Cljt Sialuntbia J." W:"i`OCU~C ~. 7521CM1t.• '1 Publishers and J. A. WOLFERSBER.GER, I Proprietors. Columbia., Pa. SaturdaykSeptember 17, 187'0; Cousimacmoss,letters, contributions, generally of -m erit and interest to the reader, will be acceptabl from friends from all aunrtere• _ . . ~REPAIBMICAN COUNTY TICKET Cbngras Assembly. HENRY M. ENGLE, East Donegal. - GEORGE WHITSON, Bart. • JOHN E. WILEY, Conoy. • A. C. REINTEHL, Manbeilm. • • Recorder. • GEORGE J. HIGH, East Lainpeter County COMMISSiOACT. JOHN X. REED, City. Prison Inspectors. LEWISSPRECHER, City. EZRA BETSY, Warwick. Directors of Poor. DAVID LAIN.IDIS, East, Lanapeter JOHN J. FRY, Rapho. • • ' - County Solicitor-. B. C. KEBAB'S, . • Jury Commissioner DA:Vito . ..l4-AM, City. Auditor. BA.IICF,T , SHOCH, Columbia FREE trade is profligacy—Protection is prudence J. H. OLIVER ESQ.j a graduate of F & N. College, has been nominated by the Iteiyahlicans of the 6th : Congressional Dis trict (Lehigh and Montgomery) as the candidate for Congress against Dr. E. L. Acker of the Norristdwit Register: Trig religious(?) department of the , ColUmbia _Herald has a nearly two . eolumir editorial ;to•prove that Republicanism in , France means the " extirpation of priests, and with' them the christian religion." `All - Frenchmen who shoat.'" Vive La Re publique,", are the " cut-throats of Eu; roper!' The writer must have heard from Rome! , THERE is, we understand,a secret move= meat to set up an independent Repub .- lico-Doriatteratic ticket, with Hon. I. E. Hiesier, and a few thousand dollars,at the head, as a candidate for Congress, and H. , 31. North, Esq., as one of the four candidates for th'e- Legislature. The rest of the ticket is to be mainly Republican. : We hear, too, of a little soldier affiliation , with this copperhead movement, which we - trust :not correct: We •hope that no Republican who loves his oanntry and the' principles of Ilia party, will touch this "mule'.'ticket. It is an effort of the delitoqiady,und a few disatisfied Repub , . •Jican office seekers _to demoralize the rad.: Acal,rnulis. Among-.the latter- are some, s• • ca . o within a few hundred votes of .ad they been success.. • , • e' - been no - Spa - rife — ln t en- .. enunetntons of the seceders, .who `now-attempt to cut down ourmajority,for that's all the-movement will amount to. . . , `-TgEscimhead and :Copperhead scheme of getting up . an independent ticket is meeting With poor success throughout the - - county. _quick's who 'have tanderta . keri to nourish the thing into life,r4ve, a sorry time of it,and simply for • the reason that the people have no faith either in their political integrity or sagac ity. lArlini:Oie little,:d.nst, raised by the adventereii has blown' elfin it will be found: that.no.person, has been hurt but the instigators of the movement. The peoplelave-rio sympathy with discrgaiti ' iiiag Movements of any kind.—ExciMiner . cC Herald.: - Tax pp State:Elections were opened • by*Vermont and , ,California on Tuesday • and Wednesday.- Next in order i and more,: important' than' either the Green Monn T Caha et:Golden • State, lo s liolVed Maine, Cm! the 12th inst. Maine's election-has foi -many years been regarded as indicative of • the results in all the othet:StafeS:7 . Thii year s the canvaSs: - in'lla‘ ine, is 14te;asified by an .1.1.1111511a1 lively struggle over, the United- States Senatorship. The Maine ' election 'evey:; "ther , e 'will be a 'lull until the Ist of'Patol;er, whenslz men of In-', diana,gn ,to the,polls; followed-on-the 3.1 of ice saine.month'hy the voters of -Mie ,aisszppz and Elorzda. Pennsylvania,Ohio, ..and Iowa:hold their elections on the 11th ' of 'October;and West Viginia cads the - election for this month on the 27th-: : eonclUdedto bottle .„ _wrath for the present, and under the —pressure of party drill, has not only withi ldra-siin as 'a candidate for . Congress, but promises to support the, candidate whord he charged with securing his place on_thei ticket by fraud.. This course:was' not un T expee ted, as Bretton in . his' opposition :to Haldeman was not actuated by, the Tao .' rirsi that, govern a large number of his . supporters in his " bolt" from the decis'- ion 'of the Conferrees: Bretton may ""'transfer hinaself body; and breeches to his • . . trituaphant opponent, buthe, cannot con - trot thervotes of a large.number of Deme crats, who have determined to withheld their. support from lialdernan r , ,One rea , son given forißratton's•declension,•thougli not avowed by 'himself,' is that agreeing filsoipositioit to a Pro tective Tariff, he does not wish to endan ger the cause of Free trade .by 'remaining in the field. - The -Democratic candidate by his 'steady' , opposition to 4 - i i,rot ! ptive tariff,hiSt.winter in dorwiess has -made foilimself many.warm friends among-the - 'Free traders in other-States, , and'they are naturally 'Very 'anxious for hisieleetiOO. Mr..Hafdetiaanis determination to close up: the iron. business of his ; native. state, by re , (lacing. the duties- •on ' to so .low ''a -;point as to r aniit'of importing fereign . is regarded by thorn is heroic in the highest-degreecomi-ofvourse they are 7 - ready - to giverhim-their suppprf.l As the ieSeiiiitfyil `of ode, _ greatiroo ,districts of.. the. - State ke-ItaS `:,achieved ixtotorietyc which- he could not have reached-by-any-display of talent on atanustl be. said for. him. that asAls position:is, :lie has made - no fort ,ao conceal. it::.:Thereforti , 13e - -who' Totes for hinv_votealily:FrecArade its attendant evils. .__.__.~~ itor I=l IT is saidthat Mr. 436;eywill mat_bo a candidate - for. State Treasureriaext'year. Gen Irwin should also be droppek-nnd an,eotirely new man selected—a man who Will•not intrigue or bore Tor the office,and in whose-honesty the Republican party and people 'generally have' entire confi dence. So says the Reading Journal, and we „ endorse itmost emphatically. FILO3I present indications, and from I notes by the press generally there promis es to be no--end now- to books—and—rnaga--, zine articles.purporting to give personal reminiscences of Dickens. Nearly every person whO was so fortunate as to have been introduced to the great novelist dur ing his life would have it believed' now that he was his confidential friend, and a single autograph letter is considered no mean nucleus for a biography. The Election in Maine, on Monday r-e suited in a substantial Republicwn tri umph- We have returns of the vote for Governor from 110 towns, nearle one-half of the State, which give a majority of 5,090 for Sidney Perham, the republican candidate for Govnornor, against 4,942 majority for Chamberlain, last year. We judge that he is elected by five to seven thousand majority, through the vot ing has been so eccentric that it may be hazardous to attempt a close calculation as to the majority. The Legislature is largely Republican; though the Demo crats may have gained n few members of the House, and possibly one or two Sen ators. The people seem to have been voting mainly for U. S. Senator—the con test being between Gov. Chamberlain and the Hon. Lot M. Morrill. Shoddy Contractors Great stories are told in Paris of the enormous frauds of the government army contractors from which we should judge these contractors to be as'infamous as were some of our own. Infamous as cartridges filled with sand; artillerymen show explo sive shells that will not explode; the clo thing and equipments of the troops are complained of and, in fact, the entire •mil itary condition of Fiance is bad. It is even alleged that some of the balls provi ded for the guns in the Paris forts do not fit, and that new ones will have to cast. It is a bad time in the midst of aseige, to overhaul contractors for their frauds; lint if the Praisians should give them a short shrift, it would be precisely what some of our soldiers would gladly have done by the greedly wretches who did their best to sell our country for personal gain.— ReCord. • The Record. Senator Morton, of Indiana, gives the following record of the Republican party : It abolished Slavery! it establisheif"Universal Suffrage! It gave Liberty to all Sections! It protected the Civil Rights of man ! It - defeated Repudiation! It gave Republican Government to the South! It built the Pacific Railroad! • .• ' the Homestead Law t• . . MCC opened New Roads into the public domain ! It secured Pensions and Homesteads to the Union Soldiers ! • It - has reduced the NatiOnal Debt one hundred • and forty-six millions in sixteen months, thus certainly securing the extinction of the whole debt in less than ilfteen years ! It has reduced Taxation—Eighty lfillions of Dollars in one Intl! It hai. ii - assed'a ReVenue Tariff- with full inci dental protection to American labor It has reduced the prospective interest oa the National debt! And ,we may add: It supports the Liberal' Principles of United Germany, against the Despotism of the late French Dynasty, the enemy of the United States during our great Rebellion. CONPARED IVITIC, THE DISA.STROMS RECORD OF • THE DEHOCRA.TIC PARTY. Sympathy with the Rebellion! Devotion to slavery! Hostility to Universal Suffrage! Persecution of the Freed People Opposition to the Civil Rights Bill! Favorable to Repudifition Adverse to the Reduction of the Debt!! Votes in Congress against Reducing Taxation ! - Prejudiced against the Union Soldier"! Committed co Low Wages and Free Trade ! A Check to Crime Waited. The ineresae of crime is-patent to every body. In large cities the number of ar rests is fearfully- on the increase. Our , daily - exchanges dontain whole pages of robberies, and murders, and offenses of other kinds. Towns and villages are also cursed with this increased' wretchedness. .Lancaster and Columbia may be placed in the same catalogue. One of our Phila delphia exchanges, in commenting on the ' orderly condition - of Paris, since the fall of Sedan, alleges that it is attributable to the driving out of the thousands of idle and vicious persons who, during the siege -would not only have been an incumber ance,hut would have availed themselves Of the, opportunities that would have been so amply afforded them of plying their dishonest vocations. "And here, by the way, we would ask whether a similar step would not prove salutary in this and other IS - rge - Anierican cities.,"Thcre" las - becn - of late a fearful increase in crimes of nearly every grade, from red-handed tour der down, and we regret to state that thi4 vigor of lawlessness shows no signs of abatement.— Why this •should•he S 3 we confess ourselves unable to 01, but tha tit is,"So • is a fact that stands' unchallenged. ,Are we too lenient with criminals ? Such -would not seem to be the ease, for the Judges of our courts have on nearly all occasions inflicted ,the severest penalties of, the law , upon convicted offendes.. Is our police inefficient ? We are not wil ling'to believe - this, as the force of Mayor Fox isapparei3fly,neither better oor worse than their predecessorsy. Wheie are we then to look for the sources• of this ava lanehe of criminality? Olir churches and Sabbath schools are, doing their usual amount of •good ' , work, but they- fail in - their reforinatory in - finances hi keep pace With the steady,yigorous, ouw:ard march .of. criminality. The- question, is one worthy'tlicsorious consideration of our Citizens.' :):fvfolatbrsof luw_are permitted to multiply in this ratio, where is the mat- Irk :to 'end; and how Something •m be'done 'or the'dnw,will he, overridden and 'the peace and-safety of : the city jeopard ized.- What4 -- that• 4 something is,; . those whosediit • -iris to • devise iiseasnies` for the protection- of - peaceable citizens should • 'determine: =We i can only state Action' in -. the utatter , - reSts• with the authorities....,Jf.ithis_is not talieo, `their;aS-in Satat'Unciiao in liy:ii . One'Years, the citizens will be compelled to 'Provide for their own own safety." popular whine, "Where are , the, 11,zght,ers, the Clays, the PatrickTifen!, rYs? . ' is answered in this way by the Chi cage j'imes: men become more enlightened, ed ucation becomes more universal, the tal ent of men becomes more equalized. There is_notthechanee now that there used to be for one man to rise far above his fel lows, and thus compel the homage and obeisance of those about him. There are heroes as great as ever there have -been But there arc so many of them that in• .dividuals-are-feDgetteu-and-ideas -are-- be co mi ng supreme.• This is a mark of true progress, 'and just as fast as the person is merged into the pr'oject, so much nearer do we come to complete culture and re finement." WE have another report of the detuilds made by Prussia of France. The state ment is that Bismarck will have Alsace and Lorraine, the French Baltic fleet, and $80,000,000. All reports agree that the German repossession of Alsace and Lor raine is an essential in every proposal. A moneyed compensation has been mention ed, but its amount has never before been stated. The Baltic fleet, commanded by Vice Admiral Bovet Willaummez, entered the Baltic July 20. It sailed from Cher bourtr, and contains the ironclads Rocb ambeau, formerly the Danderberg, and Armide, and seven others in one division. Another squadron has been added since. It has accomplished nothing more than the capture of one or two merchant-men and the fright of a few fishermen. Every an his Own Governor. Governer Hoffman reviewed a brigade of the National Guard at Binghampton few days since and made a speech in the course of which be said : " The best government is that which governs the the' least, and the most.certain way to pro cure and maintain it is for every man in the community to feel that he must be his owns governor." That is the true theory of republican government, but how few politicians iu our day practice it ! If every man would be his own governor a vast amount of wickedness would be avert ed; the necessity for State conventions, cabals, cliques and all the paraphernalia and trappings of partisan life become use less and unnecessary. A treatise or lec ture upon the subject of "Every - lan His Own Governor" would prove a novel entertainment during the coming lecture season.-117: Y. licrald. THE WAR. The great powers on the part:of France have demanded an armistice. The Prus sian armies aro reported to have halted in their march on Paris. M. Thiers has been despatched by the Provisional , Gov ernment on a secret mission to London, St. Petersburg, and Vienna, and the pros pect for peace is therefore quite cheering. During the past week the new French Government has been working energeti cally-to bring about a-cessation of hostili -Cia;Te--iiorrer-e-aniTo're-trael., seconded by the people, and there is no doubt - it is ready and anxious to make an honorable settlement with Prussia. The German people also are 'playing for peace, and unless some pew. cause arises they will sustain a further prosecution of the war with great reluctance. It is exceed ingly unfortunate, however, that in these European matters the people have so lit tle to say. Nevertheless, monarchs and rulers are beginning to realize that it is dangerous to take on too 'many absolute and infallible airs, and they are conse quently prone to take more heed to the popular will-than iu .former times. We are therefore led to hope quite confidently for the peaceful settlement of this great Franco-Prussian quarrel at an early day. A Horrible Crime A correspondent of the Tribune of August 22d, says : I have referred, in previous letters, to the danger of raising against any one whomsoever the cry of Prussianism. The village of Hautefayc (Dordogne) has within the last two days bden the theatre of a crime so hideous a character as tare mind one of the barbarism of the Middle Ages. Without entering into the details of the preliminary incidents, 'it will suf fice to state that a Wealthi,landed proprie tor, the owner of the chateau- of Bretag nes, one Sieur, de Moneys d'Ordieres,Was burned alive by the populace, under' the impression that had cried out : " Vice la Prime!" It appears th'at he did make use of these words, but only-at the end of a reply he was addressing to a band of fel lows who had insulted him and hiS cousin by pointing them out as "fine gentlemen who paid others to fight the Prussians for them." M. de Moneys indignantly denied the allegation, and even declared that, though rich, he did not intend to purchase a substitute, but would himself risk his life for the country. He added : 'Those who, at such a moment endeavored to shirk the discharge of their patriotic dm, ties, are cowards, and make common cause with all who shout, " Vive la Pruise !" These last:words alone were beard by a part of the band who had provoked this retort. -It was sufficient. The young man—lie.was only 29—was immediately' set upon and fled. He' was pursued, re captured and beaten and kicked, and drag ged to the dried 'up bed of a'pond in the , field where the fair is usually held. The: ferocious ruffians next got a heap of fag gots and put the already half dead man upon it, and baying heaped more over , him', set the pile on fire. The unfortu young man, - unable to move, eipired in awful agony... His father arrived while the young man was being burnt. When - the fire was extinguished , the body . was a Mere charred „he* The loyalty-of M. de .Moneys -was notorious,, and no one seems to be able to account for this savage ,act. The judicial authorities are .in search of . the perpetrators of this atrocity. THE following :from the N.• Lcadcr, a ;Democratic paper, haelleen revived : • When Mr, Cox ,was delivering an ,oration in this .city, be_,stated that.he had 'possessed the ineatlmahle privilege of vo ting for twenty years, and he Was proud to :add that in 'that time - be 'bad-cast twenty Democratic-votes. -,A gentleman in the.nu dience—wtto no .doubt would be .wart2aly :endorsed by the • Deinocral-Was heard to mutter audibly: " twenty - votes :111 , .,t‘Yetny yearal,,why. I..:have-Votegl'the Domocratib ticket twenty times at one elec tion.": News Items A bum' in (ho bush is woith two in Oa hand. Intreneinnents are the first care in war— retrenchments in Retiee. haystack of 5000 tons ornaments an Il linois farm-yard. Prairie chickens are more plentiful than usual out West. New York has - about - 18;000 Prench inhab itants. " The Oregon 'hay crop is greatei tbaii ever before. The Pacific Railroad continues to forward east cargoes of tea Chief Justice Chase is now reported by his-physician out oNlanger.----- - Lincoln, the capital of Nebraska, but two years old, has a popalatiou of 2500. It is thought the war will interfere with the supply of German toys for the holidays. Hamburg and-Brennen steamers are pre paring to sail soon. • America uses'as much paper as France and Eu,glaucl cornbhied. nochefortias been made a member of the new French government. The census of Niagara Falls shows a very little falling off of the population. The vocabulary of nonsensical names has been nearly exhausted by the base ball clubs. The State geologist.of Ohio declares that the State has 10,000 square miles of coal ad posit. Laws, like sausages, - cease to inspire ro spent in proportion as we know how they are made. A train on the Union Pacific Railroad, last wo'k, run a distance of 107 miles with out making, a stop. Governor Baker, of Indiana, said in a re cent speech that his Stateias now practically fi ee of debt. A Montana town, witlyt total population of only forty-eight, boasts that it had twen ty-seven fights in one day. College degrees the past summer have not excited so much interest as the degrees thermometers have indicated. Cincinnati fears a lager beer famine un less the European misunderstanding is soon settled. Sir Robert Peel said that the country which produces hue largest amount of coal will-Iteep the lead. The gain in the population of Massachu setts during the past five years will be nearly ono hundred thousand. The San Francisco butchers use no ice for their meat, and need none. In that dry cli mate mein keeps a long time. A New. Tersey.jury decided that Sunday accidents are not legal, and damages incur red on that day are irrecoverable. There is on exhibition at the stock yards in Chicago an improved stock car, which the inventor calls a "palace stock car." A recentletter from France says : " Paris has lost its usual pleasure-garden face, an wears a prison-yard one in its place." The North Georgia coal region, estimated to extend through an area of 2-10 square miles, is expected to yield 1,390,000,000 tons. Exiled French republicans in this country aro following Victor Hugo's example and. returning to Paris. It is said that the only public building in Paris where the Imperial arms have been allowed to remain is the Morgue. A census-taker in Adams county, Ohio reports : " Ulysses Grant HoolTman, fe male, two years of age, ;daughter of Alfred Elooffman farmer." A modest music dealer was recently non plussed by a lady as stout as Parepa•Rosa, who inquired ; " Have you Put Me in My Little Bed ?" An Illinois husband laments the loss of several bushels of apples, shaken prema turely from the tree on which his wife hung herself. Spurgeon, when laying " corner-stones," disdains to use a silver trowel, and .does a guaiCar - Otairliour'.; h‘oust work: with an ordinary implement. " I have a great lore for old hymns," said a pretty girl to her masculine companion, "I am much fonder of young hers," was his reply. Miss Annie P. Ladd, of Augusta, Maine, has been appointed by the Governor and confirmed by the Council as a j ustice of the peace. New Lisbon. Ohio, has a female base ball club. Ono of the girls recently made a "home run."—She saw her father coming with a switch. A movement has been made in Ireland, praying that processions of both Roman Catholics and protestants may be suppress ed bylaw. A. Paris physician writes asking a renew al of a note which he owes giving a reason therefore, " We aro in a horrible crisis. There is not a sick man in the district." Smith is at a loss to know what the Em peror can want with a thousand million francs when'he is getting a check from the Prussians nearly every day. Troy Dntchnian in - trying to reach the ferry-boat refl into thlywater: - His first ex clarnation'on being iiaUlod out was : Gott, let us haVe abridge !" ' • They have discovered a method of thin rihig out the over-abundant population of Japan. Kerosene lamps have been intrsi ilticed into thiit country. An old eitiZeri'ot Sangamon counfy,llli nois, has for many years past been easeed- Willy deaf. A short time since lie :was struck by a slight streak of lightning, and now hears perfectly well., Harrisburg has an empty treasury, is utt "able to pay its gas bill for street lamps, and the gas is cut off, involving the city in darkness nightly. The sympathies of many Arn,ricans with Prussia will probably cease in ease of flip continuation of hostilities against the French republic and people. • A hard hit is made at the ex-French Em peror in the howling to a teleiraphic dis patch to a morning paper: "The Move-. ments of Mr. Napoleon and Family." . From the 'eturus made to the United States marshal it would seem that Tennes see is the healthiest country on the glob, and most remarkable for longevity. The only liberty cap, says a •olever-and witty author, is the night-cap. In it men visit one-third of their lives time only land where they are free and equal. The Jewish Times asserts that there is do specific Jewish oath. It declares that ac cording , to the Jewish law a simple affiruni- tion is equivalent to iiirnath. Putnam county, Mo., was recently visit-' ed by a tornado, which travelled with the rapidity of a cannon ball, along a path 100 feet wide destroying everything in its way. The Chicago papers'recotntuend that the Common Council of that city should pub lish a comic weekly, for which a report of its proceedings would furnish abuutlaat' material. , Milford, Pa., fulfils the prophecy of Isai iab.-7" In that day seven women shall lay hold of one than :" adeurato'statisticishow ing that place to contain a proportion of• seven females, to one Man. The rolls of,the Pension Omen shciw , that. Pier!, are now drawing pensions 5005 sol liers,who,havo lost one arm, 4623 one leg, 350 both arms, 42 both legs, and 21 an arm and a Isg. A. singular coincidence was noted lately in Westford Vt., tlae7d3ell tolling for the death Ol* an infant, one year old, a i id an hour, for an old person of 100, living; in the next house. - A short time since a Mr. Knott was tried in an interior county of Geoigia for a viola tion of law. The verdiCt, of the jury was : • We had , the defendant ,Knott Th. judge was at a loss erhetheito sentence or nor; - - - •• • . Cleveland a man was imprisoned for drunkenness... His with took her baby. to Court and implored his releasti, which was refused when she placed the baby at the door of her husband's cell, undlwalked out of prison majestically. At a. Methodist. camp' meeting ,in -Centre county, Pu., last week, some roughs