the natiettian. 4. , ,v1y1!• , MARIETTA. PA : Saturday faulting, Mardi 8', ,, 1867. Sir Congress seems to be very improv ident in its appropriations. It is vo ting it in every direction when many ju dicious statesmen think there is no ne cessity. For instance, the voting by the House of $190.000 to Capt. Winslow, hie officers and crew for sinking the pir ate Alabama, is regarded as a very doubtful appropriation. The vessel, whose estimated value it is here propos ed to pay, was not captured and brought into port, but was sunk. The captain and his officers have all been promoted and their salaries inrceased. These, with the thanks of Congress and a gold medal, if thought advisable, ought to be deemed sufficient recognition of their bravery and patriotism. car The Washington Cltronicle Bays " Before the close of the last session of Congress a bronze equestrian statue of General Scott was ordered to be made and placed over the grave of the great captain at West Point. We submit whether it would not be a good idea to place a duplicate of this statue in some prominent position in Washington. It would ornament one of the many little squares that dot the city, and occupy a more conspicuous position than at West PointY cir The State Temperance Conien tion met in Harrisburg on Tuesday last, and was called to order, by General Lewis Wagner, of Philadelphia, who nominated Governor Geary as the tem porary president of the Convention. After prayer by Rev. Mr. Johnson, va rious committees were appointed and a permanent organization effected. The Convention was addressed by Gov. •Geary, Hon. Horace Greeley anti Mrs. Gage and others. ear The Fenians are again creating an excitement in England. An emis sary, who has just arrived at New York from Ireland states that the reports that the rebellion had ended, are false. He reports the organization stronger than ever; the soldiers being under the im• mediate drill of four hundred officers who served in this country during the rebellion. a- A Band of regulaters have appear ed in Carroll Parish, Louisiana, threat ening and perpetrating all manner of vi olence upon "Yankees and Yankee nig gars." They avow themselves rebels' and belonging, to the poorer class of whites upon the back hills ; and are en raged because the negroes have left them to hire . to the planters on the bot toms. They have already raided upon several places near Bunch's Bend, on the old channel of the river. eir Senator Saulsbury, of 'Delaware, who signed the temperance pledge on Saturday night, violated it on Sunday morning, and on Wednesday struck a match in the Chamber of the Senate and lit a cigar. Mr. Foster directed him to put it out, which he did very promptly. A resolution for his expulsion, on the ground of habitual drunkenness, has been prepared and will probably be passed. when Dr. Wister's Balsam of Wild Cherry will cure coughs, colds, bleeding at the lungs, and arrrest the fell destroy er, consumption, it does more than most physicians can do. The use of a single bottle, costing one dollar, will satisfy the incredulous that they need look no far ther for the required aid. Cr A child was born a few days 'ago, a few miles south of Bowling Green, Clay county, Ind,, very much resembling a turtle, one of its arms being so shaped and working ba ckward the other run ning to a point like a turtle's tail Its head is also said to resemble that am phi bine animal. oir A strong pressure is being brought to bear upon the kresident, from lead ing men from New York city, to sign the Reconstruction bill. He says he cannot sign it, but that be will give them plen ty of time to pass it over his veto. sfir The Great Eastern, it has already been announced, will leave England for America on March 20th, to carry visitors to the Paris Exhibition. New engines and machinery are , being placed in her, and she has, accomodations for 2800 passengers. dir On Saturday last, John H. Sur ratt was arraigned for trial, in Washing ton, which will take place some time during next week. fir John D. Defrees, of Indiana, late superintendent of Pnblie ,Printing, has been elected Government Printei. Or The resignation of GpV. ,Swann and the inauguration of Lieut. : Gov. Co; has been postponed. Sr John H Sorratt is noia in-jail, in Waallintrtnn Pity TUNNEL, TUNNEL, TUNNEL.-4 number of Pittsburg capitalists have under con sideration the constructien of a tripartite tunnel from Saw Mill Riin to Pittsburg, Allegheny and Manchester, under the Ohio and Monongahela rivers. A bridge of like character was contemplated some years ago. The impression now is that a tunnel will not cost more than the bridge while the advantages are with the former. • Another tunnel is talked of to pass "the trains of the Great Western , and Michigan Central Railways under the Detroit River, over which they are now carried by the new iron ice boat. Bor ingso are said to have shown a favorable stratum of clay. A bill has been passed by Congress authorizing the construction of a tunnel under the Mississippi at c't. Louis. sir Five dead bodies, two males, two females, and one new born child, were fonad by the detective police at the Grand Trunk Railroad depot Buffalo, on the 27th inst. They were shipped through the American Express Com pany, for Ann Arbor, Michigan. The bodies were packed in flour barrels, were in a nude state and evidently had not been dead a week, not being decomposed and bore no marks of violence. They are now being cleansed of the flour and will be exposed for identification to morrow. The city is wild with excite ment to know whose relatives have been thus desecrated by body snatchers. A burglar has been convicted in Brooklyn on the circumstantial evi dence :of an: Internal revenue stamp: He had left the cover .of a- match box on the premises„obd he had in his 'kick et at the time of his arrest the box; at tached to which were the torn fragments of a revenue stamp. On placing on the cover the broken edges of the stamp fitted exactly, and on this proof alone the prisoner gobs to the' penitentiary for ten years. Gen. Simon Cameron has been presented with a beautiful gold .headed cane, manufactured from black ebony wood, by the emyloyees of the Lochiel iron Works, at Harrisburg.• It, was pre, eenied•as a token of their high appreci ation of his valuable services in favor of American industry, and had several ap propriate mottoes engraved on it. gar A person in Cleveland who has taken the trouble to gather statistics on the subject, says that baring the last two years the number of people burned' to death from kerosene lamp explosions has been nearly two hundred, and the disas ters have destroyed property valued at $6,000,000. fir Chicago , at present contains hun dreds of houses marked "for rent," and the newspapers of that city say rents there are declining. In • Philadelphia there are now more buildings publicly offered for rent than has been the case for some time past, and the general im pression is, that house rents have seen their highest point. sir It has been humorously reckoned that the heirs of Anelre'Jans numbers two millions, while the property_ is only eight millions. Thus, provided Trinity Church N. Y., was made to •disgorge, each heir would have four boilers. It is almost as bad as having a - share in an opera house raffle. r The reconstruction bill as passed by the House was amended in the Sen ate ; and the House having not concurr ed in-the Senate amendment, the. bill, lays over for the 40th Congress, as the session of the present Congress can only continue until Monday next. Gir The origin of the term cannel is doubtful ; but it seems to be the gener al opinion in the mining districts where cannel coal is obtained,' that it is an easy corruption of "candle;" referring to the free inflammability of the . article. far The President has approved the bill authorizing the Secretary of the Navy to accept League Island, in the Delaware river, for naval purposes, and to dispose of the site of the existing na vy yard at Philadelphia. ar A 'shoemaker in Richmond fin. ished &pair of shoes seventeen and a half inches long and five inches and a half wide, for a negro man. He will have to go to the forks of a road to find a boot-jack. • ' tar laboring , man in Providence, B. 1., has been , fined, and sent to jail for ten days, for falling asleep in church. The-Providence Journal thinks the min ister ought to be fined for not preaching so as to keep him awake, sr Benj. Wood, Esq., is about Weekly "News." It will be a large forty-eight cOl'ama newspaper, and will . give its attention to the advancement , of LiterarY, Scientific and Argricultural puraqits. ar One Henry J. Allen was