The Cambria Freeman from Ebensburg, Pennsylvania • Page 2

JUL cmbrii mmi EBEMSBUrtC 1 Jail. 2G, IS77. Tiiiiay Legislature of Tennessee, which is suo.ij-ly Democratic, on last Fi iday ckcied James E. Bailey United States Senator fiom that State, to till a vacancy which will xpiie in 1881. Vi never before heard of this gentleman ns among the many prnmU WW.

Hcmociats of Tennessee with whoso names wc have been but still it ny be that ho will prove a Vfcr iifrfv.i to take the seat otico cccu- J'icti 1 Andrew Johnson. The Legislature of New Jersey, in joint session, on Tuesday last, elected John 11. JlelMiersiMi, Demociaf, as successor to Mr. J'reliughiiyseu, tlic piesrnt Republican U. Senator from that Mate.

The vote stood: jMcrhcrson 41; to 4U hr relinghuyscn. This was nbor.t as lot', a vote as could happen, and wc can only hope that Mr. Mcl'hcrsf unknown as he is outside of hi own State, will show himself worthy of the high position to which he has been thctid. Witex Wells and Anderson, tho two vo.V members of the Louisiana Returning Hoard, arrived in Washington, on jester- week, tl.ey were promptly arrested by the Sergont.t-at-Armsof the House Tor con- tempt in refusing to obey the subpoena of the Committee sent to New Orleans to in- the election in Louisiana. No prrtion in the matter will bo taken by tho House until Cassanave and Kenner, the ther two members of the Hoard, both col- mel, reach Washington, which would be l.ikt night or this morning.

Jlpge Jeremiah S. Hf.ack "never peaks but ho eays sorrcthing" original, iiul wit listaudiiig the fcl tuatwhat hedt-s ay Is iKt always endorsed. While spcak- ii.g of the civil b.wcs (uncivil dis- heaven." To use a common phrase, ces would probably be a better nama t(, j3 tj10 "lull-dozer of the Republican i' them) which the adoption of tho com- liavfv. he will signally fail in nccom- promise bill for the count ing of the electoral vote is sure to prevent, Judge Hlack is erditeil with Faying that "eilher side is wi'hnjj to if it thinks tie other won't, but neither fide is wi'lirg to fight if it Ihitiks the other will." This is the whole briefly but forcibly expressed. 4 We lender our thanks to Col.

A. K. Mcdi'to for a copy of the Philadelphia Timen Almanac for 1S77, a most cum pre- L-Mibive and valuable compendium of use- ful information, and containing, among countless other things pertaining to s.uch a an ine results 01 me recent national nnd State elections. It is another evidence tiolls double returns fiom any of the indomitable enterprise and ability of win incluuQ two returns the veteran editor of tho Time, and should fIOm Florida, South Carolina and Louisi-bo in the hands of every man ho desire ana as as ohe from TLe lo be fully informed in regard to political bi express terms designates by circuits, and other important events of the past four of tie five nicrnbcrs of Um Supremo vear. The Almanac, we believe, is furnish- Cou, who are to Ul0 (hl.ics fvft i.f to flip nations of Mm i I The consniiators, according to a Washington siMTial if las nii'tif.

savs the Pi.ts burgh lUtot ruled aB they are tf fifth one. Of have been in the anticipation of defeating the IIouse wi tho Electoral bill, have b-gtin, through i f'ect five of ablest alld most and flwrman, a siege on the Su- Buihhcd as rcprcseiitatives of rre.no Court. They have counseled' the Hir respective, bodies, and four Judges Justices who would be selected of Supreme Court will select the ffth to Announce publicly and at once their dis- nnder of tlle biI'- It most to serve on the tribunal, to the LIie Judge Davis, of Illinois, end that a step taken at this time or JuJS adley, of New Jersey, will be would tend to disconceit those favoring c'-oscn the plan, and would defeat the aibit.ation. Tt is lll5s an anomaly in Thus far the overtures have been rebuffed, 1,10 pclement of a Presidential election in but these will be renewed and all the pow- but there must be, in the in ersof the opposition will b- concentrated revivalof confidence ..11 Justice Miller, to whom the argument commercial and business men ill be advanced that ho hr.s it iu his pow- i of counlry, a peaceable solution of the to jeopardize the passage of the 11 by This icsult cannot bo reached throwing aff.ir; into confusion. I hy nrmed of the s-ip- porters of either Tihlcn or Hayes at Wash.

Th at well known, distinguished and model member of tho House of Peprcscu- ftt the calm, deliberate and latives of this State, Samuel Jo or action of the brave and unselfish Philadelphia, not now having the honor of menibers of both political organizations in a seat in that body, another member of tho w'' love their country more than Josephs last week offered the annual (n this crisis of the resolution Tor the purchase of Pur- llhbc no man, in the language of Ed- don's Digest. This p'undering scheme was pnuui nnrkp. surrender to party rttempted at the hist session, but puV.ic wa ma'ind. Who is not opinion, exrresscd thmngh the papers I 1,1 favor 'mwA peace?" and who but of both parties, was too stiong for the nn C(wal advocates another cruel i civil ft success of the swindle and it was abandoned, As wc aid jint one year ago, if a member I Tho biil a although selfish wants a copy of Purdon's Digest, let him "'iscmpulons politicians, like Oliver P. buy it and pay for if, and not compel the Ju," Sherman and Simon Camcr-Stitte to furnish hi.n with it at the expense n' riosed to it, the from orthetaxpajers.

Under a provision in the i Un, ro-n and coi.Miti.tio... the yet, and ny must 'manded passage by public meet-be recoided on the final passage of U.iH i a commercial cities rvsolution. We will see then who win cinioise s.vai uy tutii votes. 1 O.n'e of the most gratifying political re- I is iu favov of il atlJ WH promptly milts of last week was the defeat, by the liepubhcan Iegisiatue of Massachusetts, of Death ok a Hero. Cideon (1.

Frithey, that intense and vindictive partisan, Geo. ge r'2" 'f Ciimhei land, died hi 1 l- tlmtci'yoii Sunday. Ho wasformcilv a S. Houtwell, for re-election to tho ed riRU 'CowUlclor vn he uJZeLd States Senate. Hontwell was a member Ohio laihoad.

About thirty years auo, cf C'npiess when the foul and wicked 1 while serving in that capacity, he was the conpiiacy was concocted by him. Hen. i His train was running Hutleraul their confederates to impeach Tr iMuin 1 I contained a lot of gunpowder. And.ew Johnson, and played a leading lie pniled he bll-ropo to signal the en-but iPsraceful part 111 that dishonorable ghieer, but it had been bu.ned by the fire. vroceeding: and for doing so, was em- a ex plosion 1 1 it would take place and a wreck of liis train iMlmed imnior.al infamy by I on al M.

Evarts of New oi one of Picsident fire himself. Cli nbing along (lie rapidly hnsoii's counsel. Since then he has moving train he e.Tccted an entrance into been Secretary of the Treas.i.y and United car and fought the lire with i feet and hand. until was extimrnisli- Stales Senator, neither of which po.it C(l aill, the ai( Mopd I ne nexi lid ho acjuire any distinction. He was i station the heroin conductor was found ly- iefeateil OH Friday la'ot, by George F.

jnff car frightfully burnod, both Hoar the present member of Congress badly injured as to cripple Jio.ir, I ll.eni for the rem.nndor nf Lie ur 1. ninth str.ft of that State. Mr. 1 Hoar is a Iwcpublicaii, and was one or the i minority 'Republicans on' tho comtnitleo of Hep.eseidativcg whosignedthe bill, on yete.day week, for the adjustmen the Piesidtntial difficulty. He is a rentleman of acknowledged ability, honest I his views in favor of peace and a iir, legal id honest sett Pi esiJentiul isue.

or tLe I The Congressional l'lan. "I now breathe freer and deeper" was i Hie reiraik of Daniel Wtbster to a Boston audience in old Fanueil Hall on a certain! "'emorable occasion. Applying tLe words tn tlii.ii Ki-skutuct aAidid kti.iti wa rent rft lo a.V lat the people of the, whole country "breathe ficeerand deeper" biuco the re- P01 w0 committees, to devise a plan for ascertaining COV.nling the electoral vote lection for President and Vice President, Submitted to their icspective Houses yesterday week. The full text of this imj.ortr.11t bill will be found in another pa it of our paper, the two communes weie constituted as follows: innate com mittee Edmunds, of Vermont, chaiiman 01 tne riMiiiiiimr, viikiini New Yik, Morton, of Indiana, and Frc-j linghuysnn, cf New Jersey, Republicans Thin man, of Ohio. Bayard, of Delaware and Hansom, Xorth Carolina, Demo-j crats.

The- House committee consisted Payne, of Ohio, llunton, of Virginia, i Hewitt, New York, and Springer, of Illinois, Democrats McCrary, of Iowa, Hoar, of Massachusetts, and Willard, of Michigan, Republicans. It will thus be seen that tho two committees were equally divided in a stiictly political sense, being fften Democrats and tercn Republicans. incessantly, each actiitR RClJSirBtl.ly to a which wollM be satisfactory to the joint committee of flllteeni wUicU as above stated, arrive1 at (11 yrstrday week, when committees held a joint meeting and Llef)1 tlie lin as published. The on, member of the joint committee who refused to sign the report was Morton, of 1 TiiilintiA. rriin l-efinaal of Afoi-too to kimi fiP rrpt of th(J was an ticipatod.

He is a restless but an accomplished political demagogue, and belongs to that peculiar and exceptional class of incendiary politicians of both parties who, if they could have their own sweet way, would "rather rule in hell than servo in plishing his revolutionary purposes, and will soon vanish public view in obedience to the inexorable decree of both branches of Congress, sustained, as it will be, by the overwhelming public BCUtinient of the American people. We cannot discuss the merits of the bill in detail, and will therefore only report its provisions. The two Houses of Congress on Tuesday of next week are required to by a rica voce oiftre of its mem berSi wlo with five Associato justices five Associate Justices of the Supreme Court of the United States, thall constitute a commission of ffteen, w.ns0fillfv it -tn pnsca upon luem, ana wuoso names are ClifTord r.f Maine. t'ie r.ldnsl vsuu 1 1 V- '411 Strong of Pennsylvania, Miller of Iowa, and Field of California. These four nn 51,1 of must anil Kepnbhcans cor.l.ally united.

The bill nej.iioucans com united. The bill will pass both Houses of Congress pet haps before wo go to piess. nd rant declares vill Fri.l.v an- r. V' 'j iv 101 mo tun ips 01 a conductor, but steady employment for life was given him, presents made him and a "truck i i lionor by the company, William Kxozwalked from Xew York down the Atlantic coast, along the Gulf of Mexico, across the Isthmus of Daiien, and Zl uue9, TLat Knwx tbe Btllffinjf oafc of' a the pedestrian feats ire erer heard of. Our Washington Letter.

Washington, V. Feb. 23, IS77. Poth the Democratic and Republican Senators held informal caucuses upon the bill submitted by the joint committee on the counting of electoral vote. but.

uo-thing definite resulted. Senator Thurman explained the various difticulties that had to bo met and adjusted. It seems to be pretty well settled that no serious objection will come from the Democratic Senators. The Republican caucus was more fully at- tended and about the same conclusion was reached, but the proceedings were enliven-ed by a 'mill between Senators Edmunds and Morton, the latter of whom is losing both influence and caste with his own party on account of his pig-headed partisanship. For many days there has not been such a scci.e in tbe Senate as was created by Senator Edmunds' defence of the electoral bill.

The galleries were literally, crowded and members from the Jlouse llocked in until all the seats on the floor were occupied. He showed by a common sense in-tert retation of the language of the consti tution as well as by law that the President 1 01 ine senate i-iiiiu iml then proved from historical precedent that his duties were purely ministerial in handling tho vote. 11 is speech produced a panic among such extremists in his own party as Morton, Sherman, Garfield, and men of that ilk. He rebuked Morton severely for not being willing to rise above pai ty in such an emergency. Morton's crowd, with a view to defeat the bill, will offer sundry amendments, but the friends of the bill of both parties- in the Senate assure ns they car.

defeat all amendments and pass the bill as it now stands. In the House little if any opposition will be rrade to the bill, and it will undoubtedly pass that body without discussion unless Home of the liads. should seek to curry favor nt the White IIoufh by letting off a little wind in opposition to it. Morton presented the credentials of Kellogg lie other day as U. S.

Senator from Louisiana, but. as ihey were signed by carpet-bagger Packard, tho Senate referred the papers of "his own true love" to the proper committee, where they will doubtless repose indefinitely. In the same body a bill was offered conferring the right of Futlrage on the members of the "Old Hens' Convention" by an amendment, No. 16, but it soon went the way of all So the women will have to wait a while yet for their "lights." Iu the House the Indian appropriation bill was taken up, but as the time was consumed in discussing politics no action was had in the premises. The President has declared his intention to eign the "electoral in the event of it passing both houses of Congress.

Mr. Morrison's Louisiana, committee have all returned to the city, but are so close mouthed that nothing can bo learned fiom them, which to say tho least is very ominous for the Kads. The interest manifested at the beginning of tho investigation of our Police Commissioners is on the decline, very few persons having attended the last meeting of the committee. The dispatches surrendered by the W. P.

Teleg.aphCo. number some three thousand and will not be made public for a few days yet, as it will take some time to copy, classify and arrange Very few are of an public interest whatever. It is predicted here that Logan will be defeated for Senator from Illinois and that a more conservative Republican wiil come in his stead. In the examination of Mr. Gibbs, Democratic Presidential elector from Mississippi, no new facts were elicited, aud he was discharged from custody.

The House committee upon an examination of the cashier of the Second National Uank of Xew York brought out the damaging fact that Zach. Chandler had given two checks for $2,000 and $3,000 respectively, to be used iu the Siuihern Mates after the election. Zach's piivate secretary tried to swear the "old man" through, but had to admit that the "r.td man" telegraphed Gov. Stearns, of Florida, that he wished to add that State to the Hayes' col-nmn. This too after Florida had been first declared for TiUlen.

There is no present, prospect of a change of the government's policy in Louisiana. The President has reiterated his former declaration, that he intended lo iccognizo neither government there until the Con-gressioiuil investigation was over, so that he could get at. the truth. The iiiimncnlale Wells, President of the Louisiana Returning Uoard, was on the itness si aud Inst Saturday, but couldn't tell anything in relation to tho doings of the late board, although he knew all about intimidation in 1874. Tho postponement of the Democratic mass meeting until Congress disposes of the "electoral bid" before it is deemed both wise and piudent atnoug ail parties in thisoify.

It begins to look very decidedly as if the Democratic Governors of Florida, Louisi- ana and South Ciiolma must liiumph in the end over their opponents, not by any violent measures, lint by the uresislaUlo forco of public opinion. If the present agreement for counting the electoral vote is decided upon Hayes will lose and the Republican party will fall never to again. The moment the peace tribunal goes behind the returns the monstrous frauds will be laid bare, and even Mr. Hayes himself will bo ashamed of the conspiracy. Senator Hogy told Sherman that Packard "has only tried to steal a Governorship, while Hayes wants to steal the Presidency," and Sherman blushed at the truthfulness of the remark.

Grant only waits for Grand Duke Alexis to namo he day and then he is going to give a siato runner (tone np in style. The ciowned heads of Europe think that Americans live on buffalo beef toasted on a stick or bear steaks broiled on the embers; sit around the lire, get smoke in their eyes, quarrel over their "wiTtles," drink raw whiskey out of tin cups, and after devouring their prey lick their plates before putting them away. Grant is determined to eradicate these false impressions, lie will have plenty of plates, and glasses all round to drink out of, and any guest caught licking his plate will be promptly suppressed by a returning board. The Grand Duke will enter the dining room along with the President and his lady, and after them wiil come the deluge for it is well known that when the dinner bell is rung the American people, impelled by hunger, rush pell-mell into the 'lining room. no dinner bell will be rung on this occasion, but instead a corporal of the cunrd will announce the decision of the President and inspect the invitations of the guests before they enter.

The duties of the corporal will be merely ministerial, and as he will not. be allowed to go behind the face of the invitation, the following influential persons wiil have no trouble in gaining an entrance Mr. Richard Harrington, the safe burglar, Mr. Schenck, Mr. Belknap, Mr.

Babcock, Mr. McDonald, Mr. Orvil Grant, Mr. Colfax, and ot her dist inguished or extinguished ciliz.o.s of like ilk. Such a gathering cannot of course fail to impress the Grand Duke with the high moral status of American society.

Anderson. man and his wife and six children, residing near Honesdale, were recently poisoned by eating a pie that had been cooked iu an imperfectly plazed plate. A father or mother who will cut a pie in eijfht pieces deserves punishment of some kind. The Flan of Settlement. tZX.X, TEXT OF TIIE BILL.

ADOPTED BY THE JOINT ELECTORAL. COMMITTEE. Following is the full text of the bill to provide for aud regulate the counting of the votes for President and Vice-President and the decision of questions arising thereon, for the term coiumencing March 4, D. 1ST7 lie it innrfcA hythe Senate and limn of Tie-jireif nffiMiv tue I'mted Mafia Ameiica in 'ii(i tiMttttrihlrd. That the Senate an.

I of Hepresentntives slmll nieui in the hail ot ti.o House of lleiesentMt.v9 Ht tlie hour of I o'clock p. m. on the first Thursday In FtUruary, A. 1. Hiid Ihe President of the Semite ehtill no their prsidinir oltieer.

Two tellers shall he irevioiily on I lie part of the House of Representatives, to whom shall be handed as th-y ar.j opened hy the President of ihe fe.iHte nil the certificates it. id papers purporting to be certificates of electoral votes, which certificates and ptipers shall be opened, prf nted and Meted upon in the alphabetical order of the States, beiflnn! njr with the letter A. and said teller hav.ap then read the same in the presence and hcariuii of the two houses shll make list of Ihe votes us they shall appear from the said anil the voiea havinir hcen ascertained and counted as in this act provided, the result of Ihe same shall 1'6 delivered to the President of the Senn'e, who shall thereupon nnnounce the sate of the oie and tho tiiimes.of Ihe persons. If any. elect whirh announcement thiill be deemed a rfnfti- 1 cient declaration of the prrotia elected 1'resi- dent and Vice-President of the United and together with a list of the votes, shall ho entered on the Joiirnala of the two houses.

Upon such readiiiur of nny such certificate or paper, when there shall he only one return from a Stn.e, the President of the Senate cull for objections, if nny. Every objection shiill he made ill writing, and shall state clearly ami co.te.nely and without ai vuiiien the ground thereof, and thall he siirned hy at lcat one Senator and one me. uher of 1 tic-House of Representatives hefore the same shull he received. When all objections so untile to any vote or paper from a Slate shal! have hcen received and resd, the Senate shall thereupon wit hdraw and such objections shall he submitted to the Senate for it decision, and the Speaker of the House of Keprese. natives shall it.

i.kc manner submit such objections to the House of Kepresenfat iv for its decision, an I no electoral vote or votes from any State from which but one return has been received shall he rejecter! except hy the affirmative rote of the i wo houses. When li.e two bouses have voted they shall Immediately airitin meet, and he tresidiiir otlieer shall then announce the decision of U. ijuestion submitted. il more one return. purport itir to be a return, from a Slate shall have been received by the President of the Senate, pnrpoi to he the certificates of electoral voles ni on at the last preceding election for President Vice-President iu such Slate, unless 1 hey shall he duplicates of tiie s-tmo return, all.

such returns and papers shall he by him in the presence, of tlie two houses when met ns 11 foresaid, and read hy tie tellers, and H.i Biich returns and papers shall thereupon lie submitted to the Judgment and decision, ns lo which i the true and Inwfnl electoral vote ot uch State, of a commission c.n-sTitntrdas follows, namely: DuriiiK 'he session of each house on tlie Tuesday next ftrt Thursday in February. 1T7, each hoiw shall hy viva voce vot appoint five of its mei.ibers, who, with the fl ve Associate ust ices of the Supreme Court Ihe United States, to he as'ertained p.s hereinafter provide-, shall constitute a commission fur the deei-ion of ail questions upon or it. respect of such double re-turni nail ed in this section. On the Ttiehdav preceding the firt Thursday in February. A.

l. IS'IT. or as soon thereafter its may be. the Associate Justices of the Supreme Court of tlie United States now astdsfned to the First, Third, E'i? 'it li utel Ninth circuits shall select, in such manner as a majority of ihetn deem fit, anoiherof the associate justices of sjhj court, which five persons shall be members of the sa'd ermniission, and the person longest in Ucmmissioi. of said ft'e justices shall tie the President of said commission.

The members of said commission shall, respectively, tako arid subscribe the foliowirur itn do solemnly swear (or affirm, as the ca- may he) that I impartially examine and consider all qiiesUons sulituitted to the eon. mission ef which I am a member, and a true Kive thereon, agreeably to tho Constituiluu aud tlie laws. SSo help tnj trod. whit ti oath shall he filed with tie Pcretary of the Senate. When the commission shaii have been thus onmnize.l If stcul not tie In the power of either tiouse to dissolve thj same or to withdraw any of its members, but if any such Senator or member shall d-e or become physically unable to perform the duties required by this a jt.

the fact of such death or physical Inability shlll be hy said commission, helore it shall proceed further, to the Senate or House of ltep'-esentati es. as the case he, which shall immediately nud without debate proceed by viva voce Tote so fill the place so vacated, and The so appointed shall ike and subscribe the oath hereinbefore prescribed and bccine a member ot said commission. And In like manner if any 01 the said Justice ot Ihe Supreme Court shail die or become physic ill incapableof perfoi m-inir the duties required by this act, Ihe other of the said Justices, members of the said shull immediately appoint another ust ice oT bill Court a member of said commission, and in such appointments regard shail he had to the itnpnri Oity an.l freedom rrom bias sought by the ori'innl appointments lo sstd com mission, who sha.i thereupon immediately take, and subscribe to f'C oah hereinbefore pi esi't ihed and become a of said commission to till the vacancy Bv occasioned. All tlii' cei tiflcates and papers pUi porting to he certificates of the electoral -otes o. "icti State shall bo opened in the alphabetical oMer of the.

states, as provided in section I of this net, and when there shall be more than one sur-h ce. i ificate orpaper as the certificates or papers, from ueh State shall ro tie opened, excepting of the same return, they shail be read by the and thereupon the President of the Senate shall cnii for objections, it any. Every objection shall be made in writitijr, and shnll stae clearly concisely, and without Kiifiiinciii, the if rou ml thereof, mi. I shall he staned by a. least one Senator and one member of the House of Representatives in lore the same shall be received.

When ail such objections so made to any certitieatc. vote or paper from S'ate shail have been received and Itfd, all such certificates, votea and papers so to, and all papers iiccompaiiyiiilt the same, totreiher with such objections, shail bo orl wit lo sum coiuuiissi.in, which shall proceed to consider the same, witn the Sjme powers, IT any, now possessed for that by the two h.inse sctmjr separately or -r, sr.r hv a majority of votes decide whether an and what votts from such State are the votes provided for by th Constitution of the United Stales, and now ma-iv anr! what persons were duly appointed electOio iu such State, and may therein take into view such pe-tition, depositions and oilier papers, if ai.y, as shati by thu Cousiitoi ion and now cxistm law he competent and pertinent in such con-Fideration, winch decision shall be made in writi.ur, stating briefly the irround thereof, a. id tie signed by the iu mt.eis ol said Commission nirreemit thereb. whereupon the two houses shall aura in meet, and such decision shail he read and entered in the journal of each house. Slid the counting of the vote proceed it.

conformity therewith, unless, upon objection made th rcto in writing by at least live Senators arid five members of th" House of Repre-seniaties, the two houses shall separately eon-cur in ordering otherwise, 11. Which case such concurrent order shall uovprn. No votes or papers from tiny other Stale shall he acted upon until the objection previously made to the votes or papers from any Male shail have been finally disposed of. Sr.C. 3.

Tnitl while. 1 he I wo houses shall bo In meet as provided in this act, no debate shall be allowed and no question ahall be put by the presiding olhcer except to eilher house on a motion to withdraw, and he shull have power 10 preserve order. Sko. 4. That when the two houses separate to decide upon an objection that may have been made to the counting 01 any electoral vote or votes from any State, upon n.

ejection to a report of satd commission, or other question, at isitig under this act, each Senator or Representative may speak to such object ion or question ten minutes, and not ofleuer than once but afier such debate shall have lasted two hours, it shull he the duty of each house lo put the main question without further debate. SFr. 5. That at such joint meeting or ihe two housed seats shall be provided as follows: For the President of the Semite, the Speaker's chair; for the Speaker, immediately upon fats t.f. -the Senators, in the body of ihe hall upon the riaht.

of the presiding officer: for the Representatives, In ihe body of the hall not provided for thu Senators, for the tellers. Secretary of the Senate and Clerk ot the House of Representatives, at Ihe Clerk's desk; for the other officers of the two houses, in front of the Clerk's desk and upon each side of the Speaker's plat form. Such Joint meeting shall not be dissolved! until the count of the electoral votes Shall tie completed and the result declared. and no recess shall be taken unless a question shall have arisen in regard to couutm nny such votes or otherwise under this act. In which case it shall he competent for either house acting separately in the manner hereinbefore provided to direct a recess of such houe not beyond tho next day, Sunday excepted, at the hour of 10 o'clock in the forenoon; and while nny question is oeing considered hy said commission either house may proceed with its legislative or other business.

Skc. 6. That nothing in this act shall he held to iiiipsir or affect any right now existing un- iter the Constitution and laws to quesiioo, hy proceeding in the Judicial courts of the United States, the right or title the person who shall he declared elected or who shull claim to lie President or Vice-President of the United States, if any such right exists. SEC. 7.

That said commission shall make Its owtt rules, keep a record of its proceedings and shall have power to employ such persons ae may he necessary for th sictiou of its business and ibe elocution il powers. 2etcp ami Other Xotings. According to the latest returns a ten-pound turnip has been produced in Thom-asviile, Ga. A Kentuckian lias inveuted fln air and by its use a member tf the Legislature can be choked off in the inid-dle of his speech. An old man named Woolivcr was buried alive in a well forty feet deep, while rleaning it, near Mohawk, Herkimer county, New York, on Saturday.

(Jovcrnors Hayes and Tihlcn refuse to express an opinion on the proposed electo ral count bill. Mr. Wheeler is also brJenr, bnt Mr. Hendricks approves it. There died in Middlebury, Vermont, a few days a cabinet maker named Jsa-hvm Parker, in whose shop Stephen A.

Douglas served an apprenticeship. A movement is on foot in New Orleans to have tho ladies of that city furnish midnight lunches for Ihe resolute men who garrison the court buildings of the icholls government. A young woman in Ilochestcr, N. tins sued for damages a man who kissed her. A man who can't kiss a woman without damaging her, ought to pay for his awkwardness.

The Protestant Episcopal Church in the United Sjtates consists of 39 bishops, 2 bishops-elect. 3,111 priests and deacons, communicants, and 20,420 Sunday- school scholars. The 'onnellsville Monitor says Mr. J. F.

Connelly, of that place, has invented a method of stretching bo tier tubes which is of the greatest service in repairing the flues of boilers. It is said that one ounce of cream of tartar dissolved in a pint of water, drank at intervals when cold, is a certain, never-failing cure for small-pox, and iil cure the worst case in three days. A wonderful temperance revival in Pittsburgh and that neighborhood has made 10,000 converts, and the excitement is growitig. Ten churches ate crowded nightly by enthusiastic meetings. The Potisville Stitndard remarks, in connection with the attempt to put the militia of this State upon a war footing, that It is "about time the people of Pennsylvania sat do on Senator Cameron and flattened him out." The CatholicIChnrch in Eng'andjowes much to the Vaughan family, from whom have come seven priests, three of them being in the episcopate the Uishops of Salford, Plymouth, and tho Coadjutor of.

Sydney, rsew South The work of extinguishing the fire in the Lykens mine is progressing rapidly, and it is expected mining operations will be re-commenced at an eaily day. The loss by the fire wiil not bo nearly so heavy as was at fu st supposed. It is more interesting than important to know lhat Henry Ward Ceecher does, not approve of the electoral bill prepared by the joint committee. He thinks the president of the senate ought to do the counting, It. is much the simpler plan.

Secretary Cameron, is going to marry i Mrs. Miunk, the widowed daughter of Judge Jeremiah S. She is forty years old, handsome, clever aud accomplished. Her t'ust husband was the son of the old Dutch (Jovernor of Pennsylvania. The eniian Protestant orphan asylum, situated ten miles from St.

Iuis, was burned on Thursday night. All the children weie safely taken from the building excepting Eugene Lang, six years old, who erished iu the fhimes. Loss not ascet tabled. Tho Centre Hall Reporter says, llr. John Myers, of Htiblersburg, is seventy-two years old and the fat her of thirty children.

He has been twice married. His first wife bore him fourteen children and his second sixteen. Eighteen of the children are living. Jno. It.

Evar.s stole a ride on a coal train on Thursday. When at Walker's Mills, near Pittsburgh, the train parted and he fell upon the track and was instantly killed. The deceased was o0 years old and leaves a wife and four children in destitute circumstances. Ohrwles Snyder was tried in Meadviile last week, and tho jury brought iu a verdict of minder in the second degree. Tbe crimes charged against him were almost beyond belief, being, among other things, the murder of his illegitimate child, of which his own daughter was the mother.

There are iifty hot springs nl the town of Hot Springs, Arkansas, a bunt sixty miles from Little Rock; temperature from 110 degress to 150 degrees Fahrenheit. Tiiey break forth from the west side of a mountain, and flow into a creek, which empties into tho Washita river, six miles distant. On Saturday moaning Frederick Grae-bel, convicted of murder in the second tie- gree the killing of Edward Finch, in Pittsburgh, on theCth of Nov. last, during i tho passage of the Radical procession, was sentenced hy Judgo Stowe to nine years and six months imprisonment iu the Pcn- itentiary. i A brute living on Elizabeth Xew York, attempted to throw his wife from the fourth story window of thetene- ment where they liven, on Wednesday i i 1 oi-iil, uui mic tiling tome coping till a party of men ran up from the street below.

secured the man ana lifted the womau iu, when site immediately tainted. Oc Sunday morning- a largo br.rn, two iles and a half from Worcester, vned by William T. Brown, was burned. mi OWI In the barn were nineteen head of cattle, a horse and three pigs, all of which perished. A complete outfit of farming tools, twenty tons of hay, carriages, wagons and a large amount of grain were also burned.

A woman at West Pittston, named Parrish, assisted by her servant girl, Bridget Martin, was guilty of the horrible cruelty of putting the bare body of a child, four years old, upon a red hot stove in punishment for some trivial fault. The two brutish creatures have been arrested and will be tried and punished for their monstrous crime. A Trappist monastery is to be established about three tniles from Buffalo. There are already two houses of this severest of all orders in this country one at New Mellaty, and one in the vicinity recently returned lothatcity afterahoise-of Baltimore. The brethern eschew an i- i back ride to San Francisco.

He started on mal food, converse by signs, dig their own graves and worship at most unheavenly that is to say, unearthly hours. A dispatch from Chicago announces tho arrest, in that city of S. C. Claremont, alias Holland, the bank robber who escap ed from jail at. Chambersburg while awaiting his second trial.

Johnson, his accomplice, is nowr in prison, and his friends, who are said to be people of influence in Chicago, havo been anxious to secure the recapture of the greater criminal. Ephraim Huschelpeck. of Upper Pitts-ton, made indecent proposals to a young woman named Mary Finnegan. which she resented with proper spirit, when tho scoundrel drew his revolver and fired upon her. The ball from the pistol entered her chin, making frightful wound.

It does not speak well for the neighborhood that Hus-cholpeck still goes around uninjured and unj ailed. A marriage recently fook place in Centre county, by which a lady married her nephew and became mother to her nieoe and stepmother and- aunt to her daughter-in-law one uncle to her children becomes their prandfather.another a brother-in-law their cousin becomes half sister, and their nephew and niece now become brother and sister-in-law. and her hrothor in-law now becomes her father in-law. Leonard Harper Johnson, of Virginia, has devised 3 new relij-ion, bast-don anew Bible of his own composition. This pretended of divine will constitutes him a hih priest, with a light lo claim one-tenth of the income of his followers, and to have as many wives a lie can get.

He has secured three wives, but no other fojloweis as yet, although be preaches hi very eloquently. The house of a man named ells was ie-t roved bv 11 e. near nentlslnn. in Anne All. Arundel county, the other day.

A f- of Phil. l'-v terttiA fire. liabv six months old L.w.1 1. U.v missinir. The parents concluded it.

had child and his been but nt tip, afterwa.ds found it small piece of htid wrapped up in a featherbed which bad neat tWo story 1 wry been thrown out of a story indow. things appeared tot-oiT the youthful "returning 'ward was per- family mansion Icctly well ana not a tutscaieu. dent to those 'tr- H(. An aiticle in the Louisville' Jrcninn Xcirn asserting that overtures hrd been made by Governor Hayes to ex-Sccmlaiy Ihi.stow, intimating that in the event of Hayes' inauguration and his friends would be vindicated, led to a personal altercation between Mr. ISiistowrand Ed wa id Polk Johnson, Ihe city editor of the AVfr.

in which friends had to interfere to prevent fisticuffs. Ibiatow denies and Johnson iisseits that the publication is correct. It I urns nnt that Commodore V.mdcr- 1 bilf, though in comfortable circumstances, was not so i ich as he was supposed to be, It seems, after nil, that lie was worth bur. iuelu.iing his clothes, tihicTi is some '2. 000,000 Icks that the sum at which his fortune was generally estimated.

A fcaiful shrinkage certainly. twenty-five millions from the t'oitune of; almost any of the rest of us, aud we would scarcely have enough left to build a narrow guage railroad. A fanner in Lebanon county while shriveling snow near his barn a few dys drove her airo found thiity quaiU liozento ilcatn. Other instances of such discoveries have been noted in our exchanges, and great numbers of these biidsmust have perished in he snow. The Nort hiimbei htnd county Oame Protection society offeis twenty cents per pair for all healthy quail delivered to any of the members at Sutibnry.

Their object is to feed the birds dm ing the winter and release them in spiing. Mansfield Island, in Lake Erie, has been bought by a man who intends to stock it with black cats, and kill their progeny for their fur. He ill feed them at fiist on fish caught off the shore by men who will live ihe island but after the enterprise is well started he will utilize the meat of the slaughtered cats as f.wxl for the living cats. We also read that a Georgian is making ati extensive business of raising dogs, tanning their hides, and selling the leather for glove aud other pur poses. Hut not so with Ames.

The wife of George residing crowd dispelled whci I'? on mountain, near Lewis'ouig. saddled his 1 i-. whilst returning home from a visit to daughter, recently took a mountain and missed her way home. Her absence being discovered, seatch was made, and she was found frozen to death a short dis tance from the house. The snow was 1 the head benten down around where she lay.

and scratches were found on her hand and arms which are supposed to have been made whilst fighting her way thiough the ci Uot of the "iot, The dead body of Charles Collins, Chief Engineer of the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Kiltoad. was found it. his house at Cleveland, Saturday morning, with the appearance of having been lifeless fit twenty-four hours. One revolver was held fast in his hand, while another and a razor lay nearby him on the bed a cane of undoubted suicide bv sluoting. is supposed anxiety on account of the late accident at Ashtabula had made him deranged.

Mr. Collins' family were absent at the time of the suicide. The lottsville Cy.roniclt says: "Mrs. Ilonora Lynch, the last thirty years a resident Ileckschersvillo, died at that place on Sunday, at the very old age of ninety-nine years. Her husband was a Pritish soldier and paitieipated in Ihebt- i tie Waterloo.

Mrs. Lynch accompanied his regiment as cook, and wa present in that capacity at the battle which proved the downfall of Napoleon. The old lady i retained her mental jsiwets until the last: and many were tho tales she could relate of that campaign. She leaves foity-twoj great grand children." The shower of snakes which fell at Memphis ou tho 16ih inst was nt a mat i ter of fiction on the part of the Associated Press agent. It c.ime to him as well at- i tested as any fact not personally known to any agent.

Some of tho best ex- hibited the reptiles to the editor the I Lfdjcr of Memphis, and that journal gave the phenomenon publicity. The Idjcr of Saturday says: Specimens of these snakes which fell in South Memphis timing the i recent storm, have been forwarded to Prof, i Henry, of the Smithsonian Institute, at his request, for examination. i A Nebraska paper notices a man and wife whose combined weight turned the pounds. He weighed 40 and tho ifly 'VjO pounds. Ten children have been bom unto ihem, seven of whom are now living.

hl honest, respectable citizens. With pride owes the old gentleman point to bis offspring, and especially to a iiinefeen-year-old son, who kick tl.e'bcam at 200 pounds, stout as an ox. and as good- I naruied as his father. Hiseatii i 13 enormous, and each day adds I to his avoirdupois. A six ye eating capacity something year old eirl weichs over a bund red, and tho remainder bold out in the same proportion.

I A bouse occupied by Joseph Eichter, near onnellsville, on Ihe Baltimore i Ohio railroad, was dest royed by fire on last hurtful ai worn Wednesday night. Hichter could not be ttite new in its sb ad found after the fire, and it was thought 1 that he had perished in the llames. but it. has since been learned that he is at hid mother's i evidence, a short distance from Connellsvillo. It is not known who set fire I to the house.

It was vejorted thot some of the employes bad a hand in tbe affair, in fact that it was a Mollie Maguire out- rage but the rumor apnears to be mi- I founded. The building and oxxls royed were valued at about $(5 K. -Captain illard Glazier, of Boston, 'ho Oth of May, lSTft. and reached bis des- tiuatnn. on the 24th of November.

The actual number of days in the saddle, was 144, which gives an average of twenty- i eight miles anil seven-tenths per day. The Captain tested the merits of S3 hotels, farm bouses ai ranches, and made spe- cial visits to 100 public institutions and places of resort. He killed three buffaloes, eight antelopes and twenty-two praiiie; wolves, was captured by the Sioux, killed two of them, escaped and came East by railroad. The Pittsburgh 7f tells of two extra- i ordinary runs made at the Edgar Thomson Steel Works, at Braddock's, last week. I The usual run is 4C2 rails in twelve hours.

I but on Wednesday Alexander Campbell i turned out 540 rails in eleven and a half1 hours. There has been some good at tired rivalry between Mr. Campbell and John i Little, and when the latter heard of the wondeifnl inn he laid himself out to Wat it, and on Thursday, with the same mini- i ler of furnace, anil the same ooinpleine.it of hands he turned out rails, each 30 feet in length, in eleven and a half hours. This is tho largest run ever made, and Superintendent Jues, as well as the employes, feels no little elated thera. At present theie are about 600 men employed at these woiks.

An A MOXtTKR Ml-RPEUs WITH 1IKK SlsTtt, lTZ HIS nil.D THE E4D BODT AND LYNC, AJU Hou. The St. Jooj)h 18th eives iM, riw A I iraireoy nc ir Ah.v,v ao-oss the hue in 11 V. Ameses n'd 1 14 si.onin or. in other toe iioueiioiu WasSfWtpn.a 1 too women.

11..... growing up bet at, only equaled bv an ai fstig between ij.r. in.lfiTv. rli that the wife i iit-eiccieu aim jell her sister received '1 of the pased alone, having- hoc rliiifl fi l.i-f.,lit il I13. summers, wlio ching ti 1 existence she apjaTi being.

At on 'yU la-r, the little ciiiM died. It was biitied country burial, a C--V lealless trees r.tul in ei1, the mother's spirit Tiien it was that th Cain appeared to tn .1." husband. He fiom is U(1 re .1 occupy a miserable i the kitchen floor while the place whit-'i 'Vx- I tb wife, driven to fi. of l.er to Ti. -f she hiid the .1,1 V.f.

IlllSi a' the men of the 1. 1 i i ii ti.euia Thej visited the b-m-f. r. 'S Sii-v. ti IP iii.nK his wife, who went 1-' ooj; i o-mi; In 0 I the man ho had so her sister, at the rst sought safety in flight, listened to the moved the roj.e tLe fL.Vu I ei inn.

i tee. I To airy but a nin this would have a won. a nave ttirn.l turn i her i with a heavyciiib tii iX I hi- path, ing and at prajer, j' sence her dead chiUi in her wife. In a-i instant In Ins Icet ith the caic tiT. i the s.

i the below, vhfivli'c tier with the biid.e i In the meantime the i-isx-r from Ler hiding ph.ee. saddled, the boey t.c-J thrown across th- sr, rising noise w. Ames walked a. .1 in position until they iiii-re a c.u bniy thriis- out ef sciir. At-; retuiniug hone ti." to the liver, ar.d I tlement toid what he of armed men stattetl ia ivtd at the rive; j.isi and his para nr.

or v. crj ra horses. 'I hey weie c.il.til rs-n when Ames drew a rtTj'-ve: mi 5 the crowd. Tbe tlr. and the ev.iTy tr.e.iv; -J her lioise, shot tiiioiih man put spurs li is 1.

a' .1 to escape in the tk. hut brought hi animal -i v. ri was captured. A i pe all the t.ecesai atiCi frontier fuuei.il. a the cu-f ar tnriti tt it in I -it i.

and he stated wife adnimistt i nitce iu older t'ct 'i 'jtef: and that thty weie of the -ife, that tla-j r.is: ed together. In ti by the mob of a fcv. lie be then killed 'he in; lit The rope was throw a men pulicd at vil instant a snivel ifsr Ihe air. A nunilt i 1 together. In 1 the t.f he t'-vo v.

in their mirist. A v.r'i the aiul al! th 1 the spot and tt Tiie bo.iy sf ihe rt u.iivu-1 iv Covered --side of her ikud ruR.ivic r.Tf; -disease bv pra.lti'il the coiislituti. ii f.c's. important ie- diseases, which 1 ave COUlitiC. it must re 1 to l'r.

ill hi by a r' solvent process a bloo.1 lih pi.l:i'' to make anew 'lie I ser's I. "ing ('live 'T enables the 1 -n 1 1 in i tic is thercbv a work in utiNoti fl" Kevser's treatise en Lad f.ee at his i Pi ice of I.utigl" half I.aloral "ry, "t'1 I' His private cctisiil; avenue. r- u- "1 S'" i "P.1VN' IN TH'J I. IS a continual or. ri'i of Ihe month, ih irtiM'i.

tion of the tvt'il hawk tin, spi'finj. Rlw.ut the head, he simple niM. V'4' ar, seonrpe nf this nt' I 'on Ill t't Cl. I' few bo'lh 1' 1,: ill C'l; i i v. Ill T.i' 11- M- should le i i'i civ.

These sta-el i-'' i.i.r'i -( lias lieeu ntt 'ii success. A f'd I il'si-ii--rational treatment Peoph-'s Cotiiiii4'" a IkmiI; of over tiit" 1 e.t te.l with wn cravito's, bciiii.l i i I'ii'' meni. World's 1 -P- Attorney no asst4ssiU'S are liciptl eleetio.w Tiicsil tv. February ed in the Snrin l.in.- fonstitlltioll. 1 Monday in April, rhosen in the preeeiP.n4.

Imlticted into thereof for a U-rui '-t lihituta. rt, lKr The rcsi.leni'e e. I- yi fild eou.it v. was f-w davs the firo tics- i neral I I. 1.1 "4 II' I.

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