H. HASSER, E. W1LVERT. EdiWrs. SUNBURY, FEBRUARY 5, 1S75. Aristocratic Democrats. The De mocrats of old, known in Jefferson '8 time as Republicans were an honest, industrious and independent class of men, who did not believe in sinecures, nr men holdiojz offices without performing their duties. Not so with modern Democrats. Take for in stance in a wnall way, Dr. Dewitt and his deputy transcribing clerk, and our recently elected county Auditor, Mr. Ilotunstine whose Democracy is bo highly concentrated in his own person that he has refused to do a single day's work in auditing the ac counts of tlie county. He says that he was elected not to do the work but to look on and see that it is doue. The result is Mr. Eisely and Mr. Muench, the other two auditors have been obliged to do all the labor, while this hiph priest of Democracy has done nothing but annoy them in the the discharge of their duties. As a tax pay er we protest against any payment being made by the Commissioners to Mr. Hotten stine or any other dumb Auditor. We want no drones in office, or if we must have dummies, let us have stuffed or wooden ones stood up in the corners. They would always be present and have at least the neg ative merit of not annoying those who are at work in performing their duties. If the Democracy did not get possession of an elephant when they elected Mr. Hotten ttine, they at least got hold of an animal with auricular appendages quite as long, and a disposition tea times as stubborn. Oi:r neighbor of the Daily is very fre quently on the pensalional. in order to make political capital. Being afraid that the Democrats will not be able to compete with the Republicans in managing the County affairs, he tries to prepare the way for their escape from censure before they fairly have control. On Saturday last, be published an article intended for a tre mendous scare, in which he says money had already to be borrowed, and that ex travagance by the former board of com missioners, had been as large ns that of the Democratic Board of 1872. That there were "but ?1S,000.00 uncollected taxes to fall back on." On the following Wednes day's Daily this same sensational editor comes down beautifully, and says "the Au ditors have concluded their report, and that the indebtedness of the County, on the first of January last, was $91.9".), aud that the assets over and above this small indebtedness is 2S,O10.40 iu outstanding taxes." His ouly hope for political capital of the county finances now, is in the dumb auditor, Mr. Ilottenstiue, who, he states, will get up a minority report, and that be is a gentleman of sterling integritj', &c. We are inclined to think that Democrats will lose confidence in both the editor and the dumb auditor when that report ap penrs. The two auditors who did the work are gentlemen of sterling integrity, and of largo experience in auditing ac counts. Mr. Eisely, who has always been an unfliccbiug Democrat, has been noted for twenty-five years, by his Democratic friends and others, as one of the best ac countants in the State, and who has hud probably mote experience in auditing coun ty accounts, than any man within its bor ders, and iu whom the people have had the most implicit confidence for honeBty aud correctness in settling up Ihe county af fairs. We will give our neighbor, however, a little benefit for a sensational article, that is, wc acknowledge that we were mistaken as to the county being entirely out of debt, as we find by his figures, that the county owes just 91. 99, with assets to pay it with, ofS2S,010.40. The row in the House at llarrisburg, was prolonged up to Wednesday. The De mocrats tried to get around the difficulty of recognizing the position Mr. Wolf has ta ken, but failed. On Wednesday they cast a vote of censure upon Mr. Wolf, and thus endorsed and justified the Speaker's bigot ry, and partisan unfairness. The blow is not at Mr. Wolf it is at the party of which Mr. Wolf is an active, vigilant aud un flinching supporter. Mr. Wolf is one of the most wido awake Republicans in the House, and his ability and experience as a Legislator is so far above that of the Speaker, and Democratic side of the House, that soaiething had to be attempted to trample him down. But their attempt has only served to how that an incompetent Speaker has managed to degrade the Leg islature. It would be well now if De mocrats, as they afe in the majority, were to instruct the committee on revising the new Constitution, to embody a new section, or pass an act making it compulsory for teachers of schools to teach their scholars parliamentary rules, or compel such school teachers who may be ambitious for a spea kership or presiding officer, to take lessons themselves before they are eligible to such a position. Had such a law been in force betbre the late election of Speaker of the House, this disgrace upon our Common wealth would undoubtedly have been avoid ed. A the Democratic party pretends to be a relortu party,' we look to tbeni to pass such an act, at an early day, to prevent any similar occurrences in the fu ture. The IIkv. Mr. Domer, lately of Sha mokin, wow a rceident of Washington city, writes to the Shamokin Times, from which w extract the following : Noi withstanding the deviltries of 'Cred it Mobilier, 'Pacific Mail Subsidies,' &c, there are some excellent men iu both Houses of Congress, and among both par ties ; but the uumber of such is not alarm ingly large. One of the members for whom 1 have a very high regard and warm jer sonal respect is the Hon. J. B. Packer from Your own Congressional district. I bad a very pleasant interview with him a few days ago. He is a workxo member, and art honorable, high minded gentleman. A district honors itself in Bending such a re- fresentative to Congress. We have not icard a brcath of suspicion agaiust his integrity aud purity amid all the rumors of corruption which have found currency in the land. Wc write thus outside of any jMjiitical considerations; out of personal respect for the man, and his meritorious career in the Congress of the United Stages." The Ixsane at Danville. Ye have received the annual report of the Trustees and Superintendent of the Danville Hospi tal far the Insane, for the year ending Sept. 30. 1874, from which we learn that the num ber of patients at that date were two hun bredand thirty-eight, an increas during the year of sixty-nine, of whom thirty-seven were transferred, from the llarrisburg asylum. "The board of trustees ask an appropria tion Pf SlCOV.KiO to complete the building, oiaintaui the hospital, for the erection of additional outbuildings, and for insurance. In view of the rapid increase of the num ber of insane ID onr commonwealth, humanity requires that suitable accommo dations ahould be provided for all these unfortunates, where they jjaay receive the proper medical attention, asvd the money oeeded for this purpose will not be grudg ingly given by ,be beople. if judiciously upended. I From t Ue Ha rrisbu rg Tdrgraph of T u csda y la t. Kpeaker PatterNon Disgraced. Last night there took place in the House of Representatives one of the most exciting scenes that has been witnessed in that bod)' for many a day. It arose out of a b:ise and partisan attempt of the inexperienced and hot-headed Speaker of that body to trample on the constitutional rights of a minority member, and the cool and .fixed determination of the member in question Wolfe, of Union to resist such lawless and unwarranted usurpation. The facts are substantially as follows : Mr. Talley, of Delaware county, made a motion that the petition of sundry citizeus of Iancastcr county, questioning the quali fications of Mr. Rosenmiller, of said coun ty, to a seat in the House, be taken up from the table and referred to the Commi tee on Elections. The point of order was raised by Mr. Leigh, of Philadelphia, that this could not be done because the petitiou was presented and the motion laying it on the table was made before the members had been sworn in and the House organized, aud that therefore it was not a part of its proceedings nor in its possession. The Speaker, Mr. Patterson, decided against the point of order. An appeal was taken. After considerable discussion, and not withstanding the advancement of unan swerable arguments in support of the appeal, the Democratic side the Speaker, contrary to all propriety, voting in itupport of his own riding with but two dissenting votes Baructt, and Carsou, of Pittsburg all honor to the intelligence, honesty and manly independence of these two men voted to sustaiu the erroneous ruling of the Chair. During the discussion of this point of order, the Speaker, Mr. Patterson va cated the chair, and placed Mr, Lusk of Butler couuty, therein. Mr. Wolfe, after the yeas and nays had been called, but before they were announc ed, arose and informed the Chair that he proposed to raise and that he would pro ceed to write out the point of order, that as the taking up and referring of the peti tion was, tinder the circumstances, sub stantially and origiual presentation of the petition, and that as the order for prescnta-1 tion of petitions had been passed it would take a two-third vote to suspend the rules for the purpose of receiving the etition. The acting Speaker, Mr. Lusk, announced the yeas and nays aud declared the deci sion of the Chair in the original point of i order sustained by a majority vote. Mr. Wolfe then presented his appeal as to its requiriug a two-third vote in the form of a stated point of order, which was read by the clerk. He then proceeded to speak in support of his position, when Mr. Talley interrupted him by raising the point of order that Mr. Wolfe's point of order was uot properly before the House. The ! acting Speaker, Mr. Lusk, over-ruled Mr. Talley'e point of order, and Mr. Wolfe was proceeding to speak in support of his point of order, when Speaker Patterson, in a hasty and excited maimer, resumed the chair and called Mr. Wolfe to order and insisted on his taking his seat. This Mr. Wolfe refused to do, insisting that he had the right to raise the poiut of order that the point of order was before the House, and that he had the right, secured to him by the Constitution and rules of the House, to be heard iu support of his position. Speaker Patterson vehemently insisted on his sitting down. Mr. Wolfe as determin edly persisted in asserting his right to the floor. The Sttaler then ordered the Ser-geant-at-orm to remove Mr. Wolfe from Ve hall The sergeant-at-arms approached Mr. Wolfe in a respectful manner, and request ed him to sit down. Mr. Wolfe, in a firm but gentlemanly manner,toId him he would be obliged to iusist upon his rights. By this time there was a general rush towards Mr. Wolfe's desk, and an unanimous, united and fierce voice went up from the Republican side, protesting against the outrage and declaring that Mr. Wolfe should not be removed. For awhile there was a considerable jostling, holding and pushing by the members and officers by each other, but no violence was used. The wildest uproar and confusion prevailed. Amid this excitement Mr. Wolfe, keeping remarkably cool, urged his friends instead of interfering with the scrgcant-at-arms directly, to insist on the Speaker retracting his order to the Sergeat at-arms to remove j bim. ! The Speaker, finding himself in a fearful j "hornets' nest," extricated himself from ! his very unpleasant dilemma. This ended an affair, which, in addition to the disgrace and fearful pecuniary loss which an incom-' peteut aud bitterly partisan Speaker is now ! heaping on our proud old Commonwealth, might have stained his soul by culminating in the irreparable loss of many precious lives. Mr. Wolfe teas it the right, and deserves the gratitude of every true patriot in the Commonwealth for having the nerve to insist that the rights guaranteed to the minority by the Constitution and rules of the House should be maintained at all hazards. Many a man, of softer stuff, might have allowed the domineering aud self-conceited Speaker of the House of Re presentatives to play the pretty Xero, by riding "rough shod" over his own and his party's rights, but any one who knows Wolfe, of Union, knows that his love of right and justice and his matchless courage would not permit him tamely to submit to such an oultagc. Let the Democratic Press aud Democra tic Legislation and Conventions through out the land for once withhold their dolef ul notes of sympathy from the poor, down trodden whites of Louisiana. Let them cease their prating about the usurpation, tyranuy and Ciesaristn of Grant and Sheri dau. I jet them for a single moment forget the fearful wrong newly perjwtrated by an arrogant majority in the Halls of Congress. Ix;t centralization and Stale rights rest from their increasing conflict. Throw wide open the coiumns of your papers, let your rostrums reaound with eloquent con gratulations that Pennsylvania's House of Representatives, instead of having its sacred precincts barbarously invaded and its pride humiliated by a squad of soliiers in blue coats and brass buttons, should be permitted to bow her humble neck to the foot of the Royal Monarch from Allegheny, and have all its function clogged by the irresistible aud jack ass will of the wise and noble pedagogue of Ewalt college. There was a lively time iu the Phila delphia city Convention to nominate Police Magistrates, on Wednesday of last week. They stirred up great Democratic enthusi asm, such as has never been equalled by the Fourth Ward crowd. It was a rowdy body from the beginning, and knocking down and dragging out wa9 the order of the day. One unfortunate Democrat who was waltzing around in a delirium of De mocratic enthusiasm was hurled out of a second story window. Sam. Josephs, Bill McMullin, and their crowd, were the masters of the situation. But then Demo crat are a "Reform" party, and of course it is all right. Senator Conkling SrEECii. Senator Conkling's speech on the Liouisiana ques tion begun in the Senate on Tuesday last, was one of his best ever delivered. Dis regarding all questious involving the higher law, that of self-preservation and liberty he met the Democratic champions on their ground and put them to fliyht. On Friday the Senate resumed the considera tion of the resolution of Mr. Schurz, in structing the Judiciary Committee to in quire what legislation by Congress iu ne cessary to secure to the people of Louisiana the right of self-government under the Con stitution. Mr. Conkliug resumed the floor and said, in the observations which he had the honor to submit to the Senate yesterday, it was his object to set forth events which were enacted in Xew Orleans touching the or ganization of the Senate that the President was a stranger to the whole proceedings then, and not aware of them until they were over ; secondly, he reminded the Sen ate that (Jen. Sheridan was not in com mand, nor even a spectator of events on the morning of the 4ih iust. ; thirdly, he re cited the laws of Louisiana, constitutional and statutory, which deposited certain powers exclusively with certain persons. He recited the flagrant acts of violence and lawlessness, and srathcred facts showing that the attempt of the Conservatives in Louisiana to capture one house of the Leg islature was a step to revolutionize the Stale government, and take it from those who held it. In the presence of all the tur bulence, disorder, and din which ruled the hour in that room, in a distant city. Sena tors said that everything there was peace ful ; that the Governor and all others should have remained silent spectators. The Republican party, the Rresident of the United States, and much of the residue of mankind, hud been threatened with de struction because those whom Governor Kellogg summoned, and who responded, were soldiers, soldiers of the United States hircliugs they were called by the honora ble Senator from Maryland Hamilton. J He said they were hirelings and withered them by saying they received only eight dollars a month. Hirelings! But for such hirelings there might not now be a Senate chamber to reverberate with the eloquence of the honorable Senator from Maryland; but for these hirelings we might uot now be permitted to breathe the free air of the ! Republic. But f -,e these hirelings it is cer tain we would not be permitted to breathe the air of a free republic. This remnant of our arm must remaiu somewhere, but if found south of Mason and Dixon's line somebody's nobility was offended. The 6ldiers of the nation found in that section were buried under the anathemas of the Democratic party, branded with the epithets of carpet-bagger, scalawag, while nigger, and the like. Their lot was a hard one. One political party never called soldiers hirelings until they were summon ed to tramp down a rebellion which lifted its bloody hands to stab the Republic to the heart. It was not always so. The Democratic party was once the soldiers' party and the war party. It applauded the soldiers in former wars ; and sighed for new wars for Cuba and for conquest, but this was in what was once free America. He borrowed the words from the honora-! able Senator from Ohio Thurman. This I was oucc when slavery needed room to ex pand. Iu 1314, wheu Andrew Jackson set a military guard over both houses of the Louisiana Legislature, and imprisoned a judge, the Democratic party glorified and made him President of the United States. When a Democratic Executive aud Demo cratic Secretary of War dispersed and hu miliated both houses of a Slate Legislature, Congress and the couutry rang with Demo cratic plaudits. That was one page in ouc of the most revolving chapters in the his tory ef human tyranny and wrong. Those who occupied scats around him remember ed the occurrence when violence, intrusion, and outrage carryiog the banner of human slavery stalked with high head in Kansas, trampling laws aud right under foot. Did the Democratic party apologize for it ? Did the predecessors of these Senators apolo gize for it? Xo! they only sought to laugh it out of court. They only sought to cover it up with ridicule. "Bleeding Kan sas !" He renumbered how that cant flew at the niast-heau of Democratic papers. There was no apology. Oh, no. Border ruffianism in Kansas was denied in this chamber just as Southern outiagcsare now. The honorable Senator from Ohio Thur man, astute as he is, would not make an apology for these outrages. Mr. Conkliug here read from the report of the committee which investigated the Kausas troubles, and said when Gen. Sumner, commanding meu whose bayonets flashed in the suu, en tered the legislative hall of that State, he declared the duty was the most painful of his life, and by force he compelled the re tirement of the Legislature. Again, at a municipal election iu Washington, in 1850, under a Democratic Administration, United States marines fired upon the crowd, killing five men and wounding seventeen, yet there was uot even an investigation by the De mocrats in Congress. Again, iu 1809, Gen eral George B. McClellan, through Genaral Bauks, arrested as many members of the Maryland legislature as he could, Mary land not being in secession at the time, yet the Democratic rarty, at the first opportun ity afterwards, strove to make McCellan President, on a peace platform a platform devised by a convention which brought out the whole constitutional army, which pelted Lincoln with all their arrows, and heaped upon him all the denunciation of their brilliant vocabulary. The Democratic party always was the keeper of the Con stitution, and during tho war it waB in charge of the Democracy Xorth and South. The Xorthern wing and Southern wing vied with each other in their zeal to guard and protect that sacred instrument. He next referred to the arrest of Burns in 1851, in Boston, and said he was arrested for the crime of being a black man. The army and the navy, under a Democratic President, gathered about the spot, and Federal bayouets were thick. John Brown was tried by a court in a sovereign State, and the gibbet on which he died quaked with the tramp of Federal regi ments and the rumble of Federal artillery. Yes,soldiers arc hirelings; Senators are hire lings ; a great body of the American people are hircliugs ; but no man forfeits his citi zenship or his rights in this country by be ingahirling. Soldiers are citizens. Their uniform does uot deprive them of this attri bute nor does it relieve them of the duties of citizens. Mr. Conkliug argued that soldiers could be called upou as a o.,ie comiUUus in quel ling disturbance the same as citizens, and iu support of his argument sent to the Clerk's desk and had read from the Law of riots compiled by Wise, a British baronet. Resuming, he said a loud outcry might scare forty million people, and make them fear that their liberties were in danger, that they were in peril of being trampled down by an army of 25,000 men, scattered by corporals' guards all over the continent It may be that the three men in blue pan taloons, who, in New Orleans the other day, accosted wrong-doers and tresspassers and made them change their seats from one place to another in the same room should have been three other men dressed in other pantaloons. Mr. Stoughtou, a patriot and a jurist, says it would have becu more regular had Governor Kellogg first called upon the soldiers of Louisiana, and had they been inadequate to the task of quelling the disturbance, then upon the soldiers of the United States. It may be so. If tho disturbance existed. Kellogg might easily have been misled by the fact that the Democrats or Conservatives first declared that the military power of the United States might be evoked, appointed a committee to watt on the military, re ceived that military approbation, aud re turned to it the thanks of the State of Lou isiana. Wiltz and his Conservatives it seemed still wanted the interference of the military, as Mr. Wiltz had addressed the President of the United States some very respectful interrogatories, and urgently requested and demanded that the troops of the United States should be ordered to restore the House to the position it occupied before the interference. This Conservative Speaker, this incarnation of the law-abiding spirit of the Democratic party, now, after the great lights of the party had spoken here ; after the long radiance of their veiws had reached all tho way to the Gulf, ad dressed the President of the United States, asking him to march soldiers of the United States into the halls of the Legis lature of Louisiana and reseat him in the chair. Mr. Conkling read from the me morial of Wiltz, and resuming his argu ment, 6aid he Conkling was only looking to sec if it was realty true, as charged here, that never since the separation of the Colo nies from Great Britain had there been such danger to the country. Was it true that the pillars of the temple of the Re public were about to crumble, that civil liberty was about to fade, and that the Re public was about to fold its tents like the Arabs, and as silently steal away ? He was done with one scene just enacted in the sad history of Louisiana, and now turned to another. What was the excuse for the disturbance there ? What is the apology for the commotion in her borders ? The plea was heard from the Senator from Ohio. It was that Kellogg was not in truth elected, bnt was falsely counted in. Suppose he was. Did that justify the nameless horrors which have stained the annals of the Slate '( Other States have known deeper wrongs than those of Louisi ana. Xew York had known a deeper wrong. It was an open secret now tiiat in 1308 John T. Hoffman was couuted into the office of Governor, when the people had elected John A. Griswold. The count was falsified more than thirty thousand iu two counties. John T. Hoffman was falsely couuted in. Who did it? The managers of the Democratic parly ; aud they seated in lhe Legislature year after year men whom the people had voted down at the ballot-box. The same regimen made the courts and made them corrupt. They issued fraudulent naturalization papers by the tens of thousauds. They appointed returning boards and made them corrupt ; they appointed inspectors of election who polluted and debauched the ballot-box. They so divided the chief city of the State as to bibect blocks and houses so that men domiciled in the election districts. They held tv State of live millions of people by the throat four years. By such astounding meaus a political party dominated that great State, usurped the power, and plun dered her treasury by the most collossal robberies of modern times. What did the Republicans do ? They did not reBort to ruthless violence. They did not resort to the blade, the bullet, and the torch. They did not butcher men, women, and children; they did not seize the cheif city of the State, barricade its streetsshoot down its police. Xo ; they iwrsevered iu peaceful efforts. They asked Congress to break the hold of organized fraud on the ballot box, that the citizens of Xew York might vote. How was the prayer received in this chamber by the Democrats ? The people of Xew York were blasted with all the constitutional anathemas of the Democracy. Those who remained iu this chamber mute while they were pelted with storms of denunciation have not forgotten the history nor the cost of this legislation ; but the law was passed, and for the first time for years there was au election in Xew York approaching fair ness. A leading Democratic paper called upon the populace to arm and pitch the officers of election into the river ; but rio ters have a wholesome dread of the claw and beak of Federal power. They did not arm themselves. How different was the course of the men in Louisiana, who com plained of fraud and dishonest clectious ? Thirty-five hundred murders and wound ing9 in eight years, says Sheridan, for political "purposes ! Search the nnnals of history, search the tearful story of man's inhumanity to man, and where, in modern times can you fiud the picture of such God daring and man hating monstrosity ? Murder near Towanda. Under this heading the Elmira Gazette publishes the following : On the eveuing of January 21st, Edgar Sickler, an old mau aged sixty, who lives about three miles east of Towanda, on Sickler Hill, was killed iu his own house by two brothers named Powers. One of the Powers lived in Sicklur's house, aud the other near by. All of the parties were in Towanda yesterday afternoou, anil re turned to Sickler's house early in the even ing under the influence of liquor. An al tercation began about two pounds of sugar and ended up in the Power's brothers assaulting and killing Sickler. The mur dered man's face was found stabbed in sev eral places, one stab peuetrating an eye aud jamming backwards into the brain; the head was also cut open with a hatchet left arm broken, together with other minor injuries. After killing him, they tied a rope around his leg, drew him to a wood pile, and threw him upon it. Both tiie assassins' wives were present to the affray, and will he witnesses against their husbands, who fortunately are lodged inTowauda jail. The circumslauceB attending their arrest are somewhat conflicting, but from the best information that cau be obtained, it seems that one of the brothers himself informed a neighbor of the murder, and he had them both arrested. They seemed to be so ciazcd with liquor that they had bnt little idea of the enormity of their crime The testimony taken bv the Congression al Committee, investigating affairs in Ala pama, so far as published, show that intim idation had been practiced at the late election to an extent not dreamed of by the people of the north. Republicans were killed, their meeting disturbed and broken up, houses burned, and other outrages perpetrated. The presence of troops alone prevented bloodshed. One witness was positive that the State would have given 10,000 or 15,000 Rcbublican majority if the negroes bad been allowed to vote without intimidation. Pennsylvania Legiftlatiire. We publish below, Uis procecdiu-;s, as record ed on the Journal of ihe.Honse, of the exciting ocene which occurred during the session of the Legislature, on Monday evening lust : THE I.AKCASTEK PETITION FOR UNSEATING MR. KOSENMILLER. Mr. Tally moved thnt the House take op the consideration of the petition in regard to the eligibility of the member from Lancaster, Mr. Rosenmiller. Messrs. Leigh and Agnew raised the following point of order : The paper referred to liaviug been approved before the organization of this House, and the law ou the subject of contested elections requir ing that petitions of contest be presented to the House "within ten days after Us organization," and the paper referred to by the member from Delaware not having been presented within ten days after the organization of the House, it is not now in order. The Speaker having decided the foregoing point of order not well taken, we respectfully appeal. (Signed) John W. Leigh, J. B. Agxew. Mr. Patterson (Mr. Lusk in the rhair) said: The decision of the point of order by the Speaker was made under the motion of the gentleman from Allegheny (Mr. Irwin), made on the first day of this seesion, that this matter was luid on the table until the members should be sworn in. Mr. Irwin explained as his reasons for making the motion at that time was that it might be taken up again. Mr. Wolfe had some doubt at Hist tie to wheth er thin poiut was taken, but had come to the conclusion on consideration that it was,boih peti tion and motion were out of order, as the House could do nothing then, not being legally or jauiz ed. Mr. Huhu made an able speech at length ia snpport of the appeal and point jf order. Mr. Tallcy thought the gentlemen were dis cussing a subject that they had no right. When the subject was up before they had said that it should be taken np again, and now they would rule out the petition on the grounds that the people of Lancaster are a contestant. AVe call it up now and ask that it be referred totbeCom mittee on Election?. Mr. Gunstcr thought the gentlemen on the other side were dodging the question, that the question was not whether Mr. Kosenmiller had a light to a seat, but simply to refer the whole matter, which had become part of the House record, to a committee, and while they raised a cry agaiust making the matter n partisan one, their whole argument was based upou partisan grounds. Mr. Leigh read from the remarks of Mr. Piper when this matter was up before, and drew the conclusion that he (Piper) was "piping a differ ent tune to night," and proceeded to speak at some lcnghlh iu support of his appeal. Mr. Morgau called the attention of the House to the fact that the petition referred to had never been laid upon the table, aud the motiou now to take it up would be a stultification of the House. Mr. Wolfe rose a second time to refute the arguments of the gentleman from Luzerne Mr. Gunster. He agreed with him that the terms of members began when elected, bnt until they were sworn in they could uot enter upon the dis charge of their duties. He also held that a peti tion could not be taken np except as au original petition as if it hud never at all been presented to this body. Mr. Irwin (Allegheny) held that the petition now bad a positiou on the record of this House and had a right to be called up at any time no matter how It got there. Mr. Campbell supported the appeal, and gave some wholesome advice to the Democratic side of the House in regard to buncombe speeches. Mr. Fiuchcr thought if this point of order was decided in favor of the party moving, a whole mouth's labor was thrown away, as no act of the House since its organization would be legal, and thought this was the whole drift of the other side. Mr. Leigh proposed to withdraw his appeal if Mr. Talley would withdraw his petition. Mr. Tally thanked the gentleman for his kind ness, but stated that he considered his action correct, and under no circumstances would he withdraw bin petition. Mr. Patterson (Speaker) decided that the members of the Legislature were such from the time of their election, and that the petition could tie takeu up. Upon the appeal the yeas and nays were called and were as follows : Teas Messrs. Achenbach, Audre, Austine, Backus, Bedford, Boyer, Brown (Jefferson), Buck, Carver, Conrad, Crawford, Darby, Deyar mon, Dry, Durling, Eldred, Emlirick, Erwin (Northampton), Everliart, Fauncc, Fincher, Fo;jel, Foster, (Jaffey, Gciselman, Gemill, Gor man, Graff, Gross, Guuster, Harvey, Has&nn, Hayes, Henry, Hetriek, Holland, Irwin (Alle gheny), Jamison, Kennedy, Keyser, Kimmett, Kistlcr, Knipe, Large, Andrew, Large, S. P., Law, Lecron, Lewis (Luzerne), Loftus, Lo;an (Crawford), Lusk, Lynott, M'Asey, M'Heury, M'Lcan, M'Nitc, Miller (Berks), Monagban, Myers, Pallatt, Piper, Plummer, Heutler, Rich ardson, Butter, Sbidle, Shugcrt, Smith (Berks), Spang, Spicer, Stahle, Steck, Stevens, Stotzcr, Swan, Talley, Terry. Thornton, Toner, Wanner. Willctt, Williams (Clarion), Wilson, Wimnier, Wise, Wishart, Withington, Yerkes, Zern and Pat'.ersou, Xptaktr Teas, 100. Nats Messrs. Agnew, Allen, Saily, Bake oven, Bardsley, Burnett, Billiugs'.cy, Bl itt, Boyd, Campbell, Carey, Carson, Christnuii,Craiksbank, Dickey, Douglass, Edge, Ettla, Falkenbury, Findley, Forteubach, Fredericks, Gehr, Gillespie, Good, Graham (Allegheny), Graham (Philadel phia), Hill, Hotter, Hostetter, Huhu, Humphrey, Kimmel. Knight, Leigh, Lewi (Schuylkill), Logan (Erie), Long, Loscb, Loudenslagcr, M' Gowan, Miller (Somerset), Miner, Mitchell, Morgau (Lawrence), Morgan (Schuylkill), Mos crip, Mumford, Newell, Nisley, O'Neill, Putter sou (Philadelphia), Petroff, Phelps, Quirk, Kawlins, Reed, Reyburn, Rice, Ringgold,Roberts, Roney, Lalter, Schoch, Sbonk, Souder, Stewart, Stober, Thompson (Armstrong), Thompson (In diana), Tracy, Yodges, Weudt, Williams (Sus quehauna), Wolle and Teakle Nays, 75. Mr. Wolfe said that before the above vote was announced he desired to raise a poiut of order that it would require a two-thirds vote to carry the motion of Mr. Talley. A scene of some confusion ensued, several Re publican gentleman rising and affirming that they had not heard their names read by the clerk as voting in the negative. The Speaker announced the vote ou the ap peal. Mr. Wolfe raised the point of order that it re quired a two-thirds vote to take up this petition, us it was an original petition and would require a suspension of the rules. The Speaker ruled the point out of order. Several motions were made on the Democratic side of the House to adjourn. Mr. Wolfe insisted on holding the floor, stat ing that while a motion to adjonrn was regular, it was not in order to make while a member was occupying the floor. He bad submitted a poiut of older in writing, and if the Speaker decided to appeal from that decision. The Speaker stated that there was nothing be fore the House. Mr. Wolfe held the floor, and insisted that his jMiint of order was before the House. The Speaker declared the gentleman was net lu order and directed bim to take his scat. Mr. Wolfe denied that he was out of order, and therefore had a right to occupy the floor. The Speaker (rapping his govel) insisted upon Mr. Wolfe taking his seat. Several Democratic members called for the Sergi ant-nt-Arms, and the Speaker directed that olneer to take Mr. Wolfe Into custoiy. As the Si-rgeant-at-Arms proceeded to carry out the order, the Republican members almost ew rallied around Mr. Wolfe, while many Democratic members rushed forward apparently to support the Sergeant-nt-Arras. A scene of the utmost disorder aud confusion ensued. Every member was on his feet, while the aisles and circular pace In the vicinity of Mr. Wolfe's seat was filled with an excited crowd, whose loud vociferations rendered the rapplug of the Speaker's gavel perfcctlylnandi b!e. During the scuffle Mr. Wolfe was forced bodily from his seat, but received no personal injury. Finally, amid the noise and confusion, the Speaker deelured the Hoase adjourned and hastily rushed from the hail. The force In the Brooklyn navy yard, now numbering six hundred and nine men, will be reduced in a day or two. Death of a Self Confessed Mrn DEREit Geore Peters, of Annville, Leb anon county, who confessed several montbs ago to having killed his wife many years ago. died on Wednesday. Peters was to have been tried at the late criminal court of Lebanon county. hutJudiic Henderson decided that he could not be convicted be cause of the statute of limitation. The Lebonan Keu:s says ; 'At the time when he was to have been tried the prisoner was in a foeble condition, and had changed wonderfully from his former powerful and vigorous condition. His prison life subse quent io the acqnittal on technical grounds was one of peace and quietude. He seemed to be satisfied that he had made peace with God as well as mankind in delivering himself over to the authorities, and there fore patiently awaited the result death, which he was coddeut was not far distant. Tuesday he sudenly became weaker, and it was visible to his attendants that his end was near at hand. Wednesday morning shortly before nine o'clock a prisoner in attendance asked him wether he had auy pain, and he answered in German "yes" At this time he was rapidly finking' and at nine o'clock peacefully passed away. Since his first confinement he has been suf fering from great debility, dropsy and shortness of breath, depending upon heart desease of long standing. His mind was perfectly clear up to the hour of his death. "The most remarkable coincidence at tached to this case is that lie died on the same day and about the same hour, upon which the act was committed, 19 years ago on January 27, 1856." Peters kept a hotel in this county (at Rockville) several years ago Harrhburrj Patriot, Jan. 30. Telegraphic dispatches proclaim the un welcome news that a lockout had com menced in the coal mines of South Wales, and that 120,000 miners are idle. Addi tional information is conveyed to us that "the shipwrights of Xewcast!e-on-Tyne, England, to the number of 6,000, have struck." We are not informed as to tho causes which led to the lockout of the miners, or the strike of the shipwrights, but, no matter what was the cause, the ef fect can be regarded only in the light of a calamity. Idlcntss, cither in an indivi dual or commnoity.is an evil, and the more powerful and robust the individual or the larger the community, the greater the evil. Add to this the great pecuniary loss re sulting to employer and employee, and the poverty and suffering often entailed upon the latter, and the evil effects of strikes and lockouts may be imagined, but not de scribed. And the worst feature of all this is the fact that the strikers and capitalists are not the only ones to suffer, but the thousands of innocent wives and helpless children of the hot-headed laborers suffer, aftcn more keenly thau those whose hasty and ill-advised action is the cause of all the trouble. Louisiana Outrages. All of the offi cers of the Uuited States army who have been before the Congressional Committee now in New Orleans investigating Louisana affairs agree in testifying that systematic and remorseless terrorism is exercised by the While Leacue aud its Democratic allies throughout the State over the negroes and Republican whites to prevent them from voting, speaking and acting in accordance with their political convictions. These men are certainly to be depended upon, as they can have no motive for misrepresen ting the facts ; and their evidence is valua ble because they are among the few who dare to testify to the truth without fear of subsequent prosecution. The country will accept their statements as conclusive proof of the existence of the state of affairs which they allege. GEXEKAI, EHS ITE.1IN. Pittsburg is receiving congratulations ou the organization of her Chamber of Com merce. Russia has recognized Allonso as the King of Spain. There is an example by one of the mightiest powers of the world. Let us see what government will refuse to foilow it. The cotton mill operatives in Fall River, Massachusetts, threaten to strike unless the ten per cent reduction recently made is abandoned by the mill owners. The Pine St. M. E. Church, William sport, reports 250 conversions this winter. The fear begins to be expressed that the Democratic majority in the House' at llar risburg will accomplish absolutely nothing. The Senate will be prepared to adjourn by the middle of March, while the House as yet has made absolutely no progress what ever. The New York Times, which started out as an assailant of the policy of the Presi dent and General Sheridan in dealing with the White League assassins, has been com pelled to confess its error, and says that from the large number of letters received from all portions of the South, two out of every three are in favor of the Pre sident's course and even justify Sheridan in what he has said and done. That "these are signs of the times to which some people may attach very little importance," but that they are at least "significant. " Andrew Johnsou s election as Senator from Tennessee only occasions sorrow where exuberance of joy was expected. The Democrats iu Congress were anxious that a reconstructed rebel should be elected but a Union Democrat is not at all to their taste. Andy will be very apt to remember all this when the right time arrives. The Democratic members of Congress, true to their revolutionary passion, and their hostility to tho rule of the majority, impeded business last week, by preventing a vote being taking on the question before the House, through a pcrsisteut calling of the yeas and nays on motions to adjourn, ic. Under the rules, tho miuority is thus able to obstruct all legislation. It is time such rules were got rid of, In this case it may do good to show how anti-Democratic the so-called Democrats are, in thus de feating the will of the ma jority. Frederick Douglass, and a committee of colored men equally distinguished, have issued an address to the country, reciting the present condition of their race in the United Stales, the wrongs they suffer at the South, and suggestiug measures of re lief. The address is moderate in tone, and marked by little bitterness of feeling, but in the present temper of Congress, aud the active aid aud sympathy extended to the Democracy by a small section of the ma jority, it is doubtful if the laws asked for will be obtained. The llarrisburg Patriot says : Last week Mr. Charles Conner, of Columbia county, died suddenly. Mr Connor was a clerk in the Auditor-Ger.eral'8 office for twelve or fifteen years under Democratic administrations, and was well known in llarrisburg. He was worth about $35,000 when he died, $11,000 of which he be queathed to St. Stephen's Church, this city, of which be was a member when living here. He left 28,000 to some charitable institution in Tennessee ; $8,000 to a half sister, and the remainder to friends ?1,2J0 to the widow of Rev. Castleman, who preached in llarrisburg not many years since. Mr. Conner was an unflinching Democrat. His age was about ; sixty years. J A Reading lawyer got a ten-cent fee from a countryman, the other day, for advice in an imporant case. A dispatch from Madison, Wis., says : A horrible story of two children in this county being devoured by wolves, reached this city to day. On the 12th, about twen ty miles northwest of this city, and about a mile from Dame station' in a rough coun try, on the town line between Vienna and Dane, two German children went to Steel's school house' distant only a half mile from home, by a shoit cut through the woods. Not returning at the usual time, search was made, and the scarf of one of the chil dren was found, aud traces of blood, while the howling of wolves was heard not far away. Following up the trail, both chil dren were found dead one horribly man gled and the other nearly eaten up. There are 800 paper mills in the United States, with an invested capital of $40,000, 000, and a total probuction of 870,000,000 per annum. These mills give employment to 20,000 people, whose eruings are estima ted at $10,000,000 aunutlly. A Williamsport woman tried to have her husband arrested because he 'winked at and nudged the girls' at a party. The magistiate couldn't find such offences spe cified in the law, and refused to issue the warrant. Gov. Hartranfi has issued a warrent for the execution of Ernst Orwein on Tuesday the twenty third day of February. Orwein was convicted in Allegheny county of the murder of the Hamuet family, consisting of John Hamnet, Agnes his wife, two chil dren, Emma and Ida, and Robert Smith, and sentenced July 3d, 1874, to be hanged. A writ of error was taken to the Supreme Court where sentence was affirmed on the 4th day of the current mouth. Mr. Hoffer introduced a bill in the Leg islature, last week, providing for the apply cation to Pennsylvania of the Ohio law for the assessment and collection of State and County taxes. Under that law each tax payer makes a return of his assessable property, and the County Treasurer does the collecting. The Star Glass Works, Norristown, have received a contract for furnishing about oue-fourth of the glass needed in the Cen tennial buildings. The order includes about 5,000 feet of obscured glass, which will be delivered probably by the first of April next. I. Shoemaker, of Wyoming, deliberately cut his throat on Tuesday. He was an old settler in the valley, aged sixty-five years, and leaves a family and a good es tate. He was probably temporarily insane. John C. Dimmick, a member of the Car bon county bar. well known throughout Eastern Pennsylvania, died at Mauch Chunk, Pennsylvania, last Friday. The penitentiary convicts of Xew York have cost the State, in the last eight years, four million dollars, iu addition to the ex pense of arresting, trying and convicting them, and this cost is steadily increasing. The report of the Committee to suggest amendments to the new Constitution, was presented to the State legislature, last week. Its main features are a proposed redisrict ing of the State for the Judicary on the basis of business transacted, instead of pop ulation, and the abolition ot cumulative voting. King Kalakaue, is claimed by North Car olina as the decendent of the cheif of one of its Indian tribes. His father, Pautauk, according to the statement in a Carolina paper, was the son of Kalakaue, a Tuscar ora chief, and emigrated a number of years ago to the Sandwhich Islands, where he married the daughter of the reigning monarch. General Fremont is said to have grown old very rapidly. His form is bent and his face deeply wrinkled. His hair and whiskers are thickly strewn with gray. A fire trumpet made of the wood of the old charter oak at Hartford, is owned by a New Haven man. Judge Persing, of Schuylkill county, has decided that spitting tobacco juice on the carpet, in church, is not an indictable of fence. The insurgents in Cuba have captured and partially destroyed the towu of Jibara. The paid fire department cost William sport, for the month of December, 331.21. A number of the citizens of Bloomsburg have started to California. Telegraphic News. LoislanN. New Orleass, Jan. 31. For some days past the Republican members of the Congressional Investigating Committee now in New Orleans, have been making earnest efforts to arrange a compro mise between the contending political parties in this State, Yesterday eveuing a long consultation was held with representative Democrats upon the subject, and to-day United States Marshal Packard and Gov. Kellogg were spoken with. The basis of the proposed compromise is that the House of Represen tatives shall be reorganized, and the five Democrats who were evicted on the 4th inst. recognized as members and awarded seats. This concession has been promised by the Republicans. The Democrats, on their side, will be required to recognize Governor Kellogg, sustain the present State Govern ment, and pledge themselves to work in harmony with the Republican Semite. It is agreed that Wiltz shall not be again elected Speaker. If the terms of the com promise can be determined upon, a more conservative man will be chosen. Gov. Kellogg has frequently requested the committee to go into an examination of the election of 1S72, and to decide wheth er he or M'Enery was elected. Mr. Hoar and his associates have thus far refused to consider this question, but express great anxiety to make some final satisfactory dis position of the controversy in regard to the election of 1874. Messrs. Hoar aud Fryc have been par ticularly active in this matter, aud are just now urging the contending parties to agree upon some terms of settlement. The great difficulty in the way of such an adjustment is that Messrs. M'Enery and Penn will not be parties to it. Should the Conservatives pledge tucsk selves to recognize Kellogg, it will of cou.se i be necessary for the gentlemen sained taj give up their claims to the positions of Governor and Lieutenant Governor. T ev positively refuse to do this, and uv 8Up ported in their determination iy Inany leading Democrats. All the Conservative Ref ,esentatives, however, are exceedingly w xioU5 to enter into any agreement by wr ich they can take their seats and secure ' Mlt pilJ Rm, allow. ance for mileage, Tjey are 8U3tained by all the leading vW men of lhe pari8Ue3. Albert Leonv d of Shreveport, who, it will be ronw.oered, advised the killing of aI EePu.ans holding office in the Red River Dv ,trict, is now the most prominent in tb '.ompromlse movement. This evening, during a conversation had with one of the leading members of the so- called Wiltz, or Democratic House, this gentleman stated to your correspondent that many of his associates were out of funds, and would gladly come into the Le gislature upon any terms. It is very pos sible that a compromise will be entered into within the next day or two. Additional Louisiana Evidence. New Orleans, Feb. 1- The Congress ional committee resumed the investigation to day. Mr. Hoar fixed the number of witnesses to be examined upon each side in regard to intimidation a', thirty-one Repub licans and thirty-five Democrats. Allen Green testified to the existence of an old feud between himself and the Allen boys, which culmiuated in a shooting affray on election day. 1872. Two negroes were killed near his place in 1868. P. A. Vessey of Iberia, testified that the negroes during the recent election campaign were kept in fear and did not register as fully as the whites. Mr. DeLabrousie, Jr., said be was assistant supervisor in St. Martin's parish; was a Democrat, and excluded one hundred Republican votes, in spite of which the Republicans carried the election ; the White League forced bim to resign his office when he joined the Republicans ; its executive committee took a vote at a meet ing a monfh ago to see whether Republican officeholders should be hanged or driven out of the parish, one hundred and ninety voting for hanging, three against; two hun dred uegroes were discharged for voting the Republican ticket, and five hundred votes were lost through intimidation ; six or seven murders have been committed in the parish since 1873. Lieutenant Cook testified that he was in St. Martinsville on: Oct. 2 ; was ordered by Kellogi; to go to Breaux;did so, and was confronted by General Fournet, who denied that anything: was wrong in the parish : a colored mam then complained that he had been threat ened by one Duvaf, who appeared witb a whip and sought to chastUe his accuser ; on the following Sunday there was a White League cavalcade, which went to a church, and threatened to cut off the ears of the negro preacher; they compelled colored people to leave the parish, and witness advised some of those with. fami lies not to risk voting ; could not call the country peaceful; would prefer living among the Corr aches to residing among that ignorant, priest-ridden people ; their was no good feeling towards either the colored people or the United States ; they were very bitter against the army officers, who. they thought, were interested in the Kel'ogg government. cto Mbbtrlismtnls. 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HAVE YOU TRIED AE2 YOU WEAK, NEP.VOUS, OR DEBILITATED 1 Are yoa so languid that any exertion requires more of" an effort than you feel capable of making t Then try Jurubeba, the wonderful tonic and invigora tor, which acts so beneficially on the secretire organs as to impart vigor to all vital forces. It is no alcoholic appetizer, which stimulates for a. short time, only to let tlie sufferer fall to lower depth of misery, bnt it is a vegetable tonic acting directly on the liver and spleen. it regulates the bowels, quiets the nerves, and gives such a he' by tone to the whole system as to soon mak the inv.iid fen Mte a new person. Its r pe ration ia i.- violent, bnt is characterized to great gentleness; the natient experiences no sudden change, no marked resoi's, but gradually his trouble "Fold their tents, like the Arabs, And silently steal away." This it no new and untried discovery, bnt has been long useo with wonderful remedial results, and is pro nounced I y the highest medical autborites, "the moat powerful t inic and alternative known." Ask your druggist for it. For aale by JOHX3TOS, HOLXOWAT k CO.. Feb. 5, To. tw. Philadelphia, Ps. VEGETINE Purifies the Blood, Renovates and Invigo rates the whole System Irs Medical Pbopekties amm ALTERATIVE, TONIC, SOLVENT AND DIURETIC Vegethie 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, Suit Rheum, Syphi litic Diseases, Caaker, Faintnesa at the Stomach, and all diseases thai arise from Impnre blood. Sciatica, InOamaiory and Chronic Rheumatism, Neuralgia, Got and Spinal Complaints, can only be eneetually cured through the blood. For Ulcers, and Eruptive Diseases of the Skin Bustules, Pimples, Blotches, Boils, Tetter, Scald bead and Ringworm, Vrgetixe has never failed to effect a permanent cure. For Pains hi tlie Back, Kidney Complaints, Dropsy, Female Weakness, Leacorrhosa, arising from internal ulceration, and uterine diseases and General Debility, Vegetini acts directly upon the causes of these complaint. It invigo rates and stregthens the whole system, arts upon the secretive organs, allay iuflamation, cure ulceration and regulates the bowel. Fcr Ctitarrb, Dyspepsia, Habitual Costiveness, Palpitation of the Heart, Headache, Piles, Ner vou System, no medicine has ever given such perfect satisfaction as the Veoetixk. It purifies the blood, cleanses alt of the organs, and pos sesses a controlling power over the nervous sys tem. The remarkable cures effected by Yesetisb have induced many physicians and apothecaries whotn we know to prescribe and use it io their own families. In fact, Yegetise Is the best remedy yet dis covered for the above diseases, and is the onlv reliable BLOOD PURIFIER yet placed belore. the public. PREPARED BY R. H. Stevens, Boston, Mass.. What is Vegetisei It is a compound ex tracted from burke, roots and herbs. It is Na- tares Remedy. It is perfectly harmless froirj any bad effect upon the system. It is nonrishiu and strengthening. It acts directly opon th blood. It quiets the nervous system. It give yon good, sweet sleep at niht. It Is a great panacea for our aged fathers and mothers ; f it gives them strength, quiets their nerves. gives them Nature's sweet sleep, -as ha' 'J proved by many an ngsd person. It is ' een Flood Purilier. It is a soothing reiuV u,e Kr?at children. It has relieved ad ear" ror our It is very pleasant to lake t vm V.i j0?-9 It relieves and enres all disease .cnd lines it. impure blood. Try the Vr originating from trial for your eompluiutst ive it rair Tour Mend, neighbor, ,tuen J?" it : it has cured me," -nd altntnce, "Try recommended W foniptoiiiU for which it te the Uuited 8 "'"S Urr le trough"" Whv t VW than otoer one medicine. -iTInr will cure these complaints. VAXrjA.BlVE INFOR3UTTON Bostoh, Dec. 12, 1869. y, nlltmen My only object in giving you this r ilmonial is to spread valuable information, -laving been badly afflicted witb Salt Rhenm, and the whole surface of my skin being covered with pimples and eruptions, many of whi?b caused me great pain and annoyance, and ad vertised blood preparations, among which was any quantity of Sarsaparillu, without obtaining any benefit until I commenced taking the Yegb tine, and before I had completed the first bottle I saw that I bad got the right medicine. Con sequently, I followed on with it until I -bad takeu seven bottles, when I was pronounced a well man, and my skin is smooth and entirely free from pimples and eruptions. I have never enjoyed so good health before, and I attribute it all to the nse of Vegrttnb. To benefit those af flicted with Rheumatism, I will make mention also of the Vegitise's wonderful power of car ing me of this acuta complaint, of which I have suffered so intensely. C. H. TUCKER, Pas. Agt Mich. C. R. R., 69 Washington street, Boston. Vegetine is Sold by all Druggiets. Janntrr 1.1. 1m.
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