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THURSDAY, APRIL 1, 1869.
WE PEI= on the inside pages of this
morning's 'C3ezETTE--f3econd page : Po
etry, Ephemeris, Miscellaneous. Third
and. Sixth pages: CoMmercial, Rnancia4
Mercantile and. River News, Markets,
Imports. Seventh page The Philadel
phia Horror, Washington Items, Brief
Telegr.ams, Amu sements.
U. B. BONDS at Fraakfort. 87;
PrrnoLnum at Antwerp, 53i®54if.
GoLo closed in New York yesterday
at.l3lf. .
ALEX/LIM - ER H. STEVENS, Vice Presi
dent of the late r Confederacy, is on his
death bed at Macon, Georgia.
Tim Philadelphia Press complains tgat
too-Finch water is used, rather wasted,
for cleaning the paVements in thafcity.
Nl l l5 never heard ..anch a complaitt here.
r
Our people are not very extravagant with
water.
Tau Paraguayan questihn'ili''under in
vesygation by a CongressioLal Commit
tee.- ' All the participants in the'Wess-
BUENU imbroglio are to be examined,
with some faint prospect that reliable re
sults may be arrived at. •
THE approximating track-layers of the
Pacific Railway are expected to meet by
the ibth of May—six weeks hence. The
completed construction of the entire line,
in accordince :with the express envie
ments of the companies, need not be looked
for before the, close of the year.
Pnr.srozztx Jon:Rao:s, it will be 're
membered, appoitted a.ntunber of officers
just as his term was expiring, and had
them rushed througheand confirmed by
the Senate. The commissions have .not
yet been issued, nor is it probable that
they will be. The Attorney General has
the matter under consideration, however,
grad in the meanwhile the old Lacers' re
tain their places.„
'DOES not surprise us to hear that ths
PaCific roads have -failed to pay the reg
ularly accruing amounts of interest, on
the bonds issued to them from the Treas.
ury. 41t was known, last autumn, that
these payments had only,been partial,
but the precise figures seeped to be with.
held from the public. The monthly
statement of this date will inaugurate the
regular publications which are hereafter
to show exactly they financial relations of
these companies to the Federal govern
ment.
Tax
,probable defeat "of th e arrange
ment for '6e lone of the Cincinnati and
Dayton Railway to, the Erie Road will
have the effect, it is thought, to bring
about the construction of a new line be
tween these points, for the purpose of
perfecting the Erie connection with Cin-
Cianati. Messrs. Gomm, Ffili and Com
pany have an engineer engaged in the
examination of routes, and avow their
ability to build the - sixty mites of road
within as many days. All this seems to
be credited by our confiding. friends of
the Cincinnati press.
Ws itsvE heretofore ventured to
press the opinion that the decisions of the
Supreme Court, in the Oregon case and
in that of Bronson vs. Rhodes, were
shaped expressly with the view, on the
part of that tribunal, of preparing the
country for an ultimate judgment affirm.
ing the constitutionality of the Legal-
Tender Abt. This opinion Is sustained
by an article, in the last number of the
iferehants' Magazine, which, reviewing
the two decisions already given, regards
them ai clear indications.that the validity
011ie law is to be absolutely affirmed.
WE sin a forcible illustration of the
wisdoni of the President!s decision, to
avoid unnecessary and premature inter=
ference with Republican office-holders; in
the situation of affairs in Massachusetts.
By a quiet, - lint dignified and firm resist
ance to all improper Johnsonian nomina
tions, the Senators from that State tem
ceeded, long before that President re
'tired from office, in securing honest and
capable Republimin Inctimbents for every
important place in the State. The result
is that, now, there ,are scarcely any of
.the offices in which either Senator desires
a change. What is so generally true of
''Massachusetts is found to be leis frequent
ly theme in other States, but'still there
are enough of these office-holders of the
right sort to_ justify fully the rule laid
down by President GRANT.
NEVADA ratified the rYth article, be
cause the omission of the wdrd "nativity,"
from She original draft, left intact the
right 'pi the 13tate to exclude the °hie
. ,
from citizenship. On the other hand,
Rhode Island hesitates to ratify the same
article because, among other objections,
she doubts the surviving power to with
hold her suffrage from any nativity what
ever. This incongruity of judgment is
the more remarkable since, of the two
States, Nevada has vastly the more to ap
prehend from the imnaikration of foreign
ers uneducated up to lie full standard of
American citizenship. While the exist
ing system of naturalization prevails,
either State is alike protected from the
mischiefs which that system nominally
avoids—and no naturalized immigrant,
with sense enough to take care of himself,
would be likely to amain in Rhode
Island, without larger inducements than
the rest of the world can discover.
Tun srEwrrwo of the Oil Producers'
Ass?elation, at Titttsville, yesterday, re
sulted in an earnest expression in favor of
the passage of a free pipe -law through the
Legislature. We seldom have occasion
to notice any popular movement which
is more incontrovertibly suppOrted by
every consideration of justice and of
equal privlleges:to all, than is this de
mand•of the oil-producing citizens of the
Commonwealth. Ittellit the whole story
to say that they simply ask for an unde
niable right, and that they will be coin
pletely warranted in holding those offi
cials, whose acts Impede the proper course
of public equity, to the sharpest responsi
bility therefor. There may be less of hesi
tation, among those wham this concerns
at Harrisburg, to accede to the popular
wishes, when they are assured that the
peculiar tactics, which have thus fai been
developed on this question at the Capital,
are thoroughly understood by the'peciple,
and will be remembered at the right time
and in the right' way. The expediency
of a prompt reconsideration, of the line
which seems to have been taken, is there.
fore suggested as worthy of cotsideration
at Harrisbarg. 1.
COHNCILS have 'author's the Market
Committee to select a suita e, site for the
erection of a netr market house for the
accommodation of the people residing in'
.the upper wards of the city. The sites
on Pennsylvania avenue suggested have
suddenly found fictitious values and are
held at fancy figures, which the Commit
tee cannot think of paying, even if the
membe'rs were anxious to locate the new
market place on either of them. It is a
little singular that property holders . ns a
mass petpetually clamor for retrenchment
and a saving of the public moneys, but
individually they do not permit that feel
ing to influence them in fixing a price on
property needed for municipal purposes
when the city takes the field as purchaser.
The gentlemen who fancy that there is a
plum to be made oat of the property they
hold, and on which the- public eye has
been set for a market plaCe, count with
out their host, for the Committee have de
termined that no job work can be at
tended to just at this time. Any of our
readers having suggestions to make or
Views to offer on the site to be selected,
should place themselves in communica-
tion with Mr. McEwsni Chatrman of the
Market Committee.
Tag ovsicn-TENtrux cal:marrow was
considered by the Conference Committee
yesterday, but, at this writing, no result
is reported. We need not repeat the ex
pression of our opinion that but little is
to be hoped for from the present Com
mittee. And that little is altogether due
to the fact that, the President declining to
take any part in the controversy as it
stands, the opposition to the Senate bill
is not backed either by the weight of an
official influence, which, at one time,
seemed , to be relied upon by Gen. BUT
LER and his friends, or by that of a sym
pathizing public sentiment which now, in
fact, preponderates the other way.
Moreover,of the three Committee-men who
are counted against the Senate bill, one,
Mr. C. D.' Wesantinii, _is known to be
ready to accept any reasonable ad
justment. If he shOuld now con
cur with Judge Brxonem and Messrs.
CONELING, a solution
of the difficulty would be reached. Oth
erwise, a new Committee will be- had, -
and then the question will .be speedily
settled. The country; the President, the
aspirants for office, the Senate, and even
the House itself, are all weary of this nn.
profitable wrangle, and the pressure from
all these quarters. except the House, now
tends, so strongly in favor of the modified
'bill, that the House will also find it ad
visable to go with the current. A decided
majority of the Republicans in both
Houses have already assented to it, and
would have adopted it last week, except
for the opposition of an active minority,
Which can gain none of its points except
by Democratic votes.
SOUTHERN . Rzcorteruperrozr occupied
the attention of the House yesterday, the
particular subject being the status ot Mis
sissippi., The substitute bill of General
Fenitswonnt provides for an election
under the Military Governor, at which
the Constitution is to be submitted sepa
rately, and the objectionable sections are
to be voted on e separately. , We have seen
'the opinion expressed that no legislation
touching, the disorganized States would
be matured at this 'session, but • that is
, ,
merely a conjecture . While Congress Is .
really EULTIOES to adjourn at the,.earliest
possible moment, the pressure from with
out, as, well from those , States as from the
public at large. urgently demands the pas
sage of tho measures necessary to the res
toration of the last-of them , to the Union.
Boiviier Ittlaelsaippi:miry be diiposed
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PITTSBURGH. GAZETTE i APRIL 1, 1861',
of, the case of Georgia cannot be over
slaughed; the Reconstruction Committee
have agreed on a bill which covers its
ground; and which is lilt,ely'to secure the
support of the Senate.
This bill is thorough enongh, since it
abolishes the present Legislature, and
places unlimited Dower in the hands of
Governor BuLl..ocx. It also reassembles
the original Legislature, impiises the test
oath qualification, and
.;deolares the ex
pulsion of the colored members void.
Texas 'and Virginia are equally await
ing the Congressional - 4tction, without
which they must continue to be excluded
from their "practical relations."
The country will thank Senator Sun-
NEB for his sharp protest against any talk
of adjournment, until all these questions,
as well as others of nearly equal import
ance, shall have been adjusted. The
XLth Congress altogether failed of its
dutyl, in respect of these questions, but
better things are hoped for from its suc
cessor. The omission of its plainest obli
gations, in the interests of the final paci
fication of the country and especially of
those four States, will be simply inex
cusable—andnemberswill ruu no risk
in so interpreting the public sentiment
CONNECTICUT,
Holds her electiOn on I ,.Monday next,
choosing a Governor, with other State
officers, a Legislature and four members
of Congress. For Governor, the Repub
licans have nominated Mew 34exa.
JEWITT, who was beaten by Exams last
year, but who expects to return that corn
pliment to the same gentleman next week:
Of, the opposition nominees for Congress,
moo, Dixon, late United States Senator,
and BABCOCK, are Johnsonian renegades
from Republicanism, who have found their
natural place among the "Democracy;" a
third is Mr. W. H. B.mcu,.r, late mem
ber froth the Bridgeport district, about
`whom all the world wonders that the
charges of bribery against him, in the
matter of his - election,. were not invest
gated by the last Congress.
The interest of this election tunas espe.
cially upon the issue, - ) made under the
XVth Article, of equal suffrage. Upon
this issue, presented under a proposed
amendment of the State Constitution, the
Republicans were defeated three years
ago. Since that time, it is believed, not
without reason, that a strong reaction, in
the popular sentiment in Connecticut, has
kept pace with advancing opinions in
other portions of the country. and that
the present issue will command the undi-.
Tided support of the Republicans. This
line of progress is also manifested among
the opposition,`Yive pf whose nine NAL.
cipal candidates , stand on their records in
favor of equal suffrage for all men. ,
The State has always been closely con
tested by the politicians, the opposition
majority a year ago having been but
1,764, while that for GRANT in Novem
ber was only 3,041. • Three of the Con
gressional districts went against us in
April, and for us in the Autumn. But,
however these 'districts or the State
ticket may , be decided next week, the bat
tle is really to be fought on the Legisla
ture, which is to act upon the main ques
tions at present occupying the popular
mind, and upon this point we have very
comfortable assurances that_ Republican
majorities will be chosen.
OUR INDEBTEDNESS ABROAD.
At article in the Mirehanis' Magazine
for March on "The Advantoges and Dis
advantages
\ of our Foreign Indebtedness"
forcibly sustains views which the Ga
-1 =Tx has a*ly expressed. Admitting
that a foreign creditor may be undesira
ble for the Treastiry, since if is always
then possible for the 'merely financial sit
nation to be complicated, with the embar
rassing entanglements of international
questions, the Magazine hods that there
are important compensations \ to balance
that objection. Our bonds, before their
-maturity, aro likely to be replaced„with
others at a lower rate of interest. With
these placed in foreign markets, a corrs- x
ponding amount of capital is disengaged at ,
home, where our average rate of interest '
runs at least two per cent. above that of
Europe. A reduction of but one per
cent. in interest 011 the whole debt would
be nearly $25,000,000 per ' annum saved
to the country. These securities, while
in American hands, are not protective,
Owners being to that extent inactive con
sumers. By the exchange; we secure an
equivalent addition to our active wealth,
andinsuch shapes as our current wants
may call. for. The large price for money
here shows that we can make it more
productive than the foreigner does,
,and
goes directly to prove that we are real
izing, and'shall continue to realize, more
upon the capital received than we pay in
interest or in the difference in principal.
Otherwise, this course of transaction
would not have continued, as it has, for
six years without one marked interrup
tion, saving us from an exhaustive drain
of gold and yielding a healthy reinforce
meat to the industrial and mercantile ele
ments which underlie alike otu commer
cial prosperity and our political security.
According to the most careful estimates,
about $700,000,000 of United States
bonds and $800,000,000 of other securi-
ties, are now held abroad; four•lifths of
which have been sent out since 1862.
Upon these Government securities we ray
to Europe about 140,000,000 annually for
interest, in gold or in other American
products. This is no more a loss than
would be any other interest-payment, by
the debtor to the creditor, for the use of
his capital. The; debtor is always pre
stuned to get a valuable consideration for
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the interest paid. These are substantiolly
the reasons upon which a high financloll
authority regards "our foreign indebted
ness•as being less of an evil than many
suppose."
THERE is mush solid good sense in the
.
folloWitig law recently passed by the Leg
islature of Michigan. Such an enactment,.
for Pennsylvania would save many a
.
realms life, and in a •large measure do
way with the countless accidents which
e subjoined act is intended to prevent: .
SECTION r. .271 e i People of the State of
ichigan enact, That any person who
shall it:deal:tonally, without malice, point
or aim any firearm at or toward tiny other
persoa, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor,
and shall be subject to a fine Of not more
than $5O and'not less than $5.
SEC. 2. That any perdon who shall dis
charge, without injury to any other per
son, any fire-arm, while intentionally,
without malice, aimed at or toward any
person, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor,
and shall be liable to a fine of not less than
$lOO, or imprisonment in the county jail
not to exceed one year, or both, at the
discretion of the Court.
SEC. 3. That any person who shall
maim, or injure, or cause the death of any
other person by the discharge of any fire
arm, intentionally, without malice, point
ed or aimed at , any such person, shall be
'guilty of a criminal offencd, and shall be
liable to a fine of not less than $lOO, or
'imprisonment hi the State Prison for a
period of not less than one year, or both,
at the discretion of the Court. Any fines
collected under the provisions of this sec
tion shall belong to the persons injured
or maimed, as aforesaid.
Oun LOUISVILLE exchanges learn from
Tennessee that there is much* uncertainty
about the future movements of Ex-
President Jonsion, says the Courier
. Journal :
•
"It is well understood that he desires
to be the gubernatorial candidate, but
the general, sentiment among conserve
'tives throughout the State is that unless
,the United 'States Supreme Court de
-aides favorably to the disfranchised
masses; a canvass would be love's labor
lost. Everything depends upon the
coming decision, and with that declaring
the franchise law unconstitutional, there
is little doubt that .Johnson wonld be the
coming man. His election would be a
dead certainty. It is expected that the
Court will give its decision within the
next, ten days. In the meantime, John
son will visit Knoxville, Nashville and
Memphis, and will probably speak at
each point.
THE Nashville Press announces the ar
rival of "six or eight well-to-do families
from Pennsylvaniu." The Press adds:
is goodly number of families, will
follow them to our State in a short time.
Theompany in question have purchas
ed lands at Sneedville, on the Nashville
and Northwestern Railroad, andpropose
to engage in farming and stock raising.
They will prove• a valuable acquisition
to the community whither they are go
ing."
filamarck on Grant.
The following' are the words in whic
Count lifsmarck proposed Gen.L Grant's
health on the 4th of March:
"Permit me, gentlemen, to interrupt
your conversation for a moment while I
say a word about the occasion that has
brought us together. This is the day which
on.the other side of the Atlantic the vic
torious commander in the service of the
United States enters on his office as Pres
identi That event, inasmuch as itdeeply
interests the United States, has a special
claim onhe sympathetic interests of this
country, (for it was a King of Prussia,
Frederick 11., who, at the birth of the
-great American Republic was the first
among the non-belligerents to recognize
its independence. As to our subsequent
relations with the United States, it gives
me the greatest Pleasure to be able to
state as a fact, not only from my personal'
experience as a Minister of Prussia, but
from the archives of our history, that the
cordial understanding inaugurated by
Washington and Frederick has never suf
fered the slightest alteration. Not only
has no difficulty ever arisen between the
the two countries; nothing has ever oc
curred between them which so much as
call'for an explanation. It is then to me
a most agreeable, as well a 8 an appro
priate duty, to call on you to unite with
me in drinking German wine the health
of the President of the United States,
Gen. Grant"
The Union Remembered Heroes.
' Three hundred and sixteen thousand
two hundred and thirty-three Union sol
diers, nearly a third of a million, lie
hurled ht the seventy-two national ceme
terOs under the 'charge of the Govern
' ment. This is, let it not be forgotton,
but apportion of our great sacrific.
Thousands of bodies were never recov
ered, and \ every village in the North
guards one or more, freuentl score
in its countrTgrave-yard q . Of y
more than s,
one-half of these three hundred thousand
we have the names, but fully one hun
dred and forty thousand rest under
mounds legended with that simple word
of saddest force, "unknown." Of the
whole number less than one-fifth now
sleep in their - original beds. Two hun
dred and fifty-seven thousand have been
removed from the rude trenches of the
battle-tleld, their shallow graves by the
roadside, the bare unsightly fields of the*
hospitals, the Gehennaa of the rebel
prison joen, to orderly enclosures and re
spectflil graves, over whose still and sol- I
enin rows the national flag-floats day and
night.—Phila. NlBB.
Railway Items.
Tun Ems Roan.--After considerable
deliberation theC. l ' H.& D. Railroad
rejecti the lease proposed, between tife
two roads, the alleged reason being a
clause in the law passed lately, which
would make the C., H. &D. liable for
debts contracted along its line by the
Erie. There are probably additional good
reasons which are not made public.
The Sandusky, Mansfield and Newark
Railroad has been leased by the, Balti
more and Ohio Railroad Company for
ninety-nine years, the - latter to take pos
session on the Ist of May. The object is
to form connections ells Toledo, with
Michigan _roads, anti with this • object In
view, negotiations are now pending for
the right of way .from Monroeville to
that city—the connecting link to be built
if satisfactory afrangements cannot be
made with the Lake Shore Company for
the use pf their line running into-Toledo.
BRIEF TELEGRAMS.
—Gen Sickles has declined the mission
to Mexico.
—At New York all vessel& from south
' ern' ports will be rigidly Inspected after
today at Quarantine.
—A furious wind and snow storm pre
vailed for several hours yesterday morn
ing at Dubuque, lowa.
—Trains on the Chicago, Rock Island
and Pacific Railroad now run within. ,'
seven miles of Council Bluffs.
—Gov. Hoffman has,positively refused
to pardon Real, who is sentenced to be
hung at New York on Friday.
—The Ohio Republican State Central
Committee have decided to hold a Con
vention at Columbus, on the 23d of June
next.
—As usual with Weston, his match
with Payne. at Buffalo, to walk one hun
dred and three miles for a purse of five
hundred dollars, fizzled.
I —The Citizens' Convention, at St.
Louis, nominated Jas. S. Thomas. prea-•
ent inontabent. for Mayor, and Henry
O venstalz for Comptroller.
C—A Matanzas letter states that a body of
üban politicians near there have raised
the American fiag, and that a large ex
pedition with arms, ammunition, etc.,
has safely landed. . • -
i—The body of Montague Dean, a Sing
Sing convict, who died from the effects
of showering at the hands of a keeper,
has been disinterred for the purpose of
holding an inquest.
.-An insane pauper, namen Joseph
Bloomfield, was burned, to death in the
Peoria County Poor House on Tuesday.
His bed took fire, and he was too weak
to escape from it. He was t almost burnt
to a crisp.
—The jury in the case•of Montague
Dean, the Sing Sing convict said to have
beenshowered to death, have rendered
a verdict stating that Dean died from ill-
DOSS, and that the. officers at the prison
have violated no rules or practice.
—John Tiege, one ofthe oldest citizens
of Tiffin, 0., and a member of the City
Council, was drowned in' the Sanduisky
river yesterday. Mr. T. was assisting
his son to recover a fish net which had
been lost in the river.
--General George Wallace Jones, for
merly United States Senator from lowa,
Minister to Bogota, and during the early
part of the war an hrmate of Fort Lifay."
ette, has been nominated 'for Mayor of
Dubuque by the Democrats.
'The Cincinnati Board of Trsde had a
meeting last night, at which a report was
read urging immediate action of the Leg
islature in submitting to the people the
question of amending the Constitution, so
as to allow the city to loan her credit to
build Southern railroads.
—The Citizens' Reform Convention at
Cincinnati yesterday, nominated a city
ticket: Charles Thomas, War Democrat,
for;Mayor; Judge Taft, already nomina
ted on the Republican ticket, for Judge
of the Superior Court. The other nomi
nees with two exceptions, were Demo
crat.. 4..
—At Milwaukee, Wis., on Tuesday af
ternoon, while a party' of workingmen
were tearing away the old gas building,
preparatory to the erection of a new one,
themall fell, burying the contractor,
Carl Busack, and a workman named
John Settgash. The latter was taken
from the ruins a mangled corpse. Mr.
Busack was taken• out terribly bruised.
Chidago, a young married man,
named Edward Best, book•keeper in the
piano warehouse of Higgins, committed
-uicide Tuesday morning, by taking an
overdose of morphine. An examination
of Mr. Best's books, a few says slice, at
the suggestion of someparty in New
York, led to the discovery that he had
been engaged in some fraudulent trans
actions, and this exposition was no doubt
tho Cause of his committing suicide.
—Montana advices state that the Sol
diers and citizens who went in pursuit of
the Indians after the late fight near Yel
low Stone, captured the stolen stock, but
did not overtake the Indians. Two In
dians implicated in the attack on Dia
mond Railroad train were hung at Sun
River. A band of Indians made a raid
on a saw mill near Benton Creek, twenty
miles from Diamond City, a few days
ago, but they were repulsed by the work
men/ - The indians succeeded, however,
in running off the stock belonging to the
mill!
—At Princevile, Peoria county, Illinois,
'on Monday evening last, Joseph H. New
kirk; son-in-law of Joseph Parnell, en
tered the house of his father-in-law,
armed with a large corn knife, and
declared his intention of murdering the
whole family. He drat attacked Mr.
Parnell; who was laying sick at the time,
and mutilated him, cutting him badly in
the head, neck and hands. Finally yield
ing .to the entreaties of the family he
desisted, and upon their giving up all the
money in the house, he took a horse from
the stable and went to Peoria. He was
arrested there by the police, and a'party
of men arriving from Princeville in
search of him, tole - his story. He was
sent to jail to await the result of Mr.
Parnell's %grounds.
Breaeh of 'Promise • Eatraordmary—Ele.
'1 ware of Wishbones.
A breach of promise case is on trial in
New York, the plaintiff in which alleges
that one night, at her mother's house; the
defendant found a dry wish bone, ana
proposed that they should pull it. The
bone broke, each holding a piece, and the
central part fell upon the floor. This, the
plaintiff holds, was interpreted by the de
fendant as a sign that they should marry
soon. He explains by saying that he re
marked, "It seems we are ^to be Married
at the same time; wouldn't you like it ?"
The plaintiff answered, modestly "I'll bet
I would I"- This is a warning for
unwilling batchelors to keep shy of
wish bones or to pull them without after
comment.
A ROPE is in course of manufacture in
ngland, which, it is asserted, is larger
than any one heretofore' made. It is a
round:wire rope, inches in circtunfer
ence, 11,000 yards long, and;weighing up
wards of sixty tons. • The rope consists
of six strands, ten wires in each strand,
•and each wire. measuring 12,100 yards.
The whole length of wire i5_726,000
yards, 'or 4124 miles; the six strands sur•
rounding a hemp centre of 27 threads of
rope yarn made from Petersburg clean
hemp, e ach thread measuring 16,000
yards, or a little over 280 miles- On the
completion of the manufacture, the rope
Bnaliyreceives a good coat of composi
tion of Stockholm tar and boiled linseed
oil. The wire is all tested, and Is guar
anteednotto stretch more, than six per
cent. 'fit furthest, without breakage.
Some samples that were tested recently
broke,' after a tremendous strain after
stretcoing only four per cent.
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PROF. R T. Brown estimates that the
coal and iron gelds in Indiana cover an
area of about eight thousand sque miles,
and that the greater portion of it t l,
e tuxes.
Bible without the expense of eh Ring , or
pumping in its mining. ,
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It is a curious fact that there are no
known descendants of Christopher Co
lumbus left on earth. He bad two sons,
one of whom, Don Diego, rose to die
tinction as an Admiral, and: the other,
Fernando, as a scholar. Fernando was a
great traveler. He not only thrice visited
America, but subsequently traversed the
whole of Europe, and almost every acces-
Bible portion of Asia and Africa. He
appears to have been a profound Scholar,
and a thoroughly good man. In his will
he stipulated that his library, containing
twenty thousand copies;;' which he gave
to the Cathedral of Seville, should be free
,to the people, and so It is to this day.
I From books in this collection the late
Washington Irving obtained,a consider.'
able portion of the information on which
his "Life of Columbus" was founded.
The following quaint epitaph, almost ob
literated by time, appears upon the tablet
which marks theLsite of his tomb: "What
doth itprofit me to have sprinkled the
whole world with my sweat; -to have
three time crossed to the new world dis
covered by my father; to have embellished
the shore of the tranquil Guadalquiver
and preferred my simple_ tastes rather
than riches; or that I have assembled
round thee divinities from the sources of
-the Castaliar and offer to thee the riches
gathered by Ptolemy; if, paasing in silence •
over his stone, thou shouldst fail to ad.
dress a single salutation to my father's
memory, er to myself a slight retnem
brance?"
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THE New York Ezpreas thinks that
nine•tenths of our people eat too much
flesh:' it is a positive injury instead of a
benefit, when eaten twice a day, even to
the hard physical worker. This commu
nity could live on at leait one-half the
flesh it devours, and be ail the better for
the change. We are not sure that if we
all ate one-third only of what is now con
sumed in the form of stake, joints, cut
lets, etc., we would not be the gainers in ,
health and strength, as we would certain
ly in pocket.
Progress of Pacific Ratlroads—Obstrac
tion on the Central.
my Telegraph to tae Pittabargh Grasette.l. ,
OMAHA. Neb., March 31.—Two miles
of track were laid yesterday on the Union
Pacific Railroad, reaching apoint more
than twenty miles west of . Ogden, and
about fifty-five miles east of Monument
Point. Parties just arrived from Cali
fornia report the Central Pacific Railroad
blockaded on account of snow, anli their
work on construction nearly suspended.
The GovernMent agents inspecting the
Central Pacitic Railroad report it much
inferior in construction to the Union Pa
cific Railroad, and their buildings and
equipments not at all adequate for the
business anticipated or in accordance
with the requirements of the Govern
ment.
• Large Fire at Chicago.
My Telegraph to the Pittsburgh Gazette.l
CHICAGO, March :31.—About Jialf-past
seven o'clbck this evening a fire broke
out in the feed store of Stein dr Brothers,
332 Randolph street. It, was completely
destroyed, with contents. Loss about
$2,000. The tire communicated to No.
336 same street, occupied by Id. Heise,
as a wagon shop. This building, with
contents, was also destroyed; loss $4,000.
No. 338 shared the same fate; it was
occupied by F. Hayman. as a dwelling
house; loss about $2,000. Total loss about
$B,OOO.
A SIGNIFICANT LETTER.
LOUISVILLE, March 7.:d,_lB69.—Find enyosed
P. 0. order for • • • which you will please
place to my credit., and send ininnt dlately half a
gross of Bloodl;Searcher, and a full supply of clr- .
The demand for your medicine Is gradaally In- ,
creasing, and I believe will eventually take the .
place of other shadier preparations, now being
extensively advertised throughout Kentucky and
the Southern States, bat there is little advertis
ing needed that will reach the masses., Circe
tan will do very well in the locality where the
Blood Searcher Is sold, bet the greater number :
are only to be reached throtigtt the medium of a
popular newspaper, a few insertions Is all that,
is required. Let the people of Kentucky once
know that DB. KEYSE.I'S BLOOD. SEARCHER
can be bad as - the Medicine and Toilet Depot.
Lou.sville.'Kentucky, and I gefrentee a profita
ble return. I have an extensive acquaintance
threnghont Kentucky and the South, and though
I claim not to be an exception to the generality
, of my fellows, I flatter myself that the name of
W. W. WILLIAMS, as Agent for the Blood
- Searcher, will at least nst lesson, the demand.
htit, d fin the contrary, will Induce many to take
holWof it, and. when they nave done so It will
matter very Ilttlerwho Is the AgZist, or where
it comes from, DB. 11/EYSEIPS BLOOD
SEARCHER will be the „ medicine they
have tested and what they Will want. VW Blood
Searcher is doing good work in tote kcality.
There are numbers lowborn' have recommended
It for dyspepsia, and as a general Tonic, and In
every case I have had a good report. There is a
gentleman In business opposite my store who
has been confined to his room since July last
with scrofula, a physician attending,every, day:
'and getting no better. Soon after I received
better.
your first consignmen I sent him one of your circulars ,
circulars, but lt was m etime before I heard •
from him, and not until I sent Mr. Boyd over ba t
see him did he 'conclude to try It. He is now get
ling well, and regrets Mak he did not adopt. the
remedy sooner. His case was as bad Lfnot worse
than that , of Mr. Boyd, and wilt prove a valuable
acquisition to the list of cures. Allow meto con-
gratulate you on your removal to your new store.
with, the hope that Wit will in no way detract
from your former prosperity. Respectfttily,
• W. W. Vita , taiuS.
To.DR. llszsitit, Pittsburgh, Pa.
D. REYSER , i BLOOD SEARCHER IS SOLD
'By THE GROSS, DOZEN OR SINGLE BOT,
TI.E, AT HIS NEW MEDICINE STORE, No.
Or LIBERTY STREET, ONE DOOR FROM
SIXTH. CONSULTING ROOMS, No. 120 PUN
THE TRUE MEDICAL DOCTRINE.
Na,nre, whin struggling with disease, Judi
cites unmistakably the kind of assistance sue
requires. In cases of nervous weakness and gen- ,
eral debility. the feeble pulse, the lack-lustre
eye, the attenuated frame, the fisicid nitundei,
the melancholy visage, inform us as ;plainlyas W
ench organ had a tongue,thsta medicated &final'.
fast fa needed. It does not . require the ald;of.
med!cal education to understand this dumb ap-,
peal for new vigor,- from an exhausted system .
Every reader of these" lines can comprehend
it
just as well as the graduate of a physicians , col
lege. Let not this demand of enfeebled natur • be
neglected. lies Pond toll zwomptly by commune•ing a course of BOSTZTTIZIPB STOXAOH BIT-
TEN, a prepuntion nutting, in their highest
excellence, the properties of a STIMELAIST, an
navthonszw, sad an ALTERATIVE. Before three
days have elapsed, from the taking of the first
dose, a marked benencial change will be mani
fest In the bodily and mental condition of the pa
:tient. The pulse will be stronger and more regn-
Aar, Inc eye will begin to lose its doll expression,
the muscular and nervous systems to recover
their tension, and the spirits to inthrove. Peree."
eel*, bud complete revividcation of the de.'
proud animal and mental powers is certain; In ; ;
`emits of diffneltels and biliousness,' Inc mime sal
utary results will be obtained. The eppa.tite will
revive, the sallowneas of the skin'disappear. and
all the distressing symptoms which accompany
disorders of he stomach and liver, will rapidly
subside.. The inviden rituiliges or sprineoften in
tensitiesthe.e complaints by checking the per
spiratory aetion, by which 6o =Wm morbid mat
ter is evaporate d through the pores of the body.
ind•therefore the Birtaftld are especially usethl
to Ole dyspeptic and Mons aathis seism.
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