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1 A STRANDED STEAMER THE AKO TAII AMIOKK OFF WALES, Passengers aud Crew All Soved Tlie Vessel and Cargo Probably Total Lose An Overdue Steamer. "The City of Brussels." Liverpool, May 10. The Williams Guion Line steamer Dakotah, which Willed from Liverpool yesterday for New York, is ashore on the mainland inside of Anglesea.au islaud of North Wales. Her crew and passengers were safely landed. A tug has gone to the scene of the disaster, which is on the main land inside of East Manse, Anglesea.

Particulars t'onrrrulnir the Loss of the lakoinii. New York, May 10. Messrs. Williams Onion's despatch about the Dakotah, reported that she had gone ashore on roint Lynns, tor ty five miles this side of Liverpool, and was a total loss. A further despatch stated that the passengers and crew were all saved, and most of the Daggage was also rescued, but that the vessel and cargo would possibly prove a total loss.

A further despatch stated that the pas' sengers and crew were all saved, and most of the baggage was also rescued, but that vessel and cargo would possibly prove a total loss. The Dakotah had only just left Liverpool, on her way to New York, and must have run ashore in a fog. This is I he point where cut ward bound vessels, usually drop their pilots. It is fifteen miles the other side of Holyhead, and the coast is a steep, rocky, and exceeding ly dangerous one. A heavy sea auu sun is always running.

Point Lynus is the same spot where the Royal Charter, the Australian emigrant clipier ship, was wrecked in October, LS58, when nearly 490 perished. Over a year ago, also, the Ah botsford, an ocean steamer, was wrecked on the same point, and proved a total loss. The Dakotah was a splendid iron steamer, of abjut 3,500 tens burden, and was valued at She has always been considered a No. 1 vessel, and was commanded by Captain James Free, who has the reputation of being a thoroughly skilled and experienced mariuer. It is supposed that both the ship and cargo were fully insured.

Passenger Transferred to the Wisconsin The YenNrl a Total Livebpool, May 10. The Dakolah's passengers will sail on Saturday, on the Bl earner Wisconsin. The stranded steamer has fallen over to seaward. JLatest Parllrnlars t'oiieernlnc the Disaster Tbe llHkuiuh Milking. London, May 10.

The 1'ress Association says The Dakotah parted to day at is sinking slemforemost. The captain and a number of men narrow ly escaped. Last night when she struck it was dark. The rockets attracted the attention of the coast guard, whose station was close to the scene of the wreck at Bull Bay. A life boat was lauoched, which look oft some of (he passtngers and their luggage, the ship's boat and oilier boats assisting, hut the wreck was driven so close in shore, that a majority of the paroengcis were saved by the rocket apparatus, worked by the coast guard, which landed them very rapidly.

Latest accounts say the night was fine at the time of the accident. THE OVERDUE CITY OF BRUSSELS. New YoitK, May 10. The sleainship City Brussels of the Inman Line overdue. The agent of the company, Mr.

Dale, still maintains his onfident belief that the steamer lias met with an accident lo her machinery, and that she is proceeding undr. mil. Sh will make slow progrei if this is so, as head winds are now prevailingagainst vessels bound for Europe. In April, 1x70, this vessel was in a similar difficulty to lliat which theie is every leason to believe rhe is in cow. Captain Gadeden, a sea captain of great repula ion, was a paengcr on that occasion, and on the arrival of the Brussels in Liveipool, published in the Daily Courier, of that city, on April 25, an account of the accident and the Kail, in which he says: "The vessel left the port of New York on the 'stli of March.

Three days alter leaving port, iu a heavy gule of wind, fhe unfortunately broke her propeller. Captain Kennedy wisely had reduced the speed a low as hecould and yet keep sieerape way on the ship, but in a heavy iqrndl and head ea, about e'ht o'clock in the immune, the Ian yjroke oil', at which lime we were 601 miles from ie York. Twenty tciee days we failed along, and in nil ruy experience of tentyiive years at sea. in fine weather or foul, 1 have never seen a khip act better. Like a kuile she nit ilirnuch the water, and often eclipsed ordinary sailing vessels that hove in si)(ht.

But we were unfortunate in winds strong Kales from the eastward for the most part. 1 have irossed the Atlantic a great times as commander of the steamship Arago, nd as a passenger in various steamers, and never it been my lot to rind a better seaboat under team or sail." "The lly of Brussels Thought lo Have Broken Her Minll. Liverpool, May 10. The Messrs. Inman believe the steamer City of Binsselshas broken her shall.

They say" with the prevailing winds it would not ha surprising if she does uot arrive in a week or ten days yet. The same winds would account for her not being spoken, as they would drive her out of Ihe course of steamers. Relnsaranee ol llietiiy of Rmswrlx. London. Alav JO The liuilu Tdrqrauk an nounces that reinsurances are heirg eilictcd in the overdue Ionian Line steamer City of for fifteen guineas per cent, premium.

Illness of Ex Prcslilent (Irani. Philadelphia, May 10. Ex President Grtut, on leaving the exhibition to day, was driven to the Union League House as the guf st of that body. On Ihe way he was laken Rick was compelled to stop and purchase a dose of quinine. On reaching Ihe League House be was taken with a chill and lay in lilankets for nearly three quarters of nn hour.

Upon recovering he was I ikeii lo a carriage and driven to Mr. Paul's residence. His condition prevented his attendance at the reception to President llavn last evening. NtriHins; Klotal leKlsd. cCleveland.

May 10 Between six and seveti' o'clock this morning a sharp encounter took piece l.i i wet the striking coopers and the police Nomesix hundrul of llie strikers, 11... Mill! owtiikuii iipmldpil iihoiit 2110 women, asiicmbled atlbedillerent enliancis to the shops of the Company of Albany shows the liabilities to Standard Oil Covupany for Ihe purpose of )C 11,153,853, and assets Sl.0irt.4G8, showing preventing men lioin going to oik. The a di tifMenoy refjiirij policy lioltlers riuouiiL Chief of Police ordotd them lo disperse and t0 The appointment of a Re upon their relusat to on so, umeieu wc pome tn Hinneise them, which was dulie. A niluilier of Ihe strikers were severely injured. Confederate ilecornlloii liny.

CHATTANOotiA, May 111. The exercises of laving the cornerstone of the monument dedicated to the Confederate dead look jdace to day. The Masonic fraternity and a Idetachment of United Stales troops participated. People from all parts of the Union joined in decorating Ihe Confederate graves amidst the utmost harmony and good feeling. MRIEK TELEGRAMS was observed as a holiday iaris.

The jury in the case of the Philadelphia clergyman isou nave uoi yet ugmeu ujiou i verdict. A special telegrom by way ot Paris stale ithat 4,000 Fieucli Pilgrims on Monday presented the Pope 79,000 francs. Capt. Rice, of the Norwegian bark Azow.has ued the steamship Nurnberg for skiking his vessel in Chesapeake bay, laying his damages at $35,000. Rev.

Father Francis Xavier Tschenkeus, one of til founders of the Uedemplofist Order America, died at Baltimore, ytoter lay, aged 7S years. Benjamin Noyes, Indicted for conspiracy in "Se New Jersey Mutual Lile lusurame Coui VOL. 39 NO. 33. BEADING, FJIIDAY MORNING, MAY 11, 1877.

THREE CENTS. pany case, has forfeited his bail, and Noyes has been declared to be in contempt ot court. The Spanish Minister of Foreign A flairs, in reply to the criticisms or certain Deputies in the Cortez, declared that the relations between Spain and the Vatican were never more cordial than at present. The President has appointed the following named gentlemen as the Board ol isitors at the Naval Academy to attend the annual examination in June Commodore R. H.

man, Captain 8. R. Franklin and Pay Director George Jr. Cutler, U. o.

A. Brig adier General William II. Emory, U. 8. A.

Governor Buck land, of Ohio Hon. Caleb A. Curtis, of Massachusetts Professor W. Hammond, of Iowa; Bishop William J. Kip, of California Professor S.

F. Quimby, of New York Hon. L. C. Houk, of Tennessee Hon.

Joseph A. Leonard, of Maine. The Weather To Day. Washington, May 10. Indication for the Lower Lake Reyion and Middle Atlantic States North to west wind partly cloudy or clearing weather, rising barometer, stationary or rising temperature.

il I' Mi 1 1. 1, ol I Kit DISASTER. The Last fVadrsvllle Victim Found Work Muipended. Pottsville, May 10. The last ictitn of the Wadesville disaster, Benjamin Moseley, was found between 12 and 1 o'clock this morn ing, lying in a breast about luu yarns away from where the fort of miners had been searching for hiiu.

Moseley's body was neither burned nor scarred, ami it is supjaised that he was smothered to death by the fatal "choke damp," which invariably follows an explosion of gas, and is as much dreaded as Ihe explosion itself. James Leddy, one of the men reported dead yesterday, is still alive, though his recovery is doubtful. All the rest of the wounded men will probably recover. Work has been Mis coded at the mines tor a week. 1 he report that the veutilation was insufficient is denied by the mine bosses in charge, who state that the usual morning inspection was made before the men enteied theshaft, and everything found to be in proper condition.

An Inquest Held Adjournment till To morrow. Pottsville, May 10. This afternoon a jury composed of six miners was selected lo lear the evidence of those who witnessed the explosion near here yesteulay. uniy one miner was examined, and bis testimony showed that although he was present at the explosion, he knew nothing of the cause of the disaster. The Siierintendeiit was also examined.

His evidence went to show that no fault could be attached to the officers of the colliery. The inquest was mljwrned until Saturday morning, when the Mine Inspector will be placed on the witness stand. The in jured men are all doing well and will eventu ally recover. 1 he Mineral ot two ol the meu who were killed will lake place to morrow. Two more will be buried on Saturday, and the rest on bundav.

THE WAK IN THE EAST. First Hnn'l to Hnnd Kncountrr ou the Itnnnbe. Oalatz, May 10. At five o'clock this morning 300 Cossacks crossed the Danube in boats from Galalz to Ghiacet. Immediately on landing they encountered a numerous body Rushi Bazouks.

A smart engagement fol lowed, which was unfinished at noon. Poland Nemls (10.000 Men lo Aid Turkey Manchester. May It Ihe UiuirdiaYa Beilin dispatch says The Czar is sain iouo larnied at the formation ol the 1 olisli Le gion at Constantinople. The Berlin papers announce that leading Polish politicians, at a secret meeting at leniherg, resolved ou the tablidiment of executive bureaus all over Poland, with the hope of raising an army of 80,000 men. Sixty thousand have left already for Turkey.

The National Committee as appointed Count Rwzinski as a delegate lo Constantinople. Russians Try lo Cross nt Rein. Constantinople, May 10. The Russians attempted tocross the Danube at Rein, but the Turkish artillery prevented them. Defence works are to be constructed around Constan tinople.

The lull River tploloii One Man tilled. Boston, May 10. An explosion occurred last night in the establishment of W. C. Dunham, at Fall River.

His building was de troved, as was also the factory of the Kendriek Loom Harness Company, and the office of the French paper Le Jyotexur Canadien. 1 he losses are: V. C. Uunham, about Kendick Loan Company, about $11,000 Po aswt Maiiulactuiine Company, P. Remington, llliam Bush, and other occupants, about $3,000.

The body ol 11. Ij. Hamilton, a blacksmith, was found this morning in Ihe ruins. Month t'nrollnn Chief Jiistlreshlp II ny 's Clemency lo be lovuHra. Cou MUiA, May 10.

The Slate Senate to day dicidid to go into un election lor Chief Justice on Tuesday, the insl. The House being Democratic will concur ami settle a matter over which loth Homes have been lighting since the opening of the stssiou. The Senate also passed a solution authorizing and requesting Gov. Hampton to invoke the clemency of the President of the United Stales in behal of the prisoners now held to answer the charge of riot and murder in the late political si niggle. Ititilrond Ticket Thief Re arrested.

Bai timokk, May 10 Edward Baker, arrested in this cily last fall on a reiiuiniiiou from the Governor of IHin is, charged with stealing railroad ticl.el.:, and who escaped from Ihe lllinoH efliceia by jumping from the train, has been re arrested in this city. Today he had a hearing before Justice Graf) and was lOinoiitlc to jail lo await the action of (he Illinois iiulhonliis. Anotner Life Ins. Co. tioue Alhany, May 10.

An domination of the nitidis of ihe Atlantic Mutual Life lnfliiia.ni coiver will be applied lor to moirow, 850 Central national Rank of N. T. Coiiiiierfelt. New York, May 10. A very dangerous new counterfeit of the fo0 bilf of the Cential National Bank, of this city, is afloat.

The engraving ami signatures are admirably executed, but the paper is a little heavier and stiller than ihe genuine. Want of Confidence In Von Moltkr. London, May 10, A dispatch from Berlin says: "A public meeting of electors at Memel passed a solution declaring want of nonlidence in Count Von Mohke, their renre senialivp, on account ol his recent vote in fl)Vor of policy." Iloy Killed at a oilier. Mahanoy City, May 10, A boy naintd Daniel Ciirtln, engaged as diiver at Fceht Whittaker's colliery was killed on Tuesday hile unhitching the mule from the wauon. flit unfortunate lad was about sixteen years of Senator Wood Exonerated.

Albany, N. May 10. The Senate t'f uiniiltte have made a repeat fully exonerating Benot Woe din from implicating in the Tweed uialltr. WASHINGTON GOSSIP. THE LEADING TOPICS DISCUSSED, "Ah Sin" at the National Theatre A Pronounced Success Beno Served Klirnt 91,000,000 Sewing Maeblne Pool.

Correspondence Times and Dispatch. Washington, May 10. The new play of "Ah Sin," which was first presented to the public at the National theatre, this city, on Monday night and is being played ightly, has been greeted by crowded houses. No per formance duriug the season has elicited the same enthusiasm unless it may have been Boucicault in his "Shaugraun," and the critics unite in pronouncing it a grand and complete success. Its authors, Mark Twain and Bret Harte, have every reason to feel gratified, that is, if they accept the judgment of a Washing ton audience as to the merits of the play "Ah Sin" occupies a leading position throughout the entire piece, well sustaining the character as delineated a few years since by Harte, and which gave that author a permanent repula )n.

bkno served just eight. The members of society" who have been waiting impatiently for Ihe President to indi cate his pleasure relative to the disposition of Major Keno, who is well known here, nave been at last rewarded for their forbearance in the matter. Reno is suspended from rank and pay for two years from the 18th of May, 1877. Prom all the evidence attainable it would ap pear that Major Reno deserved severe punishment but he has hitherto borne an excellent reputation, both as a soldier and a gentleman, ami it has been generally felt, so far as my ot sal with all its humiliating consequences would have been disproportionate to his of lense, and the Executive clemency is pretty generally approved. TUB KIO GRANDE DISTURBANCE.

Thero can be no doubt that if the Mexican government does not hereafter limit the thiev ing expeditions ot its army officers to the south bank cf the Rio Grande of its own motion, it will receive a very peremptory invitation to do so, which, it vould appear from the spirit manifested in Ihe premises, it would not be entirely safe to disregard. It is also understood that Mr. Evarts is indulging himself in a little correspondence with that volcanic government, touching the unauthorized and unprovoked imprisonment of our Consul at Acapulco, which, he intimates to theMexican authorities.they will be expected to promptly disavow and make reparation for. $1,000,000 FOR A SEWINO MACHINE PATENT. It is said that the sewing machine lobby spent here during the past two sessions of Congress 1 ,000,000 in a vain efibrt to have extended the Batchelder patent which eipired yesterday, and others.

The Singer Company, even before the day of its expiration, gave notice that a reduction of one half would in the future be made on alt their machines, which must be followed by a like reduction by other companies. The credit system is to be abolished, and the patrons of sewing machines may congratulate themselves that the day of high prices has gone by, never to return. Knox An Incident In a Barber Shop. Yesterday morning ex President Grant en i i. nent Philadelphia hotel.

While he was standing near the door, waiting for the boy to get through with brushing Ins coat, he was anoruached by a well known newspaper man of that city, who bears Ihe title of Colonel, and is an editor above the average. How are you, lieneral said the Colonel, in a cordial manner, and at the same time putting out his hand. "I'm getting along nicely," said the ex President, not noticing the outstretched hand, "It seems I'm a great deal better man now than 1 was when 1 was in office that is, according to your paper." With this the ex Presideut left the Colonel to himself the latter being evidently taken aback at General Grant's remaiks, and feeliug decidedly uncomfortable. This little incident has its moral. Phila.

livening Bulletin. Death from Drinking Poison. West Chester, May 10. Yesterday John Ford, aged 18 years, died suddenly at his residence here from the effect of drinking a poisonous draught that he had mistaken for whisky. Two young men were with Ford engaged in hauling dirt, when one of them, named John Karrel tendered him a tw ounce vial supposed to contain whisky.

Ford died four hours afterward. An inquest will be held today. Murder at Minersville Minersvili.e, May 10. A stabbing aftray occurred in this place about one o'clock this morning. John Jones, alias "The Shooter," in a drunken brawl, stabbed Phillip Kelly.

Jones was arrested bv constable Price, and lodged in jail, after having a hearing before 'Squire Brennan, of Minersville. Kelly died at nine o'clock. Rnsslau Paper on the Market. London, May 10. The Financier to day Bays a large amount of paper drawn by the Kussian Wovernmeni is now ouering lor uis count.

The Ritfsian credit is comparatively low, but in consequence of the bills having been accepted by an eminent financial house, they are eagerly taken by leading discount establlshtneulii. LOCAL NEWS. Stricken with Apoplexy. Mr. Jacob Wise, of Morysytlle, this county, was stricken wan apoplexy on Wednesday last, He is still ill.

Officers of the Penn treet Railway. The Peun Street Passenger Railway Com. pany have elected the following officers: Pres ident. Cvrenius Sellers: Treasurer, A. Ili.yer; Directors, II.

S. Eekert, C. Stolz, J. L. Hover, D.

R. Hendrix, P. R. Stetson and Wil liaj J. Clous.

Personal. Lieut. Commander Frederick Pearson is in town. p. B.

Randolph Keim, Esq arrived in the city last evening, and will remain here seviral illlVM j. Lowrie Bell General Fieight Agent of the Philadelphia aud Reading Railroad Cnninanv. is in the city. Detective Lyon, Dr. P.

M. Ziegler and Jacob Livingood, Ksq of this city, have been subpimiaed lo apiiear before Coroner Weber, at Lebanon, this morning, between the hours, pf 9 and 10 o'clock, and will leave in the 7.40 a. m. tram lo day. GENERAL MEWS.

The Produce exohangeof New 'Oi leans has petitioned Gov. Nicholls to revoke a majority of his appointments of flour inspectors on the ground that they are incompetent. Great fault isnlfo found with Nicholls' city police force, of whom 90 per cent, are Irish. The other day Mr. M.

M. Stewart returned to Tyrone after an ahseuce of over twelve yeais iu the West. During this tinia he was twice elected to the Colorado Legislature aud also served a ttrui as Superintendent of Schools, but latterly has been in the mercantile busi pess in Arizona Territory A letter bom the Black Hills, dated April gy, says that during the pltst two weeks snow has falleu daily. In cue day and night it fell to the deptkol 17 inches. The gulches were overflowed, and consequently placer mining usnended.

The uiiartz mills were running day and nijht, with large re turns. A party surveying the route from Kearney, Nebraska, and Deadwood had just arrived at the latter place. By a careful survey, the distance is 200 miles. The Alloona Tribune notices the death of Mrs. Mary Ann Stephens, widow of the late Rev.

James Stephens. She had nine children, thirty four grandchildren, sixty seven great grand children and one great great grandchildone hundred and eleven in all. She survived all her children, thirteen grand children and twelve great grandchildren, and leaves twenty one grandchildren, fifty five great grandchildren and one great great grandchild. She was the oldest of a family of six teen children, all of whom passed away before her. Meeting of the Highway Committee.

A meeting of the Committee on Highways and Paving was held last evening at the City Hall. William S. Ritler, ai pea red before the committee relative to the construction of a coal vault under Court street, adjoining ihe Adler office. A petition of citizens was presented for the opening of Wood street, between Laurel and Canal. Messrs.

A. K. Slauffer and DeB. Randolph Keitn, appeared committee in reference to the opening ot the Hill road to the proper width and rectify ine present de fects The danger of leaving the road in its present condition was 'pointed out, and the liability of the city heinir mulcted in heavy damages for any accident which may happen at the dangerous points on the road, An appropriation of $500 was asked for as heing sufficient to place Ihe road in good condition. The proposals for furnishinir lo the Highway Department, and for cleaning streets and gutters, were opened.

There were twenty one proposals in the aggregate, a number of which contained proposals for several items. Separately, the proposals were as fol Jows: Three for cleming streels and gutters in the Western Division four lor doinir the same work in the Eastern Division; and two por uoing me work in both divisions. for furnishing supplies, as follows: Shar iand sir nivmnanlti iwor nninn ulnna 1,111 stone, fur: limestone si.al Is sevMn' hcJh I er, two; brick, one. The advertisement specified that each proposal should be accompanied by a bond, the same being required by city ordinance. As only two proposals were accompanied by bonds, the committee were unable to take any action.

A motion was made to refer all of the proposals to Councils as handed in to the committee, the cily charter requiring that all contracts made by the Highway Committee shall be awarded bv Councils. The motion, however, was lost, and as the hour was growing late, the committee adjourned without having taken any definite action. St. Catharine's Orphan Asylum. We have been requested to call the atten tion of our citizens to the present necessities of the above charitable institution, located on franklin street above lenth.

There are at present forty orphan children in the asylum who are entirely dependent upon the charita ble public. On account of the severity of the times and the advanced prices of flour and the common necessaries of life, the management are compelled to appeal to the public for aid. Persons who are unable to contribute money can send donations of flour, provisions, clothing or dry goods, all of which will be very acceptable. Heretofore there has been no cause for complaint, as the institulion has usually been accorded a generous support, but the need for liberal assistance is much felt at this time. Of the forty children in the asylum, four have each one parent who contributes to ward their support, hut the remainder are de nendenl.

enrlrolw qhsritv. The insli luiiou is uuat'i viug ui me charitably disposed citizens. It is not a sec tarian institution: as children ot all denomi nation are admitted. There is no sickness at present in the asylum. Cattle Detaining a Passenger Train.

A drove of cattle belonging to Matthias Keller, of Robeson township, detained the southward bound passenger train on the Wilmington Railroad on Tuesday evening below Cold Run Station. The cattle were on the track and could not be got off, notwithstanding the vigorous blowing ot the whistle. Finally after being chased a distance of one mile, the train being compelled to move along slowly, the track was cleared. Mr. Keller's cattle are reported to take frequent trips up and down the railroad, from Cold Run station, but are so well posted with the running of trains, that they always escape unhurt.

Jhe engineers have also hitherto been very careful in running over this dangerous portion of the railroad. Bernard Sauppe's Body Recognized. The body ol the drowned man found in the Susouehanna at Columbus, reported fully in Wednesday issue ot the lmes and Dupalch, has been recognized as that of Bernard Sauppe, a baker of this city, who left for York, Friday, April 30th. Upon arriving in Columbia, he stopped at Leece's Hotel, and it is supposed that he fell into the river accidentally at night. Mrs.

Sauppe and daughter arrived in Columbia on Wednesday and took charge of the body. The funeral will take place at York, from whence the family removed to Reading, and where they own a cemetery lot, and have a child buried. "Pride" to be Produced at Birdsboro. The melo drama. "Pride, or the Fortunes and Misfortunes ot War," which was so successfully produced at the Academy of Music, this city, oy Mclean rosi, mo.

10, u. a. a about to be presented to the citizens of Birds boro by the same organization. The Committee of the G. A.R., are now endeavoring lo procure a proper person to represent the character of "Pete," which role was so well sus tained by Mr.

J. Kunsnian, who has since re moved to the West. Jt is believed that the play will be presented in Brooke Hall, Birds boio, on Saturday evening, May lyih. Last Night's Temperance Meeting. The Fifuh Street M.

K. Church waserowded again last night to hear addresses ou the sub ject of Temperance. A lelling speech was de i. i ri 11. I livered Dy 11.

It. Simpson, 01 1 iiuaucipuia. He talks like an earnest Christian worker.who has in the past himself fell Ihe sting of intemperance. Several others spoke briefly. Kighty fotir signed Ihe Ihe pledge during th'e evening.

The meetings to night and to niorrow night will be held iu the Covenant M. K. Church, Kim street above Ninth. Scarcity of Shad. The cold weather aud continuous rains of the present week have interfered with opera tions at the shad fisheries along the Delaware and Susquehanna.

The fishermen have met with poor Buccess aim mc sin ineius inian.i have been comparatively small. A of dealers in tins city were disappointed last evening iu un mm is 11110., gnu shad will be scarce and higher in price in this city in consequence for the next few days. The Era of Cheap Sewing Machines. Since Ihe expiration of Ihe Batchelder patent, the price 01 sew ng macnines nas oroppeo ou ne VOWB "re odering ou sewing raacn.nrs lor oojor $32 50: $70 for $35, and $75 for $37.50. The Singer Manufacturing Company offer plain tab'e fiO Rrt an, flrnn.lABI MTIll VWPI fur 9,3.

1 TK announcement of both companies will be found in another column. Hen's Egg Weighing Six Ounces. 'Squire Thirwechter, of Stouehsburg, brought to this city yesterday a hen's egg from the premises of Jonathan Zeller, in Ihe same yillago, which was laid by a common barn yard hen, The egg is the largest as far as heard froni this season, Ihe measurement being 7 by 9 Inches, and the weight six ounces. The Banie hen has teeu laying ol unusual size, and recently produced several containing 1 .1. ii, three yolks each.

I to is It 1 1 BEECHER ON HARD THE JUDGMENT DAT IN COMMERCE. A Thoronft Review of the Business Stagnation and the Causes that Led to It. The Dawn of a Uolden Era. Rev. Henry Ward Beecher recently delivered a characteristic lecture at the Phila delphia Academy of Music to one of those large audiences before whom he was accustomed to appear during his late lecturing tour.

Having been introduced to the audience who were already as well acquainted with him, utmost, as with their nearest friends, Mr. Beecher began by saying that the period from 1873 to 1877 will always be remembered as the dark day of the commerce of America. Great Britain, France, Germany, Austria, he said, all have felt it. Remedies have had no effect. What is the matter Many reasons for it have been given.

Some people tell us that the tariffistoo high others that it is too low that over production has created beyond our power of consumption luxury, too large living. It is the FUGITIVE NATURE OF CONFIDENCE the loss of confidence. Why is there a want of confidence It is no consolation to know that this all happens in a regular order. Such depressions may be called the sleep of enter prise. They come every ten or fifteen years.

This comes from the incidental, concomitant ettects ol the system ot credit. Credit is at a discount with many persons. I hold a different view, Mr. Beecher continued, Whoever buys, borrows or hires has credit, Pay as you go is the saying. Suppose men can pay as they go, must they stand still MOllCy IS lOCIS Must a man stand idle till he can buy tools Credit favors young men and young communities.

It is a moral discriminator. Fvery young man knows that he is to look out for his manhood if he would have credit. It isau inspiralionof molality. It has ils dangers, but are they insuperable? There is danger in everything. I he greatest danger is being born iuto this world at all.

There is no faculty that does not bring a man into the valley of the shadow of death at times it is so that men are disciplined and so credit has its perils. ONTUE EVE OF PROSPERITY. We arc just on the eve of a renewed period of prosperity, and the first steis of credit will be very dainty. Only the gilt edged, as they are called, may expect credit. In five years everybody will be lending to everybody and everybody's son.

All men are men of integrity till they're tried. Some men arc entirely honest when they're good natured, till the human passions begin to be an element in their business, till they have rivalry, till the. are wronged; then they say) "If he gets his money before I do, let me knew it." There are some men whom you may strip branch by branch and leaf by leaf, and they will give up no whit of integrity but such men don't walk in battalions. THE LENDING AND PAYING LINE. Some men break down by being great in little things and little in great things.

Secretary Stanton once Baid to me when I asked him whether a certain general did lose his head when under fire "Lose his head He has no head to lose." So it is with some men. After such a crisis as this, the lending line and the paying line are very close lo year they are further apa 1 ri 1 1 BflOOFlf I year and further yet the seventh and eighth, till at last they get so far apart you can't Bee the paying line at all. That can go on for twenty years, if nothing happens but when panic comes every man asks himself "How do stand Then comes on a convulsion and men Bay it's a want of confidence I say it's a want of cash. The period of darkness is simply the period of settling up clearing up begin again and the settling up business the day ofjudgment in commerce. HARD TIMES IN AMERICA.

This depression is prolonged and obstinate. has lasted for six years. Why has it lasted so long Everything acts quickly in America, and the period comes round quickly. In Great Britain it comes every twenty or twenty five years, and among the slow going Dutchmen once in a hundred years or so. What made our period so long In 1801, at the beginning of the war, there was universal suspense.

But in the summer of the same year everything began to rise again, and till 1873 such a productive period never was known to this continent. The government oecaiue a gigantic purchaser, and bought all the grain and everything that a million men in the field could need. For all this it piid in a depreciated currency. 1 don't know whether the omuiscence of God can sustain an irredeemable paper currency, but it never did. PROPERTY PA PER OOLD.

Property is some form of matter made useful by human intelligence man makes matter think. There is no other property. All property is the child of the man's head through his hands. Gold is not property it only represents property. Property needs a representative subject to divisibility that can easily and conveniently be handled.

Paper, you say, represents gold but what do you want another representative for Paper is valu able only so long as it represents gold, aud no government can make currency as good as gold. Paper cannot by any edict of any irnvernnient be made to represent property un less it is exchangable for property. There are some things that even governments can't do, and no government on God's earth ever gave validity to gold. This is the only point on which all the human family are absolutely oue they all say gold shall represent property. Gold is foreordained.

The demand lor products at the beginning of the war stimulated activity. The common people were patriotic md sustained the government. The most disastrous thing that ever happened to the workingmen of America was the high wages paid during the war. Sudden prosperity is sudden destruction to Ihe majority of men. A THRUST AT JAY COOKE.

Mr. Beecher gave a humorous description of a New Hampshire schoolmistress saving up her scanty salary, seuding her brother through College, supporting her mother and then saving till she had laid by. Her little capital she invested iu United States bonds. She look Ihe religions papers, aud there alio read that Northern Pacific bonds were a better illveHluient anj paid ten'or twelve per cent, Thpn came (leVi(1l christian man, an agent r01IIi, making siK eches in the Bunday over 8iHtPril thjs fo. fiu er o( iroUiene IS pointing toward it.

and whenever the nnger of Providence poiuts frotn 6 per cent, to 12 fier cent, it's sure. The schoolmistress sold ler bonds and took stock, the hard IUteil tnnr nlrw.lr ll.n ilnnl, tfnr otltlr ilia ml lUvl imuiv biui ti, mu irv.ii ivu Diuvn. mu U)ok 8(ock am, Men mini3ter took slock. fPointingto himself.l I know he rLaugluer.T I've never seen a day on which wanted to laugh on that point. Iwo or three installments were paid and then the finger of Providence" didn't point anywhere, It does not hurt a community to have a few of the rich men knocked over once in a while but any souroa that sticks up the bard savings of the millions sends a shiver to the very marrow of the whole community.

It is this that has been done. Contraction generally ineanB the ruin ot the men who are being con tracted, Woe be lo that man ho attempts to send us back to Egypt again Moating on on irredeemable thing. DAWN OV A OOI.PEN ERA. I am glad to have lived when the great Btruggle for the woiking man came on 7T A r.tl. II 1 were to die poor and forsaken, they couldn't take away from me the thought that I have seen my country come out of the grasp of slavery, mere isn't a (Statu in the Union that revolves on the point of the bayonet.

do not stand here to say all hail and gratula tion lo the any more than all hail and gratulation to the South. For the first time in my life I am a citizen of Charleston anil Mobile and New Orleans and Savannah and Memphis. For the best part of my life I was in exile from the fairest part of ray land and I crossed the boundary at the peril of my life. I believe the welfare of the black man is more nearly established than at' any other time of the nation's history. We are about to enter upon a golden period.

The channels are open again Irora Quebec to Mobile. The industries are reciprocal. We have come back to health, sympathy and common humanity. uy losing something ol earth we have gained more ol heaven, St. James' Literary and Social Union.

LAST ENTERTAINMENT OF THE SEASON AT ST JAMES' LUTHERAN CHURCH. The last of the series of entertainments of the season will be given this evening by St. James Literary and Social Union in the audience room of St. James Lutheran Church corner of Fifth and Chestnut streets. The musical portion of the programme is as follows: Jackson's Te Deum, by the choir; a clarionet solo, by Prof.

William Buehler; violin solo, oy Arthur Wittich bass, vocal, solo by J. JS. Hagenman; male quartette, Messrs. Reiss, Rees, Schlechterand Hagenman trio of female voices, Misses Wright. Parvin and Boyer; vocal duet by Miss Laura Mengel and Mr.

G. A. Schlechter; "When I know that Thou art near Me," by Abt; piano duet by ansses vvesche and Woerner; piano solo by Miss Carrie Crecelius. concluding with a mu sical novelty, a piano trio, by Mrs. Beckler and two daughters.

The literary features of (tie entertainment comprise a selection by Miss Ma Boyer, selection by Miss Nona Rake and the reading of "The Paper" by Miss liowder. The participants have been earnestly engaged in preparing for the occasion and it is expected this entertainment will eclipse all uieir iormer enorts. Admission to Ihe entertainment is free to all. The City Health this Week. The city mortuary record for the week ending on the 8lh insl.

shows 23 deaths and 2 burials from the country making a total of 25 deaths, ten more than the previous week and three more than the corresponding week of last year. The total number of deaths to date aggregates 333 against 407 to same date last year, a decrease of 74. There were 3 deaths from tmall pox during the week, 104 to date and 21 1 during Ihe season. The smallpox mortality rate Is 247. Among the other causes of dealh were diphtheria, 1 croup, 1 scarlatina, 2 still birth, 2, and premature birth, 1.

Of those who died during the week 12 were adults and 13 were minors and of the latter 5 were under one year old, 2 were under five years, 1 was under 10 years, two under fifteen years and 1 under twenty one years of age. here were no deaths in the First and onrth Wards. Following are the deaths bv Wards. 2nd Ward 3d 2 8th Ward 3 2 9lh 3 3 10th 1 4 5th 6th 7th Total 23 Court House Items. A session of Court will be held to morrow morning at 10 o'clock.

The ashes, accumulated during the winter. are being removed from the Court House cel lars. A number of the tax duplicates for 1877 have been prepared for the Collectors. a3RY.eraJjwo.msn were engaged yesterday in offices. The Sherirl has been engaged this week in serving writs iu the northern portion of the county.

The County Ireisurer has several hundred dollars worth of five cent nickels on hand. The third and last week of Common Pleas Court for April term will commence next Monday morning at eleven o'clock. George W. Shingle, Collector for Union township, has paid $75 tax into the County Treasury. The sum of $11,000, loaned to the county by James Healy, of Douglassville, was yesterday returned to that gentleman by the County Treasurer, with interest.

The Elm Station Murderer Known. The Kim Station murder, which has so Innu hn wramml in mvslerr lias at last teS i.r i i. adelpbia, a leading newspaper publisher, dis covered that the missing man was the same young German who had called on him during 1 the early months ol the Centennial fcxtntn 1 tion. That a number of letters had been ad dressed to his friends abroad asking for money, which was regularly supplied by his lamily. It seems that Ihe young man picked up an ac qiiaintance, also a German, who gained all his secrets, became familiar with his hand writing, and learned to imitate it.

Ibis ac luaintance was a spy, and subsequently forged Ins murdered friend's name, and probably killed him. He is known lo be oue of a gang 1 who flourished on the money extorted from the uiuidered man family. The arrest of the whole party is expected in a day or two. Prices of Ice for the Season of 1877. The prices of ice for the present season as fixed by the leading ice dealers of this city, are twenty seven cents per week cash for five pounds daily, being the smallest quantity served tilly cents per week for ten pounds ily, or thirty cents per hundred pounds by the large quantity.

This is a reduction of 30 per cent, in the smallest quantity, and of 100 per cent, in the prices lor the largest quantity mentioned as compared with the prices of last year, when live pounds daily cost da cents per week, and ice by the larger quantity cost 00 cents per hundred pounds. The prices of ice 111 Philadelphia tor the ensuing season are 25 cents hundred pounds when parties take a ton or more, or eight pounds served daily tor 35 cents per week. Reading will be supplied this summer by six different ice dealers and firms. History of tne Hotlenstein Family. A "History of the Hottenstein Family" is about lo appear in book form, which will give some interesting facts in regard lo the early history of one of the most prominent and influential families in the northeastern section ot thecouniv, Ihe Kulztown Journal, in reference lo the forthcoming book, says "it will contain all information in relerence to the faniily, of any value, from the time of the birth of Christ lo the present day," which is cerlaiuly going far enough back to answer all purposes.

The tacts have heen collated and arranged for publication by leading members of the Hottenstein family. Sherill James N. Miller, of Danville, i I ba i written lo Chief Cull to keep a lookout c0lJ wn n(iuc, the exercises of Decora in this city lor prisoner who escaped from jj lhe 0 a of and A. the Danville jail on Tuesday night, nam (p John Frick, alias John Betzel, alias John Otto. He is a small, spare man, GO years of age: weighs 12o pounds: 5 feet 8 inches lush; reddish gray hair; small gray eyes, deeply set in head; very small foot, can wear No.

3 lady I shoes, and has small hands. hen he escaped he had on a knit jacket, gum show, and steel gray pants. A reward of $50 will i 1 be paid for Ins a i rest. Bad Condition of a Outter. The gutter at Fifth aud Canal streets has been rewrted at the Mayor's office to be in a bad condition.

It has filled up with mud and dirt, aud badsmet emanates therefrom. The waste water Irom several nai lacioriea iu mo Vimnily washes dowu lo mis piace, wnrae collects aud becomes stagnant. The citizens who are compelled to pass this place are de siinm of something being done to abate the I I. nuisance. i THE PIPE OF PEACE DAILY SMOKED BY THE RED HEBf.

Tblrd Daj'a Proceedings of the Great Council of Ponnaylvanla, Holding Ita Annual (tension In this City. Appeal Day. The Great Council of Pennsylvania, Improved Order of Red Men, met yesterday in third day's session at the hall in the American House, Fourth and Peon stree's. The morning session was opened in the usual manner with all the Great Chiefs in their regular places. The records of Wednesday afternoon's session were read and approved without correction.

The roll was then called and all the Representatives to the Great Council answered to their names. EVENING! SESSION WORK EXEMPLIFIED. A motion was duly made arM adopted that an evening session be held provided the hall could be procured for that purpose. It was also moved and the motion a 'opted, that at the hour of 2 p. m.

the Unwritten Work be exemplified. GREAT CHIEFS REPORT ON APPEALS. The Great Council next resumed the con. sideration of the report of the Great Chiefs on Appeals, which had been left as the unfinished work ol Wendesday's session. The first case presented was that of Navajo Tribe, No.

105 vs. George Hoyt, and the action of the Tribe was sustained. Several other very important cases were also considered, and during the hearing of the testimony and the arguments on both sides, great interest was manifested. The questions that arose on the several appeals were auiy uiscusseu pro ana con, and the decisions made prove conclusively that wrong will not be countenanced, and the rights of the Tribes, as well as of in dividual members, will be rigidly maintained, and the interests of the order carefully guarded by their Representatives. The appeal of Pe quod Tribe, No.

18, excited more than ordi nary interest among the Philadelphia delegations who were directly concerned. The Great Council sustained this Tribe, as also Red Jacket, No. 44, of Lancaster. THE CONRAD WEI8ERS OF THE COUNCIL. The appeal from No.

57. of Pittsburgh, was written in the German language, and owing to the fact that the proceedings of the Great Council are conducted in the English language, it was referred to a special committee to examine the evidence and report to the Great Council the facts of the case. A second appeal from this same Tribe was referred to the Committee on Appeals for further considera tion. EXCURSION TICKETS RECESS." The Great Chief of Records made a statement concerning the purchase of excursion tickets, which was entirely satisfactory to all. The hour of 12 m.

having arrived a recess was declared until 2 p. m. SUBORDINATE OFFICERS. The Great Sachem on Wednesday's sleep appointed the following subordinate officers: Great Sannap, Theodore K. Young, of No.

Great Mishinewa, George Lovett, of No. 77. Great Guard of the Forest, Thomas K. Donally, of No. 18.

Great Guard of the Wigwam, William H. Dean, of No. 63. He, also, after the raising up of the Great Chief, appointed the several standing committees for the year. The Great Council uin proiop.

and at once proceeded to business by dispensing with the calling of the roll and reading the records of the morniug session. The Great Sachem ordered the doors to be closed, and the body went into secret session, during which he exemplified the Unwritten Work as sisted by Past Great Sachem Conley and Great Sannap Theodore K. Young. The membership thus received information calculated to do gteat good in the Order. Alter this wors had been finished the doors were opened and the regular business of the session was resumed.

$4,778.85 FOR SUPPLIES MEMBERSHIP, 15,000. The Committee on Returns and Reports presented a very exhaustive and valuable report containing recommendations to the various iiiueo. me was budjhcu. that the money received by the Great Council for supp lies and per capita tax during the last year amounted to various Tribes. The report was adopted.

$4,778.85, and that the membership in the State is over 15,1 00. more appeals heard. The report of Ihe Great Chiefs was again tanen up, anu me case oi no. oi vs. oeiaer, was referred back to the tribe, the Committee on Appeals being sustained by the Great Council.

red jacket tribe's trouble. a. minority report was received from the Committee on Law and Usage, in reference to a part 0f the report of the Great Sachem, in refusing to place his signature to an appeal to the Great Council of the United Stales, made by Red Jacket Tribe, No. 44, they having failed to comply with the law iu uot placing the amount of money in dispute in his hands. The decision of the Great Sachem was sustained by the Great Council.

THE SPECIAL ORDER FOR TO DAY. Action uh)U the Amendments to the By Laws was made the special order of business for this morning at 9 o'clock. 6REAT COUNCIL OF. U. S.

NOMINATIONS. Nominations were then made for Great Chic'3 Representatives to the Great Council of the UiiitedT States. These officers will be voted for in M.oh next, 1878. The report of the Committee on the Good of the Order was received andjled. NEW CHARTERS RESTORATIONS REIN STATEMENTS.

During the session several applications for charters and the restoration of a charter were received and referred to a special committee also applications from various tribes to reinstate brothers who had been expelled. All of these requests were granted. VISIT TO JUNIATA TRIBE. Last evening Juniata Tribe No. 84, of this city, was visited by a large number of mem bers of the Great Council and the proceedings were of an exceedingly interesting character.

opeecnes were mane uy tlTill: 11 1 Af liktla.lAlnliia and UeiT, IV 1MIHIU U. iiUtril, ui lllia.iT7i....n, Great Chief of Records, Andrew J. Baker, of Philadelphia, and others. Preparing for Decoration Day. Camp 04, P.

O. S. of A of Myerstown, are mAlnn iLu 1" A trail sTtlTlfflltfl (IT M'. proper observant of Decoration Day. a Tnn.nWn.

Lebanon n.v Allenlown will be cele fed undnr auapic of lhe Allen Rilles. Drilling for the Grand Conclave. The Knights Templar of this city are drill almost nightly, preparatory to attending Grand Conclave of Pennsylvania, which i meets in Lancaster. Heading Commandery met for drill last evening at the Masonic Hall, Fifth and Franklin streets, and there was a large attendance. Funeral of an Only Son.

The funeral of Edward Lawrence Doyle, the infant and only son of Kdward Doyie, iku Nov Ym.r tsvilr nlai miicun yesterday afternoon from the residence of the, child's pareuts, No 16 South Nmth streetTha sorrrowing parents have the sympathy of many friends in their bereavement, "1.