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ije yittsutugi) tfommmat; Saturday, Noimnbcc IS. 1S71. FIGHTIM. A RFVR IN A CATTLE All, STATE NEWS. THE COLORED MAN AS A JUROR.

county prosecutors. All these appointments, however, have to be confirmed bv the Senate, the va'tie of the The Clearfield Journal est! mat. The Democratic Programme. At the recent term of the United States and while there is little doubt that that body An Indian Locked up "lib Beosls A Terrinc I iKht Monkeys nnd Snakes l.ooliina On Brrnd, Turnips, nnd IS District onrt, held this city, there were atpeelnl nUpalrb I Ihe I omtorrrltil. itm.

logs and lumber lying along our mountain streams, awaiting a rise of' water, at tmt ti.poiMkW. On Sunday last, in Lehigh county, a young man named Frnnkenfleld was shot and Instantly killed by a companion, with whom he was huntiiif will consider courteously and favorably the Governor's nominations, it will also be its duty to insist upon a reasonable division of 197 1, hikotow. D. C. SATI BOAT, M)Vt'MHKl! I ITV T1I-KKT.

From tlie London Free Press. The men on the mixed train going weBt yesterday ffices between the parties in the case of such appointments. In New Jersey, moreover, the power of the Governor is more losely limited than in some other States. His veto may be overridden by a mere ma are wholly different, and the extending to them restrictions and restraint sug-gestid t.y accidents upon boats of an en-irely btterent character, and used for widely different Could never have been intended by Congress, if the subject were o. eft ly understood.

1 be matter of improving the navigation of the Ohio by appropriations comnie'nm-rate in amount to the great importance of its public uses and the vast aggregate of its ntinnal commerce presents a plain duty to Congress as just and imperative as any that can possibly come before that body. Ofl-cial records, kept by the Government engineers having in charge the expenditure of the pitiful fifty thousand appropriated annu. idly to the river improvement, show that the Ohio trade about equals the entire foreign commerce of the whole nation, to protect which millions are expended in keeping up jority vote in both branches ot the Liegista- The Grain Trade by New Orleans. Tbe St. Louis ttemmnt regards It as a "dead snre thing" that the gram trade of the Mississippi Valiey must go by the Mississippi river to tbe ocean, and says that the only thing xhat remains to be done is lo provide at once greater and better means and fa-c: ities for the transportation of the millions of bushels of cereals which are now awaiting shipment.

The Chicago Tribune at length admits the advantage of the outlet by way of New Orleans, at least daring the season of suspended lake and river navig itlon, lasting generally frem early of November to the middle of May, and also says the apprehensions that some entertained, that in the passage through the Gulf of Mexico grain might become heated and injured, have not been justilied by tha result ot experiments, corn and wheat shipped from New Orleans to Liverpool having arrived In good order. The Tribune takes occasion to suggest that arrangements could easily lie made to obtain through bills of lading from Chicago to Liverpool ria New Orleans, Insured for the whole transit, npon which bills ot exchange might be drawn, and thus enable the merchant in Chicago to realize at once upon corn and wheat shipped from there. Whereupon tbe Democrat remarks that there is only one thing for Ht. Louis to do now, and that is, "to lie lively with her barge lines and elevators, so that our neightior at the North may not realize too freely the fruits of an enterprise which belong so justly to us." rarties are looking aiiotit Blairsvllle lor a site for Iron works and coke ovens. Mrs.

McDonald, widow, residing at Dunmore, Luzerne county, hung herself a few days ago, while in a fit of delirium tremens. It is rumored that the furnace at Weltersburg, Somerset county, is to be purchased and started up by Eastern capitalists. Four attaches of Forepaugh Menagerie brutally outraged the person or yonng lady at Mifllintown last wees. Three of the ruffians escaped, but the other Is In Jail. Ten ears of com on one stalk Is the cereal curiosity In Sullivan county.

Cases of sma'l-pox are reported in Greensburg A I'oem by Theodore Tllton. The following tieautitul and suggestive verses. bJ Theodore Tllton, re pub ished tn TIs QoUten Age. They are there entitled "Sir Marmaduke's Musings." hy sir Marmaduke," does not appear; but as "Mnsings" they fathom a cousideraole depth of thought: I won noble fame, But. with a sudden frown.

The people anau-hed my crown. And ID tne m're trod dtwn My lofty name. I bore a bounteous purse. And hSSgail by the way Then blessed me day by day. But I frwn hoot as ley.

Have now their eura 1 gained what men isU frien Is. Butaow their love is hate. And I have learned too hats Uow mated minda nmuate Ana triendanip ends. I clasped a woman's breast. As if her heart, I knew Or fancied, would be true "Who proved -alaa, too late! Flae like the rest.

I now am all liereft As when some tower doth fall. With baltlemeni.and wall. And sate, and bridge, and ad Abo nothing- left. But I account it worth All panics of fair hopes crossed All loves and honors lost To gain the heavens at coat Of losing earta. So leet I be inclined To render ill for Ul Henceforth in meinstUl, God, a sweet.

To ail mankind. ture and hence it will be easy for the Republicans to carry any important party measure, notwithstanding the Executive disapproval. Politically considered, therefore. HATOK. HKN.l.VMIN W.

MOIUiAN. TWirSK, cnvronni magkk. IMMH ROIIKKT J. TUB OHIO RIVBR NAVIGATION. i.

hi nvei interests have len subjected to niiMjjnverninenf tut well a neglect. They have been uf such rapid growth, and the methods tt miinAgmg theut have undergone siioh broaJ changea, that their requirement have not been comjirehended by 0MgHM l.v llie nartien huliliiii: tliein. Thus minute he Legislature is of considerable more value than the Governor, and his election dwin dles in importance and significance corre Indiana, Aitoona and other towns in this end of the State. six ersons of color on the jury panels. We bin been at some pains to learn what de eree of intelligence, as compared with the white juror, these persons exhibited in the deliberations of the jury, and what degree of consideration was extended to them by fellow-jurors, counsel and parties.

While it is probable that the colored jurors in attendance on the Cnited States Court were considerably above the average of their race in education and native ability, we are pleased to be able to say. on the best authority, that they commanded respect for their intelligence and personal demeanor that they excited the prejudices of no one, and that exactly the same degree of consideration was given to the individual judgment of each of these six colored jurors, in the deliberations of the jury, that was accorded to the whit man holding the same position. Of the six, four sat on the Traverse -lury, and two on the Grand Jury. It is a fact of some significance that neither the District Attorney nor counsel for the defense challenged, in any case tried, any one of the four called on the petit jury, while many of the other persons on the panel were repeatedly challenged by both sides. The fact that the colored juror was neither courted nor avoided shows that the people have already become accustomed to his presence in the jury box.

spondingly. The licensed whisky sellersof Lancaster have held Teat which is sauce for the goose is sauce a meeting and determined to compel all unlicensed venders of "blue ruin" to close up. a navy, a light house system, improving harbors, Ac, Ac. If the people of the States bordering upon our rivers will second Mr. and Mrs.

George Sc.haeff, of Whltpam, Mont morning bad a pretty sensation just as the train arrived In Bothwell. As the noise of th-wheels subsided unusual and excited sounds were heard issuing Irom a bonded car which all aiong the passage from the Suspension Bridge had remaiuad under lock and key, attracting no especial notice from any one. as no one on the train seemed aware of Ita true contents, Gradnally the noises grew louder and more excited, seaming was heard, accompanied by yells and imprecations from a human voice, and a series of low. fierce snarls and growls as If from an enraged and powerful animal; then a shinning to and fro, and more excited but perfectly unintelligible exclamations. The men were at.

a foss what to make of all this, and marveled exceedingly. A crowd collected, and noises of the same character continued within. There appeared to he a terrible rumpus inside the car which each moment grew more desperate and alarming. All at once a violent thumping against the door and the voice of the man, which had by this time grown more coherent, bnt sounded faint and smothered, broke out in exclamatory appeals, "Brek door 1 brek door lnjin get kill?" After which the strriggle seemed to tie renewed more furioualy than ever, "lnjin'' giving vent to short yells of pain and distress. No time wan lost by the men outside, who proceeded at once to oliey the call, and break the lock.

No sooner had the door been partially opened than out sprang a strapping yonng Indian a terrlMy excited state of mind, minus his hat, with his clothing hanging in shreds about nis body, and displaying several bleeding woonds. He was we'l nigh exhausted, but did not stop running till tie got behind the station house In a place of safety, where he stood panting for breath for some mtonfes before any one of those who surrounded him could elicit any Infor mation from him as to the nature of the ordeal through which he had passed. That, however, was perfectly intelligible to those who witnessed his escape, for he had no sooner got clear than a large black liear came snuffing at the door, watting to get ont too snd pursue his enemy like a roaring Hon to devour him. On seeing the men, however, and probably not caring to jnmp Into the Immediate presence of so many persons, Brotn recoiled and aneaked Into a com. from which he glared savagely at them.

There were several other animals In the car, some of them in (ages, and some securely fastened up with cha'ns and ropes. Among them was a young for the gander. A Republican robber is not a whit better, nor less unsavory, than a Democratic thief, nor is there the slightest reason The Piialinrta Prosrnmme. The Pkronieli this morning prints the following, with the statement that it is from line of their moat trusted contri'uitors: Ytom prominent men of the democratic party who are here, and others who have been here recently, and in correspondence from New York, we learn that a general interchange of opinions is pyng on relative to future action looking to the Presidential election. Outspoken, decided leaders of the Democracy have freely expressed their views, from which it appears that a lartge majority of these gentlemen are in favor of a coalition with a division of the Republicans, if it can be brought about, to nominate candidates for President and Vice President in opposition to the regular nominations of the Republican party.

Very few opinions dissenting from this proposition have been expressed. The utter hopelessness of successful opposition to the Republican nomi-nations with candidates of the regular Democratic Convention is almost unanimously admitted. The plan generally favored is to allow the conservative element of the Republicans to make its choice, and for the Democratic Convention to meet, adopt resolutions and adjourn without a regular nomination for President and Vice President. If the sentiment that now prevails almost univrrsally among the Democratic leaders shall govern, this course will be adopted. Final action is postponed on this snbject until Congress shall meet, when Democratic Sanators and Representatives are to hold a caucus to consider the opinions of the lights of the party, and probably recommend a course to be pursued.

Withont an exception thus far, they admit that the lookout now clearly indicates the nomination by tbe regular llepulilican party an i re-election of tren. Grant. gomery county, celebrated the sixty-sixth anniversary of their marriage recently. their interest in this regard by instructing why he should not be treated in the same A son of Thomas James, ssoclate Law Judge their Senators and Representatives with snf tieient emphasis to show they are in earnest way, and visited with the same punishment elect of Greene county, aged about fifteen years, fell from a wagon In Morris township a few days agj, was run over and killed. and disgrace.

The news which we get from the rivers, especially the Ohio, can be made Lewis Dewart, of Sunburv, Northumberland coun navigable the year round for a less sum than Washington, that the Grand Jury of the District have found a true bill against ex-Congressman Stokes, of Tennessee, in the Hiipriiriatioi)H bur been made (or improving the navigation, which have not equaled in amount the losses sustained in consequence of the improper construction of bridge nnder t'ongri-mtional authority. The river men are subjected to perpetual vexation and damaging interference by the pas Mige of laws establishing regulations and restraints, drawn up and passed without understanding what must be (heir effect. this may have happened without lieing shaped by sinister influences. Step by step has the progress been made in the use of our invaluable natural highway, from the caiH'e anil Durham boat, to the cHunuioclious steamer and the herculean ty, has been selected trom a class or seventy as valedictorian of Princeton college. Last year Mr.

Swenk, of the same county, was similarly honored. is annually bestowed upon the foreign com merce of the country. This is a subject re Mrs. Sherman, the Connecticut Poisoner. A letter from New Haven states that the trial of Mrs.

Lydla Sherman, accused of murder by poisoning, has been put over untl! the last Tuesday in I)e-cemtier, when the counsel will offer a plea of insanity in htr favor. She is charged with poisoning two of Sherman's children, two previous husbands and four of her offspring by Edward Struck, late a Now Yoi policeman. It is stated that she expresses every confidence In her acquittal, and that in her conversation or manner she betrays uo apprehension of the result. It was Impossible, says a correspondent who interviewed her, to trace any evidence of Insanity, and she does not affect to be Miss Hannah Rulon, of Chester, went to Phila quiring the immediate and sorions attention delphia on tbe Stb and has been missed since that time. of all the legions of citizens now inhabiting tin' Mississippi Valley.

matter of the bounty frauds and false muster rolls to which we recently referred, is therefore cause for congratulation among all honest men. Now let us hope that no false notions of party interest or clemency may be allowed to delay, embarrass or MCTDAL ADMIRATION, OR MIS An the fact that as an acent in the Mrs. Francis Gaston, an aged lady residing in Canoe township, Indiana accidentally fell in her door yard a few days since, her head striking on a small anag, which entered her brain, causing death a short time. There is growing npon the premises of Mr. H.

K. TAKES ON BOTH SIDES. administration of jnstice, his intelligence CHICAGO. Men said at vespers: Ail is well'. in one wild night tbe city fell Fell shrines of prayer and marts of gain Before the tiery nurricane.

On threescore apirea had snnaet shone, Vbere gbaatiy sanrlse looked on none: Men clasped each other' hands, and t-ai I The City of tbe Wost is dead! Brave hearts who fought, in slow retreat. Tbe fiends of fire from street lo atrert. Turned, pow erless, to tbe blinding glare, Tbe dumb defiance of despair. A sodden impulae thrilled each wire That tinsled round that sea of tire: Swift words of cheer, wanu heart throbs came in tears ot pity died the llame! From East, from West, from Ronth and North, Tt-e messages ot hope shot lortb. And.

underneath the severing wave. The world, fulKfcanded, reached to save. lOiii seemed the old, but fairer still Tin- new the rtresry void shut! till, Willi dearer homes than those ertnrow.i. For love ahaU lay each corner-stone. moved by any Insane Impulse, tint talks like one who tincture the prosecution, or in any man character and fitness are ascertained by the same tests which we apply to the white was entirely conscious of her Innocence and her ex Europe and America are brought so close Miller, in Littz, Lancaster county, an apple-tree oneration from the fearful charges made against her.

nice: in other words, that the negro is now together now that the public opinion of both livisions of the world seems likely soon to be If she be really guilty she is one of the most cold which has produced five crops of apples in one season. James C'ruth, a farmer In Madison township, Lu I eing treated as a man, and allowed to stand on his merits as a man, is the best possible blended into one. Difference of language at present the chief barrier in the way of blooded murderers who has ever been held to trial In this country. Very little hope is entertained of her conviction for poisoning Sherman, but tor the death of a former husband, named llurlbnt, the evidence Is evidence that he is fast disappearing from such a coalescence, a wall of partition cer cub la-lor glng to the old bear, wno at once mi fnge behind his ma in the corner, apparently 'omewhat bashful bv the appearance of so many grown men. There were also an antelope, a couple of monkeys, a wild kangaroo, Bome iieautirm specimens or the feathered creation, and a box of snakes, which remained comfortably colled up in their Plackets eitner too tired or too sleepy to take any part In the foss Tiie collection, it appears, belonged to a traveling showmau, who proposed to exhibit lo a vMt.m tnvn th domain of politics.

What we have said reported to be of a strong and convincing character She continues the topic of talk and dlscus-ilon at New ain to grow thinner and less effective with lapse of every year. Between Great about the colored juror in the United States Courts, applies with the same force to the In her Haven, and verv few can tie found to tiellev Iti-e. stri. ken city' from tbee throw i of thy woe of thy woe her manner and look Britain and the Cnited States this einse of iimltlessness riot withstand! in Taasaimavaiil liliiill colored juror in me ftaie uoiirts or tnis Id. as Theis9s to Amphion's strain.

And 1 IIS Illllo t-nce. .1 i To aoruis of cheer thy wails again! county. He has ceased to attract any at ten tion on account of his color. zerne connty, was thrown from his wagon and seriously injured, and lay undiscovered until he died frciri exposure. Nicholas Strold.

or Lower Towamenslng township, Carbon countv. Is past sixty years oid. has married three times, and is the rather of twenty-nine children, with a prospect of a farther increase. The Poor House Commissioners of Bedford county have purchased a farm of 175 acres, three miles from Bedloro, paying therefor During the month of October 73 foreign and 4,816 coastwise vessels arrived at the port of Philadelphia. It takes 185,000 per month to pay off the employees of tbe Phumix Iron Company, of Pnajnixvllle.

John F. Sellers, of Pottstown, has eight ears of corn of the present season's growth, which weigh fourteen pounds. colonel Peter ISaldy, a once prominent cttlzen or EasUin and a soldier in the late rebellion, died on ner to sw ay the proceedings against him ai that if he is guilty, as there certainly seems every reason to suppose him, he may be meted punishment iu exact accordance with the measure of his crimes. Political rascality and corruption is all the more demoralizing when the knave professes to hold exalted views and to be governed by elevated principles. The scurviest and scab-hiest curb-stone loafer who voted for Xsraaat is afar less loa' hsoine and despicable object than the fair-seeming man who cloaks his private villainy under the mask of being an exponent of healthy and honorable pub-tic opinion.

Joseph Surface, the libidinous man of sentiment," is a worse type of humanity than Jack Shei'VARD, and it is sincerely to be hoped that every man in the Republican ranks who preaches patriotism and practices dishonesty may be relentlessly brought to book. Only in this way can the re.tetioii in favor of honesty which has set iu be made to purify the whole political atmosphere and benefit the entire country. Tki'tji is said to lie at the bottom of The Indian Im, for he was scarcely ont of t-' reens, although big and muscular, as soon as he could collect his ideas and tegan to realize that he was safe and sound, related that he was employed bv the proprietor at eight dollars a month to attend the animals in thetr travels as keeper: that he had been stmt np with them In the car for nearly three davs, with nothing to eat bnt bread and tornlps. and with only water to drink: that the old bear had become restive tn the car while on the Journey, probably from hunger and thirst, and ended by commit ting an assault upon him, which he repelled as long as he was able to hold out. He thought every moment be would have to give in.

and consent to be. eaten op for breakfast bv the she-bear well. The Atlantic cable lies at the bottom of the sea. Close upon the heels of the re How shrivelled in thy hot distress The primal sin of aelrishness How instsnt rose, to take rhy part. The angel in tlie human heart' Ah not in vain the dames that tossed Atiovethy dreadful holocaust: The lirlst again llasyreached through thoe The ilospel of Humanity! Then lift once more ate towers on hixh.

And fret witb soiree the west afcy. To tellabat is yet with na, And love is still miraculous! Uhrr in fltajail AttantU. port from Paris that the Pope was about abandon Rome and accept an asylum under -eparation does not exist; wherever Britons and Americans meet together they make themselves mutually intelligible in spite of the wretched pronunciation of many of our Ktiglish friemls. and the newspapers of each side are read on the other. Even American books are now eagerly sought if or and read in Britain, ks has been made strikingly manifest in the late discussion on the subject of International Copy Right.

Though this entire reciprocity of curiosity and interest between the two countries is of recent origin, and has, therefore, not yet had time to produce its proper results, these results will certainly be realized before very long, in the form of an increasing assimilation of those popular judgments which pro tug, propelling acres of barges ludeu with thousands of tons of freight. The growth has been rapid- all within the memory of living men and for the adjustment of its expanding parts there was no precedent to assist. There has been, consequently, much groping in darkness many errors and mistakes committed and possibly bad ends have been subserved by the perversion of aid intentions. Hut the needs are becoming plain, and the wrongs manifest. Cheap transportation is essential to individual ami national prosperity.

Without it, rich soil and mineral stores are of comparatively small importance, whilst they enrich and increase all communities possessing them, together with the means of cheaply circulating their products in the commercial exchanges of the world. Of all the methods of transportation none is no inexpensive as that by water on the ocean, lakes and rivers open to the use of all men without toll or tax. And here our river men fairly and justly take their stand, and contend for the untramuieled use of the Ohio, whose free waters, coursing a thousand miles on their way toward the ocean, through one of the most fertile and charming regions of the world, were ordained to invite and encourage extensive inter-communication between the east and the west and the north and the south. It has been thought by many that there is a claahing of interests between the river navigation and the railroads, and that the the protection of the French government, COXBO an emphatic declaration that he has not the slightest intention of leaving the scene of 1 is unhappy turmoils in the Holy City. This OBITUARY.

Kn. Alfred eekman, One of the most prominent and popular clergy is hardly to be wondered at. His withdrawal Washtnotok, D. November 10, 1S71. crttiocs criminal statistics.

Hon. John Eaton, Commissioner of Edncation, has prepared a series of statistics to be embodied In his annua! report, setting forth the relation of education to crime In the New England States. From this It appears, brst, that eighty per cent, of the criminals in those States have no education, or not sufficient to serve them a valuable purpose in lire; second, eighty to ninety per cent, of the criminalr have never learned any trade, nor are they mastes of anv skilled labor: third, not far from seventy-five per cent, of the crimes committed are hy persons of foreign extraction, born themselves abroad, or their parents: fourth, eighty to ninety per cent, of the criminals are intemperate: fifth, ninety-five per cent, of the juvenile offenders are from idle, ignorant, vicious and drunken homes. VARUlt'S MATTERS. Antlioiiy Banning has been appointed Ganger for tbe Fifth Ohio District, and George W.

Donaldson, Assistant Assessor for the Seventh Ohio District, The Commissioner of Patents to-day extended the patent of Albert Franklin, of Genoa Cross Koada, Ohio, for a seeding machine. It appears from the Georgia papers that mnch alarm prevails under the apprehension that the President will declare martial law in that State. Such is net his design, there being nothing in the present, condition of any part of Georgia to warrant such a measure. THE" CASE OF THE HORVET. This Government and the Spanish authorities have not yet arrived at an agreement respecting the Hornet, now at Port au Prince, menaced by Spanish vessels.

A correspondence is in progress between tbe Secretary of State and Minister Roberts, the former protesting against the design to seize that vessel, which is under the American flag. STARTL.ISO TmrORT IN REGARP TO THE SMALL-POX. Prominent gentlemen attribute tbe spread of smallpox in Philadelphia and other cities to the sale of buffalo roes there taken from Blackfeetand Plegaa camps, where the disease prevailed two years ago. At that time they were forbidden to he sold to traders, but several months ago they disappeared from those neighborhoods and found their way elsewhere. from Rome would accomplish the complete unification of Italy, and put an end forever to all hopes of the restoration of his own and her interesting onsprmg.

i wice sue got imr arms fondly around him, and would certainly have bugged him to death but for the herculean strength which enabled him to throw her off and spun her advances. Being some what cramped in her physical energies by the confinement ana dull routine of snow life, besides not being so yonng as she used to lie, she was the more easily overcome and railed to make as stont an attack as the circumstances seemed to demand of her. The young man from tbe country parts, however, was determined not to be "taken in 'any more by the deceptions and allurements of lde-show lire, and then and there resolved to abandon a profession tn which he discovered he had neither the talent nor education to shine very resplendent. "He tink me big said he "Ingin only get a month, and a chance to get ate up into tbe bargain. No.no, my friends: that muchly too thlal Cgh: Not for Joseph not if he knows iL" DR.

DATID STAXT0W temporal power, if this lie not the far. men of the Methodist Episcopal Church, died at his residence In Newark. N. on Monday evening. He waf a son of the Kev.

George G. Cookman. the memory of whose nervous, fervent eloquence still lingers ith the generation now passing away. The elder Conkrnan was a native of Yorkshire, England, but came to this country In early life, and in began Ids illustrious pulpit career In New York. He was i ientiv transferred to tbe Baltimore Conference, during his connection with which he was twice chat.Ialn of Congress, on March 11.

1941, he The i hi. ul Improvement nl Louisville. 'I he delegates attending the National Convention of Sleaniboatnien at Louisville, on Saturday paid a visit to the eamil improvement near that city, with a lew of observing the progress made. Their satls-ta. tion was expressed at a meeting subsequently Mia, (fspt li.

P. Oray in the chair.) by the adoption of lhis ri -solutloii ftm That we have seen with the -P eiuiid Improvement made in enlarging the Lrnils-vli and Port laud Canal, and roeocBna the energv abitltv of (ieneral tiodfr. Wettze! tn the earnest I successful manner with vt Inch he has prosecuted this work, and lo reby, tn behalf of the interests of SUilMalt nil and commerce, tender to him our sincere thafiks. i ieneral Wi llie! was introduced, returned thanks, an said that in ten more days the canal would be such forward condition, with contracts filled, that an be thrown open as channel of commerce. Do ring the last ninety days tin had spent more aleep-tesfl Dtghts than wtien eomaianditig an army corps, and assured the steam boatnie'n that when the canal was auished tie would be the man alive.

Tlie l.alesl I nm.i (juenlton. A cigar making has tieen produced in Ix ulsvllle, by a medical gtntleman, Ilr. M. V. Mc Kinney, which it Is claimed must revolutionize the i near trade.

1 he machine occupies atnint as ranch to- in as a sewing mar nine, and can be operated by a i or girl with all ease. It makes two cigars at once, and tares out l.aoo day. The cigar comes i. it iwrfect in form and formation, and is hand inner man the article made by hand. An expert, industrious cigar maker wtl make by hand about cigars a week: for the cheapest ttUWKKtr la inred he gets ft I per thousand for a better grade flf per thousand.

This machine, capable of doing its' work of five men. and costing Jlno, It is stated, can be run at an expense ot six dollars per week, making the oust of manufacturing k.issj cigars only six dollars, where it is now paid ninety -nine dollars. The Imtsville pronounce the machines perlect success, a truly remarkable invention. even now. His Holiness professes tirmly to believe that Providence designs presently to restore this lost political dig-nitv by special interposition, and he wants to be at his post when it occurs.

Hence his ceed from and are moulded by comparison of views. When Durai Webster visited Englnnd. not many years ago. though a few English people knew all about him, his name was strange to most of them. In verv high society, the knowing ones had to tell what he had done, before the others could understand the honors conferred npon him.

Though Americans were refusal to bndge. It is painful and pit if for England at New York, on the steam shuj iTesident. the fate of which one of the to witness the dogged obstinacy with which the good old man maintains his opposition to the better civilization which has overtaken The steadiness with which certain Republican journals persist iu regarding Mr. Ootr-t ax as a candidate for the Presidency, not. nhhtanding his repeated statements in public and private that he intended to retire from office permanently and finally at tin-close of his jireseut term, is said to have induced him to reiterate tohis friends this fixed -iiiu-.

and to declare emphatically that he ill not permit his name to be used, under any circumstances, in connection with the next Presidential contest. If this report be true, ai. it probably is. the Utn-ii'irii and other "managing" papers will have to wipe out his name from their slate, and to cast about for another man. Mr.

Cu.rAX i said to express the opinion that Sunday morning. Rev. John Rodney, of Germantown, preached the first Kngitsh sermon In Allentowna little over dity ears ago. The Philadelphia police arrested 1,343 persons during the month of October. Judge Melcholr Bossard died at his residence at Bossardville, Monroe county, on Friday last, at the age of about sixty years.

The deceased was elected one of the associate judges of Monroe county at the recent election- He was highly esteemed by a wide circle of friemls and acquaintances who will deeply regret his death. John Deubler died near Canadensis, Monroe county, on the 15th ult-, aged eighty-three years. The deceased was with Bonaparte's army on its unfortunate march to Moscow, and was one of seven who returned out of a company of one hundred and eighty that started. He had been in this country i ootit forty two years, and was one ot the pioneers lo I at is now Barrett township, having removed to unit section nearly thirty years ago. John Kennedy, of atasanqua, Lehigh county, fell down stairs last week, fracturing his skull so badly that he died a few days afterward.

His fall was s. I by his cork leg slipping from nnder him. Honey seils at fifteen cents a pound in Tuukhan nook. A little son cf John MlUcr, of Liverpool, Perry county, fell Into a kettle of boiling water, a fe days siie e. and was scalded fatally.

The Lebanon Courier of the inst says: Mr. Fredtnck Woil, an old gentleman of Myerstown, etghtt-eight years of age, waiked up from that place to Uuaiiuo, a duttauce of seven miles, last Tnuraday tu. ruing, to look alter a iittis business, arriving as fresh ss if he had just stepped out of bis itoor. There is a lad in Lebanon eleven or twelve years C'aitse of Ihe Ien.tk of tbe Auditor-elect of Pennsylvania. crew or passengers surv ived to relate.

Alfred Cookman was t.rn In Columbia. Pennsylvania. alsut the vear ls7. soon after his lather bad catered npos his ministerial career. His pralfll TJ edncation was completed ln Baltimore, and he en- him.

It seems in some respects to have tin tun i I k'nson College. Carlisle, Isit only to remain hiilgsd fcil The condition of the College of Cardinals is every day becoming MOM nnd more critical, yet all efforts to induce at that institution rot a oriel pen.si. IB lava, vwa not vel twentv rears of age. he entered npon the red "In which his fattier had achieved such distinction. For two years be preached under the the Pope to give the subject attention have iinii of the in-sidtng Fide' of his district, and hitherto proved unavailing.

Twelve mem in i-4s was admitted to membership in the Philadel were phia Conference, tbe tauntoriaJ limits or bers of the college are. in the completes! that time much more extended than at present. sense, invalidated, some by old age and oth Emm the outset of his pulpit career his success was any Republican who permits himself to be used in opposition to the stent. The report of his pin pit i. wl'ti tin nomination of President Gsant will be irrs better informed concerning the most distinguished English statesmen, writers, cler-cvmen and scholars, dozens of jiames of considerable British reputation never became extensively known on this side of the Atlantic.

At present most of the real notabilities on each side become known by name at least on the other, and the time is likely not very remote when, on both sides, people who aspire to eminence or notoriety will owe the attainment of whatjthey seek for to the same public opinion. Each nationality will sit in judgment npon the performances of members of the other, correcting each other" mistakes, and substantial fame will be the award of concurrent national voices. In the meantime, a rather anomalous and nnsniisfactory condition of things exists with respect to this aspect of our interna potDtmeM to ruiantowti, in isas. in ivwau'i i-w he was stationed a Kensington and Port Itichmond trievablv beaten and mined. Whether the tnthisctlv.

Subsequent to that date he served two carat Wet heater: two years st Harr.sburg; Tus II" rd of Managers of the National Asylum tor diaat-ied volunteer soldiers bate just issued a iwo trrars at Christ church. Pittsburgh four years. President has heretofore regarded Mr. Col fax as a possible opponent, is, of course not known but, simultaneously with thi tma to lata, in Philadelphia, going thence to New York cltv. where he labored two years.

In ls5 cucuiar slat that tsey are now prepared to re lanes the central asylum at I lay usi, Oblo. or either ot its bra ieaea at Augusta. M-. llllwauXee, Wis. or southern branch, Hampton, Va sir Cookman aoaln returned to the Ptiiladelpiu Appdcatiou is fir-t to lie ruade by letter personally.

latter are exerting their mighty power to obstruct and destroy the navigation. This is a nils- ike There is no necessary riv.ihy between the two systems. Each has its separate and proper sphere. As transportation by the river is done for less than oue-fourth the cost for which it is done by railroads, the river is preferred for heavy freights, whilst the lighter take the other method. A striking illustration of this difference, now existing and impossible to be overcome, was made by W.

Milnor HontBTs, Esq. when examined before the Improvement Committee of Congress, February 2. 1849. In the course of his testimony Mr. Roberts said: "A fleet of ci a ut has been aately run from the falls at Louiav i Sew by ihe an er Ajax, winch l.adutoial length or "an leet, including steamer, tad an extreme width of Hsu leet including the fuel barges, covering about three acres anil car rying sixteen thousand tons or coal.

TO convey the same amount of coal taken tn to by the Ajax, by rail, allowing ten tons to a car, ami twenty-five cars to a tram, would require sixteeu hundred cars, divided into aixiy-toiir trains, drawn by sixty-four In this instance the difference is some eight times in favor of the river and against the railroad. Between 1'ittsburgh and Cincinnati the difference is not as great, but still preponderating enormously in favor of the river. water our coal is delivered in Cincinnati for three cents a bushel, whilst the charge by rail is fifteen cents. Nothing can more strikingly exhibit the beneficent influence of the river than this cheapening of an article of prime necessity, as essential when Mass uppin ati sis wit) la furnished totn. applicant, and.

If found duly ualllted, tranaporta ers by dhease, besides which there are twenty-four vacancies, leaving only thirty-four Cardinals to form a conclave. Pope Prrs is said. however. to bs quite determined not to create any new ones, in which purpose he is siij-ported by the Jesuits, who are determined at all hazards to secure the succession of Cardinal CvrAi.Ti, an extreme ultramon-tauist. and who fear that if their number were increased the execution of this design might possibly, by the loss of their majority, be prevented.

And so the old man. with courage and devotion almost heroic in their steadfast intensity, proposes to hV'ht against "the stars in their courses" until he dies. So far as he is concern ed his great countryman evidently uttered the immortal words pur ti WUtf" in vain. GREETING OF COMRADES. Annual Reunion of the Society of the Army of the Cumberland at Detroit.

Detroit. November 15. The Society of the Army of tbe Cumheriaud, now tn session in this city, met in their tifih annua! reunion at the Opera House, at ten o'clocl, Lieatenaut General Shertiin, Senior Vice President, presiding. General H. S.

Williams delivered the address of welcome, after which the forenoon was cousumed in short, happy speeches from Generals Hooker, tairchilds, Governor ol Wis-coi sin, T. T. Wood, Nathan K.mnalU Jeff. Davis, B. A.

Bamura. Wm. L. Stoughton, M. Dayton, an 1 others.

Letters from President Grant, Vioe President Colfax, and from the Secretaries of War, of the Treasnrv, and of the also from Generals Sherman. Bneil, and Admiral Porter, were read by the Secretary. At three o'clock p. m. the Society reassembled and proceeded tn the usual animal business, adjourning at six o'ciock.

to meet at eight o'cluvk to listen to the annual address bv General H. A. Barnum. A iarge ana inteiiUrent aitaienee of tht citizens of Detroit met with the S-rjetv to listen to the annual address. The opera ou5e, under th direction of the local executive was beautifully decorated.

It wis crowded. After the delivery of the address the Society attended a reception given by Governor Baldwin. Detroit has received the Society maguioVe-ntly. 7'lie Society meets for further business at tea o'clock The banquet occurs Thursday evening at the opera house. tion also furnished, overseers of almshouses and i hard, hospitals aav i.iier.

u' conference, and for three years subsequently was at at the Spring Garden street church. In he revived the appointment to Grace chur h. Wilmington, Delaware, and was the pastor or Uit church si the time the Wilmtngtor conference was crested out a portion ot the Philadelphia 0 mfer-enca. From the VviiruiDgton Conference he was transferred to March last to the Newark Conference, receiving tbe spp intment the Central church, Newark, of which be was pastor at the time of bis deal b. In all the p'aces In which he labored he was ex eeedtngly popular, snd his work was crowned with suc esa.

But he will is-chlefiy remnmtred for the stand taken by htm. especially of late years on the subject or '-christian holiness." as be believed tt Ui have been taught by the Wealeys and other Ira.lers of early Methodism. on private tieoevolen-e are requesTed to re port such cases to on of the manag Vice President's distinct and definitive refusal to place himself in antagonism with his principal, comes news that the President has thrown off a portion of the reserve which has hitherto characterized his ismversations concerning his own canvass for the succession, and that he has lately said to several rxons, with jn-rfoot distinctness, that he uo longer hail any doubt respecting his re-iiomination and re-election. We refer to these matters by reason of the fact that they constitute by no means an unimportant part of current political activities and affairs. A letterfrom Mr.

I'. McKinney, and Mr. J. E. Jackson, friends ol Dr.

Stanton, and ho were with him at the time or his death, gives Ike following interesting particulars: The lamentable death of our friend Dr. Stanton ha been so variously explained that it is due to his memory that a truthful statement of the case should given to ihe pobllc About six weeks ago Dr. Stanton made two post mortem examinations, in doing which he had to handle lor over an hour decomposing tissues aud inhale the impure air from the opened bodies. No immediate bad result was noticed, but two weeks ago be spoke to his professional friends about it, and said he lieiieved his system had been slightly poisoned, as he had not felt perfectly well since the examinations. Last Friday a small erysipelas Inflammation rpeared on his left cheek, accompanied by a Elight chill on Saturday, at five r.

the erysipelas involved the whole of the cheek and one-half of the nose. There was also a Rilgnt fever. The portion of the face Involved in the disease was exceedingly tender, and he saia tbe burning it gave him As his phvslcian was leaving him he remarked that be had' bawl so much sleep for several nights that he seemed to have got past his rest, and thought it tiest to take a small Injection of morphia to enable linn to pass the night comfortably. His physician uttered to give him the Injection, but he said he would administer it himself, as he did not wish to take it until near bedtime. At this time Dr.

Stamon was cheertni.hut manilested no excitement. He was not confined to bed. and he waiked about tbe room with almost bis usual vigor. Dr. Stanton took the morphia between 7 and I r.

msertang it deeplv into tbe inner part of the arm tear its junction with the shoulder: the dose was alsint one gram. For a while afterwards he conversed pleasantly with his family, and then went to sleep Atsmt p. at. his wire Leoame alarmed at the character of his breath mg, ami fiuding it impossible to awake him sent for neighboring physicians Medical at-tendence reached him by 10 p. St.

Hl3 breathing was then stertorous, his hearts actum reel. le and ee-rem extremi-and appliance known to science were p'r. mptiy'ns2i for bis relief but without avail. He coati" ioWfnr until half-past one clock on Sunday morning, when he expired. In the opinion of those physicians who witnessed this sad death scene.

Dr. Stanton's death was caused by tfie unnsually prompt and complete absorption of the morphia, prostrating a system already struggling witb cadaveric poisoning. Thus perished one of the brightest ornaments of the medical profession a victim to his professional devotion, and to the remedy he had so often successfully used to relieve the sufferings of his fellow-men. en. at once.

Tbe asylums thcniseUe are neither almshouses nor hospitals, but comfortable now Hln-re sut slstence care, educatl -ti s.nd e-np: an- nrovided bv Congress, to be pid (W ttOSB IM forfeitures and fines of deserters from tne army Disabled soldiers having a wife, child or parent de tional relations. The subject is evidently in a state of transition, a state often difficult to analyze or comprehend, and also apt to involve practical difficulties. Old things have passed away but all things have not vet become new. Formerly our pride and our humility, or rather our pride and our vanity, were liable to come into conflict and disturb cool, if not equitable judgment where British reputation was concerned. In consequence of the achievements and gen needing f-n them are nd rtqutred to give uo thou iiensions enuring an asyiam- In certain specia eases, Ui te.

determined hy the Hoard, this is revju site with others. Compensation will also te given Notw lTHSTANiiiso the indignant denial ie ceutly given by the son of the Salt Lak fia profitable labor tn these asylums, and the kindest 'heocrat to the rumour that the departure of in atmrnt is assured to all. These advantages will i uiberger by name, son of Mr. John P. I Uibcrger, whose knowledge of tbe numbers ot the houses in Lebanon, and who aceupies them.

Is marveloua Mention the number or se in the horoogh, and he win instantly give in. i air of the person oerapylng It. On being i as did It, he answered, "I walked aioBnd and looked." He evidently looked iO some purpose. A very serious accident happened to Mr. Mutnard, or Coiebrookdale township, Berts county, on Saturday afternoon last, the 18th lnst, while out gunning.

He had shot a rabbit, near a sUine fence, ith a drsibie-barreled gun. and went to pick it up. and in doing so rested the inside of bis ieit aim. above the elbow, on the muzzle of tke nun, when, by some means, a stone was accidentally brought iu contact with the hammer of gall and exploded the cap. which sent tbe whole i wad aud all, into his arm and ap along the pone to the arm-pit, where it lodged, near the shoul- iei-t, a.le.

To the present time the physicians have Isten unable to discover the exact whereabouts of the charge, and Mr. Mulhard is in a critical condl-Uon. A petition Is being circulated in Montgomery county asking tbe Legislature to enact a law toinake who drinks at the bar of any of the hotels throughout tlie county, responaible with tbe proprietor who sens the liquor. The liasis of the petition is that tavern keepers are onen imposed upou by such per-soim requiring iiquor under false pretense, i nam Pearce stumbled over a plank in the street in Ktading, Tuesday evening, and fell to the ground, injuring bis chin aud face, and severing an artery, he died next morning. Tbe maiis are now carried over tlie I nton and TnusviHe Railroad, much to the satisfaction of the people along the line of the road.

Two ladies, Mrs. Elizabeth S. Elder, aged eighty-five, aud Mrs. Maria McLaughlin, aged seventy, seven, Have died in Hamsburg last week- Ttie Reading Tl: says: At the Reading cotton mm are said to be the three largest locomotive boilers ever constructed in this country. They are i-ixty four inches in diameter, each containing two Honored and one flues, thirteen feet long.

Including tbe fire-box they are twenty. four and a half feet d- ss availed of ny many disabled volunteers eral progress of the last decade. American his father from the seeneof his rule was iu tended to be permanent and final, then vanity has been quite swallowe I up thr. nsheot the country, for whose benefit we have roi.dcnsed the ILtorniallou above given. ArJrdlcf- itow to Im duuht that the uuiv- lW munu iUiiacuuttc seuUiuent, i uiuel HMli liia economic importance ot ihe International tinguished criminal.

TwntD, and to have the authorities leg bail. That he is good feeling has been fairly inaugurated, in money order system, and tae extent to which tn conjunction with better knowledge and people wnom it was designed to will a fugitive from justice is now said to 1 more worthy appreciation of American char prvi.abiy avail themselves of its adv.sntajres. is tndl ncter, sentiment and institutions. But generally conceded by the majority of both Mormons and Gentiles this conclusion MM all the more likely to be true for the reason that, while his travels heretof ire neither country has the popular mind yet learned to adjust itself to the changed inter national relations, so as always to see clear. have been chronicled with the utmost ruin nteness by the Mormon journals, not a word That freedom and education go together is shown by the wonderful intellectual pro.

uresa made by the colored people of the Cnited States since emancipation and now cou.es Brazil with further proof that liberty Tt'itt VitirwIiuTi she" pronounced the aboil. Hon of slavery. Herein lies a hint bv which the people of New York may haply profit Ihe occupation of Tammany's constituency eing now gone there being no oftiees for the pimps, thieves, repeaters ami shoulder -inkers to rill why should not a eouipulsorv industrio-educatioual bill be passed, relating to and framed for the special benefit and advantage of the classes just mentioned All sorts and conditions of people would find their account in it. Statistics showing the relation of education to crime prove that eighty per cent, of the criminal dosses have no education, or at least not sufficient to serve any practical or valuable purjiose: that between eighty and nineiv per cent, have never learned any trade, do beeome master of any skilled labor: that nearly seventy-five per cent, are persons of foreign extraction, and that between eighty and ninety per cent, are intemperate. It will hardly be doubted that a majority of Trap's constituents are included in this ly, discriminate wisely and form sound judgments concerning subjects which used to be treated with sensitive irritation on has appeared in any of them regarding hi tributes to a general prosperity, and thus increases the business of the other The river men regard the matter in this light, and only ask of the railroads not to obstruct their right of way derived from the Creator.

And all liberal minded railroad men take the same view, and are ready to acknowledge the vast importance of the river navigation. Thus J. Edoah Thomson, President of the Pennsylvania Central, who is the recognized head of the mighty railroad system of America, in his official reply, dated Philadelphia, March 1x71. to the Pittsburgh memorial asking for the removal of the railroad tracks from Eiberty street, said "The loeal.on of the present depot Is central to the business community, and especially convenient to the river trade; mid wmie ih true 'thai much of EARTHQUAKES em sw.na hv Earth quakes Pew Lives Lost Small-Pox. New York, Norember 15.

Panama dates or the 2d instant are received. Captain Craddock, or the steamship Gaotemala, was tilled by a matinoas sailor at Panama. The Assembly of Bolivia rejected the Federal Constitotlon. The reported assassination of President Morena. of Ecoador, la untrue.

Archbishop Pino! and the iiishop of (Vauteinala were both expelled from tiautemala for meddling in the late revoiurion. A heavy earthquake occurred at Iquique and in the interior of Peru on the 5th of October. Considerable damage was done to boiidiozs lqnlqoe, and there was a great panic among tbe people. Ita effects were more disastrous in tbe interior, where tbe towns of Pica and Matilla were destroyed, scarcely a hoase being left standing. A Are succeeded the earthquake In Pica.

At Varanacca the church. Pantheon, eighteen houses and dam of the river were destroyed. The towns of I feDiasma, tioasquina and Pacbica also suffered severely. Very few lives we.e lost Tbe steamer Panama felt tbe earthquake at sea- Arequipa bad i-hoc-ks on the 4tn and 10th, but no buddings were damagid. The English ship Weidford.

from Cal-lao, lor Germany, was totally lost off Cape Horn. The crew were saved. There was an earthquake on the 25tb ultimo st Bajo, Chili, but no serious losa. The small-pox was spreading at Santa Ross, Chili, and bad also broken oat among the southern huenos Ayr-can troops. Wild r'aiaiilv in Peoasvlv anin.

The editor of tbe Pittstoo iWyiuutug county. Pa. (Veiri gives the following particulars of a visit to a nomadic family, Hying but thirteen miles from Pulsion: A rude hut. not a mouthful in it to eat. nothing to cook with or eat rnoi no beds, chairs, nor stools is- ij.j rt'V found a trie "fiiigTiter.

twenty-three years ot age, a weii-fonued young woman, atark naked, not a stitch on to hide tier shame the boy half starved and emaciate.il to death dor, and what makes the matter more inex-plu able. Use father is described as a man of extra krl mental attributes, in reality a walking Mb ical cyclopedia, is-mg enabled ui refer, pn mplncBS, ui any text in the Testament, and re. is the major portion of the Bible without hesitation or priMiiptiug. Tins man's name is WeiN kes. he girl name "Meivina" and the boy a 'Kiiiy." When the party arrived on the scene, the girl as on the mil side amoiig the thistles, picking trim them tbe soft downy blows There was not a -cm ge of anything upon her naked form to cover tiei or protect her from the weather, thorns, an-i briars of the wood.

lier lather calling her, she started for toe hoase as oijwdtentiy as a dog wouid sustver the whistle of its n-aster. As she approached, sue seemed regardless of Uie thorns and stones that lay In her pain. Neither of the children have ever spoken a word. Melviua hair is of chestnut color, ami although It has never been cut. does not hang down in the neck, but la trizzled and matted together, ite- boy's hair is aouie lighter aud about the same length, and is matted together iu curls.

The girl is well formed, and. with the exception of a slight inclination to lean forward, Is a modei ot symmetry in lorm aud features, ller skin Is darkly tanned, and from the sole of her feet to her waist It bears the appearance of being hut ned. and the skin is wrinkled and looks truck. Tbe boy Is not so much given to roaming in the wtrnda as the girl, and is not as fleshy or wed ftsiued. His temperament is at times garrulous, but lie will ajiproacto strangers after much persuasion.

The girl is more timid. She would not allow as to shake hatids with her as her bmther, snd her fatfter only seemed to be able to approach her without amusing her fears and screams. Yi hen told to lie down beside lier brother under the blanket she would not do so until he hud turned his back to Iter. Parke is fifty one years oid. and was married twenty-rite years ago a girl named Brown, She lived about six miles above Tnnkhannock, near present journey.

ine lateness ana approaching inclemency of the season atwhich the one side, and with sneers and dispar Msi bp the transactions had dtirtngthe ftrst twenty tats of It existence, since Oetotw 1S71, at which date the system with the Cnited kingdom went operstton. up to th ultimo, inclusive, the arrtooul of mne. sent by money orders from the ulled Htates for payment Kngland, was H.V so. The amonnt received from England waa li.sai la. The maximum of an order sent from Uk- I'n'ied states Is fao I nlted stales currency.

The of an order received from Rngland Is i su rluig. or Us so foML The nest staresmsnshlp Is ihat winch conduces to the greatest good of the gr. at. st nuniif-r. and the system In question evidently had its origin tn Ihe heslthv Inspiration of the public welfare.

Js tt not a Utile singular that so MtS of these reallv admirable and fundamental reforms should lie conceived and set in successful mo-i: w.ili- tit the slightest assistance from any of the skiiiJul political nildwlves with which the oomitrv atunds? acement on the other. With the most amia he started would also considerably favor the ble mid praiseworthy intentions. John, for liyjiothesis of his flight. Should this im pression turn out to be correct, its effect getting the change or taking for granted that Jonathan is as humble that is--as vain ei gin. ineyw-ere bunt by Euos M.

Keazor, of this city. upon the Mormon cause cannot fail as be used to lie. sometimes chooses to flat to be of the most disastrous charac ter hasvesd of ridiculing or scoffing at the A SEW ELDORADO. Bala), silver, opper and Iron Ore In Franklin Connty. Pa.

IFrom tbe Lancaster Express It has been known, by some few persons, for some time past that valuable mineral deposits exist in the South Mountain section lying in Franklin county, Pennsylvania. Recently this knowledge became more general and attracted the attention of capitalists and men of science. It is a fact well ascertained now, that select parties of persons belonging to tbis class have quietly visited the locality, and have made topographical observations and mineral explorations, and that the results have proved so satisfactory that large tracts of land, utterly worthless, except for mineral development, have been bought by thorn. It has also transpired that a leading banker and several capitalists from Lancaster Cltv, attended hy the celebrated practical chemist. Prof.

Thomas Baker, graduate of the I'niverslty at (Joettlngen. Germany, and who at present occupies the chair of Chemistry and Natural Science at the State Normal School at Millersviile, very recently made a tonr of oliservation and inspection to the "place. This party frem Lancaster have 90 far kept their opinions to themselves. It has leaked out, however, that the Professor had shipped to his laboratory at the Normal a large quantity and variety of specimens ter. It is probable, indeed.

that it may even partially dispel the glamour of reverential awe with which, his New York organ, now that the rebellion i over, slavery weakness, while Jonathan sometimes still i i ii orts himself in a manner to show that the diminution of bis sensitiveness to the trade and travel now diverge to other Hues to the vaat reutoii. tributary the lYunsylvaula Hail, road, we cannot agree with you In iguoiing the liu nortajice to I'lllanurgli and this compact of tin foreign opinion and the growth of his otuu river, and tnat the present link between laud dead and Tammany in limbo, persists' in The Lancaster Dau'y Kxjmst entered upon its sixteenth year of life East Friday. It daserves to ltve through many more sixteens. Will M. Carltton, the poet, wiil give readings and recite some wf his poems in Tituaviile next Saturday evening.

The citizens of Bedford are promised a rolling mill, on condition that they subscribe $30,000. They should do tt, by ajl means. Dr. Charles Keely, an old resident and prominent citizen of Ktading, died on Friday morning, aged sixty-five. The cattle disease known as pnenraonla.

of a very malignant type, is prevailing in Lower Ma'kedeid. Mrs. Mary Hi.debrand died in Reading on Friday, at the age of ninety-four. surrounding him. It is trueathat athat jour The completion of the thorough overhauling and repairing of the steamship Yazoo, of the Philadelphia and Southern Mail Line, was made the occasion of an excursion on last Saturday afteru.ioo.

the vessel going on a short cruise or trial trip down the Delaware, with a large noniber of the stockholders and water tin- root or Linerty street, now in tact exIaUhg, Is uo longer necessary. Whatever may be the now depressed condition of this riv nal. a day or two ago. had nearly a column self confidence have not sprung from the decay of his vanity, but from the increase of his pride. If some ephemeral reputations on each side of the Atlantic have been the outi'oine of such misunderstandings, the mischief is neither serious at the time nor of giittei -swashain further denunoiationg.

HORRIBLE MURDER. A Man Murders Two of his Children aud Attempts to Murder his Wife. the proceedings)! the National Government in Ctah. but there are good grounds for be category, and it would be a stroke of real philanthropy as well as wise statesmanship to conijiel them to employ their leisure in learning the alphabet of decent citizenship. And why, for that matter, should we not, as a people, everywhere open our eyes to facts as they are, and accept the truth as it is? lieving that its advocacy of the abomination likely to last.

The fact is merely a sign or will not-long survive its knowledge that the, bigiimpostor is also an outlaw. In the dar attendant of a process certain to bring about the most useful and in every way desirable springviue. 111s wile is sun living, but she had left him about sap time last spring, and has not been back since. She ts now near Maltby, nursing a sick woman. By her he has had nine children, these two, r.lllv and Meivina, taping the oldest.

The rest are hea thy aud bright children. results, results more than sufficient to com ing with whichitis in the habit of running counter to the moral instincts of mankind, ifeis not without a certain kind of courage bnf it is by no means destitute of prudence. pensate much greater evils. The annovance of direct imposture in connection with the establishment of more intimate relations withal, and never vet was rash enough to between the two nations is also likely to be St. Tort, November 12.

A horrible murder was committed nearOsage n. Kana, on the nigat of the 6th meu The fBcts elicited at the Corouer's inquest were as p. Flanagan, the perpetrator of the crime, having recently met with pecuniary losses, resolved to dispatch himself and taxnitj, and on the 6th instant proenred chloroform, and during the night administered it to his wile and two little girls aged ten months and two years. About four o'clock in the morning 34ra. FJanagan awoke from the stnpor produced by the chloroform, and discovered her husband iu the act of driving ten-penny nails into the head of the children, aai, Hying to the rescue of her babes, she found them expiring from ihe effects of blows inflicted wit a fie hatchet and nails.

She socceeded in disarming her husband, gave the alarm, and he was taken intoc is-tody. A letter was found tacked to the wall of tie room, addressed to some of his relatives, in he slates that consequence of his mind being ease condition that he could do nothing, be ha i determined to kill himself and family, excepting bis son Clarence. secured oy tne party, an.t mat any open expression of opinion by them Is subordinated to tbe careful analysis of the specimens In the hands of the professor, and his report thereon to them privately. The mineral characteristics of the locality are singular and nnnsnal There seems to be a promlscnou throwing together of different valuaoie properties in close proximity. There are indubitable indications of gold and silver, boundless deposits of iron, and what especially attracted the attention of a party, beaded by Gov.

Geary, was the extent and richness of the copper ores. The siirface indications of copper are remarkable, pure lumps of several pound9 weight having been fonnd. The Immediate locality, more closely explored by the I.aneaster party, lies near the "Poena Vista House, some few miles sooth of the sounthern terminus of the celebrated Tape Worm Railroad. This particular spot, which they fixed npon as a strong point, is owned by a medical doctor residing in the neighborhood, some few miles distant, who seems perfectly satisfied to hold on to It at all events. transient.

A wordy and smooth tongued Trrz virtues of some men are of so profound a character that it takes almost a lifetime to bring them to light; and the patriotism of some Southerners who from the beginning to the end of the war were supposed to be rebels in the grain, was so deep that not until after a lapse, of six or seven years has it worked its way to the surface. '1 he Southern Claims Commission, for instance, has already registered upwards of clerical charlatan, in virtue of his vast wis doninnd high position among British Chris sympathize with one of its heroes after he had failed in his wickedness or passed behind the bars of a felon's cell. It is, therefore, every way probable that the pestilential delusion of Mormonism is now at its last gasp. tiMiis. attested by himself and his personal and prominent citizens of Philadelphia on board.

Everything passed otr pleasantly, and the performance of the vessel was entirely satisfactory. She will return to her place in the line next Satardav, after an absence of dve months, in the mostperf ect condition of any of the vessels flying the flag of the Philadelphia and Southern Mall Steamship Company. "Among the fresh scraps of census returns, just received from Washington, we Hud the following: 'The number of Idiots tn New York is more than one-tenth of the idiotic in the whole A'. CMS, Adv. At last, then, the mystery or the prolonged ascendancy or Tammany is accounted for.

Forcer-tainly the Empire State is not without Its full cornel, ment of knaves; and these, it seems, took advantage of the fools to the undoing of the few r. inatnlng wise men as well. Happily, however, there are grounds for supposing that many of these pi -or have lecenily recovered their wandenug wits, and that the number of feeble-minded Is not now as large as represented ate ve. It is reported that Saturday will, with the ending of the present volume, cease lo be a pictorial paper, and resume its original form and character. Excellent as It has been as a pictorial, readers have never c.

used to regret the change that made it one. As It originally was it had no competitor, whereas as a pictorial It encoun ered strong opposition, and probably has not lceu entirely sail il a SSI fuU Ex Senator YVaiik Is In Washington. He says that some of his friends have requested hlra to be a friemls. ma' again and again make a portion of the American public ridiculous, by the ease with which he commands their money six thousand claims from "loyal" citizens of the Southern States for payment of property taken or destroyed by the Union armies tnd their admiration or another by hiring The Objecl wed Value of Proposed Deep Sea Investigations. Viry shortly the Hassler Scientific Expedition, under the auspices of the United States Coast Survey, and the Immediate direction of Prof.

Agassiz, will start on a voyage of exploration more elaborate and importani in its extent than any ever before undertaken iu the I'liited States in behall or navigation, and a more definite knowledge of the character aud action of the sea. Its object is. In brier, to ti estlgate the bottom of the ocean in its deepest part, to trace the sources of the currents and to compare the Atlantic with the Faclae in order to ascertain, among other things, whether the one Is higher than the other, as some contend, w-hether the temperature is the same and what are the currents that come into condict- In connection with this will I the study of the transparency or the ocean; the soecitlc saitness or sea water, its specific gravity and its chemical constitution, and of the animals Inhabiting the sea ixittom, aud the fishes of the deep sea. bich, it is thought, may give the means or ascertaining whether the great weans in some past time communicated one with the other. So long bs the bottom of the sea Is unknown, the problems connected with navigation, such as tides, and currents, can never be satisfactorily understood.

All r.Tmer expeditions aud Investigations have been for ihe purpose of learning the approaches to the Coast lor vessels To determine how tides set in aud Sow, and lo command a comnlete know-i oil', ot our shore phenomenon, we must go beyond tins- to the s. a bottom. The result or the c.iiuparison of tbe two oceans, the Atlantic and the Pacific, will be oi exceeding importauce. Whatever is determined, whether the one Is higher than the other, or the one Is warmer than the other, the canal quesiion ill be affected, aud the investigations in behall oi a canal, further pursued, can lie carried on with better understanding and with clearer light than now. The work lias lieen divided so as to be thor- rneral Shrman'i Ktiropenu Visit.

General Sherman says with relerence to his trip to Kurope: "1 go abroad In uo official capacity. I take no pay whatever, and am performing uo service for the country at all. 1 shall be accompanied only by one officer of my staff, col. Audenried" and it is distinctly understood that, if it is necessary, the Secretary of War can summon me by telegraph, in which case I shall, of course, return home immediately. Lieut.

Grant has been but recently graduated at West Point, and the President considered my going abroad a good opportunity to send his son ui Europe for the first time, Indeed, I have never been to Kurope myself, which Is sufficient reason for the trip withont any necessity of official business. Admiral Alden is to take" command ot the European squadron on his arrival, and I go simply as his guest, as does lieut. Grant, who, as well as myself, pars lils cwu way. 1. uless my presence here is required before, I shall leave the 'Wabash about April next, ami come home leisurely through Europe to England and thence to New Y'ork by one of the ordinary steam packets.

The Wabas-h not vary her iiuise at ail In consequence of our being aboard, as are go only as privileged pasneBgwra, and Admiral Alden ill select tils route according lo Ills assigned duties as Admiral 01 the regular European Squadron. The Wabash will probably cruise about the Medlter-ram an most of tlie winte'r. and we shall be enabled. er trade, we n.i rorward to a period of Mine not far distant, when, by Improvement to the river and In the veaarlH navigating it, an outlet and highwiif for for Pittsburgh will be found, possibly equal to that of all the rallwais rndmtlng from that city." The late John S. Rokulino wms examined before the same Committee of Congress above referred to, and was equally decided in Ins opinions upon the relative uses of water and rail transportation, and of the necessity of both for 'he promotion of the circulation of commodities and the advancement of general welfare.

When speaking of the competition of the two systems he give these unhesitating opinions in reply to the qneation "whether the most valuable freights are transported by water or rail?" "The most valuable freights are transported bv rail; tart 1 would add thatiu the future. If Ner Orleans should become a great port for the exportation of grain, which In the end tt la bound to be. as It is the natural outlet oi the whole Valley of the Mint. Ippt, tran8srtation must tie made cheap. The transportation of grain and of all the Western products will, tn the course of tune, liecouie an immense Item.

Ten times Its present value will certainly not be equal to Its value rjlty years hence. Take auottter item that of coaL lam satlstied tnat tu less than fifty years the tonnage of bituminous coal will amount to oue hundred millions of tons a year; but it now amounts to no more than ten million tons, including all the Pittsburgh mines and the mines above Pittsburgh, and all the way around. Heavy freights will hare to be transported In baraet, or the cheapest kind of transportation boats, towed by powerful steamboat. Some railroad men of short-sighted and illiberal views ignore these undeniable facts, and insist that the rail will ultimately supersede the rivers in all kinds of transportation. Others, anxions to save the small additional cost of constructing bridges so as not to interfere with the navigation of rivers, are inclined for this selfish purpose to sacrifice and destroy these vital arteries of trade.

It is for the Government to protect this great interest against injury from any quarter whatsoever. The new regulation for reduced steam EAST BRADY, PA. an American newspaper to neraiu mm as during the war. and is said to have nil "one of the ablest and most eloquent preachers of the Irish Conference." The Pittsburgh Volktttatt of Tuesday contained a letter frem Mr. Sioismund Loew, aGerman engineer engaged in the surveys for the North Pacific Railroad.

The letter was written at Helena, Montana. October 2H, at which place Mr. Loew had just arrived from the Valley of the Yellowstone. It states that chief engineer, W. Robebts.

was at Helena, where he would remain a short A FAMILY SLAUGHTERED. Husband, Wife and Son Murdered iu their House at Henry ville. Ind Two Daughters Fatally Hurt No Cine to the Murderers. three thousand more waiting to be filed, while the number continues to pour in at a rate which renders it otiite impossible to or in other equally flattering terms. may still from time to time cause timate the final aggregate.

Among these British observers of his American pro Rnpid Improvement of the Town A New Poat master Called For Special Correspondence of the Pittsbnrrb Commercial. asr Baanv. November 13. 1S71. The town of East Brady is Improving with wonderful rapidity.

A large-number of new and splendid buildings have beeri-erected this summer, and though fall has come many others, are going up. The Citizens Savings Bank Company will soon have gress as duly chronicled to wonder at the simplicity of pious Yank ees. These claims there were doubtless some which really ought to be paid, but it is probable that by far the largest portion are entered by rebels, and this, notwithstanding the fact time. Ihe writer journey from the Yellow stone had been very difficult and had ire after all insignificant evils, for which we aken six days, during two of whb'h he and his escort had to ride through deep snow pay our British friends in kind. Though we mav not have sent them manv sham moral re candidate for senator, but that he wiil not consent- ver a mountain of from to 8,500 feet formers or many sham evangelists, we have that all applicants are required to swear to their loyalty.

Among the latest claimant is a perjured rascal from North Carolina, who, by official records of the Confederacy above ihe level of the sea. Mr. Loew speaks sent them many spiritualists, table-turners the vast numbers of wild animals in Lorisvm.E, November ii This morning a family named 1 arks were found murdered in their house, pes Henrjville. Ind consisting of Cyrus M. Parks and his wife Isabella, his son John, aged ten years, and daughters, Eveline, aged seventeen, and K.i leu, aged fifteen.

Tne heads of all were terribly beaten and crushed with some biuiit instruments. The brains of Mr. Parks, wite and son were scattered about the room. They were lytnir in their ImmIs. The daughters were found sitting in the kitchen afire, out delirious and fatai-Ij huii.

had bee heard in the night by the neighbor, but tbe bodies bear no bullet marks. In-formaiit was promptly forwarded to the police here. Parks was a leading member of the church near his nouse and much esteemed in the community. No clue is obtained to the murderers. Great excitement prevails in the vicinity, ami should the villains be discovered they will prohabiy oe insiantiy lynched.

and similar impostors. With every year.as fa- It might be added that the prospect is not good enough. It Is officially stated that one hundred and twenty-one and three-fourths miles of sidewalks were do stroyed by the 8re tn Chicago. To replace them It Is estimated that little less than one Bail) Ion tlrslars arm have to be expended. oiigti as possible, anil sausiactory results; may be ex- the possession of the Commission, was ci led.

I ihe Yellowstone Valley in all direction are seen herds of antelopes, deer, ility in the condensation and communication ml ellioenee increases, there will be less engaged throughout the war in suppressing Onion men and Union sentiment, in bloek- elks and wolves, while in the ravines and clefts of the rocks are found bears. Ac, and the brooks are full of trout from eighteen liability to imposture on the strength of alleged reputation on either side, and in the interval there is ample compensation for much imposition in such an outflow of sym le running and operations of a similar loyal character. It is not enough that oundrels of this sort should be shown the inches to three feet in length. From the a Hue bank building finished, and some New York gentlemen with a lew wealthy men tn the "Bend," are' preparing to erect a splendid three story brick, intended for a deposit bank. But amid the web of improvement, one thing is greviously wanting, and that Is efficiency In our postofnee.

It Is conducted on too slow a scale to sun the go-ahead character of our people, and is toj tar removed firm tne center of business. We want a ips, acrtre man in the position, and I hope the day is not far distant when the change will lie made. I trust the proper effort will be made at 'nof, and that important matter receive the atten tier it deserves. 1 am particularly glad to know that the Covmir-ciai. is the leading" newspaper in this region, and justiy deserves its large patronage.

J. L. LEAD DrSCOTERT. A Tbrer Feet Vein of Lead Ore Discovered in Bedford Connty, Pa. Th Bedford Inquirer says: Mr.

William Karns, on Wednesday of last week, while prospecting for iron ore on the property of a Mr. Snyder, about a mile or two north of Lafayettevllle. struck a vein of lead ore which he estimates at about three feet in under very favorable circumstaiices, to see such places as Madeira, Lisbon, Gibraltar, Genoa, Naples, the Suez canal, and Constantinople while during tlie time the vessel lies In port anywhere for coaling or for other puqioses. we can make excursions as we choose into the Interior." Kneiisli Itoynl Family Council. Private advices received by mail state that at a council held by the royal family on October IB, some very unpleasant business was discussed.

For some time past the Prince of Wales has been gradually falling into his former habits of lire, so tt was deemed expedient to hold a family gathering there to decide the best course of action to pursue regarding Albert Edward. No raise delicacy was observed tbe Duke of Cambridge. On the contrary, he verv piaiidy stated that something should be done to kt-e'p the Prince out of mischier. Y'ictorla's condition was also discussed, 11 finally being agreed to rss mote Hie Qnen's duties, whicn are acknowledged to lie too burdensome for her, to the Prince of Wales. Her Majesty didn't take tt kindly, so at a meeting of the Cabinet it was decided to tiring a tittle pressure lo bear.

A Minister is with the queen at Balmoral, although she has been without that Incumbrance. Mr. Foster, the parent of the Education Bill, is named as the Minister to lay the matter before the Queen, consequently something regarding tbe forth-coining regency may be expected shortly. surveys thus tar made the writer is of opinion that the Rocky Mountains can be crossed door- they should be shown the inside of a prison door, for unless some such measures are taken to checkmate and punish this diabolical effrontery, a large number of fraudulent claims will manage to secure indorse Iron ships lor Lake Kusineaa. There are rour steamers being built at Buffalo for lake service to be completed next season.

Two will is- launched in April and the others In July. When completed they will be the largest and most valua ble vessels adoat on the lakes, having an aggregate freight capacity for 260,000 bushels of wheat. The dimensions or each will be as rollows: Length, 240 feet over all breadth of beam. 35 feet depth of hold to moulding. 15 feel, Tnev will be built with rive compartments with water-tight Iron lailkheads, and runilshed with a patent waler-bottom, wh.jh enables them to ship and discharge water ballast- The motive power will be a direct-acting cylinder or twenty Inches diameter and thirty-six inch stroke.

The diamt ter or the condensing cylinders will be forty inches. Each steamer with macbiuery and all complete will cost a boot $175,000, aud will have a rreight capacity ror tons vithout a tunnel, and the steepest grade vill not be more than eighty feet per mile? IMPRISONMENT FOR LIFE. Sentence of Ba.rkda.le, the Wife-Murderer, at Colombia City, Ind. md that for only short distances. "Such ment, spite of all precautions to the result." says the writer.

no one had anticipated and for it the Railway Comvianv we their thanks to our distinguished Chief CosTEAiiY to the general impression which Engineer, W. Miesok Houebts." Touching has obtained respecting the origin of the the land and soil along the Yellowstone, Mr. Loew testimony, in recollection of a re- national banking system, it ajvpears that the idea was first broached by Mr. Chabi.es Rogers, a native of Philadelphia, whose ent careful examination, is that he has How to Ihe Ohio Always Navigable. IFrem the Cincinnati Gazette.

If an artificial pond like the Lewistown reservoir, constructed, we think, for less than a million, in a SprciaJ Dispatch to the I omBrrrl.1. Coi.rMBiA frrr, November 15, 1STL The argnment in the Bartdale murder case closed to-day at noon. The Jury, after an absence of about an honr, returned a verdict of murder in the second degree, fixing the penalty to Imprisonment for life. Barkdaie considerably aJTretteil, and thinks his luuishmtnt rather severe. The main speech npon trie part of the State was delivered by Hon.

A- T. Hooper, ol this place; upon the part of the defense bv Hon. John folerick, of Fort Warne. Both efforts are spoken of bj the bar as Irf-ing among the ablest speeches ever delivered In the conrt-room io this place. The charge of Judge Loivrv to tne jnrr is also highly commended.

seen no land so giod elsewhere, either in father for many years presided over one of country which afforded no peculiar natural advan America or in Europe. In this valley ho he principal banks of that city, anil from The Chicago Tribune hears of several apparently well authenticated instances, 1n which insurance companies which represent that they are "paying ail losses In full," and are making capital out of that statement to secure them new business, are Id. fact deducting from' in to 15 per cent, from the amounts due to needy policy-holders who aro lti many cases submitting to these swindlers because they cannot afford to wait and collect It by law. This Is done, too, in cases where there ts no question as to the loss heing for the full amount of the policy. One corn panv which it is alleged Is doing this, is the Phceuix.

of Brooklyn, whose representative here seems to think that the policy-holders are entitled to nothing but what his company chooses to pay them. The Allemanla Insurance Company, of Cleveland, we hear, offers to compromise with its policy-holders at ii cents on the, dollar. Its gross assets ou January 1. 1871, were 1209,732, and Its losses variously estimated from to $1 The Occidental, of San Kranclsco, offers Its policyholders cents on the dollar. Its gross assets on January 1, were $174,001, and its losses probably The Itev.

Dr. Thompson, of the Broadway Sunday.in the course of his farewell sermon said ring the past twenty-six years this church has contributed to the various objects of benevolence brought before it, in round numbers, 350,000. During the same period it has raised, by contribution, for sustaining its own worship, toward the purchase of the old Tabernacle at the time of ray settlement. to cancel the debt on this house after we came In, 165,000 of which was raised on one Sahliath morning' for repairs aud incidental improvements, tls.ooo, making a total of given bv this congregation to support the worship of Uod and to send abroad the knowledge of Christ, I am sure that I shall be pardoned for adding that ihe munlSeeat provision pledged to the retiring pis-tor will curry the sum total of tlielr charities to more than S730.OO0. This church has increased from sixty-seven members to an average of nearly 600: the addition under mv pastorate has been 457 on the first of and 900 by letter from other churches, making a total of 1,367.

has found not only stone coal but marble. thickness. A speclrien of the ore left at this otnee presents every Indication of being very rich. A small portion ot the ore melted In a blacksmith forge produced about sixty per cent, of pure lead Vo carerul examination has yet been made, but the in-dicatkina are that it will be found in very considerable quantities, and that it will prove valuable. It has long lieen a matter of tradition that lead ore extsted In various parts of this eoontv, but it has never heretofore been found in any 'considerable quantity.

We hope the discoverera of this may realize their most sanguine expectations, and that it may prove as great a source of wealth to our county as her iron ores. tages for it, can Buppiy the Miami Canal and all its lockages and water power for a hundred days of the dry season, Is It not reasonable to suppose that in whom the sou inherited his financial cast of The official returns of the New Jersey election show that the result, after all, par the head waters of the rations rivers that form the Ohio, in valleys which nature has fitted for reservoirs, and where land Is of but little value.reservoirs can be formed at a moderate cost that wtil supply lour feet of water In the Ohio through the dry season? Will not the growing value of this navigation. took more of the character of a drawn battle than of a Democratic victory. Notwith Velocity ef stound In Coal. This is a very interesting subject, at least to those who have anything to do with coal mines.

An-lyet I have not met with anything that points to It, nor any formula whereby tt might be calculated. But perhaps this Is a subject to which the attention of physicists has not been drawn, I have been Sold that blasting has been heard at the distance of one hundred and fifty yards underground, and I have heard the signals of the collieries, that la, by hitting ihe surface of tlie coal with one ot their tools, at a distance of fifty or sity yards, and have also heard the shouts of the men at the distance of fifteen yards, but 1 have never met any person who could give the velocity, nor seen any book on physics iu which there is anything concerning tt. But perhapB it is a very hard subject to deal with, from the difference of the spectoc gravity or the coals, and also the different temperatures thai we meet there. And if from these differout causes it would be hard to riud the real velocity, yet by calculating a velocity that might be rather theoretical at first, we might by degrees come nearer the truth. Corrt-7 nytuinu-t: iji A atvre.

standing the election of a Democratic Gov- mind. It is stated that in 18SC, while engaged in mercantile pursuits in St. Louis, and meditating over the evils of our then existing banking system, the disadvantages of local and State institutions, and the vexations and losses incident to the "wildcat" currency of the West, he conceived the idea of a system of national banks whose issues should be of permanent and uniform value throughout the country. and the great loss that is lnflieted on a great extent of country by its snspension, cause an official Inquiry into this matter by the engineers of tho rnor, the State is virtually in the hands of pathy and aid as that called forth by the Chicago calamity. Goon Evidences everywhere accumulate that the great uprising and quickening of public virtue which was begun in New York, is gradually spreading throughout the country No intelligent man.

not blinded by party prejudice, can doubt that (fee governments of more than one of the reconstructed Southern States have been unnecessarily expensive and flagitiously corrupt, or that in them a radical reform from the roots upwards is imperatively called for. The recent action of the Louisiana Republican State Central Committee, in placing itself squarely on the record in favor of reducing the expenses of the State Government to the lnvve.st possible amount, and against the pussuge of all appropriations other than those absolutely necessary for the public welfare, will bo everywhere commended for its wisdom and prudence; as will also the instructions of the C.mmiittee to the Republican members of the Legislature to conform their legislation with this principle, and further to protect the i i nnn unity against any unwise or improvident existing statutes and the wrongdoings of unfaithfnl public servants, by milking such revisions and modifications of the printing, appropriation, revenue and other laws, as will result in a large and substantial reduction of taxes and the cost of collecting them. This programme of honesty, economy and retrenchment wherever possible, will, if faithfully carried out, lift the P. Ii. an State out of her embarrassments in a surprisingly short time.

It is to be hoped that, having put her hand to the plow of thes. important economic and political re-furuis. she will not turn back because of any stumps or stones that may enoutuber the field and make her arms ache. pressure, required by the law of u'sth February. t0Tl if applied to towboats, would, in the opinion of river men, nearly ruin the system of cheup transportation by tows, or, in other words, break up the river business.

The policy of such a regulation is erroneous and unjust. There is no more propriety in snch interference than there would be in extending it to all the mills, workshops and manufactories where steam is used. Tow-boats are strictly private concerns they carry no passengers they are commanded, engineered and controlled by sober, discreet men accidents are more rare in them than in the steam mills upon land those who have them in charge know what they aro about, and as they value their lives they never relax in their vigilance or permit any iniprudencies in their management. These are peculiarly constructed: they are required to be of great strength; they are i be lled by powerful engines supplied by numerous capacious boilers. All these requisites are essential to the duties they are struct is! to pel i ii to move, handle and oiitrol the enormous tonnage of the barges they have in tow- these large freights to each boat being essential to cheap transportation, in which the entire country is interested 'I he iiolK-y of the regulation in question, was undoubtedly to protect travelers upon bouts, and may be very if enforced uikjii them Appalling accidents have been of frequent occurrence, sacrificing lives and proiierty.

through the re-k-1. si.esr usual racing, or the negligence too often manifested by the merry crews of I ussengcr steunn rs Hut the towboats are managed differently manned and icnlJy foiistucUsi They are nut ei-n-ujuii carriers as tbsy lake neither freight passenger, 'their mission mid tbti the Republicans: the (senate standing the same as last year twelve Republicans to nine Democrats, while in the Assembly there are thirty-six Republicans to twenty-four Democrats, a Republican gain of two from last vear, giving a Republican majority of The idea was very favorably received in mercantile and financial circles, and after An Incident of the Mirhlsran Firrw. During the recent terrible fires in Western Michigan, there were three brothers, ojrners of valuable nulls and other buildings, and they and their neigh bors (some of whom were Christian men; were defending from the fires until all were exhausted and in despair. One of the owners, a frank, rough, wicked niin of huge frame and generous impulses, said many hard words about God's permitting the destruction of so much property for no good to any one, etc. Finally he gave up and said to his neighbors, "Go home, go home, nothing more can tie done lor us; God can do as he Just then a few drops of rain fei! looking up thev saw the cloud, aud ail redoubled their efforts.

A slight ram fell, the fire was checked and the mills aaved. The rough man dropped upon his knees, great tears rolled down his face, his hands were clasped, head bowed, and he agonizing to express his thanks. Suddenly he sprang to his feet, vigorously svlngiug his nut. and viih the most Intense earnestness shouted -ai foi God'. Hckkah kor onsiderable discussion it was decided that the proper place to begin the work was in fifteen on joint ballot.

This result insures the election of a Republicau President of the Senate and Speaker of the Assembly, and the the National Legislature. This was the in The I. an- "Emergency" at Chicuso. Referring to the action of Governor Palmer in relation to the military interference by Gen- Sheridan during the panic resulting from the great Are in Chicago, the iVfwwiy Journal of that city says: It is to be noted that no authority was exercised whicn was not derived from the Mayor. Gen.

Sher-tdan assumed no responsibility not expressly vested in him by the Mayor. The same is true of Gem. Frank Shtrmau, young Treat, and every patrol who helped guard our citv during its terrible peril, rue question, then, is tins: Old tne extraordiuary emergency jusiiry the extraordinary ines-sures taken? This question the Governor does not so much as touch upon. He paddtes about iu the shallow water ol the familiar truism that it is important that trie -r-uiuarv machinery of justice should be respected. Of course ibev shoBid lie, and they were to the toil extent consistent with the peculiar deinauda of me emergency.

Neither Governor Palmer nor any au 1 1st-1 an intelligently controvert this pmpos iion. and ii is rig lit up' mis issue- that the whole cae rests. Mayor Mason had aoundaut prece.leats lor taking-extraordinary measures lor pr.Hceti.ni. Triers is barolv a great city ol lhis ctntiueitt or ci I which has not, at oue time or auothar, paiarit tlii'iiigh an emergency in which mo Mayor a obliged to ex rclse utit.u.'rn unid tK'ett Illegal In ordinary nun s. Governor Paiui-r seetua to be ignorant ol this pertinent tact.

Before rushing ililo print he should have iuc.ttgaie i tuc U. bury and tars of eifjergerjctea, esixMtalt i In regard to aiiia. He knows verv well that greavm 0,10.1 v-giation thai the aorhi ever as "ver us; tost our uos alio wsh'i suppiv 1 e8l o3 that lae a-f Has thick Pu Hie rtoo.ts -oceudiaris and might haw known that Mwjw Mil luuitiia la of precedents for taking as mwaarai as In- to i'i- tvu Ule and properly iu Distilling Gas upon a New Principle. A patent has been taken out, and is lieing already applied, In England and France, for the production ol an unproved gas at a great reduction of cost. A London journal says: The principle or the invention lo be applied, we understand, is this to distil gas at a low temperature instead of a high one, as on the present system, by which means it is possible to use irou retorts, instead of retorts of clay, at a great saving of expense, whiie the gas produced from the same coal is 30 per cent, more in quantity and of 50 pt cent, better quality than the gas produced by previous methods, and the remaining products are also more valuable.

The point which the public will appreciate Is that there is said to be little or uo sui-pl nr ui this ilea and cheaper gas. Such is the account of the Invention which has been privately making way, the latest facts coming out regarding it b. log that a French company lias bought the privilege qi lieing the patent in France for 100,000, aud that works are being erected for lighting the town of P.arnet with gas at an early date, which will supiily an experiment on the largest scale. ontrol of the legislation of the State, be-ides seeming the reapportionment of the ception of our present extensive system of national banks. Mr.

Rooeks uow resides in retirement in his native city, devoting his State for one or two additional members of ongress, which New Jersey will gain under time and means to benevolent and philan the late census, and the appointment of the thropic enterprises. The facts above given are condensed from a letter written to the Blind, Ucaf, Dumb nnd Insane Persons. Census returns, soon to be puidished, show that there are in the ulled States HySU blind persons, of whom 11,343 are males and females. The whites are blacks mulattoes 355: Chinese 4, and Indians 29. There are of deaf and dnmb 16.2i5; males females All except 1.29s arc white.

The whole number of insane is males females 19,208. Except 1,822 all are white. Of the Idiotic there are males and females total 24,527. The proportion of negroes is much larger In this class of unfortunates than In either of the others, and, including tioth blacks and mulattoes, the number is The whole number ot those who are both blind and deaf and dumb Is 96 persons; both blind and insane 75; blind and idtotlo 105; blind, ileal and dumb, and also insane, blind, deaf and dumb, and also idiotic, 11. It will be noticed that iu all classes of unfortunates except the insane the number of males is much greater than the cumber of females.

Treasurer. State Prison Inspector, Stab brariau. and the various county judges who New York 1 rihune by Baetbam Snvpeb. Cai.ikohnia makes steady, if slow, progress in manufacturing industries. The latest success in tins line Is the establishment for manufacturing burlaps and gTaiu bags iherelrom, In Almeda county.

The factory commenced operations with a capital of fi' O.coo The machinery was imported from Scotland. The establishment has sixty looms, and employs one hundred and sixty hands, part of whom are hinese, to whom is paid a dollar a day. The burlap here, of which the sacks are made, is imported from India. Five hundred yards of cloth, of a breadth of fortv-tlve Inches, is manufactured per diem and made into bags, each bag consisting of a yard, and costing from twelve and a half lo fifteen cents, according t.i the state of the -ket. About a million and a half bags are made in a year; not more than enough, however, to supply the demands oi two counties in a good year.

of Philadelphia, who believes that his friend ought to receive the credit which is his due. Tbe Lord Bishop ot Litchfield and the Right Rev. Dr. Isle, of St. Paul's Church.

Wolverhaaxptoa, Knz-bxnd, tiae been traversing the I nited states for the pad few weeks. They have partaken of the tiospi tallties of many prominent personages, and have enjoyed aserles of breakrasts, dinners and entertain nients. On Tuesday a select coin panv 01 Ihe bishops and laymen of the Episcopal CbQTCk and other lead-lug citizen- eiiieriaiued the Lord Ullhop at breakfast at 1 leimumco's. New York, are elected by the joint action of the Legislature. On the other hand the Democratic Governor will have the appointment of a Chancellor, Clerk, four Indies of the Supreme Court, three Judges of the Court of F.rrors, and a number of Mr.

ilome. the Spiritualist, Intends giving a series Wm. A. W. White, a New EOT newsboy and boot-black, has Just lieen informed by a relative, that consequent upon death ul his grandmother, at Mullinavat, Ireland, he is the for.uuaie heir to or 11C, 1 lectures in fans for the relief of the surTerers of lugago..