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Satchpat Moknino, : : May G, 1871.
Gr-OMiB Bkkoseb. the proprietor of the
Iluritburg Telegraph, has made a complete
retraction, ovsr his own (ignatnre, of all the
charges against Judgo Black, which appear
ed in his newspaper. Ho alleges that the
cl juctlonablfl articles, were inserted without
his knowledge or concent, and stows his
heluf that Judge Black was as clear In erery
office he filled as mortal man could possibly
be. The Lancaster Intelligencer presumes
the Jatfge will gracioualy permit Ucrgner to
go unwhipped after the publication of a re
traction which is so complete In erery sense
of the word.
It is said the Governor will reto the ap
portionment lately passed by both Houses
of the Legislature. Should Gorernor Geary
do so he must bear the responsibility, for
the bill now before him is no doubt the best
that can be obtained under the present cir
cumstances. The bill has many objectiona
ble features to the Democracy, yet they
accept it rather than force upon the State
tho (lopt&rable reenlts that must fellow its
rjecticn. Gov. Geary rhiuld weigh well
the effect of the yeto before returning the
bill with his objections. So says the Hunt
ing Jou Monitor, and so say wo.;
Don Piatt, in his Dew paper. The Capital,
draws the following rough but truthful por
trait of Den But!or. PUtt has closely watch
el Butler's career, and is therefore a must
competent judge :
"We hold Butler to be the wickedest deraa
gogugo let loose upon this country since its
independence. His iustiucts are treacherous,
revolutionary, merciless and avaricious. That
he is able to lead any considerable number of
coiigreatmen is satisfactory that Republican
public is in great part debauched. That he
influences l'i evident Grant is not only a iia
lioiial but a human ca1 amity. With the final
downfall of free government, such caused as
his character must be compictoua Rapacity
is his oue trait, an Astatic quality never before
entirely developed iu this liuruispl.ore."
It will bo seen from the proceedings of
the County Committee, published elsewhere,
that the election for delegates to the next
lonely convention will take place on Satur
day, theJ22d of July, 8D(1 that the conven
tion will be held on the following Monday.
The action of the committee on this subject
was wise and judicious. Heretofore, with
tho exception of last year, for which there
was a good rearon, the convention bas been
held so early that the smoke of the previous
fall campaign had scarcely passed away
before the different aspirants for office eom
mented the contest fur the coming year.
This was a runit-hment which the people
could not well bear. There will be two
mouths anda half of time between the meet
ing of the convention and the election,
which Is ample enough for any candidate to
rnaka his calling, and election sure. The
next convention ought to designate a fixed
day iu July, on which all future county
Conventions shall be hold.
Wb were mistaken, as was the press gen
erally, when we stated that the bill restoring
the Spring Elections had passed both branch
es of the Legislature. It seems that after
the bill passed the House and went to the
Senate, certain amendments were offered to
it (of curse by an enemy to the bill) and
adopted, applicable to Luzerne county. The
House refuted to concur in the amendments,
and the bill was banded over to the tender
mercies of a conference, where it still remains
with but a slim prospect of an agreement cn
the disputed points. It is as woadetful as
it is disgraceful that the Legislature will a
second time, in defiance of the almost unan
imous wish of the people, refuse to pass this
bill, pure and simple and entirely disconnect
ed with any debateable or conflicting propo
sitions. The Senate had no kind of difficul
ty in passing, after a few hours debate, a
bill of such magnitude as the border claim
project, involving the trifling sum of almost
three millions of dollars, but it could not pass
a meritorious law, like the SpriDg Election
bill, without encumbering it with objectiona
ble amendment!, which in all probability
will defeat it. This is a sample of legisla
tion, straining at a gnat and swallowing a
car.id.
Thh present Legislature has been in ses
sion four months one month longer than
the usual time. The members receive a sal
ary for the session of $1,000 and mileage.
This la enough iu all conscience, even though
the session should be prolonged until the
arst of June, as it is likely to be. It seems,
however, that, like the insatiable horse leech,
i-ke members of the House at least demand
ricre. On the 27th of April Mr. Cloud,
from the Committee cf Ways and Means,
reported a bill which, amoogst other things,
contained an item giving to the members
jnd officers of the Senate and House of Rep
resentatives seven dollars per day extra from
Aprii 7th. By a etrango and mysterious
ciociJence it happened, most probably by
a previous understanding between the Speak
er. Cloud and Sam Josephs, that when
'.cud made his report, Samuel, who knows
8.1! the ways that are daik in legislation,
c-.cupied tho chair. When Josephs put the
question upon agreeing to this item, although
z:cl ten members bad the brazen effrontery
to vcte in the affirmative, he decided that it
ra-I ben agreed I, whereupon the House
'.r:r:fdiat8ly adjourned. Ou this occasion
Jesephs was tho right man in the right
1
: f. Ut course the veas and nnvs were
: ...ed, for the simple reason that with
and Josephs, very
.f ..ny of the other members wculd have
: r-pr.t themselves cn the record in fa
. . io swindle. It ia roLbery. bold, in
tv.'t ard scandalous. When this ats
i rt legislative larceny comes to be
W the Senate, we trust that a high
' ! icr and decency in that body will
'i a defeat as ignominious as it is
Political Treason.
Tho present national administration has
piovsd itieif to be so lamentably wesk and
inefficient, that evidences not only of a want
of confidence in, but openly avowed con
tempt for it, have manifested themselves in
various parts of the country in the bouse
of Its original friends. The resnlt could not
well be otherwise. So completely has it
failed to realize the expectations of thoee
who invested it with power, that even or
dinary reliance In ita wisdom has given place
te a feeling of alarm at its dictatoral purpose.
It is not the entertainment to which they
were invited. It has been such a rickety,
such a nondescript a&air, that of the six
cabinet ministers originally nominated to
the Senate by Grant, when he assumed office
a little over two years ago, only one ( the
Post Master General) now remaine. In its
brief and inglorious career, it has done those
things which it ought not to have done, and
has omitted to do the things which it should
have done. In all its workings and sur
roundings it is efSMntially a military estab
lishment, and the daily routine of business
at the White House recalls more the head
quarters of a commanding general, with all
the pride, pomp and circumstances of war,
than the quiet residence of tho highest civil
fiicer of the goverenient.. This want of
cot fi.JeDce in Grant and his admiaiftration
among leading Republicans has assumed
definite shape and bids fair to become a
power in the next Presidential election. A
few weeks ago some of tho leading and most
influential Radicals cf Ohio met in Cincin
nati for the purpose of consultation in refer
ence to the alarming assumption of despotic
power by Grant and bis servile Congress.
This schism in the Repulican ranks of that
State is headed by such men as Gen. Cx.
late Secretary of the Interior, Judge Matth
ews and other prominent and active mem
bers of that party. An address to the peo
ple was published and resolutions adopted
iu favor of universal amnesty to the South
opposition to the San Domingo scheme and
to a protective tariff in favor of reform in
tbe civil service and a speedy return to tho
baais of a gold and silver currency. This
meeting was net the mere spasmodic effort
of a few disappointed politicians, but the
calm and deliberate action of some of the
wisest and most prudent men in the Repub
lican party of Ohio. It is the entering
wedge that, when driven home, as it assur
edly will be, will split the Radical party
into fragments.
This Ohio movement has been lately fol"
lowed up by a number of prominent Repub
licans of St. Louis, 6tyling themselves "The
Liberal Republican Executive Committee of
St. Louis." At a recent meeting of the
members of this committee the following
resolutions were adopted as their platform.
It will be seen that they amount to an open
ly declared and irrepressible conflict with
the high-handed and unconstitutional meas
ures of Congress. It is the beginning of the
end.
First A Democratic ballot-box. Equality
of citizenship as established by the constitu
tional amendments, and amnesty for all past
political offences.
Second Supremacy of constitutional gov
ernment, that the Executive shall not invade
tbe legislative, nor that either of tbe two shall
usurp the province of the judiciary.
Third We condemn President Grant's
course iu committing acts of war upon a neigh
boring republic as violative of the constitution
which vesta tbe war making power iu Uon
grea. Fourth Te are opposed to all enactments
whereby it is pat within tbe discretion of the
President to declare martial law or suspend
the writ of personal liberty except in an actual
condition of war, as violative of the Constitu
tion in substituting' the will of tbe President
in place of the law of the land.
Fifth We are opposed to any tariff which
is intended to foster any one r another clasa
of industry, and thus tax one man or class for
the benefit ot another, and maintain that all
taxes should be levied with the sole intent to
secure needed revenue with tbe least possible
burden to the people as a whole.
Sixth Believing that tbe time has come
when the condition of our country warrants a
resumption of specie payment, we favor a
speedy return to tbe basis of frold and silver
currency; aud we depreciate any effort to com
pel the present generation to pay the principal
of the debt incurred for the preservation of
our Union. believiBg that, as future genera
tions as well as the present, derive th bene
fit therefrom, they shoull bear a proportion
ate i-hare of the same.
Seventh Reform in appointments to the
civil service, that personal qualifications and
intrinsic merit shall bo the standard, and not
executive favoritism.
Gen, Sherman mid (be Ku Klux.
- Gen. Sherman, who is now on a tour of
'nspection to the different military posts in
the southwest and on the western frontier.
was in New Orleans a few days ago and was
tendered a reception by the American Union,
Club of that city. In replying to a compli
mentary toast, Gau. Sherman, in alluding to
the congressional policy of reconstruction
said :
"I believe this government will koep on
growing until it spreads itself over the entire
American continent; but in order to gain this
much deoired cud, and maintain ourselves as
a free and independent republic, we have got
to show ourselves charitable toward each other.
It has been remarked by some gentleman who
have preoeeded me that it was generally conce
ded by the soldiers of both armies at the close
of the late civil war, that if the questions aud
all matters of the settlement of the differences
between the north and south were left to tho
armies, it would be settled at once, and every
thing would become quiet and orderly.- 1 so
believed, and before signing tbj agreement
with Gen. Joe Johnston. I called together all
the generals in my command, and without a
dissentinsj voice they agreed with me. I be
lieved they surrendered in good faith, and
would have lived up to the very letter of the
agreement; and in say opinion, if there had
been no reconstrnetron by Congress, and the
army been left at the time to settle all tbe
questions of difference between the different sec
tions of the couutry, the people would have at
ouce become quiet and peaceable. I probably
have as good means of information as most
persons in regard to wbat ia called the Ku
Klux. aud am perfectly satisfied that the thing
is over estimated: and if the Ku Klux bills
were kept out of Congress, and the army kept
at thbir legitimate duties, there are e notion
rood and true men in all southern slates to put
down all Ku-K'ux or other bands ot marau
ders." This is tbe langnage of a man of brains
and not of a stolid, e!sh, unscrupulous
aspirant for another Presidential term. Un j
like Grant, Sherman takes a practical aud j
common sem:e view of local disorders in tbe
South, aud would scorn to be the mere echo
of such imrnacullo patriots as Morton Cam
eron, Edmunds and Scott. In these remarks
of General Sherman he administers a stern
rebuke to tbe Radicals in Congress who
passed the infamous and unconstitutional Ku
Klux bill, and takes distinct issue with
Grant, who, at the dictation of a set of reck
lers demagogues, recommended it. In all
the essential qualities of statesmanship, Sher
man is to Grant as Ilyperien to a Satyr.
Mubdk North and Sooth. Hon. Sha
ron Tyndale. late Secretary of State of Illi
nois, was murdered in cold blood while
walking from his residence to the railroad
depot. This ia certainly a fearful tragedy,
and yet we have ao comments upon it by
the Republican journals. All that is said
of this cold blooded eutrage is contained in
the telegraphic dispatches. Now, let us
suppose that an ex-secretary ef State had
been murdered in any of the Sombera States,
what would have been the result? The col
umns of there journals would have teemed
with denunciations of the Ku Klux, and the
vengeance of the Federal Government have
been invoked. Language would have failed
to express their detestation if the deed. It
would have been pointed to as only an&ther
evidence of the lawlessness of the South. -But
occurring as it did in a Northern State,
at the capital of which nearly as many mur
ders' and outrages are committed as in the
entire South, it fails to elicit more than pass
ing meDtion. Circutnstaoc&s alter cases.
Last week a respectable merchant was
murdered in tbe streefs of New York, with
out even the temptation of pecuniary gain
to the murderer. It vt2 a most dastardly,
unprovoked aftVir; and yet we hear of no
cs3 for tho interference of the FedflMl Gov
ernment. Here in Philadelphia not a
week passes in which some one is not tried
for murder; and yet the journal that
clamor 6o loudly for Federal bayonet inter
ference in the South, in spite of tho protest
of nearly every Southern executive, do not
demand it for this city. What is sauce for
the goose should be Bauce for the gander.
If a certaiu number of murders in the South
demand Congressional interference, whj' then
should not an equal, oi possibly a greater,
number in the North require the same pans
acea ? Evening Herald.-
Obituary. Jas. Murray Mason, of Vir
ginia, died at his residence near Alexandria,
in that State, on Saturday la6t. He was
the lineal descendant of an English cavalier
who escaped from the fatal field of Worcess
tcr, in 1651, and fled to America. Us
graduated from the Uuiversity of Pennsyl
vania iu 1813, afterward studied law at
William aud Mary College, Virginia, aud
was admitted to the bar in 1820. He was
several times a member of the Virginia
house of delegates, a member of congress
from 1837 to 1839. and United States sena
tor from 1847 until the secefsion of Virginia
in 1861. In the fall of that vear he was
appointed by the Confederate government
commissioner to England, and in company
with John Seidell, Confederate commissioner
to France, took pas-age on the Royal Eng
lish mail hteamer Trent, from Havana, on
November 7, 1861, having previously run
the blockade at Charleston. On the day
following the Trent was overhauled by
Captain Wilkes, of the United States man-of-war
San Jacinto, who seized tbe commis
sioners and their secretaries, and despite the
protest of tbe commander of the Trent,
made them prisoners and carried them to
New York. They were imprisoned for a
short time in Fort Warren, in the harbor
of Boston, but the British government de
manding their release, they were turned
over to Lord Lyons, the British minister,
after which they proceeded unmolested on
their mission. After tbe war Mr. Mason
returned to the United States aud settled
down quietly in the residence at which he
ban just breathed his last. He was in the
73d year of his age. Harritburg Patriot.
What DossIt Matter? The people of
Arizona recently applied to Gen. Sherman
to send more troops into that territory to
protect them against tbe Apaches. These
savages appear to be more ferocious than
ever, and massacres cf whites constantly
occur. Gen. Sherman replied' that "Con
gress bad so diversified the uses of the army
and increased the necessity for it. while re
ducing its capacity, that he had no more
troops to send to Arizona. All that could
be spared must be sent to the South."
The troops are to be sent South to carry
out the Ku-Klux Force bill and to put down
insurrection and rebellion where none exists,
except the universal political insurrection
against Grant's administration. This is to
be suppressed by securing delegations in
favor of Grant to tbe Republican National
Couvention. and by securing for hint the
Electors of these States in 1872. although
the majority of their people are against
him. If this can be done, wbat matters it
whether or not a few thousand people, more
or less, are murdered and scalped in Arizo
na 7 iV Y. Sun.
Grant's Vf.bacitt. In his Indianapolis
speech General Or act said that be had no
intention of coming to Indianapolis until he
met Senator Morton at Pittsburg, by whose
soft persuasions he was Induced to make the
Indiana visit. It is a well-known fact in
railroad circles that two of Tillman's fine
sleeping coaches were despatched from Har
risburg to Baltimore the Saturday previous,
thero to await th8 Presidential party. Ooe
of them, known as President Tom Scott's
car, was assigned for Senator Morton, and
the other (the Jewett car) wns placed at the
disposal of President Grant. These two car?,
containing the royal and Santo Domingo
party, left Baltimore on Thursday night at
10 o'clock , and in due time arrived. at Pitts
burg jointly. It was here that Grant says
be first met Morton, having travelled with
him from Washington in the Fulman cars,
and there it was from tbe-time they started
at Washington that the Indiana visit was
"cooked up." Cincinnati Enquirer.
Rkt. "Daddy" Caix, the necro editor of
the Missionary Record, published at Char
leston. S. C, repudiates tbe Radical party.
"Daddy" is a powerful leader smong bis
people in the State. He cays in bis paper :
The Republican. party started out well.
1 was much encouraged for my race and
party, but a set of men have row got hold
of it whf are bringing disgrace upon it
and running it for their own benefit. In no
State of the Union is the Republican party
in such odium as in South Carolina. The
Legislature ia ignorant and corrupt. Good
men have been thrust aside to make room
for plunderers. Many of the so-called carpet
baggers among us are of the worst sort, and
bad men cannot be got out of office until the
whole Republican party in the State goes
overboard and the Democracy corns to power.
There never was a party that had a better
chance to do good than ours, never; never
was onj that done woise.
What tiie Democratic Parly
Tl lll Do It lieu In Fewer.
I. It will limit tho annual taxes to $250.
000,000, and out of this moderate revenue
will apply $25,000,000, toward the extloc
tion of tbe public debt ; whereas the federal
taxes for tbe last fiscal year amounted to
the enormous sum of $411,255,447.
II. It will revise and reform tbe system
of taxation so that this diminished anaual
burden of 4250.000.000 will be equitably
distributed. The prerent system not only
overloads tbe faithful horse, but ties ome
of tbe load to bis legs, puts a part upon his
head, makes him drag a portion by his tail
obstructing his freedom ef movement, and
causing him the utmost annoyance. Tbe
Democratic party will withdraw every pouud
of the load from his limbs and extremities
and collect it upon his back where be can
carry it with toe greatest ease. It will,
moreover, take good care that the taxes find
their way into the public treasury, and not
into the pockets of tbe greedy, gasfitfg mon
opolists. III. The Democratic party will rectify
the abuses of the present banking system ;
extinguishing the monopoly by making the
husinese free to all who comply with the
conditions, stopping tbe interest on govern
ment bonds whi'e in p'edge to secure bank
circulation, and guarding against a redun
dant currency by compelling the banks to
redeem their notes in specie.
IV. It will revive our piostrate shipping
interests and restore to American citizens
their former large nhare-intbo prifits of
navigation, by freo trade in ships and tbe
repeal of -duties on all articles used in their
construction.'
V. It will extend and complete the sys
tem of .universal suffisge by abolishing tbe
term of residence uow required, for naturali
zation, and giving intelligent white immi
grants the same advantage enjoyed by our
colored population. There is no reason why
a thrifty German who emigrates to Texas
aDd bi)va a farm should not at once be as
favored" a cHizen as the Sooth Carolina
nt-gro who emigraf, to Texas in tho same
year and is employed by tlje German as a
laborer.
VI. The Democratic party will faith
fully fulfill all the obligetious created by M'S
public debt in their letter and spirit, and
will secure to disabled soldiers the full
amount of their pensions without allowing
a d liar to be deducted for the fees of agents.
VII. It will repeal all laws which per
mit the Federal government, or any of its
officers, to interfere with elections in tbe
States. .
VIII. It will make a high misdemeanor
pnniahable by dismissal from the service
for sny officer of the army or navy to aid in
the suPMesion of domestic vii.ler.ee in a
State utiles the State authorities have made
a previous application ato the President for
such assistance, in conformity to the Con
stitution ; or to interfere for enforcing any
Federal law tin If as a Federal judge shall
have previously certified that the execution
of the laws is resisted by a combination too
powerful to be overcome by the marshal aud
his jMsse.
IX. The Democratic party will remove
all the political disabilities aud disqualifica
tions imposed for participation in the late
civil war.
X. It will recognize the binding force of
the three new amendments to the Constitu
tion so long as they are held te be valid by
the Supreme C.'tirt.
Here are do flourishes, no buncombe, no
vague, cloudy theories which cannot be re
duced to practice. If there is any Southern
citizen who does not think this lii of meas
ures would bring relief from and redress of
present evils and grievances, we cannot re
spect his judgement. And tf, eu the other
Umnd, any Republican insists that the pol
icy here sketched is a mere bundle of nega
tions and dead issues, he forfeits all claim to
be considered ajcandid opponent. X. Y.
Wvrld.
Imprisonment or trk Akcbbisbop or
Paris. In reference to the imprisonment of
tbe Archbishop of Paris by the red ropubli
caas of France, tbe New York Herald of tbe
30th ult. bas this to say :
It appears that the Archbibhop of Paris,
held la prison by the reds, was in danger of
being sacrificed to the bloody spirit of the
commune, when Prince Bismarck through
General Fabric notified the commune, that
if any further indignities were committed
upon the archbbsb'p, the German army still
near Paris, to the number of 200.000 men,
in the cause of civilization would g into
Paris and make short work of the commune.
In response to this broad hint from Prince
Bismarck General Cluseret says be will pro
pose to the commune to release the archbish
op of Paris and other ecclesiastics -now in
prison. Thus it will be seen that Cluseret
is more of the knave than the fool, aud that
the hint of Bismarck brings him down. In
this view it is a fortunate thing for thu causo
of civilization in Paris that the Get man army
remains on guard there just outside of tho
northern wall. But whut a story for poor
Paris as the capital cf the civilized world.
The blasphemy of the Paris commune as
far as developed, is fully up to the standard
of tbe God-defy iug Jacobins of 1793. Some
days ago a chief of (he commune spoke of
the priests and nuns imprisoned as suspi
cious parties "worshipping a person they
call God," and now it appears that the Jai
cobin Rochefort, in justification of tho rob
bery by the commune of the Pjiris churches,
says of the goods of the churches : "We do
not hesitate to declare them national proper
ty, for the single reason that they proceed
from the generosity of those to whom the
church has promised a Paradise, and the
promise of imaginary returns made to obtain
any property, is qualified as swindling by
every code ; and furthermore, he says our
eternal belief is that Jesu-i Christ having
been born in a stable, the only treasure that
Notre Dame ought to possess is a bundle cf
straw." If these infamous wretches of the
commune had not yet set up the worship of
a prostitute as the "Goddess of Reason," it
is because M. Theirs has kept them employ-,
ed with something of the pains and tortures
of the infernal regions. But the end draws
near, when its managers, it ia to be hoped,
will meet the punishment due to their heavy
crimes.
A Tbrbible Death. A heart-rending
accident occurred near Bertrand, Mich., on
the 3d, by which the wife of Mr. John Pope
was literally roasted alive. Mrs. Pope was
subject to fits, aud. being a habitual pipe
smoker. It is believed by ber neighbors that,
during the absence of her husbaDd, she was
taken with a fit, and, perhaps, smoking at
the time, her clothes caught fire from the
ashes, and that partially recovering her con
sciousness she wandered into the yard, where
she set fire to a pile of straw aud then put it
out. She then evidently leaned against the
building, and again extinguished the flames
with a wet' cloth. During her raviugs she
cut her garters and took off her shoes and
stockings, and then washed her bands and
arms until tho skin came off, as the loose
skin and pieces of flesh were found in the
wash-pan. Finally, when her clothes were
completely burned from ber body, she lay
down on her bed and there met her terrible
death, alooa and unattended.
Political and Sews Bteisis.
South Shrewsbury. Mass., ha just en
Joyed the first honse afire that has happened
there for ninety-five years.
General John A. Sutter, on whose land
gold was first discovered in California, has
located in Litiz. Lancaster county.
Out in Carrollton. Iowa, there ia a Utile
girl who was born minus tho right hand and
the stub of the arm is a perfectly formed
cat's head and ears.
Charles Oivler, near Botler's Mills.
Cumberland county, recently caught a trout
18 inches in length, 6 inches In breadth, and
weighing three and a half pounds.
During his sermon last Sunday morn
in.s at Plymouth Church, on the "Ages to
Come," Henry Ward Beecber indignantly
scouted the theory of tho resurrection of the
body.
Corydon has a physician 60 years old
who never eat a meal in a hotel or traveled
on a railroad or steamboat. If he continnes
j-this course of abstineace be may live anoth
er 60 years.
B.C. Yonng.a printer in the Enterprise
newspaper office at Holden, Mo., killed his
wife and then committed suicide on Satur
day evening. He is said to have been drunk
at the time.
A youth, about fourteen years of a?!,
had one tf his eyes knocked out by a gravel
thrown from the hoof of one of the horses
during the performance of the circus in Har
risonburg. Va., on Thursday.
Old Toukery, of Dutchess county, N.
Y-. is dead. lie lived in a wild, remote
ravine a hermit's life. Fear of witches was
his strong suit ; and as he believed all black
eyed women to be witches be would not
allow one on his premises.
A party of young srd loyal amend
ments, at Indianapolis, pounded a Caucasian
to death when he was drurjk and helpless,
because they thought he might be a Ku
K'ux. Grant baa been there since, but
hasn't sent for any troops.
William Norton, a wealthy miser, aged
CO years, cf Hyde Hark. Luzerne county,
died suddenly nt the breakfast table on Sun
.day morning. With all his gold he never
would allow a light in his house after sun
set ; but the miser has gone, leaving behind
all his treasnre.
. The Snlt.in of Turkey has presented
the United States Government with a mag
nificent carpet for the East Koom of the
White House. It was woven st the Impe
rial factory, occupied a year in its manufac
ture, weighs fifteen hundred pounds, and is
said to be worth 310,000.
Fort Pillow, at Memphis, has wholly
disappeared under the abrading forces of the
Mississippi. The Appeal says that tbe navy
yard there was once mortgaged and adds :
'The mortgage tubuts but the property
has been disposed of by a power against
which chancery may issue its thunder In
vain "
The dead bodies of John Donovan, his
wife and child, aged eleven years, were found
on tbe 23th in a room at No. 20 Bassett St.,
Albany, lying beside a stove. An investi
gation showed that they had been suIToeated
by coal gas. A little girl was found in an
nt;jticent room gasping for breath but was
resuscitated.
Naw Oileans magistrates have a way of
giving the fines imposed for drunkenness to
the family of the offender, the result of which
proceeding is that wives who want new bon
nets have very materially altered their views
on the temperance question, a husband ju
dicionsly encouraged in inebriety being a
steady source f pin-mony.
The most revolting crime that has
probably ever been committed in America
is now tinder investigation in the Litchfield
(Conn.) courts. A father, named Jnel W.
Parkins, who appears to have been tolerably
well educated, bas been making his five
daughters the victims of his inceetueu de
sires for fifteen years, and deliberately mur
dering several of the unnatural offsprings of
bis lust.
In Schuylkill county there are some
thing over two hundred collieries, with an
invested capital of about $12,000,000. The
average loss to each colliery, while lying
Idle, is at leatt 11,000 per moetb. making
in all over $200,000 a month, and 2.400.
000 a year dead loss. This, with the loss
to railroad companies during tbe suspension,
witl aggregate a grand total of $300,000 a
month, or $6,600,000 a year. This is with
out regard to the sufferings of miners.
A moat wonderful case of stigmata has
lately occurred in Belgium, and beeu de
scribed with great minuteness by Dr. Day
in Macmillan's Magazine The stigma, it
will be remembered, is the theological name
for the blood effusion with which Christ was
affi'cted before bis crucifixion. This girl, it
seems, though of healthy parentage and of
previously good health, was afflicted with a
similar effusion, accompanied by ecstatic
fits. The case is one of the most remark
able on record. .
About two years ago a vein of coal at
Yatesville, near I'ittston. Fa., was accident
ally or designedly set on fire, and has been
burning ever since. Last week ,tho fire
seemed to be increasing in extent and intensi
ty the volume of smoke being extremely large
and heavy. During tbe past winter snow
was melted upon the spot as fast as it fell ;
and a bare space of about an acre in extent
has offered a strange contrast to the sur
rounding mantle of white. Tbe ultimate
result of the subterraneau fires it is impossi
ble to predict.
A young gentleman, eighteen months
of age, residing in Pawtncket, R. I., re
mained quiet the other day for such aa un
wonted period that his mother, suspecting
that all was not right, went in search of
him. She foand him sitting on tbe floor
by an open bureau drawer with a loaded
and capped self cocking revolver in bis hand,
and he was amusing himself by raromiDg the
muzzle of tho piece down his throat, work
ing at the trigger and hammering it on tbe
floor. As soon as the mother recovered
from her fright, she took the weapon from
tbe child, without any unpleasant result.
In I860, when the Fenians set about
releasing Ireland from the British rule by
attempting to capture Canada, they left
tweatv of their number in the bands of the
Canadian authorities. These prisooers'were
subsequently tried in the Canadian courts,
and were sentenced te be hanged. Their
sentence was afterwards commuted, how.
ever, to twenty years in the penitentiary at
Kingston. Since that time three of their
number bavo been released, but the remain
ing seventeen are still serving out their sen
tence. All of them, although of Irish birth,
are naturalized citizens of tbe United States.
A short time since, a Detroit mechanic
had his finger sawed off by a circular saw.
He was in such pain at the time, and for
several days subsequently, that he did not
think to ask what had become of the severed
digit. It seems, however, that a comrade
picked it up out of tho dust, and desiring to
keep it aa the foundation cf a parlor mu
seum, he took it home and placed it in a
bottle of spirits. Marshall learned the
other day of the whereabouts of his prop
erty and demanded it. w-Witing to know
what business any man had wilh hra-person.
The man Ttfused to givo it up, and Mar
shall aclrBg under the advice of a policeman.
je3terday went to a justice of the peace to
secure writ of replevin.
In the New Jersey Court or Oyer
Terminer, at New Brunswick. Theod
Willitts. the -proprietor of the Brookly
Opera House, and Mrs. Anna M. Yates, a
lady of wealth, beauty and high social sttcd
ing. appeared as prisoners charged with
subornation of murder. James Baxter, who
caused thiir arrest, was formerly in the era
ploy of Sam'nel Whitehead .a wealthv citizen
of Washa. New Jersey, father of Mrs. Yates,
and father-in-law of Willitts Baxter charzes
that on three occasions Willitts. Mrs Wil
litts and Mrs. Yates bribed him to kill Mr.
Whitehead, and that twice he attempted to
do so but ruled. How true it is cannot at
present be known. Tbe prisoners of coore
deny it. They were held in $2,000 bail
each to answer at the next term of the
Court.
In Gaston cnnty. North Carolina, on
the night of the 18th of April last, a negro,
named Hargrove, with his companion, went
to the residence of an old citiien. Mr. Fred
erick Costner, and attempted to violate the
person of Mrs. Costner. The lady, terrified,
shrieled with the energy of despair, which
brought her husband to her rescue, when
both villains fled. The black fiends then
went to the residence of Mr. Sarah Stroup.
a white widow lady, residing in tho neigh
borhood, and each in turn violated tho per
son of her daughter, a beautiful girl of four
teen, one of the negroes holding a pistol to
the mother's head to prevent her interfer
ence. Hargrave ha beea caught. If, now.
these two villains should, upon proof of
guilt, be hung on the first treo or Jarnp-post.
the Radical Da t era would raise the usual
cry of "Ku Klux," at.d extol the brutes a?
"martvrs" bunir for their "devotion to the
Union."
To Dhivb Awat Bsdbuosi.
vrives the following as a sure
An exchange !
way to drive '
bedbugs from old bedsteads: "lake green
tomato vines, put ll em into n basin or tray,
pound them to pieces as ne as possible,
then -talu the bedsteads, where they inhabit
with tbe juice, fill the crevices with th
pieces of vine ; lay leaves under the ends of
the slats." If this is practiced thrice a year
not a bug will remain in the bedstead.
We know of a much easier and be'tar
remedy. Procure an ounce of genuine Persia
Insect Powder and sprinkle it along the
sides cf the bed, tirwler the slstt, and you can
wager any amount that the bugs will give
your bed a wide berth. An ounce is enough
for one bd. Tt can be procured at the drug
soref. Pittsburgh Post.
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every variety of
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and Children from
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a
maao w:th special
reference to rough
usage. In this de
a rtmont
our
prices are as
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tonishingly
tablishment
low.
"THE HEAD
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QUARTERS CF
a ti d
COUNTRY TRADE'
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Clothing &. satis
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tacicry prices.
ofthevery
Fuii stock all
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the
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guaranteed. MarJcet
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M. L. 0AHIUX
CIIK1I' CASH DEALtttsix
ALL RINDS DRY
LADIES' DRESS G00E8,
Ready-Made 6MTHIK6.
Hats, Caps, Boots, Slices,
CLOTHS, CASSIHERES
SATIXETTS, J i:XS
i mm mm,
AnI VrctU tnl omplete Stock,,
CHOICE FAMILY (iiiOfEEIt
consisting cf
I Dome Extra Family Fi
GR llX, FEED,
BAC02?", SALT, FISH!
FRESn VEGETABLES,
; DRIED a CAN'D FRUITS,
SUGARS, TEAS, COFFEES,
Also, a large stock of the
Best Brands of Cigars and Tcba:::
STOKE ON IIIGFI STKEET,
j four Dcors Ecit of Craichd'i 2,V
Kbrnsburg, Pa.
TO CASH CUSTOMERS!
at tiss: EKK.ISiirnG
I1U L iJLi I li II l loiiliMf oi WiJiJ
rll - -V .r ii . i
citizens cf Ebensbnrs and the t :.'!': atvr
ally .that he has mrule a treat v. s
prices to CASH BUYERS. MytrOtV
coLbji-t,ln part, of Cooking, Paricr mi fa-
ing blares, cf the most poj u ar km Is;
vare of every description, cf kto:la'
ufictvire ; HarJsrare of all kind.
Locks, Scicwit, Putt Hinges, T..UeI';:.-
Shutter Hingf-s. Polts, In n and Nail?.':!
GOOD
a I dow Glass, Putty, Ta!'!e Knives and F-i-j
Carvinc Knives and F-. rk, Meat Off"
Apple Puierd, Pea and Ticket Knives
groat variety, FoirSors. Shears, Iazi:
Stroj s. Axes, Hatchets. Hammers, 5rv
Machines, Angers. Chisscls, rinses, ('.:
passes, Squares, Filed, lla?ps Anvi's, T
Wrenches, Pip. Panel and CrosvCut S;p
Chnins cf all kinds. Shovel. Spa oes.S:;:--and
Snaths, Rakes. Firks. Ski-h IV
Shoe Lasts. Peps. Wax Bristle. Ci:
Wiineers. Grind Stones. Fatent M-V
Gates and Measures, Lumber Sticks, H-j
Nails, Ilor.-e Shoes. Cast Steel. Rifc.S -
Guns, Pvevolvers, Pistils, Cartridges. F
der. Caps. Lead. &c. Odd Steve P it'
Grates and Fire Bricks. Well and Cr
Puraps and Tubing : Harness an.1
Ware of all kind ; Wooden and Tf T.'.'tir
in great variety ; Carbon Oil and ChiLi"
Fish Oil, Lard Oil. Linseed Oil, Lubicc:.
Oil, Rosin, Tar. Glassware. Paints, SxtS
es. Turpentine. Alcohol. &c.
FAMILY GROCERIES,
such as Tea, Coffee, Sugars, b'las,ir
ups. Spices, Dried Peaches. Pried An
Fish, Hominy, Crackers, Rice and F
Barlev : Soaps, Candles ; TOBACCO v.
CIGA'KS; Paint. Whitewash, Scrub, He
Shoe. Dusting, Varnish, Stove. Clothe?
Tooth Brushes, all kinds and sizes; -'
Cords and Manilla Ropes, and many cw
articles at the lowest rates ur la.-u.
,1
.. roi f.r tnsih. A lilieraM'iV
made to country dealers trying ""J1
wholesale. GEO- HUNTLEY
Ebensburg. Feb, 2S. 1867. -tl
GEO. C. K. ZAIIil
,....JA3. B.ZA;
ZAHfVl a SON,
DIALERS IX
! DRY GOODS, GROCERIES
HARDWARE. QUEENSWAH:
Hats,Caps,Boots,Sbct":
AND ALL 0TEER ARTICLE
. trTSIr
WOOL AND COUNTRY Pl
TUBS IW EXCniSGK TO
STORE ON MAIN STRl
Next Door to the Post Oft
June 10, 1S69.
M'LAUGHLlN,
ITTOBNEr-AT LAW, Jo
Corner of Clinton and Locus
stairs. Will attend to all basiaf
ed with his profession.
JOHN 1 UNIX'
ITTORNEY AT LAW, hnsll(h
A nm ;n kniM;n(r on comer oi
Franklin street, opposite 'a51!",:
second floor. Entrance on
Johnstown. Jan. Si. 1867-
XOFSLIN,
T. w.
Johnstown.
Gw.
OS
ViHT.Y. Attokse
ce, No. 108 Franklia r
town, r a , two mur? - ori;
Store. Vrni attend promptly K "pt-'
legal business that mj beentr
0.
L. PERSHING.
1 w . Jo h n stolen. Fa
lin stTeet, tip-stairs,
Hardware Store.
of?r
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KOPIXIN & DICK, Arn.;bf
Law. Ebensburg. Ta. OitJ
Kittell. Esq., ColonadoKojJ