The Democratic Watchman, BY P. GRAY NEES JOE W. FUREY, Ass i rwr. Enrrua Terms, ;2 per Annum, hi Advance BELLEFONTE, PA Friday Morning, July2X-r4fNM PFAC +CRAIN(' NOM IN ATI( INs Tull (.01ER:colt, ASA PACKER, (1/I"NT Full SUPIVM .11:1 , (.E, (71" It LS L. PERS II I N G, CIF 4 . . tM11111k CUI•N n' ('near CON % 1,11.1•1 —9 In` Delnnerlll . ... obiery °PIO.. net end IL.r.uglo , and Tow '1+101,4 in entre eonntv, trill meet at the it.tol Oar,. ,d holding 1114 In their renre( .11.- triet•, on the aftertv.on of Saturday, AtignA tll, Ate!, and elect ,belegate% to represent. ..in! lioronglia and Tom ',hip , in a Counts 1 ..men tion,to by held at 1110 D..11..014014 l'1111.1:to,ilt, 111 Bellefonte on Tuk.4.la)„lttgli^l I Ith at I' \t, whieh ,l'onlentlon will put lir 441 e i 111 , 11 , 1nt0 f.. 1 ine rnm hdav for Ltheritl. eltn,ll.l de for l',llll , llolary, In,. rand I.lmte for I:egi.tvr nn I Plus it 14 the „ tirptlate' I hie eln,hl Ito for It, order One candid:o,e f..r l'ren•ltrer . 1 11 e 0 on,ll.lxte fur In" randnLde f,rl - \ kn , ilretienet ouch other 1,11%1111•.. MRS . entrlt• 1 , , fore them Ihe v.ll, 1.. hiell etteh di.tri4 I I , etltutled under the 1.1. t .N.lll.olilnellt IP it. iiviicrullle Bur. J t 4 lin lon TV I 110.111afti' 3Larhl • 2 Nlllentrurg " I Mill roll ("II I Phllip.l.llrg" 2 . P. nn 1'••I le: I mom llle " I I .1 Itolopt " T i . 1 I 11l ' I ' I •• 4 S.Shoe '• 1.3., • t. 1,1,114' I [ TAvlor ' I " I 1 . 1114 , 11 I orlit 1 " 2' 11x16 r ity ..ri.r nY g y I ,urort,...• 11 I , 8 mum H a ncobk Major General II ANI 111;i4.. 4 letler de clining to he it enn.ll.late for the loon . ' nation for Governor, winch kre pithlt ,, ll otl Iti4 %%eels, ultS it 11104644 41t 4 141T411114111 44 111 , ant I 11141111 141 4 , 12.414• the people areeptal4l3 111 a Cl‘ll vitioacit. In ‘Na. ten 111111ke fi tr . . 14011.41111 a, ceptttnee the chief 1rta...:1-trae • and will fix it.- .11.tin;znilled author firm er than ever in the ittlectlim4 of tit pees ple. There is no h)tt ht of the tart that there was a strong desire on the part ol the Donioerae) to wake Lieu. LIANA 04 K our nunuuee lor crime. But hrn poi 4"tue deelinatiou of that, bolior pot it out of the pmer of the pa% eat ion to e,oller it upon hint, therefore. haslt: Alovrn our 0,l will aMI re.pect the (;erieral, now our ‘l,oty, rtH well :Ls our pleamure, to rally elablimiatilwal lv annul the able Mali UpoIN whore the mantle of leaderHlop ha , la' len. We ha% e the pleasure of hitioemL!, 11,m ever, that, lilts• Gert II warm pr•rvonal 111.1 ;meal friend Judge l'tck FAL 11111 r NW, ut rAnirse. pre vent inn from taking and • )art in the canvass, Lint his best wishes and tsars sympathy *till he with the lienitieratic Knowing this, the friends of II t ii K Ntll earnestly supisat Mr. I ' ALLIK, and dins assist in vin I eating those principles or (roe goNern went which lien. Ilnnuus K 0 , 0 firmly upheld iluritig his occupancy•it thin po ',item"! commander of 011 e uf the Small ern military districts. No friend of li ‘ N . I „ h can r.tiliport for the ..miple reason that the political Fine' Ides of the two men are as widely at 111.1-lance as their military reconls, and IIV litati hien who in not able to tell ilic.exact difference between Own,. Gen. Cass Tiun gonflenian, the ineet formidable 04nu1.•titor of Judge PA( KER tud• the ;fuhrmatortal nottunntion, and erne of alde.l and' best men In the State, honed his too.elfinh devotion to /teal 4 sesrrsitic jyrinciples and his good will to ward the nominee by making an elo gusto simmicli in his behalf mimed's/m.4y after the .molt of the deliberations of the eosrution w ere made known. In his speech, die congratulated the party on the lemellent selection that had been made, and pledged the Western Demise racy for Budge PACKER by immense Majorities, mwsming his own determ I na tion to work **manually for the success of the ticket., no which such distin guisheimunes luid been placed. The spsech . of Gen. was received with rapturous delight by the immense mul titude assembled etc Lear him, and had the . etreet to drive away the last vlst.igv of disappointment or ill-feeling wh might have existed. Oen Cass is a Democrat in whore there is no guile, anti from whom the forty has always expected and received the wet heady and "active support. The only regret that it might be proper , to express, where everything tertainated_ao happi• ly and ftvrorablylfortlie Detaderacy, is that in ,rder to choose so excellent a gentleman ae /iir.Racass, the moven , tion was compelled to slide its desire to nominate Gen. Uses. • But it is gratifY ing to know that oar candidate will re called; the warm and powerkl aid of his 'distinguished competitor, and that, by this manifeetaiioil of hiq Unshaken At, votion to the Detnortttio faith, Gen. S'l has met an example of unseltimh rattiotisin which it would he well 11. t the lesser lights of the party to follow, as.] which, we trust, will be regarded by ever:, Democrat who ma:4liereatter find himself in the same position which this noble 11111 n occupies to-day. , Our Nominees The recent action of die Democratic state Convention has been received throughout the State with the greatest enthusiasm. ltt obettrr or alder men than %CA KR and ('vats L. Prim o: could not have ireett.geleeled, and the denitterac‘ have reason to be proud of their standard-hearers. It Is grati n% mg to know that while good men were defeated for the nomination for (inventor, a good Ulan was chosen—a result w'hielt it 1% , very often hard to firing about. Ityvitlerence to our call dilates, the Philadelphia Ayr says: The amicable contention between the Engtern and Western portiont4 of the State coal only enil to its credit, for the vainhilates pret-eil were men alike (Thin:Jile in personal eharneter, and eminent in ioalitieittion for the p os t I.r %%filch they were nantell. The recent almost official annotinre mem inn paper at the phiee of Clever al Ilativoeliri headquarters that he ‘‘iitild nor aecept IhiN (.1%11 office, and thringlit that t ieneral 4:1-0 , ..s, or Mr. ,rr Judge Wo.Nlaani, 1.1110111,1 1111 11, ;Z:1‘1. the 1110111011 of lii' name rather the Coral of ri personal row ph mem than a presentation alt it. The pre , ent. to the peffpleof PenrisNllititia, the ten l'acker, of rimittN. as the delimer:ille Candidate bur I of .'nine of Pennsylvania. It as tirinifttel+iary tosa) how heartily we approve the chores -- The character ot Judge Pack pr, hry lofty Integrity and 110.1,m..bed reputation in a long and lumoralile pa -rd in the ad‘atieement of the inter e-t4 of ht. State, iit his countr‘ and of 1111'1'11ml%. gi%e that guarantee in the •I , 011 0:111 , 11,1all• without %%1114.h I . th e apart% lack the heat proof of Waerrity. In an age when the old notions of morality and ititegrit% me treated Walt open ihmre 1•:Lr.1, ashen profligacy and Lunt en are puhhrly honored, and a low and eor rapt tone Imadieeti imparted to the fol nnni~tnuwi, ..I the ;albite interests, it is a ~ign of redemption that all good ' men hill hail. that Ole r`tajorut or the people the Stale of Pcuusaltuutn tether an titi.ouglit nomination to a mt, •eeotiil, to none tit all the iitmli• tie.- that vonittiand taste respect and onliderier We know 16at from lie, 111,i111...1i1, the language alt pall.. 1:\ 11l 111111(01111ring the Demmer:tile pan didutr may welt) a part of oar formal lint it is not the less ~.tavere Indeed, npontaileounk we gut. to Mr. Pacher the !lig proof „r our Nadi 411•1101. when more than a year ago, an urged loin upon the Dettl i ocratic Nati onal roil, entIOTI tin the 111 , 1 , t lenlralJe couitulate that it tumid nelert for the Pre.idenc% From vi hat we said tlidn we repeat it 11,4 topitt,lte uoa "To find a tit randidate it In not necennar) in look be‘lltll the ran of the dellioeral parts' Within it are many prom] 111'111 1 . 11171 . 1, tsh.pee In l rnl., charaeter Riot fililitation notild render them Ite eeptable to all w6u 11. A solely to plat. Otranto' in their preterencr of a Clllllll - l'OlinHy earl, and prolittlil3 a ill prenent /on to a Candidate to the n~~nunat nog rant canon in Judge Asa Pitcher, it t'arhon county No man I.e.e..esse. qualities that will 'note high It n•ruuunend 111111 no "Client] cotiti. deuce. Ile in a cahrt, magacions, (o(tlie ea4t of mind to nititteinnatinhip rs but the alder application of principle. , that hate been applied, nowt...ninny, in lean extended Pidleirro iit action, .1 tulge PHI ker in isl.lel . ‘ I,IIIMII 111 Penns% Is a nut and the adjacent. State., and wiieoever kilo% in rempfet(4l anti mitnire4_ , ln lon con nection with great public imprme !neon+, liar placed 111111 111 the front, rack of the men who have developed the resources of intir country. Front ntriall begin:Ai/gm lie tuts ncipor ed wealth, which in itinplited not in kit in 11, nolde liloentlit in the cause 4(4llw:won and The Lehigh llnivernity in a monument cif I 1 in getierositr , It °Wits to him alone its ex tatenee and its am ple endowment. lie Ilan been scarcely less munificent to other 016c:eta; &pub lie utility. Iris spotless intidgrity, him known prudence anti experience in the conduct of offairs, seente !Addis contl, deuce. Ifin sound politiestl Principhis give the attatiratime that a¢tiiiin t t arlntrare encroachment of public ty, and ;lino% a tion on the constitution al frame of govvrnumit, which nonstituGes thei . , mini of the States. The Il ' amt paper in reference to Iles. Cyrus L. Pershing, our nominee for J edge of the Supreme Court, says: Fortunate an was th e dertilierat le par ty is the choice of lion. Asa Packer as their candidate for Governor, they wire equally forth ate in the selection of Iron.. ICyrurt L. Pentlinkg,. of. Cambria county, as the nominee reor .Tudge of the ,Supreare Court. Mr. .1'0141611g is IL Man' of la igh social standing, of unblem ished reputation and co:amending abil ity. Asa lawyer he rattles among the formula is the State, while his clear judgment /lad analytical turn of mind fit hits to an eminent doves for the Bench. In the West he is recognized as among thit leading men of that sec tion, and his nomination will add to tb the isteengt,li of e ticket and insure its triumphant tection. Hon E.tyrits L. Pershing wi l e discharge . o tat legal triliugal of the Commonwealth, rare kkgif learreifig had hbnesty of plat posw; which insaaot be shaken and his chains 40-111 byta happy event ar the peo ple of hie.uative State. IntervieW with Kndy Johnson =EI The following opinion of President GRANT by President Jonsttiox ig the richest thing on the Galena tan-bark man that has yet appeared in print .IttutcsoN certainly does, not (War esti mate the A no•riean Einpertlr, and if A s 's opinion of us were as low as it GRANT, we should surely think that we were no great ",:hakes" • WA7.111 Nnl'ON, June 27, 1869. Ex-Pro4(kilt Joitss.os. arrived here this t•( 111111 WWI walled upon (0011 after reaching . the Metropiilitan Hotel by tour correspondent, who found the -Pre,ith•tit conifortahly quartered' in 0110 of Shelly's hest parlor..., and looking quite frmh 111111 }warty. • A ndrew John- Aim plain citimm, received your coi re , - pondent ith the same cordiality and kilidne , s that di,titigui•lied him , o while an occupant of the White Ilim.e. “tilad to Fee you, sir," said the tek l're,nrent, at the time handing a chair to louc correspondent and silting down himself "Sit down, sir " •c 141111 e tO pay my respects, M r and nt the F/11111. Vino, hi learn if there was any, particu lar object in'your visit A 'rill' .inirs , os,—Nothing public r sir. have smile pi-I%Mo liusi aria to attend to here, and I base id , . a George town l'ollego., the only 4011 left to tin. n ow I c a m, i i see him Mid attend the comment k•lllent of tlutt , -I Llie‘e, Mr toloi son, you are the tlr•t l'rmident e li' to o , It doh!' .Ndiiiii , , who ha. revs-its' tho Capital aftet ri tiring froiii the Whit.. House Jon ....v.; --(laughing) --Itealle, tn., Idn. t know how that is 111 at tention wn , 11.• VT' dire. Iva ;II that point before I t nit) , l'onarsims tot..l.—Well, Mr John son, to chain,' the soiled, what do they now think of the lohninittration thearit in A Niri Jon ..sos-1 don't know that .011 0111411 t me ouch a question People would be v cry likeiy to ittribute an unfav"rable epiniee from lee Ji• prompted improper motii es H know i cry well, , ir, for you were howl- , iar with toy I iew+ a bile I iii, Prom- I dent, what i.ratit is, and I doll t know of !illy thlllg thllt 1111• -1111,1w rums!, that has V 1111,041 The t. I cham4l. my mind lII,' light 4, I. I know Grant (her. oughly I had ample opportiontl toalu lt hint when I was. l'retident, and 1 ant ' com inei•il he i, the greatest far. I' thlt. 11,11,111,11' thrUSt. Ull.ll It people' Wh) the little follow—,•x cu..e me for using the ex pre-.ant, but I eitit't ilelp pitying him —the little fellow hill nothing in He basn t tingle idea. He hat no poll !cy, 110 .20111-0-141.11 of what the country re , quires He doxiqunderstrind the philrts_ ophy of a single great quo-Lieu, and es cuinpletely lost in to Mg to understand I lit, situation lle tin ning anil treachermi , Ile lied to me flagrantly , liv God, and 1 cons icted tutu by inv whole Cabinet; but that even woull liaVr: been tolerable wore it the on ly in.tance, but It W/1.4 11.4 He lied Oil 111101) Other 04'11191011N I tell you, sir, G rant nothing noire than It 111111 d 1.• of , , pite,, jealousies and resentment ii d yet they say Grant ei n ..road Washington Italy think of it, when )0u compare him with Wivhingtoti or Jefier.on where he 1,? NV hy lie is to .1111111 )..t/ nni,t 1111 t }Ou r linger on him 11e, a little upstart, a I.oWllftl, 1111)1411111) and intelle. malty, to be compared to George ‘Vashington I Why, it Undo me laugh I lin vi• more pity lor de man than contempt, for 1 have Milte 111;1111114 him Hut 1 fear for the (toiletry w orn It 11111111, Ilkelled Ti' the father of hi, country Why, just baik at the malign ! rid of Wfishington. He speaks about Ins fear and trembling in accepting the ]'residency, even after all his v.. perience mu! aucesraa. ButtlttalittlefellowGrant, lilt medart, It mere Pet 1114 itt of the war, a cr.cature without the ability to • out prl'ilelltl the 1.11110,1 Th) of a •ingle great queston, say. in his inaugural, "I know the responsibility i, great, but 1 ilecupt it. without fear ' i, that like Wevilme4tOn or .1 etferson I It', 11.11.41,114 to think of Grunt, 1 tell tea s sir, lie 'no Mew., no policy Why, Wit.hington considered that a man's greatness was ineasi.red by his morality, I.) the stand ard of hi , soul A lid I have alit AV( 1 1,11- I , nlered that the more soul - it man bud, the more he developed the soul or Intel- Ids t within him, the more Godlike he he- Came lint, sir, Grunt has nothing Ph . % si. cally and mentally and morally he is 11 11.11 , 111 t W l / 2 . ,ir, he, soul Is that you could put it within the try of a hazel nutshell and 14 might lout about a thousand years without Is ins•king against the walls of the shell That's the size of his soul Jllbl. 1001 i at 1.11 I• man sitting at a Cabinet emincil Ile has no idea, no policy, no standard, no creed, 110 faith How cull he Wilde 1.1. fib.' 110 W CAM he iinprt sthuy lin proVelllellts Or moral 1114 . 11., 1111011 111.' Ma tron '? He has no i•bjort to look forward to, no lending nun to draw the people I towards any tairtirular end Au there with his Cabinet One member hue bought him it house in Philadelphia, another has given him $66,00(1, another 111111 given him a earringe, and so on It is degrading to the office of President of the t4tited States to have such a lean then' They talk about his goneralship he was a mere incident 111 the 'war Itlen and arms were supplied in abun dance, and ids forces were so massive that they simply crushed out the rebellion It would have been done had Grant net , - er horn botn. Therefore Me was, a isfrq incident. Hut the little fellow has co d to think he is somebody really. I can't help pitying him when I think how well I know him and what an infinitosimal creature he really ts. I often think that about the fittest place for Grant Is at sumo place in the country where there are cross-raids. I have been id those places and have often noticed the scenes. At ono corner perhaps there is a small black. amith'sahop. At another corner of the cross-roads there is a grocery store, itiid at another, a house whore the Squire moots to settle csiscs. Well, I have often nesieedeessientetiorrefsew . when the squire's business is over serge follows Will propose a horse race, 00 tase give interest to the thing a barrel of el d -end perh q)elt half kallon • 111* staked on t4i3 rdvailt, Igor Grour4l,; itejustiniiteduto touch a altuation. Jdis ideas are of the cross-roods order, and ho has not it thought above that. * * * I tell you, air, if this country ia - to be kept from despotism, anarchy or Mi. perialism, the nucleus has to cone from the Smith,' when restored. It will be small at first, but mark me, sir, it will come that way. Oran, would see this Vile, had All idea IS his head.- but lie has not. fie has no political creed at all. I would rather have a good here tie than a man %%idiom. limy faith. I would place more dependence on such MSS As I said before lie iii a mere incident. There has been a great so cial uphent al and Irani is,Jctt on the top and thinks there is something in hill'. It is rreelOVl) like a ttilennic disturbance. The natural condition of the earth is broken up, strata niter strata is broken through, things are displaced and turned upside down and what should be at the bottom la thrown high up. That is just (lrant's case. Why, lien lintler had a wonderfully Correct idOtt of (trent. Ile used to come and see me much at tine time and et pressed the profoundest contepipt for (leant. Ills estimate of Grant was nbout:the same as niv own. Ile thought roulil be made do anything, that he vould be made n cent Mete tool and that lib'. desired lie could lire him stilt lIIN aril to I;rant's house. flt hap pened precisely SO, afterward, just as !Whir boasted. You remember lint. ler tins united to t;raiit's house, and tins brought nliout bt Butler him snit limier understand. Ilrani Thor oughlN I lone no hesitation in de. clitring thnt (meant is a mean, avant• cunning, spiteful man —a (ton plots latiolls 14 till tV aphis 011,1 lies. He has TM I.olllll','T. 1 made lam burly quail Letts lira glance at that Cabinet meetin: when I asked biro about that famous correspondenee concerning Stanton. I asked gun slues itner t i nestioro; and he quailed. IV . ' I IThis i lied he stood up, took his hat in his hand, and in a nienn, sneak• itog stay, said, "tientlemen. have out any more questions to ask'! nail slunk oat of the room I emivieted 111111 of Icing and eti%%artlice then, and vou re. member 0.11 about it, sir, for V4SI pule 114101 it at the tune. The ex Pre.tdent .80 a great tatty other 011111!4N1Ile aad interesting, but RN Olt. hour IN NO Intl'l Rill Olollgell to Ipreiik Ott - - rrimob rtr th, Ywil I lei aid. Hon. Asa Packer The Intlowing extended sketch ol the Don. teratie uudtdutel,rliu%ct inr,ttill no be reit,' with iiirprot at thim IMIII Asa I'iteker, the standard-hearer of the Demnerney of Pennf.ylranin, in the State clip Vft.s, Wm , horn in the town.hip of (iroton, Now Imnilon emin tr, Connecticut, in the beginning of lh.• p•nr Ig)r, llis grandfather, , r J•;la-ha Pucker. wa.. tho L prominent and 4111 . 1 1 . .4111 I.tl+nu•w 1111111 of town lie wits a farmer, tanner and manufacturer, diligent in glatitieli member of the Itaptiq 11y/10111 1 rift 1.11, and worshipped in the hurl 11 erevted .•n the qt.. "r the l'equot Fort, •till in eckterice, and known n•+ the Fort Hill church Ills father, Eli sin I'll. ker, Jr I (I /1., a 111/U1 ../ 14.1 , 1114 4en.o, nulustnou 141.111101111(.111, and bl independont .liiiraeter, but never ‘er) in 1111.111,., AS •morn /IS till Hs of the age to do something fir himself he was ertiplolell in the tannery Mr Elia.. Smith, of "forth Stoning ton I)...pite youths he clime to b. regardocl by the tanner as a confidential fra nil and a.I or, and, if death lied not mt.•rpo.ll and broken the connec tion, Ass l'ae . ker would probable hare belonie a p . artnor in the and ended his life n , a tanner .krier the death of Mr. Smith, Mr ['ticker ,ii gag,4l himself to an old farmer he the name of John !frown, a• hard-handed and hard-lieiol..d old denmerat, of the of T 111.111114 Jotter...in From hen Asa Packer imbibed his I)enns•ra- When he had reitchea the age of sev enteen years ho pulle.l up stakes and struck Out for Pennsylvardn,then a wild, Siairsely-441,104.1 try. Ito entered, Susquehanna counts on foot, in the your 1822, with a knapsack which contained hii whole wardrobe and a few dollars in I.IQ pup, Arrived at the town of Brooklyn, he anprenticed himself to curium ter and joiner A fter , or v ng his time as an apprentice, and heenminc the master of In, huamrs he Ce11t11111134.1 work ut it loanittoudy for several N when he invested his •.1 V 11'44 In II lot of wild land 1111 the upper,, milers of the Sieo l ueloinna, inel entered upon the hard but free and ad s entitroie• life of the pioneer lie unide t ii elenring and reared 1 , 1, OW 1)1111.1S the caber t 9 Whig II he soon after 'brought a wife, a daughter of 7,llphor Illakslee, Esti , one the pairea , rs of Northern Pennsylvania. Hero lived Ain Pecker elev'en rears, when iarcuinstarices led him to change his residence to Lehigh Valley. In that locality .Ltsiala White and Rd-skint) Hai rd, representatives of associated capital of Philadelphia, had projected and (me ted improvements which made the won derful riches of this sectom-- its coal, iron, timber, lime, content, and Onto— Partialry available Ilifiter came A MI acker, a poor artisan, Lu labor with his hands, to nil x with it crowd of men situ -1114117,1 Mat lwel6olo.l l ,lthrik. , - - What has ntivcd Asa poker so far above the throad W 14464,111 then was bill a unit ? Observing t he ehanteter of the eountry, the lamest Ibi i ntenshrub extent of the coal deposits, and the It versify of the rich prodycaons of khe Lehigh Valley, he foresaw the eats& meat ut those extensive colleries, of lines of transportation, 1111(1 all the immense traffin which timetole developed Here Was it field for the highest intelligence and thtfvnost untiring energy. Accord ingly, in the spripg of 1888, when 11 . 0 Was twenty-seven years of age, Asa Packer left his farm iu Susquehann a county and permanently settled himself in the Lehigh Valley. ,Hie advent into a region in which he was destined to accomplish so much made no stir ( Ho brought to the nea , field but It few hundred dyllars. capitol lay in his active mind,. stout heart, and- strong firma, and in {Ado trilotta His Ant arid iecond Aunt men; wore 'ernpluytal in boatink• coal from Mauch Chunk to Philadelphia, in which' he acted its mastiir of his own, bout. 'Tho energy which lie display ed in this occupation brought him to the notice of the Lehigh Coal and Naviga tion Company, and he formed a connee tion with the company, which was main tained for many years, greatly to his ad vantage. Ile inilucril his brother, Rob ert Packer to join him, and assisted by some , capital from his uncle, Daniel Packer } theg'efigaged . in general nier cltandise in ]touch Chunk, tinder the firm inatne of A. & It. IV. 'Packer, with a capital of $5,000. The most of this money hail been saved by Asn -Packer front the hard earnings of former) ears. The now house entered, front the mo ment of opening upon an extended and rodtablii business It soon became known by its large transactions both on the Lehigh and Schuylkill rivers Its operations On the Lehigh during the fif teen years between 1833 andi , lBoo em braced a 1111'14(5 mercantile business at Moline!' Chunk . contracts with the Le high ,Coal„ and Navtgittion Company, which in volved the building of dams and locks on the upper Ilayigntion ; working coal minesleased front the tram puny, and afterward Mr. Packer's town mines near Ibuleton, and ibipping coal Philadelphia and New York. A similar shipping liihinet; was also done by them on the Seuylkill. They were the first 'through transporters of coal to the New York market, and it is a fit ting return that the_business should still continue to be the largest item in the In tinitt of A sa Packer, • its projector Through his emd mining o p erations he Wm. brought into close relation, with the bite Commodore Moe be tween them there sprung up it warm friendship a why h (.roved td great volt'. to Mr. l'aekor in a trying T 1 1 ,111 1 .11( When pushing Dint and to cont plclion OM great enterprise e f his life, the Lehigh Valley Railroad p lei the )ear 1860 the tramliorta tion of the coal of the Lehigh valley to market hail been altogether by water but the loudness had now reached such a magnitude, us in Mr Packer's judg ment to justify the building of it rail road along the banks of the Lehigh riv er. Accorilingl), hu urged upon the Lehigh Coal and Navagotion t'«iiipany the policy of building, a road as part of their system of tr.i.p.rtntion lint the j ,ro J e,t was not favorably received li) the Company Experience, it was had loosed that ( cal and iron would only pay water height The Reading railroad, which enjoy, unusual facilities in grades mid wativ connee. time, was in-tanned to clinch the argu ment Asa Packers opinion, h0w1.% er, was not affected by this adverse enti ced!) of his proposition, and he deter mined to take the matter personally in hand Thy ground for a railroad in the Lehigh valley was embraced in a char ter fir h road of much greeter extent, protected by that great 'l",;hntiylvltnift financier, Edward It Biddle It was embraced in the charter of the Del, ware, Lehigh, and Susque hanna Railroad Compasiy, incorporated April 21, 184( The first survey was !node in the fall of IBrio Not until the 4th of April, 1841 set eiltoell days before the charter would have expired by its own limitation, did Asa Parker take his place MI the board (4 . manager, On the attriii, day the board sanctioned the grading of a mile of railroad near Al lentown, and thereby the limitation was avoided. On the :30th of 0( tether, IF(31, M r Pucker beenine owner et a coniroling portion of the stm k, and , oliserpiently propo.it toil to build the road tram \lamb Chunk to Eamon, a dirt nee of forty-six miles, for a consid eration to be paid in the sm. k and bo n d s of the company, the nurse of which wits tow changed to t h e Lehigh Valley Rail road ('ompany, to suit its extent and tine held of work M r Parker'ipropo salon was accepted, Ad he commenced is.irk in November, thri2. Under his per•MIIII supervision it was pushed with great vigor As he receive d only at. ks nod bonds in pat meal, he hazarded his whole fortune in the enterprise In its earl) completion and Imifitalile working be sow every dollar of his Illve,tuient quadrupled, and es ery acre of land in the Lehigh Valle) enhanced in value lint it was a heat) load, and man) times did it embarrass Mr Packer to rry it , but his high character and his reputation lth a IMIMMIIS mnu enabled him to coMIII/111(171 , 1 , 11remi whirl would been at the service of no other. C ttttt !lesion) Stockton, the New Jersey Central Itailroad 'Company, and other rich corporations to whose business the Lehigh. rood would contribute, also cattle to Mr Packer's imigancit, and made large advaliCeS on ita nt , AY and The Lehigh Valley Railroad was go. i.die.l 111111 delluered to tilt' I,llllllllly air I I/11 51141 . 111 her, In;:., and was Inn Immediately in oration ibi coal freielits, which in Ifi is iiiimunted to MlO,- 000 tons, in the year 181;6 ex riled 2,- 00,000 tons, 635,000 of which were di , livered along its route from Mauch Chunk to Easton to works which the railroad itself had called into existence. Th e addition which it brought to Ate Porker's fortune van only be stated by tirressissorivaikossiistr I slllqllllg of the railroad from Mouth ( ' hunk to Keeton:, (with isintiectains which mode a ruilruud route from the volley to Philadelphia as well ns New York,Mr. Packer suggested the ,enctenf stun of a line of railroad into the vallej of the Sielliehnnott,' and up that valley to the sreot table-land of the State of New lurk, thore to connect with the New York and Eric Railroad. This woUld bring the anthracite. coal region within the nysixica of roads leading north and West to Lake Ontario and Lnko Erie, and also afford a direet route by eonheetiOn with the Ctitawissa and Erie roads to the Orem West. Asa Packer Min lived to sou the whole of this stu penduus conception realised. Ibis not, possible to calculate the benefit which it is destined to confer upon the whole country. It willsiet tho wheels or ma chinery in motion thousands of miles in the interior es well as the tidO=water, and bring abbut In a groat section of country that diversity- of employments essential to the highost development of the people. On his return front a trip to Europa inM44l6, Mr. Packer announced it his in tention to found in Lehigh Valley en educational institution which should sup ply to its .young men the Mans of ob taining, that knowledge pf which he iind . . - in early lifiliNti6h. i profound need. The branches ofe4iittion to which it was Mr. Packer's design thriCfhe institution should be especially devoted wore civil, mechanical, and mining engineering; general and analytical ehemithry ;• min eralogy and ,metallurgy ; analysis of soils and agriculture ; • nrchiteetur and construction ; all branches of knowledge of exceptional value in the Lehigh vat. Icy. In carrying Bite effect his per pose, Mr. 'Netter gave a woodland park sixty acres in extent, situated on the borders of South Bethlehem, and $5OO , OW in money. This institution know,: as the Legigh University, wie; formerly opened September 1, BM], and its . 0 , coca has realized the intelligent and 1,„.. noticent purpose of its fotMder. By i t s character it is made a self-sustainin g la stitution ; intended to reach both rich tool poor with its advantages; its fine scholarships being offered its prizes lobe competed for by all the 'students. No sectarian bigotry limits its lienefire u t influence to a single religious &needn 't , tion, but those of every creed lind a we '. come-to its halls. On the 21d day of November, IliflP, at a dinner given hi Mr. Packer at Bethlehem, as a publiv acknowledgment 'of his princely g ift, , t which many prominent men of the State were present, John W. Forney pall the following tribute to the guest of i 1,... day . fire is a character and cam e for youth nod n 'mimed to study, lb,„ is n lesson to the ono to 1110Vt1 Oil in the path of improvement, and it stimulant to the other never to despair in the dark cot hour of disaster and iniqfortune P,.. pick out Asa Packer ti the (tuner Net, oat a piece of coal to show the N: d ii „ o f the previous deposit from who h it is 0,.. ken ; we lock him out to sliow s hat tens be won by personal hone,ty, ind.wri, and kindness to num ; by c•Inille• li, the midst of bad luck ; by confidence in Ow niiikt of gloom) : prophecy, by ni,,,1,.t, in prosperity , and by princely gent 1' , ...1- t V when fortune conies with li.dh land, full to realise a just ambition " Among his immediate friends and 1-. FOciatt , , MI IV. 11. Garitziner, tn. I. c osident of the Clunden end A inlsiv Railroad, bore high te4tinionv to tin ~, ergy and ability with which Mr Pink er had carried,mit his great mining and railroad enterprises, and acknowledged that although rtmrisylVania h oal \ los adopted State, few of hcr .ils here ,r: more to develop her mineral reboure... Mr Packer enjoys to the Itilleq extent the confidence of the 5 ;m Ole inium in which he lives This iteluting. a n lw ( x. eluting him to public of NI I,Own• %pl. he COlllll l / 1 ) induced to accept it ll'' served his neighbors several years in t h e General Assembly of the State, he -, r vices there ending with the tear Is!: Ile was then elected Judge of tie. Coun ty Court, which position lie held iii.. years, end hence he is familiarly known as. Judge Packer Moro-recently he h:, represented his district for two eon... Il• ti ye terms inthe Congress of the rnit,l Statog, and 1114 friends trottmitd on NI , stinting his mum*. to the hue Nrio, al Convention of the Democratic pat , i. a candidate for the first °Mee in th ,, zift of the American people. Mr Packer' , %clotle career eteini.l - flew the truth that in the United Suit., there is no distinction to which our young man may not aspire, and with energy, diligence, intelligeriee lied vo• tlle, attain. W hen he set out Iron' \I i•- tic, Connecticut, to make the journey I, Pennsylvania on fat, it i. not proltabl , that his entire worldly po•,e•-I,,n+ amounted to $2O The, po,.e...nen, now are estimated at tweed tea.. , all of which tree been accumulated, far fie known, without wroligne; a ..u.- gin individual. (hi the roomers tly wealth which he has gathered i. out 1 tithe of that which he has been ti means of creating in the belogh 1 all.i Geary as Seen Through Radical Spec taoles The l'itLehurg //ispairh tin Itt'illttt Intl I{ndrutl paper 41..ee 'lot Prior hi his nurninnuun it qpfl6r Iti It I t BrruitE THE 1-N914 oN IFrottt the i'll. , hurg Apo trh, II ~114 GOVERNOR (.EARI . ) RE No %I IN A I 1 arrishurg eorre,todelent n, Erie I 'uptick alluding to On meeting of the Republican Nst , oti Mee nays : "Although the 0)11'1611We. took no formal action releren. , ns tlovernor Geary ' s re-nomination, sir, wits reported ns being la' urilde to making Juni the Republii lilt now nee. lii tact Governor Geary ' , en,me in the Oubernatortal chair ha, not with such general approbatioll hiss the 'names, that his i ruunnuauua Fie ilia a fureguuc eu url II - Is tit Hs di , HiNtlittillettllS wish lit the ',Cold, 110 minty lie the opinion ul Poqoat 4 eorresi undent, Lint eery pew It, pip C 15115 hero behave that titian i,H renominated, t hit IF NIIMI \ %it 11 THAT HE CAN•BE ELECTEI ), I . ` PE('EA LLY 1 F N ERA NOW SEEMS PROBAI4,II:,.SIIIII'LP BE HIS OPP(INENT. The rut% de sires to see the <Aire PILLED 141" MAN OF MORE BRAINS ,01) LESS VANITY TITAN (MY EHNs ill (IEA ICY is said to possess, •an.l pale mg "roar the temper or the t.hstPkt hereabouts, at least, its wishes to 004 , cud are likely to he gratified, (TEARY IN 'ABOUT THE BIOGEST 111'NI BTI9, that ever tilled the Gubernatorial chair, and the sooner the party throtp , him overboard the better, as, strop; i though the organization is, it astir IT ATTEMPTS TH CARRY 11131, RINK UNDER. THE BURDP;. --- Feb, 171 h, 1107. Wrom OA some, APRIL 7, Is ' OVAR.R.NATORIAL CONTEST. Advioee frolni-disrrisburg state that a canyons of the delegates to the Er preaching Democratic State Con%eu non discloses the fact filar lienend Cass gill haw* at least filty•five votes on the first ballot, which, though not a majority, will be so much more than any of bis competitors can command , that the prospect of his n omination is eimeedingly flattering. Cieneral Cans a gentleman of great ability, and P°'‘ settees all the requisites, barring 103 poiitici, to makes good and efficient (loveracir. ile has many wsrmfnend s among the leading Republicans here, and in view of this fact and Chary bpi,
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