LANCATMtv M1LY JNTEIliGBNCtiti. MONDAY, JOXE 21, 1880.
Lancaster intelligencer.
MONDAY EVENING. JUNE 21, 1880.
Presidential Aspirants.
The friends of some of the Democratic
candidates at Cincinnati de net seem te be
warned by the fate of the leading candi
dates at Chicago and by the numerous
lessens of the past which should teach all
presidential aspirants, and certainly
these who are net the weightiest of the
weighty, that they lese all chance of suc
cess by beating their drums tee loudly
and by thrusting themselves tee persist
ently and actively into the position of
contestants for the nomination. The
two-thirds rule of Democratic national
conventions is fatal te the pretensions of
weiking candidates. It is the part of
prudence for every man who really de
hires te be nominated net te appear te be
anxious for it. If he is a strong man,
with a geed record, he should be content
te let that speak for him and rely upon
the faithful efforts of a few discreet
f liends in his behalf. It must be remem
bered that but one man can be chosen
out of the many who want te be, and that
when the successful one must be the all
but unanimous choice of the convention?
he has te be a stout warrior if he
can affeid te push himself te the front
and be the largest of all his competiteis.
.1 udge Field's friends,in starting him w itii
brass band accompaniments upon the
.stieets of Cincinnati discredit their geed
sense and their candidate. That is net
the way te win or te deserve te win. A
judge en the supreme bench should espe
cially be caieful, if he wants te be a candi
date, te be se with a nole cphcejxiri air.
Certainly the natural impulse of the
eidinary man is te turn his back upon
the presumptuous man ; and lie must be
offensively se te the delegates te a presi
dential convention who sets out with
hired slieuteis te bulldee them into a
belief in his .supicmp fitness for the
highest office in the land. We aie quite
suie that our inclination would be te
sit down en all such aspirants ; and it
would be a proper feeling.
The tvve-tliiids rule is a geed rule
just because it cuts down machine can
didates and political workers. It doe
harm occasionally and often by striking
down first-class men who have made ene
mies in the honest discharge of their
public duties : but it makes up for this
by defeating unlit men who seek te weik
themselves by devious devices into the
candidacy. Nothing could be meie
grateful te the patiietic citien than the
measure of justice which was meted out
te Grant, Blaine and Sherman at Chica
go. All of them were unfit for the can
didacy, and all had been weiking haul
te get it. That the man who took the
prize was worse than any of them does
net diminish the satisfaction felt at their
defeat. It is the most important and
useful lessen that can be taught piesi-d.-ntial
aspirants that the office is net one
te be gained by the tiicks and devices
th.it these men were night and day de
vising to'feiwaid their ambition. Jehn
S'leiman, especially, is an object of exe
cution fei the use he sought te make of
the public offices te bur supporters for
himself. It is infinitely pleasing that lie
se lamentably tailed and that lie was
cheated in seeking te cheat. He is per
manently letiied from the piesidential
Held and one bad man is laid in his politi
cal giave te the gie.it geed of the coun ceun
ti and satisfaction of all decent men.
Whoever is nominated at Cincinnati,
we hope it will be one who has net in
decently sought the nomination. Mr
Tilden is the only one who had a pesil
b!e excuse fei claiming it, and even lie
had no light te de se; for it is nepait of
the duty of the Democratic party te
lecegnfre the claim of anyone te ellice
which is net founded upon his superior
fitness for it and stieugtli te be elected
te it. Mr. Tilden has made himself
obnoxious te a gieat many. Demo
crats by his selfish persistence in demand
ing the nomination when the geed
of the paity did net accord with his pre
tensions ; and new that he has with
drawn, no one else should be permitted
te step ferw aid te the sound of his own
trumpets. We would much rather be
given a very dark horse than one whose
light comes fiem the glare of his own
lanterns. There are plenty of geed men
in the country whose merits are known
te the intelligent delegates and who place
the geed of the party befeie their own
ambition ; and from the ranks of such
the candidate should be chosen.
Mr. Tilden's letter declining a renomi renemi renomi
natien will be read with interest and
great approval by his fellewr Democrats.
It is a geed letter. lie declares that the
fruit of the Democratic victory of 1S7G
v:is lest by no fault of his. He
expresses fervently his devotion
te our cause. He renounces
a renominatien which he believes
te be equivalent te an election,
because he seeks the quiet of retirement
and does net trust his strength te under
go the arduous labors of a four years
service in the presidential efiice. It is
well.
' Soldier rest." General Jehn A.
Sutter, the discoverer of geld in Califor
nia, and te whose labors probably mere
than te these of any ether of the eaily
pioneers of the Pacific coast is due the
inception of the movement that resulted
in the remarkable development of that
section of the country, has been gathered
te his fathers. His has-been a strangely
contradictory career, the turbulent
scenes through w hich he passed in the
days when his name and fame were fa
miliar as household words being in strik
ing contrast with the quiet retirement of
the latter portion of his lifetime, from
which he has passed almost unnoticed te
the sleep that knows no waking. The
figure he lias left te history is a pictur
esque one, and there is a touch of pathos
in the contemplation of the fact that the
owner of almost limitless acres of the
richest soil in the country, dies a pen
sioner en the bounty of the government,
which has profited se materially by his
discoveries. He was a benefactor te his
adopted land and new that he has passed
from the sphere of active usefulness we
may leek for tardy acknowledgment by
the government of his eminent services
in development ui iut uimviiai icauuitca.
The Xew Yerk Sun thinks that the
Convention should disregard Mr. Tilden's
letter of declinatien.The Sun is very much
alone in its thought. We de net lielieve
that any member of the convention did
net have a pleasurable sensation w hen he
heard of this letter. They will grasp at
it with eagerness and in their satisfac
tion at receiving it they will give Mr.
Tilden some very geed weids at
which he will be happy if he
thinks he conscientiously deserves.
Wherefore the Sun sets se much value en
Mr. Tilden is quite incempiehensible.
It is'net that it believes he will make a
precious president, for it thinks it neces
sary that Hendricks should go en the
ticket with him, te be en hand when lie
is taken up among the angel?, as it ex
pects him te be shortly.
'PERSONAL.
Gi: xt has a strong dislike for seeing
his photograph used as a cigar labe'.
Speaker Randu.i.'s family has removed
te his summer cottage at Easttewn, Ches
ter county.
General Git nt expects te spend the sum
mer in England, visiting his daughter,
Mrs. Nellie Grant S.uteris.
Edwin B. Mone x, of Aureia. N. Y.,
has by gift canceled the whole debt, $30,
000. of Wells college, at that place.
Cadet Wiuti'aki.k net only was very
deficient in philosophy, but he .steed fifty fifty
feuith in the chemistry class of fifty-seven.
The suit of Miss Ji.smi: Rvyviend
against Senatei Bi:n Hill, for seduction,
was en Saturday dismissed en the defend
ant's dcniuiiei, setting fei th that plaintiffs
allegatiensaie false; that the declarations
are bad in substance and that there is no
cause fei action.
it. . l itisw i.Li., late paiagrapher of
the Cincinnati JJiaju ircr and who was the
editor and funny man of the Oil City Der
rick bcfeic the Standard oil company get
held of the Iattci pajicr, is back en his
natie heath, the oil field of Pennsylvania,
being in the cditeiial chair of the new
daily papei st.uted at Titusville, the Petro
leum World. The World will lepiescnt the
interests of the pieduceis as against the
monopolies, and in its aggicsive waifarc
w ill have the sympathy of that large ele
ment of the people who believe in a fair
field and no favor.
Prof. Cms E. Wim:, feimerly of this
city, a son of the lest acienaut, and him
self a balloonist of note, has censti acted a
large balloon which has been named "The
Patnfinder. Ne. 2, ' being a countcipaitef
the famous Pathfinder in which Piofcsser
Wise made the fatal tiip. It is thhty-si
fvt wide and fei ty-tw e feet long and has a
lifting power of elc en bundled pound.
Its capacity is thiiry thousand cubic feet
and its weight is four bundled and seventy
live pounds. The material is unbleached
muslin, veil diicd and oiled, and the cost
is i-left. Piofessei Wise intends te make
a piaetical test of the buoyancy of the bal
loon at the Centennial gieuuds en .Tulv ."5.
MINOR TOPICS.
A J) VLTiMem: census enumerator discov
ered a coleied hed-can ier aged 112 years,
who weiks dailv at hic trade.
Ne picsident of the
weic low shoes and
his veuth.
United States ever
fancv stockings in
Ax esteemed contcmperaiy el the date
17th inst., is a little behindhand in its in in
fei matien en cm lent topics when it ven
tuics te icin.uk that " if Giant gets beaten
he can lecture."
Tin: body of the geiilla at the Pennsyl
vania hospital was bi ought te this country
in a b.uicl of hi m. Temperance people
will be glad te knew that a new line of in
dustiy has been opened for this fluid.
Heretofore it has chiefly been used in man"
ufactuiing geiillas out of men.
Ohie has three booms en the ground at
Cincinnati. Payne and Thurnian confront
each ether in biistling attitude while
Jewett is kept discreetly in the back back
gieund, although their sympathies are
manifestly with the senator and in the
event of Thurman's candidacy appearing
hopeless, it is claimed his sticngth can be
transfencd solidly te Jewett.
Themas V. ll.ijard.
N. i.Sun.
Among the scnateis of the United
States is one who makes no enemies. A
paitisan himself, in times of 1 ettest parti
sanship he succeeds iu pieseiving the geed
will of his opponents. He is never unkind,
discoiutceus, or exasperating in debate;
he never draws upon himself the
pcisenal animosity of these with
whom he is politically in conflict.
Serene in his demeanor, gentlemanly
in his bcaiing, estimable incvciy way, he
passes en through term after term of ser
vice, lcspectcd by his colleagues of both
pai tics and pointed out te the visitor in
the gallery as one of the most notable men
in the Senate. His tall, wcll-attiied flguie
attracts the stranger's attention. He moves
fi em the Democratic te the Republican
side of the chamber, and is greeted with
equal cordiality en both. When he lises te
speak heis hcaid with lespect, for theie is
never a sharp or pioveking word leady
upon his tongue. His slew, deliberate
utterance and well-considered sentences
have an impressive effect. The sedate
manner and cenect diction seem as proper
te him as the symmetry of his tightly
buttoned fieck coat. His speeches are
logical and and enriched w ith apt class
ical allusions. If they de net excite the
nearer te enthusiasm it is because they
deal, as a nile, with bread, philosophic
piinciplcs, lather than with these details
efevcry-day politics which move aud in
terest the masses.
STATJS ITEMS.
Cel. James L. Nutting, at euc time a
piemiucnt coal operator, and of late a
prominent Republican leader in Schuylkill
count', died suddenly at Pine Giove, at
4 o'clock yesterday morning, of paralysis.
During a diunken quarrel yesterday
afternoon in a Pittsburgh rum-shop, Sam
uel Bredeiick, a steel worker, had his neck
broken and skull fractured by two men
kicking him.
Alexander Jenes, outside foreman of the
Indian Ridge colliery, has been arrested
and placed under $1,000 bail in Pottsville,
en the charge of having defrauded the
company by drawing wages en fictitious
names of workmen.
Peter Nelsen, a one-handed man, who
for thirty years sold papers en the Nor
wich and Worcester railroad, in Connecti
cut, lest his position two weeks age, it be
ing taken by the Adams express company,
On Sarnrrlnv Iia inflirfi1 hirfn cnfe nn
uis uead with the back of an axe and is ex-1
jjculcu lu uic muih mss ei uiueu.
TILDEN'S UECLIXATIOIT.
A 1'atrlntlc Kevlew or I'eUttc 1'Mt mill
lreant.
Last night the New Yerk delegation
held a meeting at the Grand hotel and or
ganized by cheesing Daniel Manning chair
man and S. H. Ualliday sccictary. Mr.
Peckham icadthu following letter from
Samuel J. Tilden :
Nkw Yekk, June 18. Te the delegates
from the State of Xew l'erk te the Demo
cratic National Contention : Your first as
sembling is an occasion en which it is
proper for me te state te you my relation
te the nomination for the presidency, which
you and jour associates aie commissioned
te make iu behalf of the Democratic paity
of the United States. Having passed my
early years in an atmosphere filled with
the traditions of the war which secured
our national independence, and of strug
gles which made our continental system
a gevei nment fur the people and by the
people, I learned te idolize the insti
tutions of my country and was edu
cated te believe ft the duty of every citi
zen of the republic te put his fair allot
ment of care aud trouble te public a f fails.
I fulfilled that duty te the best of my
ability for forty years as a private citi
zen. Although during all my life, giving
at least as much thought and etlbit te
public affairs as te all oilier objects, Ihae
never accepted official sci vice except for a
bi ief period and for a special purpose, and
only when the occasion seemed te require
of me that sacrifice of private preferences
te public interests. My life has been sub
stantially that of a private citizen. It was,
I presume, the success of efforts, in which
as a private citizen I had sh.ucd, te over over
theow a corrupt combination thou holding
dominion iu our inetiopelis aud te puiify
the judiciary, which had become its tool,
that induced the Democracy of the state
in 1874 te nominate me for governor. This
was done in spite of the pretests of a
minority that the p.ut 1 had
borne m these reforms had cicatcd
antagonisms fatal te me as a can
didate. I felt constrained te accept the
nomination as the most certain means of
putting the power of the gubernatorial of
fice en the side of reform and of lemeving
the impression, wherever it prevailed, that
the faithful discharge of oue's duty as a
citizen is fatal te his usefulness as a
public seivant. The breaking up of
the canal ring, the better management
of our public weiks, the large reduction of
taxes and ether reforms accomplished
dining my administration doubtless
occasioned my nomination for the presi
dency by the Democracy of the Union in
the hope that similar piecesses would be
applied te the federal government. Frem
the responsibilities of such an undertaking,
appaling as it seemed te me, I did net
feel at liberty te shrink. In the canvass
which ensued, the Democratic party
represented leferm iu the administration
of the federal government and a lcstoia lcsteia lcstoia
tien of our complex political system te the
puic ideas of its founders. Upen these
issues the people of the United States,
by a majority et mere than a quarter
el a million chose a majority of the elceteis
te cast their votes for the Democratic can
didates for piesidcnt and vice president.
It is my right and privelege here te say
that I was nominated and elected te the
presidency abselutely free from any en
gagement in respect te the exercise of the
powers or disposal of its patrenages.
Through the whole period of my relation
te the presidency I did everything in my
power te elevate and nothing te lower the
moral standards iu the competition of par
ties. By what nefarious means the basis
of a false count was laid in several of the
states I need net recite. These arc new
matters of history, about which whatever
diversity of opinion may have existed in
either of the great paities of the country
at the time of their consummation has
since practically disappeared. I refused
te ransom from the returning beards of
the southern states the documentary evi
dence by the suppression of which and by
the substitution of fraudulent and
forged papers a pictext was made
for the perpetration of a false count.
The constitutional duty of the two houses
of Congress te count the electoral votes as
cast, and te give effect te the will of the
people as expressed by their suffrages, was
never fulfilled. An electoral commission,
for the existence of which I have no re
sponsibility, was formed, and te it the two
Houses of Congress abdicated their duty
te make' the count by a law enacting that
the count of the commission should stand
as final, unless overruled by the concur
rent action of the two Houses. Its
false count was net overruled, owing
te the complicity of a Republican Senate
with the Republican majority of the com
mission, controlled by its Republican ma
jerity of eight te seven. The electoral
commission counted out the men elected
by the people aud counted in the men
net elected by the people. That sub
version of the election created a new
issue for the decision of the pee
ple of the United States transcending
in importance ull questions of administra
tion. It involved vital principles of self
government thieugh elections by the
people. The immense growth of the
means of corrupt influence ever the ballot ballet
box, which is at the disposal of the party
having possession of the executive admin
istration, had already become a present
evil, and a great danger, tending te make
the election irrespensive te public opinion,
hampering the power of the people te
change their rule and enabling the men
holding the machinery of the government
te continue and perpetuate their power.
It was my opinion in 1870 that the opposi
tion attempting te change the administra
tion needed te include at least
two-thirds of the voters at the opening of
the canvass iu order te retain a majority at
the election. If, after such obstacles had
been overcome and a majority of the peo
ple had voted te change the administration
of the government, the men in office could
still proceed te a false count founded upon
frauds, peijury and forgeries furnishing a
pretext of documentary evidence en which
te base that false count, and if such a tran
saction were net only successful, but if
after allotments of its benefits were made
te its contrivers, abettors and apologists by
the chief beneficiary of the transaction, it
was condoned by the people, a practical
destruction of elections by the people
would have been accomplished.
The failure te install the candidate
chosen by the people, a contingency con
sequent upon no act or emission of mine
and beyond my control, has thus left me
for the last three years and until new,
when the Democratic party, by the dele
gates in national convention assembled,
shall chose a new leader, the involuntary
but necessary representative of this mo
mentous issue, as such denied the immuni
ties of public life without the powers con
ferred by public station, subject te unceas
ing falsehoods and calumnies from the
partisans of an administration laboring in
vain te justify its existence. I have never
theless steadfastly endeavored te present
the same te the Democratic party of the
United States. The supreme issues before
the peeple for their decision next Novem
ber are whether this shall be a government
by the sovereign people through election
or a government by discarded servants
holding ever by force and fraud ; and I
have withheld no sacrifice and neglected
no opportunity te upheld, organize and
consolidate against the enemies of the
representative institution of the great
party which alone under Ged can effectu
ally resist the overthrew. Having new
borne faithfully my full share of the labor
and care in public service, and wearing
the marks of its burdens, I desire nothing
se much as an honorable discharge. I wish
te lay down the honors and toils of even
quasLparty leadership, and te seek the re
pose ei private me. in renouncing a re'
nomination for the presidency I de se with
no doubt in my mind as te the vote of the
state of New Yerk or of the United States,
butbecause I believe that it is a renuncia
tion of the re-election of the presidency.
Te theso who think my nomination and
re-election indispcusiblc te an effectual
vindication of the right of the people te
elect their luleis-, violated in my person. I
have accorded as long a reserve of my de
cision a possible, but 1 cannot oveicemo
my repugnance te enter into a new en
gagement, which involves four jears of
ceaseless toil. The dignity of the presi
dential office is above a merely personal
ambition, but it creates in me no illusion.
Its value is as a great power for goed'to
the country.
I said four years age. in accepting the
nomination : "Knewing as I de, therefore,
fiem ficsh experience hew gieat the dif
ference is between gliding thieugh an ofT efT
cial leutiue and working eutja refei in of
systems and policies, it is impossible for
ine te contemplate what needs te be done
in the federal administration without anx
ious sense of the difficulties of the under
taking. If summoned by thu suffrages of
my countrymen te attempt this weik, I
shall endeavor with (.Sed's help te be tie
efficient iiistiuinent of tlieii will.
Such a work of renovating aftei m. my
jears of misrule, such a reform of sys
tems and policies te which I would
cheei fully have saceificed all that re
mained te me of health and life,
is new, I fear, bejeud my strength.
With unfeigned thanks for the honeis
bestowed upon me, with a lieu t swelling'
with )nioliens of gratitude te the Demo
cratic masses (or the suppeit which tliey
have given te the cause I represented and
their confidence iu every emergency, I re
main yeui fellow citizen.
Svmui.l J. Tildi:x.
' LATEST NEWS BY MAIL..
Cuiiie, the slayer of Ben Pinter, the
actor, has been acquitted iu Mai shall,
Tex., en the plea of insanity.
Linar Gallagher, aged 1 1, fatally shot
Sid Mullins, aged 15, dining a quanel, at
Lancaster, Ky., en Satin day.
The finance committee of the Bosten
and Albany railroad diiccteis have re re re
poited in favor of an advance of teu per
cent, in wages, te take effect June 1.
The icpei ted death of the famous $20,
000 trotter Piospeie. turns out te have
been premature. Undcrskillful veterinary
care he is quite likely te recover.
The Volunteer life guaid rescued from
diewning Dr. Harris and sister, of Phila
delphia, aud an unknown gentleman at the
feet of Pennsylvania avenue, Atlantic City,
en Saturday.
A Jcisey City, ycstciday afternoon,
Michael Kane, aged 10 yeais, was shot in
the head aud instantly killed by a boy
named Donehus. Ne cause is assigned lei
the deed. Denehue was ai rested.
The game of billiaids Satuiday night at
Tammany hall, N. Y., between Champien
Jacob bchaeller anil Geeigc b . blossen re
sulted in the defeat of the feimcr by a
sceic of GOO te 470.
Baseball : At Washington Nationals 3,
Baltimore 2. At Pievidcncc Piovidcnce
8, Buffalo 3. At Tiey Cleveland 18, Tiey
G. At Weicester Chicago 8, Woices Weices
tcr 7.
Yesterday afternoon Michael Kane, aged
10 jears, was shot in the head and instant
ly killed at Jcisey City by a boy named
James Denehue. Ne cause was assigned
for the deed. Denehue was arrested.
Jeseph Whitley, of Trenten, while bath
ing at Sea View Park, Ocean county, Sat
uiday evening, was carried eat te .sea by
the undertow and was diewned. His body
was recovered te-day.
The seventy-two hour ' go-as-you-please,"
at Bosten, twelve benis each daj,
ended en Satuiday night, with the follow
ing result : Albeit, 3S0 miles ; Laceusc,
338 ; Baiber, 3"2 ; Donevan, 320 ; Reg
mault, 313.
Rev. Samuel Rebbius Brown, one of the
earliest missionaries te China and Japan,
thieugh whose efforts some of the fiist
Chinese bej's were sent te America te be
educated, died at Menson, Massachusetts,
yestciday morning, aged 70 yeais.
The census supervisor of Cincinnati has
made a footing up of the work of the
enumciateis. With fifteen districts net
fully reported, the population of the city is
24G,1."5'5. Counting the immediate subuibs,
claim will be made of a population of 300,
000 iu leund numbcis.
At Richmond, Ind., a boiler at Kendall
& Barnes' oil mill exploded en Satuiday.
Jehn Staley was instantly killed. Herman
Cairingten, the engineer, had his head,
face and limbs severely scalded and a num
ber of ether employees were mere or less
seriously injured.
Jehn A. Shcppaid and family and AVil
liam Billiard camped near Cem tnej, Texas,
en Friday night. The men quai relied and
renewed the quarrel en Satuiday morn
ing, when Bullaid was killed. Shcppard
escaped, leaving his wife and children in
the camp.
At Pert Jcrvis N. Y., James Reuikc. a
track walker in the employ of the Eric rail
way, lay down with his head en the track
at the stairway yesterday morning and
went te sleep. An expiess train stiuck
and instantly killed him. He was the sec
ond husband of a woman whose fiist hus
band was killed at the same place aud in
the same manner.
LOCAL INTELLIGENCE.
General Sutter's Funeral.
The funeral services of General Jehn A.
Sutter took place at 3 o'clock p. m. en
Saturday last at the Chailcs Mades hotel,
corner of Third street and Pennsylvania
avenue, Washington, D. C, Rev. Bj'ren
Sunderland, D. D., officiating and pleach
ing the fuueral sermon.
The remains of deceased were then
taken in charge by the following pall
bearers : Gen. Jehn Hammend, M. C,
New Yerk ; Cel. J. S. Tichcner, Cel. A.
B. Schacffer, A. M. Kennedy, esq., Capt.
Peter Alabach. Capt. C. P. Crandall, Cel.
James Pierce, E. O. F. .Hastings, esq., alj
of Washington, and Hen. Jehn Hitz,
Swiss consul. All of the pall bearers ex
cept Censul Hitz are ed Californians and
waim personal friends of Gen. Sutter.
The remains were taken from the hotel
te the depot of the Baltimore and Potomac
railroad and conveyed thence by rail te
this city, II. II. Tshudy, esq., of Lititz,
having special charge of them. They ar
rived here shortly after midnight, whence
they were conveyed te his late residence
by Frederick Brimmer, liveryman. The
funeral will take place en Thursdaj- after
noon in the Moravian burj'ing ground.
Geu. Sutter's surviving family consists of
his widow and a grand-daughter, Mrs.
Hull.
Reautlful Present.
P. E. Slaymaker, the courteous and
obliging deputy prothenotary, has been
presented with a beautiful driving whip by
one of his friends. The whip is silver
mounted and has Mr. Slaymaker' s name
neatly engraved upon it. The letter accompanying-the
present had a piece of
poetry in it, which would de credit te
Longfellow or Whittier.
TUB DISBARMENT CASE.
Cletii or the Argument in tlie s,uprcme
Court en Saturday Morning, eyMr. "
Key nelrix mid Cel. McClure.
Mr. Rcj uelds introduced his aigunient
with a pretty exordium et five or six min
utes dotatien before he get dew n te the law
of his paper book, lie said that he argued
the case without any personal feeling ; he
had a high legaid for the j-eting gentlemen
who suffered fiem the action el the ceuit
below. The person whom he represented
and who was privately concerned in the
case ( meaning Judge Patterson ) had in
stiucted him te avoid all personal criticism.
The conduct of the appellants had been
resented out of the belief that this was due
te the court, which they had sought te bring
into contempt and whose usefulness was
thereby seriously affected. Mr. Rejnelds
proceeded te take up in detail the points
made by the appellants' counsel and te an
swer them with argument and citations of
authei ities which were only applicable upon
the basis upon which he proceeded, which
was that the at tide published in thel.NTix
i.ir.KM'Kii was a libel and was se admitted
by its editeis te be, because thej' did net
disavow it when summoned by the
ceuit te explain it. Twe cases
fiem Neith Carolina were cited as en
"all fours" with this case. There was
no need of a conviction for libel te base
the action of. the ceuit upon, when the
libel was confessed. Mr. Rejnelds, dur
ing his aigunient, made a statement of the
facts of the Snjder case, in which he de
clared that Mr. Brown had made a careful
examination of the commonwealth's wit
nesses before he lepertcd te the district
attorney that there was no case against
Snyder ; and said that en his second trial
all the facts had been laid befeie the jury
and he had been aquitted upon his pica of
net guilty and feimcr acquittal. But he
did net mention that the ceuit had in
stiucted the jurj- that as no evidence had
been iiitieduccd except as te the acts com
plained of in thu fiist trial the plea of a
former acquittal entitled the defendant te
be found net guiltj Mr. Reynolds spoke
of the licentiousness of the press which
required cuibing, and of the great hann
that would come te the country if the
judiciary was net protected from its un
justifiable assaults. He did net claim that
the decisions of a ceuit could net be
freely criticised for their unsoundness, but
he insisted that its integrity should be free
liein assaults at the hands of the
attorneys. Mi. Reynolds closed with a
pci oration in well chosen language after
talking an hour and a-half. The membcis
of the court appeared veiy restless
tow aids the conclusion, and the chief
justice intciiuptcd the speaker in his last
weids te tell him that his time was up.
During Mr. Rejnelds" argument the
ceuit loom filled up with mcmbeis of the
bar and ladies of the city attracted te hear
Cel. McCIuic, who began, as is his cus
tom, in a low tone of voice which gave
premise of a seveic disappointment te the
audience in the rear, but he sheitlj warm
ed up into a strain of earnest oiateij'
which was well sustained tluougheut and,
with the interesting nature of his argu
ment and the beautiful language in which
it was couched, secured the breathless at
tentien of his audience during the fifty
minutes in which he was peimitted te
speak. lie dismissed the law and the facts
of the judges' case as presented ly tlieii
counsel and in their paper book iu the very
briefest but most effective waj. Fer the
facts he simply lefci red te the answer of
the appellants, in which they stated under
oath that their "publication was made in
geed faith, without malice and for the pub
lic geed," and whk-h was therefore net
a libel upon the ceuit. Under the
well recognized law the appellants sworn
answer must be taken as ti ue, unless dis dis
pieved bj- testimony, of which there net
only is none in this case toceutiovcititbut
new hei e in the decision of Judge Patter
son was it held, as maintained new by
counsel, that this was a confessed libel
upon him. As te the deep personal inter
est in this case, which Mr. Reynolds thought
that he had in this case as a lawyer and an
editor, it seemed te him that he was main
taining Mr. Reynolds' interest rather than
his ew n. If he was ejected from one pio pie pio
fessien he had the ether te fall back upon
for a livelihood, but if Mr. Reynolds should
suffer disbaimcnt fiem the arbitrary act of
a judge he w euld be w itheut occupation.
If the license was given Judge Pattci son
which he claimed, he would in a few years
be a candidate for renominatien, and with
the use of the peculiar practices prevalent
in Lancaster ceuntj' primaries, he might
succeed upon a set of locked up returns.
The time might well be foretold te come
in which Mr. Reynolds himself would have
cause te cry out for piotcctien against the
unrestrained power of a judge se chosen.
He maintained that it was as much the
interest of the pi ess te protect the judi
cial j' as it was that of the judiciaiy te pro
tect the press. The one should conserve
the ether. In the ranks of both there
weic uuweithy members, and net mere he
thought in the press than in the judiciaiy.
Ner had there been mere license used bjr
the press iu denunciation of members of
the judiciaiy than had been practiced by
judges in condemnation of their biethcr
judges. And Mr. MeClure pieccedcd te
illustrate this statement with a long list of
Pennsylvania cases in which judges had se
verely h nulled each ether. The supreme
judges dining its recital were evidently
greatly amused and interested. It was
very fresh and novel matter for them and
as they had pcisenal knowledge of the
cases and in some of ihcm ceitain of their
membeis had been involved, they were in
a continual chuckle, with the audience,
ever the juicy dish set before them. Ne.
bedj' else in the state but Colonel MeClure
could have presented it ; no one else would
have recalled the facts se aptly There is
net much in the political history of the
state that he docs net knew, and he con
veys his knowledge with a vivid pictur
esqucness which makes him incom
parable iu speech and conversa
tion en such subjects. He referred
te the case of Hele s. Rittcnheusc where
the chief justice had delivered in wrath a
diatribe upon the lower court. " Who was
it?" whispered Justice Mcrcur te Chief
Justice Sharswood, "Black," replied
Sharswood. Then Mr. MeClure spoke of
the letter of the late chief justice (Agnew)
in the campaign of 1878, which he thought
Justice Sterrett found te be interesting
reading. The readers of the Intelligex
cer will recollect its spiciness and severity.
The Cellins case in 8th Watts was then
cited as ene whose licentious criticism
upon the sovereign power emptied every
judicial seat in Pennsylvania, through the
change it caused in the mode of selecting
the judges.
Judge Bayard of Fajette was next ex
posed in the pillory for his unjustifiable
use of his arbitrarj power te abuse a
suitor iu his court, who horsewhipped him
for it outside, at the adjournment, and
whose sentence therefer was remitted bj-a
pardon obtained because it was universal
ly held that the judge deserved all that he
get ; and that in day when, Mr. MeClure
pointedly ebseivcd "pardons were net a
in ittcr of favor. " Judge Irwin, of Yerk,
was introduced as a judge se unfit for his
place that his bar was reduced te despera
tion. It sought te get rid of him bj' per
suading him te mil for Congress, but the
judge refused the bait and undertook te
bring theatteiuuj.s te account forendeavor ferendeavor forendeaver
ingto biibe him te rcsigu. They were com
pelled te lefuse te piactise before him,
until he was finally forced out. Judge
Neil, of Chester was another judicial can-
didate, whose absolute viciousness
it was
impossible
te be silent about. But all
these men, under the doctrine of the court
below, were te be safe fiem criticism by
a "licentious" press. Even the great Chief
Justice Gibsen had subjected himself te
just criticism in resigning the sheit frag
ment of his teim and obtaining a reap
pointment te the bench for fifteen jeais
fiem the governor, prier te the taking
effect el the new constitutional piovisien
making the judges elective. This was a
palpable trick te avoid the popular will
and se weakened him in popular esteem
that when he came up for renominatien he
was only saved by the exertion and vote
of the justice fiem Tewanda (Mercui) and
one ether delegate in the convention. The
Shippcn impeachment case and the Austin
case were also referred te.
"By a mistake, said Colonel Mc
Cluie, "which can hardly be se called
save bj' charity, it has been declar
ed by the ether side that the publication
they complain of has been admitted te be
a libel bj' the disbaned editors. That
statement is absolutely false. My clients
have in their answer distinctly declared te
the ceuit below that it was an honest pub
lication of what they believed te be tiue,
and we challenged a travel se of that an
swer then, as we challenge it ujw. It was
the duty of these editors te criticise the
action of the ceuit tiuthfully ; if they did
it untiuth fully they are ready te be dis
baned, when convicted. Ne such case as
this has ever ecCuued even in England
where the aibitraiv power of judges
is se much mere maiked than
it ever has been admitted te be in
this cenntiy, whee institutions it se
much mere repugnant te. Mr. McCluie
then reviewed the Huist case; ami the
Gieevj case, where it ccmed te be a tight
rate between human nature and the judge,
who decided tli.it he had full power te dis
bar and ought te de se, but he wouldn't.
The NoithCaieliua cases cited bv thcethei
side Mr. McCiuie said afiitmed the posi
tion taken by the appellants ; for there
the editeis were net disbired, because
they avowed that what thej had said had
been s.tid without malice and fei the pub
lic geed ; just what was said here.
The address of Abraham Lincoln en the
Died Scott ca-c aud the flood of denuncia
tion fiem Republican Iav.veis and politi
cians poured out upon Judge Tanej- for
that decision were cited. There was i.e
disbaimcnt of Lincoln. Judge Patteisen,
the judicial pigmy, did it : Judge Taney,
the judicial giant,did net. Bj- the doctrine
of the ceuit below it would be said bj' the
bench te its accusers : In the omnipe
tence of the judicial aim, I slaj- you : And
thej- were dead.
Can this judgment stand if you sustain
it? asked Mr. MeClure, and he answered
it cannot. He icteireu te the conscrip
tion case, the Passmeie case and ethers
that weie followed by the act of 1S30,
checking the power of the judges. The
Peck case pieduced the act of 1831. The
Dickens case was followed bj' the restrict
ing act of 1870, and the Gicevy, Faiquhar
and Wright cases secured the act of 1870,
giving an appeal te this ceuit. At every
step made by the judicial y in asseitien of
aibitrary pewci the sovereign power has
forbade it. Between us be the tiuth. If
this power, claimed bj the court below, te
muzzle the mouths of its attorneys, in just
denunciation of its wieugful acts of any
kind, is sustained here, that pe.ver will net
remain.
Cel. McCluie closed his eloquent speech
of about fifty minutes te the great regret
of an audience and ceuit that gavu him
all its attention. The dibit wen the adniira
tien ami applause of all. It was eloquence
in its highest exemplification. He took
the one great issue of the case and illus
tratcd and vindicated it in cveiy word.
His aim was te pieve the libcity of everj'
man te justlj' criticise a judge as freely as
anj' ether public officer, responsible te the
law applied te all te restrain malicious
speech. He held that strength of the
bench must be found in the inlegiitj' and
ability of its members, net in a free
dom fiem criticism, damning te the liber
ties of the. people. Mr. McCluie spoke
with an earnestness commensurate with
the great impeitance of the case and his
own deep interest in it.
Gene, te the Conentlen.
In addition te these mentioned Pvtui
daj the following paities I....e 1 iu thi.s
city for Cincinnati ; Benjamin F. Davis,
esq., Jacob Pentz, Frederick Yeagcr, Jehn
Pentz, Han j- A. Miley, Philip Zecher, C.
AV. Eckeit, Jacob Halt man, Frank Mett
fet, Jehn II. Dellaven, Geerge W. Simp Simp
eon. Martin Ilildebrand, J. W. Leber, I.
Kauffmau and Enniracl Hanibiight, most
of these gentleman startcil at 1 1 o'clock
yesterday.
The Samuel J. Randall club passed we-4
en a special train at 2 o'clock ycstciday
afternoon. The train did net step and
the large crowd in the depot were sadly
disappointed.
A.J. Steinm.in, esq., of the Inti:i,mokx Inti:i,mekx
cuii, left for Cincinnati te-day at 11 o'clock.
et a Candidate.
W. Scott Brady, of Millersville, says
that he was net a candidate for the cornet
voted ferat the late Baptist festival. Never
collected a cent for that purpose, and
knew nothing about it until the committee
asked him te hand in his money.
Tne Lecal Tobacco Trade.
A packing of 160 cases or 1879 Pennsyl
vania was sold last week te a New Yerk
house, and several ether sales are said te
have taken place, but dealers continue
verj' reticent as te their transactions.
Anether rumor that has prevailed dur
ing the week is that the 1879 crop, especi
ally the fillers is damaging badly, and that
many packers have been compelled te open
aud repack their stock. A careful inquiiy
anieng them would seem te estab
lish the fact that very little dam
age has taken place. There has
been some repacking and resorting, but no
mere damaged goods have been found than
in former years, and nearly nil the dam
ageaveraging from four te fifteen pounds
per case has been among the fillers,
which did net cost mere than from 3 te e
cents per pound. The rumor of extensiv e
damaging is supposed te have been staitcd
by parties who held Connecticut or 187S
Pennsylvania, and want te give the 1S79
crop a "black eye."
The young plants of the coming wep of
1880 have nearly all been set out, the only
planting new being done being the reset
ting of plants killed by the cut-worm or
ether cause. The weather has been favor
able, aud the plants leek well and premise
a big crop.
Cans' Kepert.
1,300 cases 1S79, New England, of which
1,183 Ilou-atenic. 21 te 23c; balance East
Haitferd, seconds and fillers. 100 cases
1878, New England, wrapper. 13 te 2le.
1,000 cases 1879, Pennsylvania asseited, 1 1
te 22c. HOO cases 1878, Pennsylvania till
ers, 9 te 101 ; wrappeis, 18 te 30. 44 cases
1878, Ohie, private terms. 100 cases sun
dries, !te 18c. Total, 3,054 cases.
lH'1'Jfc.U EM) .NElVs.
1'rum Our Mount Jej Correspondent.
About half-past nine o'clock en Satur
day evenjng fire was discovered in Harry
A. Wade's barn, a short distance north of
the Gieenawalt house, Elizabethtown. and
in a sheit time the whole building was
brightly illuminated with the flames. An
alauii was immediately sounded and en
leaching flie place a mew containing a
lead of hay was found te be en the, the
Hames sheeting up te the raftcis. With
almost superhuman efforts the citizens,
with buckets of water, checked the flames
until the steamer arrived, when they were
fortunately extinguished. Hew the lire
originated is unknown. One supposi
tion is that a match had hta-ii
dieppcd among some chaff" en which
the hay was p'accd. Mr. Eli Deuchtrick,
who cultivated the faun, had been annual
the bain and had closed the doeis sum,.
time befeie the fire occurred and docs imt
think it the work of an incendiary. Tin
timbers were somewhat chaired and ti e
less will fall below 30.
A heise attached te a buggv, the
piepeity of Jacob Wagnei, of It.iphe
township, dashed through East Main
street, Mount Jey, en a gallop, about tt.i
o'clock en Saturdaj' night. The hoi-e
continued running until he i cached home,
a distance of three miles, and Miuiigc te
say the shafts were only broken.
Maitin Ilildebrand, of thN place, left .n
Sunday afternoon for the Cincinnati con
vention. A pait of the hay ciep has Ie"!i
'mewed and at some places yields nitur
largely than was anticipated, there Ihmii
a four-heise lead te the acre. Seme of tin
wheat was reaped last week, but the weik
begins generally te-day. The toluece is
growing nicely and leeks exceeding!,
fine.
The census enumeration being cnii
plctcd, foots up a total of 1728 for Mt. .!..
This does net include the soldiers orphan's
school, aud is about 70 less than ten yens
age.
On Satuiday a little son of Jehn Matter,
below town, bieke his nose by letting a
table leaf strike it.
TAKGKT riCAUTICK
Geed Slioetiiig ami Celli I'rl.es.
The target sheeting at Wild Ilariy's
gallery in Centre square last week was
well attended by the crack niaiksmcii of
this city, the attiactien being the geld
badges offered as prizes for the best shots.
The first prize was awaulcd te the man
who could make the greatest number of
successive bull-eyes at a distance of 7.1 feet
the bull-eye being about an inch and a
half in diameter. This prize was wen by
Philip Lebzclter who made 98 bull eyes
successively. ,
The second prize was a wan fed te the
man who made the best score at a Creed Creed
mere 1,000 yards target, reduced iu size
te suit a fifty-feet practice the bull-eye
being less that an inch in diameter. Each
contestant was allowed 10 shots ; a bull
eyc counted 5, an inner 4 and an outer
3. The prize was wen by J. A. Killian, who
made nine bull-eyes and one inner, scoring
49 out of a possible eO.
A STKIKt'.
Labercre Demand Higher W.ig-4.
On Saturday evening Mayer MacGenigle
received a note signed by twenty-five or
thirty laborers employed iu the repair of
the eastern city reservoir, in which they
siated that they would net go te weik en
Monday unless their wages (81 per day for
a man and $2 per day for man with horse
and cart) were increased te 81.2"i for a man
and $2.25 for man, horse and cart.
This morning the men were all en hand,
but as neither the mayor nor the superin
tendent of water works has any authority
te increase their pay they refused te go te
work. The pay of the laborers is fixed by
city council, and can only be increased by
eider of these bodies. It is thought that
ether labercis can easily be elftaincd te
take the place of the strikeis and that the
work of repairing the reservoir will net be
much delayed.
m
Jlreukilewn.
Yesterday Clayte Myers, Abraham Kel
ler, Andrew Leibley and Jehn W. 3Ientzer
took a drive te the country in a two-horse
carriage. At Landisville the wheel broke
from the vehicle, and all were tin own out,
Mr. Leibley was severely bruised. Alter
the accident the gentlemen borrowed a
butcher's wagon in which they came te
town.
Sunday Scheel Association.
Mr. Whitney, president ; Mr. Vail, treas
urer and Edward S. Wagener, secretary et
the State Sabbath Scheel association, will
come te this city en Friday, for the pur
pose of making arrangements for the state
convention, which will be held here some?
time during the fall.
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