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EDEK5BURC, PA.,
Friday Morning, - October 3, 1S73.
Democratic Slate yominutions.
JfICE OV Sl'l'BF.MK coniiT:
JAMES 11. LUDLOW, Philadelphia.
STATE TREASURER :
F. M. HUTCHINSON, Allegheny.
Democratic County Ticket.
-asskmri.y:
HEN It Y SCANLAN, Carrolltowu.
niKRirr:
HERMAN BAl'MEK, Cow-maugli I5oro
tkeakvrf.r:
A. 1. CIUSTE, Mnnstcr Township.
com missioxeu:
KDWAlili G LASS, El.tnsl.urg.
roojt mu sK ii'.hictok:
ANSELM WEAK LAND, Chest Tw p.
t okoxer:
JOHN UE.VDV, Johnstown.
An.iTDi;:
H. C. FREIDfruFF, Coneinaiigh norough.
ji'ky commissiosfr:
HENRY TOIM'BK, Adams Twp.
A cuRUKsi'ONi.KNT alleges that there
are forty-two millions dollars in the
sinking fund of the Fa. K. 11., all com.
posed of fu st class securities.
The Tribune finds fault with Hen
ry Scanlan, the Democratic candidate
for Assembly, because he gives a plain,
square answer, publicly, to a letter ad
dressed to him by respectable citizens
on the licensn mipstion W'n il..pn
v. , TT 11". ''line, not satisfied witli my verbal authority
feamuel iienry, who has been asked given you last week to deny the truth of
the same question by the voters of the assertion made by the editor of that
t,;, i-, ' l,;lI'-) that I voted at the last Spring elec-
tnis counts , to answer in like manner, j tiosi in favor rf the IjOCal option law, re-
1 ne people do not like private pledges
or double dealing.
Desldcs, we have stated on the au
thority of Henry Scanlan himself, and
no man who knows him will doubt
his word, that he voted against Local
Option ; and we know that Samuel
Henry did not vote against it.
We know, too, that radical legisla
tures have for years labored for such
a law, and that the democrats have al
ways opposed it. We know likewise,
as shown by the official returns, that
in Henry Scanlan's district the vote
stood : For Local Option, 1 2; against
it, 45. In Samuel Henry's district:
For Local Option, 85; against, 1 1. In
Iienry Scanlan's township: For Lo
cal Option, 24; against it, 100. In
Sam'l Henry's township: For Local
Option, 122; against it, 21. Figures
will not lie, gentlemen.
Samuel Hknry's course in the Lojr-
islature has been praised verv LMilv !
, i
by tae radical papers, c!u fly be-au: c '
he reduced the Commissioners' pay to ,inve an aUtional member for a surplus
mn ,-fnv ,t, ti r , " , , I I'xeecdiug one-half a ratio over one or more
100 a j car each. 1 hey forget to add j f,,Il ratios. Any county, including I'hila-
that he voted to increase the (Jovernor'.s ' delphia, having over one hundred thou
e - .,, . , r i sand inhabitants, shall be divided into dis-
pay from $o,00U a year to $10,000 a ! tricts antl cvei.j! cit slj:dl bc cutitlcd
Year. Thev fonret to state that he I separate representation when its popnla-
iiimself took $1,000 from the Treasu- I . TV' l f 'M' Lut ," distdct shM
' elect more than four members.
ry last winter for less time than the The number of members of the
Commissioners are required to spend, I House having thus been fixed at two
and $oi)0 additional (making, $1,500 j hundred, the ratio for one member be
in all) for p.ing to Wilkesbarrc in a ';ing about u Cambria countv,
contested election case, to turn out havil:? a l)0imlution, according to the
four Democrats who had legally been j last ccnsus uf .- ,jC
elected and put in their places four to rnemU i-s, with a smaU surplus
Z hv tixe !eo T 1 bCCn darly tU"fWat" 1 reuu,i,li,,3- Thc 01' argument that
1 - 1 C' has ever been used in favor of larelv
...v, uiai oamuci
Henry got a law passed for the better
collecting of taxes in Cambria countv,
but they forget to sr.y that that law
was framed by the Chairman of the
Democratic County Committee, and
was afterwards passed so that it was
to go into effect before iU pazmyc
thus causing the county a heavy ex
pense in litigation with the Cambria
Iron Company, which Judge Dean de
cided in favor of the County Commis
sioners. Why don't the radicals tell all about
Mr. Henry's legislation while they are
at it ?
one of
CoL. ClIAKI.KS J. litMtl.K,
the proprietors and chief editor of the ' " e have never l.en favor-
Fhiladelphia Aje, and a son of the al,1-v in,l'ressed with the ultimate pro
distinguished Nicholas liiddle, died 1U'iety or salut:llT effect of the pro
verj suddenly on last Sunday even- 1",sa clia"?c. 1,1,1 il will be a matter
ing, in the 54th year of his age. Col. j for tlie l0ol'Ie whose interests are di
liiddlc was a prominent otuee- in tlie roct,.v to l'e affect eil, to decide for
Mexican war, and acquired a hi.rh t,lt,nselvts when they come to vote on
military reputation in the late civil , lllc (llestion.
war. lie was a high toned gentle- T, , . -,
man and an able an-l fearless joun,al-l Ust week aMerted
ist In hi .1...M, ,!, i . and of course the I ote crieil o, that
1st. in ins iloatu the Democratic , i ir,.nr.. .,, 4, , .
i i ... -Mr. Jlenr at the last session voted
party has lost one of its most distin-! , , . , session ox,eu
iii , , o . i a'Jail increasing the pav of members
guished advocates and the profession c-i 2., intuioeis
r- i i. . . m. lroua l.U0 to $1,500. If either of
one of its brightest ornaments. The ' i , . er Wl
those Honors or lM. ..i.: i
Aye, in announcinghis untimely death,
says :
i r ,v, l Vh rn,
ml or did .Mr. Liddle was
and earnest. He defended i
"In all he xa
conscientious
truth and denounced en or with un Hindi- j
ing bravery, lie was insensible to fear
when in tl.o discharge of duty. His love !
of truth, justice and fair dealing was of the ,
pure fchivahi.us tv. He knew but one ;
path to reach an objeo, and that was the !
Mraight road of open, honest word and !
u-eu. no was a
tran.fr trk fritilA .in
i-.j ..t-ceir. EH-ih.iii,e.ss was no part
of his chaiacter. Ho v:i p,,i;,.i r....
from that taint f wo.ldllness, and as bus- !
baml, father, brother ho was ever w illin' !
io sacnuee nims. ii ir thc welfare of oth
ers, in a worn, inarh-s J. Hiddle
was a
woa Zi citizen." and Ch!s: hTeZrl I
actor enn safely Ik- taken as models iu all '
perleet tyi0 ot an Ajnt iii-an
heso ltlaLioiLi vf lift.'
llennj Scanlan and the Tribune.
The Johnstown Tribune having as-
serted that Henry Scanlan, although
I nnw 5ti fivnr of n rono-il nf th T.oc-nl
; Option law, had voted for it at the!
j last Spring election, we pronounced
! the statement utterly false in the last
Freeman upon the express authority
i of Mr. Scanlan himself. The Tribune
of Friday last, returning to the charge,
assumes that we had no warrant from
i Mr. Scanlan to make the denial, and
in a spirit of bravado challenges that
gentleman himself to become respon
siblc for the denial over his own sig
nature. When he does so, the Trib
une avers that it will "probably" cause
its editor "to produce the written
proof (of its allegation) over the names
of men whose truthfulness cannot be
impeached." Mr. Scanlan's attention
having been called to these bold words
of the Tribune, he has promptly ac
ceded to the demand of its editor, as
will be seen from his letter appended
to this article. The issue having been
thus fairly made up, it only remains
for the editor of the Tribune to get
his ih'hh ready, and drive them home
with all the power of which he boasts
himself to be competent. "When he
has performed that feat to his own sat
isfaction, it will be our pleasant duty
to extract them, and turn them with
renewed force and eiTect against him
self. Caktiot.ltowx, Sept. 29, 1873.
Editor Freeman The Johnstown Tiih
peats the charge in substance in his paper
of last Friday, and asks me to deny it over
my own signature. I nowdoso, and when
be furnishes his boasted proof that I did
otherwise, or that I did not, both before
and on the day of the election, oppose it
and induce others to do likewise, he will
see how plain a tale will put the slander I
uown. i nave thus, at the editor s request,
placed myself in a position where he says
he can l'jin1J me, and I now invite him to
make good his charge, or else withdraw it.
if he fails to do either, the people w ill
rightly judge who has suflercd most by the
pinniit'j process.
Very truly yours,
Henry Scani.an.
In the Constitutional Convention,
last week, the following section, fixing
the number of members of the House
of Keprcsentatives, was adopted :
The members of the House of Keprescut
atives shall be apportioned among the sev
eral counties, according to population, on
a ratio to be obtained by dividing the
whole population of the State, as ascer
tained by the most recent United states
census, by two hundred. Any county, in
cluding Philadelphia, having more than
one r; tio, shall be entitled to a member for
each full ratio, but each couuty shall be"
at k'a's.1 one1 ,,!fc',lbt:r i d counties
shall not be joined to form a district. Any
county having leys than live ratios shall
incln- the members of the two'
hl.!im.h.,..f t,,..,!.!,.,,, !. !
will make it more difficult, if not im-
jx3Ki Lit., to oornijit itu mpmlurii. It
is unquestionably- true, that it would
require more money to debauch two
hundred men than would be needed to
do the same thing with one hundred,
unless the ordinary price for a vote
should be diminished by the well es
tablished rule of demand and supply.
The mere increase in representation
for the reason above 6tatcd, which has
been assigned by Governor Curtiu
and its other advocates, is an open
confession of the utter and hopeless
'Pravity of the political morals of
show ' , . ' r" . T'
m,xl tiay- oi me
election, from the offn-ial journal of
n it u J
lhe IJou,' whre the evidence of the
truth of the declaration can alone be
r,.i i lr
r"lu1' t,,at feanjl,el UvnrY l"l What
they say he did, we pledge ourself to
vot,. n ;..i.t h;, , n
, " 'n t,cket fr h,m OQ the SeC"
oll Tuesday of October.
Democrats should examine the reg
istry list forthwith and see that their
own names and the names of their
Democratic neighbors are on it. To-
"' the last Y on
W"hich this duty can be attended to.
Let no Democrat neglect it.
HARRIS AND GRIFFITH.
There seems to le a slight differ
ence of opinion between the editor of
the Johnstown otce and John T.
Harris, the radical candidate for Sher
iff, for while the Voice opened a fire
in the rear and suggested to Harris
the propriety of his withdrawal from
the unequal contest, the latter worked
up his courage to the sticking point
and has made a vigorous assault on
those two democratic strongholds,
Carrolltown borough and Carroll town
ship, with a hasty diversion into the
young democratic township of Barr.
The efforts of a radical candidate to
bring grist to his own mill in the
Democratic districts referred to, forci
bly remind one of the unrcmunerative
process of shearing a pig for the sake
of the wool. We cannot, however,
but admire the pluck of Johntown's
chief of iolice in thus "bearding the
lion in his den," and only hope he
will have a happy time in extracting
his claws without receiving any se
rious injury. After he had satisfied
himself with the situation in Carroll,
he extended his Quixotic ramblings
into a portion of Chest, where Demo
crats who vote for radical candidates
are as scarce as white crows, or straw
berries at the north pole. If he was
not utterly disgusted with Chest, he
ought to have crossed over into Clear
field where radicals, like angel's visits,
are few and far between. After that,
and with no thought of throwing up
the sponge, he ought to have inter
viewed the Democracy of old Alleghe
ny, and especially of that part of it
known as "Hickory Ilidge." If thus
far he failed to strike radical He, he
would have had no better luck iu Gal
litzin township and still the balance
of the Democratic Jordan, embracing
Summitville. Aiunster and Washing
ton would remain to be travelled.
Having at last run the gauntlet of
Northern Democratic Cambria, he
could then go forth to still brighter
conquests, to the soul-inspiring strains
of "The Campbells are coming."
Thomas Griffith, the sprightly and
irrepressible candidate for County
Treasurer, following close in the foot
steps of his radical colleague, feasted
for a brief period on the rich and nour
ishing pastures of Democratic Carroll
and Barr, but his condition was not
politically improved.
Do these radical office seekers im
agine that Democrats are made of
such soft and pliable material that
they can be moulded into any shape
to suit their own political purposes?
If the' lay this flattering unction to
their souls, the result on next Tues
day week will interpret for them the
fatal handwriting on the wall.
If a radical meeting were held in
the Court House, and if Thomas Grif
fith could address it, his friend Harris
being present, the following speech
would fairly express the position he
occupies towards the Democratic par
ty, whose votes he is now so busily
and even so offensively soliciting:
Fellow Republicans You see before
you tvday two candidates for office on the
Republican county ticket, one of whom is
my warm and esteemed friend, John T.
Harris, the nominee for Sherift", and the
other your humble servant, w ho is seeking,
under great difficulties, the oflice of Coun
ty Treasurer. (Hurrah for the bully boys,
Harris and Griffith !) It is very tine, my
friends, and as sad as it is true, that neither
of us has the ghost of a chance of being
elected, unless about four hundred demo
crats (three cheers for the four hundred)
will basely desert their own candidates,
Baumer aisl Criste, and magnanimously
vote for Harris ar;d myself. (Chaplain
Davis "That's a big thing on ice, Tom
my.") Will they do it? It is their reply
to this question at the ballot-box that just
now causes in us exceeding and very great
alarm. Ought Democrats to vote Tor us,
or ought we to expect them to do so?
(Not much, if any.) If they are so green,
however, then I have only to say that any
man who will hereafter assert that oil and
water will refuse to mix, knows nothing
about the mysteries of Cambria county
politics. I am not ashamed, fellow citi
zens, to proclaim my political faith I am
a radical from the top of my head to the
soles of my feet, (great applause,) and I
here publicly avow that I never voted for
a democrat, even for the lowest office, (im
mense cheering,) and I never will, so help
me, Sam Henry. (Three cheers for Sam.)
I regard the Democratic party as a whited
sepulchre its members as disloyal and
dangerous to the peace of the country ; in
a word, as the fit refuge for all traitors.
((J roans for the democrats.) "Who has
abused and fought the Democratic rarty
with more bitterness than I have? My
bosom friend, John D. Thomas, (three
cheers and a tiger for John I).,) late chief
of the Ebensburg Democratic Ring, but
from whose eyes the Democratic scales
have lately fallen, thanks to the efforts of
that great and good man, A. A. Barker,
(IwllyforAbrabam,) may possibly do so,
but if he does, he w ill have to get up very
early and go to bed very late. (He will
that.) Have I not always on election day
acted as Republican "whipper in" at the
polls m tbensburg, ever ready to aid the
Republican candidates and defeat their
unworthy Democratic opponents? (You
have, Thomas.) Wi.it other candidate
has spent his money as freely in this cam
paign as myself, both inside and outside of
lager beer saloons ? (Little boy "Nary a
candidate.") It is true, I have only done
so for the purpose of procuring Demo
cratic votes, but with me that is a Dolitical
necessity, and if I can only succeed at my
nice little game of pulling radical wool
oyer Democratic eyes, (go for their eyes,
Thomas,) it will be a rich and rare, but
costly, political joke. (Who cares for ex
penselumber has riz.) The Democrats
of the county will then have sacrificed their
own candidate, who is as good a man as I
am, and some other person in roy name
will perform the duties and pocket the
pay of County Treasurer. Long live the
ai?d elori Republican party,
(great cheering and cries of long may it
fmhii, BW?rnT(oe te conniptions of
Cambria county Democracy in all its hid
eous shapes and in all its repulsive forms.
(Long continued and most deafenin- ap
plause, in the midst of which the speaker
w as carried away on the shoulders of his
delighted audieuce.)
Jobbing u ilh the I'ublic Money.
There are still a good many honest peo
ple iu Pennsylvania who iu their simple
aud confiding natures persist iu believing
that the affairs of the State treasury are
conducted in strict accordance with the
la ws, and with due regard for the public
interests. All the facts that have been
spread before them for the last ten years
have failed to convince them that the mon
ey of the treasury has been habitually used
for the purposes of private speculation and
political corruption. When forced upon
their attention they complacently read the
August report of the Sinking Fund, and
are pleased to find that a reduction of a
half million has been made in the public
debt without seeing the proof in the report
itself that the debt should have been re
duced to the extent of a million more, in
stead of being retained in the "unex
pended balance" as the banking capital
for the financial speculations of the State
Treasurer and his ring. These people will
not be convinced of the corrupt manage
ment of the public money because they
wilfully close their eyes to the proofs that
are lying thick all around them. To look
the truth steadily in the face would com
pel them to give up their faith in the in
tegrity and patriotism of too many of their
trusted leaders, and that would cause a
shock w hich their feeble natures could not
withstand. Conscience might compel them
for once to abandon party for the sake of
the State.
It is useless to remind these people of
that financial transaction by which State
Treasurer Mackey lost $03,000 of the pub
lic money deposited for purposes of specu
lation with Charles T. Yerkes & Co. It is
true the public has the assurance of the
Treasurer that the loss was made good to
the State, and with two millions, more or
less, of an unexpended balance in steady
employment, at fair interest, this was not
ditlicult to do. Of the epistolary litera
ture, with which the history of the Stato
Treasury abounds, the following letter has
already become almost forgotten:
"Auditor General's Ofttck, ITar
itiSHUi:';, Dec. 21,1871. Dear Yerkes: Cal
houn telegraphed ipe to-dav for ruonev, and
I had to give a cheek for ?8,70O, which he
will present to you to-morrow (22d). I can
not avoid this. 1 met Mackey hereon Mon
day. He went west in the afternoon, and
will not return until Monday. I ttiil nut
like to ask him again, Imt I did not think
Calhoun would want any money soon. I
will see you on Saturday, and whatever you
want done I will do. 1 will meet Mackey
here on Monday, aud whatever is necessary
1 will ask Ll in to do.
"Yours, most truly,
"J. F. HartrXxfT.
"I S. Will lift Calhoun's cheek on Sat
urday, and give you certificate of deposit to
that amount. J. F. II."
This letter is not reproduced to revive a
scandal which a humiliated people would
gladly dismiss forever from their memo
ries, but to afford another illustration of
the uses which are made of the money in
the Treasury of Pennsylvania. So far as
its author is concerned, this letter, the
photograph of which was Hashed in the
faces of the people a year ago, shows that
he was making use of tho money of both
State and National Treasury. He had at
the same time a share of the funds en
trusted to Pension Agent Calhoun lor the
payment of the annuities to soldiers'
widows and orphans, and a share of thc
unexpended balance belonging to the
Treasury of Pennsylvania to say nothing
of the "loan" made by Geo. O. Evans.
Rut it is quite enough for the present pur
pose to show how the Treasury is managed
by the official w ho asks the people to go to
the ballot-box and continue him in Ins re
sponsible position for another term of two
years. If they propose to deliberately
maintain a corrupt antl corrupting system
of administering public money, which has
no parallel in financial management, they
will elect him.
When the writer of this Calhoun letter
wits a candidate for Governor of Pennsyl
vania many good citizens soothed their un
quiet consciences with thc excuse that it
was necessary to elect Hartraoft in order
to ensure the election of Grant. The life
of the nation was to be saved for yet an
other time, and they must do evil, there
fore, that good might come of it. Kvcry
Republican who expressed a purpose to
vote for Ruckalew was denounced as an
enemy of Grant and a traitor to the party.
In this way the public conscience was
stilled. The refractory were driven into
line, and the Philadelphia repeaters and
ballot-box stutters completed the work.
Bat what plea will now bc urged in behalf
of the ring candidate for State Treasurer?
Grant is President, and the life of the na
tion is not to be saved again for three years
to come. A majority of one hundred thou
sand and upwards, of the ieople of Penn
sylvania, have declared at the ballot-box
that the management of the Treasury
must be reformed. The Republican poli
ticians have responded by placing in nomi
nation for Treasurer the very official against
whom was directed the amendment to the
constitution maXinp the estate Treasurer
elective by popular suffrage. Was this
amendment the mere capricious whim of
an unthinking and irresponsible mob, or
was it the solemn act of a free and intelli
gent people? The election in October will
go far to determine this question. In the
moautime let us appeal to those good peo
ple of Pennsylvania who have made so
many sacrifices of feeling to save the na
tion to come up this one time and try their
hands at saving tho State. Hollidujsburg
Standard.
Toe Lancaster Exprest (Republican) de
clines to support Mackey for Stato Treas
urer. In reply to an article in the JnUUi
yencer, which reminded the Jljrpre of cer
tain charges it made against Mackey last
fall, it says:
To Jie foregoing we reply, ones for all,
that our views lor the management of the
State Treasury have undergone no change
since we made ourselves familiar with its
details. The facts we laid before the pub
lic during tho past three years have never
leen controverted and cannot be disproved.
We did our duty in the premises, and if
the people are "willing to perpetuate the
Treasury ring rule," as would now seem to
be the ease, we wash our hands of the re
sponsibility. We still believe Jn the doc
trine of the Iowa Republicans, as incorpo
rated in their Stato platform, that it is the
duty of every citizen who is in favor of po
litical reform, houesty, economy and purity
in all official administrations, "to partici
pate in politics and to make an end of bad
men forcing their election by securing a par
ty nomination ;" and that it is further, "the
duty of every Republican to oppose the elec
tion of a bad man and an incompetent can
didate, whether he be a candidate upon our
own or any other ticket."
In regard to the rumored losses of the
State Treasurer by the recent failures,
which the Radical newspapers are making
such frantic efforts to deny, it is a signifi
cant fact that the State appropriations to
schools and charitable institutions, amount
ing to more than a million and a half of
dollars, and heretofore always paid before
September 1st, have not yet been paid.
This delay is, to say the least, strongly
confirmatory of the ugly rumors of the
past week, and a dispatch to the New
York papers of last Friday saystbat so
great is the inconvenience occasioned by
this unusual and unaccountable delay that
the soldiers' orphans at several institu
tions throughout the State are dependent
llfton t Vi A Iqilv .1isritr en i-l-rftll nrt i ll rr
neighbors. At Mount Joy it is lamenta
bly so.
A Strange Disorder.
TWO LITTLE C1KLS IN KANSAS SINGULARLY
AFFLICTED.
A number of years ago, during Father
AiimiHtiiie's iurisdiction at St. Benedicts
College, he accorded Mr. Snyder the life- j
long right to act as sexton of the Catholic
cemetery. After Father Augusiine re
moved, about three years ago, two of the
children, respectively five aud seven years
of age, w ere attacked with some mysteri
ous disorder, which did not seem fatal on
its tendency. The parents were poor, and
did not go to the expense of employing the
services of a physician until some time
after these symptoms appeared, and the
matter run on for several months. The
father said that, immediately after some
little excitement, without sigu or warning,
the two girls would commence acting in a
very strange and peouliar manner, although
their actions were entirely different, one
of them evincing a tendency to bite the
legs of chairs and tables, and cavort around
the room on her bands and knees, without
speaking. The other one, on thc contra
ry would be full of unnatural life, her face
flushed, her eyes large and bright, while
she would dance and caier around the
room, talking glibly and laughing contin
ually. He said they would handle coals of
fire as they would pebbles, putting them
in their mouths and on their persons w ith
out burning them ; w hile they would, un
harmed, thrust their hands into a blazing
fire.
Dr. Ayer corroborates the father in what
he says. It was by Dr. Ayer's repeated
visits and close observation that the occa
sion of the breaking f the spell was no
ticed. Strange and ifiiprobable as it may
seem, it was occasioned by the pronuncia
tion of a word. Many of our readers will
laugh and hoot at this improbable story,
but we can assure them that it was tested
carefully and closely by Dr. Ayer first and
afterwards by Dr. Bryning, and tbey pro
nounced it a real and actual fact, and one
that had come w ithin their own personal
observation. The pronunciation of the
simple word "I want," without reference
to prefix or affix, was sufficient, and from
that moment they were perfectly rational.
A short time ago Dr. Bryning was called
to the house, but upon his arrival there
found both children had just passed out of
the spell. The father stated to Dr. Bvrn-
i ing that he might bid the family good day
i and step down the road out of sight and
j await his coming, and if the children
evinced theso peculiar symptoms after his
j departure he would call him. He hardly
j got out of sight when the father hastened
j after him and brought Ihim back. Both
i the girls were in the spell, one crawling
j around on the floor, biting the legs of the
I chairs and tables, while the other was
j laughing, talking and dancing around the
t room in the most unnatural manner. The
legs of the chairs and tables bore evideuce
j of the frequent spells of the one that w-as
j in the habit of biting, by beiug gnawed
and bitten out as a horse manger. He
I tried to catch the little girl that was danc
i ing around, but she evaded him iu the
I most skillful manner, continual'y talking
to him f laughing heartily, but in a man
ner that wonUl make thc flesh creep. The
other girl paid fw attention- to him, but
kept continually crawling froiw one object
to another, bHing them all tis she passed.
He finaJfy caught the little girl, when she
said : "Don't touch me ; let me alone. I
want" and that breaking the sjell, she
turned a color as white as driven snow, aad
both burst cmt crying and retired to a dis
tant part of the room, their arms around
each other, and could not be prevailed
upon to say another word. Dr. Eryning
says it was the iuos,t pitiful sight he ever
saw in the couise of his professional ca
reer. Atchinon (i'.t) Ciii iipion.
Si'ddes FonTt'NEv A Leak of fortune
which would brighten the pages of a book
of fiction has recently been manifested in
j the midst of us. The incident connected
! with it are as follows; Several years ago
I a woman whose name is Griffith, and her
i son Isaac, became inmates of tlie Rens
j selaer county Poor Huse, (whether from
; inability to obtain employment sufficient to
secure the necessaries ol lite or from ill
heath we do not know,) where they re
mained until the spring or summer of
1871, when the lad found a situation in
Patrick liyron's meat markt, No. 4.V
Third street. The lad was industrious
and honest, and remained in the employ
of Mr. Byron until a few weeks ago, when,
hearing of the death of an uncle, the lad
went to New Jersey (where his uncle diedl,
not with the expectation of hearing that
fortune had smiled upon him, but merely
to learn some particulars concerning the
death of his kinsman. His delight was
unbounded when he was informed that the
snug sum of $ o,(HM) was bequeathed to
himself aud his sister, who now resides in
New York. We doubt not that the first
act of this child of fortunu will be that of
placing his mother in a home l;itting
their circumstances. Troy Whig.
A bank suspension, general or partial,
had some significance or meaning when
thc money of the country was gold or sil
ver. A bank may bc rotten and insolvent,
and fail; but to talk of a suspension of
payments at this time is thc use of an old
term without any of its significance. A
suspension of payments in promises to pay
at some indefinite time in the uncertain
future is an absurdity on its face. In fact,
the United States Government has sus
pended payments ever since it made Treas
ury notes a legal tender. Ever since it
stopped paying coin for its debts it has
suspended payments. It has issued evi
dences of indebtedness, bearing no interest
and payable at no time, and these consti
tute the "money" which the batiks hold
and which the depositors seek to draw out
before the banks "suspend payment."
Thc whole theory of a general suspension
of payments, when there is not a dollar of
coin on deposit anywhere, and when the
entire circulating medium consists of in
definite promises to pay, is au absurdity.
P. T. Barscm announces that if a bal
loon floos not cross the Atlantic this fall he
will spend $50,000, if necessary, in haviu
the experiment tril nuiv .-.xl
i next year, provided one or more aeronauts
vrtu w iuuuu m Amenca or .Europe who
will heartily make the attempt. He evi
dently does not intend to make the experi
ment with a cheap balloon, for he says:
As at present advised. I shall have the
silk manufactured in China, put together
and prepared under the direction of "scien
tific men in London, an experimental as
cension mado from Sydenham Crystal
1 alace grounds and then bring the bal
loon to America, and make the trans
atlantic trip from New York. I trust the
public will believe that if I put ray hand
to the plow I shall not look back."
. 'rh question of what constitutes a
bankrupt has just been settled by Jude
Drummond of the United States Circuit
t f Jllll,JL,s- Ir- a case just con
cluded Judge Drummond decided that any
man who, without any legal reason, re
iuses payment on his paper for two weeks,
may be under the law, adjudged a bank-
rUUt. H mntf t,li..f. n.B... .. .
! 3 iuo oun mat ne
!J,!i m withL.ld.ing payment. His
( k,lxvv v unwillingness to pay will
, not prevent his being adjudged insolvent
i it the refusal to honor bis piomisc to re
deem extcuds over fourteen, days.
Holt Haunted.
A flittin" shadow from thc dismal past
has at lastwonia wound into the obdurate
conscience of General Joseph Holt, btau
ton, Lane and King were haunted by it to
suicidal-graves, and all these years the
jointing finger of a murdered woman s
l,ia lx.ril ihe hard heart of Holt,
1111 IUC WireB wuoliwivo , "j iiv. im M ,
1 1 ' . I : v. ... 1 lit VailllV titlMI Id Wrlm 1 ,
. -i . i . . . . .mi id .....I i i f 1 1 1 iir 1 1 1 1 1 1 . i r i 1 1 r - i . . - i .
wreKDeu soul wiimu j i .- K"ieu tli
beaU the air to drive the pensive snaaow
back, but it walks a pale horror in his
dreams; dismal, oppressive, frightful com
panion by day. He has borne his burden
for years; he has seen Lane turn upon
.imslf like a desperate senerit, inflicting
his own death wound to escape; he has
seen King fly before it, blinded and frozen
with horror and dismay.until the hospita
ble waves caught his body in their arms
;..t-.,K lnc 1irtnrnl lif! he has See 11
Aim . -u . . ... w. .... i
Stanton clutch at ambition, and power, Kentucky, fell
and place, in the hope of entrenching him
self against the presence of remorse, in
vain. More brutal and hardened than the
rest, he has shut up the ghastly negative
within him and let it paint its filmy pic
tures, unseen by the public, all the while,
in public and in private seeking to exor
cise the stubborn shade.
Hard has his lot been and terrible his
long unrest. The keen reproach of the
dead has looked him out of countenance,
and the wail of a stricken daughter, plead
ing for a mother's life, has rankled in his
brain. A bloody Banquo has paralyzed
every smile of joy before it could fade from
his countenance, and solitude lias been
startled by a chilly presence. No matter
what social path be pursued he could not
escape; toil would not banish the faithful
spectre; home had no privacy for the soul
haunted wretch.
The world had half forgotten both hini
and his victim. No one recalled the dark
deed in which he figured; no one cared to
goad him w ith resurrected memories. The
press hau long since ceasea to comment
upon the awful tragedy which left so many
bitter legacies, when suddenly Judge Holt
rushed into print, crying, "I am not guilty;
I did not do it!" A long defence of his
conduct he makes, as if to persuade his
own conscience that he was not as guilty
of iunocent blood as some one else. As
though startled from some hideous night
mare, he answers an invisible pursuer, and
strives to cover up or soften down the
inlty part he enacted iu a wanton mur
er. Mistaking the outcry of his frightful
soul for the righteous denunciation of a
world, he fancies that thc public are ac-
cusing him afresh, and he breaks oift with
the whining pica he Las fo often uttered to
the melancholy monitor that haunts his
steps. The voices of all the living would
not shake him as docs the stare of the
veiled sjiectre and the million of echoes in
his hollow heart. Down, Judge Holt,
down! As unwelcome to a remorseful
guilty part he enacted iu a wanton mur- inn. recently, bin vine
der. Mistaking the outcry of his frightful in the "round, li v.. ; -;
people is your apparition as is the ghost f America a"ainst the i:ua-;;.
your victim to you. Go back to your ob- ifi ministry.
scurity, and carry the cold corpse upon
your heart back with you. The voices
that brought you out are the vanguard of
a host w hich will increase in volume as you
near the grave. Sundcty TtUynitn.
A Defaulting Font master.
TnE riTTSBUltOH POST-OFFICE SYSTEM ATI- I l'nl,1' ,s authority for t!
CA..LY JiOHLED ."33,43.J IHYS K WIIEKB I ,"it 01" l public might
THE WOO0151NE TWINtTU.
i PiTTsnruoii, Sept. 26. The post-office
j here was taken possession of this afternoon
by Major Pethei bridge, chief of the spe- :
j eial service bureau of the Post-office De- :
i part ire nt. John II. Stewart, the Post
; master, tinder orders from Washington,- :
has been suspended from his position, be- I
'cause of grave ii regularities in tin; cou- t
J duct of the affairs of the office, which have !
j culminated in a defalcation, so far as as- j
i certained, of about j:?,00. The first sus-
; picious of the Post-office Department as to j
j there being anything wrong iu the Pitts- ,
; burgh office were awakened by numerous i
! complaints that reached Washington from
I business houses in this city of their failure
j to receive letters containing remittances. !
An investigation was ordered about six ,
weeks ago by the Post-office Department, :
I under the direction of Major Petherbridge, i
assisted by R. K. Sharratv, of New York, i
There was found to bc a general disor- j
I ganization and demoralization in the work
ing force of the office. The loss of letters !
aud delay in the delivery of mails were of j
frequent occurrence, and complaints were
numerous trom business meu as to the
j loose manner in which the affairs of tlie 1
office were conducted.
An investigation disclosed the fact that j
the accounts of the office had been im- ;
j properly kept, and that some of the clerks
j had been systematically deprived of a por- I
I tion of their pay by being induced to Mgn
j vouchers for a greater amount than they 1
j received. One instance is given of a clerk ;
t who regularly signed a voucler for fifteen '
dollars a month more than bo was paid.
Of course the Postmaster in his accounts !
was credited with the faee of the voucher,
and pocketed the difference between that
sum and the amount paid the clerk. j
The first evidence the Department had '
of there being a defalcation in the office '
was when drafts on the Pittsburgh Post
office, to the amount of S1G.000. in favor
of the Pan Handle railroad company for i weather is very
mail service, were returned to the Depart- i Irs- 1"
ment protested for non-payment. At that
time the t ost master, according to his ac-
j counts, should have had ample funds to induced her husband to --In'.t-,
pay tho draft. This caused the prompt ; onT so they might g -;.
action in taking possession of the office and ! our, and she pocketed tke - ;
susjiending the Postmaster. i sale and five bundled
About 2 o'clock p. m. to-day the de- i ner father, and then "I
tectives demanded thc keys of the office, i cr trunk, but her Ira-'.
This was the first intimation Stewart had ! tUe baggage-room of t
that he was suspected, though officers had ' IJd claimed it. Wh'.i
been at work for six weeks. He was taken ;
before tho United States Commissioners I
and charged with embezzling 3o,-13o.l!. i
The amount is made ui as follows- f
j tlje postal revenue fund, $10,416.33; of the !
stamp and stamped cnvplonn fmwl 4i-
550.38; of the money order fund, l,l7.23- advertised that he wviiU '"j ' i
and of the funds received from box rents ! s'c,n m a balloon to-day. J"'1-:,
ana postage collected, tho sum of $3,373.
Stewart gave bail in $Gi),000. It is said he
confesses the embezzlement.
The bodies of Mrs. O'Marra, aged
sixty-five, and her daughter, aged thirty
were found near Montrose Stat?on, on the
Delaware, Lackawanna and Western rail
road, on Saturday morning last, but not
mangled by trains in any w ay. The Coro
ner's jury elicitee" sufficient evidence to
warrant the belief that they were murdered
and placed on the track by Daniel O'Mar
ra, the old lady's son, and his hired man
named Irving. lilood was found on li
ving's clothes and at several points be
tween the house and the railroad, a dis
tance of two and a half miles. Daniel
O Marra had inherited some property on
condition that ho would support hia mw
and sister the latter of whom was par- i !ne'
tially b find from her birth. The supiUi- I bn?:i
"V J ,uea u,.em 10 relieved of : c,t"u .'"-"' " ' )a,Tj
ri""'" UVnnS them. He and V" ! j. and
""o ovtu ocen neia to answer
, A py,st.em of national finance, which is
built on faith and not on fact, which S
on confidence and not on reality, which
lars annually for accepting the privilooo of
SSSZJ a rUDd P for se"
. ' n B S , Uea,y times and r hold
mftf at lhoir merey when the
tunef need eon.es, is a system w h de
mands some attention from the I
"4
oy a i..g in lui tin t...... ,
t our thuusiuil
sixty-four iimnij;i;u
of New VoiV d1. ;,,
i,,
a. 1 1 v,j
T l
J WOCIlltUlf 11 v
1 ra-!
'tvk
in Jc
animals we: to beiin
house.
The extensive iron
Keis, Hrown & Brr - ' - J.
has ceased running u '
iidiirliluitl,. I C i .
eight hun'
employment.
An unknown woman ar,l -dren,
who came u;
Ohio railroad, m attt-i,,,,,;,,, ;'
drowned.
An engine at Tt -.ulii!..
stnick a In.y and threw- hT,',, w"t "
thc air, but the etiiuter rvl
me cow-caicuer uiul tail"
ien. i ne ooy walked a
assistance.
Dr. E. Morwitz, of pi,
a mania for newspajr .r
more pairs than a:iv ,,),,.',
Resides being proprietor (,f
lie mot; rat, he owns or chiTt..'
other papers in and out oft: .,
The attention of xi ..
newspacr press is ca'.!. ,l t!,
Francis M. llutchii.v,..,
Democratic candidaie f ,r v
of Pennsylvania, a-.ij ,
written by abbreviation, F.-J
inson.
v
The family of M:s.
Lexington, Mo., wen: j '
drinking coffee i:
put by a colored ly. T,w."r
thc family are not exiT!e'.
poison was given to the 1..-,
who had a gnid;- aa:iii t':"e '
Mr. Geo. V"a!kei. of
Centre countv, afl -ixtv : rt
the father of twenty-e
o!:e day recently, in o:
hi'.!...;
of James Alexand'-r.
wood, aud walked a" ;;:
his work was done.
A red-hot a-rol'.tc crv
through the trees ;it V
and was so hot, even a:
been sj-ent in digin i:
t the cart in which :t v,
to tho town.
The name Wilk".
moiily written with 1 it
.Ii7-.
lie
was given in honor f o ',
Wilkes and Colonel Il.irr.-. I
of the Riitish Parlir.ii..-!-.
whom took a dfoitlt-il i.:irr
Wonii.-d-rf, Reik-c -u!.-.-.
ried cou)le (Mr. and Mr, si:
been in the lnds for .. ; v.
They were born iu :;
!:;. Thev had ten e!.:.i.
whom are still living; forty -fifty
five great-granehi:dt:
great-great-grandehildren.
is authority for
; a eiiv
"Trie human frog" ,
to a deformed inmate of
ty Por-liouse, near AHu .;.
who was born in the l.-,;:,,
vai-c nrrn 01..I 1
j .. -, ...... ,,.4. j r-
outside its yard. II. s !. -. -- ' r
contracted in 'ci a . ...,
around after t,V ., .. i- ..t V
from vl,!?i lie tukt- 7.;'s ;i.ir-.
only enj :. . :,.'f m -.
sun covered with !-jel: ami "Vn:.
Catholic I'nio-.i at the rc-.:.., :ip..
bishop M'C'l-'skcv. New York, ri
. & . .... 1 i'il .1 .1-. 1
tion was in:if!e by IV. Am.:
spii itnal j.ilgriiiiao lie iiri io ir: t
States, by which a'.'i t'a:l. .
in prayer for the recovery . f ;'.
liberties f the Church, au i t.
moral inthienee over the eiicn.i-K
Is city. Thc pilgriinajre
taken until plenary iiid'i';:-::i-.-e is
from the Poje.
A rtinxir from New OiWtss:
is a plot on foot there rr".
toned politicians to iiuH- ',
and place the colored hieiTN'ru i:
C. C. Antoine. in h'.s cr. T:
starts among tlie nei;i-.ii-.
do not get a f.iir share "i" ti,- ''
offices. Peih;i;is th- ncr .';
lect that the carpet-ha-er- i:r
all, their most disinteuMe"! f
sooner tbey realize th.it fact f--ter
will it fie for the S;ar. .
Two-thirds of The i ' i--'.
tow n of Fairplay, h "...', i.i .
on Friday night. The ti:v .' :
the Fairplay House aii.i -:,, v:'
every direction. Ah t:io
office, United Stato law! i---otlice,
express office. 1. ;..
business places, w i: h t -v ' '
tions, were destroyed. M. : '-
everything but the el !'. ' '
3Iuch suffering w ill tea't. .v-"
too far advanced f-r ivi-...-
cold.
chrmK -I
i inmoed that ton-i.. li :i uz ;
j- - -
live children. She did it m
gone is a mystery,
thing is, they have
a:.J ::
gether, so no cause c:i' U' ,
desertion t.f her finiily. i
A dispatch of tLi I
Wapello, Iowa, says: IVf- 1
crowd to the Fair Grow
was inflated with li t air. -ground
with Ilailey hanc'rr
to a horizontal bar Kuc.Vi'
started it took lire near v.
P.iiilov .li.l not .u.r.aiVMti.V
.... ,,.,-
until lie was t. nijrii i" - ,j
but hung on till he had n-a---;
ot 1,200 or l.r.ful fiet.
from which he was sii-I.
away, and he feU, reach:' z
quarter of a mile f'""1 ,!,1e.-". ',
ing. His body was f;:-'';-'; .
and his legs were driven i1"'
ground up to his knees. . .
r,f breach .1 ! '' r" c
riage has just been dee.-loJ '"
which is certainly enci.'-r
ladies whose affect
with. A lad v. not eiy J
sued Alexander Ka.le. a
each of promise of man b .
.-d $15,O0O. ?he nh" 'Itca " j,
t verballv ppmn.-etl t" ,
had squeezed her bond- and v..
. i i i .. . ;f.-r liC ' .
itiiciniwTi as tin:? va
:vt
there coald Ik? no b:x- ii
the Judge cLarod IW'
il.o lo.-Htr n a:. !''
w:is
rr.-..,,. ,r nr.v-i! .itV.raiec
fat::
V V-W. U V. , .lf.1.-
f the Court liclow. 1 " "
tlemen mut be very ,K'"'V
tentions to ladies.
ivmpktc thi ise eoiii'te-a-- .
J' lm II.;l-.v:,.