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SOlnAT EVENING, MAECH 8, 1860.
It West Werk There.
The friends of Councilman Meuat and
the ether Republican election officers
who were held te bail by the Philadel
phia judges upon the evidence of their
lawlessnees obtained while canvassing the
vote, must have a small opinion of the
resoluteness of these judges in the sup
pression of crime if they suppose that
the guilty can be saved by inducing a
grand jury te refuse te find indictments
against them. The grand jury that was
unable te see any evidence of the guihVief
Meuat in the testimony thajr the
judges thought te be sufficient te
put him upon his trial did a
very useless thing for Meuat and
only succeeded in exposing itself te pub
lic contempt by ignoring the bill against
him. It certainly would net have hap-
pened thus if improper influences had
net been brought te bear en the jury ;
and this would only have been done te
save guilty men. It serves as a confes
sion of guilt upon the part of the ac
cused and is just as convincing evidence
of it as though they had run away te
escape trial. They fear te stand their
trial with very geed reason; but
they have only displayed their fear,
and failed te show their sense, by
seeking te avoid punishment for
their offense in such a very bungling way.
Their little scheme, te succeed, requires
the assent net only of the judges but of
the district attorney, and Mr. Ilagert
lias never shown himself susceptible te
the seduction of guilty criminals. He
took occasion when the grand jury made
its rejwrt te say te the court that he
should send no mere bills te it for of
fences of a political character and would
senditneneatallbut for the necessity
of a speedy trial of these in jail. Mr.
Ilagert "s animadversion upon this grand
jury is universally held te be just, and
he is commended for it, and the grand
jury is condemned by geed men and the
decent newspapers of all parties. We
are reminded by this transaction in the
Philadelphia courts, of strikingly similar
exiK?riences we have had with Lancaster
county grand juries ; but we de net re
member that we have ever heard a dis
trict attorney shaking aloud in condem
nation. Our district attorneys are birds
of another feather. They may be very
geed men in many particulars, but of
late years they have leen absolutely
undtr the dominion of party spirit and
totally without a political conscience, or
much of a conscience of any kind : that
frequently inconvenient appendage seems
T' be particularly unsuitable te a district
attorney in this atmosphere, and they
shake themselves free of it very seen and
very completely : se that it happens that
the best Republican workers in the wards
can slip away from the court and a petit
jury even after they have been caught in
the meshes of the grand jury net. and the
geed fellows who are steered clear of
tliis first obstruction are quite numerous
indeed. Judge Patterson declares that po
litical influences never get near the
bench, and we are obliged te take him
en faith : all the badness steps at the
bar and with the district attorney and
liis volunteer assistants, no doubt : but it
would be ever se comforting if it did net
get anywhere near the fountains of jus
tice, and it would be refreshing and re
assuring if we could once hear somebody
intimate in our court as District Attor
ney Ilagert substantially said in the
Philadelphia court, that political influ
ence should net cause the escape of
guilty men from the just'punishment of
their crimes, while he steed in his place
in the temple of justice by the eternal.
Someijeiiy has been getting up a de
scription of the proposed court of Ulys
ses I., conveying his picture of it by
means; of a clever statement from the
Court Journal of September, 1882, the
Imperial Standard, and the Army and
Ifavy Xcxcs, all published at Washing
ton. Senater Cameren figures as the
Duke of Pennsylvania, while his dad is
in as Earl of Susquehanna, attached te
the court as Earl Marslial. All the
Grantites receive heavy promotion,
though our friend G. W. Childs is badly
treated in getting no higher elevation
than that of Lord St. Ledger, while Cel.
Ferney is still mere shabbily used in get
ting no sort of title and being hung upon
" expectations, " of which the gallant
colonel has had a surfeit in his life. The
author of the brochure rather rushes
things in getting the imperial fam
ily seated in se short a period as t we
years from date, with Beauregard
in command of the imperial army
of the Seuth, and Mahone, " Duke of
the Blue Ridge," running the military
machine in the West, with all the red red
het rebels, such as Temmy Xast and
Denis Kearney, hung, the New Yerk
Sun suspended and Dana in hiding, and
net a head anywhere showing in oppo
sition te the dynasty. When 'tis done,
"twill hardly be se quickly finished.
Tiik Republican senatorial orators
seem te be intending te make capital for
Grant out of the Perter case, though it
serves hardly better than any ether for
them te hang theirjeulegies of Grant upon.
The ex-president has nothing mere te de
with the Perter matter than is te be
found in the fact that, as presi
dent, he denied him the justice which
lie asKs. lie may ec put down as
adverse te Perter's reinstatement. There
he stands along with Sherman, no doubt,
and the action of the Senate in the mat
ter, if it restore Perter, will measurably
be a rebuke te htm. But public opinion
has already given this rebuke, since public
sentiment is clearly with Perter. The re
port of the unbiased military commission
has been generally accepted!; and its con
clusion was that Perter had done all that
a geed general should have done, that
his construction of Pepe's orders was in
telligent and his action prompt and wise.
Instead of the censure that he received
he was entitled te the loudest praise ; and
that for se many years a man se deserv
ing has been living tinder condemnation
se unmerited, seems se striking that
the popular sentiment runs strongly tow
ards Perter and in favor of speedy justice
.being done him.
The Harrisburg Patriot gives its ver
sion of the confirmation of Marshal
Kerns, which we republish for what it
is worth. We are assured that Speaker
Randall was opposed, te the last, te the
confirmation of Kerns, and exerted all
the influence he had against it. It is net
se manifest, however, that he has " as
much influence with the Democratic
members of the ( Senate ) judiciary com
mittee as any public man in Washington.
its members have mere influence with
each ether than anybody else. The ju
diciary committee firstlchecked Kerns's
confirmation at Senater Wallace's re
quest and Mr. Garland, of that commit
tee, ewes it te the Pennsylvania Democ
racy te tell who afterwards requested or
permitted a favorable report en it, while
Senater Wallace's position will be mere
clear when we hear whether or net
he finally voted against the man whose
infamous appointments he had se brave
ly exposed.
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PERSONAL.
Chris. L. Magce aspires te be the succes
sor of Beb Mackcy in Pennsylvania poli
tics, lie is of the same moral shape.
Captain W. W. Nevtx, having returned
from his European tour, will write a book
about it.
Tim Mourns, a native of Richmond, Va.,
and a well-known negre minstrel, has died
in Providence, R. I.
UiioneK Hilten, the postmaster of
Seuth Parsenfield, Me., is 81 years old,
and has occupied that position since 1830.
Mr. Ricii.vkd Husky D.vx.v is visiting
San Francisce for the first time since 1834,
when the bark " Pilgrim " took him te
these shores.
A canvass for presidential nominees at
Princeton college resulted as fellows :
Blaine, 16G ; Bayard, 120 ; Grant, 46 ;
Shermen, 4C ; Tildcn, 8 ; Washburne, 6 ;
Hayes, ."5 ; Edmunds, 5 ; scattering, 7.
Whole number of votes cast, 409 ; Re.
publicans voting, 273 ; Democrats, 128 ; In
dependents, 8.
Three leading professors in the Cincin
nati College of Music, Messrs. Schneider,
Feley and Mces, have followed the ex
ample of Tiieodeke Themas and resigned.
Itispiebablc that Mr. Themas's connec
tion with the college will end sooner than
he intended, the directors having iuti
matcd that he had better go at once and
net wait for October.
It is rumored that Tueouekk Tilton
and his wife have become reconciled te
each ether and arc living together again
at the Livingstone street house, Brooklyn.
Tilton's residence has been leased until
recently as a bearding-house. Painters
and upholsterers have been at work in the
house, and this fact gives rUe te a rumor
that the Tiltens are again te live beneath
the same reef.
Gen. Grant has been visiting Centrcras,
Malina del Rev, Chcrubusce and ether
scenes of his Mexican campaign. lie re
membered the localities well, but was uu
able te find his old quartermaster's office
and store in Tacubaya. The speeches by
Gen. Grant and Gen. Sheridan at the din
ner tendered them by the American resi
dents have given great satisfaction te the
Mexicans en account of the friendly feel
ings manifested for Mexico.
Messrs. Hariiy E. Michael and Jehn
M. Amwee. jr.. late of this city, are new
members of the company that en Saturday
night closed a long engagement in Phila
delphia where they had been singing Gil
bert and Clay's new comic opera, - Prin
cess Tote."' te packed houses at the North
Bread and Park theatres. Te-night the
company open for a week in Baltimore,
after which they enter en an extended en
gagement iu Bosten.
Anukew Jacksen was visiting a Ken
tucky town where among the gentlemen
presented te him was a Majer Lewis, who
desired te impress Jacksen and his admir
ers with his own independence. Taking a
dignified attitude, he said : " Well, gen
eral, I have all my life been voting against
you." Jacksen courteously bowed te him
and said, geed-liumoredly: "Well, Majer
Lewis, I have all my life been fighting the
battles of my cenntry in order that you
might enjoy that privilege."
Lord Haiitingten, the present leader
of the opposition in the British Parliament,
when traveling in this country, were a se
cession badge at a ball in Xew Yerk,
given by Mr. August Belmont. Mr. Jehn
Hecksher, the well-known member of the
American Jockey club, then a lieutenant
of the 12th United States Infantry, walltcd
up and tore it off his astonished lordship's
breast. Of course, there was a society
sensation, but Mr. Hecksher was sustained
by Mr. Belmont and the New Yerk public
M. de Lesseps was a pet of the empire
when the third Napeleon ruled and ruined
France. The emperor created him a count,
and Eugenie found him a young and bcau
ful bride and dowered her from the impe
rial treasury. The villa of M. de Lesseps
and the countess at Ismalia, en the Suez
canal, is one of the most enchanting and
luxurious places imaginable. It realizes
the description of Geerge Bobbins the
famous Londen auctioneer " there is
nothing te mar its claim te be a model
country scat save the litter of the rose
leaves en the garden walks and the noise
of the nightingales at night."
Big Beys are They.
Xew Em, Satunlay.
Brether Hiestand says Tem Cochran
and Hay Brown didn't go te Washington
te receive instructions from Senater Cam Cam
eeon, but they did go te instruct Senators
Cameren and Wallace net te allow Captain
Stauffer te be confirmed as census super
visor in case they didn't let up en Mr.
Samson, whose confirmation Cameren and
Wallace have been preventing for the past
month. Right geed, big boys, hew they
have grown ! big enough te be sent off pest
haste te give instructions te the senators
of Pennsylvania! Right glad are we te
leam that Mr. Smith who was net yet
"out of the fighc " en this confirmation
business get some unexpected help from a
new quaitcr !
Net Hi. ItlK Art or All.
AMseuiaU'il I'rcss illHputcIi .Sunday.
The Senate yesterday rejected the follow
ing nominations of census supervisers:
Jeseph Samson, Second district of Pennsyl
vania ; Jehn M. Clark, Fifth district of
Pennsylvania ; Samuel Thompson, Second
district of Alabama i Geerge M. Buchanan,
Flint district of Mississippi. The only
case that gave rise te any discussion was
that of Buchanan, in regard te which Sena
tors Lamar and Bruce took opposite sides.
It was rejected by a strict party vote en
the ground of Buchanan being an active
partisan and professional pelitican, who
would be likely te make use of the super-
viserHinp as a means u) procure ins eiec-
tien te Cengiws.
MQteR TOPICS.
Bosten! running short of boys. A gen. f
tleman advertised for an office boy the
ether day and get but a single response.
Is Cincinnati recently a criticism of a
performance of "The Pirates of Penzance"
was confined te the statement : " The thin
pirate with a terrific moustache bad his
right calf en wrong side out."
During the year ending December 1,
1879, the courts of Texas disposed of 4,116
felony cases, of which 1,523 were convic
tions, 1,427 acquittals and 1,166 were
ended without trials by dismissal and
otherwise.
The Philadelphia Times has republished
in a handsomely printed brochure the ac
count of itself which was first printed in
the New Yerk Evening Telegram, Feb. 9,
1880. It is a deserved tribute te its
journalistic enterprise and success and
merits the typographical setting new given
te it.
Mus. Clauk, of Indiana, was thought
less enough te present her husband with a
petition signed by herself and her seven
children praying for a new colored dress.
Mr. Clark thereupon threw the petition
under the table and his wife out of the
window, and new she is a cripple for life
Tue publication of the New Yerk
Daily Witness has been suspended. The
aim of its managers was te issue a paper
which should deal with orthodox religious
news as a specialty, excluding from its
columns everything of a secular nature
whish might hurt the morals of its readers.
An experiment of eight years duration and
the less of a great deal of money resulted
as above.
The Paris of America
Presents the compliments of the
season
te
Messrs. Tilden, Hendricks, Seymour,
Bayard, Hancock, Thurman,
Jewett and friends.
And begs leave te request the pleasure of
their company
On Tuesday, June 22, 1880.
Will de the handsome thing te you or bust
a flue.
Cincinnati Enquirer.
A scion of an old family in New Yerk,
and one net unknown iu Washington, net
long since entered a fashionable bar-room
net far from Wallack's theatre and, under
the influence of wine and seltzer, an
nounced that he was a member of the first
family in New Yerk, the Livingstens. A
keen-eyed, well-dressed mail, with an un
mistakably Irish face, stepped forward
and said, goed-humoredly, " Held en, my
dear, don't go se fast. The Livingstenes
is a geed family, I admit, one of the best
in the country. They may be the second
family, but the Fiunegans comes fust. '"
CRIME AND DISASTER.
The Usual Recerd of Bloody Affaire.
Menree Robinson, convicted of the mur
der of his brother in-law, Wiley Coulter,
was sentenced at Greenville, Ohie, en Sat
urday, te be hanged en the 10th of July.
The trial of Jehn Sammett, for killing
Christian Spuhler, at Canten, Ohie, re
sulted en Saturday in a verdict of murder
in the first degree. A new trial was
moved.
Twenty prisoners in the workhouse at
Wheeling, W. Va., mutinied en Saturday
night and escaped. One of the guard fired
at them and killed a man who was taking
no part in the cnieute.
Daniel R. Andersen was re-arrested in
Waynesville, Ohie, en Saturday, for the
murder of his divorced wife, her sister and
the latter's daughter, committed last Au
gust. M. W. Alexander and a policeman named
Morrissey were shot, the former, perhaps,
mortally, in an affray between drunken
miners at a dance house, in Lead vi lie, Cel.,
en Saturday night.
The body of Emmet Shannen, aged 30
years, was found in the Delaware at Mil
ford, Pa., en Saturday morning, lie fell
through the canal aqueduct, at Lacka
waxen, en the 1st of January.
Christian Rich, foreman of the cattle
pens of Cox & Fairbanks' distillery, in
Tcrre Haute, Indiana, was fatally stabbed
by Themas McDonough, one of the work
men, in a quarrel en Sunday afternoon.
McDonald was arrested.
The body of an unknown woman, appar
ently middle-aged, with dark hair, was
found, mangled beyond identification, en
the railroad track at Somerset, N. J., en
Saturday morning. It had probably been
run ever by several trains during the
night.
Grassiuan and Carsen, the Dclphes
(Ohie) robbers, who attempted te murder
Pickens and who tortured his wife, were
sentenced en Saturday te twelve years im
prisonment each in the penitentiary at
hard labor, and te be locked in a dungeon
every night for six years.
Francis Sill, convicted of attempting te
murder Geerge Heffman, near Strouds
burg, Pa.,"was sentenced en Saturday te
pay $100 fine and be imprisoned in the
penitentiary for three years. The sentence
was made light, owing te the fact that
Sill was 73 years of age.
A colored barber, named Hawkins, at
tempted te kill his wife, his stepfather and
himself, in Norwalk, Ohie, en Saturday.
He put two bullets in his wife's head, ene
through his stepfather's arm and two into
his own body. It is net known whether
any of the wounds will prove fatal. The
somewhat novel cause alleged for the trag
edy is pure wilfulness.
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CAt'E COD CANAL.
The First Werk of an Enterprise Planned
Twe Hundred Years Age.
The project of a ship canal across the
neck of Cape Ced te connect the waters of
Buzzard's bay with these en the north side
of, the cape, has been before the
public for mere than two hundred years,
mention thereof having been made by
Samuel Scwall in 1676, and a committee
of the general court appointed in 1697
te investigate the subject. It was net
until 1870, however, that any definite steps
were taken. In that year the Massa
chusetts Legislature granted a charter te
the Cape Ced ship canal company, and
some years later the charter was renewed.
This renewal would have expired yester
day if no work had been begun en the
canal, but the company, as an earnest of
its intentions and te save its franchise, set
a gang of men te work last Thursday, and
the work of excavation was begun about
midway between the two bays.
The authorized capital of the company
is $1,000,000. The estimated cost of the
work is $2,500,000, and under the present
charter it must be completed within three
years.
The canal will have 27 feet of water at
high tide at its northeastern entrance, 22
feet at its southwestern or Buzzard's bay
mouth, and a minimum depth of 18 feet
its entire length. The projectors of the
enterprise believe that the action of the
current will keep net only the canal itself,
but the harbors at either mouth, sufficient
ly clear of ice te prevent any serious incon
venience te vessels.
-U4.T1MT Nigjjr MAU
-- The celebrated, ireif auae, Leadvilfexwas
sold te New Yerk parties for $3,000,000.
The first passenger train ea'the Cincin
nati Southern railroad through te Chat
tanoega, left Cincinnati this -morning at
ova) o'clock, and will ran through in
twelve hours.
St. Leuis' City Directory for this year
will contain 122,000 names. Iu 1870 it
contained 66,000 when the population was
310,000, and this is taken te indicate that
the population of the city new is ever
500,000.
In Chatham, Ont, fire destroyed the
stores of J. Watts, grocer ; K. Urgulreast,
grocer ; 1. H. bmith, dry goods dealer ; A.
J. Wilsen, dry goods dealer, and R. M.
Northwood, produce dealer. Total less,
$25,000 ; insurance light.
Delegates from various Irish societies
and Hibernian organizations in Brooklyn
have decided net te parade en St. Patrick's
day, but te sent the money usually appro
priated for such occasions te the suffering
peer of Ireland.
In St. Paul. Minn., en Saturday, a fire
broke out at 5 o'clock in the reef of the
wholesale dry goods house of Auresbach,
Finch, Culbertsen & Ce., the largest
building and occupied by the heaviest linn
in the city, and it was destroyed ; less,
$1,000,000.
During experiments en beard the new
Italian iron-clad Diulio a gun burst after
twenty-five shots had been fired from it.
The turret was slightly damaged, but the
machinery of the, vessel was net injured
aud the trials were resumed. Ten persons
were slightly wounded.
The grain elevator of Mungcr, Markcll
& Ce., at Duluth,was burned en Saturday.
It cost $50,000 in 1872, and was insured
for $20,000. It contained about 170,000
bushels of grain. The insurance en the
grain is about $85,000, of which $53,000 is
en grain owned by David Dews and $33,
000 en grain owned by Barnes & Finley.
Geerge Kehl, a farm hand in the employ
of Fred. Whitcamp. sr., of Caire, 111., re
ported that Whitcamp had been drowned
by falling into the Mississippi river. This
statement was the first believed, but later,
suspicion led te an investigation which
resulted in the arrest of Kehl, who has
confessed that he, assisted by Whitcamp's
wife, had murdered him. The body was
found buried in the rear of the stable en
the premises. Mrs. Whitcamp was arrested
also.
Charles Neberge, a Frenchman and a
teiler, has died in Chicago of hydrophobia.
He was bitten two weeks age. The
wound was cauterized and every precau
tion taken against the dread disease. The
first symptoms appeared about a week
age, and the man grew steadily worse.
Notwithstanding the efforts of five physi
cians paroxysms came at the last moments
and were terrible te witness, no had te
be restrained by ferce from attacking his
wife and children.
The sanitary inspection of the United
States steamer Plymouth, which has been
quariutincd at Portsmouth, N. II., since
autumn, has revealed a disgraceful state of
affairs en the ship. There was found be
tween decks a deep accumulation of beans
aud ether stuffs, which, becoming decayed,
sent forth most offensive odors when dis
turbed. It appears also that the weed of
the vessel itselt is se decayed lrem dry ret
that wonder is expressed that she has held
together se long and se well.
The large four-story brick building en
Beak street, Buffalo, formerly used as a
tannery by Schoellkepf & Ce., and lately
sold te the New Yerk Central railroad at a
cost of $40,000, and the buildings adjoin
ing, at a cost of $60,000, were burned en
Saturday night. The fire was the work of
an incendiary. The less en the building
and machinery is $40,000 ; en stock, $50,
000. Insurance en the building is $20,000,
and en stock and machinery, $26,500. The
stock in the building was the property of
Schoellkepf & Ce.
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A Mystery of a Skeleton.
A few days age while William A. Som Sem
crs and James C. Percell were cutting
weed en the Shawangunk mountains about
ten miles from Alligerville, N. Y., they
discovered a pair of beets projecting from
beneath a let of old leaves. A little further
en they discovered the lower portion of a
human skeleton, and beside it a single
bladed rusty jack-knife and a pair of spec
tacles. The beets were coarse and heavy,
usually worn by laborers. There was no
clue te the mystery, as no one had been
missing from the vicinity in a number of
years.
An inquest was held before Justice
Ilarnden, but nothing was elicited te
identify the remains. About twelve years
age a strange colored man, partly de
ranged, appeared in the neighborhood and
declared that the mountain was full of
geld, which he intended te get. He started
up the mountain, and was never afterwards
seen. About that time Calvin Rayner was
in the region of "The Traps," net far
from where the skeleton was found, iu an
intoxicated condition. He started off with
some clothing in his possession for a
place named Mehunk. The bundles were
afterward found by Hiram Van Lennen
while out hunting, but nothing has since
been seen of Rayner.
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A Swimmer's Peril.
Themas Ceyle, new a laborer in Reach's
ship yards at Chester, Pa., who will be re
membered by the sporting world as the op
penent et Jehnsen, tne .bngusli swimmer,
in the race en the Delaware, from Chester
te Gloucester, August 24, 1875, and for
his various swimming exploits, boast
ed recently that he would enter the
river in March and swim a distance
of two miles without injury. The feat was
set down for last Saturday, aud at half
past five, amid a large crowd of people
who had collected at the ship yards te
witness it, Ceyle entered the water. The
course was te be up the Delaware te
Chester creek and thence up stream te the
Beal house. Ceyle started out evidently
in geed trim, but before he had been in
eighteen minutes signs of exhaustion and
cramps indicated that he would net be able
te held out. His condition seen became se
alarming that he was picked up and con
veyed te the Beal house, where he remained
in an insensible and precarious condition,
until three o'clock yesterday morning. He
was then taken te his house, where he is
still lying in a critical state. Ceyle is
about forty-three years of age.
THOMAS'S RESIGNATION.
Anger of the Directors Aroused. Trouble at
the College.
Cincinnati is agog ever the Theodere
Themas matter. In his letter of resigna
tion Themas used language which aroused
the anger of the directors, Reu
ben Springer, General A. T. Goshern and
ex-Governer Cox. He said they had evad
ed and misrepresented his demands. Upen
receipt of that the beard replied in effect
that the sooner Mr. Themas get out of
the way the better it would be for all con
cerned. His previous plan was te remain
until October, but it is new probable that
he will return te New Yerk and his old or
chestra in a few weeks. He will be succed
cd temporarily by OtteSinger. Three mere
professors have resigned,and there is a high
state of feeling in the college. Great re
gret is expressed" by the citizens at the de
parture of Themas, but there seems te be
no help for it, unless his friends buy a ma
jority of the stock and overrule the present
beard. He would have made this year
through his college contracts about $20,000
had he remained. Nichols still holds the
presidency.
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Thern as Doty, Samuel Morgan and H.
C. Yellbradt were drowned in the Ohie
river at Beaver, while attempting te cress
in a skiff.
KERNS'S CONFIRMATION.
What the "Patriot" Has Gathered.
Harrisburg Patriot.
, Senater Wallace is bitterly assailed for
permitting W. H. Kerns te be confirmed
as United States marshal for the eastern
district of Pennsylvania. We have gath
ered the following facts in regard te
this matter: When the nomination of
Kerns was sent te the Senate it was re
ferred te the judiciary committee of which
Senater McDonald, of Indiana, and Sen
ter Garland, , of Arkansas, are Dem
ocratic members. McDonald aud
Garland are also members of the in
vestigating committee which sat at Phila
delphia known as the " Wallace commit
tee." All the testimony affecting Kerns
was sent by Senater Wallace te the judi
ciary committee accompanied by a letter
opposing confirmation. McDonald, Gar
laud and Edmunds were the sub-committee
of the judiciary committee te whom the
appointment of Kerns was referred. They
knew all about Kerns's action in regard te
deputy marshals at the election in 1878 and
they had Senater Wallace's pretest before
them. Nevertheless they repotted te the
Senate iu favor of Kerns's confirmation.
The reasons given by them for their action
are that Kerus's behavior as an official en
election day was geed ; that he(Kerns) swore
before the investigating committee thatmar
shals were net needed in Philadelphia ; that
he was compelled by law te appoint them
when two citizens asked for their appoint
ment and that such applications weiemade
te him everywhere iu the city ; that he
took the recommendations of his political
friends as the vouchers for the character of
his marshals, many of whom were infamous,
but that from all the proofs he seemed te
have been deceived in this respect and did
net knew these 'persons himself; that no
charge except the bad character of some
of the deputy marshals seemed te be sus
tained against him, and that his own char
acter and official conduct were shown te
be geed. Finally the judiciary committee
concluded that it would be better te have
a marshal who himself was opposed te the
use of deputy marshals at the polls, than
risk the appointment of a new man who
might prove much worse. These were
the grounds en which the judiciary com
mittee based their report in favor of Kerns,
and Senater Wallace could net defeat that
report without showing the facts en
which the committee relied te be false.
In matters of this character the Senate acts
in a judicial capacity and it is a very diffi
cult task for a single senator te secure the
rejection of an appointment except
for cause, and it is a very rare
thing that a recommendation of a commit
tee m favor of confirmation can be de
feated. Mr. Sneaker Randall was as
deeply interested in the appointment of
this marshal' as any member of the Senate,
for the appointment affects particularly
his own city and district, aud he has
certainly as much influence with the
Democratic members of the judiciary com
mittee as any public man in Washington.
Nevertheless the judiciary committee
reported in favor of Kerns and the Senate
confirmed him. We de net sec that either
Randall or Wallace is worthy of death or
bends because of this matter.
Will Senater Wallace Rise and Explain ?
Alteena Dully Sentinel.
Perhaps Mr. Wallace may be able te
explain satisfactorily his action in assent
ing te the confirmation of the leader of
the Republican reunders and ballet-box
stuffers, of Philadelphia, Marshal Kerns.
This man could net have been confirmed
against the advice and consent of Senater
Wallace. It was Mr. Wallace, who, as
chairman of the Senate committee te in
vestigate election f rauds,unearthed the foul
iniquities practiced by this man Kerns,
through the medium of his deputy
marshals, proved te be men of the lowest
character and capable of the commission
of any crime. Fer his services in un
earthing this and ether Ralical ras
cality in the conduct of elections, Mr.
Wallace received high praise from the
Democratic aud independent press of the
country. But if Kerns was the creature
and tool of Cameren, Quay & Ce., as rep
resented by Mr. Wallace iu his report,
why does he new stultify himself by cou ceu cou
dening the offence of this pelluter of the
purity of the ballet-box, by consenting te
his confirmation ? The wannest friends
of Senater Wallace cannot fail te be stag
gered by this strange and incomprehensi
ble action en his part and particularly
at a crisis like the present. If
Kerns, in the past, committed .the offences
alleged and proved by Mr. Wallace, where
is the guaranty that he will net repeat
them upon a larger scale when the presi
dency is the prize te be contended for?
Docs Mr. Wallace believe that the state of
Pennsylvania is irretrievably Republican,
and that consequently it is policy te make
the best terms possible with the common
enemy? Are the appointments, through
Mr. Senater Cameren's gracious permis
sion, of a few scattered Democratic census
enumerators te weigh in the scale against
the fact that under the manipula
tion of this Kerns, confirmed by
a Democratic Senate, Philadelphia
will roll up twenty or thirty thousand Radical-Republican
majority this fall for Grant
aud the third term aud thus stifle and
crush out the Democratic majority in the
state independent of Philadelphia ? We
make no charges, we impute no motives of
a doubtful character as controlling the ac
tion of Mr. Wallace in the premises, but
we confess te being grievously disappoint
ed. Te its Democracy and te the people
of the state at large, who favor honest
elections and the protection of the ballot ballet
box from fraud and violence, Senater Wal
lace ewes an unequivocal explanation and
the earlier it is forthcoming the better.
A Fragment of Science.
Washington Kepublic.
The preposition of Gen. Ruggles, of
Virginia, looking te a precipitation of
rainfalls by scientific means, deserves a
passing notice. The idea itself is net or
iginal with Gen. Ruggles, but he is the
first te formulate it in plan, which he has
recently supported by argument before the
Senate committee en agriculture. Having
previously obtained a patent for this in
vention, he new seeks te induce Congress
te authorize the commissioner of agricul
ture te expend a sum sufficient te test the
practicability of his scheme. He is under
steed te nave devoted some years te an
investigation of the subject, claiming that
the diffused mists passing ever wide re
gions or localities suffering from unusual
drought may be readily consolidated into
rainfalls by concussions and vibrations
artificially produced. This sounds very
plausible, and accords with what will at
once occur te any one of experience in the
late war. A battle was almost invariably
succeeded and often concluded in a rain,
especially if lasting ever one day.
The method contemplated by General
Ruggles's patent is te send into the clouds
skeleton balloons filled with cartridges of
dynamite or smaller explosive materials,
and te explode the contents by magneto
electricity through light metallic wires
connecting the balloon with the earth.
It may be that the elements and forces
,gf nature will ultimately pass in a measure
under human control ; but until this is
realized the ear of doubt will continue te
give andience te the tongue of satire. In
order te facilitate it a converse of the rain
fall preposition should be furnished. If
the clouds may be emptied of their mois
ture at the command of man, why net leek
te some preventive means, in case of
heavy and destructive rains ? If Gen. Rug
gles can compel the rain te descend, why
may net a method be found of inducing it
te step when we have had enough?
Why, when the the deg star Sirius is in the
ascendent, may net cloud curtains
be
drawn across the face of the sun
or, he
be summend forth te dispel a damp chil-
ling atmosphere? 'Why Het curb the
wind? why net but in deference te the
signal bureau, I forbear.
"The wind, bleweth where it listeth,
and thou nearest the sound thereof, but
canst net tell whence it ceraeth or whither
it geeth."
Only let Gen. Ruggles substantiate his
claim te be able te make it rain whenever
rain is needed, and agriculturists may be
relied upon te rest content.
STATiS ITEMS.
Patrick Lanigan, a well known coal
dealer, doing business iu East Liberty, was
killed by the cars while attempting te
drive ever a crossing where there was no
watchman. His horse was net injured.
Recent rains have swelled up the creek
at Clearfield and the west branch of the
Susquehanna into a geed rafting flood.
Legs in larga quantities are new driving
dewii the river at a lively rate.
The Allegheny county Democrats de
cided te held ten conventions, one for
each representative and senatorial district,
te elect delegates te the state convention,
en the 23d inst.
The funeral of Mrs. Jeseph P. Schooley,
and her son Warren Schooley, the victims
of last Thursday's tragedy, took place in
Pittston yesterday and was attended by
ever 2,000 persons.
August Petersen was found dead en Fri
day, at the oil well of Vrooman & Magar
vis, en Shepherd's run, about two miles
from Bradford. When found he was
standing en a ladder and had died from
the effects of gas. He was between 17 and
18 years of age.
In East Hanover township, Lebanon
county, there lives an aged couple, Mr.
and Mrs. Michael Bress He is nearly 8!)
years old and his wife Catharine, born
Shaffer, was born February 20, 1796, She
celebrated the 21st anniversery of her
birth.
The dead body of Geerge Robinson,
aged 32, who had been missing from his
home in Harrisburg since Thursday, was
found floating in the river en Satunlay.
He had been suffering from delirium
tremens, and it is supposed he jumped
into the river during one of his paroxysms.
Rev. Daniel Engle, residing en the Englc
farm, opposite Eche cave, en the Swatara,
about a mile south of Hummelbtewu, a
preacher of the Dunkard denomination, be
laved and respected wherever he is known,
is new in the 92d year of his age. He is in
geed health aud still takes a hand in doing
light work about the place.
The Erie Observer thinks that the meet
ings held iu Chester, Chambersburg.
Meadvillc and ether points iu favor of
Blaine, are behind time. What docs Cam
eren care for such expressions new, after
he has captured the delegates? They are
like the chirp of the chicken in the bad egg
when passing down the Irishman's threat,
"Yeu spheke tee late."
Thursday evening Michael Fex, the one
armed watchman at Mill Creek crossing,
Schuylkill county, while en duty was in
formed that his wife was sick and required
his immediate attention. Jumping en a
passing engine he rode down te within sev
eral hundred yards of his house in Pale
Alte, when he attempted te jump off. In
doing se he made a misstep, fell and broke
his leg.
The bay mare Lydia S.,owned by Hiram
Schitler, of Reading, has been sold te 3Ir.
Cummings. of Aven Park, Lebanon coun
ty, for $5,000. This animal was bought
by Mr. Schitler three years age for $130,
and while he owned her she participated
in thirty-seven races. She has trotted a
mile in 2:27, and Mr. Schitler is confident
that the mare can show 2:20 en a full mile
track.
Jehn Cessna, chairman of the Republi
can state committee, has appointed as
secretaries of the committee for the en
suing campaign Samuel F. Barr and
Lucicn Kegers, of Harrisburg. C. L.
Magce of Pittsburgh, whose place as secre
tary Mr. Rogers takes, will probably be
come cashier of the state treasury, under
the new state treasurer, Samuel Butler,
who will enter upon his duties next May.
Entries have closed for the great Hom Hem
ing match te take place from Harrisburg
te Philadelphia en Thursday, May 27. The
prizes consist of geld badges and pins for
the first and third prizes, and a cup of
solid silver for the second prize. Sixty
four pigeons were entered from the city
proper, Germantown, Manayunk, Consho Censho Conshe
hocken, Frankfort, West Philadelphia and
Haverford. The match was open te all
fanciers within twenty miles of Philadel
phia. Messrs. J. W. Cree, A. Delamater and
II. Bryer, three of Meadville's prominent
business men, are going te pull up stakes
and leave the city in the spring for points
in the West, that present better facilities
for doing a paying business. The Reporter
says that Mcadville wants its rich men te
put $50,000 into a railroad running into the
coal and iron regions, or connecting with
the Erie and Pittsburgh read ; or te es
tablish a few manufactories. Otherwise,
' Mcadville will, before many years, be
the deadest town in Western Pennsyl
vania." On the 19th of February Charles Kuhnle
a veterinary surgeon, residing at 143e Ger Ger
mantewu avenue, went te attend -a ledge
meeting of Kensington ledge Ne. 5,
Knights of Birmingham, and was taken
suddenly sick and expired in about a quar
ter of an hour thereafter. He had been
insured in the Providence life insurance
company, about seven or eight davs
before, for the sum or $10,000. At the re
quest and expense of the insurance com
pany, the inquest was delayed te allow of
a pest mortem examination and an analy
sis of certain parts of the system, but no
poison was found and the company must
pay.
INDIAN AFFAIRS.
Terms et the Treaty with the Utes.
The negotiations with the Utes were con
cluded en Saturday. The formal agree
ment, signed by the chiefs and head men
of the Utc nation, fifteen in number, and
the secretary of the interior, provides, en
the part of the Indians, that they will pro
cure the surrender te the United State for
trial and punishment, if found guilty,
of these members of their nation
net yet in the custody of the govern
ment who were implicated in the
murder of Agent Meeker and his era-
pleyees, and, in case they de net them
selves succeed in apprehending the persons
presumably guilty, they will net in any
manner obstruct, but faithfully aid any
officers of the United States directed te ar
rest tne inuians cnarged witn this crime.
The second paragraph premises the cession
te the United States of all the territory of
the present Ute reservation in Colerado,
one quarter-section (160 acres) of agricul
tural land, and a like quantity et grazing
land te each head of a family, And one
half this quantity te each single person,
being set apart for the settlement of the
Indians.
The Southern Utes agreed te remove te
and settle upon the unoccupied agricul
tural lands en the La Plata river in Colo Cole
rado and New Mexico, or in that vicinity ;
the Uncompahgees go te Grand river, near
the mouth of the Gunnison, in Colerado ;
the White River Utes will take up the
lands en-the Uintah reservation of Utah.
The Indians are te select their own allot
ments of lands in these localities. Pro Pre
vision is made for reads and highways
lawfully established. This agreement is
entered into by the Ute chiefs, whb prom prem
ise te obtain the consent of their people te
the cessation of their reservation as above,
upon the following express conditions :
First. The government te survev the
patent te the Indians in severalty the lands
reserved for them, giving a fee simple title
te each Indian as seen as the necessary
law aa. passed by Congress, this title te
renain inalienable, and the lands net tax
able fer25 years.
SejxMd. That se seen as the consent of
the several tribes of the Ute nation shall
have been obtained te this agreement, the
annuities heretofore provided for by
Congress, amounting at this time
te $60,000, will be paid te the Indians in
cash, and as.mueh mere will be added as
Congress shall appropriate. This annuity
is te be paid in cash at the request of the
Indians, the president having the disci etien
te pay it in cash or stock, wagons and ag
ricultural implements, Ac. The latter are
te be furnished the Indians, as new pro
vided for elsewhere, sufficient for their
reasonable wants, also such saw aud grist
mill as may be necessary te enable them te
commence farming operations as seen as
their settlement is effected. A commission
is te be appointed te superintend the set
tlement and te attend te the carrying out
of this agreement, and the money appro
priated by Congress for this purpose shall
be appropriated as fellows : One-third te
these who settle en the La Plata river,
one-half te these en Grand river and one
sixth te these gein te the Uintah reserva
tion. Third. In addition, as pay for their land,
the Utes are te recieve an annuityef $50,000.
te be distributed among them per capita,
and their present annuity of $25,000 is te
be continued. The support of the Utes
until they they can become self-supporting
and the education of their children is
provided for.
The secretary says that this is the first
time a settlement of Indians has been made
without assigning te them a formal reser
vation in the old way. Instead of that,,
these Indians will be settled te all intents
and purposes like ether people. The Ute
chiefs are all confident that the agreement
will be ratified by their people.
LOCAL INTELLIGENCE.
TOBACCO.
The New Yerk Market The Lecal Trade.
The New Yerk Tobacco Journal says :
A little mere activity has prevailed this
week aud the drooping spirit of the market
has changed te an almost forced buoyancy.
The stagnation iu seed leaf trade which
has existed in our market for the past
several months, is thought te be nearly at
an end, aud with the expected speedy ap
pearance of the '79 crop in our market, a
revival of trade is at least hoped for.
Tiiere is, however, nothing in the outlook
which can induce us te change our views
regarding the future of thctob;cce market,
and which we again 'expressed at length
last week. There seems te be a hidden
cause which is new making people pay a
high as 6$ cents a pound in Ohie, the crop
there b ling readily bought up. We fail te
see the justification of this movement.
Perhaps the " boom " which the Lancas
ter. Pa., papers babbled about as having
come te the tobacco trade, is piebably new
becoming visible te these se actively buy
ing up the Ohie at from 5 te 61 cents. The
New Yerk market has net as yet been
struck by this very remarkable sort of a
" boom." There is talk that some of the
tobacco dealers who surely expected this
self-same "boom" about January, in
Water street aud vicinity, have become
totally disgusted and intend te devete:
their pent-up energies te the manufacture
of cigars.
Pennsylvania of the '78 crop remains in
the lead of the dragging leaf business, but
prices, though a little improved, are net
sufficient te remunerate holders. Fillers
are even falling in price, 100 cases of geed
having been sold at 10 cents. Connecti Cennecti
ticut wrappers sell in small quantities te
manufacturers at somewhat improved
figures, but Ohie remains without takers.
The summary of tranautiens is as fol fel
lows :
Pennsylvania Crep '78 : 380 cases ; fill
ers 10 te 11 cents ; running, 14 te 21 cents.
Connecticut Crep '78 : 216 cases ; sec
onds, 13 cents ; wrappers, 22 te 28 cents.
Ohie Crep '78 : 60 cases ; wrappers, 14
cents.
Havana Active, without change in
price or feature.
Gam's Repert.
Sales of seed leaf tobacco reported by
J. S. Gans's Sen & Ce., tobacco brokers,
Nes. 84 and 86 Wall street, New Yerk, for
the week ending March 8 :
250 cases 1878 Pennsylvania, asserted,
11 te 17c. ; 150 cases 1878 New England,
wrappers, 14 te 22 c. ; 100 cases 1878 Ohie,
6 te 13c. ; 50 cases Wisconsin, 6 te 13c. ;
50 cases 1878, state p. t., 100 cjiscs sun
dries, 7 te 19c. Total, 700 cases.
Lecal Tobacco Market.
Large quantities of baled leaf continue
te be received at the packing houses, and
the only diminution in purchases is caused
by the scarcity of leaf in the hands of
growers. It is estimated that of the
great crop grown last season net mere
than 2,500 cases or at the outside 3,000
cases remain unsold and ler tins tne
buyers are scouring the country much
mere eagerly than they did when the sea
son first opened. Prices paid are from 10
and 3 for inferior te 25 and 5 ler geed.
Seme of the New Yerk and ether for
eign buyers, who came tee late te secure
their needed supply from the growers,
have offered te buy at a profit, the pack
ings of their mere wide-awake competi
tors, but the latter have declined te ac
cept the advance offered, believing that
they can de better after awhile.
About 2,000 cases of 1878 leaf have been
sold at prices ranging from 13 te 18 cents.
New Patent.
Henry Humphreville, of Mountville,
assigner of one-half of his right te Rebert
M. Slaymaker, of Lancaster, has received
letters patent, date Mrch 2, 1880, Ne. 225,
056, for an improved spray dampencr. By
this the pressure of the air as well as the
force, is utilized, and yields the most satis
factory results for spraying tobacco or the
like These having tried this device
desire nothing better. Obtained through
the agency of J. Stanffcr, of this city.
.Postal Changes.
A posteflice has been established at Cor Cer
delia, this county, and W. Y. McIIese has
been appointed postmester. Among re
cently appointed postmasters are A. G.
Seyfcrt, Beartown, this count ; J. H
Turner, Kirkwood, Lancaster county ;
11. H. Dietrich, Lampeter, Lancaster
county ; Wm. II. Shober, Slackwaterr
Lancaster county.
Mayer'it Court.
This morning the mayor sent seven,
drunks te prison for periods ranging from
5 te 30 days. Anether drunk was dis
charged, as was one vagrant.
Cullem McCloud was this morning ar
rested en Duke street by Officer Swenk for
drunken and disorderly conduct. Alder
man committed him for 10 days.
Ueum m a Short Visit.
William A. Marshall, of the United
States navy, who is new stationed at New
Yerk, en the steamship Vandalia, is.
home en a short visit. He will leave this
city te-night.
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