t f- t-i ; OV r 'OM. I ! 1 1 ,'ITT - .' ;-- . . t- -'i; " W I-5JI LANCASTER DAILY 1OTJ2LLLGENCR. TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 28,1880 R-- Eancastcr intelligencer. TUESDAY EVENING. SEPT. 28, 1880. Geed bnt Unfortunate. It is net that they want te lie; they are very geed people, these Republican editors and orators, and would like te tell the truth no doubt; but they can't. A singular fatality attends their every effort ; they cannot say anything that is calculated te help along their ticket with out finding out very seen that there is no truth in it at all ; this is simply thei1' misfortune, net their fault. They have lest their ability te discriminate between the true and the false. Wham the gods destroy they first make mad ; and that is just the condition of the truly geed Republican editors and orators-who don't want te lie and yet arc always at it ; and are always caught. There is our virtuous colemperary, the JVeic Era, which would net misstate anything for the world, that is new repenting in sack cloth and ashes its story that General Hancock was net at the battle-field of Gettysbvrg when it was wen ; a story it printed in face of the notorious history spread upon all the records. And sad te say net only this pious editor permitted himself te thus avert his eyes from the truth, but that very excellent Hepubli can and bigoted gentleman, Majer Frcas, of the Germantown Telegraph, was like wise misled. We characterize the mis take thus mildly owing te the very re spectable character of the offender ; although really it is patent that when a respectable man assails another with a false charge, whose falsehood is shown by records in his possession or easily within his reach, he loses either his repute for respectability or intelligence, for truth fulness or geed sense. "We prefer te be lieve that the elhciwisc- ardent Re publicans who have been habitually failing te tell the truth in this campaign arcafllicted with mental unsoundness. We must adept this idea te account for the very free way in which untruths arc told where geed sense, if they had any, would tell these who uttered them that it was foolish te tell falsehoods that will be se seen delected and se fully exposed as te hurt themselves mere than these they are aimed at. Therefore these peo ple cannot have geed sense who said that General Hancock was net at Gettysburg through the victorious battle, that he did net write his own mili tary orders, that he wrote te General Sherman an unpatriotic letter, that he was in favor of the payment of hundreds of millions of Southern war claims, and divers ether charges of like character and tee numerous te mention, all of them improbable and all readily proved te be false as seen as they were given curren rency. The effect of these boemarang missiles has been very damaging te the Republican party. It creates the just belief that the parly has very little of substance te urge in its own behalf and against it fee , and il demonstrates a lack of wisdom in its guidance which does net warrant a lively hope in its ad herents that the parly will weather the present, political cyclone ; which it will net. A Weak Vessel. The Republicans arc again in trouble in a matter concerning which they have greatly congratulated themselves. They stem never te be safe, even when appar ently happiest. They have taken great comfort ever the fact that se eminent a man and JJemecrat as Judge Black should declare his confidence in Garfield's innocence of any intentional wrong in the Credit Mebilicr matter ; and they seemed te have geed reason for their sat isfaction, since the judge was well ac quainted with the facts, and his opinion is entitled te great weight. Rut there were some peculiarities about it which induced the New Yerk Sun te cross cress question the judge, and le! it turns out that it obtains from the witness se friendly le Garfield the positive state ment that the latter had deliberately and knowingly sworn before a committee of Congress te a directly different statement of his connection with the Credit Mobi Mebi lier matter from that which he made le his distinguished friend and counseller Judge Black, lie told the judge that he agreed te take the Credit Mebilicr stock from Oakes Ames, and that he re ceived the dividends upon it. lie swore before I he committee that he had never taken the stock or received any divi dend upon it, and that the money which he received from Ames was a lean. That he did this deliberately and knowingly i:; made certain by Judge Black's statement that he urged him te cling te the version of the matter which lie had given him ; and that there might be no misunderstanding as te what that was he repeated it le him. Garfield re plied nothing, but went out and swore differently. Beyond a shadow of question under these facts he is convicted of being a de liberate liar and perjurer, which is quite as bad as being a thief. Se that he takes nothing by Judge Blackstestimeriy,save damnation. It is somewhat notable that Judge Black says he did net advise him te tell the truth, since that would have been a gross insult. But it appears that he did advise him te stick te one story. Which was substantially, but mere ten derly, telling him net te lie; which it is evident the judge thought him inclined .te de, else he would scarcely have taken pains te go ever his story with him se as te fix the talc te be told in his mind. If he had been confident that it was the truth, and that Garfield wanted te tell the truth, his advice te stick te one story and his careful statement of the story would have been entirely superfluous. Evidently Garfield is a monstrously weak vessel and the judge knows it. The idea of a candidate for president perjuring himself because perjury was the only thing that would help his friends ! What an amiable man! TnE meeting in Fulton hall te-morrow evening will be for the intelligent discus sion before intelligent people of the real issues of the campaign. As one of the leaders of the national Democracy Sena Sena eor Wallace will speak of the aims and purposes of his party, and as a conserva censerva tivaxsitizen of the " solid Seuth " Mr. McCaa can enlighten Northern people as te its real condition. I Still Falsifying History. Instead of decently backing down and acknowledging it was in error in stating that Gen. Hancock was net present en the third day of the battle of Gettysburg after the Intelligencer had furnished abundant proof from official documents that he teas there and bore the brunt of the battle en that day of carnage, the Xew Era attempts te bolster up its false statement by quoting a paragraph from Appleton's Annual Cyclopedia, for 18G3, wherein it is stated that during the sec ond's day's fight " Gen. Sickles was wounded in the leg and the command devolved en Maj. Gen. Birney. Gen. Hancock was wounded in the thigh and Gen. Gibben in the shoulder." The Nac Era says that it consulted the Cy clopedia before printing the German town Telegraph's article. If this be se the Era must have known that the edi tor of the Cyclopedia made a mistake in stating that Sickles, Hancock and Gib Gib eon were all wounded en the same day ; because, en the very same page (106) from which the Xcw Era quotes is print ed a despatch from Gen. Meade written en the night of July 2d, in which he writes : ' We have suffered consider ably in killed and wounded. Among the former are Brig. Gens. Paul and Zeek, and among the wounded Gens. Sickles, Barlew, Graham and Warren slightly." Net a word, it will be observed, about Hancock or Gibben. On the following page of the Cj-clepedia (107) in describ ing the assault made by the rebels en the third day's fight it is stated that ' Gen. Gibben in command of the Second corps, walked composedly along the ranks, saying " Held your fire boys they are net near enough yet." The Era quotes the above and adds : u Then fellows a graphic descrip tion of the destruction of Pettigrew's and Pickett's divisions under General Gibben's superior generalship." Cer tainly a very brilliant achievement for an officer who had been wounded in the shoulder theday before according te the authority " consulted " and "endorsed " by the JWie Era. Had our esteemed contemporary just read en, for a few lines further, he weuldjiave found Gen. Meade's despatch te the authorities at Washington, giving an account of the third day's fight at Gettysburg. It is dated July ., S:e0 p. m. and states : " The enemy opened at 1 o'clock p. m. from about one hundred and fifty guns. They concentrated upon my left centre. - The enemy left many dead upon the field and a large number of wounded in our ''and. The less upon our side has hci.li considerable. Maj. Urn. Hancock and Jirig. (Jen. Gibben icerc wounded." This statement of Gen. Meade, made officially en the very day of the fight, corroborated as it is by Generals Butterfield, Sickle.', Birney, War ren, Crawford and ether distin guished officers, net te name Han cock himself, who certainly ought te re member when and where he was wound ed, is probably sufficient te satisfy any one except a PeGelyerite blinded by par tisan malice. But as our esteemed con temporary may net yet be quite satisfied we are constrained te add the testimony of Gen. Gibben himself, an officer whose " superior generalship" is endorsed by its editor. We quote from Gen. Gibben's sworn testimony before the congressional "committee en the conduct of the war:' Washington, April 1, 1SC4. Brigadier General Jehn Gibben sworn and examined. By the chairman: Question. What is your rani; and posi tion in the army ? Answer. I am a captain in the 4th regu lar artillery and a brigadier general of vol vel uutecrs commanding a division in the 2d corps of the army or the Potomac. Question. Wc arc inquiring mere par ticularly about the battle of Gettysburg. Yeu were in that battle ? Answer. Yes, sir, I commanded a divi sion there. Question. Will you state te us in your own way such facts and circumstances connected with that battle as you may deem material or interesting .' Answer. I can only tell my own part of it. I de net knew much about any of the rest. I was put in command of the 2d corps en the afternoon of the 1st of July, at Taucytawn, Gcticral Hancock having been ordered te the front when news ar rived of Gen. Reynolds having been killed or very seriously wounded. I was ordered te march te Gettysburg, and began the march ; but about sundown I received or ders from General Hancock te put the corps in position en the Tancylewn read, about three miles lrem Gettysburg. That night about 12 o'clock Gen. Mcade passed my headquarters en his way te Gettys burg, and shortly afterwards I received orders te push the corps forward te Gettys burg. I get in motion shortly after day light July 2 and get upon the field early that morning. The corps General Han cock resuming command of il was put in position en the ridge te the left of Ceme tery hill. During the most of that forenoon I understood that the troops were coining into position taking their places in the line. There was net much lighting going en until General Sickles' movementteok place, about 4 o'clock in the afternoon. I under stood his position te be en the left of our line, extending our line along the ridge in the direction of Round Tep hill, quite a prominent hill en our left Hank. About 4 o'clock in the afternoon I was standing en the hill within the limits of my division, and noticed troops moving out te our left and front. It turned out te be the 3d corps under General Sickles ; they were taking up their position obliquely te our line aim te the lrent, somewhere along the Eni mitsburg read, which ran iust te the front of the right of my division and obliquely ie me imc. i was stanuing tiicre with General Hancock and noticed the position of General Sicklcs's line. There was quite a thick weed away off te the left of Sicklcs's line, aud I asked General Han cock whether he supposed there was any thing in these weeds, and very shortly afterwards the enemy brought out his guns and commenced firing, and there was mere or less fighting whilst Gen. Sicklcs's corps was being put in position. They then commenced their attack en Sicklcs's left. After fighting for some time the corps was evidently giving way had te change its position. I had several messages from General Humphcys I think, asking me te send troops out te their assistance. Gen. nan cock was there and I consulted with him and by his direction sent two regiments, I think. I also sent two regiments te con nect Sicklcs's right with our line, and pre vent the enemy from coining in and cut ting hini off entirely from our line. These regiments became very heavily engaged, when the troops began te fall backhand lest both their commanding officers. Soen afterwards I saw the enemy's lines drawintr after our troens directly in my front. I went up te the batteries which was the most prominent part of. the line, and directed them te fire solid 6het ever the heads of ear own men at the advancing enemy. I was afraid te fire shell for fear they would explode tee seen and injure our own men. The smoke seen became se thick en this hill that nothing could be seen at all, and I had te 'discontinue the firing. I understood that our men came back in a great deal of confusion, but I could see very little myself, en account of the smoke being se thick. That is about all the fighting that took place en the 2d of July that I knew any thing about. a .Question. What de you knew about any councils of war being held en the 2d of July. Answer. There was a council of war held en the night of the 2d of July. Question. Were you there? Answer. Yes, sir ; although properly I ought net te have been there. I had com manded the corps ou the afternoon of the 1st of July, in the absence of Gen. Han cock. When I came up te Gettysburg with the corps Gen. Hancock, of course, resumed the command of it. During the retreat of Sickles's corps Gen. Hancock turned the command of the corps ever te me, as he had dene the day before, in order, as he in formed me, te take command of the '3d corps after Sickles was wounded. At night, after the fighting was ever, the staff officer, in summoning corps commanders te the coun cil, summoned me and I went there, se that the 2d corps really had two represen tatives there. I speke te Gen. Meade about it after the council was ever. Every member of the council, ac cording te my recollection, voted simply te stay there and fight. On the morning of the ed of July skir mishing commenced pretty early, but I de net recollect any serious fighting there was none en our part of the line until about 1 o'clock, when the enemy opened their artillery fire upon us. I de net be lieve there was ever a hotter artillery fire in the world. It was the most terrific scene I ever witnessed. That tire continued about an hour and a half. Question. Which side had the most guns in position there? Answer. I am net 'able te answer that question. I knew they had a great many mere than I wanted te sce there. But we kept up a pretty heavy pummelling all the time, tee. I suppose that fire must have continued an hour or an hour and a half when the enemy's lines of infantry appeared coming out of the weeds in our front, line after line, a heavy line of skir mishers, then a line of infantry, then an other line behind that, and I believe a third behind that ; and from my position behind the left centre of my division, as far as I could see, these lines were coming up against us in most beautiful style ::" I was wounded about the time, I suppose, the enemy's second line get into our bat teries, probably a little before that. - Question. At what time of day were you wounded ? Answer. I must Iiutc been wounded sonn senn where about 3 o'clock. Question. After the enemy had been re pulsed that day, was there any council of war held that you knew of? Answer. Net that I knew of ; I was in the hospital. Question. Yeu did net accompany the army as it followed the enemy te Williams Williams pert? Answer. Ne, sir ; I have net been with the army since. Is the above sufficient te convince the Era that Gens. Hancock and Gibben were net wounded during the second day's fight at Gettysburg, but that they were in the midst of the fearful carnage of the third day, and both of them griev ously wounded just before the battle closed ? Gen. Gibben, whose "superior generalship" is vouched for by the Era, adds his testimony te that of Meade, But terfield and the rest,that Hancock fought and bled at Gettysburg en the third day of the battle. The Era has proclaimed te its readers that Hancock was net even present en that occasion. There is a lie somewhere and it is only fair that it should be rammed down the right threat. The Era has the fleer. Moreover, it seems strange that the iVcic Era should rely entirely en a frag ment from a Cyclopedia's account of the greatest battle of the late war le sustain its disputed allegation ; and that, tee, a publication made very seen after the battle, when there are se many fuller au thorities that could se readily have been consulted te prove what is manifest even from the very context out of which it has tern an extract te justify its falsifi cation of "contemporaneous history." But since the JYcte Era is satisfied te step, in the examination of historical questions, with the Cyclopedia le which, though Mr. Dana is editor of it, there are many special contributors why did net the Xew Era editor consult the latest revised edition of it instead of geiug back te an Annual published a year after Gettysburg. He would have found"! in this same Appleton's Cyclopedia, pub lished in 1S74, the -following in its ac count of the battle of Gettysburg: JclyI. "Meade, wne was 15 m. distant, had learned that there was fighting at Gettysburg and scut Hancock with orders te take command of the force there, and te decide what should be done, for as it happened Meade knew nothing of Gettysburg. Haneeek decided that this was the place te give battle and sent back word te Mcade te hurry all his troops te the place." Again, in describing the " grand at tack of the day," when Pickett's Arir-. ginia veterans, aided by Pettigrew's brigade, advanced in their wild charge, this same Appleton's Cyclopedia says : Jnlv 3. Pettisrrew's brifrniln v:is within 300 yards of Hancock's line, which uad reserved its lire. In nve minutes the whole brigade was streaming back in wild disorder." In the article en Hancock in this same edition of Appleton's Cyclopedia it is said : " In the decisive action of July 3 he com manded en the left centre which was the main point assailed by the Confederates." Thus again is the unskillful engineer heist by his own petard. Nevertheless, if the Xcw Era has any mere "contemporaneous history" te prove that Hancock was net in the third day's fight at Gettysburg we will be pleased te examine it. PERSONAL. James G. Faiu has written a letter te prominent citizens of Virginia City an nouncing his rcadincs te accept the nomi nation for United States senator. Tnat means a race of the money bags. It was Sir. Herace Haldeman, net Mr. Paris Haldeman, who made the Democratic speech at Marietta the ethcr evening. Mr. Paris Haldeman is in Europe, but the sentiments expressed by his cousin, we are confident, arc also his. Seme of the Republicans are much ex ercised ever a report that Mr. Samuel J. Tilden has determined te make an active personal canvass, in his own peculiar way, in New Yerk, in the interests of Hancock and English. When Samuel J. takes the war path, hunt your bombpreofs. A report that the Democratic primaries in Sussex, Del., en Saturday gave evidence of unexpected hostile feeling towards Mr. Bataud get started somehow, and, after the manner of lies generally, is having a run. Te the Sussex people themselves the report appears just funny enough te laugh ever and of tee little importance te con tradict. Mrs. Hancock has told some one thaj she read Republican papers exclusively, because the Democratic papers, which spoke only in praise of her husband, were tee monotonous; besides she wanted te knew what her husband had been doing all these years. Rev. Abel CuAm.Es TneMAS died at Tacony yesterday, at the age of seventy three. He was born in Exeter township, Pa., July 11, 1807, and received an academ ical education at Lancaster, no studied theology and was ordained as a Universal ist preacher, having his first pastorate at Lewell, Mass., and subsequently at Brook lyn and Cincinnati. He came te Philadel phia some years age, and was in charge of the Lembard street Univcrsalist church. He was well known for his contributions te doctrinal and general church literature Princeton college has just been the re cipient of the princely gift of $100,000 from Mr. Rebert L. Stuart, one of New Yerk's best known and most public-spirited citizcus. This is net the first time that Princeton college has been indebted te Mr. Stuart for liberal benefactions. It is given in trust for the support of such professor ships as are net new endowed, or only par tially se. The theological seminary at Princeton also receives $105,000 from Mr. Stuart for the endowment of a new pro fessorship, which the Rev. Francis L. Patten, of Chicago, has recently been in vited te fill. Bishop Enarxn De Scuweinitz en Sunday hauded in his resignation as pas tor of the Moravian church of Bethlehem. His reasons were that the duties of the office of president of the Provincial Elders' Conference were such that they demanded his whole time, and the work of the church in the Northern provinces was suffering for want of the attention due it. nis health has been failing for some time, and he felt that the care of the two offices was mere than he could attend te. Bishop De Schwcinitz has been pastor of the congre gation for ever sixteen years, and his re signation was accepted with reluctance. He is the author of several religious works and a history of the Moravian church. MINOR TOPICS. A contemporary prints a disptach an nouncing the brutal murder of an editor in California by a policeman he had criti cised, under the heading " A Warning te Editors." Tun author of " Helen's Babies" having become a playwright, the Christian ljit'eu congratulates him "en having writ ten a play which is an honorable contribu tion te the attempted reform of the drama, a play net only clean and pure in tone but genuine in spirit. Such a play as Deacon Crankcli is one of the hopeful signs that reform of the theatre is net the Quixotic undertaking most of us have been inclined te think it." "Consider what Mcadc and Reynolds would de," said the Republicans en their banner last evening. Why, like the gal lant soldiers and sturdy Democrats they were, they would vote for the man of whom the commanding general telegraph ed immediately after the terrible assault en Cemetery Hill had been repulsed and the flower of Pickett's division cut down : " Say te Gen. Hancock that I regret ex ceedingly that he is wounded, and that I thank him for the country and for myself for the great service he has rendered to day. Gee. G. Meade, "Maj. Gen. Commanding."' The last census of the city of Londen proper shows some curious results. It was taken in the evening, when only 00, 000 people were found within the city limits out of the 500,000 who inhabit it by day. Fer instance, upon the census night there happened te be as ledgers from ag ricultural districts in the city inns and hotels feriy farmers, besides three farmer bailiffs and twenty-three gardners, se that in the ratio of agriculturists te area Lon Len Lon eon city appears as the champion agricul tural distiict of the kingdom. It also ap pears that out of 0,000 merchants who are by day "something in the city," only 330 habitually sleep within the city bounds; and that out of 3,000 brokers only thirty three breakfast under the shadow of St. Paul's. Tin following was recently republished hi lac ixTizi.i.icnNCEi:, ecmg taken "en faith" from an esteemed contemporary : Neither the United States nor any state shall assume te pay any debt or obligation iucurrcd in case of insurrection or rebel lion against the United States, or claim for the less or emancipation of any slaves, but all such debts, obligations and claims c shall be held illegal or void. Constitution of the United States, Article 14, Sec. 4. The Examiner kindly calls attention 1ee the fact that there is a verbal alteration or two in the foregoing, and we hasten te correct it by the official original which runs thus : Neither the United States nor any state shall assume or pay any debt or obligation incurred in aid of insurrection or rebellion against the United States, or claim for the less or emancipation of any slave, but all such debts, obligations and claims shall be held illegal and void. LATEST NEWS BY MAIL. Five men have been suffocated cleaning sewers in Paris. while j Baseball yesterday : At Chicago Chi cago, 7; Cleveland, 2. At Cincinnati Cincinnati, 7 ; Buffalo, 4. The boiler of a steam thresher exploded at Princeton, Cal., killing three -men and seriously scalding seven 'ethers. Three men were drowned at Grundy's Passage and two near Ragged. Islands, N. S. by the upsetting of beats. A yoke of oxen are anchored at the bot tom of Lake Michigan. Being hitched te an anchor en a ferryboat, they backed over board and dragged it along. The prisoners confined in the jail at Gre nada, Miss., set fire te the puilding, which wsis entirely consumed. All the prisoners were released and made their escape. Twe were badly burned. In Jacksboreugh, Texas, yesterday im mense swarms et grasshoppers appeared ed ins con tn8 coming iram tue north, at times ebscurin . . .".? sun. a. larm was cemnlctelv ilemn ' ished, even the cotton stalks being de de veani. A negre man was murdered near Tyler, Texas, by two negre women, who beat him te death with clubs and rails, horribly mutilating the body. The man had boast ed that he was the father of the child of one of them. A twelve-year-old daughter of Bryan Flyn, residing in the western part of Wil mington, Del., was fatally burned while pouring coal oil en the fire which she had lighted. The can exploded, throwing the blaziug fluid all ever her person, and her flesh was burned te a crisp. The upper portion of Plymouth Reck that had lain ler forty-six years in front of Pilgrim hall, and had been separated from the original far 10G years, was yesterday reunited with tue mam part el the rock. The removal took; place qu:etly, with no public demonstration, and the separated piece new lies under the canopy in its or iginal position. Newton, N. J., is greatly exercised be cause Rev. Theodere D. Frazee, pastor of the Methodist church of that village, and editor of a religious newspaper published at Newark, has just been arrested, charged with an attempted assault upon the young wife of Albert Ualstcad, of IsranchviIIe. Mrs. Halstead is net mere than twenty years of age, and Mr. Frazee, it is alleged, has been paying her marked attention for some time past, giving her singing lessens and teaching her music, culminating in an indecent assault. KL.ACK OX GARFIELH. Charging Falsehood Asalnst Ilim. Throwing il Little Light en the Cretilt Me unter liuslncss Gartielil's Bctensc Man Man Man IngCotniuen Cause With Ills Politi cal Friends at thftKxponse of Truth ami His Keputatlen. The New Yerk Sun prints the following lrem Hen. J. b. Black : Te the Editor el the Sun. sin : l our questions are entitled te a candid answer. I will set down their sub -stance aud give my reply te each one in the order you put them. First. Did I mean in my letter te Mr. Blaine that General Garfield acknowledged the receipt of stock and dividends from Oakes Ames? Unquestionably he agreed te take the stock aud did receive dividends upon it. The letter plainly implies that he had net concealed or tried te conceal that fact from mc. But his admission was coupled with a statement which showed him te be guiltless. Second. Did In declare te mc that he would go before the Poland committee and testily truly that he had taken the steci; I had no previous conversation with him him about his testimony before tue i'eland committee and I did net knew whit it would be until I heard it delivered. Third. Did I advise and urge him te tell the iralh? Ne, certainly net. Such advice and urgency would have been a most outrageous insult which I could net offer te any gentleman of his character. Fourth. Did he agree te adept the line of defence suggested te me ? Yen seem te think that I was his counsel. I was net, but as his friend and a believer in his perfect innocence I was extremely anxious that he should get salcly out et 1ns untor unter untor tunate business. After it began te be dis cussed in ths newspapers and before the committee was appointed I besought him te make no statement for the public eyc which might be inconsistent with what he said te me. Lest he might forget it or miss the important points of it I repeated the substance of it somewhat carefully. He did net reply aud I learned seen after ward that he had authorized a total and flat contradiction. Simultaneously the ether members of Congress who arc impli cated made separate statements of the same kind, assuring the public that they never had taken or owned any of the stock at all or received any dividend uoen it. Fifth. Why, according te my under standing of the fact, did Garfield adept a defense se contrary te that he had agreed en ? I have already said he made no state ment about it. His reason for abandon ing the true ground of his defense was doubtless the necessity he felt himself under of making common cause with his political friends, for whom there was no refuge except in a fundamental falsehood. I am, with great respect, yours, etc., J. S. Black. STATE ITEMS. Thce. II. Ncvin's white lead works at Pittsburgh suffered a $3,000 fire the ethcr night ; fully insured. Little Annie Douglass, of Jeffersen, Greene county, while playing with fire, in haled the flames and died from the effect seen after. Hundreds of dollars have been spent in Alteena in trying te erect a 2G0 feet pole en a crowded thoroughfare. Happily it broke en Satnrday, when it had been raised 40 feet and further danger may be averted by abandoning the project of get ting it up. Semes practical jokers greased the track of the railroad a short distance out from thej thriving ."oil town of Knapp's Creek, Crawford county, where a political torch light precession and mass meeting had been held, and a couple of visiting clubs wero detained en the read for mero than an hour, the bold campaigners occupying the time with mingled mirth and profani ty. Jehn Cornelius accompanied the Alteena excursion te the Pittsburgh exposition. While standing en the edge of the track looking at a race the crowd in the rear pushed se hard that Cornelius was thrown en the course. A horse struck him about the head and injured him very severely. He was removed te the hospital and died. Tax Collector Kehlcr, of Erie, who was reported last week as an absconding de faulter, turns up and tells a remarkable story. He says he was returning home en the night of his disappearance, and, being attacked by some one, he was deprived of consciousness. He says he came te him self during the night and found himself lying among the dead in the cemetery vault, robbed of nearly $2,000; that the less weakened his mind, and that he has been wandering around the country ever sinca. James Place, business manager of the Titusville World, who was cowhided by a railroad official some weeks since, received another severe trouncing en Satur lay last the chastiscr in this instance being the pressman in the World office, Place being chased through the strectby the irate em ployee. Beth of these events have been rich tidbits for the Standard organs, whose bitter enmity towards the World which asaumes te be the special chamnieu of the $ producers' interests and against the great monopoly causes them te enjoy immense ly these periodical visitations et wrath upon a responsible agent of their hated rival. THE TURF. Coming liaccs at the Farir. On Saturday, October D.scvcral races will take place at the park grounds. The first race will be a trot for a premium of $2.1, with $12 te first horse, $3 te second and $.1 te third ; the horse trotting closest te four minutes is te take first meney. The second race will be a trot for three minute horses for a premium of $50 ; $25 te first, $15 te second, $10 te third horses. The premium for the pacing race is also $50 and it is devided the same as that of the three minute trot. There will also be a running race for $25 and a mule race for $20. Sale of Ilnrrcs. Samuel Hess & Sen, auctioneers, sold vesterdav at the Mcrrimac Heuse, for Gee. Gressman, 14 head of Canada horses at an average of $177.50 per head. LOCAL INTELLIGENCE. THK tEAF. Tbe Lecal Tobacco Crep. The List of the crop of 1830 has been cut off and housed, aud en the whole it may be said te be the worst of the crop. Much of it is short, and much of it is terribly flea-bitten. We have examined a sample taken at random from an eight acre crop grown near this city, every leaf of which is perforated wi'h hundreds of small holes, the work of the des tructive little pest that is coming te be regarded by tobacco farmers as a far mere dangerous enemy than the cut-worm that destroys the young plants, or the great green worm that se veraciously feeds en the luxuriant leaves. The plants destroyed by the cut-worm can be replaced with ethers, and a careful farmer can manage te save the leaves of his growing plants by picking the green worms from them ; but thus far there has been found no proven . tive for the ravages of the flea. Its name is "legion," and its banishment or exter minatien appears te be impossible, it is hoped that Dr. S. S. Rathven, or some ether entomologist, will take an early op portunity te study mere critically than has yet been dene the life and habits of this diminutive pest and find means te stay it ravages. The holes cut in the leaf by the flea are scarcely larger than would be made bv a darning needle, and when the tobacco is green they can scarcely be noticed unless the leaf be held up te the light ; but as it begins te cure the leaf becomes discolored around the edges of the holes which then become painfully visible. As stated above, every leaf in the samples examined was perforated in hun dreds of places, the holes being almost as close together as the meshes of a wue sieve. Many farmers with whom we have conversed declare their tobacco te be free from flea bites, but Mr. Havcrstick, the author of a work en the culture of tobacco, who has made a critical examination in many parts of the county, declares that he has scarcely found a field that has net been mere or less injured, and in this epin ion he is corroborated by ether experts. Packers say that the badly bitten tobacco will net only be unfit for wrappers, but will make very peer fillers, as the manner in which it has been cut up will interfere with its curing. This, perhaps, remains te be seen. Although there have been quite a nuin bcr of dealers and manufacturers in our midst during the past week the sales of 18 if) leaf have net exceeded six hundred cases, the prices in almost every instance being kept private. Iheligurcs, however. are said te be " satisfactory " te both seller and buyer, and from the smiling faces of the high contracting parties, it is evident that neither side thinks the operations will send them te the "demuitien bow wows " the thunder of the Tobacco Jour nal te the contrary notwithstanding. Republican Fiancen. Tiie attempted Republican meeting at Rcinheld's station last week, was a failure. Only fifteen persons reported, including no speakers. The alleged meeting at Fritztown, en last Friday evening, was a similar failure ter similar reasons. On Friday evening last, the Republicans after considerable trouble, succeeded in raising a small pine pole, about 80 feet long, at Pcquca station. It is pretty hard for a stranger te tell te whom the pole belongs, as it has no beard nor sign, and the small Hag that floats near the top is wrong end up. At a late Republican meeting in Salunga the speaker was a woman and the platform a beard pile. After adjournment the at tendants showed their love of the sol dier by putting up bean poles and paste board placards with "Peer Old Hand cock " en them. The Mcchanicsburg Radicals arc se par alyzed by the news from Maine that they are thinking of voting for Hancock se as te keep the posteflicc. Tae DcGeIyerites of Petersburg were sadly stricken by the last and decisive news from Maine. The notary gathered the faithful together in little knots fin consolation, but could net shake their be lief that "Jim Garfield can't be elected." Neither the Dauphin county stumper, nor their toy drum, nor their midnight rallies among the cobwebs of the tobacco shed, nor their tramps around town can inspire them with confidence. They foresee their certain deem. The Conestoga Centre Republicans fail ed te raise their pole en. Saturday, as only Heg Ring speakers wcte sent te inspire them. Johnny Urban, candidate for as sembly, dressed out inCapt. Hcss's sword, sash and scabbard, waited patiently for the colored troops whom he was te mar shal, bnt they came net. The half hick ory, half poplar pole broke twice and still lies prone. A AI MIHTAKK. A Yeung aian Mistaken for a Hurglar anil Shet. A sheeting affray occurred at the vil lage of Sinking Springs,nt an early hour en Sunday morning, which came near result ing in the death of Rccse Gaul, a young man who resides, when at home, with his stepfather, a man named Hettinger. Gaul is a student at Muhlenberg college, Allcn Allcn tewn, and en Saturday returned home en a visit te his mother. On Saturday evening he went out driv ing in a carriage and did net return until Sunday morning. After putting his horse in the stable he returned te the house. and in order net te awaken the inmates, he opened a shutter and entered the build ing. The noise awakened Heward Het tinger, who supposed burglars had gained an entrance, and picking up a twenty-two calibre revolver, went in search et the supposed intruders. Gaul went out of the room into the yard, and was talking te a companion who had accompanied him home. Hettinger seeing the two men, fired his pistol at them, the ball passing through Gaul's thigh, inflicting a severe but net dangerous wound, the bullet barely miss ing the femoral artery. Gaul called en him net te sheet, exclaiming, " Don't you knew me?" but tee late te prevent the sheeting. Medical aid was summoned and the wound dressed. The affair causes much excitement in the vicinity. MOltE CLASSIC ORATOK1. Frem Lecal Republican Stump Speakers. I In j- ilrewn at Lampeter. " My father went down Seuth and tlfty gave him 24 hours te leave." Irreverent Hearer, sotto voce. " If he was anything like you they al lowed him 12 hours tee much." The Treasury te Draw On. Mm Cellins at Gclgcr's Ore Mines. "The Democrats may have their barrels in this campaign, but wc have the whole United States treasury at our backc." High, Lew and the Game. Hilly Wilsen at Gclgcr's Ore Mines. "As te the Maine election they laugh best who laugh last." "After November we will take little Billy Hcnscl and Jacob Yawceb Steinmetz, we will make a little coffin, dig a little hole and put a little dirt en them. Yes, iny friends, after November we will put our opponents up se high that the robins will build nests in then: coat tails." The Sixth Ward Club Farade Te-night. At a meeting of the line officers of the VM. Wnrrt-AmnrifMiR rlnh. lipid insfc nvnn. ing at. the control headquarters, the fob f AM.Iwr 1.t ll'lie A rMinrl .Wl .w Hn n I lUVVlIli; lUUt; HrtO HlbUU lljJUII 1UI bMU Jf.- rade of the club te-night: Ferm en North Queen street in front of SMiiilnr linnuv nnfc Vnrtfi Oupim tn Fmd- crick, te Duke, te Walnut,, te Lime, te Lemen, te Shippen, te Fulton, te Marshall, te Chestnut, te Duke, te Walnut, te North Queen, te Schiller house and dismiss. TRANCE PREACHING. Great Excitement Among tbe AmUh Men- u.., uuannit ana euwrs. Fer mere than a week past there has been great interest felt and net a little as- tenishment and excitement manifested among the Araish Mennonites and ethcr German religious sects of this county by reason of the wonderful preaching of Neah Troyer, a plain uneducated farmer, whose home is about 15 miles southwest of Iowa City, in the state of Iowa, and who for mere than four years past has been amaz ing the people of the West by preaching. His fame as a preacher, and seme ac count of the peculiar physical phenomena accompanying his religious ministrations, having reached his brethren in this coun ty, arrangements were made te have him come East and preach a scries of sermons in different sections of the county. On Monday and Tuesday evenings of last week he preached le large congregations at the residence of C. L. Kauffman, near the Gap. On Wednesday evening he preached at Mr. Mast's, near the Com pass, in Sadsbury township, Chester coun ty ; en Thursday evening at Bishop Jehn P. Mast's at Morgantown, just ever the Berks county line; en Friday evening at Hershey's meet ing house, Pequea Valley, where hi congregation numbered fully 1,400 per sons; en Saturday evening at Jeseph Shertz's, in the Conestoga Valley ; en Sun day evening at the Mennonite church, near Churchtown, and last night at the resi dence of Jacob K. Zeek, at the four-mile stene, ncarBinkley's bridge, en the New Helland pike. The number present at each of these meetings was fully l,000,and at seme of them 1,500. The meeting at Mr. Zeek's was very large, the house and the grounds adjacent being crowded, while hundreds of teams lined the roadsides and were hitched at cvery convenient place in the vicinity. There wcre brethren present from all parts of the cemty from Ephrata en the north, Safe Harber en the south, the Gap en the cast anil Mount Jey and Elizabeth town en the west, and seme from even mere distant points. A iccital of the peculiar physical mani festations affecting the preacher before and during the meeting at Mr. Zoek'i will serve for all the ether meetings, for they were alike in all of them. During the greater part of the day, say from 4 o'clock in the morning uutil 4 o'clock in the after noon, Mr. Troyer behaves in the most ra tional aud matter-of-fact way, and any one would take him te be a plain conunon cenunon conunen schsc farmer, as indeed he is. He con verses with ordinary intelligence en mat ters of everyday life, and no one would for a moment suspect him of being cither an orator, hypocrite or a dunce. About 4 o'clock in the afternoon he begins te show sign of dullness, and converses with difficulty, while there arc slight twitchiugs and convulsive movements of his arms and legs. These increase in in tensity until it becomes necessary for his attendants te take charge of him and lay him en a leunge. Herc he remains in ap parent unconsciousness until about G o'clock, when his attendants, from long ac quaint anC3 with him, knew that he is about te commence his religious ministrations. He is raised from the leunge and falls upon his knees, and with eyes closed and hands outspread he effersup a most fervent prayer (generally in both German and English), aud couched in language that would de credit te the most accomplished pulpit orator. The prayer ended, he gives out a hymn, and this being sung, and he supported en his feet by his attendants (one of whom is his uncle, Stephen Yedcr, and the ether his son-in-law, J. P. King), he takes a text, aud with his eyes remaining closed, preaches a sermon seldom speaking less than two hours and sometimes three. His text last evening was "Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall sce Ged." He spoke for about two hours and a quarter, part of the time in English and part in German. His language was net only well chosen but his thoughts well arranged and his argument logical. A leading thought with him appeared te be the necessity of uniting all the different religious sects into a homogeneous brother hood. He commenced his discourse in the room in which was the leunge en which he had been lying, but lie was gradually moved by his attend ants te the front perch, se that the great multitude eutside might the bet ter hear him. Closing his disceurse iu a becoming manner, he called upon ministers of the gospel, if any wcre present, te bear witness that he had preached nothing but the word of Ged. There happened te be four ministers of the Old Mennonite church present, one of whom had come from Canada te hear him, and they testified net only te the orthodoxy of the sermon, but te the wonderfully clear and impassioned manner in which the truth had been pre scntcd. At the close of the sermon Mr. Troyer lapsed into apparent unconscious ness, and remained in that condition until 4 o'clock this morning, when awoke and assumed his normal condition of a country farmer, and professed te be utterly ob livious of anything he said or did while in a state of trance. Mr. Troyer is a man of about 50 years of age, a native of Mifflin county, this state, but for several years past a resident of Iowa. About seven years age he first ex perienced the nei von-; twitchiugs and con tortions and seasons of unconsciousness which have ever since affected him, and about four years age he commenced his involuntary preaching. At first he suffer ed much pain, but latterly suffers little, though his nervous paroxysms arc painful te beheld. We met him this morning in the Penn sylvania railroad depot. He was accom panied by his wife aud one of bis four children, besides his uncle and brother-in-law mentioned above, and was surrounded by a dozen or mere Mennonite friends. He started West, it being the intention of these who accompany him te step at vari ous points in Ohie and Indiana and have ' him preach. Last year he preached 13:5 sermons en as many consecutive days. Mr. J. K. Zeek requests us te thank, in his name, the people who attended the meeting last evening, for their very orderly behavior. Wc are also requested te say that the meeting was te have been held at Mr. Lapp's at Scalp Level, but that owing te a misunderstanding the usa of the place was refused aud Mr. Zeek's place was selected instead. This explanation is due te these persons who failed te hear the gic at preacher by reason of their going te Mr. Lapp's instead of Mr. Zeek's. IN LINK. The Faraillie UancecK Clnb. On Friday night Sept. 21 the Democracy of Paradi&c township, met at Londen Greve hotel and organized a Hancock and English club. The following arc the names of the offi effi cers: President, Daniel Rice a man who fought all through the war, lest a leg, and says when the war was ended and the Seuth accepted all the constitutional amendments and reconstruction acts he was ready te take them by the hand as men of ene great and united country. Vice President Mcnno Hcr3hcy and A, J. Irvin. Secretary N. J.LcFcvre. Treasurer D. W. Edwards. Marshal .Jehn Phenegar ; Aids, James Ncal and James Bewers. There were Gl names en the roll and the club meets en Tuesday night in Paradise when the roll will feet up ever 150. The Paradise cornet baud was in attendance during the evening and treated the crowd te very geed music. nH If m r. -. -1 i
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