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NSW YORK Y. PENNSYLVANIA.
The following paragraph appeared in
the New York Sun of a recent date :
" When in 1863 the rebel army invaded
Cumberland and York counties the Penn
sylvanians contented themselves with for,
tifying their capital, fretting themselves
about Philadelphia, and imploring New
York to send-its State volunteers down to
Gettysburg to drive Lee's army out of the
Steve. It is now a matter of history that
the Pennsylvania militia did absolut*l?
Nothing toward repelling the rebel invasion.
* Pennsylvania had ample warn
ing of Lee's purpose. and by timely action
might have mustered a militia force which
would have deterred Lee from pene• rating
the State with the Union army close upon
his heels , but time was frittered away in
idle speculation. * We used
to disbelieve the story about the miserly
Amore who sued a man for damages, on
the charge that, rescuing him from drown
ing in a mill pond. the man had accident
ally torn the miser's coat. We can doubt
the truth of that story no longer."
• The above ray of Sua•ahine, the Harris
burg Patriot thinks, is 'about the coolest
that we have had in this region lately.
Pennsylvania certainly did not play the
miser when she gave to the Federal Gov
ernment her four hundred thousand fight
ing men—more than any single State in
the Union—more than the great "Empire
State," which outnumbers her in popula
tion nearly a iiillion souls. If she•was
comparatively defenceless in 1863, it was
because elm had bankrupted herself for
the general good ; and, if she demands re
imbursement now, New York nor any
other State should object, for by her pa
triotic sacrifices she saved them from fill
ing their quotas and sending their militia
to the front. The Government was legal
ly bound to protect Pennsylvania ; more
especially as her boundaries were greatly
exposed and Ilia great mass of her fighting
material was in the Facie* armies. As
the Government failed properly to do so,
Pennsylvania is justly entitled to what is
claimed, if not for service by the militia,
at least as damages. • •
As regards " imploring New York. to
send bet State volunteers," it is a pity
that such is true, and still moreuso that
'New York responded. Not only are we
compelled to 'have the fact thrown con
tinually in our teeth, but the recollection
is said to be scarcely more pleasant to
those residinglidong the line of march
than the reminiscences of rebel visita
tions;
Trin AGE OF FRAVD. '
Certain periods of the past are known
as the l " golden age," " the age of grace."
Ic. .Future historians will find no diffi
catty to proving that the present is the
Axe of Fraud. Every newspaper, nearly,.
t•
ninestenthe of all of which are upon the
Govrrment, and by those "loyal " off'
cers mho haie frequently blessed God and
congratulated their country that they
were better than other men—especially
"copperheads." Thus, we read of frauds
at Washington, by which departmtnt
elerks, in collision with outside "loyal
ist'," attempt to pass an immense amount
of bogus claims for sel4iers' arrearages
and bounties through the Auditor's of
fice. Then, we read of mustering offices;
in New York having made a "good thing"
out of furnishing individual substitutes at
State and Government -expense. Then.
of revenue officers at Philadelphia, who
were too heavily interested in tobacco
manufacture for the interests of the Gov
ernment to prosper. / And so on, from
chapter to chapter, and ' , from phase to
phase—fraud, fraud, fraud t - With the
exception of a few; insignificant scoun-
drels--just enough to keep the • police'
force vin organizatioFt—every thief in the
country seems to be either in office or to
have a bosom friefict or a blood relation
who is. I
Tun Chidago Tri4se, the recognized Re•
publican organ of the north-west, shows
clearly that the aptagonism between the
President and Congress is such thatilo ad
justment is possible, short of the.complete
backing down of one or the othor4 " Ag
ate," the well known cartesponde of the
Cincinnati Gazette (Rep.) presents the les,
tures of the situation at Washington in
very much the same light. He says :
It is not to be denied that the prospects
are squally. If s as it would now seem, the
'resident has determined to force through
his reorganizing . policy,a collision is inevi
table. Congress ts really more determined
on this point than it wakon the Brat day
of the session. A number of gentlemen
have, it is true, sloughed off from the
un
wieldy majority ; and still more, under the
potent pressure of executive influence are
sure to do the if.me thing. But the•bone
and sinew of the' Union majority, fthe men
who act froMN , tionvictions and not from
anxiety for the second-band dispensation
of morsels from the White House kitchen,
have no notion whatever of reversing or
Modifying their action.
Tax Buffalo daily Courier has a simple
question it wishes to put to its radical co
temporaries, and we hope they will an
swer it. Should Congress refuse to admit
the Representatives of the Southern States
to their seats, on the ground that they are
out of the Union, what will they do with
theaters which represent those States upon
" the old flag 1 " Do they themselves pro
pose to deface the flag about which they
have made such a noise ? Let us have an
answer, gentlemen, to this simple ques
tion. --
As a reason for leaving Senators Sauls
bury and McDougall off the standing
committees of the Senate, it is stated that
they are intemperate. The correspon—
dent of the Chicago Thies wants to know,
if that Is the true reason, why Sprague, of
Rhode Island, the son-in-law of Chief
Justice Chase, who was drunk during the
whole of the eventful period of last ses
sion, and Dick Chandler, of Michigan, a
confirmed toper, are not similarly treated.
. The Thirty sixth Congress, by the act of
February 21, 1861, appropriated for refurn
ishing the President's house twenty thou
sand dollars, to be expended under the
direction of the President, in addition to
the proceeds of the sale of such of the
furniture and equipper as might be dam
aged and unfit for use; and also brty-four
hundred and twenty dollars for introduc
ing the Potomac water into the President's
house. The same Congress, nine days of
ter, by act of March 2, 1861, appropriated
for annual repairs of the Preside nt's houre,
furniture, &c., six thousand dollars. The
Thirty-seventh Congress, under date of
March 1, 1862, appropriated for annual re
pairs of the President's house and furni
ture five thousand dollars ; and by the
same act appropriated twenty-six hundred
and thirteen dollars to enable the Com
missioner of Public Buildings to pay for
the purchase and repair of plate, and re
pairing the gas fixtures of the President's
house ; and by the same act made a fur
ther appropriation of forty-five hundred
dollars for a deficiency on account of paint
ing and papering the President's house in
the autumn of 1862. The same Congress
(the 37th) inserted in the deficiency bill of
February 12, 1863; an appropriation of one
thousand dollars to supply the deficiency
in the former appropriation for annual re
pairs of the President's house, and RIM
under date of March 3, 1863, appropriated
six thousand dollars for annual repairs of
the President's house and furniture. The
Thirty-eighth Congress on July 2. 1864,
appropriated six thousand dollars for an
nual repairs of the President's home and
furniture, and three thousand dollars, in
addition, for repairing, refitting and re
furnishing the President's summer resi
dence at the Soldier's Home. In addition
to the above, this same Congress appropri
ated twelve thousand dollars to enable the
Commissioners of Public Buildings to
cause the stable at the President's house
to be rebuilt.
Here are appropriations made and ex
pended by the Republican party in less than
four years, of upwards' of MINTY THOU
SAND DOLLARS ($70,000) for Tarnishing
houses and stables for the President.
But this is not all ! Mr. Thad Stevens,
from the Committee on Appropriations,
has just stated to the House that a further
expenditure of THIRTY THOUSAND DOLLARS
(S3O 000) must be had at once to provide
furniture for the executive mansion.
This last sum will make one hundred
thousand dollars of Republican expendi
ture in five years, chidl7 on the furniture
of a house ! Think of it , tax-payers 1
But the worst is yet to come. The gov
ernment has next to nothing to Show for th
enormous ambunt.— World.
NE.O ILO BILIFFILI66.
If the Northern negro, who has always
been free, and has bad opportunities for
mental improvement, is /teemed unfit to
vote by ihe Northern States. they are in
no position to insist that the Southern ne
gro, whose faculties have been kept dwarf
ed and benighted by life-long slavery,shall
be admitted to the Southern polls. The
abstract question whether the black man
ought to be allowed to vote has nothing to
do with the caso. The point is, that until
we of the Nortl establish that suffrage for
ourselves, we have no right to force it 4%
on others. The Divine apothegm, ' Phy
sician heal thyself,' would confound us
the very first instant vveshould undertake
on ~iis subject, relating to the late insur
rectionary States. There is no war hut to
leave this matter ,tvircre the Constitution
left it, to the discretion of each individual
S'ate. No action by Congress upon the
subject of freedmen suffrage can have an'
practical result. All talk about it is un
warrantable, because it is morally certain
that nothing substantial can come from it,
and it is only calculated to delay recon
struction unnecessarily.
• The Cincinnati Commercial (Rep.) states
the position of the Radicals as follows :
The policy of Charles Sumner and Thad.
Stevens, which the-radicals areal] braying
it is treason to opp"ee, comes to this—that
in the States lately in rebellion the whites
shall be disfranchised and the blacks en
franchised ; that these States shall not be
admitted to the privileges of the Union
until their governing class is black. This
is the actual issue the crazy. hairy, -head
long fanatics are trying to force upon the
.ountry, and which they are not loudly
but deeply cursing the President for op ;
posing, while they are hypocritically fawn
ing upon him, and vociferously protesting
that it must be impossible that be can dis
agree with them, for they are the only ex
ponents of the immaculste in politica,ar:d
the authorized expounders of law and
gospel, vested with the exclusive preroga
tive of separating the sheep from the goats
in this world.
NEW ENGL./01D PROPIT9.—The Boston
Journal says •that the dividends for tbe.
past six months already announced by
manufacturing, railroad and other corpo
rations in New England, or which will
shortly be made public, as they are pay
able in January, denote a degree of pros
perity without a parallel. It has beep th•
best six months ever known by the man
ufacturers of cotton, several paying as high
as twenty-five per cent., while the divi
dends are large, showing an increase over
former years. It is worth'something to
New Englaud to control Congress. Her
negro philanthropy pays good dividends.
MESDARLS E. Cady Stanton, Lucy Stone
and Sucan B. Anthony, all of them ardent
advocates of woman's rights, 'have ad
dressed a 'petition to Congress, asking an
amendment of the Constitution of
United States that will. prohibit hereafter
the States respectively trzm disfranchising
any of their citizens on the ground of sex.
They claim that fifteen millions of white
women have quite as much right to be in
vested with the suffrage as four millions of
blacks. - ,
TICKLISI! TDIZB FOP. OFFICZ-HOLDERS.-
These are ticklish times for office-holders.
They await the .news from Washington
with intense anxiety, and are as non-com
mittal as possible upon the "questions at
issue." Look out, gentlemen ; you must
do more than admire the "good temper"
of 'the leading conservatives I The Pre*
dent has his eye on you 1
Tux Memphis Gonunoviat of the 2141
says : ' For the first time since his deposi-
tion by Jefferson Davis, Joseph E. John
son met General Sherman, evening before
last, at the Gayoso House. ' It is needless
to say that the greeting of these wow kind
ly and cordial.'
FA*I4I I I7X.IO. I 4IT.IIIMI4Ire 1 1
That the 'Republican party will soon be I
split in twain is u certain as anything can
be. Even if it could hang together on the
question that now threatens it wily speedy
disruptienl it would *plat up as soon as
that question is disposed of. The old:tar
iff issue is showing signs of life, and upon
this it will be impossible for the Republi
cans to agree. Those in the New England
Stites not sati.fied with the enormous
profits they are making now, will insist
upon raising the duties. Senator Sprague,
of Rhode Island, has already made •
move in that 'direction in the United
Stsites Senate. The Republicans of Penn
sylvania will follow their lead, but those
of New York and the Western States will .
insist upon a reduction instead of an in
crease in the tariff. There has already
been a Free Trade League organised in
,New York. Ifs leading and most active
members are influential Republicans, and
its principal organ is the New York Eve
ning Post, whose editors may be classed
among the fathers of the Republican
party.
The commercial interests of New York
would be promoted by a reduction of the
duties on imported goods. The same is
true of the agricultural interests of the
West. Branches . of the Free Trade
League of New York may therefore be
expected to be organized in the West,
where they will enpercede the " Loyal
Leagues " now org lately in existence.—
With the Republicans of New England
and .Pennsylvania struggling for an in
crease of duties, and those of New York
and the Western States fighting for " free
trade," apermasent division of that party
would seem altogether certain.
On this, as on all other questions, the
great body of the Democratic party, hap
pily hold no extreme views. They hold,
and always held, that a tariff which will
afford sufficient revenue to defray the or
dinary elpensea of an economical admin
istration of the government, will also, if
levied with discrimination, effjrd sufficient
protection to the American manufacturer
to give him a fair profit on his goods.—
L zn, Intelligencer. -
mIATS LEGI9LATUKE.
The State Legislature organized at Har
risburg on Tuesday, and selected its offi
cers for the session. In the Senate, Daiid
Fleming, of Dauphin, was elected Si etk;
er ; G. W. Hammeraley, of Philsdelphlai
Chief Clerk ; and Lucius Rogers, of
McKean, Assistant Clerk. The House
chose Jas. R. Kelly, of Wa. , -hington
Speaker, and A. W. Benedict, cf Hunt
ingdon, Clerk. All the officers are Re-
publicans, that party having large zwijor!.
ties in both branches. The Governor is
still absent in Cuba, for the " benefit of
his health," and it is thought the Legis
lature will adjourn for two weeks, when
His Excellency is expected to return.
• Vii, Goon.—A friend of ours explains
the present system of raising revenue as
follows:
" Now, you see, in the first place they
git the hang of a feller's business. That's
taxed. Then they find out bow much he
earns every month, and that's taxed.
Then they find out all about his profits
and on that they lay their tax. Then
they manage to git some tax on what he
owes. Next comes what they call in
come, and that's taxed. Then if anything
is left the preacher calls and and Bits it
to sustain the Church and convert the
heathen. Finally in comes the commit
tee appointed L the Poor People's char
hl%alLitlg ar.aNai-t,otepill oodflia:4
Ma. STItVgNe POSITION Throughout
the whole of the late wit., when the rebels
had entire possession of from seven to ten
State+, the Government and the. people of
the United States maintained that those
States were still in the Union ; now that
the war is over and the zebels have been
conquered and their - bogus government
displaced, and. we have possession, it is
proposed to consider: those States as out
of the Union. This is an absurd position,
and it is the one that Mr. Stevens desires
to put the country in.
Tim Bridgeport Farmer, one of our
staunch Democratic exchanges, that stur
dily refuses to give up its belief in the doc.
trines of Jefferson, Madison and Jackson,
now publishes its daily telegraphic reports
of the proceedings in Congress with this
appropriate caption :
FIRST CON G ESS
-OF Tug
" NEW NATION,"- Flaw Session.
Tea Memphis Commercial replies to the
remark " that Northern labor' and cap
ital were not safe away from the mili
tary poets in the Southern States," and
that "no ono could go there and settle
away from the military stations except at
the risk of his life ;" that a comparison of
the record will show that life is as safe in
any portion of the South as in the city of
Boston.
nu attending physician upon Governor
Curtin, in Cuba, writes that the Governor
is rapidly recovering his health. His mal•
ady was a distressing pain in the spine.—
The pain has ceased and the Governor
has recovered the use of his limbs. It is
supposed that be will return some time in
•
January.
The Pittsburgh Commercial, decidedly
the ablest Republican journal In Western
Pennsylvania, Repub lican
earnestly and actively
combating the wild and destructive theO
ries of Stevens and Sumner.
A SIGNIFICANT ANSWER —The IlidiCale
have been calling upon Mr. McCullough
for information as.to certain revenue ap•
pnintees who could not take the oath of
effice. The Secretary answers that be
sought for persons for such offices who
could, take the oath literally, - but fail
ing to •find them, had to select those
who gave no aid to the rehellion until
the Government of the United ,States
had failed to give them protection.—
He believes that every man fit for a reve
nue officer was at some time either en•
gaged in hostilities against the United
States or holding State or Confederate of•
Tice either willingly or unwillingly. He
acted upon the presumption that Congress
would modify the oath and not subject
the South to the humiliation, or the reve•
nue system to the odium. which would
result from the employment of Northern
men as tax gatherers. This is pretty
sharp, but very truthful ; and to remedy
the complaint Mr. McCullough asks for
Congressional legislation so that he may
not violate law, and yet have proper tools
to work with.
•
A. A. Bradley, a mulatto formerly ex.
polled from the bar at Boston, has' been
sentenced at Savannah to one year's im•
prisonment,.hy a military court, for using
seditious language.
The widow of ow Goviwzoi Allston. of
South Carolina, sister of Row. A. L,Rotlgra,
bas opoiod - swilliool for Tool in Most
tor street. Clawisitoa._•
&nimbi Phis's', sslwrsitbr: brylAr
ftookport. 111., was roossily polemist tektiostii
with strysitsiso by his Iftit wife. I pesky girl
whom its married six weeks sgi.
Tlte Trams thinks It would be a low esti.,
male to plans the baneful results of sleeping
cars at thirty thousand typhoids and cue
thousand deaths per,aytum in eons:quasi
their-Sold atatclauftfor.r.
The Boston Journal says: A gentleman
in traveling along the coast of Florida and
Georgia, found • woman who did not know
what a newepeptr was. She had I
children and a "pipe in her mouth." Bather a
eapacions mouth for a woman!
A Washington correspondent describes Sen
ator -- on a big "drunk," riding down
Pennsylvania avenue In as open carriage with
two boosy friends and a big dog, making faces
at passers-by, and disgusting all who were
aware of the position he disgraced.
An exchange says that "although the devil
is the father of lies, be seem; like other great
inventors. to have lost molt of his reputation
by the continual improvements that have been
made upon.him by political organs."
Messrs, Cowgill and Dunham, of the Indi
ana Rime of Representatives, bad a person
al `encounter in the lobby, Friday morning,
growing out of the former's Impugning the
loyalty of liemocrate. Mr.. Dunham was the
aleanlting party. The comfietante were sepa•
rated et an early stage of the conflict.
The Round Table predicts these three effects
of the national debt :
1. To create a small class of extremely
wealthy men 2. To reduce the groat mass
of the well-to.do and moderately wealthy to
the preaent status of working people 8. To
increase the hours of labor, reduce the alm
pensaVon, and deteriorate the general condi
tion of the laboring classes
In the following pars graph the New 'York
Tribune tells us in what the generals of the
Rebellion are now engaged :
Thexreatest rf them all is now a teacher
of arthematles in a university. Sherman's
great snteconiste are in the express and rail
road business. The once-dreaded Beam.-
gard will' sell you a ticket from New Orleans
to Jellison ; and if you went to send a couple
of hams to a frierd in Richmond. Joe John
eon, once commander cf great armies, will
carry them. The man whose works Grant
moved neon at Denelson edits an indifferent
newsraper in. New Orleans, while the com
mander of the rebel cavalry it Coejnth.is his
local reporter. Marshall practices law in
New Orleans; Forrest is running a saw-mill;
Dick Taylor is now having a good time in New
York; and Roger A. Pryor is a daily practi
tioner at our court..
llon. John W. Forney, In a recent lentil»
in s Pennsylvania. said that, having spoken in
t he Washington Chronicle of the bray ry and
mistaken sincerity of Stonewall Jaeuson soon
after his death, President Linenln wrote him a
letter thanking him for speaking kindly of a
fallen foe, and remarking : "I honor you for
your generosity to one who, though contend
ing against as in a guilty cause, was never—
theless a gallant men. Let us forget his sins
over his fresh-made grave:"
The-Democracy of Harristairg are, Irgani
ling in the right way. They have formed an
association which seems to possess a remark
able degree of vigor and activity. Comfort
able rooms have been prepared, at which nu
merous publications Ray be found and exem-:
ined by all who visit them. 'lt is now pro
posed' to have a series of% weekly ad
dresses daring the present winter. This is
really going te work, and the Democrats of
the State Capital deserve the highest cem
mendation. Their example ehould he blow
wealth.
The religions belief of the deceased Presi.
dents of the United States, as indietVed by
their attendance on public worship, and evi
dence afforded in their writings, ! may be
summed up as follows: Washington, Madi•
son, Monroe, Harrison, Tyler and Taylor,
were Episcopalians ; Jefferson, John Adams.
and John Quincy Adams" were Unitarians;
Jackson, Polk and Lincoln were Presbyte
rians ; Van Buren was of the Dutch Reform
ed Munch. The eurviving Presidents are
Fillmore, a Unitarian ; Pierce, en Episcopa
lian ; Buchanan, a Presbyterian, and the
prevent Chief Magistrate, Johnson, who is a
Presbyterian.
•1
The Boston Pilot, which is the Irish organ
for the Eastern States, has no other allusion
to the Fenian brawls than this :
All true friends of Ireland mu.t deplore the
scenes enacted in New York the past two
weeks. iTow.John 801 l will rejihe on the re
crption of Mb news of the split in the Fe
nian ranks 1 But so it has ever been in the
ceeckerel histlry of Ire'and On the eve of
success the demon of discord creeps in to
scatter the hopes o f her too confiding peL p'e.
An instance of the ruling passion strong in
death is thus related of'old Cook, who wss
known as a miser, and had amassed a large
fortune, 'On his death bed, when the last
gasp wee approaching. a tallow candle was
burning upon the cand'e stand, and a flicker
ing flame in the fire place. He watched the
candle, then the ire. Suddenly he called his
son, saying, -“Woodbury, come here." The
son approached his bed side, when
out
old'
man whispered, "Woodbury, blow out that
candle: tallow's most as dear as butter."
No WONDII.—One of our most fashionable
hair-dressers tells the following story: An
old Quaker lady warstarding at his counter,
vqien a gay young lady came in to engage a
headdress for the evening. She gave her or
der hurriedly, saying that elm wanted a half
dozen "rolls" and a bntt•rfy on top, a Grecian
or "waterfall" at the back, with plenty of
"puffs" and "curls," and ending wish an in•
junction to 'send along any quantity of "rats."
"mice' sad "cataracts•" "Poor child," raid
the dear-old lady, 'compassionately, looking
after her u she departed, "what a pity she
Lae lost her mind ! " •
- An advertisement in . the New York herald
for a wife was answered by a girl in Mittin•
segue, who told a pitiful story of abase at
bogie, inability to earn a living, her trunk
attiolothea seized by a boarding house keep
6Ate security for a boarding bill of $l5,
a+wound up by saying in plain terms, after
stating htr age, and that her " friends could
.6ll- her good looking;" chit she did not sup
pose the advertiger really wanted a wife, but
that the bad got to such s Point that she was
Willing to be his mistress, sad If be would
send money enough to pay her bill and her
fare to New York—say a matter of s2o—she
Would meet him in that oily. The letter fell
into the wrong hands; a clergyman in New
York was interested in the ease, sad he wrote
tea minister in this city to investigate, and
se; if something could not. be done to are
the girl. He 'investigated" and found, in:
stead of a poor and virtuous girl, just enter
lag a life of tawny teem hard necessity, that
there is s family in 3litthkeegne that, gets s
livipg by this sort of thing. which takes the
poetry and romance all out of the tor, and
has suddenly coaled the philanthropy so sud
denly interested in the girl's behalf.7-Bpring—
field Aspubilicon. •
rine, who was bit ly convivial by ose of the
' bummer emote" of giving aid and emitfort
to the - enemy and sekteneed to iipprisonment
for three months, resented in jet:l4l4 the
Presideolt,aiker sillithipseitionAir per-
F
dos. ?Ike* w reNkrttfto thiAlghllant"
••-•::
Judge Mietiste 40ersi: nest, ,r ho reported
go bly Oiling'lhn
unfavorti , spgr. •A.Wash•
Ington otirreiipottdiiili says:
• "The matter is spin beore the
upon . Mrs. Perrise's petition. 'for executive
elemney. Shit says is her polities that it
Fan felorgei, bti necessary for the preservation
elf , theltiner add dignity of this ;resit coon
ebekreaseilembiewastisitavillballior-lallegebr
- sled in a dungeon tor, kiselpg..her cousin• .
even though he were a rebel tallier. as wu
I proven against hip; and, beside, she alleges
that slier all she did not kiss the rebel of
'it wait another lady in bee company at the
time who committed that crime. The Presi
dent was in a con. lanai rose of laughter du
ring Mrs. Penises reei.al of the ease made
against her. ST viewed by the defendant her
self. The Preadent is exceedianiy vivacious,
and, withal, a clever mimic. Titers is scarce
ly a doubt that; the President will pardon
her." • ,'
A gentleman in Alabama, In exerting Wm'
self motley, felt a sudden pain, sad fearing
bin internal machinery had been thrown ou t
of gear, sent for a negro on his plantation,
who made some pretensions to medical skill,
19 prescribe for him. The negro having in
vestigated the cause, prepared sod adminis
tered a doge to his veleta with the utmost
confidence of a Awed, ears. No relief being
experienced, howdver, the gentleman sent for
a physician, who. on arriving. Inquired of the
u•gro what medicine he had given hie meter:
Bob promptly responded. " Alum and rosin,
Met" " Whst did you 100 them for ?" eon=
tinned the doctor. " Why,". replied Bob,
he alum io draw de parts togedder, and de
rosin to sodder am." The patient eventually
relovere I—Exchange
' The Alexandria (Va ) - Casette rays the fol
lowing is a verbatim et literature repot of the
evidence given in the Magistrate? Cou.t, by
a neer& man named Doctor Janes. who ac
cused another negro, named Washington, of
stealing his watch:
" I'se named Doctor Jones—named so 'sense
old master named Doctor. I was slain' in de
shop, my watch hanein' on de wall. Dat nig
gee (pointing to Washington) come in—set
down—get un—went oul—and de watch was
dismissed. Pat's all I know 'bontit." •
The sew French toy called "Pharaoh's Ser
pents" is one of the most• ingenious inven
tions of the day. It is extremely amusing,
and will interest children hugely. Out of a
silver colored cone, the rite of a thimble, a
serpent nearly four-feet bang uncoils itself.
We P&W'OrIll of these .varmiats' perform at the
ball of the American Institute, New York, a
short ; time since. Professor Jones touched
the Lisle silver colored cone on a plate with a
lighted match, and a 'sat-pint' four or five
feet long wrigeed from the plate to the table,
and thence to the floor. *
It may not be generally known that any
one can now send to - Lbe public printer, et
Washington, order a set of documents, and
pay for them'a moderate price, depending on
the cost. Heretofore the public bare been
dependent o■ members of Congress for dccu
ments, and it has beans great source of an;
nuance to members as well as to those who
wished to procure them.
The Mas•acbusetts Senator has proposed so
many bills for the consideration of Congress
that he is called Bill Somner.—Berton Post
A4olonel of negro troops in Texas went off
without paying a bill of forty nine dollars
which he owed to the Ban Antonia Advocate.
Tte editor theretipon l ventilated him as, a
swindler. for which treasonable offence the
colonel suppressed the paper. The editor has
always been "loyal."
• To a wren who was con•tanitr beaating of
his ancestry, an industrious and 'successful
tradeirnan, of humble origin, said—•Teu, my
friend. are proud cf your descent, aid I am
proud of my ascent.'
Bz-iltorney General Bleat, of Mr. Buchan
an's Ca inet, hu formed a law partnership in
Washiagion with Mr. Lamm, formerly law .
partner with Mr. Lincoln:
The Rey. W. H. Milburn. the renowned
"blind preacher," author and lecturero hem
left the klethodiets and taken orders in the
Bpistofal Church. •
News of the Week.
On the 21st .ult. The Indiana Legislature
alrnnpt uninimously wised resolutions
strongly endorsing the Id mroe doctrine.
The totzt lms by fire.last year, in the
United States amounted. to. over $43,:
000,000, againit $28,000,000 last year.
The total Population of New York State
rcrordinitolhe census taken in June lost
is 3 831 777—a decrease since 1860 of 48,950
A petition is circulating in New York
and other State*, in favor of extending
the right, of suffrage to women. It is to
be presented.
The vote son negro suffrage in George
town, D C.,; resulted as follows : Seven
hundred and thirty• four against it and
one for it.
The rector of St. issarus Church, at
Memphis, Tenn., acknowledges the re
ceipt of over seven thousand dollars to
build up a cathedral in honor of Bishop
Polk and Odey and others of the Confed
erate dead.
There was some fighting between the
whites and blacks in New Orleans' on
Christmas Day, during which tbree po
licemen were is%verely wounded. About
forty negroes were arrested.
On New Years, Mrs. Scripps, (the wife
of Postmaster Scripps, of Chicago), while
engaged in receiving visits from her friends
at her residence in that city, fell bsck told
denly in her chair and died without a
struggle or a word.
A safe, containing $30,000, was stolen on
Mcmdsv night from the office of Major
Ellis, P:tymaster of the suing, Leaven
worth, Kansas. Two orderlies are (missing,
and are supposed to be the guiltv parties.
Of the ntnnunt in the safe, $28,000 he.
longedto the Government, the remainder
was the private property of Major Ellis.
A thousand dollars reward has been offer.
ed for the arr•et of the thieves.
On Friday laat the New York Stock
Exchange appropriated $3OOO as a Christ
mas present to Gen. Grant. .The money
is to be added to what is known as the
Grant Testimenjal Fund. which now
ruches $O7 000. When $lOO,OOO is eub.
scribed, it will, be duly presented to - the
General.
One' hundred and sixty petitions for
pardon were received in one day of last
week from citizens of Alabama, among
them Alfred Iverson, ex United States
Senator-, Very feW pardons are now being
granted, and nearly all of them are to
Texans. Seieral thousand applications
are on Ste.
John Campbell died in. Cecil 'County.
Maryland, lately; at the great age• of 98
years. Re was very deaf and almost
blind, and so irksome was his manner of
converpation that his friend. never in•
formed of the existence of the war,-
in blissful ignorance Of which be there
fore lived and•died. -
Among, the on dits in polittcal circles
there is one that &motor Doolittle. of
Wisconsin, will probably , tske the place of
13N:retail Harlan in the Cabinet in
,a very
abort time. Mr.' Harlan's intention. lo re
tire is well known, be /wins' publicly" an.
pounced his opposition to l b. Preaiden
policy, and being ambitious to obtain an
elsotoon to the U. S. Senate.'
• : -essewe , sene--*srailyl
•
brought to its termination Saturday, but
in a manner rather unsatisfactory to the;
parties concerned. The jury. after being
hr delibs ration for forty eight hours, cane I
Into. court surd expressed • the opinion
unstinittionaly that it WSW impossible for
'them Is area. They were therefore dir-
chaired by Judge Garvin. The point of •
diSagrapemeni was on the question relative 1 ,
to.Jhdr: &deter). charged against Mr.
Strong, of the mem bers being in favor
I of rendering a verdict declaring bis innc
*once and the other two refusing their sr- ;
sent thereto. All of them agreed on a ;
verdict in favor of Mr. Strong on the ir
sues relating to the charges of adultery
**against Mrs. Strong.
A party of the old Proprietors of the
'Sea Island cotton plantations, accomps•
tried by two of Gen. Sickles' staff officers,
recently went, from Charleston to James
Island for the purpose of a conference
with negroes. On approaching in their
boat. they were confronted by about sixty
armed Degrees, who would listen to no
explanations, even from the army officers,
but threreened to fire on the first one of
the party who stepped ashore. Two regi
ments of regular troops were a'•-rward
sent to enforce crder. The art flicem
are (Icing all they can to dispel t false
impression of the colored people that the
government designs securing ;them in
powession of the plantations. •
A merchant in Pittsburg, by the name
of Shaw,
stands ehargeif with having
caused the abduction of his wife and her
confinement in the lunatic asylum on the
plea that. she eras insane and dangerous.
By some means he obtained the certifi
cates of two physicians to that effect, and
a few days since had the police seize her,
and, despite the heart-rending cries of the
helpless woman, she was forced into the
street oars and hurried to the asylum.
On her first interview with the superin
tending physician be was convinced that.
she bad been wrongfully accused and was
perfectly sane.
Edward B Ketchum, the unrivalled
forger, was sentenced on Saturday Fast, in
New York city, teen imprisonment in the
State Prison for four years and six months,
which would naturally be suppo3ed to be
a punishment; light enough to satisfy all
parties except the victims of his forgeries
and the public ; but it seems that a strong
party of triPnda have already gone on to
Albany to solicit his pardon from Gov.
Fenton. As tbo delegation includes some
very influential names.' among which are
Chief Justice Chase and Horace Greeley,
it is whispered that the new year will not
be very old before the prince of defalcators
is restored to his family.
, It appears from the official announce.
ment that the people of North Carolina
have declared null and void the ordinance
of secession by a vote of nineteen thou
sand eleven hundred and seventy votes
against one thousand nine hundred and
forty ; and eighteen thousand five hun
dred and twenty seven votes were cast to
ratify the ordinance prohibiting slavery,
and three tbnusand six hundred and
ninety six to reject raid ordinance.
Donates—BlNNETT—io tliis city, on the 28th
ult.. by Rev. Mr. - Span!dine, Victor Bt. C.
Dobbins .to Miss Cetestis A. Bennett, daugh-
ter of E. A. Bennett, Esq., all of this city.
BERRY—CHASE—On the 28th ult , et First
Presbyterian 'Church, Titusville, by Rey.
Wm. Howell Taylor, assivted .1y Bev. Dr.
Gen. A. Lyon, GurdontS. Berry, of Rile, to
Lizzie S., daughter of E H. Chase, Esq:, of
Titusville.
WUrric—BRYANT—On the 28th alt , by A.
Crandall. Eig , Mr: Edward A. White, of
Erie. 10 Mies Mary E. Bryant, of the former
FOSTIR—HUNTER—in thi9 city, on the let
most_ by Rev. J F. SpnitTilior, Mr. A. J.
Foster to Mies Mary( A. Hunter.
New AdVertisements.
O T 1 C • IL
lee agen,r nr tl. ‘ln.t.rtcao tat. Inanranea company
of lade/phi, re auto DORDt.c
h Giorgio to Steger , . Whil din At Garrin, all persona tn.
eared or wiablor to b. i •nred to said C , mpany well plt
on WM:Wan k Gairgio, at the branch ntlle • n' the rn•r:.
pony, over the • tete or Crarrford Cl,rietian A ft•Jth. Er 0,
Pa. JaliF.4 P. it (VP S.
ja4•lm. Gen. Agent A tort ins Ltre Inaaranee Cr.
.FsunFoll v./ A- LE'.
Ths ijnderrien•d oTeTs for ?ale big valuable Farm In
Harbor errek .on thql.ake-Road, abort Outline (men
Erie, and Smiles from Hsisbor emelt station. It contains
81 eetri of First class !and:about 65 of whirl, Ira el-ared
and the balance well limbered. The improvem4ats con
sist of ten good Frame Houses, two good Frsto• Hero%
and aft the no. es.are outbuildings. An etreflett or.
chard Is on the,prrmleee A fond stream of water runs
through ths Farm: `Torras of sale will be easy Inquire
at Joseph VeCarter, Etio t Pa.,orot
Jana -1 m•
N O T ACH•
Whereas, my Wife Harriet 11.11 h•s loft my bed and
board wit'ontjut. caws or provocation. and spinet my
roman.; th;s iv to notify all perwoon ont to trait bar en
my account, as I will pay no debts of her cont , actiog.
_OLIVER HALL.
North E..' tp., Jan.4,1883-Cwa
H OPIKINSON d WILLIA3IS,
Scoenessoas I. e-rr•.l. Vortort,
Shipper and Commlnfos Marekants, Wholesale dealers
In Anthraeit• and Bituminous dente for N. Y.
kN. sad Peoples Line et Steamers. East Palate I ack,
Srle, Pa. _ jac4Ts.ly.
C OAL. COAL. COAL.
W. M. WHITLEY - & CO
Are tell mg the beat qoality et
BITUMINOUS COAL AT $6,75 PER TON!
De'feared In any put of the city
And will make grater rednetion by Quantity or Car
Load We bare now on hand a
LARGE STOCK-OF ANTHRACITE COAL !
Of all grades.
, f
Oar Coal'olly nay& a trial to convince any one of lta
suparior quality 012 e• cornar Pooh and 12th stmt.%
Zee, Pa. W. M. WHITLEY,
duareat. F. J. SALTOIRN.
CRAMBIL t i.IS da. DUNN,
PEC(ITOGR AP iIERS!
ILL KINDS or PIC117111:11G 1/1011 •
GEM TO A- LIFE SIZE PHOTOGRAPH,
lizeented In the best style's! the est
WARRANTED TO GIVE 84713V4CT10N,'
Inching flulabed in i
IRE, OIL OR WATER COLORS.
Union Bte•k, between Brown's Hotel & Heed House
dedB•tbtG
rpm comiumeTivirm.— The advertiser having
been lammed to health lo a few wake by • very
simple remedy, titer bald named several years with
• snore long affesti2a, sad that dread ,dise,se, Con.
gumption-1s assloas to make known to his fellow sat.
fitters the mamas ateore.
To all who deer* it, be will rend a copy of the pm.
gerlptlon and, (free of charge.) with the directions for
*reputes and using the same. which they will dad a
sun can fir (I , aeuniption, althint, grow:Ws, Colds,
Coughs, Atc. The only object of the adverther to -aml
ing the prescriptie' Is to benefit the afillcted.and spread
information 'loch he conceives to be invaluable: and he
hers every sufferer will try he remedy, u, it will oost
them nothing, and may prom a blessing.
Parties wishing the primer ption,sams, by return mall,
will plea.* endues Rev. RIM CRII A. wi wow,
dsc2B'6s-Iy. Williamsourgh, Kings Co , N. Y.
ERHONA Ol' YOUTH.-11 gentleman who his
staged for years from Nervoue Deblllty , Poems
tam Nosy, andel the - effects of youthful lodismetioo,
will for the sake of *Moine , humanity, rend free to all
who word It. the Pree and directions fo- metric, tit.
simple remedy by w hic h Fe restored. Siff/fere wishing
to ;molt by the adrertiset's experienoe, can no so by ad.
&Peeing 40FM R. 0611 N,
dee:lll'6l Iy. ' No. 13 Chambers St., N. T.
STIEANUR. HUT THUR.—Every t °nog I•dr and
seatliman intter United .ttates eta hear annethme
, IHE tench to theft:, ad , astage br return mail (free of
chairs), bv add:ming the undsndaned. Plow* baring
fa ra rt bvicwhno Rama will Woe by not notteing thin
seed. All *flan will plebe addroms their obealent Seri
sat, . THOR• P. CHAPMAN,
deeCBB3-Iy. 831 Broadway. N. Y.
F XICIVICVOR*B NOTICE.
• -
tette?. teetampatary on the state or John Crowley,
deed. late°. Harbor Creek tp., Pop eountt, Pa . hewing
been granted to tbetuudereigniel; notice le hereby given
to ell Ind. kited to said estate be make Immedtst • par
meat, Lad those having , filetnts eitettsst the twee will
arrival thins, duly authenticated, !be settlement
111011ARD cams:, xxilerator.
Harbor Creek, Doz. sl,lMll4hr
1=
MARRIED.
JOiEry KoCARTM, gevi
On tre premise,-
ALL PIO?VUS
IrtICIMMUIRt7IL COLL"
COll. OF PARK AND PEA.
ERIE, p
litsoß-RZIPINO SIMPLITIED.
. NRlECLARelticrriox 011
AMIAL DUBINICi23 I
BUSUIRiS PRA
•
COMMERCIAL LOC,
COMMERCIAL ABl7lllll
BCRINIC43 row
The very Merit pstronar ,
daring the peat teasen. inoboi
proem' ealine to publte
NEW CLASSIFICAT
Beek•Raping beeomee tht
eitisfw.tery or the Seinen.
THil ?Elf INI-
Comp
WHOLE BARN Or Dr
And 'Adolf oral
TITIC OPCNINO ♦,
!So that tiro weeks tbni
ateura mom know Irdito
titan the whole Course'
the country.
DIPLOMAS AW
li=
ACTUALLY
Of Mad. meld
the !sow '
SPENC
For both 1
SPAR 0
Time to cow
we prseeit th
To the lib.
to call and sf
gir WI
Ad3rests
A. C.
• G. W
Novena
1311111ADELPHIA dr, Eli! it uu
- • ......-- ,
-I-----
IAIi treat iln. traverses the Nor!ltro
mantes of Penneylnnis' to the "
Lake Erie. It has been leased by the Pew*
real Compaoy, and Is operated by tiers.
MB ON P. 181110 1 ,0111 71 1 / 1 .7/ /7 //a
Leave glit7rgrZ.
KO Train
See Express Train
Warrn decom
Arrive Wes.ward.
Wall Tnitt
Erie Esprers Train
War:tea eeem.. ..................
Passenger earl run threugh •-n the Er•ellui,
preaa truing' without cheap both way. t 'teen?.
phi* and Erie. •
New York COnneeti ,o • f,l3rr ti
arrive at Erie 337 a. m. Lew. Es re at ISy p a,l
at New York I lb p. m.
o chant , * of cant b.tweelo rite sad 'eta Toli
El.tant :311eple; Care on 'all a rht Velar
For lefetmatioe resp.eting ramaiter buetnees
at the S. E. tomer 11th and garket ata.„ chi fort
boateels et the oe•optey's agerkte,
S. H KINGSTON, 14-, corner Ilth an 3 idattitlt
Philadelphia. •
.1. W. REYNOLDS. RAIL
'W. BROWN, An 4. C R R
H. HilinrATONlGenerwl 'Freight Ai 't, 114
I'i. W. Gen. Tiezet kg! Phi
A L.l Y , luperintendrit. r. '
N E IV F 1 1/ 31 .
Juries P. Crook, laving tsken in ht.
as a partner. on theist di! of April,
name of J if P. CROCK, k 41 - 0; leMrer
Clement of his old aecouss. All re,tori V
selves indebted to him are request.: to
without delay.
JAMES P. CROOK: t SOS.
81/ALM 11
ROUGH & PLANED
AM, ■ ANITACITRIMI Or
Garb, Frames. Door. er , : fll
Led Picket Feller S•rell Sewir...c.
' Planing. done to otd.r •
Shop on Pesch St, Between 4th led
We reepoettnlly call the attentinn nt ti
fnellittes for dolor work in the beer e! dr 1 4
and nn reasonable terms.' flaring fitted it ,
'bops, "with esperior coaalner), we toi
eel n entire satiditation.
Orden from abroad will remove met,
1:2128'64—tf. JA.IIE4 i.CROO)
G Rovz,TEEN & CO.,
PIANO FORTE MANC7FACTT:Ir
199 BROADWAY, NEW YOE'S:.
.b• Puhlie hod the trade>
oar New gide 7 °eta*, tiosewood 1:azo 1,7
for voltam and purity of tone are tors;
heretofore offered fn this market. Tnev co:,!
modern Improvements, French, G.and at
Pedal, Iron Frame, nter-Strn
strusuans twit g made under the personal
Mr. J. H. Groreeteen, who has had a peach
of over SS years in their munutectuie, u til
in ever! particular.
THE " oVESTEEN PIANO FOR
Reeogred the award of 'merit over all o
celebrated
WORLD'S FAT?.
WI) ere were exhibited Instruments from t
of
LONDON,
=ED
GERMANY..
BALTIMORE,
BOSTON,
Jon NEW YORK;
And also it the
AMERICAN INSTITCTn
for five successive year., the
GOLD AND EILVER NED&Li
from both of ebieb CIA be wee at our watnoa
By the intiodortien of Improremcntr ••
more perfect Plano Foe..‘r.d by inan,i,trz
wit)" a strict'cash system. are enabled t ,fe
stromenta at a price wblcti will pree'a , ie4ll ,
Piticsa--No. I. ?even Octave, round COM'
plain eaaa43oo.
N 0.26 - ven Octave. round cc=
heavy moulding 3323.
No 3. ,fleven Octave, Mond
woad Louts XIV style SI,O.
TZILIIS : Nat Cash in Current Ftlrlol4.
tiecerintlre circulars sant free,
4 11/TH IS sole Agent far there Nance,
AOBNTI
By 1
stationery.
Rack Packet
ke . Gni Je ,
30 cents. '
and a Sllysi
steel (mge
voty popoli
Of 100 er SI
realise $3O
irill se ifJ7
SEWIN
EEE
1
ff 111
a ty for
lia the
inlay a
trr eb•ai
Each I
Mar tl
Fermi
find it ea
rra n ai g I
ailocet
jaa2l3
R E 310 V A L
GROCE,RIES ROCLRIE:
The subscriber has remor•d hi. ec
from the stead above the Labr Sb-•
room In the brick block on State 0 "
FO .rth. erli• re be will be bappr to e% •
customers a n' 'lll their ordere for r t'. 4
Grocer es Ilrg r acd carefully lOWA
at the 16wen. 'etas coast/at 'Ph Os!
Ho feriae' ell In aped of earth/at fey
him a all. T
FALL AND WINTER 1;
MRS. S. ii. HALL
W . °1114 tioratroGy esti at entice Vl,'
L.ARGE EITOCIL C Go`i
Just received horn New To;t,i,p`.,rul
BONNETS, HATS, RIBBONS, At.
Together with Juice
DR Y Goo Di'
Which she will sell .
CHEAP FOR CARE, OR READY - PA T
or Particular attention paid to block/
and proving.
Store ou Peach St, doors 'bore the
ERIK CO. AG R..ICULTrit
Then will be a toiPotiag of the 2.,ckln'ae.
en. Arlen, urel Society, at the
the Poeiete (Vrte Co. Trots otlie e oart
e t wiloo of 'Mown for the revue: leer. a
.1 a. le. ISM 'sal° o'clock a. 4 11
Kar
Ia toe welfare o' the eee , et• aro re'ere'tf?'
.o attend, a the matter of ee:t•ele
will be brought before It e Sudety !or ar
at that tine. By order.
den!!.g. D.llOl