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CURRENT TOPICS. 
Helping Elect Senators. 
Our reader —especially fanners — who are 
looking to combinations to help them to throw 
off tho burdens of monopolies created by cor¬ 
rupt legislat ion, will bo interested to know what 
they have got to light. For instance, Thomas 
C. Durant, President of the Credit Mobiiier and 
Vice-President of tho Union Pacific Railroad, 
testified that he contributed $10,000 to aid in 
securing t he election of Senator Harlan of Iowa 
to the United State.*, Seriate. Senator Harlan 
denies that he knew at tho time that the money 
was subscribed by Mr. Durant, though he knew 
someone* made the contribution: but Mr. Du¬ 
rant testifies subsequently that tho $10,000 was 
divided into two $5,000 New York checks, .signed 
by him and sent to Hun. Janies Harlan. Durant 
(judging by what we know of the manner in 
which tho election of certain men to office arc 
secured) probably speaks the truth. Are the 
farmers of the country going to contribute $5,000 
and $10,000 cheeks to elect men who will sub¬ 
serve tlieir interests to office, or are they going 
to elect such men without, employing such 
means? If so, who are the men? 
An Innocent Case of Incest. 
Strange things happen in actual life, stranger 
than anything fiction affords. There is an aged 
couple—over sixty years of age—In the State 
Penitentiary of Iowa, of which tho following 
J story is told: A boy and girl lived at. the 
| father’s house In childhood. The boy, when 
twelve years old, left home to seek his fortune, 
and never returned. He married, hail children, 
j and his wife died. Meantime the sister had 
married and gone West, where her husband 
died. After his death she received an offer of 
marriage from a wealthy widower, with chil¬ 
dren, and accepted it. One of her new hus¬ 
band's sous happened one day to be looking 
j over his stepmother’s family record, and dis¬ 
covered that, she was bis father's sister as well 
as wife; and no. as Ills father refused to give 
him the bulk of his property, this enterprising 
youth complained against his father and aunt- 
stepinother. bringing a charge of incest. They 
were convicted and sentenced to prison for one 
year, though perfectly innocent of intent to 
commit crime. 
Company of the Bay of Samana of Santo 
Domingo. 
This is the name of a company of American 
citizens which have made a treaty with the 
Government, of the Dominican Republic, by 
which it acquires extraordinary privileges, 
rights, and power from that Government pre- 
j cisely the same in fact and in substance which 
was proposed to be granted to the United States 
under tho treaty which was rejected by the 
United States Senate. Practically, it seems an 
indirect but. equally certain mode of annexation 
to tho United States. The treaty Is published 
in t'jteuHo, has been sanctioned by President 
Baez and ratified by the Senate of the Republic. 
We shall expect to boo a rush for Santo Domingo 
now by men who are "afloat." Evidently tills 
Company of the Ray of Samana have a good 
tiling, being practically put in possession of a 
large portion of tho island, with unrestrained 
power to administer its affairs according to the 
will of tho Company's Directory. 
The Credit MoblllerScandal In Congress. 
A reporter has talked with Thomas C. Du- [ 
rant, President of the Credit, Muhiliir , who put* j 
tho case, so far as Congressmen are concerned, 
in this concise manner: “If the Commission¬ 
ers and others hod not tried to cover il up in 
the late campaign, and had come out frankly 
and told the whole truth, the public would have 
understood it, and the accused could have stood 
on their right to buy, pay for and own honest 
stocks or bonds of any kind. But they winced, 
made up pitiful martyr mouths, prevaricated, | 
and 1 ried to wriggle out of It. Now they are wrig¬ 
gling back, and have to explain their last Sum¬ 
mer’s explanations. Their great error was lh 
making any effort to conceal this matter. There 
Is nothing about it to conceal." .Mr. Durant 
more than intimates that much of what is 
charged against Congressmen will prove true, 
blit claims that their transactions were legiti¬ 
mate—at least this seems to us the drift of his 
remarks. _ 
Rates of Postage. 
Thk House Post-Office Committee in Congress 
are alive. It has decided, eoutrarj to the con- 
si ruction of the law by Postmaster-General 
Ckesswkll, that where ono full rate of postage 
ha* been prepaid on letters, etc,, they shall be 
forwarded to their destination and charged 
with the unpaid rate lu be collected on delivery, 
and that no double rate of postage shall be col¬ 
lected when partial prepayment has been made. 
Tho reduction of letter postage to two cent* 
per half ounce is favorably reported by tho 
committee: and the committee recommend tho 
prepayment of newspaper postage In order to 
avoid the transportation of large quantities of 
papers which are never paid for nor taken out 
of the office. _ 
Tho Colliers of South Wales 
Have struck because the employers have de¬ 
cided to reduce their wages ten per cent, in con¬ 
sequence of the fall In tho price of iron, they ' 
having put tho wages up when it advanced. 
Thus GO,000 workmen stop work—50,000 iron 
workers and 10,(W0 miners—while their families 
suffer, perhaps starve, unless charity conics to 
their relief. This, too, in Winter. Who shall 
say that they are wise? Who shall assert that 
cooperation might not have prevented this ? 
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Japanese Chronology. 
Let no one aver that the Japanese are not 
progressive, nor that they are either too igno¬ 
rant, or bigoted, or proud to Imitate a progress¬ 
ive people. They have adopted the American 
Calendar, beginning with the first of January. 
They have changed the names of the days and 
months to correspond with our calendar, but do 
not change tho names of their years, nor tho 
numerals thereof, to correspond. Tho present 
year is called Iho sixth year of Meldl. 
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Electing a President by Direct Vote. 
Senator Morton of Indiana is in favor of 
abolition uf tin: Electoral College and of a direct 
vote by the people for President. lie would 
elect by direct vote of l he people as one ivm- 
inunity, regardless of State laws, as the aggre¬ 
gated vote of a State elects a Governor, regard¬ 
less of county nnd township boundaries. We 
regard this as in accord with the spirit of our 
republic and far preferable to the cumbersome 
and unnecessary Electoral College method. 
The Two Louisiana Senators, 
Elected by two distinct Louisiana legislatures, 
arc on their way to Washington to claim and 
contest the vacant seat in the Senate of the Uni¬ 
ted States. This brings upon t hat body the re¬ 
sponsibility of deciding which ts the legal legis¬ 
lature, and of recognizing one or tho other as 
such. The Investigation this will involve will 
hardly be ended ere the dose of Congress. 
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THE SEASON, CROPS. PRICES, ETC. 
Warreuton, Ga., Dec. 30. At this time it i* 
cold, with sleet and a little -now on the ground: 
thermometer Si, and still continues cool. Plant¬ 
ers are now very busy employing hands and 
making arrangements for another year. Some 
of the freedmen work fora portion of the crop 
say, the laborer feeds himself and gets one- 
half or corn, fodder, and peas, and one-third of 
cotton; others gel one-half of all they make. | 
Those who hire for wages gel from $10 to $14 
per monlb ami rations (3'j pounds of bacon and 
one peck of meal a week). I,and is cheap. Good 
land from $8 in $12 per acre, with improvement*. 
It can be purchased for half cash, balance In 
one and two years, with Interest, Some dc- | 
slrablc tracts with extra Improvement* would 
bring more. The tract I live on I purchased In 
1808 sold off 27(1 acres since, and have now 000 
acres at a cost of only $500, with all the im¬ 
provements, which could not be put on tho 
place for $5,000. Crops the past season wen- ex¬ 
cellent in this county, with a beautiful Fall for¬ 
gathering cotton, and most of our planters who 
were able to run their plantations without the 
aid of commission merchants or money lenders 
will do well; but where they have to pay from 
10 to 30 per cent, for advances, with a lien on 1 
their crop and stock, t hey find “Jordan a hard 
road to travel."—N. a. 
Rowan l ily, Y. .Inn. H. The Winter has 
been very severe so far. Snow and sleet that 
fell Christmas Day is not all gone yet, notwith¬ 
standing we have had considerable rain since. 
Crops were all good the past season; cotton was 
unusually good, and, as prices arc good, people 
are going to plant largely next year. Some have 
made400 pounds lint to the acre; get it picked 
out for 50 cents per lot) pounds in tlic seed. Com 
is worth 00c.; oats -10c.: wheat $1.00 to $1,05; pork 
8c., net, per pound; butter S3 and 30c.; egg* 20e. 
We can raise almost anything bore, and gen¬ 
erally can get labor when wo want it by colored 
hands at from $8 to $12 per month and board : 
white labor is worth about $15 per month.- 
B. A. L. 
Ilentoiiville, Vrk., Jan. 1.—Weather cold; 
thermometer below zero; light snow on the 
ground for two weeks. Good crops last year. 
Corn, 80e.; oats, 25c.; green apples, 40c. per 
bushel; dried, $1; peaches, $1; wheat, $1.35; 
pork, 5c.; land good—worth $3 to $50 per acre ; 
water flue and plenty of it; grass of every va¬ 
riety docs well; country high and dry, mostly 
rolling prairie; lumber, dreecsiul ready for use, 
$25 per M.; fencing done at a cost of 40c. per rod ; 
excellent fruit country. The Agricultural So¬ 
ciety reports that there wa* planted an orchard 
last year (1872) of 1,500,000 apple trees in Benton 
Co. 1 know of over 330 acres of apple orchards 
within one mile of the town limits, n. n. <j. 
Morgan Co., 44a., Jan. I<». Tho weather of 
this county Is now very pleasant. We have had 
l wo snows aud a great deal of wet weather 
during last month. The thermometer was down 
to 10 above zero this Winter. Farm labor 
wanted. Corn is selling at $1 per bushel; flour 
very high ; cot t on 19 -Vl per pound; meat cheap; 
butter 25c.; eggs !K)c.; chickens at most any 
price. Farmers are now beginning for the new 
year. A good opening to stock raisers. A far¬ 
mer has just imported 201 merino sheep from 
Ohio.—a. 
Pleasant Mound, Bond Co., III., JDec. 31. 
Until recently tho weather has been very cold. 
On the morning of (he loth Inst, the mercury 
stood at 15° below zero. Subsequently it has 
been some colder. Last night it rained nearly 
all night, causing the snow, which had lain for 
several weeks, to disappear rapidly. Up to the j 
time the snow fell wheat did not present a 
thrifty appearance; some late sown pieces had 
not come up. Wheat is worth from $1.20 to 
$1.00: oats, 20c;; corn, 25c.—w. it. a. 
Cherrylroo, Pa., Jan. 7.—Have had any 
amount of snow: tip-top sleighing since first of 
December: the ground not frozen under the 
snow. Crops, past, season, good, and sell at fair 
prices; hay. $1.25; straw, $1 per ton [.Can this bo 
so?—Eus.J; corn, 75c.; oats, 00c.; potatoes, 75c.; 
beef, bv the side. 7c. per pound; pork, fl@7c. 
Horse disease has almost entirely disappeared. 
—d. A. K. 
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DOMESTIC NEWS. 
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New York City and Vicinity. 
The contest between the rival Deputy 
Chamberlains continue*—A bill of oxcentiona 
in the Stokes case lias been prepared. ^Hating 
has been unusually fine Tbo great public 
balls of iho season urc rapidly taking place. 
A jury has been obtained for the Tweed case, 
and the D ial is proceeding The French held 
Hieir annual hull on xhe 13tli. And Napoleon 
lay dead at Chisel hurst I — Thu Greeley will 
case has been up again, but no satisfactory ar¬ 
rangement has been made... The Cesnolo col¬ 
lection for the Metropolitan Museum lias arriv¬ 
ed The Eric Hoad has authorized a loan of 
$10,(XX),ooo Miss Marin Mitchell has lectured 
on the “Great Bear.".... Rev. Joshua Leavitt, 
D. D., one of the editors of the Independent, 
died on tho 10th. Ho was78years of age ...The 
great hall in aid of the Infant Asylum took 
place on the Pith... Mr. Daly’s new theater 
opened on the 21st The case of Phelps Dodge 
! & Co., barged with fraud, attracts much atten¬ 
tion Geo. I'. Train still remains in t.he Tombs 
. .Great efforts are making to get a new trial 
for Stokes. 
Homo Now*. 
Affairs in Louisiana are quiet, with two 
Legislatures In session The Credit Mobiiier 
has got Into tho courts, various suits having 
been commenced .Extreme cold weather is 
reported from Maine and the Nort hwest The 
Credit Mobiiier Investigation ac Washington 
occupies a good share uf public attention. It 
now appear* that 5lr Dawes :md Congress mail 
Brook* have both dabbled in it. A great coal 
combination, to get control of the Pennsylvania 
mines, is talked of The so-called oil combi¬ 
nation has been biuketi .Several battles with 
Indians are reported from California Gov. 
Hendricks of Indiana ha* been inaugurated 
An attempt lias been made to burn the Hotel 
Harrison, in Boston . Gen. Garfield has made 
a satisfactory denial of ids complicity with 
Credit Mobiiier Tbo Gill lo give soldiers land 
Is spoken of as a gigantic land grab. It is 
thought It, will take XakOOO.QOO acre?.Six men 
were Injured at Sou Hi Gin* ten bury. Conn., by a 
gas explosion on tho 14th. The New Jersey 
Legislature is in session Gov. Straw of New 
Hampshire has been re-nominated Governor 
Pincnbnek has been elected Senator from Loul- 
u hart on Is on t rial in Baltlmoi e, 
Md . . A bill to suppi'esi-gambling ha$ been In¬ 
troduced at Albany .. Gov Warmoth Ini* been 
elected Senator from Louisiana.. Col. Bogy 
lias been elected Senator from Missouri_Over 
100 people were frozen to death in Minnesota 
during the last, snow storm. Prof. Win, C. 
Cleveland of Cornell University, died on the 
Kith . The steamship Erie, running from Now 
York to Rio Janeiro, was burned at sea on tho 
2nd, off ri-rnambuco the passengers and crew 
were saved, Loss, ver ono million of dollars. 
.The National Woman Suffrage Association 
is in session In Washington. . . Very cold weather 
prevail* In Wisconsin On the 18th, a steam 
boll. r exploded in Martin, Ohio, killing six men, 
A hill in tbo Senate proposes to endow 
agricultural colleges with half a million acres of 
land each— It. is proposed to establish evening 
schools A bill to repeal Hie iron-clad oath 
lias been lost iri the House It is proposed to 
add $35,000,000 currency to the South and West 
Till) House has had it debate over I he Lou¬ 
isiana complication* Judge tHiroU’* actions 
In Louisiana arc to be investigated The fw u- 
ate Finance Committee condemns tho lute in¬ 
flation of the currency.. The Mouse has pre¬ 
pared a joint resolution deciding that where 
one full rate of postago has been paid double 
rate* cannot be charged. ..Tho Senate ha.* 
natiHnd the Agricultural College bill A new 
Indian territory to ho called “Oklahoma" is 
proposed_Senators Wilson and Patterson 
nave made statements of their connection with 
Credit Mobiiier... Senat or Sherman has advo¬ 
cated a return to specie payments. 
Fire*. 
On the 12th $20,000 worth of oil at Potrolia 
City, Pa On the 12tli seven houses In Cen¬ 
tral itt, Pa- Loss $12,000 On the 12th a. paper 
mill ai Amsterdam, ,v. Y. Loss $80,000 The 
Conrad block at Ligonier, Ind.. on the 12th. 
Loss $10.000... .The Gardner block at Saratoga, 
N. V., on the 12th. Loss $3U,UXI A brick build¬ 
ing in Newbutyport, Mass,, on ttie 12th. Loss 
$27,000 On the 15tli Edwin Forrest * library in 
Philadelphia. Loss $20,000 In Cadiz, Ohio, on 
the 35th. Loss $40,000 Planing mill in Alle¬ 
gheny City on the 15t,h. bow* $10,000 Thirty 
houses In Greenville, Pa., on tho loth On the 
Pith a dry goods house on Eighth avenue nnd a 
building In Duane street. New York, were 
burned, bos* $l?y,txx) ,On the )9th a fire at 
Parker’s Landing, Pa., destroyed the Opera 
House, several hotels, and the Transcript office. 
Loss$100,(XX)—Glove factories in Gloversvillc, 
N. J., on the 19th. Loss $50,000 Miller’s block 
In Pawtucket, IC. I., on tho 19th. Loss $33,(XX). 
Crime*. 
Mus. Sherman, sentenced to prison for ,.G 
in New Haven, confesses to having poisoned 
eight persons — Joseph li. Whitman of Boston 
Is under arrest, for a forgery of $11),0)0 Chas. 
Wenuian was murdered at Great Bend, N Y., 
on tho 9th. by one Charles Sutherland, w ho him 
since cheated the gallows by taking strychnine*. 
FOREIGN NEWS. 
ffliscelluitnouii Foreign News, 
Large subscriptions are being made in 1 taly 
for monuments to Napoleon France will al¬ 
low tho ex-Emperor to bo burled in Paris 
The King of Italy and the Emperor of Russia 
have sen I letters of condolence to i he Empress. 
Madrid has had a popular demonstration In 
favor of the abolition of slavery in Porto Jtieo. 
Carlhtl troubles continue in the North of 
Spain_Be lievers In Papal Infallibility will be 
treated in Germany as a new sect. The ex- 
Empress Eugenie is very ill Napoleon was 
burled on the 14th, in the uniform of u Field 
Marshal worn by him at Sedan. Large depota- 
lions from Franco went to C’htselluirsl... X<> 
demonstration over the death of Napoleon was 
allowed lu Paris_Tho town of Soonobur in 
India has been destroyed by un cart liquate with 
tholossof 1,500 lives. The Pope still complain? 
of lib treatment by t he governments. . Several 
revolutions ore reported in progress In South 
America Internationals are being arrested in 
Franco_Victoria will Boon visit Eugenic 
Mr Bchonck wont to Napoleon’* funeral 
Some 35,000 people visited the remains of the 
ex-Emneror while lying in state Italy sent 
four officer* to Napoleon's funeral Tho Shah 
of Persia will soon make the tour of Europe 
Spain ha* sent more troops to Cuba . Her Von 
Konigsmarck Is tho new Prussian minister of 
Agriculture. Seven persons have recently 
perished in a fire at Litchfield, England . War 
Is imminent between Japan and Corea. Great 
reforms are In progress fu Japan It is denied 
in Spain that, any dote ha* been received from 
Secretary Fish relative to the abolition of 
Secretary Fish relative to tho abolition of 
slavery In Cuba_There were oO.Otx) people at 
Napoleon's funeral The ship Chi Bingham 
Castle has been wrecked off Malta, and 20 lives 
lost,_A boiler lias exploded at Charleroi, kill¬ 
ing 11 men,. A New York company has pur¬ 
chased Samana Bay and Peninsula for $2O,iXX),lX)0. 
There were 800 mourners in carriages al; 
Napoleon's funeral Furneral services have 
been held in honor of Napoleon In Rome, Milan, 
and throughout Bucharest. The Roumanian 
Court goes into mourning for him Tho sup¬ 
plies Stanley forwarded to Dr. Livingstone have 
reached him. 
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