nSiTir'l I'TifFC-SiM . .-.--.-z.-n.T - EBSKSDUnC, PA., Fvi.lav Mttrnin, March 31, 1876 The ciehvjtft'cs from this Congres sional ii strict to the St. Lonis Demo- ennui liati v.ial e invention are It. Tj. Till I ill Johnston.. IW, of tlti plc and E. any o'Jier time, or been concerned in K Kerr, Ks-.i., of F.etlfonl. The tlec- : any fraudulent contracts, or in mamp tor h John II. Uhl, Kq., of .Somerset, ' iihiting post-tradersliips on the fron a. id the member of tho State commit- tier, or in anylhir.g whatever incon U e is George Siroop, Esq., editor of sistent with the conduct and purposes tiie T j rone Democrat. i of an honorable man? Nothing of the : .-,.fr.v . I kind. Hut he happe.is to be chairman t- . 1 : . t il T 1 - . .......IT .-. i i.c pnrcceai:i i iuc ieniui-iauv, Mat contention recently iieUl at Enuciister will bj found in another pirt of our paper. The convention kas as able a body of repsosentativc Democrats a has convened in this .'ti. f.r ?r).Mv coin nnd tho nh't- f.,rui whkh ' it adopted, being a vast i.rv-m;.,,f. imon tho one nut forth at Erie last September, will command j the approval of the Democracy of the entire State. The proceedings 01 ine convention were harmonious, and its av-tio.i t'ir.):i!i'-.it is indicative ol a li.'alt'iy ptrty feeliug, which fullvj.ip-jn-cciate.s its duty, as well asa fixed (le t jnnimiLion to perform it in the im j) it.:it campaign wltiuli id approach i..g. . -3? Stanley Wdoo'-vard, of Luzorne c ,m,;v, committed a grcat blunder! when "ho off-Ted a resolution in the! I j-r.HMter convention virtually in strn rtin th ? delegates from this State t t!i Sr,. Lottie co:iv ntion to vote far Jil 1? lllack as its nominee for Presi dent. The cum ention was not called f r the"p:irpose of bcst)wing an empty omplinunt upon Ju-lge Ulack, or any other m.ui; and, besides this, it was cilcubited to place Judge IJlack in a fihe p )-ition. as he has too much po litical sfgAcity not to know that he elands ab.ut as good chance of being f truck w.th lightning as he has of bc-i-ig nominated at St. Ijoui. Tlie rsiuti?:i was o.Toicl witliout his Knowledge or consent, and the con vention lid a wise tiling by laying it on the t.'vlle. Since the fill of Eelknr-p and the te-'-t'.mony 'f Orvil Ij. (Jrant ief-re Mr. CI vmor's comniiltee, expoinn the f-n-ilities afforded him by his brother, the PresidenV for obtaining control over and epoculating in post-trader phirvi. 'he tliird term proipct. if not fb?olutelv dead, has cr)wn 1 - " snia 11 by dorrvces and beautifully lii.ss. Dtit that Grant hi;n3clf h is alundoned it is not anv more certain now than it was rt anv ti:n3 since he wrote his atnbig t'ous letter to Harry White last May. Vor anything that appears on the sur face of Kepublican r -litlcs, lie may Ptill be reg'-ided as rolling the third .iu uiea umi."" Jis tongue a sweet jnoisel and as looking forward for the happening -of the coni;ngoncy which. In his opinion, mi'lit rendc' his renomi nation a n?ccsity. A'ithMii;l: recent developomcnts at Wahinton I'iye serverely damaged his political pros pects at Cincinnati, his esse is by no means as hopeless as some people might, imagine. TriE bill relating to the erection oT public watering trouphs along the highwaj's has become a law, although Important limitations fire attached. Any one who shall erect a trough not lc3S than four feet long, twelve incites vrfde. and ten inches deep, ami keep it continually supplied (wli-n not frozen) v.ith clear running water, shall be en titled to an annufil reduction of $T from his taxes. When there is no spring or stream, t!. same bounty is awarded for the providing of a pump nd trough, to be kept i.' good order. Supervisors may erect suci' watering troughs or pumps, should private in dividuals omit to do so. Ar.y ptrsor injuring or defacing fiiicli troughs stt"dl be punished by a fine of not over "2(, or imprisonment nt xcced:ng ten days, on conviction before any juslice. Th-e limits fixed by the law are that troughs erected under tho act are not to be nearer than five miles to each other on any public mad, nd it is not to apply to counties of leas than 45,00') inhabitants. - On the day after Caleb P. Mandi gave his testimony before Mr. Clymer's committee on expenditures in the war department, he left New York city and went to Montreal. A honl was at once srmt up by the radical press that Clymcr, f or certain purposes, had con nived at, if he had not actually advised, his escape. Wulirr.vt the evidence of Marsh, the conviction of Helknap Trould have been difficult, if not im- nosiblc. and although Mi CJvner ronld have no possible motive in ml-1 vising him to le.ive the ccunti, it suited tlie crooked way of rntliealisin to make the" charge ngtiinst him. ' Marsh. ai he O'tieUlv" ilieovcrivi, wr. .n liable to le prose !ed for giving a t-rile to Belknap n tlie latter was for . jepting it. The President having ' . Jr I l. ! Ffnt tTilii v. panioii, u' v vi , il- nrnol to Washington last week and testified befc-tf the committee that Mr. Clvmer had noting to do with his esonpe. but that he hd gone awAj on hi own motion, simp'v to avoid being j substantial. It is to be hoped that Rrrsted. The Philad'eii. hia Inquirer, tlie republican party which has done a leading Republican pa.-r; has the ( so much to debauch and lower the tone minhood to do justice to Mr. C'lynieT , of political morality will make a reso byaying: " j lute struggle to reform itself by the Th- explanation made by Marsh" cf ,' nominatton of gocxl candidates. ." The late exodus into Canada shows tho dangers , f preniatuie fault-finding. Caleb says that , he fled away upon karnii.gf.om the papers j what a serious turn things were taking and how unpleasantly likely it seemed that he. also, as well as the disgraced secretary, would bo Indicted. When he niad this disagieeablo disc ivery ho wm in New York, from which place ha Ptrahtway f -olc his departure r.d journeyed north-ra-rl. Those injurious sccusations wl.icli hstre been mid" agiiust Mr. C'lrmer nr thmeforft proved without foundation in a. id ixAai be withdiavfii. I Ts the brief enace. ot one month i ... . ,- , .. nvio UMT ueioie lira iai ui'un n v juiblio mrkn in this country. Why tins t he been thus singled out as a shining I mark for the envenomed arrows of I radical hale? lias he ever stolen ', Anything since the commencement of t the present session of Congress, or at - . 1 . - . . 1 ; . ...... ri 01 liie coiurmutn; uh tijniminina ; the war department a committee : which wa? created ibont ten years ago, , but whih under radical rule has been ; regarded of so little importance that j ' before the preseHt Democratic House ! naur-mlilerl it never even met nnd or- i ! panizcil. When Mr. Clvmer, however, ! ! w.ts 1 laced at its head he meant busi- : ness and went vigorously at work, i Tfow well and thoroughly "he has per- ; formed his duty let the sudden and ilisgracelul Jail ot Jielknap answer. Who drove a corrupt Secretary of War out of the cabinet ? Not Grant, but Clymcr and his committee. Who exposed Orvil I,. (Jrant and his post trailer frauds, if it was not lliester Clymcr? Who but Clymcr and the Democratic members of his committee have taught the country that such a committee ever before had an exist ence ? Mr. Ch'iner's offense in radical estimation consists in having exposed and dragged down a cabinet officer. This is the unpardonable sin w hich he has committed and for which radical editors will never forgive hira. If he had taken any ether shape than that . I. 11 . 1 1 - At. A 1 L til nt would nou ub tuc arrani client auu ti ickster that they represent him to be- suits of the personal government, nnwiso The pi'Ople fully understand the mat- ; legislation, vicious financial policy, extrav tcr ami will not withdraw their confi- i agance and corruption of the. Ilepublican dencein Mr. Clvmer in consequence I l,arty h1 Us omc.als a.,d inviiim: all of . , - i evei v shade or political opinion who believe of the bitter and unceasing abuse of ilWli;,u r,,,i n.yitri,, which he Ins been the object. He and his committee intend to persevere iu tlie T.ork upon which they have en tered of uneai tiling fraud and corrup tion, no matter whether it le a Demo-rat or a Republican who may come to giief. From recent revelations his committee, although like the mills of the gods it may grind exceedingly tlovv, will grind exceedingly line. The committee having struck a perfect bonanza of corruption in the Helknap vein, can now turn it j attention to a de velopment of the smaller ladical leads. It would be the play of Hamlet with the part of Hamlet left out if a Dem ocratic State convention could be held without that br: zen bu-h whacker, Sam Josephs, appearing on the scene, either as a delegate or as an outside disturb ing element in its proceedings. Jos eplis was pieeuted from attending the Lancaster convention asa regularly accredited delegate, by reason of his having removed from "his old and con genial habitation in the third legisla tive district, and, unfortunately for himself, taken up his residence in another and more reputable communi ty, bcre men of his stamp are com pelled to- go to the Democratic rear. Samuel, horeyer, was at Lancaster as a looker on in Venice, and it occurred to his innocent ami guib-less natuic that the Democratic m-itNue could not be successfully run without bis aid and t t r rcneo. Intent, therefore, on business, he proc tution from one ( delegate from th district, who had a fellow feel i no- f.r his friend Josephs, and presented it to the convention as his warrant to be admitted to a seat in that body. Rut Sam had counted this lime without his host, and Mclntyre's deputation was received with a storm of indignation by the convention that would have caused even a more shameless political t knave tnan Josephs to quake and tremble. The day of Sam Josephs, like tnat of every other dog, had come, and baving been indignantly com manderi to step down an.l out, he stood not on the t,nlcr of his going but went at once. This little episode was one of the most gral'fying features in tlie proceedings of the convention. It is to be hoped that this was the last act in the drama of his disgraceful politi cal career, and that he will never again attempt to cross tlie door-steps of another Democratic State con entiou. Mr. Monaiwan in his excellent pjeeeh on the oecasion of his election m permanent chairman ot the Demo cratic State convention at Lancaster, on Wednesday 'of last week, struck the key-note of the coming presidential campaign in hi concludino; sentence, "Ij! eo uh, in our actions to-uar. remem- ber that the great ncC(i ()f the country is honesty and upright men in olficc, and it ia our mission to supply that watif:." Things have co.nc to such .1 pas in the management of political alh.irs lenmrks an exchange, that the ordinary questions of policv about f rwdlir nlw..,f i which men differ must bs held in abeyance, pcnal;: a necessary moral purgation.' It is of little use to amend our laws or renair our Constitutions, if 1 1.... 1. 1 1 vice so rotten that no department of it appears to be anv longer sound or rjL B ocratie partj' Will set it an examine for c1' lotion in this respect in any cr nt ftli-I devote the centennial year . . , MWkM to the Single M'Orkof regeneration and :ind n writ ton suli,M. I l,,e government of the Lnited States who i - iaicolin Hay, . C SflU. .1 IllladeltSllia tho i-Vesi.-'enfn.-oiiI.I 1. n.. li l.i. .... i : .lnl.,1 T I'nrrl .Tmo. administrative reform. n, 80,1 of our own Commonwealth, an.l in tho city where independence was declared. Capt. WoODItCFF, of'Mie Johnstown I JIr' Stanley Womlward, of Luzerne, pro Democrat, is entitled to the" honor of i sentd a tesolution that the convention having made the motion in th3 Lan- ' caster convention which prompted Sam. Josfpln to incontinent fy lbo ' from the wvath to corao. The lcmocrrrtf in Council. which assembled at Lancaster on Wednesday, March 22d, was called to order by Cel. Hcndiick B.Wiighr, Chairman oftlie Stat Central Committee, who counseled order and decorum. TJy an almost unauimoas vote, Hon. "William II. Play ford, of Fayette comity, was elected temporary chairman of ! the convention, and returned his thanks for tlie compliment. He advised harmonj', counseled the exposure of corruption wher ever it existed, and said there should be no hesitancy in declaring for right principles. Corruption, ho declared, should he inves tigated even if it implicated tho President of tho United States, After tho temporary organization had been effected and committees on permanent organization, credentials and resolutions appointed, Robert E. Monaghan, of West ester, i Chester, was unanimously chosen pcrma- e,)t cl convention, and fifty vico prcsitlt nts and numerous secretaries were named. The chairman made an clo qnent address on assuming the duties of his iomUou. TflE PT.ATFOTIM. Hon. Wm. A. Wallace, chairman of the committee or resolutions, reported tho fol- ; lowinp platform, which was adopted : The Democracy of Pennsylvania in con- veution met, reasserts Tts oft-repeated dec I larations nf devotion to all of Hir provisions j of tho federal Constitution nnd to n per I pe.tnal union of the Stales ; pledges itself to i riid fidelity to puhlic trusts, to a puro and j economical administration'of the Federal, 1 Slate, and Municipal Governments, to local ! self-governments in every section, to tho j honest payment of the pnhlie debt and to ; sound preservation of tho public faith. They see with humiliation and alarm the I evidences of bribery, fraud, and peculations 1 in hijih places, the distress that prevails ami the wine spreaa financial ruin that impends over the peopla of the State, and ,i, y,.n n.-.t oV;i o- . ii ohm mi ("iimj loi.Mi j j.i uif flU)ini I ment of financial questions upon a sound basis, having regard for the interests of the I whole people and not of a class, in tb.n rec ! oniiion of the final settlement of all qncs tions submitted to the arbitrament of the j sword, and in a policyvhieh under tho j Constitution keeps abreast "of tho progress j and civilization of the age, to unite with ttieni, they declare : Firt: That, the civil service of tho Gov ernment has become corrupt, nnd is made the olj'ct of pei-sonal gain, and infidelity to public trust has become the rule and not the. exception. We brliev that honesty, capacity, and fidelity are tho only tests of fitness for public station, and that tho wholesome penalties of the law should bo urd with rigor to cuforce official account ability. Scco:id. That th recent and repented exposures of fraud ami corruption in the administration of public affairs c:ill f-r a , searching and thorongli in vestigaf ion of i ho I conduct and condition of every branch of j the pnblic service, to the end that all cor rupt practices may he hronehr tolisht. and Hint, ail who have abused and betrayed the ir pnblic trusts, whatever may be their sta tion, may bo exposed and punished; and we, ui so those in charge of this subject at Washington to a prompt, thorough and exhaustive examination of their I field of labor. TJ-Jnl. That retrenchment and economy avo indispensiblo in Federal. Sta'e, and I Municipal Administration as an essential J means toward lessening tlie burdens of the lt-"fi-, sum we enmmenu ine eilorts ot the maj niay in the House- of Representatives 4 . I. ..- - . , ... . for i ne reo'.iciion 01 i ;r expenrtifiires or tlin t Ciloral t.nvcrnmoR' tn a lust standard and their determiniti ::i to lessen the num ber of useless offici i! ;. Font-tit. That grn-: d amnesty to all per- I ns implicated iu the !afe rebellion against ' 1-ropcr exerci.- cr governmental pnsver in the year of tho Centennial celebration of """"-' ' imu-p-inii'iicr, au.i u?ai i no re- coniniciidation or such a n.easuro by Presi dent Grant in a public message, and its endorsement and passage by a '"Republican House of Representatives at a former ses sion, constitute full proof that such a mea sure is nt, judicious, and tiniclv. Fifth. That tho Democracy of IVnnsvt. vania cordiaily approve of those provisions j i'i inc. ,-iaie consul nt ion tn t The I cisnrecnui section ot the third article and tho second section of tho tenth article, which protect not only school funds, but other public moneys from appropriation to sectarian uses, and that they fitly illustrate 1 i";it, oocnine 01 uie separation or Church ; and State which always has been a cardinal iui 1'ic Democratic prty. $iri. That the statute for the resump tion of specie payments on the first day of January,vlS79, is impossible to execute. It is a deliberate proclamation that at that date the United States will go into bank ruptcy. It paralyzes industiy, creates dis trust of tho future, turns the laborer and producer out of employment, is a standing threat upon the business man, and oueht to be forthwith repealed. Kcre.ntli. That cold and sit 01 ytruo bases for lha currency r.f tho Re-j t-ii 1 1 r r ii A tl. ft,...,. 1 t . I pub'ic, and that Congress should tak- steps f'r the resumption of specie payments as will most surely and speedily reach that result without destroying the business in terests of the people. Eighth. That tho present depression of all our national industries, which checks tho wholesome flow of capital through the channels of entei prise and denies to honest lauor a decent livelihood, is :he direct in OVUMllO bio fruit of extiavagance and of reck- ! and dishonest Republican tamreiincr ! loss wull',,ie "nances of the country, and wo i iL,lnoe toe authors of that legislation as olhcials who have unsettled tho foundations alike of the State and of the home. Wo call upon the people to aid us to halt them in tms ratal career, and to set their faces in the direction or practicable measures, which shall eventually enable the Tiensnrv of tl United Stales to keep its slighted faith with rich and poor alike. We demand IotisIi- tion through Iho power of tho Federal ' uovernmenr, wnicii snail give pei formanco ' for promises and restore solvency to the i nation by restoring prosperity to the peo- j pie. Hezolverl. That in common with the peo- I pie of our sister States, we rejoice in tho : opportunity to celebrate tho Centennial of tho proclamation of our emancipation from j too government; oi tlie liiitisli crown, marking, as it did, the epoch of the great est event in modern hlstm-v. and feol piido that its celebration should be upon prcrcnt ibr the consideration of the Demo- c. at'c party of the Union the name of Hon. ! Je remiah S. Black. fr President, being well asmtd that his nofiunation and election t xf ..!., j.i.t n'.t ii.iriifiy uc( ii reiieveu Irom disa- : " ma,n - wun;ap. - . ... ., ', ' i t'.niH-s iij me Kcnon f-t v oncress ami nf o.ias -u. v lai ue. it. would secure an administration distin guished by Iho simplicity, economy, nnd persouarpnrity of former days. Tho reso lution was laid on the table. On motion of Mr. Wallace, lion, Charles II. Euckalew was chosen by acclamatian to head the Electoral Ticket to bo voted for this Jail. The election of a Chairman of the Siato 1 Committee next being in order, Captain William M'C'elhtiid, of Pirtsburg, was elcted on third ballot. The chairman an nounced the selection of Mr. M'Clclland, after which the names of the members of the State Committee wore announced, as follows: ETATK CKXTKAI, COMMITTEE. William I"Can.llcss, Chairman. 1 Thos. M'Donongu. 2 Morris Murphy. 3 John I lull let. 4 James Bronnan. 5 G Thomas Menetta. 7 Alhert I,nrpticc. 2'J K. V. Ilawlev. 27 .1. T. Baker." 128 N. M. Wanner. 1 29 M. Iteard. :30 .luju-nh Io1an. St A. (. lionsall. J32 Mnhl'b'KWillianw 1 33 ?.t. M. iloN'eill. 3t P. Gray ,Meek. ;3.5 Ooortc St roup. j3 A. II. Ooffrotii. 37 K. Ij. P.lood. 8 Joseph It. Alien. 9 J. 1, I-;rv. ard. 10 John (J. Kmdall. It TIenrv M. K-im. 12 Ii. P. Ii kinon. 13 A. J. Stuinman. 14 W. S. Ymidt. 15 r.lb'Re M Cmikey IB V. T. Haines. 17 Gibson flowers. IS Jere. S. Hess. 19 O. B. Kellev. 20 V. A. Hoatnish. 21 E. Ty. Me.rrinjoii. 22 K. O. Gre.nvaM. 153 I oh Ti Woodcock. 39 .las. S. 7oorhad. id Aimer Ifoss. 41 .tas. C.Viin Delan. 42 W. P. Headell. 43 Robert l.iddell. 44 W. II. S'orL'hlon. 45 .. It. I. Dnif. 4i M. Donahuo. 47 P. J. Pearee. 2:i W.W. Kingsbury. 4S ,hm. It. M'Cal lister 24 Fred. K. Embiek. ,4! James Hemphill. 25 H. II. Goodrich. CO Homer J. Humes. Resolutions were passed naming W. L. Scott., of Erie, for tho national executive committee, instructing the delegation to vote as a unit on all subjects aud thanking the officers. Tho district electors and the representa tive delegates were then announced, as fol lows : n.rxTor.s at large. C. R. Rr.ckalew and S. li. Wilson. ELECTORS. First R ?ert t Steif. pecond George U. IlelL Third William If. Wright. Fourth Thomas R. Gaskill. Fifth John Morgan. Sixth I")r. .John A. Morrison. Seventh Colonel O. Jones. Eighth William K. Hawk. Ninth loci Ij. Lightner. Tenth Henry T. Trumbaiicr. Eleventh George II. Rowlai.d. Twelfth Thirteenth J. 15. Me.Camant. Fourteenth Daniel I). Boas. Fifteenth J, H. MeCo!loi. fixteeth 1 W. Knox. Seventeenth John II. Uhl. Eighteenth Thomas Rower. Nineteenth David Small. Twentieth Sebastian Wimmer. Twenty-first James J. Haslcli. Twenty second John 15. G nth lie. Twenty-third It. N. Gibson. Twenty-fourth David 8. Morris. Twenty-fifth R. R. Brown. Twenty sixth Thomas W. Grayson. Twenty-seventh Renjamin F. Morris. DELEGATES AT I.AHGE. William A. Wallace, Andrew II. Dill, lliester Clymer, Hugh M. North. PISTKICT DELEGATES. 1. George McGowan, William M. Reilly. 2. John li. lti-ad, Thomas D. IVarce. 3. Samuel J. Randall, Wiiiiam McMulIin. 4. W. V. McGrath, Henrv Donahuo. John Fullerton, Frederick Gerker. R. R. M maghm, J. R. Rhodes. Goorge It.ss, James 15. Gotwald. Amos f5. Wanner, Evan Mishlar. W. Hayes Griev, J. b. Steinmetz. G. . 9. 10. William Mutchler, Thos. 15. Metzgar, 11. Vi. 1.-5. 11. 15. 10. David Jjowenburg. A. C. Hrodhead. ir. ITendriek B. Wiight. James Corbelt. D. E. Nice. W. M. Ramsev. Ceorgo W. Ryan, Georgo II. Spang. R. A. Packer, W. II. Dimmick. John B. Beck, George D. Jackson. 17. R. Ij. Ji.hntson, E. L. Kerr. 18. Dr. A. J. Fisher, John A. Magee. 10. F. E. Beltzhoover, Thomas Hoover. 20. A.-C. Noves, Thomas 7d. Uttlov. 21- Charles E. Boyle, Alexander Patton, 2" Anthony F. healing, W. J. Brennan. a lexanrier i. Gochraiie. lanthus Beutly jN. Liee. A. Stracham 07 I,.hmt T. t 1?,.,.. ti., . A contest is spoken of in this district. Natation as a Science. President Thomas A. Scott, of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, granted tho use of tho old Navy Yard to Paul Roy ton. the cele brated aquarian who successfully crossed the English Channel, f.ir Iwn.hiva lVli.M. day and Thursday of this week, in order that ho might give thereon morning and afternoon exhibitions of his skill for tho benefit of the Centennial Fund. There is room for ten thousand spectators, and so the four exhibit'OTis gave a very largo num ber of people an opportunity to amuse themselves and bo patriotic at the same time. Rcyton illustrated tho different methods of locomotion in tho water, show ing how one can go agaiust a sea fr with it. He rigged himself like a sloop, his body tho hull, and then set a mainsail, ga!T top sail and jib, twenty-two feet of canvass iu all. After showing how a person in one of these dresses can signal with flags, ho illustrated how he sent dispatches in the English Channel. Then, from floating de bris supposed to como from a wreck, he J constructed a solid raft. One of the most t ion of how a line can bo carried to? . . .... interesting 01 ins leais was 11 is exempiilica- wreck. Mr. Boyton sails direct for Russia tho week after next, he having accepted liberal offer from the Czar to drill tho coastguard, which is going to be entirely equipped with suits similar to that worn by Boyton. . A Pigmy Gravevaud ix Tennessee. An ancient graveyard of vast proportions has been found in Coffee ronniv ft ; similar to those found in Whitecounty and other places in Middlo Tennessee, but. vastly more extensive, and shows that the race 01 pygmies wno once inhabited this country were very numerous. The writer of the letter sAys : "ome considerable ex citeineiit and curiosity took place a few days since, near IHU.sboro, Coffee county. T . l..., r . f on ,f,nic.-t jjiKvwi larm. a man ploughing in a field which has been culti was vaiea many years, and ploughed up a man's skull and other bones. After mak- ,nfT lurlher examination they found that l,,ere were auour six acres in the graveyard, T',e7 were buried in a sitting or standing rosil'on Tho bones show that they wero a dwarf tribe of people, about three feet h'gh. It is estimated that thero wero about 75,000 to 100, 000 buried thero. This fil,ows tlia' tllls country was Inhabited hundreds of years ago. Woodbury (Tenn.) The Republican Stato convention met at ITariisburj; on Wednesday last, but up to tho timo of ,going to press Thursday af ternoon wo have beard nothing of its do bigs, except that W. II. Koontz, of Somor set,Vas elected temporary chairman, D. J. Morrell, of Johnstown, was chosen as one of tho electors, nnd John Cossna, of Bed "Xoted as lenVcsctative Cincinnati convention wi ford, and Ed. Scull, or Somerset, were oeiegates to tho ith instructions to vote fr Gov. Ilaitrauft for President. iSc and Other JS'odnrfs. The richest lead mines ever found in this country havo just been discovered near Baxter Spriugs, Kansas. A Rochester woman picked out of her knee tlie other day a needle that she sat down on twenty-five years ago. X company of 1kj-s is ht-ing drilled at Pittsburg for tho centennial, the hole to be handsomely uniformed and equipped. A man at Goshen, Ind., has made a chair in which he claims that, he has used one hundred aud three dilfuient kinds of wood. Two miners, named Kelly and Kilcnl lin, were killed in a colliery at derail ton on Saturday, by the falling of part of the roof of the mine. Mr. Charles Lewis, of Colchester, Conn., died on the 18th inst., at. the age of S i years. lie left a wife and a child only two weeks old. A baby weighing nineteen and a half pounds was born at Roono, low a. the .t her day. And tho girls already hail hitn as a Boone companion. ' Federal troops have lately made their appearance in several counties in Mississip pi. It is not known what too object of the movement may bo. What is to be done with Orvil Grant, the trading post broker, and his brother Ulysses who informed him whenever there was a trading post to sell ? Tho well known hymn, "Rock of Ages," was written 100 years ago this month, in March, 1770. Its author waa Augustus Montague Toplady. "V,1 fn! if Cfi iJ iTln ii oItaire said: 'The more married men yon have the fewer crimes Ihere wiil be." But tho Covrier-.Jonrnal doubts whether Voltaire ever heard of Belknap. A fat doe was discovered in Lake Erie recently floating on a cake of ice twelve feet square, two miles from the shore. Two men rowed out to her ar.il strangled her. There were three republican converr tions March 2!)th. Pennsylvania. Ohio and Vermont radicals met together to openly endorse ana inly curso tho (Jrani-Belknap dynasty. At the recent election inTexas the Re publicans succeeded in electing but or.o out of twenty six district judges, and but three out of thirty tenatois, one of whom is a negro, A couple were recently married nt Wayncsboio', this State, the bi ido boim? seventy-five years old and the crooni seven- ) ty one. Beth had previously beeu Fiugle j all their lives. j The deed to a Bucks county man's I farm w as executed in the "fifth year of the j reigh of Wiiiiam and Mary, King and ' Queen of England," or in IGj". 1 he faim i is in England. i A tire was recently cut near Sweet- ' water, Tenn., which yielded 2. 100 three- ! feet boards, 3,-I.rr2 two-feet boards, OSG ten- ', feet rails, 172 six fee t rails, and six cords'1 of Kindling wood. j The glass ri,me of the Centennial art I gallery will bo lighted by 2,000 gns fets. The d ome is '0( feet above the level of the i Schuylkill, and will be visible at night ail j over Philadelphia. The lost-cs by recent floods in Clinton, I Mass., nre estimated at $350,000 ; Norwich, Conn., $12--.000 ; in Spragne, Conn.. 10O.- j 000 ; in Versailles, Conn., $50,000," and j lanielsvnle, Conn., s?i,Of)0. A st ranpe man recently died inViennrs. Tie conducted an eating house, wailing per sonally upon his customers, and yet he collected n library of 21,000 volumes, many of them editions of rare value. A hunter shot a wild tnrkey near Nashville, the other day, ami when he went to pick it up. found lying near it a half-decayed pair of saddle bags, in which were ?3J,0U0 in gold and bonds. The late storm is said to be the most severe one known ii: Kansas for ten years. The snow is so deep that travel is interrup ted in every direction, and heavy fluids may bo anticipated when it melts." Imagine how the lacteal of human kindness curdled in the bosom of a Sha mokin (Pa.) man, tho other day, when he opened a box spnt him by express and found therein a hundred dead mice. A five in Pittsburgh, late on Saturday night, destroyed the whole block on Penn sylvania avenue, between Tenth and Elev enth streets. The loss is about $100,000. Robert Miller, a fireman, was killed by a falling wall. Robert Williams, "an old white man." slole a mackerel worth sixteen cent in Richmond, the other day, and received as punishment six lashes and ono hour's im prisonment. Tho confinement cost tho Stato ninety cents. T ho gentleman of New Haven, Conn., who recently found a draft on a Boston bank f..r $1,500. and informed tho bank, received the thanks of the owner and two three cent stamps, ono or which he used in sending back the draft. Tho Lock Haven, Pa., RepvUirnn says that marble has been discovered at Heck ley, Centre county, said to be equal to tho finest Italian marble. It possesses a beau tiful bronze surface, and it is susccptiblo of an extraordinary polish. A peculiar brido in La Porte, Ind., was attired in a brown silk dress, a pilded crown upon her head, surmounted by a bridal wreath, a white lace veil sweeping the ground ; the bridesmaid in blue silk? and the groom in pnre white. The town of Bloom inpton. III., ij in danger of being overcrowded by tax-burdened citizens, as soon as' it becomes gen erally known that the assets of that town amount to $200,000 more than its liabilities, and the taxes are beautifully small. Saturday evening Mrs. Mary Welsh and her two children, residing in Colum bia, fell through the railroad bridgo span ning Paxlon creek, at tho lower end of Ilanisburg. Tho youngest child, aed about 9 years, was drowned. The otlPers were rescued. While Wm. ITaggan, his wife and four children were crossing a bridgo across Bi Sandy Creek, three miles front Winchester Ills., on Saturday, the wagon ran off the end of tho bridge, which was covered with water. Mrs. Haggan and three children were drowned. William Kchrall is the name of the man whostaited from Denver last Janutry in a light spring wagon, drawn by two horse to go to the Centennial. lie passed through St. Joseph, Mo., last week. II0 drive slowly, "so as to get a good look at the country," ho says. ooT'VIviCxf' rcreived in London on the J?th from India report that tho Kteamshin Jowjirt was wrecked in Iho Arabian sea. with about five hundred pilgrims, chiefly 1 crsiaus, on board, bound to Bnshire. 1 lireo men, supposed to bo tho only sur vivors, have reached Ilodeida. During a severe storm on Tuesday night, a frame building on tho outskirts of ijiooklyn, N. Y., occupied by a colored family, "was blown down, and the wlfo, about to givo birth to a child, and a littlo boy wrre killed. The husband, with another child, were badly injnrod. The Juniata iron works, in Porter township, Huntingdon county, havo ceased operations on account of tho hon.i.. of the Pennsylvania canal west of Peters-1 H,,u me destruction of all hcks. ?;,on'rSe po,tion of Uie lino b the - pany. lh. works were erected in 1837. lorty miners left Scranton, Pa , on Monday, for the Black Hills. They wero accompanied to the depot by a brass band. and rhiti.. r7. , . . ' . yidod w h." "WJ " l"" ?ev P.'0" I , . ....t, aiiiiiiuiiiiiuii ana mining' implements, and viae regularly officered. SO) i I s J Wc con niK-taiit e a xLiiverjciicn 'll'-jutCaf: Iir.'l. i.-i tt?n.l.ii.'t-.V! tho srt-a!:Ts : YiHf'-r. " Whet -rnrrr rs he V.u: linar on?" Atte'icnl. " .-ir.Ui-I-i t C""irr i.f ?,.Ji ip Variftt. I'!ere n n te y'Si'H, f r r?i.j t-.-ai:i;i-rs S'.-c'tinir IIitll.hA.e b.t-a v.:lt.i l-y ik-siiiinir jx r-H'iis.'' V. "It in 1 1 i -recti- coIokhJ ! P j-t.n know tta iiiinc.isiona ? ' A. " i J,i.-0 Rq n fire fcf e-i ?Tr.-s-f tr 1 mi l .n Pixtti, f'x ir.i-ioj . rv.-r luroe ucre i-Vt!vj: Cii-I CK-i-up'cl ly "irc,Iiiu twenty ciLVjcUI l ut- ECS 1.1l-C..". V. " i j ycu use ytenm-pov. err" A. " A Mont youi.n ti.,r.i;e furn!.--hr n-or f r tlia frotblit pu.-,eiwc-rei.-.-t"i.-. 4.1. i n.o l.oilcr.s t-U'iua T.r h..-;uii,fe-, uu.i tiic oli.-c .i.;.-a.-tiaiis of t.':e h- iiM-." V. " Wli.it oiiii r io vou taV will. jriw-T A. "llityarc iir-t y&l uik I arrunt-. i in liie Dnseineni,m Mutfl-A.- enuntcrs. ti.-l fienceon l.'io Icvu'.r to luc tor'b nom ou t!:t-! f f.o T." V. " li iinj-eciintf'Oif t rsi eperntion 7" A. "No. nr. UKc-Uii.iif. 'I he kkji.v rrr f,-t laeR.-?-.ireil in tiie picie, ti:e;i iiicliui. i;.o r;o;h paFs- ovvr n-lK-i s ia t;e ia- o or u ft.-... .' light, aiii two men n't, o:.o tv-.-Ti rv o:.a i . J L'!i!i.'l tlie kooOs, w:Uet;!p- nhti ti c -.- f hawk f.r tho lex-' p.i:-h(,ic-ini; , . . inaimin) I'.IW, S J inf.! 71H! 1 U(.: - p I.- tu 1 n,v.;.l it wiieu he couta t-j tin t.u r.er:ts." V. Yon rar:t mpliv rn trV 1 f ru;: A. "t'Oiiif? l. .i.r l,ili Ti... k..,. .r- H'5 r.:i tho t'rv rrif; u; i :,v , r. .t., ' -'!t mai-L;.-s lu:.it i i:.u can.ieiii. V .. .. J"" xiii.uu.uoiure u.u jotir cn.i A. "We p.n.1 r.lTt rcr.il"'-. r.'rrr ri a.mnfri Inflect tviry t,t.--ii tu .1 fc.v' : I frX-to cvi-iy p.tni:-t,t as txtrn-v.l i . before we j.-u cur Uc.a on it, an t be. tuo re-pt.ni.iblo i..r it.'" It ts it fn.l teon-.n.y we prii tii-ouli ,'eia II HI rilUMos 115 t-. TAlt i.l..- V-'f In r. ,;-.!. Pe.-Ile ti we (!..' OfVit""Ai"'ril''l'e('tinZt3"e y:,rk wLfttltaf-a A. " ly-fcp it $:;- ft'-k O j ni-:;ie r-M:-ei.t J:: i-jt C)l.ir p jiii u .ie.; on it. il i t L. V .'.'1 ..A . 1 ... . m ' '." e b') k - ' "- wiuiuui ia.1, up, a V. " Ymi inut have CO t r 0 vtr , A. "Wi:y sir..,;, L-isr l!.vsvu,..'. fn the TWicu r...oi.i9 and sCw s ..T, hf t t .o ti.rt,i.s of i-uib.Uf-..- t I'.'O T.:a:l A. - erj sr.t. All crer C.e c ' ! u-tr -. Congress costs tho country at tlie rate -f f 40,0t.K) a day, and there is a piospcct that the presort session rsi:i extend thi i.Ti.-h Ihe snnimer and iate into tlie f-:i. 1 hair a'c now before the various cimnittcs of the lIfnso about ",i.')0 bills, and though tho session is rh'-eady f ;ir niontlis along f.nly forty five or fifty bills have been :;ctcd"upon. On Saturday two little daughters of .Ti-hti Call ver, ofS'ork, were ten il.lv Imi nc.T. ono fatally. "hile they we;e fitting on the floor, iho elder putting s!o kit -Tand shoes on the younger, a col (f f?re'"fell on the lattr- 's clothing. Her sifter tiiid to f-xtinguUh ll.e liie. and in donis; p- serh-uiy burned. The younger child died next dav. Michael Edward, Sr., thc-olde-t ma i in the United Stotts wish a recoid. d;c.l March 2?lh, at Iiis iesider.ee in Monnd villc, V. Va., a?ed ICS vents, 7 months avd 'i days. The deceased was a member of Laurel S. F. E. company, X. 1, of York, i a., arii was t.'ie oldest Hicmatt living. i he bell of tl.c company was tailed upon the ariiour.cempr.t of bis !.ith. A girl in IJicI.moiid on Sunday last re eited the whole or tho Psalms and pait of Eeclrsi.istrs, 4.000 verses in a!I,.wbich .she . had cnnniiitf d duiins: t!p n e ek j if vions. The Sunday before she n ci'ed .(i ' vrst comprising tho Epistles to the Romans! Gnlaliaus. Phillipians. a-i.-I one or tw.i others. She i ?nnd to Inv th" pi i-e, tut is more likely to have a b:a:;i fever."" .Mis. Mary Abbott, of Sn-.vrna. D l., has Wen loj a blM-hing bride t" the a!t.?r seven limes. She has f-een Mi Williams, Mis. Tranx, Mis. l anow, li. H, r.' Mrs. Wallace, Mrs. Herry, Mrs. Pratt, nnd now Mrs. Abbott, and has m i-iied a wid ower every time but once, r.e.l has reared numerous step children f.r nerval ions hus bands, but has never bad ehiidren cf her own. This from Wednesday's Pliiui'Ti-bir Times: Tho Pi esident's wife's brofer's wife's sister's husband is I part'cdir men. ber of the family w ho tin ned up es '. tetday in connect with the p.vt traor ship business and hr appears to have been as succepsfr.l ps tho nearer relatives. Ibuv Orar.t must wish by this time that he an I ' his Ti.ro had been born orphans an I foundlings. j --Fi iday afternoon f!,. sfamer Labrador i anived from Fraee. b: inuing a e:i po com- ' posed entirely of worksofarf for the Fic-ch Iei.artmcnt of the Centennial Exposition. 1 ho Labrador is probnbl v t !. largest ves--l ' that, ever et.tered the port of Philadelphia ! Tho steamer Donate, fr.mi Hi, J.-.-r: ; bunging go-ds for the Exhibition i:, the ' Lrazihan depai tmci-.t, abo arrived tho same afternoon. During a ntronc north wind at Virginia ' City, after sunset tho other evenin." the summit of the monl tain presented i very 1 smcular and beantir-.d appearaneo, the ar currents whirling about the peak raisin" i high into tho air a Jong spiral streamer snow, which, being lighted up bv the rays j of tho sun, had the appeaianeeof a column ! of fire, making it ditlicult to believe that I the mountain was not in a state of chip- ' tion. 1 j ICelly, who was indicted with Dovls ! and Ivenigan, at Mauch Chunk, f .r the ! mnrdcr of a mine boss r.t Summit Hill, was ' Tut on trial laH Tuesday. Doyle was eon- j v.cted, an.l is to b.j hanged May 4 ; Ken i- ! gan has made a full confession and there ! would seem to bo no possible way of escape i for belly. His counsel, it is said. wV.l move for a chango of venue, the evidence 1 ill too Diivio pntft i . i im, having been published in detail Ilefcrring to tho fact that tho bands of music in the great St. Patrick's parade , imo passing the hipi.. . drome in which Moody was preaching ti e ; k 0berr (I'rrsbvterianWavs: ' -This was an act of Christian courtesy I winch deserves to be acknowledged to tho : credit of iho Roman Catholic peo, lo wi, i would not, even in their fubilaut festival I knowingly annoy their Protestant fellow : citizens in their solemn religious worship." t yi10 tniigrant ship Rtrathmon, frort London for New Zealand, struck the rocks among U,o Crozet groupo of islands S.tnth ' I acihc, on the first of July at half past f.nr I in the moriiinrr. an.l iv-: . , i wrecked. Forty-four persons were ilro-.vn. ed. Iho survivors saved" nothing what ever and wero upon Iho rocks for sit months, subsisting on sea birds and tl.ir eggs v hen they wero rescued they were i much emaciated, end almost naked. Five ! had toed fiom exposure and want. Tho 1 ,' l,H.1" ie American whaler; Youn 1 henix, rescued them and supplied theiu with great kindness. . ; Lon,,on letter, ppcaking of a recent terrible railroad calamity t III. Fiance, caused by tho breaking of a bridge-, owinrr to a heavy tain storm, says the caniages f ed on top of each other, and immediately josappeaied in theiiyer, whero they were broken up by the strengih of the stream. I lioso of the travellers who were not, killed by the fall were unable to escape from tho wagous in which they wero imprisoned, ami they wero cat fieri down the liver until they were dashed to pieces against tho locks, or slowly drowned, Over thirty unties nave already been recovered, bat tins, uiifoi tnnitely. rfoes not reenrcscut all j ston prevented the - tho victbns of the accident.' 1 cited. n r s 0 ti i l-lf i J r g . j 2 lJt l:i 3 5 A. "ITy o. 4 ri, v.. ,. i . - .i in th v " t -. ' i i : -' A. : ' u.-pf. 1 : ... .. . -'. ', ' r.T-ly-r..-....- ' -.J' Ti e : :.-! :y . ; ;.' : .- rr vi- j r.-., ... l-.i.-sr l L-i ;-. ..'. , , ' ir t -. ; ,;ri. i .: .-; t . ; .... ; i ,. . . T --l....rt... - . . I I -! I r.-r , j . ' j- V.-".l;l. ' (l-da:! r-.:-fr.-;f 1 ."T.r,-.,..:i. , ... , t e.:-.:i. ) .L ' -, i . lit. j '..c ( u ... . . Iu 1 I: . f--TS f..:t, ,'. ;.' J .' 'i :r r ., 1U : k::: -. - -".V. t 1 m h i , r - t . i .' ij .-.I - ' ; i"i.t ;.u-..,-a . 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'-'' cotntnittee on i:'v:.! ;:' Acrnani whi.V r- ' some years r. . ' r' into a riiii.' To.- i.' '" ' neetiott with ; snrpiise iwn'n; tic f Aernani, who v s'.y an undonbte.l n ; -i' i' v"1 ' committee will c :; B' tho subject of the ri-y? were at that tii;;e " additional tes'im y. TEMPT ToEoB A I;ANK. bnr ui?iteh t i t!ic f..-1 ti.t,' d ile l M.i'. 'i -sersinitli. c.oi. er 'f t Charnhei siei! :. n ,:"!-- ' last ns-ht bv ;- . . bed of ? ' ,. 1 be -the bank t aoo .::" lUlston, ! v ;! ' last May wild a. : valid brother. P:v:' 2 ed a Iwi whii'i f.i valuable attU-'. ' '"i . .. pnnv with a n-;,;i n't '. of Pittsbuuii. ho ' that he waisictl h , v . .. to leave for a f v ti-y? . The oHieer aco-'H'i-;;. the bank, a-T. .iftir I.-,-;,: to deliver the t '- y ''j i at violently sesi . . pcrate stieii.'.i''. V-' appro.! i.ite.l ah-":t ' -jt the otttsid:'. whr:c ' removed the '" nln ii' 1 II t lie li"1 '.' S!. fell down ihe s-r" : ami before ho C ' n.'j! gro seized hi"- ,KlVi assistance anm'tf- . Thirty tlieus;:. I "f,, was found ia 1"' 'v r: was armed ul' ',T'J.'.' v--i able to se th :. : a horse, and cc--. j stolen money. 1 i ' t w een the h:ci "!" . 1 ,v...... n-aii't'd "e r'
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