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Tr mtpeoposition for amendments tnthe
btati , Oenstitation has been 'abandoned
for the present, by the Ohio Legislature,
for ' ihemant of time to give the ` required
six months' notice.
Run Senate varies its grave official
do nieeto•day, by a lecture upon Demon
rr c astiveitnatorky. Pr. Him, of Nevada,
w ill gamma with his customary pre-
Ilion and skill, while Rhode Island has
I he kuneaviske honor of affording h`--as
i subject of the demonstration. It is'ex
pected to boom instructive lesson upon
Abe fatal esnsequences of youthful error.
Van lower branch of the Ohio Legisla
.
:Noe passed, on the 16th, a bill prohibit
the erection of any bridge' over the
tahlo, -connecting with the ()hitt short,
-- with a main span of less than 400 feet, or
Aeleratediess tlian 115 feet above low water
- =ark. Our advices are that this bill
will be approved by the Senate of that
-Mate. Tor this measure we are itidebt
:sd, not only to the strenuous efforts of
influences powerful at Cincinnati, but to
the wise sagacity of the legislators who p
cannot .consent to sacrifice to cor
porate privilege the rights of their people,
in a natural highway which coasts their
territory for_ nearly five hundred miles.
Whether the Baltimore and. Ohio Bidl
way comma:ion expect to defy the State
sovereignty of Ohio, as successfully as
they have, for the present, smothered the
- popular complaints of Pennsylvania and
West Virginia in the Federal Congress,
.remains to be seen.
. THE DUTY OF THE SENATE.
The country reposes an unlimited con
fidence in, the prudent dealing, of the
present Administration, with all the do
mestic and international questions likely
to spring out of the insurrection, in Cuba,
against the. Spanish authority. They are
but few, Who believe that the President
inclines to discard the traditional policy
of the Republic, by measures, either overt
or indirect, in the direction of an en
vouragement to the existing insurrection
in,the territories of a palm at peace with
our own. No one credits the sensational
rumors froin Washington, which intimate,
or broadly assert, that the President de
sires, either directly or by indirection;
to reinforce the rebellious movement in
that islind' with the palpable sympathies
of theAnteriesn Government, or through
such a harsh and needlessly rigid inter
vention, for the protection of the just
rights of our own citizezul, as practically
to aid the insurgents by the pressure of
international questions upon the Spanish
authority. •
We are not unaware of the existence of
serious difflaities in the proper treatment,
by our own Government, of such ques
tions as the situation is likely to present.
The Colonial authonties are prone to mis.
takes, in the execution of their laws,
{ which will too often involve inadmissible
Infringements noon the comity of na
tions. Our commercial^ relations with
Cuba are varied and extensive. ' Our flag
floats alnays from the American shipping
in its ports. Thousands of American cit.
Ina= are residents, for longer or shorter
periods, upon the island. The police and 1
customs regulations of Cuba have al
ways been arbitrary, and enforced with
despotic and unrelenting vigilance. This
was the case long prior to the rebellions
ontbradr a and, in the nature of things,
that vigilance and inflexible rigor are
not likely to be relaxed when rebellion
iadefying the domestic_ authority, and
when an. unfriendly sympathy menaces
in armed intervention from' a foreign,
,but neighboring coast... Cases must cc.
cur—cases do occur d4fly—when Ameri-
I l cans invoke the protection of their own
overniaent, against what are claimed to
be unjustifiable aggressions upon their
Personal rights by the Cuban authorities.
We have no reason to believe that
these eases will be denied that public
protection to which they may be entitled.
we have as little reason to fear that this
Protection will dutstriP . the just limits of
International law, We are assured that
an adequate exbibitlon of Anierican force
in the Cuban waters, with eve instruc
tions to our resident political.agents, will
suns the p
iirrestitin of ikinfe Mies, as
,
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•eta;
they . majocettr, with the needful repara
tions of any personal injustice.
Beyond that, our government should
not, and we think will not, go.
But we are botmd to admit that a
gravely uneasy feeling or vague appre
hension is now pervading the public
mind, in reference to the Administration
policy towards Cuba. -We believe that
there are no - just grounds for, the feara
which may be entertained, and that r..te
country should be completely assured on
that point, and at once. The Srmate i s
I
still in session. It has a corevuil
diction with the Executive, it, the f ore i gn
policy of the Republic. This body has
already placed its judgment Of the Cuban
question clearly upon its record, in
tabling the mischtevous resolutions of
two recent sessions, by which the 'House
would have fatally .compretnised this
country as well toward England as with
Spain. Yet the country wield welcome
some expression, from the Senate, of a
character, set more decisivej A. resolu
tion which should combine the clearest
avowal of the National obligations
toward our own citizens, with l a frank and
explicit disclaimer of the poliey of prop
agandism and annexation, as to the Span
ish West Indies—which shotild at once
shield and *ern our own' people, which
should reassure the confidence of Spain
in our interptional faith, and which
should be notice to all the - world that the
Republic abides by its own doCtrines of
the past eight years—such a resolution
would satisfy the country, and would
-give a vast moral strength to ottr position
upon questions of more gravity with
other powers. The Senate owes precisely
auch an expression to its own dignity, to
'its rights as an element in the adminls•
tration or foreign affairs, and to the cur
trent popular anxieties.
A LARGE TRANSACTIOR.
Our neighbors of West Virginia are re
minded, in the recent nomination of Ex-
Senator Carizrms for a foreign mission,
that their State has been singularly un
fortunate, in the class of its citizens who
have been thus far successful in securing,
in the name of the people, places of trust
and profit. Two such Senators as were
CARLISLE and VAN Wragut, have been
a great burden—quite too much to be
comfortably borne by the loyal and honest
West Virginians„—without the still exist
ing danger that a tardy repudiation of
the former may be followed by the trans
fer of his contemplated honors to an
other political adventurer, of even less
favorable reputation among the people.
Yet, at if the painful record which those
unworthy Senators have inflicted upon an
abused constituency were not enough,
West Virginia again finds herself deplor
ing another betrayal of her interests—
this time material and not political—by
a citizen who has been honoied with the
highest trusts—her Ex-Governor and
present Senator, Mr. BORMAAN. This
gentleman has recently availed himself
of his Senatorial position, to transfer one
of the most valuable rights, an essential
element to the material prosperity, of a
very considerable portion of the people of
his State, to a private corporation. His
vote, to sustain the usurpations of the
Baltimore & Ohio Railway Company, in
the matter of the bridges across the Ohio,
from two points on the West Virginia
shore, deserves the severest denunciation
of his constituents. It was neither states
man like, nor even faithful to his official
duty. It was a flagrant disregard of the
rights of the people in all the entire North
ern third part of West Virginia; it was, aid
has been properly so denounced, an hal
pudent disregard of the comity which
should, ever be regarded by adjoining
States; it was either an ignorant or an
impudent perversion of the facts involved
in this question of the free navigation of
the Ohio, and it was, more than all that,
a palpably weak and short-sighted disre
gard of the future interests of those
Southern regions of his State, which the
Sandy and Kanawha Rivera drain.
Said Mr. BORNILAN, in replying to an
objection made in a Committee-room of
the Senate, the other day: "There need be
no apprehensions as to the coal-supply of
the lower Ohio valley, by reason of the
bridge-obstacles at Bellaire and Parkers
burgh. The Sandy and Kanawha rivers,
below these bridges, will be able to sup
ply all the lower markets." This was the
substance of his argument—the argument
of an attorney for his railway clients, and
not the grave and well-considered plea of
a faithful Senator. He degraded his trust,
and betrayed the interests of his people,
in this paltry make-shift. We do not
impugn his motives: that may be left to
an outraged constituency,, who will not
overlook their own duty in the premises.
;Cor, shall we discredit the universal be
lief, at Washington and elsewhere, that
he is the Senatorial attorney of the Balti
more railway. Be that fact as - It may, a
paid attorney for the corporation could
have not said and done more than he ef
fectively did, to promote its special in
terests.
We believe that the people ofthe North
en!, portion of his State will yet induce
the Senator to understand, that they have
a direct interest in the free navigation of
the Ohio, above the mouth of the Sandy,
clear up to Pittsburgh, and thence to the
headwaters of the Monongahela, dra w n
as these are from West Virginian termite.
ry; that, as a Wheeling' journal has well
said, this river constitutes the natural
highway for a West Virginian population
dwelling upon its banks along a course of
one bundled and fifty miles, ond
they, the people, own the tutobetructed
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PITTSKTRGH GAZATTE: NOVIJA.Y; APRIL 19,1. 1.889:
constitutions, and ab-A t the reach of any
corrupt hetiraYal• He will learn that the
oeu rAtions, which one law
w co o r rld ra a t tte e rr 4 t to justify above the Mouth
•of the Saidy, are equally to be warranted
below that point, as soon as any railway
cce Niany shall hereafter see fit to de
alav;id the same right of bridging the
k.twer stream. No logic excuset4 and no
state of the facts can maintain the arbitrary
distinction of the la v of '62, at any sped
fled point along the river. The argtt
'
meats for the bridges now propoited will
apply with equal force to futnre erections
lower down. The colliers andlumber
era of the 'Kanawha have no future safety
for themselves, except in holding \ip the
hands with which the people of the Ohio
and Monongahela vallies resist the com
plete abrogation of a principle common
In its protection for the entire territory
which the Ohio drains.
West Virginia is really a noble State.
Her people have been tried as by tire,
and have come out of the ordea l true
patriots and loyal sons of liberty; l We
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;
wish they were better served by tter
rn enln their high places. But their eyes
are open to civic defections as to olit-
ical. each
ery,—to venality as well to
treason,—to official incomp . ency as well
as to personal corruption-- • their own'
solid interests as well . : to all just
claims under the comity of States—to the
perilous fallaciesof lawye : as well auto
the insolent arrogance of p acemen, who
blindly fancy themselves a ..ve popular
retributions. Such a peo .le are not to
be sold, by even 'Senator B . =MAN, nor
even to so powerfel and ealthy a cor
poration as his present elle . to, without a
-word to interpose for. them. yea The
Senator has undertaken .. extensive a
transaction; negotiate as he - .y, he will
find insuperable difficulties i. delivering
up the larger half of his co .. tuency to'
the Baltimore and Ohio co . .ration, ac
cording to . that - contract w . ch recent
events have exposed. •
THE PUBLIC WEE
Congress repudiates all n, e Indian
treaties, including those whi expressed
its own settled policy of one ear ago—
that of gathering the tribes pon large
reservations, where they t be re
strained from warfare, protected from
White encroachments, and instructed in
the arts and industry of peace. The
same day, which heard its vute repudiat
ing these engagements recorded at the
Capitol, also saw from twelve to twenty
thousand Indians gathered about our mil
itary posts in their territory, drawn
thither by these promises, or driven in by
vast military efforts to enforce their sub:
mission. Now comes this report from
the plains. We think that it may be re
lied upon:
A large number of the Indiana with
wttom General Sherman and other Peace
Commissioners made treaties last sum
mer are much dissatisfied with their
situation and the manner in which they
have been used. They say that the Gov
ernment has got them penned in, and
has failed to keep its promise to give
them the annuities stipulated. Spotted
Tail and other influential °biota are
losing confidence in the Government,
and if the promises of .its agents are not
fulfilled this summer, trouble will be
the result.
Need any one be surprised to hear this?
Have the Indians no rights, has our own
good faith itself no claims, which a civil
ized and Christian people are bound to
respect? Let us be ready to hear, as we
shall hear, that the red men are faithless,
and that no degree of fidelity on our own.
part to oar treaty engagements, would
have saved us from the annual ontbreak
of savage hostilities when Meowing grass
comes. But who shall so imprudently
disregard the patent facts of the past
year's experience as to assert that we
have ourselves no responsibility, for
the natural results of our own vacil
lating and faithless repudiation of solemn
obligations, which were authoritatively
sanctioned by the Peace Commission,
and which we•enforced with Einsatinsn's
troops at a cost of thirty millions of dol
lars ? Better, let us avow the policy of a
complete extermination of these miserable
creatures, at once. Better to harry them
with fire and steel, with a force large
enough to butcher the last Indian survi
vor before the next frost, than this poli
ty which alternates between war and
peace, between four months of nursing
and eight months of bootless but wea
lth% hostilities, and which promises noth
ing but another twenty years of frontier
disturbance, and a perpetuity of National
shame We are about to send among
these savage tribes a Commission of "cit-
izens eminent for their philanthropy and
integrity;" it will lie the first proof they
have have ever had of the integrity of the '
white man.
STILL FAITHFUL TO HIS COUN
TRY.
Hoa. ANDREW STEWART, of Fayette
county, addresses a letter to the Secretary
of the Treasury, with some practical and
pointed considerations based upon the
late free trade attack, under the auspices
of Commissioner *ELLS,_ upon the pro
tective tariff policy of this country. We
regret that our limited space precludes the
republication of the full text of this letter._
which is written in the most forcible and
incisive style of the earlier days of its ven
erable author.
Mr. STEWART directs attention to the
significant fact, developed by Mr. WELLs
himself, that the wages of turopean la
ber average less than half the rates paid
in this country, and suggests the pertinent
objection that our own labor claims pro
tection from that ruinous competidoi-
On the other hand, the free-trada4 for
WhOM Mr. WXILLII has spok lyettit
meetthe situatiOrt:by a parallel reduction
of the wages Paid to American opera
tives. Mr. STEW ART is right; as be al
ways was, in holding to the
.soturder
American doctrine.
Of the proposed revision Of the tariff, to
which the attention of the House Com
mittee and of the Secretary are to but di
rected during the recess of Congress,
Mr. STawART remarks that certain rules
should be borne in mit d: Ist. that for
eign luxuries, with such other articles, as
can and ought to be manufactured at
home, should be taxed highest. As to the
latter, production here would be stimu
lated, with an ultimate reduction in
prices, actual experience showing
that a great many articles so pro
tected heretofore are now made at
home, and sold at a price less than the
amount of the duty originally . imposed;
2d. Raw materials used by our manafec
turers should be admitted at the lowest
rates, or free of duty altogether; 3d. The
taxes, burdens and expenses of our labor
should be made as light as possible; 4th.
The preference for specific over ad valo
rem duties; sth. The highest protection
for those manufactures which stimulate
the largest consumption of our own agri
cultural products.
The declaration with which Mx.
tsTEWART—who promises to write agaim:—
concludes this letter, will be commended
by every enlightened judgment. He says:
The thorough revision of the present
tariff, incongruous and defective in
many of its provisions, will, in myjudg
ment, do more to improve our finances,
,promote the national prosperity, and
hasten specie payments, by keeping our
gold at home to enrich our- own people
instead of foreigners, than any other
measure that Congress cah adopt,
•
HON. RUSSELL ERRETT.
This gentleman, recently a Senator
from Allegheny county, by his devotion
to the interests of the people, in the direc
tion of an economical expenditure of the
tr
public funds, exposed himself to
the personal ill-will of certain petty
officials In and about Harrisburg.
One of these, having access to
types, as the editor of the State Guard,
printed a malignant and abusive attack
upon our Senator's personal motives as
well as his public course. We copy, be
low, Mr. Euro:nos remarks, replying to
that attack and vindicating himself. It
is but simple justice to add that these re.
marks were fully supported by the hearty
concurrence of other Senators, iriespee
tive of political opinions. Messrs. Bri.-
LINGFELT and WzrrE, (Reps.,) aid
BEABIGET and DAVIS, ( Demo .,) _"
gave
their strongest affirmative testimony, ac
quitting. our Senator on all points. Aftek
the reading of the abusive paragraph ih
question, by the Clerk, Mr. Ennarrsaidi
Mr. Speaker, this infamoua article
man )
an i ll rustration of the truth that the
who conscientiously tries to serve the'
State, gets no thanks for it, whilst he
who simply takes care of himself is one
of the finest fellows alive.
I have endeavored, during my short,
term in the Senate, to serve the State to
the best of my ability; to promote her
prosperity, to cut down the expenses of
the government, to establish economy as
its rule, and to ward off every attempt to
get wrongfully at the public fu4s.
My record, here, will show t I have
voted against almost every claim that has
been brought up here, against the ) State;
that on the appropxiation bills, I have in- I
variably tried to keep the appropriations '
down; that as a member of the Commit
mittee of Retrenchment and Refbrm,
brought in a bill here which, nOtarlth
standing the unwise departure from its
provisions by the House, has saved the
State, at this session alone over fifty
thousand dollars; that I h ave resisted
every attempt to increase salaries or ,
create new of and that I have en
deavored, by demonstrating to myfellow .
Senators, the true fi nancial condition 'of .
the State, to keep them from appropria
ting more money than we had to spend.
My colleagues, also, in the Finance
Committee, will bear me witness that I
have there, invariably, voted against,
everything that took money out of the
Treasury that was not imperatively )
qtdred; and that in amending appropri.
ation bills my voice has always been for
reduction and retrenchment; even to the
extent of seeming niggardliness.
My colleagues on the Appropriation
Conference Committee will also bear me
witness that I labored there with earnest
nem to keep the bill within the bounds
fixed by the Senate, and against any, at
temps to strike out the wholesome \
forma incorporated in the bill.
As to the appropriation bill itself, I was
opposed to paying the extra employe s of
the H o sp ita l the appropriation to
the Eri voted here in the
open Senate against giving that hospital
anything; but as I was voted down in
that, I concluded, when in the Confer
enoe Committee, that if the State intend
ed to build that hospital, as the vote of
both Houses indicated, It was true econ
omy to give it enough to put the building
under roof, instead of barely enough to
pay part of its debts and Houses unfin
ished And I found the so de
termined to stand by its extra officers,
and so firm in the conclusion to let the
bill fall rather than yield that point, that
I thought it better to give up that, rather
than risk the defeat of the bill or the
calling of an extra session.
It was for that reason, and b ill as
alone, that I oonsented to the bill as it
stands. lain not satisfied yet wits those
provisions; but as so much was Wined
by its passage that would otherwise have
been lost, and as a man is not instilled
in demanding to 'hare everything he
wants, I thought it wisest to meet the
House in its much more than halfway
et/ncessions.
EU
Notwithstanding the malignity of this
common scold and false-hearted
the appropriation bill is the best that has
beenpassed here for many years—the
loweat in amount and the best in Its
guards against extravagance. The pro
visions drawn up by myself and append
ed to the bill, prohibiting the payment
-of money to any purpose beyond the
amount appropriated,is in itself, the nu
dug of a great saving, and terminates a
vicious practice which, hitherto, has
'rendered all our appropriation bills mere
nullifies, so far as She ordinary expenses
of the Government were concerned. It
also establishes, for the first time, the
principle of excluding allmerely local
charities from the bill; and the provision
Abolishing the franking privilege and the
printing of documents is, In itself alone,
if rigidly followed up and adhered to, a
saying of over fifty thousand dollars a
year. Besides this, the cheek given by
MOW ty A itciady . iendonoy to brume
salaries it great point gained, and the
stepping of the military history ought to
save 1213 at least one hundred thousand
dollars, if the will of the two houses is
r to be respected.
But I expect to see this editor and his
coadjutors insisting 'upon a disregard of
this will and upon a continuance of that
history, at an ultimate expense to the
State of a quarter of a million. Let
them try it and take the consequences.
This State Guard editor is State Libra
' , rian and one of the Governor's ,pets.
During the pendency of the appropria
tion bill he has.been as quiet as a mouse,
dreading the effect upon himself of any
thing he might say; but now that the bill
is passed, and his salary has been in
creased one hundred dollars above what
the law allows him, he vents all his
spleen upon me, became I voted against
making it ono hundred dollars larger.
His zeal for the State is measured by the
amount he can get out of the State Thies.
urer beyond the amount allowed him by
law; and as he has been able to get but
one hundred dollars, he takes out the
other one hundred dollars in abuse of
me.
r , And this reminds me of another em-
Idoye of the Governor, his private secre
tary, who, not having a newspaper to
blackguard the people in, has devoted
himself to it by word of mouth, availing
himself of every place and opportunity
to pour out abuse upon those who voted
to reduce his salary and specially upon
me. Whether he was the author of the
beautiful homilies that have been sent
us from time to time from the Executive
Chamber, in favor of retrenchment
and reform, I cannot say; but his
course and that of the Governor's
organ, is a singular comment upon the
homilies.
ly only regret, now, is that I did not
let the appropriation bill stay dead yes
terday, and pass in its stead a bill con
tinuing the appropriation to the soldiers'
orphans schools. We should have been
able then to have got along without an
appropriation bill, and these fellows who
are in favor of any reform that does not
touch them, would have been left out in
the cold, to suck their thumbs and ru
minate on their bad luck.
One word as to the tax bill. The asser
tion in this article .that I had anything
to do with its paternity is a lie out of the
whole cloth. I never saw the bill, or
knew What its proyhdons were until it
came over here from the House; and the
volunteered disclaimer that the Penn
sylvania road had nothing to do with it
is probably a piece with the rest. If that
road had not a hand in getting that bill
up, then I am not a judge of its ear
marks.
Air. Speaker, I am now about to leave
this body, and I have a few , words to say
to those I leave behind me, and to those
who will come after me. Do not, if you
value the praise of the newspapers, strive
to serve the State by voting agai nst un
just claims, or by cutting down expenses.
If you do, yon will get nothing but .
curses. But vote next year to make the
State librarian's salary two thousand
dollars, raise the Governor's private sec
retsxy's salary to three thousand dollars,
vote money with a lavish hand, say
"aye" to every claim, open wide the
doors of the treasury, be careful that,
while taking everything out, you tread
on no one's corns in putting money in,
and you will be the but fellows alive—
men with large hearts, statesmanlike
abilities, and just the men for the place.
THE APPROPRIATION BILL.
Upon the final passage of this bill
through the Senate of Pennsylvania, the
following remarks were made by. Senator
GRAHAM, of Allegheny :
Mr. Speaker, I find this bill so greatly
changed from what it was when submit
ted to the Committee of Conference, that
I shall be compelled to vote against it.
I find it changed in many important fea
tures. The Senate Committee informs us
that the House Committee yielded every
thing that was asked except the payment
'of the additional employes of the House.
Now, sir, I find, in listening to the read
lag of the report as it comes from the
Committee of Conference, that the hos.
pital at Erie,to which we appropriated
ten thousad dollars upon the express
condition that nothing additional would
be asked for, has twenty thousand dol
lars appropriated. The Asylum for In
sane, at Beaver, to which we *refused, I
think with only one or two votes in the
negative, to make any appropriation, has
tiro or iree thousand dollars appropria
ted to it. The salaries of the officers in
the different departments was reduced by
the Senate. The Committee has restored
them, and in a variety of other features
I find that the Senate' has yielded to the
Howse. Again, sir, when the joint rem
lution authorizing the employment, by
the House, of twenty-seven additional
officers, was presented to the Republican
caucus, I voted against it, and the propo
sition being then rejected, I believe, sir,
that the 'action then taken would be a
finality, and that the House would ac
quiesce. But the House determined that
they would take the responsibility of
these twenty-seven men, arguing that
under the Constitution they had the right
to elect or employ their own officers, and
also to indicate and determine their num
ber. They did so, and subsequently as
certaining that they had committed a
blunder, they asked a caucus of Re
publican Sentors to sanction and en
dorse that error. In that caucus I again
voted against recognizing the action of
the House, that I lever
would sanction any proposition legaliz
ing that action. Now, air, lam asked to
'vote for this bill which makes provision
for the pay of twenty-seven men p to ed without authority of the law, and
in direct opposition to the expressed will
and desire of the Senate. Mr. Speaker,
I do not wish to be factious or to act in
opposition to my party friends. But
there is a principle involved, 'which I
think ought to be insisted upon,,and if.
we are compelled to adjourn without an
appropriation bill I shall feel justified in
my action, and believe that I will be sus
tained by my immediate constituents and
a majority of the people of this Corn
monwealth. I vote' no.
OP VIZ election, by our State Senate,
of Hon. C. H. STINSON, of Montgomery
county, asSpeaker, the Harrisburg Tele
,
grup7t sa y s : - •
Mr. Stinson is a gentleman of ability
and experience, a faithful representative
of the Fifth District, a watchful guardian
of the interests of the State at large,
possessed of fine executive qualities, and
exceedingly courteous and pleasing in
his manners. A ,potter selection could
not have been made. •
AT TUB last monthly meeting of the
Baltimore and Ohio Railway Directors.
the President made the interesting state
ment as follows:
The work n_pon the Pittabtugh And
Conn°llaville Road is progresaing satis
factorily, and it is proposed to !Haft, at.
an early day, all the remainhur.sections
under contract. No effort will be spared
to open this invaluable and ,powertial
hue at the ear/laskpraetioable period:
A DISTINGI4B.ITED preacher at the - NeW
Y` irk Methodist Conference, Sing Sing,
was the "widow Van Cott." She is tim
only licensed female preacher in the
State of New York, and during the past
winter has created an intense religious
excitement wherever she has spoken. A.
clergyman the Conference states that
she has converted nearly two thousand
persons during the past year. She is re
presented as 'being eloquent, impulsive
and astonishingly earnest. One clergy-
man stated that "she is a real stayer."
Some members of the Conference are in
favor of her continuing lathe good work,
while others are strongly opposed. One
of the latter asserts that if she be allowed
to continue, he will look upon the fact as
a triumph of female suffrage.
.BAGGAGE SMASHERS.—The inconven
ience and damage caused by the seeming
malicious delight with which the em
ployes of many of the railroads of the
United States make in the reckless hand
ling of the baggage passing through their
hands, have attracted the attention of the
Massachusetts Legislature. In that body
there has recently been introduced a bill,
which provides that any person whose
duty it is va handle, remove or take care
of the baggage of passengers, shall wil
fully and wantonly injure or destroy any
trunk, valise, box, package or parcel,
while loading, transporting, unloading or
delivering, or storing the same, he shall
be punished by a fine not excee ding fifty,
dollars, or by imprisonment in jail not
exceeding two months.
PROF. T. C. PORTER, formerly of
Franklin and Marshall College, and one
of the Most distinguished naturalists 'of
the country, has nearly completed his
elaborate description of the entire flora
of Pennsylvania. embracing the forest
trees, grasses and weeds injurious to cul
tivation, and also observations on the
geographical range and their economic
value. This is the result of more than
twenty-five years of learned labor on the
part of this eminent scholar, and he now
offers the whole as a donation to the
State. The Academy of Natural Sci
ences, of Philadelphia, lately passed a
resolution urging the Legislature to pub
lish it, and the State Agricultural Con
tention seeonded the request. '
A vim evenings since, in : Greenfield,
N. H., a man and his son, named Has
kell, aged respectively about seventy and
eighteen, were called upon by about thirty
men and boys, and treated to a ride upon
a rail, a distance of about one and one
half miles, to the village, for the offence of
abusing the wife and mother. They were
made to take turns; while one rode the
other, carried one end of the rail, and vice
versa. They were accompanied in their
march by stirring music from the fife and
drum, tin Inns, &c. Alter being lectured
upon the beauty and importance of a due
regard for matrimonial and ,parental du
ties and obligations, thek were permitted
to return home without an escort.
Tnz Vienna Ifedica; Times tells the
following: "Last week, at the clinic, in
the presence of a class of students, an
operation of the stomach was performed
by Professor Bißroth. Thq operation was
gone through with and the stomach prop
erly sewed- up. On the next day thee
patient died. A post mortem examination
showed in the re-opened stomach a large
sponge, which had been used during the
operation, and which the operators had
forgotten to remover!
TRUSSES AND HERNIA.
•
'The aid and deplorable condition of many who
are afflicted with hernia or rupture of the bow
-1 els, calls loudly for some efficient and unmistak
-1 able remedy that will not only in every case give
efficient relief, but in many cases' effect a radical
and thorough cure. These cases of hernia have
I become so frequent, that it is computed that one.
sixth of the - .male population are said to be
troubled, in some way or another, with this ter
rible ailment; and in very many eases do not
know where to apply for an appropriate remedy,
oftentimes not knowing whether an appliance is
really needed or not; and if it should be needed,
they often do not know where or to whom they
should make application. The world is full of
Trusses for the retention and cure of this 'amen.
table evil. oftentimes an incontestable proof of
their total and inadequate fitness to relieve the
sufferer. This need not be; Dr. Keyser, at his
new medicine store, No. 107 Idberty street, is
abundantly supplied with every appliance, need
ful to the retention and relief of this terrible
affliction, so that every one can be prorerlyg
fitted at a moderate cost, with the full assurance
that the appliance is the best that the mechanical
department of surgery can afford. The Doctor
has pursued the investigation of hernia with
more than ordinary care for over thirty years,
so that the afflicted can place, implicit re
liance on his skill and Integrity with the full as
turance that they will not only get the best truss,
suitable to tne case, but likewise a thorough and
efficient knowledge of its proper application.
There are many persons who not only sacrifice
their health, , but even their lives, for want of a
proper truss, or a truss properly applied. Straw.
gulated and irreducable rupture, is far more
common ailment now than in former years; and
may we nos justly arrive at the conclusion, that
its ftequency Is often occasioned b'r the neglect
and Carelessness of the sufferers themselves. No
one would be regarded as sane or excusable who
would go for a whole winter without the proper ,
clothing to shield them from the lnelemency of
the weather, but, at the same time, it Is thought
alight affair to suffer for years with a protrusion
that not only subjects the person to inconveni
ence, ' but , even places life itself jeopardy.
Those of our readers who may be unfortunate to
need appliances of this kind cannot act more
wisely than to out this advertisement out and
preserve it, so as to enable them to retain the
place where such important preseavers oflife and
health are to be procured. .
DR. KEYSER'S NEW =BIOME norm.
NO. 187 LIBERTY STRBET, TWIT Doom
FROM ST. CULIII. fONSULTATION ROOMS.
No. 120 PENN STREET, from 10 A. N. until
4P. M.
THE PUREST AND VAFEST.
The efficacy of itosTErrtiva Miami &TED
STOMACH BITTERS as a specUle for recruiting '
the enfeebled body and cheering the desponding "
11100 has passed into a proverb. In the United
Butes where this marvelous tonic has borne down
all opposition aud eclipsed ali rivalry, the demand
for it has annually 'increased in a heavier and,
heavier ratio tbr years, until, angst, them solar
sales of this preparation exceed those of all other
stamachies combined. % Eximiiiit members of the
medical prO'fessiens and lospital eurgeoPs without
number, have candidly adMitted thit th pbear
=wont*" of the faUnity contains no prescription
that produces inch beneliciat effects indyspepsia,
general debility and nervous diseases, as HOS
TETTER,S BITTERS. To use the language of
venerable physician of Hew Tort. "The Bitten
are the purest Wm:dant and the safest tonic we
have." But the uses of the gremiegetable anti
dote are much more ; comprehensive than mob
Praise would imply. As a PAZZABATOBY ANTi•
DOIS 10 epidemic disease. a genial stimulant, a
Promoter 01 constitutional vigor, an appetiser. &
stomachic, and a remedy fir nervous debility, no
medicinal preparation has ever attained the rag!'
tallon of HOSTETEWS BITTERS.. It is'.the
HOUSEHOLD TONIC of the AMERICAN TEO.
PLIC, and , in all Unman probability will be so for
centuries to eome. The magnates of Science Po
cognize its merits; and this it Is emphetteallr
the aedielpe of the masses. Is proied 67 Its vast.
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