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UNION REkTBL/CAN TICKET.
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JOHN W. (TEARY.
auDaAp. sr PRE ME COURT :
'SENSY W. WILLIAMS.
C9IIIVM3E.
ASSOC:UTZ Moos monism comm.
JOHN M. EIREPATXWE,
ABUSTART LAW JuDGE, cossorrrlals,
PRED , R. H. COLLIER.
erArs EssArz—THOMAS HOWARD.
assisona—MlLEß B. HUMPHREYS,
_ ALEXANDER MILLAR.
• JOSEPH WALTON,
JAMES TAYLOR,
D. N. WHITE,
JOHN. H. KERR.
Romany. HUGH B. FLEMING.
Tssestrass—JOS. P. DENNISTON.
Class OT COllsrs—J OSEPH BROWNE.
BRCORDRR— ['BORAS H. HUNTER.
Coioasszoirza—JßAClNET B. BOSTWICK
BsetBrsa--.IOBEPH H. GRAY.
Cz.rax ORMAN/3' Comr— iLE.X. BILANDS
DIRECTOR Or Poos—ABDIEL MCCLURE.
Ws Pstivr on the inside pages- of
Mb morning's Gersms—Second Page:
i'Vetryt '"Clouds:" Ephemeris, Clippings.
Third and Sixth pages: Finance and
.Trade, Markets, Imports, River Nem.
&sena page: Mark Twain', Book,
Amusement Directory.
Pwritothttat at Antwer% 55:f.
U. B. BONDS at Frankfort, 86
GOLD closed in New York yesterday
at 180f@l861.
Sac=Testy Fan has not favored the
selection ,of Mr. George Wilkes for the
Chinese mission.
A LARGE. Arnrcece may be reckoned
on for the speech of Judge BINGHAM, of
Ohlo, on Thursday evening, in the Alle
gheny Diamond.
Haw. D&llEx. KALI:Pus, of Manch
Chunk, an eloquent and instructive
speaker, addressed a large meeting at
Beaver last evening. He also attends
the Republican meeting at Ebensburg,
Cambria county, on Thursday evening.
TEE approximate registration of Craw
ford county foote up a total voting list of
18,400, about 800 votes less than were
actually polled at the Presidential elec
tion. The law provides for the correc
tion of the lists, and every voter should
-see that his ionic la duly entered.
Tar. rumor of a fortnight since that
General G. bi. Dodge would succeed Gen.
Rawlins in the War Office seems to have
Lad this foundation: That the probabil
ity of an'early vacation of the portfolio,
either by the resignation or the death of
the then Secretary, had directed the
President's attention to General Dodge,
and letters of enquiry were' probably
written, to sotind him upon the point of
acceptance. He is now conspiewously ,
mentioned for the vacant post.
Thr. evident inclination of the opposi
lion leaders to discard ex-Senator Burs.
.ALEw from any position of influence and
honor in the party is really a matter for
public regret. That gentleman has su
perior abilities, standing a head arid shod
ders above his Democratic competitors in
scholarly;attainments and oratorical gifts,
whiCh have often graced and dignified
bitter pirtisanship. He has had ample
Proofs already, and
that
likely to meet
with still more, that these qualifications
do, not commend him - to • Democratic sup
port. The latest evidence comes from
his own district of 'Northumberland,
where , a portion of the party have bolted
his nomination for the State Senate.
BOLLS OF HONOR XVIII and XIX,
i
j t issued by , the Quarter Master General,
e body the ' record of the interment of
,fo y thousand, three hundred and forty. lthe e Union soldiers, in the various Na.
I go al Cemeteries. Of these, the names of
en thousand, five hundred and thirty
li ' unknown. , The total number of in•
ante reported in all these records is
now swelled to About one hundred and
himdred and ninety-three t thousand, of
whom seventy-three thousand have not
been Identified. It Is supposed that there
remain, to be similarly recorded, the in• 1
onts of %boat one bundted and
elve thousand more, an afilifePte in
of over three hundred thousand of the
11 , on dead, a sad record which should
y.t be largely Increased, to embrace the
~. pieta mortality lists or the Great Re-
Titrangesza mums propose to
ow;thelleroglos precedent, end Worn
I,,eBleature, aa icon. ea It convenes.
*17,.1 . 0yA
,clAt members, elected
catbdtt gits4erit cotmtlee, who are
a2E g,
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sT'ATE.
The calamity at the Avondale colliery
is most shocking. At this writing, there
seems little feason to hope for the tad.
mate rescue, alive, of the two hundred
human beings who were, on Monday
moniing cut off by fire from the light
and air of Heaven and immured, perhaps
speedily suffocated, hundreds of feet be.
low the earth's surface. Vigorous efforts
have been in progress, to open a com
munication with the livine or the dead, the
results of which may be ascertained before
this sheet is printed. Remembering the
almost uniform fatality which has attend
ed such disasters in coal-mining experi
ence, it is hoping against all experience,
as against all science, to, rely upon the
rescue of the prisoners alive. iVe fear
that relief will come at last only to a mul.
titnde of the dead. And at least two
other lives have been lost in efforur i far
their rescue before it was too late.
If our fears shall prove to be well.
grounded,-this Avondale disaster will far
outrank, in Its terrible fitality, any pre
vious occurrence of the sort on this side
of the Atlantic. An explosion some years
since in the Midlothian mines, of the
Richmond (Vs.) district, destroyed a
large number of lives, but not nearly so
many as are now likely to be reported
from Avondale. In this case an immense
wooden framework, called a "breaker,"
and cciastructed for, the reduction and
screening of the huge lumps of anthracite
sent up by the miners from beloi,
a building two luildrecl feet in length and
one hundred feet high, had been placed
directly over the main shaft of the mine.
The contingency of fire, and thq,conss
guent certain confinement, and probable
destruction, of every miner under
ground, seems never to have been noticed,
or thought worthy of consideration by
the proprietors. This terrible event in
structs us for the future. Ttie
titre should enact such practical and
stringent safe•guards, as vtill assure, be
yond any contingency, the safety of the
main avenues to all undergrouna works.
The ratification of the XVth Constitu
tional Amendment is the necessary and
logical consummation of all the efforts
made by the 'Republican party. Lir the
preservation of the Union, on the bull of
Universal. Liberty and the Equal - Rights
of all claeses of inhabitants. is we have
on several occasions Intimated, tho pro-,
posed Amendment is in danger of defeat.
Its failure would result inevitably in the,
re-formation of, Southern political society
on an oligarchical basis,'differing in omen
tial particulars, it might be; from. that
which existed before the abrogation of
Slavery, but, on the whole, nearly as
offensive in principle and as arrogant and
domineering in practice. Stich a con•
summation would defeat, in a very large
measure, the vital ends for which the
loyal poptilation Of the country, through
a number of bloody years, made elver
dieted sacrifices.
True, Pennsylvania bas ratified the
Amendment, and itepubilcana maintain
that her action in that regard , is !nevem
ble. But, it must be remembered that
the Democrats take an entirely opposite
view of the case. They Contend that the
assent that has been given by this Com
monwealth, strictly in accordance:olth.
the forms of law, Can be revoked by the
Legislature at any time before the final
decision shall be announced in the • priel.
/lunation of die Federal 13earetary of
State. This view has no, toundithez in
usage Orin the tents of the Coutithtion,
6nttt ma be so.pershtted la u Ad . 's:Jest.
uncertainty and trouble. !It* theital
' - to be expelled on tro3 ground! that they
claim to represen ' it ii
tistricts which have no
legal existence. The ulterior purpose
contemplated by. a rebel plans is to
maintain the rile lity of all legislation
which may have i been bad under the
amended Constitution of '65, when the
votes of these eight members have been
required to make e quorum. _Since this
would include a .very ccaisiderable part of
the Republican legislation for the three
years past, the scope of the rebel propo
sition may be better onderstood. Its
effect, among other things, if successful,
would be to unseat Senator BnowiLow.
Lively times may be looked for at Nash
ville, In October.
ANOTHER.
Major General Jot= A. Itawinrs, Sec
retail of War, who died at Washington,
on Mondaylast, was born in Illinois, Feb.
13, 1831, of parents still living. Reared
as a farmer, he began the study of the
law at Galena, in 1854, and was admitted
to the her the ensulniP year, devoting him
self to the inofeesion, and voting with the
Democratic pkrty until the outbreak of
the rebellion. When the Hull Run de
feat startled the nation', he engaged In
raising a company for service, was
commissioned on the staff of his friend,
Brig. Gen. GRANT, in September. '6l,
and has remained with him, from Belmont
to Appomatox, as Chief of the General
Staff at Washington. and finally at the
head oU the War Office. His illness was
hemorrhage of the lungs, the result of a
cold contracted in the service in 1864,
from which he had since continuously
suffered. He leaves a wife and two chil-
dren, a third, an infant but a few days
old, preceding him in death last week.
His death is a personal loss to the Pres
ident, whose confidential friend be bad
ever been, and a public loss to a people
which mourns a record already too large,
of its bravest and noblest life given that
the Republiq might live.
BURIED ALIVE.
A POINT OP DANGER.
PITTSBURGH GAZETTE ; WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBEJ .9, 1869,
monammismir
of the highest moment fot the pm/Icm*
of j ustice and the maintenance of public re
pose and order, that the Republican ascen
dancy in this State be retained unimpaired.
To allow the pending election to go by
default, or by a campaign only half con
tested, would be to entail incalculable
evils, and to render necessary a succession
of struggles to accomplish that which is
now comwatively easy.
What Is wanted of the Republiesns of
Pennsylvania is not only to make sure
that her ratification of the Amendment,
already on record, shall not be challenged,
but to so reiterate her assent at the ballot
boxes as to inspire a large degree of con
fidence and enthusiasm in other States
where elections are held later.
DO YOU 0011 1 1PREHEN D THE
PERIL!
In 1871 the; Legislature will have de
volyed upon:it the duty of apportioning
l'ennitylvanieboth for Congressional and
Legislative representation. Both of these
apportionments have not fallen on the
same year since 1801, and will not fall on
the same year again till 1941. This con
sideration is of the utmost political im
portance.
It has been demonstrated in all the re•
cent contests in this State that the Republi
cans have a handsome majority of the
votes On a fall poll, and that the Demo
crats hold a majority of the counties.
Every experienced politician compre
hends that the State can be divided into
Congressional and Legislative districts,
on purely territorial bases, and in con
formity with the letter of the Constitu
tion, while giving the minority the lar
ger part of the representation. This
would be to contemn and frustrate the
essential spirit of a democracy, which
inculcates that the majority shall rule.
Every politic= comprehends, more
over, that the State can be districted with
due reference to territorial considerations,
and yet respect the iittrinsic rights of the
majority to govern, thus complying with
the spirit as well as the letter of the Con
stitution.
That this may be done, it is indispen
sable that General GEARY be re-elected
to the governorship. With Mr. PACKER
in the Executive chamber, apportionment
bills might be coerced which would strip
the Repiihlicans of power, and hand over
the control to the Democrats, though these
should be found at every recurring elec
tion thenceforward, to be in a decided
minority on the popular vote.
We press this point. If the Republi
cans of this State do not wish to find
themselves she Lit, of power, and to have
theirmouths stopped from uttering reason
able complaints, they must demonstrate
'tit the coming election, by the re-election
of Gov . GEAR; that their array is un
broken, that they are the majority, and
hence have the natural and legal right to
govern. Nothing will satisfy the re
quirements of the present case but a
round majority, of lawful ballots. Re
publicans if you fall in this, multiplied
disasters will , be likely to come upon you.
Having the viewer, see to it that you use
it effectively.
THE CUBAN INTERFERENCE.
The terms of the existing treaty of
1795 with Spain are so peculiar that it is
conceded on all hands at Washington
that our recognition of Cuban independ
ence would lead inevitably to a war with
Spain, whose flag woild at once cover
all the pirates of the world, in Pillaging
and scattering our shipping. Is it worth
while to consider inch a trifle aa this, in
the face of the noble proposition to prove
onr national sympathies for Cuban liberty?
It is said that we have invited Spain to
arrange her Cuban imbroglio by con
ceding the independence of the island,
conditioned that note over one hundred
millions of dollars shall be paid to her for
her public property therein, this debt being
guaranteed by the American Govern
ment, and that slavery be abolished. Our
suggestion to a foreign power that it
should concede the independence of
a revolted province, is simply an impertl
nem*, and we don't believe that any inch
.proposal has been officially presented by
American diplomacy.
The stipulation for the istiolition of
slavery le commenflable, but the Spanish
Constitution, at this moment nominally in
force in all the dominions of that nation,
itself abolishes slavery, and the stipule
' tion la superfluous. .
The proposed guarantee of one hum.
Ared millions of this Cuban debt, if ac.
cepted, would result , as surely as fate, in
the ultimate addition' of that sunk to the
heavy burthen now resting upon the
American people t Do we not owe
enough already, of debt incurred in a
better cause.? Are we such earnest prop.
agandiats that we can afford to pay that
vast sum for diffusini the blessings of
liberty in neighboring lands ? -
It is fiurther repo* that Spain de
clines these propositions, insisting very
properly that the rebels: shall lay down
their arms, pledging to , them a general
amnesty, 'requiring from them payment
for all public property, l and for all alt private
property destroyed, providing for the
submissionbf the question of - dependence
or independence to a popular vote of the
islanders, and for an American guaran
tee of Cuba's proportinn of the Spanish
public debt, In case independence is 58 "
need. Than these,terms, nothing could
be more just. Yet it is said the insist-
gent agents decline to favor them.
Now,; ,observe, the predicament into
which the Administration seems to be
dritting~ 1a 1 111 . this aw*wel'd ?Mims&
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by bothihis. contesting parties, upon an
agreed basii, and Involving no compro
raise of our own peace, dignity or re
sources. But this attempt is futile to ne
gotiate an impossible agreement between
two parties, one of which has the laws
of nations, the Mitire public code of
the world, upon its side, rights the
most clearly indisputable, and which,
Were Epain a first-rate power, would
never be impugned, while the other re
jects every reasonable proposal, and de-
Minds nothing less, in effect, than the
forcible intervention of a third party,
the government of a republic which has
first abolished its own institutions of hw
man slavery at a fearful cost, for the
maintenance of that slavery in an inde
pendent, Cuba:
The President and kis constitutional
advisers ought to see by this time, as
events move on, that they are in danger
of involving the Republic in serious diffi
culties, and in a still more serious and
shameful disgrace. The sooner they shall
retire from a business with which they
have no call whatever to meildleiwin
its present shape, the better for
the , country. '` lf 'politicians at the
Capital and a portion of the eastern
Republican press have become so de
moralized, by any form of underhand
pressure, or led so far astray by their
yearnings for the spread of personal and
political lioerty on the glebe, that they
' fail to comprehend or be controlled by the
plain teachings of this Cuban situation,
let us have consolation in knowing that
the American people are taking a more
practical view of the case. They.want
no intervention of any sort, as long as
African slavery exiats in Cuba: they do
not want the responsibility of directing
and enforcing its abolition there;
they - do not want any increase, preP
ent or remote, in their public debt;
they do not want a Spanish war, or any;
other war; they want to be let alone, and
to let alone every other people on the
planet. They want the Administration
to keep these just expectations in view,
and they will want Congress to enforce
them in fact.
Whatever course our Government may
ake, it will pass under review when Con•
gress meets. Let•ua hope that there will
be no mischief to be undone.
THE COURTS.
District Court—Judges Hampton and
Ktrkpairick.
TorsDAY, September 7.—The sown.
ment list was resumed in the District
Court this morning. No btuslness of pub
lie interest was transacted.
•
Common Pleas—Judge Stowe,
TUESDAY, September 7.—ln the habeas
corpus case of the Commonwealth ex
rel. Geo. Amberson vs. Julian Amber
son, a return was made yesterday and
the case argued by T. 4. Marshall, E.g.,
for the relator, and - Jno. M. Large, Esq.,
for the respondent. The matter in con.
troversy was the custody of a daughter
of the relator's, aged ten years, which, it
appears, was held by the respondent,
who is its grandmother, on the ground
that the father was not a proper person
to take charge of it. The Court ordered
that the child be given into the custody
of the father, its natural grutrdlau, and
that the respondent pay the costs , of the
proceeding.
Quarter Sesidons.--Judge
TUESDAY, September 7.—ln the case of
the Commonwealth vs. Thomas Elliott,
indicted for assault and battery, tried
on Monday, the jury returned a yerdict
of not guilty and directed that the proms
cutor. James Owens, pay one-half the
coat and the defendant one half.
The first case taken up was the Com
monwealth va. Barnhart Hartman, in
dictment larceoy.„The prosecutor was
one of the proprietors of the Red Lion
Hotel, and he alleges that the accused
was caught in the act of hauling away a
load of manure from the prosecutor's
stable•yard. The jury returned a verdict
of not guilty. •
Joseph Sharp, charged with abandon
ment on oath of his wife, Catharine
Sharp, was, after a hearing, ordered - to
pay the sum of $l5 ; per month to the
support of his family.- He was also herd
in the sum of 1500 bail for . the faithful
performance of the order, and in a like
sum of $5OO to keep' the peace, for a pe
riod of two years.
inutricin TREATMENT.
The next case taken up was an indict
ment against Frank Lenstetter for inhu
man treatment, fa which it was alleged
that one Frank Lenstatter had treated
his wife in a most inhuman manner, and
that he , was aided and abetted in this; conduct by hie brother, Charles
Denstetter and his wife. It appears that
the accused resides la Hampton township,
and that the wife of .'''rank loenstetter,
the accused, was blind and Infirm and
that instead of treating her as a human
being, she was placed in an old vacant
house,, whore she was kept without ant-
Anent; clothing to cover her or keep her
warm, and that the plats fin which she
was kept was, full of filth and vermin.
The parties , it appears, originally all re-'
sided in the same home. Mit after the
unfortunate
,woman - became .. blind her,
slater.hl-law would not allow her to re.
main in the house.. The. neighbors, it is
alleged,' remonstrated against such in
human conduct, but , to, no , purpose, and
finally the case was brought Wale notice
of the Directors of the Poor, who caused
her to be removed to the Pbor House.
Robert McElbenny, a neighbor, made in
formation against the parties before Jae
tics Hardy, of Hampton' township. The
evidence on the part'of the Common
wealth more than substantiated the
charges...
_
One witness testified .
that he had been
called noon by justice ~ h icElheny to go
with him to sea'-the woman, and on ar
ri o u thous e place they were shown into
an about 10x12 feet, and !band
the woman lying on a bunk, with an old
straw tick covered over her, and that she
had on an old quilted; petticoat.. The
woman was blind, her hair was all com
ing out, and there were, bed sores onher
aides. There was a antra in the room,
but no fire in it. There had been fire In
it, as there were some; tabbe in tue bot
tom. Tne outhouse main a 'filthy oon
ditlon, and the woman was filthy. '
Several other witnesses corroborated
thil statenietti' '
The defence, In •palliition ibr the
fence, alleged that the defendant_was in
indigent •tiretinistanee had. not, the
mat= t 0. 8 13,011 his wife in luxury, and
that there Walli hot that neglect on the
- part of-the seemed as was alleged by the
Commonwealth. Jury out.
Court adjourned to meet , at halt put
nine o'clock Wednesday morning.
TELLT,..I.IIT Pon wEDN'EaDAY.
No. 48 Commonwealth vs. Wm. C.
Chandler.
1 * 120 Commonwealth vs. W. Messick.
•' 805 Commonwealth vs. Joseph (Don.
• ' ' avan et al.
1 0 382 Commonwealth vs. Thos. Moore.
437 Commonwealth vs.•Jno. G. Free
berger et al.
Commonwealth vs. John McCor
mick. •
" 883 Commonwealth vs. Wm. Barnum
.• Commonwealth vs. Hugh Galls.
" 414 Commonwealth. 13. Patrick Mar
. key.
416 CoMmonwealth vs. Jno.Robertri.
fa Commonwealth vs.. W, J. Rob
inson.
" 396 Connnonwealth vs. John Boon.
TRIAL LIST FOR THIIRSDAY.
No. 488. Commonwealth vs. John An'
derma.
" 160. Commonwealth vs. O'Neill, et aL
826. Commonwealth vs. Patti,*
Mur n ,
'; 40. Com mon we alth vs. John Jay
and David Ludwig. -
" 38. ConittlenWealth vs. Robert Ear
ley.
87. Comninntrealth vs. Jno. Bales.
" 39. Commonwealth vs. George Fol.
trier.
" 42. Commonwealth vs. Lorenz
•
" 44. Oommonwealth . vs. John Mo
Henry.
45 Commonwealtlivs. Henzyßeady.
36. Commonwealth vs. I Mary A.
Alexander.
Methodist Annual Catiference
burgh District.
(Correspondence of the Plttabugh Gazette.)
FAIRMOUNT, W. VA., Sept. 4, '69.
Fourth day, afternoon session, opened
in the usual *ay. Minutes read and
adopted. After some discussion, it was
decided that the President of the Confer
ence, Dr. Collier, should travel the Dia
trict..
Dr. George Brown, from the Committee
on Education, reported Adrhuu.College
in a very prosperous condition,lits well
as all the educational interests of the de
nomination.
H. B. Knight read a very able essay
on the ' , Deaconship." arguing that it is
not an "order" in the Christian ministry.
He was asked by the Conference to pro
duce it in pamphlet form.
Rev. A. Clark,- from the Committee on
Obituaries, reported the demise of Thos.
H. Stockton,D. D., and James B. Gra
ham, A. M., oth members of this Con
ference.
President Mahan addressed the Con
ference on the condition and interests of
Adrian College, showing it to be in ex
cellent condition, intellectually, morally
and financially; with very encouraging
prospects for the future.
Dr. Scott, editor of the Methodist Be
corder, addressed the Conference en the
Publishing Interests of the Church,
showing increasing prosperity in every
department. ,
Adjourned with , prayer.
sirrs DAY'S SESSION.
MoirDAT, Sept. O.—Morning session
opened in the usual manner. Roll called;
minutes read and adopted. Committee.
on Sabbath Schools reported the cause
flourishing throughout the District.
Committee on Ministerial Education re
ported that agency doing a good work.
At eleven o'clock, the Maryland dele
gation took their leave of the Conference
in a very affectionate manner, expressing
their satisfaction for the privilege of
mingling with the members of the Con
ference, and the good people of Fair
mount. Expressing also the ardent hone
that we shall all soon be one in orgariic
union. The whole assembly then en
gaged in singing a suitable christian mel
ody while a general shaking of hands
took place. It proved a very affecting
scene indeed—such as is seldom - wit
na.-sed. r •
Adjourned in the usual manner.
SUNDAY, Sept. s.—The pulpits -of this
place and the contiguous villages were
supplied by members of the Conferedce
and fraternal visitors. It was a high
day. After an eloquent sermon by J. J.
Murray, Aft er
D., of Baltimore, in the
church where._ the Conference holds 4ta
sessions, three young men were ordained
to the office of Elder in christian minis
try. In the afternoon, a missionary meet
ing was held at the same place. and was
addressed by Doctor Collier, Rev. J. B.
Walker and others, and nearly three
hundred dollars secu red.i In the even
ing, after an excellent sermon by -Dr.
Nichols, of Frederick City, Maryland,
upwards of seventydollare were secured
for ministerial educational Purposes.
Blinzdngnans Council.
The Council of Birmingham borough
held its regular monthly meeting last
evening, at the office of Burgess Sails- '
bury, on Fourteenth street.
Members present: Messrs. Oliver, At
terbary, Voegtly. Doyle, • Ward,
Schwarm, Malwaine and Burgess Salis
bury, who presided.
The minutes of the last meeting were
read and approved.
Mr. Atterbnry, of the Finance Commit
tee, reported that the Committee had ex
amined the accounts of the borough-till
cent and found them correct.-
Mr. Oliver, from the Street Committee,
reported the progress of work on various
streets.
• A COMMUDICHIJOII fiom a number of
citizens residing on Twelfth street, com
plaining that Keeling .16 Co. had ob
structed the gutter in said street, at the
mouth of Broad street, was read.
On motion of Mr. Atterbary, the corn
mudication was referred to the Street
Committee with power to act.
Mx. Mollwaine reported that the Mar
ket Committee had examined the ac
count of the Market Master, for repairs
done to the hall, and found the same cor
rect. The report was_ adopted.
A petition was present in behalf of
Mrs. Poth, residing on Washington
street, tear McKee street, asking to be
relieved from the payment of the amount
assessed against her for curbing and pay.
mg on , said street., On motion of Mx.
Schwarm,.the petition was granted. •
Bills were presentad and warrants au
thorizsti for their payment, as tailor:
I rich', Oliver a Pllllll t * Uco
Janitor or Mechanics , close CoMpanr... 00
)(ran ath, 1311181 u/ engine house.... 54 00
D. Durso, street purpo es. .. . . ........ 300 CO
Ha •!lugs CrNch. aCcoant 1,00000 `
Ni J. Heller. on account .... .. . ...... ... OCO 90
Staltzenbach, In luu P
H. Hunter 64 RI
James dmlto ...... .............. .. ... 00
P. Detail • .......... • ... • .... 50 40
Warrants were also authorized for the
payment of of:Hogue salaries.
The Street Conunittee, towhom was re
ferred a petition of property owners on .
Ninth street, asking the grading and
paving of said street, report unfavorably
on said petition, because the tilling is too
fresh, and will 'probably sink and throw
the street out of grade.
Mr. Oliver; from the Railroad • Com
mittee, • 'reported that the Committee,
together with the President of the Mo.
noogabela ;Valley Railroad , ' Company,
pre Over the proposed route thril l
theill and after & thorough .
Immo& or- the same, the.members of
Committee unaolizmualy • decided: .ado
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the Company along Beach street. hi the
opinion of the Committee a railroad
along said street would be detrimental
to the interests of the borough. The re
port was adopted without discussion.
A petition of Lewis, Oliver and Phil
lips., asking permission to erect a plat
form scales on Grosvenor street, in front
of their property was presented. and on
motion of Mr. Thiyie, it was granted.
On motion of Mr. Atterbury, the
matter of paving
, Harnwny street, near
the . river, was referred to the Street
Committee,
Adjourned.
—The California State Fair opened yes
terday with a splendid showing of stock.
The attendance is large. -
—Senator Sumner has been invited to
preside at the Massachusetts Republi
can Convention, which meets on the 22d.
—The Grand Lodge of the 'United
States of the Ancient_ Order of Good
day.
Fellows will convene at Cincinnati to-
— Ex-President Johnson still lingers in
Nashville, having been there some ten
days scheming for election to the U. S.
Senate.
—Mrs. A. B. Busch, of German descent,
While laboring under delirium induced
by sickness, drowned herself in a cis
tern at St. fouls, yesterday.
—The, New England Fair opened at
Portland. Me., yesterday. The display
of cattle is very fine, and of horses larger
than at any previous exhibition.
•
—Prof. Davidson's scientific party has
returnect to San Francisco from Alaska.
The remit of the expedition is satisfac
tory. The party visited a region of coun
try, never before penetrated by white
men.
—The partition walls of a large new
brick building, in Baltimore, gave way
yesterday morning, wrecking the build
ing. Several bricklayers and hod car
riers were at wet-kin an tipper story, and
four were buried- in the ruins. Three
men were rescued, severely out and in
jured. A fourth, named Benj. Jacks, •
colored, a hod carrier, was dead.
—Judge Jere S. Black, of Penna.,has
brought suit in the sum of $.26,000 •
against the Louisville and Nashville
Railroad Co., for injuries sustained
some time during the early part of the
summer. Had the Railroad Co. been:
prompt in paying the physicans whcw
attended Judge Black during his suffer
ing!, he would probably have been
more indulgent. _
—The Ohio excursion party arrived at
Topeka, Kansas. Sunday night, and al.
though there was a heavy storm at the
time, the people turned out and gave
them a warm welcome. They were
taken from the depot to the - hotels in
carriages and their wants provided tor.
Yesterday the weather was tine and the
whole party was shown the city and sur
roundings. They leave for Sheridan to
day.
—At the Susquehanna Railroad Dlrea;
tors election yesterday, the Fisk party
cast their vote, 13,000 shares, and then
organized by electing W. S. Church.
President, and S. R.. Herrick, ince Pres
ident \ The Ramsey party at a separate
poll, cast their vote, and .were yet, at
2;30 P. m., engaged in canvassing. The
indica ons are that the election will go.
for naught, as both parties held separate
polls. and had separate inspectors, and
received votes twice from certain towns.
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TIIO BRINGEST Dire LIFE._,LUNG•WORT. • -
tak
One of e truest and most suggestive ideas
can be to tabled from the caption at the head
of this en cle; for ,of all diseases which impair
human health and *bonen human life, none are'
more prevalent than those which affect the lungs
I I
and pulmonary tissues. Whether we regard lung
diseases in the light of a merely slight cough.
Which is inn the fore - ntuner of anion serious'
malady. or as a deep lesion corroding, and db.'
solving the pulmonary structure, it is alwaYs
pregnant With evil and foreboding of disaster.
in no class of maladies should thei physician or
the friend's and family of the patient be more
seriously forewarned than in those of the lungs,
for it is in theme that early and Wildcat treat
ment Is most desirable, and it Is then that danger
can be ',warded off and a cure effected... In DB.
KEYSER'S LUNG CURE you have a medicine
'1
of the greatest Value in all these conditions. An
i •
alterative, a tonic, a nutrient and resolvent,:;
auccorimr nature' and sr/staining the recupera• ..
tire pow rs otthe system, Its beautiful work.
Inge, in ony with the regular f lunation,, can
ja
be readily observed by the use Of one or two hot-
ties: it is U soon break up . the chain of morbid
sramathles that disturb the harmonious work-
Lugs of e animal economy. The hamming
cough, e painful respiration, ihe smarm,
streakedth blood, wUI soon give place to the
normal an proper workings af health and vigor.
An aggre ated experience of over thirty years
has enable Dr. Keyser, in the compounding of
hie MING CUBE. to give new hone to the eon
f
sumptire . valid and at the same time speedy q
relief in those now prevalent, catarrhal and
j
throat are 'Lions , so distressing in their erects
and so &Imo t certainly fatal in their tendencies,
unless cure by sole appropriate remedy. DB.
KETEILIVB LUNG CUBE is to thorough and ef
t:relent. that any one who ha ever used It, will
never be thou& it in the house. It win, often
cure when avant - tang else fella, and in simple
cases will en a oftentimes in a few days.
The atten OA of patients, u well as medical
men, b re . ctfully invited to this new and
valaable ad • lion to the pharmacy of the coon
.
try.
DR. Eirre insy be consulted every gay
until 1 o'clock P. 6. at his Great Medicine Ettore,
167 Liberty street, and from 6 to 6 and 7 to 9
at nista.
A REGIMAR HABIT OF BODY
Is absolutely essential to physical health Ind
clearness of intellect. Nor Is this all. 'Beauty- `
of person cannot coee.dst With an unnatural eon.
mom of the bowels.: a tee passage of, the re. 7,
fase matter of the system through these natural
waste pipes. is as necessary to the purity of the
body as the free passage of the offal of a city •
through is sewers L necessary to the health of '
Its Inhabitants.
Indigestion is the primary cause of most of the
diseues of the discharging organs aad ono of
its most common results Is CONSTIPATION. This
complsitst.. besides beinit dangerous in itself, has
manydissgreeable concomi•s.nts—ouch as an nn- •
pleasant , breath, a sallow alba coatamlotred
olood and bile, hemorrhoids, headache, lou of
=puny. and general -
HOSTET Ca i% isTOIL&ON eXTTICIti remove
all these evils by removing their immediate
canoe in the olgestive organs and :ego sting the
action of the intestines. The combination of
Properties In this pelebrated rreparation a one
of its chief merits:. It is not merely* stimulant.
or a tonle. or an anti-bilious agent. or a stervines
or a b1,.0d deputed, or a cathartic, but all these
curative elements judiciously blended In one
Powerful restorative. It tends activity and vigor
to the Inert and enetersted stomseb, relieves the
alintentary canal ot i obstruction, and gives
Pane to the membran e- which lines it. gently
'Omelets* the liver. braces the nerves. and
cheers tee an mat spirits. No other remoly pos.
leases inch a varlet) of hygienic Tina"'
is to these eltmeterlsties that it owes its pre..
Ilan as I rhousebo.d medicine. !aperient* .
Droved that It is as harmlese as f Is efficacious.
and hence it is as popnLat with the rah*, Sea
as with tee iproniret.
a CoTIGTTZIPti BITTERS is sole
.1 bottles only, and trade.tuark blown m the
and engraved on the label. with oust:eel
esuared .reirenne. shinty aver tee th cloe •
suirimarmalismot..
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BRIEF TELEGRAMS.
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