LANCASTER DAILY INTELLIGENCER THUR
1880.
Hancaster intelligencer.
THUESDAY BVENINO. JUNE 3, 1880.
The Mayer's Message.
Tlie annual message of Mayer Mac
Gonigle, read in councils last evening
and published te-day, is a straightfor
ward, clear and business-like paper, such
as his official course has given the public
reason te expect from him. He has
proven an upright, fearless and intel
ligent executive officer of our municipal
government, and our citizens can read
with confidence his views upon the con
dition of the city and his recommenda
tion, concerning its wants and interests.
It is especially gratifying te them te be
informed that his policy of " noexpen neexpen
ditures in excess of the appropriations,"
and " no permanent debts for temporary
purposes," has been at length se far im
pressed upon the municipal government
that there is for the first time in many
years a truthful exhibit of an actual de
crease in the city's debt for the fiscal
year of $11 ,000. It is te be regretted that
there are still some lingering deficiencies
illegally and improvidently incurred
te be provided for ; it is te be hoped that
theseare the last that will disgrace our
municipality.
The mayor's suggestions regarding the
delay in receiving some of the yearly rev
enues se long after they are appropriated
are valuable and should be heeded.
In fact there might be an entire recon
struction of the " city years," se that the
municipal and fiscal years be made te be
gin at the same time and the bulk of the
municipal revenues be paid in prier te
their expenditure. The legislation nec
essary te secure this concurrence should
be framed and effected without further
delay. There is no advantage in the
present system ; there is no excuse for
its continuance.
The presentstreet committee will, we
trust, heed the admonition given te them
by the mayor's precepts, as well as by
their predecessors' example, and work
within the law and the appropriation.
There must be no transgression of citlier,
no matter hew pressing the necessi ty.
Once for all, be it understood that there
is no safety for any municipality admin
istered otherwise than in strict conform
ity with the ordinances and statutes.
The water question is discussed at
length and in an intelligent and cempre
hensive manner. It raises questions that
must be met and which should receive
careful as well as prompt consideration.
Every investment in water works im
prevements, if judiciously managed, can
be made profitable and self-sustaining ;
the increased revenue from water rents
will always pay the interest en necessary
improvements. "When such return is
net assured, the necesssity for enlarge
ment of water supply facilities is- rarely
pressing ; but when a liberal income from
the outlay can be demonstrated there
should be no hesitation in providing that
abundance of water which net only the
convenience, but the safety, the sanitary
interests, and the material prosperity of
all the citizens demand.
The mayor's reports and recemmenda
tiens in the lamp, police, fire and law
departments present topics of interest
that merit the consideration of the pub
lic and of councils. The streets should
be well lighted and the parties contract
ing should be held te the satisfactory
discharge of their undertaking. The
mayor's strict enforcement of police dis
cipline has had a geed effect in improv
ing the force. The lire de
partment is improving under the
efficient chief engineer; the peer relief
fund has been generously swelled by the
late Gen. James L. Iteynelds's bequest ;
in the law department the most unsatis
factory item is the suspension of action
in the suits against the Pennsylvania
railroad company for its dangerous and
defiant violation of the city ordinances ;
the new solicitor should press this mat
ter te a conclusion.
On the whole the message exhibits an
improved municipal condition, and gees
far te justify the wisdom of our towns
people in supporting and continuing a
municipal government that administers
public affairs en the same basis that
makes private business successful and
creditable.
Fixing the Responsibility.
' If our city is net as peaceful as it'
should be, it might be as well te leek
further than the police for the cause. If
crime is toyed with, and for a political
quid pre quo can secure the interposition
of honorable gentlemen te prevent the
prison's doers from closing en it, and can
reach up into high places and escape the
meshes of the law for the same consider
ation, it will net be long until society
will have but little protection from the
police. Certain punishment is the sure
preventive of crime, and the sure pro
tection of society."'
Se says the mayor in his message te
councils ; he speaks the truth and he has
geed cause se te speak. He is the exec
utive of 30,000 people ; he is charged by
them with the duty of enforcing law and
order, and is held responsible by them for
any failure te de se. In his sphere he is
co-ordinate with the judges of the court
and should have their earnest co-operation,
net their interference with and ob
struction of his efforts te preserve the
public peace.
He has seen a violator of this peace
shielded by a prostitution of the ma
chinery of justice, because he and his
brothers were the best Republican work
ers of their ward ; and he has seen that
the court takes no cognizance of the im
position practiced upon it, but proclaims
that its confidence is unshaken in these
who by their own confession practiced
it.
He has further seen brawling rioters,
properly committed by him under the
law, released before serving a tenth of
their sentence, by a judge who largely
ewes his elevation te the bench te the
same political scoundrel that engaged
them te create disorder and then inter
ested himself te secure their immunity
from punishment.
Seeing these things, the mayor
has a right te feel as he feels and te say
what he says regarding them.
It is a bad day for imperialism. The
empress of Russia died this morning.
The emperor of America is en his last
legs.
In every stage of the Chicago conven
tion's progress, it has been demonstrated
that the field is stronger than Grant, and
se long as it keeps its present compact
organization, it can certainly prevent his
nomination. In the event of his assured
defeat it still seems probable that Ed
munds will be the legatee of Grant's
strength, and therefore become the nom
inee. It is significant of a possibility
that all the favorites will be beaten that
their friends are all casting about for
second choices. Garfield is talked of new
;is the successor te Sherman's chances ;
Ben Harrison, of Indiana, as the heir of
Blaine's hopes, and "Washburne as the
second choice of Illinois. But Edmunds
has mere strength than any of these,
and each of tluem has a chance of being
named for second place with Edmunds
at the head of the ticket.
Cenklingwill hear te no second choice
and keeps up a stubborn fight for Grant,
proposing te worry out all the ether can
didates and take his chances of catching
most of the driftwood when the break-up
occurs. This is the one single hope of
the third-termers. There is no ether
salvation for their cause. It is manifest
that they cannot beat the combined op
position, but if they can kill off Grant's
competitors, one by one, they may pick
up enough stragglers from the beaten
forces te make their side a majority of
the convention. It is a desperate chance
te take, but it is their only one.
The county commissioners yesterday
paid te the publisher of the Examiner,
from the county treasury, $S8, for print
ing the paper book for the judges in the
matter of Steinman & Hensel's appeal in
their disbarment case. The price paid is
just 33 percent, in excess of the regular
price of the Examiner office for such
work.
The bill was presented te and paid by
the county, we presume, under the second
section of the act of 1S79, providing for
such appeals, which says :
Suction 2. And iu case said judgment,
order or decree shall be modified or revers
ed, all costs, charges and expenses shall be
paid by the proper county in which said
proceedings arose, and in case the same
shall be affirmed the same shall be paid by
such complainant.
As Judge Tattersen says his counsel
volunteered and they call themselves
''friends of the court," we presume the
commissioners will net be called upon te
say whether their fees are "costs
charges and expenses " within the con
templation of this act.
Tmc unit rule has been broken at
Chicago, and the committee en contested
seats, under direction of the bold and
unscrupulous Bill Chandler, will give
the G rant people no mercy. The bosses
are outbessed. They are berten at their
own game. They who set up a curb
stone shall sit upon it. They shall wail
and their lamentations shall fill the
land. Jack Iliestand may as well " go
West."
In view of the Chicago convention no
set of men in the country can afford bet
ter te congratulate themselves en having
fought a geed fight for political freedom
against political bossing, than these who
beat the unit rule gag in the Pennsyl
vania Democratic convention.
PERSONAL.
Mrs. Ann S. Stephens has just passed
her seventieth year.
Miss Emily Faitiifull will visit
America in October iu order te deliver her
lecture en "Secial Shams and Modern Ex
travagances." Cameuen's speech was in manuscript
and mere conspicuous for brevity than
merit. Like Legan, he can read ether
people's writing.
Saka Bukniiakdt has accepted an offer
for an engagement in the United States for
100 nights, the season te begin in Novem
ber next.
Paul Augustine Alfued Lekeux,
French statesman and a member of the
cabinet under the last empire, is dead, at
the age of C5.
Ex-Gov. Jehn F. IIaktkanft, of Penn
sylvania, has accepted an invitation te ad
dress the literary societies of the Roanoke
college, Va., June 5.
Gen Gohden announces his intention te
make immediate appointments te meet the
people of Georgia and discuss, face te face
with them, the issues that have grown out
of his resignation.
The Marquis of Lekne has declined the
invitation te be present at the celebration
of the two hundred and fiftieth anniversa
ry of the settlement of Bosten in Septem
ber next, pleading a previous engagement.
Right Rev. Jehn Lauehlin, bishop of
the diocese of Brooklyn, sailed for Europe
yesterday en the steamer Bethnia. He
will be absent until the early part of Sep
tember, and will visit Ireland, and from
thence will go te Reme te pay his repects
te Lee XIII.
Garfield will nominate Sherman ; Pres Pres
cett, of Vermont, Edmunds; Conkling,
Grant ; Frye, Blaine. Beb Ingehsell is
much put out at his inability te secure a
substitution te name Blaine, as in 1876,
but is refused en account of antipathy te
him en religious grounds.
M. Leen Say, French ambassador te
England, speaking at the lord mayor's ban
quet te the judges at the Mansion house,
said he considered his mission in some sort
completed, as he felt sure that France and
England would renew shortly, with liberal
improvements, the treaties of 1880.
Aubek one day was coming down the
stairway of the Grand Opera, arm iu arm
with a friend of his youth, and both of
them breathed heavily with the exercise
"Ah," said his friend, " we are getting
old." " Well," replied Auber, "we will
have te accept that fact, since the only way
te live a long while is te get old.
M. De Lesseps was banqueted in
Swansea last night. Most of the leading
merchants of Cardiff, Newport and Swan
sea were present. M. De Lesseps said
that 8,000 workmen would be enough te
censtrcct the Panama canal, which could
be completed in six years at a cost of 512,
000,000 francs. The yearly expenses, he
said, would be 45,000,000 france, and the
annual interest 90,000,000 francs.
Queen Victeria's attitude at the recent
drawing room is described te a correspond
ent of the North American by a young lady
presented te her. " I was very much dis
appointed." says this irreverent young
lady ; " she seemed se small and insignifi
cant. She did net smile at all, but looked
very cress. She did net take the slightest
notice of me, beyond holding eat her hand
for me te kiss, nor say anything. My aunt
had te courtesy as she passed the queen,
but she did net take any notice ; but the
Prince of Wales and the gathers spoke te
aunt. I didn't like kissing her hand at all'
I'm very glad it's ever."
After Beuffe had talked te him for an
hour Alexander Dumas said : " My dear
Beuffe, you must net take it in any way
as a reproach if I tell you that this inter
view has already cost me 100 francs ! "
Beuffe turned pale, and rose. " I will ex
plain hew, " continued Dumas, laughing.
"I am writing a novel in two volumes,
the first of which I despatched in four-and-twenty
hours, and is new in the press.
The second I bega n yesterday, and it will
go te join the first te-morrow morning. I
am paid 4,000 francs for this book, and,
as I write half of it in less than feur-aud-
twenty hours, I lese about 100 francs every
sixty minutes I pass without pen in hand."
MINOR TOPICS.
Edmunds will run like an icicle.
One blast en Mackey's bugle horn were
worth a thousand Dens. '
June gave the Republican convention a
chilly reception.
The curbstone delegate and the "damn
literary feller" seem te be getting top
ward. "Yeun Edmunds nonsense has
lest this state te Grant," said a frank
third-termer te the Springfield, Mass.,
Republican. Edmunds vs. Henry B. Payne
would make an ideal campaign for the lie
publican. The latest and most emphatic word
from Horatio Seymour is: "I de net
think I could get the nomination if I
sought it, and I certainly would net take
it if it sought me. I should de a wrong
te my party if I let it make a mistake of
that kind."
A. C. Bauceck, chairman of the Illi
nois Republican state central committee
from 18G8 te 1878, publishes a letter au
thorizing a wager of $10,000 that if the
convention refuses te admit the Illinois
contestants and nominates Grant he will
lese the state in November.
A wealthy politician of Massachusetts
used te carry a hed, and new his dinner
service is of silver plate. When his boy,
at the ether end of the table, wishes te
have speedy recognition he calls out
" mert, " and his plate comes down filled
with all the old man's hothouse peaches.
" On ! spirit, " I said, as I looked aloft,
And saw 'gainst the clear blue sky
A noble llgure with kindly face
Loek down with benignant eye.
" Hast thou come from that better land above,
Where dwell our sainted sires ?"
And the spirit answered: '-I'm only .lake
Hatz
A puttin' up telephone wires.'"
Dumbheads.
Fer tllO ISTELLIOENCEK,
There can be found in all communities
certain people who live a life se slightly
removed trem the brute creation that you
are obliged te carefully examine their
physiognomies in order te accurately note
the difference. Such persons arc oblivious
te the existsnee of anyone else. At times,
if they visit the posteflice, they will stand
for a long time asking ever and ever the
same questions from the officials, regard
less of the fact that a half score of per
sans are a their backs waiting their opper.
tunity of transacting their business. After
turning around and discovering that they
had clogged the way and were playing the
character of a wooden-head, they have net
brains enough te make any kind of an
apology for their rudeness. If while pass
ing out of the posteflice or any ether busi
ness place, an idea should strike them,
they will hang their bodies in such a posi
tion that no one can pass in or out, and
then with a vacant stare they stand there
like a buffoon. If they should meet while
going along the street a fellew-dumbhead,
recognizing him, he will step in the middle
of the side walk, perhaps each with one of
the largest size cottten (177C) umbrellas
ever their heads, compelling all pedes
trians te go into the street in order te
pass them. If he steps ever night at one
of our hotels, in a variety of ways he
shows his selfishness and stupidity. Such
logger-heads are found everywhere, and
they arc mere te be dreaded than lepers.
Only one idea enters their brains at ene
time, and during its possession of their
heads they utterly ignore all the rest of
the world. Evigelans.
STATE ITEMS.
William H.Drummond,ef Conshehockcn,
was found dead in a field near that town
yesterday morning.
A little boy named Neill was killed by
the cars at Summit City, in the oil regions,
en Tuesday.
Yesterday the receivers of the Reading
railroad company began the payment of
the semi-annual interest en the consoli
dated mortgage 7 per cent. lean.
The trouble in the P. E. church of the
Evangelists, Philadelphia between the
rector, Rev. Dr. Franklin, and the vestry,
is new in the hands of a committee, who
are endeavering te restore peace.
The total Philadelphia subscriptions te
the Milten relief fund te date are $44,298.
74 and the cash balance en hand is $18,843.
74. Subscriptions were received yester
day te the amount of $238.95.
At the Democratic convention of Ferest
county, Orien Siggins was nominated for
Assembly, S. F. Rohrer for associate judge,
T. P. Flynn for treasurer, Jehn Petersen
for Congress and S. T. Neill for president
judge.
Yesterday morning, shortly before 10
o'clock, William D. Hirst, a well-known
fanner, aged sixty-seven years, cemmitcd
suicide by hanging himself in his barn, in
the vicinity of Wister street and Clarksen
avenue, near Germantown.
Early yesterday the body of an unknown
man was found Beating in the Schuylkill
at Vine street wharf. It is supposed that
the man walked overboard during the
night, as the body precnts the appearance
of having been in the water but a few
hours.
Peter and Benjamin Repsher, brothers,
lived' in upper Mt. Bethel, near Easten.
They are both 22 years old. Beth recently
fell in love with sisters. Beth subsequently
ran away en the same day. Twe female
children were born te the sisters en the
same day. Beth young men were arrested
last Saturday, both were locked up in the
same cell en Sunday and both will be tried
at the June term of court. This is regar
ded in Easten as the most interesting
string of coincidences ever known.
CHICAGO.
THE aXTI-GRAKT REVOLT.
THE BOSSES LOSE THEIR GRIP.
A Dark Herse Struggling te the Frent.
JlcClure's 2a. m. Dispatch,
During the last forty-eight hours the
Grant lines have been steadily weariug
down and their leaders and followers have
been gradually losing heart and hope,
while the opposition have increased in con
fidence and defiance as they scaled the out
er walls of the Grant citadel.
Ever since the adjournment of the con
vention this afternoon the Grant leaders
have been compelled te face an unbroken
series of disasters. The committees are
all largely against them. The permanent
organization will be aucrressivelv hostile.
the rules will be fashioned te weaken them
at every possible point. The report en
contested seats will threw out every Grant
man whose seat is disputed, including 20
In Illinois, the Lancaster machine dele
gates in Pennsylvania, the solid Grant
delegation in Louisiana and numer
ous scattering district delegates. The
test vote iu the committee was 31 te
13, and the committee means te vote the
same way in every case. The Grant lead
ers profess that they can defeat the re
port of the committee and the nominate
Grant, but it would seem beyond human
effort te change the tide of battle at this
late stage of successive misfortunes.
There will be a desperate struggle en the
report, and the long-premised greatest
effort of his life will doubtless be made bv
Conkling ; but it will be like the charge of
xey auer uiucner naa already decided tlie
destiny of Napeleon. One faint hope is
cherished by the Grant men that has a
plausible basis.
Blaine's nomination new, for the first
time since the battle began in Chicago,
seems possible, and it is expected that
Sherman's followers may aid te defeat the
report en contested seats, but I see nothing
te warrant the anticipation of such action.
The Sherman and Blaine men are voting
shoulder te shoulder in committees and the
lines have been drawn tee severely te be
broken en the threshold of victory. The
limine men are jubilant tins even
ing and confidently counting en the
nomination of their "Plumed Knight,"
but they have yet te bridge the chasm
between them and Sherman's wing and
run the terrible gauntlet of Grant's ven
geance before they can triumph. They arc
new within sight of success and if they had
the Grant leadership they would surely
succeed, but they are plunging forward
haphazard and are in danger of being rout
ed any hour. As Grant has weakened te-day
Blaine has been the uniform gainer, and it
is new possible that he will go into the
convention te-morrow the strongest
man, as he did at Cincinnati, with
about equal possibilities and perils. The
allies have been se intent en beating Grant
that they have net paused te part the
trophies of prospective victery: but te
morrow the allied pretenders must con
sider which et them shall take the crown.
and Blaine's great danger will present
itself. The field may then be against
islaiuc, as it has been against Grant,
and there is net a Grant man in
Pennsylvania or elsewhere who will
net make common cause with any and
all te defeat Blaine. It is impossible te
predict with certainty what will happen
te-morrow beyond the decisive defeat of
Grant, liut a new man will likely be
taken, and Edmunds new seems te be the
favorite. It was the Philadelphia break in
the Grant line that started the general
weakening of the Grant cause and the
personal indignity offered te Steklcy, Mc
Maues, Leeds, Rewan and "the boys,"
when he left them and their feast at" St.
Geerge's hall se unceremoniously last fall,
has had much te de with it. It did net
wholly cause the belt, but it tilted the
wavering balance against Grant and was
the weapon employed te sever the hesitat
ing delegates from Cameren. Grant re
fused te wait for dessert with the Philadel
phia Icadeis and they have decided te
dine with somebody else at the White
Heuse.
-:: "
Cameren quietly sat down for ten min
utes, although the time for calling the con
vention te order had passed by an hour,
and he looked out upon the body se big
with destiny for himself and and his Grant
associates. Passing by I asked him :
" What of the battle ?" Te which he an
swered : "We have three hundred te
start with, and we will stick until win."
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The prayer followed and was a very sat
isfactory test of the acoustic qualities of
the hall. They breathed mere
freely when they saw Cameren out of the
chair and Hear in his place.
Grant in the Credentials Committee.
Grant has but 13 votes in the committee
of 44. The only state considered up te
midnight was Alabama, the first en the
list, and several contesting district dele
gates were admitted. The result is a less
of two vefBS for Grant, unless the report
should be upset by the convention. There
is no question but that the committee will
admit the divided delegation from Louis
iana and probably break up Legan's solid
Grant phalanx in Illinois. It will also re
port in favor of admitting Edwin K. Mar
tin and C. S. Kauflman. tlin Rlninn
testants from the Lancaster district of
Pennsylvania.
Peer Pluck.
The Grant people are staring their almost
certain defeat in the face with a peer show
of nluck. and the most, rlosnemtn nv..-f
arc makiuir for acemhinntimi nn TMmu.wic-
Thcy are determined en anything te beat
riauie. inueiierman men, having work
ed along with Blaine te kill Grant, will in
cline new te go en with what may remain
of the Grant hosts te defeat Blaine. They
see this is necessary te save any chance for
themselves. There is every sort or jubila
tion among the anti-Grant people, who
are pervading every place and singing and
shouting and following about with bands
of music.
Cessna's Compromise.
Cessna visited the Indiana headquarters,
and en his own responsibility, but claiming
te represent most of his delegation"
offered te turn the vote of Pennsylvania
ever in support of a ticket composed of
Edmunds and Harrison. The Indiana del
egation did net discuss the matter scrious scrieus
ly,as Harrison is said te object te the plan.
lenKung's Calculation.
General Grant's friends think that his
strength must receive accession by their
firmness sooner or later, and they will
stick te their candidate until the friends of
the ether men named fall in and "ivc
Grant a majority.
A llrutal Negro's Crime.
While the schooner Mignonette, of Balti
more, having a crew of live men, was in
tue james river, va., en .Monday night,
Geerge Thompson, a gigantic colored sea
man, found an excuse te send the mate,
William W. Sclby, below, and then killed
the captain and colored cook. The mur
derer then attacked Selby, but the latter
defended himself with a sheath knife and
hid himself in the cabin. Thompson tried
te burn the vessel, and lowering the yawl
escaped. Aftcrdaylig.it Sclby heisted a sig
nal of distress and was taken off by a fish
ing party. The captain's body was net en
the vessel, having been thrown overboard,
but that of the cook was found in the fore
castle. Werk en the Filbert street elevated
railroad it progressing rapidly, the last of
the properties en the line having been
purchased.
MK. TUDEN'S POSITION.
Will Allew the Party te Fix His Relation te
It.
Ne Pressure te be Applied by Him or His
' Friends.
Washington Special te Courier-Journal.
The Tilden position has materially
changed within the past three weeks.
The facts which I give you come from the
very highest authority, and can be relied
upon as perfectly accurate. Until within
three weeks Mr. Tilden has been contem
plating the possible withdrawal of his name
as a candidate before the Cincinnati con
vention. The idea that he might net be a can
didate was suggested by him many months
age, even as long age as during the Rob-insen-Cornell-Kellv
campaign in New New
Yerk last fall. The thought that he
should ever stand in the way of the suc
cess of the Democratic party in a na
tional contest has never occurred te Mr.
Tilden. His constant desire has been
the party's success, and for that he
has been willing te make every sacri
fice of personal ambition. Even before
Governer Robinson's defeat was accom
plished Mr. Tilden made up his mind that
he might withdraw from the presidential
contest, lie had himself no tear that Jlr.
Kelly's intluence could be induced te aid
in defeating the regular national ticket.
ne assumed that that was a step in ad
vance of any purpose they had in their
warfare upon him. In this, competent ob
servers in New Yerk say he is right.
Within the last fortnight ex-Lieut Gov.
Dersheimer has substantiated this by say
ing that he is against Grant, that he would
vote for Mr. Tilden or any one else te de
feat Grant. But Mr. Tilden's friends saw
that Kelly's declaration of continued hos
tility, and of his intention te prevent Mr.
Tilden's election should he be nominated
for the presidency, would give rise te a
controversy which would de injury te the
party. In view of such and ether
considerations he was indisposed te
enter the contest. This fact was
known te a few of his friends,
and it was this, undoubtedly, that gave
rise te rumor that he had prepared, or
was about te prepare, a letter te be read
at Syracuse or Cincinnati withdrawing
from the struggle. New, everything is
changed. Mr. Tilden has been forced into
the field by the nature of the opposition te
him, and within a short time many of
these who had formerly opposed him have
decided te give him their support, net
only as a vindication of him, but of the
party who put him in nomination four
years age. In view of what he assumes te
be the fact, the nomination of Grant at
Chicago, Mr. Tilden is new certain that
all of Mr. Kelly's opposition will accom
plish nothing, and he is in the field as a
candidate for the nomination at the Cin
cinnati convention, z. Nothing will take
him out of it but assurances from his
friends that some ether candidate will be
mere certain of success. Matters, how
ever, have se far developed as te render
it certain that any Democratic candidate
will be acceptable te the Tilden element of the
party.
But it should be distinctly understood
that there will be no pressure at Cincinnati,
and no organization designed te force Mr.
Tilden en the party. On the contrary, Mr.
Tilden forbids such measures. If he is
nominated, he will ewe it te these who
new oppose him, as a result of a necessity
which they will come te see as they pro
ceed. He does net for himself see that
his withdrawal would harmonize the party.
It would rather result iu a faction fight
between ether aspirants. The party itself
must fix Mr. Tilden's relation te it. Person
ally, he is indifferent as te its decision.
LATKST NEWS BY MAIL.
The soldiers of the Turkish army have
net been paid a cent fur fourteen months.
An English firm sold 8,000 fire-proof
safes in Turkey before it was ascertained
that the filling was only sawdust.
The Senate yesterday confirmed Herace
Maynard, of Tennessee, new minister te
Turkey, te be postmaster general te suc
ceed D. M. Key.
A belt of lightning killed eleven hogs in
Virginia and never even shocked three
men who were near by playing cards for
the ownership of a blind mule.
At a meeting of the American medical
association in New Yerk, yesterday, the
medical department of the navy was ad
mitted. Baseball yesterday : At Bosten Chica
go 5, Bosten 4. At Providence Provi
dence 8, Cleveland 5. At New Haven
Yale G, Jersey City 4, At Trey Trey 10,
Buffalo 2.
In Paterson, N. J., the silk mill of Mil
ler & Brown was burned te the ground
with all its contents. The origin of the
fire is unknown. The less was about
$11,000 ; insured for $8,400.
James Oliver, of Oliver's Greve, 111., is
ninety-three years old. He gave his wife
a farm for consenting te a divorce, as he
desired te get a younger wife in her place ;
but the new wife asked and get $30,000 in
money.
The Democratic state convention of
Arkansas, yesterday, nominated Churchill
for governor or the sixth ballet, the vote
being : Churchill, 101 ; Miller, 07 ; Wil Wil
eon, 4.1 ; scattering, 7. The convention
then adjourned until morning.
Thus far the business transacted in the
Alabama Democratic convention is the re
nomination by acclamation of R. W. Cobb,
for governor ; W. W. Screws, for secretary
of state and H. C. Tomkins, for attorney
general.
New Yerk proposals yesterday te sell
te the government aggregated $10,894,000,
of which the secretary of the treasury ac
cepted $3,000,000 at 100.75 te 10G.83 for 6's
of 1881, 103.12 te 103.10 for 5's, sad 108.80
te 109.10 for 4's.
At the meeting of the staockheldcrs of
the New Yerk and Hudsen River railroad,
in Albany, yesterday, the following direc
tors were elected : W. II. Vandcrbilt, W.
K. Vanderbilt, P. W. Vandcrbilt, Augus
tus Schell, J. F. Burger, J. H. Ruttcr, J.
P. Morgan, Cyrus W. Field and S. Hum
phrey. At the annual meeting of the stockhold
ers of the Baltimore and Potomac railroad
at Baltimore, yesterday, it was shown
that the gross receipts were $699,772.0."3.
The tetel expenses were $52G,201.09. A.
J. Cassatt, Geerge B. Roberts, Geerge
Small, U. b Newcomer, William T. Wal
ters, Dr. Eli J. Hcnkle and Samuel Cox.
jr., were elected directors.
The national brewers' convention was
opened in Buffalo yesterday at St. James's
hall, by Albert Ziegle, president of the
Buffalo brewers' association. Henry II.
Rutler, president of the national brewers'
association, made an address, which was
frequently applauded. A committee of
five was appointed te nominate officers for
the convention. A recess was then take if
A telegram referring te the famine in
Kurdistan, Armenia and Western Persia
states that forty thousand persons must be
fed for two months if they are te ! kept
alive. The telegram implores for m ey te
purchase the grain which is still in store at
Maush. One hundred and thirty-eight
persons have died of starvation at Bashka
len. Twenty-six villagers are utterly des
titute. One hundred and seven persons
have died of starvation at Alashgerd.
A Southern Idea.
T. II. Watts, Sr., of Alabama.
My own opinion is that Bayard for pres
ident and Judge Field for vice president,
would make an invincible ticket. We
would thus combine the far-off East with
the far-off West, enlisting sectional pride
and combining qualities of statesmanship
and purity of character which would chal
lenge the hearty support of all sections of
our common country.
Judge Patterson Again.
Wilkeabarre Union-Leader, Bern..
The editors of the Lancaster Intelli
gences are after Judge Patterson again
he who disbarred them for just criticism
of his public aets in their newspaper. This
time they take it upon themselves te com
plain because the judge has just pronounced
a crime which was charged against two of
"the best workers in the ward" fully
made out, and that there was no palliation
for it, yet, en the very heels of that deci deci
sien,rcduced their punishment from thirty
te three days. It is net often that a judge
achieves se unsavory a reputation in se
short a time as this man has accomplished.
It is te the credit of the people of the com
monwealth that it is net often they cheese
men judges who are willing se frequently
and brazenly te prostitute their lugh
offices te the protection of -wrong-doers,
simply because they are of his party and
' ; geed workers " in it. Judge Patterson's
act in disbarring Messrs. Hcnsel and
Steinman is shortly Je be reviewed by the
supreme court. There he will be judged
by the law. it is hoped and trusted, ad
ministered in all the niercilessness of its
design ; nevertheless, this last flagrant
dragging of the ermine into the dirty
mire of precinct politics te be trodden
upon by men whose only usefulness in that
arena is te bad ends and arises out of their
utter lacking of respect for law and de
ceney, cannot help but sway the prejudices
of the judges against him. Judges are
mortals and it is net in reason for mortals
te read of such conduct without becoming
biased against these guilty of it. Judge
Patterson had a weak enough case as it
was ; he has left himself utterly without a
case by his dereliction. The Intelligen
cer people will see te it thatthc public is
given all the facts in this and all ether of
his judicial tergiversatiens yet te come,
and the public will applaud the endeavor,
for the public is in-thorough sympathy
with them iu their fight.
The Miller's International Exhibition.
The millers' international exhibition,
which began at Cincinnati en Saturday,
will continue one month. A number of
millers from the surrounding country are
in attendance. Power hall, a very large
building iu that city, is filled with milling
machinery from this country and Europe
aud the exhibition is of a most valuable
character. The congress is composed of
delegates from all the beards of trade and
commercial organizations in the country.
Samples of all grades of grain from the
leading markets of the world arc en exhi
bition. The preparations made for the re
ception and entertainment of visitors are
complete ; net in the way of banquets, but
by the appointment of business" men te
give attention te the guests, show 'hem
the points of interest about the Queen City
of the West, and generally see that they
arc net neglected.
LOCAL INTELLIGENCE.
LANCASTER AT CIllCAUO.
And New Who "Will Occupy the Curbstone ?
Dispatch te the Press.
After Illinois will come Pennsylvania,
when another long contest will ensue.
Jehn Cessna is the state representative en
the committee aud he has determined,
under instructions it is said direct trein
Cameren and Quay, te use every energy
te insure the rejection of the men from the
Lancaster, Yerk and Cumberland districts.
E. K. Martin and his celIcaguc,KIinc, from
the former, are satisfied, however, that they
will be admitted. They have dene all
in the power of men te de te secure
te Lancaster its just representation and
de net seem likely te be disappointed.
When they came here their claims were
ridiculed by the Harrisburg managers, but
they found in Mr. Medill, of the Chicago
Tribune, who recognized in their case a
precedent precisely similar te these of
Cook county, an earnest friend. Through
the columns of his paper they were first
given a full hearing, and the presentation
of their case at once attracted the atten
tion of Senater Hamlin, Mr. Frye anil the
Blaine leaders generally. It was
thoroughly gene ever by these
gentlemen, and the conclusion reach
ed that the right of the congres
sional district had been plainly usurped
by the chairman of the county committee
in his refusal te order primary elections in
time. The next step was te have the mat
ter placed properly before the convention.
Martin and Kline being powerless te de
this themselves, Mr. Waddell of the Ches
ter and Delaware district consented te
take charge of it, and General Beaver, see
ing the full force of their position and
being the chairman of the state delegates
te-day, acting the connection with Wad
dell, laid the paper before the convention
before the committee retired. Messrs. Mar
tin and Kline, when they appear before
the committee, will explain the Lancas
ter county system of holding primary
elections, will show them the un
broken line of precedents under which
they made their choice, and which has
never heretofore been violated, and will
adduce the evidence te prove that the
chairman of the county committee saw fit,
owing te the storm of popular indignation,
te reconsider his former action and order
a new election.
Theu Toe, O ! lirewnie.
iteeerd Dispatch.
A new contest was trumped up for the
purpose of securing another vote. The
printed list of delegates and alternates of
the Harrisburg convention as it appeared
in the Philadelphia papers shows Henry
Guck, of Pottsville, as alternate for Lin
Bartholemew. Mr. Quay and his friends
decided that J. Hay Brown, whose name
appears opposite te that of Mr. McManes,
should be Bartholemew's alternate. Guck
intends te contest en the ground
that he is the legal delegate, just
the same as Wiiiiam J. Pollock is
held te he Elliet's successor because his
name appears opposite te that of
Elliett. Campion has contested Pollock's
sjat. ' This is one of the cases where it is a
peer rule that will net work both ways.
As the committee en credentials is anti-
Grant, it is certain that one or the ether of
these gentlemen will be admitted, perhaps
both. The thing was planned by Mc
Manes and Leeds is carrying out the idea.
There is a prospect that before morning
the Pennsylvania delegation will slip out
of Cameren's hands. Thirty votes are
necessary and twenty-seven arc certain.
If the contestants arc all admitted General
Beaver will be deposed from the chair
manship.
Ninth Pennsylvania Cavalry.
The annual reunion of the Ninth Penn
sylvania cavalry takes place at Harrisburg
this aftcrnecn. Among these from this
city who are in attendance are Policeman
Samuel Swcnk, Thes. C. Reynolds,' James
Aument, A. F. Shenck, esq., William
Leenard, Jehn Creshbach and William
Roehm. Several ethers from different
parts of the county are expected te meet
their old comrades at the reunion, some
account of which we will publish hereafter.
GERMAN JIAPTISTS.
Lancaster County's Juaint Religious Coin-
tuuulty.
Epurata Correspondence or the I'resf.
A hour's journey en the Reading and
Columbia railroad through a valley mere
fruitful than Tempe's and within a diadem
of timber-cornered hills will bring you te
Ephrata. This place, though it possesses
no aspect but that of the ordinary rural
village, yet once gloried in the name of a
summer resort. Ihe generous largess of
nature is shown in the unceasing flew of
her mountain springs, in the picturesque
sweep of the landscape, and in the wealth
of crops already smiling in her fecund lap.
Like most of the pioneer settlements
which lay scattered among the abodes
of the swarthy savage, Eplirata or Dun Dun
kertewn did net enjoy a monumental peace
in her early days, nor were the golden
harvests always gathered by the hands
whose sturdy toil had sewn the grain and
fattened the glebe. But, apart from this,
the village has a history which is in ten
der keeping with the hale of peace that en
circles the rude cloister and quiet grave
yard of the "Sieben Taegcr'' Baptiste. At
this period, tee, it has an additional inter
est, as the law lias been evoked te determ
ine the right of the present occupants te
undisturbed possession. Driven by the
hand of religious persecution from
their homes in the Palatinate,
ether parts of Germany and from Switzer
land, the German Baptists, or "Tauter,"
found a brief resting place in Helland and
Fricsland, and finally emigrated te these
shores in the hope of practicing religion ac
cording te their own peculiar tenets.
They were a mere handful then, ar.d
came here in scattered groups. The
doctrine of seventh-day worship did net
obtain among them until many years later,
when the pioneer, Cenrad Reissel, ellected
the change. Fer years he lived a recluse,
inhabiting a cave en the banks of the Co Ce
calico. II is leadership was seen acknowl
edged, and one by one the members of the
faithful flecked te his' standard. The
monastic life of the association began as
early as 1732, when a temple or saal was
erected for public worship. Almest a cen
tury and a half has passed ever its peaked
gables, but it still statnds a marvel et
quaiutness, ingenuity and strength, It oc
cupies a bit et" picturesque ground en the
banks of the Oecalicu, surrounded by a
hundred acres of fertile land, from the cul
tivation of which nearly all the necessaries
of life were obtained. Te it is attached a
large four-storied structure, known as the
Sister heusr, which, as its name im
plies, was duveted te the ex
clusive use of the females. Be
sides these two principal buildings
there were a school house, printing office,
paper mill, workshop and bakery. Iu the
days of the revolution the paper mill was
in full operation, although its site is new
occupied by a large and substantial flour
ing mill. Shortly before the battle of
Germantown the Federal soldiers made a
raid en the paper mill and carried away
with them three cartloads of book paper
in printed sheets, te be used for cart
ridges. All the buildings are uf a mediae
val style of architecture. The Saal and
the Sister house occupy a position aloof
from the ethers aud are mere pretentious
edifices. Heavy oak timber was used for
the walls and lloeis and poplar for furni
ture. The walls are clapboarded with
white oak and the nails are wrought-iien
of their own manufacture, resembling
the clinch-nail of the present day. The
windows arc set in en an irregular line,
some having four, some six, and ethers
eight panes of glass-te a fiami. There is
no accounting for this freak. Anether
peculiarity is that these windows origi
nally turned en wooden hinges. Their
knowledge of the uses of iron was ex
tremely limited. All the locks, belts,
hinges, latches, deer-handles and fasten
ings were of weed, generally of oak, and
made by hand. Entering the temple, yen
steep through the low deer and make
your ascent te the upper floors by a steep,
crude stairway. Yeu tread en floors filled
in with mortar and which from age have
a billowy uncveniiess. The walls are
heavily coated with plaster and even the
reef is lined with the same material. It
was intended for the double purpose of
protections from cold and heat. Travers
ing the narrow and unfrequented pass
ages of the "Klester," into which the
feeble light darts and vanishes with ghost
like presumption, you are reminded of
some old-world castle where the captive,
with gyved heel, was hurried through
dark and tortuous ways te a subterranean
dungeon. And this illusion is net easily
dispelled by the gardener who chapcrencs
you. Taking you into one of the many
compartments or "Kaminers," he points te
the rough bench at one end and informs you
that his ancestors slept there, with noth
ing for a pillow but a rude block of weed.
That ancestor did net knew the luxary of
a rag carpet, nor did he have a mirror te
complete his toilet, but he seems te have
been a contented mortal nevertheless. He
dressed in the habit of a Capuchin monk,
which, with some modification, was the
garment worn by the " Schwestern." A
row of wooden pegs did duty for a clothes
rack, and a small wooden cabinet fastened
te the wall may have served for a hundred
humble purposes. In one of these "Kam
mers " are a let of old-fashioned culinary
vessels, which out-date the present cen
tury. Their use is almost a lest art. A
spinning-wheel stands in an opposite cer
ner. Seme sentimental spider has woven
for it a beautiful shroud of silk and
marked it sacred te the memory of a past
generation. Descending te the first fleer
we are in the temple of worship, where the
Dunkcrs held their love feasts. The fur
niture is like that of a Quaker meeting
house. The spirit of humility and devo
tion pervades the place. It requires no
stretch of the imagination te sec the throng
of devout worshipers, in their Capuchin
robes, file through the open deer and take
their seats in the low-backed benches.
Frem the desk the grave Bicssel or intel
lectual Peter Miller holds forth en the doc
trines of true immersion. ( Peter Miller,
by-the-by, is credited with having trans
lated the Declaration of Independence into
seven languages.) And new the music
sweels iu harmonies mere inspiring than
that of the Eolian harp, for the Dunkers
had trained vocalists, and their choral ser
vices are represented as singulaily beauti
ful and pathetic. Concerning the music it
has been written that the style was taken
from the tones of an vEelinn harp.
" The tones issuing from the choir imi
tate very soft instrumental music, convey
ing a softness and devotion almost super
human te the auditor. All the parts, save
the bass, are led and sung exclusively by
females, the men being confined te bass,,
which is' set in two parts, the high and low
bass, the latter representing the deep tones
of the organ, and the first, in combination
with one of the female parts, is an excel
lent imitation of the concert horn. The
whole is sung in the falsetto voice ; the per
formers sat with their heads reclined, their
countenances solemn and dejected, their
faces pale and emaciated from their
manner of living, . the clothing ex
ceeding white and quite picturesque, and
their music such as thrilled te the very
soul." Their musical compositions have
been preserved, but the intoned service is
never used. There remains te be told their
curious skill in penmanship. The walls of
the Saal are hung with mementoes of the
art, executed en parchment sheets about
three feet by four, in an elegant Gothic
text. Seme of these are Bible extracts ;
some importune te celibacy ; ethers again
are sentiments breathing a spirit of devotion
Die Lieb jst u'nser kren und heller tugeixl
SDieKel
Die welsneit ungcr Lust, und reincs Getten
Siegcl; .
Des Lamln 1st unser weliatz wir mis an ver-
trauen,
Und, felgen scineni Yuug als reinste junij-
trauen.
One of the mere pretentious and laberi-
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