynchburg,. Va., being groaned and
hissed by,a large mob, who threatened to
take him from 'he cars to hang him. The
Memphii Avalanche of April 25th exul
tantly described his having his nose
pulled by iriluriated men, backed by
mobs, at .Libirty,Ya., and at other places
along his route from Washington to
Tennesse."
This 18 the first time in eight years
that Mr. Johnson has traversed the old
familiar route home. On the last trip he,
was treated contumeliously. On the'
present, he is an honored guest. But it
is fair to presume that tEe leaders and
abettors of the mob in 1861 are the head
centres of the civic hospitality that
Lynchburg has to bestow today. Who
has changed ? Does any one doubt that
the convictions'of the Lynchburg people
are the same today that they were be
fore the wart Why, within a month,
they crowded into the cars to hoot and
revile the feeble old Parson Brownlow,
who represents to them the same faith
that they were ready to' mob eight years
since.—N. P. Adartieer.
BRIEF TELEGRAMS.
—e examination of Puke, the alleged
wife poisoner of Fitchburg, Mass., was
again postponed until the 29th.
—An Israelite named Hersch commit
ted suicide Tuesday morning by banging
himself in a Hebrew Synagogue, in Cin
cinnati.
—Timothy Creedon died yesterday in
Cincinnati of hydrophobia. He was bit
ten nine weeks ago, and took to bed one
week since.
7—The late snow storm in Canada-has
been followed by heavy rains, which
have caused immense destruction to
property in some parts.
—The Senate of Rhode Island has post
poned the consideration of the Fifteenth
Amendment to the Constitution of the
United States ntil the May session.
—The majori tyfor the South Side Park
in Chicago's 3.305, and for the West Side '
Parks 142, The parks created by this
vote will embrace two thousand acres.
—Advises from St. John, N. 8., state
that the sonw there is six feet deep on a
level, and that the Canadians are desert-
ing the flats, as they fear a destructive
flood. '
7-Rio Janeiro amtviote that Lopez
is collecting his army at he month of the
Tebuquy river, and a Buenos Ayres let
ter states that it is reported he has ceded
Paraguay to the United States. •
—Hill & Hu bbell's lumber yard, at Nor
walk, Conn., was burned Monday morn
ing, with a loss of between $50,000 and
8
0,000, On
sBo whi oooch there was an insurance
of about ,
—A. C. Long, recently a grain dealer
at Detroit, charged with forgery, was ar
rested at Madison, Ark., on Tuesday and
taken to Memphis, to await a requisition
from the Governor of Michigan.
—St. Nicholas Hail, at Saratoga, was
burned Tdesday morning. The loss is
estimated at $20,000; insured. Van De n .
Ben's dry goods store was damaged to the
amount of $lO,OOO, and was fully insured.
.
--An affray took place in Mrs. Allyn's
boarding house, at Jacksonville, Illinois,
arm saay night, in which a man named
Hshot another named Onstead,
fatally injuring him. Harm is in custody.
—Lieutenant General Philip H. Sheri
dan and Colonel Schuyler Crosby,his
chief of staff, arrived at Chicago en ad
nesday. The . Irish Rifles tendered him
a serenade, but he, declined, as his tint*
would be ally occtipied.
—The Republican City Convention of
'Cincinnati nominated John F. Torrence
'for Mayor. Torrence is now State t3ena
ter. The Democratic
ruh Executive Com
mittee decided not to a emocra tic,
but a Citizens' Reform Hake, D
for the city
election.
Rhode Island Democratic State
Convention nominated theoc r
following
ticket : For Governor, Lyman Pierce, of
• rovidence; Lieutenant Governor, Wm.
IL Allen; Secretary of State, Wm. J.
Miller; Attorney General, Geo. N. Bliss;
General Treasurer, Caleb Rider.
—James Johnson, alias Cady Mat
thews, charged with highway robbery in
Fulton county, ew York, and th
counterfeiting Unit Ned States money, wi was
arrested, after a desperate resistance, at
Fort Erie, Canada; on Wednesday, under
a requisition tot the President of the
United States. ( i
—A large and enthushistic railroad
convention was in session .at Waterloo,
lowa, on Wednesday, for this purpose of
organizing .a gempany to build a road
from McGregor - to Des Moines via Wa
terloo and Marsluillown. " All the coun
ties interested were represented. The
prospect for the road looks favorable.
—:Goyernor Palmer, og Illinois, has
called a special election in the Third
Congressional District of that State for a
member of Congress in place of Hon.
E. B. Washburne, resigned:. The day of
the election is appointed for June Bth.
The district comprises the counties of
Jo Daviess, Carroll, Stephenson, Ogle,
Lee and Whiteside.
—ln Cincinnati. on Tuesday afternoon,
three robbers entered Mr. Schlenker's
house, gagged Mrs. Schlenker who was
alone, anti escaped with $2,..400, which
Mrs. Schlenker had just received for
property sold. John Pierce was arrested
and confessed that be was one of the
robbers. Wm. Ellis was arrested on
suspicion, and one escaped. The money
has not been recovered.
—Jake Allen, colored, employed on
the plantation of Dr. James Coleman,
twelve miles from Athena, Ala., was
called out Monday night from his cabin
by a white man undisguised, shot and
killed. All the white people in the
neighborhood collected and made efforts
without success, to arrest themurderer
who Is unknown. They are determineci
to bring him to justice, if possible.
--Quite a number of the members of
Brigham Young's family arrived in Chi
cago yesterday. and stopped at the
Briggs House. They are Mrs. A. Young;
wife of Brigham Young; Joseph A.
Young, son of Brigham.
.and wife; Miss
Nettle Young, daughter of Brigham;
James T. and Miss Little, Brigham
Young's nephew and niece. Accom
panying them were B. H. Stenhouse,
proprietor of the . Salt Lake Telegraph,
his daughter and others. •
—The vacancy in the Supreme Court
of Massachusetts, caused by the relligna
tion of Judge Hoar, who accepted the
position of Attorney General in Presi
dent Grant's Cabinet. has been tendered
by Governor Clan], of Massachusetts,
.to Hon. H. L. Dawes. As Mr. Dawes
acceptance would necessitate his retire
ment from public life, occupying, as he
does, one of the moat prominent posi
tions in the House, as hairman of the
Committee on Appropriations, it is be
lieved that he will decline th e appoint
znent.
Suicide of a Balfrotd Contractor... Ran.
rea4Accutent In IfWhole.
Mg Telegrams' to the Pittsburgh Garr Ste.)
Carc.too, March 24.—T. H. Lackey, a
railroad contractor, of Battle Creek,
Michigan, committed suicide in his
room at the Massasoit !tonne, Chicago. on
Thursday night, by taking morphine.
He was discovered about pie o'clock
Wednesday morning and had evidently
been dead several hours. He had been
freely indulging in strong drink for some
days previous,
The rear car of the express train
which left Qffiney, Illinois, Wednesday
morning for Chicago, over the Chicago,
thrown
Burlington and Quincy Railroad, was
from the track at a point some
two miles west of Rarlyille about one
o'clociciii the afternoon, and was badly
smashed up. Some eight or ten passen
gers were more or less Injured, one of
whom, a man whose name could not be
learned, can scarcely recover. The car
ran some twenty rods over the ties, after
leaving the track, and then capsized,
completely taking the roof oft The man
-who was fatally injured. ;lashed to the
front door and the car stopping suddenly,
threw him some distance, landing him
on his faoe,which wasfearfun3. mutilated.
CarcwoodittarchgC—At the open Board
In afternoon there was a moderate in
quiry for wheat; No. 2 spring selling at
closin at s4lll,llyi.
Corn and Oats dull and - nominal. In
the evening , there was a little- doing. ,
Grain was inactive.. Provialomf-quiet,
but a little firmer. Bales of.- 500 bble
mesa pork at pi cash.
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- Webster City, lowa.
A resident of Webster City, lowa, who
was asked for information regarding the
place, writes to a friend in this city as
follows, concerning that flourishing west
ern town :
Webster City is the caplial of Hamil-
ton oonntv. The, population at present is
about fifteen hundred, but a large in
crease is
_anticipated the coming season.
It is Composed principally of Eastern
people—from New England. New York,
Ohio, Indiana. die ; a few Germans and
less Irish. Society is not of the "codfish
aristocracy" sort I have found in someof
the Eastern States. Me have a quiet,
sober and sociable people, full of energy
and enterprise. There are several fine
churches and public schools in the place.
A real live newspaper (The Hamilton
Freeman) has been published here for
nearly ten years, and is Well supported;
its columns teem with advertisements
of our thrifty merchants and manufac=
curers, of which there are quite a num
ber of various kinds. •
The railroad to Webster City is now,
completed; a fine bridge built; Boone
'river is bridged, and in a few days we
will have regular trains runningtete. •
The county and city is filling uprapidly,,
which requires the building of many.
residences, school houses, chniches,'
bridges and other improvements, so that'
labor is plenty and wages good.
*The price of land in the vicinity differs
according to the quality and location. ,
Unimproved prairie land ranges' from
five to fifteen dollars per acre; while im
larsproved is sold for from fifteen to fifty dol
.
A great portion of the land in the vi
cinity is underlaid with excellent coal,
and there are a number of pits in opera
tion, furnishing the citizens with that ar
ticle of fuel.
• For those who are used to city life it
would probably require spine sacrifices
on their part to adapt themselves to
life on a quiet lowa farm, or even of a
country village, but living here is not
like it is in a backwoods country.
Taken altogether, I believe a bright fu
ture awaits Webster City. J. E.
NEW YORK CITY.
By Telegraph to the Pittsburgh Gaiatte4
Naw Yogi, March 24,:1889.
The somewhat notorious litigation
heretofore, pending before Judge Bar
nard in the case of the still more noto
rious Jas. Fisk vs. the Union Pacific .
Railroad, has been transferred to the
United States Circuit Court,sferr by order of
Judg,e Biatctiford.
The steamer Westphalia, frOm Ham
burg .via Havre, brought five million
francs specie.
A man who passed twenty-four hours
in New York sewers, emerged to-day
with a bag full of watches, jewelry and
other valuables.
Markets by Telegraph.
Naw ORLEAris, March 24.--Cotton ac
tive aqd go higher; middlings 2fic;
receipts, 1.000 bales; 'sales, 0.400 bales.
Gold, -132 x. Exchange sterling, 142 X;
commercial, 141®14131. New York
sight, 34 per cent. premium. Sugar dull
and unchanged. Molasses 750 for prime.
Flour dull; superfine,4s.62©s,7s; double
extra. 0; treble extra, $6,50. Corn quiet
at 7&@7Bc. Oats firmer at 65c: held
68c. Bran unchanged. Hay firm; Prime
1126,50@27. Pork dull, at /33,25. Bacon
dull and lower; shoulders, 14,0; clear
rib aides, 1730; clear aides, 173ie.
ard
4ull and unchanged. Whisky nominal:
western rectified 85(490c. Coffee dull; fair
14%®153ic, and prime 16%®173;0. A
heavy rain prevailed all day, which pre,
vented much business except in cotton.
EXAMINE BEFORE CONDEMNING:
One of the most' Important considerations to
those woo wish to live happily, Is that of human
health; a tact well known and deeply deplored
by ail who have lost or had it Impaired. We
know well enough that the •thousands of com
pounds for Its restoration are in many instances
Merely the inyentions of those who desireto be
guile the public and enrich themselves. It there
fore becomes those who do not will' to be im
posed upon, to examine the proof of the ellicacY
of.As medicine, be fore trusting to its merits, or
tampering with their' health DR. KEYSER'S
BLOOD SEARCHER, n the class of diseases for
which he recommends it, is without a peer or a
rival. - It stands among blood purifying and st. , ,
'terative medicine; as the Alps among mountains,` •
overtopping them. The rich vegetable juices of
which it is composed arc sure to renew the blood
and re-Invigorate the frame of man. We wish it
understood, however. that we speak solely of
•chreialo diseasesrand those 'which have their.
orip in a depraved and cachectio state of the
'eye m. We would much rather that not one bot
tie of this great Bleed , Searcher should ever be
sold, thanit should not do good; and in every
case to which It is suited, It will do good. There
are thousands of readers of the (I.62.E'rre who.
have some slight indisposition or aibnent Incon
veniencing or interfes lug with the enjoy
ment of life, who could be cured by . the;
use use of less than a bottle of Dr. Rey.
ears Blood Searcher. Especially is this •
true at this season of .the year, when the poWers
of. Mb, like the _changes of the seasons, ate •
emerging from the state of winter to spring, end
spring to summer. The dollar that you expend
to buy It will be regarded as of little consequence
when placed In the, scale with that renewed en
ergy and elasticity of health which It will be sure
to impart. And besides, the tone which it gives
is lasting and real, wholly unlike the fiery and
spasmodic- glow . Imparted by most alcoholic
stimulants; fur whilst these corrode and depress
the sy. tem when their stlnivlating effects have
pasted off, that invigorides the stomach, renews.
Its vital powers, hells its Irritated coats, and
enables It to 'concoct and convert into chyle the .
food which is received into It for that end. No
one can over -estimate the value to health of a
single brittle of Dr. H. yam Blood Searcher at
this season of the year. It will make life and .
health to bloom under its influence like the genial ,
rays of the sun Invigorates and starts into We
the 'thole field of Nature. ' SOLD BY ;TILE
GROSS, DOZEN OR SINGLE BOTTLE, AT
.THE DOCTOR'S GREAT NEW MEDICINE
STORE, NO.' 167 LIBERTY STREET. DR.
KEYSER'S CONSULTING 'OFFICE FOR ALL .
eugoMIC DISEASES, NO. 140 PENN.!
STREET, FROM 10 A.;!Pd. UNTIL 4 P. M.
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SEASON. 1..1
The searching winds, the 'cOld,"-deizgllng rains,.
_ _.
the heavy 'fogs,' aim occasional Winn apois s
days of March, render It iition the whole , th d e
mot •t 4
te
unhealthy month of the year. Its depressing itt-
finerices are especially unfevorable to itivalleg,
,' .-
'
and thousands-of persons with feeble conelltn
‘tions, who . have borne the winter ,bravely;break '
down
In the first month of Spring. The variations . ,
..
of tumperatvrgand cold east winds are a serious: ''':
trial to the dyspeptic and bllions,whose symptoms far
they invariably aggravate.evol Intenidttent ffiver la •
also rife wherever • her 4 Is vable poison la the ;• -'
eviler or the soil. To enable the intern to combat • ,
these evils, there is nothin like a good egeta
ble
tun
and :wrong !his class of medicines HOS-
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T ETTER STOMACH BITTERS stag.' aggro:og. 0
Medical men prescribe It In preference to any
..A.
the tonic • preparations of the pharinacopoia. - N
They are aware that the ordinary tincture and . 4
extracts are all bascd.unon cheap alcohol, which - '. ,
is surchargel with en acrid essentisl oil,. and ab- p.
sointely ..tiolsonons: 'They know, on the other
,` ',',
Dead that the rectified essence of the finest rye '.45
CZ% tnalr?lglifirgi l e i TA r4._"1,13 Mire, ; 0
IFltable medicinal element. of vinieh it is corn-
are of rare Mersey.' Hence. It has the cen- fl.
epee of physicians, and finds its. way Into hos- ..eko
vitals where no other proprietary medicine is
sanctioned. .y .
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A coupe of: the SITTERBI3 especlidly recom. Nf-t
Mended to persons of oelicate habit, of • both aZG'
sexes at this season. lii the fever and ague di.-
ri,
%riots of the West ant south, en'illue has been ' ,-,. , ii
almost universallv discarded 11l a chologogue. and .:
this valuable antidote to malarioas ulaorders
adopted In Its stead, A double gain is realised
by the change, for the bitters, untike that dan- - •
germs alkaloid. are agreeable to the palate, a nd
their curative e ff ect is much More perlesugent." - •
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