LANCASTER DAILY INTELLIGENCES FRIDAY, OCTOBER 14. 1881. SLaucastct litfeUegwret. FRIDAY EVENING, OCT. 14, 1881. The Senate Presidency. Though the Democratic senators could net keep the presiding officer of their choice, nevertheless they did exactly right in electing him. They could net have done otherwise with self-approval or the commendation of their party. The presidency of the Senate was vacant and there was a Democratic majority of the senators. There was nothing te de but te elect a Democratic senator. After that was done the newly-elected senators were able te be sworn in. When that was done the Democratic senators were in a minority, and they were no lenger entitled te the president of their choice. Seme people seem te think that they can afford te laugh at the Democrats be cause of Mr. Bayard's short tenure of office. But in our judgment the action of our senators was right in every par ticular. They leek the situation as they found it and did what it presently de manded. Senater Davis lias accepted the presi dency of the Senate, although he knows that he is net the first choice of any senator but himself for the position. Probably almost any ether man would have done the same thing, l'eeple take the geed things of life as they come along and don't often incline te fly in the face of Providence by refusing them. Sena Sena eor Davis cheerfully puts himself in the line of providential succession te the presidency. But is it net strange that when the vice presidential office gees begging at conventions among second rate politicians, it seems te be a high object of ambition among tiie senators, who are regarded as the political salt of the country 'i Arthur turned up his nose at the office and could hardly be persuaded te accept, because he wanted te be chosen senator from New Yerk. But the senators don't turn up their noses at it,and a man who resigned a place en the supreme bench for life te be senator for six years covets the great expectations that lie in wait for the officer who stands ready te fill a dead president's shoes. Mr. Davis certainly would have made a better impression en the country if he had net, by refraining from voting, practically voted himself into the place he get ; and if he had net accepted from a party a gift which will compromise his boasted independence ; and if he had net shown himself eager te profit by what his brother senator, Edmunds, calls the lottery of assassination, and te put himself where he would be ready te take further advantage of similar provi dential interpositions. We ant glad te see Senater Davis where he is and can calmly contemplate his possible accession te the presidency. The Republican parly has net taken much by its motion. Upen the occasion of " founder's day" at Lehigh University, yesterday, the proper theme of the occasion, the life and character of Asa Packer, met with proper treatment from the orator of the day, the friend of the dead benefactor, lien. .Samuel J. Itandall. As President Lamberton said, Mr. Randall is a public man with clean hands, te whom young men can listen with patience, and whose career they can contemplate with profit. Without pretensions te oratory, Mr. Itandall has a vigorous style and a dis crimination in the use of language that merit for hiin a high place upenliterary occasions, and all the fitness of things seems ie have been served in his effort yesterday. His eulogy of Mr. Packer was in geed taste, and his words of praise well merited and fitly spoken. Wk are pleased te learn that away out in Jeffersen county there has been awarded the prize of one of the fifty free scholarships in the stale agricultural college which were put at the disposal of the .state senators. There was only one contestant, te be sure, but he get it. The fact is, as pointed out by the Intkli.ksuxcku when this offer was made, that this institution is a humbug, and net even a successful humbug at that. A free scholarship in it is worth about as much as a free chance te earn a living by breaking stones en a turnpike. We trust there is no youth in the commonwealth who has net as gejd a prospect in life before him as would be afforded by free tuition in an institution which, with half a million dollars endowment, has been only a phe nomenal failure. Mr. Wolfe sticks te his charge that Governer Ileyt was interested in opera tions that were carried en by the use of state funds ; but Mr. Wolfe does net prove it nor give the grounds of his be lief. That will net de. Of course such a charge is, as he says, hard te. prove ; but it is net hard for him te say what has produced in his own mind the conviction of its truth ; and that much he is bound te disclose, that the people may judge whether he has substantial cause for his belief. Mr. Wolfe's word and opinion alone won't de. Governors are net te be dragged down in that way, nor men who are net governors either. We are willing enough te believe evil of one another ; but we don't de it en tirely without reason. mi m It is most likely that the arrest of Mr. Parnell will be a windfall for the Irish agitators. A little persecution of that kind does net hurt Mr. Parnell very much, though he may catch cold in that damp and gloomy castle prison into which he has been thrust. Beyond this the effect of his arrest and detention will only be te supply fuel for the confla gration of excitement in Ireland. When ever the rest of the world loses interest in the Hibernian revolutionists England generally manages te de something te recall attention and sympathy. When the civil service reform ma chine gets fairly started may we expect te see the name of a certain Stalwart, Three-IIundred-and-Sixer sent into the Senate for collector of this pert ? Carry the news te Columbia. Mb. Wolfe repeats emphatically and Heyt. If it is a libel the damages are I hfiinff rnnidlv ne-n-rnvnlfwl I The Democratic press of the state almost unanimously recognizes the ne cessity of a few prescribed rules for the government of the party in this state, like or en the same plan of these sub mitted te the late state convention by the committee of seven. Whatever ob jections were made te them were matters of detail which could easily be arranged te general satisfaction or settled in ac cerdance with the views of the majority of the party. But rules of some kind te determine matters new always disputed and te arrange matters always neglected must and will be adopted at the first re curring opportunity. New that they have the presidency of the Senate the Republicans seem te be at a less te knew what te de with it. There is a growing suspicion among them that they have hooked a bigger fish than they can land. Harrisrure has a " Twe-and-a-Half " street, the name of which is te be chauged te Garfield. "Feil once" the Intelligences: and Harrisburg Telegraph are unanimous in preferring Bayard te Davis for president of the Senate. Field Marshall Tem Cooper must have countermanded his orders. The Ex aminer devotes seven-eighths of its edi torials te Wolfe. Grain gamblers shedid take warning from the deliverances of the Chicago court. Reform was necessary for the protection of Eastern innocents. People who ' see snakc3 " may be greatly relicvcd by an article which we re print today, from a sober observer, who discourses of their harmlcssncss. The College Student for October is an other excellent number of this remarkably geed college journal, which compares favorably -.villi any of its class. One fea ture of the current number is Rev. Dr. Gerkart's memorial sermon ea the late president. We leek te see the Philadelphia I'ress'g outburst of het indignation at the " prem ium ou assassination " offered by the elevation of David Davis te the presiden tial succession. His party i-3 very small ; thcre would be a first-class mission, or a revenue collectorship, for nearly every ene of them, ami the temptation te draw such prizes in the " lottery of assassination" is se utterly irresistible that the. Pre must deneunce these who have put in the way of weak humanity. On the ether hand it is the talk in Washington that the purpose in electing David Davis president pre tern, of the Sen:.te was te protect the life of President Arthur. Mr. Davis is such an uncertain quantity and belonging te no party it was argued in the Republican caucus that no oue would ever desire him te be president, while it is known that the Republican senators were greatly concerned lest Mr. Bayard should be called upon te act as president, if for only a year. The idea of floating Arthur with such a heavy life preserver as David Davis's three hundred weight is quite a conceit. Tuey had quite a nice little time of it in the Senate yesterday ever Davis's dis placement of Bayard. The president pre. tern, with characteristic dignity refrained from voting, and when his name was call ed, said : " I propose te withheld my vote. I have never obtained office by my vote, and 1 never shall retain it by my vete " Davis was escorted te the chair by Bayard and Antheny, the respective Democrat and Republican candidates for the same office ; and, upeu taking it, he disclaimed all party obligations and begged indulgence for possible parliamentary shortcomings. Edmuuds capped the cli max by proposing and having passed " the thanks of the Senate te the Hen. Themas F. Bayard for the dignity and impartiality with which he has presided ever this body during the short period that he has done se." Mr. Parnell has been arrested as a "suspect" under. the first clause of the coercion act passed in Febi uary last, ami continuing in force from that time until the 30th of September, 1882, which per mits such arrest and detention, at the di rection of the lord lieutenant without bail, mainprise or discharge, for any person reasonably suspected of being " guilty as principal or accessory of high treason, treason-felony, or treasonable practices, wherever committed, or of auy crime punishable by law committed in a prescribed district, being an act of violence or intimidation, or the inciting te an act of violcuce or intimidation, and tend ing te interfere with or disturb the maintenance of law and order." The arrest of Parnell was accomplished by the government officers at the Kiugs Kiugs bridge railway station, Ireland. The agita tor at the time was en the train ceing te the county Kildarc convention, where he had been advertised te deliver an addrcBS en the land act, and where an immense concourse of the Irishtcople was te Le assembled te receive him. It was well known that the character of the speech te be delivered by Mr. Parnell would be vie lent in the highest degree, and his party managers had made every effort te have assembled at the convention an audience that would be in perfect sympathy with his utterances. It was because of the fear of the results that the government was ap pealed te by the loyalists te apply the coercion act. Mr. Parnell's place of con finement is the county jail of Dublin, and is situated just west of the suburbs of Kil mainham, from which it derives its name. It is a gloomy, massive structure, and is considered the hardest place of its kind in all Dublin for the imprisonment et politi cal prisoners. PERSONAL,. We can be easy ou David Davis, seeirg that he is an old neighbor. He was born in Cecil county, Md., in 1815. Mr. Henry Garfield, eldest son of the late president, has beea chosen vicrs president of the frsshman class at Wil liams college. Senater Platt, of Connecticut, says that he considers himself fully restored te health by the Adirondack air, but that he shall stay in that region as long as the weather will permit. Colonel Rebert G. Ingersoll is going with all his family te New Mexico, where he has become interested in seme silver mines. The Indians are se dangerous in that neighborhood that ha and his family prefer that if one must run the risk all should de se, that they may live or die together. Rev. II. M. Ejeffer, pastor of the Re formed church, Norristown, Pa., graduate of Frankliu & Marshall college, and son-in-law of Mr. Ames Miley, of this city, has been engaged te write a serial story for St. Nicholas, one of the leading youths' magazine of the United States. The story is te begin in November and ruu for six months. The New Yerk Timet is willing te con cede that Bayard " is a man of long ex perience in public life ; his reputation is free from any shadow of taint ; he is well grounded in the principles of representa tive institutions, and we regard him as a sincere and even ardent patriot. He is an acute rcasencr and an eloquent advocate and a brilliant politician." Mr. Gladstone visited the Guild hall yesterday and received, in a geld box, an address voted by the corporation of Lon Len Lon eon, recording their high sense of his great services te his country and asking him te sit for a marble Lust te be placed iu the Guild hall.Thc compliment it is understood, was net dictated by partisan considera tions. There was a great crowd in the streets and Mr. Gladstene was much cheered, while there was some hissing. -mm m NEWS NOVELTIES. FACTS STKANUEK THAN FIUTIUM. Current Kvents of a Striking character. The latest invention reported by a Japanese journal is that of Otsuka Mina kichi, who, after extensive experiments, is said te have succeeded in making rifles of silk. They are described " as rigid as iron guns, while they arc easy of carriage and have a very long range." Iu Dortmund, Germany, a villain killed a woman, and when the deed was traced te him through bloody clothes that he had worn at the time, he denied his guilt and accused his father of the crime, saying that the old man had worn his clothes while committing the murder for the pur pose of throwing suspicion upon him. A monument was erected ever the re mains of these of Garibaldi's band who were killed en the field of Mentana. The municipality confided the care of it te an ex Papal gendarme, who has made a practice of selling the patriots' bones te tourists as mementoes. Twe persons sent from Rome te investigate represented themselves as tourists te the custodian, who sold them relics. In Robeson county, N. C, James Phil lips, a 12-year-old boy, and his mother wrc the only occupants of their house, and as the boy was known te be "scary," seme mischievous acquaintances of his went te the house late at night and made pretenses at trying te open the doers, etc. The peer little fellow, who had been in perfect health the day before, was se badly frightened that he went into con vulsions and died. An Exciting; Elopement. Geerge Gray and Mrs. Wallace used a cauoe te elope iii, and by the light et the moon they dropped down the White river, in Arkansas. But the affair did net pro ceed long in this smoothly romantic fash ion. The husband pursued them in another cane?, and, his lead being lighter, he steadily gained en them, though the wife tried te help her lever by paddling with her hands. When within range he dropped his ears and employed his rifle. The elopers lay down in the bottom of their craft, and would have tamely succumbed if a current had net simultaneously drifted them ashore and floated an ear away from Wallace. They escaped into the weeds and have net since been seen. TEARS IN THE JUKOlt'S KYIIS. Hubert illArtlu'x Story of Hew lie Killed Hid Wlte and Kaby. The case of Rebert Martin, en trial at Newark, for murdering his wife and baby, was given te the jury yesterday. His counsel tried te show by witnesses that the prisoner was suffering from jnental aberration when he did the sheeting. Wed nesday afternoon Martin was called te the stand. He is an intelligent English, man of plain appearance. He said he spent several years in Cuba, making con siderable money as a merchant. In 1878 he removed te Newark, He said he had drank a great deal, but stepped last De cember. Ile was sick two weeks before the sheeting and for four days he neither ate nor slept. Fer four days after get ting out he diauk. Then came Wednes day, June 15, On that day he drank beer and gin. In the evening he went into his house and saw his boy. It was net true that he quarreled with his wife, for he did net sce her. He went upstairs and began te undress for bed. While putting pennies m ins eauy s money uank in a closet he heard his wife in the hall. Tak ing his revolver out of the open chest he pointed it around the deer and said ! "Sec here." It went off and he knew nothing mere. At this point Martin began crying. " I den.t knew anything mere that hap pened," he exclaimed as he buried his face in his hands, weeping convulsively. Several jurors brushed tear from their eyes. MacVcagh's Letter et Aci:eTiiii'c. It transpires that the letter of accept ance of Attorney General MacVeagh was a document altogether unique, and net at all iu the same vein as that of the secretary of state. Mr. MacVeagh, it appears, wrote te the president-elect," saying that he could net accept a position in his cabinet unless he could give effect te the principles he represented in the Republican party. He continued that he did net see hew he could de se associated with certain ele ments (Blaine) that he understood the cabinet would contain. If, however, the president would net consider him bound in any sense te remain nor te accept for the four years of his term, he would take the place, it being mutually agreed mac en tue nrst ei tue loilewing .Novem ber he would be at liberty te retire if he desired, having decided that he could net practically represent the principles of poli tics that he deemed vital. In ether words, he wanted te coma if the president would take him at his own pleasure, and net held him te the position longer than he thought proper te fill it. Gen. Garfield accepted the preposition and in accordance with the possibility of his limited stay in the cabinet, Mr. MacVeagh rented a heuse until No vember 1, paying a $300 bend ler the privi lege of vacating it at that time, if he se desired. Pestmater General James also accepted his place for a stated time only namely, te June 30, 1833 as he intended te leave the department self-sustaining at that time and te be able te leave it at the high tide of his success and take advant age of a business offer awaiting him in New Yerk. Jack Williams, a negre, convicted at Oranfcburg, S C, of committing out rages upon Lizzie Hughes, a little white girl, aged elevcD, has been taken from the jail and hanged by a mob, te whom he cuuicsscu ins gum. nicjury wtiicu con victed the negre through a misundci stand ing of the law, rendered a verdict of guilty with a recommendation te mercy. Under the statute such a recommendation reduced the punishment from death te life imprisonment in the penitentiary and the prisoner was sentenced accordingly. THE CRIME OF " CORNERING." Gambling in Chlca in Grain Judicially Denounced e A Comprehensive Charge te tne urand enry. A special dispatch from Chicago says : The nefarious business of grain gambling is threatened with annihilation here in its own particular abode. The statutes of the state provide severe penalties for the crime, of " cornering " and forestalling the grain market, but hitherto the law has been per mitted te lie as a dead letter. The disas trous effects of the recent corner, however, have areusad the courts,and Wednesday the matter was presented te the grand jury of the criminal court by Judge Jamesen in the following ringing charge : Gentlemen of the Grand Jury : Be sides the statutes against gambling, selling liquor te miners, and acts of violence te person or property, which form the sub ject of your ordinary deliberations, I wish te call your attention te one which I will new read : " Whoever contracts te have or give te himself the option te sell or buy at a future any grain or ether com modity, stock of any railroad or ether corporation, or geld, or forestalls the mar ket by spreading false rumors te influence the price of commodities therein, or cor ners the market, or tries te de se in rela tion te any of such commodities, shall be fined net less than $10 nor mero thau $1,000, or cenliued iu the county jail net exceeding one year, or both." (Re vised Statutes Illinois, chapter 38, sec tion 130.) By this section are de nounced three separate misdemeanors the sale of options, forestalling the market, and cornering the market. All these have either iu name or spirit been always in terdicted by the common law, and that of forestalling was, at a very early day, made punishable in England by statute. Over a century age a movement arose in Eng land for abolishing the restrictions upon the freedom of trade, and tirese statutes were, or a part of them, repealed, but the common law has remained both there and I in this country unchanged, though fallen into disuse. The exigencies of the times induced our Legislature a few years since te rc-cnact the statute against forestalling and te add te it theso touching "options" and "corners," which I have read of ef fencss te which the criminal ingenuity of our ancestors seems net te have been equal. The first offenee is the illegal sale of options for future delivery of grain and ether commodities. The fact that property is sold te be deliv ered at a future day docs net make the contract illegal, although it is net at the time possessed or owned by the seller, or that the time of its delivery is left within fixed limits, optional with the buyer or seller, though in eue sense any such sale is a sale of an option apparently within the statute. What makes it a gambling contract is the intent of the parties that there shall net be a de livery of the commodity sold, but a pay ment of differences by the party losing upon the rise or fall of the market. Of this intent the jury are te be the judgeSj and it may be inferred directly from the terms of the contract or indirectly from the course of dealing of the parties. (Pickering against Cease, 79 111., 338 ; Walcott against Heath, 78 111 , 433 ; Pixley against Boynton. 79, 111., 351). By this legislation the General Assembly had no purpose te interdict bona fide sales of commodities, but only such as arc colorable or fraudulent, con trived by both parties as a cover merely for gambliug transactions. The offence e! forestalling originally consisted in the buying or contracting for merchan dise or victuals coming te market, or dis suading persons from bringing their goods or previsions there, or inducing them te raise their prices. (2 Wharten, Grim. Law. 1819.) Our statute has narrowed the offence, se that it covers only forestall ing the market by spreading false rumors te influence the price of commodities therein. The obvious purpose of the Legislature in making tins prevision was te protect the people, the consumers as well as innocent traders, from the damage resulting from unnatural and fictiteus fluctuations of prices, brought about by the false suggestions of interested persons. llic eltuncc et cernerniug the market is net, se far as I am aware, mentioned in the books, but it is ene of a numerous family of frauds, of which the various members in their fight with society assume an infinitude of shapes and colors. Te detect and punish these, notwith standing the novelty and apparent inno cence of their disguises, is the first busi ness of courts of justice. The thing which wc knew as a "corner" in the market might be briefly described as a process of driving unsuspecting dealers in grain, stock and the like, into a corral and re lieving them of their purses. The essence of the offense consists in the party securing a cot tract for the future delivery of some commodity at his option, and then by en grossing the stock of such commodity in the market, making it impossible for the ether party te complete hig contract by purchasing of his adversary at his own price, or paying in cash I he diflcrcnce lixed by such adversary. As was said of another great wrong; if this is net wrong thou nothing is wrong. Pub lie rumor en the strctt and in the press justifies me in saying that these offenses are rifts among us, ami hi askimr you, if evidence te that effect slie.ild reach you, te make them the subject el inquiry, your duty and mine is plain. Ilewcvcr powerful the combination te defy the laws, and however diflicult te detect and punish the crimes, wc rank ourselves with the criminal if we fail te bring the terror of the law te bear upon him. Fer one, I re fuse net te hear what fills the cars of all te the discredit of the business men and methods of this city. The crimes indicated are being committed. It imports much that the validity of our statute and its sufficiency te reach the guilty par tics should be early tested. If the spread of gambling has in fected our business men the con sequences cannot be disastrous. The course of business, instead of proceeding quietly and healthily, will become broken by fits of fever and panic ; unlawful gains will be preferred te the slew profits of legiti mate trade ; our farmers, partaking of the prevalent spirit, will held back their crops in expectation of corner processes, bor rowing money ea mortgages te carry en their operations, instead of realizing by the sales of farm products. It is said that these phenomena are already apparent, and they arc charged te be the effects of violations of the law. I will only add that it is.net your duty te seek inquisitorially for evidences that crimes have been com mitted. Should evidence come te you through regular channels your duty will be te consider it, arid act fearlessly and promptly te vindicate the laws. I think I may premise, en the part of the judici ary of the county, that if you present men for crime it will net go unpunished, se far as the enforcement of the laws depends en them. STATE ITEMS. On Saturday the 22d the survivors of the 4th regiment Pennsylvania velnntccrs will held their annual re-union at Easten. II. G. Reift, 35 years old, employed in the freight department at the Pennsylvania railroad depot, at Fifth and Market streets Philadelphia, fell backwards from an ele vator yesterday morning and received in juries te the brain which caused his death seen afterwards. A magazine containing three hundred pounds of nitre-glycerine, belonging te the Roberts torpedo cempauy, exploded with tcrrible force, west of Bradford. Twe men were scen going towards the maga zine shortly before the explosion and iis thought thi-y were tampering -with the lock when the explosion occurred. A careful search fails te disclose anything of tue iulu vi iuc uuu aaiui ASA PACKER. A FITTXAG EULOGY. air. Itamlall's Address en ' Founder's Day' at Lehigh University. Yesterday was - Founder's Day ' -at Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pa., ob served in memory of Asa Packer,and Hen. S. J. Randall was orator of the occasion. President Lamberton fittingly introduced Mr. Randall, referring te him as one who had net only kept spotless his name in private and public life, but who had added lustre 'te it and was worthy te be called honorable. Mr. Randall read his address from manuscript in an even strain, and it was an able eulogy en the late Asa Packer, founder of the university, and while do de tailing his career, drew a forcible lessen from his successful battle for" fortune. At the outset of his address Mr. Randall said ; " It is a pious and praiseworthy cus tom which you have established of setting apart one day in the year te keep green the memory of a man whose life was full of usefulness and profit te all about him. Gratitude would at least prompt the con stant and loving remembrancojef a public benefactor as munificent as Asa Packer, and yet whose munificence, extraordinary as it was, is no greater than the wisdom of its bestowal. " Tracing his career the orator asked : " Did the same calm, quiet, resolute, brave, sound judgment that carved out his splendid future remain with him when it had all been perfected? Was his brilliantly successful career made still mere brilliant by the neble objects he sought ?" The speaker then referred at consider able length te Mr. Packer's life history, giving the details of his career from his birth December 29, 1805, in New Louden county, Conn., te the close of his earthly existence May 17, 1879, and dwelling with emphasis upon his success in every enter prise he undertook. Continuing, Mr. Randall said : " It is written that great wealth gotten by ill means isau eternal reproach, and se it is ; but iu the order of Providence such wealth remains net long in the same hands, for the infamy which produces it at the same time engenders the corroding vices by which it is dissipated. Great wealth, however, when the gradual pro duct of a long life of activity and struggle, is a eource of unlimited happiness te the possessor. But rich or peer, Asa Packer pursued the even tenor of his way. He was the same modest, persistent and suc cessful man. And howunlike seme rich men of the present day. His was net the unwise or foolish wealth, which by its os tentation invites envy or enmity. lie was of the people, and he never forget it. His early struggles had subjected him te hard but profitable discipline He might have squandered his means upon useless things, but he did net. His life was a scries of geed deeds. "Education easily gained iu ordinary schools of learning, uninterrupted by want or difficulty, does net give u.s the practical wisdom found iu a life such as Asa Pack er's. Amid the strife of men and near the heart of nature we find that the real and true alone command the confidence of the many. The demagogue may hide his falsehood under disguises, but surely the piercing eye of the people will penetrate them, and then the fall wilr be all the inore by the unnatural height te which his pretense has elevated him. Asa Packer has perpetuated his name and fame by building upon a solid rock of common sense. He established and endowed a stately university, whose learning in the higher branches of knowledge is te be for ever free. During the year 18G5 he an nounced te the Right Reverend William Bacen Stevens, the Episcopal bishop of Pennsylvania his intention te appropriate half ;-. million dollars and an eligible woediand park of about sixty acres ou the borders of Seuth Bethlehem, te found an educational institution, in which he de signed opportunity should be afforded te yeuug men of limited means te acquire, be sides liberal cducatien,a knowledge of theso branches of science which directly bear upeu the industrial pursuits concerned in developing the natural resources of the country, iu schools of civic, mechanical and manufacturing engineering, of chem istry, architecture and construction. The buildings were erected between 18CC and 1809. Mr. Packer, by his will, bequeathed, in addition te the million iu the aggre ahcady given, the sum of two million dol lars te fie purposes of the university. He modestly named it " The Lehigh Univer sity. " " Themas Jeffersen the immortal author, of the Declaration of Independence, asked te have iuscribed upon his tombstone, in addition te that authorship, the further fact that he was the founder of the uni versity of Virginia Laying the foundation of a free and independent government, and laying the foundation of a univcisity for teaching higher branches of knowledge were, in his belief, equally honorable or deserving of fame. The munificence of Asa Packer is a monition te you, for if with the peer means given te him he did se much, it is for you te see te it that with the funds se generously bestowed this neble university shall rival in scholarship, and science the greater Seats of learning of every age and nation. He has dwarfed ethers by the greatness of his gift. Let us hepe in these schools you will excel In like degree. "In Shakspearc we learn that 'Iguor 'Iguer 'Iguor ance is the curse of Ged Knowledge the wing wherewith we lly te heaven. ' In our free country, which at the end of the present century will in all probability nura bcr a hundred million of inhabitants, stretching in width from ocean te ocean, and in length from the frigid zone te the burning equator ; blessed with the bound less physical resources, and daily becem ing ' the mightiest of the mighty, ' we can be sure our institutions arc secure as long as education is general. It is the sheet anchor of our government ; without it we shall fall into decay ; with it we shall held our own. If in the race and competition with ether nations, we shall dominate the markets of the world with our manufac tures and agricultural productions, we must keep ahead of everey improvement in labor and cost-saving machinery. This can best be done by keeping up the sup ply of that high scientific education which is here provided by the foresight of one man forever free. " When Asa Packer commanded his own canal beat, while engaged in tranport tranpert ing coal and iron te New Yerk and Phila delphia, he learned that time is the cost liest clement of production and transpor tation, and that whether individual or people, man or nation he produces the cheapest and lays down the quickest in the market whether the product of the soil or the loom, the mine or the workshop rules the market. It was this knowledge which moved his energy te the construc tion of the Lehigh Valley railroad. We all knew the success which followed. Solemon found his way te the riches of Iudia in the ancient days by the shortest route, and enriched himself beyond all ethers. The trade of the world lies by the nearest, shortest and quickest route. The inventing and adventurous genius of our people has drawn it across the American continent the Lehigh Yal ley railroad is one of the links in the great chain of public improvement. Mr. Packer saw that if wc would preserve our free dom maintain our high position as a race of workers, continue the prosperity we new enjoy te our posterity, undimin ished and increasing in the future as in the past, it must he by the general and thor ough education of our whele people. We have studied history and watched the re sults which have transpired iu our own day te small purpose, if wc .de net recog nize the fact that there are serious dangers threatening the stability of our free gov ernment. There are differences of race and religion and variety in productions and industries, and consequently diversi ty of interest. Justice te each and all and aid and comfort where aid and comfort will net work deadly injury te ethers must he the rule, of course; but iu order that thcre maybe perfect knowledge and harmeni eus action in reference te the varied inter ests of localities and states and sections, there must be banished from our midst every vestige of ignorance. The voters must be guarded against the wiles of the demagogue. They should be guarded as well from themselves by intellectual cul tivatien, which strengthens the mind and improves the heart. Institutions like the Lehigh University, therefore, which train up the youth in the highest forms of knowledge, are of incalculable aid te geed government." The speaker then referred te the history of the University of Virginia, and from the report of the beard of commissioners published in 1818 quoted Themas Jeffer Jeffer eon's words en the objects of primary and higher education. "The objects of pri mary education," he added, "are attained under the legislation of the several states through the common schools. If in addi tion the Lehigh university shall secure ether objects of higher education se graphically outlined by 3Ir. Jeffersen, Mr. Packer will deserve a fame as lasting as the eternal hills." In conclusion, Mr. Randall, after refer ring te the once necessary habit of wealthy Ampvmin femilmc canrlinrp !,... ca.i. abroad te be educated, paid another glow ing tribute te Mr. Packer, speaking elo quently of his wisdom and munificence. He closed his address with these words : " Sulla, ene of the bloodiest tyrants an avenging providence ever let loeso te chas tise a wicked people,complacently claimed in his memoirs that his shining recom mendation te posterity would be the fact that he Had never let an enemy go unpun ished or a friend unrewarded. Is net Asa Packer's renown mere geuuinc and stable, iu that he never gave himself up te selfish indulgeuce or sought wild revenge, but quietly and persistently gave all the ener gies of body and mind with which he was blessed te prosper himself and the people he lived amongst, by developing the material resources se lavishly spread en every hand about them, se that when it came his turn te go all the welkin was resonant with the busy hum of industry and the glad voices of thriving and happy households." THE ASSASSIN tiUlTEAU. Anetner Stnteinenc te the Public. A dispatch from Washington says : Mr. Sceviile net visiting Guiteau te-day, received the following letter from him to night, enclosing a statement addressed te the public. It is as fellows : Mr. Sceville I had a high fever last night, the worst I have had since I was sick in July. I told Colonel Corkhill's as sistant I should net be able te go into court this week any way. Did you see the president ? If net, see him at ence and get what time we want. He is beuud te help me and he will help me if yen stick te him. Talk te him just as I would. Thirty days te plead and my book are the objects te be pressed new. Ask Mr.Mcrrick if wc can not compel Bailey te lean me his note book. If net, give me a man ami I will go at it again. I think I can redictate it in two weeks. He ought te get possession of Bailey's book in some way. De net waste any effort en tryincr te prove my actual insanity ; it would disgust the court and jury. Legal insanity is all I claim, and that is just as real as actual. I want te use the leading Stalwarts I met in New Yerk last fall in my defense. This and my own testimony is about all the defense I have, as the law is with us, the law of insanity and the law of jurisdiction. See me as scen as you can. I want te get my book out at once seme way. C. G. October 12. His statement is as fellows : Te the Public I wish te warn all per sons te attempt no violence en me, as they will probably be shot dead if they de by the officials having me in custody. The United States government is bound te protect me and give me a fair trial, and the honor of the American people is at stake for my personal protection. I un derstand this bitterness is kept alive by certain friends of the late president who expcctcd'effice from him. They arc mad about his removal, and it is irresponsible characters of this kind that are sending silly and impertinent letters anonymously te my attorney. These people had better drop politics and go into ether business. With greatest respect, Charles Guiteau. United States Jail, District of Columbia, Oct. 12, 1881. LATEST NEWS BY MAIL. The Prohibitory state committce of Massachusetts have nominated Dr. Jehn Blackmcr for lieutenant governor en the state ticket, vice Timethy If. Earle, de ceased. Fire in a building adjoining the new church of St. Francis Xavier. in New Yerk, forced its way into the church and damaged it te the extent of $10,000. It is fully insured. The Russian journals have received a circular from the press censer prohibiting the publication of anything about the im pending movements of the Czar or any of the imperial family. Saven citizens of Cleveland, each sub scribed $1,000 te the Garfield monument fund. A little boy in California has con tributed a dollar with the statement that it is the first he ever earned. In New Orleans, iu a sheeting affray en the street between Chief of Detectives Themas Dcvereaux and Detective Mike Hennessey, in which eight or nine shots were fired, both men were badly wounded and Dcvereaux is new reported dead. It is believed that Hennessey cannot recover. LOCAL INTELLIGENCE. 1.AICCKSY. A Stelon Keund of Dry Ilcef. This morning Alderman Spurrier's poin ter deg came trotting along Seuth Queen street carrying in his mouth a round of dried beef weighing soveral pounds. He was halted by a German woman, who in her native tongue, asked the deg where he get the meat ; and receiving no answer, boldly charged him with stealing it, and after lecturing the deg for seme time en the enormity of the crime, she quietly slipped the beef into her basket and walk ed off. Who stoic the beef ? the deg, the woman, or both ? And who's beef was it anyway ? A Scheel Hey Hurt. Yesterday as Claude Shumaker, eight years of age, a son of Rev Dr. J. B. Shu maker, was standing en the steps of the Lemen street public school building, he was pushed from the steps by some ether boys who were at play aud falling for ward upon one of the stone steps, he had a very ugly gash cut in his forehead. He was taken home and the wound was sow sew ed by Dr. Davis. It is net kuewn who pushed him from the steps, nor whether the act was intentional or accidental. The Xew Telephone Line. Last evening the water committce of councils opened the bids for the construc tion of a telephone line from the station house in Grant street te the city water works ou the Ceuestnga. The bids were as fellows : D II. Potts $130 Tajler Dixen 125 The contract was awarded te Mr. Hatz. OUITUARY. Unuth of Dr. Jehn 1!. Itrluien, or West Chester. Dr. Jehn B. Brinten. ene of the eldest and most distinguished physicians and surgeons of Chester county, died at his home in West Chester yesterday morning, in the 77th year of his age. He was a seu of the late Caleb Brinten anil eldest brother of Wm. P. Briuten, esq., of this city. He was bem ou the banks of the Brandywine, East Bradford township ; read medicine with Ins relative, the late Dr. Geerge McCieIIan, father of General Geerge B. McClellan. srraduatcd at Jeffer son medical college and also at the Uni versity of Pennsylvania about 1325-G ; commenced the practice of his pro fession in West Chester and continued te practicofer fifty five-years. The beat e? his mind w?s in the direction of surgery, and he became widely noted for his skill as exhibited in many diflicult and highly important operations. He was twica mar ried, his first wife being Carolina Gem mel, of Chester county," and his second Ellen Irving, a sister of General Wm. II. Irving, of Centre ceuntv. He leaves a son, Dr. William B. Brinten, who since the father's illness has carried en his practice. Death or an Ola Laucusicrlun. Martin Bembcrgcr, son of the late Jehn Bembcrgcr, has died in Dayton, O., after a lingering illness. Tiie deceased carried en the tailoring business en East King street, this city, many years age. He w.ts in the 71st year of his ase, having been born in February, 1811. He was married iu 1834 and moved te Ohie in 1857, where he located in Cincinnati, following his trade. Twe years later he moved te D.iv- ten, O., and opened a book store, one of the first in the city. He continued in business there until 1857, and siuce then has been engaged most of the time in the real estate business. Ile was an earnest advocate of temperance and was an active and industrious man, widely known and highly regarded by a large circle of friends. He died Oct. 5, 1831, and was buried en the 7th hist, from his late resi dence en Quitman street, Dayton, O. Died from Diphtheria. Nellie May, daughter of Adam J. Eberly, esq., died last evening of diphtheria, in the seventh year of her ap e. She was a bright, interesting little girl, beloved of all who knew her. The death of another ten year old little girl, daughter of H. II. Underwood, is announced in our obituary column. More Michigan Meney. The mayor acknowledges the following additional contributions : A Mennenite friend, ;"S ; cash Miss B. 85; Jacob Fex, $2 ; Henry Fex, 1 ; Geerge Graham.Sl.SO; F. J. Weavcr,$2; Henriette Fex, 50 cents; lehn Herr, East King street, $5 ; S. G. Behmcr, Millersville, S5 ; cash L. 59 cents : Lauceuk Presbyterian church per N. E. Slay maker, 18.08 ; Jehn II. Light, East Lampeter, 2 ; Darnel Mtin ser, Strasburg, $2.50 ; cash It. $2 ; M. W. aud sister, $8 ; cash J. E. $5 ; C. Mussel man, Winners station, 5;afiicnd, $1; Jehn Ifehr, 5. The mayor has the following acknowl edgement : Ci rv ei? Dktkeit, JIayeu's Oppiuk. Jlen. Jehn T.MacGeniylc, iruyoref Lancaster, Pa.: Dear Sir. I have te own rcceiptef your valued favor of 10th inst., containing your second remittance of $500, donated by your citizens. I also note your further contribution in money proposed ; also the box of muslin, etc., you are sending. Assuring you of the .sincere apprecia tion of your haudsome chaiitics, en the part of the commissioner.;, I am, dear sir, very truly yours, II. P. Balhwin, Chairman. I'allenniiig Prof. Charles E. Wise and his son Jehn, the :i;renauts, are in town having returned from Bedford, where they made a balloon ascension ou Wednesday, under the aus pices of the Bedford county agricultural society. The ascension was very success ful one, though made under adversa cir cumstances. The weather was bad, and there being no gas works in Bedford, the aeronauts had te make their own gas, by the vitriol process. The inflation com menced at 1 o'clock and w.is completed until after 5. The ascension was made by Mr. Jehn Wise, at 5:45 in the presence of a very large con course of people, but owing te the un favorable weather the balloon was lest sight of in the clouds, a few minutes after the ascension. Mr. Wise descended safely in a pasture field, ea the side of the moun tain near Everett, some sixteen miles, by rail, from Bedford. He was kindly as sisted by neighboring farmers iu packing and conveying his balloon te the railroad station eue of them carrying the balloon en horseback through the fields until the public read and a wagon could be obtain ed. Mr. Wise gives great credit te Mr. Daniel Cessna, president of the agricultu ral society, for hi:; zeal in pushing t.ie ascension through, netwithsaanding the unfavorable weather and ethar advar.se circumstances. TilK NUJIIT SUIIOOLS. Let the Heys ami (ilrls Attend. The night school committce of the school beard has directed the night schools te be opened en Monday evening next, 17th inst. Mr. Lcvcrgoed will have charge of the boys' schoel,coriit:r of Seuth Duke and German streets ; Mr. Couzzins of the Strawberry street school, and Miss Ilantch of the girls school, in the old high school building, corner of Prince and Chestnut streets. It is te be hoped that all boys and girls who have net an opportunity of attending the day schools will attend the night schools. It costs nothing te de se, and will he of incalculable value te these who attend and make proper use of their time. The teachers are all able and experienced, and were selected .because of their peculiar fitness for the work assigned. Parents who have children of school age, who arc compelled te work during the day, should see that they attend ene or these schools dnring the evening. The Jfitrhaugli 31iB:eiiary Society. On Thursday evening the Harbaugh missionary society held its first meeting of the season in St. Luke's Reformed chaml ou Marietta avenue. This society was organized last winter, has bald a number of successful entertainments, nd has a membership of seventy-five, or a hundred. The meetings are held monthly, and then object is fe awaken au interest in the cause of missions and te promote the social wel fare of its members. The meeting last evening was in every way a pleasant one, its pregramme consisting of addresses, readings, soles, duets and tries. Mr. 1. B. Schuedcr, of the theological seminary, read a very edifying missieaary essay en "Missions iu Seuth America," which was as able as it proved interesting. Fishing and Gunning. Yesterday Alderman McConemy, Harry Dillcr, C. F. Rengier and ex-Mayer Stauf- fer, all heavy weights, went te the river near Safe Harber te fish for bass. They had a geed day's sport, making a fair catch of light weight fish. This morning Aide: man Spunier and Prof. Wm. B. Hall started for the Susque hanna te sheet ducks. Beth gentlemen arc crack shots, and will no doubt give a geed report of their day's work. Majer's Court. The three drunks wiie were before the mayor this morning were flush, and each paid his costs. A man who was sick with the fever and. ague was sent out te the hospital.
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