THE DAILY GAZETTE OFFICIAL PIPER Of Pittsburgh, Allegheny City and . Allegheny County. I=l (bract of , _filatb Avenue and timlthorld kkreet THORSDAY,.MAY 26, 1870 BOMA In Fninkfort, PrrnocEm I.a.Azawerp. 521. '‘ 006 closed in New York yesterdarit tl4f. Tut: Pension nud Bounty.bills, an re ported in the HOU.I. involving b dis bursement of over six million dollars. will scarcely pass Into ]awe at this session. Wz have, from the Census bureau, e copy of the official instructions' ro the aFiltia r ias the work of enumeration, which is to begin J one Pet. We too. sent an abstract Of them tomorrow. - IT IB MUM that a reduction 'of from thirty to fifty millions in the taxes will be provided for before the adjournment of Congress, in some form. There to equally certain to be a sharp contest- over the . , at rangement of the details. le this connec tion we refer the reader to the remarks of Senator Sherman. printed in:another column. • Twit LTIICII BILL, for the promotion of our shipping interests, has finally been put aside in the House, although not with out a strong rote in its favor. The mer its of this meaeure have been defended with such signal ability by Idessre. Lynch . and Healey that even this defeat has tee. ' tided to the strength of their case_ The . proposition now passes to the next ses. sion, when its prospects will be mnre fiat• toting. AME L7:rrstO of the representative, of a eery numerous and influential .denontina tionoiChriatians convened in this'elty last evening. The Assembly embodies a large degree of intellectual culture and social ss well cc -religious influence. come its members to 'this cite, with the sincere trust that their visit may _be ai pleasant to themselves perionally . as -lei purpose should prov profitable . to, their ComurrrEr: of the last Legislature is now in 'Washington, to urge the'leces ; shy as well as tho justice of an Immediate Intervention by Congress. for the relief of our navigation interests from the en croachments of corporations the eree, We of bridges across the cheque' of the . Ohio. Senator ChiAn.pr and ex.-liepre 'eidetic° WALTON, of thin county, are of the Committee, the first-named its . its Chairman. THE 3rD!) rnorosmoB, theshort. tariff bill; ot 'Witt& . we spoke yesterday-, had a strong Tote In the House, 102 to 80, - but failed of the necessary two-thirds for the suspension of the rules. We are aware that something of this kind would • -soon be rushed through the noose. were it not certaii of an ultimate defeat in the . Senate. We should like to see the smile • resolution offered again with the iron clause stricken out._ Let the country see a square rote on the tea, coffee and sugar question I • SENATOR CAMERON will-be selected as the repreeentatiiebf the Permsylvsila del. egatiotiontheZieentive Committee of lie pobliaurs, to be formed by Senator in obedience to the instructions of a recent caucus at Washington. A private letter from the • Capital, advising us of this fact a day or two since, 'added: "Look out for a - I.lOwl from the Sormneysial.r r Aiia . holiiiiii.,Comy/trcia/ did. in its yes terday's Mite. It was a puny,: feeble, .starveling howl, but its lack of rola nie was made up in, spite. Bnt that is not to be wondered at when one condiders the pre cise composition of the scribbling crowd of eutaiders who have the control- of our neighbor's types. They are very hungry, and their music' is that of famishing wolves who smell the flesh-pots out of their reach. Throw to them a bone will bow quiet they would be! But, seriously, why shouldourneighbor be thus grieved? The Senator - is the faithful representative of a party Which the Commercial hates. and by which it was long since disowned. That journal should stick to Its "honesty and ref . Orm humbug, to its canal-enii!gentetit . pth, to its bootless grabs'at the sinking fund, to its contract, toltelp the nesv.State Tycasu ter to got his money back; and to its gen eral functions as an organ of black-mall— and let individual . Ilepubliam. and the Party Slone. Shoo, fly TUE NORTLIEEN PACIFIC RAILROAD bill. with amendments, is expected to pass the Howse this week. It will be remembered that the bill, or joint resolution, simply proposes to make good to the Company the acreage of Its original butrbgrant, which has been since diminished by pre ; empting settlers, to authorize the corpo-, ration to mortgage its estate for raising trunk to completa the road, and to change somewhat the point of junction of the Portland and San Juan de Foca brat:titles. This is gird It. The COmpany's ease is a meritorious °ice,: end should hero the, public farm. They ask for no subsidy in bonds or cash, although they would glad. Iy exchange their land-pent for the :alone subsides per mile that were given to the pnlon Pacific Road. In mortgaging , the property, they would follow the established 'Radice of "railway corporaticats. Since the met of the work is to be very great, they desire to draw largely upon Europe. an cepttetior Its defrayal, nod?* this and .the privilego:of Creating amortgagb entity Ie molt desii:able., We are assured that even with/Mt:lt the rani sill behullt, but at an additional eXpenze of perhaps a million of dollars through a lets aterated credit.! 'There 'tare been elreiai ono raised In one week's time to build the first sealers" of:the road, which will be &dated to Red River by next Jenny"-, and every dollar of this sum was obtained foam domestic" parties who.' have thus Porren their faith in the high value of the project and the certainty of its accent. WE are happy to see that the . aew, odl 401 . of 'this Detroit' Press, ii i ctiTored Democrat named Fox, is welcinedPith A. fraternal. hand by our neighbor'of the Port, who , sem '"The Democracy trill ae. oept allfrich.hatelligont alliances as Mr. .Fei." We like the sense of that remark, although we 'can't admire its _ grammar t But I *Val intprovement is better than none. • Woquote the greater part •Of the Pates paragrat4i. for the especial bene4t Of our Democratic madera 'who used to bug the cheerful Idea that theirs pv an exclusively "white man's party." Friends listen to such talk as this from that relia ble old organ of white folks," the Pitts. . burgh Peat: If Mr. Fox bad reversed :the order of thlap, and invested his money and talents in it Radical journal, it would have been all light; but for one of the !Lowly' en. granchiabd race to cut Poole from Radical ~=. • s . " I leading strings and dare to think and art for himself, is an unpardonable . offence. flea the tiazette mean to nay that there are no intelligent black men, or simply that there are no invelligem repreienta• tiven of that-race who are- found allying themselvoiliiith - the Democratic party? Either hornet the dilemma in an unfortit nate one for tha-Aireileat least an fail as verar,ity - -Itz;fiaiiceined-r- and 11 it will , buebtitianlt itiliistOry, it will find' that it Is the intelligent negroes, and the intelli gent only who are deserting the rotten Rod. ical platform, cutting loose from the in sincere and treacherous men who desire to uao them for personal and political ag grandizement, and who are seeking a home , and shelter Whin the ptasset ~the Demo erntii tt d -tyl dotty if must tip bard with lad leaders, to lose any of the Yreirst atitniztlf;*inion - arhich 'they have an I inaidieiri, and to which they pin tlieli -- Tiddri'tbeyitnagine that' they - have upon him body and soul, and .thi" have', blur hazard .an independent of action, is, to their narrow minds. unheardof-gratitude--an unpar donable offence. The Democracy teal al. 'rent aff eyed ,inlelligtint yllialaces no Arr. A x —the ignorant blacks the Radicals are welcome to.'for within the ranks of that party they find their natural 'home. - D. 4. MORRELL Upon the renomination of thin gentle- Tau, by Lie fellow citizens of Cambria, for itieirliepteiwidative in. Cinque's., the Pittsburgh Commercial improved the OC eaSiOn to parade the ill-will of a handful of rualludentsabout Ebensburg an an un friendly demonstration of groat popular weight against the candidate. Probably, our neighbor had no special enmity against the candidate, but it must alwaye yield to its own irresistible itching to scandalize anything Republican at every opport unity. Judging - front the following article in the I:l.lensbarg A Rrghania /I, itel raid upon Mr. Morrell has about as little influence as one would have etpected. Say. the Cambria • paper: Mr. Morrell is emphatically a man of the people, and of all the citizens of our noble Comtism:tweeith, he less perhaps than any other is the representative of a mere particular section. Starting in life with little else than his rectitude, his sa gacity and a good stock of perseverance, he has been instrumental in building, the lergest indostriabcorks in the entire na tion. Coming in Cambria minty when comparatively a young man to take upon him the business superintendence of a fail lug iron mill, by his tact, skill and industry, he rnide.what . had been a financial failure a great &metal success: .It is owing to him that anabria. to-day holds within her hinders 45,000 people rather than 20,000. It is to hint that Johnstown and: the ant , rounding villages owe, their pmaperitv, 'The bleak hill» of Southern Cambria yield their hidden Wealth of coal and Iron, anti support thottiamin of hardy and indos. trious freemen. Daniel J. 3forrelYs in dustry and ability opened the way for those cons of toil. Hundreds of farms and thousand of acres of land in Cam bria, Blair and Somerset have greatly in creased or even doubled their values airouirk id - Other cause than the fact that lifr."Morrell 'succeeded in firmly eitablish ing the great industrial works kno‘, : n as the Cambria Iron Company. Ills connection with the iron interests of the State also intimately connects .him with almost every branch of Indlistry within nur borders, All the signs indicate that we are about to enter upon a gigan tic contest between free-trade and protec tion. Weirs. hopeful as to the final re sult of that contest. Yet in it, Penney!. rania must 'take the lead on the side of protection. And Pennsylvania could as ill spire any other of her many brave and able defenders of protection to Daniel J. Morrell; no that it is not only the interest of the district, but Of -the whole State, that Mr. Morrell be returned for the third time to his poet of honor. Certainly our district could not Well secure a Repreeen. titlve more able, ceurteinis, and attentive in illpublic mitteis, and In private life one of : plainer habits and purer motives and conduct. THE PROTHONOTARIES In urging the Runiediate appointment, by the Republican majority of the Sammie Bench, of Republican protho'netariee In place of the three partizan* whom they are still suffering to remain in those im portant Mitres, we bare expressed the clear wish of that majority of the people whose vote* alone placed Messrs. lizxn. AGNEW and Witli 618 in their own high ' In reiterating that argent request. we again express the opinions of a people Which it becoming impatient of a needless and irritating delay. What is asked from three three Justices i% not AT' ;hill their judicial 'onetime, but is strictly an . . . eXerrutive, act. 'The :peOple Save a rirt to ootitiol the personritl of the judicl ry department, Irmo Chief Justice dawn to the tit:redeye°, Ind have eterriied that ,tight as far as their political votes could go. We hate giveli political beads 'to the administration, and expect the inwer,de tails to be arranged accordingly. The ennsiderationn which properly otherwise govern the strictly judicial duties of the bench have no bearing whatever upon this tion.judicial question of merely executive duty. We add that, while the people entertain a profound respect for the judicial, qualifi odious of a majority of the bench, not one of the three could have been elevated to that place by their votes, had there been any reasonable ground to believe th t he would have favored ._the retentio in office of the obnoxious partizan% who now fill the prothonotaryships by the cut . r ferizice 0; the Court. 1 The Philadelphia Preis says , The Republican party all over the State, we think In candor, have a right to complain of the action of the majority of justices now on the Supreme 'ourt bench on the subject of the prothonotariea of that Court. .Janes Ross Snowden, pore thottertary of the Eastern district, in now -In cities over his time, his term - having expired on the 2d of March last. No man is insane enough to suppose that a Democratic majority of justices would have allowed a Republican prothonotary to remain in office after his term had ex pired. Mr.Wallate De Witt, prothono tary of the Middle, and Mr. Thomas J. Keenan,. prothonotary of the Western 'district, are also over their time, their terrine having -expired on -the 17th of 3Larch. These gentlemen are all bitter Partisans. They all voted against the I men who now compoise the Re , publican majority on the Supremo bench. The Republican party owes these prothonotaries no patronage, and we be lieve we urge no undue claim, and ask for no - undignified action, when we appeal to tho' cormabo-weneo -view of this subject, and ask that the expired terms of thew bitter. Copperheads be filled liy-the ap. pointment of Republicans equally capable and far more deserving titan they to Offtl• py thesuporritions. • Let ell be just to our I selves ass party and admen., The organ. jzaticm , of the. Repubßcan party . cannot 'estallt WW11:4;0146W.* give our bit. ter opponents the fairest fruits of onr hardest won victories. There are young Republicans who have • earned these places—men . of 'ability and experience, capable in all respects to discharge all the duties connected with the positions. To Ruth as thew the Republican justices on the. Supreme Court Irepclo should look for prothonotaiiie, be the party now unques tionably looks for such action at, their hands. Prhenorion. May 24th, 18:0. - Massns. Enrrons Will you be kind enough to inform ne through the columns of your paper , whaler' the Soldier' 0r 0... ght from Phillipsburg to join in tbo cemmosies, of Decoration Dicy, arid4Cso,irlieWsndlhirw are they to be cared for, as we wish to aid in the good work if We are 'lnformed of the war to which -we can be useful? toe 'Audi look for an aMiwer With interest. Moor READF:Ar Or THE PAZETTE ''[Relpeafillir referred 'to the Committee on. Arrangements—Ed.] - • ; A moms? signed by over four thou sand citizens of San Domingo hes been re lreived at. Washington, against the rntifi cation Of the treaty.. for the, purchase of that Island." It was laid before the Senate and'will undembtedly have some influence In Settling the: question, as it hail been heretofore .rearimented that. the citizens of th 61 .1131‘ went tutirdutquigy In favor of selling it to Ms government. - • I' PITTSBURGH DAILY GAZETTE : THURSDAY MORNING,. MAY. 26, 1870 The National Budget. WE quote from the Congrepoimot pm ceedintr,x of Monday last: Mr. Sherman then addressed the Sen ate upon the neeemity of greater economy in appmprlatione in connection with the reduction of taxation. taking as hie text the amendments just adopted, which he said necesidtatedim additional expense of $460,000 per annum. by adding to the'per manent clerical force acme bit or lit•Ven huntirtd lady employee. This was a fair sample of indiscriminate increase of ap propriations in the Senate. The uncer tainty thereby occasioned as to aggregate -amounts was the real cause of difficulty in fixing the rates of taxation. The bill was one et ;eight annual appropriation bills which Included every branch of expendi tureaddhe..NationalGovernment: In the book of estimates furnished by various Bureaus, these expenditure,' were net forth as fbllowst ' Legislative Department $ 210.3,000 Executive Department 21,321,000 Judicial De oat .1.575,0 W Milita Service 'l3 (moon Naval expenses 24508.000 Indian service 5,048,00) Pensions.. ........ ...... 80,400,0110 Public Work. 24,625,000 Postal deficiencies " 5.52,4,000 These, with the items of perrianent ap propriations, made a total of 8155,297,617 of annual expenditure, To these were to be added What are called Indefinite ap propriations and that great item of inter est on the public debt, #129,077,000. mak ing a total upon which the various ap fhopriatien h ilis here based `Of $298.516,- . 132.111. The annual report of the Sec. rotary of. the Treasury placed the amount at .t.V1,000,000-m dincrepancy of some $7,000.000, which. was explained In the difference in the item of public works; -the Secretary's estimati being $10,132,000 in excess of the appropriation of lokt year.. The action of Congress in intro.. ing the items of appropriation, far in ex cess of the estimate of the De partments, was referred to as an additional clement of uncertainty in determining our expenses for the com ing rear, as also the Teel of an ;mem ponded balance in the Treasury Depart ment of $llO,OOOOOO. This might be drawn upon largely. In addition to the annual appropriations; it 'might be eon. tinned over until the following year. An amendment has been engrafted upon Ma hill by which three balances, hereafter, would be carried to the surplus fund. the transfer of appropriations having been forbidden by en act of Februarv, 1858. The item of claims was also indefinite. If,sas had been proposed,Congress adopted this principle of paying all damages incurred by loyal people in the South during the war, this item would amount to. at least fifty millions. The judgments of the Court of Claims, amounting to $1,250,000, and the action of Cemgreee on private claims, would further swell the aggro, gate No reliable estimates of the tom for the Indian service could be made. The House of. Representatives hail hehl that treaties of the Senate were good for nothing„until that body appropriated the money to make them good. Differences between the two Houses on Indian Affairs', had mimed our treaties to be entirely dis regarded on our part. No man conid tell to-day whether this service next year would cost twenty or fifty in Wiens of dol len', as war might spring up at any time. The Bounty bill, recently passed by the House, would absorli• about $200.000,000. Some three years ago the House passed a similar bill which the Senate amended in Conference Committee, to grant bounties to the amount of $80,000.000. This pro position was. now' nubstantialle renewed with a ',election of these $BO,OOOOOO. 'this g'eneral resume would show the im possibility of estimating • with exact aces until after Cotrieax idjotoned • what amount of nioney would be necessary for the next_tisyal year. If the Secretary's estimate, amounting to $201,- 000,000, was adhered to the one per maid on the national debt, $24,000.000; would make $315,000.000, to whirl, would have to be added the excess of all appropria_ tions above the mthuated figures. 'the total estimated revenues of the tiovern meet amounted to $ 2 03,000,000, leaving a surplus of neventy.elght millions. The question was what taxes ought to be re pealed; which among thetu bore most heavily upon the industry of Our people Our internal revenue was the product of war; and was directl y felt by the people: while our .customs dutien had' been in - force since the formation of the Govern meat, wen' indirect, mainly upon articles of luxury or consumption, and so well distributed that their weight fell fairly and in just pmportion to the ability to pay, though we might differ in thmriee, yet under any adminixtration the chief burden of taxation would rent upon im ported goods. These now yielded one hundred and eighty-live millions in gold, and the revenue was not likely to diminish. Was it not butter to re tail.' tide revenue and fur the present confine nor reduction of tales to new and direct hurdeno of internal natation" If it was rod for the Interest on the public debt all internal taxation might be dispensed with, as the revenue from rue time was sufficient to pay all ordinal,- es prides of the Ondirnment. The • in.s proposed he the Finance Committee to In, repealed and those to he retained wire then referred to. The lanes on whisky and w hite. were now levied s p an a carefully prepared law, and it wax nettompoeed to change them in any way. They would yield—spirits, $50.000.000; tobacco. VO,- 000.000: fermented liquors , $6,000,000, ranking. VB,OOOOOO of taxes to be repeal ed. The most offeasive was the tax on sales, which was a tax on enterprise, sub ject to every objection. It yielded4B,ooo,- 000. The next most oppreeive tax was the tax on grime receipts, mainly on inatirance compables and transportation. )ielding $13,3001),0(10. SQ,Vrii la the taxes on legacies, successions, watches, carriages, Atc. It was proposed to do away with the whole system of special taxes; some of 'them are proper subjects of taxation, but as a system they were the most oppressive that mild be levied. They yielded, including the tax on banks and hankers • shout ten millions of delimit It is also in contem plation to throw off fourteen million dol lars from the income tax. Con the gen eral question of Income tar, Mr. Sherman insisted that it was the most equitable tax levied; that it was the only one upon property, and the only one that discrimin ated between the rich and poor man. He quoted from various writers on political economy to show Its justice in theory, and that in execution it was no more objee tionable than any other tax. Mr. Morton said the country demanded a reduction of the Outlet' on articles of ne cessity extending into consumption by the poor, and Congress must meet that de mand before the adjournment. West Wlekeery Items The following is•the production - of the welle in thin vicinity: Miles Farm in owned by the Warren a Venango oil company of Pittsburgh, and the we are an follows: Coe,Smuta * Co., 7 wells pnxiucing 27 bbis ; new well drib ling. Collins Bros., 2, producing 10 bbin.: Irvington oil company, 2, producing 18 bble,: Arnienia, producing 2 bbin.; ide awake, producing 4 bide.; Hoffman, pm during 3 bble,; Brocber, 12 MAN. • Royal E, emit Farm is owned by Scott, Otatidin * Flatlet. Dewey & Laney well. producing. 10 bbla.; Flatter & ltabncm'a well, a late strike, is pumping 40 bbla. and increasing. Several, otbeni aro nearly ready to be teakil. • . - Outlaw 1L.41-Soot4 lower farm ; Thorn berg well, producing ilnlrla;tioodrich well pumping SO bbls; Hammy well, 70 bbli; Cart. cioodrich, ..tnew) pumping 00 On the 11 W. Scott. Orandin a Neyhart farm, No. 9 pumping 76 bbla. On the Turtle farm, Venture well. 2.. bblo, flu tarti Is now all leasedand nut. leased, and preparations are being made for a large number of new rigss•-•some 25 In number, • On the Wilkins farm adjoining, McNair well on lease No.l, is down 430 feet. Rigs nearly up on No, 6,6, 3.7. and 9. The greatest activity is noticeable, and this farm will soon be thoroughly tested. It promises well as it unntiestionably lire on the belt and is a sure thing. On the Isaac Jones farm adjolnlig the Wilkins, on the east Mr. Rinney has leased and is getting hierig up. On the Allen farm, further down the creek, there is considerable excitement, and if leases could be had, it would be speedily tested. The Grove farm company have ivied 40 acres to Irvin, W. E. McClintock and Fact. vet, and four rigs are already going up, This is an immense tract containing 960 acres. and looks good. limmes bare been let on the Faulkner farm on the east, and 3 wells are-immedi ately to be started.Tuffoote .Inurnal. Tunlimuse Committee on Banking and Correner have authorised General Clar field, by a epecial vote, to uk the enneent of the lionseito report hie Currency bill, with an additional section inflicting much heavier penalties on the hanks for certify. checks without holding In hand: the money of the signer to the fall amount. MT! =I We quote faun the ungreosiouttl pro cot - 4114r of Monclas . Mr. Bergen, (Rep.. Texas), a cit izen•of Dorman birth, criticised the re mark of Mr. Voorhees fast Thuinday, that the cry iu Indiana was, "Let the Irish gq. let the Ditch go, we hare got the negroes in their places." Ile .wanted to let the 111.1 pie know that t'osigress at leim didnot join in that kind of popular slang. He inferred front the remarks: of Mr. Tour , bees that there was still a class of people who treated the foreigners and colored men as voting cattle, and on a careful pe rusal of that gentleman 'm remarks, no oth er inference could be dmicn from- it than that he (Voorhees) was of that opinion. Those who heird the peculiar tone given to the wortinDatcle-tsadoome to the con cluninn - that they were treated in that way. Ile himself - did not nitro , whether he was celled a Pliellaader," or a „nGler midi.", lie kintivihat the word , nliutch" was but a geographical error, and was continued by the similarity of the sound to that of "Deutsch," but the peculiar way in . whielt it is usied.by the people at large, contained .tiometlilitg contemptable, and which ought to be banished from the House. Do considered the House : as the dreeinfrroorit of the nation where decent language ought to be used. The Germans were an intelligent and logical people, aud would stand faithfully by the. Republican I party as ling as that Party remained true to itself. As to the colored people, they were keen in their instincts, they know who Millie them free, and they would stand by them. If there were negroes who cored the other way it was not the African who . voted so, bur -it was the "slave" that was still . !reropping out." [Applause on the • Republierm side.] Mr. Finkelburg Mo.], on the name' subject, remarked that where cer tain reflections were madetun• his nation , ality the other day, he did not deem them worthy of response, but an attention had been called to them by the gentleman front Texas It was perhaps proper. that he should add a word to what had' been said. If there was still any one on the floor who hollered that:the Derman votes of the country could be transferred frog one party to another by mere political maneuvering, or that the Gentian citizens could be used Like a shuttle-cock by sharp political gamesters, they not only under rated the intelligence and moral character of his countrymen. but showed a deplora ble ignorance on thtir Own part. Mr. Cox tDein., N. T.), sirated tha t . the gentlemau from Ohio i\ dun be allowed to address the Committee in Bee nem =I ' A party of excursloirlsts—ndlsmi men and editor,—have lately visited the glen at Watkins, N. Y. Among them was 'Porte Crayon." of Harper's .I(agazine, and Vokir, the sculptor. - One of the party thus describes the scenery: •The glen is a gorge, cut. through the solid rock be the water, which finds an outlet into the lake, after many tortuous windings and eddyings. forming