mi 1 miibria JTrccmau. Eni:xsB!LRrj, pa. Thursday Morsixo, : Aug. 10, 1871. DEMOCRATIC NOMINATIONS. STATE. TOR Al'DITOll CKStRAI.: Gbnhkal WILLIAM M'CANDLESS, Of lhlUetlihia. for gciivsvoR ciimiral: Captain JAMES If. COOPEK, Of .Luu'ivnee County. mSTHMT. FOR STAT PEXATOIt: R. L. JOHNSTON. EQ . Ebensburg. Suttjent to the uttiyn of the DUtrict Cunftranc.' rorsTT. Assembly-W. HOIiACK KOSE, Johnstown. Vrothonotary J. K. HITE. Ebensburtr. t j i .1-VO. FLANAGAN, Johnsfn. Assoc to Judges -j u j i.f.ovn. Ebc-nM.ury. District Attorney V. II. SECHLElt, Kbeush'jr. Treasurer JOHN COX, Coiicmainrh Borough. Cornmlsaioner W. It. M'CLKLLASH. JolinsCn. y. II. Iiiree'r JAS. FA l(K EX, VnFhiuirtn Tp. Auditor V. A. H. LITTLE, Allegheny Twp. lcitiocratic State Executive Comm'tee. Philadelphia, July 29, 18T1. The Executive Committee, authorized by the Democratic Stnte Convention of Pennsylvania has been constituted and organized as follows : William A. Wallace, of Clearfield. Chairman. William .Mutcliler, Esq., of Northampton. Hon. Samuel J. Randall, of Philadelphia. '. It. Brock way, Esq.. of Columbia. Pohert L. Johhston, Esq., of Cumbria. Hon. Charles J. Middle, or Philadelphia. Lrwis C. Cnssidy, Esq., of Pluladeldhia. (ieneral (ieorg-e W. Cass, of Alleg-lieny. 1,. A. Maekey, Esq., of Clinton. W. S. Steniror, Eq., of Franklin. lion. W. MCiolhuid, of Lawrence, Secretary. I!v order, io., WILLIAM A. WALLACE. Chairman. A Falsehood. In reply to "A Democrat" we will state that Mr. Johnston, late Chair man cf Democratic County Committee, left no papers upon his desk, nor did he offer any to the convention, except a list of the district afid a list of the offices to be filled, which was in accordance with universal custom. Jacob Tithnkt, Esq., of Greensburg. has been nominated as the Democratic candidate for State Senator in the District composed i f the counties of Westmoreland and IndU ana. Some years ago Mr. Turney was a member of the Senate, but the District was then differently constituted from the present one. He occupied a prominent position in that body and discharged his duties with ac knowledged credit and ability. The polit ical maj rity in" the District is against him, but there is some hope that he may bo able to strike down or soriously cripple the Behe moth of Radicalism in Indiana county, its boasted stronghold. If be succeeds in de feating Harry White, his Radical opponent, the State will be Immeasurably the gainer and the tone cf the Senate infinitely im proved. Cambria cocstt, says an exchange, has Ron for Gen. Hancock for President and R. L. Johnston, Esq., for Senator. That's more than she done for Speer for Congress lat fall. Probably if they cannot regulate their domestic concerns they will now try national affairs awhile until home affairs be come settled and quiet. The above beautiful paragraph is from the Clearfield Republican of last week, the italics being our own. When that paper sought occasion to cast on unkind fling at the De mocracy of Cambria county for expressing their honest sentiments, it should at least have done it in the English language, which is more than the done " in the article al luded to. Our only regret ij that the gallant Damocrajy of Clearfield county have Dot an organ printed in the English language. It Is made a matter of serious complaint by a large number of leaden brained Rad ical editors, that William A. Wallace, Chair man of the Democratic State Committee, is so fatally bent on his own election to the United States Senate, that for the purpose of securing a majority in tho lower branch of the Legislature, to bring about that re sult, ho will sacrifice the State ticket. All this dismal foreboding of treachery to Gen. M'Candless and Cant. Cooper is of course based on the assumption that it will bo tho duty of the Legislature to bo elected next October to elect a successor to Simon Cam eron next January. The statement of a siugle fact is all that is necessary to consign this senseless charge to the waste basket cf Radical calumnies. The term of Simon Cameron in the Senate will not expire until tho fourth of Marcli, 1873, and therefore it will not be the next Legislature, but the Legislature to be elected one year from next October, that must choose his successor. What is to be said of a set of men claiming to speak for tho " God and morality " par ty, who will resort to a political dodge at a glance so transparent and so easily exposed ? How. Thomas W. Tiptok, one of the Re publican United States Senators from Ne hraska, in a recent political speech in that State, said : I am unalterably opposed to the ruinous and corrupting course of the present ad ministration, and here pledge myself to mak that opposition both open and uncompro mising." When a Senator of the United States, possessing ample facilities for becoming ac quainted with tht interior workings of an administration of his own choice, thus open ly expresses his want of confidence in it and his determination to oppose giving it a fur. therance of power, it shows that there is 6ometLing rotten in Denmark." Mr. Tip ton docs not stand alone amcng Republican Senators in avowing his contempt for the Long Branch Administration, but is backed up and supported by such men as Sumner, Schurz, Trumbull, Fenton, Patterson, and others of not quite so much prominence. When a mutiny cf such alarming propor tions assumes form and consistency among the crew of a ship already partially disabled through tho unseamanlike conduct of its eommanding officer, the usual result is, that he speedily comes to grief and is forced to surrender the baton of command to a more skilful and trusted navigator. Such will be the fate in 1872 of the incompetent pilot qow at the wheel of U"5 Gfrveruaieut. Wm. IS. Honatkcr, Esq. This gentleman was elected Sheriff of Cambria county at the last election by tho largest majority ever given to a candidate in Cambria county for that or any other office. He took an oath to perform his du ties faithfully, and all who know the man know that the injunctions of that oath will be conscientiously observed. But Mr. B nacker is a Democrat, and therefore Radicals do not love him ; he 13 a German, and therefore Know Nothings hate him, as they are sworn to do; be periled his life in the war to preserve the Union, and therefore he is a standing rebuke to stay-at-home Radicals. Sheriff Bonacker is the executive officer of the county, and as such is bound by his oath to execute all writs. That he would commit, or allow any oppression, every one knows is contrary to his Dature and his edu cation. His fees are prescribed by law, and he can take neither more nor less. If he charges mote than legal fees, even by mis take, he is answerable to the law. The Altoona Sun, a respectable news paper, published a correspondence contain ing false, and, as the Sheriff had reason to think, malicious matter in reference to a cer tain sale made by him. His counsel addressed a note requiring a retraction and the name of the author. The editor of the Sun gave the name of the author, disclaimed any mal ice on his part, and publicly cautioned bis correspondent in reference to the article. The author himself staled that the matter was not written through malice, but on in formation received from others. The name of tho author developed, as the Sheriff be lieves, an innocent, inoffensive young man, with whom he desired no difficulty and whose puuishment could give him no grat ification. And there the matter ends. As to any questions that may be asked by any person, they will be best answered by the Sheriff's return under oath, now on file in the proper office. He emphatically de clines the Know Nothing catechism. What bid fair at the outsat and during its progress to become an interminable con test for official supremacy between Bout well, Secretary of the Treasury, and Pleasanton, Commissioner of Internal Revenue, has at last been brought to a close, if we can place any reliance in the Washington dispatches in reference to the puerile ways of the Gov ernment at Long Branch, by the dismissal of Tleasanton from office. In this whole procesding, small as it was from the begin ning. Grant has ajr.ain diplayed his unfit ness for the office he holds. If it wa3 a ques tion, as was asserted, which of these two individuals was invested under the law with power to discharge a certain act, it was easy of solution. It is plain that both could not exercise the same power at tho same time. An ordinary President would have cut the Gordian knot without any use less ceremony or delay. But this prompt, straightforward action is not the way Grant surmounts an obstacle. Two difficulties confronted him and caused him to hesitate for weeks and weeks. One was, that Pleas anton occupied a high position in the Graud Army of the Republic, and if he removed him he might Incur the hostility of that important political element. The other was, that his retention in office would certainly bo followed by Boutwell's resignation a risk which Grant was unwilling to assume. A President of the nerve and decision of " Old Hickory " would have taken the re sponsibility and disposed of a conflict of au thority like this without the use of very much red tape. Pleasanton having been got rid of, after weeks of shuffling and hedging, it only remains to be seen what new office Grant will confer on him to ap pease his wounded feelings and to mitigate the rago of that military cabal known as tho Grand Army of the Republic. Bishop Roseckanz and the Nkw Yokk Riots- Rt. Rev. S. II. Rosecranz, Bishop of Columbus, Ohio, and brother of Gen. W. S. Roseeranz, has published a communica tiou in the Ohio Stale Journal in relation to tho New York riots, of which the following is an extract : The attempt to make the Catholic church responsible for the late New York riot is un fair and unjust. Those who were fired upon by the police and military were on the spot in defiance of a strict command of their archbishop, given in all the churches of tho city the Sunday previous. The feud be tweon the Orange and Ribbon factious, both made up of a faction of-the lower order of Irish people, is now centuries old. Religion was made the pretext, but both parties practically renounced religion in their strife. The New York riot was simply a continua tion of that strife. To make the Catholic church responsible'for what it forbids, abhors and condemns, is unfair and unjust. We Catholics desire to be citizens of a free Republic. We want nothing for ourselves but what we will do our best to maintain for others. It would be a pleasure to us to see Jesus Christ honored and loved by all our countrymen, but no pleasure to see any one calling himself a Catholic for fashion's 6ake or on compulsion. The clergy have no temporal or political dtsign. Theirexpecta tions are on the period that shall follow the judgment ; hence they can suffer patiently, though with regret, the obloquy and unjust hate excited against them by misrepresenta tiocs of such HcaudaU as the New York riot. On yesterday week an election was held in Charleston, South Carolina, for Mayor and other city officers. The contest was warm and exciting. The Radical and carpet-bag candidate was Pillsbury, the present incumbent. His opponent was General WagDer, who was supported by all the In telligent white men and reputable negroes. Wagner and his associates on the same ticket were elected by about 700 majority. This is the first blow that carpet-bagism has received in Charleston. It is to be hoped that this triumph of the people of that city over their rapacious plunderers is only the beginning of the end. and that it foreshad ows the defeat in South Carolina of as grace less and corrupt a MJt of scoundrels as ever robbed and bankrupted a State. General 31'CaudIcss. The continued and shameless abuse which the Radical press is heaping upon the well earned military reputation of Gen. M'Cand less, is begiuning to produce a wholesome reaction, the legitimate result of sueh a cow ardly mode of political warfare. Sensible aDd fair minded men in the Radical party have become thoroughly disgusted with it. Those pensioned editors of a dopraved press dare not assail his private character, and when they attempt to rob him of his mili tary laurels they only strengthen him and weaken their own desperate cause. John W. Forny, in bis rress, has rendered him self coDf picuous in makiDg these vile and unfounded attacks. This was to have been expected from a man who has sounded all the depths and shoals of political infamy. Had Forney pursued a different course in the Press, that venomous sheet would have been like the play of Hamlet with the part of Hamlet left out. Dr. Brower, who was at one time an old line Whig member of the Legislature, now the editor of the Medium, an organ of the National Labor Union or ganization, puplished at Danville, resents these malignant assaults on General M'Cand less in the following strong and emphatic language : " The Press and other pensioned journals show the low instiucts of the political hyena when they assail the military record of Gen. M'Caudless. It were well for the pampered Collector of Customs and all the office hold ers, speculators, shoddy contractors and bummers if they could show as good a rec ord as General M'Candless in the war for the Union. And it ill becomes the vampyres and buzzards, who during the dark days of the war, when be was at the front, bung in the rear, to suck the life-blood of the nation, in jobs, coutracts. and civil offices- it ill be comes such sneaks and cowards to thrust a vulture's boak at oue who faced the storms of battle and the hardships of the field, from the Peninsula through the fires of Get tysburg aud tho horrors of the Wilderness. If these stay-at-home plunderers, who grow rich on public spoil and who took advan tage of public necessity and party favoritism could show half as good a military record as General M'Candless, they could not, even under the seueeless lash of party, thus at tempt to rob a soldier of his dear bought honors. " All this has nothing to do with tho office for which he is now presented. Is he qualified for the position ? Is he honest ? ' ' Is he capable 1 ' That is the question the true patriot will ask. And the most Rad ical, purblind office holder, would really -hrink from going into the canvass on the true relative military records of M'Candless and Stanton. But the foul demagogue, who is on the scent of the loaves and fishes,' or is laboring to serve the master that feeds him can only see with the bleared eyes of prejudice that which, aids in his schemes of public plunder." Hancock's Popularity. Hancock's nomination will infuse an enthusiasm into the canvass that no other nomination could evoke, and upon the swelling tide of that enthusiasm he will bo borno forward into the Presidential chair. Ilii record is so brilliant, and his manner has so much mag netism about it, that they will give an im petus exertion that no other name now men tioned could call forth. Correspondents of eastern papers report that during the sitting of the late Democratic State Convention in Pennsylvania, there was much enthusiasm t the mention of Gen. Hancock's name as the next Democratic candidate for President. And well it might be so, for it is but justice to a brave and gallant soldier, and a bold and able statesman, to say that few men to day stand higher in the estimation of the American people than Gen. Winfield t?. Hancock ; and we believe that the warmth and depth of enthusiasm that would be awakened throughout the length and breadth of the Union by such a nomination would strike terror into the ranks of the admin istration. The whole people would have confidence in his integrity and ability, no less than bis solid adhesion to the principles of free government. Whether in the tented field, in the exercise of those qualities which make the statesman, or in the private walks of life, Hancock's superior in courageous and brilliaut action and devotion to duty, in comprehensive grasp of the principles of civil government, it would be difficult to find. The Mocking Bibd's Song that was Husukd Foreteb. A very curious incident, illustrative of the power which can be exer cised over the animal creation by kindness and careful training, occurred but a few days ago at Scottsville, Kentucky. The sister of officer Harry Mansfield, of this city, had raised a mocking bird which she taught to go aud come at her call, and which, in re turn for all the kindness bestowed upon it. exhibited a peculiar fondness for her. Last Monday week. Miss Mansfield was taken ill, and to while away the tedium of the sick room, she bad her little pet brought to her bedside, and day and night it cheered her with its 6weet carols, bringing to mind many happy thoughts cf field and meadow, sunshine and song. As her illness grew more alarming, and day after day brought no relief from suffering, the warblings of the little songster rather served to aanoy than please her, and so turning wearily on her pillow, she said to him, "Birdie, hush, you worry me." Strange to say, the words seemed to be understood, for immediately the son g was hushed, and the bird retired within himself, as it were. On the next day the lady died, leaving, it would seem, a command of silence upon the bird, which will never be broken, for, although several days have elapsed since, and every effort has been made to induce him to sing, he refuses to respond with Bong to any lips but those of his once loved mistress. Nashville Banner. A Husband is a Hurry. The people of Mantua Station, in Portage county, Ohio, are just now hugely enjoying a joke on rath er a grim subject. The wife of one of the residents of the village has been for some time sick, and a few days since was given over by the physicians. Ibe husband, that no time might; be lost, went to. the underta ker and ordered a coffin, requesting .him to come and take the measure of the "corpse'' that was to be. The undertaker told the husband it was not his custom to measuie "corpses" that still breathed, and refused the job. The husbaDd took the measure of his supposed dying wife with a stick, ordered the coffin, and shouldering bis spade, him self dug the grave, Just here comes in the joke. No sooner was the grave dug than the woman began to mend, and on Monday morning was reported very much better, though her recovery Is not yet certain. The husband realizes the fact that there is no use in hurrying things and that whilo there is life there is hope or disappointment, ILu-Klux Campaign Document. The press generally seem to give the cold shoulder to the incendiary document put forth without signatures and without evi dence, a3 an abstract of the report of the Ku-Klux Committee. Our city cotemporary, the Press, goes into ecstacies over it, but we must remember that it i3 just the game which it proposed when it cried " Halt " to General Grant. Its advice was to drop the San Domingo job and reopen the war. Now it has flayed the first card in the new game. Will thefe desperate and reckless gamblers win it ? We think not. The New York Ilerald breaks the general silence of the press of that city with this indignant de nunciation : " The very virtuoua Radicals of the Congressional Committee who are pretending to investigate the alleged Ku Klux outrages in the South, are ready, it ap pears, to report a stupeadous budget of hor rors. They are already issuing semi-official statements to that effect. True, they have not bad much time to investigate the mat ter; but party and political necessity urge an early thrilling report against those vil lainous, incurable white secesh ' of the South, and in favor of the poor negroes. This is evident from the hasty action of the Committee of the Republican party in Wash ington, which has already put in circulation a campaign document, which is a digest of the pretended facts brought to light by the Congressional Investigating Committee, and has requested the Republican newspapers to serve their cause by publishing the docu ment in full. We see, then, what a force, and, at the same time, what a gros? imposi tion upon the country this Radical Ku-Klux report of the Congressional Committee is likely to be. But is it not playing with fire? Is not such a one-sided inflammatory report made for party purposes calculated to do much harm ? Will it not make the negroes, who are already in the ascendent in some parts of the South, and who are committing most diabolical acts, more pre sumptuous and disorderly? Who has not heard of the atrocities of a band of negroes in Chatham county and adjoining counties, in North Carolina ? And yesterday we re ported a fearful, bloody, and drunken riot by a body of five thousand blacks at the Re publican Convention in Goldsboro, in the same State. Of course, t!iese horrors will scarcely be noticed by any Radical Congres sional Committee, because they are perpe trated by the "poor negroes" by the allies and supporters of the Radical party. It is the pretended white Ku-Klux that is made the bugbear to alarm Northern voters and to give the administration a chance to exer cise a military despotism in the South. The Radical carpet-bag and scalawag public men and among them was a Congressman by the name cf Thomas and Stanley, the President of a Railioad, seem to have been the abettors of the riotous negroes at Golds boro. Well may we despair of peace in the South while the party in power makes mis representations of the state of things in the South for political objocts, while it gives all its support and sympathy to the negroes and endeavors to crush the native whito peo ple of that section." Phila. Age. Incident of the Terrible Steam boat Disaster in Xctv York, Among the bodies first laid out at the Morgue was that of a fine looking man about 35 years of age. From his features and his dress it was evident that he had been an active business man, for everything about him denoted careful habits and un usual intelligence of mind. The luxuriant black hair hung down wet and heavy as he lay on the marble table, and his dark muss tache and side whiskers were full of sand. But his face had not been burned, and the features as they lay under the spray of cold water looked like chiseled marble. This body attracted unusual attention on the first night after the terrible catastrophe, but no one recognized it. The next day (Monday) the body of tho largo, fine man which lay on one side of the unknown corpse, and the body of the lady dressed in black silk which had Iain on the other side, were both identified by friends, and wore soon removed and placed in coffins. The body of the un known looked deserted and lonely after this, and still they kept taking away the rest of the bodies until all but this one, and that of a little boy, whose face was badly disfig ured, were left alone out of the entire ghast ly looking row. At a late hour on Monday night the small body was identified as that of Charles Elasasser, another of the numer ous victims from the family of that name. There was now only one single corpse left on the slabs, and that was the unknown man with the striking, interesting features. As one stood and gazed upon it, he could scarcely help believing that the face boro an expression of lonesomeness, and that it was pleading for recognition. All through the waning hours of Tuesday the gas-lights flickered over his white face, and when they were turned out at sunrise the poor body seemed to be doomed to go down to the grave without a mark to identify it from the graves of all the other "unknowns." Away up the Hudson River, at the city of Hudson, a fond wife was lying awake at night, won dering if her husband, Mr. George Scott, was safe. She had heard of the terrible accident, but she did not know that her hus band in his travels would take that ill-fated boat. At last 6he read the description of the dead bodies that were picked up after the explosion, and seeing ono that seemed to picture the features of her husband, she came to New York in all haste. On reach ing the Morgno after some delay she at once recognized her lost husband, and 60 finally the last victim, being claimed, was removed from that dreadful sepulchre. For some time after the removal of Mr. Scott's body the tables were vacant, but in a great active city like this, strange fatalities are frequent, and it was not very long before the body of some man who had been murdered or drowned, was picked up in the river and brought to the Morgue. He had a great hole cut in his forehead, and he had been in the water at least twelve hours. What Grant's Siqnatcrk Costs. Every important paper requiring the signature of President Grant, is sent en to Long Branch by a special messenger who is allowed ten cents a mile mileage, each way, hotel bills and contingent expenses. It is estimated that every time the signature of U. S. Grant is now appended to any commissary order, bigamy pardon, or other paper, it costs the tax-payers about seventy-five or a hundred dollars, according to the allowance to the messengers. And all this, whilo Grant draws his full salary, smokes his cigar, laughs in bis sleeve at a cajoled people, and plots with his crowd of office-holders ta secure a re nomination. What a very patient set of aseee the American people would prove them selves to be if they should re-elect him. Lancaster JnteUingencer. The Kentucky electiou took place last Monday. From the returns received, the Democratic candidate for Governer was elected by a majority of about 25,000. The Legislature is largely Democratic. One Somerseter took seventy gallons of hnckleberries to market one day last week, aud it wasn't a good day for picking, either. Kchs aud Political Items. A boy of 15 priuts a newspaper on a press made by hintstlf in Iowa. The "pestilence fly" which has fright ened the Canadians is now reported to have appeared at Toledo. Ohio. A pound of wool was fpun out ir.to a thread seven miles long at the Madison,(Io.) woolen mills the other day. The colored people of Albany, Georgia, have nominated a municipal ticket, com posed entirely of white Democrats. Not on fqueezing terms any more, is the way a Prairie du Chien young lady de scribes the relations between herself and her late lover. Some Indiana boys, hungering after eggs, conceived the idea of frying them in the nest. Their father is negotiating for a new barn. More than a million pounds of wjllow leaf were made up at Shanghai, last season, and palmed off as green tea. How is that for Shanghai? At Long Branch, James Fisk, Jr., rides in a large chariot drawn by eieht horses in gold-tipped harness and attended by four negro groorne. A poodle dog belonging to Patrick Far rell, of Derby township, Dauphin county, batched out nine ducks this year and eleven chickens last year. A New York girl in tho interior of the State has a prairie rose bush trailed over the sides of her room, and last week it had one thousand roses upon it. A bower of roses, truly. As goes Pennsylvania so goes the Presi dential election. Don't forget that fact, Democrats ! Keep it freshly alive in your memories, and as election day approach put forth yoar best energies for the defeat of the Radicals, A Chicago man presented his wife with a block of wood in token of his admiration. She received it on the forehead, and was so overcome by gratitude that she fainted away. The generous husband has also given $25 to the police justice. Mrs. Colt, the piatol-maker at Hartford, having built a $200,000 church iu memory of her husband and in behalf of her workmen, is building a $00,000 school house on her armory grounds for the children of her em ployes. She is a thoroughbred. Phoebe Cary, the younger of the well known Cary sisters, died at Newport on Friday. She was 4G years old. Alice Cary died last February, and it is believed that her sister, who had been her companion for forty years, never recovered from the shock. The Rev. Richard Wilkins, in a recent sermon in the Church of St. Michael, Swan moro, stated his belief that there wi uld be twelve women to one man who would enter Heaven. This, he stated, was a calculation of his own, and was based on sacramental confession. Wilson, the convicted murderer in Con necticut, complains that the prison authori ties compel him from cheating the gallows by suicide. He appeals to the people to save the expense of food, by letting him starve to death. It Is seldom that criminals arc so considerate. The town of Point-a-Pitre, of St, Louis, tho largest in the Guadaloupe Island, has been almost entirely destroyed by fire. The despatches say that 300,000 people are without shelter, which must be a mistake, as there are but 12,000 inhabitants, accord ing to the census. It is stated that, by a recent decision in the law courts, the Marquis of Bute conies into an additional income of $200,000, and arrears to the amount of $500 000. It is further reported that the Marquis' trustees are about to run a line of steamers from Cardiff, South Wales, to New York. A Lowell man. who had taken cnt a marriage certificate one day last week, was so disconsolate at finding the bride dead drunk when he called at her bouse, that he at once proposed to another woman, ten years younger, was accepted, got a new cer tificate and was married ail on the same day. The Hon. II. L. Goodwin, of Connecti cut, is a phenomenon of legislative hoDesty, whose example is too refreshing to pass un noticed. He was elected to the Connecti cut legislature but did not take his seat un til late, and when pay-day came he refused to tako compensation for the time he was absent. In Philadelphia on Saturday, Joseph Severley, aged twenty-three. In attempting to take a bale cf cotton from a shaft, was caught in the machinery, and before ho could be extricated both legs were crushed, one hand was cut off, and he was otherwise horribly multilated. He died in a few seconds. A fool, whom In New York they call Captain Smith, is about to make a voyage across the Atlantic, accompanied by a boy, on a raft some dozen feet square. The raft, it is claimed, will carry all that can crowd on it, is floated by rubber cylinders, and when they are uninflated can be stowed in a small space. The newest wonder, it is said, at the west, is a soda lake near Rawlings, on the Union Pacific Railroad, several miles in cir cumference, and capable of supplyiog sixty five thousand tons of soda a year. This body of water is fed from countless'eprings bubbling from a species of granite rocks, which includes in its composition a soda feldspar. A negro entered the residence cf a Ger man named Lazier, at Burlington, Iowa, on Friday morning last, 4th Inst., evidently for the purpose of stealing, but seeing a young girl lying on a bed, attempted a darker crime. The father, aroused by the girl's screams, hastened to her room, and on enter ing wasshot through the heart by the negro, who escaped. Mrs. Mary WTilson owns a farm of 150 acres near Reed's Corners, Ontario county, N. Y., and although seventy-two years of age, has gathered in all her grain without help. She was found by an interviewer pitching off a load of wheat, and a day or two ago had been mowing. She swings a scythe and handles a pitchfork with the ease of a man in his prime. An Englishman of means baa arrived at Suspension Bridge with no baggage ex cept an opera glass and a small satchel. He wishes to see the country as it Is, and proposes to do it on foot. By the time that he has reached Salt Lake City on Lis pedes trian tour, he will probably arrive at a re alizing sense, of the magnitude of the con tract he Las en his hands. The Rev. Father Monroe died on Thurs day at the College of St. Francis Xavier, New York. He was a nephew of Presideut Monroe, and in early life was an officer In the United States navy, ic which capacity he went to Japan with Commodore Perry, and also served during the Mexican war. Abont twenty years ago he became a Cath olic. He was a professor of astronomy and mathematics. A woman named Susan Kelly, employed as servant in the house of Rev. C. C. Gould, Baltimore, who is at present in Europe, was on Friday last arrested on the charge of strangling and burning her newborn child. The body was discovered in the kitchen Etove by some neighbors, who are entrusted with the supervision of the premises in the ab sence of Mr. Gould. The woman has con fessed her crime. A resident of Kansas City, Mo., has petitioned for a divorce, on the jzroucd tha.t his wife, ia June, poisoned his chiiJ by u for mer wife, aDd attempted to poison Lim. He married her in May. Shu fi'is counter charges cf gross immoi tality on his part, with denials of the truth of his accusations aoainst herself. Both pattits are wed known in Kansas City, and they Lave occupied good j positions in society. Now we are told that the horrible stories of starvation aud cannibalism in Persia are all bosh. It was only the other day the cable asserted that they were confirmed. The Persian Minister in London explicitly denies the reports. He admits the scarcity cf food, but denies the famine and most emphatically the eating of the dead. ,IIe believes the slanders on Persia originated with commercial agents. The Canadians are much exercised In regard to what is called the "pestilence lly," which they assert is now paying tht m a visit. It is an insect smaller than the common house fly, jet black on the back and v. ius, tho under side of the latter and the Icily being striped with yellow. A Hamilton pa per say's it is never seen in ordinary sears, and was noticed in great numbers previous to tho cholera epidemic of 185-1. Ohio seems to take the lead in proJuc Ing double headed babies. A dispatch from Raysville says : " The wife of Eli Graves, living one niilo from this place, wp.s deliv ered of a double headed child, this morning. It had two head and necks, four arms and four legs. Tho two children appeared, to be perfect in every respect, except grown to gether from the neck clown, their arms en circling each other. They lived but a short lime. Under the head of "Elopement Extra ordinary," the Kentucky Sentinel of the 27th says: "On Wednesday of last week. Miss ftallie MiKee, of this county, eloped with her young nephew, Thrmas McKee, and was married to him at Aberdeen, Ohio, by 'Squire Massie I'.easley, on the succeeding day, Thursday, the 20th inst. The woman is a sister of the Hou. Samuel McKee, low of Louisville, and her husband is the sen of her brother William." Seven miles from Lexington, Virginia, on the road to Staunton, stand an old and venerable edifice known ns "Tho Timber Ridge Church." It was built ia tho year 1756, nineteen yeais before the revolution ary war. It is built of rough stone, and Las a double arched entraLce. The sand that was used in its construction was carried by women, ou pack mu'es, from South river, six miles distant, the men being constantly occupied fighting the Indians. A Mrs. Rex and a Miss Ulrich, both of Philadelphia, stopping f.;r the season at the Renova House, Renova, Pa., were drowned in the river at that place, on the 4th inst. They were out rowing for pleasure when the boat either sank or capsized, aud both were drowned. They were discovered, but ail efforts to save them were unavailing. Mrs. Rex leaves a husband and two children in Philadelphia to mourn her sad fate. Mis; Ulrich is a niece of General Dickel. A very curious phenomenon wes wit nessed on Lake Winnepissecge on Sunday afternoon, July SO. by two men in a small boat, anchored off Rittlcsnake IslcinJ. Tiiere was scarcely a breath c f air stirring, and the surface of the Lake was unaffected y even a ripple, when the centre cf the Lake rr.d denly appeared to sink, aLd irnmcdiatcty following throe larce waves, the l;irest over five feet in hoight. dashed over the Uland. for a moment threnteniag destruction to the boat. The dead bodies of Mrs. Lc-rirg and child, two years old, were founi just out side of Lasygnej Kansas, on the 29h ultimo. The child had been vety tick, and the moth er had become ikranpc-d from watching it. On the morning of tho 20th, she took the child, left the house, and some hours after wards the bodies were f. und in the woods. She had choked the child by cramming rags down its throat, and then killed herself by tying a rag arouad her throat so tightly as to strangle herseif. They have a first-claps sensation near GermaDtown, Ohio, in the shape of mani festations of spirits at the house cf Joseph Stiver. Furniture was removed, milk crocks upset, eatables disturbed, aud tho wh!e household disarranged. The family, though not all residing together, appear in an arti cle in the Cincinnati Cuimnereial under cath, reciting the circumstances with singular particularity. The affiants are old citizens and have tho general respect of people of that part of the country. Three generations of the Phillips family of East Fortieth and Foitv-fifth streets, oc cupied a carriage on the boat which explo ded in New York harbor at the fatal mo ment, and were very near the boiler ; they were grandparents, sens and daughter and grandchild ren, and were six in number. Only one of their nun;bcr (Mrs. Moss Phil lips) retains any intelligence. The others are dead or unconscious. All wore a large amount of diamouds and ornaments, which re either lost or in the hands of the author ities. Mrs. Moss rhillips. cf East Fortieth street, had shortly before left a sick bed. The Christiansburg, Va.. Messenger, is not willing to give In to the Tennessee snake stories. The Messenger tells this : "A tur key gobbler belonging to Mr. R. D. Mon tague, of this place, seme weeks ago took a strange fancy into Lis head, made himself a nest, gathered into it four apples, and went regularly to 'setting.' His performances on the nest are truly feminine and hen-like. He permits no disturbance of his incubations, but when approached ruffl. Lis feathers, pokes out his head, blows, and puts ou an aspect fierce and terrible to behold. At last accounts he was-still settting. but with what prospect of hatching Lis apples is not known. About 12 o'clock ou Thursday night last a colored man named Thompson, residiug in Horso Heads, N. Y., having become jealous on account of attentions paid his wife by another colored man named Hagcr, conceal ed himself in a shed near tho house iu which his wife and Hager were stopping, ani with a loaded gun awaited an opportunity of shooting one or both of them. A common friend of the parties, named Burris, also colored, in attempting to leavo the house for the purpose of inducing Thompson to give up the gun, was shot through the head and instantly killed, Thompson supposing him to be his hated rival. The murderer was arrest ed, and after examination committed to jn.il. There is a singular case cf iusanity in Detroit. The husband and son of a lady residing there were recently drowned at sea. A few days ago tho lady dreamed that her other son, who is a sailor, had been drowned. In her dream she saw him fall from the mast in a gale into the sea, and awoke with such a shriek of terror as to arousu the inmates of the house. She slept no more that nisht, but rocked to and fro, moaning that "Wil liam was 6ureiy drowned, she knew he was." The next day her relatives endeavored to banish her impressions, and almost succeeded in convincing her that her boy was not only safe, but would soon bo home ; but that night the dream was repeated, and this time the mother Feemed to follow her boy aloft and to fall with him from the j'arJ, again giving a shriek that brought the household into the bedroom, they finding her on the floor in a fit. Since then she has been en tirely insane. tional I'iiIjI'.-J.:!--' ( just is? i J eJ a virv tl;r :'';' war between Gira.:;ny a: .;' fen of one of ot:r r.;,sf iv J..mh D. McCaiw;, .la ' ' in a lairc voiuaie ( ; 1 M: author tells a won itiiu'i because ol i-s truth. .'- :t have shaken Europe v i's srijiionccs of which even W orld must feel : of p.iti .,, tsi v ekill and tate;ru:tijiii ;;1 , in History. j lie huuht wiircj v ..-. and force of rrr.th, and thp ?te -''Z,'. book are its rrliahihty nl ,-t: The book is complete in ce;v , It describes the cause of ti e v. great events vhich precede.! "it -o eampaipu, nnd tho iir.-t icvpr-r cr" the fleet of these revei-tn ur..-j ': people; the frantic e-u";rt to ie-We army, and the terrible (iisi-t(r v capture of the Errperor X.oh ,', tire army ; the Revolution jr, p arid formation of the . !,;;,. ' , the Finpre.s from Pari ; the ?:' ier of Strasbourg nnd the fr France ; the triumphal st'ivnt.ci. ,., erotics to V-.ti ; the -!r.r-- tf '. t-upe from -il:z. v.i.d the fji.j! i,,.., iiriiiy ; the h: vestment ai d c-f u detailed Li.-toiy ol iL!. treat sorties, bittiej, sucec-rwi s , course of events in the be!-.--: in the form of a fu'l dhirv ti th siege ; the raipiil-n on ii e J. portions of France; the ;K".ce i surrender of Paris, ai d the ;t. history of the wr.r; the ,!:; both the German and Freiich 1 1 i - oi me lorrnation or i:ie re:o C, r. the i roelaiming- of Ki::jr Wi :; ;V and the realization of Gem. in n:,;-, . of the civil war and n-cnd .-i,.. , ; scenes of bloodshed aii-i v.v... minuteness, frraphierr-s and l,r;";, leaves i.cthii to he U-'!:i. V, pet son can afford to he r. .inforau-i evei.'s which have left ;o .en ;!, on the world's history, ar. 1 few v read this si. lend hi work : or, liiv;: endorse i t as the St..n J.ii j Ai.-:C of the War. In this ie of fer:sitV?:.i, '-r-' not too highly corr.n:ei.d t).:5 ... thoughtful narrative to our ... . is handsets. edy bound. uvA maps, portraits, battle s.-..r.c:. : the principal loeidak. c c : . ; Xo expense has been ff.i. 1 1 . . to make it worthy oi the : , und we predict for it i-n i:-.-;.,:-.. cially as i's low pt ie i :h n ,. ; of all. It is piihliiditd ;:i i ; German, sold by snh-ri, i'. publishers want agents in ev. r,- c Sad Sncii.K. On YTt h..--; 5 Abntr Vilkhi-:iii, a.-t-d ai-.-.m t' s r-n of II r. Vv'hihun V,'i.;;.,. ,; Wct Lebanon, coiandi!.-: ; h:S throat. l or scr.; 3 m ; Fid.ject to epilepsy, er fa!:'::. cuVcts of this tesiiUe ci-c.-o been such as to e;;r.:-e ; .1: : and w lr.it in this conditio:: he c fatal act. On ti e evening h: r visited son:e of l is !ei.it. i; . living in the vk:n:y ar. J ii.f. services would he needed at i - : in a short tinjo. Ah -v.: 7 cut of the house, and lew feet of where- 1 is :i;. ;l.er ", ; miikir.jr, fcnd 1 ei:::i: Uc i f i tr. ' going to cut n.y ihtv .t !.." I ing behind her u! . t . ..jr i t beiore the had tin.e t: tt ra drar. n a kec:i- 1 k: ho threat. The hr-i cut w;.s t. 0 did not succeed ri seve.h.z t but in an i;it'int s-f'tr" he tn.tde layir.g oj en the ti:rj,.t Irorj e r dropped to the pr '..r i. v,l' -':. was covered with. Aj :. ::- ns a piercing shtick a::d f rtei . er :itd some other vh. -Ttre liateuod t-j the ?'-no. Ti. : body of the hid swelv'.-i-r. h. :.- . mother 1 ititr t ro-r.te a :e.v JV.-; was a tetrlt !esc-!.e, .t:;U the ;r; was heai t rendii'g. The remains ct t' c l:c1 '.j ?: the following day. It $er::- t!.-.t tr.eJit-Ui'd the r.-.sh act. A v:ek cor.iniittin e u iced, ho vh'lc ; house, and there sharr-er.ed tre kt. afterwards used wiih such te:: remarking to those about at t'.e : intended to keen it .-I.ar: m.-l. 1 kill himself i':h it. He l.il made throats of sitnih'S in ; - t. attention was paid to his re:n .1: but thesad event nhich'b.'do'V; i . the fact of his determinant! i His n. other ad IV.hc-r ate : ; excellent morals, and in t! elm.", have the symrrhy c f the eut: ' hood. Indiana Mca-nirer. Tnr.v s..y that M. L. Or.i;: I"lonr in town. CONSTITUTION of PEK'vSYi JOINT VA'-l-'"';,- Proposing- an '!i, n, '.:' rt !'.." f :: ' : ..::.a. r.at i- .' 'v ' iw:fif!re"'s' t'u '' " ' ,' in Ocnrrtil -!--i:..'-l:i 'vbr l '.' amendment of the tVa-st. ,; 1 monwealth bo I'n !"1-'' t,iC '' adoption or rejection. sions of the tenth artic! there.'!, t AMF.xr-Mr.xr. Strike out the Pix'h ? '" '! ; tide of the Constitution. ' thereof the follow ii.: "A State Treasurer s!'.:d ! ' ' qualified electors of the '' ' " , and for such term of svrvi.-c 1 - - scribed l-v law." JAMFS H. V Th' ' Speaker of the Ilon-e of ". ' " WILLIAM A-V ' S'i; :'.'.' !-'' Approved the fifteenth ''' ' ' ' Domini one thousand c ilit b'lt" : ty-one. J " " Prepared and certified for p" ant to the Tenth Article of t-1 ' V. ' Secretary of t - 1 ' OfTice Secretary of the Cotnev . UurrUbur?, Jm ! WHOLESALE ECCTS c- Heotfs Sid AT VERY LOW PKCES, AT H. 0HILD3 & CO.'S, 133 WOOD STKlXf. A larsre Stock of Xailed Hro-in. f ;, ;v and Furnace Men, eoiiVanH.' ... : " wo sell from 10 to 2U cents l' i 1 , . . usual market rati s. lJl1'- " t X " l F ..... J- ;vr-Oflioe in rear of .1 f". J Druir aud Uook Store, Hil 1
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