mrnil SmHC i. TTwJl LDOgji. ,,rset Herald. - . . -1 December 18, ISTi. ! NVl know what we could b&Te do ce that woold justify the Bcar jRaiieal in stigmatizing us as old hunker Democrat." We tre' born of "poor but pious pa Tf Ats'-wbutn thank God we never in ih manner intimated by the Radical, and we shall be com- D wlM to Icgallr vindicMe ur gool name if the editor of that journal does not fully retract his calumnious tt 1.-- nmAst ! f uolu.t ! In scanning the details of the "ue-j irrowar" at icksburg, over wu.cu the Democratic press is clamoring bo budly, the intelligent mind mast.bo etruck by the great disparity of the killed on either side. Seventy De grees were killed and but two while men, and yet we are expected to be lieve that an army of blacks attack ed tbe citr. at different points, and , : were repulsed, with this disparity of loss on either side. Our word lor it, tbut here has been another Demo cratic massacre of negroea, for the purpose of intimidating and drivmg tbem from the offices to which they were"elccted. These people were de prived of their rights at the late elec tion, and encouraged by tbe general partv succes?, and their hope for speed v political power, the White Leaguers have adopted their, usual policy vf killing those they cannot coerce. The true history of this out break has yet to be written. Scarcely bad Congress convened when the bill of Col.T. A. Scott ask-, ing an endorsement of his Texas , Pacific railroad bonds to which we have heretofore alluded was pre sented. With an impoverished treas ury, impaired credit, and universal financial distress prevailing, an act ot this kind would be suicidal. What a similar endorsement ha3 already cost the nation, is thus set forth by the Ilarrisburg Telegraph: The public debt statement of De cember 1st 6hows this item in the to tal on which interest has been paid and must be paid for fifty years to come. oatJ.unJlr.g bon.H Issued to Pacific Kallwav t otnpanls B4 ez5 ,2 r? Intermit psld by the United Slates.. JA.Sii.SM IW Interest refunded the Oovernmeat by i he K. H. Companies in tnuwporta tlor.sof mails, supplies, etc 6,510,CW4 0, lllanoe of Interest due la U tnlted States by U raUroadJ I,li..352 91 Here it will be observed the en dorsement by lie United States of more than sixty million or dollars, meant something. We have always defended, and still defend that en dorsement as wise and necessary to prevent the ultimate loss of our Pa cific possession. JJut where no such commanding reasons can be furnish ed a further endorsement of bonds to other mads cannot be defended. More especially is this plain when we remember that the commercial results of building the present roads The interest paid by the companies already reacbea very close to mneJerA millions ot aouars. Wc are responsible also for the prin cipal, sixty-five millions. And these form a total of cost to the tax payers of ciqty-three. millions and a half already. In the light of this exhibit the continuance of bo expensive a policy cao only be defended on tbe needs of commerce, tha inability of tbe people t make needed improve ments, or an overflowing treasury. In the absence of all these arguments for a gram to more speculative rail roads of Government aid, tbe wisest ihing for Congress to do is to refuse. Ix the present financial condition .... i. i f the country, the report of the Sec retary of the Treasury is by far tie most important doeomcnt laid before Congress, and necessarily interests pt-ople of all classes and parties. Its b ngth precludes our present publica tion of it, lit we summarize iU t bicf features for the Information of t ur readers. After recapitulating the irannactions attendant upon there '. inding of the public debt be states lhat the successful bidders lave taken rE 11 former bids and hold the option f ;r tbe balance till February let 3e then talcs up the financial question, expressing similar views to those put forth by the President, and not only tckes strong ground in favor of specie payments, but sets forth a definite plan for reaching the 6ame. He re commends the repeal of the Legal Tender act, at a fixed day, as to con tracts thereafter made, and except as to official salaries and ordinary ex penditures of the Government under the existing appropriations. The Sec retary recommends that authority be given for tbe immediate issue of con vertible bonds bearing a low r&te of interest He asks that a day may be fixed for the resumption of specie payment, not more limited than three years, at the end of that time the Secretary to be authorized to raise gold by selling bonds in such amounts as may be come necessary from time to tine to keep tbe Treasury in a condition to redeem greenbacks as presented. Tbe Secretary recommends free banking as a part of the plan for the resump tion of specie payment, but this branch of the subject is not elabo rated. It is recommended that the frac tional currency be replaced by silver, and to accomplish this tbe Secretary desires to set all the mints at work coining silver, and, as rapidly as it is produced, the fractional currency to be recalled and destroyed, beginning with the smallest denomination. The Secretary also asks that coining gold be made as free in the United States m it is in London, in order to prevent tbc exportation of bullion for coin ing. -Coacern'mg the Internal Revenue, tf.he Secretary recommends thai the tax be takea ff bank checks, watches, osmetica as 4rugs, and to meet this lose that an additioaaltax of 10 cvnta per galloa La ircpesed on whisky. Ths will raiee revenue ltxl great er than is now received from the ar ticles enumerated. The practical workings of patting tea and coffee on ItLc free list liuve been fully exaunn- d . the Trea.urj Pfparlraent. Carefully prepared table ef yrlcr in i foreign market?, and prices to con sumers fur the period subsequent to taking off the tax, thow that while tie country lost from $6,000,000 to f 12,000,000 from the decrease of rer- pnue on this account, the removal of the tax simplv added to the price in the foreign niarket3 and has aot ben- efitted the consumers here in the least. The Secretary rccommen'ds the resto ration (f ihis tax. Tbc attention of Congress ia called to tbe great daa- s lU rrmn flttrndlDfT all at' tempts to modify the penalties which I bavc beretotore existea, vj m." Treasury hae sought to enforce cus- regulations. The Secretary is - c no believer in tbe system of monies. and does not delire its restoration in any chape, but he expresses serious doubts wLtthcr any benefit Las fol lowed the modi6cation of the penal ties for violations of the custoti.s reg- e ulations. Upon the question of tariff, tbe c..t.rr without entenn? upon a OVHVl"iJ - discussion, says that at present it i3 .only necessary to treat it purely aa a question of revenue, and not one either of protection or free trade, in the interest of business he does not think any changes should be hastily made, and if Congress desires to re vise tbc present rates he recommends that a commission be appointed to tt. tlio whole subiect into consider ation, wild instructions nyuu iu the next Congrms. Great economy is recommended iu tbe expenditures for public buildings. The Secretary recommends that Con gress go over tbe appropriations and estimates for these works with great care, witn a view oi reuutiug and wholly suspending others, lie expresses the belief that the needs of tbe Government do not require sucn elaborate and costly structures as have of late been erected, but that plainer, at the same time substantial, buildiugs will answer every purpose ahd save many millions. . He thinks there is needless extrav agance in tbe furnishing of public buildiDgs, and that much greater econ omy should be practiced in all direc tions. In regard to this matter, he has transmitted estimates, which have a'ready been carefully revised, but be earnestly requSsts Congress to unite with him in scanning them still more closely, with a view to their further reduction. The force of tbe department has ben reorganized and diminished ex actly in accordance with the laws and appropriationa of last eession, but the Secretary tbink9 the lowest limit of economy consistent with tbe prompt and efficient performance of tbe public business has not yet been reached. As to all plans for increas ing iLc public indebtedness by aiding Secretarr does not believe that tbe present condition of the government justifies extending aid in any form. Thk sixth annual message of Pres ident Qrant, like all the preceding ones, is brief, plain, and goes at once to the marrow of the subjects of which it treats. It is void of ornament or pretention, a terse, rugged, straight forward document eminently charac teristic of its author. In its very first sentence he plunges into the financial troubles of the country, speaks of the prostration of business, aud the nnemployed labor and capital of the nation, recom mends as a specific the adoption of a nnlirv lookinfr to the resumption of ( j o . specie payments, at a day to be fixed and certain, and to the procurement of this tnd advises the repeal of the legal tender clause of the act author izing tbe issue of national currency, and subsequent free banking. These views of the Tresidcut are the most important ones advanced in the message, ani lead to a greater diversity of sentiment than all others touched upon in that document. In the eastern cities and in tbe ew England States, where capital is abundant, there appears to be a gen eral concurrence of opinion with out regard to party lines in these views, while in the West tbe senti ment appears to be quite as generally in favor of the retention ot the le gal tender act, and a continuance, if not an expansion, of the present currency. The wide diversity of pub lic opinion on this vital subject, as expressed by the press of tbe coun try, is shared in an eminent degree by our representatives ' in Congress, and this portion of the message will lead to rouch discussion between its advocates and adversaries. What the Tresident has to say about tbe condition of tbe South and its manifold troubles will meet the approbation of all unbiased men who give their reason fair play. Of course to tbe mere partisan or the scheming politician eeckiog for capital with which to array the south, politically, against the administration and its friends, his views and motives will be impeached and condemned. Since tbe day when he gave parole and terms to the rebels at Appomattox, the President bas proved himself a just and generous friend to the South, and although for partisan purposes hit actions have been misconstrued and bitterly denounced, history will ultimatelr declare tbat Lis course looking to the protection of the ne groes in their civil rights bas been just and proper. On the tariff question tbe message is brief, and in favor of encouraging home manufactures, which sugges tion will not be relished by the ad vocates of free trade. On ail other measures on which this document touches, we think there will be a general concurrence of opinions. This important State paper will well repay perusal, and we commend it to tbe earnest attention and care ful thought ot all who take an inter est in the present condition of gor arnnjental affairs,, and the views of the chief magistrate of the nation. OCR SEW YOIIK LETIEB. . New Yoek, Dec. 14,1374- BO?S TXVEEP. The wicked old man U on tLe Fur- Uace agaia. lireu on.ving p .j jj Aci aII tu;s because jknowing that (iov. Dix wnl noi depended upa her "nat pardoa l.im, and tLat the (,',rern jura.1 advacta-es" and forgoiton lhat face again. Tired of living in pn.-or., elect, T idt-:!.dare cot if oe h ir:tea oace more to tbeilu courts He wa ;aken out of pr..on t on a ur.i ot hahra rorpii. aa.l w-j ken It-tore the courts, where he pin- ItOUUU l-J "- o. I that the court that tried him had no .: a ,n . rfiif-hitrjeu on tun i-ojiv inrw,i;ftion. Jucljrc UAKHJ.Tr ucu- ded Ot COUrse, Bgauusa u: muwi thief, and back be went. V eduesday nio-i.t & rumor prevailed that .c had given tbc officers the flip, and had j got away to Europe, and the lie was : r.,r n Imnr fcnpmll v credited. It was the mere readily believed, lor v " o . everybody knows that if tbe Doss ban the nionev he is credited with, he cao buy bis way out without trouble. And tbe comment upon it was not encouraging to one who wants to be lieve in the honesty of mankind. "I am glad tbe old man has got awa,r, said one merchant in my hearing. "Why glad':" 1 aked. "Oh, he has been punished enougn,' wasiuc ie ply. And that was the expression of a full half oi tbe pcop:e. curious. isn t it: iiere ua biu piuu.. - a it . ..--.- ii'uni u v ed the tax-payers for years in a way that would have made a pickpocket blush a man who stole right anJ left, not only for himself, but a horde of followers a man who, by sheer stealing and an adroit use of wnat tie stole, held the city and S'ate iu the hollow of his hand, and even aspifeu to the control of the country; this thief, swindler, and robber is pitied by tbe men be plundered: i caa i help but think that the men who pity him, envy him, and that, placed as he was, would have done the seme thing. The news-papers or tLe city, to their credit be it said, insist on his Loin. tpnt vliere he is till his full terra, expires, ruoiic upimuu " probably keep him there till be buys bis way out. And speaking ot tue io-i, vju. Dix did a good thing the other day. He supposed, as did all the world, th.r th rotund old thief was dressed in stripes and doing prison duty the j same as other criminals. . Decerning, better intormeo, ue iumm-u,a m unication to Mayor llavemeyer, .ciiniT n.rainet friviusr the man who bad plunoereu iue city oi 000,000, a suite of rooms, servants, citizen's clothes, and other luxuries, and or allowing him visitors at his own pleasure. Very properly, the Governor characterized this discrim ination between one thief and another S3 a "mockery of justice." But the protest will do ne good. Tbe Boss has means at hi3 disposal, ard he will be a prisoner of stale as long as he chooses to stay. BESTS AND EMPTT STnnKS Theexorbitaat rents demanded on Broadway are telling on that street, l'.ptwren tbe Astor House and 14th strtet there are over one hundred ele gant -tores, in thi windows or which are displayed tbo diebearteuiDg legend "To Let," aud this legend is growing more common daily. The Broadway owners put up rents year after year, without any regard to the value of tbe property. $12,000 $15, 000, $20,000 per annum were com mon figures. This was all well enough during the war and tbe flush era tbat followed it, but when tbe oinching times came it could not lw endured. 'o business that could be transacted on the premises couid pay this rent, and bouse after bouse went down in tbe vain endeavor, roe landlords would not reduce, for they bad faith if Smith wouldn't keep the store Jones would be glad to take it, and as they had become accustomed to living in tbe style of $20,000 rents they did not like to qome down. But Smith either quit business or he went over to some of tbe side streets, and Jones knew too much to go into ruiu blindfold, and so the stores are empty. Tbia is as it 6bou!d be. There is no reason in keeping up to war prices in anything, and rents ought to be the first to come down. True, it depre ciates real estate: but wbv should it not? There is nothing made by call inir fifty cents a dollar. Men cannot labor forever for landlords. And, by tbe way, speakiug of "coming down," there has been and is being CONSIDERABLE ECOXOMT practiced at this time.. Gentlemen who, a year ago were in the habit of stepping into their fashionable Broad way tailors and paying $100 or $150 for an overcoat, without asking the price, are not doing it to anjfc alarm ing extent Iney go mto tne uowc- ry and tne other cheap streets, ana buy for $30 to $50 what they would have to pay ?7d to f 1 00 lor on iroau wav. And they find that a pair of boots made on a cheap street for $10 look just as well and weep ja.-t as long as the pretentions Broadway maker coolly asks, and gets, $18 for. This style of economizing is getting to be very popular. Men joke about it and take a pride in it. And, to tbe disgust of the high-priced bars, thousands of them have changed their drinking places. They get their modest quenches or their stiff invigorators at the quiet places around the corner, where 10 cents does as much toward sending tbem into a drunkard's grave as 25 or 30 would at tbe fashionable bars. Of course there are plenty of noodles who still submit to be fleeced as of yore, but tbe number is growing smaller every day. Let us hope that it will continue until wc get down to ante-war prices. Tbat is wuat the country wants. It is impossible to bold up to the old key, aud the sooner we all drop tue better. SEW TORK AND TRADE. New York is being exercised once more about losine a portion of its trade. It is a fact tbat the grain trade is going to Boston and Balti more very rapidly, and that tbe pros p?ct is good that the remainder will ffo to those cities. New York bas depended so long upon ber natural advantages, has so long believed that the Continent must come to fcer, tnat she has rot arrogant and lazy as wtl! She is content to have grain taken out of cars and carted to vessels, and to have a horde of leeches fasten up on every buibel and suck the life out of it. In the meantime, Ualtimore, which, by the way, is nearer to Tole do and the other grain centres, builds fplcndid elevators, with which 6he can handle grain a a nominal cost, and Boston does tbe same. Tbe Baltimore and Ohio lload, whose arms cover all the territory that pro duces anything, refuses to go into combinations, and the result is, that aa - - - MT . 1 tnis important tratnc goes mere. . iVlersburg dispatch confirms tbe re Baltimore has captured the coffee; t .bal lLe Eun.ercr Alexander traae, liostonjoustcronn tures, and New ork, the best point on tbe continent for trade, sua and mourns. But this is not all. rbe jturvto New York. Chicffg-o, St. j Louis', Cincinnati, Toledo and the 'oihpr great cenyR arc importing on Jtbfir own account from Europe, sad ! are handling domefctics as well as IXe'.v York. Consequently, the ! mourners eo about the etrotls cf the ;,:.,i,,.ff u.iih .lisad- "-'j"1 - ----- fcg tlDnro yew York b somftLinj:t0 hold her wir vantage, ana remeuy nv niui; Ls got preiua- inc fcliikes are virtually over. i The 'longhorenien bad tbe be?t chance 1 all the trades for fucccps, lor wLilc a factory may shut down and do w itLout operatives a new !y- and do w ithout arrived ship ra oo' - e. and it ink usi be unloaded . at kes skilled labor to do it, but tbey, who mis auvan.nge, ' . ., ... i were forced to succumb to hard times, and they have.-gone to work Hgain. The coopers have lesumed, not as a body, but in squ?d, and, in short, the "strikes are at end. The strikes discovered what tbej ought to have known all along, tha'twith 50,000 un employed men in the city, they are at tbe mercy of their employers, and w ill be till labor is in demand agaiu. It is the old story over agaiu( capital can lay still, labor cannot. Dat for hcaven'j sake, do your best to keep impecuuious youn men from coming to New York i his winter. I say it, and 1 know :e are 50,000 men out of employment here to-day, aud the numlr will be doubled in two month. And they embrace til clas ses of people. Tbe're are clerks, sales men, book-keepers, everybody. For iustance, the Grand Opera House advertised for 200 young ladies for the ballet in the revived Black Crook, and the morning brought 800, all eager for positions at $0.00 per week. These iverenot bad girls they were girls who wanted something to do to keep soul and body together till there was work at something else. 200 were taken COO were left out in the cold crying from disappointment. An adveiliBcnicnt of two lines in the Ihrald for e, clerk wanted will bring a thousand applicants by nine the next morning. My young friend, if you have got anything under heaven to do keep out of the big cities, another ron EEiinH. Henry Bergii, the friend of dumb animals, has achieved another tri umph. Heretofore he has only been able to convict the drivers of stages and cars wbo havo overworked horses': but last week be got the iron claw of the law on a proprietor and brought him up with a round turn. This is a3 it bhculd be, for the pro prietors compel the drivers to over load the stages. Now let him get af ter the street-car companies. It is notbinir uncommon to see a pair of horses going up a steep graue who a heavy car loaded with 80 or 00 pasr sengers the poor beasts straining evervnervc aud a brutal driver lash ing tbem as though his heavy whip could add to their muscular force. Berrh has oulv commenced bis work in this citv. But it does do one good to see a lithe, active man dart out of a crowd and jerk a brutal cartman, wbo is beating bis horses, off bis cart and march him before a magistrate. It is a sight calculated to restore one's confidei,ce in human nature. Bcrgh's police are all dresser in plairyritizeu's . I 11. 1 I si.. rlothes. but when one noius uac w;e lappel of bis coat and displays bis badze. tbe brute wbo is abusing oth- rr brutes.knows who he is and be be comes as meek aa a lamb. I shall one of these dys, write a full ac count of Bergh and his mission, ho ping t stimulate ether men to be come I5crgbi. TtlE I.1Q1011 DEALER N have taken alarm, and are getting out their licenses as fast as possible. The courts are determined to enforce the law at all hazard, and the coo victiou of Schwab, which was made a test case, has shown tbem tbe fu tility of opposition. The rum-mills, the small thieves, Boss Tweed, and all the dangerous classes, sigh for-the aood old times when barnard was ou the bench, and Fitk and those fel lows ran tbe city. There was no treuble for tbem then. They had the courts and evcrvtbins else. Will tbe new Democratic administration re store them any oftheii lospr vileges? We shall see. A great many Repub licans in the city were willing to take tbe chauces in November. 1 os sibly,by another November they may change their minds. 'business Is slower than last wctk, w hich is one of those things that cannot be accounted for. Certainly the pur chases have not been so heavy as to bavc supplied the country with goods. Iiw long this stagnation is to con tinue no ouecan tell; nor can any one give a reason for it. But it is, aud that's all that can be said about it. the weather . Is deliciously cool, but altogether too dry. HEALTH. Tho city is not healthy. Dipby thcria is almost an epidemic in Brook h n, and small-pox is spreading in the citv too rapidly for the peace of mind of tbe citizens. There is no especial alarm, but a feeling of uneasiness is developing. An experience similar to tbat of Philadelphia two years ago is dreaded Some calamity ought to be expected to follow such an election as tbat of last fall, and the citizens mav congratulate themselves tbat it is nothing worse than small pox and diphtheria. Pie tbo. DUnslronn 'olllaln on lb P.irIHe Railroad. Taut'KEE, New, December S. This morning as the West bound freight train was aide-tracking foT the West bound passenger train at Boca, the freight train broke in two, &ud the passenger train came crash against the broken part The caboose and one emigrant car of the freight train were completely demol-.shed Two jK-rsons were instantly killed, and two others probably fatally in jured. Conductor Bennett, wbo was a passenger on the freight train, was thrown eixty feet down an embank meut and seriously injured. Quite a number of persons are still missing. It is supposed they were thrown into the river and drowned, as an emi grant car was thrown "down the em bankment. One of the killed is Lichstcin of this citv. So one on board the passenger tra'n was hurt. Exemption or Jfenaonlteo frona Mill- larjr .Service. London, December 10. A St. manuiac-:,jttjcoost,oU.t!ti exempt tbc AreD :rjouite8 from u,iiury tcrvice. This :unounreriient will probably have tbe , , r .i.in ,h ,,.s;r.iT .m!. ing ! gration among tbat ft. BATTLES BETWEEN 5EOBOES A SID WHITE HEX. A I-rg-eXnobr Kllidaa0 Wonaded. YicKSBriia, Miss., December 7. There r-as been for some time trouble brewing between the Taxpayer' As sociation and citizens mul the county officials.' The Sheriff whs acrtog without legal bond, and lL Doard of Supervisors refused to order ft new one, though the time for paying tbe taxes had arrived. Two or three other officials were under iud: Mtient for forgery and embezzlement, and the citizens, despairing of any relief from panisin courts, 11 Wednebday held u setting, and in a body pro ceeded to the Court House to demand the resignation of the Sheriff, Chan cery Clerk, Treasurer and Coroner. AH fled except Sheriff Crosby (a negro), and be Hgaed bis resigna tion on Saturday. A card appeared on the streets signed by Crosby, cal ling t u all the citizens of Warren countv. Kt publicans. while and black. . i ; .....I ..,,.,r...ri lim i in his position.' Crosby publicly aud through the papers denied tbe author ship of tbe card. Yet this morning armed bodies of negroes appeared advancing on the city from six different roads. The alarm was sounded about 9 o'clock, and citizens gathered en masse, aud iinrr.fdiat1v advanced to meet the negroes on the Bald win' ferry road. The negroes were met just outside City Grove street, about two hundred strong. The commander' of the citizens warned the negroes to disperse, but they refused, and im i.ed ately firing coitra.'uced on botb sides. The negroes retreated about a mile and again made a stand iu the old breast works a house-, but were soon routed. The loss iu this engagement was one citizen (Oiivcr Brown, killed), and about twelve or fifteen negroes killed, several wounded and about twenty prisoners. On the Hall's ferry road about 250 negroes were found and routed after a short engagement, with several killed and wounded. Andrew Owens, a negro who com manded the negroes on the Baldwin's ferry road, was captured and com muted to jail. The citizens are still under arni3, ftnd the roads picketed. The eXCite-f , . , . ment is subsiding. The town negroes took no part in tbe difficulty what ever. New Orleans. Dec. 8. 1874. It is reported from Yicksburg that the negroes will renew the attack on tbe city to-day. The citizens are all under arms, and hava be-n largely reinforced from tbe adjoining towns. Companies have been sent to the country well armed and equipped. The prisoners captured are closely watched to preveqtacitiens lynotmig the negroes. Loss yesterday estimat ed at about 70 one white killed and two wounded. Crosby is still under guard. The whites hold tbe entire citv. Daring Bank Bobbery. Nas-iiville, December S. The followiug bas just been received from Corinth, Miss.: A bold and daring robbery was committed here at 1:30 P. M. yesterday, tour well mounted men rode up to the Tishomingo Sav ings Book. Two entered aud locktd the door and two remained outside. They demanded the safe keys, which President Taylor refused. Tbey then made an attack upon him with knives, and compelled biin to submit. They took over $5,000 in curjency and as mull more in watches and dia monds. Mr. Taylor was not badlv hurt. A negro man was in the bauk making a deposit at the time, and was not permitted to leave until the robbers retired. 'Tbey were in the bank about fifteen minutes, and peo ple who observed the bank closed, supposed Taylor to be gone to din- uer. Tbe bank is iu an out ot tbe way place, aud not much noticed by the public. The men bad been lurk ing about tbe town and country for two weeks. The robbers fired sever al shots as they departed, and rode at full speed in the direction of the Tennessee liver. Tbe Sheriff, with a large posse, has gone in pursuit. A Train Plundered by Rohbrra. Kansas City, December 8. At about half-past 3 o'clock this after noon, as a train ou the Kansas Paci fic llailroad reached Muncic, a few miles west of this eity, five masked men P. urged and stopped it. Cuttiug off tbe passenger coaches, they mov ed the engine and express car some distance ahead, and then robbed the safe of Wells, Fargo fc Co. of about $27,000. One case containing gold dust valued at $5,000 was also car ried off. Tbe robbers were heavily armed with rifles aud revolvers and rode horses. Tbc express company offers a reward of $10,000, the rail way companv $5,000, and Governor Osborne $2,000 for the recovery of the property and arre6t of the roVb.'i?, Aaotber Murder in I.azerne Coanljr, Wilkesbarre, December 9. A farmer named Klein was murdered and robbed on Monday night on tbe turnpike roaa at a point called otch, about two miles from hcranton While going through the notch of mountains fix men sprang ou from the roadside and seized the farmer's and pulled him from the wagon kick ed and beat him and shot him through the beart. He was then robbed of bis watch and his nitcey and tbe murderers disappeared in the woods. Rnmala. St. Petersburg, December 8. A violent storm occurred here last niuht, causing much damage. The tide rose nine feet above high water mark, partly inundating the lower portions of tbe city A large number of fam ilies of the poorer classess were driv en from their hou !. O - er a thou sand homeless pe plf we re i-beltered by the police aud the public. Kilch ens were opened to supply ihe suf ferers with food. The water m now falling rapidly. Over one thousund disinierelt-d Democrat have already showered tteir applications for office upon Governor-elect Tilden of New Yoik, though be will not get into power be fore Jaouarv. AVto Adeertixnrentx, A UD1TOU S NOTICE. in. andcrsiirned auditor. anDointM by the Orphans' tkairt of Somerset county, Pa., find the facta and report an opinion in the matter of the exceptions to tbe acoouut of r'rednrioit p. Walker, guartliao of .Tonal ball V. Walker, will sit at bis oltiee on Thumiay. Hie :!lst dav of Ie rember, 1874, when and where all parties uteres: d may attend. PAIL H.OAJTHEH, letv Auditor. UDITOIl'S NOTICE. Uavlng been appointed AnJl'.or by ilia Court to --examine the xeeptims, take the testimony, find the facts and report an opinion; also to stale an aer-jant and report a distribution to and among those legally en !H led thereto," In and of the es tate of Uanir alalone, of which Jacob A. Shafler Is administrator, I will attend lo tbcuuties of sail appointment at my office In Somerset, Pa., on Tuesday, the 2Bih day of lieeember. 1KT4, when and where all persons interested can attend. t. J. h.iR'r.n, ! .Aoutior. Xao Adcerlisnnentis. A SUBSTITUTE FOE QULMXE. For years, quinine vu rcitarded ai tbo only j tperflic fir maL-irioiu di?a, and Immense quan titioof the ilrun we-enuailljrcmnunil tlinuyb- j out onr western eoantry. more parttcnlarly along the river butt. ;oi sn-l Kiuininst li'W l.iml. i With the full muni to malaria. In all lu vsrtl ! firm, stalks like au c,llemio throng h the laal, ana whnle tliHrtste are pnwlrttteil with cWU ami j inver, the entire popnlatli-.a eluiklnif with ague. Hereliif-ire. quinine wan r'nulurly reurtei lu; but, while I' Irequently ftille.1 u eflVt a cure. It iorart&Mr iiermnKe.1 the iunimch. prodocinir nna- ! ea. T-jr'.Uoand luultire pkIii Id Ike bead iu ueh i m extent that mHitb elapfed ere tlte lyilem re fwvere.i from lt effects. Thee objeetlone to Its i wre eo marked, that the introduction of JI1D Irr'i Urrtt Hitlers was bailel as a triumph In med leiae. lnftnituly niore certain in its beneficial ef. Ie! than quinine. It possessed none of the demer its of that liruir. Instead of nauseating, it tones and InriKoralc the stomach, and while speedily expelling the noxious bt-.mors. Increases tbe sp; tue and tacilitates dlKesiioa. thus rendering the syptem stronger, and better fitted to resist ti. at tacks of dinease. In fact, a tu llci"n use of Slishler's Horb Bitters at tills scm. a the year, will prevent the recurrence of this cis Me. even lu those who have never passed aa oa.ui. i without It. An experienceof twenty yenrs f roc t tt to be the areaU4t AKTi-rastouic kiicwn iu Dietiical ; science. There are, perhaps, no diseases so subject to ell matlcohanacs as attectlons of the Kidneys. Hun' tlrctts of our farmers, mechanics, and lahorlnit men. stronsr ati.l hanly iu all other respects, suler coiitlnuul luconveniene. and oecasiur-ally excracl-1 atirn; pains in the bark and across the loins; expe rience a irequeni utsire water, iiin uuniix us imfwife. ihI frrotient Mnnp-i in iu flow. inln or heavy lift, (perhaps years asro), and air- srniv.ite-1 br!cVer chntijre in I he weather. Every slight cold flics Irecl to this ena weak spot, and unless prompt ly attended to the disease Decumea chronic, and the ih- stronif roan a miserahle wreck. Misliler's Horb Hitlers is the oaJy certain rcinei'T for this class nf diseases. It has a pecul iar ten' tency to the kidnrvs, stimulates tbem to healthy 4c;"ia. and remi.vlnir the cause, prevents the foraintlon of brick-dust deposits, which. If per. milted to continue, will by cohesion form gravel stone, neresjiuulno: a painful operation for its re moval. Many of the lnirredieuts enterinc Into its composition are unirenuilly recojrnizcd aa spec! ties ur all complaints of tbe urinary organs, la Liv er Complaint. Dyspepsia, all disorders of the levels, and aticcli.itu or the Threat and Lungs, it Is equally certain and efficacious; while, as a remedy lor the complaints peculiar to tha female sex. It lias no equal. LantEH. old and voungr, mar ried and sinirie, in every condition of lite, will find this ettiT rxxALE rkmkdt prompf, tat, certain and reliable. 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The beautltul dog-portrait, "Man's Un a..nti Vriond " a ehnituo uresenteti to every suh- scrlber, is a decided hit. aud will, if possible, add to the popularity which thla work lias sralned. 1 110 ART LiBlt' ITftiuioiiBupiviuiKa beneticent results. In arousing publle Interest In the line arts. Circulars and full information on appi'catiou. Parts I, II, III and IV are now ready. SUTTON'S Leisure-Hour Miscellany. T be completed in 40 parts, Usued for.nlblly. Each part will contain an eleyant rrontlspleoa, originally engraved, tot steel (or the London Art Journal. HEPROIlXIX at a price within the popular reach, cnirravinus never belore ollcred at Uss than five times the amount. These plates have been the attraction of The London Art Journal, Each part will contain C quarto pages, includ ing the Iroutiiplece, on heavy plate paper. 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New York, s IIERIFF'S SALE. riv vlrtaeef a writ of Venditioni Exponas Issu ed out of the Court ol Common Pleas of Somerset co.. and to me directed I will txpose to sale by public outcry, at the Court House in Somerset, on Friday, December ISth 1S74. at 2 o'clock r. w. All the right, title, interest and claim or John I), ltoddy, ot, la and to the Mowing descrltied real estate, Nn. 1. A certain traot of l.tnd situate la Alle gheny tp.. Somerset County Pa., containing Hi acres more or ie9, aiijuiiima; nciiry miner, oiurts Mill property and Hartman A Co., with tbe ap purtenauces. No. 1 The undivided one-half part of a certain tract of land situate In Northampton township In said county, containg 550 acres more or less,' war ranted In the name of Ann Young, of which there are about 25 acres cleared, with a two story dwel ling bouse, barn, water saw mill. fc.e.. thereon erected, adjoining lands of Win. Tressler, JoSiab ill aud Alt, lltnol, witn me appurtenances. No. 3. A certain tract of land situate in tfreen ville township, in said county, containing 4 00 acres more or less, adjoining Henry Knopp, Charles W'i lbeim and others, with the appurtenances. No. 4. A certain tract of land situate In Larl mcr township. In said county, containing 80 acres more or less, adjoining Josian Witt, Josiah and W illlam Tressler, with the appurtenances. No. . The Interest John J. Scbell bad and held In the town of Garrett, being the undivided part thereof or the lots reserved by deft, in a deed recorded in Vol. 44, page a, with the appur tenances. Taken In execution as tha property ol defendant at the suit of A. J. Oolborn, Assignee of John J. Soheil, the Interest In said real estate fee ing restricted to the bnds conveyed by the said Assignee to said defendant by deed dated June 2tU 187L, recorded in Vol. ii, page 23U etc. the lien Of said judgment being restricted and confined to the lands contained In the above described deed. 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