1 61 u golimbia glig. JP', • liSE%:' • A.. M. RAMBO. Col'umb'ia, Pa. saturikiy', July 24, 1869. ComesSte.vrioxs,letters, contributions, generally of meritand interest to the 'reader, will be acceptable Vern friends from all quarters. IT will be recollected that in ISGI, When through the influence of thuggery, A. H. Hood was nominated for the Judgeship of Lai3easter county, the honest portion of the Republican party were so much dissatisfied that they called a mass meeting and resolved to support Judge Long, which they did and elected him. This was termed bolting by the Thugs and • other adherents of Mr.. Hood, _but the majority of the people sanctioned and justified it. So will they act again, if by trickery, thuggery, ballot-box stuffing, or any other fraud, any improper person shallbe . neminated at our next primary election.' , We are no disorganizers and no faetionists, but the people have detefmin- ed that fraud in our political nominations shall no longer prosper or prevail. The , disgusting schemes; the dishonest tricks, the daring falsehood, barefaced rascality and corrupt means practiced and used by our rings, politicians and some of our can didates; have so sickened the honest men of our party, that bolting has become a - necessity, whenever a fraudulent or im2 proper :nomination is made; and we are. glad tolnd that in this,belief we are sus tained by the New York Tribune, , which in a late number has said, "we condemn the iniquities and corruptions that render bolting necessary; but we do not con demn bolting. We heartily trust that no Republican candidate may be nominated this Fall-who ought to be bolted from, but ifa:barl man should be nominated, we hOpe honest men will bolt." Thus we see in New York, ai.in Pennsylvania,eor ruption and fraud have become so bold, impudent and disgusting; that bolting is a matter of Self-defense and the only reme dy left to hobest men, when dishonest men are - forced upon them as candidates. Be it therefore known to all, and we speak from the record, that. the 'people have determined, that if any . dishonest or . improper man. shall he nominated, or if any man shall be nominated by dishonest or fraudulent'meang,Abey,.the people, will bolt and take such• steps as they did in 1861, and elect inert whom they can re spect and confide in, and none other. How They Do at Saratoga. A writer on the wing thus sails into fashionable foibles at Saratoga. Of course .everything is done in style at the Springs. If you want to move in " good" society here you must 'do things according to the style. You must walk in style, talk in style, eat in style, and laugh in style; in other -words, you must be everything but your own self. It will not do to be natural. Naturahaessislunfashiona.ble. We visited some of-thie'trincipal hotels, and saw some 'of the most superb combinations of softness and 'silks, nonsense 'and broad cloth, in the shape of men and- women. It is surprising what respectable rotten ness gathers at' our watering places. It is an outrageous libel on the God of Nature , to find humanity so burdened with cruel distortions, and all the beauty of natural ness lost in the manerisms of what is false - - 1y called good society. We make but little doubt that more than three.fourths of the visitors at these fashionable resorts come, - not for the recovery of health, but to spread themselves in all the extrava gances of " high life." A. "Perambulating Whisky Mill. Information has been received at the Revenue Bureau from'Tennessce of the capture of an ox wagon in the mountains of Rock county loaded with whisky from some illicit distiller in Georgia. The owner of the team was selling whisky from the wagon to all who wanted to buy. When the revenue officers overhauled this perambulating whisky mill, the proprietor abandoned his team and took to the woods. His name is Allen. The team consisted of two pair of oxen. It was taken posses sion of, but was subsequently re-captured from the officers and the oxen scattered through- the woods. The' whisky in the wagon was poured out on the groUnd and the wagon abandoned. Returning Reb els The last remnant of the Southern colo nists-of Brazil are returning home impe cunious.and forinrn, as fact as they can get their passages paid by. charity. They went out from us, vowing that they could notlive under a Yankee government; they come back glad enough to lice and die udder it. They an probably willing to admit now, that with all its faults it is the 'best Government on the face of the earth. Their actions admit it, anyhow. If they cottur-Witli'the intention of being good cit izens henceforth,' they arc-warmly wel come. Suggestive. The- fact that two bankers are candi dates for the State Senate is somewhat suggestive. If it should-be-the custom of our State. Treasurer to lend the public money to- faiorites, ; withOut interest or at a .rate,:very probably these gen tlemen would • have a preference. Why are not eonactothers of our:.-private bank ers candidates for_ the AsSembly ? The game is "open 'to *all ;"'and who knows what might le the 'return for a: 'vote. Miss,424moNy , is ia 'favor of woman popping :the ,question, instead of , man. She nas keener, instinct,' says, Susan, "and knows__ hatter whom she _loves.' Thereis plausibility in, the idea; but we think it will be admitted. that Susan would hive been itMorestiocessfalpopper•thirty ears ago . thin rio"W. • " OLIVE LQGA;s':„ . _desdriheicthe female bathers at Long .traneh,as "banging them selves'on thcfsafety rope, 'looking ekeeed inlylihS:nikos,lfsshetl. elqthekion a windy Mottslay,,S , SPOTS on the Ann, ire telnumerous, a group beingpinz,visiblepear the eastern limb, one of, whickis;said, by the . astrono mers to be - five thousand miles in diameter. Rave an Aim in Life. Every mani' rich or poor, ought, to have, some absorbing,purpose, some active en- gagement, to which his main energies are devoted. Not enjoyment but duty, daily duty, must be the'aiur of each: life. *No man has a right to live upon this fair earth, to breathe its air, — to consume its food, to en joy its' beauties, proddeing'ziOthing in re- ' turn. He has no right to enjoy the bless ings of civilization, of society, and Of civil liberty, without contributing earnest and self-denying labor of head, or beart,or hand in the welfare of mankind. Certainly no man can be truly religious who makes grat i ficat i on, as distinct from self-denying exertion, the great Object of life, and the idler puts pleasure exactly in the place of duty. • This principle of life admitted, however manifested, swill produce daily deteriora tion of character, until thoroughly aban doned. Every bodily appetite, every men tal fancy, every momentary fashion, will clamor till indulged. The body will'be pampered, appetite will lead on to glutto ny,wine to drunkenness, luxury to every in dulgence, while the mind, excited only by novelties, and enfeebled by the lack of con tinual exertion, sinks into utter vapidity and. usefulness. There is more hope of the reformation 'of the worst sinner than of the idler. Poverty will sometimes scourage the vice of idleness out of a man. But the love of a higher and a bet ter mode of life, if once tasted, is the chief hope. Editor A Mean Congregation. A correspondent of the Churchman tells us of a clergyman whose salary was made up by subscription. Not proving sufficient to support him, his wife gave music les sons. WitOn the salary was collected, a mean miser, who had suscribed $lO, refu sed to pay over $5, beeause he had paid the minister's wife $5 for a quarter's in struction of his daughter. Andther cut down his subscription from $4O to $2O, because the wife received $2O for' teach ing his daughter mu.ie. Them fellows are only after religion, without price, and should go to Heaven straight. Cuban News—Frightful , 111ortr4lity Among the Soldiers. Sickness is increasing in the Spanish and iebel forces, and the' mortality is frightful. It is estimated that the deaths amount to fifteen per cent. monthly of the men in the field on both sides. The Span ish troops are affected the most with vo• mito, while the insurgents suffer from cholera, and diarrhea, caused especially by want and exposure. When the rainy sea son is past the volunteers will go:Mto active service in the field, and reinforcements will arrive from Spain. A. New Theory. The American Artisan in its latest is sue, expresses the opinion that accidental. leakage of steam in boilers daily saves thousands of livesand millions of dollars' worth of property in every part of the world ; and that a perfectly tight and.close steam boiler, with a fire burning under it while the engine is at rest, is probably as perfect an " infernal machine" as could well be devised by human mind. What do our boiler owners say to this. Mr. A'. D. RICHARDSON, who has just been - over the Pacific railways, writes that the six owners of the Central road are re ported to have divided thirty million dollars, profit on construction ; lie regards that as an exaggeration, but puts it at half thatprincely sum. But they own, besides this accumulation, the land grant and nearly all the stock, and if the road .pays' they will be six of the richest men on the continen t. , AN unplesant scandal, involving a man and woman in middle life, in embers of the same church in Danbury, Ct., and which had given rise to an extended church trial, has been put at rest by the complete vindi cation of the man and the conviction of the woman: It was shown that she had con spired against his cha . racter at the expense of her own reputation, in order to possess herself of a portion 'of his wealth. THERE is a rock in the Androscoggin river, just above the toll' bridge at -Bruns wick, which rises some fifteen feet above the water and will weigh fifteen to twenty tons, but which was never visible there be fore this spring. It is supposed' that' it became - frozen into the Ice' last winter and was thus hoisted to its position. THE Governor and Council of Maine are backing down-from the execution of the. "Maine Law." ' According to a &item. porary, Governor Chamberlain never was a "ramrod," and will receive the votes of many liberal men at the September elec tion who ordinarily vote . against the Republican party. A MASQUERADE ball-is announced at the White Sulphur Sirings,Ya. Among the managers are General. Robert E. Lee, General Henry A. Wise, General L .Walker and other heroes of the late Con. federaey. FRANcr. is declared tO'be in a critical situation. .It would he a laborious task to compute the critical situations she has been in since Napoleon 111 ventured upon his coup cretat. Somehow, though, nothing serious comes of these perils. 111cOrxtrattl once remarked to 'a friend that le would not again put up with the indignities which he . had•to endure•from politicians during the campaign of 1864, to be President a hundred tiinei ' SIINDAA' ScuooLs are being established in Russia upon the American plan. In the usefulness of these institutions America has silently taught a lesson to entire Chris tendom. THE woman editors of the - Revolution are writing in a way and on topics that nine out of ten of the editors of the coun try would be ashamed to mention in print. Why is it so ? IT has been beedrernarked, maliciously of Course,, that the. edges of nearly every book in Victor Emanuel's private, library are uncut... DIE Hon: Edward-MeTtersOn is to sail ,for Europe on the 28th inst.; for the.ben; at of his health. State Treasurer. En..ars:—Tlrne was when., as the law re- , waked, 'the' members of the Senate and' House, of, Representatives electetrour State. Treasurer, but this order of things seems. • now to be reversed, and if certain state ments are, correct, the State Treasurer elects the.Sehators - and members of the House of Representatives. This happy state of things was first inaugurated by that splendid po litical financier, Mr. William Kemball„ who has found a very sip t scholar in his successor, Mr. Mackey, who true• to the teachings of his illustrious predecessor s has undertaken to manipulate the elections in different coun ties of the State, so that his calling and elec-. tion as State Treasurer may be sure. It is certainly somewhat novel that the Trea urer should 'so interest himself, , but no doubt, like all other aspirants for fame and wealth, he may feel himself justified in the undertaking, as by a liberal distribution of of the public funds in loans-round about, he can most benevolently, do a great deal of good, administer comfort to a goad many hungry ones, and gain the good will of his fellow men, who would not hesitate in re turn to do him a favor whenever required, by setting up and fixing things to .suit. We hear it asserted that the State Treasurer has openly declared that at least one man, who is a candidate for re-election. to the Senate, must and shall be defeated. If this be true, the inquiry is natural, *why must he be de feated, when everybody asserts him to be an honest-man and a good Representative? Is it because he offered an amendment to the appropriation bill requiring the prepay ment of nearly a million of dollars of the State Loan of 1870, by-which the amount of money in the Treasury would be dimin ished that amount, and by which at least $50,000 would be saved to the State? or is it because the Treasurer apprehends that at the next session there will be at least one independent and honest man who will offer, and have passed, a resolution requiring him to exhibit under oath a statement o f the public money under his control, in whose hands it has been kept, and the per tentage, if any, received by him therefor,. accompanied, by the appointment of a Com mittee to investigate the accounts of the State Treasurer an d report accordingly. In 1820, when William Findley was a can didate for re-election to the office of Gov ernor, it was charged upon him, that when he was State Treasurer, prior to his election for Governor in 1817, he hod occasionally. used • the public money, to the amount of three or four thousand dollars, and so odious was this violation 'of his trust and duty held, and so jealous were the people or their rights, that he was defeated by Joseph Hiester, his opponent. What ought now to be said if the Treasurer should be guilty of lending out the public money to political pets and favorites, either to receive or not to receive an interest in return, or obtain some political favor or advantage thereby. As this sort of distribution is in violation of law, and as he has at times as much as two millions of dollars under his control, and gives bail for less than half that amount, it may be well if some prop erly authorized agent would look into mat ters, and see whether these rumors have any foundation or not. _ TEE Democrats say that the Registry Law destroys the liberty of the people. Well, it does, to a certain degree and in a certain sense, limit their liberty; or, at least, that is its design. It is intended to prevent a voter frOm voting more than once at the same election, while its further object is to 'prevent those not entitled to vote from vo 'l:Mg at all. It seeks to protect the polls, as Juage Agnew says, "from hirelings and vagabonds, outcasts from home and honest industry ; men without citizenship or stake in the Government ; men who will commit perjury, violence, and murder itself," and this far it proscribes liberty. But other laws are just as obnoxious to this Democratic objection. There is a law, to prevent the picking of pockets, which a great many Democrats look upon as much more objec tionable in the way of assailing a man's liberty to do as ho pleases than is the Regis try Law. So with nearly all our laws, they limit liberty to do wrong, and aim to pro tect the upright citizen, just as the Registry Law does ; but in organized .society such laws must prevail, or crime and anarchy would soon rule. The public cannot toler ate the liberty to commit wrong and crimes; even to gratify the Democracy. The Wrong Man in the Wrong Place.. A few days since a young - couple, just married at Waterbury, Ct., got on board a' train on the Naugatuck Road, bound for Bridgeport. ...They had a sweetilme,billing and cooing iiSproper style, until tlie train reached the junction. While waiting there the groom took a stroll on the platform, and the bride also improved the time to walk to the forward end of the car. As they started she returned, and seeing her husband, as she supposed, seated comfortably, she pop ped into the same seat, and lovingly rested her bead on his shoulder while the cars passed through the covered bridge. Unfor tunately she had mistaken her man, and as the cars emerged from the bridge a tremb ling voice whispered in her ear that he didn't quite comprehend the situation. Looking up, the bride found' tin unknown blushing youth, while her liege lord was standing in the aisle with a look of blank astonishment on his face, not knowing what to make of " such conduct as those." The error was corrected at once, but the fun was too much for the other occupants of the car, and every sleeve contained an enormous though quiet laugh. A Trenton Ripple—Supposed Dou ble Elopement.' On • Sunday night, about 12 o'clock, two girls named Elizabeth and Lydia Stoddard, aged sixteen and nineteen years, residing in Sykesville, ran off with a married man -named Henry Fenton, and - an unmarried 'man named Edward Archer. The parties are all farm hands and started off in an old fashioned light wagon. The father of the girls went in pursuit of them yesterday, and as they had previously spoken of going to work in Pennsylyania, be came-to this city for the purpose of in stituting inquiries, but found that they had 'not crossed either of the bridges leading to Pennsylvania up to four o'clock yesterday . afternoon. He then appeared before the Mayor and made . agidavit to the above facts.—Trenton Eraita.rium. A Sad Occurrence. A sad affair occurred in Cambria, a town twenty miles froni Ilianl ato,_Minn., last week. DM-id Griffith and wife were absent from home,, leaving tWo boys, six and nine years, and two little girls, one and three years of age. ' The boys set fire to a straw stack, which so alarmed them that taking their little sisters they fled to the woods. Seeing their father coining, and fearing .punishment,'•they left the little girls n'eter-U -small pool of water and ran away. About dark dark the bodies 'Of the little' girls were found In the poOlnear Whiah they had been left, drowned:. The father was in the habit of punishinghis'eliildren so severely that it was with great 'effort the'boys mold be in duced to return hoine after they were found. "OvrviA," the correspondent of thePhlla delphha .Press, excuses the Strong-minded . - ness of Susan B. Anthony. "Let us" she says, "visit herflnlts.tenderly. Baby lips have never pressed ,her hard, cold cheek. She has never tasted, the, sublimity of motherhood. , She has never bathed, in that immeasurable sea of glory whose waves touch the gates of Paradise." AT the last National Encampment of the Grand Army, a committee was ,appointed to consider a proposition to establish a co operative life insurance association, whose policy-holders should consist of only the Grand Arnly Itself. The projector bus 'just issued a plan for the carrying out of this Idea, to be subMitted to a committee called to meet at .Philadelphia, August 12. OLE BULL goes to Norway this week to spend the summer. Re lives in Norway during the sum mers,and in America during the winters; which is precisely our custom, barring the summer sojourn in Norway. A MAN named Broydon,, postmaster and *express agent at Pacific city, Idaho, de camped with nearly 820,000 of the company and Government,funds on Sunday. • •A man ant his two.ebildren were •kilted by lightning near . .Rockwood; Canada, on Tuesday afternoon." A terrible disaster occurred on the liarie Railroad at Mast Hope Station, 29 - miles from Port 'Jervis, N. Y., early yesterday morning. A passenger train ran into the engine of another train, owing,it is believed, to the misplacement of a'swi id] ; several of the cars were smashed, and the wreck caught fire. -From-the latest-account nine lives were lost, some of the sufferers being burned to'death. - Among those burned to death was Rev. Benjamin B. Hallecic, of New York, who had got wedged iu the 'wreck. But few persons were injured. The mails and nearly all the baggage - were dei troyed. The Peabody Instlinte, at Peabody,llla‘sa 4 , wits dedicated on Wednesday. Mr. Pea:, body was present, and announced that lie would add 13.45,000 to his original bequest, making a total of $lOO,OOO. The sale of lager beer. .has been resumed in Boston by connivance of the authorities, but.the whisky shops remain closed. During a terrible thunder storm at Hun tingdon,Pa., on Wednesday, two mem were stunned f)37 a Bash of lightning, and falling into the canal were drowned. - A man named John Wilkinson commit ted suicide in a station house at Rochester N. Y., on Wednesday night. A coach of Wells, Fargo & Co., was re cently robbed a Macora Station, New Max ico, of $7,200 in gold. The robbers are be ing pursued in the mountains. SATURDAY, July: 17. The official count of the vote of Virginia at the military headquarters in Richmond shows a majority for Walker of 17,500. Governor-elect Walker, of Virginia, was serenaded at Binghamton, N. Y., his na tive town, last evening.. He made a brief speech, declaring the election in Virginia, a . triumph for the policy of General Grant. A. train ran off the track of' the Union Pacific Railroad, 450 miles west of Omaha, on Thursday morning, smashing four cars and the engine. Two men were killed and three badly injured. The accident is attri buted to the weakening of the track by rains. Another train, going east, also ran off the track, killing one man. -.There is trouble in Pleasant Valley, N. Y., owing to the resisting of a Sheriff's at tachment bya gang of laborers, and soldiers are to be sent from Poughkeepsie to aid the Sheri ff. " A number of Wall street brokers were ar rested in New York, yesterday, and held each in $3OOO hall, for violating the usury laws. A TAX PATER President Grant and family arrived at Cape May on Saturday, and were theguests of various' hotels. Before reaching the Island the President visited Camp Union and reviewed the Gray Reserves., The Pres ident goes to Long Branch to-morrow. General Sherman is at Easton, and,pene2: ral -- Sheridan 'at" Nerxiippft. ChierTailice Chase is in New York. A quantity . of lager, seized from a beer dealer in Boston on July 5 was returned on Saturday, on the ground that if kept it would spoil before a decision of the courts could be had. In Cambridge, a man whose stock consisted of only one keg of lager,lost it by seizure, and was also sentenced to three months imprisonment and a fine of fifty dollars. Two women were drowned while bathing at Lowell ; Mass., on Saturday. The Pardis Building,ln Scranton,Pa„ was burned last evening, and Solonnin Clark, who slept in the building, perished in the flames.. During the past week the crops in lowa have suffered greatly from rains. The Illi nois river at Morris, 111., is 15 feet above its usual summer mark, and rising. Nine houses in Brooklyn, N. Y., were blown down by a tornado on Friday after noon. Saturday's internal revenue receipts were $1,673,000. A census just taken shows the population of Mexico to be 9,000,000. The Now England hotel, at CleVeland. was partially destroyed by fire on Saturday night. Loss $25,000. There were 337 deaths in Philadelphia last week, an increase of 17 over the return for the week previous. Among the deaths were 9 frOm cholera and cholera morbus, 13 from