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The .Democratic Watchman Another Triumph. ,
.... — The Democrats haveatgain carried
BY P. GRAY MEEK. • New'Yorle. In the election there, •on 1
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JOE ar. EtittET,miL 1 ,
yi.vit EDITOR. Democracy was gallantly borne aloti
• .. by the white men of the city and State,
Terma,.s2 per• Annum, in Advance.
achieving a most glorious victory.
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Fifty thousand will le about the ma-
BTLLEFONTE, PA: •
joritv when' the returns'are all in, which
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Friday Morning, May 20, IVO. is a stern and ominous rebuke to the
— jitirt'that-would degrade-the franchise g uess,
—The darker Senatdr REVELS, MI. and dishonor the white Mall by asso-• •
der the Radical dispensation, is 'Oigi :, elating him socially and politically ,
bte to the Presidency, while Senators with the negro.
CASSERLr of California and Scnunz, of From this splendid result in favor of
Miiiimuri; being of foivign birth,' are the Democracy; let the Radicals take
not. Shall we have another aniend ; warning. It tells them that the white '.
ment? ' ' . ; , . people of
,the country intend to lii rtt
‘e
' -4, serve their birth•right•L--that they do iu g
—lt is.now pretty generally under- not intend to Mongrelize this people Co'
stood that- the Democratieeditorinl or 'this GOvernment. As 11:1.4 •spoken * di "
convention is td come off int.i.s I i place the Empire State, so, Mier awhile, will of us I
on the 14th of Jinie. • Many of our ex- speak the *Mile country. • The.feeling 1111 t • lies
changes have'signified their ass.ont' to in all the Stain is the same. Even look to u
that proposition. Mill next week we -away up in New England. the intlig: sanctity i'
dlialbissue a regular call for that con- mint protests Of the . people' are heard In", wet,
;vention, signed by a number of the against the shameful. et:milt:et of the I rile old .9 , ini •
ivost prominent Democratic editois in Radical pUrty, and Cont*lclicut li R T La tli 0. menni,
thg.State. , -' . • - . , pitt hernelf rii-lit on the , i/econl by tri.. day he ever
• umphantly and gloriously electing' the m itt him. -
—The New York ~stantlard. JOHN noble E.Nuusit. The \Vest and Sollill
. puritan
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,RUSSELL Yot - No's paper, nominate : are tinily growing more and more to- i '''' i ''
Hon: GALL'SiIA A.- Gnow fin the ''Haiti-' gether in the great resolve'toCrnsh the ind•
cal candidate' for next Governor of h y d ra of Raaierd i siii, while the people F
Penmisylvania. . GROW is a tolerable of the Middle States are Willa- , over
decent man for a Radical, Oil has ! with wrath at the degradation that has
more brains than the majority of them, come upon the country.- The signs
but then he has grown entirely out of of the flutes indicate a grand Di:lll6am
their remembrance. his stock in trade is Jubilee in- IS7". and the bright 'days
*as the nigger question, and, since that are yet to One will be Made still
that, has been diVdsed of," Gm.csnAls brighter by the contrast with the llok
capital has been vastly reduced. ' till 'shadows of the Inuit ten years. OM
—Since the close of the McFAR• earnestly in behalf of our country and
LAND trial, the ‘roman in dispute haste our principles, and the clad daY'• that
published in the Tribune—that escape shall release us from our thraldom will
hole for all the filth in the country—a ' came at last, and "give to the people
defence of her conduct, and saps some another and we trust a continuous leaie
rough things about her first husband.
lof liberty and good Government. - •
We trust this thing will soon be over.
Democrats! •be firm in the right
The country has been surfeited with it,
eau. i . e , a n d w e will yet leave to our chib
and tlk dish begins to be, tap:tele:3s on • dren, as Our filthers left to us, the best
the public palate. Mrs. McFARL.O:n institutions
th,sun
shiues
upon
alias RtcuAnnsoNowill hardly be able
io make the people believe that she
was right in engaziiiy. herself to the lat
ter before she was divorced, and while
vet under her husband's • roof. They
judge differently trotn Mrs. -C.-U.1101:N
HORACE GREELEY, SCIICYLER. Cut.r.VX
and those, other old Indies
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—That able and faithful Demo-.
cratic reptpentative iii Concrete. Hon.
RICHARD J. liatmotax, ha:' taken to
himself a .wife in the person of 3.lisg'
3Lt6GIE CAIMION, daughter of the
great "Winnebago." While we don't
like old Soto N politic4ilY. we, f
course, are bound to admire thedaugh ! .
ter, and especially are we sci4ound
now that she has had the eo ritt..«ense
to become the wife of it Democratic
husband. The wedding came oil' tit
the residence of Senator Camtitos on
the evening of the ]_'tit instant, and
*Was a very brilliant attain Among
the . groomsmen, we notice, was,"Cam"
Burnside, son of J udge ,lames I".n rn •
side, of this place, and grandson of
Senator CAMER.ON.
--It Seems that dons Dr:xi., the
murderer who was executed at Reading
the other day, did not go oil' iq a blaze
of glory as most of the peoplekdo who
commit murder, but expressed‘ some
decided apprehensions as to ltis latter
end. He didn't :seem to be at all ciLr
thin that he tvas destined for the hap.
PY la t ud. Wherein We believe JOIIS
'n
-as ihoul'half right. What's the use
of haying a hell, if the surest way to
heaven is by the short cut througlca
man's windpipe? . don't believe,
as a general thing, that murderers go
to Heaven any more than we believe
they ought to go there. We d o n't -in
sist, though, that they 7 shall all go to
hell, but we can't' coax our inrgiva
lion iato.anytbing like a pleasurable
state by picturing to ourself the beav
coly.ociety so wretchedly interlafded
with earthly cutthroats..
--.111 view of the fact that .Ga..ustr
.contemplates another round of pleas
ore attlie watering places this Sum
rater, and, in company with Stucor
Csuraos, intends coon to leave 11"ach•
ington to begin hisamMsenients,'fflial•
timore paper says that•ry-bill has been
prepared and will ceou tbe . introduced,
fixing the pernianent residenee of the
floyerninent officials it. Washing)on,
and debarring then' from leaving that.
city without , first 'having obtained.
leave. from Congress. The bill also
decrees that the deparmients shall be
ppen from. 9 A. M. to 3 P..M., daily,
so that people having,,,busitiess shall be
. received and heard, and that a coin;
plainCiidok'ialiiilt"lie' kept! fn which
every citizen maprecorli 1118'031111 rya II t
This bill, 'Mould it pass, will prove a
serious inconvenience lb our roving
President, though he might, perhaps,
find a way to evade its provisions,f as
easily as he has always'found a W• ay•
tto evade his'otilcial duties.
Iv let us have faith- - -ohly let us work
---We are glad to perceive. Wire
' cent (decisions, that the United States
Stipreme Court is eel true tOlts ancient
,prestige. Notwithstanding the bully
ing of the Rump Congress, the Judge's
have 'not yet become either frightened
;or corrupted, and render their decisions
fearlessly and impartially. We are
eratified to be able - to say this.
6ec a us e we' were s ! onteWh.fraid of
STRONG and BRADLEY. butklllte'irse ot
these gentlemen so far has, been that of
Judges, not pai:tians. How thankful
should we he that, amidst "the general
degeneracy of the times, and the con.
ruption ofthelegislatiyeandexccutiye
,lsi*tinelts o 1 'the Government. the
tvOpleyet have left to them the jtidi
cial department. fearless. free and un
corrupted long as this is left 'us
-as long our J udges are our protectors
—as the . ertnin9loats between
us atol„cmr despoilers, we cannot be
utieLly ruined. To the Supreme Court,
the'n.let us look for the mainteaance
of our rights and.liberties.
—Gen. Luc:AN, Cum tuander.in-
Chief 01 the Grand Artily of the
public? has issued his usual hjfauluin
about decorating the graves of the soh
(tiers on the 20th instant. It is 'is ery
pretty custom to decorate the graves
of the loved one's fallen in battle, but
we suppose, it
.could. and would be
done just as well , without the dictum. of
Jolts A. LOGA. When it is consider
ed that LonAs tried to raitiea regiment
for'the confederate serilce,.when the
war. first broke out, it is not hard to
understand hoW ridiculous it is . forrhim
nowio„be chief cook and bottle washer
in the ceremony of .decorating the
graves of the Federandead. John is a
tirt.t.clitss hypocrite, but a very rue.
cessful one, t •
—lt is - proposed to remove the re
; mainsof the late. Senator Douct.ts from
their', present burial place . into the
I grounds of ,the Chicago University,
f which were a gift from 11j. DOUGLAS
during his life. Some good reasons
are assigned for this, among which are
the facts that, the monument to his
memory has never been finished for
want of thuds--that the masonry
r \ eryy laid is suffering from the effects
: of the water It the Lake treezing:in its
cracks—that the • grounds' are sadly
neglected, and that they would sell for
fr0m'4.50,000 to $lOO,OOO, a sum guff
dent`to-finish the monument, aCcoril
ing to iheoriginal design or even more
elaborately. For tlifse and other rea—
sons, it is proposed•to remove the hon.
oral renintiyitilint)logrounds of the
rtinii:Creity which the liberalityand
I public spirit elite, great Senator pee
to Cbicago.
—A young lady name IDA tivru,
at Omaha; cotnthitted suicide by ehoot
ing- herself through the heart. with
pistol. She WWI to have been married
to a man named BREWER, whom she
exceedingly disliked, while at the same
time she was deeply in love with anoth-
er man. The determination of her •
arry Bafrtn, The San Francisco Pulletin prints
parents to make her m
the following letter, addressed by over
was the cause of the bloody tragedy. fifty DemOcratio members of the gali-
Here is a little romance in everyday
life that some accomplished novelist 'lonia Legislature to a County Clerk
who hail Refused to Iregister colored
might, weave into a thrilling story, the
. . voters under the F ifteenth Amend*
moral of which should.be, thht parents, ~,,,,,,. , •
in desperate eneeS like the. one above "SAQR. MENTO, April 6, 1870.
referred to, eliould mind their own bit- "\V. B. C. Brown, Clerk of County,
i* Court of Sacramento County':
"We have just learned that, in the
"Ye Scheme to Bagge Penne." exercise of yOur official (tut* ' you
• have proven faithful to the oath you
(Chile there were undoubtedly some took 'to respect, the Constitution of the
good melt among the earls' MassaChu. I State of Californin N wltich liMits suf..
to re
setts Puritans; there w fra gC
ere many great t°
ister the names pfyack men arefusings voters g
rascals-and the 'meanest kind of cant- ion the great register. • As/ the right to
ing hypocrites. :iniong, these was prescribe the qualifications of voters
Corrox 31-Arnert, of whom we have line been exercised by the States, each.
.often reed end in whose religion most in its so v ereign capacity,
.-since the
formation,of the government, iris clear
of tis have been taught to believe. But
tnat toe ower . is not one tha i t,' bas Vet
in these days things wear a.different . been `delegated,' and since this State
look to us . ..phi instead of believing in the I has refused; in the most emphatic man
sanctity and piety of Rev. COTTON ner, tonssent to thaFilteenth • (so.call,
ed) Amendment; it is eplally clear dial
ru ER, we ean now only behold him as a refusal to 'register as voters the
vile old sinner.whoSe avrtricionsnes. and •
il: C.j t t ilS - Of Week men is in , strict accord
other mennaesscounterbalaneetilhebest with. the : Constitntion of the United
kday he ever saw, nil the good that was I States, as all 'men Can satisfy; them
him. ite was a Mealt o• g, ' reSpin old selves by reading the tenth amendment
c' • •
thereto. For ' Your fidelity to your
puritanical old son a steers ßelief, as the' fol• steers ditty, amt for your manlines s
lowing " .. Schime to bagge Penne" will this time. marked by the degeneraCy
indisputably show. The editor of the of so great a . portion of American
eole we whos nes arc eunto
Easton Argus, in his last •issue, .pub
s p ubs p eribed , a
6 •ree e
toa sumpil
mrt ) h ciit re . with
lishes the following bit of history, which all '
the moral, and if need be,' all the
'throws some light upon the. dark side phy - sical force God has given us. -
of this reverend hypocrite's character. ("Signed] J. W. MAsor.vird.c, -
Ile says:
"Anti over fifty others."
The Constitution of Ohio also Ihnits
utrrtye to while men and must be the
"higher law" in this State until the
pop/c of the State see proper to. sh
it out. The judges of election in Ohio
take an oath to support the. constitu
tion of the State. These judges of our
state and local electiOns are not to be
governed • by the laws of the general
government in this. And we hope no
nail in tiihio, will act as such judge mi;
less his mind is made up to stand by
the constitution and laws of the State.
We like the ring from California.—
c a ,th m (O.) ihniocrla.
"Mr. Judkins. the librarian. of the
.Itissachnsetts Historical Society, in
overhauling a chest full of old letters
,le!osited in the Archives of that body
by the late Robert Greenleaf, of Mal
den has recently made a curious dis
covery which has especial interest for
the people of f'ennsylVanta. • Among
these papers was one of ancient date.
Which bore this endorsement “Ye
scheme to ba cge - Penne." This curb
ous'title attracted the attentionof Mr.
JudliinS: and he examined the contents
of the document with more than coin-
Anon interest. It is in the familiar
and quaint handwriting of the Rev.
.Cotton Mather,• and is• addressed to
-Ye aged and heloVed Mr. llH*itison."
It bears date. 'Septemberye 15th. MS'S
'rind read,: tints, the odd spelling of the
oricinal being followed to the letter:"
There bee witv at sen a shippe ((or our friend.
Mr. Esaias Holeraft of London did advise the
be the last packebthat it wolde sail come tithe
in 4,ncust, called ye Welcome R. Greenaway
m..ster,:iviavit has aboard an hundred or more
of ye ',relics and malign:tuts called (;Haters
with W. Penne who is ye Chief S'eatripe at ye
bedde of them. 'Ye-Court has accordlriggely
given secret orders to Minster Malachi Iluxett
.dye brig to Prriposse to•waylaye ye said Web
4,01f1e slylie as near the coast of Codde as may
be at - 141115g, captive ye said Penne and Lis
ukodlie crete se that ye Lord mey be glorified
rind not melted on ye s , dloCthi e new com mie
with ye liethen not-shrive of these people.
Inch spoyte ran be made by :telling ye whole
lotte in itret - ,a.toes where slaves fetch goo .le
prices in rummy and sugar and we shall not
only do ye Lord great service Ly punishing
ye wicked i.nt tee A3nll make crest Bayne fir
kris mini-terst and people. 'Master liuxett
end will set down the news he
-brings when his sitippe conies '
Yours in ye lo,veils Ch rist„
CibTTON MATHER.
The Arpis continues as follows :
'3faster Ifuxett missed his reckon
' ing, aid Penh sailed secure within the
Capes of the Delaware. But it is cud:
our to refltct on the narrow chance by
which the tounder of this Common
wealth escaped the fate of many,of his
teeligious brethren who were cast ashore
on the relent less coast of Nassaclutsetts.
It is strantze• to fancy the wise law
, giver, endearedvto the hearts Of a great
1 people and their posterity by his wis".
1 doni,,sagacity and benevolence, hoeing
sugar in Barbadoes under the lash Ora.
t Yankee overseer, or.crushing cane into
rum' to thaw the granite gizzards
which Mather and his theological
brethren carded about instead of hearts.
Ali l: now the ancient Cotton Must have
ilpurned tbr the marketable Quakers
aild d 1 retteshing " Ili mme" Which
came out. It is delightful to think how
, he never got a bit of the "spoyle -
I which his deOish'old soul held in de
-1 licious antidpation-hdriv brOther llig
ginson watched fondly fur his hogs
head, mid dreamed of swallowing . his
i half score of heretics in pious punches.
i They would have made "a runt,cretur"
I of the'Great Founder, in a literal sense,
I ifthey had got hint, but, thanks to the
gond steering of "R. Greenaway,
I master," "they didn't gel hint"
Late Publications
We have received King's Musical
Learcs „for May. It consists of abiteen
large pages devoted to Choice Litera
titre, Music, and Rcimance.. Among
the literary contents we nole "Mozart
imLoadon," "Love in the!fire," "loan
Absent Wife," "Heart's Own Music,"
etc. There are also four pieces of Mu•
sic: "The Angelas,."''"Little niggle
May," "Beautiful Nell," and "Blue
Bird Echo Polka." All they ask for
a subscription is one dollar a ... year:
The music during the year conld not
be bought for less than $2O. Publish•
ed by '1.2. B. King, PhiladelfliM. '
Goner's I..urr Not; for June has al
ready reached us. It is a bet - Imila'
number, and cloaca the 80th year of
ita -existence.-- The —embellishments
this Month are "Waiting nt the Fer
ry," a steel plate; n six•flgure colored
fashion plate; "The ITheipettledt Let
ter," "Catching Birds with
ka .It literary contents are superb,
and its whole 'g'et; us is such as only
Goiley 'call import ty a Magazine. Eve
ry lady should linselt twon her table.
-It is 'the woman's delight,' instructor
and companion; Price $3,00 per ar.-
ultra.
Califoi•niens Refusing to he Fifteenth
'Amended.
Railroad Slaughter.
Tered/le allision on the Union Pacific
Railroad—Sixteen Persons Killed Out
right and Twenty Irounded—Misun
derstandinfj of Orders Said to , " hai.c
been:l/Lc 4 1 ,
n% 16th/fut. •
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St. -a
Louis, May 12.—At six o'clock
this morning the night express on the,
-Union 'Pacitieltailrutal, which left Aide
.
icon, Kansas,, evenirw,
when.. near Eureka, twenty-eight
miles from here, with an extra freight
train going west, by which sixteen per
sons were killed outright and twenty
wounded, \ of Which latter number
two will die. Ico ,names are known at
present. The wounded are being brought
here and further particulars, will be ob
tained when they - afirive. The dead
will be brought ltere es soon as the cor
oner reaches the scene of the disaster
and holds an inquest. A special train
h;Tt here early this morning with physi
cians and all necessary appliances for
the relief of the wounded. For the care
of the dead another train will leave at
noun with the coroner, reporters and
another relief pithy. Both of Ole loco
motives were comuletelly wrecked, and
their trains badly smashed. The colli
sion mourn:A through the orders giV'en
td the conductors. Hudson E:. Budge,
the president, and Thomas M'Kissoek,
are on the spottNing-tlye'rything possi
ble to relieve tho supfers and clear the
track.
Cincinnati, May 12.—Mr Geo. Ligh
ten, attorney for the 'road, telegraphs
the following names from the seem! of
the - accident. The train is exliected
arrive in this city at three o'clock with
the killed and ‘Founded.:
Billed-you
doctor A. 0. Pixley, of St: Louis;
Prank Hall and daughter, of •Ashley,
Mercer county % Ohio Jacob Price,
Hickory county, Missouri ; A. 11. Steck
ney, Patokn, Maryland, and George
Washington (colored porter)..,, There
are thirteen others dead whose names are
not known. It will be difficult to get
the Mimes until the coroners investiga
thin is concluded: They ore, without.
exception, persons returning from Kan
sas, destined to points in'Ohio. Indiana
and Wounded—A. Starderan,
Pekin ; t l. MOlnfr, Sioux City ; C. A.
Marsh, Kansas; M. Hall, slightly, and,
a number of others. Though some of
the wounded are severely injurai;it
believed that all will recover. The peo
ple and
,physicians of the neighborhood
were on the ground promptly and labor
ed incessantly, All that human Tower
could do has been done to noduS them
comfortable. '
. A. Flenimin, chief engineer of the
Tube and Nesha railroad, reported
killed, hut this needs confirmation.
A misunderstanding of orders seenis
hat - been made by the engineer of the
freight train, and he has not been seen
since the accident,
' Another ' train, with coffins for the
dead and comforts for the wounded, lies
just started for the scene of the disnater:
Second Dispatch.
St. LOnis, May 12.—The swiftly m'Sv•
ing dashed against each other on
a curve in a cut and in a second all was
and death. Nineteen persOns
Oinv o trittintly killed and twenty wound
ed;l..several mortally. One man had
both his legs and both, of his amp s cut
off. ; • ,
Both engineers escaped.. When they
saw that? nothing could save the trains,
they Jumped from their enginos and es
caped with but few scratches. •
At the Lawrence , Kansas, election,
there were female Candidates for the
school hoard in four of the six *arils,
anti Some seienty•five ladies voted, but
there was not gallantry enough in town
to elect a single. one of them. Mrs.
General Lane made the best f race of
any, running against an —individual
named .Benes, and receivinijl7 gut of
368. ballOte. '
Rebellion In Dickinson College.
There jt is just as .we expected! We
always knew the "Fifteenth Amend•
tnent" would breed troubte, and pow/
here is Dickinson College shaken `from
turret to foundation stone," .atid all
about the parade of our "colored fel
low•citizens" on Tuesday last. Who
Will pretend to say, after this, that
Sambo is not a power in, the country?
The boys wanted to see the parade,and
to this 'reasonable request we presume
the faculty made no ,opposition. The
parade °tided shortly after two o'clock ;
but the minds of the young gentlemen
became so greatly excited over the abh
sorbing question of human rights and
political equality that the members of
the Junior and Sophomore' classes
memoralized the professors to whom
they were to recite at five o'clock, to
that effect, and repitsted to be reliev
ed Irma the atterhoon'sreeitation. This
request was not acceded to, and' there
fore these classes resolved .to Stay out
of the recitation rooms, . The abseil-.
.tees were marked accordingly, and a
Certain number of demerit marks
charged up against them. When this
became known, the classes held meet,
ings to express iheir pent.'4lp indigna
tion at the conduct of the faculty, and
resolved to take no part in College ex..
ercises until the wrong was righted.
The (why, therefore ' suspended some
of the mem b ers of each class, and noti
fied the others that unless they resum
ed. attendance upon College. duties by
'Mondag,' they would be suspended un•
lit the opening of next session; and if
after suspension, they did not leave
Carlisle for their homes within twenty.
four hours, •they would be. expelled.
The students declined to comply, and
many of them have left for ; their
homes. The num b e r dismissed
amounts to about. forty.—Carlisle
!infect.. .
A Prophesy Fulfilled
In April, .IS6I, the late Girard
lock, editor of the New York , Journal
of Commeleii - d, published an editoria - 1 in
that paper, in which he declared that
one thing Would be demonstrated
by a:war upon the Southern States viz
''That we have not, and in tiecEent qf
the subjugation qf the Southern Sluice,
are not likely to have such a, Govern
ment as the Constitution contemplates,
or such as our fathers Understood lobe
instituted, when the Union was form.
ed. •The GOvernaient then established
was it Government of equals, in
all - the States would perform willing
.parts: The one which our warlike
friends, represented (it . ,, ; seems) by the
Lincoln Administration would prove to
exist, is a Government of force, where
a majority of States, or or the yepre•
sentatives, as the case may, be shall
hold the minority in subjugation to
their
Fbr the expression :of such semi.
ments as this Mr. Eicillock was Toned
to retire from an editorial career ex•
tending over thirty-three yeai, and to
abandon his valuable newsy aper pro.
perty., Ho* true the above words are,
an'examination of the present political
condition of the country will tell.—
Louisville Sun.
THE HOUSE or REMtrsEsrxrivss.—
We find in an exchange, without cred
it a description of the House of Repre
sentatives, which now a-da . s;fireiembles
nothing so much as a boy's school du
ring in door recces. • The writer
, swarming and buzzing
among those hundred desks, so many
members- pn -promezde around the
room, such rising up and silting dOwn
without regard-tu time or presence,
such awkward positions, and utter get
me alone''ease; impresses one with the
stirtaing s of a body that can conduct
itselnystematically without:Jim ienst
regard to rules or ordinary decorum.
Li the morning one may see a line of
prostrate figures on 'the lounges within
the walls,. , members stretched at full
length, apparently dozing off a last
night's `jamboree; 'tiro o'r 'three on
parade, trotting up and ,down in the
very hall itself, stholting their segars
ms if the air in the ainpitheater were
not precious enough without; bold lob
byists venturing inside to capture un
fortunate Congressmen on the tariff
committees; members sorting .letters
and papers at their desks or clapping
tlkeir hands to Ammon a swift heeled
page from the Speaker's rostrum ; men
on theiF feet in half a dozen, places at
once the one who , has the right to
4peak only distiliguisited by his sono
rous tones, for not a wOrd'eanany spec
tator hear int this diseord—such is 'the
scene 111,01 1 0'011RO at any hour of any
week throughout the winter. It must
he interest of thrilling power which
can lay those eager waves a moment."
•
IMPORTANT POLITICAL MOVEMENT.-
The Ohio Siuteentan says :
The cleveland Plain Dealer of Se._
turday evening says: In ISGI, a large
number of Democrats Conceived it to
be their duty to , abandon the Demo.
cratic organization and join he Union
party then orgiinized for the avowed
purpose of "restoring the Union." A
majority of the number who left our
organization iii ISO, still remains os.
tensibly connected with the Union
party, but its aim and objects, and its
legislation are now. so directly antago
nistical to its name, that many of
the old "War Democrats" and consery
atives are anxious to 'abandon it, anti'
resume their connection with the Dem
ocratic party. • The old issue of the re
bellion—the question of negro suffrage
and .other matters—are now settled,
anti our 011de:a battles in the future
are to he waged on new issues, particu.
larlimpou the questiOns aline:ice and
tariff. Out ll:est:questions jhe dissect.
era of the union party agree with the .
Democracy, anti are willing, we 'under
stantl,•to act with tire regularDemo
'cratic organization, unless thee are,,
regularly repulsed. ,For the,purpose'
of taking into cot:si4cratintltllte mat-'
ter, we under:wind that a correapond- .
sneer luts beett!etttorstkinto,, it •in
view a conference between' some of the;'
War Democrats and the leading Dem-'
°orate of this stow,— • I
Free South Carolina—Soenes
Legislature.
A correspondent of the N. Y. Worid
writes the following in relation to mat.
tern in the South Carolina Legislature;
"The Legislature has adjourned at.
ter spending months in wasting tk e ,„
treasury, ratifying many unw4e and
oppressive acts, and tilling the pockets
()Nile trfetnbers at the , expense of the
unrepresented fa:Z.:payers of the State.
The scenes immediately preceding th e
adjournment were of the most disgrace.
ful character. The House presented a
picture 'of pandemonium, closing up
with a vote to the Speaker of a gill of
$5OO, in consideration, doubtless, of the -
free liquors and cigars furnished by
him to thO•inetnbers during the session,
The scene in the Senate defies &scrip.
Lion. The negro memhers,pronouneed
the, carpet baggers thieves,' 'escaped
felons,' etc., with the most offe»stre
prefixes, one of them charging Leslie
(the Senator from Barnwell) wath'keep.'
ing a house of ilbfame int/New York
city, and saying he had duly escaped
the penitentiary by : coming South.
Leslie retorted most savagely, telling: A
one Senator that the coat he was then
wearing had dqeoh stolen, and he (Lee- -
lie) could pro e, it. Pointing round to
the Senators he declared that they
were scoundrels who had ,sold their
votes time and again, - and been bribed
and bought by the highest bidder. Ifs
th'en gave Chapters from•their past his ,
tory, in . which.he.presented the honer:
able Senators, - flying from justice in
other States and fetching up at last in
Carolina. He •declared the Republican
party a stench in the nostrils of deceit.
cy',, and as a Republican himself, he •
said lie was ashatned,of it. As low as
they said Inch, he never thought'
he would reach the depths of nn arse.
ciation with such rascals and thieves
as made up this Legislature. The black
Senatore replied in the same strain,
swore that the carpet bag reigd was
ended, and that the State belonged to
the negroes, and that they would rut
in the Middle of such a scene then o.
tOrions Joe Crews exposed a large pile
of greenbacks on a table; Tim Hurley
and two negro Senators whispered to•
gether with Crews over this. idle Or—
money—then Tim. cireidatd amon,, ,, the
Member's, whispering to each, and he.
mediately the phosphate monopoly bill
was. taken up and passed.
After such a scene the President of
the Senate in his closihg retharks
ally congratulated the body on the har—
niony which had characterized their
courtesy toward the chair and towards
each .other.
Many really important measures in
which the white people of the State were
interested, were for this reason alone,
probably, laid 'over,': and the mass of
the legislation is of no behefit to the
State, however important for party:.--
ends, .or the Aggrandizement of partieu•
lar " ••• !
The Seven Wondece of the World.
. .
The ,first of these wonders were the
Pyramids of Egyi.t. The second was
the MansOledm,,ot tomb, built by,Ar
temisia, , for . her husband, MasOlus,
King of Curia, in Aida Minor, at Bali.
carnassns ' B. C. 35Q. Iris- now in the
British MitSettie, where it was, placed
in 185 T. .The . ..third was tlfeffemple of
Diana,at Ephesus, which was four hum
Bred and flity.tive feet long, and two
hundred and twenty•five feet broad.
It was destroyed. byliie on-the night
of the birth of Alexainler the Great, by
a man named :Erostratis,.who perpe
petrated the repreliensible act in order,
it is said,:that his name might be haul
ed down_to posterity. The fourth corn ,
prised the walla of Babylon. These
gardens were raised in terraces. one
above another, 'on the tiers of arch
es, and reached on (lights. of steps.
Flat stones were laid on the arches,
and these wore cemented • together by
bituilien, and covered , by . thick sheets
of lead; carob of sufficient
.quantity
allow trees and shrubs to grow' was
spread on the lead. The gardens were
'live in number, and in the form of an
amphitheatre. The • fifth *ns .the en
ornious brazen image . of Apollo •at
Rhodes, .which was erected' B. C. NO,
and was thrown down by an earth
quake about seventy years afterwards.
It stood acr oss the entrance to the
harbor, with each loot 'on the extrem•
ity . of a male. Thii - sixtli Was Michas'
statue of Jupiter Olympus, which was
thirtymine'leet high, and was made en
tirely of gold and ivory,.' The seventh
was (lie Pharos, or lighthouse, ,built
by the. PtoleMy Philadelphus, King of
Egypt, which was built of white mar
ble, at the entrance to the harbor of
Alexandria; and a light was kept con•
stantly on-top of it to .aid the sailors of
the Mediterraneanin steering for the
bay. •
N i nao SUrviittor..—Flow IT W0R1..."1,
—The Lancaster hitellig . encer says that
it gentleman of that'city has received a
letter from his brother in Evansville,
Indiana, where they-have had a munici
pal election, telling him how the voting
of our colored fellow-citizens affected the
German:Republicans ; they could not'
stand it and deserted in a body to the
white man's party, electing nearly the
whole Democratic ticket in a largely
Republican town. Like. results will be
apt to follow everywhere when the ne
gro comes t.o..vote, end our Radical
friends willthid that the measure which
they intended should . : perpetuate their
power, has, caused Its overthrow. IV I3
append an, etrant . from the letter re
furred to. '
EvAswirtia.g, 118i0. ,
DEAIr FRAM." * * Last Mon
day welifirrelly Breatorilero and for
the first. timelhe neireus-voted. IVe;
thought. we Would .ho beat-all to.pleceol
as there wae.4 large' negro . VIAC, X ll°
reriublieans thought it way
all right'til.tho votee -were wonted.; .after,neunt
in& the vote theyfogad all the Dople
crate cleated, but two or three; seven
Dollloor4ll ont . pfddlyt giant:flit-lan wore
•eleeted., XsAdoit, iteßublican •
Oerinidis,laatf, t i nN
,ihgrde:s.Oilagi they
turned archind)ind Vot•cd the IDeinocratie
ticket. ' ' '