'- i t ? I" THE CMMU Mill. EBENSBURCf PA., Fri.lay Mrnin?, - - Oct. '20, 1877. Ml 1 Democratic State . Ticket. FOU SIT HEME JCDOE : JOHN TRUNKEY, of Venango County. HH ALDITOU CtNSIlAI. . WM. P. SCHELL, of Bedford County. VOK STATE TKEAM KKH : AMOS C. NOYES, of Clinton Connty. Democratic County Ticket. PKOTHOXOT.VKY : rjHAS. F. O'DONNELL, of Lorctto Bor. DtSTUKT ATTOKXET : W. HORACE ROSE, of Johnstown. i'oor hoisk director: JACOB KIRK PAT HICK, of Chest Twp. CORONER : JAMES MORELAND, of Wilmore Bor. .. j L I- -- - - ' The official majority in Ohio for Bishop, Democrat, for Governor, is 22,680. John b n. Greenback and Woikingruen'a candi ditc, received 16,800 votes, ami Boud, candidate or tho extreme radical wing of the labor party. 12,430 votes, The Prohi bition party polled 4,808 votes for Ttomp Bon, its candidate for Governor. The total vote polled at the late election iu Prance was 7,703,000. The entire vote in the Uni ed States at the Presidential dec ion last November was 8,H0,0O0, or nbout half a million more than the vote of Fiance. In territotial ex eut Fiance is four and a half times as large as Pennsyl vania, but her vote is moie than ten times hs large, that of this State last November being 730,000, which shows the difference in the density if the population of the two countries. A member of the United States Senate, or even the most humble citizen, against whom a false charge had been made would promptly demand an investigation in order that his inw ceoce might be established. John J. Puttersou, of South Carolina, is not such a Senator, the hearing in his fiilu$ corpu case having been postponed nn til next Wednesday. When he was ar rested he could, if he was guiltless, have taken the flint train for Columbia and asked for a trial. But that city, which knew him once, will know him no more forever, un less he is taken there in pursuance of Gov. Hampton's requisition. Justice will then Lave overtaken Simon Cameron's coriupt agent at llarrisburg in 18CS, and subse quently one of South Carolina's most shame Kiss pluudereis. The strike of the anthracite coal miners in aud around Sci anion, which began Jieaily three mouths ago, is practically ended, the mou returning to their woik at tho same wages they teceived before the strike, and being three mouths' pay out of pocket. It is estimated that the three leading mining companies in thai region pay to their hands a million of dollars a month ; no that the idle miners have lost in wages alone three trillions of dollar. Could there he a more thvpient and instinctive commentary on the supreme folly of strikes, and of the evils that follow in their tiain? If the miners in Luzerne county wiil only learn wisdom from their bitter experience, aud if they, as well as their ftllow miners every wheie vise, will avoid their worst enemy, a strike, as they would tho plague, their future prospects iu life will be materially improved. - It will b -come the duty of the Demo cratic Legislature of Ohio next January to elect a successor to Stanley Matthews in the United States Senate. We believe tl.era are few Democrats in any part of the country who would not be gratified to see the Louor conferred on George II. Pendle ton. However much he may differ with the nieuibers of both patties iu the Eastern States on the financial question, he clearly tepresents the vast majoi ity of the people f the West on that subject. We need not rpeak (f his gieat ability, ttor of Lis rare forco as an accomplished aud eloquent speaker, as they are universally acknowl edged. Fiont the beginning to the close f the late canvass iu Ohio, Lis eloquent aud jeiuasive voice was heard throughout the length ahd breadth of the State, and the liiumph of the Democracy in Hamilton county, where he resides, attests his per sonal influence and power. The Demo cratic members of the Legislature would confer houor on themselves and their con stituents, by associating Mr. Pendleton with Judge Thurmau iu the highest legis ptive branch of the government. Oeskral Sherman is reported as hav ing expressed the greatest admiration for General Howard's march after the Nez Perces, characterizing it as one of tho greatest on record. If Gen. Sherman has said all this, which we don't believe, it would be interesting to know what he thinks of the Indian whom Howard was after but failed to overiake. Joseph was never at West Point, and in bis march of sixteen hundred miles was encumbered with two thousand horses aud ponies, his squaws and their children, ns well as every thing necessary for bis tramp over two territories. Three Generals wore nn his trail Howard all tho time, and Gibbon and Stiugli towards the lat. He bronght Howard to grief at the first encounter; n-xt, he killed and wounded about the one third of Gibbon's force, and then got away from S'.urgis, to be finally forced to stir lender by Gen. Miles. It seems to us that if Howard's march was one of the greatest on record, Joseph's march was greater still. When Joseph stood iwfore Gen. Miles after mrreiidoilng to him his gnu, and thought of the dangers through which be bad passed, the. long buut after him, and its disastrous end, he might exclaim of Gen. Miles, as a gie t Roman General did of his viotorious enemy, Oio.it la: me call him, vt hb conquerec me." j It is very amusing since the Ohio elec I tiou to read the daily appeal made to j Democrats by the Pittsburg Republican papers to vote for Sterie.t, the Republican j candidate for Judge .of the Supreme Court. ' Tlwlr plaintive cry to the Democracy is, ' "Help me, Cassins, or I sittk ?" It is rather humiliating to see landing journals of the onco proud and delimit Republican party thus appeal to tho hated Democrats to help : them iu the Lour of their distress. The unhappy aud despairing editors of these Republican organs have suddenly conceived a violent love for what they call a non-par- titan judiciary, and have tho assurance to i ask Democrats to help them manufacture a non-partisan Judge of the Supreme Court nut of Jame P. Sterrett, by casting their votes for him. This demand for a non part isrut judiciary is purely an aftet thought and is without force. There is not one of the present Judges of the Supreme Court, nor a Judge of any of the other Cour's in the I State, who was nor, in a greater or less de gree, a partisan before he became a Judge. It is expected that when a man becomes a Judge ho will cease to be a politician, and so far as the judiciary of this State is con cerned this desirable result has been achiev ed, the confident predictions of the enemies of an elective judiciary to the contrary not withstanding. We do not know of a judi cial district in the State in which the peo ple are afflicted with that most insufferable of all curses, a political judge, and certain ly the Supreme Court is not a partisan tri bunal. It is not pretended by three Fittsburg editors that Judge Truukey is not a most able man, and eminently fit to occupy a seat on the Supreme bench ; and such being the case, they cannot seduce Democrats from his support by preaching to them about the beauties of a non-partisan judi ciary. Judgo Sterrett's Pittsburg cham pions have veiy short memories, and this is the first time that they ask political con siderations to be ignored in a judicial elec tion. In 1872, James Thompson, who was a Demociat, and had sat on the bench of j the Supreme Court for fifteen years, was j renominated by the Democratic State con ' veution. He was admitted to be everything that a Judge ought to be able, pure and incorruptible and yet the Republican State : convention, knowing that a nomination then was equivalent to an election, went to Congress for a candidate and nominated Ulysses Mercur, who was more of a politi cian than a lawyer, and who, when com pared with Judge Thompson, in point of capacity, was as a pigmy to a giant. The beauties of a uon partisan judiciary did not then appear so apparent to the editors of the Pittsburgh Republican press, and they vigorously supported Mercur without a why or a wherefore. They must not com plain now if tho poisoned chalice is com mended to their own lips. We admit that Judge Steiro.t is infinitely a better candi date than either the vain and loquacious Passmore, or Hart, the pet of the Treasury l ing, but if the Republican ship goes down, as we believe it will, at the November election, Judge Sterrett will sink with it. Whatever Democratic support he may re ceive iu Allegheny county Tvill uot save him from tho general wreck. The P'csident has appointed John M. Harlan, of Kentucky, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court, to succeed David Da vis, now a Senator front Illinois. Compe tent judges eutei taiu very strong doubts as to the fitness of Gen. Harlan for so high a judicial station. All that can be said of him is that ho assesses an unblemished character that on several occasions he has been au unsuccessful Republican candidate for Governor of his State and that he is regarded as a good lawyer by the people of Louisvillo. Something moie, however, than all this is required iu a Judge of the highest Court known to our laws. Mr. Hayes, who is himself a lawyer, ought to be able to select a man fully competent for tho position, and yet be baa said that bis original intention was to appoint a Texas man by the name of Ballinger, If he had done so the whole country would have ask ed, "Who is Ballinger?" Tho people of Kentucky are of bourse delighted with , Harlan's nomination and say that he is j just the man for the place. It is an old failing of all good Kentuckians to boast that their State produces greater statesmen, more eloquent speakers, handsomer women, faster race horses, larger mules and better whiskey, than any other State in tho Union, and why therefore should they not feel proud of Harlan ? Our conclusion may be wrong, but from Gen. Harlan's antecedents our decided opinion is that his nomination is a huge mistake, and that if it is confirmed by the Senate there willstill exist a vacancy on the bench of the Supreme Court. Evert Democrat should act on the theo ry that the election of Trunkey, Schell and Noyes depends ou bis own vote. Many years ago a Democrat was elected Governor of Massachusetts by one vote. What are the controlling motives which ought to impel every Democrat to vote on next Tues day week? The first and highest is duty to his political convictions, and the next, a determination to carry the State now and thus render certain the election of a Gov ernor and Legislature next year, which' will secure a Democratic Senator as Doii Cam eron's successor. In addition to all this, the great victory of the Democracy of Ohio is a command to their fellow Democrats in Pennsylvania to go and do likewise. The piospects of electing our State ticket were never better, but that result will not be ac complished by remaining inactive and fool ishly trussing to luck, as it is called. Will the Democracy of Cambria now display some of the spirit and energy with which they rallied to the support of Tilden and Hendricks ? Whatever other counties may do, let no Democrat in thin county share the responsibility of a defeat by remaining away from the elect iou. A Canadian d.ctor named Blunileigb lias beeu prosecuted for practising without . a a r r r ... n uipioma, ana ine jew lorn World has the temerity to assert that the difference . between him and ihe woman in Solomon's ' Song is that one is (was?) black Mini come ly aud the other u quack aud Bmuileiyh. Jur Washington Letter. WashisqTo!, D. C, Oct. 22, 1877. IN THE SENATE the contest over the Louisiana and South Carolina Seuatorshtps haB occupied the en tire time during the past week. v lien ye mighty solons met the Democrats were quite confident that the Democratic aspir ants wouki be seated immediately without contention. But the tactics displayed by the Rads. since last we wrote you has caused our Democratic friends to be quite disgusted, as well as despondent. Our ft lends have quite mistaken their men. But what eould be expected after the 8x7 vervict? Could it be supposed that the Rads. would be more likely to seat Democrats now, when with a two-thirds majority heretofore they refused to be just. The force of party necessity compels them to keep the Democratic vote in that chamber down, and we are surprised at the short sightedness of Tbnrman and others of our Democratic friends to sapposo diat the Rads. would give anything like a fair deal now. They are only Edmundses, Conk lings, and Hoars, at the very best, and no force of logic or law ha any weight with Rads. of that stripe. !f our friends would only display a little of "practical politics" by protecting three or four Seuators from persecution, not as Democrats, but as In dependents, enough voles could be secured to turn the scale, and the entire situation would be theirs, Senate and all. Our leaders seem to be too confident iu the honor of the Radical leaders, which is mere nonsense. Mr. Enstis' case is jeopardized by Piuchback's (colored) new claims, which have been worked up by parties here. The Rads. are quite elated at their new prospects, and now openly boast that all the Republican contestants will be tent ed. Two of the Senators who were con sidered doubtful have come squarely out for the Radical side. KcIIogg's chances have, under the new development, gone up to par, aud the vote of every Radical Sen ator except Chi istiancy is counted on for him, and that had better be thrown in fpr good measure. tue collectorshif or new okleaks is not quite so complicated now as when the position was first talked over, when it was considered that Kellogg's chances for admission to the Senate were very slim. Republicans from Louisiana now liere claim that if Kellog is admitted Packard will renew his efforts to regain possession of the State government, aud it is intima ted in political circles here that the leaders of Democracy in New Orleans are dissatis fied with tho administration of Gov. Nich ols and sympathize somewhat with such a DJAttoeuver ; but this is regarded as a Re publican iure. THE AUDACITY OV KE1XOGO AND PACE AUD in claiming that after six months' investi gation by State officials in Louisiana and after the closest scrutiny, nothing has been found which reflects upon their honor and uprightness, surpassetu the understanding of any ordinary moital. Can such fellows be tolerated iu a respectable community? By this we wish to be distinctly undei stood as not instigating assassination, lest we too, like Don Piatt, of our "Capital," might bearrested and placed onder indictment, Hence we make this explanation a fortiori, as the lawyers say, TB"K INEVITABLE FATB of the Republican patty after March 4, 1879, is that they must yield possession of the Senate to their political opponents, and this fact is having its weight with the sell out portion of their party, who arc inclined to make some compromise with the Demo crats, judging from certain overtures made by them for a "you tickle me, I tickle you" kind of settlement of the present Demo cratic inability to control the admission of tho present contestants. The 'overtures on the part of this purchasable wing of the Radical party were spurned without as much as a moment's reflection by the Dem ocrats. This will of course havo the effect to consolidate the Radical vote, and a whole sale rejection of all Democratic aspirants from the contested Soulheiu Slates is mo mentarily looked for. at xnn rnrvATE conference held by tho Radicals a night or so ago, in the parlors of a Cabinet officer, it was de velocd that as the Democrats were en deavoring to force them to go on record as endorsing Mr. Hayis' Southern policy, they would vote against such a resolution should one of that character be offered from the Democratic side, end would not allow themselves to be dictated to by their oppo nents. Cox, of Ohio, here took the war path and bitterly denounced Mr. Hayes' policy and desired to know by what author ity Mr. Hayes placed au ex-confederate aud Bourbon Deirocrt iu the Cabinet, Others filed off bitter denunciations against Droth crford Hayes, but all were inclined to think that now was uot the time to crack the party whip over Brolherfot d's head. There is no use denying the tact that a Had. can stand more ill treatment and petsoual abuse to the square inch, aud rest quiet under it for policy sake, thau a cat cau squall ou a good night for cats. A COUNTER DODOR has been agreed upon on the part of the Rads. to this effect, that should our Dem ocratic friends conclude to offer a resolu tion indorsing Mr. Hayes' Southern policy, they will get even with them by springing a resolution on the Democrats declaring the title of Iirotherford Hayes to the Pres idency vallid and irreproachable, in order to make the Democrats back down from forcing ye Had. to swallow Iirotficrford'e Southern policy pill. Verily it has become a "Kil-ken-r.y" cat fight, the end of which no skilled political optician can foresee. THE WHITE HOOSK, according to the complaint of the Rads. is so crowded by Democrats that one of their ilk can't get in and talk the situation over with Brotherford Hayes. It is rather laughable that whilst the Rads. were play ing their 8x7 gasae upon us we were qui etly making success of defeat aud turning the tables on them by capturing their standard bearer aud taking possession of the Presidential mauision. Anderson. The Terrible Colliery Explosion in Scotland. Later particulars of the colliery explosion at High Blantyre, near Glasgow, Scotlaud, a brief statement of which appears among our news renin, chow that 223 men descended into the mines in the morning. None of these, except one who was working near the shaft at the lime of the explosion, had been rescued up to a late hour Monday evening. The ex plosion occurred at 0 o'clock in t he morn ing and the exploring parties had to relin quish their efforts in one pit at 4 iu the af ternoon Jo wing to the poisonous gases At the bottom of the shaft of the other pit (the colliery comprising two pits with com munication between them) a faint knocking was heard, but it was found impossible at that time to reach the bottom of the shaft in consequence oflthe volumes of gas and the destruction of wood-work and hoisting apparatus by the explosion. At 9 P. M. the explorers resumed operations at the first pit, and found forty corpses lying at , the foot of the shaft. At 11 o'clock Mon- day night, the shaft at the bottom of j which knocking was heard was rapidly i collapsing, and the explorers were attempt j iug to reopen communication from the ' other mine. They had penetrated about j half a mile, but still had 150 fathoms to clear, so that fears were enteitaiued that the imprisoned men could uot be reached before morning, and that few, if any, would thou be alive. Treasury Hi tig Tactics. ALMOST FORGOTTEN LETTER AOAtN BROUGHT TO LIGHT. an In oider to divert public attention from .i i" i; ,!....,. r i .... : n.-t. ' j v.. .i . i.. rM.:ri'Ut, ii.. . i:.i i. V7,.z-owned ... trolled by the ring, some time since announced in ', a doable-leaded leader: "Ion. Anion C. Xove, the Champion Monopolist ;" follow- tug this with what purported to be ext. acts from the House Journal, viz : "Laurel Hun Improvement Company. Title afterwards chana-d to PbilnlHrhlit snd K'fld inr Coul aiiti Iron Com puny.' Nojts votioif aye." WHAT THE HOUSE JOURNAL SrTOWS. What is the fact, as shown by the House Journal? Col. Noyes is not recorded as voting for the bill. The bill xasscd up to third reading without any opposition, and, to pass it finally, the same day, the rule prohibiting bills from being read more than twice on the same day must bo suspended by a two-thirds vote. Col. Noyes voted to suspend the rule, in company with B. B. Strang. Webb (then Speaker1. Shuilock. now Republican Clerk of the House, and most of the prominent Republican mem bers, so that it might be pnt utioti iUt final passage. The bill passed the House with out a dissenting vote yeas and nays not being called. 1 refer the Pittsburgh Coin me rcial-Gazette to House Journal. - WHERE THE STING IS. The sting in this garbled extract, as published by the Gommercial-Gmettn, is in the sentence inot to be found in the Honeo Journal): "Title afterwards changed to j Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron Company." Will our Commercial Gazette friends nlcase enlichten us as to the time of this change of title, the authority for it. with the names or the eminent mauipula- tors concerned? When it complies with this request ihe public mind will be inform ed as to the champion monopolists, for I presume they will hardly dare to couple Col. Noyes with this change of title that has apparently made the bill t-o odious iu their sight. Furthermore, should thiR question ever be answered I have no doubt the Commercial-Gazette, in the interest of the paitit-s, would claim, to soften things, that it is the same old Laurel Ruu Improvement Company, harmless as a sucking dove, by the same argument used by the lankce, "That although the knife had had eight new blades and six new handles, it was the same old kuife he bad lost forty years ago." THE OTHER CHARGES. As to the other charges contained in this article they are unworthy of notice and be neath the dignity of a respectable journal to make, but being somewhat familiar with the history of the last in the list of sup ported monopolies, as made out by the Pittsburgh Commercial-Gazette, I shall fur nish a truthful statement for the benefit of the public and parties in interest. The act as stated by the Commercial Gazette, "An act to repeal the fourth section of the sup plement to the charter of the Mil ford & Matamoras Railroad Company, approved April Gth, 1870, Noyes voted uay." On this question, as on the previous one, the yeas and nays were not called on the pass age of the bill, but were called on suspen sion of the rule Noyes voting nay. 1 re fer the Commercial-Gazette to House Jour nal. A BA"E DISTORTION OV FACTS. After the title of the bill the Comm-ercial- Ltazitts bas the following: ,4lue section referieil to diveiteil from the State an an- rvacbuo hioatr' wish his run on Monday mora nuiiy of ten thousand dolla.s paid by the J KK Ttur New lork te trie railroad company and ( had bev ti absti acted. An officer was on hand transferred the same to the Milford &, Mat- 1 B,ld i t,nee took Price Into his custody, a moras railroad Thn hill 'a lr..l' ; search of the prisoner resti Ited in the llndiiif oT amoras lai roao. 1 he Dill was snaked lhe ,nHrked n,oIIey m his possession and he wss through in the interest of a few speculators ; b.dired in Jail. I-ist niiyl.i it was learned ihat 'i""l! i ioo nucirM ! nienHjivciiiniui's ; louireii in jail. iMSt niifl.t it was learned owning the Milford & Matamoras railioad : ne was released on Tuesday upon flndinn thn ar f tpiipaI was in rumolianeo vriih ! fnthesum of 1,(0J lor his appearance b; tne ac. oi repeal was iu compuauce with n mniri9fraXe tor n hearintr. Jt;is repo Lnf filirriAl nnsK!ii7A of tmv. bp.irvnfiwinn. hu ...... f..,. e n ' the special message of Gov. Gear- denounc ing the bill. A statement like the atiove, appealing in the Ring organ, should make the heroes of 'Addition, Division aud Si lence' blush with shame. WriAT ARE THE FACTS? rT-. ... ... . . 1 he bill had been passed two yeais pre- vioitH and received the approval of that spasimxiically virtuous Governor, John V. Geaiy, and, under its proviMons, the com pany issued bonus and mado a contract with J. Murray Muorhead to build the road. Under his coutract Moorhead grad ed the road, receiving the bonds issued by the company for his pay. The repeal of this law made these bonds valueless, and the b?st legal minds of both houses and of both parlies admitted at ihe time that the Legislature had no power to repeal the act without providing a satisfactory compensa tion for the contractor. IS HUMANITY OF THE RIKO. In defiance of eminent legal opinions (ho bill to repeal was passed, and the contrac tor who had in good faith graded the road under the power and authority granted by the Pennsylvania Lcgislartiie with the ap proval of ihe Governor, remains uupaid for his labor aud investment to this day a gross piece of injustice and wrong doing 7, . , i i " . . i t ,H" approaching- forest, CI., they puii-d the that could only be perpetrated by a ring of j bell-rope, causing the engineer to slacken the pinchers and roosters controlling the Gov- Pwd of the train, when they Jumped otT. leav ei nor nnd Leirislatnre. The com . ir !"K u,p messenger nd their dead comrade iu Moorhead was mace so poor by this unjust act that bis very poverty prevented him from testing the case in the Courts. Last winter he applied to the Legislature for justice and relief, aud, what is most singu lar, Hon. R. W. Mackey, late Sate Treas urer, took charge of this telief bill and ex erted all his influence to secure its passage, but the amount asked for as a relief to Moorhead under Mackey's auspices more than doubled the amount advocated by Noyes in 1872. Will the Pittsburgh Com-mercial-Gatette inform its readers what Interest is to be benefitted by this Addition, and who is to Divide, or will it be Silent on the subject ? COU NOTES WAR UECOUD. Has the Commercial- Gaztfts forgotten that the act of 18U1, known as the "negro bill," was drawn up and presented by Hon. John Cessna, of Bedford, to-day one of the chosen apostles of Republicanism ; and how forcibly and powerfully he advocated its merits, eloquently portraying the crimes and outrages that would follow the indis criminate emigration of the neero to our State ? So eloquent was he that he carried the Legislature by storm, and passed his bill on a wave of enthusiasm. Noyes, caught on the wave, voted aye. As to the balance of the "War Record." as published by the Commercial-Gazette, since Haves in bis trip through the Southern States bas convinced the world and mankind in gen- I eral "that the rebel was the best fellow of the two," we conclude it would be super- I fluous to say anything iu defence of Col. Noyes' war record. A ROLAND FOlt THEIIt OLITEU. Ivet us for one moment look at the record on the other side. In the Erie Gazette of ct. 81, 187r, ou the eve of the election, we find the followiug pledge : EniE, Oct. 30th. 1875. "To Editor Oazettel have no object ion to statin my views on Treasury inannircincnt. either publicly or privately. Should the cltl sens oi the t'ommom wealth see proper to elect me to the office Tor which I am a cnndidstc, I propose to perform the duties or the offlco In accordance with all the laws of thatnin n.r. tieularly set forth in the Act or Assembly, .n- nr. ...H Ik., lift. ,.r M . T . ,o-j , J ' Proved tbth of Mav. A. D. i74,ti7..1 ' said sot reriiiirin a monthly statement or all ine iransiictions 01 ine uepnrtment, receipts deposits and interest, to be filed with the Audi tor General. "Thf- funds or the state shall be guarded by me with fidelity, and the Interest on Trensnrv . 'H." "li1 be counted tor as the property "I am of the opinion thnt the rsrabHohmcnt Of a Obicm similar to that ot the United tlulc8 guvettnent would remove many complications of the present law. 'Kespectfuily, Hf.nkt Uawi.f.. WHY THK PLEDttB HAS NOT BEEN CARRIED OCT. There is no doubt that when Rawle vol untarily made this pledge to the voters of Erie cotmty, he honestly tuteuded to per : loimex! himself to do; but he had counted with out his host, for, on assuming his position as State Tteasurer, he fouud Bob Mackey's man Hart holding the executive role of the office, and that bis duties merely consisted in signing his name to official papers. L nder such circtinistauces his pledge wrs of uecessity violated, and not a single monthly statement, as tequired by section 8 in the act of Assembly approved 9th of May, 1S74, since Rawle's advent as State Trcasuier, has met the public eye. SHALL TrtK KING be KKPT in place? Fellow citizens of Pennsylvania ! Do you wish to continue your financial inter est in the hands of Mackey, Ketnble & Co.? If so, vote for Hart, Mackey's chief cleik, continued uucler llawle, whose fa- ; miliarity with the dark ways of the corrupt j Trcasuiy Hiug was the only quanficatiou i necessary to niako him their candidate. But if you desire the doings of the cot ruj liouists exposed, and daylight turned upon tho records of the Depaitment and the past management of the financial interests of the Commonwealth, monies long duo the State recovered from coriupt holders and j returned to the Treasury to meet your lia- bilities and lesson the bniden of taxation, tele for Amo C. 2suy of Clinton, the ("Square Timber" candidate, whose past lift: and record are without stain, and whose legislative career is without taint of cor in p- tiou a sufheicut guarantee that his manly letter of acceptance ineaus all that it says, ! J-.rie Obtcrver.- H A. lirttve Jeett Undone. GEORGE II. PRICE, THE JIEROIC EXPREM MESSENGER, IN JAIL FOR STEAL ING MONEY PACKAGES. The Pittsbnrg Dispatch at Thursday last furnishes the following ; The Intelligence reached the enr? of the re port ers yesterday thnt Cieo. H. Price, the well known express luessenirer, whs arrested in Chi cago on Monday on the ch?rf e of ste-Rlimr inon- PV from iHlfkftrrfxi In hArnrf- ltitn'f.fri IhU.ilv i nnrl Chii-wro. The previous (rood ttinri.-ter of Price, together witn his hemic conduct, snout two uud a half yon is huo, in shooting- a imtn named Hinkley, who attempted to rob an ex press ear on the tilttburK, Ft. Wayne and Cin-cng-o Kailrnnd, made it dilHcuit tor the officers of the company to believe thxt he wan other than a Ftrictly honest inm, until the most in dubitable evidence of his iriiilt bad been laid before them. It teems that for more than a ynr parties in Chlcnpo and points west of that city have been complaining to the officers of Ihe express company that packages of money received by liicm were short of the amount!! placed therein by the senders. The stints misi ttiK were generally small, ranifinir from 10 to r.i, and lor a while.it wm thnupht that the parties inclosing the money were mistaken nm to the amounts. The complaints at length becameso frequent that the aircntsat Chicago and this city became convinced thitt the Unci had chirfeof a run betwcn the two cities. The Chicago Hent suspectrd a mcsseucr residing iu this ciiy, while Atfeut Snivtriy insisted that the Pittsburg- man was Innocent. It was finally agreed to try to detect the thief bv nicans of riecov I package, the same to be prepared aud shipped Horn me oince here. Ihe decoys were hrst tiled on all the 'Tuns' but that of IT:ce, so confident were theitjrentsof his honesty, and as they all weut through safely it wa deter mined to put the honesty of the sout--!ime hero to the same test as had be n applied in the cae of hi fellow-messengers, 'ihls was done on Sunday last in this way: A money package was prepared, and among the contents w re t wn marked fin noted. How much money the package contained tins not been ascertained of the n for ati oiivioua reason. Wnoi; I'rice nail fore rted I'rice bas confesses to Sleallnir some small amounts from money package, but his ac knowledgment does uot cover one-tenth the amount of money that has oecn lost during tho PHst year, which is estimated at from Ji.nuo to tlt,)0. iorire H. Trice is ahout thirty-live years of at.A I. 1 .. n .1 V. . . i .. . - . I W ' o Mini m-u, nim " I I 11IIIJ 1IICIT inrei' ! ciiildreo reside in Chicago. lie has been in the service oi t lie express company for nearlv ten years, and has always borne, a (rood chanioter. His rcmarknblA heroic exploit on the I'ltts l)tir(r. Fort Wayne and Chie ien Kailrcad, n-r AlHhi, .. In the spring of hk7.i, ra inert tor I. hit an enviable fame annum his associates and made him quite solid" with thecompanr. Ac counts ot that affair were widely published at ine tune oi its necurreuce, and I'rlcc w:u lton ized wherever he weut. The story is, to bi Icr : Price had chnrjro of an express car on an east ward bound train between Chicago and this cilj-, atil at a point near Ali.la, )., he discover ed a masked man at th end or his car. lie at once (liTiued the Intention of his visitor, nnd, drawing- his revolver, ordered the man to sur render. This order wastjutcklv followed by a shot from the visitor's i istol. and a bullet p'erccd the messenger's rijfht cheek. The man tired three more shots, the second striking Price in thel shoulder, the third in his left arm and the fourth irrazinir his head. Price fell to the floor, but, nothing dauntfd, he crawiei back to one of the safes, where he kept his revolver, and seir.infr the weapon he tent a bullet through hisassailant'e brain, killing him instantly. Two other masked men, who had asustcd tins first in sawing an aperture in the door or the car, through which he had entered, were on the platform during the firing, but when the train j approaching- Forest, O., they puiid tho the car. Wiien the train reached Crestline the muek was removed from the dead mun. dis closing t. those pr'-sent the ratnliiar face of Henry Illnkley, who had formerly been a con ductor on tho road, tint had a short time before been discharged for embezzlement. Although seriously wounded. Price recovered In n few months, and resumed his duties on the road. The express company mado him a present of 1.000 iu gold and granted Mm three months' leave of absence as a reward for his heroic con duct. Notwithstanding the good reputation be bore, Trice appears to have possessed some bad traits and he wasvery unpopular with his fellow-me tengers. It is related or him that he had u mas sive locket made of two tZO gold pieces, and that he had one of the bullets which entered his body and that which penetrated the brain of Umkley placed therein as trophies of his prowess, and that he was wont to exhibit these to every man he met. Worse than this, he had the "check-' to visit tho widow of the man whom he had killed and procure from her a picture of the aead Hinkley, from which he hail o miniature photograph takeu lor his locket This also he would exhibit to people, telling f hem it was a picture of the mar. he killed It is stated, moreover, that he acted as a ''spotter" for i he ex press company, which means he would watch other messengers, and if he saw them visiting saloone and playing cards he would re port them at headquarters. An cmi-love of thecompanr stated yesterday that Price was the means or procuring the dismissal of no less thin seven men from the company's service all or whom were better men than himself! He Is a native of Kentucky, and at one time 1 lr.'.'" ,'tWM-n I-ouisvilleand Memphis. At that time he was editoro a little pape r pub lished at Louisville t)T the niM.hl.. '..-j Otr Expresnman. He was changed to the I'hi- ; i;"Koand Pittsburgh run" shout two months AUV1 Prff.e he ws shadowed by detectives constantly. u" K",ur,,,iy evening he wssen m Liberty lun, .To wine accomplished his downfall. It Is surmised 17. ? ''ineers or the express enmpanv that I rice ha 1 one or their seals, which ho ucd to seal paikatres after he had broken them open. TnE disastrous defeat of the Turks on last Mouday week near Kars, in Armenia, briefly noticed by us last week, is a very serious blow to the prospects of Tuikey in that quarter. Fifteen thousand prisoners aud forty pieces of cannon were captured by the Russians, who are now besieging Kais, to which place the Turks retreated after their defeat. On Friday last the Rus- i ""rc" l" F"cipai reuouDt before tt . were repulsed by the Turks. Heavy rains still continue in Itlllcrnrin t- n dol ing miliiary movemeutsjalraost impossi ble. Laros has been taken from t!. jai,.'; l,,e insane asylum at Harrisburg, and bis death wairaut recalled by tho (Jovuruur. 2o'eivs ami fjther Votings. I A Philadelphia girl has one eye that is light blue and one that is deep black. A two-thousand batrel oil well is re- ported near Clarion. This is au entirely . new territory. The majority for West, republican, in Cleveland was G9. Last year Hayes had ; 3,f00 more votes than Tilden. A woman, 65 yearsolJ, in Manchester, i N. H-, jumped into a well and was uot ' found uutil five days afterward. A man has arrived in Pittsburgh who . walked fiom the Black Hills. He is a rts- the largest ever known in the United States. Geoige Spangle, aged 14, of Bridge port, Cumberland county, committed sui cide on Wednesday. He was ill with ty phoid fever. I Munf M.f Pi'flcf sw-.imtv title KtolA ! I A mother and a daughter eioped with ! from New Yoik f.,r j , tr-. s their lovers from Leesbnrg, O., leaviug J on her beam ends in U p ;!'' j their husband and father disconsolate. j Wet-tern Islands ,i'vtrf j A ten ton beat was made at the Bald- ; crew were in the t j, r";l' 1 i win Stfl Woikson Wednesdav. This is i One muti H:I "-!, Five sisters, who arc nuns in a Cana- i dian convent, have turned into the convent I Geestemuude, treasm v their combined foitmies. amount- ' VTi? 'triS m! !...... ... r. . C" - r ' ; c'.iimi n .mtfl iug in .CJU.lHKI. Robert Harris, living near Nesburg, Henry county, Viiginia, beat bis wife to death while drunk. He escaped. They had six children. An English lady, with two maids, a man servant and a lady companion, hns just paid a hotel bill of $5S0 for nine aud a half tlays' entertainment in Chicago. The wife of William C. Gilman, the New Yoik forger.has become insane, and is to be sent to a Itinat ic asylum. The unfor- i er-in-law's consent :,ir, V Vk ' tunate lady is a niece of H. Ward IJeecher. , ter, the venerable mi,,," ' f 1T' Mis, Nancy Haw kins, aged sixty seven .- - - - r - - - - - - " 'i (;:( ary 20 to September 20. one thousand i me for the old wonun ' vpnns. ni iitnrrnn r v vrrivn imm .laim- ; inm m i i-.... .. , three hundred aud seventy-six yards of rag carpet. Four little gills, the children of Mr. Jacob Mussel white, of Robeson county, N. J Miss Jnlia fleers of I.iid'J t C, died laely of diphtheria so near to- , qvirtr regret- if, bee i'iv i-""" CMher that thev were all buried last week i common at tide i r ....i. ., at the same time. j sUry went that the tw,( fl ; Mr. Thomas McDortmigh, a Pennsyl- i be mairied, but that Mr l) fV vania oil operator, thinks the field is tap d- , polled to hero hp a fh; ''.) ly becoming exhausted, and that in ten years or less there will be very little oil found in the State. A woman died In fall River recently from excessive joy. On meeting wjiti her daughter, after a separation of many years, she uttered au cxclamatiou f de light, and fell dead. The apple crop of Chautaqua county, N. T., this season, is the largest evpr known. Shipments to date are valued at oOO.OOl. It" is estimated that the entire crop w ill realize oK (XW. The bruise of Mrs. Saiah Wolborn, of Myerstown. Lebanon cminty, was destroyed by fire on Saturday night. Mrs. Wolborn and her daughter, the wife of Dr. W, U. Dewees, were suffocated. A party of emigi-ants CnmP down the river at St. Louis, in a skifT, on Sunday night, were run into by a tow boat. Mar tin Crowley Knd Mrs. James Crowley arrd her baby were drowned. Clintonville, Clinton county, N. Y-. is devastated with smallpox. fevnty jieisons died within a few days. Travellers are prohibited from entering the place, all iho highways being blockaded. Philadelphia furnishes the oldest Dem ocratic member of the House in the peiion of Speaker Randall, and in Judge Keliey the oldest Republican member, who ad" ministered the oath of office. At Pittsfield, Mass., three sons of Wil liam Downey loaded au old gun barrel with powder, and discharged it. The w. apou burst, killing two of the boys aud teaiing olTa hand of the other. At a recent trial of the Edison tele phone in Canada, a con versaiion was read ily carried on between operators in Mon treal aud Quebec, the distance being some thing over one hundred and eighty miles. John C. Morton, late President of the Market Street Passenger RailwayCompany, Philadclpl.il, has been held in six thousand dollars bail to appear on a charge of jH-rjnry iu swraiirg falsely to the annual u porta cf his company. In excavating an old tannery last week used by D. Johnson, f Le Raysville, liradford county, fifty years ago, there 1 took the position that t lie was uneaitbod aside of leather wli'ch had ; thrritv to cmiiikI i'm h lain in an old vat KJ years, fresh and bright as when first put in. An inceudisry fire in Portland, New Brunswick, on Saturday last, destroyed seventy-five buildings in the principal por tion ;f the city. One man was bnrned to death, and several men and women injured. Loss estimated at $'300,000. A malignant cpizooty in jVotthern Russia has destroyed hundieds of thousands of cattle, and is still raging. In many vil lages, according to a report of our consul at Odessa, "scarcely a cow or an ox is left to the impoverished inhabitants." Allen C. Laros, the murderer of his father and oilier members of his family, j Riley, the bulic wno was 10 nave ueen hanged last month at Easton. but was reprieved, has been pronounced insane, an epileptic, and in every way unfit to be executed. Fred. Rrydges and Mrs. McKeuzie, whose flight from Canada to the States created such a sensation a little ovpr a year ago, were married in Boston on Fri day last. The lady has been residing iu ChicagD for some time, and obtained a di vot ce there lately from her forraerhusband. Mr. Connelly, editor of the Washing ton (La.) Enterprife, declares that if An derson, of the Returning Board, had been more respectfully treated by the friends and orgati8 of Mr. Tilden and not abused and written up, "the Presidency of the United States would have been different from what it is to-day." Mr. and Mrs. Raid well, an aged couple of Whately, Mass., divided their money in fco equal parts orore starting on a jonr- uey, eacn taking one that at Innst half nf Ihacnm ,.1I 1 ..n.l 1 i ,.,,,i tuilv iiiK'!!"" . from thieves r but iho wnrlrl ia rixl.it.. .i.r..n,nl - made ill J':cU' than they thought. Both their pockets were picked. Mung Fong, a Chinese cigar-maker living in Chicago, for love or Celia Man ning, abandoned the creed and costume of bis fathers, cutoff bis pigtail, took out a license to marry her and prepared a sump tuous wedding feast against last Saturday night. Behold Ihe bridi came not, and ho shot himself through the body aud died. Austin Sheldon, who for forty years has lived in a cave in Pike county, met with an accident recently which may prove fatal. Although eighty years old he climb ed a chestnut tree, aud while near the top be lost his balance and fell to the ground, breaking several ribs and sustaining other injuries. Sheldon says if be recovers he will revisit his friends in Connecticut and abandon his life of solitude. Rev. Dr. Johu Poisal, the now chap lain of the House, was once a shoemaker in West Virginia, and studied theology while working on ihe bench. He is an old circuit rider, and, it is said, won Con gressman esstnan J. II. Tucker from skepticism by ( to be printed blank f01" '' i eloquent sermon preached v ears air o. ! of deeds necessary f ,r'". -iH an Dr. Poisal has a remarkable meuiorv and j The ant hoi it ies st WsM'jl'P -i(r. is sani to Know the Bible aud Methodist ! Agent Filter to (lf;tt: hymn btHik almost by heart. j tained clues to the au bi" 'fff An explosion occured in a colliery at ; which have been closesyi1' ' , High Blati'yre. near CJIasirow. Scotland.ort ! resulting iu tne arrest ' fc?c frtndav Thro. l..,..l. u :.. . I. .. l -,..u.lp So various P' -. -i j . . j 1 1 i vj incii .t'ifj in uio 1 un ii' i ... ----- . ; t - , .. . i l. -llir- ... '""" it?ciai train sent to nrine tne i wno ueieuin " r injured to the Glasgow Infirmary returned thirteen court houses Monday afternoon, no onn having been eot j and burned during tl P- out alive, ahhough twenty dead bodies evidence that could ' ..m, 1.. s . . ... 1 1 1 1 1 itS. uu wuii n-ciiveiru. it. is learea tiie en- i apsinst ine i-""i,i'" . 4 ,j, tire three bundled in the colliery w heu the and Miller left for 1 ""a , cxplobion occurred perished. custody of ofSccrs fiom James YonW-t loved Aiinie ii. .i.t. . ' -t.,. "f ; man. but thenl.t r.?,Y C"Z?rf ". . wheieupmi some thi,JrF"d ?V -J took the matter in haul JT wedding, sent for a liP, ' V f , ana pteventad ti, ;., " "'t.-J tert.ig the roora i,n ' ? n't f.' When she was admi...,. ' maniac, and had to h .,JVM from Injuring hei k If ,, . ' Unless there isan.li''!, t! ' :' ditio,, it ni i, utct, " !. K, mad-house. tu ii l. A dispatch f.oni Ir,dil, ovei boai d. 1 he eai,t,: - ' men eie taken f ti ' ' ,a ' America fNorA ? to El&inore. and ' "' h T-i . ""irrt:l at ' The Anna -was !...; i. ,at'-i at !'.r. . iifcisieiea h:n t f t!S ...! i . It HI. tT n. Claittornn V r...i. ' 1 ' e . . LKVI tney, w,s once (;m,1r ;, The most reniaiknhie t,,, . 1 5 Ilia life is rwrl ..... .. . . . 1 1 '; V sun riistiiir'nicNr.ri r . "-'., soon as one w ife wn;iU' dir. 1 ":" her sister in a ru-atle. ' t.o,, w,,l, ibemaitiagtst!,,,,; :f joke told at the ,.ewf .,.tM namely, that when 1 . Claih., you can have i,r The Hartford t ri it u ; ; i tlliri- ikiinl ll. ' ' t,.. , . - u a .too it. (n oioKen hia-1.V !.. ..,? . , . . Ti. w. c itiiinui.ri and Jna v c Childhood, but not lovers, rope a rear ago. She f -.' b;it the life dij not suit !ifr";l. i-d from it, ;is no-, j.- s ,,r!tMI A we;i!i hy stS Lih'v mont deacon js j.fc, i, He rlied ami waLitiied anrl now tne an:Ii i HS l.-ue i! . , nnd had her stom.icli a--, nas been found ihra-n. whose name is Smith. !, Mrs. ChampUn whoii,i!-Hdl T.-f 1 ; i last iMnr., are row j-i 11 1 !! ! s cettain prospect of the residence in tLe l-cnit. 11:1:17. f-. other than th? awn:;. Ll: r the poisoning, ;as ijCeT ,i..c,,.. the deacon aud his female f.:e: d sure to he convicTfj. TIkvIiu wicked "good" i'fj.!e :n Ne L;.. That JefTftstni Par ., c menus rf saline Anrltew l.i.i.;,'. the statement -f tiie Alia;:' " r.;; . a ta?etm?tit based en u, ?i. :i the bite ex Piesidetifs ft;-. tlise is a letter from dturu I'x Marsha?! hicioing a tleclva i.-i: lr Confederate officer, :li:it !:cii !' -command iu Ten:ie. e i:i "Ci. a was sent him by JefTeism P.v ?:: to a Conspiracy for n auicr :c A Johnson, then rri hrg y h rrt Washington ; and that in c .:?;; this waining the iK-ei n.'vrir ami ;aved Mj-. .T.h:isvn fi -i, :', t t of the Teuuessfeatis. it -cs :. It is hinted that Mr. : k . of this induced Lis koifhn t i Davis, Iu the c: iintsi.ii r st I':"'-. Sitnrday inortjirig .l.ioje r deretl a decision n the ?.)' .i ' grand jury fe-r ::t .: 'i . -n; i Hartrauft, Sicnt.i'y l i iy e;al I.atta. Maj t N 'n . ' . ton. It ill be lei'-en b 1 'i t i' A' tJetieral Lear, in l:i .:!:;. iu tiou to themotio'i. M iii -f 1 W. officiais narncd in the si'ip chief law iR;ocr of tht Si.t'.e applicatiO'i fortle a'.t.irlinH i.'J morning JuJge K rkj'.t ic c w rits. It was t:i: ie-; t A (teneral Icar woi;;i take ti.s Pup! eino Court on Moii.y. wt.ii ' f ol.tsir.ii g an ;trii!t-d;;iLt - -quest ion involved. On Saturday evrt.irj: VtJv-v named Frtnk Frey t!i'er.i iln .I ' -the National house i;t ! drawifjg a revolver, s! . " ployed there named (riV i' it''r Ife" then fired at an"t!.rr -JS- ti ikmc br is. :f I Upon leaving tliis 1'are 1 j named Neiley, but tie cf on his susprt'der ana then met Thomas t"rav. c ,! r'vc I and shot him in tie u I across the street, he s'.i-'t '-r " j Joseph Erney, the V. rtiw-f: body, lie then enteieil r ''"; ! fired one sliot there, hut ' any one, when lie s f -J named Sponsler, and in tV.e 'J.f ensued Fiev was hiuisclf sb-'' IC Noue of the victims r c'W' gerously hurt. Frey Lad 1" i....;i. .1 1 10. - T T - V V .rr't III ic OHmc - . then of Irotiton. and '"liu l then and now of C'incim fs . ... t, .1,1, V, in ent by which Mori: -- propei ty, real sud l-- . d in Eunvpc. to Maf' 'ration of IWWf-t iC- ' all his here and consideration of f Their idea was : Morris micht live tliereaf''. 1 " agreement was mane following Morris went to "7-, there in May of the t.f it heirs of Mort is have brer-cH ; V the agreement set asidf . aveo' ; value was ever leeeived h ' and that the parties wore in: ' , time the paper was ecu fendant claims that tlie c' ' . good faith, and that l e fruitless search for Mn ' ' x him the fui installment el . -lis' estate is valued at ?!' , A pic-antic s' indie 3',,' light at Kansas City. M''- '!', the artist of J. R. Ham, U .ti I-.-. veus and Geo. . Mnier. , tiou of Gov. Hubbaid, vt Khh forging land tl lf td f(lf j, nlent deds for larpe ucJ..tr Texas. 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