Richmond Palladium (Weekly), Volume 42, Number 43, 4 January 1873 — Page 2

itiohmond Palladium ""TTiATV.PAT,T SATURDAY JANUARY; 4, 1373.

f - A HAPPY NEW-YKlll To all our rabcribers- aaO. fc sasb it entirely -happy" to us, we sugBt that all who know themselves indebted to us for either subscription, job-work or advertishu?. will walk up to the "Captain s office" and ! P7 np t would be -wo nice l" you know. . ' ' . Hon. J. M. "WilBon, spent the holidays at bis home in Couriers ville. Fifth At. Theater, New York, was burned the irst of the week. It was the work of incendiaries, and it is feared that it is an organized attempt to burn down the city. That School Law Agaim. L. C. Walker, Esqrone of our Bepresen-1 tafavea in the Legislature, called on us Thursday last, and thinks we did him injustice in saying his action was "premature," in having that change in the School Law, applied to our city, and he thought our opposition was "inspired" by interested parties. We beg to assure him that we did not intend to do him injustice, by the use of that term. We thought, and still think, his action was hasty,in having the bill rushed through theHouse, as quickly as it was, not giving the people any time for an expression of their wishes regarding it We believe Mr. Walker desires correctly to represent his constituents, and if our citizens give him to understand, by public meeting or by petition, that a majority of them are either opposed to or are in favor of that measure, he will bonestly and - conscientiously carry out their behests. ; c As to having been' "insprired" by interested parties, that is somewhat gratuitous; 'because our opposition to that law is a matter of opinion with us, founded on the fact that we are opposed to granting to any body of men the powers of taxing the people at will issuing bonds, and . augmenting their own numbers by redistricting the city whenever they see proper, without any check whatever. That has been the inspiration of our opposition to it nothing more. ' - Let thpee who are friendly to this School Law, and think it will benefit our people call a meeting, & lay the matter befcre them, and ascertain their wishes. If they are anxious to have our Representatives instructed as what they shall do, they, as advocates of what they deem to be a good law, should take the initiative in this matter, call a meeting and get up petitions. This is our notion. The subject of cheap transporta tion between the East and West, is receiving a good deal of attention in Congress. Under the new apportionment, the West has greater power in Congress than formerly, and it is likely that some means will be taken to remove the impediments which nature interposes to the carriage of freight by water. It looks now as though the ship canal around Niagara Falls would be carried through during the session, since it has the united influence of the West in its favor. The canal would be six or seven miles long, would cost from ten to fifteen millions dollars, and would require about two years for its construction. The principal argument advanced in support of this scheme is the lack of cheap transportation facilities between the East and the West, whereby, while thousands are fam iahincr in the East, millions of bush els of Grain are being wasted in the West The fact that facilities for water transportations tend greatly to keep in check railroad monopo lies and to produce low transporta tion rates is also dilated upon. The latest form of manifestation which the opposition of the mercanfilfi class to what they consider to be the exceesive charges of trans portation corporations has assumed, is the establishment of "freight unions, organizations or. icaamg aa a . M w - business interests, having respec tivftlv for their obiect the negotia tion of the lowest possible rates of freight for the members, particularlv on westward bound merchandise their modus operandi being by the Weight and influence of . their commercial ' standing, and their combination, to make more favora ble terms than are afforded by the rtstensible schedule of charges es tablished and pnblished by the va rious lines of roads independent in their route, but particularly on comTtetini? lines. In St Louis there is a, nrosnective union of this charac ter, with a quarter of a million, while a similar association exists in rliiam with a, tmbacribed capital of like amount They have, at least to a considerable degree, proven power over transportation managemenu, is sjviaeii uviu v at a recent meeting of repreeentafiMi nf tho Tjrincipal: corporations in the country, it was unanimously .rrAd that upon the oxpirabon the contracts now m ioiw wim unions, they should not be extended or renewed in any fnrnvV , . ' Henry lleigg, the Peruvian Jim Fisk, Vanderbilt and Drew comMnad. recently presented Pres.Slit b35. iife with 150,000 vpon her birthdar, while that lidy's Amnxbiet received on the same an. Saiy s check for $60,000 from TP . a

Terrible Catastrophe! On Christmas Night, at Williamsport, Lycoming Co., Penn., some 250 men, women, and children, had assembled, to heir an addrtsij and receive presents The building was brilliantly illunsinated, and the merry hearts of the young going out in gladsome laugh and joyous shout Just as the address was concluded, and presents were about being dis.tributed, the building gave way and fourteen persons were killed outright, and from forty to fif y wounded. " - ' DESCRIPTION OF THS BUILD ISO. , The church was constructed with an upper audience room. It was in this upper room that the congregation had assembled. The interior dimensions are twenty-six feet in width and forty feet in length. There was a center girth, with joists thickly placed on each side. Through the center from above were two bolts, connecting with this main girth. Evidently the weight of those assembled sprung the truss bearers, and these supports slippling out of - their plates, precipitated the audience to the floor below. This is evident from the fact that the timbers are not broken, only an occasional splinter or split marking the giving way of the bearers. The gas pipe, two inches in diameter, beneath this center Rirth, was bent bvtheim.

mense weigni until it curved nearly double. It was supposed bv manv last evening that the falling of the - Oa m chimney was a great instrument of ' death, but we have been informed this morning by those who were first upon the ground, that the chimney did not fall until the killed and wounded were being removed, and 1.1 1 .1 11.' l.l uwt at ukb point mere were no evidences of death from that causa DBSCBnmoR or thx scese. - When the crash came there went up a wail of mangled humanity that caused the blood of all to fairly curdle. Children wildly shriekim? por their parents, groans of wound ed and dying filling the air with lamantation and distress, many beneath the timbers crying in the name oi uod tor deliverance, while oillamps of the edifice had kindled a fire that bid fair to destroy all in a general conflagration. Those out side were working with a will, and using every possible effort to rescue the Jiving from the mangled mass. Several times the church was on fire. but providentially the flames could be reached, and were speedily extinguished. And here transpired a scene that tongue nor pen cannot portray. Around the ruins was gathered an excited throng, and as the living and dead were dragged from the debris, the piercing groans of the wounded, the heartrending ex clamations of relatives and mends, sent a tnnu oi norror to the very souls of those who had gathered around the living sepulcher. Many within, who were able" to reach a window, burst out the lights, and leaped to the ground, a distance of fourteen or fifteen feet. Before 11 o'clock at night the bodies were re moved and identified. In the panic several were .wound ed by being run over. One man, fastened by a falling tember, had his boots off, and his stockings were on fire when rescued. Another lady, partially buried, cried to a gentleman "For God's sake, rescue me from a horrible fate," whereupon he tore away the scattering timbers and saved her, as the nre would soon have reached the point where she had been so securely held. A NIGHT Or GLOOM. Between 11 and 12 o'clock last night our reporter was among the bereaved families of Newberry. The scene is beyond description the onef of friends and the appal ling sight of dead and mangled bodies that but a few hours before entered the church full of life and happiness, filling the mind with startling and fearful thought. There stood the church, the silent monu ment of the horrible event, with its a solemn spot, when surrounding it were desolate homes, full of grief and sorrow. Wilhamsport (Pa.) Republican, Dec. 26. Mr. Ezra Cornell, just after Mr. Greeley's death, when every paper in the land had notices and mourn ing mementoes, asked that copies be sent him. He says: The papers I have thus far receivea ui respuiuw w uijr luuwuuu to the press of America for the ma terials for memorial volumes of Horace Greeley for the Cornell Uni versity .Library are as follows, reS resented by States and numbers: Tw York. 158: Ohio. 112: PennsvL vania, 55j Virginia, 45; Iowa, 41; Missouri, 34; Indiana, 33; Illinois, 29; Michigan. 25; ' North Carolina, 22; Georgia, 20; Kansas, 19; Massa chusetts, 16; Maine, 16; Kentucky, 15; New Jersey, 15; Tennessee, 12; Wisconsin, 15; Nebraska, 14; Cali fornia, 19; Alabama, 10; Connecticut, 10; Canada, 9; Maryland, 9; South Carolina, 8; Arkansas, 7; Texas, 6; Louisiana. 6; Mississippi, 5; Minne sota, 5; New Hampshire, 5; District of Columbia, 4; New Brunswick: 4; West Virginia, 3; Vermont, 3; Colo rado3; Utah, 2; Florida, 1; Dela ware, 1; Rhode Island, 1; Montana, 1: JNevada, i. xnus, you ODserve, Thus, you observe, I have already 810 different papers, of most of which there are several copies 'of different dates. There are probably as many as 2,000 papers, which will make several volumes. These volumes will make a . grand memorial for the Press of America, as well as of . our departed friend Greeley. ', Papers are , still coming, and I presume f the .number will reach at least one thousand. r;j v A man who. bas s red-headed tweetbeartaddressed her as -'Sweet Auburn, loveliest : of the . plain." Sweet Auburn got mad about ' it She objected to being classed among the "plain," even though called the loveliest of thorn. -

The Dread Sunn Trade.

Inland navigation has closed upon a smaller stock of Wheat in New xork, as winter reserve.', than for several years. The quantity is represented to be about two millions of bushels, or less, than half the stock at the corresponding period last year. The stock of Hour is also below the average at this peri od of the year, but this is in consequence, because the coastwise mar kets are no longer so largelv dependent upon New York as" thev were before the days; of uaiversal luuuMia. ' kji uni, me block is more than twice as large as at the corresponding period last year, while the supply of Oats. Eve and Barley is considerably less. There1 is a great scarcity of Winter Wheat not only here but throughout the Atlantic States, ' an evidence of which is offered by the fact that prices of this description have re cently advanced materially, while bpring has been tending the other j way. Millers apprehend much dif- j ficulty in obtaining adequate sup-! plies of winter grown Wheat, and it seems probable that the high grades of Flour made from this Wheat must, for ; many months to come, bear higher relative values than Spring Wheat Flour. With our extended system of railroads, it is of course possible to bring forward large supplies of x jour ana vvneat during the winter, but the transportation charges are so tasa. dunner the close of navirrn tion that considerable anantatiaa n. not usuaiiy snipped rrom the primary markets, unless prices at the A. M . 1 i m i -a seaboard rule unusaUy high. lhe export trade in Flour and Grain has been very slow of late, owing to a lack of sufficient shipping margins, the scarcity of tonage facilities being one great ob stacle, and the fullness of supplies of .foreign grown grain in Great iintain, together with the dull state of trade there, being another for our market is almost invariably govverned by LiverpooL Ihis being the case, it is well to get the bearings of the English market from such recognized agricultural authorities as Jackson and Caird. The latter has lately contributed to an English publication a paper full of interesting informa tion, lie has great fears for the harvest of 1873, owing to the wet seed-time, expressing the opinion that unless circumstances prove fa vora Die, tne Harvest ot 1043 may prove as unproductive as that of 1853, which was the worst experi enced by the United Kingdom since the repeal of the Corn Laws, and was the consequence of the wet autumn and winter of 1852. The weather the past Summer is pro nounced by Sir. Caird the worst for the Potato crop experienced since 1846, 1847 and 1848, and he has no doubt that the crop was a million and half tons deficient He points out with great force, that the failure of the Potato is at all times a very serious question in Ireland, where the area under Potatoes a million acres is double the extent in England. But Caird s communication is chiefly valuable for the informa tion it conveys in reference to the probable requirements of foreign Wheat by the United Kingdom duringfthe harvest year, from Sep tember 1, 1872, to September 1, is $. ins M estimate, based upon a careful survey of the whole field, is 12,000,000 quarters, or 95,000, 000 bushels the largest quantity ever imported into the Kingdom in a single year. But notwithstand ing this heavy requirement, he does not look for anything like extreme prices, for the reason that France instead of being a competitor as is sometimes the case, is a contributor to Britons food necessities. The prices ruling during the last two months have brought into the TJni ted Kingdom the unprecedented supply of 2,581,000 quarters, or at the rate of more than 15,000,000 quarters within the year, an import considerably greater than seems likely to be required. And, as Mr. Caird goes on to point out, it should not be left out of calculation that the great bulk of the Wheat crop in England was harvested in fine con dition, albeit the deliveries have so far been comparatively small, because of the unpropitious weather for thrashing. The closing of our canals and the Russian and Baltic ports will great ly lessen the imports of Grain during the winter; but Mr. Caird feels confident that the home supply, with the reserve stock of foreign, will suffice till Spring; when the imports may be renewed to any extent required. On the whole, he does not see any good reason to apprehend either great scarcity or much, if any, advance in price. Finally, he deals with the estimated deficiency of 1,500,000 tons in the .Potato crop, and the embarrassments of the Fall seed time. As to the former matter, he sees no difficulty. The foreign imports of Potatoes, which in October, 1870 and 1871, were 1170 and 3,900 tons respectively, sprang up at once in October, 1872, to 85,400 tons. They came from all quarters in near Continental ports Prussia, Belgium and France,.: Prussia and France together are believed to grow about twenty-five million tons a year-Mso tnat a considerable in crease in the usual price can hardly a fail to draw from so large a source the comparatively small quantity re quired. These foreign Potatoes cost in England six pounds sterling, j or say thirty dollars gold per " ton. Mr. Caird, it will be seen, figures out an abundance of food for the inhabitants of the United Kingdom, although he admits that to procure it will involve a pretty heavy financial strain upon them. : But it is the heavest of 1873 which gives rise to the greatest anxiety. Mr. Caird advises that where the heavy lands are unapC-achable to the sow er, the lighter and drier soils on every farm should be sown with Wheat! and that, later,-' the heavy. lands should be sown with spring Grain, If Grain shall rule at mod

erate prices on the other side, any

expectation of high prices that may be entertained here will not be like ly to be realized, because, as we have already remarked, our market is pretty much always governed by that of Liverpool. ' NEWSPAPER FAILURES. The Reason Way There are so Many ;,,.. of Them- .-: i ; : In his recent excellent address before the Press Association of Tennessee, Gen. Geo. P. Jones, of the Nashville Union and American gave the following account of news paper mortality. ' We do too much work without compensation. We pay too much money without any return what ever. We establish an elemosynary institution at our own expense. We keep a charity school on our own hook. We conduct business as if we owe everything to the puhlic,and the public are not indebted to us a farthing. We are preyed upon by the sharpers and innocent alike. We advertise gratuitously every week, when we should have the money for it. The general public arc entirely ignorant we our salves are not ful ly aware of the extent to which" newspapers are burdened by Mii insidious drain upon their resources. It insinuates itself in every conceivable form. It does it through agents, through reporters, throve1 correspondents, through - editors,' through business managers, through proprietors, and generally, too; with as much disadvantage to the public as to thenrftSR. Ther in not arfcusiness, from the dispenser of ginger cakes and cider to the largest man-: ufactory, which will not advertise with you gratis which will if you listen to it, endeavor to convince you that it is your duty to the public to do so. There is not an aspirant for public station and when I contemplate the number of these I experience an overwhelming sense of commingled amazement and disgust from constable to the Senate of the Union, who does not conscientiously believe it to be the imperative duty of the press, daily and weekly, to speak with a pen of telescopic power of his microscopic deservings. Even that army of strollers which infest the country and the people as a sort of visitation from providence for- our int quities, from the street corner seller of prize candy or magic oil to operatic impressario, will expect you to write an indefinate number of editorials on a three-square advertisment inserted for five days, changeable daily without charge ! We are required to write up, urge up, and put through every entertainment, great or small, that seems to have a possible connection with the Puduc. .eut we never hear of a share of stock; or of " a dividend. ran i ii xne cnurcn, tne Dtate, commerce, industry, art, invention and hum bug alike seem to regard the . press as their servators, and to be run and sustained for their advantage. There is a line of demarcation in all these things between public demand public utility, new f paper duty - and. individual gain. That line should be defined and held as it in reality is, tne veaa line. JNot a letter nor a space, nor a figure, nor a comma, nor a period, nothing of all the innumerable particles that enter into the form or structure of a daily or weekly newspaper is there that its picking up or putting down does not cost cash money. Not a revo iuuon oi tne press, not a square inch of paper that does not cost Bomething in cash. This should be understood by the public. If it is not, its correlative should be prac ticed by the presa I do not mean that the press should abandon its position of being the foremost charitable institution in the world. It should hold to that, for its munificent liberality ; after purging stself of nine. tenths of the daily swindles practiced upon it, will exceed that of any other business, j . To get rid of this stupendious fraud of gratuitous ; advertising, this cancer, canker call it anything: provided you select an epithet that will characterize it strongly enough I can prescribe no other rule than this : Put voluntarily and without charge, any and everything into your paper which you deem advantageous to it in being; beneficial to the public All else exclude, being of advantage to those who wish to make money on your capital and enterprise. Hold your space at its value. Fix your rates at a fair price for your circulation and adhere to them. Fair dealing will accomplish more than foul at all times and everywhere. For be it known that the American press is not a vampyre, to be constantly sucking the life-blood of the people. It has a vastly higher mission; but it should also be known that it will not longer be made the victim of the : thousands of vampires that come daily to tne counters, m every J concievable garb to have its life blood incon tinently sucked away. , it . is less than nineteen years since the United States succeeded in opening the hermitically sealed doors of Japan, and enectmg a treaty of commerce with that peculiar nation. It was nine years after that before the Japanese gave signs of adopting any of the elements of Western civilization ; but since then they have introduced into their country the steam engine, the tele graph and a national system of education all steps on the way : to freedom which prepared the way ; for the great change that-, has fol lowed ; the removal of power : from ( the hereditary nobles, and. invest ing it in the Mikado and his minis' ters. The last mail brings the an nouncement that an elective Parli ament is to be established. This is to consist of 600. members, and ', there are to be two houses. The Mikado and his ministers have de termined that henceforth the people E shall have a voice in public afiairs.

The trade in Holiday goods is brisk despite of a stringent money market and the machinations of the

speculative 1 cliques of Wall and I Brosd streets. This is indeed the harvest time for the dealers in fancy goods, the display of which in the retail shop windows was never finer. The fancy goods artificers seem to have exhausted ingenuity where with to tempt customers with a flood of dainty trifles as w ell as articles of vertu, while for the benefit of Young America, there is scarcely an jeriding tohe vast array of ingenious toys which are ' supposed to be turned out from the mysterious workshops of Santa Clans. The ingenuity and labor devoted to gratifying the tastes and desires of the great and little folk at Christmas tide, is truly wonderful. Cunning mechanicians work the precious metals into graee-i ful shapes of - frameworks for the jewels which nature gives and man; cannot counterfeit ; looms and shut j ties weave elegant fabrics for thrj adornment of the person: Thej world is the better for its holiday; and the Christmas time is the chief est pf them all The enjoyment o it is lengthened out in the prospec tive of preparation and heightene by the kindly labor of making read; for the day. Human nature breath: a sigh of relief when the last week of the dying year brings it a respit from the toll of the other fifty-on ad turns readily to coming pleas) e from the days of rest. , . The year now closed, is memor tble for the fearful gales and me rilie disasters which have been re c0decL The number of lives los ?d the amount of property destroy i upon me xugu &ta uavo jnuu Ail 11 . 1 " T. I . T DJ? tuMm fdvYirn t.hA ftvprftfra. A HI CI rotn the numerous losses of ship and cargoes reported in the Iocs marine records, the cables have fo: the last three months been burden ed with the intelligence of th wrecks of ships and the suffering of seamen. Insurance companie have lost heavily, as have also mei chants who entrustedtheir fortune to the hazard of wind and wav many fine steamers and sailing vet sels, with their precious lives an valuable cargoes, have had to . sut cumb to the gales that have swet with relentless .fury across the gret pathways of commerce, and ,tr ocean must have greatly added t its buried .treasures. Very ie landsmen have a just appreciatic of the hardships endured by th mariner at sea. Surrounded by ti comforts of a home, they are n apt to think of "the - dark pen which haunt the rim of the out world." So it ever has been an so it will probably ever be. - As usual during the holiday se sod, there is a general relaxation business enterprise, save that tre most exigent character, ar ibis dull and listless state of cor mercial affairs is liko!y to contl ue for a week or tea days, or um the holidays are well over. Meai while, merchants and business mi ar engaged in balancing t bucks, 'taking account of stocl. tquariDg accounts, and puttie their affairs generally in shape f a new departure. The yejr nt closing, despite of many drawbacl has been one of gratuyiog coi mercial progress. More - good both of native and foreign prodtt tion, have been sold in this mark tuan la any previous yeir in ci history. Nrr is this a spasmod or ephemeral growth, springu from advent ttous nrcumstanc it is clearly the result of cans -7 Inch are net only permanent their operation, but which mu continue to increase in potent and activity. These causes ha' themselves been gradually dev oped from the progressive tende ctcs of age and nation, and are t firmly fixed, as an essential el ment of that progress, to suff any relapse. There have, of cours been many individual cases ofcci mercial disaster Such cases, hot ever, are inseparable incident i the most prosperous of years, an they usually serve as incentives renewed energy and enterpne The money market remains excee ingly s'nngent, and will so conn ue till after the luin ot the yea when the distribution of the Jan ary dividends and in teres amounting in the aggregate -1 someone hundred millions, res be relied upon to restore flnanci ease and impart a healthy stimuli to commerce and industry. The r markable few failures fiat have x cured during the extreme mom pressure of the last ninety dai is to be regarded as an iniicati of the soundness of the superstru ture of the trade and industry the country. In this respect, we a no doubt in a better position th' at any period during tbe last ten i a dozen y ears; and with no disturbing causes or a serious natu h in the outlook, there is every re - son to suppose 'hat this gene 1 prosperity will, continue to ill crease. ' . - f J' According to the annual report of tj, Director ol the Hint, gold is found in thi J . teen States of the Union, :s : Yermoi L, Maryland, Virginia, Noun and Son it Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Tenness ! , Kansas, Nebraska, riertda. Oregon, at t California. California has contributed, a tbe last twenty-four yeats, the stupe jdous amount of $613,121,419. Nor. It Carolina has a total of $9,865,233, ai l Georgia about $7,250,000. Virginia at t South Carolina have each found over t million of dollars of gold ' within th ir borders. In addition to the thirtei

gold tearing States, every one of t Territories furnish . the same precio . metal. The smallest quantity is fn t Alaska, $397 64, and lhe largest fn , . Montana, $30,648,265. Colorado aho' $20,338,481, and Idaho $17,141,52',: With two or perhaps three exceptioi , all of these Territories bear silver alt I The largest pro J act of silver U front tt tittle State Nevada, ' which, since first settlement, has furnished the m 1 and its branches with $8,539,868 in -verv The next largest production is $lj11443, from Colorado, and tba next V rom the copper and lead miniog regi 1 of Las Soparior, $1,082,541. 1 -1 -; i ... - . - a, .

WASIUXUTON CORRESPONDENCE. ; WabhisgtoxYD. C, Dec 28, 1872. ! THe Wcathcr.Clear ad Cool H fae fllcigfclac-Civll Service Rfor . Postal Telegraph Important Po. i tal Decision Railroad latpectora . Paeamatic Tabeww- " " ' . For the first time in fifteen years Washingtonians are favored with three- consecntivo idays of good eleigliing. It commonced snowing on Curhlmts evening, and continued without abating until noon on Thursday.. .The weather is now clear, and cool, and there is every prospect of several data more of

continued aleiguing. otngie teams at $5, and double $8 to 810 au hour are easily let. The spsecli of Representative Snapp, of . Illir.ois, is considered the commencement of a war upon the Civil Service system, and the heads of several Departments have been continually importuned - by Copgrcssmen in behalf ol their constituents who want office and who will not submit to comptUtivc exanrinations.' It is reported that a strong lobby has been formed under the pay of tbe Associated Press monopoly to oppose the Postal Telegraph bill likdy to be favorably acted on very soon. By the charter granted to this monopoly by Congress several years ago, the Metropolitan joumtJa of tbe large cities, have been enabled tt amass fortunes from tbe enormous profits derived from the sale of a pot tion of their dispatches to tbe smaller papers,at the expense and detriment of tbe reading public. . Now tbe Post Office Committee proposes a bill which provides that tbe Postmaster General shall be authorized to contract witH a company which will furnish and operato all : the lines and transmit all telegraphic correspondence at rates fixed by tbe bill, which are ono cent a word not exceeding 250 miles, two cents not exceeding 500 milca,and if sent by night, one cent for any distance 1 'ss tba 1 1,000 miles. These rates make a reductien of from 30 to 50 per cent, on the present cost of telegraphing, add 80 pel cent, to the length of the messages, double the number of offices, and bring tbe telegraph ' wiibin easy reach of every one in all country ' townsall this without expense to the government. The Acting Postmaster General decided that several printed circu lars, although they refer to the same thing, and are, as it were, a part, cannot be sent through the mails prepaid by a one cent stamp only, but must bear a ono cent stamp each. - Already the position of Speaker ship of the Houae ib being agitated There seems as vet but little doubt of the continuance of Speaker Wane in tbat position, although there is a movement on foot by several Southern members of Concress to advance the claims of Horace Maynard, of Tennessee. Tbe high compliment paid to Mr. Blaine nt tbe close of last session .by the unanimous thanks of the :; House is a double assurance that he will have no formidable com pe!itor. . .' So many are the terrible acci dents on our railroads recently that peoplo aro becoming aroused to the necessity of prompt Congres sional legislation by appointing in spectors similar to tnose tnat examine steamboat?, to examine and report upon the condition of all tbe railroads. To tbat end a bill wilt be introduced in Congress provid ing for feuch inspectors and defining their duties. ino pneumatic tune, now commenced from the Capital to the Government Printing Office, by Mr. Brisbane, has every prospect or not being finished for experi ment this session. ; It will be re membered that Congress approp iated 15,0UU last year for its ex eculion, which was understood at that time that it , would bo com pleted at or be 'ore tho convening of this session of Congress. Mr. B., however, appears sanguine that it will be finished in season, and assures us that be will, by it, verify to the country that by ; the means of the pueumatic ' tu'je, the U. S mails and small parcels of goods can be transmitted at the rate of from' 150 to 200 miles an hour, and thus revolutionize the whole-ex press system. The results of the trial of Abram Nelson for obtaining a surreptitious knowledge of the business secrets of Phelps, Dodge & Co., would seem to suggest the necessity for an 4 amendment of the ' criminal code. Phelps, Dodcre & Co. deal in all kinds of metals, and the operations sometimes - - affect this particular business throughout the world. Nelson obtained a secret entrance to their place of business, and - kept himself; continually informed of their plans and projects. : The details of these he ' imparted to rival liims rjid taus inflicted a "serious loss on the firm by enabling other business houses in the same trade to forestall their operations in every important instance. There 4s no law against a theft of this character, however, and Nelson was there-, fore indicted for taking tin umbrella on the night of his' last visit to their counting-room. J : The jury -'disagreed on the .question aa to Whether the taking of this umbrel la constituted burglary or petit larceny. -Recorder - Hacket charged the jury that if they believed ' from evidence that Nelson entered the place of business with an intention of stealing it, ho was guilty of burglary, but if he took - it in a casual way after he had effected an entrance, the crime was simple lar- ; ceny,,. . On this point thtf- jury" disagreed, seven voting -for burglary aad five for larceny, ; .rx A Itentacky coort settled a do mMtM MnaAl Ka-nttlltitii Ka fiia "1WUV "iu"".uJ l'u",u6 " bend under bonds not to go borne fnr i!t mnnlll,., . i. .i

' JLL-! ' ii-t The Apportloaawat Bills. , Governor Baker has filed the Apportionment bill passed at the special esslon-sf portioning tbej State for Legislative and Congressional representation without approving them. The bills have be-, Qome laws under this clause of section 14 article 5 of the ConstitotntUn: "If any bill shall not be returned by the Governor within three dava, Sunday excepted, after it shall have been presented ' to him, it shall become a law in like manner as if Ve bad signed it, an less - a general djournment shall prevent iU return, ia which " case it shall not be a law, unless the

uovcrnor, wituin five days next after such, adjournment,: shall file such bill, with his objection thereto, ia the office of tbe Set ret&ry ot State, who shall lay the same . be fore tbe General Assembly at iU next session, in like manaer as If it had been returned by the Governor." fT-iV.: CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICTS. The Congressional Apportion ment bill as it passed the Senate is aa follows: First District Pcsey, Vanderburg Warrick, Spencer, Gibson, and Pike. , h Second District Sullivan, Knox, Daviess, Greene, Martin, Orange, Crawford and Dubois. Third District Harrison Clark. Floyd, .Washington. Jackson. Brown, and Bartholomew. Fourth District Ohio, SwWzcrand, Jefferson, Scott Jennings, Ripley, Decatur and Rusk. Fifth District Dearborn, Frank in, Fayette, Union, Wnyne, and Randolph. Sixth District Johnson, Shel by, Haucock, Henry, Delaware, Madison and Grant. Seventh District Marion, Mor gan, Hendricks1 and I'utman. Eighth iifctrict, Lawrcnc, Mon roe, Owen, Clay, Vigo, Parko, and varmtmon. ; r- . . Ninth District Boone, Clinton. Montgomery, Feu itain, Warren and Tippecanoe.'1 Tenth Dist. ict Laporte, St. Jo seph, otarke, forter, Liske, Newton, Benton, While, Carroll, Jasper, and Pulaski. . s Eleventh District Hamilton, Howard, Tipton, Cass, Miami, Ful" ton and Wabath. ' v "-v Twelfth 1 District Jay, Black ford, Wells, Adams, Huntington, Whitley, and Allen. , Thirteenth District Koicisko, Marshall, Elkhart, Lagrange, Noble, Steuben, and DeKalb. Akotheb Tsmpkbancb Sermon. Joshua Collmingo, night watchman of tbe Coledonia paper mills, Indi anapolis, fell into a bleaching vat of the establishment, Saturday night, while drunk, and was boiled to death. . - v Some of tbe finest lands in Texas can be bought for $1.50 per acre. There are only twenty-seven candidates for United States . Senator in Missouri. A Dutch judge, on couviction of a culprit for having four wives, de cided : "He has punishment plenty ; T lifa mit aka . , t v . "This is the rock of ages," said the father, after rocking two hours and the baby still awake. MAKKntn, On the 1st inst at the residence of Wm. Jones, by Bev. N. Gillam, Mr. John H. Nichols, of Hagerstown, and Miss Anna S. Jones, of this city. ' 7 " -On Thursday eve. last, Mr. John Harrington and Miss Anna Boss, at St. Mary's Church ; both of thisciiy. . v Richmond National Rank. ' The firm of Morrissoa, Blancbard t Co. is this dajr dissolved by mutaai consent; James L. Horrisson and Albert H. Btanchard retiring. Tbe business of the Citizens Bank will be consolidated with that of tbe Richmond National Bank, and conducted by it in the Banking Honse of Morriseon, Blancbard A Co , where every facility will be given for the transaction of the business of Banking in all its branches as heretofore. . Richmond, Ind., January 1, 1S72. TO THE WORKING CI. ASS, male or female (60 a week guaranteed, liespec table employment at home, day or even injt; no capital requited. ' Full instruction and Valuable package of goods to' start with sent free by mail. Address, with 6 cent return stamp II. VOUNQ A CO., 16 Courtland atreet Hew York. 424 - COD Of COOilT The Ladie'a Friend. Ask yoar Grocer for IU mwa mm . always gives sstisfaetioa Try it , 1 i -' for the laundry hsa no equal. 8old by Groeers a a haktlg i t A Co 11S, 117 N Front Street, Philadelphia, 143 Chambers Street, 11 Y, 43 Broad Street, Boston 421 ' 10.000 Agents Wanted. ;; W ARGE Wages made by boneet, indus-M-i trious men and women 60 handsome Lithographs FREE to each spent. Address, ' UWWES tuu, Marion, ulio. THE best selling book in the Market is The Strazgtee of - Petroleiim V. Nasby. It is illustrated by THOMAS N AST. the greatest of American Artiftts, and contains aa Introduction by Don. Charles Sumner. Agents wanted for this and other popular book ' Address I V Richardson A Co. Boston, Mass .and St. Lonis. Mo.v r ABOoaroaTKEMiixioift MarrM r akaat I , m. ik. 1 1 . lBMda itmuliriita, vitataa , TkUla am lilnallil rk tttn haafeaaei(ti aoaltk naiini aanTtaaa, aa mulat TilutM In Mill tar than vaa ara arrlaa.aaaaaMaiflawaiar rUaa. StiaHiaa ak tkataaakttaaa kcptaaoartoal titer, aa4 aatlaia earaiewly akaat tba ko it MkulH laauaartnce aad Wvlea t aaaa ra kaat upaiama la waria-wwe, aaa hmh aa ib um an- , na aravar af aaan aiala an4 liuli iaiaataaMBa " -atoka. 1 aaoraaia awyOrtas aa ta aatjart a t taa iaSuinnimi On ta vanb kaaias.aaa aiaak UM Is aat paallaaaa la say ataar van. Sa la aaa aaa (Rat at aattaca) ferrillr Ccata. tiiriaw. aaamMqi a SicMkasrsat Bt. iMUit, Ha. Notice to thi Afiictei .irTrnfbrttffla'' ac)iaaalrlaaawaaliiilw aaita1amilala. Kblia aatwra.ar ait aar ack raawdtei peraaa Dr. a- work aa atattcr waat jaaialaaiaa la, t kaw aaalaa. aa!e yaar aoaditiM. ' " ' I laaaii: 1 a I ndfgd ay al 1W. aaiia accnpirs a www, wwmmm .t -mmtwrn i aianteuaraafikUaaaatrraMBi ErgsrT&'Zntt ' aataaaaMaraa aCBai,it. U 16 a 1 lac nanacwaraiaa amaaa Baraaaraaaaaa aaaaa- . 11 a. siakta aiaaaaaa maauoaea la Laala, Ma.

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