Democratic watchman. (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1855-1940, April 15, 1870, Image 1

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    Belterate Democratic ' atchman
BY P. ()124.Y, MEEK
JOE W. FUREY, ASSOCIATI BDIToji
Ink Slings
—Vice President flow, has become
a father. It is:a boy.
P/RIIRS BONAPAIITH, the
shootdr of Vicrott / Noin, in Paris, his
been acquitted.
—The Topic's leading editorial on
Monday was laudatory of Gen. litrria:s.
The Tbidc feels bound to praise so me
thing. • •
--"It is now said that Gen. tianstr
does not .intend . issuing a general am
•-•
nessty proclarnation.'"rlie War still
continues.
—We ate often told to economize.
We goieconomize. We are obliged to
economize. Because we havn't any
thing to spend.
—At Brownsville, Tennessee, W. 11.
WsTmo; fired a gun at a darlcey and
billed him. AT4I%, nays be
know the , quo wan bonded.
11watin , 4tIon hove reeenti
erectekl a gallons at that Have all.l ph, -
at hanging. Them were pr0b1.1,13
only sauciptiliwt their lame Cate.
--Tile trial Ili It \ I \
ipr the 11f 1,,0N, whit hC
dncrd forme- • wire; is pritgrehieing.
The interest ;YrOWN duper (lay Lv (rat.
—Tile Radical' have a precedent
lien. Pt the commander or the
t=p l itiitth forces in Cohn, who n+ maid to
he tt trill blooded •tt Dominigo nigger.
—Dltiriii Ai Wol.l, It
, ;ertnati, blew hva oil with a hors..
pt oni . w a .: probably [lli pre-.01
,%ith the I.IVIL that , it WOlll4l 1,016 n g,,0/1
—"Au earthquake troubled Calllor
-1)/11 recvntl). - And Pornething wor=e
than an eartlyituOte troubled the Had'
e al4 r`onneelieut the other dad•. ft
wne DernorrAtie
In W)ouinig Territiiry, where wt./-
Dien vote nod bold office, M rm. , *t no
ist; NEIL hay been elected .11141;e of
the Court of Oyer and Terminer. Iler
honor, Judge CtaoLisa Nmi.!
—We are told that it iH the inten
tion of the Ecumenical Council to
adopt the dogma of Papal infallibility,
by acclamation, on Dieter Monday.
We havn't the least objection.
-- 1 rouple of Georgia darkep Ito -
m4pl, trnnperci 'with A steam boiler
t heother day Its, mediately tiller, they
.ink a journey by different routes,
through apace, into an adjourning town
-hip.
--Huntingdon County lint+ increased
leer enmity anpurintendent • n malary/if
Mends. Ile Tiow per yeiir
Tins additional hall dollar will la. a
'heats burden upon die tityptili•r4 ttf
that coitioN
—A chap in Allentown made a het
that he could drink l our quarts of
7 1flittdcy at one sitting Ile did it, and
won the bet, but gent to hell the drunk
em man that ever stagyered into the
infernal" regtons.
--Attorney General II R, is hut to
resign, as ban been reported, 1044
made arrangements to stay in tVlisli
Ington for polite time. The attorney
general thinks lie has as much right
at the Oapttal as any other prostitute.
—An editor in North Carolina nam
ed Suorweid. attempted to cane a man
named 1.4181. LUSK, however, got the
better of him and shot him through
both thighs. The editor has ever since
been considering whether he is SHOT'
NHL'. or well shot.
--Busies t having about completeti
the °battle business, has now taken up
the nettle business by reporting a row
iution for the better treatment of cattle
duriag transportation on railroads.
Here, at last, is something from Hun•
ass that we won't complain of.
--Gam. Axes, the man who secnrtd
his election to the United States Senate
by bolding bayonets at the throats of
the bogus Legislature of Miesiesippi, is
a&.l le be engaged to Mine BLANCHE
Burbita, daughter of him of spoon tlO.
toriety. It is altogether proper that
these two rascals should be relatives,
but we pity the young lady.
—To the complaints of great distress
among the discharged employees of the
NityY Y,ards, the secretary of the Navy
Miss that he has plenty of work for
their all, but that Congrra won't give
him the money. Congress tedihd find
Plenty off' money were,there 84 election
to bettareied br the Radicals, hoWsver.
This i another instance of Radical
1-fqr the Nor working men.
. - r 111 ,_ . 0 filet aetvidpmeet or the
411 4 4 ' 1 ,401a question is the clatorntins-
Kea ofilcialata So charge so much for
we 4 3' harrthil prodnee..,Por instance:
for • hcii,44,4000 :tor a t.irle4ol,
Tefiala t Cr aD. All .thie , on
the principle that the raising of chit.
ilren i4honarable employment and one
OL. 15.
of the tnost, exacting and troublesome.
Therefore it ought to be the best paid
work in the world. Wives have cer
tainly the same right to be paid as wet
•,
nurses.
Attother Veto.
Gov. GEARY has done another thing
for which be deserver; credit. Ile has
vetoed the great railroad swindle, and
thereby saved to the State, for the pre ;
nem, nine 11011 a, hall' millions of the
valuelalt bonds of the Pennsylvania
compani flat (tit liorivine
would have 110011 triiteied away in ex
chILTIge lor the isolilileqs papyr of the
1 ,,,,i,t0d indwap.,
whicd, it was the intention of the l)eg
wrkattre to benefit nt the expeuse d pf 160
people. Many of oin Dentoctatic ex
eltanges and many Eadiettl papers will
remmre ihe I;overnor severely for thn.,
veto, they 11,d,ling (hat it iv a direct
blow nt the proniterity and progren-of
State, portio(o of w bird, will now
remain undeveloited We hold, how
ever, that the Stale N not now in aeon
Illit101) to aid these linen ((frail way with
oat placing; an extra laird( n upon the
people, who aro itlreadv taxed more
than thee can heal. And when we
comider that the procissls of the
Hale of the noon line of the Public
NVoilis were by law exclunively net
apart to go into the Sinking Fund to
Ile uppbeil toward the parment of the
public 1101 , 1, and for WI other pnrpone,
we are at a lon, to 00H,VIVP how tics
tto cont.' constitutionally Oct other
wine than he has done. lite great
blow (hat Come of our exchanges in
dulge in about the development of cer.
Min rectums of die St a l e , an d t h e great
loss which thin veto of Governor Gaisv,
imponen upon the people Of those sec
tions, in 1111 non-enne, and amounts to
nothing more Iheu a little "Inlaulutin"
to cover their retreat from a position
which they annumed hastily and have
found untenable.
The hoorah; of the Pennsylvania rats
road eompany for $ll,l/00(N)(1, gime!, to
the State in payment 14.1. the tratader
of like pnblie aorlis to that corpora
tom, were secured Li a mortgage upon
their toad, whirl, el MOIII 1111111 V 1,11,,•••
that amount, nod the 101 l pit,c-eol hi
th e f,4•4:1-41ature awl ietow4l ht the t;44,
erll , li, pr.,p4,1.114 , eet-ontle ,
out 01 the Vona and apl.lt
them to the budding of 0./ 1 7tata rail
roads not et begun. taking in ex
change therefor tlw hoods of i114,4e
rallwayo, which would uitnitly be t h e
exchange of first ins. 'teem-mem for t he
ptperul, l l. l4 et, utiorgachted and eu
Ittrely irresponsible coric.rottiona„ Stiell
it cut throat volley as this would soon
haahrupt the treasury and heap Ito
bearable burdens upon the ',coral.
the fact that three bonds of the
l'ennsyl4 /Ulla uoinpuily were set apart
by law to be applied toward the re
duction of ibeStHtt. debt Is FM thelelA of
itself to justify the veto. The Gov
error w this matter needs no defence.
His message is his vindication. In
many things we think the Governor
has done wrong, and we have not been
slow to censure him, an all the world
knows. but he did right in vetoing the
Metropolitan Police MI, and lie ban
done right again in refusing to attach
his signature to this railroad scheme.
We publish the message in another
place. It. is an able document, sed
shows that the Governer has taken
wise counsel.
—lt is curious 'that the virtues a
man possesses are never found out un
til after he is dead. This has been
the case with Oen. TIIOIIIA6. Now that,
he is gone, he is pronounced the great
est, of 'icing (lectern's. Nit this opin
ion didn't seem to prevail when GasNT
was put at the head of the army, or
when SHERMAN and SUERMAN were
placed over Min. We have no doubt
lie was a greater general than either a
them or than all of them put together,
liirthat matter, but why wasn't leis
talents recognized to the extent they
ought to have been? That's the ques
tion.
—Before the Legislature adjo,urn.
ed, it !nwed resolutions complimens
tary to our Minister to Russia, Hon.
Amnisw 0. Ctutrus, our fellow towns
man. We suppose the revolutions ettle
all right etionsil, And we know that
CUAT,IN wiji take then! just 1(4 whit(
they are vitelrtht, , The ea-governor.ln
been to* long in !while tire not to know
the hollowness of all such things.
f i./~
BELLEFONTE, PA., FRIDAY, APRIL 15, 1870.
'rile Bellefonte Wafehmrsit enlin it,pro) the
Democratic editors Of Pentirlylvanin to meet
In convention at Porno designated place, out.
nide the large tiller, and there counnel to
gethernstnthe future policy of the Dern,
emetic party. 'Nile Is it grew' enggestlon nod
If carried out will result In laming benefits to
the party. There In net the elightent &mid
bilk that the present aspect of polltieni affairs
ju.hry such a eon , rention an proponed by the
WareAntnn. The oxlgettelen of the nltilatioo,
la our opinion, demand It Toth,' Detniieralle
ptyes holenge the oneretin duty of defending
anti advancing the principles adopted by the
leirtY BV the prow. popothir tool anent is gar
erneil and controlled, and It in 11 1 11 1 40/1/01/1 1 anti
lair tn,t, In Ike mnv phew.. tweet...ft by loilt
mi titan .4. It tel ti:11 - 11,111..11.11 allot iu
L/ 1 1. 1114 11/0 , 11 t h e • 1 0111,1•1111 , 111, 11111/
Nl.llllll 1/ 1 / 1 ///k /4/1111/101 grt lolrodol
lu
.!(Ilin 1.0.4 1111101/II 11k1,1,11 Ok1j• ,11•
" -1 1/:{41• 11 1 111/1/ It I”. (nil t.ll
(Lay Rho set end% I.llu 111,111..11 ' , - 3b11 , ) ,
I honk ilia,
Tile Tlllll.l, CVltil It I,n iI pll.lO 111;11
1 . 1 , 111111101 , 1111 , 1 P, 14 et... r..A.IN
•1•Ive the ititeref.. ( ..l 113.1.1. ( • }1 . 1111.,
I , l'll .114 . 111111', , , Ll' I." . 1' 110'
irr irl Hlll . ll nn 1111111011atIL
the ammetillJhog together ol the 1)(1,4,
crane editorial rrat el TO iv .1 Penn-tl.
grand 4.01110‘.:111,,v, 111 v 4,11,1111
upon the ratite 4,1 the pail and the
country to vte(e of the " ratification" of
the Fifteenth Aittentlownt It en am
:1 reason for holding the ron‘vot ion at
Nl:melt Chunk, the I.4lpertor tailroa,l
tallitteSl and hotel accomino4latioll, tit
that phtee, %%hie)), great it the\ arty
he tool no , lonlot. are,ne thele-- :ire 101 l
a paltry inthieenient, t0,v.tr.14e1t,,,,_ , the
con,eution ui that %N. 1141, 'bug);
ot cotton,' or in that ettrion- , , ~e attete, l
to‘t
I I the , jI,R . !-1i ,, /) of eon•
0101011 rime, (101411 to one Or IONdlt),
e think cur owl) WWI of Itellclontcin
entitled to the liret rorodideratiord. We
have the very hest of hotel :m(4)111'110-
dIatIOTIN, awl our railroarl 14etlitiod are
all that can be (loured ; More than
thin, we are the geographical centre or
the State, convenient to all points, and
baye two large halted eminently adapt
ed to Ilde'idoldling of just Stich gather
'NA. We tiggeat, theretore, that the
convention meet al Belli . fonte, not on
the 19th of May, but dm Woloooltql
the Itith, an that will give the conven
term time enough to do its imminent; die
Isherntely and get home ire good sea
cell for Solidity
IL in really, however, of leos cffiNe
,ittence fr/tcry 11011 be held
1111111 dint it he held, and that rp r flit
ulwerlllr Let mine it wll be i-eleeted
ttr enough :nvuy trtan Mir large C./111
1111.1( . 1111 !Mil politn•al eentren, to le/1N e
Ile et/IiVNIONtiI. It4titillnetaani by tI;S
I,an .ta.+µl eorru Inn Inn , that al
Wat s throttg. niielt I,lttee. We wnnl It
t 4/ he tree, earnest, think/nu/ , it, that
not:wilting 'nay he e rt . ly til/t
onli the poll hut thy rimy be
the better for its having tis-embled.
NVliether that convention Ida,e the
part t tin Hfivkling ur a lIPQfe ffiamin; rn
Other words, whether we decide to rf
sr rt or stamti/ to theenfuret•ment of the
rifteentli Amendment and till the
other iinconsututional legislation 01
the present congress, int olt mg the
overthrow of the people'A rights, it is
incumbent on us to act deliberately and
wisely Ifente, the furtlier,,,the con
vention is held from our great cities,
the greater will be its integrity and the
more confidence will the people feel in
its wisdom.
We should like to heer our brethern
of the preen speak out generally upon
this subject. Let ue know their views.
There ie no doubt but that other and
valuable suggestions may be offered.
Let us hear from yon, gentlemen:
Tana thutecnuer„,--Wo hare on the Itat of our
l'enneyirtuata ismiltanttea, one whitth hie for
Nome time attreeuel ur by Ito derided Rupert.
on V as a mound, trnthful and determined ad.
roeste of democrat/a prinoipter. Thar Davao•
erotic Watchman of Bellefonte. la the paper to
which we refer, and we It ire It no more than
Ito doe need of prelim when one any that the
editorial ability which ctiareeteriseo It, ran
dere the WellthMaN fierttnd to no paper pub•
Hotbed in the intereata M ftemooraey any
wlu•re. tiro. W, we like your etyle, we like
your anterrified dt•muarnry and offer our
bond Shako I—Calpprtee Prars hr , " -
trot.
Much obliged to you Mr. /)e nun•rnl.
We elnim no particular superiority
user our fellows, but, at the same time,
we light the battles of the Democracy
and of the people with iingloced
bands and naked giorti, an ninny of
them do not do. 'lice treat fault of
unfitly of Our.brother editors, tie strong
in the faith as we are, is that they
mince matters too ninth, picking their
way along as though afraid of wound
ing the feelings of the party that has
trampled upon eeerv,niglthi , of the pea
pls. We byre no patience with such
per.mis. The dr..11 1 . 1111 ortly l,e nmght
with fire, Cal Rivimitlima into.' he pierc
ed with in., own weapons. W e trust
tide is the idea that ',recalls at Chip•
pewa Falls. •
"STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION."
Let ue Have it
Infamous Fame
The naive of Eat is one that seems
doomed to an immortality of infamy.
During the Revolutionary war, at the
the stortnin„ t t of Fort Urismolt!, Col.
LEMY AHD sorrendered his sword to the
leader,of the British storming party,'
whose name was Erns, and wry itn
, iiiediately run through the body by
Mlou officer. The cruelties committed
lie the English in Jamaica, in 1865,
en; dime a L lhe tmaigation and with
Ow 11 11 0,o:11i - it Cio . F 1 dand - 1111 W
and tltc Otteida
tutu rapt I:\ HE an head
nano-ter. Vetl ii6rlt, the-e 1.;) rtta me
ali at (((Ti I , ollilv, (he hlniul(hir.ty m.
46 1 . t I,i l ..ittu%ry \Ve
It . 1 , 1 111:11
visaed upon the first two hyenas for
their 0%11 i1e0.1 4 , bill we h a v e wane
11, , 1ie that tht-i hu t use will yet be
made to pay the price of the infitioy
lie has earned. I ingrcnn has rinsed a
(ft %16V°11,N1111111, film wv trust
th , ho iinwtit toll lw nn
' , lensed for justice that she will at hist
isa upon her ittmorth) Fein the 1,1111•
i.11111(.111 awl n,n.ra that he diwt.%
Arai while Oft till. ftllltit'ef. it I:4 pro
p,r 1 0 •ta) 111:11 bntehets it
iie poor Y. gnu Indians Sill
god 131krIt-11111V rank with
the la RP'S ni file Faille het of vol.!
lilwided murderers. A eallip of pier,
iilll..tarved, sick Indian men, women
and children, shot down and ,11.ern•
howeleil by command of SIIERIDAN and
under the lead 01 P,o,Eit, is
that the whale world shudders tit, ' and
one that calls for vengeance upon these
two wretches. Where or tin what are
they hetterrthan the Et acs? Will not
Congress take some notice of this last
ontrnp,e agniii.t and, by
bringing its authors to justice, set all
example to the British Government
that will cause her to blush for the
monster she lies chexislied, and deter
mine her to Finnish him for his reek
less cruelty ? At least, let the faces
of the people he set against these two
men like flint. until they justify their
hornhlcand revolting arts, lint how
0:1 • 11 . 1/111.111111/111411111/111ee
. 111,111 - 111?
Nay, let Simtiors and liAkEtt viand
alnnge.ith the Etaes, guilty. blood
-tamed criminal+in the s ight „r 4;0,1,
monster., to he arta rear
141, in file et et+ of Ihie,r fehLity Melt
Hit Him Again !
It ii a little curmie+ to note the ma•
lure lath which the late Legislature is
nom. attacked If% the Itadfcal organs.
U., long as It was in •-ession they de
fended it again.t evtry charge wade
Is thelllth
, I1g11:1(1011, our insinuations, that it 11118
rorrupt and hod% . But
now they can scarcely find Yitupern
tiVeY Strong enough to express their ab
r);rrence and contempt: trod we look
wain for a single redeeming feature
tie recorded in their columns.
As long as these journals had favors
• to ask, they could not admit the possi
bility that their Senators and Repro ,
Alta' tires might not he all they should
be, but as soon as there was no longer
any necessity for a smiling face, they
put on the scrawl of indignant virtue,
and pretend to be shocked at the ac
tions of their owe pets. On this sub
ject, the Philadelphia Day, a Radical
newspaper concludes an article, as fol
lows: •
However, the Pefilleyl•4lll/11 Legislature Ad-
JOOMInd en thank Inst., and the revolution In
Republican sentiment was somewhat marvel
ous. Prom every quarter Its organs came to
us breathing righteous indignation 'at the ail
lainleS, corruptbuis, outrages, a nd crimes of
that deftinet. ntorfuis, and no forth, was
forgotten And such a ghastly bill of particu
lars. relating to corrupt bargains and sales, is
seldom submitted The members having re
tired to the sanctuary of private life, are Stig
matized as thieves, plotters against the dig
nity of the Commonwealth. perjurers. fools,
knaves, asses. They are charged with pass
ing bills wltieh they never lead, of subatitu
ting obnoxious hills fur 1411 s Inwood, between
the House and Renate and the Executive
chanilwr,ofputting a pricy upon legislative
anoi , efdebuttehery unmentionable. And
dory Iteptilillenti Joitreal, not excepting the
Ilio-riftburg Telegraph, loins In the refrain—
" The Legislature tree mifOOr(11141, and the peo•
pie breathe easterl-
Plow let ua go to the bottom of this sudden
servo"a of virtuous indignation. We titian ad.
mit that the Leghtiaturo just disbanded was
had enough ; yet, that It was worse then its
modern predecessor?, does sot appear. wait
enrrypt, no doubt. It was unmistakably reek.
lens. Itwee guilty of many pine of oulleBloll
and oetnmllleion, and of which roost we WM.
not pay. The point we make fa, that it wan
fuel such a Legislature as the Tweet of tha State
cln-trd. It weft Vie erratum of the Republican
veep. The rondo/dm-a of that prep. knew
a hat the, were *hoot. They knew that many
or th , . 4..moi k to , were 11l wood men nor lion•
ao, nor alße. They knew that the itominatinna
were !mole titration evitilipt bargaining
aster eases. as, liareo , Pil lying n others.
They did ant. Conn ally. Ido- ho people In
put forward their liter men. 'Mr R e po
Ilreea diddloretely flormybed itn onrelishle was,
jority; awl 11. ennilnetora are eslopped fi um
complaint of the aria Of that majority, in at.
tacking It niter adjournment they roildished
their own shame, and emphavlse their infidel
ity to the common interest. defend a cor
rupt agent while y ou arousing him, anti curet'
him for a knave when you can use him no
longer, allay be 'lnman nature, but not de
cent,
(For the WATCHMAN
OH! LADY, WEEP NOT. 4'
( Indy, weep not, If eaelttear
Cottbltrirth a It ingdom In the sew,
No grouter Could thy Ole( opponr,
I tr Ito morn. 11111101 k with woo 10 to.
And nal more fanninaa the might
of oarlliquakaloy.adt mg land and men
And aealti•rwg nattona In affright,
Titania Illy heaving I,, rn.t d. m..
‘,ll lady, venHo , the mighty wne
1111 111 Me tvar dr41,,1 f r TI
1 , 1knn1,11,1 nln 1., Inw
In nll 111eIr nlortny
Hen. Jacob G. Meyer
Notnirtliqatiilinv all the Jibtise that
the liadical organs in the county have
heaped iip:ht Ifon. eltyin ti. 111 KIER,
the 'net remains that he has _made an
kOtleSt tel ltillifui representative, and
stand.; ItigJi in the eetiniaticat of hiq
leLloir nieniliere aril in the legislative
world at liarr' , lairg. Mr. 'M'EvEa did
all that yin, other nelv'hiember unthl
have dime for the ;paid iil his eonetii•
hews, awl %.e 101 l that lie ltaii earned
I lie re-pveL , llll t , teent of hi.,
ritlieu' The Ilarrimharg tit
its 1.-,t1(.1.1 the 1.1111 Instant, hi ts I ,, pealo ,
°four Representative -
We have obaer‘ed that the republican news.
pa pe: Mth...tre comity lime been much me
rino,' ait h the erwrae of 0.155 gentle In
the legislature They hope by misrepresen
tations .5f Mr Net sln to,creme false tin
preysinn concerning him among his demo
crane nisiglibore, that a radienl candidate may
slip into his sent. This ham aueccetied before,
and It is considers.) worth trying again, but
ste have no donbt that the attempt to itecehe
the good Mom/crate of Centre county will sig
nally fail in the fa., of the unimpeachable re
enni in the legislature which. Mr Meyer pre-
Aeon.. Thome who watched hn. career In the
I I.snae will do him the mance to any that no
member has been inote watchful of the Inter
eats of lila coeintituerrta, or more attentive to
Ida public duties Ina votes chewed him al
'nays ,in Imo nide of- economy In public ea.
penditures It woe a little bill of Mr. Meyer
in sheet. lua Kverlieney, the Governor, fan
cied be ducat erect auelt n huge Kr:unman •
error an to require the application of the veto
13,1 Mr Meyer in a few clear remarks Cur,
•inced the Maine that Ida bill was all right, In
snits of governor Geary. rule. of grammar,
arid It wav payed isirrllfi by ram if if •nlagy mars
that, the required two-thirds majority.
—Pitt , hurg. n+ rejoicing in tile ad
vent of a new paper called the l'hri.t
lcmt 1:,,l, wl We are inclit A rd to I.t.
!levy that the ,innLy eity hats more
chri,tian Itadicalt4 than ritdies,
- -We are in receipt 01 n handsome
eight-page titolahly raper from ISoston,
called l'he !Jul,. It 14 a journal de
voted to the carriage and ear strop, and
published at the low price of fifty
ecutrn year. t larrtitgv and car athlete
will no•doubt find it a valuable auxilta
ry Iddres "Editor ol the Huth, River
side l'rrss, Canihr*Hige, N[assachusetts
-*Pit NICE iiOL Lt., Minister to Spain
under one of our I)ennoeratie Presideirts,
and a hot- bi(xxled, chival rous eon of the
South, died in New Orleans, on the 2.it
instant. Mr. SotLC was formerly in
the Senate of the United States, and
wee an able thoutzli somewhat impul
sive man. During the war he was one
of lies Buri.r.it's victims, and to please
that tyrant's mood wee, for some time,
shut up in Fort Lafayette. The late
ex-minister and senator is described as
being a very Ildst-looking, handsome
Waif, and died generally hut/anted.
Thus, one by one, are the great so.
tsars in our mutt history, leaving the
stage. Great is the errors of some or
them have been, their virtues have
preponderated, sad we have but little
hope that those who have, succeeded
them are Worthy successors.
—The Southern Home, edited by
Gen. D. 11. 1.111.1., at Charlotte, North
Carolina, thus speaks or Gen. Groton"
11, TIIOII.III, whose death we recorded
last week :
tlas• Gismos 11. TROVAN.— We notice the sud
den death at Ban Francisco, on tile loth nits, of
nolneral Thornam. For two year,' we wore
niesamatea, and there wan no one living for
whom we had eastpilot friendship and a high.
er mout to. In those good old days, Lieut.
Thomas wen an ardent Southerner. proud of
his State and proud of the South, wilt !Sadie
soloed 'trendy& for every thing (rpm &aroma
the border. lie was one of the very first to
come home to offer his sword to Vlegkila. For
reasons that need n$ Willies , he istaitaired has
views and became the te moot detertalskiid
foe of his own
_people. e struolti m i l dm era
blow at vreet n oared the rake*
at Chickamauga, hood roqtaci at IVasb
rifle. It Is hardly too much to say that the
sletth of the Onafeciorityleastitito to the Sine.
pule V,)rs (ratan. Wit env/ klutipaal feel•
nuts
4 V; e n s! ,
i ltet w ,: j a e lr n 1
4 .1: 4 1=11 . 1
more than any one MAO ete -- "llid.tal Nola
111.1111 ruin Nt,lh It AU I. dvaion. bU
To hied 111 oleo or I iffit “ohnigri- *mon 1 41 'n'i
;it sot no mitell despised. Thee ebne an ll dele
witherr which he rejected all efts b ribes,
m ores that he never entirely lost his early
(raining and association.
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Journalistic
Spewl• from the Keystone.
—arra. qatry While featteakar of the Sati
ate ad interim.
—rolateea are a ellow mita in duntingdon at
40 and 45 cents per bushel.
—The searlet fever fa prevailing to alarming
°Jaen t .I.ohithrrlleKt and vicinity. ,
—Son ing machinds are exempt by law from
levy amd role, on execution or distress for
rent.
-4 lire at IPrenklin on the 13th Leteitot ile
ntroyed the Exclinago Hotel, Involving a Joint
of 8150,000, ,
—A man maned Norman was knocked down
on Slate ',trent, In Ilarrlatntrg and robbed of
gr.,7no In drafts. ,
—A little brother and gator lit loswisimrik ,
have laid by nearly WO by saving their pen
nlo+ and email change.
—Wee Anna /1, Dickinson lectured In MAIL
deynteirg on the evening of the 11th instant,
end In Lencaqter on the nth.
—Henry Koonts,'of Bed ford townablP, Bed
ford county, caught nearly flea Inibdrad wild
plgon“ in 0 oet a few clays ago.
A fire °comet! In Huntingdon on Tuesday
night last which name near destroying the Ex:
change Hotel. The loss is about gi,boo.
—John (type., Preoldent of the First Nation
111 Bonk of Lancaster, died to that city on Sun
tiny nvetting la qt to the Kid year of hie age.
—The female Anti-Slavery Soelei) , of Pliflii
deriiai formally "disbanded" od Tuesday folth
nut; outer baying existed for thirty-seven ycarA.
—lt lit repotted that the tiarkey Senator RA%
SI the.Firteenth Amondmpnt n ou
th. Of their Jubilee at Ilellidaynburg,
I M I ~,m er, Egg , formerly, of the Valtp,
Nprra, lia. guise 11l the ',cootie ett of getting out
!trap \•Thing mold he !note •ppropre
iitt• .il,totop,r
--Altoona has lwen Indulging in ik shooting
atlair bet a ,•ru a man nattild l Isar and one
n nowt! I hatoplanur, 1110 lattet doing all this
sho , ktiait baser.•r NO PeriOUß injury dotle.•
narris, <d /4rlstol, hod a brother 111
bout , • or liettystatry,lo well reported kill.
.1 Al, w weeks ilgo he woo very much SUr
-1,11.e.1 by hi,. brother walking In alive and
a ell
—Mr 11nrry Slep has been elected as n dole
auto to the International Typagraplcal Union.
%do. b i. to atewctible nt Cincinnati on Monday,
•Ditowith Mr Slop will represent the ilarrla•
burg Typographical Union, No. 14.
--It 1 , 4 void that a poor lintifte dinner for (Ito
If An.y• re in Germantown eosin about thirty
x .
dullain nod they takea doyen a year. '
hundred and rioly dollars would aid a t
ninny petitio to live through a winter w t
I 1111011 41illering
- foolioti girl in Cheater recently died
fro,,, 1110 °fleet of tight lacing. To PU•11• fear
ful patent had she sydeezed herself that her
ribs were found lapped over one another, and
Itreit,t !onto Wit, pressed ()Vet one lung NO
that rho hail entirely loot tlm time." The beat
kind of it ing (or a young ladv , li waist In a
•• —The Bedford Onsettr record, the funny him
dent of a gentleman and two ladle,. out &Mug
In a !piing wagon, when the nest on which the
ladles w 9 re milting gave way, tumbling the
fair ereuiuren Into the mad The gentleman
did not mine them, immediately, till, on look
ing Mick, he found them dilating themeelvee
So damage done
—The Lancaster Rrprets states that "Geo.
(*.lemon, n convict In Our entinty Prison, Who
died n short throe since, made a confession to
ft fellow prisoner prerlons to his dosth, in
which Ire rts.erted that he onmullttnit and
t o eorn in it, during his life, fire murders and
numerous rohherte.. and that he was only
t went time VPAN of NO and had been in Jail
irty-seaen tines
—Thteveft are going through the atorea of
Hotel:nion A young RUM named Robert
Deeker. of that town near the glut home, the
other night, wired hi, puree by knocking e
.eonn.lrel down who attempted to rob him
freeker then made traria, font an prrealble A
neoundrel In the name plane follow/41 a little
front the country. axed thirteen, it is sap.
pawed for the purpose of outraging her. Ha
u.o. foiled in huh purposes.
- A yming man named Jacob liarniah, about
i 7 Yen, of age, reshiing near al hiway, on the
Laneaeier and Straebrirg turnpike, on Bator.
de) Ism deliberately eitt of his right foot with
hatchet, •trll:ing ihreeblowa. Re then pink •
~.1 up the ail...vied member and threw It
away V. hen caked by his brother why he
did ao, he replied that he did it in compliance
with Abe vdionouti of the Savior who had said,
'lf thy hotel or thy foot offend thee," an. Th•
two, woo • menerstanlation the eubjeet or tell
glen. le bled to death, •nd w•e burled ,00
n .• a. 7.
-Puns in Susuorre.•se OA/LIQIIII." A work
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the N, irtueto, Vices, Splendors end Crimes of
~ the City of Paris —ily James Pt McCabe, Jr.
This is the title of the moat complete
And attractive hook or the day, issued
by the "National Publishing Compa
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and fifty fine engravings, by the bind
F,reneli artiste, and from the pen of I.
writer who knows Paris well. It is sib=
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amount of instruction, it abounds in
brilliant and thrilling descriptions of
the darker sides of Parisian life. The
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and is introduced to thd houses at the
sad children of poverty; the most *toted
forettes and Queen, of the Demimonde
are portrayed with perfect truthfulness;
the terrible inroads which vice of all
kinds has make in French soeietzi; is
shown with a startling vigor. . The
honk is, indeed, Paris' photographed,
anti is as attractivennd spicy to the
reader as the city itself to the Ameri•
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our countivthen conduct themselves
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