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EDENSDURC, PA.,
Fviky Morning, - - Nov. 21, IS7G.
fit ill on the IZittjrjcd llxhje
What manner of man cx-Cov. Wells,
the head nflhi' Louisiana Returning Board,
is we can discover wit limit acceiting tlie
descriptions given of him by Democratic
coi respondents. There is an official por
trait, on (ile which ans.vors every pnrose,
and the aitbt is Geo, 1 Jloar, the distin
guished Republican of Massachusetts.
The "Louisiana outrage," as ft is called,
though it is hut one of the many to which
that unhappy State has been sibjected,
was the marching of United Stj-tes troops
into the Louisiana Legislature in 18 To in
order to prevent certain members from
tiiking their seats in that body. The or
der was given by Kellogg, and the whole
proceedings were sustained by Federal
Another week has passed, and up to this
(Wednesday) nf'cnn on the question is still
ltndctf rmincd who ia the locally and con
st itutiona'ly elected President of the United
States. That Samuel .1. Tilden, as we sta
ted last week, received by the admitted re-
turns 184 electoral votes, is conceded by
e nirnim consent. Tilden therefore only
f.iTls one voto bilow the necessary !
lmmber for a choice. Hayes, the Rennb- j
liean candidate, received ICG votes, or just i
13 votes Its than a:e required to elect. j
There isnodisputc about there facts. The
vote of t lie three Prates of Florida, South :
Carolina and Louisiana is jet to be finally '.
determined Lythat imomlay in ascertaining
tho true and honest vote of a State, called
nml well and infamously known as a lie- !
turning Hoard. One week ago yesterday pays this about.
Gov. Hayes, in a speech in Columbus to a count in Gov. Hayes :
serenading party, admitted his defeat, and
ImiIIi parlies throughout the whole country
fnnvMa!tic to Oregon believed and Raid
the Fame thing.
It was well known on last Friday in
Washington by Grant and his cabinet that
in order to defeat Tilden, who had a ma
jority of the popnhir vote of more than
three hundred and fifty thousand, it was a
political necessity to deliberately cheat him
out of one of the three States mentioned,
and by that process elect Hayes by giving
him all of them. Giant ordered troops to
bo sent to Tallahassee, the capital of Flor
ida, where the returning boar d of the St.itc
meets. Troops were also despatched to
Columbia, South Carolina, and to Xew
Orleans. In all this military business
Giant said and Mill says that his purposo
was to preserve tho peaco while tho return
ing boards werclin session counting returns.
It. ni-iT hp. ns tho pw Voile World savs.
. i i . c-i ! explanation on this point, I
that Grant in his m.htary order to Sherman Tie atli(Uvi, was ,ll4,.,, ,
Who Can Afford li?
i Under the above cart ion Col. A. K. 31c-
Clnre, the fearless and able editor of the
' Philadelphia Time, an Independent Re- .
publican journal which is admitted on all
, hands to b one of the best edited and best j
conducted papeis in the country, very j
! plainly deleniates the disastrous effects of a j
: false and fraud u lent count of the votes ;
polled in either or all of tho States now in
dispute. Col. McCIure says : j
! It seems impossible for the nation to es
' cape the fal.se and fraudulent return, under :
' color ot corruptly conceived, enacted and
' executed law, of Rntherfoid 15. Hayes as j
President elect. Chandler and Cameron !
ire in accord wun ie iza anu i acK.tio,
CVn Thetj Afford It?
The Xew Yoik Herald, an independent
paper which as it s-.iys bears allegiance to
neither party, in its issue of Saturday last
concludes an able and exhaustive review of
'he political situation in the following tcise,
truthful and temperate teims :
Under these circumstances we repeat
:Vcry and. Of iter Jyolinys.
Union, Ky., Its a child with a peifcct
ly fotmcd foot wheie a h ind ouj-ht to I.e.
In ft French family who woik at. a
mill in S!ateivil!e, R. I., there are four
pairs of twins.
Mr. Franklin Steltz, of Pottstown, has
a double barreled fowling piece whish has
been in his family lor 110 years.
In Trenton, IN. .1., is a stallion nam ect
... , t . 1 I III A
that, the Kepuoucan leaders cannot auo.u : .. AlIieHca. pixteen bands hiuh, "hose
to count in itifveiuur ji-jes wl. .oul . j? p( av that u toh.s tl.e ground
precautions about the count as shall abso- ; holds'his head well up.
lutely set at rest all doubt upon the sub- ; Tlie Thunder Bti Suiting La!ce Su-
ject. They cannot afto.d it, uecause to go t -11IIIlllcestliedr..wiiii. of a young
with the shadow of the law, while its snb-
". . ., iT i i stance perishes before the mastery of wrong,
i .po,t given to the Kepub- Wj cj;n Rffi)rfl u?
Mr. Hoar on the legality of Cnn Hutherford B. Hayes afford it ? He
w ho have been condemned and spurned by
authority, a member of the Cabinet tele-f ji,e highest Hepublicnn councils of the
mnil.i.or i:ni Sheriihin that all of tlicru , conniry, ana uio i resioeiu, win op conieni
'.idmiovcu" his course. An investigation
was made and a
lican House by Mr. Hoar on the legality of c'an Hutherford B. Hay
the elect ion of certain members who bad is esteemed an honest man. In all the
lK.cn returned as elected by tho Returning heat .and bitterness or the conflict his in
, , , . . .. . tenly was not successfully assailed.
Hoard, and whose claim to the seats of the , A ( ,ljs mort enec,ive champions were
lightfully decided members the. soldiers j tinf.p w!,0 believed and taught that he
had been called in to enforce. Mr. Jloar i would mike a better and purer administra-
n. ,l.o nrnn,P. to , tion. and Wicie were reus 01 uiousanus wno
. 1 f .;tK nill.A. lwk.-.i
VOieil IOI JIIJ'I I' ll" cillici oiii'iij; ri ill .i I
tating trust in J-8 sincere devotion to the
right. Not one nf all such of his support
ers will for a innniiiH sanction his accept
ance of the highest i.onor of a fiee people,
The parish of Kapides chose three mem-
I hers of ihe Li-gi.slature ; the. returns eleeted
a!l three comservati ves, and when the proofs
i i i . i .. a : . . I i . ir v2
Knonrvisor show.-.l that tho election was ill "hen it is borne to him, s it must be, by
i nil fuc i .4.t a f'lill fiir tinil Vr It uatl tint. 1 a monstrous iiollntion of Ihe badot, and a
meant what he said, a fiir count of tho re
turns, or it mny have been a deliberate
purpose on his part to ov-rawe the solemn
verdict rendered throuirii tho ballot boxes
in Louisiana and Florida. Tho Louisiana
returning board met on Monday in New
Orleans for the purposo of counting there
turns of the election in tho diflerent par
ishes of that State. The hoard is composed
of J. Mad iou ells, Giant's Surveor of
tho Port of X. Orleans, Anderson, and two
negroes, Casanave and I-Icnticr, all radicals.
Well is a man of infimoris political repu
tation, and lifts been denounced on foimer
occasions for his corrupt practices ns a
member of this same returning hoard, even
by Gen. Sheridan, the right bower and mil
itary satrap of General Grant in Louisiana
and every place else wherever Grant orders
him to execute his unlawful military de
crees. Tho board decided by resolution o
allow a committee of Jive of each political
party from the North to appear before them
anil witness the opening and counting of
the returns. This business is now going on
in New Orleans and it will lake some days
yet to definitely detetmine the true and
honest vote of that State. No honest man
of either partv doubts or denies thai the
vote of Louisiana was cast for Tilden by at !
least 8.000 m.ijoiity. Henco we ask, can
the honest voters of that State be cheated
this returning boa id out of their votes, or
can the Democracy of Florida, who voted
for Drew for Governor and Tilden for
President, bo cheated and disfranchised by
the returning board of said state?
Of South Carolina we speak elsewhere.
It will take some days yet to ascertain the
actual result there, but in the meantime let
prudence and good sense control the feel
ings of the people, and he result, as final
ly determined, will vindicate the right of
the majoiity to rulo and that their sover
eign voice must and shall bo obeyed.
P. S. The latest and most encouraging
reports to-day (Thursday) point clearly to
the fact that Florida and Louisiana will
have to be counted by the respective re
turning boards as a clear majority of tho
people'of those States decided at tho polls I
in favor of Tilden and Heform. We believe j
moreover, fiom the very latest dispatches j
icceived fiorn the two States named, that j
the conspiracy to defraud Tilden out of his
election and to fiandu'ently count in Hayes,
will meet with miserable failuro, and that
the overwhelming verdict of the jieoplc of
the Union in favor of the election of Sam
uel J. Tilden will bo peaceably submitted
to as the clearly expressed wish of the na
tion. If "the Cambria county editors who
spend the larger portion of their time in
denouncing each other as everything that
is evil are," as the Standard avers, "a
sweet, scented lot to instruct the Demjcrats
of Hlair county as to their duty," w hat
kind of a scent was it that lingered around
the editor of the Tyrone Democrat when lie
indited tho following exceedingly pointod
and unmistakably personal paragraph In
reference to the very question at issue?
Hy the lat Standard wo have the reason
why its editor so frequently finds its neces
sary to voto for a Kepiihliean candidate for
S'a"t Senator "unpopular and unworthy
candidates" on the Democratic ticket.
Strange indeed that trrry Senatorial nomi
Mti.in made h.r the Democracy against Col.
Ijemon should twi no "unpopular and tin
worthy" as to fall under the displeasure of
the editor of the Standard and compel him,
on high moral prinriplr, to vote for Colonel
Jenion. However, we trust it was not nee
;sary i his year, as it was las, for Col. Lem'n
to seduce the. Kepulilican window-book man
away front his post that the editor of the
Standard mihl K"1 hi vote in without chal
lenge for non-payment of taxes.
known in the parish that ativ content existed
against these members. They left their
homes and proceeded to New Orleans to be
present at the opeuingof the Legislature, no
intimation of contesting their seats or ob
jection to their election having leeu given
ly their opponents. At one of their last
sessions the lletmning Hoard declared all
the Republican members eleeted from that
parish, ll'.ert the papers of the lietttrniiiff
Jtonrd trere produced before your rotmnittee
there was found aiaon; them an affidai it ly M r.
WEI.l.S, the I'rexident of the Jtaard, dtxlariny
Iml intimidation had esixted ut certain polls
in that parixt, and that the returns from those
polls should therefore be rejected. The counsel
of the Democratic. Committee testified that
they had no opportunity to contradict the
statements of ibis paper; that they had
never seen or heard of it before, and that
upon examination of the papers before the
Hoard, when the proofs closed, it. was not
among them. The counsel of the Kepulili
can Committee reserved the right to make
lint ottered none.
day of De
cern!, lt74. It appeared that Governor
Wells was not himself In the parish on the
day of election, and though, at the opening
of their ttrst session, your committee de
clared their intention to examine into :he
action of tho Ketnrning Hoard, Governor
Wells never came forward as a witness. At
revolutionary defiance of tu popular will
; of iii.s countrymen. It is poss;b'e that be
I miirht thus reach the President" v, but it
l would be only to meet with the suli.'i ube
I dienco of a great people, until they fan
stamp their terrible execrations upon Jus
conscious usurpation of their noblest au
thority Can Republicanism afford it? It has
written the brightest annals in the history
of man's best dibits for man. It taught
the Republic its grandest duties when the
conflict came for the triumph of liberty or
bondage, and it presented to the world the
sublimest picture of the patriotism of a
free people. It could have ruled, from
generation to generation, tho country that
was disenthralled under its government,
and none would have been more sincerely
its friends and partisans than both races of
the now desolated and chaotic South. Hut
it bowed to mean ambition and to the hun
ger of tho spo'"ler ; its garlands have farted
under the blight of the wrong-doer, and its
columns are beslimcd by the track of the
crawling jobber. It has had lino upon line
of earnest admonition, but it has followed
its corrupt pretendeis, and discarded its
faithful friends because they were just. Its
majority in tho Northern States, which
the close of our nroi ceding, leave was asked j gave it birth and victory, is now over half
I . , - i -i.: -. ; . .1.-. .: : . . fpi.: ! .... . . -
mar ins oejiosi i 1011 miut i.nivcu m. xiu
was declined, and Mr. Wells was himself
invited to appear before the committee. Hut
he never came. Leave was also given for
taking bis testimony by commission if lie,
desired, but was not availed of. Your ota
iiiiHee are therefore constrained to declare that
tit action if the. Hctarninr float d, in rejecti'j
th'te f turns in the jutri-s'i of Hupidcs and ;ir.
in; the s"ntx for that parish to the J,''-nddican
en n 'I 'i dates, v:as arbitrary, unfair and without
warrant of laic."
This is the man who still stands at tho
head of tho Returning Hoard of Louisiana, j
and now proposes to cast the electoral vote j
of that State for Hayes by throwing out j
votes hero and votes theie, and taking j
votes here and votes there, all in sufficient i
quantity to elect Hayes. It is interesting, !
therefore, to know just what Republicans I
like Geo. F. Hoar thought of him a year
and a half ago.
-0-
OrrrcrAL returns from six States all yet
I received which went for Grant in 1872,
; show sotne significant changes. Of these
Mainland and irginia went for Tilden,
giving him a total majoiity of 02.9 )o a
Democratic majority of 04,7'J4. Ohio, New
Hampshire, Illinois and South Carolina,
if the returns may be accepted as corrcet in
the last instance, went for Hayes and gave
h:m a majority over Tilden of 28,712 a
Republican loss of 121,15.1. Hero are the
figures as collated by the Phila. Timet :
Maryland inJ!K72 gave Grant a majority of
i.i votes, tint in the next year returned to the j
Democratic faith with a majority of 20,000. j
Last year Governor Carroll had ajma jorityof j
u.ir- "i a ioiai;vote. oi i.u.vmi, aii tins year
Tilden 's majority was P.i,7!Kt in a total Vote
of l(i.'5,7til. The atjgrecate Congressional
majority was 17, 3.Tt. This shows a gain of
seven per cent: in the Democratic, vote i
since last year, with a slight, decrease in the
Kepulilican vote. Compared with 1H72 the t
Democrat i." cain is thirty-four per cent, and !
the He publican, seventeen.
Virginia gave Grant a majority of 1.R14
hut elected Ivemoer Governor ill 1873 by 27,- j
2:;o majority. This year it gave Tilden a
majority of 43,10f. The Democratic vote in
creased fifty per cent, in four years ; the He- 1
publican votetwo percent. The Democratic :
Congressmen had an aggregate majority of
4 r.T i . i
Ohio gave Grant a majority of 37. 531, and ;
Hayes last year for Governor 5,54!t. This .
year his majority was 7,212, a gain of ti0!5 :
over Harnes' vote in a total of K."iti,7"7. The '
Democratic vote increased thirly-three per j
cent, over 1K72 and ten per cent, over last
year. The Kepulilican vote increased nine- j
teen per cent, over 1872 and eleven percent, 1
over last year. J
New Hampshire gave 5.743 majority to
Grant, but Governor Cheney had only 172
majority. This year Mayes had 3, (!)() major
ity. Tho Democrat in vote increased 25 per
cent, over 1S72, and fell of!2 per cent, from
1S75. The Kepulilican increased 10 percent,
over 1872 and 3 per cent, over 1S75.
South Carolina gave Grant a majority of
4! .r.87, anil Chamtierlain, in 1874. ll5Si.
This year Hayes has a majority of J74. The
Democratic vote has increased, since 1872,
310 per cent, and the Kepublieau 2"i per cent.
Comment on these figures seems superfluous.
In Illinois Hayes liana majority of 17,40(i
iuid a plurality of about 1,5(10. Grant Inula
majority of .r7,0Mi, and there has lieen no
vote since then which brought out the party
strength.
a million less than four years ajr.- and the
nation has entered a solemn judgment of
three hundred thon.sand majoiity agairst
its further abuse of po.ver. And it was
done for'a party'thal is not loved, but for a
leader who is trusted as better than his
party. Gladly would the country rctuin
to a regenerated Republicanism if a tem
poral. v Democratic triumph can effect such
regeneration ; but the party that violently
assumes power against the honest and law
ful expression of the people, mut welcome
death with victory. It will fill like the
Son of the Morning, to rise no more. Can
Republicanism a fiord thus to die?
Can capital and business afford it? Dis
trust in government is destruction to busi
ness, to credit, to prosperity. The violent
resistance to real or imaginary wrong may,
like the tempest, give a pure and whole
some atmosphere; but the subversion of
free government by palpable fraud, will be
like tho subtle poison that courses its way
to the vitals of the Republic. Kven the
color of law, behind which fraud may take
i refuge, will but deeper, anil widen the de-
spair of the people and teach to all thatthe
1 laws of the noblest government of the
I world are but the shield of lawlessness. It
will bo the accepted deliverance to man
kind that free government has perished
from the earth. Its form may linger for
years to c me, but its life, its inspiration,
its grandeur must wither upon its own
long worshiped but now desecrated altar.
It will end hope, progress, thrift ; it will
wound credit, close the markets of the
world against ns, and Hood us with the
millions of obligations for which, in our
better ani purer days, we have been trust
ed. The pall of doubt will hang over every
enterprise, and capital will seek safety by
withdrawal from the uncertain protection
of an uncertain government.
Can the nation afford it? It needs no
prophetic pen to foretell the early overthrow
of the present political domination of the
country, even with all the arbitrary power
it can wield for its protection against tho
popular will. And w hen overthrown, what
then? If usurpation is sanctioned now in
Louisiana and Floiida, who will gainsay
its exercise in Pennsylvania or New York
or Massachusetts when the next political
power is called to account by an outraged
people? If might, not right, is to be the
law of to day, who shall say it may not be
the law of Democracy in the future that
now inevitably belongs to it? If contempt
for justice in the execution of our laws shall
not be taught as a precedent for those who
shall reach power hereafter, what will be
left of free government that an honest peo
ple can worship or respect? Who will not
jMiint to the countless graves of our war
riors on the hillsides and in the valleys of
the South, as a weird reproach upon a pa
triotism that will not, in peace, maintain
the freedom that was rescin d in tho valley
of death ? Who can affoul it ?
We have frequently been asked t.ho
question whether the Legislature of this
State will Iks required to vote for a United
Stales Senator at its next session, which
commences on the first Tuesday in January
next. We answer that it will not that
Simon Cameron was elected Senator in
1873 and that his term w ill not expire until
the 4th of March, 1879. In tho meantime
Wit at Doks It Mean? Col. .Tas. F.
Millikeu has issued an order commanding
company commanders of the fifth regiment
to "at once" place their commands in such
condition as to be ready to march on short
notice. Company drills are to be held
three evenings each week. "Commands
not already supplied with cartridges will
send in their requisitions immediately."
In view of the present perilous and dis
tracted condition of the country, such an
order is incendiary and criminal. Its au
thor shows a lack of judgment and natriot-
I ism which should call dow n upon him the
censure of the public, as well as those in
authority. His resignation should be de
i manded at once. This is not the time to
i stir up angry passions, and yet Col. Millikeu
j flaunts in the face of our people his order
j commanding his troops to prepare for war.
J We say to Col. Milliken that he lias shown
j himself unworthy of his position and noth
j ing but his immediate resignation will
j satisfy the public. The country may be in
great oanger, but we hopo tho efforts of
so would outrage the sense of fair play and
honest dealing which lies at the bottom of
the American character ; because the un
certainty and doubt iceultiug from a well
founded suspicion of wrong wouid make
themselves felt in the most tfcplorablo de
pression of business ; in a shock to national
and private credit ; in the depreciation of
our bonds ; in the sending home of Ameri
can securities; in a general feeling of in
security, whicli would send gold into the
fifties or higher; would paraiyze industry
and trade; would cause thousands of busi
ness failu.es, and would, in fact, bankrupt
the count ly.
Wo will grant everything to the Republi
can leaders ; grant that they observe every
particle of tho bad laws they have enacted
down there ; grant that they not only count
in Mr. Hayes, but carry the count through
Congress: grant that they actually install
Mr. Hayes in the White House ou ihe 4ili
of Match ; and, after all, if they have not
completely satisfied the intelligent public
opinion of the country that the count U
just and honest, nothing they can do will
give either content or security or perma
nence to the general interests of the coun
try. All industiies and commerce will be
struck with paralysis. No capitalist will
venture on enterprises; no merchant will
dare to lay in a slock of goods, because no
prudent consumer will buy more than he
needs from week to week ; no sensible man
will buy our bonds or hold them ; no manu
facturer will venture to produce beyond his
actual fash orders; ciedit between man
and mm ?U be gone ; the number of the
unemployed v'H increase tenfold ; poverty
and want wilt overwhelm the country.
Now, an administration producing such
effects upon the country, and producing
them by ihe mere fac: of its holding power,
could not hope to exis. beyond the next
election. All the causes which affect public
opinion and turn votes would co-operate to
sweep the Republican leaders in to disgrace
ful retirement. Their President would tind
himself, from the day he cnteMd the
White House, an object of suspicion and
dislike to the great majority of his feiiow
citizeiiS and an object of contemptuous
pity to his personal fiiends and political
allies. At the close of two years ho would
be faced by a Congress in which both houses
would be bis political opponents, sent there
by an indignant and suffering people
What is the use of a victoiy? To such
adventurers as Spencer, Chamberlain, Pack
aid, Kellogg, Riliott, Moses, Whippcr and
their allies in the South siuylhing whicli
will koeji them in power and plunder for
even another year w ill be satisfactory. Hut
there are honorable men among the Re
publican loaders of the. North. Can they
afford to sacrifice the ideas for which the'
have acted can they afford to sacrifice
themselves in such away? We believe
not.
The Chicago Tribune, the leading Re
publican paiicr of the Northwest, which
earnestly supported Hayes for President,
joins tho Spiiugtieid Iti publican-, another
journal of the same political stripe, in op
posing the contemplated fiaud iu Louisi
ana. It says :
"It will bo difficult for a northern man
of any party to understand how 2,000 voters
of one paity in a county can be so success
fully intimidated by 1,000 as to bo unable
to approach the polls, though the latter
were protected, or supposed to be, by the
United States supervisors. If the facts be
as stated, end we have tried to collate them
fairly from the statements of both sides,
Ihe Republicans of IiOtiisiana and the
country have to bear the consequences of
the panic which seems to have so stiicken
the colored voters in thepo five districts.
We look upon it as a calamity, because we
know of no legal remedy. The American
people will never engage in a civil war to
uphold the counting of votes never east or
olf'iied to bo cast, or to reject biwful votes
legally cast aud recoidcd on the poll lists."
"The term 'Bulldozers," which is so vari
ously printed in the New Orleans despatches
is the namn applied to an organization of
armed white men, whose ostensible business
it is to keep tho negroes from stealing the
cotton crop. On election day, however, the
Bulldozers" o gunning for negroes who
manifest a disposition to vote the Republi
can ticket." Tribune.
Quite the contrary. The term "Bull
dozers" was applied to emissaries sent out
by Kellogg and Packard to foment distur
bances between the whites and blacks,
with the hope of obtaining "outrage" ma
terial. It is true that the word was after
ward appropriated by the robber gang and
converted from its legitimate application.
II aving stolen about everything of value in
Louisiana, they could not even keep their
hands off tho worthless epithets of their
opponents. World.
The attendance at the Centennial Expo
sition as compared with international ex
hibitions of other countries shows the fol
low iug results :
Xo of iWinf. T)"Vi
Visitors. J'ccetjvs. 0pen
6,03!,i;3 2,530,000 141
5.102.330 040.500 200
6 211.103 2 3f0.000 171
10,000,000 2,N22.t32 210
7,2."i4,r87 2,000.000 1 8l
9,tt07,125 3.850,000 159
important fact in connection with
Yenr. riace.
1851 London..,
l8.Vi Paris
18f,2 London...
18K7 Paris
1K73 Vienna...
1876 Philad'a.
An
the above showing is the aggregate popula
tion within seven days' travel of the Centen
nial Exhibition does not exceed 4.1,000,000,
whilo tho aggregate population within
seven days' travel of either of the great ex
hibitions was not far short of 200.000,000.
there will be another election in this State,
that is in 187S, the result of which may put Patriots and the firmness of the people will
ouite a different aspect on th nti..., ,lf causo rne conspuaiors against ine oaiiot
Thf. next Legislature of this Slato will
gtand politically as follows :
Senato. lion sc. Total.
Republicans 31 120 IS I
Democrats. 19 1 J'H
12 39
Republican majority on joint ball.
t, 51.
Casanave is not the only knave, we re
gret to say, among the members of the
Louisiana returning board.
who will bo Simon Cameron's successor.
Time, wo hope, will make all things even
with Simon and bis son Don, Grant's new
Secretary of War.
The Sun thinks this theory of tho Grant
politicians that the President is not to be
chosen by tho American pcoplo at the polls
nor by their representatives assembled, but
by two whilo and two black rogues down
in Louisiana, with the President of the
Senate "acting in a ministerial capacity,"
ia hardly teuable.
to halt before they plungo the nation into
another civil war. But if it does come,
woe bo onto the men whose crime and in
solence have brought it about. llollidays
burg Standard.
The totals of receipts at the Centennial
Exhibition from all sources from May 10 to
November 10 may be stated approximately
as follows: From admission fees, $3,813,
124 ; from concessions, $290,000 ; from
pencentage or royalties, ? -JOo.OlO ; graud
total, $l,303,73o. The Chinese Govern
ment has presented to the United States
the general ethnological and industiial col
lection iu the Government building.
A erNoubAit phenomenon, frequently
met with in the Indian Ocean, tho real
cause of whicli has not yet been ascertained
is the existence off Malabar, aud in certain
spots along tho Coromandel coast, of vast
mud banks and of tracts of mud suspended
in the sea, wherein many kinds offish find
abundance of food, immunity from much
disturbance in the surrounding clement,
and a locality in which to breed. The ox
act cause of the existence of these largo
tracts of sea in which the mud thus remains
in solution, is a mystery; but at. any rate
the ocean is so smooth, that during even
the height of the southwest monsoon, ves
sels can run for Rhelter into their midst,
and once there, are as safe when inside a
breaker.
The body of Baron de Palm, an Austri
an nobleman who died in New York iu May
last, is to bo cremated in Dr. LeMoyne's
crematory at Washington, Pa., on the Oth
of next month. The body has been pre
served in an antiseptic powder, This will
, be tho second cremation iu the United
States. The first was that of Henry Lau-
' rens, of South Carolina, fifty years ao
Mr. L aureus succeeded John Hancock as
President of the Continental Congress.
Before he died he diiected his son to burn
' his body, upon pain of disinheritance, aud
I the bou liiially obeyed.
man named O'Neil from breaking through
the ice on the P.th of October last.
In the cast of Makowski, tried at
Pottsvillo last week for killing his wife,
the jury on Saturday brought in a verdict
of guilty of murder in the second degree.
Seventy-six years ago last Friday the
Capitol of these United States ws remov
ed from Philadelphia and Washington
made the seat of the national government.
A passenger train was thrown from the
track on the Iron Mountain railroad, near
Malvern, Mo., on Friday, by a broken rail.
Twenty-eight persons were injured, but
none killed.
Eight of the original thiiteen States
cast their votes for Samuel J. Tilden Con
necticut, Delaware, Georsia, Maryland,
New .Jersey, New York, North Carolina
and Virginia.
An Austin (Nc.) wife says she knows
of five husbands in that town who have
been made drunkards by the excitement of
the late political campaign, her own hus
band beinir one of the number.
Samuel McMnrnen and D. llolerin
were kilied on tho railroad near the Pan
handle Road house, in the eastern part of
Columbus, Ohio, on Friday night, by be
ing inn over by a freight train.
Charleston has seventeen representa
tives in the lower House of tho General
Assembly, Of the seventeen nominated by
the Republicans, fifteen are negroes, and
of tho fifteen only twelve can read and
write.
Sunday evening, ns Mr. J. B. Reese, of
Mineisville, Schuylkill county, a member
of the Welsh Cotigiegational church of
that place, was addressing the congrega
tion be fell dead. He was about 0 years
of age.
The oldest Catholic priests in the Uni
ted States are Father Keenati, of Lancaster
Pa.; Father McElroy, the .Tesuir, who was
Chaplain in the United States Army dur
ing the war, and Father Dotuinick Young,
the Dominican.
Senator James S. Rutan, of Reaver,
Secretary Quay's right bower, has been
appointed collector of customs at Pittsburg
in place of Steel, resigned. Rutan, backed
by Mackey, Eirett and Don Cameron, had
an easy victoiy.
William Rank, who has sat upon the
bono.'" of Lebanon county as Associate
Judge for more than thirty years, was re
elected ('i tho 7th by a complimentary
vote. .Tnd 'o Rank is the oUest ofiicial of l votes actually
his class in ,'o3 State.
The pai tici'larsof th.e recent hurricane
in the West Indit. show the. storm to have
been of nnprecedeiit. d violence. The de
struction of property or: land and sea was
very great. No less than f."rty-five vessels
where wholly or partially wj coked.
At Nelsou, Louisiana, a few gays ago.
a snake appeared bofotc a house, Mid the
inmates ran to kill it, but tho repln- crept
j Win. McEee hr'slieon pardoned by ti.o
I President P nd h'sfitie of .-x jo, Mi" I renin ij.
; McKco is the proprietor of tho '...'. h, ,t).
t.-eru' no .v spa per in St.. Lotii-i. am! it has
ecu anticipated that S'.e would be paidoii
! after the election as soon as the admin
istration could uivc its mind to "n-form
within the party." It willn -w hcinoiiitr
to let out of the penitentiary Altitintihim
Joyce.
! A curious case is related in Scott conn
; ty. The wife of James Maisei. of that
county, recently obtained a divorce from
i her bnband, apd lat week Matston, who
is only thii ty years of age. took consolation
J by marrying a lady named Craw foul, w ho
is only seventy-two. It is sup osrd that
Marstoti did this for love or spite, as the
' lady is not blessed with a great tieal of this
woi hi s good'?.
A paper balloon, twelve fert long and
ten feet in d iameter. and stoutly rouh d,
fell at noon on the 11th inst... in Skes fc
Simpson's ston quarry, a mile at.d a half
from Franklin, on the New. Jersey Midland
Rniiroad, Sussex rotioiy. marked as follows;
"Sent np by T. C, Brown S: Co.. 105
Cheapside street, London, E. C. The fin
der will please communicate at once with
the above firm."
At Yotmgstown, Ohio, on Thursday,
Chas. M. Sterling, who was at listed for
outraging and murdering Lizzie Giom
bachlcr last June was, after a lengthy ttial,
for the second time found guilty of murder
in the first decree. I he crime was almost
unparalleled, and tlsrc is now every pros ert
thas Sterling w ill pay the penalty of it with
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s.
his life. He has had two trials, and bot!
ended in his conviction.
Amos Helfricb, a lad of thiiteen, whose
parents live near Reading, went out to hunt
wild grapes on a recent Saturday afternoon.
1 le climbed a I i ce, but get t ing on a slip cry
limb he fell, and his bfly was caught so
tightly in the folks of the tiee that he was
unable to free himself. There he remained
until Monday m rnirij, forty hours, when
lie was found by accident, and neatly dead
from expos-ire. hunger, and thirst.
Capt. Collins, of tho Sheridan Guards
of Philipsburg, opposite Easton, has earn
ed for himself last ing infamy by deseiting
his wife and six children and eloping yiMi
a young girl named Lynch, who is only
about thirteen years old. Capt. Collins
was the leading spirit of the Sheridan
Guards and a member of the Board of Ed
ucation. The girl w as industi ious and was
employed as a seamsticss in Easton.
Dniingan Episcopal chinch entertain-
ment at Hill's Hall, Perry ville, Madison
county, N. Y.. Friday evcninj, the north
lient of the llo:.r gave way, precipitating
over fifty ladies and children ten or twelve
feet to the floor below. Mrs. II. L. Kceler
bad her right loir broken ; Mrs. John Cress !
and Mrs: David Wells wen- severely injured j
about the chest and body ; Mrs. Coi a i
Maines had her knee and anklo spiained. '
Others were painfully bruised. Mis. Cress
may not survive. j
The Springfield (III.) ..?j-n?snrpor-d j
Hayes and wanted to see him elided bv
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many negroes were kept from votino by
fear; but. for all tliat.it s.iys : "It is
equally idle to talk of counting votes w hieh
were not cast, it matters nt why. If vo
ters, through fear, remain away from the
polls, they forfeit their right to "ho counted.
The law does not accoid to any tribunal
whatever authority to estimato the vote of
men who do not vote."
The Chrilin Jnfi7l'-?rncfr cives an
off to a hole. In digging up the dirt j interesting account .of an ancient p-irsonagr
around the hole in order to find the snake,
a jar was found containing 1)0 in gold and
silver.
It is related that during a recent pub
lic welcome given to General Butler at
Bangor, Maine, there was stretched acioss
a street a flag bearing the motto : 'Wel
come to General Butler, tho 'Hero of Five
Forks,' and God knows how many
spoons."
I wo men, named Million and Hughes,
at frornervuip, JN . J. It was built in 17:;i
by At drew Coej-man, a bio? he- of the
owner of the Coeymnn manor, below Al
bany. On one occasion Lafayette was a
guest in Iho Louse. a:ul the hostess had the
honor of dancing wi!h him in her lichiv
adorned parlor. S'- waa daughter of the
celebrated James Caldwell, pastor of the
Presbyterian church at Eli.abt thtow n,
who fell a maifyr in his country's service.
Within the past few rnlf, Ciawfotd
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the former a saloon-keeper, the latter a ! county has fninitbcd thuc mothers for
nine cu iiiircn. t'u I 'ciot cr 1 lth, Mis. C
Davison, of Richnior.d township, presented
hr husband with triplets; on November
7th, Mrs. Mart in Garrison, of Geneva b it o.,
made a similar gift to her good man ; and
on Wednesday, November Cth. Mrs. H.
Alsduif, of Spaila township, followed the
worthy example of the other ladies. Four
boys and five girls in all, and all living but
two. Surely Crawfoid county is doing her
part in cclebi a'ong the Centeuuial of our
couhtry's independence.
The evidence in the ci of John and
Maggio McCarthy, at Bay City, Mich.,
charged with the murder of their foster
child, George Woodaid, shows that once
tho won. an put a red-hot iron iu the child's
month, and held his lips tightly against it.
Again she held him head foremost down a
well. She also frequently placed his find
ers in the d km- and shut tho door over
them, and at times put thorn through the
clothes wringer. She was also in tlie hab
it of striking him on the head w ith a hnr;e
piece of wood. The woman seems to have
little anxiety about the situation.
The Philadelphia Times says, as to
tho issue of the contest: Judge Jere. Black
advances the novel idea that it will result
in the election of Tilden and Wheeler, in
tho following manner: lie believes Louisi
ana and Florida gave a majority for Tilden,
but that the vote of each will be counted
for Hayes, and as a result the votes of
those States w ill bo thrown out by Con
gress when it shall meet to count the elec
toral vote. This will throw the election of
President into the Rouse and of Vice-President
into the Senate. The former would
undoubtedly elect Tilden and the latter
Wheeler. Si Judge Black figures it out.;
A party of lirty-six persons left Cincin
nati late on last Saturday night in two fur
niture wagons to attend a German wedditi"
some distance out in the western part of
the county. About ten miles out. at the
crossing of the West Foik, in the darkness
one of the wagons containing thirty-six
people was driven off the side of a bridge,
falling twenty five feet to the rocks below.
Louis Bramlage, s.ged sixty-seven, had his
spine fractuied and will probably die ;
Joseph Meyers had his skull fractured;
Mary kleinburg, nKcd ten, concussion of
the brain, supposed fatally injured ; nine
or ten others were more or less seveiely in
jured. A new motive power by means of wa
ter, claimed to have been'invented by a
Mons. Router, is iargeiv noticed by Paris
papers. A similr.r invention by Jude
McXair of St. Louis, then residing iu New
ioik, received repeated trials twelve years
ago, but the tremendous pressure of water
invariably burst the tank, and the proved
was abandoned. Mons. Routet proposes
making his tank of an elastic material,
which will give way slightly to pressure,
but the feasibility of this has yet to be
proved. No machine has yet been made,
the theory is still on paper, but a realiztv-
''ro". Plon,'sc for the Paiis Exhibition
of 1873.
.Ir. and Mrs. Yai borough were mar
ried in Hickman, Tenn., eight years nr
I hey were very young, and their engage
ment and wedding, managed by their par
ents was devoid of sentiment, Thev were
divorced a year afterwaid. This fall thev
met in Nashville. Mrs. Yatborongh was
yet only twenty-four years old, and had
grow-n handsome. Mr. Yarboronch had
also improved in appearance. They fell in
love ; but this time her parents foi bade the
intimacy, and locked her in her room. He
got her out through a window, they eloped,
were chased by her angry father, were re
married, and now seem much better satis
fied than wheu they wero uuited without
any row.
counterfeiter, have ben arrested in Chica
go, on the charge of attempting to steal
the remains of President Lincoln from his
tomb, iu Springfield, ou the night of the
7th inst.
Governor Ilartranft has issued a war
rant for the execution, on the 13th day of
January, 1877, of Allen C. Laros, convicted
in Northampton county, on the 30th day
of August last, of the murder of Martin
Laros, and sentenced Oct. 30, 1S7G, to be
hanged.
The grangers' encampment building,
located at Elm station, near Philadelphia,
on the Pennsylvania Railroad, was totally
destroyed by fire on Friday evening. The
building and contents were valued at 80,
000, upon which there is an insurauco of
$50,000.
While Lord Duflerin was traveling in
Egypt a servant came to the door of his
tent, and said in a dolorous voice, "If yon
please, my lord, tho corpse has come
aboard." By this depressing t i'.le he was
pleased to designate a mummy discovered
in a rock temple.
Hon. John Kelly, chief of the Tam
many Society, was married in New York
at 8 o'clock Tuesday morning to Miss The
resa Mullen, niece of Cardinal McCloskey,
who performed the ceremony. The wed
ding was a private one, none but relatives
of the contracting parties being present.
Whoever is our next Picsident will
get an odd chair to sit in. It is made of
the skins and claws of grizzly bears, with
a ferocious head cunningly concealed un
der tho sent, which snaps viciously when
touched by a spring in the rear. Seth
Kinman, an old hunter andjtrapper, is the
maker.
The body of a daughter of P. Lynch,
fourteen years of age, was found on 'Mon
day night last, near Rrady's Landing, Neb.,
bearing marks of having been outraged.
Suspicion points to a tramp who was seen
near the premises the clay previous, and
who is now under arrest waiting furthor
developments.
The Reading Eaale says that while
Harvey, a four year-old son of Adam Shoe
ner, living in Marion township, was play
ing in the barnyard with seven grown per
sons and within talking distance, he fell
dead. He had several bruises on his body
and his arm was fractured. No one kuows
the cause of his death.
A Rcuter telegram from Calcutta
states that, lter accounts say that one
hundred and twenty thousand porsons per
ished during the cyclone which passed
through Eastein Bengal on the 31st of
October. Tho Government is taking act
ive steps for the relief of the distressed
population of tho district.
Two districts in Northumberland
comity, the borough of Snydertown and
Coal township, lost their vote on the Pres
idential ticket, as the election officers re
turned the votes for the rliffcrpntcandidates
fo President and Vico President, instead
of for tho electors. The court declined to
count tho votes so returned.
Jaoob Beedo, of Oakland, Susquehanna
county, who will bo 100 years old in May
next, walked four miles to the polls on the
7th inst. Mr. Beede was born May 20
1777, cast his first vote for Thomas Jeffer'
son, the third President or the United
States, and has voted at every Presidential
election since sixtaen in all.
On Friday last tho Pennsylvania Rail
road Company circulated a coii(Ti itiil ,i.,.
j address to the employees of the road for
; their faithful attention to duties during the
Centennial. The Baltimore and Ohio
I Railroad send their employees a check, bc
! ginning with the conductors at $100 and so
gradually clown to the firemeD, who receiv
i ed $ 40 each.
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