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Saturday Morning, i : March 2, 1872.
Democratic Stnto Cemventlen.
Pursuant to ft resolution of the Demooratto
EtAto Eiecutlve Coramltteo this day adopted,
a Deaioorotla 8tte Convention In numbers
equal to the representation In both bouses of
th I.fltrtnUtnra. ta hereby called to meet in
Heading-, Pa., on Thursday, May 3uth, 1ST2, at 11
o'clock a. u., to nominate candidates for Gov
ernor, Jude of the Supreme Court, and (should
the Leg islature so determine) for Auditor Gen
eral and delegates at large to the Constitution
al Convention, and also to form ail electoral
ticket and select senatorial nnd representative
delegate to represent the State in the lieuio
crotto National Convention.
lJy ordir of the Executive Comtnlttoe.
William A. Willaoi, Chairman.
Attest Vm. M'C'liiluawd, Secretary.
Harrlsburg, Fob. 15, 1B1I.
The Columbus Conventltus.
The National Labor Reform Conven
tion met at Columbus, Ohio, en last
Wednesday week, delegate from eighteen
States being present. Oa the following
day, an elaborate platform was adopted,
and David Davis, of Illinois, was norai
nated for President, and Joel Parker,
of New Jersey, for Vice President. Mr.
Davis is a native of Maryland, ami is
fifty-sovon years of age. Removing to
Illinois in 1835, be settled at Blooming
ton and commenced practicing law. In
1848 he was elected Judge of the Eighth
Judicial District, and was re-elected in
1855, and again ia 1861. He had long
been an intimate personal friend of Mr.
Lincoln and in 1862 tae latter appointed
him to tha office of Associate Judge of
the Snprema Court of the United States,
wkich position he still holds. Mr. Lin
cola also appointed him his executor, and
his estate was settled by Judge Davis.
At the time of his appointment to the Su
preme Bench he was an avowed Repub
lican, but of late yoars his tendencies
bare been decidedly conservative, fie
is a man of distinguished ability as a judge
and personally is above reproach. He
xi opposed to Grant no 1 all his works.
Joel Parker, the nominee for Vice
President, is the present Governor of New
Jersey a prominent and consistent dem
ocrat whose public history is well known
throughout the country.
It rs too soon vet to lucae ot the
strength of this movement, or of its ulti
mate effects upon the two rent political
parties of the country. It will readily be
conceded, however, that the convention
was exceedingly fortunate in selecting as
its candidates two gentlemen of such ac
knowledged ability and unblemished rep
utation as David Davis and Jokl Pas-
kfr. Judge Davis accepted the nomina
tion 00 the day on which it was made,
by transmitting to the President of the
convention the following dispatch :
Washisotos, Feb. 22-
E. M. Chamberlain. President of the Nation
al Labor Ittjorm Convention :
Be pleased to thank the Convention for
the unexpected honor which they have con
ferred npon ms. The Chief Magistracy of
fhe Republic should neither be sought uor
declined by an American citizen.
David Davis.
On the ssms day ami at the sn-me placo,
the National Temperance Conveniiun,
eomposed of 194 delegates, from nine
Slates, assembled and nominated Jaues
Black, of Pennsylvania, for President
and John Russell, of Michigan, for Vice
President. Mr. Duck is a resident of
Lancaster, in this State, is a gentleman
of character and respectable attainments,
and has long bean an active and prouii
stent advocate of the cause of temperance.
All eyes will now bo turned to the lib
eral republican ami anti-Grant conven
tion, wh-icn w'Wl meet at Cincinnati on the
u st Monday in May. The dehberaiions
an 1 action of that body will in our judg
ment ssltle the question of the next Pres
idency. At the late radical State Convention
of South Carolina, composed of carpet
baggersy public plunderers, and office
holders,, the- following resolution auong
Others was-adopted :
Rolve1, By the Foion Republican
party of the Stale of South Carolina in Con
ventioa assembled, that we endorse the ad-,
ministration of President U. S. Grant, in its
wise and successful financial policy, which
ftao reduced the natioual debt, while liken
ing: tft poo lie taxes, and at the same time
preserved full faith with the public credit
ors." Whereupon, Horace Greeley expresses
his opinion' of the- men who bavo been
robbing and plundering tLe people of South
Carolina, and who procured the adoption
of said resolution, in the fjllowing vigor
ous stylo :
Considering how these rascals have sold"
themselves to measureless iafamy over and
over by stealing their poor Siete poorer than
she ever was before, quadrupling her ex
penses, doubling her debt, and trebling her
taxes, this tesolve strikes as as tLe Chim
borau of imposture and villainy."
A PnorKR Law. A bill has passed
tko lower house of the Legislature requir
ing all costs to bo paid upon taking an
appeal from n judgment entered by a Jus
tice ef tae Peace. This is certainly a
wholesome law and gives the Justices,
Constables and witnesses tke costs to
wnicn tney are entitled, instead or to
ooraebody else. Thousands of dollara-
bave been lost under the old system. The
fallowing is tho bill in question :
Section 1. Be U tnacted, Ifc. That befote
aoy apnea! shall hereafter be taken from tho
jurigmoaa of a justice of the peace, the party
af pellant. his agent or attorney, shall make
oath or affirmation before the justice that it
in Dot fur tke purpose of delay such appeal
is errtwiexH but beceuso he firmly believes in
justice has been done-, and that ths jastice
hall enter said oath or affirmation upon his
docket : Provided. That whenever the an.
pellant makes an effilavit that he is unable
fco,pay tha cests, be shall be allowed to an
peal witaout paying costs : And provided
. it IS I A. A 1 T . .
jurwier, mat me previsions ot this bill shall
got appiy to tue city ox. rouaaoipbia.
Tub M'Clure-Gray committee toinres- !
tigato- tho alleged, election frauds in tho
Fourth Senatortal district, mtt at tho
Washington House in Philadelphia, cn
last Monday and commenced the oxami
nation of witnesses. M Huck&low is
thairmao of the committeo,.
Tlie 3iCIurc-Gray Committee;
The Senate Committee which Was 63
Iected last week to try tha petition of A.
K. M'Clure, contesting the ' election of
Henry W. Gray in the Fourth Senatorial
district, consists of Messrs. Huckalew,
Davis, (of lierks,) Dill, and lirodhcad,
democrats, and Messrs. White, Mummn,
and Fitclsy republicans. The democrats
in ths gme of chance which wa3 played
in selecting the stveulh member of the
committee having been successful, it suits
the partisan purposes of radicalism to de
dure that for that reason alone Gray will
be turned out of bis seat and M'Clure
admitted.
If this were a contest before the radi
cal Committee on Elections in Congress,
in which n defeated radical enndidato
sought to oust the sitting member, a dem
ocrat, from bis seat, the almost uniform
action of that committee fur tha last five
years would foreshadow such a result :
but it is a foul imputation on the official
integrity and sense of justice ef the ma
jority 01 the Senate committee thus to
impugn their motives in advance and to
charge tkem with having prejudged the
case frota considerations of a mare politi
cal character. If the foar democratic
Senators who compose the majority of the
commit'ee were men ot the same Iooes
and elastic political morals as Harry
White, then it might be said with some
propriety that injustice would at least be
attempted, for the past career of the dt'&
tivgu stud Senator from Indiana affords
abundant proof thut be possesses a mind
capacious fur such work. Hut we do not
anticipate any such unfair and one sided
results. The contest is between two re
publicans, and who so fit to investigate
the facts and decide on the merits of the
controversy as a committee the majority
of which is composed of honest, high-
minded and intelligent democrats. The
whole caso is in a nutshell, and the ques
tion to be determined easily solved.
No man who knows A. K. M'Clure
will charge him with being a fool. He
has assumed the responsibility of present
ing to the Senato his petition in legal
form, in which Le declares that at tho re
cent election in the Fourth District, by
reason of gross and palpablo frauds "en
the ballot-box, all of which wo presume
he distinctly specifies and sets forth in his
petition, he was cheated and defrauded
oert of his light to a seat in the Senate to
which a majority of tho qualified voteis
of the disttict had elected him, and that
the same is now illegally, wrongfully and
ui justly held by Henry W. Gray. This
is his allegation, and if the proof which
he lajs befwre the committee sustains it,
then tho committee will have a plain and
simple duty to peiform, and that will be
to report that he is entitled to hia seat.
Hut suppose that M'Quro fails to make
his assertions good fails to show that
frauds enough were committed to invali
date and destroy Gray's election is it to
be supposed for one moment thf. the
democratic members of the committee will
stultify themselves and wilfully incur pub
lic odium and contempt by endorsing his
ill founded claims and leperting ia his
favor T
Tho republican press of Philadelphia
has created the impression over the whole
State that Gray was elected by the perpe
tration of the most villainous frauds. The
contestant, M'Clure, rests' his case cn the
same allegation, so that the people have
become twenty impressed with tho belief
that what has been so persisien-tly assert
ed by the papo:s and himself is really
true and can bo proven to ba so. If,
therefore, in view of all these deliberate
and confident allegations, it should turn
out, after a full and searching investiga
tion, that where there was so much smoke
there bud been no lire. anl A. It M'Clure
should fail in making out his case, great
will be his fall. Tho Senate, after pro
longed vexation and delay, has placed in
his hands tho remedy he sought, aud if
disastrous failure on his part should be tho
result, common consent will assign him a
place on the list of broken-down and re
tired politicians.
Let the-blow fall where it may, the
people demand at the hands of tha com
mittee a patient and thorough investiga
tion of the allega'ions contained in the
petition, and we have no dojbt that com
plete justice will be dona in tho premises.
Stick a Pin Hkke! The following
items will be of interest to those who be
lieve that only under Radical admiaistra-
lion is economy practiced and our treas-
uues safe from tho depredations of diss
honest cilicials :
Montgomery county. Democratic. Couatj
debt, 126.486.15 ; had not 40.000 been
piid the past year on aceouut of a new Alms
House, the county would now be t-ut of
debt, ami have money in her treasury.
Eeika county, Democratic, out of ubt.
Backs county. Democratic, out of debt,
and a sung sum in her treaturv.
Chester couuty. iutenselj Radical. Coun
ty debt no-rly six hundred thousand dollais
Delaware couoty, Radical. Coontv dbt,
$123,071.10.
Northampton county. Democratic. Coun
ty debt, $57,345. A cumber of iron bridges
have been built in Northampton duriug tLe
past year, and she has first-class public
buildings. Her debt wasreduced $27,291'.
65 during 1871. for which her citiz-ns owe
thanks to tho wise and economical manage,
meut of Damocratic Comnvsioneri.
PHlade'phia, Radical. Dtbt betweeDfifty
and sixty millions of dollars, with fine pros
pect of a large increase during the comiag
year.
George O. Evans informed the com
mittee appointed to investigate his cas
that ill health would prevent him from a--pearing
before it at Hairisburg, and re
quested tho committee to come to Phila
delphia last Monday and take his testi
mony. Tho committee wen, but when
Evans was sent for, it was discovered
that hs had fltd to his original place of
refuge New Yorfcv The chairman of
the committee, Mr. Graham, then made
application to tha Senate for process to
arrest him, which was granted. As the
rapidity of this writ of arrest will not be
recognized in New York, the committee
I will have to wait patiently until it suit3
Gecrge to put in an appearance an event
whkli is cot UUly very soon to happen.
Letter fxom Erelnud-Uf. 15.
Correspondence of Caiabria Freeman.
Killakmuy, Feb. 12, 1872.
Dear Mac I believe I told you in my
last that I was about taking leave of the
magnificent city of Dublin and its polite
and polished people and wending my
way to the old Spanish.looking city of
Galway. Before I left the former city I
was fortunate in meetings very agreeable
and accomplished acquaintance, to whom
I am indebted for many interenieg items
connected with the North of lroland.
The only point I will touch on now, of
the places that I have not seen, will be
THE OI.VNTS CAUSEWAY, -
in Antrim county. This remarkable
Causeway con&ists of many hundred thou
sands of columns, irregularly arrangedj
and formed ofdnrk rocks, almost as hard
as granite. The most of them are of n
pentagon figure, but so closely compacted
together that, though tho pillars aro per
fectly distinct, the very water which falls
upon them will hardly penetrate them.
Not one will be found to correspond ex
actly with the other. Each pillar is
formed of several distinct joints, the con
vex end of the one closely fitting into the
concave of tho next, in some the concavi
ty and in others tho convexity being up
permost. The tallest pillar measures
about thirty-three feet. Among other
cuiious things to bo seen there is the
Giant's Well, a spring of pure freshwater,
forcing its wuy up between the joints of
two of the columns. Here are also the
Giant's Chain, Hngpipes, Theatre, and
Organ. The last named is a beautiful
colonade of pillar?, one hundred aud twen
ty feet long, aud rtsembles tho pipes of
an organ. I.iko nil such places, the
Causeway Iihs its tradition and legend.
I gire it as 1 heard it : Long, long ago,
there lived a Scotch Giant named Benati
diMier, who sent word to the famous Fin
McCumhal that if ho would make a dry
puthw.nj from Scotland to Ireland he
would go over and lick the conceit out of
Fion. The great Irish Giant was not to
bo scared, so ho asked permission of the
illustrious King Cormac, Monarch of Ire
land, to do so, and he got it. Fion
McCumhal (pronounced Fin McCool) set
to work and built the Giant's Causeway,
and when completed went half-way to
meet his antagonist, Hsnandoner. The
two giants then faught with their broad
swords, and thereiult was ibat the Iiish
whipped tho Scotch giant.
I will now proceed with the sketch of
my trip from Dublin to Galway, but as I
o fortunately took passage in a night
train, I will have to pass unnoticed sev
eral places of historical note and interest
and proceed at once to
galway,
which is beautifully eitnated on a narrow
neck of land between an arm of the creat
Galwny Hay and Lough Corrib, a noble !
lake thirty miles long. This old city is j
rcmaikable for its untique archways arid i
passages. Tha inhabitants of this ihrifiy j
town have a considerable amount of Spin- i
ish Llood in their vtins, for in olden times j
Spaniards were constant traders to this !
coast. In the ''good old times' the Hay j
of Galwsy was one ef ihe most important
in Ireland nnd would be so still had they j
anything like a kind or just government.
Tha entrance to this noble bay is sheltered
by the Islands of Arranmore, Inni.main,
and Innishere. Sailing into Galway Hay
one sees a grand diversity of scenery.
On the right the noble range f the Hur
rin mountains form a majestic boundary
to the scene. To the left tha country is
delightfully varied, exhibiting the mins
gled beauties of rich cultivation and pri
meval wildness. Such a sublime Bucces
Mon of noble bajs as present themselves
hers, it would be difficult to fit.il any
wkere else m ths world, and all are pro
tected from the fury of the Atlantic by
numerous islands which lis near the en
trance. And yet wo look in vain for
some stately ships. The boats of Ihe
hardy, stalwart fisherman are alone to bo
seen.
I will now, with one bold striJe, travel
to-
MA I.BAY,
in Clare county. In fact this is the name
given to the coast for a distance of sevar
al miles, for if a vessel happens to be em
bayed along the coast tho only place she
can find shelter from a storm is in Dembes;
of Liscannor. There in winter the wild
waters of tho awful Atlantic can be seen
dashing their mountain billows along the
unprotected shore. From here one can
see the dark,, frowning Callan mountain,
on whose summit is a- Lake of clear, cool
water, near which is the grays of Comas,
the iant.
When I reached the Kv.ly 'village of
Millto wn I hired a jaunting car anal drove
along tho sea-beaten shore of Seaficld4.
Here I witnessed a comical and amusir
sight. There were assembled " on .tha
sandy shore some scores of hardy-looking
youths and about a dozen donkeys. Tho
race commenced above tho beaon, but no
man was to ride hia own jack, and the
last donkey that came to tha winning post
was declared tho victor. Leaving Sea
field wo drove along tho shore till wo
reached the Sand Hills, opposite Mutton
Island. These are regular mountains of
sand, formed by tho constant friction of
sandy stones, which are rolled backward
and forward by the ceaseless waves.
Pursuing our journey onward, we pass
ovsr a hilly, rocky road,. leaving Dunbeg,
Killard, Haltard, and Dunbeg and Dan
more Castles on our right, till wo reach
KII.KlEr
where we put up for tho night at Moore's
Hotel. This is a noted watering place,
and in the summer season is thronged
with health-seekers froia different parts
of Ireland, and even by some from Eng
land. Rows of beautiful white cottages
with bay windows are built along the
shore. There are soma very fine resi
dences hero also, but the ona that took
my fancy most was that once occupied by
the liberal, genial Captain Kennedy. In
the demesnes surrounding tho residence
are elegant hot-houses, summer-houses,
and an aviary containing birds f nearly
all climes, colors anJ plumage. To the
left, along: the shore, is a remarkable
"Puffipj Hole," whsre one can see the
blae waves of the Atlantic dashing up in
silvery spray over a height of one hun
dred lest. Near Kilkee is a fine race
course, where the lovers of the "Turf"
meet annually and have seme splendid
sport. Not far from the conrse is Dun
lickey Castle, about which some wild
weird tales are told that happened a good
many years ago. Passing the little vil
lage of Doonaha, we coma to
C A I! RIG A HOLT,
a brisk, stirring village with soma pood
stores, a school, Bad a very fine church.
Hera we had the extreme pleasure of
making the acquaintance of Rev. Michael
Meehan, the hospitable and worthy pas
tor of the place This good, genial gen
tleman is a cousin of P. J. Meehan, Esq ,
the talented editor of the N ew ork Irish
American. Near this village is Kilcre
dRno Hnttery and Lighthouse. Hetwccn
here and Loop Head one Bees n very rare
sight in the shape of natural bridges. The
bridge is regularly formed by the sea cut
ting its way through enormous rocks
which line the coast. From Kilbaha we
crossed over in a boat to Hallybanion,
where wo will stay till our next, when we
will describe portions of classic Kerry and
our journey to Qoeenstown, where we ins
tend to book our precious person for a safe
voyage across the wide stream."
Friend Mac, you could hardly puess
what I am going to bring you. Well,
sir, nothing le3 than a beautiful, well
seasoned blackthorn stick, with which
you can cudjel your delinquent subscrib
ers to your heart's oontent.
Yours, dear Mac, very truly,
ElilONACU.
The resolution introduced, into the Sen
ate some lime ago by Mr. Sumner,author
izing an investigation into the said of arms
by the War Department to the agents of
Franco during the late war between that
country and Prussia, has been very fully
discussed by several leading Senators.
The most brilliant speech that has been
made was delivered by Carl Schurz. As
an ablo and eloquent effort, it recalled the
best days of the Senate, when intellectual
giants and not pigmies controlled its de
bates. In view of the fact that the elo
quent and highly cultivated Senator from
Missouri, being foreign born, cannot as
pire to the Presidency, and that a negro
can, the Ndw York Mot Li, in speaking
of this remarkable tpeeeh of Senator
Schurz, says :
"Senator Schurz's magnificent speech will
bring iuto notice cce more the refusal cf the
Republican majority in Congress to consider
any each amendment of the Federal Consti
tution as would put the foreign-born citizen
of the United States on the same footing as
respect, the Presidency and Vice Presidency
as the ignoiant negro savage of tho South.
Here is a tun of the same blot d and nation
ality as the Iron Stueben, who drilled our
old Contiriftif.il armies, approving himself
tliat rather rate thing nowadays a le.tl orator
iu a cause wiiich tiudj few great advocates
at pres-nt, tha caiue i f honesty aud law ;
and yet, orator and honest man as he is.
doing ytrman s-eivice for the plundered and
plotted ;. -iti.-t American people, he ia the
politic;.!- 'nfeiior cf the most woithless black
vagabond who piifera at night and makes
laws in lie d.iy down South. Oar Revolu
tionary f-1 1 i c r s thonght so well of SenaUr i
ScLurz a w .1 time coutjtrjman, the Daren
Steuben, -i.d i f ail other gnod and tiue men
of foieigu oirth who stood by the lights cf
the peopic in that trying time, that it was
expressly provided in the Constitution that
they should be aselifcib.e to acy he nor in the
gift of the people as tl e native born. Fuel
ing now the j:stice of this same rule, aud
revolting at the hideous anamoly of coufer
ing an eligibility on tha rice-fit-ld Congo
which is denied the caturalizsd citizen, the
Democrats in the House s -tight not long bioco
to break down the distinction. Even oa
strict Republican ground they were justified,
for with what does Republicanism deafen us
if not with the cry that all men are equal ?
Aud this was an effort at equality, but by
Republican strength the ttt'urt was foilel.
That the foreign-born cit'zen shall not be
the fall political eqiial of the negro is Repub
lican doctrine as laid down by the votes of
its expounders. That cit:zeumay be of great
reputation, cf rising influence, the foe of the
corruptions which are over c'.oudin; cur lib
erties, ana the friend of reform. It does Dot
mattsr : he and all like him shall lie under
tho bau."
A mass si keying of tho Democrats of
Hodford county was held on the 12th, at
which William Hartley was chosen Rep
resentative Delegate to the Democratic
State Convention, and the following reso
lution, among others, adopted by acclrv
mation r
Pe3oIved, That it is tho earnest desire of
the Democrats of Bedford county, a it
should bo of all patriotic citizens, that the
several political elements whose common
creed is the preservation of our liberal form
of government, aad rsitatce to the central
izing influences and" corrupt practices which
under tho preteut nondesciij.t administra
tion are so rapidly undermining the founda
tions of our Republican system, may unite
upon candidates and a platform cf princi
ples at the impending Presidential election,
and that mutual concessions looking to such
a union rney be freely and cheerfully made.
Ti-e Summbr Excursion or the State
Epitokial Association. The -Dicers of the
State Editorial Aisocia'ion, who were em
powered to make all arrangements for the
next Summr excursion, concluded that the
very courteous invitation xtE!ed 1 y the
city of Erie could not be declined. On the
contrary, it has been accepted in the same
spkit in which it was tendered. Tho time
for the excursion has not been decided upon,
but it will take place early -in June. A trip
to Eiie at that season of the year will prove
to bo very pleasant. The scenery along the
different railroads-leading to tho city is cal
culated to excite the admiration of all be
holders. Arrangements siatilar to thore en
tered into last Summer will be made by the
officers, and members of the Association will
be notified in due time. Judging from the
excursion of last Summer, the comiDg gath
ering will bo very large, and the occasion
one of thorough enjoyment. Lancaster In
telligencer. More than forty years have elapsed since
Johnson's Anodyne Linimei.t was first in
vented, during which time hundreds of thous
ands have been benefitted by its use. Prob
ably no article ever became so universally
popular with all classes as Johnson's Ano
dyne Liniment.
Tills which contain antimony, quinine,
and calomel, should bo avoided, as severe
griping pains would be their only result.
The safest, surest, and best pills aro Parson's
Purgative or Anli-JJilious Pills.
Lost In tlic Snow.
Tuesday, the 23d of January, 172. will
long he remembered by the people of North
ern Colorado. S&ow covered the ground, yet
the weather .was pleasant, and tho moun
tains stood oat grandly in tho sunlight. On
the afternoon of this day, Jeremiah Fisk left
tho Higley coal miDO with a load of coal for
his home in Greeley. The distance is four
teen tnileE. Two teams had gone before bias,
and others wero on their way to the mine.
A little after 4 o'clock, when in sight of
town, ho passed two of his neighbors who
were cutting ice in a lake seven miles north
west of Greeley. The Cache la Poudre River
lay at the foot of the slope, about two miles
due south of him, and the road leads almost
diroctly down tho river, and follows it to the
town limits. Not long after leaving the lake
he heard a noise like the roaring of a great
water spout. Instinctively he turned toward
the mountains; they were calm and beautiful
as in the moraing, but north ward, where the
Black Hills rise from the plains, be saw a
vast wall of cloud approaching with tho
speed of ajwhirl wind. The roaring increased.
At this instant the frczen tidal wave touched
the foot hills, and chased the sunbeams from
the mountains like an av&lanche. The bor
sea rushed forward in terror, and a second
later they were in daikners, the storm sweep
ing over them with resistless fury. Snow,
finer than the finest flour, filled tho air, so
that it was impossible to see a hundred feet
in any direction. Fisk wrapt a buffalo rob
around his neck and thoulders, and urged
the trembling horses on, but they Could net
keep the mad, and in a short time the plain
was as trackless as the sea. After the hcr?es
bad left the beaten way they could scarcely
walk, and it was not long before they re
fused to move. The darkness increased, and
the mercury was rapidly running down to
zero.
No time mnsi be lost. The traces were
unhitched, and mounting the strongest horse,
Fisk attempted to urge him forward, but he
would not gr. Then he led them for a time,
but finding that it reqaired all his strength
to keep the buffalo robe from blowing awav,
he left the team and pbshed on before the'
wind, for it was his only compass. Tho storm
increased in violence every moment, and it
soon became datk and intensely cold. In
many places the snow was deep, and mere
thau twenty times the strong man was hurUd
iuto the drifts, bo terrible was tho storm.
By 8 o'clock the mercury stood at ten de
grees below zero. The snow blew from all
points of the ccmpaiis, and penetrated everv
stitch of his clothing that was not protected
by the buffalo robe. He knew that several
houses were near, but bow could he find a
siugle one of thtm. when on that very n'ght
tho engineers on the railroad were unable to
find the water tauk at Pierce station in the
darkness. The man knew that death was
ou his trail. Ilia strength was failing rapidly
and the cold increasing with the fury of the
storm. AH his garments were frozen stiff,
and his eye lashes coated with ice. It seems
that he crossed the river a few hundred fret
below Boyd's ranche, but he has only a faict
recollection cf stumbling down a bank, and
of dreaming that he might possioLv be near
a house. He felt that his time had a! trust
come. To go on was madcess, yet he could
not step, except to brush away the frozen
tears, for a wifa with her babe3 are waiting
and praying, not three miles away from his
sinking heart.
He managed to walk an hour longer, when
a dizziness came on, and his brain reeled like
the storm. Then ha began digging a hole
in the deepest drift ha could find. It was
like d'ggiug his own grave, for he knew not
how son a ha might sink with cxhar.stion.
After working a long lime the ground was
reached, and then drawing the robs r vfr his
heal, ha waited for the snow to bury him.
Tho wind did its woik well, aud in an hnur
eighteen inches of snow coveted his roof of
snow. jS'ever did a man long to sleep more
than ho, but he kcew that if he closed his
eyes it would be forever. lie fought with hie
senses like Bun van's Christian Pilgrim . and
kept awake. Burning pains t-hot through
his swollen limbs, and his legs cramped as
if on tha rack, and finally snmethine like
nettles prickled in his bouts. Then he knew
that his feel were frefZ'ng. Was he to die
after all these hours of agny ? No, he would
keen his muscles moving, and ho did so Ions
after his toes wero frczsn st ff. Hour a'ter
hour this man from the Green Mountains
fought with death, while snowy bilbws were
rolling above his head.
At daylight he cradled out. Houses were
near. Then lie sS2gered and fell ; gjt up
agrin, and dragged his frozen limbs towards
the limits of the town. After walking an
hour he reached Conper's ranche the sum
mer residence of fur Town Clerk and pnsla
ed in the back dcor. Another hour was con
suaied in making a firo. .Some matches, a
piece of candle and an o'd broad ax were
found. Then he malted snow in a pail and"
thawed his frozn feet. He found dry cloth
ing and a pair of cavalry boots. Although
completely oxhaiit-J. K .t-nci rvr Ureuley.
a distance of two miles. The merctiry was
18 degrees below zaro, and it took him an
hour to walk a single mile. Often ho tho't
ho would fall to the ground. The houses
seemed tot-pia round as he passed them, and
familiar streets, in which he saw children
playing-the day before, were but the lands
marks of a dream. At last ha reached his
father's gate and stnggsred to the door.
Then there was a rush and a scream, and
tho next icstant a black and bloated face
was lying on a womai'i breast. Greeley
(Colorado) Tribune, January 31.
A most damaging exiose, of tbe doings of
Radical rulers in the South is containod in
tho niiuority report of the Ku-Klux Com
mittee. -They dwell at leDgth on carpel
bag, scallawag and negro rule, showing that
the assessed value of tho taxable property in
the eleven States of the South has been re
duced from 14-.383,757,942 in 1860 to $2.
02G.440 97lin 1870, being a loss of $2,
307.S0C.971, or over $300,600,000 more
than now remains. Tho State taxation on
what these people now have was in 1870,
$12,813 615, while it was $8,165,486 in
1800. When their affairs were managed by
their own people, the county taxation on all
the property then owned was only $3 115,
184. while now, under carpet-bag and negro
rule, it is $14,298,630. or ele ven millions
more on tho remnant still in existence than
it was on the whole property they owned
when the war began. In view of tho enor
mous debt which is shown to bavo beeu
wantonly, corruptly and fraudulently heaped
upon a people as poor as tho census reports
show, with'five eigths of their property gone,
and the taxation on tho remnant nearly four
fold as muca as it was on tho whole when
the affairs wero honestly managed, is it to
be expected that tho people of these Slates
will bavo either love or respect for the men
or the party by whom they bavo been thus
plundered ? No man can look over tho testi
mony taken before tho Committee, without
coming to the conclusion that no people has
over been so mercilessly robbed and plundered
so wantonly and causelessly humiliated
and degraded so recklessly exposed to the
rapacity and lust of the ignorant aud vicious
portion of their own community and of other
States as the people of the South for the
ast six years..
Xerrs cf Hie YJrecU.
An eight-legged cat prowls over, the
roofs of Grady, Ga.
Forney declines in advance any posilion
the administration intends offering him.
The largo suyar refinery of Bartol &
Raker, at JIarcus Hock, Pa., was entirely
destroyed by fire on Sunday momiDg. Loss,
$150,000.
Count do Larendcu, whoso father was
killed in 18.r0 by the fall of a chimney-pot
upon his head, recently lost his life in pre
cisely the same manner, at Pa'ris.
A cheerful giver put tho following note
iu a pair of pantaloons sent to the Michigan
sufferers : "There, take 'em, d you ; last
pair I've got; den't get burned out again."
The competition among Masons through
out tho United States for the Masonic Ecarf
belonging to George Washington, which was
to have been decided on tbe 22J of February,
is extended to the 1st of May.
The House of Representatives has ap- i
pointed a committee to investigate the sale !
of arms matter, in advance cf the action of j
tho Senate. This is merely shaking red '
flag m order to prevent tho bull froiii pursu
ing the right parties. -
The Chicago Tribune pnblihrs a list of
upward of a hundred newspaper editors who
hold federal ofiices and strongly advocate the
rencminatioa of Grant. It is a pity Forney 'a
example haso't struck iuto these chaps and
induced them to go and do likewise ; but it
hasn't.
The house of Henry Spinney, in Arjryle.
Yarmouth county. Nova Scotia, was burned
on the 7th instaut, and his five children per
ished in the flames. Mr. and Mrs. Spinney
wero absent on a visit, nnd the only adult
person left to protect the children was their
grandmother, who is insar e.
The Lonisville Courier-Journal truly
remarks that the Republican members of
Congress who insist on ferreting out and ex
posing i nitial villainies, are charged by i
Grant's friends with acting in the interests
of the Democratic party. No higher com- i
pliaaent coaid be paid to the Democracy. j
In three years. Governor lb ffman, of i
New York, has vttoed three hundred and
ninety-one bills, and every veto, with one i
exceptiou, has been sustained by the Legis-i j
l... 'ru i . . .
latent-. niui r&cruiiun was tale v. Whern a
law hd been paed increasing the salary
of the Recorder of Utica from $1,800 to $3,-
S00.
The "Pittsburgh PuSt anthoriti vely an-
nr.iinrea that General (Jfnrop W ,rq mil'.
not declins tho Democratic nomination for
Governor. Gener! f?i.s is a man --f al.il. t
and of the strictert integrity. He is well
known to the people of Pennsylvania by
reputation, and is ttrocgly urged by the
western Democrats.
The New Haven (C an J Palladium re
ports that a young man in that city, former
ly a pie cait driver far U. II. Olds, and
more recently a horse-car driver, received a
letter on Thursday last from a foreign real
estate ngeut announcing that an une'e in
China had recently died and left him $150,
000 00.000 pounds sterling.
At General Mcintosh's camp, on thf St.
Joseph and Denver railroad, near Fairburg,
Kan., two or three days ago, a desperado
calied Kentucky Jack." killed two men,
one Mcintosh's c'eik. and the other l is rn.-k.
The inmates tf the camp tied the mnrderer
to a ttak. and were about burning him
ai:ve, when he was rescuod by the authori
ties. A maiden lady of Guilford, N. Y., of
good character, liberal education, and rare
accompiisfcmsnrs, is laboring u-nder most
singular hallucination. Imagir.ing ihe is
cngHged to be mairied, (h- ugh she has never
seen her intended, Le makes extended jeur
neys to see or meet her betrothed. Failing
once, nothing disccursged, she starts off
ag lio .
The Boston Journal says that a new ?afe
hss beeu invented, which makes things very
unpleasant for burglars. The walls a-e filled
with gunpowder in such a manner that the
blows of a sledge, or tbe cutting cf a chip!,
in ths attempt to rob the snfe, will ignite
the powder, blow eff the outer crust, annihi
late the burglar, and leave the contents of
the safe uninjured.
There were married on Wednesday, the
12:h ult.. On horseback, in front of tbe tav
ern-house of m. J. McGlatiihlio, in Poca
hontas county, Va., when the thermometer
stood eight degrees below zero, by the Rev.
G. L. Brown. Daniel McCaity. .. a pen
siouer for service in tha war of 1812. aed
78 years, to Miss Ann G-ibeit, aged 23 years,
all of Pocahontas county.
Very Reversed Henry Benedict Corkey,
Vicar-General and Administrator cf the
Archdiocese of Baltimore, died cn Tuesday
evening last of pneumonia, after an ilir.es of
several weeks. Deceased was a native of
Frodciick couaty, Maryland, and has Veen
Vicar General of this Archdiocese since 1849.
In 1854 he declined theappointmentof B:.hop
of Portland. Maine, by ti.o rope.
the notorious bead of the thieving
General Order system in the New Ye-rk Cus
torn Hours, has been in consultation with
President Grant in relation to mat'ers ir.
New York. W hat a man to or j y the confi
dence and mould tho opinions of the Presi
dent cf tho United States ! The doors of the
White House shut upoa Senators Sumner
and Trumbull, and opened to Leet !
A Mrs. Watts, wife of Justice Watts,
living near Fort Smith, Aik.. discovered a
trespasser in the barnyard in the shape cf a
full grown black bear, who-was making it
liv'y for a pet hog. She took her husband's
fowling-piece, went near enough to bo sure
of her aim, an discharged both barrels
?i i I u WV ,rofUaK , C"rcass ,f"
tho beast when dressed weighed 287 pounds
One of the mosf recent trinmps r f inge
nuity recorded at tho Patent Office is a de
vice for cperdrg in the moruing and closing
at night the gates of beehives, the object being
to exclude the bee moth. The gates are so
connected with a poultry roost that when
tho fowls are on their perches the additional
weight closes the heehiva gates, which open
again when the fowls depart in the morning.
A Cleveland inventor hat just brought
out au automaton side door car, to afford a
means c f escape to passengers in case of ac
cidents which throw the cafTrom the track
aud overturn it. The arrangement is such
that when tho car veers over and becomes
supported only by the- wheels on one side,
the opposite side of the car opens prompllv,
thus allowing tho passengers a chance to es
cape. Tho Titusville Courier says : Wo notice
that many of put Democratic cotemporaries
throughout the State are speaking favorably
of the nomination of Hon. George W. Cass,
of Pittsburgh, as the next nominee for Gov
ernor. General Cass is very popular in tho
western part cf Pennsylvania, and as tho
west is certainly this year entitled to the
candidate wo can tbitk of no more accepta
ble man than bo.
Jos. II. Richter, an eccentric German
shoemaker of Indianapolis, is dead. Ho had.
by strict industry and almost penurious econ
omy, accumulated property to the amcunt
of $50,000. His only expenditure Atltridp
of the necessaries of life, were for newspapers,
and he subscribed for all of tho publications
f Indianap. lis and the leadit.g papers of
New Voik and Cincinnati. There were read
to him by his wife, and Le pegged away at
bis shoes..
Deputy Marshal McCUsland lrt p.
Minnesota on tha KjJ river, ou IV r V'
j 18, with four prisoners, whom ha wa .' -V
i to Fort Pembina. When they arrive.-
o ktmvi loe prisoners fs
j and MtCulacd gave chase. Siilt
I time nothing has been heard cf ti
t:..t
ti.r
i men. There Is no doubt that ther ;
in the severe snbw storm of the 2 j'.ii, , r 't
MeCauiland has been f.-inllw ?.!. .. :.i '.4-
j uvau ,T,m j
the two desperadoes. 3
In Danville. Pa., one diy lit eei
two drunkeD ruffians forced thc-lr way in'
tho house of Mrs. Carstetter, i!,e ir4 n t
fleeing before them. Making thtir way to
tho room of a young glil lying id with c-
sumption, tl ey outraged her person in
most brutal manner. One cf jrt,
miah Hauckn,' was arrested r.rt pir rriig ia
j n5njJ D McGinley, esc.Ved. V i
; j, Eot rx.KtU to reCuV7r. i l"c
a urns in utnsuy niiLAicau
It was at firt thought that Herr Dai,
out, the European wild-least taner, v: ;
nearly met his death ia the timer's kn a f?
days ago, had escaped with a few scri.'';,r.
This is wrong. Although in not a criilul
condition, he :s seriously iajtired, and i. cor.,
fined to his bed. Wheu the tiger le.it el
upon him it seized him by the I'jjht hLou',
iier.witn its jaws, and core trm to ti.e t. c:.
Ia addition to this wound he has twootle-?,
one a ragged rip upon the right leg, and tl.j
other a fearful ga?h on the right biJe abwa
-1 i - t i . i . .-ii-
ine ijip. which exposes too ciurai .
II 1 . 1 I 1 I- . I L ... - . .- 1 . I
been for several nights watching at the 1 1
sitfe with Robert's sic-k father, went to srp
in their house rear Carrollton, Id., on ths
nisht cf the COth ult., taking their it.f.i:.;
child to bed with them. During the ir.!t
the child crawled cut of the led and fed tj
the floor, and, althc ngh its cries were heati
by neighbors, they failed to awake its pa
rents. After some tin-e spent in sufT-jring,
the infant froza to death, and when the som
nolent parents awoke in themornirg they
fotiad that their child had been almost de
vDursd by rats.
Schuylkill Haven Feb. 2G Sorr.etin i
during last night a farmer named Dani-d
Kramer was brutally murdered, at d his wi:
a'so left for dead. The facts are there :
This morning young Mr. Kramer, in pa5ii:
his father's hctrse, thought he would g i.t
to 6re bis parents. Upou entering he Lund
hia mother lying n tho bed with her tku'I
isariuiiy iractmeu aoa othrwv V.J!,-
' oeo, oui sw,. i.v.ng ; uui sno couu l
speas. ma young man ti.en StatleJ I:.
search cf his father, ar;d found him alw
one hundred yards from the house, with L'i
braius beattn out tond frrzm to ths ground.
An alarm was raised, but no clue has lfu
f und as to who the murderers are up to th'
time. The murderers r.'bbed the house a; d
broSs Open all the chests, drawers, etj.,
showing that their evident purpce waj
plunder.
It is thought that
'Ir. Kramer was ru:
uirg for assistance when he was overU'.!i
and murdered where he was found. Mr.
and Mrs. Kramer were each over CO years
old. Mr. Kramer was a well to-do fara.er,
and probably the assassins thought of gtt
liug considerable mocey.
Ihe oid laiy is in the hands of the pLy-
j sicittr5?. who s-y il impossible for her
j recover as her skull is ba.dy fractUTed.
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i A heavy cub was usul to commit ti
j ll'jtdy dee-'. It was Itft behind and is Lc'?
' ia iho bauds of the authorities.
The murder was committed about .niro
miles west of Auburn, ia ScLuy'kill county,
on the lice cf the Sobuyikill ami Susquehan
na railroad, and ia tke heait cf a fine fam
ing region.
Mis. Kramer has remained unconsc; "V?
dui ing tho dy, aud no hopes are eutei tain-; I
of her recovery.
The house was ransacked from ton ti b f
torn, ar.d it is estimated that the obtairl
from $800 to 1 000 it) gold and sliver a', 1
considerable paper ntcr.ey, the accua.ulati a
of many years toil, each being between f J
and sixty years of age.
Another very aged lady in the hou-e at
the time and entirely deaf, was unrao'este '.
Kramer was a highly respected frii,v.
and the tragedy has caused a u?p gl : n
over ties entire community.
Pnn.APELPHiA, Feb. 27- Jos. Brown ar: 1
Isaac Hummel, both young m?n. were ar
rented today on suspicion of the pjur ivr cf
Daniel Kramer. 1J th were brought Leru
this evenirg. Brown made a partial cor, fu
sion and acknowledged to have accompar.'ti
Hummel to the door cf Krarnei's house. Iu:
alleges that Hummel committed the n-urvi-T.
Both are cemmittad for another hearii c -
Friday next. Mrs. Kramer was insen 'L '
to-day and there is to hopes of her recuT
Djspeptlc Consumption.
Tbia is a form rf disease in which t ; s
stomach sympathies with the lungs, and it
is very hard to cute li e hinr's when the stom
ach and tho diges-tive organs ere impaired.
People will see at once the folly of takir.g
squills and ipecac and paregoiic and medi
cines rf a nauseating teudency ; in fact tl ere
is no forrc of lung dieae in which they am
admisable The old plan of wakenirg the
patient to weaken the disease, has long s:r.cn
been found out, to not only bo useless, but
even hurtful. Dr. KilYs-fe's Litxg Clt.s
not only heals the lungs, but it strangtl.e-.H
the stomach, cleanses the blood, prorr.eres ex
pectoration and builds up the coretitnrru.
Da. Kkysfr's LcG Cct.k is founded on t'.s
correct principles of cure, and bids fair i? in
troduce new and valuable knowledge in t!:s
cute of all lunsr and throat diseases. TLs
i Doctor has published rr.e cf the st
poi tact cures ever effected by the i:s of it'-
icines, and has publiked a pamphlet contain
ing them, which will be sent to ?r.y cce '-
siring it. free of charge. Price of Liarg Curs,
Sl.50 per bottle, or four bottles at one tim
for $5. The D ctois i flioe for consulting ii
all hire or i-hrouio diseases, is at 167 Liberty
street. Pittsburgh, fr-Mii 10 a. v., until 1 P.
m , and firm S ui.til 6 r. if.
Great Fire in Pittsbvrqh. On Satur
day night last the American Iron Wctks,
Pittsburgh, owned by Jones & Laughlin,
wero partially burned. Tho upper rolling
mill,. with six trains, rolls, spike, bolt, aaJ
nut faetcry, pattern shop, pattern store
house, and foundry, were entirety destroyei.
Loss, $100,000 to $150,000, but it is impos
sible to ascertain, as the machinery is coverJ
with debris.
Tho portion destroyed is insured for $100,
000, distiibuted among some fifteen oftves,
mostlyot foreign companies, no one cflke
losing more than $7,000; Tho blast furnace,
puddling department, forge trains, bar-pla'!
and rail mills were not damaged; ueitker
were the nail factory, cold rolling mill, ma
chine and blacksmith shop, all of which i
ba at work on Monday morning. The por
tion burned will be rebuilt iu sixty day
The works were tho most extensive in Amer
ica, and afforded employment to 2,500 hand-
A young laey of this place, attending
private party, excused herself when askei
sine;, saying: "You must excuse me. for 1
never attempt to sing, except to warble a f
wild note for pa at eventide."
James McCartney's dwelling house.
Rockdale Furnsce, near .Wil'iaoisburg, a-
county, was recently destroyed by fir-
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