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THURSDAY EVENING, DEC. 16, 1880.
The Cheapness or Meney.
The city of Harrisburg has just bor
rowed sixty thousand dollars at four per
cent, te replace a six per cent, lean, and
received a premium of one-half percent,
beside. This is as surprising as it is
gratifying; and we are told by a bank
ing firm in this city that it will take a
Lancaster city lean en the same terms.
By all means let four per cents, be sub
stituted for our present obligations. We
de net understand why a city lean should
be taken at that rate, but arc content te
knew that it will be. The United States
can borrow at three per cent, because
there is se much capital held in trust in
the country for which the trustee's first
aim is te secure an absolutely safe secur
ity, and because there are se many peo
ple, women and the aged and infirm, who
are unable te trust themselves te find a
geed borrower for their money at the
market rate of interest. The safety and
convenience of the investment and the
regularity of the interest te such people
is of mere consequence than the profit.
The same reasons, but te a less
extent, appear te govern the value
of city leans and seem te place
them at a rate of interest only
one ier cent, greater than that
which the national government ex
pects te pay. It is a surprising evidence
of the abundance of capital seeking in
vestment that these low rates should be
current. Our city should promptly take
advantage of them. It is net at all cer
tain that this condition of things will
last. It seems te us the country will be
fore long be able te employ all its capital
at higher rales than these. The change
has been tee great and .sudden in the
value of money te be lasting. And
there is tee much room for development,
in our great territory, te make money a
drug for many a long year. Enterprises
of all kinds will be festered by the cheap
ness of capital and serve te make it
dearer. Let our city take advantage of
the present opportunity and tarry net
upon the order of its movement.
The 'purchasers of the bends of the
school beard of this city, who paid the
ether clay a premium of five per cent, for
a five percent, lean that may be redeem
ed in a year, will be likely te get no in
terest at all for their money this year ;
since it is obviously the policy of the
school beard te call in all its five ami six
per cent, bends as seen as possible, and
replace them with a lean at four per
cent ; which the beard new knows it can
negotiate.
General Perter's Case.
The Cemtede Paris, in a new edition
of his history of the army of the Poto
mac, declares that the criticism en Fitz
Jehn Perter's conduct in the prier edi
tion is no longer warranted by the evi
dence. This has been the decision of a
court of inquiry after careful examina
tion. It is the scnUinent of the country.
If such is the fact great injustice wasdene
General Perler in his dismissal from the
army, and the common sense view is
that but one way te repair it exists :
which is te put him back in the place
from which he was taken. If his case
had a proper handling in the Senate the
present bill for his relief would net have
been proposed or accepted. It simply
authorizes the president te place Gen.
Perter en the retired list of the army in
a rank net above that of colonel and
without pay for the years of his expul
sion. We de net understand hew
any one who believed in General Por Per
ter's innocence could have accepted
such a miserable measure of indemnity
for the gross wrong done him. Senater
Randelph, of New Jersey, has had charge
of the bill. He is evidently net a Denten.
He would never have become illustrious
as "a great expunger"' of an iniquitous
record. His discretion may be
great, but Ins courage ami determina
tion are manifestly of a minimum
grade. It does net need any demon
stration te show that no reparation can
be tee great for General Perter inno
cent, and that none is due him, guilty.
uemg conceded innocent, what measure
of justice is it in Congress te authorize
the president, if he sees fit, le make him
a colonel en half pay and without
back pay. It is a mockery and
a shame te make such a preposition ;
certainly as a court marshal expelled
General Perter, it is possible te review
its action en its being demonstrated
that it was unjustly taken. It
would be a scandal upon the
laws if they did net permit the
finding te be reversed when shown te be
wrong. If they de net, the work for
Congress te de is te amend the laws se
that the court martial verdicts may be
reviewed ; and net te pass a special law
in one case ; and that a law which is
very far from securing the full measure
of justice demanded.
Yorktown, 1881.
We believe the Intelligence!: was
the first paper in the country te suggest
a centennial celebration at Yorktown.
When the centennial celebration of In
dependence opened se auspiciously in
Philadelphia it was urged in these col
umns that a fitting supplement te that
long continued and brilliant celebration
would be some commemoration in 18S1
of the surrender at Yorktown. The
event deserves it and it is proper that
seme one of the Revolutionary events oc
curring en Southern soil should be made
the subject of a national festival. Nene is
better calculated le awaken national en
thusiasm than the final downfall of Brit
ish pretensions at Yorktown. The place
is almost en the border line of the two
great sections of the country, and the
season, October, is a most delightful one
for a great popular coucerse. The Seuth
will have such an opportunity as has net
occurred te it since before the war te
welcome the North at its own
gates. Philadelphia and the (Jentsu
nial of 1S7G were mere or less
effective in promoting lezoncilia lezencilia lezoncilia
tien and inter-state commerce while
they gave a great impetus te all median
)cal pursuits and te applied art. York Yerk
town may discover au opening for North
ern capital te Southern oppertuuties,
but in any event a well organized cen.
tennial celebration cannot fail te bring
the people of the two sections, in their
social relations, closer together and ra
pidly advance that better mutual under
standing which alone is necessary te wipe
out sectional lines. On te Yorktown
We publish elsewhere a clear state
ment by Senater Wallace of the future
issues between the Democracy and its
opponents. We think he apprehends
them rightly. We have come te a time
when it is possible for us te correct our
party bearings and take a fresh depart
ure en our original course. The old
doctrines, which lie at the party founda
tions, have had a geed deal of debris
thrown upon them by events consequent
upon the civil war ; but the late election
has served te sweep all this off and ex
pose the fundamental party doctrines as
these upon which its future battles are
te be fought. It is the mission of the
party te contend for the rights of the
people, as they are steadily and strongly
assailed by the power of money, of cor
porations and the officers of government.
In the end the victory must be with the
people, and the government must come
te be administered for the geed of the
greatest number.
MINOR TOPICS.
Is the city of Wheeling, W. Va., the
price of gas is $1.08 per 1000 feet.
Reme has net been for ten years se gay
and brilliant with foreign visitors as at
present.
Russia is this year importing grain, tal
low and wool, the very things with which
she has been accustomed te .supply half the
world.
A Baltimore clergyman recently
preached en the subject, "Why was Laza
rus a beggar?" The World supposes be-1
cause he didn't advertise.
A dispatch from Paris te the Londen
1'imcs snya: " The success of the Panama
canal enterprise is enormous. The organ
ization of the undertaking is in full
swing."
The official vote of Texas, just declared,
gives ever 85,000 majority for Hancock.
This renders it almost certain that Gen.
Hancock carried a majority of the popular
ballets cast and counted.
The superintendent of the census re
ports that the re numeration of districts in
Seuth Carolina in which census frauds
were suspected shows a somewhat larger
population than was shown by the suspec
ted icturns taken six months age.
Mn. Diaz of Mexico doesn't tec any
thing undignified in an cx-prcsident's
making himself useful te hiSjCeuntry, and
incidentally earning an honest living.
Acceicingly he has accepted a portfolio
that of public works in his successor's
cabinet.
It is believed that the sub-committee te
which was referred Gen. McCook's bill
placing Gen. Grant en the retired list with
the rank of general, will report against
the bill. One member, Gen. McCook,
favors it ; one is known net te, and the
views of the remaining one arc matters of
surmise.
The terms of the Turkish note relative
te the Greek question have been decided
upon. In the note the powers are asked
te recommend Greece te enter upon a
path of negotiations instead of resorting
te armaments. Mere pacific influences
have prevailed since the draft of the note
last week, in which the powers J were
asked te obtain a categorical answer from
Greeee as te her acceptance of the Perte's
proposals.
All but the two Grew legislators from
Allegheny county met in caucus yesterday
en the senatorial question. A long and
windy discussion was had, during which
each member fought shy of declaring
which candidate he favored. It was
finally decided that all members of the
delegation shall abide by the decision of
the majority and that no candidate's name
shall come before the caucus who fails te
write a letter agreeing te withdraw from
the senatorial race if beaten in caucus.
Then the delegation adjoined te meet next
Tuesday night. Tins is practically a vic
tory for Harry Oliver. The majority of
the delegation favor him and of course the
next meeting will meet settle Allegheny's
support.
PFBSONAL.
Majer General Winfield S. Hancock,
U. S. A., has been assigned te duty ac
cording te his brevet of major general, te
date from Dec. 4, 1880.
Gee. W. Childs, the great obituary
poet of the Philadelphia Ledger, is named
as a candidate for U. S. senator by the
Cincinnati Gazette, whose editor says :
" He is net only wealthy, but he is a first
class business man, and if placed in a pub
lic position would serve te elevate politics,
and especially Pennsylvania politics."
Mile. Jeanne BERNHAiiDT,Sara's sister,
arrived in New Yerk from Havre yester
day. She was dreadfully seasick all the
way ever. When her tall form, encased
from head te feet in en olive-green cloak
and capped with a marvelous piece of
head-gear, glided along the gang-plank
the bystanders all exclaimed : "Hew like
the B. herself."
, Pettsville fashionable society was stirred
yesterday by the marriage of Miss Jclia
Ryen, -daughter of Hen. Jehn W. Ryen,
congressman from the Schuylkill district,
te Mr. William Ricuards, of St. Leuis ;
and of Miss Sallie Bryant, a niece of Mr.
Frank Carter, general land agent of the
Philadelphia & Reading railroad compa
ny, te Mr. J. Ellwood Smith, also of St.
Leuis. The two bridal couples left en the
same train for their new Western homes.
A young and pretty woman, whom
Rociiefert took into his service while in
exile, and te whom, it is said, he was much
attached, committed suicide in Paris en
Monday. She was discovered by Roche Reche
fort stretched en her bed in the i-' rf
of death, with a pan of chare. ..uhung at
her side. Rochefort was half distracted
aud was led away weeping. It was feared
that his despair would drive him te some
violent act, and indeed a rumor was afloat
in Paris that he had committed suicide.
5jThe statement in an Eastern paper of
recant date that Governer Fester is pre-
paring te withdraw from the senatorial '
contest in Ohie was certainly made with
out the authority of Mr. Fester or any of
his frieuds. Fester net only does net pro
pose te withdraw from the contest, but en
the ether hand proposes te de all he can
legitimately te make himself senator, and
te remain in the contest te the end.
Mrs. Annie E. Wilsen, who has just
become an inspector in the New Yerk cus
tom house, was the wife of the captain of
a vessel bound for Liverpool with a cargo
of grain eight years age. A storm arose
the cargo shifted and the ship lay en its
beam-ends. The captain was disabled,
and the mate gave up the ship as lest.
Mrs. Wilsen took command, 'safely navi
gated the ship te pert, and brought her
helpless husband home. Since the latter' s
death she has supported herself and child
as a clerk in a store.
PKPPEKED -AND WHIPPED.
A Yeung Lady's Attack In the Street en a
Man Whein She Accuses of Intuit
ing Her.
In New Yerk Tuesday afternoon a
young woman of medium height and fig
ure, dark eyes and hair, about 18 years
old, stepped into the hallway at 9 Barclay
street and sent a boy upstairs te the
rooms occupied by Heward S. Iugersell,
a manufacturer of rubber stamps, with
the .request that he come down te the
deer a moment, where a lady wished te
sec him. In a few minutes Ingcrsell ap
peared, but the young woman was be
hind a sign waiting for him te
walk toward Broadway. He seemed disin
clined te de se, whereupon she stepped in
front of him and said in a clear, determ
ined veice : "Yeu have insulted ine as no
man en earth has ever done before. Yeu
took advantage of my friendless condition
and treated me in a way that makes my
bleed boil te think of, aud I will be re
venged." Ingcrsell shrugged his shoul
ders, put his hands in his pockets and was
about te make some reply, when the
young woman drew her band from her
pocket and threw a handful of red pepper
into his eyes, almost blinding him. Ingcr Ingcr
eoll screamed with pain and clasped both
hands te his eyes. Without a word,
the young woman drew a heavy
whip from her side, the lash of
which was armed with twisted pins,
and cut him across the face and hands,
bringing the bleed at every stroke. Inger
sell shrieked, and, dropping en one knee,
tried te protect himself from the blows
that fell en his neck, face and hands. A
throng had gathered, and he begged for
protection, but no man r.iised a hand te
interfere with the chastisement. Many of
them cnt.'eu raged the young woman, and
cried that it served him right. Ingcrsell
at length rushed up the stairs toward his
office, but the persons en the landing push
ed him hack. He was again belabored with
the whip until he climbed up several steps
from the fleer. There he turned and gave
her a kick in the breast that caused her te
reel backward. As she was falling W.
Disharoon caught her, and when she had
regained hisr feet she again attacked Ingcr Ingcr
eoll, the ps rsens who had gathered in the
hall-way continuing te enceurage her.
Then with a final blew that left its mark
en Ingersel.1, the girl, pale and trembling
from cxcitcyncut, walked rapidly through
the crowd and disappeared. Ingcrsell
clutched at Mr. Disharoon, and asked for
help. " Take your hands off of me, you
scoundrel," was the reply. "This time
you caught- a Tartar, and if your punish
ment had been a thousand times as severe
there isn't a man in the city who would
net say you deserved it." The principal
actor in the scene is Miss Aline May
Freeman. She is Jiving at 2S2 West
Fourth street. The young woman has
delicate features aud a clear, white com
plexion. Her conversation indicated
that she had been well educat
ed. Tuesday evening she said : "I
arrived in this country about three months
age from England. I knew no one here.
My father's death deprived me of support
and I came here te can my living. I
tried te get a situation as a governess or
school teacher, but without success.
About two weeks age I saw an advertise
ment in a paper for a saleslady at 0 Bar
clay street. I called there aud found
Heward S. Ingcrsell." Miss Freeman
said that she was net pleased with the
conduct of i ugersell toward her, aud that
when he praised her she asked him what
her appearance had te de with the duties
he wanted her te perferin, lie told her,
she says, that he wanted her te go live
with his family in Brooklyn ; that he was
an artist, and would want her for a model
there ; and that he would give her $10 a
week. In her nccessity.shc added, she con
sented te go. "We went ever
te a house in Jay street, Brook
lyn," she said. "I think it was 185,
and he let himself in with a latch key.
Net another soul was there. He insulted
me, aud I rushed te the deer, but found
it locked. I screamed, but no one an
swered inc. I was nearly dead with
fright, when somehow I get the deer open
and gained the hall. I half fell down the
stairs, and I hardly knew iiew I get back
here. If I arrested him I would be
obliged te furnish two sureties of $500
each. I could only get one. Se this
morning I took six of the round leather
bands used te run sewing machines and
bound them together. I oiled them te
make them supple, and then took a dozen
long pins aud twisted them into the end,
se that they would scratch and cut.
Then I bought two handfuls of red pepper
and went in search of Ingcrsell. When I
reached home 1 fainted." Ingcrsell is
said te have a very bad reputation, and
been guilty of many offenses like that
for which the young English girl punished
him.
STATE ITEMS.
The Delaware river at Burlington re
mains frozen solid, excepting the channel,
where ice tugs have proceeded as far up as
Bordentown and opened it for the pur
pose of towing the beats which are frozen
in at the locks there te Philadelphia.
W. W. West, for many years traveling
salesman for Elliett Brethers, cloth mer
chants, at 403 Market street, Philadelphia,
has disappeared, and his friends apprehend
that he has met with foul play. Since last
spring he has been selling goods in the
West. On November 1 he arrived in St.
Leuis, where he made several large sales
for the firm which he represented. On
the 19th of the same month he left his
hotel at St. Leuis and has since been miss
ing. He had in his possession a considera
ble amount of money, two diamond studs
and a valuable ring.
Company F, 11th Rcgt. N. G. of Pa.,
(Oxford Guards,) made the purchase of a
let. of ground en Central Avenue, last
we;k, en which it is intended te build an
armory. It has a front of 09 feet en the
avenue and a depth of 200 feet, the price
paid being $8 per feet front. The com
pany has in contemplation the erection of
a building next summer which will be 50
ey lue leet, two stories.
In Philadelphia yesterday 3Irs. Henri
etta Engle, a middle-aged woman, was
convicted of stealing goods from Wana
maker's grand depot and with receiving
property knowing it te have been stolen.
The evidence developed the fact that she
is a professional shoplifter and proprie
tress of a cheap notion store in Chambers
burg, near Trenten, where she disposed
of the property stolen by herself and
ether shoplifters with whom she was in
league. At her place in Chambcrsburg
about four hundred dollars' worth of prop
erty was found, which had been stolen
from Wanamakers stores. The judge
senieucea nor te a nne or giuu line and an
?ft1Enmen,; of two years and thre8l
months.
SENATOR WALLACE.
THE FAST
AND FCTUBE
MOCRACT
OF DE-
"The Mission of the Democratic Party.'.
Senater Wallace in NertU American Review.
The events and progress of mere than a
generation have taken the control of gove
rnmental affairs away from the intelli
gent rule of the masses and vested it in a
power as yet formative and undefined.
Among these were the civil war, the crea
tion and peculiar manipulation of the pub
lic debt, reconstruction outside the consti
tution, universal negre suffrage, a plethora
of paper money, loose public morals, enor
mous growth of private fortunes, and a
close connection of the government with
the banking interest. Each had its
weight in sapping the foundation of a gov
ernment by the masses, and in shaping our
course toward a different rule. Whether
that rule is te be suffrage qualified and
rarefied, or suffrage controlled by the
power of aggregated wealth or mouepoly,
or a senatorial oligarchy, or hereditary
government, is beside the present inquiry,
save as they each and all show distrust of
the people, and build their foundations
upon universal suffrage, debased, corrupt
ed and dominated.
The tendency toward a se-called strong
er government is as manifest as are the
causes that have given it fenn. It is in
the nature of things for government te
grew stronger at the expense of the gov
erned ; but the plain proof of the existence
of this tendeucy is feuud in the opinions
of the federal judiciary, iu federal legisla
tion ever matters heretofore within the
contiel of the people of the states, in the
modes of execution of these statutes, by
which local rule, local courts, and personal
liberty are overthrown, aud in that ramifi
cation of executive patronage which seuds
its mandates te the extremities, and at
will gathers in a single hand enormous
contributions aud unscrupulous obedience
from ninety thousand paid officials. "Ex
ecutive patronage will bring us te a mas
ter." A net-work of office-holders, bound
each te the ether, wielding time and
money and power of place te pack primar
ies, dictate nominations, crush indepen
dent thought and action and subordinate
local centrel te the will of- an executive
who governs iu the name of party, points
the read with unerring certainty te the end
that Franklin, the wise man, predicted.
Further guide-beards en that read are
seen in large donations of money by cor
porations, monopolists and wealthy men,
te supplement the power of the executive,
and carry elections in the interest of an
aristocratic class who dislike and distrust
the people ; in the domination of em em
peoye by employer ; in the marked ballet ;
in the third term candidacy aud pilgrimage
en the stump ; in the National and Laber
organizations, which arc but ever-zealous
pretests agaiust this tendency, aud in that
ill-concealed demand for energetic govern
ment, which has been the fundamental
thought of the opponents of Democracy
since the days of Jehn Adams.
. The issues of 1799 and 1800 again con-
l front the people. The theories of that
j day are again te struggle for the mastery.
llic government of the republic is already
centralized. The canvass of 1880 teaches
this. The federal executive has been felt
from the ward caucus te the vaults
of the treasury, from the primary
te the presidential election. A high fed
eral official quits his place te take a nomi
nation for governor of the pivotal state,
and at once the executive arm is extended
te his support. Marshals, detectives, col
lectors, secretaries, aud all else that are
needed, locate themselves within the state,
audits suffrage is debauched and its un
doubted will reversed. A suffrage, first
debased, then corrupted, then obedient, is
centralization in its worst form. This is
but one mcaus te the end sought. The
mission of the Democratic party is decen
tralization. Its duty is te restore the gov
ernment of the republic te the intelligent
rule of the masses of the people. It must
teach and practice the doctrines of its
illustrious founder. It must appeal te the
people themselves in their own interest.
It must preach the eternal truth that the
individual citizen is the unit in government,
from whom proceeds all power, iu whom
is vested all rights save these which are
granted by him for the geed of the
whole. The people at the base,
the states and the federal government
each supreme within its sphere, is the
system te which it leeks for liberty, and it
must teach that he who leeks te paternal
government, te centralization, or te empire
leeks te despotism. Care for and perfect
the government, and it will protect the
liberties of the people, was the thought of
Hamilton. Give intelligence and informa
tion te the people, teach them that it is
their government, and their interest te
preserve law and order, was the thought
of Jeffersen. Paternal government and
vigor in the federal head en the one hand,
information te the masses ami
energy from the extremities en
en the ether. The former gave the repub
lic alien and sedition laws, direct taxation,
federal marshals and centralized rule iu
1799. The latter swept these out of exis
tence in 1800 ; carried ns successfully
through two foreign wars: acquired an
empire of territory, and governed the
country for sixty years. We must cheese
between these two new. The Democracy
must again plant itself upon the axiom.
"Governments are made for men, net men
for governments." It must be true te the
people and aggressive in its fealty. Domi
nated labor must be taught its rights aud
its interests. Capital must sec its safety
in the intelligence and justice of individual
rule, and net in the exercise of arbitrary
will. Honest performance of every gov
ernmental contract new in existence, but
a change of policy by which the debt
shall be managed in the interest of
the people and net of the creditor;
equal taxation en every form of property ;
thorough inquiry into taxation for revenue
and its readjustment upon a basis just te
every interest and te all the people ; no
monopolies ; forfeiture of the franchises
of corporations and punishment of aggre
gated wealth, or individuals, for coercion
of employees, or the use of money in elec
tions ; our own carrying trade made te he
our own preserve ; and a- divorce between
government and banks, are thoughts which
rind place in such an issue. The cry of a
" bend beuth " is exhausted and impotent
at last. It has served its purpose. Di
vided councils upon questions of adminis
tration have kept the Democracy a mere
party of opposition, aud concealed the
silent approaches of the enemy te strong
government. It will continue te he a
party in opposition, untrusted and untried,
until it defiantly asserts its ancient theo
ries and gees te the people for their vindi
catien.
The Democratic party is net dcacJ
Antams-like, after each defeat it arises
from the people stronger than before. It
cannot die whilst it teaches and believes in
the rights of the masses. The hour for its
triumph will have come when it boldly as
serts its true theories and ignores the
blandishments of money, monopoly, and
corrupt power. He whose interests, judg
ment, or teachings are adverse te the rule
of the masses will join its enemies, but in
his room it will recruit scores of these in
whose interest it strikes, or who respect
its attituue ana aetcst strong government.
The future of the Democratic party is the
future of the republic.
William A. Wallace.
Jehn Price, who had served 14 years and
4 months of a 15 years' sentence in the
Maryland penitentiary for murder, was
pardoned by Governer Hamilton yester
day. Price is 05 years of age, and has
spent 35 years of his life in prison, having
been three times sentenced for homicides,
FOBNET.TO GOSHORN.
The Ureat Kepcbilcan Corruption Fend.
Ancher White Lead Company, ?
Cincinnati. Dec. 6, 180. $
CeL Jein W. Ferney, Philadelphia :
Dear Sir: I have just read your criti
cism en Mr. Jehn Welsh in Progress (De
cember 4, page 51), and regret that, in
view of the political course of your paper,
and especially this attack en one of your
eldest and best frieuds, than whom there
is no one in Philadelphia who is mere es
teemed and respected for the purity of his
life, I must request you te discontinue
sending me the Progress from this date.
Yours respectfully,
A. T. Goshern.
Office "Progress." )
Philadelphia, Pa., Dec. 14. 1880. $
Hen. A. T. Goshern, Cincinnati:
My dear Sir : The right te step a
newspaper is like the right te breathe
Ged's free air. But with certain ether
rights ffmaysemetimes.be abused. Sel
held that no man stepping his paper has a
right te give confidential reasons in
sulting the editor. Having gene through
this business for mere than a generation,
I propose te discuss the question with per
fect candor in this public reply te your let
ter of the 0th of December, 1880. As the
wrong I condemned was a deliberate out
rage upon the American people, I claim
the full privilege te justify myself iu de
nunciation of it.
Twenty-one years age James Buchanan, J
presiaenc et tue united states, set tlie ex
ample te his army of officeholders by
stepping my paper, the Pi ess, because I
conscientiously declared for the freedom
of Kansas. I boldly exposed his proscrip prescrip
tion te the people, and with their aid
broke down his administration at the polls.
When I advocated, almost alone among
my contemporaries in Philadelphia, the
movement in favor of letting the cars run
ever our streets en the first day of the
week for the benefit of the laboring peer
of this great city, my paper was stepped
by thousands who new go te church iu the
same cars every Sunday. Fer that sin
cere effort I was assailed by a concentrated
cordon of angry clergymen, ene memor
able Sabbath day, calling upeu their con
gregation te step the Press; and new
most of these men of Ged frequently ride
te and from church en Sunday. When,
equally solitary aud alone, I pleaded that
the colored people should be allowed the
use of the same cars, hundreds of these
who new amiably sit side by side with
the negre in these cars, also stepped the
Press.
But my last and crowning crime "was
that of declaring for General ' Hancock for
president. One man withdrew his sub
scription because he declared I was dis
honoring the fame of the dead General
Meade, the most of the survivors of whose
family voted in the presidential election
for the living here of Gettysburg. Anether,
who was one of the loudest te applaud
General Hancock in July, 1863, for his
magnificent services te our great state and
city, stepped Progress because he could
net train, he said, with the party which
supported Lee in the rebellion. Still
another discontinued his paper because
the election of General Hancock, in his
belief, would be a decree against the con
trol of his special ring in this country.
Others,. net quite se bold, waited te see if
General Hancock could be elected in No
vember, in which event no doubt your
name would still he inscribed en my
books!
Jehn Welsh was among this list. He,
like you,, waited for Hauceck's defeat be
fore he aired his auger. In addition te
his uote withdrawing his name from Pre
gress, he declared that he could net stand
my theory that the empire was certain te
be successful if mere meney was hereafter
permitted te crush and control free judg
ment m tins country.
New 1 have your letter of the (5th of De
cember. Instead of meeting the direct is
sueinstead of discussing en fair grounds
the doctrine that there can be no free un
trainmeled suffrage in this country if cap
ital is allowed te muzzle conscience and te
turn the laboring population into se many
white slaves, you speak of Mr. Welsh as
" one of your (my) eldest and best friends
than whom there is no one iu Philadelphia
who is mere esteemed and respected for
the purity of his life."
All of which I freely admit except that
which relates te the friendship between
Mr. Welsh and myself. That has always
been maintained by perfect independence
of all money relations between us. But
if, in this remark, you mean that I went
abroad under his invitation as Centennial
commissioner, in 1874-1875, please remem-
that, besides doing my duty honestly, ac
cording te your records and the public
judgment, I spent thousands of dollars out
et my own pocket, in addition te the two
hundred aud fifty dollars a month allowed
by the finance committee. Se much feri
that. It is because Mr. Welsh is precisely
what you say he is, because he is se geed
a man, because Ins hie heretofore has been
a model, because of the purity of that life
(virtues you claim for him, and I concede)
that a fatal force was given te his secret
application for the money of the million
aires te buy a man into the presidency,
convicted by the Republican party of the
United States of brazen corruption in the
American Congress.
The purity of Jehn Welsh's life made
the impurity of that example mere terri
ble. Until he signed the monstrous circu
lar of the 14th of September, 1880, Geu.
Hancock was the foreordained president
of the United States. Hancock's friends
had just carried Maine, aud Mr. Garfield
himself, aud the trained bands of his part
the office-holders and reckless managers
who have been getting rich for twenty
years from the plunder of the general
government saw and trembled before
that "handwriting en the wall." At this
point Jehn Welsh took the field against
General Hancock. Up te the Maine elec
tion, in September, Jehn Welsh steed aloof.
The thrilling record of General Hancock,
his splendid contradiction of all charges or
suspicions against himself, the attractive
incidents of his stainless life, and the
graceful dignity with which he avoided all
offensive advertisement of his person and
his claims had reached thousands of hearts,
and there is no doubt that if these evangel
izing infiuences had been permitted te
control, Hancock would have been the
choice of the American people.
At this moment Jehn Welsh, of all men,
the very man whose "purity of life" should
have led him te yield te these great facts,
made his appearauce as the author of the
extraordinary circular which I republish.
Up te that time he had steed aloof. And
wuun mas paper appearca mere was net a
gentleman in Philadelphia, outside of the
aspirants for office, who did net read this
demand for a coruptien fund with amazo amaze
ment. This shameless circular was a
blew in the dark, struck from an unex
pected quarter, struck under the mask of
confidence in the hope that these it was
intended te debauch and destroy would
never hear of it.
Fortunately, such monstrous transac
tions always see the light of day. Yeu
cannot print a wicked wrong in this age
and hide it from human eyes aud hearts,
any mere than you can hide it from Ged ;
aud se, when Jehn Welsh premised te keen
the money sent te him te buy the suffrage I
secret, nc aumiuea an et wmch he new
stands convicted. By this pledge of se
crecy he confessed he was wrong. " The
purity of his life" was a living reproach
upon his deliberate act. and the success of
his wrong crowned his own dishonor. It
was he who sounded the challenge. His
was the bugle-call te bribery. He rea rea
reused the elements of hatred against the
Seuth. He organized capital against labor
in the North. He stimulated the worst
passions among the worst men. His bid
was the boldest bid against conscience since
the days of the bank of the United States,
and it was a mere audacious asssault upon
individual integrity than that great cor
poration. It was a mere formidable temp
tation te parties and te the press, in pro
portion as the money Jehn Welsh mar
shalled against General Hauceck was a
thousand times mere than that organized
against General Jacksen, fifty years age,
by the bank of the United States.
And se, long before the day of election,
Jehn Welsh became the text of sectional
hatred en the one side and sectional hu
miliation en the ether. The money he
raised was the open treasury from which
desperate men could draw at ad libitum,
and last November Jthe states bought by
that money were handed ever, like man
acled prisoners, te the tender mercies of
the rescued office-holders and their chief at
Menter.
Was I te stand silent before such an ec
casienas this? Was I remain muzzled
before the exposure of the dark secret ?
Had I consented te such a shame I would
have been a partner in the conspiracy it
self. New, lest yen may net have seen this
most shameful circular, I reprint it as fol fel
lows :
23 Seuth Third Street, Pmi.ADEi.ruiA, )
September 14th, 18).
At a meeting of a number of the busi
ness men of Philadelphia, held Thursday,
September 9th, lien. Jehn Welsh was
chosen chairman, and Cyrus Elder secre
tary. The uudersigned were appointed a
committee te procure funds for the use of
the Republican party in the present cam
paign. Yeu knew that en the result of the No
vember election depend the prosperity of
our manufacturers, the existence, probably
of our national bankiug system, and the
safety of our national finances.
Yeu knew that the inevitable and legiti
mate expenses of such a campaign are large,
and tJiat in some of the doubtful states, where
success is absolutely necessary te our cause,
the ncedfulfunds cannot beprecured. Seven
weeks from this day the great battle will
be fought and, if the present apathy con
tinues let.
LARGE SUMS ARE NEEDED IN
STANTLY, aud te you, as one of the
moderate number te whom such an ap
peal can be made, the committee leek for
prompt and liberal a contribution. This
note and your answer or contribution are
te be held confidential.
Payments are te be made te Wharten
Baker, Treasurer, Ne. 28 Seuth Third
street.
Yeu will perceive, 31r. Goshern, that I
de net step te discuss the sincerity of the
excuses of Jehn Welsh for this corruption
fund. If I did, I might say that there is
net an honest man between the two oceans
who believes that if General Hancock had
beeu elected president last November he
would have destroyed our manufactures,
impaired our national bankiug system, or
interfered with the safety of our Ameri
can finances. Hancock's whole life is a
pretest agaiust the scandalous assumption.
He is a citizen of Pennsylvania, known te
Jehn Welsh, far better known te Jehn
Welsh than Jehn Welsh is known te you
or by you. Hauceck was burn in Mont
gomery county, almost within sound of the
bell of Independence hall, and yet, be
cause a man whose whole life heretofore
has been a single illustration of " purity of
ch tracter," alleges all these things against
General Hancock (I will net insult Jehn
Welsh by the intimation that he believes
what he wrote and signed), but because
he alleges such things against General
Hancock, he did net hesitate te recom
mend the purchase of great states, and te
take the lead in a crusade against the con
sciences of thousands of peer working
men who had te vote agaiust General
Hancock en the threat of being turned
into the streets, or being made beggars
and paupers.
Together with thousands of ethers I de
nounced this most cruel, unprovoked and
dangerous proceeding, aud I am convinced
that the American people will never forget
the means by which, under the narae of a
man boasting of his "purity of life." a
brave soldier has been deprived of his
electoral majority.
Under the rule of the British Heuse of
Commens, the practice of a government te
which Jehn Welsh was the accredited Am
erican minister, a member of Parliament,
elected by the processes recommended by
himself in regard te the choice of the pres
ident of the United States, would have been
unseatcd almost without a vote ; the very
petition stating the fact that he had pur
chased the ballet, would have left him
without a case.
I am glad that you have done me the
honor te strike your name from my list of
subscribers, because 1 should reel degraded
in taking the money of a man who at
tempts surreptitiously te prescribe an in
dependent American editor for denounc
ing practices which if done by an ordi
nary citizen would consign that citizen te
deserved contempt and shame.
Jehn W. Ferney.
LATEST NEWS BY MAIL.
Thirty children have died of diphtheria
at Gilbcrtville, Bcauce county, Quebec,
within two weeks.
Jehn Smith, aged 50 years, committed
suicide in a station house, at Jersey City,
yesterday. He had been locked up for
drunkenness and disorderly conduct.
The dye works of Mackintosh & Sen's,
Tuttle's rubber works at Holyoke, Mass.,
were damaged by fire yesterday, and
eighty hands arc temporary thrown out of
employment.
Twe rear cars of an express train from
St. Leuis for Kansas City ran off the track
near Eureka station, twenty miles from St.
Leuis, en luesday night, and several per
sons were injured, three severely.
Mr. Hutchins, sent recently te investi
gate the condition of the " Cenncmara
Colony" in Minnesota, reports terribie
suffering among ths colonists for the lack
of clothing, fuel and feed.
Mount Baker, Washington territory, has
new joined the array of volcanoes, headed
by Manau Lea and Mount Vesuvius, in
active operation in various parts of the
earth's surface.
Mr. R. Wernack, a prominent farmer of
Halifax county, Virginia, was killed by a
runaway accident en Monday. F. N. Ny
burg was killed near Harmony, New Yerk
yesterday morning, by the sudden fall of a
tree which he was cutting drwn.
In Lambertville, N. J., during a quarrel
en the ice between Jehn Pierman, aged
eighteen, and Theodere Parker, aged thir
teen, the latter was stabbed with a pen
knife, the blade penetrating his heart and
killing him instantly. Pierman has net
been arrested.
A "confidence man " fleeing from a pe
liceman in St. leuis, en Tuesday night,
attempted te cress the bridge en the rail
road track, but fell through, there being
no flooring between the rails, and was
drowned. The bridge track is 90 feet above
the water.
An ex-district attorney of Washington,
while suffering from delirium tremens, at
tempted te commit suicide by a leap from
the dome of the capitol, but his effort was
frustrated by two of the capital policemen
who observing his condition, followed him
up and overtook him just as he had get
outside of the upper railing near the top of
the dome.
Seidcnberg & Ce., manufacturers of
cigars and importers of leaf tobacco in
New Yerk and'at Key West, Flerida, an
nounced their failure. They are the larg
est manufacturers of cigars in this country
and their credit was unlimited. Jeseph
Seidenberg, Samuel Seidenbcrg and Sam
uel Wolf, who comprise the firms of Seid
enberg & Ce. and S. Wolf & Ce., of Key
West, have made an assignment te Julius
Bunzl.
W. J. Bradley, aged 60 years, was shtt
dead by a magistrate named Squires, at
Summit, North Carolina, en Tuesday
The murder was the result of an old
grudge. Charles Hinswerth, a colored
Trojan, was arrested in Albany, New Yerk,
yesterday, en the charge of haviu" at
tempted te poison several persons by Treat
ing them te beer which he had drugged
with Pai is green.
A mass meeting of citizens was held
last night in Caldwell, Kansas, Mayer
Meagher presiding, at which resolutions
were adopted approving the movement by
Payne's and ether colonists te settle en the
Oklahoma lands, in the Indian territory,
and asking the president of the United
States te " order the troops te accompany
the settlers te Oklahoma as an escort."
The invasion movement is reported te be
gathering force and numbers, owing chief
ly te the destitution among the settlers in
Western Kansas.
Snow has fallen ever the north of
Scotland. It new covers the ground te
thod-qthef several inches. The tram
way c-ws at Dundee were compelled te
step running. At Aberdeen the storm
cemmcuccd yesterday morning and con
tinues with unbated fury. The snow lies
te a considerable depth in the streets,
while in the country the average is about a
feet. There is every appearance of the
continuance of the storm. "
Elbert and Jehn Lee, returning te their
homes in Bulleck county, Georgia, camped
in their wagon ten miles from Savannah,
en Tuesday uight. They were found sense
less ycsteulay morning, having beeu
knocked iu the head aud robbed of $200.
Elbert is fatally iujured, but the ethor is
expected te recover. A colored boy, who
was with them, says he was awakened by
a noise during the night and saw a col
ored mau run away and heard ethors
talking, but was afraid te give an alarm.
LOCAL INTELLIGENCE.
TUE C1TX SOLICITOR'S OPINION .
Upen the Ouostien of Ilie Approaching Klec Klec
llen for Altleriuen.
Lancaster, Dec. 15, 1880.
Hen. Jehn T. MacGenigle, Mayer of the
City of Lancaster :
Dear Sir : The question which you have
presented te me is, whether aldermen
must be elected in the First, Fifth and
Eighth wards at the city election in Feb
ruary next, or whether these offices shall
be filled en the third Tuesday of Febru
ary, A. D. 1882.
I am of opinion that no election should
be held for these offices until the third
Tuesday of February, 1882. The act of
May 10, 1874, Sec. 1, provides " that all
members of councils and all ether city,
ward, borough and township officers te be
elected en the third Tuesday of February
next, or iu any year thereafter, whose term
of office would, under existing laws expire
prier te the first Monday in April, shall
continue in office from the date at which
said term would otherwise expire, until
the first Monday in April then next ensu
ing thereto."
The aldermen of the wards abeve men
tioned, being elected en the third Tuesday
of February following the passage of said
act, arc included within its previsions and
their tern of office is therefore ox ex
tended from the time it would etherwise
expire until the first Monday of April,
1882. But the concluding part of this sec
tion provides that " elections for officers
which shall be vacant en the first Monday
in April shall he held en the third
Tuesday iu February next preceding
thereto." As therefore there will be no
vacancy until the first Monday iu April,
1882, the election te fill the same should
net be held until the third Monday in Feb
ruary, 1882, which is the third Monday in
February immediately preceding said va
cancy.
leu also inquire whether au elcctieu
should be held en February next te fill the
vacaney caused by the death of R. W.
Shcnk, esq., the late select councilman of
the Third ward.
The supplement te the charter of tbe
city, passed March 20, ISO'.), contains the
following previsions : "That if any mem
ber of select or common councils shall ab
sent himself from three successive meet
ings, thirty minutes after the hour ap
pointed, without reasonable excuse, his
scat shall be declared vacant, and from aud
after the passage of this act, if a vacancy
shall occur iu the select branch, for the
cause herein named, or by death, removal
from the ward, resignation or any ether
cause, during the term for which any
member shall be elected, the same shall bit
filled for the unexpired term by their body.'''
As the vacancy caused by the death of
Majer Shcnk has been filled by select
ceunci, and the term for which he was
elected will only expire en the first Mon
day in April, 1882, no election can be held
for the office until February, 1882.
I am respectfully yours.
Chas I. Laniiis.
City Solicitor.
A Handsome Memerial.
Charles R. Frailcy, esq., the talented
penman, has just finished per order of
Rev. David !. WiIIseii. for the class of
1877 of Trinity college, Hartferd, Conn.,
a beautifully executed tribute te the
memory of their class-mate Jeseph Mos Mes Mos
grevc Tt uby. It is written in Indian ink
in Old English, German text, aud ether
fancy letters, artistically displayed, and
reads as i'ollwes : "In memory of Jeseph
Mosgrove Tiuby, who died within the col
lege walls, November 15th, 1877 aged 18
years. A loving brother, a true friend, a
careful scholar, a faithful Christian. Ged
proved him. and found him worthy for
Himself."
The testimonial is te occupy the centre
of a group of portraits of members of the
class, te he framed and hung en the walls
of Trinity college. The work may he seen
for a few days at Bacr's hook-store.
MASONIC.
Kleciien and Initsllatlen.
At the regular stated meeting of Good
win Council Ne. 19, R., S. E.. and S. M.,
held iu Masonic hall Wednesday evening.
Dec. 15. the following officers were elected
and installed by P. T. I. G. 31. Edward
Welchans :
T. I. G. 31. James B. Strine.
D. I. G. 3L David II. Wylic.
P. C. of W. Jehn null.
Treas. Chas. A. Heinitsh.
Recorder Hugh S. Gara.
Capt. of G. Dr. Jehn P. 3Ierris.
31. of C. Jacob Retharmcl.
3Iarshal Edw. Welchans.
1st K. of T. Chas. A. Fendcrsmith.
1st Herald Jeshua L. Lytc.
2d Herald Henry E. Carsen.
3d Herald R. Blickcndcrfer.
Sentinel Geerge Lutz.
Organist Adam Oblcnder.
Harnsberg City Lean.
The Harrisburg city councils,
advertised for 00,000 te refund
cent, citv bends, opened the bids
having
G per
yestcr-
day. Among the bids for the 5 per cents.
were Reed, 3IcGrann fc Ce., or Lancaster,
who offered te take $20,000 at $101.50 per
8100; $20.0C0 at $102 ; $20,000 at $102.50.
The best bid for the 5 per cents, was by Mr.
Jennings, of Harrisburg, who offered
$105.60 per $100.
90. The best bid for the 44
$101.50, by J. W. Weiss, of
per cents, was
mrnsuurg. i ne eest mi i ler tue 4 per
cents, was $101 per $100, by Themas &
Shoemaker, of Philadelphia. It is some
what noteworthy, as showing the plenti
fulness of money, that while only $00,000
were advertised for, $(500,000 were offered
all-at or above par.
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