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The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1874-03-18


THE committee appointed by the
Legislature to examine and report
what alterations and additions are
necessary in the Capitol building, to
accommodate the increased legisla-
tive bodies that will assemble in 1875,
have reported, that in its opinion the
only alterations necessary in the Sen
ate chamber is to replace the present
desks with smaller ones, similar to
those used in Congress, and lessen
the space q few inches between the
rows.
But the difficulty in altering the
hall of the House is greater, and to
accommodate the two hundred mem
lers il will he necessary to erect a
one story addition next the land Of
fee, with entrance and rotunda fac
ing that building. This, it is thought,
can be done without marring the
symmetry of the Capitol building,
the entire addition resembling por-
tico or entrance. This being accom-
plished the Speakers stand can be
removed back into the new addition,
which will afford ample room for it,
and commodious transcribing and
wash rooms, and the entire space of
the present hall can be filed with
smaller desks, and it is thought the
two hundred members can be as well
accommodated as the hundred now
are. The estimate is that the entire
cost of erecting the additional building
specified, buying desks, and making
the necessary alterations, will not
exceed twenty thousand five hundred
dollars
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CHARLES SUMNER.
Death Of the Great Senator.

WASHINGTON, March H.-Senator
SIMMER died at quarter to 3 o'clock.
He passed away calmly and without
struggle. tit.4f
During the last two hours Of bis
illness bis intellect seemed to be much
clearer, and he was perfectly con-
scious to the last, this condition be-
ing doubtless the result of bis recOy-
cry from the effects of the morphine
which had been freely administered
to him this morning to relieve him Of
the intense pain which he suffered.
His sutferings towards the last seem
ed intense, and he several times ex-
claimed 81 want quiet. | am tired. "
He recognized friends who came in-
to the room, and one of the last to
whom he spoke was ex-Attorney
Hoar, OF Massachusetts,, to whom he
said: -.Take care Of my Civil Rights
Bill"
About quarter before O'Clock
he was attacked by a slight spasm,
in which he died. Around the bed
at the time were ex-AttOrney Gen
eral Hoar, DR.. w. p. johnson of this
city, Major Ben. Perley Poore, Geo
/. Downing and James Wormley
Other hiends, who bad been with the
dying Senator throughout the day,
had left just previous, not anticipating
that death would be SO soon. Sena-
tor Schurz and Hon. Montgomery
Blair entered the room just as be
breathed his last, but Mr.. Sumner
was too near dissolution to recognize
them.
The only relative of Senator Sum-
ner was q sister, the wife of physi-
clan ia San Francisco, and to her the
sad news was telegraphed Immediate
ly after his death. During the day his
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HARRISBURG.
HARRISBURG, March I.
HOUSE.

Mr. Worrall submitted the follow
ing.
Res0Ired, that hereafter, when the
House ajjourns on Friday, it will
meet again on Monday evening at
seven and half O'Clock.
Mr.. Mitchell, moved to amend by
providing for session on Friday af-
ternOon.
After some debate the amendment
was accepted, and the resolution as
modified, was adopted-yeas, 35 ;
nays, II.
The following business was then
reported from committees:
Mr.. Stranahan-An act to puni, h the
fraudulent issue of tax receipts.
Mr. Brockway presented an act to
compel foreign railroad companies
to have and maintain an Office in the
State.
Also, as committed, an act 20 ena-
bic the auditor General to settle the
account Of the State Printer.
Also committed, an act for the
further regulation of appeals from
assessments of damages to Owncrs of
property taken for public use.
Mr.. McCreery-an act to drovide
for a thorough neurological and
geological survey of the State.
MIR. Vodges, An act fixing and
defining the individual liability of
banks. The bill makes stockholders
in banks, banking companies saving
fund institutions and all other incor-
.porated companies doing the business
of banks, or loaning or discounting
moneys personally liable for all debts
and deposits in their individual ca
pacity to double the amount of capital
stock held and owned by each.
Mr.. Allison(Ways and Means), as
committed, act to promote the i'm
provement of real estate by exempt
ing mortgages and other securities
from taxes, except for State purpo-
ses.
Mr.. Talley, same, as committed, act
to provide for the education and
maintenance of destitute orphans Of
deceased soldiers and sailors of the
Sta.e.
Mr.. Reyburn presented the follow
ing: " iaaet eDfEe q
RESOLVED, That if the Senate con-
ours the Attorney General be direct
ed to commence proceedings against
the Union National Manufacturers
National aud Western Banks of Phil
adelphia, Second National Bank .of
Titusville and Drexel Il Co., bankers
Of Philadelphia, or the officers or
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WILLARD FILLMORE.

Hon. Millard Fillmore. whose death
at Buffalo, on Sunday night, March
Sth, has already been announced was
born Jan. 9TH, 1890, at Summer Hill.
Cayuga Co, New York. His early ed
ucational advantages were few, but
by perseverance he did what he
could to overcome his defects, and at
the age Of nineteen began the study
Of law, in which be subsequently, be-
came proficient. He commenced prac-
tice in 1923, at Aurora: III 1921 was
admitted as an attorney, and in 1880
as counsellor in the Supreme Court
Of the State. Nav /, 1880, he re-
moved to Buffalo. In 1882 be asso-
ciated himself in practice with the
late Judge Hall, who had been stu
dent in his Office, and in 1886. the
late Hon. Solomon G.. Haven was ad-
mittcd to the firm, which, under the
name of Fillmore, Hall & Haven,
had a State reputation, and lasted
until 1889.
From 1929 TO 1882 Mr.. Fillmore
served in the State Assembly, where
he became marked by his advocacy
of the act TO abolish Imprisonment
for debt, passed in 1881. He was a
member of Congress for three terms
-lS33-5 and lS31-4l-and a portion
of the time chairman of the Commit
tee on Wages and Means. in which
position he originated the Tariff law
of lS42. In Congress Mr.. Fillmore
acted with the Wings. He favored
the abolition of slavery in the Dis
trict of Columbia, and of the slave
trade between the States, opposed
the admission of Texas as slave
State, and advocated a protective
tariff. From 1912 to ls47 he prac-
ticed his profession at Buffalo, but in.
the latter year was elected State
Comptroller. While he was in the
exercise of this Office and resident
of Albany a State convention held
in South Carolina nominated Gen.
Taylor, the hero ofthe Mexican war,
for President. Immediately upon the
reception of the news in Albany, on
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irwc'l O. H. Marshall q e. =
Judge t'sorsc w. Clinton y
lhe oldest aud most pfa..... ,.c.
Iens aud friends Of tLe deco a.. "a /,
dep s.tcd the same in f-|s. used
cbanccl '''. Of
The ceremonies at the e..
were Of a solemn and i,.l.- a.-
character, including a br;"g ;'. PIE
Of tae life ofthe ilIustriog. = ..
by Rev. DR.. Shelton tho - o-.'
rector Of ST Paul's and ~. me
friend Of MilIard Filimorr Gnu ~. .'e
ing Of the choir Of s. PAN .aa
grand and splendidlv repd.s'j, '',
casket was then borne 10 ~.
and procession in the foll,,...- d..
MAJOR General Howard and -,
dier Gene1ai Rogers and ,,.r l., b
Pany D, BuLalo CITY Gua,I .
fifth Regi .cpt, New Yo-t 5
Guards, Seyenty-fourtb va. IVA.
New York National quad '' = 2.
MES a and G, First Cni'e5 I.
Infantry under Colonel DE- y.
a guard Of honor; the hesr.i ''.'''i =,
ted with national and fgns--,
and followed by a loag f.-.
riages with paIl-boarcr. and
ers' the national, State and H.. ..'
resentativcs and citizen.
Lawn Cemetery, where o.. %
funeral services Of the r..
Church, the remains were 5a-..
IN a stone grave in the fana..
The streets along .fe e
march were crowded
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DISASTER AT st
Steamer PENNSYLVANIA ,
Hurricane.
ne Captain, Two Officer, aud
sailors Lost

PmLADELPHIA, March .
steamer Pennsylvania fran. :
pool, reports having ma, d. L.
hurricane on the 9th ir..
night. The sea carried a,,,-
bridge on which were Cam 7
burn and the first and second a
and two sailors, who We're an ID
ed overheard and lost T.a u
officer had a leg broken IT,.
hull and machinery were M, -..
but she los, her boats a-E
houses. Captain Braa5ur1 ....
to Baltimore, and the other .r
were from England
After the loss oftbe officer.
suitali0n was held. and +. w.....
that Il stec-5gc passenger -,
Brandy, Formerly third maze
Inflated atlantic, who. +. ua- hi,
membered swan ashore a-f 5.
ed a line from the Atlaa..
being the means Of sagia.
Of liyes), should take cta~r
ship, and It was through IF.
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OUR WASHINGTON LETTER.
WASHINGTON, ID. c., March l6.

The death of Hon. Charles Sum-
ner yesterday has caused thrill of
sorrow to pass through the length
and breadth of the land. His illness
was sudden and unexpected; for,
though he had some symptoms of
return of the illness which caused
him to visit Europe last year, he had
partially recovered, and on the day
before his. ..death he had several
friends invited to dine with him. 1t
is singular coincidence that his
death occurred the day after the res
olutions as the Massachusetts, Legis-
lature repeating their previous cen
sure of his course regarding the bat
tie flags had been read in his pres
ence in the U. S. Senate. He will be
sadly mourhed here by host of per-
sonal friends, and he will go down in
history as one of the greatest and
purest of American patriots and
statesman. Eminent for scholarship
and oratory, be will be best remem-
bered as the devoted advocate of free
dom to the American slave and to
the security of the civil rights of the
colored race. Many have thought
him extreme in his views, but no one
who knew his real character has ques-
toned the purity of his motives. All
must admire his answering adhe-
renee to convictions of right, though
they most widely dissent from his
opinions
The election returns from New
Hampshire will be in by the time
this reaches the eye of your readers.
At present there appears to be close
run for both Governor and Legisla-
ture. This State has oscilated for
many years past back and forth be-
tween the two parties, and if it is
lost this year, through the running of
Il Temperance ticket, there will be no
national significance, though croakers
will try to make of it huge bug
bear.
The Howard Court Martial was
occupied to-day in reading document
ary evidence. The Court is now full
and it will proceed regularly. Little
doubt is entertained among those who
knew this soldier who left his right
arm on the battle field, that he will
be vindicated in the trial from all
dishonorable conduct charged against
him, whether it be sins of omission
or commission.
A bill has been reported from the
Committee on Printing authorising
the committee to inquire whether, in
view of the abolition of the franking
privilege, the Government Printing
Office cannot be dispensed with
This proposition sounds rather old in
these progressive times, when prin-
ter's ink is such power in the land
The Treasury Department is to be
reorganized, and the Civil Service
Committee of the House are en- rag
ed in preparing bill for the pur
pose.
The clerk of the u. S. Supreme
Court gave grand dinner party on
Tuesday evening to the judges of
that Court and others of his friends. |
A bill was passed in the House,
yesterday, amending the act of Feb.
IA, 1871, granting pensions to SOL
diers and sailors of the war of 1912, |
and restoring to the pension rolls
those names that had been stricken
therefrom for disloyalty Also bill
to increase the pensions of soldiers
who have been totally disabled; also
allowing $50 to soldiers who have
lost IN eye, to enable them to pro-
cure an artificial one.
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,bo r,otion of Thurlow Weed, 4 pub
lie meeting was called, which indors-
cd Gen. Taylor,s candidalure for the
Presidency, and named Millard Fill
more for Vice President. The polit-
zeal influence Qf MIR. Weed was at
that time all powerful in New York,
and the cry Of Taylor and Fillmore,
first uttered at Albany, was taken up
by the Wings throughout the State,
and determined the nominations of
the Whig national convention OF
ls4s. The ticket was elected, and
Mr.. Fillmore carried into the Vice
Presidential chair by the military
record of General Taylor and the
grace of Thurlow Weed. Mr.. Fill
more's good fortune had not yet de-
serted him, for by the death of Presl-
dent TAYLOR, in July, 1850, he found
himself the thirteenth President OF
the United States. In his Cabinet
were successfully Daniel Webster
and Edward Everett as Secretaries
of State: Thomas Corwin, Secretary
of the Treasury; Charles NJ. Con-
rad. of Louisiana, Secretary of War:
William A. Graham, of North Caro-
lima, and John p. Kennedy, of Mary
land. Secretaries of the Navy; Alex
ander H. II. Stuart, of Virginia, Sec
retarv of the Interior; Nathan h.
Hall and Samuel u. Hubbard, Post
masters General, and John j. Critten'
den, Attorney General. Under his
administration the following note
worthy bills became laws: Utah
Territory, Texas boundary, Califor'
MIA State, New Mexico Territory
Fugitive Slave and abolition of slave
trade in the District Of Columbia
This series of measures were all IL
the nature of compromises between
the North and the South, and, as was
natural, some were distasteful to ont
section and some 20 the other. The
passage of the Fugitive Slave e4i
and President Fillmore's signature
thereto caused great excitement al
the North. where the administration
lost favor in the eyes Of the anti-slav-
cry party, without gaining the adhe'
renee of the pro-slavery partlsans
The result was the death of the Whig
party, whost last President Millard
! Fillmore was. At the end OF his
term be returned to Buffalo, and IN
lS55-G visited Europe In the fall
of 1856 he became the Presidential
candidate of the American party, but
the movement most wofully miscar-
ried. and as one Of the results Mr.
Fillmore was defeated Since that
time he has not mixed with politics,
though it is understood that his pred
Elections have been towards the Dem
ocratic as the conservative party OF
the country. At home he has always
been honored and respected, and has
held the position of President of the
Buffalo Historical Society, and en-
loved other tokens of the esteem OF
his neighbors. Until quite recently,
Mr.. Fillmore had enjoyed good
health; but in February he had q
stroke of paralysis, which caused his
death on the 8th inst.-PWsburgh
! Commercial.
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gress several years since.

THE long delay of Congress in set
Ting the currency question, is prov
ing very injurious to the business in
terests Of the country. While that
body is wrangling over the best
method-nearly every member hav-
ing a plan which he deems a sover-
eign panacea-the business interests
of the country are languishing-
With trade on a generally sound ba'
sis, foreign demand for all the pro-
ducts we have to spare, and fair
supply of money awaiting investment
so soon as the volume Of currency is
definitely fixed, yet, at this season of
the wear when trade is usually brisk,
business is dragging, and capital re-
mains locked up because Congress
neglects to do its duty.
If that body win only do some
thing, it scarcely matters what, so
only the present doubt and uncer-
tainty is removed, business will at
once revive and accommodate itself
TO the situation. 1t is the uncertainty
surrounding the monetary affairs of
the country that is crushing the life
out of all business operations.
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CHARLES SUMNER.

The foremost statesman of Amer
lea has dropped sudde My from the
ranks of his associates, and lies to-
day an inanimate corpse in the city
that has been, for nearly quarter OF
a century, the scene Of his patriotic
labors, and for the most of that time
his home. He had technical resi-
dence in the State which he represen-
ted, but of late years he was there so
seldom that his domicile was rather
legal fiction than substantial fact.
For the last three or four years his
vacations, as a general rule, were
spent in Washington, and while other
Senators were engaged in profession
al duties, or resting quietly at their
homes, or travelling abroad with
their families, he remained at the
Capital and studied the questions
which were likely to become the sub
ject of Legislation. He was labori-
Gus student and patient iuvestiga-
tor, as well as profound thinker;
and when he spoke he had a right to
assume the air and manner of one who
knew that be was standing on solid
ground. Massachusetts crowned him
with her highest honors, and gave
him royal welcome whenever he
consented to visit his native city; but
his devotion TO his public duties was
so complete that neither the society
of beloved friends nor the applause
of his admiring fellow citizens could
win him from his labors, except for
brief intervals, which were not fire.
quent.
This generation will not be able to
do Mr.. Sumner justice. He will loom
out great character in history, and
it viii be the wonder of those who
succeed us that We did not set up his
statue while he lived. i. was his
fortune good or ill) to have lived a
half century before the mass of his
countrymen could comprehend the
principles for which he SO bravely
contended. He stood upon higher
plane than the average statemen of
his time. Ten years ago those who
believed in the abstract justice of his
political theories considered him On.
impractical enthusiast, while those
who were educated in an opposite
school Of morals and politics denounc-
ed him as a malignant agitator. Hap
PLY he lived to see both friends and
foes revise their Judgment. Time
wrought such mighty changes in the
popular currents Of thought that he
was called magnanimous in that Sec
ton of the Union where he had been
mostreviled, ; and it must be admitted
that in the excitement of the most
extraordinary political campaign some
of his lifelong friends in the North
failed to see any patriotic motive in
the course of action that won him
such favor in the South.
If there could be any dispute as to
Mr., Summers title to greatness, one
simple fact would. be conclusive. He
represented the State of Massachu-
sets for twenty four years in the u.
S, Senate. No man could have main-
tanned that position for 50 long time
unless he had been gifted with all the
robust tuslitisss y qaanA Aood and the
highest graces of scholarship. The
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Ir looks as if the Republicans nave
becn beaten in New Hampshire, ow-
;no 20 the fact that the temperance
people by running a third candidate
Cor Governor. have ensured the cleo
tion of a Democrat pledged to ap-
prove the repeal of the prohibitory
liouor law.
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New YORK March 16, 1874.


One half of the million people who
make up this great Babel live in
what are called tenement houses.
You, oh dweller in the village or the
country, have an idea that house
is-s- structure of seven to twelve
rooms, in the centre of pretty piece
of ground, with flowers, fruits and
such things about it, where a child
may he born and grown up with de-
cent, healthful surroundings. That
is not. with 100000 people in this
city known as house. To them a
house means o building, four or FIVE
stories high, divided into small rooms,
the rooms ten feet square, the bed
rooms closets. Light, the cheapest
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JUDGE JEREMIAH 5. BLACK was
before the House Judiciary Commit
tee on Monday of last week, making
an argument in behalf of the claim
of George Chorpening. The amount
involved is four hundred and forty
three thousand dollars, claimed to
be due for mail services performed
between Utah and California some
wears since. The Judge stated to
the Committee that he had ample evi-
dence to fully substantiate the claim
which, it viii be remembered, was
suspended by resolution Of Con
rrress several wears since.
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Tise Death of -"reSid5ut fil
Proclamation OF Precedent

WASHINGTON March 9-I
lowing was Issued this ma-l.1
EXECUTIVE MANSION Vs.
TON March . ISI4-It l. w-.
regret that the Prc~idea, ann
to the people of the United Sta
death Of Mili:ard Fillmore 0as
honored predecessors. wl' ID
Buffalo. \. Y. last evening
The long continued AMI
public seryicics ana cminea.
of character Of the deceased tZ
dent will be remembered 5era-
days Of mourning in which
will be thrown bv the even,
is thus announced. A. d II
respect TO bis memory It Is o
that the executive mansion al
several departments nj Na-a.a-
draped in mourning until tne 4.
the day on which the funeral
take place, aad that all ols...
suspended on the day of th' ID
1t is furthermore ordered ial
war and navy departments
suitable military and nava. boa
he paid on the occasion 90 'aF
ory otthe eminent citizen H-.'
is now closed.
L. :. GEA
BY the President
HAMILTON FISH. Secretary DE-