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3UXBURY, JUXE 18, 1875.
Republican Stale Ticket.
FOR GOVERNOR :
GEN. JOHN F. HARTRANFT,
Of Montgomery County,
FOR STATE TREASURER :
HON. HENRY KAWLE,
Of Erie.
Wanted a-Platform. The editor of
the Germantown Telegraph, one of the
most independent journals in tbe State, has
evidently investigated the remaining prin
ciples of the modern Democratic party,
judging from the manner in which be ex
plains their present position. He says "a
political parly is generally safe enough 60
long as it is in the minority and engages
in attacking the administration in power,
exposing its errors and shortcomings, and
picking out all the frauds and corruptions
which all governments carry in their train.
But let that party get into power itself, let
it be clotlted with the attributes and re
sponsibilities of government, let it be asked
to mark out a policy of its own, and then
begins its troubles. Such is the present
quandary of the Democratic party. For
lifleeu years it has been out of power. It
has denounced without ceasing everything
done by the Republicans. It has assailed
everybody iu office as corrupt or imbecile
or despotic. It has ridiculed the statesmen
of the dominant party and eulogised its
own leaders as transcendent statesmen,
and those who believed in all these outgiv
ings must have fancied that the men en
trusted with office were a set of low trick
sters bent on nothing but power and pelf.
But now comes a change. The Demo
crat have carried twenty-seven States.
They have command of Congress and of
most of the State governments. What do
they propose to do ? Let us know some
thing of the splendid statesmanship of
those Democratic leaders who were no bold
- ' and free in their criticisms of Republican
policy, and who were held up before us as
models of political wisdom and patriotism.
Where arc the measures by which they are
going to remedy the untold miseries and
evi's of Republican rule ? If this great Na
tion is now to be reconstructed anew after
the ideas of the Democratic party, let us
know what those ideas are. We read the
Democratic journals attentively but in vain
to discover some plau of actiou, some dis
tinctive measures, some avowed policy.
There is none. The whole party is more
at sea than the Republicans ever were.
We can Cud no living principles, no Na
tional issues, no fixed policy, no broad and
comprehensive measures. Everything is
vague, indistinct and shiftless. Indeed
some of the leading Democratic journals
are so conscious of the fact that they at
tempt to show that at the coming session
of Congress nothing should be done but
investigate, though little else has been done
for four years past.
Here, then, the weakness of the concern
stands confessed. It has no policy. It has
been casting about in search of one, but
without success. It is afraid of every issue
of which it threatens to become the pack
horse. It is afraid of free-trade, afraid of
""""the dangerous tendencies of the recon
structed Confederates, afraid of the bigotry
of its Catholic cohorts, afraid of the State
rights issue, afraid of civil service reform.
And of what is it in favor ? Can any one
tell us r it e have industriously searched
the Democratic creed. It has vanished
entirely.
We hare already directed attention to
tbe fact that the extreme Catholics are not
satisfied with the exclusion of the Bible
from the public schools. In Ohio, where
tbis concession to tbe Catholic hostility to
the public schools has been made to some
extent, tbe CaViolic lelegraph, an organ at
once of A reli In hop Purcell and the Demo
cratic party, boldly anuounces that no
Catholic cau send his children to the pub
lie schools, under the present system, with
or without Bible reading, without com
mitting a sin against tbe Church. It an
tagonizes the school without the Bible as a
'no-sect' institution, and improves the oc
casion to arraign Protestantism in general,
as follows :
Cincinnati, O., Catholic Telegraph (Dcn.)
"Its creed is tbe denial of all positive re
vealed religion, and tbis is the logical
sequence of the full development of the
protest which rebels raised against the di
vine authority of the Church three cen
turies ago. If there are thousands in this
country professing to belong to some one
of tbe many Protestant denominations, and
who yet iavor tbe elimination of religion
from tbe training of youth, their seemingly
illogical position can be easily explained.
They hare unconsciously accepted the final
conclusion to which their false religion
leads they thick and act as infidels, be
cause infidelity is tbe matured fruit of Pro
testantism. ''They favor the expulsion of God from
tbe school room because they have expelled
all belief in Christianity as a supernatural
religion from their minds. If any Catholic
desires to take the same side on tbe school
question, he virtually places himself in the
category of those who boldly deny that tbe
Son of God commissioned the Church to
teach all nations. He admits that the
State is the supreme teacher, guide and
law-giver a very popular religion, it is
true, in these anti-Christian days; but
those who embrace it cease to be CatholicB.
No State has the right to say to the Catho
lic citizen that he must violate his con
science, and that his child must-drop his
faith at the doorof the school house ; and
any regime of education which requires
this is godless, pagan and anti-American.
"The present system of public schools
brands the Catholic faith as a crime, and
the American State punishes it yearly by
fines equal in amount to the sum which the
Catholics are compelled to expend after the
payment of school tax upon the Catholic
education of their children. The Ameri
can school law is a penal enactment against
the Catholic religion, originating and per
petuated iu the same spirit that has driven
the educating orders of the Church from
the soil of Germany. It does not lighten
the grievauce, it does not extenuate its in
justice to appeal to the denial of the right
of Protestants to have their childreu edu
cated in their faith. The injury inflicted
by the hand of the State upon one party
is no atonement ; for a wroug can be no
justification of an injury done to another.
"If Protectants are willing to adopt the
he teaching of infidelity, this willingness
.does not eoofer upon any political organi
sation the ajtthoritv to compel Catholics to
jmrsue the aaw pourse of apostasy. He
ho hath no careaf his own household has
denied the faith, aud is worse than an in
VI ; and the Church, with no uncertain
. and in no ambiguous language, but
explicit, and decisive phraseology,
has declared to the Catholic world that the
religious education of their children is an
all important care, a paramount duty,
which cannot be neglected without guilt.
There could, therefore, hardly be a more
impudeut falsehood than the assertion that
a public secular system of education does
not interfere with the religion of Catholics,
It is au interference that amounts to a most
grievous and iu suiting outrage ; it illus
trates most perfectly the brute rule of a
reckless majority in tbe domain of religion,
from which the letter of American law ex
cludes all interference."
A few days ago the telegtaais informed
us that the riotous miners of the Clearfield
region had been arrested and were to be
tried before Judge Orvis, and that Seuator
William A. Wallace had been retained to
prosecute them. The Senator and the
Judge have done their work expeditiously.
The Harrisburg Telegraph says tbirty-two
of the prisoners were sentenced by Judge
Orvis; the convicted men being divided
into three groups of comparatively hein
ous criminals, and sentenced to different
degrees of punishment. Justice to be ef
fective should be prompt, is a maxim
which the eminent prosecutor and the able
judge seem to have studied and approved.
We now commend to the Democratic news
papers that goaded these men on, to con
template tbe result of their criminal work,
in inflaming the ignoraut mTners into re
sistance to the law. Their sliauie is com
plete. And their failure to make political
capital against the Republican party by this
inflammatory and disgusting attempt to sac
rifice the peace of society if it would bring
them a partisan benefit, is grotesquely
thorough. The arrested miners are con
victed by the assistance of a leading De
mocratic lawyer and politician, and are
sent to prison by a distinguished Demo
cratic Judge. Rather poetic than other
wise, that justice is it not ?
The Germantown Telegraph states a fact
which it is well for tradesmen and others
to consider, that the fashionable and
wealthy portion of the community do less
towards encouraging American industry
than any otter class of people. Take the
attire for instance of one of the hundreds
of fashionably -dressed ladies seen daily on
Chestnut street. The materials of her bat
and dress, her collar and gloves, are im
ported from France. Her shoes are French
kid and her hose of English manufacture.
Perhaps not a single article of her clothing
is made in her native land. For articles
of luxury such as these, is the country
drained of gold.
Gov. Hartranft has, in accordance with
the act of 1875, providing for tbe selection
of fire suitable persons from different sec
tions of the Stale who are familliar with
its resources, arts, products, history and
capabilities, who shall constitute a State
Board to act with the United States Cen
tennial Commission and the Commissioner
and Alternate for Pennsylvania, appointed
the following gentleman as a State board of
Centennial Managers : Morton McMichael,
of Philadelphia; Andrew G. Curtin, of
Bellcfonte ; J. II. Shoenberger, of Pitts
burgh ; George Scott, of Catawissa, and
Foster Wilson Mitchell, of Franklin.
George O. Evans, who figured exten
sively as an Agent of the State of Pennsyl
vania in collecting war claims against the
U. S. Government, and then pocketed a
big pile of the plunder, died ou Thursday of
last week, in Ve6t Philadelphia, aged 54
years. Although he could not be made to
pay his debts to the State, yet he has now
paid the debt of nature, so let him rest. It
is not every public plunderer that can flur
ish on his ill-gotteu wealth, of which this
man Evans was a case in point. He was
worried to death by legal proceedings, vexa
tious delays, and imprisonment, and leaves
behind him poverty and a disonored name.
Senator Stevenson, of Kentucky, is re
ported as having said that, if the Demo
cratic party tried to make a national issue
or tbe financial question, it will be broken
to atoms, which is tantamount to an ad
mission that the party has no common
ground on finance. And yet it has at
tempted to cast ridicule upon the Republi
cans iu Congress for having adopted a
policy and harmonized upon it. There is
nothing that so vitally concerns every in
terest in the Republic as this very fiuancial
problem ; nothing that tbe Republican
party has been so vehemently abused for
not having definitely settled, and nothing
that had so much to do with the political
reveries of 1874. And now Senator Ste
venson confesses that his party is wholly
at sea on the subjecthas no common prin
ciples, and can have none. What a com
petent, capable, enlightened party to take
charge of the government 1 Philadelphia
Xorth American.
The Black Hills Tbeatv. A tele
gram has been received from Frank Pal
mer, editor of the Chicago Liter-Ocean, ac
cepting his appointment as a member of
the commission to treat the Sioux Indians
in regard to the Black Hills. Bishop
Haven declines to go on the commission on
the ground that he is too busy with church
matters, and the physical condition of
Bishop Ames is such that he cannot accept
the appointment. As four bishops have
declined to serve the interior department
has deoided to abandon any further efforts
iu that direction, and the commission will
be formed without any bishop. As it now
stands, it is composed of Senator Allison,
General Terry, Ex-Represenlative Comin
go, the Rvv. Mr. Hinmau and Frank A.
Palmer, representing congress, the army,
the church and Journalism. Both politi
cal parties are alo represented.
Wants information. Seth Green, the
great fish culturiBt, has asked the newspa
pers to call the attention of the people along
the liues of the liver flats to note whether
any young or old fishes are found in the
pools and depressions after the water has
fallen aud inform him of the result. The
point to be gained is finding out of the
young fish that have been placed in the
rivers and creeks of the State remain iu the
regular channel or deep water, or whether
they seek shallow water and a slower cur
rent, aud are exposed to the dauger of be
ing left high and dry upon the ground when
the streams fall
Lynched. Early Monday morning the
colored felon, Siroms, confessed, to having
outraged the person of a young white girl,
12 miles from Haiti more, on Friday last,
was taken from the jail at Annapolis by a
mob and lynched. The lynchers mostly
came from Ann Arundel county some of
them had their fices blackened, and some
were masked. They were armed with
pickaxes and crowbars, and got into the
jail by battering dowu a back door. Their
victim said nothing until they were about
to string him up, when he attempted to
speak, but was silenced. He was banged
about a mile from tbe town, and the citizens
knew nothing of the deed until some time
after it had beon done.
THE RELEASE OF BOSK TWEED.
The great Tammany conspirator has
been set free from captivity on Blackwell's
Island, and is to day at large. Although
tbe cloud of indictments hanging over him
will descend in a shower of writs, it is
probable that he will find shelter behind
sufficient bail, and be protected by the le
gal skill which has been persistently and
successfully exercised in his behalf. It
may be, therefore, that he will be able to
preserve the enlargement which the half a
million dollars, which he says he has paid
to lawyers, has won. He returns to New
York, free once more to traverse the streets
which might once almost have been called
his property, so entirely did he control
them, so largely did they contribute to his
income.
He returns to the city ; but he does not
return home. There is no home for Tweed
in this world but the grave. His family is
hopelessly scattered never to be reunited
on earth. His friends where are they ?
Who is there to welcome the escaped con
vict back to his old haunts ? His pro
fessional advisers, who have rescued
him from the hands of justice, may meet
and exchange felicitations with him at
Delmonico's over a bottle of Cliquot, re
viving a fleeting gleam of that convivial
jollity which characterized the reign of the
"Ring ;" and their may be remnants of
the old gangs of ballot-stuffers and election
strikers still lingering about the si u tubs of
the Sixth Ward, whose feebly inebriate
rejoicing over the news that "the Boss is
back from tbe Island" will bring back
memories of the noise of the shoutings on
the great field days when Tammany ruled
New York, and Tweed ruled Tammany.
But after these faint and unsupported ebulli
tions sink down, as they instantly will, like
ghosts, at cockcrow what then ? What
has this broken, ruined, deserted, impotent
old rogue returned to ? Truly to a fate
that will make him wish himself back in
the prison hospital, where, at least, there
were none to point the finger of scorn, or
to turn aside from meeting his shamed
face. He comes back like one from the
dead and the places that knew him, know
him no more. His Sachem's seat has been
long filled, and the circle about tbe council
fite is full , neither Wick ham nor Kelly
want his alliance now. The Street Com
missioners will not invite him to his form
er chair, and with the Board of Charities
and Corrections he has doubtless had
dealings enough for the present. The
"Blossom Club" is bankrupt ; tbe splendid
summer house of the "Americus," at
Stamford, has been converted into a watering-place
hotel. Of all tbe resorts that
aforetime welcomed the mighty magnate
with overabundant hospitality not a single
place is open to him now.
Impoverished, sick in mind and body,
houseless, homeless, friendless, almost
alone, the miserable old man begins life
anew, in the character of an escaped felon.
His old occupations gone forever, he has
the bitter prospect of spending the remnant
of his days in an unceasing struggle with
outraged law, which he once moulded as
be pleased or defied with impunity. The
Boss is free, but his is the freedom of
Sisyphus, doomed to constantly push up
hill the burdon of his iniquities, which as
constantly threatens to roll back and crush
him. Philadelphia lnguirtr of 1G(A.
The HumIucm Outlook.
While business improves but slowly, and
aud confidence returns at a very lagged
pace, the looker-on is naturally disposed to
conclude that there is no improvement at
all. The conclusion, however, is errone
ous ; as any one cau see who will take tbe
pains to compare the present with tbe
periods of six months or a year ago. The
change progresses very tardily, and is not
perceptible while it is going on ; but by
looking back it is easy to perceive that we
are steadily going forward to a better and
more encouragiug condition of trade.
The shrinkage in values embracing the
prices of labor and of the raw materials
used in manufactures, as well as in manu
factured articles and in real estate, has
been and is the great drawback to an im
mediate return to prosperity. If we could
all instantly have accommodated ourselves
to the changes wrought by the panic of
1873 there would have been less friction in
the working of business machinery and
a quicker return to an active resumption of
trade ; but that was not done, and it will
be some time, yet, before everybody be
come reconciled to what is inevitable and
unavoidable. On this account, if on uo
other, the work of recovery must necessari
ly be slow.
The panic of 1873 did not, like all pre
vious panics, impoverish the people gener
ally. The farmers of the East and West
and the planters of the South have, with
occasional exceptions, had good crops for
years past, and, the currency of the coun
try being unaffected by the panic, they
have not felt the effects of the busiucss re
vulsion, at least uot severely. The agri
cultural interest has probably been as pros
perous in 1873, 1874 and 1875 as in any
three years previous; and, except where
the farmers with surplus means have been
tempted to invest in umemunerativc stocks,
the resources of the agriculturists remain
unimpaired. Their purchasing power has
not been materially reduced, and if, under
the first influences of the panic, they were
driven to ecouomize in every available
particular, they must, at some time, be
come active purchasers again, and their
ability to purchase being unquestioned, the
future, as it regards them, is full of en
couragement. The present condition of trade, then,
does not spring from any poverty or mis
fortunes that have overtaken the agricul
tural aud planting interest ; nor, we may
add, does it result from a scarcity of money.
Our exchanges from all the busiucss cen
ters speak of money as abundant every
where. In Philadelphia aud New York
it is quoted at 3( 4 per cent, on call and
5.7 on first-class pnper or collaterals ; in
Chicago it is quoted as 'superabundant;1
in St. Louis, tbe Glote- Democrat says, 'pri
vate capital piles up in this market without
an outlet ;' while Boston and Cincinnati
report money as cheaper than has been
knowu before for years.
The great difficulty is not, consequently,
an impoverished market, nor scanty ot
money. It consists, mainly, in want of
confidence on the part of those who have
money to lend, and in the paralysis inflict
ed by tbe shrinkage of values. Confidence
is proverbially slow in its growth, and para
lysis never departs rapidly from those
whom it attacks. We must wait patiently
for the return of one and the departure of
the other ; resting as easy as we can, under
the assurance that a country in which
money is plenty and good, and in which
the agricultural interest is prosperous, can
not long be kept in an uncertain commer
cial condition. The future is full of pro
mise, aud we may therefore look forward
to it without fear or apprehension.
Two lessons have got to be thoroughly
learned, however, in this connection. The
first is that we must give up the expecta
tion of a return to former inflated values,
and must accommodate ourselves to the
shrinkage that has taken place ; and the
second is that men in business must be con
tent with very moderate margins of profit,
and not expect, as heretofore, to make for
tunes in a day. The timefor the latter has
gone by. The soundest fortunes are those
built up by slow accretions. Industry,
perseverance, economy and close personal
attention to details are now necessary to
success ; and with these, accompanied with
contentment over small gains, we shall
gradually, but steadily, return to a more
substantial and lasting prosperity than the
country has ever yet enjoyed.
GRAIN GOIXG OUT.
Our grain exports to date are some seven
teen millions of dollars short of shipments
for the same period last year. This may
be partly due to decline in foreign demand,
but is, undoubtedly, attributable mainly to
grain hoarding for speculative purposes.
Chicago has, as usual, been the centre of
this speculative movement, the amount of
wheat detained there being six millions of
bushels greater than at this time last year.
But the anticipation of higher prices, ex
cited by the dealers, extended to the farm
ers, inducing them also to withhold their
crops. The combined action has resulted
in keeping back from the regular channels
of trade probably not less than twenty
million bushels of grain.
This arbitrary and illegitimate interfer
ence with the business of the country has,
doubtless, contributed to the depression
and stagnation of trade. And now thai
the unfair attempt to tax the market has
been defeated, or rather defeated itself, no
sympathy will be fell for the unscrupulous
spoilers who are ruined by the failure. The
shrinkages in nominal values are accounted
by competent estimates about two million
of dollars of Chicago's share is fully onc
balf. Had the Chicago dealers permitted
fair trade to take its natural course, their
proper gains would have been as much
more, so that the loss to the city can be
reckoned at two million of dollars. A part
of this will be regained now that grain has
been liberated and the locked-up store
houses reopened, but there are, on the
other hand, contingent losses, uncounted,
that will affect the prosperity of the city
for years. The baleful influence of these
cornering operations on the character and
repute of the Chicago business community,
for one thing, will work more harm than is
patent to current apprehension.
Wheat is now coming forward, and, un
less prices advance, which hardly seems
probable in view of the failure of desperate
efforts to sustain them, the outflow to Eur
ope will be large. This will help to pay
our debts abroad, beside putting several
million of dollars in circulation at home,
between the East and the West, a move
ment iu the right direction and tending to
ward a healthful resumption of business.
We do not expect that the breaking of a
corner in corn is to immediately result iu
the restoration of prosperity to our sorely
tried public, but it is the reopening of one
of the great thoroughfares of our financial
system which has been closed by toll-gates
a highway by which a vast amount of busi
ness is conducted. That the bringing of mo
ney and credit into the country, the setting-in
motion of our great network of transporta
tion lines, the distribution of cash among
farmers and village traders, will help to
hasten the coming of 'better times can
hardly be doubted. Philadelphia Liqnirer.
DISASTER AT SEA.
Another appalling disaster, incurring
the probable loss of over 40 lives, has oc
curred at sea. Ou Tuesday morning, May
27, the steamship Vicksburg, commanded
by Capt. Iieunett, with a crew of CO men
and 28 passengers, became culaugled inau
ice floe 120 miles ofT the coasl of New
Fouudland. Collisiou with the ice caused
a leak which all efforts ou tbe part of tbe
crew and passengers proved unavailing to
repair, and just as two of the boats had
got clear from the vessel she suddenly sank
with the captain and all of tbe passengers
and crew who remained on board. Amid
tbe floating wreckage of the sunken vessel
a third boat, bearing about 30 persons,
was seen to float The three boats con
tained in all about 45 persons. The rest
sank wilb tbe vessel. After keeping com
pany for about two hours the boats lost
sight of each other, and, as far as is yet
known, the only persons who are left to tell
the tale are five seamen.
GE.VEKAE NEWS ITEMS.
There were 180 bushels of grasshoppers
captured and burned in one day recently,
at Maukato, Minn.
A double track is to be laid immediately
the entire length of the Baltimore and Po
tomac railroad, running between Baltimore
and Washington.
Barnum has begun a crusade against tbe
Sunday liquor traffic at bridgeporl, but he
has leased his New York hippodrome
buildiug for a music and beer garden.
Cotton mills, when well managed, are
highly profitable iu the southern states,
and they are springing up ou all sides.
Yesterday Chattanooga came into pos
session of her first steam fire engine and a
line of street cars.
Our minister to Denmark gives official
notice ot the appointment of commissioners
by that country to the centennial exposi
tion. The treasury department is contidcut
that the proofs already obtained are suffi
cient to couvict all the "crooked" whiskey
distillers.
Dispatches from various points in the
eastern, middle and western stales report
considerable damage to the vegetable and
small crops from untimely frost.
The Clearfield county strikers, thirty
two in all, have been convicted of conspiracy
and riot. John Siuey and "Xingo" Parks
were held in 5,000 each for trial iu tbe
September court.
Dispatches received from various parts
of California, report very hard, cold rains,
in some places doing material injury to
cut and atanding grain.
Tbe American Bible Society has during
the last sixty years distributed about
32,000,000 Bibles. This is at the rate of
over half a million copies a year.
The new arsenal at Harrisburg will be
ready for occupancy about the middle of
next month.
The State Geologist will make a survey
of Sullivan, Wyoming, Bradford and Tio
ga counties this summer.
Senator Cauierou's residence in Harris
burg was erected about one hundred and
seven years ago.
Mr. Herbert, who sued General Butler
for 810,000, aud didn't get a cent, despon
dently observes that, if he is not very much
mistaken, the country is going to everlast
ing smash.
The central portions of Michigan were
visited by frost on Saturday night. Some
damage to crops is reported, but probably
is not serious.
It is understood that the compromise be
tween the Pennsylvania and Baltimore and
Ohio Railroad Companies has been ratified.
Mrs. Lincoln is declaired by a corres
pondent to have always refused to see the
8isterby whom she was charged in the
papers with having sent information to the
enemy. She said to this correspondent : 'I
would not let her cross my threshold, nor
any one who was an enemy of my coun
try." A Harrisburg police officer is named
Buzzard. He should have a good nose for
criminal carryin' on.
Dispatches from various points iu Main,
New Hampshire and Connecticut indicate
a heavy frost last Sunday uight, and con
siderable damage to crops.
The young crops of corn and cotton in
the valleys of the Arkansas, White, Yazoo
St. Francis and along the main rivers far
ther South to the gulf were never more
promising than now. Field bauds are
more industrious than nt any time since
the days of slavery.
One million two huudred thousand
pounds of honey from a single county seems
prodigious for an industry only about
three years old. Yet this is what San
Diego county, California claims.
The declaration is editorially made by
the Philadelphia Press that the hotel
charges during the Centennial season will
not be advanced more than ten per cent,
over present rates. If such is the fact, it
will meet with popular approbation. At
Vienna, the charges became excessive, and
the result was, a heavy falling off in at
tendance, and a partial failure of the enter
prise The Philadelphia Sunday Republic has
lately made an investigation as to the char
acter of the malt liquors sold fiom bars in
that cily, and found not a single specimen
that had not been "doctored" or dragged.
The effects arising from the regular use of
some of the stuff sold under the name of
lager beer arc said to be highly injurious to
health.
A German writer lays it down that soon
er or later all nations will follow Prussia
in opposing papal infallibility. But he
opines that Prussia herse'.f, though having
such au aim, wrongly persecutes the Ro
man Catholics, misunderstanding tfie na
ture of the present warfare, which is a
spiritual one, admitting only of spiritual
wepaons ; moreover that full liberty should
be allowed the Roman Catholic, papers to
say what they wish, so that the secular
press may put in relief that absurdity of
their arguments.
For several months past registered letters
on the mail route to and from Mauch Chunk
have mysteriously disappeared, and, the
loss increasing, a detective was set at
work. Ou Saturday last, by means of a
decoy letter placed in the mail at Ilauto,
six miles from Mauch Chunk, he suc
ceeded in attaching suspicion to a carrier
named Sylvester Weston. Weston was ar
rested, the missing letter was found upon
him, and he confessed that he had been
robbing the mail and destroying the letters
after be had rifled them.
Robert L. Casey, lately a miner in
Schuylkill county, shot and killed his wife,
at Portsmouth, R. I., on Friday, and then
shot himself. He left a letter stating that
he was a Knight of Pythias, in good stand
ing, at Tamaqua, and requesting that the
order bury him iu the Soldiers' Circle there.
Jealousy was the cause of the tragedy.
Our country has been scourged with
many afflicting visitations the past year
says the Lebanon Courier : Grasshoppers,
potato bugs, drought, fires, floods. Demo
cratic victories, and the many other ills we
have sulleml rival tbe curses that brought
to grief the stubborn and wicked Pharaohs.
Is it our prude that is to be subdued ? or
what is the sin that we refuse to give up ?
Hon. Asa Packer, of Mauch Chunk, is
said to be worth 820,000.000. There are
few larger fortunes in the country. He
was a poor boy, aud has accumulated this
largo estate by good management and in
dustry, assissted, probably, by good luck.
His success is encouraging to American
boys, but still we will not guarantee a for
tune of $20,000,000 to all boys who are
honest and industrious.
Half of the main Centennial building,
in Fairmount Park, Philadelphia, will be
up and under roof within a mouth. The
work on all tbe buildings is progressing ra
pidly aud satisfactorily. ,
Edward F. Gay, who was a member of
tbe corps of engineers who surveyed and
located the railroad between Philadelphia
and Columbia, in 1829-30, aud for many
years has sustained a high reputation in
his profession, and occupied high railroad
positions, died in Philadelphia recently,
aged seventy-two years.
Telegraphic News.
THE LONG NT It I HE.
WORK AT ANY PRICE MINERS'
UNION DEMORALIZED.
Hazi.eton, June 15. The loug lock at
last shows signo of endiug. Numerous
meetings have been held throughout the
entire coal region during the past week to
again discuss the question of resumption.
Various were the results, some unanimous
ly declaring their intention of still further
cessation of labor, and other branches as
strongly declaring in favor of immediate
resumption.
A MAJORITY FOR WORK.
In spite of the protests of their leaders a
clear majority of the branches voted for
work, and would allow no other course to
he pursued, and the result is resumption
tbis morning in many important places.
Summit Hill, so long promising resump
tion, commenced this morning, and almost
all the collieries in that vicinity either com
mencing or using every facility in prepar
ing to start. This place has long been
looked upon as a keynote for the action of
the rest, and her action was promptly fol
lowed. A STRONGHOLD GONE.
The entire region about Wilkesbarrealso
resumed to-day. Here has been one of the
most bitter contests of the strike, and the
strikers have yielded, it is a great point
gained by the operators. In the Hazleton
region no actual work has yet taken place,
but this region will immediately follow the
example of the others, and in a few days
all will join, for among the strikers the first
step is the important one.
Everybody wears a smiling countenance,
for although the strikers have lost their
point, and will have to submit to the re
duction, the prospect of again being able to
earn something has given many of tliqm a
light heart. The result will be felt by every
soul in the region, from the wealthy opera
tor who has seen
THOUSANDS UPON THOUSANDS OK DOL
LARS SUNK
In expense, with no returns, to the little
barefoot urchin who has so long and anx
iously looked for bis father to work that a
full board might again greet his vision.
Your fair cily, as well as the whole coun
try, will soon feel the result, and the lesson
having been so severe, it is believed all
further differences will be adjusted without
a repetition of this, the longest strike on
record.
THE LONG STRIKE ENDED GENERAL RE
SUMPTION TO FOLLOW.
Wilkesbarre, June 15.
The long strike is ended. The miners of
the Lehigh and Wilkesbarre coal company
made an unconditional surrender through
their delegates last night at a meeting with
Mr. Parri3h. A dozen or more meetings
were held yesterday at different places.
At Ashley a delegation of seventy Ger
man miners went to a meeting for the pur
pose of voting for resumption. Their ob
ject became knowu to the leaders and they
were excluded from the meeting. They
then called a meeting of their own and de
cided to be governed no longer by the As
sociation. At another meeting the Irish
and Welsh disagreed and the former with
drew. At other meetings there was a lack of
harmony, and during the course of the day
there was a general disagreement as to fu
ture action. The mass of the miners were
in favor of going to work, but the leaders
fought hard against it. The sentimeut
was too strong for them to control, and
that party yielded in the evening.
A region meeting was held, and Ihe dele
gates then went to Parrish's office. Here
a long conference took place. It was very
harmonious, and ended in an agreement to
go to work at once upon the company's
terms. No concessions whatever were
made by the company.
The men stated that they had made a
mistake in holding out so long, in making
a strike, and were now in want of the ne
cessaries of life and eager to have work im
mediately. This company employs about
11,000 men and all of their works will be
etartod goon as possible.
Tbe miners of the Individual operators
will follow the example of the men of this
company, and there will be a general re
sumption in the Wyoming region.
ATTEMPT TO COERCE MINERS THEY
BRAVELY DEFEND THEMSELVES.
Wilkesbarre, June 153 P. M.
The miners who have been working at
Paine's shaft were met by a large gang this
morning and ordered to stay out.
A posse was raised and armed, and they
opened the way through the mob, and
those who wished to do so entered the
shaft. There was great excitement, aud
the least offensive movements from idlers
would have drawn the fire of the posse.
Pottsville, Pa., June 15. Advices
from all parts of tbe country state that the
men are going to work in every direction.
They appear to have given up all hopes of
attaining the their object, and they are
making the best arrangements they can
under the circumstances.
At William's colliery, Mahanoy city,
the men have applied for work, and they
will probably start iu a few days.
The Philadelphia and Reading coal and
iron company started five collieries, in ad
dition to those that were previously work
ng, and making fifteen now in operation.
A report from Shenandoah says the in
dications are favorable for resumption in
that locality. The Rhoads colliery is work
ing full handed, and the coal is coming
out lively.
The West Shenandoah colliery is full,
and for the last two days they have been
turning men away who apply for situations.
Men are at the Plank Ridge and Indian
Ridge collieries, cleaning up, and many
men will resume at these places to-morrow.
The Philadelphia and Reading coal and
iron company have made a large reduction
in the price of supplies to the miners, which
will help them considerably. Powder,
which was $4.12 per keg, has been reduced
to $3.00 ; oil from $1.50 to $ 1.00, and other
supplies in proportion.
A meeting of the executive board of Ihe
M. & L. B. A. was held here to-day, but
Mr. Welsh, the president, refused to meet
the committee, aud the delegates went
home dissatisfied and determined to hold
meetings of the different branches and in
struct the men to go to work.
It is reliably stated thai the miners' un
ion has disbanded for one year. There is
no doubt but that the strike ii virtually at
an end, and that a geueral resumption in
this region will take place in a few days.
Troop Ordered Out.
Lebanon, June 12.
Col. J. P. S. Gobin, commanding the
Eighth regiment National Guard, this
morning received an order from Gen. J
K. igfried, of Pottsville, commanding
Fourth division, to send company A of
York, D of Harrisburg, I of Wrightsville,
and F and G of Lebanon, of his regiment,
to Mahanoy City and Shenandoh, to re
lieve the companies now on duly. They
will proceed there on Monday norning.
.Mining Trouble!.
Wilkesbarre, Pa., June 14. On Sa
turday night two kegs of powder and a
lighted fuse were thrown through the win
dow of James Curry's house in Kingston
One of his boarders was awakened by the
noise aud extinguished the fuse before the
fire had reached the powder. Curry has
been working at Paine's Breaker against
the orders of the Miners' Association, and
summary vengeance was thus attempted
upon him. This A. M. twenty men went
to Waterman's and Beaver's mines for the
purpose of going to work, but they were
met by a large crowd of strikers, who
threatened them, and forced them to go
home.
Peace in ew Hampshire.
Concord, June 9. Both Houses of the
Legislature met in joint convention for tho
election ot Governor. The formal an
nouncement of the vote at the March elec
tion was made.
A ballot was taken with the following
result : Whole number of votes, 379.
Necessary to a choice, 190. Hiram B.
Roberts (Dem.) received 186; Pearson C.
Cheney (Rep.) received 193. Cheney was
then declared elected and the joint conven
tion rose. The usual committees were ap
pointed to notify Cheney of his election,
and at 12:45 o'clock P. M. the House ad
journed. The Texan Ilorder.
Brownville, Tex., June 13. Intelli
gence has been received here that yesterday
morning dipt. McNeely, of the State
troops, with a few of bis men, pursued,
and, after a forced march of twenty-five
miles, overtook a band of .twelve cattle
thieves about twelve miles below this place.
They showed fight, and in the engagement
which ensued the whole band of raiders
were killed. Capt. McNeely lost one man
killed. lie recaptured 250 head of stolen
cattle.
I,OSS RYAN EARTHQUAKE.
Panama, June 4. The Royal Mail
steamship Bulize, which arrived at Aspan
wall to-day from Savanilla, brings the fol
lowing particulars, published in an extra
of the Barranquilla Sliippig Lid, May 29,
of a terrible earthquake in the Andes :
The steamer Isabel, which arrived yes
terday from the interior, ncarcd our city
with her flag at half-mast, indicating that
Bhe was the bearer of unwelcome news,and,
while there were various conjectures as to
ts import, none had for a moment pictured
the magnitude of the awful calamity which
had taken place. The information which
has reached on the subject is contained in
a letter dated in Salazar, seven leagues
from Cucuta, the 10th of May, from which
we extract and translate the following :
At 11:10 A. M. of yesterday (18th) an
earthquake visited this city and region.
Iu tbis city a large part of the church fell.
Several houses were destroyed and some
people killed.
CUCUTA's destruction.
The city of Cucuta is entirely destroyed,
only a few families being saved. The
Botica Alemana German drug store) was
set on fire by a ball of fire which was
thrown out of the volcauo, which is con
stantly belching out lava. This volcano
has opened itself in front of Santiago in a
ridge called '1 alto la Giracha.'
THE SAME SAD STORY. .
San Cayetano was destroyed Santiago
in a large part In Gramalote there was
great destruction. Arbolcdo, CucutiDa and
San Cristobal are nearly destroyed, prin
cipally the four last.
The population of these" towns is esti
mated by a person well acquainted in that
region, mre or less, , as follows : San
Cayetano, 4000; Santiago, 2000; Grama
lote, 3000; Arboleda, 5000; Cucutilla,
5000 ; Sar Cristobal, 16,000.
The coiotry above referred lo embraces
the regions around about where Colombia
and Venezuela join, tbe Colombian portion
embracing the State of Sanlander.
It is in some respects the most produc
tive part of this Republic, aud tbe coffee
of the region is famous all the world-ow-i
San Jose d Cucuta, the eitjr of the most
importance of any in that section, was
situated on the boundary of the Republic,
latitude 7 degrees 30 minutes north, lougi
tude 72 degrees 10 minutes west, and was
founded by Juan dc Marten in 1534. It
was a port of entry, and here was the es
tablished custom house. The population
of the city at the time of the disaster is es
timated at asout 18,000. It had a large
commercial business, and was the great
depot for coffee and cocoa for shipment
either through the Venezuelan ports or
dowi the Magdalen to this city. The
shock was felt sharply iu Bogota and ad
joining sections. A gentleman who was
at the time in Facalativa says that the
movement lasted for three-quarters of a
minute. It was also slightly felt in Bar-
ranquilla.
The above particulars are all we have
been able to obtain for this mail.
Strength of the Grangers.
Washington, June 11. The headquar
ters of the National Grange of the Patrons
of Husbandry, which ever since the organi
zation of the order at Washington, will pro
bably be removed to Louisville, Ky., in a
short time. At the last annual session of the
National Grange, in Charleston, S. C, in
February last, the Executive Committee was
charged with the selection of a new point
for the headquarters to be located in one
of the five Western States named, and the
change was to be made within six months
from the 1st of March last. The commit
tee, it is understood, have, after due in
vestigation, eolocted Louisville as the most
eligible location, although it was expected
that St. Louis would haye been chosen.
Kentucky stands No. 5 as regards the
number of granges, having 1,559. Indiana
leads the list with 2,027 granges ; Missouri
has 2,020 ; Iowa, 2,004 ; Illinois, 1.5S4,
and Kentucky, 1,559. The total number
of granges in the United States is 23,500,
with an estimated aggregate membership
of 1,500,000. The official history of the
order, just published by the secretary
shows that the total receipts from 1SG8 to
1871 inclusive, were less than $5,000, while
the receipts last year were $216,381. The
order at present has 869,000 invested in
Government bonds, and $19,000 in cash on
denoait at the financial agency in New
York.
Candidates' Cards.
For County Treasurer.
To tht Voter t of Northumberland County.
I hereby offer myself as a candidate for Conn
ty Treasurer, subject to the decision of the Re
publican County convention.
ELIA3 EMERICK.
Lower Augusta June 4, 1875. .
For County Commissioner,
JOHN SNYDER,
of Lower Augusta township, offers himself as a
candidate for County Commissioner, subject to
the Republican County Convention. ni23,tc.
For County Commissioner.
To the Voter of Northumberland County.
I hereby offer myse.f as a candidate for Connty
Commissioner, subject to tbe decision of tbe Re
publican County Convention. If successful in s
nomination and election, I shall endeavor to dis
charge tbe duties of tbe office to tbe best of my
ability and to the interests of the people of the
county.
JOHN D. SNYDER.
Lower Augusta, May 28, '73.
For Sheriff.
To the Voter of Northnmberlrnd County.
I hereby offer myself as a candidate for the
office of Sheriff, subject to tbe decision of tbe
Republican County Convention. If nominated
and elected, I promise to discbarge the duties of
the office in a manner satistactory to an.
G. M. RENN.
Sunbury,May 21, 1875 tc.
For Sheriff.
To tht voter of Northumberland County.
I hereby offer myself as a candidate for Sheriff,
subject to the action of the Republican County
Convention. J. H. ADAMS.
Sharaokiu bor., May 21. tc
For Sheriff.
GEORGE W. DEPPEX.
Subject to the action of the Republican Connty
Convention.
Sunbury, May 14, '75.-tc.
For County Treasurer.
To tht Voter of Northumberland County.
I hereby offer myself as a candidate for the office
of County Treasurer, subject to the decision of
the Republican County Convention. If nomin
ated, I pledge myself lo use all honorable means
for my election, and if snccesxfnl, promise to
discharge the duties with fidelity and to the best
of my ability. GEO. YV. STKOH.
Sunbury, May 14, '75.-tc.
For Sheriff.
To tht Voters Of Northuntrlaml County.
I hereby offer myself as a candidate for tbe
office of Sheriff, subject to the decision of the Ke
nnhlirnn Cmintv Convention. If nominated aud
elected, I pledge myself to perform tbe duties of
the omce impartially auu tome nest oi my anility.
JOSEPH NICELY, Jr.
Delaware twp., May 14, '75.-tc.
For County Treasurer.
To the Voter ami Tar raytr of Northumberland
County.
T horuliv nfrr miwlfui mmliriatt; forConntv
Treasurer, subject to the decisiou of the Repub-
nn C.inntc rnnvunlirtn. ! f ft 11 PCS fll 1 ill AnOlU-
ination and election, I pledge myself to preform
the duties of the office without partiality and to
the best of my ability ; and I obligate iryself
of Treasurer at 50 per
cent, less than is now paid that officer, and that
I will put a competent clerK iu tue omce an
times to transact the business in my absence, so
that there will be no detention to parties coming
from a distance, who have occasion to do busi
ness in that office. At tbe expiration of my term
I will have my accounts seiuea uuiu ou
i,J"" U. n. DORN3IFE.
Little Mahanoy twp., May ?, '75. tc.
For Prothonotary.
To tht Vottrs of Northtunberland County.
I herebv announce myself a candidate for re
election to the office of Prothonotary, subject to
the action of the Republican County Convention.
LLUIU 1 . KWHKBAIU.
Snnbnry May 7, '75. to.
For Sheriff.
To tht Voter of Northumberland County.
I hereby offer myself as a candidate for tbe
office of Sheriff, subject to the decision of tbe
Republican County Convention. If successful
in my nomination and election, I pledge myself
to fulfill the duties of the office lo the best of my
judgment nnd ability.
JTIRAM rorxr,.
Northumberland, May 7, '75. tc.
County Treasurer.
I hereby announce myself as a candidate for
the office of County Treasurer, subject to the de
cision of tbe next Republican Connty Conven
tion. If nominated and elected, I will endeavor
to discharge the duties of the office with fidelity
and the best of my ability.
n. J. RENN.
Zerbe township, April 30, 1875. tc
For County Commissioner.
To tin voteri of Northumberland County.
I hereby offer myself as a candidate for Connty
Commissioner, subject to the decision of the Re
publican Couuty Convention. If nominated and
elected, I promise lo fulfill the office impartially
and to the best of my ability.
J. G. DURHAM.
Delaware twp., April 30, '75. te.
For County Treasurer.
To tftt voter of Northumberland County.
I hereby offer myself as a candidate for Count v
Treasurer, subject to the decision of tbe Repub
lican County Convention. If successful in a
nomination and elect ioc, 1 sbalf endeavor to dis
charge tbe duties of the office to tbe best of mv
ability, and to the interest of the tax-payer of
me county. A. tAl) ALLAUtK.
Milton, April 30. 75.-c.
eto Sbbfrtiscmtnls.
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