Lancaster daily i:Teij4GE1scer Saturday setember 13. 188O. Hancaster intelligence!;. SATUBDAY EVENING, NOV. 13t18de. Tlie"LicaIlca. Tlie editor of the 2rew Era in his paper last evening says editorially : The Intelligences, for about the for tieth time, repeats its .stale charge that the editor of the Xeic Era "goaded" Mayer Stauffcr "into bringing a criminal suit for libel against the publishers " of that paper. Of course, repeated assertions of a lie can not make it the truth ; but the fact is, the editor of this journal never advised any body te bring a libel suit. New mark hew plain :i tale shall set him down ! On February 2, 1875, the Ixthlxi- eencek charged Mayer Stauiler with taking illegal fees, and that thereby he had drawn from the county treasury hundreds of dollars te which he had no shadow of right. On the very next day the Express, then edited by the present editor of the JVcec Eaa, said with reference te our charge against Mayer Stauffer : The article in the Ixtellieexcbr te which wc refer was net only a tissue of the ordinary misrepresentations peculiar te a strictly party organ, such as that jour nal is, but it contained one of the most gross and unprovoked llbelt ever invented against a candidate by any news paper new in existence in this city. It is a libel cut out of the whole cloth, without a shadow of foundation or justification. Wc come directly te the libel it self. We take it for granted that Mayer Stavf fei will promptly make his own justification with our " gushing" neighbors in the only manner sucJi a can admitt of, by giving them an opportunity te make geed their al legations before a tribunal where the reck less assertions of newspaper boys will net pass for facts and matter of record. But it is our duty te say te the citizens of Lan caster that thcre is net a word of truth in the above. This was a distinct declaration that our charge was a libel and notice te Mayer Stauffer that he must prosecute it as such. His organ gave him plainly te understand that he had no alternative. A libel suit was " the only manner which such a case admits of." If this was net advising him te resort te it wc should like te knew hew such advice can be mere positively expressed I Moreover, we repeat that when wc met Mayer Stauffer before the tribunal he had chosen for his vindication, he shrunk from an investigation of the facts and lied the tribunal of his own selection a fact which we believe our accuser and his adviser has never pub lished te his readers te this day. Ner has he made geed his premise of Feb uary 12, lS7e, that "should the court in construing the fee bill decide that he and his advisers were mistaken in their construction, we pledge our faith te the public that he will insist upon returning every dollar that may be ruled out by the authoritative judgment of the court." Fer in order that that authoritative judgment could net be rendered ad verse as it would have been the case was sneakingly smuggled out of court, without notice te us and without our consent. We recall this fact net te discourage the Xcw Era in its premised course against illegal fee-taking. "We wish it success. Wc will give it our most earn est held. But we warn it against leav ing the trail when the scent gets fresh, as it did in the case we have recalled. Besides the " lie" ought te be properly located in justice te all concerned. Uivc the Veter a Chance. In Tammany loud voices arc heard protesting against Jehn Kelley's man agement, and against the policy of hav ing the admitted leader of the organiza tion holding a lucrative city office ; Irving hall has already divided into two organizations : the young Democracy of Xew Yerk city arc organizing en a new basis, and altogether the work of disin tegrating the inner societies in the Dem ecratic party there is going en at a lively rate. The wheels within the wheels are having the spokes knocked out of then). The process may continue until in the fullness of time the individuality of the New Yerk city Democrats may have a chance te sissert itself, and the party management be remanded te where it belongs wy.h the voters of the party. If we understand anything about the democratic principles of Democracy, indeed if any one thing be plainer in them than all ethers, it is this right of the individual voter te participate, at some stage of the proceedings, in the parly direction, en a level with every ether individual voter. The plan which puts the management, the nominations, the caucusses and the selection of dele gates te state conventions into the hands of a self-constituted associ ation, whatever its name, its mo me ives or its management, is improper, undemocratic and inevitably leads te the arbitrary exercise of power and the ruin of the party. What the 2few Yeik Democracy needs is te take the power of controlling it out of the hands of all as sociations, te disregard them all, te shut out from conventions all delegations who come with any brand en them or any cre dentials except these of the great body of Democratic voters, meeting at primaries, where every individual voter is privi leged te cast his ballet and assert his opinion. Tammany, Irving Hall, the Yeung De mocracy and as many mere associations as cheese te organize may lie tolerated in their own spheres, as factors of the Democratic party, but te give any one of them or te divide among them all the rights of the voters themselves te consti tute the autherative organization of the party is te wrongfully delegate a power which is almost certain te be abused. Bribery of Electors. The English people seem te have as much trouble under their parliamentary system about the bribing of electors as we have under our plan of popular suf frage. They are giving the matter eani' est attention, however, as may be infer red from the article in the Londen Spec tator, which we reprint and which ably combats a tee popular opinion that a man's vote is his property te be disposed of te the highest and best bidder. It would surprise and, we hope, alarm a great many people who never lcek be low the surface, te knew just hew many j people there .are in this country who take this mercantile view of their right of suffrage. They constitute by long odds the determining class at every election. They are for sale te the highest bidder. Each party has an element of members who expect te be paid te vote as their supposed convictions incline them te vote, and who possibly wouldn't sell themselves te the ether side, but expect te be paid for staying en their own. Between the parties, and ready te fall te either as " circumstances" determine, is a larger element which, under some guise or ether, is in the market. The people who make up this class are num erous enough te decide every election that is seriously battled, and the worst of it is that most of them have no sense et shame nor disgrace m their position, but justify it as a warrantable one. It is about time that decent people whose votes are net for sale awaken te the danger of this state of things. It is, of course, of great moment hew elections shall result, but it is of a geed deal mere importance whether there shall be any elections or merely auctions hereafter. Wayxk MacVeaeii is new suggest ed for the United States senatership from Pennsylvania. With Den Came ren appointed te the cabinet, Cameren pere elected te his seat, Brether-in-iaw MacVeagh succeeding Wallace and Uncle Jehn Sherman made United States senator from Ohie, the family's chief concern would be te find a sena sena atership lying around for the young man who is about te marry Den's daughter. MINOR TOPICS. TiiEitu are 1,000 pupils in the mission ary Sunday schools of Luckuew, India. Nbarlt a hundred missionaries sailed from this country for foreign fields in the pa.t live months. Soen Jerusalem will be robbed of its ancient attractions by the formidable van dal, Progress. The city is te be lighted with gas, and a horse railroad is te be run te the top of the Mount of Olives. Buddhism is en a rapid decline in Japan. Since 1873, in a single district, seventy-ene temples have been diverted te secular uses. It is estimated that that in the em pire mere than 700 temples have been thus secularized within nine years past. The sale of the Penny Testament, the cheapest edition ever published, has al ready reached nearly 400,000, and the publisher, Mr. Elliet Stock, confidently expects that 1,000,000 copies will be dis seminated in the course of twelve months. A PKE acueu in Syracuse recently told his congregation that if the women would all dance by themselves in a ten acre let surrounded by a high beard fence, and the men in another inclosure of the same kind, there would then be no harm in dancing. Net much fun cither. A society of Mermen girls, having for its object the breaking up of the plural marriage system, has been discovered and broken up at Salt Lake City. The mem bers took a vow te marry no mau who would net pledge himself te be content with one wife. Five daughters of Brigham Yeung had joined it. A taleau after Millais's familiar picture, "The Huguenots," was part of an enter tainment in the Baptist chuich at Canter, Kansas. The Rev. Mr. Banker, the young and handsome pastor was chosen te pose as the male figure, but the question who should tie the scarf and be hugged was net easily settled. The pretty wife of a lead ing member was finally accorded that feli city. The tableau is said te have been a success ; but afterward some of the sisters said that therc had been a needless amount of rehearsing, the husband get furiously jealous, and the pastor resigned. Judge McKknnan, of Pittsburgh, docs net want te be United States senator; Cenger, of Michigan, does ; the gentle men who are mentioned in the New Yerk newspapers and by politicians as aspirants for Senater Kernan's place, are Congress man Levi P. Morten, Cenkliug's closest political friend ; General Geerge II. Sharpe, General Grant's brother-in-law; Tem Piatt, Frank Hiscock, Jehn II. Starin, Jehn 31. Francis, of the Trey Times, and a host of ethers, even including such posi tive opponents of Cenklingism as Ellis II. Roberts, Geerge William Curtis and Judge Robertsen. A ladt who had heard a vigorous charity sermon, and yet had given noth ing when the contribution box was passed around, had her pocket picked while she was going out of church. On making the discovery she remarked : ' ' Ged could net find the way te my pocket, but the devil did!" The Baptist Weekly argues that while this may be regarded as a special and peculiar visitation, ether people who give nothing need net think that their es cape is owing te any merits of their own. A clearer inference would be that the ser vices of an efficient policeman arc urgent ly required at the church deer. Tim average pastorate grows shorter instead of longer. The evils of such a brief service have been set before the churches for thirty years with no effect. All denominations are troubled in about equal degrees, and no system of ecclesias tical government is exempt. The Baptists, the Congrcgatienalists, the Presbyterians, the Episcopalians, lament it alike, and the thoughtful men of .all perceive that it is increasing. In one of the New England states it is said that the average duration of the pastoral settlement is one of the largest of these denominations in two aid a half years. In some of the Western states it is even shorter. Taking the country at large, we doubt that the aver age aurauen ei me pastorate iu our own churches will exceed three or thrce and a half years. The facts are amazing and disgraceful, and disastrous a3 they are amazing. m All the Nihilists tried for beinr impli cated in plots against the life of the Czar have been found guilty. Five of them have been sentenced te death and eleven te hard labor in the mines, their terms of punishment ranging from life te fifty years. Thrce women were sentenced te fifteen years' penal servitude. The court announced that it would intercede for the mitigation of the sentences in the cases of the women and in the case of one of the men condemned te the mines. PXBSONAJL. Geerge F. Kbtchasi, tha emcdlan of the Stephens company, died of pneu monia at the Brunswick house, Detroit, yesterday afternoon, after a week's illness. He was forty-two years old. Mr. Stopferd Breech's secession from the church of England will net greatly sur prise these who read the recently published article which he claimed that Shelley was a friend of religion. Bishop Whipple, of Minnesota, lectur ing in Bosten the ether day, said he had never found an instance in which the plighted word of an Indiau had been broken, but that the Indian term for white men was synonymous with "liar." Mr. Harkt B. Jeffbibs, sun of E. Harper Jeffries, late defeated candid;-. te for city controller in Philadelphia, was mar ried in Yerk en Thursday, te S. .Tbnnib, daughter of Rev. J. H. Mbxgbs, pastor of Grace Lutheran church, of that borough. The nuptials are described as quite bril liant. The Philadelphia Times thinks "it may be assumed that the disbarment of Mr. Davis befere he qualifies as district attor ney, will net create a vacancy te be filled by the court, as Mr. Eshlcman would con tinue in effice until his successor is quali fied ; and that his disbarment after having qualified as district attorney, must cither immediately or ultimately rcmove him from office and create a vacancy te be filled by Judges Livingston and Patterson until the next general election." 1 Mr. Richard Grant Whitb complains that New Yerk has declined in real social refinement, and has lest social homogo hemogo homego neity, within the last fifty years. Te his mind, "New Yerk, once the most substan tially respectable of towns, has come te have the air of being filled with a popula tion of advonturers." Men come hither from all ever the world merely te seek their fortunes, like geld diggers who es tablish mining communities, only that iu the great city the minss are inexhaustible, aud se the adventurers remain. Conse quently, according te 3Ir. White, "social life, properly speaking, has passed away. In New Yerk, society, as a refining, hum anizing influence, has ceased te exist." A few months age Jens A. Kassex, of Iowa, minister te Austria, obtained sick leave and came home, ostensibly te recu recu pcrate'his physical energies, which had been prostrated by the onerous duties of hisoflice. The real purposes of his visit te the United States was. te take part in the campaign, with a view te his own election te the Heuse. He mounted the stump immediately en his arrival, and there weie na indications of that shattered health which had been paraded as his excuse for leaving his pest of alleged duty. Mr. Easson is new a member-elect of the next Congress. He is, also, a candidate for the speakership. He has drawn his pay as minister te Austria during the campaign, and he new proposes te return te Vienna te remain until the Forty-seventh Con gress meets. THE COIXIEKY EXPLOSION. l'oerd Pit, Stellarton, Neva Scot la, the Scene of Anether Disaster. IJetwcen Thirty-Five anil Ferty-Five Si Iners and Laborers Killed. The Feerd pit, where the great cord mine disaster reported yesterday occurred, is the most important and extensive mine in the great coal basin of East River. Neva Scotia is divided into the north aud south slopes. The north slope ex tends about a mile and three-quarters from the mouth of the pit, the the south ever a mile. Hence most of the men engaged in the north slepe escaped uninjured. It was in these same workings, in pits new abandoned, that the great tire occurred in 18G1. At that time it was found necessary te let in the waters of the East river te extinguish the fire. This however, is the first serious explosion that has taken place in Feerd pit while it has been managed by the Halifax mining company since they obtained the property iu 1872. About two months age the work ings of ene of the old pits were tapped and the water burst through, destroying a large amount of property, butnolife. Just one month age, en the 12th of October, the water broke through again in a different quarter, and swept down the slepe like a torrent, carrying cars and horses and men before it. On this occasion six men lest their lives, and se great an amount of de bris accumulated in the bottom of the pit that nearly a week elapsed before all the bodies wcre recovered. The cause of this last disaster was that gas had collected in ene of the bends or headers aud is supposed te have bceu ig nited by a defective lamp. A full force of men about one hundred aud sixty were in the pit at the tunc, and only a portion of them escaped. When the news of the disaster first reached the surface it was supposed that almost the entire force of employees had been annihilated, aud scenes of wild excitement followed. Grad ually, however, members of the various gangs came up, much te the relief of the anxious villagers who had collected at the mouth of the pit. Everything is in great confusieu and it is impossible te get correct information. As far as known forty-seven men and boys wcre in the bend and are supposed te be lest. Thirty-three of these were married men, seme with large families. Searching parties cannot get in very far en account of masses of coal blocking up the way in all directions. Messrs. J. Hudsen, of the Albien mines ; Greene, of the Yale, and H. S. Peelo, of the Acadia, went down the pit. One body was recovered and two wcre seen by explorers. Several dead horses were found. Nene of the miners en the north side wcre injured, and quite a number of them were surprised at the crowd around the mouth of the pit when they came up te dinner, net haviug any idea that such a terrible fate had befallen their fellow workmen. Messrs. Hudsen, Greene, Simpsen and Peelo, with ether vol unteers who went down in the pit, found it impossible te explore the south side for any distance en account of the after damp, there being no air through -the side, as all the doers had been blown down by the blast. They found some bodies, but could net identify them. All the horses in the pit, twenty-nine in number, arc dead. It is feared another explosion will occur when the pit gathers gas again. Werk is totally suspended at all the collieries iuthc county, and miners have ceme te the scene of the accident in great numbers, but are altogether powerless te render any assis tance en account of the precarious condi tion of the pit. It is net known bow the fire originated, as none from the side where the accident occurred are alive te tell the tale. Efferts will be made te recover the bodies of the missing men as seen as the pit is considered safe. m mm - Garfield's plurality in Pennsylvania is 37.27G ; majority ever all, 14,625. Gen. Phelps, the anti-Masonic candidate for president, received the following vote : One in Allegheny, 1 in Beaver, 17 in Brad ford, 1 in Erie, 4 in Franklin, 2 in Iudiana, 1 in Jeffersen, 5 in Lackawanna, 3 in Lan caster, C in Susquehanna, 3 in Wayne. To tal, 44. r7AJXri' Official Vete for Electors, Supreme rOKIDXST. Q p 3 e 3 A a COUNTIES. 3 Adams Allegheny Armstrong Beaver Bedford , Berks , xsi&ir... ........, Bradford Bucks Butler. Cambria.., Cameren. :r. Carben Centre Chester. Clarien Clearfield Clinten Columbia Crawford Cumberland S1S7 375! 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They Disclaim Any Connection with the Production of the Letter and Explain Kill ly tee Course tbnt lias Moen l'ui-sueu In the Matter The Fraud In " New Yerk. The executive committee of the Demo cratic national committce held a private meeting last night, which was net ever until nearly midnight. The member pre sent wcre W. II. Baruum, Frederick O. Prince, Abram S. Hewitt, W. W. Arm strong and William L. Scott. Hiram L. Atkinson, chairman of the Democratic state committce of Vermont, acted as proxy for Bradley B. Smalley ; Charles A. Canda, treasurer of the national cemmittee as proxy for Alvah W. Sulleway, and William C. Whitney, corporation counsel of New Yerk, as proxy for Outerbridge Hersey. . Mr. Barnum presided. The committce issued the following address : " In response te inquiries, the national Democratic committce makes thn follow ing statement : "First. Neither the committee, nor any sub-committee thereof, has ever taken any action in reference te the Merey let ter. "Second. That it was first called te the attention of the chairman of the commit commit en the night befere its publication in the Truth en the 20th of October. "Third. That the chairman thereupon requested Smalley, member of the com mittee, te oxamme the letter. but per - mission te de se was refused him at the office of the Truth. "Fourth. That no member of the com mittee ever saw the letter, or any copy or portion thereof, until after its publi cation, or was in anywise concerned therein, or gave any advice in reference thereto. "Fifth. That Hart, publisher of Truth, brought the -original letter te headquar ters en the afternoon of October 20, when it was seen for the first time by any mem ber of the committce and then examined by several members of the cemmittee and ether persons net members. All these who were familiar with the handwriting of Gen. Garfield came te the conclusion that the letter was genuine. "Sixth, The committeo decided te pur chase a reasonable number of electrotype copics.ef the fae simile which had already been prepared by Truth. "Seventh, That no denial having come from Garfield of the authenticity of the letter, notwithstanding the telegraphic de mand of the New Yerk Herald and a very Bharp leader in that paper, the cemmittee decided. te give out electrotype plates, which was accordingly done. The propri ety of this action was net doubted by the committee, as the letter scorned te be in harmony with G;u field's views upon the subject, covered by letters gathered from public records or undoubted genuineness. " Eighth. That the first complete denial was net published until four days after the original publication in Truth and te this denial, unsupported by any ether evi dence, the committee, in view of Garfield's connection with the scandal, attached no weight. "Ninth. That, therefore, whencvidenee was offered te show that Merey was a real person and net a myth, the committce called for its production, as they wero bound te de, in order te arrive at the truth. "Tenth. That if the letter has been forged or any fraud committed in refer ence thereto, or any false evidence been given, it has been done without the knowl edge, consent or privity of the committee or of any member thereof. Finally, the committee approves of all honest measures te punish any and all persons who have committed any violation of the law and have no interest in this matter, but te ar rive at the very truth of the affair. That there should be doubt as te the authen ticity of the letter is largely due te the failure of the prosecution te put Garfield en the stand. By order of the committe. " William H. Barnuii, Chairman. " Frederick O. Pbikcb, Secretary." The following resolutions offered by Mr. Scott and seconded by Mr. Armstrong wcre passed : " Whereas, Allegations of fraud in various states and especially in the state of New Yerk have been brought te the netice of this committee, "Resolved, that this committee has no jur isdiction ever local violation of the election laws, but it recommends the several Democratic committees of the states where these frauds have been committed te in vestigate them with a view te the expesure of the violators of the law and their prompt and just punishment. In relation te the duties of the courts or of Congress in the premises the committee is net and cannot be charged with any responsibility." Pittston suffered $8,000 less in the burn ing of a hay and straw warehouse, KuefFs furniture store, Hiller's leather store and ether buildings. Pease's oil refinery, en Hen's island, has been burned. Less, $3,000. Judge and Auditor General. AUDITOR GKSK3AI.. SU7BE3U JDD03. 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There would be nothing wrong in introducing French wine into England without paying duty en it, did net the law require that you should pay duty en it, and wcre it net wrong in itself, at least in a frce country, te transgress the law. It is just the same, he thinks, with accepting a bribe for your vote. That is wrong because the law con demns it, andhnakes stringent enactments intended te prevent it. But it is wrong for no .ether reason. .We had better quete his exact werds: "But apart from the law of the land it may imply gross insensibitity en my part, but I really de net see hew you can say that buying or selling votes is immor al in itself at all. I would net engage iu such traffic for my own part, nor, I think, would I encourage it in ethers ; but, looked at by itself, I really de net see that it is a bit worse than playing whist for penny or two-penny points." We think that our correspondent is right ; that this opinion, if he really held it, aud does net rather air it as a sort of intellectual crotchet worth the trouble of overthrowing, does imply an insensibility en his part which may fairlv be described as irress. Ne wonder 1 the electors of Sandwich take bribes if a writer like Mr. Gardner can think of them in this way. What kind of approximation te immorality there can be in playing whist for penny or two-penny points, se long as the player can fairly afford te spend all tliat he may presumably lese en the enjoyment of the hour, it is quite past our discernment te discover. It seems te us just as legitimate au expenditure en amusement as spending the same sum, without any clement of chance at all, en flowers, or a ride, or any ether " pleasure the element of chance being, in the for mer case, part of the amusomeut, but net a less Iegitimate part that the fragrance of the llewer, or the stimulus of the change of place. Ner is the clement of chance in the case of bribery auy part of the consideration. If the briber could absolutely ensure, by his bribe, the vete he buys, he would be committing just the same immorality as he is new, when he tries te buy a vote, but may, nevertheless, fail in obtaining what he pays for. It is net the gambling clement in the matter which affects the moral question at all. It is the wish en the part of the briber, and the willingness en the part of the bribec, te lead the scales by which the political convictions of the country are te be ascertained. Supposing that men of science were engaged in a great dispute as tc any point of practical engineering, say, which of two modes of constructing the Tay bride is the safer for the public, and the question wcre at last submitted te the vete of the engineers' profession. We may well suppese that many of that pro fession would be entirely without an opin ion en the subject, that they would net understand the issue, and would net care which of the two sides gained the victor'. But what would be the duty of any such members of the profession who did net feel that they had any right te a voice in the matter? Would it net be te abstain from voting until they had gained some real opinion en the merits? Could any thing be baser than te swell the votes en either side, by voting for the candidate who paid them most? Could anything be mero disgraceful than for the honest ad vocates of ene side having agreed te the arbitration by vote te swell the number of their own side by purchasing votes which would represent, et course, no scientific judgment at all. Would it net be perfectly plain that if another train of victims plung ed into the Tay in consequcuce of a vcidict obtained by such mcans,cvery man who had paid for a vote, and every man who had given his vete for payment would be mor ally guilty of that act of wholesale mur der? New, precisely the same may be said of bribers and bribees at an election. If there be any sane men who held, with Mr. Ruskin, that the contest between par ties in an English election is nothing mere than a competition between rival rat catchers, all we can say is that it is the plain duty of these men net te vote. The tacit assumption of an election in every parliamentary constitution the tacit as sumption of both sides alike is that the nation is te decide for itself whom it trusts and whom it distrusts. Every vote given in an election is given as immorally as the vetes of engineers en au engineering ques tion delivered net en scientific, but en wholly selfish grounds, if it is given for any ether reason than because the voter feels mere political trust in the candidate or party for whom he votes than he feels in the canpidate or party against whom he votes. And it is almost wasting words te point out that the result mav easily be of infinitely greater moment even te human life te say nothing of human honor andvdite of the Bedford Inquirer, and for-' happiness than the right or wrong judg- merjy connected with the Iktellieesceb, ment en the engineering of a Tay bridge. (jJed aftcr a jf nincss en Thursday last. Only cynics like Mr. Buskin profess te think that itmakes no differencs te Eng land whether Lord, Beaconsfield seizes a scientific frontier, or Mr. Gladstone gives it up again whether Lord Beaconsfield mounts guard ever the lingering deathbed of Turkey, or Mr. Gladstone festers the fresh life which is springing up where the impenitent and oxhausted sinner is slowly giving ground. But grant the state of mind assumed ; suppose that thousands of the voters are in capable as, no doubt, very many are of feeling any genuine trust in either leader ; are tee ignorant even te understand any of the issues en weich the question of trust or distrust turns their duty is obvious, net te excercises a function for which they are wholly- incompetent. Would Mr. Gardner think it net immoral for a member of the hanging cemmittee at the academy te take money for his suffrage en behalf of certain pictures ? We suppese he would. We sup pose he would say that an academician who .7 accepts a place of trust is understood best judgment for the body 1 1 . 1 - IU UC 1113 te which he belongs, and is a mean rascal if he prostitutes his vote for a bribe; and that if he has no opinion between two pic tures, he should abstain from voting, or vote with the men of whose judgment he has the best opinion ; but that whatever he docs, he has no right te use false weights, te let his vote go by corruption. Well, we maintain that preeisely the same thing is true of the British elector. The constitution has defined these whose col lective confidence where they feel any is te decide te whose guidance the state should be entrusted. If the elector feels no confidence in any party, if be knows no one whose judgment m political matter he relics, he should stand aloof ; and the greatest injustice he can commit is te let cress self-interest supply him with an equivalent for a political conviction. If either party offer te bribe him, that party is playing false, is doing its best te debase the character of the arbitration agreed te. If both offer te bribe him, then in that locality both are playing false, and he ought te expose the falsehood of both. But the ene thing that is ebvi eusly wrong, even at the meanest capacity. is for an elector te accept the privilege of judging en political grounds, and then net te .iudee at all, but te make believe that he has given a judgment because he is paid te tell a he. When utter lndifierence as te the result of the party fight is seriously made the oxcuse for the buying and sell ing of the indifferent elcoter s vote, euc naturally asks whether even a person who is utterly indifferent as te its issuo,because he is utterly ignorant as te its merits, is at all the less likely en that account te forget that every vote given for a bribe is a vote which plays the country false. The cenntfy solemnly provides ene pair of scales for political issues, and then every biceted or areless knave who can get secretly at the scales gees and tampers with the balance ; but none tlie less, ne knows he is a kaave for his pains. The analosrue te bribery is net that of playing fairly at penny, or two-penny, or, for that matter at euinea whist, but that of consenting te nlav whist at all. and then. like the "heathen Chinee," using cards hidden in your Bleeve, which de net be long the players' pack. am 1 LATEST NEWS &Y MAIL. The Laycock-Hawdon race is off, Haw- den having failed te make his final de- posit. Bank notes te the value of 800, 000 francs were stolen from a postman in the Kue at. Dicnnc, Paris. The official vote of Maryland Is : Han cock, 03,706; Garfield, 78,515; total, 172.221 : Democratic majority, 15,101. The coal business of Cincinnati for the past year was the heaviest en record, the receipts being 48.1W8.240 bushels. The official vote of Alabama, with four counties te hear from, is : Hancock, 88, 300; Garfield, 57,794 ; Weaver, 4,551. The counties te hear from will add about 2,000 te Hancock 8 majority. A woman, who is a well-known customer of Arneld, Censtable & Ce., New Yerk, did some shopping there en luesday and went away. She returned seen in great excite ment and said that she had lest a large sum of money, 120,000 at least, which was in one thousand, five hundred and ene hundred-dollar greenbacks. She had just received the money and had taken it with her te invest in government bends. The fact seems te be established that she had fully that amount of money, although the exact amount is net mentioned. A re ward of 25,000 is advertised. m STATE ITEMS. On the railroad at lindesbnrg, an un known tramp has been mangled te death. Begus Diploma Jehn Buchanan has pleaded guilty. Sentence deferred. Jehn J. Eistler, of Lynnport, Lehigh county, having died from beating by Jfn vate Watchman Jehn Kemp, of the Bead ing iron works, liemp has been hem te answer. Eiie is iu a great state of excitement owing te the imminent danger of a fearful explosion of nitre-glycerino which may occur at any moment. The schoenor Geerge Mebery, from Quebce, leaded with twenty tens of the explosive compound, put in that pert from stress of weather en Thursday nit lit. She has sinee dragged her anchors and is new aground en a sunken pier, upon which she is beating with violence. Efferts have been made te get her off, but without success. It isdiffi cult te estimate the damage te life or prop erty that might ensue in the event of an explosion. There is about five of water in her. LOCAL-INTELLIGENCE. An Instance of Canln sagacity. Last Saturday Mr. Dan Wills, ene of the drivers of the Peach Bettem double stage route, lest a pair of gloves between Lancaster and the Buck. An ordinary spotted coach deg has been following the stage, seldom missing a trip, for the last two years, and en Monday this deg was observed trotting along with one of the gloves in its mouth. Dan was wishing he had the ether glove all week, when strange enough, en Friday at one of the stepping places the deg capered up te Dan with the missing fglove. The deg is owned by Mr. Coency the proprietor of the stage line. Breaking Cars. Twe boys named respectively Ulysses Broemcll and Michael McManus who were arrested en Wednesday last for breaking open a freight car aud riding therein, were taken before Alderman McConemy this morning for a hearing. As the railroad officials who made the arrest failed te ap pear against them, they wcre discharged. .--. Snow. This morning about 10, o'clock snow be gan te fall and continued te sift down lightly until the hour of going te press, but melted as fast as it fell. The air is raw and chilly, but there is as yet rather a peer lookout for the votaries of of robes, runners, jingling bells and fast horses. These may be looked for later. Journalistic Chance. J. W. Sandeo, owing te the sere pres sure of personal affliction, retires from the editorial and publishing control of the Strasburg Free Press, which he has ably conducted. Frank P. Eberman succeeds him. He is a young man of high qualifi cations for his new pest. Obituary. We regret te learn that Wm. Hunt, youngest son of Wm. a.. uucKingnam, THE INSTITUTE. OUR ANNUAL TEACHERS' CONVENTION. The Closing Sesalea Prer. Schacfler en Spelling Dr. Ueiges and Dr. Shu raakar Conclude ltesolntlen. Parting Words and Ad journment. Friday Afternoon. During the neon va cation, and indeed during the entire after noon, great numbers of teachers visited the orphans', court room te leek at the wonders shown nndcr mero than a dozen instruments there exhibited. Frem half-past ene until two o'clock Prof. Whittal lectured en astronomy, his topics bciug the phases of the moon and eclipses, of the sun and moon, which he ex plained and illustrated with the holiotol heliotol holietol lus. Prof. N. C. Schaeffer. formerly of the faculty of Franklin and 31arsliall college and new principal of the Kutztown state normal school, was introduced and de livered a lecture en "Spelline." He com menced by stating that the great natural ise, Agassis, rcmarxca en one occasion that if his son went te school he would learn hew te spell, because he (Agazzis) could net ba there te prevent it. Prof. Schaeffer added that there are only about fifty of the eue hundred and twenty thou sand words of the English I.mguage that are spelled as they are pronounced. Se great is the proportion of words in our language containing silent letters that many of the finest scholars, both in America and Europe, have been for years and especially of late years, engaged in efforts te accomplish a reform. In view of all these facts the question is asked, "Shall we continue in our schools te teach the spelling of words as wc have taught it in the past." The lecturer answered affirmatively ; he came here te preach the gospel of the old-fashioned spelling book. While it was net especially creditable te spell well it is dis graceful te spoil incorrectly. He regard ed it as a greater accomplishment, in a lady te be able te write a letter correctly than te be able te de all kinds of crochet or needle work. He would net have the art of spelling crowded back into a corner even te make way . for na tural philosophy. or the ether sciences. lie would commence with the youngest pupils and exercise them day after day through all their school years. He would have them spell orally te get the correct pronunciation of the word, and he would have thorn write down the words dozens of times if neces.sary, te fix in the mind the letters of which it is com posed. Every strange word should be spelled and written aud examined at all points from head te feet, se that it should be recognized if it should happen te be seen again. If pupils misspell words they should compelled te write ' them ever and ever after school hours or at the cud of the week until the correct spelling is fixed in the mind. The only practical use we make of spelling is in writing, but the practice of spelling orally, besides teaching us correct pronunciation, is a geed exer cise in vocalization. The lecturer laid down seme rules for capitalization aud the means of fixing the true spelling of such words as Tuesday, leave, believe, niece, Mussulman, &c, the correct spelling of which he regarded as being of great im pertance. He had a learned friend, who lest a fine situation because he spelled professor with two fa, and thousands of young men fail te get places because they caa't spell well. It was stated that net a single one of England's prime ministers could have passed the civil ser vice reform examination in spelling ! And one of our most learned savants was named who averaged twenty misspelled words en every page of manuscript. In answer te the question as te whether a re form in spelling would net save a great deal of time, Prof. Schaeffer answered that it would net. It took three hundred years te introduce the decimal system, a still longer time te introduce the Arabic rotation, and we have been for years vain ly endeavoring te intioduce the metric system of weights and measures. Te re form euihtylc of spelling would compel per sons who have spent years in' learning the old system te spend years mero in learning the new one. Prof. Hall sang " 9b, for a closer walk with Ged." Prof. Hcigen continued his lecture en " Scheel Apparatus," urging the impor tance of having a complete school cabinet of all kinds of stones, ores, earths, ilewcrs, weeds, etc., te be found in the nighbor nighber nighbor heod of the school ; also all the metals and specimens of all articles that enter into trade or commerce, as sugars, syrups, rice, coffee, silk, wool, etc., etc., the pro duction and uses of which should be ex plained by the teacher. In conclusion Prof. Hcigcs complimented the institute en being the largest, most orderly and in all respects the most agreeable ene he had ever attended. Aftcr music Dr. Shumakcr concluded his lecture en the education efthc masses. In the course of his remarks he favored compulsory education, and in case the state refused or neglected te sustain the public schools he would liave the general government take held of the matter. He denounced Kearney communism, de plored the Pittsburgh riots, called atten tion te the dangers te be apprehended from our immense immigration el foreigners from all climes, and felt certain that our only safety lay in the education of the children of these heterogeneous masses, and thus meulding them into one nation ality. Current Ifuslneis. Mr. Menk, from the auditing committee, reported that the cemmittes had audited the books of Treasurer 3IcG'askcy and found them te be correct. The committee en resolutions reported a series, congratulating ths teachers en thegrc.it success of the institute and the growing interest manifested iu the cause of education ; favoring ebjective and scientific teaching in the schools ; urging directors te visit the schools at least once a month ; endorsing the county superin tendent as a worthy exponent of the edu cational interests of the county ; extending thanks te the microscepical society for the use of their instruments ; te B. Z. Shiehicr for the use of organs ; te the railroad companies for reduced fare; te the lecturers before the institute for their services; te the press of Lancaster for their report of the proceedings ; te the county commissioners for the use of the court house, and resolutions of respect te the mctnerv of Jehn J. Mullen, Ella Banb, S.irali A. Wynne and Dr. S. S. Ilal deman, late members of the institute. The icsolutiens were adopted. On motion, it was ordered that the pro ceedings of the institute be published in pamphlet form, uniform with these here tofore published, and that a publication committee of five, with Prof. J. P. McCas key as chaiiman, be appointed for that purpose. The committee en permanent certificates reported that they would meet for the ex amination efnpplicants en the last Satur day of January and the last Saturday in May. The committee en enrollment announced that the total number of members enrolled at the present institute was COO, the num ber last year having been 568. Prof. Shaub made a brief parting speech complimenting the teachers en what they had done, encouraging them te strive te de better work than ever before, wishing them Ged's blessing, and bidding them farewell. He then declared the iustitutc adjourned sine die., Vrel. Bradford's Keadlnss. The evening entertainments connected with the sessions efthc institute terminat ed last evening with a series of readings - a .'. i . -V
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