CURRENT NEWS. —jh New York uses 9,000,000 eggs a week. Kansas will cultivate gva}>es extensive ly this season. Cincinnati expended, in 1868, for street cleaning purposes, 8184,000. Prof Bond, a wire-walker, fell oft' and broke his neck lately at Charleston, Mass A married man in Pittsburg lately ran away with two widows. Why are elections like*tcnts? Because the canvass ends at the JMJIIS. | \ A j, Beautiful extract. —A handsome lady just helped ont of a mud hole. A Eutaw (Ala.) editor, takes dogs in payment for subscriptions. Horace Greeley is to lecture on poultry culture. Horace is posted on foul subjects. "An Ohioan lias sent Grant a segar six feet long. What offiee would he like?—he can take his choice. The presiding'burgomaster of the free eitv of Hamburg was, in his youth, a dry goods clerk in a Philadelphia store. A.dog in Portland has learned the human aiiiUsement of sliding down hill, and draw his own sled up, mounts it and rides alone. Wendell Phillips is reported as saying that his lecture on "Lost Arts" needn'tcon •eern the Lubes, they not having lost any ! Mudd having been released from the I)ry Tortugas, can bo seen at any time anywhere rdong Main street "Washington correspondents noto that Grant's father tumbled down staire while his son was tumbling up. The contract price for the granite required fbr the new Masonic Temple, in Philadelphia is J?;*OU.ooo. The bridge proposed to unite New York and Brooklyn, will, if built, have the enor mous span of 1,600 feet. T>r. Mudd has returned from the Dry Tortugas, where he was sent for setting the broken leg of a sufferer. Ia New South Wales horses sell for two cents apiece. This" knocks velocipedes higher than a kite. Wood is so scarce in France 5 that they save their sawdust, mix it with glue and press it in moulds, making, it is said, very good imitations of carved wood. TRAVELER. —"Show me to a room with a good fire, waiter, I'm so duced wet; and then bring me a glass of ale, for I'm awful dry." Forney thinks "the appointment of Lougstreet is a d—d pretty way to make treason odious." Forney has not yet got au office. The methodist church at St. Jose, Cal ifornia, was burned recently because the paster taught and attempted to convert Chinese. There are two inconsistencies in this world that arn hard to understand. Everybody is anxious to get to heaven, but no one is m a hurry about it, A young lady iu Outagamie county, Wisconsin, was charged with putting on "airs" because she refused to go to a ball barefooted. Josh Billings says one live man in a vil lage, iz like a ease of itch at a district school, —he sets everybody scratching at once. An Erie(Pal damsel was recently crimp ing her front hair with a hot fiat iron. It slipped and crimped a strip of cuticle off the full length of her face, Mr. DonnPiatt claimß to lie a Republican, but a Radical paper thinks he had better take in his sign. That advice will do the whole Radical party. There is an old English statue which pro lubita people from getting married after a certain hour in the day, because such a solemn obligation ought to be entered into only when the parties are duly sober! A printer's apprentice says that at the office they charge him with all the pi they do find, and at the house they charge him with all they don't find. He does not un derstand that kind of logic. Nearly fifty bodies have been washed ashore near the scene of the Mittic Ste phens disaster, in lied River, Louisiana.— One lady was identified by 2 wedding rings on her fingers, each bearing her name. Governor Brownlow's pardons last year number over three hundred. The old rep robate will soon need some one to pardon him, put the keeper into whose hands he will fall, never pardons. A New England publisher has just issued the the life of St. Paul, a volume intended to sell among Christians. That publisher will never get his money back unless he follows it with the life of Fred Douglass. MARRIAGE EXTRAORDINARY. —Married at Sun berry, Mass., by the Rev. Mr. Cran berry, Mr. Nehemiah Blackberry, to Miss Catharine Elderberry, of Daubury, We hope the desendonts will not prove to be gooseberries. Mr. Gilpin, of Colorado, has written a letter to prove that under the Rocky Moun tains, "solid masses of gold of incalculable magnitude and weight." All that is wanted ia an eligible hole, and gold will soon be a drug. * BRISTLE SPLITTING. —On the 9tli inst.a prisoner was being tried at Independence, Mo., on au imlictmontfor stealing "a pig." The Judge decided that "a hog" was not "a pig." ami as the animal stolen was proved tola- "ahog " the Judge ordered the prison er to be discharged. Alas, Alaska! It is proposed to make of our new territory a home for transported criminals. What has that poor country done to be thus outraged? Or is it the de sire of the Radical party to secure homes in this world as far removed from their homes iu the next as possible? In St. Joseph, Mo., a few nights ago, several cliaps bored their way into a celler to reach some barrels of whisky there stored. Cougress should pass a law prohibiting this, else some jxTson, in a fit of dryness, com mence boring some of the members of that body, iu their anxiety to obtuiu whisky. A young married woman, whose husband j was "gone to the war," heard the remark j that the government wanted more cavalry I and infantry. She replied, tliat she knew I nothing about cavalry, but added with a sigh, that if more infantry wero needed tlx* government had better send some of the volunteers home agaiu. (Tl)e pemotrat. HARVEY SICKLER, Editor. TUN KHAN NOCK, PA. Wednesday, Apr. 7, 1869. 4Sy-Oeorge S. Twitcheli, the Philadel phia murderer, is have made a con fession in which he declares that his wife killed her mother, Mrs. Hill. He after wards helped to throw the laxly out of the window. THE BLUNDERING PRESIDENT. —And now, Attorney General Hoardecidos that Grant's action recalling certain pordonß granted by Johnson, was illegal, What with the A. T. Stewart blunder in asking for the repeal of the Act of 1789, and this blunder in rela tion to pardons, Grant begins his adminis tration in a poor way to gain the confi dence of the people. But what better could be expected of a man who accepted the office of President without fear ? • GRANT DR.FRATP.N. —Both houses of Con gress have passed the amended Tenure-of- Officc bill. It merely differs from the old bill in this : that it gives Grant the power to make removals from office without tlio consent of the Senate but retains the privi lege to the Senate to interpose objection if it chooses. So Mr. Grant is tied to party, and if he should become unruly on the hands of the Bumpers they can readily "shut down" on him ! *®-Sp ecial elections were held, ou Tues day last, in forty-six counties of Indiana for members of the Legislature, to fill va cancies caused by tho resignation of the Democratic iucumbents to prevent the Radicals from forcing the XVth Amend ment upon the people against the will of the majority. In nearly every county the resigning members were renominated, uud -in all they were renominated, and in all they were elected, the Radicals not even dan ug to muke a fight iu defense of their legislative scheme. It is now fully proven that the people are against the proposed action of the majority in the Indiana Leg islature, and the Democrats should defeat it by the use of all -just aud allowable means. 8)c&~ Let us see how sensibly the Mongrel press can talk about the negro when they are not trying to use him as a voter to keep themselves in power —the following is from the Albany Evening Journal, which is polit ically as dark as the black hole of* Calcutta : "Tho repugnance to certain associations and affiliations is perfectly natural. * * * There are physical and mental differences | between the two races which separate them [by an inexorable law of repulsion, and which can be overcome by no amount of humanitarian philosophizing or philan thropic legislation. The white does not ac cept the black as a congenial fellow and as j sociate. And he never will. * * We be lieve that sensible colored people will agree with us on this point. They see that nei ther their own happiness nor their position in society will be improved by ignoring the differences which the Almighty lias created. No black man with a proper sense of self respect would seek to crowd himself into society where he was not wanted, and where he must be conscious that all around regard him as an inferior." Take notice, ye niggers, that you will do to vote for Mongrel party, but you are not good enough to attend one of its balls. When your vote is wanted you are a ' 'man and a brother," but when you want to dance with your white friends von are only a "nasty nigger." Let the Fifteenth Amendment be Ex tended to Africa. Just now, says the Lancaster Intelligen cer, when the Radicals are in such a hurry to enfranchise the negroes that they refuse to wait long enough to allow the people of Pennsylvania to express tlieir opinion on the subject, it might be well to take a look at Sambo in his own home. There, in a climate peculiarly suited to him, iu a land the most fertile under the sun, the African race has lived for about six thousand years. He has had opportunities for advancement equal to those which any of the white race ever on joyed. How has he improved them ? Let the following extract from a periodical answer. The article in LippincoWt Maga zine for April, entitled 'Our Globe in 1869,' sums up the advances made in civilization during the year 1868. This it says is the state of Africa. "The West coast of Africa presents no new discoveries. The suppression of the slave-trade seems to have had a baneful in fluence on that unfortunate land, for the wars continue, but the captives are now more generally eaten than sold. European sailors and merchants are often forced to witness horrible scenes-of wholesale canni balism ; and the enmity of the natives against foreigners, including missionaries, has only been increased by the loss of for mer profits." Here is a subject which demands the in. atant attention of Cougress. Wouldn't the XVth Amendment reach this case ? We are gravely told that it is calculated to lift the barbarian negroes of this country to a condition of perfect e quality with the white race, and, if it has such virtue, it ought to be able to do something for their relatives who are eating each other up at home. Let a resolution be passed extending it to all Africa. It will do just as much to elevate the negro there as here. If the right of suffrage be the great elevator as is claimed to be, its application ought to l>c made universal. Let it be at once extended to all Africa. The Public Enemy at Hai riaburg. •> j Oonld •we spare the space, we would cite the various emphatic denunciations of the Radieal members of this Legislature, in which even the Radical press have lieen constrained to join with Democratie and neutral papers. Such a set of vidians as most of our present legislators probably never before bartered and sold the interest •of the people. The few decent men among them sometimes join iu opposition to | schemes too barefaced for any excuse ; but i the opposition has been, we regret to say, too often ineffectual. On Saturday last, i our Radieal eotemporary, the Inquirer, in J commenting on the disgraceful conduct of two Radical members, added some just re marks of wider application : "These are the men our citizeus have gravely gone to the polls and chosen to represent our great Commonwealth. To such triflers and speculators we have en trusted the making of our statutes, the framing of our laws, the regulation of our trade, the care of our sacred rights and franchise. They hold the States, its gra vest interests, its power and progress, in the hollow of their hands ; they hold, also, the citizen, vested right of property ; also, measurably, his liberty, for to them it is given to say what shall, or shall not, be telonous or criminal—what shall be right in law itnd what "wrong." The Morning Post says it wero better to have no Legislature than such a Legisla ture : "The Pennsylvania Legislature is a body of men, some of whom have been known to spend throo or four thousands of dollars for the privilege of serving the State at three dollars a day. Its duties are ironi cally said to be to make laws for the good of the jieople, to provide sufficient revenue, to take care of the great agricultural, man ufacturing and commercial interests of the State. In this fiction our grandfathers were weak-minded enough to believe, but now anybody who should mention such olisolete ideas at Harrisburgwouhl be hoot ed out of the town." ******* "Tlie people of Pennsylvania have long looked upon these proceedings at Harris burg with fear and disgust, but have nev er been able to correct them. Year after year they elect the same class of men to the Legislature, aud groan under the abuses, extravagance ami corruption of their ty rants. It seems'impossible for them to re form tho character of their so-called repre sentatives." It is thus tliat tlie Itadicai editors cry out when they feel, in their own pockets tire Hitching lingers of these legislative job bers. Why are our Radical eoteniporaries silent, when the same polluted hands are thrust into the ballot-box, and the votes of thousands of onr"citizens are dragged out aud cast aside like waste paper ? These are the men—corrupt beyond measuro or denial—who have now undertaken to give this city its judges, and who are higgling and caucusing over a scheme to give us a police of tlicir kidney. They do, indeed, as the Inquirer says, "hold the State in the hollow of their hand ;" and, in the same itching palm, lies this great eitv, with all its interests. It is to Harris burg, to the foul purlieus of the State Capital, that a party in our midst transfers the conduct of our municipal affairs, tlie review of our municipal elections, the choice of our local judges! All to bo managed, out of the sight of Philadelphia, by hien whose knav ery nobody denies—they do not deny it themselves ! They advertise it—to draw business ! Judge Green bank is probably not the only victim. It is even easier to blot out a district than to upset an election There is a bill now in the Senate to destroy the judicial district of Lycoming, because the transactions of certain prominent Rad icals there have been brought into the Court for examination. The llarrisburg P'llrint MIX A : "We solemnly make the appeal to honest men of all parties in the good Common wealth, Look to your judicial districts ! If this infamous oiil can lx' retained, not a judicial district in the State is secure from the polluted grasp of the bandits of the Legislature and lobby. Judges and court will be driven to the necessity of purchas ing the forbearance of the ring to maintain their existence, or a deeply wronged and insulted people will be compelled to rise and lash the mercenaries out of the legisla tive lialls. Railroads and mining corpora tions, it seems, do not furnish a sufficient amount of plunder; and the ring, in raven ous hunger for spoils, has begun an attack on the courts, which have been hitherto deemed inviolate. If this Lycoming job be not defeated, there is not a court in the Commonwealth safe from the assaults of the ring." The Radical party that elected the ma jority of this Legislature is responsible for its infamous character. Especially respon sible are those who carry up to that corrupt and incompetent body the municipal af fairs of Philadelphia. To Harrisburg fly the kindred spirits of the "Ring" of this city to bemoan their loss of power and to plot its restoration. The people of Phila delphia made one vigorous effort, last fall, to free themselves from this horde of plun derers. We rescued the city from them.— This full we must rout them out of their last stronghold at Harrisburg.—Philadel phia Aye. Cm: AN orr MI: HAUEIIS. —A Radical la dy, who is employed in the Treasury De partment at Washington, has written a let ter to the Independent, in which she mokes very serious complaints in regard to the morals of many of the female clerks. .She concludes with this indignant appeal : We (/uylit not to he insulted hi/ hariny the paramours ami mistresses of members of CoiV/ress forced uj/on ns, and he Miyed to loh-rale their society day by day. That there arc many such creatures oc cupying the position and receiving the sal aries of clerks without doing any work is well known in Washington. Radical mem bers of Congress have converted the de partments into harems, and their de bauched and petted beauties are supported at the expense of the tdx-payers of the country. To such a condition has the par ty of great moral ideas brought us. to?" "On to Washington," is now the cry of the grand army of office seekers. Senator Sprague on the Situation. GOT. Sprague of Rhode Island, hereto fore, one of the most radical of ndicals, begins to show sign* of returning reason. Even he, begin s to see that everything ia not lovely. His assertion, that he has spent his money more freely, than any of co-conspirators, in order to bring the Coun try to its present ruinous condition ; shows on what the party "of great moral ideas" base their claims to honors and preferment; and shows how deep must be his shame and eoutritiou when he shall see himself as others see him. Read what he says : "Sir, I have been deeply interested in the success of the Republican party, In means I have contributed more than any other member of this body, and in charac ter quite as much to the furtherance of that success. In point of means, I think my contributions in that direction would offset tho contributions of all the other members of the Senate. ****** And what position do wo occupy to day ? Is there peace at the South ? Is there a spirit of linrmunious influence here in this Senate toward those people ? Is there government among those people ? Do their occupations prosper ? Are they not in a state of chronic revolution ? And have you not had four long years in which to as sure peace among that people ? I have called to the individual attention of Senators, and I have called to the atten tion of the body, the fact of the loss of nearly all—l may say, to-day, all of your industrial interests ; but the apathy which seems to have been inoculated into every nerve and into every vein of this body and of tho country, will not allow them to be lieve it until the mischief is upon them. Your immigration fell off thirty thousand last year from the year before. Why ia that so ? Is it not a clear case that it must be so ? Where can these people obtain employment by coming here ? If they take possession of the farms at the West can they produce sufficient to supply them selves, at the cost of everything now, with the necessaries of life ? Sir, it cannot be done. They cannot come here ; and is it not a shame and a disgrace to all your leg islation that it should be so ? You have lost your commerce. You ask the reason for it; and there is man in this chamber that gives a satisfac tory reason for the loss except and l>ecanse we are not paying specie for our bill. The reason is plain and simple that the con struction of your treasury is such that you, in common with the capitalists of this country, aro speculating upon every indus try and upon every laboring occupation. That is the reason, and there is no other. I told yon the other day that the condition in which the crops of the South were placed consequent on high prices was the most dangerous and disastrous position that it was possible to place them, for tho apparent high prices here give a stimulous to the operations in and the pro duction of cotton in Eygpt, in India and in Brazil. It Is my deliberate judgment, and nobody can gainsay it, that in five years you will be clamoring here for a tar iff' to keep out foreign cotton. How are. you going to pay your debts with that state of things ? Send more bonds to Eu rope, send more of your capital away from the industries of the people ! ****** There is a paralysis throughout this body and throughout the country. I have pointed to Mexican society, I have pointed to Spanish society, I have pointed to Ital ian society, and if I have read anything I find that when they, powerful, civilized, re fined, commenced the demoralization and loss of honor and virtue and prosperity, they occupied a similar position to that in which this country is placed to day. I favored the election of General Grant in opposition to the aspirations of one con nected with me by family ties. I did that because I felt that Grant had not learned the practices of those who had hail charge of the government, that he would have ca pacity to see through the intricacies of the things about him, and would judge more correctly of the exact condition in which things were, unbiased, unprejudiced, unin fluenced. I watched his inaugural with anxiety. I listened to every word that he uttered. I watched his countenance. I re sponded to the words wherein he professed himself to be the champion of freedom and liberty : that he should be independent and fearless in the discharge of his duties ; but I went away with a sorrowing heart when I heard that clause in his inaugural that he would protect the government debt. I saw that the canker that had possessed the body politic of the American nation had got to him. I went away disheartened, sorrowing, alarmed. Sut, sir, I will not give up the ship, even with that impres sion. I hope he will discover the error in to which he has been led by bad advisers, and will retract, retrograde, turn away, as he would from a charnel-house." lted"The refusal to permit the people of Pennsylvania to vote upon tho adoption or rejection of the Negro Suffrage Amendment is the grossest outrage that was ever perpe trated. When the Radical members of our State Legislature decided to force the mat ter through without discussion on their part they admitted their utter inability to defend the course they decided to pursue. They knew they could not stand up and discuss the proposition to submit the ques tion to the people- The white men of this Commonwealth will read the proceedings with proper feelings of indignation, and when the next election comes they will be reaily to choose a Legislature which will re tract the ratification as promptly as it was endorsed. The issue is made up, and the result is not doubtful. The Radicals can not shirk the discussion before the people. Outrage by a Negro Man in Franklin County, Followed by an Attempted Mob. From the Chumbersbqrg Valley Spirit, of Wednesday last, we obtain the following particulars of a beastly crime and its dis graceful consequences r On Thursday, about noon, a negro went to the house of Mr. Wm. Oliver, in Guilford Township, about 2 l a miles •from this Boro. Mr. Oliver and his wife were both away from home. A step-daughter of Mr. Oliver, named Ida Reinhart, who is about thirteen years of age, had also been at aneighboriiyg house, but at noon went home to feed the pigs. She was in the house getting the necessary feed when the negro went there, and had the door locked. He came to the door but she .refused to admit him. He pretended to be hungry and demanded bread threatening to burn down the house if she would not let him ia. Terrified at these threats, she opened the door, when "the black seouudrel seized her, threw her upon the floor and outraged her person. The little girl is protty badly injured. The negro then took with him from the house a razor and a small sum of money which was lying on a mantel. Mr. Oliver's house lies in a south-easterly direction from town. The negro then left and, crossing roads and fields, got round to the road leading from this Borough to Scotland in a north easterly direction from town. About a mile from here, a gentleman resides by tho name of John Landis. The negro accosted a lit tle boy whom he saw there and asked him if there were any men about. The boy said no. Just then a young lady named Lydia DetwiLh-r was seen passing through afield some