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LANCASTER DAiLi lJSTELLlGESCEU FRIDAY, DECEMBER 7, 18-0.
Haiirdsui irnteikgencec.
FRIDAY EVENING, DEC. 17, 1880.
Crookedness.
The Philadelphia, Press, pretending te
think that the only burthen upon it is
te prove that Senater Bayard said at
Dever just what it .reported him te have
said, new publishes what it declares te 1
be a stenographic report of th portion
of his, speech in controversy, and sup
plements it with the affidavits of a few
Republicans who heard it, vouching for
its accuracy.
If the Press had published this sten
ographic report when it was first noti
fied by Senater Bayard that he disputed
the accuracy of his report ; or if it had
even done se before it printed the letter
of Conkling, Arthur, Boutwell and
Davis, which falsely declared thai Sen Sen
aeor Bayard had net te their knowledge
denied that he had spoken as reported,
it would have had a fair chance te con
vince the publirlhat the pretended sten
ographic report was correct, and that
Mr. Bayard was mistaken in his recol
lection. Then it could have claimed
from the senator that he should, as he
said he would, recede and take the sten
ographer's notes instead of his memory.
New it can make no such claim, te
have it conceded. It lias, after being
told by Mr. Bayard that he did net say
what it declared thai he said, delayed
for one month the production of the
stenographic report of his speech, which
it claims that it then had, and which, as
new exhibited, is in the words of its
original report. It did net furthermore
notify Mr. Bayard that it had such a
stenographic report , shewinghis memory
te be at fault. It did net notify its
readers that Mr. Bayard disputed the
correctness of the lepert. But it did
termit four men te publish a statement
in its columns, which falsely declared
that Mr. Bayard had made no such de
nial. Manifestly the course of the 7V has
net been open and straightforward in
this matter. It surelv needs te explain
why It was se long silent about the pre
tended stenographic report, and about
Mr. Bayard's denial, and se prompt te
print what it knew te be a lie. Its dec
larations of its fairness and its disposi
tion te deal justly with Mr. Bayard and
all mankind arc net sustained by its ex
hibition in this fas-'. Jt lays itself open te
the suspicion of having seta trap for
Mr. Bayard and with having concocted
a stenographic report te catch him in it.
The disguise is thin and docs net conceal
the spirit of this undertaking.
Protestations alone will net sustain
public confidence in the impartiality and
fairness of a newspaper It is the sort of
support that is often offered : but the
superstructure needs something in the
works that is seen te sustain the words.
In this ease tin1 iYw has been se plainly
sinuous that Toekedness may hence
forth be suspeetf-d in its apparently
straight,.-! walks : and this we say with
regret,
spirit.
for we h'-d thought better of its
About Cigars.
The failure of the chief heus-engaged
in the business of making cigars at Key
West, Flerida, leads the New Yerk
Time te moralize en this fresh illu-tra-tien
of the old iabfe which relates the
felly of the owner of tin' gu-e that laid
the golden eggs. u killjii'j jt te jet, all
the eggs. at en ;-e. II is a geed illustra
tion of a felly that is being perpetually
illustrated in the haste te get rich.
Originally. I-y West cigars were made
of Havana tobacco by Havana workmen,
who were taken ever te Flerida te
manufacture a Havana cigar and save
the duty en the imported article.
The Key West cigar seen get a
high reputation, and there was
ready sale for all that could he made.
Very seen they were adulterated ; which
possibly was the ultimate design when
their manufacture was commenced.
Our Lancaster county tobacco has for
some time been sent te Flerida te be
made into Havana cigars, and if no
worse tobacco had been sent the geese
would still b'- laying salable eggs : for
our tobacco makes a cigar which most
people cannot distinguish from Havana,
and which, in truth, is a great deal
pleasanter te smoke than peer Havana
tobacco, of which of late years there has
been a great deal, owing te a succession
of inferior crops. In fact the low repute
of the Key West cigar may be owing as
much te the peer Havana tobacco used
as te the adulteration with native tobac
co. The Times further complains of the
greediness of the retail seller, who buys
a cigar for thirty dollars a thousand te
sell it at ten cents apiece : and
it considers that this is a great
injury te the manufacturing interest.
in limiting the sale of their product.
This seems clear enough, but manufac
turers de net see it, and even encourage
retailers te charge "extravagant profits.
A popular brand of cigars that is sold by
a manufacturer in this city at S1S.50 per
31., by the case of 10,000, has upon the
box lid " 10 cts., or three for '2 cts.'' It
is as geed a cigar as you arc likely te
buy en your travels for ten cents . and
really better, as we have said, than a
peer Havana cigar, though it is wholly
made of Lancaster county tobacco. The
cigars chiefly made here arc sold at from
Sll! te $10 a thousand, and retail away
from home at five cents. These are cer
tainly extravagant profits.
Postal Frauds.
The New Yerk Thuf; seems te have
much mere confidence in the integrity
of the newspaper correspondents in
Washington than in tin: honesty of the
heads of departments in tin: postal ser
vice. Fer when both :uc assailed it
rushes chivalrously and boldly te the de
fense of the press while it challenges
further details of the official rascalities
with an evident enjoyment of the pros
pect that the requisite proof may be
forthcoming. There have been se many
rumors affecting the integrity of men
high in the postal service at Washing
ton, that when specific charges are made
against them the public will readily
second the motion of no influ
ential a Republican paper as the
Times for an investigation. Tyner,
vbe seems te have grown rich as
well as gray in the service, made a des
perate effort te have himself retained as
assistant where he had been a chief, and
it is suspected that he thought Key te
be such a mole that there would be four
years mere geed pickings under the
Hayes administration. It is manifest
that the posteffice bureau needs a purg
ing and Gen. Garfield will de well when
he changes the head of it te see te it that
there is a "shaking up" of the heads of
the various departments, te'the end that
the thieves may be smoked out and the
honest men vindicated from reigning
scandals. When the heads of postal de
partments set te selling themselves for
silk dresses they are as cheap as the Bull
Ring and Heg Ring politicians in Lan
caster, who struggle for the chance te
make such contemptible stakes in the
purchase of public supplies.
As Philadelphia has learned te her cost,
public building commissions are very ex
pensive and often very wasteful affairs:
and the Pliiladelphia Eecniwj liulktiit
has done some geed work in exposing
their blunders and prodigality. What it
says about the Xorristewn hospital com
mission, delegated by the Legislature,
needs attention at the next session, and
the public servants who were engaged in
this work must be held te strict ac
countability. MINOR TOPICS.
Scxatek Pexdlktex has presented a
bill prohibiting political assessments or
contributions from office-holders and con
tractors". The penalty provided is dismis
sal of the office-holder and annulment of
the contracts.
Cami'ijei.l, of the Wheeling liegistcr,
who antagonized and mimicked Conkling,
aims at the French mission. Seme of
Garfield's friends advise him te fly lower
or he will miss everything. Give him the
"old pants."
Tiik treasurer of the United States has
te sign his name about :(!), 000 times a
year. Just at present he is mere engaged
than usual, as owing te the large pay
ments of the season, lie lias te sign .,
000 cheeks and warrants en maturing ob
ligations between the 10th and 24th of this
mouth. This is an average of 1.000 a day,
Sundays included.
Ge kknek Fakniiam yesterday vetoed a
bill passed by the Vermont Legislature,
practically doing away with grand
juries and givingthc indicting power te the
state attorney. The governor declares the
bill unconstitutional in depriving persons
of their right te trial according te the
common law, in force when the state con
stitution was adopted.
At a caucus of the Opposition members
of the Dominion Parliament, in Ottawa,
yesterday, it is understood, a manifesto te
the people of Canada was adopted, strongly
condemning the policy of the government
in rclatieu te the Canadian Pacific railway,
and especially the extravagant price te tic
paid uud under the contract for comple
tion of the read.
CexsiDKKAHi.E indignation was inani
tested en the part of Southern senators be
cause Judge Weeds, nominated te succeed
Associate Justice Streng, is credited te
Georgia. They say Weeds is really an
Ohie man. and that te evade the charge of
filling the bench with Ohioans Weeds is
credited te Georgia. There was emphatic
talk about the Senate, and mere than one
senator declared he would vote te reject
Weeds simply because he was credited te
Georgia The indications arc that a strong
fight will be made against the confirma
tion of Weeds en this account.
PFESONAL.
Mr. Gladstone has been visiting the
Prince of Wales at Saudrigham, and, by
the Prince's especial desire, read the les les
eons at morning prayer.
Mr. Themas Caulvle, who hatl just
passed his eighty-fifth birthday, is feeble,
yet in much better health than recent re
ports would indicate.
Lord Beacexsfiei.d is recorded ;s say
ing once in the Heuse of Commens that
"Irish members were tee much in the
habits of clanking their chains."
Miss Macde GitAXGEi:, the actress, who
appeared in this city during the present
season in the drama of "Twe Nights in
Reme," is very seriously ill at Hannibal, .
Me.
Secretary Scncnz will leave Washington
in April, with his family, te 3Cttle perma
nently in St. Leuis. He intends te divide
his time between looking after his paper,
the Wcstlichc Pett, and writing a book.
Miss Henrietta VAiKs,thegiftcd tra
gic actress and leading lady of Themas
W. Kcenc's company which appears here
next Monday, was married in Baltimore
en Saturday last te Mr. Henry Thompson
an actor in Cyril Scarle's "Drink Combi
nation." Postmaster General Maynauii has dis
charged a son of General Armitagc, n
Tcnnciscan and an ex-Cenfcdcratc, from
the posteffice department, in spite of the
fact that young Armitage is a strong Re
publican It is understood that Mr. May
nard was prompted by personal unfriend
liness for Armitage, the elder.
Mile. Bekxhardt narrowly escaped ac
tual death during the death scene in "' Ca
mille," at the Giebe theatre, in Bosten, en
Wednesday night. She was lying en a
leuugc near a mantel, en which were the
glasses supposed te contain her medicine,
when the mantel began te totter. Excla
mations from the audience caused her
quickly te leave her position, which she
did an iustant before the heavy mantel
crashed down upon the lounge.
Rev. Jehn Edgar, professor of Latin at
Westminster college, New Wilmington,
Lawrence county, died there en Wednes
day. He was born August 24, 1828, in
Seuth America, and with his parents re
moved Newberg, N. Y., where he studied
theology. After graduating at Union
college, he was pastor of the U. P.
church at Sterling Valley, N. Y. In
1875, he was elected professor of Latin in
Westminster college. Mr. Edgrr was a
gentleman of rare attainments and his
death will be sincerly mourned.
Suubury is excited ever a quarrel be
tween the Suubury Daily aud the Rev.
M. L. Ress. In a sermon delivered en
Sunday Mr. Ress is reported te have
spoken of the two editors of the Daily as
" druukardK," "imposters" and "hounds
I of the devil."
CIVIL SEKYICE BEFOEM.
Hevr Tenure of OlHce Operates in the
I'estal Service.
Xew Yerk Dispatch te Cincinnati Enquirer.
The suit at Washington between C. C.
Huntley aud his cousin, Silas Huntley,
mail contractors, is a small sign of the an
cient rottenness' in the whole mail con
tracting business. Mail contractors orig
inally were stage proprietors, inany.ef
them fiem the New England states, who
had been in the stage business from Bes
ten te Albany aud Bosten te New Yerk, .
and as the country expanded they and
their sons sought occupation for their
J stages and steek under the government
service. With the growth et ttie ar W est
and the detached mining camps, and the
clamor raised by such small places for the
full benefits of the mails as in elder parts,
men have gradually assembled around the
postefHcc department who knew all the of
ficials there, both great and miner, and
who in many cases tampered with the an
nuel bids, se as te have the advantage of
any newcomers.
Here see one of the evils of a long
standing civil service. 1 have almost in
variably found that a man is iu a govern
ment department two or three years before
he makes the connections which tempt
him te sell-out the government, his em
ployer. A large number of persons em
ployed as clerks at Washington are con
stantly en the lookout for some place
where they can advise outside parties te
Mie the government. Fer example, the
laws are te be revised at the treasury de
partment, and two or thiee men are de
tailed te proceed with the revision. They
come te a place, perhaps, where they find
that we have exacted from certain vessels
tonnage dues, and the same had been will
ingly paid; but en comparing the laws it
was perhaps found that there was suffi
cient ground for these vessels te rake up a
claim for the return of their money, ex
tending home years back. Hereupon the
clerks employed by the government put
their heads together and say : " Let us
start a scheme of recovering that money
from the government, and it is worth
thousand of dollars te us."
Se, perhaps, a neighboring chiim agent
icceives the .suggestion and becomes the
third partner. He proceeds, we may say,
te the unconscious steamship companies
and says : "Fer 23,000 I will get back
these duties you have paid.' Hereupon
the job widens, and New Yerk jobbers and
judges are let into the lobby, se as te in
fluence the foreign affairs committee aud
se they all go down te Washington, aud
the little circle of corruption widens, aud
at last they slip through Congress a bill
ami actually take out of the treasury of
the. tinted States, through the instrumen
tality of the clerks whom the government
has kept in office for years, some hundreds
I f thousands of dollars, aud new are kecp-
ing up the job te get the interest.
I Suppose you had in your employment
I two clerks who had slipped te some uu
i known creditors of yours and said: "We
I have found where you can recover $207,
i 000 from our boss." What would be the
i standard of honesty in private business for
such clerks? Here, in the mail system,
one Huntley swears against the ether
that he has incurred great expense inlay
ing everybody filling the bellies of glutton
ous newspaper correspondents, lending
money te clerks, &c. yet these two per
sons have been around Washington as
long as 1 knew anything about it. They
probably knew every clerk in the posteffice
department. According te the thousands
declared te have been spent, they must
have sewed a little corruption wherever
they went.
Years age two brothers in the Union
army came te Washington and one get the
ether made an assistant postmaster gen-
oral. The first steed en the outside te tap
the contractors, the inside man knew all i
about the bids, and the outside man knew i
every mail jobber, and could raise tip new j
I ones, l hey oeth oceanic rich, and one et
I them finally began te write te the railroad j
j companies throughout the country te take !
united action and threaten the gev- J
i eminent that en a certain day they i
j would step carrying the mails unless their i
j compensation was raised. Mauy of the j
companies did se act, and the vheIt: busi- !
ness or this country might have been sus- j
j pended but for the discovery of the printed
I circular et the man msiueei the postemce,
j who had taken his government, salary for
i years only te admit robbers into its de
i parlmcuts. Like all such Ged-forsaken
I men, they both came te grief, one being
1 stricken with disease aud wandering te a
distant, coast tedie, and the ether breath
ing his last under suspicious of suicide.
While in Washington I saw incredibly
large signs of great plunder te begin as
seen as Hayes gees out of office. The de
partments ought te be again weeded out
at the beginning of the new administra
tion : for, although they have been im
proved, several of them are as bad as they
can be. General Garfield docs net want te
be disturbed within a few months of his
inauguration by investigations.
TKOUUI.E AT TilE 'VAItSITY.
tV Disgraceful Uiet in vrlilnh Students atitl
I'elicemcii Eug:ii.
Last night the sophomore class of the
Huiivcrsity of Pennsylvania
had a crema
tien of old text books used by them dur
ing the past term. The cremation exer
cises occurred en the campus en the col
lege grounds, and the students arrived en
the spot about half-past 0 o'clock accom
panied by an escort of thirty policemen,
as it had been hinted during the day that
the medical students would break up
the excieises for an alleged affront
given at their commencement last
summer. When the sophomores te
the number of fifty arrived en
the ground they found several hundred
medical students gathered, who shouted
and hooted at the sophomores. Several
breaks in the nrpe which surrounded the
crematienists were made, and then a po
liceman discharged his pistol. This was
the cause of a general rush and the police
men were nearly overpowered. They then
made an arrest and it led te the throwing
of bricks, rotten eggs and ether things, and
several of the policemen were injnred, one
severely, by being struck en the head with
a brick. Anether claims te have been cut
across the head with a knife by a student.
Ten of the medical students were arrested
and three of the policemen were sent te
the hospital. The affair caused intense
excitement in West Philadelphia and the
people in the neighborhood were fearful
that the riot would become general and
lead te the destruction of property. At
midnight matters had calmed down.
Needs Investigation.
Philadelphia Evening Bulletin, Ken.
The Norristown hospital commission
wound up its inglorious career, yesterday,
as far as its voluntary action is concerned,
by a final meeting, when it presented itself
with its carefully figured report, demon
strated te itself the perfection of all its
work, highly applauded the manner
in which it had been done, avoided
all awkward explanations about the vast
amount of work which it undertook
and has net touched, and the mysterious
"completion" of a hospital which it se
ably argued te the last Legislature could
net possibly be finished without $179,000,
which the Legislature very properly did
net give it. By adding en beds enough te
its architectural capacity, it figures its per
capita down te $734.30, the trite figure ac
cording te the plans for the unfinished
structure being nearly $782. And it says
nothing at all about the settling walls, the
cracking ceilings, the gaping doers, the
shrinking wainsc3tings, the opening
floors, the leaking sills and the various
ether evidences of its cheap and costly
work. But all these things and a.goed
many ethers of equal interest maypessibly
cemc up later in the season.
HOKBOK3 OF KUSSIAN EXlluE.
Hew Seme or the Foer Victims Live Until
Driven te Madness aud te Death.
A writer in the Londen Standard says :
On his arrival the prisoner is driven
straight te the police ward, where he is in
spected" by the Ispravnik, a police officer
who is absolute lord and master of the dis
trict. This representative of the govern
ment requires him te answer the fellow
ing questions : His name '.' Hew old ?
Married or single? Where from? Addresss
of parents, or relations , or friends ? An
swers te all which are entered iu the
books. A seleinu writteu premise is then
exacted of him that he will "net give les les
eons of any kind, or try te teach any eue ;
tnat every letter uc writes win go mreugn
the Ispravnik's hands, and that he will
fellow no occupation except sheeuiaking,
carpentering or field-labor. He is then
told he is fice ! but at the same time is
solemnly warned that should he attempt
te pass the limits of the town he shall be
shot down like a deg rather thau be al
lowed te cscapz, and should he be taken
alive shall be sent off te Eastern Siberia
without further formality thau that of the
ispravnik's jwrseual order.
" The peer fellow takes up his little bun
dle, and, fully realizing that he has new
bidden farewell te the culture and material
comfort of his past life, he walks out into
the cheerless street. A group of exiles, all
pale and emaciated, aie thereto greet him,
take him te some of their miserable lodg
ings, and feverishly demand news from
home. The new-comer gazes en them as
one in a dream, some are melancholy mad,
ethers nervously irritable, ami the remain
der have evidently tried te find solace in
drink. They live iu communities of twos
and threes, have feed, a scanty prevision
of clothes, money, and bonks in common,
and consider it their sacred duty te help
each ether in every emergency, without
distinction of sex, rank or age. The noble
by birth get sixteen shillings a month from
the government for their mainte
nance and commoners only ten, although
many of them are married, and sent
into exile with young iannlics. uaiiy a
gendarme visits their lodgings, inspects
the premises when and hew he pleascs,and
new and then makes some mysterious en
try in his note-book. Should any of their
number carry a warm dinner, a pair of
newly-mended beets, or a change et linen
te some passing exile ledged for the mo
ment in the police ward, it is just as likely
as net marked against him as a crime. It
is a crime te coine and see a friend off, or
accompany him a little en the way. In fact
should the Ispravnik feel out of sorts the
effects of cards or drink he vents his bad
temper en the exiles ; and us cards and
drink are the favorite amusements in these
drearv regions crimes are marked down
j against the exiles in astonishing niini-
hers, and a report of them sent regularly te
the governor of the pievincc.
Winter lasts eight months, a period dur
ing which the surrounding country pre
sents the appearance of a noiseless, life
less, frozen marsh no reads, no cemmu
nicatien with the outer world, no means
of escape.
Iu course of time almost every
individual exile is attacked by nervous
convulsions, followed by prolonged apathy
and prostration. They begin te quarrel,
and even te hate each ether. Seme of
thcin contrive te forge false passports, and
by a miracle, as it were, make their es
cape, but the great majority of these vic
tims of the Third Section either go mad,
commit suicide, or die or delirium tremens.
Their history, when the time comes ler it
te be studied and published, will disclose
a terrible tale of human suffering and ad
ministerial evils and shortcomings net
likely te find their equivalent in the con
temporary history el any ether European
( .state
j
Thieves iu the I'estal Department.
New Yerk Times, Ken.
Mr. S. S. Hunt ly, who has already fig
ured somewhat prominently, and net
always creditably, as a contractor for carry
ing the United States mails iu the far West,
again finds his way into the newspapers.
This time he has had a quarrel with his
cousin and business partuer about the
division of the spoils, aud having gene te
law, he seeks te justify his demands upon
the exchequer of the firm by a statement
of' his expenditures as a lobbyist in
Washington. Among ether things of the
same sort, he. alleges that, he has from time
te time, in order te have the prices paid for
j mad service increased, found it. necessary
i te buy silk dresses, watches, and ether prcs
I cuts ibr the wives of heads ei'departnients
and of decks. Still further, he declares
! that he has, "te keep the press quict,"bcen
obliged te buy dinners for its representa
tives in Washington, and that these re
pasts have cost him sums varying from $10
te $50 apiece. It is a pity that se shrewd
a gentleman as Mr. Iluntly could net have
found better use for his money. The
dresses aud watches may possibly net have
been thrown away, but the dinners were
certainly net placed " where they would
de the most geed." It is very safe te say
that Mr. Iluntly has never entertained at
dinner or otherwise any of the reputable
newspaper correspondents at Washington.
These who may have accepted his hospi
talities are doubtless of a class who could
de him aud the postal ring neither geed nor
harm. He should have been mere specific
in his statements. Let him name the
newspaper representatives, heads of de
partments, clerks and congressmen who
arc indebted te him for dinners,silk dresses
aud geld watches.
LATEST NEWS BY MAIL.
Ellen Mararity. an Englishwoman, 111
years old, died in New Yerk yesterday.
Stene's planing mill at Newport, Ivy.,
was burned te the ground at neon yester
day. The less is $10,000.
William Whitney, of New Albany, was
killed yesterday by a train, near Scotch
Farms, New Jersey.
Jane Robertsen, a domestic, perished by
the burning of a dwelling in Tabusintec,
New Brunswick, yesterday morning.
Jehn Dcamy was held in $5,000 bail, at
Bosten yesterday, en the charge of drown
ing Michael Kusc, last Monday night.
Samuel Cunningham, a freight, con
ductor, was killed by falling between two
cars yestcrdry, at Chattanooga.
" Abandoned at sea aud rudderless" is
the report that cable brings of the British
ship City of Montreal.
San Francisce' beard of trade has con
gratulated Admiral Amnion en the favor
able outlook for the Nicaraguan canal.
Cape Town dispatches te Londen say
that the Basutes were repulsed at Dord
recht en the 10th instant with great less.
A Vienna dispatch says : " The lower
house of the Rcichsrath has agreed te the
proposed governmental lean of le,500,000
florins.
The work of substituting steel for weed
in the Niagara Falls bridge has been com
pleted. Net a train was stepped during
the change.
Gautz & Kcmble's saw mill, at Millers
burg, was burned en Wednesday night.
It had just resumed operations, after hav
ing been idle for some time.
The dwelling of Antonie Tuckcr,colercd,
in Prince Geerge county, Virginia, was
burned en Wednesday, aud his two chil
dren perished in the flames.
Jeseph Vandcrslice, aged 75 years, of
Phecnixvillc, was killed while walking en
the railroad track near that place yester
day. It has been agreed by the Senate com.
mittee en public" buildings te replace the
burned custom house at Pensacola with a
$23,000 building.
The Democrats of the Third congres
sional district of New Hampshire yester
day nominated Colonel J. B. Ilasley, of
West Lebanon, te fill the vacancy caused
by the death of Congressman Fan-.
The house of Geerge Hammend, near
Middieburg. Vermont, one of the finest
farm houses in that section, was burned
yesterday afternoon. Less 820,000.
Lewis C. Toilette was. committed in de
fault of 610,900 bail, at Wakefield, Mas
sachusetts, yesterday, te answer the charge
of causing the death of Rebecca Leng, by
malpractice.
The suit, lengpeudiug, ofWestingheuse
vs. Eatnes, of Watertown, New Yerk, for
alleged infringement of air brake patents,
has been abandoned, Westinghouse paying
the costs.
While men were taking down a house at
St. Henri, Quebec, yesterday, the whole
structure fell upeu them. A workman
named Tayler was killed, and several
ethers were injured, one severely.
Edward Kennedy, who killed Mrs. Nel
lie Stokes in Brooklyn last week, and who
pleaded guilty, withdrew his plea when
called up for sentence yesterday. Iu his
trial the defense will be insanity.
While laborers were cutting ice en the
canal at .Pert Jcrvis, New Yerk, yester
day, they found the body of a man frozen
fast te the under surface of the ice. A
letter was found upon him addressed te
"Merris O.Sullivan, Soldiers' Heme, Bath,
X. Y."
According te the official returns the
population of Maine is 018,013. Of this
number 024,084 arc males and 324.801 are
females ; 590,007 are native and 38,800 are
foreign born ; 040,001 arc white and 2,042
colored.
Charles D. Heuse, a New Yerk veterin
ary surgeon, in the New Yerk supreme
court yesterday obtained a verdict of $1,000
damages against the proprietors of the
Turf, Field ami Farm newspaper for hav
ing called him a quack.
At the annual meeting of the stockhold
ers of the Chesapeake & Ohie railroad
in Richmond, Va., yesterday, it was re
ported that the earnings of the read for the
past fiscal year, were $2,514,243, and the
operating expenses $1,040,018.
Olc Yaung, a Chinese laundry man at
Ne. 14 North Clark street, Chicago, died
by swallowing poison. He was a noted gam
bler and opium cater. The cause of his
suicide is said te have been financial losses
incurred through indulgence iu the Ameri
can game of "draw poker."
The office safe of E. & A. Friedman,
suspended tobacco dealers, in St. Leuis,
was broken open yesterday, under orders
from the sheriff, but the books and papers
of the firm for this year and last could net
be found. The firm's liabilities are esti
mated at nearly $70,000, all in New Yerk.
It is new known that three lives were
lese by the fire iu the National hotel in
Olean. Mrs. Osbourne, wile of the pro
prietor, aud two little daughteis, aged
seven and two, were unable te escape
from the flames and were burned te death.
It was rumored that ether bodies had
been found, but the rumor was net verified
Siv ImilililKrc in : 1 1 well. fliuitrnvral less
, a-n.OOO. The fire started, as previously re
ported, by the bursting of a lamp in the
second-story of the hotel.
STATE ITEMS.
The Pennsylvania railroad company built
eighty-four locomotives at its shops in Al Al Al
toena this year.
T. F. Singiscr, of Pennsylvania, has
been nominated te the Senate for secretary
of Idaho.
Representatives Bingham and O'Neill
yesterday presented te William A.
Wheeler Jehn L. Lawsen, of Philadelphia,
who delivered the electoral vote of Penn
sylvania. It was the eighteenth state
heard from.
Governer Heyt has issued a proclama
tion announcing the payment, cancella
tion, extinguishment and filial discharge of
$G2S.G70.21 of the principal of the public
debt of this commonwealth during the
past year.
Charles Franklin, of Bellelield. Alle
gheny county, about the middle of last
month swallowed an ordinary soup bean,
which ledged in the left lung and termin
ated fatally in a convulsive tit of coughing
yesterday.
In Titusvillu, the residence of Jehn D.
Archibald, president of the Acme oil com
pany, was skinned by a sneak thief while
the family were in the house. A valuable
geld watch and chain belonging te Mr.
r Archibald's mother, :u diamond ring and
three ether rings m a front bed-room up
stairs, and a $250 sealskin sacque hanging
in the hallway below were taken. The
latter belonged te Mrs. II. P. Chamber
lain. The whole less is $700.
The Christian Adcecatc thus admonishes
the mayor of Pittsburgh: "Hew many
unlicensed whisky dens are there in the
city? Hew many houses of prostitution?
Aie they net all known te his honor and
the police force? Why are they net
closed ? Why arc net the alleys of pollu
tion purged ? The law carried out will de
it, and he is the head of the municipality
and sworn te execute the laws. A little
mere sensitiveness upon the part of offi
cials as te the inviolability, of oaths would
be healthful for public virtue."
Antonie Portuendo, of Philadelphia, is
the son of the late Juan Francisce Portu Pertu Portu
ondo, a citizen of Philadelphia, who in
February, 1870, was seized and illegally
put te death by the Cuban authorities at
Santiage, in Cuba. At the time of his
father's death the plaintiff was fifteen
years old, and his uncle, Jose N. Portu Pertu Portu
ondo, was appointed his guardian. In
1873. the son, through his guardian sued
the Spanish government before the com
mission en claims at Washington, te re
cover damages for the death of his father,
and en May 21, 1870, the plaintiif was
awarded $00,000, which the Spanish gov
ernment subsequently paid te the state
department nt Washington. He paid his
lawyers $9,000 of the fund, and new the
ward has restrained the payment of $12,
000 mere out of the fund which he says
his guardian has secretly and fraudulently
assigned te Jehn E. Faunce.
The Women Suffragists.
In the American Women Suffrage asso
ciation ycstcrday,cnceuragiug reports were,
received from .seventeen state societies.
Resolutions were adopted asking state legis
lation granting suffrage te women in presi
dential elections under the previsions of
article 2, section 2 of , the federal constitu
tion. A resolution was also adopted
commemorating the services of Lucrctia
Mett, Lydia Maria Child and Nathaniel
White. The following officers were
elected : President, Dr. Mary A. Themas,
of Indiana ; Chairman of the Executive
Committee, Lucy Stene.
SPECIAL MEETING OF COUNCILS.
Proposed Improvement of the' Water
lie-
partment.
At a meeting of the water committee
held last evening it was determined te re
quest the presidents of councils te call a
special meeting en ,Tuesday evening next
te consider the water question. It is under
stood that an ordinance will be intro
duced at the special meeting providing for
a popular vote of the citizens en a propo prepo
sition te create a lean of $GO,000 te im
prove the water supply of the city by the
purchase of a G. 000,000 gallon pumping ap
paratus, the extension of the 20-inch water
main along Orange street from Lime, its
present terminus, west te Charlette, aud
the laying of larger mains in ether parts
of the citv.
Annual Inspection.
The judges of our courts are te-day.
making their annual inspection of the
records accounts, &c, of the several county
officers in the court house.
LOCAL INTELLIGENCE.
THE PENALTY OF GREATNESS."
Senior Oration O. J. H. Swirt, '. Jfc Sit. Cel.
lege.
While man's physical inferiority and
subordination te external powers and uni
versal law is established by human science,
yet there is revealed in him a potent incor
poreal essence which proves him infinitely
i greater than the wele world of surround
ing forces. Lach individual is created
with a special spiritual nature, a conscience
te discern right from wrong, a will free te
ace in pursuit ei ciiuer, ami certain possi
bilities which he is te realize in their high
est state of development. And then te'ac
cemplish this, the ideal of his being, con
stitutes the one grand aim and mission of
his life. But through his connection with
a disorganizing spiritual power, the ac
tions aud impulses of man become tainted:
and in his endeavor toward self-perfectieu
he meets continually an oppos
ing force iu his own nature and in
his immediate relations. On becoming
conscious of the possibilities ledged witk
iu him he feels the presence of these two
hostile powers ; and would he realize the
ideal devolepcmcut, he must force the
will te act the dictates of conscience, con
tend against the opposing force, overcome
it, and in this struggle pay the penalty of
his inherent weakness. In endeavoring
te accomplish this devepement, multiform
passions arise, opposing interests and
aims spring into prominence and struggle
te usurp supreme control ; and the baser
elements of his nature, leagued with the
oppesiug hostile forces, bring en a conflict
which no tongue or pen with the combined
genius of ages can portray. Counter pas
sions provoked, mistakes and crimes occur
involving misfortunes or various kinds
which often culminate in a filial catastro
phe. The consequence of the actions re
coil en the actor, eternal justice enters
te restore the broken harmony, and the
principles of right stand revealed in full
glory.
Illustrious characters of all ages, intro
ducing new revolutions in human pursuits
and human governments, have been at
tended by what may be indeed heaven's
own great ordinance. Through the silent,
acquiescence and forbearance of the mar
tyrs, the roadside meeting of the Pupil of
Gamaliel mid the Babe of Bethlehem be
came an actual possibility. Reformers and
old church fathers, amid tyranny and des
K)tism, proclaimed the only potentate, and
through much tribulation heroically ad
vanced the banner of the cress. The un
holy deeds of princes and menarehs seek
ing praiss of men mark and mar the pages
of history ; and their own sad ends, volun
tary or involuntary, verify the dominant
power of right and conscience. Iu the
rush of waters that submerged a world,
and the rear of flames that laid Sodeio in
ashes, the same vindictive power of a retri
butive justice is manifest, only in a higher
and a truer sense. On the shores
strewn with dead, beside a sea which
opened its gates for the escape of Israel and
closed them en Egypt, burying king and
bannered hosts beneath its whirling waves,
Moses and Miriam sang a triumphal song.
The magnificence of Babylon, its haughty
wealth, its luxury, pomp and architectural
splendor, arc only mere shadows of the
same spirit which brought upon it an
awful judgment. In the deep, decided,
individuality of every oriental wonder
making nation, slumbered the power that
crumbled its own foundations, and sent
the star of empire whirling towards the
west. They rose, flourished, and fell.
Mamiificcnt ruins are all that remain of
their former grandeur. They paid the
penalty of their greatness, passed from the
world's stage of action, and new rest in the
silent dust-cevcrcd tomb of oblivion.
He who ventures forth en the sea
of inquiry into the reasons of all
divine aud human thiugs, will
find that it has surging billows,
cliffs and shoals, and that only through
nights aud days of cloud and storm is the
haven te be reached. And when he has
gained a plane of thought above his fellow-creatures,
he feels "the whips and
scorns of time, the oppressor's wrong and
proud man's contumely," and finds the
seeds of ruin are sewn iu the very birth of
his greatness. Actuated, by passionate
ambition he glides forth into the atmo
sphere of glory with a strong personality,
which bears a record of the result of past
actions and aids him iu determining new
ones ; but "high-blown pride" carries him
far beyond his height, and the air-forms
that kept him aloft vanish at last, aud
"weary and old with service" he sinks, and
amid pangs and agonies "feels his heart
new opened."
" Oh, Cromwell I Cromwell I had I but
served my Ged with half the zeal I served
my king, He weuid net in mine age have
left me naked te mine enemies !"
Side by side with his higher achievements
we find sorrow, trials, inward conflicts,
an inner life giving pain te centcraet
the joy of success, and stripped of the
pomp and pride of power, we may find the
individual gaunt, haggard aud half con
sumed with burning anxiety. The higher
thc order of genius, the rarer the talent,
the mere colossal the possibilities, the
mere susceptible te the tempter and the
mere liable te destruction. The acute,
nervous, sensitive temperament which
characterizes statesmanship is attended
by a mysterious fatality that often cul
minates in a tragic end. Here after here,
receiving retribution at the hands an of
fended Deity, marks the progress of
anarchy and .self-aggrandizement from the
Tcutebergian Ferest te the Reman Sen
ate where many mighty conquests, many
glorious triumphs, circling the world's
proudest conqueror, were brought "low "
by Casca's stroke, and Reme began her
downfall. The little germ of immortal
life sewn deep in the stony heart of that
magnificent and corrupt empire, against
which ether tribes had broken their
strength, sprang up and became the true
tree of life te younger nations of Jehovah.
Wc turn from contemplating the exile's
gigantic powers, the vastness of his de
signs, the boldness of their execution, and
the slaughter-fields of his ambition, te
witness his burning torture en Helena's
lonely isle ; and wc find that his 'towering
intellect and lefty ambition added a two
fold force te the consuming pangs of disap
pointment. The atmosphere saturated with the un
wholesome breathings of treason that se
lately enveloped our own beloved country,
whispers a like sad story. With calm
resolution and earnest determination when
net the faintest flicker of a star could be
seen penetrating the political storm-cloud,
our standard bearer took up the cause of
"emancipation," te sanctify our constitu
tion and realize the nobler sentiments of
American liberty and independence.
Yeu who were living remember well
the four years of desolation and ruinous
destruction. And when peace began te dawn
through the cannon's smoke, hew the
bells rang out their merry peals, hew the
wild huzzas of an overjoyed people min
gled with the clear strains of national airs
as martial and civic bands joined in the
celebration of the coming event. And our
flag " with her beautieus stripes the azure
field of our country's ensign," once dis
graced within the walls of Sumter, was
raised, amid honor and rejoicing proudly
ever a nation reclaimed from rebellion. But
the very echo seemed the mean of dispair.
The bells groaned forth the sorrowful
knell of mourning, the sembre drapery of
grief bedecked public and private halls,
one deep and impenetrable gloom settled
thick and fast upon all loyal-hearts of a
sad and weeping country for he who led
it through intestine troubles, aud taught
the people the divinity of its birthright,
equally illustrious with any name carved
en the walls of Westminster, lay stiffened
in the cold grasp of death by the rneiciltss
hand of an assassin. And as the cloud
rolled ever each heart, victory seemed of
trivial value, triumph empty, and success
but a mocking phantom.
There is always a danger or fatality at
tending greatness which often involves
mere than a siugle individual. Yet he
who sits iu sweet humility at the feet of
Jesus and listens in reverential awe te the
story of the Cress, is the truly great, and
his trials and sorrows of this world will
eventually blend into an internal peace.
Ah, yes. through all this chaotic ruin,
through this transient world swathed in
the records of its own past glory, speaking
te us through all things visible and invisi
ble, comes the jlad tidings ' peace, geed
will toward man." Never did angels
leave the gates of heaven se fast behind
them, pass Mm and stars in their down
ward flight en such rapid wing, as wheu
they hasted te catth with the "glad tid
ing of ivat joy." The eighteen hundred
years are but a link in the far-reaching
past burying the lest history of illustrious
lives in the dark sea of forget fulness. And
sphinx seeming te hide beneath mute lips
answer te riddle never solved, crumbles in
the diiAt ; ml in eue harmonious blending,
one fealful warning, all history and all
nature speak of the " Divinity that shapes
our ends."
J II : STl' DENTS STUDENT
The New College Journal.
The January number of the Celleyc Stu
dent, a new paper just established at Frank
lin & Marshall college, is te make its ap
pearance this evening and will be ready for
general circulation te-morrow and for can
vassing for subscriptions by the cellege
boys during their approaching Christmas
vacation. The Student is published
under the joint apices of the
two societies and all its business
aud editorial inaugcmeut is delegated
te a committee of six, equally divided be
tween the three higher class aud between
the two literary societies. Messrs. E. L.
Kemp and F. E. Bucher, of the senior
class, arc cditers-iu-ehief ; Mr. W. II.
Kauch, local editor ; iur. I'erteriieiu, per
sonal editor : Mr. Baiimau, business man
ager, and Mr. Staid, assistant business
manager.
This efficient organization has brought
out a highly creditable paper, containing
sixteen pages of closely printed reading
matter with an advertising supplement of
fourndditieu.il pages. The Stadent aims
te faithfully represent the inner life of the
college, te bring the institution te public
attention and keep them fixed therein, aud
te bind the interest of the alunmi te their
alma mater. In the elaboration of this
plan the present initial issue has
well written aud timely contributions
from several members of the faculty
justifying and eueeiiragiug its publi
catien : original literary articles,
poetical t laudations, and reminiscences of
college life indicating the classical culture
of the institution. The editorial aud local
departments are crisp, comprehensive and
carefully edited. The alumni department.
is remarkably complete in its budget of
personal information, and what little re
mains of the Students space for selected
matter is occupied with literary and edu
cational items befitting a journal of this
high class.
MAN'S INHUMANITY.
Dying Mimi Committed te .Jail.
Complaint is inadu that certain commit
ting magistrates send tejail prisoners who
are net only i-.crieu.sly ill aud require care
ful hospital nursing, but some who are ac
tually in a dying condition. An
old man named Lawrence Dasher,
70 years of age, w.is picked up in
a dying condition, and committed by a '
country magistrate as a vagrant. When
taken te the j.id he was utterly unable te
walk and had te be carried, te "Uunnners'
Hall " by the eunstablu who had him in
charge. As seen as Keeper Weise ascer
tained the old man's condition, he had
him removed from " Rummers' Hall " te
the prison hospital where he was given
medical attendance ant! made as comfort
able as possible, but he was actually in a
dying condition when committed te jail,
anddealh seen relieved him from his suffer
ings. Anether case is mentioned iu which a
prisoner was found in an insensible con
dition in I'ummer.-' Hall, and died seen
after of congestion of the brain having
fallen or been struck en the head before
his commitment, aud being almost insen
sible when committed.
Anether ca-c is mentioned iu which a
man sufleriiig from delirium occasioned by
typhoid fever was committed ter ' disor
derly conduct." He was thrown into
"Bummjis Hall" and would probably
have died there had net the keeper dis
covered his condition and had him re
moved te the prison hospital for treat
ment, where under careful nursing he is
recovering from his illness.
When a prisoner is committed for
vagrancy, disorderly conduct or similar
offences, it, is no part of the kcepei's duty
te examine into the condition of their
health : it is taken for gran.cd that no
magisfr.tte would commit te jail a dying
man or one palpably in need of medical
attendance; and yet we are assured that
it is no uncommon thing for them te de
se. Whenever a prisoner is known te be
sick, he is properly cared for iu the prison
hospital, but the conveniences there are
net sufficient te accommodate a great
many patients. When vagrants or disor diser
derlies Im-ceuic sick the usual course is
that the prison solicitor takes them before
the court en a writ of habeas corpus with
a view te their discharge from prison-, se
that they may tic admitted te the county
hospital. This, of course, cannot be done
with prisoners who have been sentenced
by the court te a specified term of impris
onment. Our present object is te call at
tention te the fact that iu net a few cases
sick men are arrested and committed te
jail as diserderlies or vagrants and thrust
into Bttmn.c s' Hall, when of right they
should be receiving careful nursing and
medical attendance. Let careless magis
trates and constables make a note of it.
TDK FIREMEN,
Their Convention at Heading.
The state convention of firemen met last
evening in the Grand opera house, Read
ing. The delegates present from this city
were : Sun. Jacob Gable ; Empire, A. S.
Edwaids : American, J. K. Barr ; Humane,
Walter M. Franklin ; Shiftier, P. S. Good Geed
man ; Washington, James II. Marshall.
One hundred and thirty-one delegates
were present at the organization.
Speeches were made by Mayer Tyson
and Jehn FIcmming, president of the
Firemen's Union of Reading, and were re
sponded te by Wm. J. Ferdncy, chief of
the fire department of this city.
A. M. Rhoads, of the Empire hook and
ladder company of Carlisle, was elected
temporary chairman, aud Henry A. Dcrr,
of Norristown, permanent chairman.
Among tlie nominations for vice presi
dents wa James II. Marshall, of this city.
II. F. Ferbtr, of Scnmten, and Jcrc Carl,
of Yerk, were chosen.
The president appointed a committee of
seven te fi-ame a constitution and by-laws.
Alderman J. K. Barr of this city is a mem
ber of that committee.
The convention adjourned te met at 11
o'clock this morning.
D.'ctl of Scarlet Fever.
Margie Glever Jenkins, daughter of
William II. Jenkins, esq., of Camden, and
grand-daughter of Themas Baumgardner,
of this city, aged 18 months, died en Wed
nesday, of scarlet fever. The ether chil
dren are also ill of the same disease.