Sl)c Sfcffcrsonian, THURSDAY 8, 18C8 Mason Tock. sold his house ami lot, situate on William St., in this Bor ough, to'Tnos. C. Phillips, for S1.150. The young ladies and gentlemen of "Mifcs Mai vcu's School will give an enter tainment, consisting of Charades, Music and -Tntilnonv nt tlin f rturt II , . -?mid Tuesday evening, March 12th and 13th. Admission twenty-five cents. Tickets to be 'obtained at the Drug Stores and Messrs. Brown Keller. Greeley's ''American Conflict" is gen STally pronounced the best and most.intcres "ting history of t!:e Great Rebellion which has yet been written. Itsstalcmcnts are candid, liberal, and impartial. Its success is unparalleled, 125,000 copies having- al ready been sold. No library will hereafter be complete that does not contain this Work, txLTid'-no family '.should be without it. See advertisement in another column. v.. i" SQr We have given two articles on the coue branch" system, from "A Custo mer," and1, as we with everybody else, can sec it would be a good tiring for all con ccrned, we would show our colors and de clare ourselves iu favor of the move. We nrc often asked by customers where they can Gud the best assortment of various articles needed. We always try to an swer but as often find it a difficult matter. Iu a.jitaec doing the amouut of business which .Stroudsburg docs there should be af better elasifieation of wares, and store "and shop-keepers should confine them -Kclves-to the branch of their choice. This r'ihinj; would he fair to all and a benefit to st! to the buyer aud the seller. When a disease is deep-seated it requires ' effort and skill to remove it when a bad habit is formed it requires resolution to break off aud change into a uew course, .and wisdom suggests that we make such .effort. When would there be a belter time to 'center into this ' presto change" than with the business ot tins opening spring The Copperheads want Revenge. Jn memory of Forts Lafayette and Warren, aud smarting under the reeol lection that the " leaders" of their party boarded in those public institutions dur ing the war at the expense of the Gov ernmcut for their treason to the Union, the Copperheads begin to call upou the President to make arrests out of the ranks of their "opposing" party. Hear what the Chicago Times sa's on this subject :- ' We do not hesitate to declare that it -is' the solemn duty of the President to follow his words by deeds. We do not hesitate to declare that it is the solcmu duty of the President to command the ar rest Thaddcus Stevens, Wendell Phil lips, Obarlcs Sumner and their confede rains in Congress and all over the coun iry for the crime of treason. In no cth er way can this Northern rebellion be promptly quelled and the public quiet re stored. "And if the rump Congress shall not speedily abandon its seditions, revolution ary and lawless practices if it shall per fist in excluding the representatives of eleven States from their rightful seats and in exorcising the powers of the Con press of the United States we do not hesitate to declare thnt it will become the polcmn duty of President Johnson to con stitute himself the Cromwell of the time and dissolve the rump by military power." This is the paper which during the Trar made all the bluster it was capable ol about" illegal arrests;" cursed Abraham Lincoln, and pronounced him a tyraut for arresting men on account of their "opin ions," aud was during the rebellion, the particular champion of Free Speech." " 0 1 consistency thou art a jewel 1" . , . , l'irson Brownlow of the Ivnoxviiln Whiif. pithily says: 'If the people arc with the President in his policy, it is the Southern people, who fought four years to destroy the government, and who clamored for the cap ture of the" President, that thy might have the pleasure of hanging him." He adds: "The party denounced in Congress asra'd icalK, abolitionists, and as a Taction,' compo ses two-thirds of both houses, and they are the representatives of large majorities in all the loyal State--, who wi!J stand by tlicm e ven in a conflict with the President, and the new-born frirnds, galvanized loyalists, and amnestied patriots, who now crowd out from the WhitcIIouse all the tried loyalists of the country. Those who tabor to bring on a conflict between the President and Congress are not the friends of ciiher, as the future will show. For if the 'people' overdid plant themsel ves firmly on any platform now occu pied by the so-called radicals or 'faction, constituting the majority in the present Con gress. We gn with that 'faction' of radicals: we approve ineir principles and policy ; and, live or die, sink or -wim, survive or perish, we nsK our lite, our fortune, and our sacred iouor on board oithat ship. Jt is a barque palling under the banner or beauty and "lo ry, the 6tore and stripes of the country a banner tn.it the conflicts ot the last eighty years have never sen conquered. Always victorious becau-c always in the right, it is not to be disgraced by the combined assaults ot home traitors or malignant foreign foes." The Debt tf England. The London Times says at the present rate of reduction the, 'English National debt will be extinguished in about four hundred-years : under these circumstances it is doubtful which will be extinguished first the nation or the debt, , 1 The Redemption of the Public Debt. It is computed from the oflicial data that since the last annual report of the Secretary of the Treasury, made on the 30th of October last, he hasreduecd the aggregate amount oflhc public debt 821), O'qUjOUO, and has paid 820,000,000 of cur rcneyjuterest on the Seven-thirty bonds. an3 $0,000,000 coin interest on gold bearing bonds, making an aggregate of currency and coin interest ol 30,000, 000 paid: In addition to this he has paid all the current expenses of thcGoverumcnt and a large amount of requisitions from the War aud Navy Departments, covering war expenditures incurred previous to. his report, bnjt not before audited, and not included in tlie statemeut of the pub lie debt. Oil the 1st of November hi coin balance was 1,554.087 If) J hh currency balauee, $33,800,591 51-r-mak-ing au aggrcatc of $05,355,573 On 31 arch 1st we had in coin $55,736, 102 12 aud currency $00,282,707 12, rja. king an aggregate of $110,018,181,104 07. and an iu crease in currency of S26, 482,175 58. Total increase of money in the Treasury in gold d curieney 47, 003.1S0 55. In brief, the pubic debt has been roduceu 2y,u;U,0UO since No vember lstr whilst tUere arc iu the Treas ury over $57..rCo0Q0 of "specie aud cur reucy mora than at the first named date, shoeing an improvement in the finances of the Treasury ou the debt and credit statement, of over $70,500,000. ' There arc still futhcr encouragiug fea tures presented. This reduction of the public debt is entirely in the short date obligations and interest-beariug and plain legal tenders, all of which have more or less au inflating tendency. On Novcm ber 1st the outstanding Seven-thirties were $830,000,000. On March 1st they were 5818,014,000, showing a reduction of Seven-thirties of nearly $12,000,000. The increase ol compound interest notes during the same period has been only SI, 000,0u0. while the decrease of one and two-years' legal tender notes has been 324,000,000, ind of plain legal tenders $-1,370,190. The legal tenders of all kinds in circu lation ou the 1st of November wore 633,700,011; on the 1st of Mareh $u05,O.S4,l'.)7, .bowing a decrease of $27, 725,107. These results may be summed up as follows : Sine-. Novrmber 1st the debt has d creased $29,000 UtiO : balance in the Treasury increased over $47,500, 000; contraction in the value of legai tender circulation 27,725,17, aud con traction in abort dnte obligations of the Government 12,000,000 more. The ar gument is advanced by skillJul financiers, judging irom the exhibit made above, that 'he process ol contraction of the curren cy can zo ou without any of the anticipa ted evils which have been predicted, the healthy condition of the currency being a sufficient proof of the correctness ol these impressions. A correspondent informs us that Piich ard II. Janney, of Solebury, has a sow which on the first of Mireh, 1805, had a litter of i) pig?. Four of them, which were killed about New Tear, for his use, weighed jointly 1310 pounds, averaging withiu a fraction of 330 pounds each. The remaining live were slaughtered on the 0th of February, and weighed jointly 2117, an average of nearly 430. In Au irust, 1-Sd5, the same sow gave birth tv 12 pigs, eleven of which were slaughtered on the 20 of February, and weighed, with the addition of the twelfth, which had pre viously been killed for market pork. 21 19. summing up the snug total of 5617, and amounting at 14 J cents per pound, the price obtained for these sold, to the hand some suui of 814,40. At the present writing (February 22) the same sow has a fine litter of eleven pigs, about two weeks old. making in all an interesting family of 32 porkers' within a space of little o ver eleven mouths. If any township or county in the State can bring forth a more prolific or profitable specimen of the porciue race, we should be glad to have tlie figures. Backs Co. Inteligcnccr. Some of the shining lights of "Dem'oc racy" are beginning to express their dis loyal sentiments with a iood deal more freedom than they have hitherto thought expedient. Thus Garret Davis, the gar rulous Senator from Kentucky, seriuusly advises President Johnson to set up an other Congress, to consist of Kcbcl claim ants and Northern copperheads, aud to ignore or depose the bodies duly elected by the loyal people. And we arc inform by the Philadelphia Evening Telegraph that a week or two since, at a regular meeting of the 'Democratic club" of that city, the health of "JefFersou Davis, the greatest statesman of America." was pro posed by William B. Heed, and drunk by the club. Only a single member the veteran Josiah Bandall resented the in sult by resigning from such an openly traitorous association. With such facts as these before us, what faith can be placed in the vapid professions of patriotism which are constantly issuing from the mouths of other leaders of the party 'i The Senate ol Pennsylvania, on Friday last, adopted a resolution submitted by 3 Jr. Browne, requesting Hon. Edat Cowan, Senator of the United States .from this State, to resign his seat, on the ground that he has not represented and does not now represent truly the majority of the people of the patriotic State which elected :um. J he correctness of this arraiiru ment will not be disputed by the Uuion- im& oi uie oiaic. lor iur. vjowan ionr ago ceased to hold leliowship with hi& loyal colleagues of the Senate. I3ut as he has constantly disregarded the popu lar seutimcut of his State in his Senato rial career, it. is scarcely to be expected that he will gratify it uow by lenderipg his resignation. In Richmond, Indiana, a man insured his wife's life for 50,000. lie then sent her-away, and having procurred a corpse which resembled her, represented it to be that of his wife, had a funeral and claimed the iusurance money. The fraud Trai for some time undiscovered.. i 1 1 mil i imifMfcwn i i i ii'ii-j iiriitr -'in; The Pennsylvania Democratic Convention. tieister Clymer jSonnnated for Gov ernor. Ilarrisburg, Monday, March 5, 1806. The Democratic State Convention met this afternoon. Hon. W. Hopkins, of Wash ington County, was elected permanent Pres ident. He spoke of the favorable prospect of the Democratic party in influencing a speedy restoration of the Union, and oppo sing the doctrine of negro equality, which has beromo a. characteristic feature of the Republican party. A Committee fan Reso lutions was . ppointed, and the Convention took a recess till seven p. m. Second Dispatch. The following is the result of the first bal lot for Governor. George W. Cass 30 Ilcister Clvmer D3 John D. Stiles 9 Daniel M.Fox 8 Richard Vaux 18 j Charles Dennison 2 W. A. Galbraith 3 Asa Packer 8 W. P. Jenks 2 Third Dispatch. Heister Clymer whs nominated for Gover nor on the fourth .ballot. Resolutions were adopted returning the thanks of the Democ racy of Pennsylvania to our Senators and member of Congress who have tupportcd the President's restoration policy. General Butler and the Gold Seizure at Hew Orleans It hasbcen generally announced that Major-General Rutlor has settled with the par ties who claimed $50,000 in gold seized by him as property of the United States, while he was in command in New Orlcrns. Gen eral Butler has received much obloquy upon account of the original transaction, it beinr'. assumed that he had converted the co;n to his own use. When he was sued to recover possesion of the sum, he pleadpd that the seizure was on behalf of the United State., the money being suspected to bs a portion of tne sum abs'ruclea by sccssi insts from the United States Mint at New Orleans, on the hreaking out of the Rebellion. The recent payment to the parties claiming was m-.d, it is now announced, upon their declo ration that they were .satisfied that General Butler had acted upon informal ion which he be'iev ed, and as tbo agent of the Government. Tup only thing that they required was proof that tlie money had not br-en appropriated to the use ot General Biitier. and yet remained ".ntact. Upon being satisfied of that, they offered io withdraw the suit upon the pay ment of the original sum, without cluirn Iur interest, damages or ct-sts. This evidence was furnished them, the money hav ng been on special deposit in a bank at Btston, ever s'nee it had been sent from New Orleans. General Butler said, that for three years he hid defended the claim, in the interest of the Government; but as the latter had not ttken possession of the money, and had re fused io ascume the responsibility which he had undertaken upon iin account, he felt himself at liberty to relieve himself from an unpleasant position. The money was ihere fore paid to the claimants just as it had been seized, and tiie suit was withdrawn. Gen end Butler has been umuch abused manon many accounts, particularly for his public measures. It is but just that in this instance, in which his private integrity was attacked, his justification and discharge from all ac countability for the gold seized at New Or leans should be known. Inquirer. A $25,000 Tree, In the month of January, iSGG, a re markable tree was brought to iSiew York from a western State, which is considered by the beat judges to be worth 325,000. No foreign tree was ever brought here oi so great value. This was a black walnut tree 70 ieet long, measuring board or inch measure, 4,500 feet; but when cut iuto veneers, it would be worth .0 times that, making D5,000 feet, which at 20 cents would he $27,000. The cost oi cutting, carting and placing in store for sale, would be about 8700. There are other kinds of trees also in this country which are valuable for man ufacturing purpoes,- as well :i3 for fruit and shade, of which black walnut ha? for the last six years been gradually taking the lead of mahogany, and is worth now as much as mahogany was formerly. The figure most sought for at present is a stripe which seems to be formed by the saps, casting dark aud light shades alter nately, through the tree, which, when worked, makes the most beautiful furni ture that is manufactured. A tree worth $10,0U0is. not ol ten found ; but oue worth $25,000 is harder to strike than oil Our forests abound in trees of great val ue, and the wealth that is in them is scarcely yet begun to he developed. Alex. II. Stephens, late Vice President of the Rebel Confederacy, has recently made a speech te the Legisla ture of Geotria, in which he counsels pa tience, forbearance and a full submission to the authority of the Government. 11c aluo recommends kind treatment of the emancipated blacks the passage of law? protecting them in all essential civil riirhts, and the institution of Nchools to instruct and improve them. This speech has been approved by the Legislature, and its general circulation cannot fail to do good, in bringing the South up to that point of loyalty which will enable it to co-operate harmoniously with thcNorth. Bg. According to our latest intelli gence from Irelaud. the Fenian conspiracy in that unhappy country is rapidly com ing to a point. No fewer than four am munition factories have been discovered iu Dublin, in which the manufacture of hand grenades, Orsini bombs and other weapons ol warfare has been carried on upon a most extensive scale. Nearly half the available forces of the British army are stationed in Ireland.. In Parliament notice has been given of a question as to the complicity of American citizens iu the conspiracy. Three hundred persons have rcscntly joined the churches in Ovvego, Tioga county, N. Y. An Ohio magistrate lately issued licen ses to two young men to marry the same lady. An old German in New York lately got a thousand dollars for leaving, three months before the expiration of his lease, a house which he only paid eight hun dred dollars year 'r For The Jcffersonian. Mr. WACKEAMMER'S LECTURES. NO. XI. AOHH COMMON-SCHOOLS., Our'Common Schools, that'is the text, Bur just as well might you expect To drive a wind-mill without wind As these without money and mind. Our commou schools are just about as common an article as the "very plainest immscull of a friend of cducatipn could well desire. They are so very common that quite plain people hesitate long to decide between the two evils, whether to keep their children at home and lose their school tax or to lose the tax by sending them. As the arguments on both side of this question were like the auctioneer's 4i too tedious to mention," my wife pro proposed that we decide it by tossing a copper, which . wc did, aud the childrcu went to school. Put before any one gets angry I might just as well say here, that I do not pur pose crying down the "profession" or dc iioun.cng the " faculty," nor yet to touch 'haracter. In short I shall not find fault with our " teachers" at all. Money is a medium of commerce, and where there is but a very trifling sum of this medium in one scale I expect but very little in the other. If a young mau can't find anything better to do than teaching a common school, for twenty-five dollars a month, with hoard thrown in by "fa ther," why. I say, let him do it. It icill be less laborious for his Ay.scZ self aud give time for his menial self to write lit erary essays on "education" and espa.ti ate generally on the powers of the mind. say it may even, be good for a young man to have au opportunity to thus expu fiate, as will thereby be impressed with the idea that there is a difference between mind aud matter, aud also between man and beasts, birds aud fishes. It is real ly astonishing how soon young s: teachers" arrive at tnese conclusions after tney have beeu installed behind the only four legged desk iu a schcolhousc and have a dozen light haired lin?ys as subjects! Wherever they may hit the youug liuseys they aro sure to hit these conclusions on' the head; man A as an intellect and i? quite superior to all other animals. Per haps the " teacher" receives this knowl edge as a perquisite to be added to the salary. If he does he should thank some body, and as the Directors -get no pay i i . 1 i" r it aim not even inauts, l wouiu suggest that such thanks be given unanimously to them. But, seriously, friends of education, and humanity, our school system has a noble purpose aud it fulfills that purpose iu localities where men are willing to do their local duty, and in no other. We don't pay enough to obtain a good article and then trrumblc because it is worthless. Taxes nearly choked all the dutch-A mericans to death, in our State, before the war, and what can we expect uow '! A real silver half dollar would, just now. completely cover all the education" in half a dozen sons, to say uothing about the "gals." No matter what the boys write compositions about, the old man says, money is better than "larning." A great many who are hot dutch act on the same pvinciple, though they do uot express the sentiment. I wish the com mouwealth would take these hard-fisted customers in hand and pass a State law that there shall be four times a3 much money raised for school purposes as what we have now ; that we have half as many paid directors ; less form iu the "hoard" and more duty. After we get the thing "greased up," and in running order, I rath er think it would pay to send oue of our "Institutes" over to see how the Scots do this thiug. The schoolmaster, in Scot land, is a fixed institution, but he is not thus installed until there is no doubt of his qualification. llis support is sure; he is a gentleman ou a par with the cler gy and welcomed and respected every where. Teaching is indeed his profes sion, and the children of rich and poor sit aide by side whilst he teaches reading, writing, English Grammar, Latin, -Greek aud mathematics. lie is not forced to dig esculent roots from a farm during one season of the year to deal out square roots during another. Great assistance has been given to the common schools of Scotland by bequests. When will we see the like in this coun try ? We often hear of endowments to seminaries, colleges and Universities, hut who so ceceutric as to bequeath mo ney, to our common schools' Girard meant to do something of this kind, but those who had the control of the matter did the thing just as much unlike the original purpose as they dare. Several years after the old man had been in his grave a crafty set of " heirs" tried long aud hard to appropriate the endowment to their own private purposes. We might do well by copying somo of the methods of some of the Germanie states, in regard to a full and free educa tion, but we could do well enough with our ovn arrangements if iorubody -would hoist the money-gates and give us the propelling power we so much need. Whilst there is so1 much penuriousness and close-fistedness our public schools, in country places, will he but a mockery, a shell' with nothing in it. The hopeful views giVcn by County Superintendents do not bring the remedy. They wish for the success of their schools and the pic .ture they paint, in most cases, is but of hope. I fear we at least in the county will have to wait long to see that hope fulfilled. Every person is ready to ac knowledge the need of a general educa tion to prepare every American citizen to act his part n a free Republic, but oh, how reluctantly he contributes to carry out this object ! Not "Teachnrs Institutes" will gain the end, Though these may to a harmless purpose tend ; And Legislators have performed their part :. We need the People's purse, the People's heart. Let those "appointed" fearless lead the way, Then coax or force each one his part Jo pay. I C II A BOD WIT ACKIIAM MER. Somewhere, March 5, 1SG0. Swindling Through the Post Office. The Paterson Press, iu, commenting upon the bill recently presented to Con ress, designed to prevent swindling through the Post Office, says : Few persons have any idea of the enormity of the swindling projects for which the U. S. mails are made use of as forwarders. There are dozens of insig nificant post-offices through the country where these swiudlers locate, and which da an immense business with the thous ands of letters dispatched, aud the hund reds received. We have not very long since exposed fully one class of these swindlers, but there are varying types equally rascally constantly coming to our knowledge. It is not more than a week since we received a long advertisement ol a "gift enterprise" in which mark the barefaced swindle. many thousands of prizes were promised to be giveu a way not one of which was worth less than o, while some were worth 700, aud yet the price of a share was only 5 to each buyer, u prize being quarantced to every one I What made us most indignant at this particular swindle was that the rascal? enaied in it proposed in a private note that we should become participators m if by editorially endorsing it as an honest, bona fide affair, and their "house" as they loftily phrased it, as an honorable and hightoued concern ! In consideration ol this "kiud orce" which aid them in "do iog a large business in your community" we were to receive a share iu the gilt en terpri.se which they "would guarantee .dtoidd draw a splendid Iieavy hunting case silver icatch " Now how eould they "guarantee" in an honest lottery if the phrase cau be used in that connection that any particular number should draw a particular prize ? They must find some greenhorns aud knaves among editors, or they would uot try such a game. We earnestly hope that Congress may be able to devise a law which will cripple, if it cannot destroy, this business of lot tery swindling.- It is not crelitable to the common sense of the American public that such a law is needed, but it is the duty of the Government to prevent even fools from beinji fleeced. The Louisville Journal having pub lished a paragraph stating that "Mr. and Mrs. Brewer, of Keutucky, have twenty two children," a correspondent writes : The remembrance of the above' paragraph iu your paper some time ago induces me to tell you of au old mau whom we sec coming to Knoxville about ouce a week. We call him Grandpa Da vis. He is upward of ninety years old. il is wile has given -birth to twenty-nine children, twenty-eight of whom are liv ing. They furnished the Union"" army iu the late war with twenty fie recruits. Is there au other mau who deserves the appellation of '"loyal" to a greater extent thau Grandpa Davis ' Does he uot de serve a pc'usiou at the bauds Of a govern ment to which he has contributed so large ly to save 'i . One day last week a monster seal weighing four hundred and fifty pounds swam up Tanner's Creek, at high water, and in his frolics remaiued too long ou the shoals. When the tide e"bbed it left him on the flats iiear the house of Mrs. Duke. A gentleman of the neighbor hood took his gun and shot him. The BaugOr Whig says: "A letter was mailed in one of our post offices, the other day, that had no postage stamp on it, but iu place of the stamp had the fol lowing written on one corner of the enve lope : 'Mr. Postmaster, don't charge no postage tm this ;. the stamp wouldn't stick, so I tore the thiug up.' " 1 1- Ki i Goal continues to fall in price, a fact which will be gratifying to the mass of the people. At the regular monthly auc tion iu New York on Wednesday, twenty thousand tons were disposed of at prices which show a fall as compared with the January sales of $1 to S2. 50 per tun, Stove coal at 88 50, aud chestuut at SO S7-1 per ton ol 2240 pouuds. We have not learned that the decliuo has af fected the business in this part of the country. A little hoy resently died at West Bethel, Me., iu consequence of another boy piling stones, while at play, on his stomach, wliile lying dowu, so that he could uot rise. A shoemaker in Leads, England, un dertook, lately, for a wiicer to eat an un cooked rabbit, fur, Hkiu, amlall. He suc ceeded, but immediately went into con vulsions, which. cQutinued for au hour. when ho died.. Population of Ohio, 2,514,974. The losses by fire last year in New York amounted' to $8,000,000. A needle that was broken off in tho right hand of a man in Chicago, six years ago, was cut out i'n his left hand afew days since. During St. Vcrlantine's day and tha day following, 63,000 letters io addition to the usual mail, were conveyed to theirr destination by the letter carriers of thiyJ city of New York. ' There is a woman in Charlestown; NV H., who has a collection of tame toads in her yard. They know their mistresj, fol low her, and hop in her lap to ba fed; aud are tenderly cared for. An "old resident" of Fall River, Mass. has decamped, leaving behind him for the admiration of his victims $30,000 , worth of forged paper. It is estimated at the Eenian head quarters in New York that nearly afhiil--tion men are ready to move for the lifiera-' tiou of Ireland. . . The month of February, I860, ;vrhi", is now gone, will be marked iu the astro nomical calendar as the month which bal' no full moon! January 'had two fall: moons, and March will have two ! but? Fedruary had none. ' The thermometer in San Francisco ranged about GO degrees above zer all winter. Ou the 14th it reached 78. The Chicago Journal says the trial of Jeff. Davis is delayed because SurraU has not been captured. The latter has been tracked to Liverpool. A Dozen Virginians, in Page county, lately seized Mr. G. II. Hamlin, teachsr of a frcedmcn's school, ducked him in tho Shenandoah, aud threatened his life if ha did not leave within three days. New Orleans now has a population larg er by six thousand than ever before ; Galveston and other Texan cities ara full to overflowing, aud the same is said of Memphis, Mobile, Montgomery, Atlaafcxv and all the towns of the South-west. A woman in Binghampton, N. Y., re cently stole 51400 and hid it in her wa terfall. It was several days before the. constable could find it. Fifty dollars fine was what a man paid5 for kissing a lady iu Buffalo the other" day. A dear ki3. The total amount of gold aud silver orc extracted from the earth up to. the pres ent time, as far as can be ascertained, a mounts to about 22,000)00,000, of? which only about c-uc-ksff.' present re mains iu existence. It is estimated that the amount of wine made the past year on "the lake m h ops- zd the vicinity of Cteveiiirrd- will reach 270, 000 gallons, which is valued at 3600,000. Had the entire grape crop of last yer been made into wine the product wuuld. have been 2,000,000 gallons. Suicide of a Bank President; Mr. Wolf, President of the First National Bank of Mauch Cnuuk, shot himself on Mon day morning with a pistol. A letter, dated same morning, to his friends, gaveas a rea son, the circulation of slanders against him which no doubt caused depression of spirit under which he labored at the time. lift was without family. Death of Prominent Philadelphia. Philadelphia, March 5, 1866. Dr. David Jayne died this afternoon in his G7th year. Robert Lynn, sr., a prominent ship-builder, died yesterday. He was the builder of the Tuscarora, Tonawanda, Wyoming and Saranac. Dan Duncan, a landlord in Indianapo lis, called on a poor tenant to collect hhv rent, lie found the poor woman toiling at the wash-tub. with the evidences of destitution all around her. Duncan toot a look around, and concluded he didn't want to collect rent as bad as he thought he did. He gave the woman a receipt for the two mouths due, and two months in advance, and then calling on somo friends sent her a load of provisions to see her through the winter. Will not aonje? other landlords emulate Duncan's exam ple. Total Eclipse of the.Moon. There will be, a total eclipes of tho moon on tho evening of March 30th. It begins at five minutes past nine o'clock, and begins to disappear at fifty one min utes past eleven. It is visible troughout the United States a ue vjiuvciiiiju Jicruia reports mat on Friday night the earth in the vicinity of East Cleveland, Ohio, cracked open with a loud, dull report, like au earthqu&ke: The fissure was two or three inches wide, and extended into the ground ser eral feet. It damaged several houses,-, and alarmed the people generally. rvu ni i i tt i j Chu Pak, lato President of tlie Sea Yup Company of Saufrancisco, died iu that city a few days ago. Mr. Chu Pak was a very wealthy gentleman of the Chi nese prcoausion, and died at the mature, age of sixty-nine, llis funoral was a splen did affair. Long tables were- spread in. the streets which were loaded dowu- with frtlinv. rtn.l I. . ......... n 1 .. l 1 J oucvi, uuia uuu uuga lUiisitsu wuuiu aim decorated with flowers, feathers ka. In cense was burned, bands played, prayors-were- made, dirges sung, and tho deceased enjoyed nil the honors of a Celastial fact ertL
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