CARLISLE, PA.,
Thursday Morning, November 10, 18GS.
THE NEXT CONGRESS.
It is now. certain that the Radical Ja
cobins will not he able to muster a two
thirds vote in the House of Represen
tatives after the meeting of the forty
first Congress. The next House will, we
think, ho composed of 144 Radicals and
85 Democrats—a gain to the Democrats
of 48 members. The brains of the
House too, are on the Democratic side,
a number of the ablest Democratic
statesmen in the Union having been
elected members. Among them wo may
mention Woodward, Foster and Getz of
Pennsylvania, Cox and Brooks of New
York, Voorhees, Holman and Kerr of
Indiana, Marshall of Illinois, Eldridge
of Wisconsin, Beck of Kentucky, Swann
of Maryland, and many others whose
names we cannot now recall.
It is well for the Democrats, then,
well for the country, that the two-thirds
Radical majority in the House has been
wiped out. But for their two-thirds
majority, the Radicals would have been
comparatively powerless during the last
two sessions of Congress. The Presi
dent, in obedience to his oath of office
and his duty to the country, returned,
with his objections, to Congress, every
unconstitutional measure passed by that
treasonable body. But the President’s
objections were hooted at, and the men
who boasted that they cared nothing
for the passed the objec
tionable measures in defiance of the
President’s will. The two-thirds ma
jority was sufficient for all purposes of
outrage and wrong, it was a power at
once irresisfable and defying, and never
did despots use a power with more re
lentless fury.
But this two-thirds vote, as we have
said, has been swept away, and should
Gen. Grant see fit to hold Congress to
constitutional legislation, his vetoes
cannot be overridden, as were those of
Andrew Johnson. We hope he may
prove to be a wise and moderate ruler.
If he should decide so to act, he will be
compelled to rely upon the Democratic
minority, for we do not believe the
Radicals will voluntarily pause in their
mad career. The country will look to
Gen. Grant for an example of moder
ation and true statesmanship. If he
exercises it, the people will give him
full credit, and no portion of the popu
lace will more cordially approve his
acts than the masses of the great Demo
cratic party.
A NEGBO CANDIDATE FOB COSGBEB9.
A letter dated Tallahasse, Florida.
Nov. 15, and published In the Philadel
phia Inquirer, says:
“ Saunders, the Independent colored candi
date for Congress, in quite a lengthy circular to
the voters of the State of Florida, denounces the
nomination of Hamilton by the Republicans, os
a fraud npon the colored voters, and says Hamil
ton’s supporters boasted of having cheated the
colored Republicans of their choice. Saunders,
In an article dated Headquarters Union League
of Florida, and addressed to the members of the
League, says the Republican Nominating Con
vention have put up i» man whose name alone
Insures defeat, and calls on the colored Republi
cans to send a live black man to the next Con
gress. Saunders signed himself ‘ Grand Presi
dent of the Union League of Florida.' ’’
Saunders, we see it stated, is a large,
muscular negro, of pure blood—black
ns a crow. He was formerly a slave,
and a cotton picker by profession. He
can neither read nor write, but is nev
ertheless about as intelligent as tiie oth
er “earnest Republicans” who infest
the State of Florida. He should be sent
to Congress, by ail means, for we have
no doubt he is a better man than some
others who will occupy seats in that
once dignified body. Being a negro,
and very ignorant, should secure his
election over Hamilton, the white car
pet-bag candidate. Ignorance and a
black skin are passports to greatness
these times. “ Equality of the races
must now be insisted on,” says Forney
of the .Press. So he it then. Gen. Grant
is indebted to the negroes for his elec
tion'; without their votes he would have
been defeated. The negroes, therefore,
must share the spoils; they must be
sent to Congress to make laws for white
people to live under. “Up with the
nigger; down with white men,” should
be the motto of every Union League
in the land. We repeat, then, that
Saunders, the black, should be elected
to Congress in preference to Hamilton,
the white carpetrbagger. We are op
posed to carpet-baggers, whether we
find them North or South.
THE FLORIDA OCTKAOE.
Fearful that they would be beaten in
Florida, even over the bayonet and
over the negro vote, the Radical mana
gers at Washington caused the negro
and carpet-bag Legislature to pass an
act vesting in themselves the choice of
Presidential Electors, and taking it
away from the people altogether! One
of the electors is a negro. There is no
language in which such an act of ras
cality can be sufficiently condemned.—
Only the most scandalous party would
entertain such an idea for a moment.
It is robbery of the people of their high
est and dearest right. What would
have been thought if the present Dem
ocratic Legislature of Ohio had refused
to allow her people to vote for Presi
dent, and, like that in Florida, had
chosen the Electors themselves ? Such
an act would have led to forcible revo
lution among her population.
But this disfranchisement of Florida
by a coup d’etat upon the part of the
so-called Legislature is worthy of the
party which totally disfranchised Vir
ginia, Mississippi and Texas by a pre
tended act of Congress; and which in
Tennesse, Missouri and all the old slave
States, rules by the power of the bayon
et and other acts of revolutionary vio
lence. There is nothing that this party
will not dp to retain its ill-gotten and
usurped power. It has the desperation
of the old French Jacobin organization,
without its honesty or manliness.
The population of Pennsylvania has
recently been estimated by a compari
son of the election returns of 18G0 and
1868. In 1860, the vote polled for Elec
tors for president, was 476,442 to a popu
lation of 2,906,115, as obtained from the
census returns. In 1868 the vote for
Auditor General reached 653,155, which
would give a present population of
3,083,997 souls. Applying the same
ratio to Philadelphia, it appears that in
1860 there were 76,707 votes polled to a
population of 568,034, and that in 1808
the 121,458 votes cast would indicate a
population of 809.426. In 1860, the por
centage of voters to the population was
16.4 in the State, and only 13.5 in Phila
phia.
“NOW FOB NEGRO SUFFRAGE.”
Already the Radical wing of the Re
publican party is at work planning the
accomplishment of its favorite design,
the enfranchisement of the negro in all
the States. Sumner, Phillips and But
ler, are each sounding the beauties of
“universal brotherhood,” or “univer
sal negro suffrage,” the necessity of the
people being “educated up” to this
point, or rather forced up to it, by the.
enactment of a general law or the
amendment of the Constitution in such,
a manner as to secure this result.
Tiie dangers attending such scheme
do not for a moment deter these s elf
opinionated gentlemen. Trollope some
time since well expressed these dangers
when he warned the English bond
holders to beware of repudiation shoul d
the blacks get the balance of power In
this country. All know the lack of
Commercial honor in the negroes.—
Should the question of repudiatic >n
over be sprung, the most effective fiel id
for the demagogues would be amoi ig
the blacks. The better class, of tl le
white population will hardly vote for
repudiation ; yet none can deny that
finances resting on a basis of '.100,00.0
debased negro votes, these semi-’oarba r
ous.beings having the power to amen d,
annu), or even annihilate any law re
lating to said finance, is far Morn se
cure or altogether reliable.
This country to-day is in an un&et-
tied and inflamabie condition. Is; it
wise or safe then to place the balai ice
of power in the national and State gov
ernments in the hands of Congo negi -cos,
so ignorant; that, uniikeany other people
on the known earth, there is a special
department of government aliotto d to
keep them, like froward children, from
tumbling into the fire, and thus in
vito the condition of affairs so much
dreaded? Onational safety'certainly
does not require the votes of these bar
barians. Our national security will be
at least endangered by sui.Vlenly giving
them control of affairs. The general
principle of government, “ tho greatest
good to the greatest number,” and self
preservation as a nation, alike protest
against the doctrines of the Radical ex
tremists. Well wrought theories ap
pear well enough in print, and may
find their place during the millcnium.
But it is with the practical we have in
this age to deal, though we may be liv
ing, as Whittier would say, in. a grand
and awful time. It is far easier to
adapt a government to the people, than
force a people to adapt themselves to a
government. When the negroes cease
to be a burden upon the national tre.os
nry, it will be time enough to cry cut
“ universal suffrage” for them. 'When
they exhibit sufficient financial ability
to support themselves, it wjll be tin ie
enough to ask that they may be tdlowetl
to legislate in behalf of the financial
interests of the nation. When they ex
-1 hibit an appreciation of- law, it will be
time enough to make 0 f them Judges,
Legislators, Governors and Presidents.
Just now, however, the good of tiie
country, financially, morally, govern
mentally, a r ~d in fact in all respects,
demands that tho negro should not
have tire franchise. The white men of
this country should assuage tiie present
difficulty or present perturbed state,
by white ballots alone. To drag in bar
barian hordes at such a time is a humili
ation and disgrace to American civili
zation.
TIIE NEGRO XO HAVE A VOTE.
When Democrats have charged that
it was the purpose of the Radicals, so
soon as they obtained another lease of
power, to establish universal negro suf
frage throughout the United States, it
was denounced as a ““Copperhead lie.”
Let us see what the Radicals now say
about It themselves. Since the election
the N. Y. Tribune has contained the fol
lowing announcement’:
’ “Uneof the first measures that will be Intro
duce! into Congress ou its assembling In Decem
ber, will be a constitutional amendment provid
ing for the regulation of Suffrage tbroughouttbe
UulieitStates. A bill will go through without a
doubt, and the Legislatures of two-thirds of tho
Stales being Republican, the amendment will be
rutliled, unci the question of suffrage settled for
ever. A piomlnenl member of. Congress has al
ready prepared such an amendment in the shape
of a bill, which he will introduce on the tlrst day
of the session."
Forney, in his JPrets, sounds the bugle
call as follows:
"The colored man holds the bond and pledge
of this country. Under the furnace-blast of war
we promised him freedom. We owe not the hol
low promise, lo be kept to the car and broken to
the hope; but the substantial thing—good meas
ure, full, pressed down, and running out. Let um
give it uow, and lot the Fortieth Ongresssnalch
the honor. Common Justi.-e, common humani
ty, aim common gratitude call on us now to en
franchise with the ballot the colored man in
every State. It can be done salely and success
fully. We have no Presidential election to im
peril now. We are on the wave of success. Let
us use It to flout the ship of state into quiet wa
ters—quiet because they are the great deep of jus
tice and of right.
Let the Fortieth Congress, in December, ns their
first and main work, propose an amendment lo
the Constitution conferring the power lo vote for
national purposes and ofllcers on colored men,
under equal conditions with while men, and sub
mit it to the people, under the fifth article. Three
fourths of the States would rush l<> ratify it, and
another l»urel, ever green and glorious, would
be added to the enduring honors of our great
.party.”
When it is remembered that this very
party announced in their platform that
in the North the question of suffrage be
longed of right to the Stales exclusively ,
it will bo seen how honestly their pro
fession compares with their practice.—
Well, we did our duty. We warned
the people not to be deceived by the
specious declarations of the Chicago plat
form, and if they can stand negro suf
frage we guess we can.
“ The Surratt case Is ended, he having escaped
by the icclmlcnUtles of the law. We suppose
Jeff Davis, the greatest criminal of the age, will
manage to escape in the same manner. No oth
er government in the world would permit such
lenity to criminals; and yev the late rebels com
plain that they are harshly treated.”— Radical
paper.
The reason why Jefferson Davis has
never been tried is well known. It was
the fear that certain evidence might
come out implicating a number of prom
inent Radicals in the disunion move
ment. It is a part of history that Brute
Stanton and Beast Butler w-ero among
the first secessionists in this country.—
They occupied more of Jeff Davis’ time
in talking over the matter and propo
sing plans for a dissolution of the Union
than any other two men. Had Davis
been tried, as he should have been,
there would have been an unearthing
of secrets that would have astounded
the world. No, Davis will never he
tried so long as Stanton and Butler live,
and the Radicals hold power.
As for Surratt, his “case is ended,”
*
sure enough. There was not one single
particle of evidence against him, and
therefore he could not ho convicted by
a court of Justice. Had he been tried
by a military court—a court selected by
Stanton, and composed of his tools—of
course he would have been convicted
and hanged, just as his innocent moth
er was. “When Mrs. Surratt was hang
ed a murder was committed,” said But
-lor--to-Bingham,-and-this_wus-trne.;-aniL
should the conspirators who murdered
her escape punishment in this-world,
they will not escape in the next.
GOV. OEART AND TOE U. It. SENATE,
The Jiric^ llepublicon of a recent date
having urged the use of Gov. Geary’s
name as a candidate for the United
States Senate, that gentleman replies in
a letter as follows:
PTNNSYHVANIA JhXKCI'TIVK t’HAMIIEU, >
Hahhisbuuo, Pa, Not. H, ISGS. ;
Jb- the Editor o/Ute Erie lirpuhlican :
T)kau Siu:—ln >mir i-upur of Frblay, October
YMli lit 1 lie Icailcr, innlcr the nipilon of ‘•'Who is
to in* senator •*" I ohservu ’mi have brought 10r
w.0.1. ;r. eom.iftioii iviiu the name of several
honorable «eut k'liiun. my name as candidate for
Iho position of United WtiUe-s Senator. I bi*g
leave to return my sincere thank* for the ardent,
and, I may say. Haltering manner In which you
have referred to me. But in the spirit of frank
ness L desire to say, that, having already given
my friends permission to use me as a candidate
for re-election to the ortlce of Governor, J cannot
permit the farther use of my name ns a candi
date for an ollicb for which X have not been, am
not now, ami will not be an aspirant.
Yours very truly.
John \V. Geaky.
General Governor Geary has gracious
ly permitted his friends not to use his
jiame, but to use (mo) himself, not as a
candidate for re-nomination but re-elec
tion for the office he now holds. This
gracious oondocension will he gratefully
remembered, especially by the candi
dates for United States Senator. They
will now draw a long breath—and ex
perience a sense of relief, beautiful to
behold. Men of Pennsylvania, do not
despair, Geary will not desert you as
long as there is a dollar in the Treasury!
jSy A negro Convention was held at
Harrisburg a few days since, for the pur
pose of considering political questions,
and particularly the question jof equali
ty with the whites. The negroes, in their
first resolution, say that the Declaration
of Independence declares “ that all men
are created free and equal.” The Dec
laration of Independence, declares no
such thing, and we venture to say that
the ignorant white man who wrote the
resolutions for the negro Convention
never road the Declaration of Indepen
dence in'his life. The negroes hud bet
ter go to work, instead o( loafing aliout
towns holding Conventions, ihe Rad
icals have been dee-aving them witii
promises of “ equality,” but the people
of Pennsylvania, like the people of Ohio,
will say “ no,”, to their demands. Our
wives and daughters cannot vote, an”
Mr. Nigger shall not.
Forney made a speecli on the night
of the late election, in which he asked
his hearers to “ watch” the steady de
cline of gold from that hour up to the
inauguration of President Grant. Gold
was then selling at 1.152. It is now quo
ted at 1.303. We are “ watching.”
Earthquake in New Jersey.—At
Elizabethtown, N. J., on the night of
the 15th inst., four-distinct shocks of
earthquake were felt. Tiie shocks con
tinued some twenty seconds, and chairs,
tables, beds and other articles of furni
ture swayed too and fro.
A number of tire leading Radical
journals are advocating an increase of
the President’s salary. After the 4th of
March, (the day Gen.. Grant’s term
commences,) they think the President’s
salary should be 5100,000 per annum,
inste ad of $25,000, as at present.
Give Us tiie f. atlntics of Disfranchise'
incut.
lu t.lie States of Virginia, North Caro
lina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida,
Alaba ma, Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas,
Arkai isas, Missouri, West Virginia, ami
Tenmisso there are restrictions upon
nili/ei iship into the particulars whereof
it is h oped the several Democratic State
Coum litte.-s will at once inquire.
inipor lance ol a precise exhibit of the
mami' ir in which, under the sounding
lilies of Kqual Klglits, Universal Sul-
Iruge, and so on, the .franchises of the
citizen are invaded, and of the extent to
which such invasion is carried, can hard
ly be lou earnestly impressed on tho-e
who, by local knowledge, are best fitted
to furnish such intoruiatioii.
In the immediate future those great
questions of right have been so cunning
ly blinked by the party nominating Gen
eral Grant are destined to reassert their
claims to the best attention ol the Ameri
can people. In itself this election has
settled nothing beyond the mere prefer
ment of General Grant to the Presiden
cy ; and as the destinies of this country
ar® not as yet, thank God, in the hollow
of anyone man's hand, it must bo at
onee evident that issues temporarily slur
red over must be settled upon their mer
its, and not lo the good will and pleasure
of a single personage. To prepare an ac
curate statement, therefore, of all such
legislation, whether by Congress or the
putative rttute governments, as debars
the citizen from citizenship in whole or
jun t,andto supply such statement with
tabular exhibits ot the number bei eft by
this or that edict of this or that birth
right, is the lirst duty of the committee
above named, or of any private persons
iu the thirteen abused States who may
have it iu their power so to do. In the ef
fort, it is almost a work of supeiogatiou
to say that the exactest cure Is desirable so
that the scrutiny these exhibits will en
counter may be successfully met. Noth
ing extenuate, nor sot down aught in
malice. — World.
PERSONAL.
—Tad Lincoln goes to school at Wies
baden.
—Jefferson is playing Rip Van Winkle
at Detroit.
—Dan Rice backs time against Weston
for $20,000.
—General .McClelan has been chosen
President of the University of California.
—General Sherman will lake the place
of General Grant as General-in-Chief.
—Ex-Governor David Tod of Ohio, died
very suddenly last week.
—A volume of Artemu.s Ward’s un
published jokes is being prepared for the
press.
—lt la stated that the widow of the late
President Jamea K. Polk is in straighten
ed circumstances.
—The.safety of Dr. Livingston is now
placed beyond doubt.
—lt is denied that General Lee is to
have a place in General Grant's cabinet.
—Brigham Young is said to be the
third largest depositor in the Bank of
.England.
—Governor Orr, of South Carolina, has
given up his project of going to Missouri
to live.
—Pope Pius IX, is suffering from the
gout; Isabella 11, from the go-out.
- The story comes from Paris that
Louis Napoleon has a son in New York.
—Dr. Livingston, it is said, may ar
rive. in England before tho new year.
—General Itobert E* Leo has been of-
fered the Southern supervisorship of
agencies of the Knickerbocker Life In
surance Company, with salary of $lO,OOO.
—Mrs. Partington (P. B. Shillaber) was
a Democratic candidate for the Massa
chusetts Legislature, and was defeated.
—The President has appointed Arthur
D* Markley Collector Sixth District,
Pennsylvania, vice. A. B. Longaker, re
signed.
—Weston is reported to begetting ready
to walk GOOD miles In one hundred days,
from Maine to Minnesota. .
—Senator Pomeroy walked through the
streets of Leavenworth, Kansas, recently,
bareheaded, he having vowed to do so if
Leavenworth county should give a Re
publican majority*
—^Tlro~Eirgllslr~papers~say*that~Glad :
atone is now equal to tho average Ameri
can Congressman. He can make a five
column speech every day.'
-Gen. James Shields, the hero ami
patriot has been elected to C .ingress from
one of the Missouri districts, by a majori
ty of SSB—a Democratic gain.
—Anson Burlingame's Chinese name is
Pocau-Chen— Chin-ehi-choong-jen tach
en, the pronunciation' of which an En
glish paper sneeringly compared to a
long sneeze.
—The second trial of George W. Cole
for lie- murder ot ].. Ji acock, commenc
ed last wee:;, at Albany.
M-. McPherson lias settled up like es
tate of Thaddetta Stevens, and finds that
about one-hundred thousand dollars will
remain after the payment of the debts.
—lt Is said that General Grant will not
resign his military office until just previ
ous to Ilia inauguration, and that he will
strongly urge the appointment of Gen
eral Sherman to be his successor.
—Louisa Mulbnch Is poor. She says
she would like to have money enough to
buy a small house and garden, which she
might leave to her two daughters, it
seems as though some prosperous book
publisher might give her a house and
garden.
—Poor old Santa Anna has come to
final grief. His plots against the Juarez
government having been discovered, he
is ordered to leave Havana within thirty
days, under sentence of perpetual ban
ishment. He is now so poor that he is
unable to pay his passage to this country.
• —Two weeks ago Mr. Edwin Forrest
paid, through Jay Cooke, at Philadel
phia, $05,000, the amount in full of the
accumulated alimony due to his late wife
under the decision in the divorce decree,
which has at last been made final. Mr.
Forrest has expended, it is estimated,
upwards of $300,000 in this painful di
vorce suit.
—The young man Bower, who put
atroyid belladonna into a prescription, in
Philadelphia, instead of assafcctida,
whereby Mrs. Hecht came to her death,
has become insane and left that city. It
is believed that lie will commit suicide.
The allair still excites general attention
among the physicians and apothecaries
of Philadelphia.
—The executors of the late Ex-Prcsi
dont Buchanan have contracted with one
nt i .* prominent marble workers in
pii ... .eii-iua lor the erection of a monu
ment over his grave. It will be a solid
l,|oek of Italian marble, live feet high,
seven feet one inch long, and throe feet
seven inches will.. The top ami bottom
wi i 11,1 v*• iit W .\ mouldings, and the
>tnne will be enriched with a wreath of
o-ik lea>.- and acorns around the entire
Mii'iiee. The monument will be plain,
rich ami durable.
—General George B. McClellan is one
of the engineers engaged in constructing
the bridge across the Hudson at the
Highlands. The Newark Courier says
that the executors of Edwid A. Stevens’
estate have employed him, at an annual
salary of $lO,OOO a year, to superintend
the completion of the famous Stevens
battery at Hoboken, which when afloat,
is to bo tendered as a free gift to the
State of New Jersey.
—A very intimate personal friend of
Mr. Seward says that he is making ar
rangements to retire trom public life at
an early day, and that but for the still
unadjusted Alabama claims, his resigna
tion would take effect on the Ist 06 Jan
uary next. According to the same au
thority the venerable statesman intends
to quit Auburn, and spend the remain
der of his days in New York city. He
has the purchase of an elegant mansion
in Madison avenue in contemplation.
MISCELLANEOUS.
—Swine eat negro babies in Savannah.
—A Portland firm has made 24,000
planchettes.
—The Pacific locomotives run into buf
faloes occasionally.
—Fifty-five business houses in Chicago
have just failed.
—Shooting buffaloes from car windows
is a favorite sport on the Union Pacific.
—Six miles a day is the rate of truck
laying on the Pacific Railroad.
—California has jiulded $00,000,000 in
gold and silver in leu years.
Another English clergyman’b (laugh
ter ha« marrieil her father’s coachman.—
She brings him $250,000.
Michigan ha« a man of IDU, and Og
denshurg, New York, one 10L», now liv-
Fish were hoiled in the ocean off
Chili in the earthquake of August last.
—lt is said that the most appropriate
dance for a tin wedding is, the —can-can.
- There will be a total eclipse of the
sun next year, visible in many parts of
the United States.
—A telegraph cable has been laid across
East river, between New York and
Brooklyn.
- The* great plains of the West are al
most covered with buffaloes, on their
way southward lor the winter.
—Gold is found in twenty-five coun
ties in North Carolina, and the annual
yield is estimated at 8500,000.
—A “ Honeymoon Car" is to be placed
on the Pacific railway, when completed,
for the benefit of bridal parties,
-The ninehundredth milepost on the
don Pacific Railroad, west of Omaha,
} been.passed.
—A German philosopher predicts that
Europe and .America will be submerged
in 500,000,000 years, and no one dares con
tradict him.
—The Paci fte railroad is employing an
army of fence builders; fences being
neccessary to keep the animals off the
tracks.
—The Boston Journal says: “ There is
a gentleman at the South End who bears
so strong a resemblance to Gen. Grant
that office seekers look atbim longingly."
—A Mississippi lady recently shot ami
killed a truly loyal negro who attempted
an outrage upon her.
—The London streets, placed in a sin
gle straight line would reach from Liver-
pool to Now York. It takes MU,OOO
street illuminate Loudon.
of the newspaper discuss
ion concerning the adulteraatlon of milk,
Punch gives his opinion that the best ar
ticle on milk is—cream.
—Only 400 souls out of 40,000 survived
the earthquake nt Equador. A whole dis
trict was swallowed up in an instant and
Is now covered by a lake.
—A letter from Spain- says that the
portrait of Washington has been placed
in front of the town hall of Barcelona, in
place of the picture of Isabella, torn
down.
—Moses Smith, a colored man, died at
Washington, D. C., last week, at the ex
treme age of 120 years. Deceased was
formerly a slave, His wife is still living,
who is nearly as old as her late husband
and their youngest born is now 00 years
of age.
—ln Boxbnry, Massachusetts a cradle
and a coffin factory ace located side. by
side. The name of the town may per
haps account for this coincidence, Box
standing for the cradles, and bury for the
coffin.
—A man jumped from the roof of a
hotel in Baltimore, and a woman In
Cambria, Pennsylvania, hung herself
with a bed-cord. Life had too many
troubles for them.
state in:.iis.
—Altoona is to have a skating rink,
—Lancaster is to have a ditto,
—Perry M. Hunter, an extensive
woolen manufacturer nt Norristown,
committed suicide last Thursday morn
ing by shooting himself.
—There is a man in South-western
Pennsylvania who has walked ninety
years on a crutch.
——Colonel—Drake who-suuk-tho“first
oil well on Oil Creek, and gave the world
the benefit of his discovery, is at Titus
ville living in extreme destitution.;
PBNJISTI.VANU-eoHPI.ETE EL
ECTION RETURNS, ISOS.
Wo give below the full official vote
of every county in the State. In Phil
adelphia, the Radical board of canvas
sers threw out several thousand, votes
cast for Seymour
AUD. Gun. 1 I’JUISIDKNT
COUNTIES.
Adams
Allegheny..
Armstrong.
Heaver....
Bedford..
Berks
Blair..
Bradford,
Bucks
■Cumbria
Cameron.
Carbon....
Contn
Chester...
Clarion...,
Clearfield
Clinton
Columbia.....
Crawford
Cumberland.
Dauphin
Delaware
E1k...,
Erie..
Fayette....
Franklin.
Fulton
Forest
Greene
Huntingdon.
Indiana
Jefferson
Juniata
Lancaster
Lawrence.....
Lebanon
Lehigh
Luzerne
Lrcoming....
M’Kean
Mercer
.Mlfllln
Monroe
Montgomery
Montour
Northampton
Northumbe land.
Terry.
Philadelphia
Tike...
Potter
Schuylkill
Snyder
somerset
Sullivan
Susquehanna.
Tioga.
Venango
Warren -
Washington
Wavnc
Westmoreland
Wyoirting
York
Totals.
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Majorities.
POLITICAL.
Mr. Seward voted for Geueral Grant,
—Seymour’s minority in the State ol
Delaware Is 3,234.
—Forney writes columns to show that
he, and he alone, has claims upon the
gratitude of Grant.
—Tennessee elects two Democratic
Congressmen, Sheatle and Leftwich.
—The Philadelphia Bulletin has nomi
nated Grant for President in 1872.
—Gen. Grant has ordered ids Secreta
ry to make “ cigar lighters" out of all ap
plications for office.
is not yet ascertained which oueoi
the,Washburnes will go into the Cabi
net.
—lt is said that Colfax will ask for the
appointment of Ben Wade for Secretary
of the Interior.
—Johnson, Democrat, iselected to Con
gress from the Northern California Dis
trict by a small majority.
Blaine, of Maine, hopes to he the next
Speaker of the House of Representatives.
—Spoony Butler is to be the mongrel
leader in Congress. A lit choice. He is
a true type of tile thieving crew.
—Tlie New York Times is out in favor
of increasing the salary of President
Grant, from 623,000 per annum to 6100,-
000. Is this to be the commencement of
the economy promised ?
—lt is predicted that President John
nn will receive the Democratic nomina
ion for Governor of Tennessee.
—For the Senalorship from New York,
besides Edwin D. Moigan, the pre
sent Senator, it is announced that
John A. Griswold, Horace Greeley and
Win, M. Everts are candidates.
—John Morrissey has more than eleven
thousand majority in the Fifth New
Vork District. George Francis Train re
ceived twenty-five hundred and fifty
votes.
H o c a l Items
Death of George W- Sheaffer. —
By reference to our obituary column it
will be seen that our respected townsman,
Mr. George W. Sheaffer, died at his resi
dence, on Thursday of last week. As a
citizen and neighbor, Mr. S. was genial,
kind and liberal. To the poor especially,
he was a benefactor, tpul to the commu
nity at large a man of enterprise, whose
views were always respected. Previous
to his decline in health, he was the soul
of the Cumberland County Agricultural
Society, of which he was tho Treasurer ;
and to his untiring efforts the Society was
indebted for its prosperity ami stability.
All in all, Mr. Sheaffer was a most wor
thy and hospitable cit.zcn, whose death
will be lamented by all who had the
pleasure of an intimate acquaintance
with him. Peace to his ashes.
DiAtii of Judge Line. —Hpn. Win.
Line, who was an Associate Judge for
this county many years ago, (appointed
to that position, we believe, by Governor
Ritner,) died at his residence, in this
borough, on Saturday last. For many
years previous to his last illness, he de
voted his entire attention to the nursery,
botany and floral business, in which he
took great delight. He was a gentleman
of strong mind and will, a fond neighbor
and true friend, who had the respect and
confidence of the many hundreds .who
transacted business with him. Pcquies
catinpacc.
A Trip to Holly.— ln a Saturday
afternoon’s jaunt, last week, we paid a
flying visit toMt. Holly,said “ how are
you?” to mine host Mullin, at the
Springs, took a look at the machinery
in the magnificent new mill of the Mt.
Holly Paper Company, and were pleas
ed to notice a largo force of laborers at
work oh the rail-road. About the time
the mills are closing and the street is
filled with men and women going to
their homes, Holly looks likl> a very
energetic little place. Its thrift and en
terprise almost make Carlisle folks
blush for the sluggisnness of their com
munity.
“ All’s Well That Ends Well.”
—On Sabbath evening, Bth inst., a cow
belonging to George Cameron, of this
place, fell through the floor of a well on
the farm of Leonard Gutshall, in North
Middleton township. The well was
some twenty or thirty feet deep, and
the water in it eight or nine feet deep.
Strange to say, after her [first plunge,
the cow came to the surface of the wa
ter, when some one went down and held
her head up whilst ropes were fastened
around her body, and she was lifted to
terrcfjirma perfectly safe and sound.
Jjgy The editors of the Herald think
the miscegenations part of Anna Dick
inson’s book remarkably fine reading.—
Well—every one to his taste.
The Newspaper in the Family.—
It is not every one who appreciates ns it I
should be tho value of a family newspa
per. Its visitations into the home cir
cle are at all times interesting and agree
able. It is a friend and companion that
is not easily dispensed with. To the
seeker after knowledge it is ever wel
come. Tlio father, mother and child all
like to hear and read the news of tho
week. Their paper is looked upon as
an invaluable educator in the family—
It will instruct how to read, how to
think and how to uso and value facts. —
It is often a sure guide in business. It
generally contains information of a
practical character upon almost every
topic. The-farmer gets information
from its columns, in reference tn the
markets and his business, worth ten
times its actual cost. The. housewife
■receives hints in reference to household
affairs. The' interests of tho communi
ty are always sustained by a live, pro
gressive newspaper. The laboring man
Is benefitted by its teachings and the
man of ivealth and property is cared for
in its instructions. , The newspaper is
also a pleasant literary companion.—
While you read over its well filled pa
ges, it seems like holding con verse wills
a familiar and intelligent friend. It
enlightens tire mind and understand
ing. It improves the heart, fft ele
vates the soul and enlarges tho affec
tions. No one should be without a well
conducted, carefully edited newspaper.
It is the companion of our solitude, tho
consoler of our spirits, a true and valued
friend, whose presence has a refining in-
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The Opening op Business.—Now
is the time to advertise. Now that the
Presidential election is over, people
will be ready to settle down to practical
business. Housekeeper* will be pro
viding for family wants, and merchants
laying in stocks of fresh goods to meet
the demands whiah are sure to be made
upon them. Those who have merchan
dize to dispose of should take advan
tage of this favorable state of affairs,
and do as the politicians have been do
ing-keep themselves before the people.
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The columns of the Volunteer are
open to all such! We cordially invite
business men and business women of
all kinds to avail themselves of the
golden opportunity promptly, and to
as great an extent as their purses will
allow or their business will justify.—
No money is so well invested as that
expended in judicious advertising.
A Rolling Mill.— We hear it whis
pered that a company of capitalists,
from Beading we believe, are looking
into the feasibility of establishing ex
tensive iron works at this place. We
hope the rumor may not prove to bo all
smoko, or rather, we hope that some
smoke may come of it. The time was
when the people of Carlisle seemed to be
afraid of the dust and dirt of manufac
tories, and opposed to the noise and
bustle of business communities. Not
only did our capitalists decline doing
anything to develop our resources, but
cold water was thrown upon all enter
prises proposed by foreign capitalists.—
Thank fortune this spirit lias died out.
Young progress has killed old fogyism.
There is an activity and enterprise no
ticeable in this community now, such as
has never been known before.
A New Literary Paper.—Wo un
derstand that Messrs. S. M. Pettengill
& Co., tho well-known New York ad
vertising agents, intend issuing a new
Literary Weekly Newspaper, about the
first of January next, to be called the
“ Hearth and Home." It will be under
tho editorial control of Donald G.
Mitchell (“ Iko Marvel,”) and will
have, as contributors, some of the best
literary talent of this country. If they
display as much energy and tact in
their newspaper as they do in adver
tising business, it will not be long'be
fore it will take rank, both in merit
and circulation, with the most popular
literary publications in the country.—
We wish them success in their new en
terprise.
A Fine Picture.—We are indebted
to Lerue Lemer, of Harrisburg, for a
fine photograhpic representation of the
General Assembly of the Presbyterian
Church.which mol.at Harrisburg.in May
last, containing portraits of the minis
ters and elders in attendance. So far as
we are able to judge, the likenesses are
accurate and life-like, and tho entire
picture, containing several hundred fa
ces, is gotten up in tho highest style of
the photographic art, and is of such con
venient sine and comesatsuch moderate
rates as to ho within tho reach of all who
wish to preserve the portraits of the
loading clergymen of this branch of the
church.
How to Get Bion in Fifty Years.
—The poorest laboring man that can
save 13} cents per day, put at compound
interest will save in one year $5O, in ten
years SGSO, in twenty years $l,BOO, in
thirty years $3,950, in forty years $7,700,
in fifty years, $14,600. Who could not
do better than this if he would try?—
Constant labor would enable every la
boring man or mechanic to make a for
tune by saving but a fraction of his dai
ly earnings.
Improvements at the College.—
Extensive improvements are being
made at Dickinson College. Gas and
water have been introduced into por
tions of it, anew fence bas been built
around the North and West sides of the
campus, a new pavement is being laid,
and there seems to be a general “ brush
ing up.” We trust the outside of the
College buildings will be treated to a
coat of paint, before the good work cea
ses. They look venerable, but decided
ly rusty.
The Lecture Season.— Why is it
that arrangements are not made to get
a course of Lectures for the Winter sea
son. The Young Men’s Christian Asso
ciation, or the Good Templars migM
make arrangements for a series of lec
tures by prominent lecturers, and make
a handsome profit for themselves out of
it. Surely in a community which lays
such high claims to intellectual culture,
a course of lectures ought to be richly
remunerative.
I. O. G. T.—The semi-annual session
of the Cumberland Valley Good Tem
plars’ Convention will be held at
Waynesboro,’ Eranklin county, com
mencing Wednesday, the 28th inst.—
Delegates from-tho several Lodges in
Cumberland, Franklin and Pulton
counties will be in attendance.
Bunn' MK.vnoN.-Tho Empire Hook
and Ladder House la under roof, and will
he ready for the Truck
The Good-Wlll-ore arehavingnblastod
rooky time of it in excavating the cel
lar for the hall of their new building.
Professor Himes will lecture In
Ilheeni’B Hall, on Friday evening, on the
11 Properties of the Atmosphere.
An interesting lecture on “ Peasant
Life in no'hmcl,” was delivered in the
„urnn church, Juat Tuesday night.
Grunt will ho troubled with a‘dozen or
more applications for the Post Office In
this place, on the part of a number of
patriotic gentlemen, who are anxious to
serve their country for a small considers-
Tt e town council and the janitor of the
Ourl House have come to terms, and the
dials of the town clock are again llluml-
ic friends of George L. Gouoher, Esq,
“ the champion bill poster," will be
gratified to learn' that he has returned
from bis recent visit to Philadelphia, in
vigorated and refreshed.
The year 18119 will be honored with an
eclipse of lb* 3 sun, which will occur, on
the afternoon of August 7th, and will be
total, nit a line drawn from Alaska to
South Carolina, and partial in other
parts of the country.
A simple epitaph in St. Pancras
Churchyard is touchingly commemora
tive of the gluttony of a husband and the
grief of his widow :
Elisa sorrowing, rears this marble slab
To her do ir Joan, who died of eating crab.”
At a recent Teachers’ Convention held
in Boston, a well-known oculist called
attention to tile fact that near-sightedness
in children is much more common than
has generally been supposed.. He points
out that teachers and parents frequently
punish children for carelessness and idle
ness, while the apparent faults are real-
ly (lie effect of defective vision. The
iceiuiei staled that many persons born
wiili a •digbl tendency to " myopia" ae
imil ly became short-sighted by injudi
cious and constant study.
A man was found lying in an uptown
guitar (Im other day, and on being rous
ed to consciousness ami asked to explain
how lie came there, gm oil the following
by way of explanation :
• Loaves have Uielr Him) to fall,
Ami so llkowme do 1;
Thu reason, ton's tin- .same.
It comes ol dry !
tlun-u's this dllleroncu, iwlxt Icmivo-j and mo
falls move harder and more irmiucntly
Mr. Charles H. Wvhh, >aw I lie
Grecian head at Saratoga, and i!m< eele
bralcs It In immortal verse ;
When lovely woman stoops to frolic,.
Anti rues tho ruse, alas! 100 late,
What halm shall heal her melancholic?
Whai art Khali set her back up straight?
Tho onlv thing for her disaster—
The only way her woe to end
Is to apply a mustard plaster;
If she won’t do it, lot her bond.
This Fading of
The harvest is past the summer Is ended."
To the Inver of nature there is a melnn
ohnly pleasure hi wandering forth into
the fields and woods, “ when the leaves
whirl rnnnd with the wind,'and strew
the graves of the dead,” to note the vari
ed and brilliant tints of the foliage,
(which are only seen to perfection in the
Northern (Stales, and to listen to the
songs of the few remaining birds, and
“The music of the autumnal winds v , ,
Among the faded woods.” /
Tbc indolent inhabitant of the
with perpetual summer, knows naught
of the pleasure derived by tho observer of
nature in the North, from her various
changes of climate and foliage through
out the year. There is something un
speakably sad in tho decline and fall of
tlie leaf during the “ season of mists and
mellow fruitfulness,” suggesting as it
does, thoughts of the death of flowers
and fragrant herbs, of the absence for
many, many months of the feathered
tribes, thoughts of the end of the season,
of the year of “tho last sad hour,” th 0
fading away of life, the cold ,and narrow
house appointed lor ail the living.
Thus the pleasures of youth fade away
as the (lowers am) the verdure of the for
est drapery, and in the advancing years,
as with the mature foliage, we fall into
the “ the sere, the yellow leaf.”
Thanks be to God for the woods, at
ail times beautiful? In winter, when
the lofty trunks and the delicate tracery
of their brandies are visible ; In spring
when first they blossom and put forth
their young leaves; in , midsummeii
when they are shadowy and aromatic;
but most beautiful and gorgeous in au-
Uunn, when every t-pecies of tree devel
ops Us own hue of bmwn, orange, red, or
yellow, combining wiih the unchanging
pine and other evergreens, to present a
picture of surpassing bounty:
" But soo the many-colon« woods, .
Shade deep’nlng over shade, the country round.
In brown; crowded umbrage, dark and dun,
, OI every hue, from wan declining green
To sooty dark.”
Could Thompson, who pUiuted the
Seasons, have walked among our bound
legs forests during the month of October,
or sailed upon the Hudson or the Upper'
Mississippi, he would have drawn a
warmer picture. Bryant regrets in the
following exquisite lines, the brief career
of the tinted leaves :
“ Ob, Autumn! why so soon . ,
Denari the hues that make thy forest glad ;
The gentle wind and thy fair sunny noon;
And leave them wild and sad ?
Ah I’tworo a lot too blest,
Kar in thy colored shades to stray,
Amid the kisses of the son southwest
To warm and dream for aye.”
The Meteoric Shower.— I The predic
tions of the Astronomers in regard to a
meteoric shower have been realized af j
last. There was a brilliant and beau+j.
ful display, lasting from eleven o’o) ock
on Friday night until almost light
Saturday morning. Some of the r fle teora
wore of extraordinary brillla» icy am j
splendor, flashing oyer a large arc 0 f the
heavens, and leaving a brilliant train
which was visible foraevo\. a i seconds.—
One seemed to burst in OMd-heavenj and
described afigureSor a\ e tterS. Another
lightetfrup the earth liVe a flash 0 f light
ning. Observers at tjie Washington ob
servatory state that one time they fell at
the rate of 2,500 pr_. P flour. The display
seems to have bee n general and was wit
nessed atpromir.ent points from Boston
to New OrleauF,, though it was neither so
brilliant or 'extensive as that of 1833,
when 11 is estimated that 240,000 fell in
the space o y f nine hours, some of which
were apparently equal in size to the moon.
Unfortunately “ the .“bower” had not
been duly advertised, and many persons
failed to see it entirely, numbers of whom,
in expectation that the performance
would bo repeated, remained upon Sat
urday night, but wore doomed to disap
pointed.
B6s°* Business cards, bill heads, enve
lope tips, and all other Job printing,
promptly executed at the Volunteer
office, at city prices.
H©“lt has been well said that “ the
best way to keep the sheriff from ad
vertising and selling your goods, is to
advertise and sell them yourself.”
Gypsies.— A small party of strolling
gypsies-passed through-town ou-Mouday-,-
proposing to grind scissors, or tell for
tunes, to gather up>few pennies.
York County Items.-Tlto bridge
over the Susquehanna, between Coluni-
Ilia and Wrightsville, will bo entirely
completed next month, when the clll
zcna of York will have a daily train to
ami from Philadelphia.
Thu brick stable of Jacob Smith, Esc
of York, was destroyed by lire on'limi'.’
day afternoon of last week, and the fr ;uue
stable of Air. Prey, was also burned on
Friday night lust. The former was sup.
posed to be accidently set on fire; the lag
ter was the work of on. luceudiaty—
There were several other attempts at araou
during the week. ,
The Susquehanna river is said to t B
quite high, overflowing the banks at
some places. ’
A company of capitalists, consisting of
F. W. Hughes, of Pottsville, Jacob Jame
son, of Philadelphia, and Dr. 0. M. Nea
and Henry Kraber of York, are erecting
a large furnace at the latter place, to en
gage in the manufacture of Iron by anew
process, which has been discovered by
one of the firm. l
Duties of School Directors—
From the lust number of the Pennsyl
vania School Journal we clip the follow
ing sensible advice on the importance of
directors visiting the schools:
“ The duty of visiting the schools is
considered one of the most important
duties that directors have to discharge
in the administration of the system—
The law makes the duty imperative and
no person should accept office of school'
director unless he is willing to perform
it. When well done, its effect is always;
to make the schools more efficient. It
stimulates the pupils iu their studies,—
It enables directors to ascertain the ex
act condition of the schools, schoolhou
ses and school grounds. On the whole,
so high a value does the Department set
upon the local supervision of the school
that it always expects to find the schools
of districts which are regularly and sys
tematically visited by hoards of direc
tors, according to the provisions of tho
law, other things equal, fifty per cent,
bettor than those of districts in .which
tho schools are entirely neglected in this
respect, and this estimate is made hum
personal observation made in hundreds
of districts.”
Court Proceedings— The following
cases were tried, after we had gone tn
press last week ;
Com. v.t. Wm. Barber. Dlaturbiiu: a
Sihlmth school. Verdict guilty. Sun
leuoi'd to pay a Hue of SlO and costs in
prnsoon Dion.
Com. vs. Eli Good. Selling liquor
without license, Defendant pleads guil
ty ami is sentenced (o pay a tine of sfil
ami costs of prosecution.
Com. vs. Ira Day and ot'v> j re,. Nuisance.
By consent this case ; Un
costs to abide the resnU'tf a civil action
of quarc clausum frcyiC. In the civil sail
of Borough of Mcctmnicsburg vs. Rev. T.,
Dougherty, Dr. P. H. Long, D. H..
Swiler, John W. Burshmun, Tva
George Webbert, William Slegary, J,
Emminger, George Shroeder. Saudi Ru
pert, Thornton Rupert. Cornelius Smy
serand i-I. B. Myers, a verdict was ren
dered of one dollar damages for the plain*
till. This was an action to recover diuu
agea for the extension '>f the Methmllat
church iu Mechanicaburg, upon wlml
'was as ;a part, of the Public
\Hquare.
Com. vs Jacob W. Coble-False pre-
tiib Lkak.—
sence. Verdict not guilty ami prosecutor
Yetman Eves to pay the costa of prose
cution, and def't to pay his own wiuiess-
Cora, vs Win. Milton Still-Fornication
and Bastardy. Verdict not guilty ami
prosecutrix Elizabeth Murphy to pay
costs of prosecution.
Second week—common plkas.
Court commenced on Monday. Presi
dent Judge Graham, and Associ
ate Judges Stuart and Blair on the bench
The following case was the only one
tried up to the time of going to press :
John Smobl vs Goldsmith & Bro. A
.feigned issue to determine the title to
certain personal property’ levied upon
bv the sheriff. Verdict for the defend
ant.
"Tins Glory op the SBASON.—There*
seems to be n glory in everything ai*’U-ndi
us at this season of the year Forest and*
mountain scenery never looks so* beauti
ful as now when nature seems to exhaust
all her resources in lavishing the- richest’
and rarest profusion of colors in> myriadl
forms of fantastic brilliancy and- beauty
on eyery hill and* in every valley, field,
and forest. Many writers moralize upon
these scenes. Chateaubriand says of the
season, that “ the leaves, falling like our
years ; the flowers, fading like our hoatf,«
the clouds, fleeting like our illusion
the light, diminishing like our intelli
gence; the sun, growing colder our
affections; the rivers, becoming frozen
like our lives—all bear secret ,i a tior\s to
our destinies.”
There Is a glory in our gor g e ouB No
vember sunsets—with t T ue j r wealth of
golden magnificence, wt I j o | l n 0 artist can
imitate. There is ft ?’lory hi our.clear,
cold,, moonlight high' There is an ad
ditional briUU’acy i n the twinkling of
the stars, 'as they travel through their
nightly watches, and “ one'star exceed
ed another star in glory.” There ia a
glory of the a by, the earth and 'the seas.
Hr jMK Cheerfulness.— Many a
chli d goes astray, not because there is a
w an t of prayer and virtue at home, hut
simply because home lacks sunshine.—
A child needs smiles as much as flow
ers need sunbeams,. Children look lit
tle beyond the present moment. If a
thing displeases them they are prone to
avoid it. If home, is the place where
faces and words’are-harsh, and fault
finding is over in the ascendant, they
will spend as many hours as possible
elsewhere. Let every father and
mother try to be happy. Let them
look happy. Let them talk to their
children, especially the little ones, in
such a way as to make them happy*
B6T It is strange to see with what caro
lessness some invalids - attend to the r
health; They willprocnre abox of Ph> n "
tation Bitters, which ought to be used up
in a month or six weeks, and upon in*
quiry it is fo*md that they have used on
ly two or three bottles* Some days they
have used it according to the dlrectionSr
and others have not touched It. T* l ®
whole trial has been irregular, aud of
course a less favorable result has come
from their use. If it be true.that “
is worth doing at all is worth doing welli
how emphatically is it true In matters r 6 ‘
latiug to the health. A few bottles o
Plantation Bitters'-have often wrough .
wonders, while in other instances dis
ease has only been subdued after weeks.
Magnolia Water— Superior to the
best imported German Cologne, and sol
at half the price.
Appointment of Notary
—Governor Geary has appoint 6
-Geo.-J.-Kunkle,--I^q.,-.of-Harrisburg l
son of Sami. Kuukle Esq., of Shipped
burg, Notary Public.