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1 STtje Ptttsoargl) Cotnmcrctat 0atuvbap, 0cptcmbcr 9, 1871. SONG TOR A FAMILY REUNION. STATE EWS. EVROPE. RAILWAY MATTERS.

SlTI'KDAT, HBPRMBKI tSIl. Hll'l lll l( STATE TICKET. FnoM the re-port of the Bureau of Statistics it appears that last year petroleum was the fourth article of export from the I'nited States, the total value being nearly thirty-six millions of dollars, and exceeded only by breadstuff's, enttoa nnd coin. When it is considered that almost the entire exports of petroleum were from Pennsylvania the importance of the product as contributing to the wealth of our State is at once apparent. And yet it is secondary to our mineral wealth, a statement which suggests the immense natural resources of Pennsylvania.

siiowiNo tin- desperate straits to which the men who aspire to the control of the National Government are reduced, the latest eiploit of the New York King deserves to be mentioned. For a number of days past a certain printing firm of that city has been engaged in printing pamphlet for one of its customers, containing nn expont of the financial operations of Hall. Connolly, Twsrn and Sweeney. This coming to the ears of that noble qnartette, some scoundrels, supposed to have been hirelings of the gang, the other night, after the establishment was closed, surreptitiously entered the press and composing rooms of the firm, and tampered with the type forms as they lay on the press, making a nnniher of alterations which entirely changed the sense of the matter. The firm subsequently learned that OaMN had, through a third party, made thAge two egtrmea may fh ex'ra-: gy or the last foor month te Ml raff The Tichborne i Inlmsni.

The TlchMrne ciHlrnant creates a gr-t snsa tion wherever he goes in A Livrp-t his hdglngs wen consmntiv Hurrtindrd oy a ro. rtous throng, and when he app-re( at the wsndws great cheers were set up. Managers of theaters la rte Mm to accept boxes. All trade nQi aflW-O ma hiio dows, but so rar he does nor. oaaaa to i-t PM dfa-agrecat'le attenlloiis wear on htm.

ilU facets Tat and and he is tn contluoa! g'Kfi humor. Theie to BO restraint placed on his mov-enema, though he is well aware that private deteouvtw foe-low him like shadows. ItHshfn Arminii in Haste -The athwIIe Re-lornintlon In f-ermanv c. kc. A letter from St.

Fetereburg says the Russian Government has of late evidenced the greatest anxiety to complete the reorganization of the army, and the conversion of Its armaments. Large oraera for guns, and mitrailleuses, and projectile have been given in England. America and Beiflfcun. Some orders have also ieeo given to manufacturers the French departments, but in ail cases the stipulation has boon made lor speedy delivery. Moreover, work is carried on day and nignt In the arsenals and dock yards at Su Petersburg, Cron-stadt, and KlcolayefL A letter from Baden saya at tbe preliminary meeting of old Catholics at ReideUsirg, Fruf.

Htiter apologized for the atwence of Prof. Frledrich and lir. Von Uoelllnger. Mr. Anton, of Vienna, Informed the meeting that there ts every reason to expect success in Austria.

In four days after the publication of his address he received communications from more than 1,000 families la Vienna who agreed with his views. He hopes to be able to form a congregation In the course or a few weeks. Letter had also been received from Silesia, Styria, and Hungary, expressing warm sympathy with the movement. The Austrian movement proposed to lie rapidly pushed forward, and it is expected that it will be completed by the first ol February. The Pennsylvania Company will then operate the road, paying over to the Pennsvlvania and Delaware Company ail the excess over actual expenses.

IN BKIEF. We learn from the Greensburg Hermit that the engineera have completed the location Of the Southwest Pennsylvania Rail way. The various proposed routes along and adjacent tn the understood direct route, have had a thorough, practical examination; nnd to satisfy all parties interested, and the Company, accurate locations or the line have been made of all the different divergent portions, to determine the relative cost of each. A meeting of the directors was held on the 29th when maps, profiles and estimates for the entire line were submitted, but have not yet been made public. A project has been started for building a road from Philadelphia to Newtown, Bucks county.

The whole of the route is through a rich agricultural region, thickly settled, and through villages at short distances. Several streams are crossed, possessing vast amount of power for manufacturlm? purposes. There appear to be no insurmountable engineering difficulties on the route, and the road could be built quite as cheap as in any direction in the State out of Philadelphia. We learn that the pnipositton is that the citizens on the line or the road will raise 000 in stock subscriptions the road will be built, the remainder of the cost to be raised in Philadelphia. No instalment or the subscription is required until the road is surveyed, put under contract, and the work actuallv commenced.

Therefore Newtown has one more'ehance ror a rai iroad, and we trust this time we shall not be disappointed. The Miramar Railroad, between Shtppenshurg and Meehanicshurg, has been put under contract, and it is said the work of building the road will commence at once, A force of hands will commence simultaneously at both ends Meehanicshurg and Shippensburg. The road Is to be put in running HMOi per mile, and completed in eighteen months. A meeting of the Farmers' ami Miners' Railroad Company was held in Franklin a few days ago to elect officers. Thecompanv have a charter to build a railroad from Franklin, through Butler county to some point in Allegheny county.

COUNTY POLITICS. New Depnrlnre in the Episcopal Church. A new litieral movement, of some Importance when considered In connection with its probable results, has Is en Inaugurated in the Episcopal Church. It appears that for some three years a number of distinguished divines, of this country and of England, have len jointly engaged in revising the hook of Common Prayer, with intent to exclude from it those passages which had given rise to controversy and contention In the church, and to so frame the work as to make It acceptable to Christians of all denominations who desired a litargy. This work, alter much consultation and labor, has just tieen completed and published.

The vestry and congregation of Emanuel Church, New Y'ork city determined to adopt It; and last Sunday being agreed upon as the date of the ehunge, the rector of the church, before commencing the morning service, explained that It had ninny been his principle, while counected with any organization, to yield obedience to Its laws, and that, consequently, although the wishes of the vestry and congregation exactly coincided with his own, and although the new ritual appeared to him tn every way scriptural and right, he hart felt it his duty before adopting It to withdraw from the Old Communion, In which no such change of liturgy would lie legal. He had therefore addressed tetter to the Bishop of the diocese, resigning his position as a Presbyter of the Protestant Episcopal Church, and requested hini to erase his name from the list of clergymen under his charge. At the close of the rector's statement the services were proceeded with according to the revised ritual, the congregation apiieaiing greatly pleased with the changes made in the old form, suit responding with great heartiness. It is stated that a large number of influential clergymen have Indorsed the new prayer hook, as tending to bring Christian people of different names more closely together, and it is likely that lhe example or the rector and congregation of Emanuel Church will in time be widely followed. Sliollr Itrbukrd.

In nn age when snobbery and siioddyism have it pr ttv much their own way in "society," it Is extremely refreshing to untie across an instauce like this. A number of young ladies, school teachers of New York city, who had been spending their vacation at a seaside hotel on Long Island, were in the habit of participating in the parlor -heps," which of course constituted an Important feature of the eve-nUig's diversion. A recent fashionable arrival in the person of a lady who was wealthy enough to buy out the whole establishment, however, caused a change in the programme. The lady objected to association with school teat hers, and the latter were requested to refrain from joining in the dance and like sensible young ladies they are, served their own dignity by refusing to enter into a controversy with the lady of "many stamps." But tin- circumstance corning to rhe knowledge of the landlord, he laid the subject before a lady guest 01 superior inn-Uuence and hih position, who spcedi'y reversed ortaroJ the dancing parties, and the name of the la ly whn bjM lhe society of IBM hers lias been dropped from lhe roll of the fair revelers who as--seuibje ar the parlor "hops" in that hotel. "Served In right" will be the remark oi every true woman throughout the country.

The llenllh ol tliircn iclnrin. lloferniig to the sirlctnres on tyueen Victoria, based on her alsenoe from evening eniemuiuients. and on her brief residence In (JMoa, the EMMl says: "Now the fact is -and the more widely this fact la known, and lhe more plainly it stated, the better her Majesty is not capable of tiearng the effects of crowded or over-heated roinjs, or of prolonged residence In London. The effort of entertaining in the evening pro-luces great and Immediate discomfort, followed by sleeplessness or disturbed rest nnd severe headache; and Her Majesty rarely visits Buckingham Palace without suffering in a similar manner. The pnifesnion will readily, It bout our entering more fully into so dell -scale a subject, understand the necessity tor Her Majesty's medical advisers exen islng the greatest diligence lo prevent the recurrence of these symptoms.

It would appear as if some persons must for-izet that lhe yueen is a ladv nearly fifty-three years if age, for they talk is If they expected her In sens the same remarkable physical vigor ami aerve-poner exhibited twenty years ago. Huraia in The poisoning mania would seem to have sprung up in Bugland, an extraordinary sensation having recently tseen created among the visitors in Bnghnm. a fashionable watenn' place on the South Coast, which at this aaaaon ot the year crowd -M to over, flow lug. by the receipt at their homes if poisoned chocolate creams. One boy died, and at the Inquest a Miss Edmunds volunteered her testimony thai she bad tsmght creams at the same shop, istic was sir, ssqut-nily arrested, under suspicion that she had the creams throughout the town to up her own crime ntt uiptinsr.

the wife drs tor with whom she wan infatuates! Miss KdmumU wa quite friendly in the doctor's family, and one morulas put chocolate cream In the in out of ths-doctor wile, who spat it out because It burnsM aer. Her volunteer testimony at the boy's Inquest was caiefnlly watcheil by the doctor, ami on Ins repre semntioDS the indy was placeil under arrest. The discovery has causes! the wildest excitement throughout the town. A I OBelu-ivr Ti the rnliimbioise Air Brake. The Boeton says that as the first train from Providence to that city, on Saturday last, was approaching a curve, tie- tz: s-r sns the track HMWtf walking toward hi lie whistled an alarm which she '11 1 riot heed, and when within one huudresi Awi fifty feet of her nppn--1 rhe YYestlngtioiiae air brakes, whb-h stopped the train within ten feet of the woman.

The train was running at the rate of twenty-Ovc miles an li uir. lt wa- brought to a dead standstill in going one hun dnd and forty fesi. states! that a short time previous the same engineer saved rhe life of a -ittle child in precisely the same way, by the use of this brake. A nt'table feature of Its use is that in neither Instance were the cars stoppesl so susldeniy as to alarm ihe passenger or even to tftrm ts that anything wj- On- ma'r- r. Ilnmesstlr Kxpnrts for Ihe Kiss-nl Year.

Monthly report No. 1 of tne Burs-no of stntisris-s, just sent to press, contains the statistics of our for-s Ign commerce for the flm ai year ending -lane 1ST1, compared with the sxirresponding period of 1S70, The following comparative table sh ws the ml.xesl values of the prluclpni domestic products exported sliiruig ths-se rs sportive years: Three thousand memtiers of ta Howe family assembled Frannnghain, Massachusnts, last Thursday, ami Mrs. Ward Howe wrote for them the following melodions song of welcome: The year that flings her htaatnM wide As niw-ndt hrifts cast rlieir (aid, Colleen, her ripened fruits ivilh pride, I-rem Summers rie.rv mould. I li- winged seeds are carried far. On their myster.u way: I Ins hininlli the pelarstar, his 'neath the tropic ray.

Kven thus the souls ol human kind, On will's srronitcurrent tly. And their appointed limit liud. To la 1 and fruciiy. But love has blown tlis blast to day, Beneath Hie glittering dome. That we should teei within his sway The deathless joy of home.

And this one comes from desert wastes And this from sunny isles. And this one crowned with sorrows hastes. And this one crowned with smiles. Blest was rhe freedom 1 nat enlarged Our youth's unfolding powers, The daring impulse that surcharged. With lite, our pilgrim hours.

But happier yet. the sacred bond That doth our presence cLiim, That conjures memories lull and fond W'ith one ancestral name. Freedom and love are welded both In ties of kindred blond So let us, thankful, pledge our troth To human broth orhood. UENEKAL AM) PARTICULAR. Preparations on an extensive scale are now making tn New York for the grand demonstration of the workingmen, week after next, tn favor of the eight-hour law principle.

All the Trade Unions will turn out on the occasion, and two speakers will be invited from each of these organizations. Mr, Arthur Cur-ran, of the stone Cutters, has been appointed to act as Grand Marshal, and Mr. William J. Chairman or the meeting to be held in the evening at the Cooper Institute. Horace Greeley will be one of the orators, and possibly Wendell Phillips.

From present indications, it is saTe to say, the demonstration will be the most imposing of its kind ever witnessed in New York. It Is stated by the Vrrite newspaper that for some time pat a large number of priests Pans have allowed their In-ards to grow; the annoyance to which they were subjected during the Commune having, it ts supposed, led to this innovation. What the new Archbishop will say to the practice ta not yti known. On the eastern slope of Clark Mountain. near its summit, there is a perpendicular ciill 2T.0 feet high.

At about MM feet from the base of the cliff, on its fiont. are engraven the characters 1 1 l. The cross and letters are of immense size, being iully sixty leet height, and cut into the cliff two and a hail ftet deep so that chey CM IM pl rncy -ecu at a distance of five tulles. Hy whom this workmanship was doue is unknown. The fact, however, that the letters are the lcoman character, arm are proceeded by the figure of a cross, arOQki make it appear that it was done by the Jesuit missionaries, who were known to have been in that ragaoa many years ago.

The Indians knew nothing or its authors, nor have they anv traditions concern mg its origin. A slngniar and beautiful Incident occurred at a fum ral in Cape Ann the other day. Just at the conclusion of lhe services over the remains a white dove suddenly made its appearance, and after mak big the circuit of the apartment, alighted upon the tUMM) of the rector ho had conducted the exi-p ises. There it quietly remained until removed and property cated for. It did not belong to the family, but a.

ttie property of a rieljrhifor. who riptides on the -an street. The dove has ever been considered an emblem of peace, and appearing did this one, at such a time and under such peculiar circumstance. awakened pleasant emotions In the hearts of ail prv A strangprwho but oceastona'l? visits New York will recognise the Battery in tu present con dition. The walks, utajui tree are quite rural iookmg, while the work ot construe ting the act pier is Ik Ing pushed forward rapidly.

Already twelve thousand square yards of mud have teen takeu from the bed of the river, and ten thousand square yard of dumped and leveled In its place, Frorts wi'l made to have Congre-w extend the additional ixmntv act granting lxunttes to ho die re acting tiecond Auditor thinks it a fea.inie and just measure to allow the delinquent claimant further Uroe in which to present their erideric. En-ke's comet, one well known to men. and which is visible about every thrr' years, ts fur by the professors at the National Gfiervatirt early in the fall. The indication re that it will be tfo as to be favorable loonnerYaUima. Thee tfenth nnen are at prwut engajr-d ottverving two iie au-roHl discovered by Prof, peter sa I'r sW atson.

A farmer in sn Bamardino county, California, a Drid of ramie plants, and wtii nw fw, -m roots for alter the crop ha ln gaihred. it ts raid that almost any kind of RMMfc sandy, dry m-u pn-duee the pi ant and thai th-- fro to the hnght of seven and eight furnintf oat two or more crops per year. A ma-hine has (tern constructed for preparing the fibr- f-r the market, and it will not be long, therefore, before onp-ortuniiy will afford tott the morn prnjed qualities of the plant, by exhuming it tn the web of goods ready for msnufaituie hy the ner-dle. A Keiito man who attempted to rrnm a high rant cad brMge at bpherdtvti.e, v. days since, MuisOb-d and fei; between thetla, hut ft manage! tu graap a tie with his hand and there hung dangng, with one hun dred fet-t of sfat-t ti W'ueata him.

4le was utterly unable to regain the top of th bridge, and he ing on tth a death grap until his ne nrousht tAt- A tujti his pt-r-ious portion he was led off th tifldge. apparently overcome by the dafiger throgh which be hail passed. Then he gtt up. a be o.j go home, walked a few steiw, gajfl fetJ to the ifixuad ad. FbyaieiatiS.

who have carefully au iued his ixly. nay tnat there was no bruise or wound sufficient to disable kirn, much leas csi tenth, and arc of oj.tnivn that his death was auaed by right. Ttie IleWhoren Cent'xary, it 1 called, whth oo.d nd be -eiettrsted ace ant of the war last ear, when the century wa ha been rved at Ivmn tn Germany with great pomp. It was maugurau-d tn the Keat-halie an the evening of iiot when the in- rie toy it who has played a prmlnent part la the N-w York greatly fa Una ting ihe nda of justbe If his straightforward has bmm property reward ft Tne Preaideat of the MIM -rd and Superintendent KfeH have openeI an i lor him In one or the Having Acftntentn of men to he hetd in Mu 1 olis the SSd emlrai iug from ai-m' every State in the Vntou, The propiaJ for the gatherius ongmstd sme time ajr in Kansas, and the ottjxt is to dtacusa matters of importamx' tu our newly citizens. uue of tne quetitns to iiect ded ts sn reiatiot.

tn a general holiday to he ot-rved ech year In cotnmenmor Jiui events -i with the emancipation ot the race. The proprietors of the Stfvr Islet mine in Lake Superior, it is stateil, have teen sucecMfu! tn flnd-tiig upon the mainland opprwite ttie island the asm vein of ore hi- has pnvei astonishingly rich in tin ir present mine. It was dls overed at a depth of sixty feet below the snrrace. From Mslver Islet ore the value of has been taken in armt ten months, arid ttv vein ae-ms to grow ri' her the deeper it is worked. Tnere is no letting what stores of mineral wealth are laid up In the rocks and mountains around Ijike Superior.

Two interesting agricultural enterprises are tn progress one th cultivation of oranges tn California, and the other the eaiabiiahmeot of au olive grove (n the St. John river in Florida. For California it In claimed that fully twenty five out of the tilty (I outte In the State are admirably adapted to tin production of oranges. Trie gentleman atwat i.ncertake the plantinif of an olive grove In Florida is Gen. Van Vu! ken hurgh, who ta sat I to Ik? pracl cally aetiuidntcd with the cultivation of that rut t.

and to have Rent abroad for the choicest varieties. It as long the persuasion of a citizen of mth car ollna who bad traveled nr c'i abnl in olive producing countries that tin- western part or his state was admirably adapted to the same purpose, and it ihe Florida experiment succeeds something tn the Kiit.c way might attempted tu those sandy 'lis tricu South Carolina iying Just east of the Savau-uflh river. A remarkable mortality among tub has treen re-ixirted this year at arto is points along the ae oast, und even In the inr.erhir, the creatures InvarUMv f.nilng to the surface apparently in trreat distress, and there dying; anl so curious a nlffniMMBWUHi I I often repeated must te set down as one of the lesser marvels of the year of portents, V8t The gulf stream, whl' created such a sensation In New York a year or two since, is said to be again eddying close tu the of that, city, and ha brought with It quantities of that famous southern Babaffe pompauo, fonnltig a novel addition to the tiah stalls. S' -vera! years ago there were in New York city two very beautiful Italian young womeu, not related to one another, but each of whom traversed the streets with a sturdy organist. Both of these girls and lhe men will: whom ttiey had their busim-H mail- good round sums of money, and all of them retired from street life some years since.

They each married their rcsiective musician, and are now. one in grocery with her huwf.nnd, the oth-T a small fruit store. The story Is told in demonstration of the fact that the Italian organ grinder is not necessarily the thriftless, lazy being that some persons are anxious Ut make him out. It is stated that wtthtn the last ten years paper has substantially superseded the coin system which previously had been in use In Japan from tunc immemorial. In Indus ant in China the same change, it is argued, has been effected, by the Fn glish modes of finance, the people of the Fast having become accustomed to ttie credit system.

As improved Governments have taken the place of the irresponsible despotisms which formerly ruled over these countries, ttie uatlvea, it is reported, do not indicate so strong a disposition to hoard their earn ings, and consequently the. general circulation has increased. A marked result of this expansion of the cutrency Is to be seen in tiie decreased importation of Specie Into the Asiatic countries Irom the western nations. tatim In July a tornado, accompanied by rain and hall, swept ihnnigh a portion of HocKingham coun ty, Virginia, tearing up trees and destroying everything in its way. Many fields ot corn were entirely deMioyed, and the hal! in many places fell and drifted from live to seven feet deep.

A creek was B0 tanked up with hall that the tjshes became frozen and were picked up along the banks in great quantities; jut the strangest of all ts that apple trees orchards were stripped of all fruit and leaves, and now have a new foliage heavier than before, and the trees are perfectly white with bloom. One large apple tree was only partially stripp'M and now It is full of bloom, intermixed with large and nearly ripe fruit, and trees that haduot borne at all, neither had bloomed, are now full of bloom. A COLUMitrs dispatch says: "Dr. Dawson visited Colonel McCook at yteubeuviHe, and in a letter dated Wednesday, to Judge Thu na.it:. aajs that, tie grave symptoms presented in atcCooK'i case t---n dan since have almost eutirely disappear ed, and the i.oi-tor has but little doubt but that a tnooth 4 quiet and rest will give him his usual health.

Tne doctor ays he in-lieves. however, that it would not be safe tor Mccook to engage again in the labors of the campaign, as an active participation in it would eer-lamly retard the convalescence, now so proini-iing. Private advices received from Andrew ti. Curtin, American minister at St. Petersburg, state that he taapetxHng the summer in St.

Petersburg, contrarv to the usual custom of foreign ministers in that it, who eeneiailv take a tour on the continent. Tne ofiiciaf duties of Minister Curtin are performed by nim In person always, and his relations with the Imperial lamiiy and court are of the most pleasant Character. Councils have taken steps to procure a hospital for persons atiUcted with contagious diseases. Mr. Kdward K.

Denham, of Salunga, Lancaster county, has a tobacco stalk, four leaves of which measure respectively as follows: 45X30, 41x2 containing altogether 3,541 square inches. Mrs. John Dorian, residing at Dorian's Station, on the Wayuesburg Railroad, was so severely stung atxmt the face and head bv bees a few days ago that she is hardly expected to recover. An old German named Gensley, TO years of age, who was convicted and sentenced in lMi." to eleven vears and four months' Imprisonment tn the Lancaster County prison for the larcenv of a number of chickens, was pardoned on Saturday, having served about half of his term of imprisonment. David Carpenter, of Ick Haven, recently found a tour bladed pearl handed knife in a fish which he opened.

There were 253 deaths in Philadelphia last week. The entire cargo of Texas beef, 150,000 pounds, brought to Philadelphia by the Fire Fly, was sold in twelve days. The grand jury of Norrlstown have reported ttie "lock-up" of that borough to be an unmitigated nuisance. They say, "We leurn from some of the Olli-cers as manv as forts men, women and children are locked In there together, the rooms thus occupied U-imr nine bv twelve feet ami eicht hi twelve feet, and thert remain mg. ttier ai! The following figures show the number of deaths from disasters In the anthracite region, as compiled by the Seranton fffjiaDlflwiM, not including the Lackawanna district, where the great companies operate, statistics for the latter not.

isdng attainable. The Repvhiiran advocates the establishment of a permanent fund for the relief of widows ami orphans left destitute hy mining casualties: Killed. Widows. schnylkll! District 112 72 Northumberland 14 7 Columbia 2 1 Dauphin 1 T. M.

Williams's Dial I l(ll 25 SO J. T. Evans's District ft 4 Orphans. 252 20 I 60 IS 102 T.ast winter a German family In Warren, named Friedeman, were all made sick by eating raw pork, and one member died, the medical men afterwards discovering the cause of death to have been trichina. A few days since another child died from the same cause, a mlcreiscopical examination revealing ereat numbers of the parasites in the muscles of the victim.

A litrge hawk, apparently In quest of chickens, met with a singular fate InJetreraon county a few days ago. around the iarn of Mr. John i oiTrcan. in (ia.Mklil township, and finally lit on the twvint of n- of rhe liarhtntnir rds, descending with such velocity a to force the sharp point through its body. While it was strnirglinir to free Itself number of other hawks flew around it.

evidently sympathizing and offering their servleea. Ground was broken at Downlngtown two weeka -iiiice for the founilatlon of a woolen mill, whch, it ts said, 111 be the largest in the Fnited States. The dimensions are given at feet long, feet wide and seven stories high, and it Is to emplov about 1.200 hands. It is being hmlt bv a company at Dowrsiiitftown. but will be operated bv a Philadelphia firm.

The re-ad judical ton of the KSBMM by the burning of CtaHnbatatMm taa baa competed. They aggregate about fsiii.ot-o. and claimants will realize about ft per cent, from the IMMt appropriation. Cai In Davis wss killed in a well near Corry one lay eek, tw a bucket full of stones falling on his head and crushing in the skulL Of the murders committed the T'ntted states during the year ending May 31, flfiy-flve only sre credited to Pennsylvania. The wife and two little daughters of a miner Bennett, were drowned at Fairhaven, Luzerne county, a few days since.

One of the children fell into the reservoir, and Mrs. It and the other lost their lives in trying her. During the month of August 4.fi7J foreign ami a i mini tit for the aame perhtd last year having Seen Mlfc The annua: convection of the Allegheny Evangen-ai Lutheran si.k1 ta being held at Altouna this reek. ntv dn i season MM the A Greenstom rorrespondencA the Waynesburg an says: A rather romantic re an ton took place recently near thts place (etwe'-n a Mr. -k and hts wife, who, after living logeth-r for some time, had a quarrel stoot the bat-t and fl'w apart.

he taking the child and living with her father fr iu-rti years, without any witr( her us- i ni, who was only three tin tea away. TtMQ floalty aaet aud borted the hatchet, and now they live -gether peace. politick, Spr--(i It-Mt- fc tr "tnmrvkkL Ita aa, Septw The Rrpttthit'-atts Heaver eivant eana.gn by a meeting lti the Court r-ise evening. The lue was rmwdeif. not ev r-fu -iug Tif -ig was a1 and ehKnenfly sddreaaed by Dr.

Maoton. Ke .1 ntt. of He i aalte, and TVa Hi. of lm4'Ursh. aH of wixm were em bea red.

'H lieputicana claMI one ti nty lor stnton and Beath In Kcavei partv thtw who laitta he list Cathi-Jtc tp -t si not u'd as Uen aul who all the lttlMi ai u-s -d bv In the ftrfct rf the new IH 'f rhe lne- ratfr city ttve protert, -muig th! trf the iter mem tiers "ikteea are Inah athoiKa. Ti temtersm men of I Aneaster coanty will hol-l a miMm c-tiretdmn, the ct! for which atal its c)ert te "to nominate ran It laea alt of-v: Eiied id lAneaMer unty, at the eltnoA, or so many of them as the qui e-m propt-r 1 i to 'it TrXem if the mth -v- moral! aid matertai prosper Tf eafcM -t by such atmmtratin of gov-mment as win dt-njinish it rmrdens aivl increase Its as wrii a itMe who deatr the tileased mt notions of th' hnr h. the Kaltfi and the aeftxMal, prteeted prtre jjiwIji at wr with humanity apidi a Cbrtauan age. The Iteptit.cahs of lehigh csanty held their --m mating convention at Allen town Monday, aiet eiecte! the tic Wet Aaseoib.y. Kenteo A.

Mftt and J. It Mauar; late Tudg, hane ft Uh I.strtct Attornev, W. J. Lockenbarh Htoartlf, IMyder; Treaairer, B-ulamm J. lis-g tit'U Hecorder.

fnaepfi llecicr, i nnimtutonfr, Tttrstn Italllet rXsa- IHrwetor. Iavid Itaoner. AoJI-tor. John llottenstein Trust? if As'lmr. lt.

C. ag and James Hmgmaster. Keaolutums the Fetterai and Slate wovernmenta, approving the pfituy of protect loo, and favoring a ci.natliutiotUfcj were ad'i'- The i fKtnty Iahr Reform Conventirm of Schavl-klll count? eotiv-ned in Pottaviile on Monday, and mad the folio win nomination Aserab.rf J.ihn Parker, Jamea T. Kelly and Stephen Ht tiger: fVt-r Wsli; NhertS, John hitn OMBffty naiilMiiiM-r, Wm. Uoyd: thn hw ftr the Poor, ttn Ttie of lawJn-ige, iMstrict AtUmey, BtMMM aud County Suneyorare left open.

Major John Cum mines has teen nominate! for the Asa inbty by the lk-mo ran of -nyder county. IXr rrtM aav The Iem'cratic ptrty to Penn sylvsnia this year finds ttaelf crippled in Its re-soun rft, and for that reamn weak In it canvass. The plethoric purse nf Tammanv has leen drawn upon for the last time. lAst year It lent tte Penn syivanta lHmo racf mwn and money the era before and the second on the day of election. Sc'lomon Ihiukeitjerger, of Utile Matianoy town hip.

Northunderland cKjnty, is said tn tie the only Republican in the township and the onsy msn who canned and write. On this aconnt he is chosen Justice of the Peaee by his Democratic fellow -em-zens, 00 the principle of an "independent judiciary." Mr. Wiinam McCandiess, lemrK-ratte candidate for Auditor fenerml. will address the lemoTats Payette eonnty at Caiontown tomorrow evening. The )u of yesterday says: The county Republican Commlttw met in i- r-tr on lat Satnr-tlay aftcrnmrn.

Nearly all of Its ruem tiers were present. Au luterthauge of opinion develujKNl the fact that little, if any, dssafTectton exists In onr ranka in ibis county. "After arranging some detmu. the committee adjourned, determined on going to work, ati'i securing for the ticket a regular oid-fai-hii md Republican majority." James Johnston, Secretary of the S-ottish Anti-Papa! I.cajrtie, wrote to Mr Gladstone to as. to iy eategorii'aliy, first, whether he is not a Roman Catht He, and seeond.

whether he did or did not, during a visit to Crfn sme years ago, go down on kMMM In the tret. kiss the hand of prlt'st, and kneel within lhe alter rails of a Jesuit Church "like paity pitrtuklng In the htirh service." Mr. Gladstone i otiiiHdicted the sUines. but Mr. JohudUm was not j-athdled.

He wanted to know whetfoT tht were wholly false-in effect ttHtimatlM that Mr. (iladetime had not told the whole truth. TO tbta BO reply was vouchsafed, vsWHan Mr. rrs-BBWhaatly publishes the correspondence apparently that he has at elicited the coudemna tory tact that Kffgtandf premier is a utiau Catholic, Mr W. W.

Corcoran, who lay for weeks at the verge of death, has returned from White Sulphur Sprtr.gH to his home tu Washington, nearly recov-eied from his threatening malady. The Rev. R. W. Church, rector of Whatley, Horn erscMiire.

who has been appointed to the vacant Hennery of St. Paul's Cathedral, London, after a distinguished career at the Culversity of Oxford, took his degree, tn flrM-Hass honors tn 1S36. and shortly alter ward became PeQ0W of oriel, at that rime one of the most coveted distinctions in the 1 nncrsity. In IS.4 Mr. Mtirch published a vo.ume of essay.s," which stamped him at once as one of the Bloat cultivated scholars and otic of the moat graceful writs or the age.

On the l.Mh Jerome Ronaparte, of flail 1 1 HI MW, win le married to Mrs. Edgar, of New Orleans, granddaughter of Daniel Webster. The bride elect ts the mother ot three lovely children, and is a beautiful blonde of very youthful appearance. The groom ia a handsome bachelor of forty more or less and a grandnephew of Napoleon I. The wedding will be strictly private, and take place at the residence of a catholic Priest of Newport.

Roth parties represent immense wealth, Jerome Bonaparte being granoson and heir-prospective of Madame Patterson Bonaparte, of Baltimore, Md. Mrs. I.ncinda EL Stone, of Michigan, who Is chaperoning some twenty-six young ladies now traveling in Kurope, writes; In many of the hotels in Ireland we found women acting as head clerks, and doing their business with dispatch and accuracy. The change in the appearance of these clerks and directors in hotels is let the better. Au expression of more general Intelligence has come over their faces; they understand you more readily, even though you may not speak the vernacular of the country, or call things hy the names they give them.

But every where it Is to be remarked that the girls and women understand a question much quicker than the men. une noes not near troni tne gin waiters, i oeg pardon, ma'am," with a blank look of not compreio nd-mg the question, nearly as oiten as from the men employed to serve at table, ami tn the various capacities of hotel service. Noting the arrival in New York of Colonel Thos. A. Scott, from Richmond, the Mail aaya he "has nd been elected President of any new railroad for several dajs." He has been in Virginia looking Vlter the Southern connections of the Pennsylvania Central.

A correspondent from Rome, writing to the Frm.k niter Ztitunn, which is well known as an extreme Liberal organ, says: "Among the foreigners who are now here Is Mr. Seward, formerly Secretary of State in the I'mted Stales of America under the Presidencv of Lincoln. It was he who formerly recalled the Minister Rutus King from Rome because Pius 1. would not allow any American church inside Rome. Mr.

Seward ih said, looking up to the window of the Vatican, tit have exclaimed, -Now this gentleman ran BO longer make such prohibitions against It is positively asserted by the personal friends of General Butler, who have been la this city within the last tew days, that his purpose is to run for the Governshlp of Massachusetts whether the RpublMan Convention nominates him or not. In other words he is in the field, self-nominated, against all comers. Plurality elects. John Omncy Adams will be the Democratic candidate. BY THE ATLANTIC CABLE Spntenee of the Female lncendlarie tsgr OaCaaaatsM Between Thiers and Chevalier lirn.

Pahih, Septemier 5. The trial of ttie female in-eendlarie-s Is concludeil. Four are sentenced to death, one to imprisonment in a fortress, and one to ten yeanf solitary imprisonment. The journals say Thiers and the (3iuvaUu Nigra, the Italian Minister, have had an aiufry cQajoOpaffoa over the partictpatiou ol Italy In the Gastein conference. Removal of the to Pari I'nder (onftderaiia.

WWHTTTXM, September 5. The deliate on the removal to Parts win be continued to-morrow. Rouher has accepted a nomination to a seat in the Assembly made vacant bv the resignation of Deputy Ahbatueci of Corsica, In his favor. Another Gottl Mine I'iHv Miners Hurled Marquia of Lome lo he (overnor (General of India. Lokoon, September 6.

President Thiers has appointed Due de Aumale Governor of Algeria. It is reported that the Marquis of Lome will be appointed Governor General of India. The Marquis ot Laiwdowa will succeed the Earl of Spenceas Lord Lieutenant ot Ireland. A dispatch from Dublin says that McCarthy, one of the constables wounded in the not, is dviug The Queen is still ill. There is one case of cholera reported In LlverpooL A dispatch from Naples announces that Mount Vesuvius has commenced to emit lava.

A terrible explosion occurred this morning in a coal mine near the town of Wigan, Lancashire. Some fifty persons Who were in me seam oi ue mine at the time of the catastrophe were cut o(T from communication with the outer world. It is feared they have all Is-en suffocated by the foul air. A party has been sent down to ascertain the condition of the men who had leen hurled alive, and who were still in the mine. It is thought that they have all periKhed.

The neighborhood or the disaster is thronged with the relatives and acquaintances of the supposed victims. The scene is of the most heart-rending description. Condemned ostsiUDlMH Appeal to the Civil Courts. Paris, September 6. The condemned Communists, except Lullier, have appealed to the Civil Courts.

The rVnZe, recently suspended, has reappeared, under the titie of Ttte CunHtitutUrn. The trial of the Communist Rossell has beenap pointed for Thursdav. The vacation ot the Assembly begins on the 16th. Boursres has tiecome the military center. The military school at Metz will be moved there.

Plntform of the KntllNh epubliran Earl Oerby ou tbe Land tueM ion I irm ion to Ihe TiiHed State. LOMpGat. September 6. The Republican Committee of England have to-day issued the programme of the party which they claim to represent. It embraces the following principles The application of the principles of federation to the kingdom the abolition of titles and privileges: the suppression of monopolies; the abolition of standing armies; com pulsory education; the State to provide work for those laborers who are able to work and sustenance for those who are incapacitated from work; the nationalization of land; popular legislation and diha- slon of republicanism.

Karl Darby delivered a brilliant speech on the land question yesterday at Liverpool, on the occasion of QK opening or the exhibition of the Man Chester and Liverpool Agricultural society. Fifteen royal held battalions passed in review at Addershot yesterday, making a splendid appearance. Fifty more workmen brought from Germany as suttrtutes lor the striking miners of New Castie-on-Tyne have struck on the plea that they were engaged under lalse pretenses. Kighteen thousand emigrants left the Mersey for the United States during the month of August There as an aeeideut to-day on the Western Railway near Reading, in which sixteen persons were injured. A Bnteb of Denials.

VEKSAii rjfc. September 6. The report that the Duke D'Aumale has been appointed Governor of Algeria is denied. The rumors of dissensions between the Governments of Italy and France are denied. The Government has informed the municipalities throughout the country that they will not be allowed to petition for the dissolution of'the Assembly.

King Ainadeus Anions tbe People. Madrip, September 6. King Amadeua, who Is still journeying in the provinces, has granted pardons to many prisoners, visited several bull fights, and taken various other means to make himself popular with the people. Ttie system of trial by jury will soon be introduced into Spain. hsnao in Ihe Itnlian Miid-t rv.

RoxK, September (i. Tflefoiiowing changes in the Italian Ministry are officially announced to-day: signor V.nceust enters the Cabinet as Minister of PabtftB II oks, in place of Signor Godda, who is appointed Prefect oi Rome, and will be entrusted with the duties of the transfer or the capita! to this city. Signer Rebotto is appointed to the Ministry ot Marine as the successor of Rear Admiral Acton. Iratb of the Grand Vizier. const ANTisopui, September 6.

All Kibrasli ratliO. Grand Vjzler and Minister of Foreign Affairs, died last night. General IgnatiefT, Russian Minister to thts country, has returned to this city after a lengthened absence. An Knuli.h Vcaael l.o-r, London. September 6.

The bark Cojrier has been est in th- typhoon in the China sea. Her crew.com posed entirely oi Chinamen, perished. Tbe Strike at New I a -tie Arrival of tbe Re inain.s of Keufot lb Sixiv-uine Person- Kilted by the Kxplowion at Wiarnn. London, septetiber 6. The proprietors in Nfew- astle are sending in every direction to obtain men to fill the places of the sinkers.

Fresh workmen are arriving in considerable numbers from Cornwall, Ioiidon, Norway and other quarters. Some lactones have been able to resume operations with taheir lorn. er activity, although nearly 4,000 old hands have left town. Ihe remains of Renforth. the Tyne toatman, re at bed Gateshead to-night.

Thousands followed the coffin tn gHottOG to the house of the widow of dot aWL The funeral takes place on Sunday. Four plate layers were instantly killed bv a rail way accident mmW Seranton, on the Preston and arana railway. The number ol killed by the explosion at Wlgan is Msiy-iJine. The scenes around the mouth of tne mine were heartrending. The Imperial Conference at Salzburg Sou.

mania Snubbed by Germany. Berlin. September 6. The Provincial GwswpawA-nasi is confident that the Imperial Conference at Salzburg will stengttjen the friendship of Germany and Austria. It is paid that the German Government, replying to the Roumanian note, again reminded the Cabinet at Bucharest that Roumauia was not a sovereign state, and was not entitled to correspond dtrectiv the European powers, and it was moreover, that us note had been communicated to the Forte.

The Salzburg Conference. September fi. The Emperor of Germany, accompanied by Fnace Bismarck, arrived tonight, lie was received by the Emperor ot Austria, who was attended bv a brilliant suite. The sover-1 gns conversed together for a quarter of an hour. A grand banquet was given to night, at which their imperial majesties and distinguished of both Empires were present.

Tbe Nevtrafdie Strikes. London, September 6. A large meeting was held at Glasgow to-night in support of the stnkes in Newcastle. Resolutions calling for a reduction of the total Off the day work to nine hours were adopted. lie hall was crow ded aud good order prevailed.

Relations of tbe Italian Minister with France Alsatian Emigration Bazatne Has aa Audience with Thiers. F-vBis, September 6. The Bien Publique insinuates that the intimate relations of Chevalier Nigra with Napoleon render his position here as the representative ol Italy untenable. The Assembly has adopted a bill laying the burthen of losses caused by the war on the whole nation, and providing for the Immediate distribution or lOJOJfftM francs among the suiferers by the insurrection of the Commune. The league for the deliverance of Alsace and Lo-nune announces that tt will continue its labors, but has modified its title to the Sootetj for the Promo Hon of Alsatian Emigration, Thiers gave Marshal Bazatne an audience to-dav.

which lasted over an hour. The Marshal has ap-ptaredbtfore the committee of military lie made a speech in defense or hi conduct the war. attnbuttng his failure at Metz uWniy to lack of ammunition. Francai savs that officers of the Italian army are traveling over French territory contiguous to Italv, and studying strategic points, in order to 1 prepared in case of a war with France. Not Proceeding Satisfactorily.

Fakis September u. The negotiations Tor the of French territory by the German irooj are not progressing smoothly. Two Mm Kxploations at Wigan. Loniion. S' ptemter t.

There have been two more csploMon in the mine ai Wigan, and the shaft has bees bricked up. The FViaofajW Famine The People In a Dcplor-ubly Destitute State. Nkw Yokk, September 6. A correspondent of a London paper, writing from She rase under date of June 23, says: The famine in Persia may now be said to have almost oosae to an end. but the distress caused by it will continue for a yet long time.

The price off bread has fallen considerably, but all property of the pwrer classes, excepting only the most necessary ciothes, has long siuce been sold or exchanged for bread, and it is but too evident that starvation will be the fate of a great many more. On the road from RoSfeffre to Sherase, one can see at many places half interred bodies. At a earraansary about thirty miles from Sherase, many people, it is stated nro hundred, died of starvation in about a week. Kaseroon, a town eighty miles from Sherase, Is half depopulated. Many or its inhabitants went to Sberaae.

Ilushrie or other large towns, and great numbers died. On all the roads and highways crowds of beggars in the last stages of destitution waylay travelers. Sanguinary lights, often resulting in loss of life, take place over the carcases of mules, donkeys or horses which have died on the roa 1, and robberies with violence are very rreqnent. At Vezd and Gland Herman the famine raged more than anv where else. In a letter dated at read ou April last, it was stated that corpses had been resorted to for rood, and eight out of twelve cases of children having been killed and devoured by their parents were enumerated.

Since the Shah has heard of the result of the late war he feels no more confidence in the officers now instructing his troops. He savs a Prussian officer or none, and a Prussian officer he wu: have. Prussian Colonel is being or has been engaged instil into the Persian soldiery the strategy of Marsha! Moltke and perhaps Btsmarckian annexation. An Engli-thnian'a View of French Affairs Thier- Bold in the Assembly. The Paris correspondent of the London T'UgrapK, under date of August Sh, says: We had yesterday by far the most exciting scene in the Assembly that I have itnessed since the deputies met In February last.

The question was the dissolution of the National Guard. M. de Meaux made an excellent and practical speech, very conciliatory, but not sparing the plain truth when it had to be told. After Vicomte de Meaux rose, Thiers, never before, ia my opinion appeared at such an immense disadvantage. From the very first he went dead against a majority of certainly two-thirds of the Chamber, and almost without to offer any argument in favor of his own views, he stated broadlv that the Executive alone was the judge as to when, or how, or where, or in what measure the National Guard should le disarmed.

He was at first almost hooted down, and retorted bv telling the Rijrht, Right Center and Left Center that if thev did not respect themselves, thev ought to respect the man whom they had placed as chier of the executive department. This deplorable exhibition ended by a curt declaration on the part, of Thiers that if the As-semblv did not on his question vote as he wished, he would at once resign his position. That a man of of TTier's parliamentary experience would even dare to transgress in such a wav the first rules or constitutional government seems alike incredible and incromprehensible. If the ft Him hi could have tamelv taken sucn a flog ging, and, like so many naughty children, sumnitted to be put in a corner, and that upon a measure on which I deliberately assert all Frenchmen except those who look to revolution as the future pameea for French troubles, are of one mind, then adieu to all ideas of parliamentary or constitutional government in France. We talk much in this land or the ex-Emiror and his faults of policv but I am certain that in the most palmy days of the empire ffL Rouher or any other Prime Minister would never have darej 10 attempt to commandlead is not the word the Corps Legislatif as Thiers did vesterday.

Au impartial looker-on at passme event's in France must, I fear, come to oulv one conclusion respecting the present state of affairs; that the statesmen of this land have somehow got to be what we call "soft," and the French term wa There exists among all classes a deplorable want cf moral energy. The people of France are now divided into two grand claws: tnoae who wish for order at any cost, and sacrifice duty aud hard work lu grappling wdh difficult questions, and those who deatre tevoiutiun. Only by regarding the poflttfcotol in Till FIRST RAIL. Special Dispatch to the Commercial. Fort Wayne, September 18TL To-day the first rail on the northern division of the Cincinnati, Richmond an Fort Wayne Railroad wan laid.

The iron will be put down as fast as practicable. "CIKClVNATT AND K0CKP0RT RAILROAD. Cincinnati. September ft. The old Board of Offi cers of the Cincinnati and Kocfcporl Railroad was re-elected yesterday.

It was determined to receive bids on both lines; also on the route from Rockoort to Jasper. NOT TO BE FORCED INTO Tl ANK RFPTCT. H. A. v.

Post, of the Indianapolis, Cincinnati and Lafayette Railroad, in reply to dispatches from Indianapolis that they had asked that the rallrosd company be declared baukrupt, states in a card to the linz' ttt that the dispatches are calculated to place them in opposition to the settlement recently offered. Thev are in favor of ttie terms offered. and urged the creditors generally to accept them. OUR FIRST RAILWAY. Books for the subscription of stock of the Law-renceviile and Evergreen Narrow-Gauge Railway are now open.

Although the project is one of the most recent, it has taken practical shape, and the road will be pushed to completion at an early day. Subscription will be received at J. J. Gillespie A No. Wood street, at Schmidt Friday corner of Eleventh street and Penn avenue, the Arsenal Bank, corner of Butler and Forty-third streets, and at Graff.

Bennett A rolling mill in Mlllvale borough. THE ATLANTIC AND GREAT WESTERN ROAD. the Clv(dnd Herald. 1 At noon or Friday, September the Atlantic and Great Western Railway, with all the property connected with that organization, was formally transferred by the receiver to the trustees under the reorganization of the company. The transfer took place at Akron, and on Its completion, the three trustees.

General McClellan, Judge Thar man, of Ohio, and Mr. lmncan.nr New York, took possession of the railroad and all its appurtenances in behalf a the newly organized Atlantic aud Great Western Railroad Company. The new organtzat 9i com; rises all the variousf classes of bondholders, witti the exception of a portion of the tKmds held In Holland, and so many of the stockholders as signed the agreement and consented to the scaling down of their stock. It Is believed that by far the greater portion of the stockholders have come into the arrangement. There Is no oppsitlon to the scheme on the part of the bond and stockholders who nave not come Into the arrangement, they merely hfSffsflUtff tn take their rbances outside of the arrangement.

Th- Dutch have ttccn paid tnetr overdue Interest, and are now working in harmony with the new organization. The ateeltttottfara who stand outdo so bpcaaae they think the Investment Ih good, aud that after the tsnds have all been provided for there will be more value left in the common stock than ts allowed ror it now in scaling down for the new organization. 'i he trustees who now have temporary control of the pre pert during the perfectment of" the re organization, will probably surrender their trust within thirty days to the company, when General will income tta President. Of the other details ol organization It would lw premature to apeak as yet, other than to say the arrangements are such as wm guarantee the efficient, economical, and UwrOHgluj satisfactory working of the line to the beat interests of the proprietors aud the public. The future policy Of thecompanv Is to be a wise lltnjr-Hhty In furnishing fa -ilitles for the prompt and Rat iwtnctory dtapatoS of all the huwineas offered the nn, i.o ruaiiT now great mat may and especially for the rostering Of the local interests along the line.

All arrangements with the Erie Railroad Companv ceased at noon ou Friday, and the two lines are now merely connecting roads. This, however, wii! work no inconvenience to the traveling or business pubiie. Via will have ihe same facilities as before, to say the leasi. Important GtaSflNM are in eontem -platlon, and will be commenced at once, the object of which Is lo make the Atlantic and Great Western independent of the Erie, whilst maintaining friendly with it. A few of these changes we can iiidit ate, others in contemplation It is not yet proper to announce.

The hrat step, to tie taken immediately, is the laving a double track (narrow gauge) with steel rails, on the Cleveland Branch (Cleveland and Mahoning.) This is rendered necessary by the Immonae business, local and through, pouring over the line he-twfn i-avutshurg ond Cleveland. At the asm a utne the roiling stock will be enormously Increase ao bat the business offered the line, now very largely in excess of its capacity, can he promptly and satisfactorily done. 1 to rstlf taken up fr the Cleveland branch will s-d towards laying a third rail frawi Lea it-tabu rg eastward, so that Mima, gaiiwa nia oan pass over the main line east of Leavltuoanr Arrangements have already teen perfects! with the Philadelphia and Kne Railroad, bv which narrow-gauge raffle between Cieveiand and the Atlantic cities can paa over tee Atlantic and Great Western to Corry. and thence over the Philadelphia and Erie and lis naaMAa itnea fVmiii ttkmi will tie made with the New Y(rk Centra! also, either over ttie Buffalo divtslou of the Atlantic and Great Western, which in that case will bar or 'eterl ithout delay, or over another hoe in a urse ut construction. With these ar-i-.

r. rtfnpttid, the Atlantic and -ret rMr rn mW form fart of a narrow gaure line by way of corry, Narriat'tirg and PhtUde'-phia. narrow gauge KM faff wy or Buffalo and the New fork Central, and a broad gauge line by wav of the Krfe. Th building of a short link, twelve or thirteen ltd Irs. from tne Mahoning line GO the BaJtlrnnre and d-ln r-itenhm.

win open a new and short roata oe-tmeec Cleveland. and Wahingtoa. Other peoJrVta arr romrmpiafed, hy arhich, without great expei iiture of capital, new outlets and feeeri wc urrd to tfar line and ita vaine enhance-i. AJ these i ians, when carrle! into effect, wH ue dl recti rner.i to ie eland. aw sn tthosc Ttie and Mfutng Register has an articl-on the aiove ia whu'h it aaid aRpted tne jf ihburg aad Tyrone ts Dot oke upou vdh favor hy the tn hat ltauta ot Vailef and I nioa county, he- The ui-lc- ai: tlie wav of re- aUdig ue of their henshed hopes, namely, to up up their country oy a eol grand trunk through line from New ork Ut the treat West.

Adopt narrow -cige. tney aay. man-, keep a iiirrv utrdtuateor Imuit rwi Ui the Ivnnsy Ivanta etitrai. The Aqptialff ihru atfaowa that no railroad odt tlir'Ut! that region can con-pet with groat rout tftwreo New V'rk and the West, owing i the difficult topograpy of the anthracite ivuBiry. Any approach frr-m the hu t) doea follow up the uquehanna fnmi Harti-'t'Urg must he crooke aaf difficult, co-ac? oudd and Rtorv etwtry to run.

lo Pennsylvanta.it soya no straheht railroad ta except auch a-nin lengthwise of the va'leya, tnat from nortneaat ti wnthwei. aaMM Ban wrist te roads: lor they start nowhere and end nowhere, unless th lie two trunk line together. a roi mut Ai 'e the ew LewatTrtin and Tyr-me, A mo-l riant nan: a long deated link in ttat rettnstitania system: an road for a and growing dlafriet of the tKit an par any main through route between the anahSMaw ami the West. It dtvlsthtr into thre parts: an eastem division follow mg up the ontcropa of foaalt ore of Jaok's and the Ruftao Mountains, running a DUieaoWfe of west oagJHe diviidtdi along the gorge of rVwn creek tftjwvwjl MM ruointalns mv Brush t'altey. running n-rth cf sett, and a main wetern dtvfcuoo.

following Bmah and Ntttan Vaiieya, with their hmeatoae ait-a: tJej.tn and sat brown he ir.te d-p runntrg aouthweat. A branch w.i: ba thrown out rtrttiweMWrd am sua the eol of Nittany 'untaia ate, to connect with the Saowshoe road orer Haa egheny Mojunrains, and it ta 'inite pnuuttde ttit it SrH7wh- road may And it it interest to i hange Us prewent gauge three feet, ho a rntj Mj OOJ IewiatHirg and lanvtiie. or, at ai! events, to ihe iron furnaces in Ndtany viiey. 1 he importam-e of the Lewist-urg and Tyrone RH-POSal ttea in Its loilowtng two of the newt important noli ore utvn-ps whh we have tn the State; snd tn effecting the ctmneetlon between tth the bard ut the wift oais and the fonstl, the Ilmonlte, aawJ the cartMrrrate ores. When tht nwl Qmshed.

i-ite iron making region of lVnnsv Ivania wilt Im i 1 1 piete la aa It never has teen. It muat iiiftantiv feel the of the conjunction of ore and fuel, and expand us powers of production accordingly. jtincNstch or TBa panroKO skp aaiTK.ceoitT. Ttie Bedford fivTnti says that the "extension of the Bedford snd Bridgt rt Railroad to the Maryland line ha- teen let -six ml tw lowry A Williams, two two miles lo.leremtah Crowley and one mile to Lee A lirother- the whole at a cost of about iV.ihW. The work Is to tie pushed to completion asrapidiy as possible.

The Cumberland and Pennsylvania Rallrad ompany will extend their road so as to connect with the Bedford and Bridge(oti at the State line. The (vby-ct of this extentkm and OOMkaottBtt is to reach the Mary laud eal Qeld with a view ot competing mth the Baltimore and Mtno RaiirtKtd in ttte carrrmg of coal to ihtlalelphia. New York and The new route will have the advantage of that fia Baltimore and uh Railroad, lu distance, by about thirty Hi ilea. BOTTI.KU VP. the Wahtngtnn SUr.J The Pciiiisylvania Railroad Interest seems to have driven another nsti in the coln of the Baltimore and ohm company.

As the former combination virtually controls the lines between Baltimore and Philadelphia and New York, it uow refuses to carry bet we these poiuts the freight brought to Baltimore by the Balt'iuore and Ohio tine from pMKta in the west which are reached lu common by the connections the Pennsylvania and the Baltimore and Ohio roads. The result is that New York and Phil-iMhiphta ft eights insight by the t'entral tihio branch i the Ba'timore and dno road to the tmlo river, ot-1 ad ol tietng brought in bulk across the hp lend id new bridge at P-ellatr, and ao over the main stem of ihe line, have to take the Clove laud aud Pittsburgh toad at that place, and reach their destination Wm Pitlf-burgh and llurrtf burg. TMl arrangement destroys all itie western Ofltt-nei luns OJ the Baltimore and Ohio hue with Effew York, except what It couunauds through the I'ar-kersburg branch and Marietta and Cincinnati, and where it dOOt not compete with the connecting lines of its overpowering nvai. and renders pracUcaliy worthless verv valuable leedera bet ween Wheeling and Chicago, and also the eotdly bridge over the Ohio river at Rellair, until Mr. Garrett and his Irleuds are at ile to build a new Une between Baltimore and Saw York.

tin manv accounts these results are to be regret ted, hut as they are the legitimate results of Gar-resfaga iiuj ailaa a art poatid laottali patter, tfajwj oh Mirprihe no one aud if they tventuallv bring us a second line between Washington ami New York, the traveling public will hardly shed tears. Faster time aad tower fares will he something to be thankful for, whether they are attained through liberal enterprise or come ot disappointed greed. VAI.I.EV RAILWAY COM 1 ANY. There was recently filed at the Secretary of State office, Columbus, the certificate of incorporation of The Valley Railway with the northern terminus at Cleveland, and the southern at Bowers-town, In Monroe township, Harrison county, the road to pass through the Intermediate eouuties of Cuyahoga, Summit, Stark, Tuscarawas, and Carroll, captai stock The corporators are Beary ChiahOtm, N. P.

Payne, James Parmer, Warrick Price, and Samuel A. Fuller, of Cleveland, and David L. King, or AJETOCL A NEW KAI1.KOAD CENTER. Mr. C.

P. Huntington, ice President of the Cen tral Pacific Railroad, has returned from Caiiforn a after a visit of several months, and says that important railway combinations were effected daring his absence, of which some announcement has already been made, and it la probable that further in formation will be attainable by and by. Mr. Huntington Is also largely Interested In the building of the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad, the western rer-mlnuHOf which Is the new town of Huntington ou the Otiio river. Tills town is already an important railroad center, several lines having this for a focal point, A large number of British capitalists have bought extensive tracts of iron and coal lands through the region traversed by i In i fhtiaannafrfi and Ohio Railroad, and they have in view plans which involve the expenditure of over a million dollars along the roa t.

These gentlemen are making application to the railroad conioany for ttie establishment of a tariff of freight on coal and iron, to tie fixed unchangeably for ten years. It is naturally expected that the lineral policy of the company, which is to induce the Investment of capital along the line of the road, will make fair concessions to the applicants. A leading iron manufacturer in l'eunsylvania has also made propositions looking to the establishment of iron works at Huntington. It is expected that this new railroad center, which is adiidrably situated in the midst of one of the richest iron and coal districts of the country, will soon become one of the leading manufacturing cities or Pennsylvania, BALTIMORE, NEW CASTLE AND FRANKLIN. The New Castle JiAtrnal of the 1st blatant, says: Baltimore, New Castle and Franklin railroad matters are progressing slowly but satisfactorily.

On Monday last the subscription footed up $149,000, and by a private report of a meeting at Mercer, we are informed that a paper was started last week with and that the heaviest interests were not represented. Everything looks propitious for an early beginning ol the road. ANOTHER LINK. The Pennsylvania Railroad Company have acquired half the capital stock of the new Pennsylvania and Delaware Railroad (Pomeroy to Landen-burg, and have guaranteed the payment of theinterest on the llrst mortgage bonds. Mr.

Martin linden berger, of Philadelphia, has been appointed trustee or assignee of the old corporation, and al! its assets are to be placed in his hands. Under the new arrangement the construction of the road will a ir Km arwTna iiKNwntr. OOU DWID STANTON, of Beaver county. FOR ItrKTITOII IINniAl, (VI. KOHKKT 11KATU.

of ScbUJlWiL MM1 THKKT. rrT S-HATg. Un C.RAHAM, Allegheny. MU.KSS. II rMPHKKYS.

Soath Pittsburgh. MMS DAVID N. WniTK, MATTIIKW KDWAKDS. Pittsburgh. .1 A KM TAYLOR, Pittsburgh.

JOHN U1U.KII.I.AN, I'pperSt. Clair. M.KXANDKK Ml'LMl, J. W. BA I i KM'INK, Temperancevlli.

UYDK K. HAMPLK. Hhaler. nimnuT attoks'Bt. tuomas m.

urn ASSISTANT P1HTKUT ATTOKXIT. J. B. KLAl'K. Ilttsburgh.

roMa-issioNaKS. JOOKPII DILWoHTII. Pittsburgh. JAMKS llcol NNBOI.K. fhartlers.

MMBL SAXl'li. BUM Pittuhurgh. CONTKOI.I.KK. HENRY WARNER, Allegheny. ROBERT QMMMRWi I'altnn.

rOOR DIRICTOR. JAMES O. MURRAY, Upper St. Clair. CITY TICKET.

MA YOB, BENJAMIN W. MO ROAN. THIAHT-RtK, IIRISTOPHWi MAfiEE. CONTKOI.I.B1I, ROBERT .1. McUOWAN.

received from the Superintendent of the Census tturea.it advanced sheets of 'iable No. giving the population of the several States and Territories by counties cud parisbeK. Koine of the most curious furnished by these figures relate lo the Chinese in the I'uited States. They are distributed throughout twenty-three of lhe thirty-seven States, Beven out of the right organized Territories, and the Federal I'iirtrict of Columbia. The total number, including fifty-three -lupiuiese, who for convenience are classed as Chinese, is 1 1:1, I.

Bgainst I alul 'H in i showing that while this element multiplied itself forty-five times within the first decade, it did not even double itself within the second. Of the Rggregate nurnberCalifornia has thiee-fourlhs, or Idaho, Oregon. Nevada and Montana come next, with from one to four thousand each, while tin- remainder of the States and Territories have from one to a hundred apiece. This does not greatly look as though the country were on the verge of ruin from "cheap Chinese labor." The Indians not included in tribes that is. those who for one reason or another have abandoned their communal existence, entered on reservations or otherwise become incorporated among the people, number against 44,017 in lsiio, showing a fulling off during the last of This enumeration embraces by far the larger portion of the Indian race, and is quite suggestive as indicating a likelihood that the Indian problem will ultimately be solved by a power greater than laws or legislator extinction by mortality.

The colored element has increased from 1,441,827 in to 4,80, WW, a gnin of MS, 183; which docs not argue the running out of the lace, as predicted by Democratic statisticians at the close of the The only htates which show a decrease in this class of population are Kentucky. Missouri, Virginia and West Virginia, the total decrease being 47" persons. Taking one person in six as the ratio of voters, the colored electors num-4er 1 with one in five as the ratio. (H1. In some of the States now classed as doubtful the influence of the colored vote will be very perceptible hereafter in a number of cases, indeed, they will hold the balance of power.

Peuusylvn liia haR a colored population of 66,994, against in lsiio. being an increase of This should give a colored vote of nearly or quite eleven thousand, the great Juilk of hi. will of course be thrown for the publi can ticket in the ensuing State election. When, in his Saratoga speech a week or two ngo, Mr. Speaker Hlaine cited the onor-mouH wealth of the members of the Tam many King as presumptive evidence that a ortion of ttie public money had stuck to their fingers in the process of handling it, the Maine iStiindtin.

a Democratic journal, ejjdeavored to break the force of the argument by holding him up as a millionaire rolling in luxury, and intimating that he had procured his money through connection with public affairs. The only fact adduced in support of the statement was that Mr. uni: paid a tax on real and personal estate of f.lT.iHHi; after which the Hlandiird pioceeded to say i "Thlg COO, however, sloes not lucluile a large coal aud un. I property In trie BtotfM of Pennsylvania and Virginia, nor a valuable Interest in a Lake yu-is-rlor copper mine, nor Ium residence In VVat-hiiigtoh, valued at or Ifin.uoO, or any other property. This article was copied and commented npoti bv the New York World, and subsequently by pretty nearly every Democratic journal in the country, as proof of the cosy manner in which Radical officials feathered their private The charge having come to the notice of Mr.

Blaise, that gentleman replies through the columns of the paper which started the calumny, that he never owned a dollar of any kind of property in Virginia in his life, that he never owned a dollar in copper mines or copper stocks, that his princely residence" in Washington was purchased for (38,609, which saves him about annual rent, and that his property in Pennsylvania was purchased near his birth place at very low figures, several years Iefore his name was ever mentioned for Congress, anil that the income derived therefrom yields only a respectable competency instead of the great wealth assigned to him. Now let the WH4 and its lesse? echoes have the candor ami honesty to publish the retraction as swiftly and heartily as they gave tongue to theslander and while doing so let Ink and Company disclose the sources of their own incomes, and the manner in which they were obtained, as frankly and fairly as Mr. Hlaine has done. Ten years ago Tweed was a lankrnpt chair maker to-day he boasts himself worth twenty millions of dollars. A few yearn since Connoi.lt was a poor clerk: he in now a modern Cbkscs.

How did they amass their immense riches Was it by diligent attention to legitimate business, like Speaker Blaine, or was it by devoting their time and energies to systematic and scientific violation of the Eighth 4 ommandment Wins, lost spring, the llcmocratic knelt at the confessional and acknowledged itn manifold lapses from virtue, we expressed, it will be remembered, very grave doubts an to whether the moist-eyed penitents vi odd hold out more than half-way to the distant shrine which the priest had named as the end of their journey of penance. Out worst forebodings have beou more than realized. Had Vai.i.ani.igHaM lived he would 1 n.bablv, as we stated at the time, have trudged on faithfully enough, and possibly the cheery magnetism of his companionship might have caused a baker's dozen or so of his fellow-sinners to have stuck to him through thick and thin. ith hiH loss, however, no one was left to I. oar "the banner with the strange device," to cry or to give prompt and Mifhemg answer to the men and maidens who warned of danger and welcomed to rest.

Hence the further proseeution of the pilgrimsge has been indefinitely postponed. Oilman wus too far off, Jordan was a very haul road to travel, the sandals of the pilgrims gave out, their feet grew sore, the i Us of the Egyptian flesh-pots were wafted to them enticingly, Phahoah was not so i a fellow as had been thought, there was a good deal of lighting to be gone through, should the parly push ahead, it is hard to ver oh! lies, ou the whole we had better fgo back, they said, and such is the end of the New Iieparture. li ti likes tsj be called the "Hero of llitlicl." in the hope, probably, that ftl will thiiik he was actually light mad at the front ou that acciWion. Th ht- HMh 1. Hm wa not within Ufl mtim 4 was dune on that day, hia ao- Uil aifilyinOTl tll weather being vvrui.

frtfltp and dictate a an account of the wo n-t t-ifu ihjngH lyttlil, to accomplinh. ftm tii- Mffttfii failuic it was the cor at'i part to the out written forthe.ff-' wo-iM KoffH thi uffajr an 1 lt th rni ha chariuUy a. vertures to the author for the pnrpose of securing a modification of the pamphlet but his offer having been rejected, he retorted to the desperate expedient above mentioned. Fortunately this villainous piece of Vandalism was discovered by the author before any of the pamphlets were irculated, and the firm is now engaged in reprinting them. They were intended partly for distribution at the mass meetingheld on Monday evening to inquire into the frauds in the city finances, and this was probablv the reason why they were secretly tampered with.

Link by link these fellows are forging the chains ith which to hang them. And yet they boast that they have the Democratic party at their back, and express entiro confidence that they shall succeed in transferring their field of operations from the municipal government of New ork city to the National Government at Washington. Could insolence and turpitude possibly go further? The meeting of citizens in New York Monday evening to take steps to defend themselves against the Tammany thieves and punish the offenders, was one of the most important ever held in that city. Nor is it likely to end merely in talk. Every means which the ballot-box.

Legislature and courts afford will be invoked against the con siurators. Although tne meeting was com posed of all parties, it cannot be disguised that th' Tainmanyites constitute the head of the Democratic party of the country. That organization is the fountain of supplies, the source of counsel to every part of the ountry, and the reliance on which the par ty in all quarters depeuds. The Tammany leaders in one sense are as much before the people of l'eunsylvania as New Y'ork. be cause they are furnishing money to carry this State, as an important help to sustain themselves at home.

Nowhere do we find Democratic leaders, their newspapers or con ventions uttering a word condemnatory of Tammany. In this silence, and fre quently by open approval, Tammany receives snpport which it gains by furnishing money stolen from the citizens of New Y'ork to carry State and local elect nns. We repeat, it is in this way that the Tammany leaders are in the Pennsylvania election, and are to be passed upon here as palpably as in New York. Pennsylvania votes first. Should she vote fox Tammany, New Y'ork would be safe for another term, for we need not say what would be the influence which would bo exerted by a Democratic victory here on the election in New York a month later.

Now need we add a word why Republicans, to the last man. should come out It is by apathy only that they can be beaten and Tammanv win a victorv. The Royal Commission some time ago tqipointed to investigate and report upon the coal supply of England, has complete 1 its labors and rendered its report. After making due allowances for waste it is estimated that the coal which is or may be made immediately accessible, amounts to tons, or about tons to every householder. In addition to this it is calculated that 56,378,000,008 tons might be dug at a depth of four thousand feet, making a grand total of 148,489,0119,099 tons.

It is not certain, however, that coal could be dug st this depth. Even with the present improved appliances for ventilation it is calculated that the temperature would rise to a hundred degrees. But even supposing that miners eonld live and work at such a depth, at the present rate of consumption and increase of consumption the whole supply will last only a hundred and ten years, although it is asserted that the maximum OMt- -umption has been reached, and that with a diminishing ratio the supply will last three hundnd and sixty years. There is no doubt, however, that the rapidity with which lhe coal fields are being exhausted is somewhat discouraging to the future of her manufactures, unless science shall meantime to the rescue, and furnish a substitute for coal. We observe, too, that a new theory has been devised to the effect that unless the encroachments of the sea can he stopped, England will ultimately become so reduced in size as to be unable to contain even a tithe of its present population.

These various matters are harped upon somewhat mournfully by the press of that country. which seem to take a certain pleasure in being miserable. Hkiie is a nut for our Democratic free trade friends, who shout themselves hoarse in denunciation of the tariff imposed by the National Government on iron, to crack at their leisure. The city government of New York some time ago passed an ordinance requiring all columns, pillars and girders use 1 for building purposes to be inspected and pay a tax of seventy cents per foot length. In a single building, and that not an extra large one, recently inspected under this law, it is said that the tax in question amounted to some thirteen hundred dollars, in return for which the inspector simply looked at the iron and wrote out a certificate, subjecting neither column, pillar nor girder to any examination or test, however cursory or slight.

Furthermore, this Tammany inspector is himself an iron founder, which is suggestive of possibility that he may sometime u-fose to give a certificate unless the iron is purchased of himself. The iron masters of New York are reported as generally complaining 'hat the whole operation is a blackmailing swindle, devised by the King to benefit its fuvorites by fleecing the people. This intpection tax averages about one cent per pound, or something like twenty dollurs a ton more than double the amount of any tariff ever imposed by -the general Government on any iron of similar character and class. When the organs and orators of Free-Trade Democracy have left off proving that we are mined by Protection, a little attention to this other matter will be in order. Thulf: seems to be a possibility that, after .11.

th- young Ksjmnitih King will win the nits his pSOJple in spite of thnir dter-miruititdi to the contrary. He lias taken the sensible course of making a journey through bin dominions for the purjose of acquainting himself with the condition and wants of the people by actual observation, aud it appear, from onr cable reports, that thiH stroke of policy, or whatever it may be called, is working a complete revolution of sentiment in his favor in many parts of the country: added to which, his liberal amnesty policy has drawu toward him very many who 1 ut a short time ago hated him as an alien usurper. These are hopeful signs, and all hough it is exceedingly to tell what a day may bring forth in Spain, chronically chaotic are its constituent elements of society, it begins to look as if some slight taste of the blessings of peace and pronperity were Btill possible for her volcanic j.nd impoverished people. Certain it is that the young Italian has thus far proved a far better Spanish King than any recent ruler born on Spanish soil, and it is earnestly to ne hoped that the manly energy with which he has addressed himself to the situation may induce his subjects to second his efforts nnd to he as true to each other and to himself as he is loyal and true to them. A biter in the Norfolk Yiryhiuui states what the Democratic party will do if it only regains control of the Government.

We I note DtH(rue It aH you will, to this favor thincs will come at Tne West, the Northwest ami the South, which are one in Interests, will combine anl repeal ttie tariiT.the act of emancioation it neeasarv, ainl the new amendments to the Constitution, are fraufls on that instrument. As a question or dollars and cents, of simple addition and subtraction, not to sav justice and common honesty, the new allies of the Sonth will rind It to their interest to a.s-biinie their share of the present debt of the rebel kov-emmfiit. and to pay by a (reneral tax on ail property the war debt of the South." Now let the Republicans of Pennsylvania, feel like it, by absenting themselves from the polls, or by going squarely over to the Democrats, contribute to carry out this programme. Tub Philadelphia noticing the fact that Mr. Ueorge O.

Kvaus, aeut, charged with eaiWez-Bj stent, Is in New York City, adds "Mr. Evans's air and )card have turned while as sivtw, and he ih in rlbed as exceedingly nervous; liLi haa trembles a il fct.icU-u with Hie palsy." man issa nuirgy aud dogmata or the church, ami to give the lay element a fuller participation tn er. clesiastical matters than hod hitherto been granted it. Similar reports were made trom Switzerland, and some parts or France. A letter from Berlin, dated August 1 7th.

says the main point of the dispute which caused the sas- pension ot negotiations at Frankfort, between France and Germany, for settling the details connected with the restoration of peace and the gradual evacuation of France by the German troops, was the refusal of the French to assist the German government In attempting to avoid a commercial clash in Aisace. by consenting to admit the produce of ner former subjects Into France fn-e of duty, for a year or so after the 1st of September. In return for such favor Bismarck offered tbe withdrawal of the German forces from the Parisian forts and the whole French soil, Champaign excepted, even before the whole $300,000,000 were paid as provided in the treaty. The latter says the French brought forward demands atter demands, oot never consented to any favor asked in return. No choice was left to the German Government in theinterest of the safety of the country, but rigorously to insist npon the righta reserved to Germany in the treat of Frankfort.

"THE ONE TEEM PRINCIPLE." Horace Greeley's Article on the Galaxy for November. New York, September 6, 1STL Horace Greeley will open the Presidential campaign with an article In the forthcoming November Galaxy nn The One Term Principle. The following summary is made from advance sheets: Starting with the idea that civu aerrice reform ia essential and demanded by ail thoughtful citizens, Mr. Greeley contends that the desire and hope or the President to secure re-election, and his eiTorts to that end, effectually prevent the reform. Civil service reform means the selection of the fittest men for office, instead of the most effective (or noisy) politicians of the dominant party.

Tne fruits of the present system are wlibgaead incapacity, lneiS- i iency, u-bhonesty aiiopee.jlation A postmaster not to be too exacting ought to know how to read, which some do, while others do not. All will admit that such ability is desirable in his vocation, but if one who lacks it is the most efficient partisan, and has done the most toward the President's election, his "claims' cannot well be over borne. Will not hts services ts wanted four years hence 7 And how are they to be retained if his "claims" are postponed to those of one who can read, but has no skill in manipulating voters or votes Mr. Greeley asks, "how much better Is this than the absurdity of hereditary Legislators? If our Federal and 'local functionaries were ctesen bv lot. would ihey average worse than they now' do? That the King can do no wrong, '11 taken literally, irrational it understood to mean only that he ta elevated above ail temptation to misrule; that hia doing wrong would argue Ntorai.

if not mental Insanitythat he cannot le awWMon to have acted within his prerogative under the sway of any unworthy motive, then ttie maxirn becomes intelligible. The justification or royalty is its alleged tendency to place the chief ruler of a nation above ail temptatloa to regard ana pursue his own interest at the expense of the public weaL" Mr. Greeley then discusses the question historically the growth or the patronage of the President; the efforts to rest net the President to one term by Constitutional amendments; the selfish reasons for the defeat of these latter, and the rapid accumulation of evils growing out of the power of patrouage, and the temptation of the President to use that patronage for Ids re-election. Mr. Greeley conclude his historical argument thus: "The Whigs in due time took up the one-terra principle, and Mr.

Clay gave It his powerful support. He la: ed to achieve the Presidency, aud did not succeed engrafting that principle into the Federal Constitution but Van Huren, who was first chosen in 3S3G bj a decided majority, was left in a mearer minority at the close of the canvass for a term. He tried again in 1S44. and was badiy beaten in the National Convention or his pirry by James K. Polk, of Tennessee, who, though then elected, declined even to seek a second terra.

General Tayior, who succeeded him. died early tn the 'second year of his term; and Millard Fillmore, who, being Vice-President, succeeded trim, was beaten by General Scott In the Whig National Convention or MBS. General Franklin Pierce, whom tbe iH-mocrsts then elected, tried to be renominated in but was beaten in Convention by James Buchanan, who did awtseek a reaomination, knowing well that such quest would be vain. "Mr. Lincoln, who was then chosen by the Republicans, was re-elected by them in 1864; the civil war was ihen progress, impelling many to support htm lu cefereuoe to the law that discourages lhe "swap-omg oi horses," while in the act or crossing a raging rrvnL Mr.

Lincoln thus constitutes the sole exception to the failure of so many efforts to re-elect a President since l-vt2. Meanwhile, these efforts have undoubtedly st Some signal defeats to either partv. Had Mr. Van Bares gracefully retired at rhe close of his first his party might, very possibly, have avoided their stunning defeat in 140: hail Fillmore done likewise in f8Da- the Whig party might have been de-teated, out could not have been crushed by Its defeat the triumph of Pierce that year. Time and again, since the Federal disaster of isoa, lias first one and then the other party, run or tried to run a President for a second term lor a quarter of a century these enorts proved successful; off late they have very generally proved disastrous.

'Can ye not discern the signs of the That the change has been real and based neither upon personal nor partisan considerations, is evinced by the gradual adoption of the contested principle in other, yet kindred spheres. Witness the post of Governorwhich was formerly filled in near.y or qcite every State without restriction on this head, whereas ac this time the States of New Jersey, Virginia. Georgia. Indiana, Illinois. South Carolina ami Kentucky a Governor is not elgibie to re-elec-ttOB while in office or for the term succeeding that for which he was elected; in Arkansas, Texas and Oregon be may serve hut eight years out or aay twelve: in Maine, North Carolina, Alabama and Mississippi hemav serve but (our years out ol any six; iu Pennsylvania six years out "of any nine; la Tennessee six years out of any eight.

The intent tn each case however imperfectly developed) is to check. If not overbear, the tendency to use patronage tor rhe indefinite perpetuation of power." Mr. Greeley concludes ny saying: "All that Is needed is an intelligent, earnest, wide-spread conviction that the practice of re-electing a chief magistrate while iu office ia fraught with evil and peril; that it distracts his attention from the proper carea and duties of hia station, and impetls him to con-eider, not are fittest and most worthy to fill the nttott in his gift, but what choice will be most likely to improve his chances of renominatioo. We shall yet achieve a civil service reform. Nay, we moot Office seeking ta our national vice, depriving onr workshops of apprentices and our farms of half the Intelligent, energetic, aspiring youth, who ought to make our agriculture of the next thirty years exhibit a series of brilliant advances and "improvements upon ail that preceded it Hut vainly shall we hope for such reform throaga the Joppinc off of branches, while the root or the upas remains intact and vitaL That root Is the re-cleetien while in office of Presidents.

Governors and "thcr dispensers of vast patronage, with their consequent temptation to use that patronage in aid of thesr own continuance in power." A Remarkable Trotting Feat. MiLwrkEE, September 6. The race at Cold Springs this afternoon, between Goldsmith Maid and Lucy, as one of the most remarkable ia trot-ing annals. Goldsmith Maid making the fastest single heat, aud also the best three heats on record. The race was witnessed by about 4,000 people, who were fairly carried away with excitement.

The hordes were brought upon the track at half-past three o'clock, and after the usual preliminary ex-er. ise, took their place for the race. Lucy at the'poie. First heal At a quarter to four o'clock, after scoring ineffectually three times, the horses got tae woid and start- off neck and neck. Tros position they maintained tor the first quarter, then Gao ttd gradually drew ahead, and at the halt mile pole had obtained a lead of a length, which she retained to the close, passing under the wire in Second beat The horses got a beautiful start upon the first attempt, and passed under the wire head and head.

The Maid immediately began to draw away irom Lucy and soon obtatnd a i of several lengths. In going around the first turn she made a slight break, by which she lost haif a length. Doble, however. QnJckJy beat her down to work, and with ihe exception of "a slight skip at the last turn, which was scarcely perceptible to the spectators, tme trotted the remainder of the heat in magnidcent style, home haif a dozen lengths ahead of Lucy in the unprecedented time, as announced by the Judges, of which is a quarter of a second luster than the best time ever made by Dexter. The actual time or the heat was but as the watches of the judges didn't agree, one making 2 another the third 2:17, the lasi was adopted in order to dlsne.

any doubts which might result from the complication. 4 Third atThe horses got off on the sacoad start, passing the judges stand abreast. Luof held the mmA closely throughout, coming in at tne close half a kntt'i behind time The news of the remarkable performance of Goldsmith Maid spreal thr ugh the city like Wildfire, and Bu Id 1 tola, the driver, is a iion of the first magnitude for the time being. THE CALIFORNIA ELECTION. The Result in Doubt Both Parties Claim the State.

San Ff.ancisco, September The city anil State are claimed by both llaiszht and Booth. Fir Governor the vote is very close, aud not full. Ia this city the Democrat are believed to have elected Mr. Curtia lor Mayor, Roaener for Assessor, Klopt-ubcrir for Treasurer, and HumphrevK for Snr eor, while the tax-payers ejected the remainder of tht- ntkt-t. Hardly any straiKht tickets were ca.

-In the Fourth ward the tax-payers' candidate for Supervisor was defeated by the nerro vote for McCarthy, Independent. About tsrentv-five per cent, of the negro Tote was Democratic. THE WYOMING ELECTION. Grand Republican Victory. Lakamie, V.

September The latest returns give the Republicans a majority of two in the Senate, and the democrats a majority of tvro in the House. The Republicans are iubilaut over the result as the last Legislature was "unanimously Democratic, and it is claimed as a HPjfflhttftafl victory aod an indoitjcment of Governor Campbell admunsErar-uon. THE FARM SCHOOL. Special DIsrsnJch lo tlis- ssmmeirlal. Dei i.efo.nt, I September 6, 1ST1.

The tliirtes-Tnth anuuai election of the Pennsylvania Farm Befcool took, place at the college building, ten rfllf Irom this city, to-day. The atteudanr was respectable, the principal county societies being repKsented. Frank Jordan presided at the nisennfi of deleiratea. The election rortnethnns trustees whose terms expire in 1st1. resulitNl in the rv-eicctKin ol James Kelly, of Allegheny, and Ja.l Betater, ol Ilarrisburg.

v. I BobertJ was choaea to the place of Morris Ellis. The anoounce uent ttat the four ladles tn temporary arteii i-. w-en admitted by the Trustees to the classical coam was hailed with deafening cheers. This rs the Brat chartered college In the Srate to place tti sexes on an equalitv.

The new tu.l members of the Board" report the proapects boner for success ihan since its oreaniaauoo. Speeches w.sre mU-i tn, members of delegate, voutnnudst ol the new dearture. K. bes'atm niccusest at n-s meeting of Voiotvd Hcuevok-ut BftoM I teaniday, on acoouutol jealous, and drawing i linger shot iter tu the ttde, iaaicUag a aerKwS wound, lie was taiu l. Mount: of the Republican Executive Com-nitttee OrcraDixIng for the Campaign.

A regular meeting of the Republican Connty Executive Committee waa helu Tuesday afternoon, at the Ijncoln Club Rooms. In the abaepoe of the Chairman, H. W. Oliver, F. C.

Negley was chosen Chairman pro tem. After the reading of the minutes, reports were called for from the various committees. Mr. Long, chairman of the Vigiiance Committee, reported that nothing had been done as yet, owing to the fact that all political interest had been centering in the city canvass. The Committee would organize for ork at an early day.

Col. Stewart, Chairman of the Committee on Or gatazation, reported that the committee bad been at ork in several of the districts of the connty. Mr. McCleary, Chairman of the Committee on Recistration, reported the appointment of sub-committees of one in each district, with power to add to their number. The following is a list of the names of the committee as reported: FrrTSErRin.

First ward --Tames Gracey. Becowd ward lames Mack. Third wardJohn Gehae. Fourth ward Win. A.

Herron. Fifth ward A. W. Smith. Sixth waro- James Munn.

Seventh ward -George B. Knox, James Bone-brake. Kighth ward John Scott, James Moore. Ninth ward James Boyd. Tenth ward David Beck.

Eleventh ward B. F. Kennedy. Twelita ward hirst precinct: James Rayburn. Second precinct: John S.

Normiue. mirtenth ward Barney Mahoney, Richard Herron, JSamuel Bel tore. Fourteenth ward Henry Uoyd. ytftotBtfa ward -Wm. Hosack.

BlXtoi nth ward R. H. smith. Seventeenth ward Alex. McCUntOCk.

Fighttenth ward Lewis. Esq. men cut wardJohn Berlin. Twentieth ward Wm. B.

Remolds. Twenty -first ward c. B. Bos wick. Twiegty-aooOBd ward Wm.

H. Irwin. Twenty-third ward in. T. Oliver.

AI.LaENV. I ward-Robert mte. John Ross. Second ward Wm. Alexander.

Third ward First BCWCXBCt, George D. Ware. D. I smith second precinct, Fred. Lang.

F' urin ward First precinct, John Megraw; second precinct, A. 11. Ehiena. Firth ward Chrtat. Hock.

Sixtn ward-John Speer. v. nth ward wa Miomaker. Eighth ward Gottlieb Fisher. Ninth ward Cyrus Hatchinaon.

BOROrUBS. Eliza) eth -Samuel Waiter. Jr. West IVtsrnirgh lewis Awnn. Mouobgaheia Ricnard I'erry.

Brad.lo. kM. J. Corey. s-wi- kiey Milo I.

Hcott. 1. rn iighani First precinct. Thoa. N.

Weburry, enke. Fat Biniiingham First precinct, George E. S. urn 90C0M prectm.t, Wm. M.

Miller, uni WasbitiL'ton John Wilbert. Robert Cade. MrKeeaport Rich. Wilson, nth t'itiftburgb-Jhu Stemler. WM Elizabeth J.

It McGrew. Orms' -R. c. IalzeiL Tare tit urn R. S.

P. McCall. Wm. Coates. Tempermneevtlle Philip Weaver.

Brlletue J. S. Ferguson, nton Woble. Etna- It, H. Junes.

AJ entow n- red. nhelm. st Glair Ijoui Fritz. Verona Eh. Williams.

Jr. TOwNSHtra. Ktntmrk-Wm. Knoderer. Leet Saniuei Neetry.

Piunj Aiejt. McJunkin. Penn- iJitham. Eilzatieth First precinct. Samuel KerT; Second pCWClBa Frank lattrson; Third precinct.

Col. Wm. DOMteas; Fourth precmct, Jt-hu lUglaas. Muffin Conrad GoHSstrohm. SOW PWWl precinct, Peter 11 hert Second precinct.

John Young, Jr. Moon Wm. Guy. Franklin iKaat Neeley. Badwm.

first precinct Wm. KeowiL BtMlMi pre- liH't Meichor veruer. Ross, hnf pse tnctJ. M. Brown.

Second precinct Mk andie Robert Guytoo. East liter ilea l.owe. I pper St. Clair -John it. Svldas.

North Favrtte Ge. Y. kee. Neville Barnes Ihckwrn. Shalt firt pre-tnct-V'in.

Sample. Sr. Second precuut Jobu B. Miner. Kiwn Cant.

John ioweii. Wtlkins- sin. wissheim. Patton Thomas Mc Masters. North Versailles a 1- Worn I.

South Versailles, first precinct B. B. Con ram. Second precinct A. J.

Hchenck. Jerterst.n Samutl Chamberlain. Oaittaia Qapt. Wm. Irwin.

Fittdiev ToUatl Gay, Jr. Morrosr. Rewrve Becker. Snowdeo Thomas Walker. Pfaao James Q.

A. McCord. West Doer W. H. McGita.

Indiana Alfred Lower St. lair -John W. IMtteraon. ut Fayette Jamea McEtroy. Pa Hi kit Samuel Sarver, aq.

Cres ut John Hamilton, McCuurr Charles Hartmao. I. aril Andrew Harper, M. D. Cnion Jt bn Oliver.

Hani ton -samuH G. Brown. Scott, First precinct Andred J. Mctuety Second precinct lr. James Wilson.

Marshall Georsie Neeiv. Harrtson Cssoer N. Reimer. Unccin- Lvi Edmonson. Forwerd Zerah Hsyden.

Bjai wa 'hn McKee. Reporr ace pted and action approved. Mr. Fettennan. th airman ot the Committee on Meetings and SpeaKers.

reprted that the use of the Liocota Ctab could Ihj hat as headquartera for lOffi the vmimittce might deem proier. Report ac epted. i oL sren-arr ved that the name of Dr. Addison Arthurs Is abided to the committee. Mr.

Baker vt-iwadd the name ot Wm. Sheargold. Mr. tilenn mc.ved to add the name Off J. McWhltly.

The names t.r these gentlemen were added as memtiers. Mr. Long announced that the Committee on Vigilance wetiid meet at Lincoln Cluh rooms this Toea-wVft stteruoon. On mcTioti ol Mr. Barker, it was resolved that the c-osamiltee meet every TuealaT arternoon at two o'clock until the day of the election.

The committee then adjourned. The Chotrra tn Knw-tia. latiOl Tniiuii-Oll mat's have farther intell Tlu DOeel rac ptt gicog the cholera Russia, rrom whu it appears that in some places the proportion ot deaths Mill continued very high. At Boreso a town ot twelve hundred inhabitants, for a shoit tune one hundred and firry ngajOM died every day. In one village tn Voronesh, seveuty persons died out of a opuIatkn of two huudred.

At Nijui Novgormi, one day, every case proved lata). In BOSBB jtlaces ttie jn-opie are panic stricken, and SO tufthing. hxikmg upon the scourge as a divine punishment to which they are bound to auh-imu verv where there is want of medical aid. In the district of Nonoksoerski there is only one doctor for a population or live thousand. He has to visit patients who are forty or Sfty miles dtftsat from each other.

In St. Petersburg" the cases are considerably diminish e-1. since the downfall of the French empire a great many predictions, ancient and modern, relating to that event, have neeti unearthed, the fulfilment or hich Would seem to have ieen accomplished by re--cent ocr urreneea. Having printed a number or these, we now publish the latest, which turns out to he by Carlyie, and which is certainly not less re-mat kaWe for clearness of insight than the most pro phetlc of its predecessors. A writer ia the Opinion Xationale mentions that after 1S4S M.

Emile Monte-gat, a well known translator and author, wrote to Carlvle. a translation of whose -'French Revolution' he had undertaken to make, for advice as to his conduct iu political life, which M. Monte-gat had just then entered. Mr. Carlyie, the writer goes on to say, replied iu the sense Of the following words: "The men whom the revolution has placed at the head of affairs iu your country have scarcely the political skill needed tor so difficult a situation.

The republic is not yet rata nttotiort in men minds, especially not in the rural ts; and I doubiif the present Government will be able to maintain itself. There is uow here, in Loudon, a man oi whom no one in your land thinka, and who will, nevertheless, infallibly attaiu to power ere long; I refer to Prince Louis Uona parte. If the men of February Bucceed in surrounding him, and In forcing him to advance at the head off the Republican partv. the republic will eu dure else she 111 inevitably wink, and you wilt have the empire." These prophetic lines were written in March, We occasionally hear off children which in the estimation of their parents are too good to live; an opinion to the conception of hard sense that presupposes something supernatural, or good-tor-nothingness, which doting parents mistake for something of the heavenly sort. So of cities, we conclude, if we may inter anything from the following from the Philadelphia Inquirer: "The tone of Philadelphia is essentially a moral one.

We live quieter, better lives than those of the surrounding large cities', and it there, is less dissipation in our pursuits there is more genuine happiuess round in them. Youth, however closely guarded from evil, will dud them out if they are ali about, tempting them at every step and set before them by the majority. Laxity of morals in a city will Impart Itself to ali breathing Us atmosphere. The old Quaker leaven of simple living still works in Philadelphia for good. Parents long ago discovered that they might Barely entrust their children to the care of our schools, in the lull knowledge that not only their minds would receive development, but that their best instincts would be carefully educated." The Springfield BfpvDHeem says: "It now seems probable, not only that the greater part of the bonds at six per cent, coming under Mr.

l.outwell's published notice, and held abroad, will be exchanged directly for the new five per cents, but that a market can soon be found for another huudred millions or more of our four and a-half and live per cents, on tne other side of the oceau, and lor an equal amuant here. Nor would it be surprising If, before the first of January, all the five per cents, except and of the four and a-half per cents, should thus have been taken up; in all, more than a third part of the whole refunding loan of $1,500,00,000. Thts would be a brilliant success for our persistent Secretarv, and ould reduce the yearly interest by $7, 000,000." New Yohk has a report that Captain Jake Vander-btlt Is contriving to evade all prosecution for the Westfield calamity under an obsolete law which forbids the people traveling on Sunday. He will, it is so reported, contend through his lawyer, that as the victims were violating this enactment, they should not be allowed to collect damaged. The statement that Mark Twain had purchased a house and was going to take up his residence in Hartford, is contradicted.

Commodities. VKtt lsio. Brendsruffs Cotton, raw ils.S'iT.ll). W7.oiT.6M II rearms is.4sn.9ts s.sin.IW i id and silver coin 5S.7.4-1 Odd asd silver bullion (Mounts 2. Oilcake Petroleum Cheese KM lard .83.

oso 5.:,3 Baet-n ami hams S.1A3.1U Pork iW Beef i.ih,;7 Tobacco TI Jt.nt1 Wood, and mauuf nctnres of Is makici? reference the ether dav to tio rwimplatn MM i of the experiment of hrinjrmfr frewh beef from Texas to the Philadelphia market by vessel, we expressed a hope that some enterprising person would solve the problem of cheap beef lor the people of the iuterlor towns and ltiea. This hope seems in a fair way of realization. We observe that a Refrigerator CM Company" has t-en orguuized and is in Hi ful operation in St. Louis, having for its object tfu- apt-mug of fresh beef in that and oth Bff citt-s. The beat proof of the perfect adapttntiity of the car to ttie sen ice in which they are employed Is afforded In the fact that th-y bring beeves frOOla distance of several hundred miles, and put tht tn upon the market at a greatly Ndsettd pffe, ft with flesh as fresh and firm as any that comes direct from the slaughter of the city butchers.

Another advantage is that while the cars, if devoted to th? carriage of live stock, wonld bring to the market at iest only eighteen head, thus employed In carrying only the marketable produce, will dead, reducing the freightage upon the net beef nearly ont-half. Not only so, but as the beeves are killed frese from the grass, the product is not feverish, 1 an and tough as that from cattle driven or brought by rail. We understand that the company proposes 10 extend it sphere of operations, atnj ultimately to ship their beet rresh from Texas pastures through to Cincinnati, New York, Philadelphia, our own city and oilier places, a benefit to be housekeepers who are coiiipeiled to puy the same for beefsteaks now as when beeves were worth ih on foot. Thkkk is a law In Pennsylvania against the pabil-catlon by newspaper! of Ladeceot advertisement; mkii, for inslauce, as paten i medicines, certain kinds of medical works, and the cams or such pro-fMBtQBAl gentlemen as the one now under indict-B0B1 lor criminal malpractiee In Effev York city. This law Is oftcner violated In PtkilariHpfe.a thao in all the rest of the state combined, aud not the slightest etlurt is made to enforce It.

i'h Ha i I'fftfM. It iiiiiht have surprised readers of Borftmer Mi.nth'y to see Inserted conspicuously In Its pages one of the most objectionable of the advertisements spoken of aove. It is due from the editor and publishers of that magazine that they explain its appearance, otherwise the inference will be that they conduct the publication on principles wholly foreign to the standard set up. A repetition of the adver- tibement should cause ttie magazine to be banished irom respedable families. The Metropolitan Hotel in New York, recently re opened with young Tweed, son of the Tammany Poss, as host, ts said to be stunningly furnished.

Kich carpets and gorgeous furniture exist in auffl-cient profusion to account for charged to the new and yet uncompleted County Court House-Young Tweed ts described as "a-hny with a thin yellow mustache and a frail intellectuality. The busi ness Of a publican appealing to his pc-ttcat nature, he refuaed to become au Assistant Alderman of New York that he might gratify his boundless aspiration for hospitality." A cob res ti dent, taking time by the forelock, writes to aay that, inasmuch as General Sweltzer was generally conceded to be the fittest caudidate for Mayor In the late canvass, and that the worst thing that could be said against him was that he 'came out too his friends wish it to be understood now that he will be a candidate next time." The iter points to the vote of General Kweltzer to prove that his capital is abundant to begin with. Discoveries of the greatest interest have been made recently at the Hathh of aracatia In Rome. A chamber has been excavated with the marble oaslns still in their places, and a fountain in the center, in which it is proposed to convey the Acqua Marcia. Near the Pantheon, part of the ancient aqueduct that used to convey the Acoua Vergme to the Baths of Agrippa has come to light, and some great discovery Il expected near the Forum.

The Lloyd North German line steamship Haiti-more, from Bremen by way of Southampton, arrived at Baltimore on Sunday. She brought thirty-five cabin aud live hundred and thirty one steerage passengers, he emigrants left for the West on Monday, on the Baltimore and Ohio liailroad..

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