; 1." OFFICERS OF COLITEHIA CO. President Judge—Hon. William Elwell. A ..„,,l ate j u d ges _ Inn Derr, Peter K. Berhein. (Proth'y and kof Cuurts—Jeme Coleman. `Register and Recorder-John O. Freeze. ( Allen Mann, , Commssioners-1 John F. Fowler I Montgomery Cole. Pheriff—Samuel Snyder. Treasurer—John .1. Stiles. Daniel Snyder, Auditors— B Rupert, John P. - Hannon. Commissioner's Clerk—Win. Krickbaum. Commissioner's Attorney—K IL Little. Mercantile Appraiser-4m. Geo. W. UM County Surveyor—lsaao A. Dewitt. District Attroney—Milton M. Trough. Coroner—William J. Ikoler. County Superintendent—Chas. G. Barkley, Asieror4 Internal Revenue—lt. F. Clark. I John Thomas, 18. B. Picnic:, Azisimaut Ahsessor— J. 11. Tkelcr, J. S. WOIHIA. (7elleetor—Benjamin P. Hartman. Dll. E. W. WELLS, SUIVESSOR TO DR. E. V. HARRISON. Ilse taboo Roomy it the American thaw. All or 4111 Iplt there will bo promptly annuli:it to. blitoilioburc Oct. DR. W. H. BRADLEY, (Gate Aseietaist lilediertt Director U. S. Army,) Phi sida and Surgeon. 17 Maw et the &dim Hotel, Illooto.lnn6. veils promptly attended to both night and do.. Illoomeho ell, Nov. dl, tend., WESLEY WIRT, ATTORNEY AT LAW. WW k.lr bEINCRAT AND STAR Building, in SHIVE'S BLOCK• nonmsovnn PA Mkrth •S, 'O7 E. R. 1101811 ATTORNEY—AT—LAW, 13LOOMSBURG ,1 PA. Office, 2nd floor, in Exchange Block, near the "Exchange Hotel." All hapimee itit.pe in his bowie will he attended ar n ith I , touniwi.4 and cure. (Ater thlll4 Illltde With I he let.% pritt•lhle daisy. I Sept. M. M. I'ItAUGII I .111171111 t rti EV-AT-L IV, BLOoItS/1/7t6, ft. practic.; in thu ticveral Courts of Culumb ia adjoitdna rp4taii,4, ijr All Collections promptly rittoithal to. )rifts CHAS.G. SARKLLY, mitudeifey mai -Llivr; BLOOMSBURG, COLUMBIA CO., PA. f ttrtCe in Inn EXeiningn RaU linß, ffecoud start'.':;" ritosopr k Co's. *tors i *wood duor ehove the Ef.to .tiungw 11111,4. PO , toni,barg. Aprit ii, too trll. C. KA It E Counselor and Attorney at Law, BLOOMiDURG, Pa. Woula announce to his (risotto and the public in thel he has mooned the Naomi of Law ni i Cont Oyalleilig and all lewd bosiuess promptly etteeileel VEPtei: in the Exchange Auditing, second story, ever 3t..) ern Drua hheeesteirg, May 1, Int 7. CLE SAVAGE, !Tactical Watchmaker and Jeweler. kIN STREET, (mar the Court Ilottge,) 1:1.0031t 4 11C1W, PA. 4 '..ttglattil V' on band it fine I.otortatient of A wriest) Watcher:. Ckiek iewutry, Silverware and Spf rta. t'rrticulurattention paid to the repairing of Cloaks Wowitea 10141 Jewelry. Ala.onie Slum. made 0.0.. r. All work Warrnaterl. litoottithittg. Aptil 17 1457 10. 2157.11517 D Nu rents Dentist, Extinct* teeth without rain by a new teethed. It is rerPetly ittueitese and is now u.e4 with 'VOW * L W-Le:4. All brAllebtil of Donnetry attended to in the latest gn 0 and mina a poroego Rt.ohleore stud Orwe, ow door nue t of Evan.' Clothing stpre. Ilbeuebure, Nov. 13. 1e67. E=IiIMI The tinder.igned gives nodes to the public goner. , ally that he is a practical WEL,t, UItIGER, and in prepared to dig well* On oliort Notice upon the Wool rea, nagilliktparna. No ban had in hie long expert. CO - ,ntr'thill 'belittlers remarkable rtleteSl4 71106 e wt 1141pItini done in his Ilan would do welt to gin 'atrial, urg June, Er. 1P417, 1-s.l7iiiii:3Tiss, TERINARY SURGEON, lE=l i tole of diseases that harem Mora fs tot cure. uo c lago. Ot au pay. A. VS - .1 Au , • ` EIIETT • GUION, .) A t finnutturg fittotat. TERM!,-11101 00 In admits.. If not veld within SIX MONTHS, 30 cent, additional will be chirped. 3.2" No Purist' discontinued until all arrears's, are paid except at the option of the editor. RATES 01 0 ADVERTISING. sill unnicoorrrrtrre a 'MRS. One plug,e flife or throw InsertloB4,.r.i Si 50 Every subsequent insortlon lei. thiaill3 30 eracr. Ix. Qr. 3r. pr, IT . -- ------ 0,0 • - 0 • ' • .*W t •__„ 1 One wars, 3Oa COO 11.00 Two squares, 3,00 3,0 0,00 0,00 Three .. 3,00 7,00 11, 5 0 Milo Poor egoiernol, OW MAW 1 nolo 14,011 liolf rolon.n,l 10,00 15,00 14.00 1 i s m One column, 1 13,041 ituto 90,00 13%00 Eireetanra and Alifflinletrator's Notice:. Auditor's Notice, 240 Other advertliementa Imported according to special contra% 11111Mueee enticee, without nilverthement, twenty, crate per line. Transientadvertisem h ents payable In sone° ell other's dun liner the heel insertion. (1.7* OFFICE'—IIa Nalve'e Block, Cor.of Main dau Iron Eitreets. Address, W. 11. JACOBY. Blonineaorg, Columbia County. Pa YOU CAN'T TAKE MY UAT We were once traveling over the railroad From Washington city to Baltimore, when we observed a peculiar sort "°of man sitting hard by—a tall, slim, good natured fellow, but one who somehow seemed to bear the impress of a person who lived by his wits, written on his face. A friend, who, was with me, answered my inquiry as to who he was, and at the same time asked Inc to keep hetween the object of my notice end himself lest he should enure over to our seat, as my companion said that he knew him, but did nut wish to recognize him here. "That is Beau Hickman," said. he, "a man that is universally known in Washing- ton as one of the most accomplished &Bows in the city, always roady to borrow of, or drink with you. He never has any money, however, anti I a n t curious to know how he will get over the road without paying, for ho'L do it in some Ivey." "l'robably he has got a ticket—borrowed the-money ti buy it with, or something of that sort," said I. "Not be. Beau always travels free, and bo-trds in the Fame way. Ile never pays money when wit or ticket will pass current in its place,"saidtuy_friend, conffilently. "What a sharking bad hat he has got on," raid I, °list:ll.in); the dilapidated con condition of his bearer. It's sonic trick of his doubtless, the rest or his drew, you observe, is wit° gen teel." "Yes, I F 4,0." sly f,iesid went on to tell me hew Beau had done his tailor out of a receipt in full for his last year's bill, and the landlady at his last boarding place, and also various other specimens of' his ingenuity and wit. "He owed me t dollars," said my (liens' "but in attemptinfin collect it of' him one day, I'll be hanged if lie didn't get ton more out of me, 60 T. think l shall let the waiter rest there, for fear oi' doubling the Han once snore.'' At this= moment !he ceoclereer Petered the lippn•iti. Pld of she car is, gather the tickets nem the passen,:;crs, :sod gire them checks in return. Many of them as is often the 'practice with travelers who are frequently called upon on populous routes to show their t'cl.c:s, and plastid the .e iu the bands of their hats, so that the conductor could see that any were all right, and not trouble them to take them from their pockets at each stopping place. I watched Beau to see what his expedient would be to get rid of paying 14 his passage. As the conduc tor drew nearer Beau thrust his head out the ear window, and seemed absorbed in contemplating the scenery on that side of the road. The conductor spoke to him for his ticket—there was no answer. "Ticket, sir," said the conductor, tap ping him lightly on the shoulder. Beau sprang back into the car, knocking Ins hat into the road, and leaving it in one minute nearly a mile behind. lie looked first towards the conductor, then out of the window after his hat, and in a seeming fit or rage exclaimed: "What the d-1 do you strike a man that way for? Is that your business? Is that what the company hires you for?" "I beg, your pardon, sir, I only wanted your ticket," replied the conductor meekly. "Ticket ! Oh, yes, it's all very well for you to want my ticket, but I want my hat!" replied Bean, bristling up. 'Terry sorry, sir, really. 1 barely de sired to call your attention' and 1 took the only means in my power," said the 'Conduc tor. WILLIAM ROGERS. Q,UORS, WFuEET, GU lUN. "You had hotter use a cane to attract a person's attention next time, and hit him over the head with it if he happens to be lookig the o er way I" replied the indig.. cant Man. EMI Weil, sir, I tun ready to apologise to you again if you wish. I have done so a!- re," said the now disconcerted of ficittt • 1.41 • 111 ens, "Yes, no t, but that don't restore my property, that'a gone." w "Weil, air, I cannot talk any , longer, take your ticket, if you pima," said the duotor. • et? Haveset you knocked it out of iir„lll a s4d all? Do you waut to ticket was in the hat hand ?" BLOOMSBURG, COW F 18 11114.18 NED MIRY WIIDNISDAY IN noomsnußn, PA,, BY WILLIAMSON 11. JACOBY. road then," replied the conductor, attempt ing to go on with his duty, lIIN "The price of a ticket." said Beau is "one dollar, my beaver coat me a V. Your good sense will at once show you that there is a ballance of four dollars in my favor, at any rate." The conductor hesitated. Beau looked like a gentleman to any one not perfectly well posted up in the human fate; he was well dressed, and his indignation appeared most honest. "I'll see you after =I have collected the tickets," replied the conductor, passing on through the car. Beau sat in silent indignation, frowning at everybody until the conductor returned, and came and sat down by his side. Beau then, in an earnest undertone, that we could only overhear occasionally, talked to the conductor "like a father," and we saw the crest fallen man of tickets pay the hat less passenger four dollars ! The trick was at once seen through by both my friend and myself, and the next day over a bottle of wine at the Monument HOMO, Beau told us he was hard up, hadn't a dollar, picked up an old ha at Gadsby's hotel in Washington, clapped his cap in his pocket, and resolved that the hat should carry him to Baltimore; and it did, with bur dollars in the bargain. 10,10 4,00 iN.OO 00.00 40.00 w,OO Some Startling Statement,' by a Radical Senator. Mr. Sprague, of Rhode Island, rarely ob trudes himself upon the Senate ; but his remarks of Friday last on the repeal of the cotton tax were more weighty and worthy of consideration than nine tenths of the plati tudes which the dominant party in that body prefer to inflict upon the country. He in voked attention to the prostrate condition of American industry, and more especially of the great staple, cotton, now being destroyed by the unwise legislation of Congress. Mr. Sprague is, as all know, a large manufactur er, and be is also a large cotton planter. lie ought, therefore, to be master of his subject. A statement from him, that the British manufacturers were now able, by their skill ed lobor and machinery, to produce from the short, dry, and once despised staple of India cotton to produce equal to that obtain ed by us from the American staple, must have been startling to hearers unwilling to -learnany - other lesson - than - Miter ditiiittiii; sive hate. Mr. Sprague told them that he feared they had lost this great interest tor ' ever ; that the control of the question had passed from their hands. He even feared the competition of Indian cotton in Ameri can markets. As for Sea island cotton, he believed that in two years it would only be produced asa rare plant in some gentleman's garden. At this day Egyptian cotton was used in seven eighth of the articles ira which Sea Island cotton was formerly employed. T a plantations of the South were not worth one twentieth part of what they were before the war. After these statements Mr. Sprague might well assert that while En gland conquered territory for the purpose of producing cotton, the dominant party had conquered territory merely to destroy it. Such is the expose of a practical man and a representative of the industrial interest of the country and of the floor of the Senate. If it had been made in a British House of ! Commons, or had been delivered even a few years ago in the American Senate, such an appeal would have excited profound at tention. But what is the destruction of a great national industry the Radical party immersed in schemes of President making ? Their cry is, perish commerce, perish man ufl.cturers, perish cotton, perish the poor negro, who depends on this last induenry for his daily bread, rather than sacrifice one jot or tittle of the revenge by which this party proposes to perpetuate its power. But while these truths may full on closed ears in the Senate, they will not pass unheeded by the great business and mercantile classes of the country. These, and all thinking and patriotic men will inquire what party is re sponsible Car this state of' thins, and they will see that the expulsion of these bad men from power is the first step towards relieving the public dist ress.—.Nahona(lntelligencer. Negro Rule. Late intelligence from the West Indies presents a frightful picture of negro rule in Hayti. The particulars concerning the assassination of Mentos, are well calculated to arrest the attention of the friends of Chris tian civilization in all parts of the world.— After starving him forfour days an ineffect ual attempt was made to complete the busi ness by poison. After this, Salnave, the negro President of the so called Republic, ordered one of his assassins to smother him but this attempt also failed, and howasfinal ly stabbed, and his skull cut to pieces with a chisel. His body wasdelivered to his friends bootless and hatless on boards and conveyed to the cemetery, his friends insisting on burying it without placing it in a coffin. In toxicating liquors were freely distributed to the mop% to induce them to cheer for Pres ident Baklava. The brother of Monta was captured, and chained to the bloody had of his murdered brother Leon. Montef s par ents have been crazed by his assariooon, and have fled to Dominica for fear of the vengeance of the negro Presitiont. Now, as the Radios/I insist 'mow African 'zing ten litotes of this Union, of putting power in the hands of the negro race, is it not time for white men to pause and ponder upon auoh facto aa thaw preanntal with ref- : IA [COMMU;tIICATED.] EDITEATION, XO. BY cum TOMB. Tie ishmatin formeihe mammon Wed : Jost es the teal IS beet the tree Is Inali•terl . 1 P9l, Those, who are most deeply interested in the edwcation of the young, are the parents and teacher. Although we do not say, but all ought to take a deep interest in the edu cation of those, who are to make our futuro Lawyers, Doctors, Statesmen, and Clergy. men, in a word the citizens of this vast Re public ; as they value its happiness, its in tellectual standing, and its moral worth. What proud American, as his ambitious blood boils in his veins to bear off the most conquests in the scientific arena, would fail to look about him with sorrow to see the country lose its intellectual standing by not having all classes in it educated; that the governmental affairs of the United States may be, mare and more intelligent ly conducted. Our government is the peoples government; it is they, who elect their legislators, and it is they, who choose from their midst the executive power. This being the case, is it not to the advan tage of all to have every child in the coun try educated? If so, then, let us one and all take hold of the work, and not only give it our support, but our encouragement. But that the parents and teacher are the most deeply interested in this work is evi dent front the relations they sustain to the children. What fond mother does not, with the greatest anxiety, listen to the his- pings of her infant son, perhaps, thinking when his mind becomes educated, and power of oratory trained, that thousands may be won from error to truth by his winning and persuasive eloquence? Or what father's heart is not filled with pride, to hoar the teacher tell that his son holds the highest position in all his classes. lle looks forward for the tune when this son will be called to compete for the mastery in the active duties of life, thinking that as his labors were crowned with success in his school boy days; so in after life Ito way hold the highest position his country can give hint. But the teacher is ulso deeply in terested in his scholars, not only while at wheel, but in their career in after lite. le almost or lie rhav: the- being, becomes a second parent by curing for and fitstering the infant mind by foe,ling It on mach nourimhtnvnt as will Cause it to grow in knowledge, and mature in wisdom ; until its possessor comesforth with a mind well stored with all the education of the day. And as he enters the contest for notoriety with what eagerness his instructor watches his movements, and when successful, he is exalted with the idea that his instructor has been insteumental in crowning his efforts with success. Then if both parents and teacher are in terested, or at least ought to be, they should en-operate, and talk freely the best interests of the school-parents should visit the school, and Directors at least should spend a half day in their schools each mouth, and, indeed, it ought to be a day. But the pay, the pay, they are not paid for it, they tell you ; but I tell you, they are paid, not in dollars and cents; but in what is bettor, they have the satisfaction of knowing that they have dis charged their duty, and not only encouraged their children to renew their energy in ap- Nying themselves to their books that they may come before their teacher with a well prepared lesson ; but that they are einula ting their teacher to a renewed zeal, that he may show them, that there is an improve ment in the school every time they call. We would, that we could say something that would awake the people to a just view of visiting their school ; and get them out of the notion, that they are over paid, who re ceive a stipulated recompense for their la bors in dollarsand cents : But, if you choose, you may confine the pay you receive to a pecuniary profit and still it is to your ad vantage. You pay your teacher a cortalu salary, and if you do not visit the school, he may not be able to do more in two months than he could in one (it may not be as much as that) if he and your children have the en couragement of your presence in the school, now and then. Now this is no frank of the imagination, but it is true. it is real, and by the time the reader has bad ten years ex perience in teaching, we think, ho will fully agree with this idea, and say: that there ought to be more school visits recorded in the Report Books than there are. But the teacher cannot record them unless be has them; therefore it. is not his fault, then, the fault lays with those who do not visit. It is for the people to bay whether there shall be any improvement in the education al system or not ; and whether it shall not become better, that the children may be sent to school tho whole year ; that when they have grown to riper years, and called from the old domicile to discharge the sterner duties of life, they may be useful men and women. Then arouse from this drowsy forgetfulness, Mid awake to your country's best inunezt, that you may help to make your schools and school system, what they ought to be; and then the United States may have it to say, that thoir com mon schools will favorably compare with the common schools of any country on the Globe. Sir Not long ahem a youth older is wit than years, after being omega- MAJ. Francis F. Shank. Msj. Francis J. Shunt:, who died De cember 15th, was the third son of the late Governor Francis R. Shunk. Ho entered the West Point Academy in 1849, when in his seventeenth year, and graduated in 1853, third in a class of which the late General M'Pherson was head. After service of some years at various arsenals as Ordnance officer and at West Point as an instructor in chem istry, he accompanied the army to Utah in 1858, at the time of the threatened war with the Mormons, and remained in that Territory till the troops were withdrawn. In 1861, at the breaking out of the rebellion he was Ordnance Officer, at the Washing ton Arsenal, and continued in that responsi ble and laborious position until he sailed in the autumn with the Port Royal expedition. After service of some months as Chief of Ordnance at Hilton Head, he was transfer. red to the staff of General l'ope, where he held the awe position during the diastrous campaign of that officer in front, of Wash inaton. After Pope's removal he was as signed to the staff of General McClellan, and was with that great soldier at Antietam and South Mountain. He nerved for a brief period on the staff of General Burnside, was relieved at his own request, and after a few months spent in charge of the Allegheny Arsenal, was made Chiefof Ordnance of the Department of the Gulf, with headquarters at New Orleans. Here he remained until the war was nearly closed, when he was or dered to Richmond, where he has remained since that city was captured. He was Chief of Ordnance on the staff of General Scho field at the time of his death. To those who knew Major Shunk, it is needless to say anything of his great heart and brilliant mind. Thoroughly versed in the severest studies of his profession, he spent his military life in positions of high trust, and filled them well. There was no officer of the old army better known than he, or wanner friends than those whose tears have been shed over his untimely glare. lie was cut off most unexpectedly after an illness of but a few days, in the very maturity of his utrength. His memory will long live dear to many a fond, womanly heart, and in many a brave, manly one.— The highest tribute that can be paid him is to he found in the fact that those who knew stiov - othita, one and all, with the truest and tenderest affection. P '' . l!'n l ll • ~ ., r e taken In Harrisburg for interment. The ago of Major Shank was little wore than thirty-fire years-- York Ga tette. A COLORED DELIMATE VINITSGRANT.— The white Iladiads having failed to elicit any decided expression or opinion frotnGen. Grant, they sent a negro to try his luck a few days since. The Evening rdegrant of the 24th tells the story as follows : General Grant had a novel sort of an ap plicant for admittance to his presence this morning. About half-past ten o'clock a re spectable looking sable citizen wade his ap pearance, and asked to have an interview with the General of the Armies. lie was told that he must send in his name, where upon a colored citizen sat down an indicated a letter to General Grant, in which he ex plained that ho was representative of his African brethren of the South, and came on their part to discover Grant's views on the topics of the day, and more especially re garding the rights of the negro. The letter was taken to Gen. Grant, who sent back an answer that ho was a military officer, and did not desire any conversation on political topics. The colored delegate, however, re fused to be snubbed in this way, and enter ed into an argument with General Dent on the subject. lie told Dent he wanted mere ly to take back with him some comforting assurance that Grant was the friend of the negroes and that he deserved their support. Dent informed him that when Senatcr Wade called ow Grant the conversation was devoted mainly to horses and not to politics. The colored citizen said he did not want to talk horses—that he took no interest in that subject, but in other of more use to general humanity and great political rights. Dent, however was almost as reticent on these matters as Grant himself, amid so the Afri can delegate, after repeated efforts at pump ing, retired disappointed. ST. TIIONIAS ANI) el:BA.—Tho English and French journals recommend Spain, in view of our treaty for the purchase of St. Thomas, to "set her house In order," pre paratory to losing Cuba. It seems to be their opinion that when once the Atnerhans get a foothold among the Islands of the West Indies, it will bo but a question of time as to their obtaining virtual or actual ascendency among them all. The question of time, however, is ono which may decide our own capacity for extending our acquisi tions, as well as that of Spain for resistance. If we pertinaciously cling to a policy which divides and impoverishes the country, wo shall be in no condition to require now pos session abroad, or if wo do will only find in them fresh elements of discord and weak ness. N' During the late bathing Season, a pompous individual walked up to the office of a seaside hotel, and with considerable flourish, signed the book, and in a loud voice exclaimed, "I'm Lieutenant Governor of "That doesn't make any dif ference," says the landlord, "you'll be treat do just as well as the others." The Wonders of.llllagara Re vealed. , The peat gale of last week produced some curious effects at Niagara Falls. The strong easterly gale sent the waters of Lake Erie westward, leaving the ; Niagara River and tributaries lower than ever before. Buffalo Creek cruse low that all the vessels in it wore grounded, and Niagara Falls was a rivulet compared with its native grandeur, The bed of the American branch was denu ded that it was possible to travel in its rocky bed without wetting the feet, and mysteries that were never before revealed came to light on that day. Rocks that heretofore were invisible appeared in their full-grown deformity upon the surface, and the great was the consternation among the finny tribes. The Three Sisters were accessible to foot passengers, and many traversed where human foot never trod with perfect impunity and dry feet. Below the fulls the water was fully twenty fcct lower than usual, and the oldest inhabitant gazed in wonder at the grand transformation. Near Suspen sion Bridge, the celebrated rock at Witmer's mill, upon which a drowning man caught and was rescued several years ago, which barely projects its head above the water, was laid bare twenty feet above the outface. When the gale subsided the water returned to its original course, and "Niagara was herself again." Spider's Bin or Fare for one Day. In order to test what a spider could do in the way of eating, we arose about day break one morning to supply his fine web° with a fly. At first, however, the spider did not come frozu his retreat, so we peeped among the leaves and there discovered that an earwig had been caught and was now being feasted on. The spider left the earwig rolled up the fly, and at once returned to his "first course.," this was at half past live A. M. in September. At seven A. M. the earwig had been demolished, and the spider after resting a wile, and perhaps enjoying a nap, came down for the fly, which he had finished at 9A. M. A little after nine, we supplied him with a daddy-long.legs, which was eaten by noon. At one o'clock a blow fly was greedily seized, and then immediate ly, with a►, appetite apparently no wore for indulgence, t►c commenced on the blow-fly. _During the day and towards evening great many small groan flies, or what arc properly tormf.ii midges, had been eaught in the web : of these we Vtni.ll.• d on* hnn dred and twenty, all dead and fast prisoners in the spider's nest. soon atter dark, pro vided with a lantern, we went to examine whether the spider was suffering from gestion or inaily other way from his previous meals, in stead however, of being thusaffed ed, he was employed in rolling up together the various little green midges, which be then took to his retreat and ate. This pro cess ho repeated, carrying up the lots in little detatehmeuts, until the weL was eaten, for the web and its contents were bundled up together. A slight rest of an hour was followed by the most iudustrous web !Haling prose s. and before daybreak another web wa 4 ready to be used in the same way. The Gold Qoent lon In the Courts. (laid and legal tenders arc coming into collision in the courts, and the question will have to be settled without delay, because the balm.* cannot remain in its present un even condition much longer, without se riously affecting the commercial interests of the whole country. The question will have to be settled, too, upon the basis of com mon sense• For instance, when it:is con tracted that liabilities shall be met in gold they should be liquidated in that material, just the same as if it was contracted that they should be liquidated in cotton, or iron, or any other substance. But if the contract con ails no such spiel ie.i.tion, Ihen it fbLovi 3 naturally, that the debt shall lie liquidated in money, which moans the legal tender of the country. This is the common sense view of the matter, and this view, we have very little doubt, the courts a ill take of the subject when it comes before them for final adjudication. As this time there is a con flict of judgment in the lower courts, both in this city and hi the West ; but the pub lie rely upon the Supreme Court to put the matter to rest Ly a prompt decision.—X Herald. Nagel& Murder. The coroner's jury in the oases of the thirty-nine persons slaughtered by the An gola disaster, on the Buffalo and Erie Ruud, Bud their deaths were caused by the last two cars being thrown off the track by a bent axle in the forward wheels of the rear truck of the rear car of the train, "the axle being se bent (by causes which wo have been un able to diteover) that the wheels dropped from the end of the frog inside of and did not lap on the wing rail, thereby forcing the opposite wheals of that truck off the rail mid the car off the track." The ear had been inspected on that trip, but the bent axle was not discovered, and could only Lave been discovered by mechanical testa more accurate than the ordinary inspection. The cause of the disaster seems to have been all of a character to elude ordinary or even ex tntonlinary vigilance, and the verdict of the jury will absolve the company from blame in the general judgement of tbo public.— Y: Tribune. Mr The Paris Exhibition building is about to be eold, there being no further use MMOMPPI 'rho Man who Mot at queen Victoria. The I3ri:iel► 31cdical Journal hays : "Atha' twenty-seven years of confinement in a aim inal lunatic asylum, during which his con duct has been exemplary, and no traces have appeared of Mental aberation, Oxford, the potboy, who shot at her Majesty in Bt. James Park, has ken liberated. Daring this time many appeals have Leen made in his behalf by influential persons who have had the opportunity of watching his de meanor and gauging his character. His own story has always been, and was so con sistently from the first, that the pistol which he fired was not loaded. It will he remem bered that no bullet was ever found. He attributes the criminal act which he has ex. putiated by long immurement, and which, under a less mureiful government, must have cast his life, to inordinate vanity, fostered by a variety of' trivial circumstances in his domestic life and training on which we need not dwell, and which led to a senseless desire to attain notoriety by soul means ; and this criminal and foolish impulse led to his lamentable crime. He has occupied his time in a certain amount of self education of which the means have been granted to him at Broadroom, and in the asylum in which he was formerly confined, and has become a tolerable linguist. He has also taught himself, and practiced 'graining,' which he does sufficiently well to earn a living. He Las been mercifully released, but has ken very properly prohibited from remaining in or visiting England. Whether directly insane at the time of his offenc.!, or led by a miserable love of no. toricty, it is very right that the person of the Sovereign should be protected from the van ity of a man who,at however distant a period, could commit the cowardly outrage of which lie was the perpetrator " Wangs of toe Worlltlngsvoinen. One (lay last week, a starving girl caused the arrest of her employer fur refusing to pay her fur making woolen pantaloons at 16 cents a pair, while he, being a "middle I man," received 00 cents fur the work, and his wife kicked her out of doors because she demanded what was her just due. Like cases, but perhaps not so flagrantly outra geous, arc of frequent occurrence. A cor ms 'tide alle.attentien to he necessity of legislation to protect the workingwornen, and says • "There are tlimisimd: of isnlaistruu.s wee Men in this city who have to work hard for $3 a Week—less than enough to furnish the bare necessaries of life." "A class of mid dle men and women," correspondent continues, "arc persistently advertising in this city fur good operators on linen coats, and they pay only from S to 1.1 cents each, four coats being an average days work-. A visit to the !piece-paid factories of this city as they arc called, *mild move the heart of even the most stolid. There, crowded to- gether in.ill-lightilt, badly ventilated rooms, are hundreds of those half-starved, half-clad, less than halt paid daughters of toil. Al though still young„ the buoyancy of youth has departed from their spirits, and the glow of health from their cheeks. Sorrow and suffering have plowed deep furrows in their countenances, and still they are forced to tcil though the brow be fevered and the frame exhausted. This is when business is prod. When the market is fill, and trade dull the workingwonten is the first to suffer, for then comes reduction of wages and loss of work, and the poor girl, driven to despera tion, has but one alternative—starvation or a life of crime.. And 3ct in the midst of all this, the employers are growing immensely rich. While the Society for the Prevention of cruelty to animals has seeured the passage of just laws, and caused the penalties to be visited upon the inhuman wretches that willfully or carelessly inflict unnecessary pain upon the helpless beast, who will interest himself in the prevention of cruelty to wo men, and bring down just odium upon their oppressors." The communication closes with: "The fellow who fired his store the other day in order to cheat, the insurance Companies out of 860,000 and is now under I arrest, never had $6,000 worth of property in his life ; but for years past bud beep i practicing every kind el imposition upon his employees, amid payed them in full only what compelled by 1aw...---Xem Tribune. MEM Surviving an Execution. The Italian journals tell a singular story. A soldier who had deserted and taken to a dag; wrs captured and sentenced to death. Being brought out to the place of execution, a firing party of five performed their painful duty, and the sergeant com manding there perceiving that the man WOA not quite dead, gave him point-blank the corp-de-graee. In the belief that this was really the finishing stroke, the body waa handed over to the grave-digger ; but as night was approaching the latter postponed his office until the morning, !caving above ground what he naturally supposed to be a corpse. The unfortunate wan, however, was still alive, and the cold night air, by irrita ting his wounds, revived him. rainfir/ly he dragged himself to the wall of the enclo sure, against which he manged to place a ladder which happened to ho there, pit over, although all bleeding and bin arm bra. ken by the hullet%, and delivered himself u , , as prisoner at the nearest guard Louse. The Ministers of War and of Justice cavil claini this mutilated victim of me,tial law, bat the beligris that he will be portioned. Sot. 11 4 El a
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