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EBEXSBURG, PA.
Satcbday Morning, : Nov. 4, 1871.
On next Tuesday elections will be held
for Governor, State officers and Legislas
turo in Marjland, New Jersey, Massa
chusetts, Wisconsin and Minnesota ; in
New York for State officers and Legisla
ture ; in Virginia, Mississippi and Nebras
ka for members of the Legislature only,
and in Illinois tbr a Congressman at large-
Suggestions. Hon. F. Jordon, Sec
retary of the State, in a communication as
to the changes needed in tho Constitution
of Pennsylvania, suggests the following :
1. An increase of tb nnmber of Senator
and Representatives in the General Assembly.
3. Biennial ecsiions of tbe Legislature-
3. The election by the people of aundry State
officers now otherwise chosen.
4. Minority representation
5. Modification of the Dardonlne rower.
K A chance In the tenure and mode of
sViirair. V thft 1llrii;i ArV. ''
7. A change in the date of onr annual fall
election to the time or tbe rresiaentiai, to pre
nt what ta rallixl cnlnnization from surround
ing States, and to dispense with one election
very lourtn year.
Hon. George Conhelt., who was re
elected a member of the State Senate
from the Fourth (Philadelphia) District
at the October election, died in that city
on the 26th of last month. This will
make a tie vote in the Senate, 16 Demo
crats to 16 Radicals even conceding
that Weakley, from the Cumberland Dis
trict, cets his seat. As Mr. Connell was
not a Senator, and had not yet taken the
oath of office, but was only a Senator elect,
it is plain and net controverted that the
Speaker of the Senate, Mr . Broadhead,
cannot issue a writ for a new election to
supply the vacancy until after the meeting
of that body on the first Tuesday of next
January, How the Senate will be organ
ized, or whether it will fail to organize at
all until after the special election in the
vacant district, remains to be seen. There
is Radical precedent for the latter view of
the case.
William is. otokes, a ltadical ex
Congressman from Tennessee, two years
ago the defeated ltadical candidate for
Governor of that State, and now supervi
sor of internal revenue for the same, was
arrested on his arrival at Washington last
week for swindling tho treasury through
certain bounty claims. The amount sto
Jen by him is estimated to b from sixty
to one hundred thousand dollars. Stokes
bat- been a ranting, howling loyalist, in
voking with his foul toogue political pains
and penalties on all Southern Democrats,
and always ready in the intensity of his
patriotism to walk three miles out of his
way to kick a dead rebel. If even hand
ed justice is meted out to this arrant hypo
crite and thief, the Penitentiary will soon
claim him as its own. Hut as bis Con
gressional colleague in infamy, Koderic
R. Butler, not long since escaped convic
tion for a similar crime, so will Stokes be
able to brush away the cobwebs of the
law and embark in another career of fraud
and plunder.
Georgs O. Evans was brought before
Judge Pearson, of Ilarrisburg, on yester
day week, or a writ of habeas corpus
The cause of his commitment to the coun
ty prison was argued at length by the
counsel on both sides. On Monday last
Judge Pearson delivered his opinion dis
charging Evans from imprisonment on tbe
charge of embezzlement. Tho ground
taken by the Judge was, that Evans, not
being a "State officer" as contemplated by
the Act of Assembly, had not committed
an embezzlement within the meaning of
the statute. We are bound to acquiesce
in this decision since Judge Pearson has
declared that such is the law. The very
first business of the next Legislature
should be the passage of a law to change
it and make it so plain that no man can
misconstrue it. In the civil proceedins
against Evans, the Judge fixed the amount
of bail at 100,000, in default of which
he was remanded to prison. Will his
partners in the plunder release him ? A
few days will decide.
Dbfalcations, embezzlements, and
thieving generally, are the order of the
day, and tread close on each other's heels.
The Radical Treasurer of Philadelphia
MarcerJ loaned C. T. Yerkes, a broker
or stock gambler, nearly half a million of
dollars belonging to the city, for the use
of which Marcer of course was to receive
a handsome interest Last week Yerkee
suddenly and disastrously failed, and the
city loses tbe amount, unless Marcer's
bail are able to pay it, which, as other
defalcations have proven, is not at all
probable. Robert W, Mackey, the pres
ent State Treasurer, was also a friend of
Yerkes, and kindly gave him $100,000
of tbe people's money to gamble with. It
is said that Mackey repaid the amount
into the State Treasury, If ho has, it
would about exhaust his profits of tho of
fice for the current year. Will the next
Legislature look into this little affair and
ascertain whether op not Mackey has
made the treasury whole t This is the
first lime, we believe, that Mackey has
had bis fingers burned. He deserves no
sympathy and none will be felt for him.
lion. William A. Wallace,
After a man has unsuccessfully exerted
all hia powers and resources in attempting
to accomplish a difficult task which has
been imposed upon him, it is a poor and
shabby return for his self-sacrificing labors
to lay the cause of failure at his own door.
As soon as tbe result of the late elec
tion was"ascertained, vague hints, equiva
lent indeed to a direct charge, were made
by three or four Democratic papers pub
lished in tho eastern part of tho State, that
our defeat was attributable in a great
measure to the inefficiency and misman
agement of Wm. A. Wallace, Chairman
of the State Executive Committee. This
charge is as unjust as it is untrue. Mr,
Wallace has heretofore acted in tbe same
capacity, and his untiring zeal and active
industry in managing political campaigns
have been recognized by the Democracy
of tho State and willingly conceded by Lis
political opponents. Too much is expect
ed from the Chairman of a State Commit
tee, and tbe idea prevails to a great extent
that he must and can achieve success, if
he will. Ilia principal duty is one of or
ganization, but in order to make that effi
cient and decisive at tbe bailot-box, he
must have the active co-operation of tho
leading men of his party in every election
district of the State. He is neither all
powerful, nor is he ubiquitous. He can
ncithor change a man's views nor compel
him to deposit his vote. He may urge
him by strong and powerful reasons to do
so, but the act rests with the voter himself.
One may call spirits from the vasty deep,
but will they come ?
Wherein and in what respect did Wm.
A, Wallace fail to perform his whole duty
in the late campaign ? It seemed to us
that he was constantly at work, and that
all his efforts were properly directed
After a political contest is over there is
always to be found a class of unhappy
men, chronic grumblers and fault-finders,
who claim that they can see where mis
takes were committed, and that they coul
have done the work very differently an
with quite other results. If they were to
attempt it, they would perhaps find them
selves undecoived.
If the editor of one of the papers to
which we have referred was asked to cx
plain why tho Democratic vote in his own
county was twenty-one hundred les$ than it
was at the election for Governor two years
ago, he would perhaps charge it to Mr
Wallace, when the fact is that his own
paper is wholly responsible for it, owing
to the disorganizing course it pursued both
before and after tho meeting of tho State
Convention.
We render simple justice to Mr. Wal
lace when we express our conviction that
in the late canvass as Chairman of the
Democratic State Executive Committee
he was active, vigilant and energetic, and
that he did all that could reasonably be
expected from him. The Democracy of
tho State, although defeated, aro neither
so ungenorous nor so ungrateful as to
sanction these gratuitous and undeserved
assaults upon him.
It must be a source of deep humiliation
toevery intolligent'Republican to read the
dull and insipid addresses delivered by
Grant whenever he is honored with a
public reception during his constant pere
grinations throughout the country. It is
not to be expected, of course, that every
President should be as scholarly as Jeffer
son nor as eloquent as John Quincy Ad
ams, but it is expected that he will be
able to say something appropriate to the
occasion. But Grant is not equal to this
trifling requirement, and whenever he at
tempts a speech at one of these receptions
he becomes tbe subject of laughter and
commiseration by his own political friends.
During his late trip to Maine he made the
following reply to an address of welcome
delivered by tha Mayor of Bangor :
Ladies and Gistlkmen: I congratulate you
and the people of the Stale of Maine and the
people of the nation at large upon the occasion
which has brought all of us here. It ia a mat
ter in which you are particularly interested:
ana the nation at large, I believe, ia almost
equally interested with you. I hope that the
railroad may prove to you and to us all that is
expected of it, improving and building up a
friendly feeling between us and the people of
the same language with ourselves, who, I think,
are equally interested in tbe preservation of tbe
most cordial friendship.
This is very touching and as clear as
mud. Nothing but itself could be its own
parallel. One would suppose that a high
er reach of bold and impassioned elo
quence could not be attained by the same
man. This is a mistake. Grant far
eclipsed it at Portland, where, having
been introduced by the Mayor of that city,
he made the following thrilling and bril
liant speech :
I have a vivid recollection of visiting your
city six years ago. This is the second time I
have been in your city, and am much pleased
with the reception here aa well as at other
placet I have visited in your State. If I do
not oftener than I have heretofore, I shall not
make many more visits here before I shall be
quite an old man.
It was a saying of the ancients, that
the statue of Hercules could be judged
from the size of his foot. From the two
foregoing specimens of oratory we can
form a correct estimate of Grant's menial
calibre and his shining qualities as a
speech maker.
The census gives tbe total number of
Iribh in this country at Si. 857.779 : nf
Germans, 1,690,533.
Chief Justice M'Kean, of Utah, is
waging a vigorous ana unsparing war
against the corner-stone ot polygamy.
Thomas Hawkins, an Englishman and a
prominent Mormon, has been convicted in
the coort over which he (M'Kean) presides
of the crime of adultery. The informa
tion on the case was made by bis first
wife, aB is required by the law of the
Territory punishing tbat offence. A true
bill has also been found by tbe Grand
Jury against Brigham Young, for lewdly
and lasciviously cohabiting with sixteen
different women. His trial has not yet
taken place, but will be brought to an
issue at an early day. It is difficult to
say where all this will end, if followed
up by other prosecutions of leadiug mem
bers of the Mormon church. The follow
ing are the remarks of the Chief Justice
when he passed sentence on Hawkins on
last Saturday in Salt Lake :
Thomas Hawkins, I am sorry for you, very
sorry. You may not thiuk so now, but I hall
trv to make vou think so. by the mercy which
I shall show. You came from Englaud to this
countrv with the wife of vour vouth. For
manv vears vou were a kind husband, a kind
father. At length, however, the evil spirit of
Dolvcamv tempted vou and possessed you
Then happiness departed from your household,
and now, by the complaint of your faithful wife
and the verdict of a law-abiding jury , you stand
at this bar a convicted criminal. I might
imprison you twenty years and fine you one
thousand dollars. 1 cannot imprison you le a
than five years nor fine yon less than three
hundred dollars. It is right tbat you should
be fined, anions other reasons, to help detray
enforcing the laws, but my experience has been
such that were I to fine you only, I am satisfied
the fine would be paid out of other funds than
vours and thus you would pro free, absolutely
free from all punishment; and then these men
who mialed you and many others, would believe
that God had sent the money to pay the fine;
that God had prevented the Court Irom sending
you to prison, and that by a miracle you had
been rescued from the authorities of the United
States. I must look to it that my judgment
gives no aid and comfort to such men. I must
look to it that my judgment be not so severe
as to seem vindictive and not so light aa to
seem to trifle with justice. This community
ought to begin to learn that God does not inter
pose to rescue criminals from the consequences
of their crimes, but, on tbe contrary, tbat lie
so'orders the affairs of 11 is universe that, sooner
or later, crime stands face to face with justice;
and, just as the Master, I will tay here and
now tbat whenever your good tehavior and the
public good shall justify roe in doing so, 1 will
gladly recommend that you bo pardoned.
The judgment of the Court is that you be
fined $500, and that you be imprisoned at hard
labor for tbe term of three years.
Contrary to all expectation, there was
little or no excitement in the Court room
The attendance was large, but generally
all maintained a proper decorum. The
United States Marshals and their deputies
were fully prepared for any emergency.
Notice of appeal to the Supreme Court
was given by the prisoner 3 counsel,
Death op a Distinguished Man.
Despatches from Lancaster, Ohio, an
nounce the death, in that place, on Thurs
day of last week, of the Hon. Thomas
Ewing, in the eighty second year of his
age. Mr. L-wing in his lifetime occupied
several positions of trust and importance
in tho service of tbe State and country,
and, in the prime of his years, was re
garded as a man of far more than usual
power and ability. He was a native of
Virginia and emigrated, at an early age,
with his parents to the then wilds of Ohio,
where he grew up with the State and in
his manhood assumed a position of com
manding and wide-spread influence. He
was elected to the United States Senate
and served in that body from 1830 to
1837. He was Secretary of the Treasu
ry, under President Harrison, Secretary
of the Interior under President Taylor,
an appointee to the United States Senate,
in 1850, to fill a vacancy, and a member
of the Peace Convention of 1801. After
the discharge of his duties, in the latter,
he retired from public life and lived in a
quiet and unobstrusivo manner up until
the time of his deatb. Mr. Ewing was
one of the links in the chain of great men
that connects tho. past with the present,
and tbe severance, although not unlooked
for, is one that will be seriously felt not
only in his adopted State, but throughout
the country.
His funeral took place from St. Mary's
Catholic church, Lancaster, Ohio, on Sat
urday. - The friends took final leave of the
distinguished dead at his residence, where
the remains lay in a superb burial casket,
on the plato of which was engraved "Tho
mas Ewing, born December 28, 1789,
died October 2G, 1871." The features
wore a calm and dignified expression.
Tub Area of the Chicago Fire.
Careful measurements and calculations of
the area of the burnt district of the city
place its length, from its starling point to
its place ending, at four and a half miles,
and ita average width a little over one
mile. Along tbe south side lake Bhore,
however, and westward five blocks, Harri
son street, tbe southern limit of the confla
gration, and the distance from that street
to Fullerton avenue, its northern limit, is
only three and a half miles. The point
of the fires beginning on the west side was
about one mile south of Harrison street,
south-westerly.
The number of acres laid waste is not
far from 3,300. A pretty careful com
putation places number of buildings of all
kinds destroyed at 18,000, of which at
least 1,500 were substantial business
structures.
The actual total of the pecuniary losses
is estimated at three huudred million dol
lars, but no fair estimate that we have yet
seen or heard of places the grand total be
low .two hundred million dollars. We
still believe the latter will cover all the
losses, Chicago Journal
Kf.uef. The Treasurer of the Chica
go Iielief Committee reports tho following
aa tho receipts for tbe relief of the Chica
go poor. Cash received, $509,276: to
tal amount for which drafts have been
drawn and to be forwarded for collection,
&c, $396,708 ; aggregate receipts, Sl,
486,986. Of this sum 34,490 has been
distributed, tho balance remaining on band.
The committee estimate tbat they will re
quire $1,975,000 for the next thirty days,
A Singular Murder.
Tbe London papers record a singular
murder committed by axlergyman, Kev.
John Shelby Watson, a man of sufficient
literary note to have been mentioned in a
book entitled "Men ot the limes," and
also in the Dictionary of Dr. Allibone, of
this city, which contains a list of impor
tant works, original and translated, by
this unhappy man. His victim was his
own wife, slain by him in a moment of
passion or phrensy. The strange feature
of the crime is that it was perpetrated on
Sunday, October 8tb, and tho murderer
continued to go about bis business as usu
al till Wednesday. On that day, in re
morse or insanity, be swallowed a dose of
poison, having first despatched this note
to a friend :
I havo killed my wife in a fit of rage, to
which she provoked me. Often has she pro
voked me before, but I never lost restraint over
myself with her till the preteut occasion, when
I allowed fury to carry me away. Uer body
will be found in the room adjoiuing, the key
of which 1 leave with this paper. I trust she
will be buried with the attention due to a lady
ol birth. She is an Irishwoman. Her name
is Annie.
The friend, a physician, hurried to the
spot, found Mr. Watson speechless and
suffering from tho effect of poi3on. In
"the little room of the library" the scene
is thus described :
There a horrible spectacle confronted them.
Huddled up in a corner of the room, her knees
toucbins her chest, her bauds convulsively
clenched, and her head fallen to htr chest, was
the body of ihe unhappy lady, her clothes sat
urated with blood, which still seemed to ooze
from the body in a dark, almost parple, pool.
On examining her, Ur. Kugg louiu ner neau
smashed m, and in places beaten almost to a
iellv. There was, in addition to numerous
other iroundi. a fracture on the occiput sufii
cient. probably, to cause death ; both her tem
ples were beaten in, and there was a deep
wound in the middle of the forehead.
The reporter of the London Evening
Standard adds :
It is impossible to speculate at present upon
the motives of the crime. Mr. Watson himself
says in his letter that he did it in a fit of fury,
and those who were acquainted with the de
ceased ladv concur in saying that she was soured
in temper. On the other hand, the servant
girl, who has lived with them three years, says
that she was never a witneas to any quarrel
between them. It is quite evident that
quarrel must have suddenly arisen, in which,
probably, some observation was made by the
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lady wnicn goaaea jut. n auuu on to uiuuuess.
At present, no weapon has been discovered
which can be clearly traced as the instrument
by which the murder was committed; but
small hammer was found in the room, and it is
possible it may have been used, but, if so, it
hat been so effectually cleansed that it bears
no mark3 of the use, neither do the hre irons
The police, however, have taken pot-session of
them, and they will be submitted to a much
closer examination than the cursory one thev
have undergone. A small bottle, containing
a very diluted mixture, in which there were
clear traces of prussic acid, was found on a
chair by the bedside by l;r. Rugg, and it also
has been banded over to the police. Either
the courage of Mr. Watson must have failed
him, or he must have thought that he had taken
enough, for a full half of the mixture was
found in the bottle.
In every aspect it is a horrible and pe
culiar case. It is shocking to think of a
man of high attainments, mature age, and
clerical character hurried to such a crime
by a sudden burst of passion ; while on
the other hand bow subtle must have been
the insanity that escaped all observation
till this outbreak. We have too the ein.
gular self-command exhibited by a man
who had committed such an act, and with
the terrible secret on his mind, yet for
three days preserving an unconcerned de
meanor. In another letter or paper of
directions, the unhappy man spoke of re
lations in Ibis country :
I kaow not whose business it will be to look
to property left, as my little possessions will
be my books and furniture. My only brother
was living, when I last heard of him, five or
six years ago, in America, at G'2 Grand street,
Williamburg, and a neice wish bioi. He is my
heir if be is still alive. I know not if I have
any other surviving relatives. One quarter's
wages will soon be due to my servant, and I
should wish the sum to be more than doubled
for her-on account of tho trouble which she
will have at the present tirus, ai.d tbe patience
with which she has borne other troubles. In
my purse will be found 5 10.
I leave a number of letters, many of them
very old, with which I hope that those who
handle them will deal tenderly.
The books are a very useful collection for a
literary man.
Among the works of Mr. Watson, all
of which aro enumerated in Allibono's
Dictionary, are lives of George Fox,
Richard Parson, Sir William Wallace,
John Wilkes, William Cobbetr, and a
great number of translations, many of
which wore published in Hohn's Classical
Library. It appears from the account of
the hearing in the cases, that he had en
tirely recovered from the effect of the poU
son, and would of course be committed
for trial. It may afford a solemn warn
ing to all choleric husbands, and also, to
all scolding wifes. Phila. Age.
A Remarkable Phenomenon. A re
markable geographical phenomenon has
lately been presented in the district of Tel
chef, in Lutbuania, Near the little town
of Wromin, on the road from Telchef to
Koyno, was a lake eight versts in length
and five in breadth, noted for its abun
dance of fish, the fishery of which was
worth 1,500 roubles a year. A few
weeks since, during a perfect calm, tho
waters of this lake rose and were agitated
as if by a violent tempest, while a strong
sulphurous smell rising from them per
vaded the locality. After two or three
days this ebullition ceased, and the sur
face of the lake was covered with dead
fish, some of which were so large as to
weigh two hundred pounds each. Fear
ing their decomposition would breed pes
tilence, tho inhabitants of the neighboring
villages were called upon to collect them,
and they were buried, with a goodly cov
ering of lime. Since then the lake began
to sink, while the sulphurous odor in
creased daily, and the lake at the latest
accounts had become nearly dry. It is
supposed that the limestone and chalk
bottom of the lake has given way, and
tbe waters have 6unk into a subteranean
canal.
Andrew Stever, a farmer, liring six
miles northeast of Delpbos, Ohio, was
confronted in his own house, on Saturday
night, by a robber, who, after asking for
matches, presented a revolver. Stever
knocked the pistol up and stabbed tho thief
to death with a pocket-knife. A cornnrr'n
jury exonerated Stever.
A Ucuiarkablc History.
Mow nn Inventor HtrnsslcU anil Won.
In tho Scientific American we find a
story of the struggles and triumphs oi an
inventor which is worth preservatiuu.
The substance of it is as follows :
Tn lRf,8 Mr. Thomas Sheehan. of Dun
kirk. New York, foreman in the blacksmith
department of the Erio railway shops at that
place, patented asuDmarico grappic, wun-u,
though an inaenious Invention, proved to be
one for which there was little demand. This
was his first invention : and the cost ot ns
completion, together with ooe year's strug-
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gle to rnanuuciure ana introduce it, -uui-pletely
exhausted Mr. Sheehan's means, and
reduced bim to the exlrcmesi poverty, i
was. in fact, in pretty nearly tha-same con
dition as Palissy, the Potter, at the moment
of his greatest distress. A wife and eight
children in Sheehan's family were reduced to
the verge of destitution, and Mrs. bheenan
became uncommonly Litter.
Just at Itliis crisis, Mr. S. D. Col well.
General Freight Agent of the Erie railroad,
at Dunkirk, chanced to meet Mr. Sheehan in
the streets of that town and accosted him,
with
Well, Thomts, how are the grapples? 1
hear they have nsed you up."
Yes," was the answer, "the grapples
have done my business ; I wish I had never
seen them."
Throw 'em away," advised Mr. Col well,
'Have yon any now finished i
"I have one almost done," said Thomas.
Finish that; I will pay you 40 for it,
and have it used for picking up coal at the
dock. The money will help you In your
present emergency, and jou can go back to
your old place in the shop anu earn a goou
living tor your lamily."
"I will." Raid Thomas.
Back to his humble home went the Inven
tor, with new hope in his breast, and set
himself to finish the grapple with all due
speed. But, upon what slender threads do
the fortunes of men depend ! A tap, the
only one our inventor had of the sizo required
suddenly snapped asunder, and, as It was
essential to the progress of the work, he
must have a now one or he ccnld not go od
In his straight, he applied to his wife to
lend him tweDty five cents to buy the nec
essary steel to forge the tap. But she hav
ing no faith in the grapple, refused, for two
very eoed reasons first, that ebe believed
the money would be thrown away if she gave
it to her husband ; and second, that she had
not tbe money to give him, even if so dis
posed. The refusal was seasoned with some
very hot spice that made it very unpalata
ble to Thomas. Bnt he bethought him of a
merchant who, in brighter 7ays had seen the
color of his money, and who, perhaps, would
now give him credit for the email modicum
cf steel he required for the tap.
To this merchant to prefer h"i3 request,
he began beatiDg about the buh ; and fiually
straying into politics, hot words passed be
tween them, and our friend, feeling his man
liness would suffer too keenly by asking
credit for the steel, came away without it.
With no definite purpoee he went home,
ponderiDg npon how he should surmount this,
now no trifling, obstacle of the broken tap.
lie found his wife making lye for soft soap,
but her acidity in no way neutralized by the
alkaline reaction. Despondent and discour
aged, he sat down, in no very enviable mood,
when he chanced to spy a piece of iron lay
ing near the tubs at which his spouse was
working. Meditating upon how he couIJ
make that piece of iron hard enough for a
tap, led him to a rather rude experiment, the
results of which have in the end made him
a richer man than he evf r dreamed cf being.
It so happened that from a distant rela
tive, a Roman Catholic priest in Ireland, our
friend had inherited quite a library of works
ou chemistry: some of them rare and valua
ble. IIo hail read some of these books to
very good purpose. "There is surely carbon
in tbat lye." thought he. "If I only could
gtt that into this iron in the proper propor
tion, I should have steel, and from that my
tap, and so finish my grapple."
VYith little hope or faith that he should
succeed, he took soma of the lye, and addirjg,
without any particular reason for eo doing,
some saltpetre and common Fait, made a
paste with this solution and a hard grudged
e-iucerful of the little remaining flour there
was in the house. He then forged the tap,
and enveloping it in the paste, put the whole
into a luted iron box and exposed it to heat
for two hours in a blacksmith's fire. To hia
j'"y and surprise when he took it out, it was
hard enough to cut cast steel. The grapple
was finished, and forty dollars flowed into
ihe family treasury of Thomas Sheehan.
He entback to his old work, disgusted with
pateuts, and resolved never to havo anything
to do with one again. But the remembrance
of the tap, hardened in sc unique a manner,
still haunted him. Having a great deal of
case hardening ij do, he thought one day he
would repeat the vspeiiment upon a large
scale, which he did with perfect success.
For twelve months he went on to experi
ment, purchasing the materials with his own
money, and worked in secret by night and
at odd hours. At the end of twelve months
he reconsidered his sentence of condemnation
on patents, and applied for one on his pro
cess, which was grauted September 4. 1S60,
the claim being for a combination of dam
aped flour, potash lye, or lye from hardwood
ashes, nitre, common salt, and sulphate of
zinc, for caso hardening iron. Ia 18d7 he
patented an improvement "on the above
named process. In 186S he took out another
patent ou an entirely new process, which
consists in the use cf raw limestone, char
coal, black oxide of manganese, sal soda,
common salt, and pulverized rosin, com
bined, for converting iron into steel, which
is now widely used, and from which he has
reaped quite a fortune.
No less than twenty-three of the leading
railways in America now use this process,
under license from tho patentee, for harden
ing the links, guides, pi'ns, and nuts of loco
motives, effecting, we are told, no less a sa
ving than from five to six hundred dollars
annually on each locomotive, in obviatin"
the lost motion consequent upon the wear cf
links, guides and pios.
The inventor has already received for li
censes under his patent of 1868 $29,650, and
has just sold the remainder of his patont io
America for $45,000.
A Feeling Retort. A Boston paper
having remarked that "puth Carolina now
feels the first turn of the Executive thumb
screw," tbe Savannah Aars replies:
"Fold your arms, gentlemen of New Eng
land Democrats of the North, fold your arma
and quietly look on. Watch the turnin" of
the 'thuaib screw' and calmly witneasthe
tortures of the helpleaa victim. Speculate and
theorize about the wrong and the right of the
proceeding, tho necessity of excuse for such
measures of oppression, persecution and barbar
ous despotism. Acquiesce in tbe usurpations
of our tyrants. Quietly submit to the overthrow
of our Conatitutional government, for it is your
bull and our ox. But do not expect to escape
unscathed. History has demonstrated that the
Union could not exist 'half free and half slave '
Time' will prove that it cannot remain half
Republican and half despotism. Tho time ia
not far distant when you will look upon the
lawleaa and oppressive acta of a relentless tud
cruel despotism with leas complacency '
XetvK of me XVcoSi. I
Fortvone cases of school s!atc were
recently shipped from Daniels ville, North
ampton county, to Japan.
Tho JJcmocrais oi t- unci tuumjr
lected their candidate for Sheriff at tbe
late election, ihe oniy one in eigmecu
years.
. air. JLfaviu way i it, luo.um wn
London Grove, raised the past season a
Monitor potato which measured nearly H
inches in lenglh.
Hoeenzweig, the notorious malpracti
oner of New York city, was eentenccd
to seven years' imorisonment, on Saturday,
for having caused the death oi .ansa aucb
liowlsby, of Patterson, N. J.
Dan liice ia on another "farewell
tour" throughout the State, with hi3 cir
cus establishment. With the exception
of John li. Gough, Dan is the greatest
farewellist this country ever produced.
Jacob Stoltz, a German, hung Lim
self in the Alh gheny jail on Friday. lie
had been impiisened for abusing bis wife,
lie accomplished his destruction by the
agency of a strap which be bad about bis
body.
J. D. Gill, ot JUeadvuic has attain
ed a monstrosity in the vegetable line in
the shape of a 17 pound beet the circum-
r .,r la inTii fi.t-t fnur ntr-liPfl I
Hie IsiawOru UtlllVKlTit ia icjjiui.huw iui
this story.
A family in New York, embracing
three daughters and a son, will have a
verv unusual occurrence take placo short
ly. ' All the daughters and the son are to
be married on the same day, and within
the game boar, at the same piaco.
Near Salem, N. II., a boy was gun
ning. A woodchuck ran under a haymow;
the boy fired at it, when the mow took
fire and this was communicated to a barn.
entirely consunieu. a tie wooucuuck es
caped. Deputy Sheriff Irwin, who was con
victed of taking il!egal fees from the Sher
ilf's ofuce ir Philadelphia, and sentenced
by Judge Paxson, October 21st, to pay
a fine of fifty dollars, and undergo an im
prisonment of two months, was pardoned
j the Governor on Monday last.
The gallant General Robert Ander
son, of Fort Sumter fame, died at Nice,
France, on Thursday last. In the bisto
ry of our great war Anderson's name will
always stand out prominently for his
prompt and heroic defence of his country's
flag at the first outbreak of hostilities.
Brigham Young and his son, Joseph
A. Young, have beun indicted for murder,
in having ordered the killing of Richard
Yates, and warrants for their arrest have
been issued. Several other prominent
Mormons are tobs arraingod on the charge
TtVl
of murder, and those, who can get away
are speedily fleeing from the officers of
the law.
Eugene Lnmotr, a Frenchman and
an emigrant on his way west committed
suicide at Pittsburgh at an early hour
on Monday morning last. He came from
Baltimore and was en route to New Or
leans, lie got cp early, went out on the
railroad track and shot himself. He fell
on tho track and a train passed over him,
cutting off his legs.
Mrs. Sarah Parker, tho wife of
Thos. Parke-, living near fc?hawneetowr,
was afHicted for some time, about two
months ago, with frequent ppasms. Just
as she was recovering from one of those
tits, four snakes, some ten or fonrteen in
ches long, crawled from her mouth, and
sought a biding placo among the hiir
her bead. These :be doctor secured, but
a fifth one went back in her stomach.
The woman lias since died.
Ti e fire in Chicago swept through
the German Cemetery, burning all the
wooden head-boards, destroying all vaults,
and burning all the dead bodies in their
coffins. In the large receiving vault some
twenty bodies were totally consumed. In
some instances the fire burned a foot deep
into tho ground. Some women were over
taken in the Cemetery by tho rushing
flame, and barely escaped by plungirg
into the lake near by.
Brigham Young is sail to have fled
the country, or at least the Territory of
Utah, in order to evade arrest upon an
indictment for a murder committed some
years ago. The action of the federal
courts in finding Ilawkinf, the polygamic,
guilty,"and sentencinghim to undergo an
imprisonment of three years and pay a
fine of five hundred dollars has caused
terror in mormocdom, and will doubtless
lead to the complete extirpation of the odi
ous system.
The Relief Society cf Chicago, in
reply to numerous icquiries from per
sons who cannot well send money, and
wish to contribute articles, say that nolh.
ing is now so needed as bean?, potatoes
and onions. The Sanitary Society say
the people must have these "articles if they
are to escape eickncs3. Straw bed?, of
thft usual size for two persons, aro also
needed. The Relief Society are now feed
ing 40,000 persons, and have few vege
tables on hand and but little coining
Tennmi-E Riot at Los Angells. San
Francisco, Oct. 24. A terrible riot is go
ing at Los 'Angeles." " A fight having oc
curred in the . Chineso quarter, oTficer
Bilderson attempted to arrest a Chinaman
for shooting another. IIo was resisted,
and he called on Robert Thompson, a cit
izen, to assist him. The Chinese on both
sides of the narrow street opened fire on
both of theta. Mr. Thompson fell, shot
through the breast, and died immediately.
OlGcer Bilderson was shot through the
shoulder, - but succeeded in gettfn" cn
horseback and escaped. A MexicatTboy
named Juan Jose Manderes, was also shot
through the leg. A mob soon collected,
and the greatest excitement prevailed
They attacked tho whole Chinese quarter
and wero resisted by the Chinese. Five
hundred armed men surrounded tho Chi
nese quarter to prevent any from escap
ing. Fifteen Chinamen were banged by
the mob and their bouses set on firo. Tho
fire was, however, extinguished.
A cable dispatch dated G I. M., says
that order at Los Angeles has been par
tially restored, and no more bloodshed
has taken placo. Several Chinamen havo
been arrested and are lodged in jail. . -
Pexnsylvas! p
lo All v rioM It Mv ( . . V lv.
ing of the Executive Corr
At ,
state fciibbaib School
i-utiee of ih.
ft:
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;.
tbe following tnovecenja: 0
surest that ht !rs.,f r. .
Sabbaths in November '' tu
determined by Sunday school v .,!!;e.' ,0 U
and pasters in e.ch locality '.";''-
which to gather U.e,e colWt "
n:t
Jas t . Weir, E-q., of H.,;:
of the llarti.-!,ui Nat:oiirl I'.
Treasurer of this "Sunday SchoJiv s'k
1 o him the sums collect J niav te t','- .'
drafts or pott-oflke orders. "
Acktiow'eJgracnt will rJe aa.e of
contributed by each school, by i:::n:S' '".
in the o!T;t::-l documents of tLc a,i.' ' '
in some such other w.iy ns r.iay (e .'tt
County seeictariei" of ore a: ";-c j
pastors of the-chure!:?, mi cf 't.V- r
rents, supeiintendeiits, teiohem, ::!'..: ' J
school people, are htrr'-v ii vi-r.- r., I
lend liicir active co o
prat;ou is. tLt ..'
tbi cill.
We eh.-.ll not By r'8 worJ to c-.n,n , -1
eaupc. You know the need. VVe arc .-.''
that our Sunday schools will, to u e 1 ' f"
spond. You may be a--sjrej of the h'
in tte exercise at tiie tru.-t k--the
benefactions be-toel wi:j
si.
tnbuted in ti.e most r.ccie i ue :5 t
not forcetliiig, in the clain. ol" t!, ;
the suffering that has enrcfj iT-,,r,r-
towns awi villages oi i.ie j ur'.
; l ue I.OfCS lli:tl we CCT.'rc
frchool children of our St,.toe
not disappoint us in il is nu'.tcr.
leap thlsi in ot.eof the pr.:i .'.-.5; (
for the exerv.-i.-e of a practical ':. tf.
By order of the Ele ctive C
t'LOLHE A . i'i :
State Sucdiv h
I. Ni
E'litir Sun
.Ktt.
Philadelphia, October 17, 1 57 1 .
Lcso FKver, common c 1, cittrn.j
art! tiasal discharge -i a br - wLh v
T-tro-c-tt in A m ri : a '
llctaii Clctbin- IIouo.
5 5 & y 9 y '
IN VALUABLE GIFTS!
to u- disti. i i.i-: : 1 s
5
i.vjkI it roc las: ?ixijii.t
s
i
H fc ti tj rj" fcsli kct Vis
t;?3l I
To be drawn Monday. N;v. iT. IsTI.
Two Grand C;ijiltn'is of
$5,000 each in Grehrb!
Two Prizes $1,0005 $ -,rn
Five Prizes $500 UMrWp"fi
Ten Prizes $100 a I &
WHOLE NUMBER CF CASH CFTS. '- 0':!
One Fine-tone 1 Ro e.vi Pi ::no. w: ;r 5"! '
itrp Jifftvy i - i:ih 1! n nl !) lint I
llarii ihtUt ChaSnx.in.rtli .V'.-'.'rt ) . .'
Ti Zt.i s.sritizi Hzrfc? Ts-i':. - I "
Tiiirs' z-:i.z ztjzSi 7rr:::. v.".
fOO (job I a i I Siirt r Js-Tt r it . -
trunk T (! J."i ' ' '-
Ttiie?' Gold Le'ontitK- 'luiin. "":
t'lmins. JM!ver-ilat'l ';-! r-. i '. r-.iv-r:.
I.tiMe 1 late! Table n;. l l
Handli-il IHnnor Knivc-. ! ! I '
Forks, Silv-r Vot i 'l'.aip.-. I i. ' - v " ' '
I.ali's' OioM IJreastpinsaixi I .r-i'.: ''''
of ! I in- cr-ri'M's, ;
Shirt St .v . . "
I I IVh. oi r xvr- ' i-
;'S.z, 6.000. T::::: li:::: c: -
AtiESTS UAMEI) to !! Ti Vtv :o
w !wtn I.ibpral ir taiiii:is iii l--ifn-
Sikgi.e Ticket? ?1; Six Ti ki i? f'.: T;r :.ve
Tickets f !:; T-aemy-five Ti k;-'-
Circular ?ontaininfr a tvV. ; ff ,"-3..-';
script it in of tho warmer of i!r.iw:.'. '
iufi.riaatioii in ref.'renc" t tii 1'. -:-',! '
will Le int to any on ! ! ir.-r l'-. i;-- -"
tcrs must be addre;jel to
OFF1CK. L. I. SIM.. V.o
101 l 5th St., -: -
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EY THE U":
PARABOLA SPECMIB
Mantifa
tfirv r
t Ui;C2. N. Y.
LEMMON & MURRAY,
Wholesale and llsUvl fc.:! ; J in
DRUGS, MEDICINES, CHEMICALS,
FA.XCV --1XD TOILET AnV-'LlS.
Books, Stationkky, Jrwi:i.:;Tt
are appointed Acnts for the sa'.e ('- '''
CF-LEBllATEl) riXT.U'IX?-
Persons wearing- G'.s"c. or tr.-
thiu. will do wi ll to i-ail. in ' '' ''' '
antt-n t't suit the fijht " '
KO l'EDDLHi:. EM i'LuVKI'-
keystone mmm
KUBLEY, ADAMS & CO,,
No. 5 BIAEEET Street,
PITTSBURGH, PA.,
It A N C F A C T tf B F. K S 0 '
CARRIAGE AX1 TIKE r.Oi. i,
PLOW AM) MACHINE lit'I.Tis
. Norway caikiac;f. r 'J"1".
BRIDGE AND MOOV iI- -SCREW
HOOK iUSi'lf; ,
3-H.3ra. WAGON 1!'XJ.
GREAT WESTERN GUN WORKS.
Itillos, Double and Sinl? K;,rrt
Daniel Mclaughlin', -U!
at-Lau Johnstown. IVu lliL '" 'i
Exchunjre liuildinjr, (iip-smirs.) 11" 1 . tus
Jon mill J,.H'iit streets. V. i!! nitemi u
liiess connected with his t'ro!e-"-
JOHN 1 LINTON, Aihnit-
Johnstown, Pa. OiTiee in ';,"1,!r'"-'
west corner of Main and r'lv.nk'"1
nd story
oproroethit the scholar oVl .i
schools of our State be cal'.ej UV . -r'-'-i
ute to tho relief of the fufftrc V- o ,cov,;v
in tbe West nnd North vreu ' U- -a
We
Shot (.'mi, Hcivlri K, l "U.
Sport in Gomis. Killo llarn ls. I ; '' ..:.
iuus Gnu Materials. Ae. oii'l t1'' " ' ..,,.:'
Address J. H. JOHNSTON. .--;' iv..
n(.r,--. I?U Mnithiiel.l St reel. .'."''a'ilO-'-E
N. H. Army GarlincsloJi u
vers boug-ht or traded for.
Entrance on J run"2!l"
T S. OGDKN, JrsmcE ok tup 1uJ
J Johnstown. Pa. Office on Iron : s' K T
twpen th ronemai.-.'h ISridirc him ' ,i ie
pot. -o kct ions nndali business iu" y.
bun wili bo promptly attouded to. -
EJ. WATERS,
baa removed tho office rect-u 0f
Pied by Dr. E. H. 1'lanfc- on e f1
Centre street, opposite Colorado io-
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