K • l^~*tmmmmr -rm-TTrirn ' » I. Two Dollars per year If paid strictly 1 Two Dollars and Fifty Cents If paid fl *Vrnn months; after which Three Dollars l ilScd° These terms will bo rigidly ad , movofyinstance. No subscription dis- P« i until nil arrearages are paid, unless at tlou of the Kdltor. ■ lisl professional (Hatfis. IMIUMBUHI. I WII. U. PARICEII IJIBICH & PARKER, ATTORNEYS AT LAW. Lon Main Street, In Marlon Hall, Car- S*. ISOS- SITED states claim AND ESTATE A GJSiYOY JX, B . BUTLER, ATTORNEY AT LAW,' 'M Story of InholTs Building, No. JJ South ivor Street, Carlisle, Cumberland county tsiona. Bounties, Dnolt X’ay, *o., promptly pllratloiia by mull, will receive Immediate fflnratlentlon given to the selling or rout (Si Estate, in town or country. -In all let '( liicmiry. please oucloso postage stamp. '*ll. IS67—tf K. lIKITZHOOVEB, \atio rney-at-law, • CARLISLE. PA. ■ Office ou South Uimovcv Street, oppoall !)—lv KENNEDY, Attorney at Law Uiirllsln, Pcnna. Ofllco same ns that oJ '•Vwericnn volunteer.” L-. 1. JSUU L. SHRYOOK, Justice- of the Peace., OHlco No 0, Irvin’s Row, Carlisle. |l i'j, Ib'lill —3y .. GEORGE S. SEARIGHT.’Den tist. From the Baltimore College of Denial tii Olllce at the residence of Ills mother LoulherStrcot, three doora below Bedford sle. Fenna. , \i im. J. S. BENDER, Homoeopathic physician, Olllco No, 0, South Hanover sU, jerly occupied by John Leo. Esq. lie i, 18CSJ—ly. ES. B. HERONS, Attorney and COUNSELOR AT LAW, FIFTH STBEOT, .BELOW CHESTNUT, Cor. Library. Philadelphia, |t 11,1809-ly [OBERT OWENS, ' ! SLATE ROOFER. XJP DEALER IN SLATE LANCASTER. PA, ■ , . All Work Quaranleech £• Orders Loft at this Office will receive fipt attention. \ October 1-1, 38(J9--ly. pjatfs anti fflaps. ES.H SUMMER ABB. I V A Ij OF ALL THE • A EW STYLUS OF ATS AND CAPS. iubscrlbor lias Just opened at No. 15 North :cr a few doors North of t'he Carlisle /sit Bank, one of the largest and best Stocks \'fS and CAPS over offered In Carlisle, i Hats, Cassimere of all styles and qualities, Brims, different colors, and every descrlp ofSoft Hats now made. Dnuknrd and Old Fashioned Brush, con ly on hand and made to order, all warrant ee satisfaction. A full assortment of .MEN’S, BOY'S, AND . . CHILDREN'S, HATS. e also added-to my Stock, notions of cUflei 1 - lEsi f m Ito, Suspenders, Gloves, ... Thread , Sewing Silk, Umbrellas, &o :LME SEGAES AND TOBACCO LWart+ Pvncilv, ALWAYS ON UANI>. re mo ji call, ami examine my stock as X feci dent of pleasing all, besides saying you mo- JOHN A, KKLLER, Agent, No. 15 North Hanover Street. y. MM. uts nivaiva on baud, anil JIATa MANUFACTURED TO ORDER, r W le best arrangement for coloring Hats lall kinds of Woolen Goods, Overcoats, &c., at Miortcst iiof/co (us he colors every week) and ie ino.st reasonable terms. Also, a due lot oi Ice brands of E tobacco and cigars ys on hand, Ho desires to call the atteutlo rsous who have OOUNTII YFURS 11, as ho pays the highest cash prices for the mi c ‘ •■him 11 call,at tho above number, his »id ,&s bo feels confident of giving entire sa .Is* in. y 18UU. anti Sftoesi. [D STROHM, W. D. SPONSLER, JOHN W. STRv. W AND I*o PC DA SHOE, TRUNK AND STORE. 13. SOUTH HANOVER STREET, , Carlisle, Pknn’a. Joors South of InhofTs building. iavo Just opened llio largoßtaudbestfii BOOTS AND SHOES #^ red , lu CarJlflio, and continue al L°„£? cel £° Sl *ch g o ods In our lino as o ■ Our stock consists in all kinds lea of lens, Misses arid Childrens’ strong Lealh •Womens' Misses and Childrens' Lastli ™ ’ '»omens’ Glove Kid. Turkey nud Freni Mens’ nud Boys’-Calf, Buff and K »Ai.»r 8 andß °yB*Call and Buff Cougre * ™ons and Boyri’ Lasting Qaltei-sm n.’ Mo . ns and Boys' Calf and Buff Oxfo ,y Sandals, Buskins and Overshoe ?Lvfo*nona» Goat. Welt and Crtrpet SB B°yß- and Childrens’ Fur Sa ? 9 f sizes and prices; Travolii oaiclieia and Valises, together with a Hi Pn&u', w r hlcU wo will sell to suit the tim< m i L HAI, i E3 ALLS PKOFITS.” oiT.rij* jllieroforq, In Issuing our card, \/on personal Invltatlon'to nil - look through our stock wltho •o« 1 ooWgatloua to buy unless suited «Jm price. Wo shall always try to de •lyouolu a straight forward maum J ®vory customer a full equivalent forli i* Wo hope all will avail themselves irbl opportunity to call and see us. STROIiM it SPONSLEK, r1 1»,1569~1y ‘ES, PLANTS, BLOWERS, POII SALE AT TUB Zeeland nurseries, HUH SPUING [ r J?9 Block offlno Peach trees, Grape Vli strawberry Plants, Rhubarb, ’H} 1 trees autl general Nursery stool /‘’jo plants nil transplanted, the host p°f Cabbage,Tomato,CaullUower. Pep: Kgg Plants, &o. SweetPotntoo j llantsln largo quantity. Hardy i FLOWERS /ijortmout'. Great Inducement offered ‘ waking up Clubs, for tbo purpose of a iuovo stock. Bend for club pricelist, u carefully atouded to and promptly f HENRY 8. RUPP, i io-„ Shlromanatowu, Cumb, Co., Pa, '(•loilj—3fn / IN 31 'J Agent, soiling Sllv,. in ,, Vor W.OOO now lu uao. i»,; and Amorlcau . CL'ir A r. CQl i Ul y VOSOtViJd for OUOII AffL mSt 4 in o ," Bai ' (> t tl “ u aSt., N. Y..or 1211 BY BRATTON & KENNEDY. rp ii-i e FIRST MORTGAGE BONDS Gtiicap, Danville & Vincenne RAILROAD Total amount to be Issued, , Capital Stock paid in, ■ Estimated Cost of Rond (MO miles), Estimated Earnings per annum, Not Earnings per annum, Interest on tho Loan per annum. Amount of Ronds per mllo of Road, Amount of Interest per mllo, Amount of Net Earnings per mile, The Bonds follow the completion of Che Road —have tho Union Trust Company of N. Y. as tholrOlllclal Register and Transfer Agent—and aro sold at present at 95 and accrued lnterest. . They bear examination and comparison, bet ter, it is believed, than any other now before the public, in tho fixed and unchangeable elements of So/cty, Security and They bcargoodintcrest—Seven percent. Gold for forty years—and aro secured by a Sinking Iniml, and h irst Mortgage upon tno routi; its out fit, and not Income, the Franchises, and all pres ent and future acquired properly of tho Compa ny. They depend upon no new -or half-settled ter ritory lor business to pay their interest, but upon an old, well settled, -and productive coun try; assuming tha-t a railrood built through the heart of such a region otTors holler security for both Interest and Principal than a ‘road to be built through the most highly extolled wilderness or sparsely settled territory. Tills Railroad possesses special advantages, in running Into aml «ut of the City of Chicago, an Important Railroad and Commercial Center; In running through a Hue of villages and bid farm ing settlements in the richest portion of the State oflllluols; in running near to deposits of Iron Ore of groat extent and value, aud over broad Helds oi the best coal in the State—which mlniug lntorcsls are its'monopoly. And besides the local and other business thus assured, there will bo attracted to this road the considerable tralllc already springing up “From the Lukes to the Gulf:” ns with.its Southern Connections It forms a. Trunk Lino *JS miles shorter .than any dther routo from Chicago to Nashville, These Bonds aro therefore based upon a Real ty and a Business that a few years must inevi tably double—aud competent judges say treble —in value. ■ Governments selling while the price is high pay well If put. into these Bonds, aud Trust or Estate Funds can bo put into nothing heller, Pamphlets, with Maps, «fcc., on haud lbr'dls trlbution. Bonds may bo had directly of us, or of our Agent in Carlisle. A, L. SPONS’LEU, No. —, WcsthMaln St. W. BAILEY LANG CO., Merchants, 51 Cliff Street, Now York, Agents for tho sulo of thoßonds. Jam 27,167U—2m rUTIZENS OF CUMBERLAND \J ‘ COUNTY. Wo have now on hand and just received from the cities, manufacturers, the largest stock of uow, cheap, and good goods to bo found in any Lwastofos' in the valley. Wo have tho bds't assortment of CLOTHS, CASSIMEKS, SATINETTri. JEANS, FLANNELS. TICKINGS, GINGHAMS, PRINTS, MUSLINS. DRESS GOODS, Silks, Morlnocs, Repps, Delaines, 'Alpacas, Coburgs, Plaids and Stripes. . RIBBONS, HOSIERY, GLOVES, Zephyrs, Towels, Yarns, Linen and Cotton Tabic Diapers, CLOAKINGS,Tow prices and lino HANDKERCHIEFS, COLLARS and CUFFS Velvets, Trimmings and more notions ;than can bo found anywhere under one roof. prr n y .1 ar 71 n A ft p Ji] *p Oil Cloths. Druggets, Blinds, Coverlets, Quilts Hoop and Balmoral Skirts, * ■ £ S H A W L S, of ovei'y description. In fact, a splendid assort, mont of goods, aiul movo'given for the dollar than any where else. - nt the highest price taken ,hi exchange. Give ns a call Oct. 2’. 18W). WAR!! WAR!!! 1,000 MEN WANTED The undersigned will sell Ills entire sto&lf FURNITURE at piddle side at Ills roonii On Friday, March 2-3, 1870. consisting of a large assortment of HOMEMADE FURNITURE, warranted to bo of tliobest mate rial and workmanship consisting in part ofeight Walnut DRESSING BUREAUS, Marble Tops, lino glasses, seven Walnut Dress ing Bureaus, plain, M Bureaus, good quality, without gla&3, -JO Walnut Dining Tables. 10 Wal nut Breakfast Tables,, live Walnut Secretaries, with Book Cases, four Walnut Extension Tables, from 8 to 12 loot long, eight Walnut Pier and Centro Tables, with and without marble tops, three Wall liat Uncles, three Cottage Suits, FIVE WALNUT WATNOTS, largo and small, 10 Walnut Closed Wash Stands, Mncblo Tops, 10 Walnut enclosed and open Wash Stands, 10 Sideboards, walnut and popular. Sofas and Chairs, all kinds, FIFTY BEDSTEADS, some full French, Jenny Lind, Japanese, Cot tngo and common, and a variety of other arti cles in the trade too largo to onnmerato. All to bo sold without reserve. N. B,—Until the day of salo I will continue to sell Furniture at COST. tJale to commence at 0 o'clock, on said day. when terms will bo made known by DAVID SIDE. Fob.2-i, 1870—ts v 1870. 1870 SPUING AND SUMMER IMPOTA TION. RIBBONS, MILLINERY AND STRAW GOODS ARMSTRONG, GATOR & CO. 1 importers and jobbers of BONNET, TRIMMING & VELVET RIBBONS Bonnot Silks, Satina and Velvets, Blonds , Nets,' Crapes, Ruches, Floivers, Feathers, ORNAMENTS, STRAW BONNETS AND LADIES' HATS, TRIMMED AND UNTRIMMED, 3HAKER : 3500D5, &c. 237 ami 239 BALTIMORE STREET, BALTIMORE, MD. Offer the largest Stock to ho found In this Country, and unequalled In choice variety and cheapness, comprising the latest Barlalan nov elties. Orders solicited, and prompt attention given. Fob. 21,1870—2m* The new article of food.— For twenty-live cents youcan buy of your Druggist or Grocer a package of Sea Moss Fariuo manufactured from pure Irish Moss or Carrageen which will make sixteen quarts of Dlantf Mungo, and a like quantity of Paddings, OuslunK Creams, Charlotte Russo. «ic.. &o. It Is by far the cheapest, healthiest and most delicious food in the world. RAND SEA MOSS FAHINE CO., 53 Park Place, N, Y fJVHE MARY INSTITUTE Carlisle, Penn'a. A BOARDING SCHOOL FOR GIRLS. Tho Ninth Annual Session will begin on Wed nesday, September Ist. For circulars or any *ior information address _ , KEV. WM. 0. LEVERETT, M. A. ' Carlisle,;Peunjft April 22,1800 —Ij ide by ‘-nt Eh niHE MAGIC COMB will change and I colored hair or board to a permanent - blade orbrown. It contains no poison . Any one can nso It, Ono sent by.mall for 81. Address . MAGIC COMB CO., Springfield, Mass, Jau. 0,187«H3m miscellaneous. OP THE $‘Z coo 000 2 100 000- •1 509 000 2 030 300 R7l) 70S 175 00t‘ IS 000 L 260 0 28-1 W O O I-, lIENTZ * SO. ' allillitllll qralilitiM. CARLISLE, PA., Thursday Horning, March 17.1870. For tho American Volunteer. DEI.F.CaATE on COXVf'.NTIONAt SYS- TE3I. .Editors Voi/untker —No doubt some of your patrons were surprised at the ve solutiohB:pas£iQd by the Democratic Stand ing Committee of Cumberland county, at Its meeting, held in tho Court House, on tho 22d of February, and which appeared in your issue of Iheßd instant, but tho writer was not. On the contrary, wo, .well knew.tbat at the very first meeting of tho present Committee tho Crawford County Sj'stem” was doomed, so far as tho Committee could doom it, and that of it it might bo said, by changing a little the phraseology of tho unfortunate Prince of Denmark-: •* tho marriage baked meals Did coldly furnish forth tho lunoral dinner.'' The Standing Committee, as a whole, is not a bad body; it contains many ex cellent men; but truth likewise requires us to say, that there is mircy clay mixed with its iron. Tho same truth, also, prompts us to ask your readers whether they had heard that scarcely had some of tho Return Judges, chosen in accordance with the provisions of the “ Crawford County System,” (and one of whosofunc tious was to appoint the Standing Com mittee for the ensuing ycarj stepped from tho cars at the Carlisle depot last August, when they were approached by a certain possessor of present of fice, and aspirant to future preferment in the same line, aud interrogated as to “whom they proposed to appoint mem bers of tho Standing Committee from theirrespoctivo districts?” Aud further more, tho same truth prompts us to, say, that this personage, for cogent reasons which may readily be divined, has been and still is opposed to tho “ Crawford 'County System,” the ’ introduction of which was hailed by -the honest Demo crats throughout Cumberland county as a last resource to extricate the party from the reckless corruption that was steaming in our nostrils, and an antidote to those poisonous, little township and borough caucuses whore, as in. boiling, rotten car casses, the filth aud scum of a party are sure to come to the surface. Evil manners are contagious, Tho Radical party, by its various, reconstruc tion, acts, with their still more various addenda and suplemeutary articles— “ Never ending, over beginning, Ever beginning, never ending,” have given the Solons of tho Committee a deep lesson in varying and progressive politics, and if they go on as they have begun, they will soon bo ready to gradu ate in more than one degree of the school of “ High Moral Ideas.” Their Mighti nesses, having been assembled at their late meeting, pu.t their wise heads to gether. and held council like so-many glare at one another with their great, glassy,-yellow eyes, sagely shake their feathered cars, fold up their gray wings, and ominously sound— “Too, liool! too, hoot!—tho code must dlo 1” ami so the poor “ Crawfqrd County Sys tem,” young .and blooming though she be, must die before'her. nuptial wreath has faded, and* bo buried, like a withered old hag, because, forsooth, she refuses to dally with a rich and lusty paramour, who would gladly court her favor if he stood any chance of winning it. This is a queer world, Messrs. .Editors. fc>hakespeare once said, “AUthe ’world's ft stage, And nil tho men and women merely players but.does ft not seem to you, sirs, that our County Committee room has mightily resembled a chess-board, on which gold hooped fingers most deftly moved a set of poor miserable pawns, so as to check mate all the kings, queens, knights and castles that wore so unfortunate as to be present? Do not suppose that wo have any claim to such pawnhood, royalty or knighthood. We wore not in tho committee.* We are not members of it—and if (jhis one con- tinues to act us it has acted in this mat ter, we shall add another petition* to our litany, which will be in these words “From small pox, yellow fever, scvoif yenra; itch, and County Committees, good Lord deliver us!” In your article of the 31 on this sub ject, Messrs. Editors, you make some very sagacious statements, for which we thank you. Tito Committee in session on the 22J of February—a sort of slender -Barebones Parliament, as it seems to have been—says that in its opinion the Craw ford county system is injurious' to the interests of the party and should bo clone away with 1 Lot its members establish the fact, if.thoy pad. Bare assertions are not enough in a matter of so much im portance. At the very least let them toll the voters of the county on what their opinion Is based, and not do like a good woman of the olden time, who was being examined in the Presbyterian church, in Newville, by its pastor, the Rev. Dr. Williams, long since deceased. It was a scripture lesson that was under dispusslon, anti the Doctor hail introduc ed the creation in the first chapter of Genesis, where wo read that “the earth was without form and void,” " Weil, Miss Kitty,” said the Doctor, “what does this word void mean ?” “ Why, Doctor, it means void,” was the answer. “ Oh, yesl” Miss Kitty, “ hut what does the word 1 void’ signify; what is flu- (hdiui tlon of it?” “To bo sure, Doctor,,it means just what it says-is means void.” And so she insisted that “ void” meant “ void,” until in despair the Doctor gave her up ns a hopeless ease, and himself explained that the word “void” signified to bo empty. Nowthoguantletis fairly thrown down to the members of the Committee. You, sirs, have asked them to give the grounds of their assertion, and wo would ask the same. Wo await an answer from them before the third Saturday of the present month, “between the hours of 2 and 7 P. M.,” and unless wo got ono that is satis factory, through your or some other col umns, from the Committee or one of its members, humble ns wo are, wo shall claim the privilege of believing that the members of said Committee have stulti fied themselves. • As you, sirs, have said, on the first trial of the system, oven under otherwise un favorable circumstances, “wo elected our ticket by the largest majority over re ceived in tlio county,” and made a gain of nearly three hundred votes. In the face of this, the Committee say a that It Is CARLISLE, PA., THURSDAY, MARCH IT, 1870 “ injurious to tUo interosts.of tho party !” What a wonderful arithmetic the mem bers must have studied'! Have they not graduated at the great academy of. La gado, where they spent so many years in extracting sunbeams out of cucumbers ? Surely they have found tho long sought philosopher’s stone of wisdom, and you must forgive poor ignorant men like our selves, if we call it the palaver and blar ney stone. • Would that longer communications wore now in fashion, and would bo rend, for wb should like to dwell for a little time on this theme, and toll you what an obstacle the doomed system might bo in our way if we were worth some throe or four hundred thousand dollars, partly in valuable farms in Cumberland county and partly in, bonds and stocks and other property in' adjoining counties, know how to speculate in government bonds in Europe and elsewhere, and besides these advantages; wished to obtain or re tain a public position, to be nominated or re-nominated for some high office of honor and emolument. Ah! how anx ious we would bo under those circum stances to. have it removed, especially when wb knew .that by areturn to tho old delegate system—(and this is essen tially what tho Committee proposes)—we wo might easily attain ourwishes through (ho subserviency of delegates chosen by caucus loadets—those creatures who so quickly learn to “iUroolc tlii? suppjo tmigos oi Hie knee That thrift may follow fawning.” Imagine, sirs, how we would then cry out—'“ Away with it! it’s injurious !’> To what? to our interests? No ! to (bo-in terostsbf tho,party- Tho only objection T have over heard against the Crawford County System, separate from the opinion of our'Com mitted, is that it is troublesome to voters tq be annoyed when at their labors, by candidates calling (o see them and solicit their suffrages, and that it is humiliating’ to the candidates themselves. The cus tom is, however, sanctioned by antiquity«- for the ancient Romans who desired to. hold offices,,sacrificed themselves to the public good, walked around among the people in the comitia and other assem blages of the citizens, soliciting their votes, and the name candidate, comes from the Latin word candidates, which refers to the long white-garments which those patriotic old follows wore, and by which they could be recognized and thus prevented from practicing those arts of duplicity which -our modern politicians know so woll how to use. So we see that bad as our late aspirant for office were, they never went so far as the Ciesara, the Autonys, the Pompeys and the Ciceros, of the by gone world, else we would have seen them wearing theirahirts for overcoats— though the weather was then indeed . warm. Put this evil, great or small ns it may appear according to one’s constitution, nnjihl hoeasilv remedied. Let each voter, or a number of voters, only declare ibut he or they will not vote for any one who perambulates the country asking for suf frages, and'tho onehoss shay will atonce bo put under cover, and the broken winded, ring-boned, spavined old boss will bo put out to oat grass or dje. Had tho members of thb Committee wished to improve instead of destroying the,Crawford County System, they could easily have recommended such a change as that suggested' in tho above paragraph, and the voters of the county, no doubt, would have sanctioned it by their suf frages. This system, by controlling the’ dnflueuco-of_the wire-pullGi:s,_glves every, voter, be he high or low, rich or poor,'an equal chance in nominating candidates. Leteifch one rellect for a moment ami ho will sec this, and on tho 3d Saturday of this month wiU vote that the system .ho retained, at least until It lias had a fair trial. To him who loves liberty and tho old Constitution, the present times are sad indeed. Look around you, and bcVudd a negro seated in the Senato.of tne United States, in tho chair where once sat Jef ferson Davis—rebel ami misguided .man it is true, but nevertheless, a scholar, a gentleman, and a.statesman. .Behold still further, in that Senate dumber, and in the hull of th 1 House, North Carolina. South Carolina and Georgia, (members of. the original thirteen States, the' blood of whose sons was copiously poured out at Savannah, at Charleston, at Camden, at Guildford Court House, Yorktowu, tho Cowpens, and on a hundred other battle fields,)' now answering tho call of tho Speaker in tho persons of miserable ad venturers from Massachusetts and Ver mont, a beggarly set of human vultures, gloating with fond delighlon (ho poverty and tears of the regions—not States— which they.misrepresent. Still further, look back, fellow-Democrats, on tho great changes which tho short period of nine years has produced, tho burdensome tax ation, the acts of military oppression, tho fifteenth amendment, forced down un willing throats ; and then look a little forward'and see the. Commissioners of Election appointed by a cabinet officer, and the regular troops stationed at “ con-* venient distances from tho polls” where you are to vote, just as Napoleon tho Third posts his grenadiers in the Champs Elysses and the Boullvaril dps Italians, which is threatened, and tell us ho v long we may expect to be free. i In the Democratic party, we believe, lies our only safety.- And what if this -party proves recreant to tho sooiaLtrusL?- If In one year it establishes some good regulation, and early the next year, at tho bid of some putse-proud aristocrat, or any other man or set of men, it abolishes this regulation, and brings back in patch ed garments an old mode of procedure, that everybody knew to bo scandalously foul and corrupt —what then ? Can wo hereafter trust it? No, my friends, wo cannot; and tho cry of the writer, and that of many other lovers of their coun try, will have to bo tho despairing cry of tho vanquished.battalions at Waterloo— “ iSauve qul peuti /’’—lot him who can save himself. And chained to tho car of triumphant military despotism, tho en slaved sons and daughters of Columbia will descend from the high elevation to which their fathers asconcfcd, and will furnish tb the world another exemplifica tion of that endless progression and re trogression which seems to bo tho mourn ful lot of humanity. But, I still hare hope in’the Democrats of the county, and believe that by their votes they wllf condemn this high hand ed measure of tho County Committee. In you, Messrs. Editors, I have hope; you at least -have not received the thirty pieces of silver, Like their prototype, tho Ven etian Council of Ton, tho Committee has given 'Us but short ’shrift. They have learned from the Radicals in Congress the value of tho -previous tjucHlion.- For a question which demanded months, they have given us days; but let us make use of days. Sound wqJI tho alarm, airs, and though for the present wo may be defeated, the future will give due ere- Vltt to otir sagacity and, acknowledge the rectitude of our efforts. FERRET. ; For tho American Volunteer. Docs |lio Crawford Comity Nyslcm lu crease llio Number of Candidates ? Messrs. Editors: I shall ask the fa vor.of a small space in your columns to answer what T conceive to bo a ground less objection sometimes urged against tho 41 Crawford County System.” It is that the people have been annoyed and their work frequently interrupted by the importunities of candidates. Now it is absurd to say that it is tho system which brings out the candidates. The number of candidates for aii office will always, bo in, proportion to its salary. Whenever a valuable office is to be filled, there will* bo plenty of candidatc-Vn'o matter whit’? tho nominating system may be. The bulk of the candidates last year’was for County Treasurer, and it is notorious that most of the candidates had announced themselves before -the Crawford County System was adopted. I know at least .three candidates spoke to : me in the pre vious summer. Now when the otlico of Treasurer was worth oniy about $l,OOO per annum, we had but few candidates for it; but last year, which was the second election since the, passage of a law which . made tho otlico worth at least $5,000 per annum, wc had a dozen candidates for tho position, and it is alleged that this mul titude of candidates was brought out ; by the 1 “ Crawford County Systeih.”, Does any sane man doubt, if tho Treasurer’s office hntl boon worth only $l,OOO insfonil of $5,000 per annum, that there would not have been one-fourth as many candidates for the position? This view of the case is strengthened by, the fact that the very first act of the now board of County Com missioners was to take measures to cut down tho Treasurer’s salary within rea sonable limits. Another reason why there wore so many candidates was the dispute (which would likewise have arisen before the Convention if there had been one,) ns to tho locality to which the office belonged. Consequently candidates presented them selves from the “'Middle district” and from the “ lower end.”' The issue was decided in favor of the middle district — the next Treasurer must go below, and that settles the question forever. There are now nearly a dozen candi dates for’Sheriff in the field, who will be in the fiedd whether wo haVe the “Craw ford County System” or the Delegate System. Several of them announced uiuui i »i* ycu.s ago. ojp pose tho.iVcw sys(cjn is adopted and there are a dozen candidates for Sheriff this ye*y, would if, bo fair to argue, that it is tho now system which lias brought them out? No more is it fair to argue that it was the Crawford County System which brought out such a host of candidates for Treasurer last year. CANDOR. 5-\n*!ioy tr.oaiN In Modal !EnlV>rm, John WV Forney has boon branching out extensively in Washington society during the present winter. Mrs. For ney gave a grand entertainment some timojfinco, which was heralded in col ums of elaborate description in “my two papers both daily and a few nights ago John W. had “a gentleman’s party,” which was also extensively re ported. Tho latter assemblage was slightly promiscmi', and a' number of negroes were present as honored guests. As the wine corks popped and the feas ting grew lively, the scene presented wtw one ni* [i decided 1 y mixed character. A reporter who was -present gives tho following account of what transpired: “At Col. Forney’« rocoplion last night \vc had tlie first practical commingling of the white ami colored races in a social way'that has transpired this season. The appearance of Gen. Tate, the Minister from Hayti, at tho President’s reception, ami at some others thereafter, was of a severely formal character, but at Col. Forney’s reception last night the severe formal ceremony of presentation to host and guests was followed by tho tippling of the glass in respectful recognition 'ami general participation at tho informal re freshment tabic. Prof. Vashon and three other colored persons were the recipients of these civilities. ” While these social comminglings were progressing, the'colored guests gathered about tho refreshment table, after the custom of their white friends. The wai ters at tho table were not only gonteoly dressed, but good-looking colored men.— A distinguished-member of Congress not discovering tho difference between the colored waiters and tho colored hailed one of the latter with, ‘ Hero_ wai ter, give me a slice of that cold turkey. Come, be lively now.’ To which ho re ceived a dignified bow and response : ‘Thank you, sir, I am one of guests. I am Professor .’ The Congressman, an-out and-out Radical, somewhat non plussed, replied : |I beg your pardon ; I did not observe it; we shall get used to to those things by-and bye.’ ” '"’As): I-'heard tho story, : a. woll-known newspaper correspondent' here, whoso sight is somewhat unpaired, saw.the back of a woolly head, and called to tho Afri can to bring him a cigar. Tho '‘colored gentleman” turned, remarked that ho was a guest, and added ; “I think we have mot before, sir. We dined togoth cr a t_J fr. _Sn mini ei r’ sd ’ Another version is that tire reply was simply aa iudlgaut “Sail ! Sail !” from tile outraged negro guest. The President of the United States was one of those who hob-nobhod with ne groes on tills occasion. Forney is determined to load in social reform, and (Irani refuses to ho left be hind him in tho race. Verily tho world moves. It is it significant fact that tho Demo cratic press of tho interior of tho State, with hut few exceptions, is opposed to Longue Island ns a site for tho proposed iron-clad navy yard.— Forney's Press. It is a significant fact that tiro Demo cratic press throughout tlie country is opposed to all costly'jobs of every de scription, ami that tho lladical press fa. vors them. Tlie Democratic press ad vo cates economy , retrenchment of expen ditures and true reform ; the lladical press favors extravagance, lavish ex penditures, an increase of useless ofli cials, high taxation, and all maimer of crude schemes and eostiyjohs in winch there is a chance for plundering, tlie Treasury.— Lane, Intel, filli%rtfraornio. oni,y a E Asnniii’H win:. ~ Two women sat together at sunset, jn the porch door of a white cottage that stood under the 4 old ancestral tree,’ and ‘among its tlblds of whcafniul corn” like a poet’s vision of a quiet resting place for some weary, suffering human soul. one of these two women,had eyes to see, cars to hear, and a heart to feel and appreciate it all. She was tall, state ly, not exactly handsome, but with a grace of air and manner peculiarly her own. The nameless air of elegance and luxury, tho pale cheek mid soft‘white hands, betrayed tho city dame. While the weary glance in the*’large dark eyes which eVtm the pleasant quiet of tho sunset could not quite drive away, show ed that Time had not.dcalt gently with her and her heart’s idols, but had thrown them shattered and ruined, at her foot* Her companion was some live years her junior, and many times prettier—a little round faced, apple cheeked woman, with dark blue eyes and dark brown hair, and a round figure that was setoff to tho best advantage by tho afternoon dress muslin that she wore'. - ■ .At present tho pretty face was almost '’spoiling by a querulous, discontented ex pression. She'Was contrasting her own hand, plump and small, but certainly rather bro vn, with Clio slender white lin gers of her city friend, all glittering with .jewels, •Just look at tho two,’ she exclaimed. ‘That comes of making butter, and cheese, and sweeping and dusting am! making beds all the time! The man told tho truth that said a woman's-work is never done. I know mine never is.— Olf^leaV,’'dear*! to think that you Mar-' garct, should have married a city mer chant and bo as rich as a princess in a fairy hall; and here Tam planted for life plain Mrs. Hiram Park, and nothing to compare with you. T am sick of be ing only a farmer's wife;’‘ Margaret Van TJowth looked down at her grumbling little friend with a sad smile. ‘Jenny, it seems to me; as we.slt hero in this quiet place, and look put'over those pleasant fields that are your own — 'lb StULUo to me ymi r\vo ed to talk so.’ *1 dare say,’ replied Mrs. Jenny ; ‘but you would not like it, Margaret. You would never wish to, change places with me.’ Would you like to ‘Perhaps not. change with-me?’ ‘Yes.’ ‘And-bo Mrs. Van Howtb, instead of Mr.?. Hiram Park 9 ’ Jenny hesitated, She dearly loved her handsome husband. ‘Well, I don’t moan that I .waul to give up Hiram,’ she said at last, ‘I only moan that I wish ho was a city merchant, instead of'a farmer, and ns'rich as your husband is, that is all.* . ‘And that is a great deal,’ said Mrs. Van Howth, coldly. ‘Jenny ifyonr wish could be granted, do .you know what your life wouldbe?' ‘What yours is, 1 suppose. What any lady’s-is in your position.’ ‘Exactly. But what is that life? T)o you know?’ ‘How. should I ‘lt is a weary one, Jenny, with more genuine work in it than ali your making ; butter and cheese can bring.’ I ‘Ob, Margaret!’- vlr *>eun.y: jjL-ueve me. my dear,Tlicre are no people on earth, who I work harder than the fashionables who have their amusements to provide for. — A MTe of mere amusement is a dog’s life, , Jenny at best.’ • \ ‘t should like to be convinced of it by > actual experience,’ said Jenny, doubt- • indy. ‘So I said and thought once. I have "boon so convinced. And it is nil vanity and vexation of spirit.’ ‘.But bow ?’ a T>ersisied Jenny. • ‘How? In ten thousand ways. If you live in the fashionable world you must do .ns the fashionable world- does. You must rise and dress, shop and lunch, and dress again, and drive and dress again, ami appear at certain bails, parties'ftr.con certs exactly as your friends do, or bo ■vbtedir6/:a/vv;Uu'fidiyut'of"tli{~world r al-~ together. You, iny pour Jenny, who are by no means fond of dress ; what would you do at a fashionable watering place in the hottest days of Augut-t, with five changes of toilet between morning and night, and a French lady’s maid to ty ranizo'over you all the time info the bar gain.’ ‘Horrors! ejaculated Jenny. ‘Balls (hat you must- go to in spile of ful Oil'll y 'i.\ sn\i.-c m\ spite of heat, Calls (hat you must* make on people whom yon .latest! Oh Jenny, I should far rather he at home with the luitterand cheese, if J-wcre yon.' Jenny was silent. Here was of (he bright picture which she had never seen or dreamed of hofore. ‘You love your husband, .fenny!* said her friend after a time. Jenny opened her eyes widely. ‘Love him! Why isn’t, lie my hus band?’ was her naive, reply. Mrs. Van Howth laughed. > 'Some women. Mu society’ might think that a reason why you should not love him?’ she said dryly. ‘And he loves you also ?’• ‘I should die to-morrow, if. f (bought be did not V ‘Tut child! People leave tills world when God wills it, not before, I dare say you would survive this infidelity.— Many women before you have lived through such things.’' ‘Don’t talk of if, Margaret! Ijcould not boar it! Why his love is all the world (o me'! How could "I bear to lose it ?’ ‘Then, don’t wish him to beacity mer chant, my dear. -I dare any there are u great-many good men in the city—men who love their wives; but.ontho other hand, (here are so many temptations, es pecially in society,’ that I sometimes wonder, not that so many go astray, but that so many remain true to themselves and their duty.’ She spoke absently, and her eyes had a far away glance, as if they had dwelt on other tilings. Jenny ventured a question. ‘Margaret, is yours a happy marriage ? Do you love your husband ? And does he love you.’ Mrs. Van Howth started and turned crimson. 'Jenny, I would have loved him —1 won id have been a good wife to him hut he never joyed me. He bought nie to place mo at the’liead of“bis~liouse ho cause he thought mo lady like and inter esting; that was all. Ho told mo so once, although not quite so plainly as (his. - And since then we have each ta koiL our own way independent of tho other. I seldom see him at our house in town., I liave my carriage, my diamonds, and my opera box. In tlie summer I go to Saratoga or Newport, while ho favors Long Branch with his presence. We are perfectly polite to each other; wo never quarrel; and I suppose If I ware to die to-morrow, ho would ho tho moat inconsolable of widowers—for a week ? Jenny you will not wish to change places ■with mo again. Your husband might change ns mine lias, exposed to tho same temptations. Thunk Heaven that yon have him as ho Is, o good, true man, who loves you ; and never mind the hot ter pnd cheese, Jenny; so long as your owji happiness and ids is made up with them.' Biro roso from her seat ns sire spoke and strolled down the garden path alono. Jenny did not follow her. She sal on the stop, lost in thought, Tlie riddle of bur friend's life was at last made clear to her. Sho had often wondered why Mar- garet, in tlie midst of all her wealth and luxury, should aeom so sad and ill at ease. Bhe wondered no longer now. To bo tho wifo of a man who has no love for you! Whftt ‘lower deep, can ,VOL. 56.— N0. 40 there bo for a proud aud sensitive wo man ? Jenny turned with fears in her eyes to meet her handsome, stalwart husband jus lie came from the field. ‘Well little woman?* ho cried, and thou she got the rough embrace and the hearty kiss for which she was looking 'Yes. Margaret was right! the butter and cheese wore of little consequence while love like this made her task easy to endure ! And the ivsy-cheekcd little woman bent fondly over her ‘Hiram* as lie Hung himself on the porch seat, ami fanned him, talked to him, brought cool lemon ade, and made him thoroughly happy. Poor Margaret! Happy jenny! Never again would, she wish -to be anything more than only n farmer’s wife TaiK Vor.VG Nm.pron, In one of the poorest, miirowest streets ofa beautiful foreign-city lived a woman and her little sou, whom wo will call Henri. The hoy had no recollection of his father, who had cruelly deserted both his wife and child. Their only moans of subsistence was what could be obtained by the woman's labor-such household work as could bo obtained in the dwell ings of the rich. Sometimes she had to walk long distances.to and from her oc cupation, but no murmur over.escaped her lips, save one of regret that hordiltlo fair-haired boy had to be left alone in her absence, and that she could not earn money enough to send'him to school.— Nature, however, allnnaulcd, was teach ing him without the help of hooks or masters, and everywhere'in Florence (the city of flowers) there was more than sulllclent to.-excite the admiration, and satisfy the cravings, of this child of ge nius, whose inquiring eyes would always rest on whatever was beautiful and. such was to ho met with in every nook aud corner of the-grand old place. The ‘pur -plo and' ‘transparent,.shadows’ which flooded the whole city at eventide, ainj lit up the gorgeous palaces and churches fair, made for him so many glowing pic tures, bn which his poetical imagination dwelt long after the first. Impression* had passed away. During his mothers absence, the great er part of his lime was spent in what we should call grubbing in the street gutters, making odd-looking things of-any soft material ho could shape to the needed consistency, just as one sees' children lu.C-iOnp, "Mul.hooncn i«i H,t> «nn«i(!n.~ These little juveniles generally set- up, and then demolished iheir buildings; Henri did nothing of the sort. Every one of those little lumps was moulded _ into some fora? copied either from na ture or art, for in that beautiful city every street is a museum. Projections, bosses, tlnials, all are specimens of real archi tectural beauty, of- a peculiar and dis tinctive type. ForaJong time the young boy continued to fashion objects of this sort, until, by a kind of frech inspiration, lie aimed at representing Hie human form ; the only difficulty seemed to be how to'obtain the models from which to work. At length, a happy thought occurred to him. He had no money, but he could easily reward the sitter by giving him his next meal, and to lose that was as nothing compared to the joy ho-felt at having some chiiuce Arab who would answer his purpose, and who could bo enticed by so small a guerdon to the ar tist’s humble studio. Tn spite' of his mother's remonstrances, Henri worked ,away early and late, every day becoming attached, to bis beloved art. Years sped cm without any public rec ognition oi ms ur.eai, out liifi roaniuto, persevering nature would,not allow him to be discouraged. Tt la true that he was poqr, but then he was rich iu hope, and sustained b\ the consciousness of that inward power which is the'accompaui meiit of real genius. Ile never dreamed of envying others, hut thought only of makim* himself perfect in what ho deter mined should be tlie masterpiece of all ids hitherto attempted studies, one of which was now growing to ample pro portions beneath Ids busy lingers. At length, his task, o.r rather labor, of love, being complete, lie told his mother that ho should ask permission to show it at an-exhibition of sculpture which was' shortly to take piece in his native city.—’ Flo applied for permission ; mid his re quest war. granted, on condition that the stn{ne"?drouM ; ho—sent - iorthwith to- the hati of inspection. ‘Thai, gentlemen, is impossible,’ repli ed Henri. ‘I am very poor; and the apartment in which J Jive is so small that my work could only lie removed by taking oil’ thereof. 7 Tiio‘ men looked at other iu amazement; • but there wa'-; so -much simp'ichy and honesty in (ho youth, flint after conferring together for a few moments, they proposed to accompany him home, to see the marvellous produc tion, to which Henri at present declined Co give any mime. They followed him Up the narrow staircase to the little gar ret, and looked around in vain for the wonder (Iffy had come to behold. Hen ri saw »heirsnrpii‘-e. and without a word thr"W back a baize curtain from the floor, and ivvoaled them the lay-figure, life m/.i-, of a murdered, man. The gentle men started buck in amazement. So lovely, in death, wore the lineaments of that exquisite face, so-faultless iir*form, ho wondrously expressive of purity and innocence, that they could not believe it the work of an.untutored .youth entirely .devoid of art cdueatimi and of the laws' of.anatomy, which the most critical ad mitted were perfectly unassailable in the figure before them. Xn; they would not credit it, and avowed their belief that, he had been implicated in some terrible crime, for which the victim had served as a model. It was In' vain that the young sculptor protested, explained; they wore inexorable, and declared ho should be sent to prison, and there await the Issue of the charge preferred against him. They further desired him at once to name the counsel for his defence. — ‘Ho shall appear, gentlemen, on the day of trial; I cannot give his name, before. 7 Amazed beyond measure at the calm ness and self-possession displayed by •Henri, they felt compelled to acquiesce. Either his youth, his beauty or his ear nestness,—perhaps all three combined, — made the Judges so far mitigate their se verity as to allow him the use of his tools, | and the admission of visitors during his imprisonment. It'.ls needless to dwell on the disap- G ointment to the youth at this terrible low to his long-cherished desires—hard ly loss on his own account than on that of his good mother, whom ho had hoped to'place beyond the need of all further earthly wants. It will better please the reader todenrn that ho did-not yield him self up to despair. His will was nerved to plan, his hand to execute, another statue equal, if not superior, to the one he had already achieved. • It will readily bo imagined that the advent of such a trial as that now impend ing caused no email stir in thecity. The hitherto obscure life of the young sculp tor, and the stand he had made about his counsel, very considerably enhanced the anxiety and excitement of the pub lic* Many, unable to restrain their im patience, visited him iu prison—some, doubtless impelled by curiosity, others moved by some higher motive. Among these were two distinguished looking individuals, who chanced at that time to bo sojourning in Florence. One was considerably past middle age; the other (paid to bo his nephew) was a young man- of remarkably handsome countenance ami noble figure. No re- striction seemed to bo pul either on the frequency or length of their visits; whilst to poor Henri, the time thus spent was as gold and sunshine in this otherwise dark phase of his career. Greatly to the astonishment of every one, ills mother had removed to a handsome loyyia in tluj best quarter of the city ;tho sadness of "her heart and countenance seemed to have vanished : and there was a gladness in her whole bearing, such as npne who had known her had over before seen. ‘lt Hates for '^boertisin^ ADveimsETME?rre wifi bo inserted nt Ten cent per lino for tho first Insertion, and flyo const per lino f6r each subsequent Insertion. Qnar crly half-yearly, and yearly advertisement* In serted at a liberal reduction on tho obovo rates Advertisements should bo accompanied by the Cash. Wnon sent without any length of timo specified for publication, they will bo continued untllordered out and cnnrged accordingly. JOB PRINTING. C’AKD3,HANDRrr.bS. Ciucur.Aiis, and c.vory olb or description of Jon and Caud Printing, , , is a great mystery, certainly,' said tbo gossips; ‘how this change should have come about before her son's fate is decid ed !. At iepgth tho all-important day arriv ed. Tho judges (who had never seen tho prisoner since tho day ofhlsarrest) being assembled in the great hall of tho As sembly, desired tho prisoner might bo bcought.in: The prone figure was plac ed,-on*t|ie platform, concealed as before with the cloth-of green baize; whilst as its side but considerably raised, was another, also covered. Tito question wasmt once put as to what counsel he ' had employed, ‘Gentlemen,’ lie said,‘l am my own.UIiI> people were within the enclosure. The crowd on Cemetery Hill had also largely Increased. N ln order to obtain a more unobstructed view many adventurous persons hud climbed the (roes, and even the lops and outer limbs of these wore as full ns a judicious care for safety would permit.