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HOCITESTER DEMOCRAT AND CHRONICLE, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1873. fTTBLI CATIONS, CARPETS AKD OIL CLOTHS. n-1 iT-m j'ttr tWssy y.TT"'i w-T rrr-s 'tf 'rffm Hlnr. fcJJJT vVp-wda-wn 'f '-tvj Tf'' r-ryr-T er I ht t-" A ir4. Ht" Wl ire Irsdeb'e'l to the courtesy of our pre nta'ive r.

Fi'h, for a copy of th nport of th? sr capit'4 coinnflKMier for the year 1T2. The giraier portion of the r-adiny iater whirh. It fonaiB de-rord to a IjM.ukm of the change of pran-itejtaTa from Yarmouth to Maine, on aciwrnt of tbe failure of atrppty from 'h" nner aonrce. The commission-era think Uiat it the work progreR atead-i'y, the nt -irr will be complete! by Slay, and the whole huildin? will be ready lot the rtjf by the close of the seasou of 1873. Hie expenditures for the past year amounted to t7.432.48 and the total expenditure -since the conuncncenicnt of the work f.t tip to the sum An aj'prrtpmtion of It.jOO.OOO is asked for the ensuing year, as arrangements bare bpB made for completing another "story bcBifh- the one now progressing, before January nest.

The expene account i int laded in the report and the heavy itenta which make it up need not aurpriae tite reader, for gTanite cutting is a fery -tly amutx-mtct for a state to encase in. The architect receives for hi services f833. 33 per month, the superintendent a year and a second clerk 160.69 per month. We notice also an entry in favor of our old friend James TerwiHiger, lightening proofreader, for the moderate sum of for service MHrelarv of the old board. Democrat and JEIXVTIM.

ItOflA T3K GACSTLET. Thcuxhtful rwn have IDQ aiiv-j vn K'-urit of the growing pt.trer of tnrtfid rjiorHtion, and have WArs! fnrssarj t'j a j.wR.Se i xmdici he-t Uam aa4 tho frovtrunwiit with sortie Thus far the have not lrwl pot tbemh ia ajiwrtnisro. to lia4 utiKriiy whit cave them besn-j, pre-fort-wig to jraiber sUTUjfth urtjr it rjrjtoc-tifn. At latst. however, the greaiuat of thess r(ifXtioiii in tle country, the one whi the mo, to national aid.

bu turui is upon its benefactor. Tim Unkm Psrific railroad wtmvis at bar ll.r If. the presided! of the rcd. apfiesjred l-fre Jurle Poland' committee yesienlav rowM-tunsc, audj amonj; many curious ami i ia-terti-tine f'-ee of usiimrriy, male th! dtt laraiioo With frifBdly relaUofis, awl cot otherwise, Jnwfn --rrrjunt and the Union Pacific roani, pr-riiiVit would lie wnre as to inffclited-o-ej from the road." What sort of language ia ttu forj aa upstart rorporatioo, nour-ihhffl in infamy and fraud, to use towards jruitwi rtu Thi thing of brib, andj actually dare to Uirr-wn the wmhT from which it draws, not merely iu Veil, fctit its ftuanriaj life The people bave waH-la-d with wonder the dcvMopnnnt of the eeerct history of ithts highway between the two oceans, and h-tHuw-d with grim patience the exhibition of the I-tty Biachinery of corruption by wiiM legislation in rrgurd to it has inured f.r year. Tl-y hsve vtn, unmoved, the ftwd wht not saiLslied with liberal p-nt, ha -t a.il( the serttritM-s on which th(y and I traded the payment of on jibe lottnjt.

Wtrae than all, they have lieiidd the slaUvsmrn in whom they trusted -r-Hired from their allPjfianee to the govern-mi-nt and niade the slave of an unscrupulous corporation And now the president of thii road, grown overbold with previous success, km the audacity to lull the rajople that tboir Ijnor- of Jrttinp their rights depends upon keeping oi gwd ti-rm with the Union Pa-tfic A txihier t-rmfcwion of confidant frstid wa nvr niaiii1. 15 it we are not falh-n so low as th3 gentkraen itn asrfne and it l-hKmi the to take twift and sum-nify upon those who hare ao almsa-d it pfu and defied it power. If erer a corporation forfeiu-d its charter by the perreraion of every function with which the law entrusted It, tli Union Pa--rftc raUroad has laid itself to that penalty. In the words reported to have heea ottered by its chief officer, it has asserted iu power to control the government. The ciialSeftge i a told one, and the gaunt-t thrown down should taken up without a moment's hesitation.

Let; Ue nation teach these oTerjrrown corporations that they can only preserve their chartered rights by saTedly olrving their obiiga-tioavi. Let -e if it depends tncrely upon the good will of the Union Pacific whether we shall get our own aeain. mystery. The rantracanti of the md ft was generally supposed bad beea -paid for, and what further chum the Credit Mobfher baa caa only be aormised when remembering that the responsible niaroignrierit nf the Union Pacific and the Credit Mobilier are identical The Credit Mobiher stockholders are all Union Pacific stockholders, but only a few T'niou Pacific stockholders are fn the Credit Mobilier. The few, however, manage the Union pacific and in giving it note to the Credit Mobilier are transferring 4,000,000 from a partnership in which there are manv others to one in which there are only themselves.

Ai third revelation, material in this connection onlv as showing how freely tho Union Pacific could check out its money in return for favorable official action, is that f-iS, were paid a government director, now deceased, wbo refused to report the road properly built, and therefore wider the law entitled to receive government bonds, until his palm bad been setisf.vtorily anointed. A fourth fact, material in the same way, is that the lobby lawyer now confined In tbe capitol for contempt had about 3Sft 000 to disburse for favorable legislation hi 1S64. This was the year in which the government- firH mortgage on tbe Union Pacific was subrogated to a company fint mortgage; and once more we find the company disbursing it cash right and left, and congress earning its wages by enacting tbe laws derfred. Aa we proceed further the particulars of these transactions will appear always provided, of course, that the pre-f unci ory course of the Poland committee be not the course of the Wilson committee too. Should the investigation be honest, we are on the eve of bearing another story as dismal as that in which Colfax and Wilson.

Dawes and Kelley and those other flickering lights so lately figured. Thx THrBtnvR, under the heading "And the Last End of that City was Worse than tbe First" says: It is time tbe people of New York who supposed they had a reform triumph in their municipal election hint autumn should know what fa in store for them. We told yesterday of the rupture of the successful coalition but probably not even our readers have suspected the nature of the custom house demands from which the committee of seventv at hvt revolt. The present purpose is to force throusrh the legislature a charter which shall seem to leave the appointing power to the mayor, but subject to confirmation by the council. The real effect will be and "is Intended to be to deprive the mayor absolutely of all power to appoint, and to vest it in a council, whreof a majority are already pledged to acf aa a unit the execution of a programme now agreed upon.

The process is neatly concealed, but very simple. The mayor Is allowed to go through the form of making appointments. The council have twenty days wherein to confirm. A failure to confirm in twenty days is to be taken as evidence of hopeless disagreement. Then comes the real appointment.

The council and mayor are then to elect the mayor having but one vote and the majority being firmly bound together against him. It is a trick as transparent aa the thinnest of Tweed's devices; but it promises immediate success as assured, and subsequent misgovern rnent as wretched. For what do the gentlemen who fought for reform, last autumn, suppose is to be the municipal organisation thus provided 1 For comptroller, George H. Andrews, present tax commissioner, in place of Andrew H. Green, to be removed.

For chamberlain, Thomas Murphy, in place of F. A- Palmer, to be removed. For corporation counsel, E. Delafield Smith. For president of the police board, Henry Smith the inevitable Hank.

without the daily column of abuse of whom no reformer could last autumn digest bis breakfast in peace. And for president of the board of public works George M. Van Nort, or not, as the degree of his subserviency to the plans of tbe custom-bouse shall determine. If he gives the least trouble, the election is not to result in his favor. We prefer to leave the people of New York to tbe enjoyment of this tempting dish, this morning, undisturbed by many comments of ours.

This the complexion to which last autumn's reform bas come. For chamberlain the new ring is to give us Thomas Muruhs, in place of Peter B. Sweeny. Andrew H. Green, who put Connolly out of the coiitrollership, is himself to walk the plank next, that room may be made for George H.

Andrews. Mr. Havemeyer is to be made a dummy. The new ring is to grasp the government and, free from any healthy responsibility, is to renew the old rule of the politicians of the baser sort. The appeal to the committee of seventy is tardy; and, unless that body proves more active than of late, will be useless.

But there are reputable Republicans at Albany who know the disreputable nature of this whole business. Can they afford to be parties to it 1 Speaker Cornell, for instance, whose worst enemies have never doubted his general desire for an honest government; does Mr. Cornell think he can afford to aid in consummating tbe triumph of Thomas Murphy Do the honest Republicans from the interior think this ia the way to remove the stains from tbe party and strengthen it moral standing before the people of the state I Even Governor Dix, we should imagine, would not regard the abandonment of Mayor Havemeyer a either personally pleamnt or politically judicious. What do these men propose to do abcait ftt ia an article frm the Herald which appeared yeterday, was, it appear, the result of family trouble. The murderer and nkride was one Schaffer, and the woman was his wife, Barbara.

Itatppenrs, according to a statement in tbe Commercial of Wednesday evening, that about foui-torn months ago, hafTer left hia wife, wbo waa a wooaan about thirty-five year of age, and the mother of fever! children, and went to Europe. It ie suppneed that his departure was induced in some degree by rumors against her good character, but this is not established. While he was away, Mrs. Schaffer, who had taken board for herself at number 90 Edridge street, where she supported herself and one child, a boy of eleven yars by working on shoes, called upon Frederick Geisa, of number 225 East Forty-seventh street, a brother-in-law of ber husband. She requested bim to write a letter to Schaffer, saying that she would never rive with him again, and she proposed to look out for herself.

Geiaa. wbo bad beard rumor of her infidelity and intimacy with Stephen Haas, a one-armed letter-carrier attached to station declined to do anything of the kind. Mrs. Schaffer continued residing at tbe El ridge street house. On the return of Schaffer from Europe, she caused his arrest on charge of abandonment; but it we proved that she had refused to live with him, and was residing with Haas, and the case was dismissed at the Essex market police court, where it was brought tip.

Schaffer took up his residence with his brother-in-law, Frederick Geis, who had not been backward in imparting everything that he could team against the reputation of Mrs. Schaffer. The trouble drove Schaffer crazy, or, at least, he was observed to act very singularly. He went to the Eldridge street house Tuesday evening, and requested his wife to accompany him to some place of amusement. She complied, in ppite of her previous refusal to have anything to do with him, and it was apparently with that intent that they left the house.

How they came to go to the house in Bleecker street will never be known, but they engaged a room for the evening. It is simply the old story of infidelity and consequent death. Gaffs rr, the Buffalo murderer, who was to have been hanged to-day, has suddenly become insane, or at least ha assumed insanity so successfully as to deceive a good many people. Tbe aoconnt in another column, copied from the Buffalo Express, will be read with interest not because of the importance attached to this particular case, but because of a suggestion as to a new method of escaping the gallows. If Oaffney feigns insanity, the idea of doing so was evidently presented by his brother-in-law, who exclaimed, upon seeing him, and before there bad been the barest suspicion to that effect, that he was crazy Throughout the trial and for days after his sentence Gaffney wa beyond question as sane aa anybody but immediately upon hearing the remark of the brother-in-law be retired to bed, slept a few hours, and then awoke violently and dangerously mad.

The law provides that insane men shall not be executed. The Buffalo papers assume that there is good reason to be-hevej Gaffney insane, and Governor Dix ha been) asked to have the execution postponed rui'til an investigation can be bad. Tbe I governor can scarcely refuse to act as requested, if he believes there is the slightest ground for the assumption that the man is mad, and we may suppose it pc3Ffljle that Gaffney will not be executed And in this view of the case the probable jmental condition of most men under sentence of death becomes a matter of a good deal of importance. Judgment as to insanity is insmost cases a delicate matter. One Individual, not remarkable for absurdity, has asserted that the only sane people in the worjd are the insane ones and It is a positive fact jthat some distinguished and successful men generally mentioned as eccentric, hav actually been mad enough the most of heir Uvea to warrant the certificate necessary to put them in a lunatic asylum.

The only people entirely exempt from difficulty of this kind are the class usually mentioned as wooden men, and these people are neither impulsive enough nor I courageous enough to commit crime under any circumstances. The several murder cases just bow prominent in New York are good evidence in support of this state- ment, Stokes was a comparatively succens- ful business man and earned himself well in several gradesvef society. He wa passionate, however, and impulsive. Simmons was wealthy, and murdered Ihjryea under a smarting sense of wrong done him by the latter. Klakeley is a man of the world, with, possibly, as be claims, much sensitive-nee as to family honor, and murdered his niece because ahe had disgraced the name she should bave been proud to bear.

In the Bleecker street murder case, just reported, the victim was the wife of the murderer and suicide, and he was undoubtedly crazy. FnfAJCCTAL. 10 Per Cent. Net. JOANS KEGOTIATrTD on Improved fana in vm- trxi riol Baaaan vt irx- 'isgrteaee an larHna ttia' a.

scrm ilitutnJ ssore a an i. 1 ttie. pnrfert. Ba A iatvet tea pr say-an oit-anitaarrT to Mas 'rk fan. sr gfrrriKv.

Aread, Refer by permt.tcw to f. 1 KrmHr, Prawleot Trarior KaUuBai Baaai W. sevant, Caabler ja of Monroe. Ja2Hif LAKE SHORE 1:1 A.VO MCHIGAI. SOUTHERN Railway Company NEW SINKING FUND BONDS, COfJTOJf A.VD KSGTSTKKXD.

$6,000,000, 1 wlib Interest at tseea Vrr nsiynble mr 1 nnnnllr. April an Oetaaer, a ra wstee ai tbe TBiea Tn Ca. at Kew era. $600,000, or Ten Per Cent of tie Loan, to be retired AnnuaHj by the Sinking Fund, rospoa Boaa at each. Reststrre Bona at 1,000, aa jlO.OOO cms.

PBICE 1- AM ACC'RCED IvTERE-sT. FOB SALS Br Eofaii, Cliase Co. Bankrn, 13 Broad-Sk, New York. iJ.VMvm TABUS SAUCE, FOR FAMILY. USE.

TICK HAL FORD LEICESTERSHIRE Table Sauce The Beat Sauce and Re-lish MADE IN ANY PART OF THE WORLD -FOB- FAMILY USE. Pint, SO Cent Half 30 Cent For Sale by all Groeers. REMOVALS. REMOVED. TO" IVTVY HAS REMOVED his Glov it VTA is an wills Stove to No.

4. sonlti side of Main street bridge, foar store east from iMd, fiemoerst and Tirmit-ie office. spAitf TREES. Fruit Trees for Sale. FARMERaS A5D FRUIT GROWERS dew'r-in nlem flnrt-iAfl fr-nit and orTmmtrutl tr, plants, Ac, of velctM3 ran tie, true wuuae tuuS at reaootiabte price, will ptaae a4rei, E.

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Prto Wl sent free on 'plication. An I lustra td DeaeriptiTa Ctaku maiied to any addre for 30 cm. wly WINES AKD LIQUORS. PHILLIPS CAMPBELL, 137 East Mala sins aa 's. 1 Sartk-atrrs.

WHOLESALE AND RETAIL DEALERS TV ia Pars bpuitx, Aleoo.a aad Whiskies. rwlgpfrrteT of Wmw an Tonr, tsWrf LIME AND STONE. ROCHESTER L1HE AND STONE CO, WE ARE NOW PREPARED to furnish an Bntldtnr Stone of tn Sr quality and at lowest uose-lble rate. Onr Urn is tbe ts-H la market, an our faculties for shlppioa by canal or fail are nnfnaalS In Wrstprn New fosS, OrilCB ASl, Kll-VS-OLKAA' UTRKKT. OntKT AKD KllJt GESEoES STRKKT.

rr-Orders It ft at Moore. 1. Ok. BaHt-ns5. Grocers, W.

Main-M. J. W. MrKlBfliey' Hardware Htoro: or at CnWios' Blarkamitb ahoa. rnr Nurta ana B.

will be promptly auaaded to. JsirMtf OAS FITTING. Gas, Water and Steam Fitting. T7E KEEP IS STOCK large quantities of Wroagbt and Cast Iron Pipes. MaUeabta Iron Fitting aad Braaa tjoods of alt dtsMripttoe f.ir nka and water, w.

Bole Aaeni la Uua city fur tba ante of Lh celebrated Oa Fixture el Ceraeltas Baker. Ptiitadetphla. As a g-naraate of tbe geoutnenes of Fixture. It Is only necessary to aay utatamc article bears tbe name of tbe maauraetarerv. ntf ftnEKlAIlt a PU'AJi, axebanee BOOK BINDING.

rjTO Banking Institutions MERCANTILE FIRMS, Business Men Generally. CREEB EKNTORD, EIWOOD BLOCK, Boeiietr, are prprtared to manafacwiira Blank Boofc of aay and ttnanrtmMiI e-ir tn ex-oelteoee or worknuuiabip or qualtt? ot paper, at prtaiM tofiuittbe noi eoooomloai. Jo Binding suiiriwad. Siyltr of trnifta. guaranteed of tJi highest tn-cWrd of Pamphlet aad KdUkta Wert a special- Our large force of enstHoyes io tfau depwrv-roeet enable to tarn out any qoanU of work at abort pjUoe.

Kwiroate gives, aogdey J0I1X 0. MOORE, Bock-Elnder, Ruler and Blank Book HAsinmiia. BMl tllli Aftt'ADK, Ba-ala Rar neater. TENT AND FLAG FACTORY. OH" States Tent acl Tin Manufactory 44 Kvrbaaar at- Kaebester.

V. MANUFACTURER of Awnings, Tent. Punt. Hammfteka, Horse aad Wagua Covers, lOfevatog Balmia, Ac. MasBfaetarar, Wbelnasl aad Retail Dealer ta BOfTO.1 MANILLA ROPE.

Jnteaad New Zealand rlax Hap. Cotton aad Ita, isasb ford. Cotton lielne Twine aad Carpe Warn, Wrsppins Twines aad UUUoc Twines, all nam tiers. Stark A Grain JSag, Broom and Bras Wire, Broom Katvea, Palia and Needie. Broom isewiu aad Maura Twmo.

ItaJiaa nnd ssiap Stone. Huu Kuala raetlas. Spaa lUoa aa Couoa ante. rinHIMO TACK LI, Jntated Boa. Bamboo, Jatanue.

and Koala, Tar. Fllcb, (alia, Taeala IMoeaa. Marline rVnlbtn. In ni uwl MnileU- Ual Twin aad Taaaee Twine Boa Oars. uocaa, taaal ntmcrea rua riaa DENTISTRT.

WALTER LINE, booms 33 ssrmr Bi-om. eomer BuSato and attofaang UOMU, 1M V. L. I), wiuta, W. i.

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1 1 DUU I T. rnww. itaWdfr COMBINATION LOCH LOCKS Burglar-Proof Combination Locks. HOP8K, 8TORH. TRTJXK.

DRAWRR, FtO0le. Cvptawrd and otr Sbt Lau-faea. wtta saiail rtat slers. als Locaaaold by Uardwar Tdaaav- wkAm rsttiif to order aa ta ina at SiBGEHT i GEEEHLEAF Fatastee. ud Manutbc-turers, SPECTACLES.

BATJSCH at DRAlfSITEXD euAxeaas MCllTfHKKRttliai aTltlCTHm" ivt ail tioid aad steal Rni.ll prb'A. l.ts-a, Wl-eprt. ftfn.nt ia, l1? Buaiv and all tl-TICAL OtHJlaa. f-Sv i'tsuu' lr a Jt MUSIC AND ART. GIBBONS STONE, stAvrrafTrBica or rlBSY-CLAM PtASO- IX ALL wTYLKM.

stvrr Inaaraaiaat Wrvaaa4 wla yiaw. firr? KWAstKattvl. mtt, BTtTI -f Maaafaeturjr, 4 soatk ft meat waa wold, the number of carloads, tbe somber of dieeaned sheep, bvw they were bpced of and ail about. The effort to keep the iratmnlKaiKt waa ao soeeeesfu that any ee not well enough posted to know that the -wboie rhmg- was a canard, gotten up merely for snreation. might readily be ted to believe it to be true.

If the sheep in Illinois, bear the ordars of Missouri, were suffering so severely from an infectious disease, the fact could not fail to be known In St. Louis, and this echo from New York is the first word heard on the subject here. TOE PBESK Bret Harte has set his heart on Newark or Orange as dwelling place. Some papers, says the Herald, are ungenerous enough to want Hoax Ames expelled from congress when he has proved one of the most valuable mines of newspaper sensations opened this winter in Washington. A yew York undertaker proposes to issue a humorous paper, to be called the Monument, the staple of which is to be a column of comic epitaphs parodied from genuine ones that appear on tombstones.

The Sew York Bun states that Mr. Greeley's assertions to Alvm J. Johnson, to the effect that Mrs. Greeley's property bad been squandered, are well founded, and that a person formerly connected with the Tribune owes that estate at least 000. George Macdonald nolectnring in the West, and, we are happy to say, is much improved in health.

He is at work on his new story, Malcolm, and also on the series of translations from Jfovalis, for Scribner's Monthly. He will return to 2ew York in March. General Daniel Pratt 's great poem, The President of I our Kingdoms, which is divided into two parts, "The Boston Poem' and Woman, the Poetio Genius, has bee published, and from it Mr. Pratt expects students will glean wise and pointed sayings. Mr.

Pratt has changed the words Presidential Chair to Editorial Chair, since, he says, be will not seek thai office of president, but the office must seek him. So we learn from the E4on Globe. Kaloongo-kmngah! Hooraht A fine-looking, elderly gentleman walked into a book store in St. anl las week, and after introducing himself as a "legislator, sir, proceeded to say that as be would bave a great many vacant evenings during the winter he desired t4 improve the time in literary research, and he thought perhaps he might make special terms for books by bestowing all of his patronage upon that es-stabiishment. This was satisfactorily arranged, and after spending two hours in looking over the works of Dickens, Walter Scott, Macaulay, etc he finally selected that highly intellectual publication of Beadle's, "BillBiddon, Trapper, "price 1 one dime.

The Kew York Evening Mad says The new poet, author of "The Brook, of whom we spoke some months since as promising to take rank with our first singers, has been received with warmest welcome and deepest appreciation by our best critics. Dr. Ripley ot the Tribune, who is best acquainted of ail with the Emersonian school, beading the list. There ha been some confusion of this William B. Wright with a liberal clergyman of that same name in Boston; and we are glad to be enabled, through the kindness of another Buffalo poet, David Gray, to present the facts of our new poet' life, He is now but thirty-three, a native of Orange county, this state, and the son of a well-to-do country physician.

He graduated at Princeton in ItsaS with high honor, intending thence to pass into the Theological seminary and become a Presbyterian clergyman a career which subsequent development of bis mind prevented him from After graduation be continued an earnest student, reading deeply in Greek and German philosophy. After a stay in Buffalo as tutor in preparation for college, he returned to his native place in 1-sol to enter upon the studv of medicine, but an ardent patru Uam carried him into the war, as a private in the ew York huh artillery. Ha fought with Sheridan, became judge advocate on Gen. Crawford's staff, and in May, 'to, was mustered out, lieutenant and brevet major. In the fall ot 'Go be entered the New York medical college, and after graduation returned to practice in Orange county.

In he published Highland Rambles, a poem (Adam Co. Btwtoni. In the fall of kTl he went to Buffalo as professor of ancient languages in the state normal school, Buffalo, where he still is. He is a superb Greek and Latin scholar, and profoundly read, especially in philosophical lore. His life has been mostly that of a recinse and student Plato and Emerson are the men who have taught him nmt.

CONTEMPOKABX OPINION. Freas tbe afetreswlitaa Pre af Teerd y. The Tugbb ha this paragraph Some people win go a good deal out their way to mark their hostility to the Times. For example. Coroner Keenan, who selected the disreputable jury who tried to whitewash the indicted murderer Simmons, said that he bailed his amiable protege to mark his defi ance of our strictures upon the verdiet.

As we never said that Coroner Keenan either understood his duty or eared for either law or decency, he need hardly bave taken so mucn pama to prove tnese iacts. The public is to be congratulated on tne circumstance toat reuows ana his gang, instead of holding the position of public prosecutors, are now reduced to their natural position of counsel for the lowest class of criminals. But for tbe promptness of District-Attorney rbelps, we mignt nave had, yesterday, a shameful miscarriage of -justice, and Simmons might have been, ere now, far beyond tne reacn or tne omcers oi the law. From the effects of the blunder, or worse, of a rowdy coroner and a jury of pothouse politicians, the community has been saved by the intervention of an upright and nonest district-attorney. And this The eagerness of some people to hunt down an honored character at the first scan dal, is something remarkable.

We see it toe avidity witn wnicn mese Credit Mobiher scandals are taken up by the president. But a more striking instance has been given in the case of a house which for sixty years, has been conducting business here on the highest principles of commercial honor. We mean Messrs. Phelps, Dodge Co. This well-known firm, under a most complicated and exacting law, which is constantly unconsciously violated by our merchant, un dervalued certain metallic articles, imported to Sew York, to the amount, we behave, of some fc-i0, as compared with the government valuation.

This valuation vitiated the whole invoice, amounting to several hundred thousand dollars. There is also a question relating to certain duplicate invoices, which the firm claim are not thair own, but belong to their correspondents in Liverpool from whom they purchase. The question between them and the custom-bouse authorities is an exceedingly nice and difficult one, and might occur without the slightest fraud on their part. It is to be settled by the court. But at the first rumors of it in this city, tbe Democratic press, glad at an opportunity to bold up a well-known re spectabie firm' to obloquy, began a course of most shameful detraction.

In the ease ot an honored firm of sixty years' standing, character ought to be an immense presumption in their favor, and it is clearly impossible that Messrs. Phelps, Dodge would, for "Mi, have knowingly risked (1,000,000 and a character which to them is worth many xuilhons. Thx WoiO-D say of "Congressional A correspondent transmits us the following: To tv Jt.Oor tlu HrW Silt: Yo'i sdytwft the LaoUbfrtt wf Vtow-Pi eMdent Cif bZ by tfee regular legal trtbucai. Hi crime ts perjury, of whitft be sli4 if-entifeae1. Ta evidence is mAt-if in law owa uumi iii before eostirewrtoaal and tbft law provide that Bo wild can fea tie 1.1 rt.lfnw!t la aay CO nrx lor u.fti u.viy ki eu before a aAouibia Our correspondent's allusion is doubtless to our statement that Colfax, Wilson, Dawes, Patterson and the rest of the Credit Mobiher congreMmen are still amenable to the federal statute against bribery and perjury, though tbe time between this and the 4th of March be filibustered away in order to relieve them from parliamentary procedure by the coming in of a new administration and a new congress oa that day.

It is the impression of our correspondent wbo naturally singles out the case of Mr. Colfax as the most glannr. that there i some provision of United tsuHs isw which renders theee statutes inapplicable ia tbe case of witnesses testifying belt ire a oongreuuoaal coiu-nuUee, This unpresehw may possibly be shared bv others, but ex mi id only have been derived from a cursory inspection of the law, it ia true that th statute reads: That i tMttniony of a wtunsM examined an4 twiilvliui befr either houso ot cmttrf or any eommtuea of eltar fenneut SMars shad of be u-rd as endefM- la any erimiaai roeliu atfatast sueb truces la any eouzt of iuauos. But this proviso is overlooked- 11. at Bothing In this art be eonstrsed av-ept any fn.jxi t.r and punishment iMMjur? eouuuiiusl btia la tetutyiss aa afura-SaUl.

If ever fndied, Mr. Colfax will find no comfort in our correspondent' point. The horrible and detustabie crime of false swearing, which ha this peculiar malignity that it strikes at the root of all justice and destroys the highest form of confidence between man and Bias, is not one of the privileges of congress VBt. An article in the same paper, entitled "Another Wretched Story," dose a follows: Something like a half miUioe of dollar waa the pnt of the ninth section of the army appropriation act of March Sd. I1' I the b-eamts rider wbk-b gave the Facitie railroads half -par for all services at aay time rendered tbe government, though bv writ tea agreement under anal they had absented to every rest of the compensation going to pay the tiitorext on tbe bonds binned them.

A seeood remarkable fae brought out bv the Wilson committee is that the Credit Mobiber iwopte still hohl the Cufesn Pacific' note fur fc, uui, aad this bow. never, having hern protested, sUll Cutuudered good. 11 ccoai deration of tbe note wrapped In MUSICAL A DRAMATIC- If Billy Florenoe' reputation were not already made he would acccompfeh it during his present engagement in 5ew Tork, judging from the flattering notices given him in all the papers. According to the Gazette d' Italia, tbe pope wat very angry on being mformed that the Abhate Franz Liszt not only allowed his daughter Comma to renounce the Sonus Catbolfe- faith, for the purpose of being divorced from Herr Hans Voa Balow, and of becoming tbe wife of Herr Richard Wagner, but wan absolutely pi ewent at the marriage. During one of bis walks lately he exclaimed "That Liszt is really and truly thoroughly bad Who would ever have believed it Do you recollect my having the piano sent to Caa-telgmdolfo, and to amuse me, Liszt' playing on it a polka, which waa so gracefully danced by Barmmeo and Pace, the latter representing the lady The polka to which his holi-nes alluded was the polka Trembtante, danced with great success in the large hall of Castelgrandolfo, by Cardinal Barromeo, who bad not then donned tbe purple, and Mun-ignor Pacca at that period papal chamberlain.

Liszt played such a rattling Jlnoie, that the two prelates twisted and turned with such tremendous rapidity that it was at last almost Impossible to distinguish one from the' other. PERSONAL. The death of ex-Governor MattLson of Illinois is announced. Governor Mattison was bom in the state of Xew York, and removed to Ittinoia at an early day. He was the last Democratic governor of the Prairie state.

The Emperor William of Germany forters in tbe officers of his army that feeling of honor which insists updn dueling between conflicting persons. It is stated that he com pelled several officer of a Poliih regiment to resign for having agreed not to fight duels with each other in any case. Mr. TJlke, a Washington, artist has been commissioned by Secretary Belknap to paint the portrait of six of the gentlemen who filled the office of secretary of war daring and since the rebellion, to be placed in a suitable position in the department. Arrangement bave already been made to commence work on the likeness of Messrs.

Cameron, Rawlins and Holt. Bill, of fa Foxy, Vosburg has been tried aad convicted at Springfield, Mass. and sentenced to prison for four years and six months. He followed a diamond broker from Jfew York to Springfield, and there snatched the plunder. Bill Vosburg was born in Albany, and was respectably connected.

His operations on the Van Rensselaer vault over twenty-five years ago, when the tomb was entered and jewelry stripped from the fingers of tbe dead, are still fresh upon the memory of many citizens. His brother was a well-known merchant at Albany, and his uncle was once postmaster. MISCELLANEOUS. Senator Sumner says that we eat more oysters than all the rest of the world put together. A sapient jury Chicago have found a woman guilty of "involuntary manslaugh The heart of a murdered woman was exhibited to the jury in St.

Louis, on a recent trial, to show how the dagger of the husband had pierced it. One hundred and thirty -nine thousand of the 1C4, 000 Massachusetts veterans who are entitled to soldiers' diplomas from the state have not yet applied for them. Does vaccination vaccinate Dr. Green, the Boston city physician, bas had already thirty -six cases of persons who bad the small pox the second time, and five or six persons that had taken it for the third time. State Superintendent Fallows of Wisconsin reports that one-third of the children of school age (between five and twenty -one) in that state, did not attend school during the year IS 72.

And yet there are people who oppose compulsory education. The Lancaster Express tells this melan choly story: A wife cf nearly ten years, having given her servant a holiday, was attending to culinary matters herself, and, hearing her nusoana coming tne xncnen, tnougnt sne would surprise him as soon as be entered the door by throwing her hands over hi eye and imprinting a kiss on his brow, as in the days of the honeymoon. The husband returned the salute with interest, and asked, aa he disengaged her hands, "Mary, darling, where is vour mistress?" The wife discharged Mary darling the next day, and has adopted a new plan of surprising her husband. The frozen wen of Brandon, Vermont, says the Brooklyn Eagle, waa long since the subject of scientific interest, and still continues to be. It is forty -one feet deep.

It was dug in 1854, but was evidently abandoned. It has been found that if the winter ice was not removed when tbe weather was quite warm, the water remained frozen throughout the hotter months. During April last ice twenty inches in thickness was taken out, but as the weather at that time was chilly, freezing again took place. On July 16th the temperature in the shade was eighty-five degrees; at two feet from the surface of the ice in the well the mercury sank to thirty-two degrees. In 1370 four shafts were sunk in immediate proximity to the well without striking frozen ground a fifth endeavor was more successful, but the experiment was never completed, though we learn that it will be once more undertaken next summer.

There is considerable speculation in scientific circles as to why this particular locality, possibly 300 feet square, should permit the winter cold to descend through from twelve to twenty-nine feet of clay and gravel, and freeze a mass of material averaging fourteen feet thick, and ye not affect any similar spot composed cf similar strata, BUSINESS. Kentucky dhttilleriea consume 6, 306 bushels of grain daily, and turn out 25, 1M4 gallons of spirit. San Francisco mechanics and manufacturers are sending out articles for exhibition at the fair Japan, March. The lumber manufacturers and dealers in Maine and New Brunswick are to hold a convention in Bangor, February ltrth. Surely California hi tbe land of the golden fleece.

The approximate value of the wool, wheat and gold produced in that state las' year was 82, 500, 000. Of the thirteen furnaces and foundries at Peekskill, S. V. two are not running, and nearly 1,000 workmen are thus thrown out of employment for the winter. It will cost (50, 000 to start one of them, on account of some irregularities.

Dummies, carrying a common compact engine, and seating thirty passenger oiie- tbird more than our horse cars run the whole length of the principal business street of Lou- isviile, Ky. without obstruction and without becoming nuisances. The cultivation of orange In California is extending. Hitherto tbe supply has mainly come from Los Angelos now they come in liberally from several other counties, and are produced even north of thirty-mne de gree without difficulty. A western ice merchant say that for thirty years he has been catting ice from the same pond that at the first cutting the ice was but six inches thick, that It bad gradu ally grown thicker each succeeding winter, and there was recently on the pond nearly a foot and a half of solid block ice.

Postmaster-General Creswell is now ad eTVising for sealed proposal to furnish the postal department with penny postal cards. They must be three by five and one-eighth inch ia size, from, "bond paper, stock cotton and linen mixed, and weighing six pounds for every thousand. They will be old in packages of twenty-five. It is estimated that 01,000 will be required for the first year. The contract win be for four years, beginning oa Ue lot of May.

As to tbe sheep disease in the Wt, wa quote from the St- Louis Globe: The fondntsa of the American people for something sensational is proverbial, and some of the New York papers seem to depend for keeping life in their sheet oa fumiahmg thts iitiry-seasonea mental patnuum readers. A eertan iasaou playwright, recently deceased, make one hi character say, "Astoiiue a virtue, if you have it not, and these fie York editors, aetiug oa the same cue. wilL without acruple. manufac ture a sensation article if a genuine one doe not com reaody to baud. The newest thio i out is a stunning story ui relation to eaT sheep a Otociiksed ataus scrufukni and all that sent on to New York for sah) ia unbeatd of numbers.

All the details are given in mmutue tbe phwoi where the dueased GREAT REDUCTION throughout our entire establishment. Body Brassel at 73; Tapestry Brass at -Ingrains, Tbree-Prys, Hemps, Dutch Wools, at tessthaa cost to manufacture. Tapestry Bock at 11.25; Body Brussels Hassocks at IL50; Ottomans at SO; Floor OU Cloths from 30c to 1.75: Hemp Carpets at Sic. FLOOR RU( GETS WITH BORDERS, and by the yard. Purchasers of.

any kind of Carpet Room Goods cannot afford to brry without looking through our immense stock, Carpet Warerom, First Floor, No. 37 State Street. OLD STAND OW WI1.DKR. Ciil a CO. CARPETS Tel rets, Body Brussels, Tapestry Brussels, Three-Pljs, Ingrains, lowestTprices.

ROGERS COPERSE, OVER 14, 16 and 18 Exckanye-st INSURANCE. OFFICE OF THE hj FIEE HTSTJEA1TCE CO- Of Philadelphia. JOHX WtluJAsfS, Aeat, Power' Mock. Bacb-- atar, K. V.

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II. W. BALD WIS, Sup't. Rochester aad Lake llatrict CflLtse No. 124 Powers' Block IT.

P. BREWSTER, Manager. fWdtf J. B. WARD'SiT iVestcliestcr Fire Ins.

Itrw B0CHLLX AID SEW TORK. Asset over At7.M) Fairflleld Co. Fire Ins. SOCTH HOttWALI, COSS. Asaet evar fM-.) Sortli America Life Ins.

Co. HIV YORK. A et over V37S.BSst Aaenta wanted for Tnmiranee. Apply to jltf J. B.

WARD, Aim, -iH Arr. SAFES. TKE BEST FIRE-PROOF SAFES- THE BEST BURGLAR PROOF AT PRICES THAT DEFT C3MPETIT13J1. M. BRIGGS SON, No.

188 STATE STREET ROCHESTER, -V. T. CITY NOTICES. O1 FFICE BOARD PUBUC WORCS Roch- evtr. Jsnorrr 91.

l-TX 'rtice i ivjr-by tbat ail pniu InUr-fcel ta the sabj4ct matwrof tire tii.wii!jc ifM rih-. iBipnreai9nt. are lUHwl at tiw simytrr otrioe, on aTlrtay erfirir. Fo-roary luh. Ld.

at Th trrf, whea aiierjauuaa wiU be beard and e-tiia utka tht-refja Thm ei'avtrtteuoD of (w 16 intra dtt vMr5r frrf OltrttD Mcel to tue 0meav Vai)-y C-ai; um tbe m-mvri av.d --erw to be lo3-ed nr-ttx Fruet a auraerr TVvbuie rite-uwi urref ta C3X aal tae M-rtioe aa)4 -ity GKmi bruciiur4 ead itror to areHrd for the Uoe aAMM- tlareu la de-acrtbed aa foUo-: (uc titr of on eb tide of tae 1'Aowiuf treat ltweeo thft poiril ndiomfa'd, aa foliu: Plymfuta tTrnup, from StrKiE trwi to r'rret aTenae; titroug svtreet, rt'Bs reward etreet PiTsBoati. avnae; Bart-Itrtl Ue. from rteVaH to ViyaK-aia aveoue; (1 a pin btrert, from Keyaotda to (Hq arrwt; 1 nam-piMio atrrc fra. BryaoiJi to Otevna Uw4i su--et. fry; in Kyao.le Ui Oitan atrriev aa.

Oitmja itrtvi tram Homer -iru xo aveau. fewdud Wat. jLKBLU Ctrrrk tro Ut. Notice. ItTTCuuK'lOrnft, Rfcecaeatar, ii- XSPFf'TORH OP ELEtTIOX.

TAkK NO A TICK-Tftat to are ordered by sieetioa IA, Tit 1 aat rot are rnwi mm-'a au, rw of the Iji wm of toTt, to aieet. naaaod perfect teferaef Volora, la Ue WvrO, an ana aad M-wca iat. at totiowiwt wr HettrM ary Uts, Ward-ntT CIr' City UaLL Jt4' fU Ve STwasst aa.aar avowavi i hirei tid. corner ox Hraajoat tTfBUf? Aftarnt street. OUIUi B1J VI I IBiCI a aawn, lr-wt Tvl Ml k0r' et'iM.

vraer C-akfrran and Mreetst, ewoa4 Lh-lrMrt. tKt'n Atlantic irtrileB. aad 4 hattiam strecta. a-wnoe. atoa nd Aieialr strvet.

lreatB aro rmi an.i nifWBM. Hguni Kiatbta wv mr rim itrt Ln pot. rsrBti litrut-'i. aouta rraatta mwl avefiaeaiid CHaUe Mltet. Heiad inettut Cor-Ur lb-lp ivrnur ant lue anatf.

xeata Kini-ao. iu. aUtat avaaue, oe.ri. stagier, a Kt-vetta Ward Hoaae. l.itk Ward No.

a Bvava irepse. eDrsvsr Ot If usatcer atreH. Thubeenui warn teoraer or oaea atreev aaa Hrlunai avenue. K.nrrii' a w.rri-jpiia Oruixa aorner or INorlb aad Dr-lavaa tUAok trVArka bu oe taBi rwH'tif at my omae. B.

aMUaVlUeAJtn, L. II Vi OFFICE BOARD OK FCBUC WORKA Boebeeter. Ifkbruary A. tHTX KoUt-e la ier-af giTea ttutt all zr ma li.turt-wted toe taAiajea" aim tsar of tbe fffUow jt drveti tvi laiuroveoieat, ara rtielp-ed Ij aittnii at ti. Uarvir' Miiy oaiai.

t-r rair tn, lt m. r.it,., tt nua aneataiuui if ee eru uii svtruon uuacfii wrrvMt Tbeoaeataji of a ur3et f- uai Nurui At. Paal tiA-4 tifenu btxb baiik vt fcr tVrfee rlT, fur Ue f-urvo- tttja.wt A'uiu ttrui aiur. Krtb Paul trmA, The aole ftumaiei1 exrene la and Xt prwua teau ftt ae-meai beatni aitd pr.Mr be ajeeeju ihm waula aa uru de- hcr aa fHkm Ah that part tbe Tifth War-l tti theettr lyinf of tbe Xew wrk tVwtra! Ka' aethr-r ettfe oae Oer ta ute orta ts tae ntb tvwd and awrta-M ead r-ma. WM PI Ki'KI l- ftt-fw i'-" t'a NOTICES.

vw- THE HvH'HIWTFH SD HEM- frjt- i-u 1 ant Wn)sr MwHtut tbe alee-CTTof lDt-er nt artvl I r-t. tae orttoi tbe waa--tion ba-wlB, wUi b. ta A tea reei, isUiJAif. fearaasry ta, lW.i, a 1 jiiji.svry ajLsi JUfFa. HXtO.

W. WAllttltMim, Notice. LL PERtiOJfS who have oniittexi to pay i ttr the 1S-S Yi u. u. mm at thi uSus.

un or be ire tna Lab tluanawntb. and la Seraatttnetw war. rat U1 iMiwd iv ta ooiieetivA tarauf 4M9urd- Ira ta lav. fiat CtlBly TTeawirar OlSee, reb. let, 1st.

lr.WtN;. ismntr tr.Mis.r. IRON WORKS. THE K1DD IRON VORKS. Xe.

1 SJII.L-eH atlM. nvj.Tr.it, MASt i ACTVBKBS Or jfc matiallli I Caatlaos. Markinlat' Lata, flwawra, ilnillna Marat aen. Cranh Plaaera, taav laoan, Of tfce tetet Improtrf pnlterna. enMt CTUSB' 1 nr.

itirui or, uemtoam ti FHeta rtimitare ft th nt DiKASTuai A BTMOht S. State waet. eaavtf At UI? iTVlTPXTrVV TiVTrrr f.r 1-m fa The Hew Chromo r'NTTTTFT "LITTLE RCXAWAT ATT) FH PKTa," tbe pair of CbmrB n. "Wub, Awn.e" nnd "raw ar. n.

en tn. l-farsettan I BK. to eaeb herier. fr of wwint tin. tnTtimhlWH.i wul he r.

replied by Mi La. Ax-r. a PRINTERS' GOODS. ALLING CORY 10 and 12 Eiehanje street. DKAI.XIM I.T Paper of All Kinds, Printers and Klnrkrs GooIm, Wade's Printing Ink, Bingham's Composition, Dennison's Tags, Wyckoff's Composition, STATIONERY AKD BLANK BOOKS.

w. srearent fne the Mile of Tllr)vr'a vs. Uia be aruew yet tn.ewhel tt atat Typa ana SUM leva, eend Clrebr. COAX AND WOOD. Delaware auI Ilndson Canal Lagkawahha COAL! AT TUB FOLLO WTJa "RICKS I In Vd.

IWilTns. Tow. T'm. 3 wI AMI 1 14 IT tarn VI 3 3 1 H.p Ill I 1 hi Lhretant Si ti 3 IS orncTDi If a Wrl Mala rert. Powers' Rbw.

aad lariMa itreet. aorner wf trxaaanra. W. C. IM VI-SOa, Arena.

rVjebeater. Jan. U. tm. feb.3rter The Hillside Coal Iron WlLKESBAEEE COAL! Fraa.

tbelr Celebrated Katerariae. rename nnd Ptewaaat Valie, I'atltei-ten. At tit foBowtn aneaa, ser net taa a( poaas In ri. DeTd a. 111 3W t-rate a Is M.

heataat OFTICE8: Cor. Buffalo aa4 Esrhanrw and lt Ei rbasre Street. SJIITJI ROBERTS. Delaware, Larkawaasa Wialii R. K.

I fiuwaa aad KJaitra aaj ra, aad J. Ijasd tt Anthracite Coal; AT TUB roiXOWlTO PRICB8: In ra teJ'dTon. Tan fcrass Jtt liH beaiaat lli 1 (HI tt.tiuL ornca Baala at rtabt baad eatrnac Area ass. TA HD Omrr JTn. Ptymontb venae.

DM treet, otner of aatxL and No. il If u.ln street, aenr U.r railrtjad. It. Ii. BAtfC'Wt Acesi, Ibbfwier.

Jan. If witf COAI! COAX! tittston aud wtleehbarre coal, 1 rresb frtm th mines, sr amis at waraet pnoa Im li p.robaeara. Aim Bl. onr r.l lur antTtbia and Meaat saa. rau M.BtftKO-.

JHHaT Wfe-'na-e t'r-s-t. r-rVf IbtXDICAIw. COD-IaTTKR OIL pmHTrT fHwHoui I Ue treatment of Htttvim and Therr-aiat- Ott aad eMbercaJ'T la Pi 1 Mu.ti.r Vtmtw Miriam it i Aleoeatv'B'riTelj adralnutrej ta thn-rnie nu-m, Hu Me-1 AEtVct'aa aad tn oitust dtjeiw wrf thebneaad jtnt. Jha C. Thurvvit m.

it ff'hiciaa ia tbe fodca iiuepital Utr iMaee-as i tae rh-t. Afi-ii-sr': "I feei it my duty ta tv tnat tbowe wbo fear takea bave mt mita art-et e- fort and ease, aad fnrtber, tta Kueb ntttte tii lr iDiuBij. Mr. Motler't Cmt-MrerOlt utttmiv a be a Uitmwahiy vrunimorxh wid pare tM wiw-tiswi aiaraed CvtrauTe in nm in It. L.

A. Havre, of S'w Turk, rec'Tiiivu 1 It abee ail etaera. It. J. Mrm Hims er-jftet 1 bve prwwr.tred it almost deiiy.

aa! bate evary reaewa to Yx t-tfrfev'tJr au-rrrl erlb It." It eaa ae obieihed fr-ra or broach aJl draifa. ti. trhu-nn ir rw 1 jat-Mhai I Uii SU MM lm4- ''rPal'RSKS. Crrmfort, Raf- .1 and Kelief frnr Hernte rup- 9 nu- nuitcw bte jwt--, wtiM t. i Hi llb bXd n.

btee-r. BrVairiMl rasie. neaber, art- or oil; aied ta vaietrte; ttrafwl ea friu; oeetast, liirbtwt, mot-, tn.cnf" r.t awt ti trt LrtiMM Inowi. rUkHhmwfit 17 tVHtantM, Ph4jatt'i)ae. aad TrT Krida'l Stw rfc t4 by ati lTtiajia aad beswera, erutA-- GETTYSBURG ATA LYSINE WATEII.

IT hu beejn (WaiwmsCratwM hr a urri rf prme-Irrml i3 ff efeiaeset and Lr-tl by tf irmt-f ai f- wH haictefva rWit-vtHl lr'm -iwrix tuBitriftK, by tie aa. tfrjtt the wvaw Km itriie Hr'ti i tii navr pj-tier. a efrx dtMWt-'eerwJ L-r A Kritt1 irrjt. rut, irti iM-tbrtr. A mi- I l-w-e- i rmtfm ni-a-i tmr 9a tit ytryiu tt ti.rt.-m irrrafrt! Hut rft-iM At fUtarrrtkto'i it, jH'tmm of A- a-ii ArVT-' fmrm M-isii a asv-K' JT Ml 'W CsVaaurratt ttui4t I ttm'ewml t.it Hscv ftttn ar is At mrrmf Me H.jmt rtsi ri Lk Hm4 -witrajwd tiioui ee wua it n.

Kry bntei stoid kMt wa kaod. ifwr sexe act rr 1 Wry tif tna rtfetee. for mnMra) rwrta tbe vwr U.o tator rr fur mar car, aad Uuaoaaai tr4a tit mi atea. aaad fr peaiphl, v. "nirsHT Ar va, TSt rVyuUi trsw-t.

Pa lad Pa, Fee Mia by IXi prm. A 1 11 a aiva lasWsu jrv-rraiir, wa, syiiwiiin rm DR. PATJId DAVIS, PHT-UTAW an atritasOTi. HI eaa ae ee- taiVetl ea ai aartar. day aad ee ies.

wa mH rfaraoe diimnii, d-7 e. ea toeea ead rtMUwv aaawl- 1 vtfe-ry. sW. 1- ait taoeeaC nature. 1.

aaau. aaa tk -m 1 a riaa.fit ere of pn- yw tinaeB tma be bvd ibe aae sseruury ur a oae4are est diet. iterant- to eure friswiwai, MVl.atilS. laiarVivef, Nuo. tarsal Kct iwrr-a er aetf lMunaai Veaaeie traafiaiata.

mm Men. Tafcl Tab r-ilrwl Vtl-e To caa be retrad beaitb by aralyma. tiiarla persa.n of by SMter. a 11 lefuwv nioet oe wwee. 1 1 nnsak street.

K'l an.1 tucsi.haia a wnrf. when a. reaal-ert i-MIt RAILROAD LAND. me Wlat Ml of America. Harms.

Till OBTHK" PArtFTC KAILKOAI oeara fur aw tt lnda la I emtral aad Wi i a Isnraata, en.btacln I. Tb. bM of Wbeat laad. Kimllett fu taa Uui, th rarw aad tba ru. buen Fnurla P.M.i.o and aatarai Meadow, watered by dear Laae and ranains trem la a Bealtbral Cuaaata, Haul sa ana at Jinwii.

1 wMJM k. Ih ts BarSst a cwd ow m.uj) a. treat Irn Iowa I anrai JJJ lakota. rre; forth, aw.y redlti Harraiitea Idi Srtb JLif Beneiv seilita at i-ar. raesMsed l-r taa alia 'L irw i to 1 1 i ow selllta at ear, i.

aiuieciujled Land KwxU Miub advatun etl)vrs. wm 1 IHIICT SUI.Utrils nnoer tne new imw w-re. I.K. near taa nuirua. byuaaaoataa TIIASBr-OstTATlOJI AT HDf BAT I.S faraobad rrma nU ariadpal fjUil l.n-har kjlrad IumU.

Ui Sille. aa 1 aad wnaww 11 unu.ni.iw. rwewe, ebiidreB carried free over taa aktbara fsaawa Read. Hov 1. abe awe list HaUruad Lauda aad ik.

t. n.ci R'W uTiirMd law. 'a or aa itfth a it tfc, TiVRB rtitK "vP-1 al at Wat ataia, taraawrtf WBW-V 0H1AL CHARADES rwrjr, Tnn. Tsn. 3 SI I'm ST Pome time ago we referred to rumors of a uiiioo between the cities of New York and The movement has assumed a more definite and has been made the euhject of comment br the press of both All parties who touch upon it seem a little afraid to take a decisive, tone, the project being one of those which few can give reasons against, although prejudice are found in abundance.

The consolidation will take place at some time in the future without doubt, even though the present agitation end in no definite result. The proposal for a union comes from prominent citizens of Brooklyn, who desire the apjointirnt of a committee of ten from each city to consider the 'matter and lay it before the legislature. One great metropolis with two municipal governments is an anomaly that might as well he done awav with. CUEEEXT TOPICS. piOME srGGEfmo.Ts regarding the soldiers' bounty land act, which may be valuable, will be found elsewhere in to-day 'a paper.

The Faust cuts of Brooklvn have realised tl, 400 clear money in behalf of the proposed monument to John Howard Payue. There were two theatrical pwformaneea, and the people who should have attended the one in the afternoon remained at their homea, sweet homes hot ia the evening they turned out in much number and style. Mrs. Bbaw, one of the Tictima of the Cambridge poisoning case, died last Tuesday. The contents of the stomach of Elizabeth, a daughter of this lady, who died some days since, have been analysed by a competent chemist, who found corrosive mercury.

There is probably no doubt of the guilt of Charles Shaw, the husband and father, who ia now in jail; and the Mrs. Briggs who ia in prison as his assistant in the terrible business is in a situation scarcely leas unpleasant. Tht Sew York papers have extravagant account of the charity at the academy of music Tuesday evening and the accounts are rendered doubly reliable by the fact that the sum realised for charity New Yorkers are the most generous people in the world, and they never do things by halves. Even the dancing was remarkable, for the arithmetician of the Sun informs us that there were five square dances and twenty round dances, to say nothing of twenty-five promenades. We do not feel at liberty to question these figures as long as tbere.ane vouchers tor Tme PRECiwe cavsb of the recent cold weather in Minnesota is fully disclosed by a debating society of that state, which finds That the efficient and proximate hypothesis of the recent trurid condition of the terrestrial atmosphere was unquestionably attributable to numerous corres-pondixig co-ordinate climatic convulsions of innumerable isothermal lines radiating from the solar atmosphere at right-angle with the plane of the Arctic circle and converging at hxed points upon the earth 'a surface If that had heen known before the entire unpleasantness might have been avoided but scientific people are always behindhand with their discoveries.

Bbookltk has enjoyed a duel of a mild nature. tber of the parties wished to kill, but merely to settle their differences in what is known as a fair, stand-up fight. The parties were Martin Klune, who blows the horn appertaining to fish, and Dan. McElhanny, who otfieiatea as an architect in the line of boot and series. The cause of the difficulty was, aa usual, a prepossessing lady.

The latter favored Jir. Klune, and turned ooidly away from the shoemaker, notwithstanding the fact that that uufortunate man had bribed her father with a new pair of boot to lobby for him. The fight occurred in one of the stores near the Atlantic ferry, and after twenty-three rounds the artist in nsh accomplished a glorious victory. We congratulate the conqueror, and shall continue to do so until he wins at the altar, aa he ha in the held, so to speak, the author of the difficulty. After that he must take care of himself.

Mb. Blshop, the chief cabinet officer of Kong Lunalilo of the Sandwich islands, formerly resided in Whitehall in this state. In m9 he was a resident of Honolulu, and there married a princess the lady who was prominently mentioned, some days since, aa the successor of Kamehameba to the chief office of the inlands. This lady, the Oregon Bulletin remarks in a statement correcting an error which appeared in this paper, is tbe daughter of Pakee, who died several years ago. He waa the last of the great warrior chiefs of Hawaii, and held high offices under Kamehameba III.

Pakee waa a man of gigantic stature and powerful fram standing nearly even in height, and splendidly proportioned. He waa of light color compared with the mass of his countrymen, and in his old a of venerable yet stern and dignified appearance. Mrs. Bishop is so fair as to pass readily for an American lady. was edu--atted ia UasaaehnseUs, and is a person of superior SMKomphabuenta and elegant man ners.

Jo tin Ii, wbo was on the supreme bench of the fatUmd kingdom with Chief -Justice Lee, was a native chief, but of lees rank than Pakee. He was a man of fair stature and thin, spare frame. Th urm or Wnmuv Kno to the executors of one of the wula of the late Mr. Greek jr. printed in another place, will be read with interest.

The statement of the executors, to the Tribune of Wednesday. entitled to no notice view of tU poeUiutt those gentlemen are known to be in, and the persistency with which they have urged on an exposure whieh the friends and relative of Mr. Ureetey were mutt anxious to avoid and which the interested parties were ashamed to lather. We give the Tribune's uuruductiun to the exeeutors' stAtesuent, because of some intsr- eriting facts iaolred iu it, and there drop the matter We priut below without tbe statement of Mr. istorrs and Mr.

Manning, whieh only justittas the statement ma to edi-toriaUv tho 'tribune of rwurdar. We have tbe hu; tie respect for the iutetniy and houur of t4tn Ibewa eutieftkHA, aid uiitv deptore the mitken seoiie duty wht-h 'led laetn ilJ" tbe late painful contact ith the urjsuuis of Hirc (rteeley. In rnnri to tirT era-tuiUius defence Mr. luiams, we hne only to refer to Ids Hngenenms and uncoauiy uismuatiou publicly made against two voung ladies ti'W helpiwte aud morrow kin have protw ted the in tr -ui surh at-IkU As Messrs. Ktorrs and Manning eUim to have made attempt at a compromise, merelv ubjtan the text of a made to them in behalf of the Misses t.Kiev tin the name of the ebler, but fuily awt cordudlv saeeund by lite yoatigen, whieh wa "pr.jB.pLtv antl persmpWily rejected.

We w-iah to slate, bwtore taking iese a most unplwasing subject, that betvias the attorney indorsed by the executors intubates that lb estate of Mr. Ureeley is wortfi over ajuu, in. our own infOraitka is that, with the exception of six hare of Tribune ttwk, there is scarcely a d- tUax of available money or an acre of productive real mate bekmgmg to the estate. If the executors can moke it worth ia eaah or productive pniperty, thy will otsterve the Kraututie of the orpiuta. and the approval of ail gtsjd uken.

TBClxax ara irrajtx-v rkabniT. mentioned 'u a d- ttih printed Wedday, aJ agka THE EW SEXBEB OF THE WATER COXSUSSIOX. ICdward M. Smith hat resigned his jxwtion on the water works loard, and, in losing him, the commiirsiorier are deprived ao able, active-and courteous associate. Mr.

Smith hit taken a great deal of interest the question of a water supply for the crty, and baa Mudied the different sources from which may be drawn carefully. The progreett already made may be, to a rreat extent, attributed to his zaL His res-ipmUoJi is partly due to the pressure of other duties upon hint, but mainly, we pre-ttmie, to the operation of the rect tit order the preaitWnt forbiddin? fi.leral ofSeial to bold civil app'iintmnnta under -tate or municipal governments. Ilia cor-JuJ iymitiiiei? are still with the enter-true. To fill the vacancy occa-ioned by Mr. Smith's rtiimation, Mayor ha appointed a penth-man every wsy worthy to take a with those already aeleeted for the important trusts crated by the lceWatur of lat-t year.

The new is Pliny M. TSroinh one of the proprietors of the Vibtirn boue. He i- pt-r-Lfs more interested in procuring pure aid wholexotne water for the city than any other individual, l-ing with our larjrwt hotel, and at the time so extensive a property owner that he will not couiiU-nance ret kicss expenditure of any Hi appointment impuins au ai- liititiiial ektueitt of interrityj energy and iJrttmunaliou to the board The mayor is to be congratulated on the judgruient he shown in th choice i the mnniiera of the three IJcttcr men have rarely been sttlected for the rforntance of more important duitos. TnF. Brooklyn Union has, with ftar and tn-mblina, been lookine up the law of libci The editr of that sheet has been sued by i lie Xtv York Tribune, and has in return' i nun a cross action against that jt-virnat, and intends to pnxed for damages a a various other parties for slander, it cot therefore, that he slioal 1 paint to understand the nature of the sea of litigation upon which he is uitarking.

M'e can sympathise with him in bid buii'lie and rejoice in the results of hi studies. We have li-a sued ourselves and a fellow fi-el'mg makes us wondrous kicd. "We do not stand however in as much danger as we did a few day ago, as 6h ho has taken proecdinas asrftinst us. lias fit to amend his complaint by cutting down the gum, Uii he demands as salve for tis wouBdtid honor, fr.nn iO.OtM to flO.W'O appreciatia the fact that iMTthing so tends to human happiness moderation in our desire. The writer io the Union savs "The three ehmeats nec- tiary to coimtitute a libel are these first, its publication ia some form secondly, a malUiotts iuteiit or purjxwe in sw-u publit-tioa and, thirdly, the tendency of the published matter to do injury to inif iiven K-run or socWt ion of jiersons.

They are all iiidispeusat.le to the existence of a libel atid, when present in a specific case, they rentier the author of llw publication liable to aa indictment for misdemeanor, or trottt-ble to the injured larty In a civil uU for lna-(. The ab-iw of any one of these element is fatal to a suit instituted on the ground of aa alleged 11J. A to the second element, the other two being present, the law always presumes muliee unU-s a jiir-tifial-le motive for the publication be JiOwn a presumption hich iu each cae may be confirmed or entirely set ide by evidence." He goes on then to establish the n-por ition that the truth id the matter published is a good defence in a civil action i libel, on the ground that the publication of the truth is absolutely, privileged. Alihiush authoritin are cited to BjhoJd this doctrine, we are inclined to doubt its validity "Member of the Oid Committee" write to ts once more to re iterate his assertion that tle commissioners" report prove to a demonstration that the river water is better (brcaure mure wholemie) than Hem-Uk lake wait fur domestic use." If the gentleman will read over the whole report carefully and then repeat the ninth rofemiad-nir-u 6ve times and then cjb-suh bome authentic account of tieore Watiiiiitoi. aad hi Btiht hateliet and then pias-e bis hand aptn bis heart and maintain i he same this, we shaU give hint aa answer will be perfectly satisfctiry to hi ot r4 enemMss.

tt wa urged as an arsrusnent ia favor of rvrr water that Mr. Bromley used it ia his hotel. Tie say tl.at'ti has usvl it simpiy li ihu be ro-iil notbine else. Tux Hxbald. in aa article on the Eud of the Wicked Litigation Over Mr.

Greeley's WilL says: We bave always taken a lively interest in the Children 's aid society, so lively as to view with pain the action of 'its managers in this miserable business. Much good may 10, owl belonging to orphans do them I There are waifs and waifs. To rob Peter to pay Paul is not our idea of Christian virtue, and the wretched sectarianism manifested by the president of the society proves him totally unfit for his charitable position. The board were willing to retire from the Greeley contest, but when their president heard that Miss Greeley was a Catholic he manfully persisted in maintaining the society's claim. Now the fact is, Miss Greeley is not a Catholic, never having been baptised into the church.

Every effort, however, has been made to prove her ooe, and to thereby make it appear unwise for her to be given the guardianship of her sister, to whom she is devoted and who is devoted to her. Mr. Greeley, of his own free will, placed his elder daughter in the convent of the Sacred Heart, a school which ber sister ha also attended, although this has been ignored by impartial lawyers. Neither girl a Catholic but, assuming them to be such, we should like to know why the president of the Children's aid society persists in demanding a pound of flesh, the rijuht to which he would waive were the Misses Greeley avowed members of a church savory to Presbyterian nostrils We thought this a free country and the davs of the inquisition over. We thank the president of a charitable society for bringing us to our senses.

is- In an article entitled "A Full Review of the Credit Mobilier Investigation What Shall be the Action of Congress the Herald says: 1 The question of the hour, then, is, simply, What shall be the action of congress? The necessity of the punishment is apparent, and ita character a the only thing to be determined. This ought to prove no very difficult The American people recognise a difference in the guilt of the accused persons, and consequently there ou ght to be a difference in their retribution. In the court the criminal charged with his first offence who pleads guilty is not so severely dealt with as the more hardened offender who traverse the issue and takes the chance of judgment. But the plea of guilty la only a mitigation of the punishment, and justice must be done in any event. A regard the conduit' men who have admitted their dealings in the stock of the Credit Mobilier.

the country iu oe aua-bad with their resignations. This much, at least, is due from them to the constituents whom they have misrepresented. Anything short of tt will not satisfy the This i apparent from the feeling in this city, where the proper person to succeed James Brooks is a subject of general conversation and alinoat open action. Already a number of parsons ara spoken of as Brooks's suoeessor; among them one of his colleague who is not in the next eongres. Brooks is not a man to reaiga if be cui help himself, but tt must be impossilAj for him to resist the necessity.

He and the other person who stand in the same relation toward the Credit M'ibilier in whieh he stands must be mad to feel that the only alternative for resignation is expulsion. VV ith UjU necessity staring them in the face they will yield to fate and quit the hall they bave dissrraced. 1 This punishment may seem severe to th men who yielded to the temptations of (Jakes Ames: but, with propriety, it cannot be allowed to pass with less severity. The other congressmen the persons wbo have made their offence more heinous by denying them --can be adequately punished only by expulsion. Perbaiia.

so far aa tbe popular estimate of all of Uiem men is eoBCBrned, neither reaignatKKi nor expulsion will add to their disgrace, Their downfall is irretrievable, even though they should continue in congress for two years lunger. Their countrymen can no longer regard them with respect. Their constituent can no kmger be deceived witn tbe idea that they are honoring themselves iu honoring betu. The future i black before them, even without this last sign ot a nation' wrath. Tbe resignation and expulsion of these unfaithful public servant 4 necessary only because tt tbe only tilting expression of a natkm' wrath.

As regards tbe case of Senator Patterson, we bave no suggestion to offer. He is the worst of the offenders werse, if possilrie, even, than Vlc- President Colfax -but he is bevond an national punishment, Tbe senate of the United States, as it as now composed, cannot be asked to do any great act of national jiartk. A man like Harian could not be expected to vote for the condemnation of bis asesx-iate. To give Harlan an opportunity of votm; fur bis associate acquittal wotdd be onlv adding one disgrace to another. Pome-roy" and Caldwell ought not to have it in their power to deevle the fate or determine the guilt of another senator.

Other men ia the seriate are equally unfitted by their own act or by tbe grave iiupulatkms which bave been preferred agsinrt them to take upon theui-setve to be the judge of others. U'DLEMARCH By George Eliot Now ewtttrtet at Hrti mnws. ws i wtnsoKin FORGE W. CURTIS say MMdhmaroh is atbiWaiiiMitfwvmn. iii)IWr.

Fanny Hyde, who shot the man who had wronged her, accomplished the act in a moment of despair. Laura Fair baa been crazy a good many years, and still remains so. And Gaffney says he shot his man under the impulse of a moment, with a pistol placed in his hands at the very second of the murder, by a man who was the personal enemy of the victim in the affray. After the deed, Gaff ney says in his confession, he turned, horror- stricken, upon this friend and asked him why he put such a weapon in hi bands at such a time. So, it is not wooden men who commit the class of murder that is popular just now.

It is passionate men me a more liable to insanity than others; men of great wit' in some case. And these men are necessarily much affected by the fearful fact that they are under sentence of death. Tbe wonder is that they are not all crazy. Tbe wonder is that Stokes, Foster and ail the other murderers do not go crazy the moment sentence is passed upon them. In point of fact, it may be a fair question whether they bave any right, in deference to their elf-r espect and their sensitive natures, to be anything else than crazy.

One wonders, occasionally, at what ia called emotional insanity, which clothe a man against all manner of responsibility and leaves him, after the execution of a murder, in his right mind, the same to be enjoyed permanently; but one cannot wonder at the insanity which follow a sentence of death. Whether a man hone brain give way under fearful a doom ought still to be entitled to mercy is another question. The law say be shall not be executed and if there were a dozen sentences, and emotional insanity followed every one of them, the law would aay the same. preaent our condolence to Governor Dix and our congratulations, or rather our commiseration or, possibly, both to the murderers and the medical fraternity. S0CIETT.30TES.

American school girl in Rome are accused of flirting with handsome cardinals. Fliibtdelpfaia had a notable wedding but week. The bride wa a daughter of ex- Governor Curtin and the bridegroom Com. modore Breeze, U. 8.

N. A lady whose ample charms weigh upwards of 3M0 pounds sued a man in Con necticut for breach of promise. The court, however, thought the ease came within the meaning of the act for abating excessive attachment, and ao charged the jury, who found fur the def eadaot. Two his repec table" young ladie iu Richmond, Va. have been sent to jail for teven days for the offense of stealing from a Lir-dreiseT' shop a quantity of human ilir ten dollars worm, tact, lnexngnt-ful arrangement for the human bead at present much in faohion-are answerable fur the teu i-iALiim to which these two highly respectable virgin succumbed.

The Washington Capital has this: Talking about heels, rather a ludicrous ououeeted therewith occurred at the Uiuuuroepu.n the other night. The bail-roem frjor as Wiuard' wa nwty waxed, and baully done at that, ao that the fair ladies and the (rahant beaux found their feet sink lug to the Boor. While the weaker were b4d fast, tbe stronger and more energetic produced a ttoisa lake onto huotiag-erackerm. as they taoved about or attempted to Ounce. I hi gt to be such a nui-sance mat the proprietor waaewlled mud active meiuniree wen taken to remedy tne trou-I 'e.

from tee krteheu wa procured fci.U sp; iiUU-U over the floor. Young ladies baa to i- iu ted b. iiy out of their track, in n.fl iiistaU'-ee leaving their beets on Ida Oo while others were pried up with pokers, vttenug bit! fchiek aa hurt. Several rBterprtsusg lim beaux went to Md-inua's and purchased piece of chalk, which ttry rubbed on the soles ot the yonrtg ladiex' fhoee. It pred a beautiful pieture tosee an Illinois gentleman with tux knee stuck fast to the boor tuie be whitened the suiae of bis love, the tjahuueed most graeefullv on onefout and fcinihiig audibly to the tickiius process.

(im maiden lady a certain age went into hvstenrs, and frrxu that luto a hack. Sum hat not been h.rd of since..