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EBENSBURC, PA., j
Fiiilay Mowin;;, - August 23, 1S72. '
Issucntic Espblicu Nalioul Ticket.
ron pkeslurst:
UOIvACK GIJEELEY,
Or JVVtr fork.
fob vie fkksiubst:
B. GllATZ lUlOAVN,
Qf An(Urf.
Democratic State Ticket.
Foil OOTERSiUn :
CHAS. R. IIUrK ALB W, of Columbia County.
roR SCTHEMK Jl'DOi:
JAMBS THOMPSON, of Er County.
FOR AVDITOlt GIKEKAL:
WILLIAM HAKTLEY, of Bedford County.
VOrt C41KUKKSMKN AT LAMOM:
RICnARI) VAUX. of Philadelphia.
JAMES H. HOPKINS, of Pittsburgh.
H END KICK. U- WRIGHT, of Luzerne County.
JXlcoatet to Constitutional Convention :
1. Gkoi'.ge W. Woodwaud, Philadelphia.
2. Jrhkmiah S. Black. York.
3. William Hioleic, Clem-Held.
4. WliXlAM J. KakK, Snmfml,
. William H. mitr, Allegheny,
ti. F. B. (ur.ii, Philadelphia.
7. Juh.n Ii. ('AwrBKl.l, Philadelphia,
f. S. Ii. Kktnolim. Ijincnater.
U, JiKi Ki l JS, Schuylkill.
10. S. C. T. loii, Yentuijro.
11. G. M. Dallas, Philadelphia.
12. K. A. Lamberton, Dnupbtn.
13. A. A. PrRMAN, Greene.
1. William M. Corbett, Clarion,
PRESIDENTIAL ELECTORS.
SENATORIAL.
Edoab Cowan, ot Westmoreland County.
GtonoK W. Skinner, of Vranklln Couuty.
ltFPRESENTATrVE.
Selden Marvin, of Eric.
John S. Miller, oflHiintlnirdon.
b. Uhoss k ky, of Philadelphia.
THat.
1. Thomas J. Unrfirer.
2. Stephen Anderson
9. John Moffat.
! la. r. Lowpnborg.
114. J. M'Knlght.
15. Henry WeUh.
let. Henry J. Stabler .
Ocui'K It. Burrel
i.N'ot orel uponj 17. R. W.Christy,
Isaiah K. Iloupt
18. William P. Logan.
Samuel A. Dyer.
Jsse B. Hawley.
19. llassclas Hrowu.
20. F. M. Robinson.
21. J. R. Wilson.
22. P. H. Stevenson.
23. John . Ilard.
21. Geo. W. Miller.
v. H. ts. swarr.
10. . Riloy.
11. John Rankle,
li. F. W. Gunster.
How. R. Milton Spekb requests us to
announce that the Democratic Congression
al Conferees in this district Trill meet at
Woods' Exchange Hotel, Altoona, on next
Monday, the 2Bth instant, at 3 o'clock, p.
i., fo nominate a candidate for Congress.
The conferees from this county are, John
Campbell, Esq., of Concmaugh borough,
P. II. Shields, Esq., of Loretto, and E. R.
DtNEqan, Esq., of St. Augustine. TV
trust that these gentlemen will all be pres
ent at the Conference and by their votes aid
in making the renomination of Mr. Speer
unanimous, as we have no doubt it will be.
"When that is done, we will have a good
deal to say on the Bubjoct, although Mr.
Spebr does not need a defence at the hand
of any man or party organ in the district
His record in Congress is the best and most
complete vindication of his fitness and ca
pacity and of his claims upon the people
of the district for a renewed expression of
their confidence.
Simon Cameron and Satn'l Henry.
Without rehearsing the disgraceful po
litical career of Samuel C. Pomeroy, one
of the present Radical United States Sena
tors from Kansas, or even referring to Jim
Nte, a Radical Senator from Nevada, it is
an admitted fact that Simon Camf.ron,
now the colleague of John Scott in the
renate from this State, is as corrupt as
either the Senator from Kansas or the Sen
ator from Nevada. It is a remarkable fact
in the political history of Cameron, that he
has never been a candidate for any office
the result of which must and would bo de
termined by the popuhsr vote. His busi
ness has been to corrupt and debauch tho
Legislature of this State and in that dis
honorable way to secure his election to the
United States Senate a position which he
is notoriously incompetent to fill with eith
er credit or honor to the State. He first
debauched the Legislature in 1845 nd
bought his way to the Senate. In 1857 he
repeated the same game. His third at
tempt was made in 1B63, when he was baf
fled by Charles R. Buck a lew, the pres
ent Democratic candidate for Governor,
who defeated him by one vote. In 1867 he
made another and successful attempt, and,
by the open and unblushing use of money,
secured his election. His term of office
will expire on the 4th of next March, and j
it will therefore become the duty of the
next Legislature to elect his successor.
Simon Cameron Is a candidate for re
election, and if Samuel Henry is again
returned to the Legislature from this coun
ty, he will of course vote for him, as he has
a perfect right to do, if his political con
science ean approve the act. If United
States Senators were elected by a vote of
the people, there is not to-day a Democrat
in Cambria county who would vote for
such a notoriously corrupt man as Simon
Cameron. That being admitted, how can
any Democrat vote for Samuel Henry and
thereby possibly enable him (IIbnry) to
cast a vote for Cameron in the Legislature,
in direct violation of the honest sentiments
of every Democrat in the county ? Ought
a Democrat by his vote to invest Samuel
Henrt with power to do an act which he
(the Democrat) would never do himself?
If any man who is sincerely a Democrat
can do so, he might just as well vote for
Hartranft for Governor.
Horace Greeley ji"W be elected Treei
dent and .a majority of the next Congress
will be supporters of his administration.
The United State Senati must be brought
into political accord with the new adminis
tration, and one of the starting" points to
bring about that result is to elect a Demo
cratic Legislature in this 8tate, which will
banish Cameron from the Senate and elect
an honest man to fill his place. Will Dem
ocrats commit political suicide by voting for
Sam'l Henry, which is the same thing as
voting for Cameron? Consistency in pol
itics is a jewel, and we say to any Demo
crat who may be seduced into the support
of Samuel Henry, do not enablo him by
your vote to consummate an act which you '
would blof h for and would be ashamed to j
perform yourself.
Horace Greeley at rortletnd.
Wc publish on our outside page a speech
delivered by Horace Greeley at Port
land, Maine, to an immense concourse of
ple . composed of Liberal Republicans
and Democrats, on last Wednesday week.
He has been making a tbur through a por
tion of Connecticut, New Hampshire, (his
native State,) and extended his visit as far
cast an Portland. He was everywhere re
ceived and welcomed with the most un
bounded enthusiasm by the people, em
bracing All the Democrats and thousands
of Liberal Republicans, who admire his
honesty of character and purity of purpose
as the coming President a fact, which no
man fit to be outside of a lunatic asylum
now doubts for a moment. This speech of
Mr. Greeley is more elaborate and more
fairly meet and explains the issues of the
pending contest than any other of the short
addresses he has yet made. It was deliv
ered at the right place and at the right
time, and sounds the key-note of the cam
paign from Maine, where it was delivered,
to Oregon. It is the bugle blast of Roder
ic Dm; that will rally the people both in
the North and the South in defence of
Greelky, and will scatter the hired and
mercenary clans of Grant as chaff is lifted
up and whirled liefore the wind. We ask
any man, no matter what his political pref
erences may be, to read this plain and em
phatic address of Horace Greeley and
then say, if he can, that Greeley is rot
an honest and sincere man and a true lover
of his conntry. How boldly, manfully and
eloquently he defines his position as the ad
vocate of peace and good will between the
North and South How plainly he disposes
of the miserable slander that he, if elected
President, would advocate the payment of
pensions to rebel soldiers. And then how
gloriously he goes for that infernal crew in
the South, the carpet-baggers, who have
been robbing and plundering the Southern
States and literally eating out the substance
and life of their people. How honest and
upright is his concluding denunciation of
that unhojy set of plunderers when he pro
phetically exclaims and predicts their fate:
"I think I hear a voice from the honest
people of all the States declaring that this
iniquity shall be gainful and insolent no
longer, at farthest, than to the 4th of March
next. By that time these criminals will
have heard a national verdict pronounced
that will cau.se them to fold their tents like
Arabs and silently steal away ; and that I
trust will be the end of their stealing at the
cost oi tne good name of our country and
the well-being of her people."
Wo honor Horace Greeley for this
bold reaffirmation of what everyf ntelligent
man knows arc the views and opinions ho
has consistently advocated since the close
of the war. It is a noble speech, patriotic
in all its utterances, a plea for justice and
right, a protest against bayonet rule and
the suspension of the writ of habeas corpus
in the South, and in favor of Abraham
Lincoln's humane policy as expressed in his
second annual message, "With malice to
wards none and with chant v to all."
New Parcel Postal Law. The new
postal law, if people choose to avail them
selves of its advantages, will seriously in
terfere with tho express business, which is
not wholly free from the charge of being an
oppressive monopoly. An exchange gives
some suggestions which are valuable, as
follows:
By the new postal law which came into
operation on the lst of July, packages of
dry-goods, hardware, drugs, (except liquor
drugs,) and other merchandize not exceed
ing twelve ounces in weight, can be mailed
to any part of the United States at a charge
of two cents for each two ounces. Much
time and money will bo saved by this ar
rangement. The express companies de
mand at least thirty cents for the transpor
tation of a package, however "mall, for
any distance. The post-office authorities,
on the other hand, will forward a twelve
ounce package to San Francisco for twelve
cents. For instance, a pair of boots, if
neither boot weighs more than the specified
twelve ounces, may be wrapped up in two
separate parcels, and sent across the conti
nent for twenty-four cents : whereas, under
the old plan, tho transpoitation of goods of
this description would have cost almost
moro money than they are worth. Up to
the present time the post-office has lost
money by the new system, simply owing to
the fact that the general public has not
taken advantage of it to such an extent as
will make it remunerative. But it is ex
pected that, when the advantages of the
system aro appreciated, the scheme will
prove as profitable to the Government s it
is beneficial to the public. It is an adap
tion of the English parcel post, and al
though the charges in England are some
what less than the rate adopted here, yet,
when it is remembered that the distances
are as nothing when compared with those
In this country, it will be seen that there is
no cause for dissatisfaction.
TnE subjoined extract, clipped from the
Harrisburg Patriot, furnishes a leaf from
the life record of Citable Albright,
Radical candidate for Congressman-at-large
which we commend to the perusal of his
old friends and acqnaintances. in Cambria
county :
"Albright entered the service as major
of the l&M regiment; a nine months' organ
ization, in 1862; ad returned home as col
onel. Some thro after his return he issued
a circular proposing to raise a one year's
regiment in the valley of the Lehigh. The
regiment was raised, and Albright took
his men to Harrisburg. While here he met
a committee from Banks township, Car
bon couuty, who were- in search of men to
fill up the quota of that township under the
draft. He offered himself to the commit
tee as a substitute, wa accepted, was mus
tered in, and received the bounty of five
hundred dollars. The records show that
he was mustered in company A, 202d reg
iment, on the Sd;of September, 1884, in pur
suance of this arrangement with the com
mittee, and was duly credited to Banks
township. Carbon county. The next day
September 4, 1804, he was mustered out as
a private and was mustered in as colonel of
the regiment, in pursuance of his circular
and of his understanding with Governor
Curtin."
Hon. Henry D. Foster has been re
nominated for Congress in the Westmore
land district. His Radical opponent is A.
W. Taylor, Esq., of Indiana county. Of
course we desire and expect that General
Foster, will be returned to Congress butat
the same timo we are free to admit that
the Republican candidate, Mr. Taylor is
a gentleman of high character. It is a fair
and square contest between two good men
uj a close district, and the result will be
isr.-zr- w-a, v"v sacral interest.
lion. GalushaA. Grow for Greeley.
If we would undertake to publish one
fourth of the speeches which have been and
i are daily leing delivered, w one-fourth of
the letters written by leading and promi-
nent supporters of Grant throughout the j
country, but who now declare their purpose f
to advocate the election of Horace Gree
ley, the columns of the Freeman would be
entirely taken up that way, to the exclusion
of all other matter. Last week we pub
lished Gen. Banks1 letter in favcr of Gree
ley, and we give place below to a docu
ment of a similar character from another
prominent and representative Republican
Hon. Galuuha A. Grow. Mr. Grow
was the successsor in Congress from the
Bradford district of David Wilmot, and
was re-elected several times. He was
Speaker of the House from 1801 to 18C3.
He now resides in Texas, where he is act
ing as the President of a Rail Road Com
pany. He is an able man, but his conscience
instinctively revolts from the sins and ini
quities of a reckless and corrupt adminis
tration, and he now comes out squarely for
Horace Greeley as the representative of
reform and honest government and against
"addition, division and silence."
I am for Greeley for President. He has
devoted a busy Hie to earnest thought and
study on all the grave questions of govern
mental policy, and the equally grave ques
tions affecting the welfare of lalor, and the
development of the iuduBtrial interests of
the country.
Starting penniless, friendless and alone
In a great city, and struggling for years
against adverse fortune, he has achieved
unprecedented success. Kditing the recog
nixrd orcran of the old Whitf party (in which
! he had been schooled from boyhood) lie was
among the first in advocating its abandon
ment and the formation of the Republican
party, when he had to choose between duty
to his convictions or fealty to party organi
zation. .For thirty years with each setting sun he
boldly uttered his convictionson the world's
public doings of the preceding twenty-four
hours, whether political, social, moral or
religious, yet never pandering to the vices
or follies of the times. During that whole
period, crusader-like, he has championed
the universal manhood of the race, and the
equal rights of all mankind.
No oue liviug has devoted more brain
work to the cause of universal liberty, or
the elevation of fallen and eruahed human
ity, and few, if any, have endured more of
the jeers of gilded prejudice, or the scoffs of
bigoted error. Vet to-day the leading ideas
for which he has struggled so long with un
yielding tenacity, are incorporated into our
organic law and are stamped indelibly upon
the pillars of the Republic.
And now when a great political party
through its regular organization selects
such a man for its standard-bearer, 1 hail
it as the dawn of a brighter and better day.
The Democrat who can lay aside his party
prejudices of a life-time, and accept the
foremost and ablest representative of the
ideas of his former political opponents, gives
the best evidence he can furnish that he is
ready to let the dead past bury its dead, aud
to act for the living present.
When the people of one section of the
Union, despite the education of their entire
section, rally around the standard of a man
who for the third of a century they have
been taught to hate as their deadliest foe,
they give the best evidence that with them
the auimosities of the past are buried for
ever. If not in this way, how, then, is the
Union ever to le restored to peace and last
ing reconciliation ?
A victorious party in a carnival of blood
cannot in this age convert itself into a party
ofierpetual hates. When tho vanquished
are ready to close the bloody chasm aud
bury forever the animosities engendered in
the deadly strife, returning over the graves
of their dead ones and through tho bitter
memories of the past to grasp in fraternal
concord the hand of the victor, where is the
patriotism that would repel the proffered
offer ?
In what other way can we ever expect to
have one people, homogeneous in ideas and
institutions, from the Gulf to the Lakes,
and from Ocean to Ocean, with one Union
and one destiny, now and forever?
Are these grand results of less consequence
to the republic than the ambitious wishes
of one man, struggling to prolong his term of
office? Yours truly,
G a lush a A. Grow.
Hon. A. K. McClcee.
Curious Historical Jleeords.
Gen. (.rant's Threat la 1361 to Kmlfn His Coat
mission an4 last His Lot with the aoata.
from the Randilth (Afit.) Citizen.
In the summer of 1861 Gen. Grant, then
Colonel of the Twenty-first Illinois Regi
ment of Infantry, was stationed at Mexico,
on the North Missouri Railroad, and had
command of the ost. He remained sev
eral months, mingling freely with the peo
ple regardless of the jteculiar shade of any
one's political opinions, and as tho distin
guished Colonel then had no thoughts of
aspiring to the Presidency or dictatorship,
no occasion existed for the reticence to
which latterly he owes the greater part
of his popularity. Ulysses the Silent was
then Ulysses the Garrulous, and embraced
every fair opportunity which came in his
way to express his sentiments and opinions
in regard to political affairs. One of these
declarations we distinctly rememlier. In
a public conversation in Ringo's banking
house a sterling Union man put this ques
tion to him : "VVhat do you honestly think
was the real object of this war on the part
of the Federal Government?"
"Sir," said Grant, "I have no doubt in
the world that the sole object is the resto
ation of the Union. I will say further,
though, that I am a Democrat every man
in my regiment is a Democrat and when
ever I shall be convinced that this war has
for its object anything else than what I
have mentioned, or that the Government de
tign uiing it eoldiert to execuU the purpo
eea of the abolitionitt, I pledge you my honor
at a mn and a soldier that 1 will not only
retign my commission, but will carry my
sword to the other side and east my lot with
that peopk."
Gtm. Grant's Belief that Xegro Snirrwre was Ta
wl and nonld Lead U a War of Kaeea.
Extract from Senator DoolittWs Speech at
Milwaukee, Oct. 2, 1855.
The other day when Gen. Grant was
here, spending several hours with him in
free conversation upon this subject among
others, be expressed to me the same opinion.
Said I, "Gen. Grant, I never quote private
conversation without express permission
am I permitted to state what you now state
tome?" Said he, 'Certainly, there is no
concealment on my part." And he stated to
me in the conversation that a considerable
portion of the troubles between the whites
and the blacks that had already occurred
was in consequence of the unwise attempt
to force negro tuffrage in these States. He
said further tlat if the Federal Govern
ment were to attempt to do it and enforce
it, it would undoubtedly produce war be
tween the two races.
Gen. Grant's Official ;Knralatlona In Rotation to
Aegroos.
Headquarters
Department of the Tennessee,
Corinth, Miss., Aug. 11, 1862,
Ofliccrs and soldies are posi
tively prohibUcdfrom enticing slates to lean
their masters. It is enjoined on
all commanders to eee that this order is
executed strictly under their own direction.
By command of ..
V. S. Grant, Major-GchcraL
Jt. Gratz Jirou-n.
ms acceptance ok thEpemocraticnom-
lNATlON THE UNION OF THE PARTIES.
-The correspondence between J. R. Doo
little and B. Gratz Brown respecting the
nomination of the latter for Vice Presi
dent by the Baltimore Convention has been
published. The letter of Mr. Brown is as
follows:. . - j
Executive Department;.:
Jefferson City, Aug. 8.
tlehilevien of the Committee: I have
the honor to acknowledge the receipt of
your communication advising me that I
had been unanimously nominated as a can
didate for the Vice Presidency of the
United States at Baltimore. For this mark
of confidence on the part of so large a rep
resentative body of my fellow-citizens I
cannot tK deeply express my gratitude.
The distinction is one which I feel to be in
a great measure undeserved, where so
many more suitable could have been found.
And yet, should your action be confirmed,
I shall endeavor to discharge the duties of
that high place with fidelity to your trust,
with devotion to public interest, and with
an inflexible resolution to prove not un
worthy of such a choice.
The fact that it reposes also upon the
declaration of principles affirmed by the
Liberal Republicans at Cincinnati, and
proclaimed without amendment by the
Democratic party at Baltimore, gives the
assurance that in thiscombined expression
there is sought only the deliverance of the
nation from a present great peril to its
peace aud liberties. To that end all minor
considerations have been subordinated and
an illustration presented to the country of
unselfish patriotism rather than any stick
ling for party advantage, which should
convince all of the perfect sincerity of this
movement. It has involved no surrender
on either part of any former convictions.
It has not been negotiated or bargained.
Its origin was from the people. '1 hough
differing in the past on some issues of great
magnitude, yet now that they are settled
there is a hearty concurrence between us all
upon the vital questions now agitating the
public mind.
AY hat conduct of national affairs that
involves your convention has well set forth
in its platform, and its true accord with the
Democratic ideas that guided our earlier
administrations is the best guaranty that it
will restore equal rights, tranquil develop
ment and constitutional rule.
Permit me also, gentlemen, through
you, to express my thanks to the great
masses of j-our party who have since rati
fied the action with such signal unanimity,
and to say to them that, in accepting this
nomination, I do so believing there is noth
ing in honor or in conscience that should
prevent the most cordial co-operation
henceforth, in behalf of the politics pre
sented. In concluding, it is projer to str.te that
severe illness has intervened since the re
ception of your communication, which has
delayed this reply until my recovery and
return home. With very great respect,
yours truly, B. Gratz Brown.
Charles R. Buckalew A iAihor View.
After mature deliberation and after con
sulting those especially interested in the
utterances of this paper, wc enter the list
and shall support Hon. Charles R. Bucka
lew for Governor. We attach but little
significance to political platforms. They
are at best but fabrics of straw, and are
liable to collapse any moment after the elec
tion. We have seon too much of party
politics to attach any importance to these
frail structures. Let us have good men.
and measures will be right. With bad all
the platforms ever reared will be but "as
the idle wind which they regard not."
The first consideration should therefore
Ins to secure a good man able, honest and
reliable. So far as the material interests of
the Commonwealth are concerned, there is
but little professed difference between the
two parties. They both profess to lelieve
in a prudent and economical management
of the finances. They both profess to cher
ish the interests and the honor of the State,
and to guard the welfare of tho people. A
good man of either party would carry out
the vital principles. A bad man of either
party would sacrifice these principles to se
cure his own advantages. We therefore
want a man who has been fouud faithful.
We do do not want one who has been sus
pected. Now, we cannot help it that the
man above reproach happens to be the
Democratic candidate ; nor can we help
it that the Republican candidate is not free
from suspicion. We are, therefore, im
pelled by a sense of duty to support the
Democratic candidate not because he is a
Democrat, but because we want a man who
has the nerve, the ability, and the honesty
to carry out the principles of public econo
my, irrespective of party trammels.
Holding these views, we are irresistibly
forced to support Mr. Buckalew, and we are
free to say that we M ould just as ardently
espouse tho cause of the Republican candi
date, if t he personal aspects of t he question
had been reversed. We take our stand
under the banner of Buckalew, Leeause he
is an able and an honest man ; and we op
pose I Iai-tmnft because we bolievoho is not.
Danville Independent.
A MiRACULOrs Escape. The Scranton
Republican says : Oue of the most miracu
lous escapes from a horrible death that has
ever come to our notice occurred at Cayuga
shaft, near Providence, on Saturday lat,
under the following circumstances: Cay
uga shaft is 370 feet deep and it has be
come necessary to use two pumps, one to
raise the water half the distance, and the
other to bring it to the top. J. T. Morgan
and another man were at work in the pump
half way down the shaft. Some planks
were laid across tho shaft, and Morgan hav
ing occasion to cross, the plank broke, and
he was precipitated to the bottom, a dis
tance of 183 feet. Some men working near
the foot of the shaft hard a cry and pro
ceeding to the spot found him in about two
and a half feetof water, and totheir amaze
ment Morgan related to them how the plank
had broken 183 feet above, and he had fall
en down. Not a bone was broken, and
except a slightly sprained ankle, and a lit
tle bruise on the chest, he was uninjured.
Upon what theory can this miraculous es
cape be accounted for? Mr. Morgan wore
a pair of wide oil-cloth pants, tight around
the waist, and two oil-cloth coats, buttoned
close at the neck. The theory advanced
by Mr. Benjamin Hughes, the Superinten
dent, is that the air inflated his wide clothes,
and his descent was comparatively easy.
TnE JV. T. Sun of Monday publishes a
startling revelation, wherein it is shown
that Grant supported and concealed the
payment of forged pension claims in the
case of Paymaster General Brice, after he
knew they were forgeries. Brice paid over
800 fraudulent claims of colored soldiers
in the South, none of whom ever received
the money. After Johnson dismissed this
Brice, who belonged to Grant's " mess,"
Grant restored him to office and caused the
report of a congressional committee to be
suppressed. And yet the people talk of
Grant being an honest man.
e predict that when Greeley is elected
to the Presidency, that tho most gigantic
frauds will bo unearthed, and that it will
be shown that Grant has leen a party to
them. Columbia Democrat.
A St. Lotjis woman killed her husband
by throwing boiled starch over him.
The Heavens in a Iilaze.
the most remarkable storm ever wit
nefsel boston city and harbor
illuminated.
Last night it seemed as if heaven and
earth were in a blaze and both bursting
asunder. During the first storm, at about
6:30 P. ,M., the Mount Pleasant Unitarian
ChurcU at tlicIIighlands was struck by
lightning and set on fire, but the flames
were extinguished without an alarm. The
spire was somewhat shattered. At Station
9 the brass- work on the telegraphic instru
ment was melted by the electric fluid, and
Sergeant Wood, who was reading a paper
some ten feet from the machine, was struck
and rendered insensible for a time. Lieut.
Hastings had left his chair, close to the
machine, but a moment previous to the ac
cident to thut the window of the guard
room. By this mere accident he probably
escaped death,
APPALLING SCENES.
At eight o'clock the storm abated, the
lightning ceased its vivid Hashes, and all
supposed that the storm was over, but at
midnight the skies were again darkened,
the rain began to fall in sheets, and the
whole firmament was lit up with the s;ud
den and almost blinding flashes of the
lightning. One peculiarity of this storm
was the long continuance of the flashes.
Toward the latter part of its duration the
flashes would follow each other so rapidly
that the heavens were illuminated for sev
eral seconds, when the intense light would
be succeeded by Egyptian darkness, while
the heavens were constantly reverberating
with the terrific reports of the thunder,
some of them short and quick, like the
crack of a rifie, others deep and of long
continuance, like the distant roar of artil
lery. Those who were compelled to re
main upon the streets were almost struck
dumb with the near approach of the clcc
trict fluid, and the terrifying detonations
which followed. For nearly an hour the
storm raged, the elements combining to
make one of the most grand and a prilling
scenes ever witnessed in this city.
T11K HARBOR ILLUMINATED.
The air was completely full of electrici
ty, and the fluid passed along the wires
over the houses, driving the night -operators
away from their instruments and
compelling all to seek cover. The scene
down the harbor was sublime ; the sud
den flashes of lightning caused tho ship
ping to stand for an instant in bold reliof,
when, as it appeared, a cloud of inky
blackness instantaneously covered the
scene. The waters were lashed into. fury,
and the hoarse cries of the sailors as they
moved about on the alert to avoid the
threatening disasters only served to height
en the effect. Many of the citizens who
had retired for the night were compelled
to rise for fear that the fluid would ignite
the buildings, if the descending bolts
should strike them. In the suburban
towns the storm seems to have been as
furious as in the city. From South Bos
ton, Chelsea, Cambridge, Maiden, and
other places, reports of its terrific nature
have been received. Considerable dam
age was done to property, but as yet no
deaths resulting from the storm have been
reported. Boston Journal, Aug. 15.
THREE HUNDRED AND TniRTY-ONE FLASHES
IN SEVEN MINUTES.
A most remarkable exhibition of atmos
pheric electricity took place in Arlington
between 12 and 1 o'clock. Brilliant streams
of the electric fluid darted athwart the sky
in every direction, and the thunder which
followed was constant for a perit-d of thir
teen minutes, without the intermission of
an instant of silence. Oue Hash of light
ning followed another in 6uch rapid suc
cession as to excite curiosity to know how
many occurred in a minute. With -watch
in hand I counted them for seven minutes.
In the first minute there were 51 vivid
flashes ; second minute, 42 ; third, '30 ;
fourth, 47 ; fifth, 37 ; sixth. 61 ; seventh, 54;
making three hundred and thirty-one dis
charges of electricity in seven minutes,
distinctly visible from one point; and
each discharge was followed by loud and
sometimes rattling reports, whose rever
berations rolled through tho heavens in an
endless procession of majestic and terrific
sounds.
During this scene tho moon, which was
about half an hour .ihovn tlm wocivm Lrtr-
izon, was visible, but so magnified through
the haze and vapor as to appear like a
brilliant flame susiended in the sky. For
a period of twenty minutes the scene was
one of grandeur and sublimity rarely wit
nessed in a lifetime. A'.. Y. Express.
THE COMMOTION IN TOE HEAVENS.
It is rare indeed that a more terrible
thunder storm, or of longer duration, is
experienced in this latitude, or, as for that
matter, in any latitude than the one with
which our neighborhotKl was visited be
tween 12 and 1 o'clock last night. Awak
eued from deep sleep by the terrific thun
der which shook the earth, and the vivid
lightning which made midnight like mid
day around him, one could not but realize
the appropriateness of David's d e&criptiou
of a thunder storm, in the xxix Psalm ;
!!Jho GtMX of fflory thundercih.
"1 he voice or the Lord is powerful ;
Jt.?5 vo!c, "f !' Lord is upon the waters:
f "e voice of tho Lord is full of majesty :
The voice of the Lord breakctu the cedars
or I'tanon ;
"T he voice of tho Lord divldetb the flames of
nre;
'The voice of the Lord shakcth the wilder-
!!T.,,e Ij?r1 s,,t,tu upon the flood;
'1 ea, the Lord sittetu King- forever," 4c
The entire Psalm is a most vivid and
sublime description of such a 6tonn as
David often experienced in this vicinity
last night an experience well adapted
to impress a man with a sense of his lit
tleness, and utter helplesness iu the hands
of Him who could thus thunder, and to
make him feel the desirableness of that
"peace," which in tho last verso of. the
Psalm the Lord promises "his peoplo,' J
Boston Traveller. -
The Belfast Riots. London, Aug. 20.
Special to the New York Herald. The
Orange riots in Belfast continue with una
bated fury, and in that city a regular panic
prevails, and many respectable ieople have
fled. The Orangemen, in bodies of three
hundred to fourhendred, issued from their
headquarters in Sandy row, and rushed
through the streets like demons, firing in
all directions.
It is feared they will attempt to demolish
several Catholic institutions, and large rein
forcements of constabulary have according
ly surrounded them to resist attack. Sev
eral regiments, including detachments from
the royal I arracks in Dublin, were drawn
up to-day in High street, Donegal street,
and the .vicinity of Linen HalL ready to
charge the rioters. Dragoons and mounted
constabulary patrolled the city last night,
the shooting was brisk as ever, and in many
cases innocent persons were killed.
Bitter outcries are made against the au
thorities, who allowed the fiends to pelt the
troops with brickbats, wreck churches aud
stores, and perpetrate atrocious murders
before they gave a word of command. The
mode of warfare is cowardly in the extreme,
and people walking quietly along are shot
down liko dogs.
Hon. Heister Clymkr was nominated
for Cougress at Reading, on Wednesday
last, over his competitor, Geogo Lerch, who
made a bitter personal tight against him.
The vote btood : Clymer, 159 Letch, 5.
Bloody Tragedy on the Jlitwismippi.
STEAMBOAT ROBBED AND SEVEN FERBONS
MURDERED EY NEGROES. ! fin
Memphis. Auirust 17. Early thi morn- rosaries to Mmi,. n 1 '
... i ' " .1 i:7.t ... . Aiie
a iiMienrian uiscovcrvti int; nine mvuiuii
("Helen Brooks lloating down stream near j
! the head of Cheek's chute, some ten miles
alove here, and apparently abandoned.
He rowed out to the steamer, made a line
fast and pulled her toward the bank, but .
before reaching it, saw a negro asleep on
the lower deck, who, as soon as the boat
struck the bank, started up, lcaied ashore
and ran to the woods. The fisherman then
boarded the steamer, and found traces of a
deserate struggle having taken place, the
deck being wet with blood. He then came j
to this city and reported vshat he had seen. ;
Subsequently, the steamer Grand Tower, '
from St. Louis, arrived here, bringing a !
message from a magistrate at Bradley's j
Landing, eighteen miles abovehere, stating j
that the crew of the Helen Brooks, and the '
proprietors and families of h trading boat, J
which the Brook lliwl tnuci) thro lin.l I
leen murdered, and the Uat plundered, j Livings
Assistance was at once dispatched in the ' ada, has ie
steamer John Overton. '1 he report is, that I ed Uiiiii
vuputui tt miaul i un anu ms orotner, the
proprietors of the trading boat, together
with their wives and two daughters, were
all murdered and their bodies thrown into
the river. .
LATER DETAILS.
MEMrnis, August 18. I-atcr advices
from Bradley's Lauding state that soon
after the tug Helen Brooks arrived there
with the trading boats. James Trumbull
j went on board drunk, and commenced tri-
h.ng with the machinery. Captain Pott
ordered him to desist, to n hich oitlcr he re
plied with opprobrious epithets, and threat
ened to throw Pott overboard. Pott took
up a shot-gun and ordered him off t!ic boat.
Trumbull went before Esquire Walt and
swore out a warrant, accusing Pott of rc-
tailillT HoUOr without alins imrm m-1,V1.
j the latter was arrested by a colored consta- ! should i-ermit himself to hv sta,
Mic, ami luneu oeiore a magistrate, and Ins t a jron.se cha.c.
win', ieing ner imam witn two women
on the boat, accompanied him. After wait
ing till nearly dark, Pott's brother, fearing
trouble, tok the boat over to Island No. 40
and made fast to the shore. That night
Downing, the colored constable. Trumbull
t and a man called Hars took a skiff, pressed
two netrroes into their
dered them to row across and land above
the steamer, which was done. "Clics,"
one of the netrroes. sav tl.t lo.i;
Downing and party ordcitd them to be
. quiet under penalty of death. Downing
; and party then crept cautiously towards the
j boat, which they boarded, and soon after
a loud cry was heard and then several shots
in quick succession. "Ches" then saw
them pursning Pott's brothers, who had
jumieu ajiiore, and firing on him, but
whether he was killed or not he does not
know. Pott was the only one seen by
'Ches," and he thinks two other men, one
of whom was named Robinson, two women
and three children were killed and thrown
overboard. When "Ches" and his part
ner were called to the boat thevraw no one
but Downing, Trumbull and "llaus, who
broke int the bar, and the entire party
got drunk. "Ches" remembers no more
until the Doat was landed by the fisherman,
as stated List night, when he jumped ashore
and made his way back to Bradley's, where
wildest excitement prevailed. As nothing
has been seen of Pott or his party, while
Downing and his party have disappeared,
and from that and the fact that the loat
had been plundered, it is feared that the
whole party has been murdered.
Cameron Matches Tweed.
FIVE MILLION PLACER IN PENNSYLVANIA
GRANT'S FRIENDS TAMMANY RING
TACTICS TO HELP HARTRANFT.
1
Special Correspondence of the World. 1
j Easton, Penna., August 14, 1872. Re
liable information has been received that
Z 1 . A . ...... 1 , ...
a iuuu oi ?.),wi,uu nas ueen put into the
service of the Administration in this State.
Simon Cameron himself pay $1, 000,000.
The election of Buckalew here in October
would be fatal to the success of Grant in
November. Desperate extremities must
bo resorted to, and they are at hand. It I some living creature which he had
is notorious that the city of Philadelphia
has at any time since the war boen Demo
cratic on a fair count ; but the Reuistrv
law of that city, passed by a Radical Leg
islature in the interests of the ring, has
i made an honest vote impossible. Where
j the lioartl of Aldermen is obliged to ap
t point a Democrat, either for registration,
or in tho election board, they select their
man, and pay him for keeiiiicr his eves
j shut. Cameron has already made his own
I ticket in Philadelphia. William B. Mann,
j in the meeting of the State Central Com-
mittec, called for the purpose of nomiiiat
t ing another candidate for Governor, and
throwing liartramt over to appease tho
wrath of the whole, declared that the city
would give 15,000 Republican majority,
and he knows how it can be done. So do
we, though wo remain powerless to pre
vent it.
The Postmaster of this place bas been
authorized to draw upon the funds for
$5,000 to wager upon the success of Hart
ranft. This is a good game of bluff, ami
they play it well. Cameron's exjcrience
in buying votes, and fraudulently count
ing others unpurchasable, places his in
tention, if not his ability, beyond reason
of denial. As such is the game, let Pcnn
sylvaniabo ready.
A Rural Wedding. Oneof those olden
time weddings took place in our town, says
the Uniontown Standard, a few days ago,
and it is not our design to make any re
marks, but state the facts just as they oc
curred. A young gentleman and lady,
strangers to every body here, ealled on the
'Squire to get married. The youug man
was carrying his shoes in his hands on ac
count of a stoneTbruise, and had on Ids
shoulder a long, narrow sack ; in ono cud
he had something i n appearance to wearing
apparel, and in the front end he had a
small dog, with its nose sticking out of a
hole. The young lady had in lier arms on
of those large Maltese, cats with a pink
riblron around its neck, fastened with a
neat breast pin. When they came to the
office the young man refused o go in, but
she, taking hold of his coat, said, '-'Come
on, I ain't afraid." Finally he went in.
She says '"Squire we waut to get mar
ried." "Hold on,',' said the young man,
"I want to know how much this job costs."
The price was agreed on, aud, in the mean
time, many had gathered, and two of the
crowd acted as attendants. While the
ceremony was going on one of the attend
ants cried out, "Hold on. this fellow ain't
J on the right side." Being properly placed,
tne squire proceeded, and the two were
made one, and left, no one knew where
being entire strangers. '
A gentleman in the eastern part of the
State, w ho was about having his leg ampu
tated on account of its being bent at ri.'ht
angles and stiff at the knee, heard of Jon
son's A nodyne Lin imen t. After using it a
short time his leg became straight, and is
now as serviceable a3 the other.
A GREAT many neotritt lm-n ocl-.l .l...,,.o.l ..flnn, .-loo .red With HJl ut
late, "How do you keep your horse look
so sieek and glossy?" We tell them it's the
easiest thing in the world: irS .qa,v,-
Cavalry Condition Powders two or three
times a week,
Xews and roliticul ,
-. ''to i
A colored man, 105 VMr.
I
st vote nt the re.-..,, "t'.-... . '
T
The l.me has rrenU, f-
I M M.M V a. 1 1 u.i s r r- . . a .
ter.
The R.-dkals in PaltM, , .
negro from his siek bed knd'v' r
the noils to vote. 1?.. ,i . .i ., r'" '.
-1 WO Nmrset count. ;. r
- - - M.l II I hi, .
81 and the oilier 8:1 year-,4 .;'(
and IkjulcI 35 dozen i!fui.M, '"'
At Princeville. 111. '' ,
lately with two heads. fUMr , ' '
1
egs. It was too much f.,r ti...' '
the mother feels relieved. ' "
- s
Mrs. Nettie C. Tabu-La, ,
iuuiciui in i ii i ?t v niz, I al Guii' '
have been com-iucn-fr,t.r.s cim - i '
law. Now, Nettie, let's see v h ,t ' 1
do. ,lT
A Folsom (Cal.) h.drank IIr... .
lager thrown out of a brewery tV
day that it liecame thoroughly (i n , '
behaved in a mostdiscn dnablei -!K
tone's brother. resr.,;,
eived a letter fn,i l".'"
i. Stanley has been tl. ' ' '
niakitiir the whole family l, ,,.'.. A"
In Frederickstow ti, Muv, ','rj
urday, two men. while iiitox:,.a.(.'(
to a ouarrci about iwlitics ti'.
ifii t'.i
mencfu to snoot and cut e.
- i , . . .
!et
icaiiiii r.nc. .ne was Mnt
tle:m
other seriously hurt.
The Catholic Mirror, of p,y.;.
Saturday last, authoritatively
telegram from BUhop M.-n,,,,.,
Bishop Elder has not yet W;i a--.
Archbishop of Baltimore, ami tU -'K'
op Bailey, of New Jersey, will t -.-receive
the appointment."
This from tho Pitt-shin r 7), ...
ical : Charles O" Conor is n-.enti,',
prolable nominee of the Mniili- -oemtic
Convention at Louisville.
he rurnrisiiijr if a man of ( t ,
j rieldmg Dillon, of M n (,
j Kentucky, had occ!isin to ir.vW
wne s neiHrrmeiH towards KLr
found that it was entirely too f. ,.(.
is customary to shoot somen .)',-
cases. Mr. Dillon shot himself ;!:
Bill Elliott approves of Mr. IKL -.
duct.
The adage "where tlicrc's..-;;,.-n
way" is illustrated in a VV. -Yr
where Jhe swains are so ietin:,e U:
young ttoinen can on j re-t tJiem v.-.- t
to squeeze them (the young w
persuading the former to lay 1k-:s !
weight and ascertain the same !vb
them.
A Major Morderwcll, of Hen'.
Y., was; shot some ten years r. r.
kail tok with it into his Imdy a !
which Ikls never lee:i extracted.' A
days since, however, it worked out. L
traverscl his entire Imdy without V.
him. Who says the u' n-;.:.
than the sword."
The great Pennsylvania, n.
afloat, is soon to be followed by tUi' i'.
ilar vessels. No time will be l.'-t r.i i
ing the pioneer craft of the new V.:ic -her
engines, and fitting hcrfTi i.
another twelvemonth it is expeeti:
four lino steamers plying between I L.
phia and Liverpool.
In his speech at Chicago, on Sr
night last, Senator Schurz stmck tl
on the head when he said, "In ..n't::
a gixtl Republican, it is now m r;
an honest man to hold his t r,
corruption." That is it pre ; -h:
is one of the principles of the Ue
party, the others being addition, i.
cation, subtraction and division.
It is a fact, that some of tho '
ters in the country have report'-a v.
ler of Republican subcribei-s t t )m '
at their respective offices, a-i;l tV
Tritjtine have been taken out of ti
and the New York Time snbstin
their place. It mut .be a tU spoia'i
with the Radicals when I hey take t
biii the mails in order to beat Grci-' 1
Mr. Cyrus King, of Barre, M,
well-known and respected citizen, a.
has suffered forty vears from a !.-;. -
the stomach, which he thought c:i.-;u :
eu wniie a nn King at a spnng. i.x-ti
be was delivered of a brown snak?, t.:
inches in diameter, and is doinasv.
could be expected. The reptile U La
in its old age.
The official returns of North ( ar -in
eighty-nine out of the ninety-tw
in the State, give Caldwell I.'. ;
07,830 votes, ami Merrinum IVm .-x.
157 votes, or a majority for (.'a'li-.-.nL:
673 votes. The three count Ii - f...i;i v
official returns have not been roeeiwd
is estimated, will jiive Meiii:n.:i i' " -j'irity,
so that Caldwell is ekrr. J ty'-i r
jority of 2, '200.
John AY. Forney is aur'
statement that Grant in 1S1 ivt
pressed a desire to remain l'i;Jf..;
two terms, but that it was only '& in
surance of his friends that he h.n'."i
elected that he accepted the ofliee -To
a Ifcrul'l reoiier. a few d.iy4-'
Grant said: "I was not anxious t k :
ident a second timo." Thus a qui--veracity
arises between Forney u:id t---
B. F. Butler shouted so loud hi Y
field, Mass.. on the 27th ult.. that 1
his voice. This is mournful, but the--';
part of the story is yet to be reht'i i
man was not tho Beast, well-k:ui-i:t'--and
spoons, but a colored ina:s, l
engaged in the innocent occuti ..nt-:'
ing ico-crcam. But it is an awf-.il wi"
to Benjamin, and if he does i; -t
be stricken dumb ho had fetter '
shouting.
James McElhany, a glass Mo e1
thirty, shot his wife", aged niiu't-
Boston, on Saturday, night lo--t, a -discharged
two barrels of the rev
his own head, inflicting severe. 1 .
dangerous injuries. Mrs. McKlls.
in a few minutes. Tho niuulerery
from a second story window, but
rested. McElhany is reported t fe
dy workman, with consideraMe l,r-'
but of a savage disposition, whiel-"'";:
his wife to leave him for her lather'-'-'
with their infant child.
Kindness to Kindred. Want o
necesary means to supply the uea'
which usually press ujon ieork '
more moderate walks of life, mayl-;
cuse for neglecting a disease
consumption, has often in times
esteemed as incurable. Iut t!a' C ':I"'
ties of nature, which ous;ht to l'i"J r'.
his own, overleap all these bami'1",
estimation of right-thinking 1 '""J
when we seo a medicine like iii-lvf
Lung Cure, ouring hundreds "'l'
around us. we feel it not only a j -
but a duty to joint out to our n-'JV,
avluableaiquisitiou to medical ',,
In the earlier stages of lung u1 .
by that all-powerful remedy, ar.d f
OI peccant iinu uiwiauu-s ij
expelled from the blood, amlivm1
the system by the natural uws '
a ... 4 . 1 . . i..i.k- 1 lie
of peccant anu disorganize;, .fr'
ere lory organs ii u;c on.-
Keyser's Lt.NO Cure is a sjk'cii.'- ,
cough and chill, the spittle sta1 -blood,
all give place to that l::ilt"-:i,j
briuraofthe circulation wlneh i v-
.' a i.ini tt yr j in' ......... . . . - -r- , , ... i.;;
ing : seething with corruption can L ,?
perform the oftioo of iesput".' ' - ,r
lv use of Dr. Kktskk's Li 11 '
tice ar.d store. 1U7 Liboity '
I burgh.