Hunbnrn nuvitait. E. WIIVERT. Editors. SUXBUUY. JANUAltY H, lHTii. Gov. IIaktranft's annual message which was delivered to our subscribers last week in supplement form, leaves no im portant question untouched and deals with evorv matter of vital import, in a manner lhatntonce convinces the reader of the bold vigorous individuality of the Chief Executive of the State, his fcnrlcssness to rombat wrens, and manliness to assume the championship of Hie right. Ho makes no allusion to an abuso without coupling it with reconimen.latious fr iiiArnre f the evils complained of, thus .1 : 1 1oc a mind callable of BUUWlUg lUilb IIV tJ.7 .Imp the whole, situation and rWiiminatimr between right and wroug. n. .!. AiAaA rrrnnnds in faVOr of lie urncs ucvium fa'- throwing the strongest safeguards arouud our excellent public school system, and re commends the transfer of the Soldiers' Or phans to the public schools -the Stole aid to be continued in their proper care and education. The Centennial Exposition is also highly rucouimenJed as worthy the greatest encouragement of the people of Pennsylvania. The Insane Department and the National Guard are also recom mended to the fosieiingcare of the law nli1i the importance of the Uianvi o & . .. , . . . . i. i Iioardof Public Chanties is set fouhw.lh much feeling. The important matter of; Vagrancy is also made a subject for Igis lalive consideration which demauds actiou at the hands of the law makers, to rid the community of a great evil which constant ly is growing iu magnitude. If the Lecislature acts upou the subjects to which their attenltou has been called, and follows the recommendations of the Governor, they w i'.l be applauded by the whole people of the Commonwealth. The Uetiklno Sheriff and His De puty. Among the ictiriug county offi cers, who stepped down and out, on Mon day of last week, there is none more regret ted by the whole people than S. II. Kother mel, Esq., who has iilled Ihe office of High Sheriff for the last three years with such great satisfaction to the people. .Of the many who have necessarily had dcaliugs at that office, we have yet to hear of the first one who had a word of complaint to make of the manner in which the aflairs of the office were conducted. Equal aud exact jubtice was accorded to all, and no favorite ism shown, lie now retires from bis re sponsible position with a host of friends and but few enemies. Being generous hearted, many who were relieved by his bands when distressed, will regret that he could not be continued. Thoee who placed him in office have uot been disappointed in their trusts, aud feel satisfied that he per- j formed his duty faithfully. Mr. Geo. V. Deppin who has filled the position of Deputy in the sheriff 's office,has also won golden opinions for himself as a courteous aud obliging gentleman, and thorough business man, for which we hope be may hereafter be mo re substantially re warded. He is probably more familiar with the duties of the office than auy one ll.it tins VPT ' fiinied that position for ! the same time, and by his strict attention to the business has won the esteem of both political parties, so much so that be was urged to remain by the incoming sheriff of the opposite pary The amnesty bill iu Congress, has caused au exciting debate. Mr. Tiandall in re fusing lo take a vole ou Mr. Blaine's just amendment requiring a petition aud oath of allegiance, was t-ignally defeated. Mr. Blaine was willing to pardon all except Jefl Davis, and excepted him on account of cruelty to the Andersonvillc prisoners. The reply of Gcu. Hill.of Georgia, was bit ter, as well as untrue, in saying that Con federate prisoners were treated even worse by the Union armies. Hill said the south loved the Union uow more thau before, aud never again wonld t hey be guilty of the folly of sesc&sion and disunion. The Democracy, since obtaining con trol of the lower House of Congress, have exemplified the old Jacksonian law by ousting cycry licpublicau holding position, from highest to lowest, including a large number f inarmed Union soldiers, and have replaced thtm in many instances with ex Confederates. Prcsideut Liucoln and ('rant both retained a great many Democratic, afficials in the various De partments, and many are still holding places under the administration who are opposed to it politically. But siuce the removals made by the Confedrate House, several old Democratic government em ployees have been discharged, and this has called forth great indignation from the opposition press. It is reported that the President has declared his intention to give every Union soldier, displaced by the , House,a place else where.so long as the num ber of discharged do not exceed Ihcuum her of Democrats still employed in the De partment. This action will meet with general approval by llepublicans, if due regard is paid to fitness, which will of course be done. Treason cannot be exalt ed above loyalty, so soon, without at least :i protest. Yankee Doodle. The Washington correspondent of the The lotion Jwrnnl is trying to proe that " Yankee Doodle" is iur national air, and he quotes this anec dote related by John Quincy Adams to sus taiu him : "After the Ministers Plenipoten tiary of Great Britain and the United States had nearly concluded their labors at Gent, the burghers of that quaint old Dutch city determined lo give an entertainn.ent iu their honor, and desire to have the nation al airs ot the two treaty-making powers performed as a part of the programme. So the musical director was directed to call upon the Americans Ministers and obtain the mu6ic of the national air of the United States. No one knew exactly what to give, and a consultation ensued, at which Bay ard and Gallatin favored "Hail Columbia," while Clay, Kusscl, and Adams w here de cidedly in favor of "Yankee Doodle.' The musical director was called iu and iuformed of the decision . He then asked if any of the gentlemen had the music, and receiving a negative reply, suggested that perhaps oue of them coulil sing or whislk' the air. "I can't." said Mr. Clay; "I never whis- , .... . i:r. n..i .. .. v.. cu.i .. j , , , . i . .. t- :.t - T I ur. iuyaru can. tenner c... , plieil Mr. Bayard. "Perhaps Mr. Busseli cnn." Mr. Ituswll, Mr. Gallatin, and Mr. Adams in turn confessed th'ir lack of musi cal ability. "I have it," exclaimed Mr. (.'lay, and ringing the 1m?11 he sumtnond Ins colored body servaut. "John," said Mr. Clay, "whistle "ankee Dood.e" lor this 1 gentleman." Johu did so, ihe chief j ..itittioi.i rwiti.ii it.i-K'ii tin, c.ir ,.,! . . I )4J VJl 1 1 l u ovvni 4VrlB .WJ oil. (kill Uii I 1 1 V uteitaiument tb Ghent Iiurgher's Hand 'ayed the national air of the United tcs, with varations, in grand style." The Uunkrupt law seems to find but little favor anywhere among honest dealers. and is universally denounced as an engine oPfrauil and corruption iu the bauds of dis honest men who are workiug rum and dis aster to unfortunate creditors. A Filts- burh correspondent of the l'hiladephi.i ! Tones gives a list l 250 cases in that com munity, and says :-The aggregate of the liabilities of the baukrupts will reach, if it docs not exceed, 5:12.000,000, while the assets fall short of one-half that amount. About one-third of these cases have beeu compounded at an average of fifty cents on the dollar, a great many of them at thirty cents, this being a favorite figure with the professional bankrupts,a class of whom iu this district go through the court regularly every year and ileecc their creditors out of seventy cents on the dollar. So notorious have dishonest bankruptcies become in this locality that puplic meetings have becu re peatedly held since the meeting of Congress in December, with a view of effecting the r...vni .r i tut ivmi-rimt inn.' IVtitions huve 1 nciinT it t-pru.nl I aUlUU I -'V.V. II VII VUIM V- v . uuun w t which have received the siiiuaturs of every rental.!., husiness man and capitalist to whom they have been presented. It is safe to say that half the aboye list represent baukrupticies, and iu their direct and re mote results have practically destroyed the usefulness of 25,000,000 capital in the Western district during the past year. The mechanics and laborers of the State are interested in one of the reasons given wnv ram luinuncouiu uoi. ou r-.in-ain.-i ui n - J . . hi 1 1 i i... t-- ..r " luaif oe was u iiinii ui.uj, uuw v. the policy of his party on that great ques tion. The free trade Democracy are in the majority, but aflraid to trust him with that important and influential position, and they will take good care that their Presidential candidate shall not be tainted with this same tariff "heresy." TIIO.ttAKKKVS I'LOT. The full Meryof the Iiwjiter. London, Dec. IS. You will already have received by cable the outline facts of the terrible explosion at Ureuierhaven, by which over 2i'0 people were either killed or daugerou.-ly injured. The fuller accounts received here make up a complete story which has a horrible interest all its own. " The North German Lloyd steamer Mo sel was timed to start from Bremerhavcn on her voyage to New York on Saturday momiug, aud at the appointed lime the steam-lug Sinuoa which had to tug her through the ice that intercepted her pas sage to the channel lay under her bows and everything was ready for the depar ture except the mail bags from Lloyd's Hall. At the last moment these made their appearance on the quay, accompa nied by another wagon containing pas sengers' luggage. The whole was takeu toward the steamer by carts, and a3 tue ;asl ur l,esu wtre being unladen a I tremendous explosion took place. The quay was at this inomeut filled with pas sengers aud spectators taking leave of their friends who had come down to see them off. In an iustaut the place was strewn wiih dead bodies aud dismember ed limbs, Ou board the Mosel the sky light was blown oil, the cabins aft, star board and port, were cither crushed in or bulged out by the pressure, or altogeth- it smashed ; the side plates were burst, the ports, wilh their glasses and rivets, forced inward, and the ship bcbtnearid with blood. It was at Ilrst thought that the tug bad burst her boilers, but Ibis was quickly found not to be the sase. When the last package had decn uuladen a large bole, six or seven feet deep, was fouud. Iuvestigatiou showed that this package must hare contained dynamate. and that the concussion wheu thrown upon the ground caused the explosion. Exighly people were killed by the explosion and nearly 100 injured aud mutiilated. Among ihe more hoirible details is the fate of the Elmer family, who were seeing off their sous to California. The father, mother, son, aud sou-iu-Iaw are dead, all four ; the daughter-in-law has had her arm and the child its hand, blown off. Other cases are aimos, equally heartrending, where whole families were blown into non existence iu a moment. A minute or two after lite explosion it was noticed that a man rushed from oue of the cabins ou to the desk of the ves sel, aud, having given one glance at the terrible sceuc, returned to the cabin aud shot himself. The attention of the police was called to this fact afterward, aud the man, who had failed to kill himself out right, was taken to the hoi-pital in their custody. It was then known that ihe ex plosion had been caused by a case of dyua ruite that some one had tried to smuggle on board the Mosel, and it was rightly supposed that the wouldbe suicide might be able to throw some light upon the affair. The man's condition was so critical as to preclude all idea of his undergoing a legal examination : but finding himself at death's door, and stung to remorse by the agonies of the injured jieople, with some of whom he was in the same ward, he con fessed that he had deliberatrly planned to blow the Mosel up in mid-ocean. Prom his own statement, and subse quently ascertained facts, it seems that for eleven years he has passed under the name of William King Thomas, or Thomasseu, but there arc grounJs for believing it to be fictitious. During the War of Secession he fought on the oi.fedeiate side, and i gained some notoriety as a blockade-run ner iK'twcen New Orleans and St. Thomas. At the termination ol tiie war he spent some time in England, and afterward went over to Germany. In 172 he was living with his wife also an American aud his family at l ipeic, where he moved in the best society, and eccms lo have been very friendly wilh the American Consul. While here lit asked a watchmaker to con struct him a peculiar piece of machinery that was to run t-.-n days without ticking, and then strike a heavy blow, but the watchmaker would not or could uot under take tho job. About a year after this time, a clever clockmaker called Fuchs visited Leipsie Fair, and, hearing what Thomas seu wanted, visited him at No. 2 August strasss, where he was living in elegantly furnished apartments. Fuchs descrbes his customer as a handsome, stately man, about 30 years of age, who could scarcely tnase himself understood iu German. ThomsBsen gave Fuchs an order for a clock to run noisely for eight days and then stiikf; n 30-pound hammer, but. Fuchs, not being able to understand clearly from x lif tui:tsr'i) broken derman what was what wntt,(, d,,.iin,i .,. .,..., 0u the Oil. of wonted, declined the order. March in the same year Thomass'-n visited i FuchrV shop in Beine.bnri;, and this time gave him directions much more fluently I anil clearly. He said he wanted the appa- j ratus for some silk mills of his in Atneiica, and the hammer must m powerful enough to break a thousand threads at one blow. Fuchs agreed to have tho clock completed ov t he Jib of A liri 1, ii u d on that date be - - . - - , delivered it to Tbotnassen at the Hotel I'o- t loirue at Leipsie. Thomassi'ii. after care fully examiniug the median' himself delighted with i I ker 2o Dialers more than the stipulated price. lie afterward ordered 20 similar clocks, but none of these were delivered. Meanwhile Thoiuassen had provided him self with a quantity of dynamite, which be intended so to place in a case that the clock hammer would strike it and cause it to explode at the appointed time. After Tiiirrh!iRin the clock, lliotuassen tnacte i several voyages to and from America, where it is supposed he purchased the dy inite. About six months ago he settled at Strehlen, near Dresden, where he seems to have devoted himself to perfecting his in fernal plans. I5y some means the clock got out of order, and Thomasseu had it re paired at a shop in Ilrenian. A few days before the sailing of the Deutschland he went to the clockmaker and asked him to hasten the work. The clock was ready, and the clockmaker handed it to him. The same day he returned to the shop with the remark, "Mv God ! you have wound it up." The clockmaker nodded in atiirma- tion. savin-; he had done it to try it. ine next dav Thomasseu returned again, and -j aed how many times the key Had neen turned and how long a lime it would take ; to run pown. The clockmaker could uot give him auy answer, and he remained at IJremeu until it had run down. Otherwise it is supposed that he intended to place it on board the Deutschland. On the day the Mosel sailed he wound up the clock again, so that it should explode in mid ocean and blow up the vessel, cargo and passengers, after he himself had landed at Southampton, where it is said he intended to put on board heavily insured cases and packages. At Bremen he shipped a worth less barrel, which he insured for 3,000 marks as caviar. The plot was uow com plete, everything was calmly waiting tho departure of the ship he had destined to destruction. Dad it not been for the frost which crystallized the dynamite, and caus ed it to explode when the case containing it was thrown upon the quay, nothing could have saved the ship -it, would have exploded about three days from New York aud the world would probably never have known how.' This cold-blooded monster died ou Thursday night, but confessed his guilt previously. He denied having any accom plices, but his brother has been arrested at Dresden. It is said that letters have been found upon him which, even if he had uot confessed, would have been convincing proof of his guilt. . In a letter dated Streh len, his wife begs him to give up his pro jected scheme, and to turn back from the dangerous path he was treading. In con tradiction to the statement, which would prove his wife to have been cognizant of his schemes even if she wero not an accom plice, the Weser Zdtuivj says his wife knew nothing of Thomassen's hellish plaus, that she married him 11 years ago, but never kuew anything of his family or connections, and does uot even know his name to a cer- i taint r. She refuses to tell her own maideu namc out of reartl for her f;imi,3; an1 re lations. The Bremerhaucn Ziitttwj as serts, in spite of all contradictions, that Thomussen declared he had two packages on board ihe Mosel, that oue of these has been found on board the Salier, and that i another must be still on board that vessel. but all apprehensious on ibis score have been removed by a thorough inspection of the Salier's cargo. Correspondence. OIK 1 1 A K K I S It I It G I. K T TElcT HAKiusnunn, Pa., ) Jan. 12, 187o. The opening of the ccnteuuial year at Ilarrisburg has been maiked with no more important event than the meeting of the Legislature. The manner iu which the gauntlet of the House side was run last winter led some to predict that a similar fizzle would ensue hence all interested were anxious to se'j the session of "Seventy Six" organized. Contrary to all expecta tions the orgiuizili ia of both brauches was conducted in an amicable manner. The idea persisted in by some, that the j present was but a continuation of the ses sion of 187.J, was not concurred in by the members, aud ail legislation began anew, with but a few changes in some of the minor offices, all of which are satisfactory, wilh the exception of the Engineer of the Capitol buildiugs, Mr. B. F. Burroughs of Snyder couuty, who has won fame and au admirable reputation a a first class Engi neer, and who has had the position for a number of years, having been superseded I e Mr. George Moore of this city. There have been but a few changes in tho Com mittees, aud no labor, asi.b; fiom the read ing of several bill- in place, of any kind performed. Considerable interest is being manifested lo have the Treasury bill, which was deft ited on third re l iiu at the last session, revived. Tho Geucral Fund out of which members receive tiie.ir salaries, is in the same condition uow as then. Hence sadness aud gloom depicts itself ou the couutenances of the many individuals who step to tho counter in Ihe Treasurer's office asking for in iiiey, aul are compelled to seek content iu the old familiar reply, no funds. I am under the iinpressiou it will require but a short time until this defect procures a remedy. Your county's representatives Messrs. Withington aud J. J. John are on the same committees as last session, and constantly at their posts, each vieing with the other to best serve the interests of their people. The committee on Inaugural ceremonies of which Senator G. Ilauley Smith is chair man, are making extensive preparations lo have the coming inauguration of Guv. John F. IlaMi.iiilt far excel his former oue, with every indication that such will be the result. The main feature of the oe casion'will be a procession composed of military, firemen and civil organizations, which takes place iu the forenoon. Fire works of a superior kind iu the early part, of the evening ou Capitol Hill, and a grand Inaugural Hcccplion ball under the au spices of the Youug Men's .Republican Club of Ibis city, coiuuieuciug at 9 o'clock in the evening, which will be. participated in by the heads of the several departments, uieiubtrs of the legislature, and the elite of this and ad joining cities. II. Ol KNKtV YOItK I.KTTKK. NEW' YEAR'S CALLS AND CALLERS THE UKLl'LESS l'OOR TIIK CARNIVAL OF CRIME THE DILLON MI RDER -A MILL IONAIRE IN TROfllLK THE LAST 1 I! A I'D. New loitk, Jmi. 11 IS7ti. i new year's. Tli.; week before Nev Year was one of! fi-gs and rains, wretched as those the English grumble about, i be l.isl d.iy of the ear closed in a Iieavy ram, winch cleared iu the evening, in the most amiable way. Watchers that night were startled by a sudden vehement din breaking the soft air, but. the next minute smiled "it is three quarters past eleveu 1" Every lire bell in the city was to be struck at ouce at midnight, aud the church chimes were to begin a quartet of an hour before. But the impatient sons of liberty bad caught first peal as u signal to begin their own private rejoicings in their own way, and "made thiugshum." The steamers sound ed their whistles and fog-horns, and every fire, factory, and church bell 6vuug reck lessly. It was impossible to distinguish anything ; the air was full of a loud hum ming, in which broken notes of be'ls, fog horns, screams, and reports of ro-.-kets. were mixed like mad, for the coming-in of the hundreth year. The morning was so lovely it was a mockery to call it a win ter's day- fr it smiled clear and soft as April. CALLS AND CALLKKS. Calls were made and received in a more economical way than for years past. The attention of iientleman was largely paid to reducing their carriage expenses, and most took the short cut to (foing this by going on foot. M.i! who spent twenty five dollars for carriage hire list New Year, gleefully told how they brought it down to eight dollars for this. The pleasant mildness of the day gave us the funny spectacle l su perline callers going their rouuds iu full dress suits. As if a lady should parade Broadway in a trained dress, with a laee cap on her bosom Tin: iiblpless l-ooi:. Vigorous efforts are made by the Bene volent S.icicties to provide for the helpless poor, before the cold, which- we are taught will strengthen as days begin to lengthen. Soup-houses are set up iu difF.-renl parts of the city, when a hot, nourishing meal is j given for about six cents ! and several de cent free lodging-houses afford shelter for the homeless, deserving poor : lcavin the station-houses to keep the professional tramps and beggers. Two things are wauting lo make the life of the poor iu New York and elsewhere anything but in tolerable wretchedness. The first is decent j lodgings, and provisions at a low rale. It is rruc that rents and expenses in general are three times as high here as they are in London : a fact which weighs heavily on the rich, and is all but extinction to the poor. High rents force the price of every thing up to correspond, in order to pay them. Nor need any of your readers think this is a matter winch does not concern them ; for the tendency of prices, of work and produce, in other towns, tends to that of the great centres. Servants measure their wages, aud nierchauts their gains, by the prices in New York, Their isn't a village where this is read, that people do not charge as near the regular rales f the cities, as they dare. There is not a town in the States, that is uot interested, for its own sake, in the condition of things here; because it must feel their influence sooner or later. Thu only comfort of hard times, is, that they must bring living down for rich and poor. The extortion of rents charged in tenement houses is frightful. It is a fact that the swarming, squalid ten ements on filthy streets bring in more rent thau tip-town dwellings. Not an attic closet, with half tho glass out of the panes, grimy and decayed, but brings its four dol lars a mouth to the owner. And their will be forty rooms iu a building, the deccutest ones calling for ten dollars a month ; this in the poorest class of tenements. MR. ItOWEN. The fact that it has been made to appear that Mr. Bowcn's paper, 77e Ind:icndcnt,' was used, to some exteut, to further the Pacific railroad scheme, is animadverted upon severely. It is astonishing how wise people arc, after the fact. At the tiuu 27c Inilfjitwhnt was urging the building of the road, that paper, like every other one in the United States, believed not only in Jay Cooke, but in the road. Jay Cooke was supposed lo be. strong cnough'ti) carry the enterprise to a successful end, aud The Iiilr,c,v1att is no more to be blamed for assisting him. than are the depositors who had their money in his bank for losing it. I should like to go through the safes of some of the papers that are abusing Mr. B weu, and see if I couldn't liud some of those terrible bonds therein. The most of them hail some of that pork, aud I believe they all came honestly by it. The fact is j Mr. Bnven did what every uewspaper man did, he worked for what he believed lo be a good thing, and was paid for it only what he should have been. It is queer if a Statesman, like a dozen I could mention, should have his expenses paid for advocating a scheme, and a newspaper should not. The fact that it failed makes no difference. I have knowu quite a num ber of very excellent schemes that have failed. Jav Cooke has gone, but the road will yet Iks built, and Mr. Boweu will live to read his articles in its advocacy, with much satisfaction and right. Here let me say that those who are abusing Mr. Cooke are not doing the nicest thing in nature. When he was prosperous, and carrying on great enterprises, he was the most popular man in America. It is only since be suc cumbed to circumstances that would have crushed anyone, that he is counted differ ently. How many men would have done better than he did ? THE CARNIVAL Ol" CRIME. Is crime, like cholera, epedemic ? It would seem so. One murder breeds anoth er. The pistol, knife and bludgeon have beeu very busy from the day before New Years till now, and the police reports show no abatement even yet. Oue frenzied man shoots his wife, cut the throats of his four children, and then kills himself, which last murder was the only one that the world uaed bs thankful tor. ihe numher j of grog-shop homicides New Years eve and the night following was frightful. And what is singular, it kejps up steadily. But the moxt TKRR1ISLE MURDER on record was that at the Westminister Hotel, Saturday night. llotnaine Dillon, a wealthy and lirst-family bachelor of fifty shot a gentleman named Dilleber in the corridor of the hotel, after a tnonieuts al tercatiou. The victim dying in a few hours. The singular thiug about it is, that the parlies had no quarrel indeed they scarcely knew each other. Dillon was olfended with Dilliber for walking iu the corridor understaud, they were both boarders aud h id show n his displeasure all day. Meeting Dilliber that evening, he ordered him to get out of thu corridor, which Dilliber refused to do, whereupon Dillon drew his Derringer and shot him. Now tho facts come out. It appears that Dillou has been insane for years that when he was boarding at the Brevoort House he was iu the habit of quarreling with the boarders ou the most absurd pre t texts, which created such a fear of him that the managers were compelled t gvt rid of him. He showed murderous ;ro- pensities then, but never a won! was said about it, aud he went to the Westminister. Since be has killed a man the proprietor states that tins lunatic lias lic.cn tor a year iu the habit of ordering people away from the house ; that if auy one walked in the corridor in front of his room he would per emptorily order him away, and if he de clined to obey, he would shoot at him as coaly as though he were a dog. Hut never a word of all this was said to mij' one by the proprietor. The Diillon family are profoundly grieved thai poor Dilli her was killed, but they were always afrai. that something of the sort would happen. They always kuew that poor llotnaine was crazy, and they kept away from him, but they never said anything about it, for the subject was painful to them. Of course, Dillou will be put in an asylum, but had I the making of the laws, I should provide for the punishment of several other parties. The. proprietors of the Brevoort nad West minster hotels would go up for net putting this murderous lunatic where he could harm no one. Then I would send up the entire Dillon family for not letting the world know that their brother was crazy, and always had beeu. and that it was danger ous to have him running lose. THE TKOl'HLES OF A MILLIONAIRE. You have all lieardnf ''Vinegar Bitters. The proprietor, or one of them, is a man named Walker, who married a wife in Cal ifornia, In making and selling this horn hie tasting medicine. "Dr." Walker has amassed a large fortune, for his "bitters tasted so badly that people supposed there must be virtue in them. But "Dr.'" Walk er's love for Mm. Walker did ma increase as rapidl as his lucre. lie refused to al low her money as she desired, and, as she further avers, he Becchcrized and squan dered the daeats that should have been her comfoit upon other women. She drags him into court, and swears that lie is squandering his fortune at the rale of SlOO per day, and that if he is not restrained he will run it all out. Now conies Walker's story, lie avers tdat lie is not only chaste but fastidiously so ; that Mrs. Walktr is a uaughty woman, who makes appointments with other men. aud does not in any sense live to the agreement she made wheu she took him for better or worse- And so tho courts have got "Dr." and Mrs. Waiker, the lawyers will have fat picking. Both are able to pay, and if the profits of Vine gar Hitters are not distributed among the legal fraternity, all precedent is at fault. TIIK LAST FK.M D which agitates mercantile circles is the lately discovered defalcation of Deckwiih, the confidential man of llabbitt, the snan manufacturer, IWkwith was in the habit j of paying out 1.31)0 and entering the pay ment as for 13,000 ! pocketing ihe differ ence. This little game weut on till he had stoleu over o00.000 ! IJ.ibbitt and he quarreled one day, and IJ.ibbitt discharged him not for the theft, for be knew noth ing about that and B.:ckwiih went mto hiding. Babbitt's suspicious were not aroused for three months after JSeckwith's departure, when an investigation was had, and the stealing was unearthed, and Beck with arrested. What is curious about it is the fact that a business man like Babbitt should permit defalcations to so great an amount to go on so long without anyone's knowing anything about it. He was in the habit ot going away from his business for mouths, leaving cheques signed in blank, J which Mr. Beckwith filled up with any amount he saw fit, and appropriated the j money as he pleased. This was paralleled a few months ago by a young man in the employ of a well-known importing house. He was on a salary of 1,500 a year, but, nevertheless, he kept three horses and two women, and rn through with 1."0,00D of his employer's money in three years. When the defalca tion was discovered the young gent letntii was safely away, ami the linn c uld not settle their business without him. So they got into correspondence with him, and for gave him on condition that he w mid re turn and so explain his stealings that they could get their books straightened up. He good-naturedly did it, for he had noth ing against them ! Why Beckwith did uot get away with his plunder is a mystery The idiot never left the city. Mr. Babbitt is entitled to no sympathy. The in reliant who runs his business s i carelessly olf'rs a premium to thieves. lilsINIOSS continues as dull as ever indeed it is a little more so. Now that the holidays arc over, a very large number of employees have been discharged from the retail stores and much suifcriug is anticipated. It is horrible to swell the Already thronged ranks of the unemployed. Tlieru ar.: un numbered thousands who would be glad of anything to do that would give the in daily Oread. The slack trade has thrown thou sands of salesman, bookkeepers, and peo ple of that class, who have always lijred tolerably well, out of employment, and they sudor more severely than others, for they are not used to it. The revival is most anxiously looked for. Pietro. Philadelphia, I'a., ) Dec. ol), 1875. ) I'ridi'l 'ib:al: 1 see by your letters that while I have 1m. en among the hills and coal beds of northern Pennsylvania, you have been here, and while I tarried at Towanda and Plymouth with your old fellow-townsman, A. M. dellries, of the Parish House, and at We.it Pittstot;, you were taking in the Centennial, and I supposa you found the weak spot here as well as others. Why just praise Ihe Ccnteuuial, and you will have the heart of Philodelphians right at your hand. 'Tis a fact though ! they are the root and branch of the Ceutenuial Plant, and long may she grow aud high may it wave. The fun begins with the year, 1- o'clock, past lTo, belwixand between 1870, with camp fires aud bells, music and swells, il lumiuation aud rejuvination, Moody and Sankey will "ring the bells of Heaven," Mayor Stokely tin. old bell at the Court House. What if she is cracked. Every body will burn gas or tallow, lallow the most fashionable for they, (the old folks used the dip, guess I will wait and tell you what they did do. If have beeu there it has parsed. Another hundred years shall come and go and others will call up what history records of the first u.iher in of our first Centennial year. Philadelphia was not found sleeping, but alive, awake. Out upon the street, with more bustling, crowding, beait-throb-ing good cheer thau had ever been crowd ed into oue day since the lirsl heart-throb of one hundred years ago. Flags, Hau liers, bunting, and decorations of ever greens, llowers, artistic display goods, cal cium lights, lire works, torches, aud pretty faces, not forgetting the fantaslics, made a sight never to be forgotten by any who be held it, and many ladies will never fonet the squeezing they received. Precisely at 12, the old flag was hoisted, the old bell sent I'iii-lli her t racked notes which was ta ken up by every other bell iu the city, and cheer after cheer, bands of inuf ic. thou sands .l horns, trutupits, and every con ceivable manner of noise filled the air, com pletely ilrowui. 'lie noise of the arlilery. Such a shout never before went to heaven from the face of our ow n native land. It such as this now, what will be Philadelphia July 4th, 187r,md ivKat in l!7i', one hun dred years hence. John Wauainaker, and Wanamaker & llrown, aud Hertsman Son, displayed nearly two hundred flags each, ou the out side of their large buildings, hundreds ol other firms might be mentioned whose de corations were expensive and gorgeous, but space will not allow. Happy the man who shall see with his eyes the great usher in of July kh. lTtj. Tilton has been here and given bis lec ture the "problem of life." Ihe great Academy of Music was full, seats reserved even to the third tier. What is that great problem. Hear him, and your life will lie the better for it. Years ago when I listened to him ; when I as hundreds likewise, look ed upon him as the bright and shining star for future glory as an American citizen, raised to the most, exalted position in the gift of the peopla. Young though he. was, yet so far leading older ami more exalted heads, I can with them now say : Wicked, yes miserably wicked, is the one who has cast the least blot upon that fair reputa tion. that manly form, he who can so beau tifully portray lo bis fellow man th ilujy of man to his fellow man. he who with masterly intclcct, can mould and fashion the minds of a nation, that they are the belter for his bein in it. While passing himself through the fiery trials of domes tic trouble, can he a teacher and leave no doubt upon the mind of his hearers a3 to bis manly course. Sorry am I, sorry should every parent be that his children did not hear that lecture. While the mir.d is shapiug its standard of life. White it may so easily be raised to a higher stan dard of morality, virtue, yes and business. Oh the youth, the young girls as well as our boys should hear "The Problem of Life" portrayed as none other but Theo dore Tilton can do it, and iu concluding that subject, let me ask your readers as from him his question. What would be the result after another hundred years shall have rolled away, and another cen tennial year shall dawn upon our now ereat and trlorious nation; if the women I sh.U sert their claim, that man shall ! ue urouuii .o mu aiimu ii.n.i.u- iwu conversation, visitation, morality virtue I .... i ... i: .... ...... v -.1 Ur.L-.... ;io.l ijwuicuca ua n.ie. j ,. d that would cause her to biusb. No nace visited at which she could not also go, the , , ,, ..,,,.,! sumo dark blot put upon his brow as upon . . , r , i ,- i hers for the sire of an unguarded lmpas- . r : ......1 ... t 1 1 ri 1 1 . iv. I, uuoidden. r;'Hieii in. in., n-nw. - uu-.imn.ii. Lver an outcast. Ponder, meditate, and j where opportunity offers, take your young I people, your children that their lives may be made nobler, their happiness greater, ; tin ir aspirations higher for having heard Tilton, ami his problem of life. ; . . 1 . .. i , .1 :. . t 1- rieiid llvert, I am poor aud nothing . would please me licittr than to pay every debt 1 owe, but could I not hear it again money would uot purchase it from me but ti ank God it is as Lary said his bible was, when the priest was burning it, treasured up where he could not burn it. The Waplin has been airing tho bi dia mond of Col. Wood, other journals the bridge building of Col. Tom Scott, wonder could they not get the Col. to bridge the ; Atlantic. ( ild Sol is out again like a beautiful May morning. No more cau we sing as we have for the last two weeks : "Why ha9 the Sun iu darkness ('?," "And shut his glories in." The dark pictures are also to be seen, murder, love, suicide, ami homes made sad, accidents too, a man shot by bis land lord, scaffolding at the art building has again fallen, and three workmen killed, there are serious complaint against the con tractor br not furnishing suitable material for scafloldiug, a Very serious charge and should be investigated. Another evidence of the force of our jury system is that of the request of the jury in the Hauly homicide case for cards to wile away the time of delibeiation, temporarily granted by the judge. and sub sequent withdraw.il of the grant. Ur. Landis of turkish bath notoriety is seek ing notoriety before the foot lights, claim to be a r. val of Booth. some say fool, others lunatic, and certain it iskthat much fun is bad at his expense, iu justice we say be imitates the lunatic. Well there may bo a reason for that. This week he tries ham Iit, we i v ill wail and see. Nachtel at the Academy of Music and the Octoroon at Walnut this week, are the .n-i iii'inie fi 1 1 r:ii t inns. 1'iiiladclpiiia and all nature look beauti ful this bright, this glorious first Sabbath morning, lS7j. Bl'STRUS. Americim ;nioits. Ioo(Jy iV Sankey. The great revivalists. Messrs. Moody and Sankey, who electrified sta;d old Eng land wilh their eluquvnce aud enthusiasm, are fair samples of American genious. Springing from amoug ihe common peo ple, their sympathies are alive to the wants of f'lC vlntk ytojile, and herein lies the secret of their great success. Those who seek to be popular must study and be familliar with the wants of the masses, and prove loyal thereto. To this fact we may trace the grand sucess in buainees, as well as in religious undertakings, which many Ameri cans have achieved. Strikingly illustrative of these suggestions is thai great establsh tuent, located at Ilullalo, N. V., aud known as the "World's Dispensary," a most ap propriate name, indeed, for that vast insti tution, within whose walls are nianlatured remedies which are iu demand iu every quarter of the globe, and at which a corps of distinguished physicians aud surgeons, under the personal direction of Dr. Pieiee, are constantly administering to ihe needs of thousands of s tillers every where, and: whose success in the treatment of ail firms of chronic ailments has become so well known that there is scarcely a hamlet in j the laud in which his name is not familiar. Its proprietor, says the Herald and 'Ton-It-Vujht. of Detroit, "is a i,ta,i rf the jit'ile. writes for them, and to them lenders his eminent professional services." His ad vertisements are earnest exhortations. Like the great revivalists, his enttisiasui is multiplied by the uuparalleled success of his enterprise, as weil as by the ellieuey of his reunifies iu curnig disease. The jifyile Mirre in him and bis remedies, because, as the New York Tnbuni sas. "he sympa thizes with them iu all their afflictions, ef forts, and uttinmciits." Hence, Dr. Pierce's (Jolded Medical Dicovery is to day more largely employed as a blood and bver medicine, and also as a cough remedy than any other remedial aent iu the world. His Favorite Prescription, be does not rec ommeuil as a "cute-all," as is so olten done by compounds of worthless humbug nostrums, but for all diseases and weak nesses peculiar to womcu it has proved it self so much of a specific that it now enjoys trreat popularity and universal confidence. Dr. Pierce's Pleseut Purgative Pellets, "scareelly larger than mustard seed. "'have proved so agreeable and reliable as a cathartic that the are rapidly taking the place of the large nauseous pills heretofore so much in use ; while his Compound Extract of Smart-Weed is a MVorile remedy for Colie. Cramps, Sumuier-commplaini, Iliarrhiea. D ipenler , Cholera and Chol era Morbus, aud also a linimeii. Of Dr. Sage's Catarrah Itemed , and Dr. Pierce's ! Xass.il Douche, little need If.: said, as they ' are novvn everywhere as the greatest j specifies for Catarrah and "cold hi the i he il," ever given to the public. And be-j sides tins lar-ie mc.iure ot success. Dr. Pii-rce seeiiis likely to achieve as great re nown as an author as he has as a physician. His Common Sk.nsk Mi dh al Adviskh, a book ofabotit POO pages, which he sells at the unparalleled of exhausting two edilons amounting to forty thousand copies. The secret of Dr. Pierce's success, as well as that of the gn at revivalists, aud scores of other Americans, who by the their genius have advanced step by step from obscurity to influence aud distinction, cousists in treating the people with con sideration, sympathy, caudor, andhouesty. No man who hopes to attain either wealth or distinction, can ajjbrd to deal unfairly with the world or be indifferent to the wants and best interests of humanity. This wil1 At of our intention 1 Tin year's cloinir o week-dav iiioriiinsr.an. STOCK'IS SOLI). It I wJfJtfSST?0" too. We have made up too inn.. transfer our IStuck: into Cash n. certain sacrifices which will he ;md 'iir Prnfirj fmil nvon n. rut tfftp l)ri0CS- . . .Vvsto To he very exact in stating this lifty advertisement or custom of our houseVni ceien,, particular, we think it proper to av, te'laioaBt', pi ios to Wr A THOUSAND AND MOHci A THOUSAND AND M0KW' HUNDREDS OF DRESS COin, SEVERAL THOUSAND VEST' : SEVERAL THOUSAND PAIIV and extends throughout our house, yet there v they have already been marked at close price v Wo desire to announce that this GUI? FINAL and ONLY MARK DOWN So that none need wait for lower Prices. The step fully aid those who feel like economizinsr. THE TERMS OF THE SALE ARE HOUSE: 1. Xo second or altered Price One 2. Cash from All, to warrant Low ' "u l-'"l"lu''m 1. l V" . . each case (provided goods are urn liuarantoe ior eacn garmenr. , . - . I I . W . . . 1 . . . II . .. ... . . , . . I i ahu ouu.iv c tm'ji uii iiev, uim ia mil. uur ovtu Carefully Made Clothing. t.. :ti i . i i . i l 7 - l ... ......1....,..- .1 i ! .11 n win oe rciiieinoeieu uinu our styles of suhstantial irood-s and that . J , Ti . , UOIII WCI1 lllltl -l0 11 Will JllftO LU; tt kit i.i- . . 1 ' . . rfj CIVTJL! CIVTU CIVTLI ClVTL 5lAii1 MAiil"Mln A I H"""01 A 1 i and MATIKET Streets. . 1 1 i it 1 mi in' nic l'i il I'll. tin 11 11 1 , I r . . . ' announcements to all their mends in We are Very Truly, " OF FALL IB IM Hats, aps & Geats' FruxisiiLG Goods. :(o): i Has just returned from the eastern city with the largest stock of Clothing Hals, Caps and Gents' Furnishing Goods ever brongl to this place, ant at the lowest hard-time prices. Clothing of every De&ription Overcoats in endless variety, from the cheapest in pries to the very lies make in styles and finality. MENS' SUITS Ot every styles tind quality to suit the times, and at.uch low prices tha every body can afford to go well clothed with vry little money. CLOTHING FOR MEN YOUTHS' BOYS' M CHILDREN. Xow is the time to buy, when you can i little money. Hats and Caps of every ; latest styles and at prices that can not ' Stents J? urmshmo' tfoods. Under Clothing in ahuudance 01 every onality .styles and price. 9.i mmmm m SHIRTS! SHIRTS I !S From the finest white Sliirt made to the cheapest. Woolen Shirts of all kinds and prices t Gloves of all Descrip&on. Kid, TJuckskin. Driving, Sheepskin, "Woolen and Mi tens of all kitids and prices to suit all. Socks, Susyienders, Collars, XteJties, Bows, Jexiffr. I A.O., ..vc, and anything to be found in A specialty m Clothing, Hats, Laps which we defy competition both in show o-ood. Sunbury, Xov. .", 187-3. When you visit Phil AVITII H CD 5 -4 .'! 2 . -i U! Q mm T tL C : : - - - - - - - - 'Ti - immmm'mm fetes WHO ELLS SOLD WALNUT MARBLE T0ICHAMB1 Parlar Suits in Hair ClotK,f Fancy Rej: arlor Ms in M "Walnut DresS Caso Suits, Best Wiiic Wo: Spkia ALL OTHER OODS EQUALL Feathers in Pill'Ws or b Iu Large iliiantif r l,se 'I GIVE ScH. 17, 1ST.-.. ly. Crner0f rr ILVH' an SVHb .it any the least . hilst itap- COATS, PANTS, jie lota in which (a3 friaaU make no change- is THIS SEASON, vc take will wonder- THE USUA1L TERMS OF OUR Fixed Price. 'rices. t. . y " k- " arg;uu returned unworn.i , . .- , . ri r f I Y..I1.I.T AW rr-1, ! . 1 stock nui m.ninu ui niiuiesai &iuciv n.w.- vmuiuces inu cnoie . . , . . e every size and Pliape 13 provided to . ' ; 1 AL x. , .... nn. UUine: iu mum ijliu nivre js out -'; . . uv.n.1.. ,iii 1 i-..j -- i tnc country, & BROWN, Philadelphia get just whatyou want with a very description, v of which is of tin he undersold m m u I a first-class fmishing good store. ana ijents i jmsmng doods, all ot quality and ir jace. Xo trouble to 94 Market St., SUiSnSTJB Y, PA adelohia, call and see esc kee takin nd in; 'igor 'uinef MM, iraen- Dr.J !OSt 1 2 SiSi'5 -A. C. MM
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