EBENSHUSC, PA.,
Friday Morning, - - Sept 25, 1S7I.
Sound Democracy.
A. Terrible Calamity.
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A STKOKO rUTFORM AND A GOOD TICKET
IN SEW TURK.
Democratic Nomination .
SUPREME JfPCE :
Hon. WARTiEN J.WOOIVAIiD, Rerks.
LIEUTENANT OOVEUSOR :
Hon. JOHN LATTA, Westmoreland.
AUDITOR (1ESERAI :
Hon. JUSTUS F. TEMPLE, Greene.
SECRETARY INTERNAL AFFAIRS :
Cm. WM. McCANDLESS, Philadelphia.
ASSEMBLY :
JOnX IIANNAN, Johnstown.
JOHN RUCJv, Carrolitowu.
PROTHONOTAHY :
BERNARD McCOLQAN, Wilraore.
district attorney:
W. HORACE HOPE, Johnstown.
commissioners :
WM. D. McCLKLLANR, Johnstown.
MARTIX F. CAM PR ELL, Munster Twp.
POOR HOUSE DIRECTOR :
CHARLES FLICK, Allegheny Twp.
AUDITOR :
MICHAEL SWEENY, Cambria Dor.
COUONFR :
JOnX BRADY, Johnstown.
SURVEYOR :
nEXRT SCAXLAX, Carrnlllown.
Covrknok John A. Dix, of New Yo;k,
has been renominated by the Republican
Convention of that Piatt;, which assembled
at Tlica on Wednesday last.
The Democratic State Convention of
! New York, wlrich was in session at Albany
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l:ist. utrk. ailoi.tfrl ft.lU.u . 11 rj5T:, :-epe. i-j. A dispatch from Kail
platform I K,ver' Mass., to t!l Boston Journal, gives
n- V. . , . .. . t,ie account of a disastrous fire
r irsi,. liOIQ ailrt SllTer JO he the nn v t alurh nrr-nnvH in t.bnt .V.
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of a massccitcsetts cotton
mill fearful ixws of life frantic
attempts to escape iif.artue5diso
scenes origin op fire, c.
; no currency inconvertible
legal tende;
with coin.
Second. Steady steps towards specie
payments. Xo step backward j.
Third. Honest payment of the public
debt in coin (applause), and the sacred pre
servation of the public faith.
Fourth. Reveuue reform. Federal tix-
rnorn-
ing of .the day indicated, and which resist
ed in a great loss of life and property:
Mills Xos. 1 and 2 of the Granite "Works
had been running about twenty minutes
when the operatives in Xo. 1 were startled
wit h the cry of lire and the e SCane of smnl n
from the fourth story. Iu this, next to the
I 11 lirtAf fl i Wit wn o I tin h - 1 -
Mion for revenue only, and no Government deSrtm. and We." 1 JLZ
7 - e I J vuu unit
1 m W,Trrr'r '.nera male overseer
most jealously the fevr
piiiiiqw-niim.'s municipal, Diare ana .t ea- j cotton. TI
era i, uiiu ii" cenirauzauoil.
Sixth. Equal and exact itistice to
rpowerseluVuSto 1 W.n,tl,e fifth i
Z;, Z i cV-V i I K1,ls were employed spooling and warpin-r
r.cipal, State and Fed- ; cotton. Tl,e nr thl , " ,.r "?
! v jouuTot vi i-ii c y je
eratives. With alarming speed the tlames
; seemed to leap to this attic, coming from
ine inaovrs uelow, and up the great tow er
in the centre of the building, in which were
all the stairs comuiuuicatuijr with each
) story.
OCIGIK OF TRE FIRE.
The firo caught in the mule spinning
story, in the northwest part of the mill,
from friction in the mule head, and spread
ing by means of oil on the floor and about
the machinery, w ith great quickness rush
ed toward the centre tower,
TITE OXLY MEANS OF F.SCAPE
for those in the fourth and Gfth stories, bo-
all
men ; no partial legislation, and no partial
taxation.
Seven. A free press and no caff-laws.
.i-i-uiu. rite men, a uniionu excise
law, and no sumptuary laws.
Ninth. Official accountability enforced
I by better civil and criminal remedies, and
I iso private uso of public funds by public
i officers.
j Tenth. Corporations chartered by the
mare always anpervisaMe by the State in
the interests of the people.
Eleventh. The party in power is respon
sible for all legislation while in power.
1 .r.ittii. lnei residency a public trust side four fire escapes, two on each cable
and not a private- penpjishe, and no third j end. Once getting into the towerT the
"ir'!'; t, . flames ran up to and thronjh the single en-
1 huteenth Economy la the public ex- j trance to the rifth story, and then, sprnVi.i
pcaw , th.u lab-.r may be lightly burdened, i to the roof timbers, filled the two crea't
Lx-tirivci'iior Sevmour. in a soeeeh in i mnm Jr.n oo r.,.. .. s.i. j
A3 evert man on the Republican State
ticket was opposed to the new co istilu'- !
tion, the nariisburg Patriot thinks, aid
so di we, that tha people who vo!eJ for,'
tlu constitution are responsible for t, and . the b.Ulot Tihlcu had 245, Taikcr 112: and
1 M it . . .1.1 a. '
biiuuiu wo mat iis eiuii.ios o not prevent
the apjlication of its salutary principles
to the administration of tho S tate fovern-
which h.e referred in corr.phmentarv terms
t San ford K. Church as a possible candi
date fcr the 1'iesidfiicy. and who. he tat
d, h:ii declined a nomination at the hands
of this convention, moved that the conven
tion proceed to nominate a candidate for
Governor, which was adopted.
The names of S. J. Tilden and Amasa J.
I arker weift presented. At tho close of
meat.
The Republican Congressional Confer
ence for the district composed of Cambria,
Wair, Red ford and Somerset, will meet at
Redford next Tuesday, 20',h instant,' to j
nominatoa candidate for Congress. There
are five aspirants for the honor, namely,
Rarker of Cambria, RIair of Rlair county.
Koonz of Somerset, and Cessna and Wil
liams of Redford.
WrtERE the right, to vote depends upon
the payment of tax it must be paid thirty
days before tho diy of election. A tay re
ceipt given after the third day of October
will not avail. As the new law chances
the rule in this respect double preaaution
should bo taken. Let no Democratic vote
! Inst through neclect to pay tax between
this time and October 3d.
Tnr, intent of the nw constitution, sr.ys
the narrisbur P.ifn'ot, is that both politi
cal parties shall have representation in tho
pvtvemmont. The Commissioners of tho
Pinking Fund are at present all Republi
cans. Would It not be well for the public
interest and in consonance with the spirit
of the new constitution to give tho Demo
cats one representative in that board?
This can be done by the election r.f Jus
tus F. Temple to 'the ofCce of Auditor
General.
K- 3
The Democratic Senatorial conferees of
tho district comprising the counties of
Clearfield. Clinton, and Center, met on
Wednesday and nominated Hon. Wm. A.
Wallace, of Clearfield, for State Senate.
Mr. W. has for many years been recog
nized as the Democratic leader of that ! choose other associath
body, and his renominntion is evidence! For himself, thcic was no other place for
that his constituents are satisfied with the ' !Vn' Ui V0?1, th? Vc,nocracy A1"
Uol . - ,. I though he had fought the Democracy long,
record he has made for h.mself. The ye, it wils his vnvlt to sav his lirt vo
Democratic majority in the district ranges ' was cast for Horatio Seymour. He closed
from l..,(y to 2.000, and of course lie will I y saying that he would rather have re
be triumphantly re-cleeted. maitied in tho ranks, but if lie could be of
, .,, , tL any better service to the party in the josi-
Tnr. PiHO.ororb n,; which ho had been called, he would
, , V i lo all in his power to render that service,
iiiicuy out concisely wnen it aitums that
tho organs of tho Republican party, an or
ganization which has ruled the country
i dozen scattering
Re fore the vote was announced, several
changes were made, and it was iheu an
nounced ag 2V? for Tilden, 12G for Parker,
and a ft w scattering.
n Mr. Parker's motion it was made nn
an'ineus. Tho announcement of Tilueu's nomina
tion v:is received with great applause), and
he subsequently appeared and thanked the
convention for the honor.
The convention then proceeded to nomi
nate a candidate for Lieutenant Governor,
and the names of several Democrats and
Liberal Republicans were presented.
The Liberal Republican delegates, in
speeches, generally intimated that they ex
pected that nomination. Wm. Dorshei
n.er 'Liberal Republican,) was finally nom
inated. After several eulogistic speeches
by Liberal delegates the voto on the nom
ination of Doisheiiacr was made unani
mous. U!in Thayer was nominated for Caual
Commissioner.
Judge Theodore Miller was nominated
for Judge of the Court of Apjeals, and
George ii. Wagner for Slato Prison In
spector. A State Central Committee was then ap
pointed and the Convention adjourned.
Mr. Tilden, in his speech accepting the
nomination for tho Governorship, said ho
stood scan eel all over with blows received
i i past contlicts, when he had led tho De
moeiacy to victory. He had never intend
ed to stand as a candidate for any office ;
ho was content to serve as a private in the
tanks ; but having been nominated, he ex
pected to be carried on the stalwart, braw
ny arms of the farmers and mechanics of
the State to a glorious vietory.
Mr. Doisheimer, in returning thanks for
the nomination for Lieutenant Governor,
said the nomination had been tendered to
him without any solicitation on his part,
and, he weuild add, that lie did not receive
it us a compliment to himself so much as
to those men who came out of the domin
ant party in 172, when not a cloud as large
as a man's hand could be seen in the future
of that party. Rut the issues for which
that paity was formed are past and gone,
ana lie, as wen as others, wore left to
The Democratic Congressional Confer
ence for JllP ri(rii.,it1i rl'utri.it -a
jor iunriecn years, eiaie not oeny that it is i i,t . -v. r t . t
... , r . Iilfd at .Newport, Peny comity, last Fn-
responsiblo for the stagnation in the ron ,., j . , , . . ... . T
, , it , . . ":ly antl placed in nomination for Renre-
b-isiness ; for the reduction of working- c,.to, :.. tV c c. t- r,
' . , . S" I tentative. . S. Stenger, Esq , one of the
men s wages throughout the country: for , r. r.i , , ! . .
,T , , ' editoi-st.f the Chambciburg T alley Spirit.
... .......j iniwi ii nib u i e'ii:Lov- i it:., : i . .v. ...
. - . . v I His pri.ic:pal opponent was Hon. R. Mil
ton F.pcor, who represented in Congress the
Seventeenth district, whereof Cambria
formed pait, for two terms. The district
iscomposed of Huntingdon, Fulton, Fiank-
ment ; for the suff'-i iog of the families of
poor mechanics ; for tho great schemes of ;
plunder which t.v.k millions of dollars out '
of tho national treasury the Credit Mo-
hilirtr Kt.'nl t It., T"; jI . I..f ,,f O. .T ..'.:.. r i
-. -. .-...nnLV1 '.'iUIULIllll rtlll, , - ,) , . . - i c .
ii.. ri..,,. p,.i i ,, ., , - "" 1 v"jt """"i k-iyurr counties,
the oalarj ,1-xh, and all the seheines of10 ,. ,, . ,. , , . . .,
, , , ... . . , nd is Republican by about )00 major t v.
i sal.ty exposed Within the past fewvears: 1 T n ,
t it- , ' 1,1 ,u,s connection it may be protH;r to
fr leducing woik, business and every-! , ., ... . . ,
thing, but taxes and salaries of tho Frcsi- ! I' " n t v ''Trt 'itor 1...
denfand government onicials which they I -IZ J" P"' M"
h.ive greatly increased. It now asks fjr ' f 1 ' fo,'mer f whm
another lease of power ; shall they have it? ' as atone time alaw partner of Mr. Spccr,
This question must bo answered at tho ' aru ,unlo hnlh it that the object in view
polls in Xovemher next. is to oppose, with the approval if not par-
--- r ticij.ation of Mr. Speer, theeloction of Mr.
Tun proceedings of the Democratic Stenger. Rnt until this rumor assumes a
County Convention, which met in the ! more definite shape than at present writ
C oui t House on Monday last, will be found ' ing. wo decline to believe that so good a
reported at length in our local department. ! man and so exemplary a Democrat as Mr.
It will be seen that aU the district in the ; Speer would seriously entertain the idea
county were lepiesontcd, and that too by! of cteiing on such a coarse as rumor at-
Rs respectable a bodv of men tributes to him.
i in
saw convened on a similar eccusion, and as
n result the proceedings were entirely bar
mouious
smoke and flamo. While the flames were
making such teriible headway,
OPERATIVES BECAME FAIltLY V7II.n.
The overseers saw there was no way pos
sible to check the firo and gave their sole
attention to those whom they had at work.
They called tothem to save themselves ami
pointed out ways of escape, principally lire
ladders. The overseer of the spooling room,
who remained till nearly suffocated, states
that the scene in his room, and it must have
been worse in the reom below, cannot be
depicted. Children ran about crying and
begging piteously to be saved, yet wrench
ing themselves away when taken forcibly
to the tower while yet there was some
chance, or to the iron ladder that reached
two scuttle windows of the south end own
ing upon the roof of the'.balcony at the head
of the Twelfth street Ore ladders. It was
impossible to get the preat majority to take
even this met hod to save their lives. Some
wanted clothing, others somethiug else.
As the fire frightened them away from
these ladders, they rushed to the windows
at the south gablo end, nearly sixty feet
from the ground, but el a re not jump down.
Ctitlon ropes were out out for tlum to s-lla
I down by, but no sooner would the rope be
i we;ea than :herc vaa rush for it from the
story below. Too many would take hold
when it would break, and all clinging to it
would come down in a bunch.
Pimilar scenes were going on in'tho mule
spinning room. Flames had ascended rap
idly to the entrance of tower ti the fourth
Hour, cutting)fl' this means of escape, but
operatives had two ladders cf the south ga
ble directly before thorn, and were uiged
by the overseers and citizens below to take
them. Some did, but others rushed head
long upon the balcony and dropped or threw
themselves from their guards. There was
ample time for every one to have leen saved
had the girls taken the course directed.
The superinte ndent, as soon as the alarm
was given, rushed to an upper story, and
with the overseers, dirt all pissible to save
life. When means provided for escape in
the mill were rendered unavailable by heat,
flames and smoke,the people procured beels
and matresses for the poor unfortunates to
jump upon nnd many did
JUMP FROM THE WIXDOWS
to them. In almost every case, however,
they received fit hi or terrible injuries. The
firemen worked to keep the flames ont of
the south end, whither many operatives
had tied. Tho ladders as long as at their
command were used to rescue the girls, and
it is said four firemen lost their lives while
thus engaged.
A BRAVE FIREMAN.
One fireman was lowered from the rof
by a brother fireman into the building and
remained so lonr trvinsr to drive thn cHil
r . i- .i. - a i i- - j i i . .
I ioi i ii i nat ue mm ro ue let go by those who
i held his rope, driven away by the smoke,
aim ne was lost.
Morgues and hospitals were speedily
improvised, tho Mission Chaptd being ta
ken for the latter, aud as fast as girls could
be picked from under the windows of the
mill, stretchers were ready to carry them
to either the Chapel or Central Station.
At tho latter place twenty-five dead bodies
were soon lying, and other uufutunates
had been taken to stations er to their
homes,
could
figured, bcgriinmed and dirt -cove red.
-Mission Chapel were those whose
SCjfl KRlNGS WERE INTENSE
Every doctor in the city was summoned at
tho earliest moment. It is not too high to
place the number of killed at fortv, and the
injuicd at twice that number.
Tin; RUINS. '
The fire was under control shortly before
The thieves at Washington, savs the
Of course all the aspiiauts for ; Y' evidently have much to cou
th different nfhees could mt be nomina- ! Cea1 resistance having been made
ted, and we doubt not that many of them
were sorely disappointed. Such has inva
riably been the case heretofene, and such
will be one of the results of political con
ventions for all time to come.
We regaij the ticket nominated on Mon- J
u.camcu or by Governor McEnery, of Lou
isiana, to the Federal usurpation, there
was no necessity for one dollar's expense
by the War Department. Rt the instant
the New (Mean, affair Wga, it was an
nounced by authority from VKl,!
day last as one of the strongest that could ! hflt jt WOu1d uecoss''ata large cxpendi
possibly have been niaJo. The gentlemen i lus "y l"e " ar l,cI,amnt (which was
cropping it are well known to the people ! fa,se aml knowc to ,c false) and compel a
or the county and are all abundantly com- I ,arse deficiency bill to supplement the ap
petent to discharge thedutis of the offices ' ProP,5ations already made, which letiayg
for which they have been selected. This i t,,d swinamie a Washington and the ex
iting conceded, it is the plain aud impel- j Iccted Rullibility of Xorthern radical v0
ative duty of the Democracy of the conn- 1 Tt J," "ot ,he fi,st tim a tllief ha
ty to give the ticket a cordial, active and j PU' 0" a b1oodr
enthusiastic support. We cannot permit s xV
onrself to doubt that they will do sT and ' . 7. commend tho freqennt
that all the 2entlem, n ,med ilferew w : ? cfn,!ta"tfn0 of "'edicine. It is im
be triumphantly eleeted on the first TeTesl f "V' Cw" R articIc Judi"
.Uy .f N..vember next We wil refer to Z y: iJ,r"?B?, l urf ff are safe,
the candidate-in eleU:iLere:!fLr in.pt and reliable as a laxative or cathar-
killed. Others snffocated, fell back and
perished in the flames.
ANOTHER STATEMENT.
A young girl named Kate Smith, em -ployed
iu the spool room, states her first
announcement of danger was received by
the girls from the other end of the room
rushing toward ber, shrieking and crying.
Many of them were so terror-stricken tha
their limbs became almost useless. Some
of the girls were praying and lamenting
their situation, while others were so pos
sessed with fear that they stood in mute
agony, watching the brave conduct of one
man, who, regardless of his own safety,
worked with heroic ardor, and by means
of a rope landed on the ground a number
of girls in safety. One man being com
pletely cut oft", made his exit to the roof,
by means of a scuttle, aud with a rope low
ered himself over the roof and to the
ground in safety. He stated that a com
panion who was just behind him had fall
en back and was suffocated. Many of
the girls become unconscieuis from flight
ere the tlames reached them.
Telegrams have been received from Gov
ernor Talbot and the Mayors of Roston,
Lawrence aud other points, offering assist
ance. Tho Coroner's jury has been summoned
to thoroughly investigate the sad catastro
phe. They will meet on Monday. Tho
Granite Mills were incorporated in 18J3,
with a capital of $1,000,000, aud employed
about 4"0 males and females in this "No.
1" mi.l. The insurance is 150,000, dis
tribute 1 among Roston, Providence and
other en -tern companies. Insurance agents
ostimatr the loss at sixty percent, of the
amount, and that the value of that portion
of the mill not burnt is 157,000.
A CHAPTER OF THRILLING INCIDENTS.
The story, as told by those w ho were in
the room, is to the effect that the fire ori
ginated from heat, occasioned by the fric
tion of some machinery which was not
projwrly oiled. It caught in the fourth
story, near a large tower, in the center of
the mammoth building. When fi.st seen
some of the help attempted to check it with
pailsof water, but the folly of this was early
apparent, for iu less than three minutes the
w hole end of the building was burning, and
forks of llame and clouds of smoke were
forcing their way through the doois and
windows. The door leading out on the
tower staircase had been closer! in order
to prevent a panic.and keep the help back,
but it was found the fire had gained such
headway that it was impossible to subdue
the flames. The retreat of the girl opera
tives being cut off. the shrieks from the
frightened and half crazed creatures at the
blazing flames were heartrending. They
rushed together in a body for the firo
escapes, but volumes of smoke pouted iuto
the room, where, to their horror, there were
no moiuis of escape, and quite a number, iu
tho meantime, had fainted away, whilo
others jumped from the windows and were
picked up, some with liinbs mangled, oth
ers bleeding profusly and dying.
About one hour after the lire had envel
oped the entire story below the attic and
had worked its way, precedeil by immense
vo.1 umes ot smtko, to the spool room, a
j-oung girl was seen to present herself at a
window of the fifth story, in the south end,
and, throwing up her arms iu a pitiful, ag
onizing way, herlios moving apparently Tii
prayer, fell back in the burning room and
disappeared. In either windows the &aue
heartrending scenes were enacted, and the
people far beneath, unable to aid the poor,,
suffering creatures, looked on in horror.
The men ami boys were the first to com
mence jumping from the windows in tho
fourth and fifth stories, but soon after the
girls employed in the different rooms began
to leap to the ground. Every winelow was
crowded with excited persons, all eager to
jump out, but niHMi stepping em the window
sill they would hesitate a moment about the
elistance, and then with a wild shout sprinir
i as far as possible out iuto tho air only to
law iu me grounn iiiniiuny crusneu.
The cries of little girf in some of the
rooms for assistance were awful. One girl,
apparently about nine years of age, was
obsereel to crawl into an unoccupied win
dow in the third story, lay hei little bauds
on the window-sill and then with a weak
cry she fell back exhausted. Another girl
endeavered to descend on a rope, but as she
was not iced three or four others attempted
to lower themselves at the same time, the
rope was broken anel the young women
fell .to the ground. '
One woman was observed running about
among the killed and wounded, exclaiming
in pitiful tones, "Oh, where's my Nora?'''
She had found one of hor daughters, who
had leen almost instantly killed by jump
ing from the buiUliufr. and at last accounts
had not found the other, who i "opposed
to have shared the samo fate. A boy ap
parently about twelve years old jumped
from the building nnd was caught in a
mattress, being uninjured. He immedi
ately ran into the street and started in the
General JifcCandless.
Last week we had about concluded, says
the llibtn.ian (Pittsburgh) of the 19th, to
take the Gazette of this city to task for im
pugning the military record of General
W m. McCandless, of Philadelphia, a can
didate for the office of Secretary f Inter
nal Affairs in this Commonwealth but that
venerable sheet was too deeply engaged in
bandvincr biltincrErrafa ikilt. n
ary, and seemed to enjoy the discreditable
" "u ,ki j w w imp n upiea. not
withstanding its "sneak" from journalistic
amenity, we will try to gladden it by de
scribing "one of those brilliant things that
Gen. McCandless did during the war."
We assert on the authority of no less a
personage thsn Col. R. A. McCoy, Chief
Clerk to Surveyor Geneial Reath, who is
now the political opponent of ten. McCan
dless, that during tho tiemendous struggle
for the posfcessiem or Round Top MountaTn,
ovei looking the field er Gettysburg, on the
memorable 3rd or July, 186:, Gen. (then
Col.) McCandless, commanding the First
Rrigade or the immortal Pennsylvania Re
serves, changed the front of his gallant
column almost to the rear, iu the face of a
most deadly musketry and artillery fire,
with a precision unequaled on dress parade.
To quote from Sypher's "History of the
Pennsylvania Reserve Corps," (page 461)
in further illustration of the result of this
superb movement :
"The onset was terrible. The rebel gen
erals thrw thomselv-a at the head of thnir
troops, and, with sword in band, urged them
to the conflict. They well knew the'ground
must be held, or the advantages gained mu.it
be lost. The Reserves, howevr, were fight
ing on their own soil, with their backs to
their homes; it .u a battle for the safVty of
th.jir families, the defense of their State,
the honor of their country, the glory of their
unsullied banner, and f h reputation of their
mo.st beloved commander. What motives
these, for men to die bravely, or to survive
an honorable death with an untarnished
fa met No foe conld withstand a char? im
pelled by hearts thus nerved to the coTubat.
First, the oflicers cheering on their rehel
hosts, fell beneath the unerring fire of the
Rnektails, and the hostile column was speed
ily broken and hurled back by the bayonets
of the First brigatte."
Will the Gazette dispute the fact?
The same paper a.-ks again :
"Did he ride his gallant charger up to the
mouth of llaminy I a:ieri.:s, or tit-reely bear
tiowu on serrieu ranks of infantry, or go
rushing tbrou:! the name of musketry, car
rying victory on his banners, and coiiruMon
tu the rtbeis? Diu he? W want to know."
The last sentence, "we want to know,"
displays a veidancy that savors suspicious
ly more especially in view of thef.cts
that not one of the proprietors or attaches
of the Gazette had the manhood to join tho
ranks of the Uniou army, pieleri iug phys
ical salvation in tho "stay-at-homc-loud-inouihed-baudbox-brigade.
Rut no mat
ter we will answer.
Geu. McCandless did riele bis gallant
charger at tho head of his Second Pennsyl
vania Reserves up to the mouth of flaming
batteries, and fiercely bore down on serried
l auks ol'iuiautiy, and went rushingthrough
the flame of musketry, if nut carrying vic
tory on his banners auel confusiou to the
foe, at least proving to the world that not
only his heart but his head was in tho
cause lor which he fought tiiat he was,
what the Gazette duie not deny, a brave
man.
There is another statement made about
Geu. McCandless which is morning into
piominer.ee. It is, that he left the army
and went home. To this we answer: Geu.
McCandless nerved the three jears of his
enlistment with the Reseives with sigual
honor, and if the Guzette t-eiicil-sliiigers
could say the same it would give them some
reputation lor personal biavery, of which
a calumnious attack on a known tulditr
precludes even the bare possibility.
j Grant and WillUms prop., trt
advices to the effect that ti e 'H
; Louisiana was but a prebmrn 7' "A
Ac ir ixl rotttiral Item.
A Middletown boy played with a bull :
and came off. the little end of tha Loin. '
Roied. ' ; . states it u e ,n "r
"Has the Republican party finished its ! worthier to have iLt'1 "T
finTshld itr"ib,y uot- Lut -1B k hM i WnT,r l.hey an fe.rj;.Bn
direction of the City Hall as fast as possible
Only one person out of all who leaped
i. la a number of instances, boaies killed or terribly bruised. This was a
not be recognized, thev were so dis. io.i ..i i i . i ,
. .. " "v hj pui. riiiti;u jVMIBOlU , mill, UlCieU-
1U '. line as It ni:iv sc.em p minimd f join tlio
J J - - J - - i " " . l v-
upper story and landed on Dis feet and
was only somewhat jarred by hi terrible
leap. Resides those who were killed by
jumping from the windows some were
burned to tlealh, but exactly how many
is not yet known, as it is impossible to ex
amine the interior eif the ruins at this
writing. There were, indeed, numerous
:VKTi i'SV .c,OCK- ' the entire ! scenes of the most harrowing description
crumbled meh h i'.w H 11,6 ? '' Others, brothers and sisters were
nni, Im Ml th ,eaves, of the r"i''S Either and thither in wild despair,
most whoHv or . fTl". l- kP ll BCeklng to ,car fte of '-'eir k"d
ni l l "Ul 1 f t,'u.h,,"d'K of ; aud the ground around was covered with
, . , " "i me iourin the dead and
Nearly all were
us
filled the air
woundet)
of tlie tower fell
tops of the uablo end wall. - w, n.... r.i. . . luo
r,i tt j i ' vi ma i were truly agoinzuiir.
fifth floor and some of the side wall ti.....X i7.. ...
ei-isbinrr ii,r.,i, , i ... , 7 ' """rtioij neuiey corrooorares ine story
cord wpi ' The Rnd naira,es with thrilling eflect the ter-
iuuet BeaVi"S ,lj?rs nm " of the women. She sprang from the
Tli r.mnifo xrt'io i i r window, ami her sister, who did the same
lim nin Kn f i r fr ROm U,in' Lad ,lcr brains da.shed out. Isa-
-'" "' ""'S ,ul t!m?' and turns out bella Moorhead. who escaned with a few
and fifth floors were left. The roof north : r.b;i,i.- ..' . .
' i moans oi tho maimed that
50,000 pieces ef print cloth per week, and
it is supioscd that a considerable amount
of suck is ruined cither by fire or water
anel smoke. A largo amount ef machinery
is also reudeire'. nscl. ss, principally, how
ever, in the two upper stories. The most
expensive is still good, and the engines
and boiler are nt damaged. The insur
ance, it is therefore expected, will cover
all loss to property. It is reported, how
ever, that the walls will have to be taken
down, as the granite of which the building
was constructed is cracked by the heat.
Work in the other mills was- suspended
that the operatives might assist in the res
cue of their colaborers. Two and three
members of otto family are in several in
stances among the now incomplete list of
killed, woemded and missing.
STATEMENT OK A EYR WITNESS
Juha Coffey states when she first heard
the alarm or fire, heavy columns or smoke
burst through the spewl room door. A
crowd of little children surrounded the
overseer, and with him they rushed for
hV f aua8e' but they were forced back
SL V ttan,e.s- The" a" made for the
Tunef1' b,Ut WOUld n0t WOTk- At thU
Cnced6' P'" the Endows com
Wga u' 3,,,urnbf r of me the room
4rji,ten"I-1to et opera
in a-ifetr li te8Vl were landed
five feet' ftim" Was burned fenty
I ad lSoie Z o Cround' The 81"ole
nained- that tl,ose wLo r-
CROWDED THE WINDOWS FOR AIR.
Some, ta leaping M-roit ,
were
bruises, gives the same account, adding
that tho overseer reached the ground long
before many or the women. Thomas O'
Rrien, or Providence, saw the breaking
out or the flames and the help jumping
from the windows and a crowd of men at
tempting to save cloth. On his orders
they turned their labors to the saving of
life. Refore his eyes six women, one boy
and four men dropped to the ground and
were instantly killed.
A brave act was that of the Superinten
dent and others officers of the corporation,
who went to the upjer stories, and by
word and example told the people how to
save themselves, but a braver one is re
lated of a fireman, who was lowered from
the roor by brother firemen into the build
ing, and remained so long trying to drive
the last ones forth that he had to be let go
by those w ho had hold of his ioi. They
had held his line as long as they could
stay, and, nearly suffocated, were driven
down. His ouly way to escape was by a
window at the gable end, but he doubtless
Lad worked so long in the thick 6moke for
others Le could not help himself.
STILL LATER.
The total number or killed, wounded and
missing foots up fifty-seven, of whom twenty-seven
are dead. Two additional bodies
were recovered so badly bnroed that there
was no hope of identification. . These,
with seven others whom it was impossible
to recognize, were on Sunday placed in
the tomb of the North Cemetery.
Rtttlie expects soon to be a grandfather.
Words tviih the. Bark On.
GRANT'S LATEST OUTRAGE HE WANTS THE
ELECTORAL VOTE eF LOUISIANA AND OR
DERS THE bOI.DIfc.KS OF THE UNION TO
DRIVK OCT A LEGITIMATE OUVSRKOB.
LFrom theScw York Tribune.)
Gen. Grant has vanquisheel the people
of Louisiana again. He has telegraphed
to his general and his admirals ; he has
set the army and navy in motion ; and the
lawful Government of Louisiana surren
ders. If there was any doubt before as to
the character of the usurpation which rules
the unhappy State by favor of the Presi
dent any question whether the people
really acquiesced in it there can b none
now. The outrage stands out henceforth
in its naked deformity, an unpaidonable
crime against popular suffrage ai d the
sovereignty of a state. A government
which the people loathe anri
. -
lorcod upou Louisana by the soldiers of
the President. Left to themselves for a
moment, tho people threw it off and in
stalled the ofiicers whom they had regular
ly chosen at the polls. The deposed in
truders made no tight ; they weie as help
less and cowardly as children iu the pres
ence of The indignant people ; but cower
ing behind the shutters of the Custom
house they telegraphed to the President
"Ihe people have put us out; this is
your job ; comeyouandputusbacka'ain "
Two years ago Grant yieldod to the bad
advice or his disreputable associates, and
installed Kellogg at New Orleans, by fraud
and force, because he wanted the elector
al vote of the State, which a majority of
the voters had given to the other side
lhat wicked deed has brought forth a full
erop of crimes. We have seeu him dis
persing a Legislature at the point of the
bayouet, expelling a legitimate Govern
ment with threats of martial law, and re
versing the course of justice by the scan
dalous support of a perjured court. His
own trienua Have exclaimed at the iniquity
of these proceedings, and warned him to
desist 'lhe hottest partisan, of his ad
ministration have denounced the wicked
usurpations of Kellogg aud Durrell with
an indication that does them credit.
Seveuleeu Republican Seuators voted in
l ebruary 1873, to declare the pretended
election or Kellogg null and void, and to
iV" UYut f umce' The President him
self" fiually admitted in a special message
to Congress that so many forgeries and
frauds bad bean discovered that he was not
sure of Kellogg's title. An official inves
tigation proved the rascality of the whole
transaction beyond any possibility of de
nial. Rut the President would not halt
He must carry out his original crime to
its natural consequences, and the inexor
able logic of events has led him to this
crowning shame. For the first time in
the history of the United States the sol
diers of the Union are employed to drive
out a legitimate Governor, and place a
miserable pretender in the State House
to shoot down in the streets the people
who may refuse to obey him. For this
d.sgracetul and disheartening spectacle
the Congress which reused to act on the
Louisiana report, and the Republican par
ty which tacitly approved the wrong, are
both to blame ; but it is upon the Presi
dent that the chief responsibility must
rest, the President wh began the lone
course of oppression the P;-esident who
could have stopped it at any moment if he
Lad chosen and could stop it now the
1 resident who is prebably the only man
in America not ashamed of the whole bus
iness, and who comes forward in the midst
of it asking for a third term.
Grant may as well keep his soldiers
outof New Orleans. The Penn is mio-atier
than the sword. Chioago Times
boy a few dav
There are five hundred nnrl nirt
producing wells in Rutler county, which
spart 19,434 barrels daily .
The Catholics of Wheeling, Va., are
to eiect a monument chapel over the late
Rishop Whelan, of that diocoae.
C hambersburg has a musical prodigy
in a little girl ouly four years old, who
plays the piano with wonderful skill.
A terrible storm swept over Davenport
and Dubuque, Iowa, on Friday night. A
large amouut of property was destroyed.
It is somewhat appalling to leain that
there is a possibility that the Schleswig
Holstein question will be rs-opened.
The Dodge gold mine, at Lisbon, X.
Jl. IS VlflldinfT S'0 from a Inn A
i , , V. . r H " -. ioKs pnvaie Character so .av,
block of gold, weighing f 400, was taken j Mr. IL uow seeks redress in i l v
out a few rijtvs an . ..: . ? . -
.Tim notion r , . 'v
"' "' j-i'giat.ei has a-r,M
pay the Prince cf Wales' dent, rfe
grace owes ?3,xhi.imo. Tbe'o,"
in three annual instalments, and U W
ed in her cheek for tfl.o-M oM It
T-osed her majesty has Uen rciua.U
tbi, course by Mr. Dira,-li much a,
the gram, she being a verv excelwV"
at keeping what uionev the itches
It would seem that the leghWa":- ,
mination t.f every ue-d-ru ei,.vJ
libel suit. Even the Charlie i?
un nn.ujjiii iuuu men ii int. V (j 3
town ceu-respondeut of the ReadmV J
recently wrote that Charlie was "A
mother in the West, and V' I
Ross' pnvate character so ,r.,
T i , . riTIV
y;i
. " ., . . i:-t weigLts weie i,.,.
croI this year is two per ! in matrimony at Indian" nolis ,i J !
ond tton and aeveu per cent, i day. Tho Journal says: pro, I n ' 'i
ige planted, than it was in ' ib Yii .ri,.; ' V-'
. .. .. . . . u. , n lrr v lm , i
two cows for $10, was married U-t rJ
inc. The nuutials wro(fioi...... j : ?
er hall. Two hundred inviia'lii:a J
fourteen gallons of wi-.ie weie reot.i,,
quench the thijstof tLo atten.nVs
.un,7..i.-j wi.o onvg uowu T.iiJ ,,,,,, i
1
out a few dsys ago
I he wheat
cent, lower in c
higher in acreage planted, than it was in
. i i
ct'piemuer last year.
A reward of $700 is offsred for tho ar-i-Fst
of Anthemy or Andrew Lenahau, wh
killed Capt. John Riley at Wilkesbarre, en
Tuesday evening of last week.
Lieutenant Royue, of the Thirtv-eighth
Rritish Regiii.ent, recently walked from
Aldershot to London and back in seventeen
hours. The distance was seventy miles.
Amos Spcakman, of Chester county.
I a., lost his watch whiln rw.ii l, .,.oi..,.
on a r ais banks" bchIq.
The Germ Antown Jf" T,i7.t fir.. ,,.
ihf l?84 filrftl.f.Hn:i fitj. -.1:7, r "
-- " - '-'en p.rp,,:
nas excttca this co.nnui iiiv r-,..i.
d. and tl..-.t tt o : m .
harmed or likfc!r to be. If -a Ii ia'-v ,1'
tbfl unnip! Ml b rt a n ...1 i
.- " "... .r , s I,nr,' -.
ity to the community whieli r.;;
easily gi.-t riil ef."'
A .
-v ,ew 0:13 s ao, a C n.' . -1?
Lebanon from Mid-'.leinwn.
wiih an aevpiaintauce of the i
known their desiie t, pet
services ef a clergv r.iaa (.,
requisition, and the gr-.i.i:
prcciation of tho f iv.u Ll'.'.o
owner had refused 10.000 frir bito
long before. !
Catbor. county. Ta., claims the cham- '
pion "daddy" or the state. He is a Ger- '
man, 73 years old, and is the father of
thirty children, the youngest of whom is
four months old. j
About one hundred r.nd ninetv-lhree
politicians are sitting on the ragged ede '
of despair in moital dread les? the new ''
Legislature curtail some or their opportu- i
unit s 01 ?rca inrr i . . . .
. ing our c:rtc ;l I.i.-ael a
A nerio. named Smm f nit.cn.. .
ar 'PRtd in T .l , a t..t o r - 1 . .
... ...... ... ...IU,IO ojmjrty (veiling
while in the act of committing rape on a
white woman. lie was eent to jail in de
fault of $10,000 bail.
piece of land. ituate onRroadway,
Sixth avenue and Tiiii tv-second street,
New York, which in was sold for
5,000, in 1SC.3 for 45,0(n, changed hands
last Fiiday for 2T5,OoO.
. There was a m mtuful sort oT a wed
ding up in the north western part of the
oi.o last weeK. jtr. .Melon married Xiss
:-.!-"tf.
it'.:
ti Uir
- h
la,r. Tlu .;
was ovpoMted in one : ."if v .ri,
a few t's; s the eki j ma;; h-.A :l e j )Vi
ei recti! ing Hie cinrt bac ; j'.cv.t j.
of ayi'ig S2.2') for the t !..fer.
The First National Rank e-f 'Will
Pa., was burglariznd on i'h .nlivnf
week under the nv . d:ringc:re;.vn.ta:
the b nglar first g .:n T"id re : 1 .
the President, whose f.i'ni v r.i-
anil bound, and then p.i:n;i.-:'e'i ihiioij
T go with theia to tho haul: r.::d
r i-i. . - -
saic, wiacit lliey robbjei ;' ., .'.() t
si T . . . rait, Kllttll IIICV IOOK
t.olly. In short it was a Melou-Colly af- j theu took him back h
nr-. l-j. A i
er s linger-nng. kissed I,: wife. wL jf
I eel, and then roae o:t m two ctrriagtt
i wtt;cn gray horses wore ttacbd.
went toward- riniiri. .-.r Vr, V S i
oif.-rcl f-..r j r
.".( reward lias ten
is fflatk ei;;;a.:
fair. Copy ri?ht scneed
Abner C. Harding, a native of Terry
county, this Sta'e, died on the l'.fh ult.,
at Monmouth, Warren county. Illinois.
leaving an estate estimated at tf5,9'.t0 C'XK
ii. .- , . i... . . ...... ' '
lie eimgraieei io Illinois in
Miss Ilonore, of Chicago, who is said
to be engaged to Colonel Fred Grant, is a
Roman Catholic and was educated at the
Georgetown Convent. She is fine looking
and has a highly cultivated voice.
A number of English Catholics, led bv
Archbishop Manning. Monsignor Patter
son, and Lord Edmund Howa.d, lkave gnt.e
on a pilgrimage to the shrine of St. F.d-
tBttnd f)f t'anterh firtT rfr PiinrlvriT
I lie 1 Ol t la 11(1 .4r.?; cfntoo l.-af ;f l.. u : , . i
been discoyertu that, owing to blunders in one, barkin" fu
Kis!Hriire, mere is not at present, nor
has there been for two years, anv Maine
Liquor law or any law against selliug li
quor. The conversion of the Marquis of Ri
pon to Roman Catholicism has created no
little stir in Fngland. The rJi,t is vcrv
irid.gr.ant at what it terms "the fatal obli
quity of tempci incut" which has led Lord
Ripen to this act.
A bout two months ago six young men
were drowned near Niagara by "the capsiz
ing of the yacht Foam. Mr. Anderson,
the father of two of thorn, afterward pur
chased the vessel, and on Thursday night
destmyed it by fire.
C. K. Ross (Charley's father) has ex
pressed his iitention of prosecuting the
authors of tho iibel that he was not living
with his wife, and insir.ual ing that the
boy's mother had takau Linl from the home
frem which ab hnd been driven.
A juvenile base-ball nine recently walk-
vu irom i -cut .lei vis to MuToid. cijlii i "v"' ""l
miles, to play a frame, and when thevgot ' on " K a.ccT8S h"ihM w ,
there the other club wm.lHn't ,,1, nA 7b- ! written permission from himself. -l
boys had to walk home again. ' Sixteen
miles without a cam ! Tu
Weston, who begun at two minutes!
past twelve on Sunday night, the 13th inst., i
his walk of five hundred miles in 6ix cou- j
secutive days, storced
at twenty minutes to twelve. He walked
fv
ciptui-e. ILere
ciisboro.
The Sj ringfleld Rep ibl-ein
toliowmjr: A blec'i a-nl-t ri d j. c
lnoriung trip to tb!s citv with i:s i.
has leen, i-.f late, f:-c:ueu;v :-wa
bicget i..-giny'ates.ttet. Fiidr n;
the little d jg came with a b:g c .i.ir i
the State. -'tfM-t dog did not ajpi-.
ing d;. turbid, the two d r .i .! .
waited awl-i.e. lb : tiivbi dWdftb
ini a tree, arid t'ii-
e-aslr. ra'i t..-.vaid
! c.ty past the bo re ,f bis e-iemv. :a
fighting do appealed, und the Rule t"
repeated the tMncu'it, this time caj
j ont his assHilant. The V.U.o dog fj
straight to his friend, who lay pt-rfs
: stiil until pursuer ami pursued were V
( in a red ef him. when he t'.rsw o'l. f
i tree and killed the State ftrcct ('.-..
secoiui. l he i:g a g auu l!io i
I then gazed tranquilly a few s-;
' their f.ii'icn foe, after which the 1
i kited of? down to or n and i
j pkxidud soboily b ick tj wards Wi.t-
There is i-f
a quiet w
The Coming Hokse.
York a banker, who. in
. . i
i been gathering for some time, the s:
, horses of the country. He La? i
i stable out of the city, abojt an h
. away. Here he has a track, a:.:l -j
observation he is recording some in:,
i speeel. He says nothing alw.it his
.i ... t j .,, . .
iue nreei, aim wni ii.it ie cut " i'"iri
raielv triven. Amoi;' bis tie.i-u 4
- ---- -
brothereif "Dexter," a gamy, sj'
of which marvelous things ate t"'rf
Ow't ef the way stabie is ju-t no w li;
or k eoel leal ef intt-iesi. Ai:.t
horsemen it has been knonn fr i
while thai, Mcihoelist minister ir
liietv owned .1 c
r ., liu:;ill.iii in invuwun, iii -
to rnle ' Pleasant little price that was pet up
to the minutes of , The ,10I.Peinen1u tll9 slrt !au
k. Mo jile Rog.s- i ,aiu Mclh4Mlist Vv in the
Wm. II. Kemble's (of "addition di Kentucky, offered his animal
ision and silence" fame) Peoplo's Rvdc ! The banker a1Iuded 10 he:,:d " ,a
f Philadelphia, is moving in7o. ' b Sd & that he took .trip to hum
r which it navs 20.00t7 rent B., , ; lo"H at hl!U- lk' Slw kimx '
three hundred aud lwenty-six miles J ln0 '"ea . . "'"C". '"
w. inis, oi aiaua nx, with a view " , . .i . ,. . r
to pleasing the negroes. h', t.l.V . . ! s a raven, anu boi6 . he name of
b-n; .f T...jf . , t V. t'""lu l":we.d" The value ol tL-s hoise, in
'i .juugeoe uauas county a lie- . .. , i
pro named (Wwllnni-. i i .. tiuiatiou e-f the owner, may be seeu
anu wno signs ins name to
ine iourt by a cross-mark
j Kentucky, offered his animal for ?1
vistem
of
TK5- i....;'"" v... : . . ' scribes him a a ma -v. l. l is notf
"i-iuuLi.Mi Keeps en eiepoeit about i . r i i i .
one-third of the state's money. Fnou-h co,1,e ',cd aSrfiie ,l1Pl-v, di,:,t'
said. j seems transformed. 1 he cantivat
-It is reported as a singular fact that 1 Yorker offered SWKK) for ILj e-..
three grand-daiifhrfi of ( v,..t.. o owner received the proposal with
nf f'.,..iH.. I.."-. "" ; II- did not even reu'v : ordered lh4
....v.. n..,,, oi ui signers ot the ; , , . , . ' i .
Declaration of Independence married into ack ,,,1A t!!,'; s al.''el a"d
the Rritish peerage. The last surviving ouse' , Au "',or v,Mt 2,". "
iefi i ,T , . ,. 1 i horse changed owners. fc.i'J.uiK
1 " """.V" w L.eeas, wno nca . . ... ... ,,.,
ovine moot us ago. j '"n i ...-v. ..v -
At a recent christening in XoHhum- !aoV My Le is.,L ! niost exti-.ra.r
berland. Pa., the parents of the little one j im:u ever 6eea la lue ",unui-
baptized requested that it might be ler- -
muted to driuk the water used iu the cere- j A Sad Storv. The old girl si
mony, giving as a reason that if it should Modern degeneracv had not re:ut
n .1 vi bo uku. sicieness w ouiu j oi igmai aim uuaccommiHi.iiuij.
be kept from it through life. j tures of her chatacter had thr ha:
A year old boy, iu Rochester, X. i of autiquity. Her august mien n
which his parents had laid aside after de
cocting some whiskey punch, and imbibed
the contents. Refore long the child was
taken with spasms, and in two hours be
died of congestion of the brain.
A turkey ben in Lancaster county, Pa.,
disappeared from her usual haunts'a few
weeks ago, and returned after a short ab
sence, accompanied by a brood or young
partridges, which she Is now taking care
of in the most motherly way. . The little
strangers are said to be very tame.
A child was born near Enfala, Ala
bama, on the 28th ult., w hich bad two dis
tinct heads and necks of natural size.
Roth heads had perfectly developed ears,"
nosos, mouths and other features. It was
found necessary to sacrifice the child in
order to save the life of the mother. '
General Butler concedes that the K1
"ffg ; government is a transparent fraud :
xt " ' unKiuf tne merchants
Of ew Orleans who rica in i...n:
v. . U I . UU J . . V . . . V. . . ' -
the court itself, wheu Judge ll.illse i
her for violating the election law. N
of
v
Stl.T
'Ct
ambiti-""!
thirl
ehifkanf..rv ha nari-uw KTKletll
politics, no idle eontest for party
sank her to the level of the Chr st
men of the day ; but oveibco h
sive, ana impi-acticatne. uerooj
llguts oi woman, ner amei
vote. The ordinary feelinrs
life amiable and indolent ve:e u
her. No domcst ic difficult ie
tint, nl.inf from Ilia KOI did OC
i;r n . . . 1 1 ; K it ;ntii'U
came into tho Rrooklyn social sysul
unless isessie lies, she sat ao-jro 1
dore's lap. It is sad that a lif of
or eighty summers, should thin be
by a nioment's weakness, bat, ft ie'
. .. C L - . .
is the inelaBCholy story oi cjm
Itope that ii i laise.
reach
u n
H..-r.n So .,r.d.obtedlv c"od I
.j A m ...An.A.. but it OI 1 1.
of New Orleans who rise in rebellion against ' sions bunged eyes, broken skins a
it. The hero of Fort P;ct- i i 1 . i ..,.
V7 ,-jii t;i v.m tni
r..lniri'i 4
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b?en of the nmnmn hnt J ,. ;r
r i 7 , '. -o" lcopie OI -ew ; sucu ii wwm - ---
Orleans had no rights that anvbody was vifnt is resorted to, it will leduc t
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