Cambria JTrccman.
Satckday MoicM.ta, : : June 21, 1871.
Democratic State Nominations.
row auditor general:
General WILLIAM M'CANDLESS,
Of rhilailflpliia.
roil sriivEYim orssrai:
Captain JAMES II. COOPER,
Of Laierence County.
A Tlot to Assassinate toe Tofb.
From the London office of the New York
Worldmtho following startling item of news
was despatched to that paper under date of
Monday, Juno 19th:
A apscial despatch from Home, dated
Sunday, 18th, announces that a plot to as
sassinate the Tope has just been discovered.
It ii said to hare been concocted in London,
Florence, and Paris, ly members of the In
Urnational Society of Working-men. Tho
assassination, it is further stated, was plan
ned for yesterday. ' The papal jubilee was at
tended with great eclat. All the BOTereigns
ol Europe, incliuding Queen Victoria, sent
congratulations to Lis Holiness. A further
pestponemout of the transfer of the Italian
capital will probably soon be annouueed.
Tub amendment to the constitution of
West Virgiuia, providing for the removal
of all political disabilities, and known as the
"Flick Amendment," was lately voted on
by the people with the following result :
For the amendment, 23,540; against the
amendment, G, 323 giving n majority of
17,223 in fa'vor of its ratification. Such
would be the verdict of the peeplo in every
Southern State, if the question was submit
ted to a vole. It is to the credit of the ne
groes, that, having acquired their freedom,
they are almost unanimously in favor cf
general amnesty. The radical majority in
Cengress, however, following the well known
and often expressed feelings of Grant, have
steadily refused to pass a bill for that pur
pose, and will continue to refuse until after
the Presidential election.
Jupoiko from the temper of the radical
press of Philadelphia, the nominations which
have been receutly made by that party for
the various city ofiices, have eaused wide
spread d'ueontont. The corrupt and demor
alizing appliances of the old rings exerted a
controlling influence in the selection of the
candidates, as is manifest from the Gemina
tion of the notorious ffm B. Maun for Dis
trict Aiterney and the so-called Gen. Collis
for City Solicitor. If the democrats of Phil
adelphia will rUo to tho occasion and scizo
the opportunity which now so invitingly
prosenta itsolf, they can win a brilliant
victory. Will .they do it 7 This depends
entirely on the kind of men who are chosen
at the delegate elections, to be held next
week. If good men are then selected, a
strong aud acceptable ticket, and one that
can succeed with the people, will be nomina
ted. But if the old party hacks, the sche
ming and corrupt politicans of the different
wards, aro permitted to have full sway, then
tho nominations will be weak and unsatisfac
tory not Ct to have been made and cer
tain and disastrous dufcat will bo the conse
quence. Of the Philadelphia democracy it
may be emphatically said, in view of the
dissatisfaotiou existing in the ranks of their
opponents, that "to be for warned is to be
forearmed."
Ws direct the attention of our readers to
certain official documents, published on onr
fourth page, in reference to the supposed
marvellous properties of tho wood of a tree
called "cundurango," which grows In Ecua
dor, ene of the republics of South America.
It is claimed by eminent physicians of that
country, that a decoction of the wood of the
"cundurango". will remove cancer, which
has heretofore been regarded as hopelessly
incurable. Its merits have loon tested in
several Instances, by scientific physicians in
Ecuador, with great success. So important
have its curative properties been regarded,
that the United States cousul to that coun
try has brought the matter to the notice of
this government in the correspondence re
ferred to. It will be seen that the discovery
of tho peculiar medicinal virtues of the tree
was purely accidental, and that in an at
tempt to do a personal evil a great public
good has possibly been tho result. It is
Baid that Dr. Bliss, of Washington city, is
now successfully using this remedy in remov
ing a cancer from Mrs. Matthews, the moth
er of Vice President Colfax. A large supply
of tho weod of the "cundurango" is now on
its way to this country, and as soon as it is
received it is the intention of the government
to give it a thorough test with cancer pa
licnts in some of the city hospitals. The
result will be looked for with much anxiety.
Greeley on Cariet-IIaggers.
After his return to New York from his
journey to Texas, Horace Greeley was ten
dered a public reception by tho Lincoln
Club of that city. Mr. Greeley respouded
to this welcome In a lengthy address, from
which we take the following extract. Hav
ing witnessed the mischievous and banefu!
results of carpet-bag vil'.ainy, in its own pe
culiar honfo, he Is a competent judge, and
thus draws tho picture of the horde of thieves
and plunderers who have been the great ob
stacle to the peace and good order of society
in every Southern State that has been cursed
by their rapacity :
"The thieving carpet baggers are a mean
pack. They do exist there. I have teen
some of Uiern; they are fellows who crawled
down Sonth ia the track of our armies, and
generally at a safe distance to the rear ; some
of them ia the sutler's wagons, and some with
cotton permits in thetr pockets; and they in
gratiated themselvee with the negroes a sim
ple, credulous, ignorant set of men very ready
to follow any who profess to be champions of
their cause: and so some of tbeoi got elected
os Senators and Uepresentatie, and some as
judges, sheriffs, Ac.: and there they stand right
in the puWic eye 6taltng, plundering, seme of
them with their arms around the negro and
their bands in hu pockets -(laughter) and
the public looks at tliam and dace nut look at
the honedt men, aud calls them carpet baggers.
Thep are pious men, too. these thieving carpet
hagjjeis, and are greatly concerned about the
salvation of the black man's soul. 'Let ns
pray,' tbey say (great laughter at Mr. Gree
ley's imitation of the tone of these saints)
but they spell prar with an e. (Renewed
laughter.) They obeyed the npostoUc injunc
tion to pray without ceasing. Fellowciiizens,
the time has been and still is when it is peril
ous to be known a a Republican or abolition
ist in the South: but it never called a blush of
shame to a man's cheek until those thieving
carpel-baggers went there. They got into the
Legislature Thev issued bonds and formed
improvements. The improvements were not
made aud the bonds went into their own pockets-
(Laughter.) But you will say, gentle
men, that we have such at the North. Yes,
we have, and I know many of Them (laugh
ter) but it is this, that the South was without
money, almost without friends, these fellows
came there to rob when there was nothing to
steal, or very little, taking the last shlnplaster
off a dead man's eyes. They were recognized
not only as thieves but as enemies. Here the
men who steal are at least our countrymen: so
at Albany, Trenton, or Hurrisburg those who
steal do not carry the money out of the State
as these follows do. The South was not mere
ly beaten, but it was very much astonished
they have not cot over the amezement of their
detect yet. What they sea of us they see
through these robbers. And they view the
North with jauudiceJ eyes, representing to
them disgrace, and the greatest obstacle to the
accendency of Republican principles are these
fellows, and as such I denounce them. Well,
friends, you justify the Ku Ivlux justify them
in what? If they should just take a hundred
of these thieves and place them gently across
rails and bear them peaceably across the Ohio,
I should not justify the act, but the tears I
should shed would live ha a very small onion
(laughter) that would water all my sorrow:
but they do not do that."
Tragic Death of IIou. Clement
L.. Vallaudlgliam.
While we are writing these few lines,
(Tuesday) the sad and mournful prepara
tions are being made at bis late home to con
sign to their last resting place all that is
mortal of Clement L. Valiandigham. His
sudden and tragic fate will cause a profound
feeling of regret throughout the country, In
which those who widely differed from him In
political sentiment will participate, in com
mon with his most enthusiastic admirers and
friends. He has been cut dewn by a most
strange and singular accident, in the pride of
his manhood and the full vigor of his intel
lect. . The manner of his death was most
remarkable. Being professionally engaged
in tho defence of a man accused of murder,
and with a pistol in his hand, which ho sup
posed to be unloadud, he was endeavoring
in his own room and in the presence of one
of the counsel associated with him to illus
trate his thuory that the man who was
said to have been murdered, might accident
ally have caused his own death. His at
tempted proof unfortunately cost him his
own life.
Mr. Valiandigham has acted a conspicu
ous part in the polit ical affairs of the conn
try ever since his first appearance in Con
gress, in 185G. No public man has been
more prominent and certainly no one has
been the subject of more bitter denunciation
on the one hand, or warmer eulogium on the
other. Although not a great man, he pos
sessed all the essential elements of true great
ness, aud, if his life had been spared, would
undoubtedly have attained a much higher
distinction than he had yet reached. lie
was a man of strong and earnest convictions,
and being possessed of great moral courage,
was always ready to avow and defend them.
If he was ambitious, he was free from all the
low arts of the political demagogue, by the
skillful use of which so many of our public
men have rapidly risen to fortune, if not to
fame. Above all else he was a pure, unsel
fish and noble-hearted man, and has left be
hind him a reputation for personal integrity
without blemish or reproach. His untimely
death forcibly recalls to memory the expres
sive words of Buike on a like melancholy
occasion, "What shadows we are, and what
shadows we pursue."
The particulars of Mr. Vallandigham's
sadand shocking death are givon in the de
spatches published below :
Cincinkati, June 16. A special to the Ga
zette, from Lebanon, states that Clement L.
Yallandingharn, one of the counsel of Thos.
M'Gehan, accidentally shot him3elf to night
at 9 o'clock, at the Lebanon House. He was
in a room in company with Gov. McBirney,
and while showing, with a pistol, how Myers
the murdered man might have shot himself,
tho pistol wna discharged, the ball entering
the right side of the abdomen below the ribs.
What direction the ball took is not known.
The surgeons are ranking an examination.
Dr. Reeves, of Dayton, has been dispatched for.
The latest word is that the ball did not enter
the intestines, and the wound is not mortal,
lie has perfect possession of his faculties. The
pistol used was a Smith Wesson. No one
knows how it came to .be discharged. The
accident produces intense excitomeuTin Leba
non. Cincinnati, Juno 17. Sir. Vallandingham
died at eighteen minutes before ten this morn
ing. He sank very rapidly after three o'clock,
having no pnlse; scarcely after that hour. Dr.
Dawson ot Cincinnati, arrived at three o'clock,
but was too late to do any. good for the dying
man. Judge Ilaynea, bis iaw partner from,
Dayron, reached Lebanon this morning, with
other personal friends, and who were with him
in bis last hours. ilcGehan, in the prosecu
tion of whose case he lost his life, was taken
from jail this morning to his bedside, and shed
ters as he beheld his dying friend, who, had
appeared during the progress of the trial to
summon all his energy and lesal acumen in his
defense. Mr. Pollett made the argument far
the State yesterday, and was to have heen fol
lowed this morning by Mr. Milliken, and it
was expected Vallandingham would finish his
argument this evening or on Monday morning.
Judge Pope, before whom the trial was pro
ceeding, ; adjourned the Court this morning
uutil Monday. Mrs. Vallandingham started
for Baltimore last evening, called there by a
dying brother. Mr. Vallandingham'e body
will be taken at once to Dayton, reaching
there about 3 o'clock.
From detailed accounts published it to-day
appears that Mr. Valluudingham with his as
sociate counsel, had been out on Friday even
ing experimenting with a view of ascertaining
how near the muzzle of a pUtol could be held
to cloth without burning it. The test was
made and they were returning, two balls hav
ing been fired from the pistol. Milliken, as
sociate counsel, urged him to discharge the
retnaing three balls, but Vallandingham said:
"No, never mind," and though Milliken re
peated the suggestion, Vallandingham de
clined, ta discharge them, and took the pistol
upetift, and laid it beside an empty one,
which he intended to use in the argament on
Saturday. This led to the tragedy, which
soon followed. The Enquirer this morning
pronounces bis loss to the Democratic party
in Ohio almost irreparable. A public meeting
will be held on Monday, at the Board of Trade
rooms, to take action in regard to his death
aud funeral.
Erik, the oil regions, and possibly Niag
ara, is to bo visited by the Democratic State
Editorial Association next summer.
"OUT ON THE riVi !"
The Iuk-SlincrMon b I'leainre Trip
Where They Were, Wbl They Saw,
and How They LlkeU 1.
As the readers of the Freeman are already
awate, we "threw up our hand" on Monday
evening of last week, and with our wife by
our side and our trunk. elephanNlike, before
us, we struck out for Bellefonte, where we
were reliably informed that the annual snar
mer meeting of the Pennsylvania Democratic
Editorial Association was to be held on the
following day, and that that vas to be suc
ceeded on Wednesday by a general rush to
Williamsport, where the State Editorial As
sociation, regardless of politics, would then
have convened for the purpose, among other
things, of getting together and extending the
excursion to Watkins' Glen, at the head of
Seneca Lake, in Schuyler county, New York,
just one hundred miles above Williamsport.
On reaching Cresson we found that Bellefonte
would be honored with our presenco at just
the same hour next day had we remained at
home all night. We were in for it, however,
and the kind and amiable hostess of the Cal
lan House did not have to use much persua
sion to induce ns to tarry for the night under
the hospitable roof of that comfortable hos
telry, which was certainly glory enough for
one night. A clean and comfortable bed
afforded reposo to our bodies and an excel
lent breakfast gladdened and satiated our ap
oetites, and when we found that our hat,
which, by the way, was exceedingly broad
in the brim, had been "chalked" for the
wholo bill, we felt that our lines and several
other things, thanks to the generous host
and his kind-hearted lady, had Indeed fallen
in pleasant places. About the hour of six
on Tuesday morning, Conductor Quartz very
blandly remarked that we could get "all
aboard" for Altoona, which we did with an
air of felicity that wai truly refreshing to
all beholders. At Altoona we found several
of the brethren on the qui vice, if you know
where that is, and we can't tell you how
glad they were when they beheld tho smiling
visago.of one of the "frosty sons (and a,daugh
ter) of thunder," which us and company
had the pleasure of representing. To reach
Bellefonte aod points beyond it was necessa
ry for us to leave Altoona, which we did on
the Harrisburg Accommodation. At Tyrone
several of the fraternity aud a few more of
the fair sex joined us, or we them, aud up
the Bald Eagle Valley Rail Road we scooted
in the most luxurious cars and best'of spirits,
for a distance of thirty miles or so , to Miles
burg, (probably called so because it is two
railes from Bellefonte,) where our train, was
switched off on to the Suow Shoe R. R., aud
those two miles accomplished in a very brief
length of period. As an evidence of the good
feeling prevailing, we may hete remark that
"our erring but well meaning brethren" of
the radical persuasion, with their ladies, al
though en route direct for Williamsport,
very kindly escorted us to Bellefonte, Instead
of standing around the Milesburg station un
til the return of the train, which there was
no law to prevent them from doing. While
we say this much for onr radical brethren and
sistern, we feel none the less constrained to
condemn the ill temper manifested by the
train which bore us from Milesburg to Belle
fonte. We can hardly expect our readers
to believe it, but true it is that that particu
lar train had its back vp all the way, and
even on our return trip it was in uo better
humor, for it run us all doxen in very thort
meter. Still it deserves much credit for en
abling us to reach Bellefonte in the ortVest
time possible, which suited very well two
lawyer editors of our party at least. At
Bellefonte our reception was "child-like and
bland," the Watchman in waiting for us be
ing as Meek as a lamb, or a man that had
just been lammed. Our greeting, however,
was as cordial as our treatment while there
was kind and hospitable, and everybody
seemed as glad as we were that we had ar
rived. If we had got in face foremost, in
stead of rice versa, we don't believe they
would have been better pleased. From the
station to the Bush House was but a short
walk, and once there aud properly domiciled,
the hotel register revealed the fact that some
thirty-five Democratic editors and probably
a baker's dozen of ladies were there to male
lane the larders of that stupendous and com
fortable hostelry. On the principle of busi
ness before pleasure, a meetlDg was convened
as soon as possible, and although its delib
erations were broken in upon by summoning
us to an excellent dinner, (a summons which
was obeyed with alacrity, not only because
we were hungry, but because table napana
were more desirable, if less amusing, than
some other kins that wasn't to be caught
napping, much as we could nave wisned tor
such a denouement.) notwithstanding this
agreeable interruption, we proceed to say,
the convention succeeded in securing the sig
natures to the constitution of all present who
had not previously signed it, as well as in
adopting a resolution commendatory of the
late Democratic State convention and its able
nominees, appointing a committee to draft a
scries of by-laws for the government of the
Associatiou, fthe report of which committee
was unanimously concurred in on the follow
ing morning,) and electing the gentlemen
named below as officers for the ensuing year:
President, lion. II. L. Dieffenbach, Blooms
burg Columbian; Vice. President, Col. Chas.
J. Diddle, Philadelphia Age; Secretary. W.
P. Furey, Mauch Chunk Times ; Cor. Sec'y,
II. G.Smith, Lancaster Intelliguncer ; Treas
urer, J. W. Rohrer, Kittanning Sentinel;
Executive Committee, J. W. Brown, Harris
burg Patriot, August Duncan , Chambersburg
Valley Spirit, and H. A. McPike, Ebensburg
Freeman. Our own election was of course
exceedingly gratifying to us, but when the
daily papers came around next day and in
ormed us that M. Pike (an abbreviati on to
doubt of Mud Pike) was one of the Execu
tive Committee, we felt the overwhelming
truth of the adage which says that glory
consists in being killed in battle and then
having our name misspelt in the newspapers.
Not being either slain or slewed, however,
owing perhaps to the fact that Sansom and
his jaw-bone was on our side, we soon gained
our equal-Abraham, and have felt hunky
dory ever since. An excursion to Nittany
Mountain In carriages, furnished by the kind
citizens of Bellefonte, irrespective of party,
followed soon after, and if there is any drive
more exhilarating, any road finer or smooth
er for a distance of about seven miles, or any
view in the country more charming or pic
turesque than that seen from the mountain,
we are content to "pass in our chips" with
out feasting our eyes upon it. That grand
panoramic view of Penn'a Valley, with its
well tilled farms, its handsome farm-bouses,
its pretty villages, its magnificent groves, and
its many points of historic interest, is toe
sublime, too enchanting, for any description
of ours to do it justice. It was indeed fitting
that the knights of the pen should be there
to drink ia as it were tho countless beauties
of Pean'e Valley ! Delighted beyond meas
ure, our party turned to retrace their steps
(carriage steps) towards Bellefonte, the road
leading thereto beiug by this time, in the ea-'
limntmn of one of our party at least, almost
celestial in its aspects, owing to the mdky
way which led him into all the cheerful by
ways and udder delights of Pleasant Gap.
The lacteal fluid, however, proved a second
Delilah, inasmuch as there was one chair va.
cant at the elegant trout supper and one bed
tossed before its time. Once again in tho
pretty town of Bellefonte, we were not long
in sitting ourselves down to the pleasant task
of discussing a sumptuous trout supper at
the Bush House, interlarded with delicious
viands, neat toasts, brilliant sentiment, and
pleasant repartee all the free gift or the
pleasing results of the free gift of the kind
hearted people of Bellofonte. After the sup
per came a season of pleasant recreation and
refreshing slumber, followed by a visit to
the large aud magnificent spring which sup
plies the town with water, after first forcing
the fluid by means of a water-wheel into an
immense reservoir on an adjacent hill. We
also inspected that model "print shop," tho
Bellefonte Watchman ofiice, saw the water
power which runs the presses, beheld the
close proximity of a fine trout stream, with
tho finny denizens of which our friend Metk
can commuuicate at any time from either of
the side windows of his office by merely
dropping them a line; wended our way to
the glass works, where we saw much to in
terest and instruct us, albeit there was more
blowing than striking in the process. We
were glad to see that they made light of their
work, however, and spared all the panes they
could in tho making of window glass. A
few other prominent features of the beautiful
town commanded our attention for a little
while, aud then with P. Gray Meek and his
amiable and estimable lady, and P. Gray's
right bower, Joe Furey, as hostages, and
with grateful recollections of the princely
welcome and generous hospitality that had
been so lavishly vouchsafed to us. we bid a
mental adieu to Bellefonte and its noble
hearted citizens, and turned our faces in the
direction of Williamsport.
Over the Snow Shoe to Milesburg, over
the Bald Eaglo Valley to Lock Haven, and
over the Phila. & Erie It. R. to Williamsport
we quickly sped our way, reachiug the lat
ter city, the most beautiful and wealthiest
of its size perhaps in the Union, in time for
a most magnificent dinner at that palatial
and splendidly furnished hotel known as the
Ilerdic House. Our trip thus far was indeed
of the mott pleasing character, and bad we
space we would gladly detail many agreeable
incidents which occurred on the way. As it
is, we can only say for ourself that we did
all we could and as often as we could to do
what seemed to us to bo the mandate of the
cabalistic letters which greeted us 60 often
between Lock llaveu and Williamsport, and
the result was that we went to diuner with
a very empty case so empty indeed that it
took considerable time to fill it with solid
inside matter. In course of time and course
of dishes, however, we accomplished the feat,
and then, after listening to an account of the
booming excursion on the Susquehanna river,
which we were too late to enjoy, we joined
the throng moving in tho direction of the
Academy of Music, a buiidingof which Wil
liamsport, with all its palatial residences and
magnificent public edifices, has just reason
to be proud. A cordial welcome from the
Mayor on behalf of the citizens, an excellent
essay on the art of printing and a fiue poem
on the same subject, both of which we shall
gladly publish at an early day, was the order
of exercises at this beautiful hall. After
this feast of reason and flow of soul." we
all returned to the Ilerdic House, where a
grand supper (or rather dinner, if the tickets
spoke truly,) was strved up about 9 o'clock
that evening, which was of course interspersed
with the usual toasts, speeches, etc., in reg
ular order. While tho latter exercUes were
in progress, some of the disciples of Terpsi
chore inaugurated a social dance in another
part of the house, which tbey kept up until
the "wee sma' hours ayant the twal," while
the rest of us sought the arms of Morpheus
about the turn of the night and snoozed
away until 6 o'clock Thursday morning,
when we were called to au early breakfast,
iu order to be ready for the first train to
Watkins. En passant, wo may remark that
a large number of M. D.'s (not mule drivers,)
had came on a j?i7J-grimage, or grim pillage,
we forget which, from various parts of the
State to Williamsport, and we are free to say
that both there and at Mine-qua, where we
met them on our return, they behaved them
selves as well as if they bad been editors in
stead of doctors, cr as if they knew almost
as much as do the members of our own craft.
"All aboard!" souuded about a quarter
past seven, and Williamsport being an ex
cellent place for boards, as well as for good
boarding, the excursionists, numbering about
sixty ladies and more than ono hundred gen
tlemen beg pardon, wo should have said
editors got aboard the cars of the Northern
Central Rail Road, and soon wero speeding
away at a rapid rate in the direction of New
York State, (poetry,) all in the happiest of
moods in anticipation of the delightful scenes
and Jpleasant enjoyments yet in store for
them. We must here skip a good deal of
what we would lik6 to tell about, and sim
ply say that after a ride of one hundred
miles we reached our fiual destination and
what proved the crowning glory of the first
summer excursion of the Pennsylvania Edi
torial Association Watkin's Glen. What
we Baw within and without that wonderful
canyon we shall not attempt to describe, for
our pen is inadequate to the task ; and had
we not found it done up Brown in the Har
risburg Patriot, we fear our readers wotild
have to subscribe for another paper in order
to get the balance of this story. Our friend
Brown does the descriptive very neatly, but
we think it is beyond the power of him or
any other man to paint the Glen in all its
majestic grandeur and unsurpassable beauty.
It must be seen to be fully appreciated, and
if you, dear reader, contemplate a 4th July
trip, by all means go to Watkins' Glen.
From the Patriot we take up ths thread of
our narrative in this wise :
"Journeying on a distance of seventy-six
miles found us at Elmira, and after a few min
utes spent here, in which some of the party
sampled, the 'Buffalo Beer" and pronounced it
good, we hastened off to Watkins, twenty-two
miles beyond, and just one hundred miles from
Williamsport, which point we reached at half
past twelve o'clock. We disembarked and
quietly strolled up the street until we reached
the Fall Brook House, where we found Messrs.
Baker & Sons ready to extend to us a welcome,
which they so well know how to do. We has
tened to our rooms and made oar preparations
for the trip through the glen. A short ride of
less than half a mile brought us to the mouth
of the glen. The first sight startled us with its
magnificence. Before us was an open space
enclosed by a wall of rock fully three hundred
feet high and almost perpendicular. At the
eud opposite the entrance could be seen a small
opening in the rocks, and beyond the clear
blue sky, and through this came dancing and
laughing a stream of limpid water, and falling
over the moss-covered rocks into the basin
soon was lost in the valley beneath. We now
commenced the ascent, up stairways, over
bridges, along narrow passages, we thread our
way, ever gazing upon some new and wondrous
beauty; now looking up along the most inter
minable lines of rock reaching far up towards
the heavens, or looking down into the waters
lashed into foam as it falls from its giddy
bights upon the rocks beneath. It were use
lees to attempt a description of this wonder of
the age. No pen can paint it. The pencil of
the artist fails to de it justice. But on we go
to admire the beauties of Glen Alpha. Here
we stop, amazed and almost wonder stricken
at the grandeur of the scene, t our cascaues
are clearly visible, ach diHenug irom ui
other. But we hurried on, gazing upon new
scenes and filled with new pleaeures. unUl we
reached Cavern Cascade aud Long Staircase.
Here, to our mind, is found one of the grand
est sights of the whole glen. Up the Long
Staircase and wo soon reached the Mountain
House, and upon its broad porches we sought
rest from the fatigues of the journey. At the
Mountain House? the good people of Watkins
had prepared for the hungry crowd of Pennsyl
vania editors a most sumptuous dinner, which
was moistened bv a supplv of generous wine,
the gift of the "Pleasant Valley Wine Com
pany," of Ham mondsport. New York.
"The avidity with which the dinner was par
taken of, and the keen satisfaction manifested
by each individual, should satisfy the very
kind people of Watkins that their hospitalities
were appreciated. After dinner we started on
our trip through the Upper Glen It most be
seen to be realized. But on we go to enjoy
the grandeur of Glen Cathedral, Raitbow
Falls and Triple Cascades, Whirlwind Gorge,
The Winding Way and the innumerable other
beauties of the Glen open loathe visitor. Every
where the ereat architect of the uuiverse has
with a lavish -hand scattered the rarest of
nature's gems. It was our pleasure on our
return Irom the head of the Glen as we neared
Rainbow Falls to witness one of the grandest
sights we ever looked upon. It had been
cloudy with pome slight rain, but as we neared
Rainbow Falls it cleared off, and the sun's
rays penetrated this rock bound cavern and
falling upon the water as it leaped from the
rocks afforded us a view that none who wit
nessed it will ever forget. After having hasti
ly viewed the beauties of the Glen we hastened
back to the Mountain House, and after refresh
ing ourselves took carriage and drove to Cem
etery Hill, and from the brow of the hill had
a most delightful view of the surrounding
country. At our feet nestled the beautiful
village of Watkins, beyond was Seneca Lake
in all its beauty, and to the right stretched out
the rich valley of the Chemung. The Glen is
now the property of Mr. Parsons, of Troy, Pa.,
and to whom the party are indebted for many
acts of kindness., Wa'tkms is ploasantly loca
ted at the head of Seneca Lake end has a popu
latiou of about 3,500. It has two printing offi
ces and four good hotels the Fall Brook. Jef
ferson, Langdon and Northern Central. Judg
ing from the fize of the stores and the large
slock of goods we should suppose that a thri
ving business is done by its people. In the
evening we enjoyed a ride on Seneca Lake,
and were delighted with its scenery. Seneca
Lako is about forty miles long aud within an
average width ot two and a half miles. At its
widest point it is about seven miles. The
bfaat iu niakir g its trip from Watkins to Gen
eva travels about fifty miles. With this ter
minated the pleasure of the day."
And now we are out of breath, out of
space, and out of time, and still we have to
speak of Troy, Bradford county, where we
were sumptuously entertained and promis
cuously toted about the country and taken
to a wonderful mineral spring in the vicinity
in handsome turnouts of R. S. Mennarain,
Esq., one faf tho biggest little men that na
ture in its happiest mood ever produced
and of other men and other things that grat
itude at least forbids us to pass by unnoticed.
But all this we roust leave for next week,
contenting ourself for the present with a full
endorsement of the following comprehensive
series of thanks reported by the committee
appointed for that purpose and unanimously
adopted by the Association at its final meet
ing at Minnequa:
The Editorial Association of Pennsylvania do
sires to record its sense of obligation to the
various gentlemen to whom it Is indebted for
the jrreat pleasure that has attended its first
Summer Meeting and Excursion :
To the Pennsylvania Central llailroad Com
pany, the Northern Central ltailroad Company,
The Philadelphia and Erie Kailroad Company,
the Heading Kailroad Company, the Catawissa
Itailroad Company, nud the Cumberland Valley
and Bald Eagle Valley Kailroad Company, we
oiler our hearty acknowledgments for their
kindness in extending the use of their respect
ive roads to the members of this Associatiou,
and the ladies accompanying- them on the ex
cursion. To Messrs. ITenry W. G winner, of therensyl
vania Central Kaflrond, Ed. S. Younjr, of the
Northern Central Railroad, nml AVm. A. Uald
win, of the Philadelphia and Eri Itailroad, we
return our thanks for their promptness and
courtesy in luakin-r nil necessary arrangements
for our accoinuiodatioiijand comfort whilejpass-ing-
over the several reads with which tuey
are connected.
To Mr. Geo. W. I. Ball, Second Assistant Gen
eral Passenger Airent of the Pennsylvania
Central, who had charge of issuing the excur
sion tickets, special thanks are due for the effi
cient co-operation he save the Secretary of
this Association iu arranging: the rout-s, and
for the great pains he was at in performing- that
service in the most satisfactory manner.
To the Mayor and citizens of Williamsport,
for their cordial reception ; to Messrs. Schotield
Sc Harry, of the Herdic House nnd Minnequa,
for their entertainment : to Messrs. Capronand
J. 1$. .1. Kinsloe, for their active co-operation
and kind attentions; to Mr. Peter Herdic, for a
most ajrreeable excursion on the Susquehanna,
and many other considerate attentions ; to Mr.
Wm. G. Elliott, proprietor of the Academy of
Music, for the use of his beautiful building in
which to hold the meelimr of this Association,
we also return our warmest thanks.
To Messrs. John J. Van Allen. Frederic Da
vis. Jr., Wm. Baldwin, . A. Wicks, H. G. Nurd,
of Watkins, N. Y.; and to Mr. L. M. Gano, of
the Watkins' Erfi-ex, for the open-hearted hos
pitality with which they welcomed us to their
beautiful village, for the penerous provision
made for our entertainment, and for u delight
ful excursion on Seneca Iake, Their friendly
welcome will long- bo gratefully remembered.
To Messrs. Baker & Sons, of the Kail Brook
House: to Messrs. Gamble and Kiebardson, of
the Jefferson House, Mr. I). C Wilcox, of the
Lang-don House, and Mr. Calvin Bartbie, of the
Waverly, we are indebted for unusual atten
tion to our comfort wliile in their respective
hotels during- our stay in Watkins.
To the proprietors of the Delavan Houeand
Ttathburn House, at Elmira, N. Y., and to V.
M. Long- & Son. of tho Troy Itouse, Troy, Pa.,
and also to the citizens of Troy, our thanks are
due and are hereby tendered for their many
courtesies.
We cordially thank Mr. E. B. Parsons, propri
etor of Watkins' Glen, Mr. Joshua Jones, lessee
of the Mountain House, and Mr. Morvalden
Ells, manager of the Glen, for their unremitted
attention, and for the elepant entertainment
provided for us. At the samo time we would
express our indebtedness to tho Pleasant Val
ley Wiue Co., for their liberal and opportune
supply of thir sparkling product. The pleas
ure of our visit to Watkins' Glen, and our ap
preciation of Its marvellous beauty, which
excited our wonder and admiration, were much
enhanced by the kindness of all connected with
that charming resort.
To the conductors and attaches of the various
roads over which we passed, we aro indebted
for courteous attention to all our wants. Their
affability has contributed larg-ely to the enjoy
ment of our trip, and we cannot too warmly
commend the ability with which they have dis
charged the duties of their trying1 positions.
Finally, our thanks are eminently due to Mr.
It. S. Menamin, Secretary of the Association,
for his tact in organizing this excursion, for the
ability ho has displayed in its management, and
for his ceaseless and successful endeavors to
promote the pleasure of all participants in this
delifihtf ul, social re-union of the Pennsylvania
press. Kespectf ully submitted.
H. J. Stahlb, Gettysburg Comviler.
1
Hiram Yuusa, York True Democrat,
5
3
it. r . ukai.t, rniia. vvemna Jicraui,
W. W. Davis, Doyiestown Democrat,
Ecgesr II. Mcndat, Phila. iroof-Slicct,
But hold, we almost forgot the ladies.
Not so with Ilarry Smith, the good-looking
bacholor editor of the Lancaster Intelligencer.
How neatly be performs the pleasant task
when he declares that "the ladies gave tone,
character, life and animation to the party.
Without them it would have been dull, un
interesting and unprofitable," and more of
the same sort. We hope that Mrs. II. G.
Smith, nee some other name, will lend her
valuable aid in the same direction next year.
If so, may we be there to see.
A correspondent of the New Orleans
Times tells the following singular story;
"Not many months ago, aa a gentleman was
about to plunge into a forest stream for a
pleasant batb, he saw far down on the peb
bly bottom a terrible simulacrum of him
selflifeless limbs swaying with the tide, a
white, drowned face, with starting eyes and
blue lips. It was but a second, and the
vision faded, and, with a cold shivor, he
turned away. A few weeks ago came the
news of his death. lie foil from the deck of
a vessel one stormy night in crossing the
Atlantic."
Political ami IVeTrs Items.
The parties who arrested Ruloff are
quarreling over the reward and it has gone
to the courts to be dfcc5cc
Natchez, Miss., has a two-year-old
amendment that weighs eighty-seven pounds.
One of her future Alderratn. -
An act has passed the Legislature lnSict
in a heavy penalty upon all persons who
may hereafter be guilty of mutilating or des
troyed handbills. .
A portiou of Clinton Mountain, tn Ar
kansas, including about one hundred acres,
has sunk, carrying trees entirely out of sight,
and the space is continually enlarging.
The distribution of the $20,000 to suf
ferers by the Mifflin fire has caused great
dissatisfaction. Just what might have teen
expected. One evil brought ou the other.
The intermarriage of two families in
Maine ia remarkable- One, consisting of
four sons and one daughter, has married all
of a neighbor's children, fur daughters and
a son !
Information if wanted cf a young man
named Charles Fisher, aged 18, who left
hi home in South Hermitage. Lancaster
County, on 19th of April last, and has not
been heard'of since.
In New York on Sunday, Dr. James
Connelly, while laboring under delirium
tremens, murdered his two little daughters,
aged respectively 3 years and 7 months, and
then committed suicide.
The editor of the Bellefonte Watchman.
who was at Harrisburg at the time, says
that of the one hundred and thirty delegates
who composed the Radical St to Convsntion,
v. f,M-fw-iY n-pra not nffice holders.
Hon. John V. L. McMahon, one of the i
oldest distinguished lawyers of Maryland,
died In Cumberland on Thursday night last.
The youngest sister of Mr. McMahon was
the wife of the unfortunate Valiandigham.
In view cf the disturbed condition of
Europe on the temporal power of the Pope
question. Victor Emmauel has thought
proper to still farther postpone the removal
of the Italian capital from Florenee to Rome.
Putnam, the Radical Postmaster of
Mobile, one of General Grant's recent ap
pointments, has been arrested and indicted
for bribery. From office to the Penitentiary
seems to be the fate of Radical officials South.
A few days since, a one year old child of
Rev. Sbindle. Lutheran pastor at PerrysviUe,
Juniata county, got hold of a box of percus
sion caps and swallowed a quantity of them.
It was taken ill, and medicine was adminis
tered, which expelled thirty-one caps. It
died the day following.
A while ago, a poor wayfaring man
come to Curnham. Me., but would not re
veal his name or residence. He died, and
an examination of his effects shows that he
was Prof. Greenleaf. the author of the
grammar and other school books famous in
this country thirtv years ago.
The Fulton Democrat says : Mr. Iaac
Culp tells us of a blacksnake killed on the
farm of Mr. J. B. Lynch, of Bethel town
ship, whose length was seven feet, the head
and about six inches of the body was white ;
it then continued about three feet speckle
and the balance wound up black.
A Newfoundland dog aud a hound met
on a log across a stream out in Nebraska.
Neither would go back. Finally, after eye
ing each other, the NewfuucdlaDd spread
wide his legs on tho outer edges of the log
and the bound darted through under bis
body. Here was canine sagacity.
A negro in Georgia robbed his employ
er of a pistol, and, while fooling with it shot
himself through the hand. He went to Au
gusta and told that he had been Ku-Kluxed,
and had the United States troops out forty
eight hours loooking for them, and while
they were gone Sambo stole all their rations.
On Friday last a son of William R ith
rock. ticket agent at Miller-town, Terry
county, was run over by a Pennsylvania
railroad freight train and killed, lie had
been on the track with his father and Te
comicg confused ran right into the j-iws of
death. The boy was about seven years old.
The Pennsylvania State Madical Socie
ty, in session at Williamsport, on Thursday
rescinded their rule against women physi
cians, by a vote of 50 to 40. The rule pro
hibited, on pain of expulsion from the so
ciety, consulred with female physicians, or
with the who cousulted with them or
taught them medicine.
Walter Johnson, aged fourteen, and
Stephen Whitman were fishing from a boat
at Stillwater, ea the Hudson river, on the
19th, when the boat drifted under the falls
of the dam and capsized. Whitman swam
ashore. Thomas Doran, aged twenty-two.
jumped in to save the boy Johnson, but was
seized with cramps, and both were drowned.
At a negro Sabbath School picnic, near
Montgomery, Alabama, the darkies com
menced quarreling over the merits of rival
Radical candidates, and three were stabbed.
A similar row occurred at another black
Sunday-School picnic in the same State, and
three more were wounded. There were no
Democrats at either gathering. It was
purely a family fuss.
If ex Congressman Bowen gets two
years in the Penitentiary for having two
wives, how many years should Brigharn
Young get 1 He must be within the jurisdic
tion of the laws of the United States, as one
of his sous, by odo of his wives, is now re
ceiving an education at the expense of the
people at West Point. Equal and exact jus
tice is an excellent sentiment.
Hon. Jeremiah S. Black, says the Pitts
burgh rost, has been quoted as opposed to
the ninth resolution in the Pennsylvania
democratic platform. This Is not true. He
was jo Harrisburg during the sitting of the
convention, being engaged in the supreme
court then in session, and gave his opinion
in writing, expressing in the boldest terms
the binding obligation of the several amend
ments to the constitution.
The news from the far east, if founded
in fact, Is horrible. Famine is said to be uni
versal in Persia, and in some parts of that
kingdom the famished people are charged
with killing and devouring their children.
It is difficult to believe such a horrible
tale ; but the improvidenc of Mahommedans
in all countries, and the backward state of
agriculture, combine to render even such
horrors possible. If there is grain in Europe
some of it the surplus cannot be better
employed than in relieving the distress of
the Persians.
The Catholic Chcbcii throughout tha
world has just celebrated an event unprece
dented in ita history the twenty-fifth anni
versary of tho accession of Piue IXth to the
Tapal throne, which anniversary occurred
on Friday last. 16th inst. Of two hundred
and fifty-nine Popes, none have hitherto ed
joyed the honor of living for a quarter of a
century in the possession of the highest posi
tion in the gift of the Church. One, Pius
VI., came within six months of the time,
but failed to realize what may have been his
fondly indulged wishes. It is regarded as
an event of great importance that a Pope
should reach this lengthened term of power,
some even regarding it as an event destined
to exercise great Influence on the future his
tory of the Church. However this may be.
the singularity of the circumstance, and the
recent misfortunes of the Toposervo to make
the occasion ono of great interest to Catholics
throughout the world.,
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ly tirted up and coinno.liur.s
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c-annot be undersold in price. A v!
and increase of patronage is respect:;:: -
ted, and no effort will be wautinf w rt -tiro
satisfaction to ail LrrBDtc&
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