Bellefonte Democratic Watchman
BY P. OKAY MEEK
JOE N. FUREY, ASSOCIATI EDITOR
Ink Slings
—Who festivnl of Lent boging on the
2d of Minch.
—Peoria. Illinois hi overrun with
rats. We suggest, as a romeity, plenty
of eats or a printer's union.
—Agrarianism is worrying the gov
ernment of Ireland Niggeriam find
dainfoolism nro worrying the• govern
ment of the IThitod States.
—Tho Hoover Loco! has been suspen
ded. We don't dean to inturiunto, how
ever, brat the editor was hung. life has
been frequently 'shot," though.
—Tho arthronoroont of the king of
Bavaria in contemplated. The enthrone
ment of King JiIRAII ULYSSEIi 1, of the
United Stales, i 9 aim imntenipinted,
—A little OH in Trlinneaota has be.
come a mother at the ago of eleven yearp.
It most he true, then, that thinker 111111-
turo earlier in that climate than they do
here,
—The market repork , itale that gold
rimed On i.llell a day nt vuclr n rate. We
rally hero state that golil closed to ua
wine tune in thin yenr !RHO, and we
htien't SITII any of it ...inv.,
-- (With VICI It lA, it i, Enid, i, going
to (•ontractt another marriage.
time it it the Grand Duke of Augmiten
bort! that , to to hh the happy man
Shade of Prince A miltlt r, weep for Vie.
ToRI !
--Dr MARY NV Al.O. F... 14, it would Rp
penr, has respelled both herself and a
Captain JINKS from death by highway
men. After this, who shall say that Dr.
MARY shan't vote?
—Mrs Gen.' SHERMAN and other
prominent Indica in Wasbington,are
opposed to "Woman's Rights and
threaten to organize an anti- man's
Rights Society.
—The New York World ought'nt to
deplore the scarcity of first-clnan music
in this country, when it knows, as well
as it knows anything, that every news
paper is an organ.
—MARK TWAIN has married• Miss
OLIVI A LANODON, of Elmira, New
York. So-this twain ha - ve become one
flesh, find MARK will, no doubt, in the
course of time, have a full realization of
the "Troubisei of the Innocents."
—WILLIAM TRATIM has trftrostied re!
ligicn and good morals in Kingston., N.
Y., leaving, finally, $60,000 in .debt.
Ile played the nice young man to perfec
tion and bad a good time with the fnni
dons and matrons.
Tim devil was in legagueL.withAbe
Leaguers when they got up the League
Island bill—the biggest robbery of the
day. But thank God, Judge Worm
ws.ao, Mr. DAwaa, And ROMP other
good men, the thing is a Whim fdr the
present.
General IRWIN, former State treasu
rer, and only a few weeks ago ro.elected
to that poeition over MACKEY, refuses,
it seems, to have his former adminis
tration examined into. The Radical
rascal is afraid to face an investigation
committee.
—GRANT says the reason why he,does
not appoint a man from the South to the
bench of the Supreme Court, is because
there are none of the carpet-baggers fit
for the position, and the genuine South
erners are all shut out by reason of hav
ing participated in the Rebellion.
—(Joy. &cant , excused himself from
dancing, af a reception the other eve
ning, by saying, " 1 have not danced
sine° the war—my legs are too full of
bullet holes." Tho holes, however, urn
all in the behind part* of his legs.
—Judge l'scx.rat has a deer park at
l'ackerton, in which are several deers
and elks. This is, nu doubt, 'very nice,
and has probably cost him much lens
than the effort to get into the guberna
torial chair At all uvulas, it would
have coat the Democracy considerable
less had the Judge confined hi t s attention
exclusively to door parks.
—Radical congressmen are full of
business in trying to get their friends
into otnee, as Judges, Marshals, die.
This takes up about two-thirds of their
time, and the remhinder is spent in
talking speeches, and talking about re
tronament.
-I:3lxmay's veto of the Metropolitan
Pollee bill has iallen liken bomb shell
into the Radical camp at Philadolphia
Phi was a bill to take dll power out of
the binds of the Democratic Mayor,
and by an iniquitous and outragootie ar
rangement to vest all the city patronage
in the hands of a few commissioners of
the Radical party. Grviny vetoed it.
Bully for GLUM.
—There is to boa now political or
ganization started,. to ho called the
"Grand Army of the Constitution."
Gen. 12iXonwe B. MCOLICILLAN is the
brat Auk* for the position of Most Em
inent Commander, and Gen. liniecocx
next. The Constitution just now needs
a grand 'army to defend it, and if this
now organization mottos that a speci
alty, therpeople will back it up. Throe
cheers for the Constitution.
VOl 4 . 15.
The Sandwich Islands vs. New Eng
land.—Rev. Mr. Officer's*Opinion.
the sermon or Rev. Mr. Officer, at
the dedication attn. Lutheran Church,
on Sunday last, he made this remark :
(ha( lime are mw e people in the Sand
trieZt Islands able to read and write, in
proportion to their number, than there
are in NEW ENIIII, 1 1 4 D ! We can scarce
ly believe this possible, but vet the rev•
erenil gentleman asserted a as an ni l .
denialde firm, and in proof that the
/:hnslitui religivt and the labors of the
rnmountatries ore neemnplimlinjil, a great
work m the world.' Mr. Officer was in
liellelonte flit' the purisi,e of dedicating
tit John's la angelical Lutheran
l'hufeli to the service of God, and for
the incidental vurpon-e• 11151) of ini:ong
nuniry In nH,o,a ul ,paying on . the
church drhl ; and li said that one of
the reasons often given for not contri
bitting to such tin object as this, aas
that the church was not accomplish
ing anythinit. To prove that the
church was accomplishing something,
in feet, that a gi eat work was !wins
lone by the church - , through the min
tanneries, be eitied this case of the
Sandwich Islands , averring,
that, in proportion to, their number,
there are inane people in the .tiandwieh
Mandl' to/to are able In read and rerun
than there are in isllf.%l Esubt‘in
Now, what are we to sny to this?
For our part, coming from so respecta
ble a source, we are willing tt) express
our entire belief that it is true. The
gentleman who made the assertion is a
minister of the Gospel in good fond.,
ing and has long been engaged in the
Missionary work. Ile has had expe
rience among the Aanilwich 'lslanders
and on the Western coast of Africa,
and he would not he likely to make as
sertions that would not stand the test
of investigation.
We confess, that, much as we despise
the pretension and hypocrisy of New
England, we nre not rejoiced at this ev
idence of her httmilrntimn. Consider
ing the fact that, for many years back.
she has been the'thotive power of our
wrote - {Cover Trerrtni- - - mach-inery, wr
had rather that her ability to occur
snob nn exalted position had been
proved. But in the light of the reve
lotion that Mr. Officer has flashed into
our understandings, me ere that me
have been the dupes and tools of an
unenlightened and ignorant minornj
instead at an educated and highly in
telligent majority. Thus ix our humid
intion, and we blush to think that the
giant Middle Sfatei , and the great coo
monwealtlis of the West, through all
the bloody years of the past, have heen
but the catspaw of a few insignificant
States away up in the wit, whose ism,
Fie are not as intelligent, in propor
tion to their number, as are those or
the Sandwich Islands.
Put what will our Radical bruthern
say to this? Can they swallow this
statement of Mr. Officer--a state
ment ninde in Christian earnestness,
and with no politielll end in view? To
New England they bate long looked
as the source of nll their inspiration.
and to New England have they long
bowed as to the fiat of an infallible
power. What must he their feelin ; ;•i,
then, when told. even the poor
Sandwich Islantlers, In whom the runs
of the Gospel of Pence have but lately
penetrated, are more iptelhosit as a
mass than that peQple who have as•
sinned to be the High Priests of Radi
canton, and in whose lead that 4112.teeltft•
hie but pretentious party haves() tame
ly and sphmkiisively fhllowed
Strange as it nut) seem, calm reflect
tion will convince any one that the in
tellectual ineerimitv of the masses of
New England to those of the Sandwich
Islands, is not to be unexpected. That
section of our country Inca ever been
the hot heti of all the isms that have
disgraced or brought the American pen
ple into ridicule. It is the home of
fools, fanatic* mid idiots. Snpersti
tion, bigolny and intolerance have al
ways dwelt there. It was Now Eng
land that burned the Witches am!
hung she Quakers, anti it was New
England that pat up blue lights in her
harbors and rivers to signal and guide
British ships in thq wax of 1812. Last•
ly, it was New England; through her
Garrisons and Phillipses, el id ovine
genus, that Planned aneacctomplished
the war of the Rebellion, and billowed
our once-happy hod all over• with the
graves of its slid 11 CI( IZellS. It suns Nest
BELLEFONTE, PA., FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1870
England that freed the slaves, and it is
New Englimit that now , leaves them to
starve and dre. And upon the bead of
this wretched, bigoted, intolerant, ig
norgnt, oppressive a••d murderous land,
the blood of Intl!' a million of vainly
slaughtered solliere rests.
Why then should not the Cl;nrell do
a missionary work in New England.
Let her masses become at least us en
lightened as those of the Sandwich Is
lands. 1 •
Journaliitic
—Tito I folliflarphrow Stairrlarq,
n , ide, iA among the lie+t of our ex
cluinge, - look for it on
Wi•iiimithip with aux tut ,
t al k to pleas° us. It 141111 hill, 4101011(11br
f DvITIOCrIIi pi 1111•1111 0 ,, 1111,1 i 1 trot
itlen.int and genial lir. idc cootiinion
It idintea as good (11. 1/1. NI
-1)( fl. We( lINIA% to you,
TRAI'IkII.
—The Beaver Local, unhappilS
gone up the spout.
ors were 'nore than egobts•lent 1,, it 4 in
come, and that's what'. the matter It
hus our sympathy.
--Thu Lem' 1111111 it. tp
poarA to bring pestered by now-boy , on
the cars. lie don't like new. anyway
At )enst, we newer could flail 'IRV in his
MEI
—The Fulton Democrot In ugnin on
its pin 4, having risen, phomix,like, from
the Fishes of the Into tire. SUCCPS , to it
—The Lo.:k Haven Republican ha,
gone into the milk and farming business,
judging from its leading editorial this
week. •
—The Northumberland County 1)em•
or-Phi is informed that if it can't send its
upper nil in one piece it needn't send us
any at all. We don't care -about - going
to the trouble of paper together
it, order to read it—especially when, as
in its case, we are so poorly repaid for
our pains.
—The. Ilteittingdon Globe misquotes
111, in several items in its last issue.
However the Globe never could quote
Anything right.
—The Hollidaysburg Register :423rs it
is above craving the assistance of the
Standard. That may he so now, but it
wasn't thusly a year and more ,tige,,,,at
the Editorial Convention, when, if we
inistaka not, the Standard man "assist
ed" him to bed.
--The Columbia Herald is atnong the
most beautifully printed papers in the
country. It is n pleasure to look at it.
And it is first rate rending, too YOUNG
and Gat Kit know how to get a paper pap.
Uvn t you think, }IA i? 4, that your locals
look much better with the small caps,
than with the outrageous black letter?
We do.
Weft Point.
Among the amusements now in
Bulged in by Radical Congressmen is
the lucrative one of selling cadetships
to West Point. Although the law of '
the land vests these appointments ni l. ]
the President, courtesy and custon
have allowed the selections lobe made
on the recommendations of l'onarem.
men. La.terly, the far seeing Solons
of our National Legislature have stools
this _privilege a mean. of gust, and
old West Point hits been itingraced by
the arri , nl of persons bate .e
tutted their positions through all pow er
erful influence of filthy lucre. 'Talent
or physical fitness is not what is 110%1
looked at by the litereSettlllllVe , , het
the beat%ient puree N%llls the revolt' !
metidation to the Executivi Antall
er degrading thing ;than Jiis way
of Ilispor,itig of the calletsdlips, is
Hutt if nut' of the persons sit nomi
tutted are found unlit fur nitlitar) tram I I
itig by the Academy and are rejected
on that account, the nionoy they list*
pod for their appoiotiment is not I ern!' ,
sled to them. but retabalits.in the Con
Ineeimait's hands; who. without any
compunctions or emowience, sells Isis
recomlllendation over again to the
highest bidder. Studs a State or a
fairs is 111111.1110134 and c.tleiditted lode
rnomlize the beet military institution !
in the i laud. Resides it discourages !
talent "Hind puts a Premium on well
ke t tle i gn orance to the exclusion of
brains and energy. What in the world
sure we °mil l ing to, end where is All this
infamy sod eotruption to end? S o rely,
the people will not numb fun g us sub
mit to . the destroying and ruinous rule
of Rmlicalism.
—Tlio oil rigiolovore Indulging in cid
(co bull..
Washington Libertinism
A correspondent tut the Philadelphia
Sunday wilt) Hig9s himself
"Jolts; Knox," has been lifting the
veil that hides Washington society
from the national gaze. Behind it, we
hate remet.tell to our view n most dis
gusting an sickening sight. Senators
anti their mistresses—the wives of
other me • engaged in delightful
amours nt tin Nationill 14otel, are mi
l) one phase oi lie picture exhibited.
e see society rotten to the core—vir
tue min g-hug ith vice because it knows
not l outt distinguish it, anti vice tri•
iimpluing in it. ability to deceive and
pi astute tunic. Vin i-tenittors and
Kepi eseitialit es, ignoring the dignity
or their position.) anti the honor •of
then intuttlittts.l, are :•01 . T1 entering the
tionte-tic citcle of their neighbor anti
seducing therefrom the wife and
mother. Lewd women hang about
them, and their fat or anti patronage
are dispensed as the 'trice of the mai
den's virtue. ,The lactine is a horrible
tune. and nil await tionumentary on the
state ()I' the public morals.
The correspondent of the Mercury,
by Ins exposition of this immorality In
high places hats created a great ex
citement in Washington. Copies of
the Mercury purltaitting lila letters, are
not now to be haul for love nor nieney,
so great has been the demand for them.
lie speaks as one who knowa, and is
Liu ttell hooked till in all he al
ludes to. Ills pen is a scorching one,
and we trust it will burn with the
touch of fire into the souls of these
wretched and with). sinners
It is a sad and solemn fact that
Washington society now is the society
of hell. Devils .go about as roaring
lions, seeking whom they may devoar,
and neither the righteous nor the hula
tent are safe. Virtue becomes the prey
of the despoiler, and the libertine en
ters even into the sanctuary in pursuit
of his victim: Social life is a life of
temptation and Bang and and blushing
virtue in the morning may be frail pros
titution at night. When we consider
the preponderance of Radicalism at the
National Capital, we say these social
evils are fairly traceable to the perni
cious doctrines of that party. Never
before, in all our country's history, has
there been such a carnival of devil
ment, por an) thing approaching to it ;
and the fact that Radical Senators
and Representatives seen; to be
ywincipally concerned in this species of
" Venus miscellany," is evidence that
the tottobings of that party have led to
tho prostration of the social morals of
Washington souiety. Fhishe4 w ith
power, wealth, and corruption in all
manner of dealings with their fellow
inn", ,!;;;se unholy wretches now Beek
to fatten their carnal paisions upon the
tender treasures of a ifely virtue and
mpluspecting minden imiocence.
Down with this party, whose leaders
are hell born. libertines. Restore the
reign of good well once more and with
'that happy day we alien see the return
of t he pristiee virtue oft lie Republic.
—From the Soul hrrn Ilnn,e, Gen. D.
11. paper, at Charlotte, North
Carolina, we clip the following hennti•
Who will .oi the
South has no 1,04143 after lbw? It it
entitled—
UNTIL THE EV EN
Ily wII watora, allowing wide—
Tolling 1111 the aren.ticie,
Fainting not for ammo.. P heat,
111411111 g not Willi weary foot.
"Working." were oar gner.lon le a.
Than a crown of rigliteouaneas
Ity our pttilet of pain owl en re
Still the I d ify biofteorns fair,
%Lel the •pllrrow builds tier neat
Hy our 111.111e11010 or 11111 , Mt
Teoehing with the vole" that Polth
He r• "until death.
111,W1.0 we of tho , eed we SO"
How the shall grow
How the little Forum enfold
The Itarvtd of un lottolreti told'
And hotwlhe ,tto wed PII rule
Awako to life the tn. tied grain
e tt Ito fixed the I'lluters
4110theM the Lily rage its grace;
li. who foorkx the itAtrryw'o fall
Huth !flee mercy for tt all,
A 11,1 1114 tender lovelleclarree
Thr~our ilk ; he more Xiton Iheir•
Furth, until the even-tide
By on wuter+ mowing wide—
chat saws the mare otIIII seem
That our POI& ere more then Bitme,
Bholl we Miter Wien He halth
"He ye MlOl.llll deoth"?
F. 0. 'rleli:VOß
—.Wyoming is equaled by Utah,
whose Legislature bail passed a bill•td
lowing women to vote. Besides the
4y4mpect of getting a husband, here le
another inducement to emigrate to Mor
mondom, • Pack up your carpet-begs,
Vl'd be ett . for Salt Lake.'t
—The following 'artiele from the
Philadelphia Day, showing the , eon
trast between the political layout of
Europe and America one hundred yenre
ago (1770) and now, will liv;tound in
tereatifig
A Hundred Years Ago.
A hundred years ago thi. A. D. 1870,
Russia was lighting tire Turks for the
posmessiilin or all the territory lyingla ,
tween.lhe rivers Danube and Dniester,
and the [flack Men;' on the west her
armies were preserving the reign of
"order in Warsaw," a work in which
they werw materially itssimed by that
fearful pestilence, the plague, anti the
lines rif Prussian and Austrian troops
along the frontier. The condition of
Enmity was peculiar. The•ltoyal rep
resentatives of tile (iernianie Powers
were meeting and greeting at Neustatit
with an affectionate cordiality whirl,
moved the armies to tears. 'Hie free
eiky pt . Dantzic, having refused ',emus
Pion to Prussia to levy men within its
Inn its, was captured' bw the troops of
that power, and compelled to pax. a line
of 75,000 throats, and submit to con •
meription. The Danes were at war
with Algiers. The Princes of Sweden
were ( making the tour of Europe. The
Dutch Republic and the Elector Pala
tine were contending about the naviga
tion of the Rhine--:the limner claiming
the right to levy duties upon the coin
meroe of the latter.
France was disturbed.• The-King and
the princes of the blood were in oppo.
sition, the bone of contention being
the Duke d e Aiguillon, the King's fa.
verity. The latter had misruled Brit
tainy, and outraged juatice in many
ways. The Parliament of Paris ar
raigned the Duke. In the midst of the
trial, thiKingdissollwrel the Parliament
and stopped the pioceedings. Thus,
France was in a state of alarming dia.
satisfaction and confusion, accompa
nied by a fatnine, which Callaell the
death of 4,000 persons in Limosin alone
and riots innumerable..
tipain was strengthening her rule in
the West Indies, and seeking occasion
for a war with England. At the same
time, she had not the advantage of
peace within her own borders. Uonspi•
racies were as rife then as now. Thon
sands were put to death without thepre
truce of trial.
England, alone, appears to have been
simply a spectator of what seemed to
be preliminary to a convulsion which
should shake the continent, even if it
should not change the political face of
Europe. She viewed the aggrandize
ment of Russia with satisfaction, be
holding in the growing power an ally
whose interest it would be to hold Ger
many and Franmein eheck, The neutra
lity of England was a check to France,
whose failure to assist the Turks-grew
out of fear that action in that direction
would constrain England to marshal
her fleets in the Mediterranean as the
active ally of Russia. 'ro England the
loss of her Eastern trade was amply
compensated by the success of Russia.
But (bough enjoying comparative met
in tilt her 15orders, Great Britain hail
her trotibles, The right of election, as
it was called, was lo proceee of deter
minotion, and popular clamor was loud
and deepe. The Parliament had die
pleased the people scarcely less than
the Ring and his counselors. The
people demanded the dissolution of the
Parliament, and the permission to elect
another for the redreAs of grievances.
Cite royal advisers deemed the peti
tions of the people little less than trea
sortable, and counseled the arrest and
punishment of the lenders. The ad
dress from the throne to Parliament
opened with an allusion to a distemper
nhich had b-oken out among:horned
cattle, and this so enraged the op
position that the Ministry were panic
shtick, end fell apart.
011 this side or the water matters
acre nn a troubled
. eondition. The co
lonies were in a state of exasperation
at the imposition of loxes upon lea,
paper, painters color, glass, ect., in ad•
dition to other gnerancem. llt may be
nen enough to state, in this place, that
the duty on tea was six cents in the
pound. There were neap between
the British troops and this citizens of
Roston, in which several of the latter
were killed oiltright. Insurrections
broke out in North Carolina, and the
officers a the Crown were everywhere
in had odor- among the colonists.
Lord Chatham t.ppeaterl to the Muse
of Lords for an address to the King for
the dissolution of l'arlin went, basing
his appil upon the discontent in Eng
land, Ireland and America. The Lords
refused to vole an address.
PI the midst of all this disorder and
discontent, Italy appears to have en
jeyed profound peace. The Pope hail
conciliated the powefs most adverse to
the Court of Rome, by the moderation
of his rule. Gradually he had reduced
the power of the clergy, both in wealth
and numbers, and with such judgment
'that the ch mge was only perceptible
in its benign effects'.
[netituting a competition betweeti
that day and this, it will. be seen that
'many of the living questions are seek.
ing siurtlar. Rtmata, it la true, is not
at open war with the Ttyk, but its at
titude is hot one of peace. I The-truce
in Germany, then and now, brio many
points of reseMbhince. In France the
history of that time is,, in some sort.
repeating itself today with this dip'
ferenecL-that them he throne attempt
ed to abolish the Legislature; whereas
.mw the Legislature on striving to aboli
isß the throne. The living question in
England to-lay is was then, the
right of representation ; while in the
rerusal of certain 01 the British Ameri.
can provinces to accept annexation,
and in the Winnipeg rebellion, Britain
may he reminded of, the situation a
century ago. Spain, rktp,ni, as then, is
strengthening herselfin tile West Indies
and trot with conspiracies at home.
In this country, now, as then, there is
a great claipor about taXation, and the
same objecting to tIM quartering of
troops in certain localities. However,
history repeats itself upon a higher
plane, if indeed it may be said to repeat
itself al, all.
NO. 7
Harrisburg Newspapers Again
tint. friends otthe HarrisbUrg Patriot
ha viN; Esplied , in a somewhat passion
ate mafiner to our article on ?Hai
risimrg Newspaper Enterprise," pub
lashed two or three weekt Since, seem
to have attracteei the attention of the
editor of the Manch ('hunk Times, who
expresses his sentiments on the sub
jeet full report of the• Legislative
prmeolings plainly and to the point,
as followft :
The lielfdonto IVotchnian is of the
opinion that the Harrisburg papers ex
hibit a vast amount of what may be
lei and the exact an tipode of enterprise
I ur Bellefonte contemporary baser.
,•pinin upon the failure of both the dei-
I
papers at the State Capital to publish
nn intelligible report of the proceedings
14 the L.gisbiturt. It is not surprised
that Hessian Bergner should gag his
Telegraph, after finvinwhis usual supply
of pap out off, but is astonished that the
Pa mot ,Imluld hi bit such Rip Van
Winkle propenih ties, if not evidences
of actual collusion with the pirate of the
Telegraph. The Watchman says if the
Legislature will adjourn to Bellefonte,
the papers et that town will publish
!putts the legislative doings. Our Har
risburg neighbor is by no means fa
vorably disposed towards this proposi
tion Mid exhibits considerable ill-temper
which it strives very hard to conceal.
The inference naturally is,'under the
circumstances, that the Wadman shot
pretty close or the birds would not spread
their wings so lively. There is no use
disguising the fact that the pecitliar
course of the Patriot in reference to the
matter of Legislative printing has ex
cited unfavorable comment from the
mass of the Democratic members of the
Legislature who very naturally expect
ed from that sheet encouragement and
endorsement for their efforts to reform
scandalous abuses in the matter of state
printing, which endorsement and sup
port they have not had. If, to-day, the
Pub-tat has a wider and more extended
circulation than it had a year. ago, it is
because of its former assaults upon the
plunderers of the Treasury and its prom
ise to continue the tight as long as there
was a thief in public position or a
ring of "roosters" and "pinchers:: in the
capitol. Tho query, then, is quite natu
ral A to whether the Dgnocratic party
Is to havil a bold, fearless, truthful or
gan at the State capital or a venal,time
serving,' speculating papsucker. The
Patriot has flown its kite altogether too
high to even permit suspicion to 'rest
upon its intentions and it should there
fore accept kindly the well meant advice
of the Watchman. Above everything
else it cannot afford to put on airs.
Harrisburg is too small it village to ad
mit of such a thing in safety.
--Msca, the spicy Washington
correspondent of the Cincinnati Enqui
rt. P peaking, of Army extravagance,
I=l
"No later than last evening, I was
conversing on this subject with a gen
tleman whose opportunities for correct
information are not surpassed by those
of any living person. He was General
McPherson's Adjutant General for threw
years—and reputed the beet ofilcer of
the kind in the service.. Since the war
he has had command of troops on the
Terns frontier, end it was ir. that capac
ity ho got his best insight into the enor
mities of the army swindles. For in
stance, ho told me of a sun dial which
hud been constructed in one of the fron
tier torts--a very plain article on •
granite pedestal—the actual value of
which he estimated at $l7. What do
you think the Government has paid for
it? Ho assured me that he had gone to
the trseible to oramine the vouchers hit
the Department, nhd, said he, "aerrn a
flying Man, that sun-dial has costtfie
Government $40,000." I asked how it
was done—whore the cheat was? "I
don't know," said ho; only knew
that every quartermaster and comraiww
ty, who has had anything to do with the
fort owns a fi ne pair of horses, with sil
ver-mounted, monogram harness and
splendid carriages and big stone front
bousee.
KILLED WITH A CHILD AT OMR
ilittAßT.-:-A moot terrible and diaboli..
cal murder occurred on Thursday night
01 last week in Brunswick county, Vir
ginia ; th e unfortunate victim being
Mrs. Rawlings, wife of Bassett Raw..
I ings. The circumstances of kliie mur- -
%ler are thus narrated : About save
o'clock on Thursday night, while Mrs.
Rawlings was sitting in front of the
tire in her room, with some of her chil
drpii sitting near her, a shot was fired
trout an unseen bend through a window
in the rear of Mrs. Rawlings ? the whole
load (slugs) taking effect just below
the shoulder of the unfortunate victim,
killing her almost instantly, The mut
darer made his escape without being
seen. Mr. Rawlings arrived at home
from court, where he had been attend
ing 'hiring the day, a little agar the
occurrence, to And his wife a corpse
and , his motherless children weeping
over the dead. Suspicion rests,' on one
Harrison Hammoch, a negro, whobad
made certain threats beoettes , wife
hqd reoontbr beet? ilisobargesioßPuktho
service of the , .
—Altoona charges villains who insult
rummies trio onstcrious balm ofthirtynilas
cent".