The Democrn Watchman BY P. GRAY REEK JOE W, FUREY, Aseoenoige EDITOR Terme, $2 per,Annum, in Advance BELLEFONTE, PA Friday Merelug, February 4, 1870 Hard Time• 1 No business, no money, no nothing! This is the cry that meets us on every hand, from merchants, Tummies, la borers, everybody. Stagnation every where, in city; town. village, hamlet. The poor are living RN best they may— the rich because they can: afe high, taxes are high, provisions arc high, goods are high, euerythimr, Is high. And this, too, during the Rash cQJ good times, promised us after the electio; of f1;ls• (, R INT (1.011 forsooth I Why these are the ails( times that this eduntry mei experienc ed. In the memory or man, money was never so tight find so scarce ill this country, nor have the peliate mer ltatl so much troulile'and .liirle , lll% 111 zett mg along. Nrrboelt is inn lii ic.f any money, except capitalists and lipel'illa• tors, and the feeling generally pre;ll.ll9 hat the work IN vet lei cativo. IVhat a glorious exchange the people made when they bartered the hand MOM' \ principles of the Democracy for the paper pottage of liailicaltsin, acid how they are paying up fur it 11i0%% ' What a di ff erence there ice bets en a stock lug leg lull of ether dollar . mid a pew Ira/41)y trenflyry Hole., or areerilineke, a, 11110111 t TO • cob, to-t-ite portnaolouie ! O 11" Glory! Oh, Crif.)) e ty !*(), .1 ! Don't you wish, Mr Republican, that the gold paid silver days of the Republic would ere back a•zain ? But they won't—tort long tlioe. You did all you could to drive the r m away, and now it is beyond your power to recall them. had you voted right— had you assisted to place and keep the Democracy in povier after the war, as volt ought to hate done, things would wear a different aspect now. •listend ordebts and taxes and hard limes and want and wretchedness, we might have had good tones and plculy of 1 ,,,a1,0 anti happiness And general prosperity. But you thought more 01 pair party than you did of your connir . t, loiti the consequence is we bate ri 11111.111i11111 of debt, and taxes without miming kind not only this, but oar pen-es lire in - creasing. The times are getting hard er and harder, and the time Tony toot' come, unless something is dune to make money plentier, when compiete bankruptcy will overtake thy countr3 The present state of thii4m is truly alarming, and there is no prospect of impro%catent. And tine all routes lit tripqing and putting power mt., the halide of the Radical party a party that has ',flown, front its incipiency • in lust rifler power and 11 grl,l if gain. -rhe (*itineracy warned the people of the consequences tliatrwould Lelnll the country shorild Radicalism he mtieeemm ful, and the predictions awl, not 4 have been most fearfully and holy verified. But the people, blinded by the glitter of epaulette, and dai7le,l by the burnished glare of bayonets, went marl after - a inibtary leader, although he represented the principle., most dam germ's to Republican mmtitlitionm and Republican yromperity, and elected loin to the highest office in their gilt. Ac the result of that madness, we have the Government administered accord trig, to the pri In niplem of an anti Re pub bean party, and the consequent en (ailment of all our present duott,ters and difficulties. But all ,tie can' say aria, will norhelp us. Ilout the poo- ple listened in time, all might lime been well As tt is, we mum! heal , cu iiiisGortdem as best w, cool, and Ratio; Ha theft' ire by the lesson taught tu I the pas t. —The Eniprees EcorNle is said to be the possessor of a magnificent form and ravishing h et , bnt a very ugh , mouth. She 14 141011 to dre44ll 1411le111 1 more slightly than H. decent American husband would care to see lii. wile be fore the eyes or strangers. A few inches above the waist is all there is covered iv that,direction, except when at rest. w -.:--161 - 113. LINCOLN, the impecunioil t Empress of the Black Republicans, A» living at Frankfort on the-Main, quite no-Americanized. She is pot courting a DittcliCount, as rtporteii, and impala to be Jiving wonderful quiet, wearing obt. her "old clothes " herself. —The famous -Lord AINKLKY, late- I.Y " doing " the illtonkip of New York, has Clad exploded. r He is only DICK Raufroan, a dent. There is a rich belle in distrere—foolish buttierfly, and the Lord has got her tine watch, etc., etc., and flown. karrisburg Newspaper Enterprise' For enterprise and general "get up," commend us to the llarrisbarg papers. Not one of them publishes a word of the Legislative proceedings, except in the shape of a contemptible summary that they might as well omit altogeth er, as 110 idea can be gathered from it of what is being done or of who is do• ing anything. As long, as those pa pers had no idea of making anything out of the publication of the pro, evil ings of the Legislature, they inserted them as matter of lieWS, With some spirit of enterprise but, an soon as the /Vert/VC/ 1.1 ithOhdlett and the idea gete into then• heads that then ought to luiee something for publishing them, they refuse-to insert them at all, unless paid for it. In this, the Patriot amt Telegraph vindicate, their claims to be first eliant newspapers, tit course. \Very we publishing a newliaper, at Ilarrisburg, we eliould puhlinh the pro eeedings of the lbegishitioe, 111 if we had to pay for thew ; and we mill just sii7gest tol he Legislature that it they will TeTTIOVe the t•apilol tt . t we'll till the pi iireeiling. Hu:" 14.t0u tit ro 11111`. tree, as will :11411 our vonteniporarie4 ul lie Tile liiva 01 tit i daily papers at Ilw State Capital, aml neither unr ul tbrio wish rnlrrldinc enough to heel, their realer , and Ole gClftl:11 public p 41rd op In the 1e.2141a I)ve proeeetling,+, fa u n llEs.st Bk-In,SLIt. wh , we whole soul iv homyd till in itollara and cratx, 11114 mi ht have heeri evpecteit, tint such :mtam uu flue part ol the ra/,',/,11, cer tainly rattler stupid. We will jo.t t:ZIV to you, getitletneo, that the people want to know what iv going on at Har risburg in LegislatiN e eireleq, and 11 they can't get that inlormation from your column., they will 11181 , nt On tin' estobhshawat of another journal in your elk , that will !nuke it a point In nee that they are lurnisheil wan the latest news. A ;‘uri.l to the Late Publications liaroxe 'Mt F1N171.11111T., nn rvr.... fly 1,,•col Parini., A I 1.1111101.111111.1. We have received trout the imblinh. ern, ads lies ,rdieeln of a new book of th e abuse title, trtrrt the pen of Mine Olive I.IW/In, the former actress, and prenent lecturer and author. .111 eCutill ' illation of the fable ermtents In such as to eve,te the strongest interest, turd awaken tilt' vrentent eurionity. to see the work. The subject matter treats ,of that curious world, known ut theatri. eitl 118 the "Slniw World." arta rnrinde,s otery thin!! 111 tln'•-hnpe sit amusements that wq ever heard of__ even to leetiire., who'll are olten, it 'mint be adMitted, the reverse of nom sing. It wrt INeetthart% u(ilhle lady's writings, that, w hate, er elhe they are, they lire nn et 'MI This ~ 1111111‘ taken its Imo the Neeretn of the "idaver folk -comity is un he hind the ..I.l`lll'S of the Theatre -taken us into the Irennitig room of the l'ireuft —among the rained 111)11111d. !It tile Me nagorie—ex kilos a brillikot Frhaittein tnagorm of lailroonn„ mountebanks, fie- tors, netre4se•-, operatic urti4t•, street tundalers,iiigglers, wiVel beasts, Tamers, their piddle and pr;vitte lives, habits, both good and bard, and in short, is a veritable turning " inside out ' of that ,Inymtertons world concerning whteli so little has hitherto been reit:ll,lv known. -The lluningdon Monitor puld,ll PM till 14 week the et , tlfiiNi4oll4 ISERO 4 one ot the PSIOIII It is a long, very plat up, told ~tor.itinl charges the tiiiirder ou him partner Bon \Fa Ile meo, , I I wAtehe.l ai the rajl ro.id should any tole ItoslAra went in and ilic alone% , and .leolarem that he k null nothing of the murder, until arrested at A hymn, although Bolt Vlt 1111 , 1 told lion several tirnen that lie would thenf all," if he 0 , 111 , 111% get It any other way Like mast oth• er culprits he expects to step right off the scaffold into glory, hat, would have 110 particular o,itieetions to staying here a while longer. —ft is said of the late lamented Maximilian that he was exceedingly headstrong, rind that he aheOlntely eared more for the cut and met ,of his Oodles than he did for the opinion of lith people. Yet all anent that he watt a kind hearten', intelligent, and brave loan, as far superior to Juarez as a white tarn o in to a Dahomey nigger. —The Jacobin elo gation, other wise known ae Otivernor .nIP.-Nevada, WBl4 lately mistaken by the audience of a 0 aide chow " for the Chirrese Giant, Mr. Chang, to„ the utter dispet of the real Giant. ---Ttittemart, the French Patin murderer, aufrered death in old French ntylel-by the guillotine. When igen. tenced he arose, smiled benignantly, and thanked• the court. Are They Awaking et Lest! There sCeins to beof lac a good deal of " squealing" in the ranks or the party whose 'milers are ever ireard de. claring that the country "was IWV(I' 80 prosperous." The Boston Att rertiser, a lending Atottgrd aheet, whose columnq have ever "gone in," too ire party measures, tooth and nail, swallowing all the ideas of the Se;opil Washington, lately deorted, and those also or the Third Washington, now jui the flesh, and invariably , behind a gar in the Whitellouse,has given vent to its feelings on heavy taxation to pay off t he great debt, thusly: Nor do we believe that in our ease the immediate extinction of the debt is necessary to enable .he nation to ad vance its ideas, to (-demi its policy Heil AlifFuNe its power among the nations of the earth. It e 4 vastly more nereQsary to build up oar waste places, to repair our cripplbil industries and put the peffpfe in a way to contribute to the necessities of the gt,u.eirmAit without feeling it as a saerifiee. To attempt to psi oil' in a pew ell! , a dell ifien.red !twilit: , was for the safety and hallo nest of many generations, while all great lapdrie-s intere.ts are depreved and laves are cads)[ into flu. salmance /if every Lind 01 labor, is a delusive economy aloe') imist . 1») bitter :01:11il`11111'' 101' 11.,d I.v, Is it lint ' for the .Idre)• //x(e to thus boldly talk ut buildup( up I. it rite plces, - fuel " repairing crtp pled infliudiic-. hen as lending Well arc telling the wothl that all is gmng on as merrily es ir marriage least ? The patient Democracy 11111 V put on hope and courage, the each) are be conimg staggered at the results of their li-t tea year- political infamies, and it the (moms are noi false 1872 *)11 Nee an end oft he reign ,of despotism, and its tannilldfl crimes. Morn is breaking." - - git If the Lvizi . -lalure will None up to llc thought if t h e two mantel, nit Be•Ili tom, ar, I hold Its session. al Vi lit rtam Who hail promplid these two it tri flea (mild Is brought to light L .1 irk rt (Oil of their proeteo and to tics to work, Mould shun that the pub mini without miking the Stale for a public debt might lie paid hi perish', oar wilt furnish tore the e‘piration of the Sitinisintra I,lle ill/Mtn to ereet State non. The book of • estimates for the Molding , its (hat cannot afford nett li nea l fear contained api , tr , - prja a paper entorptise eiwilgh about noes for pliblie orka of $'... , 1,112.),1i1 figs appropriatiiins for Ills Paine it to 1,0,11.1 i at I,,ist, of the °hie( ts last sear ol i5,193,(101.) Legnd,,tise pr0e,..e10......, is eertain le n nmllo,niPtrauonnfAndrely Jolittifon had sir) pair place fir a State Capitol' been accused of had tried it ml thatof ridlignev in expend] Cpeople op hereith our chit ken pt.o. Imes ti bege, and bud fouled it guilty, guru rlileroen, mud we will arefure you Noll hrtil take!, hunt it the sceptre of pow ei net wrangle about itrirtrilv and and put it in the harsh! Of the ruled I'll,. \V iig A s, w i ll l e t th e ',,, an party, ou Its professions of (V.Jilt • he adinitration of the tier 1. ' Inow 7" or a"emPt ' .ns in ttiN sieti , to 1'1„. people (headedhold• ' t ' ts "at the (.("" sherd to their promises, but what was the first eat genre the)• put forth to the (mown of their m to II rs out heir pledges"' NVlitle he knee the tingrat loos position he occupied he propie-ol ill speak plainly but truly to his Inefel, in the llouse lie lsfo t+lure was not to 0111 motor) to he i'e ri%ed limo the wounds of et blend Andrew .l oh uson, +n the loot sear 01 his Whom! 4tratioli, had estlinated flat lie timid earls Oil the government for kistii,oo, and that amount had keen rut down over •.'-'0,00,000 \V fiat did our ',lra administration vslunate that it %mild ..irrs on the adminiltranon of tht got t. ruin, fit tor a year for? •SA2,I. 1197,171 .I n itterea‘e of over trent,' t "9 41 mil/tong beyond (lie amount re qua,' Art Andrew Johnson, and an 111 r?etpte of 4 :49 11'28,517 over the rrni„u ill ama opt tale , " /or the prmenl 97 a/ But this included ins error of over se% eft flidlllloo ordollarti in the footing: itp of the post other Department. whieli would reduce the increase to *12,1100 OW But he believed that not entering into the estimate was the little pager plum or tiBoo,ooo (or League 11+111111i and hack of it also were the lie‘ ill 'iainaita and the Island of St. Thommt at 'IT,SOII,(XX), In Kohl , and hat kof it too, were the illilhOtis that would added 11 the Senate io the amtroptia sou hills an they poised the 1101101 In this House alone, it the pledges 01 the Republican party were to he re deemed, they (mold have rim 0111 (Sher at lily other LOA 01 the a venue, or at the other end of the Capitol, and In• put it to the representatives of Ili, people whether the‘ would initfigurith nets public works on a broad eeliiiiale or 1,24,000,000. fie had a rtaht to complain of the Whet end 0/ the avenue, that with all its profesqlottr of e(tato My, nail with the het aiding by telt• araph 'and °the, tot Ye of elhirtlMl Ihre t rear but one of those depattments that dui not estl(tate al) trierearre 01 trpentli tures 01 er the appropt 'atoms 01 tart year exception wits the poor, unpopular Attorney General, and 1., hoped it ails not because of that re markable trait in Ilia character that iI was contemplated at the other end of the Capitol to relieve bun front further mildly service and dri ve him into private life. There Was the two poet office building at New York, V, bleb the aroloteet said womb! coat 4 4,000 000, and the granite for whinh was ex unlaced to cost 81,1410M00. Virere they going on with such expenditures? Were they going to put $3.000,000 from the iI I Philadelphia Navy ya r d, Vi,000,000 from the Treasury into League Island, when they might as well wait five ears ?• two thirtgs seem ed to be desired, a reduction of the public deist by the administration and a relief from the burdens of taxation by this 'House; neither of these things could he accomplished without the other thing, which both overlooked 4 reduction of the expenditure. Ifou wail it proposed At the othat zulaf the *venue to pay the public debt unless thelexpenditures were reduced Z—Uow did the lipase propose to 'relleviriht people and the enterprise and the Nit); tal of our countrt froin the buideus 01 1110 ~it 811;1 ltuon N • iscl,:ng at the Treasurer is not Ow tirq time Inr incliel at that otlice to ILI. r,nJHIV lirhe yer aD, he Wll4 16'111.4.101nd jael<l,l tilt of 'hat iJlire ume thirteen (11 , ,n4 and it tii . tax payers' 11/I/I/el, 111/o) Ida it m 111.1 Imeket to pMelloi m grog 41111.11 and on hind WO men IfS hnh reformed noxx. since the tlittlevn Ilionsand tiollarm ure spent, hut 1»s Helm% tar prchtng at the wanly treasnrx ,4311ext*A. - Pretitke pm) s that, with the ex cep( ion of bon to I' ; RFF lEI , the an thor 01 SI mos. Suuus was the most humorous Apeman writer. And po. I it seallt dagrieultorally,and tinintentron ally humorous and numerous is the the lot !nor of the Whole is know how foolishly Sonny he 14. Myriad.. if nigger. eelebrated 'Mao day. in the South, on the lat. Thee rIlitI,•11:0141 1011411 X. and long; and veil it IN. for the white nian'm litetoriiie that niaticiiiiition day for the darker 11111•44 111 the noddle of frozen winter 10% (h.IKY IM 71 man or much lirnineeli and large Owlet . ..tan/ling rn one Nelll , e. lie IA 110 t unike a mallet with the handle lip. No. .1 boots and No. 5 hat --leg at the wrong end. Ile IS it Inv type of the " great " Republican part Y. -110cavimers, the tainams editor of l'oriir Lotiitri H. now a member of the I ' , ,rpoLegistitit, is said to hr only a stietiessful edition of the llsonce FRANIIS TRAIN style of buncombe and mtuptatty —A St Iwmia merelihnt `buapend• ed" animation for 1 week, lit/ hie collito and then catineto Unexpectedly, and to the chagrin of helm apparent and heire expectant. Ire got out of it, and fooled them. , Queen Von:Tont S t s son,Pri nee A STII U a; now in this country, has 'signified, him wiliingneas to be dined and wined by Brooklyn club. We suppose he would have no objection to being wo men'd by the Horosis club. .-11011. JOUR .P.ll‘te writes from Rome that his health to Wilde sod h• has (alien off in. weight nearly a hun dred pounds. lie is got so hale then, as tormerly. • Indica' Retrenchment There is no one whose memory is so abort that he has forgotten the pledges of retrenchment Made by radical poli tii‘inms, prior to, very , election, since they foisted theSaUgammon rail-splitter 41p011 the country as President: - And not only during political campaigns have they made these professions rind promises, but at intervals b e tw ee n elec tions their papers and pamphlets and reports have kept up a continual cry of "reduction of the politic debt," "healthy condition•' of public finances•• —"curtailment of expenses"—and all such claptrap, until a portion of our people, notwithstanding the fact that their taxes and tariffs and tribuees are just as exhorbitant as ever, really be lieve that radicalism is doing what it promised, arid carrying on the govern ment as economically as it is possiltle to do. Yet while 0101 are rook enough to believe this, it is folly for Democrats to deny that. it is so; but when Buell Ineu as Dll% Eq, a rabid iiarlirid t,•on .zre , tonen from Massachusetts, comes "op to the scratch," and lyis theelion indepondefwe to mike the asNertion sal give the figures that prore that to dii‘, iu lune of profound pence, WC /Ire lIIV UP! 11111111 MM of dolhtrl mote 1 „ carry on the government than we , 11,1 even under duo profligate admitiistra I'M of Jon \ purlirips will place sorne reliance in it. ltadivak can cc t SIAMITV.I that 7lVt'll Lrlmv 1 , 4 nn "copperhrit he Pi I . ( OM I) kl% I Y lipeVlll C,ffigreeB, oil Icciltietiday of fa ht t et: and I.ltw ES, oluiry body known, is "trooly loll" na any puritan lloit ever alma,' round lilyntontli rods. Itemd it, then look at your empty pu'rees,-erol thank Boil, tt you feel like it, or the "retretiellinent' radical rulera are taxation under which they are groan ing unless the expenditures werereduc ed? Gov. Proker'• Letter 6.. 0:10 IN or LOCAL NA MKS,- Th ollowing interesting letter, which we cli in the Williamsport Gazette and 114tIctin, in regard to the origin of local names, ie from the pen of Ex-Gov ernor William F. Packer, and will ho found highly entertaining as well Spa full 'of information. The Governor says: tiewri,emeB--A correspondent of the last Chilton Democrat, in referring to the origin of local names in Clinton county, states that "Wild Eagle creek took its name from the largo number of upgies of that species that were formerly found along it.., entite coin se, attracted thither probably by the large number of fish and wild docks that inhabited its waters, The mountain alt.ng that strewn has long been known by the satne n a me," The writer if this article having been born oil the batiks or the Bald Eagle, 111111(5 1.1111.t1 ago and spent his hot hood there, is able to give the true origin of the name of that stream, the volley throe 11 which it rims, mid the mountain which forms their sontlict •botkler. Pervious to the treaty of Fort Stan wi x, by which the title to the Indian lands on (lie south and weSt, side of the West Branch of the Susquehanna was tingtmloql, enibraving Bald Eagle v c,iellratcd Luton unirior of on, of the tribes of the Six-Nations, named hail his wig wam and 11), home on the bail., or the dream of that name, neat white Milos bait; 111150 ...1/111(1.1, In Centre I.oiiitt), in the tilithd tit 1111 1 Ild lan village a loch ,'shut the ISA I n Estii.s,", Near. 110 tins noted (•liieflain, known over the whole country whereter the tribes of the Nix Nations tondo their appear ' anc ,., a nd took an active and bloody teat 111 the Indian warfare against the white settlers along the IVe.t, Branch during our revolutionary struggle. Bold and fearlesa 110 the noble bird whose m i m e h e assumed, he, with hi, band of „ a V it tre fidlowers, swuopod down upon 111.. 111111d)11,111 1 1, 8 and apared neither age nor sex. Ili• led the pal ty of sits aged, 111 1778, that murdered James Bradt, son 1 f Capt..l elm Brady, I ounger Mother of 1110 to 11% it Sion Brady, of the Rangers, in it harvest field, along with 10 , fellow laborers, short, distance ladoW the pl., Sent site Of the city of IS I I lams!), rt. INoulided with a spear, tiimaliawked and scalped, you Brady still lived lot g enough to ileac:die the horrible scene with great 1111111:telle...... He said the Indian, were ot the Seuecti trite, and led by Bald Eagle "Vengeance not loud but deep," says Shy 11:•torme, "was breathed a g ain,t ' the Bald Eagle, but he laughed it to sctiro, till the fatal (lay at Brady's Bend, •on thii • Alleg.lteny '' Hazzard in his. Register i'e II re +ill remit, ,q IX, page •237, gives the following heel/lint of the death of the celebratid chief, Bald Eagle "Several years utter the death of James Brady, a large party of Senecas were marching along the Allegheny river, on their way to "Bald Eagle s Nest ('apt, Sam Brad) recognized the Bald Eegle that dity, anti tired at him When the battle ems over, he searched for the body and found t The hall 111111,piereed his heart, and the blood of the young, taptain at Lityalsitelt was bonny avenged by the hands of his ;,rather on the banks ofthe Allegheny Bahl Ettgle'N'Ne•t" was a well known locality both to white and roil nice more than one hundred years ago Die hind , In which the Iniltan village as stated beton., 50118 near the ;.resent sate or the flourishing borough of sburg, itt the forks of the Bald Eagle, and near lend afterward owned Colonel Bolt, one of the tarot settlers ill the ' , INV , SO well known WHO , it, that in it warrant issued by the Land Department of Pennsylvania, dated the .fd id April, I 769 and surveyed the ..111111• , far a tract or land now Own el 1/V the author of tins tornmunication, the land is i-turned xs "three hundred acres on the north side of flahl Eagle Creek, shout the miles below the Bald Nest " It was the bird which Dave the name to the Indian ellief, the Indian chief ga% t• the name to the river, the mountain and the valley Sherman flay, in his Historical Col lection, of Penithy 1%8011, referring to Bald Eagle Valley, says "About that tone 17e8„ or, its soma say, it year or ,wu pre, Andrew Boggs, father of the lat. d ,tingni•-hed .111411 4 0 Rogg, ore( ti d lls eiiinti 110 the left bank of Bald Eagle ereek, directly opposite to all 1 , 1,1 10.115.11 village, on the flats near wb-re situated At this village wits the "Bald Eagle's Neat,' it mune %%hull has been erromonsly sup ,,ated to mean the nest of that imperial bird; but it was 04* the neat of an In luau Warn( T or that mime, who had built his wigwam there, between two argts white onto The oak, were stand ing, a few years sine. , The name sap tiVen 1.0 the, creek, to the mountain which towers alaitte it, to the he township and the early settlement if the whites along, the valley." Mr. Day Kivu, the true history of the origin of the name. Iteferrir,g to Bah) Eagle towohship, it may not b.l uninteresting to the present inhabitants of that township to know dint it originally included several of the present counties of this State It was organized at the first court held in ` • thumborlandenun y, at Port Augus ts, In 17/2, and was described 1111 fol lows: "Beginning at the forks of Penn's 'reek, theme by it north line to the West kranch of thin simpinhitunin, thence up the slime w whom the county line crosses It, thence by the county line, sOuth, to the head of the Little Juniata, thence down the same tothe end of Tue. hseoptain, thence along the to of this same, easterly,• directly to the place of beginning," There was another Tndbin chill whose wigwam was at no great dist:meg from the "Bald Euglii'a best," who was man of Nonl If not greater note, anti whose name Is borne by the streams ; the ,nnumaing and valleys of Clinton end Contra, aluntlea. • This was LOGAN, the Mingo* chief lie was the son of the celebrated Shiketicmv, chief of the Cay ugas, who Band at Shamokin, near the I present site of Sunbury the great friend of Conia d Weiser, the Indian interpre , tor, and of white men generally. Shik. ellemy gave his eon the English uttm4 of Logan, from James Logan, the Sect rotary of Pennsylvania under the Penns, a firm friend of the Indians. Ails In dain name was Tah-gah-jate. Ho was noted for his fine personal appearance, and for his friendship to the whites. Previous to the treaty of Fort Stanwix, in .1768, ho had his cabin at Logan's Springs, 'near Brown's Mills, in the Kishaeoquillas vntl?y, and o‘ten visited the s Bald Eagle's Nest." One of the branches of Spring creek, a tributary of the Bald Eagle, hears the name of L/- gan's Branch. A gap in the Nittany .Mountain is culled Logan's Gap, and the township was named Logan township. fLogruniville is in the same township. I Before the Revolution, anti after the ex. : tinguishment of the Indian title in the Kishircerprilltim valley, tin removed with his family to the banks of the Ohio, where, in 1774, his whole family wore massacred by a party of whites under the pretext of rtalintien for Indian murders. Captain (iresap wan charged with it. Logan at once commenced an indiscriminate war on the scattered white settlers of our fur western frontier, and the most frightful lirbarities were inflicted liptin all, regardless of sex of condition. Ile took thirty stinky; with his own hands in the course of the war, which terminated in the crushing defeat of the Indian, it the mond of the Great li annivha When his eonirado chuffs afterward sued for pence, he iltsditined to appear among them, bat sent by an in terpreter to Lord Ditrormie, Governor of Virginia, the celebrated 'Speech of Logan, the Mingo Chief,' explaining his conduct, which was first published in "Jefferson s notes of V irglion," arid who!, he, pa , ,fl into history and been republi-lied the wood over. In that speech Logan 'nys "I appeal to any iv li ite man to see if he ever entered Lo glin's cabin hungry, and he gaytt him not meat; if be came cold and naked, find be clothed him not During the course of the hfst long iind bloody war, Logan remained idle in his cabin, an aulvoente for petite, Snell was toy love for the whites • that nay countrymen pointed as they pris,od and said, Logan is the friend of the white men I had ' , Wen thought to live with you, but for the injuries of one man. Col. Cresap, the last spring, In cold blood,* and un pro% eked, murdered ell the relations of Lenin, not even sparing nay woman and children There 'tyre+ not a drop of my blood in the veins ninny living creature. This called on me for revenge I have songht. it ; I have killed many ; I have fully glutted my revenge. For my country I rejoieeritt the beams of peace. But do not harbor a thought that mine is Om joy of fear. Logan never felt fear. Ile will not turn on his load to POW hie life Who iist In re to mourn for Logan' Not one " This speech would have made the name of Logan imgrortal, oven it it Had not been written on your mountains, }our valleys and your streams • 'W F. P w 11,1,1 A \IMPORT, Jan V, 11470 /The Stx NationA were the Mohawks, Onoednreq, Csvoza., Senecas nn , ! Tosenrores. Mine.oeg WIIR the'con feiVrate name of the IT tilted Six Na tions. +Lnlnnsyill,• k in Grorn township, Clinton County, The Franking Privilege Ilie'following 18 an official copy of the bill abUlinhin f the franking privi lege whirl' wit,: no promptly pitiii-rd by the lower House of Congreati: lir it anarted,do , That all laws and ;,artn of wvp: giving the right tn any officer or Da:pert inent of the tiovernment. or other person, to Mood or receive through the United ,sate• , It, I nor er vlirre, any letter, docn. frO . Or. or oth.•r mailable :natter, Ore hereby re pealed 0 , 2 And he d Nth, canetell. That the ee t shall tale etf.•et on and after Um tat day of 11470. • The above is certainly sweeping. If it should be adopted by the Senate and signed be the T'resident, not an ounce 01 free matter will lie earned in the mails after the first day of next Julye" In their great readiness to respond to the request of the Postmaster Heueral, the framer or the bill forgot a main pima in his recommendation. Mr rre•mwell took good care to make an ererption in favor of I . ollnty newspa per-I, which are tow circulated within the ihtferent comities where they are [Admired flee 01 postage. This in an ni colninoilation to the people which the tiovetionent ought to afliml. 'The amount of trouble and annoyance sated to residents of the rural districts, who arc the principal subscribers to county papers, more than compensated for the suni wiich might be, saved by renewing the ',mimeo on such journals. In has report Mr. Cromwell said: The objection that Congress may desire to print AO,. ditOMMillate piddle document» should not avnll against the appeal of the de partment for den versno° from 1110 frauds that sax fast overwhelming it. If the 'lira slings bo abolished offload publications limy still betel , !Annie.' lu the !Italie It is only linked that they, like prltat I matter, may be chargeable with postage. II it he urged that thin would prevent or impede the diffusion of ,the knowl edge of public "'Hairs anion"' the people, then it may be sal.l in reply that if it be the put , poicref Congress to give Information to the people. a NO morn telling expedients may be resorted td' An unburdened press, managed and dirreted by private enterprise. can do more than 1:0116(110.14 to enlighten ibo muses. Better for that The franking privilege he atrol- Ished, and thatiltil newspapers sent, to Arno, fide soliseribeis from a known Mlle° Of publi outlet, slieulti be carried free, without regard to weight, through.* the United Mates, as now throughout the county wherein printed andpublkhed. The receipts of the depart ment last year from newspapers and pam phlete amounted to 1177,i472. This portion Of Ile reeelpts the department eon forego, pro vided it run be proteeted against the,fraude Inseparable from the franking privilege. We suppose the teseeping bill put through the House so hurriedly will be amended in the Senate, tio ac to accord with the views of tire Portmaster•Gen• eral on the hithrect of newspapers. We are sure it ought to he modified. To destroy the system now iu operation will be to pot die masses to a decided inconvenience ,without enuring any rem pinnace)! benefit to the Poet Office Department,—Lancaster Inlelligencer. TIRE VIFICIINIA OITTRMIE.—The New York Tribune di'scoursee' thus sac* of the latest radical itehieveMent, "the admission of Virginia to the Union:" The lionse has adopted the Senate's perverse action on the Virginia bill
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