l)c 3cffcusoiuan.
THURSDAY, APAIL 10. 1873.
Copper two-con t pieces will become precious
keepsakes ia the remote future. The new
coinage act abolishes that coin, and no more
will be put in circulation. A new silver dol
lar will be issued, but we arc not advised as
to the design.
In the Supreme Court, at Philadelphia,
last Saturday, in the case of Miss Burnhaiu.
pleading ;or the right to vote on the ground
that the word "freemen" in the Constitut
ion meant both men and women, a decision
was rendered against her.
The act abolishing the offices of assessor
and assistant assessor of internal revenue
will take effect May 20th, the commissioner
having selected that day as most convenient
for its operation, at which time the services
of two hundred and thirty assessors and their
assistants, about twelve hundred in number,
will be di;pensd with.
The State Election in Connecticut was
hold on Monday last.
The Democratic ami Liberal State ticket
septus to have been elected by a very hand
some majority; the Congress delegation re
remains the same as in the last Congress
three Republicans and one Democrat; and
the Legislature is Democratic in the Ilouse
and Republican in the Senate.
At the State election in Rhode Island, on
Wednesday, of last, week, Henry Howard,
the Republican candidate for Governor, re
ceived about 4000 majority, lie had more
than twice as many votes as his Democratic
competitor. Republicans were also elected
tvi the other State offices. In the Senate
the Republicans have 16 majority, and iu the
Hon -c the Republican majority is 40. The
political contest in Rhode Island is always a
one-hided affair.
"According to official returns of the Local
Option election received at Ilarrisburg, nine
teen counties of Pennsylvania have given
majorities for license, and thirty-eight coun
ties majorities against license. Two-thirds
of the counties in number, probably covering
u proportionate area ot the State, have thus
i een carried by the temperance men. The
majorities in lav or of license in the counties
v.jtniL- for license foot up nearly 35,00; and
those against license about 39,000 making
a popular majoiity for the latter of some
4O'j0. But iu the cities the count shows a
considerable majority the other way, so that
in t he entire State there is a clear majority
f ir license of from 8lX)0 to 10,000.
Buy your hats and caps, at the wonderful
cheap Auction store, nearly half price.
The pul 'lie debt statement for April 1st,
show a decrease of $ 1 ,044,058 during March.
B:iy your boots and s-hocs, at the cheap
AuL tion store, and sae twenty-five ceuts on
the J-.dlar.
Carhon county is one of the wealthiest
in (I. at State.
Buy your black and Japanese silks, and
Mack alpacas, wonderful cheap, at wonder
ful cheap Auction store.
A severe hail storm visited Lebanon, Pa..
Wednesday, breaking windows and doing
other damage.
Decker's wonderful cheap Auction store is
51 ed with spring and summer goods, some
nearly half priee.
York county farmers offer 20 per cent, for
m ney. As they are not able to pay in re
than the present legal rate financial trouble
is apprehended.
Buy your coats, pants, and vests at the
cheap Auction store and save thirty cents on
the dollar.
M. 15. Coolbaugh, Sign Painter.
To all those who want Sign Painting done,
call soon for I expect to leave on or about the
fir t of April next.
Buy your muslins, flannel and beautiful
dress goods, at the cheap Auction store and
save your dollars.
Read Wagner & Rhode's advertisement,
in another column, and then call and see
them. You will find profit in so doing.
m
Onn FeeoW Mutual Life Instbaxce
Company. Our young friend Augustus Mi
eliatrU. Erj.. ha received the agency for the
r.Hove Insurance Company, which is conducted
bv Odd Fellows for the exclusive benefits of
gentlemen hclonging to the order. The rates
of insurance are so moderate that it is within
reach of any one to take out a certificate.
The plan is, that persons between the ages of
'l and 35 year?, pay in $5.00 each and $1.10
r.;on the death of a member, which gives the
deceased brother's family as many dollars as
there sre members in the company, the 10 cts.
I ing used to defray expenses.
The fee for persons between the nges of 35
and 15 years of age is $7.00 ; for persons over
45 vears $1.0 J addition to the latter sum for
every additional year till the age of sixty,
after which age none are taken, and $1.10 upou
the death of every member.
In the case of Lewis L. Heller's death,
which occurred lately, the widow drew $1323.
Buy your cass;:.ers. water proofs and ken-:-,!
-ky jeans, at cheap Aucton store and save
'our dollars.
U.iy your ladies and children hats, ribbons,
.1 nvcrs, feathers, half price, at wonderful
i heap Auction store.
Buy your needles and pins, at five cents a
'!'('! arid excellent spool cotton four ct3. at
- Au-tioa store, four doors below post
ouice.
ELECTION RETURNS.
The following is a list of the officers elected
in the several townships of this County at
the late election held on the 2 1st ult. :
Barrett Constable, David Price; Town-
clerk,. James P. Zabriskie ; Inspector, J. M
Carlton, Geo. W.Price; School Directors,
John W. Yothers, Henry Deublcr; Auditor
Charles W. Decker; Judge, Wui. C. Long;
Supervisors, Charles Boyer, S. M. Edwards;
Overseers f the Poor, Ely Utt, William P.
Sees ; Assessor, E. II. Heller; Assistant As
sessor, Townsend Price, J. Kresge.
Ciiestnuthill Justice of the Peace,
Kindarus Shupp ; Constable, Aniandus
Shupp; Supervisors, Nelson Kresge, Mahlon
Everitt, Simon Mull, Frederick Siglin; Judge
A. K. Burger; Assessor, J. E. Hoodmaker;
School Directors, Charles Laufcr, Christian
Decker; Inspectors, Geo. Miller, Ferdinand
Shupp ; Assistant Assessors, Jo.-eph Shupp,
P. S. Altemose; Auditors, George Miller, J.
M. Altemose; Overseers of the Poor, Daniel
Serfass, Jonas Murphy.
Coolbaugu Justice of the Peace, J. R.
De.-omer; Supervisors, James Welsh, C. W.
Transue; Constable, C. W. Transue; School
Directors, James Wilson, Jr., DennisGalvin;
Judge of election, Dennis Galvin; Inspectors,
Jerome Bender, F. B. Teel ; Assessor, Jos.
Wilton ; Assistant Assessors, Josiah Dowl-
ing, John Warner; Town Clerk, Andrew
Sebring; Auditor, J. II. Teets; Overseers of
the Poor, J. II. Teets, J. F. Heller.
East Stkoudsburq Chief Burgess,
Robert Brown; Town Council, Saml. Smith,
Peter Euipy, Levi Smith, Thomas Stemples,
Charles Durfee, Samuel S. Detrick ; School
Directors, Andrew Ifallet, Wm. S. Barger,
Robert Brown ; Auditor, Isaac T. Puter
baugh ; Assesor for '73, Levi Smith; Asses
sor for '74, Samuel S. Detrick; Assistant
Assessors, George E. Stouffer, Chas Rhodes;
Overseers of the Poor, P. J. Young, Wm.
F. Buh; Constable, Philip Rockafellow ;
Judge of election, Henry Detrick, Justice of
the Peace, Alexander Vr. Loder; Inspector,
Alexander W. Loder, Peter Empy, Charles
Durfee.
Eldred Constable, Levi Frable ; Super
visors, GodfrejT Greensweig, Timothy Cor
rell ; Assessor, John M. Frantz; School Dir
ectors, Edward Frantz, Jeremiah Newhart;
Auditor, John Deiter ; Judge, Paul D. Ber
ger; Assistant Assessors, Edward Frantz,
Jacob Frable; Overseers of the Poor, John
Frantz, Jacob Correll ; Town Clerk, George
Moser; Inspectors, Samuel Yerger, Peter
Frable.
Hamilton -Constable, Anson TL Heller ;
Supervisors, Joseph Kemmcrer, Jr, George
Bittenbender, Jr., Anthony Arnold, William
Fleming; School Directors, Christipher Bit
tenbender, Simon Storm, John Gower; Town
Clerk, Jacob Fetherruari; Overseers of the
Poor, Joseph Fable, Jonathan Fetherman;
Inspectors, Aaron J. Bittenbender, Eugene
B. Mar.-h ; Judge, William MuNeal ; Audi
tor, Charles B. Shafer ; Assistaut Assessors,
Charles Fetherman, Peter Kunkel ; Assess
ors, Wm. Hatiey, Melchoir Heller.
Jackson Constable, James M. Reinhart
Supervisors, Fredrick Doll, Herbert Ike;
School Directors, John M. Kinsley, Abrou
Butts; Assessor, John A. Singer; Assistant
Assessor, Amandus Possinger, Abrum New
hard ; Judge; Joseph Frantz ; Town Clerk
W. II. ltenihart; Ovvseers of the Poor, G.
II. Singer, Liuford Schoch ; Auditor, Jacob
C.Miller; Inspectors, Frank Anglemoyer,
Win. Butts.
Middle Smitiifield Conttablc, Horace
Vanaukcn; Supervisors, Benjamin Place,
John Dewitt; Assessor, 1S73. J. M. Eileu
berger. Is74, Moses C. Struuk; Assistant
Assessors, James Place, Wm. Gruver; Over
seers of the Poor, E. G. Mosier, Andrew
Pipher; School Directors, W. II. Yanwhy,
Charles Abbitts; Auditors, James Place,
John Clark; Inspectors, G. M. D. Hoffman,
Jacob Place; Judge, Muses Ovei field; Town
Cieik. John 31. Eilenberger.
Paradise Constable, Francis Keller;
Supervisors, Geo. W. Smith, Robert Dailey;
Auditors, J. A. Transue, Francis Bowen ;
Inspectors. John Miller, I. T. Miller; School
Directors, James Kiutz, S. P. Smith, John
J. Price; Town Clerk, Wm. C. Heller; Ass
essor, Robert Eaton; Judge, Wui. Hoffman;
Overseers of the Poor, James Heury, Henry
Heller; Assistant Assessor, Henry Seip,
Johu Storm.
Pocono Justices of the Peace, Jacob
Learn, Randall Bisbiug; Judge, John Alle
ger; Supervisors, Peter H. Metzgar, Peter
Slack; Auditor, Joseph Shook; Overseers
of the Poor, David Learn, Charles Arnold;
Town Clerk, Jonas Altemose; Inspectors,
Jacob H. Rcpsher, Morris Auglemoyer; As
sessor for 1873, Robert Gruver, for 1S74,
Jouas Altemose; Assistant Assessors. Philip
Learn, George Transue ; School Directors,
Peter S. Edinger, Thomas Slavery, Abraui.
Smith, Chas. Sieger.
Polk Constable, Jacob Serfoss; Inspectors,
Nathan Gregory, George Anglemoyer ; Judge,
Rudolph Uauh; Supervisors, John Burger,
John S. bmial; Auditor, William Gilbert, 2
years, Charles fchafer, 3 years; Assessor 1873,
John G. Weust, 1874, Peter S. Hawk; Over
seers of the Poor, Herman W. Doll, Levi
Smith; Assistant Assessors, John Kunkel, Wil
liam Gregory; School Directors, John Dershi
mer, L. Mansfield.
Price. Assessor 1873 Wm. Detrich; 1874
John L. Brush; Assistant Assessors, Isaac Pa
len, Jeremiah Sees, Leonard Lessoin ; Inspec
tors, Jeremiah Sees, William Detrick; Judge,
Lewis Price; Constable, Lewis Lessoin ; Super
visors, Zalmond Snow, Leonard Lessoin ;
Auditor, Jeremiah Sees ; Town Clerk, Samuel
Postens'; School Directors, Lewis Long, John
L. Bush ; Justice of the Peace, Charles Stewart.
Ross Justice of the Peace, Philip Remel ;
Supervisors, Joseph Kresge, Henry Altemose ;
Assessor, Daniel Adrew ; Overseers of the
Poor, Charles L. Frantz, Peter, Lessig; Con
stable, Adam Correll; Judge, Joseph Kresge;
Inspectors, Valentine Houser, Peter Measson ;
School Directors, Levi Buskirk, Samuel Alte
mose; Town Clerk. Peter Lessig; Auditors
Enock V. Buskirk, Peter Meason.
Smithfielu Judge, Emauuel Kintner;
Constable, Jamea G. Kintner; Inspectors,
Abraru Hoffman, George C. P trunk ; School
Directors, P.M. Hoffman, P. II. Terpening;
Assessor 1S73, Moses T. Strunk, 1874, Charles
Christian; Assistant Assessor, David Shannon,
Simeon D. Bush; Overseersof thePoor, Melchoir
Heller, George Kintner; Auditor, II. L. Sta
ples; Town Clerk, Frank Bell; Supervisors,
Theodore Brutzman, John M. Hoffman, Geo.
D. Shannon, Hiram Bush.
Stroud Constable, William Hosteler;
Supervisors, George Brewer, Ddward Lee,
George Philip; Assessor 1873, Matthias Shaf
er, 187 4. William FrxnkcnGeld; Assistant As
sessrs, Amzi Coolbaugh, Charles Swink; Audi
tor, Frederick Fabel; Town Clerk, John Kent;
Judge, Charlea Keller; Inspectors, Mat Shafer,
James S. Fisher; Overseers of the Poor, J abez
G. Angle, Charles Swink; School Directors,
Simeon Barry, Abraham Metzgar.
, Stroudsbcrg Chief Burgess, John N.
Stokes; Constable, John Keener ; Town Coun
cil, Lin ford March, 'm. S. Flory, John S.
Fisher, Wm. Huntsman, John T. Palmer,
John II. Conner; Assessor, Philip Miller; As
sistant Assessor, John Kern, Daniel R. Brown;
Overseers of the Poor, Peter II. Robeson, Beu
den Thomas; Auditor, Jackson Lantz; Shool
Director, Gershatn Hull, A. O. Greenwald ;
Judge, William T. Baker; Inspectors, Alex
ander Raubenold, Milliard F. Evans.
To byh ann ah Constable, Wm. B. Wood
ling; Supervisors, Wm. Bonser, Wm. Shiffer,
Edward Bush; School Directors, Isaac Stauf
fer, Wm. McClary; Judge, Wm. Adams; In
spectors, Wm.'B. Woodling, Henry Eschen
bauch; Overseersof the Poor, Wm. Hays, Wm.
Shiffer; Assessor 1873, Jonas Christman, 1S74,
Jonas Christman ; Assistant Assessors, Wm.
Adams, Samuel G. Eschenbach; Auditor, Isaac
Stauffer ; Town Clerk, Jonas Christman.
Tcnkhannock Justice of the Peace, Jacob
E Altemose; Constable, George L. Altemose;
Judge, Perry Altemose; Inspectors, Reuben B.
Bonser, James Kresge; School Directors, Per
ry Altemose, James Kresge; Assessor, 1873,
Geo. W. Merwine; 1874, Peter Merwine; As
sistant Assessors, Wm. Merwine, Frederick
Keenhold; Overseers of the Poor, George L.
Altemose, Jacob E. Altenmose; Town Clerk,
Jacob C. Altemose; Auditor, George L. Alte
mose. Independent School District School
Directors, Jocob Klair, Samuel G. Peters.
Gov. Hartranft's Vetoes.
The Philadelphia Ledger which is po
litically neutral comments in the follow
jug terms on the veto messages whieli
have created such consternation among
rings and cliques :
For more than a month past we have
been laying aside for further considera
tion the "veto messages" of Gov. Hart
rand. We have belore us at this time
about twenty ol them ; some brief, some
elaborate, some of limited interest, some
ot large aud general importance, and all ol
them, we are glad to say, based upon sound
and wholesome doctriue or principle. A
number of the bills vetoed were for uu
necessary legislation in behalf ol hospitals,
homes, church building societies, &e. ;
others were to create banks, saving funds.
manufacturing companies, which legisla
lion was unnecessary, as being within the
power of the Courts, or was wrong, inas
much as it granted inequitable, dangerous
or unlimited powers; still others were to
release persous or corporations from liabli
tics or obligations common to all the
citizens of the State, or were designed to
take away from particular persous the pro
tections they uuw have under the law, ot
to grant relief to souie persons to the ex
pense of all others. Iu all these instances
the Governor seems to have subjected the
bills to the test of salutary general priu
eiples. Where the authority or privileges
asked for iu the bills were such as the
Courts have power to bestow under gen
eral laws of the Commonwealth, he has
returned the bills to the Legislature with
the suggestion that the applicants for
"Uch legislation should be referred to the
Courts. Where the law has already pro
vided a sufficient remedy fur or means to
accomplish the particular object ostensi
ly sought by the bill, he has pointed out
that tact to the Legislature. Where the
proposed legislation violated the prioci
I les of equity or fair dealing, or were in
conflict with some policy, or granted un
restricted powers, or endangered the in
teicsts of the people of the State, he has
-poken tiMhe Legislature in very plain
terms, aud expounded to them clearly the
principles ot jsuuud legislation on such
subjects. .
Of the veto messages thus briefly and
very generally described four or five are
of uu usual interest and importance, and
should be of great value. These are the
messages returniug "Wood's Run Saving
Fund" supplement ; the bill incorporating
the Keystone Iron Company ; the bill re
latino to the sale by common carriers ol
unclaimed goods, and the Somerset Fire
Relief bill. The Wood's llun corpora
tion was chartered by the Allegheoy
County Court in 1871, to erect houses,
to make cuutracts for building, and to
buy, hold or sell real estate iu that coun
ty. By an act of Assembly it had been
authorized to receive moneys on deposit
and pay interest, which deposits were
made a first lieu on its real estate, and it
was prohibited from discounting commer
cial paper, or any paper. From its inno
cent and limited beginning ia Allegheny
eouuty under the Court charter of 1871,
expanded by a legislative act of the same
year, this corporation sought in 1873 by
the bill vetoed by the Governor to be
come not only a dealer in real estate and
a savings Bauk, but to be a bauk of dis
count with power to operate in "collaterls"
iu a ny part of the tcorld, with power to
charge any rate of interest that might be
agreed upon, without any provisiou lor
pacing up the capital stock, aud without
imposing upon the recipients of these
enormous and dangerous privileges the
proper individual liability. Against each
and all of these enormities the Governor
interposed his objections, clearly aud ful
ly ttated. laying down the principles of
sound banking and the use of capital, as
lie had previously done in the case ol the
.Miffliuburg Bank bill ; and this style of
legislation may now be considered as el
tectually checked. Yet there have been
reams, of similarly monstrous charters
passed in the last dozen years. Some one
bad referred biia to the9e as precedents
for the approval of this bill ; but he an
swered that while precedents are of ue
in construing laws, it was different in
making laws, tor in this latter case bad
precedents would make bad laws, aud
that the bad precedents were made at a
time when he had not the executive re
spousibility resting on him.
All this is admirable, and we regret
exceedingly our inability to reproduce
his arguments in lull. The veto of the
Keystone Iron Company bill was because
the character for a bona JideUon manu
facturing or' producing company can be
granted by the Courts; because this com
pany, under the title ol an iron company,
was empowered to buy, sell, make, pro
duce or deal in anything, or everything ;
because no provision was made tor the
paying up ol the capital stock ; because
the power to borrow money was unlimited;
and because thete was no adequate per
sonal liability imputed on the stockhold
era. All this was objected to by the
Governor, and affords another wholesome
precedent. The bill relating to the sale
of unclaimed goods by expresses, railway.
and other common carriers, was vetoed
because the law, as it stands, provide
adequate remedies and means for th pro
tection of common carriers, and at the
same lime aflords protection to the owner
of unclaimed goods ; and this bill the
Governor said did not improve the re
mcdy for the carriers, while it did take
away Iroui the owners the little protec
lion they now have. It is a most grate
lul and welcome thing to find such home
ly doctrines applied to legislation.
A bill to enable a trustee to sell a meet
inf house was vetoed because it allowed
private sale, instead of being restricted
to open public sale, and provided no se
curity lor the proceeds of the sale. How
business like and sound is all this ! A
bill to except certain elections of the
borough ol Coonellsville from the opera
lion of the general election laws of the
Commonwealth was vetoed, simply be
caue it did that thing. If, says the
Sovemor, t he general law is wise and salu
tary, the borough of Counellsville should
not be deprived of its benefits ; if it is
not, it should be repealed, for the benefit
of the whole State as well as Councils
ville.
We have thus gone briefly over these
interesting messages, which have not ex
cited much popular comment, but which
are in the highest degree important to
the people of the State. They re.store
the old time era of sound principles t
the executive office of the Commonwealth.
and the restoration promises great good
We think they show evidence that the
Governor is consulting some clear-headed,
ourageous, capable adviser, whom we
take to be his Attorney General. It is a
credit to the Governor and to the State
that he has such an adviser ; it is to his
honor that he follows such wholesome
counsel ; and it is the hope of Philadel
phia that our city may &harc the benefits
hereafter.
The Philadelphia Press refers to the
subject iu the following language :
The Public Ledger discusses with fair
ne.s and just praise the reasons assigned
by the Governor for vetoing several legis
lulive enactments which seemed to him
eiiher unnecessary or pernicious. We
endorse the Ledgers comments heartily.
and agree with it that these vetoes "show
evidence that the Governor is consulting
some clear headed, courageous, capable.
adviser, whom we take to be his Attorney
General ," and we go further. There is
reason to believe that Governor Hartraoft,
in calling into his. councils a gentleman
of Mr. Dimmick's character and ability.
lid so because he he believed the lar
ter to be in full harmony with him
self. No one has beeu -mote gratified
than The Press by Governor Hartranit's
general gubernatorial career so far. If
he contiuues he will secure the regard
and cooperation of good men of all par
ties As miht have been expected, the
very journals which were the most un
stinted in their adulations of General
llartranft when a candidate Have been
among the first to disparage his official
acts since his inauguration as Governor,
and to eudeavor to embarass him by their
clamor. Fortunately for Governor Hart
ranlt, as we learn from himself through a
recent conversation with one of our staff,
his course will out be swerved by any
partisan newspaper pleading. If he is
influenced by newspapers at all, it will
be by such independent journals as reflect
the will and wishes of the people; and
not by the organs of rings and cliques.
whose vapid praise is liable to be turned
ioto reproach whenever their selfish ends
are not attained.
The Ilarrisburg correspondent of the
Pittsburg Commercial thus discusses the
subject :
The shower of vetoes continues The
latest wa the veto of a bill to pay the
State Printer 825.000 for printing for
the Constitutional Convention, which was
sent to the Senate last night. The Gov
ernor 6hows, conclusively, that the act
calling the Convention provided that all
its necessary expenses should be paid by
warrants drawn by its President on the
State Treasurer, and that the Legislature
had no right to interfere. And it is prob
able it would not have interfered had the
Convention been prompt to pay its bills
Since the pa-sage ol the bill just vetoed,
the Convention has ordered its printing
bill to be paid.
But, if vetoes fall thick and fast, to the
alarm and terror of those who are affected
by them, the fear of coming vetoes is
much greater than that felt on account
of what have already come. Yesterday
and to day, over a dozen bills have beeu
recalled from the Governor by joint re
solution of both houses, to save them from
the ruthless guillotine. All of these are
bank bills ; and I confess to an utter in
ability to pump up any tears over their
fate Whatever others may think, I am
satisfied the Governor is right. There
has been something -too much of this rush
for special bank privileges ; and the check
imposed on it has been wholesome aud
servioeable. No one can realize, now,
or tell, the full extent of the good done
by the Governor's ringing call to "Haiti"
We shall know it, perhaps, hereafter;
but for the present we mast be content
with the consciousness that a great good
has been do tie in this, if in nothing mure,
that the public has been thereby brought
to face the banking question and look at
it in its many varying a.pects. One other
good, too. I am sure it has done ; it has
convinced many ol the men who, last year,
refused to extend their confidence to Gen
Hartranlt, that they grossly misjudged
him aud did him injustice.
How They Treated the Indians.
The treatment of the Indians by the
early settlers of Massachusetts, says Par
too, included four points : First :
Strictest justice, paying lair value lbi
everything ; no udvuutuge of the Iudiaus'
ignorance and weakuess. Second; Bono
tiful, laborious kiuduess to them, seizing
every occasion to reuuer tnem service.
and to do them houor. Third : They
presented always a bold front to them.
ana would never sunmit to wrong nor
yield to menace. Fourth: When a tribe
would uot live iu peace would scalp
massacre, and burn then what? Not
war merely, but extermination ! You re
member that alter they had broken the
streugth of the Pcquots in battle, and
killed all they could, they offered reward.-
lor Pequot beads, seut the captives as
slaves to Bermuda, and distributed the
womeu as eervauts among the families
Not a Pequot ot them was lei t who could
lift a hatchet. It is ludicrous to .-ee vail
ant little Capt. Statidish, setting forth
at the head of his army ot eight men.
firelock aud corselet, to "stiike a blow''
tT a a a
at toe iMarragauselts, who could u us'cr
perhaps 5'JU warriors ; and he struck it
t--o ; and they kept the peace during all
that generation, until Kiug Philip roused
them to war 00 years after the landin
A great chief, of the Narraganselts,
King Philip's predecessor, sent them a
bundle of arrows wrapped in the skin ol
a ralllesnak. Squanto, the native with
the' Pilsrio;i told the Uoveroor it was a
declaration of war. Bradlord took out
the arrows, stuffed .'he skin f ull of pow
der and ball, and sent If back to the chiel
wiin words ot deuancc. -I be savage
chief trembled as he looked ipon the
skin, shrauk back lrom it in supersi'tiou
dread, would not have it iu his wigwam
nor on his land, and it came back to the
Governor of Plymouth un ouched But
when their ally, Massasoit, was sick, how
tenderly, how patiently they tended upon
him ; going far out ot their way ; not dis
daiuing the most repulsive offices ; and
when they had got him half well, and.
right in the teeth of their advice, he had
eaten himself sick again, still they would
not give him up, but stood by him. and
protected him against himself until he
had recovered. These men could .tu t
have known that this mixture ol boldue.-s,
justice, and kinduess was just the way to
get the mastery of the Indians. Ihey
treated them so because they were hu
mane and brave. Thev treated them so
because thev felt it to be riht. What
was the result? 'lo use the language of
one of them : ''We walk as peaceably
iu the wood, as in the highway's of Kng
land." And again : "It hath pleaded
God so to possess the Indians with a feai
r i . i t
oi us ana a love unto us. mat not oniv
the greatest king among them, called
Massasoit, but also all the princes and
people round about us, have either made
suit unto us, or been glad ol any occasion
to make peace with us ; so that seven ol
them at once sent their messengers to u
to that end."
Pennsylvania Indians.
The following from the pen of D
Sutherland. County Superintendent ol
public schools of Warren county. Pa .
will disclose the Tact that Pennsylvania
is yet the home of the red men, and that
his station in life aNo, is being advanced
with the popular tide of educational pro
vtress. He says .
The Indians in this county are de
scendanta of the Chief Cornplanter a
chief of the Senecas. His Indian name
was someih'ng like "Oconosou-ih," as
nearly as I can remember. The land
upon which his people live was granted
late in the last century by Congress to
Cornplanter for services in the war of the
Revolution. He served with Brant and
also wilh Colonel Johusou. From the
accounts of which I have been able to
gather from tl.e old citizens, he was a
man of marked ability and of some degree
of intelligence. He built a comfortable
block house and a saw mill, but still
pursued all the characteristics of the
primitive Indian.
The reservation is on the left bank of
the Allegheny river, sixteen miles above
this point They have about 500 acres
of land which they until recently held
in common. Last year it was partitioned
among them by an order of the court
under the guidance of the Society ol
Friends.
They have generally comfortable frame
dwellings ; a good school house and
school sustained by the State. Mioister
of the Gospel hold services regularly for
their benefit, conducted in the Indian
tongue. There are about seventy souls
in the settlement and they remain at
about that number, the deaths about
keeping pace with the births.
Suspension of a Grand Lodge.
B. C. Berry, Supreme Chancellor of
the world in the Order of Knights of
Pythias, has issued his order suspending
the Grand Lodge of Pennsylvania and
taken away their charter. The orders
hears date March 17th. and the grounds
assigned are insubordination and continual
disregard of authority on the part of the
Grand Lodge. This State becomes mean
time a district under the direct authority
of the Supreme Lodge, and will be known
as the district of Pennsylvania. It is
placed under the supervision of Past
Grand Chancellor Jos D. Weeks, of
rtttsDiug. fttt&burg lost.
J. II. Birdsell, of Wurtsboro, found a
two ounce glass vial io the heart of a solid
tree in which he was chopping, one day
last week.
ANIMALS AS WE&THER INDICATORS '
An indefatigablr meteorologist has'
gathered some curio- observations on
certain animals who, by some peculiar
sensitjtiity to electical or other at
mospheric influeucc, often., indicate
changes of the weather by their peculiar
motious and habits. Thos;
Ants. An universal bostT and ac
tivity observed in ant hills may Ve gen
erally regarded as a sign of rate the
ants frequently appear all in not:6r) to
gether, aud carry their eggs aboti!?from
place to place. This is remarked by
Virgil, Pliny, acd others.
Bats flitting about late in. the everrHg;J
in spring and autumn, foretell a fine tJxy?
on the morrow ; as do some inwects. Ort
the contiary, when, bats return soon to"
their hiding places and send forth loud
cries, bad weather may be expected.
Beetles flying about late in the even
ing often foretell a fine day on the morrow.-
Butterflies, when they appear early,
are sometimes forerunners of fiue weather.-
Moths aud Sphinxes also foretell fine
weather when they are common in the
evening.
Cats, when they "wash their faces,""
or when they seem sleepy and dull,,
foretell rain. -
Chickens, when they pick up small'
stones and pebbles, and are more noisy
than usual, afford a sign of rain ; as do
fowls rubbing in the du.t aud clapping
their wings ; but. this applies to several
kinds of fowls, as well as to the
gallinaceous kinds. Cocks, when they'
crow at unwonted hours, often foretell
rain ; when they crow all day, in summer"
particularly, a change to rain 1'rcquantly
follows.
Dolphins, as well as PortroiSES, when
they come about a ship, and sport and
gambol on the surface of the water,
hetoken a storm.
Doos. before rain, grow sleepy and "
dull, lie drowsi'iy before the fire, aud are
not easily aroused. They also often eat
grass, which indicates that their stomachs,
like ours, are apt to be disturbed before
ehange of weather. It is said to be a
sign of change of weather when dogs howl
and bark much in the night. Dogs also
dig in the earth with their feet before
rain, and often make deep holes in thef
ground.
Ducks The loud and clamorous1
cackling of ducks, geese, and other water
fowls, is a sign of rain ; as aho when they
wash tLemselves and flutter about io the
water more than uual. Vigil has well
described all tLcse habits of aquatic birds.
Fishes, when they bite more readily
and gamt'ol near the surface ot streams
or poids foreshow rain.
Flies, and various sorts'of insects, be
come more trouble.-ome, and stiog and
bite more than usual, before as well as in
the intervals of rainy weather, particularly
in autumn
Fuogs, by their clamorous croaking,
indicate rainy wea;her; as does likewise
their coming about in great numbers in
the evening this last sign aj plies moio
obviousdy to toads.
Geese, washiug or taking wing with a
clamorous uoUe aud flying to the water,
porte I rain.
GNATS afford several iodicatiorr. Wh
the 'lly in a vi.ncx in the btauis ut the
letting suu. they forebode fair weather ;
when thev Intk about more widely in the
open air at eveutjde, they foreshadow
heat; and when they assemble under
trees, and bite more than usual, they in
dicate rain.
Hogs, when- they shake the stalks of
corn aud spoil them, olten indicate raio.
When they run squeaking about, and
jerk up their heads, wibdy weather is
about, to commence
Horses foretell the coming of rain by
starting more than ordinarily, and by
restlessness on the road.
KlNE (cattle) are said to foreshadow
rain when they lick their forefeet, or lay
on their right side. Some say oxen lick
ing themselves against the hair is a sign
of wet.
MlCE, when they squeak much and
gambol in the house, lortell a change of
weather, and olfeu rain.
Owls When an owl hootg or
screeches, sitting on the top of the house
or by the side of a window, a change of
weather may be looked for.
Peacocks squalling by night often
foretell a rainy day.
Pigeons It is a sign of rain wheu
pigeons return slowly to the dove house
he fore the usual time of day.
Toads, when they come from their
holes in an unusual number in the even
ing, although the ground be still dry,
foreshow the coming rain, which will,
generally, fall more or less during the
uight.
A JEWISH LEGEND.
According to Jewish and Moharamedam
tradition, King Solomon who was wise be
yond all other men, knew the language,
of animals, and could talk wilh the beasts
of the field and the birds of the air. A
Rabbinical story is told of him, which is
iu this wise :
' One day the king rode out of
Jerusalem with a great retinue. An ant
hill lay directly in his path, and Solomon
heard its little people talking.
"Here comes the great king,' he heard
one oi them say. II is flattereis calls him
wise and just, and merciful, but he is.
about to ride over us, and crush us with
out heeding our sufferings."
"And solomoo told the Queen of
Sheba, who rode with him, what the ant
said.
"And the Queen made answer, 'He ia
an insolent creature, O King ! It is a
better fate than he deserves, to be trodden
under our feet.'
"But Solomon said : 'It is the part of
wisdom to learn of the lowest and,
weakest.' And he commanded his train,
to turn aside and spare the ant hill."
Then all the courtiers maavelled
greatly, and the Queen of Sheha bowed,
her head and made obeisance to Solomon.
-Now know I the 6ecret of thy wisdom
Thou listenest as patiently to the re
proaches of the humble as to the flatteries,
of the great."