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T H E H E R K I M E R . 3S| . Y*» W £ B S f£SD A Y . BIAKCH 3 4 , 18C1 . t i f i »MSX BIS&SSI. Tlie Attomey-Gaueral says toSaiia- tors; “ W e caBOot coBiJact the- ad,-; ministration successfully unless you repeal fche Tenure-ofeOffice bill, and leave the Presidfflit’s hands , uniaed,” Indeed! B u t your President him self wanted to impose this bill ■ on Presi dent Johnson, and we trust i t will he imposed upon Mm-^^r else every of fice in the land will have some hun gry member o f the Grant famfiy in it, in less than three months. And they don’t die, won’t resign, and will not he discharged. The. plot thickens, and the W h ite House is full of “mon ey changers.” W e append the latest Gen. I/ongslreet, an es-rebel officer, a relative of Grant, nominated as Sur veyor at IJew Orleans. Gen. Dent, Grant’s brother-in-law, to he Collector at San Erancisco. O. S. Grant, the pr^ident’s broth er, to be a Collector a t Chicago. And so on. W h en an applicant for a U . S. of fice now learns that a relative of the President is in the field, he gives his own chances up. , Keaily, this nepotism is shameless. I t is worse than anythihg Andrew Johnson was ever accused of. THE nn&EO AS A CITIZEN. B y the terms of the constitutional amendment now pending, the negro is to be imposed as a citizen upon the people o f the States, without their consent, for the amendment is not sub mitted to the people but to Legisla tures elected before it was made an issue. In this way the legislatures chosen by the negroes and carpet-bag gers, backed up by the bayonet, in the Southern States, will be enabled to force the negro, as a citizen, upon the great States of the Ifortb that, have refused to adopt negro suffirage for themselves. The amendment is a fraud in this, that by the Chicago platform, upon which Grant was elect ed, the people of the Loyal States ATere declared to be the proper parties to regulate the suffrage in those States. The.President, true to theEepublican idea of breaking pledges, asks that the negro may be specially protected by the Comtitution. The States may pass laws requiring a property qualifi cation lor voters. They may require an educational standard. They can disfranchise mpn on account of their poverty, hut they must not touch tho negro. H e is the privileged person, whose rights alone are to he guaran teed by the Constitution. th e n e w e ostaob . stam ps . The new ■series of postage stamps have been delivered to the Post-Office. Department, and preparations are be ing made for their introduction. The one cent stamp is headed with the wignette o f Franklin, the fimt Post-' Piaster General under the colonial system, as well as the first under the confederation preparatory to the Fed eral Union. In the two, three an(^ twelve cent stamps, there is an illus: tration of th e improvements in mail transportation, from the primitive rider on horseback to the railroad train for the land, service . and the steamship for the ocean sei'vioe. The remaining six stamps of the set are distinctly national, and, as such, form a series o f their own, beginning in the six cent stamps ^Yith the face o f W ash ington, and ending in ninety cent stamps, with the head of Lincoln.— T wo Others o f this national series,fifteen and twenty-four cents respectively, have miniature copies of the “ Land ing of Columhus,” and the “ Declara tion of Independence.” In the ten cent stamps the American eagle ap pears resting upon the American shield, and in the thirty cent stamps are comprised in one group, all the national emblems o f the eagle, the shield and the flag, and presenting al so the national colors—red, white and blue. Tbs new stamps will soon be before the public. President Grant in his very short inaugural, used the personal pronouns', “ P ’ and “ me,” iwenty~one KBPUBhlQaa BBMilHU WITS dBAST. N o t alone do the Democrats call at tention to the singular' character of Grant's appointments—his selections from the ranks o f his military subor dinates, his family connections, or the subscribers to the funds wMeh have enriched him.. The Cincinnati Cpwt- merdal, for instance, one o f the lead ing Eepublican journals o f th e W est, speaks as follows in reference to the reoentappointment o f Tbos.H . Foulds Post-Master o f Cincinnati:— There are several things in this case to «xeite remark. In the first i, Miv G. Thomas, the present •master, has shown an aptitude for the place, and discharged the du- of h is office with a degree o f intel ligence and energy that has given general totisfection i iand the persons most largely conbbmed in the business o f the office, and who have the most intimate knowledge o f Its jlianai ment, have felt that it- woMd be wl to have Mr. Thomas continued in o f fice j and many of them have asked, for the sake of the: service, that he should be continued.' The Time?, Qa- jfette arid Cbmmei’eMtlnewspapers have commended him in., decided terms.-^ Now as i t has heemanaounced, that the President proposed to retain officers who were doing their diity in an ex emplary manner,' and that he would wait until the repeal o f the Tenure-of- Office act before sending appointments to the Senate, except in cases where barges' Avere preferred against in-^ cumbents, the concfitislon that h© would let the Cincinnati Postmaster alone for a while did n o t seem unreasonable. Jff we are to understand that President Grant makes exertions to all miles in regard to U? pm dnal friends and the friends o f f a m i l y , xce have toeltserve that his list ofoequaintancesis, perhaps, hardly suffieteyiily extetisive to warrant Mm in smpoHng that he cm select from them the best goneming m a tenal in the country. W e conie® that .we cannot regard it as an auspicious symptom that the first change in an important office in this part o f the State is the removal of an officer o f recognized efficiencyandthe appointmentof agi tleman who has, there is no dou many excellent qualities, but win motion seems rather* due to i t that he wasi a personal ftiend than toany endownnaent or experience. W e have not the slightest objection to seeing Foulds in the service of his country in the capacity o f Post-Mast er, hut, as he is a resident of Coving ton, and the Post-Master in that toipn is an old genU&man, atid not able to givemiich aiteniionto. the office, and withal in comfortable circumstances, we suggest to the Preddeni that he should remare Jesse P . Grant from the Cov~ ingion Post-Office, and appoint Thom as H . Foulds to that place, permitting times. The word “ Constitution” he employed hut once in reference to his oath of office^ which he could not avoid, and once in firgisg the adoption o f the fifteenth amendmfi».t, which is directly opposed to the ^ i r i t o f the Constitution. S®* The peoplfrof this S tate h a ving voted down negro sufirage by an over-' whelming majority every time it was submitted'to them, our represen tatives in Albany, i f they really are the representatives of the people, will submit the Fifteenth Amendment to the popular voice before ratifying it in the teeth o f 140,000 majority against it. ■ ■ TaBCENTMLBAiLEOAp.AND IT3 SCBIP D ivtdends .— W hen the Cen tral Railroad declared its scrip divi dend of eighty per eent.,up 9 nits.capi- tal from profits -which, Commodore V a n deebiet arid the Board o f i)L rectors testified had been put= into the road in the shape of.real estate 'pur chases, buildings, rolling stock, &c.j it wax suggested that tbe exhibit made was a good thing for the study of the Internal Revenue officers of the Fed eral Government and local tax asses, sors. It is now stated by the New York Evening Post that the Internal Revenue Department has had the sub ject under consideration and is about to proceed against the corporation for the collection o f them com e tax. The aggregate bf the scrip dividend, which was oVer and above the earnings paid to stockholders, amounta to $24,.000,- 000,-arid the tax at five .per cent, would be .Si,200,fi00'. - UBBABAHiEB BBUTAHXT, The New \Fork papers g ive an ac count o f a series of brutalities perpe trated upon unofiending emigrants and the crew o f tbep the ship, and her officers. Out of one •hundred and forty passengers,eighteen died on the passage, ostensibly o f fe ver, but several of them as it is posi tively stated, on account o f the cruel and inhuman treatment of the officers of the ship. - T lie treatment of igrants 'crc\\’\~ long been be Post-Master of ^ preferred for ment.” The old gentleman here alluded to, of course, is Bone other than the father o f the Presiden t. WHAT EAILEOAES DO BOB EABMSBS. To haul forty bushels of corn fifty miles on a wagon costs, says the oulturalisi, at le a s t tAvelAre d o l l a i s f o r a team, driver and expenses. A rail road would transport it for four dol lars a t m ost. AlloAving an average of forty bushels per aero, the crop would be A^orth eight dollars per acre, or eight per cent, on $10(1. As the relatiAre advantage is about the same for other crops, it is cleaV that .a rail road patsing through a tOAvn. Avould add 100 per cent to the value of the farms. A town ten miles s<iuare con tains sixty-four thousand acres. An increase of $100 per acre is equal to 06,’4O(),OOO or enough to build tAvo hundred miles of. railroad, even i f it cost $12,000 per mile. But two hun dred miles, of road would extend through twenty towns ten miles square, and costs but ten dollars per acre if d taxed upon the laud. These figures are given merely as an illusti'atron. I f the farmers had taxed themselves to build all the railroads in this couri- try, and given them away to any com panies that would stock andruu them, the present increased value o f their land would have \wsll repaid all the outlay.. . • Grant nominated the rebel General Longstreet to a lucrative of fice in. New Qrleans--Surveyor . o f Customs. Longstreet tunied Radical aasoon a sthe South Avas conquered. W e note the Radical papers general ly second this nomination of a “ red- handed rebel” A?hose “ hands are drip ping with loyal blood,” &c., &c. It may be well enough, to state that Longstreetis a relative of the Dent family, and to Grant, a relative by marriage. F epd , D ougeas for a F03»EIGN M ission ,— The New, Tork Tribune urges Fred. Douglas for a foreign mis sion. I t sees no reason why the men who east a quarter o f million'votes for President Grant should not be repre sented among his appointments, and recognizes a special fitness in the pre ference of colored citi^ensnover whites for posts like the missions to Hayti and Liberia. W hy .—’Miss ^'rin i LeAv, the neAf Posfc-BIjstress a t Richmond, was a spy Tor Grant in-the last year o f the war., Grant must reserve Something better than a Rost-OMce for Pauline Cush- The Fifteenth Amendmentpass- ed the Assembly on W ednesday by a Strict; p arly ynte. jj^'Q u een Yictoria is seven years •older than the Em|)rea|s Eugenie. !t ship Jariiei Foster, dr., hy a Ibrute o f a man named Armstrong, who commanded mts 'crossing in these vessels has lon g been sham eful, and th a t th e brutes who com m it these crim es hi innished;nishe... speaks riot been long sineepu ____ but poorly for the Justice which is sup posed too bee metedeted outut too t b m o t rich >r alike. Resides the passengers. sup- and everal o f i h e crew are said to have leen so badly beaten, kicked arid oth- rwisee abusedbused byy thhe e Captain and his so badly beaten, l a b t offioprs that they died on the passage. Further investigation adds to. the brutality of the ease. It appears that hundreds o f persons were eroAvded to gether in a -fetid and unwholesom jld, disposed upon miserable with no adequate provisions for li[ or ventilation ; with no separation the sexes, save by means'of movable curtains. They could not get coal e- nough to cook their food, and thus were compelled' either to Cat it-raAv or to throw i t overboard,-.much of the lime. The water tanks were insuffi- the ight i o f w y Democrats, and perhaps othexs- President Graiit. — The M}?ning Post gravely says. I f the administration goes on as it has begun, it will break doAvn,” How can i t go On otherwise ^ I t is the first \step which decides. Mr. Mullins, of Tenn., theCon- ionaj. orator, said, in a recent Gabriel snaps his resurrection gun.” — The Fresident has opened on the W hisky Riug,-^at. the suggestion of bydischargi) me more to fen out the rogues than any other man. lational debt---6vexy body to g ive what he pleases. W e ll, suppose Richard leads off, depositing the money where it can be found. . — O f three applicants for the post- office a t Dubuque, one -claim s it ..be cause his wife is a cousin of Grant, another says he can “ g o him two nieces better,” — ^ ----- lary purposes, corapieraent o f hands shipped for the voyage being incomplete, several men Avho had nqfc mouey enough to pay their M l fare, were induced to article themselves a s cooks, with limited du ties. After the vessel got to sea, these men were ordered to do service as common Bailors, and when they object- T avo of the unfortunate fellows di with tho declaration upon their 1 that they perished from violence.— Another Reaped this ■ntolerable i tor ture by jumping overboard. Others have found their way to hospitals since arriving' in this country. Several of the ' officers engaged in this inhuman affair have been arrest ed, arid others have fled to avoid ar- WOllBEBrUL EXPEBIMEHT. For the purpose of arriving a t tbe di^rence in mean time betATcen San Fraricisco and Boston, the wires of the Western Union Telegraph Com pany h a v e nightly been connected, for nearly a month past, from one side of the continent to the other, and the ticking o f a chronometer in Cambridge University has been observed and re corded in San Francisco with a most remarkable degree o f accuracy. This is done by connecting th e pendulum of the chronometer at Oambridge Avith the wire, in such a. manner that the main circuit is broken and instant ly closed -again at every beat or tick of the time piece, and^ the result is that each second of time, as marked b y tb e clironom eier a t Cam b ridge, goes forth from the university on tlie Atlantic coast,^nd, with almost the speed of light itselfj hurries on over the magic wire, passing through inter mediate cities, toiraia and villages, a- cross rivers, over mountains and along the open eoantry, until it firirilly reach es the recording instrument o f the Pacific coast, in all o f its original full ness o f pulsation. The ticks .of a clock are heard and recorded in San Fran- cjsco almost in tho same instant that they reached the ear of the observer in the first named place. ■ But notwith standing tbe speed with wbicb 'these' !M’e it is the next question. Nothing easier ^ a sec ond Avire is'sAritched into place, a re peater” added at. Boston,'and, presto! ’tis done. Now the clock-ticks^ made at San Francisco rush on the wings id miles light, over the three thousaiv ^ wire to Boston, and back again loi San Franeiseq oyer the second irire,' and lint o f start- h sixty » ig, in the interval, traversed six thousand miles. burn, the burn, the \ Bimcl urator,\ will pegiap to learn that there is a probabili.ty o f his recovering\ the use o f his .eyes. H e has been recsally uncler the care of an eminent Kelgian occuljst,, Frof. ■yon Graefe^ who f.- .Ji.-r. 1 -r. ----- ^ eye. U e c i i t a h o l e --- Inserted » hoofe, and -withdrew five minutes. In consequence oi inflammation which set in after this operation no further attempt can be made for some time. The n e x t . step Avill be to remove the crystalline lens, discovered to be opaque. f ^ T h e ' President has appointed Robert M- D o i^las, son of the late Senator Douglas, Assistant Private Secretary, I ^ l i t i o a l F i n e O u t . — N ine times h as Sumner tried the Lhwjoln pension bill. — I W ill Jesse, the father o f 'Lyss., be M inisterto England? — The first Cabinet o f President Qrrint appears to be very much ye- signedr Grant’s “reticence” is discovered ta,lneanthat things generally must be “kept in the family.” — I n the Senate, Fenton takes the place on the Finance, Commerce, and Pacific Railroad Committees which Morgan vacatee. , J \ — Cadmus sowed teeth, and armed men sprang rip, Grant scatters Dents, and lo 2 an. OA?-erwbelnatng c rop’ of'col- leetors,'eonsuIs, and postmastsfs 1 , — Geu, Butler introduced a Rew Orleans negro to Secretary Boutwelf 'and recommended h is appointment as Assessor of Interaal Revenue in that — Prentice never said a better thing than when he declared that Grant was forced upon;the extreme Radicals, and noAv they are forcing themselves on Grant. — Mr. Grant apparently conceives that the civil service of the country > h ave c was instituted as a reward to the peo- done various civil servi- iecretary o f \W , of the Ari'l^rior were originally pie who L ces for hu — The Secretary of the Treasury, the Secretary^of W ar, and the Secre- and the third wants it lecause he is a tanner. •—“ Mack,’\ of the Cmcmnatti Fn- gxdrer, says that Colfax i& a man, with out brains, Butler a man without con science, and Sherman a man without a heart. Such a triune o f deities >uld lead’ tbe Radical party. — Speaker Blaine has announced his Committees. Butler is not Chair man of the Committe on Appropria tions. H e has had the most experi ence in that line, but the joke would have been a rather severe one. alking-sticks; a broom; ir woolen sicks—^nice for :e J3U the i e p ; .test gifts \ He.satbfira them in; he gathers them in.” alicious person, s rrprised — four years’ pew-rent; “and his picter, are Grant’s lat \ — Some malicious person, su at Gen. Grant’s mistake in regard to b i s C a b in e t, quotes t h e iblloAving c o u p let -G r a n tis s f ” ' ' ' ■ velocipede; to ride Torts thus his have not been very successful, but he is yery persistent, and may yet*;sue* ceed. Just now it looks as though his velocipede would ride him, as is fre quently the case with beginners.. — Geu. Grant’s little flight o f fancy about the “box” and the “key” and the “riches,” and hoAV aag ' are foi the key to unlock “it” or “thei very good. It is not often the see anything better, from this My. Bonner is after his man. — The nomination of Gen. Long street to a public office in New ‘ Or leans seems to excite in certain Radi cal ^quarters the greatest surprise— possibly, because it is not known that Gen. Longstreet is a brother-in-law o f Grant, or remotely related tothe Dents, or even an “old friend” of ari-v o f the family. source. Avifch heartfelt earnestness to procure the assistance of the Federal Govern ment to save them. They are enjoin ing (longress to put the State in the same position it stood immediately ___ pat tern'of Radicalism. — Affidavit Ashley wants to be Governor^of Montana; not that he cares so ririich, about the Territory, blit i f he can only get that little pinch o f snuff erected into a State and come back as Senator, that would be a big thing. -There are not more than thir ty-seven and a hqlf people out there, it is tfU e; but Jfu'st Ashley for a ll the affidavits as to nepessary population. Intense desire o f the same to come in, and so on and so on. - — Old Brownlow seeks to ent< Washington as a martyr. H e hi passed his life in making hair-breadth escapes. H is inherent cowardice, al- Avays accompanying a 'brutal disposi tion, ba,s supplied hJs occasions o f peril, ana the eoMempt of has allowed his escape* Nobody * wants to kill BroAvnlow, whatever else bq may pro claim ; and unless nature aids hhn he wjU be obliged to do the dirtiest work Ofhis life by cpdingit with his own T- -- ■ -D p — The nevr administration has been ‘igian^ccuhsv,^.rrof. ^jjafacterized as .“ The Great jast Peoember per- American G i f t ' EnteTprise.” It ap- lon on the reverend pj.^gejjted a fine library to Gen. Grant a year or' ( avo (igOf and the porrespond- ejitp f i:)ie ^roy Time? details a eon- virsatiori WithGpp. where- *•» Lesg3tF?etgave Grriritsevemmagr. WljinTi A»f>rfln.llnoi*hotr5 AVUicn a place B» tne wurveyorBu*^ the Port of New Orleans may be con- ridered a fair e q u m lant. — The United States Congress pro poses tp “4i9pDurage polygamy.” Is n o t t h is a rather paild treatm ent for thri relic o f barbarism’that was onee elaeaed w ith f l a v e r y ? ......................... S n m i n a r y o f News. — Tbe District Attorney of Co lumbia county has been, in Albany in consultation with Attorney General Champlain, rejativ^ to the trial, in — Three men named Darnells, pas sengers on the Mississippi steamer Belle of Memphis, recently asked the captain to stop at Island No. 10, as three passesgera would get on at that flaee, H e did so, and when the three ing molested. — The 18th was an unlucky Sing Sing State Priaon. One p five convicts made a daring early in the morning, before dayizgm,, gagging and binding two o f the guarda and lea'ving one o f them to die by strangulation feom.his gag. Two of •these prisoners Avere subsequently' caught. A t 1 F- M. another party made a desperate effort to escape, but did not succeed. Several shots Avere fired upon them, and two of th< dangerously wounded, when all w( retaken., A general rebellion was probably planned. — A young lady in W est Troj reported to have fallen heir to an tate^in England valued a t two million. dollars. — A Peimsylvania physici; reformed his' faithless wife s iUpying his chi — Every fireman in Chicago has his life insured for $2,000 hy the mer chants and property owners of that eity. , — The war in Cuba is pushed both sides with vigor. The insurgents are now burning all plantations that can serve their adversaries, a measure which creates great excitement. — A late divorce case in Chicago, develops the fact that an old man, af ter nineteen years of wedded life, mar ried three other Avomen in rapid suc cession, and maintained four separate establishments. A Cineim ing to commit that the newspapers might, in their hurry, make some errors in their no tices, sent to each o f them in advance a brief sketch of his life. — Rebellion Record Moore is con firmed as Second Secretary of Lega tion a t Madrid. — A negro in jail at Helena, Ark., ifessed to being one of nine has cont who beseiged Gen, and murdered him. sing one o f nine Hindman’s house — Dr. Mudd h as reached his home in Maryland, — The Erie Railway Company has abandoned the express business i renewed its contract with the old ex press company. The Housatonie road has done the same, abandoning the i press business aftei a year’s exp« ment Avith it. — ^An Albany firm is getting'up the paraphernalia for Dan. Rice’s railroad circus, which starts out of Cincinnati A p r il 15th. — A Baltimore court has decided that cats are property.' — R ichard M . T e ller, o f M y e r ’s Corner, Diitbhess county, was married about three weeks since. Last week he discovered that his ivife drank li quor to quite an extent, and to end his troubles he took a dose of lauda num, b u t timely medical assistance sav ed his life. A ll the prisoners who _ from Sing Sing Thursday h a v e 1 recaptured. \ — Hoop skirts are now entirely dis carded b y ‘fashionable ladies. ^ forty feet deep. — NeAV Brunswick rejects the an-^ nexation propositions; but in New Foundland they hay houses. — A Worcester concern is making a powerful steam saw mill on wheels, which will he propelled over highways and stopped tor duty wherever it is wanted. The machine weighs tAvelve tons, and is built for a firm in. Cali fornia. — Some of the Southern papers put the weight o f Pratt, the new Senator from Indiana, clown a t 600 lbs, — An Iowa church has paid off a mortgage hy making a general con tribution of grain, stock, dry goods, and boots rind shoes, and then selling the lot a t auction. — D u lce has reduced direct taxes in Cuba fifty per cent., but to compen sate the treasury higher duties have been imposed op sugar, molasses and rum exported. -=-The negroes of the District of Columbia have been made happy by the President’s approval o f tbe Equal Rights bill. I t is now a law. •— Joubgrt, the riob colored planter from New Orleans, who oameio Wash ington as an applicant for the office of assessor in that city, is succeeding in h is object, Secretary Boutirell has tendered him the asaessorship of the First district of New Orleans. — One cause o f railroad accidents has been discovered in England? It Is AA’hat is known as color blindness.— An engineer ran h is train into another, causing great damage. On investi gation it Avas found that he could not distinguish red from green, and had mistakeii the signal lights. nois Legisiatureto investigate charges of corruption against certain members o f their body, Averq about g iving up A committee appointed by the Rli- )is Legisiatureto h - --------- ’ wdy, V ere about g iving up lOst determined effort rotten to report, ght betbre ^ bie had reoeived Qg for his v< they instituted foiled, after a mos to find out someth] Cheese -Market. There are no changes to note in the Cheese market, except that prices are per haps less firm, The market is flat and uothing doing. Holders are asking 20(^ 21e. for prime factory. Small stock on when they fortunately, as they though had a member brought before thei who admitted that he had rec “ something for his vote.” Upon this admission they instituted a most search- ing inquiry which resulted as follows: Qncestion —^You have stated that you have, on a certain occasion, received something for your vote. D id the Oommittee understand you correctly ? Arjswer—Yes, sir. G —^Have you received anything for your vote on more than one bill ? A — ^Yes, sir. G-*-Aboiit how many ? A —I cannot tell withe to think a little while. a —W e will the present. b out stopping 'ill waive that point for You -will now state to th e answer i n tl will speak slowly, in order that his answer may be taken down. A —I got the cui-ses of the whole community. THE XENUBB-Or-OEFIOB QUESTION, W ASHINGTOK, March 22.—The Sen ate Republican eaueu.s held an ani mated session o f two hours this morn ing, considering the tenure of office question. No decision-was reached, and the cauens w ill reassem b le at two ©’clock this afternoon. M r . M o rton and several other advocates of the to tal repeal withdrew before the ad journm ent, refusing to be bound by the caucus decision. A large portion of the members participated in the discussion, and' it is said to have be com e apparent that the law w ill be either r e p e a led or s u spended u n t il the fourth of March, 1873, the proposi tion for suspension until next Decem ber being generally abandoned.— Messrs Grimes and Sprague also Avith- drew before the adjournment. L O C A L M A T T E B S . N. V. C. 8 .B .— arew TimeTakle. A new Time Table went into effect on Monday, November 23. Until further no tice, Trains will leave the Herkimer Sta tion as follows :— - — GOma EAST. Express............................ 3 56 A. M. Express......................... 6 28 A. M. my Accommodation ............... 10 30 A. M. Peters? Maslcal Hontjiiy. The March number of Peters’ Musical Monthly is at hand, and contains some; twenty-four pages of -Choice New Music, giving aeleetions from the. most popular writers, and embracing a variety calculated to salt all tastes. No musical family can afford to be with; ont this monthly. It gives during the year, over S40 worth of New Music, besides the literary matter. This Mammoth Monthly is published by J. L. Peters, 198 Broadway, New York, and is furnished at the low price of §3 per year. Sample copies, 30 cts. A ll those desiring to get their money’s worth will do well to send for a copy. t. O. 6. T. ■rhe next quarterly Session of the Her kimer County Lodge, I. 0 . C. T., will be held at Good Templar’s Hall, in the village of Frankfort, commencing on Wednesday^ April 14, at 11 o’clock, A . M., and contin ue in session Wednesday and Thursday.— A public lecture will be given Wednesday ivening. ■ Cirirvoyaat BiSmlQatToQsTred. Dr. B ottebpield - will be at the Dudley House, Utica, Thursday, Friday and Sat urday, 25th, 26th, 27th of Marck His ex aminations are astonishing and satisfacto ry, while the method- pf treatment being different from all other physicians, his suc cess is greater. Dr. B. would request of those at a distance to consult him the first or second day to avoid the annoyance of wmting so long for an examinatioa. mchl7w2 On Saturday night, March 6th, the residence of Lyman M. Bebee, of 'Van Hornesville, was entered and robbed of S2,- 150 in greenbacks. Entrance was gained by removing a pane of glass, and then un fastening the saah. Mr. Bebee had drawn the money from tiie bank the day previous, and supposed that, himself apd family the only ones cognizant of the fact. He has ofiered a reward of §o00 for the ap prehension of the thief. Chicago 3 Cincinnati Exi Albany Accon; JolinsvmeAoooE Boston Mail, St. Johnsyilie Accommodation. Day Express........ . ......... . .......... Syracuse Accommodation..,. ..... Emigrant & Accommodation.... iS'ight Express ........................... 2 27 A. M. 152 A. M. ) 5T A. M. Court Proceedings. A term of the Supreme Court and Court of Oyer and Terminer is being held at the Court House in this village, Justice B acon presiding. The Calendar numbers fifty-seven causes. The Grand Jury were sw o rn with B. F . M axsox , of Little Palls. as Foreman. After an able charge by the Judge the Grand Jury retired. A few mo tions were disposed of- and the Calendar was taken up. M adison P. W hitnev against N oadiah D . T axloe , is t h e first can s e on tria l. T h is i,i an action upon a breach of warranty in the sale of a span of mares. The action was tried in January, 1867, before J. A. R asbacii , Esq., and a ju r y at Ilio n , where the Defendant had a judgment in his f T h e p la in tiff a p p e a led to the\ C o u n ty C o u r t w h ere a re-trial w a s had an d p laintiff re covered @50. D e f e n d a n t ap p e a led t o th e General Term of the Supreme Court where tho judgment of tho County Court was re versed and a new trial ordered. Judge P rescott bein<r cou n s e l for P l a in t if f th e case was ordered to be tried at Circuit.— The case excites considerable interest from the fact that a large amount of costs has accumulated in its course through the various Courts. The case is now on trial. A. H. P bescott and T hos . R ichardson . for Plaintiff; S. S. M okgan . for Defendant. A Maine paper gays: “ A ll long the road from the lumbering por tion o f the State can be seen scattered barrels of flour, pork and beef, bags’ of com, oats and meal, which were thm v a off to lighten loads, in order to relieve and saye the lives o f exhauat- ed horses.” The reports o f General Ouster’s capture by the Indians are denied.— ^rouble has occurred with the friends ly Pawnees qt EUswortb, E^ansas,- Sfiven of them entered the town somi by roughs, . Twenty five <am 9 in and de» of the rcTJ^^ down the under a threat of burning down to-Wn. Soldiers from Fort Harkerar- to-wn. Soldiers from iJ o rt Marker rived, however, and the Indians cape4 •wtbori^ fbrifr prisoners. We direct attention to tho pleasant story appearing on the first page entitled “ The Village Musician.” It was written and published about forty years ago. the hero of the story is supposed to have lived in this ancient village,, it will, we have no doubt, be read with more than usu al Interest by many of our fnn-loving read ers. We have, however, no idea that; 0 ^ the present residents of this anci town have any personal recollections of JouNNV 'V' and ' ekbocxee , the 'Villaga Mnai- cian, and we do not suppose, even, that the memory of his exploits rests in tradi tion among the descendants of those who lived here in the days of J ohn n y , bat assnre these, diescendents and all others who will take thejrouble to read the story that it will afford them real pleasure and pro voke manya laughter. Donation. A Donation Visit for the benefit of the Rev. Oi?OBGE! Y oung , will take place at his residence in Mrinhelm, on Thursday even ing, April 1 , 1G69. W est^nada Creek Cheese Factory. The factory commenced Doerations April 20lh and closed November 20th. Time seven months. Pounds of milk received afcthe factory, 1,209,365 * pounds of cheese made, 124,075 ,* pounds of milk for pound of cared cheese, 874; number of sales 11 j money received for cheese, S20,47S 69 ; iraga price per pound of cheese through the. season 16-J cents ; used steam for heat ing without water between the vats, 'fhe factory is located at North Gage, Herki mer County, FqirfieM Sepiinary, The prospect for tbe Spring Term of Fairfield Seminary is extremely favorable. The very able Faculty fias been strengtb- ened by leenring for the Department.of Greek and, German, the services of Prof. A. J. H dtton , a . B., former Principal of Leavenworth Institute, Wolcott, Wayne Co., N , Y- Prof. H utton has a fine rep utation as a thorough disciplinarian and euccessful classical iustructor, and wifi doubtless bonor hia new position. The charter election of-tbe village of Little Falla is to take place on Tuesday. March 30th, Senator O’D onnkli ,, of Lewis coun ty, has introduced a bill into the Legisla ture to amend tbe excise law. 'fhe bill enacts that when a majority of the tax- paying citizens of a town file in the County Clerk’s office a written protest against the granting of any licenses in such town, then the Commissioners of excise therein shall grant no licenses at their next annoal meet ing, nor until a similar majority jhall file a request asking that licenses be again g r a n ted . O n T u e s d a y , in th e A s s e m b ly, M r. A lbaben , from the Railroad Committee, reported a bill chartering the IJtica and Mohawk Railroad, and authorizing certain tow n s t o ta k e sto c k in i t . ' There is no medicine prepared that has a reputation for excellencd superior to that of H oopland ’ s G eehan B itters . This .article i$ looked upon by those who are not acquainted with it, as mout patent medicines are, a ipera clap trap to catch th e sim p le. It i.<» n o t in rea lity a Pal&nt Medicine, but a genuine article prepared by men who have an intimate acquaintance with medicine, and the reqnirements o f tbe sybtem when laboring under disease. For Dyspepsia, Liver Coraplalnt, Nervous De bility, &c., it has no equal. We know of a number o f persons who suffered for years w ith t h e s e com p laints, u n t i l th e y w e re re- licygd by a trial of this remedy, and one person, in particular, who suffered from Dyspepsia for ten *5;ears, desires us to state for the information of the public, that he has been entirely relieved and restored, he believes, by the use of this article aloile. The above is taken from the editorial colnm n s o f th e IDispatch., B r ie, B a ., a n d speaks volumes. “ HooflancCs Gm-man BiUers” is e n tire ly pree from all Alcoholic admixlzire. H goerand ’ s G ekmax T onic is a com b i nation of all the ingredients of the Bitters^ with pure Santa Cruz Rum, orauge, anise. &c. It is used for the same diseases as the Bitters, in cases where an Alcoholic Stimulant is required. It is a preparation i of rare medicinal value, and mo.st agreea ble to the palate. Principal Office, 631 Arch St., Philadel phia, Pa. Sold everywh'^ro by Druggists and others. * A ccident .— 'rhere was an explosion in Dr. Ayer’s Laboratory, yesterday, which caused some excitement in the vicinity.— Ayer’s Pills are manufactured under an enormous pressure, in cylinders, like can non, which sometimes prove too weak for the compressed forces, and burst with ter rific violence. Portunaiely the pieces do not fly far, so that no one has ever been hurt by them. The action is more like Ice than powder; but it makes Pills which all the world acfcnwledge are PitLs .— D a ily Journal, Lowell. ^ A Bill is before the Legislature to amend the Charter of the village of Lit tle Falla. ^ ^ M e n w'no disgrace the name of hun ter are taking advantage of the deep snow on John Brown’s tract to slaughter deer with knives, tor their hides. “ Left a Large Property.” “ H e left a large property” was the clos ing sentence of a recent obituary. How many reflections it suggests ! What a pity he was obliged to leave i t ! H e had taken great delight in collecting it. It wai all the fruit of hia own energy, industry and good judgment; he had to leave it, and went out of the world as poor as ho came in . H e m ig h t hav e ta k e n it w ith him — < rather he might have sent it forward in ad vance. Every dollar given in bumble faith to scatter the glad tidings o f salvation, ev ery cup of water given to a disciple, every tear of pious sympathy for the suffering. every gift of his Kindly eharity to the needy, would have been treasure laid up in Heav en, How much more blessed to than to leave a large property. The man who is poor in this world’s goods but rich in faith, closes hia eyes on th is life a n d goes t o t a k e p o ssession o f h is inheritance. He owned not a foot of land on earth but for him— scanty, but there he will eat freely from the “ tree ol life.” H is garments hero are poor and plain, bat there lie shall be “ clothed in white robes.” He associated here with those who are despised of men, but there his companions will be the. “ innumerable com p any*of a n g e ls ,” an d th e “ C h u r c h o f the first born which are written in Heav- A lice OAEEYthus sings of the sn- ■gar season: N o w th e w in te r W inds r e tire . And the winter ice is breaking, A.nd the old folks by the fire Sit and talk of sugar making. ’Tis the wild and windy March, And the month the question settles That ’tis time to mend the arch ^ And to scour the rusty kettles. Time t o se t th e h u t to rig h ts. Where the boys afld girls together I’end the furoaces o ’nigh ts In the rough and rainy weather ; Time to hew..and shape the trongh, A n d t o p n n e h t h e spile s o hollow . For the snow is thawing off And the sugar thaw must follo'w. Boon the bine birds and tbe bees O’er the stubble will be winging ; So 'tis time to tap the trees And to set the axe a ringing. Ob, the gladdest time of year Is the merry sugar making, Fhen the swallows first appear And the sleepy bunds are waiting! .1 ^ “ The following touching, inscription is copied from a tombstone in Jackson ville, F l a .: “When l am dead and in my grave, And my bones they a're all rotten. When this yon see, remember me, That J may hot be forgotten.” The above is almost a match for the epitaph on two brothers, whorwere drown ed in Holmes* Hole “TwoPwo brothers a fishing wei I Whi Hob ao wore never knowi Dimes’ Hole, cedar-pole Crinkle,, crinkle m toVraogle, Ife’.” • A lady in a village not far-distant, had an imitation of a bird as an ornament on her hat. The cat discovered the same -and afa more than half o f it before perceiv ing its mistake. R e s u lt: a sick cat and a ruined fadunet. i© “ The whitest, worst looking hair, re-' names its youthful beauty, by nsing Hail’s Vegetable Sicilian- HairRenower. Try it. M orse ' s I ndian R oot P il l s .— IVe give yon in this Medicine the result of a lifetime of study and t r ial; before this Medicine ail others are but nostrums. They are made from sim p le B o o t s ^ a n d a re t h e b e s t medi- eine in the. world for all Billioua diseases. Female Irregnlarities, Indigestion,.^ Liver Oomplaints, Headaches, &e. They purify the blood, remove.all obstructions, cleanse j the skin of all pimples and blotches, and rae perfectly sure and safe in their opera, tion. We ask you to use them because we know their virtues. Trial is the Touch- jtone by which to prove them worthy.— Use Morses' Indian Root Fills, For sa!o by all D e a lers. . ' mch2-4m2 “ ’Tis true, ’tis pity, pity ’tis true,’’ th a t m a n k in d w ill p a s s by u n h e e d e d th e warning symptoms of disease and neglect th e y e m e d ies to r e s to re h e a lth , u n til disease has so far advanced that it is often impos sible to o b tain relief. W e have ■ b e e n shown the forranla of Judson’s Mountaiu H e r b P ilJs an d believe th e o - to b e th e b e s t and simplest of medicines for Billions dis orders, L iver C o m p laints, F e m a le Irreg u larities,' &ff, They are prepared with great caution and will save many a doctor's bill if used in time. A s .an universal family irpaesed Mountain Herb Pills a fair .trial and we w a r r a n t yon w ill never b e w ith o u t th e m . doid by all dealers. rach24m2 Mrs. S . A. Alien’s Improved Hair Restorer or Dressing. The attention of the public is invited to the very impor tant change recently made in this article. We offer in the Improved Preparation, a Bestorer prompt and infalliable in its ac tion upon gray hair, quickly restoring it to its n a tu r a l color an d beau ty , to g e th e r -with an agreeable D r e ^ n g all in one bottle.— This combination is perfect and unexcep tionable in every respect, and is used with great satisfaction by old and young. Mrs. S. A. A llen ’ s .Z vlobalsajium , another Preparation, clear withont Sediment, de signed exclusively for Dressing, Strength ening and Beautifying the Hair, a refresh ing toilet luxury, far preferable to French pomades, and sold at half- the-price. by all Druggists. Sold mcM7.w2 W hat can’t be enrefi must be en dured, but DO one need suffer from Serofu- ia, or any disease arising from fonl blood, now that Dr. J . W . Poland’s Humor Doc tor is sold by all diuggists. * ' Teas 1 Teas I Teas I ___ One o f the 5«s/and c/mapesf assortments if TEAS can be found at the Cheap T6ri. sty Store of G. W . G onbe , . Herkimer, N . Y, Apothecaries will tell you that tha W hite P in e Compound not only sells read ily, but is an excellent remedy for sudden Colds, Coughs, Sore Lungs, Pnlraonaiy Complaints in general, and also in ail Kid ney troubles. *> W e should make it, a principle to extend the hand o f fellowship to every man who discharges faithfnliy his duties, mani fests an interest in the welfare o f society, whose deportment is upright, and whose mind is inteliigent, without Stopping to en quire whether he swings a hammer or not. There is nothing so distant from all natural feeling and national claim as the reluctant, backward^ sympathy, -the forced smile, tha checked conversation, the hesitating com pliance, which some are apt to m anifest to those a litrie down, with whom in epmpari- of intellect and principles o f virtue, they frequently sink into insignificance. The small town of Pont An- thon, France, was recently saved from d^tmetion by fire through an alarm given by a tame raven. Unfortun ately, the watchful bird, perished in the flames.
