. J--J fiiubiirD American. H. 8. MASSES, E. WILVERT. Editors. SUNBURY, JANUARY 29, 187 The bill introduced ia the State Senate in favor of granting the presu more liberty, is just in itself, as it recognizes the presu in a manner somewhat gratifying. Such a law as is proved will prevent speculative or malicious prosecutions, and will uot prevent the easy recovery of damages where a real libel is published. No princi ple maintained in the present libel law is put aside in this, but the privilege of show- in the truth of statements made, and of the absence of malice, is clearly piveu in t bis proposed law. The time has come when the press de serves some consideration in this business. It not unfrequently happens that parties engage in libel suits, with no other purpose than to get money, a sort of character speculation, or levying of blackmail. We are confident in the belie! that in this State there is far less purpose on the part of the press to willingly libel any persou than there is on the part of persons to catch at anything that may be said in the papers as a cause for a suit for libel. OCB neighbor of the Democra t probably thinks that his readers have forgotten when te lectured the Democratic officers of the County, several years ago, for giving part of their advertising to his friend of the Ga zette, claiming that "to the victors belonged the spoil. " Bat since Uie Republican Commissioners gave him a taste last year, in giving him a portion of their advertis ing, and paying dearly for the whistle, he has changed his tactics, and is now trying to secure the patronage from the other Re publican officers. To show that you are consistent, neighbor, you had better recom mend to the Democratic officers to share their patronage. They are strictly party bound, and you bad better advise them to try your recommendation. They will un doubtedly feel at liberty to comply with vour nrescnt views. "Consistency thou j art a Jewel," Jacob I Now let us see that you practice the doctrine you preach. The new postal law, since its practical workings have begun, is not very popular with the country postmasters, and they a re loudly grumbling. Under the the old law their salaries were bared on the number of stamps tbey canceled now it is on the number Bold. But it often happeus, they say, that persons io the country buy large amounts of stamps in the cities and use them for their letters. Heretofore such letters have counted in rating salary ; now they form no port of the rating, and will thus work a considerable reduction. Be sides this.the postages on newspapers have heretofore been paid at the office of delive ry and the commissions thereon had a con sidcrable part of the salaries of country offices. Under the uew law, howcver,these postages are paid in the large cities where such periodicals are published, and this will make a most important reduction in small office salaries. The Committee ik Louisiana. It is to be siucenly hoped that the Committee of Congress, now in New Orleans to in vestigate the political affairs in that State, will be able to arrive at the facts. The Re publicans and Democrats in New Orleans to the Committee statements which they promise to support by evidence. The Re- publicans .promise to 6how that there has been not oulv continued intimidation of Republican voters throughout the Slate and a great number of political assassina tions, but that the White League has been engaged in this work; that the colored people have been proscribed, driveu from the public (schools, and discharged for po litical reasons from places where they were employed. Whether these witnesses will appear for the purposo in large numbers is exceedingly doubtful, for the testimony will be published, and every man who tells the truth coucerninz these ruffians and their conduct will be marked as the victim of fresh persecution. On the other hand the Demociats claim that they can show that the election was a fair one, that they carried the State and that the frauds of the Returning Board alone deprived them of their rights. The election of Andy Johnson as Sena tor from Tennessee is supposed by many Democrats will be mortifying to President Grant and certain Republicans. In this they will find themselves mistaken. He will be amusing and oceassionally undigni fied, but not capable of serious harm. On ihe contrary he is likely to do more injury to the Democracy thaa any one hundred men on the face of the earlb. lie will do the party he opposes more good than a legion of voters. IVing the worn! enemy of his friends, and the best friend rf his enemies, is his best hold. He has never enjoyed the respect or confidence of the "upper class" or aristocracy of Southern politicians. He was never a secessionist nor a nullifler. He rejected the extrcne doctrines of State Rights nd Slate sovereignty Democrats. He has always becrj a National, as opposed to a State Sovereignty Democrat. When the war came, Joboann adhered to the Union, and the others followed the "State" into rebellion. But, nevertheless, Johnson has always had the support of the majority of llie people of Tennessee, as he has now in this Sight with his old Deru(cratic ene mies. That he will be particularly grate ful or serviceable to them, is extremely un likely. Andy ia a good hater. A New Orleans correspondent of a uewa- j paper which has denounced thecouduct. of j lhe United States troops at New Orleans . . , , , s. i i . nd the despatches of General Mieridau, : ..;mm account of the treatment of that , officer by the gallant people whose chivalry 1m has effectually suppressed. To hate General Sheridan, cays the corrtsiocdenl, appears just now to be a religion with them and tt defame him the duty of every 'good citizen.' lie has been hung in effigy fcev eral times' and gross caricatures of him appear in every shop-window. In the lobby of bis hotel, and at the dinner table be is insulted and hissed at, notwithstand ing le ia accompanied by ladies. The General is said to bear all this abuse with the utmost good nature, as he could not otherwise do, being a gentleman and an officer of the United States army. It is a j mill business io its wav. but it is char- i acteristic of what is called chivalry in New j Orleans. We are pleased to learn that General Death, the retiring Surveyor General, has received the appointment of Manager of Agencies for a prominent Life Insurance Company of Philadelphia. We are gratifi .r1 at this evidence of appreciation toward a gentleman so worthy, and are connaeni " it I x ! LUC IUIUluiru ww ti, " M B-"' V " advantage of the company. BuckaleWs great hobby is 4 minority rep resentation.' and the, minority' business sticks to him like the shirt of Nessus. Ho had suticient minority in the Senatorial iM to make him happy. In searching for the causes which have led to the scenes of lawlessness and violeuce in Louisiana and other Southern States, the Pittsburgh (Jrnuiaanal says : The real cause has not yet been touched upon. It is to be found in the aid and comfort given to the Ku-Klux aud White leagues by the Northern Democracy. The election of Allen in Ohio, in 1873, and the New Hampshire and Connecticut elections of last spring, resulting in the choice of Katon as United State Senator from Connecticut, gave the Southern moboorats their mo6t substantial encouragement. As soon as the Ku-Klux saw that there was a chance of the Democrats returning to pow er again, they began to crawl from their holes and to hold up their heads boldly ; and the De mocratic successes in October, 1S74, still further encouraged aud emboldened them. They threw off all disguise when they found their natural allies coming once more to the front ; and if there had been no Demo cratic succcbs at the elections in 1S74, there would have been no outrages in Louisiana to mourn over or put down. Those Re publicans, therefore, who through caprice and petulance, voted the Democratic ticket at the last election, may credit themselves ith having contributed thereby to the re bellious attitude of the South at tnis moment The only sure cure for the Louisiana troubles is to be found in the return of the North to its Republicanism. A Republican victory in New Hampshire aud Connecticut at the ensuing elections will do more thau the army can to restore peace to the South ; and a Democratic vic tory, there, will only intensify the present trouble. The reason for all this is not hard to find. The Democrats of the South, judging the present by the past, regard the Northern Democracy as allies who win stand by them in whatever they uo ; and. satisfied that they may rely upon this co operation, their policy is to establish a reign of terror throughout the koutn wnicu will keep the Republicans there from voting, and so get into possession of the government of the Soulheru States. Once in power, tbey feel perfectly able to man tain their ascendancy by reduciug the blacks to Peonage and cutting them off from their rights and privileges, and if the Democrats can hold on to the States they now have in the North, the election of a Democratic President in 187t wouid be easy Hence the struggle to get possession of Louisiana, and hence, also, the outbreaks in Alabama and Mississippi. It is all part of a general Democratic scheme to cap ture coutrol of the General Govern ment ; and the essential part of the scheme is that the Democrats should hold on to the Northern States, already partly in their possession. A Republican reaction will knock this scheme into fragments ; and the be6t way to sustain the Presideut in bis effect to sustain the laws Is to strengthen his hand with Republican victories. The White Leaguers will yield to such results quicker than to any other. Jackson and Sheridan. When Gen eral Jack6onassumed the defense of New Orleans he put the city under martial law. Nor did he relax any of its severity after his great victory over the British. He re ceived the news of a treaty of peace be tween the two countries, but for prudential reasons continued the exereise of martial law. He arrested a private citizen and held him under military authority. Judge Hall issued a write of habeaf roqms, but Jackson not only refused to recognize it, but sent a guard of soldiers to escort the Judge outside the city limits. A few days after civil authoritj' was rrstored Judge Hal! returned, and summoned General Jackson before him to show cause why lie should not be punished for contempt, &c. First, in his arrest of a private citizen ; se cond, in bis refusal to recognize the writ issued ; third, in his unlawful expulsion of the Judge. Jackson claimed that all his acts were fonuded on public necessity. His defense was not sufficient for the Judge, who was trying his own case. He was fined 1,000, which he promptly paid out of his own pocket. Years after the paj ment, the fine was remitted by Congre-s on the ground that General Jackson acted iu the interest of the public good and for the public safety. The Democrats, who now denounce General Sheridau for doing less than Jackson did, should remember that every stone cast at him ia one thrown at the hero of Democracy. Sheridan, like Jackson, has the firmness to do his duty, and the enemies of law and order in Loui siana would Uo well to recognize trait in his character before they feel its hand. The EtjmbUr. The auuual message of the Democratic Governor of Georgia, Gov. Brown, calls to our attention a very remarkable fact, and one that will be apt to somewhat sur prise the general public. By national law each State receives an annual appropria tion for arms. Gov. Brown states that Georgia haa lately received this appropria tionor the four year that the ixole of that State were iu rebellion, and we presume the other rebel States have been treated with equal liberality. The Governor states fur ther that with that national appropriation to Georgia, 47 milliiary companies of that State have been armed with the latest im proved breech-loaders, oue artillery com pany supplied with five Napoleon guns, and one cavalry company completely equipped. With such unprecedented liberality to wards the rebel States tinco the rebellion, northern sympathizers continue to howl of tyrannical treatment towards the South i :'V Hie isaiiouai uovernmeot. n wm ie i i walj perhaps If the Government were not i ouite as magnanimous iu placeing arms iu lhe iailjs (,j ,,. wii0 i00 r,.ady to ug(J tlll.m in urUawfui violence. , . ,, Richaud B. Irwin, who appears held ' . luc j-, -. Congress for the Pacific Mail Company, st iled to the investigating committee where he placed the amount of money spent. It ap pears now that but one member of Congress received any money, aud that, was Sciiu-makc-r, a Democrat, from Brooklyn. New York, who was paid the sum of $:W0,CKX. The rest was paid to borers and to the in- thicndf iit jui.., that pure aud incorrvjitihle j portion of newspapcrdom that is shouting so loudly against the demoralization of the times and is constantly up for sale to the highest bidder. Schumaker pretends to have entirely forgotten what he done with ttie money he received. Dinner to Senator-Elect Dawes. The members of the Committee on Ways and Means gave Mr. Dawes, its chairman, a dinner in congratulation of his election to the Senate from Massachusetts. Besides the meralxTS of the committee, there were present Speaker Blaine, Vice President Wilson, Secretary Bristow, Senator Sher man, chairman of the Senate Committee FiDanet, Aud the. Senators from Massa llersrs. Bout- i well and Washburn. The Government is engaged Iu overhaul ing bank vaults and drawers iu all the principle cities, io quest of unstamped ' rheck". We received the following circular a few days ago with a request for publication : AN APPEAL FOR RELIEF Foil I'.OCK COUN TY, MINN. The great destitution prevailing in this county on account of the destruction of crops by grasshoppers, compels us to ap peal to those who are more fortuuate, for help for the suffering among us. This county, situated in the Southwestern cor ner of the State, is ou the frontier. Prior to 1S72 it was chiefly a wilderness. Its st'ttkrs now uumberiug more than 700 families, are mostly homesteaders. Their all was expended in reaching their now homes, providing some kind of habitation, breaking a few acres of prairie aud making a start. They have no resources except in the produce of their farms, when their crops fail all is gone. Nothing i3 left but starvation if help from abroad cannot be obtained. A large portion of the crop of 1873 was destroyed bv crasshonners. but r . ..... ... . . . , cnougli was Ielt tlie settlers, oy mortgaging their teams and the expected crop, to reach the harvest of 1874. But just as the first riot uruiu was becinninc to fall by the reaper, their fields were again visited by the pest, against which no foresight could provide and no industry repair. The grass hoppers came in clouds, and the results of a years' hard toil, the sole dependence for living for hundreds of families, were con burned as by fire. The destruction of corn and vegetables was complete, and less than oue-third of the crop of wheat was saved and this must be sold at the low price of 50 cents per bushel to satisfy the mortgages given to carry them over last year, although it represents the last loaf of bread and the last hushel of seed of many a family. And now we find ourselves in a condition that is appalling. More than one-half of the families in this country need assistance. The wants of mauy arc urgent and imme diate. The cold winter is upon them, their clothing and bedding are scant and worn out ; they have uo fuel but the wild hay of the prairie ; they are in want of food ; they are in want of all those things that in older communities are called the necessaries of j life ; they arc remote from tailway com munication, hence, hut a meagre, portion of the generous contributions that have uiready been made has reached them, a portion wholly inadequate to their wants ; they cannot borrow of their neighbors for they are hundreds of miles from the re gions of abundant harvests ; they cannot go elsewhere for they have no means wherewith to go ; they have no where else to go for this is their home. Although they are in distress they are not discour aged. O-.V believe that this scourge is ouly temporary ; another iuvasion is not anticipated. If the settlers can live through the winter, and in the spring ob tain seed, grain and feed for their teams, they will sow a wider breadth than ever before, aud, having a soil of wonderful fer tility, they exjcct to reap a harvest that will lift them out of their present uofortu- , amidst the wildest excitement ana cninu natc condition. In behalf of these families j siasm. who have been reduced to want and suffer-' ing through no fault of their own, we ap- j peal to the generous of our own State and of other localities to contribute somcthiug to preserve their lives and relieve their sufferings. Contributions of food, clothing, boots and thoes, fuel, com, &c, should be directed to P. J. Kniss, Chairman of Rock County Relief Committee, Lu Verne, Mien., via Worlhiugton. Contributions of money should be sent direct to him, at Lu Verne, by draft, P. O. money order, or registered letters, and they will be thank fully received, promptly acknowledged, and faithfully distributed. Rock County Relief Committee P. J. Kniss, W. O. Crawford, T. P. Grout. County Commissioners C. A. Reynolds, J. H. Furgeson, E. T. Sheldon. Chairman of the town boards of Super visors James Marshall, W. F. Brown, Q. Lovelund, Ncla Jacobsou, C. A. Reynolds, A. R. Ladd, James Mitchell, Seth Mitchell. Herman Ohs. The Democratic officials of the House at Harrisburg, have discharged a number of colored women who have been employed to scrub and cleen up about the hall, and replace them with white women. One of the discharged negro women, a poor old gray haired creature, was passing out of the hall or entry between the committee rooms, after being turned off, aud when opposite the door of the room assigned to the Speaker of the Senate, on the Senate side of lh! building, she happened to look in and see the portrait of Abraham Lincoln hanging on the wall. Pausing to gaze on it a moment shcexclai.ned, 'Well, you has Abraham on His side still !' Ala? ! there is no trace of him to lie found on the other side. The election of Mr. Wallace to the Senate of the United States gratifies a life long and cherished ambition, for which laborious days have bw-n sacrificed. It is understood that his political career has centered upon the idea of climbing into the honorable position he has reached at last. Few out of politics know how much is en volvcd in such an effort. To suddenly leap from obscurity into public promin ence and honor is a pcicc of good fortune that comes of luck. But when a man sets out to work his way to position, iu politics, where so many aspirants are in waiting, involves tireless energy and uufailiflg sagacity. We are uot Mr. Wallace.s chron iclers, but their is a chance, just here' for mauy a good word in his favor. Pitfcborg fjn-etle. The Republicans of Connecticut, like their brethren in New Hampshire, have spoken out boldly, faithfully and emphati cally, in their States Convention, in sup port of the President in his luisiana po licy, and their action is confirmation of what we have all along contended for, viz : that when the Republicans of the country could find opportunity to speak, they would be uninfluenced by the cowardly example set them by the leaders of public sentiment in New York. Connecticut is little more, territorially, than an appendage of New York. The two arc intimately connected, socially and commercially, and the color of Connecticut polities is almost insensibly tinged by this close contact. But in this instance the staid old Commonwealth has proved her self greater than her metropolitan asso ciates. I:i the next Congress there wiil be four times as many Members who fouht in the rebel army as their will be of those who fought on the Uniou side. We are making splendid strides towards putting the old rebels in the ascendent. It will soon be necessary for a person who was on the Union side to apologize for having been so, if he wants any favorable public recogni tion. The N. Y. Tribune lias permitted a correspondent to suggest through its columns the assassination of President ! (irant and (ieneral Sherman. The rebels iand Coperbeads, during the reoeuion, Wt-JU iluJL'ra coin and Stanton. They are always the most violent againBt those who are doing most to defeat their violent and treasonable schemes. Telegraphic News. TEX X ESSE:. THE SENATORIAL EXCITEMENT BATES WITHDRAWN AND BROWN PUT UP. Nashville, January 23. The Houses met ui convention at noon. The galleries and lobby were crowded aud the excite ment was inteusc among the friends of the different candidates. Speaker Hainu, of the Senate, on taking the chair anil calling the convention to order announced that during the balloting of the convention to day, the strictest order and decorum in th gallaries and lobby must be observed ; that upon the slightest disturbance by applause or other demonstration, the convention would either rise or cease balloting until such measures as would protect its dignity could be adopted and put in force, aud that if order could not be obtained here the con veution would move to some other city in the State where order was more respected. The convention then proceeded to take the forty-ninth ballot : Johnson 42, Bates 47, Ewing 7, scattering 2 ; necessary to a choice 40. Fiftieth and fifty-first ballots resulted : Johnson 44, Bates 47, Ewing 7, scattering 2. Fifty-second ballot: John son 43, Bates 40, Ewing 7, Sneed 1. Fifty third and last ballot : Johnson 44, Bates 46, Ewing 9, Sneed 1. Governor Brown was then renominated, amidst cheers and excitement. General Bates was withdrawn immediately after the nomination of Gov ernor Brown, which seemed to he the sig nal for renewed applause in the galleries for their favorites ; and, amidst the great est excitement and confusion on the floor and cheers and applause for Brown and Johnson from th galleries, the President 1 of the convention declared it adjourned, j ordered the Senators to repair to their chamber and left the chair. As soon as order was established, the House was call ed to order by Speaker Bond and adjourned till ten o'clock to-morrow. The general opinion is that the race is narrowed down between Johnson and Brown, to be decided on the first ballot to-morrow. The friends of both gentlemen are sanguine of success. The Senatorial Contest. EX-PRESIDENT ANDREW JOHNSON ELECT ED IN TENNESSEE THE VOTE ON TnE LAST BALLOTS. Nashville, Teun., Jan. 26. The Leg islative joint convention met at noou. Governor Brown refused to have his name again presented before the convention. Gustavus A. Henry, William H. Stephens, and D. Key were placed in nomination. The fifiy-fourth ballot resulted as follows : Johnson, 47 ; Henry, 13 ; Stephens, 24 ; Key, 4 ; Ewing, 11. Necessary to a choice, 50. The fifty-fifth ballot was then taken with the following result : Johnson, 52 ; nenry, 11 ; Stephens, 23 ; Kej-, 3 ; Ewjng, 9. The president then declared Andrew j Johnson elected United States Senator, enthusiasm AND EXCITEMENT AT NASHVILLE. Nashville, Jan. 26. The enthusiasm and excitement over the election of Hon. Andrew Johnson to the United States Senate is beyond description. To-nigbt he made a thirty minutes' speech to op wards often thousand people in the public square, announcing his adherence to De mocratic principles as set forth in his administration of the Government and former speeches. Rumors were circulated ou the streets aud in the hotels this after noon that Mr. Johnson had made conces sions to the Republican members of the Legislature for their votes, but he denies J most emphatically having made concessions I ; r j 'u';r J - Biaiiuiuy Willi tut; Jiut.i uaumuaics v. ' j-.rvvf !inn n r. A eiifo tVii lift watt f inntt1 upon the broad platform of the Constitu tion, aud the administration oi uie laws as enunciated by the National Democracy. the news at washinqton. Washington, Jan. 26. The telegram received at the Capitol from Nashville this afternoon announcing the election of An drew Johnson to the Senate occasioned much joy among the Democrats, while some of the Republicans said they were satisfied in view of the fact that be had defeated the ex-Confederates who contested the honor. The election is the subject of comment every where, and not a few pre dict that he will be a lively member of the Senate, and very annoying to his political opponents. Johnson is the only ex-Presi dent ever elected to the Senate, and, be sides, he is the only ex-President now liv ing. EURNSIDE SUCCESSFUL IN RHODE ISLAND. Providence. R. I., Jan. 26. When both houses of the Legislature met in joint convention to-day Mr. Dixon withdrew his name as candidate for United Slates Sena tor. Lieutenant Governor Van Zandt, who supported Dixon, then voted for Burn side, who was elected oh the first ballot, re ceiving 02 votes. Barstow received 16, Brown 12, Sheffield 6 Hart 3, and 5 scat tering. Trouble Urewlug in Florida. Tallahassee, Jan. 25. The Senate met to-day at 10 A. M., with no quorum present, ail the Republican members ab senting themselves for the purpose of pre venting any of their number from beiug unseated. The sergeant-at-arms, with as sistants who were appointed temporarily by the president, was instructed to arrest the absentees aud bring them before the bar of the Senate, and, proceeding in this duty, one of the assistants was lired on by Senator Parliu. of Pensacola, who alleges, however, that he was first fired on by the assistant sergeant-at-arms, Tengle. Three shots were fired ; uobody was hurt. Considerable excitemeut ensued, and the matter was reported to the Senate. A resolution was offered calling on Gov ernor Stearns to furnish military to compel the presence of the absentees, but the reso lution was voted down by a vote of 4 to 3, aud a committee was appointed to investi gate the whole matter. Balloting for United States Senator, to succeed Gilbert, commences to-morrow. The legislature of Florida has been in session for twenty days, and but oue bill passed to a second reading. EOUSIAXA. THE CONGRESSIONAL INVESTIGATION. New Orleans, January 25. The Con gressional Committee is still investigating the action of the Returning Boards. The evidence to-day was about the same as that given before the sub-committee. Whit taker, Arroyo, and others were examined, and the Secretary of State was required to furnish the papers that were before the Re turn Board. The McEuryites have again proposed to submit the 1872 election to the arbitration of the Congressional Commit tee. Speaker Ilahn does not believe the Re publicans, if they had the power, would submit to the plan proposed by the caucus resolution of the Conservatives, that the Congressional Committee now iu New Or leans take the returna and declare who were elected to the Legislature, Fire in the Xavy Department. Washington, D. C. Jan., 23. 1875. The Navy Department caught fire in the upper story about half-past twelve o'clock to-day, and spread rapidly, but was con fined to the floor on which it originated. The rooms were stored generally with re cords. The upper floor was completely flooded with water, and many of the re cords have been seriously damaged. Near ly all the Bureau officers and Chiefs of Divisions made preparations for removing the books and records from their respective offices in the event of the spreading of the flames. Some of the employees and officers of the navy on duty in the building were in danger of suffocation while attempting to remove valuable records. An investigation shows that the building is as much damaged by water as by flames. It is thought the fire originated by a de fective flue, as the room in which it was first discovered was unoccupied. Nearly all the papers destroyed can be re-supplied. The Secretary's office proper, in the wing of the main building, was not damaged, though every preparation was made for removing the furniture and official papers. hTscoxsix. Chicago, January 25. The Times'' Ma dison (Illinois) special says the Senatorial opposition caucus to-night nominated Gen Ed. Bragg, of Fon du Lac, on the first ballot, the vote standing : Bragg, 37 ; II. S. Orton, 12 ; J. S. Sloan, 1. The nomi nation was then made unanimous. NEW JERSEY. Trenton, N. J., January 25. George M. Robeson, Secretary of the Navy, was nominated by the Republicans in joint cau cus to-night for United States Senator. Correspondence. OI R XEW YORK LETTER. BEECH ER-TILTON BEECIIEU'S TRACTICS THE FRENCH MASKED BALL THE UNION LEAGUE RECEPTION THE WEA THER ICE FISK BUSINESS. New York, Jem. 2tf, 1S75. TILTON-BEECHER. x amiliar words r Will the writer ever get done writing them, and will the public ever be done reading them ? Let us hope so. The trial drags its' slow length along, but nothing new has been thus far dc veloped. Frank Moulton is on the grid iron, but all it has amounted to thus far is, he has sworn to the truth of what ho before asserted without swearing to it. The court-room is packed and jammed all the time, though what people co there for, is more than I can divine. True, the best legal talent of the state is employed iu the case ; and true it is that, Beecher, Tilton, Moulton, Mrs. Beecher, Mrs. Tilton, and divers other celebrities can lie seen there every day, but all this ought not to uttract such throngs. All these people have been seen before, and the time for the battle of the legal giants has not yet arrived. But notwithstanding, the court-room is crowd ed, and will continue to be. THE BEECHER TACTICS. The Beecher party evidently iuteud to break Tilton's case by showing that he (Tilton) has been a naughty man in his day, and has been guilty of too mauy gallantries. They may impeach him in this way, pos sibly, and secure the legal acquittal of Beecher is to be helped thereby. What Tilton charges against Beecher is to be proved, if proved at all, outside of his state ments. Beecher may show him to have been as bad as could be, but how does that disprove the charge agaiust Beecher ? Mr. Beecher is on trial before the world, not before that court. What he has got to do to preserve bis standing is to show, not that another man is guilty in infidelities, but that he is innouent. If he should show that Theodore Tilton had lived the life of a Rochester, it would do him no good, un less he can also show that he has lived the life of an anchorite. So far, I am in can dor bound to confess Beecher has the worst of it. Moulton has stood like iron to the statements made in thepublic prints here tofore, and the cross-questioners have not been able to shake him in the least. Still, all concerned are anxious. Tilton shows the wear and tear of the past terrible year, and so does Beecher, though not to the same degree. Tilton is of a nervous tem perament, while Beecher 13 stolid and steady. Beecher can stand wear and tear better than Tilton. It will be a long and tedious trial, aud will accupy months. THE FRENCH MASKED BALL. The Freueh Masked Ball, the 21st, at the Academy of Music, was, as usual, a scene of headlong gayety and audacious fun. It is always the wildest revel that society can tolerate, but efforts were made this year to preserve sufficient decorum to allow the presence of ladies of good stand ing, who have formerly felt obliged to deny their curiosity, in the interests of taste. The sight of drunken opera girls, in brief ballet dresses, sprawling over the partitions of their boxes, was too much even for fash ionable sensibilities, and it was deemed prudent to order carriages by midnight, leaving the opera bouffe companies and pretty French milliners in possession, who kept wild revel till six in the morning. The gayest of dauce music, from an orchestra of one handred performers, the novel im personations, aud charming French toilets were attractions which crowded the Acade my as it is crowded but once a year at the repetition of these balls. The characters were not so new as beautiful, the bacchante crowned with vine clusters and leaves, a gold cup iu her hand, a Spanish girl with gold and purple skirt, black lace mantilla, and fan, and high comb, queens and gip sies, an apo covered with fur," and a fiend iu flame color and black, who whirled in the waltz, holding an angel with wings of down in his arms. A family of profession al dancers made their first appearance here in two uew carnival dances, aud there was a mock reception of the king of the Sand wich Islands, aud a. lottery, which the French delight in, was drawn, giving prizes of diamonds, a gold watch and chain, be side sums of money, to the holders of tick ets. The taste and brilliance oi these balls renders them the delight of fast New York, which likes to encounter the fun aud aband on of all the opera companies a short range. THE UNION LEAGUE RECEPTION. In e'ontrast to this entertainment, which throws the mantle of broadest charity over all who enti r its doors, the most select ladies' reception, held annually by the Union league, is given at their showy club-house, on the corner of Madison square. Not ten private houses in New York have the room or the resources to en tertain on a truly great scale, and the club receptions supply the splendor which so ciety craves. The balls of tho rich Union League are high-dressed affairs, when white silks that stand alone, round point flounces and strings of pearh have it their own way in the balls of the spacious club house, whose wide drawing and dining rooms, theatre, and picture-gallery, and i v?ide stair-cases ore the nearest approach to palatial brilliance of anything the city has to boast. There the most stylish and ambitious girl3 of the city, in toilets of un impeachable elegance, will promenade the wide corridors on the nrms of millionaires. maj r-generals, and managing politicians. The sight will be an instructive one. The serious, stern-lipped man, to whom most deference will be paid for his weanh and influence, who speaks of the house of " as we do of the house of Rothschild, began his career here as a shop-keeper in Green wich street, where he sold the most honest six penny-worths in the city, and first drew custom by the basket of lace remnants always found on his counters. The thin, worn-out young man, who promenades carelessly with the prettiest belles, is a stock-broker who inherited millions. At thirty he has exhausted life, and spends money for pleasure in a loose-handed, cyni cal way. His mistress, to whom he is in different, has 530,000 a year spent upon her and laid away a small fortune of about 8200,000 against the day when he tires of her utterly, on which she will emigrate, play the role of rich widow, and marry re spectably. The leader of society, whose velvets trial as negligently as if she had been born to them, and whose fine looks well become her deep laces, was the daugh ter of a poor mechanic. The other day an old schoolmate sat hours in the rich wo man's luxurious morning-room, among her carvings, inland woods, aud Turkey car pets, thinking of the time when she, with other school girls, well born and bred, looked down on the idea of associating with the shoemaker's daughter. Now she waited, cold, fatigued, and wet, an unre cognized reporter for items about the Aca demy ball, of which madanie was to shine as as lady manager. THE WEATHER. Has been very cold for this section of the world, particularly up the Hudson. Satur day morning the East River was packed with ice so firmly that people crossed on it by the thousands rather than wait the slow motion of the ferry boats. This makes the third time this has happened for twenty years. The poor are suffering terrible from this excessive cold, aud deaths are occurring daily aud nightly from cold and starvation. Work is scarce and wages are low, half the laborers in the city are working on half time, and the extreme cold makes living higher than ever. How anxiously they look for the coming of spriug, and how slow the cold days pass will come too late for many of them. A LITTLE REMNANT OF FISK. Jim Fisk is dead, but his work survives. The Erie Railroad Company is puzzling its wise head to know what to do with the Grand Opera House, which was the scene of Fisk's wild revels. Fisk bought the Opera House of Pike with mouey that he stole from the company, then he leased all but the theatre part of it to the company for ?76,O0O per annum. The theatre and the rooms attached he wanted for his bevy of harlots, and therein he held the wildest orgies that this or any other country ever saw. He had the entire seventies of the company to draw from, and he made things lively till Stokes cat bim down. Now the company have resumed their old offices, the Opera House is empty, and what to do with it is a conundrum. It is about the last relic of one of the boldest bad men the world ever saw. BUSINESS is dull as dull can be in most lines, though why, it would puzzle the oldest man to ex plain. The country is full of money and the city banks are packed with it. One would suppose that with plenty of money people would buy as many coats, bonnets, boots and shoes as ever, and they would drink as niuch tea and coffee as ever ; but they don't, and consequently business is dull. There are no count ry merchants in the city, aud everything is blue. Well, it must re vive sometime, and the business men are waiting and hoping. May the change come soon. Pietro. VKXEKAL XEUN ITEHH. A snow-slide in the mountains near Genoa, Nevada, buried forty Chinamen woodcutters and twenty-eight were killed. Alfonso was officially proclaimed King of Spain in Cuba on Saturday by Captain General Concha, in public, in presence of the aldermen and civil and military au thorities. The ceremony took place in Isa bella Park. The royal standard was dis played. The Senate Committee on Territories will report in favor of forming a new Terri tory out of the northern half of Dakota, to be called Pembina, with the capital at Bis marck. Plymouth is about to introduce gas, and Geo. B. Renn, of Sunbury, has received the contract to erect the works. Senator Morton's proposed amendment providing for a direct vote on President and Vice President, thus dispensing with the Electoral College seems, very likely to pass Congress and be submitted to the Legisla tors. It inon-partisau. and will proba bly be adopted. Henry L. Dawes, the newly elected Sen ator, is a native of Cummington, Massa chusetts, where also were bom William Cullen Bryant, the poet, and Luther Brad ish, a former Lieutenant Governor of New York. Mr. Dawes is a relative of Hon. Tristam Burgess, a distinguished Con gressman from Rhode Island , wfco was said to bo the only man in Congress of whom John Randolph stood in fear. Hon. John II. Walker, Presideut of the late Constitutional Convention of this State, died at his residence in Erie on Mon day morning. He had been in foeble health for ome months. A Swindler in traveling through Penn sylvania representing that he is a Govern ment afficer authorized to search their premises for counterfeit money. He secured 82000 in this way from a widow lady, who had just sold her farm, from the proceeds of which the fellow picked the S2000 and condemned it as counterfeit. He was afterwards captured and made to disgorge but escaped punishmeni by giving his cap tors the slip. War is rumored to have been declared between Montenegro and Turkey. There has been a long standing feud between the Montenegrins and Turks, owing to tha en croachments of the latter on the rights claimed by the former. Turkey is much the stronger, and has already dealt hardly in war with the other. The importance of the contest, however, is the belief that other and greater Powers will become in volved. The National Brotherhood of Locomo tive Engineers has inaugurated a reform whose benefical eflects may, it is to be hoped, presently be felt throughout the entire country. Engineers, who are addic ted to the use of iutoxicating liquors when on duty are forthwith to be expelled from the society. The new movement on the part of the Brotherhood is a most commen dable one, and will be appreciated not only by the railroad companys, but by the trav eling public. An association whose mem bers have the lives of the public in their hands has certainly co use for bibulous and intemperate men. Two hundred and four railroad passen gers were killed, and nine hundred and seventy-eight injured in this country last year, against two hundred and seventy six killed and twelve hundred and eighty- three injured in 1373. This is a decrease of about one-fourth. Doubtless the number will continue to diminish as improvements in rails, machinery, switches and signals shall be made. Beecher's trial drags slowly along and it may require a month yet before it will be completed. The cross-examination of Moulton is one of the most extraordinary proceedings that has evec taken place in a court of justice. Three lawyers take turn about to break down his evidence or his body, but thus far they have not succeeded. W. A. McGrier' Hazleton Dr. B. H. Detwiler, Williamsport ; Alexander J. Frick, Danville, have been appointed by Gov. Hartranf; trustees of the hospital for the insane, at Dauville, for the term of three years. cto AObcrtismcnts. T HE FINANCIAL CONDITION OF TUB nuROL'GII OF Nl'XBCBY. Statement made pursuant to tbe provisions of an aci oi Assemoiy entitled "An Act to regulate the niauner of increasing the indebtedness of municipalities, to provide for redemption of the Biime, and to impose penalties for Hie Illegal In crease thereof" approved 20th April, 1S74. FUNDED DEBT. Bounty bond to J. B. Packer (estima ted.) SI, 100 00 Bond to George VrViser, 2S0 00 Coupon bonds of 1807, bearing interest ut 7 percent., semi nnnnailv, matur ing 1st Nov., 1877, bonds, Nos. 3 and 11, each for 500, $1,000 23 bonds, Nos. 1, 2, 3, 4. 5. 6. 8, 9, 10. 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 18, 19, 20, 31, 22, 23, and 26, 2,200 Coupons due and unpaid (est ima ted.) 252 Araouut of bonds of 1867, 13,453 00 Uoupon bonds or 18 .j, bearing interest at 7 per eent., semi-annually, matur ing 1st May, 1873, 135,000 authoriz ed. 19 bonds, Nos. 1 to 19 inclusive, each I,000, $19,000 19 bonds, Nos. 21 to 36 inclusive, each $500, 8,000 50 bonds, Nos. 37 to 86 inclusive, each $100, 3,000 40 bonds, Nos. 87 to 126 inclu sive, each $50, 2,000 $34,000 Coupons due and unpaid (esti timated.) 2,716 Amount of bonds of 1S73. $36,716 00 Aggregate of funded debt, $41,549 00 FLOATING DEBT. Boroneh orders issued or outstanding 31st March. 1874, pt-r last report. $7,012 40 Boron 2 li orders to alst March, is, 4, ernnted but not l.ikeu out. per last report, 463 01 Bori, ordre; unpai l M;r. 31. '74, $7,475 41 Borough orders granted and is sued from 31st March, 1S74 to 22nd Jan lt75, $7,405 83 Berouirh orders granted dur ing same time and not tak en ont, 529 43 7,733 26 Aggregate of boroiigh orders, ?15,20S 67 Boro. orders canceled on Jan. 22, l75, 9,071 17 Boro. orders outstanding Jan. 23, '75, $6,13 Poor orders outstanding per last report on March 31, 1374, Kant -Ward, $713 2t Do West Ward, 1,535 20 $2,247 41 Poor orders granted from March 3174. to Jan. 22, '75, in clusive E. Ward, $1,681 15 50 Do West Ward, 2,230 61 -$3,911 76 Aggregate of poor ord's,$6,159 17 Poor ord. cancel'd Jan 22,'75 2,341 67 Poor orders ontstand'g Jan. 23, '75, 2,814 50 Aggregate floating debt, $8,952 00 ACTUAL INDEBTEDNESS. Funded debt, $41,549 00 Floating debt, 00 Aggregate of actual debt, $50,500 00 ASSETS, with the nature and character. Balance due from D. Helm, late hief Bnrgcss, . $140 00 PAVEMENT I.! INS. Boro. vs. Amelia Fisher, do Hendricks, do da do do do J. B. Maser, do do do David Qninn et a! 636 : REST Or WITARVIS. Grant & Brr., J. Haas & Co,, James Bovd, Val. Dcltz, $50 00 50 00 70 00 10 00 180 00 Uncollected taxi-s ot 1S73, subject to exoneration and commission, Uncollected taxes of 1874, subject to exoneration and commission, . 1,001 12 10,940 89 Amount of Assets on Jan. 23, 1875,' $13,119 94 Valuation of taxable property in the borough of Sunbury, according to the last adjusted coun ty assessment and valuation. In West Ward, $227,250 CO In East Ward, 247.825 00 Aggregate valuation, $473,075 00 NET INDEBTEDNESS. Amount of gross debt, funded and floating 850,500 00 Amount of assets on Jan. 23, 1875. 13,118 94 Amt. of act'l iudebt'ness Jan. 23, '73, $37,381 06 The foregoing stafetueut is prepared and pub lished iu accordance with a resolution of tbe Bo rough Council, passed the 18th day of January, A. D. IMS. W.I GREENOUGII. JOHN HAAS, JOHN BO WEN', Finance Committee. Sunbury, P.i., Jan. 2'., 1875. Qver Thirty-four Competitors 'A-rJS MfaT T.T "TsOTICE to the Heirs and Legal Representa tives of Charles Heilraan, late of the bo rough of Snnbnry, Northumberland county, Pa., deceased. TAKE NOTICE That an Inquest will be heidou the premises of Charles Heilman, deceased, in the borough of Snnbury, county of Northumber land aforesaid, on WEDNESDAY, the 21th day of FEBRUARY, A. D. 1875, at 10 o'clock, iu the forenoon of that day, to value and divide certain real estate of said deceased, to wit : a certain messuagi; or two lots of ground, sitnate in the borongb of Sunbury county of Northumberland, and Slate of Pennsylvania, bounded and described as follows, to wit : fronting on Market street, and bounded on the west by an alley, on the north by land of Mrs. Rosetta Dcwart, on the east by a lot of Sebastian Houpt, deceased, and being one hun dred and twenty feet, or thercabont, in front on Market street, and two hundrec. and fifty feet, or thereabouts, io depth ; whereon is erected a one and one-half story frame honse, and stable, oeing a part of outlot nnmber thirty-seven, on the general plan of said borough, to and among his heirs and Irgal representatives, if the same can be done without prejudice to, or spoiling the whole thereof, otherwise to value and appraise the same aeoording to law, at which time and place you arc requested to alteud if yon think proper. S. II. ROTHERMEL, SherhX Sheriff's Office, Snnbnry, Jan. 20, 1875. 3t. $298 80 81 24 137 54 75 07 103 57 73 60 S6 11 VTiiroafinnr " ptto Sbbcrlisnwnis. JANUARY STATEMENT OF MILTON School District. Milton. Pa., iu acrorrinnfe with the Act of Assembly, passed April 30th. A. NO FUNDED NOR FLOATING DEBT. C ASH ASSETS. Cash on baud Juue 1, 1874, S41S 06 State appropriation fur 1873, 48 07 Rnt, 10 0O Collected on duplicate of 1873, 6U5 C3 Collected on dnpliry.tes of 1374, 1 563 et Less orders paid inee Jnne 1, 1874, 2,2yS 43 Leaving cush ou hand Jan. 27, 1875, $733 34 DUE THE BOARD. Balance dne on duplicate of 1873, less commission and exonerations S99? nr. Balance due on duplicate of 1874, ies commission aud exonerations, 2,221 51 Total assets of Board, oat of which salaries ot teachers and contingent expenses mudt be paid, $3,187 71 School property estimated at $12,000 00 Assessed value of Borough property, 376,494 00 THOMAS R. HULLPres't. L. M. Morton, Sec'y. Milton, Jan. 27, 1875.-11. riIHE FOLLOWING STATEMENT 13 PCB X lished by the Town Council of the borongh of Northumberland in compliance with the Act of Assembly, passed 20th of April, A. D. 1874 : Boron tch Bonds, maturing may 1st, 1883, bearinc 7 tier cent, interest. . M 600 00 Floating debt j 066 6S tin Rfifi fig Uncollected taxes on Poor and Road duplicates of 18 id and 1874 S4W.7 Rl Funds remaining in the bands of tho thier Burgess, realized from sale of bonds... iu m License fees collected by, and in the hands of the Chief Burgess 21 00 Fees for use of borough scales in hands of Weigh Master... .... 23 00 Valuation of taxable property 323,752 0i eignea, H. C. PAUL, T.J. BTAMM, Finance Committee. Attest D. M. Evats, Clerk. Northumberland, Jan. 29, 1875. Adjourned Court. WHEREAS the Honorable W. M. Rockefel ler, President Jndge, and his Associates, for this District, have issued their mandate for an adjourned Court for Northumberland county, io oe nem on Monday, the d day or February, A. D. 1875, being tbe 4th Monday of said month, and to continue for two weeks, in the borough of Sunbury. I therefore give notice, that all persons interested, to be and appear at the place aforesaid at 10 o'cloek a. m.. of said dav. SAMUEL H. ROTHERMEL, SheritT. Sheriff's Office, 8unbury, Jan. 29, 1875. COURT PROCLAMATION,- Notice is hereby given that the several Courts of Com mon Pleas, General Quarter Sessions of the Peace, and Orphans Court, Court of Oyer and Terminer and General Jail Delivery, in and for the county of Northumberland, will commence at the Court House, in the borough of 8nnbnry, at 10 o'clock A. M., on MONDAY, MARCH the 8th, 1875, and wilt continue two weeks. The Coroner, Justices or the Peace and Consta bles in and for the county of Northumberland are requested to be then and there in their proper persons, with their rolls, records, inquisitions, and other remembrances, to do those things to their several offices appertaining to be done. And all witnesses prosecuting in bena If of toe Com monwealth against any prisoner, are requested and commanded to be then and there attending in their proper persona to prosecute against him as shall be Just and not to depart without leave at their peril. Jurors are requested to be punc tual in their attendance, at the time appointed,. Given under my band at Sunbury, the 25th day of Febrnary in the year of our Lord one thouaad: eight hundred and seventv-flve. SAMUEL H. ROTHERMEL, Sheriff FURNITURE ROOMS I Tbe undersigned begs leave to Inform tbe citi zens of Northumberland county, that he has opened a FIEST (MSSFDMITDBS STOBE, On Market Street, opposite the City Hotel, In Snnbnry, Where he keeps on hand a large assortment of i' U JbrlU JL'X' U JbtlE, Consisting in part of Walsut Parlor Sets, Chamber Sets, Cain Seat Chairs, Wood 8at Chairs, Rocking Chaiks, Dining Tables. Extension Tables. M asble To? Tables, Bcrxacs. Bedsteads, Washstasds, Loitsges, Mattresses, Cupboards, Book Casees, Fanct Brackets, Looking Glasses, Ac. KITCHEO t TK5ITCRE, itC, Jfcc. He will also manufacture to order, on short no tice, any article in his line, if not in store. ne is prepared to offer superior inducements to purchasers. UNDERTAKING A SPECIALTY. Call and examine his stock and prices and be convinced. JACOB HACPT. Jan. 22, 1875, 3 mos. VEGETINE Purifies the Blood, Renovates and Invigo rates the whole System Irs Medical Properties ark ALTERATIVE, TONIC, SOLVENT AND DIURETIC. Vegettsk is made exclusively from the Juices of carefully-selected barks, roots and herbs, and so strongly concentrated, that it will effectually eradicate from the System every taint of Scro fula, Scrofulous Humor, Tumors. Cancer, Can cerous Humor, Erysipelas, Salt Rheum, Syphi litic Diseases, Canker, Falntness at the Stomach, and all diseases that arise from impure blood. Sciatica, Inflaniatory and Chronic Rheumatism, Neuralgia, Gout and Spinal Complaints, can only be eflectnally cured through tbe blood. For Ulcers, aud Eruptive Diseases of tbe Skin Bustules, Pimples, Blotches, Boils, Tetter, Scald head and Ringworm, Vbgetine has never failed to effect a permanent cure. For Pains in the Back, Kidney Complaint, Dropsy, Female Weuknes, Lencorrhom, arising from internal ulceration, and uterine diseasee and General Debility, Vegetink acts directly upon the causes of these complaints. It invigo rates and stregthens tho whole system, acts upon the secretive organs, allay inuamatioa, cnrei ulceration and regulates tb boweU. Fcr Catarrh, Dyspepsia, Habitual Costiveness Palpitation of the Heart, Headache, Piles, Ner vous System, no medicine has ever given snch perfect satisfaction as tbe Vesktine. It parities tbe blood, cleanses ail of the organs, and pos sesses a controlling power over tbe nervous sys tem. The remarkable cures effected by Yegftini have induced many physicians and apotbecariet whom we know to prescribe and use it in tbeii own families. In fact, Veoetine is the best remedy yet dls covered for the above diseases, and is the olj reliable BLOOD PURIFIER yet placed befon the public. PREPARED BY R. H. Stevens, Boston, Mass What is Vegetine) It ia a compound ex traded from barks, roots and herbs. It is Na tures Remedy. It is perfectly harmless fron any bad effect npon the system. It is nouriehin and strengthening. It acts directly upon tb blood. Itqniots the nervous system. It give you good, sweet sleep at night. It la a grea panacea for our aged fathers and mothers ; fc it give tbem strength, quiets their nerves, an gives them Nature's sweet sleep, as has bee proved by many an aged person. It is the grea Flood Pnriticr. 'It Is a soothing remedy for ou children. It has relieved and cured thousand! It is very pleasant to take : every child Uses i' It relieves and cures all diseases originating froi Impure bipod. Try the Vegetine. Give it fal trial for your complaints ; then you will say t your friend, neighbor, and acquaintance, "Ti it : it has cured me." Vegetine for the complaints for which it recommended, is bavins; a larger sale throughoi tbe United States than any other one medicin Why t Vegetine will cure these complaints. VAIVCADrJE: INFORMATIOI Bostoh, Dec. 12, 1869. Gentlemen My only object in giving too V testimonial is to spread valuable in format!. Having been badly afflicted with Salt Rbeu and the whole surface of my skin being cove wtth pimples and eruptions, many of wh. caused nie great pain and annoyance, and s vertised blood preparations, among which w any quantity of SarsapariUa, without obtain! any benefit nntil I commenc.d taking the Vat tine, and before I had completed the first bot I saw that I had got the rlht medicine. C sequcntly, I followed on with it until I b taken seven bottles, when I was pronounced well man, and my skin is smooth and tntir free from pimpls and eruptions. I have ne enjoyed ao good health before, aud I attribute all to the use of Vegetine. To benefit those Dieted with Rheumatism, I will make ment also of the VEOETnsE's wonderful power of e ing me of this acute complaint, of which I h snffererl so intensely. C. II. TUCKER, Pas. Ag't Mich. C. R. R. 6'J Washington street, Bottc Vegetine is Sold January IS. 1ttx by all Druggiefe