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Down street, up street, and across the street, we have n it.iirur hot brinks and mortar, dust and cobblestones. There is scarcely a thor o.-'biire in our city where a culvert i a t bong constructed, while the alleys a:e: -rn up piece-meal. It” the character c; the i npr>vemenls correspond at all to annoyance they will be fine, it.-i. The Union Line have their cars nv.ing on Market street, but we have K-yet heard ofnhe anticipated collision ■w iu draymen and others employed by t..? Market street merchants as was ex peb rs i-J Tu< n.‘-m'v r s of the Const ilulional v nv.-n’’ >n. - inulated by the heat and it'.n 1 to move off to verdant ti U ml. purling brooks, are working {■> bring their labors to a \i i ?ter.lav we had an address f: -n Mr. George M. Dallas, in favor of ic'tv for the press. An amusing 'i from C >l. Boyd, a few words from c ;n '.rth il >mew, -and an argument from Mr I) irlington. all in reference to juries. Mmv ..f thv=e gendeinen contending that < v ,i! a maj >rity ought to he com v l- Sod a vi-riict. T'-day the -'.on was again of “God in the but the rather complex 01. ’i mi‘n• tho. was off,*red was sponla ii- ,-'y re;< j c’»-1, Toe members of the - '.v Ti’ion have been very liberal with s ’ .inMor 1 ,r i.i;. allowing the use nf it to va ‘i i-r ; r i 'lf 1 benevolent objects, i-' T Dr. Wilson C. Swan II • u -.tiie Pre'i lent of the Phil- 1 ! : ‘ ; ' " 1; ‘ F >un tat’-j S >ci^ly, and had been re .i by a nu-nb-r of 1 idles to deliv ' ■ i 11 1 r - - ; on the reminiscences of ■ s * i rn Life, for the benefit of the i ■ 1 1 1 1 n Sori--ty. As, however, the l!l " Doctor Jii! not want take up a collec l' r ' r - E ; i K Price spoke at some '-n the subject of Water, giving ce i ioical facts of great value. S'''llf 1 ■ r if ali tin? was that a number .truea, rlt-legates to the Conven -1 ,1 inve n‘>o;ved to subscribe fifty dol 1 1 r ' " ‘n. and thus raise a fund of three L • ''!>ui i d 'liars f»r the purpose of build ; ’' r 1 1 ratain iu Independence Square, ’■ '- ,r --■.‘aiing u to the city. A beautiful i) 'in* airealy been prepared for the 11 ’-- 7r n the monumen tl Wo saw the names of G >v v ■ " r Curtin an-i Gen. William Lilly on ‘" ! iie pages of the album yesterday, and , P e-unie at tliis writing Mr. MacVeigh, * ■ ’yd, Mr. Ball— and many others 4 ' i: ready inscribed. i Tie Prison Discipline people have se c“ 0, :3 Hal! for to-morrow night, to ss Mary Carpenter to ventilate 1 *"r T ew; on that subject. It is a posi- 1 p V . tJC * iat ie unhaypy natives of , J ’ e 'phia had never beard of Miss irptnter, belore, although the circulars *BP- ovj n( j by the Prison people tell us, i he has been the companion of kings j -roughly conversed with the best jnetb- j reforming abandoned youth. I I to day in a newspaper office, where they are supposed to know everything, thatMissMary Carpenter and the cele brated Spiritualist lecluress, Mrs. Emma Hardinge Britain were one, and the same person, Mrs. Hardinge has, it is said, been recently divorced, and thus changed her name. Whether this is true or not I cannot pretend to say, but if so the ad dress will be a treat, for Mrs. Hardinge is Siid to be the finest female speaker agoing Doubtless there will be a full bouse on Thursday, as one of the members jocu larly expressed it, be wanted them to get the prisons all improved by the time he got there. Everyday at tnree o’clock the Conven tion adjourns, and a long procession of black coats, intermixed with white das ter?, may be seen moving along Spruce street to Sixth, and up Sixth to Washing ton Square, where a leafy passage shades the wearied delegates from the beat of the sun. Our squares are not as attrac tive now as in the days when we had squirrels there. Their successors, the sparrows, have demolished the worms, for which purpose they were brought to us, but thay have an objectionable habit of early rising, and with their incessant chattering make sleep almost impossible after day break. On Saturday last aboat one hundred members of the Constitutional Conven tion went down to Cape May in a special train, by the arrangement of Mr. Knight, who received them on the Market street ferry boat with tickets ready for a com plimentary excursion. Most of the party stayed at Congress Hail, the Stockton House not being opened until this coming Saturday. Others went to the Atlantic and the Center Houses, the only hotels open during the winter. The season at Cape May is not fairly under way. Many of the cottages are already occupied. Your correspondent went down also, with a view to locating summer quarters; After a varied experience she must con fess there is no better place to be found as a resort in warm weather. The bath ing is unequaled, the surrounding coun try fertilejand well cultivated, and every variety of accommodation to be found from the modest cnttage to lhe grand-law tel. The express* train that left Camden at four o’clock reached the Island at six thirty. Think of a distance of eighty miles being traversed in two hours and a half. The Sunday Republic, of Philadelphia, has seen fit to take great exception to that portion of my list letter to The Radical, in which I said the Chief Clerk of the Convention, Mr. Imbrie, had grown thin from work. It will be sooth ing to the political editor of the Sunday 1 Republic to learn that Mr. Imbrie is act ually fattening up again, but the interests of truth oblige us to say, on the part of the Republic, it is rather the consequence of the advent of strawberries and cream, 'than any diminution of labor. It is really wonderful how the officers, who must keep the train of thought always moving, can survive being driven wild by the noise and confusion around them. When a member get? up to speak it is generally a signal tor everybody to enter into conversation. If a new man says anything, or Mr. Bartholomew, or Mr. Lawrence, of Monongahela, or Col. Boyd, there is nearly always silence; but, as a rule, the remaining members have an op portunity of practicing literary, as did Demosthenes, amid a sea of confusion. Mr. Lawrence is looked upon as a very in fluential man here Hs name is mention ed in connection with the next Guberna torial contest, and certainly his appear ance and bearing would do honor to the office. He has been absent from the Con vention fur a few.days. General Harry White, ot Indiana, and Gen. William Lilly, of Mauch Chunk, are also referred t o in the same connection. All three have many qualifications for the office, bat not yet having ascertained their views on Woman’s Rights I cannot give my support to either —The Pittsburgh Commercial says; The “Liberal” leader? of New York have been sending out “private and confiden tial” circulars, calling for a conference at Sharon at the end of this month, to de termine whether they shall maintain an independent organization, or officiate with the other great pat lies. The joke of the thing lies in this baker’s dozen of sore heads classing themsulves with the “other great parlies.” It is not expected that the railroads will have to put on ex tra trains to accommodate the rush to the Sharon conference. Josh Billings says: “Fuss works hard all day, and don’t do enny thing; goes to bed tired at night, then gits np next morning and begins where she left oph.” BEAVER, PENN’A, Bbookdale, Rick Co., Kan., 1 Jane 10th, 1873. f I feel like moralizing ibis morning, bat will refrain, and thus become entitled to yew everlasting gratitude. Yon who dwell in staid Old Beaver can scarce be made to realize the stiring times we have no the western frontier, Elmwood and all the surrounding country has been sub* merged again. I say again, for this twice this season. The first inundation occured about the middle, of May. The water then subsided rapidly. The creek began to rise again oh the first day of June. About midnight the whole valley was submerged, and the water some in ches higher than before. It receded then slowly until Wednesday the 4(b, when it came up with alarming rapidity, that night at two o’clock it began to recede, but the fall was so slow as not to be per ceptible except by marking. We lost our entire crop, both garden and fields. We have but two onions and three beets left. Nil Desperandum is one of our Jmnttes, and if you visit Elmwood next Septem ber you will find grain and vegetables that will astonish you. Some six! or ten of our prairie fanners have sent ns word. that they will be here the 16th inst., with their teams and planters, and plant onr corn for the third time. And now as fast as a spot dries off wo pot in a plant or seed in out garden. The water did not reach our bonse, but many of onr neigh bors were compelled to move at midnight. Almost all the cellars and weUs on the creek wye destroyed. For three days and nights we were prisoners, and the Modocs, no one could reach us. The flood has caused a great deal of loss along the valley, and strange to say, onr county paper has never alluded to it. Many have, like us, lost their whole crop, who bad nothing else to depend upon. So the greatest distress for them is in the future. Land is being taken up in this qounty rapidly. We often hear of twenty claims being entered on one day. .The Saline, Atlanta and Baymond Railroad 7 is completed to Lindsburg, and we will': _■ see the cars flitting by, before the , yes£ i expires; Since my JannaryJelter. I ta has become the borne of two f two doctors and three lawyers, we hear of more coming. Enough of this for the present, hut one dry-goods mer chant with three thousand dollars capital could make it pay by coming at once. Mosquito bars are in demand. 1 THIS “OLD CARCASS” OF THE DE MOCRACY. The whereabouts and condition of the Democratic party issti la subject of grave doubt and animated discussion. ' The Chicago Times persists ip calling it an “old carcass,” with nothing left of it but such oid bones as may be lound in Na tional, State and County Committees; while the New York World contends that it is only an inanimate body, that may be warmed into new life by sounding into its moribund ears the new bugle call of “free, trade and farmers’ rights.” This, for in stance, is the preachment of the World : “The Baltimore Convention, in indors ing the Cincinnati remittal of free trade to the Congressional districts, did so for last November’s election only, and for the obvious reason that, having adopted such a preposterous candidate as Greeley, it was necessary to keep his platform from flying in his face. The Times' inference is needless, to say the least, that the planks of that platform must remain the Democratic parly’s stamping ground till the day of judgment. An issue was waived for one election. That is all. v“We still hope to have the concurrence of the Times in demanding that that is sue shall never be waived again. We hope to have the concurrence of every free-trader, at least of every man who has a vigorous appreciation of the fertility of that political principle for all our pres ent needs, and of its filiation upon the central truth of Democracy, in demand ing that the Democratic party shall fly the free-trade flag and j »in bailie upon the free trade issue. We are not blind to the staring fact that ‘free-trade and farmers’ rights’ is a legend which our party may inscribe upon victorious banner?.” Eizzil. The Times responds that the World has somehow got hoi 1 of the idea that what the people desire to get to it free-trade, and adds : “The World proposes that that singu larly accommodating old organization of time-serving political dead beats called the Democratic party shall execute an other somersault and manifest an 'appre ciation of the fertility of that principle for its present needs!’ or, what is the same thing, for the needs of the ancient political acrobats who art starving for FROM KANSAS. ~ f . y Anarchy, or anything" 4 else; or both for r and against any of these, or all of these, in whole or in part, or any other way, it only the leaders’ should ‘appreciate the fertility’ o! such a course ‘for their pres enl needs.’ To think of the possibility of the ‘Democratic party’ not being ready to do so would be to think of that party as something other than itself. But the suggestion is without any particulir use. For, excepting the old professional parly ‘leaders,’ who want to know ‘who's going to run this thing ?' there are few people in the country who think of the ancient prejudice ca led the ‘Democratic party,’ at ail save as a thing that'.is dead, and that smells bad when it is stirred.” Sadb. This is very interesting reading, and one cannot but admire the plainness of speech with which the Chicago man lays bare the hypocrisy of the New York Demagogue. In the meantime Senatoi Thurman, of Ohio, is proceeding to prac tical mensures, and has induced the Dem ocracy of Allen county, in that State, to lead off in a movement for the formation of a new party. At their late county meeting they passed resolutions declaring that “both political parlies have demon strated that they are powerless to check | or control the existing tendency towards the utter demoralization of the politics of the country,” and inviting the peo ple to meet at Columbus at an early day and organize an entirely' new party. They have no right to speak for our party ; hut we accept their own democratic judgment chat their own parly is powerless and hopelessly corrupt. As to the new party they propose, it will be like an old silk dress, turned and made up anew. It will be* the same old material, with but a slightly changed look. The Enquirer, of Cincinnati, is some what in trouble over this movement. It does not know exactly where the light ning is going to strike, though it recog nizes the “clap of thunder from a clear sky in Allen county.” It confesses, how ever, that it was“pre arranged, and admits ; that “the true import and meaning of this is, that a new party is to be formed,” I s&ys, "a new departure is to be made in I earnest,” hails the movement by saying that "we” —the Democracy—“are not far from the mlllenium so devoutly prayed for by the men who are trying to get away from Bourbonism," yet is a little aby and declares “for our own part we are not fully pursuaded as to the course to be pnrsned,” admits that “it has been Well understood for some time that the active Democratic leaders at Columbus , JUNE 27. (873. doesthe World demand of free-trade shall be de old stench called the ‘Dem- IsU because the World ,-dveoll 'party leaders’ for fpetks desire to Incorporate the eftirfociple in the laws and the pfgomomen t? The World will asibinlc so. No; the World .the old stench called the party.’whfcb last year de free-trade, and did its best « head of the government of the monopoly system, jject was to 'sncceed.’ turn