25hc Republican.
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Gioboe B. Gooulanper, Editor.
. ,, , , CLKARKJKLD, Fa.
WKDNHSPAT MORN1NU, AUGUST J5, IK7S,
Raad.r. If vol want to kaow what la talnf 01
In th. bu.lnau world, Ju.l ml oar adv.rtl.lui
aolunna, the .yprri(jMlumo In particular.
TllE Next Election. Wocommond
tho tallowing to tbo attention of voters:
. Tho new Constitution forbids all per
tont from voting unlost they have boon
asscssod at leant two months and paid
" thoir taxes at least 0110 month before
.., the data ot tho election.. Noonool
foreign birth can vote unless, In add!
' tion to the abovo, be has been natural
' ized a month previous to the election.
The dule of holding tho next election
.-. is Tuesday, Nov. 2d.
Thursday, September 2d, is the lout
' dtty on which voters can be nssossod.
Friday, Octobor 1st, is the last day
, ; on which taxos can bo paid.
i Friday, October Int. is the last day
for taking out naturalization papers.
' '-Each of theso important duties can
" be performed at any time before the
days mentioned. Let our friends see
to it that the matter is attended to be
fore it is too lato. '
' ' :"Hartranft agiiinst the field," is the
' way the Radical jockeys now put iU
' ' Fourteen Radical.) want to serve the
pcoplo ol Lancaster county In tho cb
' pucity of Shoriff, during the next throe
; years.;
' Intuhjmtinu. Jt took eleven ballots
in the Radical county convention in
Clarion comity, to nominate a candi-
date for County Commissioner.
Tn State Convention. - This
body moots at Erie on Wctluosday,
the 8th day of September, for the pur
poso of nominating a candidato for
Governor and State Treasurer. .
Our Democratic eontcmprarlu don't lika tlia
Raratoya -ilata" Biglar fur Uoraraor, and Kli
Blifor But Treaiaraf.-- ty-oaa Humid.
' Don't crow until yon get out of tho
woods. Give ns your opinion on or
about tho 10th of Septemler. , , '
"What n pity it is that Senator Wat
luce does not sit down and answer the
sago interrogations put to him by tho
statesmen of tho Lancaster Intelligen
cer. What a pity I ' ' ' j
Hendricks, of Indiana, and Curtiu,
of Pennsylvania, are tho most popu-
ulur Presidential ticket, at Saratoga
Newport. ; A pretty good Uitttn
,ar .hnnl.i -a..
. - Jt is a remarkublo tact that, whilo
not one ex-President Is living, tho
wivw of fivo ot them survive Mrs.
, Polk, Mrs. Filuioro, Mrs. Tylor, Mrs,
. Lincoln aud Mrs. Johnson. :
s A Cklestul Auction. An cx
: ' chango sayst ''Sixteen Chinese wo
men were sold at auction in California,
the other dny, only Cblncso being al
highest prioo paid, and ono sold for
sixty-fivo cohts."
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' Speakino Orr. The religious pross
is entering into the Indian campaign
with spirit. This week tho Rational
M Baptist and tho Presbyterian Banner
havo articles strongly approving Mr.
Welsh's courso and condemning Grant
hnd Delano. ' ' ' ' ( ' " i
. Ambrose K. Lynch, who killed Wm.
Hadfield, Allegheny City, over three
i years ago, and who was ' under Bon
tenco of death, was removed to tho
' , Western Penitentiary on Saturday
last, his son Knee having been commu
ted to imprisonment for life. "
... . i The Temperance MOVEMENT. This
"' organization is assuming formidable
proportions. There aro now six jonr
i,. nals in the State supporting the Pro
hibition candidates for Governor and
: State Treasurer.' They aro: Our Pa
yer and The Temperance Blctting, ot
Philadelphia, the Altoona Living Age,
tho Millertiwn Review, tho Pittsburgh
' Temperanct Agitator and tho Harris
burg Temperance Vindicator. Besides,
sovoral regiinonts of clorgymcn have
token the stump for Brown and Pen-
nypaofcor. :.. i: .. , . n . ' . i : i
Ji 'Ii:. -I 1 L- I1UJJ
- Com plim entary. The Democrats
of Bedford county in tlieir rocont
convention, among other resolutions,
"' passed tho following.-
. . 4. Rtflrti, Tbat wa rMogniia tbo wisdom af
trio Lrjrilloturf at Itl laat MHion In Oietttnft tat
now. r)m. A. WHIM to a foot ta tao Unlltd
ir. Butai Boaata. Tbat tait att wa bat a Ittl(
. , ruward for a loag tried and honorable terrlna la
. !nttlin for the eureii of Democratic priaetplei.
1 That hie rvoord ae a lesieleter dorias a period
i . af twelva ycari. tlia moet important ta tbo bie-
i , iorj oi we iommoBweaiia, ie a eamcient gaar-'
anlee that in hii nreerot Olalted poiilioa taa
' great Intoreetj at tbo etate aa.1 taa natioa bare
a waribvabemplM aad defeadar. '
'. Tho Democrats of York county
passed a similar"resolution at thoir
county mooting. '' " " '
Two Damoeratia Coaacilmeii af Baltimore
have bean expelled for accepting aribaa ttmdy
. Mi reaanott. ,
That Is right. The party has de
termined to drive all the rascals out
''or send them to the penitentiary.
Look at tho clean sweep the Demo
crats mode in N ow. York. Tho "Boss,"
..Tweed, in the penitentiary, and all the
' other rogues have fled to. Europe.
Look nt the notorious corruption in
Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, AVashinglon
and othor cities governed by Radical
i' i rogues. Who is expelled ? : Hot ono.
. The corriiplcst gang that ever infested
any rity, lias ruled tho National Capi-
, tol for over fivo years, and havo stolen
millions ; yut no one hat. , boen pun
. ished.
. Anotiiih Damnahli Swindli.
i An exchange snys, Judge Shipman.os
signee ol the well known banking
houso of DOncftn Sherman & Co., of
Hew York, Which recently enspendod,
, lias nisdo a statement of its liabilities
od mvwls, as follows : Liabilities, 14,
872,128j6& ; jwsots, 12,112,740.61. Thp
editoT will receive between 80 and
40 per1 cent on their rlaims, 'which is a
much better showing Uuw Jay Cooko
. Ado. wers ablo U make. , Jlorertbe-
lf it Is o ' of the meat ebantoloM
swindles Thtlt lm lcn pcrpntratcd in
: '. these days of fcney ' and fraudulent
' ,laiiking. 'And J-ot three of th ariv.es
'f the partners own over . SOO,00.W
worth ef real estate without counting
jthe cash and jewelry, last horses, etcj
A WHOSO AND ITS REMEDY.
There Is somothing wrong with the
business Interests and financial affairs
of tho country. All fuel and recognise
it. The laboring mail dovotoa as many
hours to earnest toil, exorcises as much
economy, rises as early and labors us
luto as ho formerly did ; his wife is as
patient, as prudent and as thrifty us
she over was; but debt accumulates,
wagos decroaso, clothing grows poorer,
comforts are fewer, and luxuries are
totally absent from the much loved
home. Too often, alas, distress for
rent, tho constable's demand and tho
advertisement of tlia sheriff tell of debt,
of furniture to bo sold, of the home to
be taken away. Day by day those
evidences of poverty increase lu our
midst. The business man, too, tho on
ergotio, active, scheming man, whoso
cash capital is supplemented by a good
business education, an active brain aud
a ready hand he too, finds ovory veil
turo a loss, ovory effort clogged with
difficulty. Tho ouorgy that is vital to
hii own success is represented by ever
increasing debt, and the industrial inter
ests of the country, always dependent
upon tbo productive fores and invon
tive thrift of this class of its citizens,
grow rapidly less remunerative and
less able to bear the burdens of oppres
sive taxation. Dismantled faotorics,
blown ont furnaces, idle mills, foun
dries and workshops, abandoned mines,
cheap oil, unsold iron, coal and lumber,
and discharged and starving artisans,
toll us in emphetic tones, that some
thing I. tho mattor. Whet la it, tbcnf
It is to be found in the exorbitant re
turn that capital demands for its use.
Its cause is to be sought in a system
of finance that enables woalth, in the
form of corporate mouopoly , to oppress
tho business mun, and through him the
laborer or artisan ho employs. Whilst
agriculture finds a scanty retnrn of less
than four per cent., and but too often
is unublo to meet the demands of tho
tax gathorer whilst the wages of the
laborer are rodnoed and his comforts
lessened whilst the mechanio, minor,
manufacturer, merchant, lumberman
and all others engaged in productive
industry, find themselves growing grad
ually poorer, and protested notes or
the summons of tho Shoriff crowd close
upon them tho capitalist, almost en
tirely exempted from taxation, sits in
indolent ease, and gathers an income
ot from ten to eighteen per cont. upon
his investment.
What is wrong? It is our system
of finance. Wbut is tho matter ? It
is the largo return that corporate cap
ital exacts for its use.
Tho stockholder in tho carrying cor
poration compels his managing direc
tor, to sacrifice everything elso to a
large dividond. lie is not content that
business men shall live and prosper if
it curtails his dividends or lessens
his income. Tho betterments of his
road must bo kopt up, brunches must
t l -'-A nrl hnfit.. Bnd palatial
offices and depots orocted, and thus the
value of his investment annually in
creased. . Somo one must pay for all
tlioso, and yield to him his annual div.
idond. 1 Tbo burden of all of those, and
of tho taxation from which he is cx
ompt, is placed upon the business man
who is compelled to use the road to
transport his products. The creature
without a soul, known ns a corpora
nun, tutvugu ita ever-acuvo agents,
learns the price of tho commodity at
the point of dolivory, ascertains the
not cost of production at the place of
shipment, and fixes tho chargo for
transportation nt the highest rate con
sistent with a sickly existence of the
business. Tbo only point considered
is, How much freight will it bear?
Tho nly Interest consulted is that of
tho stockholder. Tbo profits of the
business man, the development of the
State, the security of the consumer, are
all saenfied to the rapacious demand
for largo dividends. The transporting
corporation absorbs all tho profits;
their policy loaves no margin for com
petition in the trade ; ft prevents the
employor from increasing tho wagos
of lubor, and drives into bankruptcy
hundreds of men whose cnergy,activity
aud soul, have been and still ought to
bo potent agencies In the employment
and prosperity of thousands of sturdy
workmen. ,
Nor is this all ; the small margin left
by the carrying companies to tho pro
ducer and bis employ os is also subjected
to the insatiate demands of wealth in
tho form of banking capital, and hero
again everything is sacrificed to tho
necessity for largo dividends, and ag
gregated wealth through tho forms of
banking monopoly takes from produc
tion and from lubor unjust reward.
Not content that tho Government shall
pay them six dollars in gold annually
for tho privilcgo it gives them to go
back to tho pcoplo and discount their
paper at lawful rates ; not content with
tlte total exemption of thoir wealth
from taxation ; not content that courts
and juries, schools, strocts, roads and
police aro maintained for their protec
tion by the producer and tho laborer,
they, too, break down the business
man and oppress the laborer to earn
dividends and increase thoir surplus.
If tho exactions of wealth in othor
forms compel the borrowing of money
on accomodation paper, or tho necessi
ties of business require a discount, it is
only giron when the margin at bank
is equal to the sum drawn out and the
legal rate of interest is doubled by the
process, or the 'note Is made paynblo
at a distance, and exebango Is charged
to swell the rate, or a bold violation of
the statute is committed at the counter
by an Increase of rate, or the customer
Is sent to a private offico where tho
funds of tho bank are nscd secretly to
do that which it fears to do openly.
The result it the same however it may
bo reached a large sum is added to
tho surplus fund, the stockholder pock
ets ten to eighteen per cent, dividend
annually, the businosa lifo of tho pro
ducer grows shorter and the wages of
Lis men continually shrink.
Is it ttrango that business languishes,
building ceases and our industrius die
out under the operation of such a sys
tem as thisT , -
It is a peculiarity of , this system of
nnanoe that the value of evory other
cornmndity in which the fortunes of
mon are invested, day by day grows
Jx'SS, whilst that of this form of wealth
glows greater In precisely th same
ratio la which othr articles depreciate,
is we iand .towards thootijy safe basis
specie payments) lnndtj house ,mo(.h..
audi, sliip. mu cool, qjl and lumber
shrink in value, hujt she ajue of ag
gregated wealth In the form of corpo
rate monopoly rimstuutly Iiicivuhcs.
lulst. It it conceded that this is In
oviuiblo, n ml Unit tho fuilb of tho poo-
plu must be preserved by payment of
tho public debt, It It not a oogont argu
ment fora cbungu in the system through
which can com such wrongs as wo
have herein feebly portrayed T Tho
legislation of th country for fifteen
years has boon mouldod by capital, al
ways in the interest of aggregated
wealth.
The time has coma to change thit.
Incorporated capital must accept its
just sharo of taxation. It must be con
tent with smullor dividends. It must
cease to oppress labor and buaiuuea) by
its exactions. It must liro and let live.
The course of legislation of tho country
must bo changed by the representatives
of the people. They must cease mak
ing laws solely in the interest of wealth
and tboy must guurd and respect tho
interests of tho producer and the laborer.
Tho "hard times" which oppress us
aro tho legitimate result of tho system
of finance which has been Created and
it being perpetuated by the party in
powor. ' Tbeonly remedy istheromody
of change. " 1 ' 1 ' ,
"POISOXED ARROWS." '
' The Jindical leaders are very much
exercised over tho State Treasury offi
cers. W ell, they mitfbt be. A more
"ragged-edged" public account was
never laid before the tax-payers. The
Lebanon Courier, Mackey't organ In
that county, it whistling to keep its
courage np, in this way ; , .,
"The complete vladlcalloa tt Mr. Maakajr'i
management of the tteie Treiiurj presented to
the publia bj the l)emooretio Auditor Uenerel'i
Inreoligetlon of the Treeeurjr affair! takee the
wiad right out f the Detaoeratlo 4itore,and
tliej are aoertng ahoat like bewildered geoeo, act
knowing which wajr to ateer. The foot U, the
Kcpublieane bare conducted the affaire of the
State to eueeeiefalljr ae ta leave no apeatag for
the noieonod arrowe of taa oppoettioa. - ,
The llarrisburg J'atriot alludes to
tho "bad eggs" in the statement referred
to and rips up tho nest by saying that
the value of the statement of tho cus
tody of the sinking fund moneys "made
voluntarily" a few dayt ago by State
Treasurer Mackoy may be estimated
by the throe following items which re
main unchanged since tlio lust previ
ous statement mode to tho Auditor
General, May , 1874, tho day when
the Hiding Act wont into effect:
Bank of Commerce, Krte.. S3, 80S 4
Venango National Hank, Pranklla r,!'J M
O. F. Maava Co, Iowaod.. 4,000 M
' ' iis.no m
Theso depositories aro all bankrupt,
and have been for years, and yet tboy
aro made to do duty at custodians of
the sinking fund to the amount of 110,
120.98. How many other of the de
positaries named in tbo treasurer's
statement ure mure blinds sot up be.
t ween the people and a faithful account
of the moneys that belong to them f
Will tho CeiriVTmnnboklnd enough
to shoot another "poisouod arrow" for
tho benefit of tho Philadelphia V
and othor loyal organs whose editors
mm. BU IUUUU abUfluti u
Treasury question. The "gocse" seem
to be in tho other flock.
Tbeib Fats, Tbat the "friends of
freedom" have suocoedud in putting
the negro race on a lino of extinction
in this country, there is no doubt, and
the census of 1880 will convince tho
most captious upon this point. Tho
attempt to get around that old docla
ntuuir, - x u nuitii utj a servant ol ser
vants to all generations forever, has
assigned tho colored race to worse fate,
The last state is worse than the first.
The Charleston Sews and Courier sayt
tbat in airfield district, in that State,
during tho lost eight years, there have
been eleven burials of whites in Winns-
boro and ono hundred and forty-seven
negroes. In a small section southeast
of Winnsboro, whore there were sev
en hundred and fifty nogrocs, thoro
are now but twa hundred and fifty.
The negroes are dying of consumption,
a disesso formerly almost unknown
among them. Idleness and bad living
seems to bo the chief Cause of the
mortality. What a pity itis that there
aro so many people in this world that
will not "let well enough alone," and
thereby disturb and annoy their neigh
bors. . ,'
' A Providential Pabtnkrsuip.
Somo Iladical granny bad announced
that tho Governor ol Tennessee would
appoint Jeff Davis to the teat made
vacant by the death of ex-Preeidunt
Johnson. This drew forth the fol
lowing sarcasm from tho stomach of
tho oditort of the Tyrone Herald
" Thanks bo to a kind Providence and
" the Republican party, th arcb-tral
" tor is not oligiblo to tho great Union
" ist't teat in the Senate. Hit disabil
" ties havo not boen romovod, and ho
" cannot hold any office of honor or
"profit undor the government." Wo
labored under tho delusion, that
Radical Congress had disfranchised
Jeff Dnvis, but hero wo learn that
Providence has had a hand in it
Wonder if -Ho Was a partner In tho
Credit-Mobilior and 8team Ship Sub-
siuy joos, loo ; or wnother that was a
private arrangement between Colfax,
Amos and a fow othor "christian
statesmen." Who knows? '"
Another Overboard. The blessed
times are working wonders. Tho
chief business of us newspaper men is
to record failure after failure. . The
last is that of Wm. Dillworth, an ex
tensive lumber denier in Pittsburgh.
His liabilities are put down at f.100,-
000. Tbo stereotyped falsehood that
bo will moot all claims in due season,
it put forth as in other vases. This
may bo some comfort to those who
bold Mr. Dillworth't notes, but it will
be something now these limes if ever
they realise 25 per cent, on thoir
claims. The Mahoninv and Bandv
Lick lumbermen bad groat oohfldonco
in Mr. Dillworth't ability to cotno out
of the panic, and they will therefore
suffer largely by his failure. When
will this commercial epidemic cease
and business resume its usual sway ?
who knowsf , t , ., . , .
Pious Uumbuds. This country
possesses mora of this class of crea
tures than Bcechcr and Gerdeman.
The Philadelphia Timet In alluding to
the plundering proclivities of the In
dian ring, ts,t)ur wall-informpd
n ashington eorroapoodunt givot tome
interesting information apoa tha pres
ent status, or want of status, ot the
Board of Indian Commissioners that
lately issued to piout an appeal trout
that tnmmer abode of piety, Long
Branch, ire shall have tome other
humbugs f i potted before we have done
wtth .this bujinia. j
TUB GOVERNORSHIP.
for the purpnso ot showing our
readers the sentiments of tho press on
tins subject, we gleun from our ex
changes mid lay before them tho ex
tracts ti u nd on our first page. Pulilli
sontimoiit is fur great or because the
masses are less reserved than editors,
many Of whom havo local interest to
tubserve, whilo others have candidates
of their own on baud, while tbo peo
ple are simply looking atound for tho
boat mun.
Tli indications now are that ox
Gov. Biglur will go into the Erie Con
vention with niftl'o delegates than uny
othor two candidates combined. Bo
sidos, his frioudt aro not merely com
mercial politicians, who aro on the
look out for somothing to turn up, to
unablo thorn to add to their personal
gaint no difference how tbo public
would sulfur.
Tho Democrats of Venango county,
last week, instructed their delegates to
vote for him at Erie. Tho Speettitor
in alluding to the feeling manifested
on tho occasion, says :
The enuueleem which greeted tha aaeatloa of
wnnam nigior nemo in the Democratic eon
featloa oa Taeeday Be tha choice af Venaneo
eonoty fur Uorcrnor af Pcnnijlraaia, tbowed
tne bold be aae apoa the aSeetioaa and aonfl
denoe of tha people It ie the mora aotoworthy
beoaaea It wae impalilve aad had not been man
ufeetured, aa eatbaaiaem la cometimea. It waa
apoateneoai and caraeet. It wal the plalneit
way of laying on tho part of all that William
Blgler'a life record la a eufRelent guarantee tbat
tha affaire af the Commonwealth aad the Inter
Cfta af the people would be aafe la bt handa.
We are informed by gontlemen of
extensive aeqnftintanoo throughout tb.e
oil regions, that tho mention of his
namo In a crowd always produces a
fuvorablo sensation, and that his in
tegrity and ability is conceded by foes
as well as friends. That after all
is tho crucible, and couplod with ener
gy and groat experience, gives the
people just tbo man they need at
headquarters for tho purpose of stay
ing the tide of corruption and bank
ruptcy which is sweeping over the
State and nation.
A rOOR SOIL.
Mental culture and high social re
finement does not yield a good crop
in tho land of "steady habits." That
kind of life seems to bo as futal to the
Now England whites as freedom is to
the Southern blacks, it scientists in
both sections toll tho truth. The Mas
sachusetts Health Commission in their
report of tho vital statistics of that
State, set forth somo startling facts
which go to show that something is
wrong even in Boston where every
thing is adjusted of! mural and high
scientific principles.
The Commission demonstrates the
fact that, whilo the deaths have in
creased about nine por cent., births
havo increased about four per cent.,
while uinrriagos have fulleii off sixteen
por ocnt. , i
. Who is to blam for this moral do
cay T Is not too much refinement
just aa fatal as too much depravity ?
v"ry evident that there is tomo
tutng rotten at the core oi
land society. Who would havo sup
posed that that section of "grand moral
ideas" would be placed on a plane ol
moral decay I
How is Tun r The editor of the
Bloomsburg Columbian who hat had a
hand in pnblio affairs at llarrisburg,
says: "The State board of pard on 8 1
W awisltJIj bltW tat OVI V wf lUI
.M4u eMi4t Wl)m oympmhy- -.mrtrntl
of proof of innocence avoidn punih-
ment. , Tho lawyer with & pock of
team tUam.it no chance with his adver
sary of a bushel. Muudlin strains
deHpoil justice of attributes. It gives
lawyors anadUitionnl Held for splendid
(bea, forms a sort of rogue's harbor,
ana relieves the Uovernor ol ju8t re
sponsibility and some unpleasant la
bor, and thore tha functions of this
board of mercy cease."
Old Kintuck. Tbo complete off!
cial returns from Kentucky give Mo
Creery, Democrat, a majority of 3Gt
139 for Governor. Tho Legislature
stands Democrats 90, Republicans 10.
Tho Republican candidato for Govern
or, Gen. Harlan, ran boyond his party
strength, eecinlly io Louisvillo.whero
he residue, and whoro his fat bor in for
mer days had much personal strength,
yet tho Boinoomtic majority is only
400 lews than at the proceeding Gov
ornor'a election. Last year the oppo
sition bad 20 mo moors to 80 in the
legialaturo ; the next will stand 00 to
10, being a loss ot 100 per cent, to onr
opponents In that body.
How is This ? It is roportod that
ex-Gov. And row G. Curlin, "Pennsyl-
vnnin's War Governor," has publicly
doclared for ox-Gov. lllglor for Gov
ernor, and says if he is nominated ho
will stump tho Stato from Krio to tho
Delaware. It looks as though a little
revolution was brewing in this Stato.
ilo further says bo Intends to spend
tho balance of bis life in trying to put
honest mon into ofllce. ' Ono point
more and the "War Governor" will
make a good Democrat.
pi n i I -la-ns) . ,
Tint World Harb Entkririhk.
The jVow York World, a journal pur
porting to bo Democratic, but publidk-
ed wholly In the - interest of foreign
capitalists, Is now partly published hi
Lancaster, hi this LStato, whoro it
makes corporations a specially. Tho
combination of the hypocrite and tho
knave is too apparent to deceive any
ono. The World is wedded to Kuro
pcan capitalists, and tho Americans
wbo spend their money for it arc bugo-
ly fbolod.
Tho Johnstown Echo is greatly dls-1
turbod over the "Sorato alala" It
fears tbat Judge Pershing will bo
slaughtered. Do not be alarmed,
neighbor j if Judgo lllack andcx-Crov.
Curtin aro ntbusiasticoliy for Bigler
for (iovonior, they will not nuonasurily
a-wassinato Judge Pershing, The
Judgo will survive all that and niako
an excellent Governor ten years honce.
Quit this thing ot hauling Judges oft"
the bench for the pnrposo of dabbling
in politics. Stop that.
An exchange says that Williams-
port is being troubled with a gang of
villians. And the editor might have
continued that Auditor General Temple
bas (bund them out, to tho ttino of 5,
010.67 ont of which tho bondholders
aUcruytc jjo cheat th State.
Wtu StiVroBTtrr-Mjobondt) dfilj,
of the elty of Williamtport, i in round
Bumbers $,ri32,0O0. Tbo annual Inter
est being 137,020. A pretty good tl
fof living In style. Well, "whoever
dances should pay the fiddler I"
DCMOCJIA TIC PIUMAH Y ELKO-
Kor tho pui'portti of pouting our
uiuiids on tli o rules governing the
Democratic primary election of Clear-
Hold county, wo lay thorn before our
readers at length, us Iwllows:
I. Th vrK-.aiutiua tf tli County Oumuiltiw
fti ft 1 1 b and nuiaua m nmUiuUil tlittt !
ittm uiKiobor fur tvtr-f borouj(li and tuwaiblft, oi
uiiftirniaii, waiuD tcnuitilM Uttll b Mlaaiatl
aanuall lj th dl(iiua, aud tb-lr Itrtn of of
to aball begin at Jauuar rulluwlng tbttr aleo
tls. X. Tba nu rubor ot dtUt. to wbloli tain dli
trlot l ntitltd ii bated uioa tba Mlowiag ruU,
tbat U to i if i Knob loot loo dulridt In tba
auunl-f poll In )t on band rati Uviuooralt vota or
mm. Uall t Btititlad to two do oaataa abiulutalv.
and ruraauh adildltiunal n hundred btiuuoratiu
voim ur fracUca graaur than on hair ibvraof,
poind In aald din not at tha lat raoMllng tior
rnur'a aleotioa, an adtilliuaal dtle-rtiU. an J un
der ihif raia tba fulluaing allotuitjni vf dvlcgat
HOW raTiaaatJ I
llurnald koruniib fl
Ctotiald w 3
CurifenivllU
lluutidala
Lumber City
New WnahmgtoD J
Oiovuln M
WalUoatoB j
HoHa toa-niblp.,.., i
P Malar
Fergmoa
(Hrard
(tot-hen
(Jrabaa
Ureenwuod
(luliub...
Huatun a. i
Jordan
Karibaua
Kiwi
Law re no...
Morrla
Pans
Pik ,
UdIo.
Woodward M.
oeii ,,,
UlOOUIe. ,
"of
Ilradrord
Brady
Burnak-ta
Chaat ,
Co?tagUn,
Total .
I, Tba dilaaata elutlon intl Count Cos ran
tion ahall b gUTanttd and auodaoted ilrlctlf in
coord an o with tha lllow,nf roloi, and tba
Cbairman or tha Conn I y Coiaialttaa snail b an
nually alaoted by tli Count- C.nranlion and
hall be w aIeio, tha Praaidantof all County
Oonrcnttoot.
4. Tha aleetloB IW delegate. 4o rapreaent tb
dt detent dlatrloU In the -annual Uetooaratto Coun
ty t'onvantion ahall be bald at tb ual place of
noiaing iua general etttrlon fortujh dieiriet, 00
th S-uur-l r-H'"a t. .... a3f
tauber, (bwintj th ivih this Tear.) berlnaioc at
1 o'elotik, p. m., and feuntinulng anltl 7 o'clock,
r. We oi wimt aey.
. Tba aid delegate aleetlona aball b held b
an election board, to aooalat or th Bttnhar of the
County Com a i tie for aneh dWtrict, and two other
Detnoaratio TOtert thereof, who aball bo ap
pointed or daalgnated by the Couoty CnaBcaittra.
In oaaa any of tha peraona ao aonalilutiog th
board aball be abn-nt from tha place of holding
iba eleelion for a quarter of an hour after the
time appolnl-nl, by Kola Firat, for the opening of
ine aataa, oia ormair piaoe or plaoaa, anail b
nllrd by an eleation to bo oondnoUd em by
tba iriuucrati votore preaant at the time.
tt. Krery qualified voter of the dlatriot, who at
the latt ganeral aleotion Toted tha lJeBiooratie
ticket, aball be entitled ft a vote at tha delegate
elections.
7. Th voting of all delegate alr-etloae ahall be
by ballot ; upon which ballots ahall be written or
printed the asm or natnaa of th de1gIe or del.
eftatee voted for. together with any last met. one
wbieb the voter may dealra to give the delegate
or delegate. Kaeb ballot to bo received froio tba
peraoa voting the aame by a meultar of tho eUo
tion boar, and by him deposited in a boi ur
other reoaptaele prepared for that parpoee. to
whlah bol or other reoeptaele no person bat the
membere of lb lotioa board bava access.
S. No inatroetioos ahall be received or recog
nised uilesa th sams be voted apn lbs b. Mot as
providai in Hale Heveath. nor ahall such ins t ma
ligns, if voted npoa the ballot, be Lmding upon
the delegate, anleaa one-half or more of Ih bl.
lota lhall eontata inatrnelluna onnecroing tba
aaneoffloe. Whenever half or aaora of the bal
lots fba.ll contain Inatrurtlona eonoerning any of
fice, the delegates electm. at auoh eleotiou ahall
be held to be in at rooted to support tb eanilUlat
having the bigheat number of votes for such
office.
9. Knob election hoard shall kep an acourata
list of tha names of all parsons votint at suoh
elections : which liat of votora tor-athor with a full
and eatf!l retarn of such aleotion, eontaining
an act'Urato statement of th pertont elected dol-
ecaiea and an tntraoliona voted, ahall be certi
fied by said beard to the County Convention, up
on printed blaoka to be f urn it bod by the Couoty
Convention.
IU. Vt beaever from any diatrlet, qualified Deta
oeratic votf-re, in numbers equal to five times the
deUftttea wbieb anoh district bea In the Couoty
Coavcation, ahall complain in wrilina of an un
due elect ion or () return of delegrttea or of in-
of the ounvaution, hieb said aommittea ab-.ll
proeeed to hear k partiea, their proofa and alia-
gal ion a. "o aa soon as may be rwport to the oo-
venamn what dale-ratea are entitled to aeata there
in, aad what inelruotione are biading apon anob
de leva tee. Wbereanoo the convention ahall nro-
eeod immediately, npoa tha call of th yea and
nam , to aaopt or reject tne report of tbe eontast-
ing parties. In which call of the mi and aty
tcated or whoae iaatrueiiona are diaputod, shall
be omit'ed.
io alien j, inuauutuawtw) n
eu of tne diatnet.
IS. Deleaates mnat obev tha Inatructiofia -rlM
mem oy tueir respective tiiameta. ana ir viaUtad
it anaii D ui duty or tbe freaidoot or tbe coo
vention t east the vote of soon deiac ale or dele
gates In accordance with the Instructions- and
the delegate or delegates so offending aball be
forthwith expelled from the oonventioa.and aball
not be eligible to any ofltoe or pleoe of treat in
wm Percy ir a jienoa Ol two year.
13. In convention a maloritv of all voters ah -.11
bo neoraaary to a nomination ; and no iarsna'B
i-suiv mn um (jxciuaoa iroin in nit 01 canuiaeies
until after the st ballot or vote, when th par
son recetriog the leait number of votes shall be
omitted nod strock from tba roll, and so oa at
each suroaaslre vote until a nomination Is made.
14. ir any person oho la a candidal for anv
nomination belore scanty con vention a, ahall be
proven U have oflered or paid any money, or
other valuable thing, or mad any promise of a
eobeidcratioo er reward to any person for his vole
or infiaenoe, to secure the delegate from any dis.
triet, or ahall have offered or paid any money or
valuable thing, or promised any consideration or
iwwara, 10 any delegate lor nta vote, or to any
other person with a view of Inducing or securing
tbe votes of delegates, or If tha earn ahall be
done by any other peraon with tbeknowledgeand
wnimi oi aucn oanuniaie. ine name 01 aocn can
didate aball be immediately stria ken from the Hit
of eandidntee, or if each fact be ascertained after
his nomination to any office, and before th final
adjournment, tb nomination ahall be atruok from
the ticket and tbe vacanoy annnlled by a new son
tnatton, and ta either ease auch person shall be
ineligible to any nomination by a convention, er
to an election as a delegate thereafter. And In
oa it shall be alleged after the adjournment of!
the eonventlon that any candidate put in nomina
tion has bee a guilty of sueh acts, or of any othsr
fraudulent practices to obtain soon nomination,
tbo char-re shall be I nvea Heated by th County
Committee, and such step taken as ths good of
tbe party may require.
It. If any delegate shall receive any money or
other valuable thing, or accept tbe promise or any
eon ei deration or reward to be paid, delivered, or
secured to aioi, or any person tor sacu delegate
as an Inducement fur his vole, upon proof of tha
fact to the aatirfaction of lb convention, sueh
delegate shall bo forthwith x pel led, aad shall
not bs reeeiveil as a delegate to any tut ore S)uo
vention and shall be ineligible to any part oora
in at ion.
1A. Cases arising andi-r th rales shall have
nreeedenoe over all other bur I new in convention,
nulil det
17. The County Convention shall meet anna
ally, In the Court House, at I o'clock r. it. 00 the
third Tuesday of Aenteinber.
in, 1 no names 01 an tne cannitiaiea tor omoe
shall be aii Bounced at laaat three weeks previous
M th lime 01 Holding the primary election.
DEMOCRATIC COUNTY COM
MITTEE. llolow will be found a complete list
of the names of tho members of tho
County Committee for 18T5, together
with tho boroughs and townships
which they represent, as well as tbo
postofllce address of the members :
ftarn-tda Har..Jamaa 6. Watial Bura-laa.
Claarlleld Aaroa 0. Tata ClaartalU.
CarwMiarlll....Jam., Tbompaoa.. .t'arwcnavllU.
Ilontidala Robert Ball.r ,
Houtidale.
Lamber City ..J. I. Ua,pT.
I.nntnar City.
N. Waab'toa..Dr. A. D. Braa.U-...N. Wa.h'ton.
Onaol T. R. Bland?,
..Oaonla Milla.
.Wallacatoa.
.Ulaa llopa.
.Oalaad.
.For.it.
WallaMtoa.
,Wm',grora.
.Lnthnraburg.
,N. Wua'toa.
WallaMlaa....laaaa Bhlm.l.....
Hawiarla tp....C. 1. Kaagr ,
11.11. Il.nry Braia
Bloom.. William Liar,...,
Bngra John W. k-l.r.
Bra47....."r..!ciiari.i seh
ua.i.i o.rr.M,
Chaat Larrr Killlaa Waitorer.
Covlngtoa L. M. Coudriat. PrBobrilla.
llaaiur. J. 1. Uurkrl Oaaaola Mllli.
K.rguaoa tlaarg. Straw lumbar Citr.
Ulrard Dani.l Krlaa Imat'a Milla
tiarhaa Tbompaoa K.ad tMaartald.
Uraaaai. ..p.Aaioa jloblar tlrahaaitoa.
ttraaawood....Klah JobaMoa Bow.r.
0llvb,. ,.,Jha S. MrKl.roao..Smllh'i Mill,.
Hnaloa..MI,Joha H.ab.tt M.fannOld.
Jord. a. ...., Hob t Mi. joba-toa.Aaoarlll.
Kartbaua lnaa C. Hot'lo.li...H4l Link,
Knot Oarld Krbard Nrw Millport
l.awrauM ...... Joaph Owana Cl.ar8.ld.
Morrla. Ja&aaa L. Stwart..M.KrlertaWB
Fna , Wm. V. J.haitan (Iran p. llllli
I'lk ......U. B. Cnl.lw.il... C'urwanavlll..
Vnloa Hlrooa W.ltf Hoahtoa.
Waodward....Tbamaa ll.nd.rMB,.JIoataUala,
Tin lltAD. The death of Andy
Johnson leaves noex-Prvsidonl nurcx
Vice President among tho living.
Drt Moinet RegiMer.
Jirt's see : Colfax died of an aggra
vated attack of Credit Hobilisr, lut
what was llumlin's disease f Oh, yes ;
increased postage killed him, tnd the
ftmistrr is quite right there aro more
dead tlinn Apdrcw Johnsoi). Chicago
Tllnet. '
'i'b Beaver Falls file works re
using gas fbr fuel at a groat saving of
cost and with improved results.
iruouuaa, la wiuoa ooropi.iiH if uiw,Y't,.4Att HI' ii as oeen aiseororea id i;a norma.
.E eJ .tofP.Ucb diacovorud on tlio Pacific uowt lu
TilVt tJ'M T'b in.trniona circuiuturuitco, six toot from thotjroutid
(KVSl.,,.:,,., ,ba)l be heJ by a commi:te of a hundred and flftv W fcUU-5rouna
fit delrcatea to be ant-omted by the Hreaident UW OIKI ,oet-
NEWS ITEMS.
Tho ijiiuvn of Kngluiid it atromly
tlm gruiuliuutliur of twrnilj children.
Tliu yulluw fuvur is slowly slmting
In tliu Siuto of Kloridu, and olliur suu-
UllllS Ol lllO fMllllh. j
Mill. (iun. V. S. Huiiuock, aoroni
puniud by his invalid wifli.ls otcupying
jinvtiio qusriant ill oumtogtt.
Tltti Allogliony Vslloy mil road Is
luymg stool mils wtioruror old rail am
tukou up.
Tlio Indiana Meuenger, th ito
publleaii orgun, rofusos to support the
voiinty tit koi iioiiiinuiou Dy its party
in uiuiuiiti county,
Four hundrod teftolior wore in at
tuiiduiit'o at tho Into tossion of tho
.Status luutlivr't Association, which
convened ut Wilkos-llurro.
Mr. and ilrs. Hartoris, and the
buliy, will sail from Long Branch for
Knlund on tho 28th inat., to be absent
lor tlirce months, .
Mrs. John C. llrackinridtfe con-
toinplitlos moving from bor old place
in Loxington, Ky., to Arkansas in the
autumn
A New Jursuy agoul for tho Socio
oly for the Prevention of Cruelty to
Ainmais, uss Doen arrouuxl ror beating
his wife.
During the past tlx months the
nre insurance companies In the United
.States bat e sustained losses amount
ing in tbo ag-rgato to 126,000,000.
The officers of th patont office be
lieve Keoly's motor to be a humbug.
No application for a patent has been
made, nor a caveat issued.
Tlt nnw tVHtlnl raivta will Um Mint
ed by the Morgan Envelope Company,
ot Springfield, 111., and will make their
appenranco In September.
It is now promised to extend tho
Furkor and Karns City narrow gauge
railroad to St. Petersburg, In Clarion
county, and probably to the county scat.
Wisconsin hits just taken a State
census and finds her present population
to Do l,z;n,lM, against in
1870 a trail) of 182,408, or over seven-
toon per cent
One hundred and sixty ministers
wore present at the National Camp
mooting recently held at Cedar Rapids,
Iowa. The attendance of people was
also very largo.
A now military post has boen es
tablished temporarily in tho liluck
Hills country to keep out tho minora.
It will be garrisoned by one company
of infantry and two of cavalry.
The Swiss government will erect
a chalet on tbo Centennial grounds,
and a company of 400 Kgyptians in
tend to erect a row or buildings in Imi
tation of a street in Cairo.
Hon. I). M. Kov. of Chstniinotra. has
boon appointed United Statos Senator
by the Governor of Tennessee to fill
tho vacancy caused by the doatb of
Andrew Johnson.
A Richmond (Va.) music dealer
aunouuecs that he will receive confed
erate money In paymont for goods, and
only a few days ago he sold a piece of
snoot niusio to a lady lorV2,ol2 in that
currooey, , .
A now grove of colossal rod wood
Mrs. T. If. Jackaon. iKn a-;rl,, r
uinewan jbcksoii, has received o,ooo
from tho executor of Wad H. Bolton,
oi Jiompnis, ten n., Doing ball the sum
willed her. Tho personal property of
31 r. notion is vaiueu at hall a million.
A now church will shortly bo
erected in tioston lor the congregation
of the Kov. W. U. H. Hurry. The
tana on wuieti it ih uj atmio. nas Deen
purr.haanl for 4ll nilrt, and the wdiflo
itsen win cosi, wuen oompictea, 1VD,
0U0.
It is a remarkable fact that while
not one ex-Prosident it living, the wives
of fivo ot them turvive Mrs. Polk,
Mrs. 1'iUaiioro, Mrs. Tylor, Mrs. Lin-'
coin, and Mrs. Johnson. Of those
ladies one Is insan and another at the
point of deatb
Mr. Andrew Johnson, son of tho
iuto .hx-i resident Johnson, demos all
knowledge of the reported insurance
on hit father's lifo, though ho says he
has not yet been alilo to look over all
of his father's papers. Tbe estato ot
tho ex-President is estimated at be
twoon f 150,000 and ( 175,000.
The will of the lute Judgo Goorge
Y. Woodward has boen admitted to
prohato in tho Register off Wills' olHcs
in Philadelphia. This documont was
mado at Lexington, Ky., July 27, 1874,
and bears the testator's signature alone,
tho names ol no witnesses appearing.
Wo havo a poster sticking tin in
tho Era ofllro, which was printed on
Dec. 18th, 1844, and posted on the office
doorol Atkinson Mills, Minim Co., fa.,
whoro it remained undisturbed until
about threo years ago, tho writer re
moved ittotts present place. M. Union
I'a.)Sfio Era.
The American rifle team, it an-
poars, came homo with 8150,000 which
they havo earned by the perspiration
ot their guns. From this it would
Boom that target shooting is a more
profitable sport than baso ball ; and at,
in addition to that, it will kill off tho
fools quickor, it ought to bo encour
aged. Henry T. Holinlold, tho great
"Buchu" mnn, has returned to this
country, after an absonco of three yean
and a half in Kuropo. Shortly after
his arrival, be was examined ny two
physicians, wbo declared bim insano,
and in consequenco ho was. sent to an
insane asylum in Philadelphia. It is
thought that it is only temporary, and
wns brought on by oxcessive drinking.
Gold-Smith Maid ha passed out
of her a-oldon prim, nd the (jueon of
tho iurt is tho yneen no longer, nhe
was boaton at tbo llocbostorf li . Y .Imoet-
ing on Saturday, tho 14th Inst., by
Iuht, In a race that was by far the
most brilliant on rocord. Two of tho
hoats wore trotted in 3:151, and tho
slowest in 2:17, and as the etitrios in
cluded American Girl and Nettie, tha
victory was as magnificent as tho con
test was brilliant.
Tho arrival of Moody and Sankov.
tho American revivalists was grootod
with natural demonstrations of delight
by their friends ant) sympathisers in
Now York City, on the 14th Inst, It
is understood they tlo not intend to be
gin thoir work In this country linniodb
alely, but will rnralixo until October,
when they expect to resumo thoir
clerical partnerships. Mr. Moody will
rest for awhile at bit old homo in North
field, Mass., and Sankoy will rusticate
in this Htntei, They aro both in good
health,
A sneciul to tho Chloairo Evening
Journal from Whilo Hull, Mich,, savs
tho body of N. 8. (Irimwood, tho re-
Iiortor who aoonmpaniod Donaldson in
is recent fatal balloon asoonsion from
Chicago, was found on Tnosdny ot last
week, on tho beach ol Lake Michigan,
near .Stony Crock, hy A. Bockwitn.
It had on all tho clothing except tbe
boots, and had letters and notes of
bis trip, which proved beyond a doubt
his identity. Tho body has since boon
forwarded to Chicago, whore it was
buried. Towns alonir tho east shore
of thp lake sr much Interested In tho
mat lor fiiit) ar sending out parties to
search flir tyinaldson!t body, Which It
it expocieu; win drill ashore near the
joii(. whort Oritn-sood't bpd Wat
THE WHOLE PEOPLE HAVE
BEES PLUNDERED.
(on. George W.Morgan, of Ohio, re
cently mudo a speech at Canal Dover,
and concluded with those Darairranhs :
Hut tbe Republicans have boen both
plundered and then betrayed. Tbat
tbe great body of people, Republicans
aim i'emoorats alike, desire good gov.
eminent there Is no doubt; but tbe
Republican organisation is beyond tbe
control of tba Republican voters, who
bavo no more to do with tb adminis
tration of our public affairs than have
the people of China. Let ut test tb
truth of thit assertion. Tha men in
power havo given to railroads and
other corporations an amount of pub
lic lands equal to fivo time th arc of
the mate ol Ulno.
What Republican now in sound of
my voico or in tbe good county ot
Tuscarawas, ays, or in tb Htata of
Ulno, was in lavorof taking these landa
from tho people to whom they belonged
and of giving them to the railroad
companies? Not one. And yot tbit
bifli hanilod act was dona while two
thirds of each house of Congress was
composed of Republicans. What Ro-
fiubhcan in tbe sound of my voico, un
obs be bo a banker or bondholder, was
in favor of increasing tha taxes upon
all the property of the people and then
exempting tbe bondholder!' wealth
from taxation? No voice answers;
but I do not believo tbat such a man
can be found in Ohio. Yet it waa don
and much more. Th bondholder wa
not only exempted from taxation, but
his proportion of taxos wore and are
added to the taxes paid by the property,
and this was done by a Congress with
more than two-thirds of Republicans.
What Republican within tot sound
of my -rotow waa in iWror of paying
th bondholder gold interest on hit
bonds, while the merchant, tb manu
facturer, tbe farmer, and laborer, aro,
by law, required to receive thoir inter
est in paper money, while the bond-
noiuor receives gold t In what school
district, in what township, in what
county could aucb a proposition receive
a Republican vote, unless that Repub
lican bo a banker or bondholder?
There is not ono. What Republican
within the sound of my voice was in
favor of giving tbe Pacific Steamship
Company 11,000,000 a year for carry
ing 120,000 worth of mail ? Not one ;
and yot Republicans are asked to keep
these mon in power.
unions l nave done, luisoloction
is to decido whether this country of
ours belongs to the bankers an cond
boldors, or to the people. It it to de
cide whother prosperity is to bo re
stored to the land, or whother w are
to continue in the downward course to
bankruptcy and pauperism. Theso
questions are with yon as a people ;
for only by the people and through the
action of the people can relief be ob-
luinea.
Tnt Hired Scbibs at Work. The
correspondent of tbe Philadelphia
J'rtss, who sicns hinisclt 1'axton, no
othor than Wien Forney, is writing
columns in the above named paper to
prove that the JJemocracy aro torn to
pieces by Intestine feuds, the result of
fiersonal jealousy on tho part ot its
eaders. liis especial target is Sonator
W alloc, whom he accuses ol sins both
of commission and omission. To read
his effusions one would think tbe new
Senator was a dead cock in the pit,
laid out, and only needed the under
taker to cover the corpse. Aow this
might have some effect on weak mind
ed people were it not known that For
noy, alias Paxton, was tbe person em
ployed lost winter by certain malcon
nts in the Democratic party to writ
a pamphiev ji.j against Mr. Wal
lace. All that this penny-a-liner ac
complished by his pamphlet and the
subsequent effusions from bisvonal pen,
wat to rally to Mr. Wallace's support
more determined friends, which result
ed in hit triumphant election to the
TTnltwl Hlt.n Sonata Th IWomm-"-party
it not to bo directed and influ
enced by auch hired scribes as Paxton,
wbo use hit pen at the soldier of for
tune bis sword, to 8,-ht for those who
pay the most Notwithstanding all
the blathoring of th newspaper and
the oracular utterance of the would
be wise men of tho profession, the peo
ple, through their representatives aro
fully capablo, when they moet at Erie,
to select capable and honest standard
bearers, and all trickory, if any, tbat
will try to divert thorn from that pur
pose will come to naught. Danville
Intelligencer.
Tin Fats or Donaldson. Tho fate
of one of tha participants in the ill
starred balloon ascension from Chicago,
on July 15, appears to bo settled be
yond all doubt. At least, a body has
been found on the shore of Lake Mich
igan, which, it the account given is
correot, bos been identified beyond all
doubt as that of Donaldson's journalis
tic companion, Mr. Grimwow).. Tho
futeoftho adventurous aeronaut him
self still remains unsettled, thciigh itis
scarcely a matter admitting of much
doubt. It it altogether unlikely that
he could have escaped a similar end in
tho fearful storm in the face of which
tho reckless adventure was undertaken.
There bas been a gonoral disposition
to believe that these mon would yet
turn up, in spit ol tho circumstances
of tho ascension and tho length of time
that has elapsed without any tidings
of them having been rccoivod. Tbit
was partly owing to tho fact that noth
ing wbalovor bad been fonnd to indi
cate thoir futo, but largoly also to Mr.
1 1.1 I .l?.- :.r... i
x'oiiaiusuii a auuwn umposiiion vo in
dulgo in sensations. As it is, we are
reluetantlv nhliired tn holinva In thai.
death, and, whilo regretting that they
should have met with such a terriblo
and untimely cud, we trust that the
caso may servo to point an impressive
lesson to future aronaunts, who will
not, of course, b deterred from atrial
voyage there, at to th necessity of
at least exercising tho extreme of cau
tion
possible, in their aspiring flights
dward.
clou
IXVUTIOATINO THi lSTISIOB. No
action of tho President In the can of
Secretary Delano and bis subordinates
in the Interior Department will bo
looked for before tho report of the
commission now investigating matters
at lied Cloud. The puhlio, however,
and doubtless tho President himself,
nave not boen able to postpone a judgo
mont to any time in tho future, how
ever near. Tbe second letter of Mr.
Welsh to Prof. Marsh mnst carry con
viction to th most unwilling compre
hension that th Department of tho
Interior, at least In its relations to the
Indians, has boen irnilty of most humil
iating transactions. We take it fori
granted that tho President will act in
this matter a he always has shown
bis readiness to act in similar rases.
Ho has a singular confidence in those
ho onco trusts, tlio Instinct, of t great
soldier rather than of a politician or
business man who must put confidence
under bonds, but be can be convinced
of tho unfitnost of somo mon of hi
choice to fill places of trust, and ho bat
givon most gi-atifylng evidonoo of
anility v) ouooso butter toonnd lime,
Tim'i CiiANms. It Is not alono
polities that mnkct ttrango bed follows,
at tlio old taw hat it timo workt won
den In bringing together friends and
foes, as for instance; During the re
bellion, Col. A. K. McClur lived at
Chainbershurg. Gen. Jos, B. Johnson,
in command of tho rebel forces, attaokod
the town, and mado a lovoly bon-flr
of McClure'i splendid mansion. On
Saturday vening, the City Item tayt.
Col. MoCltir and Gen. Johnson called
at that office to pay thoir respects.
"They came In Min'gly, full of'flin'and
jollity, trontirig tho raid 6n"Chmbcrsi
burg as One of the amusing episode of
a war tht should never' hate taken
place." AUwna jyibvne. "
A DEAD CONSPIRACY.
A Now York Herald reporter inter
viewed lion. Fernando Wood at Sara
toga, not long tinco, when the follow
ing lunguugo was used :
"You, believe, then, Mr. Wood, that
tbe Republican party is doomed to re
tire from power at the clime of Presi
dent Grant's term of office ?" was the
question suggested by the last re
marks. Fernando Wood I beliovo Repub
licanism it dead and gone with the
temporary causes that culled it into
existence. I do not regard it as ever
having been entitled to the namo of a
party. The Democratic party is a
portion of the bistort', I may say of
the institutions of the ustion. Its mis-
sion bas boen and will continue to be
tbe preservation of a irovernment of
the pcoplo, Jt bas existed fn times ol
prosperity and in timet of mislortttno,
in sunshine and in storm, through
good report and evil report, and bus
survived to see its onhanienil- oppo
nents one by one pass out of existence
ana almost out ol memory. Jn the
robollion wo wore all rebels, it wits
said. Yet we will still live to guard
the constitution, to shield the lifo . of
tbe republic, to crush ent treason and
corruption, which. If left unchecked,
must sap the foundations ot free gov
ernment. , Republicanism, I repeat,
never attained the dignity of a party.
it was a conspiracy the conspiracy
of a few men who found followers in
fanatics blind enough to believe in
their sincerity and in . guerillas who
iookwi io success as tne gateway to
liconso and plunder. Tbe war gave
it the opportunity to rob at Its will, to
viineu its lonowers auu w outrage uu
orty. It suddenly found its power un
limited and almost. uuiiutwaiuucHl atnol
its patronage increased to proportions
never areainen ot in our former htsto
ry. While theso things lasted, the
conspiracy lived and flourished and
the mob that followed it ran riot in
the States. Wben tho elements that
produced it disappeared, Republican
ism evaporated. It found nothing tt
feed on, It had no war, no plunder,
no more offices to till, no more con
tracts to bestow, and it died. Jt can
no longer raiso oven tho' bugbear of
tne Ku Hlux to frighten tho timid and
drive back the advancing force of a
constitutional party. To talk about
Grant saving Republicanism, or Blaine
or Loni'r.ng saving It, is all nonsense,
for thore is no Republicanism to save.
Tin Black. Kills. Tho Philadel
phia Timet, in alluding to this new El
dorado, says: Professor Jenncy is em
inently cautious, as becomes a man of
science. Jits description of bis cold
discoveries in the Black Hills, whilo it
is sufficient to save the reputation ol
Generul Custer, will hardly satisfy the
anticipations of the great crowd of
adventurers who have been rapidly
hastening to this promised land, ilo
did find gold thoro, "in paying quanti
ties," but this is what ho says it will
be lound to pay: "A lair remuneration
for labor economically and skillfully
applied, assisted by proper tools and
mechanical appliances, and at least a
moderate ainouiitofcupital." Wesbould
not advise peoplo with acitberskibl nor
capital to rush out into tlio wildefuess
for that. But I"rofcsror Jenncy well
says, though with sonic poetic obscur
ity, that Custer was riwht when ho re
ported of that region that tbcro was
gold in the very root ol tlio grass,"
only "it it not the gold of the grnvol
ban or quartz lodges, not, tho gold of
the miner or geologist, but tho future
solid worth of tlio Black Hills that is
to bo sought iu the luxuriant growth
of the fine grasses that everywhere
spread over tbo beautiful country."
'Xopui Uawholematterinafow words,
whon civilization, in its natural west
ward progross, thall reach the Black
Hills, it will make of them ft rich hnd
prosperous country. But those, ivho
pmiiaturelv bustenits sot tlonjent mv
mo mooroi a iiTciime. unu pcrnups
life itself, and do little more than otien
a path for those who shall como after.
Dehsjdmii WantIo. It is remark
able, says the Patriot, that no Repub
lican newspaper ventures to defend or
deny tho complioity of Governor Hurt,
ranft in tho robbery 'of tbo linking
fund, without authority of law, in do
fiance of a constitutional prohibition,
and against, th tenor of his official
onth. It is no loss rcmarkablo that no
Republican mowspnper has ventured
to defend Governor ilartranft's veto
of tlio fee bill, a measure mado neces
sary by tho new constitution, which
cut down tho enormous salurk-s of cer
tain Republican officials in tho State.
It is equally remarkable that no Re
publican paper has explained his ap
proval of tho repeal of tho sinking
fund act of 1870. which made it nec
essary for the State" Treasurer to re
port to the Auditor tiouoral the names
of tho corporations and persons with
w uora the public moneys wcro depos
ited onco every month. Under the
law approved by Governor llartrnnll,
May 9, 1874, tho unrestrained enstodv
of the moneys in the sinking fund it
given to the State Treasurer, without
any knowlodge or assurance upon tho
part of any othor ofllcer of tho Stato
that such monoys are properly le
stowod. f
Kill it Anyhow. "There is no
Grantism in Ohio," oxclaimt tbo Cm-
cinmifi Commercial. "Grant is out of
tho qnostion." And yet if tho Repub
lican ticket should be elected in Octo
ber Grant will regard it as a most sub
stantial victory for himself and his svs
tora, and It will bo moro difficult for
tho editor of tho Commercial to hold
bis long-promised Independent Cooven
tion that will forco Charles Francis
Adams as a candidate unon the tin.
publican party. The ontv
stroy Grantism Is to utterly overthrow
mo jiopuoiican party, That party
is too deeply infected ever to bo cured.
it most bo annihilated and cleaned
away. Sun.
A JKRiMr Dinnt.ta. Tho Rnlti.
mora UMti romarkai A tiaaa-al Nm-
tloton takos up the cudgel for Mn. De
lano and bolabon Mr. Welsh for ex
posing some of tho Northern Pacific
frauds and Delano's complicity in
them. I f our momory serves us right,
this is th same Mr. Nettlcton who
had his thumb in several of Jay Cooko's
puddings; wrote roso-tinUid pamphlets
oo the "banana tone," nearly as gor
geous in rbetorio as those of Sum Wil
licson, and wont about buying up news
papers to delude the poor bondholders.
"A. B. Nottleton" vcs.thnt'sthcvorv
man, , , , . r . ,
a . I J .
Another Witnkhs. A enso lias ro-
cently occurred at Goshen, Mass., that
seems to confirm the popular belief
mat, own iroes aro nover struck by
lightning. A, hooch and mnplo aland
near together itli biauchus interlock
ing each other, roccived an electric
bolt from a passing cloud which shat
tered tho ntaplo and passed into the
earth through a' prostrate hoinloek
lying near, which waastrippod of its
bark nearly the whnlo length. No
tnot of tbo lightning wjis lift upon
fcllV unveil,
Tho Rrio Obtrrver savs. Air. Hiiwl
the Pilgrim candidate lor Slalo Treas
urer, assure bis old timo Democratic
triendt that he it not much ot a He-
publican. The tact thrit i he : is the
ring candidato proves Hint ho is not
miicn oi a Kumocrat. Ilo makes no
claim to b much of a temper
ance man. In fact Mr. Rnwlo doesn't
soora to be much of anything,
A Hioh Paicp.0 Mtmirs A Chi.
cago Wal estate man bat' atred hi pa
tor for 150,000' damairns. for itnidiml
Slander in refusing him permission to
j'anaae oj me rqmmnniem v t
NARROW GAUGE RAILROADS.
Notwithstanding the depressed con
dition of otir lumber trade and the
symptom of general bankruptcy pre
vailing everywhere, some of our cap
italists are discussing the questior. of
building a narrow guage railroad from
Curwensviile to Cherry Tro. The
route it on of the most leatiblo and
cheapest In the State, and by a united
effort oil tbe part of tho land ownen
between the two placet named, and
lb capitalists of Clearfield and Cur
weiuville, tho road can be built, and in
throe years from its completion no one
will bo aware that he has advanood
anything for its construction.
Ti e cost of constructing tbit class of
railroads is so Insignificant, when com
pared with tbut of other classes, that
a lino of ton, or oven forty, miles
through a rich lumber and minors I re
gion should not dotor local capitalists
from pulling thoir mnufy Into it. Tho
distance from Curwensviile to Cherry
Tree would not exceed thirty-five miles,
and It is said tho average cost por milo
for building roads of this kind will not
exceed $6,000. Look at it A line of
ten miles of railroad only costing tho
iduYof $00,000. . By adding but one or
two dollars an acre to the value of tbe
land through which it passes, a suffi
cient sum will be raited to build the
road, while the enhanced value of the
land will bft three timet the amount
named.
The Harrisburg Patriot, in allndins
to the cost of thit class of road gives
tho following details:
The new narrow gauge road in
southwestern Pennsylvania, twenty
eight miles long, connecting Waynes
burg and Washington, it making most
satisfactory progress. The grading is
being rapidly pushed forward and
contracts havo been made for the ties.
Tbo Wheeling Intelligencer, in com
menting upon its economical construc
tion, gives some interesting informa
tion in regard to the estimated cost,
which it says will not exceed $0,0111)
per milo. To appreciate how exceed
ingly low it is, we must reinoniber
that the nvurago cost of the standard
trucks throughout the middle states of
this country is about $57,000 per milo
(inclusive of rolling stock). Tho esti
mate for the Waynesburg and Wash
ington road is so low that somo people
will no doubt discredit it But we are
informed that Ibis estimute is not a
matter of paper, but of accurate figunai
based upon going prices for material.
For instance, tho grading of tbo road
has been let, and is now being donoat
$1,000 per mile. Tho iron, which is to
weigh 32 Ibt. to the yard, will run
.t. 32 net tons to the mile, and will cost
$50 per ton, or $2,810 per mile; making
witb tho grading a total of $3,810 per
mile, and leaving a balance of $2,184
for tics, track laying, lie. The route
between Waynesburg and Washington
presents tbe average engineering diffi
culties that would huve to bo contend
ed with in other parts of the Stato, and
tho figures hero presented reprexent
the present cost of a narrow gauge
track. ' It is a splendid timo for capit
alists to engaga in promising enter-
L rises of this kind. Cheap iron, cheap
,lor and cheap money arc the induc e- (
incuts extended wherever there is an
undeveloped range of country whoso
productions would insure profitable
freighting returns.
A Txxnini.E Traoept. An associ
ate press dispatch dated Reading, Au
gust 17, says : In this city this afler
noou, tho wife of Captain Philip His
senger, accompanied by her three
children, two girlt and a boy, tfjed
rearwvtiwylv Pr ft vnat-a !.., I.oa
home and walked un tho tow with el
the Union canal, and when near Gri'ir's
mill, three mile north of this city do.
liberately walked into the canal" and
drowned herself and her children.
Tho bodies wero recovered and brought
hero this evening.
A Business Lesson. The firm of
Hoyt, Spragne A Co of Providence and
Now York, which failed about two
yonrs ago, will not be able to pay over
15 or 20 cents on tlio dollar. This
houso was believed to be very strong
as was that of Duncan, Sherman it
Co., and tlio creditors of tho latter
linn muy read their fate in that ot
those who havo been wailing and boil
ing so long to get their duos from the
great- Ithodo Island concern, llnth
these failures may beset down as very
bad.
. Tub Japes Wince.. The Pittsbunr
hmmerrial won't go back on its friends,
out comes up nobly to tho delenso ol
Delano, or rather to tho attack upon
Welsh. This makes five : Tho Wash
ington Republican, the Philadelphia
Bulletin, tha Pittsburg Commercial, tlis
Cincinnati 7Vmi and tbe Chicago Inter-Ocean.
A fine party. Tho Mt
Ocetin thinks Mr. Welsh's letter to tlio
President "perhaps the moet impudent
of all tho insults put upon tho Kxocn
tivo.'l' - ,
We Can't bee It. A Republican
exchange snys: "The- increased ex
penses ol tho htnle and Nntion are at
tributable to the rcliellion procipiUttrd
upon tho country by tbe Democratic
rurly in tho interest of tho alaveocrary.
f this be the cnuso of the increased ex
penses of tho States, why is it that tlio
cost of tho administration of Governor
Uartranft, ten veare after tho war. is
about double those of Governor Curlin.
during tho war? Wo can't see it, and
wo do not believo tho tax-pavers can
either. Lebanon Advertiser.
Mra. Abraham Lincoln is ejven tip
as hopelessly insane. She sits down
silently and atone in her solitary room
in Keep imaginary company with im
aginary Senators and Ambassadors in
tbo liuM ol that araeiou kindly snnla
long sinoe hidden bononth the coffin
lid. It is ono ot the mercies vouch-
snfed bor to lift her life over airain
with her loved one dear little Wil
lie, and rollicking, boyish Tad to it
at tho head of tho table and hold t
miliar conversation with them all.
HoRitiHi.x! Chnrlet Warren, of
Prospect, Butler county, met a horri-
bio death at Riddle's saw mill r ntr
Princeton, Lawrence county, on Tues
day a week. Ho "vas oniroired in roll
ing a log upon the carriage when hi
crowbar slipped athl falling with lii
head directly in trout ot the snw,
which was a circular, and in motion
at tho time, ho was in an instant t
dead man, tho saw cutting the top '
his bend entirely off just above tho
eye,.
Hiss ltobcrts.nf Roucville.is plucky.
Going homo tho other evening. (Is
found a burirlnrin tho houso. concealed
in a closet lie sprung qu). and knocked
bor down. She junied np, and s'i
ing a revolver, fired at him, Ilo iliK"
a liatahot t hn, but the followed him
up, firing awny. The rascal osciiibhI,
and it is not known whether any t
th shot at rack him. Tho ttnuilj
with whom Mirw Roberts resided wrre
away on a visit at the time.
lloraco Bmney, F.sq., tho oldest
member of the Philadelphia bar. di'"I
on Friday, at tho ago of Dli. Hit Ci
ther, Unrnahai Binnoy, waa a surgoo
In the licvnltttii inary army ; the on
grnduated at llavard University i
1 797, at tho ago of sevcnlcon a''j
stuiliot) law with Jai-sd Ingwrsoll,
was admitted to the bar in 1800. Hj
wot a very able lawyer, and polished
man, and was highly cstoemcd t
citiren.