V --r .i-- - LJQ. II , , trf4)Miittl5y fe : IP iknl till EL niM JI1 L So B1, 1 mM lii fvwWWWw l'lwlflWI ? J I i 7 . . . . . . . I H A MCPIKE, EditOr and PUOllShOr. "HE IS A KKKKMAS WHOM THE TllVTn MARKS FREE, AM) ALL ARK 8LAVES BESIDE. Terms, S2 per year. In advance yOIAJME 'VI. HHENSBURG, PA., PKIDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1S72. XUMKKR SIS. vf NT El- ,' '. r. icu mdvcrtlsnncnts!. ""frlvaniA Military Academy, . , rii.-Htcr. 1 inwiiri- I oiinty. ra. iror iosi- deiiiiw"'1-, i , v sent. 4. Thorough in- .. i . ....1- I If I'il'VriMll RIII1UU1 jwn'll con S ,, in Civil Entfineennir. tuc latlie i x itunil Sciences. Tho Classics S' rrt,-.i t-y west Point Krad the Matheinati- and Ofli Krad nates in.i ..tl.or competent professors. Circulars w,y h VATT. Treat. P. M. 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A Sl'UK CUKE for tiiisdil ressinp- complaint Is now made known in a Treatise (of 4S octavo Pitjrca) on Foreign and Nativn Herhal I'reparu tions, published ly lr.o. I'm w.i'S Knows. The prwcripl ion was diii-overed hy him in such a Frovldeiitial manner t ha: he cannot eonacien ionalv refuse to make it h iiowii. as it has cured everybody who has used it for Fit a, never hav lu? faiie.l in a siiijrle case. The intrrediciit may In? opened from any drujrg-ist. A copy sent fj-eot.i all applicants by mail. Address lr. O. TiKli - Ukow.n, 21 (irand ?t., Jersey City, N. J. SWEIRYSILVER TKCS.MrfADDENJR. 4i.5-"Awi Pittsburgh. - 4 IIHILKR-S HECIPES FOR LIQUORS i stain the Ir.test improveil instructions for r Ijiiitf I'randics, W hiskeys. Hums, (rins. Hit-l-il. I'uiicy Cordials. Fruit Syrirps. I!ay Hum, &V Ac. No one ensaired in the Liquor Uusi H"Js can alTonl to do without them. Ask for tn:a and examine tliem nt 1 he bookstores. le-I'.vt-red l.j mail.on receipt of t2.bv Aschkmiach & III i l ku. 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It is prepared expressly to cur the Sold by all Druggists. 9 s, np.i nothing else. 1 le, ll.ltfi. j 4)f.TS i aninl.-Atrents make more mon at 7r'jrk f,r us than anything else. Itusi hjfht ami pi.-rmaiieiit. Particulars free. "l.1-' i Co., Fine Art IlU.luhers, Port- Maine. nx n. JJI HRAT J,S. u. DIKK. J Muii-y Ac lnnn9 i rUOI'KIKTOHS tip Wm FOtMlKY AM) STOVE WORKS, I 1IOLL1DA YSni'IiO. PA. IT AVIN purchased the establishment lately t. known as Enterprise Foundry, we are now w"l'i;-f t manufacture ?-K;iirr CASrriX(;s of erery description. The Various Styles of Stoves yj':uia"turcl at our cstablishmrnt are in all els euual to ativ in the market. sm Knincsand all kind of Machinery promptly and aatisfaetorilr repaired. Lf nur work is warran led to liofinctly "i it is represented. LAug". W.-tf.J Vai.IJa IJLK FAIJM FOIi SALK. I t AIM eillll iLl.ir.,. A. . m-M, "1 Wliicli :) Acres mo ..If.'-.i- more or '"" l III Minister twi. e'.ui,ty, within two miles of t J "1"" "'""st the same dis T e f rom Loretto, will be sold i i f ;rV'.MI!'1 '"""y 'enns. A f "'lortabU- liweiii...; ii.... rtablc llwellin.r ii. ........ i a... i, i o .1 nlh!' iuV",,Y,"',,'t". There is also an emiscs and a never- 's-.Vi wisl i?, , MLI,1',lt lo house. Any July 13.-tf. (;Mu,1""N ""ll'trFN. Gallium, ciiulbllaCo ra cin "'V"., V,i, nation, at 140 per school year. oii(?n j t f,,r instruction in V a.x. Music, 'rrwicli. Gorman, Paint injr and Orawintr. I,8t'!t ' r"" ' ; ,,., nates of our hest .Nbw T.vr" been emnlovod for s.v- v .-. . mu i i cm nan 0 PERNSWS SHAME I The Secrets of tho Cameron Ring Laid Bare. Evidence of a Fully Informed and 1 Trustworthy Witness. PennRjlvania I.esrislators Honeht and Sold like Sh pop Hon tho State Funds are Misappro priated - Mart linr Revelation of Ofllrlal Malfeasance. A correspondent of tlie Xew York s lately sought out (Jeneral Irwin, late State Treasurer, at Ais home near Brighton, in ; Beaver county, and recites the following j as the result of an interview with him. ! Speaking of the election for United States Senator in the spring of ISM, he says : GENERAL IRWIN'S EXPERIENCE. "Just before the Legislature assembled, some time during tho holidays, I was in llarrisburg, and while at tlie tleiot a mes senger from General Cameron found me, and said 1 was wanted up in tho railroad ollice very much. I went up to Don Cam eron's rooms over the depot, and there found Simon and Don. The old man opened the conversation by saying that they wanted to make some arrangements -with ,0 ab. .i;ni5(4 t- dismiss Mr. i in-lit li.k ut the State moneys. It 1 would . Taggart, my cashier, and take a man he would name, and give his three banks control of the money in the Treasury, they 'would not opiaise my re-election. They had a senatorial tight on hand, and they would rather be on ood terms witli me, if it was jaissible. I replied that I had always treated them as 1 had other citizens of the commonwealth ; that their banks had received all I considered them entitled to. I was not disposed to dismiss 3fr. Taggart. who proved himself a capa ble and honest man, to take one of Lis crea tures, and I thought he was demanding too much for his friendship. Cameron implied that they could use a great deal of money in their railroad and theii iron work; that they always had that accomodation from the treasurer, and they must have it in the future. They could make me more money in one year than I could out of the troa.su ryship in ten. If I was sensible and would take his advice I would have 1 nothing to fear. They would always stand by me and my friends. To all this I re plied, that I did not intend to change my policy to suit their conveniences, but to go on as I commenced. I was tho servant of the people, and had no right to make any such arrangement with them. 'All right,' aid Cameron, then you don't intend to accomodate your friends.' I replied that 1 could not see where tho friends came in. I was elected in lSiiS, when they had done everything they could to defeat me, and I knew it was for no particular love that they entertained toward me that induced them to make this proiHisilion. This ended the interview. I knew what I had to exjH'ct, but I got rather more than I bargained for. "They then had to take up Hob Mackcy. vice president of the Allegheny Mational bank of Pittsburgh, a man of no reputa tion whatever; w ho wasn't known through out the State ; who had served Cameron before, and is withal a sharp, shrewd fel 1 w, unscrupulous, and just tlie kind of a man the Camerons want as a servant. With such a man State treasurer they knew they could call upon the treasury for all they wanted. At the same time, as I said before, a United States Senator was to be elected. "The notorious Rill Kenible, who had preceded me as State Treasurer, and amassed a great fortune by manipulating the surplus fund and in engineering the new State loan, was a candidate for United States Senator. He ojenly declared that Simon Cameron had bought his way to the United States Senate twice, and by (J d, he could do the same ! Thu Camerons had picked upon James L.Graham, of Alleghe ny county, as their candidate. ' -G rahani is a renegade Methodist preach er, a smooth, oily, unscrupulous fellow, wlrj had always served them well while iu the States Senate. Mr. Cameron, Sr., a short time before had made a pilgrimage to Philadelphia to confer with Mr. Thompson, president of the Pennsylvania Central rail road. His object was to obtain tho sup port of that coriKration to aid in the elec tion of Graham, but Mr. Thompson would not come into the arrangement. He was in favor of John Scott, of Huntingdon, who had long been the solicitor of the Pennsylvania railroad and served them well and faithfully, and aspired to senatorial honors. If the road was to use its influ ence, which was well known to be all hjw crful. thev would use it for Scott. Camer- ' on know very well it was no use to attempt . - 1 A-A. 1 il. to run Granam against rcoit, wneu me latter was backed by the Pennsylvania Central. He therefore determined to drop his man and go for Scott. But before leaving Philadelphia he called upon Thom as A. Scott, vice president of tho road, and told him that he had had a conference with Thompson, who was inclined to go for John Scott, but he thought that they (meaning Scott and himself) ought to take hold of Graham and put him through. Scott re plied that he was not going to be in the fight at all ; that his preference was for J. K. Moorhead, of Pittsburg, but Mr. Thomp son was friendly to Scott and wanted to see him elected, and therefore he was not going to do anything at all. Cameron replied that he was satisfied to take Scott, but something would have to be done in order to put hint through. Bill Kenible was a candidate, and had plenty of money and was going to use it, and unless they did something the damned little scoundrel would buy his way in. He wanted Mr. Scott to send Sanr Moon or some other man to llarrisburg to engineer the thing. Scott replied that he wouldn't do anything of the kind didn't take any interest in it, and if it needed engineering, Don Cameron could attend to that. This Simon inter preted to mean that Don could make ar rangements about the necessary votes, and the Pennsylvania railroad would foot the bills. It was just the thing he wanted, be cause Don could put both Scott andMackey through on the Pennsylvania railroad's money. ADllITION, DIVISION AND SILENCE. "Tbe Legislature assembled, and the fight lx gan. Ivemble thought that he had se cured the Philadelphia delegation, and had offered them flvethousand apiece. He had already bought four members from Lan caster county, and the money had been put tip in the hands of Stehtnan and Clarkson. Three thousand dollars apiece had been paid, an'd the members were to vote for Kemble, or the man he should name. The Philadelphia delegation got wind of Cam eron's movements, and thought there was a chance to make more money than Kem ble offered. Eight of the delegates there fore formed a ring, and refused to come into Kemble's arrangement unless lie would put up more stuff. Don Cameron secured them with the promise of six thousand dol lars apiece. This, of course, destroyed Kemble's chances ; for if he could not con trol his own delegation at five thousand dollars a head, there was little chance to manage the members from other portions of the State. He had a bad reputation, and any man with a spark of decency didn't like to vote for him for any sum, because the mere fact of his having voted for Mr. Kenible would be at once set down as a corrupt transaction. Kemble had already put up his money for the four Lancaster count j men, and wanted to get out. He therefore agreed to turn over these four men and another whom he could secure to Don Cameron, provided he would refund the money he had already paid. This Cameron readily agreed to do. "It cost the Camerons f 25,000 to do this piece of work. But unfortunately for the members, Don hadn't put up any money. He calculated on the Pennsylvania Central to foot the bills, and this reliance afterward cost him a great deal of trouble. Tom Scott utterly repudiated any arrangement with his father. The story of the trouble this repudiation cost the Camerons, and the way they finally got out of the scrape is a very singular one. It is as follows : AN INTEKESTING STORY. "The session of the Legislature was draw ing to a close, the members who had been bought had been continually dunning Don Cameron for the money promised, but none had been forthcoming. Some arrangement must be made because his word was pledged and little as he would scruple to forfeit this pledge in oidinary transactions, he couldn't a (lord to do it in a case of this kind, be cause tho Cameron ring is always wanting favors from the Legislature always want ing to control the State Treasury. They knew they would have a light the next year with me, and if their arrangements were not fulfilled there would be trouble in the camp. Tom Scott was firm in his refusal to come down, the Northern Central could not bo used, and the Camerons never liked to pay out their own money. In this di lemma one of Cameron's fuglemen, M. S. Quay, of Beaver county, and a very shrewd fi llow, applied to me to make matters all right. He always pretended to be a great friend of mine, and although I knew he had sold me out time and again, I never allowed either him or the Camerons to sus pect that I knew it. So one day, toward the close of the session, Quay quietly walked into the Treasury building seated himself in my ollice, and began a common place conversation. In the course of it he very quietly remarked that the Camerons were d d sorry that they had made any fight against me. They saw their mistake now, and were very sorry for it, but every thing could be made right ; there was no reason why I should harbor ill will ; they were anxious to be on friendly terms with me, and all 1 nau to uo was to accept their i r i ill i i cl advances, and I should be re-elccicd after , Mackey s one year had expired. I was a j httle .ncredn ous, a d was not inclined to accept this sLory, uut tuay assured me that he came from Don Cameron, and was authorized to make the statement. They wanted to.havc an understanding and fix up everything. I said I could hardly be lieve such a story it was to remarkable. Oh,' said Quay, 'I tell you that I came from Cameron with authority to negotiate with you. I tell you plainly that he in in a d d tight place.' " 'I low Ls that?' I asked. " 'Well, by G , Tom Scott has gone back on him.' " 'Why, how is that?' said I, iu feigned astonishment. "Well, the understanding was that Scott was to foot the bills to put John Scott through. But now he swears he had no understanding, and had nothing to do with it, and isn't going to give a cent- The fellows have had no money, and they are raising hell, and are after Don every day, and he can't get out of the scrape unless lie has some help.' " 'How much money docs ho want?' I asked. " 'Well, it cost $258,000 to beat you and put Scott through, but Bill Kemble paid up 27,000. Don says that he can whistle for his money ; that if he couid get $200,- 000 it will fix him all right. Now he wants you to raise him 200,000 in currency, and he must have it by next Thursday.' "I replied : 'That's a good deal of money to raise. We havn't got that much in the treasury in currency." " '(.),' replied Quay, "you can easily raise it, and it will be a groat accommodation to the Camerons. I tell you they will never forget it. It will make them your fast friends for life. There is nothing that you could ask for that you won't get.' "Well, what kind of security will they give me for this money ?' " 'I will tell you how they propose to ar range that. Don Cameron will give you a check on the Middletown bank, and mark it good as cashier. You know he is cash ier of the Middletown bank, and the ar rangements are all made with Mackey, and lie will take this cheek as cash and carry it during his term, until arrangements cau be made to take it up.' "After ho had shown his hand, I said : 'Let Don Cameron come and see me about this.' " 'Now,' replied Quay, 'j'ou know he don't like to do this after his light with you. I am authorized to fix up this arrangement. 1 tell you you had better come into it.' " 'Well,' said I, 'let Cameron come and see me himself. I w on't do anything until I see him.' "Well,' said Quay, 'I am going away at twelve o"clck to Philadelphia, and won't see him. You had better let me fix this matter. I have got his check here, and it can be arranged.' " 'No,' said I, 'I won't have that at all. It doesn't matter if you can't see Cameron; Sam Barr, his man Friday, is here, and you can tell him morning.' chagrined, . He will see Camerou in the 'Very well,' said Quay, a little 'I will do that,' and left. I didn't see him again until Thursday mom ing, and i anicron never came near, tm Thursday morning Quay came into my room and asked me if I was willing to do that to furnish the money. 'No,' I re- I plied, 'Cameron didn't come to see me.' ; 'Well,' said Quay, you ought to have done j that it was a great mistake.' "The legislature adjourned and the mem- . oers Uirtn t get their money, and I heard nothing more of it for some time. There was ANOTHER LITTLE ARRANGEMENT which Don Cameron anil Quay had fixed up, which if it had worked all right would . have afforded them the means of getting out of this scrape. It was this : A bill had been prepared in room 42, Girard i house, Philadelphia, by Bob Mac-key, M. S. Quay, Don Cameron and Sam Moon. It was to place a State tax of one cent per gallon on every gallon of oil produced in the State of Pennsylvania, and authorize the State Treasurer and Auditor General to appoint inspectors and collectors, and thus get the control of the revenue to be derived from this source in the hands of tw o of Cameron's creatures. The snake in this bill came in a certain clause which al lowed a drawback of three-quarters of a cent on all oil shipped from Philadelphia. The ring intended to buy up all the oil in the State, and ship it to Philadelphia first, and thence ship it to any jioint where it could be sold. This would allow them, of course, three-quarters of a cent margin on every gallon, and would have raised them a million and three-quarters every year. Sam Moon was engineering the thing through, and Tom Scott, who was then in the west, was but superficially advised of the nature of the bill, and was of course in favor of it, as tho Pennsylvania Central monopolizes the oil carrying trade. A friend of Tom Scott's, who was advised of the nature of the bill, and thought it was hardly possible that that shrewd, far see ing man knew its nature exactly, deter mined to wait upon him and advise him. He accordingly went to Philadelphia on Saturday night, and on Sunday he went to his house and had a long conversation with the great railroad magnate, and told him that this bill had already passed the House, and that Moon had everything set up in the Senate to put it through on Tues day. He also told him that if this bill passed the inference would be that it ori ginated with Scott himself. It was so transparent a fraud on the people that it would raise a cry of indignation through out the oil regions, and he couldn't afford to be made a party to any such transaction. Scott readily admitted that he knew but little about the thing ; he had no idea it was such a fraud, and said the thing must be stopped at once. He therefore gave the gentleman a note to Sam Moon, ordering him to hold up. The gentleman came to llarrisburg en Monday morning, and gave Mr. Moon Colonel Scott's note. Samuel at onco saw his men and told them the jig was up ; they could vote as they pleased. So that night there was grief in tlie Came ron camp. Their only hope was to make a compiomise with me, and so Quay tried his power of persuasion as already de scribed, but in vain. I told him lhat I had found out all I wished to know, and Don Cameron and his fi-iends might go to a wanner climate for all 1 cared, lieiug disapiointed in both of these little games, the Camerons bethought thcmsvi k es of how they might fix A LITTLE PINCH Ell, as Sam Moon would term it, for Colonel Thomas A. Scott. An act had been passed uunug me last, session Known as tie low rado"blllf which authorized the Allegl.ePv V ;llley Juiln,ad to take out of (,,e tln the uds nf tho rliiladelphia and Lne during the last session known as ti e low railroad company and replace them with the bonds of their own company, guaran teed by tlie Pennsylvania and Northern Central railroad companies. The object wa.s to use the Philadelphia and Erie bonds to extend and improve the Allegheny Val ley road. The bonds had not yet been prejared, and it was claimed by some that the act was unconstitutional, and as I would go out of the ollice and Air. Mackey come in on the first day of May, but a short time remained in which to make this trans fer, if it was to be done during my term. The object of the Camerons was to prevent this transfer, if possible, by me, for if it wasn't made until after Mackey came into ollice, thoy would be enabled to control it, and before Mr. Scott could obtain the bonds he would have to come down for tho $25,000, which the Camerons needed so badly to foot the bills incurred in the elec tion of John Scott and Mackey. If they had kept tho matter entirely to themselves it is altogether probable that neither I nor Colonel Scott would have suspected the little ganio they were going to play. But so eager was Don Cameron to pinch" Colonel Scott that he dispatched his fugle man Quay to manage mc. It seems strange that they had learned nothing by theirtwo failures in that direction, but Quay is a sanguine individual, and imagines he can play the most dillicult rolet without any danger of detection whatever, lie accord ingly called upon me a few days after the adjournment of the Legislature, and opened the conversation in about this way: " 'You refused to take my advice on two occasions lately you will find out in the end that you have made a great mistake. There is no use of your being on unfriend ly terms with the Camerons. They are anxious to bury the hatchet, and if you are sensible you will agree to a treaty of peace. Now you remember there was an . act passed during the last session allowing ! the Allegheny alley railroad to make an exchange of bonds of that ixa,d for a like i number of the bonds of the Philadelphia and Erie road. This act is uncoustitution i aL The attorney general says so, and he j has made a decision to that effect. Now, ! what I want you to do is just to leave these bonds alone keep clear of the matter en tirely. Let Mackey take the responsibility of making the transfer, if any transfer is to i be made. You know very well that if the i attorney general decides that the act is un constitutional after you have made the transfer there will be a great deal of litiga tion, and you will be put to great incon venience and be annoyed running here or to Philadelphia for several years.' " '1 don't see what connection this has with your talk just now of the treaty of peace between the Camerons and myself,' 1 replied. What have you to do with these bonds what is your object?' HOW THE LITTLE TINCHEU WAS TO PINCH. " 'Well,' said Quay, 'I tell you frankly ( just what we want. 1 ou know that Tom ' Scott has gone back ou Don Cameron in j two things lately. lie has repudiated his engagements m regard to the money it took to put John Scott through, and then he told Sam Moon to let our oil tax bill drop, and now we have determined to get even with him. You just do as I want you to do. Lot the transfer of these Ixutds alone, and when Mackey comes in and Mr. Scott wants to got his 1hi.4s, lie will have to come down for $258,000 before ho lays eyes on them.' "I replied that I didn't want to take any risk, and that I certainly would not make the transfer unless the Attorney General gave a favorable opinion in regard to tho constitutionality of the act authorizing it. Quay left, feeling that he had effect ed his object, and so rejiorted to Don Cameron, and the ring felt perfectly certain that they would soon have Colonel Scott lietweeu their thumb and fingers. But I thought I would have a finger in the pie just for the fun of the thing. "Colonel Scott and I have alwaj'a been on. the most friendly terms, and I did not intend to see him bled by these sharks. I accordingly sent a dispatch to Colonel Scott'andone also to William Phillips, the President of the Allegheny Valley Kail road, telling them that if they wished to get their bonds they had better look after them immediately. The result was Mr. Phillips jtosted to Philadelphia. A dis patch was sent to me requesting me to meet that gentleman and Colonel Scott at the olfice of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company. Ben. Brewster, the attorney general, was also brought here by a dis patch from Colonel Scott, and in a few days prepared an opinion affirming the constitutionality of the act authorizing the transfer of the bonds. Everything woiked to a charm, and a week or ten days before tha expiration of my term as treasurer everything had been arranged and the bonds were transferred in due form to the Allegheny Valley railroad. It was all done so quietly and so neatly that neither Quay nor the Camerons suspected what was go ing on, although Don Cameron was presi dent of the Northern Central railroad and was required to sign a guarantee of the bonds. A TKOFANK CAMERONIAN. ; "On the morning of the 1st of May, when the treasury was to be handed over to Mr. Mackey, Quay came into my of- , fice and entered into conversation with Mr. Taggart, the cashier. After talking a few moments, he said : 'By the way, 'I'iZlS'Arti lllls anything been done about those Allegheny railroad bonds?' '(J, yes,' said Taggart. 'What has been d-jnc ?' anxiously inquired Quay. 'They have been transferred.' 'The h 1 they have I' ex claimed Quay ; 'when was it done?' 'About ten daysago.' 'Well, ITI bed d!' said Quay, 'if Irwin isn't tho biggest lunk head 1 ever saw. "Don Cameron would have given him $50,XM) if Lo had left that little job alone, and I told him so. He never will learn sense,' and rushed out of the building aud ported down to the North- 1 ein Central Itailroad ollice to tell Don Cam- i eron this last great misfortune which had befallen them and destroyed all their hopes. ' "Just how Cameron made a rise, or how they arranged it witli the cheated legisla tors, is not exactly known, but as they had a tight the next spring with me there is good reason for believing that the matter was fixed up somewhat after this manner. It is well known that Mackey wa.s defeated in by a coalition of bolting Republi cans with the Democrats. I had secured the organization of both branches of the Legislature, and had a majority of the members pledged to my support. But the Camerons, although they had all the old members whom they had failed to pay for ! their votes the spring before on hand to j light them, managed to raise the money to buy them up again, as well as enough of the new members to knock my slate all to pieces. 1 ins money w as raised by Mackey, and was undoubtedly part of the State funds he being Treasurer at the time. Of course, when the honest Republicans ; bolted, and the Democrats came to their ' assistance and put nic through, it left tho ring in a tighter place than ever. They ! had to put up the money to make good any deficit they had caused before I took j possession. How they carried this load : during 1870 I do not know, but when Mackey was re-elected in 1871 they were able to lighten up. The correspondent of the Philadelphia Pre alleges that there is ' in the Treasury a personal check of Mac- j key's for $ loo, OOt on t he Allegheny na- tioual bank, which is carried as cash, and is accepted as such by Auditor General Hartranft every mouth. I have reason to ; know that the correspondent of the Pre at llarrisburg has facilties for obtaining accurate information, and hence I con clude that this story is true. Indeed, I . have no doubt that this check for if 100,010 is part of the money that was required to make up the $250,000 they wanted so bad- ly from me. j "How about this investigation Mackey is blowing so much about?" i " 1 hat w as very easily arranged. It wa.s only for a few days, and the Camerons and Mackey could very readily raise themoney to make everything square for that inves tigation. 1 have no doubt it was done that way. But just wait until the 'ring' is defeated this fall, and wo get an honest administration in power, and Mr. Mackey will find that the Camerons will not como to his assistance when he needs them." Governor Curtin. A New York Her ald reporter has "interviewed"' Governor Curtin ou the subject of his letter. He said : The letter was written by me only on the day on which it is dated and immedi ately published after its receipt by the authorized parties. I hnvo had no letter from my friend McClure since my arrival here. He has sent several notes to my wife, inquiring about my health, but that is all. 1 am surely rejoiced to hear that my letter has not come two late for service, Reporter. 1 he further news of the Phi! adelphia correspondent is that Hon. Eli Slifer and Titian J. Coffey have obeyed the blast of your bugle. Governor Curtin. That is glorious. I felt confident that they would. They lovo the virtue of their State. Mr. Coffey w ill show them that he does not belong to the Pennsylvania "Addition, Division and Silence" party. He was greatly annoyed when in London that his name should lo attached to such a letter, with the contents of which he was never acquainted until it appeared iu print. I may not 1k sustained by many ot my old lriends ; they may 1 have, unfortunately, committed them- . clt-a l.i, f T .nil efifisfinil tliiw i-ill -wi r nize the fact that I have acted on principle. io....ii.,..;, ,.,.,.1 1.,. ,.,..-.... l r.oni tiliin- tlerers. Secret Jleetiny of the Jietdicttl State Central Committee. This Committee met between two dav at Port Simmons, for the transaction of I most important business. As sxii as silence reigned in the deserted streets, and night had spread her sable veil oer the slumbering citv, each member, ESCORT ED BY A 'TRUST V POUCE.MA.N. stealthily found his way into the hall of meeting. A quorum being obtained, the PAYMASTER took the chair. The man of ADDITION, DIVISION ;ind SlLKNCE, then slowly rose to his feet, ar.d casting a melancholy, parental look upon his aud ience, feelingly spoke as follows : My Bret hern, our only hope is in the PENITENTIARY that venerable i.il.- which, on so many oceasious, has all'onlcd 1 a protecting shelter to loauy of our deai et-t friends. It is not unknown to you that our Gubernatiorial Candidate is now in a very TIGHT PLACE, and so arc we. Detective Grabbem it about, and many others of his prying fraternity. There is not one within the muih1 of my voice who does not know by heart the act of Muivh yi, lSOO, providing penalties for the mis application of the public funds. Your daily occupations require this knowledge, in self deience. What, then, if alter we had accidentally succeeded in electing our candidate he was NABBED aud fcENT TO THE PEN1 TEN TAR Y for live years? The law is clear on the subject ; he would be compelled to vacate his ollice, and what is more, he could not paidon himself ! In this grave dilemma, i propose that we call at once upon the Governor and UEMA.N 1) the pardon of Charles T. Yekkes, Jr. t hice pardoned out of the juir, YEKKES SHALL BE OUR MAN. Uith all the qulificalions of our present candidate, ho will have the additional advantage of a paidon, vthich he can shake with impunity under the noses of an army of detectives. Nay, more, if our present candidate should happen to lie PL i'l IN THE bll.VDK, he can paidon him. I therefore propose to retire our disabled General and nominate Charles T. Yerkss, Jr., of Cherry HuL as our candidate for Governor. These arguments were so convincing, that the motion was put and carried unan imously. The Chair then congratulated the Committee upon the happy termination of their labor?, and predicting the triumph of their new candidate, i r.poscd t luce cheers for the PEN1TEM iAii, which were given with a will. The t'onmifttce then left the fort r.nd took up the lines of march to lay siege to the executive mansion. If the Commercial has any journalistic ambi tion if will anticipate its Radical brcthern of the press in the iromulratiou of this famous news, and place at the head of its column. Fon Governor. CIIAS. T. YERKES, JR, OF CHERRY IIILI It is understood the Committee in their application to the Governor for this pardon, will be strongly backed by ctitaiu great bankers, brokers, and other shvlocks, who daily feed upon their POL'N 1) tF FLESH, carved oil the part nearest ;o the heart of the public bony. Yeikes is sure thou to be either the Radical candidate for t.over nor himself, or the Godfather of the Radi cal candidate, At any rate these Guber natorial honors will naturally llow from the PENITENTIARY. Reporter for -THE RADICAL FISCAL ILLUMINATOR." Hartranft. A Ringing Indictment. No citizen who has the slightest regard for the honor of the Commonwealth can help to make such a man as John F. Hartranft Governor. The damning in dictment against him has been proved mainly by his own letters and such unim eachable witnesses as Yerkes books of accounts. Let this fact be remembered. The Treasury Ring has been rendered desperate by the directness, posith eness. and cumulative force of the evidence against their candidate, and. having no : other resource, have fallen to making i violent attacks uion the honest and inde pendent men who are fearless enough to , defend the right against t lie most corrupt I cabal that ever ruled a free and intelligent j people. They have gone systematically 1 alxmt the task'of destroying the character , of those whom they could neither terrify or i brilte into either acquiescence or silence, in : the expectation of thus making their deter mined stand against a pack of unconsi m able rogues and thieves of no avail. The money of the Commonwealth has been freely used by the scoundrels whom the cople have elected to guard the Treasury, for the subsidizing of a venal and truckling j press and the hire of characterless stump ' speakers, who under a purer regime, would be compelled to gain a livelihood by honest i toil. The wretched tool.-, whether scrilt ; biers or speakers, whom they have bought with a price, and who do not knew even tlie meaning of the words honor and integ rity, are resorting to the mort palpable forgeries aud slanders, wholly unsubstan tiated, not in defence of Hartranft and Allen, since their characters are now utterly indefensible, but in the malignant vilification of every man who has been conspicuous for his exposure and denun ciations of the astounding let us rather say appalling hii'quities of the Ring of thugs and robbers who are usurping authority in Pennsylvania. Citizens, tax payers, gentlemen, Christians, Republican partisans even, who have been accustomed to place party before everything else, is there not matter for serious redaction and alarm in this condition of affairs? Phila delphia Prcs. A Sure Thing. ThatChas.R.Buckalew will be elected Governor of Pennsylvania on the Slli day of October next, bv from 25.000 j to O.OOd majority, everv well informed tx .1 itician admits. It is universally believed j that the Democrats carried the State at the ! three last elections, but were counted out j by the Cameron R irj rascals. But now . that 25,0O0 decent and well meaning Re ' publicans have formed an alliance witli the 1 Democrats, tho question is settled Iteyond ! a doubt. The Republican reformers have 1 jMtintcd out the mode and named the ras cals who have been stuffing the ballot boxes in our large citc for ten years past, and a ! detective has been set upon every one of ' them and the whole gang will be m prison lie fore 12 .' chock on election day if they at t.nmt their old game of cheat and fraud. i Watchers will !e present at every election nrkll in the cities ii-om the tune the pon , opens until the tickets are . counted out . and ;f anv fraud is attemiTtcd the rascal will be collared ou the spot. j;emarha(,ie Ad rent are. Ourcifizens will remember how the show ers came in frequent succession a few evei -ingaajro. potii'ug torrent a while they last. . . but Mopping aflcra brief pour. Well, tl.ei were, at eight o'clock on that ewni'.-. several men ar-the int in Sycamore, :,d Abigail streets to which is completed tho gnat sewer which is really an up town ex tension of the big Eggleston avt nue sewer. Their business is to clean the open end of the sewer, so as to prevent delay to work men engaged in cotiktiucf ing it up Syca more street. It had occurred to them that, by stirring the sediment at the I tot torn of sewer the water fiom the showers would wash it away and their work in thi vv.y be greatly espediated. After along cew :i tioti of the rain, they went into the sower some distance, and continued their work. While so engaged, one of those heavy, sud den showers which characterized the even ing came up and iiourcd down its tremend ous streams. The first warning they had of their peril was a sudden rush of "water upon them, carrying the whole party off t heir feet. The four men neatest the mouth of the sewer escaped with difficulty, bat tling up stream against a powerful current the other three were casried down towaid the river by the galloping tide of defiled waters. Two of them caught at a nuiti hold near the canal and succeeded in mak ing themselves heard by their four fortu nate companions who had escaped. Thev wire diawn up to the solid gr mud by these. But John Clark was not so fortunate. He continued to travel down to Court utreet; where he made a short turn ami thencd proceeded before the every moment in creasing volume of waters to Eggleston avenue sew er, w here he made a turn t tho right, whence it was a straight road to tho rher. Mr. dark tells the story himself, lie says he proceeded down, in the 'darkness, his back to the press of waters and his faco to their current. Ashe could not stand up, be put himself as near as possible in a sit ting position, and went down the stream very much as a boy slides dow n hill on a sled, only Mr. Clark had no &d. Coming to the mouth of the sewer, where its water's discharge into the Ohio river, he cried for help. Mr. Lewis, who lives in a tenement wharf boat at that point, and who hires ; row boats to parties, heard his cries, como to his relief, and saved him. - Mr. Clark. exhibited a badly torn j air of pants, and a pretty roughly bruised body. Cincinnati An Interesting Dk-c:i vt. In over hauling the old documents in II... T-ro,,,r : Department recently the follow hi" :vrof'- I . .l.i x " im-iit. iiu'.mc oeiweeii our Ciovcnnent al'd the Marquis do Lafayette, was brought to light. It is interesting in itself, and as showing how gnftt undertakings required short contracts in our early history : agreement of marquis de i.afayette. The desire evinced by the Marquis de La fayette of serving in the armies of the Uni ted States of North America, and the in terest which ho takes in the jusileo of their e.iuse. and wishing for an opportuni ty of distinguishing himself in Avar, and of rendering himself useful to the best of hU abihiy, but not concealing from Iiiiiis-.-'f that he may be unable tooltain the concern, of his family to his serving in f. reign c -.nn- tncs. or to cross the ocean, unless he shad go there in toe qu ility of a general oihcei. I U-lieve I cannot better serve my country, and act in accordance with my power to grant commissions, than in conferring on him, in the name of the most Honorable Congress, the rank of Major General, for which I pray the State will confirm, ratify and promptly bestow a commission, for him to assume and hold the rank, from this date, which lielongs to a general officer of the same grade. His high birth, his connection?, the hon orable titles which his family enjoy at this Court, his very cons'ah rable wealth in this kingdom, his ersonal merit, his renown his disinterestedness and above all his zeal for the liliortV of Olir lUOvillees: h-ive il..,,.. . I ....... u I- - II. induced me to promise him the above rank oi .uajor general m the name of the tod Stales. In testimony of which I have si Uni fied theso presents. Done at Paris, 7th Dec, 1777 Silas Deane. Under the above conditions I offer myner vices, and ptvmiso to take my dcoarturn at tlie time and in the manner" which shall appear most suitable to Mr. Deane, to serve the United States with all the zeal in my power, w ithout any pay or special al lowances, reserving to'myself only the lib erty of returning to Euro'jie when my fam ily or my King shall recall me. Done at Paris, 7th Dec, 1777. LSignedJ Lk de Lafayette. A Strange Story. Tlie Albany Arg published a letter from Hanover, ber many in w hich it is stated that Her Serene Highness Princess Alexandrowna Trou beschcnoif, whose maiden name war Stra toiicrskoii. was to sail from Bremen on tho 5th instant on the New York steamer, witli the intention of going to America to join the Oneida Community of Free Lovers, near Utica, iuthis Slate. If this report bo correct Her Serene Highness must already have arrived on our shores and, escaping the interviewers gone ?"-.', to her place of destination. This is an interesting piece of fashionable or court gossip, a. id our republican people will lc curious to ascer tain more aUut it. The letter is to the following e fleet : Princess Alexandrowna Trouboschene !V, nee Stratoneroskotf, sails from Bremen t morrow on the New York steamer. She goes to the United Stales of America to join the 'Oneida Society," New York. The princess belongs t one of the families of the old feudal nobility, is immensely wealthy and enjoys a certain ixipularity as a graceful w riter of local plays. She also published a few years since a small vi lume of Russan ictry, in the Deshoullieres style. She is a princess of no mail talent, but her forte" are the languages; she si eaks no less than seven of them. Is it possible that a iiersous, richly gifted shrdl soon be- -ec:i among that sisterhood of the Bloomer costume, in those odious brown frock and drawers to match, her lteautiful treses cut to her ears, and those lovely w hile hands busily engaged making apple s.iuce? The New York Herald may spare Mr. Stanley this time. She has declared, on leaving, she would refuse to be inter viewed by American newspaper reioriers. If 3 man's aim in this world lo god, he will miss lire iu the next. f V y
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