MUBMCKIk*TIOX BITIM : I*cr vear. in advance..... tl M OtbatYue s 00 Xo fnbaeription will be dweontiriaad Until all irrt-niK'-r. are paid. l'ortcia»tcr» neglecting to noufT u* when ►al«cn' er» Jo not taie out their paiK-n wiii U held liable for tU .ai*cnption. s*jt«cnb«t- remote from on« r**tcfEc« to another •i.ouid na tbe name of tii# former as well a* the pr»»-e£.t office. All cGmnrcnictuona intended for paLUcation In tlii* IM* r mai-t be accompanied by t!.e rc>al name of the writer, not for pabluAtion. bat *e a pr.am-.t-1 of good faith. Marriage and <2f».rh not.ee* mist be weompa nitvl by a rewpcc«ib!c name. Ad*lrea< Til K DCTI.EK CITIZES, BUTLER. PA. TRAVELERS' GUIDE. ECTL«R, EARW» CITT ASI) PAKKBH KAIL.ROAP | (Iltilicr Time.) Train* lerre Butler for fl. Joe, MiiSerstown. Kirns City, Petrolic, Parker, etc., at 7:JH >r-1 K..VS a. m., and 205 and 7.15 p. m. [Sec be low for connection* with A. V R. B.| Train* arrive at Butler from tho n-uncd poiuu at V.15 i. tn.. and 1.55, 5.15 9-i5 1.. tn . The 1-55 train nmntdi wltb '.rain on tli»- West Fcnn rovl 'hro\_'!i to Pittabtirifh. Sundr.y train* arrive at 10A5 a. t.t- aud 3.55 p. in., and Iran at ll.tO a. ra and 4.10 p. ra. axr> ILMGRKiIT KIII-KO*r>. T rain* 1.-iv.- H Hilar JV Mill. Butler county, lor Harriari'iir, Greenville, etc., at 7.4*) a. m. and 12.20 and 2.20 p. ru. r'.*! lea''' Petroti-i at 530 ft. ra. for i4O trah., .-.nd at IO.'V a. ru. for 1J 20 tratti. , Kitnni ti • - n.'liard On arrival of trai; « at 10.27 a. ui. and 1.50 p. ID. su'je leave* Martini.urg at 9.30 for 12.30 | train. p. !». c.. * L- E. ft. ft. The raorning lr*!u Ic-.ve* Zs'ienopl* a' 8 11, | Harvii.* '.l* ftti'i Erai*' «rg at «.S2. arririM | at >'">* Stariro ii *.? O. and Allegheny ■» 9M. Tt-. tfterr tvwi tni Z-l:nr ; op> *» 1 J*. r<*mnr.T 1.81. r.:t:.-hrjg 1.51. «rri*in«r at i i tkliOf! st ;!1 t-A Aib-Hhery «.«. Train* onneetlug at F.tr.l Station wrtli thi ruad leave A ai T.ll a.m. »n1 3.51 p. ru. ■f. By tlie bridire to the A. V . R. K., |.a**en t'em on the tnomine train can reach the t'nlon lila Klpr.« ran, wben on time. SuiuUfj Erprn* at 4.06 p. ni., (joea tbrontrh to Allcu'lii n", anivinz at fl.Ofl p. in. 'lbe T2la. m, train connect* at Blairaviile at ; 1.06 a in. witli tlie M .1 '-a*t, nnrl the p.m. train at KM witli tlie I'biladelpliia Ei pr-«* ea»t- Tiaiiir arrive at Bnller on Wi*t I'.-nn R U. at i».51 a. in . 5 Of: and 7.11 p. in.. Buller time. Tlie J»,*,l and 5.06 train* r..niiect »itb Irair.i on the liutl'-r A I'arter K. R. Sun ay train nrrlv.-n at Butler at 11.11 a. m., eonnecliuK with train lor Packer. Main Line. Tbrr>ut'li tnln« ll>i|{ « *pen»c lor l>oanl. I ~r circular* addreux promptly an al>ove. aiit{.;7..'iii Pennsylvania Female College, EAST END, PITTSBURGH. A flr#t ela« College Tor women Educational alaiidatd high. A(lvanU.|(e far:n. .' i-;--/ f" H. KDV., J Karns City, or on tii- Hrrn. r.ugl3-Jt For Bale. Nic w»:i-inprove 4 F*. 1. .n ' n l ... t. ■ V~.V'T Co., 1 Pi. C. • ta:i.;..y a' '!♦ 13$ a Tt-f. a!.-.-.: !■»< acraa 1 of v.;.:ch ar : fcalr: i- ! timber: (.'• t: ■: ?.r'. ■ -y pv4 or srJ: <*n be hv! 01. rv rear-:.*. r.y Tv-rvwi d«e-r:;i/ «aci. \ firm can cail or adil-t.-n ' 1 for the ui! l"r--.11"'. li■ a .nt i':4 I mile* r"i?i- f Stionbn.-g and ab-;ut six mile* ( eaet of |S»ker>-'.-!i»ri. joriN v.. MONTooirrr; . i r.iddlciK iiot-u P. 0., Tlr !ir&j., Fa. j septlllf j For _SaJto! ' TISA nr. 1 ---' 1. of A. E. Stoagb- ! ton, offer - for 1 • j • £ r, o!" ritnitod about r: r.y "f rr:> .-nthw.-rt 1 of Jb;i:..r, ..n lit* nlaok rosd. 'Hie improve- 11 ment, r.re a ;:. -ki fr«n.e f"am« J , >.»abl-. ..••• 'e ■-:■■■. IK-.V:.'I, :..-if T'l plnm . tree* ar.d oth" -aar fr- There .* a pooil t Hpr.r? : a ■' on :■ ' prerr. • i.e iar.d ia cleared ar 1 11: Vr .rii.od. and *~. l i:c AT A BACPJFICK. 1' >r fnrti'tr information, i.i o.' T!iom*a ! llobiru- .Ti. lint.er, or Iho onder-ignol. at Slip peryTOck. " E. WICK. . KCJ, 111? A*ei£Tiee r& A. K. ,'",t<;ip!it'in. I 1500,800 ACRKS LAND j : --if.fi In and ntv.r Iho UPPER ARKANSAS VALLEY, IN EOL'TU WEttTEKN KANSAS, —OV TIJE- • Atchison. Topcka & B?. r ita Fo R. F., 11 Ycarv Cn-dit. 7 p-r cent. Interest. Tt."- fir-t pay : "tit «i .! .tc of [iitrchaec la 0110 tcmh of tl.e j.r'r.ci|. 1 <.!•! •• en per r oit. InUrr c*t on tb" remainder. At the end or the tirst and tml } i" , only ;i f Jnlc-' f-vrn p»*r crnt. i« )>:«id ; and tlie Il»ir«! vr.ir, nnd < ' j »r thereafter, one tenth or the principal, with .even p< r ce:,l. inter' t on th- i.alar.w, ii paid aiititn;./ nntil tft' whoie l» p-ld y cAr - ('.{• .it, pf?r • cut. I'isroiint. 'fv. o yi-r.ru* cr 111, - 0 p«*r < '-Tit. dlfcnnnl. 4 C- ii j.iiri i i-'\ 1-:; p«: rcrt. «i »mnt. Tho V ii>jy <>f tb< Upf* r »-. 1 f'»r il? i«i;* j•' v to WHEAT ItAJi'iMf .*»rtl I?" --op' ior • it- .' r »*in. j A• IBTOCK*RAI 1 84 WOOL OftOWIKO j CMNd rjr, Rikflef I mot be ft* GfKX! «f»i!, ;ihur<'aii. » <.f | ' r<- water, a i t«iild .in I n ii, irk tW,y ticaltli) liinaic, willi low | prir« - ami « ifv I »:»»«, n. V - up a tot of in- . doo ipciit'* grtmU'T Lit; t ollcrecf an}'where el#c ' tm lh«* conth ' *it i f Arm rii a. ) Kor full pnrlh ti !.»:>. ;uir-- '»f ora'Mrci . C. A gKYMOL'R. K »* fern r Atrent, I foy2l-!v] 41-# Hr««.nlvt.iy. N. Y. | 11KI , Butlalo, N. V. | Kansas Farms , FREE HOMES. : The jlaDSa''. Pacific Hoiriestcad ! I* published I vtl.e Land Departr-• ..t ef tho Kaiwae Pacific . t . ■ ".pplv ti,o 1 r.M» I for j ai>»'it /IANH/vS, II ii' * cr,.- ii); tJf j lm<|y of Uinirt grMitwl t»y i'.i li'l of iho cofint ruction of i!h roa'i! T) :-; «r«it roiEprinc# ' KIVIS MILLION AtJIiKS 1 OF I.ASi), e •.-miiitu of ev*ry old section in eaeli *i,.ni|.. for a
  • '|»iie< of twenty fnil< a on both m le< of lb' ra: ■ ,11, or oi;e -if of tho lllvi In n I' ll f'.rly tail - »i»1... e..leudir.<{ (o ' llenver f'lty, Colorado, li nn f -nriii:;; •. *•' i' ■ ill ation of Ibe belt of e. r.i.iry nliieli, fr'.m tho Allan!ic eonet ue-:-vard. !• iomid L-. ... 'ai mate. ni, and i.v.-.rjr prcalni'.on of nauiro, Uio ( moat favored. j The Kansas Pacific t Is 11 Jj- .Miles the Shortcut j Road from Kansas \ City to Dmircr. The favorite ritile of I lie t-.nriK'- and tho boat ' lino t"< tho Ran .Itinn O.unfry. < A copy rit Hie "II nrl" will i.e nailed - froo to any ail lro.r. by applyh.j? lo * I H. .1. riri.MOHR, V. 11. MIOAT, I.and Cooiiuiii*iontr. I OenVraaa. t:A Ti'let A«' "t, mliHW.m) Karna City. Mo. THE W«?T£ . B BEWIKG • tvk BRRT cr A! L. Unrivaled in Appearand, Ur,paralleled fa Simplicity, Uasarpassed fa Ciatfntafm, Unprecedented in Poplnrity, And Undisputed in iht Broad Cleim tt *»•• TKI TBKT nr.KT OPKHATI nn QUCKKBT IKLLIKC, IAKMOIIMT, *«m Itat firfitt fttwiif MM Was IX TH« WIHLt. •Mt*, Irikil* 1* I* •*«* mum*w«tlon In lis tßfor. Th* cricnee last winter, although he had previously held local offices. He is a native of Huntingdon county, where he was horn in 181fi. He became a woolen manufacturer and is still in that busi ness. He was a deputy United States marshal in 1800 and served as a.lus tier- of the Peace from 1803 to tBOB. Daniel C. Clark, of the Thirteenth district, Philadelphia, is a Republican, a native of Lebanon county, and now forty-four years old. He was educated at the Lebanon Valley College, then Annville Academy, and after some ex perience ns a book-keeper at the Corn wall Iron Works went to Philadelphia and engaged in mercantile pursuits, afterward becoming the bead of the house of I). C. Clark it Co. lie retired from business some time ago and was first elected to public office last fall, when he was chosen a memlier of the House. F. Sjnith, mcnilKtr from iln- Twitnly-liflb «li«tilct, l'liil&(iel|iliiii, iH n llfiiiocrnt. Il<- wan Imrn in Ciuiftilii in I S 12. Had n COMMON H«-11001 i tiiica tion ninl lift'itinc a 'lttalcr in liiilc.s and tallow. Ho in nt prcurjiit troannrcr of t|j(t Frankford Tallow Manufacturing Comjiany. Ilis election to the House lant yt-ar WUH liirf lirnt ii|i[M!arunce in juililic life. Alfred Sli'irt, lli;|ircHenti»tive' from the Second district of Erie, in the only Democrat in the delegation from that county. He wan horn in J'otter county aii'l is thirty-two yeara ohl. lie is a lumlier dealer and privn.t«; hanker, ami had ncvt:r ht.'ld ofllce until he wan .sworn in an a number of the llou.se last Jan uary. Myron 11. Silverthorn, who is also one of the members from the Second district of Krie, is a Republican, lie is a native of the town of Fairview, in which he still resides, and was born in 1527. lie is a farmer and lias held a number of local offices, having been County Auditor in lH(;o, Town Com missioner six years, County Commis sioner six years ami n Justice of the J'eaee for several years, lie was first elected to the Legislature Inst fall. With the exception of Wolfe and I'etroff, who have before been conspic uous in affairs of legislative bribery, it will lie observed that the indicted mem bers are all now men in the Legisla ture. William 11. Kemble, of Philadelphia, is a prominent politician and business mnii, nnd largely interested in railroad matters and banking, lie is a very active Republican politician, nnd was one of the founders of that party in your city. lie has never been a can didate for office, except before the Leg islature for Statu Treasurer, to which office lie was elected in 18(i5 and re elected in lS'ifi-7, but lie has served tin the Republican national committee for a number of years, and is one of the most influential leaders of the party in both city and State. A. VV. Lciscuring, of Munch Chunk, is also n prominent banker, being eusli ier of the national bank of that town, and lie is a Democratic politician of in fluence in his section of the State. lie lias not hc|i| political office, but lie is a geiitlemnn of high standing iu his com munity. Dr. E. K Shoemaker is a physician of good standing both personally and professionally, and has filled the posi tion of Lazaretto Physician at your port, lie i,-. a Republican iu politics. CharltM IJ. Salter is an ex-Represen tative from tin- Frankford district of your city, having been twice elected, II.II(I was an active member on the ICe pilblican side of the House. Christian Long is a citizen of Sliip penshurg, Cumls'i'limtl county, and has been prominent iu business rather than iu political circles. I|eis a large holder of stock iu the Cumberland Valley Railroad, and has acquired a liberal fortune by his business operations. Etlward J. MeCunc is also a citizen of Cumberland county and a promi nent business man, who is largely in terested in the border claims, as are most of the people in his region. Hi is a Democrat iu politics, hut has never held any prominent political position. BUTLER, PA., WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 18711. Jr.-.sc R. Crawford if= a Blair county man and an active Democrat in politics. He ha.- several times been the candi date of his party for office, including Congress, hut the Republican majority has Ijeen a bar to his ambition. He was recently a subordinate officer on the Hill. In conversation with a member of the grand jury it hns lieen ascertained —witk'iut, however, reaching any of] the secrets of the jury room—that action upon all the bills was practically unanimous. M U TIL ATB l> MOXE Y. SOME THINGS WHICH ARE NOT OE.V EIIA LLY KNOWN. Verv few people have an idea of the amount of business transacted by what is known as the Redemption Division of tbe United States Treas ury. It is this division which has charge of the work of redeeming and reissuing the mutilated or worn-out notes of National Hanks, and is under the very able superintendence of Mr. K. O. fJraves, of Xew York. Tbe division is supported by the National banks, each bank being asssessed upon its circulation to pay the expense. When a bank finds itself -in possession of worn or mutilated currency, it packs it up and sends it to the Redemption Division, where it is counted,examined and sorted, and is redeemed by an equal amount of new or lit notes for circulation. During the fiscal year of IS7B there was sent in for redemption $213,000,- 000 of National bank notes, out of the entire National bank circulation, which in that year was $:J25,000,000. But in October last Secretary Sherman issued an order that banks sending money to the Treasury to lie redeemed must pay the express charges in ad vance, aud this had the effect of rc duciiig very much tbe amount of m iney sent in for redemption, so that during the fiscal year of 1ST!), just closed, tin: amount received was only $1.57,000,- 000, which is the smallest for many years. Formerly the express charges were paid by the division,and assessed upon tbe banks according to tho amount of their circulation redeemed. This order of Secretary Sherman has caused National bank notes to remain in circulation about one-third longer than usual. In the fiscal year of l*7s the actual number of notes redeemed was about 2.1 millions, while in the fiscal year of IH7'.» the number was lfj millions. The reason why there is so much difference in the value and the number of notes redeemed when comparing the two years, is that when bankers did not have to pay the impress charges they sent many bills of large denomi nations, but since Secretary Sherman's order they have stopped sending large bills, because the express charges are reckoned upon the value of a package, and not upon its weight, so that it costs just as much to send a one thous and bill a- it dues to send one thousand one dollar bills. There are more five dollar bills sent for redemption than of any other denomination. This is be cause, of course, that in tbe general exchange of money more lives are used, and the largest issue-; are made of this denomination. The fifties re detuned present the largest value, ami there is about one fifty presented to nine lives. Of the $157,000,000 received for redemption last year, only $40,000,000 were found to be totally unlit for circu lation, anil were destroyed. The re mainder were reissued. Of the $157,000,000 sent in, s.'!,olti only was found to be counterfeit, which is an exceedingly small proportion, and shows that the Secret Service system is doing great good in sup pressing counterfeits. It is generally believed that banking people are very careful and accurate in handling money and doing business, but inquiry at the Dead Letter Office of the J'o -iollice Department will show that a great proportion of the misdi rected letters containing valuable pa llet's received there are from banks, and in the $157,000,000 received in the l!e --ilemption Division lust year, the girls who count the money found errors amounting to $32,054.77. The Treas ury "countesses'' are proverbial for their accuracy in counting and their aptness in detecting counterfeits, (jen. Spinner used to say that women could handle money under all circumstances be tier than men. But it is due to tlie batiks to say that nearly 70 per cent, of the errors they made last year were against tlicin. Out of the $32,054.77 errors, $22,118.42 were "overs," aud only $!•,900.35 were "shorts," to use the slang of tho counting-room. The circulation of the National banks is not at all evenly distributed through the country, but four-fifths of it is in the Eastern States. The Boston banks alone have over twelve per cent, of the entire circulation of the country. The amount of (lie circulation of the Boston National banks during the last fiscal year was $2H,325,000, while the circulation of the New York banks v.'iis but $22,080,000, and of the Cbicngo banks but $505,000, and it is a peculiar circumstance that of the twenty-eight millions of Boston circulation nearly twenty-five millions passed through, the Redemption Division last year. This is a phenomenon difficult to ex plain, but it is a fact that Boston money wears out faster than that of any other locality. THK LAW OF NKWSI'AI'KUS.—TIie courts have decided that if a person orders a paper discontinued he must pay all arrearages, or I he publisher may continue to send it until payment is made, and collect the whole amount whether the paper is taken from the postollice or not. Also, action for fraud can be instituted against any person, whether lie is responsible in a financial view or not, who refuses to pay sub scription due for a publication. Some forget this, anil think by merely refus ing to take the paper from th< postollice settles the matter. AT the barber's: "How does the monsieur wish to have hi < hair dressed ?" "11l silence, please." DR. AM LLOCITS SHOO TING. THE RELIGIOUS PRESS ON TIIK CALI FORNIA RIOT. Not alone the Baptist denomina tional papers, but the Presbyterian, Methodist and Roman Catholic com ment upon the recent shooting of Dr. I. S. Kalloch in San Francisco. The Jlajtfixl Weekly characterizes De Young as a cowardly assassin, but at the same time condemns, both on poli tical and religious grounds, the style of Dr. Kalloch's reply. "Yicious re taliation," it says, "ill becomes one who professes to preach the Gospel of Christ. It would have been wiser for him to have defended himself and to have avoided the severe nnd offensive IHTsiuialities by which his adversary was enraged." The Era miner and Chronicle re grets that intemperate and disgraceful words had been said on both sides, and says it was iu every way unfor tunate that the pastor of the leading Baptist church in San Francisco should have been identified with the bail party that gave him the nomination which caused the trouble. But De Young's deed and the way of it the Examiner thinks were utterly infa mous. The National Baptist has nothing favorable to say of Dr. Kalloch ; does not believe him to be a good man. His recent teaching has been disor ganizing and demoralizing, but there ea:i be no doubt concerning the extent of his abilities and his power of lead ership. He had a right to say his say, offensive as his say was. If he did not violate the law he ought to have been protected in his right of free speech. But in a review of his life, which is suggested by this affair, the National Jlajtlisl thinks there ought to be some way iu which the denomi nation can relieve itself from all re sponsibility for a man who brings reproach on the ministerial profession and on the Christian character. The Independent characterizes the shooting of Kalloch as "a barbarous reprisal against one who, in a policical canvass, had used the vilest language which can be applied to the mother and son of unwed maternity." On both sides, the Independent says, the language was unchristian and disgrace ful ; most disgraceful, perhaps, to the one who occupied the position of a preacher of Christianity, which he had already dishonored by his abusive pro scriptiveness of the Chinese. On the whole, there will be deservedly little sympathy felt with ivaliocb. A FOL'L AND UNJUSTIFIABLE MIRDER. The Chrintian Union calls the shooting of Dr. Kalloch "a foul and utterly unjustifiable murder," and thinks it matches the murder of Mr. Dixon in Yazoo, Mississippi. Dr. Kalloch enjoyed greater popularity than good repute, anil was not above the suspicion of using his oratorical powers for personal advancement. It is a strange commentary, the Union ailtls, on the condition of society in San Francisco that the disciple of a Muster "who, when he was reviled, reviled not again," should have answered scurrility with scurrility, as Mr. Kalloch did. A natural fruitage of the scattered seeds of scandal and abuse in tho American press is seen in such a murderous affray as this. The Ev.ange.lM thinks the shooting was a cowardly and wicked act, and deserves the severest punishment under the law. But it docs not excuse the course of Mr. Kalloch in resorting to violent and bitter personalities, which naturally provoke violence, he, too, being the pastor of the largest Baptist Church ill San Francisco. The Method in! thinks the Mississippi murder and the San Francisco attempt at murder closely resemble each other in their main features, but that the latter uproar is on a larger scale. But both rest upon the labor line in politics. But in view of our circumstances the M' thodixl thinks we art! entitled, us a people, to much credit, liecauue theso cases are so rare. The (Jhristiaii Leader looks upon the shooting of Kalloch as the natural sequel tot lie Lechmcre House (Boston) scandal of years ago, which furnished De Young with abundant and pertinent material. But Kalloch,says the Leader, thus attacked, like a true "pothouse" politician, paid back "in kind,'' and the belligerent journalist was made to wince under family disclosures for the iniquity of which lie was in no respect to blame. But no antecedents of Mr. Kalloch can justify or even palliate the attempt upon his life. His assail ant is an assassin, and the Leader trnsts that legal justice will be rendered. But the moral cannot be forgotten, nor should the salutary lesson he lost. The attempted murder of Kalloch, like the real murder of Fisk, is but the remote fruitage of a career that is worse than disreputable, in that it is brazen in its defiance of tho best public sentiment. KAI.LOCII'S ANTECEDENTS. The (Jatholie Stn ndnrd says the murderous act 'if De Young was sim ply tlie legitimate finale of most out rageous proceedings on both side*. Mr Kalloch's antecedents will not well bear publicity. He started out, says the Stanilaril , as a Baptist minister, ami soon made a more than doubtful reputation for himself in Boston, hav ing been once tried for adultery and escaping conviction through disagree ment of the jury, aud then liecoming lawyer, school teacher, horse jockey, itinerant preacher, hotel kepper, and finally turning up in San Francisco as Baptist minister and politician com bined. But the act of shooting was lawless and murderous in the Stand-' ore que*it i!;:*»nion. 50 cent*. Yearly ad veniremen t« « xotedin;; ono-foarth o/ a column, f5 per inch. Figure work doublo thone rU«; additional whore weekly or monthly change are made. Local advertisement* 10 cents i»er lino for fin-t iti»Hrtiou, at <1 5 cento per lino ror each additional insertion, Marriages ami deaths pub !i*kad free of charge. Obituary notices a* advortixtmont*. and payable when handed in Auditor*'NVtices. $4; Executors' and Adraims trators' Notices. f3 each: Estray, Caution and Dissolution Notices, not exceeding ten liu over thrown horse and foot, with utter destruction of all your logic and learn ing. There is a defeat that is useful. Then you can seo the real and the counterfeit again. You will adopt the art of war that has defeated you. You will ride to battle horsed on the very logic which you found irresistible. You will accept th<*fertile truth, instead of tin! solemn, customary lie. When people come to seo us we foolishly prattle, lest we lie inhospitable. Hut things said for conversation are chalk eggs. Don't say things. What you are stands over you the while, and thunders HO that I can't bear what you say to the contrary. A lady of my acquaintance said, "I don't care so much for what they say, as I do for what makes them say it." The law of the table is beauty —a respect to the common sort of all the guests. Everything is unseasonable which is private to two or three or any other portion of the company. Tact never violates for a moment this law ; never intrudes the orders of tho house, the vices of the absent, or a tariff of ex penses, or professional privacies; as we say, we never "talk shop" before company. Lovers abstain from caresses ami haters from insults, whilst they sit in one parlor with common friends. Would wo codify the law that should reign in households, and whose daily transgressions annoys and mortifies us, and degrades our household life, wo , must learn to adorn every day with sacrifices, Good manners are made up of petty sacrifices.— Ralph Waldo Em erton. TIIK fall of water in England this year is something unparalleled, and none of the floods have done more dam age than those of tho past few days. The dispatches announce that Birken head, opposite Liverpool, is Hooded, and that traffic on the railway Itetwecu • Chester niiecii known lor many years. The suffering this winter cannot fail to lie wide-spread and very severe, and it will take a liberal out pouring of money on the part of tho rich to prevent almost a famine among the poor. The demand upon this coun try for provisions will lie something enormous, and will, of course, bring heaps of yellow gold to our shores. THE monument to General Custer was till veiled at West Point lately. Algernon S. Sullivan delivered the pre sentation address and General N. I*. Hunks was orator of the day. "Wo should give to the white people of the ludinu country a chance to fight their own battles," he said, "or keep tho peace for them. We should giva to the Indians the political character to which they aspire—make t hem citizens or leave them savages as they choose, and settle with them as citizens or sav ages every three •"ontlis. Short oc counts make long friends. Our army should be of sufficient strength to make . wars short ami one Indian war should never succeed another. If the money that is expended to improve the rivers without water and harbors without commerce were appropriated for tho army, Indian wars would cease for ever." THE latest phase of s)K'culntlon is the alleged project of capitalists in Chili to get up a corner in nitrates. It Is charged that these Individuals, through their control of the Chilian Government, first seized the Bolivian' nitrate mines, and then shut up, by blockade, tin; only Peruvian port that exported nitrates. Thus they estab lished a corner in a staple article re quired in agriculturn, chemistry, and mining. The latest reports indicate that the plan of starting a couple of wars for the purpose of speculation may prove an unprofitable venture. A fuksii gold fever has set in in Australasia in consequence of the dis covery of gold in large quantities on the western coast of the island of Tas mania. Kxpeditions have already been arranged from Melbourne, and it is probable tlml this colony, which has been for some time past in a lethargic condition, will start forward under tho impetus given by the influx of a large nuuilx'r of miners. An ounce and a half of gold a duy, which quite a nuiu her of seekers are now said to be re alizing, would certainly indicate u very rich deposit. W IIEM John Dixon, a Savannah ne gro, sat up in bed in the midst of his own funeral service, the assembled mourners ran yelling from the house, OIII* of tin in getting out through tho window ■