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OBITUARY..
Hon. Alexander King.

Hon. Alexander King, President Judge of the
Sixteenth Judicial district of Pennsylvania
died at his residence in Bedford at noon on
Tuesday, after an illness of few weeks. Judge
King was born about the year 1905, received a
classical education, and studied law with Will
liam Allison, Esq, of Huntingdon. Soon after
being admitted to the bar he removed to st.
Louis Mo-, where he practiced law for some
years. He returned from st. Louis to his native
county of Bedford, and speedily took front rank
in his profession. He was a close student and
grounded in all the great fundamental princi-
Piles of the law. He loved his profession as
science, and did not degrade it into mere mer-
cenary pursuit.
In 1S47 he was elected by the Whig party to
the State Senate for the district composed of
the counties of Huntingdon and Bedford and
served three years. In the first session he took
an active part in the election of Ex-Governor
William f. Johnston to the Speakership of the
Senate, which resulted in the election of Mr..
Johnston to the gubernatorial chair on the death
of Francis r. Skunk. After the expiration of
his term in the Senate he pursued his profession
industriously, associating with himself Hon. f..
Jordan, the present Secretary of the Common
wealth, until he was elected judge of the Six
teenth Judicial district in 1864.
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WOMEN'lS RIGHTS.

A BEvY of Women's Rightists yesterday
assailed the Judiciary Committee of the Ma
tional House of Representatives, demanding
the right of suffrage for women under the
fifteenth amendment. Exactly what line of
argument the fair would-be voters adopted
we are not informed, but from the previous
performances of the same ladies we can
imagine that they ask for the right of
suffrage Lecause they think they ought to
have it, and because they think they ought
TO have, therefore the fifteenth amendment
says they have it, or if it does not it ought
to. The advocates of the rights of women
are generally fain to admit that the sex are
weak in the matter of logic, and although
they cannot reason out subject on basis
of fact, they have nevertheless been endowed
by heaven with intuitive perceptions
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THE MISSISSIPPI LEVEE.9

SENATOR REvELs yesterday made an excellent
speech in favor of the proposition for the
Government to aid in reconstructing and re-
pairing the levees upon the Mississippi and
Yazoo rivers. Many of the levees in the
State of Mississippi were destroyed during
the war, and vast quantity of valuable cot
ton land was thus inundated and rendered
worthless. Since the conclusion of the war
the people of the State have been too much
impoverished to attempt to repair these
damages themselves, and they have applied
to the General Government for assistance on
the ground that the promotion of the cotton
culture is a matter in which the whole nation
is interested. Hitherto this subject has not
received in Congress the candid and liberal
treatment that it deserves, and the recon
struotion of the Mississippi levees has been
bitterly opposed by some of the members for
the reason that the people of Mississippi
deserved to be punished for their participa-
tion in the Rebellion, and that they were not
entitled to receive from the Government the
costly aid that would be involved in the re-
construction of the levees 1t is certainly
time that the bad feelings excited by the war
had died out sufficiently to permit Congress
to deal with such subject as this in proper
spirit, and Senator Revels was right when he
said that while cotton was no longer king, its
commercial influence upon the material inte-
rests and prosperity of the country demands
that all proper measures should be taken to
foster it. There may be excellent reasons
why the Government should not extend the
assistance asked for the rebuilding of the
Mississippi Ieyees but if such assistance is
refused the refusal should be based upon some
better grounds than the participation of the
people of the State in the Rebellion.
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GveMina Teleatark
THURSDAY, JANUARY 1s, 1871.
GEARY AS A PARDONER.

GEARY AS A PARDONER.
GEARY has made greater parade of his
abstinence in the exercise of his prerogative
of granting pardons than any previous Gov
ernor of Pennsylvania, and he has adopted
the unusual course of publishing an annual
list of his pardons, thus challenging criti-
oisvl. He has kept the number of pardons
below the average standard of his predeces-
sors, and if he has erred in
this direction at all, it is rather by an exhibit
tion of excessive sternness than of super
abundant mercy. Nobody should blame a
Governor for pardoning prisoners who, in
justice and equity, ought to be pardoned,
and it is G matter of little moment whether
the number of deserving cases is restricted
to "A or whether it runs up to LAG. The legiti-
mate object of complaint is not the proper
use Of the pardoning power but its abuse,
and if Gearys course is subjected to this test,
he is as obnoxious to censure as any
of his predecessors. Among the large
number of prisoners condemned
by the courts of this city there can be little
doubt that there were fair proportion of
legitimate objects of mercy, and if Geary had
observed the rules he ostentatiously laid
down few years ago, of acting in harmony
with judges and district attorneys, he might
have extended relief in many deserving cases.
But for reasons best known to himself he has
practically ignored the counsels of the judi
ciary of this city, and in nearly every in
stance, save that of Dunn, who was re-
commended for good reasons by the present
District Attorney, Geary's pardons are totally
destitute of their moral support. Crimi-
mails charged with the most dangerous
or obnoxious offenses are included in the list
of Philadelphia pardons. 1t embraces pro-
fessienal thieves and burglars, incendiaries,
forgers, q murderer, a lottery. policy dealer,
and an obscene book publisher, and the
reasons set forth for the pardon of some of
these criminals are SO manifestly frivolous,
insufficient, or absolutely false, that there is
scarcely convict in prison in Pennsylvania
to-day who cannot put forward as good a
plea for release as some of those which have
passed muster with Geary during the past
year in his disposal of Philadelphia applica-
tions. These errors would be condoned by a
good-natured public if the Governor made
less effort to claim superiority for his pardon
record, but as he insists on receiving praise
for it the people should give it searching
Investigation.
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Perry Fuller.

Colonel Perry Fuller, man widely known
throughout the country, died suddenly yester-
day morning at his residence in Washington,
ID. O. He was born in Illinois, and was forty
four years old at the time of his death. In 1854
he moved to Kansas, aud took an active and
efficient part in the work of making Kansas a
free State. His great energy peculiarly fitted
him for the resolute work required of the free
sollers IN Kansas in its early settlement, and he
proved valuable auxiliary to the cause. He
held official positions for several years in the
West, as Indian agent, etc, and in 1868 was ap-
pointed Collector of the port of New Orleans,
in which position he served for some time.
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The SAN DOMINGO resolution, as amended
by the House, passed the Senate yesterday,
and vigorous effort will be made to send
the Commission off at once to The sunny
shores of our proposed new sable sister, so
that report may speedily be made, and that
she may be incorporated in the American
family, before the next Congress meets, 80
that the naughty Democrats and impractica-
BILE Sumuerites may not be too strongly rein
forced. 1t rema aims to be seen whether the
San Domingo project can be run through on
time after this fashion. Newspaper prophets
predict that il cannot.
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that enable them to jump at conclusions with
out going through the laborious process of
thinking them out. That the Mrs. Wood
hulIs, Miss AnthoDys, Mrs Oady Stantons,
and other distinguished champions Of the sex
feminine do jump at conclusions we are all
aware, but we are very far from admitting
that their conclusions are always, or even
often, the right ones and the Judiciary Com
mittee will require something more substan-
tial than glittering generalites about the
rights of women before they will feel autho-
riZed to take the action that Mrs. Woodruff
and Miss Anthony desire. The great trouble
is that the vast aiority of intelligent women,
as we'll as intelligent men, are very strongly
convinced that female suffrage will confer
very few benefits, if any, upon the women of
the country, while it will in all probability
prove an evil of the first magnitude, by send
ing to the polls mass Of ignorant voters
who will aid in making politics more corrupt
than they are at present 1t will be the intel
lgent women of the country who will remain
away from the polls, while the ignorant and
vicious will be sure to cast their votes ct
every election and in favor of the most OBJ
jeotionable candidates. The women who be-
lieve that the suffrage is their right, and that
it will benefit their sex, are entitled to a re-
spectful hearing; but the matter is one of
considerable Importance, and it ought not to
be acted upon definitely until it has been
thoroughly discussed in all its bearings and
its consequences well understood
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THE SLL YER DOLLAR.

ALL legislation appertaining to the manage
ment of our national mints, and especially
that affecting the coinage of the country,
should be examined with care by our repre-
sentatives, and only permitted to become
law after searching examination and mature
deliberation. But few of our public men
have any of that critical information on the
subject that would enable them to form an
independent judgment They must, there
fore, depend almost solely upon the judg-
ment of one or more of their legislative
brethren who have, or are supposed to have
given the subject special consideration, and
may therefore be relied upon as possessing
the requisite information upon which to base
intelligent legislation. These gentlemen are,
however, very often overburdened by other
weighty public matters, and cannot give that
thorough examination the subject requires;
or, on the other hand, however well informed
may err as to Interior results arising in a
direction they had not anticipated or exa-
mined. These observations are made in
view of radical change in our system of
coinage proposed in the bill which
passed the Senate on Tuesday last,
and which, in a commercial point of view, is
of some importance to American merchants
engaged in the Chinese and West India island
trade. From copy of the bill, transmitted
by our Washington correspondent, we OBJ
serve that it is proposed to abolish the coin.
age Of the silver dollar-an American coin
familiar to almost every one, and certainly
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N OTICE Z 8

BkSr CHANCE
To Buy CLOTHING
YET OFFERED.
MBE s ALG-wo0L OvERCoATs, 81, TO CLOSE OUT
MEMS AL1.-wOOL BUSINESS COATS, R5, BALANCE
MBN'S ALL-wOOL VESTS, 81,
BOYS OvBRCOATs, s4wtNTER STOCK.
BOYS JACKETS, S2
BENNETT & CO.,
TOWER HALL,
No. blS MARKET STREET,
HALFWAY BETwBEN FIFTH AND SIXTH STREETS
The ubouendmed are odd lots. selling at half their
rdtue TO close them. GREAT CHANCE FOR BARGAINS.
We hare IN addition the best stock of Ready-ntade
Clothing in Philadelphia made IN the best and most
stylish manner. Prices dlpdgs guaranteed ower than
the ioigest clSctchere
If THIS SHOULD MEET THB EYE OF any one suffering
from Bronchitis, Consumption, Asthma or any Pull
monary Affection, we would refer them to DR..
Jaynes Expectorant, which will, in all cases. aft ord
speedy relief and In most effect speedy cure. Sold
by all Druggists.
New-York tribune., 1871-01-17
basis Of insaos for s7s Fisk Hatch report follows

The State bond market has been quecr and the huc-
tuations on limited scale. At the morning ses-
sion prices were 1rm though no marked advance was
recorded but in the afternoon there was slight de
cline recorded Tennessees were chiefly dealt IN, the Ola
selling g. and new 6ia63l Missouri 6s were frin
and round amounts were bought at $4,000 Georgias
trne higher while old North Carolinas and South
Carolnas new recedcd about i9i per cent
City bank shares In good request and sales were
made as follows Metropolitan 129al3G Continental
o9aas3b st. Nicholas, ll9; Central National, l02 mer
chants 113; and Bank oflCommerce, 11s.
Railroad bonds were firm and In moderate inquiry
The larger transactions in Central Pacics at eo
Union Pacific frss, 70 Land Grants CO.. Pacific Rail
road sevens o. and Rock Island seyens at o. The fol-
lowing were the bids:
New-York tribune., 1871-01-17
MONDAY. Jan. l6-P. NJ.

The rally in the stock market fOreshadOwed
by the favorable bank statement Of Saturday and conf
IDENTIFY predicted by holders Of stock has not yet been
realized and the week has opened with very tame and
discoura gng feeling Spectators for the rise may yet
come in to relief OF the market and thus enable the
street operators to get comfortably but the move
ment the bull side thus far have been altogether TOO
weak and hestating TO inspire confidence in their sta
bility There seems to be conflict OF opinion between
the bull operators Wast and the public, the latter
feeling apparently, that railway management OF late
years has been OF character to inspire confidence
while the former persist in asserting for railway shares
rank In values beyond those ruling In the market
Whether the specuators will convince the public, or
whether the public viii persist In believing that personal
gain and advantage rules the management OF many
railway lines to the detriment OF shareholders,
time alone determine. 1t Is sometimes
the case that public judgment errs in such
matters but inasmuch 1t requires long series OF
abuses to unsettle public confidence it also requires
thorough change 10 regain It, There Ia widespread dis
trust Of companies which declare stock dividends when
scantiy earned, and which buy connecting roads by
issuing stock; of Inda-rubber construction ae-
counts which swell net earnings, and Of all the shifts
and devices which sustain such measures. There are or
course many honorable exceptions to these examples of
railway management mismanagement, but to the per
ncOus influence OF the few We may ascriDe the general
lack OF confidence IN the many Believers ourselves In
the ultimate value Of railways as investments, we regret
the prevalent mania, which turns to private uses and
ends corporate credit and property and which caters to
the speculative appetites OF the street Reforms are
needed and will long be ngdly insisted upon, but
we have not yet reached that point.
The chief center Of interest in the stock market today
Is IN the Hannibal and St. Josephs stocks, which have
further short decline. The leading features were
Reaing Lake shore Ohio and Mississippi Rock Island,
and ST. Paul the dealings in the remainder OF the list
being OF comparative insignineance Union Pacific was
strong in exception, and Western Union Telegraph firm
Alton and Terre Haute strong and higher, Common
having risen to 81, and Preferred to 5i; Delaware,
Iaokwanna aud Western sold sqlO3i Morris land Essex
sst Chicago and Alton, 1l4i and c. c. Il I. Cat 17E
Miscellaneous shares quiet, and Express shares
neglected The following table shows the highest and
lowest prices of active stock made to-day.
New-York tribune., 1871-01-17
,msu Beuedict's cIoelng quOtatiOns were I:

There feeling OF decided uneasness in monetary
circles ttis morning the prospectsrthat movement
be projected to lock up money, stimuli tancously
with tho payment Of several millions Of city bonds to
prepare for which the banks holding the city funds had
been calling in their loans. The bonds we're duo and
payable Saturday last While the combination credited
with attempting the "lockup" process had supposed
1.-the bonds due about the middle of the week Their
plans deprived of this principal aid speedily TO
grief though not until loans had been marked up per
cent god in exceptional instances the general rate hav
ing been T. currency though Government houses lwere
Accommodated at 6. In discounts there nothing
to note commercial names moving on the basis of the
4 uipor
New-York tribune., 1871-01-17
pANKING AND FINANCIAL.

~ INDI,NAPoIIs, BLooNINGloN AND "hSih"N
SEVEN PER CENT GOLD LoAN.-Ihe BONDS are S'
cured by mortgage over 200 miles oi cohip'e'eu ran
way, from indianapolis, lnd'' west TO teAih, III"
which has u large equipment ana Is uo'hg I'iso
and rapidly increasing business lle hoaa connects
with most Of the leading lines 20 the Atlantic and
Pacific. making a central trunk route from ocean TO
ocean over Sky mules shorter than any other route.
New-York tribune., 1871-01-17

OTlI1
RE firm and m good request sales &c oi~ We f9 "a
Western 81 0Sd - IS state and PEND - y a - co
ques but steady al % loa - - or state 40
So ~ for Pennsylvania. - -, %,
Meal is in ta demand, and without maea ehAne' a ~
Corn Me. Jersey 90 -iCorn Meal BPse - 80 - :"
CON Meal Western. 3 5y6 So Is c. Meal. BTwe ~ Il wa
Corr Meat wes. W. 7J@ Ooi ~ ,,. ., ,oz Al =, F,.
Yellow 81 53d 60; Coarse, 81 SdSi 80 'oo heAA - W.
tI 4O snd 6;rouna Feed at al 800 81 as .
FRRkfSr supply Offering has been light ana % arc
yerT srm the shipneps have been moderate and confused
rates were denapded The engagements were; To Liverpool ~
bales BY a. per n coz ses Btsi az = ~ 20 ~
DO per tee Boxes Bacon SIS so rs Lari a SS o.
OlO bags Of and Stl boxes Chees al
al sai and 70 GLASGOW 5000 bbls DO at s. b 10 80
bsas Of To Hsmo' ~ - "a. 80
So AZ 5s 40 50 tcs Bee a. aud S bores Bacon Al -
tun There chartered 10 Norwegian bars 70 I''4 N's nv
Continent With 3lcO b0s Petnoslio a. ~ y, :, 40d Al 1 e
PflD drn demaDt. qr'e ~ M =, a. - :
m AZ al 5la 81 s. 81 n Al s3g 81 oD snl W. ~ 1 -.
RtiNWbe i heh with increased eonadesce M afih,s os
eAv 20 comm ee esrzocs Winter neas are q. u' a, r.
ose The ssrket was strong but quiet 1a.s SVS ~ O rso
' ~ ii as for obi Spring In 81 20 Tor No. 'hsso
- u 40 IA fer No Chicago Spnst VI tot 70 tago
spINs, f,ay b.N at st 49, 81 52Gsl So @ Agef "''fIh,
81 SSS "a & Arbsr Michigan; 81 0d 81 90 FOR WHIT Can %
80, e~ Dehl! 81 s6l for No Chicago IN ssfe hay
n nd hesyy Barley Malt Is dull AMI Connoa ef>' s
c h1sh AZ ec FOR and I'll So for CITY, The t -N se
oAs t and eld69Ie for white aaoat Western a o a.osl,
S..a At 6ICc on track In small lo snd Jersey Ie DO s ,"
SsrI Rre "a more ard trmeri sales. lo'' pos- -
al "a IN sore. STATE al o. and Gsna1sn sl ts aosN N
st,er lie supply being light; the demand is IN PAS "i
- IA o0 bnsb Western Mixed SeGslc on 'faek az
500 oh a. sOc in store; Westrl yellow at $50 .''
w. at W g9e Seuthen Yellow al Sc jersey peoN AZ
cosPARArIyY GRAIN IN ss~ iokA ~ "N''1''' ~
New-York tribune., 1871-01-17
HARVEY FISK.
A. g. HITCH

HARVEY FISK. As. HATCH.
BANKERS and Deqlers IN GOraRmcaf SccUriie.
No 8 Nassau-st., New-IOrk, Jat. IL, 1871. }
United States Fiye-Twenty bonds,E If allowed 10
run until 1875, viii pay but FoUR PEICENT Gold on
the investment at present market rats, while they
are likely to be funded at lower rato Of interest
than they now bear before that time
The FIRST MORTGAGE BONDS or tTHE CgNTRI
Pacific RAnRoAD COMPANY, at Ttcscnt market
price, will pay nearly SEVEN PER CE,lr ~ G0ID ou
the investment and cannot be caedtin or the inter
est reduced under twenty-five years.
A difference of from FIFTEEN 10 TwfSTY PER CES1
may be realized in exchanging Goytumcnt bonds
for Central Pacifcs saved IN mako x ncw invest
ments.
The safety and value Of the First Mog;gage
Bonds Of the Central Pacific Railroad Company arc
thoroughly established and universally recognized
Tho value Of the property, the immense and IN
creasing revenues Of the Company, and ts able and
honorable management assure the security of tho
principal and prompt and regular payment OF inter
est beyond question.
We have introduced them into our regular bns-
ness upon the same basis as Government BoHds, aud
buy and sell them as freely at current market rates
and are prepared TO furnish them to investors or
Others at daily quotations.
Coupons, execute orders in miscellaneous securities
at the New-Yo Stock Exchange, make collections,
receive deposits subject TO check at sight allow in
terest on balances, and do a general Banking bust
ness FISK d HATCH.
No. 20 wMI-sr., NEw-YoRK, Jan. J, 1871.
In connection with the house Of
JAY COOKE, MCCUILoCH Co,
No Al Lombard-st., London,
We are prepared to purchase and sell
STERLING EXCHANGE,
To issue
COMMERCIAL CREDITS AND CIRCULAR LETTERS FOR
TRAVELLERS, arailaJle in all parts Of the rOrld,
To EXECUTE ORDERS IN SECURITIES.
To make
CABLE TRANSFERS OF MONEY,
And to transact any business pertaining to an
AMERICAN BANKING HOUSE IN LONDON.
JAY COOKE & Co.
BURLNGToN, CEDAR RAPIDS, AND MINNESOTA
FIRsr-MoRTGAGE SNKNG-FUND CONVERTIBLE
SEVEN PER CENT GOLD BoNDs.-The small remain
ing balance of the Loan for sale at 30 and accrued
interest.
These bonds return about double the rate OF IN
terest which United States Fiye-Twenties pay Whie
the security is as safe and fully equal to that OF any
railroad bond issued. HENRY CLEws d Co.
50 Wall-st
LOUISVILLE AND NASHVILLE RAILROAD
SEVEN PER CENT
CONSOLIDATED FIRST MORTGAGE BONDS
limited amount for sale at 90 and accrued inter-
est, by j. b. ALEXANDER d Co., 10 Nassau-st
JOHN J. Cisco & Son, 80 Wallet
VERMILYE & Co, Bankers.
l6 and IS Nassap-st., New York,
Offer 10 investors the following Secfrities:
LONG Island RAILROAD lst Mortgage per ceno
Bonds. ,,
SOUTHERN CENTRAL RAILROAD lof n. ~ let Moro-
gage per cent Bonds.
KALAMAZOO AND WHITE PIGEON RAILROAD isb
MORTGAGE per cent Bonds iatereft guaranteed BY
Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railroad Coz
BANKING HOUSE. FARNHAM Gn BERT & Co..,
WAII-Sr., NEwYoRK, jim. IA, 1871 !
GEoRGE A. WICKs ceased to have any interest in,
OF connection with, our business Ja4uary ], lo1l;
FARNHAM, GILBERT ~ co.
New-York tribune., 1871-01-17
,opsss yoK rHKEx YEARS.

uiiFs-Ihere has Air densnd for Dry Hides drrg t az
- h, pricss are lower the MARKET clos ~ gne qt'
i,I. ~ M beos those last week Dom .ic WEI l pa
90 ib downu.rd ,eadeuev. For HorcgE Cows tc eaa9d
.,Ss md n c are FULLY sustained better feeling . roee~
Inner Leather Hides and prices tary ms,niAnet g
~ Iusslos are dull receipts bales Bunso sp s CoW
ana DSHA nv Etnns Mstamoro, ...... .g,t ~ - .
New-York tribune., 1871-01-17

The Bonds have nearly all been maIketed during
construction. The few remaining v!a offer at 90
and interest, in currency. TURNER BRorHERs
Bankers Il Eassan-st
New-York tribune., 1871-01-17

The gold market has been rather more active than
noted at the close Of last week and the price to-day de-
clined frem lOi (which II reached momentary) lOt
the lower range being due to the advanced condition of
American and European securities at London. The vol
OF business slightly above the average though
feature OF interest noted The OF the
Treasury during the week cover the purchase of two
millions OF iye-twenties Wednesday lsth and the
sale Of million gold Thursday. The rates paid
for having balances carried g. T. and ca per cent
currency, and per cent in gold The days business at
the Gold Exchange Bank was follows: Gold cleared,
s32 T23Ooo; gold balances 81 oi,2s and currency bal
ances, s2,nols9. The principal quotations were fol
New-York tribune., 1871-01-17

To;sl...sis5,5li 81

tax-
The philadelphia stock market was steady 'o-oas'
pennsvlvana state g. third issue. sold at 1924 fhi
dephla and Erie Railroad 2ei Pennsylvania ha'roaa'
g, md Reading Railroad .SE. Gold closed at ilot'
The Astor Fire Insurance Company mas neenneu M IN,
sonniannuai dividend OF per cent, payapIe Oh tnc
II Of I'D