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LANCASTER DAILY INTELLIGENCER SATURDAY, NOVEMBER G 1880.
Lancaster intelligencer.
SATURDAY EVENING, NOV. G, 1B80.
After the Baltic.
Xew that the agony of the political
campaign is ever, will sober, thoughtful
people nay ,will the excitable and enthu
siastic leaders of practical politics calm
ly and profitably consider the vast
amount of humbug and clap-trap there
is in the present popular style of cam
paign and devise and resolve upon some
means of terminating it ? "We need net
leek bf-yond the horizon of our own com
munity te illustrate the subject suffi
ciently te justify the demand for reform.
The banners, the flags, the Uniforms,
the parades, and the wild excitement
night after night what did they cost
and what were tiiey worth ? The " poll
committees" en election day, four feur
lifths or whom were enrolled solely te
keep the votes or make the votes what
did they cost and what were they worth ?
Hew many thousands of dollars have
been spent in this ciiy. hew many
hundreds of thousands in this state,
-and hew many millions in the country,
during this campaign, te keep up this
delirious excitement, this popular de
moralization and debauchery ! What
liave we left for it but the charred sticks
of spent fireworks !
The campaign is ever, the voting is
done, people are settling down te their
ordinary pursuits, but it has left behind
it momentous questions which may prop
erly engage fnesidc discussion. The
dry ret of our political system is creep
ing through every community. Its
poison is being diffused through our so
cial life. The reform is casj. Will the
better men of a!! parlies unite te effect
it ?
i reference te the table of complete
ttleclien returns, which we print, it will
be seen that the total vote polled in this
ceuntv for presidential electors was "50,
:U, by far the largest ever polled and in
dicating the. most strenuous efforts by
both parties te cast their utmost strength,
each of the leading organizations show
ing an increased vote of nearly 1-per
cent, ever thai polled for president, in
187'i. The combined Temperance and
Greenback vole is searceh one-third of
one per cent, of the whole. Our private
additions make the Republican majority
S,0!s-2 less than that obtained by the
footings of the clerks.
Fer district attorney it will be seen
that the lejal vote polled is only il.s,.",12,
or l..v:: less than the vote for presiden
tial elect eis, indicating that there are
thai number of Republicans in thecoun theceun
ty who were willing te ' cut" Davis,
ami yet who could net rise te the height
of voting for his opponent. The -!('.!!
votes by which .lames Black, esq., for
district attorney led the Temperance
electors, may b -.et down in the same
category. Thee make " 1-1 Republican
votes hat protested only half way
against Davis. Had they tee been cast
for MeMullen. his mitmrit would have
been reduced te 1.1M.
These figures prove very plainly that
only the fact of its being a presidential
year saved Davis from defeat. Had it
been otherwise tiiau a campaign in
which the politicians feared the effect
en the general canvass the cutting would
have been deeper and mere effective and
-Mr. MeM alien would have been elected.
TiiK majority ler Garlicld in New
Yerk is no! nearly .se large in proportion
as was the majority for Tilden in Louisi
ana four years age. The allegations of
fraud in Louisiana four years age were
net. nearly se specilie nor se well sub
stantiated a- the evidences of fraud in
Xew 'fork new. The Republicans then
had one heu-.e of Congress te witness
the counting of I he vole. The Demo
crats new have both houses of Congress
te count the vote, te reject such states
as they see til. and te declare such result
as they may find the circumstances of
the ea.-' te warrant under constitutional
forms and according te Republican pre
cedents. If Mr. I'ainum should come
te Philadelphia and select Wm. Mc
Mullm and Samuel Josephs te go ever
te New Yerk te supervise the count of
the voles, te make affidavits for Demo
cratic witnesses, as Garfield made them
for Republican witnesses in Xew Or
leans, and in general te frame tiie Demo
cratic case, we have no doubt they could
get up a much better one for Hancock
than" Garfield did for Tilden. If Congress
should then constitute Messrs. McMuHiii
and Josephs a high commission te adju
dicate their case, in all human probabil
ity they would decide the presidential
contest in favor of Hancock. llew
would the Republicans like te have corn
measured te them in their own bushel ?
Hew would Mr. Garfield like te be heist
with his memorable petard of 1S70 77 ?
A w kitki: m the Pittsburgh Pest re
calls, in a circumstantial narrative, the
exciting events of four years age, when,
at about this dan-, a cabal of Pennsyl
vania politicians roosting in Philadel
phia planned the means by which Iraud
was then made triumphant in the pres
idential election, and the way paved for
the election new of the man who leek
the most conspicuous part in that con
spiracy against constitutional liberty.
There is no longer any doubt that what
was done in Flerida and Louisiana in
lS7Gwasthe conception of the peculiar
school of politicians who buzzed around
Grant at that time. We have even been
furnished with satisfactory evidence that
Grant's dispatch about no man worthy
the office of president taking it it' count
ed in was a " blind ' written by Den
Cameren himself.
Tin; -Sen' Yerk 'Jii.Kx in 1870 in
augurated 1 evolution" by holding te the
claim that Haves was elected when he
was net. The Republican leaders en
gaged in 4i seditious feeling" te make
fraud triumphant and counted states
Republican that had '' honestly and ir
revocably" gene Democratic. Xew that
their ex is gored hew differently thev
talk !
The convening of the national Demo
cratic committee te consider the frauds
in Xew Yerk gives the Republicans quite
a spasm. The ghost of 1S70 rises up te
confront them.
Jh:. "Whaktex Bauer's- paper in
Philadelphia, whose editor is one of
Garfield's closest friends, announces
that the succession in 1884 is by no
means premised, much less secured, te
Grant, and that the candidate of 18S0 is
likely te le thecandidate of 1SH4. This
is likely. All the mere se ir Garfield
gave Conkling, Cameren and Legan rea
son te expect otherwise. It is a way
these Ohie ieeple have. After Cameren
helped te steal the presidency for Hayes
he was despitefully snubbed, and new if
Garfield get! in he may be disposed te
set up en his own account for his own
succession.
Secretary Evarts, early en "Wed
nesday morning, telegraphed te Gen.
Longstreet, late of the C. S. A. and new
minister from a Republican administra
tion te Turkey, that Hancock was beat
en. The World slyly intimates that this
was mere grateful news than Longstreet
had after Gettysburg's third day.
PERSONAL.
The DeJIcfentc papers note the piescnce
in that town of Mrs. S. II. Revxei.us and
Mrs. P. E. Gmnexs. of this county.
Soi.ex Romxsex, the well-known agri
cultural writer and formerly the farmer-
:
editor of the Weekly Tribune, died recent
ly in Flerida where he had gene te see
what he knew about farming.
"They say," Jen:; M. Sti:i;uax, of
this county, elector-elect, is net qualified
te serve in the electoral college, being a
national bank director and technically a
federal official.
The Merccrsburg Jinmuil announces the
suspension (possibly only temporarily) of
Merccrsburg college, ever which the Rev.
E. E. Higher, D. I)., presides. Debts,"
says the Journal, "and .their accompany
ing troubles have occasioned this. This
institution has been in an unfortunate
condition, financially, for some time past."
The daughter of Senater Dux C'ameuex
and the son of Senater Wiij.i am A. "Wal
lace are te be married in a few days.
They are net te he married te each ether,
however. Cameren's daughter is te be
come the wife or Jndge Umllcy's son and
young Wallace is te wed Miss Ycakley, a
niece of the editor of the Clearfield ?-
piliilicilli.
At the residence of Hen. Jeseph II.
Xisslcy. at Middletown, en Thursday
evening, there assembled a fashionable
company te witness the solemnization of
the marriage contract between William
M. Lauman, esj., of the well-known firm
of Keiulig, Firicker & L:-umau, lumber
merchants, and Miss Lillie Xis-slcv, second
daughter of Hen. Jeseph il. Xissley.
Ov. i-n P. PmieKr.it, of Lancaster, was one
of the groomsmen.
At Feit "Wayne, Indiana, en Thursday
evening, Mr. James Ilvu-u.i' WrcK
r.itsiiAM, general manager of the Inquirer
printing establishment, in this city,
was married te Miss Jessie Wil
liams Heugh. The services were per
formed in the First Piesbyterian church,
at seven o'clock p. m. and from eight, te
eleven a reception was held al the i evi
dence of the bride's mother, Mrs. Sarah
D. Heugh. Among the Laneasterians pre
sent were the groom's father, J. P. Wick
crsham, his mother and sister. Jeseph E.
Bewman, of the Kxn miner. David W. Pat
terson, jr., an:l "Will Hendersen.
MINOR TOPICS.
Wiikx in a civil case a Scotch jury of
twelve stay eat three hours a majority of
nine may bring in a verdict.
The hay window new trouble- the Phil
adelphia cenucilnien. Tf it must he taken
in some of them will be largely reduced in
avordupeis.
"RiNXixe after pulpit novelty," says
the Herald mid I'rexhyter. "is spiritually
unhealthy. Every one should,, when it is
possible, eat his victuals at his own tabic
and worship at his own church. Moreover,
spiritual as well as temporal feed should
betaken regular! v.
The Society of Arts is putting tablets
up in Louden en houses once occupied by
famous men. It has already marked four
teen houses, including the residences of
Jehnsen, Faraday, Garrick, Xelsen, Dry
den, Reynolds and Ryren, and ordered six
mere tablets ler the erection of which it
has obtained permission. Charles Dick
ens's name is down en the list.
Du. Rew r."s Chicago Field for the cur
rent week devotes six of its wide columns
tJ a full account of the recent field trials
i l this county and the discouraging cir
cumstances under which they were held.
It is especially severe en Win. Reehin. of
Quarryville, who, it says, shot the hints
off the ground he had premised te pro
tect, and the Field declares he will be ex
pelled from the state association.
A Loxnex dealer in second-hand ser
mons has sent circulars te many clergy
men in this country soliciting their pat
ronage, lie offers sermons "lithographed
in a bold, round hand," se that thefjc who
happened te see them would suppose that
they were manuscript, for 2.1 cents eaeh,
or 820 a hundred. He has a list of cheaper
sermons in print, at 10 cents apiece, war
ranted orthodox ; and ethers a little mere
expensive which have "a pleasantness,
yet an awful solemnity about them."
The Reading Xenfs has entered upon
ts second volume and announces that the
success that has crowned its entrance into
that prolific field of journalism has hcen
unexpectedly gratifyiiigand unprecedented
in local newspaper annals. As the daily or
gan of the staunch Democracy of Berks
county, the Xeits enjoys a wide field of
usefulness, and that our handsome and
enterprising contemporary has been equal
te the occassien is proven alike by il own
prosperity and the increased Democratic
vote of that stronghold of the untcrrified.
The Sjned of Ohie of the Reformed
church in the United States convened in
Columbiana, O., en the 19th or October.
There were about eighty ministers and
ciders present. The largest portion of the
membership of this synod lies in Ohie.
Its numerical strength is about 2.1,000
members. Heidelberg college and theo
logical seminary, located at Tiffin, O., arc
under the care of this synod. The college
recently received a bequest of $10,000 to
wards the establish nit of a Hivliug prefes
sership from Miss Sarah A. Hivling, of'
Xenia, O., who died last August.
The Rebert Raikes Centennial Sunday-
school fund of the American Baptist pub
lication society has reached $7,000. It is
proposed that special Thanksgiving and
Christmas gifts sheuldjbe made by these
formerly Sunday-school scholars, for the
establishment of a permanent fund, the
interest te be annually used in each state,
according te the amounts contributed. It
has been proposed that ,00D at lea&t
should be secured in Pennsylvania, se that
the missionaries of the general association
might be enabled toerganizo new Sunday
schools and aid needy schools already in
existence.
The Vermont Congregationalists re
cently had a memorial presented te the
Legislature of that state requesting the
passage of a law prohibiting the desecra
tion of the Sabbath and the disturbance of
church congregations by the running of
railroad trains en Sunday. The constitu
tion of Vermont recognizes the Christian
Sabbath in the third article of the Bill of
Rights, which declares that every sect
or denomination of Christians ought te ob
serve the Sabbath or Lord's day." The
statutes of Vermont from an early day
hare forbidden travel and secular labor en
Sunday, with the customary exceptions of
works of necessity or charity.
The defeat of Mr. Chittenden in the
Brooklyn congressional district, and the
election of Rev. J. Hyatt Smith, his Green
back Democratic competitor, is described
as one of the ludicrous surprises of the cam
paign. Tlie district is strongly Republican,
and the EcminPest says : " Mr. Smith's
candidacy was supposed te be a huge prac
tical joke. Se far as wc have been able te
ascertain, the platform of the Rev. J.
nyatt Smith consists of a single plank:
the prevention of the manufacture of hats
in the state prisons of Xew Yerk. The
support of Uiis measure and the publica
tion of a Baptist open communion'
novel comprise, we believe, all of the
secular activities of Mr. Smith."
Giieex MerxT, the well-known Balti
more cemetery, was once the country scat
of Jehn Oliver, a prosperous merchant of
Baltimore, an Englishman by birth, whose
heiress was a daughter, a beautiful girl of
twenty. She had a lever suitable in years
and station, of whom her father disap
proved, as he had ether views for Ills only
child. They met clandestinely, and the
father gave orders te his keepers te sheet
any one found in the grounds after night.
Disguised in man's clothing she attempted
te keep an appointment with her lever,
and was shot dead by a watcher. The
Oliver vault is in the grounds which wcie
deeded te the city for a cemetery by Oli
ver after his death.
A iunil Suggestion.
Fer tilt" 1 NTia.LKiExcKi:.
Why will net some honest ami frank
"business man" carry in the Republican
parade this evening a banner bearing the
following :
' We Republicans el Lancaster city aie
celebrating our defeat in this city after
much fuss and brag, aud also celebrating
an event which has never happened before
in American history, viz. : The election
te the high offices of president and vice
president, of two men against whom there
is still en file in the records of the national
Heuse and Senate grave and serious
charge.:, proofs and verdicts of gross
wrong-doing while in office ; charges, in
vestigations and reports made by Repub
licans, viz. : The Poland and Glever com
mittees reports and "secretary Sherman's
written charges against Arthur, and in
the case of the Poland committee con
firmed by the unanimous vote of the
Heuse. X.
Was Daniel Webster u Unitarian?
Cincinnati Commercial.
Mr. Jeseph Cook having written that
Daniel "Webster was net a Unitarian, a
rather lively discussion lias arisen en that
interesting point, and Dr. S. K. Lithrep
writes te the Rev. "W. C. "Wcndte, of Cin
cinnati en the subject. He says: "As
Mr. Cook knows everything, 1 suppose
he knows this, else he would net venture
te make such a bold, strong, positive,
unqualified statement. I counted myself
aineug the acquaintances and friends of Mr.
Webster for mere than thirty years ;
for mere than twenty of these years I w.s
quite intimate with him, and from twelve
te fifteen of them I numbered him among
the pew owners, worshipers and communi
cants of the church in Brattle square, of
which 1 was pastor, and was regarded by
him as his minister, and during these yeais
I had various religious conversations with
him upon themes which I have already in
dicated. I had, therefore, some opportu
nity te knew something of the character
and tendency or leaning of Mr. Webster's
religious thoughts. Yet I de net think I
should be willing, in Mr. Cook's positive,
absolute, unqualified way, cither te assert
or deny that Mr. Webster was a Unitarian
But I de maintain aud should always be
ready te declare it in the strongest possible
italics, that Mr. Webster was bread, large,
liberal, comprehensive in his religious as
in his political opinions and convictions ;
there was nothing bigeted small, narrow,
scclarian. and certainly nothing distinctly
Calvini.stic or orthodox about him.
Sam McDeimlit-".
A Baltimore correspondent of the De
troit 7'Vte Press, speaking of the "towered
home ' of McDonald, the owner of Flera
Temple in her palmy days, near that city,
gees en te say : " McDonald has entered
into his inheritance in Ged's acre, and his
widow is married te a French count. A
childless mother enjoys his etioimeus
wealth. Never had a boy such oppertu
nities ter a useful lite as bam AlcDenalu,
who died net long since in Indiana,
snatched from a gallows through the
clemency of Pinkncy "White, governor of
Maryland, who had been his guardian aud
father's friend. The stories related of
this young bleed's sports rival everything
iu the cxhaustlcss catalogue of prodigality.
On one occasion, while driving into
town, he overtook a drove of pigs,
some twenty-five or thirty in number. He.
bought them of the owner, and hiring as
many carriages he put a pig and been
companion in eaeh and drove home. Sur
rounding the house they wrung the por per por
kers' tails, and all yelled in concert. The
grand finale was te let the pigs loose in
the drawing-room aud call all the dogs in
the place aud have a .regular chase. The
larks mounted en the furniture, holding
their sides with laughter at such rare fun.
Whe Sam reached his majority there was
feasting, bonfires, and rejoicing, as if a
young earl had taken possscssien of his
earldom."
He Has a Kiglit te Crew.
riitsiMir-h l'est.
The only rooster we have seen out of
his cage lately raised his clarion notes in
the Lancaster Ixteli.uirxcer ever the
result iu that city.
Oil AleildflV tllO new PllHailplnll'ii lirtmrt
for incurables, at "Woodland avenue aud i
Forty-eighth street, is te be dedicated,
SOME INSIDE HISTORY
OF
KVKXTs IX A CEUTAIX HCGK PLOT
OF VOBK YEARS AC.O.
Seme Ket-ollectieu of tbc Birth of the
"Visiting .Statesmen" Band ami
the Ir-iiiiT of '76.
riltburg!i l'e-r.
Four years age this week the American
people were passing through a terrible
strain. The excitement was fearful and
ominous. Republicans, as a general
thing, had ceacecded the election of Til
den, the state of Oregon was in doubt,
the plot by which Louisiana and Flerida
were stolen were still in embryo, a lew
stalwart Republicans still claimed that
Hayes was elected, ethers of the office
holders who did net claim a victory held
their breath and waited for a nod from the
leaders te begin te steal electoral votes
but as vet the greatest fraud of tlie cen
tury was still in the loins of time.
At that time the writer was in rlnlaciel
phia acting as Centennial exposition corres
pondent, and reporter en a city daily and
what fellows came under his personal ob
servatien.
The seat of government hail been virtu
arly changed from Washington te the
Quaker city for the time being. Within a
square of the Schuylkill, en the corner of
Chestnut street, stands a queer-looking
dwelling. It is costly and elegant as te
material, but in appearance it is squat ami
ugly. In the interior of this residence
there ate many elegant and very expensive
articles of furniture and bric-a-brac and
some almost priceless relics and memen
toes. In the furniture and drapery eiyiic
house there is a predominance of two
colors, blue and red. In the character of
the relics and mementoes there is a pre
dominance of two elements, these of titled
persons and these of men and women cmi
dent in literature. This is the famous
residence of Geerge W. Ghilds, the man
who is regarded by the Xew Yerk Sun as
being the most talented writer of the
century, of four line couplets en the dead.
Fer a week in that month of November,
four years age, Mr. Childs's house was the
actual executive mansion. Here it was
that Grant, had Ids residence during his
visit te the exposition and here he scented
the lace curtains in the parlor windows
with the fragrant odor of cigar smoke.
Here also at. the same time cold and digni
fied Hamilton Fish, secretary of state, was
enjoying Mr. Child's cuisine. Here it was
that active, red headed, ambitious Den
Cameren, secretary of war, spent his even
ings. I fere Adnlph Berie, Grant's ex
secretary n! the navy (a geed matured,
pompous little man) came te listen, with
patient car, te the talk of abler men and
aii! them as far as he could. Here also
came handsome and conceited Jee Haw
ley, of Connecticut, president of the ex
position seeiety. Bleeding, .scheming Ol
iver P. Morten, was here tee.
and se was Richard McCermi'.'k, of
Arizona, a jelly, gentlemanly fellow, at
that time secretary of the Republican na
tional committee ; Yeung Ulysses Grant,
who flirted with half a dozen girls, was
engaged te a girl in Pennsylvania and one
in Cincinnati at the same time, and who
was married a day or two age te Miss
Chaffee, was with his pry at the house of
Cliilds. Coining and going daily te that
house en the corner were numbers of poli
ticians of all stripes and standings. They
had business that week with their mas
ters. Between the 1th and the 8th
of the month the Republican lead
ers giew frightened. Tilden had carried
Louisiana and Flerida and the pieblcm
was, hew te get the status away from him.
Grant, was importuned te interfere but for
some cause he reiuseii at tir.M te ! se
Cameren grew angry with him and told
liim he would defeat the party which had
twice elected him pic.-idcut. On the 8th
of November Cameren went, te Washing
ton. Next day a messenger arrived from
the capital, lie drove up te the house en
the corner late at night and hurriedly
entered. A sheit time afterward the
gas was lighted in the loom in the second
story which was occupied by Grant and
young "Ly?sus came te the window and
pulled the blinds together. Who the man
was the writer dues net knew, hut he bore
a message from Cameren and ids confed
erates, asking that troops should he sent
te the Southern states which were te be
manipulated. Still Grant refused. A
telegram stating that Grant would net
move in the matter was sent te Cameren
by Beb Maekcy. who wrote it in his fa
vorite resort at a well-known saloon
and restaurant en Ninth street, where
Cameren's agent went after his interview
with Grant. Camereu hastened back next
day,and with him came anotheref Grant's
cabinat, Secer Robeson, secretary of the
navy. They arrived in. the afternoon.
Giant was at the exposition. He had been
looking at the display made bj the gov
ernment in company with Berie. After
supper there was a cabinet, council in
Childs's library. It last long that council
that meant se much te the American
people, but it ended by (2 rant yielding te
the prayers of the sehemcrs. At this
council there cunc up for Cue first time
a matter that afterward became one of
the must famous features of that famous
plot the advisability of" sending various
prominent Republicans of the shrewdest
political type te Louisiana ami Fleiida as
"visiting statesmen" te see the votes
stolen by the returning beards. The plot
in the main was arranged that night (Ne
vcmber Dth), and one or two of the states
men who were te go Seuth were notified.
Sherman and Ivassen were among them,
but all the details were net put in shape
until the following morning. Shortly after
two o'clock in the morning. Secretary
Cameren left the Childs residenca. He
stepped out en the pavement with a r.mile
en his face, jumped into a carriage which
was waiting and drove te his rooms at
the Continental hotel, where he had a
short talk with Beb Maekcy in the ro re
tuuda before he went te bed. As has been
said, the plot was completed in full en the
morning of the 10th. It was done in the
private office of Jee HawJey. This efiiee
was in the western wing of the com
missioners' building beside the department
of public comfei t. 1 Iawlcy had two offices,
a public one and a private one, which was
in tlie corner el the building and here it
was that, everything was settled. The wri
ter happened te have business with Gen.
Ilawley, and he went into the outer office.
The deer opening into the private office
was open. Ne one was in the first room
and the writer was about te enter the
ether when lie saw a party of men grouped
around a desk at which President Grant
was sitting. Cameren, Fish, Guilds, Mc
Cormick, Robeson, Ilawley and young
Grant, were there, and if the writer re
members rightly, Senater Morten was
there tee. Grant, had a sheet of paper in his
hand which he read and laid down saying,
"I am net sure- it is the best thing te de,
but it is done new and that ends if."
Just then a clerk entered, accompanied
by Jeseph Gilbert who was acting as agent
for the associated press. They passed into
the inner oiiiee without paying any atten
tion te tlie writer. After an introduction
Grant handed Gilbert the sheet of paper
which he had been reading a few minutes
before and said, " Mr. G ilberl here is an
order which I have sent te Gen. Sherman
directing him te send United States troops
into Louisiana and Fierida. Yeu will
please send it by the associated press." A
few words of conversation followed which
the writer did net hear and then Gilbeit
left and the ofiiccdeor was closed. "Dick"
McCormick a few minutes later come out
and when asked by the writer why the
troops were ordered te these states
he said that Grant h;.d been as
sured that it was necessary te preserve
order and that he did net intend te allow
flip llnnnllltran ftln!e1ctnlin "lmlMn-nl
lie then gave the writer a list of the "vis
iting statesmen," who were te go Seuth,
and this was the first official information
which was given te the prcss.en the mat
ter. Among ether uames en this list was
that et Garfield, who McCormick said was
a congressman from Ohie, ami a verv ca
pable man, tee." The list of names and
the substance of Graut's order were sent
te Mr. Tilden in New Yerk fifteen minutes
after they were made known, te warn the
Democrats of the impending trouble.
"What followed arc matters of our crimi
nal history. Generals Imager's and Auger's
troops and the statesmen gobbled up the
two states, Hayes went into office, every
body who took a haud in the ieb was re
warded, even down te Garfield.
PBNNS YL.VA I A .
Presidential .llafertties by Cem.:;
'mil.,. In,,. ' Han- Gar-
inaj. j """' j maj. ma).
Adams .llSt ! fiir.
Allegheny i,41. liif.irt
Avnistreni; ' ' tw 7:".rt
Heaver ' t.inu i;oe
J'tUutOi-il r.i2 rr N'i .'
Iterks T,.v.i:: 7;:u
Jihtir. S19 lit)
Itr.ulfenl ; :V01) ::i0
Hucks :il m
llutlur. si:: .'.'.!
Cambria i,-X.l : ijii
Cameren ' ,yr
Carben :iiS na
Centre !W M
Chester. :l,ui -2771
Clarien 1,107 ! It e;
Cleartlehl i.ftf ;....is-r.
Clinten i.lfcV ! 7.VV
Columbia , 2,:JiV iii'.j
Crawford ' ...' sw I3l."
Cumberland j 'Jill i lnji
Dauphin j I -.'.ei'.i tsoe
Delaware "J,J34 1 "iji".
Elk 7'Jit j 7ii
Erie ! 2.5 l.v I "2I0t
Eavctte i.-'ir.! !....i::.!
Ferest I I 71' 1 45
Franklin -277' 1 115
Fulton ; sffii; ! :;:i.i!
(Jrcene "... l,7i:i i '2.7u
lliintinjrden 511 71S
Indiana "2,Sis! .1 "2157
Jetlernen im I KH)
Juniata its : :;7i
Lancaster. 7,7S'"; Ste'S
Lackawanna ..' . ' 50ii
Lawrence ; UK.V "ii:0.)
Lebanon i : i,r2t ltoe
Lehigh I "2,!71j '....2!7r
Luzerne i :(, 17.11 1 1517
Lycoming l,:!i:' 15UI
McKean 1071 527
Mercer 02I1 j ten
Millliu 171 : 1 520
Menree -2..10I eati
Montgomery... 'Iffi ' 1 10
Menteur...!.... 592 .VJ7
Northampton ... :!.0 :v.'2j
XerthiunlH'ird.! IOC) ; 0c?.V
1'erry iai ....--! ' iie
Philadelphia ..., ll.lC.i. I... "20727
Pike s!' : 7a','
Petter ail i :.
Sehnvlkill ' ,7S; . 2171!
Snvder I ' ;:-.. I .rn
Somerset ; I, IIS ' u.li
Sullivan :;77i -tw!
Susquehanna ire: ! 015
TiORii ' :s,lK! ....2-20
Union I (W5 ! 7.V2
Venango ' ' e7t ' 'HM)
Warren 7.4! j 10-'.i
Washington 4-:;' .... 3H
Wayne yic I "2".i'.i!
Westmoreland.,' i.'jwl ; cee!
Wyoming ::ir 10!
Yerk .'.l a.57l 1 S'-Wi'
TIIi: ELECTIONS.
State Keturns and Congressional DUtiiets.
The Xew Yerk state majority upon the
lowest estimate of the Democratic organs
is 14,000, and upon the highest br Repub
licans 28,000. The truth prebaulv U that
it will be about 18,000.
Senater Conkling, Governer Cernell and
General Grant were iu conference yester
day, and the gossips have it that they arc
fixing up a cabinet for Garfield.
The Tammany Democracy have issued
an address te their brethren throughout
the country lamenting the defeat, or Gen
eral Hancock as a great national calamity
and attributing it te fraud, the coloniza
tion of repeaters, and the intimidation of
laboring men. In support of tiii; they ask
that the vote of Xew Yerk city he scrutin
ized and compared with the vote of l"!7fi,
when the Democrats cist ll-2.."i:0 ballets
and the Republicans ."i8..'ii;i. In 18S0 the
Democrats cast 12:5,102 and the Republi-
can M,"t, snowing a liepntdteau increase
of 2:,1Im and a Democratic incieaf-e of
10,573.
Later returns make the vole of Califor
nia practically a tie This change is due
less te any turn iu the reports of precincts
than te a revision of tnc tabulated r-tate-ments.
These differ considerably and I
there arc evidences of loose work suilieient I
te discredit all estimates. '
"Wntrifle fitl irii'n ITeninV .kl.i.ttf CO'l .. '
jerity.
Returns from seventv-six out of the
ninety-four counties in, Tennessee, give
Hawkins, Ren., for governor, 82,101 :
Wright, Dcin., 07,041; Wilsen, -10,811.
The counties te be heard from gave I laves
a majority of 2,000 ever Tilden i;t 1870. j
The Legislature, as far as heard fiein, will '
stand as follews: Senate Republicans.'
7 : Democrats, 0 ; Repudiation Democrats
4 ; districts in doubt, 8. Heuse Repub
licans, 28 : Democrats. 10 ; Repudiation
Democrats, 10 ; districts in doubt, 21 a
Republican gain of 10.
The majority for (iarli"!d in ! i.v.i i-. es
timated at 80,000.
The estimated majority iu Illinois for
the Republican candidate is .10,000.
rerd, Greenback-Republican, has OS
majority for Congress iu the Ninth Mi-
seuri district.
The official count shev.s the vole of the
slate of Delaware e he as fellows : Dem
ocratic, 15,183; Republican, M,1.10 : Dem
ocratic majority, 1,033.
The latest returns from the Sixth Mis
souri district indicate the election of
Hazeltinc, Gbk.-Rep., ever Waddcll, Hem.,
by about .100 majority. This is the fourth
Democratic less iu the state.
Garfield's majority in Minuesein is lo, le,
000. The Legislature stands : Senate
Republicans, CI ; Democrats, 10 : Heuse
Republicans. 8.1; Democrats. 1.1: Inde
pendents and Greenbcckcrs, 10.
The majority for Hancock in Maryland
is 17,-M8, a reduction of .1,000 from the
majority given te Tilden four years age.
The only Republican congressman i.-i
Lnier, lreai the bixtli district
A dispatch from Galesburg, III., sa.s
sufficient returns have been received te de
cide the election of Lewis, Republican,
ever Lee, Democrat, in the Aiuth congtes cengtes
sinual district, by .100 majerilv.
The congressmen from Virginia sum :
First district, Geerge T. Garrison, Dcm.:
Second, J. F. Dezcuderf, Rep.; Thud,
Geerge I). Wise, Dcm.: Fourth. Jeseph
Jergcnsen, Rep.: Fifth, Geoige C. Cabell.
Dem.; Sixth, J. Ran. Tucker, Dcm.:
Seventh, Jehn Paul, Readjuster-Dcm.:
Eighth, J. S. IJasbiiur. Dcm.: Ninth,
cither Trigg or Ftilkersen, both Demo
crats. Total Republicans, 2 ; Deme
crats, 7 ; a Republican gain of one.
A Tomb l.urst Open by u Tree. ,
A young German countess was a noted '
unbeliever and especially opposed te the !
doctrine of the resurrection. She j
died when about thirty years of age, and
before her death gave orders that her
grave should be covered with a .solid slab
of granite; that around it should b
Placed seuarc blocks of stone, and that the
corners should fastened te each ether and '
te the granite slab bv heavv iron cla inns
Upen the covering ' this inscription was .
nhir-nii '"Tlin llilrinl ttlnfn ntirelineml . r.ll
eternity must never be opened.' All !
that human power could de te prevent: anv
change in that was done, but a little seed
sprouted, and the tiny sheet found its way
between the side stone and the upper slab
and gicw there slowly but steadily forcing
it:, way until the iron clamps were tern
asunder and the granite lid was raised and
is new resting upon the trunk of the tree.
which is large and nourishing. The
'mr ll.iv-nt, nil TvltlMl is Ti'lnrl ennmmtcl.-
,.. ibdibviiu t tuiuir .1", ;
heavv stones, the occupant
,v .., v.. ,, viiuiumu.,... ,
e occupant having in his :
lifetime nlanncd this scheme te defv the I
..K...nt: nnM-MH .C -l..
ltiMiiiwuuu uunu ui vruiia
people ef Hanover, reganl it with almost i l',,W1' ui" - t rowing mm iiewn. run.
a kiiie ei supcrsimen ami spcai: m lowest ""' '"-' . : - . ,7 .,,,
tones of the wicked countess. A sinylar kv.vcs and one ei Ins arms te a .jell v. I be
;..:,.i;f.,, ,,.., .rti-nn mcnit;nr. - .i. .. fir.-,!, intimation tnal the men u the engine
I.l I t!IIV.l!,flI , 1. C,
HEIIM If OffiiC
BARSUM'S LATEST SENSATION.
IS SEiV YOIIKTOIJE ."OUSTED OUT .'
Sii:ii!i'.ii;: Jill:!-; Vrent l.eai!ius "N'eUfiiaiier!.-,
Ken- Tork Cerr; siier.der.f-e efti:c PhllailelpLla
Ledger.
There is something important going en
anieug the Democratic leaders which .pro .pre
mises te create a sensation. The state ex
ecutive committee profess te be cognizant
of illegal voting in this city and llroeklyn
te an "extent which, they affirm, will In
validate the electoral vote for Gen. Gar
field and give the state te his eppenen1-,
but they will furnish no details at piescut,
except te cad attention te some extraor
dinary Republican results in particular
district In due time, they say, it will
all be made apparent. Your correspon
dent heard some intimations of this kind
at headquarters en the morning after the
election, but did net attach sufficient im im
peitance te them te give them publicity.
The action of the executive committee
in announcing through the morn
ing journals that in ceitain localities "a
vote has been cast largely in excess of the
legal vote." and that " the unaccountable
increase in the Republican vote in Xew
Yerk and Kings enmities is plain evidence
of fraud," skewr; that in their judgment,
at least, there is something behind theic
intimations. What it all means we shall
seen see. 3Icanwhile, you will observe
the committee " request all "citizens of
this state, in eaeii aval every locality, who
favor the light of the people te popular
government, and who believe a very fair
vote and an honest count essential te the
perpetuation of our institutions, te aid by
al! means in their power the ascertainment
of this result." The city Republican jeui.
nals de nut affect ignorance as te what
this proceeding mean. and they iai.se a
warning accordingly. The 'J'i'iliSi'C sas :
" Mr. iJarnum will de well te step right
where he is. The bu.-incss public aiein
no mood te tolerate seditious feeling. Xi
human being in New Yerk doubts liiat the
statu has honestly and irrevocably gene
Republican." The Times, even mere
pointedly, rem.irks : "The Republican
electors have a maicritv in the statu of at
least 2:i,00l, and "in all the Democratic
arsenal of trickery aud fraud there i no
method by which the Republican party can
bj cheated out of the liuits of victory.
The Democratic Congress which refuses te
count the wlc of Xew Yerk for Garfield
and Aithur will inaugurate revolution."
lr ejinlfit. Truth, which .seems te be the
organ of ;ha Democratic executive com
mittee for the time being, declares that
" Hancock ia elected,' ami closes with the
following highly wrought appeal : " Let
us net :mniii submit as we submit led in
187'. This fraud el ISeO is the greatest of
all. Xii call en every IX-niecrat in the
landtehplp. by voice aud action in the
overthrew of this terrible wr..ir, and sei
te ifc that General Wiufte'.d S. Hancock is
next Juaich seated in the chair te which he
has been hene.stlyjjaud rightfully e'ectefl."'
.Jehn ht-lry s eveningergan, tiie hvtrc,
iias the following, with the closing sen
tence in italics : Facts are coming rapid
ly te lijiht which go te prove that the Re
publican tucccss is due te :. wholesale and
corrupt use el money, te a systematic col
onization of illegal voters, and te an un
scrupulous u?e of machinery for interfer
ing with the elections under the p-etense
of supervising "them. These thice points
demand immediate an.l thorough investi
gation. If the Jtepulili'uui ininunjei'it ffttc
pcrpelreted vtJcHwtic and erytuiir, frauds
en Hie hollet tie.r in this unit ether sin It s. ind
the fuels e'lin he proved, ti.cn .mi- t:l;e the
eenscpiener of their rt'-t-
Outside of paitv lines p:epie haul!
knew what te make efall this. They aie
ra'her dumbfounded. If there is an thing
meie than another upon which Use com
munity iiave been congratulating then..
M'kes since Tuesday, it is the fact of
our e.-icapc from another contested
election, and it is fervently te be hoped
new that n-athing will happen te
prove that these congratulations were
premature. The Republican leaders con
template the movement with derision.
Gov. McCormick, en being interrogated
about it this afternoon, saiil "he censid-
is red
the
In
whole matter unweithy of no
Wall sheet, it was the subject
I tice.
ei mere or Jess reman:, our. ti nan no ei-u-it
hiiiuenec en thcmaikctr..
STATE ITEMS.
Ryan, aged .10, cemmiikd for
in Philadelphia, died in her
Cat ha:
iium.i-:u
mill.
At the
jf In--" ''erniiaidt tickets
Philadelphia yctcrd:iy, the scalpers t."k
100 seats at .?'! each for the six nights.
The official count elected l.'-mue! Ami-r-
Dcinecrat, te the Legislature in the
i Scrauteti district, by (
'Gillespie-. Republican
votes .- ver .lean U.
David Paul, aged 00 years, employed by
the Cram iron company, at Catasamitta,
fell into the canal and was drowned. He
leaves a wife and thice children"!'
Cooper & I'ailey. tin
i:g 'dissolved, IJaih'V
circus people, hav
paid .? 1.1,000 for
Cooper's interest ami take;; the whole cir-
eu.-. te hurepe. ihe iiaby elephant is
growing tee rapidly te Its a curiosity.
A colored boy named Harry Steele, aged
about fourteen yeair. was instantly killed
by a .shifting engine, a .shr.it. ili.star.ee
above North stiect. Harri.sburg, .ester
day. Ilaiiy I!. Hughes, aged IS yeais, was
accidentally killed en tae raihead at. Pitts
burgh last Wednesdav evening. Voting
v
Ilughrs and Luther Rhede, of Reading,
had gene te Pittsniirgh leen
in the
j I'nitcd States army.
j Mr. Lewis Thompson, senior member of
I the firm of Thompson A' Ce., Philadelphia,
and the honorary president of the society
of St. Geerge, has died at his i evidence in
: ilehnesbiirg, in the sixty-j-cventh year of
i his age.
A eau in occurred at Si.ba.-.tepwl. near
Pittston. Several thousand dollars" weith
' of properly was desteyed and a number of
. dwellings have been abandoned by the
l fear-su-jeken inhabitants. The earth has
j settled fix feet, and mining in the vicinity
j has been suspended.
7fr. Heward Poland, a i'.ung artist.
, formerly of Philadelphia, has died at his
home iu Trenten. Mr. Poland was aheut
twouty-ieur yens ei age. and ler some
time has! been suffering from consumption,
i se that tiie announcement of his death
i was rcaiveK a surprine te his friends
heic.
The watchman at the ciigiiu:-aid of the
j Xerlh Pennsylvania raihead depot, at
1 Rcrks and American street, Philadelphia,
f"iind a
lead man. nnpaientlv a tramp.
iing acres.- the sails, just outside the en-
gmc-heuse. Reth leg, wcie cut
the tl'OUSCiS t.liil te pieCCs. It is
efi" and
be'icvi d
the man went in the yard l sVep
dciiaucii ami 'ay upon ine li.i.s.
In Eric, Pa'tiek I.ir:e!, employed in the
P. & K. yard, was me ever by a .switch
engine aiul se he.rib'v mutilated that he
di
Mr. Fane::,
who was in his sixtieth
year, was somewhat -lirif : and te this fact,
is attributed the herribls fate which be
fell him. lie was walking along the track
near the shop.-, when the engine ha k.:d
. . .,
brill of t IIO aCCIllClIt Will ll
it was the grating noise
upon tnc i. mi un.- ...'
ccN mussed ever
his legs
rrtT.-i-
unit
unch Republican paper, thti
" fl
Philadelphia Xerlh American, thus salute-.
him: "Mr. Jehn Cessna, chairman of the
Kcpnehcan slate committee, who Is-mI
about as much te de with the victories of
Tuesday as the irrepressible small boy who
hovers with shrill "iiorrey" en the cdc
of every political mass meeting, has issued
a lengthy manifesto, assuring the Repub
licans of Pennsylvania that they have his
personal congratulations, and reiterating
some of the political arguments which
have done geed service in the campaign,
but for which space is a little tee valuable
te permit of repetition after the battle is
wen."
LATEST "NEWS Wt HAIL.
Xine valuable horses owned bv :. X.
Walling, of Fairfield, X. J., were suffo
cated by smeke occasioned by the lire in
Mr. Waiting's barn n Thursday night,
which was ext:ngnihed with otherwise
slight less. . -
At Madisen. Indiana. Geerge Glass wa.t
shot dead by Geerge Watsenir Frederic!;
Irene!:. Glass hurrahed for Jeff Davis,
and m the ensuing altercation he shot
atsen in the leg. and it is supnecd that
atseu returned the fire, hilling bhn.
While a colored man named James
Yeung, living in a frame beuse Xe. l:'.
Eighth street southeast. Wash
ingten. D. C, was at chui-h
with his wife the house caught lire at .;
Yeung's two children, one seven years
and the ether four years of age. whe'wese
sleeping in the upper story, were burned
te death.
The body of a member of the senior cla
in Cernell university named He'sey, whe:,c
parents reside at. Hridgehampten. X. Y..
has hcen found in a field. Xcar by was ::
revolver which he had purchased hi the
morning, with which it is surmised h.
committed Filicide, lie had been very de
spondent for some time and had neglected
both sport and study. Xe cause is a.
signed for the aef-.
Three months age Gi:siae Mulkr. an
iron worker at the Uroekficld. X. J., fur
nace, was bitten nn the wrist, by a deg
which was kept about the furnace. On
incMiay evening .wmier complained '
pauis :.i ins at
r.i. especially about the
V 11 fifl"!" 1.111 f M'-lfftl f17
healed wound.
lowed and before m:dhv.i aid con id !:
Mimmeued spasms set in. The physician.-,
pronounce the symptoms these of hvdm hvdm
phebia. At last' accounts Mtsller was" ver
violent ami was net expected te recover
i.Xtl
TALKS,
I A. id liit r-i
ti!i:e ii" i:wu:i ilca-iiii. i.t
Mii .":at.
j In an inter". icw with a reporter Hen. V.
I !!. English talked lieely about the late
j election and it result:. He think-; that
! India:::', held up reasonably we"! consider
ji-.igtiie defeat ia October, and that the.
! haw net hail a majeiity hhice IS72, anil
then less lean 1.200 for Hendricks for gov
ernor. Perse.nally he iVels no chagrin
at tlie result. While feeling the houei
of a uiiamuu-U" nomination, the vice
pic-Mileney, without, influence or pa
trenagc, had no ciiarnis for him, and he
feeh latliLi Jad that lie is left te a Hfe
mere congenial and profitable. The De
mocracy with n Democratic Senate, a close
Heuse of Representatives and the presi
dc-ucy decided by a small majority i: .i
.single stale, will net die. The real cause
of the Republic:'.:! success was the pre.
pereu.s times and hu.-iiic.;s s.itisfaetinn.
'i'he country thought if. wise.tt ' let, wel'
enough alone, and Jack el party erg:;ni.:i
lien in Xew Yerk, tir: October election in
Indiana and some ether thing-; may have
had a little weigiff, but the mini thing
was the geed times and Jhc disposition te
let well enough a'enc. .Mr. Ihiglish i a
wailed the corruption in parly p-iliti'-sse
different from forty year ; age when he iir I
entered politics.
LOCAL INTELLIGENCE.
s.i.-.iri;:. iv--;a..
'I Iio trt:it sh t::i;itc:t.
On hearing of the sudden death m
Samuel Dean. Corener Mi.-hier visited th.
family residence iu Strawberry stiect yes
terday morning, t' "mipihe into the cir
ctimstauccs anil te heiil an hupicst if
ncce&sary. Tiie coroner inform:; m I hat
the family objected te the holding of an
hupiest unless the family physician, Dr.
Warren, wcic present ami sir.ctiened it.
Dr. Warren was out of town. The core
ner then proposed te the family that tliey
should name four colored men ami lie
would name two white men te.-crveas : In
jury, but this preposition war. also rejected
by tlie family ( 'oteuei Mishler then tcld
them he would give them until 2 o'clock
p. in. tu ceusidcrius preposition, and that
if it we ic net accepted by that, time he
would select :; jury ami held tin; in
fpiest, and if Dr. Waiscii did net return,
lh: Compten should act as coroner's phy
sician. About ' o'clock Corener Misliter
again .pp-.-ar-.d :.t the ic-lnenci" of the de
ceased and swesc ia the following juror
te held the iifpiest. Heniy Leenard,
Sauiiu I Powell, ,!..e- lli.-liue, Philip M.
bmith, Taj ler Myer. and Ch:r; Martin.
The coroner then demanded Mis. Dean and
her dauphti r te I e sworn him testify te
circumstance; attending Mr. Dean's death,
lie sajs they at first refused te testily a,
did also Kdw. llarr'.--, wh claimed te
knew all abeu:. lie: matter. The eorenei
then threatened te ; ive Harris arrested,
and under this threat, hi. and the ethei.s
testified that Mr. Dean was subject te
heart lisca.se and that the circumstances
attending his death were s.ilsiant:aily the
same as published in .yes tcr.l; -.yV. I.VT'Cf
i.igi:.' in.
The jury iciideicii a veidict i 'death
from di-case of the heait."
A rtl:nri;i";tt I-'ec tliai. .nrpi-lscl a .'.ii.iisic.j-
Rev. A. S. Lcinb.ich, Reading, received
a r.t.te fieni Sinking Springs a few day-,
ng", requesting him te be ready te marij
a couple at hi.; ie.-:deiice en a certain day
The clergyman was waiting en the day ap
pointed, but the euple did net appear.aud
he uppes'Ml they had changed their minds
The next day, however, while he wa-.
absent fiem home, and tiie ladies of his
household v.eie busied with their domestic
duties, the deer-bell wa.s :ung and en
the steps f-te.id the couple from
the I'eui.tiy. The girl was ipiite young,
but the man was censidciabU- eldc.
They said the rain had kept them at
home en the day appointed, but thej de
sired te b:j iiiairicd at e'ice. Tiiej- were
invited in and
.Mr. I.cinhach wa-i
searched ftr at the i isteilicear.d elsewhere
without f:icce-s. Anether minister from
the country was mctlry the messenger and
requested te perform the ccrcinenj-. lie
went te Rev. Lciubach'.s house, two ladies
of the family were ailed as witness's and
the nuptial knot was tied. Alter receiving
a hand.-eme marriage ceitiiieate, the couple
took their leave, and at the moment of dc
pai tore the groom put int the hand of
the officiating clergyman something roiled
up in white paper. They then depai t:d in
sueii :ia?te as te excite :airprie. The
package wa:- opera d and ri.IJ .slttr roll of
::tpjr wax removed, until at last the mar
liage fee was found an eM-fa.hiiu.-cd cop
per half-cent of the date of lr:'2-
V7-.iiil!in:: " j !!-;-"
The opening institute lecture will be :i
the opera, beuse en .Monday e.-.vning iy
lien. Gee.'R. Wc-ndling. of Chicago. The
subject ticatcd will be Ingcr.-eili-,::!
Frem a Secular Standpoint,' and a rc
v'ewer commenting e l this production say.-;
"This is no commonplace addicss by a
commonplace orator. It will satisfy the
most exacting of the professional men who
may hear it, and cannot fail te help young
men in their warfare with the peiiiicieusi
popular errors of the day."