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The Bloomfield times. [volume] (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1867-187?, 1872-03-05

ESTrATE OF MARY SCOTT, DECD. - Letters
~ OF ADMINISTRATION on the estate of Mary
Pa. deceased, have been grantedto the undersigil-
ed residing in Liverpool borough Perry CO. Pa.
All persons indebted to said estate are requested
TO make immediate payment, while those having
claims, will present them duly authenticated for
settlement to
AMOS RHOADES
February q, 1872. Administration
The Bloomfield times. [volume] (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1867-187?, 1872-03-05
GRAIN * PRODUCE.

DEALERS IN
New-York tribune., 1872-01-23
THE ERIE RAILROAD.

Before the earnest and honest Reformers in
our present Legislature allow themselves to
be split up into factions, wrangling over
details that seem petty and trivial to all who
are ten miles from Albany, we ask them to do
prompt Justice in the matter Of the Erie
Railroad.
What we ask is that the stockholders of
that Road shall be authorized aud enabled to
choose Board of Directors, and that lnspec-
tors of Election shall be designated whose
integrity and impartiality arc wholly above
suspicion.
That they have been for years accorded no
opportunity to elect such q Board, is notorious.
To say nothing of the infamous Classification
act, and of the retention of proxies by Gould
g. Co. for stock that they had long since
ceased to own, the simple fact that, at the
last election of Directors when Gould, Fisk,
Tweed, and Lane were all reelected for
five years, more than Sixty Thousand shares,
the undoubted property of English stock
holders, which Judge Barnard had seized and
confded to his "Gratz," James Ii. Coleman,
had by the latter been turned over to Jay
Gould, who voted on them if he chose, but at
all events deprived the owners of all chance
w 'OtN VII 'n'ht 'haV OiN'-
tion. The Ring reelected themselves by the
use of what was practically stolen stock.
But why need we arguef Gould g. Co. arc
now circulating petitions which ask the Leg
islature not to let foreigners control the Road.
Would they do this if they did not know that
majority of the stock was adverse TO their
baleful swayi Would they not let the for
eign stockholders vote as they may sec fit, if
they did not know that such voting would
throw out the present dynasty7
Gentlemen of the Legislature! you know
what honesty, fair play, the good name of our
country, and even your own fair fame, require
of you in the premises. Right well do you
know that the control of the Erie Road by
Gould g. Co. is founded in fraud and main
tanned by corruption. They have bought two
or three preceding Legislatures; they expect
to buy and use this one. Our country has lost
Millions on Millions in the sale of her securi-
ties abroad, because Of that corruption, boil
stored up 40 it has been by tho bold.
New-York tribune., 1872-01-23
2rctoIl(ork Daily Gribnate
TUESDAY, JANUARY 23. 1872.

The tax on raw materials has been rejected by the
French Assembly More OF the Communists have been
sentenced. 1t is thought that N. Grevy Will be elected
Vice President. =-= The German Government refuses
TO ion in the crusade against the Internationals.
Zorra the prominent candidate for President OF the
Spanish COrtes.
In the u s. Senate, yesterday, joint resolution
introduced looking to the purchase Of Cuba The Com
mttee PosOces reported in favor Of the Postal Tel
egraph scheme. In the House, the report on the
negotiations with the Syndicate presented NThe
New-Orleans troubles were discussed at length
The Twombly bill TO relieve the city finances has
reached its third reading Mr. Hustled explained his
nection with the Gravel Company. == Forts Moutrie
and Sumter are undergoing repairs. 60 The South
Carolina Freedmen protest against the repeal OF the
duty nee.
The police, under Capt Mount. made descent on
three Broadway concentrations and arrested 20 pretty
waiter girls. Col Geo. X. Leet was examined by
the Senate Committee 60 IL is rumOred that Henry
g. Conkn, Secretary of the Market Savings Bank, has
abscOnded. g. The Board of Aldermen has appointed
"A committee OF FIVE to investigate the city accounts
g. Gold 1929, lOsI. Thermometer, S2o 4Oo, 3S0
New-York tribune., 1872-01-23

Figures which do not lie, however much
witnesses may prevaricate, are furnished in
another column for the benefit of the lnvesti-
eating Committee, which does not yet seem to
be satisfied that Leet g. Co.'s charges for the
doubtful service they do our merchants are
simply outrageous swindles. A reporter of THE
TRIBUNE has collected from various merchants
bills rendered by Leet g. Co., compared them
with others of the bonded warehOusemen, and
establishes that the General Order favorites
have charged in some instances go and 200 per
cent more than they had any right to demand.
The statements are made on the authority in
every instance of the members of the firms or
their authorized clerks, who are ready to es-
tablish them on oath and by documents. Now,
if the Committee has any desire to get at the
truth Of these frauds, each insignificant i'll
itself yet the whole amounting to robbery
so magnificent that Tammany itself would not
have rejected it, let it subpoena the merchants
named.
New-York tribune., 1872-01-23
CRIME AGAINST MANKIND.

II il hoped that it will not be necessary to
wait until the public sensbility is again out
ragged and shocked by tho discovery of
now crimes, to procure the enactment
of laws which shall adequately punish
tho professional abOrtiOnist. The fact
that this nefariOus business is more or
loss openly practiccd in this city, in spite of
existing laws, ought to draw the attention of
humane Legislators to the subject, without
more discussion. 1t is pretty well understood
that the law is not sufficiently clear nor sufli-
ciently drastic in its penalties, or the murder
ous quacks who now advertise their trade and
carry it on with impunity would not be so
numerous and brazen. Here and there few
conspicuous and reckless wretches like Wolff,
Lookup, and ROscnzweig, fall into the meshes
of the law, and are punished, but the greater
proportion of the craft live and thrive securely
upon their abOminable business; and their ad-
vertisemcnts are daily published in the columns
of unprincipled and avaricious newspapers. 1t
is pretty plain that something should be done
to terrify these malpracttioneIs.
An examination of existing laws shows, as
we have intimated, that the statute relating
to criminal abortion and its punishment is not
sufficiently explicit in its specifications, or Sc
we're enough in it's penalty. 1t is provided that
the willful killing Of an unborn "quick"
child by any injury to the mother, which
would be murder if it resulted in the
death of such mother, shall be deemed
manslaughter in the first degree And that
any woman who shall solicit of any person
any medicine or drug, and shall take the same.
or shall submit to any operation with intent
thereby to procure a miscarriage, shall be
deemed guilty of misdemeanor and be so
punished. 1t is further provided that
any person who shall administer or
prescribe for any woman any drug or
other substance, or use any instrument or
other means, with intent to procure mis-
carriage, "unless the same shall have been
necessary to preserve her life" shall. in case
of the death of the woman or the child, be
deemed guilty of manslaughter in the second
degree. The supplying of drugs, instruments,
etc, for this unlawful purpose, is also speci-
fed to be an Oifense punishable by fine or
imprisonment.
not justify the procurement of miscarriage,
except when necessary to save the life of the
mother; whereas experienced medical men
know that the movements of nature may be
anticipated or fastened in order to save
tho life of the child also. The law should
provide for both contingencies. The oilense
is declared to be mansaughter in the second
degree, which, under our statutory enactments,
is punishable with an imprisonment of seven
years, at the extreme. As criminal abor-
ton, to use the ordinary phrase, is murder, it
ought to be punished as such. The intentional
destruction of an unborn infant often involves
tho death of the unnatural mother. and so
New-York tribune., 1872-01-23
CUSTOM HOUSE Politics.

TIE Times wishes to know whether it is
| sign of failing memory" that Mr.. Greeley IS
| reported rs having testified before the Custom
house Investigating Committee that
"I travel considerably the State and hare met
three or four hundred CustOm-house officers who are
regularly paid and kept at work for the interest Of the
dominant faction" &C.. DC
We respond that it is no case OF lmper-
feet memory, but of imperfect reporting,
! based 1--WE presume) on imperfect hearing.
That Mr. Greeley did not meet these mission
aries, is shown by the fact that he was sick at
homo while they were drumming up delegates
for the State Convention of 1870, and far away
in the North West while they were doing the
like for the Convention of 1871. But, III his
subsequent, and somewhat extensive, travels
over the State, bir. Greeley has conversed
with friends who scverally assured him that
cmissaries from the New-York Custom house
did-not always successfuly-Operate in their
respectye Counties to pack the Convention IN
the "Conkling" interest; and Mr.. Greeleys
Judgment, based on these assurances, is, that
some four hundred CustOm-house officers,
mainly drawing their pay in New York, were
thus employed last Fall outside of this CITY;
and that the "Conkling" triumph was achieved
by their efforts. They did not succeed In
every effort while their friends would have
carried some Counties without their aid; but
enough delegates were controlled by them to
reverse what, but for them, would have been
an Conkling majority. Such was in sub
stance Mr.. Grceley's testimony; and its truth
is known to all intelligent politicians in the
State; yes, and even TO the conductors of The
Times.
So with regard to the late organization of
the Assembly at Albany When Mr.. Greeley
gave his testimony, he had not seen The Com
mereiaI AdUertiSer of the Sd inst, wherein its
Editor QIugh j. Hastings), who was Jealous
and effective worker on the Custom-hOuse side
throughout, bears testimony to the fact that
Mr.. Speaker Smith owes his place to the pres
cnce at Albany and the influence of Mr..
AlOnzo b. Cornell, Surveyor of this Port.
That is the sober truth, if Hugh Hastings did
say it. How Mr.. Cornell was able to transform
defeat into victory, good many can guess.
Mr.. Greeley was reported in certain journals
IA having testified that Mr. III. G. Eastman OF
Dutchess told him that he must not be (or
seem to be) on our side in that contest, or
the Hon. John b. Ketcham on. G. from the
Duchess districD would lose all his appoint
ments in the New ork CustOm-house. VI
course, certain reporters so understood Mr..
Greeley, but they misunderstood him. What
he did testify was that he was cautioned by
friends not to speak to Eastman as to the
Speakcrship, because, while he was all right,
he had to seem to be on the CustOm-house
side, or John Ketcham would lose all his
places in the Custom house. That Mr. East
man told another Member of Assembly that
such was the casc-that Ketcham had told
him so-we stand ready to prove.
New-York tribune., 1872-01-23

the Custom house, is comparable in Importance
with tho reformation of the judiciary. 1t may
be said that bad judges are the cause OF nall
the evils which afllict our city. But for them
we should have had no Twceds, no Connollys,
no Haggcrtys. no Fisks. Tammany would ho1
have had the power to bargain with railway
company for the disposal of ten thousand
fraudulent naturalization papers, each one
probably representing two or three Fraudulent
votes. A Vermont pcddler would not have
stolen one of the greatest railroads in Amer
lea. Elections would have been reasonably
fair tests of the wishes of the majority. SUIT
ors could have gone into court with pros
pect of getting justice without bribery. until
the bad judges are driven out, we have done
nothing of real use We have Topped OIL the
branches and left the root Docs the LegisIa-
ture mean TO act7
New-York tribune., 1872-01-23

General satisfaction will be expressed with
the report of the Ways and Means Committee
on the transactions of the Secretary of the
Treasury with the Syndicate. The charges
that the Secretary had increased the National
Debt by his conversion of Five-Twenties into
the new loan, and has exceeded tho amount
allowed by Congress for expenses, are efiectu-
ally disposed of by the Committee. The gist
of the whole mater is, that no Five
Twenty bond could be taken up until
new bond was sold in order that its
avails could be applied for that purpose !;
that while the process of conversion is going
on, the amount of the old bond is temporarily
! added to the National Debt, but only tenn
porarily, and that the avails Of the old bonds
could not be used by the Secretary. even if
| received into the Treasury. as the law ex-
| pressly prohibits any use of such proceeds
except for the special purpose provided.
1t further appears that as the agents for the
sale and purchase of bonds were designated as
depOsitaries Of public funds, for the time
being, they were legally entitled to the use of
the money during that period. The report of
the Committee is satisfactory enough, so far "a
the lawfalness of the Secretary's action is con
cerned; as to its expedeDcy. there is more
than one opinion.
New-York tribune., 1872-01-23
BULLIES on THE BENCH.

Judge Barnard made slandcrOuS and shame
full attack the other day upon the private char
acter of journalist to whom he attributed
some Of tho recent exposures OF his official
misconduct. The language was actionable,
but Mr.. Barnard had so shielded himself be-
hind the reporter TO whom he used it, that an
action for slander would lie not against the
author of the falsehOOds, but the petty Bohe-
miSn newspaper which printed them. Barnard
was tbereupOn challenged to assume the re-
spOnsibility for his words Like almost
all bullies, he is O pOltrOOn; so he
skulks away, leaving his tools to meet
the consequences. 1t is only what might
have been expected of George G. Barnard in
any case; but in the present instance it seems
TO be the course which common prudence
would have dictated. For Mr.. Barnard's
charges are already disproved by his own
witnesses. Absolutely every single person
whom be mentioned as authority for his SIAN
derous tattle COntradicts him point blank. He
is non suited and thrown out Of court as soon
as he has stated his case; and if he had ac-
cepted that responsibility for his own words
which any upright man ought to be ready to
assume, he would have been convicted on a
criminal charge.
In regard to the attacks upon his own
character his behavior has been equally
cOwardly. lie professed to ask an investiga-
ton before a Grand <Jury the other day. just
as he had made similar profession four years
ago well knowing that Grand Jury had no
jurisdiction over him, and could not touch the
inquiry. The Legislature only has power to
review his conduct, but TO the Legislature he
has been careful not to 20. IL is bad enough
that q Justice of the Supreme Court should
stand accused of the misdeeds by which
Barnard has made himself notorious; but
when, instead of trying to meet charges under
which no right-minded judge could endure to
rest silent single day, he busters like bar
room rufiian and then, the moment he is fairly
faced and defed. covers into silence, what
language shall express the feeling with which
he must be regarded by every honorable man
in the community
Perhaps il il IA well that Mr.. Barnard should
exhibit himself in the worst character that
even he knOwo how to assume We want the
people to see just what sort of men they have
put upon the bench. and to understand that
no reform they have yet undertaken. neither
the overthrow OF the Ring. nor the protection
Of the public treasury. nor tho publication OF
New-York tribune., 1872-01-23
POLITICAL NOTES.

The Tammany Sachems have issued an ad-
dress to the Tammany Society aud the Democratic
electors assigning their for excluding the Geo
eral Committee from ialnndny dal, ana declaring their
intention await political developments before
dering the real estate OF the society any Democratic
organization
The State printing is about to receive some
attention New-Jersey. Gov Randolph ia his retiring
message threw ont suggestion. and the State press Ii
now discussing the matter with animation. Tho entire
was ss?IC and th it Is claimed ~ greatly IN excess
of what the work was worth.
The Temperance bill now before the Missouri
LEGISLATURE which closely resembles the measures passed
in Ohio and Illinois making saloOnkccpers and owners
OF property rented hquoreers liable for any dam
age done by persons TO whom liquor IA so is meeting
with determined opposition. In various pAiSS oI lne
for presoutaton 10 The Legislature strongly proteSung
against its passage Il Is expected thaL o. b0wn w
veto the JOINT resolution passed as, Wee uHe''pS 'hN'
maturing State bonds be pad IN currency
The ST. Louis Republican keeps faithfully
hammering away at the Passive Policy dea ana as an
orounent 10 doubling Democrats fectes her annals OF
defeat to inspire timely reserve before maTchnS out
the nresent campaign: "Tho Democracy failed IN iso
they failed in 1864 they failed IN ls5o and toy are now
invited 10 contest IN 1877, III whCh thef nauoS o,n
i've them no assurance against fourth failure. Is tn.
wise counsei Are the Democracy to light on the fatal
tactics Of win ali, or lose an, again anu 'sa.u;
until there IL nothing OF their party lertt
Ne viii not ask here, tue Den0grsey Ss,, ,s.
afford TO be defeated next november by ,hs
presidency with Mr.. PendletOn. Gen. Hancock, Mr
hendricks Mr.. Do0ttle or Mr. Tldeh rs thelt eandl-
dates ask those gentlemen themselves ana ther
friends If they afford such defeai Can they by In
ssting on the honor of nomination. afford the neTeos
reckoning which would probably follow deiedti Isl
discreet them urge To disaster tho great party
Which has trusted them with confidence AMI wth whose
future their own fortunes are ldehuhed -
Accoulin, TO the annual message OF Gov.
Reed of Florida no accounts kept 90 show the ex
nenses for which the wasl liable from isiS 10 Tn"
breaking out OF the Rebellion The total bonded dcOt
Florida Nov 49, 1886, si6Gl6i g. ~ wac made 70
anuanr Nv the financial statement then puoslcd. put
az Governor thinks that over 100000 Indebtedness wss
uot ncindcd in this exhibit. According 10 the same sn
present total debt OF the state IL slJl W.
~ witch sslT9l5 Oa Ia bonded, and tue remainder.
si6s 7Oi 3d. is floating GOV. Reed shows that hrgo
portion Of the bonded debt is Chnrgeabe to previous al
and the state has, assets. an unco
iected revenue Of SGO672 45 and s200o due fro tne
United States leaving the total debt At ssSON! o. s
adds Alter diseharging all the liabilities Of the Inter
mai Improvement Fund meeting all the grants made
TO r roads rivers canals Nc., we SHAH nave, AZ lete
0 OO acres OF lands remaining, as hna resource Tor
auy State liabilities"
New-York tribune., 1872-01-23

The Broadway concert saloons have faunted
their liccntious enticements in the face OF the
public SO boldly of late that even Superin-
tendent Kelso has perceived that something
was amiss. In accordance with his directions
a raid was made last night by Capt. Mount of
the Fourteenth Precinct upon three of the worst
of these dens, the Canterbury" the "Oriental,'
and the Assembly Rooms and the propri-
etors and seventy "pretty waiter girls' were
locked up in the Spring-st. station. The girls
were subsequently discharged. but the pro-
prietors who are the real culprits, were held,
and will, we trust, be punished to the full ex-
tent of the law. These saloons should never
have been allowed to maintain themselves on
Broadway for single night, and the crusade
thus begun cannot be followed up too promptly
or too thoroughly.
New-York tribune., 1872-01-23

A call is in circulation for public meeting of
members of the Bar, and of citizens generally, to
express popular Indignation at the existing
corruption of the Bench and the degradation
to which, in consequence, the Bar Of the State,
and particularly OF this city, has been reduced.
The purpose is not the mere denunciatOn OF
corrupt judges by name it is to give the
earnest protest of the profession and the
people most nearly affected by them against
the rapidly growing abuses by which
Justice is defeated and her advocates degraded.
To that call no honest lawyer, no Dubllc-Splr-
tied citizen, no voter interested in the mantle
nance inviolable OF the rights OF person and
property, ought to fail to respond. AT this
time of delayed action at Albany, OF renewed
efforts of corrupt judges to reorganlze the
political party which sustained them, some
such expression of public indignation Is de-
manded, and is necessary. The eau
should be signed by the most lntiu-
ential men in our city, and the meeting should
he of such numbers, the resolutions should
be couched in such positive terms, and the
enthusiasm for reform in this most important
branch Of the public service SO unequiyocai'
that the wish of the people cannot be mlsun-
dcrstood or disobeyed. Reckless and unprlncl-
pied as they are some, at least, of the cor
rupt judges will not refuse to take hint thus
given by an indignant people.
New-York tribune., 1872-01-23

A more striking instance Of making a noun
tain of mOlehill than the charges against
Assemblyman Hustled was never seen. The
explanation which that gentleman made yes
terday will completely exOnerate him in the
estimation of everybody. 1t is apparent
that Mr.. Hustled bought and sold gravel
10 legitimate customers at rates which
were legitimate. fair, and proper. He had no
job any more than has the Westchester farmer
who sells bis butter and cheese to the man
who will give the best price for them. That
is the whole case; but, trivial as it was. it
afforded Mr.. Rush G.. Hawkins an Op-
portunity to show that he "could not
open his mouth without putting his foot in
8" it :" and so we may not deplore the neces-
sity which gave him such lesson. This eta
ton of Mr.. Hustled has been prompt, keen, and
determined. We wish Messrs. Terwilliger and
Wood could be as sharply brought up but,
then, they could not so readily answer the in