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THE FIFTEENTH AMENDIENT.
The vote of Ohio for the Fifteenth
Amendment, secured by the election of
Tuesday last, makes sure the ratification
of the amendment by the necessary num
ber of States. It will probably be authori_
tatively declared part of the Constitution
before the first of January. And next
fall we will have the Lancaster Intelligen
cer and kindred sheets, begging and itu
ploring the votes of " our colored fellow
citizens." They will be welcome to all
they get.
DEATH OF EX-GOVERNOR RITNER.
This honored citizen of Pennsylvania
died at the residence of his son-in-law, at
Carlisle, on Saturday last, at the advanc
ed age of ninety. He filled a large place
in the esteem of the people of this Com
monwealth, over whom ho honestly and
fearlessly exercised Executive functions
during an important era in her history.
ifir We expected to print in this week's
issue the likeness of our Mayor elect,
Wm. Aug. Atlee, Esq., but the engraver
has disappointed us. It will appear next
week.
6 6 ROD YOUR OWN BUSINESS! "
A man once made his fortune by at
tending strictly to the above admonition.
We do not know that Dunglison, of the
Philadelphia Sunday Republic, is by posi
tion or superior ability, competent to at
tend to the affairs of his neighbors, in
addition to his own.
A BAD INVESTMENT
Fifty thousand dollars is what the little
experiment of Tuesday a week cost Asa
Packer. The money was put into the care
of trustees, and a good part of it went into
the hands of impecunious newspapers, for
the printing of German, English and
Welsh documents, illuminated posters,
and stirring hand bills on the danger of
Pennsylvania being Africanized and Ce
lestialized. Asa, from the time he invest
ed his earnings in the wild lands of the
Lehigh valley, never made a more indis
creet investment.
PHILADELPHIA
Well may the Republicans of Philadel
phia be proud of the result in the city.
To give 4000 majority over all—whisky
rings, brewer's unions, gin leagues, and
similar democratic institutions—is indeed
glorious. And the democracy made a
great mistake when they hauled down
their city ticket because it was made up
principally of blacklegs, keepers of low
groggeries, bummers and ex-criminals,
and substituted a set of " respectable"
candidates, for by so doing they entirely
ignored the principle element of which
their party is made up.
The Albany (New York) Journal is
more than satisfied with the result in
Pennsylvania. It says:
"Pennsylvania has been true to herself,
over obstacles apparently the most insur
mountable. The enemy was sanguine to
the point of confidence, but not of neglect.
They fought stubbornly and unscrupu
lously. They challenged success by their
desperate earnestness. They struggled
as never before. Money saved from the
tax gatherers was scattered like chaff.
Their candidate for Governor was nomi
nated avowedly because he would prove
an unscrupulous corruptionist. His
coffers, not his brains, were in demand.
His money, not himself, was running.
But honesty has triumphed over fraud,
and the Keystone remains firm. All
honor to the noble workers of Pennsylva
nia.”
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22.00
FOOD F6R DEMOCRATIC REFLECTION.
In alluding to the recent glorious vic
tory in Pennsylvania over the "Demo
cratic" party, Forney's Press appropri
ately and truly says that Packer started
with the prestige of great wealth and per
sonal inoffensiveness. lie was placard
ed as the "Pride of the Valley," and
his invincibility was not only a matter
of general pride among Democrats, but
served to build up an assurance of victory
which was gratifying to the party and
amusing to the opposition. With all this,
in the very sections where he was best
known, where his best connections were
largest, where his political principles or
prejudices were best understood, where,
according to every speculation, he should
have shown his greatest strength, there
the Republican gains are most significant.
Inquiry into this phase of the election
elicits one or two truths of more than or
dinary moment. And the first is the im
possibility of public or private individuals
separating themselves from their war
records. The people are just as willing
now as they were in 1.861 to regard the
rebellion as a stupendous crime against
the country and themselves, and those
who participated in it, or gave it aid and
sympathy, as unworthy of public confi
dence. The stain of assisting by act or
thought to crush liberty, sunder the union
of the States and build up an aristocratic
government, whose " corner-stone should
be human slavery," cannot be wiped out
in this generation.
However much time may soften the as
perities of the war, the loyal people of
America can never be brought to acknowl
edge that men who rolled in affluence,
and whose influence might have been
powerful to save, yet who withheld both,
or exerted them for the enemy, are as
worthy of public confidence as those who
sacrificed comfort, time, wealth and influ
ence, and endangered life, in order to save
our institutions. They have told Asa
Packer so with an emphasis which must
force the unpleasant truth home upon
him. His neighbors have told him so—
even those whom he and his party sup
posed would be most forgiving.
20.00
POLITICAL TEMPERANCE MEN
The political temperance men of Phila
delphia placed a full county ticket in the
field, for the purpose of defeating the Re
publicans. The following is the result of
the vote cast :
Furguson, for Recorder... 209
Claghorn, for Prothonotory 869
Peirce, for clerk of Quarter Sessions 278
Gabel, for Coroner 257
Returns from this State indicate a
larger majority than was first anticipated,
being near 35,000. The Legislature
will stand 126 Republicans to 14 Demo
crats.
isr The llarrisburg Telegraph did yeo
man service for the Republican cause
during the late campaign, and is entitled
to the thanks of the Republican party at
large. It has of late been better edited
than at any time within our recollection.
TRUE
lOWA.
SHARP:
The Trenton Sentinel, edited by Charles
W. Jay, Esq., is very hard on the "Dimmy
crate." There is more truth than poetry
in what he says in his sharp way. We
give a few samples :
"In New York city there is an Associ
ation of " respectable Democrats called
the "Manhattan Club. ,, Manton Mar
ble, August Belmont, Samuel J. Tilden,
Governor Hoffman, and other dignitaries
of the party are members of this club.
And yet their room is but a disguised
gambling den. A short time since tme of
the members sued a brother for the sum
of fourteen hundred dollars which he won
01' him at thegame of "poker!" lbere
is no use of talking. A Democrat; `be he
a loafer or a man of means, must natural
ly be with the vicious and depraved of
his kind. You have but to look around
you to see this truth." * * * *
" The Fourth Ward of New York city,
composed of ruffians, murderers and
drunkards, showed the following result at
the last election :
Democrat 5,763
Republican 953
"Now look at it, Christian Copperhead
and traitor. It is always so. Wherever
vice and vagabondism most abounds, your
Democratic vote preponderates ten to one.
And now for the Sixth Ward, whick is
the rival of the Fourth in crime and ruf
fianism. The following is the record of
her last election :
Democrat 3,858
Republican 230
"Thieves, murderers, burglars, ruffians,
drunkards, are instinctively Democrats.
And yet you vote with the scum of hu
manity—with the villains who send brutal
prize-fighters and gamblers to Congress—
and you are the political heathen of the
totally depraved of mankind. You can
vote with these villains without compunc
tion, but the man with a dark skin must
not come near the ballot-box. Don't you
feel that you are a mean and contempti
ble scoundrel?
_ .
" But New York is not an isolated city
in her political infamy. Take any ulcer
ous sore in the body politic and it is almost
solidly Democratic. Even in this quiet
city of ours the ignorant and ruffianly
localities are heavily Democratic. The
man who cannot write his own name is
invariably a " Democrat." The brute
who beats his wife is always of the same
party. The keeper of a low rum-hole is
most certainly a "Dimikrat." The First
Ward in this city contains the wealth, the
intellect and the refinement of the city.
It is heavily Republican. The Fourth,
Sixth and Seventh Wards reeks with ig
norance and brutality. Of course they
are intensely Democratic. The Fourth
Ward of Philadelphia is the plague spot
of that city. Her principal Alderman is
a brute of a murderer. Thieves and pros
titutes make up the bulk of its population.
Its vote is four thousand Democratic to
three hundred Republican. And so the
country over. There is no community
where the shiftless, shirt-tail class are not
" Dimikrats." nywhere in town or
country, if every brute or loafer is not a
" Democrat " it is a strange departure
from the rule. Violators of the moral or
statute law are Democrats, ninety oitt of
every hundred of them." Jcs so !
THE REPUBLICANS OF CARBON.
Looking over the official returns of Car
bon county, the real and only home of
Asa Packer, we have satisfied ourselves
that in no part of the State was the cam
paign conducted with more vigor and
devotion to principle and gratifying suc
cess, on the part of our political friends,
than in that county. Notwithstanding
the millions of money at the disposal of
Mr. Packer, and the vigor with which
those employed along the line of his Rail
roads were almost driven to the polls and
compelled to vote for him—many against
their judgment and inclination—his ma
jority in the County was only 685, being
55 more than they gave for County
Auditor, and 69 more than that of Per
shing over Williams. In Mauch Chunk
Borough the vote stood, Packer 308, and
Geary 861, being a majority of 53—a Re
publican gain since Packer was beaten for
Borough Councilman by Mr. Lewis Beck
hart a few years ago, of 18. In Mauch
Chunk township—Summit Hill district—
Packer was beaten 119, being a Republi
can gain of 103.
For this glorious result in Carbon coun
ty, under so many serious difficulties,
much credit is due to our worthy succes
sors of the Mauch Chunk Gazette; to Dr.
D. K. Shoemaker, Gen. Lilly, Gen. Al
bright, Capt. Shields, Serg't Wehr, B. F.
Walters, J. McMurtrie, N. D. Fowler,
T. S. Beck, and many others who entered
the fight boldly and with a determination
to carry the old flag through in triumph.
Such Republicans, in such localities, who
fight against such odds, are worth talking
about, and deserve to be gratefully remem
bered.
SETTLING ACCOUNTS.
All over the State the Republicans have
taken this year to settle sundry quarrel s
and adjust old scores ; and this they ap
pear to have done and retained the con
trol at the same time. As an "off year,"
the result in every light is extremely
gratifying, especially in the light of an in
dorsement of the administration of Gen.
Grant. Could that question have been
submitted separately to the people of
Pennsylvania, embarrassed by no local
issues or other complications, the majori
ty would have been not leas than that by
which Gen. Grant carried the State last
fall. Indeed, we say with confidence,
that it was the favor with which Gen.
Grant's administration—more especially
its financial management—is regarded by
the people of Pennsylvania, that carried
the State on Tuesday, and in this light is
the result chiefly significant.
or'The Holmesburg Gazelle comes to
us this week enlarged and otherwise im
proved. Success to it.
A WARNING.
The heaviest weights we carried in the
campaign just ended were the abominable
extravagances and corruptions of the two
last Legislatures, and that wretched sys
tem of keeping the public moneys which
makes opportunity for individuals to cor
rupt the public servant with the public
money, and for themselves to grow rich
and great at the expense of the tax-payers
of the Commonwealth. We have stag
gered through to victory under these bur
dens. They will not be carried long. We
say to the members of the General As
.sembly just elected, reform these abuses,
and provide safeguards for the treasury.
If the public money cau be made to earn
anything, let it be for the Commonwealth.
At least, put it out of the power of indi
viduals and combinations to corrupt Leg
islatures, the servants of the people, with
the people's own money. Your duty is
plain, and neglect or failure will be with
out excuse. We hope, we trust, that it
will be performed. Let not the contempt
ible subterfuge, that the office of State
Treasurer is at the disposal of the Repub
lican party, stay the hand of reform. Do
your duty, and you will deserve a con
tinuance of the public confidence which
you now have. Fail, and you will be
crushed under the avalanche of popular
indignation.
A LESSON.
The result of the recent election in the
Old Keystone demonstrates more clearly
than ever, that the great Republican party
is a pure, indestructible organization,
whose mission is progress and reform—a
party (the only one that ever existed) that
can and will reform abuses in its own ranks.
Let us add to its strength and glory by
keeping its record unsullied. Pennsyl
vania is no longer a doubtful State. The
Republican party needs nothing to per
petuate its power, but honest manage
ment and good men in office.
THE BUCKEYES
The election in Omo resulted in a ma
jority for Hayes, the Republican candi
date for Governor, of about NINE THOU
SAND. The same party have a majority
in both Houses.
THINGS IN PHILADELPHIA.
The Result, and the Cause— The Contested Elec
tion Case—Decision of ihe Court-- Candidates
for ,Speaker— Will of the late Dr. Rush—
Laura Keene's Theatre.
PHILADELPHIA, Oct 20, 1869.
DEAR ADE : The contest is over and a
great victory has been won, as was illustra
ted by FATHER ADE last, week, but to Phil
adelphia belongs the credit, for without our
very handsome figures the State would, have
been nowhere. Now that the excitement
has been brought to a close, I trust I shall be
able to give you a weekly budget of things
in the city of Brotherly Love.
Immense sums of money have changed
hands since Tuesday of last week. Up to
Tuesday at twelve o'clock the cops were con
fident of success, and all bets offered were
eagerly gobbled up. One prominentdown town
politician offered to bet from one hundred
to one thousand dollars that the city would
give a Democratic majority without counting
the vote of the celebrated Fourth Ward.
Unfortunately for me, I have been connected
with the press too long to have such a vast
BUM of money, otherwise "Warwick" would
have covered at once.
It is amusing to hear the Democracy apolo
gize for their defeat. The obnoxious Regis
try Law—Mayor Fox and his model police
force—the changing of the Democratic ticket
upon the eve of election—everybody and
everything is chargeable as to the cause of
the route.
The great contested election case, whioh
has occupied the attention of our men of law
for the past twelve months, has at last been
brought to a close, and the result is that the
court decrees that at the general election
held in the city of Philadelphia on the
second Tuesday of October, 1868, the follow
ing named parties were duly and legally
elected :
Mayor—D. M. Fox, D., by 68 majority.
District Attorney—Chas. Gibbons, R., by 68
majority.
Receiver of Taxes---Richard Peitz. R., by
over 1,400 majority.
City Controller-8. P. Hancock, R., by over
1,000 majority.
City Solicitor—Thomas J. Worrell, 11., by
over 800 majority.
• Prothonotary-Richard Donegan, R. by over
1,000 majority.
City Commissioner—Alex. McCaen, IL, by
over 800 majority.
So the agony is over, and the court decides
that of all the Copper-Democracy returned as
elected last fall, Mr. Fox is the only one en
titled to the position, and he by the ' skin of
his teeth."
Mr. Sheppard at the conclusion of the de
cision, though his attopney, Mr. Sellers,
gave notice that his case would be carried to
the Supreme Court, and on Tuesday last, all
the other ousted aspirants followed in the
wake of the late District Attorney.
Mr. Sheppard, just after the decision had
been given, resigned his position, and Mr.
Gibbons was appointed by Judge Ludlow, as
District Attorney pro-tem.
For Speaker of the next House of Repre
sentatives I hear of several candidates. From
our city, it is understood that Mr. Adair, of
the Twelfth District, and Mr. Miller, of the
West Philadelphia District, are both aspir-
ants. Among the knowing ones, General
Selfridge, of Northampton, is most prominent
for the Chief Clerkship.
You will remember, in the early portion of
this correspondence, I mentioned the decease
of Dr. Rush, and his munificent gift of about
one million one hundred thousand dollars to
the Philadelphia Library Company, with the
understanding that l from the funds a suitable
building should be erected at Broad and Car
penter streets, and that the Company should
move their quarters from their present loca
tion to the new quarters provided. At an
election held on Tuesday last the Library
Company decided to accept the provisions of
the will, though singular to tell, by a very
small majority.
City Solicitor Worrell has appointed Dr.
John H. Seltzer, formerly of Berks, as one of
his assistants. It is needless to say that this
appointment gives general satisfaction, as the
Doctor has hosts of warm friends and is in
every way a jolly good fellow.
In the amusement world, the latest is the
opening of Laura Keene's Chestnut Street
Theatre, mention of which I should have
made before. The Chestnut, under bliss
Keene's management, and with the elegant
stock company she has gathered around her,
is decidedly the very best place of amuse
ment we can boast of. and to Lancasterians
visiting our city, it is just the place to go to
spend a pleasant evening. Booth is drawing
immense houses at the Walnut, whilst a new
comedy is the rage at the Arch. With the great
number of strangers in town, all the places
of amusement are doing exceedingly well.
And so we go. Yours WARWICK.
LANCASTER COUNTY.
We present below the official majorities
in the several wards and districts of this
county at the October elections of 1868
and 180:
DISTRICTS
Ist Ward 51 ,
2nd Ward &3
3rd Ward 85
4th Ward ; 165
sth Ward
Cth Ward
7th Ward....
Ath Ward
9th Ward
City Total
Adamstown
Hart
Brecknock
thernarvon
Clay
tamale° Fast
l'ocalleo West
Coleraine
Columbia—lst Ward
2nd Ward.....
,4 3rd Ward
Conestoga
Conoy
['rumor°
Donegal West
Donegal E. (Maytown)..
Earl (Springville)
Earl East
Ea rl West
Eden
Elizabeth
Elizabethtown
Ephrata
Fulton
Hem pileld We5t..........
Indian town
Lampeter West
Lampeter East
Little Britain
Leacock
Leaoock Upper
Lancaster twp
Manheim twp
Manheim bor
*Manor (new)
Manic
Marietta
Millerstown
Mount Joy bor
Mount Joy twp. (upper).
Mount Joy twp. (lower).
Paradise
Penn
Poquea
Petersburg
Providence
Rapho (S. S. IL)
(Newtown)
Rob rerstown
Sad sbury
Salisbury
Strasburg bor
Strasburg ........
Warwick
Washington
Total
Hartranft's majority
tioary's majority.
*Voted with Washington In 186e3
We give below the aggregate vote re
ceived by each candidate at the election
in this county on the 12th inst. Our lim
its preclude the publication of the vote in
detail.
GOVERNOR.
—l3BOl I Asa Packer
John W. Geary
JUDGE OF SUPREME COURT
H. W. WSillarnB 13378, Cyrus L. Pershing...B264
SENATE
Eseine Bitlingfelt...l3622'2lfichael Malone 8234
John B. Warfel 189621 Wm. H. Eagle 8116
ASSEMBLY.
A. C. Reinoehl 18799 Joseph M. Watts 8187
A. Godettalk leBol John ICobb 8181
Elias B. Herr 18891 George F. !Mulls ..... -8203
John B. Wiley 13858 Jacob H. Baker 8210
SHERIFF
Fred'k Meyers
..135911 Charles Grove 8101
REGISTER.
Henry S. Shenek
13889, George S Boone 8241
PROTHONOTARY
Wm. D. Stauffer...l3B93. 4. 0. Kittian
CLERK OF QUARTER SESSIONS
William Barton 13983 Theo. Whitaker....
CLERK OF ORPHANS , COURT.
George W. Keen 13877 Chas. J. Rhoads ...... ..8201
TREASURER
Willlnm Roberts...laB7l,S. W Sstiftehei
COMMISSION FIR
John Armstrong...l39o6: Emanuel Shober 8105
DIRECTORS OF THE POOR.
F. C0x....
Adam Lefever
...188431J. L. lAphtiser 8280
...188861John M. Miller 8207
PRISON INSPECTORS.
Christian Gast 188871 George Pierce. ..... 8218
H. 8. Musser 1119481 John &pie 8201
CORONER.
Robert Dysart 18848, Henry M. Getter ft 2.51.
AUDITOR
4. W. Ilensel Wm. lifoComeey 8214
THE RESULT IN TIIE STATE.
We give below the official returns from
the State, excJpting five counties. Go ary 'a
majority will be in the neighborhood of
4,600.
COUNTIES
Adams
Allegheny
Armstrong
Beaver .....
Bedford
Berke
Blair
Bradford
Bucks
Butler
Cambria
Cameron
Carbon
Centre
Chester
Clarion
Clearfield
Clinton.....
Columbia
Crawford
Cumberland .
Dauphin
Delaware
Elk
Erie
Fayette
Forest
Franklin
Fulton ...
Greene
Huntingdon........
Indiana
Je Iferson
Juniata
Lancaster
Lawrence.
Lebanon
Lehigh....
Luzerne
Lyooming..
McKean..
Mercer
Mifflin
Monroe. .......
Montgomery
Mont our
Northampton
Northumberland..
ferry. • • •
Philadelphia
l'tke
Potter
Schuylkill .
Snyder
Somerset
Sullivan
Susquehanna
Tio4a
Ui0n..... .........
Venting° ......
Washington
Wayne
Westmoreland... • .
Wyoming
York
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Tot al
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1.521 357
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1,7
671
169
187
149
107
183'
166
108
163
108
163
137
571
1 7,3371
604
6,166
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5,185
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8248
8257
8220
1569.
3707
888
1627
2834
3970
1247
18766
VW
6046
4504
MI
4066
879
UM
1080
555
7376
1959
4044
QM
2431
61838
292,
1318
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lIM
2008
403
4098
4391
1791
3519
2404
2255
4106
1475
6561
2275
453
115
5515
2478
6188
1721
8312
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peer 4brahatn's Chip.
MR. AND MRS. A. T. STEWART are
getting ready to open their new $1,500,-
000 residence on Fifth atenue.
MORRISSEY is said to have bet heavily
against Packer—one bet with Sheriff
O'Brien being $,10,000, all of which he
wins.
A mmlE9 in Sioux City, who inhabits
a mud cabin, refuses her daughter a piano
because " such things are getting to be
altogether too common. ,,
THE annual session of the Synod of
the German Reformed Church in the Uni
ted States will be held in Danville, Pa., to
commence on Wednesday evening, Octo
ber 20th, 1859, at 71 o'clock.
As a remedy for "lightness," in the
money market a speaker at a religious
meeting in New York proposed the hang
ing of all the Wall street money gamblers
on the same tree.
ON and after November first important
changes in commutation tickets and rates,
it is said, will take effect on the Pennsyl
vania Central Railroad. We have not as
yet learned particulars as to the advance
in rates.
MR. ROBERT LINCOLN, son of the late
President, is a law partner in Chicago,
and is doing a lucrative business. lie is
a cautious, industrious, able young man,
possessing many of his father's strongest
and most valuable traits of character.
THE Irish Churchman informs its reat;.-
ers that five Irish Roman Catholic priests
have, during the last month, renounced
the errors of their faith, and have been
received into the Episcopal Church in
THE Legislature of Virginia on Tues
day elected her United States Senators.
For the long term Lieutenant Governor
John F. Lewis was chosen; for the short
term Judge J. W. Johnson. Both can
take the iron-clad oath.
THE Central Railroad of New Jersey
was built through a section of the State
sparsly inhabited. It began to run ac
commodation trains every forty minutes
from New York, and in consequence its
track, at the end of ten years, is flanked
on both sides by elegant residences.
A LEADING DEMOCRAT, to show his
sense of the folly of nominating fossil
politicians for high offices, proposes put
ting up George 11. Pendleton for Presi
dent and Asa Packer for Vice President
in 1872. Ile thinks that will about finish
the lesson.
THE election for borough and ward offi
cers in Pottsville on Tuesday a week, re
sulted in a clean sweep for the Republi
cans. The Republican candidate for
chief burgess had 559 majority. The
councils and all other officers are Repub
licans.
PRESIDENT GRANT has appointed as
Secretary of War Major General Wiu. M.
Belknap, of Keokuk, lowa. He served in
the army from the first to the last day of
the late war. lie is about thirty-eight
years of age, in excellent health, and a
lawyer by Profession.
VICE-PRESIDENT COLFAX recently as
tonished the Saints of Salt Lake City by
making them a speech in which he char
acterized polygamy as unwise and illegal,
and called upon the people to abolish it.
Such a speech a few years back would
have been rewarded with assassination.
IT is said Senator Wilson contemplates
introducing a bill at the next session of
Congress to stop the operations of gold
gamblers in Wall street. lie designs to
make it a penalty to sell or purchase gold
unless the full amount of coin sold is ac
tually delivered.
SPEAKER BLAINE is Of opinion that
the coming session of Congress will be
harmonious, and that business will be dis
patched with unusual celerity. The chief
subject of interest, he thinks, will be the
financial question and the funding of the
public debt.
11 . 01tACE GREELY has been nominat
ed by The Republicans of New York for
Comptroller. He accepts the nomination
in a characteristic letter, in which he says
he did not desire the nomination but does
not feel at liberty to shirk the responsi
bilities it involves.
THE latest rumor in New York is to
the effect that James Fisk, Jr., has made
a large show on other people's money,
and that in less than a month, when his
liabilities fall due and he will be unable
to meet them, iron doors will close upon
him for a while.
Mu. PACKER'S friends have been sadly
disappointed by the returns from the an
thracite counties. He loses 345 in Schuyl
kill, and 1,128 in Luzerne, gaining only
47 votes in Carbon, his family's county,
99 in Lycoming county and 128 in Lehigh
—a net loss to the Pnde of the Valley of
about 1,200 votes.
THE shouts of victory from Ohio and
lowa come in time to swell and prolong
our notes of triumph. The gallant Re
publicans of those States have battled
well and won the great prize they contend
ed for. This contest has settled the prin
ciples of the nation. We have now, in
deed, a country " great, glorious and
free."
GEN. SHERIDAN was called upon for a
speech at the Wisconsin State Fair, and
said ; "Ladies and gentlemen, I know
you do not expect me to make a speech,
and so I will only make my bow.) , He
bowed, but was again called for, and
came forward bowing and said : " Ladies
and gentlemen, I will repeat my little
speech, and give way to others. ,,
ONE of the most ingenious pieces of
covert advertising is from the Arkansas
Hot Springs Courier : "The habit of
convalescing rheumatics and paralytics
throwing their cast-off crutches and canes
into the street is becoming too common,
and is attended with danger to vehicles.
One day last week a spring wagon was
broken in front of the IVarren House by
a crutch thoughtlessly thrown into the
street by some one ignorant of the dam
age it would cause."
COL. GEORGE W. ALEXANDER, of
Reading, recently pardoned by President
Grant, arrived there on Monday week, and
was met at the depot by a large crowd of
friends, who escorted him home, preceded
by a band of music. This gallant soldier
came from the, prison cell with no odium
attached to him,
and his release, if pos
sible, will only increase the disgust for
his persecutors.