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Tho Emperor William, Of Germany, has once
moro boon mado target OF by Some ambitious
fanatic, but, with tho usual good luck Of the
European soveroigns escaped with only d hole
through his helmet. It will bo remembered that
d desperate attempt was mado upon tho life Of
the Ozar. somo time since. in parie. Amadeus
was hardly on his Spanish throne before tho
assaBaus triod to shoot him. Napoleon was
many times exposcd to assassination, but seemed
to bear a charmed life, and eyen tho good VIC
toria has not boon exempt from tho assassins
conspiracies. Tho dispatches give no clue
to tho carises which lod to this attempt
upon the life OF tho Gornlan Emperor. His
visit to st. Petersburg, it ia now rumored, IL for
diatinct political purpose, and Bismarck wont
with him to negotiate, or, at loast, to prepare
tho way for treaty, It iH aaid. Tho PrusHlan
pross has all along sided with Russia in her
dosigna OF making the. conquest Of Rhiva, and
has assailod England without rosorvo. Tho at-
tempted assassination, however, could hardly
have grown out Of political matters. Tho asser-
ton In tho dispatches, that 1t Was priest who
fred the shot, would seem to Indicate that
religious troubles we're at the bottom Of the
affair. Tho coureo Of tho Emperor, with
reference to tho ponding strpgglo between
the Old Catholics and tho Ultramontanos, and
the rigid manner in which religious establish
tnents havo boon regulated and in some Instances
suppressed in tho German Empire, may
have led sou1o religious fanatic to attompt tho
dood. Notwithstanding all tho privileges Of
! royalty md tho splenaors Of courts, they must
| BE- very materially Offset by the reflection that
every timo royalty goea of for recreation 1t sets
itself up as d targoE to be shot at. 1t may be
possible, however, that royalty bocomoa accus'
toned to the operation as cells do to 1sying
and that tho provorbial uuBkilltulness Of the
hunters OF royalty has ceased to arouao any
fsarB.
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BUSINESS NOTICES..

AblFH1THEATRE-Clt Clinton strout, tetweou Randolph
and NA1hfuutou, Yanak, the nfGstfdlgft&tcuF.
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TO.pAY'S ADJUSTMENTS.

MQoLSY's TiaEs.1TnE71sando'ph 1!H. s'roo' botwe'n
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,FOnEpAuGus CIRCUS Madison stroot, corner o
Elizabeth.
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Aiov1OKtR'B TtIKATNE-~afadison stsaot, bolyaen
nssteo1n i,s snd st.t9. Engagement OF Edwin Adams
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crops Of 1869, and tho population by which they
wore consumed 10 that tho result for tllat yuar
is moro reliable, and glsos a basia Of more just
comparison with tho official records OF 1860 than
sny based in part upon estimates. Tho crop Of
ccroa1s, according to tho cousus, 1855 102 05s
bushels; tho exports, 81, 1900, ,69t brnhols; and
tho consumption 1886, ,s11 ,6o2 bushels, or 0l]f
bushels por oaptta-ovor four bushols 1oas for
overy inhnbltant than the consumption Of ton
yeare beforo.
Tho homo market proves to ho worth leas to
tho farmor than 1t was before tho adoption Of tho
protective system. Ho ia forced to = creator
dependence upon foreign trade for tho conaump-
tion Of Ills products, and especially Of his whoat.
In 1860 NO exported only 10 per cont Of our wheat,
and In 1870 about 20 por cont, /, 1919 per cent Of
the crop Of 1860, 22.5o por cont Of tho crop Of
1870, aud 1os1 per cont Of tho crop Of 1871.
Average for three yenra, 1910 por cont. Instead
Of making him moro independent this b1ossod
tariff has made him moro dependent than oyor
before. And now, Great Britain begins to get
tho larger Blaro Of its grain from Odessa. Tho
imports Of wheat into British ports for four
years past compare titus:
:: '@ss:''., :s;:. un'!s S!;s s'as. hs::::, ss:
1900 !,sss, ,sas ,s.isi ,se7 eisg,ss1
1s39. aaS s6o33
4l,eeo.228' s,ood4oa
The rapid decrease In imports from this coun-
increase Of imports from nusea-of which re
have not tho figures for 1872, but the startling
decrease OF American wheat, taken with the in
oroase Of 800, 900 owt III a9 British imports OF
wheat, Indicates that tho imports from Russia
must have rison above twonty million owt. Not
lcaa significant Ia the decrease In British imports
Of American flour, which fell from Las 251 cwt.
in 1870 to ,7o4, ,so5 In 1871 and to 74s.412 owt.
in 1872. In 1861 no Bont to England
s,7o4 865 owt, Of flour; in 1864 NO sent ,4a9, ,594
owt., and in tho throo years 1861s, Inclusive, 6a
por cent Of all the flour imported by Great Brit
| per cont Of her -four imported came from ua. In
1e61-3 VIC sent to England 87.5 per cont Of all
her imported wheat; in 1879 no sent only 20.5
per cent Of tho wheat imported by her. With
our foreign markets thus falling and tho home
market ablo to consume losB s1heat per capita
than 1t did thirteen years ago. ia It any wonder
| TINT prices fall and farmers aro pinched7
! Let thom put the blame where 1t belonga,-
upon tho inlquitous system OF wholesale rob.
bory called protection. By that system tho ID.
borers, tho great majority Of consumers in this
country, are 30 p1nchod that they cannot con-
sun1e as largely aa they did thirteen years ago
! Dy TINT syatem, now aa ut every other trial ol
its workings in our history, the natural increase
Of exports has boon checked, and tho most val.
| uahle foreign markets closed againHt us. B,
that Bystem tho cost Of transportation md the
cost Of production hayo both been enhanced,
aud the farmer, pluudered when ho sella, Is also
piundered when he buya. That Bgatem in biz
chief enomy. Permanent relief for tho evitt
which oppross him can come only when ho hat
uprootod forever the Hyatem falsely called pro
toctive.
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THE MATTER OF STATE TAXATION.


Senator 8. r. Cummings, Of Fulton County, ut
the close of tho Legislature, addresses lettcr to
ono OF bis constituents in which he exu1tingy
statos TINT 1t has been determined at Springfield
to abandon tho ono-fourth valuation heretofore
followed for State taxation, aud to adopt tho
full, or caal, valuation. Mr. Cummings has con-
siderable to Say about making oyery person pay
taxes according to tho value Of his property, but
fails or omits to state either Of tho worry ques-
tIouable ends which aro to bo accomplished by
this chnnge Of valuation. In tho Constitution
there aro two provisions which hare proved very
Objectionable to local politicians. They read rs
follows:
l. County authorities shall never taxes, the
aggregate Of which shall exceed Is cents per 500 yalu
ation except for the payment of indebtedness existing
At tho adoption Of this Constitution unlcss authorized
by vote Of the people Of tho county.
g. No county, city, township school district, other
municipal corporation, Bha bo allowed 10 become in
debted In any msnner. or for my purpoae, to m
amount including c1isng indebtedness, In tho nggro-
gate exceeding per centum Of tue taxable property
herolu to bo ascertasnod by the last assessment for
6tataand county ta1aa.
THO effect OF those has boen to limit taxation
for curront expenses, and also to stop further
Indebtedness. Intelligent and patriotic Boards
Of Supervisors oil over the Rtato are loud In
| condemnation Of provisions OF tho Constitution
which prohibit thom selling bonds and spending
the money and which rostrain them
from raising funds by taxation to be
| By thom distributed. But there Is another
trouble In tho way. Tho tax-robblng
act Of 1869 provides that, in all counties and
towns which hayo contracted debts in aid OF rail-
roads, all State taxos collected on any increase
In tho valuation Of property in such counties and
towns ovor tho valuation Of 1868, and all taxes
on the property OF railroads aided, instead Of
being paid into tho State Treasury. shall be held
to pay the interest on these xailroad-aid debts.
| The aaaoaHed value OF taxable property in 1868
WAS about S480,000000. lu 1871, 1t was $500,
900, 600, and 1t Is now proposed to make It
| %, 900, 900, 900. The amount OF money to be
raised for State reyonue for 1878 is "a, 600. 900.
This comparatively small amount could be aa
we'll raised on tho valuation of $500, 900 .000
as upon tho $4,000. 100000; but the rail-
road-ad debt and tho other doht OF
the counties is beginning to be seriously
folt and now It is proposed by such towns and
countios to avoid taxation for that debt by
directing tho State tax to that purpose.
Tho aggregate railroaa-aia aobt duo BY coun
tics, cities, and towns In this State ia 813 .058
Tho amount collected In 1871 to pay interest OF
this dobt was as followa:
Collected from levy for interest. ....... $780, 1t
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until it is too late.-Gdluest0n (Tc1.) -Neacs.
If It was tho Rev. Anybolyolso, with say 8.
J. after hts neme. who was appointed by Prosi"
don't Grant to mako tour Of the American Con-
would there not DO a howl about 1t all over this
country, and whom would tho last bo henrd Of
priestoraft and Joanitry7 But why Is any ReY
DR.. appointed on such i miaalon?- n?-Duouq4e Tex
egraph.
Airs, Stanton nays: "Lot women assist
themselves now as they have noyor assisted
| themselves before. Lot thom take caro- Of thoir
| own interests. They have too long lot their
beneyolent Instincts work toward the
Church and men; lot them ,.nSs, now s1tea attend
don't carpot churches, don't have fairs to deck
| thom with painted windows; don't give your
ministers donation parties iput all your energies
| into earnoBt work for your own emancipation:
bo, into yonr own families lot the baby 60 With
out bibs tho usbant's shirts without buttons,
tho homo without care, until tho men give, In.
! When they find their comfort depends on allo",
giSo T II It 10 us. Women bavo too long petittoned
and begged Of mon lot them now mako Blegs
| and carry tho war Into their. homoB. It is
coming to that, aya md it ia going to bo q do:r
| pioco Of busnoss for you. we are gong to vote
--I,oaooaby it wo can, but with war If we muat."
-Thoao who layo actually drawn tho money
t out OF tho Treasury and then returned 1t, have
recognized tho fact that thoy are guilty Of taking
that which did not belong to them, and tAolr re-
| turning doos not do the head nor tue heart any
] credit, nor roaect any honor upon them. We do
not rotor to eithor political pnrty npartoular be-
| oa.ao tho mombors OF oach Aavo beon guilty Of
tho same outrage, and arc hliko oulpable; but
no wlsh to Impress upon tue minds OF the people
| Of all partiea tho noooaaity OF rapudiating tue
whole lot Of political mountebanks who arc and
havo beon dlsgraoing this nation FOR yoara past.
-pax!on {IN,) Journal.
1t Ia uaeless for the President Of tho United
States to try to conduct our GoYornmens On
! monarohial piRup, for while Kings or Queens
may do no wrong" wa haye conclusive and nn" IN
denisble oYidonco that ProasdAnt esn'-Da'
| bRaus Herald
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Much oftheTeputation that Peter
Cartwright attained for eccentricity
was no more than an originality of
illustration, which was not iar-fetch-
ed, but the result ot careful obser-
vation. TEe largely drew from
that intimate KIN, 1wledge of nature
which an active, observing mind
could NOT fail to obtain in the early
itineraIit lite of the West. Many
OF his illustrations were tender and
pathvic, and at times one was
startled BY the brilliarcy and poetic
/. gicS Of a bold enthusiasm, founded
in Christian faNh. But ordinarily
there was homeliness aud quaint
ness in his manner of stating facts
that never failed to attract. The
commouest affairs of life, the SIM
plest objects in nature, all forms Of
animal life, contributed to the com
plete store always ready at his bid
ding. a few years ago, at Confer
euce, he was describing a minister
on probation, against whom the OBJ
lection was urged that he was too
much a man oflmpulses; at times
sanguine and effective, at other
times meIancholic, and harrassed by
doubts, even to the neglect OF
pastoral duties. The old veteran,
who had quite a liking for the
young man, confessed that the
charge was correct, but stated that
the brother had many good quail
ties, and felt certain that lie would
improve on q better circuit with a
better support. The Bishop re-
marked that religion ought to cure
such variations of feeling. "les,
sir" answered Cartwright, "but a
great many good people are in the
valley ore day aid on the mour-
tain top the next; they get very
hot aud then very cold. don't
know much about this myself,
Bishop, for | never had any Of this
Hghtniug-b,Y ,eligion.
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HUMOROUS.

A young man who was crossed
in love attempted suicide recently
by taking a dose of yeast powder.
He Immediately rose above his
troubles.
A blessed old lady being asked
if she ever had her ears pierced by
the wall Of distress, said size couldn't
very we'll remember, but she believ-
ed it was done with a fork.
assault with intent to become
insane" is the way they put deadly
attacks now.
A literary correspondent Of the
l ittsburg Gazette, signs himselt"O.
Phiddel Styx."
An old lady, on entering q store
the other day, said: Why, it
can't be that you keep this store,
yet! | thought you had gone out
of business. amt tseen your name
or anything about your store in the
paper for over q year, and every
body in our neighborhood thinks
you have gone out of business.
The chap who tried to lift him
selfby tugging away at his boot
straps has prototype in Musklng-
um county, Mich, who recently at
tempted to commit suicide. He
looped a ropearound his neck, threw
the other end Of it over q cross
beam, and pulled away vigorously
with his hands, trying to hoist him
self from the floor. After q few
pulls he would desist, and try to
discover why be didn't move up,
then repeat the operation. lie had
not succeeded at last accounts.
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Agents for lhe Register.

The following gentlemen are authorized
20 receive and receipt for subscriptions,
advertising, etc, for the REGISTER:
Hiram Smith, Harrisburg.
O. r. Tompkins, Harrisburg.
Peter Hume. Brownsville.
w. R. Kirk, Brownsville.
J. B. Irvine. Scio.
II. Fl. Reynolds, SaleTa.
l.. r. Fisher, San Francisco.
d. p. Porter. Sheddss Station.
Fletcher n Wells, Buena Vista, Polk co
Chas. Nickel, jacksonville
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Poor Ono OUGHT TO HAVE
SoMErHING.-president Grant oc-
casionally gets off a dry joke that
would rauk among Lncoln's best.
The following is too good to be
lost: When the vacancy in the
regular army occasioned by the
death of General Meade, was to be
filled, there were a great many
aspirsnts with manifold Gains.
after hearing a good deal IN behalf
Of each, the President said to some
friends that lie had concluded to
appoint Mcdowell. +" lie isa good
50 der" said the President, aid is
entitled to the place, " and then,
you see lie belongs to Ohio, and,
really, poor Ohio ought to have
something" Those who know
that the President is native OF
Ohio; that one member of the
Cabiuet and two on the Supreme
Bench are from Ohio; that a ma
jority Of the Bureau and snb-de-
partments are Ohio men, and that
no office is ever vacant that Ohio
does not want to till, will appre-
ciate the Presidents remark !:
" Poor Ohio ought to have some
thing"
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BEEFTEA.-One pound OF per-
tectly lean beef is cut into small
pieces, placed in a strong bottle,
corked, and set to bill in a pot Of
hot water. 7'he heat disengaging
the juice Of the beef gives, after
three hours cooking, a strong and
very nourishing liquid, into which
the essential principle Of the meat
is condensed Let it grow thor
o,ghly cold before using, so as to
remove every floating particle Of
tat, R-heat, season and serve. A
teaspoonful Of arrowroot Stirre.i in
while the beeftea is heating makes
all excellent addition.
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.lnR MnRK.

Having received new tyne, stock of col
oved inks, cards, q Gordon jobber, etc, We
are prepared TO execute all kinds of print
tng In better manner. and fifty .per cent
cheaper than ever before offered in this
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Ailotasrhsn,sS Of l,atldlug Material.

LSD: PREPARED TO DO MILL
wori;, furnish shaker faus. zig2a9
-tiakers, sagion fans, driving pullcys ot
eay kind, al eur factors on Lyon rec .on
tle river ,aiIls, next below Mala,h
warehouse ALTIlOuSE & 60.
Albany, Feb, ", l5g0-H
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TERMS IN ADVANCE.
AnyERTISING RATES.

Transient advertisements. Per square OF
ten lines or less, first insertion e each
subsequent insertion 81. Larger aaVer,
tisements Inserted en- the most liberal
terms,
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(iaribaldi, il is sail, has grown
Old terribly oflate. He can walk
Only with the aid Of cratcaes; !; his
fingers are distorted BY Rheumatism,
AID he looks as If lie would LOT
be able to leave lbs rss.lenee, ey-
cept "a q litter. a /. IT'LL elr-
fnl ii spite otliscr.2 pied state, All
bis face has preserved is .resh color
aid ge4ial expression.
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TRlcKY YoUSG MAx.-Occa-
sionally, when the train arrives at
Middleton, Conn, a nice young
man jumps off aid kisses the best
looking girl at the depot, supposing
her to be his sister. He apologies
so nicely tl.at the girls are getting
50 that they look f-r him regularly
some big brother viii pull lis nose
vet.
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FEVER AND ACuE.

FEVER AND AGUE cured for ifty cents. There 7
net remedial agent in this world that will Fsver
and Agus, and all other MalarIous Bilious Scarlet,
Typhoid, Yellow, and other Fevers (aided by RAD
WAYS PILLS. 70 quics as RAILWAYS READY
RELIEF Fifty cents per bottle. Sold by Druggists.
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NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC.

Owing to the unprecedented quantity Of
our advertisements advertisers seeking our
columns are requested to send in their adver-
fisements early in the day. This course will
secure their proper classification and allow
as TO make timely arrangements for our
news. Advertisements should be sent in early
in the afternoon, if possible, and not later
than nine p. NJ, either at this Office, our
only uptown bureau, 1,265 Broadway, or at
our Brooklyn branch Office, corner of Fulton
and Boerum streets. Let advertisers remem-
Der that the earlier their advertisements are
in the HERALD Office the better for themselves
And for uR
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The Observance or Good Friday.

Though Good Friday has no recognition as
a legal holiday in the United States, general
consent is gradually bringing its observance
here to correspond with the customs of the
balance of the Christian world Like Christ
mas and Easter, the day, as one of religious
obligation, was carefully discarded by those of
our Puritan fathers, who could see only I'm
mixed evil in the teachings of the Catholic
Church. Passing time has broken down the
sharp edges Of sectarian bigotry, and COM
mon faith in the divine mission of Him whose
mediatory suffering for sinful man is comment
grated in the exercises of Good FRIDAY now
compels respect to the day by the American
people, even outside of those churches which
esteem it duty to honor it by solemn SER
vices. Yesterday presented a Sunday-like
silence in the places where the bulls and bears
of finance are wont to toss and hug one an
other in contests over shares courts met sim
ply to adjourn. the schools were closed, and
crowds filled the several churches, where sad
religious rites referred the worshippers to the
historic scenes in Judeas capital, when.
amid strange darkness and earthquakes the
Messiah was put to the ignominious death of
malefactor by sacrilegious Roman soldiers to
become the everything leader OF redeemed
humanity, whose teachings are to make a
common brotherhood of oil men. In another
column of the HERALD will be found detailed
notes of the way in which the day was
observed. Banks were open but transacted
little business, dry goods and millinery estab-
lishments were not largely patronized; the
ladies in the streets were mainly robed in
black, going to or returning from church.
Manufactures were in operation as usual, but
the sense of fitness seemed TO constrain the
operatives to abstain from their usual hilarty
on their way to and from their work, and the
day evidently only lacked the sanction of law
to make it day Of general rest and Worship.
Other cities paid even more marked respect to
the mournful anniversary. Philadelphia
closed her banks as we'll as schools and courts.
1t would meet general approval if our Legis-
lature should so far endorse Christianity as to
add Good Friday to the small number Of work
days in which official business should cease,
and the laborer be allowed to worship and
commemorate the sacrifice which was to ex-
plate a world 4 yin.
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The Terrible Overthrow OF San Sal
vadOr.

v0OOrs
Again, after an intermission Of twenty years.
the volcanic forces surging beneath the soil of
Central America have asserted their terrible
power The telegram announcing the second
destruction of San Salvador and eight
hundred Of its devoted inhabitants in
all probability undertakes rather than
exaggerates the appalling truth. The scene
of this last throe Of nature lies in the
volcanic belt partly covered by the Andes,
stretching along the line of its burning cones
from Terra del Fuego, on the southern point
Of South America, all the way to Panama,
and distinctly traceable through Guatemala
to Mexico and California. This vast
region of subterranean fire extends
over six thousand miles Of the earth's crust
and from time immemoral has been and still
is in state of vibration, liable at any moment
to upheave and demolish the proudest fabrics
of nature or art, and spreads forth its fiery
arms to the right and left beyond our knowl-
edge. San Salvador has many times been
slightly shaken, but never as it was during
the ever-memorable earthquake Of 1854 In
1854, on the Thursday before Easter Sunday,
movements Of the earth were felt, preceded by
sounds like the rolling of heavy artillery over
pavement. On Friday and Saturday all was
tranquil and quiet The heat was intense
and the cir calm and Silly. In the evening
Of Sunday, after severe shock had tempo
rarily alarmed the people, suddenly, with
out further premonition, the city was
convulsed most terribly, and, with q
single exception, every building was
overthrown and five thousand human
victims persisted in the disaster In ten Sec
onds the fearful ruin had all been wrought.
The ravne of Infernillo, which is situated not
far of, in the centre Of the Republic of San
Salvador, was filled with o multitude of streams
of boiling water gushing from the superheated
surface.
Central America is seated not far from the
rim of o great circle of volcanic fires that
girdles the Pacific Ocean, and in ITO, amid
terrors that have survived in the obscure
history of century, the burning mountain of
Izalco, which has been active ever since, was
formed in the little Republic of San Salvador
The powerful volcanic action in Central
America and Mexico of September 30, 1852
caused the volcanic pyramid of Jorullo to rise
in one night to the height Of one thou
sand eight hundred and sixty-three feet above
the surrounding plain. The volcanic nature
of the West Indies, together with the tremen-
dous earthquakes to which they are all SUBJ
whole Caribbean Sea and Gulf of Mexico form
an area Of subsistence, probably increased by
tho erosion Of lhe Gulf Stream and ths
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groundswell which prevails during the Sum-
mer. So marked is the submarine furnace in
its thermal energy that more than one emil
nent physicist has attributed to it the force Of
irresistible expansion of the Gulf Stream
waters which come forth from these fire.
sprinkled estuaries of the Atlantic.
There can be but little doubt that fearful
devastation has been accomplished in San Sal
vador by these Plutonian forces. and the
whole world will look aghast upon the scene.
We shall await with great anxiety TO learn
further details by telegraph. We shall proba-
bly, hear, in few days. of some great volcanic
eruption in South America or in some of its
antipodes.