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I ROM PHILADELPHIA.
Improvements— Constitutional Conven-
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cursion -Personals
Corre»p*u lence of the Radical
Philadelphia, Jane 17, 1373
H it, h )Uer, hottest, to-day being the
.supervivo decidedly. 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 <plis uf the subscribers, which vol
a ' ■' :'ib cqoently to be deposited in
,)r;ir y nf the Historian Society of
i:l -y ■ van in. The names of the donors
11 ' irr inscribed <>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
<Hher side oat, and proclaim
'.o bolts object, because the old
'are,not blind to the (act
and farmers’ rights (a dem
pbrase) is a legend which
hwy inscribe on successful ban-
by the .‘Denncratic party’
to understand the 38,000 com
#ho constitute its organ iza
commltleemen plus an in
mmber of'leading politicians'
pwioos whose toles they can
is really not material. Either
lid min can entertain a rea
that the Worlds very dead
hoist the banner of free-
banner of protectionism, or
iceivable banner, if only (he
politician*’ coaid be made
- under anch banner they
ptiwfir.VJustMlfeit Very
',wo
to
thip
its
[ have been considering the propriety of a
decided advance In the direction of the
formation of a new political party. (Jen.
Ewing and a number of active meu prom
inent in the Democratic organization
have given the nlovement their endorse
ment Senator Thurman, who ia a con
servative gentleman and a candidate for
re-election, has not made np his mind as
to the proper thing to be done."
POLITICAL.
—Dr. J. P. Sterrett, of Juniata county,
is a Republican candidate for Domination
for Senate.
—There is but one Democratic candidate
for Judge in Greene now, David Craw
ford, Esq. Mr. Furman is off the track.
—The Democratic Lawrence county
Executive Committee meets in New
Castle on the 28th last
—At a meeting of the Republican Coun
ty Committee, Columbiana county, on
Satordaj the 14tb, D. A . Beck ley was
anaolajoasly elected as a delegate to the
Republican State Convention.
—John M. Greer and B. F. Garvin, of
Butler county, were elected by the Re
publican County Convention, Represent
ative Delegates to the State Convention
with power to select their own alternates.
—Candidates for nomination for As
sembly in Mercer county on the Republi
can ticket: J. W. Barker, of Sandy Lake
township; Dr. B. P. Gordon, of Spring
field township; H. 8. Blatt, of Sandy
Lake township; Dr. G. Q. Brush, of
Sheakieyville; E. W. Jackson, of Mercer.
—The Tioga county primary meetings
will be held on August the I6ib, and
Convention on the 19lh. Henry Allen
was elected by County Committee Rep
resentative delegate and Hugh Young re
nominated as Senatorial to the State Con
vention.
—At a meeting of the Republican
County Convention, of Lawrence county,
on. the 16ch inst., Mr. John H. Porter of
fered a resolution to the effect that the
tions and adopt” fanaeky IP
vogue in that county, which was adopted
by a vote of 10 to 7.
—The Democrats of Bailer county met
in Convention in Batler, on Monday, of
last week, and nominated the following
ticket; Assembly—Dr. J. S. Lusk and
William S. Ziegler, Esq ; Treasurer—
Lewis Ruth, E?q ; County Commissioner
—John Whitmire, Esq ; Jury Commis- j
sioner—John M. M’Candless, Esq. ; Aud
itor— John Marlin. The ticket is a re\ i
apectabie one, but will have to undergo, r
tfils fall, the usdal fact of being beaten.
—The following is the Lawrence coun- j
ty Republican ticket; Assembly—E. S. !
N. Morgan ; Treasurer—Forbes Holton ;
Sheriff—James McWilliams; Register and
Recorder—James Growl ; Commissioner
—Robert Mehard ; Audtor—Lafayette
Baldwin; Jury Commissioner—James
Moffat; Coroner—Dr. James K. Pollock ;
Senatorial DSI. —Q. W. McCracken ; Rep
resentative Del. —D. H. Wallace.
—The Berks and Schuylkill Journal
The Republicans of Lancaster
county talk of abandoning the Crawford
county system of making local nomina
tions. : Experience b&s shown that in
the bands of able manipulators it is a
fraud upon the people of the worst sort.
In every case the partj adopting it gets
into trouble and is sure to lose ground.
says
—The Harrisburg Stale Journal says;
The lively canvass of the different candi
dates for Governor of Maine has contin
ued unabated since the ball was set in
motion three or four weeks ago by the
presentation of Judge Kent’s name. The
aspect of the contest, however, has some
what changed. When Judge Kent’s name
was first mentioned and another promi
nent candidate withdrew bis favor, it
appeared probable that he would carry
the convention without much opposition.
But this i mpression arose from the fact
that up to that time the canvass in other
directions had been carried on quietly.
Meanwh'le the Democrats are quiet and
apparently hopeless. They make a great
deal a f noise about the prospect of a "Re
publican split,” and a consequent chance
to step in and carry off the offices ; but
there is little ground for this prediction,
for the Republicans of Maine have always
been well organized, and Speaker Blaine
Is still at the head of the State directory,
wbei;e be has been for many years. The
prospect rather is that the Democrats will
make a weaker fight than ever before if
the Republicans, like those of Ohio, speak
out in denunciationlpf the “salary grab”
and kindred evils.
—The Green county Republicans have
nominated the following ticket :K Assem
bly—Jacob Rush; Sheriff—Jacob Pen
nington ; Treasurer—Samuel Harvey.;
Commissioner—Elias Flenniken; Jury •
Commissioner—lsaac Teagarden; Auditor
—Barzilta Stephens; Poor House Direc
tor—J. Homyßraddock; Coroner—-Joha
Lantz. . (.
Hon’s J. Bt Donley and John C. pjen
niken were appointed, respectively. Sen
atorial and Representative Delegates to
the Republican State Convention. Dr.
W G. Rodgers, Dr. Samuel Culver, aod
S. W. Scott, were appointed Judicial Con
ferees. t
The following- resolutions were adopted:
Resolved , That the administration of
President Grant merits oar unabated con*
fiJence for its wise, patriotic and econom
ical management of National affairs.
Resolved, That the condnct of Governor
Hart ran ft unmistakably proves that onr
suffrages were worthily bestowed in Oc,-,
tober last; especially do we commend his
fearless use of the veto power, in check
ing the pernicious evil of special legisla
tion.
Resolved, That the members of Congress
who voted or shared in the late Congress
ional “raise” are entitled to ohr condem
nation ; and we hereby denounce’ that
and all other kindred legislation.
—At a meeting of the Maine Republi
can Convention 1,246 delegates were pres
ent. The balloting for Governor resulted
as follows: Whole number of voles
1,206; Nelson Dingtey, Sr, 816; James
M. Stone, 211; Bdward Kent, 170; scatter
ing, 6. Dingley was declared nominated.
Resolutions were adopted reaffirming
the principles of the Republican party as
expressed in the National and State Con
vention. It has so met the vital issues of
the past twelve years as toigain the title
of the true reform party. I, They protest
against granting another acre of the pub
lic domain to canal and railroad compa
nies, as tending to prodigality and cor
ruption ; applaud the action of Congress
in ferreting out corruption, and declaring
that the party will interpose no shield
legislation shall be uprooted Th« :r —
tion on the Coogreisional salary grab is
as follows :
Eesolced, That the Republicans of Maine
denounce the recent action of Congress,
known as the salary grab, increasing the
salaries of its members, and especially its
retroactive feature, by which nearly
$5,000 was voted for each member for
services already paid for, as a gross vio
lation of the pledges of the last National
Convention, and demand the immediate
and unconditional repeal o{ an act so dis
graceful to Congress and so odious to the
people.
—The Philadelphia Press, replying to
the New York Sun, in vindication of
William H. Kemble, says: We have no
ticed with sincere regret the persistent
assaults of several of our influential con
temporaries upon the Hon. William H.
Kemble, president of the People’s Bank,
ol this c;ty, and largely identified with a
number of important enterprises. Mr.
Kemble is one of the remarkable men of
the times—active, daring, original and
persevering. It has been our misfortune
to differ from him more than once, and to
day wo do not agree upon certain ques
tions of public and party policy. But
this does not close our eyes to that which
is meritorious in his character ; and if
those who assail him for what perhaps
may be the errors ol impulse, could know,
as we know, his capacities and readiness
for doing good, his prompt generosity in
all charitable enterprises, his willingness
to relieve the unfortunate and distressed,
the number of young men be has assisted
forward in life, and the steadiness with
which he stands by the interests of Penn
sylvania, they would, we think, reconsid
er and modify their criticisms. It is pre
cisely to such men as Mr. Remble, with
their large resources and active connec
tion with the Republican organization,
that we must look for an improved man-
agement in our municipal affairs and for
a higher and purer representation in the
State legislature. These men naturally
look beyond the mere acquisition of mo
ney. They must have loftier hopes and
belter ambitions; and we think we do not
misunderstand Sir. Kemble’s character
when we predict that he will counsel his
friends to respect that resolute purpose in
the Republican party which demands can
didates on our ticket who )will make it
of the championship of the press
and the suffrages of the people.
—Geo.. W. Allen is the republican
didate for Assembly in Warren county.'
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